December 6, 2025 • 43 mins
CBS Radio Mystery Theater was a noteworthy attempt to revive in American radio dramas like Inner Sanctum (1941-1952) and Suspense (1942-1962). Radio dramas were widely considered "dead" 12 years prior to this series. CBS Radio Mystery Theater, or simply Mystery Theater, was created by Inner Sanctum creator Himan Brown and ran on CBS from 1974-1982. The show, much like older radio dramas, was introduced by a host (E.G. Marshall in this program), who steers us through the creaking door to start the episode. Many voices from the golden age of radio were featured, including Richard Widmark, Bret Morrison, Agnes Moorehead and many more. Find more classic, old-time radio series at Theater of the Mind - OTR | Spreaker | Apple | YouTube
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Speaker 1 (00:00):
BBS Radio Mystery Theater presents. Come in Welcome.
Speaker 2 (00:24):
I'm e. G.
Speaker 1 (00:24):
Marshall. For thousands of years, man has looked upward towards
the night sky and dreamed pleasure. Barges rode down canals
on the planet Mars. Life prospered in the lush jungles
of Venus, and the moon was a super cosmic chunk
of green cheese. In less than a decade, however, the
Martian canals have become mere illusion. There can be no
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tropical paradise in the deadly atmosphere of Venus, and as
far as our nearest celestial neighbor consisting of green cheese
is concerned. Well, But to those of you who are dreamers,
do not despair too soon. The universe is infinite, and
for every question to which an answer is found, there
(01:09):
are a thousand mysteries yet to be solved.
Speaker 3 (01:13):
Margo, you don't know what you're doing.
Speaker 4 (01:17):
I have to get rid of you before it's too late,
before you take over my body.
Speaker 5 (01:21):
Come fight me.
Speaker 4 (01:23):
I have to. I have to kill you.
Speaker 1 (01:24):
Have let me die.
Speaker 4 (01:25):
I won't let you have my body.
Speaker 3 (01:27):
Don't let me die.
Speaker 6 (01:28):
You must, Fargo.
Speaker 7 (01:29):
If I die, we both die.
Speaker 1 (01:41):
Our mystery drama, The First Woman in Space, was written
especially for the Mystery Theater by Victoria Dan and stars
Phyllis Newman. It is sponsored in part by Buick Motor
Division and arm Allergy Relief Medicine. I'll be back shortly
with that one. There have been men in space, and
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one day there will be women. To those cynics who
would deny that this is indeed the natural progression of things,
may we remind you that there was a time when
women were barred from the unladylike profession of ballet dancing,
and hard, as it is to believe, also a time
when only men were considered efficient secretaries. Ah, but this
(02:36):
is the twentieth century, a more enlightened age.
Speaker 8 (02:40):
Of course.
Speaker 1 (02:40):
A woman can do anything a man can do, if
only they'd letter a waiter.
Speaker 6 (02:47):
Do we have the check?
Speaker 4 (02:48):
I could really go for a nice tall glass of
ice tea, Mark, but we don't have time a waiter.
A glass of ice tea, please.
Speaker 6 (02:55):
That's out of season. It'll take twice as long.
Speaker 4 (02:57):
Harry, you rushed me through the soup, you hurled me
past the salad, and as far as the entree is concerned,
it was a minute's stake in every sense of the word.
Speaker 3 (03:06):
Now, can't we.
Speaker 6 (03:07):
Just relax and enjo starts in fifteen minutes, so we'll
be a little lady that's in your honor and practically
in the entire staff of the university will be there waiting,
not to mention the board of trustees.
Speaker 4 (03:19):
Until you came by the apartment to pick me up
for dinner. I knew nothing about any so called reception.
Speaker 6 (03:26):
I wanted to surprise you, some surprise, our.
Speaker 4 (03:29):
First real date in six months, and you've transformed it
into some big publicity play for the university, your university.
Speaker 6 (03:37):
Okay, okay, I'm sorry I didn't.
Speaker 4 (03:39):
Tell you before, but you must know I had had
it up to here with receptions, interviews, the publicity routine,
two months in Orbits, all those weeks in isolation. I
just wanted a simple, pleasant evening alone with my fiancee.
I missed you, Harry, I thought you would.
Speaker 6 (03:58):
Miss s Margo. Hey, I missed you. That's why I
began spending more time in the lab, and as a result,
I may have made a major breakthrough in the conversion formula.
But you see, I need more funds.
Speaker 2 (04:14):
I see, Look, if we play it right with the trustees.
Speaker 6 (04:18):
Tonight I can get that grant. That's why we've got
to get going.
Speaker 4 (04:21):
Oh here's my I see, thank you.
Speaker 6 (04:25):
You know what that crosstown traffic can be so.
Speaker 4 (04:28):
Hot in here. I can't tell you how refreshing this taste.
Speaker 6 (04:33):
Margot. We've got to.
Speaker 4 (04:35):
Leave when I'm finished.
Speaker 6 (04:37):
How can you be so inconsiderate?
Speaker 7 (04:39):
That does it?
Speaker 4 (04:40):
You can go by yourself, but you have to come.
Speaker 6 (04:43):
They're expecting you. You're a celebrity. That's what those people understand. Respect.
Speaker 4 (04:48):
I don't want to argue.
Speaker 6 (04:51):
It's here, Margot, where you're going home?
Speaker 1 (04:54):
Good night, Harry Margot.
Speaker 6 (04:55):
This is the last time.
Speaker 4 (04:57):
I promise, don't worry about me. I can take a
cab Marco Waite.
Speaker 1 (05:07):
Driver Like I say, you're lucky. I have to be
driving by one night. I got to wait outside.
Speaker 2 (05:13):
For a taxi.
Speaker 4 (05:14):
Do you have to heat on?
Speaker 1 (05:15):
Yeah?
Speaker 2 (05:16):
You want me to turn it up a little?
Speaker 4 (05:17):
No? No, no, no, no, turn it off? I feel warm?
Speaker 2 (05:21):
Warm?
Speaker 8 (05:21):
Man?
Speaker 6 (05:22):
This frost.
Speaker 2 (05:23):
What are you rolling the window down for?
Speaker 4 (05:25):
It's hunting here.
Speaker 9 (05:26):
It's twenty degrees out.
Speaker 4 (05:27):
There is your radio?
Speaker 1 (05:31):
No it busted?
Speaker 6 (05:33):
You don't hear it? Here?
Speaker 8 (05:34):
Wan that music?
Speaker 4 (05:37):
Strange music? You know.
Speaker 1 (05:39):
I can't place it, but you look familiar. I seen
your picture someplaces, like the newspapers.
Speaker 2 (05:44):
The TV.
Speaker 4 (05:45):
Can't you hear?
Speaker 1 (05:46):
Yeah, the TV?
Speaker 2 (05:48):
But you ain't an actress?
Speaker 1 (05:50):
So hot?
Speaker 4 (05:52):
What did you just say?
Speaker 1 (05:53):
I was saying you're famous, but you ain't an actress, right, No,
you are an actress.
Speaker 4 (05:58):
No, you just agree with me. You just said it
was hot, lady. Really, I just heard you so hot?
Speaker 6 (06:06):
Margo.
Speaker 4 (06:07):
How do you know my name is Margo?
Speaker 6 (06:09):
I don't know your name is Mago.
Speaker 4 (06:11):
I heard you.
Speaker 1 (06:11):
He just called me Margo, lady, honest, I didn't call you. Hey,
wait a second, Margo Gordon. That so if you're Marbo Gordon,
the astronaut.
Speaker 4 (06:20):
In my care I could have sworn I heard someone
say my name.
Speaker 1 (06:25):
Well, here we are as God, I mean doctor God.
Speaker 2 (06:29):
Here it is twenty nine.
Speaker 1 (06:31):
Thirty North Street.
Speaker 4 (06:33):
Oh yeah, yes, yes, I'll keep the change.
Speaker 2 (06:35):
Thanks, thanks, so, I deny good night.
Speaker 4 (06:40):
It really can't be twenty degrees out here. It's too hot,
much too hot.
Speaker 2 (06:54):
Find me, Margo.
Speaker 1 (06:55):
You ought to be seeing one of the program doctors.
Speaker 2 (06:57):
I trust you, La, trust me.
Speaker 4 (06:59):
I can't let anything jeopardize my chances to be on
that crew. What true, the Senate is about to pass
the appropriation bill. For a second, Athena probe.
Speaker 2 (07:09):
You mean you're going up there again.
Speaker 4 (07:10):
It's going to be fantastic. Athena one was just a rehearsal,
But Athena two is it. I've never wanted anything so badly.
That's why I can't go to the mission staff and
tell them what I've just told you.
Speaker 2 (07:23):
Show you hear a voice.
Speaker 4 (07:24):
I hear one voice, a very clear voice.
Speaker 2 (07:29):
Margaret, sometime or another. A lot of us hear voice.
Speaker 4 (07:32):
I kept thinking, maybe maybe it's an after effect of
all those weeks and zero gravity.
Speaker 1 (07:38):
Well, I don't find a thing wrong with you physically.
So there are three possibilities. Yes, First, maybe the excitement
of the past few months is getting to you. Second,
there may be the pressure to succeed again. And third,
you'll probably say it's not of my business. What is
Harry Freedman?
Speaker 6 (07:59):
Harry, do you.
Speaker 2 (08:01):
Really want to marry Harry Friedman?
Speaker 1 (08:03):
Well, of course, and there goes that's theory.
Speaker 4 (08:06):
I mean, I'm excited about marrying Harry. He's a brilliant biochemist.
Oh and I I never thought anyone as good looking
as Harry could well really be interested in me.
Speaker 6 (08:18):
You are happy, then, sure.
Speaker 4 (08:21):
I mean we recently he has been getting on my nerves.
But is any relationship perfect? And of course the way
he behaved last night didn't help matters at all. Mark,
I mean trying to show me off to his colleagues
like I was some kind of curiosity Margot. Oh oh,
and you really should have been a psychiatrist.
Speaker 2 (08:40):
I'm just a simple country though, and you've.
Speaker 4 (08:42):
Made a very simple point. Maybe I'd better not see
Harry for a while. Yes, General, Yes, I just heard
the news. Of course I never doubted the bill would
go through. Well, I'm delighted to yes, right, yeah, I'll
(09:06):
be there Monday morning. Goodbye, General.
Speaker 10 (09:11):
Just a minute, Harry, can I come in well please, I.
Speaker 6 (09:22):
Have something to tell you, Harry. I thought we agreed
to go our separate ways for a while.
Speaker 4 (09:27):
I know, but I was just on the phone with
General Tollibance.
Speaker 6 (09:30):
I don't care who you were on the phone.
Speaker 4 (09:32):
With, Harry. I've never seen you like this, like.
Speaker 6 (09:34):
I did a lot of thinking this past week about us,
he did. I thought about what you said about well,
about my resenting you being such a celebrity. I didn't
say that exactly, say that, but it's what you felt.
