Signs

Where are they?

I don't know.

Dad!

Uncle Merrill!

Dad!

Morgan!

Bo? Bo?

Bo, where's Morgan?

Bo?

Are you in my dream, too?

- This is not a Dre... - Dad!

Hey...

Honey...

Morgan? What's happening?

The dogs were barking... woke us up.

Are you hurt?

I think God did it.

Did what, Morgan?

Look, Lee, I don't even care if it was him.

And you can just have a word with him,

and that'd be enough for me.

See, it was strange finding the crops that way.

The kids were confused by it,

and, it'd sure take the strangeness away

if I knew it was just Lionel and the Wolfington brothers messing around,

that's all.

At the movies?

Are you sure?

All right, then.

Thanks for your patience, Lee.

Yeah. Bye.

Houdini peed. I think he's sick.

Why don't you take him outside? I'll call Dr. Crawford.

He doesn't treat animals.

Well, he'll know what to do.

That was quick, Caroline.

I only called you folks two hours ago.

Old Mrs. Kendleman twisted her ankle,

as she puts it, diving for her life

when a bunch of school kids rode down the sidewalk on skateboards.

She went down to Thornton's store this morning

and started spitting on the new skateboards.

Spitting!

By the time I got there,

Mrs. Kendleman had sprayed the whole damned place.

And she must have had a cold or something.

I'm telling you, I won't eat for a week.

So, what happened to your crops?

Dad's gonna burn these again.

It's contaminated.

You don't even know what that word means.

It's not contaminated.

It's just tap water. Pour it in his bowl.

It tastes funny.

It does not.

And besides, he licks his butt every day.

I don't think he'll mind.

Houdini?

Bo, don't run.

What's wrong, boy?

Stop it, Houdini.

Look at where it's bent over, Father.

It's not broken.

Now, what kind of machine can bend a stalk of corn over without breaking it?

Can't be by hand. It's too perfect.

It doesn't sound much like Lionel Prichard and the Wolfington brothers.

They can't take a piss

without wetting the front of their pants.

I don't think anyone else around here has had any problems.

I was over at Theo Henry's farm yesterday afternoon,

and he would have mentioned something.

Why were you at Theo's place?

Some animals around the county have been acting funny...

and some of them violent.

What is it, a virus?

I don't think so, Father.

They're more edgy, you know, and alert.

It's almost like they act when they smell a predator around...

peeing on themselves and everything.

Caroline...

please stop calling me "Father."

What's wrong?

I don't hear my children.

He fell on me.

He wanted to kill Bo.

Did he hurt you?

No.

I'm so sorry, Morgan.

Where were you?

Houdini's sick.

Tie Isabel up to the back of the shed, please,

and make sure the knot's very tight.

What's the matter?

There's a monster outside my room.

Can I have a glass of water?

What's wrong with the water next to your bed?

It tastes old.

What are you thinking about?

Why do you talk to Mom when you're by yourself?

Makes me feel better.

Does she ever answer back?

No.

She never answers me either.

What?

Lionel Prichard and the Wolfington brothers are back.

It's time for an ass-whupping.

This is not an intelligent way to approach this.

Lee is a friend of mine. This is his son.

Yeah, we'll be doing Lee a favor.

All right, listen... we both go outside,

move around the house in opposite directions.

We act crazy, insane with anger...

make them crap in their pants,

force them around till we meet up on the other side.

Explain "act crazy".

You know, curse and stuff.

You want me to curse?

You don't mean it. It's just for show.

What?

Well, it won't be convincing.

It doesn't sound natural when I curse.

Just make noises, then.

Explain "noises".

Are you gonna do this or what?

No, I'm not.

All right, you want them stealing something in the house next time?

On the count of three...

- 1... - All right.

2... 3!

I'm insane with anger!

We're gonna beat your ass, bitch!

We're gonna tear your head off!

I'm losing my mind!

It's time for an ass-whupping!

I cursed.

I heard.

How did he get...

Are you sure this is Lionel Prichard?

You like that?

You got an old baby monitor around?

Bo had an old baby monitor.

You can use Bo's baby monitor as a walkie-talkie.

You can?

It only works one way, but that'll do fine.

That is, until someone gets you an old walkie-talkie left over at the station.

Hey, Bo...

turn that down till Officer Paski leaves.

You're too old to still be doing this.

You take a glass of water, and you finish it.

Now, what's wrong with this one?

It has dust in it.

This one?

A hair.

This one?

Morgan took a sip, and it has his amebas in it.

My turn.

So, how are you, Merrill?

Fine.

How is work at the gas station?

Stimulating.

I never got a chance to tell you,

but I-I thought your moving in here with your brother after...

it was a nice thing to do.

Well, I don't think I'm helping much.

You are.

Sorry.

Okay, so far I have, "It was very dark".

Yes, it was.

You can't describe him at all?

Don't you think that's kind of odd?

A little.

I don't know whether to look for a giant or a midget.

No, he definitely wasn't a midget.

Okay.

So he was tall?

I-I would say so, yes.

Probably.

Over 6 feet?

It was very dark.

Yes, it was.

How certain are you that this was a male?

Oh, I don't know... I don't know any girls who could run like that.

I don't know, Merrill.

I've seen some of those women on the Olympics.

They can run like the wind.

This guy got on our roof in, like, a second.

Our roof is 10 feet high.

They have women's high jumping in the Olympics.

They got these Scandinavian women

who can jump clean over me.

Caroline, I know you're making a point here,

but I just don't know what it is.

An out-of-town woman stopped by the diner yesterday afternoon

and started yelling and cussing

because they didn't have her favorite cigarettes

at the vending machine.

She scared a couple of the customers.

No one's seen her since.

And my point is,

we don't know anything about the person you saw,