August 13, 2025 • 44 mins
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Speaker 1 (00:13):
Come in.
Speaker 2 (00:16):
Welcome. I'm Tammy Grimes.
Speaker 3 (00:20):
It is said the perfection is the pursuit of sweetness
and lightness. The pursuit is that because the capture itself
is impossible.
Speaker 1 (00:30):
Since the dim and misty.
Speaker 3 (00:32):
Dawn of history, man has tried to create a perfect world.
So far it has eluded it. And perhaps it's just
as well. After all, if everyone were to be perfect,
how could we tolerate each other?
Speaker 4 (00:49):
Why should I want to kill.
Speaker 1 (00:50):
You because I'm the enemy enemy.
Speaker 5 (00:54):
Until ten seconds ago, we never knew each other existed.
Speaker 1 (00:57):
But each of us is fighting for our part.
Speaker 2 (01:00):
That's true.
Speaker 5 (01:01):
But I am sick of fighting for my planet. I'd
like to fight for me. Wouldn't you like to fight
for you? I don't understand your ship my ship.
Speaker 2 (01:14):
Between us, we have enough firepower to.
Speaker 5 (01:17):
Destroy the universe. Why don't we take over.
Speaker 3 (01:31):
Our mystery drama Resident Killer has written especially for the
Mystery bid by Sam Dan and stars Mason Adams. I'll
be back shortly with that one. I know a dramatist
who has been appointed playwright in residence at a large university.
Speaker 2 (01:54):
Painters in residents.
Speaker 3 (01:56):
Composers in residents, sculptors, novelists, philosophers.
Speaker 2 (02:01):
The list keeps increasing.
Speaker 3 (02:03):
And as our civilization becomes more and more complex, who
knows what other specialists may be in demand for residence,
not just for the colleges, but for society itself. The
time is twenty four ninety eight, five hundred years into
the future. Have there been many changes?
Speaker 2 (02:24):
Of course?
Speaker 3 (02:25):
Think of what has taken place over the past five centuries.
George Barrows is having breakfast with his wife. At least
that hasn't changed until Bill Douglas has been named commander
of the fleet. You have the seniority.
Speaker 1 (02:42):
The council thinks he's more qualified.
Speaker 2 (02:44):
But everyone knows you're better.
Speaker 1 (02:46):
You're beginning to sound competitive.
Speaker 2 (02:48):
But this is a matter of simple justice.
Speaker 6 (02:50):
Justice my dying. It's never simple. Oh well, now I have.
Speaker 2 (02:56):
To go there isn't this your four day leave?
Speaker 1 (03:00):
I have to go to the port.
Speaker 6 (03:01):
Yes, yeah, there are things I have to tend to
on the ship.
Speaker 1 (03:05):
Such as very technical.
Speaker 2 (03:08):
You could put it on the simplifier for me.
Speaker 1 (03:10):
It's quite boring.
Speaker 3 (03:12):
I know where you're going Teddy's, Jim, Why did you.
Speaker 2 (03:17):
Lie to me?
Speaker 6 (03:18):
Because the idea of Teddy's distresses you.
Speaker 2 (03:21):
You see how dangerous this is becoming.
Speaker 1 (03:23):
An, Ella, it was just an innocent little you plan.
Speaker 2 (03:27):
It's all innocent.
Speaker 3 (03:29):
Well, perhaps it begins that way, but the fact is
you've told me a lie, and from a lie where
Teddy's Jim is wrong.
Speaker 1 (03:38):
You know that, Darling. I only go there for access.
Speaker 3 (03:42):
No, you don't to go there to to fight, Ella,
That isn't why you stand opposite another human being and
each of you tries to hit the other.
Speaker 2 (03:51):
To hurt the other.
Speaker 1 (03:53):
No, no, no.
Speaker 6 (03:55):
It's just a trial of skill.
Speaker 2 (03:57):
Do you strike hard blows?
Speaker 5 (03:59):
Wow?
Speaker 3 (04:00):
Is it possible for someone to be injured? That isn't
the purpose, right, does it? Or does it not arouse
aggressive feelings?
Speaker 6 (04:08):
All right, yes it does.
Speaker 3 (04:10):
You admitted this boxing, this wrestling. Isn't it antisocial?
Speaker 6 (04:16):
Maybe?
Speaker 3 (04:17):
Oh, George, we got away from all that five hundred
years ago. What would you like for us to drift
back into those savage times when it was everyone for
himself and every hand raised against one's neighbor.
Speaker 1 (04:30):
No, but Ella, this is such a harmless thing.
Speaker 7 (04:34):
It is not.
Speaker 2 (04:35):
It is fighting.
Speaker 3 (04:36):
It cannot be permitted to exist in any form. It
has no place in our society, which is.
Speaker 2 (04:43):
Dedicated to brotherly love.
Speaker 6 (04:45):
There's such a thing as too much brotherly.
Speaker 2 (04:48):
Love, George, What am I going.
Speaker 5 (04:49):
To do with you?
Speaker 6 (04:51):
You could suggest me for psych reek psychic reconstruction.
Speaker 2 (04:56):
I really should.
Speaker 1 (04:57):
Well why don't you?
Speaker 2 (04:58):
Because I couldn't be happy with anyone.
Speaker 6 (05:01):
Else even though I'm aggressive.
Speaker 2 (05:05):
No, stop this nonsense. Can you kiss?
Speaker 6 (05:11):
Of course she's right. I'm the one that's out of step.
We have to have this brotherly love, this absolutely uncompromising
belief in the sanctity of the individual, because the other
thing just doesn't work. It hasn't since the world began.
You can't compromise and make exceptions either. There cannot be
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even the slightest manifestation of aggression.
Speaker 2 (05:38):
But what can I do.
Speaker 6 (05:39):
I'm an aggressive person and the life we must lead
now bores me stiff.
Speaker 2 (05:45):
Please pass this place.
Speaker 6 (05:48):
Legmatic but eliminate aggression. Every day they all show up
in front of Teddy's gim this anti aggression Society. They're
always out in force that they'd use it. The leader
was this tall, dark haired name, and she really was Boto.
She'd make a great lady wrestler. Anyhow she would stop me.
Speaker 2 (06:11):
I love you.
Speaker 1 (06:12):
I love you too.
Speaker 2 (06:13):
I love everything that lives.
Speaker 6 (06:15):
I also love everything that lives.
Speaker 3 (06:17):
I refuse to raise my hand against anything that lives.
Speaker 2 (06:23):
I refuse to.
Speaker 3 (06:24):
Entertain even the slightest thoughts of aggressive behavior. Aggression is
an evil seed, once planted its growth.
Speaker 6 (06:33):
I'm sorry. I could stand here and agree with you forever.
You are so beautiful and intelligent. However you must is chose.
Speaker 3 (06:41):
Will you accept this literature and discover how you can
coursen and brutalize yourself.
Speaker 1 (06:46):
By attending kind of you to offer it?
Speaker 2 (06:49):
May you be enlightened like you?
Speaker 1 (06:50):
I love you, I love you? Hey, tell you? Tell
you you?
Speaker 2 (06:58):
Okay?
Speaker 1 (07:00):
How to do? No? No, no, no no, nothing's going.
Speaker 5 (07:04):
Eh, lady, No, I can't feel anything. Your knows his bleeding?
Speaker 7 (07:08):
Eh?
Speaker 6 (07:09):
A little bit? O, boy, that was a workout.
Speaker 1 (07:11):
It's down here. Who's this?
Speaker 5 (07:15):
Uh? This guy Douglas who's just been named fleet commander?
Speaker 6 (07:18):
Oh he's all right.
Speaker 1 (07:19):
Why aren't you the senior pilot of the Space Fleet
these days?
Speaker 6 (07:23):
If you're not a member of the Anti Aggression Society,
forget it.
Speaker 1 (07:26):
That's the way the wind blows, stunting to howl. If
you ask me, who cares.
Speaker 6 (07:31):
I'd rather be on my own as a pilot, where
I don't have to set an example, After all, it
could never come.
Speaker 1 (07:36):
Here if I were fleet. See oh now could.
Speaker 5 (07:38):
I looks like it won't be coming here much longer anyhow,
I'm going out of business. You're what the handwriting's on
the wall. But you can't shut down and being forced down, Teddy.
Nobody is allowed to use force for any.
Speaker 1 (07:53):
Reason conditions, George.
Speaker 5 (07:55):
Look around you now, this time of day, we'd have
five ten boxing bots going be a couple of wrestlers.
This afternoon it's just you and me doing a couple
of rounds.
Speaker 1 (08:05):
It's the old story.
Speaker 5 (08:06):
If you can't let them join them join who that
gang outside of the science?
Speaker 1 (08:12):
The cooks?
Speaker 5 (08:12):
No, Georgie, you and me, we're the cooks. Now, those folks,
they're the wave of the future.
Speaker 1 (08:20):
If you refuse to write it, you'll drowned. So I
decided to close up and do what?
Speaker 4 (08:26):
Get a job?
Speaker 6 (08:27):
How can you get a job if you're not a
member of the Anti Aggression Society?
Speaker 1 (08:31):
I guess I'll have to join up.
Speaker 6 (08:33):
Come on, it can't be that bad.
Speaker 5 (08:34):
It's worse, Georgie. I got a kid in school. She's
ashamed of it.
Speaker 6 (08:38):
But how can you join?
Speaker 1 (08:40):
You don't believe in that stuff? I will soon. I
signed up for psychic reconstruction.
Speaker 6 (08:48):
You're gonna be psyche.
Speaker 1 (08:50):
It's the only way you can get along in this world. George.
Speaker 6 (08:53):
Yeah, Well, who says this is the only world there is?
I'm afraid it is the only world. The other planets
in our solar system, and I passed them by all
the time on routine weather reconnaissance.
Speaker 1 (09:09):
But I couldn't live.
Speaker 6 (09:11):
On any of them. I mean they're too hot, too cold,
too wet to dry.
Speaker 1 (09:17):
I mean, there's life.
Speaker 6 (09:18):
There's so many different kinds of life, but none of
us like dollars.
Speaker 1 (09:23):
So what was I to do?
Speaker 6 (09:25):
Soon I'd be the only aggressive person left on Earth.
Speaker 1 (09:28):
I'd be considered peculiar alien. Teddy was right, if you
can't let them join them. I came home and I
told Ella. She burst into tears. George.
Speaker 2 (09:42):
Oh, George, I'm so happy you're doing it for me.
Speaker 3 (09:46):
Sure, Sure, you'll develop an entirely new and exciting perspective
on life, exciting a change in your entire psychological outlook.
As you undergo psychic reconstruction, every last vestige of aggression.
Speaker 2 (10:02):
Will leave you.
Speaker 3 (10:03):
You know, a newcolm, an inner peace, a deep love
for every living.
