1 00:00:00,080 --> 00:00:10,720 Mm hmmm, condown for blast off x minus five four three two x minus 2 00:00:10,720 --> 00:00:41,880 one fire From the far horizons of the unknown come transcribed tales of new dimensions 3 00:00:41,920 --> 00:00:46,840 in time and space. These are stories of the future adventures in which you'll 4 00:00:46,840 --> 00:00:50,520 live in a million, could be years, on a thousand, maybe worlds. 5 00:00:50,520 --> 00:00:54,159 The National Broadcasting Company, in cooperation with Street and Smith, publishers of 6 00:00:54,200 --> 00:01:11,239 Astounding science fiction, presents he he minus minus minus one one The night Story 7 00:01:11,840 --> 00:01:17,120 The Roads Must Roll by Robert Heinlein. Hear them hum Watson run, Oh, 8 00:01:17,200 --> 00:01:23,159 our job is never done? Or roadways rolling along? Why are you 9 00:01:23,400 --> 00:01:26,799 right? While you're blind? We are watching down inside? So your roadways 10 00:01:27,200 --> 00:01:34,319 rolling along? Oh, it's high hidy, the roader men are we Second, 11 00:01:34,599 --> 00:01:38,879 the sector is loud and strong. One two. Anywhere you go, 12 00:01:40,680 --> 00:01:45,920 you about to know that your roadways keep rolling along, keep the rolling that 13 00:01:46,120 --> 00:01:59,519 your roadways keep rolling along. It was in the middle nineteen fifties that the 14 00:01:59,560 --> 00:02:04,519 automotive of age began to die. The traffic engineers had long expected it for 15 00:02:04,680 --> 00:02:07,280 years. They had watched our vast cities sprawl and spread out, spill over 16 00:02:07,319 --> 00:02:12,919 into the countryside, become more and more dependent on motor transportation, and then 17 00:02:13,039 --> 00:02:17,199 finally the inevitable breaking point was reached. The growing flood of cars and buses 18 00:02:17,199 --> 00:02:22,360 and trucks began to swamp the streets and arterial highways. The building of roads 19 00:02:22,360 --> 00:02:25,800 could no longer keep pace. The super highways clogged, congested, They came 20 00:02:25,960 --> 00:02:30,360 packed with cars, stall bumpered of bumpers, and the cities began to die 21 00:02:30,439 --> 00:02:38,919 of slow strangulation, for the traffic could no longer roll. And then the 22 00:02:38,960 --> 00:02:43,599 engineers took over. They banned the automobiles, tore up the super highways, 23 00:02:43,919 --> 00:02:49,080 and in their place they built the rolling roads, mechanized roads that moved like 24 00:02:49,199 --> 00:02:53,439 huge conveyor belts, whirling along on their giant rotors at speeds ranging from five 25 00:02:53,479 --> 00:02:57,000 to one hundred miles an hour, carrying the freight, the food, and 26 00:02:57,039 --> 00:03:00,080 the people from city to city and coast to coast. And no one worried 27 00:03:00,080 --> 00:03:05,400 over the fact that if the road should ever stop, our whole economic life 28 00:03:05,400 --> 00:03:10,000 would stop, for the machinery had never failed yet, But people forgot the 29 00:03:10,039 --> 00:03:15,039 machinery depends on men, the men who run it. Who makes the roads 30 00:03:15,159 --> 00:03:22,479 roll. That's right, The engineers where the brains of the road, and 31 00:03:22,560 --> 00:03:25,039 where with the public bathe. We didn't keep the roads rolling right behind the 32 00:03:25,080 --> 00:03:30,879 eight ball, and everybody knows that. All right, then where the men 33 00:03:30,879 --> 00:03:35,800 who hold the power, and it's time we started using it. We've called 34 00:03:35,800 --> 00:03:38,599 this meeting of the Engineer's Control Committee because that's what we want to do. 35 00:03:39,319 --> 00:03:46,800 Control because I'm tired of taking orders from the Transport Commission, from slick desk 36 00:03:46,960 --> 00:03:50,639 jockeys like Jim Gaines. I don't even know our road up bearing from a 37 00:03:50,840 --> 00:03:55,319 field. All all that gains you am about our duty to the public. 38 00:03:55,439 --> 00:04:00,800 That's a lot of eyewash. We've got the power and were the men that 39 00:04:00,960 --> 00:04:05,120 count. That's time we quit fiddling around and yours a little direct action, 40 00:04:05,439 --> 00:04:12,680 take out what we want German. Mister Jerman, the chair recognizes Brother Harvey 41 00:04:12,680 --> 00:04:17,800 and the Transport Mechanics Unions. Thanks. Thanks, No, I don't really 42 00:04:17,879 --> 00:04:23,360 belong here since I'm no engineer. I'm just here to represent the workers union. 