Dimension X - "Hello Tomorrow" (Old Time Radio, 1950)

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George Lefferts wrote this original radio story of an underground
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future society, where genetic selection and rigid emotional control govern
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human life. From NBC's Dimension X, it is Hello Tomorrow,
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Episode 24, first broadcast September 15, 1950. In the fourth millennium,
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Professor Lois Burton, a genetic researcher, is assigned to study Orin,
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an imprisoned man judged genetically imperfect by the state. Their
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encounter tests the assumptions governing heredity, partnership, and feeling. Nancy Olsen,
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Santos Ortega, Donald Bucher, William Keene, Bill Zuckert, and Leon
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Janney are featured. Edward King directed, and Van Woodward produced.
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And now, our story begins.
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The National Broadcasting Company delays the start of this program
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to bring you a special news bulletin. From the NBC
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newsroom in New York, United Nations troops have begun a
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breakthrough from their beachhead in South Korea, launching an attack
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from positions north of Taegu for a drive towards Seoul.
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The new offensive is timed with a big amphibious assault
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at Incheon, which is progressing on schedule. Keep tuned to
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your NBC station for the later news.
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Transcribed in future tense.
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Dimension.
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Tonight, a story of the future and a star of
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the future. The story, Hello Tomorrow, and the star, Miss
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Nancy Olsen. the talented young actress who is currently winning
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critical acclaim for her performance in one of the outstanding
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pictures of the year, Sunset Boulevard. Tonight, Miss Olsen becomes
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the first of a group of the stage and screen's
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most promising young stars of tomorrow to be invited to
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appear on the program of tomorrow, Dimension X. It was
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in the year 1991 that man disappeared from the face
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of the earth. The third atomic war had ended at last,
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leaving the land a mass of red radioactive dust, filling
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the air with gamma rays so deadly that life on
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the surface was no longer possible. There was only one
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way out. The few survivors went underground, burrowing their way
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deep into the earth like hunted moles, hiding from death
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in huge underground caverns. And it was there in the
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next 2,000 years that they built the new civilization, a
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civilization in which the genetic survival of the race came first,
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and every life and every law was shaped to serve
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that end. It is to this civilization, in the year
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of our Lord 4,195 A.D., that we take you now.
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Yes?
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I have a call from the Director of Emotional Stability
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for the third oblong for Professor Lois Burton at.
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The Institute of Genetics.
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This is Professor Burton.
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One moment.
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Go ahead, sir. Lois? Listen, darling, good news.
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What?
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The Genetic Board has approved our application for marriage.
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Oh, so soon?
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The tests found our chromosomes perfect. We can marry any
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time we want. Our offspring should be genetically in the
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19th percentile of perfection. What's the matter, dear?
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Oh, nothing. I'm just sort of breathless.
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You are happy about it, aren't you, darling?
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Oh, of course.
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Terribly happy.
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I'm coming right over to the lab. I have a surprise.
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Oh, not now, Walter.
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What?
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Well, I mean you'll have to give me some time.
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Time?
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What's the trouble?
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No trouble. It's that genetic survey I've been working on.
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What?
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Well, I've finally gotten permission to study an actual living case.
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A specimen of imperfect genetic transmission.
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Really?
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Yes, they're bringing him up from the condemned cages on
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the lower level.
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You will be careful, darling.
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The supervisor says there's nothing to be afraid of. The
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specimen they're bringing is XJ12. It's been studied before many
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times and is quite well trained.
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Well, I don't like it.
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Nonsense, darling. I've been waiting for this opportunity for years. Oh,
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there's my door signal. I'll have to hang up, darling.
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See you later.
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Yes?
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Professor Lois Burton?
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Yes?
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I'm from the Philogenic Institute.
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Lower level.
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Oh.
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Then you brought me specimen XJ-12.
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May I come in?
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By all means.
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Oh.
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How?
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Horrible. It all depends on your viewpoint. I happen to
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have a twisted leg. My parents were genetically unsound.
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But then you... Yes.
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I am specimen XJ12.
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I see.
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I hope you aren't shocked.
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No stable person permits feelings to enter into his work.
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I will admit to surprise. I was expecting something a
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little more abnormal.
