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In an unnamed totalitarian European country, an American journalist is
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taken to Dr. Wensler's laboratory, where an experimental apparatus can
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shrink objects to microscopic scale. This is NBC's Dimension X,
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Episode 16, Beyond Infinity, first broadcast July 21st, 1950. An
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underground resistance hopes to use Wensler's invention to move vital
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material past the authorities as secret police close in on
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the household. Villiers Gerson wrote this original radio play, directed
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by Edward King and produced by Van Woodward. And now
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we return to the original broadcast.
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Wheaties presents Dimension X.
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Adventures in time and space. Transcribed in future tense.
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Dimension X.
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On stage tonight, Dimension X. Another in the Wheaties' big
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parade of exciting half-hour presentations.
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If you're a mother or a father with a warm
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spot in your heart for pink-cheeked, happy-eyed youngsters, here's something
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you should know. Good food builds good health, and Wheaties
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are good food. Now, I don't know what you've been
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doing about breakfast for the kids, but did you know
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that every Wheaties flake is a kernel of wheat? With
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the sunny, wholehearted goodness of field-grown wheat in every flake?
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With the full strength of whole wheat vitamins, minerals, proteins
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in every flake?
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Well, it's true.
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Whole wheat in all its richness.
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That's what you furnish when you fill the cereal bowl
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with Wheaties. But don't slip up. See that they get Wheaties. Crisp, sunshiny, good.
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Pour on the milk, put on the fruit, and know
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the youngsters are getting all that whole wheat can give.
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Do that now. Wheaties.
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Breakfast of champions. Now, tonight's adventure into the unknown. Into
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the world of Dimension X. Somewhere in Europe, a man
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is walking through the darkness down a cobblestone street. It's
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early evening still, only a little past eight, but the
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street is strangely deserted. He pauses, looks behind him, then
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knocks quietly on a door.
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Yes?
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Is Engineer Winstermann?
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What is it, please?
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Mrs. Wessler?
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Yes.
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I'm selling brushes. We have a nice line of brooms.
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They sweep well.
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Do they sweep the little or the large?
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Both.
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They're especially fine for the large.
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Come in.
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What cell are you in?
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I'm not with the underground. I'm an American, newspaper correspondent.
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It's all right.
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Chief Nine said I should see your husband. He gave
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me the password. Look, you know the Americans are on
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your side?
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Well, I don't know. My husband is not home at
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the moment.
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If I.
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Eva, who is it?
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Someone to see Alan, Father. My father-in-law knows nothing. Don't
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see anything which might disturb him.
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Okay. You wish to see my son, Mr.
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Arnold.
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Yes, a friend asked me to look him up.
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Mr.
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Arnold is an American correspondent, Father.
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Oh, an American. It is not often I have had
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the chance to talk to an American these days.
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Things have changed, haven't they?
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Yes, these last few years... we have been out of
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touch with the world. I was working in my laboratory, Mr. Arnold.
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Would you care to come in while you wait for
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my son?
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Father, not the laboratory.
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We cannot ask our guest to sit alone in the library.
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And besides, I would like to talk.
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This way, please.
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Thank you.
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Mr.
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Arnold, I know nothing of politics... My only interest is science. Come,
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I will show you what we are doing.
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A most interesting experiment. Really, really interesting.
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Oh, Dr.
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Wenzler.
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Oh, this is Dr.
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Erickson, my associate. Dr.
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Erickson, Mr.
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Arnold.
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An American.
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Yes.
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Dr.
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Rensselaer, is it advisable to allow strangers in the laboratory?
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Oh, Mr.
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Arnold, it's my son's friend.
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Dr.
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Rensselaer, you will recall that the last directive... It.
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Has no bearing on the work we are doing. Our
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experiment is in the field of pure science. It has
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no military application.
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But the directive said.
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Dr.
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Erickson, may I remind you that I am still in
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charge of this laboratory.
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Very well.
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If you will excuse me, I want to test a
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new diatomic at night.
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Do that.
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Sorry, Dr.
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Wensler. I'm afraid your friend Erickson doesn't like my looks. Oh, no, no.
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It's not that.
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It's just that he's worried.
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He's worried for me.
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Afraid that someone will misinterpret your visit and report me
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to the authorities.
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He's my most loyal and trusted assistant. But he tends
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to exaggerate the danger.
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Well, I hope you're right, Doctor. Say, this is some
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setup you've got here. That ten-foot plastic cylinder, what's that for?
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Every experiment must have a focal point, and that transparent
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cylinder is ours. The objects upon which we wish to
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work are placed inside and brought under the catalyzed beam
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over here.
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Eva!
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That's Arno now.
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Excuse me, I'll go and tell him.
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What is this experiment you're working on, Dr.
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Winston?
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Ah, very interesting, you problem. You say you are not
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a physicist or engineer, Mr.
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Arno?
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No, I'm not, but I can follow you, if that's
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what you mean.
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Yes.
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Well, we have been working with the problem of subatomic particles. Now,
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in attempting to manipulate them, to bring them closer to
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each other, we have discovered that we can shrink objects,
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reduce them in size.
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That's very interesting. How much can you reduce them? Half size? Oh,
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much more.
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We can make objects become microscopic and still retain their characteristics.
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Doesn't seem possible.
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We can make them even smaller. Much smaller. Theoretically, in fact,
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down to atomic dimensions.
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Well, as I said before, I'm no expert, Dr. Wensler,
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but tell me, what's the point? What good does it
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do to shrink anything down to that size?
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You do not understand. Man has never actually seen an atom.
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But if we can reduce a camera and recording instruments
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to the atom size... Then we would know the secrets
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of the universe.
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Ah, there you are, Mr.
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Arnold. Oh, hello, Alan.
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You can't be interested in this. Why don't we go
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into the study and talk? But Mr.
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Arnold is interested.
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Well, sir, maybe I'd better talk to Alan at that.
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Excuse me, Dr.
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Welser.
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I mean to ask you, if you think you can
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get along without me for a few minutes, there's something
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I must do.
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It's important.
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Yes, yes, yes.
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As long as it will not take too much time.
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No, no, it won't take me long. It has been
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a pleasure, Mr. Arnold.
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I shall see you soon, I hope.
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Yeah, sure.
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Okay, Alan, let's go talk.
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Your credentials seem to be in order, Mr.
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Arnold.
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I talked to our chief after Ava explained why you
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were here. I don't agree with him, but.
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Look, Alan, you think the chief of your cell would
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have let me come here if he didn't think I
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was trustworthy and could help?
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I know, but.
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Public opinion can't be marshaled overnight, you know. Not even
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in America. Suppose the revolution is successful.
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It will be.
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All right.
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Your only chance to make it stick will be in
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recognition by our government. And immediate help. Now, my stories
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can do a lot to lay the foundation for that.
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And with the date of the uprising so near... You
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know too much, Mr. Arnold, if this should leak to
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the secret police. Don't worry about it. It's my neck
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as much as yours. What do you think, Eva?
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Chief Nine said he was to be given the fullest cooperation.
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Very well, then.
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What do you want to know?
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Question one. What makes you think this revolution really has
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a chance? You can't fight tanks and guns with just your.
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Bare hands, Mr.
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Arnold.
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We believe the Wensler machine can solve our biggest problem.
