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, let me get that. And then you can ask me 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... Somebody just scared the shit out of me. Hey. Morning. Hey. - What did the police say? - Not that much. - Carol, you're not going to work. - I've got back-to-backs all day. At least stay and have some breakfast. I cooked pancakes. What? The thawing in tension between Washington and Tehran... ... over the enrichment of nuclear fuel was one of the first steps... ... 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. I'll call her. Mr. Lenk, this is Dr. Bennell. I was hoping I could speak with your wife. 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. I'll give her the message you called, and she'll tell you herself. - Mr. Lenk? - Yes? If I don't hear from your wife soon, I will be calling back. Do you understand? You'll hear from 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 brought me... ...is a kind of post-infection sweat, like a night sweat. 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 destroy some of them. I heated them up to see when they'd incinerate. Took them up to 700 degrees. They survived. - 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 our friend Yorish. Something's happening to him. ------------------------------ Читайте также: - текст Отступники на английском - текст День полнолуния на английском - текст Злой дух Ямбуя на английском - текст Аэроплан II: Продолжение на английском - текст Вовка в Тридевятом царстве на английском |