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Speaker 1: The CBS Radio Mystery Theater Presents.

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Speaker 2: Come in. Welcome. I'm e. G. Marshall.

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Speaker 1: I'm here to guide.

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Speaker 3: You want an excursion throughout which I believe you'll be very.

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Speaker 1: Glad to have a guide for the way.

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Speaker 3: It's treacherous and horror waits around each turning.

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Speaker 1: Hi, Ojie, I don't me have a cup of coffee

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with you? He do you ever hear of anybody getting

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a free ride on the Long Island Railroad? You're looking

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at the man who did it. The conductor walked right

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past me. I might take it out there ready for him,

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the function He walk right past me. How about that coffee? Archie, Archie,

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you act as if you can't even see me.

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Speaker 3: Our mystery drama, The Master Computer was written especially for

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the Mystery Theater by Field and Farrington and stars Robert

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Dryden and Augusta Dabney. It is sponsored in part by

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Anheuser Busch Incorporated, brewers of Budweiser and Buick Motor Division.

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I'll be back shortly with Act one. Loneliness is a

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burden We've all born in one degree or another. It

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throws us back upon our own personal resources, which, in

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the ordinary course of things are sufficient to sustain us.

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But there's nothing ordinary about the loneliness we're going to

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deal with here, even though two people share it. This

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is loneliness intolerably multiplied. Grace and Harry Clayton are returning

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from a pleasant summer vacation, but they're exhausted. They've driven

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in one day from O'faqwth, Maine to Newton, Long Island,

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a small suburban town in which they live.

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Speaker 1: You know something great, I never realized how beautiful Newton is.

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Speaker 2: Well.

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Speaker 4: I just want to crawl into the house and collapse.

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Oh I hope I can.

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Speaker 1: Make it to the bed one stop first, And I

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want to pick up the mail at the post office

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and tell them they can start regular delivery again tomorrow.

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Speaker 4: Better hurry than the post office closed at five point thirty.

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Speaker 1: Oh I guess I.

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Speaker 4: Think, Oh, Harry, do dread going back to work in

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the morning.

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Speaker 1: Really, vacation's up the end sometimes, otherwise they wouldn't be vacations,

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were they. Oh good parting right in front of the

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post office, are you waiting my car? I won't be

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a minute.

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Speaker 4: I think that man's getting ready to lock up. You'd

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better hurry.

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Speaker 1: I'll catch him the whole lit him minute. Wait, just

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a couple of seconds. I want to pick up some

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mail you've been holding for me. It won't take a second.

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Do you hear what I said? Well, you could answer

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me at least, Well, I'll be dead. Why do people

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have to be so damn rude? He looked right through me.

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You think I wasn't even there?

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Speaker 4: Well, I can pick up the mail in the morning.

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Come on, let's go on home.

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Speaker 1: No, that's not the point. He might at least have

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had the courtesy to answer me.

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Speaker 4: Oh, I guess he was just doing his job. They

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do close at five point thirty.

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Speaker 1: So I would it kill him to say, sorry, mister,

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I can't let you in. Hey, you want to stop

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somewhere for a minute to eat? You don't feel like

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cooking this evening, do you?

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Speaker 4: I don't feel like stop. We'll open a.

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Speaker 1: Can of soup. This bread's moldy, grace.

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Speaker 4: Well, I'm sure there's some kind of crackers in the box.

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Speaker 5: Oh.

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Speaker 4: I've got just about enough energy to eat some soup

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and make one phone call or a phone call. Wh

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I thought i'd call the kids at the camp this evening?

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Speaker 1: What for?

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Speaker 5: Oh?

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Speaker 4: I don't know, really, I just feel like talking to them.

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Speaker 1: Okay, I've been worried about Benny's batting average myself. Hey,

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you go ahead and make the call. I'll hate the soup.

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Speaker 4: I suppose it's silly. I just don't feel like Kenny.

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Speaker 1: Ah.

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Speaker 4: Hello, this is missus Clayton, Tim and Benny's mother, and

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i'd like to speak to can't you hear me? I

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want to speak to either Tim or Benny. This is

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missus Clayton. I'd like to speak to Well, you hung up. Huh, Well,

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it must have been a bad connection. I could hear

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him perfectly well, but he couldn't seem to hear me.

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Speaker 1: Well, tell them again. Maybe you'll get a better connection

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this time.

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Speaker 4: Oh, I guess it's silly anyway, they're probably having suffered.

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How's the soup?

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Speaker 1: Oh? Good? Hey, I think i'll call Pete and Alma

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Rhodes before. Oh, just let him know we're back. No reason.

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I guess we've both got caliphon itis tonight.

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Speaker 4: Okay, Oh, let me talk to Alma before you hang up. O.

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Soup is really as good as I make, but hits

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the spot.

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Speaker 1: Hello, Hi, Ala, it's Harry. We're back. Hello, it's Harry. Alma,

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can't you hear me? Hello? Oh, I don't know miney.

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I guess our phone's out of order. Same thing.

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Speaker 4: She couldn't hear you.

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Speaker 1: Yeah, i'll report it to the phone company tomorrow from

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the office.

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Speaker 4: Oh what if somebody I used to call us tonight?

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Speaker 1: I'll be very glad the phone's out of order. The

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Devil's Hey, Grace, did you turn the water off?

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Speaker 6: I can't hear you.

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Speaker 4: Wait till I got my robum.

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Speaker 1: Did you turn the water off? Grace?

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Speaker 4: Turn the water off?

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Speaker 1: Of course I didn't. Well, it is off.

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Speaker 4: It can't be the shut off valves cleared down in

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the basement. I haven't even been down there since we

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got home. Neither of you.

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Speaker 1: Well, look at it, nor water.

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Speaker 4: It must be out of order.

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Speaker 1: How can the water be out of order unless there's

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a broken maine somewhere.

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Speaker 4: Oh, then there must be a broken maine somewhere. Why

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don't you call the water company?

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Speaker 1: And oh, yeah, the phone's out of order. And I'm

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going to be out of order myself if I don't

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get some coffee pretty soon.

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Speaker 4: There must be well, there ought to be enough ice

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cubes in the refrigerator to melt down, so we can

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make a couple of cups of coffee.

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Speaker 1: Hey, you know what, You're a genius.

