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Speaker 2: Contdown for blast off x minus five four three two

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unknown come transcribed tales of new dimensions in time and space.

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These are stories of the future adventures in which you'll

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live in a million, could be years, on a thousand,

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maybe worlds. The National Broadcasting Company, in cooperation with Street

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and Smith, publishers of Astounding Science Fiction, presents he minus minus.

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Speaker 3: One on the Night's story The Castaways by Ernest Kiloy.

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Speaker 2: In the South Pacific, night comes on rapidly, the sun

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dips below the flat horizon. The sea is crimson for

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a moment, and then night falls. But on too hani Atoll,

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giant arc lights turn night into day.

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Speaker 3: Across the waters of the lagoon.

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Speaker 2: Within the barrier, reef launches and tugs skitter back and forth,

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while on the curving half moon of the island, army

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trucks and jeeps scuttle down the rough roads bulldozed by

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the seabees. Just six weeks ago, A low quancert hut

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stands near the beach, surrounded by tangled wire. This is

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the preliminary command post, and inside is General Frank I

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think gaydosh Field, Director of the test operation destruction. Everything's

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on schedule, general radiological surveys, complete instruments, placement checked. Or

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get me Navy and tell him eh Oowers is ordered.

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Send a periodic time check to wear force on niney

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week talk an observation control on the Missouri. Yes, sir,

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I want to complete rush to check on all personnel

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before each hour. Yes, sir, oh Nate Cohen wants to

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see you. Who the devil's the ap man? He's been

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selected by the press radio pool. I haven't got any time.

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Tell him to speak to Major Dwight Friedenberg. He's the

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pro o. I think perhaps you'd better see him, sir.

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The directive on public relations from Washington was very clear.

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How on places am I supposed to run a bomb

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test and play mother hand to a bunch of reporters.

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Washington said, all right, all right, bring him in for RELLI. Yes,

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give me some black coffee. Yes, this is mister Cohan,

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General gator, how do you do general lousy?

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Speaker 3: As a matter of fact? Is that an official statement?

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Speaker 4: No?

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Speaker 2: You can run some of that. The world is at

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the crossroads, Blowning. I wrote that yesterday, General, what effect

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you think the new bomb will have in the world situation.

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Speaker 3: I can't tell you that even if I knew.

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Speaker 2: My job is to set the blasted thing off and

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see that nobody gets hurts and collect the data.

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Speaker 3: Can I speak to you a moment, Slater Alan, go ahead?

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Speaker 2: Con Can you release anything on the scientific principles involved?

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I don't even understand to myself. Wait a minute, doctor Muller, Yes,

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come over here a minute, will you?

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Speaker 3: Cohen?

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Speaker 2: This is doctor Fred Muller's Avidian scientific director. He's the

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only one who knows what's inside that warhead.

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Speaker 1: How are you doing, mister Cohan?

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Speaker 3: How about a statement? Doctor? Oh, I'm afraid.

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Speaker 1: All I'm allowed to say is that the bomb is new,

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it's extremely powerful and off the record.

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Speaker 3: It's very tricky and dangerous. What will happen if it

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was off prematurely?

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Speaker 1: I don't think we have to worry about that. In fact,

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we wouldn't even know about it, if you'll excuse me.

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Speaker 3: How about the natives? Well, what about him?

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Speaker 2: Aren't they going to be evacuated from the island? They

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already have been general gators. I saw that the honey

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chief outside when I came in, the whole tribe squading

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down at the motor pool having a conference. What Alan,

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I've been trying to tell you, sir, that honey are

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still on the island.

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Speaker 3: Well, why the LC teaser ready? Aren't they? Yes, sir,

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but they won't go. They review.

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Speaker 2: Let's schedule call for their evacuation to by Elani three

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hours ago. I realized that, sir, But I hoped we

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could still get them off without vile. Look, Allan, they're

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either on the island or off. I wait a minute, Cohen,

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that's all. What are you gonna do about the natives?

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Speaker 3: General? Never mind? All issue a statement later? You're gonna

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force them? Go on, get out? I havn't god time,

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all right, general facts, facts a lot?

