Speaker 1: CBS Radio Mystery Theater Presents. Come in and.
Speaker 2: Welcome.
Speaker 3: I'm E. G.
Speaker 1: Marshall Harbinger of your hour.
Speaker 2: Of Mystery, Suspense and the Macabre.
Speaker 1: What do we think of when we think of the future, Actually,
we think of our own future, and we think of
it as tomorrow or next month, perhaps two years from now.
Some of us can even envision the next decade. But
this is as far as we can go for all practical,
self centered purposes. In a vague and even regretful way,
we are aware that the world will go on after
we're gone, and it will, it will, and what kind
of world.
Speaker 3: Will it be?
Speaker 1: Hundreds thousands, millions of years from now.
Speaker 3: My name is Roddo. I'm an admiral of the fleet.
You're not aware of me, but I can make the
decision that will end your life and the life of
every living thing in the Solar System. I have the
power of decision. When we patrol space, and I hear
my observers say unknown ship range thirty four million miles
clear for action, clear for action, aim already ready, firing
switch on, firing switch.
Speaker 2: On right now?
Speaker 3: Is when I decide do I or do I not
press the button that will destroy the world. It's my decision,
mine and mine alone.
Speaker 1: Our mystery drama Who Made Me was written especially for
the Mystery Theater by Sam Dan and stars Larry Haynes.
It is sponsored in part by Buick Motor Division and
True Value Hardware Stores. I'll be back shortly with that one.
The name of the planet is three. In our day,
we called it Earth, but so much has happened since
we lived here, so much time has gone by. They
call the planet three because it's the third planet from
the Sun that march at least has remained the same.
It's a world of people, and the people seem to
be divided into three classes. First, the Group one's a
kind of aristocracy that rules the planet.
Speaker 3: Secondly, the Group two's.
Speaker 1: Who performed the incredibly complex skilled labor, and third the
well those who can't seem to make it.
Speaker 2: They're all Group three.
Speaker 1: As long as they behave themselves, nobody bothers them. This
is the story of a Group one aristocrat named Rodo,
a very important man, also a very troubled man. Troubled
because he's talking to a boy of eighteen nineteen, and
the boy is asking questions, who made me?
Speaker 3: Rodo again, I thought we settled that last time, Corral, No,
we didn't settle anything. Who made you?
Speaker 1: Corral?
Speaker 2: You know who made you?
Speaker 3: Leila? And I we made you. I know about you
and Leela. What I'm trying to find out is who
made all of us? Who made all of us?
Speaker 4: Why?
Speaker 3: Because it bothers me? Well, now, when something bothers you,
you must report to repair. Leela took me to repair yesterday.
You saw Leela yesterday. Mm it was her duty visit
and she took me to repair.
Speaker 2: And what did repair say?
Speaker 3: I'm in perfect balance?
Speaker 1: Well then, how can anything possibly bother you?
Speaker 3: Well? Uh, you see, yes, Well maybe maybe I'm just
one of those. No, No, Corroun, you are not one
of those, and you must never say that, even in
a joke. Truthfully, the only reason I hope I'm not
is for your sake and Leela's for our sakes. Well,
wouldn't you and Leela lose your franchise if you couldn't
reproduce your own birth group? Reproduce is inaccurate and archaic?
Say make don't you and Leela like being French? And
Leela and I can only like what is legal and balanced? Now,
you stop wasting time with Group three type questions like
who made me? And concentrate on your studies. Lord knows
you have enough to keep you busy.
Speaker 2: Who's Lord Lord?
Speaker 5: Well?
Speaker 3: Every now and then people say Lord knows. Oh well,
obviously there was once a sage named Lord who knew everything. Mm, well,
that's what I thought. But I can't find her in
any history book, while that would indicate she was in prehistory,
and that means they'll never find out.
Speaker 2: And that's Corral.
Speaker 3: So far, He's the only one Leader and I made
during our franchise partnership. I must admit that my attitude
toward him has never been balanced. Legally, all we owe
the ones we make is basic training. Yet I have
made today included countless free visits. A pre visit is
not exactly illegal, but it is unusual. Balanced people do
not perform unusual actions. And of course, the Chief of Repair,
the commanding officer of Repair's fantastic complex of diagnostics, treatment
and therapy, happens to be my own franchise partner, the
Lady Leela.
