Speaker 1: This is Security Police headquarters. We've just seen the photoprint
and it's impossible. I said, impossible. No matter what the
evidence proves, no man can be two places at once.
Speaker 2: Two thousand plus Science fiction Adventures in the World of
Tomorrow two thousand plus presents the other Man.
Speaker 3: Here.
Speaker 4: I'm hey, now, I ain't you home? Hey? When I
come home, I want my wife to be here. Maryan' here? Hey?
Didn't you hear me?
Speaker 5: Boddy? Oh?
Speaker 3: My knowing Scully?
Speaker 4: Scotty here a half say? What's the matter?
Speaker 3: When did you escape? How did you get away?
Speaker 4: Escape? Would you mind telling you quiet?
Speaker 3: I thought I heard someone just a moment, Darling. There,
now we can talk. Oh, Scottie, I couldn't understand what
had happened to you. I was so worried. I couldn't
believe it.
Speaker 4: Mira, I hate to stand here like an idiot. I
just can't go on repeating your silly phrases. After what
are you talking about?
Speaker 3: Then? You didn't kill the man in the blue turban?
Speaker 4: Where was I supposed to have killed him?
Speaker 3: In Cairo?
Speaker 4: Cairo? When this morning? Look, Darling, I know this is
the year two thousand plus, one hundred and twenty. But
even in this age of super science, there's no jet
plane fast enough to fly me from Cairo, Egypt to
Metropolitan City, USA that fast.
Speaker 3: Scotty, I'm telling you the truth. Look I'll show you.
It's all over the pages of the five similar newspaper.
Speaker 6: See this, the whole story in headlines and your picture too.
Speaker 3: Read it. Read it.
Speaker 4: The world Security Police and a daring action in Cairo,
Egypt today captured Scott Douglas, chief of the Eastern Zone
Security Police Section, as the chief criminal behind a worldwide
black market operation running into millions of dollars annually. In
the struggle preceding his arrest, mister Douglas shot and killed
a mysterious stranger wearing a blue turban.
Speaker 3: You see, Darling, it is true, not only in the papers,
but all day in the Televox news. I've seen it,
Scotty with my own eyes, being taken to the police,
to the airport. It was yours, gouty.
Speaker 4: I tell you this is not true. It's not me.
We'll call my office, ask for the chief, ask him
what this is all about.
Speaker 3: I know you've escaped. They'll come here.
Speaker 4: Don't cat, you won't do any such thing. Because none
of it's true. Look, if you're worried about it, don't
tell him. I'm here. Yes, you deny it, but for
Heaven's sake, call him, all.
Speaker 3: Right, Scotty here, all right, mister Enright.
Speaker 1: Hello, Mirah. I was rather expecting you to call. You
want to know about Scotty, don't you.
Speaker 3: I can't understand it, mister Enwright. I've seen it in
the papers on the televions, but I can't believe if.
Speaker 5: It's true, Mirah.
Speaker 3: But are you certain it's Scotty?
Speaker 1: There's no doubt of it. How do you know by
the obvious methods. It looks like Scotty, It talks like Scotty.
It's wearing Scotty's clothes, carrying Scotty's wallet with your picture,
and there's private papers in it. A small birthmark on
the left arm, same blood type, same fillings in the teeth,
and the fingerprints are exactly Scotty's. I had everything double
checked by audio from Egypt against Scotty's personal identification file
here at the top. It all off, mirror. I talked
to him by audiophone just a few minutes before for
the jet plane took off. I'm sorry, I see thank you, mister.
Just one thing more, Mirror, Scottie as due to land
in about three hours. I'll send someone over in a
little while to pick you up. I know you'd want
to see him.
Speaker 6: Thank you.
Speaker 4: It's unbelievable. It's fantastic. Mirror.
Speaker 3: Who are you?
Speaker 7: Who are you?
Speaker 4: Who am I? I'm your husband, I'm Scott Douglas.
Speaker 3: I'm going to call the police.
Speaker 4: Stop it. I am Scottie. Look at my mirror. I
am your husband. No one can fool you about that.
