"Never seen a clock tower before?" "Black leather, black leather, rock, rock, rock" "Black leather, black leather, ta, ta, ta" "Black leather, black leather, hip, hip, hip..." "Oh, look at this, Dave." "Hello, darling." "Hey, hey, hey!" "How about it, then?" "Black leather, black leather, ta, ta, ta" "Black leather, black leather, hip, hip, hip" "I got that feeling, black leather rock" "Black leather, black leather, smash, smash, smash" "Black leather, black leather, crash, crash, crash" "Black leather, black leather, kill, kill, kill" "I got that feeling, black leather rock" "Black leather, black leather, smash, smash, smash" "Black leather, black leather, crash, crash, crash" "Black leather, black leather, kill, kill, kill" "I got that feeling, black leather rock €" "Forward into battle, dear chaps." "All right, let's have you now." "Come on, then." "We're gonna have some marching now." "Left, right, left, right, left, right, left, right..." "Move along, there." "Move along." "Go on, get out of here, go on." "Move along there." "Push on." "Black leather, black leather, crash, crash, crash" "Black leather, black leather, smash, smash, smash... €" "You happy in your work, Joanie?" "By the left, quick-march!" "You go back to London!" "I should have given you some more warning." "No." "I'm always glad to see you." "Could I have some tea, please?" "Then what's the matter?" "Did you let my bird house to a new girlfriend?" "No." "No new girlfriend." "The place is yours for this summer." "I brought rent for two summers." "I call it my graveyard bird." "How do you like it, hmm?" "This?" "I like this very much indeed." "Would you like me to go back to London?" "I want you to stay, Freya." "I love it here." "I do my best work here, too." "Mr. Wells, your passport." "I..." "I think I'd better sit down for a minute." "Come onto the terrace here." "Good evening, sir." "Are you all right?" "Yes, thanks." "Shall I get a doctor for you?" "No." "Thank you very much." "Not at all." "How do you do?" "Major Holland, Miss Freya Nielson." "Welcome to Weymouth." "Thank you." "Would you excuse my appearance?" "I've been sightseeing." "I gather he was beaten up by Teddy boys." "But why?" "They wanted my money, I guess." "Did you lose very much?" "I wasn't carrying a lot." "But why did they beat you up?" "Here we are, this is what you need." "Thank you." "I'm sorry to put you to so much trouble." "That's no trouble at all." "Gives me an excuse to have one myself." "How are you, sir?" "Captain Gregory, Miss Nielson." "How do you do?" "Captains and majors, hmm?" "Do they both belong to you?" "Aye." "And I keep a pet colonel in the kennel at home." "You will excuse us, sir?" "Thanks, again." "Come on." "Now, where did all this happen?" "Maybe he doesn't want to explain." "I'II, uh, say this," "I never expected a thing like this to happen to me in England." "You thought England was a country of old ladies knitting socks." "Well, let me put it this way," "I expected you, but not the street gangs." "The age of senseless violence has caught up with us, too." "Oh, I'm sorry." "I'm sure you're in no mood to listen to me moralizing about your misfortunes." "Go ahead." "I like to listen to people who know what they're talking about." "My trouble is, I never believe anything they say." "Good for you." "You think so?" "Yes, I do." "I don't." "The people who know all the answers are much happier." "Then why aren't you one of them?" "I just told you." "I don't like the answers." "I'd better wash my face." "It's much easier to be polite when you're clean." "Will you excuse me?" "I like him." "I thought you would." "I like him because he doesn't like the world." "It's a good beginning." "It's hardly enough, is it?" "I agree." "Your, uh, military friends, do they belong to your mysterious project?" "Yes." "And how is it going?" "Very well." "Very well." "Top secret." "You know, someone once told me that when a bureaucrat wants to keep his job he stamps everything top secret." "Is that true?" "It's probably true, sometimes." "I hate your secrets, Bernard." "Freya, if I were to tell you even a little bit about what you call my secrets," "I might be condemning you to death." "Please trust my judgment." "Now, would you like a drink before dinner, or would you like to go out in search of that Italian dish you used to be..." "How's that, then?" "Not bad." "Let's have a go at it." "I'll match it." "Five quid says you don't." "All right, then." "How's that, then?" "Hey!" "How about that one over there, then, eh?" "But wait a minute." "You said..." "Do you mind?" "I want to speak to my sister." "What's the matter, Joanie?" "Make you feel big, playing with the American's money?" "Money's money, ain't it?" "I wonder what kind of man he is?" "He was looking for pick-ups." "Dirty." "Maybe." "Look, Joanie, it's you and me against the world." "It's been this way