Speaker 1: Come in welcome. I'm a g Marshall.
Speaker 2: How far can the mind of man's go once that
had been convinced that nothing is impossible? We've already visited
the moon that was impossible a short while back.
Speaker 1: We'll surely reached.
Speaker 2: The other planets of our solar system who really want
to and most likely gassarge eventually. But there are other directions,
other so called the impossibilities to pose. For example, a
man looked in his mirror one day, and, seeing the
lines of encroaching old age, said to himself, now.
Speaker 1: Why does a thing like that have to happen?
Speaker 3: I want out of this house. Maybe once throw out
of it. Nathan will stop? Who Jeffeica, I'm so frightened.
It's not dare surely not a nathing. I think he's
finished his experiments with the animal, Jeffeter, What is he
going to do now? I don't like the way he
looks at me. It is that log howl tonight? What
kind of noise do you suppose I'll makes? Because I'm next,
and I'm not imagining it. I'm next.
Speaker 2: Our mystery grammar You're Only Young White, was written especially
for the mystery theater by Nild and Charon and stars
Anne Shepherd and Norman Rose. It is sponsored in part
by True Value Hardware Stories. I'll be back shortly with
that one. Aging like it or not is a process
shared by all living things, always.
Speaker 1: Has been, and always will be.
Speaker 2: It isn't the fact of being old that's so intolerable.
It's more the step by step, irreversible deterioration that has
to be faced along the way. Jessica Stone, a great
romantic star of stage and screen in her day, finds
herself at Liberty with no professional prospects.
Speaker 1: For the summer just beginning.
Speaker 3: So you see, Jim, there's just no reason for my
staying on in the city and sweltering all summer.
Speaker 1: Uh, you're running elderly.
Speaker 2: You're going up to Maine where it's cool, quiet, beautiful,
and you're leaving me strengthened. Oh come on now, Jim,
your lawyer, business manager, your good friend, and more and more.
Any time you say you're leaving me stranded in the
city which lives for me only because you're still ye Oh,
I do wish you wouldn't go, Jessica.
Speaker 3: My sister wants me to come and spend the summer
with her, but she's got a perfectly good husband up there,
great scientist, or at least a rich scientist, and you'd
be getting old Jim. Besides, Nathan's a very strange man,
well all of a sud and I didn't like the
sound of a letter. It's more than just an invitation.
I think she actually needs me. Something's wrong, like what.
I don't know. I don't know if you didn't say,
but from the way her letters read, I think she's.
Speaker 4: Afraid of something.
Speaker 3: My sister is coming for a visit, Nathan. She phoned
me last night, Jessica.
Speaker 4: Yes, she may spend the summer.
Speaker 5: I don't know.
Speaker 1: Wonderful. I'm delighted, y, of course I am. She's an
intelligent woman, good company.
Speaker 3: Yes, she was always the glamorous one, Nathan. That dog
was howling again last night.
Speaker 1: I know that.
Speaker 3: Were you.
Speaker 6: Hurting him?
Speaker 3: No?
Speaker 1: I was not. I wish you could believe me. I
use animals in my experiments. I do not hurt them.
Speaker 3: If only I knew what, Nathan, you can't blame me
for feeling lest out. Even Cal knows what you're working on.
Speaker 1: Is my assistant. He has to know.
Speaker 3: Cal is a handy man. That's all call.
Speaker 1: Is takes care of the animals. I need him.
Speaker 3: Do you intend to use this whatever it is you're
working on? Do you intend to use it on people
once you've finished with the animals.
Speaker 1: You forced me to ask you again to mind your
own business.
Speaker 3: Because I'm the only people you have handy O.
Speaker 1: Would you like me to keep you posted while you're going?
Speaker 3: Well, of course i'd jump into anything that was offered
right now, and we both know it. I don't like
being old and burnt out and not want it now?
Speaker 1: Stop it?
Speaker 6: Oh, isn't it?
Speaker 1: Well, you're not sixteen anymore, but you're not old.
Speaker 3: Well I feel old and tired, and that's his numsets.
Speaker 2: You're beautiful and you s you sparkle, and I wish
you weren't going away.
Speaker 3: Huh Oh, Dear Jim, I don't know how I'll manage
without you.
Speaker 1: I'm gonna ask you once more, Jessica, will you marry me?
Speaker 3: You know how dear you are to me. But I've
been married four times, divorced four times. No more.
Speaker 1: That's enough.
Speaker 3: Jasey over here, good, Holy Anthony's come too long night.
Speaker 7: I wonder how long it's.
