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Invasion of the Body Snatchers is a 1956 American science fiction horror film directed by Don Siegel and based on the 1954 novel The Body Snatchers by Jack Finney. It is widely regarded as a classic of the genre and a powerful allegory of Cold War-era paranoia and conformity.
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00:01:55Oh, Dr. Hill.
00:01:56Dr. Benson.
00:01:58Where's the patient?
00:01:59I hated to drag you out of bed at this time of night.
00:02:01Would you let me go while there's still time?
00:02:03You'll soon see why I did.
00:02:07Doctor, will you tell these fools I'm not crazy?
00:02:10Make them listen to me before it's too late!
00:02:12I'll listen to you.
00:02:14Let him go.
00:02:19Who are you?
00:02:20I'm Dr. Hill from the state mental hospital.
00:02:22I am not insane!
00:02:24Let him go!
00:02:25Listen.
00:02:27Doctor.
00:02:28Now, you must listen to me.
00:02:29You must understand me.
00:02:31I'm a doctor, too.
00:02:32I am not insane.
00:02:33I am not insane.
00:02:34All right, all right.
00:02:35Now, suppose we just sit down over here, Dr. Bunnell,
00:02:37and you tell me what happened.
00:02:42Well, it started.
00:02:45For me, it started last Thursday.
00:02:48In response to an urgent message from my nurse,
00:02:50I'd hurried home from a medical convention I'd been attending.
00:02:55At first glance, everything looked the same.
00:02:59It wasn't.
00:03:01Something evil had taken possession of the town.
00:03:05These two.
00:03:07Here you are.
00:03:08Thank you, sir.
00:03:09There you are.
00:03:15Pardon us, please.
00:03:18Doc!
00:03:20Hiya, Sally.
00:03:21Hi.
00:03:22Welcome home.
00:03:23I'm glad you're back.
00:03:24How's Mickey and the baby?
00:03:25Well, they're fine.
00:03:26But it seems that everybody else in Santa Fe
00:03:27already needs a doctor.
00:03:28You've got an office full of doctors.
00:03:30You've got an office full of patients.
00:03:32Oh, no.
00:03:33On my first day back?
00:03:34Well, some of them have been waiting for two weeks.
00:03:36Why didn't you send them to Percy or Carmichael
00:03:38like I told you to?
00:03:39Most of them wouldn't go.
00:03:40They want to see you.
00:03:41Oh.
00:03:50What's the matter with them?
00:03:51They wouldn't say.
00:03:52You know, usually, people can't talk enough
00:03:54about what's ailing them.
00:03:56For instance, Wally Everhart was in twice
00:03:58and called three times about something,
00:04:00but he wouldn't tell me what it was.
00:04:01That's funny.
00:04:02Neither would anyone else,
00:04:03from Becky Driscoll
00:04:04down to that fat traffic cop, Sam Jancic.
00:04:07Becky Driscoll?
00:04:09I thought she was in England.
00:04:12She got back a few days ago,
00:04:13and she wanted to see you.
00:04:15Are you still interested?
00:04:17My interest in married women is strictly professional,
00:04:19or yours would have been a lost cause long ago.
00:04:23How was the convention?
00:04:24Wonderful.
00:04:25They wept with envy when I read my paper.
00:04:28Hey, back here!
00:04:31Jimmy!
00:04:33What's the matter, Mrs. Grimaldi?
00:04:36It's nothing.
00:04:37He just don't want to go to school.
00:04:41Well,
00:04:42if I were you, I'd have a talk with his teacher.
00:04:44Yeah, I will when I get time.
00:04:46What's the matter?
00:04:47Has Joe been sick?
00:04:48No, we gave him to stand up.
00:04:50Too much work.
00:04:53The boy's panic should have told me
00:04:54it was more than school he was afraid of.
00:04:56And that littered, closed-up vegetable stand
00:04:58should have told me something, too.
00:05:00When I last saw it,
00:05:01less than a month ago,
00:05:02it was the cleanest and busiest stand on the road.
00:05:05That's strange.
00:05:07She was in to see you, too, last Friday,
00:05:09and I tried to get her to go see Doc Percy,
00:05:11but she wouldn't.
00:05:12She said only you could help her.
00:05:14Well, whatever it was,
00:05:15it couldn't have been too serious, I guess.
00:05:21One minor concussion,
00:05:22two cases of the common cold,
00:05:24and six canceled appointments.
00:05:26Looks like you rushed me here for nothing.
00:05:28I don't understand it, Miles.
00:05:30They couldn't wait to see you.
00:05:32But you're still booked up solid for the afternoon.
00:05:34I bet they don't show.
00:05:35Look, there's Wally Eberhardt
00:05:37talking somebody into buying some insurance.
00:05:39There's nothing wrong with him.
00:05:41And Bill Bittner's taking his secretary to lunch.
00:05:44And speaking of lunch,
00:05:45will you tell whoever that is
00:05:46that I'm out having mine?
00:05:47Is Dr. Binnell in?
00:05:49Yes, he's here.
00:05:50Do you suppose he has time to see me a moment?
00:05:52Well, if he hasn't,
00:05:53there's something wrong with him.
00:05:54Go right in.
00:05:58Becky.
00:06:00Almost five years.
00:06:02It's wonderful to be home again.
00:06:04Been away so long,
00:06:05I feel almost like a stranger in my own country.
00:06:08Hope you don't mind my coming without an appointment.
00:06:10Not at all.
00:06:12What'll you have?
00:06:13We're pushing appendectomies this week.
00:06:15Oh, Miles.
00:06:16I don't know, maybe I clown around too much.
00:06:18Pretty soon my patients won't trust me
00:06:20to prescribe aspirin for them.
00:06:22Now, seriously, what's the trouble?
00:06:25It's my cousin.
00:06:26Wilma?
00:06:27What's the matter with her?
00:06:30She has a...
00:06:31Well, I guess you'd call it a delusion.
00:06:34You know her uncle, Uncle Ira?
00:06:36Sure.
00:06:37I'm his doctor.
00:06:38Well, Miles,
00:06:39she's got herself thinking he isn't her uncle.
00:06:41How do you mean?
00:06:42That they're not really related?
00:06:43No, she thinks he's an imposter or something.
00:06:45Someone who only looks like Ira.
00:06:47Have you seen him?
00:06:48Have you seen him?
00:06:49I just came from there.
00:06:51Well,
00:06:52is he Uncle Ira or isn't he Uncle Ira?
00:06:54Of course he is.
00:06:55I told Wilma that, but it was no use.
00:06:57Please, would you stop by and have a talk with her?
00:07:00Well, Sally says that I'm booked up for the afternoon,
00:07:02but why don't you ask her to come in and see me?
00:07:04I'll try.
00:07:07Um, how about some lunch?
00:07:09I can't, I'm meeting Dad at the store.
00:07:16When did you get back?
00:07:18I came back from London two months ago.
00:07:20I've been in Reno.
00:07:22Reno?
00:07:23Reno.
00:07:25Dad tells me you were there too.
00:07:27Five months ago.
00:07:28Oh, I'm sorry.
00:07:30So was I.
00:07:32I wanted it to work.
00:07:34Well,
00:07:35I guess that makes us Lodge brothers now.
00:07:37Yes.
00:07:39Except that I'm paying dues while you collect them.
00:07:43Miles.
00:07:48Hello, George.
00:07:49How are you?
00:07:50Sam.
00:07:51Hello, Doug.
00:07:52At it again, eh?
00:07:53My nurse tells me you were in last week and wanted very much to see me.
00:07:56It wasn't anything important.
00:08:00Say, didn't you go to college with us?
00:08:02Quitted second year to get married.
00:08:04Like I wanted us to do.
00:08:06Just be thankful I didn't take you seriously.
00:08:08You be thankful.
00:08:10I found out that a doctor's wife needs the understanding of an Einstein
00:08:13and the patience of a saint.
00:08:15And love?
00:08:17I wouldn't know about that.
00:08:19I'm just a general practitioner.
00:08:21Love is handled by the specialists.
00:08:23Well,
00:08:25here's where I leave you.