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Sorry, I try to be as abnormal as possible. If
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I am, the phylogenic institute allows me out of the
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genetic cages every so often, so I can breathe the
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pure air of the upper levels and mingle with the
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genetically perfect.
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You seem quite well educated.
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I spent the first years of my life here in
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the upper levels.
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How is that possible? They segregate imperfects.
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As a small child, my mother concealed me from the
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director of selective heredity. I was brought up in secret.
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My mother actually, dreadful word, loved me.
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I see.
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That would explain your obviously low threshold of emotional control.
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If you choose to call it that. At first, you
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seemed to be struggling to repress a few feelings yourself.
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We will confine ourselves to the impersonal aspects of our work.
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As you please.
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I shall require you as a demonstration for a lecture
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I'm delivering to one of my classes tomorrow.
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At your service, Professor.
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Sit here, please.
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Grip these electrodes tightly. I'm going to calibrate your electrochemical tension.
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I'm quite familiar with the procedure. I realize that as
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an imperfect, I'm expendable. But I should hate to be electrocuted.
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The charge is not lethal. Plus 15 surface tension.
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You know, you have beautiful hair.
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Plus 12 at a depth of 4 centimeters.
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Lovely blue eyes... Crystal clear.
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Plus ten.
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Seven centimeters.
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Pretty.
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A perfect woman. Lovely, expressive hands. And a heart of stone.
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Like all the rest of you perfect survival types.
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Try not to jump, sir, when the current strikes.
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No feelings. Under control. Passed by the director of emotional stability.
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Shut up!
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Maybe I was wrong. Maybe you... you have feelings.
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That will be quite enough. I seem to sense an
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air of emotional tension.
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Nothing, dear. This is a specimen XJ-12.
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Oh, I see. An inferior type.
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Quite.
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You, specimen. Can you understand me?
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Yes.
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Yes what? Tell this dolt who I am, Lois.
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This is a.
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Director of emotional stability for the third oblong. He also
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happens to be my selected genetic partner. You will address
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him as sir. Yes, sir.
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This creature seems quite impertinent.
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He's only a specimen, darling.
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I suppose. We'll use him and ship him back to
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the cages at the Institute. He's probably radioactive. You, specimen.
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Mr.
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Director.
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You will confine your speech to answering only those questions
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addressed to you.
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Understand?
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Understand.
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Yes, sir.
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Perfectly.
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Attention! Attention! The next demonstration will be conducted by Professor
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Lois Burton of the Institute of Genetics.
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Her topic, the probability of radioactive damage in the chromosome
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heredity of imperfect non-survival types.
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Professor Burson.
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We are very fortunate today in having obtained a specimen
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of an imperfect genetic type through the good graces of
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the Philogenic Institute. Moreover, this specimen has been trained to
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tell in his own words about the factors in his upbringing.
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Specimen XJ12.
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Thank you. My mother was a psychotechnician in the Fifth Oblong.
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My father was a historian specializing in the records of
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pre-atomic surface culture. In the earthquake of 2170, apparently some
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hard radiation filtered down through the tunnels and penetrated the
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Fifth Oblong. The effect on my hereditary factors is quite
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apparent in this twisted leg. i appreciate that you do
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not laugh most audiences seem compelled to laugh perhaps you
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were different if so perhaps you can be made to
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understand somehow what it means to be labeled an imperfect
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Perhaps in some way I can penetrate the insulation with
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which the psychotechnicians, the drugs, and the glandular experts have
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surrounded your emotions.
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Wait.
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As director of emotional stability for this oblong, I order
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you to confine yourself to the subject.
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My father taught me in the last days before he
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was executed that every human personality is born with certain
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inalienable natural rights. The right of free expression. The right
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to have feelings. And the right to mature. And above all,
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the right to be different from every other living organism.
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Because every organism is different. I submit to you distinguished students.
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that the attempt by this society to abridge these rights
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is a violation of nature. I say that the imperfects,
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the mutants, those who are different have as much right
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to exist and be free as you. I say break
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open the cages.
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Free my people.
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Give us back the right to be individuals.
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I say.
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Professor Burton, take this specimen back to your laboratory and
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confine him.
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Yes, Mr.
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Director.
