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Plan 9 From Outer Space Transcription
Plan 9 From Outer Space Transcription
Burbank Tower to American Flight 812, over. Burbank Tower to American Flight
812, over.
DANNY
Holy mackeral.
OPERATOR
Burbank Tower to American Flight 812, are you in trouble?
[ENTER FLIGHT ATTENDANT]
EDITH
Trouble?
DANNY
Take a look for yourself.
EDITH
What in the world...
DANNY
That's nothing from this world.
OPERATOR
Burbank Tower to American Flight 812, are you in trouble? Are you in trouble?
DANNY
Mayday, mayday. Stand by, Burbank Tower.
JEFF
Do you suppose the passengers saw it?
EDITH
I doubt it. Most of them are asleep. But it was quite a jolt, Jeff. I'll check.
JEFF
Good. We'll get them ready for landing. Keep it quiet until we get instructions.
EDITH
Right.
JEFF
Okay Danny.
DANNY
American Flight 812 reporting to Burbank Tower, over.
[SHOT OF FLYING SAUCER]
[CEMETERY, TWO GRAVEDIGGERS]
GRAVEDIGGER #1
D'you hear anything
GRAVEDIGGER #2
I thought I did.
GRAVEDIGGER #1
Don't like hearin' noises. 'Specially when there ain't s'posed to be any.
GRAVEDIGGER #2
Yeah, sorta spooky-like.
GRAVEDIGGER #1
Maybe we're getting' old.
GRAVEDIGGER #2
Whatever it is it's gone now.
GRAVEDIGGER #1
That's the best thing for us too. Gone.
GRAVEDIGGER #2
Yeah, let's go.
[THEY BEGIN TO WALK AWAY, ARE GREETED BY VAMPIRA, WHO SOMEHOW MANAGES TO KILL
THEM BOTH FROM TEN FEET AWAY]
GRAVEDIGGER #1 & 2
Aaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaah!
Oh.
MAN MOURNER
Well, it's getting' dark. We'd best be on our way.
CRISWELL
Then, as two of his mourners left his final resting place.
[WOMAN DISCOVERS THE BODIES OF THE GRAVEDIGGERS]
WOMAN MOURNER
Aaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaah! Look!!
[OUTSIDE OF POLICE STATION, MEN GETTING INTO CAR]
[BACK TO CEMETERY]
CRISWELL
Minutes later, the police, lead by Inspector Daniel Clay, arrived at the scene.
CLAY
Who found him?
PATROLMAN LARRY
The man and girl.
CLAY
Medical, uh, examiner been 'round yet?
PATROLMAN LARRY
Just left. The morgue wagon oughta be along most any time.
CLAY
You get their statement?
PATROLMAN LARRY
Yeah, much as we could. They're pretty scared.
CLAY
Finding a mess like this oughta make anyone frightened. Have one of the boys
take the guy and the girl back to town. You take charge.
LIEUTENANT HARPER
Okay Inspector. What're you gonna do?
CLAY
Look around a little.
LT. HARPER
Once you get beyond those lights you won't be able to see your hand in front of
your face.
CLAY
I will get one of the flashlights from the patrol car.
LT. HARPER
You be careful Clay.
CLAY
PAULA
Well did you report it?
JEFF
Yeah, radioed in immediately and they said well keep it quiet until you land.
Then as soon as we landed, big army brass grabbed us and made us swear to
secrecy about the whole thing. Oh, it burns me up. These things have been seen
for years. They're here, it's a fact. And the public oughta know about it.
PAULA
There must be something more you can do about it.
JEFF
Oh no there isn't. Oh, but what's the point of making a fuss. Last night I saw a
flying object that couldn't possibly have been from this planet. But I can't say
a word. I'm muzzled by army brass! I can't even admit I saw the thing!
[BACK TO GRAVEYARD, CLAY IS ATTACKED BY GHOUL MAN AND VAMPIRA, FIRES A FEW
SHOTS, AND IS ULTIMATELY SNUFFED, AS WE SAY]
[BACK TO CRIME SCENE]
LT. HARPER
Sounds like Clay's in trouble.
PATROLMAN LARRY
Bet that apparition we saw had something to do with it.
LT. HARPER
Come on. [THEY RUN OFF-SCREEN AND EVENTUALLY FIND CLAY. LARRY CHECKS HIS PULSE]
Is he dead?