Speaker 3: Been since anybody calls me that?
Speaker 6: Since the last time I did.
Speaker 3: Probably here, let me have a look at you.
Speaker 5: Yeah, doesn't look so closive.
Speaker 7: Oh what are you talking about?
Speaker 4: You look wonderful.
Speaker 3: There's a lot of camouflage. The old gal's not what
he is to be old. And I'm older than you are,
and I.
Speaker 1: Don't like it either. I hate it.
Speaker 3: Brow.
Speaker 5: Come on, let's go pick up your luggage.
Speaker 4: With a long drive ahead of us.
Speaker 1: Now that's left, big off coward.
Speaker 8: They're just mouring the lord. Mister Hardy, it gets real shaggy.
You must be feeling pretty perky today.
Speaker 1: Why do you say that?
Speaker 8: Yeah, trips around all over the place, and wat shot.
Speaker 1: You don't overdo. I'm not a day older than you,
cal but not many days. And here you are mowing
the lum Well, I ain't the one that counts.
Speaker 8: You get all that in your head about your Jane
ninety seven and if you wish to jut a.
Speaker 1: Cow he yah, missus Hardy's going to the airport to
meet her sister, Jessica. She'll be visiting with us for
a while. Jessica Stone. Jessica Stone.
Speaker 8: Hey, Now ain't that the name of that actor lady?
Speaker 1: That's right, the same one? Now, if you talk to her,
be especially careful enough to hint the well the kind
of work we're doing in the lab.
Speaker 8: If I was a few years younger, I wouldn't be
talking to her about no.
Speaker 1: Work and no lab. You can bet on that you
old me, sir. Well, Now, if you.
Speaker 8: Wish to kind of move up your schedule and carrying,
don't fret, mister Hardie. I won't do low talking and
try to keep the animal's quiet while she's here.
Speaker 6: Tell me about Nathan Man.
Speaker 4: I haven't seen any years.
Speaker 6: How is he?
Speaker 3: Well, all I can say is never marry a man
fifteen years older than you are. Oh it's I don't know,
not exactly soured him, but I don't really know him anymore.
M Maybe it's his age, and maybe it's something else.
Speaker 6: He's changed in what way?
Speaker 5: When he he.
Speaker 3: Lives in that laboratory, I mean literally, he has a
sitting room and bedroom there. I almost never see him.
Speaker 6: I almost never see anybody.
Speaker 3: There's just Nathan cal and that's all cal mm local product.
Speaker 4: Nathan calls him his assistant. He helps out with the animals.
Speaker 6: And potters around the ground. It not very bright.
Speaker 3: It's uh, not an exciting life. Well, maybe I can
liven things up a little if things don't deaden you.
Speaker 1: May I offer you a liquor, Jessica after that dinner.
Speaker 5: I don't really think I have any room for his neighbors.
Speaker 1: Oh, of course you do. Here you are, Jessica, Thank you, Ny. Now,
may I propose a toast two perpetual youth, as practiced
by my lovely sister in law. No, thank you. Mm
you must be very old, very funny thing about page
good for spirituous liquors, died for people.
Speaker 3: Well, nothing much we can do about that.
Speaker 1: We can dream.
Speaker 4: Oh, oh, Nathan, is.
Speaker 1: That old Patchy? I imagine he's the one who could
tell you about old age Patchie a dog one of
my animals, You see, I I use animals in my experiments.
Best thinks that I torture them.
Speaker 4: But the truth, now, I never said that.
Speaker 1: The truth is my experiments are designed to help them
and do help them. Jessica. Uh, do you have a
new play for next season?
Speaker 3: Well, I haven't really decided what I'm going to do.
Of course that's the right thing comes along.
Speaker 1: But you never know the I'll never forget you. In
the lives of Gretchen Day and were well you were
absolutely magnificent.
Speaker 3: When I made that film, I was very young.
Speaker 6: Were you expecting to call Nathan?
Speaker 7: No?
Speaker 1: What you mind answering phone?
Speaker 3: Rings?
Speaker 1: Or seldom?
Speaker 4: I sometimes forget we have a phone?
Speaker 1: Kind of a play? Are you looking for this time, Jessica?
Speaker 6: I really don't know.
Speaker 3: I'm getting a little old for romantic leads these days.
Speaker 1: Well, there always character roles, aren't there?
Speaker 3: I never played much character. Tell me about that. You
just can't imagine yourself ever growing old. And then one
morning you get up, you look in the mirror, and all.
Speaker 1: Of a sudden you see it's for you. It's from
New York.
