Speaker 1: Come in welcome. I'm e. G.
Speaker 2: Marshall, guardian of the flame that flickers and flares here
seven times each week. The incredibly sophisticated jet crashes, the
absolutely safe luxury liner founders. The beautifully engineered bridge collapses.
The reason can be picky on almost poultry. The malfunction
of a part that might cost all of twenty two
cents could destroy a machine worth millions, A simple but
undetected mathematical error, and might insidiously to apply itself to
a point where a magnificent structure suddenly becomes.
Speaker 1: A heap of ruin and rubble.
Speaker 2: Or perhaps what we're talking about is beyond science. Our
mystery drama Fireball, was written especially for the Mystery Theater
by Sam Dan and stars Kim Hunter. It is sponsored
in part by Buick Motor Division.
Speaker 1: I'll do that shortly.
Speaker 2: With that one. We assume that we are superior to
the other members of the animal kingdom.
Speaker 1: We believe that we.
Speaker 2: Are more intelligent. After all, look at what we can do.
Certainly animals can't read, write, build, manufacture, And if they can't,
how does it happen that we can. We like to
say that man is blessed with a divine spot. If
if this is true, that can only mean that God
or the gods will speak to us and our works
our expressions of their will. Benjamin can't well or we
Ben that he is known in industrial and government circles,
comes home one evening.
Speaker 3: Is that, evangabine, what are you expecting? I wasn't expecting you.
Speaker 1: Why not?
Speaker 4: You know perfectly well the days, even weeks go by without.
Speaker 1: E a scene a louise. You know it's necessary for me.
Speaker 3: I couldn't say it wasn't necessary.
Speaker 1: But why are you complaining?
Speaker 4: I wasn't aware that I was complaining? And then he
stated a shot. Since you're not home more often than
you are home than your very presence is a surprise.
Speaker 3: Would you like me to begin all over again?
Speaker 2: I'll try to spend more time at home. But what
I'm doing is import and the very fate of our country.
Speaker 1: Rests on it.
Speaker 3: I didn't say, no, the fate of.
Speaker 2: The entire free world. I'd like a little sympathy and
understanding for my own wife.
Speaker 4: You can have all the sympathy and understanding you want.
Speaker 3: It's not my fault. You hardly have a home to
collect it.
Speaker 1: Well, I'm home now.
Speaker 3: And it's only Friday.
Speaker 4: Don't tell me we're actually going to spend a weekend together.
Speaker 1: You know, I couldn't wait to get home here to
the country.
Speaker 3: Of her guests got to arrive tomorrow at MO.
Speaker 2: Lawrence and his wife will be coming later tonight, and
Senator Sullivan and his well, I assume Jesus wife.
Speaker 4: And yeah, I thought we were going to have a
quiet little weekend.
Speaker 1: Well it will be more than native can all told.
Speaker 2: Thanks for telling me, now, Louise, you don't understand. I'm
having some important people here, but always important.
Speaker 1: Well, you know who I invite.
Speaker 2: Senator Sullivan is chairman of the Military Appropriations Committee at
More Lawrence, I'll I'm impressed. I'm not saying all this
to impress you. I want you to know who these
people are. Why so I can defer to them, No,
so that you can discuss things intelligently.
Speaker 3: What are we supposed to discuss? It's all top secret.
Speaker 4: All I give up now, then I'd like to understand
what it is we're supposed to discuss. After all, the
reason you invite them is always to sell them something.
Speaker 1: That's not true.
Speaker 2: I'm not here to sell you aren't if I'm here
to help them understand our country's true need and defense material.
Speaker 1: And of course, since.
Speaker 4: Your products best satisfy those needs, this.
Speaker 1: Is an inference they are free to make after.
Speaker 4: You have whined them and dined and entertained them.
Speaker 2: Why do you insist on making it sound so so disreputable?
Speaker 4: Then please admit hit The fact is everything you manufacture
used to kill somebody.
Speaker 2: That is completely unfair. Somebody has to do it darning.
Speaker 3: All I'm doing is stating the fact.
Speaker 2: Why don't you look around at all the charities, the
hospitals that I have endowed.
Speaker 4: Oh, I must say you have a down to who
was science? First you manufacture the means to main people,
and then you tenderly care for the victims.
Speaker 3: Oh, then you're not all bad.
Speaker 2: Before you accuse me of fappening on human misery, examine
your own conscience.
Speaker 4: At least I don't drap myself in a mantle of
pious hypocrisy.
