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On April 8, 1950, NBC introduced Dimension X with its
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premiere broadcast, Episode 1, The Outer Limit. The story moves
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to the imagined year 1965 at a rocket test base
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in the American Southwest, where pilot Steve Weston takes an
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experimental aircraft to the edge of space with just ten
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minutes of fuel. When Weston disappears from radar and returns
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ten hours later, ground controller Hank Hansen and the base
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staff must consider his account. Joseph Julian stars as Weston,
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Wendell Holmes as Hanson, and Joe DeSantis appears as Major Donaldson.
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Ernest Kinoy adapted Graham Dawes' Saturday Evening Post story for radio,
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directed by Edward King. And now, our story begins.
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Adventures in Time and Space Told in Future Tense Can
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you predict what will come in 100 years? Or in 10?
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Or in the next minute? Some people think they can.
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Nuclear scientists, mathematicians, astronomers, biologists. They'll predict the shape of
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the future.
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Why?
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Because they make the future. Because they see beyond the
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known dimensions of time and space. Into the unknown. Dimension X.
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We go ahead now in time to 1965.
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We're on a vast concrete.
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Runway set in the desert of the southwest. A giant
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metal ship stands before us, prowl pointed.
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For the stars.
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And in five minutes, the signal will flash and it
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will tear up through the atmosphere to the outer limit.
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Attention.
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Attention.
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Clear field for takeoff.
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Clear field.
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Five minutes, Steve.
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All right.
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Take off. Warmer up, Charlie.
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I want to go over the procedure again, Steve.
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Don't worry.
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I got it straight.
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You just make sure.
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Okay.
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I take her up on jets to 50,000, then I
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cut in the rockets. No lower or your tail blast
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will burn out three counties. I climb four minutes on rockets,
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then start maneuver tests.
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Remember that. No more than four minutes.
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Right.
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This ship isn't like those strata rockets you've been testing.
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She's the first one built for outer space. If she works,
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she can go clear to the moon.
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If I'd have known that, I'd have brought my tooth, right?
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Well, not this trip. Now, get this, Steve.
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You've got power there to clear the Earth's gravitational field.
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But remember, after you cut in the rockets, you've only
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got ten minutes' fuel. If you go beyond the outer
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limit and don't save fuel for the return... I know.
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I won't get down again.
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That's right, Steve. You'll drift off into space. Get that now.
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Ten minutes' fuel.
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Got you.
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As far as I'm concerned, this project is a lot
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more important than that cosmic ray bomb they're testing out
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in the Pacific tonight.
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Well, Security Commission brass doesn't think so. I don't see
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any undersecretaries under anything.
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Don't worry.
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In the long run, our ship will make the CR
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bomb back-page stuff. But in the meantime, it's just as dangerous. Remember,
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half the principles in this ship are pure theory, Steve.
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Slide rule stuff. If anything goes wrong, we may have
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to scrape you off the landscape with.
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A soup spoon.
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You have a charming sense of humor. Here's what I'm
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getting at.
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We're risking your neck in this test. If anything blows,
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we don't want to have the next man pull the
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same boner.
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I know, Hank.
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So keep your mic open and keep talking. If anything
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goes wrong, we want to know exactly why. And we
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won't be able to ask you. Let us know before
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you pull every switch. Before you do anything.
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You got that?
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Yeah.
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Even if you only have to blow your nose.
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All right, get those fuel lines away.
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Okay, Mr.
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Crowe.
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Well.
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I guess that's about all, Steve. That reminds me. Look,
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if Mary calls, I'm just up on a milk run.
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I didn't tell her today was it. How is she?
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She's okay, but she's due about now, and I don't
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want her to be nervous. Hey, I didn't know the
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baby was that close.
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Yeah.
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Steve, I really ought to be sending a single man
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on this job.
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What, and cut me out of a soft paycheck? Forget it, Hank.
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You know you can't get anybody else who can take
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15 Gs acceleration when those rockets cut in.
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Yeah, I know.
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It's time, Steve.
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Yeah.
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Well.
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See you later. Don't worry, Hank. I'll sweat for both
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of us. Button her up, shall we? So long, Hank.
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So long.
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We'll give you the light from control. Excellent.
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We're out of control.
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Excellent.
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We're out of control.
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Are you there yet, Hank?
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Okay, Steve. Got you on the speaker. I'm ready to go. Mr.
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Hanson.
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Ready on radar, Sergeant? Check.
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Mr.
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Hanson, you better see this. What is it, Elsa? Message
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sent for Steve.
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Mrs.
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Weston just left for the hospital.
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What?
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Hello, Steve.
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Yeah.
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Stand by a minute.
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Shall we hold the takeoff, Mr. Hanson?
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What? Oh, yes.
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No, wait just a minute. It's too late now. You
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going to tell him? Maybe he's got enough to worry about. Hey,
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what's holding us up, Hank?
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Something on your mind? No, no.
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It's nothing, Steve.
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I just wanted to say good luck.
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Clear for takeoff, Charlie?
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Right.
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Okay, give him the light. All right, Steve, I'm reading
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you clear.
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I'm at 40,000.
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Airspeed 600.
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She's running fine. Soundproofing works. It's a third-degree.
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Waver in the AGY pressure. Got that, Charlie?
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Check.
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Dead center on radar, Mr.
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Hanson.
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50,000 now.
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Cutting out the port jet.
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Now the starboard.
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Off jets.
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Airspeed dropping. Opening the rocket. What?
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Switch sticks a little, Charlie. Oxy alcohol pressure 350. All right,
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now I'm advancing the ignition key. Here goes rocket one.
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Steve.
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Steve, you all right?
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Yeah.
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Don't let nobody slut me with a sledgehammer.
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Airspeed now 1,200.
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Here goes number two. Hello, Steve.
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Elapsed rocket time is now four minutes. What's your altitude?
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Over to you.
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Speed 4,400. Still climbing. Altitude 297 miles. All right.
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You're at the outer limit.
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Level off for maneuver test. You've got exactly six minutes
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fuel left.
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Okay.
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Starting at three degree left bank. It's a little sluggish.
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It's all right now. There's a low vibration someplace. Maybe
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the cockpit hatch. Now I'm straightening out.
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Five minutes of fuel left.
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Now I'm starting a three-degree... Hey!
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What's the matter?
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What's wrong? There's something up here. Something's shining.
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What are you talking about?
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There's something above me, Hank. I'm going to chase it.
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Steve!
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Steve, you're at the outer limit now.
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I can see it plain now.
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Steve, don't go any higher. You've only got four minutes left.
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You've only got... I'm getting static.
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I can't hear you, Hank.
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It's dead ahead now. I'm going to make a pass
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at it, get a good look.
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Hey, it's swerving to meet me.
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It's dead ahead now. It's dead.
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Ahead. Hello.
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Hello. Hello, Steve.
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Steve, come in. Nine minutes, fuel gone.
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Still no sign on radar.
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Hello.
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Hello, Steve.
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Steve, what's happened?
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Charlie, get out the crash squad. Tell the army squadron
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to alert their search planes.
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Right.
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Nine and a half minutes gone.
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Hello.
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Hello, Steve. What's happened? Who the devil is it? Hello.
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Come in, Steve.
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We need a search squadron.
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Come in.
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No, Mr. Hanson's busy. Hello. Hello, Steve. Hello, Steve. Ten minutes, Mr. Hanson.
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It's the end of this fuel.
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How long has it been now?
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Ten hours, Mr.
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Hanson.
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Nothing more on radar, Sergeant?
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Screen's blank. Colonel Corelli called in. Search planes are back.
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They didn't find anything.
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Should be some trace... Couldn't have bailed out, could he?
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You don't hit the silk at 4,400 miles an hour.
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Either one passed the outer limit, ran out of fuel,
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something blew, and we'll find the pieces scattered from here
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to the coast.
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Why does it have to be the best man? Always
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the best man. I'll get it. Charlie, Charlie, you know,
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we've got to figure out what was wrong. All right,
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I'll tell him. Something must have blown.
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There's a message from Northside Hospital for Steve.
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What is it?
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Mrs. Weston's fine.
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It's a boy. Thank you, Elsie. It's a boy, Charlie.
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Oh. Fine. Fine. It's a boy.
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He didn't even know she went to the hospital. How
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am I going to tell Mary that?
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Wasn't your fault, Mr.
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Hanson?
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Ship had to be tested.
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Yeah, yeah.
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We'll build another one and some other flying fool will
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shoot past the outer limit into space. Oh, I'm getting old, Charlie.
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You can remember when I used to take them up myself.
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Now I've got to send other men.
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It's a job, Mr. Hanson.
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Now I'm afraid. Every time I hear a jet go off,
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I jump. Every time I have to send someone up
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in a new model, I start to sweat.
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Mr. Hanson?
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Yeah?
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I think there's something on the radar.