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You, specimen, go quietly. I warn you.
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I have nothing but contempt for your warnings.
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I'll have you destroyed for this.
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The specimen is unstable. He doesn't know what he's saying.
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Then get him out of here.
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Quickly.
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He's an affront to our genetic type.
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Hold still while I bandage your head. He'll be all right. I.
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I suppose you detest me for getting you into trouble.
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Don't squirm. Not that I blame you.
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I don't detest you. In fact, I thought you quite magnificent.
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You what?
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As you spoke, something began to stir in me.
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You don't hate me.
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I've never felt so strange.
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Tell me what you feel. If I moved you... Then
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I must have moved the others, some of them at least.
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I don't know quite how to explain it.
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A strange sympathy.
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Compassion.
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For some reason I took pride in what you were doing.
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Seeing you stand up against them. Why do you look
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at me like that?
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Because I can't help it.
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I wish you wouldn't. You're only an imperfect, you know.
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You have no rights.
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Please, XJ-12. My name is Oren.
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Please.
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Say it.
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Oren. Oren?
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Again.
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Oren.
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Lois.
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Oren.
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Lois, Lois, Lois.
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What is it? Why do I feel this way?
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In the cages, they call it love.
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Love?
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Love?
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We have no such concept in the upper level.
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You've destroyed it.
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Would it be correct to say, I.
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Feel love for you?
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It would be correct.
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I feel love for you.
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Darling, darling. Lois, what about Walters? You're going to marry him? No.
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You're genetically suited to each other.
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I don't care. I won't marry him. There must be
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some other way.
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But.
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Walter!
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Very touching.
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Very tender.
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Walter, how could you spy?
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In my capacity as director of emotional stability, it is
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my duty to spy. Specimen XJ-12 will be disposed of
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quite systematically by the state. For the good of the state.
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For the good of the genetic code. And in the
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name of emotional stability. Come in, Lois. I wondered how
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long it would be before you came to my office.
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Walter, I have to talk to you.
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Go right ahead.
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Walter, you mustn't destroy him. Send him back to the cages,
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but don't kill him.
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You speak of destroying an inferior creature as if it
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were something unethical.
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Walter, Walter, please, for my sake.
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Lois, I understand that you've entered a plea for postponement
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of our marriage at the records bureau.
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Yes, I.
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I was too upset to go through with it.
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It came as a great disappointment to me. If you
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were married to me, you would be safe from influences
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such as this XJ-12. In which case, I might even
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be persuaded to send him back to the cages instead
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of having him destroyed. You see?
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Yes.
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I see.
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Think it over. Well, my dear?
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When can we be married?
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Soon. Tomorrow, if you like.
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The sooner the better.
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Lois.
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Lois, you make me very.
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What about XJ12?
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Oh, I see.
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A bargain is a bargain. Let me talk to the custodian, please.
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Hello.
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Hello.
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This is the director of emotional stability for the third oblong.
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I would like you to cancel the execution of specimen XJ12.
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Yes.
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Yes, that's right. Turn him over to the security guard.
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He's to be remanded permanently to the genetic cages.
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Let me talk to him, Walter.
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My dear, I don't think that.
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Please, I want to be sure he's all right.
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Very well. Hello. Connect a circuit in the cell block
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I want to talk to XJ12. Here you are, my dear.
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Hello?
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Oren?
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Yes.
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No, I'm all right. How are you?
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Fine.
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Oren, I've been talking to Walter. He's going to send
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you back to the cages.
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Yes.
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Yes.
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Yes.
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No.
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No, I'm going to marry him. Because I want to.
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I'm not lying to you.
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I'm very happy. Yes.
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Yes, I've got to hang up now.
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Goodbye. Goodbye.
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And now, Lois?
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Walter, please, I.
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I've got to get back to the lab.
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Of course. I'll pick you up in, say, an hour,
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and we'll make plans for the wedding. All right?
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Yes.
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Yes, of course. Goodbye, Walter.
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Hello.
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This is the director of emotional stability again. I want
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you to cancel that last order. Proceed with the execution,
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but under conditions of absolute secrecy.
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No.
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Don't use the lethal chamber. Take him to the tunnels
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on the upper level. That's correct.
