- You want to?
I got this from my uncle, he was a cardholder,
I think it's from a science experiment, it's killer,
- Stop talking about it and put it in the pipe,
- Tommy, - Yeah, hun,
- Why don't we go to the Cougar Bar for dinner?
- I don't know,
Cougar's quite a bit a ways past Tyler's Gulch,
and I got this fire going
and got all that meat in the cooler,
Besides, I'm kinda getting used to this country living,
- Yeah, you know, it's not all just a roll in the hay
under the stars, there's actual work involved,
- Whoa, did you see that?
- Yeah, pretty impressive,
- Let's go check it out,
- No, it'll be dark soon,
It'll still be there in the morning,
- Maybe it's an alien spacecraft,
- Okay, now I know you're crazy,
Have you not ever seen a shooting star before?
- You ready for this?
- You know it,
- Yeah, baby!
- Ready? - Yeah!
- Let's go!
- You coming?
- No way, I'm not going in there,
- Come on in, you chicken!
- Reid?
Reid, get out of the water!
- Come whenever, come on,
- No, seriously, get out of the water!
No, I'm being serious, Reid, get out of the water!
Oh my God,
- Come on!
- Damn chainsaw,
What the hell is going on out there?
Peggy Sue!
What are you barking at?
Shut up!
Stupid dog,
Always barking at the squirrels,
Eh, she's a good ol' dog anyway,
- Whoa!
Can you believe this?
- What is this, what happened here?
- You weren't kidding, that's one serious shooting star!
It's all busted into little pieces,
- Everything, we will destroy,
- It's still warm,
- Honey, I don't think you should pick that up,
- Eh, what's the harm,
- No, what if it's radioactive
or it's got space germs or something?
- You're always talking crazy,
- I'm just saying you don't know where that thing's been,
- You crack me up sometimes,
- Look, let's just drive back to Tyler's Gulch
and we'll report it,
- Well what's the rush?
- Well, it's creepy,
- I thought we didn't have to do group
on this trip?
This sucks,
- Give us a break, man,
- Hey, I've got things I'd like to be doing myself,
We've got rules, you know,
- Nobody's out here,
We should be able to do whatever we want,
- Yeah, I blow this off and one of you jerks rats me out,
Isn't that how things usually work?
- I ain't saying nothing,
- Like you did with those cellphone photos I took of you?
- Your pictures sucked, man,
I didn't want you to have those,
I turned all that lot away,
- The song and dance I had to do to get out of that one,
- What picture?
- Don't worry about it, babe,
- Shelly,
Your turn,
- I don't know,
I stopped growing in the sixth grade,
- And what about you, Chester?
- I actually thought about this a lot on the way up here,
and, I don't know,
it's kinda like we all have to pitch in to survive,
My mom told me once in the first grade that--
- Don't start with the mom crap again,
- Can it, Larry,
- Everybody has to move on at some point,
Ain't that right, Christy?
- I was done anyways,
- Okay,
Thanks for sharing,
Let's hit the road,
- Do you mind?
- Oh, yeah,
Would be a lot easier if you'd let me smoke in the car,
- Hotel's just up the street,
- More coffee, Jim?
- Yeah, thank you,
- So, you're gonna take the boat out this weekend?
- Yeah, if I get through some of this paperwork,
- Then you should, you should go out there
and enjoy the weather,
- I think I will,
- Hello!
What can I do for ya?
- Sign at the motel said to check in here,
- One room or two?
- Two,
- Alright,
Fill these out for me,
- Can you give us directions
to a place called Shaman's Pass?
- Well if you're camping, honey, why're you renting rooms?
- It's more like a day job,
We're from the university up north,
We're doing research,
- Well, Shaman's Pass is a little tricky to find
if you're not from around these parts,
You know who you wanna talk to?
See this guy over here?
He'll get you there,
So, Ms, Lambert?
- You can call me Edith,
- Alright,
You're in room 102,
And,,,
- Heath,
- You're in room 104,
- Thank you,
- And I'm Dani,
I'm always around, if there's anything you need,
- Why everything has to be broken?
How did these get bent?
Good God,
Everything's falling apart,
I spend all my time fiddling with this crap,
How is that?
Ah, bent,
Always bent,
Chester,
Don't even think about it,
- Come on, start,
Oh, damn tractor, I just put gas in you,
last week, oh!
