Full Transcript for Lights Out - "Bathysphere" (Old Time Radio, 1943)

37 00:02:42.759 --> 00:02:46.270 savour it before it happens. Yes, stay and talk to me. 38 00:02:46.889 --> 00:02:50.060 As you say, Your Excellency. How far under will we 39 00:02:50.090 --> 00:02:52.960 have to go to break the record? Over half a mile. 40 00:02:52.979 --> 00:02:53.900 Mm-hmm. 41 00:02:53.960 --> 00:02:57.699 How far's the bottom? Just over the record mark. Deeper 42 00:02:57.719 --> 00:03:01.810 than any man's ever gone. It'll all be very amusing. 43 00:03:06.400 --> 00:03:09.159 Suddenly the winds change. Always at this hour of the day, 44 00:03:09.199 --> 00:03:12.479 Your Excellency. It's time to go. I assure you that 45 00:03:12.539 --> 00:03:14.280 the sea will wait for us. But I am the 46 00:03:14.300 --> 00:03:16.469 start of the... Don't think so much, my young friend. 47 00:03:16.500 --> 00:03:20.650 Thinking is an unnecessary pastime. The emotions are much more dependable. 48 00:03:21.449 --> 00:03:23.849 My thoughts tell me that this little excursion under the 49 00:03:23.889 --> 00:03:27.060 sea will be quite precarious. On the other hand, my 50 00:03:27.099 --> 00:03:30.400 emotions tell me that it will be most interesting and amusing. 51 00:03:30.599 --> 00:03:34.319 Your Excellency, we are ready. Captain, you too are impatient, huh? 52 00:03:35.159 --> 00:03:36.879 I don't know what you mean. That is to say... Now, now, 53 00:03:36.909 --> 00:03:40.610 don't splutter. Now, come ahead, my young and impatient flame. 54 00:03:40.650 --> 00:03:49.840 We'll go aboard your diving boat and begin our little adventure. Come. Attention! Attention! 55 00:03:51.449 --> 00:03:54.009 You see, Your Excellency, we are quite ready. Well, Doctor, 56 00:03:54.069 --> 00:03:56.909 is everything to your satisfaction? Did you put in an 57 00:03:56.969 --> 00:04:00.430 extra oxygen tank, Captain? Yes, sir. Everything just as you said, Doctor. 58 00:04:00.569 --> 00:04:04.069 The telephone communication being tested? Twenty times. Search flight? I 59 00:04:04.110 --> 00:04:06.389 assure you, everything has been tested, Doctor. The winds go 60 00:04:06.430 --> 00:04:09.409 smoothly now? Why, yes, I believe. I don't want you 61 00:04:09.430 --> 00:04:11.180 to believe. I want you to know. But I assure you. 62 00:04:11.189 --> 00:04:13.580 Go and test it at once. Yes, Doctor. At once, Doctor. 63 00:04:15.460 --> 00:04:15.960 All right, then. 64 00:04:15.979 --> 00:04:17.240 Test number one. 65 00:04:17.540 --> 00:04:19.199 Aye, aye, sir. Aye, aye. Test number one. 66 00:04:19.420 --> 00:04:19.899 All right. 67 00:04:23.009 --> 00:04:25.470 Well, your thoroughness is most commendable, Doctor. 68 00:04:25.949 --> 00:04:27.740 We are going half a mile below the sea, sir. 69 00:04:28.389 --> 00:04:30.939 Nothing can be left to chance. The pressures down there 70 00:04:31.000 --> 00:04:32.600 are almost beyond imagination. 71 00:04:32.639 --> 00:04:36.300 Yes, I know, I know. Particularly on this dive, everything 72 00:04:36.319 --> 00:04:40.240 must be protected. You mean the record? I mean, Your Excellency, 73 00:04:40.259 --> 00:04:44.870 that your life is precious to the state. Yes. The 74 00:04:44.910 --> 00:04:46.410 press of the world has known me only as a 75 00:04:46.449 --> 00:04:48.610 record breaker in the world of what they so quaintly 76 00:04:48.629 --> 00:04:52.250 term power politics. By nightfall, I'll herald me as a 77 00:04:52.269 --> 00:04:55.490 record breaker in the world of science, eh, doctor? If 78 00:04:55.970 --> 00:05:00.420 all goes well, Your Excellency. If? You have doubts? No 79 00:05:00.540 --> 00:05:03.540 one can predict the ways of the sea. What are 80 00:05:03.560 --> 00:05:06.120 you talking about? There'll be quite a part of the 81 00:05:06.160 --> 00:05:11.209 sea inside of this fuel ball. This atmosphere. Oxygen to breathe. 82 00:05:11.230 --> 00:05:14.689 Telephones with which to communicate. Lights with which to see. 83 00:05:15.680 --> 00:05:18.259 Why should there be any question? The question of the 84 00:05:18.459 --> 00:05:23.790 human factor, Your Excellency. You're as cautious as they said. 85 00:05:23.870 --> 00:05:27.930 I like that. I, too, am a cautious man. Oh, yes, indeed. 