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No flights scheduled in, are there, Elsie? We have a
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whole day cleared. It's coming in behind us. Here it
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comes over the building.
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What crazy junk is buzzing the field like that? Is
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that an army plane, Charlie?
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I can't see. It's turning. Charlie, alert the field.
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I know that engine.
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It's Steve. That's impossible. Look, that's his ship.
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It can't be.
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There's no other model like that. It's Steve, all right.
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It's coming in. Thank God.
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Thank God. Thank God.
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All right, sit down, Steve. The quicker we get this done,
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the quicker you get over to see Mary and the baby.
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Hank.
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Elsie, give the order to check and refuel the rockets.
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I don't want anybody in here till I get Steve's reports.
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Bury any calls.
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All right, let's have it. What the devil happened to you?
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Hank, does that cosmic ray bomb still go off tonight?
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What are you talking about?
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Straighten out, Steve. Where you been for the last ten hours?
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Listen, Hank, there's something more I'm... Come on, come on.
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I've got to get a report on the screen to Washington,
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so let's have it. I've got to know how you
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stretch 10 minutes fuel to keep you in the air
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for 10 hours.
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Now, one thing before I talk.
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Look, Steve.
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Have the Geigerman run over the ship before they refuel.
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What'd you run into?
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So help me, Hank. I don't know.
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We better check and make sure it isn't radioactive. Elsie,
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add a Geiger report on the standard check. Steve, maybe
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we better have the doc look you over, too.
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No, no.
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I'll be all right. They said I'd be all right.
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They?
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Look, son, I know you've had a tough time, but
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we've had this field on the alert for ten hours.
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One of the army boys cracked up looking for you,
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and he's hurt bad. So let's have the story. Let's
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have it straight.
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I don't know how to tell you. Hank, I saw
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something up there.
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At 300 miles?
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I chased something up there, Hank, and I caught it.
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Now, don't hand me that.
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Listen, Steve.
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I was cruising along, just starting the right bank, when
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I spotted something. It must have been going about half
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my speed.
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It was.
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Egg-shaped and smooth.
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I made a pass at it, and I was coming
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back for another, and then there was a humming sound.
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Humming?
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A sort of vibration. And I blacked out.
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I was headed straight for it at 4,400 miles an hour.
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I thought it was going to be the biggest smash
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since Hiroshima, and.
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Hank, is there a drink in that bottle? Never mind that, Steve.
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What happened?
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I came to inside their ship.
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Uh-huh.
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Steve, this whole thing has been a devil of a
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strain on you. I'm going to call Major Donaldson from
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the Army base. Ask him to sit in.
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Psychiatrist?
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Yeah, yeah, that's a good idea. Let him run his test.
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He'll tell you I'm not kidding. Because, Hank, unless I
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miss my guess, I've just been tipped off to the
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way the world ends.
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The End.
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All right, Mr.
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Weston, suppose you continue your story.
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Yes, let's have it, Steve. You woke up inside the ship? Yes,
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and the place was jammed with machinery. Dials, blinkers.
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I couldn't recognize anything.
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And you were surrounded by these men from Mars?
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I didn't say anything about men from Mars. I didn't
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even say they were men. I couldn't see them clearly.
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They were just there. Where did they come from, then?
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Another galaxy. Millions of miles outside of our solar system.
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That's all I know. You figure out where they came from.
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And they came all that distance to find the Earth?
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Yes.
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Did they tell you that?
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Yes.
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You mean they spoke English to you?
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No, no, they didn't.
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That's funny.
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I hadn't thought. They didn't really speak to me at all.
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They just planted the thoughts in my mind.
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You mean thought transference, telepathy?
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Yes, that's right.
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Well, Steve, what brought them here?
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We did, Hank. We rang their bell. We brought them in.
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How?
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With our atomic explosions. Hank, that's why you've got to
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stop that bomb test tonight.
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I'll give up.
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Look, you've got to believe me, Hank. Oh, how can
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I make you understand? Maybe I can help, Mr.
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Weston.
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Would you submit to narco-psychometry?
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What's that?
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Under proper drugs, I can put you back in this
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ship by suggestion. Then we can get a playback record
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of your memory pattern on the audio circuit.
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And how long will that take?
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Half an hour. We'll have to go over to the lab.
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Will you believe me if it checks? It will give
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us an accurate memory picture of what your mind reports.
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All right, let's go. Hank, you gotta believe me, we
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haven't got much time.
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You should be getting drowsy now. Count backwards from ten. Ten.
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Nine.
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Eight.
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Seven. Six.
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Six. He's under. Now we attach the head plate electrodes.
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Cortical pickup. Look out for that wire, Mr. Henson. 3-0 setting. 31.3.
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Now throw that switch, Mr. Henson. I have to start
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him off by suggestion. All right, Steve. You're in your
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shit now. You're in the rocket.
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Rocket?
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You're in the rocket. You're in the rocket. And you've
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just sighted something strange. Now I'm starting at three degree right.
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What's that?
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Hey, there's something up here. Something shining.
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His memory pattern. We're picking it up electronically.
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There's something above me, Hank. I'm going to chase it.
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It's piped through the audio circuits.
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I'm getting static.
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I can't hear you, Hank. This is where we lost
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contact with him.
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I'm going to make a pass at it and.
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Hey, it's swerving to meet me. It's not ahead now.
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It's not ahead.
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Now what?
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This is where he blacked out. There's no telling how long,
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minutes or hours.
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What's that noise?
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I don't know. Quiet.
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Where?
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How did I get in here?
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What?
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Who are you?
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Is he seeing things?
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Intergalactic patrol.
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What's that?
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What are they saying, Steve? What are they saying?
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It's about nuclear fission.
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They know about it.
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They know the danger of it. Long ago they had
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wars that almost destroyed them. But finally they learned. Now
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they've outlawed war.
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Go on, Steve.
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They patrol space. When their detector picks up an atomic explosion,
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they send a patrol.
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What are they going to do? They've quarantined us.
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Quarantined?
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They've isolated the Earth.
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Because we don't know how to control ourselves yet.
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Until we learn, we'll be a menace to the whole universe.
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What is this nonsense?
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How are they going to do it, Steve?
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They've spread a layer out here of... I don't know
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how to call it. All around the Earth. It's miles deep.
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When there's an atomic explosion on Earth... The radioactive particles
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will drift up to this layer and set off a
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chain reaction.
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It'll go around the world in microseconds.
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And that's the end.
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The end?
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What's he.
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Wait, wait. Yes.
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Yes.
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I understand. I've got to bring back the warning.
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You're going to put me back in my ship to
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bring the warning.
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Now what? blacked out again.
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I guess that's all.
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What does all that mean? It's what he remembers. I
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don't think that really happened.
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No, no.
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Narcosecometry circuits produce what he remembers. It just means that
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Steve believes this happened.
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I don't like to see this. I've seen too many
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top pilots snap. Steve is the best I've known. How
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bad do you think he is?
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Frankly, outside of the presence of this Well organized as
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a hallucination, there's no sign of unbalance. May not be
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too serious. If he had a more plausible story, I'd
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be inclined to believe him.
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What?
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Hank.
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It's all right, boy.
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Did you hear it, Hank?
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You understand?
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Sure, sure. We've been quarantined.
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Let me give you something to make you sleep, Steve.
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Don't you understand?
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They fixed it so that if we set off one
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more nuclear explosion, that'll be it.
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Of course. Don't roll your sleeve down.
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You don't believe me.
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Now, take it easy, Steve.
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There's a test tonight. They're setting off to see our bomb. Hank,
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what time is it?
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11.20.
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Well, it's scheduled for midnight. Hank, we've got to stop
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that bomb.
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Steve, let Donaldson give you the hypo.
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Hank, you've got to believe me.
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I saw them. I got the warning.
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If we touch off that bomb tonight, it'll be the
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biggest galactic Fourth of July of all time. The whole
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Earth will go up like a Roman candle. April 10th, 1965,
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the end.
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Now, look, Steve, you better calm down. Don't you want
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to see Mary and the baby? You've got a new son, remember?
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Yeah, that's just it.
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I want to see my son.
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I want him to live.
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If that bomb goes off, Hank, we've got to stop them.
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Mr. Hanson, I think we'd better get over to the
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base hospital.
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Hank, you've got to believe me.
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Yeah, sure, sure, Steve.
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Maybe there is something to it. Look, it's out of
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your hands. I'll put it in a report and shove
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it into Washington in the morning.
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In the morning? There isn't going to be any morning, Hank.
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Don't you understand?
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You've got to call Washington now. Get the head of
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the security commission and postpone that test.
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Now, you know I can't do that, Steve. My neck
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would be out a mile.
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Besides, this is 1965, not 45. Twenty countries have atomic
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bombs now. What's the use of stopping just this one?
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The rest will keep right on popping them.
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Then we'll have to call an international conference. Can't you understand, Hank?
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The first one that goes off finishes us at the end.