- Do you guys have any socks or underwear or anything?
- No, we don't carry anything like that,
- Do you know what size bra I wear?
- I don't mind leading you guys up there,
I need to get back to the station pretty quick, though,
- We really appreciate it,
- Why you so interested anyway?
I mean, don't these things hit the atmosphere all the time?
- Most burn up when they enter the Earth's atmosphere,
Due to the apparent size of this one,
we were hoping to find an intact meteorite,
I saw one in the museum once,
Strange-looking hunk of rock,
Makes you wonder what's really out there,
- Can I get you guys anything else?
- I think we're fine, darling,
You guys want something?
- Nah, I'm fine,
- Thanks,
- I remember reading about a dog being killed by one,
Can you imagine that?
A piece of rock falling from the sky
and just kills the poor critter,
- Where can we grab some lunch around here?
- There's a diner up the street on the right-hand side,
you can't miss it,
- I'm gonna be in the truck,
Hurry it up in here,
- How you doing?
- How's everybody doing today?
- Excellent, we're just here to get some lunch,
- Alright, right this way,
- Come on then, go on, go on,
Go eat, come on,
- We better head up there,
- Do you guys have a bathroom in here?
- Yeah, it's right down that hall, hun,
- I'm already getting tired of the mountains, dude,
I really hope the food here doesn't suck too,
- You really need to learn everything,
♪ I'm so lonely, baby ♪
♪ I'm so lonely ♪
♪ Well I'm so lonely, I could die ♪
♪ You still can find some room ♪
- Not gonna tell on me or anything, are you?
- Not unless there's some for the both of us,
- Help yourself,
- Thanks,
So what kind of liquor did you get?
- 151,
- That'll get the job done,
So, what do you think of that Chester guy?
- The glue sniffer?
- Yeah,
- Just my type,
- Ugh, sometimes I wonder what you just got going on
inside your little ol' head,
My God, that was just a guy from the Census,
They're just trying to count heads,
They don't care about that corn liquor we got brewing
out there in the shed,
Are you listening to me?
Uh, Peggy Sue?
Get over here now,
Peggy Sue,
Peggy Sue!
Yeesh!
- This is it,
Shaman's Pass, about a mile up the road
and make a right before you get there,
- Yeah, there, through the brush?
- Will you be okay finding your way back?
- Yeah, we'll be fine,
- What were you doing in there?
- Nothing,
- You know, I could see myself living in the country,
What do you say I sneak back into town
once I put the kiddies to bed,
Maybe you and I could grab a drink, or something?
- Mm,
- Dani,
Have you seen Big Jim?
- He was in here just a bit ago,
- Well where the hell is he?
We've got monsters out there on the loose,
- Monster?
What do you mean, monster?
- They ate my Peggy Sue,
- Oh my God,
- It's like a big worm with teeth!
- Rance,
It might be a good idea to hang off the moonshine,
- Oh Dani, it ain't got nothing to do with moonshine!
Hey you, we've got to get the state troopers or something,
- Well I'd really like to help you, Pops,
but we've got some camping to do,
- Camping?
You can't take anybody camping,
there's monsters out there,
- It's okay,
- They ate my dog, didn't you hear anything?
- I have monster repellent!
- You damn fool!
- We'll be fine,
- You're not gonna be fine,
- Hey, just lay off the moonshine a bit,
We'll be fine, okay?
- I gotta do something, Dani,
They ate my dog, they ate old Peggy Sue,
- Hey, let's go!
- It was much bigger than I would have predicted,
- More water?
- Yeah, that stuff really hits the spot,
- You want some?
Be that way, bitch,
- Larry!
- Was that a cop?
- Relax, sweet cheeks, it's just a forest ranger,
- Probably Yogi, chasing Boo Boo,
- I'm getting some biological activity,
Look on your computer and tell me what kind of reading
you're picking up,
It's a really high concentration of formic acid,
- You think there might be life where this is from?
- That's a good question,
We need to get some samples back to the lab,
- You need to get on that,
- Could you stop at the next gas station?
I gotta pee,
- In case you haven't noticed,
there hasn't been anything like civilization
since we passed that trailer park,
if that even counts as civilization,
- That was like an hour ago,
- So, you have been paying attention,
Look, we're not gonna see another gas station
until we're headed back home,
- No way,
You shoulda told me that,
- Yeah, well, I just work here,
- Wow,
This is chock-full of complex organic compounds,
That can only come from life,
- Yeah, like I said, it could be
some kind of Earthly contaminant,
- You yourself said you've never seen anything like that,
Well, a proper lab analysis
of the deuterium-to-hydrogen ratio should give us that,
Could an alien life form have hitched a ride here?
