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MOSFILM

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Second Artists' Association

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ALISSA FREINDLIKH

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ALEXANDER KAIDANOVSKY

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ANATOLY SOLONITSYN

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NIKOLAI GRINKO

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in

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STALKER

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Screenplay by Arkady STRUGATSKY
and Boris STRUGATSKY

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based upon the story
"Roadside Picnic"

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Directed by
Andrei TARKOVSKY

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Director of Photography
Alexander KNYAZHINSKY

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Production Designer
Andrei TARKOVSKY

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Music by
Eduard ARTEMYEV

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Director L. TARKOVSKAYA

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Verses by F.I. TIUTCHEV
Ar.A. TARKOVSKY

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Sound by V. SHARUN
Conductor E. KHACHATURYAN

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English Subtitles by
T. Kameneva

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STALKER

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"What was it?
A meteorite?

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A visit of inhabitants
of the cosmic abyss?

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One way or another,
our small country

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has seen the birth of a miracle -
the Zone.

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We immediately sent troops there.

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They haven't come back.

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Then we surrounded the Zone
with police cordons...

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Perhaps, that was the right thing to
do. Though, I don't know..."

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From an interview with Nobel Prize
winner, Professor Wallace.

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Why did you take my watch?

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Where are you going, I'm asking you?

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You gave me your word
and I believed you.

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All right, you're not thinking about
yourself, but what about us?

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Did you think about your child?

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She's just getting used to you,
and you start it again!

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You've made an old woman of me.
You've ruined my life.

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Not so loud, you'll wake up
Monkey.

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I can't wait for you forever.
I'm going to die!

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You wanted to start working!

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You've been promised
a normal human work!

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I'll be back soon.

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You'll be back to prison!

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Though this time you'll get
ten years, not five!

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And for ten years you will have
neither your Zone, nor anything!

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And I'll be dead in the meantime.

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Oh God, for me it's prison
everywhere!

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- Let me go!
- No!

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Let go, I said!

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Go!
And may you rot there!

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Be damned the day
when I met you, bastard!

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God himself has cursed you
by giving you this child!

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And me too, because of you, jerk!

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My dear,
our world is hopelessly boring.

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Therefore, there can be no telepathy,
or apparitions, or flying saucers,

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nothing like that.

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The world is ruled by cast-iron laws,
and it's insufferably boring.

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Alas, those laws are never violated.

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They don't know how to be violated.

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So don't even hope for a UFO,
that would have been too interesting.

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And how about the Bermuda Triangle?
You're not going to deny...

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I am. There is no Bermuda Triangle.

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There's only Triangle ABC that equals
Triangle A-prim, B-prim, C-prim.

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Do you feel the boredom
contained in this assertion?

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To live in the Middle Ages was
interesting.

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Every home had its house-spirit,
and every church had its God.

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People were young!
Now every fourth is an old person.

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It's so boring, my angel.

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But you said that the Zone

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was the product of a superior
civilization...

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It must be boring, too,
all those laws, triangles,

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and no house spirits,
and no God, that's for certain.

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Because if God is also
a triangle,

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then I don't know what to think.

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It's for me! Great!

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Goodbye, my dear friend.

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This lady was so kind as to agree
to go with us to the Zone.

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She's a very courageous woman.
Her name is...

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I beg your pardon, your name is..?

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Are you really a stalker?

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Wait... I'll explain everything.

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Go...

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What a cretin!

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You did get drunk after all.

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Me? What do you mean?

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I had a drink, like one half
of the population does.

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The other half gets drunk.
Including women and children.

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I just had a drink though.

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Damn it, what a mess here.

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Go on, drink. We've got time.

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How about a glass for the road?

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What do you think?

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Take it away.

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I see. Dry law.
Alcoholism is a scourge of mankind.

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All right, we'll drink beer.

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Is he with us?

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Never mind, he'll sober up.
He needs to go there, too.

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Are you really a professor?

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If you don't mind.

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Then let me introduce myself.
My name is...

