WEBVTT 1 00:00:01.879 --> 00:00:07.679 Tired of the everyday grind, ever dream of a life 2 00:00:07.719 --> 00:00:14.160 of romantic adventure, want to get away from it all? 3 00:00:16.359 --> 00:00:17.160 We offer you. 4 00:00:19.000 --> 00:00:26.079 Escape, Escape, designed to free you from the four walls 5 00:00:26.079 --> 00:00:28.960 of to day for a half hour of high adventure. 6 00:00:43.240 --> 00:00:47.320 You are the subject of an experiment, an experiment to 7 00:00:47.520 --> 00:00:52.840 make you the most powerful man on earth, while if 8 00:00:52.880 --> 00:00:58.000 it succeeds from that moment, he will be forever locked 9 00:00:58.039 --> 00:01:03.679 in a world from which there can be no escape. 10 00:01:04.079 --> 00:01:08.560 So listen now as Escape brings you Irving Riese's extraordinary story, 11 00:01:09.200 --> 00:01:25.319 The Man from Tomorrow. 12 00:01:33.879 --> 00:01:36.040 It started with a wand ad in the daily paper. 13 00:01:37.040 --> 00:01:39.680 Wanted X fighter pilot must be in perfect health and 14 00:01:39.760 --> 00:01:43.799 prepared for rigid tests. Successful candidate will receive good pay 15 00:01:43.840 --> 00:01:45.959 and will be give an opportunity to contribute a daring 16 00:01:46.040 --> 00:01:50.959 experiment and world betterment. Science Associates, One twenty sixth West Street. 17 00:01:53.159 --> 00:01:55.159 One twenty sixth West Street turned out to be one 18 00:01:55.159 --> 00:01:59.439 of those ultra modern super scientific buildings. No windows, and 19 00:01:59.519 --> 00:02:01.719 they are canitioned as cool as a north wind of 20 00:02:01.799 --> 00:02:08.560 an iceberg. About sixty guys, it answered the ad, Hi, Major, Hi, Randy, 21 00:02:08.879 --> 00:02:13.039 It's been a long time. Some of the faces were familiar, 22 00:02:13.360 --> 00:02:16.680 guys that had been in my fighter wing. We sat there, 23 00:02:17.080 --> 00:02:24.800 sixty of us, and waited an hour two hours, nothing happened. 24 00:02:25.120 --> 00:02:27.120 I don't know about you, guys. I'm getting out of here. 25 00:02:27.199 --> 00:02:29.520 This place gives me claustrophobia. 26 00:02:32.400 --> 00:02:36.120 It's lot. We're locked in here. But even before this 27 00:02:36.199 --> 00:02:38.240 had a chance to sink in, another door open on 28 00:02:38.280 --> 00:02:39.719 the far side of the room, a guy with a 29 00:02:39.719 --> 00:02:42.080 white mask on his face came in carrying a Thompson 30 00:02:42.159 --> 00:02:49.479 submachine gun. Hey heck, they all flattened on the floor 31 00:02:49.520 --> 00:02:51.039 except me. I made a dash for the man of 32 00:02:51.039 --> 00:02:53.080 the mask, but he disappeared as quickly as he'd come. 33 00:02:54.000 --> 00:02:55.599 How come you didn't hit the floor? Didn't you tired 34 00:02:55.639 --> 00:02:57.680 of living? You were shooting blanks? Couldn't you see you 35 00:02:57.680 --> 00:02:59.840 were any bullets? Chipping anything? That was a gag? 36 00:03:00.039 --> 00:03:00.759 And I don't like this. 37 00:03:00.800 --> 00:03:02.439 Come on, let's crash the door and get out of 38 00:03:02.439 --> 00:03:04.960 this rat save it, Save it, Randy won't do any good. 39 00:03:05.560 --> 00:03:07.520 They can keep us bottle up till they're good and 40 00:03:07.560 --> 00:03:08.560 ready to let us go. 41 00:03:11.000 --> 00:03:12.280 And then something else. 42 00:03:13.280 --> 00:03:17.120 Thick black acrid smoke pouring out of the air conditioning vents, 43 00:03:18.080 --> 00:03:23.319 and a sound from somewhere an airplane diving. Every pilot 44 00:03:23.360 --> 00:03:26.000 remembers what horror the smell of burning oil from a 45 00:03:26.000 --> 00:03:31.560 plane out of control. He hit us way back in 46 00:03:31.680 --> 00:03:34.919 deep dark. Some of the guys got penticuted. I pushed 47 00:03:34.960 --> 00:03:37.719 Randy down to the floor. You get more head out 48 00:03:37.719 --> 00:03:51.759 of hire