June 18, 2025 • 44 mins
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Speaker 1 (00:00):
DS Radio Mystery Theater Presents come in Welcome. I'm e. G. Marshall.
Speaker 2 (00:25):
How great is our capacity for belief?
Speaker 1 (00:28):
Most people would probably claim they'll believe anything they can see, feel, taste, touch,
or hear, in short, anything they could experience with their senses.
But I will venture to say, there are things in
this world so fantastic, so incredible, that you or I
could stare at them with our own two eyes and
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swear under oath that we were not seeing what was there. Charley,
you have got to support me on this.
Speaker 2 (00:56):
I can.
Speaker 1 (00:57):
You've got to never take my word alone like a
raving lunatic. I'm sorry, mister Perk, but I can't do it.
You were down there with me. You saw it just
like I did.
Speaker 2 (01:07):
No, I didn't what I didn't say it? Nay it did?
You way didn't say a thing. There's nothing down there.
Our Mystery Drama.
Speaker 1 (01:24):
The ninth volume was written especially for the Mystery Theater
by Percy Grainger and stars Michael Wager.
Speaker 2 (01:33):
It is sponsored in part.
Speaker 1 (01:34):
By Contact, the Twelve Hour Cold Capsule and True Value
Hardware Stores. I'll be back shortly with that one. Energy
is something we hear a great deal about these days
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the kind of energy provided by oil, and that is
we hear debates as to how much of these precious
substances are left. Some say supplies are virtually unlimited, others
say we'll run out in two to three hundred years,
and the more dire profits claim a.
Speaker 2 (02:16):
Mere twenty five years.
Speaker 1 (02:20):
Whatever the figures, one thing is certain. As the situation
becomes more urgent, some of those looking for new reserves
are not going to let anything stand in their way.
The year is nineteen ninety eight. We're at a drilling
site on the western slopes of the Rocky Mountains. Okay,
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starter up, tarter cockey, Yes, sir, what are the chances
of that well getting down another fifty feet by no?
I don't know, boss, that's pretty solid stuff we're drilling through.
Speaker 2 (02:54):
Now.
Speaker 1 (02:55):
I don't understand this, not at all. My forty two
years in this business. Is a company Giolic just told
me to drill half way.
Speaker 2 (03:02):
Up a mountain instead of on the low ground. He
seems pretty confident.
Speaker 3 (03:07):
He's a young smart alect to ask me. He isn't
quite right.
Speaker 2 (03:12):
You've been in the head, yeah.
Speaker 3 (03:14):
Bud, he went to college.
Speaker 1 (03:17):
I'd get on the back of that rig shocky, you'd
take it as fast.
Speaker 3 (03:20):
As you can.
Speaker 1 (03:21):
But remember, under no circumstances do I want any more delays?
Speaker 2 (03:33):
Morning mile out, Morning John, Coffee's on?
Speaker 1 (03:38):
Everything under way? Okay today? How can you be so cheerful?
And we've only got less than a week left and
no sign of oil less than a week five days
to be exact. I got a call from headquarters last night.
I've decided against renewing the lease on this land. Crazy.
I don't know how much oil every under that mountain. Well, John,
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forgive me, but you seem to be the only one
still under the illusion that.
Speaker 2 (04:05):
There's anything at all down there.
Speaker 1 (04:07):
We've drilled ten dry holes over the past two years,
ten dusters, and all of them have been based on
your so called calculation. That's right, because headquarters always pulled
a pike before we got down far enough. Do you
have any idea how much drilling costs go up when
you get down past the second mile mile ow, I'm
going to make you a little wager. How many feet
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do you think the boys can take it down? Today?
Speaker 3 (04:30):
I asked Sharky for fifty by.
Speaker 1 (04:32):
Noon that I will bet you one hundred dollars that
by noon we've struck oil.
Speaker 3 (04:38):
One hundred bucks.
Speaker 1 (04:39):
Al far donaway. Now, as of last night, at quitting time,
it was nineteen thousand, nine hundred and sixty seven feet. Okay,
I'll make that bet even more specific. I say that
by the time we reach nineteen thousand, nine hundred and
eighty feet, we'll be into the biggest pool of boys
you ever saw.
Speaker 3 (04:58):
Well, it's only thirteen more feret.
Speaker 1 (05:00):
That's right, is it a bet mile Well, mister Hopkins, yeah,
Miss park I think we've hit something. Why, we've hit
an air pocket? Are you sure?
Speaker 2 (05:10):
I think that's what it is. The rockbit's not meeting
and your resistance.
Speaker 1 (05:14):
Not at all, nuns it Are you holding in position? Yes,
sir good get ready to cap keep the rig going,
But wait till I give you a signal. I want
to get company headquarters performed. Yes, oh Milo, I think
you just saved yourself a hundred bucks.
Speaker 3 (05:29):
I want headquarters to put this.
Speaker 1 (05:30):
Over the intercom. Well, this guys or goes. Everybody in
that whole building is gonna hear it. What what was
that sounded like a brig? The rig it stopped?
Speaker 3 (05:46):
What's the matter? What's what's happened? Shock?
Speaker 1 (05:55):
You what's going wrong?
Speaker 2 (05:55):
Ha, I don't know.
Speaker 3 (05:57):
Why did you stop the rig? Something here?
Speaker 1 (06:00):
It is happening, boss, What what are you talking about? Well,
there was this, uh, I mean, I don't know how
to describe it. The rotor was kicking up rocked ust,
you know that yellowish granite we've been driven through, and
then all of a sudden, well it changed color, changed color.
Speaker 2 (06:21):
Yeah, and for that you stopped the rig.
Speaker 1 (06:24):
Well I wait a minute, my little chucky. You said
the dust changed color to us.
Speaker 2 (06:31):
Well, I think it was kind of reddish.
Speaker 1 (06:33):
Ah, well, it sounds like we may be the start
of clay.
Speaker 3 (06:36):
So where is this red dust? Let me see it?
Speaker 2 (06:38):
Well, now that's what I'm trying to tell you. It
isn't here anymore. It was in my hands. I was
holding it in my hands, looking at it, and it
just disappeared.
Speaker 1 (06:49):
I mean the wind blew it away.
Speaker 2 (06:51):
No, my hands were cupped. There wasn't any wind. It
just evaporated. It just evaporated, yessie.
Speaker 3 (07:01):
Now I've got two nuts to deal with.
Speaker 1 (07:04):
As a scientist, I'd be rather curious to have a
look at some of this dust. There ought to be
still some of this stuff in the hole here. If
I can just turn the tipe.
Speaker 3 (07:23):
Here we are.
Speaker 2 (07:24):
I don't know if I touch it, mister Perk, what
if it's not safe?
Speaker 1 (07:28):
And it looks harmless enough to me, But you don't
know that's from nearly four miles down on the earth.
If it could be almost anything. That's why I had
him stop the ring. And I think my first guess
was right. It seems to be clay of some sort
of odd though. What it I have to be a
seam of clay that deep in the earth and the
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kind of rock formation we've been cutting through.
Speaker 2 (07:52):
Look, look there, see what I mean? Hey, what happened
to it? It just vanishes? That's what I was telling you, Chucky.
Speaker 1 (08:02):
Bring me some kind of small container where you're a
plastic bag, anything, so long as it's air tight.
Speaker 2 (08:07):
Okay, why air tight?
Speaker 1 (08:10):
I think it must be the fresh air that's causing
this stuff, whatever it is to this integrate. I want
to get a sample of a down of boulder of
the university there and have it analyzed. This is the
only air tight bag I can fine, Miss Birth, What
is it?
Speaker 3 (08:23):
Ahead?
Speaker 2 (08:23):
It's from my lunch payer? Why put my sandwich in
it this morning? Well?
Speaker 1 (08:28):
I guess it'll have to do, Milo, you give me
a ride?
Speaker 3 (08:31):
Well, what about the world.
Speaker 1 (08:33):
I think we'd better leave the rig off until we
find out what this stuff is. It's past one o'clock.
We've lost the whole morning. How much longer is this
friend of yours gonna take my love? Professor Anderson is
a very thorough person. He'll be finished when he finished.
Speaker 3 (08:54):
This is ridiculous.
Speaker 1 (08:55):
You saw that does disintegrate with your own eyes.
Speaker 3 (08:57):
So stuff up from the center of the earth and
acts weird?
Speaker 2 (09:02):
Why not?
Speaker 3 (09:02):
If I was down there, I I'd act weird.
Speaker 1 (09:05):
It doesn't raise your curiosity at all. Huh, Professor Anderson
didn't reminder? Why did you find out? Were you able
to analyze the powder? Mister Hawkins? Is that right?
Speaker 3 (09:18):
Yes, sir, you can call me Malow?
Speaker 1 (09:21):
Well, how do you enjoy working with this practical joker here? Professor?
What do you see, mister Hawkins? Mister Perk here was
one of my more intelligent students, so I assume he
must be attempting humor when he comes around bothering a
busy old man with a handful of powdered tile tile.
Speaker 3 (09:43):
That's right, John, what you.
Speaker 1 (09:45):
Asked me to drop everything for and analyze nothing but
common tile, such as one might use to roof a house.
Speaker 3 (09:54):
What's so special about it?
Speaker 2 (09:56):
Huh?
