1
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<i>301A to car 5W, code one.</i>

2
00:01:37,030 --> 00:01:38,948
5W to 301A, go ahead, Johnny.

3
00:01:39,032 --> 00:01:40,533
<i>I think we're chasing the wind, Ben.</i>

4
00:01:40,617 --> 00:01:44,871
<i>Maybe the guy who sent in that report
drank his breakfast. Let's call it.</i>

5
00:01:45,580 --> 00:01:47,040
<i>Wait a minute.</i>

6
00:02:09,104 --> 00:02:11,773
<i>It's a kid, all right.
Maybe 50 yards off the road.</i>

7
00:02:12,357 --> 00:02:14,692
<i>I'll keep circling her
until you pick her up.</i>

8
00:02:14,818 --> 00:02:16,653
- <i>10-10.</i>
- 10-10.

9
00:02:42,554 --> 00:02:43,888
Hey!

10
00:02:44,848 --> 00:02:46,307
Hey, honey!

11
00:02:47,892 --> 00:02:50,061
Hey, little girl. Little girl!

12
00:02:57,777 --> 00:03:00,530
Wait a minute.
What are you doing out here?

13
00:03:03,116 --> 00:03:04,159
Honey...

14
00:03:06,828 --> 00:03:08,371
what's your name?

15
00:03:12,083 --> 00:03:13,793
Who do you belong to?

16
00:03:30,477 --> 00:03:32,353
<i>Car 5W, code one.</i>

17
00:03:35,899 --> 00:03:38,234
Car 5W to 301A, go ahead.

18
00:03:41,404 --> 00:03:42,781
10-9, Johnny.

19
00:03:43,239 --> 00:03:46,659
<i>There's a trailer three miles from you,
off to the side of the road.</i>

20
00:03:46,743 --> 00:03:50,205
<i>I didn't see anybody around it,
you better check it out. 10-10.</i>

21
00:03:50,371 --> 00:03:52,123
Okay, Johnny. 10-10.

22
00:03:55,502 --> 00:03:57,253
- What's the matter with her?
- I don't know.

23
00:03:57,337 --> 00:03:58,421
Sunstroke?

24
00:03:58,546 --> 00:04:01,674
She's not sunburned.
Couldn't have been out in the sun long.

25
00:04:01,758 --> 00:04:03,259
Looks like she's in shock.

26
00:04:07,305 --> 00:04:10,809
Johnny spotted a car and trailer up ahead.
Maybe she's from there.

27
00:04:10,892 --> 00:04:11,601
Maybe so.

28
00:04:46,261 --> 00:04:50,014
No use waking her up unless somebody
can identify her. I'll check it.

29
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- What is it?
- Have a look.

30
00:05:50,575 --> 00:05:52,660
This blood must be 10 or 12 hours old.

31
00:05:53,870 --> 00:05:57,165
Whatever happened here was either
last night or early this morning.

32
00:05:58,875 --> 00:06:00,210
Check outside.

33
00:06:44,504 --> 00:06:46,840
It was sure no traffic accident, was it?

34
00:06:47,715 --> 00:06:50,218
This wasn't caved in. It was caved out.

35
00:06:50,844 --> 00:06:52,387
Did you find anything?

36
00:06:52,804 --> 00:06:54,597
No footprints or tire marks.

37
00:06:55,223 --> 00:06:56,433
Found this.

38
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I picked up just one. Six or seven more
are scattered over there.

39
00:07:00,145 --> 00:07:01,896
- Sugar.
- Yeah.

40
00:07:05,567 --> 00:07:07,944
There's something over here
you should look at.

41
00:07:08,027 --> 00:07:11,030
I don't know if it's important,
but see what you think.

42
00:07:15,201 --> 00:07:17,579
Mountain lions never come down
to the desert.

43
00:07:18,121 --> 00:07:20,623
No cat ever lived
would leave a print like that.

44
00:07:20,957 --> 00:07:22,834
Maybe something was set down there.

45
00:07:22,917 --> 00:07:25,336
A bag, or a can, something like that.

46
00:07:25,670 --> 00:07:27,255
It could be almost anything.

47
00:07:29,507 --> 00:07:31,217
I found these inside.

48
00:07:31,676 --> 00:07:35,597
Put in a call for fingerprint
and moulage equipment, right away.

49
00:07:35,680 --> 00:07:36,723
Right.

50
00:07:40,018 --> 00:07:42,979
- Have the medics come to pick up the kid.
- Right.

51
00:07:47,692 --> 00:07:50,570
Car 5W to KMA-628. Come in, please.

52
00:07:50,653 --> 00:07:53,490
<i>KMA-628 to car 5W, go ahead.</i>

53
00:07:54,032 --> 00:07:55,992
We're 12 miles north of the crossroads.

54
00:07:56,075 --> 00:07:58,203
Halfway up the secondary road
to White Butte.

55
00:07:58,286 --> 00:08:01,206
Station wagon and house trailer
with Illinois license plates.

56
00:08:01,289 --> 00:08:04,292
They look pretty well beat up.
Looks like a 9-14.

57
00:08:04,667 --> 00:08:07,170
Picked up a little girl
who seems to be in shock.

58
00:08:07,253 --> 00:08:10,340
Send ambulance and medics.
We'll stay here till you arrive.

59
00:08:10,423 --> 00:08:11,841
Anything else?

60
00:08:12,133 --> 00:08:12,967
Ben?

61
00:08:14,719 --> 00:08:15,887
10-10.

62
00:08:15,970 --> 00:08:20,683
<i>KMA-628 to 5W, location
previously reported by 301-A...</i>

63
00:08:20,767 --> 00:08:22,018
<i>will dispatch ambulance.</i>

64
00:08:27,774 --> 00:08:29,526
Hi, Reggie, how are the kids?

65
00:08:29,609 --> 00:08:32,445
- Fine, thanks. Another one on the way.
- Good for you.

66
00:08:43,665 --> 00:08:45,625
- Do you know what happened to her?
- No.

67
00:08:45,708 --> 00:08:47,502
- Don't know her name?
- No.

68
00:08:47,627 --> 00:08:49,462
Take good care of her.

69
00:08:49,796 --> 00:08:54,008
Give her a nice, easy ride.
I'll be with her all the way to the hospital.

70
00:09:20,952 --> 00:09:22,412
What was that?

71
00:09:23,079 --> 00:09:24,414
I don't know.

72
00:09:25,373 --> 00:09:29,127
It must be the wind.
It gets pretty freakish in these parts.

73
00:09:30,295 --> 00:09:31,337
Yeah.

74
00:09:31,838 --> 00:09:35,008
I'll be along soon. I want to be there
when she starts talking.

75
00:09:46,895 --> 00:09:48,480
You know what that is, Cliff?

76
00:09:48,563 --> 00:09:50,148
I haven't the faintest idea.

77
00:09:50,231 --> 00:09:54,194
Hurry before the wind fills it in.
Looks like a sandstorm is kicking up.

78
00:09:54,861 --> 00:09:57,322
- You got any idea what happened?
- No.

79
00:09:57,781 --> 00:09:59,657
Nothing that adds up.

80
00:10:05,789 --> 00:10:07,707
How old you figure that kid is?

81
00:10:07,832 --> 00:10:09,417
Five or six.

82
00:10:10,376 --> 00:10:12,003
Tough break for her.

83
00:10:12,796 --> 00:10:14,380
They don't need us right now.

84
00:10:14,464 --> 00:10:17,550
Let's go down to Gramps Johnson's store
and see what he knows.

85
00:11:02,011 --> 00:11:03,054
Gramps?

86
00:11:05,056 --> 00:11:06,433
Gramps!

87
00:11:47,056 --> 00:11:48,475
Beats me.

88
00:11:49,559 --> 00:11:51,561
Look, Ed, put in a call...

89
00:11:53,104 --> 00:11:54,647
Wait a minute.

90
00:12:27,514 --> 00:12:28,556
Gramps.

91
00:12:29,265 --> 00:12:31,768
Looks like he was dragged
and thrown down there.

92
00:12:51,871 --> 00:12:55,166
- What do you make of it?
- What did you make of the trailer?

93
00:12:55,416 --> 00:12:59,587
This wasn't pushed in, it was pulled out.
Just like at the trailer.

94
00:13:00,046 --> 00:13:02,340
Ben, have a look at this.

95
00:13:03,341 --> 00:13:04,384
Sugar.

96
00:13:27,240 --> 00:13:29,325
Money wasn't taken here either.

97
00:13:29,826 --> 00:13:34,414
This is another 9-14. I'll call
for the guys at the trailer to come.

98
00:13:34,664 --> 00:13:37,208
I want to be at headquarters
when the girl talks.

99
00:13:37,292 --> 00:13:39,210
I'll stick around and ride with them.

100
00:13:39,419 --> 00:13:41,629
- Okay. Stay loose.
- Sure.

101
00:15:02,377 --> 00:15:06,131
With all this stuff, we only know
the car and trailer was owned by...

102
00:15:06,214 --> 00:15:08,591
a man named Alan Elinson from Chicago.

103
00:15:08,716 --> 00:15:10,218
Yeah, that's all.

104
00:15:10,468 --> 00:15:14,806
Stop blaming yourself for what happened
to Ed Blackburn. It wasn't your fault.

105
00:15:14,973 --> 00:15:18,101
Somebody had to stay at Johnson's place,
so it happened to be Ed.

106
00:15:18,184 --> 00:15:19,227
Yeah, I know.

107
00:15:19,310 --> 00:15:24,023
We'll find out who killed him, if he's dead,
along with Gramps and the Elinson family.

108
00:15:24,107 --> 00:15:25,275
So come off it.

109
00:15:26,025 --> 00:15:30,196
We'll get a report on the fingerprints
some time this morning. It'll tell us more.

110
00:15:31,489 --> 00:15:34,200
- Have you figured out what this print is?
- No.

111
00:15:34,617 --> 00:15:35,827
Great.

112
00:15:36,786 --> 00:15:40,331
Kit, run down all Gramps' personal stuff
and records.

113
00:15:41,040 --> 00:15:44,544
I don't think he had an enemy in the world,
but somebody might have...

114
00:15:44,627 --> 00:15:46,713
No, wait, that doesn't make sense.

115
00:15:47,422 --> 00:15:51,468
If somebody wanted to knock off Gramps
why tear down half the building to do it?

116
00:15:53,178 --> 00:15:56,014
I put in a call to check out
all the mental institutions.

117
00:15:56,097 --> 00:15:58,641
Everything seems to indicate
a homicidal maniac.

118
00:15:59,267 --> 00:16:03,813
There's no money stolen,
violent wreckage. Just sugar taken.

119
00:16:04,189 --> 00:16:06,900
That's being checked,
but it's a waste of time, too.

120
00:16:07,108 --> 00:16:10,361
We'd have been notified
if there was a loony killer on the loose.

121
00:16:10,862 --> 00:16:15,575
Gramps got off four shots from his 30-30
before the killer did this to the gun.

122
00:16:16,201 --> 00:16:20,079
And Blackburn was a crack shot.
He could hit anything he could see.

123
00:16:20,622 --> 00:16:23,208
Unless your maniac
was armored like a battleship...

124
00:16:23,291 --> 00:16:25,001
there's no maniac in this case.

125
00:16:25,084 --> 00:16:26,336
Yeah, you're right.

126
00:16:27,086 --> 00:16:29,422
I want every available man
scouting the desert.

127
00:16:29,506 --> 00:16:33,176
If our two planes aren't enough
to cover areas the cars can't reach...

128
00:16:33,259 --> 00:16:36,638
I'll ask permission from the chief
to hire a couple more.

129
00:16:37,722 --> 00:16:42,060
Ben, get yourself something to eat
and grab some sleep.

130
00:16:42,143 --> 00:16:45,980
I don't want you wearing yourself out
so you'll fold up on us.

131
00:16:46,106 --> 00:16:47,857
- I have a little score to settle.
- We all have.

132
00:16:48,608 --> 00:16:51,361
- Report from Washington, Captain.
- All right, thanks.

133
00:16:52,987 --> 00:16:55,698
Fingerprints on the trailer
check out real good.

134
00:16:55,782 --> 00:17:00,370
Mr. Elinson was an FBI agent on vacation
with his wife and two children.

135
00:17:01,204 --> 00:17:04,624
Call the local FBI office.
They've got a stake in this case, now.