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Speaker 4: Oh, Harry, Well, now why everything's melted? Every single thing

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in the freezer? Oh oh, just look at that mess.

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Speaker 1: It's a peak safe. What next?

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Speaker 4: Oh that refrigerator isn't even a year old yet.

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Speaker 1: Wait a minute, no lights, we've got no electricity.

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Speaker 4: But that's what's going on here, Harry. I don't know,

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but I don't see how everything could go out of order,

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I mean, all at the same time.

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Speaker 1: Well, look, I don't have time to check it out.

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I've got a train to catch. I'll get some coffee later.

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Speaker 4: What am I going to do all day in this

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house where nothing work?

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Speaker 1: Go down the block and see Alma. She'll give you

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some coffee and you can use her phone to call.

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I'll see who it is.

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Speaker 4: Oh, you'll miss your train, I'll go.

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Speaker 1: You had to look at your hair this morning?

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Speaker 4: Huh, Okay, you go. I won't be a second. It's

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probably Alma.

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Speaker 1: Anyway, I'm coming, I'm coming.

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Speaker 2: Good morning.

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Speaker 7: You're mister Clayton, aren't you, Harry Clayton. Yes, my name's Handy.

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May I come in?

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Speaker 1: Well? What is it? I was just leaving. I understand

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you've got some trouble here. Yeah, we've got trouble all right.

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Are you from the phone people or the water or

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the electricity? They're all out? As a matter of fact,

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did you find out? Did somebody report it? It was

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reported in a way. May I come in? I guess

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you'd better, Grace, I was just getting ready to leave.

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If I missed the eight twelve, I can't get another

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one until half hour or so. I think it just

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might be better if you didn't leave just yet.

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Speaker 3: Is it?

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Speaker 4: Alma? Did you tell her?

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Speaker 7: Oh? Grace, this is mister and I'm very happy to

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know you. Missus Clayton, mister Handy's from the Where are

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you from? I came just as soon as I could

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get here when we heard about the trouble.

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Speaker 1: If you'll just.

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Speaker 4: Oh, oh, are you going to fix things? You know?

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Nothing's working the water or the telephone or and my

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freezer is just a mess.

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Speaker 1: You can't be here to fix all three of them.

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Speaker 7: Which company are you from? The fact is I'm going

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to ask you both to come with me. We can

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get this whole thing straightened out in no time at all.

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Speaker 1: Come with you.

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Speaker 7: Well, that doesn't make sense it does. Really, I suppose

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it sounds a little strange, But come with you where,

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good question. It's a matter of computer malfunction. You know

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how things can get fouled up. You can't really blame

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the computer.

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Speaker 1: I suppose it must have been improper programming or I

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don't know. It's never happened before, and I'm very sure

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that it will be. What good going to do our

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coming with you? I don't know anything about computers. I'm

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a copywriter, advertising copy nothing to do with that. Actually,

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if you'll just come with you where, I'm afraid I'm

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not at liberty to tell you that, not just yet.

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I think you'd better just leave. Mister Andy, you won't

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come with me. We will not.

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Speaker 4: If you'd tell us where you want to take this and.

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Speaker 1: Maybe forget it. Great, Oh dear, I'm sure I don't

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know what's going to happen. Now. You're going to get

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out of this house and off this property. That's what's

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going to happen, right, all right? I just hope, all right,

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I'm going now.

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Speaker 4: I think you missed your train, Harry, so.

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Speaker 1: I'll take the next one. And if that kook shows

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up again, don't let him in. Hi actually, let me

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have a cup of copy with you. I haven't even

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had my first cut this. I'm dying. Did you ever

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hear of anybody getting a free ride on the Long

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Island Railroad? You're looking at the man who did it.

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The conductor walked right past me. I had the ticket

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out there ready for him to punish me. Walk right

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past me. Hey, hey, how about that coffee? If I

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don't get it sooner? Archie, archie, Archie. You're act as

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if you can't even see me.

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Speaker 4: Anybody home? Alma? It's great? Where are you?

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Speaker 1: Oh?

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Speaker 4: Hi, Alma? You know we tried to call you last night,

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but our phone seems to be out of order.

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Speaker 1: Now I could have sworn I heard that screen door slam.

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Speaker 4: Hey cow, it's me. I slammed the door.

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Speaker 1: Those rotting kids, I swear one of these.

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Speaker 4: Days, Alma, come on, come on, don't play games. Are

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you saw at me or something?

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Speaker 6: Ah?

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Speaker 4: What's the matter with you? Alma?

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Speaker 2: Roads hardware?

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Speaker 1: Dete, it's me. I'm sorry to bother you with the store.

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Speaker 2: Oh that's okay, no business yet. What's up? Will?

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Speaker 1: It's those neighbor kids again.

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Speaker 2: Oh boy, what have they been up to?

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Speaker 6: Now?

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Speaker 8: Well, they were well, they slammed the kitchen door. It

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must have been the kid.

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Speaker 4: Alma, it was me. I slammed the door.

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Speaker 2: I don't want to scare you, but are you sure

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there's nobody in the house.

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Speaker 1: Honey, Oh, there couldn't be. I came right out to

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the kitchen and there's nobody here.

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Speaker 4: Alma, What are you trying to do to me?

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Speaker 9: Okay, I'll speak to their parents again this evening. Any

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sign of Grayson Harriet?

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Speaker 8: Oh no, And I'm getting kind of worried. I know

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they wanted to get home yesterday. Harry was supposed to go.

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Speaker 1: Back to work this morning.

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Speaker 4: Alma. Listen to me, Alma.

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Speaker 2: I decided to take an extra few days or something.

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I wouldn't worry you locked the now.

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Speaker 4: Yes, I will bye, Alma.

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Speaker 1: Please. I wish I knew what happened to Grayson. Harry.

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Speaker 4: Alma, I'm here. I'm here in the kitchen with you.

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Speaker 1: Well, I guess they can take care of themselves. Hellen, Ellen,

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I'm back. Listen, will you knock it off with the

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typing and look at me? For Pete's sake. I'm Harry Clayton.

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I've been here almost three years, damn it. Look at me.

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Stop that typing, all right? If you won't talk to me,

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maybe Dave Green will listen, Dave, I want to know

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what's going on here. I walk into the office where

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I've been working for three years, and she will tell Helen,

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why did you.

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Speaker 7: Open this Door's the door now, mister Green, I've been

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sitting right here.

