June 18, 2025 • 45 mins
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Speaker 1 (00:04):
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Coming Welcome. I'm e. G. Marshall.
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Have you ever played the game of wondering where and when?
Speaker 3 (00:42):
If you had the choice, you would have picked to.
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Spend your life?
Speaker 2 (00:46):
Most of us probably might settle for today and where
we are. The more romantic among us might opt for
some favorite era we view through rose colored glasses, the
Greek or Roman Empire, the Renaissance, Shakespeare's England. But the
adventurers would turn their eyes to the future, the unimagined
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and the unimaginable. What might some distant tomorrow be like, you.
Speaker 1 (01:19):
Mean, wipe out any inhabitants that are there, General Vaughan exactly,
Doctor Tremaine, with the robots I build for you, suppose
I refuse.
Speaker 4 (01:33):
That's the lovely wife you have, Doctor Little Young for you,
but then so exquisitely desirable, all the more it would
be a pity for anything to happen to her.
Speaker 2 (01:54):
Our mystery drama Strange New Tomorrow, was written especially for
the mystery by Ian Martin and stars John Beale and
Terry Keene. It is sponsored in part by Sun Kissed
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Speaker 5 (02:10):
I'll be back shortly without one.
Speaker 2 (02:25):
We're about to bring you a time that none of
us will ever know, or our children, or our children's children,
or generations.
Speaker 1 (02:35):
Of them to come.
Speaker 2 (02:37):
This is a time long after the Second Hundred Years' War,
when the world went mad and burned the green and
fruitful earth to baron cinders, when the population was reduced
by two thirds, leaving the survivors to a virtual handful.
This is a time of an absolute autocracy, a state
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in which every individual is borne by a selective reading
and condemned by the state to function only in the
area prescribed.
Speaker 1 (03:08):
For him or her. This could be what the future
will be.
Speaker 6 (03:14):
Like, Ralph. Yes, oh dear, it's times in medicine.
Speaker 1 (03:19):
Well, you don't have to act like a wife when
we are alone at to wait.
Speaker 6 (03:23):
I want you to take it. You need it.
Speaker 1 (03:26):
I may need it. They won't have in a minute.
Speaker 6 (03:30):
What are you looking at?
Speaker 1 (03:32):
The return of the conquering heroes, Leader of our regiments
defended the Faith, General Mark Barden Homeward, the heroes from
the hunt, pirates and free booters, all with their living plunder.
There's not one grain of moral sense. I'm not the
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compassion of wal heart among them?
Speaker 6 (03:58):
Have they been not another?
Speaker 1 (03:59):
What was the windows? I don't even want the wind
from their exhaust to touch me, you were saying, my dear, I.
Speaker 7 (04:08):
Was just asking if they'd been on another galactic rate
beyond doubt.
Speaker 1 (04:13):
More and more frequently, Varden and that evil young man
who's elevated himself to emperor are getting desperate as well
they should. Emperor Condor is sitting on an uneasy throne.
Speaker 6 (04:26):
You think he might be overthrown, not from within.
Speaker 1 (04:30):
As long as he has his robot army to protect him,
and as long as fresh blood has brought him to
keep them from extinction, the people will still cling to hope,
although there isn't any hope for what. Oh it's a
long story, my child, a long history, and I don't
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feel like telling you tonight.
Speaker 6 (04:53):
Of course you mustn't. You look tired? And oh, Ralph,
you look so ill.
Speaker 1 (05:01):
I'm suffering from a chronic complaint old age, doctor Ralph Tremaine,
Professor of Cybernetics emeritus.
Speaker 6 (05:12):
But you are not retired, No, not quite yet.
Speaker 1 (05:17):
There are things I have to finish you hear there? What, Ralph,
the silence. The ship has landed. Now they'll feed the
poor souls, whoever they are, to the lions.
Speaker 3 (05:38):
Your Majesty, rings General, pardon your return.
Speaker 4 (05:42):
I see bringing with me another glorious victory to lay it.
Speaker 1 (05:46):
Your Majesty's spare.
Speaker 3 (05:47):
Me all that nonsense, or you're successful in your task.
Speaker 4 (05:51):
You can see for yourself if you will allow me
to tune in the viewing screen.
Speaker 3 (05:55):
Very well, you were gone on unconscionable time.
Speaker 4 (05:59):
These mission get more and more difficult. Why let me
show you the fruits of this one first. There it's
coming into focus. Now there's the latest catch. And where
are they from?
Speaker 1 (06:17):
Rubus, a planet in the ninth Galaxy? You had to
go so far afield.
Speaker 4 (06:22):
As I said, it becomes more difficult all the time.
Galaxy after galaxy is patrolled by policecraft seeking this out.
Only the black light Enblope has kept our identities secret
this loan. Even then, I must slip through time warp
after time warp to avoid discovery and recognition.
Speaker 3 (06:40):
What'll they expect? We must raid them to keep our
race alive, to maintain enough population to keep the whole
fabric of existence viable. You know my answer to that majesty, No, General, No,
I don't want to listen to that. Now, perhaps these
bodies milling about down on a square there will be
the answer, lashed, Yes, tell.
Speaker 1 (07:03):
Me more about the planet Rubos.
Speaker 4 (07:06):
It's a large planet, about the size of Jupiter in
our Solar System. Its distance in relation to size is
approximately the same as our planets from our Sun. The
climate and the animal life is also analogous.
Speaker 3 (07:20):
They look healthy enough and similar enough intelligence.
Speaker 4 (07:25):
Their average IQ is a good deal higher than ours,
and their scientific capability is considerably more advanced. We were
lucky to make our raid and escape unnoticed. We were
almost intercepted. Their communications must be magnificent.
Speaker 1 (07:41):
We were in a very remote part of what is
a very.
Speaker 4 (07:43):
Large planet, and yet they were almost honest as we
took off.
Speaker 1 (07:47):
Well, were you recognized? I hope not unless.
Speaker 4 (07:51):
They have instruments to pierce the black light curtain.
Speaker 1 (07:54):
But I think we got.
Speaker 3 (07:55):
Away excellent, excellent, And I won't cold you for the
handful which you have brought me. They seem to be
first rate specimens. Next time, our Emperor Conda. Yes, General Varden,
there will be no next time.
Speaker 8 (08:11):
What no more rates? They are too dangerous.
Speaker 3 (08:14):
But you know We must have a constant supply of
people of healthy body so we can weed out the
poison that eats at most of us and destroys us.
Speaker 8 (08:22):
We will never weed it out, and.
Speaker 3 (08:24):
It can be bred out once we find the right strain.
Speaker 8 (08:27):
Emperor Kanda, listen to me.
Speaker 1 (08:30):
You think the radiation is carried inside us bread in
our genes. I don't believe it is.
Speaker 4 (08:38):
I think every generation reinfects itself from the earth of
this planet.
Speaker 1 (08:42):
The seas that twash it, the space around.
Speaker 3 (08:44):
It, and on all that can be General Varden, it's
countless generation since the Holocaust, and it will be.
Speaker 1 (08:50):
Countless eternities before this planet is safe again for anything.
Speaker 8 (08:54):
But robots.
Speaker 3 (08:55):
Don't mention those abominations to me.
Speaker 1 (08:58):
Why do you hate them? So? They are the perfect slave.
Without them, you would have no army, no palace, gods,
and internal police to hold the common people and check
and check from what.
Speaker 4 (09:10):
From ripping you and me and the rest of the
ministers apart. No, there is only one hope. That is,
we must abandon Earth and resettle elsewhere.
Speaker 3 (09:24):
Don't you think that hasn't been thought of EANs and
EANs of goal. But we are welcome nowhere. The pariahs
of the universe.
Speaker 1 (09:31):
We do not ask. We will take with what.
Speaker 3 (09:34):
I can't find enough healthy bodies to run basic services,
let alone conscript an army.
Speaker 1 (09:39):
We do not need an army except.
Speaker 3 (09:41):
My act of those obscene robots. Again, there aren't enough
of them.
Speaker 1 (09:45):
They can be built if you will allow me to
reopen the planet. Oh what are you afraid of that
somehow they'll take over? I don't know the hesh hesh,
I don't worry. They're nothing but a series of relays, transistors,
printed circuits. They are programmed by men. I still don't
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trust them. Give me, leave your majesty to go to
doctor Tremaine and have him start on blueprints for a
new and improved model robot built only for water or.
Speaker 3 (10:19):
Not yet not yet? Give me time to stink, or
let me find among these slaves you've brought back one
woman who who may give me an untainted child?
Speaker 1 (10:42):
Yes, quickly, I must stop be seen.
