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00:01:41What's that?
00:01:42Sounds like a jet, doesn't it?
00:01:44That's no jet.
00:01:45Mackie, look!
00:01:47What is it?
00:01:48Get down!
00:01:49Go!
00:01:51Mackie!
00:01:52Mackie!
00:01:59Get inside!
00:02:00Inside!
00:02:02Inside!
00:02:16Mackie!
00:02:18I'm alright, Dad.
00:02:19We saw it coming out of the sky.
00:02:21It was glowing.
00:02:22You two stay over there.
00:02:22Keep away from the windows.
00:02:24Wait, wait, wait, wait, wait.
00:02:27It's probably a meteor, isn't it?
00:02:30That's right, it is.
00:02:31Dad, don't go out there.
00:02:32Please, Dad, don't go out there.
00:02:33Get over there.
00:02:34Is your telephone still on?
00:02:35Call the police.
00:02:36Yes, please, or no, no, no
00:02:52If you're having me.
00:03:00Don't have to go out there.
00:03:02Big driver
00:03:22Will you all please return to your home?
00:03:25You're only hampering operations by crowding the streets.
00:03:28Please return to your home.
00:03:30Please get back out of the road.
00:03:32Onto the pavement, please.
00:03:33Come along now, please. Please return to your home.
00:04:03Get back. Get back. Keep the lane clear. Right back, please.
00:04:06Right back. Right back.
00:04:08Now, keep clear. Keep clear.
00:04:17All right.
00:04:23Good morning.
00:04:33You'll be all right. They'll take care of you.
00:04:35Okay, George. Let's have a look at you.
00:04:37Oh, don't you start fussing, too. I've got singes, that's all.
00:04:41It's still too hot to put water on.
00:04:43It could do with another pump.
00:04:45It should be heavily green now.
00:04:47What's all this about, Dick?
00:04:48It's perfectly anything.
00:05:02The object was first sighted at about 9.15 this evening,
00:05:06and its approach was widely observed over the southern counties.
00:05:11A statement just issued by the Home Office stresses that there is no general danger.
00:05:17Members of the public, however, are warned to stay away from the area.
00:05:21I will repeat that.
00:05:26The Home Office stresses that there's no immediate danger.
00:05:28Do you realize what you'll have to face if this turns out to be a disaster, Quatermass?
00:05:31How much further?
00:05:32I'm talking to you.
00:05:34For the last 20 miles, I've been painfully aware of that.
00:05:36Well, then answer, man. How did it happen? What went wrong?
00:05:38For the first time in the history of the world, man has sent a rocket 1,500 miles into space.
00:05:42You can't expect such an experiment to be perfect.
00:05:45Well, you must have had some idea.
00:05:46I'm a scientist, not a fortune teller, who predicts what will happen.
00:05:49Well, you had instruments, radio contact.
00:05:50We lost it for over 57 hours, sir.
00:05:52It broke loose, and we don't even know how far it's been.
00:05:55It had no further contact, even when it returned to the orbit.
00:05:57Yet you brought it down by your own control.
00:05:59Well, that's something to tell your ministry.
00:06:01Quatermass set it up, and he brought it back.
00:06:03Please, oh, please.
00:06:04Couldn't you pick some other time for this?
00:06:06I'm sorry, Mrs. Crone.
00:06:07I happen to be concerned with the Ministry of Defense.
00:06:09And I'm not a civil servant.
00:06:10I'm a doctor, and I happen to be concerned with three men.
00:06:12The three men who are in that rocket.
00:06:14Oakley Green.
00:06:15This is it.
00:06:17Certainly no secret.
00:06:23Sorry, no one at our class this point.
00:06:24It's all right, but you've been astute to be.
00:06:27Oh, yes, sir.
00:06:28All right there, open it up.
00:06:37Oh.
00:06:43Hey, sorry, Miss, you must keep back.
00:06:46Oi, Miss.
00:06:47Hey, just a minute, please.
00:06:49Miss.
00:06:51Aye, aye.
00:06:52Chasing the girls again.
00:06:53Oh, you think it was a bank holiday, the way they come flocking out?
00:06:56I'd like to flock home.
00:06:57You stay put, my lad, until that thing cools off.
00:06:59Oh, blows up.
00:07:00Now, don't start that story going around.
00:07:02They've said it's not a bomb.
00:07:03So why can't we put water on it?
00:07:05Listen, Charlie, we've had instructions.
00:07:07Don't ask me why, because they didn't tell us.
00:07:09Hey, hey, just a minute.
00:07:11Mr. Blake, let us bring up defense.
00:07:13I'll get the insurance.
00:07:24Try and get through to the marsh.
00:07:25Watch out.
00:07:26Give me a temperature reading.
00:07:31Why don't you go ahead and wait in the car, Judith?
00:07:33It's funny.
00:07:34It looks exactly the same.
00:07:36Yet it's been, who knows how far.
00:07:39There isn't a word.
00:07:41Hello, do you want hello?
00:07:42Hello, come on, you're so big.
00:07:49Q1, Q1, this is Marsh.
00:07:51Hello, Karun, Green, Reichenheim.
00:07:53You receive me, over.
00:07:57Keep trying.
00:07:58Mr. Blake?
00:07:58I'm Quetamass.
00:08:00I'll be in charge from here on, Inspector.
00:08:01Can't say I'm sorry about that.
00:08:02What's the next move?
00:08:03We can't do anything right now.
00:08:04Not until that cools off.
00:08:06How long will that be, sir?
00:08:07I would say three or four hours at least.
00:08:10Q1, Q1, this is Marsh.
00:08:11Do you hear me?
00:08:12Do you hear me?