136
00:17:05,041 --> 00:17:08,253
Tell them Mr. Elinson's vacation
has been extended indefinitely.

137
00:17:09,504 --> 00:17:11,881
It's nice to get off that desert.

138
00:17:11,965 --> 00:17:14,884
- It must have been 110 out there today.
- At least.

139
00:17:17,345 --> 00:17:18,638
Captain Edwards...

140
00:17:18,805 --> 00:17:21,766
this is Robert Graham
from the FBI office in Alamogordo.

141
00:17:21,850 --> 00:17:24,185
- How do you do?
- Sit down.

142
00:17:24,853 --> 00:17:27,147
Ben here bring you up to date
on this business?

143
00:17:27,230 --> 00:17:30,900
Yes, sir, we went over these exhibits
before we left for the desert.

144
00:17:30,984 --> 00:17:34,154
I took him to where we found the trailer
and to Johnson's store.

145
00:17:34,237 --> 00:17:35,822
We've been there all day. Nothing.

146
00:17:35,989 --> 00:17:37,824
Any ideas, Mr. Graham?

147
00:17:37,949 --> 00:17:39,742
None that make any sense.

148
00:17:39,909 --> 00:17:43,621
I thought you FBI guys were all Quiz Kids,
solved everything right away.

149
00:17:43,955 --> 00:17:45,999
I did, too, when I applied for the job.

150
00:17:46,082 --> 00:17:48,251
The planes and cars
haven't found anything.

151
00:17:48,334 --> 00:17:52,338
Give them time. People don't just drop off
the face of the Earth without a trace.

152
00:17:52,422 --> 00:17:53,631
We'll find them.

153
00:17:55,049 --> 00:17:56,718
You know what that is?

154
00:17:57,302 --> 00:17:59,971
It beats me. Has it been identified yet?

155
00:18:00,054 --> 00:18:04,851
No, an officer took it to a friend
who teaches zoology at the college.

156
00:18:05,143 --> 00:18:07,353
He said he'd never seen
anything like it.

157
00:18:07,687 --> 00:18:10,607
Lots of evidence, loaded with clues,
but nothing adds up.

158
00:18:10,774 --> 00:18:13,735
The Elinson girl is our only real bet.
Any news on her?

159
00:18:13,818 --> 00:18:16,613
No change. I checked with the hospital
a half-hour ago.

160
00:18:16,696 --> 00:18:20,366
I'd like to send this
to our Washington bureau.

161
00:18:20,450 --> 00:18:22,452
They might be able to identify it.

162
00:18:22,577 --> 00:18:24,162
Or prove that it's nothing.

163
00:18:24,245 --> 00:18:25,955
It's all right with me.

164
00:18:26,706 --> 00:18:27,582
Come in.

165
00:18:27,874 --> 00:18:30,794
- Hello, Fred. Glad to see you, Ben.
- Hi, Doc, how are you?

166
00:18:30,877 --> 00:18:32,337
You two know each other?

167
00:18:32,796 --> 00:18:34,088
I don't believe so.

168
00:18:34,172 --> 00:18:37,425
Dr. Putnam, County Medical Officer.
Robert Graham.

169
00:18:37,509 --> 00:18:40,553
- He's with the FBI. Watch your language.
- I will.

170
00:18:41,638 --> 00:18:45,183
I finished the autopsy on Gramps Johnson.
You want it technical or plain?

171
00:18:45,266 --> 00:18:47,268
Just plain, Doc. Get to the verb.

172
00:18:47,811 --> 00:18:50,939
Old man Johnson could have died
in any one of five ways:

173
00:18:51,648 --> 00:18:56,236
His neck and back were broken,
his chest crushed, his skull fractured...

174
00:18:56,653 --> 00:18:58,655
and here's one for Sherlock Holmes:

175
00:18:58,738 --> 00:19:01,032
There was enough formic acid in him
to kill 20 men.

176
00:19:15,380 --> 00:19:17,674
I still don't get this.

177
00:19:18,091 --> 00:19:21,803
Doctors Medford, two of them.
Department of Agriculture.

178
00:19:22,554 --> 00:19:25,598
You sent that cast to your outfit
in Washington, didn't you?

179
00:19:25,682 --> 00:19:26,433
Yeah.

180
00:19:26,641 --> 00:19:29,144
Does this mean
that somebody has identified it?

181
00:19:29,227 --> 00:19:30,437
I don't know.

182
00:19:30,812 --> 00:19:32,647
- Great.
- Pardon me, sir.

183
00:19:32,814 --> 00:19:35,400
The plane has landed.
It'll load over there.

184
00:19:35,567 --> 00:19:36,609
Thanks.

185
00:19:42,740 --> 00:19:44,200
- Got a match?
- Yeah.

186
00:20:17,317 --> 00:20:18,526
Okay, thank you.

187
00:20:21,613 --> 00:20:22,822
Dr. Medford?

188
00:20:22,906 --> 00:20:24,574
Are you Dr. Medford?

189
00:20:24,657 --> 00:20:26,534
Yes, yes. No need to shout.

190
00:20:26,868 --> 00:20:30,205
You're the people.
They said you'd meet us.

191
00:20:30,330 --> 00:20:31,372
That's right.

192
00:20:31,956 --> 00:20:33,208
I'm Bob Graham.

193
00:20:33,291 --> 00:20:35,877
- How do you do?
- This is Sgt. Ben Peterson.

194
00:20:36,753 --> 00:20:39,756
- You're the one who found the print?
- Yeah, that's right.

195
00:20:41,299 --> 00:20:42,842
Pat, hurry up.

196
00:20:43,176 --> 00:20:44,511
I'm caught.

197
00:20:46,262 --> 00:20:48,807
- Can I help?
- No, thank you, I can manage it.

198
00:20:58,316 --> 00:21:01,069
This is the other Dr. Medford,
my daughter, Patricia.

199
00:21:01,152 --> 00:21:03,738
This is the man who found the print.
Sergeant...

200
00:21:03,822 --> 00:21:05,782
- Ben Peterson.
- How do you do?

201
00:21:05,865 --> 00:21:07,826
Then you must be Mr. Robert Graham.

202
00:21:07,909 --> 00:21:09,619
- Yes, how do you do?
- Hello.

203
00:21:09,702 --> 00:21:11,871
We've got a car
to take you to the hotel.

204
00:21:11,955 --> 00:21:13,748
That can wait. We have work to do.

205
00:21:13,832 --> 00:21:16,668
I want to read all your reports right away.
Come on, Pat.

206
00:21:16,751 --> 00:21:17,961
Excuse me, sir.

207
00:21:19,754 --> 00:21:21,673
I should have had this suit pressed.

208
00:21:21,756 --> 00:21:23,550
She's quite a doctor.

209
00:21:23,633 --> 00:21:27,303
If she takes care of sick people,
I think I'll get a fever real quick.

210
00:21:28,471 --> 00:21:31,182
This is where the Elinson car
and trailer were found.

211
00:21:31,266 --> 00:21:33,977
Twelve miles down this road
is the Johnson store.

212
00:21:34,060 --> 00:21:35,395
Thank you.

213
00:21:38,606 --> 00:21:42,527
Why did the FBI send that print
to the Department of Agriculture?

214
00:21:43,236 --> 00:21:45,071
They weren't able to identify it.

215
00:21:45,738 --> 00:21:49,617
- You only found one print?
- That's right, miss.

216
00:21:49,701 --> 00:21:51,119
Have you identified it?

217
00:21:51,202 --> 00:21:55,039
The Medical Officer's report on Johnson
suggests we were certainly wrong...

218
00:21:55,123 --> 00:21:58,626
to even consider this might be a hoax.
Read that, Doctor.

219
00:22:00,170 --> 00:22:01,171
Tell me...

220
00:22:01,254 --> 00:22:06,426
in what area was the atomic bomb
exploded, the first one, back in 1945?

221
00:22:06,509 --> 00:22:09,763
Right here in this same general area.
White Sands.

222
00:22:14,142 --> 00:22:17,187
1945. That's nine years ago.

223
00:22:18,521 --> 00:22:20,940
Genetically, it's certainly possible.

224
00:22:21,733 --> 00:22:26,321
We're grown up. There's no need
to play footsie with us. We resent it.

225
00:22:26,404 --> 00:22:29,574
If you know what this thing is, Doctor,
I suggest you tell us.

226
00:22:29,657 --> 00:22:31,367
We're assigned to this case, too.

227
00:22:31,451 --> 00:22:35,497
Mr. Graham, we cannot tell you
until we're certain of our theory.

228
00:22:35,997 --> 00:22:40,251
I'd like to first stop off at the drug store
and then see the Elinson girl.

229
00:22:40,335 --> 00:22:42,921
She's still in shock, Doctor.
She hasn't talked yet.

230
00:22:43,004 --> 00:22:47,175
After the girl, I want to examine
the territory where you found the print.

231
00:22:54,933 --> 00:22:56,184
You were saying?

232
00:22:56,351 --> 00:22:59,312
As I explained to Mrs. Johnson,
the little girl's aunt...

233
00:22:59,562 --> 00:23:04,734
we hesitate in using a curare
to diminish the spasms. She's too young.

234
00:23:04,818 --> 00:23:09,489
Narcosynthesis would be useless
until we overcome the aphonia.

235
00:23:09,697 --> 00:23:12,700
- What's aphonia?
- Loss of voice.

236
00:23:13,409 --> 00:23:16,079
She's a classic case
of hysteria conversion.

237
00:23:16,329 --> 00:23:19,040
Only a severe catharsis
could jolt her at all.

238
00:23:19,124 --> 00:23:21,167
May I have a small glass, Doctor?

239
00:23:21,543 --> 00:23:24,754
- Yes, certainly.
- Pat, that acid we got...

240
00:23:25,255 --> 00:23:26,089
Acid?

241
00:23:26,506 --> 00:23:29,050
Formic, Doctor. Thank you.

242
00:23:31,261 --> 00:23:33,638
It may provide the jolt you need.

243
00:23:54,492 --> 00:23:55,535
Them!

244
00:23:56,035 --> 00:23:57,078
Them!

245
00:23:57,579 --> 00:23:58,621
Them!

246
00:24:07,755 --> 00:24:09,632
May we visit the desert now?

247
00:24:09,883 --> 00:24:11,426
It's getting late.

248
00:24:11,968 --> 00:24:13,636
It's later than you think.

249
00:24:38,620 --> 00:24:39,662
Thank you.

250
00:24:42,874 --> 00:24:44,125
Quite a breeze.

251
00:24:45,502 --> 00:24:47,796
- The goggles, Doctor.
- What about them?

252
00:24:47,879 --> 00:24:50,215
You're supposed to wear them
over your eyes.

253
00:24:50,298 --> 00:24:51,966
Oh, thank you.

254
00:24:53,426 --> 00:24:55,470
Yes, that is better.

255
00:24:57,347 --> 00:25:01,226
- So this is where the car and trailer were?
- Yes, sir. Excuse me.

256
00:25:01,309 --> 00:25:04,354
- Yes, thank you.
- The print was found right over there.

257
00:25:06,773 --> 00:25:08,858
We found it here, by the fire.

258
00:25:09,859 --> 00:25:11,820
You see, there's nothing there now.

259
00:25:15,490 --> 00:25:17,826
Has there been any report
of a strange mound?

260
00:25:17,992 --> 00:25:21,079
A cone-shaped structure?
Something recently formed?

261
00:25:21,871 --> 00:25:22,914
No, sir.

262
00:25:24,374 --> 00:25:27,418
Sergeant, would you mind
if we looked around a little more?

263
00:25:27,710 --> 00:25:29,420
Anything you say, Doctor.

264
00:25:30,630 --> 00:25:32,632
Rather slim pickings for food, Dad.

265
00:25:32,715 --> 00:25:35,468
They'd turn carnivorous
for lack of a habitual diet.

266
00:25:35,760 --> 00:25:37,220
I believe you're right.

267
00:25:38,513 --> 00:25:40,223
What would turn carnivorous?

268
00:25:40,515 --> 00:25:42,559
- My father will tell you.
- When?

269
00:25:42,767 --> 00:25:44,894
- When he's positive.
- Now, look, miss...

270
00:25:45,353 --> 00:25:46,604
Doctor...

271
00:25:46,980 --> 00:25:50,024
If the "Doctor" bothers you,
why don't you call me "Pat."

