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People ask, where do you get your ideas?

Right here.

All this is my magician's toy shop.

I'm Ray Bradbury, and this is...

I smell death, Captain.

What makes you so sure, Spender?

The wind.

No matter when.

That must have been a long time ago.

I don't think so.

There are no trees on Mars.

Where are these coming from?

These aren't leaves.

They're ashes.

These are all that's left of whoever lived here.

The Martians.

What happened?

We're not the first, sir.

The other expeditions to Mars, Captain Black and Captain York, at least one of

them made it.

What are you saying?

It was chicken pox.

What?

The fever burned them into this.

And the whole people wiped out.

Insane. Right, Chiroque.

Insane.

Like saying that mumps killed the Greeks.

Or that the noble Romans died of athlete's foot.

An entire race dies.

Not with dignity and majesty, but from a child's dose of chicken pucks.

A little gift from her.

They couldn't have known.

Well, we should have.

We never seem to care about the effects we have on anything.

Just the results, so we can make a report on them.

Now, wait a minute, Spencer. No, Captain. Go ahead.

Tell them.

We and the expeditions before us landed successfully on Mars There was an

unforeseen circumstance we wiped out an entire civilization

Well, what the hell we made it that's all that matters isn't it

we can be proud

We

got the whole damn city

So when are we going in, Captain?

Tomorrow late.

We'll all need some rest.

Sure will. Gonna have us a party. Party time, baby. Party time.

Bed full of leaves tonight.

Hey,

Park Hill.

You remember last year?

New York?

That hill over there.

You gonna christen it?

Omaha Hill!

The Nebraska claim.

Williams Valley.

And right here, the first settlement.

I'm going to christen it...

You go to the medic.

You men finish up here.

Spender, you come with me.

You want to explain what happened?

I don't know, sir. I was just ashamed.

Big of us.

It's been a long trip.

They're proud and excited and damn it, they should be.

You are way out of line, Spender.

I'm going to have to put you on report when we get back.

Yes, sir.

I just hated the idea of them watching us make fools of ourselves, polluting

their planet.

Them? Them.

The Martians.

Spender, this expedition is not going to ruin Mars.

I'll make sure of that.

Well, we humans have a talent for ruining big, beautiful things.

Only reason we didn't put out...

Hot dogs stand on the moon because it's a little out of the way.

Make a good commercial proposition.

Now they know we're here to pollute their water, litter their streets,

the names of their canals, their mountain ranges.

It'll be your job as archaeologist to find the old names.

And we'll use them.

Do what you're trained to do, Spender, and that does not include slugging your

fellow crew members, okay?

Dismissed.

Need some sweeping up.

That's enough of you.

So we'll go no more a -roving so late into the night.

Now the heart be still as loving and the moon be still as bright.

I think they know we're here.

You sound as if you believe in spirits.

I believe in accomplishments.

Yes, it's beautiful.

They must have been a graceful and philosophical people.

Yes.

And they must know we're here to spit in their wine.

Oh, they must hate us.

I don't feel hatred here.

The evidence is all around us, Bender. They were intelligent and cultured.

And they probably don't mind us being here any more than they'd mind children

playing on a lawn.

Knowing and understanding children for what they are.

is this place, Bender?

It's a library.

With no books?

There's a million books.

Right here.

How do you know?

Something about this place.

I feel like I'm home.

Home?

Mars?

I don't think I want to travel anymore.

No more roving.

Hey, take a look at this park hill.

What is it, some kind of art object?

Well,

we looked all over, Captain.

There's no sign of him.

That's three days now.

The hell with my faith, sir. Yeah, I think we should go on without him.

I mean, his search informs a waste of the expedition's time.

I'll be the judge of that, Park Hill.

Dismissed.

Put you down.

I'm the last Martian.

What did you say?

I'm going to kill you.

What kind of a joke is this?

Stand up.

Put the gun away, Spender.

Keep the teriyaki, boys.

Hey, here comes the loner.

Hi, Splendor.

You been hunting around the ruins?

I've been living in the city.

