August 30, 2024 • 24 mins
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Speaker 1 (00:05):
Adventures in time and space, transcribed in Future Tents. The
National Broadcasting Company, in cooperation with Street and Smith, publishers
(00:29):
of astounding science fiction, bring you Dimension X. The war
had been going on for generations. The sea and air
were ruled by guided atomic missiles. Radiations and total destruction
drove man underground, and there the war continued. The great
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beds of shale and limestone trembled as an underground cruiser
chewed its way through the ageless rock. The ship was
squat ugly, the top of its cutting head forty feet
above the clattering caterpillar treads. It was windowless, and behind
the grinding Durroloi blades were ugly lumps that concealed but gone.
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On the bridge, Commander Sanderson fought the bucking vibration, one
hand tight on.
Speaker 2 (01:19):
A stension cover. I ser, what's wrong with the insulation.
Speaker 3 (01:25):
It's hotter than oven up here fort refrigeration you know
went on starboard can't carry the load.
Speaker 2 (01:29):
I've got damage control on it. We'll go back.
Speaker 3 (01:31):
I sir, give me a size reading severe shock, thirty
seconds back, change course to one hundred and seventy five
degrees and half speed.
Speaker 2 (01:40):
Please, sir too. I can chart the street this cover,
iicer on seven five.
Speaker 3 (01:45):
Half speed, IICER navigation, look up watching the fridge here.
Change course to one seven five Watson one seven five,
iSER Clark, Yes, miss Watson, new course one seven five
one seven five I half speed half speed. I we
(02:11):
hit something?
Speaker 4 (02:13):
What is it?
Speaker 3 (02:13):
Miss Watson's lover? Probably maybe it doesn't mean anything.
Speaker 5 (02:17):
No, I guess not, mister Watson.
Speaker 3 (02:21):
Yes, Clark, we.
Speaker 6 (02:22):
Ever gonna get out of here?
Speaker 3 (02:24):
You mean the lava, the whole business.
Speaker 7 (02:26):
We've been under rock for three months.
Speaker 3 (02:28):
You better keep quiet, Clark. Psycho officer has rubber heeled.
Speaker 2 (02:32):
I don't care about Carpenter.
Speaker 8 (02:34):
He's been over me already with those sticking reaction tests.
Speaker 9 (02:36):
If he gives me one more n plot.
Speaker 3 (02:38):
To look at your die of one degree correction.
Speaker 5 (02:40):
Right, mister Watson, What was it like?
Speaker 10 (02:46):
Huh?
Speaker 3 (02:47):
When on the surface?
Speaker 5 (02:50):
I never saw the surface.
Speaker 7 (02:52):
I was born in the Denver Cave half a mile down.
Speaker 1 (02:55):
Uh.
Speaker 3 (02:55):
It was a long time ago, Clark. Yeah, but you remember,
don't you.
Speaker 5 (03:01):
You and Kovacs are the only ones on the ship
who remember the surface.
Speaker 3 (03:04):
It was war then too. Kovacs was in the Army,
the Entantry, the Queen of Battles well, the queen's dead. Now,
what was it like you mean in the surface wars.
Speaker 1 (03:16):
Yeah, well they they.
Speaker 3 (03:18):
Had chaplains and had chaplains. I guess you never heard
of that. Now we have psycho officers. Yeah, I don't
talk about religion much these days.
Speaker 5 (03:30):
It must have been something on the surface. I dream
about that. I I don't know what it was really like,
but I dream about it. Then somebody takes me and
shows me down on the bottom of a hot closet
and they shove a big hand over my mouth and
I can't breathe. I wake up and I want to
bust out of here with my figure elt.
Speaker 3 (03:53):
What's the matter?
Speaker 8 (03:54):
Clock, Nothing, doctor Carpenter, Nothing, No.
Speaker 3 (03:59):
Sir, we were just passing the time.
Speaker 2 (04:01):
Company.
Speaker 3 (04:02):
When's the last time you had an emotional reaction test? Watson?
I don't know, I forgot. Just remember your seniority doesn't
exempt you from psychiatric review. This isn't some slip shot
surface vessel with organized superstition aboard. The old chaplains weren't
so bad.
Speaker 10 (04:19):
Not scientific, you know.
Speaker 3 (04:20):
I can remember when psychiatry and mental hygiene with the
hope of mankind. Now look at it. That goes in
my report Watson. Yeah, we'll make sure you spell my
name right now. Hear this, now here, this attention, all hands,
igneous rock detected fresh lava flaw stand by to go
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to the corners a lucky.
Speaker 2 (04:44):
I'll finish with you later.
Speaker 3 (04:45):
I've got to check combat attachment. Sure, sure, go play
with your ink plots. I'm busy, and now go on,
get out of the way. Get down to the combat detachment.
They'll be happy to see Clark. Check those dampers. I'll
take three cuts. I'll stand pat Jake to the pat
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hand compath detachment.
Speaker 2 (05:11):
Huh what kind of a chicken guy?
Speaker 3 (05:12):
Are you?
Speaker 2 (05:13):
Anytime you want to start? And then you're lying yellow?
Right now right, don't flip your wig?
Speaker 11 (05:18):
All right, I don't want to know trouble Rubber sold
Red Cove. He's worked a solo all except Nomany. Hey't
Noman Norman? How come you opin psych?
Speaker 2 (05:29):
I don't need it. I'm stablebout you any money.
Speaker 3 (05:34):
He's a study for Coveny.
Speaker 2 (05:36):
I've seen his two or one personnel file. It's blink.