Speaker 8 (10:44):
Close the door. Who are you I am? General Mark Vaden?
Close it forgive me?
Speaker 6 (10:48):
General?
Speaker 1 (10:52):
How are you I am? Una? You are a very
beautiful woman. Owner am I? Yes? Where did you come from? How?
General Warton to what do we owe the honor of
your visit to me. Oh, I see you've met my
wife your wife. Oh, yes, of course i'd forgotten the
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wedding took place while you were on your cruise. My mission,
doctor Tremaine, A is mission. Did you have success? I
flatter myself. I did? I have urgent business with you? Doctor.
Speaker 4 (11:27):
Shall we go to my study for what I wish
to talk with you about? Your laboratory would be more appropriate.
Speaker 8 (11:34):
I know my.
Speaker 1 (11:36):
Way, Ralph, what is it? The last place? I wanted
him to be? Well? With a little luck, we may
be all right. Close the door, Doctor Tremaine, very well,
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and I'll turn off all this apparatus. No, I prefer
to take no chance that what I have to say
might be overheard. Well, at least let me lower the volume. Fascinating,
What are you brewing here? Doctor? What are these machines? Computers, oscillators,
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electronic microscopes, calculators, all the impediment of anyone who studies cybernetics.
The scientist studies only to learn how little he really knows.
Speaker 8 (12:30):
But you know how to build robots is?
Speaker 1 (12:34):
But we're not building anymore. I want you to be ready.
Speaker 4 (12:39):
I want you to stop building me a prototype designed
only for war.
Speaker 1 (12:44):
Does the Emperor know of this?
Speaker 4 (12:47):
It is better the Emperor doesn't know of everything.
Speaker 1 (12:50):
I'd have to have his permission first before I embarked
on this. I wouldn't want to risk offending him. You
will be far worth of offending me, Doctor General. I
am an old man. I haven't long to live, so
threats of little use against me, I wouldn't be quite
so sure, My dear doctor Tremaine, I'm going to take
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over another planet in some other galaxy, a clean planet,
untouched by deadly radiation like ours. Take over you mean
wipe out any inhabitants that are there, exactly with the
robots I build for you. That's it. You are going
to build me the army to fight it. And if
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I refuse.
Speaker 4 (13:38):
That is a lovely wife you have, doctor Tremaine, No
a little young for you. It would be a pity
for anything to happen to her.
Speaker 1 (13:48):
You wouldn't dare. Do not try me.
Speaker 4 (13:53):
One whisper to the Emperor of my plans. Any attempt
from you to hinder them, Any refusal to do my
will to the best of your ability, and I will
have your wife destroyed and buried in a forgotten grave.
Speaker 1 (14:09):
Well, Doctor Tremaine, are we partners or not?
Speaker 2 (14:19):
The General's eyes are chips of granite, and Doctor Tremaine
knows this man only too well to doubt that he
means every word he says. Mark Varden may be human,
but he is as soulless as any robot. What choice
can the old man make? I shall return shortly with
that too. Perched on the edge of a table in
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doctor Tremaine's laboratory, as he awaits the old man's answer,
General Mark Varden lets his hawk eyes roam idly about
the room. It is the ordered clutter of a busy
scientist who is half chemist, half the electronics wizard. His
eye has just fallen on a large black box, almost.
Speaker 1 (15:16):
Like a coffin. When the old man speaks, You're right,
General Varden, I have no choice. I was sure you
would see it by way. Doctor.
Speaker 4 (15:27):
Such a ravishingly beautiful woman. Where did you find her?
Speaker 1 (15:32):
She was one of the group you brought back from
Signals three on your last mission. I overlooked her all
the long journey home, I'm afraid you did, and I
asked the Emperor for her hand the moment I found her.
The Emperor gave her to you. I'm unmarried widow. I
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had the right to ask to demand.
Speaker 4 (15:54):
I'm surprised he acceeded the way he feels about your robots.
Speaker 1 (15:58):
Don't be too surprised, no matter what he says. Only
I can build them and program them. Now that all
the others are gone, he needs his palace guard to
shield him from you, so he needs me.
Speaker 4 (16:12):
Nobody else is clever enough to build or service them.
Speaker 1 (16:17):
That will be taken care of very soon. In the meantime,
don't push me too.
Speaker 4 (16:22):
Far, my dear doctor, I have no intention of subjecting
you to any pressure now that we are agreed, I
ask only the reassurance of being able to drop in
from time to time to get the progress reports.
Speaker 1 (16:37):
When I have some working drawings ready, i'll send for you, but.
Speaker 4 (16:41):
Carefully till I have sold his majesty on the necessity
of my plan.
Speaker 1 (16:47):
I have an assistant in the lab, a young man
named Mac. No one knows him at court. I'll send
him Mac. What, just Mac, That's all you need to know.
Speaker 4 (17:00):
I leave standing orders for him to be admitted.
Speaker 8 (17:04):
Now I must leave you.
Speaker 4 (17:06):
Oh, by the way, yes, General, you say you never
stopped studying. Just what have you been working on while
I've been gone.
Speaker 1 (17:16):
I don't think it would interest you very much.
Speaker 4 (17:18):
On the contrary, you're quite sure you haven't been developing
some sort of special robot for his Majesty that just
might upset the balance of power.
Speaker 1 (17:30):
What would make you think that this curious box.
Speaker 4 (17:34):
Big enough to hold someone my size?
Speaker 1 (17:37):
That looks like a coffin.
Speaker 4 (17:40):
The lid it's locked, naturally? What's inside this curious box?
Speaker 1 (17:49):
Third box is lined with lead. Inside it are a
group of highly radioactive rocks, which I use in certain
biological experiments that I've been conducting to try to neutralize
their effect on the body.
Speaker 4 (18:04):
Then I shall give it a wide berth. I wouldn't
want to try their effect on mine. If I can
believe you, well, I'll give you the key and you
may open it, but only after I'm out of this
room and out of this house.
Speaker 1 (18:23):
Well, come in.
Speaker 7 (18:28):
I'm sorry to disturb you, Ralph, but it's time for
your medicine.
Speaker 1 (18:32):
General.
Speaker 4 (18:33):
That's quite all right, missus Tremaine. I was just about
to leave. Yes, the Emperor made you an extraordinary present.
She's ravishingly lovely. Keep her that way, doctor, at all costs.
Speaker 1 (18:49):
Now don't worry.
Speaker 8 (18:51):
I can see myself out.
Speaker 1 (18:56):
She really gone.
Speaker 6 (18:57):
What a dreadful, frightening man.
Speaker 1 (19:00):
He said all of that and more. I just had
my medicine. I don't need any more.
Speaker 6 (19:05):
It was an excuse to come in. I knew you
needed me.
Speaker 7 (19:08):
How I don't know, except I always do. It's like
a wave, a shudder, the pulse of some electric alarm.
What did that awful man mean about the Emperor giving
me to you?
Speaker 1 (19:23):
I don't want you to worry your pretty.
Speaker 6 (19:25):
Head, but I do worry.
Speaker 7 (19:28):
What do you think it's like not knowing anything about
yourself or your family, where you came from, or who
your friends might have been. Just waking up suddenly at
the age of twenty five and.
Speaker 1 (19:39):
Just being you just have no memories. But why that's
a sort of amnesia.
Speaker 6 (19:48):
Did I fall hit my head?
Speaker 1 (19:50):
No? You look, I'll tell you what I just told
the General. You know, this shipload of unfortunate people he
just brought back.
Speaker 6 (20:00):
Slaves.
Speaker 1 (20:01):
What he has condemned them to is tantamount to slavery
and worse.
Speaker 7 (20:05):
But why why did he steal people away from their home?
Speaker 1 (20:09):
Because sooner or later everyone on this planet dies of
a form of sickness caused by nuclear radiation. The Emperor
believes it is transmitted through the genes, and that by
selective breeding to healthy stock, it can eventually be neutralized.
Can it No, even if it were possible, this whole
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globe is one mass of radioactivity that would reinfect everyone again.
Speaker 6 (20:37):
Has it infected me?
Speaker 1 (20:40):
No? And it never will, I promise you that.
Speaker 6 (20:47):
But the others are those poor women I saw on
the viewing screen.
Speaker 1 (20:51):
They will be sold to any male who's not yet
given any signs of having the sickness.
Speaker 7 (20:56):
What a terrible cruel man to try to drag the
rest of the universe down because of our misfortune.
Speaker 1 (21:02):
And it's all so futile. The Emperor won't believe it,
but the cancer is already growing within him. If he
had laid eyes on you, he undoubtedly would have chosen
you as one of his consorts.
Speaker 6 (21:15):
How did I escape?
Speaker 1 (21:18):
Oh?
