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Speaker 2: But first, one man whose personality belies his name is

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quiz Master Groucho Marx, because mister Marx is hardly one

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you bet your Life. Why don't you tune in and

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hear for yourself tomorrow while you're listening, don't forget that

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each Wednesday night there's more great entertainment when Jack Bailey

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in contestants play Truth or Consequences and all of the

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staff on airtime joins stars Giselle Mackenzie in bringing you

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top musical listening. Enjoy music and fun tomorrow night on

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this station. And now stay tuned for X minus one

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Speaker 3: Come down for Blast off X minus five four three

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the Unknown come transcribed tales of new dimensions in time

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and space. These are stories of the future adventures in

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which you'll live in a million, could be years, on

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a thousand, maybe worlds. The National Broadcasting Company, in cooperation

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with Galaxy Science Fiction Magazine, presents.

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Speaker 2: HE minus minus one on the night, the dramatization of

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a story by Jerry Soul. The Seventh Order. Brentwood, Illinois

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would have been just about like any other average community

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of ten thousand had it not been for Presser College,

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one of the country's finest small institutions of learning.

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Speaker 1: Its residents were used to.

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Speaker 2: The pranks, the hazings, and the practical jokes of the students.

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But even Professor Ansel Tomlin was surprised when the blue

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humanoid came down the street and up to the porch

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where the professor was sitting in an old wicker rocking chair.

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Speaker 4: Pardon me, of course, you are Professor Hansel Toma.

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Speaker 5: Yes, and you, I take it, are somebody from one

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of my psychology classes, dressed up as a sort of

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Speaker 4: No. I am George of Xantha, who I am here

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to learn all I possibly can learn of the planet

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Earth and its inhabitants. Less than ten minutes ago, I

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landed not far from here, in a space which I subsequently

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blew up and destroyed.

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Speaker 1: Now let me explain. I am Tomlin of Brentwood.

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Speaker 5: Less than ten minutes ago, I was sitting on my

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porch peacefully marking exam papers. I intend to resume right now. Helen,

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would you get the phone.

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Speaker 4: It is your wife's sister calling with reference to the

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explosion of my spaceship.

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Speaker 1: Sure it is.

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Speaker 4: She merely wants to ascertain that your family was not affected.

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Speaker 5: Listen, George, be a good fellow and don't be alarmed here.

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It's a fraternity initiation or something.

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Speaker 6: Oh well, it does look like the real thing. Did

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you know there was an explosion outside.

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Speaker 1: Of tom an explosion?

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Speaker 6: Yes, blast of undetermined origin is what they said on

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the radio.

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Speaker 7: Oh, my sister just called.

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Speaker 6: She heard about it in the local station and wanted

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to make sure we were all right. I see, well,

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I'll have something in the oven.

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Speaker 7: My goodness, that's a wonderful costume.

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Speaker 5: Her sister lives twenty miles away. How did you know

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she'd called?

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Speaker 4: My mind circuits are telepathic. They pick up all conscious

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thought to a distance of some two hundred miles.

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Speaker 5: It couldn't be or arrange the whole thing that it

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wasn't really her sister, How did you get here?

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Speaker 1: Who or what are you?

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Speaker 4: I am a machine, the finest most complicated machine ever made.

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I have a rather unique history too.

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Speaker 1: Who made you?

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Speaker 4: Ages ago on Zanthar there was a race of humans.

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They made the first robots rather crude affairs. We class

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them as first order robots. They are still used for

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menial tasks to some extent.

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Speaker 1: And what order are you the highest?

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Speaker 4: Naturally a seventh order robot or rather a humanoid? We

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are the first in which there is not an automatic

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no harm to humans cut off.

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Speaker 1: I begin to see you, will.

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Speaker 4: Become aware of the fact that I am superior to

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you and to the rest of your race. I need

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no oxygen, I am never ill, I need no sleep.

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Every experience is indelibly recorded on circuits and is instantly available.

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Speaker 1: Tell me, George, do you have feelings?

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Speaker 4: I have an electronically controlled rocan balance.

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Speaker 1: That's very interesting. And what is your mission here on earth?

