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Try the oxygen again.

Move your fingers, Mike.

He's coming out of...

What in blue blazes happened to me?

You're going to be all right now, Mike.

You'll be on your feet in a minute.

I seen them sheep down, so I stopped.

I start through your gate and all of a sudden I can't move.

Ain't unconscious, I just can't move or even talk.

We were conducting an experiment.

Didn't you see our warning sign?

I just seen the sheep.

What hit me, Mr.

Marsh?

What do you got out there?

I can't say, Mike.

It's government work.

You'll have to keep quiet, too.

See how it is outside.

All right, now, let's get on your feet.

It's important you don't tell anybody about this, Mike.

Sheep are up and moving.

Well, if it's some kind of secret government thing, I'd sure like to know what.

You'll find out about it someday, Mike.

Now, you shouldn't have any ill effects, but if you don't feel just right,

drop by in the morning.

All right, Mike.

The mail can go on its appointed rounds.

Remember, mum's the word.

Yes, sir.

Mr.

Marsh, I was scared sick there for a while.

When I saw all the night go down, I thought you were in real trouble.

I was a little worried, too.

You know what we got, boy.

A perfect animal test and a human test we never expected.

I know, but just the same.

I was thinking of that sheep with you buried last week.

We didn't bury any today.

You realize that area was hot for more than three hours.

That's more than I expected at this stage.

What do you do now?

Tomorrow, I drive into Los Angeles, see Dr.

Ramsey.

Tell him what we've been doing here.

Do you think he will let you go ahead with it?

Yeah, I'm pretty sure I can convince him.

If he doesn't have a heart attack first,

when he finds out what we're doing here...

I'm going to tell him.

So you haven't heard a word from him?

In the three weeks, he's been back at the desert.

No, nothing.

Of course.

I couldn't expect Alex Marsh to drive 20 miles to the nearest town to phone.

But a letter he could send.

Scientists, pray he doesn't take up golf, too.

Buzz in the lab so Tom will come in.

Something else has been puzzling me, too.

Well, what's that?

Alex suddenly seemed so anxious to finish his work here with Tom on the spray

anesthesia and get back to the desert.

He never seemed to be that terribly interested in cactus derivatives before.

Well, he's isolated some remarkable alkaloids already.

Why wouldn't he be anxious to finish the work?

I don't know, but he acted differently.

Maybe I just don't want to admit that I can't compete with a cactus plant.

At least, I hope it's a cactus plant.

Well, good morning.

Good morning, good morning.

What day cushy job you have, girl,

getting in for the boss at 11 o 'clock in the morning?

So far, Mr.

Holland, by 11 this morning, I have run Dr.

Ramsey's bath, cooked his breakfast, instructed the cleaning woman,

chauffeured Dr.

Ramsey to the office, where I shall work until 6, drive Dr.

Ramsey home, cook the dinner, do the dishes,

and probably take an hour's dictation after that.

Now, how cushy a job can one little female mule get?

Well, maybe we can give you a longer lunch hour.

Yeah, she's off of her feed, Tom, since your boyfriend's back at the desert.

You'll have to take her out for an evening again soon.

Oh, I want her, arguably, Doc.

Every time Alex is out of town.

Ha ha!

Dr.

Ramsey's office.

Alex!

Well, finally, where are you?

You mean tonight?

Well, you better come straight to Dr.

Ramsey's house.

I'll have Tom there, too.

What is it you're so...

All right, I'll wait.

Oh, we'll see you tonight, then.

Bye.

Alex is on his way to Los Angeles.

He wants to talk to you and Tom.

He said he'd get to the house about nine.

You might as well come to dinner, Tom.

All right, thank you for your heart -melting invitation.

What's so important that Alex has to see us tonight?

I don't know.

This is the first time I ever heard Alex Marsh actually sound excited about

something.

And it obviously isn't me.

You know, Carol, anybody who can cook like you deserves the best.

Me.

You're irresistible, Tom, but I never did know what was best for me.

Tap -pass dying.

Alex is late.

Well, personally, I like it just like it is.

A nice, cozy threesome.

He's here.

Uh -oh.

