- 5/27/2025
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00:00:00First in Alaska, and then invading steadily southward, there were reports of a new species,
00:00:11a giant killer shrew.
00:00:41♪♪
00:01:07It sure is a lot of quiet out there.
00:01:20Almost smell it, can't you?
00:01:23No, but I can feel it.
00:01:25That pressure's dropped so fast, it's almost made my ears pop.
00:01:30Hurricane's got different ways of telling you it's there.
00:01:34Where is it?
00:01:36Dead ahead.
00:01:39What's that mean to us?
00:01:41My boy, that puts our port right in the middle of it.
00:01:48There's a cove on the lee side, though. We'll snuggle up close to the bluff and ride it out.
00:01:51What about the bottom?
00:01:53Well, the chart shows it's good holding ground. It's clay.
00:01:59You know something?
00:02:01If this thing had an automatic pilot, I wouldn't have to put up with you.
00:02:04Then you wouldn't have no battery to chew out.
00:02:08We should be there in a couple of hours. These mills of yours keep running.
00:02:12Look, automatic pilots can't play Dixieland jazz on them engines like I can.
00:02:27Hey, Rook. Rook, come here.
00:02:32Take a look.
00:02:34There she is, dead ahead.
00:02:41Man, that sure do look good.
00:02:45Man named Craigus owns this island, doesn't he?
00:02:47That's the name on the crate, Dr. Milo Craigus.
00:02:50We'll unload tomorrow. I don't want this crap sitting high in that water when that blow hits.
00:02:54You gonna ride stern too with a lot of water under?
00:02:56That's right.
00:02:58She won't make up in that cold. That wind will have her whipping around like a kite.
00:03:03Step forward and break out the heavy weather hook.
00:03:05Trackman, make sure it's free to run.
00:03:07I'll master, sir.
00:03:08Good.
00:03:28Ah, she'll ride like a duck.
00:03:50If she swings too far to starboard, we might have to take a check line to shore.
00:03:54Hey, Rook, take a slant up that trail.
00:04:00Now, that's a rather strange setup, wouldn't you say?
00:04:04Looks like somebody's getting rid of somebody, huh, Captain?
00:04:07Maybe. Hard to tell.
00:04:27I'm Dr. Craigus.
00:04:29Thorne Sherman. I have your supplies aboard.
00:04:31That's good. Nothing wrong with Captain Ferguson, I hope.
00:04:35Well, I wouldn't know. I just bought his run.
00:04:39Oh, I see. Were you able to fill our order?
00:04:42Everything on the list. Here's the manifest.
00:04:45Missing last week's supply has drawn us a little short, you know.
00:04:50Captain, after you have unloaded, I have a passenger for you.
00:04:53Ann?
00:04:55Captain Sherman, this is my daughter, Ann Craigus.
00:05:00Hello. So you're the passenger?
00:05:02That's right, Captain.
00:05:04Oh, it's going to be nice having you aboard.
00:05:06I'm getting a little tired looking at Griswold.
00:05:09But we're, uh, we're not leaving today.
00:05:15In fact, we're not even unloading.
00:05:20That load will cut the roll in half.
00:05:24You expecting an invasion?
00:05:26Yes, animals.
00:05:29Game or otherwise?
00:05:31Under certain conditions, it could be dangerous.
00:05:38Hey, Ruff, you want to shake the kinks out, limber up a little?
00:05:41Not me, Captain Blythe. You go right ahead and stretch your legs.
00:05:44That ship's going to be bucking like a bucking bronc for a long.
00:05:47Besides, I got some work left to do.
00:05:50If you do come ashore, wear a gun.
00:05:52Got you, Cap.
00:06:23When I told you about the hurricane,
00:06:25you act like you didn't know anything about it.
00:06:27What's the matter? You're set broken down?
00:06:30You've been out of communication for more than a week, Captain.
00:06:33Can't it be fixed?
00:06:35It's totally out of commission.
00:06:38My assistants.
00:06:40Mr. Ferrell. Jerry Ferrell.
00:06:43Father, perhaps the captain would enjoy a drink.
00:06:46Well, of course.
00:06:49Will you join us in a cocktail?
00:06:51Well, I've never been known to turn down a drink yet.
00:06:53I'll be glad to accept it.
00:06:55Fine. In that case, we'll have martinis.
00:06:58Mario.
00:07:00Si, senor.
00:07:02Mix them, please.
00:07:04Right this way, Captain. Come in.
00:07:35You have everything here you need?
00:07:37Oh, we are self-sufficient here.
00:07:40We have cows for fresh milk and chickens for fresh eggs.
00:07:44We even have saddle horses.
00:07:46Sort of a world all your own.
00:07:48That's exactly what I've tried to create.
00:07:50Well, to each his own.
00:07:52If you have to be isolated for your work,
00:07:54you've picked a lonely little island.
00:07:57Excuse me, please. I think I'll change.
