Full Transcript for 2000 Plus - "The Insect" (Old Time Radio, 2025)

got to have help with 37 00:02:19.430 --> 00:02:21.270 these papers. What do you want me to do, cancel 38 00:02:21.289 --> 00:02:23.050 the meeting because my wife is afraid of the work 39 00:02:23.129 --> 00:02:27.409 I do? Oh, I'm sorry, darling. It's just... All right, 40 00:02:27.449 --> 00:02:30.530 all right. I'll try to do it myself. Don't be angry, George. 41 00:02:31.469 --> 00:02:35.259 If they were ordinary insects, tiny ones will... Maybe it 42 00:02:35.300 --> 00:02:36.139 was a difference. 43 00:02:36.400 --> 00:02:38.979 Even with what I've done to them, they're not so big. 44 00:02:39.939 --> 00:02:42.379 So I've taken a spider, a housefly, and a wasp, 45 00:02:42.419 --> 00:02:44.740 and by means of my growth ray, I've made them larger. 46 00:02:45.439 --> 00:02:47.650 The spider still isn't any bigger than my fist. The 47 00:02:47.659 --> 00:02:50.270 housefly is about as large as a pack of cigarettes. 48 00:02:51.030 --> 00:02:53.590 The wasp's no bigger than a golf ball. They're not giant. 49 00:02:53.789 --> 00:02:57.310 But they look so, so horrible when they're even that big. 50 00:02:57.430 --> 00:03:00.449 Easier to observe and study. That's why the university's interested 51 00:03:00.469 --> 00:03:00.990 in my work. 52 00:03:01.780 --> 00:03:04.879 With a long-term appointment and a grant to amplify the 53 00:03:04.919 --> 00:03:07.479 growth rate, maybe I can really increase the size of 54 00:03:07.500 --> 00:03:10.680 the insect. Imagine a fly as big as a horse. 55 00:03:12.060 --> 00:03:16.520 That would be some horsefly. Hey, that's a joke. 56 00:03:17.759 --> 00:03:18.629 All right, George. 57 00:03:19.490 --> 00:03:21.830 I'll help you. It's only the papers we're packing. You 58 00:03:21.870 --> 00:03:23.710 won't have to go near the insect cages. 59 00:03:35.060 --> 00:03:36.300 Now, uh, hand me. 60 00:03:36.199 --> 00:03:38.020 Those hot poisons you can take. 61 00:03:38.300 --> 00:03:38.800 That one there. 62 00:03:39.659 --> 00:03:40.849 Uh, Richard? 63 00:03:40.990 --> 00:03:41.229 Right. 64 00:03:42.550 --> 00:03:45.210 Do you, do you have any poisonous ones in here 65 00:03:45.229 --> 00:03:45.509 at all? 66 00:03:46.169 --> 00:03:48.150 Only Sam, the spider. 67 00:03:48.310 --> 00:03:51.189 He's in the glass cage by those books. 68 00:03:51.430 --> 00:03:52.050 I don't want to look. 69 00:03:52.729 --> 00:03:55.740 Maybe if you'd look, you wouldn't have such ridiculous ideas. 70 00:03:56.620 --> 00:03:59.780 Sam is a nice guy. He just swaps and stares. 71 00:04:00.520 --> 00:04:01.939 Looks like a wise old man. 72 00:04:01.960 --> 00:04:03.460 Why, look, I get sick. 73 00:04:04.430 --> 00:04:05.289 Oh, there's lint. 74 00:04:05.789 --> 00:04:06.530 Here's a wound. 75 00:04:06.669 --> 00:04:10.409 Okay, okay. Now the notebook, please. Hey, hey, hey, hey, 76 00:04:10.439 --> 00:04:11.120 be careful. 77 00:04:11.259 --> 00:04:11.539 Why? 78 00:04:11.680 --> 00:04:12.419 Well, what's the matter? 79 00:04:12.840

--> 00:04:15.229 That machine is very delicate. You almost touched it. 80 00:04:15.659 --> 00:04:16.819 Oh, the girlfriend? 81 00:04:16.939 --> 00:04:17.319 Mm-hmm. 82 00:04:17.959 --> 00:04:18.860 I don't want that. 83 00:04:18.740 --> 00:04:19.660 Running while I'm gone. 84 00:04:20.060 --> 00:04:20.680 Don't worry. 85 00:04:20.779 --> 00:04:23.370 I can't wait to get out of here. Ah, let's 86 00:04:23.399 --> 00:04:24.529 see now. We got everything. 87 00:04:26.110 --> 00:04:26.550 Mm, yep. 88 00:04:27.170 --> 00:04:32.550 Well, that does it. Come on. After you, meet Cheddar Strickland, 89 00:04:32.610 --> 00:04:39.930 you two. You know, I hope when we get to 90 00:04:39.970 --> 00:04:43.470 the university, if I get the appointment, you'll keep your 91 00:04:43.529 --> 00:04:47.529 disgust of insects to yourself. A wife is supposed to 92 00:04:47.569 --> 00:04:50.189 build up her husband's work. Faculty wives do that all 93 00:04:50.240 --> 00:04:51.160 the time. 94 00:04:51.180 --> 00:04:52.259 Don't argue with me now. 95 00:04:52.800 --> 00:04:53.779 I just can't help the. 96 00:04:53.740 --> 00:04:54.199 Way I feel. 97 00:04:54.899 --> 00:04:57.620 Sam should really be fed while I'm gone. Stop it. 98 00:04:58.800 --> 00:05:00.040 I'm not going in there. 99 00:05:01.480 --> 00:05:05.319 All right. All right. What about Pete the housefly? He's 100 00:05:05.360 --> 00:05:08.170 not poisonous. You feed your insects when you get home. 101 00:05:09.170 --> 00:05:10.430 Now hurry up. George will be late. 102 00:05:10.949 --> 00:05:11.209 Sure. 103 00:05:11.230 --> 00:05:14.790 Well, goodbye. 