1 00:00:00,120 --> 00:00:06,160 Speaker 1: Mm hmm, Calm down for blast offs x minus five 2 00:00:06,839 --> 00:00:38,600 or three two x minus one. Fire from the far 3 00:00:38,719 --> 00:00:42,079 horizons of the unknown come transcribe tales of new dimensions 4 00:00:42,079 --> 00:00:45,479 in time and space. These are stories of the future 5 00:00:46,000 --> 00:00:48,600 adventures in which you'll live in a million, could be years, 6 00:00:48,600 --> 00:00:52,200 on a thousand, maybe worlds. The National Broadcasting Company, in 7 00:00:52,240 --> 00:00:55,640 cooperation with Street and Smith, publishers of Astounding Science Fiction, 8 00:00:55,759 --> 00:00:59,759 presents he. 9 00:00:57,119 --> 00:00:59,799 Speaker 2: He minus minus minus. 10 00:00:59,520 --> 00:01:01,560 Speaker 3: Minus one. 11 00:01:10,640 --> 00:01:22,159 Speaker 4: To Night's story Ray Bradbury's Dwellers in Silence. Twenty years 12 00:01:22,200 --> 00:01:25,200 had passed, twenty years since the last of the giant 13 00:01:25,239 --> 00:01:28,560 Migration ships had crashed to the surface of Mars, bearing 14 00:01:28,599 --> 00:01:32,719 its pitiful handful of survivors of the Earth Wars. Twenty 15 00:01:32,879 --> 00:01:36,079 years of longing, of turning eyes toward the green Earth 16 00:01:36,079 --> 00:01:38,280 as it hung on the horizon like a beckoning light. 17 00:01:38,799 --> 00:01:41,400 And now it was done, and the first new ship 18 00:01:41,519 --> 00:01:45,280 built of shining Martian Chromaton had lifted bravely toward home, 19 00:01:45,359 --> 00:01:52,680 with three men locked in its metal belly. There it is, 20 00:01:53,159 --> 00:01:55,000 I can barely see the top of the Atomic Trades 21 00:01:55,040 --> 00:01:55,959 building in the twilight. 22 00:01:56,640 --> 00:01:57,799 Speaker 3: I never finished. 23 00:01:57,480 --> 00:02:00,840 Speaker 4: Building, Captain, what is it going out of my mind? 24 00:02:00,920 --> 00:02:02,480 Look out that way to the west. 25 00:02:03,319 --> 00:02:04,200 Speaker 3: Could that be heaven? 26 00:02:04,239 --> 00:02:08,199 Speaker 4: It is? Those are lights. Turn the ship full cruising speed. 27 00:02:10,000 --> 00:02:10,759 Speaker 3: They are lights. 28 00:02:11,199 --> 00:02:13,719 Speaker 4: Captain, It's a city, a whole blasted city, lit up 29 00:02:13,719 --> 00:02:16,280 like a Christmas tree. What do you think of your 30 00:02:16,400 --> 00:02:19,319 dead planet? Now? William, decelerate to negative five. We're going 31 00:02:19,360 --> 00:02:20,000 to take her down. 32 00:02:24,560 --> 00:02:35,319 Speaker 2: Wow, unbelievable. 33 00:02:35,439 --> 00:02:37,719 Speaker 4: We've been walking for hours now. Not a soul to 34 00:02:37,759 --> 00:02:38,039 be seen. 35 00:02:38,080 --> 00:02:39,759 Speaker 3: There must be someone. How do you explain the. 36 00:02:39,800 --> 00:02:42,639 Speaker 4: Light unless they've been burning like this for twenty years? 37 00:02:42,879 --> 00:02:43,520 Speaker 3: Impossible? 38 00:02:43,560 --> 00:02:46,400 Speaker 4: I don't know municipal building. We have a look here, sir. 39 00:02:47,000 --> 00:02:49,439 Possibly the records might contain some that's a good idea. 40 00:02:49,639 --> 00:02:57,120 Keep your weapons ready. We'll start right here with the 41 00:02:57,120 --> 00:03:01,039 city clerk's office. Better check radiation again, doctor, Well, not 42 00:03:01,240 --> 00:03:02,439 enough to do any damage. 43 00:03:06,000 --> 00:03:07,319 Speaker 3: Give you the creeps, doesn't it? 44 00:03:08,360 --> 00:03:12,400 Speaker 4: Look at this desk, papers, crumpled inkstand, just as if 45 00:03:12,439 --> 00:03:14,080 somebody came in and worked here every day. 46 00:03:15,120 --> 00:03:16,800 Speaker 3: God licenses hunting perman. 47 00:03:16,960 --> 00:03:20,199 Speaker 4: That's strange. There's ink in that inkstand? 