Speaker 1: The Phobs, radio mystery theater presents, come in.
Speaker 2: Welcome, I ne g Marshall. Torture is my subject this
time around. Oh, don't be alarmed.
Speaker 1: I have no intention of shocking you with unmentionable horrors. Well,
you see, there are all sorts of torments invented by
man to be deviled his fellow man, And perhaps the
most subtle of these is man's fear of the unknown.
Speaker 2: We are so constructed. It seems to me that we
can almost always cope with the know, whatever it may be.
Speaker 1: But when we don't know what elive ahead, what nameless
nightmare may await. Well, let's illustrate with Todd Stearns and
his wife Tammy.
Speaker 3: Todd. What if you tell them what they.
Speaker 2: Want to know? Could mean the end of this country, Sammy,
It could mean the end of the world, the world,
the world.
Speaker 4: It's the axtension torture, didn't he yes?
Speaker 3: Will you be able to stand it?
Speaker 2: I think so once I know what it is. But
mister Rex is clever. He won't tell me. He knows
that not knowing that's the worst torture of all.
Speaker 1: Our mystery drama. The Pitch and the Pendulum was especially
adapted from the Edgar Allen Poe classic for the Mystery
Theater by George Rover and stars Tony Roberts and Marion Seldis.
I'll do that shortly with that one. It's nothing new
to say that men and women too have successfully endured
the worst of physical pain one can imagine. But mental pain,
I'm told, is something else. Again, those skilled in the
art of extracting information well know that physical force will
often succeed, but that mental force will always succeed. Why
not employ it at once? Then, because it requires great skill,
exquisite subtlety, and is in consequence it's far more difficult
to use. Oh this is it may m much Thoughts
held little in any interest for Todd and Tammy Stearns
as they drove in an official government limousine.
Speaker 2: Toward the airport of a large city. You really shouldn't
have come to see me off this time, Tammy.
Speaker 3: Break my record.
Speaker 4: I've gone to the airport with you every time you've
made one of your mysterious, deep dark secret trips.
Speaker 3: Ever since we were married four years ago.
Speaker 4: With Jill down with a cold man, I could certainly
take care of us for an hour or two.
Speaker 3: Todd. Yeah, it could it be alright.
Speaker 2: Aren't you? What makes you ask a silly question like that?
Speaker 3: It is it silly? And you know it.
Speaker 4: These trips you make abroad every now and then, well
I don't know what they're all about.
Speaker 2: I've never known because I've.
Speaker 5: Never told you, and I never will. Unless you know
the better off you'll be. Well.
Speaker 3: I'm not asking you to tell me.
Speaker 4: I know you won't, but it's it's not knowing that
makes me bite my.
Speaker 3: Nail till you come safely back.
Speaker 5: Oh I'm sorry, sweetheart, but that's funny. But I don't
think we're we're not. Driver, Driver, why did you take
the left turn? You're heading away from the airport, not.
Speaker 3: Toward it, cause he don't tell you are at that?
Speaker 4: Driver?
Speaker 2: Driver, answer me why.
Speaker 3: That panel's sliding up?
Speaker 2: That devils drive on? What in blazes is going on?
Speaker 3: It's not paying attention, sid He've been turning around.
Speaker 2: I don't understand, driver, damn it. Tell me, let's get out.
I'm fast.
Speaker 5: Both doors are lots and I can't open THEMD God,
what does this mean?
Speaker 1: And I like to think what it means? Timmy, But
I sure wish you.
Speaker 2: Hadn't come along this time. Uh oh oh, come in,
mister Sturns, come in. Uh sit down, missus Sterns. Make
yourself comfortable. What have you done with my wife? Oh?
She's safe and comfortable.
Speaker 5: There's nothing for you to worry about, I assure you.
Speaker 4: Uh.
Speaker 2: Would you care for a drink?
Speaker 5: As a matter of fact, I could use one if
it isn't drugged.
Speaker 2: Drugged that's a fanciful idea.
Speaker 5: Hm, it's no more fanciful and kidnapping me?
Speaker 2: Who are you? What's this all about? As to who
I am? You can call me mister X.
Speaker 5: Mister X, come on, you can't be for real a corny,
can you get? It's corny, I admit, but it's also safer,
infinitely safer than any name I might use.
