Where's it comin' from?
It's nothing.
Oh, God! Oh, God! Hold it, God damn it!
Get it off me! Oh, Jesus!
It's sludge, man!
It's just plain old stinkin' sewage.
Oh, my God.
'Velazquez you make that connection? '
Somebody there? 'Velazquez, what do you got? '
In the next tunnel.
Velazquez, what the hell is that? Get out of there.
Move your ass and get out now! No!
Velazquez, get out of there! Move it! Now!
Aaah! Help me. Help me, Jesus! Get out of there!
Come on!
Reach! Reach, man. Come on! Reach!
Velazquez! Jesus Christ!
Sergeant Harker meet me outside CBW right now!
I'm registering no toxic fumes.
Here, fella. Here, boy.
At least he lived through it. Come on.
But how did he live through it? Yeah, yeah.
That's a good dog.
It's OK. That's a good dog, huh?
That's a good boy. It's OK. Yeah.
Better... Better get away from him.
You like that, don't ya?
Christ, what the hell? What is it?
Get back!
No!
Oh, my God! Sergeant, get up here!
Flyte.
You were brought here, Dr Flyte.
Do your research. Write the gospel. Go.
It's here! It's everywhere all around us!
Oh, Jesus.
Dr Flyte, what is this?
My flesh. Study it.
Write the gospel.
But do not try to leave.
Witnesses to the miracle.
I have to run an analysis.
And that's what I was born to do.
That lab is a tank. We are getting in that
and getting the hell out of here right now.
Against this thing the lab's vulnerable.
There are a hundred ways it could stop us.
Why aren't we dead like the rest of them?
I think it needed us to get to Flyte.
It's like he's some kind of disciple or something.
"Write the gospel."
And now Flyte's here.
If it can think really think then we're finished.
Maybe it's like flatworm learning.
What?
Certain flatworms can learn to negotiate a maze.
Then if you grind them up and feed them to another batch of flatworms
batch two can run the same maze on the first try.
They absorb the knowledge with the flesh.
They gave me a tour on the way.
The oldest living thing on the planet.
We would've heard of it by now. It wasn't exactly shy.
It lives out of sight in the earth
in deep geological structures.
But if it comes up to feed... Rarely.
Mostly it sifts life forms from the soil
like a whale sifts tiny krill and plankton from the ocean.
No doubt it feeds on marine life too.
It may lie dormant between feedings for years or even decades at a time.
Over centuries only a tiny percentage
of this thing's prey has been human beings
but from them it's absorbed knowledge, acquired intelligence.
So this thing can assume the form of anything that it's absorbed.
Or maybe even imaginary creatures.
Anything a victim may have seen in a movie...
or even dreamed about.
It must know everything the people in this town knew.
About you, Dr Flyte. And about me.
What's happening?
Vocal mode initiated.
Tell the world the end begins here.
Who are you?
I am Baal. I am Belial.
Demons. Devils.
Some of its victims must have thought it was the devil.
It absorbed that concept from them...
and believes that's what it is.
Why have you killed these people?
They are cattle. But you let us live.
One of your species has theorised my existence.
It's like a monkey learning tricks. Flyte.
He is my Matthew Mark, Luke and John.
Only in me can you achieve immortality.
Not in God. Not in Christ.
Only in me.
If we do what you say will you let us live?
Hold on! What's happening?
It's playing with us!
Warning: Lab stability is threatened.
All right, enough! It's not a god! It's not a devil!
It's just a fucking animal and any living thing can be killed!
This thing wiped out the dinosaurs
which were pretty tough fucking customers!
What do you want me to say? All I'm saying is, it's got a weakness!
What weakness? Ego! It thinks it's Satan, right?
Satan had the biggest ego of all thinking he was greater than God.
And he took a fall. Right!
That's why it turned this town into a fun house.
That's why it manipulated us into bringing Dr Flyte here.
It wanted you to see it. It wanted you to!
Show me how to kill this fuckin' thing.
If there were a way to kill it
we wouldn't have been given the tissue sample!
You're not listening to me! It only thinks it's all powerful.
It's lived too long without fear.
Millions of years it's lived where nothing could kill it.
That's what makes it vulnerable.
So what are all these other things we've seen?
Drones. Phantoms.
Detached. Sent on a task
then they return to the mother mass underground.
Warning: Lab stability is threatened.
Guess so.
How big is this thing? Big.
How do you know any of this for sure?
Logical deduction. Logical deduction. Yeah.
This from a guy who writes articles about Bigfoot for a living.
What about chemicals or acid?
You'd need a truckload. And how would you deliver it to the target?
Maybe nukes?
Same problem.
How do you find the target, bomb it and be sure you got it all?