Speaker 7 (21:21):
Is that what you told the general, that you took
me instead?
Speaker 1 (21:25):
That's what I told him.
Speaker 7 (21:27):
But I I have been no real wife to you,
my dear sweet girl.
Speaker 1 (21:35):
The marriage was only so I could hide you away
and keep you safe. I think of you as a daughter.
I had only one wife, and she died a long.
Speaker 6 (21:46):
Time ago of the sickness.
Speaker 1 (21:51):
Yes, and you know something. You were created in her image.
You look exactly like her.
Speaker 7 (21:59):
Oh, Ralph, I do love you, and I feel so
close to you, and I want you to know how strong.
Speaker 6 (22:08):
My love is.
Speaker 1 (22:09):
That's all I want to hear. Give me all of
it you want. But as a daughter, the child I
never had.
Speaker 6 (22:18):
Because you were afraid.
Speaker 1 (22:19):
Because if I couldn't give life, I refuse to bring
anything into this world. You will be meeting someone soon.
He'll be working with me, and it will be impossible
to conceal his presence from you. He's someone very special
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and I want you to understand about him.
Speaker 6 (22:47):
Is it a coffin?
Speaker 1 (22:49):
Oh no, it's more like a cradle.
Speaker 6 (22:53):
I'm afraid, suddenly, I ask.
Speaker 1 (22:55):
There's nothing to be afraid of. You'll see.
Speaker 7 (23:00):
It's a young man and he's beautiful, I hope not
handsome is a better.
Speaker 6 (23:08):
Word perhaps, But he.
Speaker 1 (23:13):
Is he dead? Oh no, this young man can't die
in the ordinary sense. He is, in a way immortal.
Speaker 6 (23:23):
I don't understand you.
Speaker 1 (23:25):
This young man isn't a human being. He's a humanoid.
Speaker 6 (23:32):
A humanoid.
Speaker 1 (23:33):
He is a similacrum, something that's formed in the likeness
of a human being.
Speaker 6 (23:40):
Oh, you mean like a mannequin or a dummy.
Speaker 1 (23:44):
Very far from that. I mean he is identical in
almost every respect with a human, and he will perform, act,
simulate almost every human control function, only in max case.
The motive forces are mechanical and electronic MAC. That's what
I call him, And so there's sort of an acronym
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for what he is, mechanoelectric activated computer.
Speaker 7 (24:11):
You built him, made him, created him?
Speaker 6 (24:16):
Yes, Oh, how horrible.
Speaker 1 (24:19):
Oh. I was hoping that you wouldn't react like that.
It's the last way I wanted you to feel.
Speaker 7 (24:24):
But he's nothing but a machine, a lot more than that.
How can he be it be? It's just a super robot,
a thing.
Speaker 1 (24:36):
I don't think you'll feel that way about him when
you meet him.
Speaker 6 (24:39):
I don't want to meet him.
Speaker 1 (24:40):
What are you afraid of, Luna, I don't know.
Speaker 6 (24:42):
It's when I first.
Speaker 7 (24:45):
Saw him, I thought how beautiful he is, and my
heart went out to him to be dead so young,
And then you said you said that he wasn't that
he was immortal, and the strangest feeling just washed all
over me and grew inside a warm and tingling and
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I couldn't understand it, but.
Speaker 6 (25:11):
I wanted it to last forever.
Speaker 7 (25:14):
Now you tell me he's only a machine. It's I
don't know, it's unclean somehow I want I want to cringe.
Speaker 1 (25:24):
Then you've got to meet him to get rid of
that feeling.
Speaker 6 (25:29):
All right, but only for you.
Speaker 1 (25:33):
Let me just set the instruments first. Just attach these electrons,
step up the power watchmen. Wake up Mac, and time
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to get to work.
Speaker 3 (26:05):
Yeah. Oh, oh, doctor, I give Did I fall asleep again?
Speaker 1 (26:12):
Not exactly? And cheer up. You won't anymore, except when
you decide to. Oh, Mac, I want you to meet
my wife. Oh oh, it's.
Speaker 3 (26:24):
A pleasure to meet you. Missus Tremaine, how do you do?
Speaker 1 (26:29):
Just great?
Speaker 3 (26:30):
I mean, you're really something to wake up to.
Speaker 1 (26:33):
I told you you'd surprise you.
Speaker 6 (26:35):
I'm not surprised.
Speaker 8 (26:38):
I'm frightened of me why.
Speaker 6 (26:42):
I don't know.
Speaker 7 (26:43):
I just told him what. I'm afraid to be near you.
I don't want to be near you.
Speaker 3 (26:52):
Did I do something wrong?
Speaker 1 (26:53):
Don't you No? I'm the one. I just hope there'll
be time enough left to set it right.
Speaker 2 (27:07):
What does doctor Tremaine mean by that last statement? And
why should missus Tremaine have this strange fear of this all.
Speaker 1 (27:16):
Too human humanoid?
Speaker 2 (27:19):
Or is Mac the mechano electric computers something other than he?
Or it seems you're in for some surprising revelations in
this bizarre history of the far off future.
Speaker 1 (27:31):
When I returned.
Speaker 2 (27:31):
Shortly with Act three, three weeks have passed in the
course of them. For whatever reasons of his own, Doctor
Tremaine has tried to bring Una and his protege Mac
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together as much as possible, but Una still reacts to
Mac with that strange, inexplicable fear and the humanoid. Although
he obviously holds her in admiring all seems happy to
have as few encounters with her as possible. But a
rush of events are moving to a startling climax, a climax.
Speaker 8 (28:13):
That builds rapidly.
Speaker 2 (28:14):
Is Mac visits General Varden at the Palace bearing a
message from Doctor Tremaine.
Speaker 1 (28:20):
What does he mean he won't design the robots I ordered?
Speaker 3 (28:23):
I think he explained that in the message General.
Speaker 1 (28:26):
You mean this nonsense about not being able to build
machines of war?
Speaker 3 (28:30):
Or if I remember what he said was he can't,
I can't in all conscience, I think was the phrase.
Speaker 1 (28:37):
I don't like your attitude. I have no attitude, sir.
I was only trying to set the record straight. I
find you in supportinate. What's your name? Mac? Jeral Mac? Who?
Just Mac? That's all? Are you trying to make a
fool of me?
Speaker 3 (28:53):
No, sir, pardon General Varden. Turn up your viewings so
I know you're there.
Speaker 1 (29:02):
Yes, your majesty, that's better.
Speaker 3 (29:05):
I want to see you in my office immediately.
Speaker 1 (29:07):
What's wrong, Emperor, wrong? Everything? You're fool.
Speaker 3 (29:11):
I've just received a message from President Zorak of the Republic.
Speaker 1 (29:15):
Of Rubas your ship.
Speaker 3 (29:17):
Was identified on that last raid, and now he's on
his way to work planet to blow us out.
Speaker 1 (29:21):
Of the sky. Does he say when No, then with
luck I still can intercept him. I'll be right in
your majesty. You did you hear that? Yes? I did.
Speaker 4 (29:32):
General, Then take this message back to doctor Tremaine. You
tell him to get his blueprints ready for my factory
to go into production. I need an army of robots
and they only have to do one thing.
Speaker 1 (29:46):
Fight. And you tell him also that he'd better conform
or his wife will be the one to pay the price.
Speaker 3 (30:02):
Oh, missus Tremaine, I'm sorry if I startled.
Speaker 6 (30:06):
You don't come near me?
Speaker 1 (30:08):
Why do you dislike me?
Speaker 6 (30:09):
So?
Speaker 3 (30:10):
Look, I've got to see doctor Tremaine first, but I was.
Speaker 6 (30:14):
I don't want him disturbed.
Speaker 3 (30:16):
Well, it's important I have a message from the General.
Speaker 6 (30:18):
It can wait.
Speaker 3 (30:19):
But you don't understand you're the one in danger. The
general threatened.
Speaker 7 (30:22):
You don't have to worry about the General's threats. My
husband got a promise for protection from the Emperor before
he told him about General Varden's planning to build the
robots in secret.
Speaker 6 (30:34):
My husband and I have nothing to fear from him.
Speaker 7 (30:37):
He should be under arrest by now.
Speaker 6 (30:41):
Does that satisfy you?
Speaker 1 (30:43):
Well? Yes, I no.
Speaker 6 (30:48):
What else do you want?
Speaker 3 (30:49):
I'd like us to be friends, so would I.
Speaker 7 (30:56):
But I don't think that's possible. Why didn't you leave
me alone?
Speaker 6 (31:03):
Just leave me alone?
Speaker 3 (31:04):
Missus Tremna?
