"(THUNDER CRASHING)" "There's some more flowers, kids." "Go pick them." "(CHILDREN CHATTERING)" "WOMAN:" "Oh, that's a pretty one." "GIRL:" "I don't have one." "Well, go look for one." "Over there." "Oh, that's beautiful." "Let me look at that." "Let me look at that." "Now you can take them home to your parents." "Don't they smell nice?" "ELIZABETH:" "Hi." "Too much trouble to pick the mail up off the floor, Geoffrey?" "(SNAPS FINGER)" "Hello?" "(BELCHES)" "Look at this flower." "All right!" "That-a-way!" "ELIZABETH:" "You know, I think I actually found something rare." "GEOFFREY:" "What?" "This plant." "I think it's a grex." "A what?" "G-R-E-X." "That's when two different species cross-pollinate and produce a third completely unique one." "And listen to this." ""Epilobic." ""From the Greek epi: upon, and lobus: a pod." ""Many of the species are dangerous weeds and should be avoided."" "Dangerous?" "In the garden." "See?" "Look how quickly it roots." ""Their characteristic rapid and widespread growth pattern" ""was even observed in many of the large, war-torn cities of Europe." ""Indeed, some of these plants may thrive on devastated ground."" "GEOFFREY:" "Why don't we go up to Vail for the weekend?" "Fly up Friday?" "Hmm?" "Huh?" "Okay, maybe." "Sure." "Geoffrey, I'm trying to read." "You're in a good mood." "Well, I got something to look forward to tonight, the play-offs." "Geoffrey?" "What?" "(MAN CHATTERING ON TV)" "I'm reading." "Okay, I'll put the earphones on." "There." "See?" "You happy?" "Never mind." "I'll go downstairs." "(MAN SPEAKING FRENCH)" "Who is it?" "Department of Health." "Bonsoir, Monsieur Bennell." "How nice to see you." "What is that supposed to be?" "It is cervelles en matelote." "In English, what would I be eating if I ate that?" "Oh, calves' brains in red wine." "Red wine and what else?" "It's impossible." "It's a secret, Mr. Bennell." "We don't have any secrets from the Department of Health, Henfi." "A good, young Burgundy, a brown stock, thyme, parsley, just a sprig, capers, a fresh bay leaf and garlic." "That's all?" "HENRI:" "Oui." "Yes." "What is that?" "A caper." "No." "Do you presume to tell us what is in this stock?" "It's a rat turd." "A what?" "A rat turd." "A caper!" "A rat turd." "A caper!" "If it's a caper, eat it." "I'm gonna bring you up for permit revocation, Henri." "MATTHEVV:" "You're charging way too much to be serving crap like that in here." "HENRI:" "But, monsieur, it is an accident." "You know how careful we are." "(RADIO ANNOUNCER CHATTERING)" "(POLICE SIREN BLARING)" "(TURNS RADIO OFF)" "(PHONE RINGING)" "Hello?" "MATTHEW:" "Elizabeth?" "ELIZABETH.' Yeah." "Did I wake you up?" "No." "Hi, Matthew." "They busted the window of my car." "Oh, no!" "They threw a bottle of wine at it." "Not even a good wine." "And the Warriors won, so I guess your household's pretty happy." "Yes." "What are you doing?" "ELIZABETH:" "Oh, nothing." "If you go to sleep now, you oould get up early in the morning, couldn't you?" "Oh, Matthew." "If you can come in at 7:30, you can run a test and you can get the stuff started before 8:00." "Stop, Matthew." "Matthew, stop." "I'm not coming in before 8:00 in the morning." "No!" "I got to force the abatement hearing." "Matthew." "Matthew." "And Wednesday's the only slot that they've got free." "No, Matthew." "Stop." "I will not be there before 8:00!" "Elizabeth, did you know that I nominated you for Civil Servant of the Year award?" "(CHUCKLES) It's true." "I think you're wonderful." "Okay." "Okay." "Okay." "I'll be in at 7:30." "I'll run a salmonella test for you." "Thank you." "I'll see you in the morning." "Good night." "I'll see you in the morning." "Thanks." "Bye." "Bye." "(ALARM CLOCK BUZZING)" "Geoffrey, my God." "How long have you been up?" "Not long." "What are you doing?" "Geoffrey." "Geoffrey." "Geoffrey." "(CLOCK CHIMES)" "(ELIZABETH GASPS)" "(CLOCK CHIMING)" "I want to throw the book at the son of a bitch." "Those scallops are nothing but cut-up pieces of skate." "I'm sorry." "I can start the test right away." "It's okay." "B0ccardo's doing it." "And there's something wrong with the baked potato." "Either the sour cream is phony, or the chives or the butter." "I'm really sorry, Matthew." "I got up on time." "It was Geoffrey." "What did the mad dentist get up to this time?" "I don't know." "He was just weird." "He's crazy." "All dentists are crazy." "(BEEPING)" "Are you late?" "No." "He was weird not the way he usually is." "Something was different." "MATTHEW:" "Well, that can only be an improvement." "Well, it's not." "It's got me really nervous." "Tell him to shape up or get out." "It's his house." "Make him an offer." "Let me show you something that'll really cheer you up." "What?" "Ever seen one of these up close?" "What is it?" "What does it look like?" "A caper?" "A caper." "What is it?" "It's a rat turd." "But the sauce was delicious." "I've got your rat." "Did you find one?" "I've got it." "I really got it." "It's a biggie." "We'll get a declaration of "unsanitary" on him." "I'll talk to you later, okay?" "Okay." "What can I do?" "Nothing." "Don't worry." "Go on." "I'm sorry." "Oh, I'm sorry." "Hey, come on." "Tell me what I've done." "I don't even know." "GEOFFREY:" "I understand today's plan." "Yes." "Something's come up, Elizabeth." "I have to go right back out again." "Now?" "Weren't we going to the game?" "The Warriors, I know." "I gave the tickets to a patient." "You're not gonna see tonight's game?" "No choice." "Geoffrey, what is the matter with you?" "I know something's wrong." "I'm fine." "I just have to go to a meeting." "A meeting?" "What kind of a meeting?" "Elizabeth, I don't think I have to justify my every move to you." "Geoffrey, this isn't like you." "Please, come on." "I just wanted to be nice." "Elizabeth, what's the matter with you?" "Nothing." "(DOORBELL