Unknown Broadcast | "Resident Killer" "Casting the Runes" "Author and the Thing" "A Statement of Fact"

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Well, hello, my dear,
I feel rather cheery, how about you.

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Yes, yes, yes, it's
going to be a wonderful holiday season.

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I do believe you know a lot
of people. People tend to under

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sell how Christmas is actually celebrated,
not just with holly and jolly and joy

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and singing, but oh no,
no, no, with a classic ghost

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story or two. After all,
a Christmas Carol is nothing if not a

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ghost stores. So I'm glad you're
here with me because I am going to

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make sure you get your dose of
ghosts. So please, please, please

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relax. I have an extra special
gift for you. I'm going to bring

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you a few more stories than no. Let me dust this one off just

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for you. It's a little thing
called casting the rooms. Now, I

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may have cast a few rooms in
my day, but that's not something we'll

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talk about, at least not yet. So relax and listen. Had a

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hard day at the office, back
ache from bending over a hot stove all

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day. I want to get away
from it all. We offer you escape.

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It is midnight and you are alone. Suddenly the room is plunged into

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darkness. You sit frozen with terror
because something is there behind you, something

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you feared would come something from which
you must escape. Escape, produced and

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directed by William N. Robeson,
and carefully plotted to free you from the

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four walls of today for a half
hour of high adventure. Tonight we'll escape

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to London and a world made strange
and terrifying by the workings of an ancient

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barbary curse, as Montague R.
James tells it in his weird story Casting

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the Ruins Ever. My name is
Edward Dunning. I'm a scientist. I'm

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used to dealing with facts, not
fairy tales. I'm regarded as Britain's leading

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authority on medieval life, and as
such I've studied much of the ancient fears

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and barbaric superstitions of those times.
I should have been the first to scoff

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at any suggestion that the ancient powers
of evil, the black magic of Teutonic

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days, could be believed and practiced
in the twentieth century. A few weeks

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ago, I should have laughed had
you told me that a curse a hex

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could kill a man. Today I
cannot laugh. It has happened to a

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man I know of, and now
it's happening to me. My first presentment

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of danger came on that day a
few weeks ago, when I dropped in

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to see Alfred's Smith, secretary of
the National Science Association, and found him

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in a state of irritation. Lasted
all, Donning. I almost wish you

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hadn't been so brutally honest in your
report on that Carswell paper. Why what's

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the trouble. He's such a frightful
fellow. He's raising a terrible row.

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You mean Carswell himself. Yes,
it's bad enough of vicious charlatan like that,

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calling himself a scientist. But now
he's taking all his vindictiveness out on

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me. Sorry, old Jeff,
it's really me. He'd like to get

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at. As a matter of fact, that's just what his last letter was

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about. He wants to know what
supposed authority wrote the report rejecting his paper.

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You didn't give him my name,
Hivens. No, As a matter

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of fact, Dunning, I haven't
and I won't, And for a very

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special reason. Call it silly,
call it crazy, call it what you

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will. I have an uncanny feeling
about that man Carswell. Why do you

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know anything about him? Nothing?
I've never seen him. I only know

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that he wrote a paper called the
truth of alchemy. It was hopeless,

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precisely, and why was it hopeless? Well, besides being abominably written,

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was supposed to prove that alchemy,
black magic and such rat actually exists.

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I think the man really believes.
Undoubtedly he does. And that's what I

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mean. He lives in an isolated
old house in Warwickshire. He's rarely seen

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elsewhere, and in his whole career
he's written only two things, this paper

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and the History of Witchcraft, published
ten years ago. Of course I remember

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now, So that's the man,
yes, and that book was even worse

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than this paper. The man has
a warped mind. I'm sure he's tried

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every unhealthy experiment in alchemy, witchcraft
and black magic. There's no telling to

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what lengths of vindictiveness a man like
that might go. Well, does sound

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a bit queer, It's not queer, dumbing evil. Come. Man has

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a right to believe what he likes. He is right to be angry with

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me here. I've blibly scoffed at
the man's life's work. Perhaps I'm being

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overly suspicious and imaginative, but I
think there's more than anger involved here.

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Edward, this may sound fantastic,
to you, but well, John Harrington

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wrote the report condemning that witchcraft book
of Carswell's ten years ago. Three months

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later, Harrington was dead, Alfred, what's the connection? Harrington died under

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very peculiar circumstances. He was walking
home alone late one night, and suddenly

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he screamed, broke into a run, lost his hat and stick, and

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climbed up a tree. A dead
branch gave way, he fell and broke

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his neck. No one's ever been
able to explain why it happened. Come

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now out with jolly or not suggesting. I don't know what I'm suggesting.

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I only know that after he reviewed
Carswell's book, John Harrington didn't have a

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moment's piece. Now you've written an
unfavorable review of this paper. I were

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you, I should keep that fact
well hidden. Of Halfred Well, that's

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ridiculous. Yes, I laughed at
Albin's Smite's fears. How could I have

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known then that I was to feel
the same terror, the same agonized fear

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which gripped the heart of John Harrington
as he crouched panting on the branch of

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a tree for another moment or two
of life. While beneath him the thing

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came closer and closer. I'd almost
forgotten the incident when a few nights later

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I was riding home on the late
train. I was half drowsing in my

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seat, barely keeping awake by looking
idly at the car card. Persons then

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directly opposite me must have been doing
the same, because suddenly I hadn't say,

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here, what can that won't be
advertised? I followed his eyes to

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the window beside my head. What
I saw brought me boat upright in my

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seat. In memory of John Errington
God September eighteenth, nineteen thirty seven,

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by falling from a tree three months
were allowed me. Won't you say that

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means heir Well? I don't know, but I did know Smife had been

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right. The affair with Carswell was
not over, but only begun. I

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asked the conductor about the card.
That he was as positive as I was.

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He had never seen it before.
The card must have been put there

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expressly for me. That meant that
Carswell knew. It was I who would

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reviewed his paper. How have you
found out? I got the answer the

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next day. I was in the
select Manuscript department of the British Museum doing

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some research in the quiet, almost
deserted room. I had been working steadily

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for an hour and oblivious to my
surroundings, when suddenly itjust at my shoulder,

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I heard a voice. It weren't
Donning. You were allowed three months.

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I swung around my seat. There
was no one within twenty feet of

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me. I sat for a moment, shaken, and then I stooped to

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pick up the papers I had brushed
to the floor. I straightened up to

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find a stout, elderly gentleman standing
in front of me. Excuse me,

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sir, Yes, may I give
you this paper? I think it should

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be yours? Well, yes,
so it is. I thought I had

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them all. This one seemed to
have slide across the floor. Thank you

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very much, not at all,
sir, Good afternoon. He walked slowly

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away and out of the door.
A kindly, stout, old gentleman.

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But there was something about him that
made me feel strange. I went over

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to the tenderer. Yes, mister
Dunlar, did you notice that gentleman I

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was just speaking to. Oh,
yes, of course, but can you

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tell me his name? Why?
That's mister Carswell. As a matter of

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fact, he was asking about you
only the other day, asking about me

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will. He asked, who were
the great authorities on medieval science? Of

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course I told him you were the
only one in the car ah, I

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see, would you write to meet
him, mister Dunning, I'll see if

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I a no, thank you.
It was as simple as that. Now

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Carswell knew what would be his next
move. What was I to expect?

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I reached home at dusk and trouble
stood on my doorstep in the long face

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and stooped form of my family.
Doctor. I had to upset your household

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arrangements. I'm sorry to say,
Dunning, I've had to send both your

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servants to hospital. But what happened
is something like to main prisoning. I

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should think it's nothing serious. Well, what would have caused it? Well,

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that's the rather odd thing. They
tell me. They bought some shellfish

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from a hawker and headed for lunch. I've made inquiries that I can't find

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that a hawker called at any other
house on this street. Was this the

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next move? If so, it
had succeeded. I was alone in the

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house, and my nervousness increased as
darkness closed in and the hours advanced toward

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midnight. I went to bed,
but almost immediately I thought I heard something

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my study door opening downstairs. I
went out and leaaned over the banister.

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There was nothing moving, nothing visible. There was only a sudden, surprising

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dust of warm air playing about my
legs. I went back into my room

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and locked the door. Suddenly the
lights went out. No doubt it was

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only a blown fuse, but the
chills were playing up and down my spine.

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I went over to the bed and
reached from my watch under the pillow.

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I suppose I want to find out
the time. I don't know why,

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But fumbling on the pillow, my
hand touched something far different from a

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watch. It was like a mouth, with sharp teeth and hair around it,

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not human at all. I fled
from my bedroom and spent a long

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and miserable night locked in the spare
room, my ear to the door,

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but nothing came. I was not
disturbed again. In the morning. I

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searched the house and found nothing unusual. But the mark of fear must have

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been stamped on my face. Smife
noticed it next day, because if you

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hadn't slept for weeks, is anything
wrong? I don't know, Alfred,

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I, yes, there is carswell
knows how They told him at the museum.

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Of course we should have thought of
that. Has anything happened yet,

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I don't know. It's too fantastic. It's probably my mind hypnotic suggestion of

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something. But like that man Harrington, I have three months left. Edward

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must have been hearing things. I'm
all on age. I don't know what

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to it. John Harrington had a
brother, Henry. Perhaps i'd better get

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you in touch with him. He
might know more about this man cars.

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Yes, yes, do it and
quickly. Three months there's not a lot

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of time. It was arranged.
That night I found myself walking down the

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dark street that led from the railway
station to harrington home. It must have

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been along the same street that John
Harrington had walked that last night where he

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had broke and run. It must
have been one of these trees bordering the

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lonely road in which he had spent
his last horrible moments. The way was

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dark and there was no living soul
in sight, and suddenly complete terror had

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gripped me. Somehow, I knew
that I was being followed. At first

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I only felt it, and then
I heard it. I walked steadily on

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to a moment to my stomach like
ice. It was getting loud and coming

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closer. Unconsciously, my step quickened. I could barely control myself. I

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wanted to scream and run. The
thing came closer, closer, I confess

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I broke and ran, ran madly
for my life. I was at a

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little side street I turned down at
doubling back to the railway station. I

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thought I would never make it,
But finally, bright lights loomed before my

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eyes, and I think that I
never have been so grateful for human companionship.

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There's no need to run, sir
the I thought he won't be along

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for another five minutes. I felt
very foolish. I couldn't bring myself to

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walk back down that street to Harrington's. I could only take the train home

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furtively and call Harrington next morning to
beg it forgiveness. He seemed very understanding

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and asked no questions, and doubted
his smile had told him something about me.

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At any rate, he agreed to
visit me at a place two nights

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later, and when he arrived and
was made welcome, he began to talk

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about his brother. Yes, John
was in a very bad state for weeks

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before the accident. If that's what
it was. The principal things seemed to

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be. The notions he was being
followed became an obsession. Yes, I

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know, I don't think his death
was an accident. Then perhaps you can

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explain it. No, but I
have one clue. Your brother reviewed a

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book very severely not long before he
died. Just lately, I happened to

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cross the path of the man who
wrote that book. And his name,

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of course is Carswell. That's right, and as far as I'm concerned,

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that does it. Before he died, John was beginning to feel, much

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against his will that Carswell was at
the bottom of his trouble. Why well,

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it doesn't make sense, none of
this, dusk. But tell me

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my brother liked music. He went
to all the concerts in town, and

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he made a hobby of collecting the
programs. One night, about three months

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before his death, he brought one
home and showed it to me. I

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nearly missed this one, he said. It seems he'd lost his and was

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hunting for it under his seat,
and a neighbor, a rather stout,

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elderly gentleman, off to give John
his The kind gentleman was mister Caswell.

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Undoubtedly, I started to leap through
the program and noted on the second page,

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some rather curious letters carefully written there
and black and red ink. Neither

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of us couldnact much of it,
except that the letters seemed to be runic

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runs. Ruins, of course,
but John thought it might be important,

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and debated whether he shouldn't try to
return the program to the stout gentleman.

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But just then the door blew open, and a gust of air, of

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strangely warm air, blew into the
room in afresh. It took the proge

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and blew it straight into the fire. Yes, your brother was right,

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he should return it. There's nothing
to be done then, perhaps now.

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But do you know what runic letters
mean. Well, they're all pre druid

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script. I believe they're kind of
writing the Barbaric tribes used long if all

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the Romans invaded Britain. That's right, casting the runs. They used to

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call it in the old days,
casting the runs. What do you mean?

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But it was a curse a hicks
In primitive England, people thought by

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casting the runes, that is,
handing a person a piece of paper with

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certain runic letters on it, that
could put that person out of the way

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destroy him. It's an old superstition. The only way to lift the curse

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was to return the paper to the
one who gave it to you, to

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give it back without his knowing it? Right, I don't believe that kind

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of nonsense, bither do I?
Then? What was it to kill John?

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I don't know. Perhaps his sphere
of the runs, perhaps brooding about

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it, becoming neurotic, thinking he
saw things and heard things and touched things

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that weren't there. Perhaps his own
mind drove him to death. And what's

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the difference on your dead? The
difference at all? Casting the ruins what

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rubbish, yes, of course,
But good heavens, what is it?

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I just remembered that day at the
British Museum. Gee cast the ruins on

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me? Yuh well? I went
swiftly to the writing table, Harrington close

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behind me. My portfolio was there, full of the scribbled notes I'd been

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working on that day in the museum. And as I took it from my

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shaking hands and began leaping desperately through
them all, one strip of thin light

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paper slipped and futtered toward the open
window with uncanny quickness. But Harrington was

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even quicker and slammed the window shut
just in time. Got it, Thank

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heaven, If they were lost and
destroyed like your brothers. Then you wouldn't

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be able to return it to mister
Casmon. Yes, look at it.

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It's identical with the one Jart got. I looked at the climsy paper.

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The characters carefully traced in red and
black were runs, all right, that

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ancient language used for the Aborigines of
prehistoric Britain. I couldn't decipher them.

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But as Harrington and I stood looking
into each other's eyes, each of us

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could read the other's thoughts. Science
or not, twentieth century or not.

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This sheet of foolscap spells death for
its possessor. It spells death for you.

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Ust be returned, Yes, I
know, let's go back in such

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a way that it doesn't. But
he doesn't know he's received it. That

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means we constantly mail it. No, we can't, we're miss Stewart personally.

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That'll take doing. He knows you
by sight doesn't take this. You

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must shave your beard. It'll alter
your appearance. He might strike any time.

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I had three months as with the
warning said, we've got to make

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miss Dunning. I have searched ten
years for my brother's murderer, and now

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he must not escape. I dare
not go near carswell, so Harry volunteered

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to keep a watch on him,
to let me know when our chance came

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to return the rooms, if it
was ever to come. It was only

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a night or two after Harrington was
there that I arrived home and found the

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calendar had come in the mail.
When I examined it, I found everything

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after November nineteenth had been torn out. The next night I had another envelope

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of the mail. This time it
was a woodcut an illustration torn out of

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a book showing a dark, moonlit
road and a man walking on it,

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and right behind him came a huge
dark shape, some awful demon creature.