Speaker 7 (31:06):
Who not?
Speaker 1 (31:07):
It's all right, sir mac I should say, don't bother. Now,
come in the laboratory. I need to talk to you.
Explain some things.
Speaker 3 (31:21):
Our general. There will be no necessity to fight. What
do you mean I contacted presidents or I can maide?
Speaker 1 (31:27):
Shall we say an arrangement? Am I to be informed
of it? Worse?
Speaker 3 (31:32):
I've offered to return to him all his people who were.
Speaker 1 (31:35):
Abducted, and that satisfied him. Oh.
Speaker 3 (31:40):
I've also offered him you, as the criminal responsible for
the brutal pirate raid, to do with as he likes.
Speaker 8 (31:48):
And you trust him.
Speaker 1 (31:51):
Without me, there's no one to fight him. And after
he took off with me as prisoner, he'd still devastate
this planet till.
Speaker 8 (31:59):
There was not a living, breathing human being.
Speaker 1 (32:01):
Honest.
Speaker 3 (32:01):
Oh, he intends to do that. Of course, they're all
dying anyway. They What about you?
Speaker 1 (32:08):
You die with him? Certainly not.
Speaker 3 (32:10):
He has promised me safe conduct to his country and
the right to take my personal fortune with me. So
you sold me out gladly, just as you were planning
to do to me, as soon as you were ready
with your new army of robots. See them, guards, I said,
see them.
Speaker 8 (32:31):
You really are a fool of medicine.
Speaker 4 (32:35):
Just because these metal bodies are painted with the Royal
purple on their breasts, emblazoned with your coat of arms,
you think that makes them yours.
Speaker 1 (32:44):
Seize him, my captains, Oh, let me go. I am
the Emperor. We're the emperor, not anymore. You think you
can take my throne from me.
Speaker 8 (32:53):
I don't watch.
Speaker 1 (32:53):
Your throne or you. From now on the whole universe
will be mine.
Speaker 3 (32:58):
You won't get away with it. When Resident Zorak lands
and praes me, he'll follow you with his preach of ship.
Speaker 1 (33:03):
He won't get nowhere to find me. There'll be no
one to tell him where I went. The king is dead,
Long live the General. The reason you felt no fear
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of Vardenmack is because I didn't program you for fear.
Speaker 3 (33:29):
You mean, doctor Tremaine, that every reaction I have you
built into me.
Speaker 1 (33:33):
Yes, I picked a human model for you and tried
to shape you as close to that model as I could,
with certain exceptions.
Speaker 3 (33:42):
Who is the modelsor myself? Use very proud? But why
would you want to go to all that trouble to
duplicate yourself?
Speaker 1 (33:52):
Well? Maybe because I had no other model I knew
so well, and maybe because I'm dying and every man
reaches for immortality. That's the part of it, but not
all of it, not the real reason, And I made
such a bunch of it.
Speaker 3 (34:13):
I'm sorry if I don't measure ups her. I'm no
one to blame. I've I got to ask you to
help me doctor, I can't stand it any longer.
Speaker 1 (34:23):
I'll help you in any way that I can.
Speaker 3 (34:25):
And unmake me, so destroy me, dismantle me.
Speaker 1 (34:28):
Why Because.
Speaker 3 (34:30):
Because I love her and she can't stand the side
of me.
Speaker 1 (34:32):
She loads me, and.
Speaker 3 (34:35):
I don't want to go on being knowing that.
Speaker 1 (34:38):
Why doctor, Why does she hate me? So she doesn't
hate you? Mac Quite the opposite. It's better if I
don't believe that there never was any hope for me,
because she's real and I'm only a copy. She's a
human being, and I'm not much better than a robot.
You are a humanoid, something very special and unique. The
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first man of your kind in the history of.
Speaker 3 (35:07):
Time still gives me no right to Una.
Speaker 1 (35:10):
Why not? She is the same as you? She What
when I said you were the first man of your kind?
I didn't mean the first creation. The first was a woman.
Speaker 8 (35:25):
Una.
Speaker 1 (35:27):
UNA's is like me. Uona is like herself, or if
you wish, like my wife, my real wife, my first
and only one. I put into Una all the things
I recalled about my wife, sweetness, laughter, some tears, kindness,
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and the beauty inside that only makes the outer look
more exquisitely lovely. And then I brought her to life.
But I made one terrible mistake, heart mistake. When she
came to life, she was so full of the joy
of it, the sheer delight in being that I was
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awe struck. I didn't have the heart to tell her that.
Speaker 3 (36:23):
She was just a machine. Yes, you'll have to tell
her sooner.
Speaker 1 (36:30):
Right, I know, But I'm a coward, one part of
me that I didn't build into you. Mac. I keep
waiting for the right time. But what's the front door?
S I meant, who would ring like that? Except it's
General Hardon. We mustn't let Woon open the door.
Speaker 4 (36:51):
General Thrton, how nice of you to greet me, Come,
my love, you're leaving with me?
Speaker 1 (36:57):
Let her go? Marden, stop right way? You up? My mom?
Speaker 6 (37:00):
Shoot him?
Speaker 1 (37:00):
Please don't back. It's all right.
Speaker 3 (37:03):
He can't hurt me.
Speaker 1 (37:08):
I hit you point the flank with the disintegrating ray.
Let go of her. Stay back. If you move one
step closer, I promise you, I'll turn the ray on her.
Speaker 3 (37:19):
Give me the gun.
Speaker 8 (37:20):
If I can't have a no one.
Speaker 1 (37:22):
Sow, I won't bother with the rest of you. Zorak
is on the way here to blow you all to bits.
I'll let him take care of you while I make
my escape.
Speaker 3 (37:37):
He won't get away from me.
Speaker 1 (37:39):
Let's say where you are?
Speaker 8 (37:40):
No, what if you're done?
Speaker 9 (37:42):
I can't move, he'll he'll get away.
Speaker 1 (37:44):
With him, But he kill't it. Don't be silly. He
couldn't hurt her any more that he could. You you're
not hurt, are you? Una?
Speaker 3 (37:53):
No?
Speaker 6 (37:55):
When he fired, I was so afraid I blacked out
for a moment.
Speaker 3 (38:00):
Sorry, I don't know. Has no need to be afraid anymore.
He's gone and I'm alive.
Speaker 6 (38:08):
He fired at me point blank. I felt the shock,
but I'm alive.
Speaker 1 (38:13):
He also fired at Mac and it had no effect
on him.
Speaker 6 (38:18):
But Mac is a humanoid. Then that means that I'm
a humanoid.
Speaker 1 (38:27):
Too, Yes, child, forgive me. I haven't had the heart
to tell you the truth.
Speaker 7 (38:32):
The heart, Oh Ralph, you couldn't have told me anything
more wonderful, Because now now there's nothing between us, I
can give my heart to Mac the way I did
when I first saw him.
Speaker 3 (38:44):
Oh no, my die, Why did you stop me and
let him get away?
Speaker 1 (38:49):
I don't think he will listen. Zorak has caught him.
Speaker 3 (38:56):
General Parton has opened fire. That means that Zurac won't
always been betrayed if he defeats the General ing Obamas all.
Speaker 6 (39:02):
To does I don't care. As long as we're together
that you.
Speaker 1 (39:04):
Don't have to care. He can't harm either of you.
Speaker 3 (39:08):
Oh doctor, scause of this planet. Finally take it, Come on,
help me get him to bed.
Speaker 1 (39:29):
What's happening. What's happening.
Speaker 8 (39:31):
It's Zoraxir.
Speaker 3 (39:33):
He destroyed General Varden and now he's wiping the.
Speaker 1 (39:36):
Rest of himself. Not you and Una.
Speaker 6 (39:38):
We don't care. We're together.
Speaker 1 (39:41):
Of course you care. This fortress I built on the
side of the mountain will stand except for a lucky hit,
but the radiation after it will not affect either of you.
You will still live when all else is dead, including me. No,
my days were numbered anyway, I wanted children always. You
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were the best I could offer against Fagi. You must fight.
Speaker 3 (40:10):
To exist, isn't that feudal? Doctor, the two of us alone.
One thing you couldn't give us is the ability to reproduce.
Speaker 8 (40:19):
Of course I could.
Speaker 1 (40:22):
Stored in your memory. Banks is all I have learned.
And what I learned is from the accumulated wisdom of
man since he first started to reason deep in the
mountains are stores of parts and transistors, and all you
need to build in the image of yourselves. You were children,
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who in turn will build their images to become their children,
until at last the earth will be inherited again. Every
new world that ever began sprang from despair, and those
who refused to stop hoping make this You're your new world.
