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SIGHS

CLOCK CHIMES

St Merryn's Hospital,
Wednesday May 12th.

Or is it still Tuesday May 11th?

It must be Wednesday

because most of the time,
the noise of the traffic is so loud

that you need earplugs
to hear yourself think.

And as it doesn't stop
until around midnight,

that means it must be
the silent early hours.

Three, four, who knows?

But I'm already awake.

What's more, I'm hungry.
Isn't it ridiculous?

The nurses come in at 7:00, on the dot.

With a lovely cup of tea.

Then the wash, then the breakfast.

And then today, great day...

Eureka.

These bandages come off.

Roll on...

Roll on 7:00.

I'm taking the opportunity
of this waiting time

to reply to your cassette.

Dear Walter,
many thanks for your cassette.

There we are.

SIGHS

I've been doing a lot of thinking
while I've been lying here, Wal.

And I've come to a decision.

I've had enough. I'm chucking the job.
I'm fed up with triffids.

I wanna be loved.

I wanna breed puppies
and plant potatoes.

So, as you are gonna
write your book about triffs,

and on condition that
I never have to mention them again,

I'll use this waiting time.

It's... It's not that I'm worried
about this morning.

It's just that I'm scared stiff.

I'll use this time to do as you ask

and give you some of my theories
about the early days.

Some of it's more than theories, too.

The stories about Palanguez
I got from a very good source.

In 71961, he turned up
at the office of European Oils.

We've had it analysed, Mr Palanguez.

Our experts confirm
that it is a vegetable oil.

But with extraordinary properties.

To be honest, I've never seen
anything quite like it.

You will be seeing
a very great deal of it, Mr Grant.

It will, I think, come on the market
in maybe seven or eight years' time.

Possibly.

You have experimented with it
as an additive to petroleum?

Oh, yes.

There Is an energy saving
of more than 30%.

Do you intend to market it yourself,
Mr Palanguez?

Would I be showing it to you if I did?

Well, I suppose you have a proposition.
Shall we come to it?

The plant from which
this oil is obtained

Is a completely new species.

I might be able to provide you
with the seeds of this plant.

If you commence cultivation at once,

you could begin production of the oil
in five years' time,

or it might be six for full yield.

You would still be in advance
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On the other hand, I could always come
to an arrangement with the competitors.

I think you will find they are
not approachable or suppressible.

You mean they're behind
the Iron Curtain?

Seeds, you said.

Have you heard of a Russian
professor of biology called Lysenko?

There are rumours he's made
some very strange experiments.

I have heard these rumours.

What figure did you have in mind
for getting us the seeds of this thing?

£10 million.

GRANT LAUGHS

And a percentage of the profits.

It is a very dangerous business,
IRl

There are many people I must pay.

For you, the choice is between ruin
or a monopoly in the Western world.

I will not lower my price.

BILL: And he didn’t lower It.
And they paid him, or part of it.

The company couldn't pay the rest

because Mr Palanguez
was never seen again.

Of course, in the end,
the company got those seeds.

But by the time they did,
they weren't the only ones.

What they...

GLASS SMASHES

TAPE REWINDS

BILL ON TAPE: By the time they did,
they weren't the only ones. What...

RECORDED GLASS SMASHING

Sorry about the sound effects, Wal.

I think somewhere in the night,
a window smashed.

We'll be deafened
with police sirens any minute.

Meanwhile, back to the triffids.

My first experience of them

was when I still lived at home
with Mum and Dad.

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after Palanguez disappeared,

not that I'd ever heard of him then,
of course.

But we know from the Russian
who got out later on,

that a plane had been landed
and the seeds taken away.

I always thought that Russian fighters
got on his tail and shot him up

somewhere out over the ocean.

Those seeds are like vapour.

If they got out of that hive,
they'd drift almost anywhere.

-Funny, isn't it, Dad?
-Yes. Yes, it is a little curious.

Rather curious.

-Any idea of what it is?
-No, not really.

It's blown in from somewhere, I suppose.

Either that, or a foreign import
of some sort I know not what of.

Or else some new strain of some sort
that someone's been rearing.

Here. What are these stumps
at the bottom?

Search me. Very peculiar.

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Come on, Bill.
Have a look inside. Come on.

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BILL'S FATHER: Come on, now, Bill,
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I've grown rather fond of it, myself.

I shall take care of you, old chap.

