and Childs
shoot them up with morphine.
Tie them down in the rec room
and watch them.
Fuchs, you start working
on a new technique.
- I need Doc's help.
- You don't wanna drug me.
Mac, I'm not a prisoner!
Let me do it.
You're gonna break the needle in my arm.
No, Doc, he's doing a real fine job.
I'm gonna hide this tape when I'm finished.
If none of us make it,
at least there'll be some kind of record.
Storm's been hitting us hard now
for 48 hours.
We still have nothing to go on.
One other thing,
I think it rips through your clothes
when it takes you over.
Windows found some shredded long johns,
but the name tag was missing.
They could be anybody's.
Nobody...
Nobody trusts anybody now.
And we're all very tired.
Nobody trusts anybody now.
There's nothing else I can do.
Just wait.
R.J. MacReady, helicopter pilot,
U.S. Outpost, number 31.
You come up with anything yet?
One or two ideas.
But, MacReady, I've been thinking.
If a small particle of this Thing
is enough to take over an entire organism,
then everyone should prepare
their own meals.
And I suggest we only eat out of cans.
All right.
(CLATTERING)
Who's that?
Anybody see Fuchs?
Somebody blew out a fuse in the lab.
Lights were out for an hour.
Anyone of us could've gotten to him.
All right, we gotta find him.
Nauls, why don't you come with me
and we'll look outside.
Palmer, you and Windows check the inside.
I ain't going with Windows.
I ain't going with him. I'll go with Childs.
- Hey, fuck you, Palmer!
- I ain't going with you!
- Who says I want you going with me?
- Cut the bullshit!
Windows, you come with us.
Norris, you stay here.
Any of them move, you fry them.
You hear anything, cut loose on the sirens.
We all meet back here
in 20 minutes regardless.
And everybody watch whoever
you're with... real close.
(WIND HOWLING)
Hey, Blair.
Blair, have you seen Fuchs?
I don't wanna stay out here anymore.
I wanna come back inside.
I hear funny things out here.
- Have you come across Fuchs?
- It ain't Fuchs.
It ain't Fuchs.
I'm not gonna harm anybody.
There's nothing wrong with me.
And if there was, I'm all better now.
I'd like to come back inside.
Now you've got my promise.
We'll see.
Wait a minute, man.
I wanna come back inside,
don't you understand?
I'm all right.
I'm much better... and I won't harm anybody.
You gotta let me come back inside.
(WIND HOWLING)
Hold it!
Is it Fuchs?
Yeah.
Why would it burn him?
Flare. Maybe he tried to burn it.
Maybe he burned himself
before it could get to him.
Great! Now what are we gonna do?
You go inside.
Tell the others we found Fuchs.
We'll be in as soon as we can.
- Where are we going?
- Up to my shack.
What the hell for?
'Cause when I left yesterday,
I turned the lights off.
How long have they been out there?
Forty, 45 minutes.
We better start closing off
the outside doors.
Hey! All of you, come here!
(GRUNTS)
(GROANS)
(BANGING ON DOOR)
Open up! Open up this door! Open up!
Open up!
Close that door.
(PANTING)
Where's MacReady?
I cut him loose of the line up by his shack.
- Cut him loose?
- Yeah.
We were up checking around his place,
I found this.
Look. It was stashed in his oil furnace.
Wind must've dislodged it,
but I don't think he saw me find it.
I made sure I got ahead of him
on the towline on the way back.
I cut him loose.
- MacReady?
- He's one of them.
- When do you think it got to him?
- I don't know.
It could've been anytime, anywhere.
CHILDS: If it did get to him.
Look, Childs, come on.
- When the lights went out.
- That would've been perfect.
Right. You said guys were missing.
Windows, where were you?
I told you to shut your mouth!
(ALL YELLING)
NORRIS: This is just what it wants!
To pit us against each other.
- Let's open it.
- Hell no!
You think he's changed
into one of those Things?
He's had time.
Nothing human could've made it back
here in this weather without a guide line.
- Let's