Speaker 3: Oh, that'll be Jim Blake most likely. Uh. I promised
to call him when I got in, and and I forgot.
I didn't know that you were such a fan of
Jessica's making.
Speaker 1: Oh well, maybe I exaggerated a little count do any harm?
She was good, you know she still is.
Speaker 8: Eh, excuse me for bothering you, mister Hardy. But oh,
Patty's sh having.
Speaker 1: One of a spell? All that dog? What's his problem
this time?
Speaker 8: You seem old saying you're shaking, and he, you know,
not breathing the way he ought to A way.
Speaker 2: I think maybe him all right, h t uh Busica?
Speaker 1: This, yes, this is Cal somewhere's my assistant. How do
you do that? How do you do mister doner? I swave?
Speaker 8: And if you ain't prettier, then you are in the movies.
Speaker 1: You see he don't listen to him, Jessica, he's an
old rake. I come on, Cal, let's go down and
see what we can do for old patche Now how
long has he been acting this way?
Speaker 3: Well that's the last we'll see if Nathan tonight really yes,
once he shuts himself up from that lab, forget it, Jessica.
Speaker 6: If he asks to.
Speaker 4: Borrow money from you, don't give.
Speaker 6: Him any will you borrow money?
Speaker 3: Broke or very close to it? I don't really know
how bad it is, but money is very short these days.
I don't understand. I always thought that he had. I
I mean, I I thought he was quite rich.
Speaker 1: I guess I.
Speaker 3: Guess his experiments, whatever they are, have cost him a
lot of money. If you need money, No, no horse, oh, Jessica,
I'm so frightened of what, surely not of Nathan. You
heard that dog howl this evening, Well, dogstill howl. It's
their nature. That doesn't have to be anything sinister about it.
I think he's finished the experiments with the animals, Jessica,
what's he going to do now? I don't like the
way he looks at me, and that's dog howl tonight.
Speaker 1: What kind of noise do.
Speaker 4: You suppose that I'll make? Because I'm next. I'm not
just imagining it.
Speaker 3: I'm next.
Speaker 1: A man who devotes himself to scientific research is necessarily
a curious man. That's the starting point for all research.
Speaker 2: Curiosity carried too far, however, it can become dangerous. Are
we witnessing a case in point. We'll try to satisfy
your curiosity about that when I return shortly with Act two.
The experiments which Nathan already has been conducting in his
laboratory are such a secret nature that only his assistant
Cal Summers knows what their purpose is. Although his wife
questions it, Nathan himself says that his experiments are beneficial
to the animals he uses. But Nathan is one of
those intensely curious researchers, and it may be that his
thirst for knowledge prejudices his judgment. He's with his SI
now in his laboratory, attending to a sick old dog.
Speaker 1: He calls Patchie, what's your problem, Patsy, old boy, your
poor old bone making and boy?
Speaker 8: Yes, me, that old dog's gone just about as far
as he can go.
Speaker 1: You can get him through the night catcher, count Er,
I don't like the promise.
Speaker 8: Why don't we give him a shot of R Jane
ninety seven right now?
Speaker 1: Mister hiding, though, I want to save him for tomorrow.
Speaker 8: I have a special reason for h eh, anything to
do with your sister in law that uh had just
a lady' just.
Speaker 1: Pulled him through the night. Count h I'll do what
I can.
Speaker 8: He Uh, mister Hardy is when do I get mine?
Speaker 1: You're R J ninety seven soon, now, very soon?
Speaker 8: Well, I I don't see nothing standing in the.
Speaker 2: Way of it right now, I I it's I It's ready, ain't.
Speaker 1: It it is? But I'm not quite Maybe tomorrow, count
maybe the day after uh whatever you say, of.
Speaker 8: Course me, old Patty here still try to hang on
till our time comes.
Speaker 1: There.
Speaker 3: Anything I can do to help with breakfast, then, oh,
pour the coffee if you like. All I have to
do now is scramble the eggs. I hope Nathan doesn't
let his get cold again.
Speaker 4: But he's still in the laboratory. I don't know where
he is.
Speaker 3: I haven't seen him, but he surely didn't work all night.
Who knows, Jesse. He said he wanted to show you
through the house this morning.
Speaker 4: Will you see if you can.
Speaker 3: Get anything out of him about what he's doing? Well,
I can try, but I don't think he's likely to
tell me anything. He won't tell you.
Speaker 6: Oh he might.
Speaker 3: He won't tell me anything, of course, not if he
has plans for me, But you, he might.
Speaker 1: Be.
