WEBVTT 1 00:00:00.240 --> 00:00:04.839 June third, nineteen fifty brought NBC listeners the ninth broadcast 2 00:00:04.879 --> 00:00:06.000 of Dimension X. 3 00:00:07.000 --> 00:00:08.400 In Embassy, New. 4 00:00:08.320 --> 00:00:11.839 York, Private detective Broderick receives a visit from the scholarly 5 00:00:11.919 --> 00:00:16.000 mister Grafius, who brings an ancient document and an extraordinary 6 00:00:16.079 --> 00:00:20.120 claim a Martian embassy may be hidden somewhere in the city. 7 00:00:21.039 --> 00:00:25.480 George Lefferts adapted Donald A. Wolheim story for radio, with 8 00:00:25.640 --> 00:00:31.120 Joseph Julian, Barry Kroger, Daniel Acco, and Norman Rose among 9 00:00:31.160 --> 00:00:37.479 the cast. Dimension X now presents Embassy, and now our 10 00:00:37.560 --> 00:00:39.439 story begins. 11 00:00:42.640 --> 00:00:51.600 Adventures in time and space told in future tents desa 12 00:01:07.560 --> 00:01:10.760 out of the infinitude of stars and planets in the 13 00:01:10.799 --> 00:01:14.319 Solar System and other systems in the universe. It is 14 00:01:14.359 --> 00:01:18.319 almost mathematically certain that there exist other forms of life 15 00:01:18.840 --> 00:01:23.120 on other worlds. Someday in the future, in a thousand 16 00:01:23.200 --> 00:01:28.120 years or in the next ten minutes, daring travelers through 17 00:01:28.159 --> 00:01:31.519 space will make contact with the inhabitants of another world. 18 00:01:31.959 --> 00:01:35.400 But the question is will we contact them first or 19 00:01:35.920 --> 00:01:44.599 will they contact us? 20 00:01:44.599 --> 00:01:51.079 Come man, this is Roderick's private detective agency. Check. My 21 00:01:51.159 --> 00:01:55.040 name is Gravis Graveyers of Springfield I would like to see, 22 00:01:55.159 --> 00:01:59.879 mister Prederick check. When is it all? 23 00:02:00.680 --> 00:02:04.359 There's a guy outside, a kind of a guy, A great, 24 00:02:04.400 --> 00:02:07.680 big guy with a big shining head and thick glasses 25 00:02:07.959 --> 00:02:09.759 like the bottoms of Coca Cola bottles. 26 00:02:10.240 --> 00:02:13.000 And he looks like a professors. I mean, is does 27 00:02:13.000 --> 00:02:16.120 he look like a client or a bill collector? He 28 00:02:16.240 --> 00:02:22.560 didn't say, Okay, iron Man, send him in. Check mister 29 00:02:22.759 --> 00:02:29.159 g Mister Broderick will see you. Thank you, mister Brederick 30 00:02:29.639 --> 00:02:34.599 in the flesh. Okay, iron Man, step outside. Check if 31 00:02:34.599 --> 00:02:39.319 you need me, I'll be outside. I'll have to excuse 32 00:02:39.360 --> 00:02:42.280 mister Dolan. He's a very useful man. If he happened 33 00:02:42.280 --> 00:02:44.479 to want a house moved or somebody's head unscrewed from 34 00:02:44.479 --> 00:02:48.039 their shoulders, his reflexes aren't too good. He's what you 35 00:02:48.120 --> 00:02:51.639 might call under organized. I respected as much, all right, 36 00:02:51.680 --> 00:02:55.599 mister Graius, let's get down to business precisely. I would 37 00:02:55.639 --> 00:02:58.159 like your assistance in helping me locate something here in 38 00:02:58.199 --> 00:03:00.479 New York City. That's what are you trying to locate, 39 00:03:00.560 --> 00:03:06.000 mister Grafius, the Martian Embassy. Would you say that again? 40 00:03:06.159 --> 00:03:10.000 Very slowly? I came to New York to locate the 41 00:03:10.039 --> 00:03:18.120 Martian embassy Martian like in Buck Rogers, agents of the 42 00:03:18.159 --> 00:03:24.360 government of the planet of Mars. Dolan, what's the trouble, 43 00:03:24.360 --> 00:03:26.840 Boss Carmard is a cracked part, of course. If you 44 00:03:26.960 --> 00:03:29.800 wish me to leave, I will leave. But before I go, 45 00:03:31.159 --> 00:03:35.080 you might examine this. You will find it quite authentic. 