Speaker 1 (10:09):
Creature, Okay, okay, lead me to it.
Speaker 2 (10:12):
You won't be sorry.
Speaker 1 (10:14):
Look you say you love me.
Speaker 2 (10:15):
I do love you.
Speaker 1 (10:16):
But once I get brainwashed, brainwash, he'll be.
Speaker 6 (10:20):
The same as everyone else.
Speaker 2 (10:21):
I always love you.
Speaker 6 (10:24):
I hope so.
Speaker 1 (10:28):
And so. I shaped up a psyche.
Speaker 6 (10:31):
Although here you had to say psychic reconstruction. The president
himself was in charge.
Speaker 5 (10:38):
We are gathered, yem to talk about love. Love well,
our fellow man, love that can only exist to him.
It is no envy, no competition, no aggression. Too many
of you. This may sound all boring, Yet what is
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the alternative? Hasn't history demonstrated the aggression in any form,
no matter how slight or small or seemingly innocent, must
eventually inflame patterns that will ultimately rage out of control.
Speaker 1 (11:18):
And so forth and so on. Even in our sleep,
there ran wires in the horse, and you'd keep hearing
the message.
Speaker 6 (11:25):
You would begin to feel it in your blood, your nerves,
the marrow of your bones. You could feel it, seeful,
you become a part of you. There was no escape
from it, and then things became rough.
Speaker 5 (11:44):
You're all making remarkable progress. Especially wished to commend Pilot
George Barrows, and with the Teddy thoughtstat they will be
the first to undergo laboratory indoctrination, and class is just
missed for the day.
Speaker 1 (12:02):
You may all go.
Speaker 2 (12:07):
You're back early.
Speaker 6 (12:08):
He gave us the rest of the day off.
Speaker 2 (12:11):
What would you like to do?
Speaker 6 (12:12):
Nothing?
Speaker 1 (12:13):
Just rest, relax without having a lot of stuff piped
in on it.
Speaker 3 (12:17):
But it makes sense, wonderful sense. Sure, soon you'll believe it.
Speaker 1 (12:22):
I even't believe it now.
Speaker 6 (12:24):
It's just a it's just that I don't like it.
Speaker 2 (12:26):
Why not?
Speaker 6 (12:27):
Because it's against human nature. I don't care what anyone
tells me. Man is a competitive animal, but.
Speaker 2 (12:35):
He doesn't have to be.
Speaker 1 (12:37):
That's the way he is, and that's why.
Speaker 3 (12:39):
He has to change, because if he doesn't, the world
will end.
Speaker 1 (12:43):
Okay, I hear enough of that all day.
Speaker 3 (12:46):
Most of us, the overwhelming majority of us, have changed, George,
and you must change too.
Speaker 1 (12:52):
I've changed, but I still won't like it.
Speaker 8 (12:55):
And what.
Speaker 3 (13:00):
You can't be an earthquake that three hundred years ago
would neutralized the most in cool.
Speaker 6 (13:04):
Let's get on.
Speaker 7 (13:07):
The house.
Speaker 2 (13:08):
It's coming apart.
Speaker 6 (13:09):
Your hard God, are you?
Speaker 1 (13:19):
Are you all right?
Speaker 7 (13:20):
Yes?
Speaker 1 (13:22):
I can't see who came apart?
Speaker 2 (13:26):
Oh, it's dusk. I can hardly.
Speaker 6 (13:28):
Breathe, How did We're not supposed to whatever we did?
Speaker 1 (13:33):
Hold out of my hand. We'll try to move back. Yes,
it gets him fresh air.
Speaker 2 (13:37):
He is oh, oh, this is better, This is much better.
Speaker 6 (13:42):
I wonder how everyone else did.
Speaker 2 (13:48):
Look at you?
Speaker 3 (13:49):
Want to bother George, Georgie beard your hair, it's down
to your shoulders, Georgia wearing what is.
Speaker 6 (13:59):
That skin of an animal? How show you?
Speaker 2 (14:02):
Tree?
Speaker 7 (14:03):
Trees?
Speaker 2 (14:04):
One of those twas?
Speaker 6 (14:06):
Where we live?
Speaker 2 (14:08):
Where are we? George? What happened to us?
Speaker 1 (14:20):
Where are we?
Speaker 2 (14:22):
What happened to us? Here?
Speaker 3 (14:24):
You have a married couple happily living in a luxurious
home of the far distant future. Suddenly, without warning, they
find themselves stone aged savages in the midst of a jungle.
What happened, and perhaps even why it happened, are the
problems we shall address in act too short, Madam, said
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mister Dostoyevsky. Is a pliable animal, a being who can
become accustomed to everything, and we might add to anything.
While this may be one of man's greatest strings, it
can also prove to be his fatal weakness.
Speaker 2 (15:10):
It's one thing to.
Speaker 3 (15:11):
Adapt to the rigors of the physical environment, but it
is something else to compromise with the demands of morality
or immorality.
Speaker 2 (15:20):
George, George, what happened to us? Where are we?
Speaker 1 (15:23):
I don't know what Someone's coming.
Speaker 6 (15:25):
Hey, he's dressed just as we are.
Speaker 2 (15:28):
Who ho?
Speaker 6 (15:30):
It's ty Teddy Forster. Hey, Teddy? What is this? How
did we get here?
Speaker 8 (15:34):
Do you know?
Speaker 1 (15:35):
Tamie and Ella?
Speaker 7 (15:36):
What?
Speaker 1 (15:37):
I want you? I want you? Ella?
Speaker 2 (15:39):
What do you say?
Speaker 5 (15:40):
I've always wanted you and I'm gonna have you?
Speaker 7 (15:42):
What? Teddy?
Speaker 6 (15:43):
What has come over?
Speaker 1 (15:44):
If I'm taking Ella then?
Speaker 3 (15:46):
And I have something to say about that?
Speaker 6 (15:48):
You have nothing to say?
Speaker 2 (15:49):
Now?
Speaker 1 (15:49):
You such a money I think you're doing? You want
to fight me for?
Speaker 2 (15:53):
Come on?
Speaker 6 (15:59):
Suddenly we were flaring away at each other with our fists,
with rocks, with whatever came to hand.
Speaker 1 (16:04):
And the bows they hurt.
Speaker 6 (16:07):
I mean, they weren't the sharp and stinging jabs we
threw at each other in the gym. These were meant
to disable, even to kunt some slam. Something flashed in
Teddy's hand. I saw the knife blade too late. There
was an agonizing pain. It's a bit of me, a
paralyzing pain. All I could hear was Ella's voice in
the distance.
Speaker 1 (16:26):
Filled with terror.
Speaker 2 (16:27):
George, George, help me, Gudge, help me.
Speaker 1 (16:33):
And then there was nothing.
Speaker 6 (16:35):
There was nothing. I'm dead, I said to myself, I'm dead,
but I was. There was Teddy coming out me, sword
in hand. I knew it was Teddy, even though the
visor of his helmet.
Speaker 1 (16:45):
Covered his face.
Speaker 6 (16:46):
And there was the fight raging all around me, the
fight for the castle. And I could hear Teddy shouting
yield heever bad it down to the ground, no quarter,
no prisoners, Put them all.
Speaker 9 (17:00):
To the side, my lord, the counsels, the die.
Speaker 1 (17:07):
And suddenly we were in the midst of a holocaust.
Speaker 6 (17:10):
And there was the terrible noise of the laws collapsing
as the burning castle fell in on us.
Speaker 1 (17:15):
Hole and once again there was nothing. I'm dead, I said, no, no.
Speaker 6 (17:25):
But I wasn't.
Speaker 1 (17:27):
Once again I field of battle, and then fighting and falling.
Speaker 6 (17:31):
Suddenly I was high in the sky aboard some primitive aircraft.
I was releasing ancient bombs, and they were falling on
a city which was in flames beneath me.
Speaker 1 (17:40):
Whether I was the killer or the one being killed, the.
Speaker 6 (17:43):
Agony was always the siting of that. I drifted in
and out of one massacre, one slaughter after another. I
had known of these things. I had read books, I
had seen pictures and tapes, but they existed merely as
abstract ideas. And now they were happening to me, my son.
The ring was real. It was unbearable. I couldn't stand
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it any more. Stop it, stop it stop.
Speaker 1 (18:06):
Only you can stop it, George barn Only.
Speaker 6 (18:10):
You how tell me?
Speaker 5 (18:12):
How damn about the corrupt seede of aggression before the
flowers into a fatal and poisonous plant despite can you
do it?
Speaker 1 (18:21):
Yes?
Speaker 6 (18:22):
Yes, finally, oh, finally, It was burnt out of me
all thoughts of striving, competing, fighting aggression.
Speaker 1 (18:36):
Something had come over me.
Speaker 6 (18:38):
I was a different human being in so many ways.
I had even become rather quiet, shy.
Speaker 3 (18:47):
You want to stay home again, yes, but this is
something new.
Speaker 1 (18:52):
We might listen to some music that as if it
pleases you.
Speaker 2 (18:56):
I didn't know you like to sit and listen to music.
You're not at all the way you were?
Speaker 1 (19:02):
How was I?
Speaker 2 (19:03):
You mean you don't remember?
Speaker 1 (19:05):
It's better this way, don't you agree?
Speaker 2 (19:07):
Yes, but it's not as exciting.
Speaker 1 (19:11):
You mean, as dangerous.
Speaker 2 (19:12):
Good? You're so different, of.
Speaker 6 (19:15):
Course, I've been psychologically reconstructed and I want to be perfect? No,
what is it? Ellah?
Speaker 2 (19:23):
Oh the thought of perfection? It frightens me.
Speaker 1 (19:27):
Are you saying we shouldn't strive for it?
Speaker 3 (19:29):
Yes, strive, but I hope we never achieve it. To George,
h how dull that would be?
Speaker 1 (19:35):
How do you know?
Speaker 3 (19:36):
I look at you, you're perfect you. You don't have
a single angry or envious or destructive thought in your head.
Speaker 1 (19:45):
Did you like me better the other way?
Speaker 2 (19:47):
You were more fun?
Speaker 1 (19:48):
You haven't answered the question.
Speaker 3 (19:50):
Well, one time I had feelings of aggression and I
went through the same psych Greek.
Speaker 2 (19:57):
And you changed, But I I didn't become a fum.
Speaker 1 (20:01):
Is that what I am?
Speaker 6 (20:03):
No, George, it's just, but it must be complete, Ella
all the way. A single tiny misstep and we can
revert to barbarism.
Speaker 1 (20:12):
You know why you married me.
Speaker 2 (20:14):
I fell in love with you?
Speaker 1 (20:15):
Why? Because I was different.
