0:01:10 > 0:01:13THEY GIGGLE
0:01:24 > 0:01:27LAUGHING CONTINUES
0:01:28 > 0:01:31DISTANT MECHANICAL ROARING
0:01:33 > 0:01:36- What's that? - Sounds like a jet, doesn't it?
0:01:36 > 0:01:39That's no jet! Maggie! Look!
0:01:39 > 0:01:43- What is it?- Down! Get down! Down!
0:01:43 > 0:01:45Maggie! Maggie!
0:01:50 > 0:01:52Get inside! Get inside!
0:01:52 > 0:01:54Inside!
0:02:07 > 0:02:09Maggie?
0:02:09 > 0:02:11I'm all right, Dad.
0:02:11 > 0:02:17- We saw it coming out of the sky! It was glowing ...- You two stay over there, keep away from the windows!
0:02:19 > 0:02:21It's probably a meteor. Isn't it?
0:02:21 > 0:02:26- Whatever it is...- Dad, don't go out there! Please, Dad, don't go out! - DOG BARKS
0:02:26 > 0:02:30Get over there! If the telephone's still on, call the police.
0:02:30 > 0:02:33BARKING CONTINUES
0:02:33 > 0:02:35HORSE WHINNIES
0:02:50 > 0:02:52FIRE ENGINE BELL SOUNDS
0:03:14 > 0:03:17MEGAPHONE: 'Will you all please return to your homes.
0:03:17 > 0:03:20'You are only hampering operations by crowding the street.
0:03:20 > 0:03:22'Please return to your homes.
0:03:22 > 0:03:26'Please get back out of the road, onto the pavement, please, come along now, please.
0:03:26 > 0:03:30'Please return to your homes.' FIRE ENGINE BELL RINGS
0:03:55 > 0:03:58Get back. Get back, keep the lane clear, right back, please.
0:03:58 > 0:04:00Right back, right back.
0:04:00 > 0:04:02Keep clear, keep clear.
0:04:24 > 0:04:28- You'll be all right, they'll take care of you.- OK, George, let's have a look at you.
0:04:28 > 0:04:33Oh, don't you start fussing too, I've got singed, that's all.
0:04:33 > 0:04:37It's still too hot to put water on. It could do with another pump.
0:04:37 > 0:04:40- It should be them now. - What's all this about?
0:04:40 > 0:04:43- Could be practically anything. - FIRE ENGINE BELL RINGS
0:04:54 > 0:04:58The object was first sighted at about 9.15 this evening.
0:04:58 > 0:05:03And its approach was widely observed over the southern counties.
0:05:03 > 0:05:08A statement just issued by the Home Office stresses that there is no general danger.
0:05:08 > 0:05:13Members of the public, however, are warned to stay away from the area.
0:05:13 > 0:05:15I will repeat that...
0:05:17 > 0:05:20The Home Office stresses that there's no immediate danger.
0:05:20 > 0:05:23Do you realise what you'll have to face if this turns out to be a disaster, Quatermass?
0:05:23 > 0:05:25- How much further?- 15 miles, sir. - Quatermass, I am talking to you.
0:05:25 > 0:05:28For the last 20 miles I've been painfully aware of that.
0:05:28 > 0:05:30Well then answer, man. What went wrong?
0:05:30 > 0:05:35For the first time in the history of the world, man has sent a rocket 1,500 miles into space.
0:05:35 > 0:05:38- You can't expect it to be perfect. - You must have had some idea!
0:05:38 > 0:05:42- I'm a scientist, not a fortune teller!- Well, you had radio contact.
0:05:42 > 0:05:46We lost it for over 57 hours, sir. It broke loose and we don't even know how far it's been.
0:05:46 > 0:05:51- We had no further contact even when it returned to the orbit.- You brought it down by your own control.
0:05:51 > 0:05:55Well, tell your ministry - Quatermass sent it up and he brought it back.
0:05:55 > 0:05:59- Please!- Couldn't you pick some other time for this? - I'm sorry, Mrs Carroon.
0:05:59 > 0:06:01I happen to be concerned with the Ministry of Defence.
0:06:01 > 0:06:06I'm a doctor, and I happen to be concerned with the three men who were in that rocket.
0:06:06 > 0:06:08Oakley Green. This is it.
0:06:08 > 0:06:10Certainly no secret.
0:06:14 > 0:06:19- Sorry, no-one allowed past.- It's all right, Ministry of Defence.
0:06:19 > 0:06:21Oh, yes, sir. All right, open up.
0:06:34 > 0:06:37Hey! Sorry, Miss, you must keep back.
0:06:37 > 0:06:42Oi, Miss! Hey, just a minute, please! Miss!
0:06:42 > 0:06:45Aye aye, chasing the girls again?
0:06:45 > 0:06:48You'd think it was a bank holiday, the way they come flocking out.
0:06:48 > 0:06:51- I'd like to flock home.- You stay put my lad, until that thing cools off.
0:06:51 > 0:06:54- Or blows up.- Now, don't start that story going around.
0:06:54 > 0:06:59- They've said it's not a bomb. - Then why can't we put water on it? - We've had instructions.
0:06:59 > 0:07:01They didn't tell us why.
0:07:01 > 0:07:03Hey! Hey, just a minute!
0:07:03 > 0:07:06Mr Blake, Ministry of Defence!
0:07:16 > 0:07:18- Try and get through to him, Marsh. - Right, Sir.
0:07:18 > 0:07:19Give me a temperature reading.
0:07:22 > 0:07:26- Why don't you go wait in the car, Judith?- It's funny.
0:07:26 > 0:07:31It looks exactly the same, yet it's been who knows how far?
0:07:31 > 0:07:33There isn't a word.
0:07:33 > 0:07:35Hello? Hello?
0:07:40 > 0:07:43Q1, Q1. This is Marsh.
0:07:43 > 0:07:45Hello Carroon, Green, Reichenheim.
0:07:45 > 0:07:48You receive me, over?
0:07:48 > 0:07:50- Keep trying.- Mr Blake?
0:07:50 > 0:07:55- I'm Quatermass. I'll be in charge form here on, Inspector. - Fine. What's the next move?
0:07:55 > 0:07:58We can't do anything until that cools off.
0:07:58 > 0:08:01- How long will that be, Sir? - Three or four hours at least.
0:08:01 > 0:08:05Q1, Q1, this is Marsh. Do you hear me? Do you hear me?
0:08:05 > 0:08:09- Over.- Leave them in there for four hours?- You'd like me to open it up right now, huh?
0:08:09 > 0:08:14- One blast of air in against that heat would incinerate them.- Some reporters from London would like some facts.
0:08:14 > 0:08:16- They'll get some later. - They'll get some now.
0:08:16 > 0:08:22- Shouldn't we find out a few more ourselves first?- Bring them, Major. - Q1? Are you hearing me?
0:08:22 > 0:08:24This is Marsh calling Q1. Q1, over.
0:08:32 > 0:08:37If I ever gave them all the facts you'd find one or two of them difficult to explain.
0:08:37 > 0:08:41Don't drag me through the mud, Blake. You might splash you and your committee.
0:08:41 > 0:08:44You launched that rocket without waiting for official sanction.
0:08:44 > 0:08:49If the world waited for official sanction, it'd be standing still. You took too long, I made my decision.
0:08:49 > 0:08:54- To gamble with three men's lives. - Every experiment is a gamble. They know that.
0:08:54 > 0:08:57Did she know that? That woman over there, waiting, hoping and praying?
0:08:57 > 0:09:00- Dropped another 100 degrees since we arrived.- Still got a long way to go.
0:09:00 > 0:09:06- Let's hope that insulation lining doesn't crack.- If it did, those three men in there are dead.