RINGS)" "Come in." "Hi." "How are you doing?" "(PANTING)" "You think it's true that if you think you're losing your mind, then you're not?" "Mmm-hmm." "Well, I hope so." "(SIGHS)" "I know this is gonna soundinsane." "What?" "Geoffrey is not Geoffrey." "How do you know?" "I know." "I mean, on the outside, Geoffrey is still Geoffrey." "But on the inside," "I can tell that there is something different." "Something is missing." "What?" "Emotion, feelings." "He's just not the same person." "Really." "You know what I mean?" "I know it sounds crazy." "Yeah, I know what you mean, I think." "Have you eaten?" "I'm not hungry." "Have a piece of celery." "I'm not." "Eat, eat, eat." "We can eat outside." "It's a beautiful night." "Take that meat there, will you?" "Get the cleaver and chop it up." "And hand me some of the ginger, the stuff that's chopped up there." "And you wanna know something else?" "This is really weird." "I went to see his sister Nora to talk to her about it." "But I couldn't." "I stopped myself." "She changed, too?" "Do you think I'm crazy?" "No." "Do you wanna go see my friend David Kibner?" "The psychiatrist?" "It's not like that." "I mean, you talk to him." "I mean, he would put things into perspective for you." "I'm not crazy." "No,no,no, I'm serious." "He would eliminate a lot of things." "He would eliminate whether Geoffrey was having an affair, whether he'd become gay, whether he would..." "Had a social disease, whether he'd become a Republican." "All the alternatives, all the things that could have happened to him to have made you feel that he had changed, something that he was doing." "You know what I mean?" "You wanna go see him?" "You think I'm nuts." "I don't think you're crazy." "Can you still do the thing with your eyes?" "If you're not crazy, you can do the thing with your eyes." "(MATTHEW LAUGHING)" "You're not crazy." "This is delicious." "You're a great cook." "What time is Geoffrey getting back?" "He said not to wait up for him." "You want some more wine?" "Good morning." "Hello." "One, two." "Mrs. Tong, this one's got a coffee stain on it." "That not coffee." "That is coffee." "I put it there myself." "Maybe not come out." "You doctor, right?" "Me?" "No, Health Department, Civil Servant." "Do you need a doctor?" "My wife sick." "What's wrong with her?" "She wrong." "She's not right?" "That not my wife." "You mean, she's..." "No, no, different." "That not my wife!" "(DOG BARKING)" "How are you doing, Harry?" "Hey, pooch." "How are you doing, boy?" "(PHONE RINGING)" "(RINGING)" "(GASPING)" "Where have you been?" "You've been driving me crazy." "I've been looking all over for you." "What's the matter with you?" "Are you all right?" "Talk to me, Elizabeth." "(sesame)" "ELIZABETH:" "I keep seeing these people." "All recognizing each other." "Something's passing between them all, some secret." "It's a conspiracy, and I know it." "MATTHEW:" "There can't be a conspiracy." "Matthew, I'm telling you, something's going on here." "Something that scares me." "I tried to see Geoffrey today to talk to him." "He's always in his office in the morning." "Geoffrey?" "ELIZABETH:" "It really was weird." "Geoffrey was meeting all sorts of strange people." "Things were being passed between them." "And none of them were people you knew?" "I didn't know any of them." "Well, maybe they were patients of Geoffrey's." "Oh, no, no, Matthew." "I know they weren't." "I followed him all day from one end of town to the other." "And everywhere he went, he had these meetings with strange people." "I felt so stupid sneaking around, spying on him, but I can't talk to him." "What can I do?" "Okay." "Well, Kibner will be able to explain something." "I don't need a psychiatrist." "Just forget that he's a psychiatrist." "Just think of him as a very intelligent man, which is what he is." "It's a book party." "He's a celebrity." "He's very famous." "And you'll really like him if you just forget that you think he's a psychiatrist." "I don't know." "I don't know." "Matthew, I've lived in this city all my life." "But somehow, today, I felt everything had changed." "People were different." "Not just Geoffrey, but everybody." "Yesterday it all seemed normal." "Today, everything seemed the same, but it wasn't." "It was a nightmare." "It really became frightening." "It was like the whole city had changed overnight." "Did I ever tell you the one about the English Camel Corps?" "Did I?" "Uh-uh." "They're trapped in the desert, in the Sahara Desert." "They've been surrounded by Rommel for 40 days, and they've run out of food." "And the captain comes and makes an announcement to the men." "And he says, "Men, I have some good news for you" ""and some bad news for you."" "And one of the men says..." "Oh, wait." "You have told me this one." "(BOTH LAUGHING)" "Can I tell it to you again?" "ELIZABETH:" "Look out!" "Oh, my God!" "Lock the door!" "Lock the door!" "MAN:" "They're coming!" "They're coming!" "Maybe we should help him." "Help!" "Help!" "They're coming!" "They're coming!" "Listen to me!" "Listen!" "He's smashed out of his skull." "He's terrified." "You're next!" "Please!" "Please!" "You're next!" "We're in danger!" "Please, listen to me!" "Something terrible!" "Please!" "You're next!" "Here they are!" "They're already here!" "Help!" "You're next!" "They're coming!" "They're coming!" "MATTHEW:" "He must have done something." "(BRAKES SCREECHING)" "(CRASHING)" "(BOTH GASPS)" "The policeman will help." "(SIREN BLARING)" "ELIZABETH:" "Oh, my God!" "That poor man." "What was he talking about?" "MATTHEW:" "I'll phone a witness report in when I get to the bookstore." "Matthew." "Matthew." "Thank God you're finally here." "These people are driving rne nuts." "Are we gonna have dinner later?" "No." "No, I can't." "Do you know where there's a telephone?" "There's a telephone right