Speaker 1: Tired of the everyday grind, ever dream of a life
Speaker 1: of romantic adventure.
Speaker 2: I want to get away from it all.
Speaker 3: We offer you.
Speaker 4: Escape, Escape, designed to free you from the four walls
Speaker 4: of today for a half hour of high adventure.
Speaker 1: You are on a remote island and the war torn Pacific,
Speaker 1: a paradise of tropic splendor, where sounds of battle are
Speaker 1: far behind. While walking slowly towards you our arms stretched
Speaker 1: out to you is the most beautiful girl in the
Speaker 1: world whose embrace could mean you of death.
Speaker 4: Listen now as Escape brings you Millard Kaufman's exciting story
Speaker 4: The Island.
Speaker 2: The problem was what could I do with Robert Lacy
Speaker 2: do the album? Have a dream book candy with all
Speaker 2: the charts and categories precisely arranged in alphabetical order. Well,
Speaker 2: in it you'll find a dream for loneliness, about girls
Speaker 2: and soft summary dresses. You'll find a dream for hunger
Speaker 2: two pounds steak, perhaps smothered oliver with limb chops. There
Speaker 2: are dreams for the traveler of a hometown far away
Speaker 2: and long ago. But find me a dream of a
Speaker 2: place you've never seen, a place that doesn't exist, awake
Speaker 2: or asleep, that was Lacey's dream, Corporal Robert Lacey, second Battalion,
Speaker 2: fourth Marines. Harmless enough dream, I guess, and not to
Speaker 2: be taken seriously, or so it seemed, until that night
Speaker 2: when Lacy's dream became my problem. May It was nineteen
Speaker 2: forty five in a little wood on Okinawa.
Speaker 5: Okay to Bory, and I guess I got it.
Speaker 2: Where are we anyhow?
Speaker 3: Had a couple of three mines behind jack lines. Oh fie,
Speaker 3: you'll worry.
Speaker 1: Too much power, even for a guy on his first patrol.
Speaker 2: Well, I've been thinking of it as my last.
Speaker 3: Relax like me, and you'll live forever.
Speaker 6: Oh was I nothing?
Speaker 1: There's a screaming Mimi got a kind of a tail
Speaker 1: adjustment that cuts the winds, sort of screams.
Speaker 3: Jap usually scares.
Speaker 2: Well, they sure succeeded you scare easy though, Sure, sure,
Speaker 2: I'm I'm gonna pushover for that shrekle kite stuff.
Speaker 5: Shrek likite.
Speaker 3: Yeah, what kind of jive is that?
Speaker 2: Well, it means terror of fightfulness German. German's got a
Speaker 2: whole arsenal of terror weapons.
Speaker 1: Japsy got a feel themselves.
Speaker 3: What do you say we sack in sack in here.
Speaker 3: It's as good as the next place.
Speaker 2: The lash up. It's three miles behind jap line.
Speaker 3: You got no chance of getting back tonight. Get knocked off.
Speaker 3: We tried you take the first watch. I'm gonna sack in.
Speaker 2: You're going to sleep.
Speaker 3: I don't know. Maybe I'll just sit here and dream.
Speaker 2: You're sure picking a fine time for it.
Speaker 3: Hey, I would tell you about my island.
Speaker 2: Yeah, yeah, you told me. You must have told me
Speaker 2: fifty sixty times in the past month.
Speaker 1: All right, so I'll tell you again. Now, this island.
Speaker 1: It's a sort of a special place, you see. There's
Speaker 1: no rain and no jungle rock, no war, just a quiet,
Speaker 1: cozy spot where a man can lay down under a
Speaker 1: banyan tree and live off the fat of the land.
Speaker 2: Oh, there is no such place.
Speaker 1: And honest, I want a man that never go hungry.
Speaker 1: All you gotta do is fish a little with the natives.
Speaker 3: And they're all big man, and they're.
Speaker 1: Friendly, not liking nips, and all the dames are beautiful.
Speaker 2: You know something, Lacey, you return, That's.
Speaker 1: Where I'm fixing to go as soon as I can
Speaker 1: find it. I'm never going back Stateside. I'm gonna laid
Speaker 1: down unto that little banyan.
Speaker 3: Tree and arrest.
Speaker 2: I let him rave on? What else could I argue
Speaker 2: with him? There? I was three miles deep in enemy
Speaker 2: lines with a stranger, his eyes narrowed in a thousand
Speaker 2: yards stare, rush of words like a nervous twitch. He
Speaker 2: raved on about a place that doesn't exist with me,
Speaker 2: big men and beautiful women.