0:09:06 > 0:09:09Dead or alive, they'll be heroes. Let me tell you something, Blake.
0:09:09 > 0:09:13They'll fire the imagination so that there will be a hundred men begging for the same privilege
0:09:13 > 0:09:18- when we launch the second rocket. You can't stop it now.- You mean I can't stop YOU now?
0:09:18 > 0:09:20That's right.
0:09:20 > 0:09:22This is Marsh calling Q1.
0:09:22 > 0:09:25Marsh calling Q1. Do you hear me? Do you hear me, over?
0:09:30 > 0:09:34- Nothing, Sir.- Quatermass. You know what you've done?- I launched it and I brought it back.
0:09:34 > 0:09:38- That's quite an achievement, I think! - Those three men in there...- Quiet!
0:09:38 > 0:09:42- What is it, Marsh? - Something came through.
0:09:42 > 0:09:44Pull up, pull up.
0:09:46 > 0:09:48There's a tapping. Coming from inside.
0:09:48 > 0:09:51By the hull, near the transmitter.
0:09:51 > 0:09:52Q1, Q1.
0:09:52 > 0:09:55Green, Reichenheim, Carroon.
0:09:55 > 0:09:59This is Quatermass, Quatermass. We can hear you, can you hear us?
0:09:59 > 0:10:01Over.
0:10:09 > 0:10:11Q1, Q1, can you hear me?
0:10:11 > 0:10:14You've landed in England. We're here, not 50 yards from you.
0:10:14 > 0:10:16Are you all right, over?
0:10:22 > 0:10:27Tapping's stopped. We can't wait, we've got to get them out of there now. Bring me the bio-key.
0:10:27 > 0:10:31- Set the remote control.- Are you mad? We can't open that rocket door now!
0:10:31 > 0:10:34One of them is alive, in an hour he may not be.
0:10:34 > 0:10:36But you said that would incinerate them! You can't!
0:10:36 > 0:10:40- Don't tell me what to do!- Shell temperature is still 300 degrees.
0:10:40 > 0:10:45- So we wait till it's absolutely safe and then bring them out? Dead? - Door control set, Sir.
0:10:45 > 0:10:49- Hold it. Where's that fire chief?- Get an ambulance moved in to stand-by.
0:10:50 > 0:10:52- You want me, Sir?- Yes.
0:10:52 > 0:10:56Move in all your men and machinery as close as possible.
0:10:56 > 0:10:59We'll open the rocket door from here by remote control.
0:10:59 > 0:11:04When the door opens, I want every hose turned full force around that entrance.
0:11:04 > 0:11:08- Got it?- That thing's still as hot as blazes, If you pump water on it...
0:11:08 > 0:11:12- Don't argue with me, I know what I'm doing.- I hope so, Sir.- Major.
0:11:12 > 0:11:14I want this whole field cleared.
0:11:14 > 0:11:19- When they come out of the rocket I want absolutely no-one on the field. No-one.- Don't worry, Sir.
0:11:31 > 0:11:37We don't know what condition they'll be in, so get everything out. Oxygen, morphine, glucose...
0:11:46 > 0:11:51- Well, now it's up to you.- Keep your eye on me, I'll give you the signal.
0:11:51 > 0:11:53- All set?- Set, Sir.
0:11:53 > 0:11:57- Start it up. Let me know when you're minus ten to pressure.- Right, Sir.
0:11:59 > 0:12:03Minus 10... Nine...
0:12:04 > 0:12:08Eight... Seven...
0:12:10 > 0:12:12Six... Five...
0:12:16 > 0:12:17Four...
0:12:19 > 0:12:21Three...
0:12:21 > 0:12:23Two...
0:12:23 > 0:12:25One...
0:12:27 > 0:12:28Zero.
0:12:32 > 0:12:34WHISTLE BLOWS
0:13:08 > 0:13:11Turn off the water.
0:13:29 > 0:13:31- It's Mr Carroon!- Victor, Victor!
0:13:31 > 0:13:35- Get him into the ambulance.- Darling, darling.- What about the others?
0:13:40 > 0:13:42Green!
0:13:42 > 0:13:44Reichenheim!
0:13:44 > 0:13:45What happened, sir?
0:13:50 > 0:13:53The access chamber to the motors!
0:13:57 > 0:14:00Quick, the manual controls.
0:14:00 > 0:14:02Where are the others?
0:14:02 > 0:14:04Think it'll work?
0:14:04 > 0:14:06It's free, sir!
0:14:24 > 0:14:28- They're not there.- What do you mean, they're not there?- They're not on the rocket, either one of them.
0:14:28 > 0:14:33- That's impossible! - He's right, sir. They've gone. - The pressure suits!- Empty.
0:14:33 > 0:14:37They're still linked. Helmets are still attached. But they're empty.
0:14:37 > 0:14:42- But how could they possibly have got out?- I'm trying to find out.
0:14:42 > 0:14:47- Help bring the camera down. - Do you think the door opened and they were swept away?
0:14:47 > 0:14:52If the door had opened it'd be raised. No, that door has not been opened.
0:14:56 > 0:15:01- What is it you're trying to tell me? - I'm not trying to tell you anything. I'll let the camera do that.
0:15:01 > 0:15:05I'm afraid the camera won't tell us anything.
0:15:12 > 0:15:15CROWD CHATTER
0:15:18 > 0:15:22- Are they all right?- Something happened, they're not there.
0:15:25 > 0:15:28Victor. Where's Green?
0:15:28 > 0:15:30Where's Reichenheim? What happened?
0:15:30 > 0:15:33- Please, not now.- Quatermass!
0:15:33 > 0:15:38- He's in no condition to talk. He's in a state of shock. He must be treated!- He's got to talk first.
0:15:38 > 0:15:41- He's got to tell me what happened. - Gordon?
0:15:41 > 0:15:44- VICTOR MUMBLES - What is it, Victor?
0:15:44 > 0:15:46What is it?
0:16:04 > 0:16:06He said, "Help me."
0:16:06 > 0:16:08That's all he said.
0:16:08 > 0:16:10"Help me."
0:16:48 > 0:16:51- Did you get it?- Yes, sir.
0:16:51 > 0:16:52Good.
0:17:10 > 0:17:12SHAVER BUZZES
0:17:14 > 0:17:19- It doesn't make me any prettier, but I've got a lunch date with the wife.- Any special reason?
0:17:19 > 0:17:25Her favourite day of the month - pay day. Oh, I'm a big man on pay day.
0:17:25 > 0:17:27Yes, sir.
0:17:27 > 0:17:30- See the papers?- Quatermass?
0:17:30 > 0:17:34Stirring it up. How dare we take fingerprints from a sick man!
0:17:34 > 0:17:38Nothing else I could do! He couldn't talk or answer questions.
0:17:38 > 0:17:41Thought we might as well get his prints. You never know.
0:17:41 > 0:17:44- No, you never know. - He's a weird one, all right.
0:17:44 > 0:17:49The skin...just like shaking hands with a piece of ice.
0:17:49 > 0:17:53Sergeant! That's no way to talk about a public hero!
0:17:53 > 0:17:56- KNOCK ON DOOR - Come in.
0:17:56 > 0:18:00- A Mr Quatermass to see you, sir. - Well, speaking of public heroes.
0:18:00 > 0:18:05- All right, wheel him in.- Yes, sir. - Quatermass, eh?
0:18:05 > 0:18:09This is what's known as penetrating into enemy territory.
0:18:13 > 0:18:16- Inspector Lomax? - I'm Lomax, this is Sergeant Best.
0:18:16 > 0:18:21- Seat?- Inspector, I will not have your men coming into my research centre
0:18:21 > 0:18:25and treating Victor Carroon as a criminal. He's a sick man.
