Dimension X - "The Lost Race" (Old Time Radio, 1950)

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Far off its charted route, the space freighter Carilia is
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forced down on an uncharted green planet, where archaeologist Howell
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finds ruins connected with a civilization long believed vanished. From
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NBC on May 20th, 1950, this is Dimension X, Episode 7,
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The Lost Race, adapted by Ernest Kenoy from a Murray
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Linster story. Matt Crowley plays Captain Wharton, with Roger de
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Coven as Howell, and Joseph Julian as Danton, Edward King directed,
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and Van Woodward produced. The damaged ship leaves the crew
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uncertain of its return, while the ruins hold evidence of
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the world's remote past. And now, the original broadcast.
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Adventures in time and space told in future tense. Dimension X.
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When man first crossed the vast distances of outer space
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to land on strange worlds, he found that... Someone had
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been there before him. The ruined canals of Mars, the
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smashed cities of Titan and Centaurus II and III, all
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these were evidence that 100,000 years ago, a race of
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intelligent beings built their cities across the galaxy. They knew
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space travel, atomic power, astrophysics and engineering. And then they
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destroyed themselves. Completely. So that of all the cities on
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a thousand worlds... Only dust and rubble remained.
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Why?
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Why did these beings obliterate all record of themselves? That
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is the mystery of the lost race. The freighter Carilia,
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bound out of Earth for Cetus Alpha 2, came into
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normal flight after 103 days in overdrive. The stars were unfamiliar.
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The constellations known on Earth had disappeared. But there was
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a yellow sun off the port, and about it revolved
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three planets.
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What do you make of the Briggs? It isn't on
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any of the star charts, Captain Wharton. I checked through.
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One in three are dead, all right. I have to
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take a closer look at number two. Turn up the
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vision scale. Hold her ice caps. She's green around the belt.
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Let's take her down to a five-mile orbit. Swing around
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her for a look. Alert for deceleration. Aye, sir.
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Throw in the manuals.
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Power room. Power room, aye. We're going down to have
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a look at something. Give us just enough power to
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keep her under control. All right, Briggs. Hang on to
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your stomach.
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You sent for me, Captain Morton?
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Come in, Mr. Howell.
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Do you mind if I sit down?
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Free-fall sickness?
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I'm afraid I'm not an old space hand.
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We'll level out in a minute.
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Do you want something?
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Yes.
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We come out of overdrive, smack in the middle of
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a new planetary system. Briggs says it's unreported.
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Well, that's rather good news, isn't it?
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Depends.
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Chris reports pretty common. But we'll stake a claim on her.
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case there are any mineral discoveries.
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Well, I meant the possibility of archaeological finds. I'm afraid
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I'll leave that to you, Mr.
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Howell. You're the expert. Coming up five, Captain.
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Level off.
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Hang on, Howell. Power room. Hold it steady as she goes.
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We'll orbit at slow cruising speed. All right.
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Clear the scope brakes.
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Aye, sir.
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Nice looking piece of real estate. Well, the space guard
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requires I check up for radioactives, gold, and lost race rooms.
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You're landing?
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Landing. I've got a schedule to keep, Mr.
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Howell.
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I can't sit down in every lump of dirt I
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run into. We'll do a spectroscope check, and I figured
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you'd spot any ruins. All right. Wait a minute.
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Hmm?
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There in the lower quadrant.
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What?
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That bald spot in the vegetation.
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Hmm?
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Those are ruins, all right.
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Are you sure, Howell?
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Yes.
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I've seen the lost race rubble on Centaurus II. There.
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You can see it plainly, dust and rubble.
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Oh, that's what I get for calling in an expert. Briggs,
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stand by to take it down to 5,000 feet.
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Aye, sir.
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With all this stinking luck, there goes my schedule. Seen enough, Howell?
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It's going to set me back five hours.
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Interesting.
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Wait a minute.
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What's wrong?
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I don't believe it. Marvelous. Incredible.
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Stop sputtering, Howell.
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What is it? Look over that rise in the ground.
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It's a section of the city still standing.
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You're right.
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That hill must have shielded it from the blast. Captain,
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you've got to land.
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Land?
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You've got to. This is the first lost race site
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that's ever been spotted, of course.
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You'll land.
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Howell.
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We get a thousand dollar bonus for every day under
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par for the run.
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But you don't understand. It's the biggest find in the century.
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We can shard it and you'll have to get back somehow.
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That's all. I'm not sitting down to rake over old
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dust heaps.
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Captain Wharton, I'm on commission to the space guard. You
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may have to answer to them.
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I'll think up one.
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Look, Howell.
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Strictly speaking, you're a passenger.
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But you've got to land.
