we've got ten days for the spring break well i'll be glad when you get a lab of your own and take all those things so that by a lab you get the willies walk into their night what are you worried about howard rattlesnakes give you warning before they strike well i think i'll stick to working with birds they don't strike at all how see you later you here we have reasons living under normal conditions this group over here has been subjected to variations in lighting temperature one day it's hot and dark next it's cold like this chaotic type of environment creates str do as i say you've got i'm almost a cup of coffee you better make that a drink twice and believe me sure enough for me doesn't hurt to be over cautious when you're dealing with any kind of venomous snakes after seeing these two kids we brought in i sure agree it was an old man we found in the desert last month i wish you could have seen all swollen with the same type snake bites as these at least we thought they were snake bites maybe you can tell better after you look at the strictly close coffin stuff we've been holding off releasing their bodies to their families  rattlesnakes together in one place for usually do it during hibernation remember where the bodies were found yes sure now let's see yeah we found the old man right about here in here and the kids around there tale sheriff we've tried that stuff in the lab and it doesn't bother me at all but what is unusual is the fact that he apparently was attacked in his sleep which is highly unlike the behavior of a rattlesnake or any other reptile for that matter why is that when reptiles just aren't naturally aggressive even a rattlesnake won't attack unless you get too close you know how far away you can hear the rattles and surprise the old man didn't hear them i've just never heard of a rattlesnake making an unprovoked attack on a man before sure looks that way  documentation wow that seems like a lot to do i'm going to try to up with classes here until friday and even then i don't know whether i can handle it i'm not very good with a camera well see we got you are going to have a car to help you with the paperwork when you think  he's with the university of california helping us to investigate a series of accidents he's going to be in complete charge of this phase of the investigation he'll fill you in on all that you tell me now like if you don't mind roughing it do i have a a glider pilot came down here silver late last night that awful town here he says he was attacked attacked by snakes so then i realized that if i stayed with the precise be doing the same thing ten years from now because all the promotions in executive positions are held down by men come on i can't believe that they're all their office jobs with women like typing taking shorthand would you want to work at a switchboard eight hours a day saying hello mr jones just a moment  for those women seem very happy in their jobs sure how many men can you find to change sheets for empty bedpans hour come off and tell me doctor how many professors in your department are women none of that doesn't mean th couldn't be seen you're just like the rest of them the reason there aren't any women in good jobs is because the jobs don't exist oh well i'm sorry i can't agree with that of course you can't because it's men like you who make it that way and boy men make all the choices  right yes well let me tell you something young lady if i had my choice in the matter you'd be sitting on your liberated ass back in that sheriff's department instead of out here with me where you don't belong in the first place could you tell us exactly what happened in those bradley will take notes which are just fine well i been airborne most of the afternoon about six thirty i radioed in for a toll because i didn't have enough lift to make it back to the field or i settled down over the canopy got out or back by the tail and about that time i heard some kind of buzzing noises like those mariachis villas things they use in a latin dance when i saw the snakes coming along the ground right towards me were dozens of i turned and ran for the cockpit but there was one coil on the ground in front of me and i had to jump over him to get in and i felt a sharp pain in my leg and i knew he got me but i don't in the cockpit because by then the rest of them were right on my tail my leg felt heavy as i pulled it in i could see he was still hanging on to me with his fangs buried in my calf i grabbed a hold of him but he hung on like a fight and then he let go and spun around trying to bite me in the hand to his trashing you need to know that for what will tell us whether we're dealing with a diamond back or sidewinder oh where oh no i don't see the seam to come pretty much straight to it is hard to tell it was almost dark i couldn't even describe the one on my leg except that it was a rattlesnake but at least there won't be any smog or anything else for that matter fine do you know i called your office over four hours ago i'm sorry but my partner's been sick and i've been going all day which seems to be the problem well there's absolutely no hotline or i can even take a bath sounds like the pilot may have gone up which wa your water heater i think it's in there i don't know really i'm not very mechanical enough money to get out of here and move back to san diego you got that fixed you know looks like your regulator belt great how much is that going to cost i'm not too bad about seven fifty plus labor and probably about twenty dollars altogether i have to get out of the house to fix it hey i bet you're hungry how did you like some bacon and eggs that is if you brought in our brought everything all right and i was sure you could cook i'm not so hot myself are you kidding i was the oldest of seven kids so when my father died and my mother had to go to work i learned to do all the cooking oh i'm not very cocky but my bacon and eggs are pretty good now with that kind of childhood i'm sure you're better than i am you know what i guess really bothered me was seeing my mother working in a factory for minimum wage when i was little i remember holding her hand it was so solved but after a few years of working with those machines it became calloused and it seemed every freelancing don't you i love it oh you can't starve in between jobs though speaking of starving we better eat and check out where that water line or we're both going to lose our jobs for the sheriff's department ok are you doing i'm just noticing look here this is where we are now the kids were found right about here and the old man was over here farmhouses up anything out but maybe we ought to check it out anyway somebody might have seen some of them will ok but how about a picture fence top and a smile i'm sorry but no one's allowed on the base without a security clearance but i could cause office let them know you're here but appreciate that you must be dr anything you need to know i'm sure you can find it in these forty two eleven forty two eleven form forty two eleven certificate of death not much to represent a man's life but that's what we ha sure as hell wasn't the fellow it was unusual number of bytes he had must have been nearly a dozen you know exactly where the body was found about a half a mile from the base almost due east one colonel probably