0:00:18 > 0:00:23Chris, please, we'll get help soon. We're coming to the main road.
0:00:23 > 0:00:28Chris, try to hold on. It's a burn, we'll get it fixed.
0:00:29 > 0:00:32Chris, watch it! Chris!
0:00:32 > 0:00:34Chris, you'll kill us!
0:00:39 > 0:00:42Chris! Chris!
0:00:42 > 0:00:46What are you playing at? Are you trying to commit suicide?
0:00:46 > 0:00:51- He's delirious. I couldn't hold the car. Is he OK?- Probably just stunned.
0:00:51 > 0:00:57- What happened to his face? - He was burnt.- When did this happen? - About an hour ago.
0:00:57 > 0:01:02- Better have that looked at. - I want to show these to the doctor.
0:01:02 > 0:01:07- Are these what burnt him?- Yes, we were on our way to Winnerden Flats.
0:01:07 > 0:01:14- The government must have pulled the village down. We turned round, then heard a noise like bawling.- Bawling?
0:01:14 > 0:01:21- Chris went to look, then I found him like this.- These stones couldn't burn anybody.- They burnt him!- Ugh!
0:01:21 > 0:01:25- Chris, darling!- Let's get this back on the road. You take the wheel.
0:01:25 > 0:01:27Come on, push.
0:01:30 > 0:01:32Chris!
0:01:40 > 0:01:45- Probably suffering from shock. - This is how he was in the car.
0:01:45 > 0:01:51- Better get you two into my car. - No, I can manage. Just help him into the car.
0:02:59 > 0:03:02FAINT ELECTRONIC BUZZ
0:03:02 > 0:03:06There are scores of them coming down. What are they? Meteorites?
0:03:06 > 0:03:13- Meteorites give a strong trace as soon as they strike the atmosphere. These are different.- What are they?
0:03:13 > 0:03:17Whatever they are, they're coming in low and slow.
0:03:17 > 0:03:22- Still holding yours?- As soon as one lot fades, there are more.
0:03:22 > 0:03:27- The traces are getting fainter. Yours too?- Yes, mine have gone.
0:03:28 > 0:03:30What do you make of it?
0:03:30 > 0:03:37- That sudden fade-out? Two possibilities. One, the scanner up there.- Do you think that's likely?
0:03:37 > 0:03:44- We've modified it and reset it so much, it's probably a bit liverish. Spots before the eyes.- The other?
0:03:44 > 0:03:50If those things were real, we lost them because they reached the ground.
0:03:51 > 0:03:56- How far do you make it?- 90 to 100 miles north of here, land or sea.
0:03:56 > 0:04:00That's pretty rough country - hill, moorland, marsh.
0:04:00 > 0:04:05- We'll reset the scanner two degrees lower and make a circuit.- Check.
0:04:35 > 0:04:39- What's going on here? - Oh, hello, Quatermass.
0:04:39 > 0:04:43- Who reset that scanner? - We were making some tests, sir...
0:04:43 > 0:04:50- The observatory on this base was built for one test only. - We picked up some curious echoes...
0:04:50 > 0:04:56I'm not interested in echoes or a skilled man like Marsh spending half the night on your pet project.
0:04:56 > 0:04:59- That's unfair.- I wanted to stay.
0:04:59 > 0:05:04- In the morning you'll be half-awake. - Have I ever let you down on a job?
0:05:04 > 0:05:08Tomorrow, you may not have a job. None of us may have jobs.
0:05:08 > 0:05:13- Have these stones classified. They may be meteorites.- Yes, sir.
0:05:13 > 0:05:19- I take it you had a difficult day in London?- I'm sorry. I had no right to jump on you like that.
0:05:19 > 0:05:22What happened at the Ministry?
0:05:22 > 0:05:25Moon Project. May it rest in peace!
0:05:25 > 0:05:30- What?- They're giving us no more money.- No more money?
0:05:30 > 0:05:36- Didn't you explain? - Try and justify this to a committee of Whitehall bureaucrats?
0:05:36 > 0:05:42Steel domes where men can live in artificial atmosphere, beings alive in a totally dead world?
0:05:42 > 0:05:4950 rockets to take the components up there, solar mirrors, producer units, pressure domes...
0:05:49 > 0:05:55I didn't go that far, Brand. I just stuck to the current cost. You know what they said?
0:05:55 > 0:06:01"To date, you've spent a lot of money on a rocket that isn't even safe to launch.
0:06:01 > 0:06:04"We have projects of far more importance."
0:06:04 > 0:06:09Isn't it important enough to be the first to build a colony on the moon
0:06:09 > 0:06:13and to get men there against all odds?
0:06:15 > 0:06:20These are for tomorrow. I'm going back to school again in the morning.
0:06:20 > 0:06:22- School?- That's what they told me.
0:06:22 > 0:06:29- Study atomic theory again, find out where I went wrong. Without spending money!- What did you say?
0:06:29 > 0:06:37I felt like saying, "Find another director for your Rocket Group!" If I had any pride, I would have done!
0:06:37 > 0:06:41We only need a few months to assemble a new reactor.
0:06:41 > 0:06:46- Get this off first thing. Tell them I'm coming over.- The Atomic Centre?
0:06:46 > 0:06:51- Telling Harwell that I'm coming back to school.- This is ludicrous.
0:06:51 > 0:06:58Nevertheless, I'm going to do it. I'll play the game their way, anything to keep this together.
0:07:04 > 0:07:07Can you still bear to look at it?
0:07:07 > 0:07:13- The sum total of our achievement up to now - one rocket untried. - We daren't try.- We're not sure.
0:07:13 > 0:07:17- That nuclear motor is as faulty... - We're not sure!
0:07:17 > 0:07:23We know that as soon as that thing left the Earth, we'd be stoking up an atomic bomb.
0:07:23 > 0:07:30- We could send it up without a crew. - You'd never dare bring it back to Earth!- I'll correct that fault.
0:07:30 > 0:07:36I'll send it up and bring it back 100 times! Go get some sleep. I'm going to the rocket base.
0:07:50 > 0:07:53FAINT BUZZING
0:08:03 > 0:08:06TELEPHONE RINGS
0:08:06 > 0:08:08Yes...? Right. Yes, immediately.
0:08:08 > 0:08:15- Jill, get some coffee. Mr Quatermass is coming up.- One?- Make it three. They'll all want some.
0:08:15 > 0:08:21- I'll finish here.- Has the old man checked in?- He's been at the launching base all night.
0:08:21 > 0:08:24I want to see him when he gets back.
0:08:24 > 0:08:31- Could you come to the observatory? - Did you reach Harwell?- Yes. 12.30 OK?- I'd like a coffee.- On its way.
0:08:31 > 0:08:36- It's about that meteorite.- What about it?- It's got a definite shape.
0:08:36 > 0:08:42- Where did you get this?- It fell about 90 miles from here.- We don't have this substance classified.
0:08:42 > 0:08:49- It's symmetric.- And hollow. - Probably some pieces missing. - No, the inside's symmetric too.
0:08:49 > 0:08:53- When did this fall?- Last night. Couple of kids picked it up.
0:08:53 > 0:08:58- Those traces we had on the screen last night.- They were 90 miles away.
0:08:58 > 0:09:05- You plotted them?- They didn't give the same signals as meteorites. - That's the rough area.
0:09:05 > 0:09:11- We lost them, probably as they hit the ground.- Winnerden Flats? The girl said that.- What girl?
0:09:11 > 0:09:16- Marsh, get the car.- Don't you want some sleep?- Get the car.
0:09:16 > 0:09:21- I don't understand.- Nor do I. It's why I want to see Winnerden Flats.