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You don't belong in the bridge. I'm not landing down
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there on accident. Breaks! Emergency from the power room.
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Something must have blown.
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Power room. Power room.
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Danton, what's wrong down there?
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Danton.
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He doesn't answer.
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Anything serious, Captain?
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It reaches the fuel locker. That five pounds of ascending
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will go and kick us right out of space.
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Danton.
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Danton.
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Power room, aye.
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What happened? What blew?
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Main tube coupling.
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She's secured now.
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What's the damage?
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The main tube's burnt out. The bearing, the coupling, the
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injector valve, and the needle gate.
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Can you make repairs? Not in flight. Can you raise
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enough power to land? I don't know, Captain.
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The wiring's shot.
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It's about like a tomcat. I might be able to
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get something from the deceleration auxiliaries.
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Get a jury rig on her. We'll try to set
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her down.
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Aye, sir.
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Briggs.
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Yes, sir.
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Alert for crash landing. Signal room. Signal room. Signal, aye. Langston,
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get off of position fix and SOS standby.
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Aye, sir.
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Well, Mr. Howell, I guess you're going to join your
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friends in the lost race. I just hope it's not permanently.
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Aye.
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Leveled off now, Captain.
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Turn her up a point. That's it.
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She's bucking bad.
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Five more minutes and the whole place will shake loose.
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Power room. Stand by for bar blast on signal. Power ready.
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I'm going to.
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Try for that clearing.
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Too narrow.
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Two to one for a dollar.
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All right.
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Hang on.
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All right.
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Briggs!
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Briggs! You all right?
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I hit my head on the panel.
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Well, I seem to be all assembled.
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We're down. Guess our luck hasn't run out yet. Calling
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power room.
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Power room, hi.
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All right down there? Yeah, I'm all right. Denton, I
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want a complete damage check and repair estimate. Get up
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here as soon as you got it for me. Briggs,
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you all right now? Yes, sir, I guess so. As
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soon as we get Dan's report, get a detail app,
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help him with repairs.
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Captain Wharton.
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What is it, Langston?
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My speaker line's out. Sending circuits blew.
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Spare tubes?
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That was a pretty rough landing, Captain. They're gone. I
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can't replace them this side of Lunar Space Station.
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I see. Well, the S.O.S. ought to do it. And
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the Space Guard Monitor reports operations... They aren't going to, Captain.
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Why not?
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Sending circuits went out when the blast went off down there.
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I didn't get the S.O.S.
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Out.
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Thank you, Langston.
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Get back and see what you can salvage.
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Does that mean bad news?
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We were in overdrive, Mr.
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Howell.
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It would take 40 years to search the distance we've
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traveled in one day. Consequently, when a ship doesn't make
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port and doesn't transmit a position fix, they forget about it.
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Oh.
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I see.
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And with the radio out, we blast off on our
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own power. Or we don't get off.
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Got your damage report, Captain. Well?
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Here.
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It's on a B-23 checklist.
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Not bad? Worse. Danton, how long will it take you
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for repairs?
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I don't know.
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An estimate.
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I ain't no gypsy fortune teller.
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How about the lifeboat?
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For deep space? What are they teaching at Sands Point?
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Basket weaving?
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Danton, I.
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Lifeboat couldn't lift half a light year off this here
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mud heap.
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Danton, I'll take just so much....
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Look.
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Can it be converted to Bessendium Drive?
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Converter links were mashed when we came down.
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How long is it going to take you to repair
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the main drive? Look, Captain, I got two hands. You
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want me to hold a lug wrench in my teeth?
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Stay here, Danton.
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You stay here, Captain. The whole lousy crew's been spitting
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all over me ever since we blasted off. Now you
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can all wait on me.
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Who do you think you are, Denton?
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The only power man on this ship, that's who. Can't
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satisfy with the way I'm working? Go hire yourself another boy.
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The woods are lousy with him. I'll take my own
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sweet time.
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What's the matter with him? Got a bug in his ear?
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Space fatigue, Captain. He's been locked up in the power
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room four days. We don't have enough trouble. Briggs, remind
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me to slug the psycho technician when we get back.
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Don't tell me nobody gets into deep space who isn't
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emotionally stable.
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What are you going to do about him, Captain?
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Nothing. Stay off his back.
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Oh, but you can't.
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Captain's the only man who can get us out of here.
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We want to hit the cradle at New York Spaceport again.
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We've got to keep him happy.
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Captain Wharton, as long as we're landed and we do
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have to wait for the engines to be fixed, I
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suppose we can explore the lost race ruins.
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Look, Mr. Howell, I can't spare the men. We are
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now stuck tight. until Danton gets those engines fixed. And
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if he can't, which is entirely possible, we are stuck, period.
