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Speaker 1 (00:00):
The Black Dots Xplanus five for we two X minus
one and Fire.
Speaker 2 (00:33):
From the far Horizons of.
Speaker 3 (00:34):
The Unknown come transcribe tales of new dimensions in time
and space. These are stories of the future adventures in
which you'll live in a million, could be years, on
a thousand, maybe worlds. The National Broadcasting Company, in cooperation
with Galaxy Science Fiction Magazine, present.
Speaker 4 (00:57):
One Tonight's story Unwilling Host.
Speaker 1 (01:14):
I was so happy.
Speaker 5 (01:14):
About it when I came home, almost triumphant. I'd asked
in the front door, peeled off my gloves whom I
had on the side table, and pressed my coat.
Speaker 1 (01:21):
Over the back of a chair, And you're, miss supper.
Speaker 5 (01:24):
Drake, We're going to have him here.
Speaker 2 (01:26):
Oh, what are you talking about?
Speaker 5 (01:27):
Doctor from Hawkins's planet? Didn't you realize that was what
today's conference was about.
Speaker 1 (01:31):
When you see a doctor from Hawkins's planet, you mean
a Hawkken's site. You've got to the institute.
Speaker 5 (01:35):
Well, of course, who else could I possibly mean?
Speaker 1 (01:38):
May I ask what the devil you mean by saying
we'll have him here?
Speaker 5 (01:40):
Darling the Hawk and Sight would like to stay at
a private house somewhere where he won't be bothered with
official ceremony where he'll be able to proceed more according
to his own likes and dislikes. I find it quite understandable.
Speaker 1 (01:52):
Whenever you start using formal sentences, I know you're hiding
extreme irritation.
Speaker 5 (01:55):
Well you don't need to be trying to hide it
at all. What's the matter.
Speaker 1 (02:00):
I don't see where we've got room for extraterrestrial visitors?
Speaker 5 (02:04):
Are you serious? He can stay in the spare room. Honestly, Drake,
all we have to do is show a certain amount
of adaptability.
Speaker 1 (02:10):
Sure, just a little adaptability. The hawk inside were Cyanide
will just adapt usself to that.
Speaker 5 (02:16):
I suppose marry Cyanide and a little cylinder.
Speaker 1 (02:18):
You won't even notice this and what else is there about?
Speaker 5 (02:20):
And I won't notice nothing else. They're perfectly harmless. They're
even vegetarians.
Speaker 1 (02:25):
So what about us? Do we eat need ourselves or
while that make us look like cannibals? For him, I
won't live on sellars to suit him.
Speaker 5 (02:32):
I want you to take it means very much to me.
Why because if he stays here for any length of time,
I can study him real closely. Very little work has
been done on the biology and psychosgy of the individual Hawkinside,
or of any of the extraterrestrial intelligences. Truly, you must
see the opportunity. He stays here, We speak to him,
watch him, observe his habits, looks.
Speaker 1 (02:53):
Look. I've spoken to men who are in charge of
security groups watching various hawk inside submissions on the Earth.
Submissions stay in the room assigned to them, and they
don't leave for anything but the most important official business
they have something to do with Earth men. Quite obvious
that they there's revolted by us, as I personally am
by them.
Speaker 5 (03:10):
Rake, he's a doctor. He's coming here for medical research,
and I'll grant you that he probably doesn't enjoy staying
with human beings and will probably find us perfectly horrible.
But he must stay just the same.
Speaker 2 (03:21):
All right, have it your own way.
Speaker 1 (03:23):
Are you sure you.
Speaker 5 (03:23):
Don't want me talk? No, Drake, you're not angry about this.
Speaker 6 (03:27):
Are you?
Speaker 1 (03:29):
No? Oh, I'm not angry.
Speaker 5 (03:39):
Most of my friends have been surprised when I married
Drake because they couldn't understand my marrying a policeman. I
explained he wasn't simply a policeman. He was a member
of the world's Security Board. But most of the staff
at the institute, thought it rather odd that I hadn't
married a biologist, or at least anthropologist, even a chemist,
but certainly not a policeman. I was waiting for you
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at with some apprehension that evening as I sat in
the living room, hat Hoolan the hawk inside, was standing
quietly in the middle of the room. He was not sitting,
since he was not anatomically constructed to sit. He stood
on two sets of limbs placed close together, while a
third pair, entirely different in their construction, were suspended from
a region that would have been the upper chest in
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the human business. His skin was hard, glistening, and reap
mistakes were a distant resemblance to something alienly bulvine.
Speaker 1 (04:30):
Missus smartt you must forgive my English.
Speaker 2 (04:34):
The construction of my.
Speaker 1 (04:35):
Mouth, combined with the absence of incisors and K nine teeth.
Speaker 2 (04:39):
His n obstacle to clear.
Speaker 5 (04:40):
Sweet, I think he speak very well.
Speaker 2 (04:42):
Thank you.
Speaker 5 (04:45):
My husband will be home soon and then we'll eat
your husbre well next well, yes, you know, mister Smollett
or a male.
Speaker 2 (04:53):
Of course, you must forgive me, missus Smollett.
Speaker 1 (04:56):
That's the greatest source of confusion among the five known
races of the ca ancy lies in the differences among
them in regard to their sex lives and the social
institutions that girl around it. I understand that concept of
husband and wife, for instance, exists only on Earth. I
can see the sort of intellectual understanding of what that means.
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Never an emotional wife.
Speaker 5 (05:20):
Uh, doctor Tolan, I've considered the institute in preparing a menu,
and I trust you'll find nothing in it that will
upset you. Drag gret that you. Yeah, I'm in the
living room, dear.
Speaker 1 (05:31):
I suppose it's all the liver complete, right.
Speaker 5 (05:33):
And this is doctor heart Tolan of Hawkin's Planet, Doctor Tolin,
my husband's.
Speaker 1 (05:38):
Livening, Doctor Tolen, Mister Smarlett, would you gever race, I'm
not particularly thirsty.
Speaker 5 (05:45):
On Earth there is a customer of drinking liquid which
has been fortified with etho alcohol. We find it stimulating.
Speaker 1 (05:51):
Oh yes, I'm afraid then that I must decline. Ethyl
alcohol would interfere most unpleasantly with my metabolism. Well then too,
but I understand act to him. Uh, would you object
to my drinking? Of course?
Speaker 2 (06:05):
Not good? I need one, a stiff one.