00:08:05She's a little worried because you aren't leaving until tomorrow.
00:08:09Oh, I can understand that.
00:08:11But there's something else bothering her.
00:08:26Radford. Radford.
00:08:29Radford, would you please step over here?
00:08:31I'd like you to meet someone.
00:08:33Just a second, Doctor.
00:08:35That could go on for hours.
00:08:38Dr. Baines.
00:08:40There's no need to shout, Doctor. I'm right here.
00:08:43I'd like you to meet Captain Thorne Sherman.
00:08:45This is my other assistant, Radford Baines.
00:08:48How do you do?
00:08:50Two new litters since lunch, Doctor.
00:08:52Both support GT-116.
00:08:54That's good, but, uh...
00:08:56We can breed them to the 205 group in about three weeks.
00:08:59But I'd prefer to wait and expose about half of them.
00:09:02To the Hoskins factor first.
00:09:04If you agree.
00:09:07Good idea.
00:09:09Do you know there's a hurricane coming?
00:09:11Hurricane?
00:09:13Well, I don't suppose there's much we can do about that.
00:09:18Glad to meet you.
00:09:20Sherman, wasn't it?
00:09:27You have to excuse Radford.
00:09:29Anything that does not concern his project
00:09:31does not get through to him.
00:09:33Brilliant mind.
00:09:35He would starve to death if someone didn't remind him to eat.
00:09:37Must be very interesting work. What's his field?
00:09:39Biology.
00:09:41We specialize in genetics, heredity.
00:09:43I'm afraid my interest doesn't run in that line, you know.
00:09:46Think what would happen if you could isolate
00:09:48and identify the inherited factor in each gene.
00:09:51Now, wait a minute. I'm afraid I'm not very good with pure research.
00:09:54This is practical research.
00:09:57Generally among mammals, the smaller the size,
00:09:59the higher the metabolism and the shorter the lifespan.
00:10:02Is that right?
00:10:04Well, I'm attempting to decrease the size
00:10:06by maintaining a low metabolism
00:10:08and resultant a longer lifespan.
00:10:10What reason?
00:10:12Overpopulation.
00:10:16Not a problem now, but it will be in time.
00:10:23If it were half as big as we anticipate,
00:10:25if it were half as big as we are now,
00:10:27we could live twice as long in our natural resources.
00:10:32Father, may I speak with you a moment?
00:10:34Will you please excuse us, Captain?
00:10:37Well, providing you drop the captain,
00:10:39I prefer Thawne.
00:10:44No.
00:10:49Well.
00:10:55Tell me something, Doctor.
00:10:57Has a hurricane ever hit this island before that you know of?
00:11:00I wouldn't know.
00:11:02You've only been here nine months,
00:11:04and this place has been unoccupied for years.
00:11:06Well, have you ever been through one?
00:11:08Only the fringes.
00:11:10Well, this one's building up very fast.
00:11:12Pressure drops very quickly in the center.
00:11:14I'd advise you to get some doors and windows open in this place.
00:11:20Ventilator's on the roof.
00:11:22And if you'll freshen Ann's drink, I'll go and check them.
00:11:25I'd be happy to.
00:11:27Thank heavens you arrived today.
00:11:30Why, are rations getting short?
00:11:32No, it's more than that. Much more.
00:11:35We'll surely be able to sail tomorrow, won't we?
00:11:38Possibly.
00:11:39But not probable.
00:11:41Not till late, anyway.
00:11:42Takes a long time for a sea like that to quiet down.
00:11:45Well, if you're worrying about me, you needn't.
00:11:47I'm a good sailor.
00:11:49Well, I'm not worried about you.
00:11:52We'll sail when the time's right.
00:11:54Got them opened all right.
00:11:56Well, Captain, let me freshen you a drink.
00:12:00One for the road.
00:12:02I'm trying to rush you, but it will be dark soon.
00:12:06I've invited Thorn for dinner, Father.
00:12:10Oh, I see.
00:12:14If you're not worried about your ship, you're welcome.
00:12:17I'll take a rain check on that dinner, if you wish.
00:12:20Father, I've asked Thorn to stay.
00:12:24Progress, Doctor.
00:12:28This is the sole survivor of Group 30.
00:12:3128 months old today.
00:12:34Well, that's equivalent to 140 years to us.
00:12:37That's right.
00:12:39Yet it still maintains low metabolism without any sluggishness.
00:12:44It's not the breakthrough, but it certainly sets our course.
00:12:48Ratfoot, suspend series 52 through 96,
00:12:54and we'll concentrate on the rest.
00:12:56What is that?
00:12:57It's a Soraxoricidae.
00:13:00Looks like a small rat.
00:13:02Smells like a skunk.
00:13:05They have musk glands in their knees.
00:13:07These little fellas are our subjects.
00:13:10They have a birth cycle of 10 to 14 days.