43 00:04:23,959 --> 00:04:27,399 Well, I want to know what's all the shouting for. You engineers 44 00:04:27,399 --> 00:04:30,319 have got better working conditions than we have, and we ain't kicking. You 45 00:04:30,439 --> 00:04:33,639 say the engineers are powerful, You say you can tie up the roads, 46 00:04:33,879 --> 00:04:38,240 but so can any screwball with a jar of Knight for glycerin, and he 47 00:04:38,279 --> 00:04:45,079 wouldn't need no engineer's degree to do it neither. I mean you're speaking for 48 00:04:45,160 --> 00:04:48,639 your union. Hour are you here the stooge for the transport commissions? Listen 49 00:04:48,720 --> 00:04:53,519 van Cleek. I helped fund my union. I let the strike in seventy 50 00:04:53,519 --> 00:05:00,360 five for decent working conditions. Where were you engineers then with the faint brother 51 00:05:00,519 --> 00:05:04,560 Hervey, Brother Harvey. Remember you're only a guest at this meeting. Go 52 00:05:04,680 --> 00:05:10,040 on, man, I listen, man, I'm one of the old engineers 53 00:05:10,040 --> 00:05:15,399 on the roads. You all are work up the hard way. We didn't 54 00:05:15,399 --> 00:05:19,480 go to the fancy technical institutes like those young punk cadet engineers. The commissioner 55 00:05:19,480 --> 00:05:25,600 is training to take over our jobs unless we do something to stop them. 56 00:05:25,920 --> 00:05:29,759 Jim Gaines hasn't been able to fill us full of the old school spirit and 57 00:05:29,879 --> 00:05:35,040 that blooney about how the the roads must roll. It's all right, then, 58 00:05:36,399 --> 00:05:43,360 why don't we get smart for a change. What would happen if the 59 00:05:43,439 --> 00:05:49,360 roads stop rolling? Maybe the country would begin to realize that they can't do 60 00:05:49,560 --> 00:05:56,839 without us. Maybe we'd begin to get the things we want. Who says 61 00:05:56,879 --> 00:06:14,800 the roads must roll? Yes, your wife is calling, mister Gaines, 62 00:06:15,000 --> 00:06:17,240 Jim, I want you to stop off on your way. I'm sorry, 63 00:06:17,319 --> 00:06:20,519 Darling, I can't make it. I know, but Washington called in there, 64 00:06:20,560 --> 00:06:24,959 sending Evans, the Australian Minister at Transport through my sector today. I've 65 00:06:25,000 --> 00:06:28,920 got to show them through personally. I'm chief supervisor. Wouldn't be courteous. 66 00:06:29,160 --> 00:06:31,040 Courtesy begins at home. I've planned this dinner for a week. Honey, 67 00:06:31,279 --> 00:06:35,439 the roads must roll. Oh if you quote that nauseating slogan at me again, 68 00:06:35,519 --> 00:06:38,759 I'll divorce. I can't help it, Darling. I'll meet you at 69 00:06:38,759 --> 00:06:41,040 Stockton at nine and we'll take in a show. Kiss Allen, good night 70 00:06:41,079 --> 00:06:46,399 for me. Well, all right, goodbye, goodbye. Mister Evans is 71 00:06:46,399 --> 00:06:51,680 here show men. Well, good evening, mister Evans. I'm Gaines, 72 00:06:51,759 --> 00:06:55,439 chief engineer. How do you do, mister Gaines? They told me at 73 00:06:55,439 --> 00:06:59,319 the embassy you'd be the man to see. I want to know how the 74 00:06:59,399 --> 00:07:01,319 roads work. I think we can handle that. Well. I'm not a 75 00:07:01,360 --> 00:07:06,040 technical man, mister Gaines. My field is sociology. So suppose you tell 76 00:07:06,079 --> 00:07:11,959 me about the roads as if I were entirely ignorant. Fine, it's nearly 77 00:07:11,959 --> 00:07:14,839 at dinner time. I suppose we run up to Stockton sector for dinner. 