How you doin', old boy?
I don't know who to trust.
[Swallows, Sighs] I know what you mean, Blair.
Trust's a tough thing to come by these days.
Tell you what.
Why don't you just trust in the Lord?
Watch Clark. What?
I said, watch Clark.
And watch him close. Do you hear me?
[Door Closes]
And now the radio's gone.
And so are the choppers. We're completely cut off.
All we can do now is hole up 'til spring, wait for the rescue team.
No, we don't wait. Somebody in this camp ain't what he appears to be.
Right now that may be one or two of us. By spring, it could be all of us.
So how do we know who's human?
If I was an imitation... a perfect imitation...
how would you know if it was really me?
Is there some kind of test, Doc?
Well, yeah, possibly. I've been thinkin' about a blood serum test.
[Garry] What's that?
We could take a sample of each person's blood, mix it with uncontaminated blood.
I suppose if there's a reaction, we'd know who isn't human.
- We've got whole blood in storage. - Start working on it.
Keep an eye on Clark.
He was close to that dog.
Yeah. Yeah.
Mac, we need Blair's help.
He's the only one who knows this organism. He's too far gone.
But get the rest of his notebooks. Start goin' through 'em.
[Unlatching Hook]
Garry! Hey, you guys, come here!
What? Somebody got to the blood.
What?
Where's Clark? Right here.
Wait a minute. Was this broken into? The lock is undamaged.
Somebody opened it, closed it, then locked it. [Windows] Great.
Who's got access to it?
I guess I'm the only one.
And I got the only key.
Would that test have worked, Doc? I think so, yes.
[Norris] Somebody else sure as hell thought so.
Well, who else could've used that key?
Nobody! I just give it to Copper whenever he needs it.
Could anybody have gotten it from you, Doc?
I don't see how. As soon as I'm finished, I return it right away.
Great.
[Fuchs] When was the last time you used it? [Doc] Day or so ago.
I suppose somebody could have lifted it off me... Oh, come on!
That key ring of yours is always hooked to your belt. [Screaming]
- Accusing everybody... - [MacReady] Stop it.! It ain't worth it.!
Copper's the only one who's got any business with it. [Copper] Wait a minute.!
You've been in here on several occasions. Doc thought of the test.
[Childs] So what? Is that supposed to clear him?
Windows! Windows!
[Cocks Gun] Put that down!
No. I'll put this right through your head.
[Panting] You guys gonna listen to Garry?
You gonna let him give the orders? He could be one of those Things.
Windows. Wait a minute.
Just take it easy. Put the gun down.
Put it down. You don't want to hurt anybody. Right.
[Garry] On the floor.
[Lays Rifle Down]
It's on the floor.
I don't know about Copper,
but I give you my word, I did not go near that blood.
But I guess you'll all feel a little easier...
if somebody else was in charge.
Norris, I can't see anybody objecting to you.
I'm sorry, fellas, but I'm not up to it.
I'll take it. Like hell you will.
It should be somebody a little more even-tempered, Childs.
[Scoffs]
All right.
[Wind Gusting]
[Flame Bursting]
I know I'm human.
And if you were all these Things, then you'd just attack me right now.
So some of you are still human.
This Thing doesn't want to show itself. It wants to hide inside an imitation.
It'll fight if it has to.
But it's vulnerable out in the open.
If it takes us over,
then it has no more enemies, ;
nobody left to kill it.
And then it's won.
There's a storm hitting us in six hours.
We're gonna find out who's who.
All right, Doc, Garry and Clark, move over there away from the others.
Norris, you and Childs shoot 'em up with morphine. Tie 'em down in the rec room and watch 'em.
Fuchs, you start working on a new technique. I need Doc's help.
You don't wanna drug me. Mac, I'm not a prisoner!
Let-Let me do it. You're gonna break the needle in my arm.
No, Doc, he's doing a real fine job.
[Groans]
I'm gonna hide this tape when I'm finished.
If none of us make it, at least there'll be some kind of record.
Storm's been hitting us hard now for 48 hours.
We still have nothing to go on.
One other thing, I think it rips through your clothes...
when it takes you over.
Windows found some shredded long johns, but the name tag was missing.
They could be anybody's.
Nobody...
Nobody trusts anybody now.
And we're all very tired.
[Tape Rewinding]
Nobody trusts anybody now.
There's nothing else I can do.
Just wait.
R.J. MacReady, helicopter pilot, U.S. Outpost, number 31.
[Stops Tape Player]
You come up with anything yet?
One or two ideas.
[Sighs] But, MacReady, I've been thinking.
If a small particle of this Thing is enough to take over an entire organism,
then everyone should prepare their own meals.
And I suggest we only eat out of cans.
All right.
[Kicks Object]
[Whooshing] Who's that?
Anybody see Fuchs?
Somebody blew out a fuse in the lab.
Lights were out for an hour. Anyone of us could've gotten to him.
