Speaker 1: Mystery is.
Speaker 2: Come in.
Speaker 3: Welcome.
Speaker 2: I'm e. G.
Speaker 1: Marshall.
Speaker 4: I have a.
Speaker 2: Story to tell you about trickery and venality and genius
and the threat of an alien presence in our midst.
A story too that may leave you wondering about procedures
behind secret doors, where although it is your future that
is being rewritten, you are not invited to participate. Listen closely,
it could happen you were going to tell me something
about what this professor Allison is up to. This we
have reasonably that he is working on at that a
mathematical concept, I should say, which may very well achieve
the time bypass necessary for interstellar travel. Wait wait, I
didn't quite get that. It's completely beyond either of us,
so don't expect me to explain it to you. He's
working on a way to travel between galaxies.
Speaker 5: You take it.
Speaker 3: Seriously, I mean, you believe it's possible.
Speaker 2: It's already been done, my friend. Where do you think
the unidentified flying objects come from? Our mystery drama The
Evesdroppers was written especially for the mystery theater by Field
and Farrington and stars Arnold Moss. There is an old
house in Pennsylvania's beautiful Pocono Mountains, which has recently, and
at considerable expense, been restored to its original condition. One
wing has been made ideally suitable for use as a laboratory.
This work was all arranged for and supervised by a
man who calls himself mister Smith. More one suspects to
promote anonymity than to establish identity. The job is finished
now and mister Smith is interviewing two people, Earl and
Edgar Parker, to whom he has offered a rather peculiar job. Frankly,
mister Smith, I don't like it. I'm an electronics engineer.
I wouldn't enjoy working as a handyman. And my wife
isn't a housemaid either. No, I'm not. And the other
part of the job, the part you haven't told us
much about, I think I like that even less. To
begin with, I happen to know that you're out of
a job and have been for some time. You need money,
all right, all right, that may be true, But undercover agents.
Isn't that what you want us to be? If you
like a spade called a spade, yes, why we don't
know anything about sp and I but you know a
great deal about electronic equipment, and that's what's needed. That
and two people to look after a big house. Well,
all right, all right, suppose you give us some details.
First of all, if we decide to take this thing,
how much at the end of the summer, you'll receive
twenty thousand dollars in cash. Oh that's different, isn't it.
Guess well, it depends on what we have to do
for it, to whom and for whom? I want to
know who and what, mister Smith, you'll be working for aliens,
beings from another planet, from another galaxy. Actually, oh, come on,
you wanted the truth, you have it. Oh, there aren't
any such people. Oh, but there are. I've been in
touch with them for some time. Our environment doesn't suit them.
They come to Earth only in cases of extreme emergency.
I don't believe you. It doesn't matter what you believe.
The twenty thousand will be good, solid American dollars. Now, Look,
whatever they want or don't want, it's clear that we'll
be operating against somebody, and I'd like to know who.
A single scientist who's working on a project. My clients
don't want to succeed. It would be against their best interest,
all right, what's his name? We hope to rent the house, Toway.
Professor Dwight Addison. You may have heard the name. He's
a very highly rated physicist, one of.
Speaker 4: The top few physicists.
Speaker 2: Oh, if it's going to be bombed, no bombs, you're
into something entirely different. All right, I've heard of Dwight Addison.
What would you expect us to do, mister Smith, Edgar
if it isn't bombed and it's wait a minute, wait
a minute, what do you want us to do? Mister Smith?
Speaker 4: We're gone, Jane. I've cleaned out my desk, kissed my
equipment goodbye, put my reactors to bed for their long
summer hibernation. Professor Dwight Addison is on sabbatical. The summer
is my personal property.
Speaker 2: We still have to look for a house.
Speaker 5: You know, well, whoever heard of ointment without a frying?
Speaker 4: That a house?
Speaker 6: Would the owners one object to your converting a basement
or a garage.
Speaker 4: Or something into a laboratory. We are looking tomorrow's time.
Speaker 2: Maybe we'll be lucky.
Speaker 4: Well, that's an excellent idea, Jane, I don't know what
I do without you.
Speaker 2: Well, time to make the phone call. I guess to them.
That's right, the aliens themselves entered. No, No, Smith said
he'd be our control. Oh where is he? Where do
you have to crawl some place in New York? That's
all I know. I wouldn't know that even except for
the area code. All the same, even if it's not them.
Speaker 4: It makes me feel creepy.
Speaker 2: Twenty thousand dollars, that's the thing to keep in mind, Pearl,
the money.
Speaker 6: Okay, I always wanted to go to Europe.
Speaker 2: Could we go after with her? Maybe take a cruise somewhere.
Speaker 1: Uh, this isn't names ever.