78 00:07:15,000 --> 00:07:16,000 It'll take us about an hour on the roads, and you can see them 79 00:07:16,040 --> 00:07:21,120 working excellent. If you'll excuse me a minute sitting Hi, she What can 80 00:07:21,160 --> 00:07:25,319 I do for you? Dave? You're on evening? Watch eh at westvan 81 00:07:25,399 --> 00:07:30,639 Kleek. I'm going up to Stockton for dinner. Anything to report? Okay? 82 00:07:30,079 --> 00:07:41,600 Keep them rolling? All right, mister Evans, let's go. This 83 00:07:41,720 --> 00:07:45,680 is the low speed strip. I've ridden a conveyor before. No, it's 84 00:07:45,759 --> 00:07:47,439 quite simple. Rememble to place the motion of the strip as you get on 85 00:07:48,079 --> 00:07:51,600 there, we'll go right across. Each adjoining strip is a few miles an 86 00:07:51,600 --> 00:07:55,519 hour faster than the one next to it. Brightest carried on the fifty mile 87 00:07:55,519 --> 00:07:58,839 strip. Most passenger traffic on the express strip. All right, now watch 88 00:07:58,839 --> 00:08:13,079 a step there we are the maximum speed one hundred miles an hour. It 89 00:08:13,079 --> 00:08:16,600 doesn't seem possible. This trip makes the round trip San Diego Toreno in twelve 90 00:08:16,639 --> 00:08:22,439 hours. Ready tweet? Who is this the restaurant? Jake Steakhouse, fastest 91 00:08:22,439 --> 00:08:26,079 meal on the road. Who is it really a proper restaurant? One of 92 00:08:26,120 --> 00:08:31,480 the best? Shall we go in? I'm a mister gangs. We don't 93 00:08:31,480 --> 00:08:35,600 see you much out on the road. Busy in the office. Jake two 94 00:08:35,960 --> 00:08:39,480 right this way, let it be your order. I'll how about a steak 95 00:08:39,519 --> 00:08:43,919 two inches thick from a steer that died. Happy, fine, fine, 96 00:08:43,120 --> 00:08:46,519 Uh plug me in the pom with you. There's one right next to you. 97 00:08:46,519 --> 00:08:54,240 Fank too rare, you'll excuse me, mister Evans Dennison. On watch, 98 00:08:54,759 --> 00:08:58,600 here's the chief. I'm a jack steakhouse. You can reach me at 99 00:08:58,639 --> 00:09:03,039 one oh L sixty six six six right now. They can get hold of 100 00:09:03,039 --> 00:09:07,159 me in an emergency. Oh what kind of emergency could there be? Two? 101 00:09:07,320 --> 00:09:09,360 Principally, power failure on the roaders would bring the road to a stand 102 00:09:09,399 --> 00:09:13,639 still. That happened during Russia. We'd have to evacuate millions of people from 103 00:09:13,679 --> 00:09:16,399 the road. As many as that easily. There are twelve million people dependent 104 00:09:16,440 --> 00:09:22,559 on this section abroad games here, Hello, Chief Davidson, just got the 105 00:09:22,559 --> 00:09:26,639 hour of reports in Diego circle bake a field, sectors, docton secutor and 106 00:09:26,679 --> 00:09:28,519 Reno circle all rolling. Oh you didn't have to bother me with the hourly 107 00:09:28,559 --> 00:09:33,960 is Dave. There's a supplementary from Sacramento. Proceed catat Engineer Gunter while on 108 00:09:33,039 --> 00:09:37,519 watch was found playing cards with CJ. Ross, technician on duty. Any 109 00:09:37,559 --> 00:09:41,600 damage one roader running hot but still synchronized. Was Jack down replaced? All 110 00:09:41,679 --> 00:09:43,519 right? Have the plan? Ask to give Ross his time and turn them 111 00:09:43,519 --> 00:09:46,240 over to several authorities place, get that gun through under arrest and bring him 112 00:09:46,240 --> 00:09:48,759 to roadtown central. Yes, sir, all right, keep him rolling. 113 00:09:48,960 --> 00:09:52,480 I was saying there were two possibilities of danger. Can you visualize what would 114 00:09:52,480 --> 00:09:56,200 happen if the strip under us would break? Oh? I haven't thought of 115 00:09:56,240 --> 00:10:01,080 that. You don't realize you're traveling at one one hundred miles an hour. 116 00:10:01,720 --> 00:10:05,120 Well it can't not. Now. The strip has a safety factor of over 117 00:10:05,159 --> 00:10:07,960 twelve to one. It'd take a blowout of several miles of roaders and the 118 00:10:07,960 --> 00:10:11,679 failure of circuit breakers before the strip could part. But it happened once in 119 00:10:11,679 --> 00:10:15,320 the early days on the Philadelphia Jersey City road strip was much more than a 120 00:10:15,360 --> 00:10:20,120 conveyor belt buckle for miles, crushing passengers against the roof forward section in front 121 00:10:20,120 --> 00:10:22,480 of the brakes, filling down under into the roaders and rollers. Oh, 122 00:10:22,720 --> 00:10:26,799 was it very bad. Over three thousand people were killed in that break, 123 00:10:26,039 --> 00:10:28,960 But the roads had to go on. The entire economic system hangs on the 124 00:10:30,000 --> 00:10:33,559 roads. They stopped, now the country would start. Who were Isn't it 125 00:10:33,600 --> 00:10:37,759 possible that you've become too dependent on these roads? I mean, if your 126 00:10:37,759 --> 00:10:41,039 whole economy is geared to the function of one type of machinery, the roads 127 00:10:41,039 --> 00:10:45,519 are fool proof. Now the machinery is interlocked with an enormous safety factor. 