48 00:03:20,479 --> 00:03:21,360 Speaker 3: Well, what of it? 49 00:03:21,520 --> 00:03:23,680 Speaker 4: Well, you'd think standing open for twenty years, it would 50 00:03:23,680 --> 00:03:28,000 have dried up. Good heavens if I hadn't heard it 51 00:03:28,039 --> 00:03:30,800 with my own ears. Heavens did that phone ring? Yes, 52 00:03:33,719 --> 00:03:35,319 well pick it up doctor. 53 00:03:36,280 --> 00:03:38,520 Speaker 3: Hello, Good day doctor. How are you. 54 00:03:39,599 --> 00:03:42,400 Speaker 4: I called to ask some advice about a true panning problem. 55 00:03:42,960 --> 00:03:45,039 Can you tell me if the lateral cut should. 56 00:03:44,759 --> 00:03:45,439 Speaker 3: Be made first? 57 00:03:46,639 --> 00:03:50,120 Speaker 4: Hello? Hello, this is absolutely insane. 58 00:03:50,240 --> 00:03:52,199 Speaker 3: Hello, thank you, doctor. I'll do that. 59 00:03:52,919 --> 00:03:55,479 Speaker 4: By the way, how is your wife Alice and the 60 00:03:55,520 --> 00:03:57,719 girls and your son John? 61 00:03:58,800 --> 00:03:59,080 Speaker 3: Fine? 62 00:03:59,120 --> 00:04:07,360 Speaker 4: Boy John. I'll call again tomorrow. Goodbye, doctor. Hello, Hello, gone, 63 00:04:07,400 --> 00:04:10,000 dare Who was it? I don't know. Strange voys carry 64 00:04:10,000 --> 00:04:12,719 down a conversation about some surgical operation without paying the 65 00:04:12,759 --> 00:04:17,000 slightest attention to anything. I said, Captain, what is it? 66 00:04:17,480 --> 00:04:17,800 Speaker 3: Listen? 67 00:04:20,040 --> 00:04:24,639 Speaker 4: Someone is coming, walking slowly toward the corridor, coming closer, 68 00:04:26,399 --> 00:04:29,959 jumping Jupiter. It's a man, an old man. 69 00:04:30,879 --> 00:04:37,120 Speaker 3: I you is it really someone? You seem to be real? 70 00:04:38,000 --> 00:04:40,040 Speaker 4: I saw the ship come down and I thought perhaps 71 00:04:40,079 --> 00:04:43,839 I was losing my mind. It's been so many years. 72 00:04:43,879 --> 00:04:46,800 I'm Captain John Parsons. These are my assistants, Doctor Evans, 73 00:04:46,920 --> 00:04:50,519 mister Williams. We returned to Earth from Mars. Then maybe 74 00:04:50,519 --> 00:04:56,759 it's happened when we're not alone anymore. Forgive me, gentlemen, 75 00:04:56,800 --> 00:05:00,560 if I if I see moved, I've waited and hoped 76 00:05:00,560 --> 00:05:04,639 for so long. You survived the radiation we did. There 77 00:05:04,639 --> 00:05:08,480 are others my family, we are the only ones. I 78 00:05:08,800 --> 00:05:10,399 answered the phone a moment ago. 79 00:05:10,480 --> 00:05:11,079 Speaker 3: Who was it? 80 00:05:11,319 --> 00:05:12,439 Speaker 4: You heard my voice? 81 00:05:12,480 --> 00:05:14,040 Speaker 3: Doctor yours? Yes? 82 00:05:14,800 --> 00:05:18,120 Speaker 4: To break the loneliness, I've recorded my voice and rigged 83 00:05:18,199 --> 00:05:21,480 up an automatic telephone. It's pleasant to hear the phone ring. 84 00:05:22,120 --> 00:05:24,920 I come here to work. I take it you are 85 00:05:24,959 --> 00:05:29,319 a medical man. My name is Cornelius Hathaway. Hathaway Hathaway, 86 00:05:29,360 --> 00:05:30,160 the brain surgeon. 87 00:05:30,560 --> 00:05:32,519 Speaker 3: You know my name? Who doesn't? 88 00:05:32,839 --> 00:05:35,399 Speaker 4: I watched you on television at college. Why I saw 89 00:05:35,439 --> 00:05:38,839 you twenty twenty three years ago. You performed a difficult 90 00:05:38,879 --> 00:05:40,319 surgery for a cerebral tumor. 91 00:05:40,639 --> 00:05:44,600 Speaker 3: Thank you. I had almost forgotten my mind. You see 92 00:05:44,639 --> 00:05:48,519 I well I'm almost eighty now. Well you look fine, sir. 93 00:05:48,759 --> 00:05:51,920 Speaker 4: We've had the best of everything, an entire city to choose, 94 00:05:51,959 --> 00:05:56,519 from cold storage, the best equipment. But come, come, come, 95 00:05:56,560 --> 00:05:59,319 there's a fine dinner waiting for you. And you want 96 00:05:59,360 --> 00:06:02,000 to meet my family. When I saw the ship come down, 97 00:06:02,040 --> 00:06:03,879 I told Alice, my wife, you know. 98 00:06:04,160 --> 00:06:05,680 Speaker 3: To prepare a feast. 