46 00:03:36.159 --> 00:03:43.199 Holy mackerel a five century. No, let me say that, saiddan, 47 00:03:43.360 --> 00:03:47.960 Mister Grafia saddan like you'reself comfortable, Dolan, get mister Grafs 48 00:03:48.000 --> 00:03:53.919 a light check. Okay, mister grais her remarks about our 49 00:03:53.919 --> 00:03:56.719 specled friends, the Martians. I shall ignore this. Being the 50 00:03:56.800 --> 00:03:59.479 year nineteen hundred and fifty five, I assume you're joking. 51 00:04:00.919 --> 00:04:04.240 I am completely serious. As it happens, I am interested 52 00:04:04.520 --> 00:04:10.479 only in Martians at the moment. I see. Okay, yeah, Shoot. 53 00:04:11.039 --> 00:04:12.840 It occurred to me in the course of my studies 54 00:04:12.919 --> 00:04:16.120 that we Earth people cannot possibly be the only intelligent 55 00:04:16.199 --> 00:04:19.800 form of life in the universe out of the infinitude 56 00:04:19.800 --> 00:04:25.519 of stars and planets. They must definitely mathematically be others. 57 00:04:25.560 --> 00:04:29.240 Since Mars is older geologically, and since it is also 58 00:04:29.800 --> 00:04:34.639 an atmospheric planet, its evolutionary history could easily be similar 59 00:04:34.680 --> 00:04:38.399 to ours. You follow me, so far. I can't say now, 60 00:04:38.879 --> 00:04:41.600 but if this is true, then they must have been 61 00:04:41.639 --> 00:04:46.360 watching us, observing us for hundreds, possibly thousands of years, 62 00:04:46.560 --> 00:04:50.120 work for black male Taptol. And they know then that 63 00:04:50.199 --> 00:04:54.839 we are not far from achieving space travel atomic rocket 64 00:04:54.839 --> 00:04:58.759 ships that can travel to other planets. They also know 65 00:04:58.839 --> 00:05:01.600 we are a militaristic wor you all like race, We 66 00:05:01.720 --> 00:05:05.439 might conceivably set out to conquer and occupy bars one day, 67 00:05:06.240 --> 00:05:12.319 in which case that try to get the jump on it. Precisely, 68 00:05:12.439 --> 00:05:14.680 mister Roger. And how would they do that for a 69 00:05:14.720 --> 00:05:17.959 civilization as old as there's space traveler would be a 70 00:05:17.959 --> 00:05:22.319 simple enough matter flying sources I've read about. Relax, iron Man. 71 00:05:23.240 --> 00:05:27.279 Go on, mister Grafias. If you were planning to attack 72 00:05:27.319 --> 00:05:33.600 an unknown nation, what would be your first move, mister Proderick? Intelligence, 73 00:05:34.160 --> 00:05:36.560 find out what the odds are. You have a very 74 00:05:36.600 --> 00:05:40.439 logical mindset. You would send agents to scout the nerve 75 00:05:40.519 --> 00:05:44.439 centers of earthly civilization and advancement. Not in Kansas City 76 00:05:44.519 --> 00:05:47.439 or Equatorial Africa, my dear sir, but here in New 77 00:05:47.519 --> 00:05:52.759 York City, the most technically advanced spot on Earth. Uh huh? 78 00:05:53.319 --> 00:05:57.079 And you want me to help you prove this theory 79 00:05:57.120 --> 00:06:01.920 of yours precisely expense. This does not interest me. This 80 00:06:02.079 --> 00:06:06.360 might take a very long long time, mister Grafius. After all, 81 00:06:06.639 --> 00:06:09.600 nobody's ever seen a Martian. I assure you it will 82 00:06:09.639 --> 00:06:13.720 be very ordinary appearing people. Likely they live together in 83 00:06:13.839 --> 00:06:17.879 downtown New York, close to the newspapers and publishers, the newscables, 84 00:06:17.920 --> 00:06:22.439 communications centers, and the financial center of Wall Street. Most 85 00:06:22.639 --> 00:06:25.560 certainly they live in a private house with no servants 86 00:06:25.600 --> 00:06:28.360 to pry into their affairs. Some ordinary people will live 87 00:06:28.360 --> 00:06:31.839 in a private house in downtown New York. I might 88 00:06:31.920 --> 00:06:34.600 just as well look up martians in the classified section 89 00:06:34.680 --> 00:06:39.639 of the phone book. There is one other lead which 90 00:06:39.720 --> 00:06:43.240 might help you. What's that They would be almost certain 91 00:06:43.279 --> 00:06:46.759 to subscribe to every conceivable type of newspaper, scientific, general, 92 00:06:46.959 --> 00:06:54.079 foreign language