All right, we gotta find him. Nauls, why don't you come with me and we'll look outside.
Palmer, you and Windows check the inside.
I ain't goin' with Windows.
I ain't goin' with him. I'll go with Childs.
Hey, fuck you, Palmer! I ain't goin' with you!
[Childs] Who says I want you goin'with me? Cut the bullshit!
Windows, you come with us. Norris, you stay here.
Any of them move, you fry 'em. You hear anything, cut loose on the sirens.
We all meet back here in 2o minutes regardless.
And everybody watch whoever you're with... real close.
[Unhooks Latch]
Hey, Blair.
Blair, have you seen Fuchs?
I don't wanna stay out here anymore. I wanna come back inside.
I hear funny things out here.
Have you come across Fuchs? It ain't Fuchs.
I'm not gonna harm anybody. There's nothing wrong with me.
And if there was, I'm all better now. I'd like to come back inside.
Now you've got my promise.
We'll see.
Wait a minute, man.
I wanna come back inside, don't you understand?
I'm all right. I'm much better... and I won't harm anybody.
You gotta let me come back inside.
Hold it!
Is it Fuchs?
Yeah.
Why would it burn him?
Flare. Maybe he tried to burn it.
Maybe he burned himself before it could get to him.
Great! Now what are we gonna do?
You go inside. Tell the others we found Fuchs.
We'll be in as soon as we can. Where are we going?
Up to my shack. What the hell for?
'Cause when I left yesterday, I turned the lights off.
How long have they been out there?
Forty, 45 minutes.
We better start closing off the outside doors.
[Hammering Continues]
Hey! All of you, come here!
[Groaning]
[Banging]
[Nauls] Open up.! Open up this door.! Open up.! Open up.!
Close that door.
[Panting] Where's MacReady?
I cut him loose of the line up by his shack.
[Childs] Cut him loose? Yeah.
We were up checkin' around his place, I found this.
Look. It was stashed in his oil furnace.
Wind must've dislodged it, but I don't think he saw me find it.
I made sure I got ahead of him on the towline on the way back. I cut him loose.
MacReady? He's one of'em.
- When do you think it got to him? - I don't know.
It could've been anytime, anywhere.
[Childs] If it did get to him.
Look, Childs, come on. When the lights went out. That would've been perfect.
Right. You said guys were missing. Windows, where were you?
I told you to shut your mouth! [All Shouting]
[Norris] This is just what it wants! To pit us against each other.
[Squeaking]
Let's open it. Hell no!
You think he's changed into one of those Things? He's had time.
Nothing human could've made it back here in this weather without a guide line.
Let's open it now. Why are you so anxious to let him in here?
Because it's so close. May be our best chance to blow it away. Let him freeze.
Childs, what if we're wrong about him?
Well then, we're wrong! [Glass Breaking]
The supply window!
All right, all right, we got no choice now!
Damn it! He's got the keys!
[MacReady] What's going on? The towline snapped.
Bullshit, Childs. He's got to know damn well I cut it!
You're a dead man, MacReady!
Or a dead whatever the hell you are!
Anyone messes with me and the whole camp goes.
Come on, Childs, burn me.
Put those torches on the floor and back off.
Back off. Way off.
You asshole. You'd have done the same thing.
Don't argue with him.
Where's the rest?
Come on, man, I mean it!
It's cool, MacReady, come on.
Yeah. Yeah, man, just relax.
Anybody touches me... [Laughs] And we go.
[Groans]
- He's not breathin'! - Go untie the doc.
Get him in here. And bring the others.
From now on, nobody gets outta my sight.
[Panting]
Let me at him.
[MacReady] So, you sweethearts were about to have a little lynching party, huh?
I might just have to put an end to you on general principles, Nauls.
Did it ever occur to the jury that anybody could've gotten some of my clothes...
and stuck 'em up the furnace? [Childs] We ain't buyin'that.
Quit that bickerin' over there.! Windows, wheel that defibrillator over here.
Gimme those paddles!
[Childs] You're gonna have to sleep sometime, MacReady.
I'm a real light sleeper, Childs.
If anyone tries to wake me... Uh-uh.
[Defibrillator Beeping] [Copper] Clear.!
[Groans] Clear! Clear.
[Screaming]
[Screaming Continues]
[Rumbling]
[Growling]
[Growling Continues]
[Screeching]
[Loud Screeching]
We're on fire, MacReady! We're on fire! Get back! Just wait!
All right, go!
Windows.! Windows, get in here.!
[Men Coughing]
[Low Growl]
You gotta be fuckin' kidding.
[Thing Yowling]
What do you got in mind, MacReady? A little test.
And, Windows, you and Palmer, tie everybody down real tight. What for?
- For your health. - Let's rush him! He's not gonna blow us all up!
No, no, wait a minute. Wait a minute.
Let's... Let's do what Mac says.