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What's that?
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How to collect arms without being attacked by the secret police.
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Oh, yeah.
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Yeah, I see.
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Now, suppose we could reduce all our equipment. Electronic guns,
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ray gas, anti-tank blaster. Anything which could be brought in unassembled.
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Reduce it to so small a size that a woman's
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handbag could hold enough to equip a regiment.
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You see what that would mean?
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Yeah, sure.
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No one would think of looking for a cannon in.
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Precisely.
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But Father's machine and the cylinder were necessary for the reduction.
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That's why our supply depot is right here.
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Here?
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Yes. When the day arrives, we'll enlarge the arms and
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pass them on.
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Yes, but where's the stuff now?
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Eva, please get me that model from the mantel. Oh,
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of course.
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Here you are.
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Take a look at this, Mr. Arnold.
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Well, that's a... That's a model of an anti-tank blast
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to complete every detail.
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Not a model, Mr.
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Arnold.
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This is an anti-tanker. Reduced in the cylinder by the
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Wensler process. At the proper time, we shall enlarge it,
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wheel it out through the garage, and set it up.
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When the men assemble, we pass out the rest of
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the arms, and we have our revolution. A division of men,
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properly armed, can take the city. Let's get back to
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the laboratory.
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Father will think it odd that we have.
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Been gone so long.
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The End.
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Oh, I was wondering where you were, Alan.
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I don't know what's keeping Erickson.
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He should have been back long ago. I need some
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help on this circuit here.
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Of course, Father. What are you doing?
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Erickson, I have amplified the effect by putting another diatomic
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catalyzer into phase. I want to give a test run, Alan,
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if you will bring one of the animals from the cage.
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Yes, Father.
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Animals?
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Yes.
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We are experimenting now with the reduction of living animals,
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guinea pigs.
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How does it work?
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Those we diminish to microscopic size return unharmed. But those
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sent down to the atomic dimension... Yeah? The cylinder returns.
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But there's nothing inside.
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Nothing.
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So, Dr.
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Winslet... Have you ever tried it on a human being?
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I tried to persuade Father to send me down to
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find out what's making the animals vanish.
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No, Alan.
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But, Father, we've installed high-frequency radio communication now. If anything
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started to go wrong with me, I could tell you
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in time to reverse the process.
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No, I will never permit it.
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All right. Guinea pigs it is, then. But someday, Father, I.
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Yes, dear?
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Come to me. That man, the one in the raincoat.
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He has been standing in that doorway across the street
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ever since I looked out the window.
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What of it?
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I don't like it, Alan. He has been standing there
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just looking at our house.
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Who?
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Alan, do you think it is?
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I don't know. I'm not sure.
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Eva.
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Yes. You know what we planned in this eventuality.
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Yes.
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Get the arms and the provisions. We can't afford to
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take a chance.
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All right, Alan.
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What is it, my son?
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Father, it's better for you not to know too much, but...
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I'm a member of the underground.
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No.
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Eva, too. We have... Well, we have some contraband hidden
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in the house. We'll have to put it in the cylinder.
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Contraband?
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What do you mean?
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Arms, Father. Arms and provisions for an army reduced to
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140 at size.
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Arms?
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Yes, we must put them in the cylinder and warm
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up the machine. If it is the secret police, we'll
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make the arms invisible, microscopic in size. Can I help?
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If you wish, Mr. Arnold, you can help my wife
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get the supplies. Okay. What is it, Eva?
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Two police cars have just turned the corner.
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They're full of men.
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That changes matters.
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Father, you'll have to operate the machine yourself. Eva and
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I are getting into the cylinder. No, Alan, you can't.
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It's too dangerous. It's the only way, Father. Those are
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the secret police.
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Dimension X will continue in just a moment.
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Tomorrow morning, get up and get at them with Wheaties
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to help. Now, does that sound as if I just
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made it up?
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Well, listen, folks, it's real.
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It's so.
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If you'll pour the Wheaties into a bowl tomorrow morning,
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if you'll pour on cold milk and put on the
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fruit you like best, if you'll do these things, you
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can honestly feel a difference all morning long.
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And here's why.
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Every golden Wheaties flake, every flake is made from a
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grain of wheat. That's why every flake of Wheaties gives
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you full whole wheat vitamins and minerals and the amazing
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energy you'll notice still with you by 11 in the morning.
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You simply cannot miss. Because it's a fact, you do
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better by yourself on a better breakfast. Whatever your job,
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if you'll start the morning with a reasonable meal, You
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should find yourself working better, feeling better, even looking better
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all morning long. Yep, 7 o'clock Wheaties, 11 o'clock, still
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feeling good and working happy. You try it now. Not
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somebody else, but you. You may be pounding a rug
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or pounding a typewriter tomorrow morning at 11. You may
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be driving a tractor or driving a bargain. But you're
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going to feel the difference with breakfast of champions tucked inside.
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You try it.
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Really now, see how Wheaties at 7 can help at 11.
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I have a catalyzer ready.
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Ready.
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Set at point 034.
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Good.
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All right, Ava. Get in the cylinder.
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Alan, I can't let you take the chance, Alan. Isn't
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it enough to make the supplies disappear?
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Not for the secret police. They must know something. Otherwise,
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they wouldn't be here. But how could they prove anything? No, Father.
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Every man has his breaking point. And I can't afford
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to gamble with the lives of others. I don't know
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how I'd react on the torture.
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Torture?
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Oh, father, you are naive.
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But don't worry.
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You'll be safe.
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Everyone knows you aren't interested in politics.
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Mr.
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Arnold is an American. Perhaps that will protect him. They're
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coming now. Oh, my son. What have you done? There's
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no time for recriminations now, father. I'm getting in with Eva. Arnold,
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will you help my father with the machine?
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And after?
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Yes, I'll do whatever I can.
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Thank you. Now, take us down to sub-microscopic size.
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Yes, sir.
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Hold us down until the police have gone. Tell them
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we've left. They won't dare meddle with the machine. Tell
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them it will mean death to anyone who gets in
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the way of the beam. When they're gone, bring us
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back up. I'll maintain radio silence until I hear from you.
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Very well, my son.
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There they are. The machine's warmed up. Move over, Ava.
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I'm coming in.
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Let me in.
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I've switched on the radio.
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If you can hear me, secure the porthole, Arnold.
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Okay, we hear you. The porthole's secure.
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Ready, Father? Yes.
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Are the oxygen tanks all right?
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Yes.
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They're breaking down the door.
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Atomic setting 034.
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Preliminary release.
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Temperature?
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27 degrees centigrade. 760 millimeters pressure.
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Hurry, Father!
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Very well.
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Now!
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Break on.
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Alpha 4, beta 16, gamma 0.12, temperature 30 centigrade, pressure 1100.
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Be careful.
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Holy mackerel, the cylinder's only three feet high.
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Open that door, boss.
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Temperature 36, pressure... It's getting too high.
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I can't do it.
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Stand by to reverse.
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No.
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The temperature and pressure show signs of stabilizing. Now 38
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and 2,000. Make setting at Angstrom 5, 10 times to
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the third. That's a small. We can't afford to take chances.
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Only three inches high.
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It's all right, Father.