Speaker 2: Carry out your instructions to the letter, everything as ordered.
Speaker 1: Very well, I'm let me hear your story.
Speaker 2: Well, we've been through it a lot, mister Smith, and
I really know.
Speaker 1: Please all right.
Speaker 2: The owner of the house is James Ellis. He's in
Wall Street. He and his wife are taking the summer
off and touring Europe. He's an amateur scientist, that's why
he's got the lab set up. Pearl and I have
worked for them for years and are almost like family.
I assist him in the lab sometimes and let me
see your private cool Yes, yes, yes, it's been a
rule for years that nobody ever comes into our wing
of the house. That's like part of our pay. We
have complete privacy.
Speaker 7: Don't forget it all right, put the ad in tomorrow
morning time. You should hear from the tennants of time
tomorrow how to make an appointment to show him the
house for tomorrow afternoon.
Speaker 1: We're in a hurry.
Speaker 2: Well, what if somebody else sees the ad and calls first?
Speaker 7: No one else will see the advertisement will be placed
only in the tenants copy.
Speaker 4: Of the Times.
Speaker 2: Well, how can you do that?
Speaker 1: Just do as you're told, don't worry about things, and
don't concern you.
Speaker 2: I don't like that.
Speaker 3: Man.
Speaker 2: Twenty thousand dollars act is going to be a strain
at any price.
Speaker 4: Dwight Twight. I found it is here.
Speaker 6: It sounds absolutely perple.
Speaker 4: That's wonderful.
Speaker 6: Sugar Heights, Pennsylvania, part of the Coconut twelve room Victoria
and Home recently restored.
Speaker 2: All in excellent conditions.
Speaker 6: Housekeeper and chauffeur. Groundskeeper included or no deal. West wing
occupied by health.
Speaker 2: East wing suitable.
Speaker 6: For use as workshop, studio or laboratory. Immediate occupancy for
season only season ending on September thirtieth, but a big.
Speaker 2: For us, but otherwise. Doesn't it sound perfect? Right?
Speaker 4: Yes, yes, it does, almost too perfect, don't you see?
Speaker 6: Oh, how can a thing be too perfect?
Speaker 4: Well? My work is classified, Jane, most secret. I don't know.
It almost sounds as though someone knew I wanted a
place to work this summer and has made this one
to order for me. No, really, hy, Well that's a
proven you know we're doing this sort of work.
Speaker 2: It makes you suspicious?
Speaker 4: All right, we won't worry about it.
Speaker 6: Shall we call and make an appointment.
Speaker 2: To see the house?
Speaker 4: Well, there's no harm in looking. Maybe the roof leaks
or something. Oh what do you mean? Well, the way
the ad reads it just sounds too good to be true.
Speaker 7: Hello, I'm crying about your ad in the Times this
morning has been taking it.
Speaker 2: Uh no, not yet.
Speaker 7: My husband and I would like to drive out and.
Speaker 8: Look at it.
Speaker 4: Uh.
Speaker 2: May I have the name, please, Professor Dwight Addison.
Speaker 7: We live in New York City and we're looking for
a summer house.
Speaker 2: Yes, I'm Edgar Parker. My wife and I look after
the place. I think the ad said something about that.
Speaker 1: Oh yeah, that's that's fine.
Speaker 2: When may anytime missus Addison this afternoon would be fine
say around very good, and I'm sure you'll like the place,
Missus Addison.
Speaker 7: Yes, my husband could have sound nade to order.
Speaker 2: Well that's just about everything, Missus Addison. You do like
the place, don't you dwrite?
Speaker 4: Oh yes, yes very much.
Speaker 5: Indeed you're sure now.
Speaker 4: That the owners won't mind my moving my own equipment
into the lab.
Speaker 2: Oh no, mister Ellis will be glad to have it used.
As I told you, he's a kind of amateur at
science himself, dabbling, he calls it, matter of fact. I
help him out sometimes, kind of like a lab assistant,
you know, Yes, I see if if you wanted me to,
I could help you out around the lab too, you know,
just wash up and keep everything straight, things like that.
I always enjoy doing it for mister Allie.
Speaker 4: No, thank you, that won't be necessary.
Speaker 2: It wouldn't be any trouble at all.
Speaker 6: Professor Addison never uses an assistant. He likes to work alone.
Speaker 2: Oh well then shall we take it right? I think
it's just lovely.
Speaker 5: Yes, it's very suitable.
Speaker 4: All right, we'll take it.
Speaker 6: You'll have to report every night, Edgar.
Speaker 2: Yes, that's Smith's main reason for giving us a prime.
I have at wing in the house so we can
have our own telephone.
Speaker 4: Yes, they took the place.