00:08:26You know something?
00:08:28This is where you left me the last time.
00:08:32Hiya, Johnny.
00:08:41Sally, I'm off.
00:08:43When you tell the answering service, I'll be at home.
00:08:45Good night, Doc.
00:08:46Good night.
00:08:49Stop all this nonsense.
00:08:50Be a good boy.
00:08:51Come on.
00:08:52Hey, hey, hey.
00:08:53Hey, hey.
00:08:54Take it easy.
00:08:55Isn't this Jimmy Grimaldi?
00:08:56Yes, Doctor.
00:08:57Can I talk to you a minute?
00:08:58Sure.
00:08:59You know I almost ran you down this morning?
00:09:01You got to be careful when you're in Alvaroca.
00:09:10Hey, hey, hey.
00:09:12Hey, hey, hey.
00:09:14Slow down now.
00:09:15Look, school isn't as bad as all that.
00:09:17School isn't what upsets him.
00:09:19It's my daughter-in-law.
00:09:20He's got the crazy idea she isn't his mother.
00:09:22She isn't.
00:09:23She isn't.
00:09:24Don't let her get me.
00:09:25Nobody's going to get you, Jimmy.
00:09:35How long has this been going on?
00:09:37An hour ago, I find him hiding in the cellar having hysterics.
00:09:40He wouldn't tell me anything until I started to phone his mother.
00:09:43That's when he said Anna wasn't his mother.
00:09:45Could you keep him with you for a day or so?
00:09:47Of course.
00:09:48Give him one of these every four hours during the day.
00:09:50And call me tomorrow and let me know how he's feeling.
00:09:52Yes, Doctor.
00:09:54Don't let her get me.
00:09:56Nobody's going to get you, Jimmy.
00:10:05All right, Jimmy.
00:10:06Open your mouth.
00:10:08Close your eyes.
00:10:10In the words of the poet, I'll give you something to make you wise.
00:10:13That's a good boy, Jimmy.
00:10:16I'm not going home.
00:10:18You're going to stay at your grandmother's house.
00:10:20Would you call his mother and tell her...
00:10:21She's not my mother.
00:10:22All right, all right, all right.
00:10:23Run along, run along.
00:10:24Everything's going to be all right.
00:10:25You be a good boy now.
00:10:26Come on.
00:10:27Good night, Doctor.
00:10:28Good night.
00:10:31Sally, I've changed my mind.
00:10:32I'm not going directly home.
00:10:33I'm going to stop off and see Wilma Lentz.
00:10:35Should I call the boy's mother?
00:10:36Yes, call her and tell her what happened,
00:10:37and then I suggested it might be a good idea
00:10:39if the boy spent the night at his grandmother's house.
00:10:50Hello, Miles.
00:10:51Nice to see you, Wilma.
00:10:54Let's have it.
00:10:55You talk to him.
00:10:56What do you think?
00:10:57It's him.
00:10:58He's your Uncle Ira, all right.
00:11:00He is not.
00:11:06How is he different?
00:11:08That's just it.
00:11:09There is no difference you can actually see.
00:11:12He looks, sounds, acts, and remembers like Uncle Ira.
00:11:16Then he is your Uncle Ira.
00:11:18Can't you see that?
00:11:19No matter how you feel, he is.
00:11:21But he isn't.
00:11:22There's something missing.
00:11:24He's been a father to me since I was a baby.
00:11:27Always when he talked to me,
00:11:28there was a special look in his eye.
00:11:32That look's gone.
00:11:33What about memories?
00:11:35There must be certain things
00:11:36that only you and he would know about.
00:11:38Oh, there are.
00:11:39I've talked to him about them.
00:11:41He remembers them all down to the last small detail,
00:11:43just like Uncle Ira would.
00:11:46But, Miles, there's no emotion.
00:11:50None.
00:11:51Just the pretense of it.
00:11:53The words, gesture, the tone of voice,
00:11:55everything else is the same, but not the feeling.
00:11:58Memories or not, he isn't my Uncle Ira.
00:12:01Wilma, I'm on your side.
00:12:03My business is people in trouble,
00:12:04and I'm gonna find a way to help you.
00:12:06Now, no one could possibly impersonate
00:12:08your Uncle Ira without you or your Aunt Elita
00:12:10or even me seeing a million little differences.
00:12:13I want you to realize that.
00:12:15Think about it.
00:12:16And then you'll know that the trouble is inside you.
00:12:21Wilma, where are you?
00:12:23I'm here.
00:12:24I'm here.
00:12:25The trouble is inside you.
00:12:27Wilma, where are you?
00:12:29Out on the lawn.
00:12:31Say nothing to her.
00:12:34Why, Miles, I didn't know you were here.
00:12:36Welcome home.
00:12:37Hello, Mrs. Lentz.
00:12:38Did you ask Miles to stay for dinner?
00:12:40Can't tonight.
00:12:41I'm making spoon bread.
00:12:43Please, don't tempt me.
00:12:44Well, maybe next time.
00:12:46Wilma, where are my glasses?
00:12:48I think I saw them on the mantelpiece.
00:12:50I'll go with you.
00:12:55Miles, am I going crazy?
00:12:57Don't spare me.
00:12:58I've got to know.
00:12:59No, you're not.
00:13:00Even these days, it isn't as easy to go crazy
00:13:02as you might think.
00:13:03But you don't have to be losing your mind
00:13:05to need psychiatric help.
00:13:07I'd like you to see a doctor friend of mine.
00:13:10Psychiatrist?
00:13:11Dan Kaufman.
00:13:13I'll make an appointment for you tomorrow.
00:13:17I'm sorry.
00:13:18I'm sorry.
00:13:19I'm sorry.
00:13:20I'm sorry.
00:13:21I'm sorry.
00:13:22I'm sorry.
00:13:23All right.
00:13:25But it's a waste of time.
00:13:27There's nothing wrong with me.
00:13:33We'd better break this up, or he'll start wondering.
00:13:38Wondering what?
00:13:39If I don't suspect.
00:13:41You've been a big help,
00:13:42and I don't want you to worry about me.
00:13:44Or you either.
00:13:45I'll be all right.
00:13:46Sure you will.
00:13:47Staying here, Becky, or may I drive you home?
00:13:49Would you like me to stay?
00:13:51Of course.
00:13:52Good night.
00:13:54Good night.
00:14:06Nice having Becky back again, eh, boy?
00:14:09Sure is.
00:14:15In the back of my mind, a warning bell was ringing.
00:14:18Sick people who couldn't wait to see me
00:14:20then suddenly were perfectly all right.
00:14:22A boy who said his mother wasn't his mother.
00:14:24A woman who said her uncle wasn't her uncle.
00:14:26But I didn't listen.
00:14:28Obviously the boy's mother was his mother.
00:14:30I'd seen her.
00:14:31And Uncle Ira was Uncle Ira.
00:14:33There was no doubt of that after I'd talked to him.
00:14:36Miles, he is Ira.
00:14:38Of course he is.
00:14:39What do you mean?
00:14:40It's just that Wilma's so positive.
00:14:42Will she be all right?
00:14:44Oh, I think so.
00:14:45I'm a doctor, according to my diploma,
00:14:47but I don't really know what Wilma's trouble is.
00:14:49I could start talking psychiatrical jargon,
00:14:52but it's out of my line and in Dan Kaufman's.
00:14:57I wish you didn't have to go home for dinner.
00:14:59I don't.
00:15:00Dad's eating out with a friend.
00:15:03I could pick you up at seven.
00:15:06Well...
00:15:08It's summer and the moon is full
00:15:10and I know a bank where the wild thyme grows.
00:15:13You haven't changed a bit.
00:15:19Watch out.
00:15:20Sorry.
00:15:21Hey, Miles, when did you get back?
00:15:23This morning.
00:15:24How are you, Danny?
00:15:25This is Miss Driscoll, Dr. Kaufman,
00:15:27our one and only psychiatrist.
00:15:28How do you do?
00:15:29Watch out what you say.
00:15:30Ed, you remember Becky?
00:15:31I should.
00:15:32I brought her into the world.