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Your name is Writer.

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Well. And what is my name?

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Yours? Professor.

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I see. I'm a writer,

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so, naturally, everyone calls me
Writer for some reason.

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- And what do you write about?
- About the readers.

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Obviously, there's nothing else
one should write about.

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One should write about nothing at all.

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And what are you? A chemist?

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A physicist rather.

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That must be boring, too.
Searching for the truth.

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It's hiding and you keep searching
for it.

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You dig in one place -- eureka!
The nucleus is made of protons.

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You dig in another -- great!

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Triangle ABC equals
Triangle A-prim, B-prim, C-prim.

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With me it's quite different.

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While I am digging for the truth,
so much happens to it

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that instead of discovering the truth

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I dig up a heap of, pardon...
I'd better not name it.

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You're lucky!

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But imagine some antique pot
displayed in a museum.

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It was used at its time
as a receptacle of food leftovers,

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but now it's an object of
universal admiration

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for its laconic pattern
and unique form.

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Everyone goes oh! and ah!

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And suddenly it turns out
that it's not antique at all,

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that some joker has palmed it off
on the archeologists

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just for fun.

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Strange as it may seem, the admiration
dies off. Those connoisseurs...

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Is it what you think about
all the time?

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God forbid!

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In fact, I don't think much.
It's not good for me.

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It's impossible to write, thinking
all the time of success or failure.

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Naturlich! But if no one is going
to read me in one hundred years,

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why the hell should I write at all?

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Tell me, Professor, why did you let
yourself be mixed up in all this?

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What do you need the Zone for?

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I'm a scientist in some sense.

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But what do you need it for?

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You're an "in" writer.

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Women must be running after you
in flocks.

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My inspiration has been lost,
Professor. I go begging for it.

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Have you been used up?

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What?
Yes, I guess, in a way.

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Do you hear it? Our train.

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- Have you taken the roof off the car?
- Yes, I have.

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Luger, if I don't come back,
call on my wife.

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Damn it, I forgot to buy cigarettes.

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Don't go back.

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- Why?
- You must not.

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- You're all like this.
- Like what?

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Believing such nonsense.

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Well, I'd better leave it for a rainy
day.

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Are you really a scientist?

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Down!

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Don't move!

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Go and look, is there anyone there?

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Move it, for God's sake!

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There's no one there.

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Go to the other exit.

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Where on earth did you look, Writer?

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- You didn't forget the jerry can?
- No. It's full.

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Everything I told you before...

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is a lie.
I don't give a damn about inspiration.

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How would I know
the right word for what I want?

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How would I know that actually
I don't want what I want?

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Or that I actually don't want
what I don't want?

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They are elusive things:

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the moment we name them,
their meaning disappears,

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melts, dissolves
like a jellyfish in the sun.

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My conscience wants vegetarianism
to win over the world.

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And my subconscious is yearning
for a piece of juicy meat.

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But what do I want?

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World domination.

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Quiet!

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Why a diesel locomotive in the Zone?

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It services the outpost.
It won't go any farther.

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They don't like going there.

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Take your places!
Everybody here?

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The guards have arrived.
Tell them to turn the TV off.

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Hurry!

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Go look if there�s a trolley
on the tracks.

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What trolley?

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Go back, I'll do it.

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The jerry can!

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Give it to me!

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Get rid of your knapsack,
it's hampering you.

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You may travel light, if you wish,
as if going for a stroll.

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If someone gets hit,
don't shout or rush about.

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If they see you, they'll kill you.

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When everything settles down,
crawl back to the outpost.

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They'll pick you up in the morning.

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Can they catch up with us?

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They fear it like the plague.

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Fear what?

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Here we are... home, at last.

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How quiet it is.

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This is the quietest place in
the world. You'll see for yourselves.

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So beautiful here.
Not a single soul here.

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What about us?

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Three men can't spoil the place
in one day.

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Why? They can.

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It's strange that flowers don't
smell. Or have I...

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Do you feel anything?

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I feel the stench of the bog.