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All right.
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Briggs, I want you to keep a careful eye on
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the man. Space fatigue is nothing compared to what we
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might run up against now. Captain Wharton.
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Captain, I've got it.
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The sending circuits?
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No, no, sir, but I picked up the incoming video band.
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Well, that's something. Can you get the mail call through?
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A man could use a little lift right now.
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Well, the scheduled one-way personals are due at 2330 Greenwich.
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Good.
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That ought to help morale. Langston, rig the receiving booth.
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Aye, sir.
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Powell, this is a break. Seeing the folks at home
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may be enough to keep everybody on an even keel.
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I know I'll be glad to see that kid of mine.
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No, no. Yeah.
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Mr.
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Langston, get Hanson out of the booth. You'll wear the
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glass right off the tooth.
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Ah, take it easy, Williams. Everybody gets three minutes.
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Hey, Kelly, I bet that dame of yours burned up
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the circuits, eh?
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How'd you know it was his girl? You can't tell
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through the booth.
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Well, who else would call that ape? What'd you say, Kelly? Oh, nothing.
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She don't have to. She just stands in front of
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the pickup tube and, oh, brother. I can just see that. Hey, hey,
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it's a boy. A boy.
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Alice had a boy. They're going to show him to
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me in the circuit tomorrow.
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Congratulations.
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Who's next, Mr. Langston?
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The last call's coming through now on ticker. It's for Williams.
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Wait a minute, Williams. What happened to my call? No
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call today, Dad. You're a liar, Langston. My girl calls
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in every scheduled circuit. That must be mine.
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Let go, Danton.
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Maybe Janie was busy waiting tables at the lunchroom. What
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do you know about her, Hanson?
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You kidding? She's a swell kid. Everybody at New York
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Space Port knows her.
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Yeah, I've seen you hanging around Jane, too.
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Now, wait a minute, Danton.
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Take it easy, Danton.
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You and Williams made this up between you, didn't you?
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You're going to take my call.
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Huh, Williams?
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You're space happy.
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You used to hang around with her before I cut
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you off.
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Now, listen, Danton, you were lucky enough to get her.
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You met well enough alone.
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You bet I got her all right, and you're not
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going to steal her back.
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Williams, I'm going up.
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You crazy.
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Danton, get him off of me. Don't lie to me.
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Get him off. Hey, what's going on in here?
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Let him fight.
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I'm going to kill you, you double-crossing. Let him fight.
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Tie my back.
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Grab him, Hanson.
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Get his arm. Let go of me.
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Nobody took your collar.
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Calm down, Danton. I'll fix you.
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I'll fix you.
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Look out.
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He's got a wrench.
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Danton.
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He's nuts.
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Nobody gets a call.
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Nobody.
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How do you like that, Williams? You ain't going to
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hear from Janie no more. How do you like that?
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After him.
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Kelly.
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Hanson.
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The airlock. He's left the ship.
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Let him go, the jealous screwball.
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Sure.
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But that's the only man who can get us off
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of here. I warned you so.
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Help me, Briggs.
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I warned you to keep an eye on Tampa. Well,
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I didn't think he'd go off this way.
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Well, it's that girl of his, sir. He's crazy jealous
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about her.
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Any reason for it, Williams?
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No, sir.
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She's a good kid. Too good for Denton. I guess
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he's just so afraid of losing her to some other guy,
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he's getting psychopathic about it.
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Well, we've got to get him back. I want every
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man equipped and ready for search parties immediately.
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Aye, sir.
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Williams, rig some portable searchlights. And issue hand blasters and
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radiation tickers. Kelly.
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Aye, sir.
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You're at the second party. If you find Danton, send
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up a signal flare.
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Aye, sir.
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Unless we do find him, we'll be on this planet
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until the next freighter stumbles on us. Maybe 10,000 years
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from now. Hold that light up, Hanson.
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This is amazing, Captain. Lost race buildings actually standing. Hey!
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What is it?
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Oh, it's nothing but shadow.
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This place gives me the willies.
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To be able to find out so much about them,
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their science, art, what they looked like, perhaps even why
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they destroyed themselves.
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I'm beginning to wonder about that, Howell. You sure they
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destroyed themselves? Maybe they lost a war to another race.
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The winners would have left traces. Genghis Khan, the Mongol emperor,
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left a pile of skulls as a monument after he
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destroyed his enemies. But there's been nothing like that found.
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No clues at all?
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Nothing.
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When they decided to wipe themselves out, they did a
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thorough job.
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But why?
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That's what we've been asking for 50 years. They wanted
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to end like that. Captain, there's a rise ahead.
