(The Air Command Theme) - Broadcasting from the KTWU Studios, The Air Command presents Theater of the Mind Radio, you can see.

Now, turn out your lights, move in close to the glow of your radio dial and come with us to those thrilling days of yesteryear, the golden age of radio and terror on the air with "Brain Raiders from Outer Space!"

(gentle music) 1946.

The war has ended.

At Dooley's Public House in London, singer Ivy Chapman is finishing her last set of the evening.

♪ There's a silver lining ♪ ♪ Through the dark clouds shining ♪ ♪ Turn the dark cloud inside out ♪ ♪ 'Til the boys come home ♪ - (laughs) Ya gotcher self an ace in that girl singer, Dooley.

- That I do, Hennessey, that I do.

Don't know how long we'll have 'er, though.

- Oh, how ya mean?

- Got separated from the love of her life during the war.

Been searching for him ever since.

- Hey, what drink ya makin' there?

- That's a Green Dragon.

She has just one, then leaves.

- Never heard of it.

- Thank you so much.

And please, show your appreciation for my friend on piano, Cricket Carmichael.

(gentle piano music) (people applauding) I usually end with that song, but I've got one more going out to someone, someone I'm missing.

May he hear it with his heart.

- Well, that's something new.

♪ Seems like dreams ♪ - Never done it before?

♪ Like I always had ♪ - Never.

♪ Could be, should be making me glad ♪ ♪ Why am I blue ♪ ♪ It's up to you to explain ♪ - Oh, she's missin' her love.

♪ I'm thinking maybe, baby, since you're away ♪ ♪ Someday, some way, you'll come and say ♪ ♪ It's you I need ♪ ♪ You won't be pleading in vain ♪ - Hey, I see you got today's newspaper- ♪ It had to be you ♪ - On the back bar there.

- That I do.

- How you done with it?

♪ It had to be you ♪ ♪ I wandered around, and finally found somebody who ♪ ♪ Could make me be true ♪ ♪ Could make me be blue ♪ ♪ And even be glad just to be sad ♪ ♪ Thinking of you ♪ - Y' ever gonna buy a newspaper of yer own, Hennessey?

- Don't know why, when I can nick yours.

♪ Were heartless and mean ♪ - Sure, an' take it then.

♪ Angry and cross ♪ ♪ Or tried to be boss ♪ ♪ So they wouldn't do ♪ ♪ For nobody else gives me a thrill ♪ ♪ It's been so long ♪ ♪ I love you still ♪ ♪ It had to be you, wonderful you ♪ ♪ It had to be you ♪ (people clapping) - You've been such a lovely audience!

Thank you!

And again, thanks to Cricket!

(people clapping) Thank you, and goodnight!

- According to the news, with the war over, football's coming back.

- What else- - Happy days!

- What else you got?

- Well, lessee now.

They're seein' wiggly ghosts at Stonehenge.

- Wiggly?

- Sez here.

Wiggly.

- That so?

- And they're turnin' up now in Amesbury.

Fella says you can see right through 'em, like gauze.

And says here, fuzzy.

- Fuzzy wiggly gauze.

- With floating ribbons.

- They might be drunker'n even you.

Where's this again?

- [Hennessey] It's Stonehenge first, and then Amesbury.

- [Dooley] Never heard of it.

- [Hennessey] 'Bout two miles from Stonehenge.

Eight miles from Salisbury.

- Heard o' Salisbury.

They gotta train station.

- Where you can catch the bus to Amesbury.

- You got all that memorized?

- Never know when you might wanna see Stonehenge.

- Who cares about piles o' rocks?

- Ah, his Majesty does.

Got an American company fixin' it all up.

- American?

- That archeologist, James Salton, and his bunch o' adventurers.

- Ah, and here you have it.

Green Dragon, just in time.

- Hey, Dooley!

- Green Dragon, Ivy.

- My favorites!

- What's in it?

- Peach bitters, Kümmel, lemon juice, mint, and gin.

- And memories.

Before the war, I had Green Dragons at the Savoy Hotel.

- Here?

In London?

- Well, of course, in London, y'eejit!

- And during the war, there was someone sweet and innocent, and so, so dear.

And now the war's over, and I'm searching for him.

- Disappeared, did he, colleen?

- Oh, he lives in the states, but he's not answering his telephone or my letters.

- You think he's- - His work takes him all over the world.

So I'll keep searching.

And I know that he's searching for me.

- All over the world?

- All over the world.

I should go.

Thanks, Dooley.

- My pleasure, colleen.

- Nice to have met you, Mr.

Hennessey.

- Likewise.

- I'm going out through the back.

I'll turn out the lights out in the dressing room.

- Hey, there's still some left in the glass.

Mind if I try it?

- It's paid for.

- All right, then.

Whoo!

That'd wake the dead an' all their cousins!

I believe I'll just read the newspaper, consider whether I plan on leavin' this pub upright or crawlin'.

- [Dooley] Assumin' you can see well enough to read.

- Oh, look here.

(door creaking) Over in Nuremberg, they're holdin' trials on a buncha Nazis.

- Hang 'em all, sez I.

- They'll hang most of 'em.

- And sure, who are you now?

- I'm a crackerjack reporter and news is my meat.

And here in my hand is the open sesame that swings wide all portals.

- [Hennessey] What's that?

- That, my ossified bar fly, is my press pass.

Margo Mason of the Daily Star.

- Ooh, an American.

- You catch on fast, my sozzled friend.

Let me see that paper.

Ah, you'll notice the story you've been reading was written by yours truly, picked up by the A.P., and distributed through newspapers all over the world, including this rag you've been holding in your quivering paws.

- What can we do for you, Miss?

- I'm over here writing about war recovery.

What about you?

- What about me?

- How are you recovering?

- Well, I'm drinking less.

- He is.

- I am.

- I'm drinking more.

- He is.

- I am.

- Practice makes perfect.

- [Hennessey] Yeah, just tryin' to keep things evened out.

- [Margo] Look at this.

Restoration work on Stonehenge.

- The article says, bein' 5,000 years old, it needed tidyin' up.

- And look who's doing the tidying, Jimmy Salton and his crew.

- [Hennessey] You know 'im?

- I'm the bane of his existence.

I just might drop by.

I've always wanted to see Stonehenge.

So listen, fellas, I need to send a telegram, but the telegraph office next door is closed.

- It's late.

- [Margo] When's it open tomorrow?

- Don't know.

In my whole life, I've never sent a telegram.

- Is it a singin' telegram?

- Probably not.

- Oh, too bad.

- I was gonna wire my editor to have a rewrite man ready.

I'll call in a story tomorrow afternoon.

- You won't be singin' it, then?

- [Margo] No.

- Don't be payin' attention to Hennessey, he's had one too many.

- (laughs) I've had seven too many.

- That yours there on the bar?

- Oh, no.

- That's a Green Dragon.

- Green Dragon.

Green Dragon.

Sounds familiar.

Well, thanks for the help.

Gotta go.

(door creaking) - Hey, she took my paper!

(music) - (sighs) Good dinner, Jaeger.

- Very tasty.

- We here at the Tabard Inn aims to satisfy, 'specially you Stonehenge folks.

Dolly does all the cookin'.

I'll tell her what you said about the food.

- I see you have rabbit on your menu.

- Well, yes, General, when we can get it.

- Wait a minute, I'm comin' over.

You askin' about the rabbit, General?

- I am, Dolly.

- We don't got rabbit nearly as much as we use to did.

- Right.

Used to was, the military grounds, Salisbury Plain, next door had millions of 'em.

We'd go over with shotguns and get 'em on the menu.

