1. This is Operation Experiment.Copy !req
2. A secret base far north
of the Arctic Circle.Copy !req
3. Experiment was the code name for this
top-priority scientific expedition.Copy !req
4. These men arrived here
on X-day minus 60.Copy !req
5. It has taken them the full
two months to get ready.Copy !req
6. Today is X-day.Copy !req
7. It is now H-hour minus 59 minutes.Copy !req
8. There is less than an hour left.Copy !req
9. The plane must arrive at its rendezvous
200 miles away in exactly 58 minutes.Copy !req
10. There can be no margin for error.
There can be no second chance.Copy !req
11. This is the rendezvous. The forward
observation post where scientists...Copy !req
12. and their aides check equipment
and wait for the plane's approach.Copy !req
13. It is now H-hour minus 81 seconds.Copy !req
14. At H-hour minus 75 seconds,
the radar antenna flashes the word.Copy !req
15. There it is! 63 degrees.Copy !req
16. Airplane sighted: 13 hours, 11 minutes.Copy !req
17. 63 degrees.
approximately 350 mph.Copy !req
18. Professor Tom Nesbitt
and Col. John Evans...Copy !req
19. military liaison, tensely wait.Copy !req
20. The timing is perfect, thus far.Copy !req
21. It is now H-hour minus 56 seconds.Copy !req
22. Every man here knows his job.
He does it quickly, efficiently, silently.Copy !req
23. The men are ready.
The equipment is ready.Copy !req
24. It is now H-hour minus 52 seconds.Copy !req
25. Operation Experiment to Y-3-4-7.Copy !req
26. Operation Experiment to Y-3-4-7.
Over.Copy !req
27. Y-3-4-7 to Operation Experiment.
Now leveling off.Copy !req
28. Ground speed: 360.
Approaching lP.Copy !req
29. IP means initial point.Copy !req
30. The next 26 seconds determine whether
these men have succeeded or failed.Copy !req
31. Now we count the seconds.Copy !req
32. Ten, nine, eight, seven, six...Copy !req
33. five, four, three, two, one.Copy !req
34. Charlie, look!Copy !req
35. Col. Evans, there's something
strange on the radar screen.Copy !req
36. What's the matter, Charlie?
- Right here, sir. A foreign object.Copy !req
37. - It's gone.
- What's gone?Copy !req
38. - I don't know, sir.
- It silhouetted like 500 tons, at least.Copy !req
39. - Where is it, then?
- I don't know, sir.Copy !req
40. - Are you sure we saw it?
- We saw something.Copy !req
41. Maybe the shock tossed something
in front of the antenna.Copy !req
42. That must have been it.Copy !req
43. Eight weeks of preparation,
and it's all over in a second.Copy !req
44. Jack, when energy of that magnitude
is released, it's never over.Copy !req
45. What the cumulative effects of these
atomic explosions and tests will be...Copy !req
46. - ... only time can tell.
- You mean scientists can't tell?Copy !req
47. The world's been here
for millions of years.Copy !req
48. Man's been walking upright for
a comparatively short time.Copy !req
49. Mentally, we're still crawling.Copy !req
50. This test will add to our knowledge.
Wouldn't you say so, Ritchie?Copy !req
51. That's right.Copy !req
52. Every time one of these goes off...Copy !req
53. I feel we're helping to write
the first chapter of a new Genesis.Copy !req
54. Let's hope we don't find ourselves
writing the last chapter of the old one.Copy !req
55. - You sound like a man who's scared.
- What makes you think I'm not?Copy !req
56. Here are the figures, Tom.Copy !req
57. We'll leave for the observation
post in about an hour.Copy !req
58. - Good. Loomis?
Yes, sir?Copy !req
59. - Get the equipment ready.
Yes.Copy !req
60. The moment your Geiger counters
indicate heavy radiation, turn back.Copy !req
61. Turn back? Colonel, we'll run back.
There isn't a hero in the crowd.Copy !req
62. Post 16.Copy !req
63. Shall we try to go around, sir?Copy !req
64. No, wait here for us.
We'll go up on foot.Copy !req
65. What's your reading?
- 19.7. We'd better get out.Copy !req
66. I'll check post 17. You take 18,
and I'll meet you back here.Copy !req
67. Make it fast.Copy !req
68. Sgt. Willistead.Copy !req
69. What?Copy !req
70. But they've gone on foot.Copy !req
71. Okay.Copy !req
72. - What's the matter?
- There's a blizzard coming up!Copy !req
73. Tom!Copy !req
74. Tom! Tom!Copy !req
75. Tom!Copy !req
76. Tom!Copy !req
77. Tom, I can't move.
Something's wrong with my leg.Copy !req
78. I'm coming down.Copy !req
79. Have they reported back yet?
No, not yet. We're waiting.Copy !req
80. Tom, Tom! Get out, Tom!
A monster!Copy !req
81. - A prehistoric monster!
- Quiet, quiet. Don't struggle.Copy !req
82. I'll get you out, George.
Don't worry.Copy !req
83. Doc! Hey, doc!Copy !req
84. Put him right over here.Copy !req
85. - Give me my bag.
Yes, sir.Copy !req
86. And get some blankets
off those other beds.Copy !req
87. How is he?Copy !req
88. - Where's Professor Ritchie?
Still missing, sir.Copy !req
89. - What happened?