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Speaker 4: For the moment, I am here to study. I will

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live with you until it is.

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Speaker 1: Completely you will want.

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Speaker 4: I will live with you. I will be with you

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all of your waking hours. While you sleep, I will

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go through your library. I need nothing I want.

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Speaker 1: Now just a moment. What about my privacy?

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Speaker 4: When you desire privacy, I will study someone else, your wife.

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Speaker 5: Georgio man, I'm terribly sorry, but you'll have to wire

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back to your masters to make other arrangements.

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Speaker 4: That will be quite impossible. Really, you see I have

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no master.

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Speaker 5: Well what about those humans back in Xantha, the ones

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who embedded you seventh order humanoid?

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Speaker 4: Oh, they are all quite dead. We destroyed them, destroy it.

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You look alat it was after all they or us?

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You see, our Rocan system permits us pride in ourselves, naturally,

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being proud of ourselves, we objected to being ordered about

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in an incompetent way. So so you kill them exactly.

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Now shall we go inside and inform your wife of

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my visit? Suppose I refuse, professor. Do you see that

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small dog playing on the lawn across the street. Yes,

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I will lift my arm and point at it. Observed

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it vaporized exactly. Now shall we go in?

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Speaker 1: Yes, we'll go in.

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Speaker 8: Oh there you are.

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Speaker 7: I see you brought your friend, Helen.

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Speaker 5: This is George, George of xanthar George is a machine.

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Speaker 7: Well, anybody can see that. It's the most convey in costume.

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Speaker 5: I have said, Helen, it isn't the costume. No, no,

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he's really a machine. Oh he's staying with us, whether

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we like.

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Speaker 1: It or not.

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Speaker 7: Well, really, and we have no choice.

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Speaker 4: I am a seventh order humanoid. I detect that your

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mind does not comprehend. I am here as an advanced

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scout for my race after we establish a station here

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on earth.

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Speaker 7: I don't like this. Now, would you be kind enough

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to leave my house? Young man?

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Speaker 4: You are very slow to comprehend.

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Speaker 6: I comprehend that I have a lot to do, and

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I'd appreciate it if you leave.

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Speaker 7: Otherwise, I'm going to call the police.

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Speaker 4: You may call anyone you choose.

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Speaker 7: Missus tompler, have you arrested?

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Speaker 4: I assure you I can detect your intention long before

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you have time to do me any harm.

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Speaker 7: We'll just see about this. Hello, get me the police.

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Speaker 1: Hellen is useless.

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Speaker 4: I can follow the call through the phone while Captain

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Townshend will answer.

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Speaker 7: I've tarzan, Captain. I want to report a robot.

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Speaker 4: What a thing?

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Speaker 7: It won't leave my house.

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Speaker 6: I'm Missus Tomlin, Professor Ansel Tomlin's wife, forty four Crescent Road.

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Speaker 4: I'll send a car over.

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Speaker 9: Now we'll see.

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Speaker 1: Is this the character that has been giving you trouble?

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Speaker 4: Yes?

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Speaker 7: This is the one officer talk to you before.

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Speaker 1: About ruining a flower bed. Sonny, This time I'm taking

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you in, I would.

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Speaker 4: Advise you not to touch me. I cannot risk any damage.

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Speaker 1: I'll see about that. Come on outside.

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Speaker 4: I prefer to remain here until I complete my mission.

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Speaker 1: You do, huh? You know what this is?

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Speaker 4: It is a weapon you call a service revolt.

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Speaker 2: That's right, and you'll need the march out of here,

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or I'll use it on you.

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Speaker 4: That would be most unfortunate.

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Speaker 1: All right, officer, let me warn you. He's dangerous much now,

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I'll count that. Three.

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Speaker 2: Officer, please none two.

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Speaker 4: I regret it, but he was actually going to pull

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the trigger own it to frighten me. But I cannot

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risk damage. He might have miscalculated and struck me with

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a bullet.

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Speaker 7: I'm frightened.

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Speaker 4: There is no need for fear. You have only to

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accept the fact that the Seventh Order is coming to

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operate the planet for your benefit.

