Speaker 1: Come in welcome.
Speaker 2: I need you, Marshall, weaver of the stuff that nightmarees
are made of. It was Shakespeare who said you only
live once. It was Girt who said you only die once.
And Nathan Hale said he regretted he had only one
life to get to his country. From all this, then
we gather that all we have is this one time
with one light. However, this may not be entirely true.
According to a gentleman you are about to me, you
may have as many lives as you can intelligently arrange
for ourness to drama. The Coffin with a Golden Nail
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see American Express.
Speaker 3: Don't leave home with outs. In the midst of life.
We're in the midst of death, the book tells us.
Speaker 2: And this should teach us that survival is largely a
matter of perception. And perception is the ability to see
through the track being directly into the heart of the matter.
Speaker 3: Therefore, people with.
Speaker 2: Perceptions never overstay their welcome, never overplay their hands, and
are never caught in the rain without an umbrella. A
man of perception was Ramon zoea Colonel Ramon zoea chief
of the secret police of one of those little nicol
and Dime dictatorships somewhere south of the border. The colonel
had an ingrained cruelty and a sheer delight in the
sufferings of helpless human beings. We're about to witness the
colonel at work one.
Speaker 1: Moment, if you please, I am Colonel Ramon Carlos Maria
dea is Sanchez, and this is my star, and I
resent the way the gentleman has presented me. I am
not some monster, sadistic brooks of a dedicated patriot. I
was part of a holy crusade to restore law order,
decency in reflex to my beloved country. Well, you refuse
this to talk. Knel refuses. Refuses, young woman, Is it
possible that you believe you're attending a dance where you
make grants or refuse the government the pleasure of a war.
What is this animal? Caller? Though? I need to add
their niece I need to call will hand me a whip? No,
I need to their needs. You have a pretty faith.
You also have some information. You may not keep both.
What shall you give up? Who are your companions? Choose? Well?
You have thousand? Yeah? Who I miss the crystalis? I
never heard of him? Tend him away?
Speaker 3: Ah, Colonel, I am mister cher.
Speaker 1: I told my starget you are not to be admitted.
I'll teach you.
Speaker 2: Should teach him how to block a right cross to
the chin.
Speaker 1: I could have you shot.
Speaker 2: A sit down before I take my business elsewhere?
Speaker 1: Do you know who you're talking to?
Speaker 3: How old are you?
Speaker 2: Thirty thirty five? Very good bones and that face? We
can do it, not with them? And you were a
schoolteachern before you got into all of this.
Speaker 3: What did you teach?
Speaker 1: I was an assistant professor of zoology at the University Something.
Speaker 3: My name is mister Chryslers.
Speaker 2: I am sales manager of Metamorphosis Incorporated.
Speaker 3: My consent.
Speaker 2: What does it all with the name you a biologist?
Ask the meaning of metamorphosy?
Speaker 1: I know what it means a transmutation, a transformation from
one life to another.
Speaker 2: Precisely, and now I've had enough problem.
Speaker 3: That is what I propose to do with you. Ask
me why why?
Speaker 2: Within ninety days the evolution will come.
Speaker 1: To this country who has told you the fairy tale
the fools?
Speaker 2: You shall have a new government which will do unto
you as you did unto others. I am here to
sell you insurance insurre.
Speaker 1: What genuinely surance are you talking about?
Speaker 2: The name of our company answers your question, metamorphouses. Yes,
all of our clients have been metamorphasized into other people,
and they leave their new lives out in the open
fire you go being served. Considered the momark butterfly. It
leads two distinctly different lines. First, a caterpillar, an ugly,
crawling creature with the ground's eyes your life. Second a butterfly, beautiful, airborne, free.
Let me say you want to seek me the caterpillar.
Does one look for him in the butterfly chrystal enlightenment.
Speaker 3: Now you know the meaning of my name. Chrysalis.
Speaker 2: The cocoon the same sm behaven where the metamorphosis takes place,
the dark brown shell with a bright yellow spot.
