Speaker 1: Tired of the everyday grind, ever dream of a life
Speaker 1: of romantic adventure, want to get away from it all?
Speaker 2: We offer you.
Speaker 3: Escape, Escape, designed to free you from the four walls
Speaker 3: of to day for a half hour of high adventure.
Speaker 4: You are the subject of an experiment, an experiment to
Speaker 4: make you the most powerful man on earth, while if
Speaker 4: it succeeds from that moment, he will be forever locked
Speaker 4: in a world from which there can be no escape.
Speaker 3: So listen now as Escape brings you Irving Riese's extraordinary story,
Speaker 3: The Man from Tomorrow.
Speaker 2: It started with a wand ad in the daily paper.
Speaker 2: Wanted X fighter pilot must be in perfect health and
Speaker 2: prepared for rigid tests. Successful candidate will receive good pay
Speaker 2: and will be give an opportunity to contribute a daring
Speaker 2: experiment and world betterment. Science Associates, One twenty sixth West Street.
Speaker 2: One twenty sixth West Street turned out to be one
Speaker 2: of those ultra modern super scientific buildings. No windows, and
Speaker 2: they are canitioned as cool as a north wind of
Speaker 2: an iceberg. About sixty guys, it answered the ad, Hi, Major, Hi, Randy,
Speaker 2: It's been a long time. Some of the faces were familiar,
Speaker 2: guys that had been in my fighter wing. We sat there,
Speaker 2: sixty of us, and waited an hour two hours, nothing happened.
Speaker 2: I don't know about you, guys. I'm getting out of here.
Speaker 5: This place gives me claustrophobia.
Speaker 2: It's lot. We're locked in here. But even before this
Speaker 2: had a chance to sink in, another door open on
Speaker 2: the far side of the room, a guy with a
Speaker 2: white mask on his face came in carrying a Thompson
Speaker 2: submachine gun. Hey heck, they all flattened on the floor
Speaker 2: except me. I made a dash for the man of
Speaker 2: the mask, but he disappeared as quickly as he'd come.
Speaker 2: How come you didn't hit the floor? Didn't you tired
Speaker 2: of living? You were shooting blanks? Couldn't you see you
Speaker 2: were any bullets? Chipping anything? That was a gag?
Speaker 3: And I don't like this.
Speaker 2: Come on, let's crash the door and get out of
Speaker 2: this rat save it, Save it, Randy won't do any good.
Speaker 2: They can keep us bottle up till they're good and
Speaker 2: ready to let us go.
Speaker 6: And then something else.
Speaker 2: Thick black acrid smoke pouring out of the air conditioning vents,
Speaker 2: and a sound from somewhere an airplane diving. Every pilot
Speaker 2: remembers what horror the smell of burning oil from a
Speaker 2: plane out of control. He hit us way back in
Speaker 2: deep dark. Some of the guys got penticuted. I pushed
Speaker 2: Randy down to the floor. You get more head out
Speaker 2: of hire relaxed. Then the blowers reversed and that smoke
Speaker 2: was sucked out quickly, and a loud streaker cut in
Speaker 2: from nowhere. Please tay quiet down, fellow fly it don't
Speaker 2: take it easy.
Speaker 7: For the past two hours you have been under close
Speaker 7: observation as a necessary part of this test. You will
Speaker 7: want in advance the test would be rigid. As you
Speaker 7: file out past the guard, you will receive a token
Speaker 7: compensation for your time and discomfort. We now ask you
Speaker 7: all to leave, except the man who ran for the gunner.
Speaker 7: The door is now open. Thank you.
Speaker 2: Looks like you got the job. Major looks like I'm
Speaker 2: gonna shove it right back in their faces, righty. Well,
Speaker 2: so yeah, so already take it easy.
Speaker 5: So.
Speaker 8: Yeah your name please.
Speaker 2: Well, I highly expected to find a blunt at the
Speaker 2: bottom of this.
Speaker 8: You will come with me.
Speaker 2: Please don't give me orders, Blundy. I just want to
Speaker 2: see the guy responsible for this, then I'm getting out
Speaker 2: of here.
Speaker 8: I take it you have lost interest in contributing to
Speaker 8: the world benefits.
Speaker 2: And what it said in the ad, well, whatever your
Speaker 2: lofty purpose, I don't like cold blood of cruelty.