00:15:33You did us all a favor.
00:15:34Hello, Dr. Percy.
00:15:35This saves me a phone call.
00:15:36I've got a mixed-up kid and a woman who's a doctor.
00:15:39I'm sure you'll be all right.
00:15:40I'll be all right.
00:15:41I'll be all right.
00:15:42I'll be all right.
00:15:43I'll be all right.
00:15:44I'll be all right.
00:15:45I'll be all right.
00:15:46I'll be all right.
00:15:47I'll be all right.
00:15:48I've got a mixed-up kid and a woman
00:15:49who need a witch doctor.
00:15:50The boy says his father isn't his father,
00:15:52and the woman says her sister isn't her sister.
00:15:55That's pretty close.
00:15:56I knew you'd been studying hypnosis,
00:15:58but when did you start reading minds?
00:16:00He doesn't have to read them.
00:16:01I've sent him a dozen patients since it started.
00:16:03Well, what is it?
00:16:04What's going on?
00:16:05I don't know.
00:16:06A strange neurosis, evidently contagious.
00:16:08An epidemic, mass hysteria.
00:16:10In two weeks, it's spread all over town.
00:16:13Well, what causes it?
00:16:15You worry about what's going on in the world, probably?
00:16:18Make room for Wilma Lentz tomorrow, will you, Danny?
00:16:21Send her in around 2.
00:16:22Good night.
00:16:23So long, Danny.
00:16:31This is the oddest thing I ever heard of.
00:16:33Let's hope we don't catch it.
00:16:35I'd hate to wake up some morning
00:16:37and find out that you weren't you.
00:16:39I'm not the high school kid used to romance,
00:16:41so how can you tell?
00:16:42You really want to know?
00:16:43Mm-hmm.
00:16:45Here.
00:16:52Mm, you're Becky Driscoll.
00:16:57Hey, Santa Mary's looking up.
00:16:59Has ever since you got back.
00:17:01Is this an example of your bedside manner, Doctor?
00:17:04No, ma'am.
00:17:05That comes later.
00:17:15Good evening, Doctor.
00:17:17What happened to the crowd tonight?
00:17:19I don't know.
00:17:20It's been this way for two or three weeks now.
00:17:22Hmm.
00:17:23Well, at least we don't have to wait for a table.
00:17:26Take your pick.
00:17:27In here or...
00:17:28Or here.
00:17:29Here, I think.
00:17:30Shall we?
00:17:31Mm-hmm.
00:17:32Where's the band?
00:17:33Old business started falling off, so I had to let them go.
00:17:36There's the jukebox, though.
00:17:38Shall we dance?
00:17:39I hope you didn't let the bartender go.
00:17:41I'm the bartender.
00:17:42Martinis?
00:17:43Two.
00:17:44Dry.
00:17:47Uh, very dry.
00:17:50Miles.
00:17:51Hmm?
00:17:52I don't care what Dr. Kaufman says, I'm worried.
00:17:54You are in the capable hands of your personal physician.
00:17:58Oh, Doctor.
00:18:00Ah, there's our evening.
00:18:02Sorry.
00:18:06Thanks.
00:18:08Dr. Bunnell.
00:18:09Jack Belichick wants you to come to his house right away, Doctor.
00:18:13He says it's urgent.
00:18:18Better hold those drinks.
00:18:20Emergency.
00:18:21Well, at least they called before we ordered dinner.
00:18:24How hungry are you?
00:18:25I can wait.
00:18:26Maybe quite a while.
00:18:27I'll go with you.
00:18:29Sorry.
00:18:30We'll be back later.
00:18:43There's Jack.
00:18:59Hello, Jack.
00:19:00What's the matter?
00:19:01Is Teddy sick?
00:19:02No.
00:19:03Miles, thank heaven.
00:19:04I thought you'd never get here.
00:19:06Well, if you're not sick, who is?
00:19:08Nobody.
00:19:09Well, then why did you drag me away from my dinner?
00:19:12You won't believe it, Miles, until you see it for yourself.
00:19:14Hello, Becky.
00:19:15Good to see you again.
00:19:16Hi, Jack.
00:19:17Hi, Teddy.
00:19:22Would you be able to forget that you're a doctor for a while?
00:19:25Why?
00:19:26I don't want you to call the police right away.
00:19:28Quit acting like a writer.
00:19:29What's going on?
00:19:30Maybe you can tell me.
00:19:32You're the doctor.
00:19:42Miles, put the light on over the pool table.
00:19:58Go on, pull it down.
00:20:12What's going on?
00:20:13I don't know.
00:20:14What's going on?
00:20:15I don't know.
00:20:16What's going on?
00:20:17I don't know.
00:20:18What's going on?
00:20:19I don't know.
00:20:20What's going on?
00:20:21I don't know.
00:20:22What's going on?
00:20:23I don't know.
00:20:24What's going on?
00:20:25I don't know.
00:20:26What's going on?
00:20:27I don't know.
00:20:28What's going on?
00:20:29I don't know.
00:20:30What's going on?
00:20:31I don't know.
00:20:32What's going on?
00:20:33I don't know.
00:20:34What's going on?
00:20:35I don't know.
00:20:36What's going on?
00:20:37I don't know.
00:20:38What's going on?
00:20:39I don't know.
00:20:40What's going on?
00:20:41What's going on?
00:20:42It wassomebody else.
00:20:43It was someone else.
00:20:44I don't know if it was John.
00:20:46It was somebody else.
00:20:47It wasn't John.
00:20:48It was somebody else.
00:20:59What do you make of it?
00:21:03Who is he?
00:21:04I have no idea.
00:21:06It has all the features, but no details, no character, no lines.
00:21:10It's no dead man.
00:21:12Have you got an ink pad around the house?
00:21:14Should be one of the desk ones.
00:21:16Why not take the corpse's fingerprints?
00:21:18Of course it's a dead man. What else could it be?
00:21:20I don't know, but I've got a feeling that...
00:21:23This sounds crazy, but if I should do an autopsy,
00:21:26I think I'd find every organ in perfect condition.
00:21:32Just as perfect as the body is externally.
00:21:36Everything in working order.
00:21:39All set to go. Hold that there, will you?
00:21:48He's blank.
00:21:50Waiting for the final finished face to be stamped onto it.
00:21:54But whose face?
00:21:56Tell me that.
00:21:58I think we could all use a drink.
00:22:03Bourbon all right?
00:22:06Love me that. Miles, answer me. Whose face?
00:22:10I haven't the slightest idea, honey, have you?
00:22:13How, uh... How tall would you say that thing is?
00:22:17Oh, 5'10", thereabouts.
00:22:19How much does it weigh?
00:22:21I don't know. It's pretty thin. Maybe 140 pounds.
00:22:25Jack's 5'10", weighs 140 pounds?
00:22:30Teddy, will you stop talking nonsense?
00:22:32I'm sorry, darling.
00:22:34But it isn't nonsense.
00:22:37Becky, you don't think it's nonsense, do you?
00:22:39Well, of course it is. Jack's standing here in front of you.
00:22:42Of course I am. Bleeding to death.
00:22:45Excuse me just a minute.
00:22:47You know what? I'm afraid you may live.
00:22:51This should fix it.
00:22:54Miles, don't you think we should call the police
00:22:56and have them take that dead body out of here?
00:22:58I'm afraid it isn't just a dead body.
00:23:01Thanks.
00:23:04I wonder if...
00:23:07Look.
00:23:09I wonder if there's any connection.
00:23:11What do you mean?
00:23:13There's something strange going on in Santa Mira.
00:23:16Dr. Kaufman calls it an epidemic of mass hysteria.
00:23:21Becky's cousin's got it, for one.
00:23:23She thinks that her uncle and her aunt
00:23:25aren't her uncle and her aunt.
00:23:27Her sister's a doctor.
00:23:29Her father's a doctor.
00:23:32There are several cases of such delusion.
00:23:35Now, this isn't you yet,
00:23:37but there is a structural likeness.
00:23:41That's fantastic, but there must be some reason
00:23:43why this thing is in your house.
00:23:45Would you be willing to sit up with your strange friend
00:23:47and see what his next move is?