You know Nikki, your waitress?

- Of course.

- Her mom would go with us.

She was the best shot, hands down.

She'd even hand load our ammunition.

- She'd make bullets?

- Shells, Weems.

Shotgun shells.

- That's right, Mister Salton!

We even got shells with rock salt.

Still have 'em, chase away the foxes tryna get the rabbits we had in our sights.

But then the military began trainin' for the war, an' them rabbits migrated over to Stonehenge.

- And became our problem.

Along with the predator.

- Some of us wouldn't mind helpin' you with that.

- Oh, I'm afraid the cost of accident insurance for civilian hunters would be prohibitive!

It would cost a... Oh, let me get my slide rule.

- [General] No, please don't.

- Let me get you one of my shotguns.

(door creaking) And some boxes of shells, salt loads, too, for the foxes and the like.

- [Jimmy] Nah, you don't have to do that.

- Ah, sure I do.

Here's a shotgun and a case of rock salt shells.

That's 250 rounds.

Not a gift, mind you.

A lend.

Well, you folks enjoy yourselves.

We got things to do in the kitchen.

Come on, Dolly, you wash, I'll dry.

- How 'bout you wash and I dry?

Why do I always- - Good dinner.

Meat 'n' potatoes.

- Not enough meat.

- The war may be over, Mr.

Weems, but rationing's still going on.

- I just might take my culinary business elsewhere.

- (laughs) And good luck with that, Mr.

Weems.

- This is one of the few inns left in Anesbury, and we're only two miles from that worksite.

- My mattress is lumpy.

- Now, I can get you into one of the crew tents at Stonehenge.

- You'll be right where the work is.

I'll call up the foreman and reserve you a cot.

- Cots are never lumpy.

- Oh, uh, well, nevermind.

- And General, got any issues with supplies or crew?

- I hesitate to mention it, but we're losing men on a daily basis.

- [Jimmy] Why?

- They're being frightened away by ghosts.

(eerie music) - Ghosts?

- Aw, they're drinkin'.

- The ghosts are drinking?

- No, I mean- - How do they look?

- Who?

- The ghosts.

Like Jacob Marley or "Curse of the Cat People?"

- By all reports, rather amorphous, Mr.

Weems, and they seem to flicker.

- [Weems] Flicker?

- Like a bad radio transmission.

- Radio ghosts!

- It's the bunk.

- Men think it's some sort of curse.

- Stonehenge is old.

- About 5,000 years old.

- 5,000 years is plenty of time to put together a curse.

- (laughs) I suppose it is.

Now, let's get back to business.

- North crew's got 27 and 32 raised and timber shored.

The crew's excavating the last five feet and getting ready to put down the concrete forms.

So Mr.

Weems.

Supplies?

- Ah.

Yes!

We have more concrete and steel coming tomorrow.

I've calculated the areas, volumes and distances with my new Pickett and Eckel Deci Point Magnesium 12 slide rule.

It comes in a slip case.

Leather.

- Yeah.

Nice.

- Now, I could have used my Rietz slide rule, but it's harder to read because the slide is narrow and the R and Q scales are reversed.

Now, on the other hand, the Faber Castell Electro 319 has extra- - And there's our waitress now!

Hello, Nikki.

- Hello, General.

Would anyone like dessert?

- No, but we're grateful for your timing.

I'll have another gin and tonic, please.

- Scotch.

Neat.

- Oh, you know, I would like dessert.

- We have- - I would like a Gateau Saint Honore' puff pastry with caramel and whipped Chantilly cream- - Here we go.

- We don't.

We don't have that.

I don't even know what it- - Ah, well, then, a croquembouche puff pastry tower with choux balls and sugar threads.

Now, of course, I could never eat it all myself, so we can all share- - We, we don't have that, either.

- What do you have?

- Ice cream.

- A list of flavors?

- Vanilla.

- And?

- Vanilla.

- Ah, I'll have another drink then.

Green Dragon.

- Good.

Thank you.

I'll tell the barman.

- She's clearly embarrassed they don't have the Gateau Saint-Honore.

- Yeah, you expectin' a village of 5,000 to have some unpronounceable Frenchy cake?

- (sighs) It's fine.

- Yeah.

Good thing you taught the barman how to make a Green Dragon.

- It reminds me of Ivy.

- How's the search going?

- Not good.

I went back to Egypt first- - [General] Where we first met her, during the war.

- And had that whole mummy business.

- She wasn't there.

- She could be back in London.

- I've made inquiries, it takes time and work gets in the way.

- Oh, you mean that thing that pays you money to live and eat croquet bushes?

- Croquembouche.

- Yeah, what I said.

(door creaking) - I didn't finish telling you.

Now I could have calculated everything with my Frederick Post Company Slide-rule.

Oh, here's a fun fact, though it's called Frederick, but it's made in Japan.

Isn't that hilarious?

- Oh, sure.

(door creaking) - What a beauty, oh, 15 millimeters long with a gorgeous leather.

- Well, look what the Cheshire cat dragged in.

- Ms.

Mason!

- Good to see you!

- How about you, Jimmy?

Good to see me?

- Depends.

- On what?

- On how long I see you.

- You've missed me.

- Think so?

- What if you never saw me again?

- Let's give it a try.

- I can't be that cruel.

- What're you doin' here, Margo?

- Writing stories.

- [Jimmy] For comic books?

- I'd never had interfere with your literature.

- Writin' for the same paper?

- The Daily Star.

- No other office?

- Nope.

- Doesn't bother you?

- They know they can't afford me.

- [Jimmy] What stories?

- London after the war.

- London's 90 miles away.

- 88 miles.

- 88.3 miles.

- Thank you, Weemsy.

- Yeah, what're you doing here at Stonehenge?

- Heard there was a ghost.

- You heard wrong.

(eerie music) - My hearing's 20-20.

- That's your vision.

- That's my insight.

- So I'm hearing.

- What about the ghosts?

- No such thing as ghosts.

- Sometimes you're wrong.

- Sometimes I am.

- So many times.

- You're trouble, Margo.

- Excuse me.

Your drinks.

- Thank you, Nikki.

- Um, Mister Salton, I was wondering, do you think there might be a chance of employment with your Stonehenge group?

- You lookin' for work?

- My mother and I. We lost Papa during the war and... (door creaking) Oh, there's mother to take me home.

Over here, Mother!

(door thuds) - You ready to go, Nikki?

- Let me get my things.

I'll be right back.

- [General] Good evening, Mrs.

Duke.

- Hiya!

- Nikki says you might be lookin' for work?

- That's my girl.

Yep, we have a farm, but we're not making the money we made during the war.

- You have a farm?

A real farm?

- (laughs) A real farm.

During the war, we raised cattle to supply ration kits for the soldiers.

- Ah, the farm life!

The smell of wet hay in the morning.

Chickens jumping out of the hay now and flying overhead, greeting the rising sun with the melodious song!

- Weems- - Getting up early and milking the cows and goats and pigs!

- We had people hired to slaughter the stock, cure, and preserve the meat and salt brine- - Oh, like corned beef.

- For ration kits.

We had quite the nice little factory.

- I'm ready, Mother.

- Your mother was telling us about your farm.

- And we also worked at the Spitfire factory, both of us, building planes, and I made a little extra money crop dusting.

- [Weems] You're a pilot?

- She has her own plane.

- Tiger Moth DH-82, with modifications.

- So you're like Amelia Earhart.

- I'm better than Amelia Earhart.

- Oh.

- Better-lookin', too.

- Mother!

- Hold on!

You were building Spitfires at a factory?

- Yes, ma'am.

That big deserted factory on the edge of town.

