Speaker 1: Come in. Welcome, Welcome to mystery theater. I am Hymen Brown.
Speaker 2: As a teller of my serious tales, I am often
asked how much is.
Speaker 3: Like and how much is fiction?
Speaker 1: Almost is awesome?
Speaker 3: Another question is asked.
Speaker 1: Who really knows?
Speaker 4: And if I am going to be asked.
Speaker 1: About the story, if you are going.
Speaker 4: To hear now, let the answer before.
Speaker 2: Long, the answer will be that question, who really knows?
Speaker 1: You may believe it's all fiction.
Speaker 5: If you choose, but I'd like to see you prove it.
Speaker 4: Has your husband definitely decided to tell me? Except has
he ever?
Speaker 6: If he's accepted, wild horses couldn't keep him out.
Speaker 4: So he'll be accepted, No question about that. And you
don't look like a wild horse to me.
Speaker 5: I beg your pardon.
Speaker 4: I can't here this morning to advise you as strongly
as I can. If you have it in your power,
by any means whatever, keep your husband out of the
executive club.
Speaker 7: I see.
Speaker 4: No, no, you don't see. It's not the snobbest kind
of thing you're thinking. It's for his own good, Julie,
he is only yours. You'll be sorry for the rest
of your life if you let him join that club.
Speaker 1: Oh, mystery drama. No, we don't think VIGGERI was.
Speaker 2: Written especially for the mystery theater by Field and Firing
and Stars Linka Peterson.
Speaker 5: I'll be back chaff and.
Speaker 3: Would act one.
Speaker 4: There are special.
Speaker 2: Days in everyone's life, sad days, days of relations, ordeal,
decision in short evers days. Hal Simms has awakened to
such a day. It's perfectly good breakfast, scarcely tasted. He
is pacing the floor, waiting in good time to leave,
to catch us clean into the city. Julie, his lovely wife,
he's had I need some breakfast. Thinks he is overdoing it, honestly.
Speaker 4: Karl, I've never seen you so joking.
Speaker 7: But the Executive Club, Julie, don't you know what that means?
Speaker 6: But I know that the meeting isn't.
Speaker 4: Until eight thirty to nine.
Speaker 6: If you carry on like this all day, you'll be
a littertaked by them.
Speaker 7: So I'm nervous.
Speaker 5: I'll be all right.
Speaker 4: Think you so nerve this.
Speaker 6: Mister Lath asked you to join the club, didn't he.
Speaker 7: He asked me if he might put my name up
for members.
Speaker 1: To see.
Speaker 7: This isn't just another club. Julie is remember of the
Executive Club is an important man, and if he isn't
important when he's doing, he gets important. I like you
just the way you are.
Speaker 5: My boss J D.
Speaker 7: Mason, the president of govern Engineering, in case you've forgotten,
is a member of the Executive Club. Can't you see
what that means, Julie?
Speaker 6: What I can see is that you're going to miss
your train if you don't take off.
Speaker 7: Oh, yes, I better go. I'll be home as early
as I can. We'll we'll want an early dinner. And yes,
I better get going.
Speaker 4: How about a little kiss from media.
Speaker 7: Don't forget early dinner?
Speaker 6: Carl, Carl, you forgot your breathcake.
Speaker 4: I hope he remembers which train he's supposed to take.
Good morning. You're Julie Simms, aren't you. Yes, I'm Rose Lathrops.
I hope you don't mind my barging in like this
without any notice or anything. Of course, not come in.
Speaker 2: Thank you.
Speaker 4: I know it's outrageously early, but I wanted to be
sure to catch you before you went out of something.
Speaker 6: That's perfectly all right.
Speaker 4: Won't you sit down? Are you? Missus?
Speaker 6: Alfred Lathrop Your husband's the Executive.
Speaker 4: Club man, that's right, Missus Simms. Would you mind if
I called you Julie? Of course not and I'm Rose, Julie.
How do you feel about your husband joining the Executive Club?
Speaker 6: Oh, frankly, missus les Rose. It doesn't make much difference
to me one way or the other. If Carl wants it,
I guess I'm glad.
Speaker 4: Well. I I came here this morning to advise you
as strongly as I can keep your husband out of
the Executive Club. I see No, No, you don't see
it at all. It's not the snobbish kind of thing
you're thinking. It's for his own good, his and yours.
You'll be sorry for the rest of your life if
you will let him join that club.
Speaker 6: When yet, apparently you let your husband join.
Speaker 4: And I'm sorry, but why. I can't tell you why
at this point I'm afraid to afraid.
Speaker 5: Yes.
Speaker 4: Oh, and please don't mention any of this your husband.
I mean that I've been here, what I've said.
Speaker 6: Any of it, and we don't have many secrets from
each other. Karl and I, well, please.
Speaker 4: Keep this one. I can't tell you why just yet,
but it's very important to.
Speaker 6: Me, all right, If you say so.
Speaker 5: Thank you?
Speaker 6: Does the executive club have anything like a woman's auxilia.