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Keep going. Anything on your side, Briggs?
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No, sir.
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Hanson, what is it?
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I don't know, sir.
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It's a funny kind of a glow.
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I guess I shot without thinking.
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Don't get triggered, Abby. Howell.
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Yes?
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Where do you think the light is coming from? Down there.
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It's an amphitheater.
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Stone seats and a hood. It looks like a band shell.
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What's up, Captain?
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Wait a minute.
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Well, Howell? I don't know.
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That's the lost race sign on the hood.
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The what?
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A sort of hieroglyphic. Only thing we'd ever found before.
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One in each ruin.
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What does it mean?
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Some kind of a warning, I think.
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Come on. We're going down there. Careful now. There's a
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platform of some kind down there. Looks like a lecture platform,
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doesn't it?
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Or an altar.
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This might have been a temple.
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Perhaps the lost grace sign had a religious significance.
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Looks like a throne to me.
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Here.
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A throne five feet high.
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Briggs, climb up there. See if there are any controls
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for this machinery.
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Aye, sir. This wasn't meant for any man to sit on.
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There's a lever up here. Shall I try it?
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Sure, go ahead.
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Hey, what's that mist? It's like a steam bath. I
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wonder if Kelly and Williams ran into anything like.
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Hey, Kelly, hold that line up.
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Shut up and keep looking for Danton.
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What?
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Look there.
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In the hood. It's Williams and Kelly.
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That crazy jet jockey. When I find him, I'm going
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to beat his brains out.
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You could see him.
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A three-dimensional image. Some kind of television. Get down, Briggs.
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Aye, sir. Did you see it, Skipper?
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I was just thinking about him, and there he was.
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And we all saw him. Out of the way. I'm
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going to try it. This thing can pick up earth.
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It'll replace the receiver Danton smashed. Just throw the lever, eh?
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What?
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That's my son.
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I'll be darned.
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His music lesson. Say, it reaches Earth all right.
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What?
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Imagine.
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Television without a transmitter. Looks like the lost race was
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ahead of us in more ways than one.
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Go up and try it, Howell.
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Amazing, amazing television without a transmitter. This machine may be
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the clue to the mystery of the lost race.
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I'll try it.
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Mary, I've told you I like my paper first in
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the morning. If that youngster wants to know how the
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tigers did, let him wait until I.
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My father in Detroit. It's remarkable, Captain. You can see
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the whole room clearly.
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Say, how about me, Captain? Let me get up there.
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I'd like to see my baby.
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Alice told me all about it.
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What's the matter, Hanson? I kicked something, a wrench. Well,
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hold it up.
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What?
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It's Danton's. That means he's been here. We're on his trail,
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all right? Come on, Howell, let's go.
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But the baby, it wouldn't take a minute, Captain.
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Later, Hanson.
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We've got to find Danton first. All right, now, let's
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get moving.
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Hold it.
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What's that?
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The recall flare.
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Kelly and his men have found Tanton. Oh, I hope
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that crazy fool isn't one piece.
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We start back now, Captain.
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Yes.
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That came from the ship.
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Another flare?
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No, that was an explosion. That's all we need now.
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Something more to happen to the ship. Oh, it's the
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main jets. Smashed flat. With all the stinking rump... Check
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through the ship for further damage.
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Aye, sir.
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Look at those plates. Crumpled like an accordion.
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Captain!
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Oh, Captain!
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Here comes Kelly's party.
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We got him. We got Denton. Hold it. What happened here?
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Somebody blew up the main jets. Denton, do you know
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anything about this?
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No, sir. Not much, he doesn't.
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He's crazy enough to blow us all up.
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Listen, Hanson, I admit I went off my head tonight,
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but I'm not crazy enough to commit suicide.
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The jets of smash were all marooned up the same creek.
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I still think he's got something to do with it.
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Lay off, Hanson.
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We found him wandering up in the hills.
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And he was with us when the blast went off.
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Yes, that's right. We saw your recall flare before the explosions.
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Huh?
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I guess that puts Stanton on the clear.
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Then who did it, Captain?
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I don't know, Howell. Looks like somebody didn't want us
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to leave this planet. Well, we still got one slim
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chance left. If we can repair the lifeboat. Skipper, it's gone.
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Gone?
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The escape port is open.
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The boat's missing.
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Oh, what else?
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The arms chest was cleaned out, sir, and the fuel
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locker was jimmied open. The incendium bars are gone.
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You sure? You can look for yourself, sir. She's clean.
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I see.
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There's only one answer left. There's something or somebody out
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in those ruins trying to get us. Maybe that lost
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race decided they weren't going to stay lost.
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You think some of them may still be alive?
