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An Earth expedition reaches Mars in 1987 and finds through
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the mist a small American town seemingly unchanged since the 1920s.
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It is Dimension X, Episode 14, Mars is Heaven, first
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heard on NBC July 7, 1950. Wendell Holmes stars as
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Captain John Black, leading the landing party. Peter Capel is Dr.
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Horst.
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The script is Ernest Kenoy's adaptation of Ray Bradbury's story,
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directed by Edward King and produced by Van Woodward. As
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Captain Black and his crew walk from their rocket toward
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familiar streets and faces that should be impossible, their mission
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takes an unexpected turn. We now take you back to
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the original broadcast.
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Wheaties presents... Dimension X. Adventures in time and space.
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Transcribed in future tense.
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Dimension X.
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On stage tonight, Dimension X. Another in the Wheaties' big
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parade of exciting half-hour presentations. Say, tomorrow's Saturday, you know,
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and maybe you don't have to show up for work.
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A whole swell summer day for just what you want
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to do. So start off with a big holiday bowl
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of Wheaties at breakfast and just see how it sparks
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up the morning. Wheaties are whole wheat, you know, and
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I don't have to tell you what good, sturdy nourishment
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that is. So if you've got fish to catch or
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golf to play or maybe a hike to take, just
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see how Wheaties.
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Can make it all a lot more fun. You know why?
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Why, lady, mister, it's just because you feel good when
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you've had your Wheaties. Those two-fisted little whole wheat flakes
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are loaded with vitamins and minerals. And so are you,
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when you've had your Wheaties. Go on, try them. Just
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you see how Wheaties at seven can help at eleven.
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When the first space rocket lands on Mars, what will
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we find? Will we be welcomed with open arms, or
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will the Martians treat us as invaders?
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Only one thing is certain.
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Someday a giant metal ship will take off from Earth
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to travel through the black velocities, the silent gulfs of space,
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to descend at last into the darkness of the upper
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Martian atmospheres. And on that day, man will finally know
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the answer. The day we first land on Mars.
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Now hear this.
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Now hear this.
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Approaching critical deceleration.
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Fasten gravity suits.
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Stand by to land. Mr. Lustig, what do you make
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of the terrain?
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There seems to be a heavy ground, Miss Captain. We
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won't be able to use our infrared lights.
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Then we'll have to come in on radar.
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Isn't that a little risky, sir, landing in the dark?
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I'd rather run the danger of a blind landing, Lieutenant,
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than come in without the cover of darkness. Remember, we
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don't know what kind of reception is waiting.
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For us down there.
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Airspeed 500.
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Altitude now 4,000.
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Bridge to engine room. Stand by for deceleration.
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Engine room.
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Aye.
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Fire forward tubes 1 and 3. Aye. Skids down.
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Skids check.
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Altitude 500. 4.
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350. 3. Up a point now.
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All right. Let's set her down.
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Look out!
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Hey! Cut to power.
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Masters, pipe battle stations.
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Aye, sir.
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All secured, sir.
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Well, we're on Mars.
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April 20th, 1987.
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4.33, Greenwich time. Enter that in the log, Masters. Aye, sir.
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Well, gentlemen, it's less than two hours till dawn. As
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soon as it's light, we'll send out a landing party. Masters,
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get me an all-over hookup.
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All set, Captain.
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Now hear this.
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Now hear this. All right, men.
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The smoking lamp is lit. We're 17 men on an
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alien world. And it's up to us whether we ever
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get home again. Next few hours should tell the story.
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And I want instant obedience to all commands. I'll court-martial
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the first man who doesn't jump, too, when he's ordered.
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And one other thing.
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We may be on Mars, but this is still a
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United States naval vessel. Officers will conduct a personal and
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weapons inspection.
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In one hour.
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That's all. Inspection, Captain? Now?
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Mr.
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Lustig, we've got an hour and a half to sweat
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out before we find out what's outside that airlock.
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I'd rather have a man worried.
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About his stripes than about what's waiting outside on Mars.
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Now hear this. Landing party report to forward airlock.
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Captain Black, Lieutenant Hinkston, Lieutenant Lustig, and Dr.
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Horst report immediately to forward airlock.
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It is now landing time, minus five.
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Sounds like they're paging us, Hinkston. You ready, Dr. Horst?
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Yes, ready as I will ever be.
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Come on, let's report to the airlock. Four minutes to go.
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Where's the captain?
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Who knows?
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What difference does it make?
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Just want to get it over with, that's all.
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Has anybody got a cigarette? I think you're smoking too much,
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Lieutenant Lustig. Are you nervously off with your horse, wondering
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what's hidden outside underneath that ground mist?
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Very unusual planet, Mars.
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Why?
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It has an atmosphere. Wonderful thing, an atmosphere. Where you
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find one, you find life.
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You mean Martians? What do you think they'll look like?
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Who knows? Intelligent life can take many forms.
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You mean they may have green skins and eyes on
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stalks or something?
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A comic book conception is possible.
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Or they may have developed to a point that is
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far beyond us. Perhaps they have a science that can
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produce weapons far more dangerous than our atomic missiles.
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You think we may have to fight our way out?
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After all... We are invaders.
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Now hear this.
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Landing time minus two.
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Landing time minus two. All right, all right.
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We heard this. I know what I'd like to find
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outside that airlock. Good old Illinois.
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You ever been there, Lustig?
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I don't need Chicago.
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You ought to see my hometown. Green lawns, big white houses.
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Sounds like my hometown. My grandmother used to have one
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of those iron deers on the lawn. Every Halloween, we'd
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paint it another color.
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One time we painted it black and white like a
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whole steamed cow.
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Where does your family live, Horst?
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I have no family. When I was a child, they
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were gassed to death in the Dachau concentration camp.
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That's tough.
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Oh, it has its advantages. I have no ties on Earth.
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Nothing to lose now. I imagine I'm the only one
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on board who is free to enjoy our present peculiar position.
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All right, Lustig. Button it up now.
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Aye, sir.
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Now, gentlemen, in one minute we'll be the first men
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to set foot on Mars. Quite an honor, eh?
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As long as the medals are not awarded posthumously.
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Still uneasy, Dr.
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Horst?
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Captain Black, I've been uneasy ever since I can remember.
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On Earth and on Mars.
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Now, 30 seconds. Give me the intercom phone, Lusty. Masters?
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Aye, sir.
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Battle stations will be manned till we return. If we're
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not back in two hours, I want no rescue party
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sent out. Blast off and save the ship, you understand?
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Aye, sir. All right, gentlemen.
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Five seconds. Four. Three. Two.
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One.
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Lustig, open the outer airlock.
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Fresh air.
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Let's go.
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Hold it now. It's too dark to move fast.
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Quiet, isn't it? Not even a wind.
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You can't see anything through this ground.
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Quiet.
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You don't know what's out here. Come on.
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What the... Quiet, Captain.
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I could swear that sounded like a rooster. I don't
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hear it anymore.
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A very unlikely sound. A rooster crowing on moss.
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Kingston. Aye, sir.
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Set that machine gun 25 yards to the flank. We'll
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stay here till the ground mist lifts.
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Aye, aye, sir.
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What do you make of the ground, Horst?
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Grass.
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Plain grass. You can see some large foliage there where
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the mists stand on.
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Kingston! Hold your fire, you fool!
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I hit it, Captain.
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What?
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Some kind of wild animal.
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I hit it.
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I could see the traces, but it's still standing.
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Come on, Horst.
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Doctor.
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Doctor, where are you?
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Up ahead.
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Admiring the wild animal.
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Careful, Horst.
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Wait for us.
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Don't worry, Captain. It's an iron deer. A lawn ornament.
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That's impossible.
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It's hollow.
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Interesting, isn't it?