104 00:05:15.769 --> 00:05:18.670 Oh, George, I don't want you to leave when you're 105 00:05:18.689 --> 00:05:19.790 annoyed like that. 106 00:05:20.910 --> 00:05:21.889 I'm sorry, darling. 107 00:05:22.949 --> 00:05:23.860 I really love you. 108 00:05:25.500 --> 00:05:27.319 But I love my insects, too. 109 00:05:41.089 --> 00:05:43.050 Just a minute. Coming. 110 00:05:43.290 --> 00:05:45.750 Hello, Mrs. 111 00:05:45.850 --> 00:05:48.110 Martin. Here are the groceries you ordered. Oh, hello, Bill. 112 00:05:48.329 --> 00:05:51.550 Right in here. Okay. On the table? 113 00:05:51.709 --> 00:05:52.230 Oh, please. 114 00:05:52.610 --> 00:05:54.870 Oh, I hope the. 115 00:05:54.850 --> 00:05:57.089 Oranges are better this time than they were last. 116 00:05:57.329 --> 00:06:00.160 Oh, Mr. Ginkleheimer said to tell you that these oranges 117 00:06:00.379 --> 00:06:03.439 are swell. Well, I'll know when I squeeze them for breakfast. 118 00:06:04.160 --> 00:06:04.939 Oh, thank you, Bill. 119 00:06:05.540 --> 00:06:05.980 Oh, it's, uh. 120 00:06:06.620 --> 00:06:10.759 Is Mr. Martin home? Mr. Martin? No, he isn't, Bill. Why? Well, 121 00:06:10.779 --> 00:06:13.439 he was going to show me his books. You don't 122 00:06:13.459 --> 00:06:14.379 want to look at them. 123 00:06:14.839 --> 00:06:15.980 But they're dreadful. 124 00:06:16.120 --> 00:06:19.000 I find them very

interesting. Mr. Martin said he'd take 125 00:06:19.019 --> 00:06:19.439 me into. 126 00:06:19.300 --> 00:06:20.019 His lab today. 127 00:06:20.689 --> 00:06:23.389 That's why I delivered your order first. I was anxious 128 00:06:23.430 --> 00:06:24.389 to see them. Oh, Mr. 129 00:06:24.389 --> 00:06:26.930 Martin was called away suddenly. He got a telegram and 130 00:06:26.970 --> 00:06:30.889 had to leave almost at once. But he'll be home tomorrow. 131 00:06:31.689 --> 00:06:34.430 He will. Tomorrow I've got to work at the other store, 132 00:06:34.449 --> 00:06:35.889 the one on North Street. 133 00:06:36.209 --> 00:06:39.209 Well, in a few days, then. And the bugs will 134 00:06:39.250 --> 00:06:40.370 still be here, Bill. 135 00:06:40.389 --> 00:06:41.269 Mrs. 136 00:06:41.329 --> 00:06:44.050 Martin, would it be too much trouble if you let 137 00:06:44.089 --> 00:06:47.949 me peek at them? I never go into Mr. Martin's laboratory. 138 00:06:48.120 --> 00:06:50.420 I won't hurt anything. Just peek. I was kind of 139 00:06:50.439 --> 00:06:51.560 looking forward to seeing them. 140 00:06:51.620 --> 00:06:55.259 Oh, it's a horrid place, Bill, that laboratory. You wait 141 00:06:55.339 --> 00:06:56.959 till Mr. Martin gets home. 142 00:06:58.220 --> 00:06:58.879 Sure, Mrs. 143 00:06:58.959 --> 00:07:00.759 Martin, if you say so. 144 00:07:01.839 --> 00:07:06.779 Well, don't look so glum. What you men see in 145 00:07:06.800 --> 00:07:09.019 those revolting creatures, I'll never know. 146 00:07:09.480 --> 00:07:11.360 They're scary. They're so big. 147 00:07:12.360 --> 00:07:13.600 I feel funny when I look at them. 148 00:07:14.819 --> 00:07:17.730 Then Mr. Martin explains about science and stuff, and it's 149 00:07:17.759 --> 00:07:20.230 really interesting. Would you like to. 150 00:07:20.170 --> 00:07:21.069 Be a scientist, Bill? 151 00:07:21.370 --> 00:07:22.170 I sure would. 152 00:07:24.389 --> 00:07:27.129 Well, I suppose I ought. 153 00:07:27.029 --> 00:07:27.769 To encourage it. 154 00:07:27.889 --> 00:07:30.629 I won't let you win, but you can keep. 155 00:07:31.600 --> 00:07:32.480 You know where the door is. 156 00:07:32.800 --> 00:07:35.110 Oh, thanks, Mrs. Martin. Thanks very much. 157 00:07:35.759 --> 00:07:37.189 But don't touch anything. 158 00:07:37.209 --> 00:07:37.709 I won't. 159 00:07:39.129 --> 00:07:40.750 I better put these groceries away. 160 00:07:41.250 --> 00:07:41.329 Mrs. 161 00:07:41.350 --> 00:07:42.350 Martin! Help! 162 00:07:47.189 --> 00:07:47.290 Help! 163 00:07:47.350 --> 00:07:47.430 Help! 164 00:07:47.490 --> 00:07:47.649 Help! 165 00:07:47.670 --> 00:07:47.810 Help! 166 00:07:48.410 --> 00:07:49.930 Help! Help! 167 00:07:50.329 --> 00:07:50.949 Help! 168 00:07:51.250 --> 00:07:51.470 Help! 169 00:08:01.779 --> 00:08:01.920 Oh! 170 00:08:03.060 --> 00:08:03.379 Oh, no. 171 00:08:05.079 --> 00:08:07.199 No! I. 172 00:08:08.980 --> 00:08:15.389 I thought before. Wasn't he the last time? I don't know. 173 00:08:17.329 --> 00:08:18.649 He's 65. What is. 174 00:08:20.129 --> 00:08:20.230 It? 175 00:08:20.410 --> 00:08:22.790 Look at the eyes. 176 00:08:24.750 --> 00:08:27.009 The fever is out in front. 