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Temperature and pressure beginning to drop. Thank God. A half
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inch high. They're coming. They're coming. If anything happens, it
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isn't your fault. Remember, this is my doing.
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Ava, switch off. Don't come near the beam. No, this
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machine is in operation and can kill anyone.
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Coming within range. Shut off that machine.
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The machine cannot be shut off until it reaches nadir.
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A sudden reversal would cause an explosion and take us
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all with it.
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You there.
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Who are you?
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Who, me?
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Just a friend of the family.
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Arrest him.
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Get your hands off me.
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Let go of me. Now, Dr. Wenzler, your son and
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his wife, where are they? Answer me, you old fool.
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They left a few minutes before you came.
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Left?
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Jan, I told you to watch all the exits.
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We did, Commander. A mouse could not have escaped.
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I swear it, by the leader. They are not here.
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You.
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What do you know of this?
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I told you, they left some time ago.
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Keep an eye on them. And keep away from that machine.
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Jan.
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Yes, sir.
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Send out a general alarm.
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Yes, Commander.
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Dr.
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Wenzelam.
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Who are your son's friends?
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Please, please.
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Commander, let me finish my experiment. I know nothing about
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my son's activities or his friends, I swear it. I
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know nothing about politics.
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So?
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I must stay here until this experiment is finished. It
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is too dangerous to be left unattended.
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Very well. Take the American to headquarters. The rest of you,
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search the house.
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Look here, I'm an American citizen.
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Erickson!
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Yes, my dear Vincenzo.
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Have you found him, Commander?
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Ereks.
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You have betrayed me.
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I am a member of the League of Loyal Scientists.
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Your son is the traitor, not I. Have you found him, Commander?
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No.
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We have searched the house.
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Nothing.
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They swear the son and his wife escaped before we arrived.
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That is ridiculous. They were here when I left.
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People do not vanish into thin air. Then where are they?
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Right under your nose, Commander.
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What?
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They're in the cylinder, of course, under the beam there.
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That is the only place they could be. Allow me
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to handle the controls. You shall have your prisoners in
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five minutes.
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I see. Very clever, Dr.
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Wenzler.
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Very clever. All right, Erickson, you take charge of the machine.
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You spy, you traitor.
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Don't let him touch that dial. Grab him. You, you,
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you won't. There, there.
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He has set it for subatomic dimension.
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What does that mean?
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Whatever is in that cylinder has become as small as
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the atom.
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Then shut it off!
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It has almost reached nadir. We must wait ten seconds,
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then reverse polarities. The machine has reached nadir. Angstrom 10
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to the minus 11. We must now wait ten seconds. One, two, three, four.
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Fine.
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What's the matter, Alan?
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I don't know. Something must have gone wrong.
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Alan, look up there.
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Why?
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Why, it's the Solar System. It's coming at us so fast.
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Look, the sun.
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The sun?
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No, that can't be. Eva, that's the nucleus of an atom.
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We've reached the subatomic dimension. That sun is the nucleus,
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and those planets are the electrons revolving about it.
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That planet coming up at us, there on the other
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side of the sun, I mean the nucleus, is.
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An electron. It's growing in size. We're heading straight for it.
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They're coming down on it.
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They are going to land.
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Well, I guess we finally reached the nadir.
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We haven't shrunk for the past two or three hours.
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Where are we?
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I don't know.
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Somewhere in a valley between the mountains of a huge
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electronic ray.
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It's almost funny, resting on the surface.
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Of an electron.
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Look. The soil under the floor of the cylinder.
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It looks like vegetation.
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Yes.
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Moss.
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Lichen.
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That's the last of the air. I've been expecting it
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to go out for the past two days. We have perhaps...
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A half hour more. Eva, dearest.
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I know.
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There is one chance. That vegetation. That means there must
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be some sort of atmosphere on this electronic planet. We
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have to take that chance. Eva, are you willing to
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step out of the cylinder with me?
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Of course, my dearest. For without our ghost, I will go.
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Thy people shall be my people.
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And thy God, my God.
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When thou diest, I will.
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We haven't much time. Ready?
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Ready.
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All right.
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Open the portal.
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Seven....
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Eight, nine, ten. All right, ten seconds. I shall now
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reverse polarity.
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I see something. The cylinder? Yes, there it is. Just
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a few seconds more and it will become normal size.
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A foot high. Keep that man quiet. It blows very rapidly.
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Yes.
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Three feet high.
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Four.
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Now, there you are, Commander. And in a moment, you
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will see your prisoners. Get the door open.
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Yes, sir.
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There is no door, my Commander.
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No door, Erickson. But there must be. No, sir.
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Nothing but a gas valve.
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You are right. Nothing but violet gas.
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That's impossible.
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Where are your son and his wife?
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We told you they left the house some time ago.
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That is a lie. Where are they? I.
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I do not know.
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Erickson, open that valve. But the gas will be poisonous.
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We shall see.
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Open the valve. Very slightly. What is that? I.
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I don't know.
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I seem to hear music inside my head.
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So did I.
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Apparently the gas produces auditory hallucinations.
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Open the valve again.
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Careful.
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We, the people of peace, greet the great scientist, the omnipotent,
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the maker of all.
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I thought I heard a voice.
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This is the.
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Law of our people, laid down by our first father
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ten million years ago, that always and ever there be
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this record of our race. For it is told that thou,
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in the fruitfulness of time... shall take back unto thee
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this ark... like unto that cylinder in which the first
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father and mother.
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Of us all.
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came unto us.
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I don't understand.
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I am the last of our race. And the sun
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is cold and desolation is upon the face of our planet.
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But in our time there was majesty and joy.
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and the gleaning of the fruits of the soil.
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For we have been the people of peace.
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And life was bountiful.
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For generations until that day came when in thy everlasting
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wisdom thou didst decree the.
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End of all.
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Though there were some who wept, we did not query why.
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For we have been a happy race. We have followed
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the law of the first father, Alan, and of the
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great mother, Ava. And we have built this ark so
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that there may be a report of our deeds and.
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Of the fulfillment of the trust.
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Now I, Lamarion, the last of the billions who lived here,
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do lie me down into that last sleep, from which,
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if thou will, I shall awake unto the land which
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is thine. Hail, oh great one. From the descendants of
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Alan and Ava, hail and farewell.
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Good Lord, what was that?
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Alan and Ava?
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Dr.
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Wenzler, where are they?
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They are beyond your reach.
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What do you mean?
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Don't you understand? All time is relative.
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One year of our time is one revolution of the
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planet Earth about the sun. Somewhere down In the microcosmos,
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my son and his wife found themselves in an atomic universe.
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Of course.
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And landed upon an electronic planet. That planet whirled around
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its sun, the nucleus of an atom, a million times
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in the space of a second.
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Hour. Second.
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Dr.
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Wensley, what are you trying to say?
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That voice we heard... is the voice of a human being,
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the last member of a race whose blood is mine.
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For in the space of ten seconds of our time,
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Alan and Ava settled upon their microcosmic planet and bore
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sons and daughters and a great and peaceful race that
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lived and died beyond infinity. And my children, Alan and Ava,
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who founded that race, are dead and gone. Ten million
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years ago. Ten seconds ago.