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A whitewashed Victorian iron deer. Sitting on a lawn in
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the middle of Mars.
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I don't understand.
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Look around.
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The mist's lifting.
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Captain.
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Captain. Look there. A house.
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A regular old-fashioned house.
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On Mars.
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Good Lord.
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I haven't seen carved scrolls and gingerbread like that in years.
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Look at that port swing.
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The geraniums.
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There.
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I told you it was a rooster, Captain. Give me
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the glasses, Lustig.
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I want to take a look through that front window.
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What?
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There's an upright piano. Some sheet music on it.
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Lustig, it's beautiful Ohio.
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Beautiful Ohio? That can't be.
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Look here, Horace, do you think that civilizations of two
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planets could be identical?
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I don't know.
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That specific variety of geraniums is only 50 years old
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on Earth.
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Is it logical they should develop in Mars? How about
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that port swing, that piano, and beautiful Ohio?
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No, it's impossible.
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Captain Black, this looks like the town I was born in.
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Well, it looks like my hometown, too.
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I've thought of something, sir. It's the only solution.
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Maybe we're not the first ship to reach Mars from Earth.
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That's the only answer. That's impossible, Lester.
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If there'd been space travel, it couldn't be secret. Do
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you have any idea what ships cost, what industrial power
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is needed?
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There's got to be some logical reason. Captain, I think
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perhaps we might find out. The light just went on
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in that house.
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Kingston, cover that door with a machine gun.
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Aye, aye, sir.
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Come on, horse. Let me ring that doorbell. There's got
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to be a scientific answer to all this here.
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There's something moving in there.
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Stand back, Horst.
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Give me a clear shot. Maybe a Martian.
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Can I help you?
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We.
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We were looking... Well, if.
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You're selling anything, it's much too early.
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No, no, wait. Wait a minute.
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What, uh.
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What town is it?
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What do you mean?
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Are you census takers?
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No, we're strangers here. We want to know how this
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town got here.
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Is this a game?
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No, no, it's not a game. We're from Earth.
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From where?
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From Earth.
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You mean out of the ground? Say, uh, are you
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sure you're feeling well?
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Madam, we came in a flying ship across space. We're
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from the third planet. This is, this is Mars. Now
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do you understand?
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Mars.
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I know, I know. You go away now, you hear?
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I'll call my husband from upstairs and he'll chase you.
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Now go on.
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But this is Mars, isn't it?
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This is Green Lake, Wisconsin, in the United States of America,
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bounded on the east by the Atlantic and on the
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west by the Pacific.
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Now go away. Goodbye.
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Of course, do you suppose it's really possible? I've got
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to find out more about this.
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For the last time, now go away.
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Pardon me, madam. What year is this? Year?
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Well, 1928, of course. Who's that going to say?
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You hear that, Horst?
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And we know it's 1987. And we know it's Mars.
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Is it possible that.
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We got fouled up, made some tremendous blunder and circled
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around and landed back on Earth?
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In 1928?
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Maybe some switch in time or dimension. Could we have
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shifted somehow and gone backward in time?
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Horst, it won't hold water.
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It's not logical.
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We've checked every mile. We went past the moon and
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out into space. We're on Mars.
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Find out anything, Captain?
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No, we're going back to the ship till I figure
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out some logical explanation for all this.
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Lustig, out at point.
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Aye, sir.
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Hinkston in the rear. Keep that gun at half-load.
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Aye, sir.
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Of course, there's got to be some cold, logical solution. Captain. Captain. What?
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That house down the street. The white one with the
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green shutters. Lustig, what's the matter?
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I never thought. I never thought.
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Thank God. Thank God.
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Lustig.
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Lustig, come back here.
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He's running for that house.
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That crazy fool.
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After him, quick. Lassie, stop. Come down off of that porch.
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Grandma and Grandpa, it is you.
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Lustig, what's going on here? Albert, why, it's been so
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many years.
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How you've grown, boy.
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Oh, it's so good to see you.
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Lieutenant Lustig.
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Oh, oh, Captain. Grandma, I want you to meet my friend.
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This is Captain Black. Captain, I want you to meet
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my grand folks.
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Howdy.
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Many friends of Albert's, friends of ours.
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How long you been here, Grandma?
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Oh, good many years. Ever since we died.
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Ever since you what?
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Oh, yes, sir. They've been dead 30 years.
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What?
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You mean to tell me that Mars is heaven?
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Oh, nonsense, no.
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All we know is here we're alive again.
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And who are we to question God's infinite ways?
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Hi.
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Lustig, we're going back to the ship.
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But, Captain, I want to talk to my grandfather.
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Listen, Lustig, I don't like any part of this. You'll
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come back with us. I have to club you and
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carry you.
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But, sir, they're my.
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Heaven only knows what they've run up against back.
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At the ship.
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Dimension X will continue in just a moment. Well, now
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let's come back to Earth for a moment. And what's
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more appropriate than Wheaties and baseball? You'll see what I
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mean as I introduce Ed Prentiss, who has a special
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treat for you.
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Carry on, Mr. Prentiss.
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Folks, I'd like to have you meet a good friend
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of mine and a prominent member of a fine little
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organization known as the Chicago White Sox, Mr. Lucius Benjamin Affleck. Ooh, Ed,
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don't say it like that. Who ever heard of a
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ball player named Lucius? What if I went around calling
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you Paul Edward Prentiss? Let's just make it Ed and Luke, huh?
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All right, Luke.
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Say, just how long have you been with the White Sox?
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Over 20 years, Ed. Golly, I've played in darn near 2,500 games.
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Been at bat almost 9,000 times, man. I'm from way back. Well, Luke,
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you don't look it. How do you keep up the pace, anyway? Well, Ed,
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I sleep good.
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I eat good.
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I eat mighty good. Tweet is about four mornings a week.
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Those little old flakes put a lot of snap, even
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in an old-timer like me. Must be because they're 100%
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whole wheat. I sure like Wheaties and milk and fruit.
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You know, Luke, that's exactly what I hear from a
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lot of ballplayers and plenty of other people, too. No
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wonder they call Wheaties the breakfast of champions. Well, thanks,
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Luke Appling and Ed Prentiss. You know, folks, you may
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not be a champion ballplayer, but Wheaties can help you
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feel like one. So try them.
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Wheaties, that is. See how Wheaties at 7 can help
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at 11.
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Horst, look at that crowd around the ship.
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Looks like we're being welcomed with a celebration, Captain.
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Celebration?
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They've abandoned ship.
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Every port is open. No guard set. You! You, masters! Hiya, Captain.
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Meet my old dad.
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Dad, that's Captain Black, and he's not a bad guy
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for an officer. Of all the.
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Higston!
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What, sir?
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Bring that man back. Use force if you have to.
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Excuse me, sir. There's my Uncle George.
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Higston!
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I'll be right back, Captain. Uncle George!
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Uncle George!
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What the devil is going on?
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Don't you understand, sir?
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They've all found friends and relatives. They're all here. He's right, Captain.
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I've counted. The whole crew's out on the crop.
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But I gave orders.
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Definite orders. You don't understand, Captain.
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I understand mutiny. I don't care how many relatives show up.
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I'll have discipline.
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Johnny!
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Johnny, you old son of a gun.
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Edward.
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Edward.
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It's you. It can't be.
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Of course it is.
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Johnny, you old son of a gun.
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Ed. Edward.
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Dr. Horst. This is my brother, Edward.
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How do you do?
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Hello.
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It's... It's wonderful to see you, Edward. Look, I've got
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to get back to my ship.
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Hey, I almost forgot.
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Mom's waiting at home.
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Mom?
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And Dad, too.
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Mom?
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Dad are alive?
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Excuse me, horse.
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Then you're real, Ed.
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Don't I feel real?
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How's that, huh?