128 00:10:45,759 --> 00:10:50,399 Yes, but in the long run, machinery depends on men. What if 129 00:10:50,399 --> 00:10:52,679 you had a strike? We had one back in seventy five. There's not 130 00:10:52,759 --> 00:10:56,120 much danger of that anymore. No, well, why not every cadet that 131 00:10:56,159 --> 00:10:58,919 goes to work on the roads today as a graduate of the United States trans 132 00:11:00,000 --> 00:11:03,480 Board Academy. They're all pick men, screened for emotional stability and trying to 133 00:11:03,480 --> 00:11:05,240 give us the same kind of lovety that Annapolis and West Point developing them. 134 00:11:05,279 --> 00:11:09,200 Men, I see, are you a graduate, mister Gaine. No, 135 00:11:09,360 --> 00:11:11,519 I'm too old for that. The academy wasn't set up till after the striking 136 00:11:11,559 --> 00:11:15,679 seventy five, But it won't be long now, maybe five or ten years 137 00:11:15,679 --> 00:11:18,480 before the oldest engineer on the road, says a man who's been through the 138 00:11:18,519 --> 00:11:22,200 academy. Gain's here, Davidson, there's another trouble report from Sacramento Sector. 139 00:11:22,360 --> 00:11:30,000 Again. What is it this time? What is it? What's happened? 140 00:11:30,120 --> 00:11:35,080 Merchancy? Stop? Hello? Hello, it's everything? Houns her out come 141 00:11:35,159 --> 00:11:39,320 on? Hey, heay? What is it? What's the matter with the 142 00:11:39,399 --> 00:11:43,960 road. Have everybody's stay in the restaurant? What's that? Probably somebody's stepped 143 00:11:43,000 --> 00:11:46,519 on to the next trip. Got cut the Revens. There'll be plenty of 144 00:11:46,519 --> 00:11:48,639 casualties. Chack, why's you getaway? Hats in the pantry? Ook here, 145 00:11:48,679 --> 00:11:52,159 Hunt, I'm going to help those people. I've got the whole road 146 00:11:52,159 --> 00:11:52,840 to think of. Don't bother me. Give me a hat, Jack, 147 00:11:52,919 --> 00:11:56,840 The hatch is stuck right off. If you're coming with me, Miss t 148 00:11:56,840 --> 00:12:00,200 Revens, you've got to move fast. I haven't got any time to waste. 149 00:12:07,879 --> 00:12:11,000 Where where do we know? Freeway on top of the inner road ceiling. 150 00:12:11,639 --> 00:12:16,159 That's the outer shell over us? Are we going outside? No? 151 00:12:16,360 --> 00:12:20,200 There will be an access down manhole over here that's placed every hundred feet there 152 00:12:20,399 --> 00:12:26,120 not the green light. H Just get us down on the north bound road 153 00:12:28,240 --> 00:12:33,120 carefull. Sorry, I'm turn away from the door. Evans. Yes, 154 00:12:41,480 --> 00:12:45,559 but this road is still ruling. And there was only one hundred mile strip 155 00:12:45,600 --> 00:12:48,840 that stopped. That's what I want to phone booth. I got excused, 156 00:12:48,279 --> 00:12:52,799 look out, Hey, hey hey, I'm talking to my wife. What's 157 00:12:56,960 --> 00:13:01,639 Emergency Priority Division Office? Davidson gains here a report? Cheap perner, you've 158 00:13:01,679 --> 00:13:05,120 been have been calling you? Never mind that report? Seven oh nine Consolidate 159 00:13:05,159 --> 00:13:11,279 Attention Reports Strip twenty Sacramento Sector past emergency level interlocks acted and cut the strip 160 00:13:11,320 --> 00:13:16,080 out cause of failure unknown direct communication cut to Sacramentic Control Office. Evacuation of 161 00:13:16,080 --> 00:13:20,799 Strip twenty commenced. No casualties. There are casualties. I saw them put 162 00:13:20,840 --> 00:13:24,159 police in hospital routine into operation. Get me bank quick. I want him 163 00:13:24,159 --> 00:13:26,399 to take off the formtal I report in. Can't reach them, Chief. 164 00:13:26,440 --> 00:13:28,759 Shall I cut out the rest of the road. No, keep those other 165 00:13:28,759 --> 00:13:31,559 strips rolling and we'll have a traffic jam. The devil himself couldn't untangle. 