They cart it back.
It gets thawed out, wakes up,
not in the best of moods.
- I don't know. I wasn't there.
- Which one of you disrespectful men
been tossing his dirty drawers
in the kitchen trash can, huh?
From now on
I want my kitchen clean, germfree.
Now how's this motherfucker wake up
after thousands of years in the ice?
- And how could it look like a dog?
- I don't know how.
'Cause it's different than us, see?
'Cause it's from outer space.
What do you want from me? Ask him.
You buy any of this, Blair?
BLAIR: Mac, removing those things
out of the lab into the storeroom.
Can you come get your stuff?
Be there in a minute, Doc.
Through the door.
Right over here. Right over...
Sorry, Mac. You have to move your stuff...
Doc says we gotta lock him up.
Stash him in here and lock him up.
- I have to talk to you.
- I'm tired of talking, Fuchs.
I just wanna get up to my shack
and get drunk.
- Mac, it's important.
- What is it?
- Outside.
- It's 40 below outside.
In the Thiokol. Please, Mac.
- We ought to just burn these things.
- Can't burn the find of the century.
That's gonna win somebody the Nobel Prize.
You got the keys?
Get them from Garry.
I wanna get some stuff out of here.
There's something wrong with Blair.
He's locked himself in his room,
and he won't answer the door.
So I took one of his notebooks from the lab.
- Yeah?
- Listen.
"It could have imitated
a million life-forms on a million planets.
"Could change into any one of them
at any time.
"Now it wants life-forms on Earth."
It's getting cold in here,
and I haven't slept in days.
Wait.
"It needs to be alone and in close proximity
with a life-form to be absorbed.
"The chameleon strikes in the dark."
- So is Blair cracking up, or what?
- Damn it, MacReady.
"There is still cellular activity
in these burned remains.
"They're not dead yet."
Let's go, Bennings. I gotta get some sleep.
(RUSTLING)
Holy shit.
(KEYS CLATTERING)
Go get the doc.
I'll get Garry. We'll meet in Blair's room.
It's Bennings!
Bennings was right there.
Mac, I swear to God. It had a hold of him.
(ALARM BLARING)
Windows! Windows! Keep away from him!
Get back! Stay back!
It isn't Bennings.
(SCREECHING)
(SCREAMING)
My God, what was happening to him?
If it had more time it would have looked,
sounded and acted like Bennings.
I don't know what you're saying.
That was one of those Things out there
trying to imitate him, Garry.
- Come on.
- MacReady, I know Bennings.
I've known him for 10 years. He's my friend.
We've gotta burn the rest of them.
All right, step back.
You sure that's all of them?
We cleaned out the storehouse, the lab.
There is nothing left.
Where's Blair?
I can't find Blair.
Where's everybody else?
Windows is in the radio room
still trying to get through.
Everyone else is in the rec room.
Well, you go on. I'll be in in a minute.
(CLATTERING)
Blair?
(ELECTRICITY BUZZING)
(GUN FIRING)
(BLAIR CHATTERING INCOHERENTLY)
(CLANGING)
BLAIR: Don't! You son of a bitch.
You understand me?
- He's got a gun. Get back.
- Anybody interferes, I'll kill them.
- Jesus.
- Just leave it here. We're gonna talk.
He smashed up some of the chopper
pretty good.
Nobody talk to nobody!
Childs, go see if he got to the tractor.
Nobody gets in and out of here. Nobody.
You guys think I'm crazy. Well, that's fine.
Most of you don't know what's going on
around here.
Well, I'm damn well sure some of you do.
Christ.
He got most of the chopper and the tractor,
and he's killed the rest of the dogs.
Garry, wait a minute, wait a minute.
Now, Childs, go around to
the map room door. Talk to him.
Okay.
Norris, get a table from the lab.
Do you think that Thing
wanted to be an animal?
No dogs make it a thousand miles
through the cold.
(GLASS SHATTERING)
Nah, you don't understand!
That Thing wanted to be us.
If the cell gets out
it could imitate everything
on the face of the earth
- and it's not gonna stop!
-