All language subtitles for Prophecy.1979.Brrip.eng

(WIND HOWLING)

(ANIMAL PANTING)

(DOG BARKING)

(DOG WHIMPERING)

MAN: Hit the release!
Hit the release!

What happened?
MAN 2: Christ,
I couldn't find the release!

Christ, I've never seen
them do that before.

Whatever they're after
must be down in that gully.

If it's down there,
must be a dead man.

They don't pull like that
for no dead man.
(GRUNTING)

(WHIMPERING)

Hey!

Lon, Lon, give us a hand.

(GROWLING)

(GRUNTING)

(WHISPERS) He's gone.

I didn't hear him hit.

Let's go down after him.

(DOG WHINING)

Jim?

JIM: Hey, Bill!
(DOG WHIMPERING)

(MAN SCREAMING)

(SCREAMING)

(CREATURE ROARING)

(SCREAMING)

(CLASSICAL MUSIC PLAYING)

MAN: John, save the
left stage booms.

Thank you.

I don't know why you
don't just tell him.

Because I know
what he'll say.

The world's in such
a mess, it's unfair to
bring a child into it,

That there are
three million
unwanted children.

But the fact is,
Maggie,
you're pregnant,

And it's your body,
and it's your choice.

And if what you
wanna do in this world
is make a beautiful baby,

Then nobody,
including a cynical husband,

Has the right to
stand in your way.

He's not cynical.
Obsessed.

He's dedicated.

Dedicated, obsessed,

Call it what you like,

But if you get talked
into an abortion
you don't want,

You'll never
forgive yourself.

Why don't you
get it over with?
Go home and tell him.

I need to pick
the right time.

(SIREN BLARING)

MAN: (ON LOUDSPEAKER)
must speak
in a single voice.

They will listen!

We have heard that
the Indian must fight
to keep what is his,

And that time has come again.

We will fight to
keep our forests!

(SIREN WAILING)

Hey, can I
carry your bag?

(WHISTLING)

Right up there, sir.

Okay.

Hey, take this
for me and show
me where, will ya?

All right.

(WOMAN SINGING ON RADIO)

(BABY CRYING)

Okay, thanks.

This way, please.

Okay, it's all right.
Gonna be all right.

I showed it to the man.
He say it was chicken pox.

I say to him,
"There's rats in here."

He said,
"This is chicken pox."

I said to him,
"Ain't no chickens
in here.

"There's rats in here,
and them rats bit my baby."

You know what
he said to me?

He said,

"The rats got to have
room to live, too."

Does he live
in this building,
your landlord?

(SNIFFLING) No, sir.
He lives in Georgetown.

He lives with the
rich rats up there.

I'm gonna have
to put your baby
in a hospital,

And I'm gonna be in touch
with your landlord.

How about putting
my landlord
in the hospital?

That's what
I'd like to do.

So would I,
but let's take care
of your baby first, okay?

(BABY CRYING)

Rob?

Vic, what are
you doing here?

Looking for you.
Will you ride back with me?

Yeah, take him
to emergency.

You really look tired.
(AMBULANCE SIREN BLARING)

Oh, yeah?

The hours getting to you?

It's not the hours.
It's the damn futility.

God.

You know, I'll write
a report here that
no one will read.

I'll file a lawsuit
against a landlord

That'll be
settled out of court.

Send that baby to the hospital
for a couple of days,

So he can come back here
and be eaten by rats again.

(HUFFS)

Feel like I'm
banging my head
up against a wall.

I don't think
anybody's listening.

You wanna
know something?

If I could've
planned your side
of this conversation,

I couldn't have
done it better.

Remember that
hearing I asked you
to come to this morning?

Sorry, sorry.

It was the Bureau
of Indian Affairs.

They're listening
to the complaints

Of a couple of
tribes from Maine.

They're about to get
squeezed the way the people
in these tenements are.

Like these people are?
Are you crazy, Vic?

I saw the demonstrators
this morning.

All right,
all right, all right.
Listen to me, listen to me.

This paper company,
Pitney Mills Paper Company,

Bought the timber rights
to 100,000 acres
of forest in Maine.

The Indians claim
the land is theirs,

And they blockaded
access to the forest,
keeping the lumberjacks out.

The Supreme Court's
filed a restraining
order against the blockade.

Everybody's ready
to kill each other,

And the whole thing is
holding for an Environmental
Protection report.

What does the Environmental
Protection Agency

Have to do with
a land dispute?

Nobody wants to rule
on the legalities of
who owns the land.