166 00:13:31,879 --> 00:13:35,879 There are five million passengers on the road. Now notify the governor that I 167 00:13:35,919 --> 00:13:39,600 have assumed emergency authority. I'm all cadets available on the white Artist. Shall 168 00:13:39,639 --> 00:13:43,720 I recall technicians on GRGE. This isn't an engineering failure. That whole sector 169 00:13:43,720 --> 00:13:46,720 went out simultaneously. Somebody cut those roaders by hand. I want all available 170 00:13:46,759 --> 00:13:52,320 senior pass cadets to report the stock that subsector office ten with pistols and take 171 00:13:52,360 --> 00:13:54,919 gas. Yes, the governor wants to talk to you. He called in 172 00:13:54,159 --> 00:13:56,639 reform to someone else. I'm busy. I'll get back there. I'm going 173 00:13:56,679 --> 00:14:11,960 down under heavens, heavens. I can't hear you that the noise what on 174 00:14:13,039 --> 00:14:18,320 this helmet? What helmet? Helmet? Oh? Yes, you can't hear 175 00:14:18,360 --> 00:14:22,559 without an anti and noise filler. Come on, what are we looking for? 176 00:14:22,679 --> 00:14:26,000 Ricon car? There should be one. Here are those the roaders and 177 00:14:26,080 --> 00:14:28,080 the big ones are roaders, they drive the road. Little ones are rollers. 178 00:14:28,080 --> 00:14:31,480 They get continuous support. There's a watch gang now jacking down a roader. 179 00:14:31,799 --> 00:14:33,919 Can they hear us? Now? The noise fellow works on a four 180 00:14:33,919 --> 00:14:39,519 foot radius. I'll flash him. He sees the light. Wilson recording to 181 00:14:39,639 --> 00:14:41,879 I want you to ricon car emergency. Yes, sir, right over here, 182 00:14:41,879 --> 00:14:45,039 sir, come on, Evans, I'll get in. But it's so 183 00:14:45,120 --> 00:14:50,399 smooth you'll fit all right. You can take off your noise fellern. Hang 184 00:14:50,480 --> 00:14:58,240 on. She accelerates like a rocket by my stomach. Relay station. This 185 00:14:58,399 --> 00:15:03,279 is Gaines, got me Davidson's senior watch officers. The mayor wants to talk. 186 00:15:03,399 --> 00:15:05,679 I haven't got time. Get me Davidson and leave this circuit hooked into 187 00:15:05,759 --> 00:15:07,399 Davidson's board until I tell you to cut it. Yes, sir, here 188 00:15:07,480 --> 00:15:13,000 is the senior watch officer, Davidson Gaines calling. Have you found out yet 189 00:15:13,039 --> 00:15:16,039 what's stopping the roads? No, sir, it's still a mystery to me. 190 00:15:16,200 --> 00:15:18,480 All right, I'm on my way in a recon car Hold everything till 191 00:15:18,519 --> 00:15:37,639 I get there. Cadet Edmunds reporting, Sir. Three platoons of Cadet engineers 192 00:15:37,639 --> 00:15:43,600 standing by with tumblebug motorcycle, armed pistols and tear gases. Orders. Assistant 193 00:15:43,600 --> 00:15:46,720 Supervisor Van Cleek is calling you on circuit Nincer and Cleek. It's about time 194 00:15:46,759 --> 00:15:52,000 cut me in. Yes, sir, Hello Van, where are you? 195 00:15:52,399 --> 00:15:58,879 Sacramento? Sacramento. That's good report and I'm not your deputy anymore. Game. 196 00:16:00,320 --> 00:16:02,960 What are you talking about? Listen, don't interrupt and you'll find out. 197 00:16:03,840 --> 00:16:07,879 Go through Gains. I haven't picked as director of the Engineer's Control Committee. 198 00:16:07,879 --> 00:16:11,279 We're taking over who you gone off your roller? We stopped Strip twenty 199 00:16:11,360 --> 00:16:12,759 just to give you a taste of what we can do. We're running things 200 00:16:12,799 --> 00:16:15,279 now, and you don't really think you can get away with this. You 201 00:16:15,320 --> 00:16:18,600 can't start Strip twenty until I'm ready to let you. I can stop the 202 00:16:18,639 --> 00:16:22,480 whole road if I have to pick out calling the army. How'd you get 203 00:16:22,519 --> 00:16:26,879 him here? If the roads aren't rolling? Alison Gaines, whoever controls the 204 00:16:26,000 --> 00:16:33,720 roads controls the country right now? That happens to be me? Sign off, 205 00:16:33,759 --> 00:16:37,279 Gains gotta call the White House. You behave yourself and you won't get 206 00:16:37,320 --> 00:16:45,519 hurt. I don't believe it. Who's got a Edmonds? Na win and 207 00:16:45,559 --> 00:16:48,039 blast him outom erect the road? What's your rolling? Tones? Now? 208 00:16:48,320 --> 00:16:53,639 Fifty under evening pison? How about Strip twenty