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Who else could have blown up our ship? Keep your
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blaster up, Howell. And be careful. It's a hair trigger.
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What are we doing back at the television machine, Captain?
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I thought we were looking for the lifeboat.
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We are.
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Whoever blew up the ship must be around here. Might
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as well try to use the machine to track them down.
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Catch them with their own gadget. That's right. All right, Howell.
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You're the expert.
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Get up there and try to find them.
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I hope it works.
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Well?
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Trying, Captain.
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Nothing but mist.
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I don't understand it. It reached all the way to
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Earth before I saw my father in Detroit. Mary, my
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paper's all rumbled again.
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What?
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There it is again. My father in Detroit.
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I've told him time and time again, I don't like
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a messy paper.
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Look at that. No selector control, yet all the way
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to Earth. You can see the whole room, the goldfish bowl,
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the antimacassars on the chairs. Yet we can't pick up
521
00:21:34.720 --> 00:21:36.019
something less than a mile away.
522
00:21:36.039 --> 00:21:40.519
Knock it off, Hal. We're wasting time. Come on. That
523
00:21:40.559 --> 00:21:43.309
gadget won't work. We'll have to comb these rooms inch
524
00:21:43.390 --> 00:21:43.849
by inch.
525
00:21:43.869 --> 00:21:44.890
I don't understand.
526
00:21:46.009 --> 00:21:46.670
Neither do I.
527
00:21:47.750 --> 00:21:49.849
We'll cut behind the hood here and go on. Briggs,
528
00:21:50.589 --> 00:21:53.259
you take the lead with the radiation ticker. We might
529
00:21:53.299 --> 00:21:54.819
be able to pick up a reading on where the
530
00:21:54.859 --> 00:21:55.660
rocket fuel is hidden.
531
00:21:55.680 --> 00:21:56.059
Aye, sir.
532
00:21:56.980 --> 00:21:57.500
All right, let's go.
533
00:21:58.740 --> 00:22:01.000
I can't understand why that machine can pick up earth
534
00:22:01.089 --> 00:22:03.369
and not... Captain Briggs, what is it?
535
00:22:03.569 --> 00:22:04.809
Captain, help, I'm falling.
536
00:22:04.990 --> 00:22:05.569
It's a cave-in.
537
00:22:05.789 --> 00:22:07.730
Hang on, Briggs. I'm slipping, Captain.
538
00:22:08.130 --> 00:22:08.910
Grab his wrist, all right?
539
00:22:09.470 --> 00:22:13.849
Now pull, pull. What happened?
540
00:22:13.869 --> 00:22:16.390
I was just walking along and the ground caved in.
541
00:22:16.910 --> 00:22:19.200
It's some kind of shaft. Hold your light over it, Captain.
542
00:22:19.200 --> 00:22:25.680
50 feet deep in a stone bottom.
543
00:22:26.519 --> 00:22:28.140
I could have split my head open like a grapefruit.
544
00:22:29.150 --> 00:22:30.869
Something down there.
545
00:22:30.950 --> 00:22:36.180
Hold that light steady. Amazing. Amazing.
546
00:22:36.220 --> 00:22:37.920
Looks like a pile of bones to me.
547
00:22:38.339 --> 00:22:38.859
Two piles.
548
00:22:39.880 --> 00:22:42.500
It may be the first skeletal remains ever found of
549
00:22:42.539 --> 00:22:44.579
the lost race. I've got to get down in there.
550
00:22:44.640 --> 00:22:45.880
We haven't got time, Howell. Come on.
551
00:22:45.900 --> 00:22:52.380
Let me have your binoculars. Wonderful. That small skeleton must
552
00:22:52.420 --> 00:22:55.630
be an infant. They've been laid out carefully at the
553
00:22:55.690 --> 00:22:58.549
burial chamber. The way they're lying, it's probably a mother
554
00:22:58.589 --> 00:22:59.029
and infant.
555
00:23:00.130 --> 00:23:00.369
Yeah?
556
00:23:01.250 --> 00:23:05.869
The tail, she's definitely anthropoid. Oh, you mean apes?
557
00:23:06.369 --> 00:23:07.230
Something like that.
558
00:23:07.890 --> 00:23:12.869
Yet they had atomic power and built cities across the galaxy. Amazing.
559
00:23:13.170 --> 00:23:14.170
Oh, we haven't got time.
560
00:23:14.710 --> 00:23:15.390
Oh, that's funny.
561
00:23:15.430 --> 00:23:19.519
The little one is different. The caudal bones are different.
562
00:23:19.559 --> 00:23:20.259
No tail.
563
00:23:20.319 --> 00:23:22.640
Listen, Howell. What do I care whether they had tails
564
00:23:22.680 --> 00:23:22.900
or not?