- We don't know.Copy !req
90. We saw the flares and rushed to post.
The whole shore was breaking loose.Copy !req
91. - We grabbed Nesbitt just in time.
- We never found Ritchie.Copy !req
92. Colonel, we have to get Nesbitt
to a hospital in the States.Copy !req
93. - He's in a bad way.
- Right.Copy !req
94. Get word to the main base.
We want a plane right away.Copy !req
95. Ritchie, I'll get you out.
I'll get you out.Copy !req
96. The monster...
Hurry, it's coming!Copy !req
97. Watch out, the monster!
The monster!Copy !req
98. Hello, Professor Nesbitt.
How do you feel today?Copy !req
99. Fine. Where is Col. Evans?
Did you reach Col. Evans?Copy !req
100. He'll be here any minute now.
I'd like you to meet Dr. Ingersol.Copy !req
101. He wants to ask a few questions, if you
don't think it would be too hard on you.Copy !req
102. - Questions?
I'm a psychiatrist, professor.Copy !req
103. I thought together we might
get to the bottom of this.Copy !req
104. You think I'm crazy too.
My story may sound fantastic, but—Copy !req
105. Throughout history, people have claimed
that they've seen monsters.Copy !req
106. There was the famous Loch Lomond
monster, you'll probably recall.Copy !req
107. Then the green serpents
off the shores of Ireland.Copy !req
108. But not one of them was ever caught
or even photographed.Copy !req
109. I'm not inclined to let my imagination
run away with me. I'm a scientist.Copy !req
110. All right.Copy !req
111. Then it shouldn't be
inconceivable to you...Copy !req
112. that the mind can withstand
just so much pressure.Copy !req
113. The shock of seeing your friend dead,
your own predicament...Copy !req
114. was too much to bear. So that you
momentarily lost contact with reality.Copy !req
115. It's a phenomenon which was
not uncommon during the war.Copy !req
116. But Ritchie wasn't dead when
I got to him. He tried to warn me.Copy !req
117. Two people don't share
the same hallucination.Copy !req
118. Hello, Tom. How are you?Copy !req
119. - Thawed out?
- Jack, I'm glad you're here.Copy !req
120. I'm having a hard time convincing
them that I'm not an idiot.Copy !req
121. I was in Washington making my report.
I was—Copy !req
122. What did they say about the animal?Copy !req
123. I want to be in on any
expedition going after him.Copy !req
124. Tom, I didn't tell them about the animal.Copy !req
125. Why not?
It should've been in the report.Copy !req
126. I went back to Post 18. I tried
to reconstruct what happened out there.Copy !req
127. I couldn't find a thing.
No tracks. Nothing.Copy !req
128. Nothing?Copy !req
129. I'm sorry. I wish
I could say I saw something.Copy !req
130. The blizzard.Copy !req
131. There was a blizzard, remember?Copy !req
132. The snow must have blown over
and covered everything.Copy !req
133. - Check me out of here.
- You are in no condition to leave.Copy !req
134. It's imperative that you have rest.Copy !req
135. - How can I rest?
- I've encountered this sort before.Copy !req
136. You've undergone a tremendous shock.
You've got to stay in bed.Copy !req
137. I see. And that makes it official?Copy !req
138. I'm afraid it does.Copy !req
139. So long. Do what the doctor says. We'll
get together when you're on your feet.Copy !req
140. That won't be too long.Copy !req
141. What about that sound I heard?Copy !req
142. In your condition, it could have been
anything. The wind. Anything.Copy !req
143. No wind ever made a sound like that.Copy !req
144. Captain. Captain!Copy !req
145. Are you daft, man?Copy !req
146. - Good morning.
Good morning.Copy !req
147. What's going on
in our turbulent world today?Copy !req
148. Death and politics. Comics are the only
thing that make sense anymore.Copy !req
149. I take it, then, that you advise
a dose of it after each meal?Copy !req
150. - You quote me exactly.
- Then I'll take your advice exactly.Copy !req
151. Here it is.Copy !req
152. Say.Copy !req
153. Look at this!Copy !req
154. That item is right where it belongs.
On the comic page.Copy !req
155. And that's why I came here, Dr. Elson.Copy !req
156. I felt if you heard my story,
you'd do something.Copy !req
157. And what is it you think I can do?Copy !req
158. Fit out an expedition,
institute a search.Copy !req
159. The fitting out of an expedition requires
a great deal of attention to detail.Copy !req
160. Such as time, personnel, money.Copy !req
161. How can you talk about details
in the face of such a discovery?Copy !req
162. I'm not a paleontologist, and I have
a desire to know more about this animal.Copy !req
163. I thought you'd have
such a compelling curiosity...Copy !req
164. that nothing would stand in your way.Copy !req
165. Professor Nesbitt,
after waiting for 30 years...Copy !req
166. I'm about to undertake
my first extended holiday.Copy !req
167. I would throw aside my plans
if I thought there was...Copy !req
168. the slightest chance of what your
saying being possible. It isn't.Copy !req
169. - What about that newspaper item?
- Oh.Copy !req
170. If all the items of seamen reporting
monsters were placed end on end...Copy !req
171. it'd reach to the moon, my boy.Copy !req
172. You mean, I'm wasting your time?Copy !req
173. Do you realize
you're asking me to believe...Copy !req
174. you saw a creature that would be
over 100 million years old?Copy !req
175. But you said that
100 million years ago the water...Copy !req
176. - ... of the Mesozoic age turned to ice.