Speaker 2: But I know, I know, I.
Speaker 3: Am nurturing a secret imbalance, because each visit with Corral
gives me a feeling of his exhilaration.
Speaker 2: It's wrong, this fear I have for his future, this pride.
Speaker 3: I have in him, this hope I cherish for him.
It's wrong, not corral. Remember, obey your supervisor. Yes, Ra,
keep your eye on the ball.
Speaker 4: Uh.
Speaker 3: What does it mean keep your eye on the ball. Well,
it's quite possible the ancients may have inscribed the rules
of conduct on a device shaped like a ball. Uh,
And therefore people would do well to keep looking at it.
Speaker 2: You know, you do ask a lot of questions.
Speaker 1: And after all, I am not a woman.
Speaker 3: Even though you're not a woman, people say you know
just about everything.
Speaker 6: Ronal mm hm.
Speaker 7: You made a feet is it to Kara?
Speaker 5: Today?
Speaker 3: I see, Leela, after all these years, one of your
inspectors found a way to let you know.
Speaker 7: She maying so, but I intend to ruin her career
for it.
Speaker 3: Now, what, my lady, do you suggest I report for repair?
Will you assure me that any group one can ask
for it without prejudice?
Speaker 7: I suggest you go inside and tell Terrn we shall
dine shortly.
Speaker 3: Certainly, turn had punched out the food request characteristically. She
had asked the wrong menu, but I said nothing. You
know how they are the tiniest criticism, and they collapse
into a severe depression or explode into a manic tantrum.
When Turn saw me, she smiled, a typical Group three smile.
You know those people. They seem to smile with their
entire body.
Speaker 8: I can release dinner any time, I admire.
Speaker 2: The lady will tell you say the words.
Speaker 7: Speak at the word your finger or blink your eye.
Speaker 2: I said, The lady will tell you.
Speaker 7: May I leave the villa tonight? Then visit my partner.
Speaker 2: You must ask the lady.
Speaker 8: If a lady says no, I will kill myself.
Speaker 7: You are free to leave. Now, Turn, we shall release
dinner ourselves.
Speaker 3: Oh, thank you, lady, darling, lady, sweet lady ever.
Speaker 1: Made Why did you allow it to leave so early?
Speaker 7: You and I have to talk.
Speaker 2: Well, whatever we say would be beyond her.
Speaker 7: Yes, he is, she's Group three.
Speaker 2: Turn.
Speaker 3: How could Turn be an inspector?
Speaker 7: I suspect Hern because she's too perfect to absolutely Group three.
Speaker 3: I suppose she is an inspector. What have you and
I ever said to each other? That's reportable?
Speaker 7: I am head of repair, You are Admiral of the fleet,
and we are about to be disenfranchised.
Speaker 5: Why cla cannot.
Speaker 7: Qualify for group one. He will fail the examination.
Speaker 1: But you took him to repair yourself. He was judged
in perfect balance.
Speaker 7: Oh yes, because he was examined by a single practitioner
and I was present.
Speaker 3: Do you think she's out of balance?
Speaker 7: So I know it. He's one of those.
Speaker 2: I refuse to believe that you refuse.
Speaker 7: To accept it. Yesterday he asked me, do you love me?
Speaker 4: Leela?
Speaker 3: Love? I see love.
Speaker 7: We The best I could get out of him is
that love is an intense form of life.
Speaker 3: But couldn't you explain that any emotional intensity is a
form of imbalance.
Speaker 7: For love is an intense like it can only be
bestowed on one person. It restricts and excludes. And what
type of group three questions has he been asking of you?
Speaker 3: I was afraid to tell her, and yet and yet
see how calm she is. It's because she's a woman.
We men, we take things so much harder than they do.
When Corla is classified down to group three, he'll disappear
from her life forever. But I know this, he will
never be gone from mine. He'll never be or sick
or hungry, and he shall not die young. Secretly, somehow
I'll arrange to protect them. He's my corral.
Speaker 7: What are you thinking about, Rada.
Speaker 3: I'm becoming reconciled to the fact that Corral will not
be admitted to group one.
Speaker 7: Who said he will not be admitted?
Speaker 2: You did well?
Speaker 7: I said he couldn't qualify.
Speaker 3: Why isn't that the same thing?
