1 00:00:00,240 --> 00:00:03,000 Speaker 1: In just a moment X minus one. But first, there's 2 00:00:03,040 --> 00:00:05,719 a certain water commissioner who's interested in the ladies, sometimes 3 00:00:05,759 --> 00:00:08,759 overshadows his interest in civic affairs. His name is a 4 00:00:08,759 --> 00:00:12,839 familiar one, Throckmorton, p. Guildersleeve, and he'll pursue his adventures 5 00:00:12,839 --> 00:00:16,480 tomorrow night, when NBC Radio presents another comic episode of 6 00:00:16,480 --> 00:00:19,120 the Great Guilder Sleeve. So when you hear the familiar 7 00:00:19,160 --> 00:00:22,079 voice and hearty laugh of the Water Commissioner from Summerfield tomorrow, 8 00:00:22,519 --> 00:00:25,719 why stay tuned and enjoy another romatic scramble with the 9 00:00:25,719 --> 00:00:30,199 one and only the Great Guilder Sleeve on this NBC station. 10 00:00:32,000 --> 00:00:36,640 And I'll stay tuned for X minus one on NBC. 11 00:00:43,520 --> 00:00:48,119 Speaker 2: Com down for blast off X minus five four three 12 00:00:49,000 --> 00:01:19,239 two X minus one. Fire from the far horizons of 13 00:01:19,239 --> 00:01:22,959 the unknown, come transcribed tales of new dimensions in time 14 00:01:23,159 --> 00:01:27,799 and space. These are stories of the future adventures in 15 00:01:27,840 --> 00:01:30,159 which you'll live in a million, could be years, on. 16 00:01:30,159 --> 00:01:31,760 Speaker 3: A thousand, maybe worlds. 17 00:01:32,599 --> 00:01:38,519 Speaker 4: The National Broadcasting Company, in cooperation with Galaxy Science Fiction magazine, presents. 18 00:01:38,359 --> 00:01:44,640 Speaker 1: HE minus one. 19 00:01:52,280 --> 00:01:56,000 Speaker 4: Tonight's story The Sea Shoot by Isaac Asimov. 20 00:02:10,280 --> 00:02:12,319 Speaker 3: We were on our way home to Earth when it happened. 21 00:02:12,960 --> 00:02:15,680 Six of us coming home as passengers aboard the Merchant 22 00:02:15,759 --> 00:02:19,520 spaceship Starfire at the start of the second interstellar War, 23 00:02:19,719 --> 00:02:22,479 the one between Earth and the planet Chloral. And then 24 00:02:22,520 --> 00:02:31,879 it happened. Now hear this condition red. Condition red, we 25 00:02:31,919 --> 00:02:34,439 are under attack from a Chlorine battle cruiser. All hands 26 00:02:34,479 --> 00:02:37,479 forward to battle stations. Passengers will remain confined to the 27 00:02:37,479 --> 00:02:38,080 after cabin. 28 00:02:38,159 --> 00:02:38,879 Speaker 5: Condition red. 29 00:02:38,879 --> 00:02:42,719 Speaker 3: We are being attacked. The interception by the Chlorine cruiser, 30 00:02:42,840 --> 00:02:46,280 the murderous running jewel of energy blasts and force field defenses. 31 00:02:53,520 --> 00:02:56,639 We huddled in the passengers after cabin, terrified, not knowing 32 00:02:56,639 --> 00:02:59,039 how the battle was going. We could hear the desperate 33 00:02:59,080 --> 00:03:01,759 bursts of steam through the steering tubes as a Starfire 34 00:03:01,800 --> 00:03:12,800 and maneuver to dodge the enemy attacks. And then now 35 00:03:12,840 --> 00:03:14,840 what the beginning of the end you might call it? 36 00:03:15,159 --> 00:03:16,719 Speaker 5: Well, what does it mean, Stu, It you were the 37 00:03:16,719 --> 00:03:17,319 space pilot. 38 00:03:17,319 --> 00:03:19,960 Speaker 3: It means our generators have been drained of energy. We 39 00:03:20,039 --> 00:03:22,560 can't fight back. But I don't worry. They won't destroy us. 40 00:03:22,599 --> 00:03:25,000 They need our ship too badly. They simply bored us 41 00:03:25,000 --> 00:03:27,599 and take over. But what about the crew crew, Colonel, 42 00:03:28,360 --> 00:03:31,000 if they have any sense, they'll surrender if they choose 43 00:03:31,039 --> 00:03:34,439 to fight their now they're coming aboard. Not be very still, 44 00:03:34,520 --> 00:03:42,240 but in Heaven, help still, if only those fools will 45 00:03:42,240 --> 00:03:50,360 surrender without a struggle. They are fighting. Ye see, We've 46 00:03:50,400 --> 00:03:52,080 gotta help him, all right. Don't open that door. 47 00:03:52,080 --> 00:03:52,879 Speaker 5: We just can't let them. 48 00:03:53,240 --> 00:03:54,400 Speaker 3: Can't help him going. 49 00:03:54,919 --> 00:04:01,960 Speaker 6: They stop him, all right, cat his city. 50 00:04:02,120 --> 00:04:07,960 Speaker 3: Shut the door quickly, my brother, that poor fool. 51 00:04:08,439 --> 00:04:11,240 Speaker 7: Get them, my brother, I swear to you, what get them? 52 00:04:11,360 --> 00:04:12,360 Speaker 3: You better cover his body. 53 00:04:12,400 --> 00:04:16,040 Speaker 5: The brutes, the monstrous green skin brutes. 54 00:04:15,719 --> 00:04:18,199 Speaker 3: Are normal brutes than we are. Colonel. This is a war. 55 00:04:18,439 --> 00:04:19,399 Speaker 5: Are you defending them? 56 00:04:19,439 --> 00:04:22,639 Speaker 3: I'm merely pointing out the facts. You might not save 57 00:04:22,680 --> 00:04:24,199 it for the Chloros. 