Speaker 2: See X as an unknown quantity. As to what this
is all about? All your drinks? Thanks? What is this
all about?
Speaker 5: I'll come now, mister Sturns, card if I may, you
know what it's about? A pregnant You lying, of course,
But well, no sense wasting valuable time.
Speaker 2: Fencing with each other. So I'll tell you.
Speaker 5: I represent a group that's in the business of selling
top secret information of one country to another. You're in
the business of conveying top secret information from this country
to another. The reason you were kidnapped and brought here
was because we want the top secret you were presently
on your way to deliver to well, you know where.
I haven't the slightest idea what you're talking to Let
my sense please. I know that you are on your
way abroad with the formula for a new bacterial gas
which would easily tip the balance of power in favor
of the country.
Speaker 2: Possessing it all.
Speaker 5: And my government is willing to uh hand over a
weapon as vital and.
Speaker 2: Deadly as this to another government. It is, and you
know why.
Speaker 5: The pact between the two governments to keep each other
informed and thus hopefully to maintain the balance of power.
You know you've been seeing too many James Bond moving.
Speaker 2: Let's stop it. Card I.
Speaker 5: I I want the formula and.
Speaker 2: I mean to have it.
Speaker 5: Well, then you won't get it from me because I
haven't got it, cause I guess you know your muscle
and searched me certaly and found nothing.
Speaker 2: I didn't expect they would.
Speaker 5: I'd been very surprised, indeed shocked, if you've been carrying
such a formula worth untold millions on your person instead
of in your head, in my head precisely, Card, I'm
authorized to offer you fifty thousand dollars for the formula.
Per a formula you've just told me it can be
sold for untold millions.
Speaker 2: Huh, alright, how much do you want?
Speaker 5: It's an academic question, mister Exson's I don't have the formula.
Speaker 2: Would you consider a hundred thousand?
Speaker 5: I haven't got the formula you're talking about.
Speaker 2: Uh, this is a tape recorder.
Speaker 5: I'm gonna leave you here alone for fifteen minutes. When
I return, I hope you will have been sensible enough
to record the formula for me. Look, I showing yourself
to the liquor, and of course you won't try to escape.
But you see there are no windows and only one door.
I and please, please, no more nonsense about you or
not having the formula.
Speaker 2: You have it, Todd. You have it as surely as
we have your wife.
Speaker 5: Ah, missus Sterns, I see you've been made comfortable.
Speaker 3: What if you're done with my husband? Where is now?
Speaker 5: There's no need to distress yourself, Missus Stearns. Tandy, if
I may, Uh, Todd is presently as safe and as
comfortable as you are. Oh, I see that you're drinking tea,
which like another company. What is all this?
Speaker 3: Why will we brought here?
Speaker 5: Please calm yourself. I beg you. You're in no dangs
in my husband, nor is he. He's perfectly safe and
unharmed at.
Speaker 3: The moment, at the moment. What do you mean by that?
Speaker 5: Nothing more nor less than what I said. But tell
me how much do you know about Todd's affairs, his work,
his career, the duties he performs for our government?
Speaker 4: Nothing except he's an under secretariat well in in in
some department or other.
Speaker 3: I don't even know that.
Speaker 2: This thing's rather hard to believe.
Speaker 5: Married four years and you don't even know what department
he works for.
Speaker 2: No, you have a bothered to ask?
Speaker 4: Well, yes, and Todd made plains and he wouldn't tell me,
and that I was not to ask.
Speaker 2: You love Todd? Of course? Of course? How much do
you love him?
Speaker 3: I love him. I can't say more than that.
Speaker 2: I think you can.
Speaker 5: I think you can say a good deal more than that.
For instance, do you love him enough to suffer pain
for him? A great deal of pain?
Speaker 3: What kind of question is there?
Speaker 2: Just answer it well?
Speaker 3: But I can't answer it.
Speaker 4: How would I know how much pain I could stand
until I was standing it?
Speaker 5: Mm, now you have a point me interesting, But I
wouldn't to find out how much you do love, Todd?
Speaker 2: How much pain you couldn't you are?
Speaker 3: I don't know why you're threatening me?