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They've given us the quarantine warning.
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Steve, I think you'd better go with us to the
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base hospital.
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Look, Steve.
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We can call up for a detail if we have to.
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All right, all right.
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I'll go with you.
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You don't need a straight jacket.
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That's the way, Steve. You'll probably feel better by morning.
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Let's go.
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Well, Steve, tomorrow I'll drive you over to the hospital
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to see Mary and the kid.
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Sure.
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Look at the ship under the floodlights. Pretty, huh? You'll
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be flying her again soon, don't you worry.
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Yeah, yeah, I guess so.
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What you doing out in the line?
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The refueler?
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Yeah, we got Clausewitz coming in tomorrow from Denver for
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another test. Figured we'd give you a day off.
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That's good, that's fine. Steve, Steve, come back.
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Come on, Donaldson. Steve, Steve, wait. He's heading for the rocket. Look,
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there he goes up.
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That crazy fool. We can't get at him now. That
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covers armor glass.
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He's waving. Yeah, towards control.
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It's the radio. He means the radio.
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Come on. I should have gotten help.
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The radio's still hooked up here. Hello. Hello, Steve.
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Listen to me, Hank. You've got to call Washington now.
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Come out of that rocket, Steve.
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I'll call my men.
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Don't try anything, Hank.
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They refueled the rocket for tomorrow.
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Take it easy, Steve.
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Listen, you know what'll happen when I fire the rocket
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tubes down here?
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Steve, don't.
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It'll burn out every building for five miles. All of
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us in one big blast. Steve, what do you want?
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You've got to stop that bomb.
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You've got to call Washington right now. They won't believe me.
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You make that call or I cut in the rocket.
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00:23:14.930 --> 00:23:15.789
Now, I mean it, Hank.
524
00:23:16.809 --> 00:23:18.970
Now, hook my screen to yours in parallel. I want
525
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to see exactly what you're doing.
526
00:23:20.170 --> 00:23:22.109
All right, all right. Just don't fire those rockets.
527
00:23:22.410 --> 00:23:25.049
Get going, Hank. You got 12 minutes to make that
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00:23:25.109 --> 00:23:26.309
call and stop that bomb.
529
00:23:26.390 --> 00:23:29.369
All right, I'm making the parallel hookup right now. Donaldson,
530
00:23:29.390 --> 00:23:30.420
do you think he'll really blast it?
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00:23:30.430 --> 00:23:32.029
I don't know. Up to now, I'd almost say it
532
00:23:32.069 --> 00:23:34.170
was normal. But now he's liable to do anything, Hanson.
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00:23:34.769 --> 00:23:35.069
Steve.
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00:23:35.549 --> 00:23:36.089
Steve, there.
535
00:23:36.109 --> 00:23:37.849
Are you getting it on your screen? Yeah.
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00:23:38.730 --> 00:23:39.890
Now put that call through.
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00:23:39.970 --> 00:23:40.250
All right.
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00:23:41.490 --> 00:23:41.950
Operator.
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Visit screen to Washington.
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The visit screen circuits are busy, sir.
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If you'll try again in half an hour. This is
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security commission priority. Break in and get me a line.
543
00:23:49.690 --> 00:23:50.289
Yes, sir.
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Just a moment, please.
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Ten minutes, Hank.
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Listen, Steve, I'm trying.
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Ready to take your call, sir.
548
00:23:55.190 --> 00:23:58.640
Washington, secure to commission three. This is urgent. I want
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Undersecretary Herbert Ames.
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Washington, three.
551
00:24:01.940 --> 00:24:03.430
One moment, please. Hurry, will you?
552
00:24:03.700 --> 00:24:04.339
One moment, please.
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00:24:05.160 --> 00:24:07.400
What time is it, Donaldson? 11.51. Do you think.
554
00:24:07.319 --> 00:24:08.180
He'll fire those rockets?
555
00:24:08.240 --> 00:24:09.480
He might. Washington?
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00:24:09.779 --> 00:24:10.700
Visit screen three.
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00:24:10.779 --> 00:24:11.000
Mr.
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Herbert Ames, please. That is a coded exchange.
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00:24:13.740 --> 00:24:15.519
I cannot accept your call without clearance.
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00:24:15.660 --> 00:24:17.940
Get it through, Hank. Listen, Washington. Put it through.
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00:24:18.150 --> 00:24:20.589
This is Mr. Hanson at San Marco Air Base. This
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is a priority call.
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I'm coded.
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00:24:22.509 --> 00:24:23.130
One moment, please.
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00:24:23.190 --> 00:24:24.250
I will check your code number.
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00:24:24.349 --> 00:24:26.170
Get that through, Hank, or that bar goes off at 12.
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00:24:26.170 --> 00:24:27.549
Will you be reasonable, Steve?
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Your call has cleared, San Marco.
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Washington, visit screen three.
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00:24:31.430 --> 00:24:32.380
Herbert Ames, please.
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00:24:34.839 --> 00:24:36.440
Security Commissioner Ames. Listen to Ames.
572
00:24:36.579 --> 00:24:37.140
Oh, hello, Hank.
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00:24:37.440 --> 00:24:38.539
Ames, you've got to get me to the chief.
574
00:24:38.779 --> 00:24:39.480
Are you kidding?
575
00:24:39.599 --> 00:24:41.480
He's at the test control room. Yes, I know, but
576
00:24:41.539 --> 00:24:42.039
get him for me.
577
00:24:42.140 --> 00:24:43.539
What's up? You look lousy.
578
00:24:43.859 --> 00:24:44.640
Or is it a bad circuit?
579
00:24:44.680 --> 00:24:45.259
There's no time.
580
00:24:45.299 --> 00:24:47.119
I've got to get him before the test. It's about
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00:24:47.160 --> 00:24:49.529
the C.R. box. I can't take that responsibility.
582
00:24:49.789 --> 00:24:51.029
Oh, Hank, right away.
583
00:24:51.049 --> 00:24:53.329
Hey, what's going on there? Ames, my project has a
584
00:24:53.349 --> 00:24:55.589
high enough rating. This is a priority A call.
585
00:24:55.690 --> 00:24:55.890
What?
586
00:24:56.789 --> 00:24:57.710
Well, okay, it's your neck.
587
00:24:57.750 --> 00:24:58.730
I'll try to get him for you.
588
00:24:59.410 --> 00:25:00.990
He's in the control room, so you'll have to switch
589
00:25:01.029 --> 00:25:02.809
off your screen and speaker and go on earphones.
590
00:25:02.910 --> 00:25:05.710
Too much going on in there. Security ruling. You hear that, Steve?
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00:25:05.890 --> 00:25:07.710
I've got to cut the incoming screen.
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00:25:08.319 --> 00:25:08.619
All right.
593
00:25:08.740 --> 00:25:09.779
But don't try anything.
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00:25:11.420 --> 00:25:12.299
Eight minutes, Hank.
595
00:25:14.660 --> 00:25:22.509
Hello. Hello. What? You got him, Hank? Yes.
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This is Hanson at San Marco.
597
00:25:27.329 --> 00:25:27.650
No, sir.
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00:25:27.670 --> 00:25:30.519
Priority A request to cancel the bomb test. No, no.
599
00:25:30.559 --> 00:25:33.380
I'm serious. This is deadly serious. We sent the X-2
600
00:25:33.420 --> 00:25:37.140
JTR up today to the outer limit. We uncovered evidence. Yes,
601
00:25:37.240 --> 00:25:38.160
on the automatic instruments.
602
00:25:38.779 --> 00:25:39.140
What's that?
603
00:25:39.740 --> 00:25:42.299
No possible chain reaction. No, I can't tell you the
604
00:25:42.339 --> 00:25:43.380
whole story. There isn't time here.
605
00:25:43.960 --> 00:25:46.210
Yes, yes, I'll bring the readings into Washington in the morning.
606
00:25:46.589 --> 00:25:49.769
You've got to postpone the test till you see them. Look,
607
00:25:49.849 --> 00:25:53.390
I've worked on contracts with the commission for 10 years. Yes, yes,
608
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I have complete confidence in my information.
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00:25:54.970 --> 00:25:57.579
You can record that. All right, I'll call you back immediately.
610
00:25:57.980 --> 00:25:58.180
Bye.
611
00:26:00.490 --> 00:26:00.650
Hank?
612
00:26:01.170 --> 00:26:01.369
Hank?
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00:26:01.549 --> 00:26:04.170
He's agreed to cancel, Steve. The bomb won't go off.
614
00:26:06.990 --> 00:26:07.549
All right, boy.
615
00:26:08.599 --> 00:26:24.049
You can come down out of that ship.
616
00:26:27.230 --> 00:26:30.930
He's opening up. Here he comes.
617
00:26:33.039 --> 00:26:33.720
All right, Steve.
618
00:26:34.420 --> 00:26:34.940
Come on down.