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Tonight, Dimension X has presented Beyond Infinity, an original radio
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drama written by Vier Gerson. Featured in the cast were
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Les Damon as Arnold, Lada Stavitsky as Ava, E.A. Krummschmidt
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as Dr. Wensler, and Joe DeSantis as Alan Wensler. Your
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narrator was Norman Rose. Music by Albert Berman. Dimension X
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is produced by Van Woodward and directed by Edward King.
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In a moment, we'll tell you about next week's show.
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And now, here is your Wheaties man.
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Frank Martin.
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This is Ed Prentiss batting for Frank Martin. To bring
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you a word from a fellow most of you know. Lucius,
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would you step over here, please?
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You bet, Ed. Folks, I'm Luke Kaplan.
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I've been playing shortstop for the Chicago White Sox practically forever. Yes,
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it is practically forever. This makes your 20th season, Luke.
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Do you think it's going to be a permanent job? Well,
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you know, Ed, I play baseball like I eat Wheaties.
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Just get set and plow right through. Wheaties and baseball
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just seem to go together. The Wheaties give me the
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energy to play more baseball, and a tough game gives
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me the appetite to eat more Wheaties.
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I think it's a real nice arrangement. Well, Mr.
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Appling, if you're happy, so are we. Thanks a million
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to our real Wheaties champion, Luke Appling.
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And folks, if you haven't had the pleasure of Wheaties lately,
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have some tomorrow. Wheaties, breakfast of champions. And eat happy.
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Next week, a strange story of other worlds. The story
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of the barbaric Potters of First. Another adventure into the
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unknown world of tomorrow.
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The world of.
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Dimension X.
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And this is the Wheaties man, Frank Martins. inviting you
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to listen tomorrow night to Joel McRae in Tales of
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the Texas Rangers on the Wheaties Big Parade.
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See you then. This program was transcribed.
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Stay tuned for Stories of the Underworld by Jack Laid
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on NBC.
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Dimension X, Episode 16, Beyond Infinity, has reached its close.
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Until our next broadcast, good night. Now follow old-time sci-fi
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radio for more classic science fiction broadcasts.
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In an unnamed totalitarian European country, an American journalist is
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taken to Dr. Wensler's laboratory, where an experimental apparatus can
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shrink objects to microscopic scale. This is NBC's Dimension X,
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Episode 16, Beyond Infinity, first broadcast July 21st, 1950. An
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underground resistance hopes to use Wensler's invention to move vital
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material past the authorities as secret police close in on
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the household. Villiers Gerson wrote this original radio play, directed
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by Edward King and produced by Van Woodward. And now
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we return to the original broadcast.
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Wheaties presents Dimension X.
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Adventures in time and space. Transcribed in future tense.
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Dimension X.
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On stage tonight, Dimension X. Another in the Wheaties' big
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parade of exciting half-hour presentations.
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If you're a mother or a father with a warm
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spot in your heart for pink-cheeked, happy-eyed youngsters, here's something
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you should know. Good food builds good health, and Wheaties
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are good food. Now, I don't know what you've been
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doing about breakfast for the kids, but did you know
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that every Wheaties flake is a kernel of wheat? With
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the sunny, wholehearted goodness of field-grown wheat in every flake?
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With the full strength of whole wheat vitamins, minerals, proteins
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in every flake?
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Well, it's true.
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Whole wheat in all its richness.
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That's what you furnish when you fill the cereal bowl
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with Wheaties. But don't slip up. See that they get Wheaties. Crisp, sunshiny, good.
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Pour on the milk, put on the fruit, and know
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the youngsters are getting all that whole wheat can give.
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Do that now. Wheaties.
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Breakfast of champions. Now, tonight's adventure into the unknown. Into
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the world of Dimension X. Somewhere in Europe, a man
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is walking through the darkness down a cobblestone street. It's
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early evening still, only a little past eight, but the
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street is strangely deserted. He pauses, looks behind him, then
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knocks quietly on a door.
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Yes?
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Is Engineer Winstermann?
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What is it, please?
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Mrs. Wessler?
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Yes.
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I'm selling brushes. We have a nice line of brooms.
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They sweep well.
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Do they sweep the little or the large?
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Both.
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They're especially fine for the large.
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Come in.
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What cell are you in?
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I'm not with the underground. I'm an American, newspaper correspondent.
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It's all right.
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Chief Nine said I should see your husband. He gave
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me the password. Look, you know the Americans are on
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your side?
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Well, I don't know. My husband is not home at
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the moment.
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If I.
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Eva, who is it?
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Someone to see Alan, Father. My father-in-law knows nothing. Don't
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see anything which might disturb him.
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Okay. You wish to see my son, Mr.
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Arnold.
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Yes, a friend asked me to look him up.
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Mr.
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Arnold is an American correspondent, Father.
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Oh, an American. It is not often I have had
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the chance to talk to an American these days.
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Things have changed, haven't they?
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Yes, these last few years... we have been out of
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touch with the world. I was working in my laboratory, Mr. Arnold.
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Would you care to come in while you wait for
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my son?
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Father, not the laboratory.
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We cannot ask our guest to sit alone in the library.
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And besides, I would like to talk.
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This way, please.
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Thank you.
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Mr.
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Arnold, I know nothing of politics... My only interest is science. Come,
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I will show you what we are doing.
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A most interesting experiment. Really, really interesting.
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Oh, Dr.
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Wenzler.
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Oh, this is Dr.
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Erickson, my associate. Dr.
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Erickson, Mr.
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Arnold.
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An American.
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Yes.
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Dr.
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Rensselaer, is it advisable to allow strangers in the laboratory?
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Oh, Mr.
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Arnold, it's my son's friend.
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Dr.
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Rensselaer, you will recall that the last directive... It.
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Has no bearing on the work we are doing. Our
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experiment is in the field of pure science. It has
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no military application.
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But the directive said.
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Dr.
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Erickson, may I remind you that I am still in
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charge of this laboratory.
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Very well.
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If you will excuse me, I want to test a
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new diatomic at night.
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Do that.
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Sorry, Dr.
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Wensler. I'm afraid your friend Erickson doesn't like my looks. Oh, no, no.
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It's not that.
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It's just that he's worried.
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He's worried for me.
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Afraid that someone will misinterpret your visit and report me
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to the authorities.
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He's my most loyal and trusted assistant. But he tends
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to exaggerate the danger.
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Well, I hope you're right, Doctor. Say, this is some
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setup you've got here. That ten-foot plastic cylinder, what's that for?
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Every experiment must have a focal point, and that transparent
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cylinder is ours. The objects upon which we wish to
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work are placed inside and brought under the catalyzed beam
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over here.
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Eva!
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That's Arno now.
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Excuse me, I'll go and tell him.
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What is this experiment you're working on, Dr.
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Winston?
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Ah, very interesting, you problem. You say you are not
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a physicist or engineer, Mr.
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Arno?
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No, I'm not, but I can follow you, if that's
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what you mean.
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Yes.
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Well, we have been working with the problem of subatomic particles. Now,
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in attempting to manipulate them, to bring them closer to
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each other, we have discovered that we can shrink objects,
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reduce them in size.
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That's very interesting. How much can you reduce them? Half size? Oh,
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much more.
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We can make objects become microscopic and still retain their characteristics.
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Doesn't seem possible.
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We can make them even smaller. Much smaller. Theoretically, in fact,
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down to atomic dimensions.