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Fine.
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Fine.
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This way.
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Where are you taking me?
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You're being returned to the philogenic institute. Orders from the
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director of emotional stability.
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Into the elevator. Very well. Why are we going toward
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the surface? The cages are on the lower levels. Radiation check.
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They've never done that before. New procedure.
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All right.
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Walk Hulk, state your business.
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I'm the custodian for the third oblong. This imperfect is
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my prisoner.
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You can't go beyond this checkpoint. There's radioactivity in the tunnels.
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This is a special mission, if you know what I mean.
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Oh, I see. Just a moment, I'll open the airlock.
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Go ahead.
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You'll find two radiation suits in the chamber.
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We will need only one.
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So this is how they get rid of imperfects. March inside.
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All right.
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Turn around. Suppose I refuse.
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It'll be less painful if you cooperate.
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Before you dispose of me, could I give you a
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message for a friend? That depends. What is the message?
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This!
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Security!
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Help!
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Security!
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What is it?
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What happened?
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The prisoner, he struck me. Before I could recover, he
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escaped into the tunnels.
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Well, he won't last long.
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If the radiation doesn't get him, he'll starve to death.
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Can you go after him?
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I could send a robot, but it isn't worth the trouble.
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There's no way back from the tunnels except through here.
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Only other direction he can go is toward the surface.
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The closer he gets, the hotter the radiation.
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Now I think you can consider your prisoner dead.
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More wine, my dear? No, thank you, Walter You look
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very beautiful, my dear Very beautiful Thank you These hydroponic
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fruits are delicious, aren't they? Oh, uh The wedding will
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just be a small affair. I've arranged for a few friends.
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The director of endocrine control, the chief of the security guards,
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one or two assistants to high council members.
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Walter did.
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Yes?
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Was he returned to the cages?
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Now, why must you spoil this lovely dinner by bringing
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that up?
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Was he, Walter?
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Well.
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Was he? Well, as a matter of fact, there was
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a little difficulty.
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Difficulty?
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Yes.
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You see, he escaped.
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Escaped?
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He struck a guard and ran off into the tunnels.
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The tunnels?
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But that's death.
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He's free to return any time he chooses.
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When did it happen?
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Just a few hours ago, as a matter of fact.
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Walter.
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Now, don't become upset again, darling.
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You planned it, didn't you, Walter?
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Stability, darling.
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Stability.
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Stability.
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Stability. Is that all I'm to hear from you for
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the rest of my life?
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Darling.
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Here's what I think of stability.
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Were we not to be married, I'd be compelled to
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turn you over to the endocrine surgeons for doing that.
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Well, you can go right ahead, because we aren't going
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to be married.
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Checkpoint.
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This is the director of emotional security. Yes, sir. If
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Professor Burton tries to pass the checkpoint, I want to
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take it into custody.
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Well, Professor Burton just passed, sir. She said.
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You idiot. But she said... I don't care what she said.
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Stop her. Send robots after her. Get her back. I'll
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have you destroyed as incompetent if you fail.
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Yes, sir.
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At once, sir. Robot control.
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Checkpoint to robot control.
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Order out all televocal robots into the tunnels. Have them
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bring back any humans. This is a first priority order.
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Bang! Oren?
430
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Oren?
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Oren, where are you?
432
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Oren?
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Hello?
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Oren, it's Louis.
435
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This way.
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Behind the rocks. Over here.
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Darling darling Lois Lois why did you come here it's
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suicide I had.
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To darling are you alright so far you've got to
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turn back give yourself up they'll kill me you can
441
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stay here the radiation is plus four at this point
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it gets worse as you approach the surface go.
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Back darling what will you do I'm going ahead but
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you can't I can't I'm going to the surface not even.
445
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The robots can survive.
446
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At least I'll be the first human in eleven hundred
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years to see what the surface of the earth looks like.
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Come back with me no darling then I'm going with
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you Lois don't try to stop me darling There's nothing
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to go back to now. Nothing but Walter and emotional stability.
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Lois, you... You really want to come with me?
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Yes.
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You know what it means? I don't care. Oh, darling,
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I can't let you go.
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Oren, I.
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I love you.
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See? I.