0:18:25 > 0:18:30- He's been through an ordeal that very few men could survive. - Two men didn't survive it, did they?
0:18:30 > 0:18:34- What exactly do you mean by that? - I wish you'd sit down.
0:18:34 > 0:18:37If I sit and you stand I'm being rude, and I'm longing to sit down.
0:18:40 > 0:18:43You see, Mr Quatermass, I'm an old-fashioned sort of chap.
0:18:43 > 0:18:48I don't know much about travelling in space. I don't read science fiction, I'm a simple Bible man.
0:18:48 > 0:18:54- I have a routine mind and I have to do routine things.- Such as fingerprinting an unconscious man?
0:18:54 > 0:18:59When three men take off in a rocket and only one comes back, in our reckoning that leaves minus two.
0:18:59 > 0:19:03So we have to investigate plus one. Whether he's conscious,
0:19:03 > 0:19:05unconscious or a gibbering idiot.
0:19:05 > 0:19:11Fine. I think I can save you a lot of time, Inspector, with your so-called investigation.
0:19:11 > 0:19:14I have here the particulars on all three members of the crew.
0:19:14 > 0:19:17Charles Green, Ludwig Reichenheim, Victor Carroon.
0:19:17 > 0:19:20You'll find everything there, Inspector.
0:19:20 > 0:19:23Medical histories, personal description, academic achievements,
0:19:23 > 0:19:27- professional activities, politics, and even fingerprints. - Why, that's very thoughtful of you.
0:19:27 > 0:19:32There's only one investigation likely to serve any good purpose in this situation, Inspector.
0:19:32 > 0:19:34That's a scientific one.
0:19:38 > 0:19:45I'm sure even you'll agree that between us, I am the best qualified for that. Good day, Inspector.
0:19:45 > 0:19:49Well, you might almost say we've been given a rocket.
0:19:49 > 0:19:51Yes, sir.
0:19:59 > 0:20:01ERRATIC, POUNDING HEARTBEAT
0:20:01 > 0:20:05It's unbelievable. It isn't clinically possible that his heart should respond like this.
0:20:05 > 0:20:09Pulse, blood pressure, the same, impossibly low.
0:20:09 > 0:20:14- He shouldn't be alive, but he is. - Can't you do something to increase the metabolic rate?
0:20:14 > 0:20:18- Tried everything.- I never knew pressure effects to last this long.
0:20:18 > 0:20:24These aren't just pressure effects, it isn't only his face, take a look at his skin.
0:20:24 > 0:20:27Anyway, here, on the shoulder. Feel it.
0:20:27 > 0:20:29Swollen. Coarsened.
0:20:29 > 0:20:34Yes, and that's not all, either. Look at the contours of the face.
0:20:34 > 0:20:36You mean the bone structure?
0:20:36 > 0:20:42Yes, I could be wrong about a limb, but not about the shape of the bones. There has been a change.
0:20:43 > 0:20:45Is he any better?
0:20:45 > 0:20:49- He's coming along fine. - If only he'd say something -
0:20:49 > 0:20:53give us a sign that he's thinking, that he knows we're here.
0:20:53 > 0:20:56He knows, Judith, he knows we're trying to help him.
0:20:56 > 0:21:01- What is happening to him? - We're trying to find out. - Shouldn't he be in a hospital?
0:21:01 > 0:21:07That's exactly where he should be. Briscoe, I can't take this responsibility any longer,
0:21:07 > 0:21:09I haven't got the proper equipment here to do the right tests.
0:21:09 > 0:21:11He belongs in a hospital.
0:21:13 > 0:21:16I suppose you're right.
0:21:16 > 0:21:17I suppose you're both right.
0:21:17 > 0:21:20He does belong in a hospital.
0:21:20 > 0:21:24But can a hospital do more than you can do?
0:21:24 > 0:21:28Would a hospital know what goes on out there in space?
0:21:28 > 0:21:32there's a whole new world out there - a wilderness, uncharted.
0:21:32 > 0:21:34And he's been there, and come back.
0:21:34 > 0:21:40- He's got the map. Unlock his mind for me, Briscoe, and find it, I know you can.- It isn't just a question of...
0:21:40 > 0:21:46I know the strain you've been under, but to stop now when we're on the brink of something tremendous,
0:21:46 > 0:21:50the fringe of some great discovery, we can't stop now, Briscoe.
0:21:50 > 0:21:53It's our only chance to learn what happened to the others.
0:21:53 > 0:21:57- A hospital has the most modern... - Would they know how to deal with a man exposed to rocket radiation?
0:21:57 > 0:22:02- In his bloodstream...- Or the effects of pressure at 1500 miles up?
0:22:02 > 0:22:07- During training, he took seven times the force of gravity without even a headache.- We know that.
0:22:07 > 0:22:09But would a hospital know it?
0:22:17 > 0:22:20I'll try another transfusion, see if that will help.
0:22:24 > 0:22:25Thanks.
0:22:25 > 0:22:31You'll stay with him, won't you, Judith? He needs you.
0:22:40 > 0:22:42Victor...
0:23:02 > 0:23:08We'll move him into the office, we can make him more comfortable in there. Would you help me, please?
0:23:08 > 0:23:13- Of course. Thank you for all you're doing, Gordon.- Mm? I only wish I could do more.
0:23:20 > 0:23:23The solution is elementary, my dear inspector.
0:23:23 > 0:23:26Mr Carroon killed the two men, removed their pressure suits,
0:23:26 > 0:23:29pushed their bodies into space and linked the suits together again.
0:23:29 > 0:23:34- Now, what do you want?- Two things - I want to return these files - Greene, Reichenheim, Carroon.
0:23:34 > 0:23:37- Very interesting.- Number two?
0:23:37 > 0:23:41- I want you to give me your solemn word...- Inspector, I'm a very busy man.
0:23:41 > 0:23:43Look, sir, nobody ever wins a cold war.
0:23:43 > 0:23:45One of us had better come over to the other side.
0:23:45 > 0:23:49- I'm not proud, I'll come over to yours.- Solemn word about what?
0:23:49 > 0:23:55- That these were Carroon's fingerprints.- Of course - everybody in the centre gets fingerprinted.
0:23:55 > 0:23:58- What are you getting at?- To be quite honest, I don't quite know, sir.
0:23:58 > 0:24:01There's nothing unusual about these.
0:24:01 > 0:24:06- These are the fingerprints we took off Carroon last night.- So? - Compare them.
0:24:15 > 0:24:18- Is this a joke?- This is no joke, sir.
0:24:18 > 0:24:21The man who took those had his training in the fingerprint section.
0:24:23 > 0:24:27But these prints aren't even... PHONE RINGS
0:24:27 > 0:24:29..human. Yes?
0:24:30 > 0:24:33You found what? I'll be right there.
0:24:33 > 0:24:37Wherever you're going, I might as well keep you company, mightn't I?
0:24:37 > 0:24:39Thank you. That's very nice of you.
0:24:42 > 0:24:46Check the safety casing on the wiring. Right there.
0:24:55 > 0:24:58- Can you get at it?- No.
0:24:58 > 0:25:02It's right in a crevice. Hand me the sample spoon from my box.
0:25:28 > 0:25:32- Any more of that?- Yes, sir, lots.
0:25:32 > 0:25:34On the left. By the rivet frame.
0:25:34 > 0:25:38Mind if I have a sample for our people?
0:25:38 > 0:25:40Sure, we'll give you a sample.
0:25:44 > 0:25:47Briscoe, what do you think it is?
0:25:47 > 0:25:50I don't want to think, I want to be sure.
0:25:50 > 0:25:53I've been in this thing all night.
0:25:53 > 0:25:57- Nice to know that stuff's been around the whole time.- Lamp.
0:25:57 > 0:26:00Have you got the same bright thoughts that I have?