177 00:08:27.029 --> 00:08:37.919 Waiting. Waiting. It can fly us, kill us, eat us. 178 00:08:40.559 --> 00:08:41.299 Get out of. 179 00:08:42.820 --> 00:08:42.980 Here. 180 00:08:44.559 --> 00:08:46.710 We must get out of here. 181 00:08:47.669 --> 00:08:47.850 Yeah. 182 00:08:49.169 --> 00:08:51.149 Walk backwards. 183 00:08:51.169 --> 00:08:52.129 Keep your eyes open. 184 00:08:52.889 --> 00:09:06.419 It looks like a monster. A giant moth. Watch it. 185 00:09:07.600 --> 00:09:08.559 If it flies, you. 186 00:09:08.860 --> 00:09:11.019 Open it. Open it. 187 00:09:11.039 --> 00:09:11.330 Open it. 188 00:09:11.340 --> 00:09:13.059 Quick, open it. It's flying. 189 00:09:13.740 --> 00:09:16.610 Where's the key? 190 00:09:16.659 --> 00:09:17.350 In the old room. 191 00:09:17.379 --> 00:09:18.590 It's flying. 192 00:09:18.710 --> 00:09:19.029 It's flying. 193 00:09:19.110 --> 00:09:19.629 It's flying. 194 00:09:19.809 --> 00:09:23.990 It isn't doing anything. It's sitting there, fanning its wings. 195 00:09:24.049 --> 00:09:24.649 Oh, Bill. 196 00:09:32.019 --> 00:09:33.299 Bill, what should we do? 197 00:09:33.919 --> 00:09:34.480 I don't know. 198 00:09:35.440 --> 00:09:38.299 Let's move in the corner by that stair. 199 00:09:39.399 --> 00:09:41.659 We can crouch down behind. 200 00:09:52.529 --> 00:09:57.480 Now, we just sit here and watch it. 201 00:10:05.899 --> 00:10:10.379 It. Now, Mr. 202 00:10:10.450 --> 00:10:13.649 Martin, I'm very interested in your growth rate. As dean 203 00:10:13.690 --> 00:10:15.809 of science, I want to be certain that this university 204 00:10:15.850 --> 00:10:19.129 encourages brilliant young scholars who are experimenting in new fields 205 00:10:19.190 --> 00:10:19.690 of research. 206 00:10:19.830 --> 00:10:20.490 I understand, sir. 207 00:10:20.509 --> 00:10:22.870 At the same time, I must be satisfied that the 208 00:10:22.929 --> 00:10:25.149 research will be of fundamental value. Yes, sir. 209 00:10:25.450 --> 00:10:28.200 Now, suppose you thought for a while. Tell me about 210 00:10:28.240 --> 00:10:28.620 your work. 211 00:10:29.480 --> 00:10:32.120 Well, I have always been interested in the effect of 212 00:10:32.179 --> 00:10:37.500 environment on organisms. I know the environmental factors to universal 213 00:10:37.539 --> 00:10:44.320 conditions applicable to all organisms. For example, sir... air, temperature, humidity, light, 214 00:10:44.440 --> 00:10:47.419 and so forth. And then I approached each of these 215 00:10:47.480 --> 00:10:51.000 conditions from the point of view of its specific effects 216 00:10:51.120 --> 00:10:54.899 on organisms. I discovered that the presence or absence of 217 00:10:55.039 --> 00:10:58.110 light gave me the widest variance of reaction. 218 00:10:58.210 --> 00:10:58.970 Oh,

excuse me. 219 00:10:59.409 --> 00:11:02.690 In what way the widest variance? When the effects on 220 00:11:02.850 --> 00:11:08.000 physical growth change adaptationally. You see, sir, because light is 221 00:11:08.179 --> 00:11:11.509 a general term, I broke its definition down into all 222 00:11:12.129 --> 00:11:16.669 known rays, infrared, ultraviolet, and so forth, and studied reactions 223 00:11:16.710 --> 00:11:20.330 of organisms to those rays in every conceivable combination. 224 00:11:21.470 --> 00:11:22.870 Now, after two years, I. 225 00:11:22.909 --> 00:11:25.990 Evolved a theory that if certain rays could be combined 226 00:11:26.269 --> 00:11:31.779 electronically and concentrated on living organisms for specified periods of time, 227 00:11:32.889 --> 00:11:36.450 Their growth would be greatly stimulated. And you have constructed 228 00:11:36.490 --> 00:11:37.090 such a machine? 229 00:11:37.190 --> 00:11:37.789 Yes, I have. 230 00:11:38.289 --> 00:11:41.480 The electrodynar spectrum, the growth ray machine. 231 00:11:41.840 --> 00:11:43.440 What have you accomplished with it so far? 232 00:11:44.100 --> 00:11:48.259 I've multiplied the growth of certain insects many times. My 233 00:11:48.299 --> 00:11:50.460 present machine is small and homemade, and its power is 234 00:11:50.480 --> 00:11:53.320 not too great. But so far, I've increased the size 235 00:11:53.360 --> 00:11:55.360 of a fly to that of a pack of cigarettes. 236 00:11:56.139 --> 00:11:58.179 The size of a spider to that of my fist. 237 00:11:58.580 --> 00:12:00.539 What kind of spider? Tarantula. 238 00:12:01.320 --> 00:12:04.600 It's a very dangerous and poisonous insect to work with. Well, 239 00:12:04.659 --> 00:12:07.740 being a tropical spider, it might be more receptive to light. 