00:08:13I'll be there for four hours.
00:08:15I suppose you'd like me to open it up right now, huh?
00:08:17One blast of air in against that heater to incinerate them.
00:08:20Some reporters have nothing, sir.
00:08:21They'd like some facts.
00:08:22They'll get some later.
00:08:23They'll get some now.
00:08:24Bring them on, Major.
00:08:24Don't you think we ought to find out a few more ourselves first?
00:08:26Bring them on, Major.
00:08:27Are you hearing me, Q1?
00:08:28Are you hearing me?
00:08:29This is Marsh calling Q1.
00:08:31Q1, over.
00:08:42You know, if I ever gave them all the facts, you'd find one or two of them difficult to explain.
00:08:45Don't try and drag me through the mud, Blake.
00:08:47You might splash a little bit on yourself, you and your committee.
00:08:49You deliberately launch that rocket without waiting for official sanction.
00:08:52If the whole world waited for official sanction, that'd be standing still.
00:08:55You took too long.
00:08:56I made my own decision.
00:08:57To gamble with three men's lives.
00:08:59Every experiment is a gamble.
00:09:00The unknown is always a risk.
00:09:01They should know that.
00:09:02Did she know that?
00:09:03That woman over there waiting, hoping, and praying.
00:09:05It's dropped another hundred degrees since we arrived.
00:09:07Still got a long way to go.
00:09:08Let's have that insulation lining.
00:09:10Yes, that's what it didn't.
00:09:11Because if it did, Quatermans, and those three men in there are dead...
00:09:13Dead or alive, they'll be heroes.
00:09:15Are you all right, sir?
00:09:15Let me tell you something, Blake.
00:09:17They'll fire the imagination so that there'll be a hundred men begging for the same privilege
00:09:20when we launch the second rocket.
00:09:22You can't stop it now.
00:09:23You mean I can't stop you now?
00:09:26That's right.
00:09:28This is Marsh calling Q1.
00:09:30Marsh calling Q1.
00:09:31Do you hear me?
00:09:32Do you hear me?
00:09:32Over.
00:09:38There's nothing, sir.
00:09:39Nothing, Quatermans.
00:09:40You know what you've done.
00:09:41I launched it and I brought it back.
00:09:42That's quite an achievement, I think.
00:09:43And those three men in there were...
00:09:46What is it, Marsh?
00:09:47Something came through.
00:09:50Pull up.
00:09:51Volume, pull up.
00:09:54It's a tapping.
00:09:55Coming from inside.
00:09:57By the hull, near the transmitter.
00:09:59Q1, Q1.
00:10:01Green, Reichenheim, Caroon.
00:10:03This is Quatermans, Quatermans.
00:10:05We can hear you.
00:10:06Can you hear us?
00:10:07Over.
00:10:18Q1, Q1.
00:10:19Can you hear me?
00:10:20You've landed in England.
00:10:21We're here not 50 yards from you.
00:10:23Are you all right?
00:10:24Over.
00:10:30Tapping has stopped.
00:10:31We can't wait.
00:10:32We've got to get them out of there now.
00:10:34Bring me the fire, Chief.
00:10:35Right away, sir.
00:10:36Set the remote control.
00:10:37You'll be mad.
00:10:37You'll know what'll happen if we open that rocket door now.
00:10:39We've got to take that risk.
00:10:40We know one of them is alive in there.
00:10:41In an hour, he may not be.
00:10:42But you said that would incinerate them.
00:10:43You can't do a thing like that.
00:10:44Don't tell me what I can do what I can't do.
00:10:45That shell temperature is still 300 degrees.
00:10:47All right.
00:10:48What would you suggest?
00:10:49Wait till it's absolutely safe and then bring them out?
00:10:51Dead?
00:10:52Door control set, sir.
00:10:53Hold it.
00:10:53Where's that fire, Chief?
00:10:55Get an ambulance moved in.
00:10:56Stand by.
00:10:56Ambulance.
00:10:58Do you want me, sir?
00:11:00Yes.
00:11:01Round up every man and piece of machinery you've got.
00:11:03Move it in there as close as possible.
00:11:04We're going to open the rocket door from here by remote control.
00:11:07When the door opens, when I give you the signal,
00:11:09I want every hose turned full force around that entrance.
00:11:12Now, you got it?
00:11:12Well, that thing's still us off of the bases.
00:11:14I don't know.
00:11:15You start pumping water.
00:11:16Don't argue with me.
00:11:17I know what I'm doing.
00:11:18I hope so, sir.
00:11:19Major, sir, I want this whole field cleared.
00:11:22When they come out of the rocket,
00:11:23I want absolutely no one on the field.
00:11:25Do you understand?
00:11:26No one.
00:11:26Don't worry, sir.
00:11:40There's someone alive in there.
00:11:41We don't know what condition they'll be in,
00:11:42so you better get everything out.
00:11:43Oxygen, morphine, glucose.
00:11:55Well, now it's up to you.
00:11:56Keep your eye on me.
00:11:57I'll give you the signal.
00:11:59All set?
00:12:00Set, sir.
00:12:01Start it up.
00:12:02Let me know when you're minus 10 to pressure.
00:12:05Right, sir.
00:12:07Minus 10.
00:12:10Nine.
00:12:13Eight.
00:12:15Seven.
00:12:17Six.
00:12:21Five.
00:12:23Four.
00:12:26Three.
00:12:29Two.
00:12:32One.
00:12:34Zero.
00:12:35One.
00:12:39Two.
00:12:41One.
00:12:43One.
00:12:45Four.
00:12:46Two.
00:12:48Let's go.
00:13:16Turn off the water.
00:13:36It's Mr. Caroon.