Look at me, good lord, mirror. Look look look here's
my wallet, the one he talked about. See it is mine?
Speaker 7: You know it?
Speaker 4: Look, touch it, thumb through it. There's a picture. There's
the stitching where I had it repaired last October, Remember mirror,
when I didn't want to throw it away for sentimental reasons,
because bought it that night last summer at the little bazaar.
Who would know that mirror except your husband? Who would
remember that? Except me? Here? Look at this pull asleep
up the birth Michael I left arm. Nobody could fake
that ugly thing. You know that mark? Every twist of
a fingerprints, fingerprints, I'll give you all you want. Have
them checked anyway, you want. I am Scott Douglas. I
am your husband.
Speaker 7: Then who.
Speaker 6: Who is the other man? That's the police, Scottie.
Speaker 4: There here to pick me up and take you the
airport to meet your husband.
Speaker 3: Oh, Scottie, I'm frightened.
Speaker 4: You must never let anyone know that. It's the only
way I'll ever be able to figure this thing out.
Speaker 3: I'll try, Darling, just a moment. I'm coming. Oh Darling.
Speaker 4: I remember. This whole thing may be a trick. I
don't know why or for what reason, but there's always
the possibility of this was a deliberate deception.
Speaker 3: But they can't for me.
Speaker 4: They did for you, Mirror. You believed all the publicity,
all the newspaper reports, everything you saw in the telefox.
That's what I can't understand. This whole thing's being carried
out so openly, so boldly. The actors, if they're so
sure of themselves.
Speaker 3: I've got to go now. They'll be suspicious, yes, yes.
Speaker 4: And I'll remember our plan. After you leave. I'll get
out of here. I don't know where I'll go, but
I'll get in touch with you from time to time.
You always know it's me and not the other man,
because I'll use the code word bizarre.
Speaker 6: I know, darling.
Speaker 3: You don't have to tell me again.
Speaker 4: All right, And I told this other man as if
he really were me, at least do that for a while.
It's obviously what they expect of you.
Speaker 6: Yes, yes, god, he you've told me a dozen times.
Speaker 3: I know what to do.
Speaker 8: Goodbye, darling.
Speaker 1: Yes, what is it?
Speaker 4: Plane from Cairo with Douglas aboard, coming in, sir.
Speaker 1: Okay, over here, mirror, we can see the plane land
from this window. We'll be landing over there by that ramp.
Speaker 3: Who are those men?
Speaker 1: Security police? I'm sorry, mirror, but we can't take any
chance of Scotty escaping. You've taken great care ever since
his arrest.
Speaker 5: Plane's coming in now, taxing.
Speaker 3: I wonder what what he'll look.
Speaker 1: Like, a little tired perhaps, But it's Scotty. I told
you that the plane stopped. You'll see him in a moment, mirror. Now,
look when he comes in here, don't break down. He's
going to need all the courage and help you can
give him there.
Speaker 3: Look, it doesn't look like Scotty.
Speaker 1: Yes, prison's coming up, sir, bring him in the moment
he arrives. Yes, do you like a drink?
Speaker 6: Mirror, no, no cigarette, nothing, Please, I'll hear they are
all right?
Speaker 1: Man outside, leave Douglas with me.
Speaker 4: Hello, Scottie, Hello, Chief, Hello, Miram Hello.
Speaker 5: Uh I think I'll look.
Speaker 1: I'll leave you to alone for a while.
Speaker 4: Thanks, Jeef. I'm glad you hear, Miry. I was wondering
if you would be were you? Mirror? What's the matter?
So cold, so distant, Darling? I don't understand. Don't you
want to talk to me?
Speaker 5: Mirror?
Speaker 3: I don't know, I am, I don't know.
Speaker 4: It's all been a terrible shock to you, hasn't it.
What did you learn? Did the chief calling?
Speaker 3: No? I first learned to the newspaper, then the telebox.