Speaker 3: I fully expect to be punished by whom.
Speaker 2: Oh, the gods believe you have to take the world
as you find it. Mankind for reasons I'll never understand,
insists on destroying itself. If I didn't make the means
with which to do it someone else would.
Speaker 3: Yes, you were?
Speaker 2: You said I was to come back and I have
to superman to meet the mister.
Speaker 3: Oh, yes, yes, mister Valkan. Then this is mister Joseph Walklan.
Speaker 1: Pleased to meet him, mister.
Speaker 4: Campwell, mister Valkan is our new blacksmith.
Speaker 3: Some has recommended him.
Speaker 2: Oh and had you ever worked for mister Summers.
Speaker 1: No, sir, Dick Summers worked for me. Is that so? Well?
You're much younger man, in gesse? I'm older than I look.
Speaker 2: I taught Dick Summers the business you taught old Dick Summers. Yep,
And there's still a business in them days. Of course,
motor cars had already been around while, and all them factors,
but there were still plenty of horses, like the deliveries
in the town and work on the farm.
Speaker 1: You look like such a young man. Well, these days
ain't much work.
Speaker 2: You can pick up some money getting connected with a
racetrack or on a couple of estates like this one
where the rich folks have stables. As my wife already
discussed your pay and other arrangements. Yes, sir, mister cantwell,
and I'll find everything satisfactory. Very well, that'll be all,
thank you, mister Cantwell, Louise, Yes.
Speaker 1: I want you to fire him? Then, why I want
you to fire him?
Speaker 3: Oh not unless you tell me why I can't? Oh,
yes you can. I know you.
Speaker 4: You have sudden automatic responses. You're a creature of violent
first impressions. Would you cut against that? Man?
Speaker 1: I said, I don't know.
Speaker 3: Something bothers you try to analyze it.
Speaker 1: Why isn't it enough that it bothers me?
Speaker 3: Tell me?
Speaker 1: All right? Is it as good a reason as.
Speaker 2: Any I I don't like to form people.
Speaker 1: Oh see, not well, obviously he's very lame. You see
how he walks? You hear how he walks?
Speaker 3: Can this be your conscience?
Speaker 4: Suppose he's a veteran and he was named by one
of your instruments of destruction.
Speaker 2: For the last time, I am not ashamed of what
I'm doing. It's worked, that is legitimate, necessary and moral.
It's sanctioned by the law.
Speaker 3: Why do you protest so much?
Speaker 2: Because I all forget it?
Speaker 3: Do you any want to know why I hired him?
Speaker 4: I hired this one because of his name. His name, Yes,
it was just too delicious to resist.
Speaker 3: His name is Falcon.
Speaker 4: Welcan Falcon was one of the ancient gods, the god
of fire.
Speaker 3: He was actually a blacksmith.
Speaker 4: He made all the weapons for the other gods.
Speaker 1: Are you sure you're all right?
Speaker 3: I think it was married to Venus.
Speaker 1: Now, Louise, what kind of ni didn't work?
Speaker 3: She was always cheating on him?
Speaker 2: All right, all right, you've had your little joke. Let
him catch up with whatever shoeing he has to do,
and then let him go.
Speaker 5: Oh oh, Bart, and mister Vulcan h more than MSUs Cantwell,
how long have you been doing this, mister Vulcan?
Speaker 3: Oh?
Speaker 1: A long long time? Have always been Smith?
Speaker 3: Did you know the ancient god Vulcan?
Speaker 2: Mister Smith, No, ma'am, I never was my don old
and he's in gods.
Speaker 3: You never heard of Vulcan.
Speaker 4: I thought there might be a relationship, No, ma'am, a.
Speaker 1: God, say that I know of any mister Vulcan.
Speaker 3: May I asked you a question.
Speaker 1: Well, you go right ahead, ma'am.
Speaker 3: How did how did you happen to become lame?
Speaker 1: Oh? I don't know.
Speaker 3: You don't know, ma'am. Oh, I'm sorry. I I didn't
mean to pry.
Speaker 1: Sure that, ma'am. I, uh.
Speaker 2: Well, I understand my father dropped me when I was
a small bailey or something like that.
Speaker 3: Mister Cantwell, as you may know, has.
Speaker 4: Endowed a great many hospitals and medical research school.
Speaker 2: I've made the rounds of all of them, ma'am, and
the verdict is this is how I have to be
for the rest of my life.
Speaker 4: Well, if there's a breakthrough somehow, then then you will
be able to benefit.
Speaker 3: We'll see to that.