around the corner." "Elizabeth Driscoll, Jack Bellicec." "Oh, this is the Elizabeth?" "The book is awful." "Kibner's book is awful." "His ideas are garbage." "Kibner's ideas are pure garbage." "How can you say that about a man like Kibner?" "I'm not saying it about a man like Kibner." "I'm saying it about Kibner." "He dashes one of these things off every six months." "Takes me six months to write one line sometimes." "Why?" "'Cause I pick each word individually, that's why." "What's so hard about that?" "I wasn't even talking to you, was I?" "On the corner of Leavenworth and..." "Turk." "...Turk." "Turk." "Is that him?" "Yes." "Yes." ""What's so hard about that?" "What's so hard about that?"" "You must have a report on it because there was a motorcycle officer there." "And there was an ambulance on the way." "They don't understand what I'm saying." "Well, ignore them." "You don't have to prove yourself to anybody." "Well, that's easy for you to say." "They don't jump all over you." "No." "Of course I saw it." "No, the man was running down the street." "He was being chased by people." "He landed on my car." "He went off my car and then he was hit by the other..." "Just a second, will you?" "I'm talking to the police." "No." "He was lying bleeding on the road." "What seems to be the trouble, Officer?" "Just a second." "Hello?" "Don't ever give your name to the cops." "What do you want to do?" "Get on their master list?" "Leavenworth and Turk." "I'll hold." "KATHERINE:" "I know, butflisnfi." "He isn't my husband." "It's someone who looks like him." "He's an imposter!" "DAVID:" "He's your husband." "You know him and I know him." "Come on." "(SOBBING) I had to wait until today because he has a scar on the back of his neck, and when his hair is long you can't see it." "Yes." "He went to have a haircut today." "And the scar was gone." "No!" "It's still there!" "Of course it's still there." "What did you expect?" "He's still Ted." "Excuse me, can I just say one thing?" "Please." "He's still your husband, Ted." "ELIZABETH:" "But I know something that you..." "DAVID:" "Please." "Katherine." "Could I just say one thing?" "Please." "Katherine." "Katherine." "All right." "Just a minute." "Just a minute." "Just give me a minute, will you?" "Just a minute." "Will you trust me?" "Will you please trust me, will you?" "Officer, I work for the County." "This is a public-spirited gesture." "No, I will give you my name if you will give me your name." "Because I want to be able to report this." "I'm trying to change the world to fit people." "Yeah, yeah." "We'll talk about it in a second." "Where is Homer?" "Where is Kazantzakis?" "Where's Jack London?" "Where's Elizabeth?" "KATHERINE:" "I'm afraid." "I'm afraid." "DAVID:" "I understand." "I know, and I understand." "Let me have your hand." "Katherine, just trust me." "Isn't Dr. Kibner wonderful?" "Come on." "Here." "That's not so bad, is it?" "Who's this behind you?" "KATHERINE:" "Ted." "That's right." "Hold on." "Come on." "Just hold on." "Hold on." "Just relax now." "You gonna be all right?" "Yeah." "You feel better?" "You wanna go home now?" "Yes." "Yeah." "All right." "Will you oome and see me tomorrow?" "Please, tomorrow." "Yes." "Yes." "Tomorrow, we'll all talk." "Okay?" "The three of us?" "All right." "TED:" "I think I'd better take her home." "Yes, it's okay." "I'll see you tomorrow." "Okay?" "All right?" "Okay." "TED:" "There's too many people here." "All right." "Thank you." "I've never heard anything like it in my life." "They don't want to hear about the accident." "JACK:" "Right." "Of course." "It's a big conspiracy." "What's a conspiracy?" "Everything." "Excuse me." "Excuse me." "I understand what you're trying to say." "My name is Elizabeth Driscoll." "The Public Health Department." "Call me." "Katherine." "Come on, Katherine." "That woman's husband is not her husband!" "I saw him today with Geoffrey." "He's one of them." "And she knows about it, and nobody's helping her." "That's not true." "Somebody's helping." "I'm glad you heard that." "David Kibner, Elizabeth Driscoll." "I've been hearing it all week." "It's getting very popular." "JACK:" "What's that?" "What's getting popular?" "I was trying to tell you that I also know somebody who's changed." "You know somebody who's changed." "Can we go outside and talk about it?" "Yes." "Listen, there's a lady up top, red hair, blue dress." "She's interested in your work." "DAVID:" "I've heard the same damn story this week from six patients." "People are changing." "They're becoming less human." "It's happening all around us." "ELIZABETH:" "That's not what we're talking about." "This has nothing to do with the man that I live with." "It has everything to do with it." "Don't you see?" "People are stepping in and out of relationships too fast because they don't want the responsibility." "That's why marriages are going to hell." "The whole family unit is shot to hell." "David, you're not listening to what she's saying." "Matthew, please stay out of this." "You see?" "That's the point." "I'm listening to you, but he doesn't think I am." "Why?" "Because he doesn't expect me to bother enough or to care." "Bellicec, I'm telling you for the last time," "I want you to stop!" "Stop what?" "I want you to stand still, be quiet and shut up!" "Jack!" "Horn/dkiyoufeeiabout what I just did?" "JACK:" "Why?" "Why in the store?" "He's a nut." "How did you feel?" "You were probably shocked." "You wanted to shut your feelings off, withdraw, maybe make believe that it wasn't happening because then you don't have to deal with it." "I wanna deal with that poor woman in the bookstore." "Why?" "Do you identify with her?" "Yes." "Okay." "Come on." "Suppose I were to tell you that Katherine is trying to escape from a relationship..." "He's treating her and..." "What's his treatment have to do with