58 00:04:23,759 --> 00:04:26,480 Speaker 7: I will, I promise you I will. 59 00:04:26,759 --> 00:04:28,720 Speaker 3: They're probably deciding right now what to do with us. 60 00:04:28,839 --> 00:04:38,639 You might as well settle down and wait. We sat there, 61 00:04:39,079 --> 00:04:42,360 for five of us, and listened while the Chloran invaders 62 00:04:42,439 --> 00:04:45,920 killed off the members of the starfires Crew. Among us 63 00:04:46,000 --> 00:04:49,240 was Colonel Anthony Wyndham, an old Colonel Blimp type with 64 00:04:49,279 --> 00:04:52,199 a lame leg. Wyndham had spent his life in the 65 00:04:52,240 --> 00:04:54,480 militia back on Earth, but had never seen a babble. 66 00:04:55,480 --> 00:04:58,879 There was Demetrius Poliarchits, who had just watched his brother 67 00:04:59,000 --> 00:05:03,279 being killed by a carbonizer. Paully was a huge man. 68 00:05:03,920 --> 00:05:05,879 He and his brother had tried truck farming an arc 69 00:05:05,959 --> 00:05:09,120 tourists and given it up after two seasons. Then there 70 00:05:09,160 --> 00:05:12,360 was LeBlanc, a sensitive, frightened young man of twenty two, 71 00:05:13,040 --> 00:05:16,800 and Randolph Mullen, who looked like somebody's caricature of a bookkeeper, 72 00:05:17,600 --> 00:05:21,800 a mild, bawling, milk toast little man. And there was myself, 73 00:05:22,160 --> 00:05:25,160 John Stewart. I was the only one who'd ever had 74 00:05:25,160 --> 00:05:28,120 contact with the Chloro people. I had a pair of 75 00:05:28,279 --> 00:05:33,959 artaplasm hands to prove it. It is quiet now, Yeah, 76 00:05:34,000 --> 00:05:37,319 they finished with a crew. Who, mister Stewart, Yes, mister Mullen, 77 00:05:37,639 --> 00:05:39,959 What do you think will happen next? Well, I'll put 78 00:05:39,959 --> 00:05:42,079 a prize crew of two aboard and take us to 79 00:05:42,120 --> 00:05:44,759 one of their home planets as prisoners of war. 80 00:05:45,199 --> 00:05:47,240 Speaker 5: Only two of the Chloro's will say aboard. 81 00:05:47,319 --> 00:05:51,120 Speaker 3: The two is all I'll need. Why, colonel, you're thinking 82 00:05:51,120 --> 00:05:53,399 of leading a gallant raid to retake the ship? 83 00:05:53,720 --> 00:05:55,480 Speaker 5: Simply a point of information, as you know. 84 00:05:55,639 --> 00:05:58,079 Speaker 3: Then let me give you another point of information. If 85 00:05:58,120 --> 00:06:00,959 you want to commit suicide quick, just open that bulkhead door. 86 00:06:01,600 --> 00:06:04,720 Three steps inside you'd fallen your face. But why don't 87 00:06:04,759 --> 00:06:07,399 you smell anything the blank? Get close to the door. 88 00:06:09,480 --> 00:06:14,160 It smells like gas. It is gas, chlorine gas. They 89 00:06:14,240 --> 00:06:18,040 breathe it like we breathe oxygen. They've chlorinated the whole 90 00:06:18,079 --> 00:06:20,600 cruise compartment. One big whiff of that and we'd all 91 00:06:20,639 --> 00:06:23,879 be dead. So just forget about rushing the chloros. 92 00:06:24,399 --> 00:06:26,959 Speaker 8: How do you know so much about their habits, Stewart, 93 00:06:27,079 --> 00:06:27,759 I lived on a. 94 00:06:27,800 --> 00:06:32,279 Speaker 3: Chloro planet for six months. You see these hands. They 95 00:06:32,279 --> 00:06:35,319 were mangled in the oxygenating machinery of my own quarters. 96 00:06:36,480 --> 00:06:41,240 They grew these artaplasm things and operated. They're weak, but 97 00:06:41,319 --> 00:06:46,160 at least I have hands again, missus Stuart? Yeah, well 98 00:06:46,199 --> 00:06:50,879 they will they kill us. No, why do you say that, 99 00:06:52,319 --> 00:06:56,439 because in their own way they're gentlemen. Probably we'll be 100 00:06:57,000 --> 00:06:58,240 interned for the duration. 101 00:06:58,879 --> 00:07:02,079 Speaker 9: You call them gentle men? After they kill my brother 102 00:07:02,160 --> 00:07:02,920 in cold blood? 103 00:07:03,279 --> 00:07:04,319 Speaker 7: You call them gentlemen? 104 00:07:04,600 --> 00:07:07,319 Speaker 8: You know, Stuart, you sound more and more like I've 105 00:07:07,319 --> 00:07:09,560 blasted greene sympathizer, blusted man. 106 00:07:09,800 --> 00:07:11,439 Speaker 5: Where's your patriotism and loyalty? 107 00:07:11,439 --> 00:07:14,120 Speaker 3: How loyalty is where it belongs with honesty and decency 108 00:07:14,680 --> 00:07:16,720 regardless of the shape of the being it appears in. 109 00:07:17,560 --> 00:07:20,199 This is a ridiculous war. Why are we fighting these people? 110 00:07:21,000 --> 00:07:23,360 We can live only on planets with oxygen, and oxygen 111 00:07:23,399 --> 00:07:26,319 is poisoned to them. They can live only in chlorine atmosphere, 112 00:07:26,319 --> 00:07:29,040 which is deadly to us. Yet we're fighting them over 113 00:07:29,079 --> 00:07:31,040 a bunch of worthless asteroids that neither of us can 114 00:07:31,079 --> 00:07:33,800 live uncomfortably. It's a matter of principle, it's a matter 115 00:07:33,800 --> 00:07:35,000 of stupid pride and greed. 116 00:07:35,639 --> 00:07:37,560 Speaker 7: I can't try what you say, mister. 