Speaker 1: Oh, thank you, I must say, you and.
Speaker 2: Mister Cadwell, Uh the best folks I ever worked for.
Did you fire that blacksmith that uh, what's his name?
Speaker 1: Vulcan? Joe Vulcan? No, No, but I thought we agreed.
Speaker 3: We didn't agree, you merely suggested it. But he intrigues me.
Why I told you.
Speaker 4: He's a blacksmith named Vulcan. So is the ancient god
Vulcan he's name, So was the ancient god?
Speaker 1: Oh please, Oh.
Speaker 3: This gets better. I asked him why he was lame?
Do you know what? He answered?
Speaker 1: How would I know?
Speaker 3: Oh? You really are touchy, he said.
Speaker 4: When he was an infant, his father had dropped him.
Speaker 1: Oh for crying out loud, you must listen to.
Speaker 4: This Vlkin's father, or at least his mother's husband. I'm
trying to be delicate about this with Jupiter, Oh, who
cares His mother gaves birth to Vulcan, and Jupiter was
so angry that he sees the child and hurled him
from Olympus down to the earth below.
Speaker 3: And that's why Vulcan became lame. Do you see the similarities?
Speaker 1: What I don't see is what you're really driving at.
Speaker 4: Well, they say the ancient gods would sometimes at times.
This is the disguised as mortals.
Speaker 2: Are you trying to tell me that this silly looking
oath that is employed in our stables is actually an
ancient Greek god called Vulcan?
Speaker 4: His German name was Vulcan, his Greek name was a
thestis all right, all.
Speaker 2: Right, Quit trying to prove how smart you are. Just
answer one question. If it's true, what is he doing
here working for us? This god of yours?
Speaker 4: Very few exceptions, a legit from the gods usually meant.
Speaker 3: A great deal of trouble for the people he called on.
Speaker 1: What kind of trouble?
Speaker 3: I uh, I just hope we never find out the
hard way.
Speaker 5: Oh.
Speaker 1: Coincidence? Coincidence?
Speaker 2: And what is Louise's rationale for saying that their latest
employee is actually Vulcan, the ancient god.
Speaker 1: Of the blacksmiths.
Speaker 2: Well, you heard it, and it's all circumstantial evidence. And
you know what the Fala first said about that, don't you?
Some circumstantial evidence is very strong. Like when you find
a trout in the milk, what will we find in
act to every time something is made by man, every
time man works a raw material into a finished product,
every time man transforms nature from a work of God
into a work of his own, man approaches something that
is divine, for man is now doing what only God
or the gods could do originally, and that is create. However,
sometimes man, being man in nothing really more, lets all
of this creativity get out of hand? I thought the
weekend the wimber other, Well did you and I'm a
couple meant you, Louise, you were superb hostess.
Speaker 3: Tell me did you sell the fire bell?
Speaker 1: What did you say?
Speaker 3: I said, did you sell the fireble? Hum?
Speaker 1: Huh?
Speaker 2: Don't ever mention that word nowhere to no one. It's
top secret.
Speaker 3: Really, how did.
Speaker 1: You find out?
Speaker 3: How did I find out? There were these papers lying
on top of the dresser.
Speaker 1: Oh oh, well, that's that. That's very inexcusable.
Speaker 4: You have to read those papers somewhere.
Speaker 2: If I'm not at com minded, it means I'd better
not take papers home anymore.
Speaker 3: Because you talk in your sleep.
Speaker 1: Then I'll have to sleep alone.
Speaker 3: No sacrifice is too great to make for your country.
Speaker 2: Tell me what did you learn about about that weapon
whose name you was never mentioned?
Speaker 4: That it's called unmentionable because you merely hung it in
the sky over an enemy city, and Kouf, the whole
place is being descended us in minutes.
Speaker 1: Louise, you must never breathe us.
Speaker 3: No, you're proud of yourself, aren't you, Louise.
Speaker 2: I will not get into this argument again. We do
rather other countries have it.
Speaker 1: And we didn't.
Speaker 3: Oh f I don't wait.
Speaker 4: Shot the whole thing then and just enjoy life from now.
Speaker 2: It's easy enough for you to say that, but I
have responsibilities.
Speaker 4: You are now going to give me what I have
classified as speech number sixteen B.
Speaker 1: Louise, listen to me. We have just developed the thing
in the lab.
Speaker 4: If it's so hush hush, and I know too much, now,
why tell me more?
Speaker 1: I have to tell someone.
Speaker 3: We can do it.