0:26:03 > 0:26:05Something happened in here.
0:26:05 > 0:26:09Something beyond our understanding at the moment.
0:26:09 > 0:26:13- If I only knew where to begin. - Maybe the film would help.- Film?
0:26:13 > 0:26:17- Yes, the lab should've developed it by now.- The camera was smashed.
0:26:17 > 0:26:20- It was badly damaged, but I managed to get the film out. - Why didn't you tell me?
0:26:20 > 0:26:24- The lab said they didn't know if they could develop it or not. - They've got to develop it.
0:26:24 > 0:26:30- Tell them they've got to develop that film.- Yes, sir. - I'll have no delays or excuses.
0:26:30 > 0:26:35- Get the best process man in the country, but I've got to have that film.- Right, sir.
0:26:35 > 0:26:38This is one premiere I don't want to miss.
0:27:49 > 0:27:54- Well?- It's harmless, it's organic, it's jelly. End of analogies.
0:27:54 > 0:27:58- No definite identification? - It might conceivably represent the dead remnants of cell tissue.
0:27:58 > 0:28:02- What sort of cell tissue? - Could be animal, could be human.
0:28:02 > 0:28:05- Human?- Could be.
0:28:07 > 0:28:11- Do you know what you're saying? - I know what I'm thinking.
0:28:11 > 0:28:15Are you sure it's not some sort of plant cell?
0:28:15 > 0:28:21- Positive.- You're asking me to believe that that is the remains of two human beings?
0:28:21 > 0:28:25No. You asked the question, I answered it.
0:28:27 > 0:28:30- Does she know?- No, this is the first sleep she's had in nights.
0:28:30 > 0:28:33What about the police analysts, what did they say?
0:28:33 > 0:28:34No report through yet.
0:28:34 > 0:28:37But I don't doubt it'll be the same.
0:28:37 > 0:28:41It's almost beyond human understanding.
0:28:41 > 0:28:47Some fantastic, invisible force converted two men...into jelly?
0:28:47 > 0:28:49- Is that the slide?- That's the slide.
0:28:49 > 0:28:52I'm about to call it a day, Quatermass.
0:28:52 > 0:28:55- Beyond this, I'm a...- Gordon!
0:29:00 > 0:29:03All right, get him up. No, wait a minute.
0:29:03 > 0:29:04His hand.
0:29:06 > 0:29:09Another change. Get him back to bed.
0:29:17 > 0:29:22Look what's happening to his skin in just the last few moments.
0:29:22 > 0:29:24I'll go and get him a sedative.
0:29:24 > 0:29:29You've done this to him. He'd have been better off if he'd been killed or stayed out there.
0:29:29 > 0:29:32- Judith!- You've destroyed him just like everything else you've touched.
0:29:32 > 0:29:35- Destroyed him? I've brought him back, I've saved him.- For what?
0:29:35 > 0:29:39For further experiments? I can help him more than you or anyone.
0:29:39 > 0:29:42There's no room for personal feelings in science, Judith.
0:29:42 > 0:29:47You should be proud to have a husband who's willing to risk his life for the betterment of the world.
0:29:47 > 0:29:51What world? Your world? The world of Quatermass.
0:29:51 > 0:29:55I've sent for an ambulance - he's going to the central clinic.
0:29:57 > 0:30:00All right, Briscoe, send him to the clinic,
0:30:00 > 0:30:05but I want him to have complete isolation. You understand? Complete isolation.
0:30:05 > 0:30:08No-one is to see him.
0:30:08 > 0:30:10No-one. Until I say so.
0:30:22 > 0:30:26We've tried three different grades of stock, developed each one to as high a gamma as possible,
0:30:26 > 0:30:31- and still it's made no difference. Look at this, it's grainy and dull...- All I want is a print.
0:30:31 > 0:30:32We don't like any print that isn't up to standard.
0:30:32 > 0:30:36- Is there a picture on it?- There's a picture, but it's dull and grainy...
0:30:36 > 0:30:39I don't care how dull and grainy it is, I must have this now.
0:30:39 > 0:30:43It could be altitude or an extreme change of temperature, or penetration of cosmic rays.
0:30:43 > 0:30:45- I'll tell him that.- I don't know what the old man will say.
0:30:45 > 0:30:51Tell your old man that our old man said if he didn't get this print, he'd dynamite the building.
0:30:51 > 0:30:54I can't tell the ministry this, they'll think I've lost my senses.
0:30:54 > 0:30:58That's exactly why you must tell them nothing.
0:30:58 > 0:31:00Now you see why I must have absolute authority to isolate the room.
0:31:00 > 0:31:02But every newspaper has a story on him being admitted to the clinic,
0:31:02 > 0:31:07- they'll want to know what's happened to him, and to the others. - Do you want to tell them?
0:31:07 > 0:31:11- Not telling them won't stop the panic.- So don't start a panic. - What about the police analysis?
0:31:11 > 0:31:14- The same, Mr Blake. - What's the next move?
0:31:14 > 0:31:20- We've agreed to isolation until we know more. - PHONE RINGS
0:31:21 > 0:31:23Yes?
0:31:27 > 0:31:30The film is ready.
0:32:10 > 0:32:15- See that? It works.- What works? - Automatic prism, it cuts in the panel readings.
0:33:13 > 0:33:18- Well, is that all?- Once in the observation zone, the camera is geared to cut out at regularly.
0:33:18 > 0:33:20This will be the 0.16 period.
0:33:25 > 0:33:28That must be where we lost 'em.
0:33:40 > 0:33:42What on earth could have happened?!
0:33:42 > 0:33:44Look at that fantastic temperature drop.
0:35:21 > 0:35:23Run it again.
0:35:29 > 0:35:33He's in surgery. But I'll get word to him as soon as possible.
0:35:34 > 0:35:37Yes? What's the name, please?
0:35:37 > 0:35:39That's two Ts?
0:35:42 > 0:35:46Uh-uh. Yes, I'll see that he gets it.
0:35:46 > 0:35:48Yes.
0:35:48 > 0:35:51Sorry, Miss, the visiting hours are over.
0:35:51 > 0:35:54I just wanted to know how my husband is.
0:35:54 > 0:35:57Well, I'll try and find out for you, Miss. What was the name, please?
0:35:57 > 0:36:00- Carroon. Victor Carroon.- Oh.
0:36:00 > 0:36:03- He's OK, isn't he?- Mrs Carroon, I wish I could let you go up,
0:36:03 > 0:36:05but we have strict orders...
0:36:05 > 0:36:09All I want to know is how is he? Is there any change?
0:36:09 > 0:36:12Just a minute.
0:36:14 > 0:36:17Hello, Mabel. Alf here. Listen, how is 4B?
0:36:17 > 0:36:23I know all about the orders, but I only want you to think out loud.
0:36:23 > 0:36:25Thank you, Mabel, thank you.
0:36:25 > 0:36:29He's going along about the same, Mrs Carroon, no change, but no worse.
0:36:29 > 0:36:32If I could see him, just for a few minutes.
0:36:32 > 0:36:36I should be shot at dawn. But don't you worry, he is in good hands.
0:36:36 > 0:36:41- They don't leave him alone, do they? - Oh, not for a moment, Tucker, his night nurse, is with him now,
0:36:41 > 0:36:47- and Perkins comes on in about half an hour.- Could I wait for the night nurse when he comes off duty,
0:36:47 > 0:36:51if only to talk to someone who's has been with him? Please.
0:36:51 > 0:36:55Tucker comes off in half an hour and nips through the staff entrance.
0:36:55 > 0:36:57- Through the door, and it's on the right.- Thank you.
0:36:57 > 0:37:01Wait for him outside, and if they ask me, I never told you nothing.