pushing me up against the wall?" "She's upset." "She looks fine to me." "She is upset, Jack." "(POLICE SIRENS BLARING) Well, you look upset to me now." "Do me a favor, will you?" "I'll do any favor you want." "Go home, and I'll call you later." "Justgornnne and leave us alone..." "Gohome?" "...for a little bit." "Okay'?" "Okay'?" "Okay." "Okay." "Thank you." "DAVID:" "You're jumping to a very bizarre conclusion that this man you live with has been replaced by somebody else." "Isn't it more likely that you want to believe that he's changed because you're really looking for an excuse to get out?" "I don't know." "Will you think about it, please, before you make a move, before you jump and destroy something you have?" "Will you?" "Please?" "Yeah." "Thank you." "I just gave her a psychological Band-Aid, Matthew." "I should talk to her some more." "You could bring her by my office tomorrow around 4:00." "What's the matter with her?" "It's like there's some kind of hallucinatory flu going around." "People seem to get over it in a day or two." "All I can do is treat the symptoms." "She's gonna be okay?" "A good night's sleep wouldn't hurt." "Is it contagious?" "(CHUCKLING) Matthew..." "Take her home to her boyfriend." "That wasn't what I was thinking." "I was just wondering whether the Health Department should look at it." "Who knows?" "I don't know." "I Wish I did." "Okay." "Take her home, Matthew." "Jack, how was the book party?" "Is that Kibner's new book?" "You didn't get to read your poetry?" "(PHONE RINGING)" "I'm sorry, Jack." "Good evening." "Bellicec Baths." "Yes, we recommend the 15-minute soak in Calistoga volcanic ash, that's followed by an Aqua-Surge whirlpool dip." "Hey, can you help me out of here?" "Bellicec, I'm talking to you." "Give me a hand." "Help me out of this thing." "Every week we go through this." "Why can't you be more patient?" "Get me a towel!" "You are really going to get hurt one of these days." "You've got to learn to be more patient." "STAN:" "Give me another towel..." "Come on." "(CLASSICAL MUSIC PLAYING ON STEREO)" "Nancy, shut the music off." "NANCY:" "It's for the plants, Stan." "STAN:" "Screw the plants." "I hate the music." "It's wonderful for my plants." "They just love it." "Plants have feelings, you know, just like people." "It's fascinating." "This type of music stimulates the growth of the plants." "They've done tons of experiments on it." "STAN:" "Come on, Nancy, turn the music off." "Relax." "Now, you're not going to enjoy this if you don't." "Oh, Mr. Gianni, what are you doing here?" "This is must reading, Mrs. Bellicec." "Worlds in Collision by Velikovsky." "Oh, yes." "I've read that many times." "Have you read Starmaker by Olaf Stapledon?" "That's must reading, too." "Well, it's awfully late, Mr. Gianni." "You're so smart." "Oh, Mr. Gianni." "You've been sitting in that mud too long." "It is possible to overdo it, you know." "Oh, by the way, thank you for that plant you gave me last time." "(HISSING)" "I'll walk you inside." "You don't have to." "Geoffrey!" "That was sweet of him." "Geoffrey!" "(CHUCKLES)" "Are you all right?" "I'll see you tomorrow morning." "Thank you, Matthew." "You've really made me feel better." "And I'm gonna think about what your friend Kibner said." "MATTHEW:" "Okay." "Thanks for helping." "Bye." "Good night." "See you." "Jack!" "Honey, where are you?" "I don't want to disturb you if you're thinking, but I could sure do with some Chinese food." "I haven't eaten all day." "Oh, Jack, you're going to suffocate." "(NANCY SCREAMING)" "My nose..." "Oh, Jack!" "NANCY:" "Let me out!" "Let me out!" "My nose!" "It's bleeding!" "(KNOCKING ON DOOR)" "Who is it?" "Who is it?" "It's Matthew." "What's the matter?" "What happened?" "NANCY:" "Back here." "What's happened to your nose?" "I called you here as a friend, you know." "Oh, Jack." "Do you report certain things when you run into them, like a contagious disease or a dead body in a place of business?" "Jack, would you let him look at it?" "You found a body?" "No, not necessarily, we didn't." "I thought it was Jack." "Is that him?" "JACK:" "Yeah, under there." "What kind of joke is this?" "It's no joke, Matthew." "What is it?" "What the hell is it?" "Keep calm, Nancy." "Keep calm." "Is it contagious?" "Any of your customers see this?" "NANCY:" "No." "It would ruin us." "It's all we'd need." "Look, I'm calling the police." "No, don't do that." "Why?" "Nancy, don't." "Because I think Jack is right." "It's not immature exactly." "He's got an adult face." "It's a monster." "It's got hair all over it." "JACK:" "It's vague." "Nose,Hps,han." "Hands, everything." "But it's got no detail, no character." "It's unformed." "Jack, don't touch it." "You don't know where it's been." "No respiration." "JACK:" "It's got no fingerprints." "No fingerprints?" "Like a fetus." "You just said it was an adult." "I said it was an adult because it was tall." "How tall are you, Jack?" "6' 4" ." "How much do you weigh?" "170." "Why?" "NANCY:" "Oh, no." "Oh, no, Matthew." "Oh, Jack." "Who are you calling?" "Elizabeth." "Why?" "Why are you calling Elizabeth?" "NANCY:" "Matthew?" "Why?" "(PHONE RINGING)" "MATTHEW:" "Hello?" "Elizabeth?" "Can you hear me?" "It's Matthew." "Elizabeth?" "Hello?" "Elizabeth, what's the matter?" "Elizabeth?" "Can you hear me?" "Who is this?" "Hello?" "Elizabeth?" "(DIALING)" "(BUSY SIGNAL)" "NANCY:" "Where are you going?" "I think a friend of mine is in trouble." "What are we to do?" "Phone David Kibner." "Ask him to meet me here right away." "Here's the number." "What's the matter, honey?" "I'm tired." "Stand up." "Stand up." "Now walk around!" "Honey, I'm dry." "I'm very dry." "LWlgetyou something to drink." "Just don't fall asleep." "(SIRENS BLARING)" "Here, sweetie." "Thanks, sweetie." "Dr. Kibner will be here soon." "Kibner, Kibner, Kibner, Kibner..." "I'm