Speaker 5 (06:14):
He stood at the table. I tried not to look
at him as he ate his wide, lipless mouth, spread
his face alarmingly at the injustic food, and in chewing
his large jaws moved from side to side. There was
evidence of his ungulate ancestry. By myself wondering whether he
would chew his cud later. And then I was afraid
that Drake would get the same idea and leave the
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table and discuss. But he was taking everything quite calmly.
Speaker 1 (06:39):
Allows we are to tell him that the uh cylinder
to your side whole simon quite so pure sinon. I
hope you are not considering possible danger. I know the
gash is highly poisonous to you. I do not need
a great deal. None of it emerges except when I
actually suck at the tube which is fixed at the
corner of my mouth.
Speaker 2 (06:59):
I see.
Speaker 1 (07:00):
And you really must have the guess to live, are
you not the biologist, mister Smollett? Now that is all
nearly a minor government official. My wife's friend called me
a policeman. Now tell me what happens if you don't
breathe cynheim. You are just d like that whom not
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quite the absence of it would be equivalent to uh
so strangulation. M's also very painful, difficult to treat.
Speaker 2 (07:28):
I've done some research on the problem.
Speaker 1 (07:31):
I find it difficult to keep thinking of you as
a doctor.
Speaker 2 (07:34):
I understand what you mean.
Speaker 1 (07:36):
I find it difficult to think of you as a policeman.
I gather that you are not here on a pleasure
certain no, I tend to study this square planet you
call Earth queer in what way? It is always amazing
to me to find how little you worth. Men understand
your own characteristics. There are five intelligent races in the galaxy.
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Over and over it tissue earth Man more than any
of the others who are unique. Your people are the
only ones which find hydrogen cyanide poisonous. Yours is the
only form of intelligent life which is carnivorous. Use is
the only form of life which has not developed from
the grazing animal. And most interesting of all, yours is
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the only form of intelligent life known which stops growing
upon reaching maturity. While you don't look very large and
at the tollm I should say that you're an installer
than eye, which would make you six foot two. Are
you young or are you just small?
Speaker 2 (08:37):
On Hawkin's planet?
Speaker 1 (08:38):
When knew there we grow at the diminishing rate with
the years, so that at my age would take fifteen
years to grow an additional interest. But we never entirely stop,
and of course there's a consequence, we never entirely die.
Did you hear that, Rose, I need to knew that
before Mortan flin and are immortal.
Speaker 2 (09:02):
No people are truly immortal.
Speaker 1 (09:04):
Few of us live more than several centuries of your time. Still,
it is unpleasant to think that death may come involuntarily.
Is something which to us is extremely horrible. Oh, work
quite used to it. The earth men live with the thought.
We do not.
Speaker 2 (09:22):
This is why we are.
Speaker 1 (09:22):
Disturbed to find that the incidence of inhibition death has
been increasing in recent years. What is this inhibition? That
a pathological cessation of growth. It's a wasting disease, the
tragic one, absolutely incurable, is fatal within a year.
Speaker 2 (09:42):
What causes it?
Speaker 1 (09:43):
Mister Smollett, We know nothing about the cause of the disease. Well,
then why did you come to Earth study it?
Speaker 2 (09:50):
Because again, earth Men are unique.
Speaker 1 (09:54):
They are the only intelligent beings who are immune. The
inhibition death affects all other races, while earth Men are immune.
Somewhere in the biochemistry of the earth. Fact there is
the secret of that immunity. How interesting it.
Speaker 2 (10:10):
Would be to fight it.
Speaker 1 (10:11):
So now look here, you can't say that earth men
are immune. The more I say that looks as if
the incidence is one hundred percent, all earth men stopped
going and all earth men diying. We've all got the
inhibition that earth men live up to seventy years after
the cessation of growth.
Speaker 2 (10:27):
That is not death as we know it.
Speaker 1 (10:30):
Your equivalent disease is rather one of unrestrained growth cancer
you call it.
Speaker 5 (10:45):
Clake was being pleasant to doctor Tolan. I wasn't sure
what it was for my sake or for his own.
Jake has never gone out of his way to please
news Sometimes when I'm gloomy, I look at him across
the table and ask myself, yeah, I did think, And suddenly,
after dinner in the living room, got to call and
ask the question which surprised me.
Speaker 1 (11:06):
You are a policeman, mister smartt Yes, I wonder could
you show me through one.
Speaker 2 (11:13):
Of the police departments on your planet.
Speaker 1 (11:16):
Mm, well, I don't belong to a police department, And
exactly the way you imagine all rise and contacts in
the New York City Department. Would I be able to
visit the missing Person's Bureau? Why are you interested in
missing Person's bureau? Because there again, if you are unique,
there's no such thing.
Speaker 2 (11:34):
As a missing person on our planet.
Speaker 1 (11:36):
They're always aware of each other's exact location, no matter
where on the planet we might be.
Speaker 5 (11:43):
Can you feel such awareness even now on Earth?
Speaker 1 (11:47):
You mean a cross space No, I'm afraid not. But
you see the importance of the matter. All the uniqueness
of Earth should be linked. If the back of this
sense can be brained, perhaps the immune to take your
inhibition death can be also. Tell me truthfully, mister Smollett,
if missus Smollett were to leave this room and enter
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another without your having seen her do so, would you
really not be aware of her location?
Speaker 6 (12:14):
I really would not.
Speaker 1 (12:16):
Nice. Please do not be offended by the fact that
I find it revolting as well.
Speaker 5 (12:35):
Rake Drake, Yes, I'm awake. Why were you talking about
the inhibition's death to doctor Tolan.
Speaker 1 (12:44):
No, I'm taking an interest in your work. Road You've
always wanted me to take an int I'd.
Speaker 5 (12:48):
Rather you weren't, sarcastic.
Speaker 1 (12:50):
Rose, I'm tired. I'll talk to the moment. No, right,
now I want no questions from you and no interference.
You do your job, now do My nature of my
job is open and known.
Speaker 2 (12:58):
The nature of my job isn't.
Speaker 1 (13:00):
But I'll tell you this. I sex like a friend
that's here in this house for some definite reason. You
weren't picked as biologist in charge for any random reason.
Two days ago he'd been inquiring about me at the commission.
But that's my job and I won't discuss it with
you any further.
Speaker 5 (13:15):
Do you understand No, but I won't question you if
you don't want me to.
Speaker 2 (13:21):
All right, I can go to sleep.
Speaker 5 (13:29):
I lay stiffly on my back. In the minutes passed
in the quarter hours, was trying to fit the pieces together.
One picture remained clear in my mind. If hovered over
me mockingly. At the end of the evening, The Hawkins
aunt had turned to me just before he left the room.