relaxed. Then the blowers reversed and that smoke 49 00:03:51.919 --> 00:03:56.400 was sucked out quickly, and a loud streaker cut in 50 00:03:56.520 --> 00:04:00.520 from nowhere. Please tay quiet down, fellow fly it don't 51 00:04:00.560 --> 00:04:01.120 take it easy. 52 00:04:03.400 --> 00:04:05.879 For the past two hours you have been under close 53 00:04:05.960 --> 00:04:09.639 observation as a necessary part of this test. You will 54 00:04:09.639 --> 00:04:12.400 want in advance the test would be rigid. As you 55 00:04:12.439 --> 00:04:14.719 file out past the guard, you will receive a token 56 00:04:14.800 --> 00:04:18.279 compensation for your time and discomfort. We now ask you 57 00:04:18.319 --> 00:04:20.680 all to leave, except the man who ran for the gunner. 58 00:04:21.560 --> 00:04:26.040 The door is now open. Thank you. 59 00:04:29.160 --> 00:04:33.519 Looks like you got the job. Major looks like I'm 60 00:04:33.519 --> 00:04:37.439 gonna shove it right back in their faces, righty. Well, 61 00:04:39.519 --> 00:04:48.480 so yeah, so already take it easy. 62 00:04:48.319 --> 00:04:48.399 So. 63 00:04:51.000 --> 00:04:53.560 Yeah your name please. 64 00:04:54.360 --> 00:04:58.240 Well, I highly expected to find a blunt at the 65 00:04:58.240 --> 00:04:58.800 bottom of this. 66 00:04:59.120 --> 00:04:59.759 You will come with me. 67 00:04:59.759 --> 00:05:02.920 Please don't give me orders, Blundy. I just want to 68 00:05:02.920 --> 00:05:06.000 see the guy responsible for this, then I'm getting out 69 00:05:06.000 --> 00:05:06.279 of here. 70 00:05:07.000 --> 00:05:09.160 I take it you have lost interest in contributing to 71 00:05:09.199 --> 00:05:10.439 the world benefits. 72 00:05:10.439 --> 00:05:12.759 And what it said in the ad, well, whatever your 73 00:05:12.879 --> 00:05:15.839 lofty purpose, I don't like cold blood of cruelty. 74 00:05:16.639 --> 00:05:20.839 Unfortunately, personal feelings cannot enter into these steps toward our objectives. 75 00:05:20.920 --> 00:05:22.439 Then your objectives are wrong. 76 00:05:22.959 --> 00:05:24.680 You will be better able to judge that when you 77 00:05:24.720 --> 00:05:25.279 know what they are. 78 00:05:25.399 --> 00:05:28.680 I don't think I'm interested, And if I may have 79 00:05:28.720 --> 00:05:33.079 a personal feeling, callousness is unattractive enough in a man. 80 00:05:33.399 --> 00:05:37.199 Neither your feelings nor mine will matter in this project. Major, 81 00:05:37.519 --> 00:05:38.439 I understand. 82 00:05:38.120 --> 00:05:43.279 What it was, mister mister Kenman. The war is over, Miss. 83 00:05:43.160 --> 00:05:44.319 Doctor Frost. 84 00:05:45.920 --> 00:05:50.040 Poetic, I beg your pardon nothing, I sometimes mutter to myself, 85 00:05:51.480 --> 00:05:51.959 if it is. 86 00:05:52.000 --> 00:05:55.759 Possible for you to unlock your quite superior intellect from 87 00:05:55.759 --> 00:06:00.920 emotional reactions common to schoolgirls and fishwives, My senior colleague, 88 00:06:00.920 --> 00:06:03.240 Professor Baird, and I will attempt to convince you on 89 00:06:03.319 --> 00:06:06.519 the only basis that it should appeal to a mature mind. 90 00:06:07.319 --> 00:06:34.399 Facts by all means, Doctor Frost. Ah, But Professor Baird, 91 00:06:34.439 --> 00:06:36.839 where'd you get the notion of asking for fighter pilots? 92 00:06:36.879 --> 00:06:37.199 Simple? 93 00:06:37.839 --> 00:06:40.480 Only one man in ten thousand was able to qualify 94 00:06:40.600 --> 00:06:44.600 mentally and physical for fighter training. Additional eliminations due to 95 00:06:44.680 --> 00:06:48.399 flunk outs, mortality, and training and combat brings the total 96 00:06:48.439 --> 00:06:51.680 to one in twenty thousand. The standards we applied during 97 00:06:51.720 --> 00:06:54.360 the two hours in which we observed your every action 98 00:06:54.519 --> 00:06:59.040 and reaction raises the mathematical incidence of your sensory acuity 99 00:06:59.480 --> 00:07:01.839 toroximately one in one hundred thousand. 