December 5, 2025 • 43 mins
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Speaker 1 (00:00):
CBS Radio Mystery Theater Presents Come in. Welcome, I'm e. G. Marshall.
(00:26):
Welcome to the future, because the story you're about to
hear is a tale of mystery, prime and adventure in
a world sixty years older than our own. Whether that
world is sixty years wiser is a question you'll have
to answer for yourself. But we want to warn you
right now that you might not like our futuristic hero
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very much. You may even dislike him a great deal,
for after all, he is a criminal, a swinner, a
com man, a fugitive, and I have something even worse.
We ask is that you don't judge him until the
last sound is heard. Even if it turns out to
be this sound you'll hit. That's why everybody you'll hurt.
(01:15):
Your friend, Missus Sarson. And if you don't let me
out of this place, I've heard of myself. She's an
old woman, yes, and I haven't chilled an all a
woman for days. I'm filling hers right now, So let
me out. Our mystery drama The Night We Died was
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written especially for the Mystery Theater by Henry Slesser and
stars Bob Reddick and Joan shay It is sponsored in
part by Buick Motor Division. I'll be back shortly with
that one. It's the year of Our Lord, two thousand
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and forty three. It's a vastly different world in many respects.
In others, particularly in respect to human nature. It's a
world very much like the one we know. We think
you'll recognize the kind of human Toby Kane is a
man with an ugly past and an uncertain future. But
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there were two things you could predict about the future
of Toby Kane. One was that he wouldn't be called
Toby Kane for very long. Two that there would be
trouble ahead. Yes, Harry, Sam, how the heck are you? Harry?
It's not Harry. You know my name is Toby Kane.
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That's the name you call me at the hotel, right, Sure,
that's right. Oh, you make it tough on a guy
keeping up with you, Harry, I mean Toby. I'd like
to know how you kept up with me, Sam.
Speaker 2 (03:02):
How did you know I've left? Callisto? Who told you
my new name?
Speaker 1 (03:07):
Mutual friends, Toby. Everybody knows that you gave Muffat to
slip again. That CoP's cutting it awful, sick of chasing you.
You won't be chasing me anymore. Harry Rentlow is dead.
He committed suicide on CALLISTO. Sure I get the idea. Listen, Toby,
you must be pretty strapped by now. Would you use
some of my financing?
Speaker 2 (03:28):
You offering me alone?
Speaker 1 (03:29):
Sam? No, I'm offering you a project. I could use
some experienced help. Can I see you at the hotel tonight?
Speaker 2 (03:35):
All right? Meet me in the Neptune lound.
Speaker 1 (03:37):
Oh that's great, Harry, look forward to it.
Speaker 2 (03:40):
The name is Toby, Toby Kane.
Speaker 1 (03:50):
I wouldn't have known you, fol that's surging you. You Hey,
tell me something? How many face changes of your head?
Speaker 2 (03:57):
I don't remember three? Four?
Speaker 1 (04:00):
See, yours must be pretty tired by now.
Speaker 2 (04:01):
Get to the point saying what the project?
Speaker 1 (04:04):
Well, it's a phony stock deal, the old classic asteroid minds.
Speaker 2 (04:08):
You know here, I know I've practically invented it.
Speaker 1 (04:10):
Who's the fish? A rich widow named Sorenson. Her husband
was a major killed during the Moon Revolt. He left
us in five hundred thousand credits when he died. She
was looking for a safe investment with a counterinflationary return.
In other words, the old dame was looking for a
killing greedy people in this world, Toby, what went wrong?
Some crook came along killed the deal? What crooked some
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pony medium? Old Lady Sorenson's a great believer in the
spirit world, and this matam what's her name told her
that her husband didn't approve of the investment. I don't
even know who she is. I've spent three months cultivating
this deal and now it's frozen. Maybe this medium has
her own plans for Sarrnson's credits.
Speaker 2 (04:52):
Maybe you could arrange a split.
Speaker 1 (04:54):
How And I don't even know her name. There are
ways to find out his knee. Missus Sarnson's full name
and address. Mom and Toby, Hey, Vanessay, he's here.
Speaker 3 (05:12):
Tell hello, mister king.
Speaker 2 (05:15):
Hello.
Speaker 3 (05:16):
Sam tells me you've come up with a solution to
our problem.
Speaker 1 (05:19):
Vanessa knows the Hall scam, so you can trust her
all the way. I didn't say I had the complete solution.
What I have is the name of the medium. How'd
you get it, Toby? Or it was easy? Missus Simson
was a rich widow. Right, rich widows have their habits
like taking a Mars cruise, for instance. I called Missus
Sohnson and spoke to a maid, said I was from
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the White Line Cruise Company and wanted to clearify records
on her Mars trip. Sure enough, she took the trip
in thirty two.
Speaker 3 (05:46):
But how did that help you?
Speaker 1 (05:48):
The next thing I did was write Missus Sorenson a letter.
I've got a copyright here.
Speaker 2 (05:54):
Dear Missus Simson.
Speaker 1 (05:55):
I doubt that you'll recall me, since ten long years
have gone by.
Speaker 2 (05:59):
It's our late meeting.
Speaker 1 (06:01):
But I still recall with pleasure our delightful chats aboard
the Mars cruise, particularly concerning our mutual interests in the
spirit world. Oh wait a minute, too, let me finish.
Speaker 2 (06:11):
Let me finish.
Speaker 1 (06:12):
When we became acquainted on the voyage, perhaps I mentioned
my dear wife. I am saddened to report that she
passed on to the Great Beyond a few months ago,
leaving a great.
Speaker 2 (06:22):
Void in my heart.
Speaker 1 (06:24):
However, recognizing the eternal nature of the spirit, I am
not completely desolated. My one problem now is to locate
a trustworthy medium who can bring my dear.
Speaker 2 (06:34):
Agnes back to me.
Speaker 1 (06:35):
You me, She actually replied to that she thought she
did remember me, and she gave me the name of
the lady who is queering the stock deal. It's Olivia Nemo,
South Court Street, New York City. Oh terrific. I'll go
see this pony and make a deal.
Speaker 2 (06:50):
I've been this deer sam.
Speaker 1 (06:52):
What did she say? Was she make a deal? No?
Missus Nemo is not a very cooperative type. I suspect
she has her own ideas about Missus Sohnson's investments. That's
why she's spending so much time gaining her trust. What
do we do now, I think it's simple enough. We
offer the lady more than Missus Nemo is offering, like
what Well, for one thing, I know that the lady
doesn't attempt to bring back any image of Missus Sorenson's
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late husband. Oh well, Missus Sorenson wouldn't be fooled by
some phony ectoplasm stuff. But what if Missus Sorenson actually
saw her dead husband, saw him just the way he
looked when he was alive, but yet obviously now part
of the heavenly community.
Speaker 3 (07:30):
What are you getting at, mister can Well.
Speaker 1 (07:31):
I've written one more letter to Missus Sorenson from the
same whole ship companion A. Dear Missus Sorenson, thank you
so much for recommending your friend Missus Nemo. However, since
writing you, I discovered the most remarkable medium I've encountered
in all my seventy years, a man named Shan Tizar,
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who has produced the beloved image of my wife Agnes
right before my eyes, the living image, moving talk, smiling,
expressing her serenity and joy in the herass.
Speaker 3 (08:04):
For Heaven's sake. But who is this, Shan Kazar?
Speaker 2 (08:08):
Can't you guess? Vanessa?
Speaker 1 (08:11):
It's me money, and you can't tell you how good
it is to ease.
Speaker 2 (08:20):
That's good to see you, too, Phil.
Speaker 1 (08:22):
I'll tell you one thing, George, those plastic surgeons did
one heck of a job. You look great, as you know.
That firebullet didn't just burn off my features. It did
a pretty good job of my mind. I couldn't tell
them what I used to look like because I didn't know.
Sure I remember. But what the heck here you are?
Can't here?
Speaker 2 (08:41):
I well?
Speaker 1 (08:42):
Some other things a different film. You stayed in the army. Hey,
I say, I have to call you a colonel. Now
tell me what I can do for you. If it's possible,
I'll do it.
Speaker 3 (08:50):
You know that.
Speaker 1 (08:51):
Well, it's a kind of unusual request film. It's about
those holographic image identifications they made during the Moon Revolt,
the HIV issue. I remember the rappers were doing such
a great job of infiltration. The security insisted on three
dimensional projection holographs of every officer. They're pretty spooky, aren't they.
You could swear the person was in the same room
with you.
Speaker 2 (09:12):
Are they still on file?
Speaker 1 (09:13):
Sure? Someplace? Why? Because there's one that I want to borrow,
the holograph of a major named John Solinson of the
first Moon Division. Well, I don't know the Moon revolts
five years ago. Records are all in the Pentagon vaults.
Speaker 2 (09:32):
But you can do attention.
Speaker 1 (09:34):
Well, I do have a good buddy in Personaeil. All right,
I'll do my best.
Speaker 4 (09:47):
So you're a Moon Revolt veteran, mister Kane, I don't
think I've met one of those in years.
Speaker 1 (09:53):
There are not many Moon veterans like to admit. It
wasn't the most glorious action in military history.
Speaker 3 (09:59):
Sam told me you were very badly wounded.
Speaker 2 (10:01):
Yes, my face maybe not.
Speaker 1 (10:05):
Well, I know the surgeons gave me a lot better
faith than I had originally.
Speaker 3 (10:09):
You really don't remember.