Speaker 3: What do you call it?
Speaker 1: The corpon with the gold and male.
Speaker 2: Precisely, and you shall enter that corpin not to die,
but they're born again. How a complete plastic surgery for
your face, and you will teach zoology in an American university.
But how you will have documents the birth sipificate, diplomas,
recommendations for I can.
Speaker 3: I don't be game where you.
Speaker 2: Will and with an authentic Midwestern accent.
Speaker 3: This is all.
Speaker 2: It will require a full year, a round, the concentration
and study. That is why the fee is one million dollars.
Speaker 1: I don't have a million dong.
Speaker 2: Chief of Secret Police doesn't have at least a million dollars, Sir,
you in my intelligence. Now for one million dollars you
become doctor Stanley Parker. Stanley Parker, Assistant Professor of Zoology
at Southwest A and M in the good old US
of A.
Speaker 1: I understand what you say. I even see how it
might be done. I could change my face and learn
the language. But what is the problem?
Speaker 2: I have?
Speaker 1: The problem me? Something in me was never satisfied with
the academic life. Something in me demanded will always demands action, excitement,
and yes violence, I could never settle down.
Speaker 3: I need violin.
Speaker 2: No, No, Colonel Ramon Zoria was the caterpillar. Stanley Parker
shall be the butterfly. There will be nothing of Doria
in Parker. Your attitude taught life shall be different. You
would believe in a new philosophy. They moved by another psychology.
We shall change more, much more than your faith and
your voice, Zia.
Speaker 3: What a devil Parker shall be estate.
Speaker 1: It's required more than a year, even more than two years.
I was taken to an island somewhere in the West Indies,
exactly where I cannot say, and in that place Ramon Carlos,
the s Maria Deglia you Sanchez guide slowly slowly, and
the man him, Stanley Zurbulent Parker was born. That is
not to say that all memory of Gallo's guide, Oh no,
I remembered everything about it and everything he was. But
he was no longer me, his speech was no longer mine,
His long, narrow head seemed to be rounded, his nose shorter,
his chin wider. This needed the better part of the year.
All the visible traces of Aramon Zolia were gone, but
my original fears remained.
Speaker 2: I told you to would come slowly, look at yourself.
Speaker 3: Listen.
Speaker 2: Who would egree you are Ramon Zoria?
Speaker 1: I would, yes, I agree. I am the voice and
the image of a man named Stanley Parker. But I
still I still think and feel like Ramon Zoli.
Speaker 2: Of course, of course, and you must help a changel in.
The change is your two safety. They can't appell our peoples.
The Christian this the coffin with the golden nails, and
within he has given more than a different form in shape.
Speaker 3: He is given another mind.
Speaker 1: And I was changed. I don't know how it was done.
I don't remember. I know another year went by. I
lived in a constancy of what to have been electric currents.
I was always feeling ways of shot. There were always electrodes,
always spots, always the sharp smell of electricity. I was
someone else, I would don't say, a human being. Can
it be changed? I know better, I know.
Speaker 3: Do you remember Ramondia?
Speaker 1: Yes? I remember?
Speaker 3: Do you remember being him?
Speaker 1: Yes?
Speaker 3: What's happened?
Speaker 1: I will? Yes.
Speaker 3: I feel an attack of nausea coming.
Speaker 1: Yes, every time I think it is earlier. I I
can't help it. I'm I feel sick. Why his loud voice,
any loud, harsh voice? Disturbs me. The gun that's heavy
automatic crystal. I I can't tell the idea of that.
And a knife, but that and the whip, these things.
Speaker 3: Just I'm dizzy and killing.
Speaker 1: The thought of killing, of hurting, of inflicting pain on
any living.
Speaker 3: Creature, even for a good reason.
Speaker 1: There's never a good reason.
Speaker 3: Well, but that's a part.
Speaker 2: I would say that you are guessed about reggae to fly.