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I know how to say it now.
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Say it again.
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Oren, I love you.
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Lois. Lois, what's that?
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Sounds.
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Oren, it's the robocontrol. It's looking for us.
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Come on. We've got to hurry.
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This way.
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Hurry. Oh, and wait.
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It can't be much further, darling.
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Oh, but it's gaining. Here.
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Here, let me help you.
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I can't.
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I just can't.
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All right, darling. We'll stop here. We may as well
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wait for it.
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Oh, over it. coming.
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I can see it's light now.
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Darling, listen. It stopped.
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The light's us running around.
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Orin, it sees us. Come on, darling.
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One last effort. Come on, run.
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Look.
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Look ahead. You can see the lights reflecting from something.
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It looks like a door.
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It is. No, it's a heavy lead door. There's a lever.
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Hurry. Hurry.
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Come on through.
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Lois, there must be some way to close it. Here.
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Let me help you.
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It won't get through that. It's solid lead.
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Oren, where are we? I.
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I don't know.
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Look.
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Up there.
493
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A huge round light.
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Lois.
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Yes, Oren?
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That's... That's Luna.
497
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Luna.
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The moon.
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We're on the surface.
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How red everything looks. How it glows.
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It's the radioactivity.
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Quiet.
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Peaceful.
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Deadly.
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Oh, darling.
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Sit here and rest a while.
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Put your arm around me.
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Oren, I'm afraid.
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Oren, we're going to die.
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Don't think about it. Just think about us alone.
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The first humans to stand on the surface of Earth
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in 2,000 years. Lois, that door must have been placed
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there by the last handful of survivors who went underground
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after the atomic wars.
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00:26:28.529 --> 00:26:34.549
Those are the lights. The small ones. They must be... stars.
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Oh, and I.
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I'm so tired.
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Go to sleep, darling. Put your head on my shoulder
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and sleep.
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Hold me, Oren. Hold me very close. Oren.
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Oren, wake up. What is it?
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00:27:09.930 --> 00:27:15.539
Look, it's light. What? The whole universe is light. Oh, Oren,
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00:27:15.599 --> 00:27:17.720
how beautiful. Look.
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By all the laws of nature, we should be dead. Lois,
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no life could survive this.
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By all the laws of nature. Oren.
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00:27:29.450 --> 00:27:29.809
What is it?
528
00:27:30.430 --> 00:27:33.650
We're not dead. This is Earth and we're alive. We're
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not going to die.
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But the radiation, it's present. You can see its effect.
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Oren, did you ever hear of adaptation?
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Of what?
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There is a natural law of adaptation by which an
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organism will try to adjust itself to its environment by changing.
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It's called a geotropism.
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I don't see what that has to do with.
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All these generations, we've been bombarded by radiation filtering down
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through the Earth. Each successive generation must have inherited some
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degree of immunity to the effects of radiation.
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And you think that.
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Oh, and it can't hurt us. Don't you see?
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We're immune.
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We're probably the first generation to inherit sufficient immunity.
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But if that's true, then... Then we can transmit that immunity.
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We can pass it along to our children.
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Come on, darling. We'll have to find food and water.
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The practical wife. Oh, wait a minute, darling.
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What are you doing with that rock?
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I want to scratch something on the outside of this
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lead door.
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Lois and Oren.
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4195 A.D.
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Hello, tomorrow.
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Tonight, Dimension X, the program of the future, has introduced
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a new star of the future, Miss Nancy Olsen. Miss
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Olsen appeared by courtesy of Paramount Pictures and may currently
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be seen in their production, Sunset Boulevard. Next week on
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Dimension X, the strange and sinister story of Dr. Grimshaw's Sanitarium.
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© BF-WATCH TV 2021.
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Pairing with Nancy Olsen were Santa Sotega as Walter and
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Donald Buka as Oren. Your narrator was Norman Rose. Music
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by Albert Berman. Engineer, Bill Chambers. Dimension X is produced
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by Van Woodward and directed by Edward King.
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Enjoy Bob Hope and Baby Snooks when they return this
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fall on NBC.
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We conclude this presentation of Dimension X, Hello Tomorrow. Follow
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Dimension X for more classic science fiction broadcasts.