- Transpermia hypothesis?
It's not likely any life form could survive
the hazard journey through space,
- Not if the rock acted as an insulator,
How do you explain freshly-fallen meteorites
with a layer of frost around them?
In theory, an organism could survive,
and that mucus could be from one of them,
- Yeah, but theories are dime a dozen,
- On the other side of the world,
another air incident; ABC's Gail McCarthy
reports from Saigon,
- Whelan,
- Rance, I didn't expect to see you for another month,
- I need your help,
- Sure, what do you need?
- There's this great big slug up at my place, huge thing,
It's bigger than my truck,
- Okay, time to bring out the heavy artillery, huh?
Snail poison, aisle three,
That ought to do the trick,
- This ain't no damn garden slug,
this thing is this huge caterpillar thing,
It's got big teeth!
- Okay,
We've got a bunch of other concession sides over there,
- You got one of those pump sprayers?
- Yeah, in the back,
- Your biggest one,
- 40 ounce, I think,
- Well hell, that ain't gon' do nothing!
No, you got one of those gas compressors?
- Rance, how big are these things?
- Man, I told you this thing's as big as my truck!
It ate my dog!
My little Peggy Sue,
I'm gonna kill that son of a bitch,
How about that compressor?
- Hey, baby,
What's going on?
What?
She said what?
I was out shooting ball with the fellas the other night,
Come on baby, don't listen to her!
That is not my baby,
- What?
- The chair goes here,
- That's too bad,
- Come on, chop chop,
let's get this campsite set up,
Christina!
- Okay, I think what we came here for,
Let's wrap it up,
- Oh, man, no!
Oh, man!
- This is it?
Sitting here watching you do nothing?
- I am not doing nothing,
- Couldn't we be doing this at the house?
- You're missing the point,
Look, this experience is supposed to be
about making you guys work together,
in an effort to develop social skills and self-confidence,
through getting you out of your comfort zone and creating
physically- and emotionally-challenging circumstances,
which develop your problem-solving and coping strategies,
At least that's what the guidelines say,
- Do the guidelines say you're a tool?
- Grow up, Larry,
Grow up,
- Sounds like a bunch of psychobabble to me,
- Look, I didn't say I bought into it,
I'm just telling you that that's part of the program,
- She used to live out in these very woods,
In a little cottage not far from where we are right now,
She peddled tonics, herbal remedies,
and everyone in town could swear the old hag was a witch,
- Yeah?
Well, I gotta tap a kidney,
- Then the town's little girls started going missing,
one by one,
Try as they might, they could not find them,
And they searched everywhere,
In the houses, the barns, the fields, even the woods,
Nothing,
It's as if they just vanished into thin air,
And although she denied knowledge
of the girls' disappearances,
the brave souls who questioned Mary couldn't help but notice
that she looked somehow younger,
Then one faithful night, the miller's daughter was cast
under a spell, and he followed her to the witch's cottage,
whereupon he found the bodies of all the missing girls,
completely drained of their blood,
the very thing that restored Mary's youth,
When word got back to the village,
they banded together and stormed the cottage,
And as they burned her at the stake,
she placed a curse on all of them,
and to this day, they say if you say her name three times
in the mirror, she'll appear before you,
right before she rips your eyes out of the socket,
- Charming,
- I think you should say it,
Are you afraid?
- Of course not,
- Say it,
- Get real,
- Say it!
- You're being silly,
- Say it!
- Bloody Mary,
Bloody Mary,
- Get it off!
- They ate my dog, old Peggy Sue,
You ate my dog!
Son of a bitch!
Maggot, you!
Ah, gotcha!
They'll believe me now,
that's for sure,
- You gotta apply pressure on that wound
and stop the bleeding,
Here, breath with me,
- We'll use my sweater,
- Here,
- We'll use my sweater,
Help me,
- What the hell were those things?
- We can talk about that later,
We gotta get back to town in the morning,
- Who the hell are you, man?
- The guy that just saved your life,
Do you even know where you're going?
- I just wanna go home,
- Look, pull over after the next turn!