- Spitfires!

Combat planes!

- The Luftwaffe destroyed the factories up north.

- Yeah, so the RAF had the Spitfires built in secret factories.

The one here was the center of it.

- Lots of us worked there.

If the Axis powers found out, they'd bomb us, too.

So it was top secret.

- But Jimmy, you knew about them.

- People tell me things.

- I guess they do.

- It's my honest face.

- Looks can be deceiving.

- Comes in handy.

- People tell me things, too.

- You pester 'em 'til they do.

- I'm a reporter.

- That's what I hear.

- I ask the questions.

- And that's the difference.

- Not the only difference.

- See, I don't have to ask questions.

- That right?

- Know why?

- Your honest face?

- Bingo.

- So now the factory jobs are gone, and people have moved away.

- Inns and cafes closed up.

Farms stopped farmin'.

- Mattresses stopped being comfortable.

- Oh, here comes Mr.

Jaeger.

- What am I hearin'?

You are not quittin', are you, Nikki?

- Oh, no, Mr.

Jaeger.

I'll work here as long as you'll have me.

- We still have a few crops on the farm that we sell to the Jaegers and a few families.

- Don't know what we'd do without that farm.

Maude here's the best farmer.

- And the best pilot.

- And the best shot.

- It's settled, then, you two are hired.

- Thank you!

- Thanks a lot!

- Hey, congratulations!

- Oh, Maude, we're gonna need some maize and some onions for dinner tomorrow.

- Gotcha.

- Oh, and salt.

I know you've got plenty of that.

- [Nikki] Yes'm.

We do.

- Barrels of it.

- You work tomorrow, Nikki?

You could bring it when you come.

- [Nikki] No, sir.

It's my day off.

- Well, we'll send Carmine, then.

- We'll have it ready.

Come on, Nikki.

Good night, everybody.

Good to have metcha.

(door creaking) - Say, Mr.

Jaeger, you think there might be another room at the inn?

- These days we always got rooms.

- Good.

Sign me up.

I got a feeling there are some stories right here.

- Get her a room far away from mine.

- Won't have to listen to the snoring through the walls.

- That's right, I won't.

- Oh, say, any of you know why somebody would be following me?

- What?

(eerie music) - Somebody's following me, I think, ever since my plane landed.

- You're sure?

- Just a feeling.

- Maybe a ghost.

- You seen any ghosts?

- I haven't.

I didn't even know we had ghosts.

- We don't!

- Newspapers say you do.

- [Jimmy] Newspapers haven't been here.

- They're here now.

We'll see about ghosts.

- [Jimmy] Booshwah!

- Well, let's finish our drinks.

Work comes early tomorrow morning!

(bright music) (people chattering) Concrete forms are ready, Jim.

- Now, we're on schedule.

Should stay that way if the weather cooperates.

- Excuse me, are you James Salton?

- Yeah.

What do you need?

- Yeah, I wanted to ask you about- - Higgins!

- Yes, sir.

- We're losin' the light.

Tell 'em to finish up.

- Yes, sir.

Finish up, everybody!

Getting' too dark to work!

- Now, what do you need?

- And even more important, how did you get past the guard at the gate?

- Oh.

Oh, well, I showed the guard my badge.

I'm Sergeant Paine of the police.

- Oh, what can we do for you, Sergeant?

- Well, first I want to tell you that I've, I've read of your adventures, you and your, your men, your group of adventurers.

A very impressive.

I'm a bit of a fan.

- Yeah, see, we don't really set out to have adventures.

I'm an archeologist, not a swashbuckler.

- Oh, of course, of course.

But, but I've read all the newspaper stories and, and I've seen all the newsreels.

The werewolf, the mummies, the, the vampire.

Oh, very impressive.

- Yeah, so what's your angle?

You want an autograph?

- Oh, (laughs) no, no, no.

Well, maybe.

But not right now.

- Yeah.

Good.

I forgot to bring my 8-by-10 glossies.

- [Paine] No, no, I'm here officially.

- How officially?

- Well, I'm following up on reports of, um, an unusual number of ghosts being sighted on and near Stonehenge.

- An unusual number?

Is there such a thing as a usual number of ghosts?

- Well, no.

I mean, well... Oh, I see, (laughs) you are making a joke!

(laughs) Very humorous.

- Sergeant, we're restoring and preserving a national treasure.

- Yeah, there's nothing in our contract about ghosts.

Know why?

- Well, no, I wouldn't imagine- - Because there's no such thing as ghosts!

Now, if you'll- - It's a ghost!

Don't touch it!

- Mister Salton!

Mister Salton!

Look, look!

- [Jimmy] Yeah, yeah, I see it up there.

- Well, that's unusual.

- Remarkable.

All the arms or tendrils or tendrils!

Any idea what it could be?

- Not a clue.

But it's not a ghost.

- It's not?

- It's not, because there's no such thing as ghosts.

- Well, perhaps, Mr.

Salton, you should tell the ghost.

(gentle music) - [Jimmy] Carmine!

- Yes, Mister Salton.

- Another scotch.

- Coming up!

(Bardolph laughing) - I'm keeping my eye on our crew over at that corner table.

- Matthias and Bardolph.

Matthias is okay, Jim, but Bardolph's a troublemaker, I'll have another gin and tonic, too, Carmine.

- Yes, sir.

- On my tab, Carmine.

- Another for me too, please.

- Thanks, Jim.

- On my tab.

- Thank you.

- This seat taken, Weemsy?

- Oh, no, Miss Mason.

- Thanks.

Carmine!

A Manhattan!

- Yes, ma'am.

- On your tab, Jimmy?

- I don't wanna encourage your habit.

- What?

Drinking?

- No, expecting me to pay for it.

- I never have.

- Then it's working.

- I didn't sign up for no ghost!

- [General] Escalating.

- Mm-hm.

- So I hear you saw a ghost today?

- They did!

- Don't know what we saw.

- It had lots of floating tentacles and wisps and strands and- - It wasn't a ghost.

- It wasn't?

- No such thing as ghosts.

- I gotta say, Jimmy, you stick to your guns.

Here.

Smile.

- Hey!

You can't do that!

- Constitution says I can.

"Congress shall make no law abridging the freedom of the press.

- [Carmine] You'll drink, Mr.

Salton.

- [Jimmy] Thanks.

- General.

- Thank you, Carmine.

- That Manhattan's gonna take a minute longer, Ms.

Mason.

- That's fine, Carmine.

- And yours, too, Mr.

Weems.

- Art takes time, Carmine.

- Hey, a little service here!

Can I get a little service!

- Escalating.

- Be ready.

- Hey.

- [General] I am.

- I asked for service!

- No.

- Gimme 'nother drink!

- Come on, Tom, let's go home.

- No!

Gimme 'nother drink!

- Oh, I can't give you another drink, Mr.

Bardolph.

- [Bardolph] Oh, yeah!

- I could sell you another drink.

- Then sell me another drink.

- I can't do that either.

- Why you- - Hit the road, Bardolph.

- You jes' stay outta the way, Salton.

- Or what?

- Or this!

- (laughs) Y'missed.

I won't.

(fist thuds) Now pick him up and get him outta here, Matthias.

- Yes, sir.

(object clattering) Up y'go, Tom.

(Bardolph groans) - Oh, and when he wakes up, tell him he's sacked.

- What happened?

- Oh, come on, stand up.

- Where're my car keys?

- Oh, you're not drivin'.

Oh, I'm walkin' you home.

(door creaking) - Well, that was exciting for about 30 seconds.

- I don't like drunks and I don't like bullies, and I especially don't like drunken bullies.