Speaker 7: No, because qualified or not, he will pass the examination.
He will how you and I will prepare him for it.
Speaker 2: Leilah, that's illegal.
Speaker 4: Of course.
Speaker 7: I shall pay my duty visit the day before the exam.
I will inject him for a stability in physical function.
Speaker 3: Well, if that's discovered, will be degraded.
Speaker 7: I know I wrote that law myself.
Speaker 3: Why, Leela?
Speaker 2: Why?
Speaker 7: Because I don't want to be disenfranchised.
Speaker 3: Leila, you're talking like a man. Oh shut well, lady,
you're obviously out of balance.
Speaker 7: So report me to an inspect Let me take you
to repeat. No, please, please, please? What find a way
to do keep us franchised? Please? But how can I
I want to stay franchised. I find it pleasurable to
be franchised with you, who I never expected pleasure. I
never even knew it existed. I I submitted to the order,
I mean I I accept it. I I complied with
the directive of the franchise committee. After they balanced us together,
I agreed. I obeyed the law, and the pleasure came later. Oh,
I want us to stay franchised, Rado, don't you?
Speaker 3: I want us to stay balanced, Leela.
Speaker 7: Having our franchised is what keeps me balanced overall? Do
you honest? Fair?
Speaker 1: I understand your unbalanced, So are you so?
Speaker 3: Are you all right?
Speaker 2: You realize all imbalance must be reported.
Speaker 7: Yes, and I'll report mine if you'll report yours. It'll
take time, but eventually I can be balanced out of
my need for this franchise? Are you willing to be
balanced out of your need for Karl? You see, I
know about that.
Speaker 3: What's to be done? Yes, we could probably cheat him
past the classification board somehow, But then what if he's
really Group three? Those characteristics will become noticeable. Eventually he'll
be officially declassified and our franchise will be dissolved.
Speaker 7: In any event, you won't let that happen, Rader?
Speaker 3: How can I prevent that?
Speaker 7: You convince him he's Group won.
Speaker 3: There's no way I can convince him, No way I
can make him believe he's Group one if he really
find a way you don't understand. In his heart, he
wants to be grouped.
Speaker 7: Find a way to preserve our friendships.
Speaker 3: Own the worst. He'll be declassified and will be disenfranchised.
Even if our partnership is dissolved, we can still give
each other pleasure on official.
Speaker 7: No, I am not a Group two machine or a
Group three animal. My pleasure needs this franchise. If I
lose this franchise, I will undergo permanent imbalance. I will confess,
I will proclaim our treason. Oh, I will be degraded,
but I will drag you down with me, down all
the way to Group three. Do you believe me?
Speaker 3: Yes, I believe you are.
Speaker 7: No one cares who partners whom among those in Group three,
and I have decided we will be partners till death
do us part. You will never escape me.
Speaker 2: Be reasonable.
Speaker 7: I could live in Group three, but you would die.
Now place your arms around me.
Speaker 4: Yes, yes, oh now.
Speaker 7: Now I feel I am in perfect balance, and you
will save corrals.
Speaker 3: Leela. The truth is he doesn't want to be saved.
Speaker 7: Save him, dares save him? Save him?
Speaker 5: What I will kill you?
Speaker 1: You must remember we're telling you a story that takes
place in the distant future. But in many respects, much
of what you've learned so far could very well have
taken place in our own time. As we evolve, it's
only the outward trappings that change.
Speaker 3: People remain the same basically.
Speaker 2: Or do they.
Speaker 1: Well, there'll be some differences when I return in just
a few moments.
Speaker 4: With that too.
Speaker 1: The history of the world many things, but one thing
that always remains constant is the relationship between men and women.
We don't mean the relationship is constant. We mean there
is a relationship because men and women must live together
somehow and raise the children somehow. And doesn't the success
of any society depend on how well they do it?
Speaker 3: Leila, you're not listening to me.
Speaker 1: I said, Corral wants to be in group three.
Speaker 7: No one in his right mind wants to be in
group three.
Speaker 1: We have created one who is one of those.
Speaker 3: Balance. Oh Lord, whoever you were, tell me how I
can achieve balance. I need balance every time I take
the ship up there with life twenty two technicians, I'm
the one who needs ballace. Without Corral, how can I
hope for balance the next time? The next time I
hear my observer technician worn.