Here I go, back in the cold storage.

Well, hello.

I'm Carol Wilson, in case you've forgotten.

I haven't.

Just been too busy to write.

Hi, darling.

Hello, doctor.

Alex.

Good to have you back.

Tom?

Alex?

Oh, Carol, you all right.

Looks like our boy has really steamed up about something.

Oh.

Coffee, Alex?

No.

No, thanks.

I just want to talk.

Here.

Well, thank you.

Well, we've been consumed with curiosity all day, Alex.

Talk away.

Several months back, doctors,

when Tom and I were in the first stages of air spray anesthesia,

working on vaporizing drugs that could be absorbed through the skin,

I experimented at one point with a refinement of hydrocyanic acid and

pathosodium with various catalysts.

I came up with a compound which paralyzed rather than anesthetized.

A nerve?

Gas?

Exactly.

A parallicin nerve gas.

Now, wait a minute, Alex.

Our military already has gases like this.

Every major power does.

You know that.

Right.

But I have a way to make it an even more fantastic weapon.

That...

A drug such as kapalamine in heavy strength can be dispersed through the

parallicin gas.

Then, you have a nerve gas that first paralyzes the enemy army,

even the entire population.

And upon recovery from the paralysis,

the victims remain in a hypnotic state for days, maybe weeks,

subject to all orders and suggestions.

So you eliminate all resistance while the occupation of enemy territory is

being completed.

Well, that's very interesting, Alex,

but when did our quiet little research lab become involved in chemical warfare?

Doctors, did you realize this could be a weapon so powerful,

it could conceivably banish nuclear warfare?

Perhaps, if such a weapon could be developed to that degree.

It can be.

I'm close to it now.

I only have to work out coalescing the drug with the gas, a month at the most.

Then Tom and I could work in the main lab on the gas persistence.

I can see a vapor hanging in the air, clinging to objects for days,

like radiation fallout.

There's a couple of things that worry me The desert lab isn't really equipped

for Experimenting with nerve gases.

Well,

I work with such small quantities that it's easily handled in our apparatus

Also,

you're dealing with unfamiliar elements at least as far as their reactions on

each other and they can develop frightening consequences Nobody knows that

better than I do doctor Well, it's a project way out of our field,

but I think it's worth going after Let's see what you boys can do with it Thank

you doctor.

Well I'm sure my presence is no longer required here will you Will talk more

about this in the morning Good night.

Good night, sir.

Good night doc.

Good night Well, if things are settled for now,

I think I'll just sort of Run up the beach to my little grass shack Good night,

dear friends Tom Yes,

do you mind if I stay with you tonight so I don't have to open my apartment?

Oh not at all.

Do you?

Want me to wait?

That's hardly necessary.

Alex has his own car.

Good night, Tom Like I said, good night, dear friends.

Good night.

Make it early Now you can talk I'll at least be happy I'm here Hey,

what's bothering my gal?

This nerve gas What a horrible thought Gassing people Somehow immoral.

Well,

it's certainly better than Maiming and killing and blinding and having radiation

even affect future generations, which a nuclear war would do.

Any kind of war is frightening,

and so is the thought of you working with these strange gases.

Nothing can happen.

I'll bet Dr.

Ramsey said exactly the same thing years ago,

when he was experimenting with live polio virus to find a vaccine.

He became crippled for life.

But that was years ago.

They weren't as careful then.

But I'm glad to know that you're worrying about me.

I even worry about you being alone at the desert lab.

But I'm not alone.

Carlos is with me.

You know, that college boy from Baker I hired last year.

Enough about Carlos.

Let's talk about us.

Except, there isn't much us to talk about.

You're away in the desert most of the time, and I'm here.

Yeah, I know.

And I worry with that Tom Holland around.

Well, you should worry.

He's a very attractive man.

I could very easily fall in love with him.

Hey, I don't like the sound of that.

Then you'd better come courting again, and soon.

Just a couple of more weeks, and I'll be back at the Institute permanently.

Then we can start to make plans.

You never have talked about plans.

Just what are your intentions, Mr.

Marsh?

Well, outside of having my own research lab some day,

my intentions are to marry the boss's secretary, and live happily ever after.