- Now, where were we?

- Ghosts.

- Ah!

So General, what did you see?

- Well, Ms.

Mason, a mirage, some sort of transparent, flickering projection.

- Like a motion picture.

Yeah, somebody's playin' tricks.

Tryin' to scare the crew.

- It hung in the air and then it flew upward and disappeared.

- A projection.

- Yes.

- [Margo] From where?

- Perhaps light rays refracted by various densities of air.

In fact, such mirages may be seen quite regularly due to temperature inversions in the Strait of Messina between Calabria and Sicily, ships over the horizon seem to be floating above the water.

- Actual ships.

- That's right.

- All right, so what actual creature was just over the horizon that wound up floating in the air at Stonehenge, which, you'll notice, isn't a body of water?

- Oh, for the luvva- - [Weems] See, that's what I was thinking.

- Just the sort of question I'd expect from a good newspaper reporter, Ms.

Mason.

- Can you answer it?

- I am afraid I can't.

- [Margo] Figured.

- It popped and crackled.

- Odd for a ghost.

They don't generally pop and crackle.

- Right.

They usually make moaning sounds.

And rattle chains and move the furniture around and say things in spooky voices like, "In life, I was your partner, Jacob Marley," or "Upon my secure hour thy uncle stole with juice of cursed hebona in a vial and in the porches of my ears did pour-" - That's enough, Weems.

- Yeah, okay.

- Nicely delivered, though.

- [Weems] Oh, you think so?

- The bard would be proud.

- [Weems] Oh!

(indistinct) - [Carmine] Your drink, Ms.

Mason.

- [Margo] Thanks, Carmine.

- [Jimmy] Hey, Carmine, tell me something.

- [Carmine] Sure.

Mr.

Salton.

- You ever seen a ghost?

- No, sir.

- You believe in 'em?

- I don't know.

- [Jimmy] What do you mean?

- Well, I've never seen a kangaroo, either, but I've heard enough about 'em to know they're real.

- Touche'.

A hit!

A very palpable hit.

- Or the Loch Ness Monster.

- Yeah, the Loch Ness Monster isn't real, Carmine.

- Tell that to the Loch Ness Monster, Mr.

Salton.

- Ladies and gentlemen, I give you the great Carmine Sark!

(door creaking) (door thuds) - All right, walk this way.

Don't give me any trouble!

- What's goin' on, Sergeant?

- I arrested a Russian spy lurkin' outside, hidin' in the bushes, lookin' in the window.

- How do you know this is a Russian spy?

- The, the, the big furry hat with the ear flaps pulled down almost past her eyes.

And the accent.

- Well, pull it off, let's see who you caught.

- Yes, sir!

- Surprise, Jimmy, it is I myself!

Irena Rostapovich!

Famous soldier of fortune!

- [Jimmy] Rusty!

- Rusty.

What are you doing here?

(Rusty speaking in foreign language) - You know this spy?

- I am not spy!

I am soldier of fortune!

- A mercenary, then.

- No!

A mercenary is for money.

Soldier of fortune is for adventure!

- Adventure?

- Also money.

- We know her.

- She's an old friend.

- Okay, well, if you say so.

I'll just unlock her hand- - Oh, here are being your nice handcuffs.

(handcuffs clatters) - Oh, how did you- - And your badge.

- [Paine] Hey, wait a minute.

- What are you doing here, Rusty?

- I am having to be defecting, Weeds!

- Leaving Russia?

- I was not being home so much, anyway, General.

Do you know why little policeman?

- Why?

- Because I do not like Stalin and Stalin does not like me.

- How do you know that?

- He said to me.

- Oh.

- Can't argue with that.

- And also because I am citizen of world!

You have had some hearing of me.

- No.

I don't think so.

- Well, I am being so sorry you lived many years in peshchera.

- What's peshchera?

- Cave.

- Well, no, I- - But if you are comrade to Jimmy, the General and Wigs- - That's Weems- - Then you are comrade also to me.

- How'd you find us, Rusty?

- I made you follow Margo Mason.

- I knew it!

But why me?

- Because I knew you would soon to be with Jimmy.

- [Jimmy] What?

(Rusty speaking in foreign language) - Yeah, what's that mean?

- Is Russian for you are love- - Untranslatable.

- Now we celebrate!

Cigars being for everyone!

Here!

Is being a whole box!

Very expensive!

One American nickel!

- Apiece?

- For whole box!

Pass out!

- I just might.

- Barmen!

- Oh, um, what can I do for you, senor?

- Wud-kuh for everyone!

- I don't think we have that.

- She means vodka, Carmine.

- Oh, why didn't she say so?

- I did.

Wudkah!

- We've got that.

- Everyone!

Wudkah on my house!

Everyone light cigars!

Even little policemen!

- Oh, thank you, but I'm on duty.

- Mmm.

Sweet, sweet smoke of cigar.

- (coughs) Could you point that cigar over there somewhere?

- Yeah, so what's up, Rusty?

- I am thinking to be hanging up with you, Jimmy.

- Hanging u... You mean around.

- Yes, hanging up around for adventure!

- Not really very much adventure.

- What do you think to be telling me, my sweet comrade?

Already you are having ghosts!

Already you are having adventure!

- Yeah, there's no such thing- - I will be to helping you build Stonehenge and fighting ghosts.

Adwenture!

- We're happy to have you aboard, Rusty.

- Not much money in it for you.

- Old Russian saying, "Big adwenture makes up for little money."

- Is that really an old Russian saying?

- Is now.

- So another member of your team!

That makes five!

- I'm not on the team.

- We didn't want her.

- I didn't ask.

- You knew better.

- A gal's gotta be careful who she's seen with.

- [Jimmy] That's never bothered you before.

- I've tried to be charitable.

- That right?

- Can only help your reputation.

- My reputation?

- Such as it is.

- Oh, we should have membership cards!

- No, we shouldn't have- - And blazers with monograms of our symbol.

- We don't have a symbol.

- Oh, I'll get right on it.

- Could I have a cigar, too?

- Carmine wants a cigar.

- Yes!

Cigar for barmen!

- Thanks.

My uncle used to smoke cigars.

- Your uncle?

Was he a bartender, too?

- No, he was a dynamite loader.

Oh, funny story.

Well, not haha, funny.

See, one day he was smoking a cigar and loading dynamite, and- - Everyone light cigars!

- [Jimmy] I'm gonna save mine for later.

- Me too.

- Yes, um- - I'm gonna smoke mine!

(bright music) - Come on, Bardolph, walk straight.

I'm takin' you home.

- Where are we goin'?

- You're going home.

- What happened?

- You're sacked.

- They can't sack me, I quit.

- [Matthias] Oh, wonderful.

Now we're gonna get rained on.

- [Bardolph] We should, should get a drink.

I'm tired.

- Me too.

And wet.

- Let, let's take the shortcut through the alleyway.

- Oh, good idea, mate.

Hey, watch your step here.

Don't- - Oops.

Oh.

- Darker here than I figured.

- What's that?

- It's just a dog.

See it?

- [Bardolph] Oh, yeah!

Shoo!

Go away!

- Bloody hell!

There's somethin' comin' outta that dog!

It's growin'.

- Don't let it touch me!

- Run, Bardolph!

- Don't let it touch me!

- Come on!

Run!

Somebody help!

- No!

No!

(indistinct) Stop!

Let me go!

Let me go, you can't.

(screams) - Turnin' out to be a clear mornin', General.

- [General] Storm last night.

- Not much of one.

We'll get the concrete poured here in 27.

Say, where are the concrete forms?

- Here comes Higgins!

Nigel what's going on?