Speaker 2 (10:10):
I remember very little before that fire bullet hit.
Speaker 3 (10:14):
I mean the whole war was just sickening.
Speaker 1 (10:17):
The Moon colonists got the nutty idea that they ought
to be an independent nation, didn't they.
Speaker 4 (10:22):
Realize that they'd never had a chance.
Speaker 1 (10:24):
It took two years, just the same, two very bloody years.
Speaker 2 (10:29):
I still remember hearing.
Speaker 1 (10:31):
About well about that horrible night, the mass suicide. There's
only a few days answered the surrender. All the leaders
of the revolt. I guess they decided they'd rather die
than face trial. All those bodies piled up from the
crater aristar, Oh, have you ever seen this statue?
Speaker 3 (10:55):
Who's the man?
Speaker 2 (10:56):
The colo rico, the leader of the revolt?
Speaker 1 (11:00):
It's that you of them at the base of the crater,
the only reminder left of what happens there.
Speaker 3 (11:04):
It's funny, isn't it.
Speaker 4 (11:06):
When the revolt was happening, everybody hated that manner ego.
Speaker 3 (11:10):
But now now I suppose we all think of him
as some kind of hero.
Speaker 1 (11:15):
All martyrs become heroes, I guess. But when they sent
me to the Moon, all I cared about was getting
off alive.
Speaker 3 (11:21):
And now now what do you care about? Toby?
Speaker 2 (11:26):
Staying alive? The best way I know how, and if.
Speaker 1 (11:30):
That means fleecing a rich old widow is to the fleecing.
I hope you know what you're doing, Toby. My name
is Shaan Kizar. Yeah, but your name might turn into
a number of This hid thing doesn't work.
Speaker 3 (11:49):
It does work. Damn it's unbelievable. I hope Missus Thornton
is here.
Speaker 1 (11:54):
Get behind the curtain, stand full of switch when I
give the signal. Remember now, the key word is light.
Speaker 3 (12:02):
Come in, Missus Thorrenson.
Speaker 4 (12:04):
I hope I'm not late. Oh no, no, no, you're
just in time, Missus Sorenson. Let me introduce you to
Sham Kazzar.
Speaker 1 (12:14):
I am delighted to meet you, madam.
Speaker 4 (12:16):
I'm very pleased to meet you, mister Kazzar. If you
can really bring poor John back to earth, even for
a moment.
Speaker 1 (12:25):
Missus Sorenson, I promise that you will not be disappointed.
Speaker 2 (12:33):
The spirits are present.
Speaker 1 (12:36):
I can see something, something glowing in the darkness. It's
a light, a light from the other world. Can you
see it, Missus Snson?
Speaker 4 (12:50):
Oh yes, I see something.
Speaker 3 (12:54):
Someone you called him.
Speaker 1 (12:58):
It's my Edith, Eatith, my darlings.
Speaker 3 (13:05):
Oh John, it's.
Speaker 1 (13:08):
Really Edith, my sweet I am well and happy. I
have found peace here.
Speaker 3 (13:17):
What is it like, John? Where are you? Will?
Speaker 4 (13:22):
Please tell me?
Speaker 1 (13:25):
Do not ask me such questions. Edith, you must God
your health and your finances. You must take care of
the money I left you. Yes, yes, thought I will.
You must invest in Edith invested wisely.
Speaker 3 (13:43):
But oh, John, you told Madam Nemo.
Speaker 1 (13:48):
No, do not believe that woman.
Speaker 2 (13:52):
She is an imposter.
Speaker 1 (13:53):
Eat it. This is the first moment I have spoken
to you from the other side.
Speaker 3 (13:59):
What about the money?
Speaker 4 (14:01):
Should I invest it in those asteroid shares?
Speaker 1 (14:06):
Yes, my precious wife, I have had a glimpse of tomorrow.
You will be wealthy. You will continue to have the
earthly comforts I wish for you until the hour of
our reunion.
Speaker 4 (14:19):
John, you're beginning to see it.
Speaker 1 (14:22):
I must go now, Edith, I must return. Wait one
more moment. He is going, missus Sarnson, back to beyond
the curtain.
Speaker 3 (14:43):
Oh, it was marvelous, Toby.
Speaker 1 (14:46):
You absolutely teach me the cret I've really got to
give you credit. You're still the best in the business man.
Let's wait for the payoffs, Sam, Let's get that money
in our hands before we congratulate each other.
Speaker 3 (15:01):
Do you want me to get there?
Speaker 2 (15:02):
No, I'll take you Hello.
Speaker 1 (15:05):
Toby's Phil Digby.
Speaker 2 (15:06):
Yes, Phil, how are you listen?
Speaker 1 (15:08):
Toby about that hid rejection?
Speaker 2 (15:11):
It really did the trick.
Speaker 1 (15:12):
You don't know how much you help, missus Sonson. I
just don't know what went wrong. My friend and the
Pentagon goofed goof? What are you talking about? Oh? A
grab reel? It was the wrong one. It was a
major Warrenberg of the sixth Infantry. He isn't even dead.
He's retired up in Nova Scotia. Kobe. You there, uh yo, yoh, Phil,
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I'm here, and uh, don't worry about it. The old
lady's eyesight wasn't that good. I guess the uniform was enough. Whoa,
that's a relief. Then you don't want the right reel? No, no, no,
that's okay. It's all over now, and thank you again, Phil.
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What is it, Toby?
Speaker 3 (15:56):
Is something wrong?
Speaker 1 (15:58):
I don't know. That wasn't Major Sawnce when the old
lady saw and I don't think their eyes were that bad.
She knew I wasn't oriental, even with his makeup on.
What I'd like to know is who's playing tricks on?
Speaker 2 (16:14):
Who?
Speaker 3 (16:18):
Who?
Speaker 1 (16:21):
Toby Kane is a man who's used to having things
go the way he planned, but suddenly a victim of
a swindle has done something unexpected. Missus Sorenson has been
fooled too easily, and Toby Kane has learned that nothing
comes that easy, not even in the world of twenty
and forty three. We'll return to that world with that
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too shortly. Toby Kane con Man has a disturbing riddle
to solve. Why did Missus John sorrow and react so
quickly to the ghost of a man who was clearly
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not her husband. Toby brooded about it for the next
twenty four hours, but then something happened that gave him
something else to think about. A familiar visitor came to
his door. Mister Kane, Uh yes, Who my name is, Moffatt,
mister Kaine, I'm with the Interplanetary Police. May I come in?
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Would you mind telling me your business? I'll tell you
inside if I may. Oh, here is mister Kane. I'm
here to do you a favor.
Speaker 2 (17:38):
What kind of favor?
Speaker 1 (17:40):
How long have you known mister Sam Thumbs sam oh
uh a art a month? I met him at a party,
That's what I thought. Why what's the trouble, mister Caine
I'll be candid with you. We ran a fast check
on mister Thumb's associate. We couldn't find you among them,
so we figured you were recent acquaintance and possibly his
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next victim. Victim of what when. I'm sorry to tell
you that Sam Thumbs is a confidence man. He's been
indicted for grand last year some four times in his career.
He's never been sent to jail because his victims were
too involved in his schemes to testify against him. But
he's still a criminal and he may be out to
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defraud him. Well, I certainly appreciate this warning, sugeant chapain.
My title is Captain Muffett, and I promise you that
I'll be very careful, yes, very careful from now.
Speaker 2 (18:48):
Yes, Missus Suns. And I'm the one who called this.
Speaker 3 (18:52):
Morn oh.
Speaker 4 (18:54):
Who said your name was.
Speaker 1 (18:57):
Again ke Toby King. However, my name was George Spanner
when I served with your late husband in the First
Moon Divisions.
Speaker 3 (19:06):
Won't you who come in?
Speaker 1 (19:09):
Very good of you to see me, Missus Sands, And
oh I see you have a fortrait of your husband
is certainly a fine looking man.
Speaker 4 (19:19):
Mister Spanner. Okay, now, whatever you call yourself. Would you
kindly tell me why you wish to see me?
Speaker 1 (19:29):
Well, as I said, your husband and I were in
the same hospital together.
Speaker 4 (19:32):
That seems it is not true.
Speaker 1 (19:35):
Pardon, my husband was.
Speaker 4 (19:37):
Killed at the Battle of Pluto Creature. He was never
brought to any hospitals. He died instantly. Now, just what
is it you want?
Speaker 1 (19:52):
All right, missus Sahnson, I'll put my cards on the table.
I understand that you're interested in chasing stock in the
It's attorneyan asteroid company, and that you've been talking to
a man named Sam Thumbs.
Speaker 4 (20:07):
Why should that be any business of yours?
Speaker 1 (20:10):
Because I believe I can save you a great deal
of money. I know certain things about mister Thumbs and
about this asteroid mining project.
Speaker 4 (20:18):
I am fairly mister Kane that I am not interested
in what you have to say.
Speaker 1 (20:22):
But you can give me a chance.
Speaker 4 (20:25):
That's exactly what I'm doing. I'm giving you one chance
to leave this place before I called the police.
Speaker 1 (20:38):
Sam, something is wrong here, very wrong. Now tell me again,
how did you get the lead on old Lady's answer?
It was Vanessa Vanessa? So what well didn't it ever
occur to you the Vanessa might have been part of
a police trap. Did you ever stop to think she
might have been working for my old friend Moffat. Maffat's uncle. Listo,
he's on earth here. A few hours ago, he was
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in my hotel room trying to protect me from you. Oh,
Vanessa's okay, Toby, I swear it. Listen. It was her
idea to get you into the act.