117 00:07:37,720 --> 00:07:41,120 Speaker 9: Why not because you talk too nice about these greeny 118 00:07:41,240 --> 00:07:45,079 scamp They're good to you, Eh, well, they weren't good 119 00:07:45,079 --> 00:07:48,000 to my brother. They killed him, and I think maybe 120 00:07:48,000 --> 00:07:49,120 I'll kill you, you rotten. 121 00:07:52,319 --> 00:07:53,519 Speaker 6: I can't break his hole. 122 00:07:56,399 --> 00:07:56,959 Speaker 3: They are coming. 123 00:07:57,720 --> 00:07:58,079 Speaker 5: Let him go. 124 00:08:01,120 --> 00:08:05,000 Speaker 9: They saved your life this time with the name finished 125 00:08:05,000 --> 00:08:05,360 with dead. 126 00:08:06,639 --> 00:08:08,399 Speaker 5: I think they're opening the lock. 127 00:08:09,199 --> 00:08:10,560 Speaker 7: Who didn't get between us. 128 00:08:10,560 --> 00:08:18,199 Speaker 5: Only don't lose your head. They'll kill us all I 129 00:08:18,480 --> 00:08:19,759 greet you Earthman. 130 00:08:28,480 --> 00:08:31,120 Speaker 3: The Chloro was not a pleasant sight to anyone unused 131 00:08:31,160 --> 00:08:33,399 to him. He was about the height of an earthman, 132 00:08:33,480 --> 00:08:35,799 but the top of him was just a green stalk 133 00:08:36,000 --> 00:08:39,120 with eyes. He was still wearing a spacesuit to protect 134 00:08:39,200 --> 00:08:41,600 him from the oxygen in our compartment. In one of 135 00:08:41,600 --> 00:08:45,120 his tendrils, he carried a chlorine gun. As he stood 136 00:08:45,120 --> 00:08:47,679 in the doorway, I could see Polliokeitha's eyes begin to 137 00:08:47,679 --> 00:08:50,360 glisten with rage. Then, with a bellow like a huge bully, 138 00:08:50,399 --> 00:08:51,840 threw himself at the chloro. 139 00:08:58,000 --> 00:09:04,399 Speaker 10: He is not dead, temporarily paralyzed. You five will remain 140 00:09:04,519 --> 00:09:08,559 together as prisoners of war. We expect to reach our 141 00:09:08,600 --> 00:09:13,039 own planet within several weeks. Your time there, you will 142 00:09:13,080 --> 00:09:16,360 be in turn for the duration of the war. If 143 00:09:16,360 --> 00:09:19,600 any of you attempts to leave this compartment, we shall 144 00:09:19,639 --> 00:09:23,240 be forced to destroy you. That is all I. 145 00:09:23,240 --> 00:09:24,320 Speaker 11: Have to communicate. 146 00:09:31,200 --> 00:09:33,799 Speaker 12: Hadn't we better do something for mister Polly archidies. 147 00:09:33,960 --> 00:09:36,159 Speaker 3: Oh, he'll be all right, Just hoist them up on 148 00:09:36,159 --> 00:09:44,480 the cot by Polly. Can you hear me, you stupid brute? 149 00:09:45,759 --> 00:09:49,039 His voice is coming back now. I know what's going 150 00:09:49,080 --> 00:09:52,120 on in that thick scull of your Polly. You think 151 00:09:52,159 --> 00:09:54,840 that when the paralysis wears off, you lease your feelings 152 00:09:54,840 --> 00:09:57,720 by slamming me around some more. Well, if you do, 153 00:09:57,799 --> 00:09:59,120 it'll be curtains for all of us. 154 00:09:59,200 --> 00:09:59,960 Speaker 5: How do you mean, sir? 155 00:10:00,720 --> 00:10:03,200 Speaker 3: None of you know the Chloros the way I do. 156 00:10:04,559 --> 00:10:07,759 Unlike us, they assume automatically that any group of earth 157 00:10:07,799 --> 00:10:11,320 men they find together comprises of biological grouping, like an 158 00:10:11,360 --> 00:10:14,759 ant colony. The result is that they consider the group 159 00:10:15,279 --> 00:10:20,240 as something well, something holy. Now, they'd never break us up, 160 00:10:21,360 --> 00:10:23,759 and if one of us did any harm to another, 161 00:10:24,360 --> 00:10:26,720 they'd have us all executed as a bunch of Chloro 162 00:10:26,799 --> 00:10:31,440 type perverts, a non functioning group. So call all the 163 00:10:31,519 --> 00:10:35,039 names you want, but keep your hands to yourself, or 164 00:10:35,080 --> 00:10:46,480 we're finished. My little speech had a sobering effect on 165 00:10:46,559 --> 00:10:49,080 the group. For the next twenty four hours we did 166 00:10:49,120 --> 00:10:52,039 little besides eat our rations and things. I tried to 167 00:10:52,080 --> 00:10:55,360 evaluate them. The colonel I had figured for an old windbag. 168 00:10:56,000 --> 00:11:00,480 Poliarchidas was a hate filled brute. The blank would crack first. 169 00:11:00,879 --> 00:11:04,720 It was like a frightened child. Mullen. Mullen was a 170 00:11:04,759 --> 00:11:08,480 non entity, a mouse instead of a man. Everything he 171 00:11:08,600 --> 00:11:12,679 did seemed precious. His voice had the quality of furtively 172 00:11:12,799 --> 00:11:15,399 rustling underbrush. 173 00:11:15,720 --> 00:11:18,399 Speaker 13: How long did you say the trip would take, mister 174 00:11:18,440 --> 00:11:19,000 Stewart well. 175 00:11:19,000 --> 00:11:20,399 Speaker 3: Le Chloro said about two weeks. 176 00:11:20,840 --> 00:11:24,840 Speaker 8: Gentlemen, If I may interrupt, Colonel, now it has occurred 177 00:11:24,840 --> 00:11:27,759 to me that perhaps you know of some weakness that 178 00:11:27,840 --> 00:11:29,840 might enable us to overcome these Chlorals. 