0:09:21 > 0:09:28- And make me a reconstruction of this thing before it hit the atmosphere of the Earth.- Yes, sir.
0:09:33 > 0:09:37If you can't find it on the map, look in the AA book.
0:09:37 > 0:09:41- No, here it is - Winnerden Flats. - Give me the road number.
0:09:41 > 0:09:44You take the Carlisle road.
0:10:09 > 0:10:16- It shouldn't be more than four or five miles.- Do we stay on this road? - Yeah, that's all there is.- Hey!
0:10:16 > 0:10:18What's that?
0:10:18 > 0:10:24- New road.- It's not on the map. Shall we take it?- We've no choice. "Government property" sign?
0:10:24 > 0:10:27Maybe we've struck a rival project.
0:10:34 > 0:10:39There's been a lot of traffic here. Heavy stuff, by the tyre marks.
0:10:39 > 0:10:45- Probably construction trucks. - There's another road and more roadblocks.
0:10:52 > 0:10:56Well, that's funny - to have a road leading to nowhere!
0:10:56 > 0:11:01- Wait. Don't walk on that stuff. - What?- It might be mined, anything.
0:11:01 > 0:11:05- We'll go back and try the right fork.- Sure.
0:11:37 > 0:11:39What happened, sir? Is anything...?
0:11:39 > 0:11:42Oh, no!
0:11:45 > 0:11:49- The Moon Project. - It's unbelievable.
0:11:49 > 0:11:56- We're wrong. We must be. - But those domes...- Coincidence of shapes. Must be an explanation.
0:11:56 > 0:11:58But in so many details!
0:11:59 > 0:12:02What's all this debris?
0:12:02 > 0:12:06Do you think this could be the village that disappeared?
0:12:06 > 0:12:13- Winnerden Flats? Whatever it was, it's been flattened. - Hey, look on the ground!
0:12:13 > 0:12:17Look everywhere, they're all around us! Pieces of meteorite!
0:12:17 > 0:12:22They're the same. They're exactly the same as the one we've got.
0:12:22 > 0:12:28- Some have been here for months. They're crumbling. - This one's recently broken.
0:12:28 > 0:12:30SIREN WAILS
0:12:30 > 0:12:37- I wonder if that's meant for us? We'd better go and explain ourselves.- Look at this, sir!
0:12:37 > 0:12:41I think this is a whole one. Yes, it is.
0:12:41 > 0:12:46- It's the same odd shape as the other. It isn't even cracked.- What is it?
0:12:46 > 0:12:50- That's funny. I thought I felt a sort of...- Put it down!
0:12:50 > 0:12:53A sort of vibration. COUGHS
0:12:53 > 0:12:58Marsh, there was something on your face! Are you all right? Let me see.
0:12:58 > 0:13:04For a moment, I saw something that looked like a big, black bubble.
0:13:06 > 0:13:08Marsh!
0:13:08 > 0:13:10SIREN WAILS LOUDLY
0:13:21 > 0:13:26You've had a lungful of gas. Try and stand up. Here, lean on me!
0:13:26 > 0:13:29COUGHING
0:13:29 > 0:13:32HORN BLARES
0:13:37 > 0:13:39HORN BLARES AGAIN
0:13:54 > 0:13:59This man is sick. If you'll just help me get him back to the car...
0:13:59 > 0:14:06He's in urgent need of medical attention. He was examining something right there.
0:14:06 > 0:14:11Do you know what these things are, what they do to...?
0:14:18 > 0:14:21Who are you?
0:14:21 > 0:14:25Here, what's this? What is this...place?
0:14:25 > 0:14:29Where are you taking him? I've got to go with him.
0:14:56 > 0:14:59Go. Go now.
0:15:36 > 0:15:38Excuse me.
0:15:39 > 0:15:46- Where can I find the police? - Police?- This is urgent. Where is the nearest police station?
0:15:46 > 0:15:50- At Frawley, 15 miles further on. - There are no police here?
0:15:50 > 0:15:57- The camp committee do everything here.- Where are they?- Community centre. First on the left.- Thanks.
0:16:10 > 0:16:15- Signed, etcetera, etcetera. - "Tea and sandwiches..."- Yes?
0:16:15 > 0:16:21- Is this the camp committee?- I'm the secretary.- They tell me you have no police here.- We don't need them.
0:16:21 > 0:16:26- We're a law-abiding community.- Yes, Mr Dawson.- We handle any problems.
0:16:26 > 0:16:30- What's that place just over the hill?- Over the hill?
0:16:30 > 0:16:37That factory, plant, about five miles from here, with the big steel domes? What's its purpose?
0:16:37 > 0:16:43- That's a lot of questions you're asking.- Perfectly simple questions. - Are they?
0:16:43 > 0:16:50Our people are working on this project. They're building it and getting good money.
0:16:50 > 0:16:55- In return, we're asked to keep our mouths shut.- I drove near that place.
0:16:55 > 0:17:01- Why? Didn't you see the notices? - My companion was affected... He was taken ill.
0:17:01 > 0:17:06- The guards from that plant arrested him.- You got into trouble with them?
0:17:06 > 0:17:10- One of them took a swipe at me. - You shouldn't have been there.
0:17:10 > 0:17:15- My friend may need skilled help. - He'll get that in the plant.
0:17:15 > 0:17:19- They've got everything there. - Let's make sure.
0:17:19 > 0:17:24- Get me Frawley police station.- That won't do you no good.- We'll find out.
0:17:24 > 0:17:30- Talk to them if you like. But not from here.- The police couldn't do anything.- They wouldn't touch it.
0:17:30 > 0:17:33Is that so?
0:17:35 > 0:17:39- The guards... - He shouldn't have gone.
0:17:39 > 0:17:41TELEPHONE RINGS
0:17:41 > 0:17:44Hello?
0:17:44 > 0:17:46No, sorry. It was a mistake.
0:17:52 > 0:17:59- Good evening. This is an unfortunate business.- The sergeant told you what happened?- He did.
0:17:59 > 0:18:05Your friend was arrested by security guards for trespassing, so they were within their rights.
0:18:05 > 0:18:09You flatly refuse to do anything about this?
0:18:09 > 0:18:14You ran into an experimental project in a place you've no right to be.
0:18:14 > 0:18:21- What is that place?- No idea. It's top secret and we've strict orders. - From whom?- Whitehall.
0:18:21 > 0:18:27- And nothing is to be done about what happened?- Are you bringing charges for assault?
0:18:27 > 0:18:34- If that'll get some action.- I'll send a report to the Chief Constable. - Forget it. I'll short-cut that!
0:18:46 > 0:18:50- Mr Quatermass, Harwell called... - Where's Dr Brand?
0:18:50 > 0:18:55- In the observatory. But there are several notes for you...- Tomorrow.
0:18:55 > 0:18:59- Brand!- There's been more traces about an hour ago.
0:18:59 > 0:19:05- Few and faint, but in the same direction.- Organise all the help you'll need, fix a 24-hour guard.
0:19:05 > 0:19:08- What happened?- Do it now!
0:19:09 > 0:19:16- Get Michaels and Peterson over here. - They'll have gone by now.- Ring their quarters. This is urgent.
0:19:16 > 0:19:23We found the place those things have been falling. The whole area is littered with fragments of them.
0:19:23 > 0:19:28- They look like meteorites, but they're not.- What are they?
0:19:28 > 0:19:32They're some form of container. Marsh found a whole one.
0:19:32 > 0:19:37- When he picked it up, it burst in his face.- What was inside?
0:19:37 > 0:19:39Ammonia gas and something else.
0:19:39 > 0:19:42Something alive.
0:19:42 > 0:19:46Just for a second, I saw it on his face, then it was gone.