Speaker 3: Like nothing you ever saw, all surrounded by the mists.
Speaker 2: And then I found myself listening it sort of hypnotized,
Speaker 2: and I learned something about corporal lacy and what combat
Speaker 2: woriness means. He foraged too long among the rotten bombs
Speaker 2: card pebbles of the Pacific olders. It seemed too much death,
Speaker 2: too many crack ups.
Speaker 3: I will back.
Speaker 2: It was himself half cracked and slightly dead, barely held
Speaker 2: together by the taut and twisted wires of his dream.
Speaker 2: So what could I do?
Speaker 3: Argue with me on the island too, And I'm gonna
Speaker 3: find me a beautiful girl.
Speaker 2: No bory, Yeah, yeah, I'm listening.
Speaker 5: Look Taburi out there coming towardoise where over there about
Speaker 5: two o'clock.
Speaker 2: There's a whole bunch of men.
Speaker 3: No, it's not a bunch of four, Three men of
Speaker 3: them and a woman.
Speaker 2: They hadn't right for us.
Speaker 3: Put that rifle down.
Speaker 1: What's the matter, you flip or something? They're not chaps.
Speaker 1: The men are too big. But it's funny the woman
Speaker 1: with him though.
Speaker 2: Maybe his eyes were better than mine. But how could
Speaker 2: I trust that brain as all festive with dreaming.
Speaker 1: But I tell you they're not Japs, and the dame
Speaker 1: is beautiful. Only i'd listened to Lacey then, if only
Speaker 1: i'd know him, but Japs and a Japs.
Speaker 2: I was taking no chances. I raised my rifle and.
Speaker 3: Not that off hit the woman. Now I'm gonna see
Speaker 3: if she is hurt back.
Speaker 2: Come on, Lacy's lay tone goes, you know that Jackson
Speaker 2: might be a trick.
Speaker 3: Don't worry about me, Lick go listen.
Speaker 2: You get yourself killed, not me, for you.
Speaker 3: I'll live to spit in your grave.
Speaker 4: Now lit call me all right, all right, I just
Speaker 4: hold you know what you're doing.
Speaker 2: I don't want to get involved in New York Cocker
Speaker 2: many dreams, you know, dreams.
Speaker 3: It's no dream so Bory you'll find.
Speaker 2: Out, okay, Lacey, So where is she? That's funny.
Speaker 3: She must be around here somewhere.
Speaker 2: Maybe we may what's that.
Speaker 3: They came from over there. Come on, Ah, there she is.
Speaker 2: She's scared of.
Speaker 3: Us, lady.
Speaker 1: It's all right, lady. Hi, No, we won't hurt you.
Speaker 6: Lady, I I heard you.
Speaker 3: Gosh, she's bluffing her. I got your first daid. H yeah,
Speaker 3: look lady, let me fix your arm. Huh.
Speaker 1: You see, we we got bandages, had easy tape.
Speaker 3: And a seller.
Speaker 2: She don't get what you're talking about, and she.
Speaker 3: Gets the idea. All right, that's right, lady. Just won't
Speaker 3: hurt a bit.
Speaker 1: Eh, you just got nicked a little, that's said, just
Speaker 1: a flesh wound.
Speaker 3: She trust you, Yeah, she trust me more than you do.
Speaker 3: Didn't I tell you?
Speaker 2: She was beautiful? And you told me a lot of things.
Speaker 2: How about the men? She was with? The big men?
Speaker 1: She was with 'em, and they weren't jabs, not jopp
Speaker 1: in a pig's eye, not jabbo.
Speaker 3: There you see?
Speaker 2: Well then what were they?
Speaker 6: The whoa? Ah? You see my people?
Speaker 2: Who are you? What are you? What's your name?
Speaker 1: Name?
Speaker 6: Takey?
Speaker 7: I am.
Speaker 6: No, can't see in English? But please go away, please
Speaker 6: if you go away fast?
Speaker 2: Now?
Speaker 1: You scared her again, Look, dokey, it's all right. Everything's
Speaker 1: gonna be all right, you just come with us.
Speaker 6: No, I go home. Let's go home.
Speaker 3: So go home, scram Lady loves yourself. Oh no, you don't, lady,
Speaker 3: you'll keep up.
Speaker 2: Let her go, Let her go back to a rice.
Speaker 2: Cattie were here?
Speaker 3: You still don't catch to bory. She A'm from Okinawa.
Speaker 3: She's from that island I was telling you about from
Speaker 3: your goshy you goushy she shea must say shama means island.
Speaker 6: Yes, I am all right?
Speaker 2: All right? Then what are you doing here?