00:13:13And using them, we can establish traits.
00:13:16We can trace their progressions through a number of generations
00:13:19over a short period of time.
00:13:21Well, how big do they get?
00:13:25That's an adult.
00:13:29See, their muzzle is longer and thicker than a rat's.
00:13:32It extends over the lower mandible. See?
00:13:34Does he bite?
00:13:36Only when he's hungry.
00:13:38Well, maybe you'd better take him. He doesn't know me.
00:13:41All he knows is his next meal.
00:13:44He's just been fed.
00:13:46He'll be all right for another eight hours.
00:13:52Shut the blue open, Ratfoot!
00:13:54I got it, senor.
00:13:57Don't let that scare you. It's gonna get worse.
00:14:00Storm's always threatened her, ever since she was a child.
00:14:14They're not climbers.
00:14:16They're digging animals, a lot like the mole.
00:14:20They feed only at night, unless they're starving.
00:14:23And when they are hungry enough,
00:14:25they'll tackle anything, regardless of size.
00:14:28You're kidding.
00:14:30If you leave two of them in a cage for 12 hours without food,
00:14:33the stronger will eat the weaker.
00:14:35Like cannibals.
00:14:37Precisely. You see,
00:14:39their intense activity requires a tremendous amount of energy.
00:14:43To supply, they must eat
00:14:46three times their own weight in food every 24 hours,
00:14:50or starve.
00:14:52Ratfoot! Ratfoot!
00:14:54Would you please take this?
00:14:56Take it.
00:15:03Some call them bone eaters.
00:15:05When the flesh is gone, they'll eat the bones for marrow.
00:15:08All they'll leave are teeth, horns, holes...
00:15:11I could use another martini. Do you mind?
00:15:14Of course, my dear. I'll get you one.
00:15:24There you are.
00:15:28Mario! Mario!
00:15:31Mario!
00:15:36Mario will show you to the bath. He'll freshen up a bit.
00:16:01Mario.
00:16:23You got a problem, too?
00:16:25Que paso?
00:16:27Nada. Nada, senor.
00:16:29Cheap tomorrow.
00:16:31Well, I think that all depends on the wind and the sea, don't you?
00:16:35Si. Si, senor.
00:16:38I don't know.
00:16:41Ah, you may joke.
00:16:43I feel the point. I see.
00:16:46Well, I'm glad to hear that.
00:16:48Now, if anybody else is concerned about my sailing tomorrow,
00:16:51why, you see, they feel the point, too, huh?
00:16:54I don't like to repeat myself.
00:16:56Okay, senor.
00:16:59Good-bye.
00:17:29I know, but I'm not saying that you created them, Jerry.
00:17:33I am saying that because of your drunken stupidity in leaving the cage door open,
00:17:37you created the horrible situation that now exists.
00:17:41Look, Ann, this is a mistake any one of us might have made.
00:17:45And I'm getting a little sick of being called an irresponsible drunk.
00:17:49Now, believe me, I am.
00:17:55Excuse me.
00:18:08Care for a cigarette?
00:18:10Thanks. And thank heavens you arrived today.
00:18:13You said that before. What's the strain?
00:18:15If I don't make sense, please excuse me.
00:18:18But it seems like everything is coming to a head at once.
00:18:21I want to leave, but I want my father to go with me.
00:18:24Well, then, why doesn't he?
00:18:27We've discussed it many times, but he's adamant.
00:18:31I'm sure Jerry has a lot to do with this decision.
00:18:37He tried to convince me that the crisis will only last for a few...
00:18:45Well, this is certainly a cozy little scene.
00:18:51Might even be called intimate. Boy meets girl.
00:18:54Stop it, Jerry. That remark is uncalled for.
00:18:57What I do or have to say does not concern you.
00:19:00I can't disagree with you more, my dear.
00:19:02I'm concerned with everything you do, and I intend to keep it that way.
00:19:06Now, in my book, an engagement isn't a casual thing.
00:19:08In my book, it isn't either. And last night ended ours.
00:19:24Jerry!
00:19:54Help! Help!
00:19:56Help me, God! Somebody help!
00:19:59Help! Help me, God!
00:20:24Be reasonable, everybody in the world is scared to death of something.
00:20:31That's evident.
00:20:32When they came at us last night, you knocked me down getting inside the fence.
00:20:36It's just that I can't stand them.
00:20:37And I've discovered something I can't stand.
00:20:40All right, but I advise you not to mention them to anyone.
00:20:45I'm going to complete these experiments with your father regardless of anything.
00:20:49Do you understand that?
00:20:50Nobody is going to take this chance away from me.
00:20:54Where's Captain Sherman?
00:20:56Checking the weather, I'll get him.
00:21:02Captain, time for dinner.
00:21:23No!
00:21:26No!
00:21:29No!
00:21:30No!
00:21:31No!
00:21:32No!
00:21:33No!