publication. Well, that might be something. Okay, mister Graius, 93 00:06:54.720 --> 00:06:59.079 it's a deal, excellent. I shall contact you tomorrow, Oh 94 00:06:59.120 --> 00:07:01.680 well before you leave. Yes, just as a matter of interest, 95 00:07:02.560 --> 00:07:06.120 Why are you so interested in meeting up with these Martians, 96 00:07:06.560 --> 00:07:09.959 mister Broderick, I wish to avert the catastrophe of a 97 00:07:10.000 --> 00:07:15.639 successful Martian invasion of the Earth. Naturally, I cannot go 98 00:07:15.680 --> 00:07:18.240 to the police of the military, I'd be laughed out 99 00:07:18.240 --> 00:07:22.680 of existence. So I'm doing this privately. You seem to 100 00:07:22.680 --> 00:07:26.120 know all the answers, mister Graffias, Not all of them, 101 00:07:26.240 --> 00:07:40.120 mister Broderick, not quite all the answers. Not quite yet. 102 00:07:46.319 --> 00:07:48.639 Of course, he's a private address. 103 00:07:48.720 --> 00:07:52.240 Takes everything from Pick magazine to the Manchester Guardian. Listen 104 00:07:52.279 --> 00:07:55.879 to this Pick Look, Scientific America, the Daily News, the 105 00:07:55.959 --> 00:07:59.959 Daily Worker, the Police Gazette, the General of Engineering, Scientific Quarterly, 106 00:08:00.600 --> 00:08:04.160 American Psychatric. 107 00:08:02.959 --> 00:08:11.279 Jersesey that oh Dolan, Dolan. Sometimes I wonder, what's the 108 00:08:11.360 --> 00:08:14.759 address on this nine West one hundred and twenty fourth Street, 109 00:08:14.800 --> 00:08:17.920 which happens to be the Harlem branch of the public Library. 110 00:08:18.279 --> 00:08:23.800 Oh Alliston, noodle brain, check all the renting agents, find 111 00:08:23.800 --> 00:08:26.600 out every private house in downtown New York, and then 112 00:08:26.600 --> 00:08:30.360 cross check with the magazine subscription departments of the scientific magazines. 113 00:08:30.480 --> 00:08:34.879 You got that check. I wonder, Boss, what's the sense 114 00:08:34.919 --> 00:08:38.279 of all this? We know there ain't no Martian embassy 115 00:08:38.320 --> 00:08:39.000 in New York. 116 00:08:39.159 --> 00:08:41.919 This crackpot is paying us one hundred dollars a day, 117 00:08:41.919 --> 00:08:45.799 and we got to keep them happy, understand. Yeah. Also, 118 00:08:45.840 --> 00:08:48.320 I've got a hunch that mister Graffius isn't looking for 119 00:08:48.360 --> 00:08:53.480 any Martian embassies. He's looking for something quite different. I'll 120 00:08:53.480 --> 00:09:09.000 start making with a telephone, which I says a duller, right, 121 00:09:09.080 --> 00:09:12.039 tell me number one A way to find out anything, 122 00:09:12.159 --> 00:09:12.679 not a thing. 123 00:09:12.759 --> 00:09:15.279 I've been watching the place for a week now. Nobody 124 00:09:15.320 --> 00:09:18.320 comes out, nobody goes in my it's the wrong, nobody 125 00:09:18.360 --> 00:09:18.799 knows nothing. 126 00:09:18.799 --> 00:09:20.799 You ain't been blabbing around the neighborhood that we're looking 127 00:09:20.799 --> 00:09:24.480 for the Martian embassy, have you? Boss? I'm stupid, but 128 00:09:24.639 --> 00:09:26.320 I ain't that stupid. Who'd you talk to? 129 00:09:26.960 --> 00:09:30.440 I struck up what you might call a casual acquaintanceship 130 00:09:30.480 --> 00:09:33.759 with those two girls standing with the baby carriages up 131 00:09:33.799 --> 00:09:37.159 the street. The cute one is real cute. 132 00:09:38.720 --> 00:09:41.919 I look to him. Don't try to do anything intelligent, 133 00:09:42.679 --> 00:09:46.399 Just keep walking up and down. Say check. I'm going 134 00:09:46.440 --> 00:09:47.879 back to the office to make Grapius. 135 00:09:48.039 --> 00:10:00.960 See you later, boss. Hi, a beautiful a flat foot? 136 00:10:01.440 --> 00:10:03.120 How did you know I was a detective? 137 00:10:03.399 --> 00:10:05.159 Your socks are bagging at the arches. 138 00:10:07.919 --> 00:10:09.279 I'll stick around, beautiful. 