272
00:25:50,191 --> 00:25:51,317
I'd like to.

273
00:25:51,526 --> 00:25:54,279
I've got a job to do,
and enough mystery on my hands...

274
00:25:54,362 --> 00:25:56,114
without that old...

275
00:25:57,198 --> 00:25:59,409
I mean, your father complicating things.

276
00:25:59,909 --> 00:26:03,746
He is one of the world's greatest
myrmecologists.

277
00:26:03,872 --> 00:26:07,584
Myrmecologists!
You see, that's what I mean!

278
00:26:07,834 --> 00:26:11,379
Why don't we all talk English?
Then we'd have some understanding.

279
00:26:11,504 --> 00:26:12,547
Pat!

280
00:26:13,965 --> 00:26:15,383
Come here.

281
00:26:16,342 --> 00:26:19,262
It's the same kind of print.
Look at it, Doctor.

282
00:26:20,513 --> 00:26:21,848
It's gigantic.

283
00:26:25,059 --> 00:26:26,936
Over 12 centimeters.

284
00:26:27,729 --> 00:26:29,355
That would make the entire...

285
00:26:29,439 --> 00:26:32,358
About two and a half meters in length.
Over 8 feet.

286
00:26:32,776 --> 00:26:34,319
See if there are more.

287
00:26:35,695 --> 00:26:40,283
- This is monstrous.
- So is the murder of five people, Doctor.

288
00:26:41,159 --> 00:26:45,580
The direction of that print
would indicate it came from that way.

289
00:26:47,874 --> 00:26:51,961
Perhaps we should visit the store.
There may be more there now.

290
00:26:52,045 --> 00:26:57,300
Look here, before we do any more visiting,
I want to know exactly what this "it" is.

291
00:26:57,383 --> 00:26:59,803
Gentlemen, I understand your impatience.

292
00:26:59,886 --> 00:27:03,598
I know you are concerned with solving
what is essentially a local crime...

293
00:27:03,681 --> 00:27:06,810
but please believe me,
I am not being coy with you.

294
00:27:06,893 --> 00:27:11,356
If I'm wrong, no harm has been done.
But if I'm correct...

295
00:27:11,439 --> 00:27:14,359
and the mounting evidence
only fortifies my theory...

296
00:27:14,484 --> 00:27:18,071
then something incredible has happened
in this desert.

297
00:27:18,154 --> 00:27:22,659
In which case, none of us will dare risk
revealing it, because...

298
00:27:22,742 --> 00:27:25,161
none of us can risk a nationwide panic.

299
00:27:25,370 --> 00:27:26,579
A panic?

300
00:28:44,157 --> 00:28:46,826
Get the antennae! Get the antennae!

301
00:28:56,336 --> 00:28:58,421
Get the other antenna!

302
00:28:58,546 --> 00:29:01,674
Get the other antenna!
He's helpless without them!

303
00:29:42,173 --> 00:29:43,633
What is it?

304
00:29:43,716 --> 00:29:46,845
Species appears to be
<i>Camponotus vicinus.</i>

305
00:29:47,971 --> 00:29:50,723
Of the family of <i>Formicidae.</i> An ant.

306
00:29:50,807 --> 00:29:54,436
An ant? I don't believe it.
It's not possible!

307
00:29:54,811 --> 00:29:58,022
Then this is what got Ed Blackburn,
Gramps Johnson, and the rest?

308
00:29:58,106 --> 00:30:00,692
Yes. A fantastic mutation.

309
00:30:01,234 --> 00:30:05,572
Probably caused by lingering radiation
from the first atomic bomb.

310
00:30:05,864 --> 00:30:06,948
Notice its odor?

311
00:30:08,158 --> 00:30:12,287
Formic acid? That's why the girl
reacted so violently.

312
00:30:12,370 --> 00:30:15,123
The Coroner said
that Gramps was filled with it.

313
00:30:15,457 --> 00:30:17,375
See that? It's the stinger.

314
00:30:17,792 --> 00:30:21,421
Ants use their mandibles to rend,
tear and hold their victims...

315
00:30:21,838 --> 00:30:25,675
but they kill with that,
by injecting formic acid.

316
00:30:26,050 --> 00:30:28,136
Mr. Johnson was stung to death.

317
00:30:28,261 --> 00:30:31,264
There's no time to lose.
We must find the colony, the nest.

318
00:30:31,389 --> 00:30:32,640
There's more of them?

319
00:30:32,724 --> 00:30:35,310
This was probably just a scout,
foraging for food.

320
00:30:35,393 --> 00:30:37,562
You heard the sound. The stridulation.

321
00:30:37,645 --> 00:30:39,814
It communicated with others
in the colony.

322
00:30:39,898 --> 00:30:41,983
You mean these things send messages?

323
00:30:42,066 --> 00:30:46,571
Of course. All insects have means
of communication with their own kind!

324
00:31:00,502 --> 00:31:03,797
We may be witnesses
to a Biblical prophesy come true.

325
00:31:06,382 --> 00:31:10,220
"And there shall be destruction
and darkness come upon creation.

326
00:31:10,303 --> 00:31:12,680
"And the Beasts shall reign
over the earth."

327
00:31:33,618 --> 00:31:37,705
Doctor, this nest we're looking for.
How many giant ants will be in it?

328
00:31:38,206 --> 00:31:39,874
General, I really don't know.

329
00:31:40,250 --> 00:31:43,795
If they follow the usual pattern
of their species, the nest...

330
00:31:44,045 --> 00:31:48,925
depending upon its age,
may contain hundreds or thousands.

331
00:31:49,592 --> 00:31:51,845
- Thousands, Doctor?
- It's possible.

332
00:31:52,011 --> 00:31:55,849
Look, if we run into thousands
of the thing you killed yesterday...

333
00:31:56,099 --> 00:32:00,103
it'll take a bomber squadron
plus an infantry regiment to mop up.

334
00:32:00,186 --> 00:32:01,896
How could we keep that a secret?

335
00:32:01,980 --> 00:32:04,274
You're jumping to conclusions, General.

336
00:32:04,399 --> 00:32:07,694
There may not be nearly so many
of these creatures as you suppose.

337
00:32:07,777 --> 00:32:11,030
I'm not supposing anything
after looking at that carcass.

338
00:32:11,114 --> 00:32:14,242
What I can't understand is
why no one has seen them until now.

339
00:32:14,325 --> 00:32:18,121
For one reason, I don't believe
these creatures developed until recently.

340
00:32:18,288 --> 00:32:20,623
For another, their being here...

341
00:32:20,748 --> 00:32:24,085
in these hundreds of thousands
of square miles of desert is...

342
00:32:29,299 --> 00:32:30,717
No, that isn't it.

343
00:32:31,843 --> 00:32:35,138
- Could I speak to my daughter, please?
- Of course.

344
00:32:36,431 --> 00:32:37,474
Thank you.

345
00:32:42,145 --> 00:32:43,188
Hello, Pat?

346
00:32:43,980 --> 00:32:47,150
- Pat? You there?
- <i>That's not the way to put in a call, Doctor.</i>

347
00:32:47,442 --> 00:32:49,778
<i>We're Search Able, call Search Baker.</i>

348
00:32:49,986 --> 00:32:51,738
- <i>Right, General?</i>
- Right.

349
00:32:53,156 --> 00:32:56,451
Search Able to Search Baker.

350
00:32:56,868 --> 00:32:57,911
Say, "Over."

351
00:32:58,203 --> 00:32:59,454
Then say, "Over."

352
00:32:59,537 --> 00:33:00,705
Over!

353
00:33:00,789 --> 00:33:03,792
Medford and Baker to Medford and Able.
Go ahead, Dad. Over.

354
00:33:03,875 --> 00:33:05,752
Have you found anything yet?

355
00:33:05,960 --> 00:33:06,920
Say, "Over."

356
00:33:07,003 --> 00:33:08,922
- I just said it.
- I know. Say it again.

357
00:33:09,005 --> 00:33:10,006
Over!

358
00:33:10,298 --> 00:33:12,133
Baker to Able: Not yet.

359
00:33:12,634 --> 00:33:15,428
We're about three quarters
of the way across our sector.

360
00:33:15,595 --> 00:33:17,889
We're now at coordinates: Charlie-6.
Over.

361
00:33:17,972 --> 00:33:19,474
<i>Don't pass anything up.</i>

362
00:33:19,557 --> 00:33:21,976
Let me know when you find anything.

363
00:33:22,060 --> 00:33:23,728
If you're finished say, "Over and out."

364
00:33:23,812 --> 00:33:26,106
- She knows I'm through talking.
- I know she does.

365
00:33:26,189 --> 00:33:28,358
It's a rule. You've got to say it.
Right, General?

366
00:33:28,441 --> 00:33:30,485
- Right, Sergeant.
- This is ridiculous.

367
00:33:30,777 --> 00:33:33,696
- Lot of good your rules will do...
- Over and out.

368
00:33:33,863 --> 00:33:35,615
Now you're happy.

369
00:33:39,786 --> 00:33:41,871
Real calm fellow, isn't he?

370
00:33:46,459 --> 00:33:47,919
Worried about him?

371
00:33:48,044 --> 00:33:52,924
A little. He's not a young man.
He shouldn't have made this trip, but...

372
00:33:53,007 --> 00:33:56,594
he's a scientist and this is
a scientist's dream come true.

373
00:33:59,889 --> 00:34:00,765
Hold it!

374
00:34:22,245 --> 00:34:24,747
Fly back over it
and get as close as you can.

375
00:34:52,233 --> 00:34:54,569
You've just found your missing persons.

376
00:34:58,114 --> 00:34:59,657
Look, Dr. Medford...

377
00:34:59,949 --> 00:35:03,620
you're being inconsistent.
First, you insist it's top secret.

378
00:35:04,329 --> 00:35:08,416
Nobody else must know or do anything
about getting rid of these big ants.

379
00:35:08,500 --> 00:35:11,169
Correct, General.
Absolute secrecy is imperative.

380
00:35:11,294 --> 00:35:14,798
But then you turn around and say
that time is the most important thing.

381
00:35:14,881 --> 00:35:18,384
I've been told to take orders from you
and give you what you ask for.

382
00:35:18,468 --> 00:35:22,472
But if time is that important, why not let
me go in tonight with some bombers...

383
00:35:22,555 --> 00:35:23,932
and wipe out that nest?

384
00:35:25,016 --> 00:35:28,478
If you'll just calm down, General,
I'll explain.

385
00:35:28,895 --> 00:35:31,106
Doctor, please put up that chart.

386
00:35:31,773 --> 00:35:34,984
Time is important,
more so than you realize.

387
00:35:35,068 --> 00:35:38,905
But bombing that nest tonight
would only aggravate our problem.

388
00:35:39,280 --> 00:35:42,075
The reason none of them have been seen
during the day...

389
00:35:42,200 --> 00:35:44,285
even by the police spotting planes...

390
00:35:44,369 --> 00:35:46,955
is because they hate
the heat of the desert.

391
00:35:47,038 --> 00:35:50,416
They forage between sunset and dawn,
when it's cool.

392
00:35:50,500 --> 00:35:53,503
So half the colony wouldn't even be
inside the nest tonight.

393
00:35:54,087 --> 00:35:58,967
Our best chance will be during
the hottest part of the day tomorrow.

394
00:36:02,137 --> 00:36:04,556
This illustrates a typical ant nest.

395
00:36:05,723 --> 00:36:07,475
Observe the details.

396
00:36:07,892 --> 00:36:09,310
Here is the entrance.

397
00:36:09,644 --> 00:36:13,731
These are tunnels, corridors,
and food chambers.

398
00:36:13,898 --> 00:36:16,443
Note the wonderful
and intricate engineering.

399
00:36:16,985 --> 00:36:20,029
Water traps,
so that none will drown during rains.

400
00:36:20,613 --> 00:36:23,241
This is somewhat
oversimplified, I admit...

401
00:36:23,324 --> 00:36:26,453
but it will give you an idea
of what we are up against.

402
00:36:27,245 --> 00:36:30,790
Do you know that some species
of desert ants dig down...

403
00:36:31,124 --> 00:36:33,168
as deep as 30 feet or more?

404
00:36:33,334 --> 00:36:36,129
That nest we found today
might go down hundreds of feet.