240 00:12:08.519 --> 00:12:11.110 Its size has tripled. Tell me, Mr. Martin, what is 241 00:12:11.139 --> 00:12:13.830 the optimum increase in size that you've so far obtained? 242 00:12:14.070 --> 00:12:19.350 About eight times with the fly. The size increase varies 243 00:12:19.549 --> 00:12:21.409 with the insect. There's a lot of research yet to 244 00:12:21.450 --> 00:12:24.750 be done. Yes, so I can see. Your work certainly 245 00:12:24.809 --> 00:12:27.990 excites the imagination. Think of your having the kind of 246 00:12:28.049 --> 00:12:30.889 equipment that will permit a twenty, fifty, hundred, or even 247 00:12:30.909 --> 00:12:34.909 a thousand-fold increase in an insect's size. Imagine an insect 248 00:12:34.990 --> 00:12:38.990 large enough to attack and devour a human being. Imagine 249 00:12:39.029 --> 00:12:43.309 this university needing lion cages to contain its giant insects. Well, 250 00:12:43.330 --> 00:12:46.250 there's no limit to what new things we could learn 251 00:12:46.269 --> 00:12:49.159 about all manner of organisms with the growth rate. Not 252 00:12:49.220 --> 00:12:51.700 just insects. That's right. Mr. 253 00:12:51.720 --> 00:12:53.320 Martin, I'd like you to stay on. 254 00:12:53.200 --> 00:12:55.240 Another few hours so that we can talk some more. 255 00:12:55.340 --> 00:12:57.440 I'd be very happy. Perhaps you'd like to phone your wife, 256 00:12:57.460 --> 00:12:59.090 but you'll be a bit late. Thank you, sir. 257 00:12:59.139 --> 00:13:01.990 You can use the phone in the other office. And, Mr. Martin. 258 00:13:02.350 --> 00:13:02.549 Yes. 259 00:13:03.070 --> 00:13:06.269 When she asks you how everything's going, you tell her 260 00:13:06.289 --> 00:13:14.049 that it's going just fine. 261 00:13:19.200 --> 00:13:25.009 Still sitting there. The most horrible thing I've ever seen. 262 00:13:25.029 --> 00:13:32.590 Six feet high. With a giant wing. How does it 263 00:13:32.649 --> 00:13:33.320 get here, Mrs. 264 00:13:33.389 --> 00:13:38.039 Martin? Somehow the growth ray must have begun working. It 265 00:13:38.080 --> 00:13:40.919 gave off a slight glow. The moth must have seen it. 266 00:13:41.659 --> 00:13:44.080 Flown toward it. Must have seen us. 267 00:13:45.279 --> 00:13:45.779 Those eyes. 268 00:13:46.899 --> 00:13:48.110 The biggest dinner place. 269 00:13:49.990 --> 00:13:55.779 Maybe it's twisted. Then it will come toward us. It'll 270 00:13:56.139 --> 00:13:57.590 try to kill. 271 00:13:59.009 --> 00:13:59.169 Us. 272 00:13:59.269 --> 00:13:59.889 Don't, Bill. 273 00:14:00.470 --> 00:14:05.950 Don't say that. Crouch down, Lord. This chair protects us. 274 00:14:05.990 --> 00:14:07.409 We've got to get out of here. 275 00:14:08.090 --> 00:14:10.429 The door's locked, but. 276 00:14:09.769 --> 00:14:13.659 Isn't there some other way out? Only the window. Behind 277 00:14:13.919 --> 00:14:17.399 the lock. Is the window locked? I can't see. The 278 00:14:17.460 --> 00:14:18.240 shade is drawn. 279 00:14:18.399 --> 00:14:18.559 Yes. 280 00:14:22.580 --> 00:14:24.799 And would only fly to the other corner of the room, 281 00:14:25.220 --> 00:14:26.240 then what would you do? 282 00:14:26.279 --> 00:14:28.620 Maybe I could run to the window, pull up the shade. 283 00:14:28.679 --> 00:14:30.879 Unlock the window, get out and get help. 284 00:14:31.080 --> 00:14:34.440 And leave me alone with that... that horribly monstrous creature 285 00:14:34.500 --> 00:14:35.019 on the other side. 286 00:14:35.080 --> 00:14:35.799 What are we doing? 287 00:14:35.879 --> 00:14:36.500 I don't know. 288 00:14:36.840 --> 00:14:37.269 When will Mr. 289 00:14:37.299 --> 00:14:39.659 Martin come home? Afternoon. Tonight. 290 00:14:40.259 --> 00:14:41.279 Maybe not until tomorrow. 291 00:14:41.539 --> 00:14:42.500 Listen. 292 00:14:44.460 --> 00:14:44.919 The phone. 293 00:14:48.539 --> 00:14:49.179 Maybe that's Mr. 294 00:14:49.179 --> 00:14:50.289 Martin calling. Yes. 295 00:14:50.690 --> 00:14:52.610 When you don't answer it, Maybe he'll come home. 296 00:14:53.029 --> 00:14:55.759 No. No, he'll think I'm out shopping or visiting. Mrs. 297 00:14:56.190 --> 00:14:57.110 Martin, look. 298 00:14:57.370