619
00:26:35.619 --> 00:26:36.140
Sure, Hank.
620
00:26:37.099 --> 00:26:47.200
Just a second. Hank, I was scared. I was plain scared.
621
00:26:47.220 --> 00:26:47.680
Easy now.
622
00:26:47.740 --> 00:26:50.420
It's all over. The bomb won't go off.
623
00:26:51.069 --> 00:26:51.809
Thank God.
624
00:26:53.170 --> 00:26:56.400
Look, I want to see Mary and the baby. You
625
00:26:56.420 --> 00:26:57.740
got any transportation now?
626
00:26:58.140 --> 00:26:59.700
Wait a minute. It's almost 12. They won't let you
627
00:26:59.720 --> 00:27:00.619
in the hospital now.
628
00:27:00.740 --> 00:27:01.680
I want to see the baby.
629
00:27:01.769 --> 00:27:04.730
Sure you do, but you've been under a strain. I've
630
00:27:04.750 --> 00:27:06.789
got a shot for you here, Steve. Give you a
631
00:27:06.849 --> 00:27:07.509
good night's sleep.
632
00:27:08.410 --> 00:27:14.750
All right. Roll up your sleeve. Yeah, here. There. That'll
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00:27:14.769 --> 00:27:17.289
make you sleep. Sergeant will find you a bed.
634
00:27:17.750 --> 00:27:18.109
Yes, sir.
635
00:27:18.269 --> 00:27:19.069
Come on, Mr. Weston.
636
00:27:19.609 --> 00:27:20.009
Okay.
637
00:27:21.109 --> 00:27:24.930
Good night, Hank. I'm kind of beat. It's been a
638
00:27:25.170 --> 00:27:25.750
tough night.
639
00:27:31.599 --> 00:27:32.359
It sure has.
640
00:27:33.660 --> 00:27:35.079
I thought for a minute he was going to blast
641
00:27:35.119 --> 00:27:36.900
those rockets and send us all to Kingdom Come.
642
00:27:37.299 --> 00:27:37.559
Yeah.
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00:27:39.079 --> 00:27:41.460
Quite a stunt, getting the ray bomb test called off.
644
00:27:42.519 --> 00:27:43.200
It isn't called off.
645
00:27:43.420 --> 00:27:43.579
But.
646
00:27:44.900 --> 00:27:48.039
The chief said... Ames couldn't get the chief. I was
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00:27:48.079 --> 00:27:51.200
talking to a dead circuit. Bomb goes off in a
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00:27:51.240 --> 00:27:51.700
couple of minutes.
649
00:27:53.230 --> 00:27:58.930
Oh. Poor Steve. He was one of the best.
650
00:27:59.589 --> 00:28:02.509
He was the best. One in ten million.
651
00:28:03.369 --> 00:28:06.650
Some story of his, poor guy. For a while, he
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00:28:07.430 --> 00:28:11.470
almost had me believing that quarantine. That's a very common delusion.
653
00:28:12.690 --> 00:28:13.950
End of the world. Yeah.
654
00:28:15.130 --> 00:28:20.940
I suppose so. Ah, it's a nice night. Never saw
655
00:28:21.000 --> 00:28:21.960
the stars so bright.
656
00:28:22.380 --> 00:28:24.000
We'd better be getting in. That wind is cold.
657
00:28:24.019 --> 00:28:32.359
The bomb goes off in 30 seconds. Poor Steve.
658
00:28:33.500 --> 00:28:38.170
You know, Hanson, there's just one thing. Yeah? It's outside
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00:28:38.230 --> 00:28:39.470
my field, but I'm curious.
660
00:28:42.049 --> 00:28:43.750
How did he keep that ship in the air for
661
00:28:43.809 --> 00:28:48.119
ten hours with only ten minutes' fuel?
662
00:29:04.230 --> 00:29:08.130
You have just heard The Outer Limits by Graham Doerr.
663
00:29:08.940 --> 00:29:12.859
An adventure in time, space, and the unknown.
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00:29:13.380 --> 00:29:31.269
Dimension X. Now, about next week. Have you ever heard
665
00:29:31.349 --> 00:29:32.990
of the Mark III?
666
00:29:33.730 --> 00:29:37.230
The amazing electronic brain at Harvard that instantly solves the
667
00:29:37.250 --> 00:29:42.180
most complicated scientific problems. Suppose you had a mechanical brain
668
00:29:42.220 --> 00:29:45.480
like that in your house. A robot that was always
669
00:29:45.660 --> 00:29:48.539
at your service. So that you could just sit with
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00:29:48.640 --> 00:29:52.730
folded hands and relax the rest of your life. That
671
00:29:52.769 --> 00:29:53.730
would be nice, wouldn't it?
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00:29:54.250 --> 00:29:54.650
Perfect.
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00:29:55.670 --> 00:29:59.930
That's what they thought when it happened in the year 2006.
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00:30:00.150 --> 00:30:04.930
But they were wrong, terribly wrong. How? I'll tell you
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00:30:06.089 --> 00:30:06.650
next week.
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00:30:10.630 --> 00:30:14.960
Tonight's story, transcribed on Dimension X, The Outer Limit by
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00:30:15.019 --> 00:30:16.519
Graham Dorr, was adapted for.
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Radio by Ernest Canoy.
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Featured in the.
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Cast were Joseph Julian as Steve, Wendell Holmes as Hank,
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and Joe DeSantis as Major Donaldson. Your host is Norman Rose.
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00:30:28.950 --> 00:30:32.589
Music was by Albert Berman. Sound designed by Sam Monroe.
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Edward King directed. Tomorrow, here's Sam Spade. Now it's Truth
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or Consequences on NBC. We close with Dimension X, Episode 1,
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00:30:59.579 --> 00:31:03.019
The Outer Limit. Follow Dimension X for more classic science
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00:31:03.059 --> 00:31:04.059
fiction broadcasts.
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On April 8, 1950, NBC introduced Dimension X with its
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premiere broadcast, Episode 1, The Outer Limit. The story moves
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to the imagined year 1965 at a rocket test base
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in the American Southwest, where pilot Steve Weston takes an
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experimental aircraft to the edge of space with just ten
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minutes of fuel. When Weston disappears from radar and returns
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ten hours later, ground controller Hank Hansen and the base
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staff must consider his account. Joseph Julian stars as Weston,
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Wendell Holmes as Hanson, and Joe DeSantis appears as Major Donaldson.
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Ernest Kinoy adapted Graham Dawes' Saturday Evening Post story for radio,
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directed by Edward King. And now, our story begins.
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Adventures in Time and Space Told in Future Tense Can
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you predict what will come in 100 years? Or in 10?
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Or in the next minute? Some people think they can.
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Nuclear scientists, mathematicians, astronomers, biologists. They'll predict the shape of
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the future.
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Why?
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Because they make the future. Because they see beyond the
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known dimensions of time and space. Into the unknown. Dimension X.
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We go ahead now in time to 1965.
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We're on a vast concrete.
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Runway set in the desert of the southwest. A giant
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metal ship stands before us, prowl pointed.
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For the stars.
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And in five minutes, the signal will flash and it
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will tear up through the atmosphere to the outer limit.
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Attention.
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Attention.
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Clear field for takeoff.
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Clear field.
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Five minutes, Steve.
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All right.
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Take off. Warmer up, Charlie.
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I want to go over the procedure again, Steve.
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Don't worry.
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I got it straight.
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You just make sure.
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Okay.
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I take her up on jets to 50,000, then I
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cut in the rockets. No lower or your tail blast
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will burn out three counties. I climb four minutes on rockets,
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then start maneuver tests.
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Remember that. No more than four minutes.
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Right.
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This ship isn't like those strata rockets you've been testing.
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She's the first one built for outer space. If she works,
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she can go clear to the moon.
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If I'd have known that, I'd have brought my tooth, right?
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Well, not this trip. Now, get this, Steve.
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You've got power there to clear the Earth's gravitational field.
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But remember, after you cut in the rockets, you've only
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got ten minutes' fuel. If you go beyond the outer
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limit and don't save fuel for the return... I know.
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I won't get down again.
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That's right, Steve. You'll drift off into space. Get that now.
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Ten minutes' fuel.
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Got you.
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As far as I'm concerned, this project is a lot
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more important than that cosmic ray bomb they're testing out
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in the Pacific tonight.
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Well, Security Commission brass doesn't think so. I don't see
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any undersecretaries under anything.
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Don't worry.
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In the long run, our ship will make the CR
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bomb back-page stuff. But in the meantime, it's just as dangerous. Remember,
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half the principles in this ship are pure theory, Steve.
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Slide rule stuff. If anything goes wrong, we may have
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to scrape you off the landscape with.
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A soup spoon.
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You have a charming sense of humor. Here's what I'm
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getting at.
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We're risking your neck in this test. If anything blows,
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we don't want to have the next man pull the
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same boner.
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I know, Hank.