86 00:05:28.829 --> 00:05:32.129 My success has been based upon determining that the unpredictable 87 00:05:32.149 --> 00:05:36.079 cannot occur before I, shall I say, embark upon my 88 00:05:36.160 --> 00:05:41.379 bold adventure. I'm talking quite frankly with you, are you, Doctor? 89 00:05:41.439 --> 00:05:44.170 It pleases me to do so. For a few hours, 90 00:05:44.269 --> 00:05:47.589 we'll be locked up in that steel ball. There's no 91 00:05:47.610 --> 00:05:49.949 reason you shouldn't know a little about your leader, is there? 92 00:05:50.509 --> 00:05:55.189 You honor me, sir. For example, I know beyond the 93 00:05:55.230 --> 00:05:57.670 shadow of a doubt the steel cable which will drop 94 00:05:57.730 --> 00:06:00.470 us down beneath the ocean has strength enough to hold 95 00:06:00.529 --> 00:06:03.329 fifty such steel spheres as the one we'll be in. 96 00:06:04.560 --> 00:06:06.189 I know, too, that you have made, let me think, 97 00:06:06.240 --> 00:06:09.259 you've made thirty such defense doors to throw over the 98 00:06:09.300 --> 00:06:13.089 ocean without the slightest misadventure. The men on this cruise, 99 00:06:13.110 --> 00:06:15.930 they are specially trained for the work. And with my 100 00:06:15.990 --> 00:06:19.360 life in their hands, I'm sure they'll be particularly careful 101 00:06:19.420 --> 00:06:21.339 on this descent. Eh, Doctor? 102 00:06:21.819 --> 00:06:23.319 There is no doubt of it, sir. 103 00:06:23.680 --> 00:06:24.379 All ready now, sir? 104 00:06:24.699 --> 00:06:26.220 Shall we go now, Your Excellency? 105 00:06:26.240 --> 00:06:30.120 Yes, of course, of course. Careful, Your Excellency. 106 00:06:30.160 --> 00:06:31.319 The deck is quite wet here. 107 00:06:31.339 --> 00:06:38.029 Well, thank you,

Captain. Well, of course, sir. Thank you, sir. Attention! No, no, 108 00:06:38.050 --> 00:06:40.170 no formalities. Let the men go about their business so 109 00:06:40.189 --> 00:06:44.470 we can get started. Yes, Your Excellency. At your work, men. 110 00:06:44.490 --> 00:06:46.240 Would you like to get into the bath with me 111 00:06:46.250 --> 00:06:49.839 at first, your Excellency? No, no, after you. Quite a 112 00:06:49.879 --> 00:06:54.220 small doorway, isn't it? How fortunate we're both small, lean men, Doctor. 113 00:06:55.079 --> 00:06:59.449 Lean men. Caesar once said something about that sort, didn't he? 114 00:06:59.470 --> 00:07:01.430 I don't know much about that sort of thing, sir. Oh, 115 00:07:01.470 --> 00:07:04.250 I didn't imagine, sir. Get in, Doctor. I'll follow you. 116 00:07:04.290 --> 00:07:06.129 Yes, sir. 117 00:07:06.170 --> 00:07:09.879 Head first into the steel ball. Quite a round dignity here, Captain. 118 00:07:10.040 --> 00:07:11.980 Shall I help you, sir? No, no, I'll make it 119 00:07:12.019 --> 00:07:17.079 all right. You ready for me, Doctor? Come ahead, sir. Now, 120 00:07:17.120 --> 00:07:27.329 careful of the bolt end, sir. Careful. You're all right, sir? Yes, yes, 121 00:07:27.350 --> 00:07:32.149 of course I am. Well, what are we waiting for? Captain. Aye, sir. 122 00:07:32.230 --> 00:07:35.230 Close her up. Aye, sir. Your ears. 123 00:07:35.290 --> 00:07:35.949 Cover your ears, sir. 124 00:07:35.970 --> 00:07:38.189 Huh? The bolts and wing bolts that hold the door shut, 125 00:07:38.230 --> 00:07:40.069 they have to be tightened by hammering with a sledge. 126 00:07:40.149 --> 00:07:42.329 Cover your ears, sir. 127 00:07:42.370 --> 00:07:45.040 Cover your ears. 128 00:08:02.970 --> 00:08:05.069 All right now, sir. They've done it. But what if... 129 00:08:04.990 --> 00:08:08.269 If I know then... Open it the other way. Hammering 130 00:08:08.310 --> 00:08:11.029 is the only definite guarantee of a watertight seal, sir. 131 00:08:11.170 --> 00:08:11.730 My ears. 132 00:08:11.889 --> 00:08:14.629 All well in there, sir? What's that? A voice with 133 00:08:14.689 --> 00:08:17.189 a telephone, sir. They'll communicate with us from the deck 134 00:08:17.250 --> 00:08:19.750 every three minutes. If one of us doesn't answer within 135 00:08:19.769 --> 00:08:21.829 half a minute, the orders are to pull us up. 136 00:08:22.060 --> 00:08:25.439 An excellent safety precaution. Yes, indeed. All well in there, doctor? 137 00:08:26.329 --> 00:08:31.600 All well. We're moving. Yes. lifting us out to the 138 00:08:31.639 --> 00:08:33.440 end of the boom, and then down we go. 139 00:08:34.360 --> 00:08:35.940 Look, sir, you can see the deck down there. 