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While the mysterious hull found in the pit at Knightsbridge

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is being investigated by Professor Quatermass and his colleagues,

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a black magic pentacle is discovered inside it

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and a terrified sapper sees a dwarf-like figure pass through the wall.

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When an attempt is made to pierce a sealed compartment with a Borrison drill,

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frightful sounds break out, demoralising and shocking the drilling party

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and sending Quatermass with Dr Roney on a search for early records of the place.

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As far as these go back, Hobbs Lane has been periodically haunted

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by sounds and hideous small shapes.

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Meanwhile, Colonel Breen finds a hole has appeared,

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as if melted in the closed bulkhead, and through it an eye can be seen.

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With the hole to provide a purchase, the inner port is turned,

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opened.

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The demons.

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It's all right, they're dead.

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They've been dead for a long time.

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Roney!

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What are they?

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Whatever they are, they're decomposing fast.

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Roney, I think this is a job for you.

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Yes.

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Yes.

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Barbara, phone the museum, tell Klein to bring supports and sprays, quickly.

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Give me a hand here.

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What's in there, miss?

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She's got the window.

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I think I can...

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It's got it.

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It's in heaven's name.

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Like a colossal idiot.

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Like a colossal insect.

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In some ways, more like a crab.

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Yes, well, that's the smell, like rotting fish.

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Or locusts.

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Quatermas, do you mind here?

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I can't guarantee my stomach.

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I can always see it decomposing.

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I'm sorry, sir.

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I think I'd better go.

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Oh, all right, go on, get out.

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Well, those seem to be legs.

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It's a tripod.

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That's a strange formation.

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Antenna like a beetle's.

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Where is that girl?

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Look out for her, will you?

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What do you mean, insects?

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What sort of insects?

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I don't know.

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They were big.

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But dead.

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You say they were dead.

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Sarge, you mean they've been dead a long time?

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I don't know.

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We dug that thing up.

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I don't know, Gibson.

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Sir, what's in there?

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What are they?

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Here, let me help.

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He's yelling for that stuff.

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Take these.

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Metal tray, quickly.

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Here, Barbara, now keep it level.

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It's leaking.

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Yes.

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Use number four spraying fluid.

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Is that safe?

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We've got to take a chance.

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Cameron.

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I want to use that in there before I get the others out.

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Going in now?

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Any objections, there's no time to lose.

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Be careful of those.

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Those membranes.

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They may be some sort of instrument.

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Instruments?

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Your imagination is running wild.

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Yes.

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Isn't yours?

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This one's lying in some kind of a frame.

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If they were human, I'd call that a bunk.

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Dr. Roney, how long have these things been dead?

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I tell you.

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I'm asking him.

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Pass me another tray.

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If they'd been dead more than a few years,

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they'd have decomposed completely.

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All the decomposition's taken place in the last hour or so.

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Roney, that makes no sense.

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Look, don't bother me now, please.

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That compartment was sealed.

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If the things inside were completely sterile,

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without bacteria of any kind,

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then they'd be free from corruption.

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Even if they were dead?

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Yes, they could stay in there for a year or a million years,

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remain as they are, unchanged,

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until our atmosphere got in, filthy London air.

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Then they'd rot, as they have done.

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Quieter, rats!

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Yes.

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Dr. Clyde.

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Yes?

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Can I have a look at that, please?

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All right, but they should have been here now.

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These things are disintegrating. Don't you realize that?

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Oh, they're here now. Fine.

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Cline, I'm glad to see you.

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Look here.

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What are they?

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How did you get hold of them?

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No questions now.

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Get those boxes ready.

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How is that one?

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Not good.

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Well, if you can just try to save the horny shell.

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But try to keep the body fluids separate and correctly described.

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Now, Cline, come here.

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There's a few things here, but we've only got two of them.

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Professor?

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Hmm?

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Sorry to disturb you.

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Oh, put them up.

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What's in there now?

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Those membranes and these.

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It's a powder.

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Yes, it seems to be some sort of mineral substance.

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Do you think it grew there like stalactites?

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I think it was put there.

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These remind me of something, something I've seen, photographs.

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Of course, nerve-ending.

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What? Nerve?

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Yes, yes. If you see them enormously magnified, then they terminate, the fibers terminate in this way.

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Those, those creatures, could they, could they belong to this earth?

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Hmm.

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Take external measurements.

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Then compare them with the internal over the whole structure.

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I want every single cubic inch of space accounted for.

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Who's this?

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Quatermass, who's this man?

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James Fullilove, Evening Gazette.

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How did he get in here?

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Did you bring...

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Well, not exactly, but he...

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He's got no business here.

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On the contrary, I think I have.

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Stop talking past me.

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This place is under military jurisdiction.

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Surely not. There's no bomb. It's not a question of protecting the public, but of informing them.