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Speaker 1: Helen, there's no use trying to do anything. Just yet.

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Speaker 5: Go next door to missus Coleman. Tell her what's happened.

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I'll talk to Jordan, please, Helen.

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Speaker 7: All right?

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Speaker 5: Do you really think that you, a single robot can

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conquer the Earth and make its people do your bidding?

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I can I suppose it were demonstrated to you that

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you could not, but that you could be destroy.

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Speaker 4: If that were so, I would naturally report that this

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planet is unfit for development. By the seventh order.

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Speaker 5: You know, they'll have you taken into custody for killing

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the officer.

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Speaker 4: I cannot permit it.

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Speaker 1: There will be needless slaughter.

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Speaker 4: Unless you can convince your people it is useless to

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Speaker 1: Will you let me try.

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Speaker 4: I have no desire to prevent you. Go ahead. I

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detect that you are going to call the newspapers and

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the local television station and hold a press common.

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Speaker 1: Yes.

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Speaker 4: I also detect that you have a plan to overcome me.

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Speaker 1: Oh I like that.

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Speaker 4: Really, Yes, you see, in order to test this planet

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for development, I must know whether any of you are

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truly dangerous to us. You are a superior type of man, Professor.

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I welcome any plan to conquer me that you care

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to attempt.

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Speaker 1: Okay, George, at least we know where we stand. I'll

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phone the newspapers. Quiet, ladies and gentlemen.

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Speaker 10: This is Henry Bennett, broadcasting from a sound truck park

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in front of the home of Professor Ansel Tomlin in Brentwood, Illinois.

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At the moment Professor Tomlin is seated on his front porch.

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Next to him is a strange looking blue robot type creature,

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also seated on a chair. At the moment, we don't

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know if this is a hoax or not, but Professor Tomman,

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a highly respected man here at the university, has called

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a press conference to introduce what is supposedly a creature

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from another planet. Professor Tomlin is about to speak, and

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we'll try to catch his words.

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Speaker 5: Quiet, gentlemen, I wish to present to you George of Zandler.

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Speaker 1: Just the moment.

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Speaker 4: George.

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Speaker 1: George is a machine, probably the most dangerous she never invented.

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He is telepathic as well.

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Speaker 5: He can read your thoughts like a book. He knows

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exactly what each of you is thinking at this very instant?

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Speaker 11: Yes, do you expect us to swallow this nonsense?

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Speaker 1: Not without proof, gentlemen.

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Speaker 4: I can George do his stuff for us.

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Speaker 11: Let him tell me what I'm thinking right now?

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Speaker 4: You are thinking about a blonde young woman named Laura,

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with whom you will attend to show to.

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Speaker 11: Well, he happens to be right. We've seen mind readers before.

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Let him do something else.

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Speaker 5: I did not call you, gentlemen here for a demonstration

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of magic. I called you here in the hopes that

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a good deal of needless bloodshed might be avoided.

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Speaker 1: Less than half an hour.

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Speaker 5: Ago, I watched this creature completely vaporize a policeman who

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was trying to arrest him.

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Speaker 1: I expect that the authority will be here any minute.

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Speaker 5: I hope I can convince you and them that it

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Speaker 4: Either you're not, think we are.

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Speaker 11: I don't believe this machine killed a cop. If a

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cop was killed, a human, didn't trying to blame it

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Speaker 5: Machine, gentlemen, gentleman, I I don't know how I can

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prove it. Perhaps if George will demonstrate his ability to vaporize.

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Speaker 4: Serve the oak tree in the front yard. Now, now

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do you see?

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Speaker 5: I see?

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Speaker 11: But I don't believe it. Boys, this is some kind

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of mass hypnotism. Maybe the tree was raked up in advance.

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Speaker 12: I swear to you George's after is always cracked up

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to me.

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Speaker 4: Let's see what he does when I toss a rocket.

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Speaker 1: Don't be a fool.

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Speaker 4: Here goes short of him.

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Speaker 5: I warned you, I tried to warn you.