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So keep your mic open and keep talking. If anything
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goes wrong, we want to know exactly why. And we
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won't be able to ask you. Let us know before
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you pull every switch. Before you do anything.
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You got that?
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Yeah.
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Even if you only have to blow your nose.
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All right, get those fuel lines away.
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Okay, Mr.
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Crowe.
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Well.
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I guess that's about all, Steve. That reminds me. Look,
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if Mary calls, I'm just up on a milk run.
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I didn't tell her today was it. How is she?
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She's okay, but she's due about now, and I don't
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want her to be nervous. Hey, I didn't know the
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baby was that close.
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Yeah.
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Steve, I really ought to be sending a single man
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on this job.
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What, and cut me out of a soft paycheck? Forget it, Hank.
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You know you can't get anybody else who can take
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15 Gs acceleration when those rockets cut in.
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Yeah, I know.
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It's time, Steve.
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Yeah.
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Well.
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See you later. Don't worry, Hank. I'll sweat for both
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of us. Button her up, shall we? So long, Hank.
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So long.
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We'll give you the light from control. Excellent.
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We're out of control.
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Excellent.
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We're out of control.
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Are you there yet, Hank?
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Okay, Steve. Got you on the speaker. I'm ready to go. Mr.
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Hanson.
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Ready on radar, Sergeant? Check.
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Mr.
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Hanson, you better see this. What is it, Elsa? Message
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sent for Steve.
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Mrs.
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Weston just left for the hospital.
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What?
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Hello, Steve.
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Yeah.
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Stand by a minute.
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Shall we hold the takeoff, Mr. Hanson?
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What? Oh, yes.
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No, wait just a minute. It's too late now. You
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going to tell him? Maybe he's got enough to worry about. Hey,
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what's holding us up, Hank?
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Something on your mind? No, no.
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It's nothing, Steve.
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I just wanted to say good luck.
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Clear for takeoff, Charlie?
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Right.
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Okay, give him the light. All right, Steve, I'm reading
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you clear.
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I'm at 40,000.
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Airspeed 600.
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She's running fine. Soundproofing works. It's a third-degree.
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Waver in the AGY pressure. Got that, Charlie?
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Check.
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Dead center on radar, Mr.
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Hanson.
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50,000 now.
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Cutting out the port jet.
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Now the starboard.
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Off jets.
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Airspeed dropping. Opening the rocket. What?
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Switch sticks a little, Charlie. Oxy alcohol pressure 350. All right,
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now I'm advancing the ignition key. Here goes rocket one.
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Steve.
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Steve, you all right?
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Yeah.
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Don't let nobody slut me with a sledgehammer.
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Airspeed now 1,200.
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Here goes number two. Hello, Steve.
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Elapsed rocket time is now four minutes. What's your altitude?
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Over to you.
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Speed 4,400. Still climbing. Altitude 297 miles. All right.
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You're at the outer limit.
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Level off for maneuver test. You've got exactly six minutes
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fuel left.
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Okay.
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Starting at three degree left bank. It's a little sluggish.
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It's all right now. There's a low vibration someplace. Maybe
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the cockpit hatch. Now I'm straightening out.
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Five minutes of fuel left.
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Now I'm starting a three-degree... Hey!
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What's the matter?
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What's wrong? There's something up here. Something's shining.
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What are you talking about?
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There's something above me, Hank. I'm going to chase it.
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Steve!
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Steve, you're at the outer limit now.
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I can see it plain now.
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Steve, don't go any higher. You've only got four minutes left.
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You've only got... I'm getting static.
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I can't hear you, Hank.
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It's dead ahead now. I'm going to make a pass
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at it, get a good look.
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Hey, it's swerving to meet me.
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It's dead ahead now. It's dead.
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Ahead. Hello.
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Hello. Hello, Steve.
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Steve, come in. Nine minutes, fuel gone.
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Still no sign on radar.
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Hello.
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Hello, Steve.
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Steve, what's happened?
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Charlie, get out the crash squad. Tell the army squadron
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to alert their search planes.
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Right.
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Nine and a half minutes gone.
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Hello.
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Hello, Steve. What's happened? Who the devil is it? Hello.
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Come in, Steve.
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We need a search squadron.
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Come in.
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No, Mr. Hanson's busy. Hello. Hello, Steve. Hello, Steve. Ten minutes, Mr. Hanson.
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It's the end of this fuel.
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How long has it been now?
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Ten hours, Mr.
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Hanson.
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Nothing more on radar, Sergeant?
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Screen's blank. Colonel Corelli called in. Search planes are back.
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They didn't find anything.
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Should be some trace... Couldn't have bailed out, could he?
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You don't hit the silk at 4,400 miles an hour.
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Either one passed the outer limit, ran out of fuel,
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something blew, and we'll find the pieces scattered from here
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to the coast.
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Why does it have to be the best man? Always
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the best man. I'll get it. Charlie, Charlie, you know,
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we've got to figure out what was wrong. All right,
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I'll tell him. Something must have blown.
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There's a message from Northside Hospital for Steve.
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What is it?
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Mrs. Weston's fine.
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It's a boy. Thank you, Elsie. It's a boy, Charlie.
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Oh. Fine. Fine. It's a boy.
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He didn't even know she went to the hospital. How
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am I going to tell Mary that?
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Wasn't your fault, Mr.
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Hanson?
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Ship had to be tested.
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Yeah, yeah.
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We'll build another one and some other flying fool will
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shoot past the outer limit into space. Oh, I'm getting old, Charlie.
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You can remember when I used to take them up myself.
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Now I've got to send other men.
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It's a job, Mr. Hanson.
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Now I'm afraid. Every time I hear a jet go off,
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I jump. Every time I have to send someone up
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in a new model, I start to sweat.
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Mr. Hanson?
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Yeah?
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I think there's something on the radar.
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No flights scheduled in, are there, Elsie? We have a
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whole day cleared. It's coming in behind us. Here it
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comes over the building.
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What crazy junk is buzzing the field like that? Is
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that an army plane, Charlie?
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I can't see. It's turning. Charlie, alert the field.
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I know that engine.
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It's Steve. That's impossible. Look, that's his ship.
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It can't be.
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There's no other model like that. It's Steve, all right.
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It's coming in. Thank God.
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Thank God. Thank God.
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All right, sit down, Steve. The quicker we get this done,
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the quicker you get over to see Mary and the baby.
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Hank.
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Elsie, give the order to check and refuel the rockets.
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I don't want anybody in here till I get Steve's reports.
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Bury any calls.
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All right, let's have it. What the devil happened to you?
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Hank, does that cosmic ray bomb still go off tonight?
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What are you talking about?
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Straighten out, Steve. Where you been for the last ten hours?
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Listen, Hank, there's something more I'm... Come on, come on.
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I've got to get a report on the screen to Washington,
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so let's have it. I've got to know how you
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stretch 10 minutes fuel to keep you in the air
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for 10 hours.
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Now, one thing before I talk.
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Look, Steve.
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Have the Geigerman run over the ship before they refuel.
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What'd you run into?
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So help me, Hank. I don't know.
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We better check and make sure it isn't radioactive. Elsie,
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add a Geiger report on the standard check. Steve, maybe
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we better have the doc look you over, too.
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No, no.
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I'll be all right. They said I'd be all right.
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They?
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Look, son, I know you've had a tough time, but
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we've had this field on the alert for ten hours.
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One of the army boys cracked up looking for you,
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and he's hurt bad. So let's have the story. Let's
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have it straight.
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I don't know how to tell you. Hank, I saw
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something up there.
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At 300 miles?
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I chased something up there, Hank, and I caught it.
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Now, don't hand me that.
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Listen, Steve.
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I was cruising along, just starting the right bank, when
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I spotted something. It must have been going about half
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my speed.
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It was.
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Egg-shaped and smooth.
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I made a pass at it, and I was coming
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back for another, and then there was a humming sound.
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Humming?
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A sort of vibration. And I blacked out.
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I was headed straight for it at 4,400 miles an hour.
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I thought it was going to be the biggest smash
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since Hiroshima, and.
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Hank, is there a drink in that bottle? Never mind that, Steve.
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What happened?
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I came to inside their ship.
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Uh-huh.
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Steve, this whole thing has been a devil of a
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strain on you. I'm going to call Major Donaldson from
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the Army base. Ask him to sit in.
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Psychiatrist?
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Yeah, yeah, that's a good idea. Let him run his test.
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He'll tell you I'm not kidding. Because, Hank, unless I
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miss my guess, I've just been tipped off to the
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way the world ends.
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The End.
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All right, Mr.
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Weston, suppose you continue your story.
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Yes, let's have it, Steve. You woke up inside the ship? Yes,
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and the place was jammed with machinery. Dials, blinkers.
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I couldn't recognize anything.
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And you were surrounded by these men from Mars?
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I didn't say anything about men from Mars. I didn't
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even say they were men. I couldn't see them clearly.