Maybe I did resent it a little, and maybe it
was inevitable that you begin to believe I was using
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your toe. Harry, It's true, that's what it looked like.
The truth is I couldn't exist the board of trustees
the promise of new lab equipment in exchange for an
appearance by the country's first woman in space, all those
years of struggling without adequate funding. I guess I forgot.
I forgot about your feelings, and I want to apologize.
Speaker 4 (10:19):
Oh, Harry, I'm so glad.
Speaker 6 (10:21):
I'm not finished. I want to really convince you that
I love you for yourself and not because you're the
famous doctor Gordon. Look, I want you to quit the
space program. What I want you to quit the space program?
Then you'll just be playing old Margot Gordon again and
(10:43):
I can have you to myself.
Speaker 4 (10:45):
What makes you think I even want to be plain
old Margot Gordon again.
Speaker 6 (10:50):
I want you down on Earth in my house, married
to me.
Speaker 4 (10:54):
Well, we've discussed this before.
Speaker 6 (10:56):
When are we going to get married?
Speaker 4 (10:58):
When I'm ready?
Speaker 6 (11:00):
Two years? You know, I'm beginning to doubt that you.
Speaker 4 (11:02):
You know, you always managed to turn the tables and
come up the good guy. You've got me all confused
and there's so much on my mind.
Speaker 1 (11:11):
Margo.
Speaker 4 (11:13):
Margo, Oh no, not again.
Speaker 6 (11:15):
What are you talking about?
Speaker 4 (11:17):
So please please tell me who are you?
Speaker 6 (11:22):
I'm your fiance, Margot, in case you forgot not you, Harry?
What Margot? Send him away?
Speaker 4 (11:28):
Hearing things, darling, listen to me.
Speaker 1 (11:31):
Send him away. Harry is an intruder.
Speaker 4 (11:35):
Harry. I have a lot on my mind right now.
Speaker 6 (11:38):
Please leave me alone, Margot. What's happening to us?
Speaker 4 (11:41):
Things change? People change. I don't want to argue.
Speaker 6 (11:47):
I'm not going anywhere until little, until we discuss this
like to it.
Speaker 4 (11:50):
Don't get out, Harry, Margot. No, I don't mean that.
Speaker 7 (11:54):
Yes, you mean it.
Speaker 4 (11:56):
I didn't really mean what I just said.
Speaker 6 (11:57):
I think you did, Margot.
Speaker 4 (11:59):
How hurry, wait a minute, Oh.
Speaker 6 (12:01):
This time, I'll say good night, Harry.
Speaker 4 (12:04):
What's wrong? What's happening?
Speaker 2 (12:06):
Margot?
Speaker 3 (12:07):
No?
Speaker 4 (12:07):
No, I just imagine I hear you.
Speaker 7 (12:09):
Do not imagine you hear me. I am real.
Speaker 5 (12:12):
I'm going out of my mind alone, all alone in
the void and the cold, the darkness.
Speaker 4 (12:18):
Then your ship yours spaces can't see all alone.
Speaker 7 (12:22):
And now I'm not alone longer.
Speaker 3 (12:25):
You found me.
Speaker 4 (12:26):
You brought me back, brought you back, Yes, you mean
back from space, back from the athena. One probe, that's another.
I've been talking to thin air.
Speaker 6 (12:38):
Oh I am real, I exist.
Speaker 7 (12:41):
I was all alone in darkness.
Speaker 1 (12:43):
I saw your ship.
Speaker 7 (12:44):
I felt the life inside life.
Speaker 4 (12:49):
No more alone.
Speaker 5 (12:50):
Something in my mind part of you, no, Margo, part
of you.
Speaker 7 (12:55):
Shut up, your share now, part of your body, part
of your mind, shut up. You're my thoughts here, my
thoughts thing, my thoughts up?
Speaker 4 (13:07):
Why am I sweating like this?
Speaker 1 (13:09):
So hot? So hot?
Speaker 6 (13:11):
We are so hot.
Speaker 4 (13:13):
It's it's a reaction to all attentions, That's what it is.
Don't fight me. Oh please? What do you want from me?
Speaker 3 (13:21):
I want you, modo, you want me?
Speaker 1 (13:27):
Yes?
Speaker 4 (13:28):
But why answer me?
Speaker 3 (13:33):
Why?
Speaker 4 (13:35):
What are you? Please?
Speaker 2 (13:38):
What are you?
Speaker 3 (13:47):
What?
Speaker 1 (13:48):
Indeed, the ordinary human being consists of flesh, bones and
a pattern of electrical impulses. And although man has asked
the question what are you many times in the past,
it has usually been in a more philosophical context, But that.
Speaker 2 (14:04):
Of course, is when we are dealing with an ordinary human.
Speaker 1 (14:07):
Being, which we obviously are not doing here, and also
when we are in a philosophical move which apparently Margot
Gordon is not.
Speaker 8 (14:17):
I'll be back shortly for that too.
Speaker 2 (14:33):
Is man alone in the universe.
Speaker 1 (14:36):
There really hasn't been much evidence one way or another,
and if we do have any neighbors, they certainly have
been keeping a rather low profile. In any event, Margot
Gordon is a brilliant scientist who seems to be wondering
if maybe she hasn't come back alone from a mission
in outer space. It's not that she's inhospitable, but there
are certain kinds of company that a sane, average human
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being can very well do without.
Speaker 4 (15:03):
Please please tell me who are you?
Speaker 1 (15:07):
Who are you?
Speaker 10 (15:08):
I am the last.
Speaker 4 (15:12):
The last, the last.
Speaker 5 (15:16):
All that remains, All that survives, survives, survives what.
Speaker 6 (15:22):
Our world destroys.
Speaker 7 (15:24):
Our world is dead, your world, Our planet is gone
in the light of a thousand stars.
Speaker 4 (15:31):
Homes is gone in.
Speaker 8 (15:33):
The blaze of a thousand stars.
Speaker 4 (15:36):
Blaze of a thousand stars. You mean your sun exploded
the heat of.
Speaker 8 (15:40):
A thousand suns.
Speaker 7 (15:42):
Our planet is no more.
Speaker 2 (15:44):
I'm all the survives.
Speaker 7 (15:46):
A traveler with no home to return to, waiting for.
Speaker 4 (15:49):
A home to return to the traveler, What did you, traveler?
Where is your ship?
Speaker 10 (15:57):
There is no ship?
Speaker 4 (15:58):
No need for a ship. Why can't I see you?
If indeed you do exist exist, I can't see you.
Speaker 7 (16:04):
So long ago, so long to search, to wait, an
eternity of waiting, the darkness and the cold, in the emptyness.
Speaker 4 (16:14):
This is insane. I'm talking to thin air.
Speaker 7 (16:17):
My mind survives, My mind lives. My thoughts are my eyes,
My thoughts are my hands.
Speaker 4 (16:25):
Why are you doing this to me? My thoughts guided me.
They found your ship, they found you. What do you
want from me?
Speaker 7 (16:32):
No more searching?
Speaker 2 (16:34):
Your hands on my hand, No, your.
Speaker 4 (16:37):
Eyes on my arm. It's impossible again in the sunlight again.
Speaker 7 (16:40):
Well, now we share this body.
Speaker 4 (16:45):
I survive in this body.
Speaker 7 (16:48):
No more darkness, no more a loneness. I survive in
this body.
Speaker 4 (16:53):
Who can't take over another person's body?
Speaker 7 (16:55):
Share this body.
Speaker 4 (16:56):
It's indecen.
Speaker 7 (16:57):
But this body must just adjust to the heat of
this placid hits.
Speaker 4 (17:04):
Tour and I'm so hot. Hot.
Speaker 5 (17:09):
We must do something about the heat.
Speaker 4 (17:13):
What's wrong with me? What's happening to me?
Speaker 6 (17:17):
Hot?
Speaker 1 (17:18):
Hot?
Speaker 3 (17:19):
No?
Speaker 4 (17:19):
No, no, no, I don't I don't hear you. You're
not real. Got to concentrate on something else, get away
from the heat. A movie, all right, a movie? How
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do you expect me to move my car with your
truck in the way.
Speaker 9 (17:42):
It's a public driveways.
Speaker 4 (17:43):
I can't go around a moving then there's not enough room.
I have to get somewhere. Can't you move this truck
of yours out of the way?
Speaker 9 (17:52):
And what about all these crape where you were right
in the middle of unloading this junk. It's bad enough
we have to work over time. Hey, would you out?
I please get out of the way. These boxes are heavy.
I wouldn't want you to get hurt.
Speaker 4 (18:06):
This isn't safe.
Speaker 9 (18:07):
That's what I've been trying to tell you.
Speaker 6 (18:09):
Stand back now.
Speaker 9 (18:12):
Hey, George, check the coupling will something sounds a little loose?
Speaker 4 (18:17):
This is absolutely ridiculous. Not you again, I there's danger.
Speaker 6 (18:23):
Hey, George, is it to the right?
Speaker 9 (18:27):
Checked that rope before you put it on the ramp before, George?
Speaker 1 (18:31):
It's danger.
Speaker 3 (18:32):
No, the wooden box inside is heavy and quick.
Speaker 6 (18:35):
Don't you in the rope and pole? It is old
thin moment okay, easy.
Speaker 3 (18:41):
It will hurtle down and crush the man.
Speaker 4 (18:43):
Crush you, I don't hear.
Speaker 1 (18:45):
You must be ready to save us.
Speaker 6 (18:47):
You have the strength, Just save us. Put out your arm.
Speaker 9 (18:51):
Okay, let it go.
Speaker 4 (18:53):
George have the strength.
Speaker 7 (18:54):
We have the strength in our arms to stop it.
Speaker 4 (18:58):
Muggle.
Speaker 3 (18:59):
No look, oh no, no.
Speaker 4 (19:03):
Lady, you'll be killed.
Speaker 10 (19:04):
We all wrong?
Speaker 6 (19:08):
What on earth?
Speaker 3 (19:10):
No?
Speaker 7 (19:12):
Release the crazy gently let it roll to us?
Speaker 6 (19:18):
Stop all right.
Speaker 9 (19:21):
I don't believe what I just saw.
Speaker 4 (19:24):
Where did I get the strength to.
Speaker 6 (19:28):
Do if I hadn't seen it with my own eyes?
Speaker 9 (19:31):
Well, you just put out your hands and stopped that
box dead in its tracks over eight hundred pounds.
Speaker 4 (19:39):
You are real? You do exist?
Speaker 1 (19:43):
How did you do it?
Speaker 8 (19:43):
Lady?
Speaker 4 (19:44):
I really did bring you back from space? Yes, Margo,
an alien creature living inside of my body? What am
I going to do?
Speaker 1 (19:57):
How do you do it? Lady?
Speaker 6 (19:58):
I mean you got iron arms.
Speaker 4 (20:00):
Something I have to get out of here.
Speaker 9 (20:02):
Wait a second, lady, wait, now come back.