since we was kids." "He offered me his arm to cross the street." "Yeah?" "Yeah." "Real boy scout." "Black leather, black leather, smash, smash, smash" "Black leather, black leather, crash, crash, crash" "Black leather, black leather, kill, kill... €" "Last one to the Unicorn's a cube!" "Never seen a boat before?" "You'd better find somebody else today." "I haven't even got a penny on me." "What do you want this time?" "You couldn't be talking to me." "Why do you do it?" "There couldn't be any money in it." "Is it for kicks?" "Huh?" "I'm going to have a private yacht any day now." "I am very happy for you." "Now, look, if you've got anything to say, please say it, otherwise move along." "Or I'll call the cops." "Oh, you're much prettier out of jail." "As long as you're not pulling your pretty little games on me, you can do as you like." "It takes two to play pretty little games." "Look, I invited you for a drink." "You didn't." "You didn't invite me anywhere." "You invited a little tart that you picked up on the street." "Well, who are you, Lady Godiva?" "That would make you Peeping Tom." "Oh." "Whoever I am, I'm not who you think." "You never even asked my name." "With a figure like that, you don't need a name." "Okay." "Okay, it's all my fault." "I thought you were a little tart." "I'll do better than that, I still think so." "Now, what's your name?" "Joan." "My name is Simon." "How do you do, Simon?" "How do you do, Joan?" "Tiny, little thing." "Mmm-hmm." "Why are you here?" "I'm on holiday." "From what?" "Everything." "I used to be an insurance executive, but I decided to give it up." "It's a nice life." "What is?" "To be able to give it up." "If you don't like what you're doing, I mean." "Your friends are never very far away." "Oh, allow me to correct you, dear chap." "Joanie here's my sister." "You couldn't be." "Oh, yes." "And I'm sure your sort isn't interested in my sister." "Is that why you send her out into the streets?" "Simon." "Get out of the boat, Joanie." "Stay where you are, Joanie." "If I were Simon, I'd let her go." "Now if you want to go fishing, Simple Simon, you may go." "Don't ever do that again, Joanie." "I'll do what I like, King." "Do you think I'll let a man put his dirty hands on you?" "Go home!" "Go home, Simon." "Let's get him out of here." "Good riddance to bad rubbish." "Stay outside the 10-mile limit." "All aboard." "Have a nice trip." "Get on it." "God bless." "Get moving!" "Come on, Joan, give it up." "Go on, Simon!" "Hey!" "Joan!" "Jump!" "I'm glad he fell in the water!" "When you come back to shore, Simple Simon, you're a dead man." "Joan, sorry you came?" "Oh, no, I'm looking forward to spending the rest of my life out here." "Might be nice." "Oh, just ducky." "Now that you've carried me off in such heroic style, what are you going to do?" "Can't go back to Weymouth." "Look, I'm not afraid of King." "Well, I am." "Do you know what happened the last time I tried to go out with a man?" "I was locked in a cupboard for a week." "Locked in a cupboard!" "And I'm 20 years of age." "Don't you have any parents?" "No." "King is all I've got." "Well, you should be glad to be rid of him." "Who says I am?" "I do." "Well, you're wrong." "All that's happened is I'm stuck out here in the middle of the ocean on a boat, and King is waiting and watching for me to go back, and for you." "That isn't the only thing that's happened, and you know it." "For a split second, you had the choice of staying with King or coming with me." "Oh, don't try and make anything of that." "Actually, you had your whole life to make up your mind." "When you jumped, you jumped out of pure instinct." "You know that." "You might as well stop talking." "I'm not listening to you." "Don't be childish, Joan." "You don't want that gang, or any part of it." "And I don't want you either, so shut up!" "Why did you choose me yesterday?" "Because you looked as if you had money." "Is that the only reason?" "Yes." "Why'd you come back?" "Damn you!" "Damn you!" "Damn you!" "You are dirty." "You're just what King said you were." "I'm going to get myself a beer, do you want one?" "I don't drink." "King's rules?" "Joan, I'm sorry." "I was clumsy and brutal." "It was my fault." "Will you forgive me?" "For what?" "I want you to put me ashore, please, Simon." "What will you do about King?" "That's my affair." "Look, I've got plenty of gas." "We can go anywhere on the south coast, to France, if you like." "I don't speak French." "Look, why don't you go to France?" "You can spend your life running away." "But I'd be running away from you." "I have to live with what I've got." "Please put me ashore." "You'd go back to the gang?" "I know a place I can hide for a while until he cools off." "If you really want to go, I..." "There's nothing I can do to stop you." "But I wish you'd stay." "I won't have anybody to fight with." "Please put me