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Speaker 1: Funny, Okay, give mister Bradwell on the phone. Tell him

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it's about the ocean, mistic count Lessen, Dave, I've had

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just about enough of this.

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Speaker 2: How could it blow open? There's not a breath of

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air in this place.

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Speaker 1: Come on, day But joke said joke, You know perfectly well.

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I'm standing right here beside you. Yes, Oh, how's it going, Ernie?

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Listen about that ocean? Miss copy. I know. But Clayton

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hasn't come in yet this morning day for fet so

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he'll be here, all right.

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Speaker 2: He's a dependable guy.

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Speaker 1: Let's give him another day. He may have had some

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kind of car problem. You know, he's fast. We won't

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lose any time waiting. Don't worry. He'll show up or

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he'll be good and sorry.

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Speaker 3: Is it possible for a man suddenly to become invisible

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for the people around him? Unable to make himself either

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seen or heard. Well, it certainly isn't ordinary, But since

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it seems to be happening to Harry Clayton and to

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his wife Grace, it must be possible. Imagine the feeling

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of total isolation. Imagine the loneliness. I do hope you'll

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be able to hear me when I return shortly. With

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that two, something has gone terribly wrong in the usually

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quiet lives of Grace and Harry Clayton. They find first

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of all that their telephone, water, and electric services have

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been cut off. And then, worse still, far far worse,

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they find that they themselves have been cut off, cut

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off completely from the comfort and warmth of human interchange.

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Other people, friends, and strangers alike, are unable either to

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see or hear them.

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Speaker 1: Grace, Grace, what are you doing sitting out here on

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the curb, Grace? What is it? What's happened?

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Speaker 4: ALM's mad at me?

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Speaker 1: She won't speak to me exactly.

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Speaker 4: I'm not even there.

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Speaker 1: Well, what are you doing sitting out here on the curve?

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Speaker 4: No, I locked myself out. I took my purse, but

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I can't buy my key in it, and I can't

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get in the out.

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Speaker 1: You say, Alma acts as if you're not even there,

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And I think it's me and I told her so,

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the same things happening to me, Grace.

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Speaker 4: I'm's mad at you two.

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Speaker 1: I mean, people don't see me or hear me when

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I speak. The counterman at the diner, Helen, the receptionist

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at the office, even Dave Green the coffee cheese.

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Speaker 4: Why should everybody be mad at us all of a sudden.

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Speaker 1: I don't think they are, Grace. I think they really

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can't see or hear us. Really, cat.

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Speaker 4: Oh but that.

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Speaker 1: Is impossible, is it. I would have said so yesterday

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I would have laughed at the idea. But today it's happening.

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Speaker 4: I don't see how it's possible.

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Speaker 1: If it's happening, it's got to be possible. Ah, let's

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go in the house. Oh I haven't got them.

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Speaker 4: Keys are right there in your.

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Speaker 1: Hand, not the front or back door keys. How could

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they have gotten lost off the ring?

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Speaker 4: They must be dead?

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Speaker 1: No, no, no, no, they're gone. I had them last night.

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We got in all right last night.

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Speaker 4: Oh dear, should we try a window now.

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Speaker 1: They're all locked? Hey, I still got the car keys.

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We can go to a restaurant. No, we can't order.

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Speaker 4: I'm not hungry anyway you.

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Speaker 1: No, No, I'm not, as you mention it. Well, we've

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got to go somewhere. We can't just stand here, Harry.

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Speaker 4: Let's go in and try Pete and Alma again.

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Speaker 1: I can tell you right now it won't work, and

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it's not an experience. I enjoy being treated as though

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I don't exist.

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Speaker 4: But but we could try once more, couldn't we?

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Speaker 1: If it'll make you feel better? Sure, I'm out in

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the kitchen, Pete. Do you hear anything from Grayson Harry? No,

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not her worry? Hey?

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Speaker 2: What's that smell? So good?

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Speaker 1: Oh? Just plain old stew love it? How is your

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day so so.

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Speaker 2: Better than yours? From the way you sound.

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Speaker 1: Now, I can't get Grace and Harry off my mind.

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Speaker 9: Well it is funny they didn't call us something if

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they decided to stay over at the lodge for a while.

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Speaker 1: I just now. Don't laugh at me, Pete.

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Speaker 10: I almost felt as if Grace was here right here

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in the house. Well, come on now, I could have sworn,

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you know, right after that screen doors lambs.

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Speaker 1: Honestly I could have sworn I heard her call my name.

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Speaker 9: I bet your quarter if we called they'd be right

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there in the dining room at the lodge having a

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drink before dinner.

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Speaker 1: Oh could we could we what call the lodge and

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see if they're still there? Well?

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Speaker 2: Sure if you want to?

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Speaker 1: Sure?

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Speaker 2: Why not?

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Speaker 1: I've got the number written down here somewhere. Oh oh, yes,

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is to keep your eye on the stew.

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Speaker 2: Don't let it stick a pleasure taste about ready to me?

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Speaker 1: Is this a poke with Lodge?

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Speaker 4: I'd like to speak.

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Speaker 1: To either mister or missus Harry Clayton Please? Is that

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quarterbed on Quarterbay? Oh? Okay, you win?

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Speaker 8: If they're there and I went if they yes, I see?

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Well can you tell me when they checked out yesterday morning?

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Early yesterday morning?

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Speaker 1: Yes? Well, all right, thank you? Well you heard what

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he said.

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Speaker 2: Yeah, but it's a long drive.

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Speaker 9: They most likely decided to stop at a motel last night.

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Speaker 1: Okay, but why aren't they back now?

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Speaker 8: They've had the whole day off to drive half the

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distance from a poket.

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Speaker 1: If they stopped a motel last.

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Speaker 2: Night, I don't know. Alma, Hey, what do you want

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to bet? That's Grayson Harry right now? I'll go see.

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Speaker 1: Oh if they just got in and tell them there's

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plenty of stew here for poor.

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Speaker 2: Anybody here?

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Speaker 4: Is it empty?

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Speaker 2: Rotten kids?

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Speaker 1: Who was it?

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Speaker 2: Was it?

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Speaker 1: Grayson? Harry kid's next door?

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Speaker 2: Ringing doorbells? Again? I guess there wasn't anybody.

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Speaker 4: There, Pete.

