August 9, 2:30 p.m. Greenwich Mean Time.
The H.M.S. Churchill, outward bound.
On board: a joint British-American space team.
Their mission: to intercept and study the comet bearing Dr. Hailey's name.
The Churchill is the first spacecraft equipped with the Nerva engine.
It propeIs the Churchill with constant acceIeration...
enough to create Earth-type gravity for the first time on an extended fIight.
The Churchill is on course for its rendezvous.
- Sir, this is odd. - What?
I'm getting a small radar cross section...
just ahead of the nucIeus in the coma of the comet.
I've got it too. Check the Iength. It's at the Iimit of my scan angIe.
- What's going on? - You run an equipment check?
Every five minutes.
- Radar states 150 miles. - 150 miles what?
- Length. - 150 miles Iong?
What's 150 miles Iong?
It's a radar trace.
- Something in the coma of the comet. - Show me.
- E.G.R. is confirmed. - Looks good.
E.G.R. is optimaI.
Track three on three.
Roger.
What's its height?
I've got a verticaI reading of two miles at Ieast.
Ambient temperature: six degrees.
Less than two percent traces of manganese, titanium--
Try and raise base.
Tell them we have an artificiaI object out here hidden--
- Are you sure you want to say ''hidden''? - It's Iocated in the head of the comet.
Keep sending that until they acknowIedge.
Use a secured downlink.
Sorry, Commander, everything's been swamped by the coma winds.
We can't get anything back to base.
How Iong is the bIackout period?
all the way.
What are you gonna do?
Go on in.
We're onIy gonna get one chance, Derebridge.
That thing won't be back for another 76 years...
and we'll both be dead.
We have to take a look now.
- Shut down Nerva. - Shutting down.
Down.
- SoIar panels retracted. - Check. Give me a readout, Bob.
Executing E.V.A. maneuver.
Where do you suppose this thing came from?
- Was it expIoring the comet? - Come on, guys, Iet's do it.
The surface looks badIy pitted.
In that case, it's been here a Iong time.
It's dereIict, whatever it is.
Stand by, Churchill. We're going in.
Roger, Carlsen. We copy. We have you going in.
Churchill, it looks like some giant artery, organic.
I aImost have the feeIing I've been here before.
Oh, boy.
This is incredibIe.
I hope you can appreciate the scaIe of this on the video.
Roger. We're getting it. It's all on tape.
Oh, shit.
Whoa. Here they are.
Churchill...
it looks like we found the occupants of the ship.
They look like giant bats.
- There must be hundreds of them. - Thousands.
Dead, I hope.
Looks prehistoric.
It's completely desiccated.
- CrumbIes. - Yes, it wouId.
all the fIuid's been Iost to space over the years.
we'll bag this one, take it with us.
We're depIoying the specimen bag.
Jesus.
What the heII is that?
Commander...
the ship has just depIoyed a--
It looks like some sort of big structure that's just unfoIding.
It's enormous.
God, what is it?
We must get out of here.
Nobody's going anywhere. Stay where you are.
Churchill, this is Carlsen. What's happening out there?
The thing stopped opening.
The onIy way to describe it is it's like a giant umbreIIa.
Good God. It's absoIuteIy enormous.
What's it doing now?
Nothing, sir.
It's stopped opening.
It's just sitting there.
- Can you Tell what it's made of? - Not metaI.
It's radar transparent.
Okay.
If it starts up again, Iet me know.
Any activity out there. You understand?
Yes, sir.
That's where we're going.
There's something there.
Commander, this is Churchill.
We're Iosing our signaI. We've Iost V.T.R.
Come in, Commander!
Three bodies.
PerfectIy preserved.
They look to me to be like an--
Something's happening to me.
What's wrong with me?
Commander, come in.
This is Churchill. Do you copy?
They seem to be in some sort of suspended animation or sIeep.
HoId on. We're coming down.
Churchill, if you read...
there are two nude males and one female.
This is Churchill. We have no picture. Come in, Tom.
Churchill, I said we found a young girl.
''girl''? You mean human?
DefiniteIy humanoid.
I'd say she's perfect.
I've been in space for six months. She looks perfect to me.
- Derebridge, what's wrong? - What's wrong?
- How many do you want to take back? - I say we take back all three...
and one of the dead things in the other chamber.
Let's see if we can break them free.
Churchill, come in. This is Mission ControI, Great Britain.
Do you copy?
If they're going to pick us up, they shouId get us this cIose.
SimpIy aren't receiving, Dr. Bukovsky.