Speaker 2 (21:10):
What did you say?
Speaker 1 (21:11):
It's true, Vanessa was the one who told me that
you were available. Oh, you fool. Don't you see what
that means? How could Vanessa know so much about me
unless the cops holder.
Speaker 4 (21:31):
Toby, I just don't understand why you're so upset when
everything is going just.
Speaker 1 (21:37):
The way we plan the way who planned? Vanessa? Tell
me how you knew about my escape from Callisto.
Speaker 4 (21:44):
Oh, it's ridiculous. I didn't even know you were George
Barrow or Harry whatever you called yourself.
Speaker 3 (21:50):
It was Sam who found out you were back on Earth.
Speaker 2 (21:53):
That's not what he says, Toby.
Speaker 4 (21:56):
The only reason I stayed interested in Sam was because
he was yours friend, because I wanted to get close
to you. This cloth, darling, I'm so sorry, long fingernails
of mine, they scratched your neck.
Speaker 2 (22:11):
Now you can scratch your memory.
Speaker 1 (22:13):
You can tell me if you know a cop named
Captain Muffatt.
Speaker 3 (22:16):
Don't do this, Toby. Be nice to me the way
I want to be nice to you. Kiss me too, me, Toby,
aren't you feeling rare?
Speaker 2 (22:28):
I feel.
Speaker 1 (22:30):
Dizzy? All of us out, poor darling.
Speaker 3 (22:32):
Come sit down.
Speaker 1 (22:34):
My neck is burning the awful cat.
Speaker 3 (22:36):
Cloth of mine. Really should cut them down, shouldn't die.
Speaker 2 (22:39):
I can't see straight anymore.
Speaker 1 (22:44):
You you did something to me, stuck a pin in
my neck.
Speaker 3 (22:49):
Toby, fit here, don't fall and hurt yourself.
Speaker 2 (22:52):
Drugs.
Speaker 1 (22:54):
You've drugged me with something I can't see. Kevan h
eighteen hours, eighteen hours and forty minutes, Martha, you here
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as i'm here, my friend. Luckily for you must have
been a powerful drug they used, not enough to kill. However,
my only regret is that we didn't catch them in
the act.
Speaker 2 (23:29):
What are you talking about?
Speaker 1 (23:30):
I've been keeping a tail on Thumbs and his girlfriend
for the past week.
Speaker 2 (23:34):
His girl, you mean, Vanessa, isn't working for you.
Speaker 1 (23:38):
Those two are in business for themselves. Mister Kane or
should I say mister Merchant or mister Snapper. You pick
the name. My friend you have plenty of them.
Speaker 2 (23:50):
The name is Kane, Toby Keane.
Speaker 1 (23:54):
It's funny, you know, I've been chasing you for five
years from Earth to Listo, and then I catch you
by helping you get out of a jam. Life's little ring.
Speaker 2 (24:08):
He's made a mistake, Captain dor forget it, Cane.
Speaker 1 (24:10):
We've already run you through a computer idy. We know
who you are. Now. If you help me, I'll help you.
I'll guarantee you full amnesty for any past offense. I'll
promise you immunity for any crime you've committed.
Speaker 2 (24:27):
And that's a.
Speaker 1 (24:27):
Long long list. What's the catch? That's what you might expect.
The assignment I'd want you to handle is difficult, dangerous.
Do you know why you would drug Kane? Because you
must have found out too much about them. You must
have stumbled onto something they want very much to conceal.
Speaker 2 (24:49):
What's that?
Speaker 1 (24:50):
Their real identities? Not saying he's exactly what he seems
to be, hopelessly an apt cohan man, hardly worth a
paperwork would take to arrest him. But the other Vanessa
and Missus Sorenson, Missus Sanson, what does.
Speaker 2 (25:08):
She have to do with this?
Speaker 1 (25:10):
Members of the most dangerous subversive group on Earth. We
have good reason to think they and their friends are
ready to commit treason, treason against two, against the entire world,
against the planet Earth. Why you're crazy? Are you saying
those two women are plotting another moon refone, not alone,
I assure you, and maybe one hundreds or even thousands
of others, ready to repeat the same madness of five
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years ago. We think that both of these women are
related to the men that we thought had died in
the Creator Aristocus. Thought they died. That graves are there,
But we're beginning to doubt the identities of the men
buried in those graves. Now we begun to suspect that
the Earth Forces were victimized by a hoax, a con game.
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If you like, do you mean they're still alive? Are
we going the others? We don't know how many, maybe
me a handful. But I want you to continue to
play the game you've always played, but this time on
our side of the law.
Speaker 2 (26:07):
What game?
Speaker 1 (26:09):
Well, I want you to continue to be a chiet,
a swindler, liar, and pretended only. I want you to
victimize a very special group of suckers, the group we've
observed closely for the past year. Now we know their habits,
we know a meeting place, we know everything. Accept their
plans for the moon. That's what I want you to
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find out.
Speaker 2 (26:31):
Why should I be successful.
Speaker 1 (26:33):
Because you're going to have another face change game beneficial
in this time.
Speaker 3 (26:39):
Here.
Speaker 1 (26:40):
We want you to look like the man in this photograph.
My god, that's right, it's the man they call a Rego.
Print out. You take these kne They contain every available
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fact in the life of Arigo. Ten biographers couldn't have
collected so much data if they'd conducted ten years worth
of research of peace.
Speaker 2 (27:12):
And it's still not going to work.
Speaker 1 (27:14):
Even if I learn every single fact there is to know,
there'll be other facts They could trip me up. Yes,
we recognize that possibility. It won't be enough to have
Orego's face, even his voice, memory and manner. There are
certain things about people, things that can't deceive those who
are close to this, But they'll want to believe Kane,
don't you see These people have been waiting for Regal
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as if he was some kind of messiah come to
rescue them from oppression. They ill welcome you without suspicion.
Speaker 2 (27:45):
A million things.
Speaker 1 (27:46):
Can go wrong, yes, and then you're a dead man. Well,
it's the gamble you'll have to take or reject. The alternative,
of course is jail, Yes, a prison where I came.
You'll live out the rest of your life in a
barren rock in space. And if I do this thing,
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amnesty that's correct, wor a shame? And I was just
getting to like this face. There's an old saying that
one must set a thief to catch a thief, but
does it really apply here? Can a swindler, a con man,
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and a criminal have enough brains and heart to overcome
a group of dangerous insurgents? Can Toby Kane walk into
their midst and learn their most important secrets? Or will
he die in the attempt? We'll find out shortly in
Act three. It was three months before Captain Moffatt of
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the End of Planetary Police was able to put his
plan into action. The actual face change took only a week,
the recuperation took two weeks, but the rest of the
time was spent in educating Toby Kane to talk, think,
and feel like the rebel.
Speaker 2 (29:15):
Called a rego.
Speaker 1 (29:17):
Finally, they knew there was nothing further they could do
but send the Rego on his mission beginning with the
first name on top of the list of suspected sympathizers.
Come in, mister duncan won't you sit down?
Speaker 2 (29:33):
Thank you? Doctor.
Speaker 1 (29:34):
We get right down to each I always believe.
Speaker 5 (29:38):
That something wrong, doctor, Ah, no, no, no, nothing, It's
just that, for a moment you looked rather familiar, like
someone I knew a very long time ago.
Speaker 1 (29:54):
I see, and I can I take this chair? Oh here, sir, yes, please.
But we're just talking formally at first. You can tell
me what your problem is, and I'll tell you whether
or not. I believe that shaikhotherapy can be helpful. And
I'm not sure I can describe the problem. I've been
having fits of depression lately and having strange dreams every night.
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Can you describe one of these dreams?
Speaker 2 (30:20):
Well?
Speaker 1 (30:20):
Last night, for instance, I dreamed that I was walking
in out of space, surrounded by stars and meteors. I
was just alone. But then I looked below me and
saw a soft, glowing object. It looked warm and friendly
and inviting. Once I had been afraid of it. Once
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I had thought of it as being cold and airless
and alien. But now I knew it was home, and
what was the object?
Speaker 2 (30:51):
It was the moon and it was mine.
Speaker 1 (30:57):
Who are you mean anything to you? Doctor? If it doesn't,
then I think we're wasting each other's time. Oh wow,
I'm a ghost, doctor, a ghost from Aristarkus, but are
very solid ghost. Here, take my hand, A regal, A regal, Yes.
Speaker 2 (31:19):
Doctor, a rego.
Speaker 1 (31:20):
I've been a long time getting back, but we were
so sure that you were killed. I survived. Now I'm
here and now I'm ready to help. I've heard that
there are plans, doctor, so oh yes, yes, there are
good plans this time. We won't make the same mistakes.
We're going to be ready if all we strike.
Speaker 2 (31:42):
And when will that be?
Speaker 1 (31:43):
The date hasn't been said. There's been too much disagreement
among the members of the Central Committee. But now maybe
now the new leader among us?
Speaker 2 (31:52):
How doctor, how will it begin with?
Speaker 1 (31:55):
In the only way left to us? Should ego? We
won't begin on the moon, but on Earth.
Speaker 2 (32:02):
Earth.