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Ed. Ed, we've got lunch for you, Johnnie.
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Mom's making corn fritters.
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Corn... Dr. Horst, haven't you found anybody?
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No, Captain. I have nobody.
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Then you come on home with me, right, Ed?
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Sure, you bet.
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Horst, you wouldn't believe it, but it's been 35 years
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since I had Mom's corn fritters.
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By George. 35 years.
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And there's plenty more in the kitchen, so don't hold back, Johnny.
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You too, Dr.
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Horst. Well, Johnny, you're still in the Navy, huh?
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That's right, Dad. I'm in command of the ship.
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We're an old Navy family, Dr.
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Horst.
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All three of our boys in the service.
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Ed was the best pilot in the Pacific.
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What didn't happen, Ed? Oh, what's the difference?
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I'm here now.
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Oh, you know, it's almost perfect. All we're missing is
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your brother, Wilk. Then the whole family could be together.
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Well, it won't be long, Mom.
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Will's in charge of the XR-54. That's the next rocket
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coming out to Mars.
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Well, little Will.
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When does he leave, Johnny?
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Takeoff's scheduled for September, but it depends. on what we report.
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But there's no question about that now, eh? Christmas together again.
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That'll be something, eh?
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Yes, sirree. Well, this calls for a celebration.
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How about a little of the old dandelion wine, eh, Johnny?
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Now, Father, don't you go giving Johnny too much wine.
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Oh, he's a big boy now, Mother. Well, sir, isn't
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everything just fine? Just fine.
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Just fine.
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Till more the candlelights are gleaming on the.
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Banks of the Wallach far away.
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Play another song.
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Sure.
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Well, Dr. Horst, what do you think of my little family?
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Very nice.
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You know, I can't understand why you didn't find any
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folks here, Dr.
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Horst.
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Just a shame everybody else is so happy.
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I never remembered my family, Mrs.
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Black.
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All I know is they were gassed at Dachau during
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the Second World War. When I was liberated, I was
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on delirium three months. I cannot remember anything before then.
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The psychiatric phenomenon.
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That's terrible. Isn't there anything anybody can do?
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I don't want to remember.
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Oh.
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I haven't had a pleasant life. I prefer to be
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free of emotional entanglements. It ain't a fear with a
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scientific approach.
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I'm sorry, Dr. Horse.
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No, I'll get it. Hey, that's our ring, long and
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three shorts. I remember that.
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Well, maybe we'd better call it a night. You must
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be getting tired, Johnny.
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I'd better be going back to the ship.
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Oh, nonsense. You stay the night. We insist.
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I just couldn't rest thinking of you all alone on
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that ship.
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I'll be all right. Well, good night.
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Wait a minute, Dr.
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Horst.
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That phone message was for you.
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Me? Yeah, that's right. A message from Anna.
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Anna?
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I don't remember any Anna.
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Anna?
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She asked if you were better.
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Perhaps she's someone you knew at Dachau.
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She said she's coming over here first thing in the morning.
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So you'll have to stay over.
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Well, that settles it then. You stay here, Horst. You
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can bunk with me in my old room.
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Oh, but Johnny, we thought you'd like to be with Edward.
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So you could talk the way you used to.
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Well, we can't put Dr.
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Horst on the daybed.
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I think we'd better share the room tonight.
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There'll be plenty of time for talking, Ed.
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I guess so.
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Well, I suppose I'd better drop back to the ship.
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You know, Ed, security check.
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Why do you have to do that here?
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Well, I don't know.
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There's no good reason, I guess. Well, I suppose we
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skip it tonight.
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Oh, sure.
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Well, good night, everybody.
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Oh, it's good to have you home, Johnny.
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It's good to be home, Mom.
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¶ ¶.
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Captain Black.
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Are you asleep? No, no.
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I've just been thinking about what we were expecting. Green-skinned
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Martians with eyes on stalks. All the time it was
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only Mom and Dad and Edward waiting. It's funny what
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tricks your imagination can play on you. Yeah, I guess
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Mars is heaven, Horst.
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Hmm.
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I've been thinking about Martians, too.
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Captain. Captain. Just suppose....
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Suppose there were Martians, and they saw us land. Suppose
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they thought of us as invaders. What would be the
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best weapon they could use against our atom bombs?
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I don't see what you're getting at.
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They would want to disarm us first. To wipe out
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all suspicion. To make us feel at home. But suppose
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this house isn't real. Suppose the people are just images.
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Stolen from our own memories.
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By Martians.
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Created for us by telepathy.
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Hypnotism.
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That's the craziest theory I ever heard.
534
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Maybe that's why there was no one for me. Because
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in all my life there is no happy memory. No
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real loved person.
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How about that phone call from Anna? Yes.
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Anna.
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I didn't remember who she was, but I do now.
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I just remembered. When I was freed from Dachau, sick
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and delirious, I raved about a wonderful, kind nurse named.
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Logical.
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She's coming to see you tomorrow.
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But there was no Anna. I'd be nursed by a man. What?
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Anna was only a dream. And there's only one way
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they could have learned about her. By reading my subconscious mind.
547
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But that's impossible, Horst.
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Why?
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The whole crew was thinking of home. Suppose the Martians
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read our minds.
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But there are Martians. If there are, they have it separated.
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Each man in a different house.
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Sleepy.
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Trusting.
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No one at the guns.
556
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I left my pistol downstairs. Do you think there's something
557
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to this horse? It's a... Who would suspect his own mother?
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His grandparents?
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How easy. Just a knife in the heart of each
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sleeping man.
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That's impossible, horseman.
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We've got to get back to the ship.
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Listen.
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The crickets have stopped. We don't know when they change
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back to whatever they really are.
566
00:25:59.069 --> 00:26:00.309
Where are you going, John?
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Ed, well, we wanted to drink a water. That's all, Ed.
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You're not thirsty, John.
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You don't want to drink.
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You don't want to drink.
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Look out! His face!
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It's changing! And his hands! He's a Martian!
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Run, horse!
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Run!
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You can't get away, John.
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You can't.
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Hello?
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Hello?
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Can you hear me, Earth?
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00:26:36.549 --> 00:26:40.380
This is Captain John Black, the XR-53, calling from Mars.
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I've locked myself in the ship, but they've crippled it.
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I can't take off or.
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Fire the guns, and they're coming for me now, the Martians.
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I'm all alone here. All the rest are dead. Hinkston, Lustig, Dr.
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Horst.
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Poor Horst, he didn't even reach the door.
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Listen.
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Listen.
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They're trying to break through the hull now. Edward and
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Mom and Dad and all the folks. But they're changing now.
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Melting and changing back into... They're Martians.
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Can you understand me?
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00:27:02.579 --> 00:27:05.589
Martians, not men. They made us think that Mars was heaven.
594
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We fell into the trap.
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Can you hear me, Earth? You've got to stop the
596
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next rocket. Tell... Tell my brother Will. Tell my brother
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00:27:12.430 --> 00:27:14.930
Will not to come. They'll trap him, too. They'll kill
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00:27:14.970 --> 00:27:16.250
them all. Hello.
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Hello.
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Can you hear me, Earth? This is John Black on Mars.
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Hello, Earth.
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00:27:21.269 --> 00:27:23.250
This is John Black on Mars.
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Tonight, Dimension X has presented and transcribed the Ray Bradbury story,
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Mars is Heaven, adapted for radio by Ernest Canoy. Featured
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players were Wendell Holmes as Captain Black and Peter Capel
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as Dr.
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Horse.
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Your narrator, Norman Rose. Music by Albert Berman. Engineer, Bill Chambers.
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Dimension X is produced by Van Woodward and directed by
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Edward King. Robert Warren speaking. In a moment, we'll tell
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you about next week's show. And now, here is your
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Wheaties man, Frank Martin. Folks, tonight we have a special
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guest for you. Here he is, Joel McRae.