PATROLMAN LARRY
Yeah. He's messed up as bad as those two back there. S'pose that saucer or
whatever it was had something to do with this?
LT. HARPER
Your guess is as good as mine, Larry. But one thing's sure. Inspector Clay is
dead...murdered...and somebody's responsible!
LARRY
You're in charge now, Lieutenant.
LT. HARPER
Yeah, guess I am. Kelton.
KELTON
Yes Sir?
LT. HARPER
Get back up to the car and get on the radio. Tell the coroner he's gotta make
another trip out here.
KELTON
Well how 'bout the lab boys?
LT. HARPER
Well who do you think we left back at the car, boy scouts? Come on, Larry.
[CLAY'S FUNERAL]
REV. LYNN LEMON
Greater love hath no man, than to lay down his life for another. It is always
difficult to have last words over the grave of a friend. And Inspector Daniel
Clay was a friend. A dear friend to me and to all of us. The bell has rung upon
his great career. Now we lay him to rest. A rest well deserved, but so
premature.
[SEQUENCE IN WHICH UFOs FLY OVER HOLLYWOOD, AND PEOPLE GET SCARED. THEN WE GO TO
WASHINGTON, WHERE COL. EDWARDSONEL EDWARDS LOOKS THROUGH HIS BINOCULARS AS STOCK
FOOTAGE FROM WWII SHOWS MEN FIRING LARGE ROCKETS THAT WHEN FIRED AT THE UFOs
SEEM TO BE NO MORE THAN FIRECRACKERS. ALL THE WHILE CRISWELL IS GIVING ONE OF
HIS SPEECHES.]
CRISWELL
People turning south from the freeway were startled when they saw three flying
saucers high over Hollywood Boulevard. A woman, startled by the sight in the
sky, telephones the police. There comes a time in each man's life, when he can't
even believe his own eyes. Saucers seen over Hollywood! Flying saucers seen over
Washington D.C. The army convoy moved into the field. Rockets were quickly set
up. COL. EDWARDSonel Tom Edwards, in charge of saucer field activities, was to
make the greatest decision of his career. He made that decision. COL.
EDWARDSonel Edwards gave the signal to fire. Then as swiftly as they had come,
they were gone. Even to the piercing eye of radar and the speeding jet fighters.
ARMY GUY
Quite a sight, wasn't it Sir.
EDWARDS
A sight I'd rather not be seeing.
ARMY GUY
Are you worried about them Sir?
EDWARDS
Well, they must have a reason for their visits.
ARMY GUY
Visits? Well that would indicate visitors! Are big guns the usual way of
welcoming visitors?
EDWARDS
We haven't always fired at them.
ARMY GUY
Oh?
EDWARDS
For a time we tried to contact them by radio, but no response. Then they
attacked a town. A small town, I'll admit. But nevertheless a town of people.
People who died.
ARMY GUY
I never heard about that Sir.
EDWARDS
Well, it was covered up by the higher echelon. Take any fire, any earthquake,
any major disaster, then wonder. Flying saucers, Captain, are still a rumour.
Officially.
CAPTAIN
Looks like we beat them off again Sir.
EDWARDS
What do they want...where are they from...where are they going...
CAPTAIN
They, Sir? Who? Oh, this is a training manoeuver, Sir. We only did a little
practice firing at the clouds.
EDWARDS
Yeah. I wonder what their next move will be.
CRISWELL
What will their next move be?
[INSIDE SPACESHIP, TWO MEN...er- TWO "ALIENS", ONE SITTING]
MESSENGER
Your space commander has returned from Earth.
RULER
Send him in.
[ENTER EROS AND TANNA]
RULER
You have your report?
EROS
We had to pull in here to Space Station 7 for regeneration. We're returning to
the planet Earth immediately thereafter.
RULER
What progress has been made?
EROS
We contacted government officials. They refuse over existence.
RULER
What plan will you follow now?
EROS
Plan 9. It's been absolutely impossible to work through these Earth creatures.
Their soul is too controlled.
RULER
Plan 9...ah yes. Plan 9 deals with the resurrection of the dead. Long-distance
electrodes shot into the pinion pituitary glands of recent dead. Have you
attempted any of this plan as yet?
EROS
Yes Excellency.
RULER
How successful has it been?
EROS
We have risen two so far. We shall be just as successful on more.
RULER
The living...they have no suspicion of your movements?
EROS
We had to dispose of one policeman. However, none of those risen have been seen.