I love you.

Anything else you want me to do before I go home, Mr.

Marsh?

Huh?

Anything else you want me to do before I go home?

Oh, is it Friday already?

Man, am I losing track of time.

Shouldn't you be wearing a mask?

Last time Mr.

Holland was here, you said this stuff is dangerous.

No, it won't emit fumes or vapors unless you're using heat.

It's taking longer than you figured, isn't it?

You've been at it more than a month now.

You know, it's just a question of finding the elements that have an affinity.

Maybe it isn't possible to combine a hypnotic drug with a nerve gas.

It's possible, and I'll find the combination eventually.

Here, file this with the rest of our failures.

Mr.

Marsh, did something happen to our other two mice?

I found him dead this morning.

Some of the gas must be escaping.

No, I tried one of the compounds on him.

Too powerful.

I'll be leaving now.

Okay.

See you on Monday.

Good morning, Mr. Marsh

Carlos.

You've been working all night again, Mr.

Marsh?

You should take a rest.

Oh, I'm all right.

I had a little accident.

Some of the gas got loose.

Oh?

What did it do to you?

I really don't know.

But I had the most horrible nightmares.

I think it would have been deadly.

But I apparently have a building protection now.

How's that?

Well,

I've probably absorbed so much in my body in small doses over the past several

weeks.

I have a certain immunity.

Just the same.

You've got to be careful.

Say, have you been in the sun all weekend?

You look tanner than last Friday.

Mr.

Morris.

These mice...

They're both dead.

The gas must have gotten them Saturday.

Look how dark they are.

Like they're burned or something.

I'll get them out.

Oh, my God, he's dead.

Yes, sir.

Yes, sir.

I'm hurt as fast as I can, sir.

Yes, sir.

Here's your chain, sir.

Anything else I can do?

Good job.

What a grouch.

Fill her up, sir.

Yeah, fill it.

You got her.

Say, uh, uh, check your water and oil.

Yeah, yeah.

You've heard of the minute, man, haven't you?

Well, I'm the 32nd man.

Yeah, check it.

You got a phone here?

Yeah.

Uh, we've all been on the monitor.

It's right around the corner from the garage.

Say, uh...

Is there anything else I can do for you?

No, nothing.

Some days it doesn't pay to get up.

I'm calling log, Los Angeles.

Uh, Granite 55099.

Person to person, Dr.

Ramsey.

Can I please call about 558 -559?

Yes, thank you.

Hello, doctor.

Is Carol in the house?

Yes.

She's going out with Tom, but she's still here.

You want to talk to her?

No, just listen.

I haven't got much time.

Something's going horribly wrong with the nerve experiment.

I'm coming into your house.

I have to stay there for a while.

Fix up a room away from everybody.

But what is it?

What happened?

What, uh...

What's the problem?

I tell you, I'm carrying it on my skin.

It's in my whole body.

And it's almost instantly lethal.

Now get there.

Don't come near me.

Don't touch me.

Don't tell a girl about this.

Good night, Doc.

Good night.

Alex?

Tom and Carol just left.

Now, why didn't God's name happen?

I can't talk anymore.

I'll tell you when I get there.

I'll be there about 11 o 'clock.

425 to your guess, sir.

You don't happen to have any gloves for sale, do you?

No, no.

We don't carry any gloves.

Save us.

No!

Alex, is Carol alone yet?

She and Tom went to dinner and a show.

I don't expect her much before midnight.

And I parked my car up the street so she wouldn't see it.

Have you got her room ready yet?

Maid's room.

It's the only one that isn't being used.

They were accidents, I tell you.

They died merely by contact with me.

The immunity I got won't last too long.

You've got to find an antidote before this immunity wears off.

The first thing we must do, Alex,

is notify the authorities and get you to a hospital.

No!

Nobody's going to lock me up like an animal.

I'm going to stay right here in this room until you cure me.

Where's the formula for the last compound?

And here's the compound.

Analyze it, but you've got to find an antidote quickly.

I'm not a medical doctor, Alex, and you need the best medical treatment.

You know as much of our chemical formulas as any medical doctor.