Speaker 4: You mean it's it's been published broadcast. Good Lord, everybody
knows then that's right, Oh, Darling. I'm sorry. I hardly
know what happened myself. The last few days are a blur,
a blank. All I remember is a room in a
hotel in Cairo, a man with a blue turban, the police.
I became panic stricken. There was a fighter shot, and
then the arrest and the talk about the black market.
I don't know what that means. Marry you look so
strange for Heaven's sake, what's the matter. Don't tutch me,
don't touch you. I'm your husband, you darling, Darling, I.
Speaker 3: Can't ret You're not Scotty.
Speaker 4: You're not I'm I'm not Scotty. A mere staff is
hysteriat once, What do you mean I'm not Scotty.
Speaker 3: It's a trick.
Speaker 1: It's a cruel.
Speaker 4: You serious, Call the men tell them, I know, mirror.
What have they done to you? Said to you?
Speaker 3: I could ask you those questions, and I can also
ask you.
Speaker 8: Who are you?
Speaker 4: Who am? This is crazy?
Speaker 3: Let me see your birthmark?
Speaker 1: What all right?
Speaker 4: Look it's me Dolly. You know that's real.
Speaker 3: But I let me see the wallet?
Speaker 4: You mean this here? It is your picture, even the
stitching I had done when I wouldn't throw it away?
You remember, Darling, it is the wallet.
Speaker 3: It looks just like it.
Speaker 4: What did you expect?
Speaker 3: They could fake it? They have ways a wallet could
be faked.
Speaker 4: Look, Miream, I don't understand all this, but I am
your husband. I am Scottie.
Speaker 1: Let me prove it.
Speaker 4: Do you ask me anything about us? Anything? Where did
we go last summer to Paris? For two weeks? We
stayed at the hotel George fifth.
Speaker 3: What did we do when we first got We.
Speaker 4: Opened the window and sang a silly song about Paris.
We made it up as we went along, and then
and then I kissed you.
Speaker 3: We were alone. No one could have seen.
Speaker 4: We went out, had a drink. You ordered champagne in
the afternoon. The way to try to talk you out.
Speaker 3: I don't know how you know these things. You seem
to be Scotty And yeah.
Speaker 4: Oh, darling, darling, I saw only a few hours ago.
I was on the plane. You saw that, all right,
all right, darling. If he says, I'll take it easy, honey,
don't cry, don't don't there. If you say Scotty was
at home, then that's where I was home home.
Speaker 1: I've got the reports from Cairol Chief complete, as completely
as I'll ever be. They just came in by a
high frequency telebox, and we had photoprints made here.
Speaker 5: They are never mind, just give me the highlights.
Speaker 7: Well, the man in the blue turbine was Mustafa Cornelius.
Speaker 4: He made his living in art, sold pictures and things.
Speaker 1: What was he doing in Scotty's room, Oh, primarily picking
up some stuff.
Speaker 4: You know, the place was filled.
Speaker 1: With pictures, and Scotty said he doesn't know how they
got there. He said that even when we showed him
Egyptian police reports that he and Mustafa had been followed
for two days, and on several occasions Scotty was carrying
pictures himself, so he was lying. No, he wasn't. He
gave him a lie detective test and he came through
one hundred percent. I didn't know that, but it's true.
And why was Scotty and Cairo anyway? He had no
orders to go there? How do you explain it didn't?
He said he couldn't remember.
Speaker 4: This is one for the books. Sounds like two other guys.
Speaker 5: That's not so funny.
Speaker 1: What do you mean that's not so funny? When Scotty
got off the plane and came in here, I turned
on the intercom and left him and Mirror together. I
listened to their conversation from the outer office.
Speaker 5: Learn anything.
Speaker 1: I don't know, except that Mirror seemed to doubt it
was Scotty. I weighed them minute it was Sky know
it was Scotti, and you know it was Scotti. But
why wouldn't Scotty's own wife know it was Scotty.
Speaker 4: I don't know.
Speaker 5: I don't either. Two other guys huh.
Speaker 1: Well, we know that the Scotty who got off the
plane is safely locked up in this building. You and
I are going to see his wife and try to
figure this puzzle out.