99 00:06:05,680 --> 00:06:09,399 Speaker 4: This this is a great day for me, gentlemen, A great, 100 00:06:10,000 --> 00:06:23,480 great day. Alice Alice, come out to the porch and 101 00:06:23,519 --> 00:06:27,199 see who we have here. Alice, you're here, Come out 102 00:06:29,000 --> 00:06:33,360 my wife. Gentlemen, Alice, Captain Parsons, doctor Evans, mister. 103 00:06:33,240 --> 00:06:34,079 Speaker 3: William, how do you do? 104 00:06:34,680 --> 00:06:35,160 Speaker 5: How do you do? 105 00:06:35,800 --> 00:06:39,120 Speaker 4: And now if you will follow me, and gentlemen, we'll 106 00:06:39,120 --> 00:06:44,319 meet my children. Lord, what a beautiful woman. She looks 107 00:06:44,360 --> 00:06:47,720 no more than thirty five? Dispose the radiation could have 108 00:06:47,759 --> 00:06:48,480 done that to her? 109 00:06:48,879 --> 00:06:49,439 Speaker 3: I don't know. 110 00:06:49,959 --> 00:06:53,680 Speaker 4: And these are my daughters, Susan and Marguerite, and my 111 00:06:53,839 --> 00:06:54,480 son John. 112 00:06:54,680 --> 00:06:55,680 Speaker 3: How do you do? 113 00:06:55,759 --> 00:06:55,839 Speaker 6: So? 114 00:06:55,959 --> 00:06:58,800 Speaker 4: Sit down, gentlemen, sit down, we'll have a feast in 115 00:06:58,879 --> 00:07:03,600 hour of this occasion. Susan, Marguerite get the best silverware 116 00:07:03,639 --> 00:07:07,000 in the damask napkins, and John fetch the champagne. 117 00:07:07,160 --> 00:07:10,759 Speaker 3: Yes, excuse me moment, John, sir? How old are you? 118 00:07:11,240 --> 00:07:17,040 Twenty three? Sir? Thank you? What is it? Captain? Something wrong? Oh? 119 00:07:17,079 --> 00:07:23,120 Speaker 4: Nothing except that it's impossible. You see, Doctor Hathaway's son 120 00:07:23,240 --> 00:07:26,439 was already in college when I started. That would make 121 00:07:26,480 --> 00:07:39,839 him at least forty five. That was a wonderful meal, 122 00:07:39,879 --> 00:07:44,639 missus Hathaway. Doctor, your wife is an exceptional woman. 123 00:07:44,879 --> 00:07:45,480 Speaker 3: Thank you, sir. 124 00:07:45,720 --> 00:07:49,800 Speaker 7: How would you, gentlemen like some fresh gingerbread with your coffee. Hmm, 125 00:07:50,759 --> 00:07:51,959 I've faked it this morning. 126 00:07:52,279 --> 00:07:53,079 Speaker 3: Oh wonderful one. 127 00:07:53,720 --> 00:07:54,079 Speaker 4: Hmm. 128 00:07:54,079 --> 00:07:54,959 Speaker 3: Smell that doctor. 129 00:07:55,120 --> 00:07:58,560 Speaker 4: It's like coming home, Missus Hathaway. It's like home having 130 00:07:58,639 --> 00:08:01,759 you here, Missus Hathaway. May I compliment you on having 131 00:08:02,199 --> 00:08:04,160 preserved your youth and beauty so well? 132 00:08:06,160 --> 00:08:06,560 Speaker 5: Thank you. 133 00:08:08,120 --> 00:08:12,160 Speaker 7: We have no worries here, no competition, all the things 134 00:08:12,199 --> 00:08:13,759 we need for material comfort. 135 00:08:14,120 --> 00:08:17,800 Speaker 4: Parsons and I were wondering, Doctor Hathaway, if the radioactivity 136 00:08:18,160 --> 00:08:21,079 had any effect in preserving tissue. Your children all look 137 00:08:21,160 --> 00:08:25,240 so young too. It is possible, gentlemen. Of course, radiation 138 00:08:25,399 --> 00:08:29,040 does strange things to living tissue. Alice, could we have 139 00:08:29,079 --> 00:08:31,079 some champagne? 140 00:08:31,439 --> 00:08:36,919 Speaker 3: Alice? Oh, I'm sorry, what John, some champagne? Please? 141 00:08:37,159 --> 00:08:38,480 Speaker 5: Champagne? Oh? 142 00:08:38,960 --> 00:08:43,000 Speaker 4: Yes, of course, an amazing woman. Did you ever see 143 00:08:43,039 --> 00:08:47,399 such grace such that's complete relaxation. It doesn't seem quite natural. 