--> 00:14:57.750 The boss? 299 00:14:59.090 --> 00:15:01.830 He stopped moving his wings. He's looking right at us. 300 00:15:02.669 --> 00:15:03.370 At this corner. 301 00:15:04.529 --> 00:15:05.649 I bet he hears the telephone. 302 00:15:05.690 --> 00:15:06.490 It scares him. 303 00:15:08.049 --> 00:15:11.029 He's so quiet. 304 00:15:11.080 --> 00:15:15.039 That must be George calling him. Why doesn't he realize 305 00:15:15.059 --> 00:15:18.139 something has happened? Why doesn't he call the neighbors or 306 00:15:18.179 --> 00:15:21.090 the police? Why doesn't it come along? 307 00:15:21.129 --> 00:15:21.350 Mrs. 308 00:15:21.370 --> 00:15:22.789 Martin, I think it's going to fly. 309 00:15:22.830 --> 00:15:23.789 What do we do? 310 00:15:23.809 --> 00:15:25.929 I don't know. It'll kill us. 311 00:15:26.340 --> 00:15:29.600 If it heard the phone, it'll hear us. When it flies, 312 00:15:30.000 --> 00:15:30.639 it'll crash down. 313 00:15:30.740 --> 00:15:33.159 It'll get as much protection from the chair as possible. 314 00:15:33.879 --> 00:15:39.379 And scream, yell, anything to make noise. Okay. Okay, Mrs. 315 00:15:39.419 --> 00:15:40.639 Martin. 316 00:15:40.659 --> 00:15:43.340 Oh, the way it just tears. 317 00:15:44.059 --> 00:15:53.289 Maybe, maybe it won't fly. phone has stopped ringing. Yes, Bill. 318 00:15:53.309 --> 00:15:53.529 Yes. 319 00:15:54.889 --> 00:15:57.649 Let's be. 320 00:16:03.559 --> 00:16:06.000 Quiet. 321 00:16:08.279 --> 00:16:13.799 Like a nightmare being here. Oh, George, darling, you know 322 00:16:13.820 --> 00:16:18.399 I hated these insects. Yet you built a laboratory. 323 00:16:17.860 --> 00:16:18.440 In our home. 324 00:16:21.299 --> 00:16:23.600 Home. 325 00:16:23.700 --> 00:16:25.779 A place with a room of terror. 326 00:16:27.399 --> 00:16:28.279 Why am I here? 327 00:16:29.659 --> 00:16:34.000 Why did things happen to trap me here? Was it 328 00:16:34.039 --> 00:16:38.840 because I hated George's work? Was it because I refused 329 00:16:38.899 --> 00:16:39.840 to help him. 330 00:16:39.759 --> 00:16:42.980 With these impulsive creatures? 331 00:16:43.000 --> 00:16:47.159 I see the moth. His body is like a worm. 332 00:16:51.769 --> 00:16:56.710 Glimmering. Rippling. Gray. 333 00:16:57.970 --> 00:17:01.690 Dirty. I. 334 00:17:03.200 --> 00:17:04.339 I'm staring. 335 00:17:06.019 --> 00:17:07.680 Knowing I'm here. 336 00:17:08.440 --> 00:17:09.779 What's it going to do? 337 00:17:09.819 --> 00:17:09.960 No! 338 00:17:10.039 --> 00:17:13.170 It's flying at us. 339 00:17:13.180 --> 00:17:14.500 Dream again. 340 00:17:14.519 --> 00:17:15.200 Make noise. 341 00:17:22.019 --> 00:17:22.480 Why, he was. 342 00:17:22.500 --> 00:17:25.160 He touched the wall, the ceiling. The fireplace. 343 00:17:25.240 --> 00:17:30.599 The window. His wings hit the widow's face. 344 00:17:30.779 --> 00:17:31.359 It broke off. 345 00:17:31.720 --> 00:17:34.529 The sunlight's coming in. 346 00:17:34.589 --> 00:17:37.289 He's flying

blindly. 347 00:17:37.369 --> 00:17:38.109 He's crazy. 348 00:17:39.410 --> 00:17:40.289 Feel the glass cage. 349 00:17:41.170 --> 00:17:42.509 The glass cage with the spiders. 350 00:17:43.230 --> 00:17:44.490 The poisonous spiders. 351 00:17:44.589 --> 00:17:44.990 I see it. 352 00:17:45.730 --> 00:17:46.890 Starting across the floor. 353 00:17:46.910 --> 00:17:51.289 He's there by the sofa. The giant model sitting on 354 00:17:51.329 --> 00:17:51.849 the bookshelf. 355 00:17:53.509 --> 00:17:59.259 And on the floor, like a fuzzy ball of death, 356 00:18:00.480 --> 00:18:04.279 the spider, the tarantula! 357 00:18:14.119 --> 00:18:14.819 Well, Mr. 358 00:18:14.859 --> 00:18:17.799 Martin, I am delighted to see you. The dean phoned 359 00:18:17.859 --> 00:18:19.000 and said you were coming over. 360 00:18:19.380 --> 00:18:21.460 I think I am the last member of the faculty 361 00:18:21.480 --> 00:18:22.619 committee he wants you to see. 362 00:18:22.920 --> 00:18:23.930 Oh, sit down, won't you? 363 00:18:23.940 --> 00:18:27.069 Oh, thank you, Professor Buckley. Yes, I've been going all 364 00:18:27.130 --> 00:18:29.269 afternoon for one appointment or the other, and all of. 365 00:18:29.269 --> 00:18:30.750 Us are happy to talk with you. 366 00:18:31.069 --> 00:18:34.150 The dean is quite excited about your research, you know. Yes, 367 00:18:34.269 --> 00:18:37.460 I'm very pleased about that. Uh, Professor Blackberry, I hope 368 00:18:37.500 --> 00:18:39.460 you won't think me rude at the beginning of our meeting, 369 00:18:39.480 --> 00:18:41.480 but I wonder if I might use your phone. Why, 370 00:18:41.559 --> 00:18:43.009 of course, Mr. Martin. 371 00:18:43.069 --> 00:18:44.089 Is something wrong? 372 00:18:44.250 --> 00:18:46.230 No, I don't think so, but I phoned my wife 373 00:18:46.250 --> 00:18:48.549 several times to tell her I was staying on all afternoon, 374 00:18:48.609 --> 00:18:50.269 and there's been no answer. 375 00:18:50.369 --> 00:18:52.069 Oh, I'm sure there's nothing wrong. 