00:21:38No!
00:21:40No!
00:21:53No!
00:22:04I'll miss as good as a mile, I'll be staying.
00:22:06You know, if one of those trees crashes through, it might just knock them off.
00:22:09Look, honey, any tree on this side of the house will fall away from us, so just relax.
00:22:13But I think I'd better go back aboard.
00:22:16Don't think I'm not grateful for your hospitality, I am.
00:22:19I'll see you tomorrow.
00:22:20Thorn, your ship is safe.
00:22:22Please, stay here with me.
00:22:25Why?
00:22:26You scared or lonesome?
00:22:28Both.
00:22:30I'll take a rain check on it.
00:22:32Thorn, you can't leave.
00:22:35No one opens that gate after dark.
00:22:38Well, who's going to stop me? You?
00:22:41Well, this.
00:22:43No one opens that gate at night.
00:22:46Now, look, I don't ask questions because it's against my principles.
00:22:50But wouldn't you like to explain that?
00:22:53All right, sit down and I will.
00:22:55Give me the gun.
00:22:57Not very becoming, anyway.
00:22:59Do you believe in fairy tales?
00:23:02Well, I'm a little old for that sort of thing, but what do you have in mind?
00:23:06Well, I'll tell you about one.
00:23:08A true fairy tale, and you're right in the middle of it.
00:23:11A true fairy tale, and you're right in the middle of it.
00:23:15Oh?
00:23:16Have you ever heard of a shrew?
00:23:18As in, taming of the...
00:23:19Not the animal.
00:23:20Radford called them saurix, sericidae, when he showed you one.
00:23:24Oh, then shrew must be the common name for those cute little animals.
00:23:27Cute? That's the last word you can use to describe those little monsters.
00:23:31They're the most horrible animals on the face of the earth.
00:23:34As father told you, they breed within three weeks after birth.
00:23:37They last at least around one year.
00:23:38I know what your father told me, but what's that got to do with me opening that gate?
00:23:45There are two or three hundred giant shrews out there.
00:23:49Monsters weighing between fifty and a hundred pounds.
00:23:54Fifty to a hundred?
00:23:57Wait a minute, you must be kidding.
00:23:59I'm definitely not kidding.
00:24:03That's as big as a full-grown wolf.
00:24:05And what's more, they are beginning to starve.
00:24:12No wonder you didn't want me to go out there.
00:24:15Thanks for saving my skin.
00:24:17Well, I'm sorry I had to threaten you with a gun.
00:24:19But I didn't know how else to stop you.
00:24:21Oh, it was very effective.
00:24:23But all you had to do was tell me about it.
00:24:26Well, I hoped I wouldn't have to.
00:24:28But you changed everything when you started to leave.
00:24:31And I had to stop you some way.
00:24:35You say there's two or three hundred out there?
00:24:38Ann!
00:24:44That's right, Captain Thorne.
00:24:46And if you'd stuck with your rowboat and played captain instead of trying to play detective,
00:24:50you wouldn't have to worry about how many are out there, would you?
00:24:53That's enough, Jerry.
00:25:00What's wrong, Ann?
00:25:01Thorne decided to leave.
00:25:03To dissuade him, I started to tell him about the shoes.
00:25:08He might as well know the whole story, half of it.
00:25:16I guess we're all a little jumpy, Captain.
00:25:18Yeah, I'm sorry.
00:25:22Six months ago, we managed to isolate the pack to controlling size.
00:25:27Two litters were born.
00:25:28Six individuals were kept for study.
00:25:30They were about the size of buckshot at birth.
00:25:34But the rate of growth was abnormal.
00:25:38They continued to grow and grow.
00:25:41They were mutants.
00:25:44But they inherited all the negative characteristics of their breed.
00:25:48Somehow, they managed to escape.
00:25:55But a month later, we saw one of their offsprings.
00:25:58They were multiplying.
00:26:00We did everything in the world to exterminate them, but...
00:26:04no apparent luck.
00:26:06Then we haven't seen any.
00:26:08Since daylight neither blinds them, and they forage only at night,
00:26:11when they're starving.
00:26:15But the fact that two of them charged Ann and Jerry at the gate last evening
00:26:21indicates that the available food on the island is nearing death.
00:26:26Then what, Doctor?
00:26:28They will exterminate each other.
00:26:31It'll take a couple of days.
00:26:33What do we do during that time?
00:26:35Stay indoors and wait until it's over.
00:26:41There's some wires down on the transformer.
00:26:44I'm sorry.
00:26:45I'll get some lamps.
00:26:48Mario!
00:26:50Mario!
00:26:52Mario!
00:26:54Mario!
00:26:55Mario!
00:26:57Si, senor!
00:26:58There's a lantern in the pantry. Light it and bring it in here.
00:27:03Bradford, light all the candles you can find.
00:27:05All right, I will.
00:27:06Where's the generator?