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Speaker 2: All right, Alan, let's have it well, sir, that Hani

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been kicking up all along.

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Speaker 3: They won't leave.

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Speaker 2: They won't do they know what's gonna happen to the island.

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Do they know that we're gonna blow it higher in

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the kite? I told the chief he just said they

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won't go, they'll go, all right? If I had Yeah, Hey,

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get him in here, the chief.

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Speaker 3: Yeah.

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Speaker 2: And that that lieutenant who interprets Yes, how do you

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Speaker 3: Dr Muller.

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Speaker 2: I haven't got enough trouble, you know, I feel rather

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sorry for the Honey. Can't make much sense to them.

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We arrive and tell them they've got.

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Speaker 3: To get up.

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Speaker 2: Look, I appreciate your finer feelings, Moller, but I can't

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let the Kanakas hold up the bomb t as.

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Speaker 1: General Captain Cook discovered the island in seventeen eighty years.

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Speaker 2: What's the difference, Gilbert recordings, Sir, I've got time for ceremony.

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Gilbert tell the chief he and his tribe, I've got

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to get off the island. We're providing homes for them

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on my Lani, France. Like Gilbert, the Chief.

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Speaker 5: Says, you do not understand. Milani is a bad island.

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My people have lived on to Honey from the time

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that our ancestors were cast away on the island. The

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spirits of our ancestors are buried in the earth. Our

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fathers are buried here, our father's fathers.

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Speaker 3: If he thinks I'm going to move his graveyard, he

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is crazy.

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Speaker 5: In our ancestors time that Tahani came in a great

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bird canoe, we were cast away on this island.

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Speaker 3: We have made it our home. What right have you

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now to carry us over the sea to.

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Speaker 5: A strange land where we would die weeping for our homes.

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Speaker 3: We will not.

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Speaker 1: Gory the waters of Babylon. There we sat down and

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we wept when we were remember Zion.

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Speaker 2: Well, thank you, Dr Muller. You're a great help. Thank Gilbert. Yes, Sir,

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tell him I have no choice. He's got till midnight

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to get his tribe on board those LCTs peacefully, or

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I'll have the marine detachment carry him aboard.

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Speaker 1: Yes, sir, I'm rather harsh general. After all, justice on

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their side. We're preparing to blow up their island and

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we haven't asked them about.

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Speaker 3: Dr Muller.

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Speaker 2: Will you kind of confine yourself to the scientific aspects

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of this operation. I'll take care of administrative matters.

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Speaker 3: If you could explain to the more to stake here.

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Speaker 2: Any further explaining I've got to do. I'll do with

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the marine detachments. I'm not gonna hold up my schedule.

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Speaker 3: Well, Gilbert, I told him, Sir, all right, get him

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out of here. I've had an no no cola, And

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what the devil's at merc I'm kind of a curse, sir.

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I can catch some of it.

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Speaker 4: Dogs.

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Speaker 5: The island will remember the tears of its children and

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punish the invaders. The Great Destroyers will not destroy, and

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the evil man who is the Chief will travel far

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through the blackness of night.

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Speaker 2: As the children of the island, And so will he?

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All right, kebt take him away, and Colonel Allen get

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a detail from the marine detachment with tear gas and

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small arms down to the motor pool, and in one

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hour have those natives on that transport. And I don't

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care how they do it?

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Speaker 3: Is that my coffee? VERRELLI?

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Speaker 1: Yes, they must know about the bomb. The Great Destroyer

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will not destroy.

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Speaker 2: You worried about that curse? I should think you might be.

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He threatened you personally. Why were you might carry a

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pistol till they got off the island. The Chief looked

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as if he cheerfully strangle you with his bare hands.

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I'm supposed to end the way they do.

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Speaker 3: What's that?

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Speaker 1: Probably then's saying goodbye to their island. I think I'll

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go down to the motor pool. I'll stay out of

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the way and get back here in an hour. You've

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got to have this wrapped up and headquarters moved out

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to the Missouri by.

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Speaker 6: Dawn, instrument room checking in.

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Speaker 3: So that's the last.

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Speaker 2: Have the Missouri, take over control and send for my

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g Yes, sir, the LCT standing Bible.