Speaker 2: I guess you already know that he doesn't use an assistant, though, so.
Speaker 7: I can't love to get into the lab on your own.
I'm finding a moment tomorrow.
Speaker 2: A tomorrow afternoons, all.
Speaker 7: Right, you stay there with him to dinner and driver
Ellen tom Betty's barren grill.
Speaker 1: I mean you're there at time tomorrow.
Speaker 2: Look, if you just tell me now what I should
look up for.
Speaker 1: This is a telephone. What's talking on? I'll say tomorrow.
Speaker 6: Dwight, you have to admit that Pearl and Edgar were
a big help and the dinner was good.
Speaker 4: Didn't you think I suppose it would be presumptuous to
criticize him.
Speaker 8: Presumptuous to criticize.
Speaker 4: Edgar Edgar hold on, no, no, Einstein, I.
Speaker 8: Didn't know we were talking about him.
Speaker 4: He might very well have decided not to go on shift.
Speaker 5: He didn't hold back.
Speaker 4: On the other equation.
Speaker 8: You're going to wander away, dear, Try not to get lost.
It's a strange house.
Speaker 2: You know.
Speaker 6: Well, if mister big Shots missatisfied Edgar, oh, he.
Speaker 2: Wouldn't say so if he was I have to meet
him in Allentown tomorrow night.
Speaker 4: Oh no, and leave me here alone.
Speaker 2: Well, that's what the man says. The bugs must be working.
He seems to know all about everything that's been going
on in the house. You ought to work the time
you've spent on them for twenty thousand dollars.
Speaker 4: I do very good work, pearl. You.
Speaker 2: Well, I still don't believe about the aliens and all.
Speaker 4: That to you.
Speaker 2: To tell the truth, I don't care very much the
way he told us, though, it really sounded like.
Speaker 1: It should be quite pulo.
Speaker 2: You startled me, Professor Addison. Please, this is our wing
of the house. It's supposed to be private.
Speaker 4: Oh I am sorry. My wife says I'm just a
little absent minded the times I get preoccupied, and well,
I suppose I didn't pay much attention to where I
was going. I do apologize.
Speaker 2: Oh well, that's all right.
Speaker 5: I assure you it won't happen again.
Speaker 2: Okay, okay, that's okay, thank you. I doubt it's in
a real fog most of the time.
Speaker 4: Jane, we're going into the city tomorrow.
Speaker 1: Into the city.
Speaker 4: What on earth pore we just got? Well, I have
some errands to do that can't wait.
Speaker 1: What has.
Speaker 2: Well?
Speaker 4: Okay, you goings, you have to.
Speaker 6: I think I'll stay here.
Speaker 4: There are still a few little things I want to rearrange. Jane.
I want you to come with me tomorrow. Please do
as I say. Why do and don't argue with me?
Speaker 6: Well, of course, if you feel that strongly.
Speaker 1: About it, I do.
Speaker 4: I'm going into the lab now. I'll probably be working
most of the night, so don't wait up for me.
Speaker 2: Are there actually creatures from another galaxy capable of exerting
an influence on the people of our earth? We have
only a mister Smith's word for it. And if he
has chosen to use an assumed name, as we suspect,
then perhaps this more fantastic statement of his is also suspect.
The doubt makes you a little uncomfortable, though, doesn't it.
I'll return shortly with that too. One of man's distinctive characteristics,
one of the traits that sets him apart from the beast,
is his desire for privacy. He is a gregarious creature, true,
but his business is his own. He resents having it
pride into and we'll fight if he must to put
a stop to the prime. It appears that Professor Dwight
Addison's privacy is being invaded. He is not an ordinary
man and should not be expected to take ordinary countermeasures,
but that he will take action of some sort is
quite certain.
Speaker 4: Right.
Speaker 6: Uh, yes, Jane, I'm sorry to bout you in the
lad and you know I never do.
Speaker 4: But it's all right, it's all right, my diss quite
all right.
Speaker 6: I was going to bed, but I didn't think I
could sleep.
Speaker 4: Are you angry with me, Dwight, Well, no, of course
I'm not. Why should I be angry about.
Speaker 6: Going into the city. You acted so well, not a
bit like yourself.
Speaker 4: Oh well, you see, I got this idea for a
new type of hearing aid and I just.
Speaker 2: Wanted to You're not having trouble with your hearing, are you?
Speaker 4: No, you know it's not for me. I just had
an idea. I don't know where it came from, really,
about a way to improve the quality of the sound
reproduced to those small hearing aids they use nowadays. And well,
you know how I am. Yes, I know how you are.
I wanted to do it before I got back onto
the other thing. Will you belong here another hour or so?