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Well, as I said before, I'm no expert, Dr. Wensler,
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but tell me, what's the point? What good does it
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do to shrink anything down to that size?
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You do not understand. Man has never actually seen an atom.
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But if we can reduce a camera and recording instruments
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to the atom size... Then we would know the secrets
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of the universe.
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Ah, there you are, Mr.
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Arnold. Oh, hello, Alan.
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You can't be interested in this. Why don't we go
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into the study and talk? But Mr.
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Arnold is interested.
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Well, sir, maybe I'd better talk to Alan at that.
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Excuse me, Dr.
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Welser.
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I mean to ask you, if you think you can
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get along without me for a few minutes, there's something
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I must do.
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It's important.
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Yes, yes, yes.
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As long as it will not take too much time.
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No, no, it won't take me long. It has been
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a pleasure, Mr. Arnold.
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I shall see you soon, I hope.
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Yeah, sure.
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Okay, Alan, let's go talk.
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Your credentials seem to be in order, Mr.
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Arnold.
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I talked to our chief after Ava explained why you
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were here. I don't agree with him, but.
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Look, Alan, you think the chief of your cell would
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have let me come here if he didn't think I
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was trustworthy and could help?
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I know, but.
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Public opinion can't be marshaled overnight, you know. Not even
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in America. Suppose the revolution is successful.
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It will be.
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All right.
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Your only chance to make it stick will be in
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recognition by our government. And immediate help. Now, my stories
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can do a lot to lay the foundation for that.
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And with the date of the uprising so near... You
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know too much, Mr. Arnold, if this should leak to
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the secret police. Don't worry about it. It's my neck
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as much as yours. What do you think, Eva?
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Chief Nine said he was to be given the fullest cooperation.
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Very well, then.
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What do you want to know?
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Question one. What makes you think this revolution really has
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a chance? You can't fight tanks and guns with just your.
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Bare hands, Mr.
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Arnold.
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We believe the Wensler machine can solve our biggest problem.
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What's that?
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How to collect arms without being attacked by the secret police.
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Oh, yeah.
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Yeah, I see.
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Now, suppose we could reduce all our equipment. Electronic guns,
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ray gas, anti-tank blaster. Anything which could be brought in unassembled.
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Reduce it to so small a size that a woman's
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handbag could hold enough to equip a regiment.
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You see what that would mean?
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Yeah, sure.
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No one would think of looking for a cannon in.
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Precisely.
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But Father's machine and the cylinder were necessary for the reduction.
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That's why our supply depot is right here.
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Here?
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Yes. When the day arrives, we'll enlarge the arms and
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pass them on.
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Yes, but where's the stuff now?
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Eva, please get me that model from the mantel. Oh,
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of course.
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Here you are.
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Take a look at this, Mr. Arnold.
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Well, that's a... That's a model of an anti-tank blast
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to complete every detail.
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Not a model, Mr.
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Arnold.
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This is an anti-tanker. Reduced in the cylinder by the
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Wensler process. At the proper time, we shall enlarge it,
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wheel it out through the garage, and set it up.
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When the men assemble, we pass out the rest of
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the arms, and we have our revolution. A division of men,
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properly armed, can take the city. Let's get back to
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the laboratory.
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Father will think it odd that we have.
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Been gone so long.
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The End.
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Oh, I was wondering where you were, Alan.
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I don't know what's keeping Erickson.
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He should have been back long ago. I need some
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help on this circuit here.
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Of course, Father. What are you doing?
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Erickson, I have amplified the effect by putting another diatomic
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catalyzer into phase. I want to give a test run, Alan,
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if you will bring one of the animals from the cage.
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Yes, Father.
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Animals?
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Yes.
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We are experimenting now with the reduction of living animals,
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guinea pigs.
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How does it work?
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Those we diminish to microscopic size return unharmed. But those
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sent down to the atomic dimension... Yeah? The cylinder returns.
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But there's nothing inside.
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Nothing.
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So, Dr.
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Winslet... Have you ever tried it on a human being?
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I tried to persuade Father to send me down to
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find out what's making the animals vanish.
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No, Alan.
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But, Father, we've installed high-frequency radio communication now. If anything
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started to go wrong with me, I could tell you
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in time to reverse the process.
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No, I will never permit it.
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All right. Guinea pigs it is, then. But someday, Father, I.
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Yes, dear?
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Come to me. That man, the one in the raincoat.
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He has been standing in that doorway across the street
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ever since I looked out the window.
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What of it?
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I don't like it, Alan. He has been standing there
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just looking at our house.
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Who?
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Alan, do you think it is?
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I don't know. I'm not sure.
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Eva.
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Yes. You know what we planned in this eventuality.
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Yes.
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Get the arms and the provisions. We can't afford to
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take a chance.
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All right, Alan.
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What is it, my son?
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Father, it's better for you not to know too much, but...
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I'm a member of the underground.
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No.
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Eva, too. We have... Well, we have some contraband hidden
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in the house. We'll have to put it in the cylinder.
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Contraband?
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What do you mean?
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Arms, Father. Arms and provisions for an army reduced to
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140 at size.
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Arms?
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Yes, we must put them in the cylinder and warm
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up the machine. If it is the secret police, we'll
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make the arms invisible, microscopic in size. Can I help?
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If you wish, Mr. Arnold, you can help my wife
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get the supplies. Okay. What is it, Eva?
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Two police cars have just turned the corner.
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They're full of men.
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That changes matters.
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Father, you'll have to operate the machine yourself. Eva and
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I are getting into the cylinder. No, Alan, you can't.
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It's too dangerous. It's the only way, Father. Those are
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the secret police.
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Dimension X will continue in just a moment.
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Tomorrow morning, get up and get at them with Wheaties
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to help. Now, does that sound as if I just
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made it up?
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Well, listen, folks, it's real.
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It's so.
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If you'll pour the Wheaties into a bowl tomorrow morning,
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if you'll pour on cold milk and put on the
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fruit you like best, if you'll do these things, you
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can honestly feel a difference all morning long.
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And here's why.
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Every golden Wheaties flake, every flake is made from a
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grain of wheat. That's why every flake of Wheaties gives
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you full whole wheat vitamins and minerals and the amazing
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energy you'll notice still with you by 11 in the morning.
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You simply cannot miss. Because it's a fact, you do
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better by yourself on a better breakfast. Whatever your job,
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if you'll start the morning with a reasonable meal, You
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should find yourself working better, feeling better, even looking better
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all morning long. Yep, 7 o'clock Wheaties, 11 o'clock, still
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feeling good and working happy. You try it now. Not
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somebody else, but you. You may be pounding a rug
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or pounding a typewriter tomorrow morning at 11. You may
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be driving a tractor or driving a bargain. But you're
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going to feel the difference with breakfast of champions tucked inside.
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You try it.
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Really now, see how Wheaties at 7 can help at 11.
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I have a catalyzer ready.
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Ready.
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Set at point 034.
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Good.
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All right, Ava. Get in the cylinder.
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Alan, I can't let you take the chance, Alan. Isn't
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it enough to make the supplies disappear?
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Not for the secret police. They must know something. Otherwise,
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they wouldn't be here. But how could they prove anything? No, Father.