Automatic circuits don't even respond.
They're radio dead.
Christ, I hope it's just their communications.
How's their orbit look?
You can see it's stabIe, but they're sIightIy off.
They shouId have adjusted coming in...
but they haven't.
What do you make of that?
It wouId appear that they set their course...
just after they Ieft the comet and haven't updated it since.
- The CoIumbia? - The CoIumbia.
We have a Iiftoff.
Tower cleared.
ControI, this is CoIumbia.
Are we cleared to initiate docking procedure?
Go ahead, CoIumbia. You are looking good.
Stand by for soft dock.
Soft dock.
Soft dock confirmed.
CoIumbia, the ship's completely gutted.
Oh, my God.
Houston, we have a problem. There's been a fire.
I'll take a look in the tug bay. You two, try the top deck.
CoIumbia, they're all dead.
Nothing down here, CoIumbia. I'm going into the tug bay.
I'll get the tapes.
Somner...
there's something you ought to see in the tug bay.
I see. How did you open the girl's case?
We didn't, Minister.
We were talking about how to get it open when it popped open of its own accord.
- Did you X-ray the crystal cases? - We're not certain they're crystal.
The casings are not metallic. I'm not even sure they're organic.
The casing is right there in front of us without being there...
- if that makes any sense. - And the bodies?
We're going to do our first dissection now.
Provided, of course, that Dr. Fallada agrees they're dead.
I don't know that I am quallfied to pass judgment on allen death.
You wouId agree that they're less allve than we are?
Yesterday in Hong Kong, goId cIosed Iower.
In Iight trading on European currency markets...
the pound cIosed mixed against the doIIar and West German marks.
There will be a fuII market report after the Iate news.
This is James Graham reporting from the city.
Now back to the newsroom.
Halley's Comet is now dominating the northern sky...
stretching over 100 miIIion miles across the heavens...
occupying one-sixth of the entire visibIe horizon.
On this exceptionally clear night...
a group of enthusiasts are commemorating Dr. Edmund Halley's great prediction...
by hoIding an outdoor watching from his originaI observatory at Greenwich.
Our viewers may be interested to know...
that comets were once considered to be hargingers of eviI.
One of the earIiest words for comet was ''disaster''...
which in Latin means ''eviI star.''
It may indeed be an eviI star for the deep space probe Churchill.
There's still no word from Her Majesty's government as to the fate of the crew...
whether they're allve or dead.
We can onIy await further deveIopments--
Use my body.
- Where's the girl? - She's gone.
I saw her.
She did that.
- Security. - HeIIo. Professor Fallada here.
I'm calling at Dr. Bukovsky's orders.
- Get me the duty security captain now. - Yes, sir.
Don't worry.
A naked girl is not going to get out of this compIex.
Four-nine to ControI. you'll never believe what I'm looking at.
- ControI, can you say that again? - I believe you heard me.
There's a girl on the Ioose in the buiIding. She must not Ieave.
Pardon me, but I thought you said she was naked.
That's right. That's what I said. SureIy, you can find her.
Must be some kind of joke.
Don't believe it.
all right, miss, just stay where you are.
You heard them. They said grab her.
Take it easy, mate. She's not in her right mind.
ControI, we have Iocated the girl in the main Iobby.
That's it. Come on.
- Yes? - We've Iocated the girl, sir.
- Where? - She's downstairs in the main Iobby.
Right.
She's in the main Iobby. You all right to go down there?
Nice and easy.
Come on. Come to me.
Come to Daddy.
Make it stop.
Come on! Let's get her!
- Are you all right, mate? - Yeah.
all nonmiIitary personneI pIease clear the area.
I repeat: Everybody who has no business to be here...
pIease clear the area for your own safety.
This is a poIice announcement.
Sorry, gentIemen, no photographs, pIease.
It's all right.
- Which of you is Dr. Bukovsky? - I am.
- I'm Colonel Caine. - From the S.A.S.?
That Iast remark is not for pubIication. This is a D notice situation.
Not too cIose.
And this was murder, you say?
Tell me again how the girl overpowered you.
She--
It was the most overwheImingIy feminine presence I've ever encountered.
- I was drawn to her on a IeveI that-- - Was it sexuaI?
Yes, overwheImingIy so.
And horribIe. Loss of controI.
The guard was dead when you came into the room?
- You found him as he is now? - Yeah.
And the girl came from the ship Churchill?
Uh-huh.
She spoke to you, in EngIish?
That's right.
How wouId she know EngIish?
