better.
Well, stick to it, Windows. Stick to it.
Nothing wrong with this Norwegian,
physiologically anyway.
No drugs, no alcohol. Nothing.
Well, what we got here
is what appears to be, anyway,
a normal set of internal organs.
Heart,
lungs, kidneys, liver.
Intestines.
Seem to be normal.
MAN ON TV: One, door number two
and door number three.
And I think that Dawn Screen here
has got the one to trade in the most.
I went to you first.
You brought your friend Anna.
You've been consulting Anna all through
the show anyhow.
You may as well consult her one more time.
I know how this one ends.
(SOFT MUSIC PLAYING)
(YELPS)
Clark, will you put this mutt with the others
where he belongs?
Yeah, okay.
Go ahead.
Go ahead. What are you waiting for?
(ALL BARKING)
(DOG WHIMPERING)
(DOG YELPS)
(DOGS HOWLING)
(CREATURE SCREECHES)
(ALARM BLARING)
I don't know what the hell's in there,
but it's weird and pissed off, whatever it is.
Bennings, go get Childs.
What is this? What's going on?
- Hey, Palmer, what is this?
- I don't know.
- Childs, Mac wants the flamethrower!
- Mac wants the what?
- That's what he said. Now, move!
- Damn it.
(DOGS BARKING)
- Stay back.
- Hey, Mac, what is it?
(HIGH PITCHED SCREECH)
(HOWLING)
- Don't! No!
- Get away!
Get back! Get back!
(SQUEAKING)
Get your ass over here!
Burn it.
(GROWLING)
Damn it, Childs. Torch it!
(SHRIEKING)
Oh, my God.
Oh!
Look. Son of a bitch. Oh.
You see, what we're talking about here
is an organism
that imitates other life-forms,
and it imitates them perfectly.
When this Thing attacked our dogs,
it tried to digest them,
absorb them,
and in the process,
shape its own cells to imitate them.
This, for instance... that's not dog.
It's imitation.
We got to it before it had time to finish.
Finish what?
Finish imitating these dogs.
CLARK: Easy, easy. Good.
Easy, easy.
- Clark.
- Yeah?
Did you notice anything strange
about the dog, anything at all?
Strange? No.
What was the dog doing in the rec room?
I don't know.
He was just wandering around camp all day.
Are you saying to me the dog wasn't put
in the kennel until last night?
Right.
How long were you alone with that dog?
I don't know. An hour.
Hour and a half, maybe.
What the hell you looking at me
like that for?
- I don't know.
- What?
I don't know. It's probably nothing.
It's nothing at all.
How much more of this crap is there?
Oh, about nine hours, I'd say.
- We can't learn anything from this.
- DOC: Guess not.
BLAIR: Where'd they take these shots?
Seems like they were spending
a lot of their time
in a little place northeast of their camp
about five or six miles.
FUCHS: What's that?
MacREADY: It looks like something
buried under the ice.
CHILDS: And look at that.
They're planting thermite charges.
GARRY: Whatever it was, it was bigger
than that block of ice you found.
Here. This is it. The place where
they were spending most of their time.
- Pretty nasty out, Mac. 35 knots.
- Screw it. I'm gonna go up anyway.
Half a mile due east.
Jesus, how long do you figure
this has been in the ice?
Well, the backscatter effect's been
bringing things up
from way down around here for a long time.
I'd say... I'd say the ice it's buried in is
100,000 years old, at least.
- And those Norwegians blew it up?
- Yeah.
I don't know.
Thousands of years ago, it crashes,
and this Thing...
Gets thrown out or crawls out,
and it ends up freezing in the ice.
I just cannot believe
any of this voodoo bullshit.
Childs, it happens all the time, man.
They're falling out of the skies like flies.
PALMER: Government knows all about it.
Right, Mac?
Do you believe
any of this voodoo bullshit, Blair?
Childs. Childs. Chariots Of The Gods, man.
They practically own South America.
I mean, they taught the Incas
everything they know.
Come on, now, MacReady.
The Norwegians get a hold of this,
and they dig it up out of the ice.
Yes, Garry, they dig it up.