I can't do it, Alex.

I can't do it.

I just can't sit here and let you die while I'm trying to find an antidote.

If you don't do as I say, so help me God, I'll kill whoever comes after me.

Whoever I can get my hands on.

Carol lives here, you know.

Oh, tell her I'm sick.

Don't tell her to rest.

Tell her to stay away from me.

And I don't want time to find out anything about this.

Your face has begun to darken already.

I know it.

I'm out all over.

My head's bursting.

The pain's starting to burn me alive.

The turning black may be a form of cyanosis.

A diminished eye.

Oxidation in the blood I was kept oxygen for you to try Goodnight Tom and

thanks again for being so much fun.

Well, you're a servant man.

See you on tomorrow I Will start working on it in the morning Alex,

but I I hope but then you'll realize how irrational your whole idea is Who's

that any greater girl You got to keep away from me.

Get her out of here.

We better leave.

Carol.

I just can't believe it.

You're not supposed to know about those two deaths.

But you have to know that it'll be fatal to touch him.

But threatening to kill more people.

He must be out of his mind.

He is?

What, with the pain in his body?

And the worst pain in his mind?

At what's happened?

You shouldn't stay here at all.

Oh, you need me more than ever.

Now I have to stay.

Oh, dear God, how horrible.

Sorry.

Coffee break time.

I don't care for any.

See, what's the old man up to anyway?

I tried to talk, but then he brushed me off.

He's been working away all day in the lab,

like he's concocting the witch's own boot.

I don't know.

Well, he doesn't tell me everything.

Come on, what is it, Alex?

What do you mean, Alex?

Just a word about him working on that nerve gas, now, aren't you?

Yes, I guess I am worried.

Lucky old Alex.

He doesn't know how lucky he is.

You know, nobody ever worries about a friendly old town like this.

Well, I'll have coffee alone, I guess.

Dr.

Ramsey's office.

Yes?

The sheriff from where?

What sheriff?

Oh, the sheriff from that town near the desert lab.

The thinker.

They know about the farm.

A mailman discovered it today.

I was afraid of this.

The sheriff said the body they found was too badly burned to identify.

You didn't say anything about...

I told him we hadn't heard from Alex.

But what are we going to do?

He wants someone to come out there and he wants us to phone as soon as we hear

from Alex.

We can't just ignore this.

We'll have to ignore it for a while.

I've one serum ready and I'll have the second one finished in a couple of

hours.

Don't take any more phone calls today.

That serum he took last night had no effect on him.

I gave him the second one to try.

And I'm going to stay here and see if we get any reaction from it.

You better run along to the office.

We'll have to call that sheriff at Baker today.

Well tell him that we haven't heard from Alex.

Say we think Alex broke under the strain of overwork.

That he may be wandering around the desert somewhere and ask the sheriff to

look for him there.

That'll keep him away from us for a while.

Doctor, please let me tell Tom.

You can't handle this alone.

I guess we'll have to.

Ask Tom to start working on another serum.

Alec's experiment book is in my lab locker and the two serum formulas that I

made up are listed there.

And tell Tom that he may find some books in my office that might help too.

All right, Doctor.

Tommy, it's just become a nightmare, a horrible nightmare.

This is something I had no business fooling around with.

What should we do?

What can we do?

I don't know.

We just can't call the police and have them shot like an animal.

We could just neutralize that poison in his body.

Why don't you call the sheriff like Ramsey asked you to?

I'll be working in the lab.

Alex, it's been five hours since you injected that second's area.

My God!

My gosh!

There's no answer.

He must be in the back with Alex.

I'd better run over with your serum or I'd better use it right away.

Okay, here.

And tell the doc that I'm trying to make up some purity now, Doxymethiadide.

I'll see if I can have it for him later tonight.

All right.

Dr. Ramsey

Dr.

Ramsey?

Dr.

Ramsey?

Alex?

No!

No!

Oh, dear God!

No!

No!

We'll see you next time.

Yeah, I'll meet you there, Lieutenant.

And look, if you're still in the house when you get there,

be sure and tell your men to stay away from them.

I'll explain it when I see you.

I'm on the way.