Speaker 1 (09:57):
What's so special about it, professor, is that it comes
from the bottom of a well sat nearly four miles
down inside a mountain. See, so you weren't pulling my leg.
Why did you ask me to keep the sample in
an air tight container? It made my examination much more
difficult because when that dust is exposed to fascier, it disintegrates, disintegrates,
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and Jean, if that's true, you realize how old this
material could be, you'll find must be investigated at once. Well,
there's just one problem, professor, how would you get down there?
You know, I know the site must be excavated, and
this powder could will be far older than all our
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previous estimates.
Speaker 3 (10:48):
It could be old.
Speaker 1 (10:48):
It remains of a civilization we never even knew existed,
which reminds me, John, I must keep this sample and run.
Speaker 3 (10:58):
Dating tests on it.
Speaker 1 (11:00):
Of course, Now, look, our company has a deadline.
Speaker 3 (11:05):
If we don't find.
Speaker 1 (11:06):
Oil, we've got to be off that land by the end.
Speaker 3 (11:08):
Of the week.
Speaker 1 (11:09):
Oh, you can't continue to drill for oil, son, Don't
you realize that by continuing to drill, you might destroy
an invaluable clue to our past. I don't care about
the past, professor, I care about the future. And I
don't see that the excavation of one more prehistoric Indian
dwelling or whatever is going to be any difference. But
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getting to that oil, if it's the earf, we'll problem
still is how to reach the site.
Speaker 3 (11:40):
Just a minute.
Speaker 1 (11:42):
You're drilling up the Pine Creek, aren't you, Yeah, three
miles up the mountain from there.
Speaker 3 (11:47):
Well, and I think there might be a way.
Speaker 1 (11:50):
Used to be a big silver mine at Pine Creek, remember, Ah.
Speaker 2 (11:53):
That's right.
Speaker 1 (11:54):
It was abandoned at the turn of the century, ninety
five years ago. But the last sheriff, Doug struck a
cave system. Of course, you took us down a field. Tip.
Let me see, I should have some maps around here someplace. Yes,
here we are, Hey, this is the what I'm looking for.
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A cut away view of the mountain. Now you can
see here how extensive the cave system is. Now, where
exactly is the location of your drining site?
Speaker 2 (12:26):
Ah?
Speaker 1 (12:27):
Right here here is he trace nine straight down twenty
thousand feet.
Speaker 3 (12:35):
That's your lip.
Speaker 1 (12:36):
Ah, And it would pleasure here the very deepest bowels
of the mountain.
Speaker 3 (12:44):
But here you see.
Speaker 1 (12:45):
The cave starting at the base of the mine shaft,
which is already at the base of the mountain. And
you give yourself a head start of nearly fifteen thousand feet.
And look, here's a branch of the cave which comes
practically to the point our drill has reached.
Speaker 2 (13:01):
What we could crawl there in a matter of hours.
Speaker 1 (13:04):
Now, just a man at John seemed to be forgetting.
Speaker 3 (13:08):
Who pays your salary?
Speaker 1 (13:10):
Myle, Look, it's not one o'clock. Give me until starting
time tomorrow nine o'clock. Why do we move half a day?
And I think perhaps you'd better allow us to perk
to attempt a dissent. My analysis showed traces of a
rather strange substance, an adhesive, I believe, or why was
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it strange because it was entirely synthetic, and no primitives
were familiar with could possibly have known about it. I'm
reminded of an old story about a cabin boy on
a clipper ship. It seems he was always losing things.
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One day, the captain asked him to clean his favorite clock,
but when he asked to have it back, the boy
couldn't produce it. The captain flew into a rage. I
suppose it's lost, he said. Oh no, sir, replied the
cabin boy. I know exactly where it is. It fell
out of my hands as I was cleaning it, and
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it's at the bottom of the ocean. The characters in
our story know where something is, too, and like the
captain's clock, the only problem is how to get to it.
We shall dig deeper into all of this when I
return with a two. There are many things which distinguish
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man from the so called lower orders of the animal kingdom,
and geologist John Perk is giving us a good demonstration
of one of them right now, For man is the
only animal who will deliberately set off to confront the unknown.
John Perk has bought a few precious hours from a
grudging my life Hawkins, and with Sharky as his assistant,
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is descending into the mountain. Sharky carefully, the ledge isn't
too wide?
Speaker 3 (15:12):
Is there room for both of us?
Speaker 1 (15:15):
Just barely? But time is it, Sharky?
Speaker 2 (15:21):
Almost midnight?
Speaker 1 (15:23):
Sharky, Huh? There it is the end of the tunnel floor.
Hand me the bag with the drill and the explosives.
Speaker 3 (15:31):
Here we go.
Speaker 1 (15:34):
While I'm feeling a hopeful the dynamite. You get out
the oxygen pack that inflate one of those balloons to
steal off the tunnel behind us. We don't want any
fresh air getting into whatever is behind that rock.
Speaker 3 (15:52):
The tunnels all sealed off, mister Burke.
Speaker 1 (15:56):
Charge is ready. Now, let's just back up around this corner. Yeah, okay,
it'll just take a second and a couple of wires,
fast park.
Speaker 2 (16:07):
Are we sure we want to do this? I mean,
are we sure we want to know what's back there?
Speaker 1 (16:14):
I'm a scientist, Sharky, Yes, sir, it's oh why push
the plunger? Okay, can't you see anything? This flask slid? Now?
Speaker 2 (16:34):
Wait with the dust that.
Speaker 1 (16:38):
He looks like, they say, chamber of some sort. Come on,
let's get back in there and set up a light kit.
Give me the like cue you crank up the generator. Okay, okay,
turn her on. Good lord, I don't get it, mister Perk.
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We must have taken a wrong turn. This isn't a
prehistoric dwelling in somebody's house. We didn't take any wrong turn, Sharky. Well,
look seeing the ceiling there the nose of our rock
bit from the drilling rig hit. But look at this
a stove, a sink, even a dishwash. And look here
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a dang rugs and table chairs. It look like, they say,
right out of a department store.
Speaker 2 (17:32):
I don't like this. I wish we'd brought guns or something.
What if this is some kind of criminal hide.
Speaker 1 (17:39):
Aft four miles underground?
Speaker 2 (17:41):
Well we don't know. Maybe it's a secret government project,
a bomb shelter or something.
Speaker 1 (17:46):
But how was it built? I don't know, But there's
got to be a reason why it's here. Let's have
a look around. Maybe there's another way in which the
survey charts don't show.
Speaker 2 (18:05):
Did you find anything, mister Perk?
Speaker 1 (18:07):
Nothing? How about you?
Speaker 3 (18:09):
Well?
Speaker 1 (18:09):
Nothing fantastic tirehouses encased in solid bedrock. But I saw bedrooms,
a bathroom, even a TV saying everything just like people
lived here, except that there are no signs of life anywhere.
Look at this glass in the windows, not even cracked,
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and curtains that wonderful plumbing works.
Speaker 2 (18:34):
Well, it's one way to.
Speaker 1 (18:36):
Find out, isn't it. Ah.
Speaker 2 (18:40):
The stuff that came out of the tap, it's black.
What is it?
Speaker 1 (18:46):
Let me take that? No, mister pert. What my gosh,
there's nothing wrong with this shockey. It is perfectly good
crude oil oil. Yep, I don't.
Speaker 2 (18:58):
Believe what I'm seeing. A ranch house in the middle
of the earth with oil coming out of the fauceage.
It's like magic.
Speaker 1 (19:07):
I think there may be a more rational explanation, at
least for the oil. Did you see any stairs leading
to the basement.
Speaker 2 (19:14):
I saw some stairs down the hallway.
Speaker 1 (19:16):
Come on, let's follow these pipes. Pipes should be over
on that far wall.
Speaker 3 (19:26):
What's that?
Speaker 2 (19:27):
I don't know something?
Speaker 1 (19:31):
Oh, basically, who seems to be covered with it? Shine
your lights?
Speaker 2 (19:36):
Hey, look it's our whole forest three inches deep and
all you see.
Speaker 1 (19:42):
I was right all along there is oil in this mountain.
We were right on target.
Speaker 2 (19:46):
And the all the things stairs putting us in a
gold behind.
Speaker 1 (19:49):
Is this how this solves everything? At last we have
proof that the oil exists. The company can go ahead
and take a new lease on the land, and we
will have the time to try to find an to
the mystery of this house. We can leave the generator here.
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We've got to get back and stop milow starting a
rig up. What time is it?
Speaker 2 (20:13):
A two fifty seven a we should just about make
it well.
Speaker 1 (20:18):
Inflate another balloon to seal the passage behind us before
removing the first one. We all set to go, all said, wait,
wait a minute, what's this? What this door? I didn't
see it before? Did you check it out? No? I
thought you did. You better have a look, mister Burke.
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This place gives me the creeps. I got this funny feeling.
Why don't we just leave well enough alone? Help me
move the light over?
Speaker 2 (20:52):
The kind of thing could survive down here without air?
Mister Parke, I'm frightened.
Speaker 1 (20:59):
Don't open this door or get out of the way.
Speaker 3 (21:05):
Uh what is it?
Speaker 1 (21:09):
A library?
Speaker 2 (21:10):
A library?