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Every man has his breaking point. And I can't afford
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to gamble with the lives of others. I don't know
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how I'd react on the torture.
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Torture?
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Oh, father, you are naive.
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But don't worry.
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You'll be safe.
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Everyone knows you aren't interested in politics.
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Mr.
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Arnold is an American. Perhaps that will protect him. They're
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coming now. Oh, my son. What have you done? There's
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no time for recriminations now, father. I'm getting in with Eva. Arnold,
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will you help my father with the machine?
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And after?
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Yes, I'll do whatever I can.
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Thank you. Now, take us down to sub-microscopic size.
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Yes, sir.
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Hold us down until the police have gone. Tell them
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we've left. They won't dare meddle with the machine. Tell
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them it will mean death to anyone who gets in
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the way of the beam. When they're gone, bring us
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back up. I'll maintain radio silence until I hear from you.
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Very well, my son.
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There they are. The machine's warmed up. Move over, Ava.
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I'm coming in.
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Let me in.
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I've switched on the radio.
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If you can hear me, secure the porthole, Arnold.
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Okay, we hear you. The porthole's secure.
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Ready, Father? Yes.
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Are the oxygen tanks all right?
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Yes.
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They're breaking down the door.
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Atomic setting 034.
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Preliminary release.
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Temperature?
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27 degrees centigrade. 760 millimeters pressure.
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Hurry, Father!
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Very well.
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Now!
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Break on.
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Alpha 4, beta 16, gamma 0.12, temperature 30 centigrade, pressure 1100.
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Be careful.
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Holy mackerel, the cylinder's only three feet high.
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Open that door, boss.
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Temperature 36, pressure... It's getting too high.
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I can't do it.
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Stand by to reverse.
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No.
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The temperature and pressure show signs of stabilizing. Now 38
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and 2,000. Make setting at Angstrom 5, 10 times to
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the third. That's a small. We can't afford to take chances.
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Only three inches high.
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It's all right, Father.
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Temperature and pressure beginning to drop. Thank God. A half
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inch high. They're coming. They're coming. If anything happens, it
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isn't your fault. Remember, this is my doing.
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Ava, switch off. Don't come near the beam. No, this
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machine is in operation and can kill anyone.
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Coming within range. Shut off that machine.
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The machine cannot be shut off until it reaches nadir.
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A sudden reversal would cause an explosion and take us
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all with it.
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You there.
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Who are you?
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Who, me?
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Just a friend of the family.
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Arrest him.
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Get your hands off me.
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Let go of me. Now, Dr. Wenzler, your son and
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his wife, where are they? Answer me, you old fool.
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They left a few minutes before you came.
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Left?
407
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Jan, I told you to watch all the exits.
408
00:17:31.220 --> 00:17:33.420
We did, Commander. A mouse could not have escaped.
409
00:17:33.460 --> 00:17:35.559
I swear it, by the leader. They are not here.
410
00:17:36.900 --> 00:17:37.220
You.
411
00:17:38.599 --> 00:17:39.940
What do you know of this?
412
00:17:40.240 --> 00:17:41.589
I told you, they left some time ago.
413
00:17:42.529 --> 00:17:45.609
Keep an eye on them. And keep away from that machine.
414
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Jan.
415
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Yes, sir.
416
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Send out a general alarm.
417
00:17:49.390 --> 00:17:51.789
Yes, Commander.
418
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Dr.
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Wenzelam.
420
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Who are your son's friends?
421
00:17:54.180 --> 00:17:54.990
Please, please.
422
00:17:55.670 --> 00:17:59.289
Commander, let me finish my experiment. I know nothing about
423
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my son's activities or his friends, I swear it. I
424
00:18:01.869 --> 00:18:03.589
know nothing about politics.
425
00:18:03.809 --> 00:18:04.170
So?
426
00:18:04.690 --> 00:18:07.690
I must stay here until this experiment is finished. It
427
00:18:07.750 --> 00:18:10.230
is too dangerous to be left unattended.
428
00:18:11.089 --> 00:18:15.490
Very well. Take the American to headquarters. The rest of you,
429
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search the house.
430
00:18:16.910 --> 00:18:18.349
Look here, I'm an American citizen.
431
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Erickson!
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Yes, my dear Vincenzo.
433
00:18:22.259 --> 00:18:23.259
Have you found him, Commander?
434
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Ereks.
435
00:18:26.309 --> 00:18:27.309
You have betrayed me.
436
00:18:27.390 --> 00:18:29.549
I am a member of the League of Loyal Scientists.
437
00:18:29.630 --> 00:18:32.569
Your son is the traitor, not I. Have you found him, Commander?
438
00:18:32.630 --> 00:18:33.029
No.
439
00:18:33.750 --> 00:18:34.579
We have searched the house.
440
00:18:35.220 --> 00:18:35.480
Nothing.
441
00:18:36.559 --> 00:18:39.319
They swear the son and his wife escaped before we arrived.
442
00:18:39.339 --> 00:18:41.400
That is ridiculous. They were here when I left.
443
00:18:42.140 --> 00:18:45.619
People do not vanish into thin air. Then where are they?
444
00:18:45.960 --> 00:18:47.759
Right under your nose, Commander.
445
00:18:47.799 --> 00:18:48.180
What?
446
00:18:48.200 --> 00:18:50.809
They're in the cylinder, of course, under the beam there.
447
00:18:51.170 --> 00:18:53.009
That is the only place they could be. Allow me
448
00:18:53.049 --> 00:18:54.829
to handle the controls. You shall have your prisoners in
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five minutes.
450
00:18:56.569 --> 00:18:59.210
I see. Very clever, Dr.
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Wenzler.
452
00:19:00.450 --> 00:19:04.769
Very clever. All right, Erickson, you take charge of the machine.
453
00:19:04.809 --> 00:19:05.880
You spy, you traitor.
454
00:19:05.890 --> 00:19:08.279
Don't let him touch that dial. Grab him. You, you,
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00:19:08.299 --> 00:19:09.240
you won't. There, there.
456
00:19:13.380 --> 00:19:15.680
He has set it for subatomic dimension.
457
00:19:16.000 --> 00:19:16.799
What does that mean?
458
00:19:17.099 --> 00:19:20.299
Whatever is in that cylinder has become as small as
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the atom.
460
00:19:20.619 --> 00:19:21.460
Then shut it off!
461
00:19:21.900 --> 00:19:25.220
It has almost reached nadir. We must wait ten seconds,
462
00:19:25.720 --> 00:19:31.849
then reverse polarities. The machine has reached nadir. Angstrom 10
463
00:19:31.849 --> 00:19:42.230
to the minus 11. We must now wait ten seconds. One, two, three, four.
464
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Fine.
465
00:19:40.579 --> 00:20:00.819
What's the matter, Alan?
466
00:20:01.299 --> 00:20:04.279
I don't know. Something must have gone wrong.
467
00:20:05.539 --> 00:20:06.500
Alan, look up there.
468
00:20:06.779 --> 00:20:06.980
Why?
469
00:20:08.579 --> 00:20:11.930
Why, it's the Solar System. It's coming at us so fast.
470
00:20:12.710 --> 00:20:14.150
Look, the sun.
471
00:20:14.289 --> 00:20:14.650
The sun?
