- Any metal, therefore, that the crab eats will be assimilated in his body of solid energy, becoming part of the crab.
- Like the bodies of the dead men?
- Yes.

9 seconds sound clip from the Attack of the Crab Monsters (1957) movie soundboard.

You can hear this line at 00:43:21.759 in the DVD version of the movie.

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- The way to explain it is, look, electricity. The free electron in the copper atom breaks off to circle the next atom, taking the charge along the wire.

- Do you follow me, Hank?

- I think so.

- The free electrons jump from atom to atom along the copper at the speed of light. I remember that from high school.

- Yes, atom to atom.

- Well, something like that has happened to our crab. But instead of free electrons, the crab has free atoms, all disconnected.

- It's like a mass of liquid with a permanent shape.

- Any metal, therefore, that the crab eats will be assimilated in his body of solid energy, becoming part of the crab.

- Like the bodies of the dead men?

- Yes.

- And their brain tissue, which after all is nothing more than a storage house for electrical impulses.

- That means that the crab can eat his victim's brain, absorbing his mind intact and working.

- It's as good a theory as any other to explain what's happened.

- But, doctor, that theory doesn't explain why Jules' and Carson's minds have turned against us.

- Preservation of the species. Once they were men, now they are land crabs.

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