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The Time MachineEnd of last part: DAVID: What about the animal? Did you see it? GEORGE: No, I didn't. It was too fast for us. DAVID: Perhaps we'd better go back, George. The girl seems to be alright now. GEORGE: Do you think that we should leave her like this? DAVID: Yes, yes, I've had enough. GEORGE: Well they haven't old man, because they're here, all around us. Part 2 [DAVID DESCRIBES WHAT HAPPENED NEXT] DAVID: They had very quietly surrounded us ... the little people of this time. And the girl we'd saved was not a child, but a full grown woman. They all stood five feet high and wore simple tunics.
They were beautiful creatures, but frail and plump. They were like figures in a dream. They moved happily around us, their faces in smiles. DAVID: Why, they're not savage at all. They're very loving and gentle little people. GEORGE: Yes. But there's something terribly wrong with them. DAVID: How do you mean? What is wrong? GEORGE: They seem to have the minds of five year olds. DAVID: Well, how do you expect them to be? GEORGE: Far ahead of us, of course. This is the future. They should be ahead of us in knowledge and science. But look at them! They are like children!
DAVID: They seem to be happy, in this huge garden of theirs. Uh, George, I've changed my mind. Let's stay. Maybe we should enjoy spending a few days with our little friends. [DAVID DESCRIBES WHAT HAPPENED NEXT] DAVID: The little people led us home, into their valley. We learned they were called the Eloi. The Eloi lived in a colossal building.
They slept all together in one huge hall, ate in another, and played in the sunshine. And we lived with them for days, in complete contentment. One afternoon, George and I walked along the side of the great river. GEORGE: The Eloi all wear the same clothes, and have the same soft, hairless skin. DAVID: I wonder if it's because they're all vegetarians. GEORGE: They're vegetarians because they have to be. You haven't come across any horses, or dogs, or cattle of any kind, have you? DAVID: No, now that you mention it! GEORGE: With good reason, all of them are extinct by now. Just like the dinosaur is with us. DAVID: George, there's something strange here, something hidden away. Silent. GEORGE: I felt the same way. I've taken the precaution of removing the control levers of the time machine.
I don't much like the idea of someone riding away with it into another century and leaving us here for the rest of our lives. [DAVID LOOKS AROUND WHERE THEY ARE STANDING] DAVID: Uh, George, do you know where we are? GEORGE: Uh, yes, isn't this where we landed? DAVID: I thought so. I wasn't sure. . . GEORGE: Why did you ask? DAVID: What's happened to the time machine? GEORGE: What? They've taken it away. They've stolen it! DAVID: This is where it was. It was right here. GEORGE: Look! David! Look at these marks on the ground! You can see here where they've pulled the machine. Over here! Come along!
[DAVID AND GEORGE WALK QUIKLY] GEORGE: Down this path! Look! Right there! That huge building, that monument. DAVID: (pointing at the building) See those brass doors. [DAVID AND GEORGE POUND ON THE DOOR] DAVID: The door are locked! GEORGE: The machine! It must be in there! DAVID: Yes! GEORGE: Inside! We must get in there! Break down the doors! DAVID: How, how can we? GEORGE: Here, use the ladders! DAVID: Alright, I'll try [DAVID HITS THE DOORS WITH A LADDER] DAVID: It's no good, George! They're solid! We'll never break through! GEORGE: Never? Never? We've got to break through! DAVID: We may never go home again! GEORGE: The time machine! We have to get the time machine! [DAVID DESCRIBES WHAT HAPPENED AFTER THAT] DAVID: We were caught in the year eight hundred and two thousand, seven hundred and one (802701)!. The time machine was gone. The brass doors of the monument couldn't be opened.
We couldn't leave. We couldn't go back to our home . . . back to our own time. Our own people. Back to eighteen ninety-eight (1899). And we had no way of communicating with the little people. Of asking them what they had done with the machine! There was nothing hostile in their attitude. They were more like simple children. Only one, the young woman, Weena, whose life we had saved on the first day, became really friendly.
Weena went with us wherever we walked and brought us flowers and slept near us at night in the hall. And we in turn had taught her a few words in English. Now, we tried to teach her even more so that we might speak to her and discover the secret of the loss of our time machine. We were talking to her one night after the others had gone to sleep . . . WEENA: No, not us, George, no. GEORGE: How can you be so sure your people, the Eloi, didn't steal the machine? Aren't there any thieves among the Eloi? Are they all perfect? DAVID: Not so loud, George. You'll wake them. Besides, she doesn't understand. GEORGE: The thief must be sleeping somewhere in this hall. Weena, one of the Eloi took the machine. WEENA: No, George, no. GEORGE: Who then? Who? We must have the machine, Weena. WEENA: Yes, George, yes. GEORGE: Who took machine? Other people? Not yours? WEENA: Other people? DAVID: What about those doors, Weena? The doors, can you open them? WEENA: No! No! GEORGE: Weena, the machine. If it is in there, we must open the doors. WEENA: No! No! Don't open them!
GEORGE: Alright, go to sleep. Get some rest. WEENA: Yes, George. GEORGE: What's to become of us, David? Are we caught here in this century? To spend our lives with the little people and their secret? DAVID: We'll go back to the monument tomorrow. We'll find a way of breaking in . Goodnight George. . . (PAUSE) George?. . .George! GEORGE: Yeah?... DAVID: Did you just?. . .There it was again! GEORGE: What? DAVID: Something was on my face. It felt cold and dirty! On my face and in my hair! It's cold! It's death! George! GEORGE: You're right, there's something in here with us! And it smells like death! What was it? DAVID: I don't know! But look at them! Look at the little people! GEORGE: They look so afraid! Something has scared all of them! Let's go out right now! Let's get out of here!
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