565
00:23:22.940 --> 00:23:23.480
Come on, now.
566
00:23:23.500 --> 00:23:27.099
It's almost as if... Well, they did have atomics and...
567
00:23:27.769 --> 00:23:31.750
Radiation does funny things to heredity. They had that problem
568
00:23:31.769 --> 00:23:36.269
of mutations in Detroit. Detroit. That must be it.
569
00:23:36.710 --> 00:23:36.910
What?
570
00:23:37.069 --> 00:23:39.509
The new atomics plant in Detroit. They tore down my
571
00:23:39.549 --> 00:23:41.750
father's house to make room for it. Quickly, Captain.
572
00:23:41.769 --> 00:23:43.490
Howell, where are you going?
573
00:23:43.529 --> 00:23:45.430
Back to the machine. I've got a theory that may
574
00:23:45.509 --> 00:23:47.789
solve the whole mystery of what happened to the lost race.
575
00:23:47.809 --> 00:23:49.789
I don't care what happened to the dead ones, Howell.
576
00:23:50.490 --> 00:23:52.410
I want to find the living ones who wrecked my ship.
577
00:23:52.690 --> 00:23:59.579
I think this machine may give us both answers. There's
578
00:23:59.740 --> 00:24:02.299
the house, Detroit, down to the last detail.
579
00:24:02.440 --> 00:24:03.869
Oh, come on, Don. We know all that.
580
00:24:03.880 --> 00:24:07.029
But don't you understand? That house was torn down. I
581
00:24:07.069 --> 00:24:09.329
got a letter before we lifted off Earth. It's gone.
582
00:24:09.450 --> 00:24:10.829
But it's on the television machine.
583
00:24:10.849 --> 00:24:13.750
Captain, that machine isn't television. It's a thought projector.
584
00:24:13.869 --> 00:24:14.029
What?
585
00:24:14.170 --> 00:24:16.279
It only mirrors what's in your own mind. But, Mr.
586
00:24:16.319 --> 00:24:18.059
Howell, we saw Earth. It was really there.
587
00:24:18.099 --> 00:24:21.539
But it was just because we imagined it, Briggs. It's
588
00:24:21.579 --> 00:24:24.890
a thought projector. I can produce any mental image that
589
00:24:24.930 --> 00:24:27.789
occurs to me on this machine. New York Space Port,
590
00:24:27.829 --> 00:24:29.509
a space guard patrol, anything.
591
00:24:29.910 --> 00:24:30.210
Anything?
592
00:24:30.230 --> 00:24:34.539
Yes. And now I think I know what inspired the
593
00:24:34.579 --> 00:24:37.019
lost race to do what they did. It was fear.
594
00:24:37.940 --> 00:24:40.720
Fear of what was in their own minds. They could
595
00:24:40.900 --> 00:24:42.720
all see it with machines like this.
596
00:24:43.119 --> 00:24:44.660
But fear, fear of what?
597
00:24:44.720 --> 00:24:49.640
They foresaw the future. So they destroyed themselves. Every last
598
00:24:49.720 --> 00:24:50.069
one of them.
599
00:24:50.240 --> 00:24:55.440
All at howl. Are you sure they're all dead?
600
00:24:55.440 --> 00:24:56.240
100,000 years ago.
601
00:24:56.440 --> 00:24:59.000
Then who blew up the ship and stole our lifeboat?
602
00:24:59.039 --> 00:24:59.440
Danton.
603
00:25:00.400 --> 00:25:01.680
Danton? But why?
604
00:25:01.720 --> 00:25:02.940
He was pathologically jealous.
605
00:25:03.180 --> 00:25:05.420
Yes, but blowing up the ship was like committing suicide.
606
00:25:05.440 --> 00:25:06.640
He wasn't crazy enough to do that.
607
00:25:06.720 --> 00:25:09.480
The lost race was after they looked at this machine.
608
00:25:09.720 --> 00:25:13.380
You mean Danton did too? We found his wrench here.
609
00:25:13.480 --> 00:25:13.940
You're right.
610
00:25:14.380 --> 00:25:15.960
He must have looked at the machine and thought it
611
00:25:16.000 --> 00:25:19.460
was television. He must have seen all his fears about
612
00:25:19.500 --> 00:25:22.160
losing his girl confirmed. That was enough to make him
613
00:25:22.200 --> 00:25:24.619
completely unbalanced. But he was with Kelly when that explosion
614
00:25:24.660 --> 00:25:26.400
went off. He's got an ironclad alibi.