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Hello, Frank Martin.
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I kind of expected to see a package of Wheaties
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sticking out of your pocket.
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What?
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Did I forget them? You must like Wheaties, Frank. Sure,
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don't you? You bet.
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I'm joining the big parade of Wheaties programs, you know,
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with Tales of the Texas Rangers come Saturday night. That
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promises to be real entertainment, Joel. Understand these are true
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stories of the Texas Rangers.
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Absolutely.
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Each story is straight from the Texas Ranger files. Well,
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we're mighty proud to have you join us, Joel, with
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this new program. We'll all be listening on the same
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NBC station Saturday night for Joel McRae in Tales of
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the Texas Rangers.
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Okay, Mr.
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McRae? Okay, partner.
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Good night. Good night, Joel.
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And friends, be sure to listen Saturday, that's tomorrow night,
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to Joel McRae and his new program, Tales.
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Of the Texas Rangers. And get your Wheaties, everybody.
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And this is the Wheaties man, Frank Martin, inviting you
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again to listen tomorrow night to Joel McRae in Tales
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of the Texas Rangers on the Wheaties Big Parade.
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See you then.
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Next week, the story of the strangest case ever recorded
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in the files of the Bureau of Missing Persons. The
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case of the man in the moon. You'll hear the
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whole story next week when we venture once more into
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the unknown world of.
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The March on Axe. This is NBC, the national broadcasting company.
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This has been Dimension X, Episode 14, Mars is Heaven.
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Thank you for joining us for this July 1950 broadcast.
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Follow Old Time Sci-Fi Radio for more classic science fiction broadcasts.
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An Earth expedition reaches Mars in 1987 and finds through
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the mist a small American town seemingly unchanged since the 1920s.
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It is Dimension X, Episode 14, Mars is Heaven, first
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heard on NBC July 7, 1950. Wendell Holmes stars as
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Captain John Black, leading the landing party. Peter Capel is Dr.
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Horst.
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The script is Ernest Kenoy's adaptation of Ray Bradbury's story,
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directed by Edward King and produced by Van Woodward. As
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Captain Black and his crew walk from their rocket toward
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familiar streets and faces that should be impossible, their mission
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takes an unexpected turn. We now take you back to
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the original broadcast.
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Wheaties presents... Dimension X. Adventures in time and space.
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Transcribed in future tense.
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Dimension X.
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On stage tonight, Dimension X. Another in the Wheaties' big
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parade of exciting half-hour presentations. Say, tomorrow's Saturday, you know,
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and maybe you don't have to show up for work.
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A whole swell summer day for just what you want
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to do. So start off with a big holiday bowl
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of Wheaties at breakfast and just see how it sparks
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up the morning. Wheaties are whole wheat, you know, and
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I don't have to tell you what good, sturdy nourishment
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that is. So if you've got fish to catch or
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golf to play or maybe a hike to take, just
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see how Wheaties.
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Can make it all a lot more fun. You know why?
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Why, lady, mister, it's just because you feel good when
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you've had your Wheaties. Those two-fisted little whole wheat flakes
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are loaded with vitamins and minerals. And so are you,
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when you've had your Wheaties. Go on, try them. Just
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you see how Wheaties at seven can help at eleven.
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When the first space rocket lands on Mars, what will
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we find? Will we be welcomed with open arms, or
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will the Martians treat us as invaders?
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Only one thing is certain.
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Someday a giant metal ship will take off from Earth
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to travel through the black velocities, the silent gulfs of space,
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to descend at last into the darkness of the upper
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Martian atmospheres. And on that day, man will finally know
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the answer. The day we first land on Mars.
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Now hear this.
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Now hear this.
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Approaching critical deceleration.
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Fasten gravity suits.
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Stand by to land. Mr. Lustig, what do you make
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of the terrain?
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There seems to be a heavy ground, Miss Captain. We
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won't be able to use our infrared lights.
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Then we'll have to come in on radar.
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Isn't that a little risky, sir, landing in the dark?
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I'd rather run the danger of a blind landing, Lieutenant,
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than come in without the cover of darkness. Remember, we
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don't know what kind of reception is waiting.
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For us down there.
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Airspeed 500.
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Altitude now 4,000.
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Bridge to engine room. Stand by for deceleration.
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Engine room.
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Aye.
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Fire forward tubes 1 and 3. Aye. Skids down.
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Skids check.
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Altitude 500. 4.
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350. 3. Up a point now.
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All right. Let's set her down.
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Look out!
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Hey! Cut to power.
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Masters, pipe battle stations.
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Aye, sir.
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All secured, sir.
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Well, we're on Mars.
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April 20th, 1987.
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4.33, Greenwich time. Enter that in the log, Masters. Aye, sir.
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Well, gentlemen, it's less than two hours till dawn. As
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soon as it's light, we'll send out a landing party. Masters,
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get me an all-over hookup.
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All set, Captain.
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Now hear this.
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Now hear this. All right, men.
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The smoking lamp is lit. We're 17 men on an
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alien world. And it's up to us whether we ever
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get home again. Next few hours should tell the story.
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And I want instant obedience to all commands. I'll court-martial
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the first man who doesn't jump, too, when he's ordered.
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And one other thing.
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We may be on Mars, but this is still a
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United States naval vessel. Officers will conduct a personal and
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weapons inspection.
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In one hour.
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That's all. Inspection, Captain? Now?
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Mr.
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Lustig, we've got an hour and a half to sweat
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out before we find out what's outside that airlock.
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I'd rather have a man worried.
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About his stripes than about what's waiting outside on Mars.
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Now hear this. Landing party report to forward airlock.
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Captain Black, Lieutenant Hinkston, Lieutenant Lustig, and Dr.
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Horst report immediately to forward airlock.
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It is now landing time, minus five.
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Sounds like they're paging us, Hinkston. You ready, Dr. Horst?
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Yes, ready as I will ever be.
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Come on, let's report to the airlock. Four minutes to go.
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Where's the captain?
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Who knows?
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What difference does it make?
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Just want to get it over with, that's all.
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Has anybody got a cigarette? I think you're smoking too much,
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Lieutenant Lustig. Are you nervously off with your horse, wondering
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what's hidden outside underneath that ground mist?
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Very unusual planet, Mars.
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Why?
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It has an atmosphere. Wonderful thing, an atmosphere. Where you
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find one, you find life.
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You mean Martians? What do you think they'll look like?
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Who knows? Intelligent life can take many forms.
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You mean they may have green skins and eyes on
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stalks or something?
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A comic book conception is possible.
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Or they may have developed to a point that is
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far beyond us. Perhaps they have a science that can
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produce weapons far more dangerous than our atomic missiles.
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You think we may have to fight our way out?
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After all... We are invaders.
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Now hear this.
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Landing time minus two.
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Landing time minus two. All right, all right.
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We heard this. I know what I'd like to find
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outside that airlock. Good old Illinois.
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You ever been there, Lustig?
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I don't need Chicago.
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You ought to see my hometown. Green lawns, big white houses.
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Sounds like my hometown. My grandmother used to have one
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of those iron deers on the lawn. Every Halloween, we'd
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paint it another color.
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One time we painted it black and white like a
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whole steamed cow.
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Where does your family live, Horst?
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I have no family. When I was a child, they
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were gassed to death in the Dachau concentration camp.
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That's tough.
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Oh, it has its advantages. I have no ties on Earth.
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Nothing to lose now. I imagine I'm the only one
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on board who is free to enjoy our present peculiar position.
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All right, Lustig. Button it up now.
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Aye, sir.
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Now, gentlemen, in one minute we'll be the first men
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to set foot on Mars. Quite an honor, eh?
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As long as the medals are not awarded posthumously.
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Still uneasy, Dr.