Speaker 6 (20:18):
You believed in perfection in theory, but in practice perfection
is so hard to live with. Secretly, you wrong to
be aggressive, but you were afraid to express it. That
isn't true, and why you made a strong outward show
of disapproval towards my aggression? You would get a vicarrius
through a lot of it. I didn't you would lecture
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me on how savage and socially destructive it was for
me to go to Teddy's gym only because.
Speaker 1 (20:44):
There were times when you longed to go there yourself.
That isn't true, I admitted, my darling.
Speaker 3 (20:50):
Is it so terrible to want to be just a
little aggressive once in a while?
Speaker 2 (20:55):
Oh, yes, you said that. I suppose it is.
Speaker 6 (20:57):
We must be perfect or we fall back in to
the pit. You must try, Ella constantly. I'll try, I'll try, George.
You wish to resign from the space suite, Mister President,
I have found my life's work.
Speaker 1 (21:15):
I wish to teach the most commendable desire. Pilot Barrows.
Is my resignation accepted? Sir. Commander Douglas is dead, dead
in space? How excuse me? The Douglas tapes.
Speaker 2 (21:31):
If you please, Yes, mister President.
Speaker 1 (21:33):
Watch the screen, Pilot bears. Where is this space?
Speaker 6 (21:40):
I don't see any familiar signs.
Speaker 5 (21:42):
This is not in our galaxy, or eve in our universe.
It's far beyond any area you've ever been requested to patrol.
Speaker 1 (21:49):
But why what was he supposed to be doing? His mission?
Speaker 5 (21:52):
Is was to intercept any alien invaders intercept?
Speaker 6 (21:58):
What does that mean?
Speaker 1 (22:00):
Kill? Kill?
Speaker 6 (22:01):
How could Commander Douglas, a dedicated member of the anti
aggression society kill? And how can you, our president, calmly
sit here and tell me?
Speaker 5 (22:10):
Listen the voice tape of Commander Douglas.
Speaker 6 (22:14):
Douglas alienship Range nine hundred million.
Speaker 3 (22:19):
Alien course or system destroy repeat destroy?
Speaker 1 (22:26):
Isn't he gonna talk to the alien first? Though? There
there is nothing to talk about.
Speaker 6 (22:31):
We are all living creatures. There's everything to talk about.
Speaker 5 (22:35):
We cannot afford to take the chance that the stranger
is harmless and holds no thought of gun quest.
Speaker 6 (22:40):
We could ask, we could try to learn and thus
reveal the fact of our existence. We cannot afford to
risk war. I am now closed at shix hundred million
fire A, B, C, and D.
Speaker 1 (23:00):
I have fired a Dame Scar direct ship.
Speaker 6 (23:07):
God, why did he call it an enemy? How do
we know what.
Speaker 2 (23:20):
The ship?
Speaker 1 (23:21):
It blew up?
Speaker 5 (23:22):
He in the alien opened fire at the same time.
Speaker 1 (23:26):
And now Douglas must be replaced. Are you me no, sir?
I cannot kill. It goes against every moral and effort.
You cannot kill because killing has been programmed out of you.
You can be reprogrammed why mean the most skilled of
all our harlest time.
Speaker 6 (23:45):
I thought Douglas was a true lover of all living things, but.
Speaker 1 (23:48):
He was only playing a role.
Speaker 6 (23:50):
And you are great humanitarian president, Your hypocrites, apockerty.
Speaker 5 (23:55):
It's an unfortunate but necessary hypocrisy.
Speaker 6 (24:00):
Try that on me.
Speaker 1 (24:01):
What which you have?
Speaker 5 (24:02):
A return to the past, to a planet armed to
the teeth, a planet that accepted killing is the only
means of preserving itself.
Speaker 1 (24:10):
This way, one man and.
Speaker 5 (24:13):
One man alone rogues the distant reaches of space, one
man alone. It's armed one man alone.
Speaker 1 (24:22):
But it isn't one man. You're in on it.
Speaker 6 (24:25):
The base coordinator, the technicians who service the ship.
Speaker 1 (24:28):
It's a small but highly trusted group.
Speaker 6 (24:30):
A base coordinator. That voice, I heard it before. She's
the leader of the anti aggression society. We must have
a killer.
Speaker 1 (24:38):
It's the price we pay.
Speaker 6 (24:40):
I don't want to be that killer. I don't want
to be president either. I don't want the responsibility in
the heart ache.
Speaker 5 (24:46):
I want to be like everybody else and think happy,
heartwarming thoughts. I don't want to be haunted by the
knowledge of the dark side.
Speaker 1 (24:53):
But I am.
Speaker 6 (24:54):
The most pliff.
Speaker 1 (24:55):
I will not be the killer.
Speaker 5 (24:56):
You will because you are the moment just qualified. Every
society needs a killer. One was authorized to commit murder
to preserve the rest of us.
Speaker 1 (25:08):
There must be an alternity all there is.
Speaker 5 (25:12):
We can submit to invasion, to be conquered, destroyed, and slaved.
Speaker 6 (25:16):
At least that way, there'll be no blood on our hands.
We will be free of guilt.
Speaker 1 (25:20):
And you're willing to accept that.
Speaker 6 (25:22):
Am I the only pilot?
Speaker 5 (25:24):
If you're the most trustworthy replacing our fate in your hands.
Speaker 6 (25:29):
We are giving you.
Speaker 5 (25:29):
The power No one else in the world possesses the
ability to destroy us.
Speaker 1 (25:36):
How do you know I won't do it one day? No,
we don't. But it's the chance we must take.
Speaker 3 (25:48):
That's quite a chance, isn't it. We are giving you
the power no one else in our.
Speaker 1 (25:54):
World possesses, says the President.
Speaker 3 (25:57):
What was it that.
Speaker 2 (25:57):
Lord Acton said about power?
Speaker 6 (26:00):
Ah?
Speaker 3 (26:01):
Yes, power corrupts, and absolute power corrupts. Absolutely. It seems
to be the rule, judging from history. But all rules
have exceptions.
Speaker 2 (26:16):
Or do they?
Speaker 3 (26:18):
The anger lies in Act three shortly, and we talk
of peace as the universally to be desired state. How
we long for peace, and yet we must be aware
that we have never truly known it throughout history. What
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we have had, at best was some relatively quiet intervals
between wars. What must we do to achieve true peace?
Our ancestors couldn't find the answer, We ourselves perplexed, And
in the world of the future it appears so far
that they haven't had much luck with a problem either.
Speaker 1 (27:03):
But I have been programmed against it.
Speaker 6 (27:06):
I cannot kill you.
Speaker 1 (27:07):
It will be reprogrammed.
Speaker 6 (27:12):
As you might imagine, there was considerable discussion fact and
forth on ethics and morals, means and ends, but it
all boiled down to that one word that usually carries
a day necessity. So finally I agreed to be reprogrammed.
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And who do you think my psych reek was for
this deal? None other than the leader of the anti
Impressian society herself.
Speaker 1 (27:43):
Say, the last time I saw.
Speaker 6 (27:46):
You, you were picking in Teddy's gym.
Speaker 3 (27:49):
Let us confine ourselves to the subject at hand.
Speaker 6 (27:53):
Remember, remember, may I ask you not to patronize this establishment,
not to course an imprutalize yourself.
Speaker 2 (28:00):
Pay attention.
Speaker 3 (28:01):
I don't like this anymore than you do, but it
has to be done for the good of society. Now
say it over and over again. Aggression is a normal, natural,
and innate part of man.
Speaker 6 (28:22):
But I wasn't going to make it easy for it.
I really believed what I had been programmed to believe
about the sanctity of life. I didn't want to give
it up. Besides, if I could hold on to that belief,
they would have to give up on me and choose
someone else. I could lead my own life.
Speaker 1 (28:41):
But they were too smart for me.
Speaker 2 (28:43):
Why do you resist.
Speaker 1 (28:45):
This is my own basic belief. I can't help it.
Speaker 2 (28:48):
You truly believe that life is precious?
Speaker 1 (28:51):
Yes?
Speaker 2 (28:52):
Then ask yourself? How can life be precious, be.
Speaker 3 (28:56):
Of any value if it isn't worth protecting or depending?
Speaker 6 (29:03):
Suddenly they had found it, the question that could get
beneath my skin, the question I couldn't answer to my
own satisfaction.
Speaker 1 (29:13):
I kept hearing that question day and night.
Speaker 2 (29:16):
How can life.
Speaker 7 (29:17):
Be precious if it isn't worth protecting?
Speaker 6 (29:21):
And like a house of cards, my defenses collapsed.
Speaker 1 (29:26):
Suddenly I had no more objections.
Speaker 6 (29:29):
I was ready for my very first seek and kill mission.
Perhaps before I could return, I would have to take
a life.
Speaker 1 (29:39):
How could I actually do it?
Speaker 2 (29:41):
Don't worry about it.
Speaker 6 (29:43):
Don't worry about it?
Speaker 2 (29:44):
I'll give you the order to fire.
Speaker 1 (29:46):
Why should you give the order so.
Speaker 3 (29:48):
You can have someone to share the guilt board your ship?
Speaker 6 (29:58):
Before I know it, I was out there, billions of
miles away. It was a strange feeling here in this
world without end. How many planets could there be that
might support a life form that could be probing for hours?
Speaker 1 (30:13):
Maybe none, maybe a few, maybe a million.
Speaker 6 (30:17):
I was all alone except for her voice that tied
me to home.
Speaker 7 (30:23):
Said course that will appear on your computer. Readout.
Speaker 6 (30:26):
Wait, yes, bottom left quadrant coordinates eighty seven thirty.
Speaker 1 (30:31):
Do you see?
Speaker 3 (30:32):
Yes, you have movement at coordinates eighty six thirty.
Speaker 6 (30:36):
I can't tell what it is.
Speaker 3 (30:38):
After a while, you'll be able to recognize that configuration instinctively.
Speaker 7 (30:44):
It's a ship, a ship prepared to destroy.
Speaker 1 (30:47):
Destroy. There must be another way.
Speaker 7 (30:50):
There is no other way. But before he destroys you.
Speaker 3 (30:55):
Range range activate your range find up now range.
Speaker 1 (31:02):
Ah a billion two.
Speaker 7 (31:04):
You are getting a new course bearing on the computer.
Read it as.
Speaker 1 (31:11):
Range nine hundred million.
Speaker 3 (31:14):
Repair missiles ABCD for firing.
Speaker 6 (31:19):
Oh please, can't we repair missiles? Acknowledge missiles armed range
A seven hundred million fire.
Speaker 7 (31:31):
Fire.
Speaker 1 (31:32):
Hi, I don't know if I can don't think.
Speaker 7 (31:37):
This is just another routine command from the base.
Speaker 10 (31:41):
Fire fire, good, watch, don't.
Speaker 7 (31:54):
Said man and take invasive action.
Speaker 1 (31:57):
He may have fired at you.
Speaker 7 (31:59):
I can move.