Speaker 1 (21:13):
Only a library room filled with books? You're not afraid
of them, are you? I'm I'm going to have a look.
Maybe they will provide some kind of clue. The owner
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is obviously a man of refinement and culture. Complete works
of Shakespeare, Milton, play those dialogs, Aristotle, Dante, plutarch I
hear the more recent office Faulkner, it's Gerald. Anyway, This
isn't offering us much in a way of clues.
Speaker 2 (21:55):
Huh do you find something this requiring chair? My father
in law's got one just like it. In his den.
Speaker 1 (22:03):
Oh, exactly like.
Speaker 2 (22:05):
Well, I mean it's a different color, but it's the
same model.
Speaker 1 (22:09):
Well here's something. Whoever owns these books is obviously interested
in history. Here's an entire case devoted to it. Herodotus, Chasitus,
Levy Arrange in chronological order, Hollinshould's Chronicles, Givens French Revolution.
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Who's this?
Speaker 3 (22:32):
Who?
Speaker 1 (22:34):
Someone named d v. Davis wrote a history of the World.
I thought I never heard of him, sharky.
Speaker 3 (22:43):
Well, don't look at me.
Speaker 2 (22:43):
I never heard half of those other guys you mentioned.
Speaker 1 (22:47):
Davis Strange. Every other author on the shelf is familiar
with him.
Speaker 3 (22:54):
I missed the park.
Speaker 1 (22:55):
You remember that feeling I had before? Well, it's coming back.
I think we ought to go. Now, wait a minute.
History of the World by David Vladimir Davis in nine volumes.
There are only eight volumes here. Well, there's a space.
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The ninth folume is missing in the day fighting course,
Lord Shaky, you don't see the ninth fives of this
set lying around anywhere?
Speaker 2 (23:25):
Do you know? Why did you.
Speaker 1 (23:26):
See it anywhere? Lying around the house?
Speaker 2 (23:28):
I don't know.
Speaker 1 (23:29):
I just try to remember.
Speaker 2 (23:30):
Well, there were some books on a table in the
living room. I've got to find it here.
Speaker 1 (23:33):
But the time, it's alf to three at the time,
we've got to find the ninth volumes of this set.
Why Because I am holding the eighth volume in my hand,
I can feel its weight. I know it's real. It's
not an illusion. The eighth volume of a nine volume
set of books on the history of the world, our
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world as we know it and have lived it. And
this eighth volume goes from the eighteen fifteen the Battle
of Waterloo to the year two thousand.
Speaker 2 (24:04):
But this is nineteen ninety eight. What is this guy,
fortune teller?
Speaker 1 (24:09):
Don't you see there's still another entire volume of the set.
I think I'm beginning to understand. What's that noise with
burk The house is beginning to shake. It's nothing.
Speaker 2 (24:24):
What was it?
Speaker 1 (24:26):
I'm not sure? But if we really are sitting on
top of an oil field, it's a highly unstable situation.
The vibrations from the dynamite must have disturbed things.
Speaker 2 (24:34):
Who we got to get out of here. First.
Speaker 1 (24:35):
We have got to find that book. Why why, what's
so important about some old fortune teller's book. That's not it, charky,
that's not it at all. Don't you realize what we've discovered.
This is what's that smell? But that smell, hey, it's gas.
There's gas escaping from somewhere. That explosion must open the
leak in a gas pocket. Quick put this book in
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our bag to come back later with masks to search
for the ninth volume. Right, mister Burk, there's daylight at last.
There's someone there at the mine entrance. My god, it
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looks like Fazir Anderson. God is that you? Well you're
coming from But what are you doing here? I must
know what you've found down there. I've been up the
entire night running dging tests on that title sample.
Speaker 3 (25:39):
At first I couldn't believe it, but.
Speaker 1 (25:41):
Now I know there can be no doubt that powder
you brought me is over twelve billion years old.
Speaker 2 (25:50):
But we know the world's only four and a half
billion years old. Well, I mean that's what I heard,
mister Hawkins say.
Speaker 1 (25:57):
What. Yes, that's what we thought, waster, but evidently we've
been wrong. Now tell me about your phone. At the
bottom of our well holded house, even more perfectly preserved
the ruins of POMPEII. It has every modern appliance we're
familiar with from electric can openers to reclining chairs.
Speaker 2 (26:16):
It's just like the houses in the suburb where I live.
Speaker 1 (26:20):
On the difference it is from the civilization so far
in the past until now, not even a trace of
it's been known.
Speaker 2 (26:28):
But what about all those books, mister Perk, the Shakespeare
and all. How'd they get there?
Speaker 3 (26:33):
Shakespeare?
Speaker 1 (26:35):
That's the most incredible thing of all, professor, That twelve
billion year old civilization was ours, same names, same events,
same people, fighting the same wars, making the same inventions,
creating the same masterpieces, probably making the same mistakes.
Speaker 2 (26:56):
Ah, sir, that's why you wanted the ninth of that history.
Speaker 1 (27:01):
That's right, Sharky, because whatever fatal mistake they made, whatever
happened to cause their extinction, it's going to have to
us unless we can discover what it was and avoid it.
Speaker 3 (27:15):
Ninth volume.
Speaker 1 (27:16):
There isn't time to explain, our professor. We've got to
get back to camp and stop Milo before he turns
on that rig. In our beginning is our end?
Speaker 3 (27:31):
Said T. S.
Speaker 1 (27:32):
Eliot. All living things duplicate themselves in reproduction with a
phenomenal precision. So is it not at least possible then
that nature repeats itself on a larger scale too. In fact,
on the largest scale of all I shall return shortly
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with our final act. We catch but glimpses of our past.
The legend of Atlantis lives on, the mysteries of Stonehenge,
and the giant statues of Easter Island continue to baffle us.
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The most advanced and sophisticated civilizations are represented by mere
shards of pottery stumbled on by accident.
Speaker 4 (28:25):
For all our research, there is still behind us a vast, unknown,
but now a discovery, fantastic, terrifying evidence of a former
civilization identical to our own, a civilization whose end was
so cataclysmic no trace had ever been discovered until now.
Speaker 1 (28:52):
Thank goodness, we got here before you started that rig.
Speaker 3 (28:55):
John, I've got a boulder.
Speaker 1 (28:56):
There's no time for that shot.
Speaker 3 (28:58):
He yes, sir, get out there, get the rig started.
Speaker 1 (29:01):
Wait, you got to listen to us. I'd got a
better idea, John, Why don't you listen to me for
a change. I got a little phone call last night
from headquarters.
Speaker 3 (29:10):
You remember them, don't you.
Speaker 1 (29:12):
They wanted to know how things were going. Understandably, they're
getting a little anxious considering the fact that we've got
only four days before our lease here is up. And
you can imagine my chagrin when I had to tell
him the rig wasn't even running. That my geologist, who's
supposed to be telling me where the drill had told
me to stop so he could go down and nose
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around some prehistoric Indian hot That's not what's down I
don't care what's down there.
Speaker 3 (29:41):
My job is to drove for oil.
Speaker 1 (29:44):
You know who's arriving today, Sid Dabb, Sid Dabs, that's right,
the company executive vice president. He wants to know what
the heck is going on here. He's firing up personally
to take over the operator. If you would let me
get a word in edgeworth, I can tell you what's
going on. All I want to know is why we
haven't struck oil. Well, that's one thing you don't have
to worry about.
Speaker 2 (30:05):
There is oil down there.
Speaker 1 (30:06):
We saw it.
Speaker 3 (30:07):
You saw it.
Speaker 1 (30:09):
I stuck my finger in it, I tasted it. It's there,
right where I said it would be. The drill is
no more than twenty feet above the strike at this
very moment. Let's get it going and have that oil
coming up with mister Dobbs, so he won't have our
heads in a sling Charkie. Yes, no, wait a minute,
you can't start the rig, not until we've had a
chance to go back.
Speaker 2 (30:29):
Down there, go back down?
Speaker 1 (30:32):
What for Milo, what we've discovered? It wasn't well, it
wasn't what we expected. There's a house down there, all right,
but it's modern. I mean, we'll not modern exactly.
Speaker 2 (30:48):
It's twelve billion years old.
Speaker 3 (30:51):
But shirkey, what's he talk?
Speaker 1 (30:54):
I know, I know it sounds incredible, but professor Anderson
ran dating tests powder we took him and it is
twelve billion years old. Ugh, and so you firmed a
modern twelve billion year old. But the importancy is the book.
That's why we've got to go back down. Oh, I
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see what the ninth volume. It's a history of the
world from the year two thousand on.
Speaker 3 (31:22):
John.
Speaker 1 (31:24):
I'm doing my best to stay with you, but you
aren't making it easy for me, my love. Now listen,
there is a house down there from a civilization that
existed twelve billion years ago. That was ours, It was us,
And don't you see what that means? We're being given
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the chance to look into the future. I see, Jerky, Yes, Sah,
you've been awful quiet, Yes, so you were down there
with mister Pirk, weren't you.
Speaker 3 (32:02):
Yes, you went all the way with him.
Speaker 1 (32:05):
You saw everything he saw. Yes, and you saw this
house he's talking about. No, No, I didn't. What shocky
You didn't see a twelve billion year old house. It
looks just like ours. It has a set of books.
It's gonna tell us what's.