Speaker 9: Unknown ship range thirty two million miles clear for action,
clear for action.
Speaker 3: This is how it is on patrol. The unknown ship
circles in the viewing field. Is she hostile? Is she curious?
Which she just as soon not have spotted us either?
Speaker 2: Is she stronger than.
Speaker 3: We are weaker? This is where I must maintain balance.
Speaker 5: How easy it would be.
Speaker 3: To signal I aim and fill the universe with death
and destruction. How often have admirals before me done this,
unbalanced admirals? What a price the universe has paid for that?
And how many times?
Speaker 4: No balance?
Speaker 3: Balance?
Speaker 2: And I am balanced.
Speaker 3: My vanity, my ego, my pride is not in need
of constant nourishment.
Speaker 2: I do not require all.
Speaker 3: Life from the universe just to bow down before me.
Perhaps the admiral in command of the unknown ship, does
I watch the screen, I'm headed for him. He is
headed for me very well, Admiral.
Speaker 2: I am not willing.
Speaker 3: My vanity does not require me to destroy the world.
Speaker 2: You may claim the.
Speaker 1: Victory, and I give the order, awaiting orders execute one
eighty degree turn knowledge and for home, heading home.
Speaker 2: And once again I have saved the world.
Speaker 3: Because I am balanced. I have saved the world. I
must never never lose this balance. But without Corral and
without Laura, Laura, how I need you now right now?
Speaker 5: Are you tired, dearest?
Speaker 3: She kills me, Laura.
Speaker 8: You don't have to talk about her, rodd l They.
Speaker 3: Train you and destroy you. These group one woman, Laura,
tell me you love me, tell me you love me.
Speaker 8: I love you, Rodo, I love you.
Speaker 3: Listen to me. I'm fantastically unbalanced, but I don't report
to repair. I come here. I come here to this
group three women, to this illiterate but beautiful, soft and
lovely woman. I have the power to destroy the universe,
but I am helpless in her hands. I come to
her so that she can save me, save me for myself.
Speaker 5: Don't kiss me now?
Speaker 3: Why not?
Speaker 2: I love you?
Speaker 5: You don't want to.
Speaker 8: Kiss me, not now? Not Well, there's something inside you
that's angry.
Speaker 5: That's frightened.
Speaker 4: I can feel it.
Speaker 5: What is it, Roda? Yes, yes, I am frightened.
Speaker 3: You afraid? Oh no, not my Rada Corral. I'm frightened
for Corral. We will be declassified.
Speaker 8: Oh no, not correct, Yes, it's true, Rado. No Group
one boy is ever declassifiable.
Speaker 3: But he asks questions your kind of questions. Group three
type questions.
Speaker 8: Don't they all didn't you?
Speaker 5: Why?
Speaker 1: I don't remember?
Speaker 5: You don't want to remember?
Speaker 2: How do you know?
Speaker 5: Oh?
Speaker 8: Sometimes you talk in your sleep and you ask questions.
Speaker 4: What?
Speaker 3: What kind of questions?
Speaker 7: It's one question, and you've been asking.
Speaker 3: It for years and years? What question? Who made me?
Speaker 5: Who made me?
Speaker 3: Of course, it's a normal and natural question. And suddenly
twenty years fall away, and I see myself talking to
my own Group one senior, and I hear myself ask
that same question. I remember how important it was for
me to find the answer. Now I must no that
answer at all costs. And I remember how wise and
how patient my own senior was and how he handled
the situation.
Speaker 2: And that's how I must handle Corral.
Speaker 1: Corral, you haven't asked me the usual question.
Speaker 3: Oh, I decided not to ask anymore. Why it seems
to displease you.
Speaker 2: Oh?
Speaker 3: And here I thought you hadn't asked because you had
found the answer the answer. No, not yet, No, Corral,
Your classification comes up soon. Will you discuss the question
with your examiners? Absolutely, you realize two things will happen. First,
you won't get an answer. Second, you'll be assigned to
Group three. I know you have no objection to being
in group three.
Speaker 4: I prefer it.
Speaker 3: I'm not impressed by group one. I'm bored by group two.
The only ones who really live are group threes live.
Oh they don't have the food and the clothes and
the houses. But they're the only ones who laugh and sing. Yes,
yes they do make a certain amount of noise. But
you won't find your answer in group three.