Speaker 3: I think you must be wrong. I'm just gonna have
to throw the eggs out of Nathan doesn't get Oh, let.
Speaker 1: Me catch you throwing my eggs out. I could smell
that bacon all the way down the hall. I'm starved.
Speaker 4: Oh did you work all night?
Speaker 1: No? No, I went to bed early. I'm feeling quite
fit this morning. Good morning, Jessica.
Speaker 5: Good morning.
Speaker 1: Oh you look radiant.
Speaker 3: Well, thank you. A good night's sleep and a little
cosmetic booster.
Speaker 1: Very becoming whatever it is?
Speaker 3: Everybody ready?
Speaker 4: Uh, don't let your eggs.
Speaker 1: Get cold, Jessica. Do you feel up to making a
tour of a house this morning? Nineteen rooms? You know?
Three floors.
Speaker 3: I can make it if you can.
Speaker 1: I'm not as decrepit as I look. Uh, what do
you think of.
Speaker 3: It's beautiful, old plays just beautiful. Takes you right back
to a quite different style of living, doesn't it.
Speaker 1: Yes, it needs some work, of course, but after all,
but adjust the two of us.
Speaker 3: Nah, it's lovely.
Speaker 1: Hm. That's about it, except for the laboratory wing, of course.
Speaker 3: Uh.
Speaker 1: Would you like to see that very much? Yes? Alright,
come along. Oh this is actually my home, Jessica. I
keep this small sweet in the lab wing and when
I come to visit Beth sometimes. But but this is
where I live.
Speaker 4: Mm, rety nice.
Speaker 1: Don't be embarrassed. Beth and I. Uh, but it's not
much left of our marriage. That must have told you.
Speaker 3: Uh, not that flatly. I know she isn't very happy.
Speaker 2: Uh.
Speaker 1: This is my living room. I like heavy Victorian furniture,
as you receive.
Speaker 3: Uh.
Speaker 1: The bedrooms back that way, and this door. This is
the entrance to my laboratory.
Speaker 3: Uh.
Speaker 1: I might as well see that too, your laboratory. You'll
be the first except for Cal and myself. Beth has
never seen the lab Uh.
Speaker 3: Uh I'm flattery.
Speaker 1: Uh, go ahead, Jessica going in, Harry pressing.
Speaker 2: I've spent ah a lot of money on equipment. The
too much, really, the cow, I hear, mister Hardy. I'll
bring Patchie up, will you as a dog?
Speaker 1: You heard howling last night, Jessica, as I said, he's
very old.
Speaker 8: Eh.
Speaker 1: How do you do, miss Jessica? How do you do? Start? Best?
Speaker 2: Carry poor old Patchy in. He ain't getting alarms good
this morning. I got through the night alright. So that's
the main thing. I U the count just put him
down on the pillow there, ay, shure, here you go, boy,
you see, Jessica. But there's nothing really wrong with this
dog at all except old age, which is cause means
that just about everything is wrong with him.
Speaker 1: You look so sad.
Speaker 5: Ah what kind of dog?
Speaker 1: He said? Too many kinds to lift? I got him
at the pond. I imagine they'd 'em uh put him
away by this time if I haven't taken him.
Speaker 6: Might be a kindness.
Speaker 4: I don't see what else there is to do, Jessica.
Speaker 1: Waits a little and you will. I made you uh
give him his milk, mister.
Speaker 2: Hardache, yes, please count heck hey you old patch old boy.
Nice cool drink the milk for you? Uh just uh minute?
Speaker 1: Count?
Speaker 4: M uh are you going to put something in the milk?
Speaker 1: Just pure drops from this bottle and keep the ball steady?
Count suh one two, three four? Al right count between
Yeah we show patchy. Yeah, this is the big one.
Speaker 3: Who is it all right to aska?
Speaker 1: What?
Speaker 4: What is it that you put in the milk?
Speaker 1: We call it? R J ninety seven A count? What
what you mind? Meetings? I uh, I D D.
Speaker 2: Don't you think it'd be a good idea for me
to hang around just in case something goes wrong?
Speaker 1: It'll be all right, Count, I'll call you if I
need you. I uh r J ninety seven. It's the
ninety seven formula ninety six with failures or only partials successes.
This is the one that I've been working toward for
well better than ten years now, r J ninety seven.
Speaker 5: What will it do to you?
Speaker 1: You'll see It will take a little time, five minutes
or so, but you'll see.
Speaker 3: What we can look at you.
Speaker 6: What happens.
Speaker 1: Down boy down? He is a puppy or a little more.