Speaker 2: Threatening you tell me, no, no, no, Tall.
Speaker 5: Our discussion is purely theoretical, at least at this time.
Speaker 3: At least at this time for the present.
Speaker 4: By you're threatening me, even now you're you're torturing at
me by by hinting it.
Speaker 3: I don't know what.
Speaker 5: Well, let's hope there'll be no need for you to
find out a come in now, let's see, thank you.
Let's stay here with her. You know what to do
with her. If I send the signal?
Speaker 4: Do what what are you gonna do to me?
Speaker 3: If you sends a signal?
Speaker 2: Well?
Speaker 3: Ask Tommy, please.
Speaker 2: Please to me what the take is? Blank? Todd?
Speaker 5: You recorded nothing, there's nothing to record nothing. If there
is a formula such as you speak of, I've never
heard of it. Now, why don't you just knock off
as nonsense and let me and my wife get out
of here? Simply because there is a formula and you
carry it in your head, and you are going to
dictate it into this machine before I'm through with you
and your wife.
Speaker 2: Temmy has nothing to do with this, hasn't she. She
has only the vaguest idea of what I do with
the department, if she has any idea at all.
Speaker 5: Even if I had memorized her formula, which I haven't,
I'd never have told.
Speaker 2: Her about it. And why not? Why not?
Speaker 5: Because your work is precisely what I say, if is
top secret, high security. Uh No, then why wouldn't you
tell her you love her?
Speaker 2: Don't you? Of course, then surely you trust her. Certainly
I trust her, but not enough to let her know
what you do or you under raise her.
Speaker 5: Todd, You really do that woman would do anything for you,
suffer untold pain for you.
Speaker 2: You know what do you mean by that, suffer untold
pain for me? Well?
Speaker 5: Nothing, really, she told me she would. Then, so on
wh what amounted of the same thing? It just happened
to come up and our talk together.
Speaker 2: When did you talk? Only a few moments ago I
went to see her when I left you. I had
a very nice chat.
Speaker 5: With a very interesting and informative chant about how much
pain she could stand.
Speaker 2: Oh, that was only a small part of what we
talked about. I listened to me. She knows nothing. Of
course she doesn't. I could she there's nothing to know,
you say.
Speaker 5: You hum her, and I warn you, mister act so
whatever you are, I warn you, i'd stop acting like
a fool. Now you'll know that you're helpless, and so
is she. He walks to know that in one way
or another, you're going to give me that formula, So.
Speaker 2: Why not give it to me? Save us all a
lot of trouble, all three of us, three of us,
you me and tell me.
Speaker 5: Now here's the tape recorder. Begin very well, Come along
with me, Tad, now for it till the seller. There's
something there. I wanna show you, something I'm sure will
change your mind.
Speaker 2: And here we are, so here we are. Tell me
what you see. It's a room, not a very big room.
Speaker 5: There's a luminum walls that look like aluminum anyway.
Speaker 2: What else? There's a hole, big wide hole on the floor.
What else? Nothing that I can see? Look up? What
you see now?
Speaker 5: Hang hanging from the ceiling. It's a better foot from
the ceiling, and a uh of what uh looks uh
like a headsman's axe, an oversized headman's.
Speaker 2: Axe with a very sharp cutting edge. Raise the shark.
Speaker 5: Note how the light gleams on it. And now there's
something more for you to see.
Speaker 2: Canny. No, you stay here, She stays there on the
other side of the room. Canny. Are you all right? Yes, darling?
Are you sure? Shut up? Todd? Two questions. Have you
ever heard of a torture called a pendulum? Yes?
Speaker 5: And another called the pit? Is that the hole on
the floor, a wide hole?
Speaker 2: The pit? Yes, you have heard of it? Because you're
not gonna be sick, I am. No, Todd.
Speaker 5: Don't make me subject you to the pendulum. Especially, don't
make me subject you to the exquisite torment of a pit.
Above all, don't make me subject Tammy to either.
Speaker 2: No, not Tammy you what depends on you? No, the formula, Todd?
Would you give it to me? Or would you not?
Speaker 1: If you were Todd Sterns, what would you do if
you have the imagination I think you have you are Todd.
Speaker 2: Sterns or Tammy Sterns, what would be your answer? What
would you do? Think about it? Until I return for
Act two?