Speaker 8: Come on, hello, Mirah, mister Enwright, I want to.
Speaker 1: Talk to you. Close the door, Paul.
Speaker 3: Right, you shouldn't have come here.
Speaker 1: Why not? I have some questions to ask you.
Speaker 3: I'm expecting someone to please go.
Speaker 5: It'll only take a few minutes.
Speaker 4: Mire.
Speaker 1: I want to help Scotty, but I can't do it alone.
Speaker 3: I'll come to your office, but the.
Speaker 1: Chief wants the answers. Now, missus Douglas, Oh, then come
in here.
Speaker 5: Thanks.
Speaker 3: When my visitor comes, I must ask you to stay
in here.
Speaker 1: Of course, I'm sorry to have disturbed you like this,
but there are some very strange things about this matter.
Speaker 3: What do you mean strange?
Speaker 1: Why didn't you believe that was Scotty in my office?
Speaker 3: Then he told you that he isn't Scotty.
Speaker 1: He told me nothing. I listened in and it was Scotty.
It's the Scotty I know now. Why don't you believe that?
That's one of the things that puzzles me. One of
the strange things.
Speaker 3: Where's Scotty?
Speaker 7: Now?
Speaker 1: That's your doorbell? Person, you're experience Scotty's attention. House in
a cell? Why aren't you answering the door?
Speaker 3: You stay here, Please stay here till I get back.
Speaker 4: She if she's as nervous as a rate of skull. Quiet.
Speaker 5: Put your ear to the door and listen. It's a man.
Speaker 1: You can't make out what they're saying.
Speaker 5: Something vaguely familiar. Oh no, it can't be.
Speaker 4: What do you mean, Chief?
Speaker 5: Think your gun?
Speaker 1: All right? Now?
Speaker 4: Just don't move? How about gef Man was just turning
me away? Here, Scotty.
Speaker 1: I don't know how you did it, but escaping from
detention is a very serious.
Speaker 4: I didn't escape. I've never been there. I've never been
to Cairo. I don't know what's going on and right,
but I'm glad you're here so this whole mess can
be clear.
Speaker 1: Just don't move, Scotty. Get on the audiophone, Paul, Yes,
I call headquarters. Have them check on Scotty. Right, Scotty,
you and I have been friends for ten years.
Speaker 5: Now, what kind of a game are you playing?
Speaker 4: I don't think friends? Hold on?
Speaker 1: What do you want me to do? Let you get
away again.
Speaker 3: Mister android it you're you're as.
Speaker 1: Mixed up as I am. Admitted you see, Scotty, I
overheard the conversation you and Mira had at headquarters.
Speaker 4: I wasn't.
Speaker 1: That's why I argue about it. We'll know in a moment. Hey,
as what is it? I told the headquarters Chief, Well, Scotty.
Speaker 3: Is still there in a cell. What still there?
Speaker 4: Now?
Speaker 1: Wait a minute, that's what they said for them to
put Scotty on the phone. Yes, sir, we'll get to
the bottom of this pretty quickly. Now let's go into
the other room. Come on, Yeah, that's right, all right,
whole line. Chief wants to.
Speaker 5: Talk to you here he is keep them covered.
Speaker 1: Hello, Yes, Chief, that you Scotty.
Speaker 5: Yes, sir, I just wanted to be sure, Chief.
Speaker 4: Full and I is going on. You don't have to
talk to me to be sure, not when you've got
me locked and to sell the dynamite couldn't blow?
Speaker 1: Okay, Scotty.
Speaker 4: Who are you talking to to?
Speaker 1: Scott Douglas who got off the plane from Cairo this morning.
Speaker 4: I'm Scott Douglas. Chief. You've seen mirror. I want to
talk to her again.
Speaker 1: Just hang on a moment.
Speaker 5: I just repeat after me.
Speaker 1: I am Scott Douglas of the World Security Police.
Speaker 4: Now look you all right, I am Scott Douglas of
the World Security Police.
Speaker 1: Okay, let's hear you say that.
Speaker 4: I am Scott Douglas of the World Security Police.