Speaker 6 (32:01):
I'm sick. I don't feel well.
Speaker 7 (32:03):
That's to be expected after your first cure.
Speaker 1 (32:06):
Oh, don't put it that way. All right, I've taken
a life.
Speaker 7 (32:10):
You'll get over it after a while. You won't even
think about it.
Speaker 6 (32:18):
Do we really have no choice? Was this the best
solution they could? Fine? Maybe maybe this was the only
way we could survive.
Speaker 1 (32:30):
She was right about one thing.
Speaker 6 (32:32):
She said I'd get over it after a while. I
wouldn't even think about it. Well, after a while, I
didn't think about it. Upper right Quadrant coordinates thirty four nineteen, Upper.
Speaker 7 (32:45):
Right thirty four nineteen.
Speaker 1 (32:48):
Movement verify a ship nine hundred million.
Speaker 7 (32:52):
Activate change fine.
Speaker 6 (32:54):
Acknowledge on missiles E and G E F G arm ranged.
Speaker 1 (33:02):
Seven fire on six ready.
Speaker 7 (33:07):
Fire and.
Speaker 6 (33:11):
He fired fired by G G fired good shooting. He's
on the screen.
Speaker 7 (33:20):
He's not good. You can't come home.
Speaker 6 (33:26):
She was right when she said I'd be able to
do it without thinking. But she was wrong when she
said I'd get over it once it was done. Once
the excitement, the fear, the suspense were gone. I was drained,
completely spent and physically ill. What was the matter with me?
And then I found out by accident I had reported
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to my base coordinator for deep briefing after my latest mission.
Speaker 2 (33:53):
Good you got to this time.
Speaker 3 (33:56):
We thought Douglas was an expert, but you cover a
widest he ever attempted.
Speaker 2 (34:02):
What is it?
Speaker 1 (34:03):
Well, I don't know.
Speaker 2 (34:07):
Shouldn't you report to medical?
Speaker 6 (34:11):
It's sorright? I think I know what it is.
Speaker 1 (34:15):
It was her right sheet bull.
Speaker 6 (34:18):
There was a bruise, very slight, almost invisible, but it
was there? Or was it my imagination? No, No, it
couldn't be. It was the kind of bruise you get
when someone has struck a blow. Who would strike the
leader of the anti aggression society? Who would even strike
a blow at all? There was one person who might
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be able to tell me.
Speaker 1 (34:43):
I don't know what you're talking about, George Teddy. I
didn't want to ask her. Are you back in business?
Speaker 6 (34:48):
Yep?
Speaker 1 (34:49):
But it's all hush hush, top secret.
Speaker 5 (34:52):
They all come to me, the president, the base coordinator
of the technicians.
Speaker 6 (34:55):
They have to why the same reason you do. They're
all killing or I'm the only one who's actually sure.
Speaker 1 (35:02):
But they're part of it.
Speaker 5 (35:04):
Any one of them could stop it one way or another,
and that makes.
Speaker 1 (35:07):
Them all equally guilty. But why do they have to
come to you, Teddy?
Speaker 5 (35:10):
Look at yourself, George, you're a rare emotionally. You preach
constantly against aggression, But aggression is the most vital function
you perform, So you.
Speaker 1 (35:20):
Have to nourish it, keep it alive.
Speaker 5 (35:22):
You have to come to a place like this box wrestle,
compete strenuously.
Speaker 1 (35:27):
Are we insane, Teddy?
Speaker 6 (35:29):
What can we do?
Speaker 1 (35:31):
It's the only way to save the world.
Speaker 6 (35:34):
Whether or not it was the only way to save
the world, I couldn't say, But I do know.
Speaker 1 (35:39):
That it was the saving of me.
Speaker 6 (35:42):
The competitive activity started the juices flowing again, and before
I know it, I was.
Speaker 1 (35:47):
A new man.
Speaker 6 (35:48):
Or maybe I had gone back to being the old one.
Even Ela couldn't figure it.
Speaker 2 (35:53):
You want to go out again tonight? Well it's just
every night this week.
Speaker 6 (35:57):
I only suggested it because of you me. You said
that After my psych Greek, I became dull. I was
much fun anymore.
Speaker 2 (36:04):
There is such a thing as too much fun.
Speaker 1 (36:08):
I was doing my job, my job is killer.
Speaker 6 (36:12):
I had spotted the enemy's ship and was waiting for
the firing order from the basic coordinator.
Speaker 7 (36:17):
Fire C and D.
Speaker 6 (36:22):
Sefard d fard.
Speaker 7 (36:28):
Good shooting, Come on home.
Speaker 1 (36:33):
I looked at the screen. This time, the alien ship
had not disappeared. There was a.
Speaker 6 (36:40):
Dark, motionless blot on the lower right hand quadras.
Speaker 1 (36:44):
I was filled with a great curiosity. Who what was
this alien?
Speaker 6 (36:49):
I simply had to know, But it was against regulations
to approach. Yet I had to do it.
Speaker 1 (36:55):
They didn't have to know. I cut off my transmitter
posed her quickly. She was a kind of roundish vehicle,
not at all too different from my own.
Speaker 6 (37:05):
Who and what could be a border? I locked with
her magnetically. I looked over her hall for the entry port.
I throwed it, and even though I was unarmed, I
lowered myself inside. There was a twisted look to everything,
a feeling of death. Than I saw him, the.
Speaker 1 (37:24):
Most striking man I'd.
Speaker 6 (37:26):
Ever encountered, raven black hair and deep green eyes, wearing
a tunic.
Speaker 1 (37:33):
There was a tiny trickle of blood on his forehead.
You you are the one. Yes, I disabled your ship.
Speaker 5 (37:41):
You destroyed it. You're lucky you saw me first, I
would have destroyed you. I have better weaponry, more file power.
My world is more advanced than yours.
Speaker 6 (37:52):
I do you know.
Speaker 4 (37:52):
Because you have not learned to read minds.
Speaker 1 (37:55):
Yet you're reading my mind.
Speaker 4 (37:57):
Yes, that is how we can come.
Speaker 1 (38:00):
Kate, you're bleeding.
Speaker 6 (38:01):
Let me help you.
Speaker 1 (38:02):
You cannot.
Speaker 4 (38:02):
I I'm helping myself.
Speaker 5 (38:05):
How your missile did a great deal of damage inside me.
My body is now trying to repair itself.
Speaker 6 (38:13):
Oh, I'm sorry.
Speaker 4 (38:14):
It's the nature of the universe.
Speaker 5 (38:17):
Right now, my body is trying to repair itself if
it can.
Speaker 1 (38:22):
Why don't we?
Speaker 6 (38:27):
Oh?
Speaker 1 (38:28):
But he didn't say.
Speaker 5 (38:30):
What is We should get into your ship and and
go to my planet and.
Speaker 6 (38:36):
Take it over, take it over it, own it.
Speaker 9 (38:40):
We have the weapons, submit or we shall blow you
out of existence.
Speaker 4 (38:46):
Then we'll go to your planet. We'll give them the
same autimatum.
Speaker 2 (38:49):
You and I we will.
Speaker 7 (38:54):
All we.
Speaker 2 (38:56):
You and I we.
Speaker 9 (38:59):
Do the work, that dirty work. Why shouldn't we? My
body it isn't repairing.
Speaker 1 (39:14):
I'm dying.
Speaker 6 (39:18):
And he was dead, the most unusual man I had
ever met, and I had killed him.
Speaker 1 (39:26):
I went back to my ship and headed for home.
Speaker 11 (39:32):
And so, in recognition of your devotion, to duty and
your splendid performance not just as a pilot, but is
a dedicated member of the anti aggressian society.
Speaker 1 (39:44):
I honored to present you with the.
Speaker 5 (39:46):
Middle of Perfection very broadly.
Speaker 6 (39:51):
Thank you, Miss the President. But while you have given
me the medal of perfection, I don't really own it yet.
Speaker 1 (39:58):
For I, like everyone else, must still strive for perfection.
I thank you.
Speaker 5 (40:06):
Immersed gracious and modest speech commanded bets.
Speaker 1 (40:11):
Mister President.
Speaker 6 (40:12):
Do you remember when you posted me into my present assignment?
Speaker 1 (40:16):
I had asked you a question.
Speaker 6 (40:19):
Yes, I had asked till, since you are giving me
the power to destroy the world, how do you know
I won't do it one day?
Speaker 1 (40:29):
Yes?
Speaker 5 (40:30):
And do you remember my answer? That's the chance we mistake.
Speaker 6 (40:38):
None of us really knows the answer, not yet, this
unknown magnificent man.
Speaker 1 (40:44):
I'm murdered. He didn't know the answer either.
Speaker 6 (40:48):
He came to a certain conclusion after how much disillusion
and frustration, and am I getting there too? When he
had suggested to me that we take over both worlds?
I recall now that I didn't automatically and instinctively turn
it down. Is it possible that I will actually do it?
Speaker 1 (41:11):
One day?
Speaker 6 (41:14):
I don't know.
Speaker 1 (41:15):
I honestly don't know, but he's thinking about it.
Speaker 3 (41:25):
And once you begin to flirt with a dangerous idea,
it's like flirting with a dangerous woman. One thing leads
to another and before you know it, oh well, I
shall return shortly with another insight into our story. Throughout history,
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people's nations have turned to so called strong men and
said protect us from our enemies, our enemies within and
our enemies with out. Throughout history, all the stories have
had the same dismal endings. People discovered after it was
too late that they had only invited the Fox to
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guard the hen House. Our cast included Mason Adams, Russell Houghton,
and Carol Titel. The entire production was under the direction
of Hymen Brown.
Speaker 12 (42:23):
Hello, my name is Dick Bresha and I'm the senior
vice President for the CBS Radio Networks. For the past
nine years, we've been pleased to have been part of
helping bring drama back to radio in the form of
the CBS Radio Mystery Theater. The man most responsible is
with us. He's producer director Hyman Brown.
Speaker 8 (42:43):
These have been the happiest nine years in my fifty
year career of creating radio drama. The response to all
that we've been doing has been most joyous.
Speaker 6 (42:53):
The theater of the imagination once again.
Speaker 8 (42:56):
Became a vital part of all that radio is A
can be unhappily. This broadcast marks the end of the
CBS Radio Mystery Theater as part of the network schedule,
after three thousand broadcasts.
Speaker 6 (43:13):
We hope we leave you with many fond memories.
Speaker 8 (43:17):
I want to say thank you to you, our listeners,
to CBS and the station you're listening to for the
support and encouragement. Most of all to the hundreds of
talented writers, actors, and technicians who helped stretch our imaginations.
I hasten to assure you that although this series draws
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its final curtain, radio drama lives until we meet again,
and we.
Speaker 1 (43:46):
Will thank you.