100 00:07:01.959 --> 00:07:02.639 I'm flattered. 101 00:07:03.360 --> 00:07:06.800 You'll have greater reason to be If our experiment proved successful, 102 00:07:07.519 --> 00:07:09.759 you will be the only man on earth possessed of 103 00:07:09.839 --> 00:07:10.560 your powers. 104 00:07:11.399 --> 00:07:12.959 He will be the man from tomorrow. 105 00:07:13.000 --> 00:07:15.560 How do you propose to God about that? We will 106 00:07:15.560 --> 00:07:16.240 first show. 107 00:07:16.079 --> 00:07:19.639 You how we've trained other individuals, Doctor Frost, Will you 108 00:07:19.680 --> 00:07:20.759 proceed with the demonstration? 109 00:07:23.439 --> 00:07:29.639 Come in, mister Logan. Mister Logan, have you ever been 110 00:07:29.680 --> 00:07:31.399 in this part of the laboratories before? 111 00:07:32.959 --> 00:07:33.040 No? 112 00:07:33.759 --> 00:07:34.959 Would you describe it please? 113 00:07:36.600 --> 00:07:42.319 It is a rectangular room forty by twenty. The ceiling 114 00:07:42.519 --> 00:07:47.759 is eighteen and a half feet high. There's a guest 115 00:07:48.800 --> 00:07:53.480 twelve feet from me, slightly to my right. There are 116 00:07:54.000 --> 00:07:55.360 two people seated at it. 117 00:07:57.120 --> 00:07:58.240 One has just risen. 118 00:07:58.439 --> 00:07:59.959 That will be all, thank you, mister Logan. 119 00:08:05.439 --> 00:08:06.439 Well, mister kinman. 120 00:08:06.920 --> 00:08:10.160 That'd be very impressive if any schoolboy with normal vision 121 00:08:10.199 --> 00:08:11.079 couldn't do us well. 122 00:08:11.079 --> 00:08:14.560 Agreed, mister Logan is totally blind. 123 00:08:21.920 --> 00:08:25.040 Looking back now, I can hardly believe my own impressions. 124 00:08:25.839 --> 00:08:28.439 A blind man was followed by a deaf mute, then 125 00:08:28.480 --> 00:08:31.399 by a paraplegic could lost all sense of touch and smell. 126 00:08:32.399 --> 00:08:34.320 The demonstrations were incredible. 127 00:08:34.480 --> 00:08:38.080 Not one of these persons possessed physical senses above the average. 128 00:08:38.559 --> 00:08:41.039 The deprivation of one sense or another in the case 129 00:08:41.080 --> 00:08:44.000 of the blind of a deaf man, stimulated nature's desire 130 00:08:44.080 --> 00:08:45.200 to compensate for the loss. 131 00:08:45.200 --> 00:08:46.320 But what are you trying to prove? 132 00:08:46.399 --> 00:08:49.919 That man has powers even now that are beyond his comprehension. 133 00:08:50.639 --> 00:08:55.480 We wish to explore those powers. Suppose one, one nearly 134 00:08:55.559 --> 00:08:59.840 perfect man with superior sensory perception to begin with, could 135 00:08:59.840 --> 00:09:02.639 have developed the extension of his five senses to the 136 00:09:02.679 --> 00:09:04.519 maximum degree we've just observed. 137 00:09:05.399 --> 00:09:09.440 What do you think would happen? I don't know, neither 138 00:09:09.480 --> 00:09:10.879 do we, but it is. 139 00:09:10.840 --> 00:09:14.080 Our conviction that this man would also acquire a new sense, 140 00:09:14.440 --> 00:09:17.240 a sixth sense, that would endow him with a power 141 00:09:17.320 --> 00:09:21.279 never dreamed of before. Don't you think it's a dimension 142 00:09:21.320 --> 00:09:22.200 worth exploring. 143 00:09:24.080 --> 00:09:28.000 Maybe how could anybody accomplish that. 144 00:09:27.879 --> 00:09:32.120 By training, by producing the circumstances that surround the blind man, 145 00:09:32.279 --> 00:09:35.200 the deaf man, and the handicap. You would have to 146 00:09:35.240 --> 00:09:37.399 agree to cut yourself off from the outside world for 147 00:09:37.440 --> 00:09:40.159 three years. You would spend six months living in a 148 00:09:40.200 --> 00:09:45.159 pitch dark laboratory. You would eat, sleep, eat, function in 149 00:09:45.159 --> 00:09:46.200 a world of darkness. 