0:19:46 > 0:19:51But the mark was there. Then the guards came and took him away.
0:19:51 > 0:19:56- What guards?- Sorry, I'm not making much sense.- Where is this place?
0:19:56 > 0:20:01It was Winnerden Flats. And there's something else there, Brand.
0:20:03 > 0:20:07- The Moon Project.- The Moon Project? Wait a minute...
0:20:07 > 0:20:10It's there in all its essentials,
0:20:10 > 0:20:15a colony of steel pressure domes, hundreds of feet high. I saw it.
0:20:15 > 0:20:18- Marsh saw it.- Where is Marsh?
0:20:18 > 0:20:22He's...in that place. The guards took him there.
0:20:23 > 0:20:27And that mark, it was on their faces too.
0:20:27 > 0:20:31- What did you do?- I went to the police.- And?- The police won't act.
0:20:31 > 0:20:37- You told them all this?- I told them all they were capable of believing.
0:20:37 > 0:20:41Tomorrow I'll go to London, take it to the top level.
0:20:41 > 0:20:45- There's probably some simple explanation.- I hope that's it.
0:20:45 > 0:20:50Because if it isn't, I think we're on the verge of something so ugly...
0:20:50 > 0:20:55- Yes?- Mr Peterson and Mr Michaels are coming over.- Thanks, Kelly.
0:20:55 > 0:21:02- Do you want me to stay too?- No. Just organise some more coffee before you leave.- Of course.
0:21:03 > 0:21:05It isn't credible.
0:21:05 > 0:21:08Brand, it just isn't credible!
0:21:09 > 0:21:14Better handle it gently till the plaster hardens, sir.
0:21:14 > 0:21:18- How much of this is guesswork? - Hardly any, sir.
0:21:18 > 0:21:21It's worked out from mineral stresses.
0:21:21 > 0:21:24- Brand!- Coming.
0:21:24 > 0:21:31- I want half a dozen more models for wind tunnel tests. Have them made as soon as you can.- Yes, sir.
0:21:31 > 0:21:33- Original shape.- Aerodynamics.
0:21:33 > 0:21:39If an object like that approached the Earth's atmosphere at the correct angle,
0:21:39 > 0:21:44it might lose speed and land slowly. Same principle as rocket descent.
0:21:44 > 0:21:47- It implies a great deal.- Knowledge.
0:21:47 > 0:21:49Mathematics, precise planning.
0:21:49 > 0:21:51Intelligence.
0:21:51 > 0:21:54Dr Brand!
0:21:56 > 0:21:58There are more traces coming in.
0:21:58 > 0:22:06I want to try something different. We'll adjust the radio telescope to a new setting for long range.
0:22:06 > 0:22:11- That means resetting half the circuits.- I'll work them out now.
0:22:46 > 0:22:48HORN TOOTS
0:23:01 > 0:23:03Come and take Raffles away.
0:23:03 > 0:23:08- This is an unexpected pleasure. - Lomax.- They've found them?- Not yet.
0:23:08 > 0:23:15There's still time for good behaviour. Let him ruminate a bit longer. Off you go, Harry.
0:23:15 > 0:23:21- I could sue the police for wrongful arrest!- Good idea. Well, sir, it has been a while since we met.
0:23:21 > 0:23:28- Last time you brought me more trouble than I've known before or since! Cigarette?- No, thank you.
0:23:28 > 0:23:34- I was only saying to the wife the other day...- How much do you know about Winnerden Flats?
0:23:34 > 0:23:41- What's its purpose?- I thought better of you, spoiling a beautiful friendship!- What do you mean?
0:23:41 > 0:23:45- You know Winnerden Flats is top secret.- Secret?
0:23:45 > 0:23:51- You put a label like that on anything and law and order goes out the window?- Look here, sir.
0:23:51 > 0:23:56These are pieces of an object found near Winnerden Flats.
0:24:01 > 0:24:07When the stone broke up, suppose a bit hit Marsh? The mark on his face might have been the cut.
0:24:07 > 0:24:12- It wasn't.- All right, but that place should be harmless enough.
0:24:12 > 0:24:15Then you do know what it is!
0:24:15 > 0:24:19- 'Yes, sir?'- Green Park, 4394, Mr Vincent Broadhead.
0:24:19 > 0:24:26- Who's he?- Member of Parliament. He's been trying to force a public inquiry about Winnerden Flats.
0:24:26 > 0:24:30- Maybe you should talk to him. - Will he tell me what the place is?
0:24:30 > 0:24:37- It's a government project to make synthetic food.- With guards and guns?- It must be worth guarding.
0:24:37 > 0:24:40TELEPHONE RINGS
0:24:41 > 0:24:45Hello...? Mr Broadhead? Inspector Lomax, sir.
0:24:45 > 0:24:52I've someone here you might like to meet. He has curious information about a certain establishment.
0:24:52 > 0:24:56- Are you dependable, sir?- What?! - Quite dependable.
0:24:56 > 0:25:01- In an hour at the House of Commons? - Yeah.- Yes, he'll be there.
0:25:01 > 0:25:05Quatermass. That's right. Not at all, sir.
0:25:05 > 0:25:12- You realise that if anyone else had told me this yarn...- Broadhead? - Broadhead.- Thank you, Inspector.
0:25:19 > 0:25:24All I ask, Mr Broadhead, is to break through this wall of secrecy.
0:25:24 > 0:25:28Me too, Quatermass, but there's a reason for this secrecy.
0:25:28 > 0:25:33Winnerden Flats is the worst blunder there's been with public money.
0:25:33 > 0:25:39- They're trying to cover it up. - Even to the extent of armed guards arresting sick men?- Good point.
0:25:39 > 0:25:46- Do we know it's synthetic food? - We don't know anything. That's what I'm bellyaching about.
0:25:46 > 0:25:53For years, we've known scientists have been working there, but that was just a couple of tin huts.
0:25:53 > 0:25:57Suddenly, they're asking for millions and getting 'em.
0:25:57 > 0:26:04- When did all this start?- Two years ago. Now there's a mad rush to get a production plant built. Insane costs!
0:26:04 > 0:26:08Now they're ready to go into production and beat the world,
0:26:08 > 0:26:15- but they've got to prove that to Vinnie Broadhead because there's something very wrong.- What?
0:26:18 > 0:26:22Take a look out at the Thames. What do you see?
0:26:22 > 0:26:26Boats, barges, tugs, and all of that's missing.
0:26:26 > 0:26:32There's no distribution set up for this synthetic food, no sales organisation.
0:26:32 > 0:26:38- That's what I've found out. - Mr Broadhead, you've got to help me get into that place.
0:26:38 > 0:26:45Help YOU? For months, I've been trying to help myself. A pass only just came through this morning.
0:26:45 > 0:26:52- The Minister chap should be here by now.- You're going inside the plant?- Yes, this afternoon.
0:26:52 > 0:26:59- They may fool the others, but not me.- Others?- Parties going down to inspect it.- People you knew?
0:26:59 > 0:27:03Aye, some of them. They turned up again.
0:27:03 > 0:27:09- Did they say what they'd seen? - No, they wouldn't talk about it. - Isn't that strange?- No.
0:27:09 > 0:27:15They decided to toe the party line and support the project. Just let me get at it!
0:27:15 > 0:27:22- Mr Broadhead?- Yes. Is that my pass? - For the inspection party this afternoon.- Only took three months!
0:27:22 > 0:27:26- May I bring somebody along? Yes, this gentleman here.- Name?
0:27:26 > 0:27:31- Quatermass. - Yes, I think that'll be in order.
0:27:31 > 0:27:35- Just a minute.- I should've brought you along three months ago!