There's no need to fret.

Not long after this,
I went to the cinema with a pal.

In those days, they still showed
newsreels before the big film.

MAN ON NEWSREEL: Well, now, folks,

get a load of
what's going on in Ecuador!

Vegetables on vacation!

You might have seen
this kind of thing after a party,

but down in sunny Ecuador,
they see it any time,

and no hangover to follow.

Monster plants on the march.

Seeing this gives me a big idea.

Maybe if we educate our potatoes right,

we can fix it so they walk
straight in the pot.

How'd that be, Momma?

BILL: 7hey were the same
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I was sure they were.

And If they could walk...

WHIPS

BILL SCREAMS

I was the first person in England
to have been stung by a triffid.

Our plant was too young
for its poison to be fully effective,

and the doctors managed to save my life.

We were beginning to learn
about the tri-feds,

or triffids, as they came to be called.

They couldn't only walk,
they could kill.

Triffids began to appear
all over the world,

and something else was learned
about them that sickened everyone.

Triffids were also carnivores.

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then stood over them,

waiting for the flesh to decompose,

because not until then
could they use it for food.

Triffids were hacked down
by the thousand.

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very nearly eliminated from Earth.

Very nearly, but not quite.

Because suddenly, the scientists
realised that the nasty old triffid

was the same plant from Russia
that produced the wonderful oil.

-Triffids were...
-CLOCK CHIMES

That meant that triffids
were very lovely and very big business.

And as I felt had a bond with them,

I went to work on a triffid farm
and so did you. You know the rest.

Meanwhile, we'll pause for the time.

CLOCK CHIMES HOUR

What the hell's going on? It's 8:00!

They should have been in at 7:00.
The can't be late, not today.

They've got to take
these bloody bandages off!

I'm sorry about that.

You get like a kid when you're
as helpless as this.

There must be some emergency on.

There's no point
in me getting into a paddy

because there's nothing at all
that I could...

That's funny.
Where's all the traffic got to?

The worst thing about living
in this blackness

Is that there's no certainty
of knowing anything at all.

For allI know, there's
three nurses and a doctor in this room

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blind man's buff with me.

Or they might have moved me
somewhere else while I was asleep.

I don't know,
I've never seen this room.

Anyway...

There's obviously some explanation.

Apart from the fact I've gone bananas.

It reminds me of that conversation
we were having the other week.

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when we were talking about triffids?

That evening, we were working late.

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number three field tomorrow.

Yep.

For now, that's it. I've had enough.

I'm going home.

-Time for walkies.
-Don't you start.

-What?
-Kiddy talk about triffs.

Who have you been falling out with?

Jack Richards tells me
he's planted a triffid in his garden

so his daughter can have it for a pet.

Ah, he wouldn't be the first.

Perfectly safe if he keeps it
on some sort of chain

and cuts the sting out
every couple of years.

-Quite fun for a kid in lots of ways.
NSl

Have a nightcap?

Yeah. Ta.

TAPPING

We know very little
about them, you know.

For example, what do you think that is,

when they rattle their sticks
against their stem?

I thought we decided
it was a sort of primitive mating call.

-Cheers.
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I think they're talking.

LU

I've been thinking that for some time.

Now, I'm prepared to say so.

Well, to you, anyway.

Walter, a triffid is a plant.
Now a talking plant is ridiculous!

A walking plant is ridiculous,
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-Well, it moves about.
-That's quibbling. It walks.

And if I'm right and it talks, or,
if you wanna quibble, communicates,

that means somewhere inside it
is intelligence.

But we've dissected them.
We know there's no brain.

That doesn't prove there isn't
something that does a brain's job.

Look at when they attack,
they almost always go for the head.

Now, a great number of people
who have been stung but not killed

have been blinded.

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-Of what?

Of the fact they know the shortest way
of putting a man out of action.

If it were a choice of survival
between a blind man and a triffid,

SCOFFS

-I know which I'd put my money on.
-You're assuming equal intelligence.

No, I'm not.

They don't need their intelligence
to equal ours.

What do you mean?

TAPPING CONTINUES

Look how complicated it is
for us to feed ourselves.

Even to just grow things
and eat them raw.

They live off the soil
or from insects or bits of rotten meat.

Now look at the complex process

we have to go through
to make use of them,

to get oil from them.

Put that in reverse.
How would they make use of us?