I'd say he's just about the equivalent of or a
year or and a half, maybe as much as two years,
or he has a good ten years to look forward to.
And I can understand r J ninety seven. The RJ
stends for rejuvenation.
Speaker 5: P't you then?
Speaker 1: Yes, it will work on people too. I'm sure it will.
No reason on earth why it shouldn't. I'm people, Jessica, Jessica, Oh,
would you like to be young again? I can do
it for you. Make me young about twenty five, I
guess over twenty hundred thirty cer maybe within that range.
How can you four crops of our J ninety seven, Jessica.
Speaker 4: I don't believe it. I just don't believe it.
Speaker 1: Look at Thatchy. Isn't that slight of hand? Do you know?
Speaker 3: I'm not sure i'd wanna go through it again. Oh
that stressed that of sewing the station?
Speaker 1: No, no, no, Jessica, that's the most beautiful part. You see.
You would retain your memory. You wouldn't have to be
young and foolish again, only young. You'd be as wise
as you are today, all the experience, none of the fatigue.
How can you know that I pooved it a hundred
times with animals. Oh, we'll retain our memory alright, O?
You too? Why do you think I went to the trouble.
How do you think I intend to live with this
bone weary old body of mine when four drops of
our J ninety seven will make it young and song again.
You and I, Jessica, there are sutain emises I'll ask
you to make. If you wouldn't expect to get a
thing like youth and nothing, would you? I see what
promise is. I won't ask for your soul, although that
is the going price. I understand. No, no, not your soul.
All I require of you is that you would.
Speaker 7: Jasey Jesse, Wait a minute, I wanna talk to you.
Speaker 5: I have to make a phone called bit Uh. I'll
have the operator.
Speaker 7: Jesse.
Speaker 3: Please, you were in the lab with Nathan, weren't you?
Speaker 6: Yes?
Speaker 4: What happened?
Speaker 1: Please, Jesse?
Speaker 3: I have to know nothing, nothing much really happened. He
gave that old dog a dose of some kind of
medicine and it got better. That's all I saw.
Speaker 4: He gave it a dose of medicine.
Speaker 6: That's right. He's lying to you.
Speaker 3: He wouldn't drive himself the way he does.
Speaker 1: Just to cure a sick dog. You let him fool you, Jesse.
Speaker 7: You let him pull the wall over your eyes.
Speaker 6: Yes, I have to make this phone call.
Speaker 3: I'm in a hurry, all right, that he is lying?
Speaker 1: And you call me mister Hardy, Yes, I called him.
Uh huh. Take a look at old patchy, actual actual patchy.
Speaker 3: There.
Speaker 1: I know it ain't nothing but a park. It's that's
you all the same.
Speaker 8: Well, la sakes that shot of r J ninety seven
short took hold on him, didn't I.
Speaker 7: That?
Speaker 2: There's just about the best one yet, no reason why
it shouldn't work just as well for you.
Speaker 1: I sure hope.
Speaker 2: So when my time comes, cal hm, car, it's time?
Speaker 1: Now?
Speaker 3: What for me?
Speaker 1: Guess right now? Her work is finished? Why not? I
have it all set up for you? Here this glass
of water? Y y y y y y y. You
didn't know yoor, you didn't over do it? Did you
have no four drops? Cow? Come on, dreak it down?
Speaker 8: Uh? Well yeah, yeah, you ain't having yours now.
Speaker 1: No, there are a few things I have to take
care of first. You go ahead, Hey, uh, well, here goes.
Good luck. Cow. Can't that kind of catches in your throat,
don't it? I wouldn't be surprised how long how long
you reckon the foot? It hurts mister Hardie hurts my stomach.
That world last long cow? Hey, Oh, I think you'd
better just sit down here?
Speaker 8: Wasn't IRG ninety seven?
Speaker 1: You put it by clink?
Speaker 2: Was it?
Speaker 1: I couldn't leave you free to talk? Why isn't me?
I'm gonna die tobout how they'd mob me? Everybody wanted
to get catch you see there. You wouldn't have known
what to do with it. Anyway, you'd have wasted it.
Oh the way I.
Speaker 2: Worked, and even the doors, the hats you gave them,
theirs put me you keep here?
Speaker 1: Ah, I'm sorry, can truly I'm sorry. Here is a
man who dispenses youth out of one bottle and out
of another. Death give a man that kind of power,
and who knows in what direction it will bend his mind?
But would you want to be the person who.
Speaker 8: Drank four drops out of one or perhaps the other
of his bottles. Jessica Stone has a decision to make.