00:13:37Victor, Victor.
00:13:39Dammit, darling.
00:13:40What about the others?
00:13:41Darling.
00:13:49Green, I can hide.
00:13:52What have you, sir?
00:13:58The access chamber to the motors.
00:14:05Quick, the manual control.
00:14:08Where are the others?
00:14:10Think it worked?
00:14:12It's free, sir.
00:14:32They're not there.
00:14:33Not them.
00:14:33What do you mean, they're not there?
00:14:34I mean, they're not in the rocket.
00:14:36Either one of them.
00:14:36That's impossible.
00:14:37They must be.
00:14:37He's right, sir.
00:14:38They've gone.
00:14:39The pressure suits.
00:14:40Empty.
00:14:41They're still linked.
00:14:42Helmets are still attached, but they're empty.
00:14:45But how could they possibly have gone out?
00:14:48If I knew that, I wouldn't be wasting my time trying to find out.
00:14:50Go bring the camera down.
00:14:53Do you think the door opened and they were swept away?
00:14:55If the door had opened, it would be registered here.
00:14:57No, that door has not been opened.
00:14:59Until now.
00:15:04What is it you're trying to tell me?
00:15:05I'm not trying to tell you anything.
00:15:07Let the camera do that.
00:15:09I'm afraid the camera won't tell us anything.
00:15:27Are they all right?
00:15:28Something's happened.
00:15:29They're not there.
00:15:33Victor.
00:15:35Where's Green?
00:15:36Where's Reichenheim?
00:15:37What happened?
00:15:38Please, not now.
00:15:39Thank you, Nass.
00:15:41He's in no condition to talk.
00:15:43He's in juice of the other state of shock.
00:15:44He must be treated.
00:15:45He's got to talk first.
00:15:46He's got to tell me what happened.
00:15:47Gordon.
00:15:51What is it, Victor?
00:15:52What is it?
00:16:11He said, help me.
00:16:14That's all he said.
00:16:16Help me.
00:16:19That's all he said.
00:16:21That's all he said.
00:16:22That's all he said.
00:16:24That's all he said.
00:16:25That's all he said.
00:16:27That's all he said.
00:16:29That's all he said.
00:16:31That's all he said.
00:16:32That's all he said.
00:16:33That's all he said.
00:16:34That's all he said.
00:16:34That's all he said.
00:16:34That's all he said.
00:16:35That's all he said.
00:16:36That's all he said.
00:16:36That's all he said.
00:16:37That's all he said.
00:16:37That's all he said.
00:16:39That's all he said.
00:16:43That's all he said.
00:16:57You get it?
00:16:57Yes, sir.
00:16:58Good.
00:17:23All right, sir, it doesn't make me any prettier, but I got a lunch date with the wife.
00:17:26Any special reason?
00:17:27Uh-huh, my favorite day of the month.
00:17:29Payday.
00:17:30Oh, a big man on payday.
00:17:33Yes, sir.
00:17:36See the papers?
00:17:37Quite a mess.
00:17:38They're stirring it up with the police.
00:17:40How dare we take fingerprints from a sick man.
00:17:42There's nothing else I could do.
00:17:44He couldn't talk.
00:17:44Couldn't answer any questions.
00:17:46Thought we might as well get his prints.
00:17:48You never know.
00:17:49No, you never know.
00:17:51He's a weird one, all right.
00:17:53The skin, it's just like shaking hands with a piece of ice.
00:17:58Sergeant, there's no way to talk about a public hero.
00:18:02Come in.
00:18:04Mr. Quatermass, I see you, sir.
00:18:06Well, speaking of public heroes.
00:18:09All right, wheel him in.
00:18:10Yes, sir.
00:18:11Quatermass, eh?
00:18:13This is what's known as penetrating into enemy territory.
00:18:21Inspector Lomax.
00:18:23I'm Lomax.
00:18:23This is Sergeant Best.
00:18:24Won't you sit down?
00:18:25I'll come direct to the point, Inspector.
00:18:27I will not have your men coming into my research center
00:18:29and treating Victor Caroon as though he were a pathological criminal.
00:18:32Nobody would.
00:18:32He's a sick man, Inspector.
00:18:33He's been through an ordeal that very few men could survive.
00:18:35Two men didn't survive it, did they, Mr. Quatermass?
00:18:39What exactly do you mean by that?
00:18:40I wish you'd sit down.
00:18:42If I sit and you stand, I'm being rude and I'm longing to sit down.
00:18:48You see, Mr. Quatermass, I'm an old-fashioned sort of chap.
00:18:51I don't know much about rockets or traveling into space.
00:18:53I don't read science fiction.
00:18:55I'm a plain, simple Bible man.
00:18:57I have a routine mind and I have to do routine things.
00:19:00Such as fingerprinting an unconscious man?
00:19:02When three men take off in a rocket and only one comes back,
00:19:05in our reckoning that leaves minus two.
00:19:07And minus two puts us in the embarrassing position
00:19:09of having to investigate plus one.
00:19:11Whether he's conscious, unconscious or a gibbering idiot.
00:19:14Fine.
00:19:14I think I can save you a lot of time, Inspector,
00:19:17with your so-called investigation.
00:19:19I have here the particulars on all three members of the crew.
00:19:22Charles Green, Ludwig Reichenheim, Victor Caroon.
00:19:26You'll find everything there, Inspector.
00:19:28Medical histories, personal description, academic achievements,
00:19:32politics, and even fingerprints.
00:19:34That's very thoughtful of you.
00:19:35There's only one investigation
00:19:36likely to serve any good purpose in this situation, Inspector.
00:19:41That's a scientific one.