Speaker 7: Your group one.
Speaker 3: You can't give me the answer either, but I can
help you find it. Can you try me ask the question?
Speaker 5: Who made me?
Speaker 2: Nobody?
Speaker 3: Then? How did everything begin? It always was No, that's
not possible. At one time, there must have been nothing,
and somebody, somebody deliberately said today I will create something.
Speaker 5: And she did.
Speaker 3: And she created something that became you and me and
every living creature. And she created a place where we
could live, food we could eat, metals we could shape,
fiber we could wear. And all I want to know,
all I want to know is who is that somebody corral?
I don't think the answer lies on this planet or
any planet in our solar system.
Speaker 2: I patrol all of them.
Speaker 3: I meet men and women in.
Speaker 2: All groups of life.
Speaker 3: I never heard any one discuss it where is the answer?
Are other solar systems of the galaxies? Perhaps on one
of them, on a planet we never heard of, you'll
find your answer. Ah, how could I ever get there?
Speaker 2: If I had your.
Speaker 3: Problem, Corral, I'd seek to solve it in a balanced way.
I would register for naval training, Oh, Rado, who wants
to join the fleet? I would qualify you as a
reconnaissance scout. Rado, I don't mean his personally, but I
don't need a uniform in gold Braid to bolster my ego.
As a scout in your one man cruiser, you would
have to explore every sector of space, and while on scout,
you'd be on search. A lone scout might find the answer.
Could you really qualify me to become such a scout?
Speaker 4: Well?
Speaker 3: Only Group one so eligible for officers status. That's unfair.
Speaker 2: Unfair is a Group three word?
Speaker 3: Is it fair for Group one to monopoliz oh Aud?
It's right. The basic difference between the groups Group three
is are concerned with what's fair. Group one's are concerned
with what's right. A machine is always right too, that
always makes the right decision, performs the right action, gives
the right answer. No, no, not always After a while,
there's a bit of wear of malfunction, so it's taken
to repair, to be corrected, adjusted, and balanced. How do
you differ from machines? You righteous? Members of group one? Ah,
another typical group three tactic corral always create an involved
argument on another subject. The mechanistic personality of group one
is very much the subject of this discussion, since when
I thought the subject was how to find a certain
answer to a certain question? Interested, Yes, rodo Barrett in mind,
and you'll breeze through your exams and don't ask embarrassing
or unbalanced questions. But suppose that's how I feel. You
must hide that fact from your examiners. But that defeats
the purpose of the examination. Whose purpose? Suppose you ask
an examiner an unbalanced question. He can't answer it, He'll
try to repair.
Speaker 2: It out of you.
Speaker 3: If he succeeds, you'll be balanced to his satisfaction, but
you still won't have the answer. Suppose you say nothing,
you show.
Speaker 2: No outward imbalance.
Speaker 3: You will then have freedom of action to learn the
answer in your own way, in your own time. You're well,
You're saying the end justifies the means. That's how we
must live if you don't have the means you like,
you must learn to like the means you have. Rado,
how else where else can you find the answer? Maybe
maybe you're right.
Speaker 2: Keep your eye on the ball.
Speaker 1: Hm, I wish I knew what it said on that ball.
Speaker 3: Probably what I just told you. Just think, Corrall, you'll
be free, free to find the answer. Do you agree?
Speaker 4: Ah?
Speaker 3: Yes, I agree. I have safety. I have saved him
in spite of himself, just as I was saved in
spite of myself so many years ago. And I have
saved the world because now I can remain imperfect balance.
And the next time observe a technician calls out unknown.
Speaker 9: Ship range forty two million miles clear for action, clear for.
Speaker 2: Action, What is she doing holding.
Speaker 1: Steady stand by to change course? Complete turn one hundred
eighty degrees, one eighty turn.
Speaker 3: I'm balanced, I'm balanced. I'm in perfect balance with Leila,
Laura and Corral and miss balance must always remain exactly
the way it is now, And I beg I implore
whoever whatever made me keep me in this balance, don't
let me destroy the world.