Speaker 2 (32:26):
Going to happen. No, sir, I didn't. I didn't see
any of that.
Speaker 3 (32:32):
That's what I thought.
Speaker 1 (32:33):
No, fuck you, what are you saying?
Speaker 2 (32:36):
My low?
Speaker 1 (32:37):
Look in this bag, we brought up the eighth filume
of that set seed. Look it goes from eighteen fifteen
to the year two thousand. Now, now, will you believe me?
Speaker 2 (32:46):
There's nothing in here but a pile of DUTs.
Speaker 1 (32:50):
Oh good, great parents, Such a hurry. I must not
have sealed the container properly. Look, my lord, you've got
to believe me. Twelve more hours all I need. But
we've got to go back down there. Hello Hawkins here heyes, okay,
I'll be right over. The company plane has just landed
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with mister Dobbs. I'm going to meet him, and I want.
Speaker 3 (33:14):
That rig in full operation by the time we returned.
Speaker 1 (33:17):
Milo listened to me remember when we were at Anderson's lab.
He said his analysis of the power showed traces of
a substance that primitive man couldn't have known about. Oh, yes, yes,
I meant to tell you. Professor Anderson called yesterday right
after you and Sharky had gone down into the mine.
He'd run another test and discovered what it was. What
doesn't that convince you? I'm telling the truth. It was mayonnaise,
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John mayonnaise, that's right. Remember we used a sandwich bag
from Sharky's lunch pail. Mayonnaise. Shock key, mister Perrick, Please
let me get back. Why did July I got to
get the riggs started?
Speaker 2 (33:57):
Are you crazy?
Speaker 1 (33:58):
Do you realize what we'll be destroying?
Speaker 2 (34:00):
Mister park I don't want to talk about it.
Speaker 1 (34:02):
What are you afraid of going back down there. We'll
run hoses down to pup out the gas. Anyway, you
don't have to go if you don't want to, I
can find somebody else. I know it's risky, but it's
too important not to take a chance. To Please let
me go until you tell me why you lighte to Milo.
Don't you see what this discovery could mean, The chance
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to look into the future, the chance to avoid making
the same mistake twice?
Speaker 2 (34:28):
How what how are you going to avoid it?
Speaker 1 (34:32):
Don't you want to know your own fate?
Speaker 3 (34:35):
No, I don't want to know.
Speaker 1 (34:40):
An entire civilization may perish because of your cowardice. Why
won't you support me?
Speaker 3 (34:46):
Didn't you see that?
Speaker 1 (34:49):
Of course I saw it?
Speaker 2 (34:50):
Did you take a good look at it?
Speaker 1 (34:53):
What are you getting at?
Speaker 3 (34:54):
Shock?
Speaker 1 (34:54):
It doesn't matter.
Speaker 2 (34:56):
It's a modern house, so it's not. Oh true, Many,
it's not some.
Speaker 1 (35:01):
Weird futuristic contraption filled with gadgets we've never seen. It's modern,
it's contemporary.
Speaker 2 (35:08):
Don't you see what that means?
Speaker 1 (35:10):
This is as far as we're coming.
Speaker 2 (35:14):
This is the end of the line.
Speaker 1 (35:16):
Whatever's going to happen is going to happen soon, and
it's probably too late to stop it. But we can
try if we know what it is.
Speaker 2 (35:25):
I don't want to know what it is.
Speaker 1 (35:28):
I don't want to know, so you won't support me.
When said Dobbs arrive, you won't back me up. Sorry,
mister Bert, You'll think I'm a raving lunatic. Shocky, Why
isn't that rig going yet? Oh man, hello John, Hello,
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said mister Dobbs.
Speaker 3 (35:54):
I'm sorry. I gave orders for the rig to be running,
and that's.
Speaker 1 (35:57):
All right, Mint, forget it.
Speaker 3 (36:00):
Rig isn't going on, It isn't.
Speaker 1 (36:02):
No, we've decided to suspend operations all together.
Speaker 3 (36:05):
Suspend operations. Our lease is up in four days.
Speaker 1 (36:09):
Thank us. That long to pack up and be out
of here. As far as I'm concerned, the sooner we
never see this place again. The better said, when you
say suspend operations, you mean you intend to pull a pipe,
and we sure can't afford to leave it behind. You
can't do that.
Speaker 2 (36:25):
Why why not?
Speaker 1 (36:27):
Removing the pipe would expose the hole to the fresh air.
And well, there's something down there that would be destroyed.
Speaker 2 (36:34):
By fresh air.
Speaker 3 (36:36):
I said.
Speaker 1 (36:37):
We struck some old clay rock yesterday. That's why the
rig isn't going. John insisted on exploring in a nearby cave, said,
you have to listen to me. Shocky's right. There is
oil down there. We're within twenty feet of it. Are
you asking me to start the rig going again? No, no, no,
I'm asking you to take a new lease on the
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land and hold off making the strike until I found
Until I've completed my explorations, John, I remind you that
We've been listening to you for two years.
Speaker 2 (37:11):
There's no more time.
Speaker 3 (37:13):
It's all run out.
Speaker 1 (37:14):
You are also sitting on top of something infinitely more
important than oil, and it's going to be destroyed.
Speaker 3 (37:22):
John, I think you need some sleep. That's your problem.
Speaker 1 (37:25):
Now.
Speaker 2 (37:25):
I am an adjust a minute.
Speaker 3 (37:26):
Mallow.
Speaker 1 (37:28):
I'm curious about these continued illusions. John, I might give
you one more chance. I will accept your considered judgment
as a rational scientist that the oil is there and
hold off drilling. He if you'll tell me what's down
there that's so important my judgment of the rational scientist. Oh,
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never mind, said, never mind, go ahead and pull the pipe.
Speaker 2 (37:58):
Okay, we have the men pack up.
Speaker 1 (38:02):
We'll pull a pipe.
Speaker 3 (38:03):
And dismantle the rig in the morning.
Speaker 1 (38:11):
John, why didn't you just tell mister Dobbs what it was,
you'd say, he wouldn't have believed me, Professor Anderson, Not,
not without Sharky's corroboration. Sure, you're going to start pulling
the pipe in the morning, and a golden opportunity and
will be lost forever. No, not exactly what chance remains.
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Surely you don't intend to stop them at gunpoint? Oh no,
I'm gonna try going down again. She said there was
gas sneaking, that the ground was beginning to shift. He
can wear masks against the gas, and it's for the shifting. Well,
we'll just have to take.
Speaker 2 (38:47):
That risk, you said, we.
Speaker 1 (38:51):
That's why I came to you, Professor. I need someone
to go with me. It's a two man job. I
I don't know who else to turn to him. I
know you can. I mean, I know what you're trying
to say, but on a mission of such importance, I
wouldn't hesitate it, not for one minute. And then you'll
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come with me.
Speaker 3 (39:13):
Yes, of course, we're good.
Speaker 1 (39:15):
We've kind of started once. There's barely enough time as
it is. Shock Eve, I can't say I'll be sorry
to see the last of this place. Something about it
always did give me the willies. Had you better lock
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the gate for the last time?
Speaker 2 (39:36):
Okay, miss talking.
Speaker 3 (39:40):
Wait a minute? What's that?
Speaker 2 (39:42):
Why the stuff on your boots, the black stuff? Why that?
That's the oire oil? Where to come from? But that's
what I was trying to tell you all along.
Speaker 1 (39:54):
The oil that's down there, Miss Birk and I saw
it and we waded through it.
Speaker 2 (40:00):
Shaky.
Speaker 1 (40:00):
Get mister Dobbs from the office. Why you got a
start up that rig. There is oil, Sharky oil. You
know what that means? Our future is golden here it is,
a professor.
Speaker 3 (40:23):
It's amazing.
Speaker 1 (40:26):
How snevery detail exactly like our own from a duplicate
civilization that inhabited the earth twelve billion years ago. How
much it.
Speaker 3 (40:40):
Could teach us?
Speaker 1 (40:42):
Wait a minute, Sharky said he thought he'd seen some
books in the living room this way. Look over there
on the table. Yeah, this is it. The History of
the World by D. V. Davis for you known. Do
you realize what this wo mean, professor, when we open
this book? Yes, I wonder what it is John, that
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we're to learn about ourselves from ourselves?
Speaker 2 (41:13):
What's that? Professor?
Speaker 1 (41:16):
They started the prill the whole house, and come see
if it does. There is a legend in classical mythology
about the civil prophetess.
Speaker 2 (41:38):
Who lived appropriately enough to.
Speaker 1 (41:40):
Our story in a cave. She offered to sell nine
prophetic books to Tarquin the Proud, the last of Rome's
legendary kings. He refused, for he felt her price was
too high, so she burned three of the books and
offered him the remaining six for the same price. Again,
Tarquin refused, and again Sybil burned three of the precious volumes. Finally,
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he bought the last three for the price of the
original nine. But because of his stingy short sightedness, Mankind
lost forever his chance to know what the future holds.
Speaker 2 (42:19):
I shall return shortly.
Speaker 1 (42:31):
Do we really want to know what fate has in
store for us? That would probably depend on whether or
not we had the ability to act on that knowledge
and to alter the impending course of events. But would
it be a simple matter of avoiding a single fatal mistake,
or would we discover a future as complex as human
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Speaker 2 (00:25):
How great is our capacity for belief?