00:19:46I'm sure even you will agree that between us,
00:19:48I'm the best qualified for that assignment.
00:19:51Good day, Inspector.
00:19:52Sergeant.
00:19:54Well, they might almost say we've been given a rocket.
00:19:57Yes, sir.
00:20:09It's absolutely unbelievable.
00:20:10It just isn't clinically possible that his heart should respond like this.
00:20:14Pulse, blood pressure, the same.
00:20:16Impossibly low.
00:20:18He shouldn't be alive, but he is.
00:20:20Can't you do something to increase the metabolic rate?
00:20:22Tried everything.
00:20:23No effect.
00:20:24I never knew pressure effects to last this long.
00:20:26These aren't just pressure effects.
00:20:28It's not only his face, but look at his skin.
00:20:31Anyway, here, on the shoulder.
00:20:33Feel it.
00:20:35Swollen.
00:20:37Coarsened.
00:20:37Yes, and that's not all, either.
00:20:39Look at the contour of the face.
00:20:42You mean the bone structure?
00:20:44Yes, I could be wrong about a limb,
00:20:46but not about the shape of the bones.
00:20:47There's been a change.
00:20:48I'm convinced of that.
00:20:52Is he any better?
00:20:53He's coming along fine.
00:20:56If only he'd say something.
00:20:58Give us a sign that he's thinking that he knows we're here.
00:21:01He knows, Judith.
00:21:02He knows we're trying to help him.
00:21:04What is happening to him?
00:21:05Well, that's what we're trying to find out.
00:21:07Shouldn't he be in a hospital?
00:21:10That's exactly where he should be.
00:21:12Briscoe, I can't take this responsibility any longer.
00:21:15I haven't got the proper equipment here to do the right tests.
00:21:17He belongs in a hospital.
00:21:21I suppose you're right.
00:21:24I suppose you're both right.
00:21:26He does belong in a hospital.
00:21:29But can a hospital do more than you can do?
00:21:32Would a hospital know what goes on out there in space,
00:21:35on the other side of the air?
00:21:36There's a whole new world out there, a wilderness, uncharted.
00:21:40And he's been there and come back.
00:21:43He's got the map.
00:21:45Unlock his mind for me, Briscoe, and find it.
00:21:47I know you can do it.
00:21:47It isn't just a question of...
00:21:48I know the strain and tension you've been under,
00:21:50but to stop now when we're so close,
00:21:52on the brink of something tremendous,
00:21:54the very fringe of some great discovery,
00:21:56we can't stop now, Briscoe.
00:21:58Besides, it's our only chance to learn what happened to the others.
00:22:00At a hospital, you'd have all the most modern...
00:22:02Would a hospital know how to deal with a man
00:22:04who's been exposed to rocket radiation?
00:22:06In his bloodstream, there was absolutely...
00:22:07Or the effects of pressure at 1,500 miles up.
00:22:10During flight training,
00:22:11he took seven times the force of gravity
00:22:12without even a headache to show for...
00:22:13We know that.
00:22:14But would a hospital know it?
00:22:26Well, I'll try another transfusion.
00:22:27See if that'll help.
00:22:33Thanks.
00:22:34You'll stay with him, won't you, Judy?
00:22:36Victor.
00:22:38He needs you.
00:22:48Victor.
00:23:10I think we'll move him into the office.
00:23:12We can make him more comfortable in there.
00:23:13Would you help me, please?
00:23:14Of course.
00:23:16Thank you for all you're doing, Gordon.
00:23:18Hmm?
00:23:18I only wish I could do more.
00:23:29The solution is elementary, my dear Inspector.
00:23:31Victor Caroon killed the two men,
00:23:33removed their precious suits,
00:23:34pushed their bodies out into space,
00:23:35and then linked the suits together again.
00:23:37Now, what do you want?
00:23:38Two things.
00:23:38Number one, I want to return these files.
00:23:40Green, Reichenheim, Caroon.
00:23:43Very interesting.
00:23:44Caroon...
00:23:44Number two.
00:23:45Well, I want you to give me your solemn word...
00:23:47Well, Inspector, I'm a very busy man.
00:23:49Now, look, sir.
00:23:50Nobody ever wins a Cold War.
00:23:52One of us had better come over to the other side.
00:23:53If you don't want to come over to mine,
00:23:54I'm not proud, I'll come over to yours.
00:23:56Solemn word about what?
00:23:57That these were Caroon's fingerprints.
00:23:59Of course they were.
00:24:00Everybody in Research Center gets fingerprinted.
00:24:03What are you getting at?
00:24:04To be quite honest, I don't quite know, sir.
00:24:07Nothing unusual about these.
00:24:09These are the fingerprints we took off Caroon last night.
00:24:12What about them?
00:24:13Compare them.
00:24:24Is this a joke?
00:24:25This is no joke, sir.
00:24:26The man who took those had his training in the fingerprint section.
00:24:29It's second nature to him.
00:24:32But these prints aren't even...
00:24:35Human.
00:24:36Yes?
00:24:37Yes.
00:24:38You found what?
00:24:40I'll be right there.
00:24:41Well, wherever you're going, I might as well keep your company,
00:24:43and he mightn't die.
00:24:46It's very nice of you.
00:24:49It was when I was checking the safety casing on the wiring.
00:24:52Behind there.
00:25:03Can you get at it?
00:25:05No.
00:25:06It's right in the crevice.
00:25:08Hand me the sample spoon from my box.
00:25:37No.
00:25:37Any more of this?
00:25:38Yes, sir.
00:25:39Lots.
00:25:40On the left.
00:25:41By the rivet flag.
00:25:43Do I have a sample for our people?
00:25:46Sure.
00:25:46We'll give you a sample.