Speaker 1: Where you can see what's involved. We are dealing with
human beings and human beings are made of highly volatile
and combustible materials and balance. Whatever it may mean in
that far off future, time seems to be a precarious
state at best, especially since it seems to hang on
the whim of a nineteen year old boy. Well, the
immediate future will bring you the third act when I
return in just a few moments. From time to time
we speculate about the future.
Speaker 6: Will it be paradise?
Speaker 4: Will it be utopia?
Speaker 1: Some say yes, some say no. Some say why should
we expect people to be smarter or better than our ancestors?
Speaker 3: Oh, we have more.
Speaker 2: Knowledge, but do we have more wisdom?
Speaker 1: Ratto?
Speaker 7: You saw Corral today? Yes, Leila, And what did you
say to him?
Speaker 2: Corral will pass his exam?
Speaker 1: Oh?
Speaker 7: Are you sure? What did you do?
Speaker 3: Nothing? I simply remembered what it was like to be
a boy, to be filled with fears by the size
of the world around me, the confusion of sights and sounds, permissions,
prohibitions to look at the stars and wonder where does
it begin and where does it end? Who made it?
Speaker 2: And I remember how I asked my own senior.
Speaker 7: Did he give you the answer?
Speaker 3: No?
Speaker 2: But he gave me the courage to go out and
look for it.
Speaker 7: Mm and did you Rada? Oh, yes, did you find it?
Speaker 1: No, perhaps it doesn't exist. I looked for it a
long time.
Speaker 3: Then one day I stopped Why the answer didn't seem
important it anymore, or maybe the question no longer bothered me.
I forgot it even existed until until Corral brought it up. Well,
it will bother him the way it bothered me, And
then one day they will forget.
Speaker 2: It, just just as.
Speaker 4: I have forgotten it.
Speaker 3: Well, actually I never forgot it. It just really doesn't
seem all that vital anymore.
Speaker 2: And so as the.
Speaker 3: Time for his exam approached, I could see that Corral
had made his decision. He wasn't happy, but he was
making the best of it. It's more important to be balanced, yes, Corral.
The world must be run and the world must be
saved by by balanced people, the people of group one. Yes,
say say the rest of it, Corral. Our system requires balance.
It ordains who is group one? Who is Group two?
Who is group three? This is our holy mission. Yes, Carral,
you are ready for your exam. Runo h what does
holly mean? It means uh, complete and entire. It comes
from the word hoole ah, But why is it spelled
without the w oh? Some lazy Group three printer must
have left it off by mistake and custom. I can't
wait to qualify for Reconnaissance Scouts and leave. I can't wait.
He was me all over again. Twenty years later. I
have succeeded. I have saved him for Group one because
he thinks as I did, it's the only way to
find the answer. Of course, later on he'll realize the
answer exists here at home. He'll find a Group three
woman like Laura, and she'll explain it to him the
way Laura explained it to me, and like me, he
won't be able to accept it. I remember when I
learned the answer, Laura. Do you ever ask yourself?
Speaker 2: Who made me?
Speaker 3: Nah?
Speaker 8: I know.
Speaker 2: I don't mean your senior partners.
Speaker 3: You know, do I?
Speaker 8: I mean I know who made all of us?
Speaker 3: You do? Yes? Love?
Speaker 4: Love?
Speaker 8: There is a spirit It's called love, and it has
created this beautiful world we live in.
Speaker 3: How do you know? Have you? Have you ever seen
the spirits?
Speaker 8: Of course you see it in the trees and the
flowers and laughter and everything that's good.
Speaker 3: Can you prove it?
Speaker 8: You don't have to prove it. You just feel it,
you just know it, you just recognize it.
Speaker 3: Oh, Laura, Laura is so good for me. This nonsense
that you prattle, it's so refreshing.
Speaker 5: But it isn't nonsense.
Speaker 8: Oh now, Laura, I love you, and because I love you,
I'm alive.
Speaker 7: You see, love has none read me. Love is everything?
Speaker 8: Yes, of course, Well one day perhaps you'll believe it.
Speaker 3: And on that day I will be so unbalanced repair
will have me reclassified out of Group one.
Speaker 2: Love it true, draw or not?
Speaker 3: Only a member of Group three can afford to believe it.
Speaker 4: M message for the Admiral.
Speaker 9: Yes, from the Commander in Chief, the word immediately acknowledge.
Speaker 1: Tell her I acknowledge, Navigator head for hope.