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Under it were written some lines from
the ancient Mariner, And as I sat

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alone and read them aloud, I
felt that now familiar gust of warm air

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playing about my legs. The man
walks on and turns no more his head

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because he knows a frightful fiend duck
close behind him. Tread. Now I

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knew the face of my terror,
and it was with me always walking down

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the dark street at night. I
heard its footsteps behind me. In my

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lonely house at midnight at rome,
the halls like the ancient Mariner and John

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Harrington. I never turned to look. I couldn't. My nerves were going

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and I could do nothing but wait
the days. The weeks slipped by,

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and still Harrington had no plan.
I checked off the days on the calendar

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cars where I had sent. Now
the eight days remaining, then six,

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then three, two one. It
was the evening of the eighteenth. My

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last day on earth was to begin
at midnight. I was sitting alone in

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my living room, daved in perspiration, fighting to keep my nerves and check.

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Suddenly I felt that warm gust of
air. I listened. There were

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soft footsteps. A shadow seemed to
cross the hall door, and then the

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footsteps and landed into a loud bang. It no, no, not yet,

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I still got one day more,
not yet done. It's me,

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ah, oh, Harry, what's
the matter man? What is it?

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It's you? You're knocking on the
door. Your footsteps is of course thank

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him, I thought, I look, man, you've got to pull yourself

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together. It's to night. We
have our chance. What chance? Cars

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will leave Victoria Station by boat train
to night at ten. I'll get on

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with him. There, you take
the car I brought and drive to Croydon,

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get on the train there and be
sure to bring the paper. Yes,

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yes, I heard, you've shaved
already. Good. Everything depends on

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his not recognizing you. It's Harrington. Suppose he changes his mind. Suppose

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he doesn't take that trip. My
time runs out tomorrow. He'll be there

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and you'll do it. You'll do
it well, you've got to. I

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stood on the platform across my mind. In the days I thought the train

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would never come, but it did. I saw Harrington the window. He

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stared coolly at me. Of course, there was to be no sign of

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recognition. I entered the coach and
slowly made my way down the aisle to

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the compartment where Harrington sat opposite him, staring full into my face. Was

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cars. He looked up as I
sat down, his eyes when heavy lid

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it his face blind, it was
impossible to tell. The train started.

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The next start was over at the
end of the line. By last chance,

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it was time to cast the ruins. There was a strange, wild

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Carsweb and I seated face to face, staring into each other's eyes. Harrington

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off to the side, pulling in
his face and twitching his fingers. If

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I could have only had a few
whispered moments with into glima statague, but

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that was impossible. Moments drank tortuously, no one moved. Then suddenly cars

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leaned forward. I beg your pardon, sir. Have we met Matt Well?

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I don't think so. Was that
not unless you're in the lombing business

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plumbing? No, hard lot.
I hadn't planned it that way. The

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words the accent just seemed to come
by themselves, and Caswell sat back,

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an enigmatic expression on his face.
I wished desperately to know what he was

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thinking. Then suddenly he got up
and went out into the corridor, but

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bless my chance. I was about
to slip over to his bags to see

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if there were a ways to secrete
the rooms with him, when I caught

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Harrington's eye and read a warning.
Caswell from the corridor was watching, waiting

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to see if we recognized each other. I muttered a prayer of thanks.

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I hadn't know. Caswell came back
and took his seat. As he did

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so, while the exultant hope surged
up in my throat for something slipped off

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his seat and dropped noiselessly to the
floor. It was his ticket case,

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and he didn't see it. Because
a small cardboard ticket case with a pocket

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on the cover. But I could
just get to it and slip that tiny

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piece of paper into that pocket.
For fifteen agonizing minutes, I sat there

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and stared at it, if only
cars that would go out, But he

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sat stolidly, staring straight ahead.
We were coming into the outskirts of Dover,

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the train slowing down. Suddenly Harrington
stood up reached up to the rack

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above Coswell to get his coat and
bag. I stared at him blank paper

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a moment, surprised by his sudden
clumsiness, and then I realized what he

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was up to. The bag,
the coat of briefcase off in tumbling down

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upon cost say I'm a I'm terribly
sorry, Pool you might have ventured me.

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What were you trying to do when
it was my only chance? Coswell

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stayed facing habit. I reached down
and never got the ticket case, and

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my trembling finger slipped the paper into
the pocket. He turned sharply to me

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and I extended the case. Took
uh, excuse me, sir, is

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this yours? Yes, my ticket
case? But you find it here on

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the floor. Must dropped off When
this I'm much obliged to yourself. Not

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all, not all. He looked
at me fiercely, his rage at Harrington

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still twisting his face into a devil's
mask. Then he glanced briefly into the

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ticket case and put it into his
pocket. On the railway pier of Joba,

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Harrington and I followed a few steps
behind Carswell. I felt like I

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might faint. Carswell went straight to
the gangway of the boat, and there

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the person stopped him. Does you
have a ticket? Id the devil?

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You mean? I'm traveling alone?
That's funny. I could have sworn there

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was another gentleman right there beside you, walking just at your elbow. Well,

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there isn't, And I suggest you
see an oculist. Oh I didn't

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see. I just felt sorry,
sir. It must have been your rugs,

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my mistake. Come on done.
I didn't sleep that night. I

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lay awake and listened. But there
were no footsteps, no warm gusts.

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Are there nothing to disturb me.
All day I felt remarkably free, although

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this was to have been my last
day on earth. But only just now

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when Harrington came in? Could I
really relax? Have you seen the afternoon

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paper yet? I know? Now? Jack Well, here look at it

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on the second page. There Abbeyville, France, an English traveler examining the

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front of Saint Wilkram's Cathedral today was
struck on the head and killed instantly by

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a stone falling from the scaffolding.
A note of mystery was added by the

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fact that, although the cathedral was
undergoing repairs, no workman was on the

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scaffolding at the time of the accident. The traveler was identified by papers found

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on him as a mister Carswell of
Warwickshire. Of course it could have been

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an accident, yes, as it
could have been. Escape is produced and

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directed by William M. Robson and
Tonight Brought You, casting the runs by

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Montague R. James, adapted for
radio by Irving Rabbits and John Duncle,

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with John McIntyre as Edward Dunning,
John Wolfs Harrington and Bill Conrad as Carswell.

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A special musical score was conceived and
conducted by Sifure. No no,

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no, A little more tea to
keep you warm. These thick stone walls,

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they they carry a cold. One
can't truly imagine until they're sitting here

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day after day, night after night. Oh what's that? Oh no,

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no, no, not even a
little bit. Just relax, take a

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sip of the tea. It's very
good. I never skimmer on the leaves.

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Well, this one here, I
haven't listened to in a long time,

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but it has quite a title.
It's called Resident Killer. That sounds

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like the perfect story too. Make
your blood run cold as you pour hot

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tea on your Gollet go. So
relax, relax, don't even worry.

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You're my guest. I'll take care
of you. And let's listen to this

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one right now. Come in,
welcome. I'm Tammy Grimes. It is

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said the perfection is the pursuit of
sweetness and lightened. The pursuit is that

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because the captured itself is impossible.
Since the dim and misty dawn of history,

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man has tried to create a perfect
world. So far it has eluded

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him. And perhaps it's just as
well. After all, if everyone were

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to be perfect, how could we
tolerate each other? Why should I want

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to kill you? Because I'm the
enemy enemy. Until ten seconds ago,

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we never knew each other existed.
But each of us is fighting for our

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planet at true, but I am
sick of fighting for my planet. I'd

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like to fight for me, wouldn't
you like to fight for you. I

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don't understand your ship. My ship
between us, we have enough firepower to

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destroy the universe. Why don't we
take over our mystery drama Resident Killer has

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written especially for the mystery bit of
a Sam Dan and stars Mason Adams.

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I'll be back shortly with that one. I know a dramatist who has been

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appointed playwright in residence at a large
university. Painters in residence, composers in

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residents, sculptors, novelists, philosophers. The list keeps increasing, and as

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our civilization becomes more and more complex, who knows what other specialists may be

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in demand for residents, not just
for the colleges, but for society itself.

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The time is twenty four ninety eight, five hundred years into the future.

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Have there been many changes? Of
course? Think of what has taken

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place over the past five centuries.
George Barrows is having breakfast with his wife.

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At least that hasn't changed until Bill
Douglas has been named commander of the

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fleet. You have the seniority.
The council thinks he's more qualified, but

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everyone knows you're better. You're beginning
to sound competitive, but this is a

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matter of simple justice, justice,
my die. It's never simple. Oh

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well, now I have to go
where I mean? Isn't this your four

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day leaves? Yeah? I have
to go to the port. Yes,

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yeah, there are things I have
to tend to on the ship, such

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as very technical. You could put
it on the simplifier for me. It's

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quite boring. I know where you're
going Teddy's, Jim. Why did you

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lie to me? Because the idea
of Teddy's distresses you. You see how

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dangerous this is becoming a Ella.
It was just an innocent little you plan.

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It's all innocent. Well perhaps it
begins that way, but the fact

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is you've told me a lie,
and from a lie where Teddy's Gym is

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wrong. You know that, Darling. I only go there for access.

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No, you don't to go there
to fight, Ella. That isn't why

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you stand opposite another human being and
each of you tries to hit the other,

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to hurt the other. No,
oh no, it's just a trial

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of skill. Do you strike hard
blows? Wow? Is it possible for

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someone to be injured? That isn't
the purpose? Right? Does it?

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Or does it not arouse aggressive feelings? All right, yes it does?

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You admit it. This boxing,
this wrestling, isn't it antisocial? Maybe?

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Oh, George, we got away
from all that five hundred years ago.

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What would you like for us to
drift back into those savage times when

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it was everyone for himself and every
hand raised against one's neighbor. No,

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but Ella, this is such a
harmless thing. It is not It is

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fighting. It cannot be permitted to
exist in any form. It has no

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place in our society, which is
dedicated to brotherly love. There's such a

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thing as too much brotherly love.
George, What am I going to do

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with you? You could suggest me
for psych reek, get reconstruction. I

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really should. Well why don't you, because I couldn't be happy with anyone

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else even though I'm aggressive. No, stop this nonsense. Give you a

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kiss. Of course, She's right, I'm the one that's out of step.

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We have to have this brotherly love, this absolutely uncompromising belief in the

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sanctity of the individual, because the
other thing just doesn't work. It hasn't

406
00:36:32.320 --> 00:36:38.519
since the world began. You can't
compromise and make exceptions either. There cannot

407
00:36:38.599 --> 00:36:45.440
be even the slightest manifestation of aggression. But what can I do? I'm

408
00:36:45.480 --> 00:36:51.679
an aggressive person and the life we
must lead now bores me stiff. Please

409
00:36:51.840 --> 00:37:00.360
pass this place by eliminate aggression.
Every day they all show up in front

410
00:37:00.400 --> 00:37:05.119
of Teddy's. Gim this anti aggression
society. They're always out in force,

411
00:37:05.599 --> 00:37:09.440
not that they've use it. The
leader was this tall, dark haired dame,

412
00:37:09.559 --> 00:37:15.800
and she really was berto. She'd
make a great lady wrestler anyhow she

413
00:37:15.880 --> 00:37:19.719
would stop me. I love you. I love you too. I love

414
00:37:19.880 --> 00:37:24.199
everything that lives. I also love
everything that lives. I refuse to raise

415
00:37:24.320 --> 00:37:31.760
my hand against anything that lives.
I refuse to entertain even the slightest thoughts

416
00:37:31.800 --> 00:37:38.639
of aggressive behavior. Aggression is an
evil seed, once planted its growth.

417
00:37:38.719 --> 00:37:43.159
I'm sorry. I could stand here
and agree with you forever. You are

418
00:37:43.280 --> 00:37:46.920
so beautiful and intelligent. However,
you must issues. Will you accept this

419
00:37:47.079 --> 00:37:53.119
literature and discover how you can coursen
and brutalize yourself by attending kind of you

420
00:37:53.199 --> 00:37:57.280
to offer it? May you be
enlightened? You? I love you,

421
00:37:57.400 --> 00:38:05.920
I love you, Teddy, Teddy, are you okay? You're not out

422
00:38:05.960 --> 00:38:10.039
of d oh? No, no, no, no, nothing's going lady.

423
00:38:10.719 --> 00:38:15.639
No, I can't feel anything.
Your knows A little bit boy that

424
00:38:15.840 --> 00:38:22.159
was a workouts down here. Who's
this uh, this guy Douglas who's just

425
00:38:22.159 --> 00:38:25.079
been named fleet commander. Oh he's
all right, Well, aren't you the

426
00:38:25.199 --> 00:38:29.840
senior planet of the space flee these
days? If you're not a member of

427
00:38:29.840 --> 00:38:34.079
the Anti Aggression Society, forget it. That's the way the wind blows,

428
00:38:34.119 --> 00:38:37.480
stunting the howl. If you ask
me, who cares? I'd rather be

429
00:38:37.599 --> 00:38:39.679
on my own as a pilot where
I don't have to set an example.

430
00:38:39.960 --> 00:38:44.400
After all, I could never come
here if I were fleet ce Oh now

431
00:38:44.440 --> 00:38:50.000
could I looks like you won't be
coming here much longer anyhow, I'm going

432
00:38:50.000 --> 00:38:53.239
out of business. You're what the
handwriting's on the wall. But you can't

433
00:38:53.360 --> 00:38:59.119
shut down being forced down, Teddy. Nobody is allowed to use force for

434
00:38:59.159 --> 00:39:01.920
any reason, can additions? George? Look around you, and this time

435
00:39:01.960 --> 00:39:06.280
of day, we'd have five ten
boxing bots go and maybe a couple of

436
00:39:06.280 --> 00:39:09.199
wrestlers. This afternoon it's just you
and me doing a couple of rounds.

437
00:39:10.320 --> 00:39:15.440
It's the old story. If you
can't let them join them join who that

438
00:39:15.960 --> 00:39:20.880
gang outside with the signs the cooks? No, Georgie, you and me

439
00:39:21.159 --> 00:39:24.880
we're the cooks. Now, those
folks they're the way of the future.

440
00:39:25.239 --> 00:39:30.440
If you refuse to write a Jill
drowned. So I decided to close up

441
00:39:30.559 --> 00:39:34.239
and do what? Get a job? How can you get a job if

442
00:39:34.239 --> 00:39:37.840
you're not a member of the Anti
Aggression Society. I guess I'll have to

443
00:39:37.039 --> 00:39:40.039
join up. Come on, it
can't be that bad. It's worse,

444
00:39:42.119 --> 00:39:44.760
Georgie. I got a kid in
school. She's ashamed of it. But

445
00:39:44.920 --> 00:39:47.800
how can you join you don't believe
in that stuff? I will soon.

446
00:39:49.039 --> 00:39:55.559
I signed that pro psychic reconstruction.
You're gonna be psyche. It's the only

447
00:39:55.639 --> 00:40:00.239
way you can get along in this
world. George. Yeah, Well,

448
00:40:00.280 --> 00:40:07.599
who says this is the only world
there is? I'm afraid it is the

449
00:40:07.639 --> 00:40:12.199
only world. The other planets in
our Solar system, and I passed them

450
00:40:12.239 --> 00:40:16.599
by all the time on routine weather
reconnaissance. But I couldn't live on any

451
00:40:16.639 --> 00:40:21.639
of them. I mean, they're
too hot, too cold, too wet

452
00:40:21.760 --> 00:40:25.519
to dry. There's life, there's
so many different kinds of life, but

453
00:40:25.719 --> 00:40:30.840
none of us like hours. So
what was I to do? Soon I'd

454
00:40:30.840 --> 00:40:37.039
be the only aggressive person left on
Earth. I'd be considered peculiar alien.