179 00:11:29,919 --> 00:11:33,039 Speaker 3: The only weakness they've got is that they can't stand oxygen. 180 00:11:33,360 --> 00:11:35,159 Speaker 8: But there must be some way to get the best 181 00:11:35,159 --> 00:11:37,879 of the man. After all, there are only two four. 182 00:11:37,759 --> 00:11:41,279 Speaker 3: I answered, colonel, I have to know your motive. Is 183 00:11:41,279 --> 00:11:43,440 it to save your own skin or help Earth win 184 00:11:43,480 --> 00:11:43,919 the war? Oh? 185 00:11:44,000 --> 00:11:45,360 Speaker 5: Dash, it'd meant to help us side. 186 00:11:45,360 --> 00:11:48,159 Speaker 8: Of course, what we're looking for is the way to 187 00:11:48,240 --> 00:11:50,000 save the ship for Earth without. 188 00:11:49,720 --> 00:11:50,399 Speaker 5: Losing our lives. 189 00:11:50,480 --> 00:11:54,320 Speaker 3: Yes, all right, let's take a boat, then a blank. 190 00:11:54,879 --> 00:11:58,679 I have a wife waiting on Earth. Mister Steward, I 191 00:11:58,720 --> 00:12:03,039 do not want to die. Hero number one, what about you, Mullen? 192 00:12:03,519 --> 00:12:05,559 Speaker 12: I don't see how we could accomplish it? 193 00:12:05,600 --> 00:12:09,240 Speaker 3: Well, Hero number two, Well, Paula Ketis. 194 00:12:10,000 --> 00:12:12,360 Speaker 9: When I kill Chloris, it will be with my bad 195 00:12:12,440 --> 00:12:16,159 hands on the planet. I will kill dozens, I promise you. 196 00:12:16,240 --> 00:12:20,440 Speaker 3: Ah three down, Well, colonel, don't you want to march 197 00:12:20,440 --> 00:12:22,360 to glory an old militia man like you? 198 00:12:22,360 --> 00:12:25,279 Speaker 8: Your attitude is very cynical, and I'm becoming slice sea. 199 00:12:26,399 --> 00:12:28,519 Speaker 3: Well then I'll have to blow the ship up myself 200 00:12:28,600 --> 00:12:31,440 to it. Don't worry, Colonel, I don't intend to be 201 00:12:31,440 --> 00:12:32,080 a dead hero. 202 00:12:32,960 --> 00:12:36,279 Speaker 12: Of course, there is a way we might do it. 203 00:12:38,120 --> 00:12:39,679 Speaker 5: What did you say, mister Molon. 204 00:12:40,159 --> 00:12:43,440 Speaker 13: There's a spacesuit and magnetic boot stored in that locker 205 00:12:43,519 --> 00:12:45,720 over there. We might be able to reach the control 206 00:12:45,799 --> 00:12:47,519 room from the outside of the ship. 207 00:12:47,919 --> 00:12:50,679 Speaker 3: The outside, But how would we get outside? 208 00:12:50,960 --> 00:12:54,639 Speaker 13: This compartment has a sea shoot, it must what is 209 00:12:55,080 --> 00:12:55,799 a sea shoot? 210 00:12:55,879 --> 00:12:59,360 Speaker 3: A sea shoot, my boy, is a casualty shoot. It 211 00:12:59,360 --> 00:13:01,679 doesn't get talked about much, but all the main compartments 212 00:13:01,679 --> 00:13:04,879 have them. They're just little airlocks down which you slide 213 00:13:04,879 --> 00:13:07,320 a corpse burial in space. 214 00:13:08,120 --> 00:13:11,399 Speaker 8: Oh, plastic melon. I suppose you did get outside. How 215 00:13:11,440 --> 00:13:14,200 could you re enter the ship through the steam tubes? 216 00:13:14,320 --> 00:13:15,840 The ones they used to guide the ship. 217 00:13:15,840 --> 00:13:17,960 Speaker 3: Wait a minute, Mula, what do you know about steam tubes? 218 00:13:18,000 --> 00:13:19,159 I thought you were a bookkeeper. 219 00:13:19,519 --> 00:13:25,120 Speaker 13: Well, on Arcturis, I got interested in spaceship models. I 220 00:13:25,240 --> 00:13:29,799 studied all about them on my own time, of course, yeah, naturally, 221 00:13:30,080 --> 00:13:32,360 At any rate, I learned that the steam tubes have 222 00:13:32,440 --> 00:13:35,639 an access vent directly to the control room for repairs 223 00:13:35,679 --> 00:13:36,360 and so. 224 00:13:36,240 --> 00:13:38,639 Speaker 3: Forth, and the close they are in the control room. 225 00:13:38,879 --> 00:13:42,120 Speaker 8: H what do you think, Stuart, Well, it's a video 226 00:13:42,279 --> 00:13:43,919 sort of idea, But it might just work. 227 00:13:44,799 --> 00:13:46,679 Speaker 3: We could get permission from the Chlorus to open the 228 00:13:46,679 --> 00:13:49,559 sea shoot and bury Poly's brother, and one of us 229 00:13:49,559 --> 00:13:51,639 could slip into it, work forward and climb up through 230 00:13:51,679 --> 00:13:54,879 the steam tube, the question being which one. 231 00:13:55,120 --> 00:13:58,960 Speaker 9: Well about you, you, with your loud talk and your sneeze. 232 00:13:58,960 --> 00:14:02,759 Speaker 3: I'm no hero. I've already said that my object is 233 00:14:02,759 --> 00:14:06,000 to stay alive the steam tube let go while you 234 00:14:06,039 --> 00:14:09,399 were in it. You'd be broiled like a lobster. I'll 235 00:14:09,480 --> 00:14:10,279 at the colonel here. 236 00:14:10,639 --> 00:14:13,600 Speaker 8: If I were younger, blessed, I troublet you, you know 237 00:14:13,720 --> 00:14:15,039 very well, with my injured. 