Speaker 1 (13:45):
Good night, missus Schmarrett. You're a most charming hostess. I
wanted to giggle.
Speaker 5 (13:50):
Then how could he call me a charming hostess? To him?
I must have been a horror.
Speaker 1 (13:54):
A monstrosity with too few limbs and.
Speaker 5 (13:57):
Too narrow a safe that I saw drake. He turned
white the winning for his eye had burned was something
that looks like terror. I'd never before known Drake to
show fear of anything in the picture of That instant
of pure panic remained with me until all my thoughts
finally sagged into the oblivion of sleep. I remember one
question that nagged at me through the haze. Why did
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he Mary?
Speaker 1 (14:29):
I found your Missing Person's Bureau interesting in that the
large majority of missing persons are males.
Speaker 5 (14:36):
Oh, that's not mysterious. After told them you seek, they
didn't realize the economics set up we have on.
Speaker 1 (14:41):
Earth, and my wife is an example of the minority
of women who are capable of making their own way.
Speaker 2 (14:45):
In the world.
Speaker 1 (14:46):
Would you call the Missing Person's Bureau of New York
a fair sampling of such cases in the yoke planet
at large? Yes? I should think so. Is there then
an economic explanation for the safe that seems interstellar pa
has been developed the percentage of young mayors, but the
missing is more pronounced than ever. I will not even
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luck as a mystery than the other. And nowadays to
run away and open near a space fighter, they're always
looking for crewmen. No questions. That almost always young men
their first year of marriage.
Speaker 5 (15:18):
Well, that's just the time of man's trouble seemed the greatest.
If he survived the first year, There's usually no need
to disappear at all.
Speaker 1 (15:25):
Would it offend you if I disconnected for a period
of time? Disconnected it's like sleep.
Speaker 5 (15:32):
I hope you haven't had too exhausting a day, just
that I've.
Speaker 1 (15:35):
Been absorbing so many new and unusual concepts that I
feel the desire for a little disconnection.
Speaker 5 (15:52):
Fake. We've been sitting here for ten minutes. Aren't you
going to speak to.
Speaker 1 (15:55):
Me about what?
Speaker 5 (15:57):
Last night? She said you'd speak to me tomorrow. Well,
I'm ready now.
Speaker 1 (16:01):
I thought it was agreed that you wouldn't question me
about my business, Miss Man.
Speaker 5 (16:04):
I think it's too late for that. I know too
much about your business by now. What what do you mean,
Drake clocks gold my arm?
Speaker 1 (16:11):
What are you talking about?
Speaker 5 (16:13):
Doctor Tolan thinks that Earth is spreading the inhibition's death purposely.
That's it, isn't it?
Speaker 1 (16:19):
Where did you get that eye?
Speaker 5 (16:19):
It's true, isn't it?
Speaker 1 (16:20):
I want to know exactly why you say that. Don't
play James with me, Rose, This is the tip.
Speaker 5 (16:25):
Why don't you ask doctor Tolan he's an outstanding worker
in the field. I looked over his papers this afternoon,
and what I.
Speaker 1 (16:31):
Have theories about the origin of the disease. I don't
remember rose.
Speaker 5 (16:35):
I think he blames Earth's but I think he admits
they know nothing about how the disease is spread.
Speaker 1 (16:42):
I'll find out about this right now. Say what he's
going to do?
Speaker 5 (16:46):
What's that?
Speaker 1 (16:47):
What's my gun? I'm gonna ask him a few questions.
Speaker 5 (16:57):
He ran out of the bedroom, down the carter towards
doctor Tolon's room. I ran after him, caught him just
at the end of the door. Hawkins dotithstanding there, motionless,
his eyes unfocused. It's four standing limbs, sprang out in
four directions as far as they would go.
Speaker 1 (17:11):
Now keep quiet, he'd gradually become aware of me. Get out.
Speaker 5 (17:16):
If you know, Draker, what are you doing? Quiet?
Speaker 2 (17:20):
Make you see the skin? And his face is beginning
to quiver.
Speaker 1 (17:25):
Well that's about all, doctor Tolem. Don't stole in connection
with any of the limbs. Your sense organs and a
voice box will be quite enough.
Speaker 2 (17:32):
Why do you invade my disconnection chamber?
Speaker 1 (17:35):
And where you are? What do you want the answer
to certain questions? With a gun in your hand shime,
mister smaller to the duties toward the guests are so badly.
Speaker 2 (17:44):
Understood on earth.
Speaker 1 (17:45):
You're no guest of mine, Doctor Toolem. You entered my home,
and the force pretenses.
Speaker 2 (17:50):
A better shoot will shave time.
Speaker 1 (17:53):
You are convinced that you'll answer no questions. A lat
in itself is suspicious. It seems that you consider a
certain answer to be more more important than your life.
Speaker 2 (18:01):
I considered the principle of curtesy to be very important.
Use an earth man.
Speaker 1 (18:05):
May not understand, perhaps not, but I can't understand one thing.
Your cyanide cylinder suppose I hold it out of your
mouth both what's your breath?
Speaker 5 (18:16):
Is like?
Speaker 1 (18:16):
Close?
Speaker 2 (18:17):
About?
Speaker 1 (18:19):
Yeah? All right?
Speaker 6 (18:22):
Told him?
Speaker 1 (18:23):
You realize what will happen to you if you don't
answer the questions I'm going to ask you cyanide lack.
It would be a most uncomfortable death. I'm only an
earth man. I can't appreciate it's true horror. But you
can can't.
Speaker 5 (18:37):
Shake any cylinder. Get it back to him.
Speaker 1 (18:39):
You have about one hour, I think, until the effects
are irreversible. Talk quickly, doctor Tolm. You'll have your cyanide
cylinder back.
Speaker 2 (18:48):
What are your questions?
Speaker 1 (18:50):
What are your theories concerning me? In addition death? Why
did you really come to earth? What is your interest
in a missing person's dureau? For a years I've been
investigating the self structure of my patients suffering from inhibition death.
I've been forced to use the utmost secrecy since the
methods I used were.
Speaker 2 (19:09):
Found on by my people, who your society.
Speaker 1 (19:12):
Would have similar feelings against human vivisection.
Speaker 2 (19:15):
For instance.
Speaker 1 (19:17):
For this reason, I could not present the results I
obtained to my fellow physicians until I had verified my
theories here on Earth. And what are they? The inefficient
death is entirely a disease of the mind. It's psychosomatic
norms smartt It is not psychosomatic. It is a true
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disease of the mind, a mental infection. My patients had
double minds. Beyond and beneath the one that obviously belonged
to them, there was evidence of another one, an alien mind.