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Thanks.

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Colonel Breen, I'd be glad of your expert opinion too on this.

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Get out.

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Potter, get him out of here.

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Sir, Sergeant.

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Now look here, Breen.

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I am in charge here and I want that man off this site immediately.

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Sergeant, take him and escort him to the barrier.

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Take him!

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Take him!

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Come along, sir.

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That was a mistake.

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A bad one, Breen.

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Don't tell me what to do.

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I'm not going to stand by while you feed wild theories to the gutter press.

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There's been enough nonsense talked about this thing already.

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Dead millions of years.

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I know the smell of death and how long it lasts.

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You've been serving them?

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Yes, I have.

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Have you been shared?

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In my own time.

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You won't be able to keep those a secret for long.

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Jacko, be tough about it.

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Middle pages too.

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You've got to get these pictures in.

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All of them.

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Take it easy, James.

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Yes, sir.

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Which headline?

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Sam.

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Oh, look, I'll go and talk to him again.

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Oh, sure, sure.

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It's that small head.

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Wore off as he brushes it up.

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What's the matter with it?

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I still got the marks of being bounced with that barrier.

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Is he scared?

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Scared?

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He thinks it's not strong enough.

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Oh.

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Oh.

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Well, what about, uh, Terror Stalks Whitehall?

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These creatures are dead, aren't they?

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He was scared, I know that.

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Who?

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This Colonel Breen.

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Blimp blunders.

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Too personal.

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I feel personal.

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Now listen.

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Full of love.

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Beats.

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Army.

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Ban.

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How's that?

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Says it, Sam.

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Oh, nice laser edition.

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Jakeman found.

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Monster insects.

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Get your gazette, thank you.

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Monster insects found.

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Get your gazette.

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Read all about it.

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They got them in there, now in the museum.

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You can't get in, but you can read all about it.

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Gazette.

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I'm sorry.

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The museum is closed.

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There's no taking them in.

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There's no taking them in.

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This was the bad one?

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Yes.

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That's why we set it up that way.

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Seemed less danger of damaging the legs.

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It's very dry and brittle.

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All soft parts and fluids were extracted.

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These are ready for analysis.

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Take them to Dr. Klein.

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The insect department is working on our two good specimens.

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Insect?

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Is that how you classified them?

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Call it an arthropod.

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Arthropod?

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Includes all insects, crabs, spiders.

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Except that none of them have three legs.

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These are interesting, too.

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Antennas shaped like horns.

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Horned demons in those old prints and manuscripts, you remember?

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As if that image was somehow projected into men's minds, that face.

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Rather pretty.

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It's like a gargoyle.

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Randy, that's not just a simile.

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Haven't you seen it before, carved on walls in a dozen countries?

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Is it somewhere in the subconscious?

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A race memory?

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How do you like our decor?

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God damn your decor.

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I agree it is a bit she-she for a lab.

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It confuses the eye when you're trying to read a measure.

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There are copies of Paleolithic cave paintings about 30,000 years old.

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Look at that one.

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A caveman in a ritual mask.

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I wonder where the idea of it came from.

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You know, I think these are old friends that we haven't seen for a long time.

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Mass and structure point to a low-gravity environment, a thin atmosphere.

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Correct, sir.

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Perhaps the world that's dead now but a few million years ago could have been teeming with life.

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I wonder.

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You know, Randy, when I was a boy, it was the great burning topic whether there were really canals there and who made them.

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I remember my disappointment when somebody proved that Martians couldn't exist.

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It's a funny word.

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Worn out before anything turned up to claim it.

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Martian.

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Sorry, sir, I've got my orders.

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Oh, don't keep on saying that.

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The editor's worse than your inspector.

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Have they found any more of these insects?

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I don't know what you mean.

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You must be the only man around here that doesn't.

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Hey, wait a minute, here's one of them.

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Sergeant, can you tell...

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What's going on here? What's the row about?

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Reporters.

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Sergeant, is there still any danger?

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Look, why can't we go down there?

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Do you see any of these insects?

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What's happening?

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It's secret, sir.

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Secret, except from the Gazette.

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Is that it?

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Look, they've got the whole story.

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Have they bought the exclusive rights or what?

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Go on, let us through.

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I'll have to see about this, sir.

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You get your officer up here right away.

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I said, did you see any of these insects?

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Well, it's all accounted for, sir.

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There are no more sealed compartments.

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Good.

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Here, what's all this?

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Oh, I must have rubbed against it in there.

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All this stuff's coming loose and dropping off.

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The professor seemed to think that it must be...

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Well, it might have been some sort of apparatus.

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Does it look like that?

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Oh, I don't know, sir.

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Besides, it doesn't connect with anything, but...

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You know, even if there had been external propulsion units,

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I still don't see how...

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Well, unless the hull itself did the thinking.