Speaker 7: I do not know?
Speaker 6: Would your Panese bring on canoe?
Speaker 2: She's crazy than you are? Whoever? Shut up?
Speaker 3: Takey? Where is your island? Huh? Where is Yo? Gotchi?
Speaker 6: In east? In China? Sea A stay from Okinawa? My canoe?
Speaker 2: Canoe?
Speaker 3: Well, what's it like, Taki?
Speaker 2: Well? What's your island? Lay lacy? Never mind the got them?
Speaker 2: Let's find that canoe. Come on, don't you see where
Speaker 2: the canoe? We can get back to our lines by water.
Speaker 1: Yeah, I think you've got something there, Taki, can you
Speaker 1: find a canoe?
Speaker 3: I come on.
Speaker 2: Let's go. She led us on through the wood. A
Speaker 2: lopsided moon came up and its rays filled through the
Speaker 2: clouds and downs of the jagged trees in the moonlight.
Speaker 2: She was like one of those porcelain figurines, delicate with
Speaker 2: a peculiar tint to her skin. I'm like anything id
Speaker 2: of it seen before. It's like the shade of waxed ivory,
Speaker 2: ancient ivory. Her hair was long and black, drawn tight
Speaker 2: over her head. She was straight and slim. She walked
Speaker 2: with dignity. She was beautiful, as beautiful as a dream,
Speaker 2: Lacy's dream. But dreams don't come true, not like this yet.
Speaker 2: Here she was just the way he described and the
Speaker 2: three men and the island that I couldn't figure it
Speaker 2: out because just then I didn't have time. Lacy. Yeah,
Speaker 2: come on, Tucky, let us down a slope to the water.
Speaker 2: There were canoes and leaning against a prow with two sentries.
Speaker 2: They were safe, They thought three miles behind their lines
Speaker 2: snug is two bugs in a mosquito, and that they
Speaker 2: were so safe they didn't know what hit on.
Speaker 3: Turkey in the canoe. Huh, all right, push off to
Speaker 3: Bori yo, if you take a bow. Huh, sit down, coming,
Speaker 3: we're to straight up in the channel. You know what
Speaker 3: I think, Huh? I think we're gonna.
Speaker 1: Make it okay to Bory, we can take it easy.
Speaker 2: Now I'm not taking it easy. Little cross our perimeter.
Speaker 3: How you're gonna tell at night? Oh, maybe you think
Speaker 3: I got neon signs.
Speaker 1: Huh, Well maybe we're seal landmark or something. Distances can
Speaker 1: fool you at night, we're able to paddle right into
Speaker 1: a platoon of nips.
Speaker 2: They were to we do, Lacy, it'll.
Speaker 1: Stand by the morning and head for our convoy.
Speaker 3: We'll ride ashore in style, in an LST.
Speaker 2: I don't know.
Speaker 3: I think it'd be better for Look whatever, you think,
Speaker 3: you're out voted. You're out voted two stripes to.
Speaker 1: One when you're pulling rank corporal. Well why not knucklehead?
Speaker 1: The ship's got one skipper and I met, Oh, you're
Speaker 1: like a lot.
Speaker 3: I want any stuff out of you. I'll knock it
Speaker 3: on you now more thing. You don't fill up this detail?
Speaker 2: So what was I going to do? Argue with you?
Speaker 2: Start a private firefight in the middle of the China Sea.
Speaker 2: I was getting a little combat worry myself. But Lacy,
Speaker 2: he was all charged up, as though his crazy dream
Speaker 2: had come true. Lying on the narrow deck of the
Speaker 2: knew I could hear Lacy and the more I heard,
Speaker 2: the more confused I got.
Speaker 3: It's not like other islands.
Speaker 6: Is a tucky?
Speaker 2: Is what different?
Speaker 6: I wish I could tell you.
Speaker 3: How I know it's pretty.
Speaker 6: He's very pretty.
Speaker 1: It is sufficient good, it's good, and we have teeth.
Speaker 3: Car I knew it.
Speaker 2: I knew it. Cows and pigs and Lacy getting all
Speaker 2: it's hopped up about them. Well, that was the last
Speaker 2: thing I remembered. I guess I fell asleep, and then
Speaker 2: suddenly it.
Speaker 3: Was daylight and I look to Bory. What look over there?
Speaker 3: What do you see?
Speaker 2: An island? Just an island.
Speaker 3: It's not just an island. That's my island.
Speaker 2: What's a special about it?
Speaker 3: We look at it. It's surrounded by myst just like
Speaker 3: a tell it to.
Speaker 2: The troops when we get back to Okinawa.