Speaker 2: We can make this thing, but we don't know why.
Speaker 3: But do you mean you don't know why?
Speaker 1: We don't know why it should work.
Speaker 2: All we know is we can make it.
Speaker 3: So what's the problem.
Speaker 1: Well, there isn't any problem.
Speaker 3: Then why do you sound so upset?
Speaker 2: Because I I feel maybe maybe we shouldn't turn this
thing out this time. We may have plunged into something
that's more than just a discovery. This thing is part
of the process of how matter itself was created. It's
almost something beyond the capability of human understanding.
Speaker 1: Then drop it, drop.
Speaker 4: It, yes, put a stop to the project.
Speaker 3: Forget it ever existed. You're crazy, I'm crazy. Did you
hear what you were just telling me?
Speaker 1: Well, sometimes I just have to talk.
Speaker 3: But you never spoke like that before.
Speaker 2: Maybe maybe it's because I had a crazy dream.
Speaker 3: Aren't you the one who says you never dream in
the ordinary way?
Speaker 1: I don't. It's your fault.
Speaker 3: You have a dream, and it's my fault.
Speaker 2: Yes, because you've been filling my head with that nonsense.
Speaker 3: What nonsalt about?
Speaker 1: Balkan?
Speaker 3: What are you talking about?
Speaker 4: No?
Speaker 1: Fulcan the ancient god of fire?
Speaker 3: I see I'm to blame.
Speaker 1: Well, aren't you.
Speaker 3: No, And I can prove it.
Speaker 4: When you saw Joe Vulkin for the very first time,
you instinctively reacted against him before you even knew who
he was.
Speaker 2: Well well as some people. You dislike its sight, that's all.
Speaker 4: You didn't need me to be afraid of him.
Speaker 1: I'm not afraid of him. I I just don't like him.
Speaker 2: And I insist that you fire him.
Speaker 4: Well, if that's how you feel about it, why don't
you just go down to the stables and fire yourself?
Speaker 1: All right?
Speaker 2: I will, oh, morder, mister cantwell, lulcan, I'm gonna have
to let you.
Speaker 6: Go, Yes, sir, mister Cantwell, when do you want me
to leave?
Speaker 2: Well, I want you to finish up around here, take
two or three weeks, yes, sir, uh book and I
I don't want you to feel badly. No's nothing personal.
You can see that for yourself. We we don't require
a full.
Speaker 1: Time blacksmith, that's true.
Speaker 2: And if you need references for your next job, I uh,
I don't think there's gonna be another job more. Don't
say that good men are hard to find, especially in
the kind of.
Speaker 1: Work you do.
Speaker 2: I know, sir, I uh I think I'll quit roman.
Speaker 1: All around the country. You uh may have done me
a favor, a favor.
Speaker 2: Yes, sir, I don't spend nearly enough time with my wife.
Oh I uh, well, she's a beautiful woman. Really, I
know what you're thinking, and ugly because like him. Do
you ever get a beautiful woman to even look at him,
much less married him?
Speaker 1: Boy, I mean to imply the app Oh, it's so,
and I'm used to it. Funny.
Speaker 2: A lot of folks say, see, well that she steps
out on me, you know what I mean? Oh well,
but uh, even if it's true, it's my fault. What
do you mean because I'm also being untrue to her?
Oh oh, not in that way.
Speaker 1: But I'm still cheating on her.
Speaker 2: Oh well, I'm giving time and energy that you might
say belongs to her to my job.
Speaker 1: See what I mean.
Speaker 2: A lot of fellas do that, and then they wonder
why their wives find something else?
Speaker 1: Uh, someone else?
Speaker 6: Oh?
Speaker 2: Certain, you don't want me on the place I'll be going.
Speaker 3: No, so you did it.
Speaker 1: It's economically unfeasible to have a full time blacksmith.
Speaker 3: The real reason you fired him is.
Speaker 2: Because you're asharded of him, afraid Louise, have you ever
had a conversation with this man?
Speaker 3: Of course I've spoken to him.
Speaker 2: I mean a sustained conversation. Oh well, this is the
most frightened timid milk toast.
Speaker 3: He's quiet, I'll admit that.
Speaker 1: And you thought he was one of the ancient gods.
Speaker 3: I said it was possible.
Speaker 2: Never they were men, I mean, beings of strength.
Speaker 1: He's so ineffectual. I'll tell you what would amuse you?
Speaker 2: He said, maybe being fired wouldn't be the worst thing.