I expect you get some sleep here you'll need your
rest of the trip into the city tomorrow. Do we
really have to go right?
Speaker 5: I'm afraid so.
Speaker 4: There are a few things I must do, and I
will need your help.
Speaker 2: I was afraid you weren't coming, mister Smith. I've been
here almost an hour hour Tod your wife didn't come
with him. I thought it would be better for one
of us to stay at the house. Commendable. Thank you
were going to tell me something about what this professor
Addison is up to. Yes, we have reason to believe
that he's working on a method, a mathematical concept, i
should say, which may very well achieve the time bypass
necessary for interstellar travel. I didn't quite get that. It's
completely beyond either of us. Don't expect me to explain
it to you. He's working on a way to travel
between stars, between galaxies.
Speaker 3: You take it seriously. You believe it's possible.
Speaker 2: It's already been done, my friend, Where do you think
the unidentified flying objects come from? Well, I've always thought
they were optical illusions or something like that. Very many
people do. It's a belief. My clients have always encouraged you,
and I know better. I guess so, And do you
think Professor Addison can do it. I don't know anything
about it myself. My clients seem to believe that he's
very close. It's our job to help them find out
how close, and then what they want him stopped. That's
all I know. Look, if they plan to get rid
of him somehow, I don't want any part of it
at any price. And I still don't know what to
look for if I get into his lab, not if
when look for anything that he's jotted down, every word,
every number, everything.
Speaker 4: Here.
Speaker 5: I brought you this.
Speaker 3: A cigarette lighter.
Speaker 2: It's made to look like one. Actually it's a camera,
and a very good one. Oh no kidding. But how
it works?
Speaker 4: Later?
Speaker 2: Does the professor have a good desk? Limall?
Speaker 3: It's three way?
Speaker 2: I think it goes up to one hundred and fifty watts,
pretty bright. And that's all you mean? And what every
strap of paper you find in that lab photographed? It
doesn't have to look important. They're not the one who decides.
I don't have keys to his desk. You know, I'm
not concerned with how you get at his papers. Just
do it, okay, I'll think of something. Are the bugs
working all right?
Speaker 4: You have heard about it if they weren't.
Speaker 2: You don't work very hard at making friends, do you,
mister Smith. I don't make friends. I'd buy accomplices.
Speaker 4: My favorite breakfast. How did you know, Edgar?
Speaker 2: Missus Addison told Pearl that you like poached eggs.
Speaker 8: They look good, don't they?
Speaker 2: They are beautiful, Professor Addison. Missus Addison told Pearl you
were working in the lab pretty much all night. Would
you like me to go in and kind of straighten.
Speaker 4: Up for you? No? No, no, thank you.
Speaker 2: I wouldn't mind at all. I would mess with anything,
of course, just sort of put the place in order.
Speaker 4: Ed I don't like anybody in my lab, not anybody
at all.
Speaker 8: Are you still planning to go into the city to right?
You haven't got any sleep at all?
Speaker 4: Oh? Yes, we really must.
Speaker 2: Will there be anything else right now?
Speaker 3: Professor?
Speaker 4: No, thank you, Edgar.
Speaker 2: I'll be sure to tell Pearl what you said about
not going under the lab.
Speaker 8: We'd better get to char.
Speaker 2: It, haven't we started?
Speaker 5: Oh out for the city. Well, there's no hurry.
Speaker 4: Really, I'd like to test my hearing aid before we go.
I'm curious about how it reacts to various acoustical situations.
I want to put it in my ear and try
out the sound in various rooms of the house, and
then outside. Why don't you come along a little walk
around the grounds? Sounds terribly barronious, doesn't it funny?
Speaker 6: I never knew you were interested in hearing aids, but.
Speaker 4: The idea just hit me. Suddenly they're outsack.
Speaker 2: Now what are they doing? Well, she's cutting some flowers,
and well he keeps wandering around and listening to something.
Speaker 8: Yeah, birds, I guess.
Speaker 2: He's trying out a hearing aid. Look, do you want
to help me hear? Okay? One of the keys on
this ring. I never saw a house with so many
keys and locks. I think this is it? Is that
what he's working on hearing me? No, he got sidetracked.
Speaker 1: I guess.
Speaker 4: What are you going to do in the lab?
Speaker 2: I have to take pictures of any papers I can find. Now,
leave the door open so we can hear them if
they come in, take pictures.
Speaker 4: Just help me look for papers?
Speaker 2: Will you any kind anything with something written on it?
He must have emptied the waste paper basket himself on.
Speaker 3: The desk is locked.
Speaker 2: I knew it would be.
Speaker 6: The smiling cabinets locked too.
Speaker 2: Oh, here's some.