Speaker 2 (20:12):
It's incredible, Margot.
Speaker 3 (20:14):
Do you believe me now?
Speaker 8 (20:15):
Owen?
Speaker 2 (20:15):
I don't know what to believe.
Speaker 1 (20:16):
Heartbeat, blood fresh up radically, body temperatures.
Speaker 2 (20:20):
That normally law.
Speaker 1 (20:21):
Either there's something wrong with all my medical instruments.
Speaker 4 (20:24):
Is the idea of extraterrestrial life so hard to accept.
Speaker 1 (20:28):
I've been a physician for thirty years and I've never
seen anything like this before. While there are impurities in
your blood.
Speaker 2 (20:34):
I can't even define it.
Speaker 4 (20:35):
Doesn't that prove that.
Speaker 1 (20:37):
All it proves is that your body is undergoing some
massive changes, Owen.
Speaker 4 (20:41):
My body is adjusting to an alien presence, a being that, somehow,
through a process I can't explain, found me, attached itself
to me out there in space.
Speaker 2 (20:54):
And you're not serious.
Speaker 4 (20:56):
Eight hundred pounds of machinery hurtling down loading ramp, I
should have been crushed to death. Instead, I called it
as if as if it were a runaway shopping cars,
almost half a ton.
Speaker 3 (21:09):
There's not a bruise on my hands.
Speaker 1 (21:10):
Well, the imagination is a strange thing.
Speaker 2 (21:12):
Sometimes we think.
Speaker 4 (21:13):
We have Owen. Owen, at this point, it's not necessary.
If you believe me, you're not just help me. In
two days I have to undergo a follow up physical
at the base. I'll be going before General Tolliver at
the Project medical team.
Speaker 2 (21:27):
Well, they'll find out just what I won't.
Speaker 4 (21:29):
Because you're going to help me.
Speaker 2 (21:31):
I don't think you understand.
Speaker 4 (21:32):
I'm sure there's something you can give me. I'm not
asking you to treat the cause, just the symptoms.
Speaker 2 (21:38):
There's nothing I can do Ohen.
Speaker 4 (21:40):
There must be shots, pills that'll.
Speaker 2 (21:43):
Take more than that to cover up? What's wrong with you?
Speaker 4 (21:46):
Who said cover up? I want you to get rid
of it your document?
Speaker 2 (21:49):
Didn't you hear me?
Speaker 1 (21:50):
I said, your entire physiology has altered. Your blood chemistry
has changed. Oh, anything I could give you, I can't
predict how your body would react.
Speaker 4 (21:58):
If I don't task that physical i'll be drop from
the Athena programs.
Speaker 2 (22:01):
Well, you'll have to tell them at the project. They
have a right to know.
Speaker 4 (22:04):
No, I can't.
Speaker 2 (22:05):
Maybe they can find a way to deal with whatever
it is.
Speaker 4 (22:07):
No, No, you help me, Owen.
Speaker 1 (22:09):
I'm not qualified to help your Margot. But I have
a friend especially you could say that. Let me give
you his name. I want you to talk to him. Well,
maybe he can help you understand. Reality is difficult to face.
Sometimes people aren't as strong as they think they are.
My mind is fine, Margo, you need help.
Speaker 2 (22:28):
I feel responsible and so and so.
Speaker 6 (22:31):
You'll tell them, Well.
Speaker 2 (22:33):
I can't just stand by and let this happen.
Speaker 4 (22:35):
I won't let you tell them. It'll ruin me. I
won't let you tell them.
Speaker 1 (22:40):
I'll kill you first, Margo.
Speaker 4 (22:42):
My friend, my doctor turning against Margot. You don't know
how much strength I have I can put these two
hands around your neck and choke the life out of you.
Speaker 10 (22:54):
Margo, you you're choking me.
Speaker 4 (22:56):
Explain why I am so strong? Explain why you can't
push me away? You're bigger than me. Why are you
so hungry? I can't blieve how easily I could kill
your home the power of light and death over you.
Speaker 1 (23:15):
I could kill you, my good.
Speaker 4 (23:21):
Oh Owen, Oh no, when I don't know what came
over me. Oh, I'm so sorry. I'm sorry. I wouldn't
hurt you for the world, and.
Speaker 1 (23:31):
I almost I'm angry.
Speaker 4 (23:34):
I didn't know my own strength.
Speaker 3 (23:37):
Owen, please help me.
Speaker 1 (23:39):
I've got to say, I've got to think.
Speaker 6 (23:49):
You really expect me to believe a story like that,
Doctor Harold.
Speaker 2 (23:51):
Do you think I'd come to you if I didn't
have to?
Speaker 6 (23:54):
And I know you don't like me. You can't accept
the idea of Margot and me.
Speaker 2 (23:58):
Get to discuss my opinions.
Speaker 1 (24:00):
I asked to beat you here because whatever else I
think of you, you are a brilliant, innovative scientist. First
to feed me a wild story about creatures from outer space, then.
Speaker 6 (24:10):
You start praising me. Not come on, on, what do
you really want? I only want to help Margo seriously
tired of playing country doctor. Do you want me to
get you back into the university?
Speaker 2 (24:21):
Now, Harry, get this straight. I don't like you. I
never like you.
Speaker 1 (24:25):
You may put out anice enough front where accounts to
someone like Margo, but on inside you're out of touch
with people. You're not really warm at all. But you're
smart and you've got the equipment, a lad, if anyone
can help Margo, you can help her if you really
care about her the way you claim to.
Speaker 6 (24:41):
I do care about her. I happen to love her
and we had an agreement, but she hasn't been the same.
Speaker 1 (24:48):
I know since she came back from the first Athena probe.
Speaker 6 (24:51):
You notice the two.
Speaker 1 (24:52):
Well, that's what I've been trying to say to you.
It's not mental, Harry, it's physical. You actually believe as
a scientist, you at least a little bit curious. You've
written a dozen papers on the possibility of extraterrestrial life,
and here's an opportunity in presenting it out.
Speaker 6 (25:08):
You say that there is actual physical evidence.
Speaker 2 (25:12):
Put a blood sample from around a slide.
Speaker 6 (25:14):
Okay, okay, I'll go along, but look, is she willing
to see me.
Speaker 1 (25:20):
She'll see you.
Speaker 4 (25:30):
I don't know if I want to do this, and that's.
Speaker 2 (25:32):
Why I'm coming along. Harry knows what he's doing. A
just relax.
Speaker 4 (25:35):
General Tolliver called me again today. Oh they've now the
final Cruse selection down to half a dozen. My chances
are even better now.
Speaker 1 (25:43):
I'm thinking if this creature came from another world and
was used to a polder and Byn go on, well,
it could explain the radical drop in your body temperature.
Speaker 4 (25:53):
That's logical. But what are you getting at?
Speaker 1 (25:55):
Well, I'm a scientist, but I have an idea.
Speaker 6 (26:00):
You just hear something nothing at.
Speaker 2 (26:02):
You and jumpy what I'm thinking?
Speaker 4 (26:04):
No, I have this strange feeling there.
Speaker 1 (26:08):
Something's wrong with the car.
Speaker 2 (26:10):
We're taking a turn too fast.
Speaker 4 (26:12):
Hang on, Colin, step on the brake. I time, my
foot is the death pedalsto do something my time look
out betray a skin with a.
Speaker 1 (26:20):
Water, be silent and safe. The saying goes silence never
betrays you. Apparently the good doctor should have kept his
eyes on the road and his.
Speaker 6 (26:40):
Thoughts to himself.
Speaker 1 (26:42):
There are strange powers at work here. Obviously our alien
is quite capable of looking out for itself and feels
that there are some things that are better left unsaid,
that is, until I return with Act three. Down through
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the ages, there have been endless examples of people who
believe their bodies to be possessed by evil spirits. Now,
as the result of a contact in outer space, astronaut
Margaret Gordon finds her body possessed by an alien being.
Though we have no way of determining whether this creature
is evil, we do know that it can and will
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fight for its life. Playing unwilling host to an extraterrestrial
life form is proving to be quite unpleasant, especially when
the unwelcome guest has no intention of ever leaving.
Speaker 3 (27:43):
Owen, owen, Oh, thank Heavenly, civilize, please lost control of Hurry,
hurry over here.
Speaker 1 (28:02):
This is all my heart.
Speaker 6 (28:03):
I can't remember.
Speaker 4 (28:05):
None of this would have happened if I had kept
you out of it.
Speaker 6 (28:14):
I came as soon as I heard, Oh, Harry, how
is he?
Speaker 4 (28:16):
Intensive care? Critical?
Speaker 2 (28:18):
They won't know for hours, but at least you all right?
Speaker 6 (28:20):
I mean, sometimes these accidents look worse than they are.
This was no accident, well, not a scratch on you,
But then what did you say it.
Speaker 4 (28:28):
Wasn't an accident? Something made ohen lose control of the car.
Speaker 6 (28:33):
H honey, it's been a traumatic experience for the alien.
Speaker 4 (28:36):
That's who did it. The alien Owen was trying to
tell me something.
Speaker 6 (28:41):
You're serious, aren't you, Harry?
Speaker 4 (28:44):
When I was in orbit up there, I can't explain
how a living organism, an intelligence of some alien origin,
merged with me. Don't stare at me like that. I'm
not crazy. It invaded me, became a part of me.
It lay dormant for a while. I'm detected.
Speaker 6 (29:02):
But now, all right, marcaol Let's put it to the test.
Right now now. The chemistry building is just across the campus.
This can't be right now.
Speaker 4 (29:17):
How many more tests are you going to run before
you believe me?
Speaker 6 (29:20):
These readings are impossible for your red blood cells. The
structure is altered, and there are elements present in the
plasma which fit no known category. I told you body fluids,
blood pressure, heartbeat. It's as if your body was adapting somehow,
but drastically the alien.
Speaker 4 (29:41):
Is adjusting to a totally different environment.
Speaker 6 (29:44):
It's hard to believe.
Speaker 4 (29:45):
It's an intelligent life form and it's.
Speaker 6 (29:47):
A living.
Speaker 2 (29:49):
What a breakthrough.
Speaker 4 (29:51):
I've finally convinced you that it is a form of life.
Speaker 6 (29:55):
This is important, Michael, It's really important. We have to
get doctor Schuler over here in a wait a minute,
I got the chist o.
Speaker 4 (30:02):
Harry, Harry. We can't let all these people know. I
don't want a lot of publicity. I'm not a guinea pig.
Speaker 6 (30:07):
I'm an astronomy. Is a doctor children, Good good. I'll
call him back in ten minutes. He's on his way home.
I want this kept quiet. Well, you can't keep a
thing like this quiet.
Speaker 4 (30:18):
The alien has to be destroyed, one destroyed before it
completely takes over my body, before I go out of
my mind.
Speaker 6 (30:29):
You can't just destroy a thing like this with a
snap of your fingers. I mean, it takes time.