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Speaker 1: I've got the funniest ceiling.

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Speaker 2: Serve the stew Alma. What you need is some good, solid.

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Speaker 1: The funniest ceiling. Like they were here.

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Speaker 4: There must be something we could have done, Harry, something

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to make Pete realize that it was us ringing the doorbell.

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Speaker 1: I don't know why. It's the most frustrating thing that

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ever Come on, Get in the car, Grace. I don't

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know what's happened to us, but I do know that

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they don't go the way you expect them to anymore.

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Speaker 4: I'm scared, Harry, scared?

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Speaker 1: So am I? Oh the car goes that's something anyway, Harry. Yes?

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Speaker 4: Can we drive up the camp catchawassee the boys?

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Speaker 1: You sure you want to? Oh? Yes? What if they

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can't see us or hear us like everybody else? What

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if they don't even know where they are?

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Speaker 4: But surely surely the boys after all we can see

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each other.

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Speaker 1: Yes, but we don't know why. All right, we can

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try it. I guess we've only got about a half

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tankful of gas, though there'll.

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Speaker 4: Be plenty of gas stations along the way.

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Speaker 1: So but one thing, I don't have much money, six

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seven dollars, and I don't know anywhere to get any more.

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And if I had one thousand dollars in my pocket,

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how would I go about getting a gas station attendant

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who doesn't even know I'm there, to put gas in

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the car. I don't know what to do, Pete.

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Speaker 8: They didn't stay on at the lodge in a poked

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They checked out yesterday morning.

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Speaker 9: Well they could have decided to go somewhere else.

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Speaker 2: I mean, is there really any of our business, Pete?

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Speaker 1: There are free Okay.

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Speaker 2: Okay, I don't like the looks of it either.

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Speaker 1: I think we ought to call the police.

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Speaker 9: Now, look, Alma, you don't call the police and say

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you have a feeling something's wrong.

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Speaker 1: They don't operate that way.

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Speaker 2: They'd write you off as a crackpot.

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Speaker 1: Well maybe they would.

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Speaker 8: Maybe I am a crackpot, but I do have this feeling. Well,

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they can write it off if they want to, but

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I can.

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Speaker 9: Well, all right, all right, if you feel that strongly

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about it, I'll call them.

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Speaker 1: No I'm the crackpot. I'll do the calling. What do

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I do, Pete? Just dial the operator five.

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Speaker 2: One six.

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Speaker 9: Zero zero zero zero, Okay, if you'd rather I talk

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to them.

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Speaker 4: No, no, no, no, I'll.

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Speaker 1: Hello police Headquartered.

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Speaker 8: I want a report what I believe is a missing

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person too, missing persons. Their names Harry and Grace Clayton. Yes,

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they live at one forty five Hillside Avenue here in Newton.

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My name is Alma Road. I live just down the

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street from them, at one forty one Hillside. Well, you see,

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they've been away on vacation. They stayed at a Pocot

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lodge in a Pokeet, Maine. Well they were supposed to

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be back home sometime yesterday, and.

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Speaker 1: Well they haven't come back.

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Speaker 8: Yes, we tried the lodge yesterday morning. Yes, the clerk

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said they checked out yesterday morning. Well I suppose it

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doesn't sound like much to.

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Speaker 1: You, but.

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Speaker 8: Oh oh yes, yes that's what I thought too.

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Speaker 1: Well will you let us know no matter what you

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find out?

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Speaker 8: Oh, thank you, officer. That's very good of you. There,

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you see, Pete, he said, I was right to call.

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Speaker 4: I don't think this station's open, Harry.

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Speaker 1: Oh, they're running pretty low on gas. Maybe they don't

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lock their pumps.

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Speaker 4: Isn't there a light in that window around there on

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the sign?

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Speaker 1: Huh oh yeah, looks like it. Hu huh Okay, I'll

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go around and if there's somebody there, I'll offer to

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buy six dollars worth of gas. And if there isn't anybody,

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or if he doesn't hear me, I'll just help myself.

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Speaker 4: Well, I don't know whether to come with you or

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wait here.

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Speaker 1: Wait here, I won't be long. Hello there, I'd like

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to buy some gasoline, six dollars worth of gas, if

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you're open for business. If you don't sell me six

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dollars worth, I'm going to steal a whole tank. Put Okay,

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that's the way you want it.

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Speaker 4: Did you talk to him?

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Speaker 1: Yeah, sure, I talked to him. He didn't answer me,

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of course, but I talked to him. He may have

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been asleep. He was leaning back in a swivel chair

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with his eyes shut.

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Speaker 4: Well, didn't you shake him or anything?

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Speaker 1: No?

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Speaker 3: No, I.

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Speaker 1: Didn't want to touch him. Wait a minute, let me

468
00:26:41,319 --> 00:26:46,839
see if I can make this pump work. Ah, it works,

469
00:26:47,720 --> 00:26:49,240
turns itself off when it's full.

470
00:26:49,880 --> 00:26:53,680
Speaker 4: Harry, Yes, Why didn't you want to touch him?

471
00:26:55,160 --> 00:27:00,400
Speaker 1: I don't know. I've been thinking about that. I haven't

472
00:27:00,400 --> 00:27:04,960
felt like touching anybody all day. On the train earlier,

473
00:27:05,000 --> 00:27:08,599
I kept dodging and ducking so I wouldn't touch the

474
00:27:08,680 --> 00:27:14,160
other passengers. Why. Well, I guess I don't really know.

475
00:27:16,119 --> 00:27:19,799
Maybe I was afraid that they wouldn't feel it if

476
00:27:19,839 --> 00:27:20,759
I touched them.

477
00:27:21,079 --> 00:27:23,200
Speaker 4: But you picked up the pump hose and put it

478
00:27:23,240 --> 00:27:25,680
in the tank. I mean, I mean, if you could

479
00:27:25,680 --> 00:27:26,279
do that.

480
00:27:26,200 --> 00:27:33,200
Speaker 1: I don't, let's go right as soon as the tank's full. See,

481
00:27:34,440 --> 00:27:39,519
the gas hose is a thing. I'm afraid to touch people.

482
00:27:41,200 --> 00:27:42,400
I'm afraid to.

483
00:27:48,200 --> 00:27:48,920
Speaker 2: I'll get it.

484
00:27:48,920 --> 00:27:50,680
Speaker 1: It could be the police, I'll get it anyway.