472
00:20:15.450 --> 00:20:20.589
No, that can't be. Eva, that's the nucleus of an atom.
473
00:20:21.750 --> 00:20:25.160
We've reached the subatomic dimension. That sun is the nucleus,
474
00:20:25.799 --> 00:20:28.500
and those planets are the electrons revolving about it.
475
00:20:29.000 --> 00:20:31.920
That planet coming up at us, there on the other
476
00:20:31.940 --> 00:20:34.119
side of the sun, I mean the nucleus, is.
477
00:20:34.160 --> 00:20:39.200
An electron. It's growing in size. We're heading straight for it.
478
00:20:39.970 --> 00:20:41.089
They're coming down on it.
479
00:20:41.930 --> 00:20:43.150
They are going to land.
480
00:20:44.289 --> 00:20:57.900
Well, I guess we finally reached the nadir.
481
00:20:58.859 --> 00:21:00.900
We haven't shrunk for the past two or three hours.
482
00:21:01.579 --> 00:21:02.099
Where are we?
483
00:21:03.240 --> 00:21:03.759
I don't know.
484
00:21:05.119 --> 00:21:07.579
Somewhere in a valley between the mountains of a huge
485
00:21:07.619 --> 00:21:08.220
electronic ray.
486
00:21:08.690 --> 00:21:11.930
It's almost funny, resting on the surface.
487
00:21:11.529 --> 00:21:12.890
Of an electron.
488
00:21:15.109 --> 00:21:19.039
Look. The soil under the floor of the cylinder.
489
00:21:20.119 --> 00:21:22.319
It looks like vegetation.
490
00:21:22.519 --> 00:21:22.819
Yes.
491
00:21:23.720 --> 00:21:24.200
Moss.
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00:21:25.319 --> 00:21:25.740
Lichen.
493
00:21:29.079 --> 00:21:33.119
That's the last of the air. I've been expecting it
494
00:21:33.140 --> 00:21:37.019
to go out for the past two days. We have perhaps...
495
00:21:37.829 --> 00:21:40.970
A half hour more. Eva, dearest.
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00:21:41.990 --> 00:21:42.289
I know.
497
00:21:43.690 --> 00:21:46.970
There is one chance. That vegetation. That means there must
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be some sort of atmosphere on this electronic planet. We
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00:21:49.890 --> 00:21:53.940
have to take that chance. Eva, are you willing to
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step out of the cylinder with me?
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00:21:55.920 --> 00:22:01.460
Of course, my dearest. For without our ghost, I will go.
502
00:22:02.579 --> 00:22:04.619
Thy people shall be my people.
503
00:22:05.279 --> 00:22:07.119
And thy God, my God.
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00:22:08.130 --> 00:22:10.190
When thou diest, I will.
505
00:22:13.130 --> 00:22:17.450
We haven't much time. Ready?
506
00:22:19.470 --> 00:22:19.750
Ready.
507
00:22:21.890 --> 00:22:22.170
All right.
508
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Open the portal.
509
00:22:36.839 --> 00:22:37.890
Seven....
510
00:22:38.619 --> 00:22:46.430
Eight, nine, ten. All right, ten seconds. I shall now
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00:22:46.569 --> 00:22:47.809
reverse polarity.
512
00:22:52.329 --> 00:22:55.549
I see something. The cylinder? Yes, there it is. Just
513
00:22:55.589 --> 00:22:57.890
a few seconds more and it will become normal size.
514
00:22:57.910 --> 00:23:02.660
A foot high. Keep that man quiet. It blows very rapidly.
515
00:23:02.720 --> 00:23:02.880
Yes.
516
00:23:02.920 --> 00:23:04.299
Three feet high.
517
00:23:04.319 --> 00:23:05.599
Four.
518
00:23:08.339 --> 00:23:12.869
Now, there you are, Commander. And in a moment, you
519
00:23:12.910 --> 00:23:15.410
will see your prisoners. Get the door open.
520
00:23:15.450 --> 00:23:15.829
Yes, sir.
521
00:23:17.230 --> 00:23:18.410
There is no door, my Commander.
522
00:23:18.849 --> 00:23:22.430
No door, Erickson. But there must be. No, sir.
523
00:23:22.690 --> 00:23:23.819
Nothing but a gas valve.
524
00:23:24.799 --> 00:23:28.619
You are right. Nothing but violet gas.
525
00:23:29.400 --> 00:23:30.240
That's impossible.
526
00:23:30.980 --> 00:23:32.220
Where are your son and his wife?
527
00:23:32.480 --> 00:23:34.140
We told you they left the house some time ago.
528
00:23:34.279 --> 00:23:36.009
That is a lie. Where are they? I.
529
00:23:37.779 --> 00:23:38.559
I do not know.
530
00:23:38.579 --> 00:23:42.400
Erickson, open that valve. But the gas will be poisonous.
531
00:23:42.660 --> 00:23:43.289
We shall see.
532
00:23:44.859 --> 00:23:52.349
Open the valve. Very slightly. What is that? I.
533
00:23:53.549 --> 00:23:54.130
I don't know.
534
00:23:54.150 --> 00:23:57.549
I seem to hear music inside my head.
535
00:23:57.569 --> 00:23:59.609
So did I.
536
00:23:59.880 --> 00:24:03.339
Apparently the gas produces auditory hallucinations.
537
00:24:03.579 --> 00:24:04.380
Open the valve again.
538
00:24:04.400 --> 00:24:05.640
Careful.
539
00:24:09.200 --> 00:24:15.650
We, the people of peace, greet the great scientist, the omnipotent,
540
00:24:16.470 --> 00:24:17.950
the maker of all.
541
00:24:18.549 --> 00:24:19.470
I thought I heard a voice.
542
00:24:19.690 --> 00:24:20.809
This is the.
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00:24:20.809 --> 00:24:24.809
Law of our people, laid down by our first father
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00:24:24.910 --> 00:24:30.190
ten million years ago, that always and ever there be
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00:24:30.269 --> 00:24:35.119
this record of our race. For it is told that thou,
546
00:24:35.420 --> 00:24:39.240
in the fruitfulness of time... shall take back unto thee
547
00:24:39.339 --> 00:24:43.289
this ark... like unto that cylinder in which the first
548
00:24:43.410 --> 00:24:44.549
father and mother.
549
00:24:44.329 --> 00:24:44.990
Of us all.
550
00:24:45.690 --> 00:24:46.789
came unto us.
551
00:24:47.170 --> 00:24:48.109
I don't understand.
552
00:24:49.109 --> 00:24:52.589
I am the last of our race. And the sun
553
00:24:52.690 --> 00:24:56.579
is cold and desolation is upon the face of our planet.
554
00:24:57.740 --> 00:25:00.559
But in our time there was majesty and joy.
555
00:25:01.200 --> 00:25:03.359
and the gleaning of the fruits of the soil.
556
00:25:04.180 --> 00:25:06.500
For we have been the people of peace.
557
00:25:07.650 --> 00:25:09.569
And life was bountiful.
558
00:25:09.069 --> 00:25:13.730
For generations until that day came when in thy everlasting
559
00:25:13.829 --> 00:25:16.650
wisdom thou didst decree the.
560
00:25:16.730 --> 00:25:17.730
End of all.