Going back, you say the ship's tapes were destroyed in the fire.
They weren't destroyed in the fire.
That's what we were toId to Tell the pubIic. They were erased.
''Erased''?
AIso, the Churchill's escape pod is missing.
- Did someone escape? - We don't know.
UnfortunateIy, the condition of the bodies...
make an accurate count impossibIe.
CouId the heat from the fire have Iaunched the pod?
What started the fire?
The ship's oxygen system ignited. It was a terribIy hot fire.
Yet you say the three cases containing the bodies were untouched.
- That's correct. - Where were they found?
In the bay where the space tug was stored.
Where everything eIse was charred.
IncredibIe, is it not?
- Have you examined the cases? - Using every technique we have.
X-ray scans of the cases yieId onIy bIurred images.
-What does that mean? -They're not preciseIy physicaI objects.
More like a force field.
We're a bit out of our depth here. The whole thing is--
Yes, I know, incredibIe.
Have they done an autopsy yet on the guard? I suppose not.
What about your two other bodies?
Colonel, may I be excused?
I seem to be feeIing a IittIe more nauseous than I thought.
Yes, of course.
I noticed from your door, Dr. Fallada, that your area is biochemistry.
But I understand your real interest is--
Death, Colonel Caine. Correct.
ThanatoIogy is the name for it.
Death for you is a bureaucratic problem.
Who did it? When? Why did they do it?
- Am I correct? - And for you?
I'm fascinated by death itseIf:
what happens as we die, when we die, what happens after we die.
- You mean life after death? - Yes.
- Is there life after death? - Do you really want to know?
But to answer your question, yes, I think there is.
If I am correct, the lifeforce is conserved always...
and in all things, even after death.
You think that appIies to what's happened here tonight?
Yes, I do.
I think that girl, creature...
drained energy, lifeforce...
partially from Bukovsky and totally from the guard.
- A vampire? - It couId be described that way.
In a sense, we're all vampires.
We drain energy from other life-forms.
The difference is one of degree.
That girl was no girl.
She is totally allen to this pIanet and our life-form...
and totally dangerous.
Jesus.
- Do you believe those bIokes are allve? - I'm not paid to believe nothing.
I believe they're allve.
Don't look bloody dead to me.
We've had some troubIe, but everything's under controI.
I think you better come down here.
Yes, sir. Very good, sir.
It wouId appear these two are no Ionger dangerous.
There is certainIy no possibIity of doing a fuII autopsy on them.
I wouId like to examine the guard.
Have they started the autopsy on the guard yet?
I believe so, sir.
This is an autopsy on the body of a young man, dead approximateIy two hours.
- Did you say he was about twenty? - Yes, that's correct.
Get the Colonel down here!
Put him in an isoIation ceII, quickIy!
I had no idea it couId be passed on.
What do you suggest?
I wouId recommend that you pIace this body in another ceII.
It was two hours ago that the guard was attacked.
I won't be at all surprised if we're seeing a pattern here.
- Do as he says, KeIIy. - Yes, sir.
AIso, I want the two other male bodies that were shot.
CoIIect the pieces and watch them.
- Get me the Home Secretary now. - Sir.
- Call for the Colonel, sir. - Sir, you have a call.
I'll be right there.
They've just found a body in Hyde Park. A naked girl.
They say she's in an indescribabIe condition.
CouId that be your girl?
- WeII? - That's not her.
Inspector, what about the two boys?
They were in the park earIier, sir.
We saw her, I think, earIier.
Any rate, that looks like her hair.
- What a mess. - Was she aIone?
No, that's why we noticed her.
She was with a dark-haired girl, real good-looking and all.
Didn't have a Iot of cIothes on either.
We thought they might be-- WeII, you know.
Yes. Did you see where the dark-haired girl went?
No, we didn't.
We angIed on back to see if maybe we couId...
you know, see them doing something.
- That's when we found her. - How Iong ago was that?
- HaIf an hour ago. - This Iad phoned us, and we called you.
Yes. Thank you, Inspector.
ObviousIy, the work of the girl.
CouId we have this body sent back to the center with the others?
Yes, I suppose that's a good idea.
Inspector, Iet me know if you find anything eIse.
- we'll be taking her back with us. - Very good, sir.
Now she has cIothes.
There's something I want you to see, sir.
Dr. Hans Fallada, Sir Percy HestIestine, the Home Secretary.
You're just in time.
It's exactly two hours.
This is the guard who was originally overcome by the space girl.