I heard a guy say he was born in a lamb.
What do you mean you ever seen him?
Speaker 12 (05:42):
Mate?
Speaker 6 (05:42):
Oh?
Speaker 3 (05:42):
You're crazy.
Speaker 2 (05:43):
The science brass has been working on something like crazy.
Speaker 1 (05:46):
You know how many men they felt you are in
the last draft, nine hundred thousands.
Speaker 2 (05:50):
So what I suppose you run out of real men?
Fa sold You suppose you figure how to make him artificial?
Speaker 3 (05:56):
They ever thought they ain't gonna talk about it till
it's compoun I pasted.
Speaker 2 (06:01):
Yeah, I never thought of that. Hey, newman, what do
you got inside of you?
Speaker 6 (06:07):
Geez? I'm not supposed to talk about myself?
Speaker 2 (06:12):
Yeah, Well, suppose I make you so shut me?
Speaker 7 (06:18):
Let you up.
Speaker 3 (06:25):
At these men? Well, how's everybody feeling you?
Speaker 2 (06:30):
Cooke? All right, I'm all right, sir.
Speaker 13 (06:34):
Uh huh an like cool pan, I'm all right, sir Noman,
I'm all right, sir, of course, very well.
Speaker 3 (06:49):
Carry on, Comanda Sadders and I have my replace the carpenter.
It's rather important. So serious personnel trouble is indicated below.
Speaker 7 (07:03):
It always is. Give you a report to Culbert.
Speaker 2 (07:05):
I'm busy, but.
Speaker 3 (07:06):
So give me a t your reading, I, sir, read
it steady as before, mister Culver.
Speaker 10 (07:11):
Later, if you will initial a cycle report.
Speaker 7 (07:14):
All right, all right, hurry up.
Speaker 10 (07:15):
There's no time for non combat checking.
Speaker 2 (07:16):
High school reading. Sudden fault take me as activity ahead
that meets the enemy.
Speaker 3 (07:20):
Mister culver, I shall elevate the colors twenty five degrees.
Speaker 7 (07:23):
We're going up and come on the enemy from above.
Speaker 2 (07:24):
I shir abligation.
Speaker 3 (07:26):
Watching them elevate twenty five degrees. Only five elevation is sir?
Pick your head on?
Speaker 2 (07:34):
So now sounds like three?
Speaker 14 (07:35):
All right, son, General Quarters, I said, all right, all right,
General Quarters.
Speaker 2 (07:46):
All I think and luck aces I got.
Speaker 11 (07:48):
Get into your army, your double us.
Speaker 2 (07:50):
Yeah, give me a hands him. Jack's in power. My
helmet stuck still tight, commet's sto tight. You eat too much?
Speaker 9 (08:00):
I ate.
Speaker 2 (08:01):
I'm like Noman.
Speaker 11 (08:02):
Yeah, look at him, full armor and he's still smoking.
Speaker 2 (08:06):
Nobody lives on nicotine, hey, Newman, yes, you'll live on nicotine.
Tobacco is necessary to me? Say that a Robert, Why
did I tell you?
Speaker 3 (08:17):
Right?
Speaker 2 (08:17):
Shut up and test your helmet?
Speaker 3 (08:19):
Radio?
Speaker 2 (08:19):
Snap it down?
Speaker 3 (08:20):
Okay, hey, no, I'll get mine.
Speaker 10 (08:26):
Can you hear me?
Speaker 9 (08:27):
Is my head to come?
Speaker 3 (08:29):
Okay?
Speaker 7 (08:30):
Okay, pick the power up, newman?
Speaker 8 (08:33):
Check your ind to come. I can hear you.
Speaker 3 (08:36):
Attention, attention, combat detachment, move out.
Speaker 13 (08:40):
Where those child runners with battle breakfast breakfast.
Speaker 14 (08:44):
I can remember when I had maintenance job when I
had cooks instead of pood comes first, glass, quit, gripe
and coke.
Speaker 8 (08:51):
It at least we eat?
Speaker 13 (08:53):
Yeah?
Speaker 2 (08:54):
How about him? Money breakfast?
Speaker 8 (08:56):
Numma, No, I don't need breakfast.
Speaker 2 (09:00):
I can wait without.
Speaker 3 (09:10):
Navigation. Watson bridge here, have speed?
Speaker 2 (09:14):
Half speed? Half speed?
Speaker 3 (09:15):
I clark, what what's the matter? You got the shakes? No?
Speaker 7 (09:19):
No, I'm all right.
Speaker 3 (09:20):
Half speed.
Speaker 7 (09:23):
Half speed?
Speaker 3 (09:24):
Iye, attention, all hands, anime, bigger side repair action at
post corners, anime, bigger side.
Speaker 8 (09:33):
Do you hear that's a fair action?
Speaker 3 (09:35):
At full speed? Forward?
Speaker 10 (09:38):
No?
Speaker 3 (09:38):
I won't. Why don't come on full speed? Forward?
Speaker 7 (09:40):
No?
Speaker 13 (09:40):
No?
Speaker 9 (09:41):
Another inch?
Speaker 8 (09:42):
Stop the ship, get away from there, go. I gotta
stop the ship.
Speaker 2 (09:46):
I won't be killed.
Speaker 3 (09:47):
I won't.
Speaker 2 (09:47):
I won't be killed.
Speaker 3 (09:48):
Away from the controls car. You're hurt, all right, take
it easy.
Speaker 9 (09:53):
Now what I've got a gun?