ashore, Simon." "Pick me up at The Gloucester at 3:00, will you, Timothy?" "Very good, sir." "A bird in a gilded cage, eh, Dingle?" "More like a gilded bird in a rather rusty cage." "You security chaps have the imagination of prison warders." "That shouldn't surprise you." "Well, it irks me." "What destroys me is the waste of all our talents." "Bernard was telling me about his last visit to the minister the other day." ""What kind of education," says this noble person." ""Kind of education?" "Why, my kind of education. "" "The fellow himself is practically illiterate." "What irks you, Dingle, is the fact that you can't accept somebody else's authority." "And if it were up to you, you'd turn all these children into beatniks!" "In the circumstances, would that matter?" "Unfortunately, we can't predict the circumstances." "And self-reliance is really all we can give them." "Self-reliance, character, gentility." "You think these values will mean anything, Gregory?" "Well, I don't really think about that sort of thing, dear boy." "You're the sort that built the empire, aren't you?" "How did you do it without thinking?" "I'm a little out of my depth, I'm sure, but I'll have a shot at it." "Any bully can command obedience." "Only a gentleman can command loyalty." "Ha." "Good morning." "Good morning, sir." "Good morning." "Draw the curtains, will you, please, Dingle?" "Yes, sir." "It's 11:55." "Switch that thing on, will you?" "Good morning, children." "Sit up, please." "I hope we're not in our rebellious mood this morning." "We don't like being seen this way." "There is no other way." "We want to see you the way we see each other." "Sit up, please." "Now, this is our morning for questions, if you have any." "Sir?" "Yes, George." "Mr. Stuart told us that brothers and sisters can't marry." "Is that true?" "Yes, but none of you are brothers and sisters." "But, sir, there are nine of us, and if any boy can marry any girl, there's going to be one left over." "Your arithmetic is sound." "But I don't think you have to worry about that yet." "Sir, I like the boxing, but the other boys won't fight with me." "He hits too hard." "Well, Charles, perhaps Mr. Stuart could provide a punching bag, not in person, of course." "GIRL..." "Sir, when we grow up, the girls, I mean, will we look like Miss Lamont?" "You will look as you do now." "You'll be bigger, of course." "VICTORIA..." "This is a serious question, sir." "Then I shall do my best, Victoria." "Sir, in your little talks to us, you talk about responsibility and duty and all that." "I'm very sorry if I seem pompous to you, Victoria." "That's not it, sir." "But you always talk about, "When the time comes. "" "What we want to know is, when does the time come?" "There are many things which you'll only understand when you're older." "You'll be told everything in time." "Each new thing as you are able to understand it, and not before." "We're getting very old now, sir." "And we can understand everything." "You will have to trust me, children, and let me be the judge." "It's not democratic, sir." "That will be all for this morning." "It's time for your lunch." "I'll talk to you again tomorrow." "Good morning." "CHILDREN..." "Good morning, sir." "Someday they will have to be told everything." "I wish there were some way to avoid it." "What's that place?" "That?" "That's where some big shot lives." "Sometimes he has a woman staying back here." "She makes these things." "Do you like them?" "Do you like them?" "I don't know." "Shall we go in?" "You mean you're planning on hiding out in here?" "Yes." "What's wrong with that?" "It must be locked." "Of course it's locked." "Then I'll break the window." "Oh, now." "You must have more respect for other people's property." "Hey!" "They're at the bird house!" "Need any help?" "Not that I can get." "This is a fabulous place." "Do you really like it?" "You should see it in the fog." "It's wild and weird." "Those rocks, dissolving as if into cloud." "I don't understand you." "Sometimes you sound like..." "I can read." "And sometimes like something entirely..." "Are you planning to stay?" "I haven't made any plans." "You can't exist on beer." "I'll make you some food before you go back to the boat." "I'll see what's left in the larder this time." "What's the matter?" "I've cut myself on the blasted tin." "This is all there is." "Not even a packet of biscuits." "Let me see that finger." "It's nothing." "Here, now, show it to me." "It's all right." "It's a terrible wound." "Go on, eat." "Joan..." "Please go back to the boat, Simon." "Do you want me to?" "Yes." "I'm frightened." "Of your brother?" "Of you." "You weren't frightened of me before." "You hadn't kissed me before." "I'm going to keep right on kissing you." "Look, I'm not holding you, and you haven't moved." "Are you there?" "I've gone to Paris." "Where do you think I am?" "I mean, are you