gonna lie down and think, honey." "I'm just gonna think." "(EXCLAIMS)" "NANCY:" "Jack!" "Jack!" "Jack!" "Jack, wake up!" "Its eyes!" "Oh, Jack, it opened its eyes." "See?" "(HISSING)" "Jack." "(SCREAMING)" "Oh, Jack!" "(BOTH SCREAMING)" "(TIRES SCREECHING)" "(KNOCKING)" "Elizabeth!" "(BUSY SIGNAL)" "(ELIZABETH SIGHING)" "Elizabeth." "Wake up." "Wake up." "(GEOFFREY SCREAMING)" "(TIRES SCREECHING)" "DAVID:" "I can't find anything in here that looks like a body." "NAN CY:" "No body?" "JACK:" "What are you talking about?" "Did you check the last..." "I looked everywhere." "Did you check..." "Did you check..." "I looked everywhere." "Hey!" "Did you..." "Hey!" "There's no..." "Did you check the last booth onthelefl?" "There's no body there." "NANCY:" "It's got to be here." "DAVID:" "Did it have a pulse?" "A heartbeat?" "NANCY: it opened its eyes." "You actually saw that?" "JACK:" "I saw its nose bleed!" "It had white hair that touched my hand." "There's something in here." "Nancy lost an old guy in here once." "He had a heart attack and sank." "Jack." "DAVID:" "Face it, Bellicec." "You've got some friends who enjoy playing practical jokes." "I don't have any friends, Dr. Kibner." "Then some enemies." "Look." "Who opened this up?" "(CAR HORN HONKING)" "(BANGING ON DOOR)" "Wait a second!" "Wait a second!" "Who is it?" "Matthew, the body's gone." "Vanished." "NANCY:" "Somebody took it." "Did you see it?" "There was nothing here to see." "Who are you waking up now, Matthew?" "Police?" "I would like to report a body." "MATTHEW:" "Take her to my place fast." "Don't let anybody in until we get back there." "(TIRES SCREECHING)" "OFFICER:" "Lieutenant, these are the fellows that reported the body." "LIEUTENANT:" "You both saw it, right?" "No, I'm the only one who saw it, sir." "Matthew Bennell." "Mr. Bennell, why don't you show me where you saw it?" "It's right up here." "Where's Elizabeth?" "(POLICE RADIO CHATTERING)" "DAVID:" "Where?" "There." "JACK:" "It's Elizabeth's double." "Where, Matthew?" "That's leaves in a pot." "MATTHEW:" "It was there, David." "I swear to God it was there." "Officer, there was a body in there." "It was a duplicate of Elizabeth Driscoll." "And it's been taken away." "OFFICER:" "Elizabeth Driscoll is the missing woman." "No, she's not missing." "GEOFFREY:" "Where is she?" "She's okay." "She's at Matthew's." "Don't tell him where she is." "Then there's no missing body." "That's right." "MATTHEW:" "There is a missing body!" "And he's taken it away!" "No, he took Elizabeth." "You took Elizabeth Driscoll away?" "Yes." "You broke in here." "I had to because she was not safe in here." "So then you took Elizabeth Driscoll out of here." "No, no!" "I took her from there." "Her other body was in here." "That's what I've been trying to explain." "Please stop, Matthew." "That's enough!" "Please stop!" "Lieutenant, my name is Dr. David Kibner." "The psychiatrist." "That's right." "My wife reads your books." "It's changed her life." "Good, I'm glad." "Look, this sounds terribly complicated, but my friend has had some difficult emotional expefiences during the last couple of days." "But I think this is something that we could work out amongst ourselves." "All right." "I'll leave this part of it with you." "I appreciate it." "David..." "That's enough." "You can't accomplish anything here now." "We got to get outside." "Now stop it!" "I think you might wanna consider filing an unlawful entry against Mr. Bennell." "I know what you're saying." "I believe you, but we..." "Outside." "Later." "No, I'll take Dr. Kibner's word that Elizabeth is all right." "Fine." "Then let's go." "Okay." "Will Elizabeth be coming home?" "No." "I have to pick up some of her clothes." "All right." "(POLICE SIRENS BLARING)" "All right." "Let's back up and go through it once more, step by Step" "You all thought you saw a body at the baths." "You thought it was dead." "You didn't know what it was." "You touched it." "All of you touched it." "Nancy, you saw it open its eyes." "It looked right at me." "And, Bellicec, you saw its eyes open." "No, I saw its nose bleed." "If you saw its nose bleed, and Nancy saw its eyes open, he must have been alive." "No,DaWd, what you're doing..." "Well, you're looking at it as if it was human." "It was not human." "Matthew, what else would it be?" "It was something, but it was not human." "It had white hair on it." "MATTHEW:" "it was growing." "I mean, the one at Jack's place was..." "It was like Jack, but it wasn't as developed as the one at Elizabeth's place." "It had tendrils on it." "The one at Elizabeth's place was duplicating her." "ELIZABETH:" "If Matthew hadn't taken me out of there, the same thing that's happened to Geoffrey would've happened to rne." "Elizabeth, will you please tell me, in your opinion, exactly what is happening?" "(SIGHING)" "People are being duplicated." "And once it's happened to you, you're part of this thing." "It almost happened to me!" "Look, the reason that you don't believe Elizabeth is because the other body disappeared." "Now, it disappeared because Geoffrey tookit" "Yeah, well, then what happened to my other body then?" "Oh, people, will you please listen to yourselves?" "Will you please listen to what you're saying?" "Look, I can deal with a body being moved." "I can even deal with a body getting up and leaving, but when you start talking about his other body, her other body, people being duplicated..." "Will you listen to how that sounds?" "Don't you think we know how insane this sounds?" "But what do you think we're doing?" "You think we're making it up?" "What are you having trouble accepting?" "Do you believe that my body looked like me?" "And do you believe that her body looked like her?" "ELIZABETH:" "You think we've all gone crazy?" "NANCY:" "You are trying to make us believe that we are seeing