139 00:10:09.279 --> 00:10:11.320 I'll be back in a few minutes and a week 140 00:10:11.399 --> 00:10:13.279 and make some beautiful music together. 141 00:10:13.960 --> 00:10:16.720 Listen to Romeo Helen, A man's Dolen. 142 00:10:16.759 --> 00:10:19.720 Honey, iron Man Dolen, your line. 143 00:10:19.519 --> 00:10:20.440 Is getting rusty. 144 00:10:20.600 --> 00:10:24.840 Iron Man, you pull along with him, for he reminds 145 00:10:24.840 --> 00:10:27.720 me of my husband, a big, good natured slag. 146 00:10:28.399 --> 00:10:29.799 Helen, Helen, look. 147 00:10:39.840 --> 00:10:51.320 Helen, sorry to ket your waiting. 148 00:10:51.360 --> 00:10:56.279 Mister Dolan found a house down in Greenwich Village, privately 149 00:10:56.279 --> 00:11:00.320 rented number one oh eight Conchland Street. Nobody's to know 150 00:11:00.360 --> 00:11:03.480 anything about who lives there except that they subscribe to 151 00:11:03.519 --> 00:11:06.720 every paper and scientific journal put out, and also they 152 00:11:06.759 --> 00:11:09.759 have a peculiar antenna on the roof. You don't suppose 153 00:11:09.799 --> 00:11:12.480 you are, mister Doolan will try to get inside the house. Nah, 154 00:11:12.639 --> 00:11:14.679 you know it's better, mister Broderick, I I show you 155 00:11:14.759 --> 00:11:17.200 if that place is the Martian Membersolan can take care 156 00:11:17.200 --> 00:11:19.399 of himself. Hill, I wish you would informed me before. 157 00:11:19.600 --> 00:11:24.159 That's proud of him reporting back now excuse me? Hello, yeah, 158 00:11:24.200 --> 00:11:28.480 speaking Dolan. Yeah he works? 159 00:11:29.519 --> 00:11:29.600 What? 160 00:11:31.360 --> 00:11:39.879 Oh no, No, I can't think of any Yeah sure, okay, yeah, 161 00:11:39.879 --> 00:11:45.240 I'll be right down, okay, lieutenant, yeah, yeah, right away? 162 00:11:46.440 --> 00:11:51.759 Something the matter? Uhlan is dead, mister Graffius. They found 163 00:11:51.840 --> 00:11:54.000 him splattered all over the sidewalk in front of number 164 00:11:54.080 --> 00:12:00.600 one away Conchland Street. How did it happen there witnesses. 165 00:12:01.159 --> 00:12:03.960 He said a building corners dropped on him, the corners, 166 00:12:04.000 --> 00:12:07.399 but how fell off the building next to one o eight, 167 00:12:07.759 --> 00:12:10.159 right on top of him. Come on, we can get 168 00:12:10.159 --> 00:12:27.720 a cab. I have to identify the body. I'm Broderick, 169 00:12:27.840 --> 00:12:33.519 Oh Lasier boy, Prodrick, not very pretty, Oh, mother in heaven. 170 00:12:33.600 --> 00:12:37.399 That's a thousand pound hunk of concrete. Where did it 171 00:12:37.480 --> 00:12:40.000 come from? Dropped off the roof of one oh six? 172 00:12:40.320 --> 00:12:41.080 Anybody say it? 173 00:12:41.360 --> 00:12:43.799 There's a couple of maids pushing baby carriages. One was 174 00:12:43.840 --> 00:12:46.519 so shaken we had a center to the hospital. The 175 00:12:46.559 --> 00:12:50.240 other one is hysterical, but she can talk. Don't seem 176 00:12:50.279 --> 00:12:51.519 to get any sense out of. 177 00:12:51.480 --> 00:12:53.519 Her, though, You mind if I talk to her at all. 178 00:12:54.639 --> 00:12:56.840 I'll be back in a minute. Graphias, I'll read here. 179 00:12:56.919 --> 00:12:59.759 She's standing right over there with the patrolman on the beach. 180 00:13:00.200 --> 00:13:03.639 Oh Hanson, Yes, this guy wants a few questions. 181 00:13:03.240 --> 00:13:03.759 With the girls. 182 00:13:03.919 --> 00:13:07.519 Please, I told you what I saw? How many times 183 00:13:07.559 --> 00:13:08.360 I gotta tell you? 184 00:13:08.600 --> 00:13:10.759 Yes, the dead man was a personal friend of mine. 185 00:13:11.000 --> 00:13:12.559 Would you tell me what happened? Please? 186 00:13:13.799 --> 00:13:16.399 Helen and I were standing in front of Redmond's candy 187 00:13:16.440 --> 00:13:19.600 store up on the corner. We both had the babies up. 188 00:13:19.879 --> 00:13:22.799 I worked for missus Gillian on Washington Square North. This 189 00:13:23.960 --> 00:13:27.519 he said alone, joked a little, and he walked down 190 00:13:27.600 --> 00:13:31.000 the street, just like he's been doing all week. Hadn't 191 00:13:31.000 --> 00:13:33.039 taken more than a few steps. 