455
00:40:37.239 --> 00:40:44.000
Teddy was right. If you can't
let them join them. I came home

456
00:40:44.039 --> 00:40:47.719
and I told Ella. She burst
into tears. George, Oh George,

457
00:40:47.760 --> 00:40:52.880
I'm so happy you're doing it for
me. Sure, Sure, you'll develop

458
00:40:52.920 --> 00:41:00.639
an entirely new and exciting perspective on
life. Excited, a change your entire

459
00:41:00.840 --> 00:41:07.360
psychological outlook. As you undergo psychic
reconstruction, every last vestige of aggression will

460
00:41:07.440 --> 00:41:13.039
leave you. You know, a
newcolm, an inner peace, a deep

461
00:41:13.199 --> 00:41:17.239
love for every living creature. Okay, okay, lead me to it.

462
00:41:17.440 --> 00:41:22.320
You won't be sorry. Look you
say you love me. I love you.

463
00:41:22.360 --> 00:41:27.199
But once I get brainwah, brainwash, I'll be the same as everyone

464
00:41:27.280 --> 00:41:36.440
else. I always love you.
I hope so and so. I shaped

465
00:41:36.519 --> 00:41:42.400
up a psycheek. Although here you
had to say psychic reconstruction, the president

466
00:41:42.480 --> 00:41:47.039
himself was in charge. We are
gathered, yem to talk about love.

467
00:41:49.280 --> 00:41:53.679
He love well, a fellow man, love that can only exist to him.

468
00:41:53.719 --> 00:42:00.840
It is no envy, no competition, no aggression. Too many of

469
00:42:00.880 --> 00:42:07.199
you, this may sound dull,
boring, Yet what is the alternative?

470
00:42:07.079 --> 00:42:14.000
Hasn't history demonstrated the aggression in any
form, no matter how slight or small

471
00:42:14.159 --> 00:42:21.199
or seemingly innocent, must eventually inflame. Patteries that will ultimately rage out of

472
00:42:21.280 --> 00:42:27.920
control, and so forth and so
on. Even in our sleep, they

473
00:42:28.000 --> 00:42:31.000
ran wires in the horse, and
you'd keep hearing the message. You'd begin

474
00:42:31.079 --> 00:42:36.360
to feeling in your blood, your
nerves, the marrow of your bones.

475
00:42:36.800 --> 00:42:44.280
Love love love. You could feel
it, seeful, you become a part

476
00:42:44.360 --> 00:42:49.320
of you. There was no escape
from it, and then things became rough.

477
00:42:50.159 --> 00:42:55.159
You were all making remarkable progress.
I especially wished to commend pilot George

478
00:42:55.239 --> 00:43:04.599
Barrows and mister Teddy, thoughtstat they
will be the first to undergo laboratory indoctrination

479
00:43:05.719 --> 00:43:13.519
and classes. Just missed for the
day. You may all go. You're

480
00:43:13.559 --> 00:43:16.159
back early. He gave us the
rest of the day. Or what would

481
00:43:16.159 --> 00:43:21.840
you like to do? Nothing?
Just rest, relax without having all that

482
00:43:22.039 --> 00:43:25.320
stuff piped in it. But it
makes sense, wonderful sense. Sure,

483
00:43:25.760 --> 00:43:30.480
soon you'll believe it. I don't
believe it now. It's just it's just

484
00:43:30.559 --> 00:43:36.559
that I don't like it. Why
not because it's against human nature. I

485
00:43:36.559 --> 00:43:40.719
don't care what anyone tells me.
Man is a competitive animal, but he

486
00:43:40.800 --> 00:43:45.400
doesn't have to be. That's the
way he is, and that's why he

487
00:43:45.519 --> 00:43:50.440
has to change, because if he
doesn't the world will end Okay, I

488
00:43:50.559 --> 00:43:53.800
hear enough of that all day.
Most of us, the overwhelming majority of

489
00:43:53.880 --> 00:43:59.079
us, have changed, George,
and you must change too. You'll changed.

490
00:43:59.159 --> 00:44:04.719
But I still don't like it.
What's it? Was? The shaky

491
00:44:04.920 --> 00:44:08.000
earthquake? The turn be an earthquake
that three hundred years ago? Would we

492
00:44:08.159 --> 00:44:23.280
neutralize the most and cool? But
the house it's coming apart? Are you?

493
00:44:23.960 --> 00:44:30.880
Are you all right? Yeah?
I can't see the whole came apart.

494
00:44:31.320 --> 00:44:37.239
Oh it's dusk. I cannodly breathe. We're not supposed to have whatever

495
00:44:37.360 --> 00:44:40.920
we did hold out of my hand. We'll try to move back. Yes,

496
00:44:42.079 --> 00:44:47.000
it gets fresh air is Oh,
this is better. This is much

497
00:44:47.039 --> 00:44:53.360
better. I wonder how everyone else
did? What? What? Look at

498
00:44:53.400 --> 00:45:00.920
you? What about me? George? George beard? Your hairds? It's

499
00:45:01.000 --> 00:45:06.639
down to your shoulders? Georgia?
Were it? What is that skin of

500
00:45:06.679 --> 00:45:10.559
an animal? How show you?
Tree? Trees? What are those trees?

501
00:45:12.159 --> 00:45:16.159
Where we live? Where are we? George? What happened to us?

502
00:45:25.440 --> 00:45:30.239
Where are we? What happened to
us? Here? You have a

503
00:45:30.360 --> 00:45:36.320
married couple happily living in a luxurious
home of the far distant future. Suddenly,

504
00:45:36.360 --> 00:45:40.519
without warning, they find themselves stone
aged savages in the midst of a

505
00:45:40.599 --> 00:45:46.800
jungle. What happened, and perhaps
even why it happened, are the problems

506
00:45:46.800 --> 00:46:00.639
we shall address in Act too short, Madam, said mister Dostoyevsky is appliable

507
00:46:00.760 --> 00:46:07.599
animal, a being who can become
accustomed to everything, and we might add

508
00:46:07.840 --> 00:46:12.920
to anything. While this may be
one of man's greatest strengths, it can

509
00:46:12.960 --> 00:46:16.400
also prove to be his fatal weakness. It's one thing to adapt to the

510
00:46:16.480 --> 00:46:22.519
rigors of the physical environment, but
it is something else to compromise with the

511
00:46:22.559 --> 00:46:28.519
demands of morality or immorality. George, George, what happened to us?

512
00:46:28.519 --> 00:46:32.679
Where are we? I don't know
someone's coming. Hey, he's dressed just

513
00:46:32.719 --> 00:46:38.039
as we are. Who. Oh
it's Tay Teddy Forrester. Hey, Telly,

514
00:46:38.119 --> 00:46:40.119
what is this? How did we
get here? Do you know?

515
00:46:40.440 --> 00:46:44.360
Timie? And Ella? What?
I want you? I want you?

516
00:46:44.400 --> 00:46:46.840
Ella, you say I've always wanted
you, and I am going to have

517
00:46:46.920 --> 00:46:52.239
you? What Teddy? What has
come over? I'm taking Ella a minute.

518
00:46:52.320 --> 00:46:54.440
I have something to say about that. You have nothing to say.

519
00:46:54.480 --> 00:46:58.199
Now you such a money I think
you're doing? You want to fight me?

520
00:46:58.239 --> 00:47:07.559
For tom On? Suddenly we were
flaming away at each other with our

521
00:47:07.599 --> 00:47:12.079
fists, with rocks, with whatever
came to hand, and the bows they

522
00:47:12.159 --> 00:47:15.199
heard, I mean, they weren't
the sharp and stinging jabs we threw at

523
00:47:15.239 --> 00:47:20.159
each other in the gym. These
were meant to disable, even to count.

524
00:47:21.840 --> 00:47:24.199
Something flashed in Teddy's hand. I
saw the knife blade too late.

525
00:47:24.440 --> 00:47:29.559
There was an agonizing pain. It's
a bit of me, a parlyzing pain.

526
00:47:30.320 --> 00:47:32.400
All I could hear was Ella's voice
in the distance, filled with terror.

527
00:47:32.599 --> 00:47:38.639
George, George, help me,
George, help me. And then

528
00:47:38.840 --> 00:47:44.400
there was nothing. There was nothing. I'm dead, I said to myself,

529
00:47:44.400 --> 00:47:46.840
I'm dead, but I was.
There was Teddy coming out, was

530
00:47:47.000 --> 00:47:51.159
sword in hand. I knew it
was Teddy, even though the visor of

531
00:47:51.159 --> 00:47:55.159
his helmet covered his face. And
there was the fight raging all around me,

532
00:47:55.199 --> 00:47:59.280
the fight for the castle. And
I could hear Teddy shouting, you

533
00:47:59.320 --> 00:48:05.559
know, ever, die down to
the ground, no quarter, no prisoners.

534
00:48:05.719 --> 00:48:13.280
Put them all to the side,
the count of the Din, And

535
00:48:13.400 --> 00:48:16.400
suddenly we were in the midst of
a holocaust. And there was the terrible

536
00:48:16.440 --> 00:48:21.119
noise of the laws collapsing as the
burning castle fell in on us hoole.

537
00:48:22.800 --> 00:48:30.079
Once again, there was nothing in
this. I'm dead I said no,

538
00:48:30.440 --> 00:48:36.119
but I wasn't. Once again,
I feel a bottle and been fighting and

539
00:48:36.199 --> 00:48:40.159
falling. Suddenly I was high in
the sky aboard some primitive aircraft. I

540
00:48:40.280 --> 00:48:44.800
was releasing ancient bombs, and they
were falling on a city which was in

541
00:48:44.880 --> 00:48:47.719
flames beneath me. Whether I was
the killer or the one being killed,

542
00:48:47.760 --> 00:48:52.000
the agony was always the sync.
I drifted in and out of one massacre,

543
00:48:52.199 --> 00:48:57.039
one slaughter after another. I had
known of these things. I had

544
00:48:57.079 --> 00:49:01.199
read books, I had seen pictures
and tapes existed merely as abstract ideas,

545
00:49:01.760 --> 00:49:07.519
and now they were happening to me. My suffering was real. It was

546
00:49:07.639 --> 00:49:10.480
unbearable. I couldn't stand it any
more. Stop it, stop it stop.

547
00:49:10.840 --> 00:49:16.840
Only you can stop it, George
bound, Only you how tell me?

548
00:49:16.920 --> 00:49:22.480
How damn about the corrupt seed of
aggression before the flowers into a fatal

549
00:49:22.559 --> 00:49:32.360
and poisonous plant. Despite can you
do it? Yes? Yes, finally,

550
00:49:34.440 --> 00:49:38.039
oh, finally, It was burnt
out of me all thoughts of striving,

551
00:49:38.239 --> 00:49:44.800
competing, fighting aggression. Something had
come over me. I was a

552
00:49:44.960 --> 00:49:52.639
different human being in so many ways, had even become rather quiet, shy.

553
00:49:52.920 --> 00:49:57.840
You want to stay home again,
yes, but this is something new.

554
00:49:58.559 --> 00:50:01.360
We might listen to some muse that
as if it pleases you. I

555
00:50:01.400 --> 00:50:06.559
didn't know you like to sit and
listen to music. You're not at all

556
00:50:06.679 --> 00:50:09.840
the way you were? How was
I? You mean you don't remember?

557
00:50:10.199 --> 00:50:15.800
It's better this way? What you
agree? Yes, but it's not as

558
00:50:15.840 --> 00:50:21.440
exciting, you mean, as dangerous? Good? You're so different. Of

559
00:50:21.480 --> 00:50:25.960
course, I've been psychologically reconstructed,
and I want to be perfect? Know

560
00:50:28.239 --> 00:50:31.480
what is it? Ella? Well? The thought of perfection? It frightens

561
00:50:31.559 --> 00:50:35.920
me. Are you saying we shouldn't
strive for it? Yes, strive,

562
00:50:36.159 --> 00:50:39.079
but I hope we never achieve it. To George, how dull that would

563
00:50:39.079 --> 00:50:45.199
be? How do you know?
I look at you? You're perfect.

564
00:50:45.960 --> 00:50:50.719
You don't have a single angry or
envious or destructive thought in your head.

565
00:50:51.400 --> 00:50:53.800
Did you like me better the other
way? You were more fun? You

566
00:50:54.000 --> 00:50:59.800
haven't answered the question. One time
I had feelings of aggression and I went

567
00:50:59.800 --> 00:51:06.199
through the same psych Greek and you
changed. But I didn't become a fanatic.

568
00:51:07.320 --> 00:51:09.920
Is that what I am? No, George, it's just but it

569
00:51:10.000 --> 00:51:15.800
must be complete, Ella, all
the way. A single tiny misstep and

570
00:51:15.840 --> 00:51:20.159
we can revert to barbarism. You
know why you married me? I fell

571
00:51:20.199 --> 00:51:23.639
in love with you. Why?
Because I was different? You believed in

572
00:51:23.760 --> 00:51:29.599
perfection in theory, but in practice
perfection is so hard to live with.

573
00:51:30.239 --> 00:51:35.280
Secretly, you wrong to be aggressive, but you were afraid to express it.

574
00:51:35.320 --> 00:51:38.199
And why you made a strong outward
show of disapproval towards my aggression.

575
00:51:38.679 --> 00:51:43.199
You would get a vicarriers through a
lot of it. I didn't. You

576
00:51:43.239 --> 00:51:46.800
would lecture me on how savage and
socially destructive it was for me to go

577
00:51:46.840 --> 00:51:52.199
to Teddy's gym only because there were
times when you longed to go there yourself.

578
00:51:52.239 --> 00:51:58.000
That isn't true, I admitted,
my darling. Is it so terrible

579
00:51:58.119 --> 00:52:00.360
to want to be just a little
aggressive once in a while? Oh?

580
00:52:00.440 --> 00:52:04.840
Yes, you said, I suppose
it is. We must be perfect or

581
00:52:04.920 --> 00:52:08.960
we fall back into the pit.
You must try Ella constantly. I'll try.

582
00:52:09.760 --> 00:52:16.360
I'll try, George. You wish
to resign from the space suit,

583
00:52:16.760 --> 00:52:22.880
Mister President, I have found my
life's work. I wish to teach the

584
00:52:22.000 --> 00:52:29.880
most commendable desire Pilot Barrows. Is
my resignation accepted? Sir? Commander Douglas

585
00:52:29.960 --> 00:52:37.000
is dead, dead in space?
How excuse me the Douglas tapes? If

586
00:52:37.039 --> 00:52:40.559
you please, Yes, mister President, watch the screen, pilot bears.

587
00:52:43.920 --> 00:52:49.079
Where is this space? I don't
see any familiar signs. This is not

588
00:52:49.199 --> 00:52:52.519
in our galaxy orlive in our universe. It's flow beyond any area you've ever

589
00:52:52.599 --> 00:52:57.400
been requested to patrol. But why
what was he supposed to be doing?

590
00:52:57.599 --> 00:53:04.920
His mission is was to intercept any
alien invaders? Intercept? What does that

591
00:53:05.000 --> 00:53:09.119
mean? Kill? Kill? How
could Commander Douglas, a dedicated member of

592
00:53:09.159 --> 00:53:14.760
the Anti Aggression Society kill? And
how can you, our president, calmly

593
00:53:14.800 --> 00:53:20.400
sit here and tell me? Listen
the voice tape of Commander Douglas. Douglas

594
00:53:20.480 --> 00:53:28.480
to base alienship range nine hundred million, alien course or our system destroy,

595
00:53:29.480 --> 00:53:34.440
repeat destroy? Isn't he going to
talk to the alien first? Though?