0:37:25 > 0:37:29- There's only the nurse with him. His name's Tucker.- His name? You mean I've got to flirt with a he?
0:37:29 > 0:37:32It's only about half an hour before the relief nurse comes on duty.
0:37:32 > 0:37:36- His name is Perkins.- Money, money, money. Cash before delivery,
0:37:36 > 0:37:41- it always gives me more confidence, especially when my investigating is this private.- Room 4B.
0:37:48 > 0:37:53Give me 15 minutes, I'll put him in the lift and send him down, and he's all yours, I never saw you in my...
0:37:53 > 0:37:58- Please hurry, he's very sick.- Don't worry, I'll mother him like a baby.
0:38:17 > 0:38:21- You've got to get him.- Relax, you're shaking the building.
0:38:44 > 0:38:47- Evening.- Hello.
0:38:52 > 0:38:57- Evening. I'm from Casualty, Perkins is sick, they sent me to take over his night shift.- Hi.
0:38:57 > 0:39:00I know I'm too honest, but you're not due for another half-hour!
0:39:00 > 0:39:03Night shift is night shift, what's a half-an-hour here or there?
0:39:03 > 0:39:06- You'll go to heaven for this.- We should get some fun out of life.
0:39:06 > 0:39:10- What's his trouble?- He doesn't seem to know. He's the star patient.
0:39:10 > 0:39:12He just lies and stares, never opens his mouth.
0:39:12 > 0:39:16But if it does, press that bell, and quick. Well, happy nightmare.
0:39:16 > 0:39:20- Any special instructions?- They're on the chart. Good night.- Good night.
0:39:23 > 0:39:28News, my friend. Your wife is waiting for you downstairs.
0:39:28 > 0:39:31I'm the man who's going to get you out of here. Does that make you happy?
0:39:31 > 0:39:35It does? Good. But we don't have too much time, so, up we get.
0:39:46 > 0:39:49- Hello.- Hello.- What time are you off?
0:39:49 > 0:39:51- Ask him whether he's going to...? - Operating?
0:39:51 > 0:39:54- For about three-and-a-half-hours, at least.- You, too?
0:39:54 > 0:39:58- Me, too.- Chinese restaurant is open till midnight, I'll take you both -
0:39:58 > 0:40:01beautiful sweet and sour pork, roast duck, fried shrimps.
0:40:01 > 0:40:02You've talked us into it!
0:40:02 > 0:40:05There we are. Now, the jacket.
0:40:11 > 0:40:16There's a good boy. Can't meet the lady looking sloppy.
0:40:16 > 0:40:21It's funny, wives usually employ me to get them away from their husbands.
0:40:21 > 0:40:23Oh, you're a sad one.
0:40:23 > 0:40:25Well, to each his own.
0:40:25 > 0:40:28Hey, steady, steady.
0:40:28 > 0:40:32Stay here while Christie goes and gets the lift. Won't be a minute.
0:40:58 > 0:41:02All clear. Hey, come on, hurry.
0:41:02 > 0:41:04That's the boy. Christie's got you.
0:41:29 > 0:41:32What have you got there?
0:41:32 > 0:41:34What are you hiding?
0:41:36 > 0:41:37What is it?
0:41:54 > 0:41:59Victor. Oh, Victor, darling, I've got the car outside.
0:41:59 > 0:42:00Please try and be quick.
0:42:00 > 0:42:02You can make it, dear.
0:42:16 > 0:42:18Everything's going to be all right, Victor.
0:42:18 > 0:42:21I'll get you the best treatment, the finest doctors.
0:42:22 > 0:42:26I'll get you well and strong, we'll make a new life for ourselves,
0:42:26 > 0:42:28away from all of this.
0:42:28 > 0:42:31Away from him.
0:42:31 > 0:42:32Our life will be our own.
0:42:40 > 0:42:42Would you like one?
0:42:47 > 0:42:50Victor, I...
0:42:55 > 0:42:57Victor...
0:43:05 > 0:43:08Your hand... Are you in pain?
0:43:25 > 0:43:30Well, this is one case I don't think we'll find listed in forensic medicine.
0:43:30 > 0:43:32Looks as though the life was drawn right out of him.
0:43:32 > 0:43:36Have the body examined. I'd like the report as soon as possible.
0:43:36 > 0:43:40You wouldn't mind if the Home Office pathologist also took a little peep?
0:43:40 > 0:43:44- They've picked up Mrs Carroon the other side of town.- And Carroon? - No sign of him.
0:43:44 > 0:43:47Stupid idiot, trying to take the whole thing into her own hands.
0:43:47 > 0:43:49- What did she say? - She didn't say anything.
0:43:49 > 0:43:52Anything about him. She's in a pretty bad state of shock.
0:43:52 > 0:43:56- The doctor said she may even go out of her mind.- Out of her mind about what?
0:43:56 > 0:44:00Well, when they found her, she was sitting at the wheel of her car...
0:44:00 > 0:44:06and moaning, something about a hand being all grey...
0:44:06 > 0:44:09with thorns, like a cactus.
0:44:22 > 0:44:27I remember there was a cactus in his room in this pot.
0:44:29 > 0:44:30Hello?
0:44:32 > 0:44:34Get me Scotland Yard.
0:44:37 > 0:44:42'Car 39, car 39, proceed immediately to 34 Main Street
0:44:42 > 0:44:45'and investigate report of prowler by resident.
0:44:45 > 0:44:50'Maybe Carroon - proceed with caution, car 39...'
0:44:52 > 0:44:56'Join river police at Hayes Wharf to search area bounded by...'
0:45:00 > 0:45:02TELEPHONE RINGS
0:45:02 > 0:45:04'River Patrol 4, River Patrol 4...
0:45:04 > 0:45:09'join mobile police at Hayes Wharf to search area bordered
0:45:09 > 0:45:13'by Tooley Street, Hayes Lane and Strand Thames.'
0:45:13 > 0:45:15'River Patrol 4. Roger. Out.'
0:45:46 > 0:45:50This growth on the face - half plant, half...
0:45:50 > 0:45:52Look at this!
0:45:52 > 0:45:57The whole tissue structure is eaten away. The bone is powder.
0:45:57 > 0:46:00Well, that takes care of my supper tonight!
0:46:01 > 0:46:06What if there is a form of life in space?
0:46:06 > 0:46:08Not on some planet, but just drifting?
0:46:08 > 0:46:10Right, nurse.
0:46:13 > 0:46:15Not life as we know it.
0:46:15 > 0:46:20With intelligence, yes, but pure energy with no organic structure - invisible.
0:46:20 > 0:46:23- Invisible?!- Now, the rocket passed through its path.
0:46:23 > 0:46:28It entered the rocket, found living specimens of OUR form of life. Cell organisms - human.
0:46:28 > 0:46:32- Green and Reichenheim.- And Carroon. Exactly.
0:46:32 > 0:46:37Now, if, even by accident, it could enter one of those structures,
0:46:37 > 0:46:39what a way to invade the Earth!
0:46:39 > 0:46:41I'm not over intelligent, but when you...
0:46:41 > 0:46:43You saw the film, you know what happened!
0:46:43 > 0:46:46Only God knows where and how far that rocket travelled.
0:46:46 > 0:46:50- But only two of them died! - Something got into that rocket!
0:46:50 > 0:46:53Took the blood out of the other two and now it's using Carroon!
0:46:53 > 0:46:55And it's found other forms of life.
0:46:55 > 0:46:59- The cactus.- You mean Carroon...? - Is a carrier.
0:46:59 > 0:47:04He's now only the shell of a man being transformed.
0:47:04 > 0:47:09If the cactus plant was subject to the same mutation, there could be a union between plant and animal.
0:47:09 > 0:47:12With the ability to destroy!