We'll see how she makes it when I returned shortly
with Act three, there's nothing very new about a desire
to recapture youth. Counts de Leon traveled a long way
looking for a fountain of youth that didn't exist. A
fellow named Faust is said to have sold his soul
to the devil in exchange for youth, who though could
yearn more poignantly for.
Speaker 1: The return of youth.
Speaker 2: And a famous actress who is beginning to realize that
youth and beauty are slipping away from her. Nathan Hardy
has offered Jessica Stone her second chance at youth.
Speaker 3: Hello them, Jessica, La looked at something you must do
for me?
Speaker 1: Of course?
Speaker 4: What liquidate everything?
Speaker 3: Understand, Tell everything I own for whatever you can get,
and bring the money up here to me in cash,
in cash, yes, clea cash, Jessica, are you out of
your mind?
Speaker 4: Within twenty four hours? Don't try to make decisions for me, Jim,
Just do as I say.
Speaker 1: Don't damn well, I can't sell everything within twenty four hours.
It's impossible.
Speaker 6: Don't make problems for me.
Speaker 7: Just get the money, all right, Jim, Jim, Nathan.
Speaker 4: Have you seen Cal anywhere?
Speaker 1: M Cal?
Speaker 7: No?
Speaker 1: Why?
Speaker 4: Then, well, I'd like him to go to the shopping center.
Speaker 1: I gave Carol the day off to day. As a
matter of fact, he may be gone for several days.
Has some kind of family trouble. I didn't get the
straight of it.
Speaker 4: Family trouble, Well, so myself. Maybe Jessica would like to
go with me.
Speaker 1: Well, the truth is I promised to show Jessica the
Rose Garden this afternoon.
Speaker 3: The roads garden.
Speaker 4: But Nathan, she can see that anytime.
Speaker 1: The point is, Beth, she wanted to see it this afternoon,
and I promised to show it to her.
Speaker 4: Nathan, I don't like deceiving Beth. Why would you make
bes young again? There's enough of that stuff he isn't
there for all of us.
Speaker 1: That stuff is called r J ninety seven. There's enough, Yes,
but I don't want to give it to Beth. I
wanna give it to you.
Speaker 4: Couldn't you give it to both of us? She'd be
young and beautiful again. She was beautiful when you're married.
Speaker 1: H huh as beautiful as you. Oh you I have
always loved always, Oh, Jessica, and I can give you
such a life. Think of it, both of us young,
A brilliant scientist, a great actress.
Speaker 3: Nathan. What's that?
Speaker 1: What's what.
Speaker 4: Under that big tree? That mom looks like a grave?
Speaker 1: A fresh grave? Oh yes, yes, if there's a grade
nae from one of my dogs died this morning I
buried him.
Speaker 4: Looks big enough to be a man's face.
Speaker 1: He was a safe but not as big as a
man of her.
Speaker 3: Let's get out of here, alright, Nathan, n I I
can't do this to death.
Speaker 1: You insistly be married? Why that big? Oh not really?
We'll be completely different people, don't you understand? In our twenties,
As far as anybody can tell her, we won't be
Nathan Hardy and Jessica's stone anymore. We don't love you,
but I won't be the same man. Can't you get
that through your head? I'll be well. Actually, I how
big as young as you? And I wasn't a bad
looking man when I was young, Jessica. Not the points.
I don't love you, Jessica. We're going to do this
my way. Oh, we're not going to do it at all.
Speaker 4: I'll get it.
Speaker 1: I'm sure it's for you, Jesse. Good best thing you
were mad in New York.
Speaker 4: I guess it could be Jim.
Speaker 3: Yes, I told him I wanted the money here by falling.
Speaker 5: Oh it's for you, Jesse.
Speaker 6: Oh okay, thank you.
Speaker 4: Jim Blake from New York again. He has a nice voice.
Speaker 8: Yes, hello, Jim, I've soldier stocks don't make any on
anything else, Josh Stocks, Well, how much does it come to?
Speaker 1: I we'll count the money when I get there.
Speaker 4: It's in cash, Yes, it's in cash. How are you
coming out.
Speaker 1: Frying the bangor doing a rule eleven to thirty? Can
you meet me?
Speaker 4: Yes, I'll borrow Nathan's car.
Speaker 1: I'll be dead all right?
Speaker 5: Is it coming here?
Speaker 7: That's wonderful?
Speaker 4: He's uh, he heems very upset.
Speaker 1: What about What right has he to be upset? He's
going to be a business manager.
Speaker 5: Well, he's a good friend too, or used to be,
just for me.