405
00:36:36,212 --> 00:36:38,840
We can pinpoint that opening.
Seal it up for good.

406
00:36:38,923 --> 00:36:41,468
The creatures would only tunnel out
somewhere else.

407
00:36:41,843 --> 00:36:44,971
We don't want that nest damaged.
Not yet.

408
00:36:45,096 --> 00:36:46,264
What do we do?

409
00:36:46,347 --> 00:36:49,267
First, we wait until noon tomorrow.

410
00:36:49,350 --> 00:36:52,520
By that time,
all of them should be within the nest.

411
00:36:53,104 --> 00:36:55,815
To keep them confined in there
is our next problem.

412
00:36:56,524 --> 00:36:58,109
We have two possibilities:

413
00:36:58,193 --> 00:37:00,612
First would be to flood the nest.

414
00:37:00,779 --> 00:37:05,200
Ants will not come through deep water.
They breathe through their sides.

415
00:37:05,283 --> 00:37:09,496
Excuse me, Doctor, there's no water line
within 20 miles of that place.

416
00:37:09,579 --> 00:37:12,707
That's why you asked me to check
our meteorological station.

417
00:37:12,791 --> 00:37:15,001
Any chance of getting cloud formations?

418
00:37:15,085 --> 00:37:17,420
Nothing that would make
cloud seeding pay off.

419
00:37:17,504 --> 00:37:20,673
Nobody's had any luck
in making rain in this part of the desert.

420
00:37:20,757 --> 00:37:22,175
The second possibility?

421
00:37:22,258 --> 00:37:26,054
Enough heat to drive the ants deeper
down into the nest, and hold them down.

422
00:37:26,137 --> 00:37:27,847
But no bombing?

423
00:37:28,056 --> 00:37:31,559
What about phosphorus? We can lay it
over that mound with bazookas.

424
00:37:32,644 --> 00:37:34,813
That would keep the surface area hot.

425
00:37:35,522 --> 00:37:37,315
What happens after that?

426
00:37:37,398 --> 00:37:40,693
We then drop cyanide gas
into the opening and kill them.

427
00:37:41,194 --> 00:37:43,488
How can you be sure
you'll get all of them?

428
00:37:43,571 --> 00:37:45,281
We go down into the nest and find out.

429
00:38:11,307 --> 00:38:14,102
Don't forget to tap me
when you get that wired, General.

430
00:38:14,185 --> 00:38:16,980
Don't rush me.
I'm doing this by the book.

431
00:38:20,316 --> 00:38:23,236
It's the first time
I ever loaded one of these babies.

432
00:38:23,445 --> 00:38:27,532
That makes us even. This is the first time
I've ever given orders to a general.

433
00:39:15,163 --> 00:39:17,916
We should've waited for it to cool more.

434
00:39:17,999 --> 00:39:20,710
We don't dare lose time
getting cyanide into that nest.

435
00:40:06,506 --> 00:40:07,924
Marvelously made.

436
00:40:08,174 --> 00:40:11,302
Marvelous. Tell me,
you only saw the one live ant?

437
00:40:11,553 --> 00:40:14,264
He seemed to be trying to get out,
rather than get us.

438
00:40:14,431 --> 00:40:17,892
He stopped moving when the gas hit him.
Then he dropped out of sight.

439
00:40:17,976 --> 00:40:20,103
Didn't see or hear a thing from then on.

440
00:40:20,186 --> 00:40:21,938
You think they're all dead down there?

441
00:40:22,021 --> 00:40:23,898
I think so. You used enough gas.

442
00:40:23,982 --> 00:40:27,277
All parts of the nest should have been
thoroughly saturated by now.

443
00:40:27,360 --> 00:40:30,196
If I can still raise an arm
when we get out of here...

444
00:40:30,280 --> 00:40:32,532
I'll show you
how well saturated I can get.

445
00:40:32,615 --> 00:40:33,616
I'm with you.

446
00:40:33,700 --> 00:40:35,452
If I were a younger man, I...

447
00:40:38,204 --> 00:40:39,747
What are you made up for?

448
00:40:39,831 --> 00:40:41,749
I'm going with you and Ben.

449
00:40:43,418 --> 00:40:44,461
No, you're not.

450
00:40:44,544 --> 00:40:46,796
Someone with scientific knowledge
has to go.

451
00:40:47,380 --> 00:40:50,341
My father is physically unable to do it.
That leaves me.

452
00:40:50,425 --> 00:40:54,012
That leaves you here. We don't know
what we'll find down there.

453
00:40:54,262 --> 00:40:57,390
One thing for sure,
it's no place for you or any other woman.

454
00:40:57,474 --> 00:41:01,478
She wanted to go, Robert.
As a scientist, I couldn't forbid her.

455
00:41:01,561 --> 00:41:04,022
- A trained observer has to go.
- What for?

456
00:41:04,105 --> 00:41:06,858
There are more important things
than finding dead ants.

457
00:41:06,941 --> 00:41:09,694
- You wouldn't know what to look for!
- You tell us what.

458
00:41:09,778 --> 00:41:12,489
There's no time to give you a course
in insect pathology!

459
00:41:12,572 --> 00:41:14,949
So let's stop talking
and get on with it.

460
00:41:20,330 --> 00:41:21,372
Okay.

461
00:41:22,791 --> 00:41:24,292
Don't worry, Dad.

462
00:41:33,176 --> 00:41:34,469
Good luck, Sergeant.

463
00:41:34,719 --> 00:41:36,054
You come last, Pat.

464
00:41:36,805 --> 00:41:39,349
Throw us the rest of the stuff down
when I signal.

465
00:42:32,444 --> 00:42:33,486
Hold it.

466
00:42:34,070 --> 00:42:37,365
They're dead or they would have attacked
us right away.

467
00:42:51,796 --> 00:42:54,382
Look. Held together with saliva.

468
00:42:55,592 --> 00:42:58,636
Spit is all that's holding me together
right now, too.

469
00:44:13,962 --> 00:44:16,047
How come the gas didn't knock them off?

470
00:44:16,131 --> 00:44:18,675
The chamber looked caved in,
maybe from the bombing.

471
00:44:19,259 --> 00:44:21,803
Sealed up that way,
the gas couldn't reach them.

472
00:44:21,886 --> 00:44:26,057
If we run into any more live ones,
we're getting out of here.

473
00:44:54,878 --> 00:44:56,171
This is it!

474
00:44:56,755 --> 00:44:59,174
The queen's chamber, and the eggs.

475
00:45:30,663 --> 00:45:33,541
- This is what I was afraid of.
- What's the matter, Pat?

476
00:45:34,000 --> 00:45:35,126
They're empty.

477
00:45:35,210 --> 00:45:39,756
- What came out is dead, right?
- Not the ones that hatched from these!

478
00:45:43,468 --> 00:45:45,595
Now destroy everything in here. Burn it!

479
00:45:45,678 --> 00:45:48,264
- What?
- I said burn it. Burn everything!

480
00:46:15,792 --> 00:46:17,377
Very strange.

481
00:46:18,253 --> 00:46:19,838
Most unusual.

482
00:46:20,130 --> 00:46:22,590
There were no larvae or pupae
in the egg chamber.

483
00:46:22,674 --> 00:46:25,135
They all seemed to hatch
directly from the eggs.

484
00:46:25,218 --> 00:46:27,429
I attribute it to the mutation process.

485
00:46:27,512 --> 00:46:29,472
That's the logical conclusion.

486
00:46:29,556 --> 00:46:33,685
You feel sure those two have gone?
You found no winged ants?

487
00:46:34,185 --> 00:46:35,603
We saw only worker ants.

488
00:46:35,687 --> 00:46:38,314
I don't get it. You act like it was
the end of the world.

489
00:46:38,398 --> 00:46:39,649
It could be.

490
00:46:40,859 --> 00:46:44,195
These two empty egg cases
contained queen ants.

491
00:46:44,696 --> 00:46:49,159
Newborn queen ants have wings,
so have their consorts, male ants.

492
00:46:50,535 --> 00:46:52,829
- You found no ants with wings?
- Not a one.

493
00:46:53,246 --> 00:46:56,624
The fact is we didn't destroy
this first nest soon enough!

494
00:46:57,625 --> 00:47:02,213
Two young queen ants hatched out,
dried their wings and flew away...

495
00:47:02,547 --> 00:47:06,509
each with one or more winged males.
They've gone on their wedding flight.

496
00:47:07,135 --> 00:47:11,139
We needn't worry about the males.
They'll die very quickly, but the queens...

497
00:47:11,222 --> 00:47:14,350
Doctor, are you telling us
there'll be other nests?

498
00:47:14,434 --> 00:47:17,604
A single queen can lay
thousands of eggs.

499
00:47:18,188 --> 00:47:22,358
From these will hatch dozens
of other queens, who may in turn...

500
00:47:24,277 --> 00:47:25,695
How far can they fly?

501
00:47:26,780 --> 00:47:29,240
These giants? I don't know.

502
00:47:30,492 --> 00:47:34,662
Ordinary queens of the smaller species
have very limited flying powers.

503
00:47:35,413 --> 00:47:39,501
They're dependent mostly on winds
and thermal currents to carry them along.

504
00:47:39,626 --> 00:47:43,713
They have been found in the stratosphere.
But these giants...

505
00:47:44,839 --> 00:47:46,549
I don't know, you guess.

506
00:47:46,633 --> 00:47:48,551
I thought today was the end of them.

507
00:47:48,635 --> 00:47:49,677
No.

508
00:47:50,095 --> 00:47:51,971
We haven't seen the end of them.

509
00:47:52,263 --> 00:47:56,142
We've only had a view of the beginning
of what may be the end of us.

510
00:47:58,144 --> 00:48:00,480
We'd better inform Washington, General.

511
00:48:17,956 --> 00:48:19,249
Sergeant Peterson.

512
00:48:19,499 --> 00:48:21,418
- Sir?
- What about your superiors?

513
00:48:21,501 --> 00:48:25,130
Do they know these creatures
are causing the crimes in your desert?

514
00:48:25,213 --> 00:48:26,423
No, sir, they don't.

515
00:48:26,506 --> 00:48:29,634
Gen. O'Brien and Dr. Medford
felt that absolute secrecy...

516
00:48:29,717 --> 00:48:32,429
about the existence of the big ants
was essential.

517
00:48:32,512 --> 00:48:35,557
Do you also think this extraordinary
hush-hush is necessary?

518
00:48:35,640 --> 00:48:39,811
Yes. I don't think there's a police force
anywhere that could handle the panic...

519
00:48:39,894 --> 00:48:42,272
if people found out
these babies were loose.

520
00:48:42,355 --> 00:48:44,607
Gentlemen, I believe we are ready.

521
00:48:45,400 --> 00:48:50,363
Some of you have displayed incredulous
attitudes towards our reports and photos.

522
00:48:50,613 --> 00:48:54,242
The rest of you are trying to understand
the gravity of our situation...

523
00:48:55,034 --> 00:48:58,371
but repeatedly ask
how really serious it is.

524
00:48:59,497 --> 00:49:03,251
For your edification,
I have prepared a short film...

525
00:49:03,835 --> 00:49:08,131
which I hope will give you some idea
of the nature of the creatures we face.

526
00:49:08,256 --> 00:49:10,175
In a small way, of course.

527
00:49:10,884 --> 00:49:12,844
Robert, please turn out the lights.

528
00:49:19,851 --> 00:49:24,272
These ants and related species
are common to most of America.

529
00:49:24,439 --> 00:49:29,652
In fact, you can find them in backyards,
empty lots, and fields...

530
00:49:29,736 --> 00:49:32,113
throughout the temperate zones
of the world.

531
00:49:32,197 --> 00:49:35,283
They haven't changed
in form or habits...

532
00:49:35,617 --> 00:49:37,786
for more than 50 million years.

533
00:49:38,244 --> 00:49:41,039
Here, for instance,
is one such specimen...

534
00:49:41,122 --> 00:49:45,001
that got himself trapped in amber,
which we know is at least that old.

535
00:49:45,752 --> 00:49:48,505
Now we come
to some different kind of ants.

536
00:49:49,130 --> 00:49:53,426
The big fellow there, feeding
on the smaller, red grease-eaters...

537
00:49:54,052 --> 00:49:58,348
is of a savage species called
<i>Camponotus vicinus Mayr.</i>

538
00:49:58,556 --> 00:50:00,391
He's of a desert variety.