485
00:27:50,720 --> 00:27:53,680
Speaker 2: Alma, you've already done your part. Hello.

486
00:27:54,759 --> 00:27:58,279
Speaker 9: Yes, mister Rhodes. Oh yes, sergeant, it was my wife

487
00:27:58,319 --> 00:28:02,279
who called you earlier. Well, I don't know exactly. I'd

488
00:28:02,279 --> 00:28:05,359
say early forties. Maybe she's in her late thirties.

489
00:28:07,440 --> 00:28:11,480
Speaker 2: Oh lord, who No, No, that doesn't seem likely.

490
00:28:13,680 --> 00:28:16,920
Speaker 9: Well, yes, yes, I guess we could do that about

491
00:28:17,400 --> 00:28:18,039
twenty minutes.

492
00:28:19,200 --> 00:28:21,359
Speaker 2: Yes, and thank you very much, Sagean.

493
00:28:22,759 --> 00:28:25,519
Speaker 1: Have they found them, Well, they don't know yet.

494
00:28:26,680 --> 00:28:30,079
Speaker 9: There was an accident yesterday afternoon just the Manhattan side

495
00:28:30,079 --> 00:28:31,240
of the Cross Island cut off.

496
00:28:31,279 --> 00:28:31,960
Speaker 5: Oh no, no, no.

497
00:28:32,240 --> 00:28:35,960
Speaker 9: Now wait please, Alman, they don't know yet. Two people,

498
00:28:36,000 --> 00:28:39,200
a man and a woman, were hurt, but they didn't

499
00:28:39,200 --> 00:28:41,880
have any identification on them. Now that doesn't seem likely,

500
00:28:41,960 --> 00:28:44,400
does it. I mean that Grace and Harry would travel

501
00:28:44,440 --> 00:28:45,400
without identification.

502
00:28:46,640 --> 00:28:49,880
Speaker 2: I mean monday, But it looks bad.

503
00:28:50,039 --> 00:28:50,960
Speaker 4: Oh.

504
00:28:51,079 --> 00:28:55,240
Speaker 9: They want us to come over to Union Hospital and

505
00:28:55,279 --> 00:28:57,519
make an identification if we.

506
00:28:57,440 --> 00:29:05,279
Speaker 4: Can, Harry, are you sure you made the right turn

507
00:29:05,319 --> 00:29:05,759
back there?

508
00:29:05,920 --> 00:29:11,519
Speaker 1: I've driven this road a hundred times, Harry. Uh.

509
00:29:11,680 --> 00:29:13,920
Speaker 4: You remember that man who came to see us this morning?

510
00:29:14,160 --> 00:29:18,240
Speaker 1: What was his name? Uh? Handy, mister Handy.

511
00:29:18,279 --> 00:29:23,240
Speaker 4: Yes, yes, I wish we'd gone with him wherever it

512
00:29:23,319 --> 00:29:24,279
was he wanted us to go.

513
00:29:25,160 --> 00:29:28,400
Speaker 1: Maybe it didn't seem like a very good idea at

514
00:29:28,400 --> 00:29:29,319
the time though, but.

515
00:29:29,319 --> 00:29:31,839
Speaker 4: At least he could see us and hear us.

516
00:29:32,680 --> 00:29:36,799
Speaker 1: Yeah, you're right kind of to think of it. He's

517
00:29:36,839 --> 00:29:41,039
the only one who's been able to all day, Harry.

518
00:29:42,519 --> 00:29:47,240
Speaker 4: Yes, do you want to know what I think has

519
00:29:47,319 --> 00:29:48,640
happened to us?

520
00:29:49,880 --> 00:29:50,319
Speaker 1: All right?

521
00:29:52,440 --> 00:29:53,400
Speaker 4: I think we're dead.

522
00:29:57,799 --> 00:30:03,519
Speaker 3: The most perplexing mystery of all or death. Philosophers have

523
00:30:03,599 --> 00:30:07,440
devoted lifetimes to puzzling over it, and the best they've

524
00:30:07,480 --> 00:30:12,000
come up with is pure surmise. Is to be sure,

525
00:30:12,039 --> 00:30:15,559
the cessation of life as we know it, but few

526
00:30:15,599 --> 00:30:19,640
of us can believe that it represents the absolute end.

527
00:30:20,720 --> 00:30:25,079
There must be a continuation, and in the nature of

528
00:30:25,160 --> 00:30:27,000
this continuation.

529
00:30:27,079 --> 00:30:28,000
Speaker 1: Lies the mystery.

530
00:30:29,160 --> 00:30:34,440
Speaker 3: Are we mirroring a solution, well, one solution perabs we'll

531
00:30:34,480 --> 00:30:50,480
see when I return shortly with Act three. For the

532
00:30:50,519 --> 00:30:53,640
rest of the world, Grace and Harry Clayton have apparently

533
00:30:53,720 --> 00:30:57,880
ceased to exist. Although they move about among people as

534
00:30:57,920 --> 00:31:01,480
they have always done, these people are now quite unaware

535
00:31:01,519 --> 00:31:05,519
of their presence. Grace has come to believe that they

536
00:31:05,519 --> 00:31:08,640
are actually dead, and that the mysterious thing.

537
00:31:08,480 --> 00:31:12,119
Speaker 1: That has happened to them is life after death.

538
00:31:13,000 --> 00:31:15,240
Speaker 3: They're on their way now to see their two boys,

539
00:31:15,319 --> 00:31:17,000
Tim and Benny at Campcachawa.

540
00:31:17,480 --> 00:31:22,079
Speaker 1: They suddenly feel a great need to do this. No,

541
00:31:23,839 --> 00:31:28,559
I don't think so, don't think what alright? They we're dead?

542
00:31:29,640 --> 00:31:34,799
I mean, what it be like? This? Is this just

543
00:31:35,039 --> 00:31:37,240
this what it's all about?

544
00:31:37,799 --> 00:31:42,319
Speaker 4: Well, then what is it? If it isn't death.

545
00:31:43,599 --> 00:31:44,119
Speaker 1: I don't know.

546
00:31:45,599 --> 00:31:47,920
Speaker 4: Could it be some kind of an of an in

547
00:31:48,000 --> 00:31:52,559
between thing? I mean, like like purgatory or or limbo

548
00:31:52,680 --> 00:31:57,079
or or I don't know what you'd call it, but

549
00:31:57,079 --> 00:31:59,119
but could it be something like that?