238 00:14:14,799 --> 00:14:19,919 Speaker 3: Leg, of course, not to mention my artificial hands. Well, now, 239 00:14:19,960 --> 00:14:22,240 what unfortunate deformities do. 240 00:14:22,240 --> 00:14:22,919 Speaker 12: The rest of us have? 241 00:14:23,919 --> 00:14:27,559 Speaker 9: Holly, you just keep talking, mister big Martin. Pretty soon 242 00:14:27,600 --> 00:14:28,679 we'll kick your teeth. 243 00:14:28,919 --> 00:14:32,000 Speaker 3: Of course, that's your standard reply to everything, isn't it 244 00:14:32,159 --> 00:14:37,320 the blank? Will you do it? I cannot not even 245 00:14:37,360 --> 00:14:38,320 to get back to Denise. 246 00:14:38,519 --> 00:14:41,159 Speaker 12: Please, I I can blank and even go I'll do it? 247 00:14:41,799 --> 00:14:41,879 Speaker 9: What? 248 00:14:42,799 --> 00:14:44,480 Speaker 12: After all? It is my idea? 249 00:14:44,759 --> 00:14:46,399 Speaker 3: Wait a minute of you serious? Mullen? 250 00:14:46,879 --> 00:14:48,320 Speaker 12: Yes, well. 251 00:14:49,799 --> 00:14:53,360 Speaker 13: I don't understand why why you Well, it seems no 252 00:14:53,399 --> 00:14:54,120 one else. 253 00:14:53,919 --> 00:14:54,399 Speaker 12: Will do it. 254 00:14:54,480 --> 00:14:56,240 Speaker 3: But that's no reason, man. 255 00:14:56,679 --> 00:14:57,879 Speaker 12: I can't think any other. 256 00:14:58,679 --> 00:15:02,440 Speaker 8: Look here, really intend to go through with it, sir, Yes, 257 00:15:02,519 --> 00:15:03,399 I suppose I do. 258 00:15:04,039 --> 00:15:04,320 Speaker 5: Well. 259 00:15:04,600 --> 00:15:07,879 Speaker 8: Daesh it, man, let me shake your hand. You're you're 260 00:15:07,879 --> 00:15:10,759 an earthman by heaven. You do this thing, and we 261 00:15:10,960 --> 00:15:12,799 know die. I'll bear witness for you. 262 00:15:19,600 --> 00:15:21,960 Speaker 3: It was quite a moment, mull and the mouse had 263 00:15:22,000 --> 00:15:25,240 suddenly turned into a man. He just stood there awkwardly 264 00:15:25,279 --> 00:15:28,919 while the colonel pupped his hand. All your Kita seemed stunned. 265 00:15:29,240 --> 00:15:32,519 Le Blanc was wide eyed, and I well, I was 266 00:15:32,519 --> 00:15:35,759 in a peculiar position, one which I rarely found myself. 267 00:15:36,879 --> 00:15:41,879 I had absolutely nothing to say that. 268 00:15:41,919 --> 00:15:42,919 Speaker 5: Ought to bring them. 269 00:15:43,360 --> 00:15:52,840 Speaker 3: I hear one, what is an earthman? One member of 270 00:15:52,960 --> 00:15:57,600 our unit is dead. As you know. We request permission 271 00:15:57,600 --> 00:15:59,799 to jettison his body out of the casual is shoe. 272 00:16:00,559 --> 00:16:01,279 Speaker 10: You may do so. 273 00:16:02,120 --> 00:16:05,240 Speaker 3: You'll have to open the shoot lock from the control room. 274 00:16:05,559 --> 00:16:08,360 Speaker 10: I will do so. Is there anything else? 275 00:16:08,679 --> 00:16:08,960 Speaker 6: No? 276 00:16:09,720 --> 00:16:16,720 Speaker 3: Nothing else? Thank you? 277 00:16:17,279 --> 00:16:17,840 Speaker 7: Oh boy? 278 00:16:18,399 --> 00:16:20,919 Speaker 3: Yeah? All right, come on now we'll have to work fast. Mulling, 279 00:16:21,240 --> 00:16:24,600 get into a spacesuit from the emergency locker. Holy help, mama, 280 00:16:24,600 --> 00:16:25,480 those magnetic boots. 281 00:16:27,360 --> 00:16:30,600 Speaker 12: I'm working as fast as I can the arm. 282 00:16:31,399 --> 00:16:35,679 Speaker 3: All right, give me the helmet. Okay, Now, Mullen, you 283 00:16:35,679 --> 00:16:37,200 better scratch your nose if you have to, at your 284 00:16:37,240 --> 00:16:38,120 last chance for a while. 285 00:16:38,159 --> 00:16:39,399 Speaker 12: What about radio content. 286 00:16:39,440 --> 00:16:41,200 Speaker 3: You can talk to us. We're listening on the helmet 287 00:16:41,240 --> 00:16:43,320 set in one of the other suits. The Chloros won't 288 00:16:43,320 --> 00:16:44,840 have their set on the interphone frequency. 289 00:16:44,840 --> 00:16:46,720 Speaker 5: Wait a moment, What for DA what's he going to 290 00:16:46,840 --> 00:16:48,720 use for the weapon? He isn't big enough to fight 291 00:16:48,759 --> 00:16:49,399 them bare headed? 292 00:16:49,440 --> 00:16:52,919 Speaker 3: No, that's true. Well, how about one of those oxygen cylinders. 293 00:16:53,120 --> 00:16:55,440 Speaker 5: Good idea, use it to brush them over the head. 294 00:16:55,440 --> 00:16:56,840 Speaker 3: I give them one of the cylinders equipped with a 295 00:16:56,879 --> 00:17:00,960 reducing valve. Now, look, mullin, if you're magnetic boots fail 296 00:17:01,279 --> 00:17:03,960 and you start drifting away into space, open this valve. 297 00:17:04,599 --> 00:17:06,960 See that you can use it like a miniature jet 298 00:17:06,960 --> 00:17:09,119 and try to blow yourself back to the ship. Understand, 299 00:17:10,079 --> 00:17:12,720 I think so. One of my only hope it works. 300 00:17:13,240 --> 00:17:15,079 All right, Here goes the helmet. You bet to hovey. 