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Horst?
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Captain Black, I've been uneasy ever since I can remember.
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On Earth and on Mars.
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Now, 30 seconds. Give me the intercom phone, Lusty. Masters?
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Aye, sir.
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Battle stations will be manned till we return. If we're
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not back in two hours, I want no rescue party
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sent out. Blast off and save the ship, you understand?
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Aye, sir. All right, gentlemen.
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Five seconds. Four. Three. Two.
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One.
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Lustig, open the outer airlock.
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Fresh air.
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Let's go.
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Hold it now. It's too dark to move fast.
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Quiet, isn't it? Not even a wind.
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You can't see anything through this ground.
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Quiet.
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You don't know what's out here. Come on.
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What the... Quiet, Captain.
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I could swear that sounded like a rooster. I don't
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hear it anymore.
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A very unlikely sound. A rooster crowing on moss.
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Kingston. Aye, sir.
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Set that machine gun 25 yards to the flank. We'll
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stay here till the ground mist lifts.
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Aye, aye, sir.
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What do you make of the ground, Horst?
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Grass.
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Plain grass. You can see some large foliage there where
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the mists stand on.
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Kingston! Hold your fire, you fool!
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I hit it, Captain.
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What?
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Some kind of wild animal.
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I hit it.
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I could see the traces, but it's still standing.
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Come on, Horst.
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Doctor.
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Doctor, where are you?
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Up ahead.
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Admiring the wild animal.
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Careful, Horst.
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Wait for us.
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Don't worry, Captain. It's an iron deer. A lawn ornament.
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That's impossible.
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It's hollow.
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Interesting, isn't it?
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A whitewashed Victorian iron deer. Sitting on a lawn in
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the middle of Mars.
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I don't understand.
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Look around.
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The mist's lifting.
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Captain.
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Captain. Look there. A house.
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A regular old-fashioned house.
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On Mars.
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Good Lord.
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I haven't seen carved scrolls and gingerbread like that in years.
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Look at that port swing.
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The geraniums.
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There.
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I told you it was a rooster, Captain. Give me
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the glasses, Lustig.
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I want to take a look through that front window.
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What?
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There's an upright piano. Some sheet music on it.
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Lustig, it's beautiful Ohio.
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Beautiful Ohio? That can't be.
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Look here, Horace, do you think that civilizations of two
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planets could be identical?
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I don't know.
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That specific variety of geraniums is only 50 years old
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on Earth.
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Is it logical they should develop in Mars? How about
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that port swing, that piano, and beautiful Ohio?
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No, it's impossible.
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Captain Black, this looks like the town I was born in.
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Well, it looks like my hometown, too.
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I've thought of something, sir. It's the only solution.
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Maybe we're not the first ship to reach Mars from Earth.
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That's the only answer. That's impossible, Lester.
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If there'd been space travel, it couldn't be secret. Do
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you have any idea what ships cost, what industrial power
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is needed?
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There's got to be some logical reason. Captain, I think
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perhaps we might find out. The light just went on
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in that house.
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Kingston, cover that door with a machine gun.
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Aye, aye, sir.
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Come on, horse. Let me ring that doorbell. There's got
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to be a scientific answer to all this here.
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There's something moving in there.
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Stand back, Horst.
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Give me a clear shot. Maybe a Martian.
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Can I help you?
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We.
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We were looking... Well, if.
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You're selling anything, it's much too early.
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No, no, wait. Wait a minute.
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What, uh.
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What town is it?
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What do you mean?
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Are you census takers?
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No, we're strangers here. We want to know how this
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town got here.
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Is this a game?
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No, no, it's not a game. We're from Earth.
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From where?
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From Earth.
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You mean out of the ground? Say, uh, are you
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sure you're feeling well?
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Madam, we came in a flying ship across space. We're
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from the third planet. This is, this is Mars. Now
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do you understand?
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Mars.
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I know, I know. You go away now, you hear?
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I'll call my husband from upstairs and he'll chase you.
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Now go on.
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But this is Mars, isn't it?
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This is Green Lake, Wisconsin, in the United States of America,
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bounded on the east by the Atlantic and on the
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west by the Pacific.
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Now go away. Goodbye.
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Of course, do you suppose it's really possible? I've got
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to find out more about this.
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For the last time, now go away.
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Pardon me, madam. What year is this? Year?
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Well, 1928, of course. Who's that going to say?
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You hear that, Horst?
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And we know it's 1987. And we know it's Mars.
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Is it possible that.
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We got fouled up, made some tremendous blunder and circled
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around and landed back on Earth?
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In 1928?
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Maybe some switch in time or dimension. Could we have
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shifted somehow and gone backward in time?
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Horst, it won't hold water.
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It's not logical.
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We've checked every mile. We went past the moon and
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out into space. We're on Mars.
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Find out anything, Captain?
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No, we're going back to the ship till I figure
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out some logical explanation for all this.
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Lustig, out at point.
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Aye, sir.
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Hinkston in the rear. Keep that gun at half-load.
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Aye, sir.
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Of course, there's got to be some cold, logical solution. Captain. Captain. What?
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That house down the street. The white one with the
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green shutters. Lustig, what's the matter?
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I never thought. I never thought.
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Thank God. Thank God.
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Lustig.
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Lustig, come back here.
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He's running for that house.
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That crazy fool.
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After him, quick. Lassie, stop. Come down off of that porch.
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Grandma and Grandpa, it is you.
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Lustig, what's going on here? Albert, why, it's been so
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many years.
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How you've grown, boy.
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Oh, it's so good to see you.
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Lieutenant Lustig.
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Oh, oh, Captain. Grandma, I want you to meet my friend.
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This is Captain Black. Captain, I want you to meet
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my grand folks.
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Howdy.
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Many friends of Albert's, friends of ours.
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How long you been here, Grandma?
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Oh, good many years. Ever since we died.
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Ever since you what?
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Oh, yes, sir. They've been dead 30 years.
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What?
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You mean to tell me that Mars is heaven?
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Oh, nonsense, no.
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All we know is here we're alive again.
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And who are we to question God's infinite ways?
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Hi.
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Lustig, we're going back to the ship.
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But, Captain, I want to talk to my grandfather.
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Listen, Lustig, I don't like any part of this. You'll
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come back with us. I have to club you and
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carry you.
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But, sir, they're my.
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Heaven only knows what they've run up against back.
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At the ship.
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Dimension X will continue in just a moment. Well, now
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let's come back to Earth for a moment. And what's
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more appropriate than Wheaties and baseball? You'll see what I
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mean as I introduce Ed Prentiss, who has a special
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treat for you.
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Carry on, Mr. Prentiss.
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Folks, I'd like to have you meet a good friend
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of mine and a prominent member of a fine little
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organization known as the Chicago White Sox, Mr. Lucius Benjamin Affleck. Ooh, Ed,
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don't say it like that. Who ever heard of a
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ball player named Lucius? What if I went around calling
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you Paul Edward Prentiss? Let's just make it Ed and Luke, huh?
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All right, Luke.
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Say, just how long have you been with the White Sox?
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Over 20 years, Ed. Golly, I've played in darn near 2,500 games.
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Been at bat almost 9,000 times, man. I'm from way back. Well, Luke,
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you don't look it. How do you keep up the pace, anyway? Well, Ed,
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I sleep good.
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I eat good.
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I eat mighty good. Tweet is about four mornings a week.
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Those little old flakes put a lot of snap, even
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in an old-timer like me. Must be because they're 100%
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whole wheat. I sure like Wheaties and milk and fruit.
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You know, Luke, that's exactly what I hear from a
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lot of ballplayers and plenty of other people, too. No
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wonder they call Wheaties the breakfast of champions. Well, thanks,
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Luke Appling and Ed Prentiss. You know, folks, you may
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not be a champion ballplayer, but Wheaties can help you
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feel like one. So try them.
