Dimension X - "Outer Limit" (1950)

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In 1950, NBC opened its science fiction anthology Dimension X
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with episode one, The Outer Limit, broadcast April 8th. Set
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in the then future year of 1965, it follows test
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pilot Steve Weston as he takes an experimental rocket aircraft
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aloft from a desert southwest base carrying just 10 minutes
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of rocket fuel. When the craft disappears from radar, Controller
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Hank Hansen and the base crew face a long and
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uncertain wait. Ernest Kenoy adapted Graham Doerr's Saturday Evening Post
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story for radio, with Joseph Julian as Weston, Wendell Holmes
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as Hansen, and Edward King directing. And now, we return
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to the original broadcast.
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Adventures in time and space.
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Told in future tense.
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Can you predict what will come in 100 years? Or
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in 10? Or in the next minute? Some people think
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they can. Nuclear scientists, mathematicians, astronomers, biologists. They'll predict the
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shape of the future.
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Why?
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Because they make the future. Because they see beyond the
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known dimensions of time and space. Into the unknown. Dimension X.
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We go ahead now in time to 1965. We're on
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a vast concrete runway set in the desert of the southwest.
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A giant metal ship stands before us, prow.
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Pointed for the stars.
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And in five minutes, the signal will flash and it
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will tear up through the atmosphere to the outer limit.
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Attention.
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Attention.
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Clear field for takeoff.
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Clear field.
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Five minutes, Steve.
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All right.
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Takeoff. Warmer up, Charlie.
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Warmer up. Takeoff.
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I want to go over procedure again, Steve. Don't worry.
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I got it straight.
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You just make sure.
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Okay.
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I take her up on jets to 50,000, then I
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cut in the rockets. No lower, or your tail blast
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will burn out three counties. I climb four minutes on rockets,
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then start maneuver tests.
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Remember that. No more than four minutes.
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Right.
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This ship isn't like those strata rockets you've been testing.
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She's the first one built for outer space. If she works,
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she can go clear to the moon.
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If I'd have known that, I'd have brought my toothbrush.
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Well, not this trip. Now, get this, Steve. You've got
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power there to clear the Earth's gravitational field. But remember,
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after you cut in the rockets, you've only got ten
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minutes' fuel. If you go beyond the outer limit and
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don't save fuel for the return... I know.
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I won't get down again.
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That's right, Steve. You'll drift off into space. Get that now.
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Ten minutes' fuel.
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Got you.
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Now, as far as I'm concerned, this project is a
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lot more important than that cosmic ray bomb they're testing
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out in the Pacific tonight.
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Well, Security Commission brass doesn't think so. I don't see
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any undersecretaries under anything.
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Don't worry. In the long run, our ship will make
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the CR bomb back paid stuff. But in the meantime,
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it's just as dangerous. Remember, half the principles in this
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ship are pure theory, Steve. Slide rule stuff. If anything
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goes wrong, we may have to scrape you off the
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landscape with a soup spoon.
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You have a charming sense of humor.
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Here's what I'm getting at. We're risking your neck in
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this test. If anything blows, we don't want to have
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the next man pull the same boner.
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I know, Hank.
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So keep your mic open and keep talking. If anything
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goes wrong, we want to know exactly why. And we
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won't be able to ask you. Let us know before
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you pull every switch. Before you do anything. You got that?
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Yeah.
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Even if you only have to blow your nose. All right,
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get those fuel lines away.
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Okay, Mr. Crowe.
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Well.
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I guess that's about all, Steve.
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That reminds me. Look, if Mary calls, I'm just up
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on a milk run. I didn't tell her today was it.
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How is she?
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She's okay, but she's due about now, and I don't
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want her to be nervous. Hey, I didn't know the baby.
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Was that close.
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Yeah.
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Steve, I really ought to be sending a single man
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on this job.
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What, and cut me out of a soft paycheck? Forget it, Hank.
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You know you can't get anybody else who can take
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15 G's acceleration when those.
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Rockets cut in. Yeah, I know.
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It's time, Steve.
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Yeah.
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Well.
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See you later. Don't worry, Hank. I'll sweat for both
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of us.
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Button her up, Charlie.