- We have a problem, the bottom's fell outta the hole.

- What?

- Look, I'll aim my torch down there.

See that?

There's a sorta floor about 20 feet down.

Seems solid.

Some sorta cave or something.

- None of the surveys indicate caves.

- And there was slime trails comin' out about three feet wide.

Lots of 'em.

Goin' off in all direction.

Shiny, like snails do.

- Don't see any slime trails now.

- They, I don't know, melted.

- Were you here when this happened?

- [Nigel] No, sir.

Was after hours.

- Anybody work late last night?

- Bardolph.

- He was here?

I fired him last night.

- I didn't know that.

- Yeah, maybe he dug up somethin', fungus, pulled it up and dragged it off, left trails.

- Fungus don't just disappear.

It's the ghosts.

- Jim, look.

- [Jimmy] It's Bardolph.

- Bardolph!

Over here!

Wanna ask you somethin'.

- What may I do to help?

- Didn't I fire you?

- Yes.

I misbehaved last night.

I am good now.

- When did you get here this morning?

- I got here before the morning light.

- You noticed anything unusual?

- [Bardolph] No.

- All right.

You can go.

We'll talk about your job later.

- Yes, thank you.

I will go work.

- Well, that was strange.

- [Nigel] Yes, sir.

- Now, we're losin' time.

Get that hole filled up to spec.

- Yes, sir, we tried that.

Must have sent five tons of dirt down there.

It just sort of rolled off.

Disappeared from where we could see it.

Hole wouldn't fill up.

And there was sounds coming out.

- What kind of sounds?

- Sounds like them ghosts make.

Kinda whispery.

- Underground stream, maybe.

- Yeah.

- You see water, Higgins?

- No, sir.

Looked bone dry.

- If it were streamflow, we'd still be hearing it.

- All right, Higgins- - Sir.

- Get some flashlights and climbing gear.

- The men ain't goin' down there, sir.

Me neither.

On accounta the ghosts.

- There's no... All right, get the gear.

I'll go down there.

- Me too.

- What's this?

Where are you going?

- The hole here, you see it?

- Yes.

- And we gotta figure out what happened.

It's not supposed to be this deep.

- We need to rebuild the forms.

- Oh, we have to go in and remeasure the size and shape of the hole.

- Gonna put us behind.

- Oh, it's gotta be done, so you can make the forms and know the cubic yards of concrete needed.

And that's my department with my trusty slide rule.

I should go.

Wait, is it safe?

- Safe as houses, for as we know.

Just a cave we didn't know about.

- Good.

Then I'll go down there, too.

You may not know this about me, but I was quite a spelunker in my day.

- I don't know, Weems.

- Cubic yards are my bailiwick.

That's what a slide rule is for!

Oh, I can use my Fuller's cylindrical slide rule.

It has a helical main scale that takes 50 turns around the cylinder.

- That right?

- That's what an instrument of considerable precision.

Now, why is it cylindrical, you ask?

- I didn't ask.

- Exactly.

Being cylindrical, it's equivalent to a traditional slide rule a thousand inches long.

Isn't that remarkable?

- Remarkable.

- Yeah, so you are going to need me and my slide rule, going down with you and measuring the area.

And I would not take no for an answer.

- All right, all right.

Fine.

Climbing gear, a couple of good carbide lamps and flashlights.

- Oh, I love flashlights.

- For three.

- Yes, sir.

- Come on, General, let's look at eight and nine.

We'll be back in half an hour, Higgins?

- Yes, sir.

(gentle music) (door creaking) - Mrs.

Jaeger, where would... Oh, I didn't know you had company.

(door creaking) - Ms.

Mason, I'm glad you're here.

- We want you to meet the Reverend Wall.

- How do you do?

- Yeah, hi.

Margo Mason.

- Devin Wall.

- The reverend's got quite a followin' in Amesbury.

- Oh, Salisbury, too.

- Do tell.

- And up in Devizes and Marlborough.

- You get around.

- His church is just outside the village.

- Our tabernacle in the wilderness.

We call it "Oh-el Mo-ed."

- It's Bible talk.

It means tent of meeting.

- Ah.

A tent.

- I sense displeasure.

- That's my perfume.

- The Lord has sent me here to witness the end days.

- End days?

- Sister Dolly!

Have the people not seen the Nephilim?

- We have, Reverend Wall!

- What?

- The ghosts, Miss Mason!

- Those are Nephilim?

- Yes.

- I'll be darned.

What are Nephilim?

- 2 Samuel 21:20.

Speaks of giants with six long fingers on each hand and six long toes on each foot!

- Don't you see?

24 long, floating fingers and a tail like the devil and a fierce, horrible face.

The ghost with their waving long fingers and toes!

- But they ain't ghosts.

They're Nephilim.

- You should read your Bible, Ms.

Mason.

- I've seen the movie.

- Genesis 6.

There were Watchers who came down to the Earth and found mates among human women.

And their offspring were Nephilim in the earth in those days!

And the Nephilim were evil, and the Lord brought the great flood to wash away the Nephilim!

- That was the first time the world was destroyed.

- Noah, right?

- Yes.

Noah and the great flood!

They have returned!

And the end times are upon us!

- Well, that's bad news.

- The Nephilim built Stonehenge, Ms.

Mason.

5,000 years ago.

- The reverend had a vision.

- Oh.

A vision.

- And as Stonehenge falls, the rocks will cry out, the Nephilim come back to usher in the end times and the earth will be destroyed by fire!

- You seem awfully enthusiastic about it.

- But your Mr.

Salton is restoring Stonehenge, which is against scripture!

As it says in Revelations, Ms.

Mason, with the end of Stonehenge comes the end times!

- I had no idea Stonehenge is mentioned in the Bible.

- The reverend- - Had a vision.

- Finally, Satan and his followers will be cast into the lake of fire!

And there will be a new Earth, cleansed of sin, sorrow, and death!

- Hardly wait.

- Well, I should get along.

- The reverend has the Lord's work to do.

- Connar, Dolly, I will see you Sunday morning.

- We'll be there.

- A blessing to have met you, Ms.

Mason.

- Yeah, I met you, too.

(door creaking) - Now, what can we do for you, Ms.

Mason?

- I just need to buy some supplies.

Toothpaste, toothbrush, comb and a brush- - Oh, just down the street, on the west side, you'll find the chemist.

They'll have everything you need.

- Thanks.

I'll be back soon.

(door creaking) - So what's on the menu tonight?

- Do we still have potatoes in the cellar?

- Oh, I believe we do.

- Good.

And if we still have some of that corned beef down there- - We do.

- Praise the Lord.

- And praise the military surplus.

- Go make sure.

I'm gonna have Carmine go out to the Duke farm for some fresh produce.

- Potatoes and corned beef.

- And apples.

If we have any apples left that haven't gone bad, I can make apple crumble for dessert!

Connar!

You hear me down there?

What's that noise?

- No!

No!

Get back!

- What, what?

I can't hear you!

- No!

Get back!

- What are you saying?

Oh, what's that noise?

Feels like it's in my head!

Are you doin' that?

Connar?

Connar?

(bright music) Connar, did you- (screams) (door knocking) (door creaking) - Ah, Reverend Wall.

- Madam Odette.

I've come for my monthly offering from your ladies.

- Yes.

You could be useful.

- Well, that's quite flattering.

- Come in.

- Thank you.

(door creaking) (door thuds) Whoa!

(bright music) - I'm back!

Mrs.

Jaeger?

Hm.

Well, I'll just take these things to my room.

Oh, hiya, Carmine!

(door creaking) - Evenin' Miss Mason.