Speaker 1: In a room, a rather curious room in the basement
of an isolated country house. Tod and Tammy Stern's face
a torture known as the pit and the pendulum. Face it,
but need not undergo it if Todd will tell mister
X what he wants to know, reveal the formula that
he carries in his head for a new weapon of destruction,
a bacterial gas. As Todd gazes across the yawning pit
at his lovely wife on the other side, mister X
repeats once again, Todd, I know it's.
Speaker 5: A difficult decision, but it is one that you must make.
Speaker 2: Will you give me the formula or not? I I
told you I don't hatass enough.
Speaker 5: You have the formula, you memorize that. I I know that,
So no more time wasting nonsense.
Speaker 2: Which is it to be?
Speaker 5: Will you give me the formula without forcing me to
torture it out of you?
Speaker 2: Or must I use force? I have nothing to tell you.
Perhaps if I explain how the pendulum works. No need
for that, I know. But does Tanny nough? Do you? Tammy? No? Tammy?
Look up toward the ceiling.
Speaker 5: That is a blade, you see, ah, A blade shaped
like a big headsman's axe, and it's razor sharp.
Speaker 2: Don't listen to him, Tammy. He's tryna Fighten you.
Speaker 5: Exactly what I'm trying to do, Tammy, for reasons that
are quite obvious, I should think, wouldn't you. Yes, Now
that large razor sharp blade, Tammy, is attached to a pendulum,
a pen Jelimit swings back and forth and gets an
inch lower on each.
Speaker 3: Swing, an inch lower on each swing.
Speaker 2: Yes.
Speaker 5: And so anyone strapped to that slab on the floor.
Look look down now, Tammy, to the floor. You see
the slab with the straps. Yeah, anyone strapped to that
slab will in time be cut in half.
Speaker 2: Tammy. Don't listen slowly, cut in half? Slowly, Tammy.
Speaker 3: You wouldn't, but you you you wouldn't you?
Speaker 6: Please?
Speaker 2: You can't. You won't kill him time of gracious. No,
he has what I want.
Speaker 5: I can't kill him unless we reach that perfectly wasteful moment.
But I have no option but to end this whole
scene in death. No, no, no thought of killing him.
Speaker 2: You. Oh my god, Tammy, did you hear me? I
hate you?
Speaker 5: Then, my dear, would you try to do what I
have failed to do? Convince your husband to give me
the formula?
Speaker 2: For Tammy.
Speaker 3: How can I convince him if you couldn't?
Speaker 2: God, have you no imagination? Whatever?
Speaker 5: Do you really think that you'll be able to watch
Tammy kill before your eyes without breaking.
Speaker 2: No answer?
Speaker 5: Your silence could signify several possibilities. One you're too shocked
at the prospect to answer. Two, you could watch while
your wife is slowly cut in half in agony Todd.
Speaker 2: Three you couldn't a witch Todd Hm. Possibly even you
don't know at this moment. HM. Well alright, I'll give
you time to think it over, to talk it over,
both of you.
Speaker 5: Uh ms z or you know where to take missus Stearns,
mister Sterns, and I will join.
Speaker 2: You there shortly. Godd, I love you and I love
you Tammy, I love you. You love her? We'll see
how much very soon? Uh, very soon? A tally class
of champagne. M No, it would sicken me me too.
Just didn't the dinner they've spread before us?
Speaker 4: It took gourmet's dream or the condemned last meal.
Speaker 2: Yeah, darling, we we've got to talk this out. What
isn't to talk out?
Speaker 4: You've told me that the secret, the the formula that
you memorize. If it got into the wrong hands, it
could mean the death of millions.
Speaker 3: And if you get it to mister X, it will
certainly be in the wrong hands.
Speaker 2: I d I don't know.
Speaker 3: Well, what do you mean The groovy.
Speaker 4: Represents that they'd sell the formula of the highest bidder.
Speaker 3: They wouldn't care who who, just so that they got
the millions.
Speaker 2: Or maybe for once, just for once, I got to
think of us, not the world.
Speaker 3: But we are the world.
Speaker 2: I know that too. You're involved now, this character X could.