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So long, Hank. So long.
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We'll give you the light from control. Excellent.
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We're out of control.
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Excellent.
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We're out of control. Are you there yet, Hank? Okay, Steve.
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Got you on the speaker. I'm ready to go.
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Mr.
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Hanson.
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Ready on radar, Sergeant?
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Check.
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Mr.
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Hanson, you better see this. What is it, Elsa? Message
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sent for Steve.
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Mrs.
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Weston just left for the hospital.
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What?
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Hello, Steve. Yeah. Stand by a minute.
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Shall we hold the takeoff, Mr.
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Hanson? What?
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Oh, yes.
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No, wait just a minute. It's too late now.
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You going to tell him?
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Maybe he's got enough to worry about. Hey, what's holding
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us up, Hank? Something on your mind? No, no, it's nothing, Steve.
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I just wanted to say good luck. Clear for takeoff, Charlie?
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Right.
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Okay. Give him the light.
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All right, Steve. I'm reading you clear.
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I'm at 40,000.
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Airspeed 600. She's running fine. Soundproofing works.
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A third-degree waver in the A.G.Y.
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Pressure.
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Got that, Charlie?
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Check.
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Dead center on radar, Mr.
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Hanson.
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50,000 now. Cutting out the port jet. Now the starboard.
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Off jets.
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Airspeed dropping. Opening the rocket ports. Switch sticks a little, Charlie.
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Oxy alcohol pressure 350. All right, now I'm advancing the
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ignition key.
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Here goes rocket one.
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Steve.
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Steve, you all right?
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Yeah.
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Don't let somebody slug me with a sledgehammer.
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Airspeed now 1,200.
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Here goes number two.
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Hello, Steve.
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Elapsed rocket time is now four minutes. What's your altitude?
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Over to you. Speed 4,400. Still climbing. Altitude, 297 miles.
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All right. You're at the outer limit. Level off for
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maneuver test. You've got exactly six minutes fuel left.
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Okay. Starting at three degree left bank. It's a little sluggish.
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It's all right now.
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There's a low vibration someplace. Maybe the cockpit hatch. I'm
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straightening out.
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Five minutes of fuel left.
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Now I'm starting a three-degree... Hey!
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What's the matter? What's wrong?
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There's something up here. Something's shining.
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What are you talking about?
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There's something above me, Hank. I'm going to chase it.
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Steve!
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Steve, you're at the outer limit now. I can see
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it plain now.
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Steve, don't go any higher. You've only got four minutes left.
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You've only got.
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I'm getting static. I can't hear you, Hank. It's dead
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ahead now.
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I'm going to make a pass at it, get a
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good look. Hey, it's swerving to meet me.
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It's dead ahead now.
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It's dead ahead.
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Hello.
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Hello. Hello, Steve. Steve, come in.
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Nine minutes, fuel gone.
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Still no sign on radar. Hello.
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Hello, Steve.
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Steve, what's happened? Charlie, get out the crash squad. Tell
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the army squadron to alert their search planes.
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Right.
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Nine and a half minutes gone.
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Hello.
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Hello, Steve. What's happened? What the devil is it? Hello.
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Come in, Steve. We need a search squadron. Come in.
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No, Mr.
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Hanson's busy.
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Hello.
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Hello, Steve. Hello, Steve.
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Ten minutes, Mr.
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Hanson. It's the end of the fuel. How long has
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it been now?
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Ten hours, Mr.
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Hanson.
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Nothing more on radar, Sergeant?
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Screen's blank.
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Colonel Corelli called in.
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Search planes are back.
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They didn't find anything. Should be some trace.
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He couldn't have bailed out, could he?
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You don't hit the silk at 4,400 miles an hour.
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Either one passed the outer limit, ran out of fuel,
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something blew, and we'll find the pieces scattered from here
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to the coast. Why does it have to be the
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best man? Always the best man.
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I'll get it.
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Charlie, Charlie, we... You know, we've got to figure out
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what was wrong. All right, I'll tell you.
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Something must have blown.
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There's a message from Northside Hospital for.
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For Steve.
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What is it? Mrs. Weston's fine. It's a boy.
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Thank you, Elsie. It's a boy, Charlie.