00:27:07Outside.
00:27:08Can't get it at night.
00:27:13Here, let me help you.
00:27:15The lantern will give you all the light you need.
00:27:18I will join you shortly, Jerry.
00:27:24Oh.
00:27:31Well, Jerry, I felt she was sincere and made sense from her standpoint.
00:27:38Wanting her father to leave the island with her makes sense?
00:27:42It'd be much better for the project if I went with her for a few days.
00:27:48As a matter of fact, I think I'll talk to the doctor about that.
00:27:50That might be the answer.
00:27:52And another thing, I don't take much to this Thorn Sherman.
00:27:55He looks to me like the type that'd try anything.
00:28:00That left-handed dinner invitation.
00:28:02That was just to keep me here till after dark, wasn't it?
00:28:11I wanted you here tonight.
00:28:13I bet something terrible was going to happen.
00:28:15Why, you still feel the same way about it?
00:28:17Not as much.
00:28:18Not since you're here.
00:28:19I know everything.
00:28:35I love an open fire, don't you?
00:28:37Mm-hmm.
00:28:42The wind has a lonesome sound, doesn't it?
00:28:47It sure does.
00:28:50Back in Sweden, we don't have a wind this strong.
00:28:57You're a strange man, Thorne.
00:28:59I never met anyone like you.
00:29:02Oh?
00:29:04You seem so disinterested in everything.
00:29:07Aren't you the least bit curious?
00:29:10Don't you wonder about the unusual things around here?
00:29:14The guns, the fence, the shattered windows?
00:29:19My accent, anything?
00:29:21I'll tell you something.
00:29:23I'm only interested in anything that concerns me,
00:29:25then I do something about it.
00:29:30You're going to sail with me tomorrow,
00:29:32whether your father intends to or not.
00:29:42Thorne, no!
00:29:44Father, Fred!
00:29:47Out there!
00:29:50Out there!
00:29:55I don't think he was going out, Jerry.
00:29:57I couldn't take a chance, he's fool enough to.
00:29:59Don't be stupid.
00:30:00I had no intention of going out there, opening that gate.
00:30:03Now somebody needed it.
00:30:05Did you hear it, doctor?
00:30:07It sounded like a human voice.
00:30:09I was thinking a rook.
00:30:10It was the livestock.
00:30:11His shoes got into the barn.
00:30:19What was it, father?
00:30:21There was a livestock.
00:30:24Did Mario forget to bar those doors?
00:30:26No.
00:30:28I put them in the barn myself.
00:30:31They couldn't get through the wood doors.
00:30:34They dug through the dirt floor.
00:30:36Let me ask you something, doctor.
00:30:38How could you expose all our lives,
00:30:40yourself included, with those things out there?
00:30:43All you had to do was say,
00:30:44How could you expose all our lives,
00:30:45yourself included, with those things out there?
00:30:48All you had to do was get the Coast Guard or the Navy
00:30:50to come in here and burn them out.
00:30:52Those things got loose.
00:30:54Any unusual experiment can produce unusual results.
00:30:59That's why I chose this island.
00:31:01It's isolated.
00:31:03Miles of open water in any direction.
00:31:07Our project is privately financed.
00:31:11It's not a problem for the government or military.
00:31:14And the world is no danger.
00:31:19This species does not swim.
00:31:21And as far as the shrews are concerned,
00:31:24this island is their world.
00:31:27Very soon,
00:31:29right here on this island,
00:31:31there's going to be a miniature reproduction
00:31:33of an overpopulated world.
00:31:35And you'll see the importance
00:31:37of what we're working to avoid.
00:31:39I'm not concerned about all this theory.
00:31:41What I'm concerned about is our lives.
00:31:43There'll be ample time to panic when they run out of food
00:31:45and go on a 24-hour forage.
00:31:48How do you know they haven't already?
00:31:50That's possible.
00:31:52Their main diet has been the small animals on the island.
00:31:55That source could have been depleted 18 or 20 hours ago.
00:32:00And that's why they went after the livestock.
00:32:03There's still some food on this island
00:32:04before they reach the crisis.
00:32:06Where?
00:32:08No worry about them digging in here.
00:32:11The floors are tile.
00:32:13But the walls aren't, Doctor.
00:32:14They're adobe.
00:32:16Our safest bet would be on that boat.
00:32:19You may be right.
00:32:21We can reach your boat in daylight.
00:32:24The shrews will gorge themselves on livestock.
00:32:27That should keep them lethargic for several hours.
00:32:30There's no sense looking at the dark side.
00:32:33And there's no sense minimizing the danger.
00:32:36And there's no sense minimizing a serious situation.
00:32:39It leaves you completely unprepared to cope with it.
00:32:43Now, we certainly can't make it tonight.
00:32:45That's out of the question.
00:32:46Maybe tomorrow.
00:32:50I have it.
00:32:51We'll get some sleep tonight.