596
00:53:34.840 --> 00:53:38.400
There there is nothing to talk about. We are all living creatures. There's

597
00:53:38.480 --> 00:53:43.840
everything to talk about. We cannot
afford to take the chance that the stranger

598
00:53:43.920 --> 00:53:46.760
is harmless and holds no thought of
conquest. We could ask, we could

599
00:53:46.800 --> 00:53:52.719
try to learn and thus reveal the
fact of our existence. We cannot afford

600
00:53:52.800 --> 00:54:00.760
to risk war. I am not
closed at six hundred million fire c and

601
00:54:01.199 --> 00:54:15.320
D wire me a SCAR three direct
Why did he call it an enemy?

602
00:54:15.519 --> 00:54:29.280
How do we know what the ship
it blew up? He in the alien

603
00:54:29.360 --> 00:54:36.239
opened fire at the same time,
and now Douglas must be replaced. Are

604
00:54:36.280 --> 00:54:39.360
you me No, sir, I
cannot kill. It goes against every moral

605
00:54:39.400 --> 00:54:45.320
and effort. You cannot kill because
killing has been programmed out of you.

606
00:54:45.320 --> 00:54:49.519
You can be reprogrammed. Why me
one the most skelled of all up,

607
00:54:49.880 --> 00:54:52.800
the harlest time. I thought Douglas
was a true lover of all living things,

608
00:54:53.199 --> 00:54:58.840
but he was only playing a role. And you are great humanitarian president,

609
00:54:59.519 --> 00:55:05.800
Your hip quits the packery. It's
an unfortunate but necessary hypocrisy. Don't

610
00:55:05.840 --> 00:55:08.920
try that on me. Which you
have a return to the past, to

611
00:55:08.960 --> 00:55:14.320
a planet armed to the teeth,
a planet that accepted killing is the only

612
00:55:14.400 --> 00:55:20.119
means of preserving itself. This way, one man and one man alone,

613
00:55:20.559 --> 00:55:27.000
roads the distant reaches of space,
one man alone. It's armed, one

614
00:55:27.039 --> 00:55:30.960
man alone. But it isn't one
man. You're in on it. The

615
00:55:30.039 --> 00:55:35.280
base coordinator, the technicians who service
the hip. It's a small but highly

616
00:55:35.360 --> 00:55:38.880
trusted group. A base coordinator.
That voice, I heard it before.

617
00:55:39.280 --> 00:55:44.559
She's the leader of the Eddy Aggression
Society. We must have a killer.

618
00:55:44.639 --> 00:55:46.719
It's the price we pay. I
don't want to be that killer. I

619
00:55:46.760 --> 00:55:51.800
don't want to be president either.
I don't want the responsibility in the heartache.

620
00:55:52.000 --> 00:55:54.199
I want to be like everybody else
and think happy, heartwarming thoughts.

621
00:55:54.719 --> 00:55:59.119
I don't want to be haunted by
the knowledge of the dark side. But

622
00:55:59.400 --> 00:56:02.079
I am the most caliph. I
will not be the killer. You will,

623
00:56:02.880 --> 00:56:09.320
because you are the most qualified.
Every society needs a killer, one

624
00:56:09.320 --> 00:56:15.159
who was authorized to commit murder to
preserve the rest of us. There must

625
00:56:15.239 --> 00:56:20.320
be an alternaty. There is.
We can submit to invasion, to be

626
00:56:20.400 --> 00:56:22.760
conquered, destroyed, and slaved.
At least that way there will be no

627
00:56:22.840 --> 00:56:27.079
blood on our hands. We will
be free of guilt. And you're willing

628
00:56:27.320 --> 00:56:30.599
to accept it. Am I the
only pilot. You're the most trustworthy,

629
00:56:31.360 --> 00:56:37.159
replacing our fate in your hands.
We are giving you the power No one

630
00:56:37.239 --> 00:56:42.840
else in the world possesses the ability
to destroy us. How do you know

631
00:56:42.960 --> 00:56:47.440
I won't do it one day?
We don't, but it's the chance we

632
00:56:47.519 --> 00:56:58.000
must take. That's quite a chance, isn't it. We are giving you

633
00:56:58.079 --> 00:57:02.000
the power no one else in our
works possesses, says the President. What

634
00:57:02.239 --> 00:57:08.519
was it that Lord Acton said about
power? Ah, Yes, power corrupts,

635
00:57:09.440 --> 00:57:15.599
and absolute power corrupts. Absolutely.
It seems to be the rule,

636
00:57:15.840 --> 00:57:22.920
judging from history, but all rules
have exceptions, or do they? The

637
00:57:23.079 --> 00:57:37.960
ender lies in Act three Shortly we
talk of peace as the universally to be

638
00:57:37.079 --> 00:57:43.519
desired state. How we long for
peace, and yet we must be aware

639
00:57:43.599 --> 00:57:47.679
that we have never truly known it
throughout history. What we have had,

640
00:57:47.719 --> 00:57:54.559
at best was some relatively quiet intervals
between wars. What must we do to

641
00:57:54.639 --> 00:58:01.119
achieve true peace? Our ancestors couldn't
find the answer. We ourselves areplexed,

642
00:58:02.000 --> 00:58:07.000
and in the world of the future
it appears so far that they haven't had

643
00:58:07.119 --> 00:58:10.880
much luck with a problem either.
But I have been programmed against it.

644
00:58:10.960 --> 00:58:19.760
I cannot kill you will be reprogrammed. As you might imagine, there was

645
00:58:19.840 --> 00:58:25.760
considerable discussion back and forth on ethics
and morals, means and ends, but

646
00:58:25.880 --> 00:58:31.760
it all boiled down to that one
word that usually carries the day, necessity.

647
00:58:32.880 --> 00:58:38.280
So finally I agreed to be reprogrammed. And who do you think my

648
00:58:38.679 --> 00:58:45.239
psych reek was for this deal?
None other than the leader of the Anti

649
00:58:45.239 --> 00:58:52.239
Aggression Society herself. Say, the
last time I saw you, you were

650
00:58:52.360 --> 00:58:58.679
picking in Teddy's gym, let us
confine ourselves to the subject at hand.

651
00:58:58.880 --> 00:59:04.079
Remember, may I ask you not
to patronize this establishment, not to course

652
00:59:04.119 --> 00:59:08.840
a and brutalize you. So pay
attention. I don't like this anymore than

653
00:59:08.880 --> 00:59:14.280
you do, but it has to
be done for the good of society.

654
00:59:15.039 --> 00:59:22.239
Now say it over and over again. Aggression is a normal, natural,

655
00:59:22.559 --> 00:59:30.360
and innate part of man. But
I wasn't going to make it easy for

656
00:59:30.480 --> 00:59:35.639
it. I really believed what I
had been programmed to believe about the sanctity

657
00:59:35.639 --> 00:59:38.239
of life. I didn't want to
give it up. Besides, if I

658
00:59:38.239 --> 00:59:42.480
could hold on to that belief,
they would have to give up on me

659
00:59:42.840 --> 00:59:46.920
and choose someone else. I could
lead my own life. But they were

660
00:59:46.960 --> 00:59:52.920
too smart for me. Why do
you resist this is my own basic belief.

661
00:59:52.960 --> 00:59:57.599
I can't help it. You truly
believe that life is precious? Yes,

662
00:59:58.119 --> 01:00:02.719
then ask yourself? How can life
be precious, be of any value

663
01:00:04.159 --> 01:00:12.000
if it isn't worth protecting or depending? Suddenly they had found it, the

664
01:00:12.199 --> 01:00:16.000
question that could get beneath my skin, the question I couldn't answer to my

665
01:00:16.039 --> 01:00:22.119
own satisfaction. I kept hearing that
question day and night. How can life

666
01:00:22.159 --> 01:00:29.599
be precious if it isn't worth protecting? And like a house of cards,

667
01:00:30.000 --> 01:00:36.039
my defenses collapsed. Suddenly I had
no more objections. I was ready for

668
01:00:36.199 --> 01:00:43.360
my very first seek and kill mission. Perhaps before I could return, I

669
01:00:43.360 --> 01:00:47.000
would have to take a life.
How could I actually do it? Don't

670
01:00:47.039 --> 01:00:51.760
worry about it. Don't worry about
it. I'll give you the order to

671
01:00:51.840 --> 01:00:54.920
fire. Why should you give the
order so you can have someone to share

672
01:00:54.960 --> 01:01:06.679
the guilt board your ship? Before
I know it, I was out there,

673
01:01:06.840 --> 01:01:10.679
billions of miles away. It was
a strange feeling, here in this

674
01:01:10.920 --> 01:01:15.559
world without end. How many planets
could there be that might support a life

675
01:01:15.599 --> 01:01:21.440
form that could be probing for hours? Maybe none, maybe a few,

676
01:01:21.559 --> 01:01:27.480
maybe a million. I was all
alone except for her voice that tied me

677
01:01:27.599 --> 01:01:32.519
to home. Said, course that
will appear on your computer readoubt Wait yes,

678
01:01:32.920 --> 01:01:37.000
bottom left quadrant coordinates eighty seven thirty. Do you see? Yes,

679
01:01:37.760 --> 01:01:43.920
you have movement at coordinates eighty six
thirty. I can't tell what it is.

680
01:01:44.360 --> 01:01:50.199
After a while, you'll be able
to recognize that configuration instinctively. It's

681
01:01:50.239 --> 01:01:55.079
a ship, A ship compared to
destroy destroy. There must be another way.

682
01:01:55.159 --> 01:02:02.880
There is no other way. But
before he draws you range range activate

683
01:02:04.000 --> 01:02:12.360
your rangefinder now range AH A billion
two. You are getting a new course

684
01:02:12.440 --> 01:02:21.639
bearing on the computer. Read it
as range nine hundred million. Repair missiles

685
01:02:21.719 --> 01:02:30.519
ABCD for firing. Oh please,
can't we repair missiles? Acknowledge missiles armed

686
01:02:31.039 --> 01:02:39.639
range A seven hundred million. Fire
fire, Hi, I don't know if

687
01:02:39.679 --> 01:02:45.360
I can. Don't think this is
just another routine command from the base.

688
01:02:46.320 --> 01:03:02.800
Fire fire good. Watch to sit
there, take invasive action, he may.

689
01:03:02.880 --> 01:03:07.719
I'm fired at. I can't move, I'm sick. I don't feel

690
01:03:07.760 --> 01:03:12.920
well. That's to be expected after
your first cure. Don't put it that

691
01:03:13.000 --> 01:03:17.400
way. All right, I've taken
a life. You'll get over it after

692
01:03:17.599 --> 01:03:24.639
a while. You won't even think
about it. Do we really have no

693
01:03:24.960 --> 01:03:31.519
choice? Was this the best solution
they could find? Maybe? Maybe this

694
01:03:31.760 --> 01:03:37.000
was the only way we could survive. She was right about one thing.

695
01:03:37.320 --> 01:03:42.239
She said, I'd get over it
after a while. I wouldn't even think

696
01:03:42.280 --> 01:03:45.320
about it. Well, after a
while, I didn't think about it.

697
01:03:46.360 --> 01:03:53.599
Upper right quadrant coordinates thirty four nineteen, Upper right thirty four nineteen. Movement

698
01:03:53.880 --> 01:04:03.079
verifyinship thing nine hundred million, Activate
thing fine acknowledge on missiles E F and

699
01:04:03.360 --> 01:04:14.960
G E F G ARM range seven
fire on six ready, fire E and

700
01:04:15.360 --> 01:04:23.639
F. He fired, F fired
by G G fired. Good shooting.

701
01:04:25.000 --> 01:04:30.960
He's off the screen, he's gone
a good you can't come home. She

702
01:04:31.159 --> 01:04:34.199
was right when she said I'd be
able to do it without thinking, But

703
01:04:34.400 --> 01:04:39.199
she was wrong when she said I'd
get over it once it was done,

704
01:04:39.280 --> 01:04:43.840
once the excitement for fear, the
suspense were gone. I was drained,

705
01:04:44.199 --> 01:04:51.000
completely spent and physically ill. What
was the matter with me? And then

706
01:04:51.159 --> 01:04:57.199
I found out by accident I had
reported to my base coordinator for deep briefing

707
01:04:57.440 --> 01:05:02.119
after my latest mission. Good you
got to this time. We thought Douglas

708
01:05:02.199 --> 01:05:06.280
was an expert, but you cover
a wider sweep than he ever attempted.

709
01:05:08.480 --> 01:05:15.119
What is it? Well, I
don't know. Shouldn't you report to medical?

710
01:05:16.000 --> 01:05:20.960
It's sorright? I think I know
what it is. It was a

711
01:05:21.159 --> 01:05:27.880
right sheet bore. There was a
bruise, very slight, almost invisible,

712
01:05:28.519 --> 01:05:32.440
but it was there or was it
my imagination? No, No, it

713
01:05:32.519 --> 01:05:36.480
couldn't be. It was the kind
of bruise you get when someone has struck

714
01:05:36.480 --> 01:05:42.559
a blow. Who would strike the
leader of the anti aggression society? Who

715
01:05:42.599 --> 01:05:46.440
would even strike a blow at all? There was one person who might be

716
01:05:46.480 --> 01:05:49.679
able to tell me. I don't
know what you're talking about, George,

717
01:05:49.880 --> 01:05:53.880
Teddy, I didn't want to ask
her. Are you back in business?

718
01:05:54.199 --> 01:05:58.760
Yeah, but it's all hush hush, top secret. They don't come to

719
01:05:58.800 --> 01:06:00.960
me. The president, the base, coordinated, the technicians. They have

720
01:06:01.079 --> 01:06:04.960
to why, same reason you do. They're all killing Oh no, no,

721
01:06:05.480 --> 01:06:09.519
I'm the only one who's actually sure. But they're part of it.

722
01:06:10.000 --> 01:06:13.039
Any one of them could stop it
one way or another, and that makes

723
01:06:13.039 --> 01:06:15.599
them all equally guilty. But why
do they have to come to you,

724
01:06:15.719 --> 01:06:20.280
Teddy? Look at yourself, George, you're rare emotionally. You preach constantly

725
01:06:20.320 --> 01:06:26.679
against aggression, but aggression is the
most vital function you perform, so you

726
01:06:26.719 --> 01:06:29.199
have to nourish it, keep it
alive. You have to come to a

727
01:06:29.239 --> 01:06:33.519
place like this Bucks wrestle, compete
strenuously. Are we insane? Teddy?

728
01:06:34.280 --> 01:06:41.000
What can we do? It's the
only way to save the wound. Whether

729
01:06:41.119 --> 01:06:43.880
or not it was the only way
to save the world, I couldn't say,

730
01:06:44.639 --> 01:06:47.519
but I do know that it was
the saving of me. The competitive

731
01:06:47.559 --> 01:06:53.079
activity started the juices falling again,
and before I know it, I was

732
01:06:53.119 --> 01:06:57.559
a new man. Or maybe I
had gone back to being the old Even

733
01:06:57.639 --> 01:07:01.159
Ela couldn't figure it. You want
to go out again tonight where it's just

734
01:07:01.280 --> 01:07:05.000
every night this week? I only
suggested it because of you me. You

735
01:07:05.039 --> 01:07:09.920
said that after my psych greek I
became dull. I wasn't much fun anymore.