00:23:49If nothing happens by morning, call the police.
00:23:52If something happens, call me, will you?
00:23:55You know I will.
00:23:57You know I will.
00:24:05Good night. Take it easy.
00:24:07Sure. Now, nothing's going to happen.
00:24:09Good night, Ben.
00:24:11Well, if it does, it'll make a charming,
00:24:13blood-curdling mystery story.
00:24:22I was careful not to let Becky know,
00:24:24but for the first time, I was really scared.
00:24:27Dan Kaufman's explanation of what was wrong in town.
00:24:29Mass hysteria.
00:24:31Couldn't explain away that body on Jack's billiard table.
00:24:48Come in while I turn the lights on.
00:24:50You're a forward wench,
00:24:52dragging me into a dark hallway to be kissed.
00:24:54I'm dragging you into a dark hallway
00:24:56because I'm scared of the dark tonight.
00:24:58In that case, I'd better stay and tuck you in.
00:25:00That way lies madness.
00:25:04What's wrong with madness?
00:25:06Madness.
00:25:08Now, good night.
00:25:17Well, it's about time you two got home.
00:25:19Dad, what are you doing in the basement this time of night?
00:25:21Working in my shop.
00:25:23How about a nightcap, Doc?
00:25:26I'll take a rain check. Good night.
00:25:28Good night.
00:25:30Good night.
00:25:32Good night, Miles.
00:25:56No!
00:25:58No, Jack!
00:26:00It's you! It's you!
00:26:02No, no, you mustn't go near him!
00:26:04Get out of here, please!
00:26:06Please!
00:26:12What's...
00:26:14What happened, Jack?
00:26:16Teddy says the thing in our place
00:26:18is me right down to the cut of my hand.
00:26:20Sit down, baby.
00:26:22I'm sorry.
00:26:24I didn't wait to look.
00:26:26It's alive! It's alive!
00:26:28The hand was cut and bleeding
00:26:30in the position of the body.
00:26:32It changed!
00:26:34Here, take this.
00:26:40I'll call Danny Hoffman.
00:26:42I'll call Danny Hoffman.
00:27:04Hello, Danny.
00:27:06Something's happened, and I've got to see you right away.
00:27:08Will you get over here as fast as you can?
00:27:11It's important.
00:27:13Oh, okay.
00:27:18He's on his way.
00:27:20I'll make some coffee and be right with you.
00:27:22Good deal, Miles. Thanks.
00:27:25Miles, what about Becky?
00:27:27Do you think she's all right?
00:27:29Come on.
00:27:38Dad, what are you doing in the basement this time of night?
00:27:40Working in my shop.
00:27:44I don't know what it was.
00:27:46Call it a premonition,
00:27:48but suddenly I had the feeling that Becky was in danger.
00:27:50I had to get to her as quickly as possible.
00:27:59Oh!
00:28:14I was going to ring the bell,
00:28:16but then I had a hunch I'd better be careful.
00:28:18Something was wrong in this house.
00:28:29♪
00:28:59♪
00:29:29♪
00:29:59♪
00:30:09♪
00:30:23♪
00:30:59Becky! Becky! Becky!
00:31:29You've got to be...
00:31:47Miles, will you tell me, what happened?
00:31:49Same thing. I found another one in the cellar at Becky's house,
00:31:52coming to life while I stood there watching it.
00:31:56It was Becky.
00:31:57Yeah? I want to see one of these bodies.
00:32:01All right.
00:32:02Now, you're going to bed, and you're staying with her.
00:32:04Put on your clothes. We'll go to Jack's first.
00:32:07Got any coffee around here?
00:32:09Yeah, you'll find some in the kitchen.
00:32:13He doesn't believe me, Beck.
00:32:15He will.
00:32:27Somebody's playing games.
00:32:29Rough ones.
00:32:31There's a blood spot.
00:32:34What you saw was the body of a murdered man.
00:32:37Did you examine it carefully?
00:32:38Yes.
00:32:40I don't know what's happened to it.
00:32:41It was not an ordinary body, and there wasn't a mark on it.
00:32:44I checked it, too, when I put it on the table.
00:32:45There wasn't a scratch.
00:32:46You can kill a man by shoving an ice pick
00:32:48into the base of his brain
00:32:49and leaving a puncture so small the naked eye can't see it.
00:32:52Danny, you're ignoring the fact that this was not a normal body.
00:32:54And you heard what Teddy said about the hand.
00:32:56I heard lots of things Teddy said,
00:32:58and none of them made any sense.
00:32:59All right, now hold on to it, pal. I was here, too.
00:33:02So was Miles.
00:33:03Now, look. We took his fingerprints.
00:33:06Look at that. Tell me why it didn't have any.
00:33:08He didn't want any, so he took them off with acid.
00:33:11Stop trying to rationalize everything, will you?
00:33:13Let's face it. We have a mystery on our hands.
00:33:15Sure you have. A real one.
00:33:16Whose body was it, and where is it now?
00:33:18A completely normal mystery.
00:33:21Whatever it is, it's well within the bounds of human experience,
00:33:23and I don't think you ought to make any more of it.
00:33:25Look, I wouldn't if I hadn't looked in Becky's cellar.
00:33:27How do you explain away the body I saw there?
00:33:29I don't think you saw one there.
00:33:31You don't think I saw one here either?
00:33:32I know you did, because three others saw it, too.
00:33:35But I dreamed up the second one.
00:33:36Doctors can have hallucinations, too.
00:33:39The mind is a strange and wonderful thing.
00:33:41I'm not sure it'll ever be able to figure itself out.
00:33:43Everything else, maybe.
00:33:44From the atom to the universe, everything except itself.
00:33:47Nevertheless, I saw Becky's double,
00:33:49and the body that we saw here bore
00:33:51an uncomfortable resemblance to Jack.
00:33:53Oh, mighty uncomfortable.
00:33:54All right, let's go on to Becky's and have a look.
00:34:01All right, where's your girlfriend's double?
00:34:03Okay, skeptic, lift the lid.
00:34:17There's a body here, all right.
00:34:19It's Becky's double.
00:34:20It sure is. Take another look.
00:34:25Now you see it, now you don't.
00:34:27It was there, half hidden by that blanket.
00:34:30You said you saw it there just now.
00:34:33I thought I did.
00:34:34Why did you come here tonight?
00:34:36You'd seen a dead man at Jack's, an average-sized man.
00:34:39The face and death was smooth and unlined,
00:34:41bland in expression, which often happens.
00:34:44You had just become aware of a curious,
00:34:46unexplainable epidemic, mass hysteria.
00:34:49Men, women and children suddenly convinced themselves
00:34:51that their relatives weren't their relatives at all.
00:34:53So your mind started playing tricks,
00:34:55and reality became unreality.
00:34:57The dead man became Jack's double in your eyes.
00:35:00Look, come off it, will you, Danny?
00:35:02I know, Miles, this is all hard to believe,
00:35:04but these things happen, even to witch doctors like me.
00:35:07I saw her here. She was real.
00:35:09You saw her all right in every tiny detail,
00:35:12as vividly as anyone has ever seen anything,
00:35:14but only in your mind.
00:35:16Look, Danny, you can talk all night,
00:35:18but you're not going to convince me.
00:35:19What in heaven's name are you doing in my cellar?
00:35:21Using it for an office, Mr. Driscoll.
00:35:23These gentlemen are patients,
00:35:24badly in need of psychiatric treatment.
00:35:26Oh, stop talking nonsense.
00:35:27I'm not. They've been having nightmares.
00:35:29Well, if you're drunk, you'd better sober up quick.
00:35:31The police are on their way here.
00:35:32No, no, no, we're not drunk.
00:35:33Nothing as simple as that.
00:35:34Pull up a chair.
00:35:35Why, you're crazy, all of you.
00:35:37Hey, what's going on down there?
00:35:39Hello, Nick. Glad to see you.
00:35:41You saved these two characters at Fipter, the station.
00:35:44I'm going to call the police.
00:35:46You saved these two characters at Fipter, the station.
00:35:49They want to report finding a body and losing it.