Speaker 3: The commander in chief the oldest, the wisest, the most
powerful member of Group one. And when she calls you
in it's the no trivial reason. It usually means war
or revolution, or something that could determine the very life
for people. I had never been summoned before. What could
this mean?
Speaker 7: Be seated ad murru, Yes, my lady, do you know
why I send for you? No, my lady, I have
here a directive. It is to be read to all
Group one officers of the fleet.
Speaker 3: Uh, effective immediately. No Group one commissioned officer is to
associate with or visit any female member of Group three,
signed the Commander in chief. Do you know the problem? No,
my lady, Well you showed.
Speaker 7: You're part of it. In eighteen years, how many offers
have you made in your franchise? Well you have made
only one daily. Our numbers dwindle, the group phrees multiply
like animals.
Speaker 3: No, isn't that truth?
Speaker 7: Yes, my lady, Now you understand part of the reason
for this directive. The other part is even more important,
more sinister. The Group three are planning a revolution.
Speaker 3: A revolution. I can't believe that, you can't.
Speaker 7: Why not? Are we outnumbered heavily by Group three? Of course,
since they formed the majority, shouldn't it logically occur to
them that they should rule the society? Isn't it a
part of their strategy to seduce and debilitate the males
of Group one? And are they actually doing it?
Speaker 3: Do you agree?
Speaker 5: Yes, my lady, I agree.
Speaker 3: I thought so.
Speaker 7: That's the only balanced answer. No one in your command
is to associate with Group three women understood.
Speaker 3: Yes, Intelligence has prepared a list of.
Speaker 7: All known women in Group three who are visited regularly
by Group one officers. Here here's your copy.
Speaker 3: Thank you.
Speaker 7: They are also being rounded up by Fleet police and
placed in special detention camps for a long for the
rest of their lives. It will discourage other women of
that group from associating with Group one males. Yes, my
lady Will did anything wrong, Admiral Ronco. No, ma'n a
formal mission you like as missed.
Speaker 3: There was no way I could look at that list
in her presence. I couldn't wait to get out of there.
I couldn't wait to get to the bridge of my
own ship where I could be alone and undisturbed. And
I opened the envelope and took out the list, and
my eyes shut down to the l's and there she was, Laura.
What was I gonna do? And then the voice of
my teck message of the anc acknowledge, have passed examination.
M Group one, leave immediately as a recon scout or
turn when I find the answer.
Speaker 4: Keep your eye on the ball.
Speaker 3: Signed Corral acknowledge. H corral is gone for me, and
they'll take Laura away to No.
Speaker 4: I won't let them.
Speaker 3: I can't let them. I can give up, Laura, Can
I do?
Speaker 2: Laura?
Speaker 3: No, Rado, no, why not? I couldn't live that way.
Speaker 1: But you'll die in that cat.
Speaker 8: I'll die anyway. I need people, music, happiness, I need.
Speaker 3: Lie, Laura, Laura, listen, this is just a temporary scare.
I believe it.
Speaker 4: What do you believe?
Speaker 7: I believe there'll be a revolt.
Speaker 1: Group three will revolt. Group three will try to overthrow
the government.
Speaker 8: How with what just by being just by existing for
your own good?
Speaker 3: Rado, I will leave you for my good.
Speaker 8: You're living a lie and I'm helping Laura.
Speaker 3: I can't give you up. You don't have to.
Speaker 8: But the law says, the law says, no Group one
commissioned officer is to associate with women of group three.
You are commanded to round up the women of group three.
Speaker 3: I know, I know all of Rodo.
Speaker 8: Become a member of group three yourself, then there's no problem,
no violation of the law. There's your answer, Rodo.
Speaker 3: Oh you you can't do it.
Speaker 5: I love you, Laura, but not enough.
Speaker 2: Laura.
Speaker 5: Please, uh, poor Rajah, don't don't leave me.
Speaker 3: Don't leave me.
Speaker 7: You sent for me, Commander in chief, Yes, Admiral I
have sent for you to give you a commendation. Read it.
Speaker 2: To Admiral of the Fleet Rodo, well done.
Speaker 3: You have accomplished your mission in less than one month.
Group three women are no longer the menace to an
orderly balanced society. Thank you, my lady.
Speaker 7: Hmm, I shall overlook one tiny matter of imbalance.