So they're trying
to break the deadlock
on environmental grounds.

If we file a
negative report,

Then the lumber
company won't have
much reason to proceed.

File a positive report,
the Indians will probably
have to give way.

Another political football?

If you're looking for a job
that's got permanent impact,

This is the one.

I mean, you're gonna
set a precedent that'll
be very hard to break.

Vic, it's not my game.
I'm strictly a rat
bite and gas leak man.

I can teach you
what you need to know.

I can give you the books
to take up with you.

I'm in public health.
I'm a doctor.

And you know how to
deal with human beings.

The Indians are angry,
and so is the lumber company.

If we don't get
full cooperation
from both of them,

We're gonna have
a lot of trouble
getting enough information

For a thorough report.

I got all the
tree experts I need.

I need someone
who can deal with people.

Come on, come on.
It's two weeks of your time.

Take Maggie along.
It'll be good for
both of you to get away.

It's beautiful.

It's so peaceful.

I'd forgotten
the world could
look like this.

Maybe that's one
of our problems.

We can't see
the forest for the trees.

It's a joke.

(AIRPLANE DRONING)

Here, get that.

Going camping?

Well, not exactly.

We're gonna be in a cabin.

We're gonna be outside,

By a river.

Hey, great.

And it's gonna
take three days to
walk down there.

Sounds hard.

Yeah, but that's the fun.

What is that?
Look!

That's the damnedest
thing I've ever seen!

What do you
think it's doing?

Beats me.
Mr. Verne.

Bethel Isely,
Pitney Lumber Company.
How do you do?

Have a nice flight?

Indeed. My wife,
Maggie. Mr. Isely.

Welcome to the
state of Maine,
Mrs. Verne.

Hello.
Kelso!

I got a car for ya,
like your office wanted.

Somebody to drive it,
so you can ride up
to the lake with me.

Fine.

That a Ruggieri?

Montagnana.
You know cellos.

Well, I know wood.

That's got a balsam back
and a spruce belly
and a maple bridge.

There's three different
kinds of trees in there.

Very impressive.

I can't carry a tune
in a bucket, though.
Hollis!

Excuse me.

Here you go.
It's the biggest
fiddle you ever saw.

Yes, sir.
What's that dog
doing up in the air?

Oh, that's what's left
of our search and rescue team.

Secure that well!

Beg your pardon?
I don't quite
understand.

Oh, couple of men
got lost up in
the mountains.

Men from our company,
as a matter of fact.

Lumberjacks.
They sent up a search team
from Androscoggin

To go looking for them.

Couple of days later,
one of the search
dogs shows up

At a ranger station.

No sign of the people
who brought her in there.

What do you suppose
happened to them?

Well, I guess
they got lost, too.

Rescue team?
Is that possible?

Look. I'll be
truthful with you.

This particular forest
isn't too safe right now.

Why's that?

Excuse me, Rob.
We'd like to tie your bag.

That's okay.

Well, the Indians,
they're angry in there.

They're trying
to keep the lumber
company out any way they can.

People start disappearing,
and the Indians
spread the word

That they were
taken by Katahdin.

That's one of their legends.
They call it Katahdin.
(CHUCKLING)

Yeah, it's sort of
a Bigfoot, I guess,
only it's uglier.

Yeah, it's larger
than a dragon and
got the eyes of a cat.

Yeah, they've thrown
in everything but
the kitchen sink.

Oh, yes, my wife
put together a box
of groceries for you.

Yes, thank you.
I saw that.

I guess you're
gonna have everything
you're gonna need.

You follow me
in there, Kelso.

Right, sir.

You see,
the idea of this legend

Is to frighten
the lumberjacks out.

They're almost
as superstitious
as the Opies.

Opies?

O.P. O.P.'s.
Original people.

Yeah, that's what
they call themselves now.

The Anishinaabegs,
Passamaquoddy,

Wampanoags
and the Yuroks,

They all joined together.
Call themselves the Opies.

Mr. Verne.

What about those people,
the ones who disappeared?

Well, I'll tell ya
something.

If you ask me,
I wouldn't have sent
a search team in there.

I'd have sent a posse.

Why is that?
You think the
Indians did it?

No doubt in my mind.

BETHEL: There's the
general store

And post office
and Laundromat, Mrs. Verne.

You can leave your money
in that bank there,
if you wanna.

You know, all that
stuff about the paper
companies ruining the forests,

That's pure myth.

We've been running
a pulp operation on
the upper Espee here

For 20 years now.

We plant seedlings
every time we harvest.