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Oh.
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Fine. Fine.
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It's a boy.
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He didn't even know she went to the hospital. How
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am I going to tell Mary that?
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Wasn't your fault, Mr.
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Hanson?
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Ship had to be tested.
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Yeah, yeah.
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We'll build another one and some other flying fool will
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shoot past the outer limit into space. Oh, I'm getting old, Charlie.
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Charlie?
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You can remember when I used to take them up myself.
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Now I've got to send other men.
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It's a job, Mr. Hanson.
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Now I'm afraid.
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Every time I hear a jet go off, I jump.
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Every time I have to send someone up in a
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new model, I start to sweat.
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Mr.
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Hanson? Yeah? I think there's something on the radar. No
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flights scheduled in, are there, Elsie?
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We have the whole day cleared.
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It's coming in behind us. Here it comes over the building.
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What crazy junk is buzzing the field like that? Is
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that an army plane, Charlie? I can't see.
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It's turning.
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Charlie, alert the field. I know that engine. It's Steve.
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That's impossible.
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Look, that's his ship.
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It can't be.
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There's no other model like that.
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It's Steve, all right.
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It's coming in.
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Thank God. Thank God.
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Thank God.
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All right, sit down, Steve. The quicker we get this done,
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the quicker you get over to see Mary and the baby.
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Hank.
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Elsie, give the order to check and refuel the rockets.
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I don't want anybody in here till I get Steve's reports. Barry,
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any calls? All right, let's have it. What the devil
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happened to you?
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Hank, does that cosmic ray bomb still go off tonight?
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What are you talking about?
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Straighten out, Steve.
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Where have you been for the last ten hours?
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Listen, Hank, there's something more I'm... Come on, come on.
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I've got to get a report on the screen to Washington,
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so let's have it. I've got to know how you
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stretch 10 minutes fuel to keep you in the air
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for 10 hours.
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Now, one thing before I talk.
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Look, Steve.
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Have the Geigerman run over the ship before they refuel.
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What'd you run into?
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So help me, Hank, I don't know. We better check
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and make sure it isn't radioactive.
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Elsie, add a Geiger report on the standard check. Steve,
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maybe we better have the doc look you over, too.
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No, no, I'll be all right. They said I'd be
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all right.
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They?
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Look, son, I know you've had a tough time, but
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we've had this field on the alert for ten hours.
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One of the army boys cracked up looking for you,
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and he's hurt bad. So let's have the story. Let's
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have it straight.
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I don't know how to tell you. Hank, I saw
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something up there.
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At 300 miles?
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I chased something up there, Hank, and I caught it.
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Now, don't hand me that.
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Listen, Steve.
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I was cruising along, just starting the right bank, when
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I spotted something.
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It must have been going about half my speed.
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It was.
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Egg-shaped and smooth.
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I made a pass at it, and I was coming
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back for another, and then there was a humming sound.
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Humming?
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A sort of vibration. And I blacked out. I was
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headed straight for it at 4,400 miles an hour. I
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thought it was going to be the biggest smash since Hiroshima, and....
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Hank, is there a drink in that bottle? Never mind that, Steve.
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What happened?
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I came to inside their ship.
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Uh-huh.
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Steve, this whole thing has been a devil of a
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strain on you. I'm going to call Major Donaldson from
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the Army base. Ask him to sit in.
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Psychiatrist?
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Yeah, yeah, that's a good idea. Let him run his test.
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He'll tell you I'm not kidding.
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Because, Hank, unless I miss my guess, I've just been
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tipped off to the way the world ends.
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The End All right, Mr. Weston, suppose you continue your story.
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Yes, let's have it, Steve. You woke up inside the ship?
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Yes, and the place was jammed with machinery. Dials, blinkers.
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I couldn't recognize anything.
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And you were surrounded by these men from Mars?
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I didn't say anything about men from Mars. I didn't
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even say they were men. I couldn't see them clearly.
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They were just there.
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Where did they come from, then?
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Another galaxy. Millions of miles outside of our solar system.
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That's all I know. You figure out where they came from.
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And they came all that distance to find the Earth?
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Yes.
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Did they tell you that?
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Yes.