It would give him more time to spend with his wife.
Speaker 3: Isn't that a sensible statement?
Speaker 2: And it turns out he has a beautiful wife, just
like Falcon, and maybe it would cure her from, as
he put it, stepping out on him.
Speaker 4: Falcon's wife was Venus, and she certainly had her affairs.
Speaker 3: Maybe she still does.
Speaker 2: Who can say that these gods are dead or that
they even existed?
Speaker 3: Then you can say what you like. I still believe
he is the ancient god Folken. And did he choose
to visit our house? Why to get you to do
something like what? I don't know?
Speaker 1: Then why didn't he come out with it?
Speaker 3: Or maybe he did? Maybe you just didn't want to understand.
Speaker 2: If he's a god, why did he have to beat
about the bush? Why not just hurl a thunderbolt or
something and say do it my way or else.
Speaker 4: Because a god wants things to happen not by flats,
but through enlightenment.
Speaker 3: The thunderbolts are only a last resort.
Speaker 1: What am I supposed to be enlightened about?
Speaker 3: I don't know what's bothering you?
Speaker 1: Hello, senator, Now morning, then, I'm sorry to be late taught.
All right.
Speaker 2: Our starting time is whenever we decide to show up
at the first tea, Well, shall we.
Speaker 1: Order a no line on the diet?
Speaker 2: Say that's a pretty big spread on you. In the post,
always pray to that. They go all the way back
to the thirties to find a phrase to describe me,
merchant of death.
Speaker 1: Actually it's a.
Speaker 2: Rather philosophical philosophy in the post. As a matter of fact,
the writer calls you vulcan. Vulcan you know, the ancient
god of fire?
Speaker 1: Where did he come up with? Well, he calls you
the modern god of fire.
Speaker 2: When you must admit there's a basis for it, a basis,
but you're perfecting thing for us, and it's almost supernatural?
Is this Senator Sullivan talking? Oh, come on, bad and
whatever happened to your sense of humor?
Speaker 1: I'm too busy to have one.
Speaker 2: They even write that you run the risk of being
punished for hubras.
Speaker 1: You just lost me.
Speaker 2: Well, the hubris is a kind of defiance of the gods,
you know, by taking under oneself one of their attributes,
by challenging them in their own speciality.
Speaker 1: Is that affair?
Speaker 6: Oh?
Speaker 1: Yes, yes, yes. There was a girl named a Rockney
in ancient Greece. Now she claims she was the finest
weaver in the world.
Speaker 2: This annoyed the goddess Athena the end.
Speaker 1: I can't believe this conversation.
Speaker 2: Why you see, Athena held a distinction for herself, so
poor a Rockney, for her hubris was punished.
Speaker 1: Do you know how?
Speaker 2: I can't even begin to imagine he was turg into
a spider?
Speaker 1: Am I going to be turned into a spider? Too?
Speaker 2: But you haven't annoyed Athena. Your problem is with Vulcan no,
I see, And since you've set yourself up as a
master of fire, he just might decide to have at
you that way. Need I tell you, I am terrified
and also on personal level.
Speaker 1: You may have a fund at him. What did I
do now?
Speaker 2: Now he was married to the most beautiful of all women,
Venus and your wife.
Speaker 1: Oh, come on, she's a good looking woman.
Speaker 2: But no, on, on, I don't say that Louise is beautiful.
You know what I think. You're trying to cite me.
You have to have an edg but it won't do
any good, Senator, I'll still beat you.
Speaker 1: On the court today.
Speaker 4: Let's see, this marks the third night you rule that
you're home.
Speaker 1: How do I win? If I'm detained somewhere on business.
Speaker 2: I get complaints because I'm never home. When I stay home,
I still get flack.
Speaker 3: I was just making a comment.
Speaker 1: Did you read that article about me in the post?
Speaker 4: I didn't want to mention answer because I know those
things annoy you.
Speaker 2: I had my secretary clip it out for me, and
I've got it right here.
Speaker 3: The vengeance of Boucan it stated as a question.
Speaker 2: What annoys me is that they're actually inaccurate. Oh you see, Bolcum,
Assuming there's a basis for this nonsense, Boucan doesn't have
a vengeful bone in his body. He was the kind
beest of all the gods. He wasn't jealous of anyone.
He didn't mind what anyone did do him or said
about him, So he wouldn't take vengeance on anyone.
Speaker 3: And how do you know this?
Speaker 1: Because I did some research?
Speaker 4: Why why should you take time from your busy schedule?