Speaker 5: Torture me to death, and well, I don't think i'd
break I don't think I would, But you can't tell
till you're going through it. I've no an agency. Well,
never mind to face torture myself alone, that's one thing,
But to watch you face it, tell me I couldn't
bear that.
Speaker 2: Why are you looking at me like that?
Speaker 3: You're going to have to bear it, Todd.
Speaker 4: You can't risk the lives of millions for for one person,
no matter how much you love her. But that's the
point I wanted to make. If I give X the
form you're not going to it doesn't mean that whoever
buys it will use it to control the world.
Speaker 2: It could simply mean.
Speaker 4: They would have a balance of power with us instead
of the government whichever it is.
Speaker 3: You won't tell me that already has a pact with.
Speaker 2: Us, Sweetheart, I am just a courier. I'm not up
there with the brass a pack.
Speaker 5: Well it's supposed to mean what you think it means,
but well, sometimes I don't know. Sometimes I think all
it means is that both countries have the same amount
of cloud and can't rip each other off.
Speaker 3: How do we get into this, because this is what
it's all about.
Speaker 2: No, what it's all about is you.
Speaker 5: You getting tortured, is what it's about. Tammy X is
gonna make me watch you on that slab as the
pendulum comes closer, inch by inch, Darling, I won't be able.
Speaker 2: To bear it. I think you will.
Speaker 3: I know you will.
Speaker 2: You're a lot shorter than I am.
Speaker 5: Oh, deal with a pity, the champagne, the food, you
touch nothing?
Speaker 2: Who is he?
Speaker 1: Uh?
Speaker 2: Oh? A little quirk of mine? He fits in.
Speaker 5: Don't you think the black sued the Red hood with
slits her eyes just right for an executioner, just right.
Speaker 4: It scared the daylights out of your victims, exactly.
Speaker 2: Tammy, are you scared.
Speaker 5: You better know it. But you needn't be You know, Rabbit,
you had succeeded where I found. What is Tard's answer?
Speaker 3: Now you better ask Tard that.
Speaker 2: Todd? You know my answer is still no. What point
in it? To undergo? Agon? The only to give in?
Speaker 4: Finally, if one gives in, you think you won't, but
you seem to forget Todd, the one who has to
get in.
Speaker 3: I don't have the formula.
Speaker 5: If if there is one, think now, Tadly, think your
lying strapped to that slab, that slab beneath the penjamum.
You cannot move scarcely a muscle of moves. You're looking up,
staring at that great blade. It begins to move back
and fall back and forth, swinging and coming lower with
each swing. Suddenly time is sped by, unaccountably. Suddenly there
it is the blade within inches of you, now within
an inch, cutting, now cutting through your dress, delicately cutting,
And now now.
Speaker 2: On the next swing it is going to slat it.
Stop it, Tammy. I can't let you. You didn't think
that you could bring the tape recorder. Don't bother, No, Tammy, Todd.
Speaker 3: This man is a phony.
Speaker 4: I'll stake my life on it. You're trying to scare
Tid into giving you the secret formula.
Speaker 3: But if you're scared bigger, I won't go through.
Speaker 2: With this thing. I won't mm I, I don't think
you will. In that case, finish your champagne. I will
proceed Todd, one final chance, mister X. It's this, it's senseless.
Makes plenty of sense to me. It would if I
were in your shoes.
Speaker 5: That woman, that lovely, exceptional woman you were lucky enough
to marry, lies strapped to the slab. When I give
the nod to our red hooded executioner, he who press
the button that starts the pendulum. Once started, it can't
be stopped, can't they No, it goes right on down
and through. Should you change your mind, it had better
not be at the last moment. It had better be
in time for the executioner to pull her out from
under the blade.
Speaker 2: Cammy, don't give in. Don't you leave me no choice?
Simons do it?
Speaker 7: Damn, you don't wanna do it?
Speaker 2: Very well? I give the nod. It's begun. Its swing.
You see your time back and forth, bang and for
and inch lower with each swing. Here, I that's the
microphone or the tape recorder. Take it, use it, terle
form youa what is.
Speaker 5: You take to you?
Speaker 2: What?
Speaker 3: What is the ad acaphone?