Speaker 2 (09:57):
Stop the ship.
Speaker 8 (09:58):
Stop it before I shoot you.
Speaker 3 (10:00):
I'll take it easy, boy.
Speaker 8 (10:01):
I won't be killed, and I won't let him give
you a three.
Speaker 9 (10:04):
Watch it that I soothed.
Speaker 3 (10:05):
I don't know what you're doing.
Speaker 2 (10:07):
Gonna stop the soup?
Speaker 8 (10:09):
One?
Speaker 3 (10:19):
You could have wounded the carpenter. That would have been enough.
My gentleman was the clock was more than a marginal risk.
I acted according, Sure, Sure, I'll get a detailed to
clean up after you. Well, doctor, the commander says, you
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rate a citation. If you had read my report, mister Colby,
you'd understand I've an herb. I said, don't let the
crew hear of this. Wouldn't do for them to know
an officer was emotionally unstable.
Speaker 2 (10:51):
You won't keep it quiet, sir.
Speaker 7 (10:53):
It was the detail to remove the body.
Speaker 2 (10:56):
What's that.
Speaker 3 (10:58):
End me digger within one hundred three, coming in fast,
hold the cover, don't reverse engines. Turn on the drill
with the tread stationary, I sir, full speed drill, treads
cut out, we'll blow up a cloud of dust and
applying their optical technician and the infra red stand by gunnery,
stand by, gunnery, right.
Speaker 7 (11:16):
Sir, enemy, we'll be breaking through any second.
Speaker 3 (11:22):
There it is full drill rates, navigation cut out, drill
cut out, drill.
Speaker 2 (11:29):
Fire went ready.
Speaker 3 (11:31):
Fire contact signal contact tegnal receives these fire, mister, culver,
contact signal, cease fire, Let may battery silence, sir, give
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the go ahead to the combatman. They can move in
drip that a lot of navigation to bridge bridge. Aye,
what's wrong down there? Why the emergency? The atomic piles
kicking up. We can't get into hand damp. She may
blow any minute. I'll take over, mister Culiburn. Prepare to
abandon ship. But the enemy diggers say, atomic pile about
to blow. We'll have to advance, destroy the enemy and
take refuge in their ship. There's nothing else we can do.
Look alive, I, sir, attention, all hands, prepare to abandon ship.
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And prepare to abandoned ship. Ship go backs. Have the
ship's records packed and ready to go. Hire, sir, Demander Watson,
what are you doing up here? There be a lot
more chance of getting out at the ship's engines were reversed.
She crawled back down the tunnel before she blew.
Speaker 2 (12:36):
There's no way to set up remote control.
Speaker 3 (12:38):
I know. I thought I could stay and runner, but
the pile's going to blow.
Speaker 7 (12:42):
I know, all right, Lieutenants, the mission granted.
Speaker 2 (12:48):
You may stay with the ship.
Speaker 3 (12:50):
Thank you, sir. You may go, Watson, Hye, sir, we
can't let it do that, Commander. You can't ask any
man to do that. This is no time for sentiment,
mister Colver, not to you're a louse. That's an unstable statement.
Speaker 2 (13:07):
Colver.
Speaker 3 (13:07):
It's obvious that Watson isn't worth much anyway. He might
as well die.
Speaker 7 (13:10):
I've heard enough. Doctor, You've had this coming a long time.
Speaker 3 (13:13):
Get away from me. Cover person, get here, call me
cover guess sir, all right, Goveax, release him.
Speaker 2 (13:25):
Cliver. I need you now.
Speaker 3 (13:26):
But if we come through this, I'll be forced to
prefer charges o ex help doctor Carmon rup. All right,
mister Culver, give the order to abandon ship. All the
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men are away Kovacs, full speed and reverse. I'm mister Watson.
Speaker 10 (13:57):
How long have we got before the blows?
Speaker 3 (14:01):
I don't know. Covics, why did you stay here? You
could have abandoned ship with the others. I uh had
been saving the cigar I got two mm?
Speaker 10 (14:12):
Would Jane you like one? Well?
Speaker 3 (14:14):
Thanks? Oh that's good. You didn't answer my question, govec
why did you stay?
Speaker 2 (14:32):
How about used there?
Speaker 6 (14:33):
Me?
Speaker 3 (14:35):
I was in the last class out of Annapolis before
it went underground and merged into the Geo Warfare Academy.
I guess I just hang on to illusions dead traditions
of sentence. I suppose I did it because I thought
it was the right thing to do. Yeah, I guess
that's it when you get down to it. Goveacs, you
saved a cigar against the rules. I've I've got something too.
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It's a book. I swill it out of a hotel
room in Frisco in the old days, a Bible. Yeah, Psycho.
Officers don't allow them on board. Carpenter would have had
me in the cells if he'd known about it. It
goes the geigerl I'm blowing him.
Speaker 10 (15:16):
No go Vacs. You remember this.
Speaker 3 (15:22):
The Lord is my shepherd. I shall not want he
maketh me to lie down in green pastor.
Speaker 11 (15:46):
Alright, guys, now you know what an enemy underground cruiser
looks like.
Speaker 2 (15:50):
Let's border. Who is that? Share?
Speaker 3 (15:53):
I don't know.
Speaker 6 (15:54):
Come on, you got me?
Speaker 8 (15:55):
Lets their landing trapdowns.
Speaker 2 (15:57):
Let's go.
Speaker 10 (16:00):
Look at it.
Speaker 8 (16:00):
It's fun changed.