00:35:52Where? When?
00:35:54At my place, about 7 o'clock.
00:35:57Why did you wait so long to report it?
00:35:59You know better than that, Doc.
00:36:01Yeah, well, it was a curious sort of a body,
00:36:04and then it wasn't there anymore.
00:36:07I have a good mind to throw you both in jail.
00:36:11Well, if you'd seen it, you'd understand why we waited.
00:36:14Thin man, 5'10",
00:36:17fingerprints burnt off with acid.
00:36:19I've just seen it on the slab in the morgue.
00:36:22It turned up in a burning haystack
00:36:24on Mike Gessner's south pasture two hours ago.
00:36:27Now, break it up.
00:36:29Go on home.
00:36:38Well, you win.
00:36:40Pick up the marbles.
00:36:44Good morning.
00:36:46Good morning.
00:36:50Orange juice.
00:36:54How'd you like your eggs?
00:36:56Oh, any way you like.
00:36:58Boiled, two minutes.
00:37:00Two minutes?
00:37:02Okay.
00:37:04You know, dragging you out of bed in the middle of the night
00:37:08was a lot of trouble, but it was worth it.
00:37:11It was worth it.
00:37:13Now, seriously.
00:37:15What was that?
00:37:20Who is it?
00:37:22It was a gas man.
00:37:24Morning, Doc.
00:37:27Good morning, Charlie.
00:37:29I guess I'm a little jittery.
00:37:31Not getting enough sleep.
00:37:33Well, I won't be bothering you anymore.
00:37:35I'm putting the meter outside on the patio.
00:37:37Okay.
00:37:38The eggs will be hard-boiled.
00:37:40Did you do this for your husband?
00:37:42Mm-hmm.
00:37:43Didn't your wife do this for you?
00:37:45Oh, yes.
00:37:46She liked to cook.
00:37:48That's one of the reasons why I'm single.
00:37:50I never was there when dinner was on the table.
00:37:52Well, take my advice
00:37:54and don't get mixed up with the doctor.
00:37:56They're seldom at home.
00:37:58What would you say if I told you
00:38:00I was already mixed up with the doctor?
00:38:02I'd say it was too good to be true.
00:38:04Things like this can happen all of a sudden.
00:38:06What's so all of a sudden
00:38:08between two people who've known each other
00:38:10most of their lives?
00:38:12Good morning.
00:38:13Oh, good morning.
00:38:14I thought I'd smell some coffee.
00:38:16Why don't you give me a call?
00:38:18I didn't want to wake Teddy.
00:38:20Oh, she's wide awake.
00:38:22Got a good sleep.
00:38:24Good.
00:38:25But I don't feel that she should go home
00:38:27right away, Miles.
00:38:28Would you mind taking in a couple of boarders
00:38:30for a while?
00:38:31Or do you have something else in mind?
00:38:33Well, I was toying with an idea,
00:38:35but you can stay.
00:38:37Thank you, doll.
00:38:39Take care of Teddy.
00:38:49Miles,
00:38:51did you make that appointment for me
00:38:53with the psychiatrist?
00:38:54Yes, two o'clock.
00:38:55I don't need him.
00:38:56I feel like such a fool.
00:38:58I woke up this morning and everything was all right.
00:39:00Don't know how relieved I am.
00:39:02Oh, yes, I do.
00:39:03Listen, would you give Becky a call
00:39:04and tell her about it?
00:39:05She was worried about you.
00:39:06All right.
00:39:07She's in my house.
00:39:08At your house?
00:39:09Why?
00:39:10Well, it's a long story,
00:39:11but she'll tell you all about it.
00:39:28Becky's still at his house.
00:39:34All right.
00:39:36Good morning.
00:39:37Morning, Sally.
00:39:39Take a peek at what's in the reception room.
00:39:46Mother, when are we going home?
00:39:48In a little while, Jimmy.
00:39:54He certainly made a quick recovery.
00:40:00I guess we all have.
00:40:02But driving home,
00:40:03I had a lot of questions and no answers.
00:40:05How could Jimmy and Wilma
00:40:06seem so normal now?
00:40:07Surely I had done nothing to cure them.
00:40:09Maybe they wanted me to feel secure,
00:40:11but why?
00:40:15Well.
00:40:16Hope you didn't forget the steaks.
00:40:18I never forget anything.
00:40:19Don't worry about him.
00:40:20He's completely housebroken.
00:40:22I need a martini, Beck.
00:40:24Honey or olive?
00:40:25Doesn't matter.
00:40:26I want to pour it on the charcoal.
00:40:27I can't get this stuff to burn.
00:40:29Oh, a martini isn't dry enough.
00:40:31I'll get you something to start it.
00:40:33For drinking purposes.
00:40:37You're looking ship-shaped.
00:40:38Thank you, sir.
00:40:50Here we are.
00:40:51Here we are.
00:41:15Jack!
00:41:16Jack!
00:41:21Oh!
00:41:25They're like huge seed pods.
00:41:29This must be the way
00:41:30that body in my closet was formed.
00:41:33Miles, where did they come from?
00:41:35I don't know.
00:41:36If they are seeds or seed pods,
00:41:37they must grow someplace
00:41:38on a plant, probably.
00:41:39And somebody or something
00:41:40wants this duplication to take place.
00:41:42But when they're finished,
00:41:43what happens to our bodies?
00:41:45I don't know.
00:41:46When the process is completed,
00:41:47probably the original is destroyed
00:41:49or disintegrated.
00:41:50No, wait!
00:41:51I'm sorry,
00:41:52but I take a dim view
00:41:53of watching my own destruction
00:41:54take place.
00:41:55There isn't any danger
00:41:56until they're completely formed.
00:41:57We learned that
00:41:58last night at your house.
00:41:59Your plank didn't change
00:42:00right away.
00:42:01Not until you fell asleep.
00:42:05Miles,
00:42:06when the change does take place,
00:42:08do you suppose
00:42:09there's any difference?
00:42:10There must be.
00:42:11Wilma noticed it.
00:42:12So did little Jimmy.
00:42:14So did I.
00:42:17My father.
00:42:20That must be
00:42:21what he was doing
00:42:22in the cellar last night,
00:42:23placing one of these.
00:42:24I'm sorry.
00:42:25I felt something was wrong,
00:42:26but I thought it was me
00:42:27because I'd been away
00:42:28for so long.
00:42:29They have to be destroyed.
00:42:30All of them.
00:42:31They will be.
00:42:32Every one of them.
00:42:33Listen,
00:42:34we're gonna have to search
00:42:35every building,
00:42:36every house in town.
00:42:37Men, women, and children
00:42:38are gonna have to be examined.
00:42:39We've got some phoning to do.
00:42:40Am I gonna stay right here
00:42:41while I can watch them?
00:42:42I'm gonna stay with you.
00:42:43And don't call the police!
00:42:44Nick Rivett didn't find
00:42:45any body on a burning haystack.
00:42:50Why don't you call Danny?
00:42:51Maybe he can help.
00:42:52Danny?
00:42:54No.
00:42:55I'm afraid it's too late
00:42:56to call Danny, too.
00:42:57Well, what are you gonna do?
00:42:58Get help.
00:42:59I hope whatever's taking place
00:43:00is confined to Santa Mira.
00:43:01If it isn't...
00:43:10Operator.
00:43:11Hello.
00:43:12This is Dr. Bunnell.
00:43:13This is an emergency.
00:43:14I want to talk to
00:43:15the Federal Bureau of Investigation
00:43:16in Los Angeles.
00:43:17Can you make them believe you?
00:43:18I've got it.
00:43:20Where do they come from?
00:43:21So much has been discovered
00:43:22in these past few years
00:43:23that anything is possible.
00:43:24Maybe the results
00:43:25of atomic radiation
00:43:26on plant life
00:43:27or animal life.
00:43:29Some weird alien organism.
00:43:32A mutation of some kind.
00:43:33So why should they
00:43:34take the form of people?
00:43:35Of us?
00:43:36I don't know.
00:43:37I don't know.