In short, there are not only five intelligences in the galaxy,
but six, and the sixth is parasitic.
Speaker 5 (19:57):
It's impossible and not being mistaken by.
Speaker 1 (20:00):
To try not to stick. One can imagine such a
parasite through the course of millions of years, perhaps losing
all portions of its physical being, it will become nothing
but pure mind, living in some mental fashion we cannot
conceive of on the minds of others, particularly on the
minds of earth men.
Speaker 5 (20:18):
Why, particularly earthmen, have you much surmised that the sixth
intelligence is a native of earth.
Speaker 2 (20:24):
Mankind from the beginning.
Speaker 1 (20:25):
Has lived with it, has adapted to it, is unconscious
of it. It is why the higher species of terrestrial animals,
including men, do not grow after maturity and eventually die,
and it is what is called natural death. It is
the result of this universal parasitic infestration. Where earth men
could survive the infection for decades with little harm, we
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others die a quick death within a year. Give me
back that cylinder.
Speaker 2 (20:54):
You have your answer.
Speaker 1 (20:55):
What about the missing person's bureau.
Speaker 5 (20:57):
Take look at his eyes, Give it back to him.
Speaker 2 (21:00):
We are not well.
Speaker 1 (21:00):
Adapted to the intelligence that invests man. Neither is it
well adapted to us. It can live on us, but
it cannot reproduce with ourselves a lord and the source
of its life. The inhibisient death is therefore not directly
contagious among our people.
Speaker 5 (21:17):
What are you implying Doctor Tom the earth.
Speaker 1 (21:19):
Man remains the prime host for the parasite, and an
earth Man may infect one of us if he remains
among us. But the parasite, once it is located in
an intelligence of the other world, must somehow return to
an earth Man if it expects to reproduce. We are
infected and reinfected as the parasites return to Earth and
come back to us via the mind of Earth Men
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who travel through space and the Missing person are the
intermediate hosts. The masculine terrestrial mind seems better suited for
their purpose. But once reproduction has been taken care of,
the infested male leaves by spaceship for the outer world.
Speaker 5 (22:00):
This this is impossible. What you say inside that the
parasite mind can control the actions of its host, that
can't be, or we would have noticed their presence here
on Earth.
Speaker 1 (22:10):
The control may be very subtle, may moreover, be exerted
only during the period of active reproduction. I simply point
to your Missing Person's bureau. Why do the young men disappear?
I'm quite ill now, Cyani Black, and I cannot speak
much longer, and you alone, If all your people have
any knowledge of this theory, of your dialone.
Speaker 2 (22:33):
You will give me back my silander.
Speaker 1 (22:35):
Now I have become quite weak.
Speaker 6 (22:39):
Sure, sure, doctor plumy.
Speaker 1 (22:52):
Quiet, I told you I have let me go.
Speaker 5 (22:58):
I want to go if I want to?
Speaker 1 (23:00):
Why? Because of something it was my job to do.
You heard what that creature was saying. You suppose I
could allow him to return to his world and spread
those lives they believe him. What do you think would happened?
Then it would have it.
Speaker 2 (23:13):
All to stop the disease.
Speaker 5 (23:15):
What he said wasn't a lie.
Speaker 6 (23:17):
That was true.
Speaker 2 (23:18):
Come on, now, you're a hysterical You need true.
Speaker 5 (23:20):
I know what he said was true because the Security
Commission knows all about the same theory and knows it's true.
Speaker 1 (23:25):
Why do you say a thing like that?
Speaker 5 (23:27):
Because you let it slip? Yourself up? Not down?
Speaker 1 (23:31):
Sit down? Well, so I gave myself away Ton when
you turned white.
Speaker 5 (23:39):
When hark Tolen referred to me as a charming hostess,
hostess has a double meaning, drake. A host is one
who harbored a parasite.
Speaker 1 (23:49):
And I had no idea.
Speaker 2 (23:50):
I was so transparent.
Speaker 1 (23:54):
Look Rose, I've done my best to keep you out
of it.
Speaker 5 (23:56):
The truth can't be held down forever. Somebody else will
find out. You can't kill them all. We know that too.
Speaker 1 (24:03):
We have no choice.
Speaker 5 (24:04):
Why why can't we combined with the other intelligences and
wipe out the parasite.
Speaker 2 (24:09):
Oh no, you don't understand.
Speaker 1 (24:12):
Heart Tolem was right, man, there's prehistoric ancestors have been
living with this parasitic intelligence for uncounted ages. You've not
only become adapted to it, we've become dependent on it.
It is no longer a case of parasitism. It's a
case of mutual cooperation. You biologists have a name for it.
Speaker 5 (24:31):
What are you talking about, symbiosis?
Speaker 2 (24:36):
Yes, exactly.
Speaker 1 (24:38):
We have a disease of our own. Remember it is
a reverse disease, one of unrestrained growths. You've mentioned it
already as a contrast to inhibition death. It's all very
well to say that if we could remove the parasite,
we would have eternal growth in life. But it's impossible
for us. If for any reason the parasitic intelligence its
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heart Tolen calls it the human body, or if it's
relationship to a human mind in any way, impaired growth
does take place, but not in an orderly fashion. Before
the growth cancer, then you have it there's no way
of getting rid of the paraspype. We're together for all eternity.
To get rid of their inhibition death, extraterrestrials must first
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wipe out all vertefent life on earth. There was no
or a solution for them, so we must keep knowledge
of it from them.
Speaker 2 (25:27):
Now do you understand.
Speaker 5 (25:35):
Who got the body out of the apartment? I sat
there lumbly. He lied to me. Cancer could not be
a disease. That was an expression of lost ability from
normal growth. Cancer attacked children while they were still growing.
It could even attack embryonic tissue. Cancer had nothing to
do with the presence or absence of normal growth. Its
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abstence would not cause answer. Drake lied, but no one
would believe me. The young men who disappeared were usually
in the first year of their marriage. Whatever the process
of reproduction of the parasite intelligence was, it must involve
close association with another parasite, the type of close and
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continuous association, as in the case of newly married couples.
The parasite could control actions. I'd report them both, Drake
smaller than hearts, told to them as person's bureau. But
they'd never found them. For they'd be out in space.
Speaker 1 (26:36):
I wanted to weep, but I couldn't.
Speaker 5 (26:38):
I was dry eyed, and it was painful. I'd looked
for the answers to so many questions, and I'd found
them all. I even found the answer to the question
I thought had no bearing on the subjects. I finally
learned why Drake had married me.