144 00:08:47,679 --> 00:08:49,440 Speaker 3: I beg your pardon, gentlemen. 145 00:08:50,000 --> 00:08:53,200 Speaker 4: Captain Parsons was just about to ask how you and 146 00:08:53,279 --> 00:08:56,879 your family managed to escape, Doctor Hathaway. We were very fortunate. 147 00:08:57,240 --> 00:08:59,159 You see, my home was in the Sierra Mountains at 148 00:08:59,200 --> 00:09:02,000 the time. I had a lead line laboratory in the basement, 149 00:09:02,039 --> 00:09:05,000 where I did X ray research, my hobby. You know, 150 00:09:05,279 --> 00:09:07,279 I chose this house because it was on a hill 151 00:09:07,320 --> 00:09:11,320 where I could watch the sky. The loneliness of those 152 00:09:11,480 --> 00:09:14,120 first years, but at least you had your wife and children. 153 00:09:14,240 --> 00:09:16,399 Speaker 3: Yes, yes, I had my family. 154 00:09:16,759 --> 00:09:18,799 Speaker 4: If it were not for them, gentlemen, I assure you 155 00:09:18,840 --> 00:09:21,240 I would long ago have put a bullet in my head. 156 00:09:22,440 --> 00:09:27,120 Oh thank you, miss Hathaway. I propose a toast. So 157 00:09:27,279 --> 00:09:33,919 let me, gentlemen, to Earth, to Earth, may she never 158 00:09:33,960 --> 00:09:38,879 be stranger to men? And that well, what is it? You? 159 00:09:38,960 --> 00:09:45,600 Speaker 6: All right, it's nothing. It's nothing really, just rather sharp 160 00:09:45,639 --> 00:09:50,039 pain in the chest. Why don't you, gentlemen, go out 161 00:09:50,080 --> 00:09:53,120 on the porch and enjoy the air. You've had a 162 00:09:53,159 --> 00:09:57,240 long and tiring journey. Alice will show you the way. 163 00:09:57,480 --> 00:09:58,320 Speaker 5: Will you be all right? 164 00:09:58,559 --> 00:10:02,120 Speaker 3: Yes, don't trouble yourself. I'll see you all in the morning. 165 00:10:02,360 --> 00:10:06,360 Good night, doctor, good night, Come John, Yes, father. 166 00:10:17,200 --> 00:10:18,879 Speaker 2: Well what do you think of old Mother Earth? 167 00:10:18,960 --> 00:10:19,840 Speaker 3: Now, Williams? 168 00:10:20,360 --> 00:10:22,960 Speaker 4: A smell that summer breeze. Look at that view of 169 00:10:23,000 --> 00:10:25,559 the city, light it up against the sky. It has 170 00:10:25,639 --> 00:10:29,159 a certain quality. Well, score one point for the back 171 00:10:29,200 --> 00:10:31,919 to Earth proponts. I didn't say that you're beginning to 172 00:10:31,919 --> 00:10:35,120 feel it, though, Williams. I can tell if you don't mind, gentlemen, 173 00:10:35,159 --> 00:10:36,200 I'm quite tired. 174 00:10:36,679 --> 00:10:37,480 Speaker 3: I think i'll turn in. 175 00:10:38,240 --> 00:10:45,080 Speaker 4: Excuse me, well, Captain, Well, what what do you make 176 00:10:45,120 --> 00:10:45,519 of all this? 177 00:10:46,519 --> 00:10:47,840 Speaker 3: I don't know what you mean? 178 00:10:48,000 --> 00:10:51,639 Speaker 4: This Hathaway and his family. There's something strange and unnatural 179 00:10:51,720 --> 00:10:53,200 going on here. I can sense it. 180 00:10:54,039 --> 00:10:55,679 Speaker 3: I think you're reading things into it. Doctor. 181 00:10:56,639 --> 00:11:00,200 Speaker 4: Perhaps, well, I'll turn into coming. 182 00:11:00,320 --> 00:11:04,799 Speaker 3: In a moment. I want to smoke a cigarette. 183 00:11:10,120 --> 00:11:12,759 Speaker 5: It's a very beautiful view, is it not? 184 00:11:12,879 --> 00:11:16,559 Speaker 3: Why I didn't hear you come out? How is he resting? 185 00:11:17,919 --> 00:11:19,279 Speaker 5: I've never seen him this bad? 186 00:11:20,279 --> 00:11:22,519 Speaker 3: Yes, he he's an old man. 187 00:11:23,679 --> 00:11:27,039 Speaker 4: I'm sorry, But what the difference in your ages is 188 00:11:27,039 --> 00:11:29,840 so apparent? You must have been married very young. 