539
00:50:00,850 --> 00:50:04,979
Very similar to the giant mutations
we found in New Mexico.

540
00:50:05,939 --> 00:50:08,525
There is a side view of a small nest.

541
00:50:08,983 --> 00:50:11,069
Those white objects are ant eggs.

542
00:50:12,320 --> 00:50:14,989
Ants don't see well at all.

543
00:50:15,657 --> 00:50:20,662
They hear, smell and locate objects
with their radar-like antennae.

544
00:50:21,162 --> 00:50:24,833
Only after food or an enemy is located
with the antennae...

545
00:50:25,291 --> 00:50:27,752
are the savage mandibles put to work.

546
00:50:29,879 --> 00:50:33,007
Now, gentlemen,
watch this demonstration of power.

547
00:50:33,258 --> 00:50:36,010
A pebble has blocked
the entrance to the nest.

548
00:50:36,511 --> 00:50:39,222
That creature is determined
to remove the obstacle.

549
00:50:39,931 --> 00:50:44,936
Note how the mandibles are used
to grasp the pebble and pull it aside...

550
00:50:45,019 --> 00:50:47,439
with only a slight assist
from another ant.

551
00:50:48,273 --> 00:50:51,568
There's the same pebble
on a laboratory scale.

552
00:50:52,110 --> 00:50:55,530
Balancing it,
is a dish containing 20 ants.

553
00:50:56,156 --> 00:51:00,368
We've learned that one of these
quarter-inch long insects can lift...

554
00:51:00,493 --> 00:51:02,746
20 times its own weight.

555
00:51:03,079 --> 00:51:06,207
That's equal to one of you
lifting a ton and a half or more!

556
00:51:07,125 --> 00:51:10,670
Here are rare shots of a newborn queen
and her consorts.

557
00:51:12,672 --> 00:51:17,635
Technically, she should be referred to
as a princess, until after the mating flight.

558
00:51:17,927 --> 00:51:21,055
Now there is a close shot
of a winged male.

559
00:51:21,723 --> 00:51:25,769
Males are unequipped for survival
beyond the mating and die soon after.

560
00:51:26,186 --> 00:51:30,940
The queen flies on, or more precisely,
is borne by the winds...

561
00:51:31,149 --> 00:51:34,944
until her need prompts her
to seek a place to lay eggs.

562
00:51:35,820 --> 00:51:39,240
Does a queen ever fly away
from her nest once she's established it?

563
00:51:39,407 --> 00:51:42,911
No, never. She loses her wings
after the wedding flight.

564
00:51:43,495 --> 00:51:45,205
See? One has dropped off.

565
00:51:47,874 --> 00:51:51,211
Now she starts her function
of establishing a place...

566
00:51:51,669 --> 00:51:54,589
in which to lay her eggs
and begin the nest.

567
00:51:54,881 --> 00:51:58,593
Queens live quite a long time.
They continue to lay eggs...

568
00:51:58,760 --> 00:52:00,512
from the one mating...

569
00:52:00,595 --> 00:52:03,431
for from 15 to 17 years.

570
00:52:04,265 --> 00:52:06,059
Here are ants at war.

571
00:52:07,268 --> 00:52:12,649
As you can see, ants are savage,
ruthless and courageous fighters.

572
00:52:13,525 --> 00:52:18,571
This fight lasted 72 hours
between those two alone.

573
00:52:21,116 --> 00:52:24,244
Ants are the only creatures on Earth
other than man...

574
00:52:24,452 --> 00:52:25,703
who make war.

575
00:52:26,204 --> 00:52:28,998
They campaign.
They are chronic aggressors.

576
00:52:29,165 --> 00:52:32,210
They make slave laborers
of the captives they don't kill.

577
00:52:33,294 --> 00:52:38,049
None of the ants previously seen by man
were more than an inch in length.

578
00:52:38,550 --> 00:52:40,635
Most were considerably under that size.

579
00:52:40,718 --> 00:52:46,099
But even the most minute of them
have an instinct and talent for industry...

580
00:52:46,307 --> 00:52:49,686
social organization and savagery...

581
00:52:50,812 --> 00:52:54,649
that makes man look feeble
by comparison.

582
00:52:55,066 --> 00:52:57,026
How large were the ants you found?

583
00:52:57,193 --> 00:53:00,530
The smallest measured nine feet
in body length.

584
00:53:00,947 --> 00:53:03,116
That, gentlemen, is why you are here.

585
00:53:03,741 --> 00:53:05,243
To consider this problem.

586
00:53:05,326 --> 00:53:08,455
And I hope, solve it.
Because unless you solve it...

587
00:53:08,747 --> 00:53:11,374
unless these queens are located
and destroyed...

588
00:53:11,583 --> 00:53:14,836
before they've established
thriving colonies and can produce...

589
00:53:14,919 --> 00:53:17,589
heaven alone knows
how many more queen ants...

590
00:53:17,756 --> 00:53:21,926
man, as the dominant species
of life on Earth...

591
00:53:22,177 --> 00:53:23,887
will probably be extinct...

592
00:53:24,929 --> 00:53:28,433
within a year, Doc?

593
00:53:39,444 --> 00:53:42,947
- How about some information, Senator?
- Sorry, boys, no comment.

594
00:53:43,114 --> 00:53:45,241
There must be something you can tell us.

595
00:53:45,408 --> 00:53:50,497
All the newswire services, AP, UP, INS,
are in there, but nothing's coming out.

596
00:53:50,830 --> 00:53:53,208
No newsmen are being allowed in there.

597
00:53:53,291 --> 00:53:56,044
What was that mysterious
3:00 a.m. meeting about?

598
00:53:56,127 --> 00:53:58,213
Can't tell you a thing, boys, sorry.

599
00:54:01,925 --> 00:54:05,845
There are about a million radio receivers
installed in there, too.

600
00:54:06,012 --> 00:54:07,764
- What for?
- I don't know.

601
00:54:35,291 --> 00:54:39,295
Texans. When bigger stories are told,
Texans will tell them.

602
00:54:39,379 --> 00:54:42,674
Should fit in with the kind of stuff
they're looking for upstairs.

603
00:54:42,757 --> 00:54:45,051
- Know what's going on in this building?
- No.

604
00:54:45,135 --> 00:54:47,887
Real "T.S." stuff. Top Secret.

605
00:54:56,062 --> 00:54:58,690
Okay, we'll meet you at the airport
in 20 minutes.

606
00:55:00,066 --> 00:55:03,194
Says he can have us in Brownsville
in less than three hours.

607
00:55:04,904 --> 00:55:06,406
Good luck, Bob.

608
00:55:18,168 --> 00:55:21,629
They ain't kidding me. Nobody is.
Not you, not anybody.

609
00:55:21,713 --> 00:55:24,549
This isn't a hospital.
This is a loony bin. A nuthouse.

610
00:55:25,383 --> 00:55:28,553
Do you think I'm crazy?
I don't care what you think. I'm not!

611
00:55:28,636 --> 00:55:31,306
I saw those things with my own two eyes!

612
00:55:31,389 --> 00:55:35,435
Do you think anybody could make it up?
A guy would have to be nuts...

613
00:55:39,481 --> 00:55:42,692
You're a flyer. You didn't get that yard
sitting on the ground.

614
00:55:42,776 --> 00:55:44,652
You've seen guys blow their stacks.

615
00:55:44,944 --> 00:55:48,490
Do you think I act and talk
like a guy who has lost his marbles?

616
00:55:48,698 --> 00:55:50,742
Tell us what you saw, Mr. Crotty.

617
00:55:50,825 --> 00:55:54,496
I've told those head-shrinking doctors
four dozen times! I'm sick of it.

618
00:55:54,829 --> 00:55:58,666
I tell them and I get laughed at
and clucked over.

619
00:56:02,045 --> 00:56:03,838
You promise not to laugh at me?

620
00:56:04,089 --> 00:56:05,006
Promise.

621
00:56:05,965 --> 00:56:07,008
Okay.

622
00:56:07,675 --> 00:56:11,554
I was flying south from Corpus Christi,
heading here, Brownsville.

623
00:56:12,597 --> 00:56:16,768
I turned in from the Gulf, heading for
the airport about 20 miles out...

624
00:56:16,976 --> 00:56:20,772
all of a sudden I see
these flying saucers.

625
00:56:20,855 --> 00:56:23,274
Three of them.
One big and two little ones.

626
00:56:23,650 --> 00:56:26,778
I had to do some fancy flying
or they'd have run right into me.

627
00:56:26,861 --> 00:56:31,324
I dived down and landed
in the first place I saw, a street.

628
00:56:31,741 --> 00:56:33,785
I've never been so rattled in my life.

629
00:56:34,577 --> 00:56:36,413
I cracked up a little, sure.

630
00:56:36,621 --> 00:56:39,791
I plowed into an old Ford
and ended up on someone's porch.

631
00:56:40,583 --> 00:56:43,711
Who wouldn't lose their head
after seeing something like that?

632
00:56:43,795 --> 00:56:47,048
- They were flying saucers?
- I don't know what else to call them.

633
00:56:47,465 --> 00:56:49,426
They were shaped...

634
00:56:50,927 --> 00:56:52,345
like ants.

635
00:56:56,599 --> 00:56:59,436
It sounds crazy
but that's what they were shaped like.

636
00:56:59,644 --> 00:57:04,065
The big one was about 15 feet long
and had wings like a fly.

637
00:57:04,441 --> 00:57:08,653
The other two seemed to be chasing
the big one. One here. Two here.

638
00:57:08,945 --> 00:57:13,283
They zoomed around me like kamikazes.
Scared me out of my pants!

639
00:57:13,867 --> 00:57:15,285
Excuse me, ma'am.

640
00:57:16,077 --> 00:57:19,706
They said that Ford wasn't a new one.
It was all beat up to begin with.

641
00:57:19,873 --> 00:57:21,833
So what's all the beef?

642
00:57:24,794 --> 00:57:26,921
You don't believe me either. Do you?

643
00:57:27,005 --> 00:57:28,381
On the contrary, we do.

644
00:57:28,465 --> 00:57:29,507
You do?

645
00:57:30,300 --> 00:57:31,134
Good.

646
00:57:31,384 --> 00:57:35,930
What direction were these flying saucers
going the last time you saw them?

647
00:57:36,389 --> 00:57:39,809
West, I'd say. Yes, due west.

648
00:57:40,435 --> 00:57:42,312
Will you get me out of here?

649
00:57:42,520 --> 00:57:45,523
- We'll speak to the doctor about it.
- I'd appreciate it.

650
00:57:45,607 --> 00:57:49,360
Try and get my clothes, too.
They only gave me these slippers...

651
00:57:49,986 --> 00:57:52,530
but not even a rope to hold up my pants.

652
00:57:52,655 --> 00:57:55,909
- We'll be seeing you.
- Be right neighborly if you could help.

653
00:57:55,992 --> 00:57:57,452
I'll sure be hoping.

654
00:57:58,036 --> 00:58:00,163
- Mr. Graham?
- Yes?

655
00:58:00,246 --> 00:58:02,749
How was your talk with Mr. Crotty?

656
00:58:03,041 --> 00:58:05,251
You're wise to keep him
locked up, Doctor.

657
00:58:05,376 --> 00:58:09,172
I've recommended his release.
He's not demented.

658
00:58:09,506 --> 00:58:13,259
I'm convinced he's trying to pull
a publicity stunt with this weird story.

659
00:58:13,343 --> 00:58:15,303
The government wants him
to be kept here...

660
00:58:15,386 --> 00:58:17,013
so he doesn't get any publicity.

661
00:58:17,180 --> 00:58:18,264
The government?

662
00:58:18,389 --> 00:58:20,266
He's to have no visitors.

663
00:58:20,350 --> 00:58:24,062
If any information is given out about him,
you'll be held responsible.

664
00:58:24,521 --> 00:58:26,773
I can't tell you why this is essential.

665
00:58:27,148 --> 00:58:30,318
We'll let you know as soon as possible.
We'll tell you when he's well.

666
00:58:36,324 --> 00:58:40,745
A bit more than 700 air miles
from White Sands to Brownsville.

667
00:58:41,371 --> 00:58:42,414
Southeast.

668
00:58:42,914 --> 00:58:45,750
This Crotty said they were heading west
when he saw them.