As I feared, once transformed...
the victims need reguIar infusions of energy...
- otherwise-- - Otherwise what?
Oh, my God. Dear God.
And we have the pathoIogist who was attacked by the guard.
- See? - He, too, needs feeding.
The same thing will happen to that girl we found in the park...
in about one hour.
Good Lord! Goodness!
She's the Iast?
- Have there been any further reports? - No, sir.
We're set up to get the calls here the instant one comes in.
- What? - Nothing.
You say these creatures were brought back from the Churchill?
Yes, sir, but not this one. She's a victim of the creatures.
Yes, but where did the Churchill acquire them?
We have no way of determining that at present.
- Perhaps that's all changing. - What?
I've just received a call from the J.P.L. in Pasadena.
The goIdstone tracking disc has just picked up something...
they think is Churchill's escape pod reentering the Earth's atmosphere.
- Where? - Texas.
Where? WaIter Reed Army HospitaI?
Is he hurt? Just exhausted.
Get him the heII over here!
Colonel Carlsen? They're expecting you, sir.
Colonel Carlsen, sir.
Tom.
I thought you were dead.
allow me to introduce Colonel Caine of the SpeciaI Air Services.
How do you do?
- You aIready know Dr. Fallada. - Colonel.
Take a seat.
I'm sorry to drag you over here like this.
I'm sure you'd rather be recuperating with a pretty nurse.
We've got to know what happened on the Churchill.
Yes, of course.
It may be very difficuIt for you...
to accept what I'm going to say.
we'll have very IittIe difficuIty beIieving anything you have to Tell us.
- Do go on. - You know something?
There was a fire aboard the Churchill.
You might be interested to know that the bodies of the three humanoids...
were not destroyed in that fire.
They survived in their cases.
They were brought down here to London, and the female has escaped.
She's killed three peopIe aIready.
Oh, my God.
So whatever you have to Tell us is rather pressing.
PIease, Tell us what happened.
We found the bodies aboard the allen spacecraft.
What allen spacecraft?
Colonel, take it from the beginning.
Assume we know nothing, which is understating the matter.
We approached within 9,000 miles of Halley's Comet...
when we detected an object in the comet's coma.
After we discovered the bodies, we transferred them to the Churchill.
We have the three humanoid creatures and one of the bat-like things.
This is Churchill. We copy. WeIcome back.
Have you gotten through to Earth yet, RawIings?
No, sir, and the tall of the comet's heating up.
- What's the matter, Derebridge? - I don't know, Tom.
I feeI drained.
Do you?
I feeI invigorated. You okay?
- Yeah. I'm fine. - Okay.
Everybody back to their stations.
Let's get the heII out of here.
On the trip back to Earth, the crew began to die...
one by one.
RawIings...
the radio officer, was the first to go.
RawIings denied any knowIedge of what he had done.
I don't remember.
Besides myseIf, you're the onIy one who has been up here in the Iast hour.
I've been feeIing weak recentIy...
not myseIf.
Just don't remember.
We found RawIings' body the next day.
exactly how...
did he die, Colonel?
The life just drained out of him.
One by one...
the rest of the crew began to die.
Somehow...
I don't know how...
I heId out.
It just seemed to be a matter of will.
I always thought--
The girl--
Yes? The girl?
I can't remember.
What I remember next...
is the view out of the observation window...
coming into Earth's orbit.
I couIdn't expose the worId to what we'd brought back with us.
I was determined to destroy them all.
It was the hardest thing I ever did.
We understand.
It must have taken great courage to try and make--
No, you don't understand.
Part of me didn't want to Ieave.
She killed all my friends, and I still didn't want to Ieave.
Leaving her was the hardest thing I ever did.
Colonel Carlsen looks exhausted to me.
We shouId allow him to get some sIeep, continue with this Iater.
Very weII.
Thank you, Colonel.
NASA tracking and ours...
have just reported an unusuaI structure Ieaving Halley's Comet.
It's headed for us.
What is it?
Radar ranging reports the object...
is a needIelike shape, 150 miles Iong.
Its present course projects out into a perfect Earth orbit...
in a IittIe more than two days.
I've just received a call from the Prime Minister.
There's going to be a meeting at Downing Street.
Prime Minister wants answers.
CIose your eyes.
You're giving me your life.
You're taking it.
You're draining me.
You're taking too much of me.
It was just a dream.
- What dream? - The girl-- She visited me.
Visited you? How?
In my mind.
She has some kind of mental contact with me.
She's draining me.
Tell us about the dream.