301 00:17:15,279 --> 00:17:18,200 The light is on over the sea. Shoot, yeah, all right, 302 00:17:18,799 --> 00:17:25,519 that means I'm opened the lock here. How can you 303 00:17:25,519 --> 00:17:29,720 hear me? Leblank can be that other space helmet? Yes, 304 00:17:31,119 --> 00:17:34,440 let me switch on the radio. Can you hear me, Mullen, 305 00:17:34,759 --> 00:17:39,119 I hear you. Fine, well name er, here's okay, Pully 306 00:17:39,720 --> 00:17:52,640 open the sea shoot okay, now help me man already ready, well, 307 00:17:52,640 --> 00:18:01,160 good luck close the shot fully ejective valve. Now he's out, 308 00:18:02,519 --> 00:18:07,119 Oh God help him. The light is out. Yeah, the 309 00:18:07,200 --> 00:18:08,799 Chloro's have closed the shoot lock. 310 00:18:09,680 --> 00:18:13,599 Speaker 5: I I don't suppose he has much of a chance. 311 00:18:15,200 --> 00:18:17,720 Do you think Do you think he knew it? 312 00:18:18,799 --> 00:18:22,599 Speaker 3: I don't know. I just don't know. Should I I 313 00:18:22,920 --> 00:18:26,200 try to contact him on the lady? Yes, Wait a minute, 314 00:18:26,200 --> 00:18:28,799 what is it? Listen? The Chloro's coming. 315 00:18:29,039 --> 00:18:30,799 Speaker 5: Good lord, he shouted a miss Mullan. 316 00:18:31,000 --> 00:18:34,519 Speaker 3: Wully, get your brother's body on the cot. Put a 317 00:18:34,519 --> 00:18:36,119 blanket over it. Pretend it's Mullin asleep. 318 00:18:36,759 --> 00:18:37,079 Speaker 5: Pull me. 319 00:18:37,160 --> 00:18:38,000 Speaker 3: For Heaven's sake. 320 00:18:38,160 --> 00:18:39,880 Speaker 7: Brother, You've got to do it. 321 00:18:39,920 --> 00:18:41,039 Speaker 3: Man, it's our only chance. 322 00:18:41,799 --> 00:18:42,039 Speaker 5: Listen. 323 00:18:42,079 --> 00:18:44,279 Speaker 3: If Mullin could go out there, well, I. 324 00:18:44,279 --> 00:18:44,960 Speaker 7: Will do it. 325 00:18:50,079 --> 00:18:53,839 Speaker 10: Earth man, Yes, you have Jennison in the body. 326 00:18:54,920 --> 00:18:55,160 Speaker 5: Yes. 327 00:18:55,839 --> 00:18:58,359 Speaker 10: Good. Is there something further. 328 00:18:58,200 --> 00:18:58,640 Speaker 14: We can do? 329 00:18:58,839 --> 00:19:05,359 Speaker 3: No? I we are very tired. Our grief is very 330 00:19:05,359 --> 00:19:08,720 great at losing one of our unit. We would like 331 00:19:08,759 --> 00:19:09,680 to rest alone. 332 00:19:10,279 --> 00:19:13,640 Speaker 10: I will respect your wishes. I see that one of 333 00:19:13,680 --> 00:19:14,960 your units sleeps already. 334 00:19:15,160 --> 00:19:25,720 Speaker 3: Yes, yes, mister Mullen was overcome with grief. I leave you, Oh, 335 00:19:25,759 --> 00:19:29,720 brother Pauley, I thought sure you were gonna rush. 336 00:19:29,559 --> 00:19:32,319 Speaker 7: Him with that brave little guy out there. What do 337 00:19:32,319 --> 00:19:35,519 you think I am? Anyway? And to think I laughed 338 00:19:35,559 --> 00:19:37,920 at him makes me ashamed. 339 00:19:39,359 --> 00:19:43,440 Speaker 3: Yeah, I guess. I guess I've been saying some things 340 00:19:43,440 --> 00:19:46,960 that maybe weren't too funny. I owe all of you 341 00:19:47,000 --> 00:19:47,680 an apology. 342 00:19:48,079 --> 00:19:50,200 Speaker 5: H Do you think it's safe to try the radio? 343 00:19:50,279 --> 00:19:56,559 Speaker 3: Yeah? We better. Hello, Hello, Mullin, can you hear me? 344 00:19:57,079 --> 00:19:58,119 Speaker 14: Yes, I hear you. 345 00:19:58,359 --> 00:20:01,680 Speaker 3: Where are you standing on the outside of the ship? 346 00:20:02,279 --> 00:20:05,599 All right? Now? Take care. One misstep and you'll be 347 00:20:05,640 --> 00:20:08,680 marooned in space. Now, can you find the steam tubes? 348 00:20:09,200 --> 00:20:12,640 Speaker 14: I think I've found one of them already. I can 349 00:20:12,680 --> 00:20:16,000 feel the rim. I just hope it doesn't let go 350 00:20:16,119 --> 00:20:17,119 and I get inside. 351 00:20:17,400 --> 00:20:18,119 Speaker 3: Be careful. 352 00:20:18,720 --> 00:20:21,960 Speaker 14: I'm going into the tube now. I can feel the 353 00:20:22,000 --> 00:20:23,359 ladder rungs they used to. 354 00:20:23,440 --> 00:20:25,960 Speaker 3: Repair the inside, and we'll keep in contact. 355 00:20:27,160 --> 00:20:32,039 Speaker 8: I'm in the tube now, good lord, they've let go 356 00:20:32,079 --> 00:20:32,599 with a blasto. 357 00:20:32,720 --> 00:20:35,599 Speaker 3: Well, it may be the starboard tubes, Mullen, Mullen, still here. 358 00:20:36,720 --> 00:20:40,440 Speaker 14: They use the other tubes. Fortunately, now if they don't 359 00:20:40,480 --> 00:20:41,559 try to correct. 360 00:20:41,279 --> 00:20:42,880 Speaker 3: For over deflection, keep moving. 