0:47:12 > 0:47:15- And possess.- And multiply.
0:47:17 > 0:47:19At will.
0:47:19 > 0:47:27- Multiply?!- Yes, but to multiply, first it has to live. And like any living thing, to live...
0:47:27 > 0:47:30To live, it must have food.
0:47:56 > 0:47:59- I'm sorry, we're closed! - KNOCKING CONTINUES
0:47:59 > 0:48:03All right! Just a minute! Oh, dear...
0:48:03 > 0:48:05Look, we only open till...
0:48:05 > 0:48:07Hey! Wait a minute!
0:48:07 > 0:48:12You can't come into a place like this! Leave those things alone!
0:48:12 > 0:48:13What do you think you're doing?!
0:48:18 > 0:48:21- HE SOBS - Are you in pain?
0:48:25 > 0:48:27Is it something to do with your arm?
0:48:27 > 0:48:32Look, I'll just take a look. I won't hurt it, I promise.
0:48:46 > 0:48:48PHONE RINGS
0:48:50 > 0:48:52It's all right, love, I'll get it.
0:48:52 > 0:48:55HE WHISTLES
0:48:56 > 0:48:58Hello? ..Yes, please.
0:48:58 > 0:49:01What?! When?
0:49:01 > 0:49:06Cordon off the area. Tell Quatermass and Briscoe to meet us there.
0:49:06 > 0:49:08Barb?
0:49:08 > 0:49:12- Now what?- I've got to go back. - But you've only just come in!
0:49:12 > 0:49:14They just can't do without me, love!
0:49:14 > 0:49:16I don't know why you don't move into the office!
0:49:16 > 0:49:18You'd never believe I was there.
0:49:18 > 0:49:21- What makes you think I do now? - Ha ha!- Have your tea at least.
0:49:21 > 0:49:23Haven't got time, love.
0:49:23 > 0:49:26The things you do to that poor stomach of yours!
0:49:26 > 0:49:28I ought to get you a picnic basket!
0:49:28 > 0:49:30What I'm going on is no picnic!
0:49:30 > 0:49:33- What about dinner?- Cook it and keep your fingers crossed!
0:49:33 > 0:49:35Bye, love.
0:49:41 > 0:49:44- What d'you think he was trying to do? - I'd like to think kill himself.
0:49:44 > 0:49:48- If these were mixed, the normal result would be death in five minutes.- What?
0:49:48 > 0:49:52- What is it?- I have a bit of a sick feeling it was something to speed up a change going on inside him.
0:49:52 > 0:49:58- But Carroon was an engineer! He didn't know anything about chemistry! - Carroon...didn't know.
0:49:58 > 0:50:02- What do you think he was doing here? - Well...- We're not certain.
0:50:02 > 0:50:05We're not certain about anything with this customer!
0:50:05 > 0:50:07Nobody in the street heard anything.
0:50:07 > 0:50:11They're all at church or in the local. He must have...
0:50:20 > 0:50:23Evans, come in quick, and quiet.
0:51:16 > 0:51:17HE PANTS
0:51:58 > 0:51:59CHURCH BELLS RING
0:52:16 > 0:52:20- There we are! - SHE HUMS
0:52:20 > 0:52:24And there's just the two of us today.
0:52:24 > 0:52:26We'll have our own tea-party.
0:52:26 > 0:52:31I don't like those other girls anyway. All they do is talk about their new clothes and dolls.
0:52:31 > 0:52:34You don't care about those things, do you?
0:52:34 > 0:52:37You don't care about new clothes or anything. We're friends.
0:52:40 > 0:52:43Now, you sit there and be a good girl while I make the tea.
0:52:46 > 0:52:49There's the teapot... there's the cups.
0:52:55 > 0:52:59I brought the most delicious cakes and biscuits!
0:52:59 > 0:53:02The others never serve anything, but WE do!
0:53:02 > 0:53:05Look - aren't they lovely?
0:53:05 > 0:53:10- CREAKING - Don't be frightened. That's only the old rats that live in this old boat.
0:53:12 > 0:53:13Now, tea is ready.
0:53:15 > 0:53:16Sugar? One?
0:53:16 > 0:53:18Two? All right.
0:53:18 > 0:53:21Now you may have a cake. This one.
0:53:21 > 0:53:23It's filled with jellies.
0:53:23 > 0:53:26I like the other one because it's full of chocolate.
0:53:27 > 0:53:30Oh! We thought you were rats.
0:53:31 > 0:53:33Won't you stay and have tea with us?
0:53:35 > 0:53:37We'd very much like you to stay.
0:53:37 > 0:53:39You look so tired.
0:53:39 > 0:53:42There's plenty, if that's what you're worried about.
0:53:42 > 0:53:45And cakes, too.
0:53:45 > 0:53:48Go on, Dolly - you ask him.
0:53:48 > 0:53:52- IN DOLL'S VOICE - Please, won't you have tea and cakes with us?
0:53:52 > 0:53:55We would like you to stay very much.
0:53:55 > 0:54:00And you may have the cake that has all the chocolate inside.
0:54:00 > 0:54:03HE WHIMPERS
0:54:25 > 0:54:28Yes? What time was this?
0:54:28 > 0:54:30Was it an eyewitness?
0:54:30 > 0:54:37- I see.- We're doing fine - he's been positively seen in Liverpool, Margate, Ostend and the Orkneys!
0:54:37 > 0:54:40Yes? Yes. The Deptford area?
0:54:40 > 0:54:43- What?- A kid told her mother... Yes?
0:54:43 > 0:54:45About two hours ago? Hold it, please.
0:54:45 > 0:54:52- A kid got her doll broken by a man down by some derelict boats near Deptford.- So it had to be Carroon?
0:54:52 > 0:54:55Deptford said the description could fit Carroon.
0:54:55 > 0:54:58Oh right? Well, that's why there's a police station at Deptford!
0:54:58 > 0:55:01Thank you, Deptford. Keep us informed.
0:55:01 > 0:55:04Mobile - there's a Deptford alert on Carroon.
0:55:04 > 0:55:07Yes, I know it is - so your boys can have another little drive!
0:55:07 > 0:55:11Cover derelict boats, warehouses and bomb shelters.
0:55:11 > 0:55:14All right, so do it again!
0:55:14 > 0:55:16Where is he getting food?
0:55:17 > 0:55:20No, no, shut up, Simba - you've had your dinner, it's time to go to bed!
0:55:20 > 0:55:24Go on - off you go! Go on, don't stand there bleating at me - off you go to bed.
0:55:36 > 0:55:39Goodnight, fellas! Sleep well!
0:55:39 > 0:55:41Hello, Joey! You know something?
0:55:41 > 0:55:44Could have sworn I saw you having tea in a cafe this afternoon!
0:55:44 > 0:55:47Turned out to be a customer, though!
0:56:16 > 0:56:19MONKEY SCREECHES
0:57:01 > 0:57:04GROWLING
0:57:14 > 0:57:16ANIMALS CALL OUT
0:58:15 > 0:58:18ANIMALS GROW AGITATED
0:58:29 > 0:58:32GROWLING AND SNARLING
0:59:21 > 0:59:24This is exactly as the keeper found them when he came on duty.
0:59:24 > 0:59:26- Are there others?- Yes, over here.
0:59:38 > 0:59:40We found three more outside the Antelope House.
0:59:40 > 0:59:42- Well, what was left of them.- Look!
0:59:47 > 0:59:51- Look at that - complete absorption this time. - That's what I've been afraid of.
0:59:51 > 0:59:54Inspector, get this place closed and everybody out.
0:59:54 > 0:59:57Quickly and quietly. No panic, no excitement.
0:59:57 > 0:59:59Close the whole place?
0:59:59 > 1:00:03Sir, we know what we're doing. Just tell your men to co-operate, please.