almost evacuated? Listening on this, 209 00:16:53,799 --> 00:16:59,440 Davidson stounding Bajie. I'm going down inside with these cadets. Will work, 210 00:16:59,559 --> 00:17:03,679 not overcoming any resistance that we may meet. The watch technicians and maintenance 211 00:17:03,679 --> 00:17:07,440 crews are to follow behind us. Each order as they come to it is 212 00:17:07,480 --> 00:17:10,559 to be cut out from under Sacramento's control, then hooked into the stock and 213 00:17:10,640 --> 00:17:14,519 control board. Understand, got it? If it works right, we can 214 00:17:14,559 --> 00:17:17,640 move control of Sacramento sector right out on the Avant's feet and he can stay 215 00:17:17,640 --> 00:17:19,640 in his office dead. He is hungry enough to be reasonable. That means 216 00:17:19,759 --> 00:17:23,400 get me a pistol. Yes, a man? He him? What's see? 217 00:17:23,960 --> 00:17:27,319 I haven't got time sector huh? Bring him in? All right? 218 00:17:27,920 --> 00:17:34,839 Easy, mister Harvey from the Mechanics Union, aren't you? I tried to 219 00:17:34,839 --> 00:17:40,359 warn you. They tried to get away. He shot me three times. 220 00:17:40,720 --> 00:17:44,400 Get a doctor, all right, here's the hobby. How long has this 221 00:17:44,480 --> 00:17:48,960 been building up? It's it's the engineers. I told him they re grease 222 00:17:49,640 --> 00:17:55,559 to the road's got a roll? I tried to get away. There he's 223 00:17:55,559 --> 00:18:00,799 bleeding from the mountain. Harvey, Harvey, can you hear me? He's 224 00:18:00,839 --> 00:18:10,799 dead? Mister Gaines better move hey? All right, you men, you 225 00:18:10,880 --> 00:18:14,759 saw Harvey brought in. How many of you want a chance to kill the 226 00:18:14,839 --> 00:18:18,119 last that did it? Very well, you men, turning your weapons and 227 00:18:18,119 --> 00:18:22,359 return to quarters. We've got a job to do to make sure the roads 228 00:18:22,359 --> 00:18:26,920 start rolling again. We haven't got time for infant tyler roics. Anybody who 229 00:18:26,920 --> 00:18:29,759 hasn't got his mind on his job will be in the way. Now here's 230 00:18:29,799 --> 00:18:33,799 the order. We move north, mounted on tumblebugs are going to try to 231 00:18:33,839 --> 00:18:37,920 regain control roller by Roda before Sacramento sector nose. We're moving. We've got 232 00:18:37,960 --> 00:18:41,599 to capture any what person how we run on before they can get word back. 233 00:18:42,359 --> 00:18:47,720 Surprise is vital. You take ass when possible, shoot only when necessary, 234 00:18:48,119 --> 00:18:52,119 but keet them before they can reach a phone jack. Any questions, 235 00:18:52,279 --> 00:19:11,279 no and move out much score Edmunds thirty three prisoners So far nobody kills what 236 00:19:12,640 --> 00:19:15,680 Yes, since I rode one of these tumble bugs, gott how to stare 237 00:19:15,720 --> 00:19:19,000 it. So there's a man ahead there at the road of base set a 238 00:19:19,039 --> 00:19:22,599 phone jacked in orry. He gets word back by sunk. I don't think 239 00:19:22,599 --> 00:19:30,799 he's seen us. I'll dismount him. Get him quick. He sees us 240 00:19:30,920 --> 00:19:34,359 here are you look? God, he's got a gun. I got him 241 00:19:34,880 --> 00:19:37,240 grab his gun. Yes, you got a phone jack in all right, 242 00:19:37,480 --> 00:19:40,599 they got through the sacramental office. It is going to be tough. I 243 00:19:40,599 --> 00:19:42,599 don't know, sir. Maybe you didn't get the call through. Wait a 244 00:19:42,599 --> 00:19:55,759 minute, listen the road. Take off your eye feller. Hey the road 245 00:19:56,079 --> 00:19:59,799 the road is stopping. Halt your man. Hold Hold up there, Hold 246 00:19:59,880 --> 00:20:08,599 up, there's a riconcalk coming up. Relay station. Call from mister Games. 247 00:20:08,599 --> 00:20:12,160 Give it to me. Thanks here Davidson here, Chief. Then Click's 248 00:20:12,160 --> 00:20:15,599 calling you? Who stopped the road? Heat it all right? Cut Bank? 249 00:20:15,640 --> 00:20:19,880 Click? Enemy? You thought I was fooling? Huh, Gains? 250 00:20:21,519 --> 00:20:23,039 What do you think now? All right? Van, the road has stopped. 