Speaker 4: Stuff under the death blotters.
Speaker 2: Of good Let me see, ah, gibberish. I guess that's
a good sign. A good sign. Listen, Pearl, go out
and watch them through the window, will you. I've got
to get pictures of this stuff now.
Speaker 3: Just let me know if they start back towards the house.
Speaker 6: Why is it a good sign if there's just you know,
whatever you said, gibberish on the papers?
Speaker 3: Just watch, will you.
Speaker 6: I won't know what half these flowers are until they boom.
Speaker 8: This one's an iris, I know that much.
Speaker 4: You'll have to speak up, Jane. I can't hear a
thing you're saying.
Speaker 6: That's some hearing age you made.
Speaker 4: It doesn't seem to be working very well. I might
as well not be wearing it at all.
Speaker 8: Would you know what's wrong with it?
Speaker 4: Need some adjustment, I imagine, right?
Speaker 8: Do you really have a lot of secret stuff in
the lab?
Speaker 3: Oh?
Speaker 4: Yes, indeed, practically everything.
Speaker 6: In there top secret things Edgar and Pearl shouldn't see.
Speaker 4: Well, that's why I told them to stay out of
the lab, Jane, have papers in there that no one
should see? Did you lock the door to the lab?
Of course?
Speaker 6: Aren't you afraid that telling them not to go into
the lab will only make them all the more curious,
just serve as an added temptation.
Speaker 4: Oh I don't think so. Surely we can trust Pearl
and Edgar.
Speaker 2: You better get out of there.
Speaker 4: Edgar, back toward the house.
Speaker 2: Okay, Okay, I've finished anyway. Just turn the light off
and put these papers back onto the blier. Me up
when I'm all finished. All right, you better come away
from that window. It's all right, it's supposed to be
my kitchen. I'm just stack in the breakfast dishes.
Speaker 8: Oh, Pearl, can you get me a vase to put
these flowers in?
Speaker 1: Oh?
Speaker 2: Sure, Missus Edison, Na, they're pretty, aren't they. What are
those little blue ones?
Speaker 6: Oh Gray haasins.
Speaker 8: I think you'd know as long as you've.
Speaker 6: Been working here.
Speaker 8: Oh well, Edgar does all the gardening.
Speaker 2: Edgar and Missus Ellis. Missus Ellis, go find a vase
for missus Addison.
Speaker 8: Pearl, Missus Ellis, Yes, I'm so bad with nine sometimes
I almost can't remember my own.
Speaker 2: Go get the vase, Pearl, I get that nice blue one.
Missus Ellis like so much.
Speaker 4: Are you sure we're on the right road, Dwight, Well,
I'm taking a slightly different route this time. I'd like
just to enjoy the natural beauty of these mountains. And
somehow four lanes with a minimum speed of forty miles
an hour doesn't give you much of a chance. No,
it's funny about Pearl. What's funny about her?
Speaker 6: Well, she's been living in that house for a long time, years,
the way they tell it, and she doesn't know a
great high since when she sees one that they're perennials.
Speaker 1: You know, they come up every spring.
Speaker 4: Year after years. She probably just doesn't have that much
interest in flowers.
Speaker 5: Some people don't.
Speaker 6: Maybe, And she couldn't remember Missus Ellis's name. Been working
for it for years and couldn't remember anything.
Speaker 4: It was just too suspicious. Jane, Edgar and Pearl, I'll
find people. We're lucky to have them.
Speaker 6: Well, either the professor got lost or missus smith All
he's unhappy about something again.
Speaker 7: Hello, in future, we prefer that Professor and Missus Addison
not leave the house.
Speaker 2: Well, now, just how do you expect me to stop them?
Speaker 1: It may be necessary to Tampa with that car, that
is why I called.
Speaker 2: However, then, why did you Impertinence doesn't become you?
Speaker 1: I called to suggest that you advise your wife not
to be an idiot if you can possibly avoid it.
Speaker 2: I don't know what you mean.
Speaker 1: The thing about the flowers.
Speaker 2: Well, Pearl didn't know what the flowers were. She wasn't thinking,
as that was obvious.
Speaker 1: Also, is it too much to ask that you remember
the name of the woman she's been working for all.
Speaker 2: These years since she covered that up. Fine, they didn't
suspect the thing.
Speaker 1: Missus Addison did. They've been monitoring them in the car.
A good memorizes every detare of this cover. That's the
first role.
Speaker 2: Look, if you wanted spies, you should have hired spies.
Speaker 1: As that has occurred to me.
Speaker 2: Sooner or later, I'm going to have to punch that
guy in the nose.
Speaker 8: Well maybe you're not lost, but I am.