1:00:03 > 1:00:07I don't understand. What's happening, anyway? What killed these animals?
1:00:07 > 1:00:09You'd better say natural causes for now.
1:00:11 > 1:00:15- Sorry, ma'am. We're closed this morning.- But we've come all the way from Epping!
1:00:15 > 1:00:18Sorry, ma'am, we're not open this morning.
1:00:18 > 1:00:20- And this afternoon? - I wish I could tell you.
1:00:20 > 1:00:24Sorry, folks, zoo closed. I'm very sorry, but we're closed.
1:00:24 > 1:00:25- Closed?- Very sorry.
1:01:00 > 1:01:03Quatermass! Inspector!
1:01:10 > 1:01:13- What is it?- It was here.
1:01:15 > 1:01:17Look at this.
1:01:18 > 1:01:22- It's alive!- Looks pretty horrible, doesn't it!- Quick, the sample box!
1:01:27 > 1:01:31Well, what manner or shape of thing do we look for now?
1:01:31 > 1:01:37You'll know it when you see it. Just send your men out with a prayer that we find it in time.
1:01:40 > 1:01:42It's almost too terrifying to think about.
1:01:42 > 1:01:46In less than 12 minutes, every animal completely absorbed,
1:01:46 > 1:01:49except one. Gone, like quicksand.
1:01:49 > 1:01:52But this quicksand knows what it's doing.
1:01:52 > 1:01:55- It's trebled its size in an hour. - Do you know what this means?
1:01:55 > 1:01:58This is only a fragment of the main organism.
1:01:58 > 1:02:03If the same thing is happening to him at the same rate of speed, if absorbing those mice can do this...
1:02:03 > 1:02:06no living thing on Earth stands a chance against it.
1:02:06 > 1:02:09How do we fight it? How do we stop it?
1:02:09 > 1:02:11Hands off me, young man!
1:02:11 > 1:02:14Please remember that I've come here of my own accord!
1:02:14 > 1:02:18- Yes.- I come here to complain about something I saw. - You keep saying that...
1:02:18 > 1:02:21I refuse to divulge it to any common constable
1:02:21 > 1:02:25who has nothing else to do all day but to sit on his big flat fleet...
1:02:25 > 1:02:27on his big fat fleet...
1:02:27 > 1:02:30Now, come on, Rosie, old girl...
1:02:30 > 1:02:31Don't you "old girl" me!
1:02:31 > 1:02:33I'm young enough to be your mother!
1:02:33 > 1:02:38- Although what respectable woman would want to be, I don't know. - All right, ma'am.
1:02:38 > 1:02:40Here! I come in here of my own free will!
1:02:40 > 1:02:44I come here of my own vole... violition.
1:02:44 > 1:02:47And very glad we are to see you. What can we do for you?
1:02:47 > 1:02:48I wish to make a report.
1:02:48 > 1:02:50Miss Rosemary...Elizabeth...
1:02:50 > 1:02:53Wrigley. What address this week?
1:02:53 > 1:02:54I'm temporarily visiting.
1:02:54 > 1:02:56- Bow Street?- With friends.
1:02:56 > 1:03:00Salvation Army, Embankment. What did you see this time, Rosie?
1:03:00 > 1:03:01It was terrible.
1:03:01 > 1:03:04- Shocking.- I know. It always is. Just tell me what you saw.
1:03:04 > 1:03:08It's a bit of a thing if a young woman can't walk the streets of London
1:03:08 > 1:03:11without creepy-crawlies running about as they please!
1:03:11 > 1:03:15What's the police for if not to protect us from the likes of that?
1:03:15 > 1:03:20- Go on, tell me. Tell me, what's the police for?- Rosie! Rosie,
1:03:20 > 1:03:23just tell me what you saw. And we, of the London Metropolitan Police,
1:03:23 > 1:03:26will do all in our power to see it doesn't occur again.
1:03:26 > 1:03:30My voice went so dry that I couldn't even yell for a copper.
1:03:30 > 1:03:33I've still got this awful thirst.
1:03:33 > 1:03:35It makes it hard to remember.
1:03:35 > 1:03:37And water makes me as sick as a baby.
1:03:37 > 1:03:41It'd better be worthwhile, Rosie. ..After you tell me.
1:03:43 > 1:03:46I was sitting in a doorway, because I wasn't feeling so well.
1:03:46 > 1:03:50The doctor says that too much walking's bad for my legs.
1:03:50 > 1:03:52- It's my legs, you see. - You were sitting in a doorway.
1:03:52 > 1:03:56Just for a minute or two. When suddenly I heard a...
1:03:56 > 1:03:59- kind of rustling, it was.- Rustling?
1:03:59 > 1:04:03So I looked. There, at the end of the street,
1:04:03 > 1:04:04I saw something move.
1:04:04 > 1:04:08- Something enormous. - What moved, Rosie?
1:04:08 > 1:04:13I couldn't make out the shape properly. I usually make out the shape of these things.
1:04:13 > 1:04:15Think carefully, Rosie.
1:04:15 > 1:04:21Was it...? This something, was it walking quickly or slowly?
1:04:21 > 1:04:24Walking? It was kind of crawling.
1:04:24 > 1:04:26Up on a wall.
1:04:26 > 1:04:29It wasn't like any of the things I see on Saturday nights.
1:04:29 > 1:04:31I think this time you really saw it.
1:04:31 > 1:04:34Get me the Yard. Cancel it! This is priority.
1:04:34 > 1:04:38I'm very sorry. You mean this time it's not a hallu...
1:04:38 > 1:04:41- it's not a gin goblin? - No, Rosie. This time it was real.
1:04:41 > 1:04:43Really?
1:04:43 > 1:04:44It's my legs!
1:04:44 > 1:04:46Hello? Scotland Yard?
1:04:46 > 1:04:48Yes, Inspector Lomax, please.
1:04:50 > 1:04:52Lomax here.
1:04:52 > 1:04:54Yes?
1:04:54 > 1:04:56Say that again?
1:04:56 > 1:04:58Get the commissioner right away.
1:04:59 > 1:05:02PHONE RINGS
1:05:03 > 1:05:05Hello? Yes.
1:05:05 > 1:05:07Yes?
1:05:07 > 1:05:09We'll be right there.
1:05:09 > 1:05:11Lomax.
1:05:13 > 1:05:16He said to find a brick wall 30 feet high.
1:05:54 > 1:05:56There's no doubt at all he was here.
1:05:56 > 1:06:00Quite recently, too. The trail ends on the wall.
1:06:00 > 1:06:01Let me have that case up here.
1:06:01 > 1:06:04Get him his case, Sergeant. It's in the car.
1:06:04 > 1:06:09Use the car radio. I want a cordon round the entire area. Evacuate all public.
1:06:09 > 1:06:14- Check out every movement that's likely to take place inside this radius tonight.- Yes, sir.
1:06:14 > 1:06:19Warn everyone not to touch anything unusual they may find in the streets and gardens.
1:06:19 > 1:06:21Warn the children especially.
1:07:13 > 1:07:14It's got out?
1:07:17 > 1:07:21- Look at the size of it now! - It's out for food. Those mice.
1:07:21 > 1:07:22Here.
1:07:25 > 1:07:29Yes. Don't touch it! Look at those sporangias. Spore-producing patches.
1:07:29 > 1:07:33If it had completed this reproductive cycle, this room would have be full of tendrils.
1:07:33 > 1:07:36How many more of these things are there?
1:07:36 > 1:07:39Better phone Lomax. It's not a question of how many, but where?
1:07:39 > 1:07:44If it can reproduce at this rate, another 24 hours, a few days...
1:07:44 > 1:07:46Get me Scotland Yard quickly.
