The Terror Within

Exploration party calling Mojave lab.

Exploration party calling Mojave lab.

Sue, are you there?

Sue?

Sue, we're at three sisters.

Sue, you there?

Michael, they're not answering.

Let me check it out.

Mojave lab, come in.

Sue, come in, please.

Mojave lab, this is exploration party calling.

Sue, are you there?

Sue, come in, please.

Sue, come in.

Yes, Michael?

What's happening? Taking a little nap?

Everything's all right.

Status report, please.

Well, we bagged a rattlesnake.

Great, get another one, and we can have a barbecue.

Remember it...

Tastes like chicken.

That's 'cause you forgot what real chicken tastes like.

Michael, check this out. We have birds over there.

Hey, we got buzzards circling about a quarter mile away.

Whatever it is still might be edible.

We'll check it out and let you know.

Okay, just be careful.

Over and out.

Want some?

With as much cover-up as you can put in there.

Mm, thanks.

Ugh.

What's Andre using for coffee these days?

I'm not sure you want to know.

Cleaning compound?

It's about the right color.

And the right taste.

Have you and Sue finished the supply inventory?

Yes, we have.

I figured if we cut calories to 900 a day,

Bake some game every once and a while,

We can stay here for about another two months.

Hal, we got to start thinking seriously

About getting out of here.

The Rocky Mountain lab's...

Is 1,800 Miles away.

We haven't had a clear message from them in ten days.

Our job is to stay here.

Our job is to survive.

Sue, you're not gonna believe this.

What is it?

Jesus, gargoyles!

John! John!

Michael? John?

Michael, John, David here.

What's going on?

John, Michael, this is David.

What the hell is going on?

You two better get out there on the double.

Right. I'll get butch.

Don't waste your time.

He's the best tracker we got.

He knows the outside better than anyone.

All right, keep him under control.

Just go out there and bring them back.

Don't go looking for any more trouble.

Is that understood?

Sir, yes, sir.

Ugh!

This government issue shit is for the birds.

Thanks for your opinion.

Now fix it.

David here. Nothing outside.

Anything on the motion detectors?

No activity.

We're out of here.

I sure don't like sending Sue out there.

Don't worry.

She's in good hands.

Yeah, but I wish he'd learn to follow procedures.

You love it up here, don't you?

Man, I don't know how you do it.

This place gives me the creeps.

I just wish we were on our way out of here,

Headed to the Rocky Mountain lab.

Thanks.

That's easy for you to say.

You were trained for that kind of stuff.

I just wish John and Michael would've listened to me.

I told them to take butch along.

If they had, we wouldn't be doing this.

How could it be gargoyles?

They've never come out this far before.

Survivors.

Maybe it was survivors.

Survivors would see any one of us as just somebody to rob.

Wouldn't they?

I mean, I think...

I think it's your turn to get the shine, Neil.

Good plan.

Here's looking at you, kid.

Whoo.

When there ain't no food,

It sure does help to have good shine.

You think they're gonna find anything out there?

Yeah, they're gonna discover they don't have to cut rations,

Not with two less mouths to feed.

Well, maybe it wasn't survivors.

I mean, John's last words were "Jesus, gargoyles."

Gargoyles, shmargoyles.

Just thank your lucky stars you're the most essential person

Old Hal's got here.

I wouldn't go out there to find them if they tripled my pay,

Assuming there's anybody left to sign paychecks.

That sucks.

It sure is quiet out here.

Yeah, it's always been like this,

Even before the accident.

The accident.

You know, I used to think we'd go out in a ball of fire,

Not because some leaky test tube in a lab somewhere.

I still don't think it was one of ours.

Come on.

Ours, theirs, who cares?

With 99% of the population gone,

It doesn't make much difference, does it?

And now we have the vaccine,

And we only have ourselves to give it to.

If anyone survived out there without mutating...

They must be living like savages or something.

If anyone survived with those things out there.

Mojave lab, David here.

Yeah, David, what is it?

About quarter of a mile from three sisters rocks.

I think we spotted what John and Michael found.

Ask him what it is.

What have you got, David?

Buzzards.

I'll let you know as soon as we know.

Didn't help them that much, did it?

Oh, God.

Holy shit.

David, look.

They have a diary too.

Let's get the hell out of here.

Mojave lab, David here.

I think we found what John and Michael saw.

It's a human camp site.

Ten males, ages 40 maybe down to 10 or 11.

No survivors.

They've been ripped to pieces.

Looks like maybe two family groups.

No females?

Affirmative.

Males only.

Hal, this could be the breakthrough

We've been waiting for.

If they've survived outside this long,

They must have some kind of natural immunity.

We've got to examine them.

I don't even have a way of bringing in John and Michael.

It's a long way to cart bodies,

Especially if those gargoyle things are around.

Then I'll have to go out there.

Andre?

Yeah?

I need you two up here right away.

Couple minutes.

Fuck.

Fuck.

David?

Still here, Hal.

Remain on site.

Linda and Andre are coming out.

We've got to check those bodies.

There's not much left.

Well, find the ones in the best condition.

Yes, sir.

No way. I ain't going out there.

We've got to retrieve them for analysis.

Sue and David can't do it by themselves.

It's not our job.

Then I'll go on my own.

I'll go.

Get your gear.

Ow!

Ow.

Butch?

Butch?

That way.

Butch.

Stay here.

It's a human!

Stay, butch.

It's all right.

I'm not gonna hurt you.

What's your name?

Come with me.

You'll be safe with me.