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You mean they spoke English to you?
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No, no, they didn't.
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That's funny. I hadn't thought. They didn't really speak to
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me at all. They just planted the thoughts in my mind.
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You mean thought transference, telepathy?
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Yes, that's right.
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Well, Steve, what brought them here?
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We did, Hank.
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We rang their bell. We brought them in.
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How?
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With our atomic explosions. Hank, that's why you've got to
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stop that bomb test tonight.
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I'll give up.
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Look, you've got to believe me, Hank. Oh, how can
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I make you understand?
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Maybe I can help, Mr. Weston. Would you submit to narco-psychometry?
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What's that?
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Under proper drugs, I can put you back in this
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ship by suggestion. Then we can get a playback record
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of your memory pattern on the audio circuit.
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And how long will that take?
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Half an hour. We'll have to go over to the lab.
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Will you believe me if it checks? It will give
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us an accurate memory picture of what your mind reports.
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All right, let's go.
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Hank, you gotta believe me, we haven't got much time.
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You should be getting drowsy now. Count backwards from ten. Ten. Nine. Eight.
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Seven.
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Six. Six.
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Seven.
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He's under. Now we attach the head plate electrodes. Cortical pickup.
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Look out for that wire, Mr. Henson. 3-0 setting.
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31.3.
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Now throw that switch, Mr. Henson. I have to start
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him off by suggestion. All right, Steve. You're in your
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shit now. You're in the rocket.
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Rocket?
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You're in the rocket. You're in the rocket. And you've
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just sighted something strange.
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Now I'm starting at three degree right.
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What's that?
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Hey, there's something up here.
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Something shining.
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His memory pattern. We're picking it up electronically.
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There's something above me, Hank. I'm going to chase it.
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It's piped through the audio circuits.
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I'm getting static. I can't hear you, Hank. This is
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where we lost contact with him. I'm going to make
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a pass at it and... Hey, it's swerving to meet me.
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It's not ahead now. It's not ahead. Now what?
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This is where he blacked out. There's no telling how long,
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minutes or hours.
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What's that noise?
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I don't know. Quiet.
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Where? How did I get in here?
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What?
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Who are you?
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Is he seeing things?
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Intergalactic patrol.
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What's that?
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What are they saying, Steve? What are they saying?
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It's about nuclear fission.
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They know about it. They know the danger of it.
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Long ago they had wars that almost destroyed them. But
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finally they learned. Now they've outlawed war.
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Go on, Steve.
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They patrol space.
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When their detector picks up an atomic explosion, they send
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a patrol.
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What are they going to do?
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They've quarantined us.
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Quarantined?
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They've isolated the Earth.
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Because we don't know how to control ourselves yet. Until
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we learn, we'll be a menace to the whole universe.
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What is this nonsense?
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How are they going to do it, Steve?
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They've spread a layer out here of... I don't know
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how to call it. All around the Earth. It's miles deep.
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When there's an atomic explosion on Earth... The radioactive particles
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will drift up to this layer and set off a
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chain reaction.
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It'll go around the world in microseconds. And that's the end.
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The end?
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What's he.
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Wait, wait.
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Yes. Yes. I understand. I've got to bring back the warning.
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You're going to put me back in my ship to
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bring the warning.
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Now what?
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Blacked out again. I guess that's all.
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What does all that mean?
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It's what he remembers.
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I don't think that really happened.
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No, no.
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Narcosecometry circuits produce what he remembers. It just means that
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Steve believes this happened.
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I don't like to see this. I've seen too many
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top pilots snap. Steve is the best I've known. How
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bad do you think he is?
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Frankly, outside of the presence of this Well organized as
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a hallucination, there's no sign of unbalance.
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May not be too serious.
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If he had a more plausible story, I'd be inclined
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to believe him.
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Warning.
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Warning. Hank.
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It's all right, boy.
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Did you hear it, Hank? You understand?
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Sure, sure. We've been quarantined.
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Let me give you something to make you sleep, Steve.
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Don't you understand?
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They fixed it so that if we set off one
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more nuclear explosion, that'll be it.
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Of course. Don't roll your sleeve down.
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You don't believe me.
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Now, take it easy, Steve.