0:27:35 > 0:27:40- The inspection party will assemble at 2pm.- Time for a bite of lunch.
0:27:40 > 0:27:47- It doesn't always take three months. - Coming, Quatermass?- Yes. Thank you. - You've just over an hour.
0:27:47 > 0:27:52And do try to be punctual. We've a very tight schedule ahead of us.
0:28:10 > 0:28:13That's right.
0:28:15 > 0:28:17Thank you.
0:28:28 > 0:28:31SIREN WAILS
0:28:33 > 0:28:36CAR HORN TOOTS
0:28:43 > 0:28:47Are these your guards? They look harmless enough.
0:28:49 > 0:28:52Your passes, please.
0:28:56 > 0:28:58Thank you.
0:28:58 > 0:29:01Nothing very sinister so far.
0:29:41 > 0:29:44HOOTER SOUNDS
0:30:09 > 0:30:11WOLF-WHISTLES
0:30:11 > 0:30:15Certainly nothing abnormal about them.
0:30:21 > 0:30:26I'm gonna take a look in there. Do you wanna come?
0:30:27 > 0:30:31Just a minute. Have you seen the other two men?
0:30:31 > 0:30:37- Last time I saw them, they were back there.- Wait here. I'll find them.
0:30:43 > 0:30:47- What do you want, please? - We're an inspection party.
0:30:47 > 0:30:53- You have no business here. - It's official. They took our passes.- Have you any patients?
0:30:53 > 0:30:59- There is no-one.- We thought a young man was brought in here yesterday. - I'll take a look.
0:31:07 > 0:31:11- Any sign?- No. He was here. He must have been.
0:31:11 > 0:31:18- Yesterday afternoon. His name was Marsh.- No!- What are all these beds for? You're ready for...- Gentlemen!
0:31:18 > 0:31:23Why have you left the inspection party? You mustn't do that.
0:31:23 > 0:31:28- Come now, quickly.- I just wanted to see...- There's no-one. Come, please.
0:31:29 > 0:31:34- I want to know...- Questions will be answered later. Come, please!
0:31:34 > 0:31:39Come on, Quatermass. We want to see the plant, don't we?
0:31:39 > 0:31:44You understand, gentlemen, we must keep strictly according to time.
0:31:44 > 0:31:48- But the plant... - You'll see it all. Everything.
0:31:48 > 0:31:53- Gentlemen... I regret the delay. - Our fault. We took a look round.
0:31:53 > 0:32:00- I've been reading up synthetic food processes.- We start this way. - This is all completely different.
0:32:00 > 0:32:07- You'll be shown everything.- What are those huge domes?- They're for storage.- Of synthetic food?- Correct.
0:32:07 > 0:32:13It matures in those domes. Everything will be answered later. Now, this way. You go first.
0:32:26 > 0:32:30- What runs through these pipes? - The food. Let's proceed.
0:32:30 > 0:32:38- The raw product?- Yes.- It's pumped through these pipes to the domes? - Everything will be answered later.
0:32:43 > 0:32:50Look, that's an inspection door, so you can see the stuff going through. I'd like to take a look at that.
0:32:50 > 0:32:57- Later you will see everything. - Will we see inside a big dome? - That's where you're going now.
0:33:09 > 0:33:12Mind the step.
0:33:14 > 0:33:18This way, please. Right along, will you?
0:33:18 > 0:33:21Quickly.
0:33:21 > 0:33:23Keep moving.
0:33:24 > 0:33:27Oh, dear, it's so deep!
0:33:27 > 0:33:31- We're not inside the dome, are we? - No, this is an air lock.
0:33:31 > 0:33:37- You can't enter the dome, but you'll be taken downstairs. - Down there?- It's quite safe.
0:33:37 > 0:33:42- You go first. I have no head for heights.- What's going on down there?
0:33:42 > 0:33:47It's part of the process. Please don't wait here. We must keep going.
0:33:48 > 0:33:51- Where's the other man? - The other man?
0:33:51 > 0:33:55- Broadhead? - I didn't see him come in.
0:34:00 > 0:34:04Don't worry. He'll be found and everything will be in order.
0:34:04 > 0:34:07Are you sending a search party?
0:34:10 > 0:34:12- What's this?- A safety precaution.
0:34:25 > 0:34:28- Shall we go down?- I don't want to.
0:34:28 > 0:34:30I'm afraid we must.
0:34:35 > 0:34:39- Broadhead! - ECHO:- 'Broadhead! Broadhead!'
0:34:42 > 0:34:45- Broadhead! - ECHO:- 'Broadhead!'
0:34:48 > 0:34:50Broadhead!
0:34:50 > 0:34:55- Broadhead! - ECHO:- 'Broadhead! Broadhead!'
0:34:55 > 0:34:57Aaaaagh! Aaaaagh!
0:35:00 > 0:35:02COUGHING
0:35:37 > 0:35:39Broadhead?
0:35:39 > 0:35:42No, don't touch me!
0:35:48 > 0:35:52- Broadhead!- No, don't touch me! - What happened?
0:35:52 > 0:35:55SPLUTTERS I... I...
0:35:55 > 0:35:58- I...I had to find out. - You were inside?
0:35:58 > 0:36:00I fell.
0:36:00 > 0:36:03- Quatermass!- I'm here.
0:36:03 > 0:36:07I can't see you. Quatermass, it burns!
0:36:07 > 0:36:10This is the food. And it burns!
0:36:10 > 0:36:14- You lie here. I'll go... - No, don't touch me!
0:36:14 > 0:36:16SIREN WAILS
0:36:18 > 0:36:21WHISTLES BLOW
0:36:22 > 0:36:24Broadhead?
0:37:00 > 0:37:03WHISTLES BLOW
0:37:19 > 0:37:21MACHINE-GUN FIRE
0:37:51 > 0:37:54GUNFIRE CONTINUES
0:38:12 > 0:38:14GUNFIRE
0:38:20 > 0:38:22CHURCH BELLS RING
0:38:29 > 0:38:36- Tonight's rota for Mobile Control. Any area calls, put them through to me, Hugh.- Yes, sir.
0:38:37 > 0:38:40Yes...? Yes, I just got them.
0:38:40 > 0:38:45There's 26 in Mobile. That's right. He's here - Inspector Baker.
0:38:45 > 0:38:49- Hi, General.- Good evening, Mr Hall. - Any good charge sheets?
0:38:49 > 0:38:55- Nothing you want to print. - Trade you a drink for anything to fill one and a half columns!
0:38:55 > 0:39:02- How about "reporter held for bribing the police"?- Who's the boss tonight? Come out, whoever you are!
0:39:02 > 0:39:10- Baker!- Hello, Jimmy.- There must be something - arson, mayhem? Just some skulduggery to fill my column?
0:39:10 > 0:39:16- The town's going straight tonight. - Then tell me the story of your life.- Again?
0:39:16 > 0:39:21- Yes?- Is Chief Inspector Lomax here? - Fill in the form and we'll find out.
0:39:21 > 0:39:27- If he's here, he'll see me. My name is Quatermass. - Don't I know your name?- Possibly.
0:39:27 > 0:39:31You're not the criminal type. Jimmy Hall can tell them every time.
0:39:31 > 0:39:36- OK, sir.- The constable will show you up, sir.- Thank you. I know the way.
0:39:39 > 0:39:43Quatermass. Quatermass... Why do I know that name?
0:39:43 > 0:39:48- Lomax, I'm glad you're here. - I'm very nearly not. I...
0:39:48 > 0:39:54- How much power have you got here? - I don't understand.- Can you call emergency action on a large scale?
0:39:54 > 0:40:01- For what?- If I told you what was being carried out at Winnerden Flats is the mass destruction of minds.