736
01:07:10.159 --> 01:07:14.800
There is such a thing as too
much fun. I was doing my

737
01:07:15.000 --> 01:07:18.880
job, my job, this killer. I had spotted the enemy ship and

738
01:07:19.000 --> 01:07:25.639
was waiting for the firing order from
the basic coordinator. Fire C and D

739
01:07:28.639 --> 01:07:39.960
sea fard D fared good shooting,
Come on home. I looked at the

740
01:07:40.000 --> 01:07:45.360
screen. This time the alien ship
had not disappeared. There was a dark,

741
01:07:45.599 --> 01:07:50.239
motionless blot on the lower right hand
quadrants. I was filled with a

742
01:07:50.440 --> 01:07:56.800
great curiosity. Who what was this
alien? I simply have to know?

743
01:07:57.639 --> 01:08:00.639
But it was against regulations to approach. I had to do it. They

744
01:08:00.639 --> 01:08:05.599
didn't have to know. I cut
off my transmitter. I approached her quickly.

745
01:08:06.000 --> 01:08:09.880
She was a kind of roundish vehicle, not at all too different from

746
01:08:09.920 --> 01:08:13.920
my own. Who and what could
be a border? I locked with her

747
01:08:14.039 --> 01:08:17.840
magnetically. I looked over her hall
for the entry port. I throwed it,

748
01:08:18.319 --> 01:08:24.479
and even though I was unarmed,
I lured myself inside there was a

749
01:08:25.000 --> 01:08:29.600
twisted look to everything, a feeling
of death. Then I saw him,

750
01:08:30.239 --> 01:08:35.920
the most striking man I'd ever encountered, raven black hair and deep green eyes,

751
01:08:36.520 --> 01:08:41.840
wearing a tunic. There was a
tiny trickle of blood on his forehead.

752
01:08:42.399 --> 01:08:46.800
You you are the one. Yes, I disabled your ship. You

753
01:08:46.960 --> 01:08:51.279
destroyed it. You're lucky you saw
me first. I would have destroyed you.

754
01:08:51.720 --> 01:08:57.319
I have better weaponry, more filepower. My world is more advanced than

755
01:08:57.359 --> 01:09:00.119
yours. How do you know?
Because you have not let to read minds

756
01:09:00.239 --> 01:09:05.640
yet you're reading my mind. Yes, that is how we can communicate your

757
01:09:05.680 --> 01:09:11.720
breeding. Let me help you.
You cannot. I'm helping myself. Oh,

758
01:09:11.880 --> 01:09:15.880
your missile did a great deal of
damage inside me. My body is

759
01:09:15.960 --> 01:09:20.600
now trying to repair itself. Oh, I'm sorry. It's the nature of

760
01:09:20.720 --> 01:09:27.000
the universe right now, my body
is trying to repair itself if it can.

761
01:09:28.520 --> 01:09:35.960
Why don't we? Oh, but
he didn't say. What is We

762
01:09:36.000 --> 01:09:43.159
should get into your ship and go
to my planet and take it over,

763
01:09:43.560 --> 01:09:46.840
take it over, rule it,
own it. We have the weapons,

764
01:09:47.319 --> 01:09:53.039
submit or we shall blow you out
of existence. Then we'll go to your

765
01:09:53.079 --> 01:09:59.680
planet. We'll give them the same
aultimatum. You and I we will cat.

766
01:10:00.199 --> 01:10:09.399
Oh, we you and I we
do the work. Got dirty work?

767
01:10:10.199 --> 01:10:19.520
Why shouldn't we? Ye body,
it isn't repairing. Hi, I'm

768
01:10:19.640 --> 01:10:28.199
dying And he was dead, the
most unusual man I had ever met,

769
01:10:29.239 --> 01:10:33.840
and I had killed him. I
went back to my ship and headed for

770
01:10:34.000 --> 01:10:44.039
home. And so i'm recognition of
your devotion to duty and your splendid performance

771
01:10:44.800 --> 01:10:48.079
not just as a pilot, but
is a dedicated member of the anti aggressian

772
01:10:48.159 --> 01:10:55.760
society. I honored to present you
with the middle of Perfection very broadly.

773
01:10:57.680 --> 01:11:00.640
Thank you, mess the President.
But while you have given me the medal

774
01:11:00.680 --> 01:11:04.720
of Perfection, I don't really own
it yet, for I, like everyone

775
01:11:04.760 --> 01:11:14.640
else, must still strive for perfection. I thank you most gracious and modest

776
01:11:14.760 --> 01:11:19.359
speech commanded bets. Mister President.
Do you remember when you posted me into

777
01:11:19.399 --> 01:11:26.000
my present assignment. I had asked
you a question. Yes, I had

778
01:11:26.079 --> 01:11:30.800
asked till, since you are giving
me the power to destroy the world,

779
01:11:31.199 --> 01:11:35.640
how do you know I won't do
it one day? Yes? And do

780
01:11:35.720 --> 01:11:45.560
you remember my answer? That's the
chance we mistake. None of us really

781
01:11:45.640 --> 01:11:50.159
knows the answer, not yet.
This unknown magnificent man, I'm murdered.

782
01:11:51.039 --> 01:11:56.960
He didn't know the answer either he
came to a certain conclusion after how much

783
01:11:57.159 --> 01:12:02.359
disillusion and frustration, And am I
get in there too? When he had

784
01:12:02.399 --> 01:12:08.920
suggested to me that we take over
both worlds, I recall now that I

785
01:12:09.039 --> 01:12:15.439
didn't automatically and instinctively turn it down. Is it possible that I will actually

786
01:12:15.600 --> 01:12:28.960
do it one day? I don't
know. I honestly don't know. But

787
01:12:29.119 --> 01:12:33.199
he's thinking about it. And once
you begin to flirt with a dangerous idea,

788
01:12:33.760 --> 01:12:40.000
it's like flirting with a dangerous woman. One thing leads to another and

789
01:12:40.079 --> 01:12:45.600
before you know it, Well,
I shall retain shortly with another insight into

790
01:12:45.640 --> 01:12:58.920
our story. Throughout history, people's
see nations have turned to so called strong

791
01:12:59.039 --> 01:13:04.640
men and say protect us from our
enemies, our enemies within and our enemies

792
01:13:04.640 --> 01:13:11.680
without. Throughout history, all the
stories have had the same dismal endings.

793
01:13:12.640 --> 01:13:16.359
People discovered after it was too late
that they had only invited the fox to

794
01:13:16.439 --> 01:13:21.880
guard the hen house. Our cast
included Mason Adams, Russell Houghton, and

795
01:13:21.960 --> 01:13:29.760
Carol Titel. The entire production was
under the direction of Hymen Brown. Well,

796
01:13:30.039 --> 01:13:34.279
well, there is a cold snap
in the air, but of course

797
01:13:34.359 --> 01:13:41.159
that is December, isn't it is
it. Yes, soon we'll hear the

798
01:13:41.239 --> 01:13:49.000
sleigh bells ringing ring, the snowfall
drop and pour on and on, so

799
01:13:49.199 --> 01:13:58.000
beautiful in its delicacy, until there's
so much snow you're trapped. Nowhere to

800
01:13:58.079 --> 01:14:03.279
go it no way to get there. Yes, that's quite a conundrum and

801
01:14:03.319 --> 01:14:08.159
coundrum. Well my idea, what's
that? Oh no, no, no,

802
01:14:08.199 --> 01:14:11.960
it hasn't snowed here in this time
of year and as long as I

803
01:14:12.000 --> 01:14:16.439
can remember, and that is a
very long time. But now I want

804
01:14:16.439 --> 01:14:21.680
to show you what this one one
I find fascinating because I find the mind

805
01:14:21.880 --> 01:14:29.560
of the writer so fascinating. This
story is the author and the thing.

806
01:14:30.439 --> 01:14:38.359
It's all about the mystery of creativity. To me, to me, you

807
01:14:40.279 --> 01:14:48.720
thing. This is our jobler,
bringing you another in our series of stories

808
01:14:48.760 --> 01:14:54.560
of the unusual, and once again
we cast you. These lights out stories

809
01:14:54.560 --> 01:14:58.840
are definitely not for the tenis soul. So we tell you calmly and very

810
01:14:58.920 --> 01:15:17.159
sincerely, if you frighten, easily
turn off your radio now. But got

811
01:15:17.199 --> 01:15:24.760
her answer the phone? Please,
yes, mister ober Yes, oh yes

812
01:15:24.840 --> 01:15:30.079
it's Harrison here. He is,
mister Harrison. Oh I thank you.

813
01:15:31.640 --> 01:15:35.840
Tell Jone, how's the fan of
lady. Yes, now, am I

814
01:15:35.960 --> 01:15:39.720
in trouble for the last like that? I just don't know what to write

815
01:15:39.760 --> 01:15:43.560
about. Oh no, I got
plenty of lies there is, but well,

816
01:15:43.640 --> 01:15:45.800
men dying in foxholes? And what
am I doing? Think you have

817
01:15:45.920 --> 01:15:49.359
fantastic? Well, thanks very much, but I still insist that I want

818
01:15:49.359 --> 01:15:54.800
to be Yeah, okay, here, I'll make this last one and good

819
01:15:54.800 --> 01:15:59.840
one, and then that will be
last if filed through it. Huh No,

820
01:15:59.840 --> 01:16:02.520
No, I was just talking to
myself. I've been doing that rather

821
01:16:02.560 --> 01:16:08.239
consistently these last few days. Yeah. I guess all those zombies and ghouls

822
01:16:08.239 --> 01:16:10.720
and look Cruz are finally caught up
with me. Yeah, I know,

823
01:16:10.760 --> 01:16:15.159
I know, two aspirins and a
glass of water every half hour. I

824
01:16:15.159 --> 01:16:17.239
don't here, Miss Harrison, don't
worry about me. I'll get the story

825
01:16:17.319 --> 01:16:19.680
written the night if I have to
talk to the devil himself to do it,

826
01:16:21.359 --> 01:16:24.560
all right, John? Yeah?
Sure? Oh fine, fine,

827
01:16:24.560 --> 01:16:26.920
call me back in an hour and
I'll have some kind of a plot figured

828
01:16:26.960 --> 01:16:32.479
out, I hope am I regards
to Norman Calculator. Oh this got it.

829
01:16:32.600 --> 01:16:35.359
Let's get to work, Yes,
sir, what time is it anyway?

830
01:16:35.680 --> 01:16:39.960
Eleven thirty two? Sorry, I
have to keep you working. So

831
01:16:40.079 --> 01:16:42.319
there that's say to me, all
right, I know you have to have

832
01:16:42.359 --> 01:16:45.399
that play done by tomorrow morning.
I'm glad to help you. You're an

833
01:16:45.439 --> 01:16:49.600
angel. Angel. That's a strange
word to use here in this room where

834
01:16:49.600 --> 01:16:55.000
I've thought up so many demons in
Monty. Tell me, or maybe you

835
01:16:55.000 --> 01:16:58.319
won't want to tell me? What, miss ever working with me on these

836
01:16:58.359 --> 01:17:01.880
lifetime plays? Do you ever get
frightened? Wow? Yes, I do

837
01:17:01.960 --> 01:17:08.279
get sidened many times by the time
i'd have finally very amusing, but not

838
01:17:08.439 --> 01:17:13.960
tonight. Is there something wrong,
miss Oga, I don't know. Tell

839
01:17:14.000 --> 01:17:16.600
me. Did you ever sit alone
in a room at night and have a

840
01:17:16.840 --> 01:17:20.479
premonition, I mean, suddenly get
the feeling that's somewhere in the house,

841
01:17:20.720 --> 01:17:24.560
perhaps in the darkness in the next
room, something was waiting, something of

842
01:17:24.720 --> 01:17:29.720
malignancy and evil. What's the matter
with me? I white people? I'm

843
01:17:29.760 --> 01:17:32.119
talking like this. They'll be using
these exhibit actions in the Psychopathic Wars.

844
01:17:32.560 --> 01:17:36.319
So let's get the work, Yes, sir, I see. We'll start

845
01:17:36.319 --> 01:17:40.319
out next week's play with the regular
life. That old thing like that everybody

846
01:17:40.399 --> 01:17:45.840
chimes by everything you thinks gone.
First character is named Helman call Helen jack

847
01:17:45.880 --> 01:17:55.680
Helm and hl I'm in two hours. He commits some murder and he oh,

848
01:17:55.720 --> 01:17:58.840
what's the I can't write another one
of these things? Ghosts and groans

849
01:17:58.840 --> 01:18:00.159
and blood. I tell you I
can't way, I can't do. It's

850
01:18:00.359 --> 01:18:05.640
over. I'm sorry, okay with
Scott it. You better run along,

851
01:18:06.079 --> 01:18:11.279
But I just can't write anymore tonight. But the c there be Jenny Duy,

852
01:18:11.640 --> 01:18:14.479
the rehearsal trouble with the reheard.
So I'm not going to go insane

853
01:18:14.520 --> 01:18:16.600
writing these things for anybody. Now, I'll run along. Please try to

854
01:18:16.640 --> 01:18:19.680
get some rest, and you com
Backory in the morning. What's here we

855
01:18:19.720 --> 01:18:25.760
can do? Did you say,
are you sure you're all right? Please

856
01:18:25.800 --> 01:18:33.960
go all right? Good night?
Good night? What's come over me?

857
01:18:34.039 --> 01:18:40.960
Anyway? Where did I tell you
to go? Gotta write this play?

858
01:18:41.760 --> 01:18:54.079
Cremonation? She the thought I was
getting softly? Who's there? Oh?

859
01:18:54.119 --> 01:18:58.560
Well, I am in bad shape. The wind rattles the window and I

860
01:18:58.680 --> 01:19:02.399
lights out. Author goes in that
there's a headline for Variety. I gotta

861
01:19:02.439 --> 01:19:08.439
get down to Earth twelve. Don't
say you'd call back in an hour.

862
01:19:08.560 --> 01:19:12.800
I gotta have some kind of a
plot by then. Let me see how

863
01:19:12.840 --> 01:19:16.920
about a press angede named black killing
a man named white and black and white

864
01:19:16.960 --> 01:19:23.520
murder. Ooh that coin. Maybe
I could use a story about a Hollywood

865
01:19:23.560 --> 01:19:27.960
producer. Let's see Johnny Hour.
He meets a girl and I'm afraid because

866
01:19:28.000 --> 01:19:32.680
the girl's us. Oh is that
out of character? How about Nero chopping

867
01:19:32.720 --> 01:19:40.920
off heads in the Roman circus?
And surpay is quiet in here? Yell

868
01:19:41.000 --> 01:19:45.520
all day for quiet? Now that
I've got it, like I have got

869
01:19:45.560 --> 01:19:48.600
the jitters? What the devil?
I got to jittery about? Things are

870
01:19:48.640 --> 01:19:51.920
what they are? If anybody knows
that I do two and ten makes four

871
01:19:53.000 --> 01:19:55.720
unless you're talking about curved space,
and then the head hold on to what

872
01:19:55.720 --> 01:19:58.760
they've gotten. Anybody who's in this
war for prophet AARTI his bone broken all

873
01:19:58.840 --> 01:20:05.680
some stiff? What the devil am
I talking about? Ah? Okay,

874
01:20:06.880 --> 01:20:11.399
I'd better stop kidding myself. I
know what's wrong. I want to write

875
01:20:11.399 --> 01:20:14.640
it, and yet I don't.
What's the matter with me? I afraid

876
01:20:14.640 --> 01:20:15.640
I put it down on paper?
What have I got to be up?

877
01:20:15.680 --> 01:20:21.840
Fright of it? Goes over with
it? Outline of tighter on his side.