00:43:38Whatever it is,
00:43:39whatever intelligence
00:43:40or instinct it is
00:43:41that can govern
00:43:42the forming of human flesh
00:43:44and blood
00:43:45out of thin air
00:43:46is fantastically powerful.
00:43:48Well,
00:43:49it's fantastically powerful
00:43:50beyond any comprehension.
00:43:51Ligment.
00:43:52All that body
00:43:53in your cellar needed
00:43:54was a mind
00:43:55and it was...
00:43:56And it was taking mine
00:43:57while I was asleep.
00:43:58I could take that pitchfork
00:43:59myself and...
00:44:00On your call
00:44:01to Los Angeles, Doctor,
00:44:02they don't answer.
00:44:04Well, try again.
00:44:05That office is open
00:44:06day and night.
00:44:07If they've taken over
00:44:08the telephone office,
00:44:09we're dead.
00:44:18Is that me?
00:44:48This is an emergency!
00:44:49Emergency!
00:44:50Now, look,
00:44:51there's been...
00:44:52Operator,
00:44:53get me a better connection.
00:44:54I'll try, Doctor.
00:44:55It's no use.
00:44:56All the Los Angeles
00:44:57circuits are dead.
00:44:58All right,
00:44:59try Sacramento.
00:45:00Give me the state capitol.
00:45:01I want to talk
00:45:02to the governor.
00:45:03I can't.
00:45:04I can't.
00:45:05I can't.
00:45:06I can't.
00:45:07I can't.
00:45:08I can't.
00:45:09I can't.
00:45:10I can't.
00:45:11I can't.
00:45:12I can't.
00:45:13I can't.
00:45:14I can't.
00:45:15I can't.
00:45:16I can't.
00:45:17The Sacramento circuits
00:45:18are busy, Doctor.
00:45:20I'll call you back.
00:45:23All right.
00:45:25All right,
00:45:26I'll wait for your call.
00:45:30I'll take the phone outside.
00:45:36Jack!
00:45:37Yeah?
00:45:38They've got the phone.
00:45:39Now, you and the girls
00:45:40get in your car
00:45:41and make a run for it.
00:45:42First time you get to,
00:45:43yell for help.
00:45:44What about you?
00:45:45In a little while,
00:45:46they'll be here to answer it.
00:45:47They'll know we've gone
00:45:48and block the roads out of town.
00:45:49I'll stall them
00:45:50until you're out of reach.
00:45:51Well, then,
00:45:52what are you going to do?
00:45:53Try and find out
00:45:54what's in back of this.
00:45:55I'm staying.
00:45:56No.
00:45:57Miles,
00:45:58don't ask me to leave you.
00:45:59Jack, get going.
00:46:00Miles, I can't.
00:46:01Look,
00:46:02somebody's got to go
00:46:03or we don't get any help.
00:46:04Please,
00:46:05let's get out of here.
00:46:06Well,
00:46:07watch out for yourselves.
00:46:08Go over by the phone.
00:46:09Stay there.
00:46:10If it rings,
00:46:11call me.
00:46:46Hello?
00:46:47Is Dr. Bunnell there?
00:46:48Yes,
00:46:49I'll get him.
00:46:50Never mind.
00:46:51Just tell him
00:46:52the Sacramento circuits
00:46:53are still busy
00:46:54and ask him
00:46:55if he wants me
00:46:56to keep trying.
00:46:57All right,
00:46:58hold on.
00:46:59Miles,
00:47:00the circuits are still busy.
00:47:01Well,
00:47:02tell her to keep trying.
00:47:03Also,
00:47:04try San Francisco
00:47:05and Washington.
00:47:11We're getting
00:47:12out of here right now.
00:47:13Well,
00:47:14where are we going?
00:47:15I don't know.
00:47:19We're still unable
00:47:20to get through
00:47:21to Los Angeles.
00:47:22Do you wish
00:47:23me to keep trying?
00:47:24Dr. Bunnell?
00:47:25Dr. Bunnell?
00:47:28I needed
00:47:29someone I could trust
00:47:30and I figured
00:47:31Sally, my nurse,
00:47:32was my best bet.
00:47:33I decided
00:47:34to try to phone her
00:47:35to see if she was at home.
00:47:36Maybe they hadn't
00:47:37taken over
00:47:38the pay phones.
00:47:39I'll try
00:47:40the pay phone.
00:47:41Hey, Mac.
00:47:42Oh, hi, Doc.
00:47:43How are you?
00:47:44Can you give me
00:47:45a couple of gallons
00:47:46fast?
00:47:47I'm in a hurry.
00:47:48Sure.
00:47:49Martha!
00:47:50Doc's in a hurry.
00:47:51Get the windshield,
00:47:52will you?
00:47:53I have to have
00:47:54the keys to open
00:47:55the gas tank.
00:47:58Somebody sick
00:47:59out this way?
00:48:00There's been
00:48:01an accident.
00:48:02Funny,
00:48:03we haven't heard
00:48:04about it.
00:48:05Well,
00:48:06it just happened.
00:48:07Before I could
00:48:08even get her number,
00:48:09I saw Mac closing
00:48:10the trunk of my car.
00:48:11He could have been
00:48:12checking my spare tire,
00:48:13but I don't think so.
00:48:14That should do it.
00:48:16All set?
00:48:17All set, Doc.
00:48:18Fine, thanks.
00:48:19I'll put it on my belt,
00:48:20will you?
00:48:21Sure, Doc.
00:48:22What's the matter?
00:48:52We better make it
00:48:53to Sally's house.
00:49:22I wasn't sure
00:49:23now there was anyone
00:49:24I could trust,
00:49:25but I took a chance
00:49:26and drove
00:49:27to Sally's anyway.
00:49:32When I saw
00:49:33several cars
00:49:34in front of the house,
00:49:35I decided
00:49:36to play it safe.
00:49:43What's wrong?
00:49:44Probably nothing.
00:49:45We're not going
00:49:46in there
00:49:47until I'm sure
00:49:48it's safe.
00:49:49Slide over
00:49:50under the wheel
00:49:51and let's go.
00:50:18The baby asleep
00:50:19yet, Sally?
00:50:20Not yet,
00:50:21but she will be soon
00:50:22and there'll be
00:50:23no more tears.
00:50:24Shall I put
00:50:25this in her room?
00:50:26Yes,
00:50:27in her playpen.
00:50:28No, wait.
00:50:29Maybe I'd better
00:50:30take it.
00:50:31Why don't you
00:50:32go in, Miles?
00:50:33We've been
00:50:34waiting for you.
00:50:43Becky,
00:50:44get going.
00:50:50Attention,
00:50:51all units.
00:50:52Attention,
00:50:53all units.
00:50:54Apprehend
00:50:55and detain
00:50:56Dr. Miles Bunnell
00:50:57and Becky Driscoll,
00:50:58now believed
00:50:59heading north
00:51:00in a black and white
00:51:01Ford sedan.
00:51:02License number
00:51:032X37796.
00:51:07All units
00:51:08designated
00:51:09as roadblocks
00:51:10move to your stations.
00:51:11It is urgent.
00:51:12These two persons
00:51:13must be detained
00:51:14and not permitted
00:51:15to leave Santa Mira.
00:51:16All units
00:51:17move to your stations.
00:51:18Attention,
00:51:19all units
00:51:20on the Santa Mira
00:51:21repeat
00:51:22it is urgent.
00:51:26The order
00:51:27to look out
00:51:28for a 1955
00:51:29black and white
00:51:30Ford sedan.
00:51:31License number
00:51:322X377...
00:51:49We'll try to make
00:51:50to my office.
00:51:51Cut into that alley
00:51:52on the right.
00:51:53We'll try
00:51:54to make
00:51:55to my office.
00:51:56Cut into that alley
00:51:57on the right.
00:52:23We'll try
00:52:24to make
00:52:25to my office.
00:52:53We'll try
00:52:54to make
00:52:55to my office.
00:52:56We'll try
00:52:57to make
00:52:58to my office.
00:52:59We'll try
00:53:00to make
00:53:01to my office.
00:53:02We'll try
00:53:03to make
00:53:04to my office.