0:40:01 > 0:40:07- Look, sir, I'm an ordinary fellow... - I was down there this afternoon with an official inspection party.
0:40:07 > 0:40:11It's almost exactly what I told you. I got out alone.
0:40:11 > 0:40:15- The rest were trapped.- Are you suggesting they were murdered?
0:40:15 > 0:40:20They have been methodically infected with what struck young Marsh.
0:40:20 > 0:40:23- That mark?- Maybe. I don't know yet.
0:40:23 > 0:40:29But they will come back, like hundreds or thousands of others, infected.
0:40:29 > 0:40:35If I'd stayed, I'd not be saying the things I'm saying. I wouldn't be able to.
0:40:38 > 0:40:42- Does Vincent Broadhead think this? - Vincent Broadhead is dead.- Dead?!
0:40:42 > 0:40:48I watched him die a few hours ago in that plant, his whole body covered in corrosive poisoning,
0:40:48 > 0:40:54eaten away. Some of the black slime got on my coat. I had to cut out the spot.
0:40:55 > 0:40:57Don't touch it.
0:40:57 > 0:41:02And how does that story measure up with this one?
0:41:05 > 0:41:09This is a lie. He was with me this afternoon at Winnerden Flats.
0:41:09 > 0:41:13- Where is this story from? - An official government announcement.
0:41:13 > 0:41:21- The minute they knew he was dead. - Are you...?- He was killed by a corrosive compound of ammonia
0:41:21 > 0:41:27- which is what they're manufacturing! - You realise what you're alleging? That a government-sponsored...
0:41:27 > 0:41:31The point is I'm still here to allege it. Go into that plant.
0:41:31 > 0:41:38- You'll get proof.- I can't do that. - Then get your pathologist to analyse that and confirm it!
0:41:38 > 0:41:44- Start an investigation! - On your statements alone?- Talk to the commissioner. Or let me.
0:41:44 > 0:41:46You've got to act!
0:41:47 > 0:41:51- 'Yes, sir?'- Has the commissioner gone?- 'Not yet, sir.'
0:41:51 > 0:41:58- This better be true. That's all I have to say. - I wish to heaven it wasn't.
0:42:00 > 0:42:03Get me Camford 647.
0:42:06 > 0:42:08KNOCK AT DOOR Yes?
0:42:08 > 0:42:11- Inspector Lomax, sir.- Come in.
0:42:11 > 0:42:13I'm sorry to bother you, sir.
0:42:13 > 0:42:19- Something's come up that I'm not too sure how to handle. - Sit down, tell me about it.
0:42:19 > 0:42:27It's difficult to know where to begin. The implications are so far-reaching.
0:42:27 > 0:42:29Yes?
0:42:29 > 0:42:32Well, sir, it concerns...
0:42:37 > 0:42:40It concerns...?
0:42:40 > 0:42:45It concerns...the Allman case, sir. The man we are holding.
0:42:45 > 0:42:52I thought if we turned him loose he might lead us to something, give us a lead to accomplices.
0:42:52 > 0:42:56I wondered if you had any views on the subject, sir.
0:42:56 > 0:43:00The decision is yours, Lomax. You're conversant with the case.
0:43:00 > 0:43:06- Of course, sir. I'm sorry. I've made a mistake, worrying you at this hour.- It's all right.
0:43:06 > 0:43:08- Good night, sir.- Good night.
0:43:17 > 0:43:20- TELEPHONE RINGS - Yes?
0:43:20 > 0:43:23Brand? This is Quatermass. I'm at Scotland Yard.
0:43:23 > 0:43:29I've been trying to find you all evening. The source is in a freak orbit on the dark side of the Earth,
0:43:29 > 0:43:36in a permanent state of eclipse. It must be something like an asteroid, about 200 yards across.
0:43:36 > 0:43:40Take full records until I get there. ..Yes, I'm trying to!
0:43:43 > 0:43:49- They've found the source of those things.- Quatermass, the mark you saw on Marsh.
0:43:49 > 0:43:55- Describe it. Quick, tell me. - A reddish mark as if something had been pressed into the skin.
0:43:55 > 0:43:59- It left a jagged V. - How big?- About this big. Why?
0:43:59 > 0:44:01I've just seen it.
0:44:02 > 0:44:07Here? In this building? No... Even here.
0:44:07 > 0:44:12- I'm trying to tell myself it's nothing.- I wasn't wrong last time.
0:44:17 > 0:44:23- Hi, General!- Jimmy, what do you want? - One and a half columns.- Not now. - Quatermass! The rocket man!
0:44:23 > 0:44:29- Elephant Hall remembered. - Will you leave us alone, please? - I'll have you escorted out.
0:44:29 > 0:44:34- Who's that? - A reporter. He's harmless enough.
0:44:34 > 0:44:40Quatermass! If you could make it public, put it before the whole country, all at once?
0:44:40 > 0:44:42- The press?- It's worth trying.
0:44:42 > 0:44:49- Jimmy!- He's in no condition to... - Drunk, he's clever. Sober, brilliant.- I was going...
0:44:49 > 0:44:55- You're going to get the biggest story of your life. Do you have a car?- Where are we going?- Your base.
0:44:55 > 0:44:57Base? Don't push...
0:44:59 > 0:45:04See it there? That point of light at the intersection. Radio waves being reflected.
0:45:04 > 0:45:09- Is it coming towards us?- No, it's just circling.- There's life on it?
0:45:09 > 0:45:15Not life as we know it. They probably have an artificial atmosphere - ammonia, methane.
0:45:15 > 0:45:22- Poison gases.- It comes from where that exists as atmosphere. Outer planets, maybe a moon of Saturn.
0:45:22 > 0:45:26- Can I have a Scotch in this? - It's growing weaker.
0:45:26 > 0:45:33I think it's a multiple organism, a thousand billion intelligences with one single consciousness.
0:45:33 > 0:45:39- Look, I'm a policeman. - Imagine an organism to which oxygen is not an essential of life,
0:45:39 > 0:45:46but a destroyer. An organism which is unable to exist in our atmosphere for more than 3 or 4 seconds.
0:45:46 > 0:45:51Safe only in a shell, like this, sealed in with a mixture of gases -
0:45:51 > 0:45:56- methane, maybe even hydrogen. - And when it breaks out?- It dies.
0:45:56 > 0:46:02Unless its energy is expended on an object that can exist in our atmosphere. A human target.
0:46:02 > 0:46:08- What happens to the human target? - An immediate invasion of his entire nervous system.
0:46:08 > 0:46:13Something is implanted, an instinct, a compulsion to act for them.
0:46:13 > 0:46:17And you expect me to tell my editor that?
0:46:17 > 0:46:21- But Hall, you must. There's no time to lose.- Don't rush me, General.
0:46:21 > 0:46:28You've given me a lot of science talk and I'm not very good at it. Somebody swiped your Moon project.
0:46:28 > 0:46:34It never was all mine. This is standard procedure for adapting living beings on an alien planet.
0:46:34 > 0:46:38But if you're right, what's going to happen?
0:46:38 > 0:46:42I hesitate to guess. First, a few of these came here.
0:46:42 > 0:46:46They scattered and then expended themselves to a purpose.
0:46:46 > 0:46:51A year ago, phase number two. The concentrated attack.
0:46:51 > 0:46:57- On Winnerden Flats. - An out-of-the-way village. One night that area was taken.
0:46:57 > 0:47:02- Now they've got a colony. - A year and nobody said anything?
0:47:02 > 0:47:09- Who knows how many infected people they've got in high places?- Can you be sure of your staff?- I think so.
0:47:09 > 0:47:15The next move is Hall's. We've got to break this conspiracy of silence and secret orders.