Speaker 4: It's a beautiful spring day there, and they meant for wandering.
Speaker 3: Look, but just just look at them.
Speaker 4: Now, what but there's a path leading off into the woods.
Don't you see it there? It would be sinful, downright
simple not to follow it.
Speaker 6: You mean, get out and take that path into the woods.
Speaker 4: Well, we have to know where it leads, Jane. Don't
you feel you just have to?
Speaker 2: No?
Speaker 8: I don't.
Speaker 2: I don't feel the least.
Speaker 4: Bit that way.
Speaker 2: I'll bet there be snakes in there.
Speaker 4: Jane, please come with me, Why because I ask you to? Well,
if you put it that way, let.
Speaker 5: Me help you.
Speaker 4: Those aren't very good shoes for walking in the woods.
Speaker 2: I thought I was going to the city.
Speaker 5: Takes me back to my childhood.
Speaker 4: Watch those branches here, let me hold them for you.
Speaker 2: Oh it's many.
Speaker 4: No, No, that's that's leaf mold. It's quite a different thing,
all right, I guess this is foreig enough sign up
for what? Oh? Listen carefully, Jane. We can't stay out
of the car too long?
Speaker 2: Why not if we want to?
Speaker 4: That house is bugged, The lawn is bugged, Even our
car is bugged eaves dropping devices. Every word we've said
since we moved into that house has been overheard.
Speaker 2: Beware of the man with a high IQ and the
irresponsible behavior.
Speaker 3: He is not what he seems.
Speaker 2: He doesn't accept values blindly, but has a close look
at each one as it is offered to him, and
decides for himself how much it is worth. Professor Addison
is not an easy mark, clearly, and the battle has
just been joined. We will hear the outcome when I
returned shortly with Act three. The creatures of an alien culture,
beings from a galaxy light years removed from our Earth,
have become interested in the researches of Professor Dwight Addison.
They have cause to be planted in the house which
he has rented for the summer, a network of listening
devices which keeps him and his wife Jane under constant surveillance.
These two, Professor and Missus Addison, have eluded the eavesdroppers
temporarily by leaving their car in which a bug has
been plotted, and walking down a wooded path. But how
can you be sure that everything is buzz the way
you say?
Speaker 1: How can you be so sure?
Speaker 4: That little gadget I've been calling a hearing aid isn't
a hearing aid at all, Jane. It's a device for
detecting radio transmission radio transmits. The bugs they've planted in
and around the house of tiny radio transmitters.
Speaker 5: I get a.
Speaker 4: Beat from the thing I had in my ear every
time I get near one. They're all over the house,
two or three and several of the rooms, and they've
been placed around the grounds in such a way that
there's not a spot anywhere where we could talk without
being overheard in the car too, at.
Speaker 5: Least one in the car.
Speaker 4: Pearl and Edgar, Yes, Pearl and Edgar, they're very unlikely servants.
Haven't you noticed that?
Speaker 6: Would they be working for somebody else?
Speaker 4: Or are they somebody else? Are they're only agents? As
a matter of fact, I suspect strongly that they're in
the employee of intelligent beings from another world.
Speaker 5: Oh no, really, right, project I have.
Speaker 4: In hand would interest such beings. It's not much of
a secret anymore that this planet has been visited Flying Sae.
Speaker 5: Well, there have been.
Speaker 4: Some very very secret investigations.
Speaker 5: There's not much doubt about it.
Speaker 4: Among the people who have the facts and your works,
they'd be interested. We shouldn't have left Pearl Edgar alone
in the house.
Speaker 2: What are they get into the last.
Speaker 4: I'm sure they have a duplicate key, but there's nothing
in there of any consequence. Will you tell me the
place was full of secret material that was for the
benefit of the eavesdroppers, whoever they are. No, no, no,
I have it all in my head, Jane.
Speaker 5: I don't trust papers.
Speaker 8: I hate being spied on.
Speaker 4: I've given them something to think about though I left
some papers out of my desk pad for them, phony
as three dollar bills offer. Nonsense, Jane, I have a plan.
I'll need your help.
Speaker 1: You don't have to ask.
Speaker 4: Thank you, my dear. I'm going to turn you into
a nagging wife. And when we get back to the car,
I want to start over.
Speaker 2: Why to the fourth power equals? And then he's got
a question mark that he's gone over and over until
the paper's almost cut through by the pen.
Speaker 1: You found nothing except the papers, just.
Speaker 3: These four sheets?
Speaker 4: Yes?
Speaker 2: Well, then he's got some scribbled notes at the bottom.
He's written down the word heterodyne two or three times,
like he was thinking on paper, you know, And then thirde.