Speaker 8: Unfortunately, personal feelings cannot enter into these steps toward our objectives.
Speaker 2: Then your objectives are wrong.
Speaker 8: You will be better able to judge that when you
Speaker 8: know what they are.
Speaker 2: I don't think I'm interested, And if I may have
Speaker 2: a personal feeling, callousness is unattractive enough in a man.
Speaker 8: Neither your feelings nor mine will matter in this project. Major,
Speaker 8: I understand.
Speaker 2: What it was, mister mister Kenman. The war is over, Miss.
Speaker 8: Doctor Frost.
Speaker 2: Poetic, I beg your pardon nothing, I sometimes mutter to myself,
Speaker 2: if it is.
Speaker 8: Possible for you to unlock your quite superior intellect from
Speaker 8: emotional reactions common to schoolgirls and fishwives, My senior colleague,
Speaker 8: Professor Baird, and I will attempt to convince you on
Speaker 8: the only basis that it should appeal to a mature mind.
Speaker 2: Facts by all means, Doctor Frost. Ah, But Professor Baird,
Speaker 2: where'd you get the notion of asking for fighter pilots?
Speaker 5: Simple?
Speaker 9: Only one man in ten thousand was able to qualify
Speaker 9: mentally and physical for fighter training. Additional eliminations due to
Speaker 9: flunk outs, mortality, and training and combat brings the total
Speaker 9: to one in twenty thousand. The standards we applied during
Speaker 9: the two hours in which we observed your every action
Speaker 9: and reaction raises the mathematical incidence of your sensory acuity
Speaker 9: toroximately one in one hundred thousand.
Speaker 2: I'm flattered.
Speaker 9: You'll have greater reason to be If our experiment proved successful,
Speaker 9: you will be the only man on earth possessed of
Speaker 9: your powers.
Speaker 5: He will be the man from tomorrow.
Speaker 2: How do you propose to God about that? We will
Speaker 2: first show.
Speaker 9: You how we've trained other individuals, Doctor Frost, Will you
Speaker 9: proceed with the demonstration?
Speaker 8: Come in, mister Logan. Mister Logan, have you ever been
Speaker 8: in this part of the laboratories before?
Speaker 5: No?
Speaker 8: Would you describe it please?
Speaker 10: It is a rectangular room forty by twenty. The ceiling
Speaker 10: is eighteen and a half feet high. There's a guest
Speaker 10: twelve feet from me, slightly to my right. There are
Speaker 10: two people seated at it.
Speaker 5: One has just risen.
Speaker 8: That will be all, thank you, mister Logan.
Speaker 5: Well, mister kinman.
Speaker 2: That'd be very impressive if any schoolboy with normal vision
Speaker 2: couldn't do us well.
Speaker 5: Agreed, mister Logan is totally blind.
Speaker 2: Looking back now, I can hardly believe my own impressions.
Speaker 2: A blind man was followed by a deaf mute, then
Speaker 2: by a paraplegic could lost all sense of touch and smell.
Speaker 2: The demonstrations were incredible.
Speaker 8: Not one of these persons possessed physical senses above the average.
Speaker 8: The deprivation of one sense or another in the case
Speaker 8: of the blind of a deaf man, stimulated nature's desire
Speaker 8: to compensate for the loss.
Speaker 2: But what are you trying to prove?
Speaker 9: That man has powers even now that are beyond his comprehension.
Speaker 9: We wish to explore those powers. Suppose one, one nearly
Speaker 9: perfect man with superior sensory perception to begin with, could
Speaker 9: have developed the extension of his five senses to the
Speaker 9: maximum degree we've just observed.
Speaker 5: What do you think would happen? I don't know, neither
Speaker 5: do we, but it is.
Speaker 9: Our conviction that this man would also acquire a new sense,
Speaker 9: a sixth sense, that would endow him with a power
Speaker 9: never dreamed of before. Don't you think it's a dimension
Speaker 9: worth exploring.
Speaker 2: Maybe how could anybody accomplish that.
Speaker 9: By training, by producing the circumstances that surround the blind man,
Speaker 9: the deaf man, and the handicap. You would have to
Speaker 9: agree to cut yourself off from the outside world for
Speaker 9: three years. You would spend six months living in a
Speaker 9: pitch dark laboratory. You would eat, sleep, eat, function in
Speaker 9: a world of darkness.