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No, that's the river. There's a river
here.

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There was a flower-bed nearby,
but Porcupine had trampled it down.

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The smell lingered
for many years though.

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Why did he do it?

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I don't know.

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I asked him why, too.

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And he said:
"You'll understand later."

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I think he just came to hate the Zone.

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Porcupine, that's his name?

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A nickname, like yours.

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He had been taking people to the Zone
for years, and no one could stop him.

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He was my teacher.
He opened my eyes.

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He was called Teacher then,
not Porcupine.

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Then something happened to him,
something broke in him.

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Though I think
he was punished.

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Will you help me? Tie those strips
of bandage to the nuts.

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And I... will go for a walk.

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I need to do something...

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Don't go anywhere.

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Where's he going?

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He wants to be alone, I guess.

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Why? Even with the three of us
together, I feel weird.

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A date with the Zone.
He's a stalker.

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And what does that mean?

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You see, being a stalker
is some sort of calling.

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- I thought he'd be different.
- Like what?

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Well, you know, the Leather Stockings,
Chingachgook sort of things...

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His background is even more frightful.

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Several times in prison,
then he was harmed here.

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He has a mutant daughter,
"a victim of the Zone" as they call it.

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They say she's got no legs.

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And what about this Porcupine?

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What does it mean, "was punished"?

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Or was it just a figure of speech?

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One day Porcupine returned from here

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and got rich overnight.

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Fabulously rich.

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You call it punishment?

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A week later he hanged himself.

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Why?

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Quiet!

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What was that?

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Presumably a meteorite fell down
here about twenty years ago.

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It had burned down the settlement.

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They searched for this meteorite,
but never found it, of course.

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Why "of course"?

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Then people began disappearing here.

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They came here and never returned.

252
00:43:57,120 --> 00:43:58,840
So it was concluded...

253
00:43:59,960 --> 00:44:05,160
that this meteorite
was not really a meteorite.

254
00:44:05,280 --> 00:44:06,640
At first...

255
00:44:09,440 --> 00:44:15,480
they circled the place with barbed
wire to scare off the inquisitive.

256
00:44:17,600 --> 00:44:23,080
All this gave rise to rumours
that there's a place in the Zone...

257
00:44:25,280 --> 00:44:27,040
where wishes come true.

258
00:44:27,880 --> 00:44:34,920
Naturally, they began to guard
the Zone like the apple of their eye.

259
00:44:35,960 --> 00:44:40,019
Who knows what kind of fish
someone might cherish.

260
00:44:40,120 --> 00:44:44,240
What was it if not a meteorite?

261
00:44:46,680 --> 00:44:48,160
I told you, no one knows.

262
00:44:49,800 --> 00:44:52,000
And what do you think?

263
00:44:53,880 --> 00:44:57,000
Nothing.
Or anything.

264
00:44:59,680 --> 00:45:03,699
A message to mankind,
as one of my colleagues says.

265
00:45:03,800 --> 00:45:05,160
Or a gift.

266
00:45:10,120 --> 00:45:11,760
Some gift.

267
00:45:13,200 --> 00:45:15,179
Why on earth would they do it?

268
00:45:15,280 --> 00:45:16,920
To make us happy.

269
00:45:21,360 --> 00:45:26,240
The flowers are blooming again,
but they don't smell for some reason.

270
00:45:26,360 --> 00:45:32,160
Sorry for leaving you two here,
but it was too early to go anyway.

271
00:45:35,640 --> 00:45:36,600
Did you hear it?

272
00:45:38,040 --> 00:45:40,000
Maybe someone lives here?

273
00:45:41,440 --> 00:45:42,400
Who?

274
00:45:44,680 --> 00:45:46,840
You told me yourself

275
00:45:47,040 --> 00:45:52,339
about some tourists camped here
when the Zone originated.

276
00:45:52,440 --> 00:45:55,640
There's no one in the Zone and
there can't be.

277
00:45:59,680 --> 00:46:01,080
Well, it's time.

