- Wanna do some more riding?
- Okay.
I'd like you to meet
a friend of mine, Captain Billy.
He's got a gold mine over
in those hills back there.
I asked your ma,
she says it's okay.
A real gold mine?
Well, he hasn't found much yet...
...but he says he's going to. Come on.
Come on.
Billy?
Are you here, Captain Billy?
Captain Billy?
You go into the tunnel,
see if you can find him.
I'm gonna look around out here.
- Okay.
- Go on.
Captain Billy?
Captain Billy? Captain Billy?
Where are you, Captain Billy?
Are you in here, Captain Billy?
Captain...
Amanda!
Amanda! Amanda!
Daddy, help me! Help!
Daddy!
Oh, Daddy, help!
Daddy, Daddy!
Doctor?
She'll be all right.
Just a case of mild shock.
- Just let her rest.
- Are you sure?
I'm sure. But if anything new develops,
please call me.
- Thank you.
- Right.
Thank you for coming over, doctor.
- Good night, Mr. Bennett.
- Good night.
You were in the miner's shack
when you heard her screams?
- Yes, sir.
- Then what?
I ran out and got her.
She was just coming out
of the mineshaft...
...yelling bloody murder.
Did you see anything?
Anything at all?
I can't say I did, Mr. Bennett.
Although, there might have been
something moving around...
...just inside the shaft.
I couldn't be sure.
Everything happened too fast.
Well, something scared her
half to death.
She just didn't imagine it.
Amanda's too sensible.
Daddy! Daddy!
Everything's gonna be all right, honey.
Oh, my poor baby.
I'm gonna talk to Dr. Dirkson.
Well, now, what's so urgent?
Over there, sheriff.
- What did they use on him? An ax?
- Beats me.
I never seen anybody cut up like that.
Sheriff, for you.
Put a call through. Get some lab men
out here and give them a hand.
- Yes, sir.
- Cody.
What?
Bring the body into town.
Get Doc Wilson to do
a post on him right away.
I'll meet you at the office
in 20 minutes.
Well...
Looks like we got
another one on our hands.
An old prospector. Lived up in the hills
near the Hillman ranch.
Found his body in a mineshaft...
...hacked to pieces.
Just like that truck driver.
In the smallest of objects,
one can often find a world of discovery.
A microscopic view of a surface
of a blunt weapon...
...can lead to the arrest of a man
halfway around the world.
But, Mr. Leopold,
where do those tin cans lead us?
Well, for one thing,
they were not opened with an ax.
Something punctured the metal.
Not too fast, but with great strength.
And the crates on the truck
weren't broken either.
- They've been gnawed.
- What?
Gnawed, chewed, bitten.
In addition, traces of dried saliva
were found on the cans...
...the boxes and the victims.
So, what have we got here?
Vampires?
Possibly.
Well, frankly, sheriff,
off the top of my head...
...the only thing that could have caused
this sort of destruction...
...would have been
a saber-toothed tiger.
As a matter of fact, a lot of them.
Sheriff Cody, come in.
This is Officer Hightower.
I'm at the picnic grounds three miles
east of the Hillman ranch.
I've never seen
anything like this before.
There's a family of four here...
...a man, a woman and two children...
...horribly mutilated.
I'm standing by
until the coroner arrives.
Over.
I've studied abnormalities
and birth defects all my life.
It's come pretty close to home for me.
I see them all the time.
Naturally, I'd like to believe
they don't exist.
Unfortunately, they do.
But, doctor, rabbits as big
and as ferocious as wolves?
It is inconceivable.
The genetic code
of every living thing...
...is contained in each cell
of that organism.
Now, assuming inadvertently we introduced
defective cells into that one rabbit...
...it's conceivable
that we could've created...
...the seeds for a mutated species.
Amanda saw huge rabbits.
It's just... It's just too hard to believe.
And I don't think I'll be able to,
not until I've seen one.
All we have to go on is
what Amanda had to say...
...and