Speaker 3 (41:19):
A ralph ah shure, No, his life here was over. Listen,
what listen? They've stopped bombing. The destruction's over. It's time
to start building again.
Speaker 1 (41:46):
Is there a moral in this story? Ask yourself.
Speaker 2 (41:51):
The amba reproduces by separation, a flower by cross pollenization,
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Spend your life?
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and the unimaginable. What might some distant tomorrow be like, you.
Speaker 1 (01:19):
Mean, wipe out any inhabitants that are there, General Vaughan exactly,
Doctor Tremaine, with the robots I build for you, suppose
I refuse.
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Speaker 1 (02:35):
Of them to come.
Speaker 2 (02:37):
This is a time long after the Second Hundred Years' War,
when the world went mad and burned the green and
fruitful earth to baron cinders, when the population was reduced
by two thirds, leaving the survivors to a virtual handful.
This is a time of an absolute autocracy, a state
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in which every individual is borne by a selective reading
and condemned by the state to function only in the
area prescribed.
Speaker 1 (03:08):
For him or her. This could be what the future
will be.
Speaker 6 (03:14):
Like, Ralph. Yes, oh dear, it's times in medicine.
Speaker 1 (03:19):
Well, you don't have to act like a wife when
we are alone at to wait.
Speaker 6 (03:23):
I want you to take it. You need it.
Speaker 1 (03:26):
I may need it. They won't have in a minute.
Speaker 6 (03:30):
What are you looking at?
Speaker 1 (03:32):
The return of the conquering heroes, Leader of our regiments
defended the Faith, General Mark Barden Homeward, the heroes from
the hunt, pirates and free booters, all with their living plunder.
There's not one grain of moral sense. I'm not the
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compassion of wal heart among them?
Speaker 6 (03:58):
Have they been not another?
Speaker 1 (03:59):
What was the windows? I don't even want the wind
from their exhaust to touch me, you were saying, my dear, I.
Speaker 7 (04:08):
Was just asking if they'd been on another galactic rate
beyond doubt.
Speaker 1 (04:13):
More and more frequently, Varden and that evil young man
who's elevated himself to emperor are getting desperate as well
they should. Emperor Condor is sitting on an uneasy throne.
Speaker 6 (04:26):
You think he might be overthrown, not from within.
Speaker 1 (04:30):
As long as he has his robot army to protect him,
and as long as fresh blood has brought him to
keep them from extinction, the people will still cling to hope,
although there isn't any hope for what. Oh it's a
long story, my child, a long history, and I don't
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feel like telling you tonight.
Speaker 6 (04:53):
Of course you mustn't. You look tired? And oh, Ralph,
you look so ill.
Speaker 1 (05:01):
I'm suffering from a chronic complaint old age, doctor Ralph Tremaine,
Professor of Cybernetics emeritus.
Speaker 6 (05:12):
But you are not retired, No, not quite yet.
Speaker 1 (05:17):
There are things I have to finish you hear there? What, Ralph,
the silence. The ship has landed. Now they'll feed the
poor souls, whoever they are, to the lions.
Speaker 3 (05:38):
Your Majesty, rings General, pardon your return.
Speaker 4 (05:42):
I see bringing with me another glorious victory to lay it.
Speaker 1 (05:46):
Your Majesty's spare.
Speaker 3 (05:47):
Me all that nonsense, or you're successful in your task.
Speaker 4 (05:51):
You can see for yourself if you will allow me
to tune in the viewing screen.
Speaker 3 (05:55):
Very well, you were gone on unconscionable time.
Speaker 4 (05:59):
These mission get more and more difficult. Why let me
show you the fruits of this one first. There it's
coming into focus. Now there's the latest catch. And where
are they from?
Speaker 1 (06:17):
Rubus, a planet in the ninth Galaxy? You had to
go so far afield.
Speaker 4 (06:22):
As I said, it becomes more difficult all the time.
Galaxy after galaxy is patrolled by policecraft seeking this out.
Only the black light Enblope has kept our identities secret
this loan. Even then, I must slip through time warp
after time warp to avoid discovery and recognition.
Speaker 3 (06:40):
What'll they expect? We must raid them to keep our
race alive, to maintain enough population to keep the whole
fabric of existence viable. You know my answer to that majesty, No, General, No,
I don't want to listen to that. Now, perhaps these
bodies milling about down on a square there will be
the answer, lashed, Yes, tell.
Speaker 1 (07:03):
Me more about the planet Rubos.
Speaker 4 (07:06):
It's a large planet, about the size of Jupiter in
our Solar System. Its distance in relation to size is
approximately the same as our planets from our Sun. The
climate and the animal life is also analogous.
Speaker 3 (07:20):
They look healthy enough and similar enough intelligence.
Speaker 4 (07:25):
Their average IQ is a good deal higher than ours,
and their scientific capability is considerably more advanced. We were
lucky to make our raid and escape unnoticed. We were
almost intercepted. Their communications must be magnificent.
Speaker 1 (07:41):
We were in a very remote part of what is
a very.
Speaker 4 (07:43):
Large planet, and yet they were almost honest as we
took off.
Speaker 1 (07:47):
Well, were you recognized? I hope not unless.
Speaker 4 (07:51):
They have instruments to pierce the black light curtain.
Speaker 1 (07:54):
But I think we got.
Speaker 3 (07:55):
Away excellent, excellent, And I won't cold you for the
handful which you have brought me. They seem to be
first rate specimens. Next time, our Emperor Conda. Yes, General Varden,
there will be no next time.
Speaker 8 (08:11):
What no more rates? They are too dangerous.
Speaker 3 (08:14):
But you know We must have a constant supply of
people of healthy body so we can weed out the
poison that eats at most of us and destroys us.
Speaker 8 (08:22):
We will never weed it out, and.
Speaker 3 (08:24):
It can be bred out once we find the right strain.
Speaker 8 (08:27):
Emperor Kanda, listen to me.
Speaker 1 (08:30):
You think the radiation is carried inside us bread in
our genes. I don't believe it is.
Speaker 4 (08:38):
I think every generation reinfects itself from the earth of
this planet.
Speaker 1 (08:42):
The seas that twash it, the space around.
Speaker 3 (08:44):
It, and on all that can be General Varden, it's
countless generation since the Holocaust, and it will be.
Speaker 1 (08:50):
Countless eternities before this planet is safe again for anything.
Speaker 8 (08:54):
But robots.
Speaker 3 (08:55):
Don't mention those abominations to me.
Speaker 1 (08:58):
Why do you hate them? So? They are the perfect slave.
Without them, you would have no army, no palace, gods,
and internal police to hold the common people and check
and check from what.
Speaker 4 (09:10):
From ripping you and me and the rest of the
ministers apart. No, there is only one hope. That is,
we must abandon Earth and resettle elsewhere.
Speaker 3 (09:24):
Don't you think that hasn't been thought of EANs and
EANs of goal. But we are welcome nowhere. The pariahs
of the universe.
Speaker 1 (09:31):
We do not ask. We will take with what.
Speaker 3 (09:34):
I can't find enough healthy bodies to run basic services,
let alone conscript an army.
Speaker 1 (09:39):
We do not need an army except.
Speaker 3 (09:41):
My act of those obscene robots. Again, there aren't enough
of them.
Speaker 1 (09:45):
They can be built if you will allow me to
reopen the planet. Oh what are you afraid of that
somehow they'll take over? I don't know the hesh hesh,
I don't worry. They're nothing but a series of relays, transistors,
printed circuits. They are programmed by men. I still don't
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trust them. Give me, leave your majesty to go to
doctor Tremaine and have him start on blueprints for a
new and improved model robot built only for water or.
Speaker 3 (10:19):
Not yet not yet? Give me time to stink, or
let me find among these slaves you've brought back one
woman who who may give me an untainted child?
Speaker 1 (10:42):
Yes, quickly, I must stop be seen.
Speaker 8 (10:44):
Close the door. Who are you I am? General Mark Vaden?
Close it forgive me?
Speaker 6 (10:48):
General?
Speaker 1 (10:52):
How are you I am? Una? You are a very
beautiful woman. Owner am I? Yes? Where did you come from? How?
General Warton to what do we owe the honor of
your visit to me. Oh, I see you've met my
wife your wife. Oh, yes, of course i'd forgotten the
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wedding took place while you were on your cruise. My mission,
doctor Tremaine, A is mission. Did you have success? I
flatter myself. I did? I have urgent business with you? Doctor.
Speaker 4 (11:27):
Shall we go to my study for what I wish
to talk with you about? Your laboratory would be more appropriate.
Speaker 8 (11:34):
I know my.