things." "Why are you trying to do that?" "All I'm trying to do is help." "You called me in the middle of the night." "You asked me to come here and help." "That's all I'm trying to do." "Well, I'm sorry if we woke you up in the middle of the night, that's..." "If we inconvenienced you, you know, I guess we owe you an apology." "I mean, I guess that's a rotten thing to do!" "You've upset my wife, too." "David, I don't know what it is or where it comes from, but it was there and I saw it, and I'm gonna fight it." "Matthew, my friend, I believe you." "I've known you too long not to believe you." "What do you want to do?" "Well, if I could get official support," "I'd institute the same kind of emergency procedures that we use for a cholera epidemic or Legionnaires' disease..." "That kind of thing." "What do you want me to do?" "Well, I can handle the Health Department, I think, but if panic breaks out, then we're gonna need the police and the Guard." "And that means the Mayor and..." "The Mayor's a patient of yours, isn't he?" "How did you know that?" "What do you want me to do?" "Would you ask him to accept my telephone call?" "I'll call him in an hour." "I'll be at my office." "If you have any other ideas, get in touch." "Call me." "MATTHEW:" "Thank you." "The sooner the better." "This smells lovely." "NANCY:" "Now, I want you to listen to me!" "I am listening to you, Nancy." "I am not seeing things." "I know I saw what I saw." "And I know it was turning into you, Jack." "All right." "Now, that body that we found..." "ELIZABETH:" "That flower." "Where did you get that?" "In the vase with the other flowers." "Just stuck in there?" "Yeah, why?" "Geoffrey gave me one of those last night." "So what?" "There was a customer, Mr. Gianni, he brought one of those to the baths." "So what?" "Put it down, Jack." "It's a pod with a flower on it." "I could not find that flower in any of the books I looked in." "Jack, put it down." "It's a pink flower, honey." "It could be toxic." "Look, I have seen these flowers all over." "They're growing like parasites on other plants all of a sudden." "Where are they coming from'?" "Outer space?" "They're not coming from outer space." "Why not, Jack?" "They're not coming from outer space, Nancy." "NANCY:" "Why?" "What are you talking about?" "A space flower?" "Why not a space flower?" "Why do we always expect metal ships?" "I've never expected metal ships." "Look, there's bound to be other ways they can get into our systems." "That's right." "They could be getting into us through touch or through their fragrance." "We would never even notice it, not from the impurities that we have." "I mean, we eatjunk and we breathe junk." "Look, I don't know where they're ooming from, but I know I feel as though I've been poisoned today." "We've got to take those flowers in and have them analyzed." "This is the only thing we know." "There's something here." "They could start getting into our systems and screwing up our genes like DNA." "NANCY:" "Recombining us, changing us." "Of course, this is just the same way those rocket ships landed thousands of years ago, so those spacemen could mate with monkeys and apes and create the human race." "It's happening now." "WOMAN:" "Hello." "Who do you wish to speak to?" "David Kibner." "He's not in right now." "He'll be back later this afternoon." "Could you leave a message for him, please?" "Would you say Matthew Bennell, B-E-N-N-E-L-L." "And your number, please?" "He's got my number." "Thank you." "(DIALING)" "(PHONE RINGING)" "James Grala, Deputy City Attorney." "Can I help you?" "Yes." "My name is Matthew Bennell." "B-E-N-N-E-L-L." "I'm a Deputy Public Health Inspector." "Yes." "Is this another call about imposters?" "Yes." "We're the first agency you've called?" "Yes." "That's good." "Listen, Mr. Bennell, we don't want to create a panic." "And no one in my department knows." "Look, Mr. Bennell, I'm gonna ask you to stay by your phone for a while." "I'm gonna have somebody call you back and take down everything you know." "All right." "Thank you." "This is a busy lab, Elizabeth." "We're not supposed to test flowers." "They go to the Department of Agriculture..." "I know where they go!" "I think this is our problem." "I think it is affecting people." "H ow?" "Look, Allen, I have already said that I'm gonna do all of the testing." "You don't have to lift a finger." "Can I?" "You've been consistently late, Elizabeth, and you're behind in your work." "So I'll do the test for you." "Thank you." "It'll take 48 hours." "Allen, 24." "I can't understand why you've beoome so emotional about a little flower." "(PHONE RINGING)" "Hello?" "MAN:" "Mr. Bennell?" "Yes." "You're with the Health Department?" "Yes." "That's right." "This is Ted Jessop, the Mayor's Special Assistant." "Yes." "You've come across something strange in the last few days?" "Yes." "Well, I'd like to suggest that we meet in Union Square." "I can't talk over the phone." "MATTHEW:" "Right away." "TED:" "So then you'll meet me here again tomorrow, right, Mr. Bennell?" "MATTHEW:" "Yeah." "Now, don't say a word to anyone." "Keep it quiet." "Whatever you say." "(DIALING)" "OPERATOR:" "Please deposit 15 cents." "Operator, now, I put in a quarter." "I... (PHONE RINGING)" "This is Judy Hinkell, the Mayor's Special Assistant." "Yes." "My name is Matthew Bennell." "The Mayor's in conference right now, but he wants you to know that Dr. Kibner called him personally to express his concern as well." "And Mr. Bennell, we're asking for your discretion from now on because this whole thing might be abating." "(RINGING)" "MATTHEW:" "Hello?" "MAN 1:" "Matthew Bennell?" "Yes." "I'm Michaels." "I'm with the Federal Preparedness Agency." "Yes." "Now, these reports of strange, unexplained, diseased bodies..." "Now, my understanding is that you haven't actually analyzed anything." "And