00:25:52Brisco.
00:25:53What do you think it is?
00:25:56I don't want to think.
00:25:57I want to be sure.
00:25:59I've been in this thing all night.
00:26:01Nice to know that stuff's been around the whole time.
00:26:03Howdy, Adlam.
00:26:06Have you got the same bright thoughts that I have?
00:26:11Something happened in here.
00:26:14Something beyond our understanding at the moment.
00:26:17I only knew where to begin.
00:26:19Maybe the film will help.
00:26:20Film?
00:26:21Yes, the lab should have developed it by now.
00:26:23I thought you told me the camera was smashed.
00:26:25It was badly damaged, but I managed to get the film out.
00:26:27Why didn't you tell me?
00:26:28Well, the lab said they didn't know if they could develop it or not.
00:26:30They've got to develop it.
00:26:32You get right down to that laboratory and tell them they've got to develop that film.
00:26:35Yes, sir.
00:26:35And I'll have no delays or excuses.
00:26:37Tell them to get the best processed man in the country.
00:26:39Tell them to get anybody they want, but I've got to have that film.
00:26:41Quite, sir.
00:26:43This is one premiere I don't want to miss.
00:26:56You see, come on.
00:26:58You see, come over here, come on.
00:26:59Yes, sir.
00:26:59You see, come on.
00:26:59You see, come on.
00:26:59Come on.
00:27:03If you want the guns!
00:27:06Yeah, sir, come on.
00:27:11You've got to see the room.
00:27:12You're going to copy.
00:27:13I've got to keep it.
00:27:14But I'll do it.
00:27:15You've got to see it.
00:27:15You've got to see the old game here.
00:27:15If I'm in the house.
00:27:25Come on.
00:27:58Well, it's harmless, it's organic, it's jelly. End of analysis.
00:28:02No definite identification?
00:28:04It might conceivably represent the dead remnants of celtus, huh?
00:28:07What sort of cell tissue?
00:28:08It could be animal, could be human.
00:28:11Human?
00:28:12Good, Ben.
00:28:16You know what you're saying.
00:28:17I know what I'm thinking.
00:28:19Are you sure it's not some sort of plant cell?
00:28:23Positive.
00:28:25You mean to say that you're asking me to believe that that is the remains of two human beings?
00:28:30I'm not asking you to believe anything.
00:28:31You asked a question, I answered it.
00:28:35Does she know?
00:28:36No, this is the first sleep she's had in nights.
00:28:39What about the police analysts?
00:28:40What do they say?
00:28:40No report through yet.
00:28:43But I don't doubt it'll be the same.
00:28:45It's almost beyond human understanding.
00:28:48Some fantastic invisible force converted two men into jelly.
00:28:55Is that the slide?
00:28:56That's the slide.
00:28:59I'm about to call it a day, Equatomus.
00:29:01Beyond this, I'm a babe in a...
00:29:02Gordon!
00:29:08All right, get him up.
00:29:09No, wait a minute.
00:29:11His hand.
00:29:14Another change.
00:29:15Get him back to bed.
00:29:26Look what's happening to his skin.
00:29:27In just the last few moments, I'll go and get him a sedative.
00:29:34You've done this to him.
00:29:35He'd have been better off if he'd been killed or stayed out there.
00:29:37Judith.
00:29:38You've destroyed him like you've destroyed everything else you've touched.
00:29:40Destroyed him, I've brought him back.
00:29:42I've saved him.
00:29:42Saved him for what?
00:29:43For further experiments?
00:29:44I can help him more than you or anyone else can.
00:29:47There's no room for personal feelings and science, Judith.
00:29:49Some of us have a mission.
00:29:51You should be very proud to have a husband who's willing to risk his life for the betterment of the
00:29:54whole world.
00:29:55What world?
00:29:56Your world?
00:29:57The world of Quatermass.
00:29:59I've sent for an ambulance.
00:30:01He's going to the central clinic.
00:30:05All right, Brisco.
00:30:06Send him to the clinic.
00:30:09But I want him to have complete isolation, you understand?
00:30:11Complete isolation.
00:30:13No one is to see him.
00:30:16No one.
00:30:17Until I say so.
00:30:30We've tried three different grades of stock.
00:30:32Developed each one to as high a gamma as possible and still it's made no difference.
00:30:36Look at this.
00:30:37It's grainy and dull.
00:30:38All I want is a print.
00:30:39Well, we don't like any print that isn't up to stand.
00:30:41Is there a picture on it?
00:30:42Oh, there's a picture, all right.
00:30:43But you can see how dull and grainy.
00:30:44I don't care how dull and grainy it is.
00:30:45I must have this now.
00:30:46It could be altitude or an extreme change of temperature or penetration of cosmic rays.
00:30:50Fine, fine.
00:30:51I'll tell him that.
00:30:52Well, I don't know what the old man will say.
00:30:53Listen, you tell your old man that our old man said if he didn't get this print, he'd dynamite the
00:30:57building.
00:31:00I can't tell the Ministry this.
00:31:01They'll think I've lost my senses.
00:31:03That's exactly why you must tell them nothing.
00:31:05Now you see why I must have absolute authority to isolate Karun.
00:31:08But every newspaper in town has got a story on him being admitted into the clinic.
00:31:11They'll want to know why and what's happened to him and what's happened to the others.
00:31:13All right, do you want to tell them?
00:31:14Well, not telling them won't stop the panic.
00:31:16What they don't know won't start a panic.
00:31:18Inspector, what about the police analysis?
00:31:19The same, Mr. Blake.
00:31:21What's the next move?
00:31:22Well, we've agreed to isolation.
00:31:24It's the only thing we can do until we know more.