878
01:20:23.119 --> 01:20:27.680
Out of My Play opens in the
cell of a monastery in the Middle

879
01:20:27.720 --> 01:20:34.039
Ages, a mystic is cowered in
a corner of his room, outside a

880
01:20:34.079 --> 01:20:39.800
mob that's clamoring for his life.
It appears that a horrible crime has been

881
01:20:39.840 --> 01:20:44.199
permitted in the village below, a
horrible monster, a torn a woman.

882
01:20:45.520 --> 01:20:49.479
It appears that this creature, brought
into being through the incantations of the sorcerer,

883
01:20:49.920 --> 01:20:54.880
was the concentration of all the evil
of men's hearts and minds. A

884
01:20:55.079 --> 01:20:59.720
tremendous force of fiendishness and in humanity
put into living flesh to ruin the world

885
01:21:00.039 --> 01:21:05.680
and commit unspeakable hut oh, the
drivel, A tremendous force of fiendishness and

886
01:21:05.720 --> 01:21:14.319
inhumanity put into living flesh alone the
wild and comit unstinkable hut boom well driven.

887
01:21:14.359 --> 01:21:16.359
And there it is on paper,
the only monster conceived and my own

888
01:21:16.399 --> 01:21:24.199
mind. Congratulations, pop Haifa guy
conceived in my own mind. That's what

889
01:21:24.279 --> 01:21:27.560
that crazy monk said. And that
book mant Wolf gave me. The one

890
01:21:27.600 --> 01:21:31.399
who gave him his conceived him.
Where is that book anyway? It ought

891
01:21:31.439 --> 01:21:39.039
to be? Yeah, I even
marked the page, and I say unto

892
01:21:39.239 --> 01:21:42.760
thee that if thou shalt be evil
and do evil, and think evil,

893
01:21:43.119 --> 01:21:45.279
and let thy mind rest upon this
evilness in the light of day and in

894
01:21:45.359 --> 01:21:49.279
the darkness of night, for seven
days and seven nights, there may come

895
01:21:49.359 --> 01:21:53.520
into being a single evil, and
it shall take the form of the evilness

896
01:21:53.560 --> 01:21:58.319
of thy thoughts written by half Dargimistic
more than ten centuries ago. And I

897
01:22:00.399 --> 01:22:03.520
funny, I should have thought of
those words tonight. I have been thinking

898
01:22:03.560 --> 01:22:11.239
about them for a week. Shall
take the evil the form of the evilness

899
01:22:11.359 --> 01:22:31.199
of I thought seven days and seven
who's there? M m hmmm mm hmm.

900
01:22:33.119 --> 01:22:40.159
What you you in my mind?
You're you're just in my mind?

901
01:22:40.720 --> 01:22:45.760
So no, you you're don't exist. That chao he got up your your

902
01:22:45.880 --> 01:22:50.079
dream? I got a dream.
When I wake up the door get is

903
01:22:50.079 --> 01:22:54.399
a dream. It's gotta be a
dream. Come in, Come in,

904
01:22:54.479 --> 01:22:56.520
Get me out of the dream,
Get me out of the dreams. Give

905
01:22:56.560 --> 01:23:00.880
me. Don't you have open doors
anymore? Said the guys here, sitting

906
01:23:00.880 --> 01:23:04.159
in her old dream. It's hey, art, what's cooking? I get

907
01:23:04.239 --> 01:23:06.560
up? Oh now I got into
Look at me, Get out. Can't

908
01:23:06.600 --> 01:23:10.880
you see? Can't you see it
out? Get out of here? Seeing

909
01:23:10.960 --> 01:23:15.319
here? Why behind you? Look
behind you? Oh there's nothing behind me

910
01:23:15.399 --> 01:23:17.800
but the wall. What is this
any way? A preview. I get

911
01:23:17.840 --> 01:23:20.359
out of here, all right,
all right, now that's Sam? What

912
01:23:20.560 --> 01:23:24.359
is there's a preview of a new
play? Why am I glad? You're

913
01:23:24.359 --> 01:23:28.159
twitting lift? After all? Can't
you hear? Oh? Here? Who

914
01:23:29.479 --> 01:23:32.319
eli behind you? Behind me?
Why? What's the matter with you anyway?

915
01:23:32.439 --> 01:23:40.119
Art? Don't you feel well?
He's very back? What's the matter

916
01:23:40.119 --> 01:24:01.359
of the pink elephants? Beginning?
You think to my no? Mm hmm

917
01:24:02.239 --> 01:24:16.960
yeah you oh no, please said
please right away? My brother, please

918
01:24:17.000 --> 01:24:23.479
said, police, please, my
brother? How much time we've got to

919
01:24:23.520 --> 01:24:27.720
go on the ship. Get you're
a boarded? Here comes Franks. Enough

920
01:24:27.800 --> 01:24:32.439
the game for thirty nine and forty
eight go to Vctorian right Wood Drow making

921
01:24:32.479 --> 01:24:43.319
a disturbment, saved his brother at
by a monster thirty right by your thing.

922
01:24:43.880 --> 01:24:48.720
There's easy up, and I tell
you it's true, Officer, it's

923
01:24:48.760 --> 01:24:51.439
true. I brought my own brother. I saw, I saw my own

924
01:24:51.880 --> 01:24:56.560
or right not taking easy, young
fellow, your back. I tell you

925
01:24:56.600 --> 01:24:59.960
I'm not coming coming sober as you
are. Don't get funny sick headed pool

926
01:25:00.159 --> 01:25:04.000
it's there behind him? Or sing
the monster looking Believe I've heard of machine

927
01:25:04.039 --> 01:25:08.159
snakes and pink elephants Because of the
first one. I've seen this bad off

928
01:25:08.199 --> 01:25:12.600
adel. Oh, you never can
tell them about there. Look, you

929
01:25:12.640 --> 01:25:17.239
can't just see him, can't see
him. Maybe we'd better take him down

930
01:25:17.239 --> 01:25:19.239
to the station, let him cool
off in the can for a while,

931
01:25:19.279 --> 01:25:24.079
and yeah, tear me the two
of you. Won't you believe me?

932
01:25:26.199 --> 01:25:30.319
That's maybe this guy is on the
level, or you're not too. Something

933
01:25:30.359 --> 01:25:31.920
happened to his brother. There'd be
someone around footing't there? And there ain't

934
01:25:32.000 --> 01:25:36.800
nothing in this rule? You're gone? What do you mean? I thought

935
01:25:36.880 --> 01:25:45.039
of the monsters seven days, the
Joe, the guys. What's your name?

936
01:25:45.079 --> 01:25:47.079
Young? What's your name? Quiet? John? Now? What's your

937
01:25:47.159 --> 01:25:51.439
name? Think? Your sister in
grins me? Why don't you see to

938
01:25:51.479 --> 01:25:54.439
help me? Why do you come
on? Come on? Now? What's

939
01:25:54.479 --> 01:26:00.680
your name? Let's have it?
Op, watch your prisiness? What do

940
01:26:00.760 --> 01:26:05.560
you do for Wait? Radio?
I write a radio with the radio.

941
01:26:05.800 --> 01:26:11.960
Ober Say, ain't you the guy
that likes them screwy lights out things too

942
01:26:12.239 --> 01:26:16.319
night? Just help me, please
please? This is the guy that likes

943
01:26:16.399 --> 01:26:19.039
them ghost things I was telling you
about, you know over the radio,

944
01:26:19.359 --> 01:26:23.920
Obler, the guy who always makes
his cops irish. You get it?

945
01:26:24.960 --> 01:26:28.399
It's one of them gags, one
of them publisher the gag. Oh you

946
01:26:28.600 --> 01:26:30.520
in front, I'll wait a minute, much your tongue. I tell you

947
01:26:30.560 --> 01:26:32.520
it's not a gag. It's here
here in the room, and it took

948
01:26:32.560 --> 01:26:40.880
my brother and y can't you here? Thank you? It's laughing and in

949
01:26:40.960 --> 01:26:48.640
front last listen to usually for then
youkay fell If the daina gag, you'd

950
01:26:48.640 --> 01:26:51.319
better take a bromo go back to
bed. Now listen, you were going

951
01:26:51.359 --> 01:26:54.760
to hang around for a while to
take it easy. Come on, Joe,

952
01:26:54.880 --> 01:26:58.479
let's get out of here. They
wait, don't let me done t

953
01:26:58.680 --> 01:27:03.720
I tell you you don't learn me
little? I do? Well? I

954
01:27:03.880 --> 01:27:10.600
do? I gotta get out,
Yeah, I gotta get out and fuhingdominal

955
01:27:10.680 --> 01:27:24.079
believe what h did? What that
mean? Oh? Don't come he believe?

956
01:27:24.439 --> 01:27:30.000
Come in, come in, come
in, I merceantes get out of

957
01:27:30.000 --> 01:27:32.600
here, get out? I how
do you do? Merchants? Blim,

958
01:27:32.680 --> 01:27:54.319
You gotta get out, you gotta
get out. Oh what's going on here?

959
01:27:54.680 --> 01:27:56.520
Will tell you to go to bed? And that the way to ask.

960
01:27:56.560 --> 01:28:00.319
We are just screaming all the way
down and there, Oh where did

961
01:28:00.399 --> 01:28:04.159
she come from? Shit? Per
corner? Give me that thing in the

962
01:28:04.199 --> 01:28:06.159
corner and wat you look at it? Won't you blame me? Give me

963
01:28:06.239 --> 01:28:09.520
that guy away from me? The
guy. I'll shoot it. I'll shooting.

964
01:28:10.199 --> 01:28:12.479
We are we are look to have
a stug. You got to come

965
01:28:12.520 --> 01:28:15.840
and do that quirl and bring your
ford. The short name's Clarence mcmentor.

966
01:28:15.079 --> 01:28:25.159
And I'd like to be a guy
that pulls a switch. All right right

967
01:28:25.199 --> 01:28:27.640
in here? You got five minutes. Yes, I know, I know

968
01:28:29.199 --> 01:28:30.880
it's Kim. I'll be waiting for
I got here as soon as I could.

969
01:28:31.439 --> 01:28:33.600
Looks bad over her, very bad. What do you mean I didn't

970
01:28:33.640 --> 01:28:35.279
do anything? I tell you I
didn't. Oh, yes, yes,

971
01:28:35.439 --> 01:28:39.079
I know, I know. But
over there, you can't do a thing

972
01:28:39.159 --> 01:28:41.439
like that and just walk away from
it. I'll explain it to you.

973
01:28:41.720 --> 01:28:44.640
I'll explained it everyone a hundred times, a pouting times. I want anyone

974
01:28:44.760 --> 01:28:46.239
believe me. Now. Look,
you're rich, I'm your attorney. I

975
01:28:46.319 --> 01:28:48.560
want to help you. A great
number of people want to help you.

976
01:28:48.640 --> 01:28:51.279
And we certainly can't do a thing
and that you cooperate. Yes, that's

977
01:28:51.319 --> 01:28:53.840
what I said, co operate.
What do you want me to do?

978
01:28:54.119 --> 01:28:57.159
Tell the truth, the whole truth. Told you? Yes, yes,

979
01:28:57.359 --> 01:29:00.399
I know what you told me.
The horrible thing that you can in your

980
01:29:00.439 --> 01:29:04.199
mind, came to life and did
a number of seculiar things. But oh

981
01:29:04.199 --> 01:29:06.600
see here, sure you don't think
that even the most stupid jury on earth

982
01:29:06.640 --> 01:29:12.000
are going to believe that nonsense.
You don't believe me, well, I

983
01:29:12.159 --> 01:29:16.159
heard many peculiar alibis from my radio
clients in time. But well, listen,

984
01:29:16.199 --> 01:29:18.920
if you want to plea temporary note, I'm not insane, I'm not

985
01:29:19.000 --> 01:29:23.880
in me here a saying explanation of
what happened that night. I told you,

986
01:29:24.600 --> 01:29:27.119
I told you everything, just the
way it happened. My brother came

987
01:29:27.199 --> 01:29:30.600
home and as yes, I know, well, your brother came into the

988
01:29:30.680 --> 01:29:32.840
room and was eaten up by this
monster and then that girl. Oh what's

989
01:29:32.920 --> 01:29:36.840
the use? Apparently you want to
die. I tried so hard to make

990
01:29:36.960 --> 01:29:41.199
you understand. I've tried to make
you understand that if you don't stop this

991
01:29:41.279 --> 01:29:44.439
infernal linsense and hurry up and tell
me the truth of what really happened,

992
01:29:44.840 --> 01:29:46.399
you'll even find yourself taking out one
way, walk to the electric chair,

993
01:29:46.600 --> 01:29:50.279
or wake up in a patent selling
an asylum for the criminally insane. The

994
01:29:50.359 --> 01:29:54.560
fact of the matter is they've already
appointed a lunacy, commission to pass on

995
01:29:54.640 --> 01:30:00.279
your face lunacy. Oh see here, Arch, let me talk, go

996
01:30:00.439 --> 01:30:04.199
right ahead, that's what I want
you to do. Maybe I amn't say.

997
01:30:05.159 --> 01:30:10.479
I don't know. First I told
myself was nothing but a knife,

998
01:30:10.920 --> 01:30:13.520
that i'd wake up and find it
at all, But nothing but a weird

999
01:30:13.640 --> 01:30:15.760
dream that never really happened. But
it's not a dream. And no one

1000
01:30:15.800 --> 01:30:17.760
will believe my story, not even
you. It's such an irrational story.

1001
01:30:17.800 --> 01:30:21.439
How can you expect anyone to believe
it? Now? Take that part about

1002
01:30:21.439 --> 01:30:27.960
your brother being devoured alive by this
this monster. It happened. Did it

1003
01:30:28.119 --> 01:30:30.640
happened just as I said it?
And it's common knowledge that your brother is

1004
01:30:30.800 --> 01:30:35.600
pre induction vacationing up north with your
mother. Became viewing they are coming back.

1005
01:30:36.159 --> 01:30:39.560
I sent your brother a whire to
come back and bring your mother home

1006
01:30:39.640 --> 01:30:43.119
at once. They ought to be
here today. My brother did. Well,

1007
01:30:43.199 --> 01:30:46.159
that's your preposterous story. This this
thing, this manster, who's supposed

1008
01:30:46.159 --> 01:30:48.560
to have committed all these crimes.
Where is he? Where did he come

1009
01:30:48.560 --> 01:30:53.399
from? Where's he going to?
I don't know. Did the police see

1010
01:30:53.479 --> 01:30:57.159
him? No? Did anyone see
him? No? Oh, arch,

1011
01:30:57.439 --> 01:31:00.439
arch is you're going to think up
an alibi. Just save yourself for sake,

1012
01:31:00.479 --> 01:31:03.359
think of a better one than that
one. I'm not trying to think

1013
01:31:03.359 --> 01:31:10.079
of alibis. I'm just trying to
explain what happened to you, and maybe

1014
01:31:10.119 --> 01:31:15.800
to myself. I haven't believed much
during my life, except perhaps that somewhere

1015
01:31:15.800 --> 01:31:18.079
there was a power that went beyond
life and death. What happened to me

1016
01:31:18.199 --> 01:31:21.800
isn't explainable any terms that you and
I. But mister Gang, I tell

1017
01:31:21.800 --> 01:31:25.439
you what did happen. I thought
of a monster for seven days and seven

1018
01:31:25.479 --> 01:31:28.279
nights in my own mind, and
like that prophet of the Middle Ages warned,

1019
01:31:28.319 --> 01:31:30.279
the evil thing came to life,
and yet only I could see it

1020
01:31:30.319 --> 01:31:32.920
and hear it. And do you
see and hear it? Now? No,

1021
01:31:34.359 --> 01:31:40.159
that's what I can't quite understand.
Perhaps the horrible thing only has life

1022
01:31:40.199 --> 01:31:45.720
when I think about it intensely intense
That is, it only has life when

1023
01:31:45.760 --> 01:31:47.239
my thoughts give it life. Like
an idea, don't you see, mister

1024
01:31:47.279 --> 01:31:49.359
Gang, Like an idea only exist
when you think of it. Your thought

1025
01:31:49.399 --> 01:31:54.039
gives it life. And that's the
way it is with a terrible thing.