On another line he's written light speed plus, then crossed
out the plus and printed it in again in capital letters.
Speaker 1: Like speed plus. That's interesting. Came on?
Speaker 2: Well, just some figures at the bottom.
Speaker 1: Wait a minute or not just a minute? Okay, we've
been out of touch with it, EDI since almost half
an hour. And return to the car. Now this must
not happen again.
Speaker 2: But what do you want me to do?
Speaker 1: There's something you do to a cost cap ready to
put it out of commission? How about that?
Speaker 3: Yes, yes, that's easy enough.
Speaker 1: I'll and do it as soon as they playing the
car back and trying to do it right.
Speaker 8: Well, I hope you're satisfied.
Speaker 5: It was beautiful.
Speaker 4: But wasn't it beautiful right there in that jungle? It
was Crawley, Jade. I just felt like going into the woods.
Speaker 2: So we went twice.
Speaker 6: What did you want to do in the city.
Speaker 4: With just some errands?
Speaker 3: That's what I asked you.
Speaker 4: What errands things to do with the project I'm working on.
I'm afraid I'm not at liberty to go into it.
Speaker 8: Not at liberty, you have to make a left turn
at the next crossroad.
Speaker 2: I know that.
Speaker 5: My work is very secret. I've told you that before.
Speaker 4: I'm not afraid to talk about it to anybody, anybody
at all.
Speaker 6: Well, it makes a woman feel unwanted.
Speaker 4: Oh now, come on, Jane, you know better than that.
Speaker 8: One of these days, and maybe before too long, I'll
just decide not to stay where I'm not wanted. If
you can be trusted with a secret, why can't I
it's just that you don't want to tell me. Well,
one of these days, maybe you'll be sorry after I've
left you.
Speaker 4: Jane, you don't mean that you'll find out, all right,
I'll tell you so tell me well that now I
can't go into it while I'm driving. It's too distracting.
I'll tell you when we get home.
Speaker 9: You miss a turn, No, don't tamper with a cart, tamping,
don't touch it unless you here from me.
Speaker 3: Well, okay, but you send the.
Speaker 1: Car to believe that we're going to get some final information.
As soon as the addises get home, it should be
there very song.
Speaker 2: Okay, then then you.
Speaker 1: Don't want me to get you to do anything that's
get told to do something. I'll stay there your te
home for further instructions.
Speaker 2: We get twenty thousand. He gets a punch in the nose.
Speaker 4: This is wrong, all wrong, Jane. I want your absolute
promise that you will.
Speaker 8: Never wait if you're going to start that again.
Speaker 4: All right, all right. What I'm working on is a
new kind of radio signal.
Speaker 6: A radio signal what good happens?
Speaker 2: What's the hush hush about?
Speaker 8: A radio stigma?
Speaker 4: This is quite different from the kind of radio signal
you're thinking of. This is a sound that kills whoever
hears it kill, and rather painfully. I'm afraid I haven't
been able to work out a way to make it
more humane.
Speaker 8: You mean you just turn your radio on, you get
this sound or whatever.
Speaker 6: It is, and it kills.
Speaker 4: Yes, its effect is not unlike the effect of nerve gas. Yes, yes,
it's it's quite deadly, quite awful. Really, I don't see how.
Speaker 6: That's possible, just a noise that comes out.
Speaker 1: Of your radio.
Speaker 4: Well, that a whole new mathematical concept involved it. It works,
Though it.
Speaker 6: Works, I don't think you ought to do it?
Speaker 8: Is it?
Speaker 4: Are you close? Oh? De vice itself is finished, ready
to use. There's the problem, of course, of testing.
Speaker 5: It without well, without killing anybody.
Speaker 2: It's absolutely dreadful, Yes, it is.
Speaker 5: Rather I worked out one of the problems last night.
Speaker 4: A shield to protect the sender you are hearing aid, Well, it.
Speaker 5: Wasn't a hearing aid.
Speaker 4: It all, of course used in the sender's ears, both ears.
Of course, it neutralizes the effect of the signal.
Speaker 6: Oh, it's worse than the atom bomb in.
Speaker 4: Some ways, I suppose it is. There's no antidote. Once
you've heard the signal, you're dead.
Speaker 5: There's no way.
Speaker 4: To arrest it. As you say, it is rather dreadful.
Speaker 2: What do you intend to do with it?
Speaker 4: Well, the first thing I must do is to make
another of the shields tonight, make sure that they work.
But sure how I'll feed the sound through an amplifier
not broadcasted, of course, and wear the two shields. If
I'm not affected, then I know the shield works. But
twice you can I can't think of another way. You'd
better stay clear of the lab tonight. I'll have to
warn Pearl and Edgar.