Speaker 4: No, no, nothing at all of that kind. I wouldn't
call it the woman's auxiliar, even even if there was one.
I think it might be better named the widows auxeniary widows.
Speaker 6: Oh you mean like golf widows that kind of thing.
Speaker 4: No, my dear, I'm afraid I don't mean that at all.
I mean exactly what I say.
Speaker 1: Yes, what is it?
Speaker 7: Mister lak.
Speaker 5: All right?
Speaker 1: There? Send him invies.
Speaker 5: Not interrupting anything, am I JD No, No, no, not
at all. Efforts it down. I've been wanting to talk
to you anyway about our man Sims. Carl Sims says, Hm,
I'm putting him up for membership in the club, Tonice,
you know, yes, and you won't be sorry. I really
think he will work out well. Practicable, knows how to
handle himself. I think I'll put him in charge of
Project Overlook if he passes Mustard and I fine. I
don't think there'll be any trouble about getting him in.
It's mostly my recommendation, you know. Yeah, I have any
news at all from upstairs, Mira seven. I don't think
it's wise to use that name even here, though, I'm
sure you're not bugged. No, I have not been in
touch with upstairs, not for a couple of weeks now,
mm well, I'm just wondering what they think of our
progress and project. Overlook, we've been working hard. His excellency
has been alerted that I'll be requesting an audience tonight
if it's time, and if he seems, you know, in
the right mood, I'll ask him, yes, yes, well, uh,
don't push it to tell him if you want to
that I absolutely endorse Carl Simms. It might make it difverse.
I'll tell him if I get the chance. But he
makes up his own mind, you know that. Oh yes,
yes he should, as you should, Carl.
Speaker 6: Eat it at Steak. I almost had to take out
a second mortgage.
Speaker 7: They're very good, too, done.
Speaker 5: Just right then?
Speaker 4: Eat it?
Speaker 1: Sure?
Speaker 5: Sure, Carl.
Speaker 6: If you're accepted tonight in the club, you know that
doesn't mean you absolutely have to join?
Speaker 1: Does it have to?
Speaker 7: Why on earth wouldn't I want to?
Speaker 5: I don't know.
Speaker 6: I've just been thinking about it, that's all. Doesn't it
seem to you that anything that offers so many advantages
as you think this club does, well, might there be
some disadvantages too.
Speaker 7: Name me one, Well I can.
Speaker 6: Of course, it's just a nothing is perfect. I'm looking
for the catch, that's all I.
Speaker 7: Would it, See, Julie, if you just left that to me,
I think I'm perfectly cases.
Speaker 6: Always the phone dinner time? Want me to get it now,
I'll go.
Speaker 7: If it's Alfred Latha No him, I'm ready anytime he is.
Speaker 4: Hello, Julie, missus Rose Lathram. Oh, hi, Albert says Carl's
going to stop by pick him up so they can
go to the meeting together. Oh, Carl didn't mention this,
so why don't you come with him? The two of
us can sit here together and wait out the decisions.
Speaker 6: Well that's very sweet of you, but yes, i'd like
to good.
Speaker 4: Is Carl still did he?
Speaker 1: Yes?
Speaker 7: Yes, that's the way it goes.
Speaker 4: Okay, see you later. Was that laser?
Speaker 1: Is he ready to go?
Speaker 5: No?
Speaker 6: It was his wife. She suggested that I'd drive over
with you, and the two of us waited her house.
Speaker 4: Till the meeting's over.
Speaker 5: Hey, that's terrific.
Speaker 4: Yes, that was very thoughtful of us.
Speaker 7: Well I don't mean That's what I mean is if
she did that, then Lathra must.
Speaker 5: Be pretty sure.
Speaker 7: I'm going to get in. He wouldn't go out on
a limb like that if you weren't pretty sure. I
can't remember. Have you ever met missus le Troup?
Speaker 5: Oh?
Speaker 6: I a senior, mister Lee trop No.
Speaker 7: Uh, just wanted to get it straight before it Good evening. Call,
good evening. I'd like you to meet my wife, Julie.
Speaker 1: Mister lithp.
Speaker 5: How do you do?
Speaker 4: Hello?
Speaker 5: Want you step inside?
Speaker 1: Rose?
Speaker 4: Hello? I'm Rose.
Speaker 5: Later, mister missus Simmons Rose, nice to meet you. Call.
How would you like to walk over to the club.
It's only a few blocks share fine with me. It's
a big thing with us at the club. Keep the
body fits. It has a brain to say. We won't
be late, Rose.
Speaker 1: See you later, Julie.
Speaker 7: I'll call you as soon as I know anything.
Speaker 4: Okay, good luck, good luck? Got a chance, Julie, He'll
be accepted.
Speaker 6: You know, if you're going to keep on saying things
like that, I think you ought to explain.
Speaker 4: Yes'm right, and I will explain just as soon as
we're absolutely sure. Karl's joining the club.
Speaker 5: I uh think you've met all the members now, Carl,
what do you think of us?