278
00:46:46,600 --> 00:46:49,099
How are we going to return?

279
00:46:49,200 --> 00:46:53,480
- They don't return here.
- What do you mean?

280
00:46:53,760 --> 00:46:55,800
We'll go as we agreed.

281
00:47:01,600 --> 00:47:03,560
I'll show the direction.

282
00:47:04,200 --> 00:47:07,160
Any deviation from it is dangerous.

283
00:47:08,760 --> 00:47:11,880
The first landmark is that last pole.

284
00:47:12,200 --> 00:47:15,040
You go first, Professor.

285
00:47:27,280 --> 00:47:28,240
Now you.

286
00:47:36,520 --> 00:47:39,480
Try to follow in his footsteps.

287
00:48:54,600 --> 00:48:57,739
Oh, my God! And where are...

288
00:48:57,840 --> 00:49:02,259
Did they remain here like that?
Those people?

289
00:49:02,360 --> 00:49:03,560
Who knows.

290
00:49:04,920 --> 00:49:10,739
I remember them packing at the station,
getting ready to come here.

291
00:49:10,840 --> 00:49:12,400
I was just a boy.

292
00:49:13,360 --> 00:49:18,160
We all thought then
that somebody wanted to conquer us.

293
00:49:23,840 --> 00:49:25,320
You first, Professor.

294
00:49:33,840 --> 00:49:34,800
Now you, Writer.

295
00:51:58,800 --> 00:52:04,400
Your room is over there.
We'll go this way.

296
00:52:04,880 --> 00:52:09,840
Why were you hiking up the price?
It's so close at hand.

297
00:52:10,520 --> 00:52:14,400
Yes, but the hand
has to be very long.

298
00:52:15,280 --> 00:52:17,400
We don't have such a hand.

299
00:53:21,680 --> 00:53:23,160
Don't! Leave it alone!

300
00:53:24,960 --> 00:53:27,000
Don't touch it!

301
00:53:29,960 --> 00:53:31,320
Don't touch it, I said!

302
00:53:32,280 --> 00:53:37,160
Are you crazy? What's the matter
with you?

303
00:53:38,640 --> 00:53:41,680
It's not the place for leisurely
strolls.

304
00:53:42,440 --> 00:53:44,859
The Zone wants to be respected.
Otherwise it will punish.

305
00:53:44,960 --> 00:53:50,920
Don't you ever try it again...
Have you no tongue or what?

306
00:53:52,200 --> 00:53:53,240
I warned you, didn't I?

307
00:53:54,040 --> 00:53:55,000
Are we to go there?

308
00:53:57,600 --> 00:54:00,579
Yes. Up, enter it and to the left.

309
00:54:00,680 --> 00:54:06,240
Only we are not going this way.
We'll go around.

310
00:54:06,600 --> 00:54:07,760
Why?

311
00:54:09,360 --> 00:54:10,400
People don't go this way.

312
00:54:11,040 --> 00:54:15,720
In the Zone, the longer way,
the less risk.

313
00:54:15,880 --> 00:54:17,859
And to go straight ahead is fatal?

314
00:54:17,960 --> 00:54:19,579
He told you it's dangerous.

315
00:54:19,680 --> 00:54:23,259
- And making a detour's not dangerous?
- It is. But they don't go this way.

316
00:54:23,360 --> 00:54:26,419
What do I care that they don't?
What if I take a chance...

317
00:54:26,520 --> 00:54:28,099
Listen, what's the matter with you...

318
00:54:28,200 --> 00:54:31,859
To go all the way around!
When everything's so close.

319
00:54:31,960 --> 00:54:35,179
Here a risk, there a risk.
What the hell!

320
00:54:35,280 --> 00:54:39,400
You're being very flippant
about this.

321
00:54:40,520 --> 00:54:43,579
I'm fed up with all those nuts
and bandages.

322
00:54:43,680 --> 00:54:47,339
You may do as you wish,
but I'm going.

323
00:54:47,440 --> 00:54:50,779
- You're insane.
- It's you who are...