- That's right.Copy !req
177. Isn't it possible that an animal
was trapped in that ice?Copy !req
178. Caught in the freezing temperatures
and locked in.Copy !req
179. Then when we released the bomb,
the heat generated melted the ice...Copy !req
180. in which this beast was imprisoned
and freed it?Copy !req
181. Bringing it back to life
after 100 million years?Copy !req
182. Couldn't it have been
in a state of hibernation?Copy !req
183. Bears live through winters
under similar conditions.Copy !req
184. That's quite true.Copy !req
185. A bear does live off itself for one winter
from food accumulated within itself...Copy !req
186. but it's hard to believe an animal could
live 100 million years off its own tissue.Copy !req
187. To put it mildly, it would require
quite an appetite, don't you think?Copy !req
188. I don't know if this will be of any help,
but you remember, doctor...Copy !req
189. a few years ago,
an expedition unearthed...Copy !req
190. a herd of mastodons
in the Siberian tundra.Copy !req
191. Dead thousands of years, yet their fur
was still intact, the meat still edible.Copy !req
192. That's quite right, my dear Lee.
But they weren't alive.Copy !req
193. That's the important difference.
They weren't alive.Copy !req
194. I'm sorry, professor, but in all honesty,
I can't support your story.Copy !req
195. I guess I'll go back to the hospital.Copy !req
196. Maybe I should ask for a transfer
to the psychopathic ward.Copy !req
197. Nonsense.
It's not as bad as all that, my boy.Copy !req
198. Thanks for listening, doctor.Copy !req
199. When he first came to this country,
I attended his lectures...Copy !req
200. on the curative properties of the
radioactive isotope. He is a brilliant man.Copy !req
201. - Uh-huh.
- Isn't his story in any way feasible?Copy !req
202. No. And I'm sorry.
I'd rather like to help him.Copy !req
203. I thought that little jaunt of yours
last week would knock you for a loop.Copy !req
204. I can't find anything wrong with you.Copy !req
205. I feel fine.
When do you think I can leave?Copy !req
206. Any time's all right with us.Copy !req
207. Don't go rushing to the North Pole again.
Keep fit and warm.Copy !req
208. Take those vitamins I gave you.Copy !req
209. This is your hour of mirth and melody.Copy !req
210. They say music has charms
to soothe the savage beast.Copy !req
211. They ought to try it
on these sea monsters.Copy !req
212. From Canada comes word
of a second ship...Copy !req
213. destroyed by an enormous beast
according to Captain LeMay.Copy !req
214. He really ought to stop smoking that
stuff and try Virginia Golds, because—Copy !req
215. It shouldn't take me too long
to catch up.Copy !req
216. - It's good to have you back.
- Thank you.Copy !req
217. Anything else, Miss Ryan?Copy !req
218. Oh, yes. There's Miss Lee Hunter
waiting to see you.Copy !req
219. - Miss Lee Hunter?
- She's very pretty.Copy !req
220. Send her in.Copy !req
221. - Professor Nesbitt? How are you?
- Fine.Copy !req
222. We met at the university.
I'm Dr. Elson's assistant.Copy !req
223. Oh, yes, of course.Copy !req
224. The verdict: A prehistoric animal would
be presumptuous to be alive today...Copy !req
225. and upset your neatly
cataloged theories.Copy !req
226. I see you don't remember
I was a sympathetic bystander.Copy !req
227. Oh, really? How come?Copy !req
228. I have a deep, abiding faith
in the work of scientists.Copy !req
229. Otherwise I wouldn't be one.Copy !req
230. - Won't you sit down?
- Thank you.Copy !req
231. Sorry I can't offer you anything,
but everything around here is radioactive.Copy !req
232. No, thank you, anyway.Copy !req
233. When I was in the lab yesterday...Copy !req
234. I heard a report about a man claiming
that his ship was sunk by a sea monster.Copy !req
235. "If all the stories about sea monsters
were laid end to end...Copy !req
236. they'd reach the moon."Copy !req
237. But two reports coming
so close together—Copy !req
238. What makes you think two are going to
convince anyone any more than one did?Copy !req
239. Well, it convinced me.Copy !req
240. It got me to thinking
it would be worthwhile investigating.Copy !req
241. I've gathered all the sketches of known
prehistoric animals. If you identify—Copy !req
242. Being considered crazy
has been quite an experience.Copy !req
243. However, I wouldn't care
to go through it again.Copy !req
244. Is this the man with the compelling
curiosity? Afraid of ridicule?Copy !req
245. - I'm not afraid of ridicule.
- No?Copy !req
246. But I'm afraid that's what it sounds like.Copy !req
247. You said sketches of all the known
animals? What if it's an unknown one?Copy !req
248. That's possible.Copy !req
249. But we'll never really know
unless you look at them.Copy !req
250. Oh, professor, think what it would mean
if you were right.Copy !req
251. Five-minute break. It's coffee time.Copy !req
252. Good. I need it.Copy !req
253. Cream and sugar?Copy !req
254. Better take both. I make coffee
strong enough to enter the Olympics.Copy !req
255. - One or two?