Speaker 2: Yes, the mic is a tape recorder. Don't you'll die
if I don't? You got die me? Girl, I can't
let you. I can't let you. If you can't let
her speak. You've got the mic in your hands, start talking. No,
what's left? If I do? What's left? What she loves me?
Speaker 5: If I let her down, if I save a life
to lose them, any others.
Speaker 2: Shall hate me, will be left to me?
Speaker 5: Then there are the women you spy. There are no
other women. There's only Tammy for me. Oh, my dearest,
you are right.
Speaker 2: We've got to go through with this.
Speaker 5: For then I've met who's the like but you? It
would have exists three at most from her body, not two.
One cutting the dress now and now you see the
next color?
Speaker 2: Talk to you? Who'll talk fast? Like? Carry an equation?
What is it? The equation of the heart? Too late?
But what Indeed a man and a woman, just another
man and.
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Speaker 2: Certainly the woman does the man. I don't know. We'll see.
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Speaker 1: I have said that there are all sorts of torture,
limitless degrees of mental and physical torment m and of these,
mental anguish is worst of all. There are some who
can stand physical pain better than mental and vice person.
Moments ago, we wondered would Todd Stern's break under the
strain of watching the torment of his wife Tammy Wood. Tammy, Well,
let's find out, talk talk, What do you think it.
Speaker 2: Tammy.
Speaker 5: I remember now the pendulum played, descending close, closer, coming
through a dress.
Speaker 2: She is she? What? Dead? Damn you? Is she dead?
That take the corders right there in front of you.
That take the formula?
Speaker 5: Anthemy, it's Tammy dead. Did take the formula? M Now
you will if you want the answer to whether your
wife is dead or alive.
Speaker 2: I don't know. If she's dead then, and at least
she's safe from you. Uh. But if she's.
Speaker 5: Alive, I see it in your eyes, it's the agony
of not knowing.
Speaker 2: Dictate. Now, you've got more guts than I thought. I
don't know. I'm as much a coward as the next man.
Speaker 1: But you made a mistake when you left Tammy and
me alone together for those few hours.
Speaker 2: Uh huh. That's a funny thing. But I don't know why.
Speaker 5: Maybe it was just facing our last hours on Earth together,
but we really got to know each other for the
first time in our four years of married I made
a mistake. You made a mistake.
Speaker 2: You're licked, dead or alive. Tammy licked you and dead
or alive. I won't let her down, I say, excuse me,
I'll bring her in Tammy.
Speaker 3: Oh, Tarry thank god, you're a lord, darling.
Speaker 2: You are right, you are harmed, your whole. I'm fine,
You're not your hands. I can feel it.
Speaker 3: I'll calm down and I'll be all right.
Speaker 2: Not if Tod goes on refusing to give me that formula.
Speaker 3: You haven't given it to him.
Speaker 5: No, darling, I'm so glad your happiness is doomed to
a short life because.
Speaker 2: I assure you Todd is going to do what I am.
Speaker 3: No, not DoD.
Speaker 2: Oh, yes, let me say that.
Speaker 5: I I admire you, both of you, and you have
every reason to be proud of this man.
Speaker 2: You marry well. I am very but he is not
a superman.
Speaker 5: He has his breaking point, as all men do. I
haven't succeeded in reaching that point, that's all.
Speaker 2: But unless he dictates the.
Speaker 5: Formula he carries in his head, I shall take final
steps to reach his breaking point and yours quickly.
Speaker 2: Oh by the way, Uh you a little girl, Jill?
Speaker 3: What about her?
Speaker 2: I thought you wanna know? Uh?
Speaker 5: Your housekeeper an are sent for the doctor a little
while ago.
Speaker 2: Why she was I I don't know. All I have
is the report that the doctor was sent for me.
You dirty?
Speaker 5: No, Slowly, slowly, Todd, physical violence will get to nowhere.
This is part of your next torture, isn't it making
us worry about Jill's condition and what will become of
us or the two of you meet what you possibly
may meet. That you will leave me no choice but
to subject you now to the kind of torment I
tried to avoid.
Speaker 3: Well, there can't be anything worse than the pendulum.
Speaker 2: There's the pit. I see that you know something about it.
Speaker 5: I don't know anything about it, cause I see you've
heard of the pit, but it remains an unknown quantity.
