show itself.
It wants to hide inside an imitation.
It'll fight if it has to.
But it's vulnerable out in the open.
If it takes us over,
then it has no more enemies,
nobody left to kill it.
And then it's won.
There's a storm hitting us in six hours.
We're gonna find out who's who.
All right, Doc, Garry and Clark,
move over there away from the others.
Norris, you and Childs shoot 'em up with morphine.
Tie 'em down in the rec room and watch 'em.
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-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.
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 goin' with Windows.
I ain't goin' with him. I'll go with Childs.
Hey, fuck you, Palmer!
I ain't goin' with you!
Who says I want you
goin' with me? Cut the bullshit!
Windows, you come with
us. Norris, you stay here.
Any of them move, you fry 'em. 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.
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.
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!
Open up! Open up
this door! Open up! Open up!
Close that door.
Where's MacReady?
I cut him loose of the line up by his shack.
Cut him loose? Yeah.
We were up checkin' 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'em.
- When do you think it got to him?
- I don't know.
It could've been anytime, anywhere.
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!
This is just what it
wants! To pit us