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Are you out of your mind?

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Sir.

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I've heard enough stark idiocy here today.

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You leave that to civilians.

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Sir, have you finished with my gear?

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Oh, later.

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Some of my gear inside there. Can I take it now?

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Look, it'll be all right.

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I can't go without it, sir. It belongs to my boss.

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I'm the one that's got to carry...

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Look at this.

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The work of Quatermass's friend, I suppose.

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Army-imposed panic censorship.

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Just because I chased that paid hack out of where he had no business to be.

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Panic censorship!

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What are they implying?

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What are they trying to...

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Are you all right, sir?

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Yes, of course.

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I'll show them what can happen when they start flinging implications.

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Phone, sir, for you at the hut.

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Who is it?

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Somebody at the war office, sir.

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The war office?

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The war office.

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It's that skull formation that's out of line.

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Otherwise, the creatures fit in with non-evolution.

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An ape with an overdeveloped cranium.

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Oh, huge!

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For its place in the family tree.

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Over a thousand cc's capacity.

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Intelligent?

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Hard to say.

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Mere size doesn't mean that.

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But something had developed.

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Some faculties.

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Or had been developed.

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I see.

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How many of these ape creatures were there in the pit?

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Seven.

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Six, at least.

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Six or seven.

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In the rear compartment.

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We don't know that for a fact.

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Well, let's suppose it.

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And in the front compartment, there were these.

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What's in your mind?

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The will to survive.

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It's an odd phenomenon.

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Rony.

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Rony, if we found out, new for certain, that our earth was doomed a thousand years from now, or a hundred,

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what would we do about it?

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Nothing.

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Just go on fighting each other as usual.

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But, if we weren't just men.

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Oh, good, you're still here.

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Look, is it possible to give out a statement of some kind?

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That crowd out there, it's getting huge.

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A bit ugly.

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Apparently, they're convinced there's something sinister going on.

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Laboratory.

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Yes, he's here.

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Professor, it's for you.

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Oh.

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A quick match.

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Look at you.

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You're getting through if this goes on.

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Don't worry, you'll get home all right.

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Oh, I've got to go back to Hobbs Lane first.

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Why on earth do you have to go?

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Get some notes.

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My own stupid fault, I forgot them.

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Good.

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Yes.

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All right, I'll come and quit.

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Well, back to the war office.

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We're in trouble.

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I've already told Breen what I think, pretty forcibly.

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Perhaps he's taken more of the brunt of it than he should have done.

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I don't know which shook me the most, this wild news story

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or the fact that you two were at the bottom of it.

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Hello?

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Oh, hello, Haynes.

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I'm afraid he's still not...

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Oh, just a moment.

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PM's private secretary.

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Sorry, the minister's still not available.

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Will you try again in about 20 minutes?

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You see?

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And the Home Office badgering me about cordons

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and emergency police action.

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Now, before they call a special cabinet meeting on me,

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I want to get a few facts straight.

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Oh, hell, kill it.

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As far as I was aware, you weren't still in London.

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I thought you were going back to the Rocky Group

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for Breen to tell you.

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The Rocky Group for Breen to take over.

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Well, to take up his new position.

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Why didn't you?

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It was my fault.

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I involved Breen in this.

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Oh, don't talk as if you've been scrubbing apples.

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This is serious.

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You don't know how serious.

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You'd better tell me.

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I take it that you have an idea of the facts?

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Well, only these press reports

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and more from Breen before you came.

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But I'm still at a loss to make any sense of it.

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When I was last in this room,

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it was to discuss planting military bases on the moon...

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That's key to the subject.

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...and on the planet Mars.

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What are you suggesting?

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You're demanding explanations that I can't give or prove.

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All I can give you are guesses.

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I'm not giving you any more.

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Tell them we're taking no more calls.

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Go on.

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Dr. Rowney and I are convinced

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that those arthropods are not of this Earth.

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Where, then?

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One possibility is Mars.

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Mars is dead.

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There's nothing there but a few scraps of lichen.

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Five million years ago, it may have been very different.

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Oh?

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Suppose at that time

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there were living beings there with advanced techniques.

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Well, there's no harm in supposing.

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Techniques that enabled them to visit this Earth

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at a time when the most advanced creatures on it,

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our own ancestors,

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were still only a type of Pliocene ape.

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Suppose...

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that they had other techniques.

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Biological ones.

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Biological?

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Those Pliocene man-apes found at Knightsbridge are freaks.

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Are you trying to make out there can be any connection

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between those apes and your insects?

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Your insects? I think you saw them first.

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I suppose that they were unable to endure our atmosphere,

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the strong oxygen, the bacteria,

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so when they came, they stayed sealed in that compartment,

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while in the other section were the ape mutations,

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the result of their own experiments,

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brought back to be released on Earth

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to take possession of it for them.