Speaker 3: I come in, What is it?
Speaker 5: I couldn't sleep, Oh and I thought I.
Speaker 4: Heard you cry.
Speaker 6: Oh that I couldn't do it.
Speaker 1: I just can't do what.
Speaker 5: Could Nathan wants you to?
Speaker 6: What Nathan wants you to?
Speaker 4: I lied to you.
Speaker 6: I didn't find out what she's been working on it.
Speaker 3: He's developed a sing a serum or something that he
called r J ninety seven.
Speaker 6: He gave it to that old dog in a few minutes.
The dog is young, and it's for you.
Speaker 3: To marry him after we've both taken the RG ninety seven.
Speaker 5: Just that if you didn't exist.
Speaker 1: He is really a dreadful man, isn't he.
Speaker 4: I think I know who is in that grave.
Speaker 3: A person you meet, not a dog, Cow, a handyman.
He had to go away, Nathan said, because of some
kind of family trouble.
Speaker 4: Cow doesn't have any.
Speaker 3: Family that I ever heard of.
Speaker 4: Who will have to call the policeman?
Speaker 1: No, no, not just yet.
Speaker 3: You say you really believe that he can make people
young again.
Speaker 4: He made the dog young.
Speaker 6: I saw that with my own eye.
Speaker 1: I want some about r J.
Speaker 4: Whatever it is.
Speaker 1: I don't think he'll give it to you.
Speaker 6: Bet I'll think of a way to get it. It's
about uh a knowledge. Drive to the house, Jim, Oh,
I have so much to talk.
Speaker 3: To you about it.
Speaker 1: I brought you fifty thousand dollars.
Speaker 4: It doesn't matter now, Jim, the money doesn't matter. That's
all changed, Oh, Jim.
Speaker 3: Nathan has found out how to make old.
Speaker 1: People young again. Found to come.
Speaker 3: Oh no, no, no, he can do it. I saw
him with a dog, and he wants to make me young,
just me and him, and then he wants to.
Speaker 5: But I told this, and she thinks she can.
Speaker 1: When you stop it, Jessica, to stop it. You're not
making any sense.
Speaker 3: Smith and you and I, Jim, we're all going to
be young against.
Speaker 8: Even if there's any truth in all those nonsters, which
I don't believe for a minute.
Speaker 1: I don't want any part of this, But Jim, it
is unnatural and it's no good.
Speaker 4: Jessica, I'm going to do it.
Speaker 5: I want to be young.
Speaker 1: Did he bring the money?
Speaker 4: Yes, yes, Nathan, he brought it. How much all he
could get on such short note?
Speaker 3: How much fifty thousand dollars?
Speaker 1: That's all right, it's enough to get stopped with.
Speaker 2: Nathan.
Speaker 4: I'm not going to marry you.
Speaker 1: I think you will.
Speaker 5: I suppose i'd be.
Speaker 3: He's smarter to let you think I intend to, But
I just can't.
Speaker 4: I don't love you.
Speaker 3: I don't even like you, even if you weren't married
to Beth, even then I couldn't.
Speaker 1: Jessica, that's not very kind of you.
Speaker 3: No, but sometimes it's impossible to be both kind and honest.
Speaker 2: Well, we'll go ahead with a plan. Maybe you'll change
your mind when we're both young. Why don't we just
get out of this place. I don't trust that.
Speaker 3: Oh No. If he's found a way to make people's young,
eye intend.
Speaker 4: To be one of the people it's alright, Chim, You
and Beth will be right.
Speaker 3: There in his living room, just outside the lab.
Speaker 1: Well, how can we get in there without his knowing?
Speaker 4: I don't think you ought to be hard.
Speaker 3: I'll leave there to shakecase with the money in my.
Speaker 5: Room, say I've forgotten it.
Speaker 3: I'll tell him I don't feel well enough to go
back upstairs for it, you know, partly from nervousness. Partly
is to from the smell in the lab, and it
really does smell all.
Speaker 1: I don't see what that has to do with.
Speaker 4: He'll go up and get the money.
Speaker 3: Believe me, he won't make 'em move until he has
his hands on that money. So when he leaves, you
and Beth can come in and hide.
Speaker 1: I don't like it. I don't like any part of it,
read Bloys Gray. I have to say a case, Jessica.
Speaker 3: That's the one Nathan iry in the bedroom. Make sure he.
Speaker 1: Leaves the door open, right right?
Speaker 3: All?
Speaker 1: Are you feeling better now, Jessica?
Speaker 3: Not much? I I don't know.