361 00:20:43,519 --> 00:20:47,079 Speaker 14: I seem to be waiting. Yes, so yeah, I'm at 362 00:20:47,119 --> 00:20:49,400 the end of the tube now where it opens into 363 00:20:49,440 --> 00:20:50,279 the control room. 364 00:20:50,279 --> 00:20:50,559 Speaker 6: Good. 365 00:20:50,640 --> 00:20:53,440 Speaker 3: Good, Now, look there's a small metal door there. Can 366 00:20:53,480 --> 00:20:54,000 you feel it? 367 00:20:54,440 --> 00:20:54,680 Speaker 13: Yes? 368 00:20:54,799 --> 00:20:59,559 Speaker 14: Huh, I'm afraid it's slocked from the other side. I 369 00:20:59,640 --> 00:21:01,119 can't budget well. 370 00:21:01,960 --> 00:21:03,279 Speaker 3: Well, and listen to me, Steward. 371 00:21:03,720 --> 00:21:06,119 Speaker 14: I'm scared. I'm terribly scared. 372 00:21:06,160 --> 00:21:07,720 Speaker 3: All right, all right, now, hang on, don't blow up. 373 00:21:07,759 --> 00:21:12,839 Listen to me. Are you listening? Yes, Take the spare 374 00:21:12,960 --> 00:21:15,720 oxygen tank. Bang on the metal door that leads to 375 00:21:15,759 --> 00:21:18,400 the control room. The chlorals are bound to hear you. 376 00:21:18,960 --> 00:21:20,880 When one of them comes to investigate, try to hit 377 00:21:20,960 --> 00:21:23,880 him with the cylinder. Now, aim for the stalk on 378 00:21:23,960 --> 00:21:26,359 top of his body. Try to blind him. Will you 379 00:21:26,440 --> 00:21:31,000 do that? I'll try well, now go on, only one 380 00:21:31,039 --> 00:21:34,400 can come. The other will stay at the controls. I'll 381 00:21:34,400 --> 00:21:41,160 start banging any luck. 382 00:21:41,640 --> 00:21:46,480 Speaker 14: No, I wait, I hear something, something's opening the lock 383 00:21:47,440 --> 00:21:47,799 the door. 384 00:21:47,880 --> 00:21:48,119 Speaker 5: Knock. 385 00:21:48,799 --> 00:21:53,759 Speaker 9: Ah, Mullin, mullon, what happened? 386 00:21:55,160 --> 00:21:56,039 Speaker 3: Mullin? Can you hear me? 387 00:21:57,400 --> 00:22:12,119 Speaker 6: Mullin, Mullen, Mullen. 388 00:22:14,519 --> 00:22:19,319 Speaker 7: It's no use. They must have gotten He was one 389 00:22:19,359 --> 00:22:20,759 brave little guy, that one. 390 00:22:20,920 --> 00:22:22,839 Speaker 3: But suppose they have just got him in the control room. 391 00:22:23,200 --> 00:22:27,920 I mean, maybe he's not dead. Well, then maybe one 392 00:22:27,960 --> 00:22:29,160 of us could watch them. 393 00:22:29,400 --> 00:22:31,079 Speaker 5: We could bang on the door and jump the clock. 394 00:22:31,359 --> 00:22:34,559 Speaker 3: The first guy would be a cinch to die. I 395 00:22:35,759 --> 00:22:37,079 would be willing to take the chance. 396 00:22:37,200 --> 00:22:38,359 Speaker 6: You why not? 397 00:22:38,799 --> 00:22:39,799 Speaker 5: I could try back you. 398 00:22:40,480 --> 00:22:42,119 Speaker 7: I am the strongest. I do it now. 399 00:22:42,160 --> 00:22:45,240 Speaker 8: Listen, Listen to you, chaps. I'm an old man. I've 400 00:22:45,240 --> 00:22:48,000 got nothing to live for anyway. Suppose I throw myself 401 00:22:48,000 --> 00:22:48,559 at the eragon. 402 00:22:48,599 --> 00:22:51,640 Speaker 3: Wait a minute, what's going on here? Twenty minutes ago, 403 00:22:51,680 --> 00:22:53,279 there wasn't one of you who'd risk his little finger 404 00:22:53,319 --> 00:22:54,640 to get us out of here, And now you're falling 405 00:22:54,640 --> 00:22:55,440 all over each other. 406 00:22:55,839 --> 00:22:58,200 Speaker 7: Maybe mister Mullen teaches us a lesson. 407 00:22:58,240 --> 00:23:03,480 Speaker 3: Eh yeah, uh okay, poorly, give me the wrench. I'll 408 00:23:03,519 --> 00:23:13,039 start banging on the door. They say that selflessness is contagious. 409 00:23:13,559 --> 00:23:16,400 I guess maybe it is. I'd been a cynic all 410 00:23:16,440 --> 00:23:19,920 my life, a man who believed in nothing. Well, I'd 411 00:23:19,960 --> 00:23:22,519 come face to face with four human beings who proved 412 00:23:22,839 --> 00:23:25,559 that I'd been living a lie. I knew what I 413 00:23:25,599 --> 00:23:28,039 was going to do now when the Chloro came to 414 00:23:28,079 --> 00:23:31,319 investigate our compartment, I had it all planned, if only 415 00:23:31,400 --> 00:23:37,319 my poor weak hands would hold out long enough. Ready, Ready, 416 00:23:37,920 --> 00:23:42,359 here goes that should bring him. 417 00:23:43,359 --> 00:23:49,119 Speaker 5: Get wait, wait, listen, shit, he's at the door. 418 00:23:49,400 --> 00:23:51,960 Speaker 7: Get ready, and it's opening the lock. 419 00:23:52,680 --> 00:24:03,680 Speaker 11: For poor old Mullin. Now steady, wait, good lord, it's Mullin. 420 00:24:05,160 --> 00:24:11,839 Speaker 3: Get the helmet off, I said, well, wellin, are you 421 00:24:11,880 --> 00:24:12,279 all right? 422 00:24:12,960 --> 00:24:15,599 Speaker 12: I seemed to be quite all right. Well, the Chloros 423 00:24:16,039 --> 00:24:18,480 both dead at least, I hope soon. 424 00:24:18,640 --> 00:24:19,279 Speaker 6: What happened? 