Speaker 4 (30:34):
I don't have time. The alien has power, sure, sure
it can do things. If you don't help me get
rid of it, I'll just have to do it myself.
Speaker 6 (30:44):
I go. You must not destroy.
Speaker 4 (30:49):
You almost killed Owen. She was threatt to.
Speaker 6 (30:53):
Survival, Margot, Who who are you talking to?
Speaker 3 (30:57):
You're evil?
Speaker 5 (30:59):
No not if you tried to kill, did not understand kill,
did not know then about killing, only could understand survival.
Speaker 4 (31:12):
It's got to be a way to rid myself of
You must not destroy.
Speaker 8 (31:17):
I am all that remains.
Speaker 7 (31:19):
I am the last I must survive.
Speaker 4 (31:24):
When you've completely taken over my body, what then.
Speaker 6 (31:28):
The last of my race? I must go on? Margot,
you're talking to thin air.
Speaker 4 (31:33):
What happens when I have no control over this body?
All this strength, all this power?
Speaker 1 (31:41):
Harry?
Speaker 4 (31:43):
Do you know I could lift you with one hand?
Speaker 6 (31:46):
Talking irrationally?
Speaker 4 (31:47):
Do I have to show you?
Speaker 2 (31:50):
Wait?
Speaker 1 (31:50):
Margle it?
Speaker 3 (31:50):
What?
Speaker 1 (31:51):
Hey? Hey?
Speaker 11 (31:52):
Put me down, up up to the ceiling.
Speaker 4 (31:54):
Put mesel you there, Put me down, Margot. You asked
for it. H Margot, Now, will you help me?
Speaker 2 (32:07):
It's true.
Speaker 6 (32:09):
What you've been telling me.
Speaker 1 (32:10):
I have some.
Speaker 4 (32:11):
Control still, but I don't know for how long, Harry.
Forget about the journals the newspapers. Just help me. But
don't you see how dangerous this is to me if
we don't stop it?
Speaker 6 (32:24):
All right, all right, I'll try to find a way.
Just give me time to get some equipment together.
Speaker 1 (32:37):
Uh.
Speaker 6 (32:37):
I don't like the idea of putting you in a
pressure chamber. It's dangerous, Harry. Ready ready, switch on.
Speaker 4 (32:54):
Nothing, nothing happened. Move on to the X rays.
Speaker 6 (33:03):
We've ruled out pressure, radiation, electricity. We've even had you
in the centrifuge. There must be something, Margot. He might
as well face reality. This condition of yours is going
to be permanent.
Speaker 4 (33:16):
There's got to be away. I can't be someone else,
an alien. I can't harry the heat, What what is it?
We've tried a lot of things except heat.
Speaker 6 (33:30):
Heat is heat.
Speaker 4 (33:32):
Ever since the alien began to take over, I've developed
an abnormal sensitivity to warm temperatures. The alien keeps repeating
how hot it is, And of course I'm hot too.
This room, Harry, it's unbearable.
Speaker 6 (33:46):
Oh it's only sixty degrees in here.
Speaker 3 (33:48):
It's stifling.
Speaker 4 (33:49):
But I found the weak spot. I'm going to venture
a guess that the alien still hasn't adjusted to Earth's environment.
It's not quite used to the warmth.
Speaker 6 (34:01):
Could be right, but I don't see how it's the key.
Speaker 4 (34:03):
That's the key, that's the way to destroy it.
Speaker 6 (34:05):
You would intend to use some form of intense heat
on your body to destroy the alien, right, But Margot,
in destroying the alien, isn't there a probability that you
also destroy yourself? I know, well, I won't have anything
to do with anything that might also kill you.
Speaker 4 (34:20):
Is it better that I not take the risk that
I remain alive physically, but truly not myself any longer.
Speaker 3 (34:27):
My mind won't belong to me.
Speaker 6 (34:28):
Anything is better than being dead, is it? Well? What
would you have me do?
Speaker 4 (34:37):
Don't you have some kind of keating chamber in this building?
Speaker 1 (34:40):
No?
Speaker 6 (34:40):
Absolutely not. I won't allow you.
Speaker 10 (34:42):
You must.
Speaker 6 (34:44):
Look, we've taken enough risks already. The time has come
to accept the condition, Margot. No, we'd still have each other,
we'd still be together.
Speaker 4 (34:52):
It wouldn't be the same. Maybe we don't have to
use really intense heat. We wouldn't have to destroy the alien.
Just use enough heat to drive it away where I
don't know, and I don't care any place, as long
as it's away from me. Let's try something first.
Speaker 6 (35:13):
What are you doing?
Speaker 4 (35:14):
This is steam heat, Harry. I'm turning it up as
high as it can go. I'll sit along the wall
here by the radiator, Margot, I don't think. I don't
care what you think. I'm going to force the creature
out of my body, drive it away from the heat.
Speaker 6 (35:30):
You can injure yourself this way, monay away, Harry.
Speaker 1 (35:33):
I mean it, Margo.
Speaker 4 (35:38):
Heat is terrible.
Speaker 6 (35:39):
Heat. Mold us away from the heat.
Speaker 4 (35:43):
No, I'm not moving hot, so hot. I must get
rid of you. I mean no, no, you must leave
my body.
Speaker 11 (35:52):
Body will not just.
Speaker 9 (35:55):
I do not understand.
Speaker 3 (35:57):
You cannot live in my body.
Speaker 4 (36:01):
You had no right to take over my body.
Speaker 7 (36:03):
Needed up a body, meant no harm.
Speaker 3 (36:09):
It's working.
Speaker 4 (36:11):
I can feel you getting weaker.
Speaker 5 (36:14):
My duty to live on, waiting to begin again, to
find a new body, beginning again.
Speaker 4 (36:23):
Weaker, still weaker.
Speaker 5 (36:26):
I chose the wrong body, basic structure different, that's still
the same.
Speaker 7 (36:35):
Understand now why you fight me?
Speaker 4 (36:40):
You are.
Speaker 11 (36:44):
The other?
Speaker 1 (36:45):
You are the other, the other?
Speaker 5 (36:50):
What other?
Speaker 7 (36:51):
Cannot stay in this body?
Speaker 4 (36:54):
You are the other?
Speaker 7 (36:57):
Fine new body?
Speaker 6 (37:00):
Right body?
Speaker 4 (37:02):
What do you mean on the other? That's must fine body?
Speaker 6 (37:11):
The other?
Speaker 1 (37:14):
M h.
Speaker 4 (37:15):
I can't, I can't think Street.
Speaker 3 (37:18):
I'm going week to two under Dan.
Speaker 10 (37:22):
Now two of each, hind, two of each specie.
Speaker 4 (37:32):
Margle, you are the other, yes, yes, I understand.
Speaker 6 (37:39):
Now you are the other.
Speaker 7 (37:44):
You are the female they call the other female on this.
Speaker 6 (37:53):
Planet behind my other.
Speaker 3 (37:58):
Yes, must so good.
Speaker 7 (38:01):
Last kind of way till live hot.
Speaker 3 (38:06):
Lass hurry wait wait, I understand.
Speaker 6 (38:16):
Margaret, Margot. Are you all right?
Speaker 4 (38:21):
It's gone, Harry, the alien is gone. I can feel
it my body. I don't feel hot anymore.
Speaker 6 (38:33):
I'll run some tests to be sure. Blood pressure, heart rate,
body temperature all back to normal.
Speaker 4 (38:45):
It's gone, really gone.
Speaker 6 (38:47):
Oh it's incredible. Somehow you your entire body chemistry is
reverting back.
Speaker 10 (38:53):
Gone.
Speaker 6 (38:55):
Where did it go? When you show up at the
base on Monday morning, you should be completely back to yourself.
Speaker 4 (39:00):
It had to go somewhere.
Speaker 6 (39:02):
But where, Margot?
Speaker 3 (39:08):
What's wrong? Harry?
Speaker 2 (39:10):
Did you just hear that here?
Speaker 6 (39:12):
What that sound?
Speaker 1 (39:14):
What sound? Oh?
Speaker 6 (39:17):
For a minute, I thought I heard a sound, a voice.
Speaker 4 (39:24):
What did you think it was?
Speaker 6 (39:26):
Well, I don't know something. It didn't make much sense.
I have found the other. Something like that.
Speaker 4 (39:34):
I have found the other.
Speaker 6 (39:38):
Oh, Margo, what's with you?
Speaker 1 (39:42):
Oh?
Speaker 4 (39:43):
Nothing?
Speaker 6 (39:44):
Well, you look as if you've seen it goes. Oh,
come on, let's get out of this hot box and
find ourselves two of the biggest ice cream sodas in
the city.
Speaker 4 (39:52):
Harry, it's not hot in here.
Speaker 6 (39:54):
What is it? Margo? What's wrong? Nothing is wrong? Everything
is as it should be.
Speaker 4 (40:05):
It it did find a new body.
Speaker 6 (40:10):
I have found the new beginning.
Speaker 4 (40:14):
You're Harry.
Speaker 2 (40:16):
We are Harry.
Speaker 6 (40:20):
Everything is as it should be, the new beginning.
Speaker 1 (40:30):
It seems that while things have cooled down for Margot.
They're heating up for Harry, which is really only.
Speaker 2 (40:36):
Fair, especially to those of you who are fierce.
Speaker 6 (40:39):
Believers in poetic justice.
Speaker 1 (40:42):
Harry is serving science in a capacity he never dreamed possible,
preserving an alien life form.
Speaker 6 (40:48):
From eventual extinction. Yes, justice is our morrow.
Speaker 1 (40:54):
I'll be back in a moment with a final verdict.
The great philosopher Sir Francis Bacon said, if a man
be gracious and courteous to strangers, it shows he is
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a citizen of the world, and that his heart is
no island cut off from other lands, but a continent
that joins to them.
Speaker 2 (41:25):
Why not carry this a bit further?
Speaker 1 (41:27):
How will man react when he makes that first contact
with a celestial neighbor? Will he welcome such a stranger
and prove himself to be more than a citizen of
the world, but a citizen of the universe. Our cast
included Phyllis Newman, Marion Seldi's, Lloyd Batista, and Hans Conried.
The entire production was under the direction of Hyman Brown.
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And now a preview of our next tale.
Speaker 11 (41:57):
What if someone should want to know or to sy
what what would I say? Jack Afred to the other
Magnum board member. Of course Arthur would stop them. He
signed the their certificate his word. Besides, who could do
that without my permission unless there was some suspicion.
Speaker 2 (42:14):
Over It was narrowing down to Harry.
Speaker 11 (42:18):
To me, I had to act now. First thing, to
discredit whatever she might say.
Speaker 4 (42:26):
I called Arthur's office and.
Speaker 11 (42:28):
Said I was too sick to keep my appointment. At four,
I started eating nothing but toast a few potatoes for dinner.
I began to take a few grains of arsenic at
a time. I had to make it believable. I had
to make it believable. She was the prisoner and I
was the next intended victim.