Speaker 7: I am impressed. Very distinguished and yet very friendly.
Speaker 1: Fine group of men. Cal it's lethal.
Speaker 5: I think it's about time you started calling me, Alfred.
Speaker 1: Don't you all right?
Speaker 7: What I was going to ask you?
Speaker 5: Are they all here?
Speaker 7: I expected a much larger group.
Speaker 5: Oh, we're a very exclusive club. Calm. Yes, yes, they're
all here. All that is except your boss JD. Mason.
Speaker 7: I was wondering about that.
Speaker 5: Oh, he had to go to Chicago the night. He
called me around seven thirty. He gave me his proxy
for the night's meeting. And that's two. You can cover up.
Speaker 7: I'll need more than that.
Speaker 5: Now, don't fret, Carl, you're the sort of man we want.
Getting close to time, Alfred, Uh, be right with you.
That's Jim Corning, he's the club secretary. Now this won't
take long. I promise your call you you you just relax,
have a drink.
Speaker 1: A bar is all yours.
Speaker 7: I think I'd fall flat on my face if I did.
Speaker 5: Well, then don't I'll see your labor.
Speaker 4: You know, I'm really taking a terrible chance with you, Julie.
Speaker 8: What do you mean?
Speaker 4: Well, I've done this twice before. I had this kind
of talk with two other women when their husbands joined
the club. Didn't get me anywhere, but at least I
didn't get hurt.
Speaker 5: Hurt?
Speaker 4: How could you get hurt? They might have told their husbands.
Their husbands would certainly have told Alfred, so I could
have been hurt.
Speaker 6: Alright, you know, honestly, you'll frightening me.
Speaker 4: I'm sorry. So as soon as we hear from Alfred
or Carla, I'll tell you the whole thing. Not that
you'll be any less frightened when you hear it.
Speaker 1: Has the equipment been checked out? Jim?
Speaker 5: Oh? Okay, Alfred, isn't it about time for contact?
Speaker 1: Yeah?
Speaker 5: Just saw free calling Myra seven, Saw three calling Myra seven,
Come in Myra seven, Myra seven year.
Speaker 4: You may proceed, Solfree.
Speaker 5: Okay, Alfred, remember three seconds before you answer no.
Speaker 1: I know.
Speaker 5: This is earthing four A two five D earth designation.
Alfred Lathrop, I request audience with his excellency Algus two J.
Speaker 7: Audience granted.
Speaker 5: Proceed, Your excellency, I wish to place illomination for enrollment
in your service the earthling locally designated.
Speaker 1: Call SIM.
Speaker 2: Communication with another planet, another planetary system altogether. From a
scientific standpoint, it's not impossible we can bounce messages of
satellite and send them around the Earth without distorction.
Speaker 5: What if we didn't bounce them off the satellite.
Speaker 2: Just send them on out, wouldn't they simply continue through.
Speaker 5: Space until they found a receiver?
Speaker 1: Mystery theater will.
Speaker 2: Continue shortly with Act two.
Speaker 1: There are many people, some of them very wise.
Speaker 2: Who are firmly convinced that we are not alone in
the universe. These wise men also believe that our intelligence
is not necessarily unique, and there is logic in what
they say. It's a very large universe to both only
one minor planet which has been overrun by creatures who
call themselves humans. Alfred Lathrup is engaged in a two
way radio conversation which seems to confirm these wise men.
Speaker 5: The Earthing. Karl Simms is a young man with great
potential for service to our cause. He will be if
he receives your approval Groom for the presidency of the
Gotham Engineering Corporation, which is dedicated to our purposes. He
has the endorsement of Earthing for one six ' four
b earth designation. J. D. Mason, who is now president
and will soon become Chairman.
Speaker 1: Of the Board of Gotham.
Speaker 5: I personally guarantee the success of the Karl Simms conversion.
Speaker 7: Permission is granted to convert wrestling. Carl Simms is working
at designation will be five one two line M.
Speaker 5: If the town Gym do not.
Speaker 7: Install implant as Gotham President.
Speaker 5: Without approval, year, this communication is at an end, all right, Jim,
let's go out of the common room. You give me
a minute alone with Carl, and then we'll have a
customary drink to celebrate and adjourn the meeting. First, don't
you think we are to set the time for the initiation?
Speaker 1: Oh yes, yes, you're quite right. I I I think
tomorrow evening, right. I have a feeling about this one,
and I don't wanna.
Speaker 5: Waste any time. Right tomorrow evening at eight thirty. Congratulations called,
You're in no kidding, they I I've been accepted unanimously,
My boy, Let me shake your hand. You're one of us?
Speaker 1: Now?
Speaker 7: WHOA when?
Speaker 1: Uh?
Speaker 5: There's an initiation? Isn't there?
Speaker 1: Oh?
Speaker 5: Yes, yes, of course every soon. Now you hold yourself
ready at any time. Well, I come on in and
have a drink with your new fellow members.