Speaker 2: And it will be that.
Speaker 5: The simple fact that you don't know what awaits you
in the pit, it will break you, just as not
knowing why the doctor was called for your daughter has
shaken you. Uh once again, will you give me the formula?
Speaker 2: Then it's the pit. I'm afraid back where we started.
Speaker 5: Don't no, The pendulum, you see is again in place
in the ceiling.
Speaker 2: I will leave you alone now with just the pit.
Oh and uh, Todd.
Speaker 5: When you decide that you can't take any more and
degree to give me the formula, just say so you'll
be heard.
Speaker 3: Oh, I hope Jill's all right.
Speaker 2: Don't worry she is. There's no better doctor than doctor Lynch.
Speaker 3: He's going into her chest. You know her chest is weird.
Speaker 2: Don't worry. It's just what that louse wants or only know.
He could be lying and I never sent for the doctor.
Speaker 3: Right, I'm doing just what X wants me to do.
I'm worrying myself sick. What are you looking for?
Speaker 2: Something to drop down the pit? Worry? What for? Find
out how.
Speaker 5: Deep it is, whether the bottom is solid, are filled
with the water, soom's as bare as a bone?
Speaker 2: Though here, oh your shoe.
Speaker 3: You can buy me another pail to get out of here.
Speaker 2: I'll buy you a dozen pair. Okay, Well, here it
goes funny.
Speaker 3: They didn't hear a sound.
Speaker 2: Not a sound, no.
Speaker 5: Splash, no further of the shoe hitting anything. Nothing, A
damn thing can't be bottomless. Didn't either that or awfully
awfully deep, that's for sure.
Speaker 2: Give me another shoe. Try again. Yes, the first time
could have been so slight. We didn't pick it up. Yes,
this time listened carefully, very carefully. Ray go ahead.
Speaker 3: They didn't have a thing.
Speaker 2: Sh no, h.
Speaker 3: Let's stand back. I I don't like being so near
the edge.
Speaker 2: I don't blame you for falling in.
Speaker 3: Oh sorry, all right, I'll feel the same way.
Speaker 2: Let's sit down on the floor against the wall.
Speaker 3: Oh right, yes, that's better, Todd.
Speaker 2: Hm, the wolf feels warm. Mm it's a little too warm.
Itched to move away a bit better much.
Speaker 3: I'm sure my chair's gonna be alright. I'm just not
gonna worry about her.
Speaker 7: No, DoD that wolf for getting harder, or we'd have
to move away from it a little more and closer
to the pit.
Speaker 2: Waite a minute, now, you don't think I share? Let
me just see how God burn my hand. The waters
as hot as another one. Move over to that one.
Speaker 3: This one's as hot as the other. It's getting a horder.
Speaker 2: So that s it, don't you see? So how do
the walls get the father?
Speaker 11: We have to get something, and the closer to the
pit and until we yeah, until say all right, but
you I and we're.
Speaker 2: Moving the pit can help us. Heat from the walls
getting worse. Me and put yours around me. We are.
Speaker 3: What is done?
Speaker 2: Then do you go over the edge, so's a two
feet away?
Speaker 3: Now, then we go over?
Speaker 7: What would it have to do?
Speaker 12: Let's do what.
Speaker 2: That? I guess.
Speaker 5: Don't know we died like trying out the moon and
closer right.
Speaker 2: Bearable?
Speaker 3: You're moving to go to the edge too.
Speaker 2: I can't help me, hold me.
Speaker 5: Wait on, it's like this, I guess we wait.
Speaker 3: Wait, sweet, that doesn't seem so hot. I didn't get right.
Speaker 2: It's cool.
Speaker 3: Uh the room, he's cooler.
Speaker 2: Oh that's no back, that's old. Last long. The creeps
got something else and stuff for us. See, he didn't
go through it just to see it didn't go through
the pendulum.
Speaker 3: No, you feed it.
Speaker 2: I don't think he would have gone through it anyway?
Why not, Todd? What mister x? Todd? I can see
you and hear you.
Speaker 6: What's giving you the sudden idea that I won't go
through with things you want?
Speaker 2: The formula? True? But kill me if the formula dies
with me? True?