Speaker 1 (11:36):
Way, Ralph, what is it? The last place? I wanted
him to be? Well? With a little luck, we may
be all right. Close the door, Doctor Tremaine, very well,
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and I'll turn off all this apparatus. No, I prefer
to take no chance that what I have to say
might be overheard. Well, at least let me lower the volume. Fascinating,
What are you brewing here? Doctor? What are these machines? Computers, oscillators,
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electronic microscopes, calculators, all the impediment of anyone who studies cybernetics.
The scientist studies only to learn how little he really knows.
Speaker 8 (12:30):
But you know how to build robots is?
Speaker 1 (12:34):
But we're not building anymore. I want you to be ready.
Speaker 4 (12:39):
I want you to stop building me a prototype designed
only for war.
Speaker 1 (12:44):
Does the Emperor know of this?
Speaker 4 (12:47):
It is better the Emperor doesn't know of everything.
Speaker 1 (12:50):
I'd have to have his permission first before I embarked
on this. I wouldn't want to risk offending him. You
will be far worth of offending me, Doctor General. I
am an old man. I haven't long to live, so
threats of little use against me, I wouldn't be quite
so sure, My dear doctor Tremaine, I'm going to take
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over another planet in some other galaxy, a clean planet,
untouched by deadly radiation like ours. Take over you mean
wipe out any inhabitants that are there, exactly with the
robots I build for you. That's it. You are going
to build me the army to fight it. And if
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I refuse.
Speaker 4 (13:38):
That is a lovely wife you have, doctor Tremaine, No
a little young for you. It would be a pity
for anything to happen to her.
Speaker 1 (13:48):
You wouldn't dare. Do not try me.
Speaker 4 (13:53):
One whisper to the Emperor of my plans. Any attempt
from you to hinder them, Any refusal to do my
will to the best of your ability, and I will
have your wife destroyed and buried in a forgotten grave.
Speaker 1 (14:09):
Well, Doctor Tremaine, are we partners or not?
Speaker 2 (14:19):
The General's eyes are chips of granite, and Doctor Tremaine
knows this man only too well to doubt that he
means every word he says. Mark Varden may be human,
but he is as soulless as any robot. What choice
can the old man make? I shall return shortly with
that too. Perched on the edge of a table in
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doctor Tremaine's laboratory, as he awaits the old man's answer,
General Mark Varden lets his hawk eyes roam idly about
the room. It is the ordered clutter of a busy
scientist who is half chemist, half the electronics wizard. His
eye has just fallen on a large black box, almost.
Speaker 1 (15:16):
Like a coffin. When the old man speaks, You're right,
General Varden, I have no choice. I was sure you
would see it by way. Doctor.
Speaker 4 (15:27):
Such a ravishingly beautiful woman. Where did you find her?
Speaker 1 (15:32):
She was one of the group you brought back from
Signals three on your last mission. I overlooked her all
the long journey home, I'm afraid you did, and I
asked the Emperor for her hand the moment I found her.
The Emperor gave her to you. I'm unmarried widow. I
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had the right to ask to demand.
Speaker 4 (15:54):
I'm surprised he acceeded the way he feels about your robots.
Speaker 1 (15:58):
Don't be too surprised, no matter what he says. Only
I can build them and program them. Now that all
the others are gone, he needs his palace guard to
shield him from you, so he needs me.
Speaker 4 (16:12):
Nobody else is clever enough to build or service them.
Speaker 1 (16:17):
That will be taken care of very soon. In the meantime,
don't push me too.
Speaker 4 (16:22):
Far, my dear doctor, I have no intention of subjecting
you to any pressure now that we are agreed, I
ask only the reassurance of being able to drop in
from time to time to get the progress reports.
Speaker 1 (16:37):
When I have some working drawings ready, i'll send for you, but.
Speaker 4 (16:41):
Carefully till I have sold his majesty on the necessity
of my plan.
Speaker 1 (16:47):
I have an assistant in the lab, a young man
named Mac. No one knows him at court. I'll send
him Mac. What, just Mac, That's all you need to know.
Speaker 4 (17:00):
I leave standing orders for him to be admitted.
Speaker 8 (17:04):
Now I must leave you.
Speaker 4 (17:06):
Oh, by the way, yes, General, you say you never
stopped studying. Just what have you been working on while
I've been gone.
Speaker 1 (17:16):
I don't think it would interest you very much.
Speaker 4 (17:18):
On the contrary, you're quite sure you haven't been developing
some sort of special robot for his Majesty that just
might upset the balance of power.
Speaker 1 (17:30):
What would make you think that this curious box.
Speaker 4 (17:34):
Big enough to hold someone my size?
Speaker 1 (17:37):
That looks like a coffin.
Speaker 4 (17:40):
The lid it's locked, naturally? What's inside this curious box?
Speaker 1 (17:49):
Third box is lined with lead. Inside it are a
group of highly radioactive rocks, which I use in certain
biological experiments that I've been conducting to try to neutralize
their effect on the body.
Speaker 4 (18:04):
Then I shall give it a wide berth. I wouldn't
want to try their effect on mine. If I can
believe you, well, I'll give you the key and you
may open it, but only after I'm out of this
room and out of this house.
Speaker 1 (18:23):
Well, come in.
Speaker 7 (18:28):
I'm sorry to disturb you, Ralph, but it's time for
your medicine.
Speaker 1 (18:32):
General.
Speaker 4 (18:33):
That's quite all right, missus Tremaine. I was just about
to leave. Yes, the Emperor made you an extraordinary present.
She's ravishingly lovely. Keep her that way, doctor, at all costs.
Speaker 1 (18:49):
Now don't worry.
Speaker 8 (18:51):
I can see myself out.
Speaker 1 (18:56):
She really gone.
Speaker 6 (18:57):
What a dreadful, frightening man.
Speaker 1 (19:00):
He said all of that and more. I just had
my medicine. I don't need any more.
Speaker 6 (19:05):
It was an excuse to come in. I knew you
needed me.
Speaker 7 (19:08):
How I don't know, except I always do. It's like
a wave, a shudder, the pulse of some electric alarm.
What did that awful man mean about the Emperor giving
me to you?
Speaker 1 (19:23):
I don't want you to worry your pretty.
Speaker 6 (19:25):
Head, but I do worry.
Speaker 7 (19:28):
What do you think it's like not knowing anything about
yourself or your family, where you came from, or who
your friends might have been. Just waking up suddenly at
the age of twenty five and.
Speaker 1 (19:39):
Just being you just have no memories. But why that's
a sort of amnesia.
Speaker 6 (19:48):
Did I fall hit my head?
Speaker 1 (19:50):
No? You look, I'll tell you what I just told
the General. You know, this shipload of unfortunate people he
just brought back.
Speaker 6 (20:00):
Slaves.
Speaker 1 (20:01):
What he has condemned them to is tantamount to slavery
and worse.
Speaker 7 (20:05):
But why why did he steal people away from their home?
Speaker 1 (20:09):
Because sooner or later everyone on this planet dies of
a form of sickness caused by nuclear radiation. The Emperor
believes it is transmitted through the genes, and that by
selective breeding to healthy stock, it can eventually be neutralized.
Can it No, even if it were possible, this whole
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globe is one mass of radioactivity that would reinfect everyone again.
Speaker 6 (20:37):
Has it infected me?
Speaker 1 (20:40):
No? And it never will, I promise you that.
Speaker 6 (20:47):
But the others are those poor women I saw on
the viewing screen.
Speaker 1 (20:51):
They will be sold to any male who's not yet
given any signs of having the sickness.
Speaker 7 (20:56):
What a terrible cruel man to try to drag the
rest of the universe down because of our misfortune.
Speaker 1 (21:02):
And it's all so futile. The Emperor won't believe it,
but the cancer is already growing within him. If he
had laid eyes on you, he undoubtedly would have chosen
you as one of his consorts.
Speaker 6 (21:15):
How did I escape?
Speaker 1 (21:18):
Oh?
Speaker 7 (21:21):
Is that what you told the general, that you took
me instead?
Speaker 1 (21:25):
That's what I told him.
Speaker 7 (21:27):
But I I have been no real wife to you,
my dear sweet girl.
Speaker 1 (21:35):
The marriage was only so I could hide you away
and keep you safe. I think of you as a daughter.
I had only one wife, and she died a long.
Speaker 6 (21:46):
Time ago of the sickness.
Speaker 1 (21:51):
Yes, and you know something. You were created in her image.
You look exactly like her.
Speaker 7 (21:59):
Oh, Ralph, I do love you, and I feel so
close to you, and I want you to know how strong.
Speaker 6 (22:08):
My love is.
Speaker 1 (22:09):
That's all I want to hear. Give me all of
it you want. But as a daughter, the child I
never had.