Speaker 8: Does it work on just any old radio, any radio
through any transmitter, anything from your big commercial transmitter to
one of those tiny little things they use as eavesdropping
devices bugs I think they're called.
Speaker 6: I wish you wouldn't do that tonight.
Speaker 4: Driver. I'll be all right, my dear. The shields will work,
and there aren't any radio transmitters nearby.
Speaker 5: After all, we're not bugged.
Speaker 1: I want all the signivices remove from the house of grounds,
the cartoon. Everyone you've plant it. I want out at once.
Destroy them as you remove them, make sure not one
of them is left functional.
Speaker 4: Would you care to come with me for a walk
around the grounds, Jane, all right, if you'd like to.
It's a lovely afternoon. Edgar and Pearl have been out
enjoying it, Oh, Edgar, Yesessa, before I forget it, I
think it would be a good idea if you and
Pearl stayed in your quarters this evening. I am doing
a rather special experiment than I think it would be.
Speaker 5: Safer for you.
Speaker 3: Okay, the whole.
Speaker 4: Evening until quite late. Yes, it's a It's a lovely day,
isn't it, missus Addison and I are going to take
a little walk.
Speaker 2: Yes, yes, it's very nice out and uh oh it's
okay about tonight.
Speaker 4: We can talk now, Jane, you meanly have three of
those things out here. They've removed all the bugs from
the grounds. I've been watching them removed and dismantled them
as they went. Afraid of your experiment tonight. Whoever's been
listening must have given the orders. Oh what a gorgeous day.
Let's plan to stay out for at least an hour.
That already give them time to clear the house of bugs.
Speaker 2: What are you doing, je I want to tell Smith
all the bugs are out. I think maybe I ought
to tell him what the professor said about a special
experiment tonight too. I expect he'd want to know that.
Wh why you wanted to bugs? You think he tell me,
come on, come on, Why doesn't he answer the number
you have reached?
Speaker 1: It's not in service at this time. The number you
have reached is not in service at this time. This
is a recording.
Speaker 2: Mister Smith's run out on us. What do you mean
the phone's been disconnected? And how are we going to
collect our money? We're not This phone number is our
only contact with them, A man named Smith, even if
it was his real name, and you know, damn well
it's not but twenty thousand dollars. If I ever find him,
I won't just punch him in the nose.
Speaker 5: I'll kill him.
Speaker 2: What are we going to do? We're going to get
out of this house right now. If they're scared, so
am I.
Speaker 4: Come to the window, Jane.
Speaker 2: What's happening out there?
Speaker 8: Now?
Speaker 5: They're leaving?
Speaker 4: I watched them loading their car with luggage. We've seen
the last of and Edgar.
Speaker 2: Maybe we should go too.
Speaker 4: Why we paid our end of the season. The bugs
are gone. We'll have to run a big house without
help for a while, of course, but.
Speaker 2: Oh that's all right with me.
Speaker 8: Incidentally, how did you like my performance as the nagging wife?
Speaker 4: Uh? Much too well, my dear I'll never cast you
in a role like that again.
Speaker 6: Right, yes, dear, you're not really working on that awesome thing,
are you.
Speaker 8: I mean the radio signal that kills people.
Speaker 4: No, no, nothing of the kind. Actually, what I'm working
on is a time bypass that will make traveling between
galaxies possible, really make it possible. If it works, it
looks good in theory. Of course, I know how.
Speaker 5: To make the lethal radio signal.
Speaker 4: You do, Oh yes, yes, there's nothing to it. Really
wants you to understand the mathematics.
Speaker 3: Right you wouldn't.
Speaker 4: Oh no, no, dear, that's one secret nobody's ever going
to get out of me, not even a nagging wife.
Speaker 2: Professor Addison has tricked the easdroppers into removing their listening
devices from his home and his laboratory, but as he
stopped them altogether, they seem to be a determined breed.
And I'm sorry to say there are always people around
like mister Smith and Pearl and Edgar Parker who will
sell out if the price is right.
Speaker 5: Perhaps we've heard the last.
Speaker 2: Of the easdroppers, and perhaps we haven't. I'll be back
shortly at this meeting. Interstellar travel has not been announced
as feasible, but things move fast in this age. Don't
be too surprised if you hear on a newscast that
Professor Dwight Addison has found a way to make it
feasible and be with us no matter what method of
travel it requires for our next look at some of
the improbabilities that turn out to be after all possible.
Our cast included Arnold Moss, Patricia Wheel, William Redford, Ralph Bell,
and Joan Arlis. The entire production was under the direction
of Hyman Brown. This is ag Marshall inviting you to
return to our Mystry Theater for another adventure in the macabre.
Until next time, pleasant dream