At least, not by anyone who still remains alive.
RULER
It's too bad it must be handled this way. However it must. Those who take from
the grave will lead the way for our other operations.
EROS
Yes, Excellency.
RULER
Continue on. Report to me in two Earth days.
[JUST OUTSIDE FIRST ROOM]
TANNA
I feared His Excellency wouldn't take our report this well.
EROS
Well had he been dealing with our own people his reaction would have been
completely different. He understands the difficulties of the Earth race.
TANNA
What do you think will be the next obstacle the Earth people will put in our
way?
EROS
Well, as long as they can think we'll have our problems. But those whom we're
using cannot think. They are the dead. Brought to a simulated life by our
electrode guns. You know, it's an interesting think when you consider...the
Earth people, who can think, are so frightened by those who cannot: the dead.
Well our ship should be regenerated. We better get started.
[OUTSIDE TRENT HOUSE]
JEFF
I still think you oughta go in town and stay with your mother until I get back.
PAULA
This is our home and nothing's going to take me from it. Besides, most men try
and keep their wives from going home to Momma.
JEFF
That's not the point.
PAULA
That's all the point there's going to be. Now toddle off and fly your flying
machine, Darling. But if you see any more flying saucers, will you tell them to
pick another house to buzz? Don't worry about me.
JEFF
Oh you're the only thing I do worry about. Oh forget about the flying saucers.
They're up there. But there's something in that cemetery, and that's too close
for comfort.
PAULA
The saucers are up there. And the cemetery's out there. But I'll be locked up in
there. Now off to your wild blue yonders.
JEFF
You promise you'll lock the doors immediately?
PAULA
I promise. Besides, I'll be in bed before half an hour is gone, with your pillow
beside me.
JEFF
My pillow?
PAULA
Well, I have to have something to keep me company while you're away. Sometimes
in the night when it does get a little lonely, I reach over and touch it, then
it doesn't seem so lonely anymore.
JEFF
A crazy kid. I do love you, Darlin'. See you Thursday.
PAULA
Goodbye, Honey.
JEFF
You know I'm not leaving here until you're locked safely inside.
PAULA
All right, Darling. If you're especially nice I may even lock the side door.
JEFF
And be sure you keep the yard lights on.
[COCKPIT, SAME AS BEFORE]
DANNY
You're mighty silent this trip, Jeff.
JEFF
Huh?
DANNY
You haven't spoken ten words since takeoff.
JEFF
I guess I'm preoccupied, Danny.
DANNY
We've got thirty-three passengers back there that have time to be preoccupied.
EDITH
We land in Albuquerque at 4 am. That's strictly a nine o'clock town.
DANNY
Well I know a friend that'll help us -EDITH
Let's have a problem first, huh Danny. [?]
DANNY
Ah he's worried about Paula.
EDITH
I read about that cemetery business. I tried to get you kids to not buy too near
one of those things. We get there soon enough as it is.
DANNY
He thought it'd be quiet and peaceful there.
EDITH
No doubt about that. It's quiet alright, like a tomb. I'm sorry Jeff, that was a
bad joke. Say., I almost forgot what I came in here for. How's the coffee
situation?
DANNY
Mmmm that's for me.
JEFF
That sure wouldn't hurt anything, Edie.
EDITH
Okay, I'll be right back. And say Jeff, make that call to your wife.
DANNY
Huh, not only will she throw water on my Albuquerque plan but now she's
repeating herself. How 'bout that Albuquerque ball?
EDITH
I can't resist your charm, Danny Boy.
[LIGHTNING, THEN WE GO TO A CEMETERY AND A MAN WALKS OUT...THE FAMOUS BELA
FOOTAGE]
CRISWELL
Residents near the cemetery paid little attention to the blast of thunder and
the flash of lightning. But from the blast, arose the moving figure of the dead
old man.
[INSIDE MRS. TRENT'S BEDROOM]
PAULA
Hello? Who? Mac? Well, hi Mac! Sure I'm all right. I just fell asleep. Tell Jeff
I'm all right. Okay Mac. Thanks for calling. Goodnight.