Speaker 1: But to BORI stand by for a ram. We ain't
Speaker 1: going back to Okinawa. Hey, no, wait, I don't want
Speaker 1: any more trouble from you, Tobori.
Speaker 2: Well, and don't make any your og Hey what looking?
Speaker 2: You're right boom.
Speaker 3: I don't bother because I got it right here.
Speaker 2: Now you get born, You're crazy?
Speaker 3: Want to move to Bory. You're flirting with a purple heart.
Speaker 3: All right, now, lean on that paddle. That's right, we're
Speaker 3: heading for you. Gotchi.
Speaker 2: Our canoe scraped the coral beach that you got you
Speaker 2: about four hours later. It was a lovely island with
Speaker 2: terraced hills and patches of tilled soil checkering the greenery.
Speaker 3: Well, Sean's believe that's a Bory.
Speaker 2: I wouldn't believe it so close to Okinaw? Where are
Speaker 2: your people?
Speaker 3: Taki O over here?
Speaker 6: But you must not come you.
Speaker 3: No, I'm sticking around. How about you to bury? Oh?
Speaker 2: I came this for us? What d not just for last?
Speaker 3: Are you're going to laugh out of the wrong side
Speaker 3: of your face?
Speaker 7: What you mean?
Speaker 2: That's just a figure of speech talking. Let's go. So there.
Speaker 2: I was caught up in Lacey's dream when all the
Speaker 2: time I should have taken off at high poort for Okinawa.
Speaker 2: I should have known better, but I didn't. And what
Speaker 2: you don't know can hurt you.
Speaker 3: Hey, look at that car to Bory.
Speaker 2: I could eat it out of the hole.
Speaker 3: I tell you, I'm going to live off the feederal land.
Speaker 2: The trails snaked upward, and there were scarlet flowers and
Speaker 2: lilies and the sword grass, all very nice. I suppose,
Speaker 2: but I was looking for people, the big men of
Speaker 2: Lacey's dream. The girl's all as lovely as the girl
Speaker 2: beside us. I was tense with expectancy at each bend
Speaker 2: in the trail. But Lacey's tensions had all vanished. He
Speaker 2: lost them because he had found Taki.
Speaker 6: Oh but.
Speaker 3: No, Daky, my name's Lacey. No not try once more?
Speaker 2: Gray, Lacey Tacky a.
Speaker 3: Hell like in the this is a lily, You are
Speaker 3: a lady and your local the bory. I'm gonna sluck you.
Speaker 7: You.
Speaker 6: You were so funny, racy.
Speaker 1: When you laugh, you laugh nice, Tucky.
Speaker 6: It is first time in five years. It is time
Speaker 6: I am happy.
Speaker 1: Maybe you were waiting for me to make you happy
Speaker 1: like I was waiting for you.
Speaker 6: What do you mean, Lacy?
Speaker 1: Well, I I mean, oh well here.
Speaker 3: This is for you.
Speaker 6: Why you give me flower?
Speaker 2: I love you, Turkey.
Speaker 6: No, No, you can't know.
Speaker 3: Why, Tucky.
Speaker 6: You don't know. I don't know how to say. You
Speaker 6: do not know me.
Speaker 1: I know you have been dreaming about you for two
Speaker 1: years and you find you.
Speaker 6: I never fucking what you'll say.
Speaker 3: I'll never let you forget.
Speaker 1: Oh La, Lacey, honey, hell, I can love.
Speaker 2: They walked on together up the trail, a tall marine
Speaker 2: and a slim girl with the ivory skin with a
Speaker 2: flower in her hand. Now and then she'd look at
Speaker 2: the flower, and then she'd look at Lacy in a
Speaker 2: pained expression of cloud her face. And though she didn't understand,
Speaker 2: I didn't either, But I had to find out. Man,
Speaker 2: what a client there ought to be easier for. I
Speaker 2: give me back my rifle.
Speaker 3: Don't worry about me. I'll get by.
Speaker 2: Oh we got it like this the summer, the.
Speaker 6: Highest point on you're got you see down there? Follow
Speaker 6: me and body right.
Speaker 3: Hey, look look at them my people. I told you
Speaker 3: they were big men.
Speaker 2: How can you tell from this distance?
Speaker 3: Well, look how broad they are.
Speaker 2: It's funny how they're all on a bunch like, hey, listen.
Speaker 5: What maybe it's what you call it a ceremony or something.
Speaker 6: Huh it is?
Speaker 3: Well, maybe it's for us. I bet they know we're coming.
Speaker 6: No, it's for with it.
Speaker 3: What happened?