669
00:58:45,834 --> 00:58:46,835
I believe him.

670
00:58:46,918 --> 00:58:51,798
There were strong easterly winds
the day Crotty saw the ants.

671
00:58:52,090 --> 00:58:54,551
They'd follow the line
of least resistance.

672
00:58:54,801 --> 00:58:59,097
We can surmise that one of the queens,
possibly both of them...

673
00:58:59,514 --> 00:59:02,851
can create nests in this general area.

674
00:59:03,977 --> 00:59:06,271
We'd better inform
the Mexican authorities...

675
00:59:06,438 --> 00:59:09,232
and concentrate our search efforts here.

676
00:59:09,691 --> 00:59:13,319
As far south as Panama.
As far north as...

677
00:59:14,279 --> 00:59:17,323
Santa Barbara, on the California coast.

678
00:59:17,574 --> 00:59:19,659
That's an awful lot of area, Doctor.

679
00:59:20,368 --> 00:59:21,411
I'll get it.

680
00:59:23,371 --> 00:59:24,414
Hello?

681
00:59:24,998 --> 00:59:26,875
Dr. Medford speaking.

682
00:59:28,543 --> 00:59:29,669
What?

683
00:59:30,336 --> 00:59:31,921
I'll be right there.

684
00:59:41,890 --> 00:59:45,351
"A nest hatched aboard a ship at sea."

685
01:00:06,081 --> 01:00:09,793
I'm sure you gentlemen will be interested
in this report I just received:

686
01:00:09,876 --> 01:00:13,880
"<i>U.S.S. Milwaukee</i> got radio bearing on
<i>S.S. Viking</i> before signal stopped.

687
01:00:14,756 --> 01:00:17,342
"<i>Milwaukee</i> proceeded
at once to location.

688
01:00:17,550 --> 01:00:20,470
"Two seamen from <i>Viking</i>
rescued from sea by <i>Milwaukee.</i>

689
01:00:21,137 --> 01:00:23,640
"Seamen said no survivors remained
aboard <i>Viking.</i>

690
01:00:24,349 --> 01:00:27,018
"Not possible to put aboard
search and rescue party...

691
01:00:27,102 --> 01:00:29,687
"as <i>Viking</i> was infested
with the giant ants."

692
01:00:29,771 --> 01:00:34,901
Upon my orders, the <i>S.S. Viking</i>
has been sunk with naval gunfire.

693
01:00:35,235 --> 01:00:37,695
This was accomplished
at 0700 this morning.

694
01:00:37,904 --> 01:00:40,448
I don't see how a ship at sea could...

695
01:00:41,199 --> 01:00:42,367
Dr. Medford...

696
01:00:42,826 --> 01:00:46,121
how could these giant creatures
get aboard that vessel unseen?

697
01:00:46,871 --> 01:00:51,042
The <i>S.S. Viking</i> anchored in Acapulco,
Mexico, for three days and four nights.

698
01:00:52,293 --> 01:00:56,589
It's then and there we believe one
of these missing queen ants flew aboard.

699
01:00:57,298 --> 01:00:59,259
Please give them your information.

700
01:01:01,511 --> 01:01:04,389
"Owners of the <i>S.S. Viking</i> reported
that on hold number one...

701
01:01:04,514 --> 01:01:08,476
"the hatch cover was off during
the entire time of loading. Even at night.

702
01:01:08,852 --> 01:01:12,939
"The crew had shore leave every night so
only a skeleton crew remained on watch."

703
01:01:13,773 --> 01:01:17,652
It was quite possible for a queen ant
to have flown onto that ship unseen.

704
01:01:17,986 --> 01:01:21,906
An open hold would be inviting as a place
to lay her eggs and hatch out a nest.

705
01:01:22,407 --> 01:01:27,120
I think it's time to inform the public.
It can't be kept a secret indefinitely.

706
01:01:27,203 --> 01:01:28,580
We can't risk it, sir.

707
01:01:28,663 --> 01:01:30,123
But you already have.

708
01:01:30,498 --> 01:01:34,043
The entire crew of the cruiser <i>Milwaukee</i>
knows about these things now.

709
01:01:34,127 --> 01:01:38,131
They know, but the <i>Milwaukee</i>
will be kept at sea until this is resolved.

710
01:01:39,924 --> 01:01:42,469
What do those flags on the map indicate?

711
01:01:43,136 --> 01:01:47,015
These four indicate where we found
dead male ants.

712
01:01:48,099 --> 01:01:52,520
The most recent finding was about four
days ago near Mt. Wilson in California.

713
01:01:53,313 --> 01:01:57,525
It was decomposed and must have been
there for a month to five weeks.

714
01:01:58,359 --> 01:02:01,905
This flag, at Los Angeles,
indicates a lead.

715
01:02:02,113 --> 01:02:04,949
Mr. Graham and Sgt. Ben Peterson
are there now.

716
01:02:05,075 --> 01:02:08,912
They were flown there by Maj. Kibbee
to check on a large sugar theft.

717
01:02:09,037 --> 01:02:10,330
Forty tons, to be exact.

718
01:02:28,890 --> 01:02:30,600
When was this car broken into?

719
01:02:30,683 --> 01:02:32,352
I told you, Friday night.

720
01:02:32,852 --> 01:02:35,980
Yard watchman claims
he didn't see or hear a thing.

721
01:02:36,439 --> 01:02:38,608
What's so important
you got to work on Sunday?

722
01:02:38,691 --> 01:02:39,943
Where's the watchman?

723
01:02:40,026 --> 01:02:44,322
City jail. Any boob knows you need trucks
to carry away 40 tons of stuff.

724
01:02:44,489 --> 01:02:47,367
Said he didn't hear them.
He's either lying or he's deaf.

725
01:02:47,450 --> 01:02:48,660
And he ain't deaf.

726
01:02:49,661 --> 01:02:51,413
- Let's go see him.
- Yeah.

727
01:02:52,872 --> 01:02:54,332
Thanks, buddy.

728
01:02:54,416 --> 01:02:57,168
After spoiling my day off
you could at least tell me...

729
01:02:57,252 --> 01:02:59,921
how come a government cop
is so interested in this deal.

730
01:03:00,004 --> 01:03:01,714
He's got a sweet tooth.

731
01:03:06,094 --> 01:03:08,430
- This the only job you've ever had?
- Yes, sir.

732
01:03:08,596 --> 01:03:11,724
I've had a clean record
for 30 years at the railroad.

733
01:03:11,850 --> 01:03:15,478
Yard cop thinks you made a deal
not to see that car broken into.

734
01:03:15,562 --> 01:03:17,063
What sense does that make?

735
01:03:17,147 --> 01:03:19,816
Is sugar rare cargo?
Is there a black market for it?

736
01:03:19,899 --> 01:03:22,527
Did you ever hear
of a fence for hot sugar?

737
01:03:22,986 --> 01:03:26,489
If I made a deal with crooks,
it wouldn't be for 40 tons of sugar!

738
01:03:26,656 --> 01:03:29,451
I swear I didn't hear a thing
Friday night.

739
01:03:29,701 --> 01:03:31,161
I'll be right back.

740
01:03:35,206 --> 01:03:39,419
That woman just identified the body
of her husband. See him right away.

741
01:03:39,544 --> 01:03:43,089
I've never had anything to do with crooks.
I'm an honest man.

742
01:03:43,173 --> 01:03:46,259
Sure, you can go home now.
Take care of him, will you?

743
01:03:46,509 --> 01:03:47,343
Thank you.

744
01:03:48,511 --> 01:03:50,847
I don't think this happened
in a machine.

745
01:03:51,055 --> 01:03:54,726
Any machine that pulled hard enough
to tear his arm off at the shoulder...

746
01:03:54,809 --> 01:03:56,895
would also have chopped up his face.

747
01:03:57,187 --> 01:03:59,481
Look at the laceration across his chest.

748
01:04:00,064 --> 01:04:03,151
Can't figure it, except he died from shock
and loss of blood.

749
01:04:03,234 --> 01:04:04,652
Thanks very much.

750
01:04:08,948 --> 01:04:10,325
His name's Thomas Lodge.

751
01:04:10,408 --> 01:04:14,245
Police found him, 6:30 a.m.
His car jumped a curb, went into a sign...

752
01:04:14,329 --> 01:04:18,083
but not hard enough to do that.
They couldn't find the other arm.

753
01:04:18,583 --> 01:04:21,795
His wife said
that he left the house at 5:45.

754
01:04:22,045 --> 01:04:25,507
He had his two kids with him.
No sign of the kids yet.

755
01:04:30,428 --> 01:04:31,554
Mrs. Lodge...

756
01:04:31,638 --> 01:04:34,974
was your husband accustomed
to taking his boys out so early?

757
01:04:35,517 --> 01:04:40,355
Tom works on Sunday from 9:00 to 7:00.
It's an extra job he had.

758
01:04:41,064 --> 01:04:44,651
He works so hard, he doesn't have
much time to spend with Jerry and Mike.

759
01:04:44,734 --> 01:04:48,822
Sundays they get up early
and go somewhere together to play.

760
01:04:50,323 --> 01:04:53,034
Do you know where they might
have gone this morning?

761
01:04:53,201 --> 01:04:54,244
Where?

762
01:04:55,203 --> 01:04:57,288
They go different places.

763
01:04:58,331 --> 01:05:00,583
Last Sunday,
Tom took the boys to the zoo.

764
01:05:01,376 --> 01:05:03,086
They had such a good time.

765
01:05:03,378 --> 01:05:06,089
Tom fixed it with a keeper
so they could get in early...

766
01:05:06,172 --> 01:05:08,258
and watch the feeding of the animals.

767
01:05:08,341 --> 01:05:10,176
Jerry talked about it all week.

768
01:05:11,344 --> 01:05:12,929
Where else did they go?

769
01:05:15,098 --> 01:05:18,977
Sometimes Tom took them boat riding
at MacArthur Park.

770
01:05:19,060 --> 01:05:22,147
For pony rides and miniature golf.

771
01:05:23,022 --> 01:05:26,234
They always come home so happy.
And so dirty!

772
01:05:26,734 --> 01:05:30,864
I kept asking Tom to do things
where they won't get so dirty.

773
01:05:30,947 --> 01:05:33,199
I spent the rest of the day
cleaning them.

774
01:05:53,136 --> 01:05:54,929
Can I see you a moment?

775
01:06:01,519 --> 01:06:03,062
- Rough?
- Yeah.

776
01:06:03,438 --> 01:06:07,025
Bob, these are the two officers
who found Lodge.

777
01:06:07,150 --> 01:06:08,693
- This is Ryan.
- Sutton.

778
01:06:08,902 --> 01:06:12,071
Patrolmen Sutton and Ryan.
This is Bob Graham.

779
01:06:12,697 --> 01:06:16,493
Dr. Medford and Pat are flying here
with Gen. O'Brien tonight.

780
01:06:16,785 --> 01:06:19,954
Kibbee called. He'll be over
after he's had a little breakfast.

781
01:06:20,038 --> 01:06:23,166
Show me on the map
just exactly where you found Lodge.

782
01:06:24,542 --> 01:06:27,670
- Right there.
- And he was dead when you found him?

783
01:06:28,171 --> 01:06:29,839
Where's MacArthur Park?

784
01:06:32,467 --> 01:06:34,010
That's a long ways.

785
01:06:34,928 --> 01:06:37,430
We've got to find out
where he took those kids.

786
01:06:37,514 --> 01:06:39,849
He couldn't have driven far.
He was too cut up.

787
01:06:41,184 --> 01:06:44,813
Is there any area where you found him
where he might've taken the kids...

788
01:06:44,896 --> 01:06:48,441
for a boat ride or miniature golf?
Pony rides, stuff like that.

789
01:06:48,566 --> 01:06:50,819
I don't know of any miniature
golf courses.

790
01:06:50,902 --> 01:06:53,530
Griffith Park is the closest
where they rent horses.

791
01:06:53,613 --> 01:06:57,951
That's a long way, too.
Doesn't his wife know where they went?

792
01:06:58,535 --> 01:06:59,702
No.

793
01:07:00,286 --> 01:07:04,332
Did you make any arrests this morning,
say between 4:00 a.m. and noon?

794
01:07:04,499 --> 01:07:05,542
Yes, sir.

795
01:07:06,543 --> 01:07:08,962
Four. Three drunks
and a traffic citation.