[SEQUENCE DURING WHICH BELA AND HIS "DOUBLE" ENTER THE TRENT HOUSE AND CHASE
PAULA INTO THE GRAVEYARD, WHERE WE SEE CLAY CLIMB OUT OF HIS GRAVE AND THEN
ATTACK PAULA, WITH VAMPIRA AT HIS SIDE. EVENTUALLY, PAULA FINDS HER WAY OUT OF
THE GRAVEYARD, AND MUST HAVE GONE THROUGH SOME SORT OF A TIME VORTEX BECAUSE IT
IS NOW DAYTIME. A FARMER COMES TO HER AID]
FARMER
Mrs. Trent! Mrs. Trent! What's wrong?
[FARMER PICKS HER UP, PUTS HER IN HIS CAR, STARTS IT UP AND DRIVES AWAY]
[INSIDE SMALLER SHIP]
EROS
They'll be at the hatch in a moment. You can open it now, Tanna. Turn off the
electrodes quickly. They can't tell us from anyone else.
[CEMETERY, TWO POLICEMEN]
JAMIE
It's tough to find something when you don't know what you're looking for.
KELTON
I don't think the Lieutenant does either.
JAMIE
Then what're doing out here? I was off duty an hour ago.
KELTON
Ah don't ask me any questions. I'm just a hardhand [hat? head?] just like you.
[DIFFERENT PART OF CEMETERY]
LARRY
What do you suppose that noise was?
LT. HARPER
Whatever it was it's no more strange than the other things happening around this
cemetery.
LARRY
Spirits like Old Farmer Caulder talked about.
LT. HARPER
Heh. Maybe.
LARRY
The only spirits he saw tonight were those I smelled on his breath.
LT. HARPER
Well don't forget Mrs. Trent claims to have seen them too. She didn't have
anything on her breath.
LARRY
She was hysterical.
LT. HARPER
Well true, she was frightened, and in a state of shock. But, don't forget that
torn nightgown and the scratched feet.
LARRY
Yeah I hadn't thought of that. I guess that's why you're a detective lieutenant
and I'm still a uniformed cop.
LT. HARPER
Sometimes it's only the breaks, Larry. In the meantime let's get[KELTON AND JAMIE COME RUNNING IN]
KELTON
Lieutenant, Lieutenant! Did you hear that?
LARRY
How could we help it?
POLICEMAN
It sure was strange.
KELTON
Know what it was?
LT. HARPER
No more than you do.
POLICEMAN
If it weren't for orders I'd get out of here right now.
LT. HARPER
It was a saucer.
POLICEMAN
A flying saucer?
LARRY
What makes you say that?
LT. HARPER
You remember the noise we heard the other night?
LARRY
We were knocked to the ground, how could I forget?
LT. HARPER
Exactly, but you're not remembering that sound.
LARRY
There you're wrong, Lieutenant. I'm with a fact the sound is similar, but what
about the blinding light?
LT. HARPER
Well haven't you heard? Many times a saucer hasn't had a glow, or a light of any
kind for that matter.
LARRY
That proves it. What next Lietenant?
KELTON
Maybe this doesn't mean much, but uh Jamie and me found a grave that looks like
LARRY
Strange. If someone had broken in, the dirt should be piled up here somewhere.
It looks like it's fallen in into the grave.
LT. HARPER
Larry you'll be out of that uniform before you know it.
LARRY
Do we have the right to look down there Lieutenant?
LT. HARPER
Ah, technically no.
LARRY
No?
LT. HARPER
Well, this spot looks familiar, though. We shouldn't investigate any further
without the permission of next of kin.
KELTON
Let's go get it!
LT. HARPER
How?
LARRY
I see what you mean, the gravestone's down there.
LT. HARPER
Well, let's go down and find out who's grave it is.
KELTON
How?
LT. HARPER
By going down and finding out!
KELTON
Are you sure you mean that Lieutenant?
LT. HARPER
If I didn't mean it I wouldn't have said it.
LARRY
Scared?
KELTON
Well, why do I always get hooked up with these spook details? Monsters, graves,
bodies,...oooh all right. [ENTERS GRAVE] Casket's here, but nobody's in it.
LT. HARPER
Can you read the name on the casket?
KELTON
It's too dark. Give me a flashlight.
LT. HARPER
How 'bout a match?
KELTON
We sure could try it. Let me have them! It's Inspector Clay's grave! Be he ain't
in it!
[AERIAL SHOT OF PENTAGON]
CRISWELL
But meanwhile, in the Pentagon, in Washington DC...