0:47:15 > 0:47:19You've got to write this, man. Now! Look, get all this down.
0:47:19 > 0:47:25- I'll check it with you, then drive you into London. - How far is this plant from here?
0:47:25 > 0:47:32- About 90 miles.- I want to see it. - Time is desperate!- The people that work there are normal?- At the moment.
0:47:32 > 0:47:35- I want to talk to them. - Jimmy...- Relax, General.
0:47:35 > 0:47:40We'll make the first edition. I want to talk to numbskulls.
0:47:40 > 0:47:46- All right, we'll go now.- You, too? Isn't that a risk?- The biggest risk is the story doesn't get in at all.
0:47:46 > 0:47:51- I need to make an alternative plan in case of emergency.- Need any help?
0:47:51 > 0:47:56I don't think we should share that knowledge. I'll see you outside.
0:47:57 > 0:48:00Brand...double security.
0:48:00 > 0:48:07- All gates, rocket firing base - double guard on all points. Then I want to talk to you.- Right.
0:48:08 > 0:48:12- Get the laboratory.- I'm making a list of people I know I can trust.
0:48:12 > 0:48:19- We'll need every one of them. - On the line.- Thank you. This is Quatermass. How's that analysis?
0:48:19 > 0:48:26Just finishing, sir. It's the most complex substance. I've never seen anything like it.
0:48:26 > 0:48:30It's basically an ammonia corrosive. Highly concentrated.
0:48:30 > 0:48:34Yes? Just how poisonous?
0:48:35 > 0:48:38I see. Right.
0:48:38 > 0:48:40Full report as soon as you can.
0:48:41 > 0:48:46- Go see if the car is there. - It is there.- Go and see.
0:48:46 > 0:48:47Yes.
0:48:50 > 0:48:52Well?
0:48:53 > 0:48:56That black slime, it's deadly.
0:48:56 > 0:49:02- To every living thing on Earth. - So it isn't synthetic food? - I think it is.
0:49:02 > 0:49:04Food for whatever is in those domes.
0:49:04 > 0:49:07Domes two hundred feet high!
0:49:12 > 0:49:14CEILIDH MUSIC
0:49:18 > 0:49:22Hello. Top of the evening. We'll have beers to start with.
0:49:22 > 0:49:26Oh, give it to them. I'm doing the expensive orders.
0:49:28 > 0:49:33Here you are. Whisky, full measure. And here's a shandy.
0:49:33 > 0:49:38- That's not Scotch!- On St Patrick's Night? Drink Irish and like it.
0:49:39 > 0:49:42Ooh, what's he doing?
0:49:42 > 0:49:46That's meant to be a jig. Now hold this.
0:49:46 > 0:49:49Now watch him.
0:50:01 > 0:50:07I say this one is the winner! < That wasn't a jig! It was a lot better than yours!
0:50:13 > 0:50:15BIG BAND MUSIC
0:50:16 > 0:50:20- Hi, Marilyn.- Hi, yourself.
0:50:20 > 0:50:24- Does everybody here work at the plant?- Who wants to know?
0:50:24 > 0:50:29- Thanks for helping(!)- I haven't got two pair of hands.- Two Pimms.
0:50:29 > 0:50:33- What are the chances of a job there? - A job?- Sure. I want work.
0:50:33 > 0:50:40- Boy, you must have come here to plant the marshes. It's a real gay place(!)- Be careful, Hall.
0:50:40 > 0:50:43I'll order drinks.
0:50:51 > 0:50:56- Someone seems to know you.- We've met before. The camp secretary.
0:50:56 > 0:51:00What's working conditions like? At the plant?
0:51:00 > 0:51:04- Couldn't be better. Know what they pay unskilled labour?- Shut up!
0:51:04 > 0:51:08- If you want a job, see the shop steward.- Good evening.
0:51:08 > 0:51:11He's asking about work at the plant.
0:51:11 > 0:51:17- Are you three together?- Yes. - And you're looking for heavy construction work?
0:51:17 > 0:51:23- There's no jobs! Even we're on short time now.- Hold your tongue! - We'll all be out of a job soon.
0:51:23 > 0:51:29- Nobody's said that! - I suppose the zombies aren't treading on our heels to get out?
0:51:29 > 0:51:32Zombies? It's a nickname.
0:51:32 > 0:51:36- For those perishers? We hate their guts.- Gorman!
0:51:36 > 0:51:40- Paddy, you're drunk!- Treating us like dirt, never talking to us!
0:51:40 > 0:51:45- They run the plant?- Sure they do. - And operate the domes?- Hall!
0:51:45 > 0:51:49What's inside those domes, Paddy? You know too much.
0:51:49 > 0:51:53- Who are you?- I know him - he got into trouble with the guards.
0:51:53 > 0:51:57- We don't want guard trouble here. Out!- Wait! Listen to me!
0:51:57 > 0:52:02- Tell them.- It's useless. - We've got to try. Quiet, please!
0:52:02 > 0:52:06Quiet, everyone! Listen! This is vitally important.
0:52:08 > 0:52:12- Please, may I have your attention? - Who are you? >
0:52:12 > 0:52:16I'm a police officer. Turn that music off!
0:52:16 > 0:52:20The gentleman over there is a scientist. Listen to what he says.
0:52:20 > 0:52:27- If he's right, you're in danger. All of you.- Danger? What danger? Why are the police here?
0:52:27 > 0:52:34- It's that place you're building. - He's been spying on the plant. He told me himself. Ask him!
0:52:34 > 0:52:37You think it's producing human food. It's not.
0:52:37 > 0:52:43- How does he know? - It's producing deadly poison, deadly to every earthly creature!
0:52:43 > 0:52:49- Who's making poison?- Please. I can prove everything I'm saying. - You better!
0:52:49 > 0:52:52He's a liar! Making poison, he says!
0:52:52 > 0:52:54Throw them out!
0:53:00 > 0:53:04Stop it! Paddy! There will only be trouble!
0:53:04 > 0:53:06Get out before there's more trouble.
0:53:06 > 0:53:08Aaaieee!
0:53:08 > 0:53:12All right. Keep back, everybody! Take her down there.
0:53:12 > 0:53:17It's all right. Keep back, please. Nothing to be alarmed about.
0:53:18 > 0:53:22It came through the roof. What was it?
0:53:22 > 0:53:27- There it is.- Keep back! It may be dangerous.- It's just an overshot.
0:53:27 > 0:53:31- How is she, Mac? - It was just fright.
0:53:31 > 0:53:35- I'll be all right.- Take this.
0:53:35 > 0:53:39- It's the first one to fall this far away.- An overshot?
0:53:39 > 0:53:43- Stone things. They fall outside the plant.- What are they?
0:53:43 > 0:53:48- Something to do with the process. Look at the mess.- Stay back!
0:53:48 > 0:53:53- We've got to get everyone out of here, quick.- Everybody outside.
0:53:53 > 0:53:57I'm sorry to interrupt the festivities. Take her outside.
0:53:57 > 0:54:01Come along, please, quickly. Outside.
0:54:01 > 0:54:05Please, you must clear this hall. It's urgent. Come on now.
0:54:05 > 0:54:09- Away you go.- What's all the fuss? It's not a bomb.
0:54:09 > 0:54:14These things are not harmless. Along you go. Please.
0:54:14 > 0:54:17Quatermass...
0:54:17 > 0:54:20Oh, here it is. It's still warm.
0:54:20 > 0:54:24Put it down. As slowly as you can.
0:54:24 > 0:54:31- It's only an overshot, like Paddy said.- On the floor. Put it on the floor.
0:54:31 > 0:54:33Gently.