615
00:25:26.440 --> 00:25:29.140
No, he hasn't. It wouldn't take a power man long
616
00:25:29.160 --> 00:25:31.420
to sneak back to the ship and rig a delayed
617
00:25:31.500 --> 00:25:33.839
action fuse. Howell, we've got to get back to the
618
00:25:33.880 --> 00:25:34.559
ship before Danton.
619
00:25:34.700 --> 00:25:35.539
Never mind, Captain.
620
00:25:35.599 --> 00:25:36.220
Stay right there.
621
00:25:36.269 --> 00:25:36.720
That's Danton.
622
00:25:36.740 --> 00:25:39.700
It's in the dark. You make a perfect target there.
623
00:25:40.420 --> 00:25:41.029
Stop your gun.
624
00:25:41.049 --> 00:25:43.609
I've got a blaster set at wide angle.
625
00:25:43.650 --> 00:25:47.009
Drop him. He's got us cold. I've been following you, Wharton.
626
00:25:48.130 --> 00:25:50.190
I wanted to tell you I'm going back to Earth.
627
00:25:51.099 --> 00:25:52.880
I got the lifeboat hidden over that rise.
628
00:25:52.980 --> 00:25:54.200
It won't work in deep space.
629
00:25:55.519 --> 00:25:57.380
You believed me when I told you that, didn't you?
630
00:25:58.019 --> 00:25:59.200
Well, I've got it fixed.
631
00:25:59.880 --> 00:26:00.329
And with that.
632
00:26:00.269 --> 00:26:03.369
Basendium fuel, it'll be a milk run. I'll reach the
633
00:26:03.410 --> 00:26:06.630
space guard station at Volta with a long, sad story
634
00:26:06.690 --> 00:26:07.730
about how the rest of you.
635
00:26:07.690 --> 00:26:09.190
Exploded in mid-space.
636
00:26:09.210 --> 00:26:10.089
Danton, that's murder.
637
00:26:10.250 --> 00:26:13.470
Yeah, yeah, that's just what it is. And easy, too.
638
00:26:13.490 --> 00:26:14.869
Danton, you can't just leave us here.
639
00:26:15.029 --> 00:26:15.490
Watch me.
640
00:26:16.250 --> 00:26:18.210
Sit in front of that machine and watch me. Yeah,
641
00:26:18.250 --> 00:26:20.740
I know what it is. I know it's a television
642
00:26:20.769 --> 00:26:24.069
without a transmitter. And I did some checking up. I've
643
00:26:24.089 --> 00:26:26.609
seen how you were stealing my call. Trying to steal
644
00:26:26.650 --> 00:26:27.170
my girl.
645
00:26:27.190 --> 00:26:29.670
Stanton, you're sick. You can't... Pretty smart, that lost race.
646
00:26:29.730 --> 00:26:32.990
They built some machine. And it showed me plenty. It
647
00:26:33.029 --> 00:26:34.089
showed me enough to kill you.
648
00:26:34.849 --> 00:26:38.049
Oh, you've got it all wrong. This isn't a television machine.
649
00:26:38.309 --> 00:26:39.569
What are you trying to pull, Wharton?
650
00:26:39.609 --> 00:26:40.180
I saw it.
651
00:26:40.269 --> 00:26:43.579
Those were your own thoughts, Stanton. Those things you saw
652
00:26:43.900 --> 00:26:45.400
exist only in your mind.
653
00:26:45.420 --> 00:26:47.950
Shut up before I blast all of you down. They're
654
00:26:47.970 --> 00:26:50.039
just trying to lie out of it, that's all. But
655
00:26:50.079 --> 00:26:52.220
I know the truth when I say it. And you're
656
00:26:52.259 --> 00:26:52.900
going to die.
657
00:26:53.119 --> 00:26:55.019
All right, Danton, but you're not going to get away
658
00:26:55.039 --> 00:26:56.660
with it. Look at the machine.
659
00:26:58.180 --> 00:26:58.759
What's that?
660
00:26:58.869 --> 00:27:03.190
The machine. It's the Space Guard patrol, Danton. Look, they're coming.
661
00:27:03.490 --> 00:27:04.849
X-3 to command.
662
00:27:05.210 --> 00:27:10.170
Spotted the Corellias reported... Preparing to land. That's the space guard, Danton.
663
00:27:10.230 --> 00:27:11.650
Yeah, whole patrol. You're lying.
664
00:27:11.690 --> 00:27:12.109
You're lying.
665
00:27:12.150 --> 00:27:12.730
They couldn't come.
666
00:27:12.750 --> 00:27:16.730
There wasn't any SOS. X-3 to command. Preparing to land.