376 00:18:52.089 --> 00:18:53.210 By all means, call. 377 00:18:53.230 --> 00:18:54.190 The phone is right there. 378 00:18:54.319 --> 00:19:00.380 Thank you. Number, please. I'll make you 84572, and reverse 379 00:19:00.400 --> 00:19:16.660 the charges, please. Thank you. Still doesn't seem to be 380 00:19:16.700 --> 00:19:19.420 any answer. Well, let it ring a few more times. 381 00:19:28.490 --> 00:19:31.509 Sorry, sir, there is no answer. Shall I keep trying? 382 00:19:32.170 --> 00:19:34.069 Yes, stop right up. Please keep trying. 383 00:19:34.309 --> 00:19:35.390 I'll call you, sir. 384 00:19:35.529 --> 00:19:40.029 Thank you. I can't understand it. Not like Betty to 385 00:19:40.049 --> 00:19:41.019 be away so long. 386 00:19:41.150 --> 00:19:41.430 Hello? 387 00:19:44.000 --> 00:19:44.359 Thank you. 388 00:19:52.980 --> 00:19:54.980 Both still there, Mrs. 389 00:19:55.059 --> 00:19:56.000 Martin. Yes. 390 00:19:57.420 --> 00:19:58.069 Still there. 391 00:19:58.089 --> 00:20:00.890 I saw the spider last week. 392 00:20:02.210 --> 00:20:02.849 Big as Mr. 393 00:20:02.890 --> 00:20:06.630 Martin's fist. I looked into the glass case. 394 00:20:08.809 --> 00:20:13.809 I see the hair on its legs, like bristles. Mr. 395 00:20:13.829 --> 00:20:19.130 Martin showed me its mouth, where it bites and kills 396 00:20:19.170 --> 00:20:19.910 with the poison. 397 00:20:20.029 --> 00:20:20.750 Stop it, Bill! 398 00:20:21.450 --> 00:20:22.519 Stop! 399 00:20:23.319 --> 00:20:30.160 I'm sorry. Martin, I can't stop looking at them. They 400 00:20:30.180 --> 00:20:31.500 don't bite with sunlight. 401 00:20:32.380 --> 00:20:33.660 That's why they're on the sofa. 402 00:20:33.829 --> 00:20:35.910 But the whole room is flooded with sunlight since the 403 00:20:35.950 --> 00:20:38.309 shade went up. I think it's going to be hide 404 00:20:38.349 --> 00:20:38.829 this chair. 405 00:20:39.529 --> 00:20:41.609 It doesn't give us the protection we need. 406 00:20:41.890 --> 00:20:44.430 Why? The moth is too big to get out of here. 407 00:20:44.569 --> 00:20:48.559 But the spider, it can scurry on the rock under 408 00:20:48.579 --> 00:20:49.039 the chair. 409 00:20:49.220 --> 00:20:50.059 I'll take off my shoes. 410 00:20:50.740 --> 00:20:51.940 Something to hit it with if it comes. 411 00:20:53.440 --> 00:20:56.019 There. Now you take one of them. 412 00:20:56.680 --> 00:20:57.640 Look. 413 00:20:58.640 --> 00:21:00.839 Its wings are fluttering again. It's going to fly again. 414 00:21:01.079 --> 00:21:04.400 But let's not worry. It might scare the spider. 415 00:21:04.849 --> 00:21:05.549 Is the man here, too? 416 00:21:05.730 --> 00:21:06.470 I don't know. 417 00:21:06.569 --> 00:21:11.359 Here he comes. 418 00:21:14.019 --> 00:21:16.000 He's not the dog. 419 00:21:16.599 --> 00:21:17.640 The spider. 420 00:21:17.940 --> 00:21:18.460 The spider. 421 00:21:19.000 --> 00:21:20.579 Where is he? I don't know. Somewhere. 422 00:21:20.920 --> 00:21:22.140 Somewhere in this room. 423 00:21:22.180 --> 00:21:22.619 Somewhere. 424 00:21:22.660 --> 00:21:24.569 He's not blind. 425 00:21:27.109 --> 00:21:27.509 The spider. 426 00:21:27.529 --> 00:21:30.029 Maybe he's near us. 427 00:21:30.029 --> 00:21:31.089 I don't know. 428 00:21:31.289 --> 00:21:32.930 I can't just see where it is. 429 00:21:58.490 --> 00:22:00.329 There is still no answer, sir. 430 00:22:00.529 --> 00:22:02.410 Shall I keep trying? I. 431 00:22:02.430 --> 00:22:04.130 No, no, I'll call you back. 432 00:22:04.430 --> 00:22:07.349 Ask for operator 34, sir. Thank you. 433 00:22:08.470 --> 00:22:09.210 No answer yet? 434 00:22:09.450 --> 00:22:12.180 No, sir. Of course, I did tell Betty that I 435 00:22:12.220 --> 00:22:14.299 might be late or even stay overnight. She may have 436 00:22:14.319 --> 00:22:17.180 gone to her mother's. It's a real pleasure finding a 437 00:22:17.220 --> 00:22:19.039 young man who cares that much for his wife. 438