That land is more stable
today than it was when
God himself made it.

Well, to give him his due,

He didn't have
modern science
to help him.

He didn't have hydroponics
and silviculture techniques.

I'd say he did pretty well
under the circumstances.

What with his
limited education.
(ALL CHUCKLING)

Yeah.

What's this?

Mr. Hawks.

These people are from
the Environmental
Protection Agency.

I'd appreciate
being let through.

No car from the
lumber company
gets through here.

This is against
the law, John.

The law has not
brought justice.

The Supreme Court has
issued a restraining order
against this blockade.

And which Supreme Court
is that, Mr. Isely?

The Supreme Court
of the United States.

Yes, we've tried
that Supreme Court.

Now we're going to
one that's higher.

You a part of this, Ramona?

By birth, Mr. Isely.

Can we walk in?

It's 10 miles.

Is there another road?

No, Mrs. Verne,
there isn't.

John, tell your people
to get out of the way.

Kelso!

Cut down those
two trees, please.

Mr. Isely...
I don't get the point.

What are you trying to prove?
Nobody's going to get hurt.

The point is not
to be intimidated.

Cut them down.

(CHAINSAW WHIRRING)

Don't let this happen!

BETHEL: Are you gonna
stand aside, Hawks?

I'm gonna tell
you right now!

You cut my head off
before you
cut these trees!

Oh, come on!

Take them down!

Wait a minute.
Wait a minute!

Stop it! Stop it, please!

Make him stop it!

Open the chain, John.

I won't open it!

Open it, God damn it!
What the hell does
this prove, anyway?

RAMONA:
That they're murderers.

No, it doesn't
prove a damn thing!
Now open it!

No!

Open it!

Don't!

(CHAINSAW STOPS WHIRRING)

These are violent people,
Mr. Verne.

They get drunk and
they get violent.

You gotta show them
when you mean business.

(CELLO PLAYING)

(DUCK SQUAWKING)

ROB: I swear, Maggie,
that must have
been a world's record.

I've never heard of
such a big salmon.

Well, this is the
land of Paul Bunyan
and his giant ox, Babe.

Was that Maine?

Sure was.

Well, there might
be something to it.
That fish was a giant.

Maybe you'll go
home with a trophy.

I can't get over it.

God knows what would happen
if I hooked into it.

Hmm, taste this.

Aphrodisia.

You think you
could catch any more?

Are you kidding?
I'm one of the world's
great fishermen.

Well, you fish, and I'll eat.

(CHUCKLES)

Now that's a relationship.

(CRICKETS CHIRPING)

(ANIMAL GRUNTING)

Do you wanna know something?
I was so proud of you today.

That made the ghetto
seem suddenly
very peaceful to me.

You know something else?
I was jealous of
that Indian woman.

She had so much courage
to be so strong when
she was frightened,

To demand her own way.

It's a kind of courage
I don't have much of.

Oh, I don't know about that.

I think it takes
a lot of courage
to put up with me.

I love you.

I love you so much,
I wish there
were more of you.

Well, I could easily
put on 20 pounds.

I mean, I wish there
were more of us.

I'm sorry.

It's something
I want to discuss.

Now?

Why not now?
Everything's so perfect.

You know how I feel.

When I was a child,
my mother told me

I had to eat
everything on my plate

Because there were
starving children
in the world.

It didn't make
any sense to me.

Now you tell me
I mustn't get pregnant

Because there are
starving children

In the world,
and that doesn't make
any sense to me, either.

It does to me.

You're afraid, aren't you?

I don't know.

I don't know about
a lot of things anymore.

I feel like

I've been going
around and around

A racetrack at
100 miles an hour,

And I wound up
where I started.

No one else
was in the race.

I love you.

I love you.

I love you.

(ANIMAL SCREECHING)

(ANIMAL SCREECHING)

(RACCOON SCREECHING)

(SCREAMING)

(WEEPING)

(MUSIC PLAYING)

(MUSIC PLAYING FAINTLY)

What's wrong, Dad?

Turn that thing off.

But you said
I could play it for
another 10 minutes.

Just turn it off.

(TURNS OFF WALKMAN)

What is it?

Nothing.

Can I turn it on again?

Yeah.

(TURNS WALKMAN ON)

(ANIMAL GRUNTING)

(SPEAKING INDISTINCTLY)

The soil's a clay base.
I'm sending
samples on tomorrow.

Yeah. Oh, listen, Vic.

I'm including a couple
of tissue samples
from the raccoon.

Check them out
for me, will you?

No, I examined them, but...
No, it wasn't rabies.