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There's a test tonight. They're setting off to see our bomb. Hank,
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what time is it?
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11.20.
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Well, it's scheduled for midnight. Hank, we've got to stop
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that bomb.
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Steve, let Donaldson give you the hypo.
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Hank, you've got to believe me. I saw them. I
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got the warning.
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If we touch off that bomb tonight, it'll be the
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biggest galactic Fourth of July of all time.
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The whole Earth will go up like a Roman candle.
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April 10th, 1965, the end.
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Now, look, Steve, you better calm down. Don't you want
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to see Mary and the baby? You've got a new son, remember?
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Yeah, that's just it. I want to see my son.
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I want him to live. If that bomb goes off, Hank,
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we've got to stop them.
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Mr. Hanson, I think we'd better get over to the
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base hospital.
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Hank, you've got to believe me. Yeah, sure, sure, Steve.
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Maybe there is something to it. Look, it's out of
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your hands. I'll put it in a report and shove
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it into Washington in the morning.
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In the morning? There isn't going to be any morning, Hank.
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Don't you understand? You've got to call Washington now. Get
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the head of the security commission and postpone that test.
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Now, you know I can't do that, Steve. My neck
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would be out a mile. Besides, this is 1965, not 45.
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Twenty countries have atomic bombs now. What's the use of
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stopping just this one? The rest will keep right on
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popping them off.
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Then we'll have to call an international conference. Can't you understand, Hank?
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The first one that goes off finishes us at the end.
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They've given us the quarantine warning.
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Steve, I think you'd better go with us to the
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base hospital.
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Look, Steve.
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We can call up for a detail if we have to.
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All right, all right.
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I'll go with you.
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You don't need.
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A straight jacket. That's the way, Steve. You'll probably feel
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better by morning. Let's go.
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Well, Steve, tomorrow I'll drive you over to the hospital
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to see Mary and the kid.
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Sure.
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Look at the ship under the floodlights.
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Pretty, huh?
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You'll be flying her again soon, don't you worry.
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Yeah, yeah, I guess so.
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What you doing out in the line?
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The refueler?
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Yeah, we got Clausewitz coming in tomorrow from Denver for
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another test. Figured we'd give you a day off.
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That's good, that's fine.
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Steve, Steve, come back.
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Come on, Donaldson. Steve, Steve, wait. He's heading for the rocket.
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Look, there he goes up. That crazy fool. We can't
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get at him now. That covers armor glass.
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He's waving. Yeah, towards control.
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It's the radio. He means the radio.
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Come on.
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I should have gotten help. Another radio still hooked up here.
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Hello.
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Hello, Steve. Listen to me, Hank. You got to call
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Washington now. Come out of that rocket, Steve. I'll call
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my men. Don't try anything, Hank. They refueled the rocket
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for tomorrow. Take it easy, Steve. Listen, you know what'll
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happen when I fire the rocket tubes down here? Steve, don't.
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It'll burn out every building for five miles. All of
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us in one big blast. Steve, what do you want?
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You've got to stop that bomb. You've got to call
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Washington right now. They won't believe me. You make that
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call or I cut in the rocket. Now, I mean it, Hank. Now,
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hook my screen to yours in parallel. I want to
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see exactly what you're doing. All right, all right. Just
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don't fire those rockets. Get going, Hank. You got 12
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minutes to make that call and stop that bomb. All right,
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I'm making the parallel hookup right now. Donaldson, do you
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think he'll really blast it?
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I don't know. Up to now, I'd almost say it
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was normal. But now he's liable to do anything, Hanson.
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Steve. Steve, there.
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Are you getting it on your screen? Yeah. Now put
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that call through. All right. Operator. Visit screen to Washington.
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The visit screen circuits are busy, sir. If you'll try
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again in half an hour. This is security commission priority.
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Break in and get me a line.
534
00:23:49.900 --> 00:23:50.519
Yes, sir.
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Just a moment, please. Ten minutes, Hank. Listen, Steve, I'm trying.
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Ready to take your call, sir. Washington, security commission three.
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This is urgent.
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I want undersecretary Herbert Ames. Washington three.
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One moment, please.
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Hurry, will you? One moment, please.