Speaker 2: Because I have to set certain people straight about what
you know. If this conversation whatever, made public, both of
us would be plain candidates for a sanitarium. Well so,
even if I did have the hubris to offend Bulcan,
he wouldn't anything about it anyway.
Speaker 3: Oh, well, no, do you feel better?
Speaker 1: Who says I'm feeling badly to begin with?
Speaker 3: Oh? I got it?
Speaker 1: No, No, I'm not here. Hey you so, senator?
Speaker 2: Oh oh, I hope. Well I know your voice anywhere
I been I been. I just called and let you
know that you can expect to have clear sailing in
the Senate committee tomorrow.
Speaker 1: That's great. Yeah, I thought you'd like to hear that.
I certainly do appreciate it.
Speaker 2: Now I'm glad to goodbye.
Speaker 1: That's funny. What is the senator? He called? Tell me
about the committee hearing?
Speaker 3: Well, it doesn't he usually.
Speaker 1: Except this morning at the club.
Speaker 2: I told him I'd be out of town go can
he forgot? He hasn't forgotten anything since the day was born.
Now he thought I wouldn't be home tonight, That's why
he called.
Speaker 1: Well.
Speaker 2: A kind of light begins to dawn in the eyes
of Big Ben Catwell Tycoon extraordinary, and he looks at
his beautiful, desirable wife, and all of a sudden it
occurs to him that perhaps the phone call from the
fun loving senator was not really for him. After all,
this little cloud will assume larger proportions when I returned
shortly with act free.
Speaker 1: Are we play things of the gods? Probably?
Speaker 2: How else can you explain the absolute madness of the
world we live in. There was an ancient god named
Vulcan out of the forge and flame, and like his fellows.
Speaker 1: He likes to walk there. That is according to legends.
Speaker 2: Well, don't laugh at legends.
Speaker 1: You can never tell when you might need one.
Speaker 2: It's quite possible Senator Sullivan wasn't calling.
Speaker 1: Me at all.
Speaker 2: Oh, really, he may have been calling you me whatever.
For what reason does he have to call any woman?
I would know, Louise, What is there between you and
the Senator?
Speaker 3: I consider that question and insult.
Speaker 2: Are you part of the senator's collection, Another scout that
hangs from his belt, Another nuts on his gun.
Speaker 4: I'm afraid you'll have to remain forever in suspense.
Speaker 2: Is this why I get such favorable treatment from the committee?
Speaker 1: Now you listen to me, lou.
Speaker 3: Will you listen to me, Ben?
Speaker 4: For fifteen years, we've been little more than strangers.
Speaker 1: That's not true.
Speaker 3: How often have we seen each other?
Speaker 4: I've been busy and I I'm busy too, with what
with whom?
Speaker 3: I don't think that's your business.
Speaker 1: You're my wife and i'm your husband.
Speaker 4: It's been a long time since we took those rows.
Speaker 3: Seriously, what is there.
Speaker 1: Between you and Senator Sullivan?
Speaker 3: Why don't you ask him?
Speaker 1: I will.
Speaker 7: Everybody's probably laughing at me while my back is turned.
He's stepping out, stepping out, I'm listening to me. I'm
talking like that idiot Joe Bulcan. But who am I
to call him an idiot? I'm in the same boat.
Speaker 1: We both wear the same hat.
Speaker 2: What were you going?
Speaker 1: Was a miracle, Louise? A miracle?
Speaker 3: You say, he's all right, Doctor Connor?
Speaker 1: The car was total?
Speaker 2: Oh he has is a few scratches. Are you sure positive?
I'll come inside see for yourself.
Speaker 3: Is it all right to see him?
Speaker 4: Come on, Louis, it's such a terrible cursh I can
hardly believe.
Speaker 1: Then, hello, Louise, dear, how do you feel? I'm all right?
Speaker 2: Except I I have this terrible pain in my.
Speaker 3: Legs Doctor Carman he said.
Speaker 1: Yeah, I know what he says, but I feel it's pain.
Speaker 2: Now.
Speaker 1: Then we've examined you thoroughly. You know that, Yes, doctor.
Speaker 2: There's absolutely no sign of any injury, no vector, no sprains,
no torn ligaments, no swelling.
Speaker 1: I understand, doctor, but I have this pain.
Speaker 3: Doctor, h are you sure?
Speaker 2: Not only am I sure, but every specialist we called
in is also sure.
Speaker 1: I don't.
Speaker 2: I don't like to convidict anyone, but since it's my cane,
I'm I'm the only one who can really be sure.