Speaker 13 (16:03):
He kicked in his face late after.
Speaker 3 (16:05):
My gun record when I got up the ladder, and
then he waited for us.
Speaker 11 (16:10):
Oh, where he want to be some resistance.
Speaker 2 (16:16):
Let's get outside. We can thinking of the bridge.
Speaker 14 (16:19):
We got him and there's bridge hat.
Speaker 3 (16:24):
I don't like this. They should have been guns.
Speaker 2 (16:27):
I forget that. You throw open the hatch. I'll cover
him with a gun. Got your voice speaker on right? Okay, open,
I'll have that.
Speaker 3 (16:39):
Cope.
Speaker 13 (16:41):
Look at him the road dead, every.
Speaker 2 (16:45):
One of him with a sawt you beat that killed
himself with a sword.
Speaker 3 (17:04):
Con found this feign equipment, Culver house soon can we
get this enemy ship underway?
Speaker 7 (17:09):
Give me the damage report.
Speaker 3 (17:10):
I sir, the port tread knocked out, armor breached, aft
in the midships, gun batteries inoperable. Lieutenant Adamson estimates we
can make limited headway in two days.
Speaker 10 (17:19):
Very well, sir.
Speaker 2 (17:21):
Is it necessary for me to have this.
Speaker 10 (17:23):
Guard tagging after me?
Speaker 3 (17:24):
You're under arrest, Culver excuse me, Commanders, Sir, go ahead, Cope.
There was a message or something under the guy with
a sword when I broke in.
Speaker 2 (17:34):
I kept it as a sort of a souvenir.
Speaker 7 (17:37):
Give it to me.
Speaker 2 (17:37):
I didn't mean anything wrong, Sir.
Speaker 3 (17:38):
Handed over, Culvert, you read the enemy language. I'm afraid
I'm under arrest as a prisoner.
Speaker 2 (17:45):
I am that'll do. Go ahead.
Speaker 3 (17:46):
Read it from Supreme Headquarters. There's a code designate to
all field commanders subject secret Weapon.
Speaker 2 (18:00):
Thirty nine Failure.
Speaker 3 (18:01):
Of one Research Project X nine three no released on
South America Front last night X nine, a semi living
chemical process attacking all forms of protoplasm was found to
be uncontrollable. Is spreading through our own armies all over
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the world.
Speaker 2 (18:28):
Two. You are instructed to well, that's all sir.
Speaker 3 (18:38):
Quiet gentlemen, there is only one way to interpret this news. Carpenter,
you will inform all hands that the destruction of the
enemy is worldwide. The war is over.
Speaker 7 (18:56):
I knowed to laugh shot. I don't need to.
Speaker 3 (19:04):
Instruct Pope serve double rations as a celebration and as
I strongly advise against it, the psychiatric implications.
Speaker 7 (19:12):
But what's the matter.
Speaker 3 (19:14):
I don't know something. I it's inside me. I've got
to cannot cope. Noman after him, Come on, no, thank you.
Speaker 10 (19:33):
That can't happen to him, man, not that it's Carpenter,
you can see that. But that can't happen to him.
Speaker 2 (19:42):
Man, he's dessert. What's going on here?
Speaker 3 (19:48):
If you don't understand, Commander, you didn't listen to that
enemy message. A semi living chemical process attacking all forms
of protoplasm, all forms, Carpenter, and you and me, you
understand why.
Speaker 10 (20:06):
The enemy killed themselves. They knew the war's over all right.
Speaker 2 (20:15):
There's got to be something to do. Coulport Counten requorters.
Speaker 10 (20:19):
It's too late for that, Commander.
Speaker 2 (20:22):
The war's over.
Speaker 10 (20:24):
They invented the perfect weapon. The human race is dissolved.
That's funny, dissolved like Carpenter.
Speaker 2 (20:47):
Human?
Speaker 10 (20:49):
Is that you? Yes, they're all dead, aren't there?
Speaker 6 (20:57):
Yes, Commander Sanderson was the last shot me, I suppose.
Speaker 3 (21:04):
So.
Speaker 10 (21:06):
How about you.
Speaker 7 (21:09):
It will not affect me.
Speaker 6 (21:11):
I am not made of protoplasm. I am an inorganic synthesis.
You can't die, no, I am atomic powered. My breakdown
point is calculated.
Speaker 8 (21:27):
In thousands of years.
Speaker 6 (21:30):
I cannot destroy myself. I was conditioned against it.
Speaker 10 (21:35):
It's the beginning. You'll be all wrong. I know, buried
alive and in the.
Speaker 3 (21:44):
Rock for thousands of years.
Speaker 4 (21:49):
I'm sorry for you. I'm sorry you be all alone starting.
Speaker 8 (22:04):
He said, why can't I die?
Speaker 6 (22:17):
Why didn't they make me so I can die like
the others? I can't even kill myself. Why can't I die?
Why can't I die?
Speaker 12 (22:53):
Man has always told himself that he was a master
of the machine, but he always be Listen next week
with a story of a nightmare.
Speaker 9 (23:09):
Dimension Acts is transcribed each week by the National Broadcasting
Company in cooperation with Freedon Smith, publishers of the magazine
Astounding Science Fiction Today. Dimension AX is presented the last
objective written for radio by Ernest Conoy, from the story
by Paul Carter. Featured in the cast for lawst In
Serbius Culvert, Ralph Bell as Doctor Carpenter, Wendell Holmes as Watson,
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and Jack Grimes as Newman. Your host was Norman Roads.