- You know where the Jaegers are?

- When?

- Recently?

- Oh, can I have a hint?

- No, it's not a contest, Carmine.

I don't know, either.

- Oh.

So neither one of us wins.

- I guess not.

- I'm here to get a grocery list from Mrs.

Jaeger.

(door creaking) - Oh, here they come.

- [Carmine] They were in the cellar.

- Carmine.

- Yes, ma'am.

- You are to go to the Duke farm and get produce.

- Okay, good.

(door thuds) - I have a list.

Here it is.

- Thanks.

- They know you are coming.

We have arranged for everything to be ready.

- We need maize.

A great deal of maize.

- So you'll go into the field to get maize.

Everything- - Will be ready.

Right.

Oh, say, Mrs.

Jaeger, you've got a little trickle of blood there on the edge of your mouth.

- Blood.

Oh.

- She cut herself shaving.

- Women don't shave.

- I was shaving Mr.

Jaegar.

- She was shaving me.

- And I cut myself.

- On your mouth.

All right then.

Hey, Carmine, mind if I come along?

- I'd like that, Miss Mason.

- Yes, it would be good.

- It would be very good.

- Very good.

- Well, good.

- Good.

- I'd like to see that farm.

- Oh, we'd better go before it gets too dark.

- Right behind you, Carmine.

Strange to see you both.

Oh, if you folks see the end times coming, go ahead and eat my dinner.

(bright music) (door creaking) - Yeah, somethin' feels wrong down here.

And there's that whispery sound.

Come on, Weems, come on down.

Hurry up.

- This isn't easy, you know, I'm not Tarzan.

- We would never accuse you of that.

- [Jimmy] Yeah, kick out against the earth wall and use the momentum.

- [Weems] Kick against the wall, then, woo!

(Jimmy grunts) - [Weems] Oh, I fell.

- Yes, you did.

- You caught me.

- I didn't so much catch you as wind up under you.

- Oh, at least my slide rule survived.

- Yeah.

- And my tape measure.

Oh, look how bright it is down here.

- Yeah, that's the carbide lamp.

Don't touch it.

You'll get burned.

- Well, I'll just set about getting measurements.

- Oh, good.

Hey, General, what are we standing on here?

- Oh, there's a thin layer of loose dirt.

- Yeah, comes off easy.

Huh!

Look at this.

- Metal.

Well, that's unexpected.

- Hey, over here.

A hole.

Shine the light down there.

- Some sort of compartment or- - Now, Weems!

C'mere!

- What?

- Look here, look, an underground room.

- Seems to be.

- You wanna go down, General?

- I believe we must.

- I don't believe we must.

I mean, I don't, I mean, I believe I mustn't.

- You weren't invited.

- Oh, good.

- Yeah, we'll leave the carbide lamp for you.

Come on, General.

- Right behind you, Jim.

(footsteps plodding) - Ah, what is this?

- Shine your light over here.

See that?

- Yeah, looks like a star map.

No constellations I recognize.

- At least not from our angle.

Look here.

Cygnus.

Vulpecula.

There's the Sagittarius arm.

- Yeah, but backwards and sideways.

- Cygnus is marked.

And here's earth.

- It's marked, too.

You're telling me there's things a spaceship from Cygnus?

- No.

Not yet, anyway.

- Hey, there's a hatch here.

- [General] Another room?

- How's this thing open?

Maybe this here.

Oh, there we go.

Yeah, look at these!

All lined up!

- Large pods.

- This one's broken.

- [General] Can you see what's in it?

- Oh, come look at this!

- And there's our town ghost.

Multiple arms?

- I guess arms.

Or legs.

Looks like a jellyfish?

- [General] Or an octopus.

- Crossed with a nightmare.

Proves my point.

- [General] Which is?

- No such thing as ghosts.

Only monsters.

- I believe I prefer ghosts.

- Whatever it is, it's dead.

Dried out.

- But these pods over here, they appear to be alive.

- Yeah, asleep.

Some empty ones over here.

- [General] Empty?

- Those slime trails!

- Some of those creatures are loose!

(gentle music) - So this is the Duke farm.

- Yes, ma'am.

- Look at that cornfield!

- Maize.

- And pasture land.

For the cattle.

- No cattle anymore.

- Yeah, so I hear.

This is a pretty big door for a barn.

- That's for the airplane.

- It's in here?

- Yes, ma'am.

We're go in through the little door for people.

- Say, Carmine, speaking of people, did the Jaegers seem a little different to you?

- Yes, they did.

- So how different?

- Well, they both shaved.

- No, I mean- - Oh, you're right.

- See?

- Mrs.

Jaeger never had a beard.

(door creaking) - Wow, there is an airplane in here!

- Hello, anybody home?

- Up here!

Crawlin' around on the plane!

That you, Carmine?

- Yes, I'm pretty sure.

- Got my hands full.

I'll come down.

Here, catch this!

- Look out.

- Oof!

Got it.

- What is that?

- Carburetor.

- Look, can I have it?

- Sure.

No good to me.

Look out and a perfect two-point landing.

- I'm gonna plant flowers in it.

- It might be good for that.

It was never very good as a carburetor.

- I'll probably paint it.

- Where's Nikki?

- At the inn.

- Maybe I'll trim it with some fringe.

- I thought she didn't work tonight.

- She doesn't.

Went to pick up her paycheck.

Well, you came for the onions, right here, and salt.

I've still got about five barrels of salt.

- And corn.

- Corn?

- Maize.

- Oh, right.

You got about 15 minutes.

- I think so.

- Oh, come on, let's go pick some corn.

- You mean maize?

- (laughs) Hold down the fort, Carmine, I'm gonna teach Margo how to pick maize.

- I'll be here.

You got any paint?

- Check those shelves.

(bright music) - How do we do this?

- Pick out an ear that looks good, pull it down, pop it off, put it in the bag.

Ready?

- [Margo] Ready.

- Into the maize.

- I've never done this before.

This is fun.

(laughs) Closest I'll ever get to farming!

Oh, look at that.

Pops right off.

(laughs) Popcorn!

(laughs) And another one!

And into the bag.

And another.

Well, this won't take long at all.

- I can't hear you!

We're too far apart!

- You're over there?

I thought you were... Wait a minute.

Are you, are you over there?

I thought... Well, now you're over... What, what's that?

Hey!

Hey, let go!

Let go!

Let.

Me.

Go!

Maude?

Maude!

- What?

- Run!

- Margo!

Head for the open field!

- Here it is ahead.

- Margo!

- I'm out!

Keep running!

The road's just up the... (Margo breathing deeply) (guns firing) What is that thing?

And who's shooting at it?

- Who's shooting?

Where are you?

- There's Carmine!

Carmine!

Carmine, turn around.

It's coming after you!

Look out!

(Carmine screams) - Oh my gosh!

Maude, look out, it's... (creature screaming) It's stopped.

- Are you all right?

- Yeah.

- What is that thing?

- Just might be a ghost.

- [Maude] Somethin' straight out of hell.

- It got Carmine!

Come on!

- Aw, Carmine.

- That stinger flipped up like a, like a scorpion.

- We'll have to call the police.

- Let's go have a look at this thing.

I think it's dead.

- I hope it is.

- What killed it?

- Maybe whoever was shooting.

- No, it just kept coming after the gunfire.

Who was shooting?

- It was I, Irena Rostapovich!

Famous soldier of fortune also called Rusty!

Trademark, capital R in circle!

- Rusty!

What are you doing here?

- I have telling you, Margomason.

I have made to be following.

- But why?

- Practice.

I am having a particular set of skills.

If you do not lose, you use.