there?" "Or are you thinking of something else?" "I'm not thinking at all." "Good." "Then you're happy." "You think to stop thinking means you're happy?" "Sometimes." "Sometimes it's the other way around." "But I'm not happy." "Why?" "It doesn't matter." "Tell me." "I didn't want to be just somebody's girl." "Will you marry me?" "That's what you think now, of course." "I've been married and divorced and I'm much older than you are, but I've never found this kind of quietness before." "It's as if I were no longer afraid of dying." "Then I am lucky." "Thank you, Simon." "It's King." "Is anybody there?" "I know I'm sloppy, but I'm not that bad." "Two of them, hmm?" "This place is like a railroad station." "What can I do for you, sir?" "Would you mind getting out of my bedroom?" "Where's Joanie?" "Uh..." "Well, I don't know." "Where did they go?" "You might as well ask me where they came from, who they are." "Uh, I don't have the faintest idea." "If we're going to have a conference on this subject," "I think you'd better get out of here, away from that bed." "The man's your friend." "Well, he may be." "But the odds are against it." "Oh, very humorous, that is." "I don't like people that try and make fun of me." "I sympathize." "I know your kind, smart-talking, bad living." "People with no morals." "Maybe my morals are different from yours." "You don't have any." "You think this junk's all that matters." "I've been here before." "I've seen them." "They're nasty, that's what." "Well, now, that depends on how you look at them." "You think I ought to like them?" "Sure." "Don't you?" "What have my morals got to do with your Joanie?" "Very strange boy." "I'm strange, all right." "I'll show you just how strange I am." "Is this what you make your junk with?" "Give me that thing." "Give it to me." "I said I don't have anything to do with you..." "I'll teach you to lend your place to your snob friends!" "Do you know how much this means to me?" "How could you be so cruel?" "I enjoyed it, my dear lady." "I don't believe you." "Where are you, Simple Simon?" "Here come the bobbies." "Beat it!" "Go over the wall." "Watch it!" "There's something going on along the south fence, sir." "Q-6, post A, Q-6, post B." "South fence." "Make it snappy!" "Hurry along with those dogs." "The poor devils must have gone over." "You're lucky to be alive, young man." "Why?" "What kind of establishment is this, then, a morgue?" "Block C, conference room." "His name is Simon Wells, and he's an American." "Now, Major, what would I be likely to know about a bloke like that?" "You tell me." "What's he got to do with your lot?" "What's he got to do with your lot?" "Be careful." "You gave Wells a beating yesterday and today you were chasing him around here." "Why?" "Major, Major, Major." "I hope you remember my rights as one of Her Majesty's loyal subjects." "Your sort, they don't have any." "That bothers me, that does." "She's moving, Victoria." "Where are we?" "Hush." "No one's to speak." "Take my hand." "Follow me." "Your..." "Your hand's as cold as ice." "You're warm!" "She's warm!" "Look, would you just tell us where we are." "Please, you mustn't speak." "It's much too dangerous." "Simon, Simon, her hand's as cold as ice." "It doesn't get warm when I touch it." "Well, we're underground." "It's pretty cold here." "But your hand doesn't feel like this." "It gets warm when I touch it." "Hers doesn't." "Wait." "You may speak now, but not too loudly." "They don't have eyes here." "He means television cameras." "They watch us in other places, but they don't know about our hideout." "Who are they?" "Our teachers." "Could we talk to your teachers?" "Oh, no, you can't do that." "Why not?" "They're not here." "And if the eyes saw you, the Black Death would come and take you away from us." "Haven't you come to save us?" "To save you from what?" "I told you, you were wrong, Elizabeth." "They don't know." "Simon, I'm terribly cold." "Children, even if we can't talk to your teachers, would you show us the way back?" "We could put you back where we found you, but there's nowhere to go from there." "Please stay with us for a little while." "We're soaking wet." "Do you mind being wet?" "We don't mind being wet." "But don't you catch cold?" "I don't know what you mean." "Do you have blankets and towels?" "Yes." "Richard will get you some blankets from the dormitory." "Come on, children." "The rest of you have to go to bed now anyway, or they'll be bound to notice." "Can't we stay a little longer?" "No." "Do as I say." "Well, can we touch before we go?" "You said she was warm." "Would you mind?" "You see, they've never touched warm people before." "No, it's all right." "Henry, where are you going?" "I'm going to the screen, Victoria, because I missed my turn." "You'll be missed and you'll be punished." "You can have your turn tomorrow." "I don't care." "You saw