Speaker 1: I'm trying to use your name, badge professor, the only
and then the day I need. How do you do
i'mselling part of biology.
Speaker 4: I've come here to teach Latin American literature.
Speaker 1: Oh, that's interesting. I can't have read very much literature
Latin America.
Speaker 4: Well, aren't you going to ask me about it?
Speaker 3: How you both love?
Speaker 4: You've been staring at it for the past half hours, stirring.
Speaker 5: The scholar might say, Oh.
Speaker 1: I'm sorry, I didn't mean to be rude. It's just
as so horrible.
Speaker 4: I'm accustomed to having people stare at me.
Speaker 1: May I have told him above?
Speaker 4: Oh, seven years ago, the government of my country, the
democratic government, was destroyed by a military hunter and my family,
the d family, the.
Speaker 1: Uh, the Niche family.
Speaker 2: Oh, I'm sure you've never heard of it.
Speaker 4: But we all joined the underground, and I was captured.
I had the honor to be interrogated by the head
of the secret police himself, a monster called Colonel ram
Monzoria lawyer interrogated, he slashed me across the faith with
his whip. Oh no, oh, I'm hurry, you've gone so clearly,
look out, Please sit down?
Speaker 5: Could I get you something?
Speaker 1: I don't know what came over me?
Speaker 5: Well, he who knows Americans?
Speaker 1: This is so foreign to your experienced There's been another
revolution down there.
Speaker 4: Yes, the swine has been driven out. Some of the
big ones have gone into hiding all over the world,
but one by world.
Speaker 3: We smoke them out.
Speaker 5: We we have justice.
Speaker 4: Seen my own brother leaves one and day and night.
He seeks Oudia Soya murdered our.
Speaker 1: Father, their niece. I don't even remember that, man.
Speaker 5: That's why would you remember.
Speaker 1: A daughter mutilator, the father murdered. When I say I
don't remember, I don't remember reading about it.
Speaker 4: I'm sure even Gaia himself wouldn't remember. We weren't one
hundreds of thousands, millions in every country.
Speaker 5: We are the nameless one about about a scar.
Speaker 1: They do wonders. What plastic surgery the bad?
Speaker 4: Yes, but I must continue to wear the scar to
remind me that Ramanzaria has not yet been brought to justice.
Speaker 1: Oh, it is possible, perhaps he may be dead.
Speaker 4: Well, we will only be convinced when someone has seen
who's dead about it, and the until that time, the.
Speaker 2: Hunt will continue, because why do we.
Speaker 5: Talk at some things? And I'm sure it has no
real meaning for you?
Speaker 3: She touched a nerve.
Speaker 2: When she said, I'm sure even Zeleah himself wouldn't remember.
Speaker 3: And it's tragically true. Zorea himself did.
Speaker 2: Forget all about her the day, the hour and a
minute after he slashed her face.
Speaker 3: And here we have Stanley Parker, a man with.
Speaker 2: A present and future, but no past because that past,
which belongs to Amusaiah has been transformed. Can Stanley Parker
survive him? I'll be back in just a few moments
with that too. Colonel Ramon Zorea was a fanatic. He
would torture and kill all who disagreed with him. Stanley
Parker will faint at the sight even the thought of
black and yet Zouah and Parker are one and the
same human beings.
Speaker 3: How is it possible why do you even ask?
Speaker 2: Consider what has already occurred in this the age we
live in, is anything impossible?
Speaker 3: Good eating contestor talker?
Speaker 1: Oh it's mister Christilis.
Speaker 3: May I come in? Thank you?
Speaker 1: Sit down?
Speaker 3: What can I do for you? I'm here to tell
you some more insurance.
Speaker 1: Oh but I really don't need it them all?
Speaker 2: But you do suppose someone was hunting for you and
he started to come close or but that's impossible.
Speaker 1: There's nothing of ramon Zolia about me anymore. I spoke
to a young lady just last week. She'd have a
good reason to know Ramon Zulia.