00:53:05We'll try
00:53:06to make
00:53:07to my office.
00:53:08We'll try
00:53:09to make
00:53:10to my office.
00:53:11We'll try
00:53:12to make
00:53:13to my office.
00:53:14We'll try
00:53:15to make
00:53:16to my office.
00:53:17We'll try
00:53:18to make
00:53:19to my office.
00:53:20We'll try
00:53:21to make
00:53:22to my office.
00:53:23We'll try
00:53:24to make
00:53:25to my office.
00:53:26We'll try
00:53:27to make
00:53:28to my office.
00:53:29We'll try
00:53:30to make
00:53:31to my office.
00:53:32We'll try
00:53:33to make
00:53:34to my office.
00:53:35We'll try
00:53:36to make
00:53:37to my office.
00:53:38We'll try
00:53:39to make
00:53:40to my office.
00:53:41We'll try
00:53:42to make
00:53:43to my office.
00:53:44We'll try
00:53:45to make
00:53:46to my office.
00:53:47We'll try
00:53:48to make
00:53:49to my office.
00:53:50We'll try
00:53:51Jack should be here with help.
00:54:00What if Jack doesn't get through?
00:54:02He's gotta get through.
00:54:04Here, now take two of these. They'll help you to stay awake.
00:54:22We can't close our eyes all night.
00:54:24We may wake up changed.
00:54:27To something evil and inhuman.
00:54:31In my practice I've seen how people have allowed their humanity to drain away.
00:54:35Only it happens slowly instead of all at once.
00:54:39They didn't seem to mind.
00:54:41But just some people, Miles.
00:54:43All of us. A little bit.
00:54:45We harden our hearts.
00:54:47Grow callous.
00:54:49Only when we have to fight to stay human do we realize how precious it is to us.
00:54:54How dear.
00:54:58As you are to me.
00:55:12Maybe that's Jack trying to find us.
00:55:15Maybe that's Jack trying to find us.
00:55:17He'd know better than to use the phone.
00:55:21Where is he?
00:55:23When doesn't he come?
00:55:36Just like any Saturday morning.
00:55:40Len Perlman.
00:55:42Bill Bittner.
00:55:44Jim Clark and his wife Shirley and their kids.
00:55:47People I've known all my life.
00:55:49What time is it?
00:55:527.45.
00:55:55Yeah, I know.
00:55:57It's too early to be so busy.
00:55:59What are they doing here?
00:56:02There's the answer.
00:56:04Must be strangers in town.
00:56:06They've been waiting for the bus to come and go.
00:56:09There isn't another one through here until 11.
00:56:12It's too early to be so busy.
00:56:14Must be strangers in town.
00:56:16They've been waiting for the bus to come and go.
00:56:18There isn't another one through here until 11.
00:56:20It's too early to be so busy.
00:56:22Must be strangers in town.
00:56:24They've been waiting for the bus to come and go.
00:56:26There isn't another one through here until 11.
00:56:28It's too early to be so busy.
00:56:30Must be strangers in town.
00:56:32They've been waiting for the bus to come and go.
00:56:34There isn't another one through here until 11.
00:56:36It's too early to be so busy.
00:56:38Must be strangers in town.
00:56:40They've been waiting for the bus to come and go.
00:57:08Farmers.
00:57:10Pixley, Pixley, Gessner.
00:57:15Crescent City, if you have Crescent City families,
00:57:18step over to truck number one.
00:57:20Crescent City, the first truck.
00:57:25Red Bank, all with Red Bank families or contacts,
00:57:29go to truck number two.
00:57:30All with Red Bank families or contacts,
00:57:33truck number two.
00:57:35Havenhurst, the third truck.
00:57:38Havenhurst, the third truck.
00:57:40Milltown, the third truck.
00:57:43Milltown, the third truck.
00:57:46Dommie Springs, the third truck.
00:57:50Dommie Springs, the third truck.
00:57:52First our town, then all the towns around us.
00:57:57It's a malignant disease spreading
00:57:58through the whole country.
00:58:00That's all for today.
00:58:02Be ready again tomorrow.
00:58:09I can't wait for Jack any longer.
00:58:10Stay here.
00:58:11But you're not going out there.
00:58:12I've got to stop them.
00:58:13Well, wait, we're safe here.
00:58:20They're not here.
00:58:21I hope we're not too late.
00:58:22Jack, thank God.
00:58:25Jack, the whole town's been taken over by the pods.
00:58:27Not quite.
00:58:28There's still you and Becky.
00:58:30I've got to go.
00:58:31I've got to go.
00:58:32I've got to go.
00:58:33I've got to go.
00:58:34I've got to go.
00:58:35I've got to go.
00:58:36I've got to go.
00:58:37I've got to go.
00:58:39Miles, it would have been so much easier
00:58:41if you'd gone to sleep last night.
00:58:42Now, relax.
00:58:43We're here to help you.
00:58:47You know better than that.
00:58:49Where do you want us to put them?
00:58:50Would you like to watch them grow?
00:58:52No, thanks.
00:58:53Put them in there.
00:58:54There's nothing to be afraid of.
00:58:56We're not going to hurt you.
00:58:57But once you understand, you'll be grateful.
00:59:00Remember how Teddy and I fought against it?
00:59:02Well, we were wrong.
00:59:03You mean Teddy doesn't mind?
00:59:05Of course not.
00:59:06She feels exactly the way I do.
00:59:08Let us go.
00:59:09Look, we'll leave town.
00:59:10We won't come back.
00:59:11We can't let you go.
00:59:12You're dangerous to us.
00:59:13Don't fight it, Miles.
00:59:14It's no use.
00:59:15Sooner or later, you'll have to go to sleep.
00:59:18I'll wait for you in the hall.
00:59:21Miles, you and I are scientific men.
00:59:24You can understand the wonder of what's happened.
00:59:27Now, just think.
00:59:28Less than a month ago, Santa Mera
00:59:30was like any other town.
00:59:31People with nothing but problems.
00:59:33Then out of the sky came a solution.
00:59:37Seeds drifting through space for years
00:59:39took root in a farmer's field.
00:59:41From the seeds came pods,
00:59:43which have the power to reproduce themselves
00:59:45in the exact likeness of any form of life.
00:59:50So that's how it began.
00:59:52Out of the sky.
00:59:56Your new bodies are growing in there.
00:59:58They're taking you over, cell for cell,
01:00:01atom for atom.
01:00:03There's no pain.
01:00:06Suddenly, while you're asleep,
01:00:08they'll absorb your minds, your memories,
01:00:11and you're reborn into an untroubled world.
01:00:15Where everyone's the same?
01:00:17Exactly.
01:00:19What a world.
01:00:21We're not the last humans left.
01:00:24They'll destroy you.
01:00:27Tomorrow, you won't want them to.
01:00:29Tomorrow, you'll be one of us.
01:00:32I love Becky.
01:00:34Tomorrow, will I feel the same?
01:00:37There's no need for love.
01:00:39No emotion.
01:00:41Then you have no feelings.
01:00:43Only the instinct to survive.
01:00:45You can't love or be loved, am I right?
01:00:47You say it as if it were terrible.
01:00:49Believe me, it isn't.
01:00:51You've been in love before.
01:00:53It didn't last.
01:00:54It never does.
01:00:56Love, desire, ambition, faith.
01:01:01Without them, life's so simple.
01:01:03Believe me.
01:01:05I don't want any part of it.
01:01:07You're forgetting something, Miles.
01:01:09What's that?
01:01:10You have no choice.
01:01:17I guess we haven't any choice.
01:01:19Good.
01:01:31I want to love and be loved.
01:01:35I want your children.
01:01:37I don't want a world without love or grief or beauty.
01:01:40I'd rather die.
01:01:42No.
01:01:44No.
01:01:47Not unless there's no other way.
01:01:50Why didn't they just give us a shard or a sleeping pill or something?
01:01:56Drugs stall the mind. Maybe that's the reason.
01:02:01No.
01:02:07No, it wouldn't work.
01:02:09I might get one or even two, but I couldn't possibly get three of them.
01:02:12You're forgetting something, darling, me.