796
01:07:10,463 --> 01:07:12,257
I'd like to talk to all of them.

797
01:07:12,382 --> 01:07:15,301
They might have seen something
that'll help us.

798
01:07:19,764 --> 01:07:21,724
Where were you going
when you were arrested?

799
01:07:21,808 --> 01:07:22,809
I don't know.

800
01:07:22,892 --> 01:07:25,228
I don't even know
where I was coming from.

801
01:07:26,020 --> 01:07:28,565
- How about you?
- I don't know either.

802
01:07:32,569 --> 01:07:36,573
As I said before, I prefer
the informal type of social life.

803
01:07:36,948 --> 01:07:39,868
- I disagree with you.
- Really?

804
01:07:39,993 --> 01:07:42,203
I'm at my best
in my white tie and tails.

805
01:07:42,287 --> 01:07:44,998
All right, Beau Brummell, knock it off.

806
01:07:45,081 --> 01:07:46,207
Look, miss...

807
01:07:46,291 --> 01:07:49,294
- All I did was go through a red light.
- At 60 mph?

808
01:07:49,461 --> 01:07:52,505
- Was something chasing you?
- No, I was in a hurry to get home.

809
01:07:52,589 --> 01:07:53,631
Where from?

810
01:07:53,840 --> 01:07:56,718
I spent the night with a sick friend.

811
01:07:57,343 --> 01:08:00,221
I'd rather not mention any names,
he's married.

812
01:08:01,389 --> 01:08:03,057
- Okay, you can go.
- Thank you.

813
01:08:05,518 --> 01:08:09,022
I'm through with them. Let them
go back to the tank and sleep it off.

814
01:08:09,105 --> 01:08:11,733
- All right, let's go.
- With pleasure, sir.

815
01:08:14,027 --> 01:08:15,862
You said there were three drunks?

816
01:08:15,945 --> 01:08:18,656
The other one's in the alcoholic ward
at the hospital.

817
01:08:18,740 --> 01:08:21,034
Practically a permanent resident there.

818
01:08:21,201 --> 01:08:22,744
Let's go talk to him, too.

819
01:08:25,580 --> 01:08:28,374
Sneaked out of here Saturday afternoon.
Back at 5:00 this morning.

820
01:08:28,458 --> 01:08:31,961
You can talk to him,
but I don't think he'll cooperate.

821
01:08:32,045 --> 01:08:34,130
Hey, Admiral, are we gonna be drafted?

822
01:08:34,380 --> 01:08:35,423
No, sir.

823
01:08:35,507 --> 01:08:39,427
Behave yourself, Harry.
This is the man. Mind your manners.

824
01:08:39,719 --> 01:08:42,972
- If he gives you trouble, I'm right outside.
- He won't.

825
01:08:43,056 --> 01:08:45,058
Hello, Jensen. How are you?

826
01:08:45,225 --> 01:08:48,978
How do, gentlemen? Looking for recruits?

827
01:08:49,062 --> 01:08:50,313
Not today.

828
01:08:50,522 --> 01:08:53,441
- Jensen, you come here often, don't you?
- I like it here.

829
01:08:53,525 --> 01:08:56,528
- What have you been doing lately?
- Same as always, nothing.

830
01:08:56,611 --> 01:08:59,739
- But I got some deals on.
- Sure.

831
01:08:59,906 --> 01:09:03,326
You didn't see anything unusual
yesterday or this morning, did you?

832
01:09:03,493 --> 01:09:06,621
No, nothing unusual. Same as always.

833
01:09:07,622 --> 01:09:09,124
They're gone now.

834
01:09:09,958 --> 01:09:12,460
I saw some little airplanes
this morning.

835
01:09:13,461 --> 01:09:15,713
Didn't seem big enough
for them to get into.

836
01:09:16,047 --> 01:09:17,382
Big enough for who?

837
01:09:17,632 --> 01:09:19,050
The ants.

838
01:09:19,509 --> 01:09:22,846
I'd like to get out of here,
but I ain't joining the Army to do it!

839
01:09:22,971 --> 01:09:25,265
- You can't make me, there's laws!
- We know.

840
01:09:25,348 --> 01:09:27,892
Jensen, what kind of ants did you see?

841
01:09:28,226 --> 01:09:29,644
Big ones.

842
01:09:30,645 --> 01:09:32,188
Ain't there now.

843
01:09:32,522 --> 01:09:34,858
- Mostly at night I see them.
- Where?

844
01:09:35,358 --> 01:09:38,236
General, I'll make a deal with you:

845
01:09:38,319 --> 01:09:41,614
If you make me a sergeant in charge
of the booze, and I'll enlist.

846
01:09:41,698 --> 01:09:43,825
Make me a sergeant
in charge of the booze!

847
01:09:43,908 --> 01:09:46,494
Make me a sergeant
in charge of the booze!

848
01:09:46,578 --> 01:09:49,706
- Exactly where do these ants show up?
- In the river.

849
01:09:50,081 --> 01:09:51,458
In the river.

850
01:09:52,125 --> 01:09:54,794
I saw it once when it had water in it.

851
01:09:55,170 --> 01:09:56,880
Now, when was that?

852
01:09:57,756 --> 01:09:59,215
Let me see.

853
01:10:01,384 --> 01:10:02,635
In the river bed.

854
01:10:02,927 --> 01:10:06,765
Those big openings in the sides
are like sewer outlets.

855
01:10:08,308 --> 01:10:10,977
Jensen, how long have you been
seeing these things?

856
01:10:11,060 --> 01:10:14,522
A long time. How long have I been here?

857
01:10:15,315 --> 01:10:18,026
The doctor says he was first admitted
five months ago.

858
01:10:18,109 --> 01:10:19,778
Thanks, Mac.

859
01:10:20,195 --> 01:10:23,323
Take me with you
and I'll enlist, I promise.

860
01:10:23,406 --> 01:10:24,699
Make me a sergeant!

861
01:10:24,824 --> 01:10:27,744
Give me the booze!
Make me a sergeant. Give me the booze!

862
01:10:30,371 --> 01:10:33,124
Please, my nerves!

863
01:11:08,868 --> 01:11:10,787
Which way is the hospital, Ryan?

864
01:11:11,704 --> 01:11:13,415
Right over there.

865
01:11:23,967 --> 01:11:25,677
Ben, come here.

866
01:11:33,893 --> 01:11:36,729
Pretty good model
of a kid's idea of an L-1.

867
01:11:37,230 --> 01:11:40,150
Get on the radio and contact Mrs. Lodge.

868
01:11:40,233 --> 01:11:43,736
Find out if the kids ever owned
a plane like that. Wait for a report.

869
01:11:43,820 --> 01:11:45,029
Right.

870
01:12:14,809 --> 01:12:16,519
Here's tire marks.

871
01:12:20,857 --> 01:12:24,402
New tires. Lodge had new tires
on his car, didn't he?

872
01:12:24,694 --> 01:12:25,737
Yeah.

873
01:12:27,197 --> 01:12:28,573
Hey, Bob! Ben!

874
01:12:43,671 --> 01:12:45,507
It's them all right.

875
01:12:55,934 --> 01:12:57,936
I don't smell formic acid, do you?

876
01:12:58,019 --> 01:13:00,605
No, but it could all fall
right into place.

877
01:13:01,106 --> 01:13:04,150
Lodge and his kids
down here flying their model plane.

878
01:13:04,234 --> 01:13:06,277
Suddenly, the ants attack.

879
01:13:06,486 --> 01:13:08,738
Lodge fights to protect his kids.

880
01:13:09,447 --> 01:13:12,325
Somehow, he breaks away,
gets into his car, and drives off.

881
01:13:13,660 --> 01:13:15,537
But what about the kids?

882
01:13:15,662 --> 01:13:17,080
Maybe they ran away.

883
01:13:17,372 --> 01:13:19,207
No, we'd have picked them up by now.

884
01:13:20,542 --> 01:13:22,627
Unless they ran in here.

885
01:13:23,753 --> 01:13:24,796
Mr. Graham!

886
01:13:25,713 --> 01:13:28,174
That model plane
belonged to the Lodge kids.

887
01:13:28,258 --> 01:13:31,428
The husband used to bring
the boys down here to fly it.

888
01:13:31,719 --> 01:13:35,890
Got to be the same plane, same color.
And there's no model plane at home.

889
01:13:36,391 --> 01:13:39,519
Where do these things go?
I mean, how far do they go?

890
01:13:39,936 --> 01:13:43,940
Don't know for sure, but there's more
than 700 miles of them under the city.

891
01:13:59,706 --> 01:14:02,167
Why is the Army
sending troops into L.A.?

892
01:14:02,250 --> 01:14:04,210
And a Marine regiment from Pendleton?

893
01:14:04,294 --> 01:14:07,297
Why a special press conference at 5:00
on a Sunday?

894
01:14:07,380 --> 01:14:10,341
- You'll just have to wait.
- Why all the VIPs from Washington?

895
01:14:10,425 --> 01:14:12,135
Has the cold war gotten hot?

896
01:14:12,218 --> 01:14:14,304
Gentlemen, come in now.

897
01:14:19,601 --> 01:14:24,022
This is the most serious crisis
this city has ever faced.

898
01:14:24,189 --> 01:14:26,691
There's no time for questions.
Listen carefully...

899
01:14:26,775 --> 01:14:29,652
so you can report the facts
to your newspapers.

900
01:14:29,861 --> 01:14:33,198
This is Dr. Harold Medford
of the Department of Agriculture.

901
01:14:33,281 --> 01:14:36,201
Gen. O'Brien, Air Force Intelligence.

902
01:14:36,493 --> 01:14:40,163
Gen. James, Army Intelligence.
The others you know.

903
01:14:40,705 --> 01:14:42,373
- Ready, sir?
- One moment.

904
01:14:43,833 --> 01:14:45,627
- Set, Charlie?
- You're on.

905
01:14:46,044 --> 01:14:50,048
We interrupt all radio and television
programs indefinitely.

906
01:14:50,423 --> 01:14:55,386
Keep your radio and television sets
turned on. This is an emergency.

907
01:14:55,470 --> 01:14:58,264
I repeat, this is an emergency!

908
01:14:59,557 --> 01:15:02,519
"By direction of the President
of the United States...

909
01:15:02,685 --> 01:15:06,564
"and the Governor of the State
of California, and the Mayor...

910
01:15:07,023 --> 01:15:09,109
"the city of Los Angeles is...

911
01:15:09,442 --> 01:15:13,696
"in the interests of public safety,
hereby under martial law.

912
01:15:18,076 --> 01:15:20,036
"Curfew is at 1800 hours.

913
01:15:20,912 --> 01:15:25,458
"Any persons on the street or outside
their quarters after 6:00 p.m...

914
01:15:26,084 --> 01:15:28,545
"will be subject to arrest
by military police."

915
01:15:28,753 --> 01:15:31,673
<i>Now as for the reasons
for this most drastic decision:</i>

916
01:15:32,841 --> 01:15:36,970
<i>A couple of months ago in the New Mexico
desert, giant ants were discovered.</i>

917
01:15:37,095 --> 01:15:42,434
<i>They're similar in appearance
to the ones you're familiar with.</i>

918
01:15:43,017 --> 01:15:47,897
<i>Except they are mutations,
ranging in size from 9 to 12 feet in length.</i>

919
01:15:48,523 --> 01:15:52,068
<i>The New Mexico colony was destroyed,
but two queen ants escaped.</i>

920
01:15:52,318 --> 01:15:56,364
<i>One has been found and destroyed.
The other has not yet been found.</i>

921
01:15:57,115 --> 01:16:03,246
<i>It has established a nest in the storm
drains beneath the streets of Los Angeles.</i>

922
01:16:03,371 --> 01:16:06,666
<i>It's not known how long this nest
has been established...</i>

923
01:16:06,916 --> 01:16:09,878
<i>or how many of these
lethal monsters have hatched.</i>

924
01:16:10,211 --> 01:16:13,047
<i>Maybe a few, maybe thousands.</i>

925
01:16:13,965 --> 01:16:16,760
<i>If new queen ants have hatched
and escaped this nest...</i>

926
01:16:17,302 --> 01:16:20,764
<i>other American cities may be in danger.</i>

927
01:16:21,306 --> 01:16:23,558
<i>These creatures are extremely dangerous.</i>

928
01:16:24,434 --> 01:16:26,644
<i>They've already killed
a number of persons.</i>

929
01:16:26,728 --> 01:16:30,190
<i>Stay in your homes.
I repeat, stay in your homes!</i>

930
01:16:30,774 --> 01:16:33,735
<i>Your personal safety,
the safety of the entire city...</i>

931
01:16:34,402 --> 01:16:37,822
<i>depends upon your full cooperation
with the military authorities.</i>

932
01:17:00,762 --> 01:17:02,889
You got a pass to be down here, lady?