Speaker 8 (43:48):
Quod Night, Pleasant Dream.
Come in.
Speaker 2 (00:16):
Welcome. I'm Tammy Grimes.
Speaker 3 (00:20):
It is said the perfection is the pursuit of sweetness
and lightness. The pursuit is that because the capture itself
is impossible.
Speaker 1 (00:30):
Since the dim and misty.
Speaker 3 (00:32):
Dawn of history, man has tried to create a perfect world.
So far it has eluded it. And perhaps it's just
as well. After all, if everyone were to be perfect,
how could we tolerate each other?
Speaker 4 (00:49):
Why should I want to kill.
Speaker 1 (00:50):
You because I'm the enemy enemy.
Speaker 5 (00:54):
Until ten seconds ago, we never knew each other existed.
Speaker 1 (00:57):
But each of us is fighting for our part.
Speaker 2 (01:00):
That's true.
Speaker 5 (01:01):
But I am sick of fighting for my planet. I'd
like to fight for me. Wouldn't you like to fight
for you? I don't understand your ship my ship.
Speaker 2 (01:14):
Between us, we have enough firepower to.
Speaker 5 (01:17):
Destroy the universe. Why don't we take over.
Speaker 3 (01:31):
Our mystery drama Resident Killer has written especially for the
Mystery bid by Sam Dan and stars Mason Adams. I'll
be back shortly with that one. I know a dramatist
who has been appointed playwright in residence at a large university.
Speaker 2 (01:54):
Painters in residents.
Speaker 3 (01:56):
Composers in residents, sculptors, novelists, philosophers.
Speaker 2 (02:01):
The list keeps increasing.
Speaker 3 (02:03):
And as our civilization becomes more and more complex, who
knows what other specialists may be in demand for residence,
not just for the colleges, but for society itself. The
time is twenty four ninety eight, five hundred years into
the future. Have there been many changes?
Speaker 2 (02:24):
Of course?
Speaker 3 (02:25):
Think of what has taken place over the past five centuries.
George Barrows is having breakfast with his wife. At least
that hasn't changed until Bill Douglas has been named commander
of the fleet. You have the seniority.
Speaker 1 (02:42):
The council thinks he's more qualified.
Speaker 2 (02:44):
But everyone knows you're better.
Speaker 1 (02:46):
You're beginning to sound competitive.
Speaker 2 (02:48):
But this is a matter of simple justice.
Speaker 6 (02:50):
Justice my dying. It's never simple. Oh well, now I have.
Speaker 2 (02:56):
To go there isn't this your four day leave?
Speaker 1 (03:00):
I have to go to the port.
Speaker 6 (03:01):
Yes, yeah, there are things I have to tend to
on the ship.
Speaker 1 (03:05):
Such as very technical.
Speaker 2 (03:08):
You could put it on the simplifier for me.
Speaker 1 (03:10):
It's quite boring.
Speaker 3 (03:12):
I know where you're going Teddy's, Jim, Why did you.
Speaker 2 (03:17):
Lie to me?
Speaker 6 (03:18):
Because the idea of Teddy's distresses you.
Speaker 2 (03:21):
You see how dangerous this is becoming.
Speaker 1 (03:23):
An, Ella, it was just an innocent little you plan.
Speaker 2 (03:27):
It's all innocent.
Speaker 3 (03:29):
Well, perhaps it begins that way, but the fact is
you've told me a lie, and from a lie where
Teddy's Jim is wrong.
Speaker 1 (03:38):
You know that, Darling. I only go there for access.
Speaker 3 (03:42):
No, you don't to go there to to fight, Ella,
That isn't why you stand opposite another human being and
each of you tries to hit the other.
Speaker 2 (03:51):
To hurt the other.
Speaker 1 (03:53):
No, no, no.
Speaker 6 (03:55):
It's just a trial of skill.
Speaker 2 (03:57):
Do you strike hard blows?
Speaker 5 (03:59):
Wow?
Speaker 3 (04:00):
Is it possible for someone to be injured? That isn't
the purpose, right, does it? Or does it not arouse
aggressive feelings?
Speaker 6 (04:08):
All right, yes it does.
Speaker 3 (04:10):
You admitted this boxing, this wrestling. Isn't it antisocial?
Speaker 6 (04:16):
Maybe?
Speaker 3 (04:17):
Oh, George, we got away from all that five hundred
years ago. What would you like for us to drift
back into those savage times when it was everyone for
himself and every hand raised against one's neighbor.
Speaker 1 (04:30):
No, but Ella, this is such a harmless thing.
Speaker 7 (04:34):
It is not.
Speaker 2 (04:35):
It is fighting.
Speaker 3 (04:36):
It cannot be permitted to exist in any form. It
has no place in our society, which is.
Speaker 2 (04:43):
Dedicated to brotherly love.
Speaker 6 (04:45):
There's such a thing as too much brotherly.
Speaker 2 (04:48):
Love, George, What am I going.
Speaker 5 (04:49):
To do with you?
Speaker 6 (04:51):
You could suggest me for psych reek psychic reconstruction.
Speaker 2 (04:56):
I really should.
Speaker 1 (04:57):
Well why don't you?
Speaker 2 (04:58):
Because I couldn't be happy with anyone.
Speaker 6 (05:01):
Else even though I'm aggressive.
Speaker 2 (05:05):
No, stop this nonsense. Can you kiss?
Speaker 6 (05:11):
Of course she's right. I'm the one that's out of step.
We have to have this brotherly love, this absolutely uncompromising
belief in the sanctity of the individual, because the other
thing just doesn't work. It hasn't since the world began.
You can't compromise and make exceptions either. There cannot be
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even the slightest manifestation of aggression.
Speaker 2 (05:38):
But what can I do.
Speaker 6 (05:39):
I'm an aggressive person and the life we must lead
now bores me stiff.
Speaker 2 (05:45):
Please pass this place.
Speaker 6 (05:48):
Legmatic but eliminate aggression. Every day they all show up
in front of Teddy's gim this anti aggression Society. They're
always out in force that they'd use it. The leader
was this tall, dark haired name, and she really was Boto.
She'd make a great lady wrestler. Anyhow she would stop me.
Speaker 2 (06:11):
I love you.
Speaker 1 (06:12):
I love you too.
Speaker 2 (06:13):
I love everything that lives.
Speaker 6 (06:15):
I also love everything that lives.
Speaker 3 (06:17):
I refuse to raise my hand against anything that lives.
Speaker 2 (06:23):
I refuse to.
Speaker 3 (06:24):
Entertain even the slightest thoughts of aggressive behavior. Aggression is
an evil seed, once planted its growth.
Speaker 6 (06:33):
I'm sorry. I could stand here and agree with you forever.
You are so beautiful and intelligent. However you must is chose.
Speaker 3 (06:41):
Will you accept this literature and discover how you can
coursen and brutalize yourself.
Speaker 1 (06:46):
By attending kind of you to offer it?
Speaker 2 (06:49):
May you be enlightened like you?
Speaker 1 (06:50):
I love you, I love you? Hey, tell you? Tell
you you?
Speaker 2 (06:58):
Okay?
Speaker 1 (07:00):
How to do? No? No, no, no no, nothing's going.
Speaker 5 (07:04):
Eh, lady, No, I can't feel anything. Your knows his bleeding?
Speaker 7 (07:08):
Eh?
Speaker 6 (07:09):
A little bit? O, boy, that was a workout.
Speaker 1 (07:11):
It's down here. Who's this?
Speaker 5 (07:15):
Uh? This guy Douglas who's just been named fleet commander?
Speaker 6 (07:18):
Oh he's all right.
Speaker 1 (07:19):
Why aren't you the senior pilot of the Space Fleet
these days?
Speaker 6 (07:23):
If you're not a member of the Anti Aggression Society,
forget it.
Speaker 1 (07:26):
That's the way the wind blows, stunting to howl. If
you ask me, who cares.
Speaker 6 (07:31):
I'd rather be on my own as a pilot, where
I don't have to set an example, After all, it
could never come.
Speaker 1 (07:36):
Here if I were fleet. See oh now could.
Speaker 5 (07:38):
I looks like it won't be coming here much longer anyhow,
I'm going out of business. You're what the handwriting's on
the wall. But you can't shut down and being forced down, Teddy.
Nobody is allowed to use force for any.
Speaker 1 (07:53):
Reason conditions, George.
Speaker 5 (07:55):
Look around you now, this time of day, we'd have
five ten boxing bots going be a couple of wrestlers.
This afternoon it's just you and me doing a couple
of rounds.
Speaker 1 (08:05):
It's the old story.
Speaker 5 (08:06):
If you can't let them join them join who that
gang outside of the science?
Speaker 1 (08:12):
The cooks?
Speaker 5 (08:12):
No, Georgie, you and me, we're the cooks. Now, those folks,
they're the wave of the future.
Speaker 1 (08:20):
If you refuse to write it, you'll drowned. So I
decided to close up and do what?
Speaker 4 (08:26):
Get a job?
Speaker 6 (08:27):
How can you get a job if you're not a
member of the Anti Aggression Society?
Speaker 1 (08:31):
I guess I'll have to join up.
Speaker 6 (08:33):
Come on, it can't be that bad.
Speaker 5 (08:34):
It's worse, Georgie. I got a kid in school. She's
ashamed of it.
Speaker 6 (08:38):
But how can you join?
Speaker 1 (08:40):
You don't believe in that stuff? I will soon. I
signed up for psychic reconstruction.
Speaker 6 (08:48):
You're gonna be psyche.
Speaker 1 (08:50):
It's the only way you can get along in this world. George.
Speaker 6 (08:53):
Yeah, Well, who says this is the only world there is?
I'm afraid it is the only world. The other planets
in our solar system, and I passed them by all
the time on routine weather reconnaissance.
Speaker 1 (09:09):
But I couldn't live.
Speaker 6 (09:11):
On any of them. I mean they're too hot, too cold,
too wet to dry.
Speaker 1 (09:17):
I mean, there's life.
Speaker 6 (09:18):
There's so many different kinds of life, but none of
us like dollars.
Speaker 1 (09:23):
So what was I to do?
Speaker 6 (09:25):
Soon I'd be the only aggressive person left on Earth.
Speaker 1 (09:28):
I'd be considered peculiar alien. Teddy was right, if you
can't let them join them. I came home and I
told Ella. She burst into tears. George.
Speaker 2 (09:42):
Oh, George, I'm so happy you're doing it for me.
Speaker 3 (09:46):
Sure, Sure, you'll develop an entirely new and exciting perspective
on life, exciting a change in your entire psychological outlook.
As you undergo psychic reconstruction, every last vestige of aggression.
Speaker 2 (10:02):
Will leave you.
Speaker 3 (10:03):
You know, a newcolm, an inner peace, a deep love
for every living.
Speaker 1 (10:09):
Creature, Okay, okay, lead me to it.