561
00:25:19.230 --> 00:25:23.079
Though there were some who wept, we did not query why.
562
00:25:24.019 --> 00:25:27.509
For we have been a happy race. We have followed
563
00:25:27.549 --> 00:25:30.509
the law of the first father, Alan, and of the
564
00:25:30.569 --> 00:25:34.529
great mother, Ava. And we have built this ark so
565
00:25:34.549 --> 00:25:37.450
that there may be a report of our deeds and.
566
00:25:37.380 --> 00:25:39.180
Of the fulfillment of the trust.
567
00:25:40.900 --> 00:25:45.759
Now I, Lamarion, the last of the billions who lived here,
568
00:25:46.720 --> 00:25:50.480
do lie me down into that last sleep, from which,
569
00:25:50.579 --> 00:25:54.569
if thou will, I shall awake unto the land which
570
00:25:54.650 --> 00:26:00.279
is thine. Hail, oh great one. From the descendants of
571
00:26:00.420 --> 00:26:03.980
Alan and Ava, hail and farewell.
572
00:26:07.000 --> 00:26:07.819
Good Lord, what was that?
573
00:26:07.839 --> 00:26:09.440
Alan and Ava?
574
00:26:10.220 --> 00:26:10.440
Dr.
575
00:26:10.480 --> 00:26:11.859
Wenzler, where are they?
576
00:26:12.779 --> 00:26:14.259
They are beyond your reach.
577
00:26:14.339 --> 00:26:15.000
What do you mean?
578
00:26:15.119 --> 00:26:18.500
Don't you understand? All time is relative.
579
00:26:19.420 --> 00:26:22.299
One year of our time is one revolution of the
580
00:26:22.400 --> 00:26:28.359
planet Earth about the sun. Somewhere down In the microcosmos,
581
00:26:28.480 --> 00:26:33.680
my son and his wife found themselves in an atomic universe.
582
00:26:34.859 --> 00:26:35.519
Of course.
583
00:26:35.579 --> 00:26:41.049
And landed upon an electronic planet. That planet whirled around
584
00:26:41.630 --> 00:26:46.609
its sun, the nucleus of an atom, a million times
585
00:26:47.130 --> 00:26:48.730
in the space of a second.
586
00:26:49.650 --> 00:26:51.109
Hour. Second.
587
00:26:51.619 --> 00:26:51.839
Dr.
588
00:26:51.859 --> 00:26:53.859
Wensley, what are you trying to say?
589
00:26:54.640 --> 00:26:58.450
That voice we heard... is the voice of a human being,
590
00:26:59.009 --> 00:27:02.369
the last member of a race whose blood is mine.
591
00:27:03.509 --> 00:27:06.210
For in the space of ten seconds of our time,
592
00:27:06.230 --> 00:27:14.430
Alan and Ava settled upon their microcosmic planet and bore
593
00:27:14.589 --> 00:27:18.990
sons and daughters and a great and peaceful race that
594
00:27:19.089 --> 00:27:26.869
lived and died beyond infinity. And my children, Alan and Ava,
595
00:27:27.880 --> 00:27:33.480
who founded that race, are dead and gone. Ten million
596
00:27:33.559 --> 00:27:37.230
years ago. Ten seconds ago.
597
00:27:56.009 --> 00:27:59.849
Tonight, Dimension X has presented Beyond Infinity, an original radio
598
00:27:59.890 --> 00:28:03.309
drama written by Vier Gerson. Featured in the cast were
599
00:28:03.349 --> 00:28:07.150
Les Damon as Arnold, Lada Stavitsky as Ava, E.A. Krummschmidt
600
00:28:07.210 --> 00:28:10.569
as Dr. Wensler, and Joe DeSantis as Alan Wensler. Your
601
00:28:10.630 --> 00:28:14.990
narrator was Norman Rose. Music by Albert Berman. Dimension X
602
00:28:15.089 --> 00:28:18.049
is produced by Van Woodward and directed by Edward King.
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00:28:18.849 --> 00:28:20.869
In a moment, we'll tell you about next week's show.
604
00:28:22.400 --> 00:28:24.079
And now, here is your Wheaties man.
605
00:28:24.599 --> 00:28:25.240
Frank Martin.
606
00:28:25.640 --> 00:28:28.240
This is Ed Prentiss batting for Frank Martin. To bring
607
00:28:28.259 --> 00:28:30.460
you a word from a fellow most of you know. Lucius,
608
00:28:30.480 --> 00:28:31.640
would you step over here, please?
609
00:28:32.200 --> 00:28:34.220
You bet, Ed. Folks, I'm Luke Kaplan.
610
00:28:34.519 --> 00:28:38.079
I've been playing shortstop for the Chicago White Sox practically forever. Yes,
611
00:28:38.180 --> 00:28:40.940
it is practically forever. This makes your 20th season, Luke.
612
00:28:40.960 --> 00:28:43.400
Do you think it's going to be a permanent job? Well,
613
00:28:43.420 --> 00:28:45.779
you know, Ed, I play baseball like I eat Wheaties.
614
00:28:46.240 --> 00:28:49.440
Just get set and plow right through. Wheaties and baseball
615
00:28:49.529 --> 00:28:51.779
just seem to go together. The Wheaties give me the
616
00:28:51.799 --> 00:28:54.450
energy to play more baseball, and a tough game gives
617
00:28:54.490 --> 00:28:55.950
me the appetite to eat more Wheaties.
618
00:28:56.430 --> 00:28:58.430
I think it's a real nice arrangement. Well, Mr.
619
00:28:58.529 --> 00:29:01.230
Appling, if you're happy, so are we. Thanks a million
620
00:29:01.269 --> 00:29:03.410
to our real Wheaties champion, Luke Appling.
621
00:29:03.839 --> 00:29:06.940
And folks, if you haven't had the pleasure of Wheaties lately,
622
00:29:07.599 --> 00:29:13.440
have some tomorrow. Wheaties, breakfast of champions. And eat happy.
623
00:29:18.349 --> 00:29:22.660
Next week, a strange story of other worlds. The story
624
00:29:22.700 --> 00:29:26.220
of the barbaric Potters of First. Another adventure into the
625
00:29:26.299 --> 00:29:27.960
unknown world of tomorrow.
626
00:29:28.359 --> 00:29:29.359
The world of.
627
00:29:30.960 --> 00:29:35.450
Dimension X.
628
00:29:38.549 --> 00:29:40.720
And this is the Wheaties man, Frank Martins. inviting you
629
00:29:40.740 --> 00:29:44.099
to listen tomorrow night to Joel McRae in Tales of
630
00:29:44.140 --> 00:29:47.029
the Texas Rangers on the Wheaties Big Parade.
631
00:29:47.789 --> 00:30:00.940
See you then. This program was transcribed.
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00:30:01.740 --> 00:30:04.160
Stay tuned for Stories of the Underworld by Jack Laid
633
00:30:04.220 --> 00:30:05.059
on NBC.
634
00:30:11.670 --> 00:30:16.819
Dimension X, Episode 16, Beyond Infinity, has reached its close.
635
00:30:17.150 --> 00:30:21.619
Until our next broadcast, good night. Now follow old-time sci-fi
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00:30:21.660 --> 00:30:24.759
radio for more classic science fiction broadcasts.