933
01:17:02,972 --> 01:17:06,559
- No, but I'm with Mrs. Lodge.
- This is a restricted area. Let's go.

934
01:17:06,643 --> 01:17:07,769
Hold it, Sergeant!

935
01:17:08,103 --> 01:17:10,021
- This is the mother...
- They have no pass...

936
01:17:10,105 --> 01:17:12,315
Go talk to the general.

937
01:17:14,275 --> 01:17:15,819
Good evening, Mrs. Lodge.

938
01:17:17,487 --> 01:17:19,364
- Is there any word yet?
- No, not yet.

939
01:17:19,447 --> 01:17:22,075
We've got an awful lot of people
to help find them.

940
01:17:22,200 --> 01:17:25,703
- This may take awhile. Why not go home?
- Oh, no.

941
01:17:26,162 --> 01:17:30,291
- I want to be here when...
- Sure. Take it easy and try not to worry.

942
01:17:36,548 --> 01:17:38,883
Dr. Medford, since time
is of the essence...

943
01:17:38,967 --> 01:17:41,970
I recommend we pour gasoline
into those drains and light it.

944
01:17:42,053 --> 01:17:45,181
It'll burn out anything in there
and we can still control the fire...

945
01:17:45,265 --> 01:17:47,809
so there'll be no property damage
on the street.

946
01:17:47,892 --> 01:17:50,603
Any ants that get through,
the troops can take care of.

947
01:17:50,687 --> 01:17:54,816
We can't do that until we know
whether those two kids are in there.

948
01:17:54,899 --> 01:17:57,193
Think there's a chance
they're still alive?

949
01:17:57,402 --> 01:18:00,739
Are we supposed to jeopardize
the lives of everyone for children...

950
01:18:00,822 --> 01:18:02,741
who in all probability are already dead?

951
01:18:02,824 --> 01:18:06,161
- Ask their mother that question.
- She's right over there.

952
01:18:12,542 --> 01:18:13,918
I see what you mean.

953
01:18:14,002 --> 01:18:17,088
We not only have her to think of,
but as I told you before...

954
01:18:17,172 --> 01:18:20,717
we can't risk fire until we know
if any new queens have hatched...

955
01:18:20,800 --> 01:18:23,845
and flown out of this nest.
Where's Gen. O'Brien?

956
01:18:24,012 --> 01:18:26,473
- He's over there by the command car.
- Thank you.

957
01:18:27,724 --> 01:18:29,976
- Can we start now, General?
- I think so.

958
01:18:30,185 --> 01:18:33,396
- How about it, Major?
- Waiting for more coverage to the north.

959
01:18:33,521 --> 01:18:35,815
Contact the northern units, soldier.

960
01:18:36,149 --> 01:18:39,486
- Northern units come in.
- How about the south?

961
01:18:39,611 --> 01:18:41,362
All drains as far as Long Beach...

962
01:18:41,446 --> 01:18:43,448
are covered by bazookas
or flamethrowers.

963
01:18:43,531 --> 01:18:46,326
- Openings of these drains?
- Police and Marines are covering.

964
01:18:46,409 --> 01:18:47,952
How about it, soldier?

965
01:18:48,244 --> 01:18:50,330
Can't contact northern units, sir.

966
01:18:50,789 --> 01:18:52,624
Let's go ahead anyway.

967
01:18:52,874 --> 01:18:56,252
Gen. O'Brien to all search units:
Proceed into storm drains!

968
01:18:58,463 --> 01:19:00,381
- Yes, sir?
- Get them moving.

969
01:19:00,465 --> 01:19:02,342
Come on, boys, let's get rolling!

970
01:19:02,842 --> 01:19:04,427
Roll them out of here!

971
01:19:13,853 --> 01:19:15,605
Watch yourself, Bob.

972
01:20:52,243 --> 01:20:53,828
Graham in drain 203.

973
01:20:54,120 --> 01:20:58,458
<i>Graham in drain 203. In six-tenths
of a mile, nothing to report. Over.</i>

974
01:20:59,167 --> 01:21:00,668
Medford in drain 207.

975
01:21:00,752 --> 01:21:04,798
<i>Medford in drain 207.
In half of a mile. Nothing to report, over.</i>

976
01:21:05,090 --> 01:21:06,549
Peterson in drain 223.

977
01:21:06,633 --> 01:21:10,887
<i>Peterson in 223, we're in six-tenths
of a mile. Nothing to report, over.</i>

978
01:21:11,179 --> 01:21:12,764
<i>This is Kibbee in drain 192.</i>

979
01:21:12,889 --> 01:21:17,602
Repeat, Kibbee in 192, in eight-tenths.
Nothing to report, over.

980
01:21:22,690 --> 01:21:24,359
Wait a minute, hold it.

981
01:21:25,068 --> 01:21:26,403
Kill the motor.

982
01:21:32,200 --> 01:21:33,868
- Did you hear that?
- Yeah.

983
01:21:36,246 --> 01:21:38,623
This is Peterson! Stop all motors!

984
01:21:39,290 --> 01:21:42,252
<i>This is Peterson! Stop all motors!</i>

985
01:22:01,479 --> 01:22:03,356
This is Peterson in drain 223.

986
01:22:03,440 --> 01:22:07,318
<i>Peterson in drain 223. We're in
just over a mile. I think I hear something.</i>

987
01:22:12,490 --> 01:22:14,451
There it is again. Stand by.

988
01:22:23,793 --> 01:22:25,628
Where does this thing go?

989
01:22:29,966 --> 01:22:33,636
That pipe runs into a main line drain
that isn't finished yet.

990
01:22:33,720 --> 01:22:35,513
Still in the construction stage.

991
01:22:40,810 --> 01:22:42,353
Give me a hand.

992
01:22:47,817 --> 01:22:49,360
Tell them where I'm going.

993
01:22:51,571 --> 01:22:55,325
Peterson is going through
the connecting feeder to drain 267.

994
01:22:55,617 --> 01:23:00,080
<i>We've heard what may be the kids.
Repeat, we've heard what may be the kids.</i>

995
01:23:00,413 --> 01:23:01,456
<i>Stand by.</i>

996
01:23:03,833 --> 01:23:06,211
- There's construction down there?
- Yeah.

997
01:23:06,294 --> 01:23:10,215
- Tell O'Brien to turn the work lights on.
- Right.

998
01:23:11,883 --> 01:23:15,011
My map shows a portion of drain 267
is unfinished...

999
01:23:15,095 --> 01:23:18,098
with construction postponed
for the last 60 days.

1000
01:23:18,264 --> 01:23:23,228
<i>If they've left work lights installed,
turn them on. Stand by.</i>

1001
01:23:53,550 --> 01:23:56,970
Mike? Jerry? Are you there?

1002
01:23:57,053 --> 01:24:00,140
- Yes, we're here!
- Schmitty, they're alive!

1003
01:24:00,223 --> 01:24:01,182
They're alive.

1004
01:24:01,391 --> 01:24:03,601
<i>Tell Mrs. Lodge her boys are alive.</i>

1005
01:24:16,740 --> 01:24:21,578
Mike, Jerry, stay where you are!
We'll get you out, but don't move!

1006
01:24:22,120 --> 01:24:23,872
There's two ants in here.

1007
01:24:23,997 --> 01:24:27,792
I got a strong brood odor,
like in the New Mexico nest!

1008
01:24:28,251 --> 01:24:32,464
Report that to O'Brien.
Tell him I must be near the nest.

1009
01:24:32,547 --> 01:24:36,092
I can't use the flamethrower.
The kids are right in the line of fire.

1010
01:24:36,176 --> 01:24:38,136
Tell O'Brien to send in troops.

1011
01:24:46,561 --> 01:24:50,023
<i>Peterson says it has the same smell
as the nest in New Mexico.</i>

1012
01:24:50,106 --> 01:24:53,568
<i>"Brood odor," he calls it.
He asks for troops to be sent in.</i>

1013
01:24:53,735 --> 01:24:55,403
He's found the nest!

1014
01:24:55,612 --> 01:24:59,849
To all units, condition red.
Drain 267 is the target area!

1015
01:24:59,933 --> 01:25:03,119
Repeat, condition red.
Drain 267 is the target area!

1016
01:25:38,863 --> 01:25:41,825
Repeat, condition red.
Drain 267 is the target area.

1017
01:25:41,908 --> 01:25:45,453
O'Connors, bring up my jeep.
I hope we've found this nest in time.

1018
01:26:16,401 --> 01:26:18,194
Mike, Jerry, get in the corner!

1019
01:26:30,039 --> 01:26:32,417
Come on Jerry,
Mike, let's get out of here!

1020
01:26:34,335 --> 01:26:35,754
Come on, Mike.

1021
01:26:36,963 --> 01:26:40,800
We're going through this pipe.
There's a man at the other end.

1022
01:26:40,884 --> 01:26:44,137
Keep crawling until you get down there.
Understand?

1023
01:26:44,512 --> 01:26:46,806
Grab hold. Go on.

1024
01:26:47,515 --> 01:26:49,642
Keep crawling, to the other end.

1025
01:27:20,715 --> 01:27:22,425
Put your light over there!

1026
01:27:32,185 --> 01:27:33,478
Keep at them!

1027
01:27:40,693 --> 01:27:41,736
Ben.

1028
01:27:44,364 --> 01:27:47,033
- How about the kids, Ben?
- They're okay.

1029
01:27:48,368 --> 01:27:49,911
The pipe...

1030
01:27:52,831 --> 01:27:54,124
Medics!

1031
01:28:33,705 --> 01:28:36,416
- Stop the firing!
- Cease fire!

1032
01:28:36,499 --> 01:28:39,294
No more explosives,
we can't risk closing off the nest.

1033
01:28:39,377 --> 01:28:41,171
Is there any type of gas we can use?

1034
01:28:41,296 --> 01:28:43,715
We can't take a chance,
might poison the whole city.

1035
01:28:43,798 --> 01:28:48,178
We must locate the egg chamber,
find out if any new queens have hatched.

1036
01:29:08,239 --> 01:29:10,699
Medics! Medics!

1037
01:29:33,556 --> 01:29:35,183
Start digging, you guys.

1038
01:29:43,024 --> 01:29:44,984
Hurry up, dig.

1039
01:31:02,103 --> 01:31:04,731
Hold it. Don't burn anything
until we get the okay.

1040
01:31:04,814 --> 01:31:07,067
- General, where's Dr. Medford?
- He's coming.

1041
01:31:16,743 --> 01:31:18,119
Is this it, Doctor?

1042
01:31:19,120 --> 01:31:21,372
New princess ants. New queens.

1043
01:31:22,957 --> 01:31:27,212
This is the egg chamber.
The same as we found in New Mexico.

1044
01:31:29,005 --> 01:31:30,423
Are we too late?

1045
01:31:30,924 --> 01:31:32,675
Fortunately, we're in time.

1046
01:31:32,842 --> 01:31:35,678
I'm certain no new queens have escaped
from this nest.

1047
01:31:35,929 --> 01:31:38,431
The job will be done
when these are destroyed.

1048
01:31:38,848 --> 01:31:40,183
Okay, burn them out.

1049
01:31:47,607 --> 01:31:52,028
Pat, if these monsters are a result
of the first atomic bomb in 1945...

1050
01:31:52,445 --> 01:31:55,198
what about all the others
that have been exploded since then?

1051
01:31:55,281 --> 01:31:56,324
I don't know.

1052
01:31:56,699 --> 01:31:58,243
Nobody knows, Robert.

1053
01:31:59,327 --> 01:32:03,706
When man entered the atomic age,
he opened a door into a new world.

1054
01:32:04,791 --> 01:32:09,045
What we'll eventually find
in that new world, nobody can predict.

1055
01:32:22,392 --> 01:32:25,520
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01:32:26,396 --> 01:32:28,523
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