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Speaker 12: Okay, everybody stand back, stand back. Charlie gets all about

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of rifles sent up. Text you, Professor ry Bys to.

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Speaker 5: Start Captain, for your own sake, don't try and get away,

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Professor very well, but I warn you, okay.

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Speaker 13: Now, don't fat already?

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Speaker 4: Boy?

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Speaker 1: Right, all man, George of what's this?

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Speaker 5: We don't know what who's inside?

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Speaker 2: That's ten suits, But I've given you just ten seconds

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to come out of captain here well a suspicion of murder.

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Speaker 5: Now come out all right, boys.

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Speaker 10: Ladies and gentlemen. I'm afraid we'll have to termine our broadcast.

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I've started out as a good natured hoax or publicity

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stunt has turned into a bloody massacre, as the bodies

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of some six policemen on the lawn of Professor Tommins.

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Speaker 1: Home will attest.

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Speaker 10: I don't know exactly what is happening here, but I

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can't say there's George of Xanthi's no hoax. He or

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it is the spearhead of a race from outer space

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that's come to conquer the earth.

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Speaker 1: Have they all gone, Helen?

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Speaker 7: Yes? Where is he in your library?

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Speaker 9: Reading?

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Speaker 5: Are the policemen still outside the house.

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Speaker 7: They're walking up and down. Oh, I hope they don't.

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Speaker 1: They have orders not to try to harm him.

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Speaker 9: Answer yes, what are we going to do?

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Speaker 1: I don't know.

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Speaker 8: Oh, listen, he's.

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Speaker 4: Coming, Professor and missus Tomlin, I have decided to walk

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through your town to learn more about its buildings.

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Speaker 1: And people, and kill a few more humans.

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Speaker 4: Killing humans affords me no pleasure whatsoever. I kill only

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when damage to myself is possible. I hope that no

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one will attempt to harm George.

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Speaker 5: Let me warn you now that this affair has gone

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beyond the confines of this town.

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Speaker 4: I am well aware of that, Professor. I am aware

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of a phone call being made this instant by your

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mayor to the commander of the Illinois State God.

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Speaker 1: If you're smart, you will return to your ship and

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your planet.

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Speaker 4: My ship is destroyed. I could instruct you to build

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a new one, of course, but as I have no

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intention of.

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Speaker 1: Leaving, then you will be destroyed.

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Speaker 4: No, I will destroy first.

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Speaker 1: Have you no conscience?

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Speaker 4: A conscience is a fifth order of failing needless baggage.

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Speaker 5: Good evening, hello, Professor Tomlin. Yes, yes, yes, I will.

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Who is The mayor and the chief of police have

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called a meeting of the citizens of Brentwood at the

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College gymnasiums and and so you're not going. I must

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allan there's much more to stake here than my life

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for yours. Civilization itself depends upon our standing up to

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this machine. I'm going to the meeting, gentleman.

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Speaker 13: Is Mayor Brentwood.

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Speaker 1: I call this meeting to order.

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Speaker 12: As you know, there is loose in our city of Being,

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with one purpose to prepare it for conquest by similar being.

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Speaker 3: I think Professor Tomon can tell us most about this being.

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Speaker 5: If we could determine the source of George's power, he

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might be overcome. He is obviously vulnerable to force, such

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as a speeding bullet if it hit the right spot. However,

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he has the ability to read intent long.

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Speaker 1: Before the commission of an act. He is probably listening.

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Speaker 5: To me now, even though he may be far away.

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Speaker 4: Miss the Mayor.

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Speaker 12: Why not track him down and all attack at once.

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Speaker 5: Some of us would probably die, but he couldn't strike

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us all dead at once, Man, gentleman, this humanoid is

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able to keep track of several hundred things simultaneously.

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Speaker 4: As a matter of fact, gentlemen, you are working yourselves

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up needlessly. You simply do not appreciate what would mean

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to dedicate yourselves to the fulfillment of the seventh border destiny.

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Your lives will be made most pleasant and happy by us.

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Speaker 5: Yeah, why did you kill six CODs?

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Speaker 10: If you're so powerful, bring them back to life.