0:54:35 > 0:54:37- Ah!- Sheila!
0:54:42 > 0:54:45Look - her neck!
0:54:45 > 0:54:47What is it? Sheila!
0:54:47 > 0:54:50- Can we do anything?- Too late.
0:54:50 > 0:54:55- You know about this. Do something! - Call a doctor. Lomax!
0:54:55 > 0:54:57Get a blanket!
0:54:57 > 0:55:01The fact it landed so far from the plant might indicate... Come on.
0:55:01 > 0:55:04Over here, quickly!
0:55:06 > 0:55:10Sheila! That thing on her neck, you all seen it, didn't you?
0:55:11 > 0:55:13Listen.
0:55:13 > 0:55:19- There's a sort of whistling. - They're coming down by the hundreds. Get Hall.
0:55:19 > 0:55:25- This is urgent, priority.- Jimmy, quick!- In a minute. News Desk!
0:55:25 > 0:55:33- It's a mass dropping all right. Where's Hall?- Phoning his story. - I told him not to!- Quatermass!
0:55:53 > 0:55:58These things are coming from outside the Earth. Just take this story!
0:55:58 > 0:55:59Hold it.
0:56:20 > 0:56:24What did this? Tell us and try to save her!
0:56:24 > 0:56:28- Do you hear what I say? - Steady, Paddy.
0:56:28 > 0:56:34Are you there? They arrive in stone containers from a meteorite. They've been coming for 18 months.
0:56:34 > 0:56:37- Why doesn't he come out?- Lie low!
0:56:37 > 0:56:43Contact with these things produces a violent infection, a sting. I've just seen it happen.
0:56:43 > 0:56:47Stay on the line. I've been spotted.
0:56:50 > 0:56:53Get this quickly. It's widespread...
0:57:03 > 0:57:05What can you do now?
0:57:07 > 0:57:10- Where to? London?- No, the plant.
0:57:35 > 0:57:37Look out!
0:57:44 > 0:57:46WHOOSH OVERHEAD
0:57:46 > 0:57:49There's squads of them down there.
0:57:50 > 0:57:52Lomax!
0:57:52 > 0:57:57Look at this - steel containers filled with their own atmosphere.
0:57:57 > 0:58:02This gets them back to the camp alive. Go back to London!
0:58:02 > 0:58:07- But...- Those people you can trust, contact them. Make them listen!
0:58:07 > 0:58:11- We should both go back. - I've got to get into that plant.
0:58:11 > 0:58:13- Wait a minute... - WHISTLE
0:58:13 > 0:58:16It's up to you now. Hurry!
0:58:22 > 0:58:25Don't straggle! Keep together!
0:58:25 > 0:58:31- How do we know they took her this way?- That's where they'll be. At the plant.
0:58:31 > 0:58:37- Poor kid. They knew what it was and they wouldn't say.- What did that stranger do to get shot like that?
0:58:37 > 0:58:39Filthy murdering swine.
0:58:39 > 0:58:43Look out - lights ahead. It's a car.
0:58:43 > 0:58:45Right, boys. Hold your ground.
0:58:45 > 0:58:47Right across the road.
0:58:52 > 0:58:56- Let me through!- It's the cop! We're going to the plant!
0:58:56 > 0:59:02- Get back to your homes.- We're after the men who killed your pal.
0:59:02 > 0:59:06- They've taken young Sheila. - Go back to your homes!- Use the car!
0:59:06 > 0:59:10I'm on my way for help! Go back!
0:59:51 > 0:59:57LOUDSPEAKER: 'Keep containers moving. Keep containers moving.
0:59:57 > 1:00:02'Hurry! Hurry! The next intake is on its way.
1:00:23 > 1:00:26'Keep the containers moving.
1:01:41 > 1:01:46'Attention! Attention! All special personnel - emergency!
1:01:46 > 1:01:52'Proceed with weapons to Gate Four. Go to Gate Four! Emergency!
1:01:52 > 1:02:00'Emergency! All special personnel - emergency at Gate Four! Emergency! Emergency!
1:02:00 > 1:02:05'Proceed with weapons to Gate Four. Special personnel.
1:02:05 > 1:02:07'Emergency at Gate Four!'
1:02:10 > 1:02:12SIREN WAILS
1:02:14 > 1:02:17'Emergency! Emergency!'
1:02:40 > 1:02:45Gate Four. They are construction workers, estimated 150 in number.
1:02:45 > 1:02:47ANGRY YELLING
1:02:51 > 1:02:55- Open this gate! - I told you this was senseless.
1:02:55 > 1:02:58Go back to your homes!
1:02:59 > 1:03:02'Keep away! Keep away from the gate!
1:03:02 > 1:03:04'Keep away!'
1:03:56 > 1:04:01'Special personnel - emergency! Emergency status. Shoot to kill!
1:04:01 > 1:04:06'Special personnel to emergency status. Shoot to kill!
1:04:06 > 1:04:09'Shoot to kill!
1:04:20 > 1:04:22BURSTS OF GUNFIRE
1:04:59 > 1:05:01Get under cover!
1:05:04 > 1:05:09'Special personnel - shoot to kill!'
1:05:17 > 1:05:20Come on! Shut the door!
1:05:24 > 1:05:27- Don't shoot!- Wait!
1:05:28 > 1:05:30Quatermass!
1:05:31 > 1:05:33Here, take these guns.
1:05:36 > 1:05:40- You're here - what happened? - There was a gun battle at the gate.
1:05:40 > 1:05:44- Look at this.- What is it? - Emergency weapons.- Get it open.
1:05:44 > 1:05:49- Can this be opened from outside? - No!- We've got a breather, anyway.
1:05:49 > 1:05:54- For how long is another matter. - You couldn't make your contacts?- No.
1:05:54 > 1:05:57GUNFIRE They're still at it.
1:05:57 > 1:06:04- This is madness, staying here like rats in a trap. I'd rather be outside. Let me out!- Don't be a fool!
1:06:06 > 1:06:12- One grenade and we'll be blown to pieces!- They'll not attack the pressure control.- Pressure control?
1:06:12 > 1:06:19- I helped build this. - They feed those domes from here? - Each one from a separate section.
1:06:25 > 1:06:28Ammonia, methane, hydrogen, oxygen.
1:06:38 > 1:06:40Oxygen.
1:06:40 > 1:06:46It could be that they're being acclimatised. Lomax, you, give me a hand on these controls.
1:06:46 > 1:06:51This will be a long shot, but we've got to take it. Watch me.
1:06:51 > 1:06:56Do the same with those panels. Turn off the gas supply completely.
1:06:56 > 1:06:59Set them at zero, like this.
1:06:59 > 1:07:03That should bring the oxygen up to full pressure.
1:07:03 > 1:07:09- What's this going to do? - Choke what's in those domes, I hope. - You see?- I see.- What was it?
1:07:09 > 1:07:12GUNFIRE They're moving in.
1:07:12 > 1:07:18'Attention! Unauthorised personnel now in the pressure control lock, resistance by you must cease.
1:07:18 > 1:07:20'Lay down your weapons and leave.
1:07:20 > 1:07:26'You will be permitted to go to your homes pending further action. Leave the building at once.'
1:07:26 > 1:07:29GUNFIRE They're still there.
1:07:29 > 1:07:34- Come out and be shot to bits?! - We ought to do what they say!
1:07:34 > 1:07:39- We're holding this block. We've got to.- What's in those domes?
1:07:39 > 1:07:43- 'Resistance must cease immediately.' - Yes, what is it?- Tell us.
1:07:43 > 1:07:49- Creatures from outside this Earth! - You're mad!- I've seen them. Expanding to 100 feet high!