189 00:11:30,879 --> 00:11:35,559 Speaker 5: You don't know about us there, No, Perhaps it is 190 00:11:35,600 --> 00:11:36,320 better that way. 191 00:11:37,360 --> 00:11:40,320 Speaker 4: I don't follow you. Is it something about your husband? 192 00:11:40,320 --> 00:11:42,080 He acts very strangely. 193 00:11:42,480 --> 00:11:45,919 Speaker 5: My husband is a very great man, Captain. It is 194 00:11:46,000 --> 00:11:49,000 too bad there was no one to appreciate him. 195 00:11:49,360 --> 00:11:52,559 Speaker 7: Once he wired the whole city with sound speakers, and 196 00:11:52,600 --> 00:11:55,519 when he pressed a button, the whole town lit up 197 00:11:55,919 --> 00:12:00,080 and made noises as if ten thousand people. 198 00:11:59,759 --> 00:12:04,399 Speaker 4: Will He must have been very lonesome, although with a 199 00:12:04,440 --> 00:12:06,480 woman such as you, I don't understand. 200 00:12:07,120 --> 00:12:10,000 Speaker 5: Perhaps one day you will understand. 201 00:12:11,080 --> 00:12:13,600 Speaker 3: I hope you will come to trust me as a friend. 202 00:12:14,399 --> 00:12:16,000 Speaker 5: I can trust no one but he. 203 00:12:17,559 --> 00:12:30,960 Speaker 4: Good Night, Captain, good night, Missus Hathaway, Captain, Captain, possums. 204 00:12:31,039 --> 00:12:34,120 Speaker 3: What are you to do? Who's there? Doctor Evan? What's wrong? 205 00:12:34,360 --> 00:12:37,039 What time is it? Anyway to a m what's wrong? 206 00:12:37,320 --> 00:12:39,120 I couldn't sleep. A few minutes ago. 207 00:12:39,200 --> 00:12:41,399 Speaker 4: I heard someone slip out the front door, and the 208 00:12:41,399 --> 00:12:42,840 moonlight I saw it was the old man. 209 00:12:43,080 --> 00:12:44,159 Speaker 3: He was headed toward the ship. 210 00:12:44,240 --> 00:12:47,240 Speaker 4: What are you suggesting, doctor, Nothing except that it's fairly 211 00:12:47,320 --> 00:12:49,519 unnatural for an old man with a bad heart to 212 00:12:49,559 --> 00:12:52,120 go wandering off at two in the morning. Very well, 213 00:12:52,159 --> 00:12:54,279 we're following. 214 00:13:00,559 --> 00:13:04,399 Speaker 3: This is far enough. What do you suppose he's doing? One? 215 00:13:04,399 --> 00:13:07,720 Are those on the ground? Good lord? Those those are 216 00:13:07,759 --> 00:13:12,559 grave markers, four of them. You're right. He seems to 217 00:13:12,600 --> 00:13:16,360 be praying over them. Listen, do you forgive me for 218 00:13:16,440 --> 00:13:19,399 what I had done? I had to do it. 219 00:13:20,320 --> 00:13:25,840 Speaker 4: I was so lone, so terribly lone. You don't mind 220 00:13:26,120 --> 00:13:28,559 too much? You do forgive me, don't you? 221 00:13:30,120 --> 00:13:32,679 Speaker 3: Yes? Yes, I feel you doo. 222 00:13:33,799 --> 00:13:41,840 Speaker 4: I'm glad. I think perhaps I can rest now. I think, well, 223 00:13:42,759 --> 00:13:47,279 he's having another attack, Hathaway. Dr Hathaway, can you hear me? 224 00:13:47,919 --> 00:13:51,480 Brace his head happens? Dr Hathaway, his lips are moving? 225 00:13:52,360 --> 00:13:55,440 Speaker 3: What is it? Doctor? Closer? Lean closer. 226 00:13:56,200 --> 00:13:59,679 Speaker 6: I'm sorry I had to spoil all of this. 227 00:14:00,519 --> 00:14:05,399 Speaker 3: I've expected it for some time. We'll fix you up. No, no, 228 00:14:05,600 --> 00:14:11,799 I'm an excellent diagnostician. It really doesn't matter except for them. 229 00:14:12,200 --> 00:14:17,840 What about them? Hathaway? You suspected, didn't you? Yes? I suspected. 