550
00:32:00,319 --> 00:32:04,480
Speaker 1: It could be anything. It could be ohright, make a

551
00:32:04,799 --> 00:32:09,880
right here. DI want the boys be in bed, Bunna.

552
00:32:09,880 --> 00:32:12,640
Speaker 4: I don't care. We can go into their cabins and

553
00:32:13,279 --> 00:32:17,160
and well we can look at them. At least nobody

554
00:32:17,200 --> 00:32:18,279
can keep us from doing that.

555
00:32:19,559 --> 00:32:27,799
Speaker 1: No, you think it's for the last time, don't you.

556
00:32:27,880 --> 00:32:38,119
Speaker 5: Grace, Yes, you stay here in the waiting room, Mamma,

557
00:32:38,359 --> 00:32:38,759
I'll go.

558
00:32:38,759 --> 00:32:39,720
Speaker 2: In and see them.

559
00:32:39,880 --> 00:32:41,079
Speaker 1: I ought to go in there with you.

560
00:32:41,720 --> 00:32:44,200
Speaker 9: If I weren't, what would be the point in case

561
00:32:44,240 --> 00:32:47,359
it should be Harry and Grace. It wouldn't help matters

562
00:32:47,359 --> 00:32:53,160
for both of us to have to see them.

563
00:32:53,200 --> 00:32:56,000
Speaker 6: Pete, Yes it.

564
00:32:58,079 --> 00:32:59,319
Speaker 1: Is Grace and Harry.

565
00:33:00,079 --> 00:33:04,359
Speaker 9: Yes are they they're still alive. Doctor says he doesn't

566
00:33:04,400 --> 00:33:07,559
see how it's possible, but they're both still alive.

567
00:33:08,000 --> 00:33:09,200
Speaker 1: Is there any hope at all?

568
00:33:10,400 --> 00:33:12,920
Speaker 2: Well, there's always hope. I'm quoting the doctor.

569
00:33:13,799 --> 00:33:16,680
Speaker 1: I don't understand about no identification.

570
00:33:16,759 --> 00:33:18,200
Speaker 2: Yeah, yeah, neither does anyone else.

571
00:33:19,319 --> 00:33:22,559
Speaker 9: There just wasn't anything in his pockets or her bag either.

572
00:33:22,680 --> 00:33:23,960
Speaker 1: Would they have been dropped?

573
00:33:24,160 --> 00:33:27,240
Speaker 9: I don't think there was time look, I told the

574
00:33:27,279 --> 00:33:29,359
doctor we'd wait, but if you'd rather.

575
00:33:29,279 --> 00:33:32,599
Speaker 1: No, No, I want to stay.

576
00:33:32,720 --> 00:33:37,799
Speaker 8: The only thing is I think I'm I'm going to cry.

577
00:33:37,480 --> 00:33:40,160
Speaker 2: Now you go ahead, Maybe I will too.

578
00:33:49,799 --> 00:33:52,920
Speaker 4: What's this the office? Why are you stopping at the office.

579
00:33:53,039 --> 00:33:56,960
Speaker 1: Well, maybe the council talked to us. Well he might

580
00:33:57,960 --> 00:33:58,720
just because.

581
00:33:58,440 --> 00:34:04,720
Speaker 4: We know better, Harry, Yeah, okay, but anyway, we don't

582
00:34:04,720 --> 00:34:06,279
know what cabin Tim and Benny are in.

583
00:34:06,920 --> 00:34:09,079
Speaker 1: They must have a record of it somewhere in the office.

584
00:34:09,800 --> 00:34:12,400
Speaker 4: Tim wrote that they have a little cabin all to themselves.

585
00:34:13,159 --> 00:34:21,840
Speaker 1: These prices, they should have room service if if you're right,

586
00:34:23,639 --> 00:34:24,599
what about the boys?

587
00:34:26,039 --> 00:34:31,440
Speaker 4: I don't know. My sister I guess and her husband

588
00:34:31,599 --> 00:34:34,400
Alice and Fred. They'll be good to them.

589
00:34:34,440 --> 00:34:46,639
Speaker 1: And oh, honey, we don't know, not yet. We're not sure. Okay,

590
00:34:48,239 --> 00:34:54,320
good evening. We're mister and missus Clayton, Tim and Benny's parents,

591
00:34:54,400 --> 00:34:58,639
and there's John Finch. I'm sorry to bother you while

592
00:34:58,639 --> 00:35:01,920
you're on the phone here you Harry, Hey, Clara, how's

593
00:35:01,920 --> 00:35:04,800
it going. Yeah, I'm stuck here tonight, you know, just

594
00:35:04,840 --> 00:35:06,599
waiting for the phone to ring or whatever. If you

595
00:35:06,599 --> 00:35:08,280
could just take a second or two and tell us

596
00:35:08,280 --> 00:35:10,199
which cabin, tim and Benny Clayton.

597
00:35:09,920 --> 00:35:13,199
Speaker 4: Were and we find it for ourselves. Harry, he doesn't

598
00:35:13,199 --> 00:35:13,800
know we're here.

599
00:35:14,039 --> 00:35:16,000
Speaker 1: Let's check this filing seven as as long as I

600
00:35:16,000 --> 00:35:19,119
got this place to my What the devil? Hey, just

601
00:35:19,119 --> 00:35:21,559
hang on a minute, Clara, Health Chart seasonal fly.

602
00:35:21,719 --> 00:35:22,159
Speaker 2: I did that?

603
00:35:22,199 --> 00:35:22,320
Speaker 9: Now?

604
00:35:22,360 --> 00:35:24,119
Speaker 1: Wait, wait a minute. Who's in here? This could be it?

605
00:35:24,280 --> 00:35:27,480
Speaker 4: Yes, Arnold Barlow, Yes, yes, here it is Clayton, Timothy

606
00:35:27,559 --> 00:35:29,480
and Benjamin cabin number seven.

607
00:35:29,639 --> 00:35:33,320
Speaker 1: Minute that phone back in there. Oh lord, let's go Grace.

608
00:35:33,519 --> 00:35:36,400
Speaker 4: Clara. Hey, Clara, something screwy's going on here?