Speaker 1 (42:48):
Radio Mystery Theater was sponsored in part by arm Allergy
Relief Medicine and Buick Motor Division.
Speaker 5 (42:57):
This is E. G.
Speaker 1 (42:58):
Marshall inviting you to return to our Mystery Theater for
another adventure in the macabre.
Speaker 6 (43:04):
Until next time, pleasant dreams.
BBS Radio Mystery Theater presents. Come in Welcome.
Speaker 2 (00:24):
I'm e. G.
Speaker 1 (00:24):
Marshall. For thousands of years, man has looked upward towards
the night sky and dreamed pleasure. Barges rode down canals
on the planet Mars. Life prospered in the lush jungles
of Venus, and the moon was a super cosmic chunk
of green cheese. In less than a decade, however, the
Martian canals have become mere illusion. There can be no
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tropical paradise in the deadly atmosphere of Venus, and as
far as our nearest celestial neighbor consisting of green cheese
is concerned. Well, But to those of you who are dreamers,
do not despair too soon. The universe is infinite, and
for every question to which an answer is found, there
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are a thousand mysteries yet to be solved.
Speaker 3 (01:13):
Margo, you don't know what you're doing.
Speaker 4 (01:17):
I have to get rid of you before it's too late,
before you take over my body.
Speaker 5 (01:21):
Come fight me.
Speaker 4 (01:23):
I have to. I have to kill you.
Speaker 1 (01:24):
Have let me die.
Speaker 4 (01:25):
I won't let you have my body.
Speaker 3 (01:27):
Don't let me die.
Speaker 6 (01:28):
You must, Fargo.
Speaker 7 (01:29):
If I die, we both die.
Speaker 1 (01:41):
Our mystery drama, The First Woman in Space, was written
especially for the Mystery Theater by Victoria Dan and stars
Phyllis Newman. It is sponsored in part by Buick Motor
Division and arm Allergy Relief Medicine. I'll be back shortly
with that one. There have been men in space, and
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one day there will be women. To those cynics who
would deny that this is indeed the natural progression of things,
may we remind you that there was a time when
women were barred from the unladylike profession of ballet dancing,
and hard, as it is to believe, also a time
when only men were considered efficient secretaries. Ah, but this
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is the twentieth century, a more enlightened age.
Speaker 8 (02:40):
Of course.
Speaker 1 (02:40):
A woman can do anything a man can do, if
only they'd letter a waiter.
Speaker 6 (02:47):
Do we have the check?
Speaker 4 (02:48):
I could really go for a nice tall glass of
ice tea, Mark, but we don't have time a waiter.
A glass of ice tea, please.
Speaker 6 (02:55):
That's out of season. It'll take twice as long.
Speaker 4 (02:57):
Harry, you rushed me through the soup, you hurled me
past the salad, and as far as the entree is concerned,
it was a minute's stake in every sense of the word.
Speaker 3 (03:06):
Now, can't we.
Speaker 6 (03:07):
Just relax and enjo starts in fifteen minutes, so we'll
be a little lady that's in your honor and practically
in the entire staff of the university will be there waiting,
not to mention the board of trustees.
Speaker 4 (03:19):
Until you came by the apartment to pick me up
for dinner. I knew nothing about any so called reception.
Speaker 6 (03:26):
I wanted to surprise you, some surprise, our.
Speaker 4 (03:29):
First real date in six months, and you've transformed it
into some big publicity play for the university, your university.
Speaker 6 (03:37):
Okay, okay, I'm sorry I didn't.
Speaker 4 (03:39):
Tell you before, but you must know I had had
it up to here with receptions, interviews, the publicity routine,
two months in Orbits, all those weeks in isolation. I
just wanted a simple, pleasant evening alone with my fiancee.
I missed you, Harry, I thought you would.
Speaker 6 (03:58):
Miss s Margo. Hey, I missed you. That's why I
began spending more time in the lab, and as a result,
I may have made a major breakthrough in the conversion formula.
But you see, I need more funds.
Speaker 2 (04:14):
I see, Look, if we play it right with the trustees.
Speaker 6 (04:18):
Tonight I can get that grant. That's why we've got
to get going.
Speaker 4 (04:21):
Oh here's my I see, thank you.
Speaker 6 (04:25):
You know what that crosstown traffic can be so.
Speaker 4 (04:28):
Hot in here. I can't tell you how refreshing this taste.
Speaker 6 (04:33):
Margot. We've got to.
Speaker 4 (04:35):
Leave when I'm finished.
Speaker 6 (04:37):
How can you be so inconsiderate?
Speaker 7 (04:39):
That does it?
Speaker 4 (04:40):
You can go by yourself, but you have to come.
Speaker 6 (04:43):
They're expecting you. You're a celebrity. That's what those people understand. Respect.
Speaker 4 (04:48):
I don't want to argue.
Speaker 6 (04:51):
It's here, Margot, where you're going home?
Speaker 1 (04:54):
Good night, Harry Margot.
Speaker 6 (04:55):
This is the last time.
Speaker 4 (04:57):
I promise, don't worry about me. I can take a
cab Marco Waite.
Speaker 1 (05:07):
Driver Like I say, you're lucky. I have to be
driving by one night. I got to wait outside.
Speaker 2 (05:13):
For a taxi.
Speaker 4 (05:14):
Do you have to heat on?
Speaker 1 (05:15):
Yeah?
Speaker 2 (05:16):
You want me to turn it up a little?
Speaker 4 (05:17):
No? No, no, no, no, turn it off? I feel warm?
Speaker 2 (05:21):
Warm?
Speaker 8 (05:21):
Man?
Speaker 6 (05:22):
This frost.
Speaker 2 (05:23):
What are you rolling the window down for?
Speaker 4 (05:25):
It's hunting here.
Speaker 9 (05:26):
It's twenty degrees out.
Speaker 4 (05:27):
There is your radio?
Speaker 1 (05:31):
No it busted?
Speaker 6 (05:33):
You don't hear it? Here?
Speaker 8 (05:34):
Wan that music?
Speaker 4 (05:37):
Strange music? You know.
Speaker 1 (05:39):
I can't place it, but you look familiar. I seen
your picture someplaces, like the newspapers.
Speaker 2 (05:44):
The TV.
Speaker 4 (05:45):
Can't you hear?
Speaker 1 (05:46):
Yeah, the TV?
Speaker 2 (05:48):
But you ain't an actress?
Speaker 1 (05:50):
So hot?
Speaker 4 (05:52):
What did you just say?
Speaker 1 (05:53):
I was saying you're famous, but you ain't an actress, right, No,
you are an actress.
Speaker 4 (05:58):
No, you just agree with me. You just said it
was hot, lady. Really, I just heard you so hot?
Speaker 6 (06:06):
Margo.
Speaker 4 (06:07):
How do you know my name is Margo?
Speaker 6 (06:09):
I don't know your name is Mago.
Speaker 4 (06:11):
I heard you.
Speaker 1 (06:11):
He just called me Margo, lady, honest, I didn't call you. Hey,
wait a second, Margo Gordon. That so if you're Marbo Gordon,
the astronaut.
Speaker 4 (06:20):
In my care I could have sworn I heard someone
say my name.
Speaker 1 (06:25):
Well, here we are as God, I mean doctor God.
Speaker 2 (06:29):
Here it is twenty nine.
Speaker 1 (06:31):
Thirty North Street.
Speaker 4 (06:33):
Oh yeah, yes, yes, I'll keep the change.
Speaker 2 (06:35):
Thanks, thanks, so, I deny good night.
Speaker 4 (06:40):
It really can't be twenty degrees out here. It's too hot,
much too hot.
Speaker 2 (06:54):
Find me, Margo.
Speaker 1 (06:55):
You ought to be seeing one of the program doctors.
Speaker 2 (06:57):
I trust you, La, trust me.
Speaker 4 (06:59):
I can't let anything jeopardize my chances to be on
that crew. What true, the Senate is about to pass
the appropriation bill. For a second, Athena probe.
Speaker 2 (07:09):
You mean you're going up there again.
Speaker 4 (07:10):
It's going to be fantastic. Athena one was just a rehearsal,
But Athena two is it. I've never wanted anything so badly.
That's why I can't go to the mission staff and
tell them what I've just told you.
Speaker 2 (07:23):
Show you hear a voice.
Speaker 4 (07:24):
I hear one voice, a very clear voice.
Speaker 2 (07:29):
Margaret, sometime or another. A lot of us hear voice.
Speaker 4 (07:32):
I kept thinking, maybe maybe it's an after effect of
all those weeks and zero gravity.
Speaker 1 (07:38):
Well, I don't find a thing wrong with you physically.
So there are three possibilities. Yes, First, maybe the excitement
of the past few months is getting to you. Second,
there may be the pressure to succeed again. And third,
you'll probably say it's not of my business. What is
Harry Freedman?
Speaker 6 (07:59):
Harry, do you.
Speaker 2 (08:01):
Really want to marry Harry Friedman?
Speaker 1 (08:03):
Well, of course, and there goes that's theory.
Speaker 4 (08:06):
I mean, I'm excited about marrying Harry. He's a brilliant biochemist.
Oh and I I never thought anyone as good looking
as Harry could well really be interested in me.
Speaker 6 (08:18):
You are happy, then, sure.
Speaker 4 (08:21):
I mean we recently he has been getting on my nerves.
But is any relationship perfect? And of course the way
he behaved last night didn't help matters at all. Mark,
I mean trying to show me off to his colleagues
like I was some kind of curiosity Margot. Oh oh,
and you really should have been a psychiatrist.
Speaker 2 (08:40):
I'm just a simple country though, and you've.
Speaker 4 (08:42):
Made a very simple point. Maybe I'd better not see
Harry for a while. Yes, General, Yes, I just heard
the news. Of course I never doubted the bill would
go through. Well, I'm delighted to yes, right, yeah, I'll
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be there Monday morning. Goodbye, General.
Speaker 10 (09:11):
Just a minute, Harry, can I come in well please, I.
Speaker 6 (09:22):
Have something to tell you, Harry. I thought we agreed
to go our separate ways for a while.
Speaker 4 (09:27):
I know, but I was just on the phone with
General Tollibance.
Speaker 6 (09:30):
I don't care who you were on the phone.
Speaker 4 (09:32):
With, Harry. I've never seen you like this, like.
Speaker 6 (09:34):
I did a lot of thinking this past week about us,
he did. I thought about what you said about well,
about my resenting you being such a celebrity. I didn't
say that exactly, say that, but it's what you felt.
Maybe I did resent it a little, and maybe it
was inevitable that you begin to believe I was using
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your toe. Harry, It's true, that's what it looked like.
The truth is I couldn't exist the board of trustees
the promise of new lab equipment in exchange for an
appearance by the country's first woman in space, all those
years of struggling without adequate funding. I guess I forgot.
I forgot about your feelings, and I want to apologize.