[INSIDE AN OFFICE, MAN SITTING BEHIND DESK]
GENERAL ROBERTS
Try G2...[KNOCK AT DOOR]...come in! Yes of course, I'll keep in touch. Come in,
COL. EDWARDSonel Edwards. Close the door. At ease, COL. EDWARDSonel.
COL. EDWARDS. EDWARDS
Thank you, Sir.
GENERAL ROBERTS
Sit down. I understand, COL. EDWARDSonel, you've been on tap for many of our
saucer attacks.
COL. EDWARDS. EDWARDS
I'm in charge of field operations, Sir.
GENERAL ROBERTS
You believe there are such things as flying saucers, COL. EDWARDSonel?
COL. EDWARDS. EDWARDS
Yessir.
GENERAL ROBERTS
COL. EDWARDS
Contact? How?
GENERAL ROBERTS
Radio.
COL. EDWARDS
They speak our language?
GENERAL ROBERTS
Well not quite. We received messages from their space ships. For a while it
came in as just a lot of jumbled noise.
COL. EDWARDS
And now, Sir?
GENERAL ROBERTS
Well since they first uh tried contact with us by radio, we've developed a
language computer. A machine that breaks down any language to our own.
COL. EDWARDS
General, uh, what's this all got to do with me?
GENERAL ROBERTS
Well you've been in charge of saucer field activity for a long while. I think
it's about time you heard these recordings. Do you mind?
COL. EDWARDS
Mind? Huh, I'm anxious!
[GENERAL ROBERTS PLAYS THE RECORDING]
VOICE ON RECORDING
This is Eros, a space soldier from a planet of your galaxy. I fully realize our
language differences, however I also know you finally have perfected the
dictorobitary, or as you on Earth put it, the language computer. So you can now
understand that which I speak. Since the beginning of your time, we have been
far beyond your planet. It has taken you centuries to even grasp what we
developed eons of your years ago. Do you still believe it impossible we exist?
You didn't actually think you were the only inhabited planet in the universe?
How can any race be so stupid? Permit me to set your mind at ease. We do not
want to conquer your planet. Only save it. We could have destroyed it long ago,
if that had been our aim. Our principal purpose is friendly. I admit, we have
had to take certain means which you might refer to as criminal, but that is
because of your big guns which have destroyed some of our representatives. If
you persist in denying us our landings, then we must only accept that you do
not want us on friendly terms. We then have no alternative but to destroy you
before you destroy us. With your ancient, juvenile minds, you have developed
explosives too fast for your minds to conceive what you were doing. You are on
the verge of destroying the entire universe. We are part of that universe. This
is our last GENERAL ROBERTS
That's the end of that one. Atmospheric conditions in outer space often
interfere with transmitting.
COL. EDWARDS
How many of these recordings do you have General?
GENERAL ROBERTS
An even dozen up to now. This was the last one. We received it over a month ago.
COL. EDWARDS
Do you think they mean business?
GENERAL ROBERTS
We can't afford to take any chances. Come over here. You ever been to Hollywood?
COL. EDWARDS
Oh a couple of times. A few years ago.
GENERAL ROBERTS
You're going to be there in the morning. Just a few minutes from Hollywood, in
the town of San Fernando, reports have come in of saucers flying so low the
exhaust knocked people to the ground. There have even been stated claims of
saucer landings. Major Carlson will replace you while you're out there. You're
the best man for the job of attempting to contact them. Find them, Colonel. See
what in hell it is they want!
COL. EDWARDS
All right, Sir.
GENERAL ROBERTS
These are confidential reports, Colonel. Read them over carefully on the plane,
turn them over to intelligence when you get to Los Angeles. They'll have further
orders for disposition.
COL. EDWARDS
Yessir.
GENERAL ROBERTS
Colonel Edwards?
COL. EDWARDS
Yessir?
GENERAL ROBERTS
Good luck.
COL. EDWARDS
Thank you, Sir.
[INSIDE MOTHER SHIP]
EROS
We are ready to report, Excellency.
RULER
You are many days late.
EROS
It was unavoidable. We tried to transmit via televisor, but atmospheric
conditions made transmission impossible.
RULER
You should have transmitted as soon as conditions permitted.
EROS
I thought time was of the essence. Suspicion has fallen upon our movements. Our
ships have been viewed near the point of operations.
RULER
And what has this extra time gained, Eros?
EROS
We have successfully risen three of the dead ones.
RULER
Permit me to see one.