Speaker 1 (27:00):
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Speaker 2 (00:33):
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Speaker 3 (00:34):
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Speaker 4 (00:57):
One Tonight's story Unwilling Host.
Speaker 1 (01:14):
I was so happy.
Speaker 5 (01:14):
About it when I came home, almost triumphant. I'd asked
in the front door, peeled off my gloves whom I
had on the side table, and pressed my coat.
Speaker 1 (01:21):
Over the back of a chair, And you're, miss supper.
Speaker 5 (01:24):
Drake, We're going to have him here.
Speaker 2 (01:26):
Oh, what are you talking about?
Speaker 5 (01:27):
Doctor from Hawkins's planet? Didn't you realize that was what
today's conference was about.
Speaker 1 (01:31):
When you see a doctor from Hawkins's planet, you mean
a Hawkken's site. You've got to the institute.
Speaker 5 (01:35):
Well, of course, who else could I possibly mean?
Speaker 1 (01:38):
May I ask what the devil you mean by saying
we'll have him here?
Speaker 5 (01:40):
Darling the Hawk and Sight would like to stay at
a private house somewhere where he won't be bothered with
official ceremony where he'll be able to proceed more according
to his own likes and dislikes. I find it quite understandable.
Speaker 1 (01:52):
Whenever you start using formal sentences, I know you're hiding
extreme irritation.
Speaker 5 (01:55):
Well you don't need to be trying to hide it
at all. What's the matter.
Speaker 1 (02:00):
I don't see where we've got room for extraterrestrial visitors?
Speaker 5 (02:04):
Are you serious? He can stay in the spare room. Honestly, Drake,
all we have to do is show a certain amount
of adaptability.
Speaker 1 (02:10):
Sure, just a little adaptability. The hawk inside were Cyanide
will just adapt usself to that.
Speaker 5 (02:16):
I suppose marry Cyanide and a little cylinder.
Speaker 1 (02:18):
You won't even notice this and what else is there about?
Speaker 5 (02:20):
And I won't notice nothing else. They're perfectly harmless. They're
even vegetarians.
Speaker 1 (02:25):
So what about us? Do we eat need ourselves or
while that make us look like cannibals? For him, I
won't live on sellars to suit him.
Speaker 5 (02:32):
I want you to take it means very much to me.
Why because if he stays here for any length of time,
I can study him real closely. Very little work has
been done on the biology and psychosgy of the individual Hawkinside,
or of any of the extraterrestrial intelligences. Truly, you must
see the opportunity. He stays here, We speak to him,
watch him, observe his habits, looks.
Speaker 1 (02:53):
Look. I've spoken to men who are in charge of
security groups watching various hawk inside submissions on the Earth.
Submissions stay in the room assigned to them, and they
don't leave for anything but the most important official business
they have something to do with Earth men. Quite obvious
that they there's revolted by us, as I personally am
by them.
Speaker 5 (03:10):
Rake, he's a doctor. He's coming here for medical research,
and I'll grant you that he probably doesn't enjoy staying
with human beings and will probably find us perfectly horrible.
But he must stay just the same.
Speaker 2 (03:21):
All right, have it your own way.
Speaker 1 (03:23):
Are you sure you.
Speaker 5 (03:23):
Don't want me talk? No, Drake, you're not angry about this.
Speaker 6 (03:27):
Are you?
Speaker 1 (03:29):
No? Oh, I'm not angry.
Speaker 5 (03:39):
Most of my friends have been surprised when I married
Drake because they couldn't understand my marrying a policeman. I
explained he wasn't simply a policeman. He was a member
of the world's Security Board. But most of the staff
at the institute, thought it rather odd that I hadn't
married a biologist, or at least anthropologist, even a chemist,
but certainly not a policeman. I was waiting for you
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at with some apprehension that evening as I sat in
the living room, hat Hoolan the hawk inside, was standing
quietly in the middle of the room. He was not sitting,
since he was not anatomically constructed to sit. He stood
on two sets of limbs placed close together, while a
third pair, entirely different in their construction, were suspended from
a region that would have been the upper chest in
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the human business. His skin was hard, glistening, and reap
mistakes were a distant resemblance to something alienly bulvine.
Speaker 1 (04:30):
Missus smartt you must forgive my English.
Speaker 2 (04:34):
The construction of my.
Speaker 1 (04:35):
Mouth, combined with the absence of incisors and K nine teeth.
Speaker 2 (04:39):
His n obstacle to clear.
Speaker 5 (04:40):
Sweet, I think he speak very well.
Speaker 2 (04:42):
Thank you.
Speaker 5 (04:45):
My husband will be home soon and then we'll eat
your husbre well next well, yes, you know, mister Smollett
or a male.
Speaker 2 (04:53):
Of course, you must forgive me, missus Smollett.
Speaker 1 (04:56):
That's the greatest source of confusion among the five known
races of the ca ancy lies in the differences among
them in regard to their sex lives and the social
institutions that girl around it. I understand that concept of
husband and wife, for instance, exists only on Earth. I
can see the sort of intellectual understanding of what that means.
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Never an emotional wife.
Speaker 5 (05:20):
Uh, doctor Tolan, I've considered the institute in preparing a menu,
and I trust you'll find nothing in it that will
upset you. Drag gret that you. Yeah, I'm in the
living room, dear.
Speaker 1 (05:31):
I suppose it's all the liver complete, right.
Speaker 5 (05:33):
And this is doctor heart Tolan of Hawkin's Planet, Doctor Tolin,
my husband's.
Speaker 1 (05:38):
Livening, Doctor Tolen, Mister Smarlett, would you gever race, I'm
not particularly thirsty.
Speaker 5 (05:45):
On Earth there is a customer of drinking liquid which
has been fortified with etho alcohol. We find it stimulating.
Speaker 1 (05:51):
Oh yes, I'm afraid then that I must decline. Ethyl
alcohol would interfere most unpleasantly with my metabolism. Well then too,
but I understand act to him. Uh, would you object
to my drinking? Of course?
Speaker 2 (06:05):
Not good? I need one, a stiff one.
Speaker 5 (06:14):
He stood at the table. I tried not to look
at him as he ate his wide, lipless mouth, spread
his face alarmingly at the injustic food, and in chewing
his large jaws moved from side to side. There was
evidence of his ungulate ancestry. By myself wondering whether he
would chew his cud later. And then I was afraid
that Drake would get the same idea and leave the
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table and discuss. But he was taking everything quite calmly.