Speaker 2 (10:12):
You won't be sorry.
Speaker 1 (10:14):
Look you say you love me.
Speaker 2 (10:15):
I do love you.
Speaker 1 (10:16):
But once I get brainwashed, brainwash, he'll be.
Speaker 6 (10:20):
The same as everyone else.
Speaker 2 (10:21):
I always love you.
Speaker 6 (10:24):
I hope so.
Speaker 1 (10:28):
And so. I shaped up a psyche.
Speaker 6 (10:31):
Although here you had to say psychic reconstruction. The president
himself was in charge.
Speaker 5 (10:38):
We are gathered, yem to talk about love. Love well,
our fellow man, love that can only exist to him.
It is no envy, no competition, no aggression. Too many
of you. This may sound all boring, Yet what is
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the alternative? Hasn't history demonstrated the aggression in any form,
no matter how slight or small or seemingly innocent, must
eventually inflame patterns that will ultimately rage out of control.
Speaker 1 (11:18):
And so forth and so on. Even in our sleep,
there ran wires in the horse, and you'd keep hearing
the message.
Speaker 6 (11:25):
You would begin to feel it in your blood, your nerves,
the marrow of your bones. You could feel it, seeful,
you become a part of you. There was no escape
from it, and then things became rough.
Speaker 5 (11:44):
You're all making remarkable progress. Especially wished to commend Pilot
George Barrows, and with the Teddy thoughtstat they will be
the first to undergo laboratory indoctrination, and class is just
missed for the day.
Speaker 1 (12:02):
You may all go.
Speaker 2 (12:07):
You're back early.
Speaker 6 (12:08):
He gave us the rest of the day off.
Speaker 2 (12:11):
What would you like to do?
Speaker 6 (12:12):
Nothing?
Speaker 1 (12:13):
Just rest, relax without having a lot of stuff piped
in on it.
Speaker 3 (12:17):
But it makes sense, wonderful sense. Sure, soon you'll believe it.
Speaker 1 (12:22):
I even't believe it now.
Speaker 6 (12:24):
It's just a it's just that I don't like it.
Speaker 2 (12:26):
Why not?
Speaker 6 (12:27):
Because it's against human nature. I don't care what anyone
tells me. Man is a competitive animal, but.
Speaker 2 (12:35):
He doesn't have to be.
Speaker 1 (12:37):
That's the way he is, and that's why.
Speaker 3 (12:39):
He has to change, because if he doesn't, the world
will end.
Speaker 1 (12:43):
Okay, I hear enough of that all day.
Speaker 3 (12:46):
Most of us, the overwhelming majority of us, have changed, George,
and you must change too.
Speaker 1 (12:52):
I've changed, but I still won't like it.
Speaker 8 (12:55):
And what.
Speaker 3 (13:00):
You can't be an earthquake that three hundred years ago
would neutralized the most in cool.
Speaker 6 (13:04):
Let's get on.
Speaker 7 (13:07):
The house.
Speaker 2 (13:08):
It's coming apart.
Speaker 6 (13:09):
Your hard God, are you?
Speaker 1 (13:19):
Are you all right?
Speaker 7 (13:20):
Yes?
Speaker 1 (13:22):
I can't see who came apart?
Speaker 2 (13:26):
Oh, it's dusk. I can hardly.
Speaker 6 (13:28):
Breathe, How did We're not supposed to whatever we did?
Speaker 1 (13:33):
Hold out of my hand. We'll try to move back. Yes,
it gets him fresh air.
Speaker 2 (13:37):
He is oh, oh, this is better, This is much better.
Speaker 6 (13:42):
I wonder how everyone else did.
Speaker 2 (13:48):
Look at you?
Speaker 3 (13:49):
Want to bother George, Georgie beard your hair, it's down
to your shoulders, Georgia wearing what is.
Speaker 6 (13:59):
That skin of an animal? How show you?
Speaker 2 (14:02):
Tree?
Speaker 7 (14:03):
Trees?
Speaker 2 (14:04):
One of those twas?
Speaker 6 (14:06):
Where we live?
Speaker 2 (14:08):
Where are we? George? What happened to us?
Speaker 1 (14:20):
Where are we?
Speaker 2 (14:22):
What happened to us? Here?
Speaker 3 (14:24):
You have a married couple happily living in a luxurious
home of the far distant future. Suddenly, without warning, they
find themselves stone aged savages in the midst of a jungle.
What happened, and perhaps even why it happened, are the
problems we shall address in act too short, Madam, said
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mister Dostoyevsky. Is a pliable animal, a being who can
become accustomed to everything, and we might add to anything.
While this may be one of man's greatest strings, it
can also prove to be his fatal weakness.
Speaker 2 (15:10):
It's one thing to.
Speaker 3 (15:11):
Adapt to the rigors of the physical environment, but it
is something else to compromise with the demands of morality
or immorality.
Speaker 2 (15:20):
George, George, what happened to us? Where are we?
Speaker 1 (15:23):
I don't know what Someone's coming.
Speaker 6 (15:25):
Hey, he's dressed just as we are.
Speaker 2 (15:28):
Who ho?
Speaker 6 (15:30):
It's ty Teddy Forster. Hey, Teddy? What is this? How
did we get here?
Speaker 8 (15:34):
Do you know?
Speaker 1 (15:35):
Tamie and Ella?
Speaker 7 (15:36):
What?
Speaker 1 (15:37):
I want you? I want you? Ella?
Speaker 2 (15:39):
What do you say?
Speaker 5 (15:40):
I've always wanted you and I'm gonna have you?
Speaker 7 (15:42):
What? Teddy?
Speaker 6 (15:43):
What has come over?
Speaker 1 (15:44):
If I'm taking Ella then?
Speaker 3 (15:46):
And I have something to say about that?
Speaker 6 (15:48):
You have nothing to say?
Speaker 2 (15:49):
Now?
Speaker 1 (15:49):
You such a money I think you're doing? You want
to fight me for?
Speaker 2 (15:53):
Come on?
Speaker 6 (15:59):
Suddenly we were flaring away at each other with our fists,
with rocks, with whatever came to hand.
Speaker 1 (16:04):
And the bows they hurt.
Speaker 6 (16:07):
I mean, they weren't the sharp and stinging jabs we
threw at each other in the gym. These were meant
to disable, even to kunt some slam. Something flashed in
Teddy's hand. I saw the knife blade too late. There
was an agonizing pain. It's a bit of me, a
paralyzing pain. All I could hear was Ella's voice in
the distance.
Speaker 1 (16:26):
Filled with terror.
Speaker 2 (16:27):
George, George, help me, Gudge, help me.
Speaker 1 (16:33):
And then there was nothing.
Speaker 6 (16:35):
There was nothing. I'm dead, I said to myself, I'm dead,
but I was. There was Teddy coming out me, sword
in hand. I knew it was Teddy, even though the
visor of his helmet.
Speaker 1 (16:45):
Covered his face.
Speaker 6 (16:46):
And there was the fight raging all around me, the
fight for the castle. And I could hear Teddy shouting
yield heever bad it down to the ground, no quarter,
no prisoners, Put them all.
Speaker 9 (17:00):
To the side, my lord, the counsels, the die.
Speaker 1 (17:07):
And suddenly we were in the midst of a holocaust.
Speaker 6 (17:10):
And there was the terrible noise of the laws collapsing
as the burning castle fell in on us.
Speaker 1 (17:15):
Hole and once again there was nothing. I'm dead, I said, no, no.
Speaker 6 (17:25):
But I wasn't.
Speaker 1 (17:27):
Once again I field of battle, and then fighting and falling.
Speaker 6 (17:31):
Suddenly I was high in the sky aboard some primitive aircraft.
I was releasing ancient bombs, and they were falling on
a city which was in flames beneath me.
Speaker 1 (17:40):
Whether I was the killer or the one being killed, the.
Speaker 6 (17:43):
Agony was always the siting of that. I drifted in
and out of one massacre, one slaughter after another. I
had known of these things. I had read books, I
had seen pictures and tapes, but they existed merely as
abstract ideas. And now they were happening to me, my son.
The ring was real. It was unbearable. I couldn't stand
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it any more. Stop it, stop it stop.
Speaker 1 (18:06):
Only you can stop it, George barn Only.
Speaker 6 (18:10):
You how tell me?
Speaker 5 (18:12):
How damn about the corrupt seede of aggression before the
flowers into a fatal and poisonous plant despite can you
do it?
Speaker 1 (18:21):
Yes?
Speaker 6 (18:22):
Yes, finally, oh, finally, It was burnt out of me
all thoughts of striving, competing, fighting aggression.
Speaker 1 (18:36):
Something had come over me.
Speaker 6 (18:38):
I was a different human being in so many ways.
I had even become rather quiet, shy.
Speaker 3 (18:47):
You want to stay home again, yes, but this is
something new.
Speaker 1 (18:52):
We might listen to some music that as if it
pleases you.
Speaker 2 (18:56):
I didn't know you like to sit and listen to music.
You're not at all the way you were?
Speaker 1 (19:02):
How was I?
Speaker 2 (19:03):
You mean you don't remember?
Speaker 1 (19:05):
It's better this way, don't you agree?
Speaker 2 (19:07):
Yes, but it's not as exciting.
Speaker 1 (19:11):
You mean, as dangerous.
Speaker 2 (19:12):
Good? You're so different, of.
Speaker 6 (19:15):
Course, I've been psychologically reconstructed and I want to be perfect? No,
what is it? Ellah?
Speaker 2 (19:23):
Oh the thought of perfection? It frightens me.
Speaker 1 (19:27):
Are you saying we shouldn't strive for it?
Speaker 3 (19:29):
Yes, strive, but I hope we never achieve it. To George,
h how dull that would be?
Speaker 1 (19:35):
How do you know?
Speaker 3 (19:36):
I look at you, you're perfect you. You don't have
a single angry or envious or destructive thought in your head.
Speaker 1 (19:45):
Did you like me better the other way?
Speaker 2 (19:47):
You were more fun?
Speaker 1 (19:48):
You haven't answered the question.
Speaker 3 (19:50):
Well, one time I had feelings of aggression and I
went through the same psych Greek.
Speaker 2 (19:57):
And you changed, But I I didn't become a fum.
Speaker 1 (20:01):
Is that what I am?
Speaker 6 (20:03):
No, George, it's just, but it must be complete, Ella
all the way. A single tiny misstep and we can
revert to barbarism.
Speaker 1 (20:12):
You know why you married me.
Speaker 2 (20:14):
I fell in love with you?
Speaker 1 (20:15):
Why? Because I was different.