1:07:46 > 1:07:49Suppose it had reached the mice?
1:07:49 > 1:07:52Yes...yes, of course.
1:07:52 > 1:07:55- The commissioner. - They're getting him, sir.- Right.
1:07:55 > 1:07:58Get hold of Evans. I want him to get out an anti-panic statement.
1:07:58 > 1:08:02- I want it broadcast, televised, and printed in all the nationals. - Yes, sir.
1:08:02 > 1:08:05Yes? I want every man in the metropolitan area.
1:08:05 > 1:08:09Immediate search of parks, fields, undergrounds and subways.
1:08:09 > 1:08:13It's the Quatermass Experiment. You'll have to take it to top level.
1:08:13 > 1:08:15I need troops and the civil defence.
1:08:15 > 1:08:16Yes, sir, I'll be right up.
1:08:55 > 1:09:00NO SOUND
1:09:01 > 1:09:05This is all we need to start the programme with a swing.
1:09:05 > 1:09:09- What's he talking about? - No-one must touch anything unusual they find in the streets.
1:09:09 > 1:09:12Don't panic. Inform the nearest police station.
1:09:12 > 1:09:15They've been putting it out all day on the radio.
1:09:15 > 1:09:17Westminster Abbey? Yes?
1:09:17 > 1:09:21Standing by. Opening announcement coming up.
1:09:21 > 1:09:23OK. Stand by, cameras.
1:09:29 > 1:09:31All right, camera one. Titles are in.
1:09:31 > 1:09:34We'll be on you in five seconds.
1:09:34 > 1:09:39Four, three, two, one...
1:09:43 > 1:09:46On you, camera one! Where are you?
1:09:46 > 1:09:49Right, quick. Take over, camera two. On you instead.
1:09:52 > 1:09:56- What's that? What's happened? - Looks like a body.
1:09:56 > 1:09:57Kill transmission!
1:09:57 > 1:10:01Lime Grove? Fill in, will you? I'll get back as soon as possible.
1:10:01 > 1:10:04- Tell Presentation.- Hello?
1:10:22 > 1:10:23What goes on here?
1:10:23 > 1:10:25He fell from the scaffolding.
1:10:25 > 1:10:27- Slipped?- Dead before he fell.
1:10:27 > 1:10:29Dead before he fell?
1:10:29 > 1:10:32- Sweep this up.- I shouldn't, unless you have a strong stomach.
1:10:34 > 1:10:36Better get the police.
1:10:36 > 1:10:40- Yes, get the police.- Well, shall we go on with the programme?
1:10:40 > 1:10:42- It's up to you, sir.- I'm all right.
1:10:42 > 1:10:44We'd better carry on in another part of the abbey.
1:10:44 > 1:10:49Pull that lot in over here, will you? Get a blanket and cover him up.
1:10:49 > 1:10:50Come on, quick.
1:10:55 > 1:10:57- It's Quatermass.- Right.
1:11:06 > 1:11:10All right, I want the whole abbey cleared. Public, clergy, everyone.
1:11:10 > 1:11:14- Quick.- Please, there's a transmission going on!- It's coming off.
1:11:14 > 1:11:16I want you all out. Every second may count.
1:11:19 > 1:11:22Inspector, not in front of the cameras.
1:11:22 > 1:11:26- This is going all over England! - Listen, it's an emergency.
1:11:26 > 1:11:30- Get this stopped.- I can't stop it! - Where's your producer?- On the truck.
1:11:30 > 1:11:35..hidden under layers of paint and aged by the dust of time...
1:11:44 > 1:11:45Ring for reinforcements.
1:11:48 > 1:11:51Camera two, stand by on stained-glass window.
1:11:51 > 1:11:54Camera three on scaffolding. Hold it.
1:11:54 > 1:11:58- I'm Inspector Lomax. Get your people out of the abbey. - To you, camera three.
1:11:58 > 1:12:01- Everyone in there is in deadly danger!- We're on transmission!
1:12:01 > 1:12:05Coming to camera one. Pan up as high as you can. Now...
1:12:05 > 1:12:08What in the name of...?!
1:12:08 > 1:12:10It must be 20 feet across!
1:12:12 > 1:12:14Kill transmission.
1:12:14 > 1:12:18Camera one, hold that shot and lock off, then everybody out!
1:12:19 > 1:12:21Hello? Hello, Presentation?
1:12:21 > 1:12:24Carry on as best you can. We can't go on here.
1:12:24 > 1:12:26Yes. Yes, fill in, will you?
1:12:29 > 1:12:31Quatermass, quick, in the truck.
1:12:36 > 1:12:38At the Abbey. There's an emergency.
1:12:38 > 1:12:40You saw it? We don't know what it is.
1:12:40 > 1:12:42Same pattern as the one in the lab.
1:12:42 > 1:12:44Only 20 times the power of reproduction.
1:12:44 > 1:12:47If those nodules spore, nothing will stop them.
1:12:47 > 1:12:51They'll break out and spread by the million in the air and wind.
1:12:51 > 1:12:56- How long before it reproduces again? - 80 or 90 minutes. Within hours, for every one there'll be a million.
1:12:56 > 1:12:59- It's coming lower.- We must stop it. - We'll need a miracle now!
1:12:59 > 1:13:03- We'll get flame-throwers.- Parts may escape. All of it must be killed!
1:13:03 > 1:13:07- Dynamite.- That would only spread it further.- It's stopped moving!
1:13:07 > 1:13:10It's barely pulsating now.
1:13:10 > 1:13:15- Our timing was out. It's in its last dormant stages, just before it reproduces.- It's changing again!
1:13:15 > 1:13:18The beginning of new spore-producing zones - dozens.
1:13:18 > 1:13:21The way it's hanging round the scaffolding!
1:13:21 > 1:13:24Let's go. I think we can stop it.
1:13:27 > 1:13:31- What now, Professor?- That scaffolding inside. I want to run cables to it,
1:13:31 > 1:13:34then tap the main power line with enough current to burn it up.
1:13:34 > 1:13:38Keep pouring current through it to melt it right down to the ground.
1:13:38 > 1:13:43- The abbey!- I want all the current in London diverted here.- You'll bring the city to a standstill!
1:13:43 > 1:13:46If that thing spores before we kill it, you won't have a city.
1:13:46 > 1:13:49I hope you're right. I just hope you're right!
1:13:59 > 1:14:02BELL TOLLS
1:14:09 > 1:14:12- TANNOY:- 'Attention, everybody. Attention, everybody.
1:14:12 > 1:14:15'There is no cause for alarm.
1:14:15 > 1:14:18'I repeat, there is no cause for alarm.
1:14:18 > 1:14:19'Please do not run.
1:14:19 > 1:14:24'Unless you have official business in this vicinity, please disperse.
1:14:24 > 1:14:26'Go back to your homes.
1:14:26 > 1:14:30'There is nothing to see. Go back to your homes.'
1:15:41 > 1:15:44Hello, Battersea? Stand by.
1:15:48 > 1:15:50Switch on.
1:15:57 > 1:16:00SCREECHING
1:17:07 > 1:17:09Well, this time you won.
1:17:09 > 1:17:12In my simple Bible way, I did a lot of praying.
1:17:12 > 1:17:15One world at a time's good enough for me.
1:17:23 > 1:17:25Can we ease it all up now, sir?
1:17:31 > 1:17:34Is it all right, sir?
1:17:45 > 1:17:49Quatermass, why wasn't I involved with all this?!
1:17:51 > 1:17:54I've only just heard, sir. I'd have been here sooner.
1:17:54 > 1:17:55Is there anything I can do?
1:17:55 > 1:17:58Yes, Mark, I'm going to need some help.
1:17:58 > 1:18:02- Help, sir? What are you going to do? - I'm going to start again.
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