00:22:19.680 --> 00:22:21.880 I suppose Mrs. Marshall feels the same way about you. 439 00:22:22.109 --> 00:22:25.289 Oh, Betty's wonderful. I'm sure she is. After all, not 440 00:22:25.349 --> 00:22:28.009 many women would approve of their husbands inventing machines that 441 00:22:28.069 --> 00:22:29.190 make insects larger. 442 00:22:29.849 --> 00:22:31.809 You've got a rare wife, Mr. Martin. 443 00:22:32.210 --> 00:22:41.609 One who doesn't object to giant insects in the house. 444 00:22:46.539 --> 00:22:48.279 Keep the shoe tight in your hand, Bill. 445 00:22:48.960 --> 00:22:51.200 If you see the spider, hit it. It's hard. 446 00:22:51.359 --> 00:22:52.779 Yes, ma'am. I will. 447 00:22:53.160 --> 00:22:57.509 I can't stand it much longer. My hands are trembling. 448 00:22:57.529 --> 00:23:01.019 Please. Oh, Lord. Me too, Mrs. Martin. 449 00:23:02.220 --> 00:23:03.319 I think I'm getting sick. 450 00:23:03.519 --> 00:23:06.599 Oh, you mustn't, Bill. I could have a drink of water. 451 00:23:07.660 --> 00:23:08.089 Come on. 452 00:23:09.109 --> 00:23:10.289 It's acting strangely. 453 00:23:11.109 --> 00:23:11.390 Hmm? 454 00:23:12.150 --> 00:23:16.329 Yeah. Its fingers are kind of limp. 455 00:23:16.970 --> 00:23:24.279 And its body. Oh, that disgusting world-like body. Flabby all 456 00:23:24.339 --> 00:23:24.839 of a sudden. 457 00:23:26.119 --> 00:23:26.500 Drooping. 458 00:23:26.779 --> 00:23:27.220 Its eyes. 459 00:23:28.000 --> 00:23:28.900 They look different, too. 460 00:23:30.400 --> 00:23:35.049 I don't know why, but somehow the... Yes. Yes, you're right. 461 00:23:36.730 --> 00:23:38.630 What's the matter, buddy? 462 00:23:38.750 --> 00:23:40.670 How are you doing? 463 00:23:40.950 --> 00:23:42.849 Oh, no. No. 464 00:23:42.930 --> 00:23:47.490 It was only the hem of your skirt touching my leg. 465 00:23:49.250 --> 00:23:51.890 I thought it was a spider. Oh, Bill. 466 00:23:52.109 --> 00:23:56.059 Bill, what's going to happen to us? 467 00:23:56.099 --> 00:23:56.500 Don't cry. 468 00:23:56.599 --> 00:23:57.759 Please don't cry. 469 00:24:16.299 --> 00:24:16.819 Well, Mr. 470 00:24:16.859 --> 00:24:18.700 Martin, are the terms satisfactory to you? 471 00:24:18.920 --> 00:24:21.380 Oh, yes, sir. Very much so. Thank you, sir. 472 00:24:21.509 --> 00:24:23.230 It's going to be a great pleasure having you at 473 00:24:23.250 --> 00:24:24.009 the university. 474 00:24:24.589 --> 00:24:26.950 And I know that you find your association with us 475 00:24:27.029 --> 00:24:28.250 a real incentive to. 476 00:24:28.170 --> 00:24:29.930 Carrying on your work with a regrowth rate. 477 00:24:30.150 --> 00:24:31.990 I'm sure of that. I'll do my very best to 478 00:24:32.009 --> 00:24:35.049 be accredited to the university and to scientific research. Well, 479 00:24:35.089 --> 00:24:36.559 my boy, it's time for you to leave if you 480 00:24:36.579 --> 00:24:38.160 want to catch the 610 and be home. 481 00:24:38.000 --> 00:24:38.700 To tell your wife. 482 00:24:39.480 --> 00:24:41.859 You just get home and you'll find that there's an 483 00:24:41.940 --> 00:24:44.400 explanation for why she didn't answer the phone all day. 484 00:24:44.500 --> 00:24:48.480 I'm sure you're right. Thank you again, Dean. Thank you very. 485 00:24:54.440 --> 00:24:58.440 Much. 486 00:25:00.900 --> 00:25:01.880 Feel better now, Mrs. 487 00:25:01.900 --> 00:25:02.220 Martin? 488 00:25:03.069 --> 00:25:03.849 I guess so, Bill. 489 00:25:04.970 --> 00:25:07.950 I'm all cried out. I have no tear left. 490 00:25:08.089 --> 00:25:10.789 Look, Mrs. Martin, I'm going to try to reach the window. 491 00:25:11.410 --> 00:25:11.950 The window? 492 00:25:12.170 --> 00:25:13.630 The moth is back on the couch. 493 00:25:13.650 --> 00:25:15.700 I I think I can make a run for the. 494 00:25:15.680 --> 00:25:17.599 Window once I push the chair aside a little. 495 00:25:17.640 --> 00:25:18.900 But he might attack you. 496 00:25:19.660 --> 00:25:21.619 Or me. Well, maybe he won't. But he will, he will. 497 00:25:22.740 --> 00:25:27.529 Come on, let's go, baby. Six feet high. If it 498 00:25:27.569 --> 00:25:29.390 would happen to either of us if he did attack, 499 00:25:29.990 --> 00:25:31.190 I would be eaten alive. 500 00:25:31.990 --> 00:25:32.549 Do they have teeth? 501 00:25:32.589 --> 00:25:35.769 Could they really kill us? 502 00:25:35.829 --> 00:25:37.309 We've lost all sorts of things. 503 00:25:38.069 --> 00:25:40.940 George would know exactly. I had a whole group of 504 00:25:41.000 --> 00:25:46.039 claws ruined last year. It's so big. So terribly big. 505 00:25:47.420 --> 00:25:52.599 I'm blinded. Bill, I don't know what to say. 506 00:25:52.740 --> 00:25:55.839 I'm going to try it. I'll crouch down. I'll push 507 00:25:55.859 --> 00:25:58.000 the chair down a little, squeeze by between the chair 508 00:25:58.039 --> 00:25:59.640 and the wall, and make a dash for the window. 509 00:25:59.660 --> 00:26:01.559 Now, there. 510 00:26:02.599 --> 00:26:03.940 The chair is pushed aside. 511 00:26:04.480 --> 00:26:05.880 Now, give me my shoes. 512 00:26:09.480 --> 00:26:10.049 Okay, Mrs. 513 00:26:10.069 --> 00:26:12.390 Martin. All right, go! 514 00:26:14.779 --> 00:26:15.700 I'm here. 515 00:26:16.140 --> 00:26:18.039 I'll try to unlock the window. 516 00:26:18.059 --> 00:26:20.990 My God! The monster's flying at you! 517 00:26:21.390 --> 00:26:21.809 Get away! 518 00:26:22.210 --> 00:26:23.269 Get away! Look out! 519 00:26:23.569 --> 00:26:23.910 Bill! 520 00:26:24.650 --> 00:26:25.470 Bill! 521 00:26:25.589 --> 00:26:26.170 Bill! 522 00:26:26.769 --> 00:26:29.710 He's attacking me! He's trying to kill me! 523 00:26:29.730 --> 00:26:30.809 Bill! 524 00:26:33.230 --> 00:26:33.589 Bill! 525 00:26:35.549 --> 00:26:36.549 Are you all right? 526 00:26:36.609 --> 00:26:39.089 Bill, answer me! 527 00:26:39.150 --> 00:26:48.490 Answer me! No one home? 528 00:26:49.710 --> 00:26:52.190 The lights are off. 529 00:26:54.750 -->

