Prince Of Darkness Page #4

It's incredibly elaborate.

Right here, there's a...

there's a weird locking mechanism.

Looks like it can only

be opened from the inside.

I'm going back.

Look at this.

Now, a friend of mine at U.C.L.A.

Did a study of chronic schizophrenics.

They're supposed to have stereotyped routines

that they repeat every 20 minutes or so.

You know, like a stuck record in their brains

repeating the same phrase over and over.

Well, I have been watching them

on and off all day,

and they don't seem

to be making any movements.

They just stand there.

With those kinds of problems,

I say let 'em stand there

if they want to. Ooh!

You okay?

Yeah. I bumped into something

this afternoon.

It's starting to hurt.

Probably nerves.

It's a bruise, Walter.

You don't bruise from nerves.

I used to break out when I was 12.

Doctor said it was homosexual panic.

I'll see you Monday morning.

You got anything for me?

No, I'm afraid not. I'm guessing on the

acidity based upon the corrosion samples.

The figures you gave me.

Yeah.

Well, it can't be that high. Well,

I know, but you asked me to guess.

All right, get outta here.

Good night, sir.

Hey, what's with the "sir" business?

Okay, good night, Sir Doc.

Better.

A lot better.

My God.

Hey, look, can I talk

to you for a minute? Yes.

Nobody's really saying

much of anything here.

We're still putting together the first round of

tests, and nobody's really stopped since we got here.

Get to the point.

Nothing... anywhere ever is supposed

to be able to do what it is doing.

Now, settle down now.

Go back to work. A life form is

growing out of pre-biotic fluid.

It's not winding down into disorder.

It's self-organizing.

It's becoming something.

What?

I mean, an animal?

A disease? What?

The hardest thing to hear for any of

us is something we don't agree with.

"I saw a star fall from heaven

unto the bottomless pit,

and he was cast out

as water from the flood... "

This is crazy.

Man.

Hadn't you seen it yet?

No. For the last four hours, I've been

carbon dating the corrosion on the lid there.

We're talking about

seven million years.

What?

Yeah.

I'm goin' topside.

Want me to wait for you?

No, uh-uh. Go on.

This whole section's a kind of history.

Part of it was indecipherable,

as if someone were deliberately

trying to erase it.

I managed to piece together most of it.

Okay, it kind of starts here.

"The container was buried somewhere

in the Middle East eons ago by... "

It gets a little wild here...

"the father of Satan,

"a god who once walked the earth

before man...

but was somehow banished

to the dark side. "

Apparently, the father

buried his son inside the container.

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