advantage of a drunk woman, and I'm sorry. - Now, can you walk? - Hey! I can. Hey. Carol Bennell? I'm sorry to bother you so late. I need to ask you a few questions for the Census Department. We're doing a census of your district this month. Not the extended paper census, but a quick door-to-door version to update our records. - At this time of night? - Deadline. We're working all night now. You're my last house. I saw your light. I came a few times. Listen, letme get that. And then you can askme through the door. Hey! We're sorry. All circuits are busy. Please hang up and try your call again. Hey, Ben. It's me. I just... Somebodyjustscared the shit out of me. Hey. Morning. Hey. - What did the police say? - Not thatmuch. - Carol, you're not going to work. - I've got back-to-backs all day. At leaststay and have some breakfast. I cooked pancakes. What? The thawing in tension between Washington and Tehran... ...over the enrichment of nuclearfuel was one of the firststeps... ...by the U.S. To relax years... Morning, Mom. On the way to school. I still miss you. Love you. Bye. Sorry I'm late. Courtney Jones canceled. So did Chris Cook. What about Wendy Lenk? I haven't heard from her. Maybe it's that flu going around. L'll call her. Mr. Lenk, this is Dr. Bennell. I was hoping I could speak with yourwife. This is her cell phone I'm calling. She's asleep right now. Is everything all right, Mr. Lenk? Everything's fine, better than it's been in a long time. Wendy's fine now. L'll give her the message you called, and she'll tell you herself. - Mr. Lenk? - Yes? If I don't hearfrom yourwife soon, I will be calling back. Do you understand? You'll hearfrom her by the end of the day. It's my husband. Ben, they can't all be psychotic. What if what they're saying is real? Have you noticed anything? I have. What? He seems a little disconnected. - Hey, Carly. - I thought you might like some tea. Thanks. Would you keep trying my ex-husband until you get through? Okay? - It's important that I speak with him. - All right. It's new. Like that orange pekoe you like. Tell me what you think. Hey. Okay, dig this. Now, the best way I can describe the sample that you broughtme... ...is a kind of post-infection sweat, like a nightsweat. Only, instead of evaporating, this solidified. A percentage is spent white blood cells, like you'd find in any normal infection. But, then, another percentage is... ...hormones a body produces when it enters REM sleep... ...suggesting that the hormones acted as a catalyst... ...in some kind of metabolic reaction, and then were expelled as waste. Yeah, but a reaction to what? A reaction to these. These are also spent cells. Exploded, actually. - Are they viral? - Viral-like, but larger than any virus known. Now, I tried to destroysome of them. I heated them up to see when they'd incinerate. Took them up to 700 degrees. Theysurvived. - Well, that's impossible. - Yeah. Remember Ted Fraddo? He's out at the lab at Fort Detrick now. They've settled on a hypothesis that we're dealing with... ...a complete, intelligent entity, the dimensions of a few cells... ...that's invading people's bodies, integrating their DNA... ...and reprogramming their genetic expression. Reprogramming? How? How would that look? Eighty percent of what we are is determined by our genetic expression. Integration of alien DNA could look like anything. Or nothing at all. So you say that this is showing up all over? It's starting to. They began considering epidemic protocols in Europe last night. Also in Japan, but here, they're just talking about this flu. - Hello? - Hello, Ben. This is Luddie. I'm so sorry to call you, but I didn't know what else to do. - Well, what's happened, Luddie? - It's ourfriend Yorish. Something's happening to him. Something terrible. We'll be right over. The objective for today's G8 summit was ------------------------------ Читайте также: - текст Киборг на английском - текст Кандагар на английском - текст Экипаж на английском - текст Завещание профессора Доуэля на английском - текст Тайна третьей планеты на английском |