Speaker 6 (22:18):
Because you were afraid.
Speaker 1 (22:19):
Because if I couldn't give life, I refuse to bring
anything into this world. You will be meeting someone soon.
He'll be working with me, and it will be impossible
to conceal his presence from you. He's someone very special
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and I want you to understand about him.
Speaker 6 (22:47):
Is it a coffin?
Speaker 1 (22:49):
Oh no, it's more like a cradle.
Speaker 6 (22:53):
I'm afraid, suddenly, I ask.
Speaker 1 (22:55):
There's nothing to be afraid of. You'll see.
Speaker 7 (23:00):
It's a young man and he's beautiful, I hope not
handsome is a better.
Speaker 6 (23:08):
Word perhaps, But he.
Speaker 1 (23:13):
Is he dead? Oh no, this young man can't die
in the ordinary sense. He is, in a way immortal.
Speaker 6 (23:23):
I don't understand you.
Speaker 1 (23:25):
This young man isn't a human being. He's a humanoid.
Speaker 6 (23:32):
A humanoid.
Speaker 1 (23:33):
He is a similacrum, something that's formed in the likeness
of a human being.
Speaker 6 (23:40):
Oh, you mean like a mannequin or a dummy.
Speaker 1 (23:44):
Very far from that. I mean he is identical in
almost every respect with a human, and he will perform, act,
simulate almost every human control function, only in max case.
The motive forces are mechanical and electronic MAC. That's what
I call him, And so there's sort of an acronym
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for what he is, mechanoelectric activated computer.
Speaker 7 (24:11):
You built him, made him, created him?
Speaker 6 (24:16):
Yes, Oh, how horrible.
Speaker 1 (24:19):
Oh. I was hoping that you wouldn't react like that.
It's the last way I wanted you to feel.
Speaker 7 (24:24):
But he's nothing but a machine, a lot more than that.
How can he be it be? It's just a super robot,
a thing.
Speaker 1 (24:36):
I don't think you'll feel that way about him when
you meet him.
Speaker 6 (24:39):
I don't want to meet him.
Speaker 1 (24:40):
What are you afraid of, Luna, I don't know.
Speaker 6 (24:42):
It's when I first.
Speaker 7 (24:45):
Saw him, I thought how beautiful he is, and my
heart went out to him to be dead so young,
And then you said you said that he wasn't that
he was immortal, and the strangest feeling just washed all
over me and grew inside a warm and tingling and
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I couldn't understand it, but.
Speaker 6 (25:11):
I wanted it to last forever.
Speaker 7 (25:14):
Now you tell me he's only a machine. It's I
don't know, it's unclean somehow I want I want to cringe.
Speaker 1 (25:24):
Then you've got to meet him to get rid of
that feeling.
Speaker 6 (25:29):
All right, but only for you.
Speaker 1 (25:33):
Let me just set the instruments first. Just attach these electrons,
step up the power watchmen. Wake up Mac, and time
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to get to work.
Speaker 3 (26:05):
Yeah. Oh, oh, doctor, I give Did I fall asleep again?
Speaker 1 (26:12):
Not exactly? And cheer up. You won't anymore, except when
you decide to. Oh, Mac, I want you to meet
my wife. Oh oh, it's.
Speaker 3 (26:24):
A pleasure to meet you. Missus Tremaine, how do you do?
Speaker 1 (26:29):
Just great?
Speaker 3 (26:30):
I mean, you're really something to wake up to.
Speaker 1 (26:33):
I told you you'd surprise you.
Speaker 6 (26:35):
I'm not surprised.
Speaker 8 (26:38):
I'm frightened of me why.
Speaker 6 (26:42):
I don't know.
Speaker 7 (26:43):
I just told him what. I'm afraid to be near you.
I don't want to be near you.
Speaker 3 (26:52):
Did I do something wrong?
Speaker 1 (26:53):
Don't you No? I'm the one. I just hope there'll
be time enough left to set it right.
Speaker 2 (27:07):
What does doctor Tremaine mean by that last statement? And
why should missus Tremaine have this strange fear of this all.
Speaker 1 (27:16):
Too human humanoid?
Speaker 2 (27:19):
Or is Mac the mechano electric computers something other than he?
Or it seems you're in for some surprising revelations in
this bizarre history of the far off future.
Speaker 1 (27:31):
When I returned.
Speaker 2 (27:31):
Shortly with Act three, three weeks have passed in the
course of them. For whatever reasons of his own, Doctor
Tremaine has tried to bring Una and his protege Mac
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together as much as possible, but Una still reacts to
Mac with that strange, inexplicable fear and the humanoid. Although
he obviously holds her in admiring all seems happy to
have as few encounters with her as possible. But a
rush of events are moving to a startling climax, a climax.
Speaker 8 (28:13):
That builds rapidly.
Speaker 2 (28:14):
Is Mac visits General Varden at the Palace bearing a
message from Doctor Tremaine.
Speaker 1 (28:20):
What does he mean he won't design the robots I ordered?
Speaker 3 (28:23):
I think he explained that in the message General.
Speaker 1 (28:26):
You mean this nonsense about not being able to build
machines of war?
Speaker 3 (28:30):
Or if I remember what he said was he can't,
I can't in all conscience, I think was the phrase.
Speaker 1 (28:37):
I don't like your attitude. I have no attitude, sir.
I was only trying to set the record straight. I
find you in supportinate. What's your name? Mac? Jeral Mac? Who?
Just Mac? That's all? Are you trying to make a
fool of me?
Speaker 3 (28:53):
No, sir, pardon General Varden. Turn up your viewings so
I know you're there.
Speaker 1 (29:02):
Yes, your majesty, that's better.
Speaker 3 (29:05):
I want to see you in my office immediately.
Speaker 1 (29:07):
What's wrong, Emperor, wrong? Everything? You're fool.
Speaker 3 (29:11):
I've just received a message from President Zorak of the Republic.
Speaker 1 (29:15):
Of Rubas your ship.
Speaker 3 (29:17):
Was identified on that last raid, and now he's on
his way to work planet to blow us out.
Speaker 1 (29:21):
Of the sky. Does he say when No, then with
luck I still can intercept him. I'll be right in
your majesty. You did you hear that? Yes? I did.
Speaker 4 (29:32):
General, Then take this message back to doctor Tremaine. You
tell him to get his blueprints ready for my factory
to go into production. I need an army of robots
and they only have to do one thing.
Speaker 1 (29:46):
Fight. And you tell him also that he'd better conform
or his wife will be the one to pay the price.
Speaker 3 (30:02):
Oh, missus Tremaine, I'm sorry if I startled.
Speaker 6 (30:06):
You don't come near me?
Speaker 1 (30:08):
Why do you dislike me?
Speaker 6 (30:09):
So?
Speaker 3 (30:10):
Look, I've got to see doctor Tremaine first, but I was.
Speaker 6 (30:14):
I don't want him disturbed.
Speaker 3 (30:16):
Well, it's important I have a message from the General.
Speaker 6 (30:18):
It can wait.
Speaker 3 (30:19):
But you don't understand you're the one in danger. The
general threatened.
Speaker 7 (30:22):
You don't have to worry about the General's threats. My
husband got a promise for protection from the Emperor before
he told him about General Varden's planning to build the
robots in secret.
Speaker 6 (30:34):
My husband and I have nothing to fear from him.
Speaker 7 (30:37):
He should be under arrest by now.
Speaker 6 (30:41):
Does that satisfy you?
Speaker 1 (30:43):
Well? Yes, I no.
Speaker 6 (30:48):
What else do you want?
Speaker 3 (30:49):
I'd like us to be friends, so would I.
Speaker 7 (30:56):
But I don't think that's possible. Why didn't you leave
me alone?
Speaker 6 (31:03):
Just leave me alone?
Speaker 3 (31:04):
Missus Tremna?
Speaker 7 (31:06):
Who not?
Speaker 1 (31:07):
It's all right, sir mac I should say, don't bother. Now,
come in the laboratory. I need to talk to you.
Explain some things.
Speaker 3 (31:21):
Our general. There will be no necessity to fight. What
do you mean I contacted presidents or I can maide?
Speaker 1 (31:27):
Shall we say an arrangement? Am I to be informed
of it? Worse?
Speaker 3 (31:32):
I've offered to return to him all his people who were.
Speaker 1 (31:35):
Abducted, and that satisfied him. Oh.
Speaker 3 (31:40):
I've also offered him you, as the criminal responsible for
the brutal pirate raid, to do with as he likes.
Speaker 8 (31:48):
And you trust him.
Speaker 1 (31:51):
Without me, there's no one to fight him. And after
he took off with me as prisoner, he'd still devastate
this planet till.