192 00:13:33.639 --> 00:13:38.720 What please, it's very important. 193 00:13:37.519 --> 00:13:39.720 They tell him. But they don't believe me. 194 00:13:40.039 --> 00:13:44.840 What do you tell him? Tell me? Do all please? 195 00:13:45.799 --> 00:13:46.080 Whoop? 196 00:13:47.559 --> 00:13:47.799 Whoop? 197 00:13:48.240 --> 00:13:53.519 Thirsty? Well, and then the stump fell on it. 198 00:13:53.600 --> 00:13:54.720 What do you mean he squashed? 199 00:13:54.759 --> 00:13:55.799 They don't believe me. 200 00:13:55.919 --> 00:13:58.080 But Helen saw it too, saw what. 201 00:14:02.960 --> 00:14:03.960 Then it fell on it? 202 00:14:04.320 --> 00:14:06.320 He was mashed flat before it even. 203 00:14:06.240 --> 00:14:08.559 Hit Look, that's the story, Broderick. 204 00:14:09.000 --> 00:14:12.320 Please please let me alone, Let me go home. 205 00:14:13.159 --> 00:14:17.879 I told you what i'd done alone. 206 00:14:18.600 --> 00:14:22.200 Did you let anything, mister Rodrick? Eh, I don't know. 207 00:14:23.559 --> 00:14:26.279 I don't know what to make of it. It's crazy, 208 00:14:26.360 --> 00:14:29.080 mister Rodrick. If I made a suggestion at this point, 209 00:14:29.440 --> 00:14:31.480 perhaps it would be better if we dropped the entire matter. 210 00:14:32.399 --> 00:14:35.080 What's eating you? First? You come at me with a 211 00:14:35.159 --> 00:14:37.320 chain of nonsense, at you're stake and real cash on. 212 00:14:38.120 --> 00:14:39.879 Now when we hit solid trail, you want to call 213 00:14:39.919 --> 00:14:42.960 off the dogs. Well, maybe you operate that way, but 214 00:14:43.080 --> 00:14:47.240 Broderick doesn't. May, I ask, then, what do you intend doing? 215 00:14:47.879 --> 00:14:49.679 As soon as the cops clear out in this place 216 00:14:49.759 --> 00:14:52.960 quiets down, I'm going to pay a personal call on 217 00:14:53.080 --> 00:15:17.879 the Marsian Embassy whatever number one oh eight is. Whatever 218 00:15:17.919 --> 00:15:22.279 you are, open that door two heads or ten fingers up, 219 00:15:22.360 --> 00:15:23.960 really like a platoon of rookies. 220 00:15:25.720 --> 00:15:28.639 Yeah, oh well, young. 221 00:15:28.480 --> 00:15:32.399 Man, excuse me, ma'am is the lady of the house 222 00:15:32.440 --> 00:15:32.799 at home? 223 00:15:33.519 --> 00:15:34.960 I'm the lady of the house. 224 00:15:35.559 --> 00:15:39.399 Well, my name is Broderick. I represent the Manhattan Child 225 00:15:39.440 --> 00:15:43.200 Adoption Center. We're so listening funds and clothing for stranded 226 00:15:43.200 --> 00:15:44.320 and unadopted children. 227 00:15:44.840 --> 00:15:47.200 I wonder, Oh, won't you come inside? 228 00:15:47.320 --> 00:15:49.360 Oh we don't usually nonsense. 229 00:15:49.679 --> 00:15:52.639 I'm old enough to be your grandmother. Besides, my son, 230 00:15:52.759 --> 00:15:54.159 Lauren is working at home. 231 00:15:54.440 --> 00:15:55.000 Your son. 232 00:15:55.240 --> 00:15:56.360 He's a bibliographer. 233 00:15:56.600 --> 00:16:00.600 He writes summaries of articles and books from scientific journals 234 00:16:00.600 --> 00:16:04.919 and publications for libraries and universe. I see you sit down, 235 00:16:05.000 --> 00:16:07.840 mister Broderick. We get so few calls, and I do 236 00:16:08.039 --> 00:16:08.639 like to visit. 237 00:16:08.960 --> 00:16:09.519 Oh, thank you. 238 00:16:11.519 --> 00:16:14.720 Now, what was it you wanted to talk to us about? 239 00:16:15.519 --> 00:16:19.759 Oh? Well, I uh, I wondered if you were your son. 240 00:16:20.600 --> 00:16:21.840 There's nobody else living here. 241 00:16:22.159 --> 00:16:25.600 No, just Lauren and I. I'll have to ask him 242 00:16:25.600 --> 00:16:28.159 about the contribution, but i'm sure he'd like to. 243 00:16:28.360 --> 00:16:31.320 Good. Thank you very much. I'll send the representative to collect. 