Just give us a sting, wait a few days,

and they've got
everything they need to live.

That doesn't take
very much intelligence.

-You don't like them very much, do you?
-They fascinate me.

I shall write a book about them one day.

Look, if they do have this intelligence,

are you afraid of it?

Why should I be? They're under control.

There's only one thing, though.

I'd like to know
what they're nattering about.

-KNOCKING ON DOOR
-Come in.

WOMAN WAILING

What's going on?

Do you think I could possibly
have some breakfast?

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I think I'm going mad.

I must be.

Or something's happening,
God only knows what it is.

Oh, Christ!

Sweat's running down my neck.

It's Wednesday May 12th.

Yesterday was Tuesday, May 11th,

and only one night's passed since then,
and everything was normal then.

WOMAN: GASPS T7he sky is just
full of shooting stars!

Is it to do with last night?

You saw it, I suppose.

I must have been
the only person that didn't see it.

We've drawn back
all the curtains in the wards

-so the patients can look out.
-PEOPLE EXCLAIMING IN DISTANCE

What did the radio say it was?
Comet what?

BILL: Debris.

GASPS It's amazing, Mr Masen!

Look, er, I think before we get
the rest of this down my front,

we'd better call it a day.

Oh, I'm sorry.

No, it's all right. I'm only joking.

It's just jealousy, missing all the fun.

-Are you sure you've had enough?
-Yes, thank you.

-Evening, Nurse.
-Good evening, Doctor.

Evening, Mr Masen. I'm Dr Soames.

Mr Carter, your specialist,
asked me to look in and see you.

Oh. Good evening, Dr Soames.

Will you be needing me
for anything, Doctor?

No, thank you, Nurse.

Good night, Mr Masen.

Good night, Barbara.

-Enjoy the free show.
-Thank you. I will.

Yes, It's quite something
you're missing tonight, Mr Masen.

So I'm told.

CHUCKLES I'm sorry.
Must be very boring for you.

Anyway, Mr Carter asked me to tell you

that he'll be able to see you
immediately after breakfast,

but he doesn't want you to be tempted
to peep before then.

These things have to
be handled carefully.

Exactly the right amount of light...

and that sort of thing,

otherwise some very expert work
and ten days' patience on your part

could be ruined in a couple of seconds.

-You understand that.
-Yes, of course.

Good. Triffid sting, wasn't it?

Yes, that's right.
I work on a triffid farm.

I thought they all had
their stings docked these days.

Not the ones we tap for oil.

We discovered that the oil's
of much better quality

If we don't dock them.

-HELICOPTER WHIRRING
-I see.

I presume you wear some sort of
protective clothing, don't you?

Oh, yes. But some of those stings
are ten feet long.

And they can catch you at any angle.

This one gave me a vicious swipe
on the side of the mask,

and some of the poison got inside.

You're rather lucky
to be alive, aren't you?

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I wouldn't be here
if it hadn't been for my friend.

He took me inside
and gave me the antidote.

SIREN WAILING

Added to which, I must have
built up a certain amount of resistance.

That's the second time they got me.

I'm surprised you haven't had
enough of them.

I've decided I have.

Well, good luck for tomorrow.

If you'll excuse me, I'm going to join
the gawpers on the roof.

Good night, Mr Masen.

Good night, Doctor.

DOOR CLOSES

MAN ON RADIO: 7hey have no record

of such a brilliant display
of astronomical pyrotechnics

ever taking place before.

There seems to have been no country
n the world that has not been able

to have a look
at this unique phenomenon.

As night has moved across the Earth,

the wonderful display
has moved with It

And although the spectacle is
Just beginning to lose its strength,

the streets and parks
EN ROl R R ey

are jammed with people

excitedly watching one of
the greatest free entertainments

the world has ever seen.

TURNS RADIO OFF

STATIC

TAPPING

KNOCKING

-Hello?
-MAN: Who's there?

My name's Masen. Bill Masen.

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-Masen! I'm Dr Soames.

Oh, yes, of course, Doctor.
I should have recognised your voice.

What's the matter?

You can see?

Well, nobody came to unbandage my eyes,
so I did it myself.

I don't think any harm's been done.

-I can see as well as ever.
-I must telephone at once.

Where are we now?

-What do you mean?
-YELLING Where are we now?

You've got eyes, damn it! Use them.

Can't you see I'm blind?

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