those two." "And Richard saw a bird once." "And I've never seen anything." "All right, go on, but don't be long." "I'll make sure the others are in bed and then I'll come back." "Thank you." "We must be somewhere under that military establishment." "We should let them know that we're here." "You'll get pneumonia." "I'll be all right if I can get dry." "Let's stay at least until we find what's going on." "These children are locked up." "The sea doesn't look dangerous from here." "It looks very beautiful." "But the cliff is dangerous." "You must be careful." "Is there no way down?" "No." "Do you think you'll be comfortable?" "Have you decided to stay?" "First, we need to ask some more questions." "Let's begin at the beginning." "What's your name?" "Victoria." "Victoria, my name is Simon." "And this is Joan." "There, I've saved your life." "I learned how to do it in gym classes." "Ta very much, old chap." "Don't you want to come out now and come inside?" "The others are in there already." "Inside where?" "Inside here." "Do you want me to help you?" "No." "Trust the boys with the bloodhounds to think up something like this." "Do that again." "Are you coming inside?" "You said the others were in there." "They are." "Forward into battle, dear chaps." "Open it." "Open it." "I can't do that, not from inside." "It doesn't work from inside." "You're not allowed to talk here." "Follow me." "How old are you, Victoria?" "I'm 11." "We're all 11." "And we all have our birthdays in the same week." "How long have you been here?" "We've been here always." "What about your parents?" "Do they come and see you?" "Oh, we were hoping you were our parents." "I see." "And do you know why you're cold?" "There are some things, Simon, that you can't understand." "You'll be told everything in time, each new thing as you are able to understand it, and not before." "I've found another one." "Don't tell lies, Henry." "I did." "I did." "I found another one." "I saved his life, Victoria." "Would you like a blanket, too?" "No." "Don't you mind being wet?" "No." "Is he warm, too, Simon?" "Yes, Victoria." "I almost drowned looking for you, Joanie." "Before you get yourself excited, King, touch the little boy's face." "Joanie, I don't..." "Go on, touch the little boy's face." "He's dead." "He's dead, I tell you!" "Never mind, Henry." "Never mind what he said." "Victoria," "I promise we'll stay until we can find out how to help you." "Now go to bed, children." "Go to bed now." "Go on." "I don't sit up nights questioning people about your private affairs, now, do I?" "I mean, your fence is your fence." "All right." "Well, we didn't ask the Yank to go jumping over it." "Look, you don't want to know about a private quarrel, now do you, Major?" "Let him go." "Well, uh..." "Much obliged to you, Major." "Ta, both." "All that that boy needs is a good thrashing." "Yes, but I don't think he's lying." "No." "Come over here, Joanie." "Do what I say!" "She's staying where she is." "King, as much as I dislike you, you're still Joan's brother." "Yes, that's right." "Come over here, Joanie." "Suppose we fight over Joan after we get out of here." "All right, let's get out of here." "You have to wait." "I promised the children that we'd stay here at least for the night." "Well, I didn't promise the zombies anything." "And I'm not going to stay here and watch the two of you." "What you think we're going to do?" "Don't talk dirty, Joanie." "It's you, King, it's you who thinks dirty." "You've tried to lock me up, and you've tried everything you can think of to stop me from being a woman because you've never had a girl yourself." "It's not true, Joanie." "Yes, it is." "I only want you out of the hands of men like that." "Men like what?" "Any man, any man at all." "Would you let me go out with Ted or Sid or any of them?" "No man, no man at all." "That's true, King." "Leave me alone." "Leave me alone." "Just don't you put your hands on him, that's all, or I'll kill you both." "And I'm going to sit here and watch." "What do you think I am?" "Come on, dry yourself." "Watch your head." "Mmm." "There were two intruders, you said?" "No, no, three." "Romeo and Juliet, and, um, and the boy who broke my statue." "Unhappy, dangerous boy, I think." "Have you told the police?" "No." "Should I?" "There's nothing they can do." "That's what I thought." "This place seems to have a fatal attraction for lovers." "Now, why "fatal," hmm?" "It's just a phrase." "Well, you can't blame the place for everything, darling." "Times change, people with them." "Sometimes it brings you closer together, and sometimes it doesn't." "Have I changed so much, other than becoming old and ugly?" "What would that matter, huh?" "It's just that you have become a man with a purpose." "You have a purpose, too." "Yes, but I tell mine to anyone who cares to listen, yours is a secret purpose." "I'm a public