244 00:16:31.320 --> 00:16:33.600 Well, please stay a moment. I was just about to 245 00:16:33.639 --> 00:16:36.000 have tea. Let me pull you account. Well, No, thanks, 246 00:16:36.039 --> 00:16:41.440 really now, young man, I insist, well, thank you. I 247 00:16:41.519 --> 00:16:45.360 was getting awfully tired of having tea by myself every afternoon. 248 00:16:49.159 --> 00:16:51.240 You know, I'm not very much of a tea drinker, 249 00:16:51.240 --> 00:16:53.600 but this seems to have a strange taste. 250 00:16:53.639 --> 00:16:56.679 It's my own recipe. The secret is in the brewing. 251 00:16:58.120 --> 00:17:02.039 It's sweet, it almost talic. 252 00:17:02.240 --> 00:17:04.880 It takes a few SIPs to get used to like 253 00:17:05.000 --> 00:17:05.240 al it. 254 00:17:08.559 --> 00:17:10.119 I think I had better be running along. 255 00:17:10.079 --> 00:17:12.400 But you haven't finished your tea, mister b I better 256 00:17:12.400 --> 00:17:12.720 be going. 257 00:17:12.759 --> 00:17:13.160 I'm late. 258 00:17:13.240 --> 00:17:15.599 Oh you're not being there, polite, you finish your teeth. 259 00:17:16.880 --> 00:17:18.160 You're funny. 260 00:17:18.880 --> 00:17:19.480 Call Lauren. 261 00:17:19.720 --> 00:17:20.480 No, I'm leaving that. 262 00:17:22.480 --> 00:17:23.839 I'm sure Lauren can help you. 263 00:17:23.880 --> 00:17:25.920 I'll call it, but I must. 264 00:17:26.000 --> 00:17:30.880 Besides, you aren't well, Lauren. Lauren, Lauren, hurry out of 265 00:17:30.960 --> 00:17:37.839 my way. No, you must stay drugged my teeth, get 266 00:17:37.880 --> 00:17:43.400 out of here. The other one, Rodrick, he was here 267 00:17:43.440 --> 00:17:44.240 I drugged his teeth. 268 00:17:44.240 --> 00:17:44.920 He got away. 269 00:17:45.279 --> 00:17:47.759 Cool it is, go after him, use the pressure ray. 270 00:17:47.759 --> 00:17:50.039 Risk another murder on our doorstep. Are you insane? 271 00:17:50.160 --> 00:17:50.839 He suspects. 272 00:17:50.880 --> 00:17:52.799 We'll have to take our chances. We'll have to think 273 00:17:52.839 --> 00:17:53.480 of some other way. 274 00:17:53.640 --> 00:17:54.640 How did they find us? 275 00:17:54.720 --> 00:17:56.920 I don't know how, but I'm certain someone else sent them. 276 00:17:57.359 --> 00:17:57.799 I don't know. 277 00:17:58.440 --> 00:18:23.400 I'm afraid to let myself think it might be them. 278 00:18:27.480 --> 00:18:37.640 What's where you're going? Drunk Please? I get away from it? Out, miss, 279 00:18:37.759 --> 00:18:44.400 please help please? You know what's the trouble, hairs Drunkard. 280 00:18:44.160 --> 00:18:44.960 Is insulting people. 281 00:18:45.160 --> 00:18:47.759 I saw him come out of the house there, that's 282 00:18:47.799 --> 00:18:49.279 the one he bumped into a gentleman. 283 00:18:49.480 --> 00:18:50.599 Then you pulled it my arm. 284 00:18:50.880 --> 00:18:53.559 All right, miss, I'll take care of it. Come along, mister. 285 00:18:53.759 --> 00:18:55.200 I'm going to give you a break and take it 286 00:18:55.319 --> 00:18:56.400 back to the wife and kids. 287 00:18:56.480 --> 00:19:01.799 No, no, you can't sick. What's the matter? They drug me? 288 00:19:02.240 --> 00:19:07.599 Old Roger number one ol A. Martians, Oh, Martians number 289 00:19:07.599 --> 00:19:10.160 one o A. It's Martian Embassy. 290 00:19:10.480 --> 00:19:13.359 Well, I've seen him with pink elephants, rabbits and mice. 291 00:19:13.400 --> 00:19:15.160 But you're the first one who's got my head. 292 00:19:15.640 --> 00:19:18.519 I tell you, come a law. Let's listen, don't take 293 00:19:18.559 --> 00:19:19.880 me back there, don't come tell me. 294 00:19:20.759 --> 00:19:21.480 I gotta make you. 295 00:19:21.480 --> 00:19:24.200 Under Yeah, I'll help you off the stand. My name 296 00:19:24.279 --> 00:19:25.680 is Roderick. I'm a private thick. 297 00:19:25.920 --> 00:19:31.319 We will find out about this there, don't find stop it. 298 00:19:31.599 --> 00:19:32.240 Please letten. 299 00:19:32.319 --> 00:19:33.039 I'll give you anything. 