Speaker 2: You suppose that the war the.
Speaker 6: Wall was here. It's just my people die.
Speaker 1: Everybody's people die. He's just gotta happen sooner or later.
Speaker 2: Never heard. It's a well point.
Speaker 3: Why don't you drop dead to Bori, let's go talking.
Speaker 2: We went down the mountain side, down to a cape
Speaker 2: that jutted into the Pacific like a narl finger of doom.
Speaker 2: Bar away, we saw a village. We headed toward it
Speaker 2: through a sunless gorge. At the far end was a
Speaker 2: thatched hut. Looks like it's empty, as any fool could see.
Speaker 6: You wait here. I come back soon with Hitman.
Speaker 1: You speak English, No, Bory, you.
Speaker 3: You're gonna stay here with me?
Speaker 2: No, I see. I just want one good look at
Speaker 2: your big men and beautiful women in the native habitat,
Speaker 2: and I'm off for Oknawa.
Speaker 3: He's still won't proof.
Speaker 2: Yeah, And there's something strange about this place. I want
Speaker 2: to know what it is.
Speaker 3: It's not strange, it's just different.
Speaker 2: Like I say, you're all fouled up lacy in a dream.
Speaker 2: I'm not sure what it's all about, but I gotta
Speaker 2: find out or it'll drive me crazy the rest of
Speaker 2: my life.
Speaker 3: You mean crazy like me.
Speaker 2: I didn't say that.
Speaker 3: You know, since we left Okanawa you've been giving me
Speaker 3: a bad time.
Speaker 2: That's mutually.
Speaker 3: Now you just call me crazy.
Speaker 2: I know what I said, I know what you think.
Speaker 3: I know what you'll do.
Speaker 1: Once you get back to Kanawa, you'll tell the MPs
Speaker 1: I went over the hill, and you'll tell them where
Speaker 1: I am.
Speaker 3: They'll come after me.
Speaker 2: You are crazy.
Speaker 3: I'm just crazy enough to make sure you keep your
Speaker 3: trap shut. You remember Tobori, I said I'd be around
Speaker 3: to spit in your grave.
Speaker 2: He stopped kidding. Wrong with that rifle.
Speaker 1: I'm kidding. I'm gonna kill you, Tobory. But first you're
Speaker 1: gonna see I was right. I want to see the
Speaker 1: expression on that smart, I like face of yours when
Speaker 1: you admit.
Speaker 3: It, and then I'm gonna kill you.
Speaker 2: I get back in that corner. Keep you my shout.
Speaker 3: Hello you the headman.
Speaker 2: I suppose you could call me that?
Speaker 6: His name Eroshi?
Speaker 8: What can I do for you?
Speaker 1: I I want to stay here well with Taki.
Speaker 8: I'm afraid you cannot well.
Speaker 3: I work my way.
Speaker 8: That is not the point you look.
Speaker 1: I don't want no arguments out of you.
Speaker 2: You can't not stay well? Why she is a leper?
Speaker 1: Huh?
Speaker 6: But she.
Speaker 2: She's so beautiful.
Speaker 8: Yes, I know, my son, but in three years, five years, god.
Speaker 6: Kid, I try to tell you what I did not
Speaker 6: know how, but then I w if I wanted to,
Speaker 6: I wanted to do last, one more, one more me.
Speaker 2: They stood there facing each other, the tall marine and
Speaker 2: the girl with the ivory skin, with the flowers still
Speaker 2: in her hand. Hour already beginning the world.
Speaker 6: Good bye, thank you, through the floor.
Speaker 2: Can't you go? I? Uh you hiroshi? What's this all about?
Speaker 8: Which is quite simple? Two nights ago the Japanese came
Speaker 8: to the leper colony. They took more than half my
Speaker 8: patients to okn hour, headed toward the American High Book.
Speaker 8: Why to disrupt your advance? There was no chance of contagion?
Speaker 8: But well, my patients do not all look as lovely
Speaker 8: as turkey. I see Shrek like exactly, the weapon of terror.
Speaker 1: Yeah, don't glory? Yeah, all right, I guess we're better
Speaker 1: move out. You're ready pout? Yeah, it's a long road.
Speaker 2: Back to o Canawa.
Speaker 8: For me is that.
Speaker 3: The road back is longer than that.
Speaker 7: The correction of any Ellens, those brought to the islands
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Speaker 7: William Conrad's lay. The cabs were Michael and Bellett, Jack
Speaker 7: and Robert Ediponial supervisess by John Beson, and the special
Speaker 7: music for Escape is composed and conducted by a beak stupid.
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