Speaker 1: Louise. Then I'm home that uh, it was a very
busy day.
Speaker 3: Then I think we should have this out. Why do
you limp?
Speaker 1: Why?
Speaker 2: Well, it should be obvious my leg's hurt. But the
doctors say the doctors are simply mistaken. But then I
I wish I could oblige everyone. I hate to cause
anyone distress.
Speaker 3: Then what are you talking about?
Speaker 2: Well, It's just that my work itself is so turbulent.
It deals with elemental pulses that well. I like my
personal affairs to be calm, peaceful.
Speaker 3: What is cool to you?
Speaker 4: Then?
Speaker 2: I don't know what you're talking about. Nothing's come over me.
Speaker 3: What kind of a.
Speaker 4: Game are you trying to play with me?
Speaker 1: Game?
Speaker 4: When you got into your car and you decided to
confront Senator Sullivan that night?
Speaker 1: I don't think we have to talk about that.
Speaker 3: Oh we do.
Speaker 4: I admit that he and I had seen each other
a few times.
Speaker 1: But Louise, dear, please, I don't wish to discuss this.
It isn't necessary. But then, if you'll excuse me, I
where are you going to the Corge?
Speaker 3: The Forge?
Speaker 1: Yes, you know, the factory?
Speaker 4: Go go?
Speaker 1: What is it?
Speaker 3: You called it? The forge?
Speaker 1: Of course?
Speaker 2: Why?
Speaker 4: I'll tell you why because that's what Vulcan called his workshop.
Speaker 1: Vulcan, Yes, Vulcan.
Speaker 3: Oh, I know what's happened. Do you actually believe your Vulcan?
Speaker 1: Now? Why would I want to do a thing like that?
Speaker 3: You've affected his limp.
Speaker 1: Ever since that accident.
Speaker 3: Oh, and you.
Speaker 4: Can even accept the fact that your wife might be
having an affair?
Speaker 3: Is that who you want to be? Is that what
you want to be?
Speaker 2: Valka Louise Darling. Maybe you'd better see doctor Corman.
Speaker 4: If you want to be a god, be a Jupiter
and Apollo.
Speaker 1: You're not well, and I wish I knew what was
making you so unhappy.
Speaker 3: But I don't want to be married to Vulcan.
Speaker 2: Vulcan, whatever makes you think back you're married to me,
you're married to Ben.
Speaker 4: Campwell, but you're not then camped Well any longer.
Speaker 1: Oh.
Speaker 2: I got here as quickly as I could, sir, But
there was all this traffic. I'm sorry to spoil your holiday, Lewis,
So that's sorry, But I feel this is the day
we can finish, finish, Yes, Lewis today here now on fireballs?
Speaker 1: Is everything set in the firing room? Yes, sir?
Speaker 2: But but what's the problem. I I thought we'd agreed
to abandon the project. Why because it was really beyond
our capability, our human capability to control the final formula.
There is no known mathematics to express it in. Furthermore,
we can't even conceive the formula.
Speaker 1: We can't here. I'll start, I'll start the computer. Yeah.
Speaker 2: See, all all the known data has already been set
into it.
Speaker 1: And now what.
Speaker 2: You see, sir, Suddenly the computer stops. Well, don't worry
about it. Don't worry about it. Now we're committed to
deliver this, this weapon of the armed forces, but only experimentally.
We could, we can, but don't see how start to build.
Speaker 1: Up the temperatures in the firing room. What formulas are
I don't need a formula. Do as I tell you, Lewis.
I know, I know you're a great one for intuition, sir,
but it's time to do as I tell you. Lewis.
Speaker 3: You come in.
Speaker 1: Afternoon, missus.
Speaker 3: Cantwell, oh, oh to you, mister Fulcon.
Speaker 2: Yes, ma'am, mister Cantwell, send and take a couple of
three weeks to get all the work done round the stables.
Speaker 1: Well it's uh, it's finished.
Speaker 2: You're leaving, so you, yes, ma'am, come to say goodbye?
Speaker 3: Well, good luck, mister Fulcon. I wish you the best.
Speaker 1: Thank you, ma'am, same to you, goodbye. Wait wait, well
what is it, ma'am?
Speaker 3: Who who are you? And I'm just go.
Speaker 1: Vulcan's not true?
Speaker 3: You are the god Vulcan who just cool?
Speaker 4: That's right, It's not true anymore. But it was true
and I can prove it.
Speaker 1: Pho, what miss Gander?