140 00:08:35.820 --> 00:08:40.330 Through the windows. Glass, so clear. Clearest in the world. 141 00:08:41.000 --> 00:08:44.769 Quartz glass to stand the pressure. Letting us down in 142 00:08:44.809 --> 00:08:55.600 the water, aren't they? Yes, sir, in a moment. We're under. Yes, I... 143 00:08:56.039 --> 00:09:06.769 I turned the oxygen higher. The light. So green. Yes. 144 00:09:07.870 --> 00:09:11.210 Soon it will be blue. Then a darker blue until 145 00:09:11.250 --> 00:09:14.049 it's around 2,000 feet. We'll be in a darkness that 146 00:09:14.769 --> 00:09:22.009 goes beyond dark. Complete eternal night. Eternal night under the water. 147 00:09:23.210 --> 00:10:01.100 How amusing. All well down there, sir? All well. How 148 00:10:01.139 --> 00:10:05.139 far down are we? About 1,100 feet, sir. It's hard 149 00:10:05.159 --> 00:10:07.820 to believe it. There is almost a quarter of a 150 00:10:07.860 --> 00:10:11.519 mile of water crushing down upon us. The word crushing 151 00:10:11.580 --> 00:10:14.990 is most inappropriate at this time, my young friend. My apologies, 152 00:10:15.009 --> 00:10:20.409 Your Excellency. I've been watching the water. You said it 153 00:10:20.429 --> 00:10:25.090 would be at night. If it isn't black, it's... it's blue. Blue. 154 00:10:26.500 --> 00:10:30.360 Strange as blue. A few more hundred feet and there 155 00:10:30.399 --> 00:10:33.440 will be no more color in the water, sir. The 156 00:10:33.480 --> 00:10:36.840 light out there. What light? Can't quite make it out, sir. 157 00:10:37.639 --> 00:10:42.799 Perhaps some sort of a luminous plankton. That's amusing. The 158 00:10:42.840 --> 00:10:45.700 fish is carrying along their own electric clouds. The dark's 159 00:10:45.779 --> 00:10:49.700 alive with them, sir. Oh, look, sir. What? That small 160 00:10:49.759 --> 00:10:50.980 flat fish. You see? 161 00:10:51.519 --> 00:10:55.230 Even his teeth gleam with the luminous mucus. I've caught 162 00:10:55.269 --> 00:10:58.929 that sort in the straws. They can eat organisms as 163 00:10:58.990 --> 00:11:02.169 large as they are. Wait, I'll turn on the searchlight. 164 00:11:01.809 --> 00:11:04.269 And you'll see. No, no, no, never mind. I didn't 165 00:11:04.289 --> 00:11:05.769 come under the sea out of any interest in those 166 00:11:05.789 --> 00:11:10.250 bits of fish. As you say, sir. They light up 167 00:11:10.330 --> 00:11:13.750 like a train in the dark. Oh, would the portholes 168 00:11:13.789 --> 00:11:17.740 of a boat be a more appropriate figure of speech? Well, 169 00:11:17.759 --> 00:11:20.220 seen one, seen them all. All well down there, sir? 170 00:11:21.399 --> 00:11:26.120 All well. How far down now? Ask him. 171 00:11:26.179 --> 00:11:26.509 How far? 172 00:11:26.500 --> 00:11:27.159 1,350 feet. 173 00:11:27.500 --> 00:11:27.779 Right. 174 00:11:28.740 --> 00:11:31.240 You make good time, huh? Yes, sir. They slower us 175 00:11:31.279 --> 00:11:35.500 very quickly, sir. A six-foot ball containing a very honest 176 00:11:35.539 --> 00:11:39.350 young man and the leader of the state. Headed for... 177 00:11:40.389 --> 00:11:44.929 What do you say, doctor? A new record, sir. Is 178 00:11:44.950 --> 00:11:48.049 that as far as your imagination carries you? At

the moment, 179 00:11:48.070 --> 00:11:51.129 I cannot say, Your Excellency. Perhaps when we reach the 180 00:11:51.149 --> 00:11:54.330 end of the cable, we'll discuss life and death very profoundly. Eh, 181 00:11:54.370 --> 00:12:28.250 my friend? Philosophy under the sea. All well down there, sir? 182 00:12:29.350 --> 00:12:35.700 All well. 2,200 feet. Right. How much further? We have 4,000 183 00:12:35.700 --> 00:12:41.299 feet of cable. You were right. There's a darkness out 184 00:12:41.340 --> 00:12:43.799 there now that's darker than any night that man has 185 00:12:43.840 --> 00:12:44.340 ever seen. 186 00:12:44.360 --> 00:12:46.299 It's amusing. 187 00:12:46.340 --> 00:13:22.919 It's amusing. All well down there, sir? All well. 2,800 feet, sir. 188 00:13:23.419 --> 00:13:23.710 Right. 