Speaker 7: Uh will it be alright if I just make a
fat phone called at Julie. First, I promised I would.
Speaker 4: That itch.
Speaker 6: That must be Carl.
Speaker 4: You want to answer it if you don't mind?
Speaker 6: Hello?
Speaker 1: Yes?
Speaker 7: Is that your joy? Yes?
Speaker 4: Carl? What happened?
Speaker 5: I'm in Julie. It was unanimous.
Speaker 7: I'm a member.
Speaker 1: I can't believe it.
Speaker 4: I'm a member of the Executive Club.
Speaker 6: Congratulations as long as that's what you want.
Speaker 7: Is that all you have to say?
Speaker 6: We I said congratulations. Will you and mister Lafer be homesome?
Speaker 7: I can't stand all this enthusiasm. Yes, we're just gonna
have a drink and then leave twenty minutes or so.
Speaker 4: Alright, I'm sorry you don't get it, see you later.
Speaker 6: Okay, we've been accepted unanimously.
Speaker 4: Well we did expect it, didn't we. I poured you
a brandy. You're gonna need it.
Speaker 6: Thanks. I hope now you'll tell me what this is
all about.
Speaker 4: Well, they're they're all robots. What did you say? Alfred
and all the rest of them, every member of the
Executive Club, they're all robots.
Speaker 6: Oh, come on, I.
Speaker 4: Know, I know how my son. When I just I
just hit you with it. I've had years to grow
accustomed to it, as accustomed as you can get for
there isn't.
Speaker 6: Any such thing as robots roads I mean not but
look and talk and act like people. There just isn't any.
Speaker 4: Such things androids, robots, I I don't know whether there's
a proper word for them or not, former people, whatever
you call them. They're not human anymore. I just can't them.
They're they're controlled by or something aliens, aliens I mean
not of this earth.
Speaker 6: Or it's just too much, you know.
Speaker 4: That, don't Oh, it's too much, alright, But that doesn't
keep it from being true. Alfred is one of the
charter members of the Executive Club. I have been living
with a a robot for I guess, I guess almost
twelve years now. Well, let's say it's true. Why do
you live with him or what would you suggest? Divorce
your honor on the ground that my husband is a
robot and have made a straight jacket no time. Rose,
I'm so sorry. Let's try not to let it happen
to you. As I said, they're they're controlled by something alien,
something not only not of this earth, but I'm convinced
not even honest, and they're all very very important men.
I'm sure your husband has mentioned.
Speaker 6: That Oh yes, he keeps on and honor about it.
Speaker 4: They're powerful, They're rich and powerful, and they use their power,
all their resources to further the designs of the aliens
who control them. But I don't know exactly what their
purpose is, those alien creatures and their robe but lackeys.
But it's against us, Julie, it's against the people of
this earth.
Speaker 6: I'm trying, Rods, honestly, I'm trying. But you don't know
how all this zones.
Speaker 4: I've lived with it for years and I'm still as
horrified as you are. And I listen to the rest
of it and then decide whether or not you can
believe it. All right, gone, Well, this isn't the only club.
They're at least a dozen of them around this country.
They work in all different areas industry, finance, politics, science,
the arts. I don't know why at all, but they
cooperate like well, like parts of a single machine. And
maybe that's what they are. Sooner or later they're going
to take over take over what ah, everybody, everything the earth.
Speaker 6: Does anybody else suspect all this? Any of the other
white I don't know.
Speaker 4: Some of them are surely I've been afraid to approach
them afraid. Why well, if the men, including Alfred, oh god,
including Alfred, if they considered me a threat, I'm convinced,
please eliminate me, Rose like a shot without a scruple.
Do you actually know all this?
Speaker 6: I mean, is it just a suspicion you have?
Speaker 4: I know, take my word for it. I know Alfred's
told me or not the whole story. Of course, there
there are areas that seem to be pretty well sealed off.
But he's told me enough.
Speaker 6: I thought it was so secret it seems strange he'd
tell you if none of the other husbands told their wives.
Speaker 4: I know how to make him talk, that's all. I
figured out a way to short circuit his computer computer,
the thing they put where his brain used to.
Speaker 5: Be beautiful evening. I'm glad we decided to walk.
Speaker 7: I feel Ah, you can't imagine how.
Speaker 1: Good I feel. Sure I can't.
Speaker 5: And it's a wonderful thing for a young man becoming
a member of the executive Club. More wonderful even than.
Speaker 1: You know, cousin.
Speaker 7: Oh, I do know, I really think I do.
Speaker 5: You won't really know until after the initiation.
Speaker 7: Do you have any idea when the initiation.
Speaker 1: Will be.
Speaker 5: I know exactly, but you won't know until the day comes,
So you know as much as I do.
Speaker 4: Now to leave? What do you think to tell you
the truth?
Speaker 6: I just plain don't know what to think.
Speaker 2: Oh, it's it's.
Speaker 6: A pretty fantastic story.
Speaker 4: Hm, too fantastic for me to have made up.