Speaker 1 (32:03):
We're beginning right here, preparing our weapons, right in the
camp of the enemy. What weapons do you have? Moon
to earth missiles with atomic warheads, the weapons we should
have had before the revolt, the only weapon that will
give us the iron fish we need to make our
wishes heard. By the time we're ready to declare the
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Moon of sovereign power, we'll be pointing the warhead at
the confidence of Earth. We won't fire him if out
the man from it, and if nus, then we'll make
sure that Earth never forgets the price of tyranny. But
how can you build these missiles where? And I'll show
you where he goo? How strange datter so much noise
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in a hospital where This is a very unusual hospital,
our ego populated by a very unusual breed of lunatics. Une. Yes,
the idea came to us five years ago. What would
be a better hiding place for our activities than a
mental home? So we built this hospital and builled its
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rooms and wards only with patients marked by that special
madness of the moon children.
Speaker 2 (33:23):
It was a brilliant idea.
Speaker 1 (33:25):
What you say here is only the tip of the iceberg.
That noise we here comes from below from an underground
missile factory. It will go on occur of inspection later.
Speaker 3 (33:37):
But right now we have a meeting.
Speaker 1 (33:39):
Do at than we were expected. I've alerted all the
members of the Central Committee. They're in the main conference room.
I don't have to tell you that this is a
great moment for anonymous. It's please come this way, eighties,
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get amen. A rego where you fool?
Speaker 4 (34:11):
This is not a rego, that.
Speaker 1 (34:13):
Is not my son the week week you You must
give him a tone.
Speaker 4 (34:17):
Think I wouldn't know my ome son, this man who's
an impostor an impersonator. You've didn't fire a police spy, Selwyn,
But I've talked to him.
Speaker 1 (34:29):
I've asked him questions that no one but a ego
himself could answer. Well, you must remember it's been years
since you've seen him, mister Arnson, missus Sanson. So that's
what you're calling yourself now. Mother, whatever happens to the
name Missus Lincoln.
Speaker 4 (34:46):
You think you're very clever, don't you.
Speaker 1 (34:49):
I remember how you picked that name out of an
old history book. Where did you get Sansen from? Mother?
Speaker 4 (34:56):
You think you can convince me, don't you? But you're
wrong the imposter you really.
Speaker 3 (35:03):
Are My son?
Speaker 1 (35:05):
Sing it?
Speaker 4 (35:06):
Sing the song we used to sing together when you
were a little boy.
Speaker 1 (35:11):
Uh, I don't think I can remember it. My son
would never forget that song. It's been so many years,
heygo would never forget? What does he go? He's dead
and you.
Speaker 3 (35:26):
Must die too.
Speaker 1 (35:27):
Wait, wait, listen to me, brother. If you just look
at me more closely.
Speaker 3 (35:33):
Like the same, don't shoot.
Speaker 1 (35:39):
You'll hit Missus Hanson. That's why everybody. You'll hurt your friend,
Missus Somson. And if you don't let me out of
this place, I'll hurt her myself.
Speaker 3 (35:47):
She's an old woman, yes.
Speaker 1 (35:48):
And I haven't killed an old woman for days. I'm
feeling the urge right now, so let me out. This
is my Kine, absolutely marvelous. With this information. You can
wipe out this nest of rebels in six hours. They
were so anxious to believe that a Rigo had returned
that they forgot to be cautious. You've done a magnificent job, Caane,
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a magnificent job for us.
Speaker 2 (36:15):
In prob the entire world.
Speaker 1 (36:16):
I don't want any medals, Captain.
Speaker 2 (36:18):
I just want that freedom. You promise me.
Speaker 1 (36:20):
Well, a medal would be a lot easier. What was that?
Freedom is the only thing I can't grant you, Caane.
I know our major promises.
Speaker 2 (36:33):
What are you talking about?
Speaker 3 (36:34):
What's that gun for?
Speaker 1 (36:35):
I wish things could be different, Kane. You've accomplished something
that I could never have done by myself. You save thousands,
perhaps millions of lives. But that doesn't blind me to
the fact that you're a criminal, a dangerous criminal who
can't be turned loose on society.
Speaker 3 (36:52):
I can't believe this after you see only.
Speaker 1 (36:55):
Ooh I've ever taken sacred is the oath of my offer,
and you're not sending me to any prison aster right, Maffat,
you'll have to kill me. I'm a policeman, Kane, not
an executioner, but I can be both. If you're forceable,
then you'll have to be both. Don't are you all right?
Have you been hitting my leg?
Speaker 3 (37:15):
Say where you are? I'll get a doctor.
Speaker 1 (37:16):
The Messa you kill him, you kill MafA to save
you and to save us, well, then you're one of
them too, the moon rebel.
Speaker 3 (37:23):
Mister Thornson told me what happened.
Speaker 4 (37:25):
I thought you might return here, that you would never
meet Moffatt on his home ground.
Speaker 1 (37:29):
Then why don't you kill me too? I know as
much as MafA does.
Speaker 3 (37:32):
He try to understand. They didn't know who you were
at the hospital. They didn't know you were Toby Kane.
Speaker 2 (37:39):
Oh be Kane.
Speaker 1 (37:40):
That doesn't make any sense, missus.
Speaker 4 (37:41):
Thornson didn't know you were Kane. That's why she accused
you of being an impostor.
Speaker 3 (37:45):
I don't understand, and isn't hard.
Speaker 4 (37:49):
I was the one who got Sam Thomas to send
for you. I drugged you because we plan to kidnap you,
to take you to the hospital where we.
Speaker 3 (37:57):
Hope to restore your memory, to help you, he calls
the past.
Speaker 1 (38:02):
They tried that at the Army hospital.
Speaker 4 (38:03):
Yeah, we know your memory was destroyed. The night we
died in the Crater Aristocus, most of us escaped, but
you were brought down by a fire vullet. You were
wearing an Earth's uniform, so that you were mistaken.
Speaker 3 (38:17):
For one of them and brought to a hospital on Earth.
Speaker 4 (38:20):
We didn't know the true facts then we thought you'd
been killed. But after the war we found records, records
that made us believe that you were alive.
Speaker 3 (38:30):
Arego truly alive? A record? Yes, you're a Rego. The
face you wear is your own face, Watson, I love it.
Speaker 1 (38:42):
Joke on Captain Muffett's.
Speaker 3 (38:44):
He gave you back the face you were born with.
Speaker 1 (38:47):
And Missus Simson, your.
Speaker 4 (38:49):
Mother, she did believe you were an impostor because she
knew that her son was wearing the face of Toby came.
She never expected to see a regal with his own faith.
Speaker 1 (38:59):
I can't believe. I don't remember anything before the hospital.
They had me convinced that I was an Earth soldier.
I never knew why.
Speaker 4 (39:08):
It is a fact so much you will remember. We
need you to remember. We need you to lead us,
and I need you to love me.
Speaker 3 (39:20):
Look at me till we came a rego. I am
your wife.
Speaker 1 (39:31):
There it is Carl, recorded message from the Moon base.
Put it on the screen, you idiot. Let's hear what
this mad man has to say. Yes, sir, I can't
understand it all. Garrison of Moon troops surrendering without firing
a shot. And now there's lunatic with his demand.
Speaker 3 (39:47):
Already, Carl, we'll play it.
Speaker 1 (39:49):
Play it.
Speaker 2 (39:52):
My name is Ago, it is him.
Speaker 1 (39:57):
My name is a Rego, and I am spokesman for
the Provisional Government of Lunar. The Moon is no longer
a satellite of Earth. From this day forward, the Moon
is an independent world with full sovereign powers to choose
its own leaders, to determine its own future. We are
prepared to defend this independence with our lives, because we
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are the children of the Moon, and the moon is ours,
And so the children of the Moon, the lunatics whose
first revolt failed, have once again asserted their right to independence.
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Will it succeed this time? Have they prepared themselves enough
to convince the powers of Earth to let them find
their own destiny? The answer to that question is in
another story and another time.
Speaker 2 (41:00):
I'll be back shortly.
Speaker 1 (41:13):
Will it ever really happen? Now that man has walked
on the moon? Will the next step be colonization? Will
the Moon become a new homeland where men will live
in an artificial atmosphere eclipsed by the great green globe
of Earth, and yet become strangely devoted to the cold
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and rocky world they call home. Stranger things have happened.
Our cast included Bob Reddick, Joan Shay, William Griffiths and
Jackson Beck. The entire production was under the direction of
Hymond Brown and now a preview of our next tale.
Speaker 3 (41:55):
Why are you doing this to me? My thoughts guided me.
They've found your ship and you what do you want
from me?
Speaker 1 (42:02):
No more searching your hands on my hand, No your
eyes on my eyes.
Speaker 4 (42:07):
It's impossible again in the sunlight, again we HeLa.
Speaker 3 (42:11):
Now we share this body. I survive in this body.
No more darkness, no more a loneliness. I survive in
this spot and can't take over another person's body. Share
this spot. It's indecent, but this body must adjust.
Speaker 4 (42:30):
Adjust to the heat this planet hits.
Speaker 3 (42:33):
Tour or.
Speaker 4 (42:37):
I'm so hot here hot we must do something about
the heat.
Speaker 3 (42:43):
What's wrong with me?
Speaker 1 (42:45):
Radio Mystery Theater were sponsored in part by Buick Motor
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Speaker 3 (42:54):
This is E. G.
Speaker 1 (42:54):
Marshall inviting you to return to our Mystery Theater for
another adventure in the macabre. Until next time, Pleasants Dreams
CBS Radio Mystery Theater Presents Come in. Welcome, I'm e. G. Marshall.