189 00:13:26.250 --> 00:13:30.549 Your Excellency. Yes? In 10 or 11 minutes, we will 190 00:13:30.570 --> 00:13:35.370 have broken the record. You keep your eyes so close 191 00:13:35.389 --> 00:13:39.570 to that window. Might I ask why? I thought I 192 00:13:39.649 --> 00:13:48.649 saw something out there. What, sir? Something huge. It gave 193 00:13:48.669 --> 00:13:50.409 off a pale green light, and then it was gone 194 00:13:50.450 --> 00:13:53.970 so quickly, I... I'm not quite sure. I'll turn on 195 00:13:53.990 --> 00:13:58.990 the switch. No, no. No, this infernal darkness amuses me. 196 00:14:00.970 --> 00:14:02.429 Tell me, Doctor, in your other trips, have you seen 197 00:14:02.470 --> 00:14:08.440 anything out there... so vague, huge? You know what I mean. Yes, sir. 198 00:14:09.240 --> 00:14:15.720 Several times. Well? Shadowy and indistinct. I couldn't say what, sir. 199 00:14:16.519 --> 00:14:21.370 Can't you guess? I have no answer. All well down there? Oh, 200 00:14:21.389 --> 00:14:24.669 tell him yes, yes, yes, and stop annoying us. All well, 201 00:14:24.740 --> 00:14:28.500 and don't bother... I get the compliment, sir. You've reached 3,028 seats, sir. 202 00:14:28.879 --> 00:14:32.200 That was Beebe's record. Huh? The old one. 203 00:14:32.200 --> 00:14:32.899 3,030. 204 00:14:32.899 --> 00:14:34.480 Broken it. 3,100. 205 00:14:34.480 --> 00:14:36.840 Doctor, that's quite a number. 206 00:14:36.840 --> 00:14:40.019 3,150. Doctor, did you hear me? Broken the record on 207 00:14:40.039 --> 00:14:42.720 a few feet of spare. Order them to hold us up. 3,200. Doctor, 208 00:14:42.740 --> 00:14:46.679 you ought to be ahead. I gave you orders. Have 209 00:14:46.700 --> 00:14:48.970 them pull us up. I've had enough of this. I 210 00:14:48.990 --> 00:14:56.000 tell you that I. 211 00:14:59.179 --> 00:15:05.330 What? What happened? Happened? We just landed at the bottom 212 00:15:05.370 --> 00:15:08.809 of the sea, that's all. Why did you ignore my orders? 213 00:15:08.929 --> 00:15:11.889 I said to go up. What are you doing now? 214 00:15:14.330 --> 00:15:17.480 What was that lever that you threw? Answer me. Yes. 215 00:15:18.320 --> 00:15:23.919 I'll answer. Haven't you forgotten something, Doctor? What? To say, sir, 216 00:15:24.419 --> 00:15:30.480 your excellency. Excellency? Here, at the bottom of the sea? What? 217 00:15:31.879 --> 00:15:35.100 What happened to you? All of a sudden, you... I'm 218 00:15:37.250 --> 00:15:39.529 excited about creating a new record. A little too much 219 00:15:39.590 --> 00:15:44.409 for you, eh, my young friend? Well, it's understandable. Now, 220 00:15:44.429 --> 00:15:47.090 sing the ships and have them draw us up. Your 221 00:15:47.110 --> 00:15:51.340 little adventure is over. Didn't you hear me? 222 00:15:51.360 --> 00:15:53.820 I said signal the ship. 223 00:15:54.399 --> 00:15:57.559 How? Are you out of your mind completely? Telephone them. 224 00:15:58.940 --> 00:15:59.700 At once, you hear me? 225 00:15:59.720 --> 00:16:05.019 A telephone consists of a carbon transmitter, receiver, actuating battery, 226 00:16:05.039 --> 00:16:05.950 and connecting wire. 227 00:16:07.149 --> 00:16:10.009 We have no telephone. Get to one side. 228 00:16:10.029 --> 00:16:11.590 Hello. 229 00:16:12.470 --> 00:16:18.029 Hello up there. Hello. Hello, on to me. Hello. Hello. Hello, Blouse. 230 00:16:18.090 --> 00:16:23.120 Do you answer me? Hello. But they don't. The wire's 231 00:16:23.240 --> 00:16:28.000 torn loose. Would you know how to fix it, Your Excellency? What? 232 00:16:30.059 --> 00:16:32.840 I see it. Happened when we bumped on the bottom 233 00:16:32.860 --> 00:16:36.960 to the bed. Well, can't you fix it? I can, 234 00:16:37.659 --> 00:16:42.110 but I won't, Your Excellency. What is this? 235 00:16:43.929 --> 00:16:45.909 Taken you a great number of moments longer than I 236 00:16:45.970 --> 00:16:50.570 expected to ask that question. You notice that I've called 237 00:16:50.590 --> 00:16:53.750 you Your Excellency a couple of times, but that was 238 00:16:53.789 --> 00:16:54.509 the end of that. 239 00:16:55.610 --> 00:17:00.009 From now on, I will call you Your Infernal Excellency. 240 00:17:00.289 --> 00:17:06.269 How amusing. Still amusing. Yes. I don't believe it. You 241 00:17:06.289 --> 00:17:08.779 think it's some kind of madness on my part that 242 00:17:08.799 --> 00:17:12.259 you'll do something about it. Not I, you. I? You 243 00:17:12.279 --> 00:17:15.250 have an emergency way of signaling it. Yes, I know 244 00:17:15.289 --> 00:17:18.349 you have. You flashed the searchlight on and off three times, 245 00:17:18.430 --> 00:17:19.829 and the floor of Curran tried to do it up 246 00:17:19.910 --> 00:17:24.490 on deck. And they know that it's an emergency. I'll 247 00:17:24.509 --> 00:17:27.309 go ahead and do it, and perhaps I'll forget your little... 248 00:17:28.170 --> 00:17:33.329 Shall we call it... joke? I am quite content to 249 00:17:33.490 --> 00:17:38.250 stay down here. Turn on the searchlight. All right, I'll 250 00:17:38.269 --> 00:17:44.509 do it myself. Why waste your time... You've so little 251 00:17:44.529