230 00:14:18,320 --> 00:14:23,120 I couldn't believe it until now. Do they know? No? No, 231 00:14:23,279 --> 00:14:34,279 they wouldn't understand. I wouldn't want them to know. Ever. Oh, doctor, 232 00:14:35,879 --> 00:14:36,320 he's dead. 233 00:14:36,320 --> 00:14:41,679 Speaker 4: Captain, What was it he meant about your suspecting light 234 00:14:41,799 --> 00:14:45,240 a match? Doctor Evans, Look on those four grave markers 235 00:14:45,240 --> 00:14:45,720 and tell me. 236 00:14:45,639 --> 00:14:48,600 Speaker 3: What you see. 237 00:14:48,960 --> 00:14:57,320 Speaker 4: Good Heaven Well, Alice Hathaway, Marguerite Hathaway, Susan Hathaway. John 238 00:14:57,399 --> 00:15:04,240 Hathaway died j Line nineteen eighty seven. But that's twenty 239 00:15:04,320 --> 00:15:10,600 years ago. It's impossible. If these markers are correct, then 240 00:15:11,360 --> 00:15:12,960 who are those others? 241 00:15:13,159 --> 00:15:14,360 Speaker 3: Can't you guess? Doctor? 242 00:15:15,720 --> 00:15:27,480 Speaker 4: Can't you guess? I'm sorry? Missus Hathenway He didn't want 243 00:15:27,559 --> 00:15:30,519 us to feel badly. He told us it would happen 244 00:15:30,519 --> 00:15:32,799 one day, and that he didn't want us to cry. 245 00:15:33,960 --> 00:15:36,960 He didn't teach us how, you know. He said it 246 00:15:37,000 --> 00:15:39,320 was the worst thing that could happen, to know how 247 00:15:39,360 --> 00:15:42,799 to be lonely and unhappy. We want to know. 248 00:15:42,720 --> 00:15:43,480 Speaker 5: What that is. 249 00:15:44,240 --> 00:15:47,879 Speaker 4: Perhaps it's just as well you know about us, don't you. 250 00:15:48,639 --> 00:15:52,200 Speaker 3: Yes, I know. I didn't think you knew yourself. 251 00:15:52,399 --> 00:15:55,480 Speaker 5: The children don't. I've been aware for a long while. 252 00:15:56,080 --> 00:15:59,600 Speaker 4: No one would have guessed you're so perfect. 253 00:16:00,120 --> 00:16:02,639 Speaker 7: He would have liked to hear you say that. He 254 00:16:02,679 --> 00:16:06,240 was so very proud of us. After a while he 255 00:16:06,279 --> 00:16:08,200 came to love us, and at the end he took 256 00:16:08,279 --> 00:16:12,279 us as his real wife and children. He even forgot 257 00:16:12,440 --> 00:16:15,320 sometimes that he had made us. 258 00:16:15,600 --> 00:16:17,080 Speaker 3: You gave him a great deal of comfort. 259 00:16:17,840 --> 00:16:21,879 Speaker 7: Yes, over the years we sat and talked. He loved 260 00:16:21,879 --> 00:16:22,840 so much to talk. 261 00:16:24,159 --> 00:16:25,320 Speaker 4: I was first, you know. 262 00:16:26,240 --> 00:16:29,240 Speaker 7: Then he became lonesome for the children, and so he 263 00:16:29,320 --> 00:16:34,039 made them. There was only one thing, one floor, and 264 00:16:34,159 --> 00:16:38,120 that he couldn't make us grow old, and so he 265 00:16:38,159 --> 00:16:41,960 had to watch himself become an old old man while 266 00:16:41,960 --> 00:16:42,679 we stayed young. 267 00:16:43,960 --> 00:16:44,960 Speaker 5: It was a great. 268 00:16:44,720 --> 00:16:48,720 Speaker 4: Blow to me we'll bury him on the hill side 269 00:16:48,960 --> 00:16:51,679 where the other four crosses are. I think you would 270 00:16:51,759 --> 00:16:59,399 like that, yes, he would missus Hathaway, Alice, I think 271 00:16:59,399 --> 00:17:09,440 that you are a a great and wonderful woman, and 272 00:17:09,599 --> 00:17:12,279 so we commend the body of this man, John Hathaway 273 00:17:12,720 --> 00:17:18,680 to his maker. Ashes to ashes, dust to dust, returneth Amen. 274 00:17:20,559 --> 00:17:23,240 Speaker 5: Come John, Yes, mother, Susan. 275 00:17:23,400 --> 00:17:29,279 Speaker 4: Margury Evans, Williams, stay here a moment, please, what is it? 276 00:17:29,680 --> 00:17:31,720 Let them go back to the house. I want to 277 00:17:31,720 --> 00:17:34,200 speak to you. I know what you're gonna tell us, Captain. 278 00:17:35,279 --> 00:17:38,079 I saw the names on the grave markers. Well, it's 279 00:17:38,079 --> 00:17:39,000 a mockery. 280 00:17:38,640 --> 00:17:41,799 Speaker 8: A blasphemy of everything we believe in for a man 281 00:17:41,839 --> 00:17:44,000 to do something, so we had to imagine what he faced. 