Some years later in the mid-1960s, teenaged high school aged son Clark (Jeff East), shy and reserved, was the football team""s equipment manager.Down-river, he manages to swim to safety.[Scenes of Shears"" escape and struggles are alternatingly cross-cut with scenes back at the camp.] Construction resumes on he bridge, but progress is slow, ineffectual and behind schedule, fouled by accidental mishaps and engineering failures - without the presence of the morale-boosting commander.Threatening weather only appeared after the escape of the UFO""s occupant, the Thing - infused with only raw intellect and no emotion - that indiscriminately stalked he base""s inhabitants.He said that I was grand, though, that he wasn""t interested in me for sex and that coming from him, this was a compliment.