1026
01:31:55.560 --> 01:32:01.319
Blesten, listen, listen to your
hear them. So isn't the corner tell

1027
01:32:01.359 --> 01:32:04.359
you there, look here, squbbing
and slavereign. I say, now,

1028
01:32:04.399 --> 01:32:08.640
I say, do you think I'm
not afraid of you anymore? You hear

1029
01:32:08.720 --> 01:32:12.560
me, I'm not afraid I'll kill
you? What tell you what? I

1030
01:32:12.680 --> 01:32:38.119
go? He's gonna saying you can't
saying you are d's the shimmer? Put

1031
01:32:38.159 --> 01:32:45.279
down that bottle? Are we a
unity commission? And you do? I

1032
01:32:45.399 --> 01:32:48.680
know how strongly you gentlemen feel about
this matter, But after all we must

1033
01:32:48.680 --> 01:32:53.359
come to a decision, and he's
meant to status as chairman of this lunacy

1034
01:32:53.359 --> 01:32:57.199
commission. I feel that it is
income of the con me too, Shall

1035
01:32:57.239 --> 01:33:02.239
I say? Summarize the fact that
they have been the fast. First,

1036
01:33:02.920 --> 01:33:08.000
it is an estabished fact that a
murder, and a very horrible murder,

1037
01:33:08.239 --> 01:33:14.079
has been committed. The police officer
has testified very conclusively that ar Chobler was

1038
01:33:14.159 --> 01:33:17.720
there upon the scene of the crime
and that it was absolutely impossible for anyone

1039
01:33:17.760 --> 01:33:23.359
else to have committed the murder.
In other words, the man whose mental

1040
01:33:23.439 --> 01:33:30.159
status we are to determine is a
murderer. Consider further facts. Does he

1041
01:33:30.359 --> 01:33:38.439
wear conventional shirts? Another fact,
does he participate in normal activities such as

1042
01:33:38.560 --> 01:33:45.760
drink dancing, fraternal orders, and
similar beneficial social activity. I tire fact

1043
01:33:45.880 --> 01:33:50.560
upon fact. Have you, gentlemen, ever listened to his playing? What?

1044
01:33:50.960 --> 01:33:58.840
What are some of the distinctive features
of these works? By strange whispering

1045
01:33:59.039 --> 01:34:08.560
vice? You know that gentleman always
whispering vices. Gentlemen, I am of

1046
01:34:08.640 --> 01:34:13.439
the firm opinion that we are dealing
with a very definite case of dementia Ray

1047
01:34:13.520 --> 01:34:53.319
Coock in his paranoid not my time
in an insane asylum. I don't expect

1048
01:34:53.399 --> 01:35:00.600
yourself anymore to go if there was
not some way I I can make them

1049
01:35:00.640 --> 01:35:04.520
say the things I see it.
You believe what I told you? Don't

1050
01:35:04.560 --> 01:35:14.520
you? You know I would make
it back? DELI, but I told

1051
01:35:14.560 --> 01:35:16.239
you Eli would You're like the others. You don't believe me. Now I

1052
01:35:16.359 --> 01:35:20.000
know you don't. You will believe. I'll make you believe. Danger thang

1053
01:35:20.039 --> 01:35:23.239
wherever you are listening to me,
I think of you here, I think

1054
01:35:23.279 --> 01:35:27.319
of you. I give you life. I give you life. Do you

1055
01:35:27.399 --> 01:35:30.960
hear, mother? Hear it does
exist? It does No, don't get

1056
01:35:31.039 --> 01:35:36.439
mother, It's right behind your turn. See you believe you say I'm not

1057
01:35:36.640 --> 01:35:43.119
saying I'm my mother, sang my
mother. No, no, not my

1058
01:35:43.239 --> 01:35:58.319
mother, my mother, my mother, all right, all right, d

1059
01:35:59.560 --> 01:36:04.119
oh yeah, it's jilm midn'tight already. You haven't sitting here very comfortably.

1060
01:36:04.199 --> 01:36:08.840
And I finally brought up the plot
line, and believe me, it is

1061
01:36:08.920 --> 01:36:14.399
quite a brainstorm. I die,
sure, sure, it's my final broadcast,

1062
01:36:14.439 --> 01:36:17.000
so why not now I'm not gagging. Listen to me, And now

1063
01:36:17.319 --> 01:36:20.239
it's all about a monster that I
can see to my only diddy mine and

1064
01:36:20.319 --> 01:36:25.439
it comes to life. Honestly,
I haven't had a cocing hours. It's

1065
01:36:25.520 --> 01:36:28.359
gonna be one of those you know, crazy stories inside of a story.

1066
01:36:29.119 --> 01:36:32.239
I listen. The way I've got
it figured out is this. Now I'm

1067
01:36:32.319 --> 01:36:38.479
supposed to be sitting here thinking of
this horrible monster, and suddenly I turn

1068
01:36:38.520 --> 01:36:41.800
around in there is he, and
my young brother comes in in this monstery

1069
01:36:42.000 --> 01:36:45.560
am up alive. And then Mercy
in the cambridge comes in and wait a

1070
01:36:45.600 --> 01:36:48.279
minute, wait a minute, film
hold it for a minute. I think

1071
01:36:48.319 --> 01:37:00.680
someone came in. I imagine it's
Bernie Elsie, who jo jo that thing.

1072
01:37:01.439 --> 01:37:26.399
It's true, this time is really
happening. You do now that it

1073
01:37:28.399 --> 01:37:47.800
is later? Then you thing?
Well, then well then that story leaves

1074
01:37:48.880 --> 01:37:54.119
a lot to the imagination, if
I do say so myself. Well,

1075
01:37:54.640 --> 01:37:59.680
it is getting late, it's getting
very very late. So one more before

1076
01:37:59.720 --> 01:38:02.319
you go where you're going, and
I'm sure i'll see you back here next

1077
01:38:02.399 --> 01:38:08.399
time. This one, this one, well, well it's simple, simple,

1078
01:38:09.800 --> 01:38:14.800
it's a statement of fact. Well, many facts turn out to not

1079
01:38:15.000 --> 01:38:20.600
be true. Just ask any politician
from any country at any time. Oh

1080
01:38:20.920 --> 01:38:26.720
yes, yes, a statement of
fact can be many things. It can

1081
01:38:26.800 --> 01:38:33.119
be comforting, it can be hurtful, it can be a manipulation. So

1082
01:38:33.239 --> 01:38:39.439
let's see what kind of facts are
in this story, and I'll heat up

1083
01:38:39.439 --> 01:38:43.520
the last little bit of tea I
have for tonight before you head out on

1084
01:38:43.600 --> 01:38:48.279
your merry way. Now, sit
back, it's my favorite chair for a

1085
01:38:48.359 --> 01:39:00.479
reason, and listens suspense and let
go to user videos. Outstanding Theater of

1086
01:39:00.560 --> 01:39:05.159
Thrills, The Master of Mystery and
Adventure William N. Robeson. The most

1087
01:39:05.239 --> 01:39:11.039
laureate of crimes is the crime of
passion. No mere bank robbery or stock

1088
01:39:11.119 --> 01:39:15.840
swindle can compete for newspaper space with
a nice, juicy love nest murder.

1089
01:39:15.640 --> 01:39:20.079
Our story concerns itself with a murder
which criminologists would classify as a crime of

1090
01:39:20.159 --> 01:39:24.840
passion, but we feel that it
is just the opposite, a crime of

1091
01:39:24.920 --> 01:39:30.520
no passion, a negative murder committed
because passion had fled and love was dead,

1092
01:39:30.159 --> 01:39:35.159
a homicide without hope. Listen,
listen then, as miss Kathy Lewis

1093
01:39:35.199 --> 01:39:44.319
stars in a statement of fact which
begins in just a minute and now a

1094
01:39:44.479 --> 01:39:49.279
statement of fact starring Kathy Lewis,
a tale well calculated to keep you in

1095
01:39:50.119 --> 01:40:01.159
suspense. I'm sorry, no comment, let me decide. I have nothing

1096
01:40:01.239 --> 01:40:06.479
to say at this time. Oh
hi you Chris, You didn't waste any

1097
01:40:06.560 --> 01:40:10.600
time. Can't afford to How the
press getting on this? The sheriff called

1098
01:40:10.640 --> 01:40:14.039
him after I told him you were
on your way down publicity harm. Well

1099
01:40:14.119 --> 01:40:17.000
every little bit helps in lession year. Yeah, where's the prisoner in there

1100
01:40:17.039 --> 01:40:19.439
with him? Where's she been hiding
these last three days? I don't know.

1101
01:40:19.560 --> 01:40:23.840
She didn't talking at least to me. She'll talk to me just a

1102
01:40:24.039 --> 01:40:27.199
minute. To sheriff left orders that
he's not to be disturbed. What's your

1103
01:40:27.319 --> 01:40:30.640
name, Deputy p G. Taylor? To Taylor, I want you to

1104
01:40:30.680 --> 01:40:33.159
go and stand by that door over
there. No one, absolutely no one

1105
01:40:33.279 --> 01:40:36.279
is to come through that door until
I say so. I take my orders

1106
01:40:36.279 --> 01:40:42.079
from Sheriff Morrow. Oh you do, Taylor. Hey, I thought I

1107
01:40:42.239 --> 01:40:45.960
told you I didn't want anyone around
here wanting Sheriff Dale Christian Deputy district Attorney.

1108
01:40:46.079 --> 01:40:48.600
Oh, we can handle this situation, all right, mister Christian.

1109
01:40:48.640 --> 01:40:51.720
Is Miss Dudley in there, Yeah, she guarded. No need to get

1110
01:40:51.800 --> 01:40:55.760
in there, John, don't take
your eyes off her right now. Look

1111
01:40:55.840 --> 01:40:58.279
here, you look here, Sheriff. You're gonna do as I say.

1112
01:40:58.800 --> 01:41:00.560
Just a minute there, Brad.
But he has no right to go into

1113
01:41:00.600 --> 01:41:02.760
my office. He has every right
to go in they're and I'll show you

1114
01:41:02.880 --> 01:41:08.199
why. Yeah. See, this
is a warrant issue, just death known

1115
01:41:08.239 --> 01:41:11.840
for the arrest of Ellen Ranald Dudley. When you see that seal and that

1116
01:41:11.960 --> 01:41:15.520
signature, your authority has automatically have
preceded. No one comes in here and

1117
01:41:15.560 --> 01:41:17.159
tells me how to run my job. I'm telling you, you're trying to

1118
01:41:17.159 --> 01:41:20.039
get your name and picture it every
newspaper in the country. The expense of

1119
01:41:20.119 --> 01:41:24.600
this case, I'll have no more
of it. This is no pressman's holiday.

1120
01:41:25.159 --> 01:41:27.479
If you have any brains at all, you'll take mister Taylor here and

1121
01:41:27.520 --> 01:41:30.079
go outside and get rid of those
reporters as fast as you can. I'll

1122
01:41:30.119 --> 01:41:31.840
take action against you for this,
mister. You'll just do that, Sheriff

1123
01:41:31.880 --> 01:41:48.000
and see where it will get you. And now starring Natty lewis back too.

1124
01:41:48.239 --> 01:41:57.840
Oh a statement of fact. Warning
is Dudley. Yes, my name

1125
01:41:57.920 --> 01:42:00.840
is Christian Is Dudley. I am
the deputy attorney. All right, John,

1126
01:42:01.039 --> 01:42:03.960
okay, what are you going to
do? Just to ask a few

1127
01:42:04.079 --> 01:42:10.279
questions, Miss Dudley, what kind
of questions? I'm obligated to warn you

1128
01:42:10.399 --> 01:42:14.760
that whatever you say right now may
be years later in the court. To

1129
01:42:14.920 --> 01:42:18.640
be on safe side, I shouldn't
tell you anything, Miss Dudley doesn't carefully.

1130
01:42:19.119 --> 01:42:24.079
Yesterday afternoon, I attended a coroner's
inquest inquiring into the death of your

1131
01:42:24.159 --> 01:42:28.680
husband, Robert Ames Dudley. A
coroner's jury determined that mister Dudley came to

1132
01:42:28.800 --> 01:42:32.319
his death as the result of wounds
inflicted by you his wife. A hatchet

1133
01:42:32.479 --> 01:42:36.720
was presented as evidence and was identified
by police experts as the murder weapon.

1134
01:42:38.720 --> 01:42:45.079
That hatchet carries fingerprints identified as yours, two witnesses, your maid Ethey Lee

1135
01:42:45.319 --> 01:42:48.479
Byth and a neighbor, missus Frank
Thompson gave testimony that further incriminates you.

1136
01:42:49.840 --> 01:42:54.159
Enough evidence was presented for the coroner's
jury to recommend that you be taken into

1137
01:42:54.199 --> 01:42:58.079
custody and held for the action of
the grand jury. Now do you understand

1138
01:42:58.319 --> 01:43:00.800
what I have just told you?
Yes? I think so. In a

1139
01:43:00.880 --> 01:43:04.319
few days, the grand jury'll meet
and charge you with murdering your husband.

1140
01:43:05.520 --> 01:43:11.000
Do you understand that? Yes?
Fine, Now, a frank, honest

1141
01:43:11.039 --> 01:43:14.920
statement from you right now may determine
the disposition and the proper flea to be

1142
01:43:15.039 --> 01:43:21.479
entered on your behalf. What do
you mean, mister Christian proper pleas,

1143
01:43:21.560 --> 01:43:25.720
Dudley, you murdered your husband on
the night of the thirteenth. The sooner

1144
01:43:25.800 --> 01:43:30.479
you admit that, the better off
you'll be. Suppose I suppose I don't

1145
01:43:30.479 --> 01:43:34.680
admit anything, and you can expect
no clemency, and that course is entirely

1146
01:43:34.760 --> 01:43:38.640
up to you, Missus Dudley.
But I must tell you that the death

1147
01:43:38.680 --> 01:43:41.920
house and the state penitentiary is full
of people who didn't listen to reason.

1148
01:43:41.960 --> 01:43:45.600
Well, there's a lot a chance. This is your chance, Missus Dudley,

1149
01:43:45.880 --> 01:43:53.520
right here and now. Well,
I don't know what to do if

1150
01:43:53.520 --> 01:43:56.800
you don't take my advice. They'll
hang you. I promise you, Missus

1151
01:43:56.840 --> 01:44:00.399
Dudley, they'll hang you as certainly
as you're sitting in that chair. Well,

1152
01:44:02.600 --> 01:44:08.079
I don't know what to do.
I don't know what to do.

1153
01:44:17.600 --> 01:44:27.359
And now starring Natty Lewis's actory of
a statement of fact. Now suppose we

1154
01:44:27.560 --> 01:44:32.399
begin at the beginning, Missus Dudley, the beginning. What was the beginning?