Speaker 2: But she never know whether it's this lady or her
brother or someone else. What is somehow unravel.
Speaker 1: But I'm not Zelia. You know that I'm someone else.
Speaker 2: Precisely, you are a person who is unable to protect himself. Therefore,
Metamorphosis will see to it that you are protected at
all times.
Speaker 1: But I don't need look, I dislike argument.
Speaker 2: Our He is ten percent of your annual salary.
Speaker 1: Even if someone were to threaten me, I'm unable to.
Speaker 3: You will not have to.
Speaker 2: We do it for you.
Speaker 1: I will not be a posy to any chilling.
Speaker 2: And nevertheless, we shall insist on our tea.
Speaker 1: It's blackmail.
Speaker 2: It's in your best interests Now about miss Denis campus gossip?
Has it you see a great deal of her?
Speaker 1: I feel drawn to her.
Speaker 3: Do you have a feeling of guilt?
Speaker 1: Yes?
Speaker 2: But why What was Stanley Parker to do with the
needs of Ramon Zorian? Is the butterfly to blame for
the depredations of the worm?
Speaker 1: Maybe it's more than that. Maybe I'm falling in love
with her.
Speaker 3: Do I dare? My boy? You are a brand new
human being.
Speaker 2: You may dare anything.
Speaker 5: That's the stag.
Speaker 2: I come in atomical country and what you're I never
got around to learning.
Speaker 4: But I thought, I know an American knew how.
Speaker 1: South Oregans know how to tang you.
Speaker 5: They probably do.
Speaker 1: Why are you laughing so much?
Speaker 2: I'm having some Are you.
Speaker 1: So many years?
Speaker 4: I could do something really exactly by the last time
I was the man, he was my group leader, and
we walked on and I'm downtown Carrascian the.
Speaker 1: Other main stream.
Speaker 5: That's right, But how would you know.
Speaker 1: I become interested in your country? Why? Because it's your
country and everything about you interesting.
Speaker 4: We pretended we were loving under my dress was an
ammunition delt under his coat was a submachine guns.
Speaker 5: And that's why I seem so good right now. You
have to be honest with a handsome man to be
a woman again.
Speaker 1: It was a great afternoon. I hope you enjoyed it.
Speaker 5: Why don't you come in.
Speaker 1: I have to find something that happen, so I wouldn't
want you to go to any trouble.
Speaker 5: Oh, you must tell me all about yourself from me?
Speaker 4: Why are you a three always afraid that you might
cause someone trouble.
Speaker 5: I want to know everything about you. There's a whole
lifetime to tell. Now into the kitchen and we'll see.
What's a little situation. I'm a terrible house kitchen.
Speaker 1: Some eggs speak English perfectly.
Speaker 4: When I was educated in the United States, I only
returned home so I could fight against the hunter.
Speaker 1: Was that the only reason you returned?
Speaker 5: I suppose I was an idealist?
Speaker 2: You say it was, Well, not so much anymore.
Speaker 4: Why regardless of who's in power, somebody is going to
because because.
Speaker 5: That is the story of the world.
Speaker 1: I know, but maybe we should be trying to write
a new ending to that story.
Speaker 5: I would rather hear about your story.
Speaker 1: My story.
Speaker 3: Where were you born?
Speaker 1: In the United States, Jill, Where Indianapolis? You know?
Speaker 4: I went to college with a girl from Indianapolis, had
visit the crack Offen.
Speaker 5: Her name was Helen Morrison. Did you know the Morathons?
Speaker 1: No, I don't believe.
Speaker 5: So where did you go to college?
Speaker 1: Northern? It's true to technology, But Helen nortonn the boy
from there? What was his name?
Speaker 5: I was nade of honor at a wedding.
Speaker 4: Can't remember his name? War Here?
Speaker 5: Did you know him?
Speaker 1: No?
Speaker 2: Anita?
Speaker 5: Oh what didn't you tell me you were coming?
