while,
Jimmy.
He certainly made
a quick recovery.
I guess we all have.
But driving home...
I had a lot of questions
and no answers.
How could Jimmy and Wilma
seem so normal now?
Surely I had done nothing
to cure them.
Maybe they wanted me
to feel secure, but why?
Well...
I hope
you didn't forget the steaks.
I never forget anything.
Don't worry about him.
He's completely housebroken.
I need a martini, Beck.
Onion or olive?
Doesn't matter.
I want to pour it on the coals.
They just won't burn.
A martini isn't dry enough.
I'll get you something
that'll start it.
For drinking purposes.
You're looking shipshape.
Thank you, sir.
Here we are.
Jack! Jack!
Ugh.
They're like huge seedpods!
This must be how that
body in my closet was formed.
Where are they from?
I don't know.
If they are seeds or seedpods...
they must grow someplace
on a plant.
And somebody or something wants
this duplication to take place.
But when they're finished...
what happens to our bodies?
I don't know.
When the process is complete,
probably the original...
is destroyed or disintegrates...
No! Wait!
Sorry,
but I take a dim view...
of watching my own destruction
take place.
There isn't any danger
until they're completely formed.
We learned that last night
at your house.
Your blank
didn't change right away.
Not until you fell asleep.
Miles, when the change
does take place...
do you suppose
there's any difference?
There must be.
Wilma noticed it.
So did little Jimmy.
So did I.
My father.
That must be
what he was doing...
in the cellar last night...
placing one of these.
I'm sorry.
I felt something wrong,
but I thought it was me...
because I'd been away
for so long.
They must be destroyed,
all of them!
They will be...
every one of them.
We're going to have
to search every building...
every house in town.
Men, women, and children
have to be examined.
We've got some phoning to do.
I'm going to stay
and watch them.
I'm staying with you.
Don't call the police!
Nick Grivett
didn't find any body...
on a burning haystack!
Why don't you call
Danny? Maybe he can help.
Danny?
No.
I'm afraid it's too late
to call Danny, too.
What are you going to do?
Get help.
I hope whatever's taking place
is confined to Santa Mira!
Operator.
This is Dr. Bennell.
This is an emergency.
I want to talk to the Federal
Bureau of Investigation in L.A.
Can you convince them?
I've got to.
Where did they come from?
So much has been
discovered these past few years.
Anything is possible.
Maybe the results
of atomic radiation...
on plant life or animal life...
some weird alien organism,
a mutation of some kind.
Why should they take the form
of people... of us?
I don't know.
Whatever it is...
whatever intelligence
or instinct it is...
that can govern the forming
of human flesh and blood...
out of thin air is...
well,
it's fantastically powerful...
beyond any comprehension,
malignant.
All that body
in your cellar needed...
was a mind, and it was...
And it was taking mine
while I was asleep.
I could take
that pitchfork myself, and...
On your call
to Los Angeles, Doctor...
they don't answer.
Try again! That office
is open day and night!
If they've taken over
the phone office, we're dead.
Is that me?
This is an emergency!
Emergency!
Look, there's been... Hello?
Operator,
get me a better connection.
I'll try, Doctor.
It's no use.
All the Los Angeles circuits
are dead.
OK, try Sacramento!
Give me the state capital.
I want to talk to the governor.
The Sacramento
circuits are busy, Doctor.
I'll call you back.
All right.
All right.
I'll wait for your call.
I'll take the phone outside.
Jack, they've got the phone.
You and the girls take your car
and make a run for it.
First town you get to,
yell for help.
What about you?
That phone
is gonna ring soon.
If nobody answers,
they'll block the roads.
I'll stall them.
Then what?
Try and find out