Speaker 3: Badam, yes, Rado.
Speaker 7: After all, I couldn't very well expect you to arrest
your own.
Speaker 3: Group three women, my own.
Speaker 7: I couldn't expect any of the uh to arrest his
own woman. And I know for a fact that every
one of you took his own woman off the list.
Speaker 1: Lady Rod, this proves I'm right.
Speaker 7: It's how an association with a group three women can
undermine a man.
Speaker 9: My lady, play a special squad corrected off these missions.
Speaker 7: Your woman was arrested this morning. Later she killed herself.
Speaker 3: Yes, my lady, now.
Speaker 7: You are in balance. Go back to your duty.
Speaker 4: Federal, federal A lownship, Uh?
Speaker 3: Yes?
Speaker 2: Yes?
Speaker 4: What is it?
Speaker 3: A downship? Unownship?
Speaker 4: Oh? H ranger thirty do million miles?
Speaker 3: Await orders, Await.
Speaker 4: Orders, Sir m.
Speaker 3: I should stand up to them, but I must back down.
I must back down for the commander of the chief.
I must back down for Leela, and I'll look at
the strange ship in the viewing the field. Does her
admiral think I'm going to back down for him to
I'll blow this whole universe apart. I'll show everybody.
Speaker 9: Look at him coming at me three twenty nine million,
twenty nine million folds.
Speaker 2: Me the head, well, my head amor ready?
Speaker 1: Amor ready?
Speaker 2: I won't back down for you, my friend.
Speaker 1: Firing switch on, why, hiring switch hot range twenty four million.
Speaker 3: I'll show everybody. I'll teach them to take Laura away
from me. Laura, I will.
Speaker 4: No, no, no, no, no.
Speaker 2: Or not for you, not for what I learned from you.
Love love made me, and not for Parral, not for
my son.
Speaker 3: Yes, I know that word. It's the same word as
the sun in the sky. That's what the one you
make becomes the sun in your sky. No, even though
you're both gone, you will keep me.
Speaker 5: Balanced to balance great twenty two million.
Speaker 3: Firing switch on, hiring switch off, firing.
Speaker 1: Switch off, Lavigator, prepare a one hundred and eighty degree turn.
Speaker 2: We're headed home.
Speaker 3: Acknowledge what's the unknown ship going?
Speaker 4: She is turning to Oh.
Speaker 3: I almost did it this time, I almost did it.
Speaker 4: Oh love, love, Lauri's love.
Speaker 3: That made all of us help me, help me always, please, please,
don't let me destroy the world.
Speaker 1: More and more we develop machines that can annihilate the universe,
and more and more the decision to destroy or not
to destroy rests in fewer and fewer hands. And these
are human hands, impelled by human strengths and human weaknesses.
And that's about where.
Speaker 3: And how it is and will always be.
Speaker 1: I'll be back in a few moments. How many times
has the world been destroyed? Are we the first civilization
of our kind? How many have there been before us?
Can anyone say? But the world will always be destroyed
until we can all give Correl's question, who made me
Laura's answer love. Our cast included Larry Haynes, Marian Zeudis,
Dons Cardino, and E. V.
Speaker 4: Justter.
Speaker 1: The entire production was under the direction of Hyman Brown
and now a preview of our next tale.
Speaker 7: He ordered her too. No one refuses him and decides
look her. She does not seem unwilling.
Speaker 3: Her eyes are looking straight into his. There's a smile
on her face.
Speaker 7: No one may hit the Soutmaster's son see how closely
he holds her. Stop them better Umbelsiet, stop them. He
shall not have a I shall see how pretty face
marked with blood before he takes time.
Speaker 1: Musicians, stop playing. Stop the playing in the name of
God stopped.
Speaker 5: Benedicta.
Speaker 3: Where is everyone?
Speaker 5: Where have they gone? Why is it so silent?
Speaker 3: Why am I so alone? Amula?
Speaker 5: Amula?
Speaker 2: Why are you?
Speaker 1: Radio? Mystery Theater were sponsored in part by all state
insurance companies.
Speaker 3: This is e. G.
Speaker 1: Marshall inviting you to return to our Mystery Theater for
another adventure in the macabre.
Speaker 6: Until next time. Pleasants Dreams
Speaker 3: By Fi