Studying their art.

Learning their language.

Reading their books.

I've been finding out a lot of things.

What would you say if I told you I'd found a Martian prowling around the

Did you wear?

Never mind.

Let me ask you a question.

What would you do if you were a Martian and people came to your land and started

tearing it up? I know how I'd feel.

I'm Cherokee.

I'd be pretty mad.

What about you guys?

Kramer?

No.

I talked to the Martian.

You understood him? I told you.

I learned the language.

What did he say?

He said, give me your boots.

So I gave him my boots.

Then he said, give me your uniform.

I gave him my uniform.

Give me your gun, he said.

Gave him my gun.

Then he said, come with me.

See what happens.

I followed him back to camp.

He's here.

Now. I don't see any Martian.

Sorry.

You

can

come with me, Jerome.

You can be with me on this.

Kill them.

You deserved it.

Out of your mind.

I thought you would understand.

Alright, let's go.

Shoot and kill, right, sir? No. No.

Alive, Parkell.

Sir? I want him alive.

Spread out.

What's around him?

He's in there, sir.

We got him cornered. I think we can take him with grenades.

We're not going to blow him to bits.

I hope we don't have to kill him at all.

Spender!

He's crazy, sir. He'll kill you sure as hell.

Spender!

I'm coming in to talk.

How long can you hold out?

I figure about six minutes worth.

You could have killed us all this morning when you had the chance. You

that. Yeah, I know.

I got sick after shooting Cherokee.

Oh?

I couldn't go on.

But it was too late.

Yeah, it's too late for them. Too late for you.

But I had to.

I guess it's a question of what you care for.

What you love.

You love a race of dead aliens?

More than your fellow man?

Maybe I do.

You're a human being, Spender, not a Martian.

After I shot Chiroque, I thought I couldn't go on.

I was so weak.

That's why I came back here, to build up my strength again.

What did you hope to accomplish?

Kill all of you and live out my life here.

That would delay the next expedition a good five years.

They take twice as long.

Build a hundred extra experimental models to ensure against another

You've got it all figured out. I figure that with luck, with this low gravity,

I could live for 80 years, maybe 90.

Meet every expedition that lands.

I could delay the invasion for decades.

Come here. Let me show you something.

I've been here for just a few days trying to learn, but I think I'm

understand them.

The Martians realized that in order to survive, they had to stop asking the

meaning of life.

Life is its own answer.

Living in harmony with nature and the other species.

You could stay here with me.

There's music 50 ,000 years old like nothing you'll ever hear.

And you won't let me stay here without trouble either, will you?

No.

Then I'll have to kill you all.

You're an optimist.

We've got you surrounded.

But I have a reason to fight.

That makes me a better killer.

Well, I'll let you go back now.

Start your attack.

Spender.

I'm sorry this is happening.

I'm sorry about all of it.

I'm sorry, too.

Sorry I started shooting people.

You're like me.

But you can handle it.

You don't shoot. You don't kill.

You can work with people.

You're me.

But better.

Captain.

When this is all over, you'll still be alive.

What? I decided when I started, I wouldn't kill you.

Maybe when all those others are dead, you'll change your mind about staying.

I can't.

I'll have to keep coming after you.

Spinner, will you come quietly?

This is my last offer.

Thanks.

Do me one favor.

If you win, try to see to it that tearing apart of this planet

is restricted somehow.

Make the next expeditions walk quietly here.

I'll do my best.

And if it helps, just try to think of me as a very crazy guy who

went for Zerk one summer day and was never...

quite right again.

Might make it easier on you.

So long, Spender.

Good luck.

What'd you do that for, sir?

I'll handle this.

But, sir, if... Marco, get out!

Wait outside, man.

Stay undercover.

Spender, get going.

I'll give you 30 seconds.

Go on.

You obviously know this place. Get away from here.

What is the matter with you?

Bender, don't make me do this.

Spamner, now.

Sir.

You've got quite a job.

So

we'll

go no more a -roving so late into the night.

So the heart be still as loving and the moon

be still as bright.