EROS
[TO TANNA] Bring in the big one. Use your small electrode gun.
RULER
I have taken two ships from your command.
EROS
But...that will leave only my ship!
RULER
It is necessary that you continue your mission alone. I have need of your other
ships elsewhere. Even though you have risen three of the Earth dead, the plan is
far from successful, and you Eros, must prove it an operational success before
more time, energy, and ships, may be spent on it.
EROS
We will not fail. Everything is on our side.
RULER
Not everything! You do not have the live Earth people! You report that your ship
was viewed at scene of your present operations?
EROS
That is correct.
RULER
They have been viewed many times, but not at the scene of operations. Something
must be done about that.
[TANNA BRINGS IN CLAY, WHO IMMEDIATELY STARTS AFTER EROS]
EROS
Stop him Tanna! He's close enough! Turn off your electrode gun! No! No! Stop him
Tanna!
TANNA
I can't get it, it's jammed!
EROS
Stop him you fool!
RULER
Drop the gun to the floor, Tanna! The metal will break contact!
EROS
[Gasping] That was too close!
RULER
Yes. Bring the giant here that I may get a better look at him. Yes, he's a fine
specimen. Are they all this powerful on planet Earth?
EROS
This one is an exception, Excellency.
RULER
What are the other two like?
EROS
One is a woman, the other an old man.
RULER
An old man, you say?
EROS
Yes, Excellency.
RULER
This gives me a plan. Put the big one away.
EROS
Pick up your electrode gun. Make sure it's in working order before pointing it
at him.
TANNA
Whatever made it jam must have been cleared by the fall.
EROS
Take him back to the ship.
RULER
The old one must be sacrificed. Re-land on Earth. Send the old one to enter a
dwelling. Then cut off the electrokinetic and turn on your ship's decomposure
ray. The result will astound those watching. Astound them enough to delay their
attention until you have gained your other recruits from the cemetery.
EROS
Yes, Excellency. It'll be done.
RULER
Report to me when this has been accomplished. Eros, the Earth people are getting
to that which we fear. Since they will not listen or respect our existence, they
cannot help but believe our powers when they see their own dead walking 'round
again, brought about by our advancement in such things. As soon as you have
enough of the dead recruits, march them on the capitals of the Earth, let
nothing stand in your way. Their own dead will be used to make them accept our
existence, and believe in that fact.
[OUTSIDE TRENT HOUSE CAR PULLS UP WITH LT. HARPER, KELTON, AND COLONEL EDWARDS]
LT. HARPER
Mr. and Mrs. Trent...this is Colonel Edwards from Washington DC.
PAULA
Good evening, Colonel.
JEFF
Hello Colonel.
LT. HARPER
Colonel would like to ask you a few questions.
JEFF
Questions? What about, Colonel?
COL. EDWARDS
May I, uh, sit down?
PAULA
Oh, I'm sorry, please do.
COL. EDWARDS
I want to ask you about your strange experience the other night, when you saw
the flying saucer.
[SHOT OF FLYING SAUCER, BASICALLY SO WE DON'T HAVE TO HEAR WHAT HAPPENED AGAIN]
PAULA
After that the police brought me home. I hope I never see such a sight again.
COL. EDWARDS
Well after your description I don't think I'd want to see it either. One thing
more...after you were forced to the ground by that blast of wind, was it a hot
or cold blast?
JEFF
It's kind of hard to explain. It wasn't hot, wasn't cold, it was just a terrific
force. We-we couldn't get off the ground.
PAULA
The light blinded me so badly I couldn't see a thing. We could only feel the
pressure of the wind, until it was gone.When the glare left us, we could see a
glowing ball disappearing off in the distance.
COL. EDWARDS
Which way?
PAULA
Toward the cemetery.
COL. EDWARDS
This is the most fantastic story I've ever heard.
JEFF
LT. HARPER
Well there's only one answer to that Mr. Trent, we'll know when we find it.
Inspector Clay's grave is right over here.
COL. EDWARDS
Is that the one you told me was broken into?
LT. HARPER
Yes.
COL. EDWARDS
This it?
LT. HARPER
Yeah.
COL. EDWARDS
Looks to me like someone had broken out instead of in.
LT. HARPER
I figured that, but that's impossible!
COL. EDWARDS
I wonder.
LT. HARPER
Look, Colonel, some things just can't happen.
COL. EDWARDS
Yeah well after that apparition that was draped across Mr. Trent's patio, I
would say we should keep our minds open to anything.