Speaker 4 (10:19):
Oh, Harry, I'm so glad.
Speaker 6 (10:21):
I'm not finished. I want to really convince you that
I love you for yourself and not because you're the
famous doctor Gordon. Look, I want you to quit the
space program. What I want you to quit the space program?
Then you'll just be playing old Margot Gordon again and
(10:43):
I can have you to myself.
Speaker 4 (10:45):
What makes you think I even want to be plain
old Margot Gordon again.
Speaker 6 (10:50):
I want you down on Earth in my house, married
to me.
Speaker 4 (10:54):
Well, we've discussed this before.
Speaker 6 (10:56):
When are we going to get married?
Speaker 4 (10:58):
When I'm ready?
Speaker 6 (11:00):
Two years? You know, I'm beginning to doubt that you.
Speaker 4 (11:02):
You know, you always managed to turn the tables and
come up the good guy. You've got me all confused
and there's so much on my mind.
Speaker 1 (11:11):
Margo.
Speaker 4 (11:13):
Margo, Oh no, not again.
Speaker 6 (11:15):
What are you talking about?
Speaker 4 (11:17):
So please please tell me who are you?
Speaker 6 (11:22):
I'm your fiance, Margot, in case you forgot not you, Harry?
What Margot? Send him away?
Speaker 4 (11:28):
Hearing things, darling, listen to me.
Speaker 1 (11:31):
Send him away. Harry is an intruder.
Speaker 4 (11:35):
Harry. I have a lot on my mind right now.
Speaker 6 (11:38):
Please leave me alone, Margot. What's happening to us?
Speaker 4 (11:41):
Things change? People change. I don't want to argue.
Speaker 6 (11:47):
I'm not going anywhere until little, until we discuss this
like to it.
Speaker 4 (11:50):
Don't get out, Harry, Margot. No, I don't mean that.
Speaker 7 (11:54):
Yes, you mean it.
Speaker 4 (11:56):
I didn't really mean what I just said.
Speaker 6 (11:57):
I think you did, Margot.
Speaker 4 (11:59):
How hurry, wait a minute, Oh.
Speaker 6 (12:01):
This time, I'll say good night, Harry.
Speaker 4 (12:04):
What's wrong? What's happening?
Speaker 2 (12:06):
Margot?
Speaker 3 (12:07):
No?
Speaker 4 (12:07):
No, I just imagine I hear you.
Speaker 7 (12:09):
Do not imagine you hear me. I am real.
Speaker 5 (12:12):
I'm going out of my mind alone, all alone in
the void and the cold, the darkness.
Speaker 4 (12:18):
Then your ship yours spaces can't see all alone.
Speaker 7 (12:22):
And now I'm not alone longer.
Speaker 3 (12:25):
You found me.
Speaker 4 (12:26):
You brought me back, brought you back, Yes, you mean
back from space, back from the athena. One probe, that's another.
I've been talking to thin air.
Speaker 6 (12:38):
Oh I am real, I exist.
Speaker 7 (12:41):
I was all alone in darkness.
Speaker 1 (12:43):
I saw your ship.
Speaker 7 (12:44):
I felt the life inside life.
Speaker 4 (12:49):
No more alone.
Speaker 5 (12:50):
Something in my mind part of you, no, Margo, part
of you.
Speaker 7 (12:55):
Shut up, your share now, part of your body, part
of your mind, shut up. You're my thoughts here, my
thoughts thing, my thoughts up?
Speaker 4 (13:07):
Why am I sweating like this?
Speaker 1 (13:09):
So hot? So hot?
Speaker 6 (13:11):
We are so hot.
Speaker 4 (13:13):
It's it's a reaction to all attentions, That's what it is.
Don't fight me. Oh please? What do you want from me?
Speaker 3 (13:21):
I want you, modo, you want me?
Speaker 1 (13:27):
Yes?
Speaker 4 (13:28):
But why answer me?
Speaker 3 (13:33):
Why?
Speaker 4 (13:35):
What are you? Please?
Speaker 2 (13:38):
What are you?
Speaker 3 (13:47):
What?
Speaker 1 (13:48):
Indeed, the ordinary human being consists of flesh, bones and
a pattern of electrical impulses. And although man has asked
the question what are you many times in the past,
it has usually been in a more philosophical context, But that.
Speaker 2 (14:04):
Of course, is when we are dealing with an ordinary human.
Speaker 1 (14:07):
Being, which we obviously are not doing here, and also
when we are in a philosophical move which apparently Margot
Gordon is not.
Speaker 8 (14:17):
I'll be back shortly for that too.
Speaker 2 (14:33):
Is man alone in the universe.
Speaker 1 (14:36):
There really hasn't been much evidence one way or another,
and if we do have any neighbors, they certainly have
been keeping a rather low profile. In any event, Margot
Gordon is a brilliant scientist who seems to be wondering
if maybe she hasn't come back alone from a mission
in outer space. It's not that she's inhospitable, but there
are certain kinds of company that a sane, average human
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being can very well do without.
Speaker 4 (15:03):
Please please tell me who are you?
Speaker 1 (15:07):
Who are you?
Speaker 10 (15:08):
I am the last.
Speaker 4 (15:12):
The last, the last.
Speaker 5 (15:16):
All that remains, All that survives, survives, survives what.
Speaker 6 (15:22):
Our world destroys.
Speaker 7 (15:24):
Our world is dead, your world, Our planet is gone
in the light of a thousand stars.
Speaker 4 (15:31):
Homes is gone in.
Speaker 8 (15:33):
The blaze of a thousand stars.
Speaker 4 (15:36):
Blaze of a thousand stars. You mean your sun exploded
the heat of.
Speaker 8 (15:40):
A thousand suns.
Speaker 7 (15:42):
Our planet is no more.
Speaker 2 (15:44):
I'm all the survives.
Speaker 7 (15:46):
A traveler with no home to return to, waiting for.
Speaker 4 (15:49):
A home to return to the traveler, What did you, traveler?
Where is your ship?
Speaker 10 (15:57):
There is no ship?
Speaker 4 (15:58):
No need for a ship. Why can't I see you?
If indeed you do exist exist, I can't see you.
Speaker 7 (16:04):
So long ago, so long to search, to wait, an
eternity of waiting, the darkness and the cold, in the emptyness.
Speaker 4 (16:14):
This is insane. I'm talking to thin air.
Speaker 7 (16:17):
My mind survives, My mind lives. My thoughts are my eyes,
My thoughts are my hands.
Speaker 4 (16:25):
Why are you doing this to me? My thoughts guided me.
They found your ship, they found you. What do you
want from me?
Speaker 7 (16:32):
No more searching?
Speaker 2 (16:34):
Your hands on my hand, No, your.
Speaker 4 (16:37):
Eyes on my arm. It's impossible again in the sunlight again.
Speaker 7 (16:40):
Well, now we share this body.
Speaker 4 (16:45):
I survive in this body.
Speaker 7 (16:48):
No more darkness, no more a loneness. I survive in
this body.
Speaker 4 (16:53):
Who can't take over another person's body?
Speaker 7 (16:55):
Share this body.
Speaker 4 (16:56):
It's indecen.
Speaker 7 (16:57):
But this body must just adjust to the heat of
this placid hits.
Speaker 4 (17:04):
Tour and I'm so hot. Hot.
Speaker 5 (17:09):
We must do something about the heat.
Speaker 4 (17:13):
What's wrong with me? What's happening to me?
Speaker 6 (17:17):
Hot?
Speaker 1 (17:18):
Hot?
Speaker 3 (17:19):
No?
Speaker 4 (17:19):
No, no, no, I don't I don't hear you. You're
not real. Got to concentrate on something else, get away
from the heat. A movie, all right, a movie? How
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do you expect me to move my car with your
truck in the way.
Speaker 9 (17:42):
It's a public driveways.
Speaker 4 (17:43):
I can't go around a moving then there's not enough room.
I have to get somewhere. Can't you move this truck
of yours out of the way?
Speaker 9 (17:52):
And what about all these crape where you were right
in the middle of unloading this junk. It's bad enough
we have to work over time. Hey, would you out?
I please get out of the way. These boxes are heavy.
I wouldn't want you to get hurt.
Speaker 4 (18:06):
This isn't safe.
Speaker 9 (18:07):
That's what I've been trying to tell you.
Speaker 6 (18:09):
Stand back now.
Speaker 9 (18:12):
Hey, George, check the coupling will something sounds a little loose?
Speaker 4 (18:17):
This is absolutely ridiculous. Not you again, I there's danger.
Speaker 6 (18:23):
Hey, George, is it to the right?
Speaker 9 (18:27):
Checked that rope before you put it on the ramp before, George?
Speaker 1 (18:31):
It's danger.
Speaker 3 (18:32):
No, the wooden box inside is heavy and quick.
Speaker 6 (18:35):
Don't you in the rope and pole? It is old
thin moment okay, easy.
Speaker 3 (18:41):
It will hurtle down and crush the man.
Speaker 4 (18:43):
Crush you, I don't hear.
Speaker 1 (18:45):
You must be ready to save us.
Speaker 6 (18:47):
You have the strength, Just save us. Put out your arm.
Speaker 9 (18:51):
Okay, let it go.
Speaker 4 (18:53):
George have the strength.
Speaker 7 (18:54):
We have the strength in our arms to stop it.
Speaker 4 (18:58):
Muggle.
Speaker 3 (18:59):
No look, oh no, no.
Speaker 4 (19:03):
Lady, you'll be killed.
Speaker 10 (19:04):
We all wrong?
Speaker 6 (19:08):
What on earth?
Speaker 3 (19:10):
No?
Speaker 7 (19:12):
Release the crazy gently let it roll to us?
Speaker 6 (19:18):
Stop all right.
Speaker 9 (19:21):
I don't believe what I just saw.
Speaker 4 (19:24):
Where did I get the strength to.
Speaker 6 (19:28):
Do if I hadn't seen it with my own eyes?
Speaker 9 (19:31):
Well, you just put out your hands and stopped that
box dead in its tracks over eight hundred pounds.
Speaker 4 (19:39):
You are real? You do exist?
Speaker 1 (19:43):
How did you do it?
Speaker 8 (19:43):
Lady?
Speaker 4 (19:44):
I really did bring you back from space? Yes, Margo,
an alien creature living inside of my body? What am
I going to do?
Speaker 1 (19:57):
How do you do it? Lady?
Speaker 6 (19:58):
I mean you got iron arms.
Speaker 4 (20:00):
Something I have to get out of here.
Speaker 9 (20:02):
Wait a second, lady, wait, now come back.
Speaker 2 (20:12):
It's incredible, Margot.
Speaker 3 (20:14):
Do you believe me now?
Speaker 8 (20:15):
Owen?
Speaker 2 (20:15):
I don't know what to believe.
Speaker 1 (20:16):
Heartbeat, blood fresh up radically, body temperatures.
Speaker 2 (20:20):
That normally law.
Speaker 1 (20:21):
Either there's something wrong with all my medical instruments.