150 00:09:46.279 --> 00:09:48.879 We will use various sound devices to train and measure 151 00:09:48.919 --> 00:09:52.320 your hearing responses. After that, six months will be devoted 152 00:09:52.320 --> 00:09:54.679 to simulating the world of the deaf, mute, and so on. 153 00:09:54.960 --> 00:09:57.240 You will be paid twenty thousand dollars at the end 154 00:09:57.240 --> 00:10:00.759 of the three years. All the necessity of living will 155 00:10:00.759 --> 00:10:02.360 be provided during that time. 156 00:10:02.759 --> 00:10:04.559 Then a test will be made, and. 157 00:10:04.639 --> 00:10:07.759 If our predictions are realized, you will be signed for 158 00:10:07.840 --> 00:10:11.559 an additional five years at twenty thousand dollars per year. 159 00:10:12.240 --> 00:10:14.759 Doctor Frost will be in charge of the training program. 160 00:10:15.759 --> 00:10:17.279 Do you wish to undertake it? 161 00:10:18.000 --> 00:10:28.720 Well, that's pretty serious, move. 162 00:10:28.600 --> 00:10:31.200 I like to think about it. 163 00:10:31.519 --> 00:10:34.559 You have all the facts, clearly, mister Kinman. We would 164 00:10:34.600 --> 00:10:35.200 like a decision. 165 00:10:35.240 --> 00:10:38.840 Now you think feeling might enter into my considerations? Doctor, 166 00:10:38.840 --> 00:10:40.279 that what you're afraid of afraid. 167 00:10:41.360 --> 00:10:44.440 Fear is merely an emotion, mister Kinman, I have learned 168 00:10:44.480 --> 00:10:49.399 to control all my emotions. I wonder I beg your pardon. 169 00:10:49.720 --> 00:10:53.360 I was muttering again. What I meant to say is 170 00:10:53.399 --> 00:11:05.320 I agree to want to take your experiment. We will 171 00:11:05.360 --> 00:11:09.000 return to Escape in just a moment. But first, forest fires, 172 00:11:09.120 --> 00:11:12.440 nine out of every ten are made by man, So 173 00:11:12.639 --> 00:11:16.840 redouble your efforts to eliminate forest fires. Crush out every cigarette, 174 00:11:17.080 --> 00:11:19.519 break matches in two and grind them with your fingers. 175 00:11:20.080 --> 00:11:23.879 Douse down campfires and turn them over until no ember remains. 176 00:11:24.519 --> 00:11:28.039 Save a fortune in property, and save human lives. 177 00:11:29.240 --> 00:11:52.080 And now back to Escape. 178 00:11:54.320 --> 00:11:56.799 I was given two days to settle my affairs, such 179 00:11:56.840 --> 00:11:59.720 as they were. It meant saying goodbye to my landlady 180 00:11:59.720 --> 00:12:04.559 and bag. And then I reported back to Scientific Associates, 181 00:12:05.120 --> 00:12:09.039 to doctor Frost of the beautiful face and figure all 182 00:12:09.120 --> 00:12:15.480 Ice and Professor Baird Tall, quiet and clinical. I was 183 00:12:15.559 --> 00:12:19.159 led into a pitch dark room, blacker than the blackest night, 184 00:12:19.399 --> 00:12:22.000 that was to be my home for six months. It 185 00:12:22.120 --> 00:12:24.960 had a bad bathroom closets. All I had to do 186 00:12:25.080 --> 00:12:28.320 was find them. I won't waste time telling you what 187 00:12:28.360 --> 00:12:30.360 that was like. Just close your eyes tight and try 188 00:12:30.360 --> 00:12:32.960 to find your way around a room that's familiar to you, 189 00:12:32.840 --> 00:12:36.120 and you'll get the idea. I was still stumbling around 190 00:12:36.120 --> 00:12:38.840 three weeks later when I reported for my daily training 191 00:12:38.960 --> 00:12:42.000 with doctor Frost in the adjoining laboratory, which was even 192 00:12:42.080 --> 00:12:43.240 blacker if possible. 193 00:12:44.519 --> 00:12:46.480 Don't are you hurt? 194 00:12:46.720 --> 00:12:48.919 No, you wouldn't care if I broke my leg. 195 00:12:49.679 --> 00:12:50.840 There is a chair nearby. 196 00:12:51.000 --> 00:12:52.399 I know, I just fell over it. 197 00:12:53.399 --> 00:12:55.960 Now we can begin as soon as you're settled. 