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You believe that happened?

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I said it, I guess.

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The apes were taken from this planet and...

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And altered, yes, yes,

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by selective breeding, by surgical methods, perhaps both.

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I suppose the aim would be to increase the intelligence.

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I suppose.

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But it would have to be carried out on a huge scale.

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Yes.

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Oh, yes.

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Yes, if I'm right, if I'm right,

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we've come across just one single instance, sir.

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An accident, a landing that went wrong and they all died.

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The Thames Valley was swamped then.

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You realise what you're implying?

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That we owe our human condition to the intervention of...

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of insects?

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Yes. I suppose I am.

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Breen, do you accept any of this?

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No. No, I don't.

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Not a single word.

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Quatermass, you asked me a while ago,

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if I had a theory of my own.

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Well, I have, and here it is.

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And it does not involve Martians or obscene experiments.

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Go on, Breen. Only Germans.

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And it goes back to 1944,

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and not millions of years.

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Breen, you can't still be hanging on to that...

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I suggest that once the Germans realised they were losing the war,

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they put out a propaganda scare.

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They sent over an experimental V-weapon

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that would produce exactly the effect it has produced,

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thanks to you.

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Except that it was a little late for their purpose.

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But what about those creatures?

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Fakes.

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Put there as a circumstantial touch,

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like mermaids at a fair made up of odds and ends of flesh and bone.

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The oldest trick in the business.

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Ingenious.

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Except that it didn't happen.

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I say it did. Yes. Yes.

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It has that black Wagnerian imagination.

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Methodical people, the Hun.

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Wait, you must hear the expert testimony.

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No experts.

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I'm sure I'm right, sir.

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I'm sure you are.

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I like the common sense of it. It feels right.

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We'll let the Home Secretary off his beat.

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Get him now? Yes.

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That mysterious missile, is it quite safe?

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Had it thoroughly checked, sir.

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No possible danger to the public?

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None, I am certain.

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Good. Well, we'll get things back to normal.

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Have that barrier down, people back in their homes.

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Let the press see whatever they want.

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We'll prepare a short statement now.

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Here he is, sir.

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Think what you're doing. At least wait until you've had time to...

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Oh, dear.

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Hello, John.

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Sorry you've been led such a dance this evening.

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It's all over now.

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It's a gigantic false alarm.

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That's official. There's no further danger.

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What about that thing down there?

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There'll be a full statement in the morning.

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You mean it was a hoax?

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I don't know, sir.

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Open the barrier.

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A hoax.

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A hoax?

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Oh, and we come here specially.

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Inspector, the bomb disposal people, they're still there.

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I can see that truck.

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They're just packing up.

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Oh, come on, let's get a whiz at it.

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It's too late to go to the fix now.

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Oh, come on.

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Oh, cripes, stuck here to the last.

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You're only a civvy, son.

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Leave the lamps till I'm through, he says.

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All right, Sergeant.

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I thought he had some delicate task on.

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Well, look at it, swinging our bloody sex.

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No wonder he didn't make us do it.

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I wouldn't do that.

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You what?

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You haven't had us touch that thing since this morning.

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That's right.

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Why?

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Hands.

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Look, got me a bit.

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Yeah.

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That cream fixed it, though.

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Well, it didn't fix him, nor Captain Potter.

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I saw him when he took the bandages off.

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Still, he's not a bad Sergeant.

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Gibson, Jones!

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Till he starts bawling.

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Come in, Sarge.

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I'm glad this job's over.

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Hey, do you reckon this was a jerry job?

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That's what the man said.

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Funny, though.

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All them stories about this place, that was before they ever had jerrys.

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Come on, shove them down.

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Hey, do you reckon Little Westy really seen anything?

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Little Westy what?

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He lost his nerve, son.

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Spent too long clearing beaches.

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As soon as you're ready, Sergeant, we'll pull out.

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Very good, Sarge.

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Come on, jump to it.

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Take my gear now, Sarge.

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Yes, do.

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Knock off the generator, will you?

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Right, leave it to me.

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Have you got any gloves?

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No.

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I'll take mine.

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All right, sir.

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Are you cold?

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Well, pick up that stuff and move.

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Now, come on, let the double.

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We'll keep you warm.

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Come on, boys.

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All right, boys.

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Sorry, miss, if I was to let you go down there, they'd all want to go.

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But I'm master.

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I told you who I am.

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What's the trouble?

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Oh, thank goodness.

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Look, I've got to get some notes.

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They're valuable.

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Where from?

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From the hut.

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Oh, damn, we were just leaving.

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It'll all be shut down now.

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Oh, Sergeant, is there anybody still below?

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Yes, Sir Sladden, sir.

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Here you are.

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I'll be quick.

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Hi, miss.

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No, it'll be all right, I think.

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Sergeant.

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