Speaker 6: Well, Todd, Stern's dead is worth considerable too. Oh not
as much as the formula, but considerable.
Speaker 2: Why I d I don't see why.
Speaker 6: Simple, it's worth a great deal for a certain government
to prevent another from getting the formula. Keeps the balance
of power unbalanced, you see, And now that we've settled that,
do you still refuse to change your mind?
Speaker 2: Yes? Todd I'm sorry to say that this time, I
believe you. Wait a minute, Temmy has no part of this.
Speaker 4: Now.
Speaker 5: You used her to break me down.
Speaker 2: You failed, but you used for her. Is over? Let
her go.
Speaker 3: He hasn't heard you, or if he did, he said
his final word. And I wouldn't want out anyhow. If
you die, I wanna be dead too.
Speaker 2: But it's senseless, pointless. I'm no one who has the formula,
not you. There's no point in killing you. I what's that?
What is it? Machinery is so kind? I don't know
what it's for. Yes, I do God? What looked at
the walls? Oh?
Speaker 3: Four of them moving inward.
Speaker 2: Making the room narrower and narrow und She'll.
Speaker 3: Be the space, new floor space left nothing but.
Speaker 2: X X. Listen to me. Let me go.
Speaker 5: I beg you, let her go, the world.
Speaker 3: I think I'll do it.
Speaker 2: Let me.
Speaker 5: I can't anything.
Speaker 2: I can't. You don't have to pay anymore in the house.
Were no more, No more Champagne, Tenny, no Todd. But
I want us an explanation of all. Listen, you better
make it a good one. Mister what is your name? X?
Will do?
Speaker 5: But now we know it was all a test game
or whatever it was.
Speaker 2: I would still keep my cover. I don't blame you
for being angry.
Speaker 5: Simply put, we subjected you to a test to see
how much you could take before you broke down.
Speaker 2: All operatives couriers are put through the ringer. I never
was before. I never even heard of it before.
Speaker 5: I never would have if you hadn't reached that point
in your career where we felt that you were ready.
The formula you so painstakingly memorized.
Speaker 2: Todd is worthless. There's no such thing as that bacterial weapon.
Speaker 5: Oh no, But if there were, and you were caught
by the kind of group I pretended to represent, we
had to be sure that you'd never break never reveal.
Speaker 2: It risk blowing my mind. Tammy. Now, now, you were
never in any danger of that. From start to finish.
Speaker 5: You were carefully monitored by stat psychiatrists. But you'd have
known instantly if you were in any serious difficulty.
Speaker 2: Well, I guess you'll have to do it. Yes, we
do tell me something, what or do we fall on?
Speaker 5: I mean, when I went over holding Tammy in my arms,
special foam, rubber, dozens of layers of the stuff, you
could have dropped an iron safe down that hole much
less Tanny's shoes, and you'd have heard nothing.
Speaker 2: Telling it over, you can relax about why.
Speaker 5: And what's more, Todd, you have gained something that you
didn't have before. You've learned how much you can take,
and mister, you can take it.
Speaker 2: I learned something a lot more important than that. If
you ask me, what would that be taught? I learned Emmy.
I always thought you were pretty wonderful, but you're more
than that. You're the most wonderful woman than the wife
in the world.
Speaker 1: Truth is stranger than fiction, and if you feel the
story I've just brought you is one of the strangest
you've ever heard, I can only assure you that even
the stranger things go on in this world of ours,
stranger and yes, more terrifying. Let's hope you never find
yourself involved with any of them.
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Speaker 4: But four years on end, not waiting for a ticket
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Speaker 6: Has it all all?
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money hand.
Speaker 1: Although our version of the Pit and the Pendulum was
only based on Edgar Allan Poe's story, it's to this
great master of the bizarre and this connoisseur of the
horrifying that we owe the stories, shall we say, electrifying moments.
Speaker 2: I hope you were properly shocked.
Speaker 1: Our cast included Tony Roberts, Marionseldas and Norman Rose. The
entire production was under the direction of Hyman Brown.
Speaker 5: Now a preview of our next talege He's for that. Look,
the world's common property can be developed into a major
all year resort.
Speaker 2: Will and I. We have to know how we can
do it. All we'll need if the money do on
the option. Look, there is no