of you don't know
what's goin' 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.
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! Okay, Blair.
Come on, man, you don't wanna hurt anybody.
I'll kill you.
Good shot, MacReady.
Excuse me. Okay.
All right, bring him up. Yeah.
Come on, Blair.
What about your shack? I don't want him in
my shack. We'll lock him in the toolshed.
Why am I in here? For
your own protection, Blair.
How you doin', old boy?
I don't know who to trust.
I know
what you mean, Blair.
Trust's a tough thing to come by these days.
Tell you what.
Why don't you just trust in the Lord?
Watch Clark. What?
I said, watch Clark.
And watch him close. Do you hear me?
And now the radio's gone.
And so are the choppers.
We're completely cut off.
All we can do now is hole up 'til
spring, wait for the rescue team.
No, we don't wait. Somebody in this
camp ain't what he appears to be.
Right now that may be one or two of
us. By spring, it could be all of us.
So how do we know who's human?
If I was an imitation...
a perfect imitation...
how would you know if it was really me?
Is there some kind of test, Doc?
Well, yeah, possibly. I've been
thinkin' about a blood serum test.
What's that?
We could take a sample of each person's
blood, mix it with uncontaminated blood.
I suppose if there's a reaction,
we'd know who isn't human.
- We've got whole blood in storage.
- Start working on it.
Keep an eye on Clark.
He was close to that dog.
Yeah. Yeah.
Mac, we need Blair's help.
He's the only one who knows
this organism. He's too far gone.
But get the rest of his
notebooks. Start goin' through 'em.
Garry! Hey, you guys, come here!
What? Somebody got to the blood.
What?
Where's Clark? Right here.
Wait a minute. Was this broken
into? The lock is undamaged.
Somebody opened it, closed it,
then locked it.  Great.
Who's got access to it?
I guess I'm the only one.
And I got the only key.
Would that test have
worked, Doc? I think so, yes.
Somebody else
sure as hell thought so.
Well, who else could've used that key?
Nobody! I just give it to
Copper whenever he needs it.
Could anybody have gotten it from you, Doc?
I don't see how. As soon as I'm
finished, I return it right away.
Great.
When was the last time
you used it?  Day or so ago.
I suppose somebody could have
lifted it off me... Oh, come on!
That key ring of yours is always
hooked to your belt.
- Accusing everybody...
-  Stop it! It ain't worth it!
Copper's the only one who's got any
business with it.  Wait a minute!
You've been in here on several
occasions. Doc thought of the test.
So what? Is that
supposed to clear him?
Windows! Windows!
Put that down!
No. I'll put this right through your head.
You guys gonna listen to Garry?
You gonna let him give the orders?
He could be one of those Things.
Windows. Wait a minute.
Just take it easy. Put the gun down.
Put it down. You don't
want to hurt anybody. Right.
On the floor.
It's on the floor.
I don't know about Copper,
but I give you my word, I
did not go near that blood.
But I guess you'll all
feel a little easier...
if somebody else was in charge.
Norris, I can't see anybody objecting to you.
I'm sorry, fellas, but I'm not up to it.
I'll take it. Like hell you will.
It should be somebody a little
more even-tempered, Childs.
All right.
I know I'm human.
And if you were all these Things,
then you'd just attack me right now.
So some of you are still human.
This Thing doesn't want to