Nightmare at Noon Page #4

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a hell of a kick to it.

- Jesus, come on.

Be careful now.

No!

- Just doesn't make any sense.

Folks I've known all my life feuding

with each other for no reason.

Hospital filled with people

bleeding green blood?

Telephones and the radios don't work.

And the damn cars breaking

down at the city limits!

- Think something's behind it?

- I don't know what, but it

all started at the same time.

- It might be something in the air.

- Or the water.

- The water.

Contaminate the water supply and cut off

all communications so nobody

will know till it's over.

- Yeah but why?

- You're bleeding!

- At least it's red.

- We've got to act fast.

' Act?

What are you talking about?

- Don't tell anybody I told you but

we got an emergency situation here.

You in this time or you

gonna rent a car as usual?

- Hey don't give me that sh*t pal,

not after what I've been through!

- Knock it off.

Doc, we think there's

something wrong with the water.

I want you to prepare as

many of those pig-stickers

as you can, it's all we got for now.

- Will do.

- Check with your people at the hospital,

find out how many of 'em

drank the water this morning,

and then do whatever you can.

Any of you drink any of the water?

- Just an orange juice.

- We had beer.

You?

- I haven't touched water in years.

- Coffee, anything?

- What about it Sheriff, we

don't want you flipping out

and shooting us in the back do we?

- Uh, no, no no I didn't have any coffee.

It's starting.

- Sheriff?

You're not serious no--

- You're gonna need this

for your piece.

You're gonna need this too.

- Look you guys have been

watching too many Westerns,

this is not high noon!

- I reckon it is.

Listen, these are decent

god-fearing people,

these are not killers.

Don't shoot 'em unless

you have to and by god if

you gotta shoot 'em don't

shoot 'em to kill 'em,

just wound 'em, anything

to keep 'em out of action

until we figure out what the

hell is going on, understood?

Julia get on the PA

system and tell everybody

not to drink the water!

Make it good and loud, make

sure everybody gets the message!

You two go around to the south,

I'll go around to the north.

Now nobody gets hurt!

- Tell them that!

- Attention all citizens,

our water supply has been contaminated

with a toxic, possibly lethal substance.

- What the hell happened to this town?

- The freeway missed it.

- No I mean all the loony toons.

- Boredom.

- Jesus Reilly will

you give it a rest huh?

- Sounds to me like

you're scared shitless.

- Yeah...

- So am I.

- Well, you're human after all are 'ya?

- The only difference with me,

only the last couple hours,

with you, last a whole lifetime.

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