00:32:53But we'll have a watch.
00:32:54An hour and a half apiece.
00:32:55Doctor, you go first.
00:32:56And then Radford.
00:32:57Mario.
00:32:58Jerry.
00:32:59And then me.
00:33:00Shutter all the windows.
00:33:01Make sure they're locked good and tight.
00:33:03Check all these walls.
00:33:06Come on.
00:33:07No, I think I'll stay here by the fire.
00:33:09I feel safer.
00:33:11I couldn't stand it in that room alone.
00:33:14All right.
00:33:15As you wish.
00:33:16Put fire to get some sleep.
00:33:18I will.
00:33:35Come on.
00:33:58Senor Farrell.
00:33:59It is Mario.
00:34:01You are next to make the patrol, no?
00:34:03Sure, Mario.
00:34:04Come on in.
00:34:07I've been waiting for you to finish.
00:34:10I must have dozed off.
00:34:11You kind of startled me.
00:34:14Sit down.
00:34:16Here.
00:34:18Have a drink.
00:34:19It will help you to relax.
00:34:20Gracias, senor.
00:34:22Sit down.
00:34:25It's been a while.
00:34:28You just checked every room in the house, didn't you?
00:34:31Si.
00:34:32Fine.
00:34:35You're a good man, Mario.
00:34:38A man that can be trusted.
00:34:49You know what I've been thinking about, Mario?
00:34:53Ann.
00:34:54And that captain.
00:34:58You and me.
00:35:00Imagine an intelligent girl like her going for a common sea tramp like him.
00:35:11I know why.
00:35:13You do too.
00:35:15In case anything goes wrong, she's looking out for her own hide.
00:35:21That's why I keep thinking about you and me.
00:35:25Anything goes wrong,
00:35:26anything goes wrong,
00:35:30we're going to outlast them all.
00:35:46I'm going to trust you
00:35:49to take my turn in patrolling the house.
00:35:52But when you finish,
00:35:55don't wake the captain.
00:35:58Come back here and get me.
00:36:01See, I'll probably feel good enough by then to take his turn.
00:36:07Okay, Mario?
00:36:08Si.
00:36:09Okay.
00:36:22Come on, Mario.
00:36:53Come on.
00:37:14Senor, it is Mario.
00:37:16Mario, come on in.
00:37:17What is it?
00:37:19A shrew in the center?
00:37:21Si, I hear him singing down there.
00:37:24Well, how did he get in?
00:37:25The store broke out the kitchen window, but I closed it off.
00:37:28He went down there.
00:37:30Why should he go down there?
00:37:31The food for the little ratones.
00:37:33I put it out to them frost, they love it.
00:37:35What, did you tell Jerry?
00:37:37No, senor.
00:37:38It is your turn next.
00:37:39Here is una luz.
00:37:40We kill him, no?
00:37:42Yeah.
00:37:49Ann.
00:37:51Ann, wake up.
00:37:52A shrew got in.
00:37:53It's all right.
00:37:54He's down in the cellar.
00:37:55Now, we're going down after him.
00:37:57But I don't want you to let anybody open that door until I tell you to.
00:38:00You understand?
00:38:02Good girl.
00:38:18Open it.
00:38:34Okay.
00:38:35Open it just a crack.
00:38:38Open.
00:38:40Hold on to it.
00:38:43Okay.
00:38:49Okay.
00:39:09You take that side.
00:39:18Okay.
00:39:38Mario.
00:39:39Aqui.
00:39:41You see anything?
00:39:42I see where he was.
00:39:44I do not see where he is.
00:39:46Cuidado.
00:39:47Senor.
00:39:48I will be careful.
00:40:03He also got busy.
00:40:17He also got busy.
00:40:36Are you all right down there?
00:40:38Doctor.
00:40:39Get down here quick.
00:40:47Mario.
00:40:48Mario.
00:40:49Mario.
00:40:50Mario.
00:40:51Mario.
00:40:53Mario.
00:40:54Mario.
00:41:11He's dead.
00:41:13Dead?