01:02:14It isn't three against one, it's three against two.
01:02:16Give me a knife.
01:02:19No.
01:02:30Give me a knife.
01:03:00Give me a knife.
01:03:31Go over by the desk.
01:03:56What's going on in there?
01:03:58Miles!
01:04:01Miles, open the door.
01:04:03Open the door, Miles.
01:04:10Open the door.
01:04:36Our only hope is to make it to the highway.
01:04:53Well, that does it.
01:04:55The only other way is out the front door and there's bound to be somebody watching.
01:04:58We'll have to chance it.
01:05:01Let's go.
01:05:16Keep your eyes a little wide and blank. Show no interest or excitement.
01:05:31Well, Sam, we're finally with you.
01:05:34They were supposed to let me know that Chief said he had phoned the station, then I'd get the call.
01:05:38He phoned, but the line was busy. He's calling again now.
01:05:46Watch out!
01:05:50Watch out!
01:05:52Watch out!
01:05:54Watch out!
01:05:56Watch out!
01:05:58Watch out!
01:06:00I'm sorry, Miles.
01:06:30This is Janczek. They got away. Turn the main siren on.
01:07:01Hey, up the stairs.
01:07:23Only a few steps more.
01:07:26Only a few steps more.
01:07:41Come on, they went this way.
01:07:55They're over there!
01:08:25Come on, let's go.
01:08:56Come on, let's go.
01:08:58Come on.
01:09:26Miles.
01:09:28I can't. I can't, Miles. I can't. I can't go on.
01:09:32Yes, you can.
01:09:34I can't. I can't, Miles. I can't. I can't go on.
01:09:38Yes, you can.
01:10:04Come on.
01:10:34In this weather, they must be in the tunnel.
01:10:49Come on, some of you go that way.
01:10:57Give up! You can't get away from us!
01:11:01We're not gonna hurt you!
01:11:03Give up!
01:11:14Not the tunnel.
01:11:16All right, everybody outside.
01:11:18Come on, let's check the hills. Everybody move.
01:11:31Miles, I can't stay awake much longer.
01:11:36I think they're all gone now.
01:11:39We'd better start, or we'll never make it to the highway.
01:12:00Oh, oh, oh, oh, oh, oh, oh, oh, oh, oh, oh, oh, oh, oh, oh, oh, oh, oh, oh, oh, oh, oh, oh, oh, oh, oh, oh, oh, oh, oh, oh, oh, oh, oh, oh, oh, oh, oh, oh, oh, oh, oh, oh, oh, oh, oh, oh, oh, oh, oh, oh, oh, oh, oh, oh, oh, oh, oh, oh, oh, oh, oh, oh, oh, oh, oh, oh, oh, oh, oh, oh, oh, oh, oh, oh, oh, oh, oh, oh, oh, oh, oh, oh, oh, oh, oh, oh, oh, oh, oh, oh, oh, oh, oh, oh, oh, oh, oh, oh, oh, oh, oh, oh, oh, oh, oh, oh, oh, oh, oh, oh
01:12:30It means we're not the only ones left to know what love is.
01:12:49Stay here and pray they're as human as they sound.
01:13:28This is station KCAA, the 24-hour platter parade.
01:13:51The station of music and...
01:14:22Becky!
01:14:25Becky!
01:14:31Becky!
01:14:34Becky, where are you?
01:14:36I'm here, Miles.
01:14:41You didn't go to sleep.
01:14:42I'm so tired.
01:14:44They weren't people.
01:14:46It was more of them.
01:14:47They're growing thousands of pods in greenhouses.
01:14:49We've got to get away.
01:14:52I'm exhausted, Miles. I can't play.
01:15:11We can't make it without sleep.
01:15:16Yes, we can.
01:15:22I went to sleep, Miles, and it happened.
01:15:26Oh, Becky.
01:15:30They were right.
01:15:32I should never have left you.
01:15:34Stop acting like a fool, Miles, and accept us.
01:15:38I'm sorry.
01:15:40I'm sorry.
01:15:42I'm sorry.
01:15:44I'm sorry.
01:15:46I'm sorry.
01:15:48I'm sorry.
01:15:49I just...
01:15:52No.
01:15:55Never.
01:15:56He's in here!
01:15:57He's in here!
01:15:59Get him!
01:16:00Get him!
01:16:10I've been afraid a lot of times in my life,
01:16:12but I didn't know the real meaning of fear until...
01:16:16until I had kissed Becky.
01:16:18A moment's sleep and the girl I loved
01:16:20was an inhuman enemy bent on my destruction.
01:16:24That moment's sleep was death to Becky's soul,
01:16:26just as it had been for Jack and Teddy and Dan Kaufman and all the rest.
01:16:29Their bodies were now hosts harboring an alien form of life,
01:16:33a cosmic form,
01:16:34which to survive must take over every human man.
01:16:37So I ran, I ran.
01:16:39I ran as little Jimmy Grimaldi had run the other day.
01:16:41My only hope was to get away from Santa Mera,
01:16:43to get to the highway,
01:16:44to warn the others of what was happening.
01:16:48Some secrets...
01:17:03Wait!
01:17:04Come on! We've got to get out.
01:17:05No, don't let him go.
01:17:06They'll never believe it!
01:17:08Help!
01:17:09Help!
01:17:10Help!
01:17:11Wait!
01:17:12Help!
01:17:13Help!
01:17:14Wait!
01:17:15Wait! Stop!
01:17:16Listen to me!
01:17:18Listen! Listen!
01:17:19Those people that are coming after me, they're not human!
01:17:22Listen to me! We're in danger!
01:17:24Danger!
01:17:25Go on! Get out of here!
01:17:26You're in danger!
01:17:28Flee!
01:17:29Get out of here!
01:17:30Go on! Get out of here!
01:17:31Get out of here!
01:17:32All of us! All of us!
01:17:34All of us!
01:17:35Now listen! Listen to me!
01:17:37There isn't a human being left inside of here!
01:17:39Is that what...
01:17:40Hey!
01:17:41Hey, stop! Pull up, will you?
01:17:43Pull over to the side of the road!
01:17:44I need your help!
01:17:45Something terrible has happened!
01:17:46Go on, you drunk!
01:17:47Get out of the street!
01:17:48Get out of here!
01:17:49Go on!
01:18:03Are you crazy, you big idiot?
01:18:05Look!
01:18:06You fools!
01:18:07You're in danger!
01:18:09Can't you see?
01:18:10They're after you!
01:18:11They're after all of us!
01:18:13Our wives, our children, everyone!
01:18:15They're here already!
01:18:17You're next!
01:18:19You're next!
01:18:20You're next!
01:18:22You're next!
01:18:23You're next!
01:18:34You don't believe a word of this, do you?
01:18:36Sure, it's fantastic, but it happened.
01:18:38Don't just sit there measuring me for a straight check.
01:18:40Do something!
01:18:41Go on, call for help!
01:18:44What's the use?
01:19:02Well, what do you think?
01:19:03Will psychiatry help?
01:19:05If all this is a nightmare, yes.
01:19:08Of course it's a nightmare.
01:19:09Plants from another world taking over human beings.
01:19:12Mad as a march hare.
01:19:17What have we here?
01:19:19Ran his truck through a red light.
01:19:21Greyhound bus smacked him broadside and tipped him over.
01:19:24Put him in the OR.
01:19:25Will you take over Bunnell for me, doctor?
01:19:27Certainly.
01:19:28How badly is he hurt?
01:19:30Both legs, left arm broken all to bits.
01:19:34We had to dig him out from under the most peculiar things I ever saw.
01:19:38What things?
01:19:39I don't know what they are. I never saw them before.
01:19:42They look like great big seed pods.
01:19:45Seed pods?
01:19:47Where was the truck coming from?
01:19:49Santa Mira.
01:19:57Get on your radio and sound at all points along.
01:19:59Block all highways, stop all traffic,
01:20:01and call every law enforcement agency in the state.
01:20:04Operative, get me the Federal Bureau of Investigation.
01:20:07Yes, it's an emergency.
01:20:33For more information, visit www.fema.gov
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