Speaker 4: I feel sort of fade. It's very close in here.
Speaker 1: Go on into the lab. Let's get this over with it.
Speaker 4: Nathan, Please, can't we have the door open?
Speaker 3: That?
Speaker 4: Who did I I I simply can't breathe.
Speaker 1: Alright, I guess it doesn't matter. Everything's ready, Jessica. That's
your glass there on the counter. Pick it up, Jessica.
Alright is to youth. Now you, Jessica drink I can,
of course you can. You saw me drink mine. It's
perfectly safe.
Speaker 5: H I'm afraid.
Speaker 4: I don't want to anymore.
Speaker 1: Alright, watch me stand there for a few minutes and
watch me grow young and strong again. Then see whether
or not you want to look at me. Look at me.
Speaker 4: Oh lord, look, I could call it.
Speaker 1: It's better than my thoughts. I feel. I feel wonderful.
Now you can drink yours, Jessica. You can see that
it's safe.
Speaker 3: I can't.
Speaker 5: I don't want it.
Speaker 6: I don't want to be the way you are.
Speaker 1: Drink it and give it to me, jeff I'll drink it. No,
I will. You can't stop me. Don't I will?
Speaker 3: There?
Speaker 1: Why didn't hurt? I told you not too badful? It
was meant for Jessica.
Speaker 5: Down my stomach?
Speaker 6: Ohton' what' hive being ugly?
Speaker 2: Oh hm?
Speaker 1: Oh the.
Speaker 2: There's no pulse. It's her own fault. I told her
not to drink it. It was coorse and wasn't it?
And you meant it for Jestice. She wouldn't marry me.
She said terrible things to me. She deserves to die,
and didn't you. I'm going to kill him away from
me yet, meet, don't move e bar of you.
Speaker 1: I'd have to kill you, you know, no matter what.
But if you try anything, I'll do it sooner. An
he needs I'm sure he does. Here in this bottle
is every drop of Arch ninety seven, but it is
everywhere in all the world. I watch closely, all down
the drain, so that there'll never be anyone else. You
see only me. Now watch this. This is the formula
for r J ninety seven. And in this file are
all the notes I made, step by step for ten
long years, torn up in just a few seconds. Yes,
I dropped them in the waste basket, and now I
strike a match. I drop it in the waste basket.
Ten years work up in flames. Don't worry it, doll,
I have it all in my head. I can make more,
uh Jane ninety seven when I need it in forty
or fifty years. But no one else ever, Jessica, I
want you to go to the door and close it.
It's setting up a draft. Very slowly and carefully, so
you don't make me nervous with this gun in my hand.
Do as he says. Just but your enough to move
jim m as much as a muscat. He run, Jessica,
I hold you again.
Speaker 2: Now non's bleeding.
Speaker 1: Never mind. Now we've got him shut inside there.
Speaker 2: Now, help me move this couch in front of the
door so he can't get out.
Speaker 1: After you push me out of the door.
Speaker 5: I durn shot him. You're bleeding.
Speaker 1: He's not a very good shot. He killed this he'll
pay for it, or poor Davis police.
Speaker 2: I want to report a murder, Yes, murder at the
Hardy place.
Speaker 1: Nathan Hardy, well.
Speaker 8: Him.
Speaker 5: The lad's on fire.
Speaker 2: The fire in the waste basket must have set off
some kind You stayed back, Jessica.
Speaker 1: The heat. The heat is too much. I'm afraid the
whole place is going. Oh, poor Beth. I'm sorry, Jessica.
Speaker 4: You know what I forgot yet shaped you all that money?
I left it in the laboratory.
Speaker 1: Considering what might have happened to you, it's not too
high a price to pay.
Speaker 2: As I said earlier, aging is a process shared by
all living things, always has been and always will be.
Waist lines expand, hair turned gray or disappears altogether, and
except for an occasional Nathan Hardy, we all managed to
take a pretty philosophically.
Speaker 1: It isn't all downhill. It has its compensations.
Speaker 2: I'll be back shortly and living quite happily in New
York City now that it doesn't matter to her particularly.
Jessica is, of course one of the busiest actresses around,
and she's happy. After all, doesn't her husband always do
what she asks him to be with us young role
for our next exploration of the not quite Impossible. Our
cast included Anne Shepherd, Norman Rose, Virginia Dyer and Earl Hammond.
The entire production was under the direction of Hymond Brown.
Speaker 1: This is E. G.
Speaker 2: Marshall inviting you to return to our Mystery Theater for
another adventure in the macabre. Until next time the Pleasant
Dreams