- Two, please.Copy !req
256. I never knew there were
so many prehistoric animals.Copy !req
257. We haven't even reached
the Cretaceous Period yet.Copy !req
258. I don't know if I could identify the beast
now if it looked through the window.Copy !req
259. Maybe it's part imagination, after all.Copy !req
260. Something I used to dream about
when I was a kid. Or read in fairy tales.Copy !req
261. You're tired. Why don't you just relax
for a moment. Have a sandwich.Copy !req
262. Thanks.Copy !req
263. - Funny.
- What's funny?Copy !req
264. Well, a girl like you, a paleontologist.Copy !req
265. What's wrong with paleontology?Copy !req
266. - Classifying old bones.
- Old bones?Copy !req
267. If we didn't study the past,
you wouldn't know about the atom.Copy !req
268. Dr. Elson says,
"Future is the reflection of the past."Copy !req
269. You're fond of Dr. Elson, aren't you?
How did you become his assistant?Copy !req
270. I suppose by continually
antagonizing him.Copy !req
271. I was one of his students.Copy !req
272. To hear him tell it, all I ever did
was challenge him or argue with him.Copy !req
273. I was afraid he was going to expel me.Copy !req
274. Instead, he asked me to be
his assistant after I graduated.Copy !req
275. So I graduated, and here I am.Copy !req
276. And here I am.Copy !req
277. Between us, we span the ages.
You deal with the past, I with the future.Copy !req
278. How uncomplicated the past was.Copy !req
279. And how bright the future can be.Copy !req
280. Let's get back to the present.Copy !req
281. This might be it.Copy !req
282. I'm not sure.Copy !req
283. Not sure?Copy !req
284. The head looks similar,
but the front legs are too short.Copy !req
285. Wait a minute.Copy !req
286. Is this any better?Copy !req
287. Now, that's much more like it.Copy !req
288. And what about this one?Copy !req
289. That's the closest!Copy !req
290. I think that is it.Copy !req
291. Lee, I think that's the one I saw!Copy !req
292. If two independent observers
saw the same thing...Copy !req
293. If that captain in Canada
could identify the same sketch—Copy !req
294. And tell his story to Dr. Elson.Copy !req
295. "Capt. George LeMay,
Marquette, Canada."Copy !req
296. Operator.
- I want to make a long-distance call.Copy !req
297. Person-to-person.Copy !req
298. To Capt. George LeMay,
Marquette, Canada.Copy !req
299. One moment, please.Copy !req
300. - Charge this call to Circle 4-4771.
- Thank you.Copy !req
301. It's my monster.Copy !req
302. They're speaking French.Copy !req
303. Capt. LeMay is ready.
- Thank you.Copy !req
304. - Hello. Capt. LeMay?
Oui, oui.Copy !req
305. My name is Tom Nesbitt.
I'm a scientist in New York.Copy !req
306. I have some important questions
to ask you.Copy !req
307. I don't speak English.Copy !req
308. Captain?Copy !req
309. - Hello. Capt. LeMay?
The captain has hung up.Copy !req
310. He is unhappy when anybody mentions
his accident, because everyone laughs.Copy !req
311. Please get the captain back.
I can't tell you how important this is.Copy !req
312. I am sorry. He will not
speak to you again, I'm sure.Copy !req
313. He is a stubborn old man.
Perhaps a little crazy.Copy !req
314. Especially on the subject of serpents.Copy !req
315. They think he is crazy too.Copy !req
316. - Well, it was a good try anyway.
- But good tries don't pay off.Copy !req
317. Do you suppose if you went up there...Copy !req
318. you could make him understand
how important this is?Copy !req
319. I could get a plane.Copy !req
320. Phone me if anything exciting happens.Copy !req
321. I'll phone you even if nothing happens.Copy !req
322. You missed him
by not more than two hours.Copy !req
323. I thought you might tell me where
he went. His housekeeper wouldn't.Copy !req
324. Capt. LeMay has been very touchy
since his sea serpent incident.Copy !req
325. People felt he was a bit balmy.
They laughed at him. Too bad too.Copy !req
326. The man had served well
and faithfully for years.Copy !req
327. I believe a man has a right to a few nips
now and then, I always say.Copy !req
328. - You don't believe his story?
- I said he was balmy, not me.Copy !req
329. He let it get out that he was headed
for the interior of Canada...Copy !req
330. and was not going to stop until he hit
a spot uninhabited by white men.Copy !req
331. A blooming hermit he wants to be.
He'll be back in less than a month.Copy !req
332. I can't wait that long.Copy !req
333. - Were there any other survivors?
- No.Copy !req
334. - How far is it to St. Pierre?
- About 100 miles.Copy !req
335. - Are you going to see this other chap?
- Yes.Copy !req
336. I say, you don't believe
in the sea serpent fable, do you?Copy !req
337. What do you think I am, balmy?Copy !req
338. Good evening, Jacob.Copy !req
339. You look much better today.Copy !req
340. A man is here.
A very great scientist from New York.Copy !req
341. No, Sister. Take him away.
I want no one near me.Copy !req
342. He went to so much trouble to find you.Copy !req
343. Why?Copy !req
344. He says it is very important.Copy !req
345. It's about the beast you saw.Copy !req
346. Tell him to leave me alone!
Tell him I saw nothing!Copy !req
347. Tell him I know nothing!Copy !req
348. Tell him it's all in my head!Copy !req
349. That's what everybody says.Copy !req
350. Except me, Jacob.Copy !req
351. - Who are you?
- I saw the beast too.Copy !req
352. You saw him?Copy !req
353. - You're not playing jokes on me?