Speaker 4: Stanley? My brother Serlenando de niece Canando, Stanley Parker?
Speaker 2: How do you do, Anita? Why were you all afternoon?
Speaker 5: Stanley? And I was spooking.
Speaker 2: I hope you had a good time, but m yes,
you had a good time. The cheeks have flushed, your
eyes a sparkling and Ramon Varia is still alive. And father,
we swore on our father's grave that we wouldn't less up.
I know, I know that. And so what have you
done today that has brought us closer to this month?
Speaker 4: Today?
Speaker 5: I did something from me.
Speaker 4: Sit client, let us A client family is someone who
had become very.
Speaker 5: Dear to me, very closer to me, and he will
be your brother, to help.
Speaker 4: Make up for the brother we loved Stanley. Can you
say something to Fernando?
Speaker 1: What can I say? I'm not a matter of violence.
You you know that on me.
Speaker 4: But that's why you should say something. Because the man
of violens have nothing to say to us anymore.
Speaker 1: Vengeance is mine, says the Lord, and let us leave
it to him. No, you must why because it must
all end somewhere, the violence to destruction must end. Yes,
shall I publish a notice.
Speaker 2: Run a worldwide advertisement the Colonel ramon Zaria? Wherever you are,
you are safe, You are forgiven.
Speaker 1: Rejoice. How we would love to hear that ramon Zaria
is not laughing these days, that anyone?
Speaker 2: How would you know?
Speaker 1: Is it beyond possibility that Zia may have learned and
that he has become someone else?
Speaker 2: That monster can learn nothing. He has to be destroyed,
and I know I'm close to him.
Speaker 1: How do you know?
Speaker 2: Because we captured Martin.
Speaker 1: One Martinis e bolacho?
Speaker 2: How would you know one Martina?
Speaker 4: Because family has become an authority on our country.
Speaker 2: Martinis was taken by my team. He was living in
England and he had the most fantastic cover. He must
pausing as an Englishman posed, I'm other mad passing. His
faith had been changed, his voice was different. He spoke
English perfectly, and still you were able to get he
talked before he died. He was always a bullet jelly.
Speaker 5: He tis the most fantastic yarn.
Speaker 2: He said, there's an organization that specializes in changing people.
Speaker 4: He said that, yes, I can't rearrangees people complete, But
why what you say a thing like.
Speaker 1: That to start the time.
Speaker 2: Obviously he was hoping to make a deal with us
to say his life. He even named the organization he
did did Metamorphosis incorporated better moressence. I was fetched that
it seemed. I wanted to let him talk more. But
the others will have had they killed him. But when
I touched his desk, I found a check he had
just witnessed paid to the Order of Metamorphosis five thousand dollars.
Speaker 5: Where else did he find hat?
Speaker 2: He was right there? He is such an organization and
it can change people.
Speaker 5: You should see how it changed him.
Speaker 2: But I don't care how it changes only are I'll
signed you the tool.
Speaker 1: Hello Stanny, did I wake you?
Speaker 2: No?
Speaker 1: Anita, I haven't gone to bed, Yet I.
Speaker 4: Called because I wanted to know if you're all right.
Speaker 1: Oh, I'm fine.
Speaker 4: I know you are quite uncomfortable this evening, And now
it can't sound.
Speaker 1: So blood thirsty. Uh I I understand, Fernando.
Speaker 4: Oh, darling, you understand everyone, and that's why.
Speaker 1: That's why I love you.
Speaker 3: Oh, i'd think.
Speaker 1: I love you too.
Speaker 2: You are the most wonderful human beings I never think.
Speaker 4: Comes to me tomorrow.
Speaker 1: Promise, yes, yes, darling, I promise I did. Good night?
Who Hello, Fernando, Good even Fernando. What can I do
for you?