300 00:19:33.079 --> 00:19:42.480 I'll give you a thousand dollars. Please listen, God listen, Yes, Roderick, 301 00:19:42.680 --> 00:19:43.119 you know this. 302 00:19:44.160 --> 00:19:46.240 Why that's my son, roder. 303 00:19:49.400 --> 00:19:50.240 He's in pretty bad. 304 00:19:52.880 --> 00:19:55.759 He was doing so well at the Alcoholic Society. He 305 00:19:55.839 --> 00:19:57.079 must have gotten off again. 306 00:19:57.240 --> 00:20:00.559 Looks like he's ready to pass out. What is it? 307 00:20:00.599 --> 00:20:05.039 Mother, Your brother Broderick has been drinking again. 308 00:20:06.240 --> 00:20:08.920 Look out, he's passed out. I'll take care of him. Officer, 309 00:20:09.279 --> 00:20:12.400 we've handled this sort of thing before. Can you manage? Okay, 310 00:20:12.440 --> 00:20:13.759 we'll be fine. Thank you. 311 00:20:13.759 --> 00:20:15.160 You've been very kind. 312 00:20:15.799 --> 00:20:18.039 We're nothing at all, Brownie. I know how it is 313 00:20:18.079 --> 00:20:41.119 with these alkis well. I'll be seeing you, Martian Embley, Martian. 314 00:20:44.319 --> 00:20:52.559 Oh my head. Mister Broderick is regaining consciousness. Mother, what happened? Oh? 315 00:20:53.279 --> 00:20:54.000 Get get up. 316 00:20:54.039 --> 00:20:56.759 You're not struggling, mister Broderick. It'll be impossible for you 317 00:20:56.799 --> 00:20:59.440 to rise from that chair. The pressure from this ray 318 00:20:59.480 --> 00:20:59.920 will keep you. 319 00:21:00.559 --> 00:21:04.519 Hooray, who are you? 320 00:21:04.519 --> 00:21:09.319 You've already guessed, mister Broderick. You mean this really is 321 00:21:09.400 --> 00:21:12.599 the Martian Embassy. Yes, you have the honor to be 322 00:21:12.640 --> 00:21:16.000 the first prisoner of the Imperial Government of Mars. 323 00:21:17.279 --> 00:21:17.519 Yes. 324 00:21:17.880 --> 00:21:20.680 After the invasion, of course you will all be our prisoners. 325 00:21:21.319 --> 00:21:23.759 Hello, what sever business? Says? This? 326 00:21:24.000 --> 00:21:27.680 No business, mister Broderick, as your people will soon find out, 327 00:21:28.240 --> 00:21:31.640 our preparations for invasion are nearly completed. On as soon 328 00:21:31.680 --> 00:21:33.759 as we give the signal, our armed forces will launch 329 00:21:33.759 --> 00:21:36.240 a surprise attack, and then the earth will be ours. 330 00:21:36.759 --> 00:21:39.720 Look crazy, not half as mad as you, mister Broderick, 331 00:21:39.799 --> 00:21:42.160 to come muddling so foolishly into our affairs. 332 00:21:42.799 --> 00:21:48.920 That was a fatal mistake. So Stolen's death. There's no accident, then, 333 00:21:49.039 --> 00:21:49.759 assuredly not. 334 00:21:50.599 --> 00:21:52.720 We found it necessary to use a pressure ray on 335 00:21:52.759 --> 00:21:56.200 your friend. The block of concrete was an afterthought. We 336 00:21:56.319 --> 00:21:58.119 thought it might help to avert suspicion. 337 00:21:59.119 --> 00:22:01.480 All right, what happens now? 338 00:22:01.640 --> 00:22:04.079 If you cooperate, you can look forward to a quick, 339 00:22:04.160 --> 00:22:07.240 painless depth like your friend, mister Doolan. If not, this 340 00:22:07.440 --> 00:22:09.839 pressure ray as many delicate adjustments. 341 00:22:10.359 --> 00:22:13.640 It can move a pin, but it can crush a boulder. 342 00:22:15.160 --> 00:22:16.559 Let me demonstrate. 343 00:22:22.000 --> 00:22:25.279 You see, mister Brodrick, as if an invisible vice for 344 00:22:25.440 --> 00:22:26.480 crushing you. 345 00:22:26.799 --> 00:22:29.400 What do you want the name of your client? 346 00:22:30.079 --> 00:22:32.440 We are interested in knowing who is so anxious to 347 00:22:32.480 --> 00:22:33.920 locate the Martian embassy, and. 348 00:22:33.960 --> 00:22:41.680 Names of my clients are confidential. Oh well, I got 349 00:22:41.720 --> 00:22:47.319 it off, mother. Mister Bardwick has seen the wisdom of speech. 350 00:22:49.640 --> 00:22:50.799 His name is. 351 00:22:54.559 --> 00:22:56.359 An unusual name for an earth man. 352 00:22:56.640 --> 00:23:01.359 Describe him. I don't know if I really it can, Mother? 