- What killed this thing?

- Let us being to roll it over.

- Yeah, you go right ahead.

- Is being no problem.

(Irena grunts) Hmm.

Places where bullets went.

- [Maude] Didn't stop it, though.

- It hit this thing on the ground and fell.

What is this?

- Big white building block.

- Salt lick.

Left over from when we had livestock.

- Salt lick?

Yes.

Is salt.

- We'd better call the police.

- And tell them what?

- That Carmine was attacked by an animal.

- What do we do with this thing?

- Rusty, can you load it into the back of the truck?

- Da.

Is easy.

- I'll get a tarp outta the barn.

- I'll call Sergeant Paine.

Rusty, you have a vehicle?

- Yeah.

Behind barn.

- Once we've seen to Carmine, we need to go to Stonehenge, I've got a feeling this is only the beginning.

(Pensive music) - [Jimmy] Yeah, look here.

What's this?

- [General] A machine of some sort.

- Yeah, cables.

Follow these along.

- They go through the wall here.

It's been broken out.

- [Jimmy] They shine the light out there.

- [General] It goes into the earth.

- [Jimmy] Now, what could this be for?

- [General] No idea.

- [Jimmy] Now hold on.

Something's happening.

Look that, that's a screen.

There's a, there's a picture coming into focus.

- That's the worksite above us!

- And the ghost.

Hey, hey, hey, wait a minute, wait a minute.

I, I know what the ghost is.

Help me get the cowling off this machine.

- [General] All right.

Okay.

- Now look inside of this thing.

What do you see?

- It appears to be hooked into some sort of power supply.

Oh, it's sparking periodically.

No, no, wait, it's a pattern.

- And this could be a coil.

- [General] Could this be an oscillator?

- And those sparks cause impulses of energy.

- But what cues the sparks?

- My guess, activity aboveground.

So spark, power, coil, oscillator, all together they're- - A radio!

- A radio that sends a signal into space!

The spaceship was here first and then Stonehenge was built on top of it.

- Stonehenge is a parabolic transmitting antenna!

- Bingo!

Built 5,000 years ago.

The internal dish part inside the stone circle.

- Yes!

For support!

- And whenever metal it was, would've been pirated long ago, but the signal kept feeding into where the antenna had been sending a message, including- - Including the image of the space creature sending it!

- [Jimmy] Our ghost!

- This thing must have crashed 5,000 years ago, buried itself, built a transmitter, and sent out an SOS.

Best they could do with broken equipment.

- How long would it take a simple radio like that to reach Cygnus?

- About 5,000 years.

- Yeah, so Stonehenge was built 5,000 years ago, the signal would be reaching Cygnus.

- [General] About now.

- Think it'll take another 5,000 years for the rescuers to come?

- No.

Gravity is a warping of space-time.

These creatures could travel 5,000 light-years with a warp drive.

The signal may have taken 5,000 years, but the response will be considerably shorter.

- So we should get ready for more of these monsters?

- They could be here any time.

(bright music) - And 40 feet.

So then the volume- - Bartholomew Weems.

- Oh, Bardolph.

I didn't know you were down here.

- I am.

- Good.

You can help.

Here, take the end of the measuring tape.

No, not my hand, the end of the- - Come here.

- No, I just want you to... Hey, don't get so handsy.

We're not close friends.

Just behave now.

Just take the measuring tape.

(Bardolph growls) - Hey, stop, stop!

Stop that!

(bright music) - All right, so assuming this is a giant spaceship.

- And the curve in these walls, it's a big around as Stonehenge itself.

- Yeah, we're gonna have to suspend work, and alert the government.

- No time to lose.

- Help!

Help!

- [General] That's Weems!

- He's in trouble.

Come on!

- Get it off me.

Get off.

Let go!

- It's got Weems!

- [Jimmy] Trying to crawl down his throat!

- [General] I can't pull it off!

Can't get a grip!

- Turn him around!

- Around!

- Now push him down!

- Push him.

Oh, he landed on the carbide lamp!

- [Weems] Mmff!

- That was the idea.

It let go!

Weems, roll off!

- (coughs) Would you care to evenly brown me now on the other side?

- Oh, sorry, Weems.

- Oh, just look what the fire's done to the sweater vest.

- The only way I could figure to make it let go.

- It was trying to crawl down my throat.

- [General] Why would it do that?

- It wanted my lunch?

- Where'd it come from?

- From Bardolph.

It came out of his mouth.

- Here's Bardolph's body over here.

Come have a look, Jim.

- [Weems] His body?

- Mr.

Weems, I think this creature, whatever it is, intended to take over your body, the way it took over Bardolph's body.

- Well, it's dead now.

- I don't suppose anyone would have a breath mint.

- [General] Sorry, no.

- Now, General, you go and find one of our empty crates we can use for this thing.

It's stopped burning.

- Nothing worse than the smell of a burning space monster.

- Tell Higgins we need a block and tackle.

We'll get this outta here without panicking the crew.

I have a friend, Dr.

Wilhelmina Blair, in the biology department at the military research lab at Porton Down, about 10 miles from here.

We gotta figure out how these things tick.

- You'd never get it past the guards.

- I'll get her to come here with a surgical kit.

We can use our field office building.

Push some desks together.

I'll call her.

Weems, I want you to find Margo, and bring her here.

- You sure?

- Yeah, I hate to tip her off, but newspapers and radios are the quickest way to warn people.

And Margo's got connections.

We've gotta hurry!

Some of these things are already out.

We don't have much time.

(bright music) (door creaking) - Nikki!

You here?

- Down here, in the cellar.

- Oh, that's not good!

- You come up here this instant, young lady.

(footsteps plodding) - What's the matter?

- What'd you say?

- I said, "What's the matter?"

I don't understand.

- She is okay.

She's using contractions.

- Huh?

- Where are the Jaegers?

- They left here with Reverend Wall.

I think the whole congregation must have been here.

Most of them seem like zombies.

- We've got reports of people wanderin' around like sleepwalkers.

And, and now we've got something outside in the back of a truck that looks like a jellyfish ate an octopus and didn't manage to choke it all down.

- They said they were going to march the Stonehenge and stop the restoration work so the end times could come.

- Great, sleepwalking zombies puppeteered by marmalade monsters attacking big rocks.

I can see the newsreel footage now.

(bright music) - Move that light closer here.

- What are you thinking, Dr.

Blair?

- [Blair] Damndest thing I've ever seen.

- I need more than that, Wil.

- Well, look.

This thing reproduces through binary fission.

- Cut it in two and it's two of the same creature.

- Exactly.

And you needn't do the cutting.

They'll separate themselves.

Asexual reproduction.

They can divide in a rapid pace.

Within 15 minutes, you'd have two.

Within half an hour, four, eight in an hour.

192 in a day.

- Over a thousand in a week!

- And so on.

There are also characteristics of the cephalopod with the use of mucopolysaccharides, they're able to- - Mu, wait, what?

- Oh, uh, mucus, like the snail.

It allows them to propel themselves forward.

And, oh my- - What've you got?

- [Blair] Hand me that glass tray.

- [Jimmy] Yeah.

Here.

- And we put it on the tabletop, upside down, so there's space beneath.

Then we snip off just a bit of jellypus here and put it on the tray.

Now watch.

- Why, it's sliding through the glass.

- Glass isn't porous.

How is- - Subatomic particles are much smaller than the species between atoms.

And under certain conditions, a phenomenon called quantum tunneling allows these particles to tunnel through the energy barriers around atoms.

This creature can impose itself in the same space as another creature.

- That explains how these things can take over humans.

- Occupying the space between atoms!