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Welcome to the future, because the story you're about to
hear is a tale of mystery, prime and adventure in
a world sixty years older than our own. Whether that
world is sixty years wiser is a question you'll have
to answer for yourself. But we want to warn you
right now that you might not like our futuristic hero
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very much. You may even dislike him a great deal,
for after all, he is a criminal, a swinner, a
com man, a fugitive, and I have something even worse.
We ask is that you don't judge him until the
last sound is heard. Even if it turns out to
be this sound you'll hit. That's why everybody you'll hurt.
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Your friend, Missus Sarson. And if you don't let me
out of this place, I've heard of myself. She's an
old woman, yes, and I haven't chilled an all a
woman for days. I'm filling hers right now, So let
me out. Our mystery drama The Night We Died was
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written especially for the Mystery Theater by Henry Slesser and
stars Bob Reddick and Joan shay It is sponsored in
part by Buick Motor Division. I'll be back shortly with
that one. It's the year of Our Lord, two thousand
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and forty three. It's a vastly different world in many respects.
In others, particularly in respect to human nature. It's a
world very much like the one we know. We think
you'll recognize the kind of human Toby Kane is a
man with an ugly past and an uncertain future. But
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there were two things you could predict about the future
of Toby Kane. One was that he wouldn't be called
Toby Kane for very long. Two that there would be
trouble ahead. Yes, Harry, Sam, how the heck are you? Harry?
It's not Harry. You know my name is Toby Kane.
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That's the name you call me at the hotel, right, Sure,
that's right. Oh, you make it tough on a guy
keeping up with you, Harry, I mean Toby. I'd like
to know how you kept up with me, Sam.
Speaker 2 (03:02):
How did you know I've left? Callisto? Who told you
my new name?
Speaker 1 (03:07):
Mutual friends, Toby. Everybody knows that you gave Muffat to
slip again. That CoP's cutting it awful, sick of chasing you.
You won't be chasing me anymore. Harry Rentlow is dead.
He committed suicide on CALLISTO. Sure I get the idea. Listen, Toby,
you must be pretty strapped by now. Would you use
some of my financing?
Speaker 2 (03:28):
You offering me alone?
Speaker 1 (03:29):
Sam? No, I'm offering you a project. I could use
some experienced help. Can I see you at the hotel tonight?
Speaker 2 (03:35):
All right? Meet me in the Neptune lound.
Speaker 1 (03:37):
Oh that's great, Harry, look forward to it.
Speaker 2 (03:40):
The name is Toby, Toby Kane.
Speaker 1 (03:50):
I wouldn't have known you, fol that's surging you. You Hey,
tell me something? How many face changes of your head?
Speaker 2 (03:57):
I don't remember three? Four?
Speaker 1 (04:00):
See, yours must be pretty tired by now.
Speaker 2 (04:01):
Get to the point saying what the project?
Speaker 1 (04:04):
Well, it's a phony stock deal, the old classic asteroid minds.
Speaker 2 (04:08):
You know here, I know I've practically invented it.
Speaker 1 (04:10):
Who's the fish? A rich widow named Sorenson. Her husband
was a major killed during the Moon Revolt. He left
us in five hundred thousand credits when he died. She
was looking for a safe investment with a counterinflationary return.
In other words, the old dame was looking for a
killing greedy people in this world, Toby, what went wrong?
Some crook came along killed the deal? What crooked some
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pony medium? Old Lady Sorenson's a great believer in the
spirit world, and this matam what's her name told her
that her husband didn't approve of the investment. I don't
even know who she is. I've spent three months cultivating
this deal and now it's frozen. Maybe this medium has
her own plans for Sarrnson's credits.
Speaker 2 (04:52):
Maybe you could arrange a split.
Speaker 1 (04:54):
How And I don't even know her name. There are
ways to find out his knee. Missus Sarnson's full name
and address. Mom and Toby, Hey, Vanessay, he's here.
Speaker 3 (05:12):
Tell hello, mister king.
Speaker 2 (05:15):
Hello.
Speaker 3 (05:16):
Sam tells me you've come up with a solution to
our problem.
Speaker 1 (05:19):
Vanessa knows the Hall scam, so you can trust her
all the way. I didn't say I had the complete solution.
What I have is the name of the medium. How'd
you get it, Toby? Or it was easy? Missus Simson
was a rich widow. Right, rich widows have their habits
like taking a Mars cruise, for instance. I called Missus
Sohnson and spoke to a maid, said I was from
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the White Line Cruise Company and wanted to clearify records
on her Mars trip. Sure enough, she took the trip
in thirty two.
Speaker 3 (05:46):
But how did that help you?
Speaker 1 (05:48):
The next thing I did was write Missus Sorenson a letter.
I've got a copyright here.
Speaker 2 (05:54):
Dear Missus Simson.
Speaker 1 (05:55):
I doubt that you'll recall me, since ten long years
have gone by.
Speaker 2 (05:59):
It's our late meeting.
Speaker 1 (06:01):
But I still recall with pleasure our delightful chats aboard
the Mars cruise, particularly concerning our mutual interests in the
spirit world. Oh wait a minute, too, let me finish.
Speaker 2 (06:11):
Let me finish.
Speaker 1 (06:12):
When we became acquainted on the voyage, perhaps I mentioned
my dear wife. I am saddened to report that she
passed on to the Great Beyond a few months ago,
leaving a great.
Speaker 2 (06:22):
Void in my heart.
Speaker 1 (06:24):
However, recognizing the eternal nature of the spirit, I am
not completely desolated. My one problem now is to locate
a trustworthy medium who can bring my dear.
Speaker 2 (06:34):
Agnes back to me.
Speaker 1 (06:35):
You me, She actually replied to that she thought she
did remember me, and she gave me the name of
the lady who is queering the stock deal. It's Olivia Nemo,
South Court Street, New York City. Oh terrific. I'll go
see this pony and make a deal.
Speaker 2 (06:50):
I've been this deer sam.
Speaker 1 (06:52):
What did she say? Was she make a deal? No?
Missus Nemo is not a very cooperative type. I suspect
she has her own ideas about Missus Sohnson's investments. That's
why she's spending so much time gaining her trust. What
do we do now, I think it's simple enough. We
offer the lady more than Missus Nemo is offering, like
what Well, for one thing, I know that the lady
doesn't attempt to bring back any image of Missus Sorenson's
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late husband. Oh well, Missus Sorenson wouldn't be fooled by
some phony ectoplasm stuff. But what if Missus Sorenson actually
saw her dead husband, saw him just the way he
looked when he was alive, but yet obviously now part
of the heavenly community.
Speaker 3 (07:30):
What are you getting at, mister can Well.
Speaker 1 (07:31):
I've written one more letter to Missus Sorenson from the
same whole ship companion A. Dear Missus Sorenson, thank you
so much for recommending your friend Missus Nemo. However, since
writing you, I discovered the most remarkable medium I've encountered
in all my seventy years, a man named Shan Tizar,
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who has produced the beloved image of my wife Agnes
right before my eyes, the living image, moving talk, smiling,
expressing her serenity and joy in the herass.
Speaker 3 (08:04):
For Heaven's sake. But who is this, Shan Kazar?
Speaker 2 (08:08):
Can't you guess? Vanessa?
Speaker 1 (08:11):
It's me money, and you can't tell you how good
it is to ease.
Speaker 2 (08:20):
That's good to see you, too, Phil.
Speaker 1 (08:22):
I'll tell you one thing, George, those plastic surgeons did
one heck of a job. You look great, as you know.
That firebullet didn't just burn off my features. It did
a pretty good job of my mind. I couldn't tell
them what I used to look like because I didn't know.
Sure I remember. But what the heck here you are?
Can't here?
Speaker 2 (08:41):
I well?
Speaker 1 (08:42):
Some other things a different film. You stayed in the army. Hey,
I say, I have to call you a colonel. Now
tell me what I can do for you. If it's possible,
I'll do it.
Speaker 3 (08:50):
You know that.
Speaker 1 (08:51):
Well, it's a kind of unusual request film. It's about
those holographic image identifications they made during the Moon Revolt,
the HIV issue. I remember the rappers were doing such
a great job of infiltration. The security insisted on three
dimensional projection holographs of every officer. They're pretty spooky, aren't they.
You could swear the person was in the same room
with you.
Speaker 2 (09:12):
Are they still on file?
Speaker 1 (09:13):
Sure? Someplace? Why? Because there's one that I want to borrow,
the holograph of a major named John Solinson of the
first Moon Division. Well, I don't know the Moon revolts
five years ago. Records are all in the Pentagon vaults.
Speaker 2 (09:32):
But you can do attention.
Speaker 1 (09:34):
Well, I do have a good buddy in Personaeil. All right,
I'll do my best.
Speaker 4 (09:47):
So you're a Moon Revolt veteran, mister Kane, I don't
think I've met one of those in years.
Speaker 1 (09:53):
There are not many Moon veterans like to admit. It
wasn't the most glorious action in military history.
Speaker 3 (09:59):
Sam told me you were very badly wounded.
Speaker 2 (10:01):
Yes, my face maybe not.
Speaker 1 (10:05):
Well, I know the surgeons gave me a lot better
faith than I had originally.
Speaker 3 (10:09):
You really don't remember.
Speaker 2 (10:10):
I remember very little before that fire bullet hit.