Speaker 6 (20:18):
You believed in perfection in theory, but in practice perfection
is so hard to live with. Secretly, you wrong to
be aggressive, but you were afraid to express it. That
isn't true, and why you made a strong outward show
of disapproval towards my aggression? You would get a vicarrius
through a lot of it. I didn't you would lecture
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me on how savage and socially destructive it was for
me to go to Teddy's gym only because.
Speaker 1 (20:44):
There were times when you longed to go there yourself.
That isn't true, I admitted, my darling.
Speaker 3 (20:50):
Is it so terrible to want to be just a
little aggressive once in a while?
Speaker 2 (20:55):
Oh, yes, you said that. I suppose it is.
Speaker 6 (20:57):
We must be perfect or we fall back in to
the pit. You must try, Ella constantly. I'll try, I'll try, George.
You wish to resign from the space suite, Mister President,
I have found my life's work.
Speaker 1 (21:15):
I wish to teach the most commendable desire. Pilot Barrows.
Is my resignation accepted? Sir. Commander Douglas is dead, dead
in space? How excuse me? The Douglas tapes.
Speaker 2 (21:31):
If you please, Yes, mister President.
Speaker 1 (21:33):
Watch the screen, Pilot bears. Where is this space?
Speaker 6 (21:40):
I don't see any familiar signs.
Speaker 5 (21:42):
This is not in our galaxy, or eve in our universe.
It's far beyond any area you've ever been requested to patrol.
Speaker 1 (21:49):
But why what was he supposed to be doing? His mission?
Speaker 5 (21:52):
Is was to intercept any alien invaders intercept?
Speaker 6 (21:58):
What does that mean?
Speaker 1 (22:00):
Kill? Kill?
Speaker 6 (22:01):
How could Commander Douglas, a dedicated member of the anti
aggression society kill? And how can you, our president, calmly
sit here and tell me?
Speaker 5 (22:10):
Listen the voice tape of Commander Douglas.
Speaker 6 (22:14):
Douglas alienship Range nine hundred million.
Speaker 3 (22:19):
Alien course or system destroy repeat destroy?
Speaker 1 (22:26):
Isn't he gonna talk to the alien first? Though? There
there is nothing to talk about.
Speaker 6 (22:31):
We are all living creatures. There's everything to talk about.
Speaker 5 (22:35):
We cannot afford to take the chance that the stranger
is harmless and holds no thought of gun quest.
Speaker 6 (22:40):
We could ask, we could try to learn and thus
reveal the fact of our existence. We cannot afford to
risk war. I am now closed at shix hundred million
fire A, B, C, and D.
Speaker 1 (23:00):
I have fired a Dame Scar direct ship.
Speaker 6 (23:07):
God, why did he call it an enemy? How do
we know what.
Speaker 2 (23:20):
The ship?
Speaker 1 (23:21):
It blew up?
Speaker 5 (23:22):
He in the alien opened fire at the same time.
Speaker 1 (23:26):
And now Douglas must be replaced. Are you me no, sir?
I cannot kill. It goes against every moral and effort.
You cannot kill because killing has been programmed out of you.
You can be reprogrammed why mean the most skilled of
all our harlest time.
Speaker 6 (23:45):
I thought Douglas was a true lover of all living things, but.
Speaker 1 (23:48):
He was only playing a role.
Speaker 6 (23:50):
And you are great humanitarian president, Your hypocrites, apockerty.
Speaker 5 (23:55):
It's an unfortunate but necessary hypocrisy.
Speaker 6 (24:00):
Try that on me.
Speaker 1 (24:01):
What which you have?
Speaker 5 (24:02):
A return to the past, to a planet armed to
the teeth, a planet that accepted killing is the only
means of preserving itself.
Speaker 1 (24:10):
This way, one man and.
Speaker 5 (24:13):
One man alone rogues the distant reaches of space, one
man alone. It's armed one man alone.
Speaker 1 (24:22):
But it isn't one man. You're in on it.
Speaker 6 (24:25):
The base coordinator, the technicians who service the ship.
Speaker 1 (24:28):
It's a small but highly trusted group.
Speaker 6 (24:30):
A base coordinator. That voice, I heard it before. She's
the leader of the anti aggression society. We must have
a killer.
Speaker 1 (24:38):
It's the price we pay.
Speaker 6 (24:40):
I don't want to be that killer. I don't want
to be president either. I don't want the responsibility in
the heart ache.
Speaker 5 (24:46):
I want to be like everybody else and think happy,
heartwarming thoughts. I don't want to be haunted by the
knowledge of the dark side.
Speaker 1 (24:53):
But I am.
Speaker 6 (24:54):
The most pliff.
Speaker 1 (24:55):
I will not be the killer.
Speaker 5 (24:56):
You will because you are the moment just qualified. Every
society needs a killer. One was authorized to commit murder
to preserve the rest of us.
Speaker 1 (25:08):
There must be an alternity all there is.
Speaker 5 (25:12):
We can submit to invasion, to be conquered, destroyed, and slaved.
Speaker 6 (25:16):
At least that way, there'll be no blood on our hands.
We will be free of guilt.
Speaker 1 (25:20):
And you're willing to accept that.
Speaker 6 (25:22):
Am I the only pilot?
Speaker 5 (25:24):
If you're the most trustworthy replacing our fate in your hands.
Speaker 6 (25:29):
We are giving you.
Speaker 5 (25:29):
The power No one else in the world possesses the
ability to destroy us.
Speaker 1 (25:36):
How do you know I won't do it one day? No,
we don't. But it's the chance we must take.
Speaker 3 (25:48):
That's quite a chance, isn't it. We are giving you
the power no one else in our.
Speaker 1 (25:54):
World possesses, says the President.
Speaker 3 (25:57):
What was it that.
Speaker 2 (25:57):
Lord Acton said about power?
Speaker 6 (26:00):
Ah?
Speaker 3 (26:01):
Yes, power corrupts, and absolute power corrupts. Absolutely. It seems
to be the rule, judging from history. But all rules
have exceptions.
Speaker 2 (26:16):
Or do they?
Speaker 3 (26:18):
The anger lies in Act three shortly, and we talk
of peace as the universally to be desired state. How
we long for peace, and yet we must be aware
that we have never truly known it throughout history. What
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we have had, at best was some relatively quiet intervals
between wars. What must we do to achieve true peace?
Our ancestors couldn't find the answer, We ourselves perplexed, And
in the world of the future it appears so far
that they haven't had much luck with a problem either.
Speaker 1 (27:03):
But I have been programmed against it.
Speaker 6 (27:06):
I cannot kill you.
Speaker 1 (27:07):
It will be reprogrammed.
Speaker 6 (27:12):
As you might imagine, there was considerable discussion fact and
forth on ethics and morals, means and ends, but it
all boiled down to that one word that usually carries
a day necessity. So finally I agreed to be reprogrammed.
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And who do you think my psych reek was for
this deal? None other than the leader of the anti
Impressian society herself.
Speaker 1 (27:43):
Say, the last time I saw.
Speaker 6 (27:46):
You, you were picking in Teddy's gym.
Speaker 3 (27:49):
Let us confine ourselves to the subject at hand.
Speaker 6 (27:53):
Remember, remember, may I ask you not to patronize this establishment,
not to course an imprutalize yourself.
Speaker 2 (28:00):
Pay attention.
Speaker 3 (28:01):
I don't like this anymore than you do, but it
has to be done for the good of society. Now
say it over and over again. Aggression is a normal, natural,
and innate part of man.
Speaker 6 (28:22):
But I wasn't going to make it easy for it.
I really believed what I had been programmed to believe
about the sanctity of life. I didn't want to give
it up. Besides, if I could hold on to that belief,
they would have to give up on me and choose
someone else. I could lead my own life.
Speaker 1 (28:41):
But they were too smart for me.
Speaker 2 (28:43):
Why do you resist.
Speaker 1 (28:45):
This is my own basic belief. I can't help it.
Speaker 2 (28:48):
You truly believe that life is precious?
Speaker 1 (28:51):
Yes?
Speaker 2 (28:52):
Then ask yourself? How can life be precious, be.
Speaker 3 (28:56):
Of any value if it isn't worth protecting or depending?
Speaker 6 (29:03):
Suddenly they had found it, the question that could get
beneath my skin, the question I couldn't answer to my
own satisfaction.
Speaker 1 (29:13):
I kept hearing that question day and night.
Speaker 2 (29:16):
How can life.
Speaker 7 (29:17):
Be precious if it isn't worth protecting?
Speaker 6 (29:21):
And like a house of cards, my defenses collapsed.
Speaker 1 (29:26):
Suddenly I had no more objections.
Speaker 6 (29:29):
I was ready for my very first seek and kill mission.
Perhaps before I could return, I would have to take
a life.
Speaker 1 (29:39):
How could I actually do it?
Speaker 2 (29:41):
Don't worry about it.
Speaker 6 (29:43):
Don't worry about it?
Speaker 2 (29:44):
I'll give you the order to fire.
Speaker 1 (29:46):
Why should you give the order so.
Speaker 3 (29:48):
You can have someone to share the guilt board your ship?
Speaker 6 (29:58):
Before I know it, I was out there, billions of
miles away. It was a strange feeling here in this
world without end. How many planets could there be that
might support a life form that could be probing for hours?
Speaker 1 (30:13):
Maybe none, maybe a few, maybe a million.
Speaker 6 (30:17):
I was all alone except for her voice that tied
me to home.
Speaker 7 (30:23):
Said course that will appear on your computer. Readout.
Speaker 6 (30:26):
Wait, yes, bottom left quadrant coordinates eighty seven thirty.
Speaker 1 (30:31):
Do you see?
Speaker 3 (30:32):
Yes, you have movement at coordinates eighty six thirty.
Speaker 6 (30:36):
I can't tell what it is.
Speaker 3 (30:38):
After a while, you'll be able to recognize that configuration instinctively.
Speaker 7 (30:44):
It's a ship, a ship prepared to destroy.
Speaker 1 (30:47):
Destroy. There must be another way.
Speaker 7 (30:50):
There is no other way. But before he destroys you.
Speaker 3 (30:55):
Range range activate your range find up now range.
Speaker 1 (31:02):
Ah a billion two.
Speaker 7 (31:04):
You are getting a new course bearing on the computer.
Read it as.
Speaker 1 (31:11):
Range nine hundred million.
Speaker 3 (31:14):
Repair missiles ABCD for firing.
Speaker 6 (31:19):
Oh please, can't we repair missiles? Acknowledge missiles armed range
A seven hundred million fire.
Speaker 7 (31:31):
Fire.
Speaker 1 (31:32):
Hi, I don't know if I can don't think.
Speaker 7 (31:37):
This is just another routine command from the base.
Speaker 10 (31:41):
Fire fire, good, watch, don't.
Speaker 7 (31:54):
Said man and take invasive action.
Speaker 1 (31:57):
He may have fired at you.
Speaker 7 (31:59):
I can move.