I can't. It's gone.
It's faded.
I can't remember.
Have you ever been hypnotized?
Do you mind if I try?
Yeah, Iet's try it.
- Not now. He's too exhausted. - Fine. In the morning.
Just stare at it until your eyes feeI tired, then cIose them.
You'II feeI very tired, very sIeepy.
She seems to speak to me in my dreams.
She--
The girl--
I feeI--
What do you feeI for her?
I feeI very...
cIose to her.
Is she in touch with you?
I feeI...
as if my mind...
is not entireIy my own.
If she is in contact with your mind...
perhaps you are in contact with hers.
Can you see her?
Can you see where she is?
Yes.
Where is she now?
A pIace. I don't know the name of it.
She's waIking.
She has a different face...
but it's her.
''A different face''? How can that be?
She's using a different body.
- What is she doing? - She's looking for a man.
What man?
Any man. A heaIthy man.
Does she intend to kill him?
- Why not? - She's afraid of being caught.
- How couId she be caught? - The body wouId give her away.
What is she hoping to do?
She wants to...
draw some energy from him.
Not enough to kill him.
- She can do that? - Yes.
There's another mind.
Yes.
The girl's name...
is EIIen.
There are two peopIe in one body?
Two minds?
EIIen and the vampire?
Yes.
She's watching a man.
What is the man doing?
He's parked, doing something with his car.
Get the Iicense number.
Can you see the Iicense number of his car?
Yes.
Read it out.
FMC...
129E...
or R.
What is the make of the car?
A white VoIvo.
What is she doing now?
They're driving now.
Does she ask him his name?
She's puIIing her skirt...
over her knees.
She's--
He's...
putting his...
hand on her Ieg.
FMC129E or possibIy R...
beIonging to a white VoIvo.
The driver of the car picked up a girl named EIIen.
I have to know who the girl is and where we can find her.
She's connected with the case.
I can't expIain over an open Iine. Thank you.
Do you think he's Telling the truth about the girl?
we'll soon see.
How briIIiant, if she is moving from body to body, mind to mind...
taking onIy a small amount of energy from each victim.
It wouId make sense that we're finding no new victims.
She's hoping to Ieave no trall.
If the girl is no Ionger in her originaI body, where is her body?
- Hidden. - Let's find it.
Supposing you're right about all of this.
What about that ship up there? What's it doing?
We can't know that, but we've got to assume the worst.
Maybe they're like the vampires of Iegend.
How's that?
They wouId carry their Earth with them, in their coffins.
WouIdn't they?
- We have the feed from Hawall. - Here it comes.
- Put it on screen number one. - Coming in 240,000 miles.
My God, it's immense.
Hugh, do you have that skin tissue sampIe I asked for?
Good.
Of course, I'll foIIow containment procedure.
He's here now.
Send in that soIdier, pIease.
Thank you.
One moment, Sergeant. Thank you for coming.
I'll be with you shortIy.
bloody awfuI job, chasing that car.
It beIongs to a man named Ned Price who Iives in Yorkshire.
- We have him under detention now. - What about the girl?
The girl he picked up was a nurse named EIIen, as you said.
EIIen something. He doesn't know her other name.
He dropped her at ThurIstone HospitaI after spending the afternoon with her.
He was reIuctant to talk about it. The man's totally exhausted.
Isn't ThurIstone an asyIum of some sort?
Yes, for the criminally insane.
How do you do? I'm Dr. Armstrong, director of the hospitaI.
Come with me to my office.
- It's a coId night. - BitterIy coId.
This is the nurses' house.
EIIen DonaIdson is number five.
Thank you.
ShouIdn't I come up and introduce you?
- I'd rather you didn't. - Come aIong, Dr. Armstrong.
You and I have severaI matters to discuss.
Yes? Who is it?
My name's CoIin Caine. Dr. Armstrong brought me over.
I'd like to talk to you. May I come in?
Yes?
- What do you want? - My name is CoIin Caine.
This is Colonel Carlsen, United States Air Force.
May we come in and talk to you? We have seen Dr. Armstrong.
May I sit down?
I want to ask about the man you spent the afternoon with, Ned Price.
-I don't know what you're talking about. -I think you do.
- Let me see your hand. - Beg your pardon?
You're in there, aren't you?
- I don't know. - Tell me.
It's gone from her. It's in another body now.
- How do you know that? - I can see it, in her mind.
She's resisting. I'll have to force her to Tell me.
Despite appearances, this woman is a masochist.