you have no tissue samples?" "No, no, no, I'm just..." "Mr. Bennell, it does seem you're just winging your conclusion." "Please keep an open mind." "MATTHEW:" "I have no intention at all of..." "Don't mention to anyone about duplicate bodies, for God's sakes." "I was gonna treat it as..." "Excuse me, my other phone is ringing." "(RINGING)" "MATTHEW:" "Yes?" "WOMAN 1:" "This is serious business, Mr. Bennell." "MATTHEW:" "Hello?" "Is this just a case of paranoia, Mr. Bennell?" "MAN 2:" "Do you know what mass hysteria looks like, Mr. Bennell?" "WOMAN 2:" "Have you actually seen anything?" "MAN 3:" "We don't want to create a panic." "MAN 4:" "We have the primary authority in this matter." "Be extremely cautious." "Now what..." "WOMAN 3:" "We have a complex problem." "MAN 5:" "I think the horizon looks bright." "MAN 6:" "People are returning to normal." "No, no, she all right." "She better now." "Much better now." "Did your husband ask you to come here?" "No, no, I want everybody to see that I'm back to myself again." "No, wait." "Please." "I'll see you soon, lhope." "(TUNING RADIO)" "JACK:" "Matthew, I'm not getting a thing here." "Where is the..." "I'm not getting any news here." "Isn't there a 24-hour news?" "I would think you'd have a very good reception up here on the hill." "There's a repair truck out here." "Could that have anything to do with it?" "Shejustneeds something to help her sleep." "Tomorrow, she'll be as good as new." "I would suggest you get some sleep, too." "You've done everything you possibly can." "Can I give the Bellicecs a ride?" "No, I'm not going back there." "We'll just get a motel." "MATTHEW:" "You can stay here." "Thank you." "Come on." "I appreciate everything you've done, David." "Thank you." "Get some sleep." "Sure." "See you." "(DOOR CREAKING)" "(HEART BEATING)" "(GASPING)" "(MOANING)" "(GASPING)" "(MOANING)" "(GRUNTING)" "(SNORTING)" "(GASPING)" "NANCY.' Matthew!" "Matthew!" "Matthew!" "Matthew!" "Matthew!" "Matthew!" "Matthew!" "Matthew, they're growing." "They're all around." "(SHRIEKING)" "Matthew!" "Wake the others!" "NANCY:" "Elizabeth, wake up!" "They're growing out of these pods." "I'll get the police." "Elizabeth, wake up!" "They get you when you sleep." "Sit up!" "Elizabeth." "Elizabeth, would you wake up?" "MAN:" "Hello." "Police." "Officer, I would like to report four bodies in my back yard." "Are you all right?" "WOMAN:" "Wait right there, Mr. Bennell." "How do you know my name?" "Hang up, Matthew." "I didn't tell you my name!" "JACK:" "Hang up." "I didn't tell them my name!" "They're all a part of it." "They're all pods, all of them." "JACK:" "Who are you calling?" "Washington." "What?" "The CIA?" "The FBI?" "They're all pods already." "I've got a friend in the Justice Department." "I know his home number." "I can dial direct and I can avoid the San Francisco operator." "JACK:" "What are you gonna tell him?" "Oh, my God!" "They grow out of those pods!" "They cut our power." "(TIRES SCREECHING)" "Matthew, they're barricading the street." "No." "OPERATOR:" "What number are you calling from, please?" "Operator, I was dialing direct!" "I'll try the number for you, Mr. Bennell." "They're coming up here!" "Hang up, Matthew!" "Matthew, do you have a gun?" "No." "What are we gonna do?" "Go out the back door." "Hurry up!" "Jack!" "(RINGING)" "MATTHEVV:" "Around that way, under the stairs." "Go on." "I'll catch up with you." "(SHRIEKING)" "Go on!" "Keep on running!" "Don't stop!" "MATTHEW:" "Go On!" "(SHRIEKING)" "This way!" "Follow me!" "(SHRIEKING)" "(SHRIEKING)" "We're being cornered!" "NANCY:" "Jack." "Jesus!" "Get down!" "Matthew, keep them here, and I'll come back with help." "Jack." "NANCY:" "Jack." "No,no,no." "No, Jack!" "Jack!" "NANCY:" "Jack!" "Here I am, you pod bastard!" "Hey,pods!" "Come and get me, you scum!" "(POLICE RADIO CHATTERING)" "MAN ON POLICE RADIO:" "Do you read us on the ground?" "Suspects escaping." "Suspects escaping." "(SHRIEKING)" "MAN 1:" "Showtime!" "WOMAN:" "Yes, sir." "You're walking the right way." "Right here, we got totally nude girls live on stage." "MAN 2:" "The world-famous Big Al's." "It's all going on right here, sir." "It's all live, it's all naked, sir." "Guaranteed action here!" "This is it." "Guaranteed to make you feel like a new man." "This is the one." "This is it." "Come on back here!" "Come on back here!" "You hear me?" "Come on back here!" "This is it!" "Got the male and female love act here tonight, folks." "Six different acts." "No cover charge." "MAN 3:" "This is the best naked action!" "Here they are!" "Where to?" "The airport." "6-10 proceeding south to airport, carrying two passengers, type H." "Repeat, type H." "Some night, eh?" "Yeah." "Where exactly are you heading?" "I said the airport." "I mean, which airline?" "United." "You got business out of town?" "No, we're not leaving." "Meeting someone coming in from Boston." "(POLICE SIREN BLARING)" "What is it?" "What's going on?" "Oh, nothing." "(MAN YELLING)" "Both of them." "Harry, pooch!" "Wake up!" "ELIZABETH:" "Look, there's a pod!" "(DOOR OPENING)" "(MAN CHATTERING ON LOUDSPEAKER)" "(TRUCK ENGINES)" "(SIRENS)" "MAN ON LOUDSPEAKER:" "All those with families in Berkeley, Oakland..." "Unit 7, Special Assistance." "Could we have you over by the Health Department?" "Marin City, please." "All with Marin City families..." "ELIZABETH:" "Look at them, right out in the open." "That's how they do it." "That's how they spread it." "All those people are changed." "Unit 7, Special Assistance." "Could we have you over by the Health Department immediately?" "Matthew, we'll never be able to stop them!" "Yes, we will." "We can't!" "Look, they control the whole oity." "We'll find a way somehow." "Oh, Matthew, I can't go on." "I want to go to sleep." "I can't stay awake anymore." "You have to." "You have to stay awake." "(PHONE