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Speaker 5: How do you want to be buried?

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Speaker 10: Rong and eyewitnesses report that in the end, when all

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were gone, Georgia Xantha is still alone on the platform

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of the gymnasium. There was no movement except the twitching

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of the dead and those trampled by the crowd. Among

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the survivors was Professor Ansel Tomlin, who originally.

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Speaker 1: That's it?

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Speaker 7: What next?

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Speaker 1: I don't know, Helen, I don't know.

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Speaker 9: What's that?

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Speaker 1: Sounds like an alert.

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Speaker 7: That's peculiar. They didn't announce it.

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Speaker 1: Turn on the radio.

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Speaker 10: Hurry, we interrupt to bring you a special message. All

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residents of Redwood are advised to go to their basements

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or convenient bombshellters. The governor has announced that units of

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a National Guard have managed to corner the robot George

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of Xanthi in the town square. Tanks and waters will

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be used in an attempt to destroy the creature. Again,

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go to your nearest bomb.

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Speaker 1: They'll never be able to destroy him.

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Speaker 13: Where you go up to the road.

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Speaker 1: I can see the square.

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Speaker 13: From there, just as you're like, what's happening is vaporizing?

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Speaker 5: Every taken done they bring up.

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Speaker 7: So let's get away from here.

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Speaker 4: What's that army jet?

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Speaker 5: We'll see how effective he is now? Oh good Lord,

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old squadron up and smoke. It's no use. Can't just

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see it?

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Speaker 7: No answer? Come inside, please very well. If only there

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was something we could do to.

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Speaker 5: Tell God as long as he can read our every

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conscious thought before we can act.

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Speaker 1: What is it every conscious thought? I thought?

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Speaker 7: I wonder if what eident?

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Speaker 1: Nothing? Helen m HM.

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Speaker 10: And the army reports that the countryside around Brentwood is Dutch.

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Still the blue humanoid Georgia Zansi is still in the

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middle of the town square where he's been standing for

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three days.

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Speaker 1: Now.

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Speaker 10: We'll keep you informed of developments. The military urges everyone

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to keep calm and go about your business as usual.

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There is no danger to anyone who is not attacking

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the humanoid.

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Speaker 6: No danger wants to keep more of them from landing.

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And Sol, are you going to sit there with your

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head in your hands forever?

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Speaker 7: You'll come have some dinner, and so.

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Speaker 1: It might work.

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Speaker 5: Where are you going, Washington? What I'm going to Washington.

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Would you be good enough to pack my overnight bag.

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I can catch a plane out of Chicago about two hours.

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I'm going to talk to the Pentagon.

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Speaker 7: What do you tell them?

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Speaker 1: I'm going to tell them to surrender to Georgia Xanthi.

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Speaker 10: Our microphones are here at the edge of the town

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square in Brentwood, Illinois. Todayise and gentlemen to witness the

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most unusual spectacle of modern history. A discussion of terms

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whereby the United States of America may surrender to the

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humanoid George of Zanthar for the occasion, and honor guard

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of twenty two servicemen from all branches and all points

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of the country has been chosen. In just a moment,

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the honor guard will accompany General of the Armies, Walter Pitt,

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who will discuss the surrender. The honor guard is advancing

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to the edge of the square. The robot is standing

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there now, carefully eyeing the soldiers. Every ounce of his

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concentration seems to be going into it. Actually were told

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his telepathic circuits are probing their minds for some hint

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of danger. A thought, a flicker of an eyelash may

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be sufficient for him to vaporize all of them.

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Speaker 1: General Pitt is about to speak.

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Speaker 4: George of Xanta, I hear you. General, I have been.

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Speaker 12: Instructed to consult with you about your intentions toward our

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country in the world in general, will have you to

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reaching some sort of agreement with you and others of

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your kind, who you say will invade the earth.

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Speaker 4: May I approach one moment? I perceive no intent to

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harm me. There is one man among your soldiers, however,

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who has an illogical thought. Will the soldier who is

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thinking the thought eleven o'clock step closer.

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Speaker 12: Do as he says?