Speaker 1: That sounds exactly alike. I want to what do you do?
Is what you've been doing all day? You wait for
me in your cell and you're coming along with me.
Speaker 3: What are you going to do?
Speaker 1: Missus Douglas. I'm going to take you and your husband
to meet your husband. He's out here, Chief, bring him
in mirror, Scotty, you stand over there.
Speaker 4: All right. She's now wants it for all count mirror. Oh, darling,
I'm glad.
Speaker 3: Good lord. I can't believe.
Speaker 4: It's absolutely incredible. He looks just like me. What is this? Chief?
Speaker 1: What have either of you who ever seen each other.
Speaker 4: Before every morning in the mirror?
Speaker 3: What kind of a gag is?
Speaker 1: I'll be quiet, both of you. Yes, have you got
those reports about two minutes? Let me know now one
of you two is an impossible I will say this.
The resemblance is fantastic. You the one we had in
the cell. We got your fingerprints, teeth, identifications, birthmark and
so on. When you were arrested. They all verified that
you are the real Scott Douglas.
Speaker 4: I've told you that all along. I'm Scott Douglas. Chief,
whatever is going on you are.
Speaker 1: In a few minutes, we'll have the results of the
fingerprint and identification check we had you take before I
brought Scottie up from downstairs. Yes, I've got the report.
Speaker 4: Chief.
Speaker 1: Well, everything checks, sir. Now come on talk sense, will you?
What do you mean? Everything checks?
Speaker 7: Fingerprints, teeth, identification, birthmarks, everything checks, sir.
Speaker 4: They're both Scott Douglas.
Speaker 1: All right now, I remember, don't interrupt me. The only
way I can tell you to a part is a
by the clothes you wear. You you're wearing a tropical suit,
the one you had on when we picked you up
in Cairo. Yes, sir, but I'm going to call you
tropic and you with the Tweed that's your name, Tweed?
That clear right? Cheer. The last two hours of questioning
has revealed that the memory of your lives is exactly
the same up to four days ago. Whatever questions you
were asked separately, you both answered the same intimate questions,
family questions, every kind but as of four days ago,
the police interrogators report that you Tropical, you are hazy,
almost blank until the arrest and murder in Cairo Atrites.
On the other hand, you Tweed, you have a clear
memory except for a few hours three days ago. Here
let me read it. Pursuon to File one nine eight,
I was ordered to visit a mister David Eichner, suspected
of dealing in black market paintings at two twenty three
West eighteenth Street, and to pose as a buyer of
rare paintings. Mister Eichner conducted himself in a reasonable and
normal manner and exhibited several paintings, allegedly genuine old Masters.
During our conversation, I heard a faint, oscillating sound in
the room and inquired whether it was the air conditioning unit,
and then I blacked out. Now at this point your
two memories separate. You both remember everything up to the
moment Scott Douglas blacked out, but after that Tweed's memory
does not pick up until two hours has passed. Then
he reports the next thing I knew, I awoke lying
on the floor. I thought I had been slugged, But
subsequent examination by police medical authority showed no injury of
any sort. The assumption was that I had fainted, but
no reason for this possibility was advanced. The paintings, together
with mister Eichner were nowhere to be found when I
regained consciousness. Subsequent police investigation failed to reveal any trace
of mister Eiitner or his paintings. So there it is,
and you tropical. You remember nothing for the next several
days until we picked you up in Cairo.
Speaker 4: I remember that report very well.
Speaker 1: I wrote it.
Speaker 4: But he couldn't have known about the first part of
that report. I went along, no one else I was there.
That was my repslse you.
Speaker 1: Too enough seeing double without YouTube, talking double and remembering
double two hours two hours? What happened in those two hours?
Speaker 4: Chief, I've got an idea, But is it? Probably nothing
to it after three days, But why don't we visit
two twenty three West eighteenth Street again. Let's see whether
mister Eytoner possibly left something behind when he fled with
the paintings.
Speaker 5: This is the place looks pretty empty now.