Music by Bert Furman, engineer George Mathis. Dimension As is
produced by William Welch and directed by Edward King.
Speaker 7 (23:54):
Divention X came to you from our Radio City Studios
in New York.
Speaker 2 (23:57):
This is NBC, the national broadcasting of her name.
Adventures in time and space, transcribed in Future Tents. The
National Broadcasting Company, in cooperation with Street and Smith, publishers
(00:29):
of astounding science fiction, bring you Dimension X. The war
had been going on for generations. The sea and air
were ruled by guided atomic missiles. Radiations and total destruction
drove man underground, and there the war continued. The great
(00:53):
beds of shale and limestone trembled as an underground cruiser
chewed its way through the ageless rock. The ship was
squat ugly, the top of its cutting head forty feet
above the clattering caterpillar treads. It was windowless, and behind
the grinding Durroloi blades were ugly lumps that concealed but gone.
(01:14):
On the bridge, Commander Sanderson fought the bucking vibration, one
hand tight on.
Speaker 2 (01:19):
A stension cover. I ser, what's wrong with the insulation.
Speaker 3 (01:25):
It's hotter than oven up here fort refrigeration you know
went on starboard can't carry the load.
Speaker 2 (01:29):
I've got damage control on it. We'll go back.
Speaker 3 (01:31):
I sir, give me a size reading severe shock, thirty
seconds back, change course to one hundred and seventy five
degrees and half speed.
Speaker 2 (01:40):
Please, sir too. I can chart the street this cover,
iicer on seven five.
Speaker 3 (01:45):
Half speed, IICER navigation, look up watching the fridge here.
Change course to one seven five Watson one seven five,
iSER Clark, Yes, miss Watson, new course one seven five
one seven five I half speed half speed. I we
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hit something?
Speaker 4 (02:13):
What is it?
Speaker 3 (02:13):
Miss Watson's lover? Probably maybe it doesn't mean anything.
Speaker 5 (02:17):
No, I guess not, mister Watson.
Speaker 3 (02:21):
Yes, Clark, we.
Speaker 6 (02:22):
Ever gonna get out of here?
Speaker 3 (02:24):
You mean the lava, the whole business.
Speaker 7 (02:26):
We've been under rock for three months.
Speaker 3 (02:28):
You better keep quiet, Clark. Psycho officer has rubber heeled.
Speaker 2 (02:32):
I don't care about Carpenter.
Speaker 8 (02:34):
He's been over me already with those sticking reaction tests.
Speaker 9 (02:36):
If he gives me one more n plot.
Speaker 3 (02:38):
To look at your die of one degree correction.
Speaker 5 (02:40):
Right, mister Watson, What was it like?
Speaker 10 (02:46):
Huh?
Speaker 3 (02:47):
When on the surface?
Speaker 5 (02:50):
I never saw the surface.
Speaker 7 (02:52):
I was born in the Denver Cave half a mile down.
Speaker 1 (02:55):
Uh.
Speaker 3 (02:55):
It was a long time ago, Clark. Yeah, but you remember,
don't you.
Speaker 5 (03:01):
You and Kovacs are the only ones on the ship
who remember the surface.
Speaker 3 (03:04):
It was war then too. Kovacs was in the Army,
the Entantry, the Queen of Battles well, the queen's dead. Now,
what was it like you mean in the surface wars.
Speaker 1 (03:16):
Yeah, well they they.
Speaker 3 (03:18):
Had chaplains and had chaplains. I guess you never heard
of that. Now we have psycho officers. Yeah, I don't
talk about religion much these days.
Speaker 5 (03:30):
It must have been something on the surface. I dream
about that. I I don't know what it was really like,
but I dream about it. Then somebody takes me and
shows me down on the bottom of a hot closet
and they shove a big hand over my mouth and
I can't breathe. I wake up and I want to
bust out of here with my figure elt.
Speaker 3 (03:53):
What's the matter?
Speaker 8 (03:54):
Clock, Nothing, doctor Carpenter, Nothing, No.
Speaker 3 (03:59):
Sir, we were just passing the time.
Speaker 2 (04:01):
Company.
Speaker 3 (04:02):
When's the last time you had an emotional reaction test? Watson?
I don't know, I forgot. Just remember your seniority doesn't
exempt you from psychiatric review. This isn't some slip shot
surface vessel with organized superstition aboard. The old chaplains weren't
so bad.
Speaker 10 (04:19):
Not scientific, you know.
Speaker 3 (04:20):
I can remember when psychiatry and mental hygiene with the
hope of mankind. Now look at it. That goes in
my report Watson. Yeah, we'll make sure you spell my
name right now. Hear this, now here, this attention, all hands,
igneous rock detected fresh lava flaw stand by to go
(04:42):
to the corners a lucky.
Speaker 2 (04:44):
I'll finish with you later.
Speaker 3 (04:45):
I've got to check combat attachment. Sure, sure, go play
with your ink plots. I'm busy, and now go on,
get out of the way. Get down to the combat detachment.
They'll be happy to see Clark. Check those dampers. I'll
take three cuts. I'll stand pat Jake to the pat
(05:09):
hand compath detachment.
Speaker 2 (05:11):
Huh what kind of a chicken guy?
Speaker 3 (05:12):
Are you?
Speaker 2 (05:13):
Anytime you want to start? And then you're lying yellow?
Right now right, don't flip your wig?
Speaker 11 (05:18):
All right, I don't want to know trouble Rubber sold
Red Cove. He's worked a solo all except Nomany. Hey't
Noman Norman? How come you opin psych?