Speaker 2: You can tell me about the metamorphosis. You know all
about the metamorphosis, don't you, Colonel Zoria, he does know
all about metamorphosis. But how does Fernando know that the
disguise was perfect, the cover was fallest, the personality change
was complete, and yet here we have Fernando ready to
pull the trigger. What could have gone wrong? What little
detail was overlooked? With emmy? Why don't you try to
solve it? And we can check each other out when
I return in just a few moments.
Speaker 5: With act free.
Speaker 2: If there's no such thing as the perfect crime, can
there be such a thing as the perfect cover up?
Everything about Stanley Parker differs from Colonel ram Monzoia appearance, language, personality,
and yet for Nando Duni sees right.
Speaker 3: Through the disguise.
Speaker 5: He looks at Parker and.
Speaker 2: Perceives Zoyah, bearing out of course, what we had said
about perception at the very beginning of our story.
Speaker 3: But what has he perceived?
Speaker 1: Why do you call me Ramon Zovia?
Speaker 2: That's who you are? Do you're denied?
Speaker 1: Yes, I can prove it. I am not Zovia.
Speaker 2: Now it's through you were Zoiah. Yes, the last time
we confirmed each other, he placed a pistol against my head.
You remember, I.
Speaker 1: Don't remember a life. I don't remember because there were
so many of you, so many thousands of you. How
can I remember?
Speaker 2: Tell him how we found your friend Martinez through his fingerprints?
Can you imagine? He's not amorphosis makes such seemingly magical changes,
but the fingerprints remain the same.
Speaker 1: And you found me through my fingerprints.
Speaker 2: Yes, oh, it was a joke on my part. I
carry the fingerprints of all of you always on the channel.
To night I couldn't sleep, I said, so Ria will
be completely different. He will be someone I would never
suspect and.
Speaker 1: What made you suspect me?
Speaker 2: I said to myself, who is the least likely person?
Why Stern the park who so obviously a mid Western American. Oh,
but Sally is a zoologist, said I was Arida, and
I was Latin to myself. It was so silly, I said, Oh,
let us chet the fingerprints, just as an exercise. Yours
were on a glass.
Speaker 1: And what will you do with me? Kill you? Because
I need to know she left you. Why you can
have zolia, but let her Keith Parker, at least in
her memory.
Speaker 2: No, the whole world must know, especially if a scum
or I still and hide you. Let them realize that
it's not skeptic.
Speaker 1: You're not going to kill rabm Zodiah. He is already dead.
Speaker 2: I listen to you, you know how, the way you
listen to others, which death ears.
Speaker 1: She died on an island long ago.
Speaker 3: We went dot here.
Speaker 2: And now go ahead and pray.
Speaker 1: And what's wrong with praying? It's the will of the
Lord that I be found. I'm content you may kill me.
Speaker 2: I I was hoping you would cook up a fight.
Speaker 1: Yeah.
Speaker 2: I would beg for your mercy.
Speaker 1: That will make it easier for you wouldn't it offered
me a.
Speaker 2: Fortune the way my teenage did. How can you stand
there quietly? And if you're judging me?
Speaker 1: What am I going to do with you? What you
set out to do? Kill me?
Speaker 2: No?
Speaker 1: No, I oh, we didn't check out to kill.
Speaker 5: We wanted to bring you.
Speaker 2: All of you to justice. Then bring me to justice. Yeah,
you're not very here, not anymore? Who who am I
dreaming to justice?
Speaker 3: Allow me to solve your problem.
Speaker 1: No, dog, you killed him, of course?
Speaker 5: Why Why did you kill him?
Speaker 2: My dear boy, I had a very substantial investment to
protect you didn't have to kill him in another minitude
of being weaking on each other's shoulder.
Speaker 1: Why did you kill him?
Speaker 5: Do you see now the venue.
Speaker 3: Of an insurance pomisy?
Speaker 1: Come?
Speaker 3: We must dispose of his body.
Speaker 1: What did the police go?
Speaker 5: They said it was a hold up, that he would
have robbed on the street.
Speaker 1: It happened.
