The Last Man on Earth Page #2

- You have a better idea?

- Maybe.

- At least it involves imagination.

- Ben, it's as simple as this.

An unknown germ

is being blown around the world.

It's highly contagious,

and it's reached plague proportions.

And you don't believe

some of the dead have come back?

Let's get to work.

And why are they burning the bodies?

Why don't they bury them?

Because it's the best known way

to control the contagion...

to keep the germ from spreading.

That's what we've always believed,

at any rate.

- You'd prefer us to believe in vampires?

- If they exist, yes.

There are stories being told, Bob.

By people who are out of their minds

with fear!

Maybe, but there are too many

to be just coincidental.

Stories about people who have died,

and have come back.

They're stories, Ben, stories.

And why are the infected people

always so tired in the daytime?

Why can't they stand the sunlight?

Why are they only seen at night?

Come here.

- Look.

- I know as well as...

- Now, is this bacilli or isn't it?

- It doesn't alter...

And this bacilli is found in the blood

of every infected person, or isn't it?

To show me germs

is not to refute these stories, Bob.

The point is, if there are vampires,

they exist in spite of these germs.

Come on, let's get to work.

Until further notice this station...

will continue its around-the-clock coverage

of this national disaster.

And now we switch you

to the state capitol...

where His Excellency, the Governor...

is speaking from the executive mansion.

Further, I have in conjunction

with the Federal Government...

declared this state to be a disaster area.

The public health is dependent on

the bodies of the deceased being burned.

You must notify

the Health Department immediately...

if you have a plague victim in your home.

Under no circumstances

should you gather publicly.

In view of the dire emergency that exists...

Anything new?

No, nothing new.

Nothing.

Mommy, where are you?

Mommy, I can't see.

- I'm going to call the doctor.

- I said, no.

Virge, there's nothing they can do.

- But we can't just let her lie there.

- This way she has a chance.

If you call a doctor, he'll report it.

Do you want that?

Mommy, help me.

- How can you be so sure...

- Blindness is one of the symptoms.

You're not to call a doctor

under any circumstances.

No one is to come into this house.

Now remember that.

Mommy, where are you?

I've got to pick Ben Cortman up

on the way to the lab.

No one is to come into this house.

Now remember that!

No! Please!

Please don't let him be buried in the pit.

Please, for God's sake.

Don't take him away like this.

You can't!

- Who's there?

- It's me, Ben. We're late.

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