Speaker 1 (00:28):
Most people would probably claim they'll believe anything they can see, feel, taste, touch,
or hear, in short, anything they could experience with their senses.
But I will venture to say, there are things in
this world so fantastic, so incredible, that you or I
could stare at them with our own two eyes and
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swear under oath that we were not seeing what was there. Charley,
you have got to support me on this.
Speaker 2 (00:56):
I can.
Speaker 1 (00:57):
You've got to never take my word alone like a
raving lunatic. I'm sorry, mister Perk, but I can't do it.
You were down there with me. You saw it just
like I did.
Speaker 2 (01:07):
No, I didn't what I didn't say it? Nay it did?
You way didn't say a thing. There's nothing down there.
Our Mystery Drama.
Speaker 1 (01:24):
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By Contact, the Twelve Hour Cold Capsule and True Value
Hardware Stores. I'll be back shortly with that one. Energy
is something we hear a great deal about these days
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the kind of energy provided by oil, and that is
we hear debates as to how much of these precious
substances are left. Some say supplies are virtually unlimited, others
say we'll run out in two to three hundred years,
and the more dire profits claim a.
Speaker 2 (02:16):
Mere twenty five years.
Speaker 1 (02:20):
Whatever the figures, one thing is certain. As the situation
becomes more urgent, some of those looking for new reserves
are not going to let anything stand in their way.
The year is nineteen ninety eight. We're at a drilling
site on the western slopes of the Rocky Mountains. Okay,
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starter up, tarter cockey, Yes, sir, what are the chances
of that well getting down another fifty feet by no?
I don't know, boss, that's pretty solid stuff we're drilling through.
Speaker 2 (02:54):
Now.
Speaker 1 (02:55):
I don't understand this, not at all. My forty two
years in this business. Is a company Giolic just told
me to drill half way.
Speaker 2 (03:02):
Up a mountain instead of on the low ground. He
seems pretty confident.
Speaker 3 (03:07):
He's a young smart alect to ask me. He isn't
quite right.
Speaker 2 (03:12):
You've been in the head, yeah.
Speaker 3 (03:14):
Bud, he went to college.
Speaker 1 (03:17):
I'd get on the back of that rig shocky, you'd
take it as fast.
Speaker 3 (03:20):
As you can.
Speaker 1 (03:21):
But remember, under no circumstances do I want any more delays?
Speaker 2 (03:33):
Morning mile out, Morning John, Coffee's on?
Speaker 1 (03:38):
Everything under way? Okay today? How can you be so cheerful?
And we've only got less than a week left and
no sign of oil less than a week five days
to be exact. I got a call from headquarters last night.
I've decided against renewing the lease on this land. Crazy.
I don't know how much oil every under that mountain. Well, John,
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forgive me, but you seem to be the only one
still under the illusion that.
Speaker 2 (04:05):
There's anything at all down there.
Speaker 1 (04:07):
We've drilled ten dry holes over the past two years,
ten dusters, and all of them have been based on
your so called calculation. That's right, because headquarters always pulled
a pike before we got down far enough. Do you
have any idea how much drilling costs go up when
you get down past the second mile mile ow, I'm
going to make you a little wager. How many feet
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do you think the boys can take it down? Today?
Speaker 3 (04:30):
I asked Sharky for fifty by.
Speaker 1 (04:32):
Noon that I will bet you one hundred dollars that
by noon we've struck oil.
Speaker 3 (04:38):
One hundred bucks.
Speaker 1 (04:39):
Al far donaway. Now, as of last night, at quitting time,
it was nineteen thousand, nine hundred and sixty seven feet. Okay,
I'll make that bet even more specific. I say that
by the time we reach nineteen thousand, nine hundred and
eighty feet, we'll be into the biggest pool of boys
you ever saw.
Speaker 3 (04:58):
Well, it's only thirteen more feret.
Speaker 1 (05:00):
That's right, is it a bet mile Well, mister Hopkins, yeah,
Miss park I think we've hit something. Why, we've hit
an air pocket? Are you sure?
Speaker 2 (05:10):
I think that's what it is. The rockbit's not meeting
and your resistance.
Speaker 1 (05:14):
Not at all, nuns it Are you holding in position? Yes,
sir good get ready to cap keep the rig going,
But wait till I give you a signal. I want
to get company headquarters performed. Yes, oh Milo, I think
you just saved yourself a hundred bucks.
Speaker 3 (05:29):
I want headquarters to put this.
Speaker 1 (05:30):
Over the intercom. Well, this guys or goes. Everybody in
that whole building is gonna hear it. What what was
that sounded like a brig? The rig it stopped?
Speaker 3 (05:46):
What's the matter? What's what's happened? Shock?
Speaker 1 (05:55):
You what's going wrong?
Speaker 2 (05:55):
Ha, I don't know.
Speaker 3 (05:57):
Why did you stop the rig? Something here?
Speaker 1 (06:00):
It is happening, boss, What what are you talking about? Well,
there was this, uh, I mean, I don't know how
to describe it. The rotor was kicking up rocked ust,
you know that yellowish granite we've been driven through, and
then all of a sudden, well it changed color, changed color.
Speaker 2 (06:21):
Yeah, and for that you stopped the rig.
Speaker 1 (06:24):
Well I wait a minute, my little chucky. You said
the dust changed color to us.
Speaker 2 (06:31):
Well, I think it was kind of reddish.
Speaker 1 (06:33):
Ah, well, it sounds like we may be the start
of clay.
Speaker 3 (06:36):
So where is this red dust? Let me see it?
Speaker 2 (06:38):
Well, now that's what I'm trying to tell you. It
isn't here anymore. It was in my hands. I was
holding it in my hands, looking at it, and it
just disappeared.
Speaker 1 (06:49):
I mean the wind blew it away.
Speaker 2 (06:51):
No, my hands were cupped. There wasn't any wind. It
just evaporated. It just evaporated, yessie.
Speaker 3 (07:01):
Now I've got two nuts to deal with.
Speaker 1 (07:04):
As a scientist, I'd be rather curious to have a
look at some of this dust. There ought to be
still some of this stuff in the hole here. If
I can just turn the tipe.
Speaker 3 (07:23):
Here we are.
Speaker 2 (07:24):
I don't know if I touch it, mister Perk, what
if it's not safe?
Speaker 1 (07:28):
And it looks harmless enough to me, But you don't
know that's from nearly four miles down on the earth.
If it could be almost anything. That's why I had
him stop the ring. And I think my first guess
was right. It seems to be clay of some sort
of odd though. What it I have to be a
seam of clay that deep in the earth and the
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kind of rock formation we've been cutting through.
Speaker 2 (07:52):
Look, look there, see what I mean? Hey, what happened
to it? It just vanishes? That's what I was telling you, Chucky.
Speaker 1 (08:02):
Bring me some kind of small container where you're a
plastic bag, anything, so long as it's air tight.
Speaker 2 (08:07):
Okay, why air tight?
Speaker 1 (08:10):
I think it must be the fresh air that's causing
this stuff, whatever it is to this integrate. I want
to get a sample of a down of boulder of
the university there and have it analyzed. This is the
only air tight bag I can fine, Miss Birth, What
is it?
Speaker 3 (08:23):
Ahead?
Speaker 2 (08:23):
It's from my lunch payer? Why put my sandwich in
it this morning? Well?
Speaker 1 (08:28):
I guess it'll have to do, Milo, you give me
a ride?
Speaker 3 (08:31):
Well, what about the world.
Speaker 1 (08:33):
I think we'd better leave the rig off until we
find out what this stuff is. It's past one o'clock.
We've lost the whole morning. How much longer is this
friend of yours gonna take my love? Professor Anderson is
a very thorough person. He'll be finished when he finished.
Speaker 3 (08:54):
This is ridiculous.
Speaker 1 (08:55):
You saw that does disintegrate with your own eyes.
Speaker 3 (08:57):
So stuff up from the center of the earth and
acts weird?
Speaker 2 (09:02):
Why not?
Speaker 3 (09:02):
If I was down there, I I'd act weird.
Speaker 1 (09:05):
It doesn't raise your curiosity at all. Huh, Professor Anderson
didn't reminder? Why did you find out? Were you able
to analyze the powder? Mister Hawkins? Is that right?
Speaker 3 (09:18):
Yes, sir, you can call me Malow?
Speaker 1 (09:21):
Well, how do you enjoy working with this practical joker here? Professor?
What do you see, mister Hawkins? Mister Perk here was
one of my more intelligent students, so I assume he
must be attempting humor when he comes around bothering a
busy old man with a handful of powdered tile tile.
Speaker 3 (09:43):
That's right, John, what you.
Speaker 1 (09:45):
Asked me to drop everything for and analyze nothing but
common tile, such as one might use to roof a house.
Speaker 3 (09:54):
What's so special about it?
Speaker 2 (09:56):
Huh?
Speaker 1 (09:57):
What's so special about it, professor, is that it comes
from the bottom of a well sat nearly four miles
down inside a mountain. See, so you weren't pulling my leg.
Why did you ask me to keep the sample in
an air tight container? It made my examination much more
difficult because when that dust is exposed to fascier, it disintegrates, disintegrates,
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and Jean, if that's true, you realize how old this
material could be, you'll find must be investigated at once. Well,
there's just one problem, professor, how would you get down there?