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What time is it, Donaldson? 11.51.
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Do you think he'll fire those rockets?
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He might.
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Washington? Visit screen three.
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Mr.
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Herbert Ames, please. That is a coded exchange. I cannot
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accept your call without clearance. Get it through, Hank.
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Listen, Washington.
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Put it through. This is Mr. Hanson at San Marco
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Air Base. This is a priority call. I'm coded.
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One moment, please.
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I will check your code number. Get that through, Hank,
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or that bar goes off at 12. Will you be reasonable, Steve?
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Your call has cleared, San Marco. Washington, visit screen three.
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00:24:31.619 --> 00:24:37.769
Herbert Ames, please. Security Commissioner Ames. Listen to Ames. Oh, hello, Hank. Ames,
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you've got to get me to the chief.
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00:24:38.960 --> 00:24:39.670
Are you kidding?
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He's at the test control room. Yes, I know, but
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00:24:41.730 --> 00:24:44.089
get him for me. What's up? You look lousy. Or
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is it a bad circuit? There's no time. I've got
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to get him before the test. It's about the CR box.
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I can't take that responsibility. Get that through, Hank, or
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I blast. Hey, what's going on there? Ames, my project
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has a high enough rating. This is a priority A call.
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What?
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Well, okay, it's your neck.
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00:24:57.940 --> 00:24:58.920
I'll try to get him for you.
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00:24:59.599 --> 00:25:01.160
He's in the control room, so you'll have to switch
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off your screen and speaker and go on earphones. Too
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much going on in there.
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Security ruling.
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You hear that, Steve? I've got to cut the incoming screen.
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All right, but don't try anything. Eight minutes, Hank.
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Hello?
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Hello?
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What?
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00:25:19.160 --> 00:25:27.819
You got him, Hank? Yes. This is Hanson at San Marco. No, sir,
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00:25:27.839 --> 00:25:30.680
priority A request to cancel the bomb test. No, no,
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00:25:30.720 --> 00:25:33.559
I'm serious. This is deadly serious. We sent the X-2
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00:25:33.599 --> 00:25:37.319
JTR up today to the outer limit. We uncovered evidence. Yes,
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00:25:37.420 --> 00:25:41.609
on the automatic instruments. What's that? No possible chain reaction. No,
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I can't tell you the whole story. There isn't time here. Yes, yes,
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I'll bring the readings into Washington in the morning. You've
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00:25:47.029 --> 00:25:49.970
got to postpone the test till you see them. Look,
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I've worked on contracts with the commission for 10 years. Yes, yes,
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I have complete confidence in my information. You can record that.
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All right, I'll call you back immediately.
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Bye.
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Bye. Hank? Hank?
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He's agreed to cancel, Steve. The bomb won't go off.
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00:26:07.180 --> 00:26:10.039
All right, boy. You can come down out of that ship.
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00:26:27.410 --> 00:26:28.049
He's opening up.
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Here he comes.
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All right, Steve. Come on down.
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00:26:35.799 --> 00:26:36.319
Sure, Hank.
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Just a second.
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Hank, I was scared.
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I was plain scared.
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Easy now. It's all over. The bomb won't go off.
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00:26:51.230 --> 00:26:51.990
Thank God.
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Look, I want to see Mary and the baby. You
602
00:26:56.609 --> 00:26:57.930
got any transportation now?
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00:26:58.329 --> 00:26:58.670
Wait a minute.
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00:26:58.690 --> 00:26:59.180
It's almost 12.
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00:26:59.170 --> 00:27:00.789
They won't let you in the hospital now.
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00:27:00.930 --> 00:27:01.869
I want to see the baby.
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00:27:01.950 --> 00:27:04.910
Sure you do, but you've been under a strain. I've
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00:27:04.950 --> 00:27:06.970
got a shot for you here, Steve. Give you a
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good night's sleep.
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00:27:08.529 --> 00:27:08.990
All right.
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Roll up your sleeve. Yeah, here.
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There.
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00:27:14.690 --> 00:27:17.480
That'll make you sleep. Sergeant will find you a bed.
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00:27:17.940 --> 00:27:18.319
Yes, sir.
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Come on, Mr. Weston.