Speaker 3 (10:14):
I mean the whole war was just sickening.
Speaker 1 (10:17):
The Moon colonists got the nutty idea that they ought
to be an independent nation, didn't they.
Speaker 4 (10:22):
Realize that they'd never had a chance.
Speaker 1 (10:24):
It took two years, just the same, two very bloody years.
Speaker 2 (10:29):
I still remember hearing.
Speaker 1 (10:31):
About well about that horrible night, the mass suicide. There's
only a few days answered the surrender. All the leaders
of the revolt. I guess they decided they'd rather die
than face trial. All those bodies piled up from the
crater aristar, Oh, have you ever seen this statue?
Speaker 3 (10:55):
Who's the man?
Speaker 2 (10:56):
The colo rico, the leader of the revolt?
Speaker 1 (11:00):
It's that you of them at the base of the crater,
the only reminder left of what happens there.
Speaker 3 (11:04):
It's funny, isn't it.
Speaker 4 (11:06):
When the revolt was happening, everybody hated that manner ego.
Speaker 3 (11:10):
But now now I suppose we all think of him
as some kind of hero.
Speaker 1 (11:15):
All martyrs become heroes, I guess. But when they sent
me to the Moon, all I cared about was getting
off alive.
Speaker 3 (11:21):
And now now what do you care about? Toby?
Speaker 2 (11:26):
Staying alive? The best way I know how, and if.
Speaker 1 (11:30):
That means fleecing a rich old widow is to the fleecing.
I hope you know what you're doing, Toby. My name
is Shaan Kizar. Yeah, but your name might turn into
a number of This hid thing doesn't work.
Speaker 3 (11:49):
It does work. Damn it's unbelievable. I hope Missus Thornton
is here.
Speaker 1 (11:54):
Get behind the curtain, stand full of switch when I
give the signal. Remember now, the key word is light.
Speaker 3 (12:02):
Come in, Missus Thorrenson.
Speaker 4 (12:04):
I hope I'm not late. Oh no, no, no, you're
just in time, Missus Sorenson. Let me introduce you to
Sham Kazzar.
Speaker 1 (12:14):
I am delighted to meet you, madam.
Speaker 4 (12:16):
I'm very pleased to meet you, mister Kazzar. If you
can really bring poor John back to earth, even for
a moment.
Speaker 1 (12:25):
Missus Sorenson, I promise that you will not be disappointed.
Speaker 2 (12:33):
The spirits are present.
Speaker 1 (12:36):
I can see something, something glowing in the darkness. It's
a light, a light from the other world. Can you
see it, Missus Snson?
Speaker 4 (12:50):
Oh yes, I see something.
Speaker 3 (12:54):
Someone you called him.
Speaker 1 (12:58):
It's my Edith, Eatith, my darlings.
Speaker 3 (13:05):
Oh John, it's.
Speaker 1 (13:08):
Really Edith, my sweet I am well and happy. I
have found peace here.
Speaker 3 (13:17):
What is it like, John? Where are you? Will?
Speaker 4 (13:22):
Please tell me?
Speaker 1 (13:25):
Do not ask me such questions. Edith, you must God
your health and your finances. You must take care of
the money I left you. Yes, yes, thought I will.
You must invest in Edith invested wisely.
Speaker 3 (13:43):
But oh, John, you told Madam Nemo.
Speaker 1 (13:48):
No, do not believe that woman.
Speaker 2 (13:52):
She is an imposter.
Speaker 1 (13:53):
Eat it. This is the first moment I have spoken
to you from the other side.
Speaker 3 (13:59):
What about the money?
Speaker 4 (14:01):
Should I invest it in those asteroid shares?
Speaker 1 (14:06):
Yes, my precious wife, I have had a glimpse of tomorrow.
You will be wealthy. You will continue to have the
earthly comforts I wish for you until the hour of
our reunion.
Speaker 4 (14:19):
John, you're beginning to see it.
Speaker 1 (14:22):
I must go now, Edith, I must return. Wait one
more moment. He is going, missus Sarnson, back to beyond
the curtain.
Speaker 3 (14:43):
Oh, it was marvelous, Toby.
Speaker 1 (14:46):
You absolutely teach me the cret I've really got to
give you credit. You're still the best in the business man.
Let's wait for the payoffs, Sam, Let's get that money
in our hands before we congratulate each other.
Speaker 3 (15:01):
Do you want me to get there?
Speaker 2 (15:02):
No, I'll take you Hello.
Speaker 1 (15:05):
Toby's Phil Digby.
Speaker 2 (15:06):
Yes, Phil, how are you listen?
Speaker 1 (15:08):
Toby about that hid rejection?
Speaker 2 (15:11):
It really did the trick.
Speaker 1 (15:12):
You don't know how much you help, missus Sonson. I
just don't know what went wrong. My friend and the
Pentagon goofed goof? What are you talking about? Oh? A
grab reel? It was the wrong one. It was a
major Warrenberg of the sixth Infantry. He isn't even dead.
He's retired up in Nova Scotia. Kobe. You there, uh yo, yoh, Phil,
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I'm here, and uh, don't worry about it. The old
lady's eyesight wasn't that good. I guess the uniform was enough. Whoa,
that's a relief. Then you don't want the right reel? No, no, no,
that's okay. It's all over now, and thank you again, Phil.
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What is it, Toby?
Speaker 3 (15:56):
Is something wrong?
Speaker 1 (15:58):
I don't know. That wasn't Major Sawnce when the old
lady saw and I don't think their eyes were that bad.
She knew I wasn't oriental, even with his makeup on.
What I'd like to know is who's playing tricks on?
Speaker 2 (16:14):
Who?
Speaker 3 (16:18):
Who?
Speaker 1 (16:21):
Toby Kane is a man who's used to having things
go the way he planned, but suddenly a victim of
a swindle has done something unexpected. Missus Sorenson has been
fooled too easily, and Toby Kane has learned that nothing
comes that easy, not even in the world of twenty
and forty three. We'll return to that world with that
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too shortly. Toby Kane con Man has a disturbing riddle
to solve. Why did Missus John sorrow and react so
quickly to the ghost of a man who was clearly
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not her husband. Toby brooded about it for the next
twenty four hours, but then something happened that gave him
something else to think about. A familiar visitor came to
his door. Mister Kane, Uh yes, Who my name is, Moffatt,
mister Kaine, I'm with the Interplanetary Police. May I come in?
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Would you mind telling me your business? I'll tell you
inside if I may. Oh, here is mister Kane. I'm
here to do you a favor.
Speaker 2 (17:38):
What kind of favor?
Speaker 1 (17:40):
How long have you known mister Sam Thumbs sam oh
uh a art a month? I met him at a party,
That's what I thought. Why what's the trouble, mister Caine
I'll be candid with you. We ran a fast check
on mister Thumb's associate. We couldn't find you among them,
so we figured you were recent acquaintance and possibly his
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next victim. Victim of what when. I'm sorry to tell
you that Sam Thumbs is a confidence man. He's been
indicted for grand last year some four times in his career.
He's never been sent to jail because his victims were
too involved in his schemes to testify against him. But
he's still a criminal and he may be out to
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defraud him. Well, I certainly appreciate this warning, sugeant chapain.
My title is Captain Muffett, and I promise you that
I'll be very careful, yes, very careful from now.
Speaker 2 (18:48):
Yes, Missus Suns. And I'm the one who called this.
Speaker 3 (18:52):
Morn oh.
Speaker 4 (18:54):
Who said your name was.
Speaker 1 (18:57):
Again ke Toby King. However, my name was George Spanner
when I served with your late husband in the First
Moon Divisions.
Speaker 3 (19:06):
Won't you who come in?
Speaker 1 (19:09):
Very good of you to see me, Missus Sands, And
oh I see you have a fortrait of your husband
is certainly a fine looking man.
Speaker 4 (19:19):
Mister Spanner. Okay, now, whatever you call yourself. Would you
kindly tell me why you wish to see me?
Speaker 1 (19:29):
Well, as I said, your husband and I were in
the same hospital together.
Speaker 4 (19:32):
That seems it is not true.
Speaker 1 (19:35):
Pardon, my husband was.
Speaker 4 (19:37):
Killed at the Battle of Pluto Creature. He was never
brought to any hospitals. He died instantly. Now, just what
is it you want?
Speaker 1 (19:52):
All right, missus Sahnson, I'll put my cards on the table.
I understand that you're interested in chasing stock in the
It's attorneyan asteroid company, and that you've been talking to
a man named Sam Thumbs.
Speaker 4 (20:07):
Why should that be any business of yours?
Speaker 1 (20:10):
Because I believe I can save you a great deal
of money. I know certain things about mister Thumbs and
about this asteroid mining project.
Speaker 4 (20:18):
I am fairly mister Kane that I am not interested
in what you have to say.
Speaker 1 (20:22):
But you can give me a chance.
Speaker 4 (20:25):
That's exactly what I'm doing. I'm giving you one chance
to leave this place before I called the police.
Speaker 1 (20:38):
Sam, something is wrong here, very wrong. Now tell me again,
how did you get the lead on old Lady's answer?
It was Vanessa Vanessa? So what well didn't it ever
occur to you the Vanessa might have been part of
a police trap. Did you ever stop to think she
might have been working for my old friend Moffat. Maffat's uncle. Listo,
he's on earth here. A few hours ago, he was
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in my hotel room trying to protect me from you. Oh,
Vanessa's okay, Toby, I swear it. Listen. It was her
idea to get you into the act.