Speaker 1 (06:39):
Allows we are to tell him that the uh cylinder
to your side whole simon quite so pure sinon. I
hope you are not considering possible danger. I know the
gash is highly poisonous to you. I do not need
a great deal. None of it emerges except when I
actually suck at the tube which is fixed at the
corner of my mouth.
Speaker 2 (06:59):
I see.
Speaker 1 (07:00):
And you really must have the guess to live, are
you not the biologist, mister Smollett? Now that is all
nearly a minor government official. My wife's friend called me
a policeman. Now tell me what happens if you don't
breathe cynheim. You are just d like that whom not
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quite the absence of it would be equivalent to uh
so strangulation. M's also very painful, difficult to treat.
Speaker 2 (07:28):
I've done some research on the problem.
Speaker 1 (07:31):
I find it difficult to keep thinking of you as
a doctor.
Speaker 2 (07:34):
I understand what you mean.
Speaker 1 (07:36):
I find it difficult to think of you as a policeman.
I gather that you are not here on a pleasure
certain no, I tend to study this square planet you
call Earth queer in what way? It is always amazing
to me to find how little you worth. Men understand
your own characteristics. There are five intelligent races in the galaxy.
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Over and over it tissue earth Man more than any
of the others who are unique. Your people are the
only ones which find hydrogen cyanide poisonous. Yours is the
only form of intelligent life which is carnivorous. Use is
the only form of life which has not developed from
the grazing animal. And most interesting of all, yours is
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the only form of intelligent life known which stops growing
upon reaching maturity. While you don't look very large and
at the tollm I should say that you're an installer
than eye, which would make you six foot two. Are
you young or are you just small?
Speaker 2 (08:37):
On Hawkin's planet?
Speaker 1 (08:38):
When knew there we grow at the diminishing rate with
the years, so that at my age would take fifteen
years to grow an additional interest. But we never entirely stop,
and of course there's a consequence, we never entirely die.
Did you hear that, Rose, I need to knew that
before Mortan flin and are immortal.
Speaker 2 (09:02):
No people are truly immortal.
Speaker 1 (09:04):
Few of us live more than several centuries of your time. Still,
it is unpleasant to think that death may come involuntarily.
Is something which to us is extremely horrible. Oh, work
quite used to it. The earth men live with the thought.
We do not.
Speaker 2 (09:22):
This is why we are.
Speaker 1 (09:22):
Disturbed to find that the incidence of inhibition death has
been increasing in recent years. What is this inhibition? That
a pathological cessation of growth. It's a wasting disease, the
tragic one, absolutely incurable, is fatal within a year.
Speaker 2 (09:42):
What causes it?
Speaker 1 (09:43):
Mister Smollett, We know nothing about the cause of the disease. Well,
then why did you come to Earth study it?
Speaker 2 (09:50):
Because again, earth Men are unique.
Speaker 1 (09:54):
They are the only intelligent beings who are immune. The
inhibition death affects all other races, while earth Men are immune.
Somewhere in the biochemistry of the earth. Fact there is
the secret of that immunity. How interesting it.
Speaker 2 (10:10):
Would be to fight it.
Speaker 1 (10:11):
So now look here, you can't say that earth men
are immune. The more I say that looks as if
the incidence is one hundred percent, all earth men stopped
going and all earth men diying. We've all got the
inhibition that earth men live up to seventy years after
the cessation of growth.
Speaker 2 (10:27):
That is not death as we know it.
Speaker 1 (10:30):
Your equivalent disease is rather one of unrestrained growth cancer
you call it.
Speaker 5 (10:45):
Clake was being pleasant to doctor Tolan. I wasn't sure
what it was for my sake or for his own.
Jake has never gone out of his way to please
news Sometimes when I'm gloomy, I look at him across
the table and ask myself, yeah, I did think, And suddenly,
after dinner in the living room, got to call and
ask the question which surprised me.
Speaker 1 (11:06):
You are a policeman, mister smartt Yes, I wonder could
you show me through one.
Speaker 2 (11:13):
Of the police departments on your planet.
Speaker 1 (11:16):
Mm, well, I don't belong to a police department, And
exactly the way you imagine all rise and contacts in
the New York City Department. Would I be able to
visit the missing Person's Bureau? Why are you interested in
missing Person's bureau? Because there again, if you are unique,
there's no such thing.
Speaker 2 (11:34):
As a missing person on our planet.
Speaker 1 (11:36):
They're always aware of each other's exact location, no matter
where on the planet we might be.
Speaker 5 (11:43):
Can you feel such awareness even now on Earth?
Speaker 1 (11:47):
You mean a cross space No, I'm afraid not. But
you see the importance of the matter. All the uniqueness
of Earth should be linked. If the back of this
sense can be brained, perhaps the immune to take your
inhibition death can be also. Tell me truthfully, mister Smollett,
if missus Smollett were to leave this room and enter
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another without your having seen her do so, would you
really not be aware of her location?
Speaker 6 (12:14):
I really would not.
Speaker 1 (12:16):
Nice. Please do not be offended by the fact that
I find it revolting as well.
Speaker 5 (12:35):
Rake Drake, Yes, I'm awake. Why were you talking about
the inhibition's death to doctor Tolan.
Speaker 1 (12:44):
No, I'm taking an interest in your work. Road You've
always wanted me to take an int I'd.
Speaker 5 (12:48):
Rather you weren't, sarcastic.
Speaker 1 (12:50):
Rose, I'm tired. I'll talk to the moment. No, right,
now I want no questions from you and no interference.
You do your job, now do My nature of my
job is open and known.
Speaker 2 (12:58):
The nature of my job isn't.
Speaker 1 (13:00):
But I'll tell you this. I sex like a friend
that's here in this house for some definite reason. You
weren't picked as biologist in charge for any random reason.
Two days ago he'd been inquiring about me at the commission.
But that's my job and I won't discuss it with
you any further.
Speaker 5 (13:15):
Do you understand No, but I won't question you if
you don't want me to.
Speaker 2 (13:21):
All right, I can go to sleep.
Speaker 5 (13:29):
I lay stiffly on my back. In the minutes passed
in the quarter hours, was trying to fit the pieces together.
One picture remained clear in my mind. If hovered over
me mockingly. At the end of the evening, The Hawkins
aunt had turned to me just before he left the room.
Speaker 1 (13:45):
Good night, missus Schmarrett. You're a most charming hostess. I
wanted to giggle.
Speaker 5 (13:50):
Then how could he call me a charming hostess? To him?
I must have been a horror.
Speaker 1 (13:54):
A monstrosity with too few limbs and.