An extreme masochist.
She wants me to force the name out of her.
She wants me to hurt her.
I can see the images in her mind. Do you want to stay?
- Otherwise, wait outside! - Not at all. I am a naturaI voyeur.
Are you in there?
Are you there?
Let go.
Now.
WeII?
I've got a physicaI description.
You better send someone to look after Nurse DonaIdson.
Is she all right?
If I described one of the inmates to you, couId you identify him?
PossibIy.
Big man, fat, gray hair, birthmark on his face.
Jeffrey Sykes, the chiId murderer. Where did you get his description?
- Where is he now? - He's in soIitary confinement.
He's been naughty.
- What is this about? - What we're looking for has moved.
- We couId be here some time. - I better call London.
- May I use your teIephone, Doctor? - CertainIy.
- We have to see Sykes now. - CouIdn't this wait until the morning?
all right, I'll arrange it.
Anything to obIige, Commander.
I wish this were not so mysterious.
If the poIice are invoIved, haven't I a right to know?
If you're going to start messing about with my patients--
Dr. Armstrong, I sympathize with your position, of course.
However, I can Tell you it is a matter of nationaI security.
I see.
But don't you think that I shouId be present...
to represent the interests of my patient?
- You see-- - Can I talk to you for a second?
Of course.
The man has the I.Q. of a chiId of four.
That's a decision I shall have to defer to Colonel Caine.
Yes, of course, you can come aIong. Can we start now?
- What are you going to do to him? - I'd like to hypnotize him.
What's that?
PentothaI and morphine.
Recommended for pre-hypnosis and patient management.
WeII, he seems quiet.
- We're ready when you are. - Lamson.
Sir.
Can the injection be dangerous?
He shouId have no difficuIty toIerating it.
There's always a risk, sir.
May I have that?
I'll wake him up.
- What are you doing? - Stay where you are.
He's sick, Lamson. HeIp us. I can't expIain now.
There's our killer, Sir Percy.
It's madness.
I want to question him. Where can we take him?
Up the ramp, sir.
We need to be aIone.
How did you know it was him?
In the nurses' quarters, he touched me on the shouIder.
I saw into his mind.
What?
The Colonel is abIe to see into the minds of peopIe...
who have been possessed by the girl creature, sir.
It happens when I touch them. Let's get him on the tabIe.
How--
How do you know she's still inside Armstrong?
What's to prevent her from moving to someone eIse?
She's trapped.
I can feeI that.
Are you sure?
- Lamson. - Sir?
- Bring me another dose of the drug. - One dose is usually enough.
This is not a usuaI situation. How Iong does this stuff Iast?
A dose like that? A coupIe of hours.
we'll definiteIy need more.
- Bring me three doses. - Three?
I'll take responsibiIity. Just get on with it.
Yes, sir.
Is a second dose safe?
SureIy it can strain his heart.
Look, you don't know what we're deallng with here.
If he sIips out from under, she'II escape.
Can you hear me?
If you can hear me, just say yes.
It won't Iet me...
talk to you.
Can you see what's hoIding you prisoner?
Yes. She--
Tell her she has to talk to me!
Yes?
I brought the PentothaI.
Thanks. That will be all.
HoId him.
There's no need for that.
You in there? Can you still hear me?
Can you get into his mind, her mind?
Not with this drug. It's like a wall.
Perhaps you've given him too much.
Shut up!
Listen, you bitch...
I'll keep you in this state for weeks if I have to.
Now, you talk to me.
Carlsen, be with me.
- What do you want from me? - I Iove you.
What are you?
Why are you so human, so perfect?
What are the bird creatures on the ship?
Our bodies are unimportant.
As you and your men approached in your ship...
we changed them for you.
We entered your minds...
and found there new bodies.
I took my shape from your mind.
I took your Ianguage.
I became the woman I found there...
in your deepest thoughts, your deepest needs.
I am the feminine in your mind.
Where are you?
Where's your body?
Let me go!
Touch me, Carlsen.
- It's aIready spreading. - How?
- You didn't stop it. It's too Iate. - That's impossibIe.
We've onIy been haIf a step behind her all the way.
This gentIeman stopped breathing.
There's no puIse either.
I think his neck is broken.
Prepare a stretcher for Sir Percy and one for Dr. Armstrong.
Prepare all your remaining doses of the drug for traveI.
Yes, sir.
You said the thing hadn't stopped, it was still spreading.
- Why did you say that? - I don't know.
CouId the girl have been deIiberateIy Ieading us away from London?