Speaker 2 (05:29):
I don't need it. I'm stablebout you any money.
Speaker 3 (05:34):
He's a study for Coveny.
Speaker 2 (05:36):
I've seen his two or one personnel file. It's blink.
I heard a guy say he was born in a lamb.
What do you mean you ever seen him?
Speaker 12 (05:42):
Mate?
Speaker 6 (05:42):
Oh?
Speaker 3 (05:42):
You're crazy.
Speaker 2 (05:43):
The science brass has been working on something like crazy.
Speaker 1 (05:46):
You know how many men they felt you are in
the last draft, nine hundred thousands.
Speaker 2 (05:50):
So what I suppose you run out of real men?
Fa sold You suppose you figure how to make him artificial?
Speaker 3 (05:56):
They ever thought they ain't gonna talk about it till
it's compoun I pasted.
Speaker 2 (06:01):
Yeah, I never thought of that. Hey, newman, what do
you got inside of you?
Speaker 6 (06:07):
Geez? I'm not supposed to talk about myself?
Speaker 2 (06:12):
Yeah, Well, suppose I make you so shut me?
Speaker 7 (06:18):
Let you up.
Speaker 3 (06:25):
At these men? Well, how's everybody feeling you?
Speaker 2 (06:30):
Cooke? All right, I'm all right, sir.
Speaker 13 (06:34):
Uh huh an like cool pan, I'm all right, sir Noman,
I'm all right, sir, of course, very well.
Speaker 3 (06:49):
Carry on, Comanda Sadders and I have my replace the carpenter.
It's rather important. So serious personnel trouble is indicated below.
Speaker 7 (07:03):
It always is. Give you a report to Culbert.
Speaker 2 (07:05):
I'm busy, but.
Speaker 3 (07:06):
So give me a t your reading, I, sir, read
it steady as before, mister Culver.
Speaker 10 (07:11):
Later, if you will initial a cycle report.
Speaker 7 (07:14):
All right, all right, hurry up.
Speaker 10 (07:15):
There's no time for non combat checking.
Speaker 2 (07:16):
High school reading. Sudden fault take me as activity ahead
that meets the enemy.
Speaker 3 (07:20):
Mister culver, I shall elevate the colors twenty five degrees.
Speaker 7 (07:23):
We're going up and come on the enemy from above.
Speaker 2 (07:24):
I shir abligation.
Speaker 3 (07:26):
Watching them elevate twenty five degrees. Only five elevation is sir?
Pick your head on?
Speaker 2 (07:34):
So now sounds like three?
Speaker 14 (07:35):
All right, son, General Quarters, I said, all right, all right,
General Quarters.
Speaker 2 (07:46):
All I think and luck aces I got.
Speaker 11 (07:48):
Get into your army, your double us.
Speaker 2 (07:50):
Yeah, give me a hands him. Jack's in power. My
helmet stuck still tight, commet's sto tight. You eat too much?
Speaker 9 (08:00):
I ate.
Speaker 2 (08:01):
I'm like Noman.
Speaker 11 (08:02):
Yeah, look at him, full armor and he's still smoking.
Speaker 2 (08:06):
Nobody lives on nicotine, hey, Newman, yes, you'll live on nicotine.
Tobacco is necessary to me? Say that a Robert, Why
did I tell you?
Speaker 3 (08:17):
Right?
Speaker 2 (08:17):
Shut up and test your helmet?
Speaker 3 (08:19):
Radio?
Speaker 2 (08:19):
Snap it down?
Speaker 3 (08:20):
Okay, hey, no, I'll get mine.
Speaker 10 (08:26):
Can you hear me?
Speaker 9 (08:27):
Is my head to come?
Speaker 3 (08:29):
Okay?
Speaker 7 (08:30):
Okay, pick the power up, newman?
Speaker 8 (08:33):
Check your ind to come. I can hear you.
Speaker 3 (08:36):
Attention, attention, combat detachment, move out.
Speaker 13 (08:40):
Where those child runners with battle breakfast breakfast.
Speaker 14 (08:44):
I can remember when I had maintenance job when I
had cooks instead of pood comes first, glass, quit, gripe
and coke.
Speaker 8 (08:51):
It at least we eat?
Speaker 13 (08:53):
Yeah?
Speaker 2 (08:54):
How about him? Money breakfast?
Speaker 8 (08:56):
Numma, No, I don't need breakfast.
Speaker 2 (09:00):
I can wait without.
Speaker 3 (09:10):
Navigation. Watson bridge here, have speed?
Speaker 2 (09:14):
Half speed? Half speed?
Speaker 3 (09:15):
I clark, what what's the matter? You got the shakes? No?
Speaker 7 (09:19):
No, I'm all right.
Speaker 3 (09:20):
Half speed.
Speaker 7 (09:23):
Half speed?
Speaker 3 (09:24):
Iye, attention, all hands, anime, bigger side repair action at
post corners, anime, bigger side.
Speaker 8 (09:33):
Do you hear that's a fair action?
Speaker 3 (09:35):
At full speed? Forward?
Speaker 10 (09:38):
No?
Speaker 3 (09:38):
I won't. Why don't come on full speed? Forward?
Speaker 7 (09:40):
No?
Speaker 13 (09:40):
No?
Speaker 9 (09:41):
Another inch?
Speaker 8 (09:42):
Stop the ship, get away from there, go. I gotta
stop the ship.
Speaker 2 (09:46):
I won't be killed.