Speaker 6: Oh, I don't think you're lying.
Speaker 4: Unless you believe me, you have to think I'm deranged.
Those are the alternatives.
Speaker 6: I I think I believe you, not because it's a
plausible story, but because I don't think you're lying, and
I don't think you're doc your rocker. So what can
I do but believe it's true?
Speaker 4: Honest to god, Julie, it's true. What about Carl? When
will they do it? They haven't already? Oh no, no, no,
my dear, he's still all right. Don't worry about that.
He'll be safe until the night of the initiation, Tulie.
I have a plan to help Carl, yes, and to
put a stop to all of it. Put an end
to the Executive Club.
Speaker 6: Before they do anything to Carl.
Speaker 4: If it works, I've had this plan for a long time,
but I can't manage it without help. This is the
first time anybody's even even been willing to listen to me.
Will you help me too, Leie?
Speaker 6: Oh yes, I don't want to see Carl made into it. Yes,
all help.
Speaker 4: It could be dangerous, all right, I thought i'd never Julie,
thank you. We'll do it. I know we'll do it now,
the night of the initiation, will do it. When will
they have the initiation? I don't know yet. They keep
it a secret. The date of the initiation is never
known to anyone, but the members call themselves. Won't get
more than a few hours notice. So then how can
then we will? I I can find out when it's
going to be. I ast Alfred tonight and he'll just
tell you. I can make him tell me. See the
minds of computers, Julie, if you overload them, they they
get confused. And when they're confused, they're inhibitors or whatever
you wanna call them. They they simply stop functioning. You
can get must anything out of them. I learned the
technique very well, Alfred, Alfred, who well you awake?
Speaker 1: Uh?
Speaker 5: Yes, I know.
Speaker 4: I brought you a glass of arm milk.
Speaker 5: You brought me. You woke me up up to give
me a glass of warm milk or what for to
help me help me sleep?
Speaker 1: Well, that's crazy what.
Speaker 4: You were tossing and turning and muttering and talking, talking.
Speaker 1: In my sleeping yes? Or what did I say?
Speaker 5: Oh?
Speaker 4: Nothing anybody could understand, just mumbling and moaning and groaning.
I just thought maybe a glass of warm milk would
help you get some decent sleep. Roll and me too. Here,
come on, I'll drink the milk before it gets cold.
Speaker 1: Alright, alright, thank you?
Speaker 5: Uh talking in my sleep?
Speaker 7: Hm?
Speaker 4: Muttering? Alfred?
Speaker 5: Uh?
Speaker 4: Who always at the meeting tonight?
Speaker 5: Well, you know Carled Simmons and the members all but JD.
Speaker 1: Mason?
Speaker 4: He did you reb to call the plumber about the
kitchen drain today?
Speaker 1: A plumber? Why I thought you were going?
Speaker 4: Well, there was kids next door. I've been running through
our yard, Alfred, and my venias are just a mess.
I think you ought to go over and have a
talk with mister tarm It.
Speaker 5: So, mister turrence can hardly be expected to do anything
about our kitchen drain after but the kids.
Speaker 4: Oh, Alfred, have you heard from that cousin of yours
out in Wyoming was going to have the operation?
Speaker 5: Alice? Well, she doesn't have any kids, and even if
she did, they wouldn't be running through a yard messing.
Speaker 1: Up your silt.
Speaker 4: Red Albert, are you going to write that check to
the cancer fund? Or did you want me to do
it cancer? No?
Speaker 5: No, no, Alice's operation was for gallstones. I think it
was God.
Speaker 4: I saw the most beautiful pantsuit at Randalls today. Would
you mind if I don't want to?
Speaker 1: Wait?
Speaker 5: Wait a minute, wait a minute, Alice doesn't wear And
if indeed you remember.
Speaker 4: To have your driver's license renew now I know it
runs out either this month or next, you shouldn't neglect them.
Speaker 5: Red Bloud, listen, Alice, I mean Rose, And if she
wants to wear a pantsuit, I don't see why.
Speaker 4: Business I do, read Albred. When is carlt Who's going
to be initiated?
Speaker 5: A children are too young to anyway?
Speaker 1: So why should I go over there?
Speaker 4: Going to be initiated?
Speaker 5: As far as the kitchen sink is concerned, Alice, I
mean broad Calm is going to be initiated into the
club tomorrow night meeting.
Speaker 1: Eight thirty.
Speaker 4: Finish your milk outfort You must be sleepy.
Speaker 2: People with computers for brains another concept that isn't easy
to believe. But then the extraordinary is always hard to accept.
Speaker 1: The radio on which.
Speaker 2: You are listening to this story was once considered some
mad inventor's dreams.
Speaker 5: So is the bright little bulb in the lamp at
your elbow.
Speaker 2: So here we have a mechanized brain.
Speaker 5: Housed in a human body.
Speaker 2: Don't call it beyond the realm of possibility before.
Speaker 5: You hear what happens when I returned shortly with Act III.