251 00:20:23,480 --> 00:20:26,920 You won this trick? And why don't you get smart and give up? 252 00:20:26,960 --> 00:20:30,759 You can't win. You forgot something banned. You can't lick the whole 253 00:20:30,799 --> 00:20:34,359 country, Gains. I've got a switch button in my hand. If I 254 00:20:34,480 --> 00:20:40,039 push it, it'll blow three hundred yards straight across the roads. And then, 255 00:20:40,079 --> 00:20:42,440 for good measure, I'll take an axe and wreck the control station before 256 00:20:42,480 --> 00:20:45,359 I leave. That's pretty drastic, man. Yeah. If I blow this 257 00:20:45,519 --> 00:20:48,799 charge in the middle of Sacramento Sector, it'll get an awful lot of people. 258 00:20:49,319 --> 00:20:52,279 There are plenty of shopkeepers still on Strip twenty, and that row of 259 00:20:52,279 --> 00:20:56,440 apartment houses next to the road will gook. Man, you don't want to 260 00:20:56,440 --> 00:20:59,400 blow the road, neither do I Suppose I come up to your headquarters and 261 00:20:59,440 --> 00:21:02,599 talk this over. Two reasonable men are to be able to make a settlement. 262 00:21:03,599 --> 00:21:06,799 Is this some kind of a trick. I'll come alone and unarmed. 263 00:21:07,279 --> 00:21:14,240 My men will stay here. I hi gains, one wrong move and I 264 00:21:14,400 --> 00:21:26,680 blow the road. We've got a hurry, Dave. I take too long, 265 00:21:26,759 --> 00:21:29,440 van Klik will get at you and set off that charge. Failure report 266 00:21:29,480 --> 00:21:33,359 notes one strips must be cross connected with safety interlocks, so that when one 267 00:21:33,400 --> 00:21:38,599 dies, the other slow down. Two the men. I can't understand it. 268 00:21:40,400 --> 00:21:42,799 Pych tests are rigid. We've never had a failure in the Hammad's work 269 00:21:42,799 --> 00:21:48,319 Burton method. And then suddenly a whole sector goes soured. How could van 270 00:21:48,359 --> 00:21:52,279 Clik get a whole crew of psyche cleared men to revolt easy? Dave is 271 00:21:52,359 --> 00:21:56,039 my deputy was ex officio personnel officer for the whole road. He must have 272 00:21:56,039 --> 00:22:00,640 been taking psych records for years and transferring maladjusted men into his sector. I've 273 00:22:00,640 --> 00:22:07,759 got that personnel record, mister gaines Man's record asked introverord imperiority rating seven comment. 274 00:22:08,680 --> 00:22:14,559 Despite a potential instability shown on Wadsworth curve, this officers especially a depth 275 00:22:14,599 --> 00:22:18,359 in handling men. He's a depth door right. I haven't got time for 276 00:22:18,400 --> 00:22:21,039 anymore, Dave. You're not going up to the Sacramento. I've got to 277 00:22:21,680 --> 00:22:23,160 He'll be armed, he'll kill you. I've got to take that chance un 278 00:22:23,279 --> 00:22:26,799 armed. Why don't you call in the army? He won't dare blow the 279 00:22:26,880 --> 00:22:29,839 road, Yes, he would, look at that psych record. He's putting 280 00:22:29,920 --> 00:22:32,319 up a big, brave front, but he's rotten inside. He wants to 281 00:22:32,359 --> 00:22:34,200 be taken seriously. He wants everybody to think he's the most dangerous man in 282 00:22:34,240 --> 00:22:37,559 the country. And if I call the army and he'll try to prove it 283 00:22:37,640 --> 00:22:38,720 by blowing the road, how can you stop in? Mister Gaines? You 284 00:22:38,839 --> 00:22:42,640 have a gun? What do you have? We'll I have only a prayer 285 00:22:44,279 --> 00:22:55,960 and what I know about mister van Cleek? All right, games, Director 286 00:22:56,079 --> 00:23:02,240 Van Cleek will see you now, Hm, Games is here, Director Bank 287 00:23:02,279 --> 00:23:11,559 click, come in. Gaines behaving sensibly at last. You know I've got 288 00:23:11,599 --> 00:23:14,160 you where I want you and there is anything you can do about it. 289 00:23:14,599 --> 00:23:18,599 I searched them. Director, he's unarmed. I want you to sign this 290 00:23:18,799 --> 00:23:23,000 now. It's a declaration of your recognition of the Engineer's Control Committee. You've 291 00:23:23,039 --> 00:23:26,440 got one minute to sign it. Gains. I'll push this button and go 292 00:23:26,599 --> 00:23:30,000 up the whole sector. You better sign, Gains. You hear this Corolla 293 00:23:30,079 --> 00:23:33,960 with the gun? Van Hey, you need to handle one on armed man 294 00:23:33,079 --> 