00:41:17I got this on him right away he couldn't have bled to death might as well let go of it won't
00:41:29do him any good now what could have killed him I'm not certain till the autopsy hemotoxic
00:41:42syndrome I'm afraid so you'll know after pathology doctor that's not the same animal you showed me
00:41:52that's a monster as I said there are mutants in controlling the size factor we seem to have
00:42:02crossed some of the other characteristics well you certainly did a good job of it I've known
00:42:08that for some time captain could you please give me a hand with Mario Bradford bring up the animal
00:42:20extremely high poison content in the shrews saliva I'll compare it with this careful
00:42:46count isn't necessary any indication the same poison in Mary's blood will give you the answer
00:42:52yes you're right look and brooding about it's not going to do any good now why don't you try to
00:43:05think of something else tell me yeah what do you do around here are are you a scientist I'm a
00:43:12zoologist oh that's the study of animal life in it what do you specialize what do you specialize in
00:43:20they died I had a hand in it I'm partly to blame
00:43:26but this ends it we ever get off these island I never have anything to do with it again what
00:43:43will you do abnormally like normal women do me see it seem a little dull after the life I've
00:43:53been living rather dull and alive and excited and I'll take a dull alive woman every time
00:44:11say Thorne the autopsy has proved what we suspected several weeks ago I concocted the
00:44:22most virulent poison I could with the materials I had at hand never put it out as bait
00:44:28area was killed by poison doctor I wonder if you thought the system of the Sorex enabled them to
00:44:38assimilate that poison it remained in the salivary glands of their jaws isn't that wonderful well I
00:44:46am sorry of course I always speak from the clinical point of view well don't you have
00:44:52something to counteract that poison once Maria was bitten I'm afraid is nothing anyone could
00:44:59have done this indicates that they cannot afford to get even so much as a scratch from these
00:45:07animals there are more poisonous than snakes what do you think they're all affected best way to find
00:45:15out is let them all bite you and see which bite you die after we might just all get that chance
00:45:20Jerry you included doctor I've closed all the doors in the house I suggest we do the same
00:45:27thing with this hall in this lab and cut down the chances of getting in the front of the house I
00:45:32think if we keep a close watch on those walls and windows in there we might make it till daybreak
00:45:37the walls are two feet thick do you think they have a chance to dig in of course there's a
00:45:44chance anywhere that plasters off that Adobe's is soft as mush where that rain hit it
00:46:07but here's another possibility doctor it's very light out it's gonna be daylight soon
00:46:31we'll take the shrew that killed Mario and throw it over the fence and use it for bait if they show
00:46:38up for it of course to run for the boats out but if they don't then I'll go down and have
00:46:42Rook lay to with a lighter then I'll return to the bend and the trail and give you the all-clear
00:46:47signal sounds fine captain good then you explain it to the rest yes I will
00:47:00well the baits been out for 20 minutes nothing's touched it
00:47:30even the wind has gone down isn't that wonderful I'm afraid it's not over my dear it's just a
00:47:54little he'll be a lot more he's right I'll be back at the bend shortly now you watch for my
00:48:00signal you can't go now I'll go with him not you father you haven't even fired a gun take
00:48:07rather Jerry sure I'll go and you'll be sure of getting a signal
00:48:55that gun unless you have to we've only got 20 rounds all together I know that as well as you
00:49:01do Sherman you stay away from her you have that gun pointed at me right at the middle of your
00:49:13back look we've got enough problems out worrying about and telling you stay away from her when the
00:49:20shrews get through with you they won't even find a buckshot
00:49:50where's this gift I'll follow that check line I gotta find him since last night you won't find
00:50:17much of him would you shut up I'm not going back you're what I'm staying here all right you suit
00:50:25yourself but if I were you I'd swim out to that boat can't swim then stay here wait a minute you
00:50:34got to give me a gun give you a gun chairman wait
00:51:04this is the gun we had on the boat
00:51:26they don't leave much do they
00:51:28Sherman we got to make a deal
00:51:34what is it they've been trailing us on both sides where I didn't see anything
00:51:46look Sherman you got to give me a gun
00:51:49but if you do don't you run you stay in front of me because I don't trust you
00:52:16they're coming
00:52:25open the gate
00:52:42let him in
00:52:46I couldn't take a chance
00:53:16for heaven's sakes doctor stop him
00:54:16all right didn't he have it coming or didn't he what happened out there
00:54:27oh nothing much Jerry just tried to kill me twice in the last five minutes
00:54:35Brooke came ashore last night he's dead
00:54:38it's all what's left won't do us any good it's got no ammo
00:55:02I'm deeply sorry captain
00:55:05I wish I'd followed your orders look doctor you casually mentioned animals you didn't
00:55:11explain to us what we were facing out there every right to feel the way you do