Speaker 4: No, it was the Rea. It can only mean hurry yourself,
Fernando was coming close.
Speaker 2: It means hurry I must be here. I'm there.
Speaker 1: Oh, could Zliah be here?
Speaker 4: God?
Speaker 5: W oh, duney doesn't please help me your on?
Speaker 2: I have not in the world.
Speaker 5: Now say you'll help me anything, you'll hurt me.
Speaker 4: Find Donnie, kill him Thomas, I promise.
Speaker 2: Oh well, what have you been doing with yourself? That's name,
mister Parker, or what do you want? I've had some
disturbing reports about you, such as such as drinking even
as Odiah. You will never join me, Oh no, no, no, no, theTimes.
We have a very serious mathtero to discuss. And you
can their niece.
Speaker 1: What about Anita, dear niece, She'll destroy you. That's a lie.
Speaker 3: Look at yourself.
Speaker 1: I still by while you kill the man here in
my hall.
Speaker 3: That was necessary.
Speaker 1: It was murder, and I'm as guilty as if I
had pulled the trigger. I can't face her, and I
can't face myself, and I don't know.
Speaker 5: What to do.
Speaker 3: The answer is not in the bottle.
Speaker 1: There's no answer at all anywhere. I'm what you've made me,
Stanley Parker, idealist, pacifist, lover of all mankind.
Speaker 2: It's a delicate operation, as you know. And perhaps he
went just a tiny bit too far.
Speaker 1: How can you go too far?
Speaker 2: You can endow a man with too much love. We
did that to you.
Speaker 3: We should make an adjustment.
Speaker 2: We'll have to teach you to accept killing, no, understand
the necessity for it. You will have to accept a
certain fact of life. What we shall have to kill anything,
Damnie Paul. Never she is about ready to uncover your identity?
What do you mean she's getting there? Sure me ptty
soon she would have kind of that. She must kill
you before that happens. You must have you an adjustment.
Speaker 1: I don't know what it was. Perhaps it was perhaps
it was all a bad dream, but it was like
that first time, waging like Crysily, the sharp, shearing, exclusite,
pain and certain thoughts were clashing in my brain. Ideas,
this is not a perfect world. Man does what he must,
the art of compromise. No laws are absolute. Morality is
a relative.
Speaker 2: And I don't know. Had I gone back to the island.
Speaker 1: There was another bad dream, but there was an idea
in my head, an idea I knew. I had to
call anet her and ask her something, ask her to
go somewhere.
Speaker 5: And I was training. Where have you been?
Speaker 1: I've been busy. I was wondering, you can't have a
picnic lunch tomorrow?
Speaker 5: We can go into the country, Yes, I oh, what
is it? Stanny?
Speaker 4: I have some questions I'd like to ask you. It
can wait till tomorrow. I would like to ask you
a question.
Speaker 1: Yes, who are you? Who am I? Hive Stanley Parker?
Speaker 5: Who is Stanley Parker?
Speaker 1: Stanley Parker is a man who loves you very much
and wants to marry you.
Speaker 4: Trying to know you is like trying to hold quicktills.
You see, I checked up on you.
Speaker 1: Oh what made you do that?
Speaker 4: Don't know? But there is no record of your being
born in Indianapolis, Indiana.
Speaker 2: I have a.
Speaker 5: The record does not exist in their records. And there's
no record of your.
Speaker 4: Having attended Northeastern Institute of Technology.
Speaker 1: I have a good drama, but.
Speaker 5: The record does not exist at the school. Not a
single teacher can remember you.
Speaker 1: Who are you? Who do you think I am.
Speaker 5: You?
Speaker 1: You are?
Speaker 4: Aren't you?
Speaker 1: Yes?
Speaker 4: You know what I have to do?
Speaker 2: Now?
Speaker 1: Don't you have to kill you? I've become someone else.
I'm Stanley Parker.
Speaker 3: You love that.
Speaker 5: It has nothing to do with you at its concerned
a monster.