--> 00:17:48.529 of it left. What do you mean by that? The searchlight, too, 252 00:17:48.589 --> 00:17:53.410 is disconnected. Why? There is no need of it. It 253 00:17:53.430 --> 00:17:56.750 will be best to die in the dark. Die? Yes. 254 00:17:58.869 --> 00:18:03.529 This is impossible. I investigated you, your record, your family, 255 00:18:03.549 --> 00:18:09.650 your associates. Clearest record in the state. You have no 256 00:18:09.690 --> 00:18:13.119 reason in the world to kill me. Kill me? It's 257 00:18:13.140 --> 00:18:20.420 very funny. A young, empty-headed fool killed me. It's very amusing. 258 00:18:21.000 --> 00:18:24.140 You'll be afraid soon. Is it possible that you've forgotten 259 00:18:24.160 --> 00:18:28.599 the final emergency signal, you fool? Yes, I said signal. 260 00:18:29.740 --> 00:18:32.619 The signal of silence. I'll try to tell you from 261 00:18:32.660 --> 00:18:36.390 the schedule, and when we don't answer, they'll pull us out. 262 00:18:37.750 --> 00:18:41.230 Have you forgotten that? It's been more than three minutes 263 00:18:41.250 --> 00:18:43.920 since the last signal. If what you say is true, 264 00:18:44.299 --> 00:18:45.119 why aren't we moving? 265 00:18:45.740 --> 00:18:46.059 We. 266 00:18:47.779 --> 00:18:52.319 We are. For all I know, we... We are. Are we? 267 00:18:53.579 --> 00:18:56.329 The darkness, who can tell if there's enough emotion? You 268 00:18:56.369 --> 00:18:59.289 know emotion. As quiet as an atoll. 269 00:18:59.309 --> 00:19:01.630 Appropriate, then. 270 00:19:02.670 --> 00:19:04.890 And we'll stay here. I know that. 271 00:19:04.970 --> 00:19:05.230 Huh? 272 00:19:06.430 --> 00:19:08.190 That leave up on the roof that I pulled. Well? 273 00:19:08.490 --> 00:19:10.710 It threw the end of the steel cable free. Yes, 274 00:19:10.779 --> 00:19:14.180 so that the cord between ourselves... And the ship and 275 00:19:14.220 --> 00:19:14.619 the world. 276 00:19:14.700 --> 00:19:20.740 No. We are here, Your Infernal Excellency. Down here to stay. No. 277 00:19:21.599 --> 00:19:24.519 You lie. I don't believe you. Well, pull it up. 278 00:19:25.099 --> 00:19:28.160 The telephone, here. Here, you up there. Listen. Get me up. 279 00:19:28.829 --> 00:19:31.190 Get me up. You up there. Hear me. It's your leader. 280 00:19:31.490 --> 00:19:33.450 Get me out of here. Get me out of here. 281 00:19:33.470 --> 00:19:35.730 You hear me? Get me out of here. Out of here. 282 00:19:35.750 --> 00:19:36.109 Out of here. 283 00:19:46.519 --> 00:19:47.859 Not been here a month. 284 00:19:48.849 --> 00:19:52.319 Oxygen left for another... hour, and it takes you ten 285 00:19:52.400 --> 00:19:57.259 precious minutes of your precious life to believe. You do 286 00:19:57.279 --> 00:19:59.079 believe you're going to die now, don't you? 287 00:20:01.339 --> 00:20:06.059 I'm sure nothing could happen. Every detail of the machinery. 288 00:20:07.140 --> 00:20:09.539 The record of every member of the crew. And I 289 00:20:09.579 --> 00:20:13.720 was one of those who was perfectly harmless. Yes, you passed. 290 00:20:15.029 --> 00:20:17.289 Since a boy trained in the schools of the state. 