Warning: Microbe sample vault is open.
Thank you.
You're welcome.
You OK? I was just wondering.
What?
Do you think that all those people it's taken...
Do you think they're still trapped?
No.
No. They're gone. They're dead and gone.
I think being trapped inside of it would be like your soul gone to hell.
It's not that way.
I don't want to go to hell.
What?
You've got something?
Petrolatum.
This thing is a lot more complex than the composition...
of petroleum jelly, of course but there are similarities...
in the ratio of hydrocarbons
and even more minerals and chemicals than you'd find in the human body.
Hydrocarbons.
I wonder...
What is it? Samples of bacteria, virus
plus a selection of man made microbes.
Oh, glorious day.
On the double.
CBW one twenty three this is Command Post. Do you copy?
What do you got, Guthrie?
CBW hasn't reported in. I can't raise them.
Major, I think you better check this out.
Jenny? It's all right.
It could hear us only through the electronics. Not now.
What's in the vial?
Biosan Fourteen a genetically engineered bacteria.
A man made disease? No. Harmless to us.
It's a working bacterium. Eats crude oil
and ex cretes ecologically harmless byproducts.
They use it to break up oil spills for about a decade now.
Biosan Fourteen is new the most aggressive strain yet.
It can survive only in an oil rich environment
but then each microorganism reproduces itself every 11 seconds.
It could swarm through oil.
Ever since the Gulf War they've carried a sample
in case terrorists ever contaminate an oil field with it.
Wait, wait, wait, wait.
You're saying we can use this stuff to attack the Ancient Enemy of yours
like it was an oil spill and infect it?
If its hydrocarbon structures are similar to petroleum.
It's a big stretch, but...
It's gonna wonder why the power's off.
It'll know we're up to something. No. It doesn't fear us.
It believes it's immortal. Well, maybe it is.
Is one vial enough?
If it reproduces every 11 seconds, we could culture a lot more in an hour.
True. OK, what do we need?
We need to find a way to get at the mother mass
and we need some kind of a delivery system for this stuff.
But if we do that will it kill it all?
Unless there's a nucleus a small inner core
that can tear loose from the mass and survive on its own.
You know, I really just wanted you to say "yes".
Jesus Christ.
I only want to tell the world.
So, how do you propose to draw the whole mass of it to us?
What?
No.
Oh, no.
I'm here.
Your witness.
If I'm to tell the world I need to see...
all of you, not just a drone.
You wonder what's going on in there.
They're preparing a weapon
possibly a means to destroy you.
I don't fuckin' believe him. He's selling us out.
He's trying to save his own ass. Wait.
For what? For him to play his hand.
Specifically, it's a genetically engineered bacterium...
capable of devouring your flesh.
Capable, they think, of killing you.
What they don't understand is that death is for mortals
not for gods.
Even after all they've witnessed tonight, they still don't believe.
They still think you're only an animal
only a thing.
Show yourself.
Gods have nothing to fear.
Or do they?
Uh, uh, n now...
N n now w would be a g good time.
Now!
It's really pissed off. Infected.
Jenny, Lisa, in the lab.
Run!
I think we got it, Jenny!
We've gotta get off the street. Come on!
I think it's infected. Maybe.
Oh, come on. It's crawling away to die.
Which makes it even more dangerous.
Oh, fuck you!
Dead yet?
Let's just go.
Come on, you bastard.
Oh, you got some guns.
Ladies, you wouldn't shoot an unarmed man, would you?
That's a dumb question.
You wanna see somethin'?
What a trip I've had! How low can you go?
Get down!
Go!
Hey!
You girls slip me a Mickey?
Oh, God!
What did you do to me?
Lisa?
I'm going to let you live.
Let you live in me forever.
Fuck you!
Always that urge to shoot little boys.
No. This time I'm gonna miss.
It's all right.
It's gone.
All those souls, maybe... they're at peace.
Yes. One wonders.
Still, it won. What do you mean?
It wanted me to tell the world
and that's what I'm going to do.
The Earth endures.
Over the aeons, countless species have flourished, then perished.
In the town of Snowfield four of us...
met and bested an inhuman intelligence.
Not from the stars, but from the deep and secret realms...
of our own infinitely mysterious world.
A supremely powerful life form so adaptable, seemingly immortal...
is it gone?
If not, it may one day be the cause of humanity's extinction.
You believe that crap? I don't know, Frank.
Stranger things have happened.
I mean, Patty said Glenn was abducted by aliens.
Glenn wasn't abducted. He run off to LA.
You would, too if you was married to Patty.
Does that sound funny to you, officer?
No, ma'am.
Hey, you wanna see somethin'?