198 00:13:00.000 --> 00:13:04.080 It's so dark. I'd have to apologize for wearing my pajamas. 199 00:13:04.559 --> 00:13:05.720 Don't you like dressing? 200 00:13:06.000 --> 00:13:06.200 Oh? 201 00:13:06.240 --> 00:13:10.879 I love it when I can find my pants. 202 00:13:12.080 --> 00:13:16.200 Today's exercise will be recognition of pure tones. Here is 203 00:13:16.240 --> 00:13:24.639 an example that is one thousand cycles, or one thousand 204 00:13:24.759 --> 00:13:32.559 vibrations per second, stripped of all harmonics. 205 00:13:33.480 --> 00:13:37.840 What would you say that was, oh, eleven hundred, It. 206 00:13:37.759 --> 00:13:41.200 Is fifteen hundred cycles. Now, please tell me when you 207 00:13:41.240 --> 00:13:43.480 begin to hear the next tone and what the frequency is. 208 00:13:51.720 --> 00:13:54.720 I couldn't make the slightest dent in that glacial reserve. 209 00:13:55.960 --> 00:13:57.879 Tried to measure in her own game for a while, 210 00:13:57.919 --> 00:14:02.399 but she loved it, and I'm new anyway. At the 211 00:14:02.440 --> 00:14:04.960 end of the sixth month. I could ramble through the 212 00:14:05.000 --> 00:14:08.399 whole place and never stub my toe. It was amazing 213 00:14:08.399 --> 00:14:10.879 how you learned to sense things in the dark and 214 00:14:10.960 --> 00:14:27.600 what your ears could do. Eight hundred oh four thousand. 215 00:14:31.720 --> 00:14:36.480 Out good, excellent, mister Kinman. You're twenty decipels greater than 216 00:14:36.480 --> 00:14:37.200 the average ear. 217 00:14:37.399 --> 00:14:40.879 That's very good, Doctor Frost. I can't see you, but 218 00:14:41.279 --> 00:14:43.039 do I take a note of enthusiasm in. 219 00:14:43.039 --> 00:14:46.639 Your voice satisfaction the experiment. 220 00:14:46.320 --> 00:14:47.000 Mister Frost. 221 00:14:47.039 --> 00:14:48.480 Have you ever let yourself go? 222 00:14:50.879 --> 00:14:54.840 Mister Hillman, I'm not nearly so naive as you assume, 223 00:14:55.639 --> 00:14:58.840 nor have any of your innu windows or mumblings. For 224 00:14:58.879 --> 00:15:02.279 the past six months. I told you in the beginning 225 00:15:02.279 --> 00:15:05.559 that neither your feelings nor mine would have any bearing 226 00:15:05.559 --> 00:15:05.799 on you. 227 00:15:05.840 --> 00:15:07.080 I haven't answered my question. 228 00:15:08.320 --> 00:15:12.480 I am fully aware of the nature of biological stresses. 229 00:15:12.480 --> 00:15:13.840 In a scientific way. 230 00:15:13.960 --> 00:15:16.919 Of course, what distinguishes man from the animal is his 231 00:15:17.039 --> 00:15:20.080 understanding of these stresses, but mostly his control. 232 00:15:20.240 --> 00:15:22.759 Control is a traffic cup with a stop sign, Doctor, 233 00:15:22.879 --> 00:15:25.519 Eventually the traffic has to go somewhere. 234 00:15:26.039 --> 00:15:29.480 I can understand the frustration of your masculine ego, especially 235 00:15:29.519 --> 00:15:32.159 in this forced loneliness of the experiment, But we have 236 00:15:32.279 --> 00:15:36.480 only begun. We have two years or more ago. The 237 00:15:36.519 --> 00:15:39.879 first phase is highly successful. As a scientist, I am very. 238 00:15:39.720 --> 00:15:43.639 Plead, strange. My hearing is so good, and I have 239 00:15:43.799 --> 00:16:02.559 yet to hear. Your heartbeat was light again, but no hearing. 240 00:16:03.639 --> 00:16:06.679 They devised a new fanglier plugs, and I began six 241 00:16:06.799 --> 00:16:10.519 months of silence, six months of being deaf as a 242 00:16:10.600 --> 00:16:15.759 door knob death, but not quite deaf, because I began 243 00:16:15.879 --> 00:16:20.159 to see sounds, to feel sounds like waves against my skin. 244 00:16:20.919 --> 00:16:23.639 I began to hear with my body, with my pores. 