A Los Atlas.
Speaker 2: Digression is not unusual in this world. It's characteristic of
the individual, the tribe, the community, and perhaps especially the nation.
And since it is so widespread among mankind.
Speaker 5: I don't believe we ought to be too surprised.
Speaker 1: When at last we.
Speaker 5: Contact alien intelligence to find.
Speaker 1: A present there as well.
Speaker 2: According to Roseleathrop, there is such an intelligence which has
taken over the Executive Club and has controlled its members
in such a way as to further its own selfish
and aggressive and cal Finn has been approve.
Speaker 1: A membership in the club.
Speaker 5: Jewelry doesn't like it, and they've quarrel.
Speaker 6: Your toast is ready, Carl, I don't want any.
Speaker 4: Breakfast, all right, pout, I'll get that go ahead.
Speaker 5: Hello, Alfred Leaf, up here are you alone. Well, alright,
AND's uh none committally you understand? Yeah, sure, the initiation
is set for the night already, who just yes or no?
Speaker 1: The meetings for eight thirty at the club house. You
and I will have dinner together at the Red Bond,
go straight to the meeting from there. You won't be
home for dinner. Well, alright, but that's the way it's
been arranged.
Speaker 5: Okay.
Speaker 7: I guess I can manage.
Speaker 1: Another word to anyone about the initiation. That's important.
Speaker 5: I understand, see you then and remember not a word?
Speaker 1: Right?
Speaker 6: Well, that was pretty cryptic.
Speaker 7: I'd better go if I don't want to miss my train,
I'll be late tonight. Don't wait dinner for me. I'll
pick up a bike in the city.
Speaker 4: You have to work late.
Speaker 7: Yes, they've run into a snag on a special project
I've been working on, and if we don't get it
straightened out to night, we'll fall behind schedule.
Speaker 4: Was that the office Colin?
Speaker 7: Yes, yes, that was mister Mason himself.
Speaker 6: It wasn't Alfred Lafer.
Speaker 1: I told you who it was.
Speaker 7: What are you doing calling me a liar?
Speaker 1: Now?
Speaker 7: All right?
Speaker 4: How late will you be?
Speaker 7: I have no idea after I've finished the job, whatever
time that is, I'll come home. I've got to run, Julie.
Speaker 4: Maybe that's exactly what you should do.
Speaker 9: Run, Oh, Julie, come in.
Speaker 4: Ros Carl got a phone call just before he asked
for the office and it was just a yes or
no conversation from his end, and he.
Speaker 6: I think the initiation is going to be tonight.
Speaker 4: Yes, you're right, said down Julie. It don't look well
at all. It is tonight. Yes, I forced it all
out of Alfred. Can I get you or anything?
Speaker 7: No, I'm all right.
Speaker 5: I'm scared.
Speaker 6: That's all I'm scared of.
Speaker 4: I think it's going to be all right. Or he
and Alfred will have dinner somewhere and then go to
the meeting.
Speaker 6: What are we going to do?
Speaker 4: I told you I have a plan for tonight.
Speaker 7: Will it work tonight.
Speaker 4: As well as any other night. It's a very simple
plan really. The timing is pretty delicate, of course, but
I'll take care of that. Here's what we have to do.
It's almost eight thirty. Shouldn't we hurry? No? No, we're
just about right. They won't go into the inner room
until a few minutes the past eight thirty. We don't
want to get there until after that.
Speaker 6: The inner room is that where the initiation?
Speaker 4: Is that where they do it? Yeah, but they won't
this time now if we can help it. I don't
see how you can trust me. I really do know
what I'm doing. It's it's surgery. You said, Yes, there's
a doctor Lane who's a member of the club, and
I assume he performs the surgery. Although I've never quite
been able to get it out of Alfred, that part
seems to be pretty thoroughly locked in doctor Lane. You've
heard of him. Probably, it's just about the best brain
surgeon there is anywhere. And why shouldn't he be. He's
programmed for it. I'm so scared it's going to work, Julie.
I know it's going to work.
Speaker 6: And you don't really know, though, do you.
Speaker 4: There's a power switch somewhere. There has to be. If
they're brains, they're computers are mechanical, and I know they are,
and there's got to be a power source. And if
you can turn power up, you can turn it off.
It has to be that way. You've never asked Alba
a million times, they've really got that one sealed off?
Speaker 6: Well, then, what makes you think you can get somebody
else to tell you.
Speaker 4: Well, then they go into the inner room. They'll leave
one man in the common room to guard the door there.
Tyler they call him. Isn't that sweet and old fashioned?
But if Alfred won't tell, then Tyler, whoever it is tonight,
has never experienced the kind of short circuit, and I'm
gonna hit him with now. I'm depending on the shop
to break him all the way down. And if it doesn't,
what have we got to lose?
Speaker 5: Now, Carl, we're almost ready to go into the inner
room where the initiation will take place.
Speaker 7: Takes me back to my college days.
Speaker 5: Except that there's nothing frivolous about this. Will one of
you men.