Speaker 2: Do you mean you would shoot me?
Speaker 1: Actually shoot me?
Speaker 2: I am prepared, I am sorrow to intervene at such
a tender moment. You will please allow at this superfund
of the.
Speaker 3: Ground, Miss Denys, that's it. Spend it very good? Now unfortunate.
Speaker 1: Now do we have to kill her?
Speaker 2: Oh?
Speaker 1: Yes, look we can let her go. We can make
her promise, and we.
Speaker 2: Make you promise anything, miss now, But to kill come now?
That's what we worked down these past few week Yes. Well,
the first law of life?
Speaker 1: What is it? Survival?
Speaker 3: Say it again?
Speaker 1: Survival?
Speaker 2: The second great law of life?
Speaker 1: Kill or be killed?
Speaker 2: How does that square with a commandment thou shalt not kill?
Speaker 1: We here below are imperfect creature.
Speaker 3: You're thirty five years old.
Speaker 2: You have more than half your life ahead of you,
a beautiful, happy, productive life. Shall you throw it away
for her?
Speaker 1: No?
Speaker 3: Then shoot her?
Speaker 2: It's your life or hers. You don't believe me, ask her,
ask her a meet her?
Speaker 1: Is it true?
Speaker 5: Yes, your life or a man.
Speaker 1: You'll have to kill her?
Speaker 3: Stanley, why me?
Speaker 1: Why do you?
Speaker 2: Both of us will be guilty of the matter. Shall
it make a difference which one pulls the tigger?
Speaker 5: No?
Speaker 2: Then you do it?
Speaker 1: Meet her? We could find a way. The pastor is dead,
No tell own.
Speaker 5: Because just Dinley born, not her. I see it happening.
How strange in with Parker is becoming Zaia No.
Speaker 1: You can have certain ideals, you can have your life,
but you can't have both. You want to give up
one charm.
Speaker 4: Now Parker is talking like Zaria, shoot her.
Speaker 1: I'm not talking like Zelia.
Speaker 3: I'm not shoot her right now. I can't.
Speaker 4: I can't.
Speaker 1: I will No, you won't. You won't. You won't kill her.
You won't kill anyone anymore. I need to go away
from here.
Speaker 2: You won't leave you.
Speaker 1: No, he killed me.
Speaker 5: Doctor.
Speaker 4: No, I get a doctor.
Speaker 1: I have to die. You know that, don't you.
Speaker 5: I don't want you to die, even if you live,
even if you were you used to tell another person.
Speaker 1: No, No, I'm still Zodiah. You see, the real life,
the long life, the working life is the caterpillar. The
butterfly only only lives a short day. The butterfly is
only a dream. A caterpillar is dream. I love you,
and I love you, and it's just as well that
I die.
Speaker 5: Your Stanley Poker.
Speaker 1: Only for a little while. But you see, slowly I
was becoming Zodiah once more, because that's the only life
I really know how to lead, the only life I
ever wanted. Goodbye, don't be sorry for me. Who else?
What other human being has eaten the dust and tasted
the sun. I've been born the caterpillar at the butterfly.
Speaker 3: Oh how many lives do we have? Surely it would
be hasty to say only one?
Speaker 2: The caterpillar has two?
Speaker 3: How many lives have you had? Or how many lives
are you leading?
Speaker 1: Now?
Speaker 2: I only have one that I know of, and I'll
be back to tell you how we might share an
experience in just a few moments. Three people were killed
in our story, but that.
Speaker 3: Wasn't what it was all about. It was about the
chrystalis the.
Speaker 2: Coffin with the golden nail where the magical changes take place?
Speaker 3: And consider an.
Speaker 2: Ordinary, simple creature with nothing even faintly resembling our intelligence
can create all that is dull to all that is beautiful?
Speaker 3: Why is that beyond man? Who is the highest form
of life? When is it all?
Speaker 2: So? We?
Speaker 3: Ever learned to do that?
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