245 00:16:24.960 --> 00:16:28.919 Have you ever touched a sound, ever seen thunder? You 246 00:16:28.960 --> 00:16:31.320 get so you can look at sounds, almost see the 247 00:16:31.440 --> 00:16:38.080 waves they make, trembling in the air. And have you 248 00:16:38.120 --> 00:16:45.799 ever tried silence? Try not saying a word, not a syllable, 249 00:16:45.840 --> 00:16:51.120 for an hour one day. I tried it for six months, 250 00:16:52.399 --> 00:16:55.360 until all the unsaid words piled up inside my head, 251 00:16:55.399 --> 00:16:59.240 clung like unborn sounds at the back of my throat. 252 00:17:00.200 --> 00:17:03.000 Whoever said silence is golden never felt the lump of 253 00:17:03.159 --> 00:17:13.000 lead that accumulates inside you silence. Then the six months ended, 254 00:17:14.319 --> 00:17:17.599 and I felt the vibrations of her footsteps down the 255 00:17:17.680 --> 00:17:22.559 long hall, and I saw the door opening a split 256 00:17:22.599 --> 00:17:24.559 second before you would normally see it open for my 257 00:17:24.599 --> 00:17:26.480 eyes or my ears, and they were a jump ahead 258 00:17:26.480 --> 00:17:29.920 of what they'd ever been before. I saw her lips move, 259 00:17:30.559 --> 00:17:31.799 and I could read every. 260 00:17:31.599 --> 00:17:37.119 Word in a moment. You will hear again in just 261 00:17:37.200 --> 00:17:37.680 a moment. 262 00:17:38.279 --> 00:17:40.799 Then she removed the fancy ear plugs and the little 263 00:17:40.839 --> 00:17:45.039 canyon I'd been living and widened to a continent. And 264 00:17:45.079 --> 00:17:47.960 then her moving lips became sounds. 265 00:17:48.680 --> 00:17:53.359 Can you hear now? Can you hear me? Nod to 266 00:17:53.400 --> 00:17:54.960 me or raise your finger when you can hear the 267 00:17:54.960 --> 00:17:55.799 sound of my voice? 268 00:17:56.000 --> 00:17:56.240 High? 269 00:17:56.599 --> 00:17:58.839 I heard you five minutes ago. 270 00:17:59.200 --> 00:17:59.799 Where the plugs you? 271 00:18:00.279 --> 00:18:00.480 Oh? 272 00:18:00.680 --> 00:18:05.039 No, I read your lips incidentally. I take it it's 273 00:18:05.039 --> 00:18:06.160 okay for me to talk now. 274 00:18:06.319 --> 00:18:06.759 Of course. 275 00:18:10.359 --> 00:18:13.200 Have I been a good boy? Have I done everything 276 00:18:13.240 --> 00:18:13.759 you wanted? 277 00:18:14.720 --> 00:18:17.400 So much so, mister Kenman, that we're giving you a 278 00:18:17.400 --> 00:18:20.480 few days rest before we begin your training for taste 279 00:18:20.480 --> 00:18:20.880 and touch. 280 00:18:21.559 --> 00:18:22.720 Can I do anything I want? 281 00:18:23.000 --> 00:18:24.839 Anything? Within reason? 282 00:18:26.000 --> 00:18:32.160 I'd like to have a drink. Strangely enough, I'd like 283 00:18:32.240 --> 00:18:32.519 to have. 284 00:18:32.559 --> 00:18:33.119 You join me. 285 00:18:34.240 --> 00:18:35.640 Perhaps that can be arranged. 286 00:18:55.119 --> 00:18:57.519 By the way, do you have a first name or 287 00:18:57.519 --> 00:19:00.319 are you only a title? Followed by frost uh, followed 288 00:19:00.319 --> 00:19:01.599 by a long string of degrees. 289 00:19:02.839 --> 00:19:05.160 My first name is Jessica Jessica. 290 00:19:05.599 --> 00:19:14.039 Oh, that's more like it, Jessica Jessica. After all that silence, 291 00:19:14.039 --> 00:19:16.039 it's good just to say a woman's name. 292 00:19:17.160 --> 00:19:20.880 Well, until the experiment is completely over, mister Kenman, it 293 00:19:20.920 --> 00:19:22.480 had better remain doctor Frost. 