291 00:20:18.579 --> 00:20:24.599 The father an official. Why do you do this to me? Why? 292 00:20:25.559 --> 00:20:28.980 Your ego is so great that even now, knowing you're 293 00:20:29.000 --> 00:20:32.339 going to die here with me, you're less concerned with 294 00:20:32.440 --> 00:20:36.440 death than you are with knowing wherein you failed. Answer me, 295 00:20:36.480 --> 00:20:39.900 why do you do this? You were trained in my schools, 296 00:20:39.940 --> 00:20:43.650 brought up to think the way you should think. Who 297 00:20:43.670 --> 00:20:46.240 out there made you do this thing and why? It 298 00:20:46.259 --> 00:20:49.279 will be a slow death. As slow as the death 299 00:20:49.339 --> 00:20:52.960 of my country. Answer me. Who and why? Your mouth 300 00:20:53.000 --> 00:20:54.680 will bite for air. And there won't be enough to 301 00:20:54.720 --> 00:20:57.019 let you live. And yet there'll be enough so that 302 00:20:57.059 --> 00:20:59.319 you won't quite die. You'll tell me you will. Your 303 00:20:59.359 --> 00:21:01.140 lungs will reach up through your mouth. A breath of air. 304 00:21:01.160 --> 00:21:04.529 Just another. There won't be another. And as you die, 305 00:21:04.809 --> 00:21:06.569 you'll know it. I want to know one thing. Why 306 00:21:06.589 --> 00:21:09.029 do you do this? Why, why, why? Yes, I'll give 307 00:21:09.049 --> 00:21:11.720 you your why's. You trained me in your school. 308 00:21:12.069 --> 00:21:14.049 And from morning to night, what went into my head 309 00:21:14.089 --> 00:21:16.130 was only what you decreed was right and proper for 310 00:21:16.150 --> 00:21:18.230 a good citizen of your eternal state to know. 311 00:21:19.190 --> 00:21:22.509 Yes, you crammed my head full. But there's one place 312 00:21:22.569 --> 00:21:24.890 you and your books and your speeches couldn't reach. 313 00:21:25.369 --> 00:21:25.829 My heart. 314 00:21:25.890 --> 00:21:28.930 Your heart? Yes, heart. You heard me, heart. My head 315 00:21:28.950 --> 00:21:31.430 said believe. My heart said no. My head said obey. 316 00:21:31.470 --> 00:21:34.230 My heart said no. That's where you made your mistake, 317 00:21:34.269 --> 00:21:36.529 you devil. You didn't start in young enough with me. 318 00:21:37.400 --> 00:21:39.440 For the heart that was born inside of me has 319 00:21:39.500 --> 00:21:43.819 brought you here to die. I... I don't understand. 320 00:21:44.200 --> 00:21:44.500 Wait. 321 00:21:44.980 --> 00:21:46.289 I'll turn a little more oxygen on. 322 00:21:48.890 --> 00:21:50.890 That'll give me a little more strength to keep on 323 00:21:50.930 --> 00:21:53.329 telling you you're fired. And cut the breath left for 324 00:21:53.349 --> 00:21:54.230 you after I'm finished. 325 00:21:55.670 --> 00:21:56.390 What was I saying? 326

00:21:57.390 --> 00:22:00.309 Yes, that you didn't condition me quite well enough. Should 327 00:22:00.349 --> 00:22:03.259 have started with the embryo. For somewhere along the line 328 00:22:03.299 --> 00:22:05.559 a little humanity got inside of me that cried out 329 00:22:05.619 --> 00:22:08.630 against what you were doing. It grew and grew until 330 00:22:08.670 --> 00:22:09.789 it said you had to die. 331 00:22:09.809 --> 00:22:12.750 And you will die. Yes, here in the black under 332 00:22:12.769 --> 00:22:15.509 the sea. And they won't roll drums for you, march 333 00:22:15.549 --> 00:22:19.230 for you. Ended here. What have you to say to that? 334 00:22:19.250 --> 00:22:22.490 You fool. Fool? Is that all you answer? Yes, fool. 335 00:22:22.609 --> 00:22:24.109 You think I'm a fool to die here with you? 336 00:22:24.250 --> 00:22:26.099 You call me a fool when I know that ending 337 00:22:26.130 --> 00:22:27.500 here I give a new beginning to. 338 00:22:27.440 --> 00:22:29.900 Those up there. Yes, such a fool. Oh, stop saying that. 339 00:22:30.480 --> 00:22:32.059 They won't say it back in the cities when they 340 00:22:32.079 --> 00:22:34.359 know that they're free. You fool. You think the freedom 341 00:22:34.420 --> 00:22:36.420 of me will make them free? Yes, yes, of course 342 00:22:36.480 --> 00:22:40.200 it will. I call you fool again. How do you 343 00:22:40.240 --> 00:22:43.039 think I became the head of the state? Through my 344 00:22:43.099 --> 00:22:47.759 great wisdom? I'm really not so wise. Through my great courage? 345 00:22:48.559 --> 00:22:50.480 No man has courage of that sort to stand up 346 00:22:50.539 --> 00:22:53.700 single-handed against the bullets and the bareness of the entrenched powers. 347 00:22:55.180 --> 00:22:57.019 And how? How did I do it? With lies and 348 00:22:57.059 --> 00:23:00.299 ruthlessness and cruelty, I know. You don't know a thing. 