- No, I'm not playing any jokes.Copy !req
354. People called me crazy too.Copy !req
355. It stays in my mind always.
I'll never forget it.Copy !req
356. In New York, there are scientists,
friends, who will listen and believe.Copy !req
357. Jacob, will you come to New York
with me?Copy !req
358. - Is he well enough to travel?
- I will ask the doctor.Copy !req
359. There's something very compensating
in having to wait 30 years for a holiday.Copy !req
360. Because when it finally comes...Copy !req
361. the joy of anticipation is multiplied
by just that many years.Copy !req
362. I feel like a schoolboy on the verge
of departing for my first summer camp.Copy !req
363. By the way, that reminds me, our young
nuclear physicist appears to be delayed.Copy !req
364. He'll be here any minute.
Shouldn't take him long from the airport.Copy !req
365. Mesozoic animal alive today.Copy !req
366. I can lose my job and my reputation
listening to such nonsense.Copy !req
367. However, I won't allow my personal
opinion to interfere with a romance.Copy !req
368. Don't change the subject.
You're just being stubborn.Copy !req
369. Am I?Copy !req
370. Now, just you listen to this.
It's something that I read this morning.Copy !req
371. "On the 21st of October, in the year
1797, one Professor Gordon Laughton...Copy !req
372. was forcibly removed,
by order of the Crown...Copy !req
373. from his chair of science
at the University of Edinburgh.Copy !req
374. He was firmly convinced
that leprechauns were responsible...Copy !req
375. for the uprooting
of the ancient campus oak.Copy !req
376. Even swearing upon oath
that he had seen them remove it."Copy !req
377. So, you see, today,
it's monsters instead of leprechauns.Copy !req
378. How certain are you
there were no leprechauns?Copy !req
379. - Tom.
- Hello, Lee.Copy !req
380. I don't recall this Dr. Laughton,
but what about Galileo?Copy !req
381. He said the earth was round.
They made him recant.Copy !req
382. However, the Earth is round.
And there is a monster.Copy !req
383. And I think I can convince you.Copy !req
384. - Is this your sailor witness?
- Yes, sir.Copy !req
385. Jacob Bowman, the helmsman
on the fishing boat Fortune.Copy !req
386. Dr. Elson, Miss Hunter.Copy !req
387. - So you saw the monster too?
- Yes, sir.Copy !req
388. Go ahead, my dear.
This is your experiment.Copy !req
389. Jacob, I want you to look through those
sketches and pick out the one you saw.Copy !req
390. You don't think this is
a waste of time?Copy !req
391. Several days ago
at Miss Hunter's apartment...Copy !req
392. I picked out the sketch of the beast
I saw. It's right in that batch.Copy !req
393. But, unfortunately, in paleontology,
the empirics of logic isn't enough.Copy !req
394. It isn't a question of empirics.Copy !req
395. If a particle of the sun broke off
and flew into space...Copy !req
396. I wouldn't consider the man
who brought that news to be insane.Copy !req
397. As a scientist, I would
examine every facet of it.Copy !req
398. Yes, but if a particle of the sun were to
break off, 100 million people would see.Copy !req
399. If it broke off, it would make no
difference if one saw it or no one at all.Copy !req
400. It would still be.Copy !req
401. - The same with the monster. It still is.
- Hmm...Copy !req
402. Perhaps I'm getting old.Copy !req
403. Jacob, you must be quite sure about
this creature you claim to have seen.Copy !req
404. There must be no doubt in your mind.Copy !req
405. If it's here, I'll know it.Copy !req
406. - That.
- That's the one I picked.Copy !req
407. It's the rhedosaurus,
extinct for 100 million years.Copy !req
408. - A hundred million years?
Yes.Copy !req
409. And the direct ancestor
of that little lady there.Copy !req
410. Only twice the size, according to theory.Copy !req
411. The only fossils of its species
ever discovered...Copy !req
412. were found in a drag of the Hudson
submarine canyons.Copy !req
413. A hundred and fifty miles
from New York.Copy !req
414. Didn't Professor Edmonds
write a paper on that just last year?Copy !req
415. Yes.Copy !req
416. If we could only be sure,
without a shadow of a doubt—Copy !req
417. What further proof do you need?Copy !req
418. Things have happened again and again,
and they'll continue.Copy !req
419. I tried to get the authorities to keep
the coastline under close watch...Copy !req
420. - ... they wouldn't listen to me.
