The Day The Earth Stood Still Page #3

Checkmate 0-6,

do you copy? Over.

What the hell is that thing?

I need the rules of engagement now.

Target is advancing.

Target is advancing.

Repeat, target is advancing.

MAN OVER RADIO:
Sniper team is in place.

Sniper team leaders, come back. I repeat...

- Do not fire!

- It's coming right at us!

It's coming out!

- Hold your fire!

- Do we engage?

- Hold your fire!

- Fire!

- Cease fire!

- All stations, cease fire!

Don't shoot! Don't shoot! Do not shoot!

We need a medic!

Klaatu barada nikto!

We need that DNA swab. DNA swab now!

- It's soaking through.

- Where's the O2? Stat.

Get me the O2, stat.

Go. No one else!

What am I supposed to do now?

Do I start an IV?

No, no. We don't know its physiology.

For all we know, the fluids may kill it.

What do I do, then?

What do I do?

Its blood is red. It must have hemoglobin.

- Okay, she's right. Start the drip.

- Okay. I... I can't find a vein.

- It doesn't have any veins!

- Look for a central line site, then.

Going into cardiac arrest!

Do I defib?

- Yeah, get in there now. Go! Go!

- Clear!

- The monitor just shorted out!

- Heart rate is stabilizing! It's stabilizing.

What now? What now?

Do you have a surgeon?

Normally, for a gunshot,

we'd be using a general anesthetic.

But, as we don't know

how the patient will react,

I have opted for a local.

I'm making the first incision now.

No explosions. So far, so good.

Pale flesh,

a texture something akin to...

What?

Whale blubber.

I'm taking a specimen now.

Pack that on ice and chopper it

to a genomics lab for DNA mapping.

I'd like a sample of that as well.

I am entering the wound, and...

My God.

What is this?

I'm sorry. I'm a little taken aback.

- What's wrong?

- Nothing's wrong.

That's the thing. It's all so familiar.

The outer layer of the flesh is exotic,

it's strange,

but as I go deeper,

there's muscle, vein, nerve, bone.

I'm extracting the bullet.

This gray flesh,

it seems to be just falling away.

It's... It's removing itself.

I think I need to keep extracting it.

Yes. Continue.

Can you explain any of this?

It's dreaming.

Any signs of neural activity?

It lit up the fMRl like Times Square.

Get help.

Code white! Subject is conscious!

Help!

It's looking at you.

Try saying something to it.

My name is Dr. Helen Benson.

We're trying to help you.

You have nothing to fear from us.

Help you.

Nothing to fear.

Global markets are

panicked in early trading this morning

in response to the crisis in Central Park.

Trading has been halted

on the New York Stock Exchange,

the Nikkei and Hang Seng, as Manhattan

prepares for a massive evacuation.

In other cities around the world,

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