324
00:54:50,880 --> 00:54:52,240
May I?

325
00:55:03,880 --> 00:55:05,320
The wind is coming up...

326
00:55:07,280 --> 00:55:10,760
Can you feel it? The grass...

327
00:55:18,200 --> 00:55:21,480
All the more so.

328
00:55:22,280 --> 00:55:23,640
What do you mean?

329
00:55:39,680 --> 00:55:40,640
Wait!

330
00:55:40,880 --> 00:55:42,160
Keep your hands off!

331
00:55:43,280 --> 00:55:49,859
Professor be my witness,
I didn't sent you there.

332
00:55:49,960 --> 00:55:52,000
You go of your own will.

333
00:55:52,200 --> 00:55:55,160
Of my own will. What else?

334
00:55:55,280 --> 00:55:57,480
Nothing. Go.

335
00:56:04,200 --> 00:56:05,920
God help you to be lucky.

336
00:56:20,680 --> 00:56:21,760
Listen!

337
00:56:22,600 --> 00:56:25,339
Should you notice something,

338
00:56:25,440 --> 00:56:28,400
or just feel something,

339
00:56:28,600 --> 00:56:31,080
go back at once, or...

340
00:56:31,280 --> 00:56:35,000
Just don't throw iron poles at me.

341
00:57:40,520 --> 00:57:41,840
Stop! Don't move!

342
00:57:46,960 --> 00:57:50,099
- Why did you do it?
- Why did I do what?

343
00:57:50,200 --> 00:57:56,080
- Why did you stop him?
- I thought it was you...

344
00:58:33,440 --> 00:58:38,099
What's up?
Why did you stop me?

345
00:58:38,200 --> 00:58:39,480
I didn't stop you.

346
00:58:39,680 --> 00:58:41,840
Who did it then? You?

347
00:58:46,120 --> 00:58:47,680
Who the hell knows...

348
00:58:50,120 --> 00:58:53,019
You're smart, Mister Shakespeare.

349
00:58:53,120 --> 00:58:56,019
To go straight ahead is scary,
to go back is embarrassing.

350
00:58:56,120 --> 00:59:01,939
So you gave yourself a command.
Fear has made you come to your senses.

351
00:59:02,040 --> 00:59:03,560
- What?
- Stop it.

352
00:59:04,120 --> 00:59:08,160
- Why have you emptied the bottle?
- Stop it, I said!

353
00:59:22,680 --> 00:59:27,760
The Zone is a very complicated system...

354
00:59:29,680 --> 00:59:34,080
of traps,
and they're all deadly.

355
00:59:36,040 --> 00:59:39,419
I don't know what's going on here
in the absence of people,

356
00:59:39,520 --> 00:59:45,560
but the moment someone shows up,
everything comes into motion.

357
00:59:47,120 --> 00:59:50,640
Old traps disappear
and new ones emerge.

358
00:59:51,440 --> 00:59:54,920
Safe spots
become impassable.

359
00:59:55,600 --> 01:00:01,320
Now your path is easy,
now it's hopelessly involved.

360
01:00:04,800 --> 01:00:06,080
That's the Zone.

361
01:00:07,680 --> 01:00:11,840
It may even seem capricious.

362
01:00:12,440 --> 01:00:17,080
But it is what we've made it
with our condition.

363
01:00:19,200 --> 01:00:25,240
It happened that people had
to stop halfway and go back.

364
01:00:25,880 --> 01:00:29,920
Some of them even died
on the very threshold of the room.

365
01:00:30,360 --> 01:00:33,699
But everything that's going on here
depends not on the Zone, but on us!

366
01:00:33,800 --> 01:00:38,080
So it lets the good ones pass
and kills the bad ones?

367
01:00:38,440 --> 01:00:40,080
I don't know.

368
01:00:40,280 --> 01:00:43,419
I think
it lets those pass who...

369
01:00:43,520 --> 01:00:45,480
have lost all hope.