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Wheaties, that is. See how Wheaties at 7 can help
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at 11.
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Horst, look at that crowd around the ship.
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Looks like we're being welcomed with a celebration, Captain.
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Celebration?
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They've abandoned ship.
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Every port is open. No guard set. You! You, masters! Hiya, Captain.
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Meet my old dad.
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Dad, that's Captain Black, and he's not a bad guy
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for an officer. Of all the.
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Higston!
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What, sir?
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Bring that man back. Use force if you have to.
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Excuse me, sir. There's my Uncle George.
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Higston!
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I'll be right back, Captain. Uncle George!
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Uncle George!
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What the devil is going on?
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Don't you understand, sir?
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They've all found friends and relatives. They're all here. He's right, Captain.
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I've counted. The whole crew's out on the crop.
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But I gave orders.
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Definite orders. You don't understand, Captain.
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I understand mutiny. I don't care how many relatives show up.
390
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I'll have discipline.
391
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Johnny!
392
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Johnny, you old son of a gun.
393
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Edward.
394
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Edward.
395
00:17:55.799 --> 00:17:58.059
It's you. It can't be.
396
00:17:58.220 --> 00:17:59.339
Of course it is.
397
00:18:00.019 --> 00:18:01.759
Johnny, you old son of a gun.
398
00:18:01.960 --> 00:18:03.420
Ed. Edward.
399
00:18:04.480 --> 00:18:07.220
Dr. Horst. This is my brother, Edward.
400
00:18:07.509 --> 00:18:08.049
How do you do?
401
00:18:08.119 --> 00:18:08.549
Hello.
402
00:18:09.009 --> 00:18:13.759
It's... It's wonderful to see you, Edward. Look, I've got
403
00:18:13.779 --> 00:18:14.839
to get back to my ship.
404
00:18:14.900 --> 00:18:16.160
Hey, I almost forgot.
405
00:18:17.140 --> 00:18:18.289
Mom's waiting at home.
406
00:18:19.160 --> 00:18:19.529
Mom?
407
00:18:19.910 --> 00:18:20.710
And Dad, too.
408
00:18:21.490 --> 00:18:21.829
Mom?
409
00:18:22.789 --> 00:18:23.630
Dad are alive?
410
00:18:26.109 --> 00:18:26.970
Excuse me, horse.
411
00:18:29.150 --> 00:18:29.950
Then you're real, Ed.
412
00:18:30.849 --> 00:18:31.869
Don't I feel real?
413
00:18:33.529 --> 00:18:34.150
How's that, huh?
414
00:18:35.349 --> 00:18:37.990
Ed. Ed, we've got lunch for you, Johnnie.
415
00:18:38.759 --> 00:18:40.420
Mom's making corn fritters.
416
00:18:40.480 --> 00:18:43.740
Corn... Dr. Horst, haven't you found anybody?
417
00:18:44.279 --> 00:18:46.420
No, Captain. I have nobody.
418
00:18:46.599 --> 00:18:48.109
Then you come on home with me, right, Ed?
419
00:18:48.309 --> 00:18:48.990
Sure, you bet.
420
00:18:49.109 --> 00:18:52.750
Horst, you wouldn't believe it, but it's been 35 years
421
00:18:52.809 --> 00:18:54.430
since I had Mom's corn fritters.
422
00:18:55.910 --> 00:18:58.039
By George. 35 years.
423
00:19:12.450 --> 00:19:16.289
And there's plenty more in the kitchen, so don't hold back, Johnny.
424
00:19:16.369 --> 00:19:16.990
You too, Dr.
425
00:19:17.029 --> 00:19:20.630
Horst. Well, Johnny, you're still in the Navy, huh?
426
00:19:20.670 --> 00:19:22.190
That's right, Dad. I'm in command of the ship.
427
00:19:22.680 --> 00:19:24.339
We're an old Navy family, Dr.
428
00:19:24.380 --> 00:19:24.640
Horst.
429
00:19:25.359 --> 00:19:27.140
All three of our boys in the service.
430
00:19:27.220 --> 00:19:28.759
Ed was the best pilot in the Pacific.
431
00:19:29.960 --> 00:19:32.220
What didn't happen, Ed? Oh, what's the difference?
432
00:19:32.839 --> 00:19:33.460
I'm here now.
433
00:19:33.579 --> 00:19:37.000
Oh, you know, it's almost perfect. All we're missing is
434
00:19:37.019 --> 00:19:40.089
your brother, Wilk. Then the whole family could be together.
435
00:19:40.190 --> 00:19:41.170
Well, it won't be long, Mom.
436
00:19:41.440 --> 00:19:43.759
Will's in charge of the XR-54. That's the next rocket
437
00:19:43.779 --> 00:19:44.619
coming out to Mars.
438
00:19:44.779 --> 00:19:46.059
Well, little Will.
439
00:19:47.009 --> 00:19:48.009
When does he leave, Johnny?
440
00:19:48.210 --> 00:19:50.869
Takeoff's scheduled for September, but it depends. on what we report.
441
00:19:51.170 --> 00:19:55.069
But there's no question about that now, eh? Christmas together again.
442
00:19:55.630 --> 00:19:56.609
That'll be something, eh?
443
00:19:56.809 --> 00:20:00.190
Yes, sirree. Well, this calls for a celebration.
444
00:20:00.670 --> 00:20:02.940
How about a little of the old dandelion wine, eh, Johnny?
445
00:20:03.079 --> 00:20:06.200
Now, Father, don't you go giving Johnny too much wine.
446
00:20:06.339 --> 00:20:12.380
Oh, he's a big boy now, Mother. Well, sir, isn't
447
00:20:12.460 --> 00:20:15.480
everything just fine? Just fine.
448
00:20:16.299 --> 00:20:16.769
Just fine.
449
00:20:26.750 --> 00:20:34.170
Till more the candlelights are gleaming on the.
450
00:20:32.789 --> 00:20:40.650
Banks of the Wallach far away.
451
00:20:40.670 --> 00:20:42.009
Play another song.
452
00:20:42.109 --> 00:20:45.599
Sure.
453
00:20:45.759 --> 00:20:48.880
Well, Dr. Horst, what do you think of my little family?
454
00:20:50.000 --> 00:20:50.640
Very nice.
455
00:20:51.279 --> 00:20:54.319
You know, I can't understand why you didn't find any
456
00:20:54.359 --> 00:20:54.880
folks here, Dr.
457
00:20:54.920 --> 00:20:55.079
Horst.
458
00:20:56.460 --> 00:20:59.420
Just a shame everybody else is so happy.
459
00:21:00.589 --> 00:21:02.180
I never remembered my family, Mrs.
460
00:21:02.240 --> 00:21:02.650
Black.
461
00:21:03.990 --> 00:21:07.730
All I know is they were gassed at Dachau during
462
00:21:07.750 --> 00:21:11.150
the Second World War. When I was liberated, I was
463
00:21:11.190 --> 00:21:15.549
on delirium three months. I cannot remember anything before then.
464
00:21:16.710 --> 00:21:17.769
The psychiatric phenomenon.
465
00:21:18.609 --> 00:21:22.470
That's terrible. Isn't there anything anybody can do?
466
00:21:22.589 --> 00:21:23.569
I don't want to remember.
467
00:21:23.589 --> 00:21:23.650
Oh.
468
00:21:28.819 --> 00:21:33.130
I haven't had a pleasant life. I prefer to be
469
00:21:33.349 --> 00:21:36.950
free of emotional entanglements. It ain't a fear with a
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00:21:37.019 --> 00:21:38.059
scientific approach.
471
00:21:38.660 --> 00:21:40.420
I'm sorry, Dr. Horse.