Speaker 2 (21:10):
What did you say?
Speaker 1 (21:11):
It's true, Vanessa was the one who told me that
you were available. Oh, you fool. Don't you see what
that means? How could Vanessa know so much about me
unless the cops holder.
Speaker 4 (21:31):
Toby, I just don't understand why you're so upset when
everything is going just.
Speaker 1 (21:37):
The way we plan the way who planned? Vanessa? Tell
me how you knew about my escape from Callisto.
Speaker 4 (21:44):
Oh, it's ridiculous. I didn't even know you were George
Barrow or Harry whatever you called yourself.
Speaker 3 (21:50):
It was Sam who found out you were back on Earth.
Speaker 2 (21:53):
That's not what he says, Toby.
Speaker 4 (21:56):
The only reason I stayed interested in Sam was because
he was yours friend, because I wanted to get close
to you. This cloth, darling, I'm so sorry, long fingernails
of mine, they scratched your neck.
Speaker 2 (22:11):
Now you can scratch your memory.
Speaker 1 (22:13):
You can tell me if you know a cop named
Captain Muffatt.
Speaker 3 (22:16):
Don't do this, Toby. Be nice to me the way
I want to be nice to you. Kiss me too, me, Toby,
aren't you feeling rare?
Speaker 2 (22:28):
I feel.
Speaker 1 (22:30):
Dizzy? All of us out, poor darling.
Speaker 3 (22:32):
Come sit down.
Speaker 1 (22:34):
My neck is burning the awful cat.
Speaker 3 (22:36):
Cloth of mine. Really should cut them down, shouldn't die.
Speaker 2 (22:39):
I can't see straight anymore.
Speaker 1 (22:44):
You you did something to me, stuck a pin in
my neck.
Speaker 3 (22:49):
Toby, fit here, don't fall and hurt yourself.
Speaker 2 (22:52):
Drugs.
Speaker 1 (22:54):
You've drugged me with something I can't see. Kevan h
eighteen hours, eighteen hours and forty minutes, Martha, you here
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as i'm here, my friend. Luckily for you must have
been a powerful drug they used, not enough to kill. However,
my only regret is that we didn't catch them in
the act.
Speaker 2 (23:29):
What are you talking about?
Speaker 1 (23:30):
I've been keeping a tail on Thumbs and his girlfriend
for the past week.
Speaker 2 (23:34):
His girl, you mean, Vanessa, isn't working for you.
Speaker 1 (23:38):
Those two are in business for themselves. Mister Kane or
should I say mister Merchant or mister Snapper. You pick
the name. My friend you have plenty of them.
Speaker 2 (23:50):
The name is Kane, Toby Keane.
Speaker 1 (23:54):
It's funny, you know, I've been chasing you for five
years from Earth to Listo, and then I catch you
by helping you get out of a jam. Life's little ring.
Speaker 2 (24:08):
He's made a mistake, Captain dor forget it, Cane.
Speaker 1 (24:10):
We've already run you through a computer idy. We know
who you are. Now. If you help me, I'll help you.
I'll guarantee you full amnesty for any past offense. I'll
promise you immunity for any crime you've committed.
Speaker 2 (24:27):
And that's a.
Speaker 1 (24:27):
Long long list. What's the catch? That's what you might expect.
The assignment I'd want you to handle is difficult, dangerous.
Do you know why you would drug Kane? Because you
must have found out too much about them. You must
have stumbled onto something they want very much to conceal.
Speaker 2 (24:49):
What's that?
Speaker 1 (24:50):
Their real identities? Not saying he's exactly what he seems
to be, hopelessly an apt cohan man, hardly worth a
paperwork would take to arrest him. But the other Vanessa
and Missus Sorenson, Missus Sanson, what does.
Speaker 2 (25:08):
She have to do with this?
Speaker 1 (25:10):
Members of the most dangerous subversive group on Earth. We
have good reason to think they and their friends are
ready to commit treason, treason against two, against the entire world,
against the planet Earth. Why you're crazy? Are you saying
those two women are plotting another moon refone, not alone,
I assure you, and maybe one hundreds or even thousands
of others, ready to repeat the same madness of five
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years ago. We think that both of these women are
related to the men that we thought had died in
the Creator Aristocus. Thought they died. That graves are there,
But we're beginning to doubt the identities of the men
buried in those graves. Now we begun to suspect that
the Earth Forces were victimized by a hoax, a con game.
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If you like, do you mean they're still alive? Are
we going the others? We don't know how many, maybe
me a handful. But I want you to continue to
play the game you've always played, but this time on
our side of the law.
Speaker 2 (26:07):
What game?
Speaker 1 (26:09):
Well, I want you to continue to be a chiet,
a swindler, liar, and pretended only. I want you to
victimize a very special group of suckers, the group we've
observed closely for the past year. Now we know their habits,
we know a meeting place, we know everything. Accept their
plans for the moon. That's what I want you to
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find out.
Speaker 2 (26:31):
Why should I be successful.
Speaker 1 (26:33):
Because you're going to have another face change game beneficial
in this time.
Speaker 3 (26:39):
Here.
Speaker 1 (26:40):
We want you to look like the man in this photograph.
My god, that's right, it's the man they call a Rego.
Print out. You take these kne They contain every available
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fact in the life of Arigo. Ten biographers couldn't have
collected so much data if they'd conducted ten years worth
of research of peace.
Speaker 2 (27:12):
And it's still not going to work.
Speaker 1 (27:14):
Even if I learn every single fact there is to know,
there'll be other facts They could trip me up. Yes,
we recognize that possibility. It won't be enough to have
Orego's face, even his voice, memory and manner. There are
certain things about people, things that can't deceive those who
are close to this, But they'll want to believe Kane,
don't you see These people have been waiting for Regal
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as if he was some kind of messiah come to
rescue them from oppression. They ill welcome you without suspicion.
Speaker 2 (27:45):
A million things.
Speaker 1 (27:46):
Can go wrong, yes, and then you're a dead man. Well,
it's the gamble you'll have to take or reject. The alternative,
of course is jail, Yes, a prison where I came.
You'll live out the rest of your life in a
barren rock in space. And if I do this thing,
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amnesty that's correct, wor a shame? And I was just
getting to like this face. There's an old saying that
one must set a thief to catch a thief, but
does it really apply here? Can a swindler, a con man,
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and a criminal have enough brains and heart to overcome
a group of dangerous insurgents? Can Toby Kane walk into
their midst and learn their most important secrets? Or will
he die in the attempt? We'll find out shortly in
Act three. It was three months before Captain Moffatt of
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the End of Planetary Police was able to put his
plan into action. The actual face change took only a week,
the recuperation took two weeks, but the rest of the
time was spent in educating Toby Kane to talk, think,
and feel like the rebel.
Speaker 2 (29:15):
Called a rego.
Speaker 1 (29:17):
Finally, they knew there was nothing further they could do
but send the Rego on his mission beginning with the
first name on top of the list of suspected sympathizers.
Come in, mister duncan won't you sit down?
Speaker 2 (29:33):
Thank you? Doctor.
Speaker 1 (29:34):
We get right down to each I always believe.
Speaker 5 (29:38):
That something wrong, doctor, Ah, no, no, no, nothing, It's
just that, for a moment you looked rather familiar, like
someone I knew a very long time ago.
Speaker 1 (29:54):
I see, and I can I take this chair? Oh here, sir, yes, please.
But we're just talking formally at first. You can tell
me what your problem is, and I'll tell you whether
or not. I believe that shaikhotherapy can be helpful. And
I'm not sure I can describe the problem. I've been
having fits of depression lately and having strange dreams every night.
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Can you describe one of these dreams?
Speaker 2 (30:20):
Well?
Speaker 1 (30:20):
Last night, for instance, I dreamed that I was walking
in out of space, surrounded by stars and meteors. I
was just alone. But then I looked below me and
saw a soft, glowing object. It looked warm and friendly
and inviting. Once I had been afraid of it. Once
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I had thought of it as being cold and airless
and alien. But now I knew it was home, and
what was the object?
Speaker 2 (30:51):
It was the moon and it was mine.
Speaker 1 (30:57):
Who are you mean anything to you? Doctor? If it doesn't,
then I think we're wasting each other's time. Oh wow,
I'm a ghost, doctor, a ghost from Aristarkus, but are
very solid ghost. Here, take my hand, A regal, A regal, Yes.
Speaker 2 (31:19):
Doctor, a rego.
Speaker 1 (31:20):
I've been a long time getting back, but we were
so sure that you were killed. I survived. Now I'm
here and now I'm ready to help. I've heard that
there are plans, doctor, so oh yes, yes, there are
good plans this time. We won't make the same mistakes.
We're going to be ready if all we strike.
Speaker 2 (31:42):
And when will that be?
Speaker 1 (31:43):
The date hasn't been said. There's been too much disagreement
among the members of the Central Committee. But now maybe
now the new leader among us?
Speaker 2 (31:52):
How doctor, how will it begin with?
Speaker 1 (31:55):
In the only way left to us? Should ego? We
won't begin on the moon, but on Earth.
Speaker 2 (32:02):
Earth.