1:07:49 > 1:07:55- And each one can infect a human being.- Like Sheila?- Yes. And those wretches you call zombies.
1:07:55 > 1:08:01- You'll find the mark. - 'Unauthorised personnel - you will not be harmed.
1:08:01 > 1:08:06'Leave at once or other means of enforcing surrender will be used.'
1:08:06 > 1:08:10- How long for the oxygen to work? - Maybe hours.- And are others coming?
1:08:10 > 1:08:13Unless we destroy the asteroid.
1:08:13 > 1:08:19- How are you doing?- And your emergency plan?- Use the rocket as an atomic bomb.- When?
1:08:19 > 1:08:21I told Brand midnight.
1:08:24 > 1:08:29But you're not seriously going to launch that bomb?!
1:08:29 > 1:08:31This is it, Peterson. Control Room.
1:08:39 > 1:08:45Michaels? Brand. Rocket motors to critical phase. We're launching. Don't argue. Do it.
1:08:52 > 1:08:58Attention, everyone. Brand to all sections. Clear base for firing. Repeat - clear base for firing.
1:08:58 > 1:09:01- Immediately. - How do we know it won't blow up?
1:09:01 > 1:09:03We don't.
1:09:17 > 1:09:18Check. Fuel on.
1:09:26 > 1:09:28Fuel on.
1:09:33 > 1:09:35Compression.
1:09:38 > 1:09:40Compression.
1:09:43 > 1:09:45Marsh!
1:09:52 > 1:09:57- Peterson!- Don't touch him! Don't touch anything. Come.
1:10:54 > 1:11:00- Now get that in the bottom. - Never thought I'd use a crowbar with a cop!
1:11:02 > 1:11:06- Now we're ready for anything. - Anti-tank guns.- We'll need them.
1:11:06 > 1:11:12- Somebody's shooting off flares! - Flares?- Right across the sky.
1:11:12 > 1:11:15- Where?- It's gone now. No, there!
1:11:15 > 1:11:19- Is it a flare? - No, it's not a flare.- What is it?
1:11:19 > 1:11:23The one thing that may save us. And humanity.
1:11:47 > 1:11:50Too cursed quiet for my liking.
1:11:50 > 1:11:55- What are they up to? - What was the "other means"? - Just a war of nerves.
1:11:55 > 1:12:01- Any reaction yet?- I've done all I can. It must be taking effect.
1:12:01 > 1:12:05What happens if we fire an anti-tank smack into the domes?
1:12:05 > 1:12:10Whatever came out would be completely beyond our control.
1:12:10 > 1:12:14No, this is the best way. Poison them slowly, if we can.
1:12:14 > 1:12:19IF you can! How long are we going to trust your guesses?
1:12:19 > 1:12:27- How do we know you know what you're talking about?- We're all that stands between them and the whole world!
1:12:27 > 1:12:32- Spreading over it and infecting... - Who's seen these but you?
1:12:32 > 1:12:36'Attention! Attention! GARBLED MESSAGE
1:12:36 > 1:12:41'Sabotage must cease! GARBLED AGAIN
1:12:41 > 1:12:45- 'Oxygen now being passed into the dome...'- It's working.
1:12:45 > 1:12:51'The management are anxious to co-operate. Anyone injured by recent violence will receive treatment.
1:12:51 > 1:12:54'Go now! Hurry! Hurry!'
1:12:54 > 1:12:59- I'm going!- Stay! It's a trick. - Whose trick?- You saw your friends!
1:12:59 > 1:13:04We only have his word... What proof has he given us?
1:13:04 > 1:13:08'This is the last appeal to you as reasonable men.'
1:13:09 > 1:13:12Hello? Hello?
1:13:12 > 1:13:16My name's McLeod. I'm speaking from the Pressure Control Block.
1:13:16 > 1:13:21'Who is speaking?' AJ McLeod. What's inside those domes?
1:13:21 > 1:13:24A fellow here says living things.
1:13:24 > 1:13:28- McLeod, don't be a fool! - Leave me alone!
1:13:28 > 1:13:34- 'There is nothing alive in the domes.'- They're lying! - 'The entire plant is open to you.'
1:13:34 > 1:13:37- Don't listen to them! - Help me, Paddy!
1:13:38 > 1:13:42McLeod here. I'm accepting your offer. I want to see inside.
1:13:42 > 1:13:49- Don't do it! - 'Come alone or bring your colleagues. Meet us at Dome Three.'
1:13:49 > 1:13:52Right. Dawson, are you coming? Yes!
1:13:52 > 1:13:56- You stay here.- You'll all be infected!- Everyone, relax.
1:13:56 > 1:13:59Ernie, keep them covered in case.
1:14:14 > 1:14:17- The men aren't in uniform.- No guns.
1:14:17 > 1:14:20Maybe they mean it.
1:14:20 > 1:14:26- They'll be infected. - That's what I'm afraid of. - And they'll put one on the speaker.
1:14:26 > 1:14:29Now listen, he's right.
1:14:29 > 1:14:35Any moment one will talk to you and tell you it's all right, but don't believe them!
1:14:35 > 1:14:38- SCREECH - What's that?!
1:14:38 > 1:14:43- It's carrying along this pipe. - Those were screams.
1:14:43 > 1:14:47- If they've gone back on their word...!- Quiet!
1:14:47 > 1:14:51- What is it? - 'Attention! Attention!'
1:14:51 > 1:14:53GARBLED MESSAGE
1:14:55 > 1:15:00- Take a mask! We've got to be ready for anything.- It's here in the room!
1:15:00 > 1:15:03Look, the pipe - it's burst!
1:15:05 > 1:15:08- It's all right.- What's happened?
1:15:08 > 1:15:13- Dome Three - look at the pressure! - No wonder it blew!
1:15:13 > 1:15:17- That pipe must be blocked at the other end.- Blocked with what?
1:15:17 > 1:15:21- Blocked with what? - There's something dripping!
1:15:21 > 1:15:24- It's blood!- What the...?
1:15:24 > 1:15:31- It's them! McLeod and Dawson! - The thing's turned on them and used them to stop the flow of oxygen!
1:15:31 > 1:15:33- It's blocked with human pulp!- No!
1:15:33 > 1:15:36Dirty murdering swines!
1:15:46 > 1:15:50- I got it!- The whole dome!- Get back!
1:15:52 > 1:15:54Here! Put on the masks!
1:15:54 > 1:15:57There's one down there.
1:17:30 > 1:17:32Down! Down! Get down!
1:17:35 > 1:17:38There's a truck!
1:17:46 > 1:17:49Look out, Paddy!
1:17:49 > 1:17:52He's gone. To the truck, quick.
1:18:05 > 1:18:09- Look out! The gates are closed! - Hold on!
1:18:13 > 1:18:16SIREN WAILS
1:18:20 > 1:18:26- He's alive, just about. - Throw him out!- No, we need him. We need him for proof.- Look now!
1:18:28 > 1:18:33They're in pain and it's driving them mad!
1:18:39 > 1:18:44- The rocket?- Or it blew itself up. - Look at the things!
1:18:50 > 1:18:54Get under cover and put your masks on!
1:19:36 > 1:19:39- It's over.- Quatermass!
1:19:42 > 1:19:44Get him.
1:19:47 > 1:19:50The mark - it's gone!
1:19:50 > 1:19:53The infection must be wearing off.
1:19:53 > 1:19:56Leaving them, perhaps all of them.
1:19:56 > 1:20:01- What's happened? Where is this? - You'll be all right, mate.
1:20:05 > 1:20:10You know what worries me? How do I make a final report about all this?
1:20:10 > 1:20:15What worries me is how final can it be?
1:20:15 > 1:20:17Hey!
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