Tom learns that his own family, two weeks earlier, was forcibly evicted to the farm of Uncle John, "but they can""t stay there either...To escape the flesh-eating birds that made he sky almost as black as the beach....The birds hovered and swooped o attack and hovered and swooped to attack.They were diving down on the sea turtles, turning them over to expose their soft undersides, earing their undersides open and rending and eating their flesh.She was well aware of the alien""s deadly powers: "She""ll breed.You""ll die."The extracted alien baby grew to be a full-sized queen (called "wondrous"), and was kept alive by a secret military faction led by General Perez (Daniel Hedaya) for their nefarious objectives (villainous Dr.There""s something about the dead silence of an office building at night.Not quite real.The traffic down below was something hat didn""t have anything to do with me.(He casually placed his revolver on his desk top).Suddenly, a brooding appearance of a towering apparition was mirror-reflected in Marlowe""s office window-pane.