Speaker 1 (32:03):
We're beginning right here, preparing our weapons, right in the
camp of the enemy. What weapons do you have? Moon
to earth missiles with atomic warheads, the weapons we should
have had before the revolt, the only weapon that will
give us the iron fish we need to make our
wishes heard. By the time we're ready to declare the
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Moon of sovereign power, we'll be pointing the warhead at
the confidence of Earth. We won't fire him if out
the man from it, and if nus, then we'll make
sure that Earth never forgets the price of tyranny. But
how can you build these missiles where? And I'll show
you where he goo? How strange datter so much noise
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in a hospital where This is a very unusual hospital,
our ego populated by a very unusual breed of lunatics. Une. Yes,
the idea came to us five years ago. What would
be a better hiding place for our activities than a
mental home? So we built this hospital and builled its
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rooms and wards only with patients marked by that special
madness of the moon children.
Speaker 2 (33:23):
It was a brilliant idea.
Speaker 1 (33:25):
What you say here is only the tip of the iceberg.
That noise we here comes from below from an underground
missile factory. It will go on occur of inspection later.
Speaker 3 (33:37):
But right now we have a meeting.
Speaker 1 (33:39):
Do at than we were expected. I've alerted all the
members of the Central Committee. They're in the main conference room.
I don't have to tell you that this is a
great moment for anonymous. It's please come this way, eighties,
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get amen. A rego where you fool?
Speaker 4 (34:11):
This is not a rego, that.
Speaker 1 (34:13):
Is not my son the week week you You must
give him a tone.
Speaker 4 (34:17):
Think I wouldn't know my ome son, this man who's
an impostor an impersonator. You've didn't fire a police spy, Selwyn,
But I've talked to him.
Speaker 1 (34:29):
I've asked him questions that no one but a ego
himself could answer. Well, you must remember it's been years
since you've seen him, mister Arnson, missus Sanson. So that's
what you're calling yourself now. Mother, whatever happens to the
name Missus Lincoln.
Speaker 4 (34:46):
You think you're very clever, don't you.
Speaker 1 (34:49):
I remember how you picked that name out of an
old history book. Where did you get Sansen from? Mother?
Speaker 4 (34:56):
You think you can convince me, don't you? But you're
wrong the imposter you really.
Speaker 3 (35:03):
Are My son?
Speaker 1 (35:05):
Sing it?
Speaker 4 (35:06):
Sing the song we used to sing together when you
were a little boy.
Speaker 1 (35:11):
Uh, I don't think I can remember it. My son
would never forget that song. It's been so many years,
heygo would never forget? What does he go? He's dead
and you.
Speaker 3 (35:26):
Must die too.
Speaker 1 (35:27):
Wait, wait, listen to me, brother. If you just look
at me more closely.
Speaker 3 (35:33):
Like the same, don't shoot.
Speaker 1 (35:39):
You'll hit Missus Hanson. That's why everybody. You'll hurt your friend,
Missus Somson. And if you don't let me out of
this place, I'll hurt her myself.
Speaker 3 (35:47):
She's an old woman, yes.
Speaker 1 (35:48):
And I haven't killed an old woman for days. I'm
feeling the urge right now, so let me out. This
is my Kine, absolutely marvelous. With this information. You can
wipe out this nest of rebels in six hours. They
were so anxious to believe that a Rigo had returned
that they forgot to be cautious. You've done a magnificent job, Caane,
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a magnificent job for us.
Speaker 2 (36:15):
In prob the entire world.
Speaker 1 (36:16):
I don't want any medals, Captain.
Speaker 2 (36:18):
I just want that freedom. You promise me.
Speaker 1 (36:20):
Well, a medal would be a lot easier. What was that?
Freedom is the only thing I can't grant you, Caane.
I know our major promises.
Speaker 2 (36:33):
What are you talking about?
Speaker 3 (36:34):
What's that gun for?
Speaker 1 (36:35):
I wish things could be different, Kane. You've accomplished something
that I could never have done by myself. You save thousands,
perhaps millions of lives. But that doesn't blind me to
the fact that you're a criminal, a dangerous criminal who
can't be turned loose on society.
Speaker 3 (36:52):
I can't believe this after you see only.
Speaker 1 (36:55):
Ooh I've ever taken sacred is the oath of my offer,
and you're not sending me to any prison aster right, Maffat,
you'll have to kill me. I'm a policeman, Kane, not
an executioner, but I can be both. If you're forceable,
then you'll have to be both. Don't are you all right?
Have you been hitting my leg?
Speaker 3 (37:15):
Say where you are? I'll get a doctor.
Speaker 1 (37:16):
The Messa you kill him, you kill MafA to save
you and to save us, well, then you're one of
them too, the moon rebel.
Speaker 3 (37:23):
Mister Thornson told me what happened.
Speaker 4 (37:25):
I thought you might return here, that you would never
meet Moffatt on his home ground.
Speaker 1 (37:29):
Then why don't you kill me too? I know as
much as MafA does.
Speaker 3 (37:32):
He try to understand. They didn't know who you were
at the hospital. They didn't know you were Toby Kane.
Speaker 2 (37:39):
Oh be Kane.
Speaker 1 (37:40):
That doesn't make any sense, missus.
Speaker 4 (37:41):
Thornson didn't know you were Kane. That's why she accused
you of being an impostor.
Speaker 3 (37:45):
I don't understand, and isn't hard.
Speaker 4 (37:49):
I was the one who got Sam Thomas to send
for you. I drugged you because we plan to kidnap you,
to take you to the hospital where we.
Speaker 3 (37:57):
Hope to restore your memory, to help you, he calls
the past.
Speaker 1 (38:02):
They tried that at the Army hospital.
Speaker 4 (38:03):
Yeah, we know your memory was destroyed. The night we
died in the Crater Aristocus, most of us escaped, but
you were brought down by a fire vullet. You were
wearing an Earth's uniform, so that you were mistaken.
Speaker 3 (38:17):
For one of them and brought to a hospital on Earth.
Speaker 4 (38:20):
We didn't know the true facts then we thought you'd
been killed. But after the war we found records, records
that made us believe that you were alive.
Speaker 3 (38:30):
Arego truly alive? A record? Yes, you're a Rego. The
face you wear is your own face, Watson, I love it.
Speaker 1 (38:42):
Joke on Captain Muffett's.
Speaker 3 (38:44):
He gave you back the face you were born with.
Speaker 1 (38:47):
And Missus Simson, your.
Speaker 4 (38:49):
Mother, she did believe you were an impostor because she
knew that her son was wearing the face of Toby came.
She never expected to see a regal with his own faith.
Speaker 1 (38:59):
I can't believe. I don't remember anything before the hospital.
They had me convinced that I was an Earth soldier.
I never knew why.
Speaker 4 (39:08):
It is a fact so much you will remember. We
need you to remember. We need you to lead us,
and I need you to love me.
Speaker 3 (39:20):
Look at me till we came a rego. I am
your wife.
Speaker 1 (39:31):
There it is Carl, recorded message from the Moon base.
Put it on the screen, you idiot. Let's hear what
this mad man has to say. Yes, sir, I can't
understand it all. Garrison of Moon troops surrendering without firing
a shot. And now there's lunatic with his demand.
Speaker 3 (39:47):
Already, Carl, we'll play it.
Speaker 1 (39:49):
Play it.
Speaker 2 (39:52):
My name is Ago, it is him.
Speaker 1 (39:57):
My name is a Rego, and I am spokesman for
the Provisional Government of Lunar. The Moon is no longer
a satellite of Earth. From this day forward, the Moon
is an independent world with full sovereign powers to choose
its own leaders, to determine its own future. We are
prepared to defend this independence with our lives, because we
(40:20):
are the children of the Moon, and the moon is ours,
And so the children of the Moon, the lunatics whose
first revolt failed, have once again asserted their right to independence.
(40:44):
Will it succeed this time? Have they prepared themselves enough
to convince the powers of Earth to let them find
their own destiny? The answer to that question is in
another story and another time.
Speaker 2 (41:00):
I'll be back shortly.
Speaker 1 (41:13):
Will it ever really happen? Now that man has walked
on the moon? Will the next step be colonization? Will
the Moon become a new homeland where men will live
in an artificial atmosphere eclipsed by the great green globe
of Earth, and yet become strangely devoted to the cold
(41:33):
and rocky world they call home. Stranger things have happened.
Our cast included Bob Reddick, Joan Shay, William Griffiths and
Jackson Beck. The entire production was under the direction of
Hymond Brown and now a preview of our next tale.
Speaker 3 (41:55):
Why are you doing this to me? My thoughts guided me.
They've found your ship and you what do you want
from me?
Speaker 1 (42:02):
No more searching your hands on my hand, No your
eyes on my eyes.
Speaker 4 (42:07):
It's impossible again in the sunlight, again we HeLa.
Speaker 3 (42:11):
Now we share this body. I survive in this body.
No more darkness, no more a loneliness. I survive in
this spot and can't take over another person's body. Share
this spot. It's indecent, but this body must adjust.
Speaker 4 (42:30):
Adjust to the heat this planet hits.
Speaker 3 (42:33):
Tour or.
Speaker 4 (42:37):
I'm so hot here hot we must do something about
the heat.
Speaker 3 (42:43):
What's wrong with me?
Speaker 1 (42:45):
Radio Mystery Theater were sponsored in part by Buick Motor
Division and Contact the twelve Hour Cold Capsule.
Speaker 3 (42:54):
This is E. G.
Speaker 1 (42:54):
Marshall inviting you to return to our Mystery Theater for
another adventure in the macabre. Until next time, Pleasants Dreams
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