Speaker 3 (09:47):
I won't.
Speaker 2 (09:47):
I won't be killed.
Speaker 3 (09:48):
Away from the controls car. You're hurt, all right, take
it easy.
Speaker 9 (09:53):
Now what I've got a gun?
Speaker 2 (09:57):
Stop the ship.
Speaker 8 (09:58):
Stop it before I shoot you.
Speaker 3 (10:00):
I'll take it easy, boy.
Speaker 8 (10:01):
I won't be killed, and I won't let him give
you a three.
Speaker 9 (10:04):
Watch it that I soothed.
Speaker 3 (10:05):
I don't know what you're doing.
Speaker 2 (10:07):
Gonna stop the soup?
Speaker 8 (10:09):
One?
Speaker 3 (10:19):
You could have wounded the carpenter. That would have been enough.
My gentleman was the clock was more than a marginal risk.
I acted according, Sure, Sure, I'll get a detailed to
clean up after you. Well, doctor, the commander says, you
(10:41):
rate a citation. If you had read my report, mister Colby,
you'd understand I've an herb. I said, don't let the
crew hear of this. Wouldn't do for them to know
an officer was emotionally unstable.
Speaker 2 (10:51):
You won't keep it quiet, sir.
Speaker 7 (10:53):
It was the detail to remove the body.
Speaker 2 (10:56):
What's that.
Speaker 3 (10:58):
End me digger within one hundred three, coming in fast,
hold the cover, don't reverse engines. Turn on the drill
with the tread stationary, I sir, full speed drill, treads
cut out, we'll blow up a cloud of dust and
applying their optical technician and the infra red stand by gunnery,
stand by, gunnery, right.
Speaker 7 (11:16):
Sir, enemy, we'll be breaking through any second.
Speaker 3 (11:22):
There it is full drill rates, navigation cut out, drill
cut out, drill.
Speaker 2 (11:29):
Fire went ready.
Speaker 3 (11:31):
Fire contact signal contact tegnal receives these fire, mister, culver,
contact signal, cease fire, Let may battery silence, sir, give
(11:56):
the go ahead to the combatman. They can move in
drip that a lot of navigation to bridge bridge. Aye,
what's wrong down there? Why the emergency? The atomic piles
kicking up. We can't get into hand damp. She may
blow any minute. I'll take over, mister Culiburn. Prepare to
abandon ship. But the enemy diggers say, atomic pile about
to blow. We'll have to advance, destroy the enemy and
take refuge in their ship. There's nothing else we can do.
Look alive, I, sir, attention, all hands, prepare to abandon ship.
(12:20):
And prepare to abandoned ship. Ship go backs. Have the
ship's records packed and ready to go. Hire, sir, Demander Watson,
what are you doing up here? There be a lot
more chance of getting out at the ship's engines were reversed.
She crawled back down the tunnel before she blew.
Speaker 2 (12:36):
There's no way to set up remote control.
Speaker 3 (12:38):
I know. I thought I could stay and runner, but
the pile's going to blow.
Speaker 7 (12:42):
I know, all right, Lieutenants, the mission granted.
Speaker 2 (12:48):
You may stay with the ship.
Speaker 3 (12:50):
Thank you, sir. You may go, Watson, Hye, sir, we
can't let it do that, Commander. You can't ask any
man to do that. This is no time for sentiment,
mister Colver, not to you're a louse. That's an unstable statement.
Speaker 2 (13:07):
Colver.
Speaker 3 (13:07):
It's obvious that Watson isn't worth much anyway. He might
as well die.
Speaker 7 (13:10):
I've heard enough. Doctor, You've had this coming a long time.
Speaker 3 (13:13):
Get away from me. Cover person, get here, call me
cover guess sir, all right, Goveax, release him.
Speaker 2 (13:25):
Cliver. I need you now.
Speaker 3 (13:26):
But if we come through this, I'll be forced to
prefer charges o ex help doctor Carmon rup. All right,
mister Culver, give the order to abandon ship. All the
(13:51):
men are away Kovacs, full speed and reverse. I'm mister Watson.
Speaker 10 (13:57):
How long have we got before the blows?
Speaker 3 (14:01):
I don't know. Covics, why did you stay here? You
could have abandoned ship with the others. I uh had
been saving the cigar I got two mm?
Speaker 10 (14:12):
Would Jane you like one? Well?
Speaker 3 (14:14):
Thanks? Oh that's good. You didn't answer my question, govec
why did you stay?
Speaker 2 (14:32):
How about used there?
Speaker 6 (14:33):
Me?
Speaker 3 (14:35):
I was in the last class out of Annapolis before
it went underground and merged into the Geo Warfare Academy.
I guess I just hang on to illusions dead traditions
of sentence. I suppose I did it because I thought
it was the right thing to do. Yeah, I guess
that's it when you get down to it. Goveacs, you
saved a cigar against the rules. I've I've got something too.
(14:57):
It's a book. I swill it out of a hotel
room in Frisco in the old days, a Bible. Yeah, Psycho.
Officers don't allow them on board. Carpenter would have had
me in the cells if he'd known about it. It
goes the geigerl I'm blowing him.
Speaker 10 (15:16):
No go Vacs. You remember this.
Speaker 3 (15:22):
The Lord is my shepherd. I shall not want he
maketh me to lie down in green pastor.
Speaker 11 (15:46):
Alright, guys, now you know what an enemy underground cruiser
looks like.
Speaker 2 (15:50):
Let's border. Who is that? Share?