609
00:35:43,079 --> 00:35:45,079
Speaker 1: Can you read the number on the door there? It's

610
00:35:45,119 --> 00:35:45,599
so dark?

611
00:35:45,760 --> 00:35:46,679
Speaker 4: Yeah, this is it?

612
00:35:47,039 --> 00:35:49,199
Speaker 1: Number seven? Are you?

613
00:35:49,960 --> 00:35:51,960
Speaker 4: Are you going to try to talk to the Mary?

614
00:35:52,400 --> 00:35:56,119
Speaker 1: We'll see and there must be a light switch somewhere.

615
00:35:56,519 --> 00:35:57,440
Oh here.

616
00:35:58,639 --> 00:36:03,599
Speaker 10: Oh, they look like angels when they're asleep.

617
00:36:04,599 --> 00:36:10,400
Speaker 1: All kids do? You don't have to whisper? Oh, I

618
00:36:10,519 --> 00:36:13,880
have it. I guess you want to try to wake

619
00:36:13,880 --> 00:36:14,400
from us?

620
00:36:14,599 --> 00:36:19,480
Speaker 4: No, No, I think I'd rather not look at that, Tana.

621
00:36:19,880 --> 00:36:24,039
Speaker 1: Benny he's been living in the sound. Yeah. I think

622
00:36:24,039 --> 00:36:25,519
it's bleached his hair some too.

623
00:36:26,599 --> 00:36:29,480
Speaker 4: Oh, Jim's got a big scrape place right on the

624
00:36:29,559 --> 00:36:33,239
end of his nose. Oh, Harry, I.

625
00:36:33,280 --> 00:36:36,400
Speaker 1: Think we'd better get out of here, Greg, Not just yet, please,

626
00:36:38,039 --> 00:36:40,320
it might be the last.

627
00:36:41,239 --> 00:36:43,559
Speaker 4: Can't we stay for just.

628
00:36:43,519 --> 00:36:48,880
Speaker 1: A little while? All right, We'll I have to go eventually.

629
00:36:49,760 --> 00:36:54,199
Speaker 4: Benny's Oh, Benny's been biting his nails again.

630
00:37:01,440 --> 00:37:02,480
Speaker 1: Mister Handy.

631
00:37:03,400 --> 00:37:09,239
Speaker 3: Will you come in now, Yes, sir, I'm sure you

632
00:37:09,440 --> 00:37:12,199
know why you're here, mister Handy.

633
00:37:12,679 --> 00:37:15,840
Speaker 1: The Clayton situation, of course. I'd just like to point

634
00:37:15,840 --> 00:37:18,320
out though, that if the computer hadn't malfund.

635
00:37:18,000 --> 00:37:21,920
Speaker 11: She managed for a good many hundreds of years before.

636
00:37:21,639 --> 00:37:22,760
Speaker 1: We had the computer.

637
00:37:23,039 --> 00:37:27,639
Speaker 11: You know, Yes, sir, the situation as it stands is

638
00:37:27,760 --> 00:37:34,079
quite intolerable. We've lost them, lost them. They wandered away,

639
00:37:35,239 --> 00:37:40,679
drove their car, I believe, and the computer, even now

640
00:37:40,719 --> 00:37:44,039
in good working order, hasn't been able to locate them.

641
00:37:44,159 --> 00:37:49,320
Oh dear, Yes, you made contact.

642
00:37:48,800 --> 00:37:52,199
Speaker 1: This morning and then let them get away. Isn't that true?

643
00:37:52,480 --> 00:37:56,400
They wouldn't come with me, sir, They absolutely refused. Well,

644
00:37:57,159 --> 00:37:58,679
it's still your assignment.

645
00:38:00,519 --> 00:38:07,119
Speaker 11: Assignment, Go and find them, mister Handy, Go and find

646
00:38:07,400 --> 00:38:09,480
Grace and Harry Clayton.

647
00:38:09,840 --> 00:38:14,519
Speaker 1: But if the computer can't find you.

648
00:38:13,280 --> 00:38:26,519
Speaker 6: Must Pete, what did the doctor.

649
00:38:26,280 --> 00:38:33,280
Speaker 2: Say they're gone out, Pete. It's a blessing.

650
00:38:33,360 --> 00:38:37,880
Speaker 9: Really, they were so well, they were just too sadly

651
00:38:38,000 --> 00:38:45,840
banged up, brain damage in both cases and just too much. Well,

652
00:38:46,960 --> 00:38:48,480
we've got to call Grace's sister.

653
00:38:49,679 --> 00:38:50,639
Speaker 2: You want to or shall I?

654
00:38:51,039 --> 00:39:02,239
Speaker 1: No, I'll do it now.

655
00:39:02,320 --> 00:39:04,280
Speaker 4: What are we out of gas?

656
00:39:05,079 --> 00:39:09,159
Speaker 1: No? Not according to the gauge. Damn things, just stop,

657
00:39:09,239 --> 00:39:09,639
that's all.

658
00:39:12,079 --> 00:39:14,039
Speaker 4: What are we going to do now, Harry?

659
00:39:14,559 --> 00:39:18,760
Speaker 1: I don't know. Just sit here, I guess, or get

660
00:39:18,800 --> 00:39:23,840
out and walk in the fog. I don't think it

661
00:39:23,960 --> 00:39:24,639
matters much.

662
00:39:25,320 --> 00:39:27,960
Speaker 4: We can't just leave the car sitting here in the

663
00:39:28,039 --> 00:39:30,039
road like this, can we?

664
00:39:31,239 --> 00:39:33,519
Speaker 1: How long since we've seen a car, Grace?

665
00:39:35,079 --> 00:39:36,400
Speaker 4: Well not for a long time.

666
00:39:38,840 --> 00:39:47,519
Speaker 1: Listen but what just listen? Do you hear anything anything

667
00:39:47,559 --> 00:39:47,880
at all?

668
00:39:49,280 --> 00:39:55,280
Speaker 4: Well, it's it's nighttime, a foggy night. Nobody, no frogs,

669
00:39:56,639 --> 00:40:05,639
no crickets, absolutely nothing. It's scary with the fuck everything, yeah,

670
00:40:06,519 --> 00:40:12,719
especially everything, mister Clayton, missus Clayton. Yes, we're here, we're

671
00:40:12,800 --> 00:40:15,159
right here. Do you think it's mister handy?

