"Yeah? So then what is the threat, Clarice? Because you damn sure better know what you're dealin' with before you start pullin' people out of the their homes," he barked back. "You can't port them all an' we can't protect them all if we start a mass exit."

No, it was still better to have people hold up than to ask them to make a run for it and expose themselves to whatever was out there.

Hearing the old woman ask for Starla stopped him in his tracks.

"What's she look like, Clarice? Is she sick? Pale?"