425 00:24:19,880 --> 00:24:23,319 Speaker 13: Well, I banged on a steam tube hatch and a 426 00:24:23,400 --> 00:24:27,000 chloro open it. I hit him with a cylinder. It 427 00:24:27,160 --> 00:24:30,359 blinded him, I guess, but didn't kill him. He grabbed 428 00:24:30,359 --> 00:24:33,200 me and pulled me into the cabin. In the struggle 429 00:24:33,240 --> 00:24:35,799 he broke my transmitter. That that's why I couldn't talk 430 00:24:35,839 --> 00:24:39,519 to you. Finally I managed to club him down. 431 00:24:39,799 --> 00:24:40,680 Speaker 3: What about the other one? 432 00:24:41,240 --> 00:24:43,960 Speaker 13: The other one almost got me. It must have heard 433 00:24:43,960 --> 00:24:46,799 the scuffle and came into the cabin with a ray gun. 434 00:24:47,079 --> 00:24:49,680 Speaker 12: But I did I guess was pure reflex. 435 00:24:50,440 --> 00:24:53,359 Speaker 13: The cabin atmosphere was chlorine, of course, and the Greenie 436 00:24:53,359 --> 00:24:56,400 didn't have a spacesuit on, so I just turned on 437 00:24:56,480 --> 00:24:59,759 the oxygen valve and that spare tube. It was like 438 00:25:00,240 --> 00:25:02,200 bring an insect with poison. 439 00:25:04,079 --> 00:25:07,839 Speaker 3: But you're a brave man, Mullin. I'd have been scared 440 00:25:07,839 --> 00:25:26,279 to death. Mullen, what is it? An hour later, false 441 00:25:26,319 --> 00:25:29,359 hands and all. I was at the controls of the ship, 442 00:25:29,839 --> 00:25:33,240 headed for Earth. We'd gotten rid of the chlorinating equipment 443 00:25:33,319 --> 00:25:37,119 and restored the oxygen. Naturally, Mullin was asleep in the 444 00:25:37,160 --> 00:25:40,200 cabin under a sedative, or so I thought, until the 445 00:25:40,240 --> 00:25:45,079 cabin door opened. Mullin, for Pete's sake, get back to bed. 446 00:25:45,319 --> 00:25:48,720 Speaker 13: No, I'm quite all right now. Really, do you mind 447 00:25:48,720 --> 00:25:50,640 if I watch how you operate the ship? 448 00:25:50,759 --> 00:25:50,960 Speaker 2: Oh? 449 00:25:51,279 --> 00:25:55,400 Speaker 3: No, not at all. Sit down, you know, I guess sir. 450 00:25:57,240 --> 00:26:00,839 I owe you an apology and think too much of you. 451 00:26:01,640 --> 00:26:05,720 That's your privilege, now, it isn't anybody's privilege. Wellin to 452 00:26:05,759 --> 00:26:11,279 despise another for years now, I've abandoned hope of finding 453 00:26:11,319 --> 00:26:14,920 any decency in human beings. I owe you a vote 454 00:26:14,920 --> 00:26:15,359 of thanks. 455 00:26:16,000 --> 00:26:17,880 Speaker 12: You embarrass me, mister Stewart. 456 00:26:18,960 --> 00:26:22,359 Speaker 13: I didn't do it for any heroic reasons, I assure you, 457 00:26:23,079 --> 00:26:23,839 far from it. 458 00:26:24,640 --> 00:26:28,799 Speaker 3: Why did you do it? Mullet That puzzles me very much. 459 00:26:29,039 --> 00:26:33,920 Speaker 13: Well, mister Stuart, I'm a bookkeeper. Seventeen years ago I 460 00:26:34,039 --> 00:26:37,839 left Earth to work on Arcturis. I never made much 461 00:26:37,880 --> 00:26:41,720 impression on anybody on Earth, although I wanted very much 462 00:26:41,759 --> 00:26:45,160 to have people like me. Well, about a year ago 463 00:26:45,240 --> 00:26:48,960 I started to write to my family again, don't ask 464 00:26:49,039 --> 00:26:52,720 me why. And then I asked for a leave of 465 00:26:52,759 --> 00:26:57,400 absence to go home after seventeen years. 466 00:26:58,000 --> 00:27:03,720 Speaker 3: Well, I still don't understand. It wasn't patriotism, lovable woman, 467 00:27:03,799 --> 00:27:05,799 or money or any of those things. 468 00:27:06,160 --> 00:27:12,000 Speaker 12: What was it, mister Stewart? Haven't you ever been homesick? 469 00:27:27,079 --> 00:27:29,880 Speaker 4: You have just heard X minus one, presented by the 470 00:27:30,000 --> 00:27:34,240 National Broadcasting Company and cooperation with Galaxy Science fiction magazine, 471 00:27:34,559 --> 00:27:37,599 which this month features a Gun for Dinosaur by l. 472 00:27:37,720 --> 00:27:41,200 Sprague de camp, a story of hunters in the bloodiest 473 00:27:41,200 --> 00:27:44,680 and most ferocious arena of all prehistoric Earth, where hunting 474 00:27:44,720 --> 00:27:49,519 reptal heavyweights is no job for human lightweights. Galaxy Magazine 475 00:27:49,720 --> 00:27:54,359 on your news stand today tonight. By transcription. X minus 476 00:27:54,359 --> 00:27:57,119 one has brought you The s Shoot, a story from 477 00:27:57,160 --> 00:28:00,559 the pages of Galaxy, written by Isaac Asimonv and adapted 478 00:28:00,559 --> 00:28:01,319 for radio. 479 00:28:01,200 --> 00:28:02,400 Speaker 3: By George Leffards. 480 00:28:02,880 --> 00:28:07,400 Speaker 4: Featured in the cast were Lyle Soudra, Stan Earley, Bob Hastings, 481 00:28:07,519 --> 00:28:10,640 Mercer McLeod, Danny acoll and John Gibson. 482 00:28:11,000 --> 00:28:13,000 Speaker 3: You're Announcer Bill McCory. 483 00:28:13,920 --> 00:28:16,920 Speaker 4: X minus one was directed by Daniel Sutter and is 484 00:28:16,960 --> 00:28:19,119 an NBC Radio Network production. 485 00:28:30,880 --> 00:28:32,319 Speaker 3: Next week on a distant planet. 486 00:28:32,319 --> 00:28:35,240 Speaker 1: In a forgotten colony of Earth, a man is ordered 487 00:28:35,240 --> 00:28:40,240 to commit a murder. Listen to skulking permit on X 488 00:28:40,359 --> 00:28:42,079 minus one next week.