- Now they're gonna believe me now!
- The wiles of the Texas Rangers!
- Not to bring up a sore subject,
other than being the guy who saved our lives, who are you?
- I came here to investigate the impact site for a meteor,
I work with the university,
- Those things back there, what the hell were they?
- I'll have to get back to you on that one, kid,
- The name's Chester,
- How's she doing?
- I don't know, she's not saying much,
Shelly?
- Yeah,
- How you doing, babe?
- I've been better,
Where are we?
- We're headed into town,
- These stories based on fact,
and their names, states, and places are fictitious
for obvious reasons,
The events themselves are a matter of record,
- Can I tell you something?
- Sure, sweetie,
What is it?
- If you were the one who's drinking,
why is my stomach killing me?
- Those things have anything to do
with the meteor you mentioned?
- I'm starting to lean in that direction, kid,
- Aliens?
- Maybe,
- Cool,
- Those things were from outer space?
- That's only speculation right now,
One thing I do know, wherever they're from,
they've got a taste for human blood,
- The National Broadcasting Company
presents Joel McRae in Tales of the Texas Rangers!
- I got it,
It's at a logging camp,
- Trish, baby?
- Trish?
Baby?
- Just something I got on TV,
Can you get me a beer?
- What am I, a maid?
Get it yourself!
- I don't wanna miss any of this movie,
This is great, I can't believe I've never seen this before,
- I want to have an early night,
- Thanks, Trish baby,
- Those people are dead,
- Nothing beats a good Sasquatch movie,
- Don't forget to take out the trash,
- As soon as we get into town, we need to make
some phone calls, call the army or somebody,
these guys up in the hills and blow these things out,
Is that the plan?
Why'd they come down here in the first place?
- Well, they got a taste for human blood,
Maybe they can smell it or something,
It's just a couple blocks to the motel,
- What's there?
- Dani,
- The lady from the diner?
- Yeah, she's the owner,
I gotta make sure she's alright,
- You're crazy, man, just keep driving!
- Look, we gotta change vehicles anyway,
Maybe we can use hers,
- It's too dangerous,
We gotta get outta here,
- We'll all get out of this together,
- Here you go, honey,
- Thank you,
- How's it going?
- You know, I really need some help at the store,
maybe you can quit your job at the diner,
- No, you really need me to keep that job,
Things are tight enough as it is,
- That didn't sound like any customer,
Maybe we should call the police,
- Ain't no police for miles,
I can get cleaned out before they even get here,
- They might have guns!
Wait!
- You guys just gonna let him do this?
It's suicide,
What the hell is wrong with you guys,
you don't have the balls to stand up to this guy?
- I wouldn't go there, Larry,
- What the hell is that supposed to mean?
- I think you left your balls at the campsite,
- You don't talk to me like that,
- Shut up, Larry, you big whiner!
- Oh, shit!
Where are these things coming from?
- They're here! They're here! They're here!
Rance was right!
They're here! They're here!
- Go go go!
- It's not safe!
You gotta come with me!
There's a trail through the woods to my place!
We gotta go, come on!
- You see anything?
- I can't see any movement in the dark,
Maybe they're inactive at night,
- Who cares when they're active,
we need to take these things out and take them out now,
- These things are way too big
to have come here on a meteor!
- Well they've obviously grown since they've got here,
Maybe something in our environment serves as a catalyst
and they just grow exponentially,
You know, like CO2 helps wheat grow?
- Is that you, Daddy?
- We're not talking about wheat, honey,
- More like maggots on steroids,
- Maybe they got into some Herakleophorbia,
- You know, I'm not familiar with that scientific term,
- Just something I read about,
a couple of scientists put some stuff together,
it makes things go faster and bigger,
- Oh yeah, HG Wells, Food of the Gods,
- I saw that movie,
- That's only science fiction,
- I wish those things out there were just science fiction,
- Well, given their alien nature,
maybe this rapid metabolic growth rate
is apart of their normal cycle,
- That still doesn't get us out of here,
- Okay, if their metabolic cycle is that fast,
then maybe their life is shortened?
- That's possible,
- No, I mean shortened, like way short,
Enough to wait them out,
- Like the mayfly, - Yeah,
- Listen to this,
We spent a spring once in Buffalo,
and those things were everywhere,
and then they just disappeared,
It's like they hatch, and they're everywhere you can see,
and then they're gone,
In fact, the locals, they call them dayflies,
It's really weird,
- Dayfly,
Daddy, I want a dayfly,
- What do you mean, we?