370
01:00:45,960 --> 01:00:50,760
Not good or bad,
but wretched people.

371
01:00:51,200 --> 01:00:55,920
But even the most wretched will die
if they don't know how to behave.

372
01:01:04,680 --> 01:01:08,920
You have been lucky,
it just warned you.

373
01:01:12,440 --> 01:01:16,000
I guess I'll wait for you here

374
01:01:16,120 --> 01:01:21,779
until you come back,
made happy.

375
01:01:21,880 --> 01:01:23,240
It's impossible!

376
01:01:23,440 --> 01:01:26,499
I've got sandwiches, a thermos...

377
01:01:26,600 --> 01:01:29,419
You won't last even an hour here
without me.

378
01:01:29,520 --> 01:01:33,480
Besides, one doesn't return here
the way one comes.

379
01:01:34,880 --> 01:01:36,760
Anyway, I would prefer...

380
01:01:36,960 --> 01:01:39,859
Then we're going back right away.

381
01:01:39,960 --> 01:01:44,339
I'll return your money
minus a certain sum

382
01:01:44,440 --> 01:01:46,779
for the trouble, so to speak...

383
01:01:46,880 --> 01:01:49,720
Have you come to your senses,
Professor?

384
01:01:53,880 --> 01:01:57,560
All right. Go on, throw your nut.

385
01:02:50,400 --> 01:02:53,820
Part Two

386
01:02:55,900 --> 01:03:01,660
STALKER

387
01:03:04,760 --> 01:03:08,640
Where are you? Come here!
Are you tired?

388
01:03:29,360 --> 01:03:31,080
Oh, God!

389
01:03:34,440 --> 01:03:39,800
Judging by his tone, he's going to
start sermonizing again.

390
01:03:57,600 --> 01:04:01,120
Let everything that's been planned
come true.

391
01:04:01,520 --> 01:04:03,320
Let them believe.

392
01:04:05,280 --> 01:04:08,739
And let them have a laugh
at their passions.

393
01:04:08,840 --> 01:04:13,059
Because what they call passion
actually is not some emotional energy,

394
01:04:13,160 --> 01:04:17,280
but just the friction between
their souls and the outside world.

395
01:04:17,680 --> 01:04:21,560
And most important,
let them believe in themselves

396
01:04:21,680 --> 01:04:25,259
Let them be helpless like children,

397
01:04:25,360 --> 01:04:30,040
because weakness is a great thing,
and strength is nothing.

398
01:04:33,760 --> 01:04:37,419
When a man is just born,
he is weak and flexible,

399
01:04:37,520 --> 01:04:41,120
when he dies,
he is hard and insensitive.

400
01:04:41,680 --> 01:04:44,819
When a tree is growing,
it's tender and pliant,

401
01:04:44,920 --> 01:04:49,960
but when it's dry and hard,
it dies.

402
01:04:50,280 --> 01:04:55,160
Hardness and strength
are death's companions.

403
01:04:55,920 --> 01:05:00,320
Pliancy and weakness are
expressions of the freshness of being.

404
01:05:01,000 --> 01:05:06,120
Because what has hardened
will never win.

405
01:05:24,520 --> 01:05:29,579
Come here!
We're progressing well.

406
01:05:29,680 --> 01:05:32,339
Soon we'll come to a dry tunnel,
after that it will get easier.

407
01:05:32,440 --> 01:05:34,160
Knock on wood.

408
01:05:34,440 --> 01:05:39,059
- Are we on our way already?
- Of course. Why?

409
01:05:39,160 --> 01:05:43,979
I thought you just wanted
to show us something.

410
01:05:44,080 --> 01:05:47,259
- What about my knapsack?
- What about it?

411
01:05:47,360 --> 01:05:51,739
I left it there.
I didn't know we were going.

412
01:05:51,840 --> 01:05:56,099
- There's nothing we can do about it.
- No, we have to go back.

413
01:05:56,200 --> 01:05:58,819
- It's impossible!
- I can't do without my knapsack!