I don't know what it is,
but there's definitely
something wrong.

Yeah. Okay.

Yeah, you should be.

Oh, she's fine.

Talk to you Tuesday.

Mr. Verne.

My name is John Hawks.

I remember.

I'd like you to
come with us,
if you would.

What for?

I want to speak with you.

Right here will be fine.

Are you afraid of us?

Somewhat.

Because of what
you've heard?

No, it's not
what I've heard,
but what I've seen.

You've heard we're drunks,
we're violent,

And that we're murderers.

And that's what they're saying
about us in Washington,

Because they're discounting
our rights with these lies.

I can understand
how you must feel,

But my work here
has nothing to do...
Are you deaf

Like the rest?

I'm a fairly
well-educated person,
Mr. Verne.

I was educated
at your schools.

I studied your laws.
I perfected your language.

Of course, your laws
have never really
applied to us,

But your language,
it seems to have

Been wasted in
the Indian's mouth,

Because, well,
you refuse to hear.

Why is it you
refuse to hear?

Oh, I can hear.

But I can also see.

You seem surprised
that people
think you're violent.

The violence is
always provoked.
By whom?

It was necessary.

It was suicidal.

Tell me,
for what you believe in,

You willing to die?

Look, I'm here to
study the environment.

I'm curious.
What's your concept of
the environment, Mr. Verne?

Is it rocks?

Oh, come on! This...
'Cause the environment is us,

And it's being mangled.

I'm gonna make
something clear to you.

My people are
violently ill.

They're beginning
to lose their faculties.

They stagger
and they fall,

And this has nothing
to do with alcohol,
as these villagers claim.

My people are fishermen.
Their lives are clean.

I'm a midwife,
and I've seen children
born dead, born deformed.

So badly some have
had to be put to death.

Three times we have been
to the government,

And three times
they've turned us away.

You see,
the end of this forest
is the end of my people.

Don't talk about
the environment

As though it had
nothing to do with us.

These people want
us to go with them.

They have some things
they want to show us.

I think we should go.

Is this your village?
No.

This is the home
of Hector M'Rai.

My grandfather.

JOHN: This is the last remnant
of how my people once lived.

I wanted you
to see this before you

See what we've become.

My grandfather built
this place, and to him
it's very sacred.

These are the people
from the government.

How many?

Well, there are
two of us, sir.

Is that enough?

Well, we're
working very hard.

That good.

Your home
is very beautiful.

Thank you.

Don't mistake these
tents for his home.

His home is
this whole forest.

You know, just three days ago
I was visiting a place

Where there were 11 people
living in a single room.

Oh, yes?

I just thought
you should know.

What, that we are
asking too much?

That there are
people in this world

Fighting for a single
inch of living space.

Yes, because
they fought too late.

OLD MAN: This camp is as
the old people did it.

I'm teaching
these young people

So that someone
here will remember.

There are
underground tunnels
beneath the frost line

To store perishables.

The forest provides
more food than a man
could possibly need.

Here, everything
grows big.

Real big.

Well, I saw a salmon
that took my breath away.

It is the Garden of Eden.

I've let no one come here.

You are the first to see it.

It's magical.

We were once
a magical people.

It's true. When I was
a child, every rock,
every tree had a story.

The whole forest was
filled with legends.

We heard about
one of them.
RAMONA: Yes?

"Katydah" something.

Katahdin.

Katahdin is no legend.

My grandfather is
the oldest person
in our tribe.

It's his duty
to foster these beliefs.

I have seen him.

And what does he look like?

He is part
of all things created,

And he bears a mark

Of each of God's creatures.

You say that with
great affection.

He has wakened to protect us.

Why are these logs in here?

They come twice each year,
then they disappear.

What is that?

(SPEAKING NATIVE LANGUAGE)

RAMONA: He says he will
show you why he calls it
the Garden of Eden.

Rob. What's wrong?

These are feeder roots.
They should be underground.

JOHN: Here.

(OLD MAN SPEAKING
IN NATIVE LANGUAGE)

It's a tadpole.

I told you
things grow big here.

You've seen this before?

No.

No one has seen them.
They're only in this pond.

What does this pond
feed into?

The Espee River.

That's where
the paper mill is.

BETHEL: This is the flume.

All the wood that's
unfit for lumberyards
is cut into sections,

Fed down this channel
into the grinding machine.

It's a very simple
process in a very
conventional industry.

We even use stone grinders
to turn the logs into pulp.

Oh, let me give you
a hand here, Mrs. Verne.