You know, I know the site must be excavated, and
this powder could will be far older than all our
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previous estimates.
Speaker 3 (10:48):
It could be old.
Speaker 1 (10:48):
It remains of a civilization we never even knew existed,
which reminds me, John, I must keep this sample and run.
Speaker 3 (10:58):
Dating tests on it.
Speaker 1 (11:00):
Of course, Now, look, our company has a deadline.
Speaker 3 (11:05):
If we don't find.
Speaker 1 (11:06):
Oil, we've got to be off that land by the end.
Speaker 3 (11:08):
Of the week.
Speaker 1 (11:09):
Oh, you can't continue to drill for oil, son, Don't
you realize that by continuing to drill, you might destroy
an invaluable clue to our past. I don't care about
the past, professor, I care about the future. And I
don't see that the excavation of one more prehistoric Indian
dwelling or whatever is going to be any difference. But
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getting to that oil, if it's the earf, we'll problem
still is how to reach the site.
Speaker 3 (11:40):
Just a minute.
Speaker 1 (11:42):
You're drilling up the Pine Creek, aren't you, Yeah, three
miles up the mountain from there.
Speaker 3 (11:47):
Well, and I think there might be a way.
Speaker 1 (11:50):
Used to be a big silver mine at Pine Creek, remember, Ah.
Speaker 2 (11:53):
That's right.
Speaker 1 (11:54):
It was abandoned at the turn of the century, ninety
five years ago. But the last sheriff, Doug struck a
cave system. Of course, you took us down a field. Tip.
Let me see, I should have some maps around here someplace. Yes,
here we are, Hey, this is the what I'm looking for.
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A cut away view of the mountain. Now you can
see here how extensive the cave system is. Now, where
exactly is the location of your drining site?
Speaker 2 (12:26):
Ah?
Speaker 1 (12:27):
Right here here is he trace nine straight down twenty
thousand feet.
Speaker 3 (12:35):
That's your lip.
Speaker 1 (12:36):
Ah, And it would pleasure here the very deepest bowels
of the mountain.
Speaker 3 (12:44):
But here you see.
Speaker 1 (12:45):
The cave starting at the base of the mine shaft,
which is already at the base of the mountain. And
you give yourself a head start of nearly fifteen thousand feet.
And look, here's a branch of the cave which comes
practically to the point our drill has reached.
Speaker 2 (13:01):
What we could crawl there in a matter of hours.
Speaker 1 (13:04):
Now, just a man at John seemed to be forgetting.
Speaker 3 (13:08):
Who pays your salary?
Speaker 1 (13:10):
Myle, Look, it's not one o'clock. Give me until starting
time tomorrow nine o'clock. Why do we move half a day?
And I think perhaps you'd better allow us to perk
to attempt a dissent. My analysis showed traces of a
rather strange substance, an adhesive, I believe, or why was
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it strange because it was entirely synthetic, and no primitives
were familiar with could possibly have known about it. I'm
reminded of an old story about a cabin boy on
a clipper ship. It seems he was always losing things.
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One day, the captain asked him to clean his favorite clock,
but when he asked to have it back, the boy
couldn't produce it. The captain flew into a rage. I
suppose it's lost, he said. Oh no, sir, replied the
cabin boy. I know exactly where it is. It fell
out of my hands as I was cleaning it, and
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it's at the bottom of the ocean. The characters in
our story know where something is, too, and like the
captain's clock, the only problem is how to get to it.
We shall dig deeper into all of this when I
return with a two. There are many things which distinguish
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man from the so called lower orders of the animal kingdom,
and geologist John Perk is giving us a good demonstration
of one of them right now, For man is the
only animal who will deliberately set off to confront the unknown.
John Perk has bought a few precious hours from a
grudging my life Hawkins, and with Sharky as his assistant,
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is descending into the mountain. Sharky carefully, the ledge isn't
too wide?
Speaker 3 (15:12):
Is there room for both of us?
Speaker 1 (15:15):
Just barely? But time is it, Sharky?
Speaker 2 (15:21):
Almost midnight?
Speaker 1 (15:23):
Sharky, Huh? There it is the end of the tunnel floor.
Hand me the bag with the drill and the explosives.
Speaker 3 (15:31):
Here we go.
Speaker 1 (15:34):
While I'm feeling a hopeful the dynamite. You get out
the oxygen pack that inflate one of those balloons to
steal off the tunnel behind us. We don't want any
fresh air getting into whatever is behind that rock.
Speaker 3 (15:52):
The tunnels all sealed off, mister Burke.
Speaker 1 (15:56):
Charge is ready. Now, let's just back up around this corner. Yeah, okay,
it'll just take a second and a couple of wires,
fast park.
Speaker 2 (16:07):
Are we sure we want to do this? I mean,
are we sure we want to know what's back there?
Speaker 1 (16:14):
I'm a scientist, Sharky, Yes, sir, it's oh why push
the plunger? Okay, can't you see anything? This flask slid? Now?
Speaker 2 (16:34):
Wait with the dust that.
Speaker 1 (16:38):
He looks like, they say, chamber of some sort. Come on,
let's get back in there and set up a light kit.
Give me the like cue you crank up the generator. Okay, okay,
turn her on. Good lord, I don't get it, mister Perk.
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We must have taken a wrong turn. This isn't a
prehistoric dwelling in somebody's house. We didn't take any wrong turn, Sharky. Well,
look seeing the ceiling there the nose of our rock
bit from the drilling rig hit. But look at this
a stove, a sink, even a dishwash. And look here
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a dang rugs and table chairs. It look like, they say,
right out of a department store.
Speaker 2 (17:32):
I don't like this. I wish we'd brought guns or something.
What if this is some kind of criminal hide.
Speaker 1 (17:39):
Aft four miles underground?
Speaker 2 (17:41):
Well we don't know. Maybe it's a secret government project,
a bomb shelter or something.
Speaker 1 (17:46):
But how was it built? I don't know, But there's
got to be a reason why it's here. Let's have
a look around. Maybe there's another way in which the
survey charts don't show.
Speaker 2 (18:05):
Did you find anything, mister Perk?
Speaker 1 (18:07):
Nothing? How about you?
Speaker 3 (18:09):
Well?
Speaker 1 (18:09):
Nothing fantastic tirehouses encased in solid bedrock. But I saw bedrooms,
a bathroom, even a TV saying everything just like people
lived here, except that there are no signs of life anywhere.
Look at this glass in the windows, not even cracked,
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and curtains that wonderful plumbing works.
Speaker 2 (18:34):
Well, it's one way to.
Speaker 1 (18:36):
Find out, isn't it. Ah.
Speaker 2 (18:40):
The stuff that came out of the tap, it's black.
What is it?
Speaker 1 (18:46):
Let me take that? No, mister pert. What my gosh,
there's nothing wrong with this shockey. It is perfectly good
crude oil oil. Yep, I don't.
Speaker 2 (18:58):
Believe what I'm seeing. A ranch house in the middle
of the earth with oil coming out of the fauceage.
It's like magic.
Speaker 1 (19:07):
I think there may be a more rational explanation, at
least for the oil. Did you see any stairs leading
to the basement.
Speaker 2 (19:14):
I saw some stairs down the hallway.
Speaker 1 (19:16):
Come on, let's follow these pipes. Pipes should be over
on that far wall.
Speaker 3 (19:26):
What's that?
Speaker 2 (19:27):
I don't know something?
Speaker 1 (19:31):
Oh, basically, who seems to be covered with it? Shine
your lights?
Speaker 2 (19:36):
Hey, look it's our whole forest three inches deep and
all you see.
Speaker 1 (19:42):
I was right all along there is oil in this mountain.
We were right on target.
Speaker 2 (19:46):
And the all the things stairs putting us in a
gold behind.
Speaker 1 (19:49):
Is this how this solves everything? At last we have
proof that the oil exists. The company can go ahead
and take a new lease on the land, and we
will have the time to try to find an to
the mystery of this house. We can leave the generator here.
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We've got to get back and stop milow starting a
rig up. What time is it?
Speaker 2 (20:13):
A two fifty seven a we should just about make
it well.
Speaker 1 (20:18):
Inflate another balloon to seal the passage behind us before
removing the first one. We all set to go, all said, wait,
wait a minute, what's this? What this door? I didn't
see it before? Did you check it out? No? I
thought you did. You better have a look, mister Burke.
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This place gives me the creeps. I got this funny feeling.
Why don't we just leave well enough alone? Help me
move the light over?
Speaker 2 (20:52):
The kind of thing could survive down here without air?
Mister Parke, I'm frightened.
Speaker 1 (20:59):
Don't open this door or get out of the way.
Speaker 3 (21:05):
Uh what is it?
Speaker 1 (21:09):
A library?
Speaker 2 (21:10):
A library?
Speaker 1 (21:13):
Only a library room filled with books? You're not afraid
of them, are you? I'm I'm going to have a look.
Maybe they will provide some kind of clue. The owner
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is obviously a man of refinement and culture. Complete works
of Shakespeare, Milton, play those dialogs, Aristotle, Dante, plutarch I
hear the more recent office Faulkner, it's Gerald. Anyway, This
isn't offering us much in a way of clues.