- They'll listen this time.Copy !req
421. Get them on the phone.
I'll talk to them.Copy !req
422. Thanks.Copy !req
423. Col. Evans, please.Copy !req
424. Jack.Copy !req
425. Tom Nesbitt.Copy !req
426. I feel great.Copy !req
427. That hallucination of mine...Copy !req
428. the one that everybody
was having such a good laugh about?Copy !req
429. Well, I've got proof the monster exists.Copy !req
430. Now, Tom, let's not start that again.Copy !req
431. What?Copy !req
432. I can see myself requesting permission
to seek out a prehistoric monster.Copy !req
433. Eagles on a straitjacket
are not regulation uniform.Copy !req
434. I'm here at the university with Dr. Elson,
the foremost paleontologist in the world.Copy !req
435. Just a moment.
He wants to talk to you.Copy !req
436. Col. Evans. This is Dr. Elson.Copy !req
437. I'm convinced that Professor Nesbitt
is onto something.Copy !req
438. There have been all kinds of stories.
Stories of sea serpents...Copy !req
439. stories of the world coming to an end,
stories of flying saucers.Copy !req
440. What makes you so sure
there are no flying saucers?Copy !req
441. Nevertheless, I'm convinced by some
trick of chance, this creature exists.Copy !req
442. And I'm prepared to stake
my reputation on it.Copy !req
443. I'm sure you know
what you're talking about, doctor...Copy !req
444. but it would look foolish
if we stick our neck out.Copy !req
445. Will you promise if any reports come in,
you'll let us know?Copy !req
446. I've got a friend in the Coast Guard.
I'll drop in to see him.Copy !req
447. If he's heard of anything,
I'll get in touch with you. Okay?Copy !req
448. Thank you, colonel.
We'll appreciate it.Copy !req
449. He's going to check and let us know.Copy !req
450. - We can't just sit around.
- I'm afraid there's nothing we can do.Copy !req
451. But wait.Copy !req
452. I heard a new song at the tavern
the other day.Copy !req
453. Something about gin and wild women.Copy !req
454. - How'd it go?
- Oh, I don't remember.Copy !req
455. I stuck five nickels in the box
to hear it again...Copy !req
456. and the thing busted down.Copy !req
457. You know me, I couldn't carry a tune
in a bushel basket.Copy !req
458. I like the ballads. The ones that warm
you even when the fog is a foot thick.Copy !req
459. Did you hear that?Copy !req
460. Come in.Copy !req
461. That's all.Copy !req
462. - Jack, how are you?
- Phil, at this moment, I don't know.Copy !req
463. Well, sit down. Sit down.Copy !req
464. I haven't seen you
since the last Army-Navy game.Copy !req
465. What a game that was.Copy !req
466. What's the problem?
AEC getting you down?Copy !req
467. - No, not at all.
- Good.Copy !req
468. Stick around. I'll be through
in a minute. We'll go to the club.Copy !req
469. Phil, here it is straight.Copy !req
470. One of the scientists in the last
polar test claims he saw a monster.Copy !req
471. The dean of the College
of Natural History believes him.Copy !req
472. Then who am I to doubt it? Are you
trying to get a Section 8 discharge?Copy !req
473. A neurotic colonel.Copy !req
474. These scientists claim that this monster
or beast, this prehistoric thing...Copy !req
475. and if you laugh, I'll brain you,
is romping around the North Atlantic.Copy !req
476. I guess you'll have to brain me.
You're nuts!Copy !req
477. Anyway, that's what they say.
Look, Phil. Would you do me a favor?Copy !req
478. Check around to see
if there have been any...Copy !req
479. reports of any freak
or unusual happenings.Copy !req
480. Are you on the level?Copy !req
481. If standing on my head's
on the level, I am.Copy !req
482. You certainly sound serious.Copy !req
483. All right, I'll check. But so help me,
if this is a practical joke—Copy !req
484. I'll die laughing.Copy !req
485. Well, that's it.
No storm, no earthquake, nothing...Copy !req
486. but that lighthouse
was destroyed completely.Copy !req
487. Were there any other
unexplained happenings?Copy !req
488. Yes. Coast Guard station 37
reported minor shore wreckage...Copy !req
489. along the Massachusetts coast.
Several buildings were destroyed.Copy !req
490. And a farmer was found
crushed to death.Copy !req
491. There's a certain inexorable chronology
in these disasters.Copy !req
492. I don't follow you, doctor.Copy !req
493. Tom first saw the rhedosaurus
near Baffin Bay.Copy !req
494. While his latest presumed presence
is off the coast of Massachusetts.Copy !req
495. - May I look at your chart, captain?
- Of course.Copy !req
496. Oh, uh...Copy !req
497. Now, first...Copy !req
498. north of Baffin Bay.Copy !req
499. Second, the fishing ketch Fortune
was wrecked here...Copy !req
500. off the Grand Banks.Copy !req
501. And another one attacked
shortly thereafter.Copy !req
502. Here. Nova Scotia.Copy !req
503. Third, the lighthouse
off the coast of Maine.Copy !req
504. Fourth, unexplained wreckage
off the coast of Massachusetts.Copy !req
505. You'll notice we've been following
the Arctic Current all the way down.Copy !req
506. So it's just possible that he might
be making for here.Copy !req
507. It was in these submerged canyons that
the fossils of his species were found.Copy !req
508. We could mine those canyons.Copy !req
509. And kill the rhedosaurus? Oh, no.Copy !req
510. Think what a loss to science
that would be. Oh, no.Copy !req
511. But to capture it alive
would be an achievement.Copy !req
512. How do you propose to capture it,
if it exists?Copy !req
513. I don't know. But if we ascertain
it's down there in the canyons...Copy !req
514. I'll have to go see it before I decide
upon a method of capture.Copy !req
515. That's much too dangerous.Copy !req
516. Yes, but then the risk would be worth it
if one thinks of the benefit to science.Copy !req
517. Captain, is it possible to obtain
the use of a diving bell?Copy !req
518. - You really want to go down there?