(MACHINE GRINDING)

Once here,
the pulp is bleached.

With the exception
of grocery bags,

Nobody likes paper
that isn't white.

What do you use
to bleach it with?

Chlorine.

But it stays right
here in the plant.

None of it goes
out into the water?

No, sir, not a drop.

I'd like to see more.

This way.

You all right?
I'm fine.

You see now,
when the pulp
gets down here,

It's pressed into sheets
and dried into paper.

You feel all right?

You better stand
over here, Mrs. Verne.

That sheet's traveling
3,000 feet a minute.

Now, you see,
the pulp is fibrous.

When it's dry,
those fibers interconnect,
forming a solid.

And the only chemical
you use in this
plant is chlorine?

Yes. Oh, no, excuse me.

There's a caustic
solution that's used in
the grinding process,

But it's biodegradable,
approved by the EPA,

And it doesn't go
into the watershed.

(MACHINE WHIRRING)

Well, I guess that's it,
Mrs. Verne.

Thank you.
Well, clean as
a whistle, huh?

Thank you, sir.

Tell me something.
BETHEL: Yeah.

What happens to the trees
before they get here?

They get floated down
the river to the plant here.

That's it? You don't
hold them anywhere?

Yeah, if we get stacked up.
Where do you hold them?

Oh, various places.
Ponds?

You hold them in ponds?

Probably, softens them
up to soak them.

Do you soak
them in chemicals?

Well, you're gettin'
out of my area here.

Transport's handled
by a private contractor.

I asked you a question.

Well, I'm answering
your question.

You're responsible
for whatever effluent
goes out of this plant.

You hire the contractors.
You sell the product.

You're accountable
for whatever goes on here.

Rob, stop it.
Now, just...

How many pages
in this report
you're gonna write?

I asked you a question.

Now let me ask
you a question.

How many pages, 100?
How many copies,
1,000, maybe?

I wanna know
what chemicals
you're using.

We're talking about
100,000 pieces of paper
just for your report.

Am I far off? Eh?

And how many
sheets of paper

Are in all those
filing cabinets
in Washington?

You're not answering me.
I am answering you!

Now, I supply
what you demand.

You're responsible, too.

Now, unless you want
to start filling your
filing cabinets with rocks

And wiping your
nose with cactus...

I wanna know what
you soak the logs in.
What chemical?

None.
I don't believe that!

Well, then you take
water samples.
That's what we do.

Yes, sir.
Now, look, if those logs
were soaked in chemicals,

It would squeeze out
in the pulping process

Right into the watershed
in front of this plant.

Now, we test that
water every 10 days,

And there's not
a damn thing
floating out there

That we don't
know about,

Or anything that's
harmful to the
environment.

Now, excuse me,
Mrs. Verne.
That's okay.

Go on! Go test the water!
We got nothing to hide!

(CRANE WHIRRING)

Let it down.
Take it in there.

I told you to
watch the tide.
Yeah.

You okay?

Hold the boat.
Let's get them in there.
Get them out of here.

Sorry about that.
I didn't realize.
We tried to tell ya.

I know you did.
It's my fault.

Okay, let's go, boys.

Move it out.

I believe him.
Why?

Why would he have offered
to let you test the water?

Maybe it wasn't
in the water.

Huh?
Maybe it's heavier
than water.

That silvery
stuff on your boot.

Is it dry?

Yes.

They gave us a trick
question in medical school.

"What's the only liquid
in the world that isn't wet?"

What was the answer?

Mercury.

ROB: "Inorganic methylmercury,
known as PMT."

"Used as a de-sliming agent
that collects algae"

"And prevents it from forming
on pre-processed timber."

"Its widespread use
discontinued in 1956"

"When evidence
of its fatal effects"

"Were seen in the deaths
of 100,000 people
in Minamata, Japan."

Rob, what is it?

It's methylmercury
poisoning,
that's what it is.

This whole place
has been contaminated.

How do you know?

The Indians eat the fish,

And they behave
like they're drunk

When they haven't
had a drop of liquor.

That raccoon convulsing
and turning vicious,

Its brain turned to mush.

Even that old man,
that Indian.

You saw the burns
on his fingers.

Is that from mercury?

It's from cigarettes.
The reason he didn't
feel it is from mercury.

You see, it acts on
the nervous system.

It destroys the brain.

Why are they using it?

Why?

Listen to this.

ROB: (ON TAPE)
described as the most
potent neurotoxin

Of the post-World War II age.

Listen.
Used from 1948 to 1956

In pulping processes
as a cheap and
effective caustic agent...