Speaker 2 (21:55):
Huh do you find something this requiring chair? My father
in law's got one just like it. In his den.
Speaker 1 (22:03):
Oh, exactly like.
Speaker 2 (22:05):
Well, I mean it's a different color, but it's the
same model.
Speaker 1 (22:09):
Well here's something. Whoever owns these books is obviously interested
in history. Here's an entire case devoted to it. Herodotus, Chasitus,
Levy Arrange in chronological order, Hollinshould's Chronicles, Givens French Revolution.
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Who's this?
Speaker 3 (22:32):
Who?
Speaker 1 (22:34):
Someone named d v. Davis wrote a history of the World.
I thought I never heard of him, sharky.
Speaker 3 (22:43):
Well, don't look at me.
Speaker 2 (22:43):
I never heard half of those other guys you mentioned.
Speaker 1 (22:47):
Davis Strange. Every other author on the shelf is familiar
with him.
Speaker 3 (22:54):
I missed the park.
Speaker 1 (22:55):
You remember that feeling I had before? Well, it's coming back.
I think we ought to go. Now, wait a minute.
History of the World by David Vladimir Davis in nine volumes.
There are only eight volumes here. Well, there's a space.
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The ninth folume is missing in the day fighting course,
Lord Shaky, you don't see the ninth fives of this
set lying around anywhere?
Speaker 2 (23:25):
Do you know? Why did you.
Speaker 1 (23:26):
See it anywhere? Lying around the house?
Speaker 2 (23:28):
I don't know.
Speaker 1 (23:29):
I just try to remember.
Speaker 2 (23:30):
Well, there were some books on a table in the
living room. I've got to find it here.
Speaker 1 (23:33):
But the time, it's alf to three at the time,
we've got to find the ninth volumes of this set.
Why Because I am holding the eighth volume in my hand,
I can feel its weight. I know it's real. It's
not an illusion. The eighth volume of a nine volume
set of books on the history of the world, our
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world as we know it and have lived it. And
this eighth volume goes from the eighteen fifteen the Battle
of Waterloo to the year two thousand.
Speaker 2 (24:04):
But this is nineteen ninety eight. What is this guy,
fortune teller?
Speaker 1 (24:09):
Don't you see there's still another entire volume of the set.
I think I'm beginning to understand. What's that noise with
burk The house is beginning to shake. It's nothing.
Speaker 2 (24:24):
What was it?
Speaker 1 (24:26):
I'm not sure? But if we really are sitting on
top of an oil field, it's a highly unstable situation.
The vibrations from the dynamite must have disturbed things.
Speaker 2 (24:34):
Who we got to get out of here. First.
Speaker 1 (24:35):
We have got to find that book. Why why, what's
so important about some old fortune teller's book. That's not it, charky,
that's not it at all. Don't you realize what we've discovered.
This is what's that smell? But that smell, hey, it's gas.
There's gas escaping from somewhere. That explosion must open the
leak in a gas pocket. Quick put this book in
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our bag to come back later with masks to search
for the ninth volume. Right, mister Burk, there's daylight at last.
There's someone there at the mine entrance. My god, it
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looks like Fazir Anderson. God is that you? Well you're
coming from But what are you doing here? I must
know what you've found down there. I've been up the
entire night running dging tests on that title sample.
Speaker 3 (25:39):
At first I couldn't believe it, but.
Speaker 1 (25:41):
Now I know there can be no doubt that powder
you brought me is over twelve billion years old.
Speaker 2 (25:50):
But we know the world's only four and a half
billion years old. Well, I mean that's what I heard,
mister Hawkins say.
Speaker 1 (25:57):
What. Yes, that's what we thought, waster, but evidently we've
been wrong. Now tell me about your phone. At the
bottom of our well holded house, even more perfectly preserved
the ruins of POMPEII. It has every modern appliance we're
familiar with from electric can openers to reclining chairs.
Speaker 2 (26:16):
It's just like the houses in the suburb where I live.
Speaker 1 (26:20):
On the difference it is from the civilization so far
in the past until now, not even a trace of
it's been known.
Speaker 2 (26:28):
But what about all those books, mister Perk, the Shakespeare
and all. How'd they get there?
Speaker 3 (26:33):
Shakespeare?
Speaker 1 (26:35):
That's the most incredible thing of all, professor, That twelve
billion year old civilization was ours, same names, same events,
same people, fighting the same wars, making the same inventions,
creating the same masterpieces, probably making the same mistakes.
Speaker 2 (26:56):
Ah, sir, that's why you wanted the ninth of that history.
Speaker 1 (27:01):
That's right, Sharky, because whatever fatal mistake they made, whatever
happened to cause their extinction, it's going to have to
us unless we can discover what it was and avoid it.
Speaker 3 (27:15):
Ninth volume.
Speaker 1 (27:16):
There isn't time to explain, our professor. We've got to
get back to camp and stop Milo before he turns
on that rig. In our beginning is our end?
Speaker 3 (27:31):
Said T. S.
Speaker 1 (27:32):
Eliot. All living things duplicate themselves in reproduction with a
phenomenal precision. So is it not at least possible then
that nature repeats itself on a larger scale too. In fact,
on the largest scale of all I shall return shortly
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with our final act. We catch but glimpses of our past.
The legend of Atlantis lives on, the mysteries of Stonehenge,
and the giant statues of Easter Island continue to baffle us.
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The most advanced and sophisticated civilizations are represented by mere
shards of pottery stumbled on by accident.
Speaker 4 (28:25):
For all our research, there is still behind us a vast, unknown,
but now a discovery, fantastic, terrifying evidence of a former
civilization identical to our own, a civilization whose end was
so cataclysmic no trace had ever been discovered until now.
Speaker 1 (28:52):
Thank goodness, we got here before you started that rig.
Speaker 3 (28:55):
John, I've got a boulder.
Speaker 1 (28:56):
There's no time for that shot.
Speaker 3 (28:58):
He yes, sir, get out there, get the rig started.
Speaker 1 (29:01):
Wait, you got to listen to us. I'd got a
better idea, John, Why don't you listen to me for
a change. I got a little phone call last night
from headquarters.
Speaker 3 (29:10):
You remember them, don't you.
Speaker 1 (29:12):
They wanted to know how things were going. Understandably, they're
getting a little anxious considering the fact that we've got
only four days before our lease here is up. And
you can imagine my chagrin when I had to tell
him the rig wasn't even running. That my geologist, who's
supposed to be telling me where the drill had told
me to stop so he could go down and nose
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around some prehistoric Indian hot That's not what's down I
don't care what's down there.
Speaker 3 (29:41):
My job is to drove for oil.
Speaker 1 (29:44):
You know who's arriving today, Sid Dabb, Sid Dabs, that's right,
the company executive vice president. He wants to know what
the heck is going on here. He's firing up personally
to take over the operator. If you would let me
get a word in edgeworth, I can tell you what's
going on. All I want to know is why we
haven't struck oil. Well, that's one thing you don't have
to worry about.
Speaker 2 (30:05):
There is oil down there.
Speaker 1 (30:06):
We saw it.
Speaker 3 (30:07):
You saw it.
Speaker 1 (30:09):
I stuck my finger in it, I tasted it. It's there,
right where I said it would be. The drill is
no more than twenty feet above the strike at this
very moment. Let's get it going and have that oil
coming up with mister Dobbs, so he won't have our
heads in a sling Charkie. Yes, no, wait a minute,
you can't start the rig, not until we've had a
chance to go back.
Speaker 2 (30:29):
Down there, go back down?
Speaker 1 (30:32):
What for Milo, what we've discovered? It wasn't well, it
wasn't what we expected. There's a house down there, all right,
but it's modern. I mean, we'll not modern exactly.
Speaker 2 (30:48):
It's twelve billion years old.
Speaker 3 (30:51):
But shirkey, what's he talk?
Speaker 1 (30:54):
I know, I know it sounds incredible, but professor Anderson
ran dating tests powder we took him and it is
twelve billion years old. Ugh, and so you firmed a
modern twelve billion year old. But the importancy is the book.
That's why we've got to go back down. Oh, I
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see what the ninth volume. It's a history of the
world from the year two thousand on.
Speaker 3 (31:22):
John.
Speaker 1 (31:24):
I'm doing my best to stay with you, but you
aren't making it easy for me, my love. Now listen,
there is a house down there from a civilization that
existed twelve billion years ago. That was ours, It was us,
And don't you see what that means? We're being given
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the chance to look into the future. I see, Jerky, Yes, Sah,
you've been awful quiet, Yes, so you were down there
with mister Pirk, weren't you.
Speaker 3 (32:02):
Yes, you went all the way with him.
Speaker 1 (32:05):
You saw everything he saw. Yes, and you saw this
house he's talking about. No, No, I didn't. What shocky
You didn't see a twelve billion year old house. It
looks just like ours. It has a set of books.
It's gonna tell us what's.
Speaker 2 (32:26):
Going to happen. No, sir, I didn't. I didn't see
any of that.
Speaker 3 (32:32):
That's what I thought.
Speaker 1 (32:33):
No, fuck you, what are you saying?
Speaker 2 (32:36):
My low?