00:27:15.799 Ah, that's better. Where can Betty have gone? Betty? Betty, 530 00:27:15.819 --> 00:27:16.299 are you here? 531 00:27:16.319 --> 00:27:17.920 Betty, where are you? 532 00:27:17.960 --> 00:27:18.220 Good Lord. 533 00:27:18.259 --> 00:27:18.500 Locked. 534 00:27:18.700 --> 00:27:20.480 Locked with a key. 535 00:27:20.519 --> 00:27:20.619 Here. 536 00:27:34.440 --> 00:27:37.289 Oh, my darling. Oh, my darling. 537 00:27:37.309 --> 00:27:39.250 George. George, it was awful. Who's that? 538 00:27:39.450 --> 00:27:40.650 Betty, if I haven't said. 539 00:27:40.829 --> 00:27:41.150 Bill. 540 00:27:41.190 --> 00:27:42.509 Bill, the grocery boy. 541 00:27:42.569 --> 00:27:43.130 He killed. 542 00:27:43.170 --> 00:27:45.069 He killed my dad. Look at that, Bill. I can't 543 00:27:45.089 --> 00:27:45.359 believe it. 544 00:27:45.410 --> 00:27:45.809 It's dead. 545 00:27:45.849 --> 00:27:45.990 Bill. 546 00:27:46.009 --> 00:28:04.269 Bill. Bill. 547 00:28:06.210 --> 00:28:06.690 Bill. 548 00:28:08.910 --> 00:28:09.230 What? 549 00:28:11.259 --> 00:28:13.779 Oh, Mr. Mark. Mr. 550 00:28:13.819 --> 00:28:15.039 Mark, you're fired. 551 00:28:15.559 --> 00:28:17.200 The gas tank is on the floor. 552 00:28:17.400 --> 00:28:24.420 Let's get out of here fast. All right, sit down, Bill. 553 00:28:25.539 --> 00:28:27.019 For heaven's sake, what happened? 554 00:28:27.619 --> 00:28:28.380 Here, sit down, darling. 555 00:28:28.480 --> 00:28:33.339 I'll get you a drink. Here you are. 556 00:28:34.069 --> 00:28:34.730 Thank you. 557 00:28:36.109 --> 00:28:36.329 Now. 558 00:28:37.869 --> 00:28:41.549 Now tell me. The laboratory door's not behind us. 559 00:28:42.529 --> 00:28:43.980 The giant moth was there. 560 00:28:45.019 --> 00:28:47.059 He knocked over the glass cage with the spider. 561 00:28:47.859 --> 00:28:48.859 We thought we'd die. 562 00:28:48.880 --> 00:28:52.740 And I thought... I thought Bill was dead. 563 00:28:55.049 --> 00:28:58.950 I'll find the spider and kill it. But as for 564 00:28:58.990 --> 00:28:59.990 the moth, darling. 565 00:29:01.180 --> 00:29:01.920 Despite its. 566 00:29:01.920 --> 00:29:03.650 Size, you had nothing to fear. 567 00:29:03.670 --> 00:29:04.690 What? 568 00:29:05.529 --> 00:29:09.190 Well, you see, darling, the adult moth doesn't eat. It 569 00:29:09.210 --> 00:29:13.549 has no mouth. Nothing to attack or kill with. Despite 570 00:29:13.569 --> 00:29:18.849 its size, Trichophaga tapetella, the clothes moth, is utterly harmless. 571 00:29:20.059 --> 00:29:20.690 You mean. 572 00:29:22.299 --> 00:29:25.440 You mean we could have just shoot it away and 573 00:29:26.460 --> 00:29:27.079 open the window? 574 00:29:27.099 --> 00:29:31.599 Of course, dear. The reason it's dead and why you 575 00:29:31.640 --> 00:29:35.009 could have waited without worrying is that a moth cannot 576 00:29:35.089 --> 00:29:37.170 live more than six hours in sunlight. 577 00:29:39.230 --> 00:29:39.980 You see, dear, all the. 578 00:29:40.210 --> 00:29:42.019 horror was unnecessary. 579 00:29:42.420 --> 00:29:46.480 Next week, a strange drama of a silver rocket. 580 00:29:59.470 --> 00:30:03.109 And an unseen visitor from space. Be sure to listen 581 00:30:03.210 --> 00:30:08.710 to 2000 Plus, radio's different series. 2000 Plus is produced 582 00:30:08.789 --> 00:30:13.109 by Dreyer and Winolson Productions, Incorporated. In today's cast, Joan 583 00:30:13.130 --> 00:30:17.269 Shea portrayed Betty, Larry Robinson was Bill, Ralph Bell was George, 584 00:30:17.650 --> 00:30:22.400 and Bill Griffiths was the Dean. Music composed and played 585 00:30:22.420 --> 00:30:27.019 by Milton Key, sound Al April and George Cooney, engineer 586 00:30:27.059 --> 00:30:29.720 Bob Albrecht, This is Ken Marvin speaking. 587 00:30:30.160 --> 00:30:35.329 That was episode 10 of 2000 plus the insect. 588 00:30:35.369 --> 00:30:41.099 Follow 2000 plus for more classic broadcasts.