servant." "You didn't have to become one." "I felt I had no choice." "It's too late to do anything in private life." "Too late." "Why?" "I live with one fact." "A power has been released that will melt those stones." "We must be ready when the time comes." "You really believe it's going to happen, don't you?" "Certainly." "There's absolutely no question." "And there is nothing we can do to prevent it?" "Nothing." "Well." "Back to work." "Back to work." "I don't believe that." "Excuse me, sir." "May I have a word with you?" "We've found nothing, sir." "We're looking for three people." "A public servant is the only servant who has secrets from his master." "I'm very sorry to leave you with the last word." "Duty calls?" "Duty calls." ""My hair is gray, but not with years" ""Nor grew it white In a single night" ""As men's have grown from sudden fears" ""My limbs are bowed, though not with toil" ""But rusted with a vile repose" ""For they have been a dungeon's spoil" ""And mine has been the fate of those" ""To whom the goodly earth and air" ""Are banned, and barred, forbidden fare"" "What's the matter, Joan?" "Oh, my head hurts." "I must get some air." "I've brought you something to eat." "What is it?" "Lunch." "Is this what you eat all the time?" "Yes." "It has all the minerals and vitamins." "We make it ourselves in the lab." "Were you ever a child, Holland?" "I'm sure you don't expect me to answer that one, sir." "There's always one child missing." "And it's been like that for two days." "They're going to the hideout." "Yes, sir." "And I should like permission to investigate it." "Have you never had a secret hiding place?" "You know, in all this time, Holland, you've never had anything more to worry you than one stray rabbit." "How many times have I told you that the mental health of the children is more important than your ideas of security." "That'll be all, Holland." "Thank you, very much." "I'm afraid I have a more serious problem, sir." "Well, do try to confine yourself to the practical side of it, and don't try to explain the scientific details to me." "You know that I'm against the present arrangement." "That's not your province, Talbot." "And we must be ready when the time comes." "It makes observation more difficult." "And we still don't know enough about maintaining their immunity." "Well?" "You remember, sir, how we lost the other two." "What is it, Talbot?" "Mary is developing the same symptoms." "Mary." "Mary, you're going to have an injection." "It comes in spells, Joanie." "A chill doesn't come in spells." "It's..." "It's being locked up that does it." "I'll be all right." "We think that we're being punished for our sins in a dungeon, like The Prisoner of Chillon." "And when the time comes, our parents are going to come and open the magic doors for us." "There's no such thing as magic." "You aren't taking account of the facts." "What are the facts, William?" "We're on a huge spaceship." "We're going to a star." "They're teaching us the history of Earth, so that we can build a civilization when we get there." "It's going to be a long, long trip, and by the time we get there, our teachers will be dead." "That doesn't take account of the rabbit." "The rabbit was on board all the time." "Tell me about the rabbit." "We found it one day in here." "And we used to play with it." "But it grew sleepy and its hair fell out, and the Black Death came and took it away." "We can't tell you everything, now." "We've got to get you out of here." "Will you show me the doors?" "There's the cave door, and there's the lift which the Black Death comes down." "And?" "But there's another door." "Will you take me there?" "No, he can't." "The eyes will see him." "That doesn't matter." "I've worked out all the blind spots." "Come on, William." "We may not have much time." "What is it, Simon?" "Don't worry." "Just wait for me." "Good morning." "I thought you'd better see this for yourself, sir." "Here, on five." "I wish you had let me investigate that hideout, sir." "Sir." "On seven." "What's he doing?" "He's following one of the children." "That could be young William." "Very ingenious of young William." "But he forgot that Wells is six feet tall." "Turn them off." "I hate those things." "But they are necessary." "It is not necessary of you to tell me so." "The others may be dead or they may be with him." "If he went over the cliff when the tide was right, he could have reached the cave." "Well, then, there must be something wrong with the cave door." "Unless, he didn't go over the cliff at all." "Check the bird house door first." "Make sure that Miss Nielson doesn't see you." "Then take a boat out and check the cave entrance." "When you find out how he got in, we can worry about getting him out." "He's been there too long already." "I do not want the children to watch him die." "It's just an ordinary lock on this side." "What