00:31:29Yeah?
00:31:35The phone is ready.
00:32:18See that, Marsh?
00:32:19It works.
00:32:19Yes, sir.
00:32:20What works?
00:32:21Automatic prism.
00:32:22It cuts in the panel reading.
00:32:24See that, Ash?
00:32:24No.
00:33:24The observations are on the cameras geared to cut out at regular intervals.
00:33:26This will be the 0.16 period.
00:33:33That must be why we lost them.
00:33:48Oh, no, it could have happened.
00:33:50Look at that fantastic temperature, Doc.
00:35:29Run it again.
00:35:37He's in surgery.
00:35:39But I'll get word to him as soon as possible.
00:35:41Yes.
00:35:42What's the name, please?
00:35:44Oh.
00:35:45That's two Ts?
00:35:47Uh-huh.
00:35:49Uh-uh.
00:35:51Yeah.
00:35:52Yes.
00:35:52I'll see if he gets it.
00:35:54Yes.
00:35:57Sorry, miss.
00:35:58The visiting hours are over.
00:35:59I just wanted to know how my husband is.
00:36:02Oh, I'll try and find out for you, miss.
00:36:04What would the name be?
00:36:05Caroon.
00:36:06Victor Caroon.
00:36:07Oh.
00:36:08He's all right, isn't he?
00:36:09Mrs. Caroon, I wish I could let you go up, but we strict orders about you, husband.
00:36:14All I want to know is how is he?
00:36:15Is there any change?
00:36:17Just a minute.
00:36:21Hello, Mabel.
00:36:23Alf here.
00:36:24Listen.
00:36:24How is 4B?
00:36:26I know all about the orders, but I only want you to think out loud.
00:36:31Thank you, Mabel.
00:36:34He's going all the same, Mrs. Caroon.
00:36:36No change, but no worse.
00:36:38If I could see him, just for a few minutes.
00:36:40I should be shot at dawn.
00:36:42But don't you worry.
00:36:43He's in good hands.
00:36:44They don't leave him alone, do they?
00:36:46Oh, not for a moment.
00:36:47Tucker, his night nurse, is with him now, and Perkins comes on in about half an hour.
00:36:51Both as good as any doctor.
00:36:52Could I wait for the night nurse when he comes off duty?
00:36:55If only to talk to someone who's been with him.
00:36:58Please.
00:36:59Tucker comes off in about half an hour.
00:37:01It usually dips out through the staff entrance.
00:37:03Turn left through the doors, and it's on the right.
00:37:06Wait for him outside.
00:37:07And if they ask me, I never told you nothing.
00:37:33There's only the nurse with him.
00:37:34His name's Tucker.
00:37:35His name?
00:37:35You mean I've got to flirt with a heat nurse?
00:37:37Sleep, hurry.
00:37:37You've only got half an hour before the relief nurse comes on duty.
00:37:40Another one in pass?
00:37:41His name's Perkins.
00:37:42It's money, money, money.
00:37:44Cash before delivery.
00:37:45It always gives me more confidence.
00:37:46Especially when my investigating is this private.
00:37:48Room 4B.
00:37:494B.
00:37:56Give me 15 minutes.
00:37:57I'll put him in the lift and send him back.
00:37:59Then he's all yours.
00:38:00I never saw you in my life.
00:38:01Please, hurry.
00:38:02And he's very sick, so we'll be careful.
00:38:03Don't worry.
00:38:03I'll murder him like a baby.
00:38:07Don't worry.
00:38:09I'll murder him like a baby.
00:38:25You've got to get him.
00:38:27Relax, lady.
00:38:28You're shaking the building.
00:38:54Evening.
00:38:54Yeah.
00:39:01Evening.
00:39:01I'm from casualty.
00:39:02Perkins is sick.
00:39:03They sent me to take over his night shift.
00:39:05Fine.
00:39:05Well, I know.
00:39:06I'm too honest.
00:39:06But you're not due for another half hour.
00:39:08Who cares?
00:39:08Night shift is night shift.
00:39:09What's a half an hour here or there?
00:39:11You know you've got to heaven for this.
00:39:12At our rate of pay, we should get some fun out of life.
00:39:14What's his trouble?
00:39:15He doesn't seem to know.
00:39:16He's the star patient.
00:39:17He just lies and stares.
00:39:19Never opens his mouth.
00:39:21But if he does, press that bell and quick.
00:39:23Well, happy night, May.
00:39:24Any special instructions?
00:39:26Let all of the chart.
00:39:27Good night.
00:39:27Night.
00:39:32News, my friend.
00:39:33Your wife is waiting for you downstairs.
00:39:36I'm the man who's going to get you out of here.
00:39:38Does that make you happy?
00:39:39It does?
00:39:40Good.
00:39:41But we don't have too much time, so up we get.
00:39:55Hello.
00:39:55Hello.
00:39:56What time are you off?
00:39:57Ask him whether he's going to live or not.
00:39:59Operating?
00:40:00For about three and a half hours, at least.
00:40:01You two?
00:40:02Me two.
00:40:02Chinese restaurants, open until midnight.
00:40:05Take you both.
00:40:06Beautiful green sour pork, roast duck, fried shrimp.
00:40:09You've talked us into it.
00:40:11There we are.
00:40:12Now the jacket.
00:40:21There's a good boy.
00:40:22Can't meet the lady looking sloppy.
00:40:25You know, it's funny.
00:40:26Wires usually employ me to get them away from their husbands.
00:40:29Oh, you're a sad one.
00:40:32Oh, well, to each his own.
00:40:34Hey, steady, steady.
00:40:36Now you stay here while Christy goes and gets the lift.