That's why they use it,
because it's cheap!

ROB: (ON TAPE)
from forming on
waterlogged timber.

It is also known
for its mutagenic properties,

Concentrating in the
bodies of fish and
plankton-eating crustacea,

Affecting the fetal
development of everything
that ingests it.

For 20 years,
it's been pouring
into this water.

The ratio of toxin
to blood level...

It's in the fish,
is that it?

And everything
that eats the fish.

It was discovered
after extensive testing

That it is the only
mutagen that jumps
the placental barrier,

Concentrating in
fetal blood cells,
where it adheres to the DNA

And corrupts the chromosomes.

ROB: (ON TAPE) The ratio
of toxin to blood level

Is 30% higher
in the developing fetus
than in the host.

It was discovered
after extensive testing

That it is the only
mutagen that jumps
the placental barrier,

Concentrating in
fetal blood cells,

Where it adheres to the DNA
and corrupts the chromosomes.

"Jumps the placental barrier."
What does that mean?

It's a mutagen.

A mutagen.
What is that?

Freakism!

Freakism.
That's what's been
going on out there.

That's why there's
a goddamn salmon
five feet long

And a tadpole
the size of what a
bullfrog should be.

And stillbirths.

What?

That's what that
Indian woman said,
and deformed children.

God knows what
else has been
going on out there.

So, if a pregnant animal
ate some fish, it could...

Yes.

My God.

Is it possible?

Yes.

The size of a dragon.

What?

The size of a dragon,
isn't that what Isely
said at the airport?

And something about
eyes, cat's eyes.

And the old man,
the Indian,

Didn't he describe
that creature as being

A part of everything
in God's creation?
Isn't that what he said?

Yes.

Let me try and
put this together.

A developing fetus goes
through certain distinct...

A developing fetus
goes through certain
distinct phases.

Each phase
represents a specific
stage of evolution.

A human fetus,
for instance,

At one stage,
it's a fish.

It looks like a fish.
It's got fins and gills.

At another,
it's amphibian,
webbed hands,

At another, reptilian,
at another, it's feline,

Developing upward
in the distinct
shapes and phases

Of the evolutionary scale.

If this chemical,

Methylmercury,
adheres to the DNA...

DNA's a chromosomal
fixative.

Well, it could freeze
certain parts at one
evolutionary stage,

While the other
parts continue growing.
You follow?

Yes.

Uh, a pregnant animal
ingests the fish,
and it corrupts the fetus

To the point
where it gives birth
to a monster.

(REWINDS TAPE)

Corrupts the fetus
to the point where it
gives birth to a monster.

How much fish
would it take for...

It concentrates in
the fetal blood cells.

How much?
Very little.

I'll need proof.

You're not sure?

Well, I've got to
get blood samples.

Our first priority
is these people.

How long before you'll know?

A week, 10 days.

(RUSTLING)

(MONSTER ROARING)
(GIRL SCREAMING)

(SCREAMING)

(YELLS)

(GROWLING)

(SPEAKING IN NATIVE LANGUAGE)

Thank you.

Mike?

Mike Greenbriar.

How old are you?
Twenty-eight.

(DOG BARKING)

What's going on here?

There were more
killings in the
forest last night,

And we're not
waiting for any more.
Who was killed?

A family up at
Mary's Bend.

What makes you think
these people had
anything to do with it?

They're guilty
as hell, Verne.

I want the following
people to step forward

As their
names are read.

John Hawks.

ROB: Where's the evidence?

The evidence is
at the hospital.
It's in baskets.

Mr. Hawks, are you
gonna step forward?

Well, Hawks,
you gonna step
forward as instructed?

Stop! Stop that man.

(GLASS BREAKING)

Let him go, Charlie.
We'll get him later.
Get these other Opies.

BETHEL: I'm sorry, Mr. Verne.

Sorry, Mrs. Verne.
We just gotta do it.

Mary's Bend.
You know where it is?

Yeah.

I want to go there.

Just follow us
right to the car.

Okay?

POLICEMAN: Steven Sky.

(WHIRRING)

Where's the bend?
Around that ridge.

There's an inlet.

Can we go down?

PILOT: Just for a minute.
I don't like
the look of that sky.

This is helicopter
Ray-Zebra-2-3-Yankee to base.

Breaking radio contact.
Do you copy?

MAN: I read you five-by-five.

(THUNDER CRACKING)

Stay in here out of the rain.

Now look, we got about five
or 10 minutes at the most!

Okay.
This way.