- My husband and I,
- Husband?
- Yeah, Ben,
He died in a car crash in '97,
- I'm sorry to hear that,
- Oh yeah, I'm sorry too,
We have giant worms chasing us
and you guys are talking about dead husbands?
I don't know if you remember,
but we have bigger problems to deal with,
- So, wait, these things could be dead in the morning?
- That girl in there needs hospitalization,
- I'm well aware of that,
- You know, I go to that diner every damn day,
That's all I know,
I just always had felt like there's something more
out there, I don't know what, but just something more,
Is it all gonna end here?
- Maybe we have a bigger purpose here,
- Yeah, tell me,
- Saving those kids?
- Do you really think that they could just die off
like Chester said?
- Anything's possible,
Do you see this? - What?
- It's worse than we thought,
More than one,
- I can see that,
These things are gonna pose greater threat
than we ever even thought,
- I'm almost afraid to do the math,
You don't suppose an arrow dipped in rat poison
would do the trick?
- Well, if you had a lot of rat poison,
and a whole battalion of archers,
and that's if rat poison even has a toxic effect
on their metabolism,
- Flaming arrows?
- Yeah, that could work,
How many arrows do you have?
- How many do we need?
- I'm wrong,
I'm wrong, he always told me I was wrong,
Oh God,
- Shelly, wake up,
Shelly,
Shelly, wake up!
Wake up!
- I don't know what the big deal is,
She was already dead,
That creature ate her stomach,
Let's be honest,
We were just waiting for her to stop breathing,
- Shut up, Larry!
- Get outta here, Larry!
- Already proved that you don't have a backbone!
- Backbone?
I'll show you backbone!
- We still gonna do this?
- We have to,
- Come on,
- Heath?
They're moving! Heath!
They're moving around up there!
Heath!
Look, we gotta go, come on!
Wake up, we gotta go,
We gotta go!
Come on!
Come on, you guys!
- Come on!
Come on!
- Get back!
Chester!
- Thanks for the help,
- Anytime!
- What are you guys doing, let's go!
- Come on,
- They're everywhere!
- Christina, come on!
Come on!
Are you kidding me?
- Chester!
Does it look like I've done this before?
- I'm back!
With a little backbone,
- Let's go!
- Larry, what are we doing?
- I don't know, man, I've just been killing giant maggots!
- Well shouldn't we have a plan or something?
- A plan?
What kind of a plan can we make
with these gross things trying to eat us?
- We should go back to the old gas station,
- Okay, but what's the difference
between being here and there?
- Well, there's gas things there,
Maybe we can lure theme over there,
What about flaming arrows?
Dani and Heath thought it would work,
- Yeah,
- We could blow the whole place up,
- I don't think I'm good enough to shoot flaming arrows,
- Damn, babe,
From what I saw earlier, you were looking pretty good,
- We still have that bottle of 151 in the truck,
- I don't think right now is a good time to be drinking,
- We could make fiery cocktails,
and I still have that glue,
- Well, this all sounds like a great plan,
but has anybody checked a phone?
To see if we have service?
To call for help?
- I coulda told you there was no service,
With this longitude and latitude,
and the altitude of these mountains,
the service gets diluted,
And besides, you can't bounce signal
through the microwave belt around the Earth,
- I'm so glad you're back,
I was afraid something happened to you,
- Did you guys see the last one I took out?
I blasted his green guts everywhere!
- Yeah man, I thought it had you for sure!
- Are you guys kidding me?
This isn't a video game, those things are trying to eat us!
- Nah, I could take these things off
like fish out of a barrel,
- Reminds me of that game, Giant Space Slugs From Saturn,
where that Latin dude becomes the hero, like Clark Kent
in Superman, but ends up saving Gotham City like Batman,
- Nah, I think it was the White guy dressed like Rambo!
- No, I think it was more like
the Valley girl turned Elektra,
After all, it is a woman's world,
Hey!
- Holy shit!
Get those flaming arrows ready!
- Christina, take your shirt off,
For the flaming arrows!
- I've got the glue!
- Now that's what you call a fiery cocktail,
- Looks like they're gonna have something new
on the local diner's menu,
Barbecue maggot steaks,