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Speaker 1: Those natives, Yes, they're on the beach a bomb you

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and it has assembled in place.

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Speaker 2: General twenty three point thirty right on the nose, robins

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start evacuation procedures with the honey.

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Speaker 3: You've start.

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Speaker 2: Alan's probably moving him out to the beach. Checking with

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Navy and Air Force for Ellie. Yes, sir, what's that

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coming from the beach with the honey making trouble? Come on, General, Hey.

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Speaker 3: Yo, Jobred?

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Speaker 2: What is it?

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Speaker 3: Colonel Allen ordered the marine?

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Speaker 2: Wow?

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Speaker 3: What happened?

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Speaker 7: The natives just got up and started march.

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Speaker 3: And damn bark. You don't understand, sir.

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Speaker 7: They marched up the cliff and right off into the lagoon.

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What's all of them? The women and the kids too.

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They didn't even try to swing.

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Speaker 2: What were you doing all this time? Just standing around

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with your thumb in your mouth? Where was a marine detachment?

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Speaker 3: Them, sir.

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Speaker 7: They just walked over the cliff. They didn't even scream,

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not even the kids. We sent the crash boats out,

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but we couldn't get them. Any of them are crazy idiots?

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Were there any reporters there. Well, go on and a

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life photographer. We'll get his film and hold until I

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release it. What are you going to do, General, postpone

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Speaker 3: It's too late for that now.

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Speaker 2: Calling eh Hower off isn't going to bring the natives back.

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Speaker 1: One hundred men, women and children just walking into the water.

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Speaker 3: It's horrible. I know, I'm not happy about it either.

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There's nothing we can do now. I gave him a

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chance to get off.

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Speaker 1: I was just thinking about the curse the chief put

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on you, even as the children of the island.

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Speaker 3: Then so will he.

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Speaker 2: That's what he said to you, General, I know I

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heard him.

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Speaker 3: You're deep's waiting. General, the great destroyer will not destroy.

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That must mean the bomb. Don't worry, doctor Muller.

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Speaker 2: It'll take more than a mumbo jumbo curse from a

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native witch doctor to stop this operation. At h Hower

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that bomb goes off. It is now h.

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Speaker 8: Our minus one minute, thirty seconds h minus one.

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Speaker 3: Thirty Video screens tucked insert all right. Check control stations.

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Speaker 2: Observation station one, observation station one check radiation station. Radiation

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control checks the firing circuit doctr moller right general check

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damage control station. Also communications communications check, I'll check insert.

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Speaker 8: It is h minus one minute h minus one.

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Speaker 3: Take a good look at that island on that screen, doctor, mother.

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When you throw that key, it just won't be there anymore.

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Nothing but an adam mushroom over the lagoon.

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Speaker 2: Right at a funeral fire for the ton instub an idiots.

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They can't get in the way of progress.

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Speaker 3: Progress. I wonder if it is general.

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Speaker 8: It is h minus thirty seconds h our minus twenty nine,

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twenty eight, twenty seven.

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Speaker 3: A great destroyer, that's what he called the bomb.

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Speaker 2: Old that mother, Alan report all checking, Sir, camera is

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running sound fire warning, stand by for firing, ready moller ready.

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Speaker 4: Ten nine eight seven six five four three joe one fire.

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Speaker 3: General, it didn't go off.

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Speaker 2: The bomb didn't go off? Really signals stand by condition

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read Alan check readings at it?

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Speaker 3: What's wrong? What happened? I don't know.

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Speaker 2: The bomb didn't go off?

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Speaker 3: What do you mean why didn't it?

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Speaker 1: I don't know, except for one thing that Dhani chief said,

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the great destroyer would not destroy it did.

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Speaker 3: In general, the bomb didn't go off. How about it? General?

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What happened? Have you got a statement?

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Speaker 2: Nothing?

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Speaker 3: You can use Cohen, not till we find out what

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went wrong?

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Speaker 4: Hey?

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Speaker 3: Who let you come aboard this ship? I walked on.

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You don't know why the bomb failed. It didn't fail,

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It just didn't go off. What's that tank thing on

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the deck?