Speaker 1: Hang up your shirt and jacket? Please?
Speaker 5: All right, Carl, sit here, okay?
Speaker 7: I I thought it was going to be in the uh,
the inner room.
Speaker 5: That part comes later, ready, Jim, already go ahead?
Speaker 7: Else, what was that he stuck a needle in my arm?
Speaker 5: Nothing to be concerned about, Car, You're two tennis.
Speaker 1: You need to relax. It was just a mild tranquilizer.
Speaker 5: It's going to relax you make you feel sleepy, very contented,
and at peace with the world. You are getting sleepy
aren't you see? Your eyes are closing, and it feels
so good just to rest and let the tension drain
out of.
Speaker 1: You and sleep. Rest and relax, Rest and sleep.
Speaker 5: Car. Yes, do what ever I tell you to do,
but only what I tell you. Do you understand that.
Speaker 7: I do what you tell me to do, but only
what you tell me to do.
Speaker 5: The Executive Club, which you have the honor of joining
this evening, is controlled by a civilization which is ages
older and infinitely more advance than what we call civilization
here on Earth. The beings who make up that civilization
are our masters. They live on the seventh planet of
a star known to Earthlings as Myra. They're in urgent
need of our mineral and other resources. We serve them.
They are our masters. We have been, as you will
be tonight, partially mechanized, the better to serve them in
all things. Eventually, all earth people will be their servants
to us has been granted the privilege of pioneering in this.
Speaker 1: Is that all clear? To you?
Speaker 5: Call?
Speaker 7: Yes?
Speaker 1: Clear?
Speaker 5: Alright? Is doctor Lane ready? Jim all set?
Speaker 1: He's waiting.
Speaker 5: I'll stay out here, I Drew Tyler duty the night.
Speaker 1: You will come with me?
Speaker 5: Now call into the inner room.
Speaker 4: Alright, Julie, let's go inside.
Speaker 6: I thought you said there was gonna be a door
manner whatever you called.
Speaker 4: It, Tyler. No, no, this door goes into the common room.
So the guarding the door between the common and the
inner room. Are you ready ready as I can get?
Speaker 5: M o OHO's that?
Speaker 4: Oh? Just say mister uh oh, it's uh Jim Jim Corning,
isn't it?
Speaker 5: Missus Later?
Speaker 1: Well, you're not supposed to be in here, you know.
Speaker 4: Oh, this is Julie Simms. Her husband is being initiated
this evening.
Speaker 5: Well, I'm glad to know him, but you're not supposed to.
Speaker 8: Be here, either of you.
Speaker 4: Well, that's a silly rule. Didn't I hear that your
wife was going out to the coast to visit her sister.
Speaker 5: Tim, Well, the membership always felt my wife doesn't have
a sister, she has a brother.
Speaker 4: Oh that must have been Addie Clark.
Speaker 6: Is it true?
Speaker 4: I hear that Addie and her husband are on point
of separating.
Speaker 5: Her brother isn't even married, so Addie Clark, Well, yes,
she's married.
Speaker 4: Your son Bobby was so good in that high school
play last spring. Jim, is he planning to be an
actor when he grows up.
Speaker 5: And I never heard if there was any trouble between
Jerry and Addie. And no, no, Bobby's my son, not Jerry's.
I have two sons fathers.
Speaker 4: And I bet if your wife's sister was here, she'd
started women's ugs day.
Speaker 5: My wife isn't an actor, and that the membership has
always felt what what?
Speaker 4: What's the source of the power that keeps all of
you going?
Speaker 5: You just never seemed to be a good idea, a
woman's of zidio.
Speaker 4: Because what power source do you all used?
Speaker 1: Him?
Speaker 5: And my wife's brother isn't an actor, he's he's a
professor of English.
Speaker 4: What's your power source? GM?
Speaker 1: Solar energy?
Speaker 4: They showed us what college did you go to?
Speaker 5: Harvard Laws?
Speaker 4: Did you ever meet Clarence? Thought that he went there
and before.
Speaker 1: That Penn State?
Speaker 5: And I never heard of a Thorpe college I went to.
Speaker 4: My sister married a dentive.
Speaker 5: My wife's brother is his name isn't Clarence?
Speaker 4: Where's the switch that turns off the solar energy?
Speaker 5: May or there was a Harry I used to know,
but I don't.
Speaker 4: Where's the solar energy power switched?
Speaker 5: Well? You never belonged to the membership. Has always felt
that the.
Speaker 4: Power switched him.
Speaker 5: Where is it over there behind the portrait?
Speaker 4: Oh god, God, I was afraid it would be in
the inner room, Jim. Jim, what was the founder's name?
Speaker 5: He was never married to my wife's sister. She doesn't
even know.
Speaker 4: Bobby trying to go to college.
Speaker 5: The founder's name wasn't Bobby.
Speaker 4: If it was something more like did you go home
for dinner tonight?
Speaker 5: Bobby's my son, he wouldn't be the founder because.