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They were just there. Where did they come from, then?
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Another galaxy. Millions of miles outside of our solar system.
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That's all I know. You figure out where they came from.
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And they came all that distance to find the Earth?
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Yes.
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Did they tell you that?
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Yes.
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You mean they spoke English to you?
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No, no, they didn't.
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That's funny.
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I hadn't thought. They didn't really speak to me at all.
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They just planted the thoughts in my mind.
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You mean thought transference, telepathy?
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Yes, that's right.
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Well, Steve, what brought them here?
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We did, Hank. We rang their bell. We brought them in.
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How?
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With our atomic explosions. Hank, that's why you've got to
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stop that bomb test tonight.
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I'll give up.
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Look, you've got to believe me, Hank. Oh, how can
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I make you understand? Maybe I can help, Mr.
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Weston.
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Would you submit to narco-psychometry?
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What's that?
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Under proper drugs, I can put you back in this
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ship by suggestion. Then we can get a playback record
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of your memory pattern on the audio circuit.
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And how long will that take?
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Half an hour. We'll have to go over to the lab.
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Will you believe me if it checks? It will give
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us an accurate memory picture of what your mind reports.
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All right, let's go. Hank, you gotta believe me, we
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haven't got much time.
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You should be getting drowsy now. Count backwards from ten. Ten.
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Nine.
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Eight.
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Seven. Six.
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Six. He's under. Now we attach the head plate electrodes.
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Cortical pickup. Look out for that wire, Mr. Henson. 3-0 setting. 31.3.
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00:16:29.330 --> 00:16:37.610
Now throw that switch, Mr. Henson. I have to start
359
00:16:37.629 --> 00:16:43.659
him off by suggestion. All right, Steve. You're in your
360
00:16:43.700 --> 00:16:46.759
shit now. You're in the rocket.
361
00:16:48.100 --> 00:16:48.500
Rocket?
362
00:16:49.399 --> 00:16:53.750
You're in the rocket. You're in the rocket. And you've
363
00:16:53.779 --> 00:16:58.210
just sighted something strange. Now I'm starting at three degree right.
364
00:16:58.250 --> 00:16:58.590
What's that?
365
00:16:59.570 --> 00:17:03.029
Hey, there's something up here. Something shining.
366
00:17:03.230 --> 00:17:05.890
His memory pattern. We're picking it up electronically.
367
00:17:05.910 --> 00:17:08.400
There's something above me, Hank. I'm going to chase it.
368
00:17:08.730 --> 00:17:10.150
It's piped through the audio circuits.
369
00:17:10.490 --> 00:17:11.309
I'm getting static.
370
00:17:11.369 --> 00:17:12.990
I can't hear you, Hank. This is where we lost
371
00:17:13.049 --> 00:17:13.680
contact with him.
372
00:17:14.480 --> 00:17:15.789
I'm going to make a pass at it and.
373
00:17:16.670 --> 00:17:19.410
Hey, it's swerving to meet me. It's not ahead now.
374
00:17:19.670 --> 00:17:20.349
It's not ahead.
375
00:17:24.609 --> 00:17:24.890
Now what?
376
00:17:25.650 --> 00:17:28.589
This is where he blacked out. There's no telling how long,
377
00:17:28.650 --> 00:17:29.369
minutes or hours.
378
00:17:30.450 --> 00:17:31.069
What's that noise?
379
00:17:31.190 --> 00:17:31.930
I don't know. Quiet.
380
00:17:34.009 --> 00:17:34.230
Where?
381
00:17:35.690 --> 00:17:36.769
How did I get in here?
382
00:17:37.829 --> 00:17:37.990
What?
383
00:17:39.650 --> 00:17:40.150
Who are you?
384
00:17:40.430 --> 00:17:41.130
Is he seeing things?
385
00:17:42.470 --> 00:17:43.910
Intergalactic patrol.
386
00:17:44.880 --> 00:17:45.359
What's that?
387
00:17:46.119 --> 00:17:49.329
What are they saying, Steve? What are they saying?
388
00:17:49.930 --> 00:17:51.970
It's about nuclear fission.
389
00:17:53.269 --> 00:17:54.130
They know about it.
390
00:17:55.289 --> 00:17:58.750
They know the danger of it. Long ago they had
391
00:17:58.829 --> 00:18:03.809
wars that almost destroyed them. But finally they learned. Now
392
00:18:03.849 --> 00:18:05.269
they've outlawed war.
393
00:18:06.269 --> 00:18:06.930
Go on, Steve.
394
00:18:07.519 --> 00:18:12.500
They patrol space. When their detector picks up an atomic explosion,
395
00:18:13.019 --> 00:18:13.940
they send a patrol.
396
00:18:14.930 --> 00:18:17.940
What are they going to do? They've quarantined us.
397
00:18:18.200 --> 00:18:18.599
Quarantined?
398
00:18:19.180 --> 00:18:20.359
They've isolated the Earth.
399
00:18:21.279 --> 00:18:23.440
Because we don't know how to control ourselves yet.
400
00:18:24.200 --> 00:18:27.049
Until we learn, we'll be a menace to the whole universe.
401
00:18:27.069 --> 00:18:28.430
What is this nonsense?
402
00:18:29.470 --> 00:18:30.710
How are they going to do it, Steve?
403
00:18:31.670 --> 00:18:35.470
They've spread a layer out here of... I don't know
404
00:18:35.549 --> 00:18:39.680
how to call it. All around the Earth. It's miles deep.
405
00:18:40.680 --> 00:18:44.309
When there's an atomic explosion on Earth... The radioactive particles
406
00:18:44.349 --> 00:18:46.630
will drift up to this layer and set off a
407
00:18:46.710 --> 00:18:47.609
chain reaction.
408
00:18:48.450 --> 00:18:50.470
It'll go around the world in microseconds.
409
00:18:51.250 --> 00:18:52.170
And that's the end.
410
00:18:52.329 --> 00:18:52.710
The end?
411
00:18:52.990 --> 00:18:53.329
What's he.
412
00:18:53.369 --> 00:18:54.339
Wait, wait. Yes.
413
00:18:55.650 --> 00:18:55.950
Yes.
414
00:18:56.940 --> 00:19:01.099
I understand. I've got to bring back the warning.
415
00:19:02.640 --> 00:19:05.259
You're going to put me back in my ship to
416
00:19:05.299 --> 00:19:11.160
bring the warning.
417
00:19:12.160 --> 00:19:13.759
Now what? blacked out again.
418
00:19:13.779 --> 00:19:15.559
I guess that's all.
419
00:19:18.019 --> 00:19:20.829
What does all that mean? It's what he remembers. I
420
00:19:20.869 --> 00:19:21.970
don't think that really happened.
421
00:19:21.990 --> 00:19:22.349
No, no.
422
00:19:22.890 --> 00:19:26.089
Narcosecometry circuits produce what he remembers. It just means that
423
00:19:26.130 --> 00:19:27.450
Steve believes this happened.
424
00:19:28.470 --> 00:19:31.650
I don't like to see this. I've seen too many
425
00:19:31.710 --> 00:19:37.029
top pilots snap. Steve is the best I've known. How
426
00:19:37.069 --> 00:19:37.750
bad do you think he is?
427
00:19:38.309 --> 00:19:41.769
Frankly, outside of the presence of this Well organized as
428
00:19:41.829 --> 00:19:45.089
a hallucination, there's no sign of unbalance. May not be
429
00:19:45.109 --> 00:19:48.029
too serious. If he had a more plausible story, I'd
430
00:19:48.069 --> 00:19:48.970
be inclined to believe him.
431
00:19:49.750 --> 00:19:49.970
What?
432
00:19:52.000 --> 00:19:52.220
Hank.
433
00:19:52.299 --> 00:19:53.019
It's all right, boy.
434
00:19:54.009 --> 00:19:54.829
Did you hear it, Hank?
435
00:19:56.410 --> 00:19:57.009
You understand?
436
00:19:57.029 --> 00:19:59.009
Sure, sure. We've been quarantined.
437
00:19:59.029 --> 00:20:01.230
Let me give you something to make you sleep, Steve.
438
00:20:01.829 --> 00:20:02.690
Don't you understand?
439
00:20:02.710 --> 00:20:05.170
They fixed it so that if we set off one
440
00:20:05.190 --> 00:20:07.470
more nuclear explosion, that'll be it.
441
00:20:07.569 --> 00:20:09.589
Of course. Don't roll your sleeve down.
442
00:20:09.750 --> 00:20:10.450
You don't believe me.
443
00:20:10.509 --> 00:20:11.430
Now, take it easy, Steve.
444
00:20:11.549 --> 00:20:15.589
There's a test tonight. They're setting off to see our bomb. Hank,
445
00:20:15.630 --> 00:20:16.250
what time is it?
446
00:20:16.230 --> 00:20:17.049
11.20.