282 00:17:44,720 --> 00:17:46,559 Speaker 4: Can't you imagine what it must have been like to 283 00:17:46,559 --> 00:17:50,400 have watched his wife and children die slowly of radiation burns, 284 00:17:50,400 --> 00:17:51,920 to know that he was the last man on the 285 00:17:51,960 --> 00:17:57,000 face of the earth, alone, eternally and unalterably alone. Good 286 00:17:57,039 --> 00:17:59,200 lord man, what would you have done if you'd had 287 00:17:59,200 --> 00:18:03,119 his medical and technical genius? I'll tell you have come 288 00:18:03,119 --> 00:18:05,480 back to your laboratory just as he did, and try 289 00:18:05,519 --> 00:18:07,759 to recapture all the wonderful things that they had been 290 00:18:07,759 --> 00:18:08,599 to you. 291 00:18:08,599 --> 00:18:09,519 Speaker 3: You'd use all. 292 00:18:09,359 --> 00:18:12,319 Speaker 4: The power of your memory, all the accuracy of your fingers, 293 00:18:12,319 --> 00:18:15,319 and you'd try to put together, bit by bit all 294 00:18:15,400 --> 00:18:17,359 those things that were wife, sim and daughter. 295 00:18:17,440 --> 00:18:18,319 Speaker 3: It's incredible. 296 00:18:18,319 --> 00:18:21,359 Speaker 4: So you suggest that we take them back, Captain, I 297 00:18:21,400 --> 00:18:24,279 don't know. We have enough space in the ship for that. 298 00:18:24,519 --> 00:18:29,920 Every ounce counts still. To leave them here like that alone, 299 00:18:30,119 --> 00:18:32,519 I think I have an answer. Cold blooded as it 300 00:18:32,559 --> 00:18:36,519 may seem, go on. I suggested we turn them off. 301 00:18:36,519 --> 00:18:37,440 Do you think I could do that? 302 00:18:37,640 --> 00:18:40,720 Speaker 8: No, but I think I could. After all, we aren't human. 303 00:18:41,039 --> 00:18:42,640 They're worse than robuts. They're ghoulish. 304 00:18:44,279 --> 00:18:46,359 Speaker 3: I suggest you go back to the ship, Captain, and 305 00:18:46,440 --> 00:18:48,279 leave me to deal with I will not permit it. 306 00:18:48,480 --> 00:18:51,279 You've no choice in the matter. I assure you. It'll 307 00:18:51,279 --> 00:18:52,920 be quick and entirely painless. 308 00:18:52,960 --> 00:18:55,240 Speaker 4: I hate to admit it, but he's right, Captain. We 309 00:18:55,400 --> 00:18:57,279 can't take them with us, and it would be less 310 00:18:57,279 --> 00:19:00,680 than human to leave them here without Hathaway, created by 311 00:19:00,759 --> 00:19:04,799 him for himself. They have no other feelings, no other purpose. 312 00:19:05,400 --> 00:19:07,799 If you leave them, they'll go on year after year, 313 00:19:07,920 --> 00:19:12,319 night after night, talking, laughing, baking strawberry biscuits for no reason, 314 00:19:12,920 --> 00:19:15,160 not knowing who they are, why they exist. 315 00:19:15,480 --> 00:19:19,640 Speaker 3: Could you do it, doctor, I don't know. I've already 316 00:19:19,720 --> 00:19:22,279 offered to do it now. Now I wouldn't want it 317 00:19:22,279 --> 00:19:22,960 to be you. Williams. 318 00:19:23,000 --> 00:19:27,680 Speaker 4: You're you're sick, you have no feelings. If doctor Evans 319 00:19:27,680 --> 00:19:33,000 here can do it, well so be it. It's a 320 00:19:33,079 --> 00:19:38,319 difficult thing, Captain. Still as you say, they aren't, they aren't. 321 00:19:38,400 --> 00:19:42,039 Human logic is on your side. It isn't as if 322 00:19:42,039 --> 00:19:49,640 you were murdering someone. Well give me the blast gun. 323 00:19:49,680 --> 00:19:52,000 William will wait in the ship. Take off in half 324 00:19:52,000 --> 00:20:06,160 an hour, half an hour, six twenty five. He should 325 00:20:06,160 --> 00:20:11,039 be back soon. Yes, he's doing the only humane thing, Captain. 326 00:20:11,119 --> 00:20:14,319 A less than humor, are they? Well it's done now, 327 00:20:14,440 --> 00:20:16,240 no one has heard. That's the airlock. 