I'm going back with you.

No, I want you to stay here.

I can't.

I have to know what's happened.

Okay, come on.

Get out on all points on him.

But he may still be in the Bay Area.

We'll see you.

Correct at all light station wagon Check the license registration number under

the name of Alex Marsh You better give this to the radio and TV stations tell

them to get a bulletin on the air anyone seeing this man report Immediately to

the police but under no circumstances approach him or come into physical

contact with him We haven't got all the details yet,

but I've seen what happens when this bird touches somebody.

It's mighty scary.

I Know it sounds wild.

I never ran into anything like it Yeah, right.

I'm waiting for the car.

Call me here This guy shouldn't be hard to find if he looks anywhere as bad as

that Doc's body back there.

We'll find it Let's hope we can get to him fast enough Can you fill us in on

any more details now miss let's get the whole story from the beginning I You

All units Suspect described as tall have you said face and hands swollen twice

normal size skin is blackened and cracked like rough charcoal If apprehended do

not touch suspect do not allow suspect to touch you If necessary shoot to

prevent this Look lieutenant,

we heard the police call dead body you homoside boys are here.

Do you have a murderer?

Don't you I can't give you anything yet Well,

you've got a general pick -up on this guy that's loose.

What's his jazz about not touching him and shooting, if necessary?

Look, boys, you got to bear with me on this.

If your newspapers break a story before we pick this guy up,

it could cause a city white panic.

Lieutenant!

Mr.

Holland.

They just got a call on Marsha's station wagon,

abandoned in Palisades District.

You better ride along with us.

Yeah.

All right, boys, let's go.

Come on.

Look, I'll, uh...

I'll be back as soon as I can.

Where to, Mac?

I didn't get that, Mac.

I didn't realize it was this late, Mac.

I gotta head for the garage.

You can call from...

get out of the cab from that phone over there.

I don't know what you're saying, Mac, but I can't take you.

You gotta get out.

Mr.

I said you gotta get out.

You ain't going no place with me.

Now beat it.

Come on, screwball.

Out of there, I'll call a cop.

Somebody, somebody call the police.

Tom, I've been waiting for hours to hear what happened.

Well, they found a cab driver.

Alex must have been there.

I guess he got away in the cab.

I'm leaving an officer here all night.

Marsh might decide to come back here.

You never can figure what a man will do when his mind is cracked.

Yeah, you're right.

Colonel, I don't think you ought to stay here tonight.

Well, what can happen to me?

He's right, Miss Wilson.

It would be wise to get you out of here.

Look, why don't I stay here tonight?

You go up to my place at the beach.

I'd feel safer if you were out of town.

It's a good thought.

I'd do that, Miss Wilson.

All right.

I'll put some things in a bag.

Baby, baby, come on now.

Oh, for God's sake, answer.

Oh, Tom.

Tom, he's here.

He's trying to get into the house.

I tried to call the Malibu Sheriff's Office, but I don't know the number,

and I can't get the operator.

Don't talk, he might hear you.

Now, our friend was sure of myself.

He ought to be up there in a few minutes.

In the meantime, lock all the doors and stay out of sight.

I'm on my way up.

Okay.

Alex, it's Carol.

Alex, if you're looking for Tom, he isn't here.

Put it on the desk, Alex.

I'll read it there.

Tom isn't here now, but he will be soon.

God's sake, stay away from me.

Alex, sit down, please, for my sake.

Sit down and we'll wait for Tom.

You know we just want to help you.

You certainly know I do.

Oh, please let me, Alex.

Please.

That's better.

That's better, Alex.

Mm.

Hey, take your men around the back.

Joe, you come with me.

Come over to the beach.

Stop right there!

Don't shoot him.

Please!

Alex!

Don't run anymore.

Please, let them take you to a hospital.

Alex, there's no place you can go now.

You don't want to hurt anybody else.

Let us help you, please.

Alex, you know I wouldn't let anybody hurt you.

Or let me get you to a hospital.

I can still help you.

Please say it's all right.

Just nod your head.

Oh, no!

Hey, better call for a dead whacking show.

I'll help you show him for his rubber sheets.