1155
01:44:32.760 --> 01:44:36.920
I don't know. Well, let's
say, where do you meet your

1156
01:44:36.960 --> 01:44:41.079
husband? Seems to me I read
some place that it was in Europe.

1157
01:44:41.199 --> 01:44:44.239
Yes, yes, that's right,
in the south of France. I had

1158
01:44:44.239 --> 01:44:48.520
a villain capture that summer. What
summer would that be, nineteen fifty fifteen?

1159
01:44:49.720 --> 01:44:54.159
Meeting through friends, did you?
Yes? Yes, get at Monte

1160
01:44:54.199 --> 01:44:58.560
Carlo. We were married three weeks
later at the Marrian Grass. They're a

1161
01:44:58.600 --> 01:45:04.520
short engagement. Wasn't seemed an eternity
at the time. I was fed up

1162
01:45:04.560 --> 01:45:10.359
with European gentleman, I suppose,
tired of having my hand kissed, bored

1163
01:45:10.399 --> 01:45:15.279
with the kind of men who put
all women into two categories possible wives or

1164
01:45:15.439 --> 01:45:21.039
possible mistresses. Roger seemed only interested
in me as a wife, and he

1165
01:45:21.199 --> 01:45:28.199
was so refreshing, so healthy,
so American, but the marriage didn't work

1166
01:45:28.239 --> 01:45:31.159
out the way you're expected. I
understand you and mister Dudley have been having

1167
01:45:31.319 --> 01:45:36.600
trouble for some time. Oh yes, for years. I soon found out

1168
01:45:36.720 --> 01:45:42.199
that although he wanted me as a
wife, he wanted every other woman as

1169
01:45:42.239 --> 01:45:46.920
a girlfriend. And he drank,
he drank. Now, if you've just

1170
01:45:47.000 --> 01:45:53.359
started with the events of that night, what is today Friday? I'd been

1171
01:45:53.399 --> 01:45:58.399
playing bridge this afternoon. There's a
dog show tomorrow evening. I wanted to

1172
01:45:58.479 --> 01:46:06.239
go to be able to go anywhere? Now do you feel sorry for me?

1173
01:46:06.399 --> 01:46:13.920
Mister Christian, I beg your pardon. Do you feel sorry for me?

1174
01:46:15.600 --> 01:46:18.600
Makes no difference how I feel,
Miss Dudley. You're an accused prisoner,

1175
01:46:18.600 --> 01:46:20.880
and my job is to get a
statement of fact from you. That's

1176
01:46:20.920 --> 01:46:27.239
why I'm here, Miss Dudley.
I'm your friend. Here in a court

1177
01:46:27.319 --> 01:46:30.520
room, I represent the prosecution,
and I'll do everything I can to see

1178
01:46:30.560 --> 01:46:33.960
to it that you hang unless you
make a complete confession. Now, is

1179
01:46:34.039 --> 01:46:39.520
that perfectly clear to you, Miss
Dudley. Yes, And if you have

1180
01:46:39.640 --> 01:46:43.199
a record of always getting a conviction, that will help when you decide to

1181
01:46:43.279 --> 01:46:46.159
run for District Attorney. Dudley,
My professional career has nothing to do with

1182
01:46:46.239 --> 01:46:48.640
this. If I weren't here talking
to you, someone else in my office

1183
01:46:48.640 --> 01:46:50.640
would be here. It's a job. It has to be done, and

1184
01:46:50.760 --> 01:46:54.319
I happen to be the one who's
doing it. But wouldn't it be better

1185
01:46:54.479 --> 01:46:58.479
for you if you had more of
an audience than mister Bradford over there?

1186
01:46:59.119 --> 01:47:01.279
Wouldn't it be much better her if
you had me in a courtroom with reporters

1187
01:47:01.319 --> 01:47:04.439
and photography. Do you want to
talk to me? I do to make

1188
01:47:04.520 --> 01:47:09.319
you angry, mister Christian, But
if all you've told me is true about

1189
01:47:09.359 --> 01:47:12.800
what happened at the corner's in question, what will happen when the grand jury

1190
01:47:12.880 --> 01:47:16.399
meets? You can hang me right
now, I certainly can, And yet

1191
01:47:16.439 --> 01:47:23.880
you're here to get my story.
Must be uncertain about something I told you.

1192
01:47:23.920 --> 01:47:26.520
I'm trying to help you, missus
Dudley, but I warn you I

1193
01:47:26.640 --> 01:47:30.479
am not uncertain about anything where you're
concerned. Make no mistake about that.

1194
01:47:30.640 --> 01:47:32.439
I have a duty to the people
of this state matters to learn the facts

1195
01:47:32.479 --> 01:47:34.800
of this case and present them before
the court, and I intend to do

1196
01:47:34.920 --> 01:47:44.039
that with or without your cooperation.
Well, may I talk to you alone?

1197
01:47:45.680 --> 01:47:49.640
You understand why mister Bradford is here. Yes, I but I'd like

1198
01:47:49.800 --> 01:47:55.680
to tell it to you alone.
It can't possibly hurt anything to talk to

1199
01:47:55.760 --> 01:48:00.520
you first. Canon all right,
John, wait outside. I'll send for

1200
01:48:00.560 --> 01:48:20.239
you when I need you. Thank
you, and now storrying Kathy Lewis,

1201
01:48:20.600 --> 01:48:27.000
Act four of a statement of fact. All right, missus Dudley, we're

1202
01:48:27.279 --> 01:48:32.840
quite alone. What do you want
to tell me? I killed my husband?

1203
01:48:33.720 --> 01:48:40.560
Very well, tell me how it
happened. I was having some people

1204
01:48:40.680 --> 01:48:44.239
over for dinner that night. I
was busy in the kitchen with the maid

1205
01:48:44.319 --> 01:48:50.000
fixing the dinner when Roger came downstairs. I asked him to do it simple

1206
01:48:50.039 --> 01:48:54.960
thing, just just a little thing. I asked him to start a fire

1207
01:48:55.039 --> 01:49:00.199
in the fireplace, Go on,
please. He took so long down in

1208
01:49:00.279 --> 01:49:04.600
the basement getting things ready for the
fire, and our guests were arriving at

1209
01:49:04.680 --> 01:49:11.560
seven point thirty, so I asked
him to come up and make some martinis

1210
01:49:11.600 --> 01:49:15.479
and let the fire go for the
minute. He called me a name.

1211
01:49:16.760 --> 01:49:25.000
Why. I never knew why he
did things like that. I went downstairs

1212
01:49:25.079 --> 01:49:29.279
to ask him why he was so
angry, and he called me another name.

1213
01:49:31.039 --> 01:49:33.840
It wasn't just the name or him
being angry. It was all of

1214
01:49:33.880 --> 01:49:38.000
the things he'd done to me before, the yard doing and the fighting and

1215
01:49:38.079 --> 01:49:44.039
the insults. And he started up
the stairs. I picked up the hatchet

1216
01:49:44.119 --> 01:49:48.439
and I hit him with it.
He fell down. Then what did you

1217
01:49:48.560 --> 01:49:54.720
do? I ran upstairs and put
on my coat and lift hoss. Where

1218
01:49:54.760 --> 01:49:59.319
have you been his last three days? I never left town. I took

1219
01:49:59.319 --> 01:50:02.119
a room at a moment, tell
him rise night, I decided I better

1220
01:50:02.199 --> 01:50:08.159
get away to go east. Maybe
somebody recognized me at the bus station.

1221
01:50:08.560 --> 01:50:15.520
Why did you kill him? Took
my life away from me, mister Christian?

1222
01:50:15.880 --> 01:50:20.680
I don't understand. When I went
down the stairs that night and saw

1223
01:50:20.760 --> 01:50:29.000
him standing there, I suddenly realized
all he had taken from me, everything

1224
01:50:29.079 --> 01:50:33.520
that was young and fresh and wanting, and I despised him for it,

1225
01:50:35.359 --> 01:50:42.640
so I killed him. Why Why
did you have to kill him? You

1226
01:50:42.720 --> 01:50:47.159
could have been worced him left him. Don't you see what he had taken

1227
01:50:47.279 --> 01:50:51.119
from me, mister Christian? There
was nothing left for him to steal from

1228
01:50:51.239 --> 01:50:56.640
me, or nothing left for me
to give to another man. Are you

1229
01:50:56.840 --> 01:51:00.840
married? No, I'm afraid I've
been too busy. You wouldn't know what

1230
01:51:00.960 --> 01:51:06.560
a man can take from a woman. If, mister Christian, am I

1231
01:51:06.760 --> 01:51:13.399
someone you'd want to be married to? If if this terrible thing hadn't happened,

1232
01:51:14.720 --> 01:51:18.479
am I someone you'd be proud to
have for a wife? You might

1233
01:51:18.600 --> 01:51:26.239
be all a woman needs is to
be wanted? Am I old and ugly

1234
01:51:26.439 --> 01:51:31.560
and unattractive? Am I shallow?
A flighty? Look at me, mister

1235
01:51:31.640 --> 01:51:44.079
Christian, I am now stand up? Please look at me close? Yeah?

1236
01:51:45.520 --> 01:51:50.600
Would you want to be loved by
me? Very beautiful? Mister Bud?

1237
01:51:53.920 --> 01:51:57.479
You any idea what it means to
be a beautiful woman, mister Christian,

1238
01:51:58.680 --> 01:52:02.399
be admired by every man and envied
by every woman, and never to

1239
01:52:02.520 --> 01:52:09.319
be sure? Why? How many
times have I heard those words I love?

1240
01:52:09.399 --> 01:52:14.720
You? Wondered what they meant?
What was loved? My face,

1241
01:52:15.520 --> 01:52:21.920
my figure, my artificial makeup,
my dear gown, or me? And

1242
01:52:23.039 --> 01:52:27.000
you can give me the straight answer, mister Christian, I haven't been able

1243
01:52:27.039 --> 01:52:30.960
to get to the hairdressers recently.
I've run out of lipstick. I'm afraid

1244
01:52:31.039 --> 01:52:38.439
this suit needs pressing. But you
want to be loved by me, mister

1245
01:52:38.560 --> 01:52:45.479
Christian, Yes, yes I would. Well I was nothing to Roger Dudley,

1246
01:52:45.600 --> 01:52:49.760
nothing and My love was nothing to
him. I was a fixture of

1247
01:52:49.840 --> 01:52:55.039
decoration, an animal, and he
took all of it, my love and

1248
01:52:55.159 --> 01:52:58.399
my life. And then he stood
at the bottom of the stairs and called

1249
01:52:58.479 --> 01:53:05.000
me a name, Missus Dudley,
Miss Dudley. Listen to me. Listen

1250
01:53:05.039 --> 01:53:10.840
to me. Now. No one
saw this happen. The maid was upstairs

1251
01:53:10.880 --> 01:53:15.119
in the kitchen. Missus Thompson only
heard it from next door. And listen

1252
01:53:15.159 --> 01:53:17.720
to me. Please. You can
claim that you did it in self defense.

1253
01:53:19.119 --> 01:53:23.760
He came at you, You picked
up the hatchet and you hit him

1254
01:53:23.760 --> 01:53:27.279
with it to protect yourself. Can
you tell it that way? When mister

1255
01:53:27.319 --> 01:53:30.159
Bradford comes back here but a dozen
good men in the state who'll be glad

1256
01:53:30.199 --> 01:53:34.119
to represent you in court with a
story like that, I'll be opposite them.

1257
01:53:34.880 --> 01:53:38.920
You can get off. In the
end, you'll be charged with second

1258
01:53:38.960 --> 01:53:44.600
degree murder, and that the most
you'll get a suspended sentence. Don't you

1259
01:53:44.680 --> 01:53:54.159
understand what I'm telling you? You
can be free, yes, mister Christian,

1260
01:53:54.840 --> 01:53:58.920
all right, let's have mister Bradford
in here now, please, all

1261
01:54:02.680 --> 01:54:09.800
I can never be see what are
you talking about? I haven't understood the

1262
01:54:09.960 --> 01:54:15.159
thing I told you? Have you
missed Christian. He took my life away

1263
01:54:15.239 --> 01:54:18.760
from me a long time ago.
Can't you see, mister Christian, I

1264
01:54:18.840 --> 01:54:23.560
don't have any life to live.
Missus Dudley, you have everything to live

1265
01:54:23.640 --> 01:54:30.199
for. Look the young beautiful you
want to need all of the things that

1266
01:54:30.279 --> 01:54:34.399
I can, that life can give
you. Too late, mister Christian,

1267
01:54:34.600 --> 01:54:39.239
No, it's not too late.
You must listen to me. You're too

1268
01:54:39.319 --> 01:54:43.920
valuable, a person, too desirable, too beautiful to die. You must

1269
01:54:44.000 --> 01:54:49.399
live why for me, for us, You need to be loved. You

1270
01:54:49.520 --> 01:54:57.840
need me, can help me.
I need you, need you, We

1271
01:54:58.000 --> 01:55:03.439
need you. Ye. Two minutes
ago you were telling me about your duties

1272
01:55:03.520 --> 01:55:09.079
to the people of this state.
Mister Christian, tell me about it now,

1273
01:55:15.800 --> 01:55:24.199
Yes, all right, send in, mister Bradford. I wanted to

1274
01:55:24.319 --> 01:55:28.880
talk to you alone like this to
make sure I was right. You're no

1275
01:55:29.239 --> 01:55:33.159
different than he was. Mister Christian. You'd take a woman and do the

1276
01:55:33.279 --> 01:55:39.159
same thing to her that he did
to me. Until you kissed me just

1277
01:55:39.319 --> 01:55:42.760
then. I wasn't a person to
you. I was an animal, a

1278
01:55:43.039 --> 01:55:46.079
tract animal, and if I let
you help me escape from this trap,

1279
01:55:46.119 --> 01:55:51.399
I'd just be escaping into a smaller
one. A worse one with you.

1280
01:55:54.520 --> 01:56:05.840
You're another Roger Dudley. Okay,
z h Are you ready to make your

1281
01:56:06.079 --> 01:56:17.920
statement of fact missus Dudley? Yes, all right, John takes down from

1282
01:56:18.000 --> 01:56:39.640
the beginning Is Dudley just suspense in
which Kathy Lewis starred in William and Robson's

1283
01:56:39.640 --> 01:56:45.319
production of a Statement of Fact written
by E. Jack Newman. Well,

1284
01:56:45.159 --> 01:56:50.560
it sure is getting late, or
well perhaps it's early now. Well,

1285
01:56:51.720 --> 01:56:58.319
I suppose it's about time you go
home and I returned to where it is

1286
01:56:58.399 --> 01:57:02.960
I come from. But I hope
you'll remember as you make that long,

1287
01:57:03.199 --> 01:57:10.520
long cold journey home to your big, bright, warm home, and you

1288
01:57:10.600 --> 01:57:15.680
get in that that delicate, delicate
cozy bed of yours and you lay your

1289
01:57:15.399 --> 01:57:20.600
little head on that soft pillow.
I hope you'll remember to come back here

1290
01:57:20.960 --> 01:57:26.640
next week, for I'll miss you
if you don't, and of course,

1291
01:57:27.279 --> 01:57:33.039
as always, be thankful, thank
you for what you have. I'll see

1292
01:57:33.039 --> 01:58:05.279
you next time, my dear dear. Until then, bringing the mumbling private breakd