328 00:20:16,279 --> 00:20:25,559 Speaker 3: He's back. Well, here's your gun. Did you do it? 329 00:20:26,519 --> 00:20:28,720 Speaker 4: When I entered the house, one of the daughters looked 330 00:20:28,799 --> 00:20:33,039 up at me, and she smiled. The others smiled. He 331 00:20:33,160 --> 00:20:35,519 taught them there, taught them to make him feel welcome 332 00:20:35,559 --> 00:20:39,000 when he came home at night. I knew that, and yet, 333 00:20:40,519 --> 00:20:43,160 well I should have done it then I might have. 334 00:20:43,319 --> 00:20:47,720 But she came in the wife. She said something about 335 00:20:47,759 --> 00:20:50,839 sitting down for a cup of tea. She looked at 336 00:20:50,880 --> 00:20:52,799 me with those fine, intelligent eyes. 337 00:20:53,920 --> 00:20:55,480 Speaker 3: I couldn't do it. 338 00:20:54,559 --> 00:20:58,400 Speaker 4: It would be murder, cold blooded murder. 339 00:20:59,440 --> 00:21:01,039 Speaker 3: I prayed you wouldn't be able to do it. 340 00:21:03,079 --> 00:21:05,079 Speaker 4: There will never be anything as fine as they are, 341 00:21:05,119 --> 00:21:09,160 you know, built to last one hundred, two hundred, perhaps 342 00:21:09,200 --> 00:21:14,119 one thousand years. Well, get the course and the integrator. 343 00:21:14,160 --> 00:21:16,799 Williams will take off in twenty minutes. I should be 344 00:21:16,839 --> 00:21:29,039 back by then. You're going answer. I'm going to say goodbye. 345 00:21:30,160 --> 00:21:32,440 You've come back only to say goodbye. 346 00:21:33,519 --> 00:21:34,480 Speaker 5: It was nice of you. 347 00:21:35,200 --> 00:21:38,359 Speaker 3: I wanted you to know that I'm coming. 348 00:21:38,119 --> 00:21:42,799 Speaker 4: Back here to us, here to you. 349 00:21:43,480 --> 00:21:46,119 Speaker 5: I I believe you. 350 00:21:46,440 --> 00:21:47,799 Speaker 3: I never meant anything more. 351 00:21:49,039 --> 00:21:49,880 Speaker 5: When will you come? 352 00:21:50,599 --> 00:21:51,079 Speaker 3: I don't know. 353 00:21:51,160 --> 00:21:53,839 Speaker 4: It'll take many years to prepare fuel for another trip, 354 00:21:54,000 --> 00:21:55,759 six seven peraps, ten years. 355 00:21:56,400 --> 00:22:00,160 Speaker 5: I will watch the sky at night, just as heat. 356 00:22:01,519 --> 00:22:03,279 Speaker 4: I'm not a young man. 357 00:22:03,839 --> 00:22:08,440 Speaker 5: Time is nothing to me. I was born out of time. 358 00:22:09,640 --> 00:22:10,960 Speaker 3: I'm afraid I must go now. 359 00:22:11,759 --> 00:22:15,400 Speaker 5: I understand strange. 360 00:22:17,039 --> 00:22:21,640 Speaker 9: I have a new feeling, one which he didn't teach us, 361 00:22:22,920 --> 00:22:30,400 A feeling of of lorney sadness that one is not taught. 362 00:22:31,839 --> 00:22:33,000 Speaker 4: It comes of being alive. 363 00:22:33,519 --> 00:22:40,440 Speaker 5: Yes, I am alive. Even though he created me. I'm 364 00:22:40,480 --> 00:22:41,680 a person now. 365 00:22:42,519 --> 00:22:54,759 Speaker 4: Goodbye Alice Hathaway, Goodbye John Pass. You have just heard 366 00:22:55,079 --> 00:22:57,960 X minus one, Presented by the National Broadcasting Company in 367 00:22:58,000 --> 00:23:02,119 cooperation with Street and Smith, publishers of Astounding science fiction. 368 00:23:03,039 --> 00:23:06,720 Tonight by transcription, X minus one has brought you Dwellers 369 00:23:06,759 --> 00:23:10,079 in Silence, Written by Ray Bradbury and adapted for radio 370 00:23:10,160 --> 00:23:13,799 by George Leffards. Featured in the cast were Anne Seymour, 371 00:23:14,240 --> 00:23:19,839 Carl Weber, Theodore Osborne, Richard Hamilton, Edwin Jerome and Stannerley. 372 00:23:20,200 --> 00:23:23,519 You're announcer Fred Collins. X minus one was directed by 373 00:23:23,599 --> 00:23:35,599 Daniel Sutter and is an NBC Radio Network production. 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