RINGING)" "Yeah." "Boccardo's pills." "He eats these like candy, or used to." "Take some." "What are they?" "Speed." "It'll keep us awake." "How many are you supposed to take?" "It says take one." "Take five." "(PHONE RINGING)" "They know we're here." "Jack, my God!" "No." "It would've been a lot easier if we'd just gone to sleep last night." "David, no!" "My God, no!" "No!" "Matthew!" "Don't touch her!" "David, don't let them touch her!" "David, don't let them touch her!" "Don't let them touch her!" "MATTHEW:" "What are you going to do?" "Please, listen to reason." "We'll leave the city!" "Please, Geoffrey." "Please, let us go." "We won't do anything!" "(SOBBING) Let us leave the city." "You don't have to leave the city." "Nothing changes." "You can have the same life, the same clothes, the same car." "But what happens to us?" "You'll be born again into an untroubled world free of anxiety, fear, hate." "Wait!" "David, you're killing us!" "That's not true." "David's right." "Your minds and memories will be totally absorbed." "Everything remains intact." "You've never agreed with him in your life before!" "What are you talking about?" "What are you..." "David, you're killing me." "David." "David!" "What is this supposed to do?" "Just a mild sedative to help you sleep." "I hate you." "DAVID:" "We don't hate you." "There's no need for hate, now, or love." "I love you, Matthew." "There are people who will fight you, David." "ELIZABETH:" "They'll stop you." "In an hour, you won't want them to." "(MAN CHATTERING ON RADIO)" "Don't be trapped by old concepts." "Matthew, you're evolving into a new life form." "Come and watch." "We came here from a dying world." "We drift through the universe from planet to planet, pushed on by the solar winds." "We adapt, and we survive." "The function of life is survival." "(GROANING)" "MATTHEW:" "Open the freezer." "Quick!" "This door?" "Yes." "Shut the door!" "How are we gonna get out of here?" "Through the door." "Come on." "(SHRIEKS)" "What's that?" "I've lost Jack." "We got separated." "Oh, Nancy." "Elizabeth." "I don't know where he is." "I've looked everywhere." "Have you seen him?" "Nancy, they've got this building surrounded." "How did you get in here?" "I've been wandering among them for hours." "They can be fooled." "H ow?" "Don't show any emotions." "Hide your feelings." "And when you sleep?" "We'll watch over each other." "Okay." "Let's find Jack." "We're going to beat them." "Okay?" "Okay- Okay" "Hey, the lines are over there." "MAN ON RADIO:" "XB-25." "XB-25." "Station 5, come in." "Yes, Station 5." "Proceeding as per Plan B." "Awaiting Kibner unit." "Station 5, come in." "XB-25." "In front of the Health Department." "Request instructions." "Please keep moving right along." "Sausalito only, please." "Ask if you have a question." "MAN ON PA:" "The yellow zone is for loading and unloading only." "If you have other business, stay clear of the yellow." "Stay clear of the yellow unless you're loading or unloading." "(GROWLING)" "(ELIZABETH SCREAMS)" "(SQUEALING)" "Elizabeth." "(SCREAMING)" "(GRUNTS)" "(SQUEALING)" "MAN ON PA:" "Get them!" "Get them!" "Get them!" "Come on." "Get up." "MATTHEW:" "Oh, God!" "MATTHEW'." "See Khem'?" "This is where they grow them." "This is where they cultivate them." "ELIZABETH:" "It's enormous." "ELIZABETH:" "What are we gonna do?" "There are so many." "MATTHEW:" "We've got to figure out a way of stopping them." "(EXCLAIMING IN PAIN)" "MATTHEW:" "Can you walk?" "I'll try." "MATTHEW:" "Here." "Hold on to me." "Try and walk." "Oh, God." "You all right?" "(ELIZABETH CRYING)" "A factory." "They're growing them." "Elizabeth." "Elizabeth, I love you." "I love you." "I love you." "Come on." "(SOBBING) Oh, I can't." "I can't." "(BA GPIPES PLAYING AMAZING G RACE)" "Music." "MATTHEW:" "Ships." "Ships." "Ships." "Ships." "We can get away!" "I'll go down there." "I'll be right back." "Stay here." "Stay here." "(SHIP HORN BLARING)" "(SHIP HORN BLARING)" "(RADIO TUNING)" "(MUSIC STOPS)" "MATTHEW:" "Oh, God!" "RADIO ANNOUNCER:" "Mostly fair Saturday night and Sunday." "There will be a cooling trend with improved visibility 3 miles off the coast." "Nighttime lows in the low 50s tonight and in the 40s Saturday night." "Light winds becoming northwesterly, 10 to 20 miles per hour." "(WHISPERING) Elizabeth." "Elizabeth." "No." "No." "Wake up!" "Wake up!" "Wake up!" "Wake up!" "Elizabeth, I love you." "The boat's there, Elizabeth." "The boat's there." "It's gonna take us away." "(STRETCHING)" "(SQUISHING)" "(WHIMPERING)" "(STAMMERING IN TERROR)" "(GASPS) Matthew." "There's nothing to be afraid of." "They were right." "It's painless." "It's good." "Come." "Sleep." "Matthew." "Matthew." "Matthew!" "(AIR PUMPING MECHANICALLY)" "(ALARM BLARING)" "(SQUEALING)" "(SHRIEKING)" "(SHOUTING)" "MAN 1:" "He must be around here somewhere." "Let's all go this way!" "MAN 1:" "He must be around here somewhere." "He went over here, I think." "MAN 1:" "We'll get him." "MAN 2:" "We'll get him." "MAN 2:" "He can't stay awake forever." "MAN ON PA:" "All those meeting incoming school buses from Humboldt and Jackson County, please report to the Selig Auditorium." "A schedule of incoming flights is posted by the information booth." "All those with relatives in Bedford, Eugene, Portland, Seattle, Vancouver, report to City Hall." "BOY:" "Why do we have to take our nap now, Mrs. Finley?" "I don't want to take a nap." "I'm not tired." "Please pay attention to the following cities." "Santa Cruz, Santa Barbara, the greater Los Angeles areas." "(EQUIPMENT WHIRRING) Trucks and buses will be leaving at 3:25, 4:25, 5:25." "Sector 5 city employees, Code 7." "Repeat, Code 7." "Meeting all incoming flights," "SFO, LAX, JFK, ORD, SAA, ETI..." "(WHIRRING SLOWLY STOPS)" "NANCY:" "Matthew?" "Matthew?" "(SHRIEKING)" "(SCREAMING) Oh, no!" "No!" "No!"