447
00:20:17.049 --> 00:20:20.390
Well, it's scheduled for midnight. Hank, we've got to stop
448
00:20:20.430 --> 00:20:20.990
that bomb.
449
00:20:21.170 --> 00:20:22.730
Steve, let Donaldson give you the hypo.
450
00:20:22.769 --> 00:20:23.799
Hank, you've got to believe me.
451
00:20:23.859 --> 00:20:25.319
I saw them. I got the warning.
452
00:20:26.000 --> 00:20:28.200
If we touch off that bomb tonight, it'll be the
453
00:20:28.339 --> 00:20:31.079
biggest galactic Fourth of July of all time. The whole
454
00:20:31.119 --> 00:20:34.359
Earth will go up like a Roman candle. April 10th, 1965,
455
00:20:34.359 --> 00:20:35.259
the end.
456
00:20:35.599 --> 00:20:38.069
Now, look, Steve, you better calm down. Don't you want
457
00:20:38.089 --> 00:20:40.789
to see Mary and the baby? You've got a new son, remember?
458
00:20:41.069 --> 00:20:41.970
Yeah, that's just it.
459
00:20:42.259 --> 00:20:43.259
I want to see my son.
460
00:20:43.299 --> 00:20:44.039
I want him to live.
461
00:20:44.059 --> 00:20:47.460
If that bomb goes off, Hank, we've got to stop them.
462
00:20:47.480 --> 00:20:49.240
Mr. Hanson, I think we'd better get over to the
463
00:20:49.279 --> 00:20:49.720
base hospital.
464
00:20:49.779 --> 00:20:50.910
Hank, you've got to believe me.
465
00:20:50.910 --> 00:20:51.910
Yeah, sure, sure, Steve.
466
00:20:51.950 --> 00:20:53.819
Maybe there is something to it. Look, it's out of
467
00:20:53.859 --> 00:20:56.019
your hands. I'll put it in a report and shove
468
00:20:56.039 --> 00:20:57.200
it into Washington in the morning.
469
00:20:57.460 --> 00:20:59.619
In the morning? There isn't going to be any morning, Hank.
470
00:20:59.640 --> 00:21:00.460
Don't you understand?
471
00:21:00.720 --> 00:21:03.109
You've got to call Washington now. Get the head of
472
00:21:03.150 --> 00:21:05.269
the security commission and postpone that test.
473
00:21:05.309 --> 00:21:07.069
Now, you know I can't do that, Steve. My neck
474
00:21:07.089 --> 00:21:07.869
would be out a mile.
475
00:21:08.829 --> 00:21:13.630
Besides, this is 1965, not 45. Twenty countries have atomic
476
00:21:13.670 --> 00:21:16.299
bombs now. What's the use of stopping just this one?
477
00:21:16.920 --> 00:21:18.519
The rest will keep right on popping them.
478
00:21:18.599 --> 00:21:22.279
Then we'll have to call an international conference. Can't you understand, Hank?
479
00:21:22.619 --> 00:21:24.799
The first one that goes off finishes us at the end.
480
00:21:25.220 --> 00:21:27.329
They've given us the quarantine warning.
481
00:21:27.349 --> 00:21:29.250
Steve, I think you'd better go with us to the
482
00:21:29.289 --> 00:21:30.089
base hospital.
483
00:21:30.130 --> 00:21:30.730
Look, Steve.
484
00:21:31.509 --> 00:21:33.349
We can call up for a detail if we have to.
485
00:21:35.069 --> 00:21:35.990
All right, all right.
486
00:21:37.549 --> 00:21:38.210
I'll go with you.
487
00:21:39.250 --> 00:21:40.470
You don't need a straight jacket.
488
00:21:40.569 --> 00:21:44.190
That's the way, Steve. You'll probably feel better by morning.
489
00:21:44.309 --> 00:21:44.849
Let's go.
490
00:21:56.410 --> 00:21:58.309
Well, Steve, tomorrow I'll drive you over to the hospital
491
00:21:58.329 --> 00:21:59.329
to see Mary and the kid.
492
00:22:00.019 --> 00:22:00.359
Sure.
493
00:22:01.190 --> 00:22:04.799
Look at the ship under the floodlights. Pretty, huh? You'll
494
00:22:04.819 --> 00:22:06.380
be flying her again soon, don't you worry.
495
00:22:07.240 --> 00:22:08.640
Yeah, yeah, I guess so.
496
00:22:09.720 --> 00:22:12.240
What you doing out in the line?
497
00:22:12.279 --> 00:22:13.720
The refueler?
498
00:22:13.940 --> 00:22:16.019
Yeah, we got Clausewitz coming in tomorrow from Denver for
499
00:22:16.039 --> 00:22:18.480
another test. Figured we'd give you a day off.
500
00:22:18.500 --> 00:22:21.789
That's good, that's fine. Steve, Steve, come back.
501
00:22:22.119 --> 00:22:29.480
Come on, Donaldson. Steve, Steve, wait. He's heading for the rocket. Look,
502
00:22:29.519 --> 00:22:30.000
there he goes up.
503
00:22:30.200 --> 00:22:35.140
That crazy fool. We can't get at him now. That
504
00:22:35.160 --> 00:22:35.940
covers armor glass.
505
00:22:36.220 --> 00:22:37.920
He's waving. Yeah, towards control.
506
00:22:38.259 --> 00:22:39.559
It's the radio. He means the radio.
507
00:22:39.579 --> 00:22:43.549
Come on. I should have gotten help.
508
00:22:46.089 --> 00:22:50.089
The radio's still hooked up here. Hello. Hello, Steve.
509
00:22:50.470 --> 00:22:53.009
Listen to me, Hank. You've got to call Washington now.
510
00:22:53.170 --> 00:22:54.130
Come out of that rocket, Steve.
511
00:22:54.470 --> 00:22:55.049
I'll call my men.
512
00:22:55.109 --> 00:22:56.170
Don't try anything, Hank.
513
00:22:56.839 --> 00:22:58.400
They refueled the rocket for tomorrow.
514
00:22:58.460 --> 00:22:59.180
Take it easy, Steve.
515
00:22:59.240 --> 00:23:01.180
Listen, you know what'll happen when I fire the rocket
516
00:23:01.200 --> 00:23:01.900
tubes down here?
517
00:23:01.920 --> 00:23:02.559
Steve, don't.
518
00:23:02.640 --> 00:23:05.220
It'll burn out every building for five miles. All of
519
00:23:05.259 --> 00:23:07.700
us in one big blast. Steve, what do you want?
520
00:23:07.819 --> 00:23:09.220
You've got to stop that bomb.
521
00:23:09.559 --> 00:23:12.109
You've got to call Washington right now. They won't believe me.
522
00:23:12.150 --> 00:23:14.009
You make that call or I cut in the rocket.
523
00:23:14.930 --> 00:23:15.789
Now, I mean it, Hank.
524
00:23:16.809 --> 00:23:18.970
Now, hook my screen to yours in parallel. I want
525
00:23:18.990 --> 00:23:20.130
to see exactly what you're doing.
526
00:23:20.170 --> 00:23:22.109
All right, all right. Just don't fire those rockets.
527
00:23:22.410 --> 00:23:25.049
Get going, Hank. You got 12 minutes to make that
528
00:23:25.109 --> 00:23:26.309
call and stop that bomb.
529
00:23:26.390 --> 00:23:29.369
All right, I'm making the parallel hookup right now. Donaldson,
530
00:23:29.390 --> 00:23:30.420
do you think he'll really blast it?
531
00:23:30.430 --> 00:23:32.029
I don't know. Up to now, I'd almost say it
532
00:23:32.069 --> 00:23:34.170
was normal. But now he's liable to do anything, Hanson.
533
00:23:34.769 --> 00:23:35.069
Steve.
534
00:23:35.549 --> 00:23:36.089
Steve, there.
535
00:23:36.109 --> 00:23:37.849
Are you getting it on your screen? Yeah.
536
00:23:38.730 --> 00:23:39.890
Now put that call through.
537
00:23:39.970 --> 00:23:40.250
All right.
538
00:23:41.490 --> 00:23:41.950
Operator.
539
00:23:41.990 --> 00:23:42.990
Visit screen to Washington.
540
00:23:43.359 --> 00:23:45.230
The visit screen circuits are busy, sir.
541
00:23:45.259 --> 00:23:46.890
If you'll try again in half an hour. This is
542
00:23:46.930 --> 00:23:49.140
security commission priority. Break in and get me a line.
543
00:23:49.690 --> 00:23:50.289
Yes, sir.
544
00:23:50.529 --> 00:23:51.390
Just a moment, please.
545
00:23:51.769 --> 00:23:52.470
Ten minutes, Hank.
546
00:23:52.509 --> 00:23:53.650
Listen, Steve, I'm trying.
547
00:23:53.930 --> 00:23:55.170
Ready to take your call, sir.