Speaker 5 (13:57):
Too narrow a safe that I saw drake. He turned
white the winning for his eye had burned was something
that looks like terror. I'd never before known Drake to
show fear of anything in the picture of That instant
of pure panic remained with me until all my thoughts
finally sagged into the oblivion of sleep. I remember one
question that nagged at me through the haze. Why did
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he Mary?
Speaker 1 (14:29):
I found your Missing Person's Bureau interesting in that the
large majority of missing persons are males.
Speaker 5 (14:36):
Oh, that's not mysterious. After told them you seek, they
didn't realize the economics set up we have on.
Speaker 1 (14:41):
Earth, and my wife is an example of the minority
of women who are capable of making their own way.
Speaker 2 (14:45):
In the world.
Speaker 1 (14:46):
Would you call the Missing Person's Bureau of New York
a fair sampling of such cases in the yoke planet
at large? Yes? I should think so. Is there then
an economic explanation for the safe that seems interstellar pa
has been developed the percentage of young mayors, but the
missing is more pronounced than ever. I will not even
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luck as a mystery than the other. And nowadays to
run away and open near a space fighter, they're always
looking for crewmen. No questions. That almost always young men
their first year of marriage.
Speaker 5 (15:18):
Well, that's just the time of man's trouble seemed the greatest.
If he survived the first year, There's usually no need
to disappear at all.
Speaker 1 (15:25):
Would it offend you if I disconnected for a period
of time? Disconnected it's like sleep.
Speaker 5 (15:32):
I hope you haven't had too exhausting a day, just
that I've.
Speaker 1 (15:35):
Been absorbing so many new and unusual concepts that I
feel the desire for a little disconnection.
Speaker 5 (15:52):
Fake. We've been sitting here for ten minutes. Aren't you
going to speak to.
Speaker 1 (15:55):
Me about what?
Speaker 5 (15:57):
Last night? She said you'd speak to me tomorrow. Well,
I'm ready now.
Speaker 1 (16:01):
I thought it was agreed that you wouldn't question me
about my business, Miss Man.
Speaker 5 (16:04):
I think it's too late for that. I know too
much about your business by now. What what do you mean,
Drake clocks gold my arm?
Speaker 1 (16:11):
What are you talking about?
Speaker 5 (16:13):
Doctor Tolan thinks that Earth is spreading the inhibition's death purposely.
That's it, isn't it?
Speaker 1 (16:19):
Where did you get that eye?
Speaker 5 (16:19):
It's true, isn't it?
Speaker 1 (16:20):
I want to know exactly why you say that. Don't
play James with me, Rose, This is the tip.
Speaker 5 (16:25):
Why don't you ask doctor Tolan he's an outstanding worker
in the field. I looked over his papers this afternoon,
and what I.
Speaker 1 (16:31):
Have theories about the origin of the disease. I don't
remember rose.
Speaker 5 (16:35):
I think he blames Earth's but I think he admits
they know nothing about how the disease is spread.
Speaker 1 (16:42):
I'll find out about this right now. Say what he's
going to do?
Speaker 5 (16:46):
What's that?
Speaker 1 (16:47):
What's my gun? I'm gonna ask him a few questions.
Speaker 5 (16:57):
He ran out of the bedroom, down the carter towards
doctor Tolon's room. I ran after him, caught him just
at the end of the door. Hawkins dotithstanding there, motionless,
his eyes unfocused. It's four standing limbs, sprang out in
four directions as far as they would go.
Speaker 1 (17:11):
Now keep quiet, he'd gradually become aware of me. Get out.
Speaker 5 (17:16):
If you know, Draker, what are you doing? Quiet?
Speaker 2 (17:20):
Make you see the skin? And his face is beginning
to quiver.
Speaker 1 (17:25):
Well that's about all, doctor Tolem. Don't stole in connection
with any of the limbs. Your sense organs and a
voice box will be quite enough.
Speaker 2 (17:32):
Why do you invade my disconnection chamber?
Speaker 1 (17:35):
And where you are? What do you want the answer
to certain questions? With a gun in your hand shime,
mister smaller to the duties toward the guests are so badly.
Speaker 2 (17:44):
Understood on earth.
Speaker 1 (17:45):
You're no guest of mine, Doctor Toolem. You entered my home,
and the force pretenses.
Speaker 2 (17:50):
A better shoot will shave time.
Speaker 1 (17:53):
You are convinced that you'll answer no questions. A lat
in itself is suspicious. It seems that you consider a
certain answer to be more more important than your life.
Speaker 2 (18:01):
I considered the principle of curtesy to be very important.
Use an earth man.
Speaker 1 (18:05):
May not understand, perhaps not, but I can't understand one thing.
Your cyanide cylinder suppose I hold it out of your
mouth both what's your breath?
Speaker 5 (18:16):
Is like?
Speaker 1 (18:16):
Close?
Speaker 2 (18:17):
About?
Speaker 1 (18:19):
Yeah? All right?
Speaker 6 (18:22):
Told him?
Speaker 1 (18:23):
You realize what will happen to you if you don't
answer the questions I'm going to ask you cyanide lack.
It would be a most uncomfortable death. I'm only an
earth man. I can't appreciate it's true horror. But you
can can't.
Speaker 5 (18:37):
Shake any cylinder. Get it back to him.
Speaker 1 (18:39):
You have about one hour, I think, until the effects
are irreversible. Talk quickly, doctor Tolm. You'll have your cyanide
cylinder back.
Speaker 2 (18:48):
What are your questions?
Speaker 1 (18:50):
What are your theories concerning me? In addition death? Why
did you really come to earth? What is your interest
in a missing person's dureau? For a years I've been
investigating the self structure of my patients suffering from inhibition death.
I've been forced to use the utmost secrecy since the
methods I used were.
Speaker 2 (19:09):
Found on by my people, who your society.
Speaker 1 (19:12):
Would have similar feelings against human vivisection.
Speaker 2 (19:15):
For instance.
Speaker 1 (19:17):
For this reason, I could not present the results I
obtained to my fellow physicians until I had verified my
theories here on Earth. And what are they? The inefficient
death is entirely a disease of the mind. It's psychosomatic
norms smartt It is not psychosomatic. It is a true
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disease of the mind, a mental infection. My patients had
double minds. Beyond and beneath the one that obviously belonged
to them, there was evidence of another one, an alien mind.
In short, there are not only five intelligences in the galaxy,
but six, and the sixth is parasitic.
Speaker 5 (19:57):
It's impossible and not being mistaken by.