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Speaker 2: General, Undersea Salvage Unit mark four. They call it a

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bottom crawler.

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Speaker 3: Somebody going down?

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Speaker 2: Well, that bomb is down there in the lagoon somewhere,

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could go off at any second. Somebody's got to go

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down and find it and disarm it.

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Speaker 3: That's a lovely job. Who's elected?

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Speaker 2: I am Wow? And doctor Muller, he's the only one

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who knows how to dis manly? Oh, that's ready, General,

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all right, come on, Muller, I'm ready, Allen. As soon

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as we hit shallow water, get those gates open, we'll

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pull the crawler out and then you get away in

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a hurry. If that bomb goes while we're working on it,

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I don't want any casualties.

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Speaker 3: Yes, inside man, all right.

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Speaker 2: I'm in I remember, get this lst out of the

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lagoon a hurry. You got that, Alan, You take your

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orders from Adam Yancy, Yes, sir, good luck closing the hatch.

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Speaker 3: The radar and Geiger counter warmed up. Muller.

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Speaker 2: I was just thinking of something general.

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Speaker 3: That curse.

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Speaker 1: Part of it came true.

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Speaker 2: The bomb didn't go up.

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Speaker 3: Well.

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Speaker 1: The second part of that curse was that you would

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end where they ended. That was at the bottom of

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the lagoon. Were you trying to do Muller, nothing. I

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was just thinking, this scrawler is going to take us

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right down there where the Tahani died.

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Speaker 2: I'm not worried about a handful of dead natives, Muller,

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I'm worried about that bomb.

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Speaker 3: Okay, they're opening the gate. Let's go.

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Speaker 2: USU four to control depth fifty feet bottom sandy, drop

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it off sharp anything on sonar, Muller, School of Fish.

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You ever't been down in a crawler before, only in

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the tank at New London. Think I've got a guy

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you're reading, get ahead, hang on getting something I've sawt

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on now left the point. USU four to control over,

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us you four to control over. It's a fine note.

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Speaker 1: The radios out get ahead, looks too large to be

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the bomb.

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Speaker 2: Can't see much on the forward vision play. He wait

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a minute, that's part of the reef.

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Speaker 1: Ahead, that's where the guy you're reading indicated the bomb

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must have settled in the hole in the reef.

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Speaker 3: We'll have to go after it and diving suits. The

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suits are in the locker. Let's get this over with.

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Speaker 2: The less time I spend down here waiting for that

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bomb to blow, the better I like it. Muller, there

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is your helmet clamped tight. You're getting me all right

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on your headset. Okay, I'm gonna fill the lock. Here

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goes the outer door. Let's go. This isn't like that

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diving tank of New London. Look out for that caral.

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It can cut you the ribbons. There's a hole.

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Speaker 1: Of some sort there.

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Speaker 2: Do I get the light up. See if you can

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get a Geiger reading out of that hole.

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Speaker 5: Just it.

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Speaker 2: There. It's down there, all right, careful, I'll drop down first.

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See anything down there, Muller, get down here fast. What

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is it? Find something at the bottom of this hole.

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It's it's metal and the sides what it gets the

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caral read? Look well the joints. These are whole plates

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of some kind. And look out above us. It's closing

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crabbit a metal hatch. It just slid over the top.

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This is impossible.

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Speaker 3: What's going on.

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Speaker 2: It's like an air lock. The water's being popped off.

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General to realize what this means, I'm not sure. There's

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an inner door opening. Careful, it's a passid way.

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Speaker 9: What are we doing now?

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Speaker 2: Rather much we can do. We can take off our

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helmets though the dial shows good air.

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Speaker 3: All right? Come on? What is this an under sea fort?

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Speaker 2: What's it doing here?

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Speaker 3: What does it mean?

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Speaker 2: Whatever it is? Our bomb must be down here.

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Speaker 3: Wait, there's someone there. I can't see. There's a shadow.

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Who is it? Who's there? Welcome, Doctor Muller, Welcome to

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our ship. We've been waiting for you. General. It can't

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be you see it.

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Speaker 1: It's the honey Chief.