294 00:19:22.599 --> 00:19:28.480 Okay, doctor Jessica Frost plus degrees. But when I get 295 00:19:28.519 --> 00:19:29.960 to take you out for a drink as a normal 296 00:19:30.000 --> 00:19:32.960 human being and not as a guinea pig, let's us 297 00:19:32.960 --> 00:19:36.519 go to a cocktail. Boh, they don't cheat, cheat, well, 298 00:19:37.400 --> 00:19:39.559 you ask for a particular brand, this barton to paws 299 00:19:39.599 --> 00:19:41.079 out a few drops of it and then fills the 300 00:19:41.079 --> 00:19:42.680 rest of the jigger with some of that cheap stuff 301 00:19:42.720 --> 00:19:45.359 behind the bar. How do you know, Oh, I've been 302 00:19:45.400 --> 00:19:48.480 trained in these little subtleties of life by a master mind. 303 00:19:49.799 --> 00:19:52.000 The one thing I can spot the different gurgling sounds 304 00:19:52.000 --> 00:19:53.799 of the bottles, And then too, I seem to have 305 00:19:53.839 --> 00:19:58.640 an uncanny neck these days of seeing around corners. Good, good, well, 306 00:19:59.400 --> 00:20:01.400 despite the watered down booze, I give you. 307 00:20:01.359 --> 00:20:06.160 A toast to you. 308 00:20:06.160 --> 00:20:10.680 You've been very cooperative about this, mister Kenman. I want 309 00:20:10.680 --> 00:20:15.160 you to know that I like you very much. 310 00:20:15.319 --> 00:20:17.920 Now I'm sure the experiment is a success because I've 311 00:20:17.960 --> 00:20:21.920 developed a sixth sense. I distinctly heard a lovely lady 312 00:20:22.000 --> 00:20:24.839 saying I like you very much, and that couldn't possibly 313 00:20:24.839 --> 00:20:38.319 have been you. I rather enjoyed the touch tests. It 314 00:20:38.440 --> 00:20:41.119 was one area I'd never realized, hell such hidden flowers. 315 00:20:41.880 --> 00:20:44.839 After a few months, my fingertips knew the difference between 316 00:20:44.880 --> 00:20:48.119 crystal and diamonds. I could tell if you had a 317 00:20:48.160 --> 00:20:52.079 son tan merely by touching your cheek. And as for 318 00:20:52.119 --> 00:20:56.200 the taste test, food suddenly became a symphony concert Sourness 319 00:20:56.240 --> 00:21:00.039 had many degrees, Sweetness had arranged as wide as the 320 00:21:00.079 --> 00:21:05.960 spectrum of a rainbow. And then then all of my 321 00:21:06.160 --> 00:21:11.200 highly developed senses brought on a new perception, something over 322 00:21:11.279 --> 00:21:14.720 and beyond, something added to the rest more than a 323 00:21:14.759 --> 00:21:18.759 summation of all the senses. Did you ever swerve the 324 00:21:18.759 --> 00:21:20.839 steering wheel of your car suddenly without knowing why, and 325 00:21:20.839 --> 00:21:24.119 then you realize the move saved your life? Or wonder 326 00:21:24.200 --> 00:21:26.200 you thought of an old friend whom you hadn't seen 327 00:21:26.279 --> 00:21:29.359 or communicated within years, and then you found a letter 328 00:21:29.400 --> 00:21:34.440 from him in the box that morning. Coincidence black magic? 329 00:21:35.920 --> 00:21:40.480 I once thought, so I didn't anymore I had a 330 00:21:40.559 --> 00:21:46.519 knowledge beyond knowledge. 331 00:21:46.880 --> 00:21:51.119 Then sit down, mister kin Thank you. 332 00:21:51.119 --> 00:21:54.400 Your period of training has been completed, We've taken the 333 00:21:54.440 --> 00:21:59.160 final tests, and we've decided to retain you. Will you 334 00:21:59.279 --> 00:22:03.480 execute the contract please, mister Kimman. It's the arrangement as decided, 335 00:22:03.680 --> 00:22:07.519 twenty thousand dollars a year for the next five years. 336 00:22:08.160 --> 00:22:14.519 Is anything wrong, mister Kimmen, No, nothing wrong, Not now, 337 00:22:15.480 --> 00:22:16.200 mister Kinman. 338 00:22:16.319 --> 00:22:16.960 What are you doing? 339 00:22:18.640 --> 00:22:25.039 Obviously I'm not signing it. Why Because I'm afraid what 340 00:22:25.240 --> 00:22:29.039 is there to be afraid of? Of myself, Professor, of 341 00:22:29.079 --> 00:22:30.960 what I know now, what I'm going to know in 342 00:22:31.000 --> 00:22:34.279 the future, of of what you and doctor Frost may 343 00:22:34.440 --> 00:22:35.200 ask me to do. 344 00:22:35.400 --> 00:22:40.400 Afraid to make contribution to scientific progress undreamed of progres Professor. 