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00:27:19.799 --> 00:27:20.200
Okay.
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00:27:21.299 --> 00:27:23.779
Good night, Hank. I'm kind of beat.
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00:27:24.759 --> 00:27:25.960
It's been a tough night.
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It sure has. I thought for a minute he was
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00:27:34.700 --> 00:27:36.589
going to blast those rockets and send us all to
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Kingdom Come.
622
00:27:37.470 --> 00:27:37.750
Yeah.
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00:27:39.269 --> 00:27:41.650
Quite a stunt, getting the ray bomb test called off.
624
00:27:42.710 --> 00:27:43.390
It isn't called off.
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00:27:43.609 --> 00:27:48.089
But the chief said... Ames couldn't get the chief. I
626
00:27:48.130 --> 00:27:51.309
was talking to a dead circuit. Bomb goes off in
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a couple of minutes. Oh.
628
00:27:55.750 --> 00:27:59.109
Poor Steve. He was one of the best.
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00:27:59.769 --> 00:28:02.710
He was the best. One in ten million.
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00:28:03.549 --> 00:28:06.849
Some story of his, poor guy. For a while, he
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00:28:07.619 --> 00:28:11.660
almost had me believing that quarantine. That's a very common delusion.
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End of the world.
633
00:28:13.859 --> 00:28:14.160
Yeah.
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00:28:15.339 --> 00:28:15.960
I suppose so.
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00:28:18.180 --> 00:28:22.140
Ah, it's a nice night. Never saw the stars so bright.
636
00:28:22.559 --> 00:28:24.180
We'd better be getting in. That wind is cold.
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00:28:24.200 --> 00:28:32.529
The bomb goes off in 30 seconds. Poor Steve.
638
00:28:33.690 --> 00:28:35.390
You know, Hanson, there's just one thing. Yeah?
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00:28:37.869 --> 00:28:42.589
It's outside my field, but I'm curious. How did he
640
00:28:42.609 --> 00:28:46.210
keep that ship in the air for ten hours with
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00:28:46.259 --> 00:28:48.299
only ten minutes' fuel?
642
00:29:04.430 --> 00:29:08.309
You have just heard The Outer Limits by Graham Dorr.
643
00:29:09.109 --> 00:29:13.029
An adventure in time, space, and the unknown.
644
00:29:13.579 --> 00:29:31.450
Dimension X. Now, about next week. Have you ever heard
645
00:29:31.539 --> 00:29:33.180
of the Mark III?
646
00:29:33.920 --> 00:29:37.420
The amazing electronic brain at Harvard that instantly solves the
647
00:29:37.440 --> 00:29:42.380
most complicated scientific problems. Suppose you had a mechanical brain
648
00:29:42.410 --> 00:29:45.660
like that in your house. A robot that was always
649
00:29:45.859 --> 00:29:48.740
at your service. So that you could just sit with
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00:29:48.819 --> 00:29:51.859
folded hands and relax the rest of your life.
651
00:29:52.779 --> 00:29:54.829
That would be nice, wouldn't it? Perfect.
652
00:29:55.869 --> 00:30:00.130
That's what they thought when it happened in the year 2006.
653
00:30:00.329 --> 00:30:05.109
But they were wrong, terribly wrong. How? I'll tell you
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00:30:06.289 --> 00:30:06.829
next week.
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00:30:10.819 --> 00:30:15.140
Tonight's story, transcribed on Dimension X, The Outer Limit by
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00:30:15.200 --> 00:30:18.259
Graham Dorr, was adapted for radio by Ernest Canoy.
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Featured in the.
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Cast were Joseph Julian as Steve, Wendell Holmes as Hank,
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00:30:23.779 --> 00:30:28.009
and Joe DeSantis as Major Donaldson. Your host is Norman Rhodes.
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Music was by Albert Berman. Sound designed by Sam Monroe.
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Edward King directed. Tomorrow, here's Sam Spade. Now it's Truth
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00:30:46.690 --> 00:30:48.000
or Consequences on NBC.
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Dimension X has brought us The Outer Limit. Good evening
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and thank you for joining us. Follow old-time sci-fi radio
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for more classic science fiction broadcasts.