472
00:21:41.119 --> 00:21:43.930
No, I'll get it. Hey, that's our ring, long and
473
00:21:43.970 --> 00:21:45.309
three shorts. I remember that.
474
00:21:45.369 --> 00:21:47.849
Well, maybe we'd better call it a night. You must
475
00:21:47.869 --> 00:21:49.109
be getting tired, Johnny.
476
00:21:49.190 --> 00:21:50.930
I'd better be going back to the ship.
477
00:21:50.970 --> 00:21:53.690
Oh, nonsense. You stay the night. We insist.
478
00:21:53.769 --> 00:21:56.089
I just couldn't rest thinking of you all alone on
479
00:21:56.130 --> 00:21:56.609
that ship.
480
00:21:56.829 --> 00:22:00.339
I'll be all right. Well, good night.
481
00:22:00.519 --> 00:22:01.170
Wait a minute, Dr.
482
00:22:01.210 --> 00:22:01.490
Horst.
483
00:22:02.000 --> 00:22:03.259
That phone message was for you.
484
00:22:04.380 --> 00:22:06.859
Me? Yeah, that's right. A message from Anna.
485
00:22:06.900 --> 00:22:06.980
Anna?
486
00:22:08.299 --> 00:22:11.279
I don't remember any Anna.
487
00:22:11.319 --> 00:22:11.440
Anna?
488
00:22:12.140 --> 00:22:13.809
She asked if you were better.
489
00:22:14.250 --> 00:22:16.269
Perhaps she's someone you knew at Dachau.
490
00:22:17.650 --> 00:22:19.589
She said she's coming over here first thing in the morning.
491
00:22:20.210 --> 00:22:21.259
So you'll have to stay over.
492
00:22:21.279 --> 00:22:24.259
Well, that settles it then. You stay here, Horst. You
493
00:22:24.279 --> 00:22:25.680
can bunk with me in my old room.
494
00:22:26.140 --> 00:22:29.299
Oh, but Johnny, we thought you'd like to be with Edward.
495
00:22:29.319 --> 00:22:31.140
So you could talk the way you used to.
496
00:22:31.309 --> 00:22:32.250
Well, we can't put Dr.
497
00:22:32.289 --> 00:22:33.009
Horst on the daybed.
498
00:22:33.720 --> 00:22:34.900
I think we'd better share the room tonight.
499
00:22:34.920 --> 00:22:36.579
There'll be plenty of time for talking, Ed.
500
00:22:37.000 --> 00:22:37.539
I guess so.
501
00:22:37.799 --> 00:22:39.339
Well, I suppose I'd better drop back to the ship.
502
00:22:39.599 --> 00:22:40.759
You know, Ed, security check.
503
00:22:41.460 --> 00:22:43.079
Why do you have to do that here?
504
00:22:43.779 --> 00:22:44.579
Well, I don't know.
505
00:22:44.619 --> 00:22:47.819
There's no good reason, I guess. Well, I suppose we
506
00:22:47.839 --> 00:22:48.460
skip it tonight.
507
00:22:48.660 --> 00:22:49.420
Oh, sure.
508
00:22:49.720 --> 00:22:51.420
Well, good night, everybody.
509
00:22:51.440 --> 00:22:55.230
Oh, it's good to have you home, Johnny.
510
00:22:56.109 --> 00:22:57.369
It's good to be home, Mom.
511
00:22:58.369 --> 00:23:00.369
¶ ¶.
512
00:23:15.670 --> 00:23:16.130
Captain Black.
513
00:23:16.170 --> 00:23:18.769
Are you asleep? No, no.
514
00:23:18.930 --> 00:23:23.970
I've just been thinking about what we were expecting. Green-skinned
515
00:23:24.069 --> 00:23:27.549
Martians with eyes on stalks. All the time it was
516
00:23:27.589 --> 00:23:32.079
only Mom and Dad and Edward waiting. It's funny what
517
00:23:32.130 --> 00:23:35.920
tricks your imagination can play on you. Yeah, I guess
518
00:23:35.980 --> 00:23:37.240
Mars is heaven, Horst.
519
00:23:38.200 --> 00:23:38.579
Hmm.
520
00:23:40.940 --> 00:23:42.839
I've been thinking about Martians, too.
521
00:23:43.839 --> 00:23:49.269
Captain. Captain. Just suppose....
522
00:23:50.130 --> 00:23:54.690
Suppose there were Martians, and they saw us land. Suppose
523
00:23:54.710 --> 00:23:57.829
they thought of us as invaders. What would be the
524
00:23:57.890 --> 00:23:59.990
best weapon they could use against our atom bombs?
525
00:24:00.269 --> 00:24:01.339
I don't see what you're getting at.
526
00:24:02.230 --> 00:24:04.980
They would want to disarm us first. To wipe out
527
00:24:05.059 --> 00:24:10.559
all suspicion. To make us feel at home. But suppose
528
00:24:10.859 --> 00:24:15.339
this house isn't real. Suppose the people are just images.
529
00:24:16.289 --> 00:24:17.930
Stolen from our own memories.
530
00:24:18.869 --> 00:24:19.690
By Martians.
531
00:24:20.690 --> 00:24:22.150
Created for us by telepathy.
532
00:24:22.519 --> 00:24:23.099
Hypnotism.
533
00:24:24.140 --> 00:24:25.839
That's the craziest theory I ever heard.
534
00:24:25.960 --> 00:24:28.319
Maybe that's why there was no one for me. Because
535
00:24:28.359 --> 00:24:31.019
in all my life there is no happy memory. No
536
00:24:31.099 --> 00:24:32.200
real loved person.
537
00:24:32.220 --> 00:24:34.059
How about that phone call from Anna? Yes.
538
00:24:34.920 --> 00:24:35.119
Anna.
539
00:24:35.920 --> 00:24:37.650
I didn't remember who she was, but I do now.
540
00:24:37.670 --> 00:24:42.170
I just remembered. When I was freed from Dachau, sick
541
00:24:42.190 --> 00:24:45.130
and delirious, I raved about a wonderful, kind nurse named.
542
00:24:46.890 --> 00:24:47.369
Logical.
543
00:24:47.410 --> 00:24:48.470
She's coming to see you tomorrow.
544
00:24:48.549 --> 00:24:52.349
But there was no Anna. I'd be nursed by a man. What?
545
00:24:53.339 --> 00:24:57.380
Anna was only a dream. And there's only one way
546
00:24:57.400 --> 00:25:01.359
they could have learned about her. By reading my subconscious mind.
547
00:25:01.559 --> 00:25:02.799
But that's impossible, Horst.
548
00:25:02.839 --> 00:25:03.119
Why?
549
00:25:03.859 --> 00:25:06.880
The whole crew was thinking of home. Suppose the Martians
550
00:25:06.920 --> 00:25:07.680
read our minds.
551
00:25:08.759 --> 00:25:11.420
But there are Martians. If there are, they have it separated.
552
00:25:12.099 --> 00:25:13.240
Each man in a different house.
553
00:25:13.980 --> 00:25:14.319
Sleepy.
554
00:25:15.289 --> 00:25:15.680
Trusting.
555
00:25:16.730 --> 00:25:17.509
No one at the guns.
556
00:25:18.650 --> 00:25:23.410
I left my pistol downstairs. Do you think there's something
557
00:25:23.470 --> 00:25:28.150
to this horse? It's a... Who would suspect his own mother?
558
00:25:28.809 --> 00:25:29.730
His grandparents?
559
00:25:30.650 --> 00:25:33.359
How easy. Just a knife in the heart of each
560
00:25:33.400 --> 00:25:33.960
sleeping man.
561
00:25:33.980 --> 00:25:35.039
That's impossible, horseman.
562
00:25:36.220 --> 00:25:37.319
We've got to get back to the ship.