Speaker 4 (20:24):
Is the idea of extraterrestrial life so hard to accept.
Speaker 1 (20:28):
I've been a physician for thirty years and I've never
seen anything like this before. While there are impurities in
your blood.
Speaker 2 (20:34):
I can't even define it.
Speaker 4 (20:35):
Doesn't that prove that.
Speaker 1 (20:37):
All it proves is that your body is undergoing some
massive changes, Owen.
Speaker 4 (20:41):
My body is adjusting to an alien presence, a being that, somehow,
through a process I can't explain, found me, attached itself
to me out there in space.
Speaker 2 (20:54):
And you're not serious.
Speaker 4 (20:56):
Eight hundred pounds of machinery hurtling down loading ramp, I
should have been crushed to death. Instead, I called it
as if as if it were a runaway shopping cars,
almost half a ton.
Speaker 3 (21:09):
There's not a bruise on my hands.
Speaker 1 (21:10):
Well, the imagination is a strange thing.
Speaker 2 (21:12):
Sometimes we think.
Speaker 4 (21:13):
We have Owen. Owen, at this point, it's not necessary.
If you believe me, you're not just help me. In
two days I have to undergo a follow up physical
at the base. I'll be going before General Tolliver at
the Project medical team.
Speaker 2 (21:27):
Well, they'll find out just what I won't.
Speaker 4 (21:29):
Because you're going to help me.
Speaker 2 (21:31):
I don't think you understand.
Speaker 4 (21:32):
I'm sure there's something you can give me. I'm not
asking you to treat the cause, just the symptoms.
Speaker 2 (21:38):
There's nothing I can do Ohen.
Speaker 4 (21:40):
There must be shots, pills that'll.
Speaker 2 (21:43):
Take more than that to cover up? What's wrong with you?
Speaker 4 (21:46):
Who said cover up? I want you to get rid
of it your document?
Speaker 2 (21:49):
Didn't you hear me?
Speaker 1 (21:50):
I said, your entire physiology has altered. Your blood chemistry
has changed. Oh, anything I could give you, I can't
predict how your body would react.
Speaker 4 (21:58):
If I don't task that physical i'll be drop from
the Athena programs.
Speaker 2 (22:01):
Well, you'll have to tell them at the project. They
have a right to know.
Speaker 4 (22:04):
No, I can't.
Speaker 2 (22:05):
Maybe they can find a way to deal with whatever
it is.
Speaker 4 (22:07):
No, No, you help me, Owen.
Speaker 1 (22:09):
I'm not qualified to help your Margot. But I have
a friend especially you could say that. Let me give
you his name. I want you to talk to him. Well,
maybe he can help you understand. Reality is difficult to face.
Sometimes people aren't as strong as they think they are.
My mind is fine, Margo, you need help.
Speaker 2 (22:28):
I feel responsible and so and so.
Speaker 6 (22:31):
You'll tell them, Well.
Speaker 2 (22:33):
I can't just stand by and let this happen.
Speaker 4 (22:35):
I won't let you tell them. It'll ruin me. I
won't let you tell them.
Speaker 1 (22:40):
I'll kill you first, Margo.
Speaker 4 (22:42):
My friend, my doctor turning against Margot. You don't know
how much strength I have I can put these two
hands around your neck and choke the life out of you.
Speaker 10 (22:54):
Margo, you you're choking me.
Speaker 4 (22:56):
Explain why I am so strong? Explain why you can't
push me away? You're bigger than me. Why are you
so hungry? I can't blieve how easily I could kill
your home the power of light and death over you.
Speaker 1 (23:15):
I could kill you, my good.
Speaker 4 (23:21):
Oh Owen, Oh no, when I don't know what came
over me. Oh, I'm so sorry. I'm sorry. I wouldn't
hurt you for the world, and.
Speaker 1 (23:31):
I almost I'm angry.
Speaker 4 (23:34):
I didn't know my own strength.
Speaker 3 (23:37):
Owen, please help me.
Speaker 1 (23:39):
I've got to say, I've got to think.
Speaker 6 (23:49):
You really expect me to believe a story like that,
Doctor Harold.
Speaker 2 (23:51):
Do you think I'd come to you if I didn't
have to?
Speaker 6 (23:54):
And I know you don't like me. You can't accept
the idea of Margot and me.
Speaker 2 (23:58):
Get to discuss my opinions.
Speaker 1 (24:00):
I asked to beat you here because whatever else I
think of you, you are a brilliant, innovative scientist. First
to feed me a wild story about creatures from outer space, then.
Speaker 6 (24:10):
You start praising me. Not come on, on, what do
you really want? I only want to help Margo seriously
tired of playing country doctor. Do you want me to
get you back into the university?
Speaker 2 (24:21):
Now, Harry, get this straight. I don't like you. I
never like you.
Speaker 1 (24:25):
You may put out anice enough front where accounts to
someone like Margo, but on inside you're out of touch
with people. You're not really warm at all. But you're
smart and you've got the equipment, a lad, if anyone
can help Margo, you can help her if you really
care about her the way you claim to.
Speaker 6 (24:41):
I do care about her. I happen to love her
and we had an agreement, but she hasn't been the same.
Speaker 1 (24:48):
I know since she came back from the first Athena probe.
Speaker 6 (24:51):
You notice the two.
Speaker 1 (24:52):
Well, that's what I've been trying to say to you.
It's not mental, Harry, it's physical. You actually believe as
a scientist, you at least a little bit curious. You've
written a dozen papers on the possibility of extraterrestrial life,
and here's an opportunity in presenting it out.
Speaker 6 (25:08):
You say that there is actual physical evidence.
Speaker 2 (25:12):
Put a blood sample from around a slide.
Speaker 6 (25:14):
Okay, okay, I'll go along, but look, is she willing
to see me.
Speaker 1 (25:20):
She'll see you.
Speaker 4 (25:30):
I don't know if I want to do this, and that's.
Speaker 2 (25:32):
Why I'm coming along. Harry knows what he's doing. A
just relax.
Speaker 4 (25:35):
General Tolliver called me again today. Oh they've now the
final Cruse selection down to half a dozen. My chances
are even better now.
Speaker 1 (25:43):
I'm thinking if this creature came from another world and
was used to a polder and Byn go on, well,
it could explain the radical drop in your body temperature.
Speaker 4 (25:53):
That's logical. But what are you getting at?
Speaker 1 (25:55):
Well, I'm a scientist, but I have an idea.
Speaker 6 (26:00):
You just hear something nothing at.
Speaker 2 (26:02):
You and jumpy what I'm thinking?
Speaker 4 (26:04):
No, I have this strange feeling there.
Speaker 1 (26:08):
Something's wrong with the car.
Speaker 2 (26:10):
We're taking a turn too fast.
Speaker 4 (26:12):
Hang on, Colin, step on the brake. I time, my
foot is the death pedalsto do something my time look
out betray a skin with a.
Speaker 1 (26:20):
Water, be silent and safe. The saying goes silence never
betrays you. Apparently the good doctor should have kept his
eyes on the road and his.
Speaker 6 (26:40):
Thoughts to himself.
Speaker 1 (26:42):
There are strange powers at work here. Obviously our alien
is quite capable of looking out for itself and feels
that there are some things that are better left unsaid,
that is, until I return with Act three. Down through
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the ages, there have been endless examples of people who
believe their bodies to be possessed by evil spirits. Now,
as the result of a contact in outer space, astronaut
Margaret Gordon finds her body possessed by an alien being.
Though we have no way of determining whether this creature
is evil, we do know that it can and will
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fight for its life. Playing unwilling host to an extraterrestrial
life form is proving to be quite unpleasant, especially when
the unwelcome guest has no intention of ever leaving.
Speaker 3 (27:43):
Owen, owen, Oh, thank Heavenly, civilize, please lost control of Hurry,
hurry over here.
Speaker 1 (28:02):
This is all my heart.
Speaker 6 (28:03):
I can't remember.
Speaker 4 (28:05):
None of this would have happened if I had kept
you out of it.
Speaker 6 (28:14):
I came as soon as I heard, Oh, Harry, how
is he?
Speaker 4 (28:16):
Intensive care? Critical?
Speaker 2 (28:18):
They won't know for hours, but at least you all right?
Speaker 6 (28:20):
I mean, sometimes these accidents look worse than they are.
This was no accident, well, not a scratch on you,
But then what did you say it.
Speaker 4 (28:28):
Wasn't an accident? Something made ohen lose control of the car.
Speaker 6 (28:33):
H honey, it's been a traumatic experience for the alien.
Speaker 4 (28:36):
That's who did it. The alien Owen was trying to
tell me something.
Speaker 6 (28:41):
You're serious, aren't you, Harry?
Speaker 4 (28:44):
When I was in orbit up there, I can't explain
how a living organism, an intelligence of some alien origin,
merged with me. Don't stare at me like that. I'm
not crazy. It invaded me, became a part of me.
It lay dormant for a while. I'm detected.
Speaker 6 (29:02):
But now, all right, marcaol Let's put it to the test.
Right now now. The chemistry building is just across the campus.
This can't be right now.
Speaker 4 (29:17):
How many more tests are you going to run before
you believe me?
Speaker 6 (29:20):
These readings are impossible for your red blood cells. The
structure is altered, and there are elements present in the
plasma which fit no known category. I told you body fluids,
blood pressure, heartbeat. It's as if your body was adapting somehow,
but drastically the alien.
Speaker 4 (29:41):
Is adjusting to a totally different environment.
Speaker 6 (29:44):
It's hard to believe.
Speaker 4 (29:45):
It's an intelligent life form and it's.
Speaker 6 (29:47):
A living.
Speaker 2 (29:49):
What a breakthrough.
Speaker 4 (29:51):
I've finally convinced you that it is a form of life.
Speaker 6 (29:55):
This is important, Michael, It's really important. We have to
get doctor Schuler over here in a wait a minute,
I got the chist o.
Speaker 4 (30:02):
Harry, Harry. We can't let all these people know. I
don't want a lot of publicity. I'm not a guinea pig.
Speaker 6 (30:07):
I'm an astronomy. Is a doctor children, Good good. I'll
call him back in ten minutes. He's on his way home.
I want this kept quiet. Well, you can't keep a
thing like this quiet.
Speaker 4 (30:18):
The alien has to be destroyed, one destroyed before it
completely takes over my body, before I go out of
my mind.
Speaker 6 (30:29):
You can't just destroy a thing like this with a
snap of your fingers. I mean, it takes time.
Speaker 4 (30:34):
I don't have time. The alien has power, sure, sure
it can do things. If you don't help me get
rid of it, I'll just have to do it myself.
Speaker 6 (30:44):
I go. You must not destroy.
Speaker 4 (30:49):
You almost killed Owen. She was threatt to.
Speaker 6 (30:53):
Survival, Margot, Who who are you talking to?
Speaker 3 (30:57):
You're evil?