LT. HARPER
Look, Colonel, I'm a policeman. I've got to deal in facts. But, I guess I'll
have to go along with you. You know I bet my badge right now we haven't seen
the last of those weirdies.
[SPACESHIP]
EROS
They'll discover our ship soon.
TANNA
You going to let them find us?
EROS
It's the only way. These are the same men who have been so close so often. They
must be halted before they can inform others about us.
TANNA
But there were others in the car!
EROS
They'll be taken too. Send the big one to get the girl and the policeman. I'll
turn on the dictorobitary so we may converse with them.
[CLAY'S GRAVE]
JEFF
JEFF
You goin' in that thing?
COL. EDWARDS
That's what we're here for.
JEFF
I don't know, the way these things speed around we might just get in there and
pft! Off it goes.
COL. EDWARDS
That's a chance we take.
LT. HARPER
Well, I took a chance on those earlier airplanes. Might just as well see what
the inside of one of these looks like. Got your guns ready?
JEFF
I tell you one thing, if a little green man jumps out at me I'm shooting first
and asking questions later.
[SHIP]
TANNA
They're in the outer chamber now. Eros, do we have to kill them?
EROS
Yes.
TANNA
It seems such a waste.
EROS
Well wouldn't it be better to kill a few now than, with their meddling, permit
them to destroy the entire universe?
TANNA
You're always right, Eros.
EROS
Of course. But those are not my words, those are the words of the Ruler.
[THE THREE MEN ENTER THE ROOM, GUNS READY]
LT. HARPER
Now you two stay right where you're at.
EROS
We will do as you command. For the moment.
LT. HARPER
No for the moment about it. You just do as I tell you.
EROS
You do not need guns. They would be of no use to you now.
LT. HARPER
They've been mighty useful before on flesh and blood, and you two look like
EROS
I? A fiend? I am a soldier of our planet! I? A fiend? We did not come here as
enemies. We came only with friendly intentions. To talk. To ask your aid.
COL. EDWARDS
Our aid?
EROS
Yes. Your aid for the whole universe. But your governments of Eath refused even
to accept our existence. Even though you've seen us, heard our messages, you
still refused to accept us.
COL. EDWARDS
Why is it so important that you want to contact the governments of our Earth?
EROS
Because of death. Because all you of Earth are idiots!
JEFF
Now you just hold on, Buster.
EROS
No you hold on. First was your firecracker, a harmless explosive. Then your
handgrenade. They began to kill your own people a few at a time. Then the bomb,
then a larger bomb. Many people are killed at one time. Then your scientists
stumbled upon the atom bomb. Split the atom. Then the hydrogen bomb, where you
actually explode the air itself. Now you [audio jump] brings the destruction of
the entire universe, served by our sun. The only explosion left is the
solaronite.
COL. EDWARDS
Why there's no such thing.
EROS
Perhaps to you. But we've known it for centuries. Your scientists will stumble
upon it as they have all the others. But the juvenile minds you possess will not
comprehend its strength, until it's too late.
COL. EDWARDS
You're way above our heads.
EROS
The solaronite is a way to explode the actual particles of sunlight.
COL. EDWARDS
Why that's impossible.
EROS
Even now, your scientists are working on a way to harness the sun's rays. The
rays of sunlight are minute particles. Is it so far from your imagination they
cannot do as I have suggested?
COL. EDWARDS
Why a particle of sunlight can't even be seen or measured.
EROS
Can you see or measure an atom? Yet you can explode one. A ray of sunlight is
made up many atoms.
JEFF
So what if we do developed this solaronite bomb? We'd be even a stronger nation
than now.
EROS
Stronger. You see? You see? Your stupid minds...stupid! Stupid!!
JEFF
That's all I'm taking from you!
[JEFF LEAPS AT EROS]
LT. HARPER
Get back here you jerk! Let him finish.
EROS
It's because of men like you that all must be destroyed. Headstrong, violent! No
use of the mind God gave you.
JEFF
You talk of God?
EROS
You also think it impossible that we, too, might think of God? You, [TO COL.
EDWARDS] who wear the uniform of your country. You see, I wear the uniform of my
country. Yes, we've had to use drastic means to get to you, but you left us no
alternative. When you have the solaronite, you have nothing. Nor, does the
universe.
COL. EDWARDS
You speak of solaronite, but just what is it?