is a lock, Simon?" "Good afternoon, Miss Nielson." "Good afternoon." "I hope I'm not interrupting anything." "Oh, no." "Well, the name's Gregory." "You may remember we met at The Gloucester the other day." "I remember you." "You're one of Bernard's toy soldiers, aren't you?" "Yes, that's right." "I've been promising myself" "I'd come up and look at your work someday, by way of improving my mind." "Hmm." "Very clever." "Very clever." "It's a very interesting effect, that." "Sort of unfinished, really, isn't it?" "Well, now, isn't everything in life sort of unfinished, hmm?" "Well, I never really thought of it like that." "May I come in?" "Please, please." "Thank you." "I hope you don't mind the silly questions." "Hmm, as long as you don't mind my silly answers." "Shouldn't I?" "If I could explain these," "I wouldn't have to make them." "Yes." "Quite." "Thank you, Miss Nielson." "You've been very kind." "Nothing." "Nothing at all." "Come again." "Come again." "Thank you." "All clear, Captain." "I'm Sid." "Yes, I've noticed you hanging around." "Perhaps, you've noticed other things, too." "Where's King?" "Hope you have a better sense of humor than he does." "Yeah, I'm laughing all the time." "We haven't seen him since he came up here." "Would you like me to find him for you?" "Yeah, maybe you know where he is." "Maybe you know why the brass is knocking about in your quarry." "Hmm?" "BERNARD ON SCREEN..." "Quiet, please." "Order, please." "Sir, Mary's not here." "Don't worry about that, Victoria." "Mary's to stay in bed." "Now, children, I've called you together at this unusual time because it's very important and I want you to cooperate with me." "I know that you have some big people in your hideout." "Oh, yes, I know about your hideout." "And I wanted you to keep it." "But I will not be able to let you keep it unless you help me." "Is that understood?" "If you do not help me," "I will be forced to take your hideout away from you." "Now, Victoria, how many of these big people are you hiding?" "Don't be stubborn, children, it's very important." "Big people are dangerous to you." "How did they get inside?" "Very well, I can find out all that later." "Now, Victoria, I want you to go to them and tell them to come out." "Tell them to come to the lift and we will get them out." "We want to keep them here, sir." "You cannot." "I'm very sorry to tell you this, but here is dangerous for them." "They will become ill." "They will go sleepy if they stay with you." "They are warm and nothing that's warm can live with you." "You will remember what happened to the rabbit." "You're just trying to frighten us, sir." "We don't believe you." "You killed the rabbit because we loved it." "You sent the Black Death for it because we loved it." "I love you, children, and I'm trying to protect you." "You don't." "You don't." "You don't." "BERNARD..." "Think, children." "Think!" "Think!" "You will have to do as I say." "King!" "King!" "Where are you?" "King!" "King!" "The Black Death is coming." "They're going to take you away." "What is it, Henry?" "He's coming for you." "You'll get sleepy like the rabbit." "No, we won't." "We're going to get out, and we're going to take you with us." "Will you climb out and open the cave door for us?" "What's the good of that?" "I've been to the other door." "It's no good without a key." "You think you can climb these cliffs?" "We'll have to swim for it." "Oh, yeah." "Through those rocks with a tide like that, with the kids?" "Let 'em come for us." "Don't go, King!" "King, we've seen too much." "Are you coming or not?" "Thank you." "I know it's kids' stuff, knocking about in a gang, but what else is there to do?" "What would you like to do?" "Hmm?" "I don't know." "Something you want to do, no?" "Guard, bring the dinghy in." "I have had to send someone down because of your disobedience." "Now I want you to keep still and stay out of the way." "Children!" "Children!" "That sort of destructiveness will accomplish absolutely nothing." "This is a crisis." "You do not understand what is happening." "Now try to be quiet." "Think." "Think." "You will have to do as I say eventually." "BERNARD..." "You'd better come out, Holland." "We can't direct you." "Let me go, man, for God's sake." "Let me go." "All I want is that key." "Get rid of it." "Throw it away!" "Throw it away!" "Why are you so afraid of this, Major?" "Because we'll go blind, man." "Get up." "Give me that thing." "I'll have that." "It won't do you any good now." "No, let's be equal." "Watch him." "Joan?" "Come on, children, come back!" "I'm getting you all out of here." "But you're getting out of these clothes first." "Go on." "Take them off." "All of you." "Simon, we can't." "Don't argue." "Take them off." "We can't undress in front of each other." "You do as I say!" "All right, children, undress." "That's right, Wells, the children themselves