Speaker 4: This is where he had several old paintings hanging on
the wall. This is where I was standing when I
blacked out. That's right. She if I walked over there
from here and then at half?
Speaker 5: What's that that sound?
Speaker 4: Keep him over there? That class.
Speaker 7: Colorad Klarasu, do not shoot, sahib No, do not kill me.
Speaker 1: Do not kill me, sah What are you doing here
in this room?
Speaker 4: Talk? Talk?
Speaker 3: Do not kill me.
Speaker 1: If you don't talk, I make no promises.
Speaker 7: I have children, I have a and.
Speaker 1: I've got a gun.
Speaker 7: Well, if I talk, you let me leave talk. I
come to destroy the instrument.
Speaker 4: What instruments? It is in here?
Speaker 7: Heip the instrument of Mustafa Cornelius.
Speaker 4: The man of the broad Turban.
Speaker 7: I swear to come back and destroy it if he
ever died. It is built into this closet, behind this
secret panel. It made Mustafa and knee where he reached.
Speaker 5: Let's see that instrument open. The panel.
Speaker 4: Looks like a control board.
Speaker 1: What's I do not know the words to describe it.
Speaker 7: Only mustafan now, because he was very wise and very.
Speaker 1: Scientific, you know how to operate this?
Speaker 7: Oh yes, sir hip, Mustafa showed me what to do,
and I work longer. I was doing that for our
both becoming very rich.
Speaker 4: Show us what it does and remember any danger results
this man has a gun. You'll be the first to die.
Speaker 7: I understand, sir hip. Give me something for the instrument.
Speaker 5: What do you mean, give you something?
Speaker 7: I tried to explain. Give me something picture.
Speaker 1: Perhaps there are no pictures here?
Speaker 7: Then ring? Perhaps a watch, would his shoe, a dog?
Speaker 1: Anything? Does this make any sense?
Speaker 4: Silo, Chief, Here, here's a ring and a watch.
Speaker 7: Thank you, sir hip. I placed them in here, and
close this more door. I turn on the instrument.
Speaker 4: That's a sound. The sound I heard his right chafe
the son before I blacked out.
Speaker 1: Now what do you do?
Speaker 7: A moment until the bell sound it he's finished. No,
you see there are no two watches, two rings.
Speaker 4: Let me see them great xynamos and I at rather
exactly alike, even though the scratches, the dirt marks everything you.
Speaker 1: Say, you're right identical perfect copies.
Speaker 7: No, no, sir hip, they are not copies.
Speaker 4: All our original But that can't be. The ones I
gave you were the originals. The others are the copies.
Speaker 1: That's right.
Speaker 4: Just a minute, Chief, I've got a sparking. I like
kill a duplicator. What did you say? I like the duplicator.
That's right. That means that somehow. Well, it's possible theoretically,
but it means that the molecules and atoms of the
originals are perfectly duplicated. And we know that if somehow
the atoms and molecules could be exactly arranged, you'd actually
have two originals where only one existed before.
Speaker 7: Yes, yes, that is what Mustafa see. Those are the
words that I do not know how to use.
Speaker 4: All right now, listen to me. It doesn't rat. Does
this machine work on anything other than inanimate objects?
Speaker 7: I do not understand.
Speaker 4: Doesn't work on living things, dogs, birds, human beings.
Speaker 7: He has work only dogs, Mustafa, he had a dog
he likes so much. He makes himself another dog like
it with this istru.
Speaker 4: Me and and it would work on human beings too.
Speaker 7: But the dog, one of them, I do not know
which one of them.
Speaker 1: The dog he died very.
Speaker 4: Horribly, So he what do you mean, died horribly.
Speaker 7: One day, about a month after the first dog become
two dog. One day the dog bark and whine. It
is in agony, Sahib, and before my eyes I do
not know how to say it. It is disappeared slowly
as if it fall apart, and in a little while
there is nothing left.
Speaker 4: Nothing, molecular disintegration. I'm having flesh the effect. The machine
lasts only a limited time. Chief which one of us
him oh me, which one of us is Scott Douglas.
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