Speaker 1 (20:00):
To try not to stick. One can imagine such a
parasite through the course of millions of years, perhaps losing
all portions of its physical being, it will become nothing
but pure mind, living in some mental fashion we cannot
conceive of on the minds of others, particularly on the
minds of earth men.
Speaker 5 (20:18):
Why, particularly earthmen, have you much surmised that the sixth
intelligence is a native of earth.
Speaker 2 (20:24):
Mankind from the beginning.
Speaker 1 (20:25):
Has lived with it, has adapted to it, is unconscious
of it. It is why the higher species of terrestrial animals,
including men, do not grow after maturity and eventually die,
and it is what is called natural death. It is
the result of this universal parasitic infestration. Where earth men
could survive the infection for decades with little harm, we
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others die a quick death within a year. Give me
back that cylinder.
Speaker 2 (20:54):
You have your answer.
Speaker 1 (20:55):
What about the missing person's bureau.
Speaker 5 (20:57):
Take look at his eyes, Give it back to him.
Speaker 2 (21:00):
We are not well.
Speaker 1 (21:00):
Adapted to the intelligence that invests man. Neither is it
well adapted to us. It can live on us, but
it cannot reproduce with ourselves a lord and the source
of its life. The inhibisient death is therefore not directly
contagious among our people.
Speaker 5 (21:17):
What are you implying Doctor Tom the earth.
Speaker 1 (21:19):
Man remains the prime host for the parasite, and an
earth Man may infect one of us if he remains
among us. But the parasite, once it is located in
an intelligence of the other world, must somehow return to
an earth Man if it expects to reproduce. We are
infected and reinfected as the parasites return to Earth and
come back to us via the mind of Earth Men
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who travel through space and the Missing person are the
intermediate hosts. The masculine terrestrial mind seems better suited for
their purpose. But once reproduction has been taken care of,
the infested male leaves by spaceship for the outer world.
Speaker 5 (22:00):
This this is impossible. What you say inside that the
parasite mind can control the actions of its host, that
can't be, or we would have noticed their presence here
on Earth.
Speaker 1 (22:10):
The control may be very subtle, may moreover, be exerted
only during the period of active reproduction. I simply point
to your Missing Person's bureau. Why do the young men disappear?
I'm quite ill now, Cyani Black, and I cannot speak
much longer, and you alone, If all your people have
any knowledge of this theory, of your dialone.
Speaker 2 (22:33):
You will give me back my silander.
Speaker 1 (22:35):
Now I have become quite weak.
Speaker 6 (22:39):
Sure, sure, doctor plumy.
Speaker 1 (22:52):
Quiet, I told you I have let me go.
Speaker 5 (22:58):
I want to go if I want to?
Speaker 1 (23:00):
Why? Because of something it was my job to do.
You heard what that creature was saying. You suppose I
could allow him to return to his world and spread
those lives they believe him. What do you think would happened?
Then it would have it.
Speaker 2 (23:13):
All to stop the disease.
Speaker 5 (23:15):
What he said wasn't a lie.
Speaker 6 (23:17):
That was true.
Speaker 2 (23:18):
Come on, now, you're a hysterical You need true.
Speaker 5 (23:20):
I know what he said was true because the Security
Commission knows all about the same theory and knows it's true.
Speaker 1 (23:25):
Why do you say a thing like that?
Speaker 5 (23:27):
Because you let it slip? Yourself up? Not down?
Speaker 1 (23:31):
Sit down? Well, so I gave myself away Ton when
you turned white.
Speaker 5 (23:39):
When hark Tolen referred to me as a charming hostess,
hostess has a double meaning, drake. A host is one
who harbored a parasite.
Speaker 1 (23:49):
And I had no idea.
Speaker 2 (23:50):
I was so transparent.
Speaker 1 (23:54):
Look Rose, I've done my best to keep you out
of it.
Speaker 5 (23:56):
The truth can't be held down forever. Somebody else will
find out. You can't kill them all. We know that too.
Speaker 1 (24:03):
We have no choice.
Speaker 5 (24:04):
Why why can't we combined with the other intelligences and
wipe out the parasite.
Speaker 2 (24:09):
Oh no, you don't understand.
Speaker 1 (24:12):
Heart Tolem was right, man, there's prehistoric ancestors have been
living with this parasitic intelligence for uncounted ages. You've not
only become adapted to it, we've become dependent on it.
It is no longer a case of parasitism. It's a
case of mutual cooperation. You biologists have a name for it.
Speaker 5 (24:31):
What are you talking about, symbiosis?
Speaker 2 (24:36):
Yes, exactly.
Speaker 1 (24:38):
We have a disease of our own. Remember it is
a reverse disease, one of unrestrained growths. You've mentioned it
already as a contrast to inhibition death. It's all very
well to say that if we could remove the parasite,
we would have eternal growth in life. But it's impossible
for us. If for any reason the parasitic intelligence its
(24:58):
heart Tolen calls it the human body, or if it's
relationship to a human mind in any way, impaired growth
does take place, but not in an orderly fashion. Before
the growth cancer, then you have it there's no way
of getting rid of the paraspype. We're together for all eternity.
To get rid of their inhibition death, extraterrestrials must first
(25:19):
wipe out all vertefent life on earth. There was no
or a solution for them, so we must keep knowledge
of it from them.
Speaker 2 (25:27):
Now do you understand.
Speaker 5 (25:35):
Who got the body out of the apartment? I sat
there lumbly. He lied to me. Cancer could not be
a disease. That was an expression of lost ability from
normal growth. Cancer attacked children while they were still growing.
It could even attack embryonic tissue. Cancer had nothing to
do with the presence or absence of normal growth. Its
(25:58):
abstence would not cause answer. Drake lied, but no one
would believe me. The young men who disappeared were usually
in the first year of their marriage. Whatever the process
of reproduction of the parasite intelligence was, it must involve
close association with another parasite, the type of close and
(26:18):
continuous association, as in the case of newly married couples.
The parasite could control actions. I'd report them both, Drake
smaller than hearts, told to them as person's bureau. But
they'd never found them. For they'd be out in space.
Speaker 1 (26:36):
I wanted to weep, but I couldn't.
Speaker 5 (26:38):
I was dry eyed, and it was painful. I'd looked
for the answers to so many questions, and I'd found
them all. I even found the answer to the question
I thought had no bearing on the subjects. I finally
learned why Drake had married me.
Speaker 1 (27:00):
You have just heard X minus one presented by the
National Broadcasting Company in Coopera. You have just heard X
minus one presented by the National Broadcasting Company in Coopera.
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