are radioactive." "The children?" "What in heaven's name are you doing?" "You can't be expected to understand." "I'm taking them out of here." "You can't do that." "They're dangerous." "Please, Simon, take us out." "Please take us out." "Please, Simon, take us out of here." "Please." "Please." "You can't do it, Wells, you can't!" "Can't I?" "Come on, children." "Can we put our clothes on?" "Yes." "It doesn't matter now." "Do you understand what you're doing?" "Do you understand what you're doing?" "Yes." "Certainly." "Tie him to the bed." "Tie him to the bed." "Come on, Joan." "We can't wait." "I want to go too, Joan." "We can't leave her, Simon, she's sick." "Be careful." "Now, the children were opening the locks with the radiation of their own bodies." "Now I've been here, and we needn't worry about the cave door, because I've checked it." "Then take a complete detachment to this door." "Alert the helicopters in case they get any farther." "And, Gregory, if Miss Nielson's at the studio, make sure she doesn't see anything." "And hurry." "Yes, sir." "Hello?" "Anybody there?" "There you are, Mary, my love." "Take a look." "That's the world." "I'm frightened." "Don't be frightened." "Look." "Here's something small." "It's a little flower." "No!" "Oh!" "Please!" "No!" "Black Death is coming!" "Help!" "Help!" "No!" "No!" "No!" "No!" "Let me go!" "Let me go!" "Help!" "Help!" "Help!" "Get away from me!" "No, I'm coming with you, King." "They're children, Bernard." "Gregory!" "Yes, sir?" "Henry's gone, in the car." "I've seen you before." "You're the man who knows all about violence, aren't you?" "You're the man who knows all the answers, aren't you?" "Why are you doing this?" "What's it all for?" "What are you trying to make out of these children?" "What do you want with us?" "Answer me." "Will you answer me?" "Where is Major Holland?" "He's down there." "Is he alive?" "He's alive." "Gregory, get him out of there, quickly as possible." "Yes, sir." "Mr. Wells, you and the young lady may go to your boat." "Children, Bernard." "The worst of this incident is that my children will now think of themselves as prisoners and as freaks." "Did you do this thing to them, Bernard?" "They were born as they are." "Their mothers were exposed to an unknown kind and level of radiation by an accident." "I don't need to tell you that there are such accidents." "Three hundred in the past 15 years." "That is a fact." "We don't yet know how to repeat the exact conditions that produced these children." "You mean you would if you could?" "Certainly." "Freya." "Freya." "It is now desperately important that you should try to understand me and what I am doing." "Life has the power to change." "After the first great explosion, strange, wonderful flowers, unknown before, bloomed in the desert." "To survive the destruction that is inevitably coming, we need a new kind of man." "An accident gave us these nine precious children, the only human beings who have a chance to live in the conditions which must inevitably exist when the time comes." "Every civilized nation is searching, searching for the key to survival that we have found." "I don't want to hear any more, Bernard." "I didn't want you to know." "You will remember my warning when you arrived." "But you let the American and the girl go." "They are dying already." "They will never make contact with another human being." "And when they die, the boat will be destroyed." "Freya, you, too, know my secrets now." "My children are the buried seeds of life." "When that time comes, the thing itself will open up the door and my children will go out to inherit the Earth." "What Earth, Bernard?" "What Earth will you leave them?" "After all that man has made and still has to make!" "Is this the extent of your dream?" "To set nine ice-cold children free in the ashes of the universe?" "I have no choice." "I have no choice at all." "You refuse to join me?" "You know what your refusal means?" "Yes." "It means that you are wasting whatever time I have left." "It goes so fast, King!" "The world's so big." "Get out now." "I can't take you anywhere." "Go back, Henry." "I can't, not now!" "I don't like it back there and the others don't like me very much." "Get out of the car." "Look after yourself." "I saved your life, King, and I mean to stay here." "You're poison." "Don't you know you're poison?" "You're killing me." "Help!" "Don't!" "Let go!" "Let go!" "Go out of here, push off!" "Get out of here!" "Go on now!" "We can start again, Joan." "We can go back again to the beginning." "We can't, Simon." "We can't leave the children." "Help!" "Help!" "Help!" "Help!" "Please help us!" "Please help us!" "Someone help us!" "Someone help us!" "Please help us!" "Help!" "Help!" "Please help us!" "Please!" "Someone help us!" "Please help us!" "Help!" "Help!" "Please help us!" "Someone, help us!" "Help!" "Help!" "Help us!"