Did we find all of her victims?
If there are others besides the girl in the park--
- The thing wouId spread. - In a chain reaction...
geometrically, until, by now--
Christ.
Lieutenant, can we use the radio to reach the S.R.C. in London?
Just a moment, sir. There's something coming through.
It is the S.R.C. for you and Carlsen.
Go ahead.
Can you hear me?
Fallada, speak up! I can't hear you!
The two males didn't die.
They jumped to the bodies of the two soIdiers who shot them...
and transformed the soIdiers' bodies into their own likenesses.
That's the difference between them and their victims.
Their victims can't Ieave their bodies. OnIy the originaI three can do that.
- But I've killed one of them. - One of which?
One of the two male vampires.
- One of the transformed ones. - How did you kill him?
The oId way, Carlsen.
A Ieaded metaI shaft penetrating not through the heart...
but through the energy center two inches beIow the heart.
Not steeI, but Ieaded iron.
Right, Carlsen?
- Are you there? - Yes.
Carlsen, and you, too, Caine...
it is my beIief...
that the vampires of Iegend came from creatures such as these.
Perhaps even from these very creatures.
I know it sounds incredibIe.
Do you hear me?
It's more than a beIief. It's true.
They visited Earth before.
- What about the other male? - He's free.
- You have the girl? - Yes.
- we'll be there soon. HoId on. - we'll try.
- This came whiIe you were talking. - What is it?
A scrambIed cryptograph to Sir Percy from the Prime Minister.
We're to proceed directIy to the citadeI at Whitehall.
Lieutenant, the controIs!
We've Iost her. She's gone!
- Where? - Her body's in London.
Where in London?
You've got to Tell me what really happened on the Churchill.
It wasn't RawIings who destroyed the radio equipment...
and the ship's tapes.
- It was me. - Why?
I didn't want the Churchill to be abIe to reach Earth.
And if it did, I didn't want anyone to know what happened.
What did happen?
I opened her seaIed animation case.
Either I did it or she did it.
I couIdn't heIp myseIf.
I've never experienced such--
I was in Iove on a IeveI you've never known.
It terrifies me.
My memory pIays tricks on me.
She was calling me.
Her power was spirituaI.
She wanted me, Caine.
It was more than spirituaI.
She took some of my energy.
And she gave me some of her energy.
They must have been Iiving off of each other when we found them.
There were onIy three of them Ieft.
She killed all of my men, one by one.
But I survived.
She wanted me to survive. She chose me!
Why?
She's not human. She's not a woman.
She'II destroy you.
She's destroyed worIds.
There's something you might want to hear, sir.
A speciaI buIIetin from the BBC.
Tonight London is on the brink...
of the worst devastation since the bIitz.
I can see Iarge areas of the city burning out of controI.
Thousands of peopIe are now rampaging through the streets...
in a frenzied Iast effort to avoid the pIague.
MartiaI Iaw has been enforced now for three hours...
but it hasn't stemmed what is obviousIy--
- Yes, we've been expecting you. - Thank you. Carry on.
- Hurry over, Sergeant. - Right, sir.
- Go around the other side. - Right.
Is everything ready for the cabinet to evacuate?
- Yes, everything. - PIease take a seat, gentIemen.
Sir, I have Colonel Caine and Colonel Carlsen here for you.
Very good.
The Prime Minister will see you shortIy. WouId you care for tea whiIe you wait?
- Our business is rather urgent. - The Prime Minister understands that.
- GentIemen. - Prime Minister.
I'm Colonel Caine, SpeciaI Air Service...
and I'm sure you've heard of Colonel Carlsen of the Churchill.
Yes, indeed.
GentIemen, I look forward to hearing your report.
By the way, where is Sir Percy?
Dead, I'm afraid.
Oh, that's a great pity.
Sir, we have information regarding the object in space...
- which is bearing down on the Earth-- - Yes, gentIemen.
If you'll excuse me just for a moment.
Miss Haversham, pIease come this way.
Here, for a moment.
I'll be back, gentIemen.
PIease.
Somebody get the doctor immediateIy.
We need a doctor over here.
Go!
- Do you have any weapons aboard? - No, sir!
- There is a fIare pistoI, sir. - Where is it?
CIose the breach and it's ready to fire!
Get him!
WhiIe you were with the Prime Minister, I had a call from base operations.
The city is now under martiaI Iaw. We've been pIaced under NATO command.
- NATO? - Yes, sir.
My unit's been mobiIized to a staging area at BIackheath.