00:40:39Won't be a minute.
00:41:07All clear.
00:41:08Hey, come on, hurry.
00:41:09Hey, that's the boy.
00:41:11Christy's got you.
00:41:37What do you got there?
00:41:40What are you hiding?
00:41:44What is it?
00:42:02Victor?
00:42:04Victor.
00:42:04Oh, Victor, darling.
00:42:06I've got the car outside.
00:42:07Please try and be quick.
00:42:09You can make it, dear.
00:42:24Everything's going to be all right, Victor.
00:42:26I'll get you the best treatment, the finest doctors.
00:42:30I'll get you well and strong.
00:42:32We'll make a new life for ourselves.
00:42:34away from all this, away from all this, away from him.
00:42:39Our life will be our own.
00:42:48Would you like one?
00:42:55Victor, I'll get you.
00:43:04Victor, I'll get you.
00:43:18Victor.
00:43:34Well, this is one case I don't think we'll find listed in forensic medicine.
00:43:38It looks as though the life was drawn right out of him.
00:43:40Have the body examined by your head pathologist.
00:43:42I'd like a report as soon as possible.
00:43:44You wouldn't mind if the homeopsy pathologist also took a little peep.
00:43:46I don't care if he dunks his head into a ring.
00:43:49On the other side of town.
00:43:50Car full of luggage.
00:43:51Caroon?
00:43:51No sign of him.
00:43:52Stupid idiot.
00:43:53Trying to take the whole thing in her own hands.
00:43:54Where did he go?
00:43:55What did she say?
00:43:56She didn't say anything.
00:43:56Anything about him.
00:43:58She's in a pretty bad state of shock.
00:43:59She thought about him, then about what?
00:44:00The doctor said she may even go out of her mind.
00:44:01Out of her mind about what?
00:44:02What did she say?
00:44:03Come on, talk, man.
00:44:04Well, when they found her, she was just sitting at the wheel of a car and moaning.
00:44:10Something about a hand being all gray with thorns like a cactus.
00:44:31I remember there was a cactus in this room, in this pot.
00:44:33Can I get a direct line through this?
00:44:34Yes.
00:44:37Hello?
00:44:39Hello?
00:44:41Look, get this car on the yard.
00:44:44Car 39, car 39, proceed immediately to 34 Maynham Street and investigate report of Prowler by resident.
00:44:53May B. Caroon, proceed with caution.
00:44:56Car 39, roger.
00:44:58Car 2, 1 and 2.
00:45:00Join River Police at Hayes Wharf to search area bounded by Shandham.
00:45:05Maynham Antuny Street.
00:45:09River Patrol 4.
00:45:11River Patrol 4.
00:45:13Join Mobile Police at Hayes Wharf to search area bounded by Tooney Street, Hayes Lane and Strat Thames.
00:45:20River Patrol 4.
00:45:22Roger.
00:45:22Out.
00:45:35Pulling Magic.
00:45:39Opponents.
00:45:42New belongs in the bottom of the house.
00:45:42Question 2.
00:45:42Did he hit the must?
00:45:49Put the Honors 물 soon.
00:45:49Where is up?
00:45:51Do we know?
00:45:52I didn't have to know.
00:45:52Oh, don't I do.
00:45:54This growth on the face. Half plant, half...
00:45:58Look at this. Look what it's done.
00:46:01The whole tissue structure's eaten away.
00:46:04The bone's powder.
00:46:06Well, it takes care of my supper tonight.
00:46:10Brisco, what if there is a form of life in space?
00:46:14Not on some planet, but just drifting.
00:46:17All right, nurse.
00:46:22Not life as we know it.
00:46:23With intelligence, yes, but pure energy with no organic structure.
00:46:27Invisible.
00:46:28Invisible?
00:46:29Now, the rocket passed through its path.
00:46:30It entered the rocket.
00:46:32It found living specimens of our form of life.
00:46:34Cell organisms, human...
00:46:36Green and Russian arm.
00:46:38And Karun, exactly.
00:46:40Now, if even by accident it could enter one of those structures...
00:46:44What a way to invade the Earth.
00:46:47Now, look, sir, I'm not over-intelligent.
00:46:49If you saw the film, you know what happened.
00:46:51Only God knows where and how far that rocket traveled.
00:46:54But only two of them died.
00:46:56Something got into that rocket.
00:46:58Took the blood out of the other two, and now it's using Karun.
00:47:01And it's found other forms of life.
00:47:03The cactus.
00:47:05Good grief.
00:47:06You mean Karun's a carrier.
00:47:08He's now into the shell of a man being transformed.
00:47:12If one of these cactus plants were subject to the same mutation...
00:47:15There could be an affinity, a union between plant and animal...
00:47:17With the ability to destroy.
00:47:20And possess.
00:47:21And multiply.
00:47:25At will.
00:47:27Multiply?
00:47:29Yes, but to multiply, first it has to live.
00:47:32And like any living thing, to live...
00:47:35To live, it must have food.
00:48:05I'm sorry we're closed.
00:48:08All right, just a minute.
00:48:10Oh, dear.
00:48:12Look, we only open till...
00:48:14Hey, wait a minute!
00:48:16You can't come into a place like this!
00:48:18Leave those things alone!
00:48:23What do you think you're doing?
00:48:28Are you in pain?
00:48:34Is it something to do with your arm?
00:48:37Look, I'll just take a look.
00:48:38I won't hurt it, I promise.
00:48:48No!
00:48:54No!
00:48:59All right, love, I'll get it.
00:49:04Hello?
00:49:05Yes, best?
00:49:07What?
00:49:09When?
00:49:10Right, the cordon of the whole area.
