The Puppet Masters Page #2

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- Get him off the car.

- Jarvis, help him.

My God.

- Sam. You all right?

- Yeah, I'm all right.

Make sure Langley understands we must

stop this before it spreads.

I want that town sealed up

completely.

Put up perimeter roadblocks...

Not local police.

They have been compromised.

Right?

The troops you send in

must put up a challenge at 100 yards

and shoot anyone

who comes closer than 50 yards.

Get Holland

to take a hazard response team

and investigate the landing site.

There is no time to waste...

- Thanks.

- Sure.

We should exercise

extreme caution.

It wasn't supposed to happen

like this.

What wasn't?

First contact.

What did you expect? ET?

No, but it would have been nice.

I never liked that little troll.

He's in his element. He's only

really happy during a crisis.

Yeah. Alive.

A little tense between you two?

Yeah, well, he's my father.

This is incredible.

- Graves.

- Quite incredible.

Plenty of time for amazement later.

Right now I need facts.

OK, here's one. It's dead.

Are you sure?

No body heat, no electrical activity

and no movement.

If we vented the chamber,

it'd be pretty ripe in there.

We gave it quite a jolt of

electrical current.

Probably vascular collapse, although

most parasites, when separated...

Dr Sefton will define

what we're dealing with.

Right. How do you

want to handle this?

We need to know how the creature

interfaces with our nervous system.

We should split into teams,

each focusing on a different aspect

of the alien.

Biochemistry, physiology,

reproduction.

- Endocrinology...

- Wait a minute.

What we need to know

is who we're fighting

and how to fight them.

Is that clear to both of you?

It's one o'clock. In two hours

I'm calling a meeting at the office.

Make sure you have

something for me by then.

Brad, cover.

OK, Jim, tape this.

And get a water sample.

I'll be damned.

- Do you want me to wait?

- No. I'll check you out later.

- Any trouble in lowa?

- Not like you people had.

I heard you had to take a couple

of people out.

These weren't people any more.

You shoot, they just keep on coming.

Any word on Deitman and Truly?

- Has anyone told their wives yet?

- Not yet.

So what are we looking at here?

It seemed something organic

had eaten its way into the earth

below the water table.

Now, whatever was hiding

in that fake saucer was moved.

A hole filled with water was left.

What's your guess? How many of those

things could have been in that hole?

Based on the size of the cavity,

could have been thousands.

I don't know if this counts for

anything, but...

that kid said 320 people had gone

through that ship about 11 hours ago.

What's the population of Ambrose?

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