353 00:23:04.279 --> 00:23:13.039 Describe him. He's tall, got a big forehead, about sixty. 354 00:23:13.799 --> 00:23:15.240 He wears the glasses he's. 355 00:23:17.039 --> 00:23:18.279 It sounds like one of them. 356 00:23:18.359 --> 00:23:21.400 Yes, it does contact the planet. Tell them we suspect 357 00:23:21.400 --> 00:23:23.880 that our plans are known. Ask for an acceleration of 358 00:23:23.880 --> 00:23:26.920 invasion day for what about me? I am sorry, mister Broderick, 359 00:23:26.960 --> 00:23:29.799 but I am afraid you know too much. Now, exactly 360 00:23:29.799 --> 00:23:31.759 five seconds you will feel the full impact of the 361 00:23:31.799 --> 00:23:34.640 ray which faces you. I would suggest that you relax 362 00:23:34.720 --> 00:23:37.039 and meet your fate calmly. Now, I am you will 363 00:23:37.079 --> 00:23:40.440 feel no pain, just a wall of force and golfing five. 364 00:23:40.599 --> 00:23:41.920 No, you can't do that. 365 00:23:41.920 --> 00:23:43.519 This is a human I know, but we are not 366 00:23:43.680 --> 00:23:47.480 human free. 367 00:23:46.880 --> 00:23:51.960 Now, Laren, it didn't work. 368 00:23:52.039 --> 00:23:54.319 Something's happened. The magnetic field is dead. 369 00:23:54.480 --> 00:23:56.480 Get it working. We've got to get rid of this one. 370 00:23:58.440 --> 00:24:01.039 I can't understand what's going wrong with the Why would 371 00:24:01.039 --> 00:24:01.920 it suddenly stop like that? 372 00:24:02.079 --> 00:24:06.799 Perhaps I can explain what it's you. Yes, sorry, stand 373 00:24:06.839 --> 00:24:10.200 back from the pressure rape please, it will not function anyway. 374 00:24:10.960 --> 00:24:12.960 I have decontrolled your heels, Lauren. 375 00:24:13.039 --> 00:24:15.279 It's one of them. They've found us. 376 00:24:16.359 --> 00:24:19.559 Did you think we wouldn't? I trust you have not 377 00:24:19.640 --> 00:24:21.799 harmed my friend, mister Roderick. He's being very useful to me. 378 00:24:21.960 --> 00:24:24.839 Rather am I very glad to see you talk about 379 00:24:24.880 --> 00:24:27.240 the Marines landing in the neck of time. You're free 380 00:24:27.279 --> 00:24:29.279 to move now, mister Roderick. I don't know how you 381 00:24:29.319 --> 00:24:32.359 got in here, Graphius, but sticker on. These babies are 382 00:24:32.359 --> 00:24:35.440 really marchigans, just like you said. They're planning to invade 383 00:24:35.480 --> 00:24:38.799 the Earth and take over. There will be no Martian invasion. 384 00:24:38.920 --> 00:24:41.279 You'll keep these characters covered. I'll get the police, there 385 00:24:41.279 --> 00:24:43.279 will be no need for the police, and tend to 386 00:24:43.359 --> 00:24:46.599 enter them myself. But the police will not call the police. 387 00:24:47.680 --> 00:24:48.680 Why not, you. 388 00:24:48.920 --> 00:24:51.240 Fool of an Earthling? Don't you realize with whom you 389 00:24:51.279 --> 00:24:54.000 are dealing? The invasion of Earth by Mars will be 390 00:24:54.039 --> 00:24:55.160 like Charles Plague. 391 00:24:54.839 --> 00:25:05.319 Compare Holy They just flattened out, like your friend, mister Doolan. 392 00:25:06.599 --> 00:25:09.279 And it tastes the use of violence where the intellect 393 00:25:09.359 --> 00:25:13.279 can rule. But unfortunately the Martians are a threat to us. 394 00:25:13.440 --> 00:25:17.799 It must be destroyed. I believe you now, Rather five 395 00:25:17.839 --> 00:25:20.960 seconds had to finished me. I'm glad you didn't waste 396 00:25:21.000 --> 00:25:23.799 any time. There is little time to waste. The Martian 397 00:25:23.799 --> 00:25:27.880 invasion was to have taken place next week. Yeah, hey, 398 00:25:29.359 --> 00:25:34.200 they never said that. How do you know you would 399 00:25:34.200 --> 00:25:38.880 not comprehend? Wait a minute, there's some things here. I 400 00:25:38.920 --> 00:25:42.680 do understand. A second ago that pressure right didn't work. 401 00:25:43.759 --> 00:25:46.880