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Speaker 3: How long has the bottom crawler been down? Brolly? Four

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hours two since we lost contact.

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Speaker 2: I'll keep trying, Yes, Sir, I've given him enough time.

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I'm gonna send another crawler down.

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Speaker 3: What do you figure happened to him? Colonel? Hell? Are

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a lot of things. Hey, how did you get in here?

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Speaker 2: I walked in? When are you gonna release this, Colonel?

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It's the biggest story since the election. Bomber doesn't Doctor

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Muller in General gave dead? They're not dead, at least

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we don't know they are. As long as that bomb

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doesn't go off, there's still a chance.

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Speaker 3: What happened bomb burny condition.

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Speaker 2: Wrapped, Gilbert, radiation control in the action. Get the hot

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squad into the honey lagoon as soon as it's cleared,

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and give me a pt boat with radiation screen.

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Speaker 3: What is it, Trono, will happened? Bomb must have blown?

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Speaker 2: I bot Mueller in the general if they were down

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there in that lagoon, you guess.

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Speaker 3: Now got out of my way. I'm busy.

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Speaker 2: Radiation reading seventy five and steady. Take her in as

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close to the beach as you can, steady as she goes.

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Speaker 3: Any danger of any more explosions. Oh, when she goes,

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she goes radiation eighty two. That's still safe, Colin. Is

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that something on the beach?

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Speaker 2: Yeah, looks like a body, maybe a blue one of

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them to honey back out of the lagoon.

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Speaker 3: No, no movie, Gilbert Glass, Yes, sir, it's a man,

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all right, head into the beach. Who is it, Colonel,

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I can't tell. He's in a diving suit. It's either

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Muller or General Gaida. Get his helmet off.

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Speaker 2: Easy enough, twists it right, Yeah, it's Muller. Uh, Albert,

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help me get him out of this diving suit. We

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gotta get him.

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Speaker 9: No medics, no radiation, burns, superficial bruises, mile shock.

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Speaker 3: He'll be all right, colonel. Can he talk for a while?

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Bom go off. It didn't he's still out of his head. Quiet,

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con go on. Look him. What did you find the ship?

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Speaker 1: The giant metal ship there under the lagon summary No, no,

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it was a space ship space sace, camouflaged right next

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to the reef. When when we went inside, we found

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that the honey chief and all the tribe alive.

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Speaker 3: I drowned in the lagoon. I saw them.

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Speaker 1: They didn't commit suicide as we thought. They just dived

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underwater into the rocket airlock.

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Speaker 3: Rocket air locks.

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Speaker 2: Now, look, man, I know you've suffered the shot, but

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but it's true. Who can't be spaceship built by Polynesian savages.

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Speaker 3: They're not savages.

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Speaker 1: They're the castaways that from another planet. Don't you understand

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Their spaceship was wrecked here four hundred years ago. They've

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been waiting ever since for a chance to go home.

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Speaker 3: He's out of his mind. Better give him a senative doctor. No, no, no,

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wait a minute, colonel.

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Speaker 2: Remember their story about the great bird canoe.

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Speaker 3: Maybe there's something to the legend. Not the legend, it's true.

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Speaker 1: They'd exhausted their fuel, came down out of space. Couldn't

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find anything here on Earth to replace their fuel sauce

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until we developed atomic.

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Speaker 3: Power comic power. You mean they stole our.

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Speaker 1: Bot try fished it out of the lagoon, hauled it aboard.

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Speaker 2: Yes, but how could they convert it to atomic drive?

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Speaker 1: They made me dismantle it for them at the point

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of a gun. Then just before they blasted off, they

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let me go. But what about the General? Remember that

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the honey curse?

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Speaker 3: I see you mean they killed him.

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Speaker 1: You don't understand. I said, I dismantled that bomb at

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the point of a gun. It was General Gaidosh who

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was holding the gun. What he was one of them,

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one of their spies, sent out to bring back the

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rocket fuel they needed. And that the honey curse wasn't

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a curse at all.

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Speaker 3: It said that when they left the island, so would he.

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I mean he's with them now, yes.

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Speaker 1: And after four hundred years, the castaways are going home.

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one was an NBC Radio Network, production, oh