- Yes.Copy !req
519. I can get a diving bell.Copy !req
520. What do you think, Jack?Copy !req
521. Everything else checks out.
If you can get it, let's move.Copy !req
522. Thank you.Copy !req
523. I still don't see how he's gonna find it.
This canyon is 100 miles long.Copy !req
524. As I understand,
he plans to drop down...Copy !req
525. at a different spot
every hour till he finds it.Copy !req
526. We are now ready
to make the dive at position number one.Copy !req
527. I don't like the idea of you going
with just one man.Copy !req
528. That's capacity. If there's any danger,
my crewman will know what to do.Copy !req
529. - I brought your Dramamine.
- No, thank you.Copy !req
530. I'm much too excited to get seasick.Copy !req
531. Are you ready, Dr. Elson?Copy !req
532. Remember, at the first sign
of danger, signal us.Copy !req
533. Why will you persist
in talking about danger?Copy !req
534. The rhedosaurus and I are old friends.Copy !req
535. Good luck, doctor.
Thank you.Copy !req
536. - Here you are, sir.
- Thank you.Copy !req
537. Don't look so worried, Lee.
We're scientists.Copy !req
538. This is our job.
This is a great moment for me.Copy !req
539. Everything shipshape in there?Copy !req
540. Splendid, thank you.
All the comforts of home. Lower away.Copy !req
541. Hoist away.Copy !req
542. Is there anything I have to do?Copy !req
543. Oh, no, sir.
You just relax and enjoy the scenery.Copy !req
544. Oh. All right.Copy !req
545. This is such a strange feeling.Copy !req
546. I feel I am leaving
a world of untold tomorrows...Copy !req
547. for a world of countless yesterdays.Copy !req
548. Lee was right. I should have brought
the Dramamine pills.Copy !req
549. This is all very frustrating. I do hope all
our endeavors will not be in vain.Copy !req
550. - Thank you.
- You're welcome, doctor.Copy !req
551. We are having coffee now.
And some visitors.Copy !req
552. There looks to be a difference of opinion
between two of the local inhabitants.Copy !req
553. There he is!Copy !req
554. It's unbelievable.Copy !req
555. He's tremendous.Copy !req
556. I can only see part of him...Copy !req
557. the leg and the shoulder,
but he is enormous.Copy !req
558. He found it.
Shall we pull you up?Copy !req
559. No! No! No, put Lee on.Copy !req
560. He wants to talk to you.Copy !req
561. Yes, doctor.Copy !req
562. Lee, there's no mistake about it.
It's a Paleolithic survival.Copy !req
563. It's exactly as we pictured it except
the dorsal is singular, not bilateral.Copy !req
564. The clavicle suspension
appears to be cantileveric.Copy !req
565. But the most
astonishing thing about it is—Copy !req
566. Doctor? Dr. Elson?Copy !req
567. He doesn't answer.Copy !req
568. Hello, Dr. Elson? Dr. Elson? Hello?Copy !req
569. - Get him up.
- Raise the bell.Copy !req
570. We're pulling you up!
Dr. Elson!Copy !req
571. Hello? Dr. Elson?Copy !req
572. Can you hear me? Answer me! Hello!Copy !req
573. The line is dead.Copy !req
574. Well, the report has been turned in.Copy !req
575. The National Guard and Coast Guard
have been alerted. Evans is in charge.Copy !req
576. This was being packed
for a very different reason.Copy !req
577. Lee, what can I say?Copy !req
578. I should have gone down instead of him.
I am to blame.Copy !req
579. Nobody is to blame.
And everybody is to blame.Copy !req
580. We all did what we thought was right.Copy !req
581. But that doesn't bring him
through the door again.Copy !req
582. With his funny little walk,
and that wonderful smile.Copy !req
583. This place seems so empty.Copy !req
584. He used to putter around with the
specimens and call them pet names.Copy !req
585. - His death was so futile.
- Lee.Copy !req
586. He went down in that bell
because it was part of his job.Copy !req
587. He used those same words just before...Copy !req
588. Oh, Tom.Copy !req
589. It's coming up Nassau Street
toward Pine. Get some help fast!Copy !req
590. New York is like a city besieged.Copy !req
591. A state of emergency
has been declared...Copy !req
592. and the entire police force
put on 24-hour duty.Copy !req
593. Civilian defense is fully mobilized...Copy !req
594. and shelters have been opened in an
effort to stop the mounting hysteria.Copy !req
595. All traffic has been halted.Copy !req
596. And Times Square, the heart
of New York, has stopped beating.Copy !req
597. The National Guard has been called out,
fully armed, to repel the invader.Copy !req
598. This is full-scale war
against a terrible enemy...Copy !req
599. such as modern man
has never before faced.Copy !req
600. Ordinary bullets have no effect...Copy !req
601. and a method of destroying
the awesome creature...Copy !req
602. has not yet been formulated.Copy !req
603. But the battlefield
has been cleared.Copy !req
604. Herald Square.Copy !req
605. 34th Street.Copy !req
606. Broadway.Copy !req
607. Every section of the city is guarded.Copy !req
608. No one knows where the monster
will strike next.Copy !req
609. It was last seen on Wall Street,
close to where it came ashore.Copy !req
610. But lower Manhattan has become
no man's land...Copy !req
611. where the beast, at present,
lies hidden.Copy !req
612. The National Guard
is barricading the area...Copy !req
613. in an effort to confine
the death and destruction...Copy !req
614. of what is already the worst disaster
in New York's history.Copy !req
615. A screen here.Copy !req
616. 105 temperature.Copy !req
617. Here's the blood specimen.Copy !req
618. Get it to the laboratory quickly.
I'm afraid, Sam.Copy !req
619. I am afraid of what that creature
has brought to us. Deadly afraid.Copy !req
620. Think you can place it
between his eyes?Copy !req
621. We can try, sir.Copy !req
622. Fire when ready, corporal.
- Yes, sir.Copy !req
623. His skull...Copy !req
624. it's at least 8 inches thick.Copy !req
625. - Another one, colonel?