Speaker 8 (31:59):
There was not a living, breathing human being.
Speaker 1 (32:01):
Honest.
Speaker 3 (32:01):
Oh, he intends to do that. Of course, they're all
dying anyway. They What about you?
Speaker 1 (32:08):
You die with him? Certainly not.
Speaker 3 (32:10):
He has promised me safe conduct to his country and
the right to take my personal fortune with me. So
you sold me out gladly, just as you were planning
to do to me, as soon as you were ready
with your new army of robots. See them, guards, I said,
see them.
Speaker 8 (32:31):
You really are a fool of medicine.
Speaker 4 (32:35):
Just because these metal bodies are painted with the Royal
purple on their breasts, emblazoned with your coat of arms,
you think that makes them yours.
Speaker 1 (32:44):
Seize him, my captains, Oh, let me go. I am
the Emperor. We're the emperor, not anymore. You think you
can take my throne from me.
Speaker 8 (32:53):
I don't watch.
Speaker 1 (32:53):
Your throne or you. From now on the whole universe
will be mine.
Speaker 3 (32:58):
You won't get away with it. When Resident Zorak lands
and praes me, he'll follow you with his preach of ship.
Speaker 1 (33:03):
He won't get nowhere to find me. There'll be no
one to tell him where I went. The king is dead,
Long live the General. The reason you felt no fear
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of Vardenmack is because I didn't program you for fear.
Speaker 3 (33:29):
You mean, doctor Tremaine, that every reaction I have you
built into me.
Speaker 1 (33:33):
Yes, I picked a human model for you and tried
to shape you as close to that model as I could,
with certain exceptions.
Speaker 3 (33:42):
Who is the modelsor myself? Use very proud? But why
would you want to go to all that trouble to
duplicate yourself?
Speaker 1 (33:52):
Well? Maybe because I had no other model I knew
so well, and maybe because I'm dying and every man
reaches for immortality. That's the part of it, but not
all of it, not the real reason, And I made
such a bunch of it.
Speaker 3 (34:13):
I'm sorry if I don't measure ups her. I'm no
one to blame. I've I got to ask you to
help me doctor, I can't stand it any longer.
Speaker 1 (34:23):
I'll help you in any way that I can.
Speaker 3 (34:25):
And unmake me, so destroy me, dismantle me.
Speaker 1 (34:28):
Why Because.
Speaker 3 (34:30):
Because I love her and she can't stand the side
of me.
Speaker 1 (34:32):
She loads me, and.
Speaker 3 (34:35):
I don't want to go on being knowing that.
Speaker 1 (34:38):
Why doctor, Why does she hate me? So she doesn't
hate you? Mac Quite the opposite. It's better if I
don't believe that there never was any hope for me,
because she's real and I'm only a copy. She's a
human being, and I'm not much better than a robot.
You are a humanoid, something very special and unique. The
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first man of your kind in the history of.
Speaker 3 (35:07):
Time still gives me no right to Una.
Speaker 1 (35:10):
Why not? She is the same as you? She What
when I said you were the first man of your kind?
I didn't mean the first creation. The first was a woman.
Speaker 8 (35:25):
Una.
Speaker 1 (35:27):
UNA's is like me. Uona is like herself, or if
you wish, like my wife, my real wife, my first
and only one. I put into Una all the things
I recalled about my wife, sweetness, laughter, some tears, kindness,
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and the beauty inside that only makes the outer look
more exquisitely lovely. And then I brought her to life.
But I made one terrible mistake, heart mistake. When she
came to life, she was so full of the joy
of it, the sheer delight in being that I was
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awe struck. I didn't have the heart to tell her that.
Speaker 3 (36:23):
She was just a machine. Yes, you'll have to tell
her sooner.
Speaker 1 (36:30):
Right, I know, But I'm a coward, one part of
me that I didn't build into you. Mac. I keep
waiting for the right time. But what's the front door?
S I meant, who would ring like that? Except it's
General Hardon. We mustn't let Woon open the door.
Speaker 4 (36:51):
General Thrton, how nice of you to greet me, Come,
my love, you're leaving with me?
Speaker 1 (36:57):
Let her go? Marden, stop right way? You up? My mom?
Speaker 6 (37:00):
Shoot him?
Speaker 1 (37:00):
Please don't back. It's all right.
Speaker 3 (37:03):
He can't hurt me.
Speaker 1 (37:08):
I hit you point the flank with the disintegrating ray.
Let go of her. Stay back. If you move one
step closer, I promise you, I'll turn the ray on her.
Speaker 3 (37:19):
Give me the gun.
Speaker 8 (37:20):
If I can't have a no one.
Speaker 1 (37:22):
Sow, I won't bother with the rest of you. Zorak
is on the way here to blow you all to bits.
I'll let him take care of you while I make
my escape.
Speaker 3 (37:37):
He won't get away from me.
Speaker 1 (37:39):
Let's say where you are?
Speaker 8 (37:40):
No, what if you're done?
Speaker 9 (37:42):
I can't move, he'll he'll get away.
Speaker 1 (37:44):
With him, But he kill't it. Don't be silly. He
couldn't hurt her any more that he could. You you're
not hurt, are you? Una?
Speaker 3 (37:53):
No?
Speaker 6 (37:55):
When he fired, I was so afraid I blacked out
for a moment.
Speaker 3 (38:00):
Sorry, I don't know. Has no need to be afraid anymore.
He's gone and I'm alive.
Speaker 6 (38:08):
He fired at me point blank. I felt the shock,
but I'm alive.
Speaker 1 (38:13):
He also fired at Mac and it had no effect
on him.
Speaker 6 (38:18):
But Mac is a humanoid. Then that means that I'm
a humanoid.
Speaker 1 (38:27):
Too, Yes, child, forgive me. I haven't had the heart
to tell you the truth.
Speaker 7 (38:32):
The heart, Oh Ralph, you couldn't have told me anything
more wonderful, Because now now there's nothing between us, I
can give my heart to Mac the way I did
when I first saw him.
Speaker 3 (38:44):
Oh no, my die, Why did you stop me and
let him get away?
Speaker 1 (38:49):
I don't think he will listen. Zorak has caught him.
Speaker 3 (38:56):
General Parton has opened fire. That means that Zurac won't
always been betrayed if he defeats the General ing Obamas all.
Speaker 6 (39:02):
To does I don't care. As long as we're together
that you.
Speaker 1 (39:04):
Don't have to care. He can't harm either of you.
Speaker 3 (39:08):
Oh doctor, scause of this planet. Finally take it, Come on,
help me get him to bed.
Speaker 1 (39:29):
What's happening. What's happening.
Speaker 8 (39:31):
It's Zoraxir.
Speaker 3 (39:33):
He destroyed General Varden and now he's wiping the.
Speaker 1 (39:36):
Rest of himself. Not you and Una.
Speaker 6 (39:38):
We don't care. We're together.
Speaker 1 (39:41):
Of course you care. This fortress I built on the
side of the mountain will stand except for a lucky hit,
but the radiation after it will not affect either of you.
You will still live when all else is dead, including me. No,
my days were numbered anyway, I wanted children always. You
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were the best I could offer against Fagi. You must fight.
Speaker 3 (40:10):
To exist, isn't that feudal? Doctor, the two of us alone.
One thing you couldn't give us is the ability to reproduce.
Speaker 8 (40:19):
Of course I could.
Speaker 1 (40:22):
Stored in your memory. Banks is all I have learned.
And what I learned is from the accumulated wisdom of
man since he first started to reason deep in the
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need to build in the image of yourselves. You were children,
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until at last the earth will be inherited again. Every
new world that ever began sprang from despair, and those
who refused to stop hoping make this You're your new world.
Speaker 3 (41:19):
A ralph ah shure, No, his life here was over. Listen,
what listen? They've stopped bombing. The destruction's over. It's time
to start building again.
Speaker 1 (41:46):
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Speaker 2 (41:51):
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By perfect cleaver, perfect by sir.
Speaker 2 (44:30):
It was the English poet Laureate Alfred Tennyson who said,
for I dipped into the future far as human eye
could see, saw the vision of the world, and all
the wonder It could be perhaps we have dipped even
deeper than Lord Tennyson to glimpse the reflection.
Speaker 1 (44:51):
Of the universe.
Speaker 2 (44:53):
Could it be that man himself is not the total
answer our casting due to John bal Terry Keane, Gordon
Heath and Ian Martin. The entire production was under the
direction of Hyman Brown, Missus E. G. Marshall, inviting you
to return to our mystery theater for another adventure in
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the macabre.
Speaker 1 (45:15):
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