00:23:44,279 alone? All right, Harry out? Yeah, okay, all right, 295 00:23:45,519 --> 00:23:52,319 now sign that's so funny you are. You start a revolution because you think 296 00:23:52,319 --> 00:23:56,960 the engineer should control the road, Then when you've got control, the only 297 00:23:56,039 --> 00:24:00,680 thing you can think of to do is blow it up. Tell me, 298 00:24:00,720 --> 00:24:04,839 why are you so scared? I'm not scared. Yeah, sitting in there, 299 00:24:04,920 --> 00:24:10,079 sweating all over that push button you're holding. Your buddies knew how afraid 300 00:24:10,119 --> 00:24:11,799 you were. They'd probably throw you into the roads. I'm not afraid. 301 00:24:12,400 --> 00:24:17,039 You're afraid of me right now. You're afraid I'll have you on the carpet. 302 00:24:17,079 --> 00:24:19,319 You're afraid the cadets won't saloat you. You're afraid they're laughing at you 303 00:24:19,400 --> 00:24:23,880 behind your back. No, no, I'm not now, now you keep 304 00:24:23,960 --> 00:24:26,400 quiet. I've got a gun. You're afraid of using the wrong fuck at 305 00:24:26,400 --> 00:24:29,680 dinner. You're afraid people are looking at you, laughing at you. I 306 00:24:29,799 --> 00:24:33,799 am not you. You, you dirty, stuck up snob. Just because 307 00:24:33,839 --> 00:24:37,359 you went to a high hat school, you didn't get better than anybody. 308 00:24:37,400 --> 00:24:41,640 You your cribby little doll. Braid that man. You're a pathetic little shrimp. 309 00:24:42,039 --> 00:24:45,920 I understand you perfectly. You're a third rider. All your life, 310 00:24:45,960 --> 00:24:48,279 you've been afraid that someone would say throw you and send you to the foot 311 00:24:48,319 --> 00:24:49,920 of the class. Throw you right out on your ear where you belong. 312 00:24:51,400 --> 00:24:55,920 I don't want to look at you. I'll show you that pop gun before 313 00:24:55,960 --> 00:25:00,440 you hurt yourself. Don't you don't you come bar mer suit? What do 314 00:25:00,559 --> 00:25:10,079 you let me go that pistol? Thanks for not disappointing me, man, 315 00:25:11,000 --> 00:25:17,440 mm hmm h m hm. I don't understand. I thought of I wounded 316 00:25:17,480 --> 00:25:21,119 your little lego, you'd forget to push that button and pull a trigger instead. 317 00:25:22,240 --> 00:25:25,839 I'm afraid you'll never make a good executive man. They have to know 318 00:25:26,039 --> 00:25:33,880 when to push buttons. David James, are you all right? I'm all 319 00:25:33,960 --> 00:25:38,079 right, Attack now and map up all the control room. I've got Van 320 00:25:38,160 --> 00:25:52,960 Klick, and I think his little revolution is just about over. Hear them, 321 00:25:52,160 --> 00:25:56,640 um, watch them run? Oh my job. He's never done for 322 00:25:56,920 --> 00:26:02,640 our wrong ways? A rolling along? Why why? Why why we are 323 00:26:02,759 --> 00:26:10,200 watching down inside? So your roadways keep rolling? Mister gaines Hi, I 324 00:26:10,240 --> 00:26:12,440 forgot about you. Yes, I've been waiting at the sexual office. He's 325 00:26:12,480 --> 00:26:17,799 everything under control rolling. Those are the watch engineers going on of the Czech 326 00:26:17,839 --> 00:26:22,640 Sacramento sector, inch by inch, remarkable organization, remarkable hours in chief. 327 00:26:22,720 --> 00:26:27,079 San Diego Circle Rolling Baker Steeve, Fresno, stock Stockton, Stockton. Oh 328 00:26:27,319 --> 00:26:32,039 no, that's Trump, mister Gaines. Sure is. I promised to meet 329 00:26:32,079 --> 00:26:34,279 my wife at Stockton for a show. She's been waiting there since nine o'clock 330 00:26:34,359 --> 00:26:37,480 last night. Dave, see if you can get up on me. Try 331 00:26:37,519 --> 00:26:40,759 the Sector office, all right, and Dave see if you can calm her 332 00:26:40,839 --> 00:26:44,759 down. Roads must roll. No, No, don't tell her that. 333 00:26:44,839 --> 00:26:52,279 I don't think she had appreciated. She's heard it too often. I better 334 00:26:52,359 --> 00:26:57,160 get going by, Dave. Keep him rolling where you go. You are 335 00:26:57,200 --> 00:27:04,920 about to know that your road go rolling caper, rolling roadways, rolling caper, 336 00:27:06,079 --> 00:27:17,160 rolling roadways rolling. 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