667
00:27:16.750 --> 00:27:21.859
There's the clearing. That's enough, Howell. All right, Danton. They'll
668
00:27:21.880 --> 00:27:23.880
be coming over the horizon. Drop your gun and give
669
00:27:23.900 --> 00:27:26.319
yourself up. No, they're not going to catch me.
670
00:27:26.819 --> 00:27:28.519
I'll be away in that lifeboat before they land.
671
00:27:28.559 --> 00:27:29.359
Stay still, all of you.
672
00:27:29.380 --> 00:27:31.299
Stay where you are. I've still got you covered.
673
00:27:31.319 --> 00:27:32.740
Danton, look out behind you.
674
00:27:33.079 --> 00:27:38.819
Ah! Burial shaft. He fell in it.
675
00:27:41.299 --> 00:27:43.019
Hold the light down, Briggs. Well?
676
00:27:44.359 --> 00:27:44.759
He's dead.
677
00:27:45.519 --> 00:27:49.720
Deader than the lost race. And what about those space
678
00:27:49.779 --> 00:27:52.420
guard cruisers? Out of my head.
679
00:27:52.440 --> 00:27:54.819
I just imagined them.
680
00:27:54.880 --> 00:27:55.960
There they were on the machine.
681
00:27:57.160 --> 00:27:58.759
Poor Danton believed they were real.
682
00:27:58.880 --> 00:28:00.349
I wish they were real so we could get off
683
00:28:00.380 --> 00:28:04.089
this planet. It doesn't matter. We know where the lifeboat
684
00:28:04.130 --> 00:28:07.119
is now. We can send one man to bring back help.
685
00:28:08.099 --> 00:28:08.980
And it won't be Danton.
686
00:28:09.720 --> 00:28:12.380
The machine got him the same way it got the
687
00:28:12.440 --> 00:28:13.259
lost race.
688
00:28:14.299 --> 00:28:14.880
Through fear.
689
00:28:16.000 --> 00:28:18.480
But what was the lost race afraid of, Howell?
690
00:28:19.480 --> 00:28:19.980
Changing.
691
00:28:21.200 --> 00:28:21.619
Changing?
692
00:28:22.619 --> 00:28:26.109
Look at those skeletons down there. They had atomic energy,
693
00:28:26.150 --> 00:28:27.130
but they couldn't control it.
694
00:28:28.269 --> 00:28:28.470
Look.
695
00:28:29.549 --> 00:28:33.549
The baby's different from the other. The race was changing.
696
00:28:34.230 --> 00:28:35.089
By mutations.
697
00:28:36.279 --> 00:28:37.299
Look at those skeletons.
698
00:28:38.140 --> 00:28:41.579
Now imagine a shifted hip socket so they could walk upright.
699
00:28:42.700 --> 00:28:46.519
The baby was already without a tail. But how? That
700
00:28:46.559 --> 00:28:50.900
would mean they were changing into... into... Yes, Captain.
701
00:28:52.400 --> 00:28:55.470
The lost race committed suicide rather than face the fear
702
00:28:56.490 --> 00:28:59.470
of seeing their descendants become such horrible creatures as.
703
00:29:00.650 --> 00:29:00.829
men.
704
00:29:18.259 --> 00:29:21.579
You have just heard another adventure into the unknown world
705
00:29:21.619 --> 00:29:22.259
of the future.
706
00:29:22.740 --> 00:29:23.579
The world of.
707
00:29:25.220 --> 00:29:34.869
Dimension X. And now, about next week. William Travis and
708
00:29:34.910 --> 00:29:38.529
his wife thought they had escaped. But they were wrong.
709
00:29:39.349 --> 00:29:41.940
They were being circumcised. out by men from another world.
710
00:29:42.579 --> 00:29:47.440
Men who wanted them to return. Where? I'll tell you
711
00:29:48.150 --> 00:29:48.589
next week.
712
00:29:51.420 --> 00:29:54.650
Tonight's drama was based on the Murray Leinster story, The Lost,
713
00:29:54.809 --> 00:29:58.029
and was adapted for radio by Ernest Canoy. Featured in
714
00:29:58.049 --> 00:30:01.450
the cast were Matt Crowley as Captain Wharton, Roger DeKoven
715
00:30:01.509 --> 00:30:04.750
as Howell, and Joseph Julian as Danton. Your host was
716
00:30:04.789 --> 00:30:11.779
Norman Rose. Tomorrow, it's Sam Spade. Now hear Truth or
717
00:30:11.819 --> 00:30:13.420
Consequences on NBC.
718
00:30:23.559 --> 00:30:27.099
That brings us to the close of Dimension X, Episode 7,
719
00:30:27.099 --> 00:30:30.890
The Lost Race. Follow Dimension X for more classic science
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fiction broadcasts.