- No.Copy !req
626. It would take a 3-inch shell
to penetrate that skull.Copy !req
627. Bazooka squad, prepare to fire.Copy !req
628. The high-voltage wires,
it's gonna touch them!Copy !req
629. Bazooka men, fire!Copy !req
630. Under the neck,
when he raises his head again.Copy !req
631. Get those emergency search lights on!Copy !req
632. We're working on it.Copy !req
633. Sergeant. Sergeant!Copy !req
634. - What is it?
Blood.Copy !req
635. Give me the walkie-talkie.Copy !req
636. Col. Evans. Col. Evans?Copy !req
637. Sgt. Wyntoni.Copy !req
638. Now, look,
proceed with extreme caution.Copy !req
639. Wounded, the animal might be twice
as dangerous as before.Copy !req
640. There's a possibility the animal
might've headed for the river.Copy !req
641. We'll have all shore batteries alerted
and naval patrol vessels.Copy !req
642. Get me a command car!Copy !req
643. - Col. Evans speaking, go ahead.
- Look, colonel...Copy !req
644. something's funny.Copy !req
645. Most of the detail, they're—Copy !req
646. Well, they're out.Copy !req
647. Out on their feet, sir.Copy !req
648. Have your sergeant contact the medics.
Report to Capt. Mitchell.Copy !req
649. Your car is ready, sir.Copy !req
650. Have the medical officer report
to me...Copy !req
651. - ... at area command.
- Yes, sir.Copy !req
652. He is reported
somewhere in the lower bay area.Copy !req
653. - Battery A in position zero.
Battery A into zero.Copy !req
654. - Report radar findings.
- Report radar finding.Copy !req
655. Sounding harbor bottom.
Sounding harbor bottom.Copy !req
656. - Activate mines, numbers 8 to 24.
- Activate mines, numbers 8 to 24.Copy !req
657. What's the situation, major?Copy !req
658. We're sounding the harbor bottom.
No indications yet, sir.Copy !req
659. Charting room. Col. Evans?Copy !req
660. Majors, there's a call here
for Col. Evans.Copy !req
661. This is Evans speaking.
Who?Copy !req
662. Oh, yes. Hello, doctor.Copy !req
663. Colonel, they've already
brought in over 50 of your men...Copy !req
664. and the people this afternoon.Copy !req
665. The monster's a giant germ-carrier
of a horrible, virulent disease.Copy !req
666. Contact with the animal's blood
can be fatal.Copy !req
667. If you use shell-fire, who knows how
far the air will spread the particles of it.Copy !req
668. - The entire city can be endangered.
- Right, doctor.Copy !req
669. - Were the anti-submarine nets raised?
- No, sir.Copy !req
670. Order them raised.Copy !req
671. - Raise the anti-submarine nets.
- Raise the anti-submarine nets.Copy !req
672. Flamethrowers would've cremated
the beast and the plague with it.Copy !req
673. Flamethrowers? The smoke would have
carried the blood particles just as far.Copy !req
674. No, it will have to be reduced
so that not even a cinder would remain.Copy !req
675. Any reports yet, major?Copy !req
676. No signs yet, colonel.Copy !req
677. He may be dying at the bottom.
We'll set the drags in the morning.Copy !req
678. Monster ashore at Manhattan
Beach, heading to the amusement area.Copy !req
679. - On land?
- I thought we had him in a pocket.Copy !req
680. Jack, there's only one way
to beat him.Copy !req
681. How?Copy !req
682. Radioactive isotope.Copy !req
683. Shoot it into him and destroy
all that diseased tissue.Copy !req
684. Keep your men alerted.
But nobody's to fire unless ordered to.Copy !req
685. Yes, sir.Copy !req
686. How soon, Tom?Copy !req
687. Should be any minute now.Copy !req
688. Wait for us here.Copy !req
689. - I'm Professor Nesbitt.
- We've got your baby, professor.Copy !req
690. Good.Copy !req
691. - We need your best marksman, Jack.
- Right.Copy !req
692. Have him get into these.Copy !req
693. Here's your man, Tom.Copy !req
694. - Colonel says you need a dead shot.
- Yes.Copy !req
695. - Ever use a grenade rifle?
- Pick my teeth with it.Copy !req
696. Good.Copy !req
697. You know what
a radioactive isotope is?Copy !req
698. - No, but if it can be loaded, I can fire it.
- I'll load it.Copy !req
699. Just remember one thing:
It has to be shot into the wound.Copy !req
700. And you have to make it
the first time.Copy !req
701. This is the only isotope of its kind this
side of Oak Ridge, so you can't miss.Copy !req
702. Let's get to the target.Copy !req
703. I can't hit him from here, mister.Copy !req
704. - Ever ride one of those things?
- Yes, sir.Copy !req
705. Jack! Get somebody over here
who can operate that roller coaster!Copy !req
706. We want to get to the top
in one of those cars.Copy !req
707. Right!Copy !req
708. - Put your hood on.
- Yes, sir.Copy !req