- [Jimmy] How do we stop 'em?

- We've got the answer to that!

- Is easy as cake!

- Oh my.

- Margo!

You know how to make an entrance.

- Oh, I see you've got one of these things, too.

- We have one out in the truck.

- You can have it if you'd like to own a matched set.

- And it smells bad.

- Indeed it does.

- This is Dr.

Wil Blair, who has told us all about the creature you see splayed on the countertop.

- How do you do.

- Hi.

Weems filled us in on these things.

- I did.

Even the disgusting parts.

- I was right.

- Whaddya mean?

- No such thing as ghost.

- Sergeant Paine.

Good to see you.

I think we may need you.

- I've already notified my chaps.

The streets are full of zombies, possessed by these, these space creatures.

- And there are aliens moving along with the crowd.

Out in the open, like they're herding them.

And they capture new people as they go!

- Reverend Wall and the Jaegers are leading them.

The reverend says that somehow, it's all in the Bible.

- I bet my next paycheck those space monsters never read the Bible.

- Yeah, they got stranded here 5,000 years ago.

Built a primitive radio with a giant dish antenna, Stonehenge itself, to signal back to their planet, then they climbed into sleep pods and waited.

- So Stonehenge is a giant ham radio.

- [Jimmy] Pretty much.

- We think the creatures come from a planet 5,000 light-years from Earth.

The S.O.S.

would've reached them sometime in the last few months.

- A radio wave has to cleave to the speed of light, an actual ship would likely travel through warp drive, folding space together to travel hundreds, thousands of light-years in moments.

- Assuming headquarters got the message.

- Meanwhile, you've got at least a thousand zombies and Land Rover jellyfish coming here to cause some serious outer-space Bible trouble.

- You know how to stop 'em.

- We do.

- The one that chased Margo at the farm died when it came in contact with one of the salt licks.

- Salt dries 'em out and kills 'em.

- Hey, where's Maude?

You didn't bring Maude?

- Maude stayed at the farm.

Said she had an idea.

I've got a shotgun and rock salt shells.

- Now I've got the shotgun and shells Jaeger gave me.

Right here.

- Look out there!

They're coming.

It must be zillions!

- They'll bring this shack down around us!

Everybody out.

We need an advantage.

(gentle music) What're ya doin', Margo?

- Taking pictures!

It's my job!

Here, General.

Here's the shotgun and the shells.

- Oh, Weems, grab those tarps!

General!

The carbide lamps.

(door creaking) Climb the scaffolding, get on top of the sarsen stones!

Hurry!

Up, up!

Blair!

Give Nikki a hand up!

- Got her!

- All the way to the top, people!

Establish a base on the lintels!

Somebody help Weems tear the tarps into strips and knot 'em up.

General, fire up the carbide lamps!

Ah, here they come!

- James Salton!

We exorcise you and your host of impure spirits!

We adjure you to cease in your work on the sacred ground that is Stonehenge!

Genesis 6.

(indistinct) I say unto you- - Is it just me- - That they spring- - Or is the reverend distorting?

- Here, looks like there's somethin' alive in him, workin' his strings, throwin' his switches.

- [General] He's coming apart, bursting at the seams!

- Oh, that's disgusting.

- Yeah.

Look out!

- He exploded.

- [Blair] He was full of those things!

- Nephilim.

- Weems, Weems, light the tarp bombs and throw 'em at the... Whatever the hell those things are.

(crowd roars) - Dropped my camera!

- [Jimmy] Nothing we can do about that!

- I'll be right back.

- Margo!

- I gotta get my camera!

- Come back up here!

- I will be rescuing her, my friend!

Adwenture!

I'm rescuing!

Margomason, with camera!

- No, you- - Gee-Romanov!

- She sees Rusty!

She's trying to reach her.

- She got the camera!

- [General] She got Margo!

- Those things are going after them!

- Go away, jelly zombies!

Mf!

Get off, bad ghosts!

- She's climbing like a monkey!

- And kickin' the devil outta those things!

- [General] Here they come!

- They'd better hurry!

- And we are back!

Rescue!

Adwenture!

- Thanks, Rusty.

- Is job, especially for friends.

- [General] They're climbing the scaffold!

- There are too many of 'em!

What, what's that?

- Mother's crop dusting!

- Crop dusting?

- With salt!

It's raining salt!

- It's killing them!

- And leaving their human hosts!

- Where am I?

- [Jimmy] (indistinct) Come on.

Come on, climb down!

- You!

You people!

Move away from those things!

I'm Sergeant Paine of the constabulary!

Now go to your homes!

Go on!

Go to your homes!

Clear out!

Clear out!

- Look!

- Jim!

It's a ship!

A huge spaceship.

- [Weems] Like a giant dinner plate!

- [Jimmy] Everybody!

All you people run!

- The ground is eruptive!

- Splitting open!

- [General] Destroying Stonehenge!

- It's pulling the ship out of the ground!

- [General] Get back, everybody, get back!

(people chattering) - It's gone.

- Where's Rusty?

- She wasn't with you?

- No.

- There she is!

- [General] She's down!

- Hey.

Hey, Rusty!

Hey.

What old friend, what're you- - Am afraid jellymonster gave me sting, Jimmy.

- Aw, no, hey!

We'll, we'll getcha patched up!

- Cannot patch up, Jimmy.

Pree-vyet, General!

- Pree-vyet, Rusty.

- Hey, I need help here!

- No, Jimmy.

Just to be with me now, comrade.

I am thankful of you, Jimmy.

- [Jimmy] Thankful?

- You have been my big friend and we have had many adwentures together.

You have made for me, my soldier of fortuning, the best I could be asking.

(coughs) And I am thankfuling you for this one.

With my best friend Jimmy, I am having my final great adwenture!

- She's gone.

- Rusty.

Oh, Rusty.

(gentle music) - It was a good funeral.

- In the Russian Orthodox Cathedral.

Can't do better'n that.

- Rusty would've loved it.

- Yeah, she really would've.

- We're going to stay a couple more days, so we can arrange to get her ashes.

- And when we get back home, I'll scatter them out over the ocean.

- So the tides can carry her all over the world!

- [Margo and Maude] Adwenture!

- What about Stonehenge, Jimmy?

- Yeah, government's built a wall around it.

And cleaning things up.

- Then what?

- Yeah, they figured to put it back together.

- But all the stones were destroyed.

- They're gonna make new ones.

- (laughs) New ones!

- Yeah, give it six months, it'll all look good as new as old.

- I like this place.

What's it called?

- Dooley's Public House.

- How'd you find it?

- I stumbled into it awhile back looking for a telegraph office.

- Right next door.

- Correct.

- They even know how to make a Green Dragon.

- Yeah.

About that- - What?

- That first time I was here, there was a half-finished Green Dragon on the bar.

I asked Dooley, the bartender, what it was, and he told me.

Green Dragon.

And I thought to myself, "Green Dragon?

Now where have I heard that before?"

But it wasn't until we were all together at the Jaegers' inn, and you ordered one, that I remembered.

So I did a little sleuthing and stand up.

- Stand up?

Okay.

- And turn around.

- Okay.

I- - Hello, my man.

- Ivy!

- (laughs) I don't think I've ever seen a hug that tight.

- Or a kiss that long.

- Oh, Ivy, I've missed you so much!

I've been looking all over for you, all over the world!

- I've been singing about you and waiting for you.

I knew you'd come.

- I have an important question to ask you.

- And I have an important answer.

(music) - You have been listening to the radio dramatization "Brain Raiders from Outer Space," a presentation of The Air Command, produced by KTWU television.

And now, goodnight and pleasant dreams.

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