Speaker 5 (30:59):
No not if you tried to kill, did not understand kill,
did not know then about killing, only could understand survival.
Speaker 4 (31:12):
It's got to be a way to rid myself of
You must not destroy.
Speaker 8 (31:17):
I am all that remains.
Speaker 7 (31:19):
I am the last I must survive.
Speaker 4 (31:24):
When you've completely taken over my body, what then.
Speaker 6 (31:28):
The last of my race? I must go on? Margot,
you're talking to thin air.
Speaker 4 (31:33):
What happens when I have no control over this body?
All this strength, all this power?
Speaker 1 (31:41):
Harry?
Speaker 4 (31:43):
Do you know I could lift you with one hand?
Speaker 6 (31:46):
Talking irrationally?
Speaker 4 (31:47):
Do I have to show you?
Speaker 2 (31:50):
Wait?
Speaker 1 (31:50):
Margle it?
Speaker 3 (31:50):
What?
Speaker 1 (31:51):
Hey? Hey?
Speaker 11 (31:52):
Put me down, up up to the ceiling.
Speaker 4 (31:54):
Put mesel you there, Put me down, Margot. You asked
for it. H Margot, Now, will you help me?
Speaker 2 (32:07):
It's true.
Speaker 6 (32:09):
What you've been telling me.
Speaker 1 (32:10):
I have some.
Speaker 4 (32:11):
Control still, but I don't know for how long, Harry.
Forget about the journals the newspapers. Just help me. But
don't you see how dangerous this is to me if
we don't stop it?
Speaker 6 (32:24):
All right, all right, I'll try to find a way.
Just give me time to get some equipment together.
Speaker 1 (32:37):
Uh.
Speaker 6 (32:37):
I don't like the idea of putting you in a
pressure chamber. It's dangerous, Harry. Ready ready, switch on.
Speaker 4 (32:54):
Nothing, nothing happened. Move on to the X rays.
Speaker 6 (33:03):
We've ruled out pressure, radiation, electricity. We've even had you
in the centrifuge. There must be something, Margot. He might
as well face reality. This condition of yours is going
to be permanent.
Speaker 4 (33:16):
There's got to be away. I can't be someone else,
an alien. I can't harry the heat, What what is it?
We've tried a lot of things except heat.
Speaker 6 (33:30):
Heat is heat.
Speaker 4 (33:32):
Ever since the alien began to take over, I've developed
an abnormal sensitivity to warm temperatures. The alien keeps repeating
how hot it is, And of course I'm hot too.
This room, Harry, it's unbearable.
Speaker 6 (33:46):
Oh it's only sixty degrees in here.
Speaker 3 (33:48):
It's stifling.
Speaker 4 (33:49):
But I found the weak spot. I'm going to venture
a guess that the alien still hasn't adjusted to Earth's environment.
It's not quite used to the warmth.
Speaker 6 (34:01):
Could be right, but I don't see how it's the key.
Speaker 4 (34:03):
That's the key, that's the way to destroy it.
Speaker 6 (34:05):
You would intend to use some form of intense heat
on your body to destroy the alien, right, But Margot,
in destroying the alien, isn't there a probability that you
also destroy yourself? I know, well, I won't have anything
to do with anything that might also kill you.
Speaker 4 (34:20):
Is it better that I not take the risk that
I remain alive physically, but truly not myself any longer.
Speaker 3 (34:27):
My mind won't belong to me.
Speaker 6 (34:28):
Anything is better than being dead, is it? Well? What
would you have me do?
Speaker 4 (34:37):
Don't you have some kind of keating chamber in this building?
Speaker 1 (34:40):
No?
Speaker 6 (34:40):
Absolutely not. I won't allow you.
Speaker 10 (34:42):
You must.
Speaker 6 (34:44):
Look, we've taken enough risks already. The time has come
to accept the condition, Margot. No, we'd still have each other,
we'd still be together.
Speaker 4 (34:52):
It wouldn't be the same. Maybe we don't have to
use really intense heat. We wouldn't have to destroy the alien.
Just use enough heat to drive it away where I
don't know, and I don't care any place, as long
as it's away from me. Let's try something first.
Speaker 6 (35:13):
What are you doing?
Speaker 4 (35:14):
This is steam heat, Harry. I'm turning it up as
high as it can go. I'll sit along the wall
here by the radiator, Margot, I don't think. I don't
care what you think. I'm going to force the creature
out of my body, drive it away from the heat.
Speaker 6 (35:30):
You can injure yourself this way, monay away, Harry.
Speaker 1 (35:33):
I mean it, Margo.
Speaker 4 (35:38):
Heat is terrible.
Speaker 6 (35:39):
Heat. Mold us away from the heat.
Speaker 4 (35:43):
No, I'm not moving hot, so hot. I must get
rid of you. I mean no, no, you must leave
my body.
Speaker 11 (35:52):
Body will not just.
Speaker 9 (35:55):
I do not understand.
Speaker 3 (35:57):
You cannot live in my body.
Speaker 4 (36:01):
You had no right to take over my body.
Speaker 7 (36:03):
Needed up a body, meant no harm.
Speaker 3 (36:09):
It's working.
Speaker 4 (36:11):
I can feel you getting weaker.
Speaker 5 (36:14):
My duty to live on, waiting to begin again, to
find a new body, beginning again.
Speaker 4 (36:23):
Weaker, still weaker.
Speaker 5 (36:26):
I chose the wrong body, basic structure different, that's still
the same.
Speaker 7 (36:35):
Understand now why you fight me?
Speaker 4 (36:40):
You are.
Speaker 11 (36:44):
The other?
Speaker 1 (36:45):
You are the other, the other?
Speaker 5 (36:50):
What other?
Speaker 7 (36:51):
Cannot stay in this body?
Speaker 4 (36:54):
You are the other?
Speaker 7 (36:57):
Fine new body?
Speaker 6 (37:00):
Right body?
Speaker 4 (37:02):
What do you mean on the other? That's must fine body?
Speaker 6 (37:11):
The other?
Speaker 1 (37:14):
M h.
Speaker 4 (37:15):
I can't, I can't think Street.
Speaker 3 (37:18):
I'm going week to two under Dan.
Speaker 10 (37:22):
Now two of each, hind, two of each specie.
Speaker 4 (37:32):
Margle, you are the other, yes, yes, I understand.
Speaker 6 (37:39):
Now you are the other.
Speaker 7 (37:44):
You are the female they call the other female on this.
Speaker 6 (37:53):
Planet behind my other.
Speaker 3 (37:58):
Yes, must so good.
Speaker 7 (38:01):
Last kind of way till live hot.
Speaker 3 (38:06):
Lass hurry wait wait, I understand.
Speaker 6 (38:16):
Margaret, Margot. Are you all right?
Speaker 4 (38:21):
It's gone, Harry, the alien is gone. I can feel
it my body. I don't feel hot anymore.
Speaker 6 (38:33):
I'll run some tests to be sure. Blood pressure, heart rate,
body temperature all back to normal.
Speaker 4 (38:45):
It's gone, really gone.
Speaker 6 (38:47):
Oh it's incredible. Somehow you your entire body chemistry is
reverting back.
Speaker 10 (38:53):
Gone.
Speaker 6 (38:55):
Where did it go? When you show up at the
base on Monday morning, you should be completely back to yourself.
Speaker 4 (39:00):
It had to go somewhere.
Speaker 6 (39:02):
But where, Margot?
Speaker 3 (39:08):
What's wrong? Harry?
Speaker 2 (39:10):
Did you just hear that here?
Speaker 6 (39:12):
What that sound?
Speaker 1 (39:14):
What sound? Oh?
Speaker 6 (39:17):
For a minute, I thought I heard a sound, a voice.
Speaker 4 (39:24):
What did you think it was?
Speaker 6 (39:26):
Well, I don't know something. It didn't make much sense.
I have found the other. Something like that.
Speaker 4 (39:34):
I have found the other.
Speaker 6 (39:38):
Oh, Margo, what's with you?
Speaker 1 (39:42):
Oh?
Speaker 4 (39:43):
Nothing?
Speaker 6 (39:44):
Well, you look as if you've seen it goes. Oh,
come on, let's get out of this hot box and
find ourselves two of the biggest ice cream sodas in
the city.
Speaker 4 (39:52):
Harry, it's not hot in here.
Speaker 6 (39:54):
What is it? Margo? What's wrong? Nothing is wrong? Everything
is as it should be.
Speaker 4 (40:05):
It it did find a new body.
Speaker 6 (40:10):
I have found the new beginning.
Speaker 4 (40:14):
You're Harry.
Speaker 2 (40:16):
We are Harry.
Speaker 6 (40:20):
Everything is as it should be, the new beginning.
Speaker 1 (40:30):
It seems that while things have cooled down for Margot.
They're heating up for Harry, which is really only.
Speaker 2 (40:36):
Fair, especially to those of you who are fierce.
Speaker 6 (40:39):
Believers in poetic justice.
Speaker 1 (40:42):
Harry is serving science in a capacity he never dreamed possible,
preserving an alien life form.
Speaker 6 (40:48):
From eventual extinction. Yes, justice is our morrow.
Speaker 1 (40:54):
I'll be back in a moment with a final verdict.
The great philosopher Sir Francis Bacon said, if a man
be gracious and courteous to strangers, it shows he is
(41:16):
a citizen of the world, and that his heart is
no island cut off from other lands, but a continent
that joins to them.
Speaker 2 (41:25):
Why not carry this a bit further?
Speaker 1 (41:27):
How will man react when he makes that first contact
with a celestial neighbor? Will he welcome such a stranger
and prove himself to be more than a citizen of
the world, but a citizen of the universe. Our cast
included Phyllis Newman, Marion Seldi's, Lloyd Batista, and Hans Conried.
The entire production was under the direction of Hyman Brown.
(41:53):
And now a preview of our next tale.
Speaker 11 (41:57):
What if someone should want to know or to sy
what what would I say? Jack Afred to the other
Magnum board member. Of course Arthur would stop them. He
signed the their certificate his word. Besides, who could do
that without my permission unless there was some suspicion.
Speaker 2 (42:14):
Over It was narrowing down to Harry.
Speaker 11 (42:18):
To me, I had to act now. First thing, to
discredit whatever she might say.
Speaker 4 (42:26):
I called Arthur's office and.
Speaker 11 (42:28):
Said I was too sick to keep my appointment. At four,
I started eating nothing but toast a few potatoes for dinner.
I began to take a few grains of arsenic at
a time. I had to make it believable. I had
to make it believable. She was the prisoner and I
was the next intended victim.
Speaker 1 (42:48):
Radio Mystery Theater was sponsored in part by arm Allergy
Relief Medicine and Buick Motor Division.
Speaker 5 (42:57):
This is E. G.
Speaker 1 (42:58):
Marshall inviting you to return to our Mystery Theater for
another adventure in the macabre.
Speaker 6 (43:04):
Until next time, pleasant dreams.
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