Speaker 3 (15:53):
I don't know.
Speaker 6 (15:54):
Come on, you got me?
Speaker 8 (15:55):
Lets their landing trapdowns.
Speaker 2 (15:57):
Let's go.
Speaker 10 (16:00):
Look at it.
Speaker 8 (16:00):
It's fun changed.
Speaker 13 (16:03):
He kicked in his face late after.
Speaker 3 (16:05):
My gun record when I got up the ladder, and
then he waited for us.
Speaker 11 (16:10):
Oh, where he want to be some resistance.
Speaker 2 (16:16):
Let's get outside. We can thinking of the bridge.
Speaker 14 (16:19):
We got him and there's bridge hat.
Speaker 3 (16:24):
I don't like this. They should have been guns.
Speaker 2 (16:27):
I forget that. You throw open the hatch. I'll cover
him with a gun. Got your voice speaker on right? Okay, open,
I'll have that.
Speaker 3 (16:39):
Cope.
Speaker 13 (16:41):
Look at him the road dead, every.
Speaker 2 (16:45):
One of him with a sawt you beat that killed
himself with a sword.
Speaker 3 (17:04):
Con found this feign equipment, Culver house soon can we
get this enemy ship underway?
Speaker 7 (17:09):
Give me the damage report.
Speaker 3 (17:10):
I sir, the port tread knocked out, armor breached, aft
in the midships, gun batteries inoperable. Lieutenant Adamson estimates we
can make limited headway in two days.
Speaker 10 (17:19):
Very well, sir.
Speaker 2 (17:21):
Is it necessary for me to have this.
Speaker 10 (17:23):
Guard tagging after me?
Speaker 3 (17:24):
You're under arrest, Culver excuse me, Commanders, Sir, go ahead, Cope.
There was a message or something under the guy with
a sword when I broke in.
Speaker 2 (17:34):
I kept it as a sort of a souvenir.
Speaker 7 (17:37):
Give it to me.
Speaker 2 (17:37):
I didn't mean anything wrong, Sir.
Speaker 3 (17:38):
Handed over, Culvert, you read the enemy language. I'm afraid
I'm under arrest as a prisoner.
Speaker 2 (17:45):
I am that'll do. Go ahead.
Speaker 3 (17:46):
Read it from Supreme Headquarters. There's a code designate to
all field commanders subject secret Weapon.
Speaker 2 (18:00):
Thirty nine Failure.
Speaker 3 (18:01):
Of one Research Project X nine three no released on
South America Front last night X nine, a semi living
chemical process attacking all forms of protoplasm was found to
be uncontrollable. Is spreading through our own armies all over
(18:26):
the world.
Speaker 2 (18:28):
Two. You are instructed to well, that's all sir.
Speaker 3 (18:38):
Quiet gentlemen, there is only one way to interpret this news. Carpenter,
you will inform all hands that the destruction of the
enemy is worldwide. The war is over.
Speaker 7 (18:56):
I knowed to laugh shot. I don't need to.
Speaker 3 (19:04):
Instruct Pope serve double rations as a celebration and as
I strongly advise against it, the psychiatric implications.
Speaker 7 (19:12):
But what's the matter.
Speaker 3 (19:14):
I don't know something. I it's inside me. I've got
to cannot cope. Noman after him, Come on, no, thank you.
Speaker 10 (19:33):
That can't happen to him, man, not that it's Carpenter,
you can see that. But that can't happen to him.
Speaker 2 (19:42):
Man, he's dessert. What's going on here?
Speaker 3 (19:48):
If you don't understand, Commander, you didn't listen to that
enemy message. A semi living chemical process attacking all forms
of protoplasm, all forms, Carpenter, and you and me, you
understand why.
Speaker 10 (20:06):
The enemy killed themselves. They knew the war's over all right.
Speaker 2 (20:15):
There's got to be something to do. Coulport Counten requorters.
Speaker 10 (20:19):
It's too late for that, Commander.
Speaker 2 (20:22):
The war's over.
Speaker 10 (20:24):
They invented the perfect weapon. The human race is dissolved.
That's funny, dissolved like Carpenter.
Speaker 2 (20:47):
Human?
Speaker 10 (20:49):
Is that you? Yes, they're all dead, aren't there?
Speaker 6 (20:57):
Yes, Commander Sanderson was the last shot me, I suppose.
Speaker 3 (21:04):
So.
Speaker 10 (21:06):
How about you.
Speaker 7 (21:09):
It will not affect me.
Speaker 6 (21:11):
I am not made of protoplasm. I am an inorganic synthesis.
You can't die, no, I am atomic powered. My breakdown
point is calculated.
Speaker 8 (21:27):
In thousands of years.
Speaker 6 (21:30):
I cannot destroy myself. I was conditioned against it.
Speaker 10 (21:35):
It's the beginning. You'll be all wrong. I know, buried
alive and in the.
Speaker 3 (21:44):
Rock for thousands of years.
Speaker 4 (21:49):
I'm sorry for you. I'm sorry you be all alone starting.
Speaker 8 (22:04):
He said, why can't I die?
Speaker 6 (22:17):
Why didn't they make me so I can die like
the others? I can't even kill myself. Why can't I die?
Why can't I die?
Speaker 12 (22:53):
Man has always told himself that he was a master
of the machine, but he always be Listen next week
with a story of a nightmare.
Speaker 9 (23:09):
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(23:32):
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Music by Bert Furman, engineer George Mathis. Dimension As is
produced by William Welch and directed by Edward King.
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