414
01:05:58,920 --> 01:06:03,960
Can't you understand that no one here
has ever come back the same way?

415
01:06:04,920 --> 01:06:08,499
Forget about your knapsack.
What have you got there, diamonds?

416
01:06:08,600 --> 01:06:11,979
The room will give you
anything you want.

417
01:06:12,080 --> 01:06:15,979
Really. It will drown you
in knapsacks.

418
01:06:16,080 --> 01:06:18,240
How far is it, this room?

419
01:06:18,520 --> 01:06:23,299
If you go straight, about 200 meters,
but there's no going straight here.

420
01:06:23,400 --> 01:06:24,560
Let's go.

421
01:06:26,080 --> 01:06:32,320
Give up your empiricism, Professor.
Miracles are outside empiricism.

422
01:06:33,520 --> 01:06:37,320
Remember how St. Peter
was nearly drowned?

423
01:06:40,760 --> 01:06:42,160
Go, Writer.

424
01:06:44,280 --> 01:06:45,560
Go where?

425
01:06:46,280 --> 01:06:47,960
Up these stairs.

426
01:06:58,000 --> 01:06:59,960
Professor, where are you?

427
01:08:46,760 --> 01:08:48,720
Here is the dry tunnel!

428
01:08:49,000 --> 01:08:50,960
You call it dry?

429
01:08:52,360 --> 01:08:58,160
This is a local joke.
Normally one has to swim here.

430
01:09:24,920 --> 01:09:27,160
Wait, where's Professor?

431
01:09:27,360 --> 01:09:30,499
- What?
- Professor has disappeared!

432
01:09:30,600 --> 01:09:35,499
How could it happen?
He was following you all the way.

433
01:09:35,600 --> 01:09:38,899
He probably lagged behind and
lost his way.

434
01:09:39,000 --> 01:09:42,819
No, he didn't lose his way!
He must've gone for the knapsack!

435
01:09:42,920 --> 01:09:45,640
He won't be able to make it now.

436
01:09:46,080 --> 01:09:47,320
Shall we wait for him?

437
01:09:47,520 --> 01:09:53,360
We can't. Things change here
every minute. We'll have to go.

438
01:10:20,840 --> 01:10:23,499
Look! What is it? How could it be?

439
01:10:23,600 --> 01:10:27,139
- I already explained.
- What did you explain?

440
01:10:27,240 --> 01:10:33,560
It's the Zone, don't you understand?
Let's go, quick. It's...

441
01:10:52,600 --> 01:10:53,880
There he is!

442
01:11:06,840 --> 01:11:10,739
I'm certainly grateful to you
that you... but...

443
01:11:10,840 --> 01:11:12,320
How did you get here?

444
01:11:14,680 --> 01:11:21,320
Mostly I had to crawl up here
on my fours.

445
01:11:21,520 --> 01:11:25,160
Incredible.
How did you manage to overtake us?

446
01:11:25,520 --> 01:11:32,240
What do you mean, "overtake"?
I came back here for the knapsack.

447
01:11:33,200 --> 01:11:36,480
And how has our nut gotten here?

448
01:11:38,000 --> 01:11:43,400
Oh, my God, that's...
the trap!

449
01:11:46,360 --> 01:11:51,240
Porcupine put this nut here
on purpose.

450
01:11:53,440 --> 01:11:58,560
How could the Zone let us through?

451
01:12:03,440 --> 01:12:09,480
Oh God, I'm not going
to take one more step until...

452
01:12:09,600 --> 01:12:11,120
I don't like it.

453
01:12:16,360 --> 01:12:19,960
That's it! We rest!

454
01:12:32,440 --> 01:12:37,499
But keep off this nut,
just in case.

455
01:12:37,600 --> 01:12:42,099
Sorry, but I thought that
Professor won't be able to make it.

456
01:12:42,200 --> 01:12:43,160
You see, I...

457
01:12:45,000 --> 01:12:48,979
I never know beforehand what kind
of people I'm taking with me.

458