What's the matter, airsick?

A little.

Got just the thing.

Ammonia.
No.

You'd better
take just a whiff.

The way this weather looks,
it's gonna be a rough
and bumpy ride going home.

Okay?

Ramona.

What could have
done this?

A bear, perhaps.

That deep?

(THUNDER CRACKING)

That from a bear?

No.

What is it, then?

You know this forest.
What could it be?

John!

(THUNDER CRACKING)

Boy, I'm in here tight.

If this wind
kicks up any higher,
I can't clear those trees.

Sure hope you and
your friends don't mind
walking out of here.

You remember we talked
about those poachers?

See those nets over there?

They string them
across the river

And catch everything
that comes down.

(SQUAWKING)
(YELLS)

(WEEPING)

MAGGIE: Rob!

Maggie!
What is it?

There are two of them,
and one's alive.

(CRYING)

We gotta get
this one warm.

Leave it here.

Let it die.

Let it die?
Do you know
what this is?

This is evidence.

This may be the evidence

That'll save your
people and this forest.

John, get the other one.

ROB: Let's get out of here!

PILOT: No way!

What do you mean?

You see those trees?

That's 40 miles an hour!

I gotta get someplace warm!

So what do we do?
Take shelter!

How long?

Two hours, maybe less.

We don't have the time!
I've gotta get this
thing back or it'll die!

What is that?
Never mind. Come on.

I warned you
when we came down.
I can't do it!

Christ. How far
is your village?

Too far.
Ten miles.

Is there something else,
someplace else?

My grandfather.

Tents?
It's only half a mile.

Look, I need someplace
where it's warm,

Where I can
work on this thing
to keep it alive.

We can build fires inside.

We can make it warm.
Let's go there.

There's no
other choice.

Okay, let's go.

(THUNDER CRACKING)

(SPEAKING NATIVE LANGUAGE)

RAMONA: John! John!
It's all right!
They're not here!

M'Rai?

Which one?
Go in that one.
Go in that one.

(RAMONA SPEAKING
IN NATIVE LANGUAGE)

Get this inside!

We're gonna need
some light in here.
Can we get some light?

The old man is gone.
They don't know where.

ROB: I said, could you get me
some more light in here?

RAMONA: Here,
here's a lantern.

ROB: Now, you said you
could get this place warm.

RAMONA: I'll bring in
some embers.

Can these people help us?

They can send someone
from the village.

Send them. Tell them
to get people here.

I want people
to see this.

Is there a newspaper
in town?

Yes.
Get them here with a camera.

And people from
that paper mill,
and that sheriff.

Not that sheriff.
I can't do that.
Hawks!

He'll see the truth here,

And you have more at stake
in this truth than I have.

Please hurry.

Can you get that lantern
above the table?

MAGGIE: Will it die?
I don't know.

I hope to keep its
heart beating with
a little adrenalin.

Do you want some rags?

Yeah, not too hot.
Not steaming.

Nothing down
there but dirt.

Any supplies?

Not any that
I could see.

(SQUAWKING)
What I could really use
is a sterile jar.

MAN: I've got a jar
of vitamins in my pack.

Look.

(SCREECHING)

MAGGIE: Can't you stop it?

I don't dare sedate it.

Here's the rag.
That'll help.

Here's your jar.
Okay.

Maggie?

Maggie.

Yes?

In my bag there's
some surgical tubing.

(CREATURE SCREAMING)

(SNORTING)

Come on.

I know it's a
nightmare, okay?

But it'll be
over soon.

We'll get out of here
in the morning

And go home tomorrow.

You know what that
old man said about

This creature awakening
to protect them?

In a strange way,
that's true.

This is gonna stop
what's going on.

People can't
ignore it anymore.

There's a reason.

There's a reason
it's happened.

There's a reason
why we're here.

I'm pregnant.

What?

I'm pregnant.

And I ate what the mother
of those creatures ate.

(SOBBING)

It's not a nightmare
that's gonna end.

It's just beginning
because it's inside me.

I'm pregnant.

It's the ugliest
sound I've ever heard.

Why didn't I know?

You didn't wanna know!

I tried to tell you,
but you wouldn't listen!

You were too busy
playing God to
be a human being!

I thought having a baby

Would bring us
closer together.

It's not a baby anymore.
(WEEPING)

Maggie...
No! Ah.

We can take care of it.
No!

I can't kill it!

I wanted a baby.

I know.

I know.
We'll get through it.
We'll get through it.

MAGGIE: It wants to be born.

Mr. Verne!