00:55:18my mistake was only mine one of judgment I didn't know about the hurricane I didn't
00:55:25anticipate the effect it would have on the shrews I thought the house would be safe
00:55:31through the crisis how could you expose your own daughter how could you expose Ann to that
00:55:36she was going to leave last week but the boat didn't come I need a drink
00:55:47anybody else care for one I could use some coffee I'll make them
00:55:51all right
00:56:07slam the door you all right doctor he just ripped my trousers that's all
00:56:14are you sure that's all I'm completely aware of it doctor
00:56:22oh
00:56:38that was a stupid waste of ammunition everyone a clean mess still four of them in there
00:56:44how did they get in through that kitchen window that rope must be rotten
00:56:50let's go
00:57:02he's dead
00:57:14so
00:57:23he recorded every symptom and reaction right up to the moment of his death
00:57:34Jerry tear down one of those drapes and cover him up
00:57:36sure sure Greg is so cover I am and I'll cover him you'll cover me but who'll cover you shut up
00:57:48we can get on that man oh
00:57:50shut up
00:57:52shut up
00:57:54shut up
00:57:56now you stop sniffling and think
00:57:58it'll take a tank to get us out of here
00:58:06there
00:58:24it won't take them all to dig around this
00:58:26you're right
00:58:28no telling where else they're digging too
00:58:36there
00:58:52come on
00:58:54hurry
00:59:06there's not enough stuff here to barricade those walls
00:59:10I'll tell you we'll pile some of those crates up over there
00:59:12the roots are our last chance
00:59:14help me doctor
00:59:16we can find something light
00:59:24here help him with that doctor
00:59:26Jerry keep him by the rock
00:59:36there
00:59:46doctor
00:59:48yes
00:59:50use these chemical drums as tanks
00:59:52individual tanks
00:59:54here I'll show you
00:59:56stand down here
00:59:58look down now
01:00:00all right
01:00:02you all right
01:00:06it'll work
01:00:08it'll work
01:00:10but these drums
01:00:12are too tall for the base
01:00:14if the shoes don't push us over the wind will
01:00:16not if we lash them together
01:00:18all right
01:00:20hey are there any more around here
01:00:22only that one over there
01:00:24do you have any clothes chisels or hammers or anything
01:00:26I can knock a hole in here and make five pieces
01:00:28yeah
01:00:30some tools over there
01:00:33some tools over there
01:00:35all right
01:00:45hey here's another one
01:00:49hey get that out there
01:00:51hey that's even better
01:01:03give me a little more slack
01:01:07get some rope
01:01:09and put it on that latch
01:01:11so we can reap from the ground
01:01:33ahhhh
01:01:59hold it there all right
01:02:03all right
01:02:21all right we're all set
01:02:23it's going to be rough
01:02:25but we should be able to duck walk to the beach
01:02:27where's Jerry
01:02:29there's a lot of them out there
01:02:31that wind will blow you right off that roof
01:02:33I told you I'm not going
01:02:35I'm staying here
01:02:37we've got to get them down here somehow
01:02:39and see if you can coax them down here
01:02:41Jerry Jerry please come down with us
01:02:43no I am
01:02:45they'll get you if you go out there
01:02:47come down here you fool
01:02:49poor devil I hope he makes it
01:02:51if he can't leave he's not responsible for himself
01:02:55he wants to go now
01:03:01all right doctor
01:03:03all right
01:03:09all right
01:03:11now hold it up
01:03:19all right
01:03:23everybody ready
01:03:25I'm going to open that gate
01:03:27ready
01:03:30ready
01:03:32ok here they come
01:03:36hold on
01:03:38hold on
01:04:00hold on
01:04:14Ann what's the matter
01:04:16your side's dragging
01:04:18you want to rest
01:04:20you tired
01:04:24what'd you say
01:04:26she says she's all right
01:04:28she's keeping her eyes closed
01:04:30all right keep your eyes closed
01:04:32they can't get at you
01:04:34through the slit
01:04:46this empty drum is
01:04:48too heavy for her
01:04:50I can barely hold up my side
01:04:52I'll be all right
01:04:54in a minute
01:04:57all right you walk
01:04:59I'll drag for a while
01:05:05listen
01:05:07don't let their head get under
01:05:09they'll flip us over
01:05:27all right
01:05:29all right
01:05:31all right
01:05:33all right
01:05:35all right
01:05:37all right
01:05:39all right
01:05:41all right
01:05:43all right
01:05:45all right
01:05:47all right
01:05:49all right
01:05:51all right
01:05:53all right
01:05:56all right
01:06:00all right
01:06:02all right
01:06:14all right
01:06:16I got my foot
01:06:18check your foot
01:06:22oh my foot is free
01:06:24Is there a scratch?
01:06:26No, not a mark.
01:06:42Keep moving.
01:06:44Let's go, let's go.
01:06:55Don, I don't think I...
01:06:58What?
01:07:02Son!
01:07:04Wait, son!
01:07:07Son, we're close!
01:07:09We'll hit the water soon.
01:07:10It doesn't sound like they're following us anymore.
01:07:30We'd better work deeper.
01:07:36I'm about to round out.
01:07:38Okay, let's swim for it.
01:07:40Okay.
01:07:41Okay.
01:08:07We are safe, aren't we?
01:08:10I mean, the storm.
01:08:12Sure.
01:08:13She rode out the first half all right.
01:08:14That's always the roughest.
01:08:17Anyway, riding an anchor,
01:08:18I'll get a chance to learn a little more about that Swedish accent.
01:08:22In 24 hours, there'll be one shrew left on the island,
01:08:26and he'll be dead of starvation.
01:08:29An excellent example of overpopulation.
01:08:32Well, you know something, doctor?
01:08:34What's that?
01:08:36I'm not going to worry about overpopulation just yet.
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