349 00:23:01.789 --> 00:23:04.369 You saw the end result surrounded by pomp and circumstance 350 00:23:04.430 --> 00:23:07.950 and you couldn't see the means. All right, I know 351 00:23:08.009 --> 00:23:11.410 I'm going to die. When a man is expected to 352 00:23:11.470 --> 00:23:13.839 die as long as I have, the actuality isn't quite 353 00:23:13.880 --> 00:23:17.710 as frightening as you might think. Since I am going 354 00:23:17.750 --> 00:23:20.349 to die, I'll have the one small satisfaction of showing 355 00:23:20.390 --> 00:23:23.769 you that you're an empty-headed fool. Stop saying that! Ah, 356 00:23:23.809 --> 00:23:27.730 you two have an ego. Apparently it's lived for weeks 357 00:23:27.829 --> 00:23:30.490 on how you'd make me plead and beg and scrub 358 00:23:30.519 --> 00:23:34.140 down on my knees. I had a few moments of hysteria, 359 00:23:34.160 --> 00:23:40.339 didn't I? You like that. You don't like this? My 360 00:23:40.380 --> 00:23:43.140 sitting in the dark so calmly telling you that you're 361 00:23:43.160 --> 00:23:47.059 a fool? I haven't failed. You're here. You failed because 362 00:23:47.099 --> 00:23:48.799 if you're killing me and yourself to give them back 363 00:23:48.819 --> 00:23:53.049 their freedom, whatever that word means, you're dying quite in vain. 364 00:23:53.089 --> 00:23:55.710 You're saying that because you think... No, don't talk. Listen 365 00:23:55.730 --> 00:24:00.430 to me. I'll tell you where you failed. I came 366 00:24:00.470 --> 00:24:03.819 into power not alone through my own strength, but because 367 00:24:03.839 --> 00:24:06.019 the conditions of our country were such that other men 368 00:24:06.079 --> 00:24:09.500 sitting on their wealth came to a decision that I 369 00:24:09.579 --> 00:24:11.660 alone could keep them there. But it was you... I 370 00:24:11.660 --> 00:24:16.299 tell you, listen. When an ancient rule of privilege is threatened, 371 00:24:16.380 --> 00:24:19.039 it seeks to live no matter what the cost. The 372 00:24:19.079 --> 00:24:22.099 cost to them was me, and they found me worth it. 373 00:24:22.740 --> 00:24:24.759 For I threw to the mass none of the wealth 374 00:24:24.799 --> 00:24:28.759 that worked to build, but only fighting phrases of prejudice 375 00:24:28.859 --> 00:24:31.769 and hate to cost the men who made me nothing 376 00:24:31.829 --> 00:24:34.609 but the rent of the halls for the simple to 377 00:24:34.650 --> 00:24:39.869 hear my opiates. And so I call you fool. Fool 378 00:24:39.890 --> 00:24:42.950 to die and fool to kill me. But the conditions 379 00:24:42.990 --> 00:24:46.930 that made me will still exist when I'm dead. You 380 00:24:46.950 --> 00:24:50.119 free them of me. But what of hunger? What of 381 00:24:50.160 --> 00:24:53.640 ruthless exploitation? These will still be free up there to 382 00:24:53.660 --> 00:24:57.539 put hate and desperation into men. And so the ones 383 00:24:57.599 --> 00:25:00.269 who gave me power will find a new leader to 384 00:25:00.289 --> 00:25:03.730 stop the Romney's rebellion with all the tricks that I 385 00:25:03.789 --> 00:25:07.150 taught them. A new leader. A new leader. Do you 386 00:25:07.190 --> 00:25:10.289 hear me, fool, or a new leader? No, it isn't true. 387 00:25:10.329 --> 00:25:13.950 It can't be true. It's so dark. If I could 388 00:25:14.009 --> 00:25:17.109 see your face to see the fool discovering he's a fool. 389 00:25:17.230 --> 00:25:19.869 They will be free. They will. They will. What magic 390 00:25:19.910 --> 00:25:22.130 do you think will come into the air when I'm dead? 391 00:25:22.150 --> 00:25:27.369 Will men forget their greed and say, oh, we've quite enough? 392 00:25:28.130 --> 00:25:31.809 That's enough for everyone. Let each share according to his needs. 393 00:25:32.930 --> 00:25:33.509 No, fool. 394 00:25:34.299 --> 00:25:36.559 With me or without me, the game will be played 395 00:25:36.740 --> 00:25:40.599 just as it always has been played. So you're a 396 00:25:40.720 --> 00:25:43.779 fool and die like one. What could I