Speaker 4: He's a married. Combination Julie, I'll take it down.
Speaker 5: I think the founder was older, and anyway, the membership
has always.
Speaker 4: The combination to the safe Jim.
Speaker 5: Besides, Bobby's too young to join the club.
Speaker 4: You have the combination, Joe.
Speaker 5: My wife doesn't have a brother, I mean a sister.
Speaker 4: Give me the combination, Jim.
Speaker 5: Thirty six right, seven left, eighteen right.
Speaker 4: Thirty left, Got it, Julie, Yeah, open it.
Speaker 1: I've got to.
Speaker 5: Such a head.
Speaker 4: I'm sorry, jan how's it going Julie eighteen right, thirty left. Oh,
I've got it is opened.
Speaker 1: Your letters shouldn't be in here.
Speaker 5: In here it all because you're.
Speaker 4: Gonna have the switch. It's in here I got the
side wall of the thing. You pull it, but Rose,
your husband, husband's been dead for years. Cut the switch.
Speaker 5: I keep telling you, ladies, he's.
Speaker 4: Done for Let's get inside.
Speaker 1: Them.
Speaker 4: They plucked the door.
Speaker 6: Rose, It's opening col.
Speaker 4: They were calling to my head.
Speaker 5: They were going, got you. They gave me a shot.
Speaker 4: It was.
Speaker 7: I'll be all right now.
Speaker 4: They're all finished, all of them out of too years ago.
I've already done my grieving what they did. They're turned
off like a vacuum when you've finished with it. Did
they They.
Speaker 6: Didn't do anything to you, did they, Carls?
Speaker 7: No, No, But they were going to they were going to.
Speaker 4: Alright, this is cleaned up. All we have to worry
about now is the dozen or so other clubs scattered
around the country. I hope my list is complete.
Speaker 5: I'll be back shortly with a final thought.
Speaker 1: M When you throw a switch and.
Speaker 2: What appears to be a man's collapses, you have to believe,
don't you. The Executive club is defunct, you to a
sudden shortage of members. But what about those other clubs?
Speaker 1: The one in Washington, for example.
Speaker 5: In Wall Street?
Speaker 2: The Kremlin Not a thing you like to dwell on,
is it? Our cast included Lankett Peterson, Arnold Moss, Gordon Goold,
Carol Titel, and Court Benson. Associate director Marlon Swing. This
is Hymond Brown produced a director inviting you to return
to our Mystery Theater for another adventure in.
Speaker 5: The macabre until next time.
Speaker 1: Then Pleasant Green.
Speaker 4: CBS and a Gun Family McCormick.
Speaker 5: There was a lot of last.
Speaker 10: Minute cartisan wrangling the day before the impeachment hearings began,
and House Judiciary Committee Chairman Henry Hyde says he was
trying to put politics.
Speaker 2: Asong, doing everything I can think of to be there
without totally surrendering the fact that we are the majority
party and in control of the committee.
Speaker 10: And Hide says, besides, the White House hasn't been very
cooperative in answering the eighty one questions. He submitted the
Spotlight on the first day of hearings, will be the
man who started it all. Independent counsel Ken Starr CBS
News correspondent Scott Tully has seen Starr's prepared testimony.
Speaker 11: In his testimony, Star will accuse the President of misuse
of presidential authority.
Speaker 1: He is expected to say, quote.
Speaker 11: The evidence suggests that the President repeatedly used the machinery
of government and the powers of his office to conceal
his relationship with Monica Lewinsky from the American people and
from the Grand Jury. Starr will be the first witness
before the Judiciary Committee.
Speaker 1: He is expected to take all day.
Speaker 10: The committee may also call other witnesses like Clinton Ade
Bruce Lindsay, and the President's attorney in the Paula Jones case.
Speaker 5: Robert Bennett. The man at the center of.
Speaker 10: The impeachment hearings, may be a sleep when Star begins
his testim that's because President Clinton is a fourteen hour
time difference away.
Speaker 1: In Tokyo.
Speaker 5: Correspondent Peter Mayer reports.
Speaker 10: The President's trying to keep the focus on international policy
and Asia's financial crisis in particular.
Speaker 8: President Clinton will use this whirldwind visit to urge Japan
to enact quick and major economic reforms. Heading into this summit,
administration officials said Japan could not export its way out
of the current economic mess.
Speaker 1: On the long flight here.
Speaker 8: The President made congratulatory calls to incoming House Speaker Bob
Livingston and the new GOP conference Chairman J. C.
Speaker 1: Watts.
Speaker 8: The President arrives here just hours before the House Judiciary
Committee opens impeachment hearings. But the White House is anxious
to convey an image of a president taking care of
business and unconcerned about the problems at home. Peter Mayor,
CBS News with the President in Tokyo.
Speaker 10: Tokyo's NIECK finished lower on Thursday, down two hundred and
forty four points, despite assurances from Japan's Prime minister that
his country will work to pull itself out of recession.
On All Street Wednesday, investors greet