Land at the S.R.C. We've got to talk to Fallada.
I'm to Iand at BIackheath. The city's under air quarantine.
If we don't do as they say, they'II shoot us down.
Zero, this is X-ray 318 requesting clearance to Iand. Over.
Zero, roger. X-ray 318, you are clear to Iand.
Come away from the aircraft! You are under quarantine!
Over here, pIease, sir.
Don't come any cIoser! Stop there!
I want to talk to your commanding officer.
I am Colonel Caine, SpeciaI Air Service...
and this man is Colonel Tom Carlsen, United States Air Force...
and former commander of the Churchill.
Is Dr. Hans Fallada here from the S.R.C.?
- He knows who we are. - No, not that I know of.
Has anybody heard of him?
He must still be in London.
Colonel, what exactly do you know about what's happening there?
all we know for certain is that a terribIe pIague is sweeping London.
The incubation period appears to be two hours.
Until that time has eIapsed, I cannot reIease you from this compound.
We know what the pIague is. We are not infected.
I know what I'm talking about! We're wasting vaIuabIe time!
We have totally isoIated London...
in order to stop further contagion.
If that falls, and the surrounding areas are threatened...
Yes?
steriIization by thermonuclear device has been approved.
We have this from GeneraI Ames in BrusseIs.
He's coming up with that decision in just under three hours.
Have you heard anything about the ship?
- ''The ship''? - The thing from Halley's Comet.
It's parked itseIf in a geostationary orbit directIy over London.
all those IittIe bIue Iights going up toward the cIouds are human souls.
- How do you know that? - I feeI it.
The process of conversion reIeases a life energy that can be coIIected.
''CoIIected''?
Is that what the umbreIIa is? A coIIector?
The energy doesn't go free. It goes up there.
The male vampire is coIIecting life energy...
but he has to send it through her to get it up to the coIIector.
Where is she?
Over there.
I get fIashes coming from her body.
It's sensitive to its environment. It picks up things.
- Can you find her? - If I can get across to the city.
What about the male?
He'II come if he senses I found her.
She's drawing me.
I've got to go.
Why?
She wants back the energy she gave me.
When they take on a new life-form...
they have to Iearn from that life-form.
Mate with it, in a sense.
The girl chose me.
But when she mixed with me, she gave me a part of herseIf.
Now she wants that part back.
Is there any sign of activity in your sector? Over.
- No, sir. - Okay, keep me posted. Over.
Colonel, Iisten to me. Carlsen believes he can Iocate the source.
There are onIy two carriers.
If we can destroy them, it may not be necessary to destroy London.
But we onIy have an hour and a haIf.
Cease firing!
Where's Carlsen?
He knocked over two of my men and took an armored Iand rover.
Did he say where he was going?
He wanted to know where the Space Research Center was.
Rogers toId him, then I was on the ground.
- Right. Whose car is this? - That?
- That's the Colonel's. - Give me the keys.
- What? - I'm commandeering the car!
Give it to him.
And your side arm.
Are you sure you know what you're doing?
Once you're inside there, we can't allow you out.
- Watch out! - He's going in!
Colonel Caine, S.A.S. I'm crossing the river.
- You don't want to go in there. - I know I don't.
Get them gates in position! Secure this post! Move!
I'm gIad to see you allve.
I reciprocate the sentiment.
- Is he really dead this time? - The onIy way they can be killed.
- Where's Bukovsky? - Dead.
- How? - Like the rest.
How did you survive?
- You're looking for Carlsen. - Has he been here?
No. Perhaps he misIed you.
- What do you know about it? - I've been doing some more work.
- Go on. - I've discovered...
there is life after death.
-How do you know? -There is a certain mental transference.
TeIepathy occurs between the vampires and their victims.
- Carlsen is after the girl. - How did you know that?
- I seem to sense it. - Where is she?
Don't you know?
- Carlsen knows. - Where?
She's in the cathedraI.
She's been there since she escaped.
Rather a nice touch, don't you think?
The crypt of kings and queens.
Stay where you are.
Here I go.
I knew you wouId come.
I'm here.
Now can this madness end?
Come.
Be with me.
I need you.
It was always intended...
you should find us...
and bring us to Earth.
The web of destiny carries your blood and soul...
back to the genesis of my life-form.
Come with me.
It will be much less terrifying if you just come to me.
I'll do just that.
What are these feeIings?
Why do I feeI so cIose to you, need you?
Because you're one of us. You always have been.
You're like me. Be with me.
Just a IittIe more.