672
00:40:15,159 --> 00:40:15,480
Speaker 6: Harry?

673
00:40:15,639 --> 00:40:18,840
Speaker 1: I don't know. Somebody knows we're alive at least or

674
00:40:19,000 --> 00:40:19,559
that we're not.

675
00:40:19,960 --> 00:40:21,920
Speaker 4: Is it you? Mister handy, Yes, it's me.

676
00:40:22,480 --> 00:40:24,719
Speaker 1: Don't go away. Oh my goodness, what a time I

677
00:40:24,719 --> 00:40:26,840
had finding you. You shouldn't have left the house so

678
00:40:26,960 --> 00:40:30,519
we couldn't get back in. We both lost our keys somewhere. Yes, well,

679
00:40:31,320 --> 00:40:32,800
it doesn't matter now, does it.

680
00:40:33,079 --> 00:40:36,400
Speaker 4: Mister Handy? Are we dead?

681
00:40:37,280 --> 00:40:40,320
Speaker 1: Yes, you are. Now the computer's been fixed. What's a

682
00:40:40,400 --> 00:40:42,639
computer got to do with it? You see, when the

683
00:40:42,679 --> 00:40:45,280
truck crashed across the divider and hit your car on

684
00:40:45,320 --> 00:40:48,239
the way home from Maine, you know, just at that

685
00:40:48,360 --> 00:40:53,960
moment the computer malfunctioned. It didn't record your debts. So well,

686
00:40:54,000 --> 00:40:57,000
of course you weren't properly dead or properly alive either,

687
00:40:57,079 --> 00:41:00,400
and all sorts of things when Haywire. We're really terribly sorry.

688
00:41:01,119 --> 00:41:05,280
Speaker 4: So that's how it was. It seems so strange. We

689
00:41:06,119 --> 00:41:08,440
didn't well, we didn't even notice.

690
00:41:08,599 --> 00:41:12,000
Speaker 1: It was instantaneous, or would have been except for that

691
00:41:12,079 --> 00:41:14,960
miserable computer. You've been in a coma while. We got

692
00:41:14,960 --> 00:41:19,159
it repaired. So what happens now? Well, you aren't going

693
00:41:19,239 --> 00:41:21,159
to make trouble about coming along with me this time?

694
00:41:21,199 --> 00:41:21,519
Are you?

695
00:41:21,719 --> 00:41:21,880
Speaker 2: Oh?

696
00:41:21,920 --> 00:41:24,480
Speaker 1: No, no, not this time. Oh good, that's fine, and

697
00:41:24,800 --> 00:41:26,960
everything's all right, except we.

698
00:41:27,000 --> 00:41:28,920
Speaker 4: Have two children, you know, mister handy.

699
00:41:29,039 --> 00:41:30,800
Speaker 1: But they're provided for, aren't they.

700
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Speaker 4: Well, we'll we'll never see them again.

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Speaker 1: What do you mean, you'll never see them again?

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Speaker 4: We're dead, they're they're alive.

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00:41:41,239 --> 00:41:46,280
Speaker 1: Well, but they'll die of course, why eventually everybody does

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00:41:46,760 --> 00:41:53,639
you know that? Oh? Well, at least we get to

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00:41:53,679 --> 00:41:57,920
see them once more. But to wait a lifetime, No,

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my dear little hardly seem longer than drawing in a

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00:42:01,519 --> 00:42:06,159
breath and breathing it out again. We're dealing with eternity here,

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you know.

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00:42:14,320 --> 00:42:16,119
Speaker 2: Well, perhaps that's the.

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Speaker 1: Way it happens, Perhaps it isn't.

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Speaker 3: All we can do is pass the story along to

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you as it came to us.

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Speaker 1: Each of us, whether he is aware of it or.

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Speaker 3: Not, has his own thoughts upon death and what follows it,

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based on what he has witnessed, what he feels in

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00:42:34,000 --> 00:42:37,920
his heart, and maybe on what he has heard on

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00:42:38,079 --> 00:42:38,840
mystery theater.

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Speaker 1: I'll be back shortly.

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Speaker 3: There is no way to give you a follow up

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00:42:55,199 --> 00:42:58,440
on what happened after the end of our story. We

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are not privy to that information, and we like to believe,

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00:43:02,679 --> 00:43:06,280
and do believe that all went well and that we've

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00:43:06,320 --> 00:43:08,760
given you as happy an ending as a story about

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death can have. Our cast included Augusta Dabney, Robert Dryden,

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00:43:13,559 --> 00:43:17,840
Joan Shay, Nat Polham and Robert Maxwell. The entire production

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00:43:18,079 --> 00:43:24,679
was under the direction of Hyman Brown and now a

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preview of our next tale, Where.

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Speaker 4: Do you feelil?

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00:43:28,760 --> 00:43:31,280
Speaker 5: What is so much but your hair?

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Speaker 4: Sit down on the rock? Cast me?

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Speaker 1: Maybe?

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00:43:36,519 --> 00:43:41,199
Speaker 12: Maybe if I had a Brandy telephone call No no, no, no, craze,

733
00:43:41,599 --> 00:43:43,599
he's operating at seven. I'm just going to kill.

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Speaker 10: Something might face through the red cloth and I'll be

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right off.

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Speaker 12: I heard them every word. They're coming back killers. Oh

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what shall I do? Is a tool to call the police?

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Speaker 1: Term in the money?

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Speaker 12: Maybe not?

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00:44:04,079 --> 00:44:05,840
Speaker 1: But give up eighty.

741
00:44:05,599 --> 00:44:08,960
Speaker 12: Thousand dollars because I'm afraid of a pair of hootings. Quote.

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Speaker 2: If I got to be afraid of.

743
00:44:10,639 --> 00:44:14,239
Speaker 12: Say they confront me, I tell them that I haven't.

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Speaker 1: Got the money. Would they risk shooting me? Now?

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Speaker 2: I won't give up that money.

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Speaker 1: I vote Radio.

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Speaker 3: Mystery Theater were sponsored in part by Buick Motor Division

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00:44:25,719 --> 00:44:30,440
and Anheuser Busch Incorporated brewers of Budweiser. This is Eg

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00:44:30,679 --> 00:44:34,119
Marshall inviting you to return to our Mystery Theater for

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another adventure in the macabre. Until next time, pleasant dreams.

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Speaker 1: BA back