The Making of 'The Thing' Page #2

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- Clark ?

- Yeah ?

Did you notice anything strange

about the dog, anything at all?

Strange ? No.

What was the dog doing

in the rec room ?

l don't know.

He was just wandering

around camp all day.

Are you sayin'to me the dog wasn't

put in the kennel until last night ?

-Right.

-How long were you alone with that dog ?

l don't know, an hour,

hour and a half maybe.

What the hell you lookin'

at me like that for ?

- l don't know.

- What ?

l don't know.

lt's probably nothin'.

lt's nothin'at all.

How much more

of this crap is there ?

- Oh, nine hours l'd say.

- We can't learn anything from this.

Guess not.

Where'd they take

these shots ?

Seems like they were spending

a lot of their time...

in a little place northeast of

their camp about five or six miles.

What's that ?

lt looks like something

buried under the ice.

And look at that,

they're planting thermite charges.

Whatever it was, it was bigger

than the block of ice you found.

Here.

This is it, the place where

they were spending most of their time.

- Pretty nasty out. 35 knots.

- Screw it. l'm gonna go up anyway.

Half a mile due east.

Jesus ! How long you figure

this has been in the ice ?

Well, the backscatter effect's

been bringin'things up...

from way down around here

for a long time.

l'd say-- l'd say

the ice it's buried in...

is 100,000 years old

at least.

- And those Norwegians blew it up.

- Yeah.

l don't know.

Thousands of years ago

it crashes and this thing...

gets thrown out or crawls out

and it ends up freezing in the ice.

- l just cannot believe

any of this voodoo bullshit.

- Childs,

happens all the time, man.

They're fallin'

out of the skies like flies.

Government knows all about it.

Right, Mac ?

- Do you believe any of this

voodoo bullshit, Blair ?

- Childs ?

Childs, Chariots Of The Gods, man.

They practically

own South America.

l mean, they taught the lncas

everything they know.

So, come on now, MacReady.

The Norwegians

get ahold of this...

- and they dig it up out of the ice.

- Yes, Garry, they dig it up,

they cart it back,

it gets thawed out,

wakes up, probably not

in the best of moods.

- l don't know--

- Which one of you disrespectful men...

been tossin'his dirty drawers

in the kitchen trash can, huh ?

From now on, l want my kitchen clean,

all right ? Germ free !

Now, how's this motherf***er wake up

after thousands of years in the ice ?

- And how can it look like a dog ?

- l don't know how.

'Cause it's different

than us, see.

'Cause it's from outer space.

What do you want from me ? Ask him.

You buy any of this, Blair ?

Mac, we're movin'those things

out of the lab into the storeroom.

Can you come

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