Speaker 6 (32:01):
I'm sick. I don't feel well.
Speaker 7 (32:03):
That's to be expected after your first cure.
Speaker 1 (32:06):
Oh, don't put it that way. All right, I've taken
a life.
Speaker 7 (32:10):
You'll get over it after a while. You won't even
think about it.
Speaker 6 (32:18):
Do we really have no choice? Was this the best
solution they could? Fine? Maybe maybe this was the only
way we could survive.
Speaker 1 (32:30):
She was right about one thing.
Speaker 6 (32:32):
She said I'd get over it after a while. I
wouldn't even think about it. Well, after a while, I
didn't think about it. Upper right Quadrant coordinates thirty four nineteen, Upper.
Speaker 7 (32:45):
Right thirty four nineteen.
Speaker 1 (32:48):
Movement verify a ship nine hundred million.
Speaker 7 (32:52):
Activate change fine.
Speaker 6 (32:54):
Acknowledge on missiles E and G E F G arm ranged.
Speaker 1 (33:02):
Seven fire on six ready.
Speaker 7 (33:07):
Fire and.
Speaker 6 (33:11):
He fired fired by G G fired good shooting. He's
on the screen.
Speaker 7 (33:20):
He's not good. You can't come home.
Speaker 6 (33:26):
She was right when she said I'd be able to
do it without thinking. But she was wrong when she
said I'd get over it once it was done. Once
the excitement, the fear, the suspense were gone. I was drained,
completely spent and physically ill. What was the matter with me?
And then I found out by accident I had reported
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to my base coordinator for deep briefing after my latest mission.
Speaker 2 (33:53):
Good you got to this time.
Speaker 3 (33:56):
We thought Douglas was an expert, but you cover a
widest he ever attempted.
Speaker 2 (34:02):
What is it?
Speaker 1 (34:03):
Well, I don't know.
Speaker 2 (34:07):
Shouldn't you report to medical?
Speaker 6 (34:11):
It's sorright? I think I know what it is.
Speaker 1 (34:15):
It was her right sheet bull.
Speaker 6 (34:18):
There was a bruise, very slight, almost invisible, but it
was there? Or was it my imagination? No, No, it
couldn't be. It was the kind of bruise you get
when someone has struck a blow. Who would strike the
leader of the anti aggression society? Who would even strike
a blow at all? There was one person who might
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be able to tell me.
Speaker 1 (34:43):
I don't know what you're talking about, George Teddy. I
didn't want to ask her. Are you back in business?
Speaker 6 (34:48):
Yep?
Speaker 1 (34:49):
But it's all hush hush, top secret.
Speaker 5 (34:52):
They all come to me, the president, the base coordinator
of the technicians.
Speaker 6 (34:55):
They have to why the same reason you do. They're
all killing or I'm the only one who's actually sure.
Speaker 1 (35:02):
But they're part of it.
Speaker 5 (35:04):
Any one of them could stop it one way or another,
and that makes.
Speaker 1 (35:07):
Them all equally guilty. But why do they have to
come to you, Teddy?
Speaker 5 (35:10):
Look at yourself, George, you're a rare emotionally. You preach
constantly against aggression, But aggression is the most vital function
you perform, So you.
Speaker 1 (35:20):
Have to nourish it, keep it alive.
Speaker 5 (35:22):
You have to come to a place like this box wrestle,
compete strenuously.
Speaker 1 (35:27):
Are we insane, Teddy?
Speaker 6 (35:29):
What can we do?
Speaker 1 (35:31):
It's the only way to save the world.
Speaker 6 (35:34):
Whether or not it was the only way to save
the world, I couldn't say, But I do know.
Speaker 1 (35:39):
That it was the saving of me.
Speaker 6 (35:42):
The competitive activity started the juices flowing again, and before
I know it, I was.
Speaker 1 (35:47):
A new man.
Speaker 6 (35:48):
Or maybe I had gone back to being the old one.
Even Ela couldn't figure it.
Speaker 2 (35:53):
You want to go out again tonight? Well it's just
every night this week.
Speaker 6 (35:57):
I only suggested it because of you me. You said
that After my psych Greek, I became dull. I was
much fun anymore.
Speaker 2 (36:04):
There is such a thing as too much fun.
Speaker 1 (36:08):
I was doing my job, my job is killer.
Speaker 6 (36:12):
I had spotted the enemy's ship and was waiting for
the firing order from the basic coordinator.
Speaker 7 (36:17):
Fire C and D.
Speaker 6 (36:22):
Sefard d fard.
Speaker 7 (36:28):
Good shooting, Come on home.
Speaker 1 (36:33):
I looked at the screen. This time, the alien ship
had not disappeared. There was a.
Speaker 6 (36:40):
Dark, motionless blot on the lower right hand quadras.
Speaker 1 (36:44):
I was filled with a great curiosity. Who what was
this alien?
Speaker 6 (36:49):
I simply had to know, But it was against regulations
to approach. Yet I had to do it.
Speaker 1 (36:55):
They didn't have to know. I cut off my transmitter
posed her quickly. She was a kind of roundish vehicle,
not at all too different from my own.
Speaker 6 (37:05):
Who and what could be a border? I locked with
her magnetically. I looked over her hall for the entry port.
I throwed it, and even though I was unarmed, I
lowered myself inside. There was a twisted look to everything,
a feeling of death. Than I saw him, the.
Speaker 1 (37:24):
Most striking man I'd.
Speaker 6 (37:26):
Ever encountered, raven black hair and deep green eyes, wearing
a tunic.
Speaker 1 (37:33):
There was a tiny trickle of blood on his forehead.
You you are the one. Yes, I disabled your ship.
Speaker 5 (37:41):
You destroyed it. You're lucky you saw me first, I
would have destroyed you. I have better weaponry, more file power.
My world is more advanced than yours.
Speaker 6 (37:52):
I do you know.
Speaker 4 (37:52):
Because you have not learned to read minds.
Speaker 1 (37:55):
Yet you're reading my mind.
Speaker 4 (37:57):
Yes, that is how we can come.
Speaker 1 (38:00):
Kate, you're bleeding.
Speaker 6 (38:01):
Let me help you.
Speaker 1 (38:02):
You cannot.
Speaker 4 (38:02):
I I'm helping myself.
Speaker 5 (38:05):
How your missile did a great deal of damage inside me.
My body is now trying to repair itself.
Speaker 6 (38:13):
Oh, I'm sorry.
Speaker 4 (38:14):
It's the nature of the universe.
Speaker 5 (38:17):
Right now, my body is trying to repair itself if
it can.
Speaker 1 (38:22):
Why don't we?
Speaker 6 (38:27):
Oh?
Speaker 1 (38:28):
But he didn't say.
Speaker 5 (38:30):
What is We should get into your ship and and
go to my planet and.
Speaker 6 (38:36):
Take it over, take it over it, own it.
Speaker 9 (38:40):
We have the weapons, submit or we shall blow you
out of existence.
Speaker 4 (38:46):
Then we'll go to your planet. We'll give them the
same autimatum.
Speaker 2 (38:49):
You and I we will.
Speaker 7 (38:54):
All we.
Speaker 2 (38:56):
You and I we.
Speaker 9 (38:59):
Do the work, that dirty work. Why shouldn't we? My
body it isn't repairing.
Speaker 1 (39:14):
I'm dying.
Speaker 6 (39:18):
And he was dead, the most unusual man I had
ever met, and I had killed him.
Speaker 1 (39:26):
I went back to my ship and headed for home.
Speaker 11 (39:32):
And so, in recognition of your devotion, to duty and
your splendid performance not just as a pilot, but is
a dedicated member of the anti aggressian society.
Speaker 1 (39:44):
I honored to present you with the.
Speaker 5 (39:46):
Middle of Perfection very broadly.
Speaker 6 (39:51):
Thank you, Miss the President. But while you have given
me the medal of perfection, I don't really own it yet.
Speaker 1 (39:58):
For I, like everyone else, must still strive for perfection.
I thank you.
Speaker 5 (40:06):
Immersed gracious and modest speech commanded bets.
Speaker 1 (40:11):
Mister President.
Speaker 6 (40:12):
Do you remember when you posted me into my present assignment?
Speaker 1 (40:16):
I had asked you a question.
Speaker 6 (40:19):
Yes, I had asked till, since you are giving me
the power to destroy the world, how do you know
I won't do it one day?
Speaker 1 (40:29):
Yes?
Speaker 5 (40:30):
And do you remember my answer? That's the chance we mistake.
Speaker 6 (40:38):
None of us really knows the answer, not yet, this
unknown magnificent man.
Speaker 1 (40:44):
I'm murdered. He didn't know the answer either.
Speaker 6 (40:48):
He came to a certain conclusion after how much disillusion
and frustration, and am I getting there too? When he
had suggested to me that we take over both worlds?
I recall now that I didn't automatically and instinctively turn
it down. Is it possible that I will actually do it?
Speaker 1 (41:11):
One day?
Speaker 6 (41:14):
I don't know.
Speaker 1 (41:15):
I honestly don't know, but he's thinking about it.
Speaker 3 (41:25):
And once you begin to flirt with a dangerous idea,
it's like flirting with a dangerous woman. One thing leads
to another and before you know it, oh well, I
shall return shortly with another insight into our story. Throughout history,
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people's nations have turned to so called strong men and
said protect us from our enemies, our enemies within and
our enemies with out. Throughout history, all the stories have
had the same dismal endings. People discovered after it was
too late that they had only invited the Fox to
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guard the hen House. Our cast included Mason Adams, Russell Houghton,
and Carol Titel. The entire production was under the direction
of Hymen Brown.
Speaker 12 (42:23):
Hello, my name is Dick Bresha and I'm the senior
vice President for the CBS Radio Networks. For the past
nine years, we've been pleased to have been part of
helping bring drama back to radio in the form of
the CBS Radio Mystery Theater. The man most responsible is
with us. He's producer director Hyman Brown.
Speaker 8 (42:43):
These have been the happiest nine years in my fifty
year career of creating radio drama. The response to all
that we've been doing has been most joyous.
Speaker 6 (42:53):
The theater of the imagination once again.
Speaker 8 (42:56):
Became a vital part of all that radio is A
can be unhappily. This broadcast marks the end of the
CBS Radio Mystery Theater as part of the network schedule,
after three thousand broadcasts.
Speaker 6 (43:13):
We hope we leave you with many fond memories.
Speaker 8 (43:17):
I want to say thank you to you, our listeners,
to CBS and the station you're listening to for the
support and encouragement. Most of all to the hundreds of
talented writers, actors, and technicians who helped stretch our imaginations.
I hasten to assure you that although this series draws
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its final curtain, radio drama lives until we meet again,
and we.
Speaker 1 (43:46):
Will thank you.
Speaker 8 (43:48):
Quod Night, Pleasant Dream.
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