Speaker 4: I can prove it by something you just did?
Speaker 1: What did I do?
Speaker 3: Come with me? Please? Come with me.
Speaker 1: Then, Oh Louise, dear, huh how did you get in here?
Speaker 3: And your wife? Remember?
Speaker 1: And mister Falcon it beats me, sir, Jesus bragged me
here ready for firing?
Speaker 8: Sirs?
Speaker 3: Then listen to me. Destroy that machine, that that device,
whatever it is is. I thought.
Speaker 4: If you don't, then can you really become Vulcan? Can
you really acquire his full powers? Is that how you
want to live?
Speaker 1: Look at him?
Speaker 3: You don't want to be vulcan. You're hated. Immortality becomes
a terrible burden.
Speaker 4: After a while, the gods themselves go tired of eternal life.
That is why they walk the earth to find someone
who can lift the burdens on them, and that someone
becomes the god.
Speaker 3: Didn't you see? That's the true nature of immortality.
Speaker 1: What's reverse and Fulcan has found you.
Speaker 3: He has given you all his characteristics. He is talented,
it is meekness. It's not too late. Give them back,
give what work. Don't finish the fireballs. You yourself said.
Speaker 4: That the final step of the formula was beyond human comprehension.
Speaker 3: But once you comprehend it, you will become more than human.
Mister Falcon, you know I'm speaking the truth.
Speaker 1: I'm sorry, ma'am. I don't know enough.
Speaker 3: Lorcan, I said, he gave you everything.
Speaker 4: Then, mister Vulcan, please walk to the door.
Speaker 3: But why walk to the door?
Speaker 1: Please stop?
Speaker 3: See then?
Speaker 1: See what do you want me to see?
Speaker 3: He doesn't live anymore. His walk is normal. How do
you think for that, mistervoc Or?
Speaker 1: I guess it's a miracle.
Speaker 3: USE said he gave you everything again. He even gave
you a lease.
Speaker 1: Ready for firing, sir, Throw on the switch to be switch?
Speaker 4: No, no, no, don't you don't want to be Vulcan,
my dear. If you are to live like Vulcan, I'll
have to live like Venus.
Speaker 3: I don't want that. Would you want me to blot
out the men in your face? But can a tury admire?
It's even your assistance here, Louise.
Speaker 4: I'll do it because I won't be able to help
myself and you won't be able to stand.
Speaker 3: You the earth to find someone.
Speaker 2: To take your place, sir, if we don't fire now ready, So.
Speaker 3: Then then you'll know too much. You'll become the god
who knows too much.
Speaker 4: Balcan and that's why he's shins decided it's up injury,
your sheep.
Speaker 3: The right of.
Speaker 4: Knowledge must carry. Knows more than any of them, who
knows how to make and build a turn off that switch?
Speaker 8: Turn it off?
Speaker 1: Then you you heard her little turn off the switches.
Speaker 3: Then then I turn him off.
Speaker 1: With what happened, the action would have gone to are
we could be despighted, your s. The whole world can
be destroyed.
Speaker 3: What are they going to do?
Speaker 2: I don't know the time, and I said it'd be
our human comprehension. Maybe maybe it'll just stop itself.
Speaker 3: Mister Falcon, please stop it?
Speaker 1: What are you talking to him for?
Speaker 3: You know? Why the bat house?
Speaker 2: What?
Speaker 3: What's the matter my legs?
Speaker 1: I can have a man straight my leg Hit me again?
Speaker 3: Listen, it's started.
Speaker 1: I guess you're right. If they can't, well, it just
stop by itself.
Speaker 2: We should never understand it, don mister Falcon, And I
think guy, i'd best be leaving.
Speaker 8: Then then look he's limping again, and look at you.
You're you're standing straight.
Speaker 2: Take it any way you like Shata are so good
with our friends in facts would say, do.
Speaker 1: The gods walk the earth and.
Speaker 2: Look for the replacements? Is that what happened that Ben can'twell?
Or was it merely a psychological seizure? Think about it
and I shall return shortly.
Speaker 1: The gap narrows.
Speaker 2: Our ancestors looked upon the gods as supernatural beings who
knew everything. But now we are starting to do what
only the gods themselves could do. Little by little, we
seem to be stripping the veil away from all the
mysteries of life and death. And so some say the
gap narrows? But is this also human frailty? Outward appearances
to the contrary, notwithstanding, is the gap really widening?
Speaker 1: In any event?
Speaker 2: Let there be no gap at all? In us here
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