00:49:12Tell Quenemus and Brisco to meet us there.
00:49:15Pa!
00:49:17Now what?
00:49:18I've got to go back.
00:49:19But you've only just come in.
00:49:20You just can't do without me, love.
00:49:22I don't know why you don't move into the office.
00:49:25You'd never believe I was there.
00:49:26What makes you think I do now?
00:49:28Ha-ha!
00:49:29Have your tea, at least.
00:49:30I haven't got time, love.
00:49:32The things you do to that poor stomach of yours.
00:49:35I ought to get you a picnic basket.
00:49:37What I'm going on is no picnic.
00:49:39What about dinner?
00:49:40Cook it and keep your fingers crossed.
00:49:42Bye, love.
00:49:43Come on.
00:49:50What do you think he was trying to do?
00:49:51I'd like to think, kill himself.
00:49:53The fears were mixed with the normal result of the death in five minutes.
00:49:55What?
00:49:56What is it?
00:49:57I have a pretty sick feeling it was something to speed up the change going on inside him.
00:50:01But Caroon was an engineer.
00:50:02He didn't know anything about chemistry.
00:50:04Caroon didn't know.
00:50:06There's a kettle still on, and there's no sign of the chemist anywhere.
00:50:08What do you think he was doing here?
00:50:10Well, one thing he was doing, he was expecting...
00:50:11We're not certain.
00:50:12I'm not certain about anything with this customer.
00:50:14Well, nobody in the street heard anything.
00:50:16They're all at church or in the local.
00:50:18He must have...
00:50:29Evans, come in quick.
00:50:30And quiet.
00:50:42All right, let's go.
00:50:44You might be...
00:50:47Let's go.
00:50:49No.
00:50:54No!
00:50:57No.
00:50:58I can't wait.
00:51:00That's why, sir.
00:51:00No.
00:51:09No!
00:51:11No, no.
00:51:12Oh, my God.
00:51:42Oh, my God.
00:52:11Oh, my God.
00:52:24There we are.
00:52:26Blah-dee-dee-dee-dee-dee-dee-dee-dee-dee-dee-dee-dee-dee-dee.
00:52:30And there's just the two of us today.
00:52:32We'll have our own tea party.
00:52:34I don't like those other girls anyway.
00:52:36All they do is talk about their new clothes and dolls.
00:52:39You don't care about those things, do you?
00:52:42You don't care about new clothes or anything.
00:52:44We're friends.
00:52:48I do sit there and be a good girl while I make the tea.
00:52:54There's the teapot.
00:52:56There's the cups.
00:53:03And I brought the most delicious cakes and biscuits.
00:53:07The others never serve anything, but we do.
00:53:11Look, aren't they lovely?
00:53:14Don't be frightened.
00:53:15That's only the old rat that live in this old boat.
00:53:20Now, tea is ready.
00:53:23Sugar?
00:53:24One, two, all right.
00:53:27Now we may have a cake.
00:53:28This one.
00:53:29It's filled with cherries.
00:53:31And anyway, I like the other one because it's full of chocolate.
00:53:36Oh, we thought you were rats.
00:53:40Won't you stay and have tea with us?
00:53:44We'd very much like you to stay.
00:53:46And you look so tired.
00:53:48There's plenty, if that's what you're worried about.
00:53:51And cakes, too.
00:53:54Go on, Dolly.
00:53:55You ask him.
00:53:56Please, won't you have tea and cakes with us?
00:53:59Don't be frightened.
00:54:01We would like you to stay very much.
00:54:04And you may have the cake that has all the chocolate inside.
00:54:07Ten in, Dolly.
00:54:32Yes?
00:54:34What time was this?
00:54:36Was it an eyewitness?
00:54:38I see.
00:54:40Well, they're doing fine.
00:54:41He's been positively seen in Liverpool, Margate, Osband and the Orkneys.
00:54:44Yes?
00:54:46Yes.
00:54:47Deptford area.
00:54:47What?
00:54:48A kid told her mother.
00:54:50Yes?
00:54:51About two hours ago.
00:54:52Hold it, please.
00:54:54The kid got a doll broken by a man down by some derelict boats near Deptford.
00:54:57So it had to be Caroon?
00:54:59No, the mother's complaining about molesting kids.
00:55:01Deptford said the description could fit Caroon.
00:55:03All right, well, that's why there's a police station at Deptford.
00:55:06Thank you, Deptford.
00:55:07Keep us informed.
00:55:08Mobile?
00:55:09A Deptford alert on Caroon.
00:55:11Yes, I know it is, so your boys can have another little drive.
00:55:15Cover derelict boats, warehouses and bomb shelters.
00:55:19All right, so do it again.
00:55:22Where's he getting food?
00:55:23That's what I'd like to know.
00:55:25Now, now, shut up, Simba.
00:55:27You've had to do it.
00:55:28It's time to go to bed.
00:55:29Go on, off you go.
00:55:30Go on, don't stand there gaping.
00:55:31That's me.
00:55:32Off you go to bed.
00:55:44Good night, fellas.
00:55:45Seat well.
00:55:47Hello, Joey.
00:55:48You know something?
00:55:49Could have sworn I saw you having tea in a cafe this afternoon.
00:55:52Turned out to be a customer, though.
00:56:03Go on, go on, go on, go on, go on, go on, go on, go on, go on, go on,
00:56:04go on, go on, go on, go on, go on, go on, go on, go on, go on, go on,
00:56:08go on, go on, go on, go on, go on, go on, go on, go on, go on, go on,
00:56:08go on, go on, go on, go on, go on, go on, go on, go on, go on, go on,
00:56:09go on, go on, go on, go on, go on, go on, go on, go on, go on, go on,
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