Speaker 1 (32:37):
Look in this bag, we brought up the eighth filume
of that set seed. Look it goes from eighteen fifteen
to the year two thousand. Now, now, will you believe me?
Speaker 2 (32:46):
There's nothing in here but a pile of DUTs.
Speaker 1 (32:50):
Oh good, great parents, Such a hurry. I must not
have sealed the container properly. Look, my lord, you've got
to believe me. Twelve more hours all I need. But
we've got to go back down there. Hello Hawkins here heyes, okay,
I'll be right over. The company plane has just landed
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with mister Dobbs. I'm going to meet him, and I want.
Speaker 3 (33:14):
That rig in full operation by the time we returned.
Speaker 1 (33:17):
Milo listened to me remember when we were at Anderson's lab.
He said his analysis of the power showed traces of
a substance that primitive man couldn't have known about. Oh, yes, yes,
I meant to tell you. Professor Anderson called yesterday right
after you and Sharky had gone down into the mine.
He'd run another test and discovered what it was. What
doesn't that convince you? I'm telling the truth. It was mayonnaise,
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John mayonnaise, that's right. Remember we used a sandwich bag
from Sharky's lunch pail. Mayonnaise. Shock key, mister Perrick, Please
let me get back. Why did July I got to
get the riggs started?
Speaker 2 (33:57):
Are you crazy?
Speaker 1 (33:58):
Do you realize what we'll be destroying?
Speaker 2 (34:00):
Mister park I don't want to talk about it.
Speaker 1 (34:02):
What are you afraid of going back down there. We'll
run hoses down to pup out the gas. Anyway, you
don't have to go if you don't want to, I
can find somebody else. I know it's risky, but it's
too important not to take a chance. To Please let
me go until you tell me why you lighte to Milo.
Don't you see what this discovery could mean, The chance
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to look into the future, the chance to avoid making
the same mistake twice?
Speaker 2 (34:28):
How what how are you going to avoid it?
Speaker 1 (34:32):
Don't you want to know your own fate?
Speaker 3 (34:35):
No, I don't want to know.
Speaker 1 (34:40):
An entire civilization may perish because of your cowardice. Why
won't you support me?
Speaker 3 (34:46):
Didn't you see that?
Speaker 1 (34:49):
Of course I saw it?
Speaker 2 (34:50):
Did you take a good look at it?
Speaker 1 (34:53):
What are you getting at?
Speaker 3 (34:54):
Shock?
Speaker 1 (34:54):
It doesn't matter.
Speaker 2 (34:56):
It's a modern house, so it's not. Oh true, Many,
it's not some.
Speaker 1 (35:01):
Weird futuristic contraption filled with gadgets we've never seen. It's modern,
it's contemporary.
Speaker 2 (35:08):
Don't you see what that means?
Speaker 1 (35:10):
This is as far as we're coming.
Speaker 2 (35:14):
This is the end of the line.
Speaker 1 (35:16):
Whatever's going to happen is going to happen soon, and
it's probably too late to stop it. But we can
try if we know what it is.
Speaker 2 (35:25):
I don't want to know what it is.
Speaker 1 (35:28):
I don't want to know, so you won't support me.
When said Dobbs arrive, you won't back me up. Sorry,
mister Bert, You'll think I'm a raving lunatic. Shocky, Why
isn't that rig going yet? Oh man, hello John, Hello,
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said mister Dobbs.
Speaker 3 (35:54):
I'm sorry. I gave orders for the rig to be running,
and that's.
Speaker 1 (35:57):
All right, Mint, forget it.
Speaker 3 (36:00):
Rig isn't going on, It isn't.
Speaker 1 (36:02):
No, we've decided to suspend operations all together.
Speaker 3 (36:05):
Suspend operations. Our lease is up in four days.
Speaker 1 (36:09):
Thank us. That long to pack up and be out
of here. As far as I'm concerned, the sooner we
never see this place again. The better said, when you
say suspend operations, you mean you intend to pull a pipe,
and we sure can't afford to leave it behind. You
can't do that.
Speaker 2 (36:25):
Why why not?
Speaker 1 (36:27):
Removing the pipe would expose the hole to the fresh air.
And well, there's something down there that would be destroyed.
Speaker 2 (36:34):
By fresh air.
Speaker 3 (36:36):
I said.
Speaker 1 (36:37):
We struck some old clay rock yesterday. That's why the
rig isn't going. John insisted on exploring in a nearby cave, said,
you have to listen to me. Shocky's right. There is
oil down there. We're within twenty feet of it. Are
you asking me to start the rig going again? No, no, no,
I'm asking you to take a new lease on the
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land and hold off making the strike until I found
Until I've completed my explorations, John, I remind you that
We've been listening to you for two years.
Speaker 2 (37:11):
There's no more time.
Speaker 3 (37:13):
It's all run out.
Speaker 1 (37:14):
You are also sitting on top of something infinitely more
important than oil, and it's going to be destroyed.
Speaker 3 (37:22):
John, I think you need some sleep. That's your problem.
Speaker 1 (37:25):
Now.
Speaker 2 (37:25):
I am an adjust a minute.
Speaker 3 (37:26):
Mallow.
Speaker 1 (37:28):
I'm curious about these continued illusions. John, I might give
you one more chance. I will accept your considered judgment
as a rational scientist that the oil is there and
hold off drilling. He if you'll tell me what's down
there that's so important my judgment of the rational scientist. Oh,
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never mind, said, never mind, go ahead and pull the pipe.
Speaker 2 (37:58):
Okay, we have the men pack up.
Speaker 1 (38:02):
We'll pull a pipe.
Speaker 3 (38:03):
And dismantle the rig in the morning.
Speaker 1 (38:11):
John, why didn't you just tell mister Dobbs what it was,
you'd say, he wouldn't have believed me, Professor Anderson, Not,
not without Sharky's corroboration. Sure, you're going to start pulling
the pipe in the morning, and a golden opportunity and
will be lost forever. No, not exactly what chance remains.
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Surely you don't intend to stop them at gunpoint? Oh no,
I'm gonna try going down again. She said there was
gas sneaking, that the ground was beginning to shift. He
can wear masks against the gas, and it's for the shifting. Well,
we'll just have to take.
Speaker 2 (38:47):
That risk, you said, we.
Speaker 1 (38:51):
That's why I came to you, Professor. I need someone
to go with me. It's a two man job. I
I don't know who else to turn to him. I
know you can. I mean, I know what you're trying
to say, but on a mission of such importance, I
wouldn't hesitate it, not for one minute. And then you'll
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come with me.
Speaker 3 (39:13):
Yes, of course, we're good.
Speaker 1 (39:15):
We've kind of started once. There's barely enough time as
it is. Shock Eve, I can't say I'll be sorry
to see the last of this place. Something about it
always did give me the willies. Had you better lock
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the gate for the last time?
Speaker 2 (39:36):
Okay, miss talking.
Speaker 3 (39:40):
Wait a minute? What's that?
Speaker 2 (39:42):
Why the stuff on your boots, the black stuff? Why that?
That's the oire oil? Where to come from? But that's
what I was trying to tell you all along.
Speaker 1 (39:54):
The oil that's down there, Miss Birk and I saw
it and we waded through it.
Speaker 2 (40:00):
Shaky.
Speaker 1 (40:00):
Get mister Dobbs from the office. Why you got a
start up that rig. There is oil, Sharky oil. You
know what that means? Our future is golden here it is,
a professor.
Speaker 3 (40:23):
It's amazing.
Speaker 1 (40:26):
How snevery detail exactly like our own from a duplicate
civilization that inhabited the earth twelve billion years ago. How
much it.
Speaker 3 (40:40):
Could teach us?
Speaker 1 (40:42):
Wait a minute, Sharky said he thought he'd seen some
books in the living room this way. Look over there
on the table. Yeah, this is it. The History of
the World by D. V. Davis for you known. Do
you realize what this wo mean, professor, when we open
this book? Yes, I wonder what it is John, that
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we're to learn about ourselves from ourselves?
Speaker 2 (41:13):
What's that? Professor?
Speaker 1 (41:16):
They started the prill the whole house, and come see
if it does. There is a legend in classical mythology
about the civil prophetess.
Speaker 2 (41:38):
Who lived appropriately enough to.
Speaker 1 (41:40):
Our story in a cave. She offered to sell nine
prophetic books to Tarquin the Proud, the last of Rome's
legendary kings. He refused, for he felt her price was
too high, so she burned three of the books and
offered him the remaining six for the same price. Again,
Tarquin refused, and again Sybil burned three of the precious volumes. Finally,
(42:05):
he bought the last three for the price of the
original nine. But because of his stingy short sightedness, Mankind
lost forever his chance to know what the future holds.
Speaker 2 (42:19):
I shall return shortly.
Speaker 1 (42:31):
Do we really want to know what fate has in
store for us? That would probably depend on whether or
not we had the ability to act on that knowledge
and to alter the impending course of events. But would
it be a simple matter of avoiding a single fatal mistake,
or would we discover a future as complex as human
(42:54):
nature itself and as unchangeable. Oecast included Michael Wager, Court
Benson and Robert Dryden. The entire production was under the
direction of Hymon Brown. This is e g. Marshall inviting
you to return to our Mystery Theater for another adventure
(43:15):
in the macabre. Until next time, pleasant, do you
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