548
00:23:55.190 --> 00:23:58.640
Washington, secure to commission three. This is urgent. I want
549
00:23:58.779 --> 00:24:00.339
Undersecretary Herbert Ames.
550
00:24:00.640 --> 00:24:01.799
Washington, three.
551
00:24:01.940 --> 00:24:03.430
One moment, please. Hurry, will you?
552
00:24:03.700 --> 00:24:04.339
One moment, please.
553
00:24:05.160 --> 00:24:07.400
What time is it, Donaldson? 11.51. Do you think.
554
00:24:07.319 --> 00:24:08.180
He'll fire those rockets?
555
00:24:08.240 --> 00:24:09.480
He might. Washington?
556
00:24:09.779 --> 00:24:10.700
Visit screen three.
557
00:24:10.779 --> 00:24:11.000
Mr.
558
00:24:11.059 --> 00:24:13.680
Herbert Ames, please. That is a coded exchange.
559
00:24:13.740 --> 00:24:15.519
I cannot accept your call without clearance.
560
00:24:15.660 --> 00:24:17.940
Get it through, Hank. Listen, Washington. Put it through.
561
00:24:18.150 --> 00:24:20.589
This is Mr. Hanson at San Marco Air Base. This
562
00:24:20.650 --> 00:24:21.769
is a priority call.
563
00:24:21.829 --> 00:24:22.309
I'm coded.
564
00:24:22.509 --> 00:24:23.130
One moment, please.
565
00:24:23.190 --> 00:24:24.250
I will check your code number.
566
00:24:24.349 --> 00:24:26.170
Get that through, Hank, or that bar goes off at 12.
567
00:24:26.170 --> 00:24:27.549
Will you be reasonable, Steve?
568
00:24:27.670 --> 00:24:29.210
Your call has cleared, San Marco.
569
00:24:29.509 --> 00:24:31.170
Washington, visit screen three.
570
00:24:31.430 --> 00:24:32.380
Herbert Ames, please.
571
00:24:34.839 --> 00:24:36.440
Security Commissioner Ames. Listen to Ames.
572
00:24:36.579 --> 00:24:37.140
Oh, hello, Hank.
573
00:24:37.440 --> 00:24:38.539
Ames, you've got to get me to the chief.
574
00:24:38.779 --> 00:24:39.480
Are you kidding?
575
00:24:39.599 --> 00:24:41.480
He's at the test control room. Yes, I know, but
576
00:24:41.539 --> 00:24:42.039
get him for me.
577
00:24:42.140 --> 00:24:43.539
What's up? You look lousy.
578
00:24:43.859 --> 00:24:44.640
Or is it a bad circuit?
579
00:24:44.680 --> 00:24:45.259
There's no time.
580
00:24:45.299 --> 00:24:47.119
I've got to get him before the test. It's about
581
00:24:47.160 --> 00:24:49.529
the C.R. box. I can't take that responsibility.
582
00:24:49.789 --> 00:24:51.029
Oh, Hank, right away.
583
00:24:51.049 --> 00:24:53.329
Hey, what's going on there? Ames, my project has a
584
00:24:53.349 --> 00:24:55.589
high enough rating. This is a priority A call.
585
00:24:55.690 --> 00:24:55.890
What?
586
00:24:56.789 --> 00:24:57.710
Well, okay, it's your neck.
587
00:24:57.750 --> 00:24:58.730
I'll try to get him for you.
588
00:24:59.410 --> 00:25:00.990
He's in the control room, so you'll have to switch
589
00:25:01.029 --> 00:25:02.809
off your screen and speaker and go on earphones.
590
00:25:02.910 --> 00:25:05.710
Too much going on in there. Security ruling. You hear that, Steve?
591
00:25:05.890 --> 00:25:07.710
I've got to cut the incoming screen.
592
00:25:08.319 --> 00:25:08.619
All right.
593
00:25:08.740 --> 00:25:09.779
But don't try anything.
594
00:25:11.420 --> 00:25:12.299
Eight minutes, Hank.
595
00:25:14.660 --> 00:25:22.509
Hello. Hello. What? You got him, Hank? Yes.
596
00:25:24.990 --> 00:25:26.170
This is Hanson at San Marco.
597
00:25:27.329 --> 00:25:27.650
No, sir.
598
00:25:27.670 --> 00:25:30.519
Priority A request to cancel the bomb test. No, no.
599
00:25:30.559 --> 00:25:33.380
I'm serious. This is deadly serious. We sent the X-2
600
00:25:33.420 --> 00:25:37.140
JTR up today to the outer limit. We uncovered evidence. Yes,
601
00:25:37.240 --> 00:25:38.160
on the automatic instruments.
602
00:25:38.779 --> 00:25:39.140
What's that?
603
00:25:39.740 --> 00:25:42.299
No possible chain reaction. No, I can't tell you the
604
00:25:42.339 --> 00:25:43.380
whole story. There isn't time here.
605
00:25:43.960 --> 00:25:46.210
Yes, yes, I'll bring the readings into Washington in the morning.
606
00:25:46.589 --> 00:25:49.769
You've got to postpone the test till you see them. Look,
607
00:25:49.849 --> 00:25:53.390
I've worked on contracts with the commission for 10 years. Yes, yes,
608
00:25:53.430 --> 00:25:54.950
I have complete confidence in my information.
609
00:25:54.970 --> 00:25:57.579
You can record that. All right, I'll call you back immediately.
610
00:25:57.980 --> 00:25:58.180
Bye.
611
00:26:00.490 --> 00:26:00.650
Hank?
612
00:26:01.170 --> 00:26:01.369
Hank?
613
00:26:01.549 --> 00:26:04.170
He's agreed to cancel, Steve. The bomb won't go off.
614
00:26:06.990 --> 00:26:07.549
All right, boy.
615
00:26:08.599 --> 00:26:24.049
You can come down out of that ship.
616
00:26:27.230 --> 00:26:30.930
He's opening up. Here he comes.
617
00:26:33.039 --> 00:26:33.720
All right, Steve.
618
00:26:34.420 --> 00:26:34.940
Come on down.
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Sure, Hank.
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Just a second. Hank, I was scared. I was plain scared.
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Easy now.
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It's all over. The bomb won't go off.
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Thank God.
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Look, I want to see Mary and the baby. You
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got any transportation now?
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Wait a minute. It's almost 12. They won't let you
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in the hospital now.
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I want to see the baby.
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Sure you do, but you've been under a strain. I've
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got a shot for you here, Steve. Give you a
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good night's sleep.
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All right. Roll up your sleeve. Yeah, here. There. That'll
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make you sleep. Sergeant will find you a bed.
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Yes, sir.
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Come on, Mr. Weston.
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Okay.
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Good night, Hank. I'm kind of beat. It's been a
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tough night.
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It sure has.
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I thought for a minute he was going to blast
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those rockets and send us all to Kingdom Come.
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Yeah.
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Quite a stunt, getting the ray bomb test called off.
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It isn't called off.
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But.
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The chief said... Ames couldn't get the chief. I was
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talking to a dead circuit. Bomb goes off in a
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couple of minutes.
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Oh. Poor Steve. He was one of the best.
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He was the best. One in ten million.
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Some story of his, poor guy. For a while, he
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almost had me believing that quarantine. That's a very common delusion.
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End of the world. Yeah.
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I suppose so. Ah, it's a nice night. Never saw
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the stars so bright.
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We'd better be getting in. That wind is cold.
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The bomb goes off in 30 seconds. Poor Steve.
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You know, Hanson, there's just one thing. Yeah? It's outside
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my field, but I'm curious.
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How did he keep that ship in the air for
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ten hours with only ten minutes' fuel?
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You have just heard The Outer Limits by Graham Doerr.
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An adventure in time, space, and the unknown.
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Dimension X. Now, about next week. Have you ever heard
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of the Mark III?
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The amazing electronic brain at Harvard that instantly solves the
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most complicated scientific problems. Suppose you had a mechanical brain
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like that in your house. A robot that was always
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at your service. So that you could just sit with
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folded hands and relax the rest of your life. That
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would be nice, wouldn't it?
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Perfect.
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That's what they thought when it happened in the year 2006.
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But they were wrong, terribly wrong. How? I'll tell you
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next week.
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Tonight's story, transcribed on Dimension X, The Outer Limit by
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Graham Dorr, was adapted for.
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Radio by Ernest Canoy.
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Featured in the.
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Cast were Joseph Julian as Steve, Wendell Holmes as Hank,
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and Joe DeSantis as Major Donaldson. Your host is Norman Rose.
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Music was by Albert Berman. Sound designed by Sam Monroe.
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Edward King directed. Tomorrow, here's Sam Spade. Now it's Truth
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or Consequences on NBC. We close with Dimension X, Episode 1,
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The Outer Limit. Follow Dimension X for more classic science
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fiction broadcasts.