563
00:25:41.220 --> 00:25:41.480
Listen.
564
00:25:44.319 --> 00:25:50.849
The crickets have stopped. We don't know when they change
565
00:25:50.910 --> 00:25:54.269
back to whatever they really are.
566
00:25:59.069 --> 00:26:00.309
Where are you going, John?
567
00:26:00.950 --> 00:26:05.730
Ed, well, we wanted to drink a water. That's all, Ed.
568
00:26:06.509 --> 00:26:08.529
You're not thirsty, John.
569
00:26:09.190 --> 00:26:10.829
You don't want to drink.
570
00:26:11.410 --> 00:26:12.990
You don't want to drink.
571
00:26:13.039 --> 00:26:13.490
Look out! His face!
572
00:26:13.599 --> 00:26:16.099
It's changing! And his hands! He's a Martian!
573
00:26:16.140 --> 00:26:16.640
Run, horse!
574
00:26:16.740 --> 00:26:16.839
Run!
575
00:26:16.880 --> 00:26:18.180
You can't get away, John.
576
00:26:18.240 --> 00:26:18.740
You can't.
577
00:26:34.309 --> 00:26:34.609
Hello?
578
00:26:35.069 --> 00:26:35.349
Hello?
579
00:26:35.410 --> 00:26:36.130
Can you hear me, Earth?
580
00:26:36.549 --> 00:26:40.380
This is Captain John Black, the XR-53, calling from Mars.
581
00:26:40.650 --> 00:26:42.569
I've locked myself in the ship, but they've crippled it.
582
00:26:43.259 --> 00:26:44.200
I can't take off or.
583
00:26:44.140 --> 00:26:46.519
Fire the guns, and they're coming for me now, the Martians.
584
00:26:46.880 --> 00:26:49.819
I'm all alone here. All the rest are dead. Hinkston, Lustig, Dr.
585
00:26:49.880 --> 00:26:50.119
Horst.
586
00:26:50.440 --> 00:26:52.019
Poor Horst, he didn't even reach the door.
587
00:26:52.980 --> 00:26:53.200
Listen.
588
00:26:53.480 --> 00:26:53.720
Listen.
589
00:26:53.740 --> 00:26:55.640
They're trying to break through the hull now. Edward and
590
00:26:55.680 --> 00:26:58.400
Mom and Dad and all the folks. But they're changing now.
591
00:26:58.759 --> 00:27:01.039
Melting and changing back into... They're Martians.
592
00:27:01.240 --> 00:27:02.299
Can you understand me?
593
00:27:02.579 --> 00:27:05.589
Martians, not men. They made us think that Mars was heaven.
594
00:27:05.849 --> 00:27:06.720
We fell into the trap.
595
00:27:06.900 --> 00:27:09.390
Can you hear me, Earth? You've got to stop the
596
00:27:09.410 --> 00:27:12.410
next rocket. Tell... Tell my brother Will. Tell my brother
597
00:27:12.430 --> 00:27:14.930
Will not to come. They'll trap him, too. They'll kill
598
00:27:14.970 --> 00:27:16.250
them all. Hello.
599
00:27:16.490 --> 00:27:16.869
Hello.
600
00:27:16.950 --> 00:27:19.890
Can you hear me, Earth? This is John Black on Mars.
601
00:27:20.210 --> 00:27:20.829
Hello, Earth.
602
00:27:21.269 --> 00:27:23.250
This is John Black on Mars.
603
00:27:32.259 --> 00:27:36.079
Tonight, Dimension X has presented and transcribed the Ray Bradbury story,
604
00:27:36.319 --> 00:27:40.420
Mars is Heaven, adapted for radio by Ernest Canoy. Featured
605
00:27:40.460 --> 00:27:43.849
players were Wendell Holmes as Captain Black and Peter Capel
606
00:27:43.910 --> 00:27:44.309
as Dr.
607
00:27:44.349 --> 00:27:44.609
Horse.
608
00:27:45.210 --> 00:27:50.009
Your narrator, Norman Rose. Music by Albert Berman. Engineer, Bill Chambers.
609
00:27:50.769 --> 00:27:53.910
Dimension X is produced by Van Woodward and directed by
610
00:27:53.990 --> 00:27:58.269
Edward King. Robert Warren speaking. In a moment, we'll tell
611
00:27:58.289 --> 00:28:02.250
you about next week's show. And now, here is your
612
00:28:02.289 --> 00:28:05.750
Wheaties man, Frank Martin. Folks, tonight we have a special
613
00:28:05.769 --> 00:28:08.359
guest for you. Here he is, Joel McRae.
614
00:28:08.690 --> 00:28:09.539
Hello, Frank Martin.
615
00:28:09.950 --> 00:28:11.819
I kind of expected to see a package of Wheaties
616
00:28:11.839 --> 00:28:12.720
sticking out of your pocket.
617
00:28:12.980 --> 00:28:13.359
What?
618
00:28:13.380 --> 00:28:16.500
Did I forget them? You must like Wheaties, Frank. Sure,
619
00:28:16.539 --> 00:28:17.599
don't you? You bet.
620
00:28:18.039 --> 00:28:20.039
I'm joining the big parade of Wheaties programs, you know,
621
00:28:20.079 --> 00:28:22.680
with Tales of the Texas Rangers come Saturday night. That
622
00:28:22.700 --> 00:28:25.920
promises to be real entertainment, Joel. Understand these are true
623
00:28:25.980 --> 00:28:27.160
stories of the Texas Rangers.
624
00:28:27.420 --> 00:28:28.000
Absolutely.
625
00:28:28.339 --> 00:28:30.960
Each story is straight from the Texas Ranger files. Well,
626
00:28:30.980 --> 00:28:32.859
we're mighty proud to have you join us, Joel, with
627
00:28:32.880 --> 00:28:35.059
this new program. We'll all be listening on the same
628
00:28:35.140 --> 00:28:38.700
NBC station Saturday night for Joel McRae in Tales of
629
00:28:38.740 --> 00:28:39.539
the Texas Rangers.
630
00:28:40.140 --> 00:28:40.839
Okay, Mr.
631
00:28:40.880 --> 00:28:42.240
McRae? Okay, partner.
632
00:28:42.720 --> 00:28:44.119
Good night. Good night, Joel.
633
00:28:44.680 --> 00:28:47.299
And friends, be sure to listen Saturday, that's tomorrow night,
634
00:28:47.640 --> 00:28:50.440
to Joel McRae and his new program, Tales.
635
00:28:50.119 --> 00:28:53.069
Of the Texas Rangers. And get your Wheaties, everybody.
636
00:28:57.589 --> 00:29:00.039
And this is the Wheaties man, Frank Martin, inviting you
637
00:29:00.099 --> 00:29:03.440
again to listen tomorrow night to Joel McRae in Tales
638
00:29:03.500 --> 00:29:05.940
of the Texas Rangers on the Wheaties Big Parade.
639
00:29:05.960 --> 00:29:07.180
See you then.
640
00:29:10.259 --> 00:29:13.500
Next week, the story of the strangest case ever recorded
641
00:29:13.539 --> 00:29:16.329
in the files of the Bureau of Missing Persons. The
642
00:29:16.349 --> 00:29:19.630
case of the man in the moon. You'll hear the
643
00:29:19.670 --> 00:29:22.049
whole story next week when we venture once more into
644
00:29:22.089 --> 00:29:23.390
the unknown world of.
645
00:29:24.869 --> 00:29:52.529
The March on Axe. This is NBC, the national broadcasting company.
646
00:30:07.000 --> 00:30:11.359
This has been Dimension X, Episode 14, Mars is Heaven.
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00:30:11.660 --> 00:30:15.509
Thank you for joining us for this July 1950 broadcast.
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00:30:15.950 --> 00:30:21.210
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