I feel it.

(CREATURE SCREAMING)

(VEHICLE APPROACHING)

I'll stay in the tunnels
until they're gone.

Mr. Verne, what's the
meaning of this?

It's the answer,
Mr. Isely,

To some very

Important questions.

(CREATURE SQUAWKING)

This is a result
of methylmercury

Spilling out of
your plant.

My God.

Did you know?

(CREATURE SCREECHING)

Did you know?

I didn't want to.

(RUSTLING)

M'Rai!
Welcome.

(ROARING)

(MAN SCREAMING)

(GRUNTING)

(SCREAMING)

Get into these tunnels!

The tunnels!
Get into these tunnels!

(SCREAMING)

(ROARING)

(ALL PANTING)

(SCREAMING)

(ROARING)

(ROARING)

(ROARING IN DISTANCE)

(MAN SCREAMING)

(CREATURE GRUNTING)

(MAN YELLS)

(ROARING)

(MAN GRUNTS)

(CREATURE SQUAWKING)

(RUMBLING)

(MUFFLED SQUAWKS)

(ROARING)

(MAN SCREAMING)

(MAN SCREAMING)
(CREATURE ROARING)

(MAGGIE SCREAMING)

(SOBBING)

ROB: Hawks,
the pilot's barely alive.
We gotta get him to town.

The town is too far.

It's 12 miles.

Our village
is closer.

ROB: He's in a coma.
Can we carry him that far?

JOHN: I can make a stretcher
to carry that pilot.

ROB: Will there be
a car in the village?
No, but there's shelter there,

And we can send for help.

BETHEL: It'll take too long.

If we send someone
from the village,

By the time they get back,
we'll be looking
at nightfall again.

ROB: And what's
our alternative?

Who knows when
that damn thing
will come back?

JOHN:
What about the helicopter?
There's a radio in there.

No, it doesn't work
unless it's up in the air.

BETHEL: There's a
microwave tower.

It's on the top
of Mount Emery,

Controls all the
communication
in this area.

ROB: How far is that?
Six, seven miles, maybe.

Can't walk six miles
through the forest

Not knowing where
that damn thing is.

I can.

You go to the village.
I'll go there.

If I can make contact,

You'll be out
of here by nightfall.

Now, let me do this, now.

Ah!

(CREATURE SCREECHING)

(PANTING)

(FLIES BUZZING)

(ROARING)
(SCREAMING)

(CREATURE GRUNTING)

(GASPING)

(ROARING)

(CRUNCHING)
(SCREAMING)

ROB: Where did they go?

RAMONA: They've
taken everything.

ROB: Where can we put him?

JOHN: Let's take him inside.

(CHANTING IN NATIVE LANGUAGE)

ROB: I think we'd
better try for town.

RAMONA: He's delirious.

ROB: I don't wanna
spend the night here.

Listen,
three-quarters of
a mile from here,

Where they cut the trees,
they left a carrier.

Carrier?
It's like a tank.

It's used for
moving equipment.
It'll go through anything.

Will it run?

There are tools in the cabin.
I'm gonna cross the wires.

How long will it
take to get to town?

If we leave now,
three hours, maybe four.

It'll be night by then.

It'll be night here, too.
But we have shelter here.

This isn't
shelter enough.

Let's go.

Come up here.

(CREATURE CRYING)

(ROARING)
(SCREAMING)

(ROARING)

(SCREAMING)

(SCREAMING)

(CRUNCHING)

(ROARING)

(PANTING)

The cabin!

(MAGGIE SCREAMING)

(CREATURE GROWLING)

Maggie!

(GROWLING)

(ROARING)

Katahdin.

Katahdin!

(RAMONA SCREAMS)

(ROARING CONTINUES)

No!

(ROARING)

(GROANING)
(PANTING)

(COUGHING)

(ROARING)

(ROARING)

It's coming.

(ROARING)

It's drowned.

It's drowned.

It's drowned! It's drowned!

It's drowned.

(ROB WEEPING)

(GURGLING)

It's drowned.

It's...

It's drowned.

It's drowned.

(ROARING)

(SCREAMING)

ROB: Let's barricade
this place! Maggie, light!

(HAMMERING)

Christ!

(BANGING)

(CREATURE GRUNTING)

(ROARING)

(GUNSHOT)
(ROARING)

(ROARING)

(ROARING)

(CREATURE GRUNTING)

(SCREAMING)

(CREATURE SCREAMING)

(GRUNTING)

(SCREECHING)

(YELLING)

(GRUNTING)

(ROARING)