EROS
Take a can of your gasoline. Say this can of gasoline is the sun. Now you spread
a thin a line of it to a ball, representing the Earth. Now, the gasoline
represents the sunlight, the sun particles. Here we saturate the ball with the
gasoline, the sunlight. Then we put a flame to the ball. The flame will speedily
travel around the Earth, back along the line of gasoline to can, or the sun
itself. It will explode this source, and spread to every place that gasoline, or
sunlight, touches. Explode the sunlight here, Gentlemen, and you explode the
universe. Explode the sunlight here, and a chain reaction will occur, direct to
the sun itself. And to all the planets that sunlight touches. To every planet in
the universe. This why you must be stopped. This is why any means must be used
to stop you. In a friendly manner, or as it seems, you want it.
LT. HARPER
He's mad.
TANNA
Mad? Is it mad that you destroy other people to save yourselves? You have done
this. Is it mad that one country must destroy another to save themselves? You
have also done this. How then is it mad that one planet must destroy another
that threatens the very existenceEROS
That's enough!! In my land, women are for advancing the race, not for fighting
man's battles. Life is not so expansive on my planet. We don't cling to it like
you do. Our entire aim is for the development of our planet.
[BACK AT THE CAR, KELTON NOW INSIDE IT. LARRY PULLS UP BESIDE HIM]
LARRY
What happened to you?
KELTON
LARRY
Look, what are you trying to say? If you don't make sense we'll never get to the
bottom of this. Now who slugged you?
KELTON
Inspector Clay.
LARRY
What?
KELTON
It was Clay all right, only not like we remembered him. Well his grave was
busted into, wasn't it?
LARRY
Next you'll tell me you saw skeletons.
KELTON
We did, earlier.
LARRY
Now I know you're off your rocker.
KELTON
All of us saw, the Lieutenant, the COL. EDWARDSonel, everybody!
LARRY
Where's the Lieutenant now?
KELTON
We've gotta find them. Mrs. Trent is gone! I was left here to guard her. Then
Clay showed up and put me out of the running. And the second time tonight and
I'm getting darned tired of it!
LARRY
Which way were they going?
KELTON
Oh, that way.
LARRY
Come on!
PAULA
Oh, I'll be all right. Take care of the others.
[SHIP]
EROS
Your men have felled the big one. This could only happen because the electrode
ray is off. He'll walk again when I turn it on.
LT. HARPER
Hold it, right there.
[FIGHT BREAKS OUT]
[OUTSIDE]
LARRY
Suppose the Lieutenant and the others are in that thing!
KELTON
Well suppose there are martians or something in there!
[SHIP, FIGHT STILL GOING ON]
LT. HARPER
Come on, let's go.
[OUTSIDE]
LARRY
Open up in there, open up!
COL. EDWARDS
Get that door open.
LT. HARPER
Colonel I wouldn't know one switch from another.
TANNA
Hold on Eros, I'll have the ship in the air in a minute!
[COL. EDWARDS EVENTUALLY OPENS THE DOOR]
COL. EDWARDS
Get out of here, Jeff! The ship's on fire!
[THE MEN RUN OUT OF THE SHIP]
TANNA
Eros! Eros everything's on fire! Hurry, wake up Eros! Eros, Eros, wake up, wake
up! Eros! Eros wake up, Eros! God wake up!
[OUTSIDE]
LT. HARPER
Oh, I wonder if that's the last we'll see of them?
COL. EDWARDS
Perhaps, but sooner or later there'll be other.
LARRY
Look!
PAULA
Have they caught that woman, that thing yet?
LT. HARPER
Hey that's right, there's another ghoul running loose.
COL. EDWARDS
And it's my guess that she'll look like him. With the ship and the ray gun gone,
they have no control. We got to hand it to them though, they're far ahead from
us.
[SHIP]
TANNA
Fire! Eros! Aaaaaaaaah!
[SHIP BLOWS UP]
[BACK TO CRISWELL]
CRISWELL
My friend, you have seen this incident based on sworn testimony. Can you prove
that it didn't happen? Perhaps on your way home, you will pass someone in the
dark, and you will never know it, for they will be from outer space. Many
scientists believe that another world is watching us this moment. We once
laughed at the horseless carriage, the aeroplane, the telephone, the electric
light, vitamins, radio, and even television! And now some of us laugh at outer
space. God help us... in the future.
The End