wouldn't want you to know this billings had a girl in barstow and apparently had been going over the fence several nights a week i still don't see how he got past the patrol car i don't myself patrols security patrols they patrol the perimeter to make sure no one gets into the base at night or out of it either last year they caught two kids taken parts off a truck someone even tried to steal a helicopter reminds me i was going to ask colonel now it's like i call it a good mood how do i get down to that landing pad and just go out the door into the right you can't miss what about me i'm not going well why don't you stay here with the captain the lady that is if he doesn't mind mine listen professor at a time you want to leave me alone with a sexy looking young thing like miss bradley here by with me well i thought maybe she could photograph the death certificate near where billings was found you don't mind taking her out there might be glad to but i can't assert the infirmary that's ok if you give me directions i'll just take the jeep if you don't mind going along now i don't turn so you later thank you very much ok we'll need a ma well if there was a snake in there before it's gone no are you sure it's gone positive if you want to ride over it let it take you anywhere you want no that's ok thanks anyway probably just my imagination parkinson's i've gone out of my way to help you but when you combine g and your insisting on seeing me i think you'll step in your bums after all this is a government facility sheriff's department has no jurisdiction here it has when you're in danger in the lives of civilians  what do you talk check the records there's never been one civilian fatality or even an injury due to any of our aircraft or personnel i'm talking about whatever it is you have buried in that mine shaft who told you about that it doesn't matter who told me or who's responsible the point is i want to know what's in that mind ship because i have a feeling it may have something to do with the snakebite cases i don't see any connection all we did was burying or container in an uninhabited area i think people would be glad to have that open mind sheffield in before some kid fell into exactly what was in that container i'm sorry that's classified information but i can guarantee you there's no danger to anyone well if it wasn't something dangerous then why bury it in the first what it is that's buried there it's not as if i'm some kind of spy or something sergeant dr parkinson is leaving would you please escort him to the gate so i'll go but don't think for the last of this because we're not going to be far away and believe me i'm going to find out what's going on around here so that when i mention the mine shaft to clamber right up as if he was scared or something i think we ought to do a little probing around the bar if we can get back on the base captain delaney might be able to help he seemed pretty cooperative and i think he's cooperative because he likes you ah do i specialty was biomedicine really why would they put a biomed man way out here something strange about that face to all of security and for what really did manage to get some pictures of those buildings that have decided to get back to camp process the film you do that are here sure i have a portable darkroom that works great in a tent there's only one drawback you have to wait until it gets dark what i want to know is exactly where the doctor parkinson want to go well let's see first he had me circled this canyon in the end of one twenty seven and we flew east for a while and he looked around  then we sat down on that farm that burned over near him going and came back you know what he was looking for no sir he didn't say and i figured it was not of my business what about that o mine shaft did he ask about that yes sir i told him i did know where it was and he should ask you about it you know arkan's divulging classified information to civilians and court martial of us i didn't  him out and brought him back well from now on i think it would be a good idea if you refrained from talking to dr parkinson at all and to forget that there ever was a mine shaft i realize that you only have a few more months of active duty and i hate to see you spend that time in a lesser rank but it could happen i'm sorry sir if i said anything wrong but i won't let it happen again i promise as make sure that a on yes sir that's all hawkins you can go yes sir shots i'm sorry i didn't go to your liking i guess i'm just starting to see snakes everywhere yesterday i was sure there was one behind me there was not one i was getting this pictures of where that soldier was killed i got this feeling like like someone is staring at you only there wasn't anyone there was probably just know it was a snake on i'm sure of it it's like something evil watching me and then it was in about on your da that what's going on there's been another attack two soldiers this time every strata listen to me now you better get your stop we're going to get out of here  ok there you are so i had to wake you call it up so early but i thought you'd want to take a look at these men before i have to work the colonel and tell him what happened just what did happen you know not for sure but it looks like they had a flat tire stop to fix it more head before they could get away let me know what happens i will and thanks for all your he and i was supposed to relieve all my dope four hundred but they never showed up so we went looking for him and wish we hadn't found him now wasn't a pretty wide rarely is missing snake did that i think people bit before they didn't look like that and those guys were torn  recently fired probably from palmer's guy was on the ground near his body the whole clip had been fired you want to keep going you know let's see where these trucks laden let's hope they don't leave us to rant like those men that makes two of us ok just a minute you know you're crazy absolutely crazy or maybe i'm the one that's crazy you know i could be working in an office for normal hours and better pay but no i have to do everything the hard way guess really really you're safe disposal they dump that stuff into the ocean but what happens when  i order you to open the door maybe i told you you can't threaten me anymore i've made my choice of what's going on around here or cubans on this and i want you to meet the general hinch this is tom parkinson the snake expert i told you about how do you do low words colonel stroud well it looks like he shot and killed the medical officer and then took off the line guard at the canisters back exactly what was in those casters general for much sheriff you just told me it looks like c t three what's up colonel stroud used to be a major figure in the logistics of biological warfare and c g three it was experimental sort of his baby the project was never completed on the colonel was transferred to a storage depot here you know what is c t three well it's a new form of nerve gas designed to drop behind enemy lines where breathing it caused a manic restaurant in l a where they serve seven course dinners and they don't care whether you're crazy or not just so long as you're hungry that back good sounds great just so long as there aren't any snakes ok i promise we're getting more problems whines gone for gas is gone