have done? 397 00:25:43.799 --> 00:25:45.680 I hadn't done something. I'll tell you what you could 398 00:25:45.700 --> 00:25:48.299 have done. You could have done the one thing that 399 00:25:48.339 --> 00:25:50.619 would have in time helped destroy not only me, but 400 00:25:50.660 --> 00:25:55.319 those who made me. You could have gone to the people. What? Yes, 401 00:25:55.380 --> 00:25:58.680 walked among them, worked among them. And at every chance 402 00:25:58.759 --> 00:26:02.230 whispered to them the things I kept from them. The 403 00:26:02.279 --> 00:26:04.140 noose would have been around your neck every time you 404 00:26:04.220 --> 00:26:08.279 opened up your mouth. And yet, in that talking of 405 00:26:08.380 --> 00:26:11.559 liberty and freedom and common decency and all the rest 406 00:26:11.599 --> 00:26:15.140 of that sort of thing, there's been far more meaning 407 00:26:15.680 --> 00:26:19.640 in this futile murdering of me. I've had them hunted 408 00:26:19.660 --> 00:26:22.140 down and shot, each of those who dared to whisper 409 00:26:22.200 --> 00:26:25.660 among the people. But as they died, I didn't call 410 00:26:25.700 --> 00:26:30.670 them fools. Because I knew that they were wise. That 411 00:26:30.730 --> 00:26:32.779 only for the will to live and do of the 412 00:26:32.819 --> 00:26:36.460 great bludgeoning mass of their people was their hope of 413 00:26:36.539 --> 00:26:42.809 making that new world they wanted. Oh, have I bothered talking? 414 00:26:42.829 --> 00:26:52.369 The air is thick. I'm... I'm tired. Hand me something heavy, fool. Why? Why, why? 415 00:26:52.450 --> 00:26:56.369 More explanations? All right, the last one. You think I'm 416 00:26:56.410 --> 00:26:59.299 going to sit here and wait and count my every 417 00:26:59.359 --> 00:27:04.839 breath until the dark's crawling with horrors and I'm crawling... No. 418 00:27:06.319 --> 00:27:09.829 I'll end it now, quickly. Yes, faster than a bullet shot. 419 00:27:10.329 --> 00:27:12.950 Give me something heavy, I tell you. I'll smash the glass. 420 00:27:13.349 --> 00:27:16.730 The water, tons of it, smashing in. I'll be dead, dead, dead, 421 00:27:16.809 --> 00:27:19.210 faster than the thought and never end it. Give me 422 00:27:19.230 --> 00:27:21.529 something to smash the glass or I'll... All well down there, sir? 423 00:27:24.490 --> 00:27:26.009 All well down there, sir? 424 00:27:34.359 --> 00:27:34.740 Floyd. 425 00:27:37.039 --> 00:27:37.319 Telephone. 426 00:27:39.470 --> 00:27:48.170 All well. Take us up. We're moving. There's water on 427 00:27:48.190 --> 00:27:55.059 the glass. We're moving. Doctor, the cable. I lied. But 428 00:27:55.099 --> 00:27:57.200 all this time, why... My orders. 429 00:27:57.019 --> 00:27:59.220 To the crew were to leave us alone on the 430 00:27:59.279 --> 00:28:01.920 bottom as soon as the slackening of the wire showed 431 00:28:01.940 --> 00:28:02.880 them we'd hit the bottom. 432 00:28:03.509 --> 00:28:10.170 Terrifying. I reconnected it while you talked. Then... You didn't 433 00:28:10.210 --> 00:28:14.529 really mean to kill me. Kill you? Yes, I meant 434 00:28:14.549 --> 00:28:17.869 to kill you. I had it all planned out. Tell 435 00:28:17.890 --> 00:28:19.950 you what I told you, and then you'll go quite 436 00:28:20.029 --> 00:28:25.329 crazy with fear. And after that, I'd kill you. 2,900 feet. 437 00:28:26.109 --> 00:28:31.390 All well down there, sir? All well. And yet you didn't. 438 00:28:32.910 --> 00:28:37.339 The lights of the creatures out there. Blinking of stars 439 00:28:37.400 --> 00:28:40.750 on a cold night. Why didn't you kill me? I 440 00:28:40.769 --> 00:28:44.420 want to know. What would have been the good of it? 441 00:28:45.829 --> 00:28:49.519 A fool and a figure had died together. No good 442 00:28:49.559 --> 00:28:54.140 of it. So you believed me. Even a fool can 443 00:28:54.779 --> 00:29:01.480 understand futility. The water's getting lighter. Soon we'll be back 444 00:29:02.779 --> 00:29:09.359 up there. It'll be very strange at first. I don't 445 00:29:09.420 --> 00:29:15.009 much care now, yet I ask, what happens to me? You? 446 00:29:16.930 --> 00:29:21.150 I told you many things down there, didn't I? Yes, 447 00:29:21.210 --> 00:29:26.210 too many things. A man in doubt as I was 448 00:29:26.299 --> 00:29:30.359 talks too much. And since you of necessity heard what 449 00:29:30.440 --> 00:29:34.400 I said, when we get there, I will probably have 450 00:29:34.440 --> 00:29:40.660 you shot. The victim sentences his murderer It will be 451 00:29:40.880 --> 00:29:42.109 most amusing. 452 00:29:51.470 --> 00:29:58.579 It is later than you think. 453 00:30:15.349 --> 00:30:20.789 We leave Lights Out with Arch Arbola's Bathysphere from June 29th, 1943. 454 00:30:20.789 --> 00:30:23.220 Follow Lights Out for more classic broadcasts.