345 00:22:40.440 --> 00:22:43.039 Remember the sixth sense you gave me. Do you know 346 00:22:43.079 --> 00:22:45.599 what I can see? I can see beyond the test 347 00:22:45.599 --> 00:22:49.720 tubes and the telescopes, all your theories and experiments, and 348 00:22:49.880 --> 00:22:55.319 I don't see one important thing. I don't see happiness, 349 00:22:55.319 --> 00:22:59.359 only fear in falling buildings. That's all I see coming 350 00:22:59.359 --> 00:23:00.640 out of my suit for sense. 351 00:23:01.400 --> 00:23:04.400 I suppose then that you think that all my work, 352 00:23:04.920 --> 00:23:08.079 our work, is to go to death and destruction. 353 00:23:08.319 --> 00:23:12.039 It might That's not fair, isn't it? What happens if 354 00:23:12.039 --> 00:23:13.920 I sign the contract? Who makes the decisions? 355 00:23:15.359 --> 00:23:18.720 These are things I can't honestly answer. 356 00:23:18.839 --> 00:23:22.519 I know that's what I mean. It might be out 357 00:23:22.519 --> 00:23:26.079 of your hands. Then governments would pay billions for me, 358 00:23:26.160 --> 00:23:28.839 our own country would guard me like Fort Knox. I 359 00:23:28.880 --> 00:23:31.720 would be the most valuable thing in the world alive, 360 00:23:31.839 --> 00:23:34.519 even more valuable for some people dead. But a thing, 361 00:23:35.680 --> 00:23:39.599 not a man. That's not going to be for me, 362 00:23:40.640 --> 00:23:41.400 not that way. 363 00:23:43.640 --> 00:23:47.839 All this work, everything we've done, doesn't mean anything. Then 364 00:23:49.000 --> 00:23:49.960 it's all for nothing. 365 00:23:50.039 --> 00:23:54.440 I don't know. I'm sorry. I guess you picked the 366 00:23:54.440 --> 00:23:55.640 wrong man for the job. 367 00:23:56.599 --> 00:23:59.240 What are you going to do now? Back? 368 00:23:59.359 --> 00:24:00.359 My thing's go way? 369 00:24:00.839 --> 00:24:01.640 I don't know where. 370 00:24:01.680 --> 00:24:08.359 It doesn't really matter, Jessica. I probably won't see you 371 00:24:08.359 --> 00:24:13.319 again before I go. Thanks for everything, and I'm sorry 372 00:24:13.400 --> 00:24:14.759 you feel that I've let you down. 373 00:24:18.000 --> 00:24:18.400 So long? 374 00:24:41.440 --> 00:24:44.960 Well, ah, that is that. 375 00:24:48.880 --> 00:24:50.480 Oh I was just going. 376 00:24:50.319 --> 00:24:51.240 To try to talk me. 377 00:24:51.200 --> 00:24:55.839 Out of it, Yes I was, but not anymore. 378 00:24:57.480 --> 00:24:58.960 I'm very glad you changed your mind. 379 00:25:00.440 --> 00:25:01.359 What are you going to do? 380 00:25:03.039 --> 00:25:08.960 I don't know, not yet. Kind of funny going out 381 00:25:09.000 --> 00:25:11.720 of here. Almost the way I came one suit case 382 00:25:11.759 --> 00:25:16.640 haddingquote only difference. I've got all the knowledge of the 383 00:25:16.720 --> 00:25:20.319 world up here. I don't know what I'll do with it. 384 00:25:20.400 --> 00:25:24.519 I I haven't been able to think, not clearly. I 385 00:25:24.599 --> 00:25:27.640 know one thing, though. There are a lot of things 386 00:25:27.680 --> 00:25:31.599 I can try what you can't, sir. Heart disease does 387 00:25:31.720 --> 00:25:34.319 other things. Yes, might not be bad for a start. 388 00:25:35.200 --> 00:25:40.480 Oh, that's not bad for a start. Do you think 389 00:25:40.519 --> 00:25:41.880 you might need some one to help? 390 00:25:45.839 --> 00:25:49.640 Yes, yes, I I I think I might. 391 00:25:50.640 --> 00:25:56.000 I've talked to Professor Baird. I think perhaps he understands ah, 392 00:25:56.039 --> 00:25:56.400 does he? 393 00:25:56.799 --> 00:25:57.079 Yes? 394 00:25:59.319 --> 00:26:08.359 Eh, It's It's a little uncomfortable for a woman. I'm 395 00:26:08.400 --> 00:26:14.559 not supposed to say anything until you do. You already 396 00:26:14.680 --> 00:26:16.599 know what I'm thinking, don't you. 397 00:26:17.640 --> 00:26:22.680 Let's be old fashioned. I love you. Will you come 398 00:26:22.720 --> 00:26:22.960 with me? 399 00:26:23.960 --> 00:26:28.680 Yes? I love you too, I know. 400 00:26:31.799 --> 00:26:32.599 Come on, let's go. 401 00:26:45.720 --> 00:26:48.519