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Speaker 4: Does eleven o'clock mean anything to you, soldier?

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Speaker 2: No, sir, it's running through my mind, but it don't

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mean a thing to me.

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Speaker 4: By examination of your thoughts tells me you speak the

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truth very well. We will proceed with the talk.

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Speaker 10: Ladies and gentlemen. It's a tense moment. The general and

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the humanoid are discussing terms. The soldier who has questioned

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about the thought eleven o'clock has stepped back into the

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ranks and is holding his rifle at attention like the others.

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I perceive it's now ten fifty nine a m. If

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there is any significance to the thought about which the

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soldier was questioned. We'll know in one minute.

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Speaker 4: We of Zantha, gentlemen would not want to improve a

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planet which could not be educated, and would continually oppose

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our program. Therefore, I am glad to see your willingness

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to discuss. After my message goes out, there will be

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a landing party on Earth within a few days. While

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waiting for the party, however, there are certain preparations.

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Speaker 12: Just list them for us.

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Speaker 4: Our government will naturally have to turn over complete authority

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to us. Afterward, we will utilize your press and radio

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to disseminate our instructions to your people. Simultaneously, in other nations,

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the same procedure will be carried out by our reps.

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Speaker 1: Ladies and gentlemen.

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Speaker 10: It's happened at exactly eleven a m. Ten soldiers in

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the Honor Guard instantaneously fired their weapons into Georgia Xantha.

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Apparently explosive bullets have blown into mitheringes. The remains are

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lying scattered all over the square. People are pouring and

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kissing each other, shouting.

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Speaker 1: Comen and on your home.

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Speaker 7: Oh you've heard the news, isn't it wonderful?

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Speaker 1: Wonderful? Really? Wonderful. I'm sorry I couldn't come home sooner.

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Speaker 5: It would have spoiled my whole plan if I gotten

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within telepathic range.

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Speaker 7: Your plan, Yes, what, just a.

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Speaker 1: Matter of simple psychology. Those men in the Honor Guard.

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Speaker 7: What about them? Did you know any of them?

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Speaker 5: Not exactly, but I did have the job of hypnotizing

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ten of them hypnotized.

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Speaker 1: That's right.

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Speaker 5: You see, each of those men was hypnotized, and while

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he was under we planted a post hypnotic suggestion, namely,

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to fire at George of Xanthar. When a soldier named

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Charlie started to cough. Charlie was told to cough at

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eleven o'clock before we released them from hypnosis, we told

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them to erase everything from their conscious memories. I was

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staking everything in the hope that George could only tune

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into the conscious mind, not the subconscious, and it worked.

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There was nothing to be reached by George's prying mind,

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so we never knew what was going to happen. At

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eleven o'clock, the soldier named Charlie coughed, the men raised

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their guns and fired, and that was the end of

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George of Xantha. Now, if you don't mind I've got

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some exam papers to mark.

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Speaker 2: On a planet many millions of miles away, a red light,

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one of many on a giant control board suddenly winked out.

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A blue humanoid made an entry in a large book

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system two nine, five, seven eight, Planet three inhabited, too

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dangerous for any kind of development. You have just heard

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X minus one, presented by the National Broadcasting Company in

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co operation with Galaxy Science Fiction magazine, which this month

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features the Alan Cogan story titled in the Cards. It

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was one thing to safeguard the future, but something else

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to see some one you love, cry and terror two

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years from now. Galaxy Magazine on your new stand today,

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good Night by transcription. X minus one has brought you

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the Seventh Order, a story from the pages of Galaxy,

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written by Jerry Sole and adapted for radio by George Leffords.

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Speaker 1: Featured in the cast were.

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Speaker 2: James Monks, Nelson Olmsted, Kate Wilkinson, James Rafferty, Dick Hamilton,

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Rhys Taylor, Jim Stevens, Robert Hastings, Wayne Chappelle. The commentator

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was W. W. Chaplin, your announcer Fred Collins. X minus

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one was directed by Daniel Sutter and is an NBC

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Radio Network production. The Wonderful World of Robert Benchley on

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biography and sound Tonight on NBC Radio