I mean, uh, he wasted Norris pretty quick, didn't he? That's close enough, Clark.
- He ain't tyin' me up. - Then I'll have to kill you, Childs.
Then kill me.
I mean it.
[Cocks Gun]
I guess you do.
Geez. This is bullshit, Mac!
[MacReady] Finish it, Palmer. They're dead, Mac!
Windows? [Windows] Yo?
You tie up Palmer over here.
[MacReady] We're gonna draw a little bit of everybody's blood...
'cause we're gonna find out who's the Thing.
Watchin'Norris in there gave me the idea that...
maybe every part ofhim was a whole.
Every little piece was an individual animal...
with a built-in desire to protect its own life.
You see, when a man bleeds,
it's just tissue.
The blood from one of you Things won't obey when it's attacked.
It'll try and survive.
Crawl away from a hot needle the same.
[Sets Gun On Table]
[Groans]
Now you.
That's good.
All right, move back, over there.
[Gas Blowing]
[Wind Howling]
[Sizzles]
[Sighs]
I guess you're okay.
All right. Put that on and watch them.
Now I'll show you what I already know.
[Sizzles]
It's a crock of shit.
Let's try the doc and Clark.
[Sizzles]
Now Clark.
[Sizzles]
Then Clark was human, huh?
Which makes you a murderer, don't it?
Palmer now.
This is pure nonsense. It doesn't prove a thing.
I thought you'd feel that way, Garry. You were the only one that could've got to that blood.
We'll do you last.
[Screeches]
Get him away from me! MacReady, burn it!
- [Men Yelling] - What is it?
- [Screaming] - [Garry] Come on.!
[Continue Screaming]
Get me outta here!
Windows, blast him!
[Childs] Get me outta here.! Get me outta here.!
[Gagging]
[Screaming]
- [Shouting] - [Groaning Loudly]
[Screaming]
Windows!
[Screeching]
[Screeching Continues]
[Men Screaming]
[Childs] Get me outta here.!
[Men Continue Screaming]
MacReady, get in here.! Come on, hurry up.!
He's coming back! Burn it! Burn it, for God's sake!
[Garry] Hurry up, MacReady.! Burn it.!
[Moaning]
[Sizzles]
Let's do it.
- [Sizzles] - [Sighs]
[Childs] Get me outta here.! Cut me loose.!
Cut me the hell... Come on, get me outta here.! Come on, get me outta here.!
Cut me loose, damn it!
[Sizzles]
I know you gentlemen have been through a lot,
but when you find the time,
I'd rather not spend the rest of this winter tied to this fuckin' couch!
[Footsteps Approaching]
[MacReady] Childs.
We're goin' out to give Blair the test. If he tries to make it back here...
and we're not with him... burn him.
[Nauls] Mac, the door's open!
How'd he get out? The door was bolted from the outside.
[Wood Creaks]
[Garry] Blair?
[Nauls] Hey, Blair, you down there? We got somethin'for ya.!
[MacReady] Blair's been busy out here all by himself.
What is it? Something he's been making.
It's a ship of some kind.
He stole the parts from the helicopter.
The smart S.O.B. Put it together piece by piece.
Where was he tryin' to go?
Anyplace but here.
Hey, you guys, come here. Come here.
I think I saw Childs outside the main entrance of the camp.
What's he doin' outside? [Whispers] I don't know.
Got a flare?
He got back inside and blew the generator.
In six hours, it'll be a hundred below in here.
Well, that's suicide!
Not for that Thing.
It wants to freeze now. It's got no way outta here.
It just wants to go to sleep in the cold until the rescue team finds it.
What can we do? What can we do?
Whether we make it or not, we can't let that Thing freeze again.
Maybe we'll just warm things up a little around here.
We're not gettin' outta here alive.
But neither is that Thing.
Generator room.
[Explosion]
The generator's gone.
Any way we can fix it?
It's gone, MacReady.
[Panting] All right.
We gotta bring this whole place right down into the ice.
Garry, plant yours in the old storage room.
Nauls, down by the generator.
[Clicking] Ah, God!
[Moaning]
[Gurgling]
[Gurgling Stops]
How's it comin' in there?
I said, how's it...
[Thing Growling]
[Rattling]
[Growls]
[Roaring]
[Growling Loudly]
[Roaring Continues]
Yeah, fuck you too!
[Screeching]
You the only one who made it?
Not the only one.
Did you kill it?
Where were you, Childs?
Thought I saw Blair.
I went out after him and got lost in the storm.
[Chuckles]
Fire's got the temperature up all over the camp.
Won't last long, though.
Neither will we.
How will we make it?
Maybe we shouldn't.
If you're worried about me...
If we've got any surprises for each other,
I don't think we're in much shape to do anything about it.
Well... what do we do?
Why don't we just...
wait here for a little while?
See what happens.
[Grunts]
[Both Chuckle]