Speaker 8: We will use various sound devices to train and measure
Speaker 8: your hearing responses. After that, six months will be devoted
Speaker 8: to simulating the world of the deaf, mute, and so on.
Speaker 9: You will be paid twenty thousand dollars at the end
Speaker 9: of the three years. All the necessity of living will
Speaker 9: be provided during that time.
Speaker 5: Then a test will be made, and.
Speaker 9: If our predictions are realized, you will be signed for
Speaker 9: an additional five years at twenty thousand dollars per year.
Speaker 9: Doctor Frost will be in charge of the training program.
Speaker 9: Do you wish to undertake it?
Speaker 6: Well, that's pretty serious, move.
Speaker 2: I like to think about it.
Speaker 8: You have all the facts, clearly, mister Kinman. We would
Speaker 8: like a decision.
Speaker 2: Now you think feeling might enter into my considerations? Doctor,
Speaker 2: that what you're afraid of afraid.
Speaker 8: Fear is merely an emotion, mister Kinman, I have learned
Speaker 8: to control all my emotions. I wonder I beg your pardon.
Speaker 2: I was muttering again. What I meant to say is
Speaker 2: I agree to want to take your experiment. We will
Speaker 2: return to Escape in just a moment. But first, forest fires,
Speaker 2: nine out of every ten are made by man, So
Speaker 2: redouble your efforts to eliminate forest fires. Crush out every cigarette,
Speaker 2: break matches in two and grind them with your fingers.
Speaker 2: Douse down campfires and turn them over until no ember remains.
Speaker 2: Save a fortune in property, and save human lives.
Speaker 3: And now back to Escape.
Speaker 2: I was given two days to settle my affairs, such
Speaker 2: as they were. It meant saying goodbye to my landlady
Speaker 2: and bag. And then I reported back to Scientific Associates,
Speaker 2: to doctor Frost of the beautiful face and figure all
Speaker 2: Ice and Professor Baird Tall, quiet and clinical. I was
Speaker 2: led into a pitch dark room, blacker than the blackest night,
Speaker 2: that was to be my home for six months. It
Speaker 2: had a bad bathroom closets. All I had to do
Speaker 2: was find them. I won't waste time telling you what
Speaker 2: that was like. Just close your eyes tight and try
Speaker 2: to find your way around a room that's familiar to you,
Speaker 2: and you'll get the idea. I was still stumbling around
Speaker 2: three weeks later when I reported for my daily training
Speaker 2: with doctor Frost in the adjoining laboratory, which was even
Speaker 2: blacker if possible.
Speaker 8: Don't are you hurt?
Speaker 2: No, you wouldn't care if I broke my leg.
Speaker 8: There is a chair nearby.
Speaker 2: I know, I just fell over it.
Speaker 8: Now we can begin as soon as you're settled.
Speaker 2: It's so dark. I'd have to apologize for wearing my pajamas.
Speaker 8: Don't you like dressing?
Speaker 5: Oh?
Speaker 2: I love it when I can find my pants.
Speaker 8: Today's exercise will be recognition of pure tones. Here is
Speaker 8: an example that is one thousand cycles, or one thousand
Speaker 8: vibrations per second, stripped of all harmonics.
Speaker 5: What would you say that was, oh, eleven hundred, It.
Speaker 8: Is fifteen hundred cycles. Now, please tell me when you
Speaker 8: begin to hear the next tone and what the frequency is.
Speaker 2: I couldn't make the slightest dent in that glacial reserve.
Speaker 2: Tried to measure in her own game for a while,
Speaker 2: but she loved it, and I'm new anyway. At the
Speaker 2: end of the sixth month. I could ramble through the
Speaker 2: whole place and never stub my toe. It was amazing
Speaker 2: how you learned to sense things in the dark and
Speaker 2: what your ears could do. Eight hundred oh four thousand.
Speaker 8: Out good, excellent, mister Kinman. You're twenty decipels greater than
Speaker 8: the average ear.
Speaker 2: That's very good, Doctor Frost. I can't see you, but
Speaker 2: do I take a note of enthusiasm in.
Speaker 8: Your voice satisfaction the experiment.
Speaker 5: Mister Frost.
Speaker 2: Have you ever let yourself go?
Speaker 8: Mister Hillman, I'm not nearly so naive as you assume,
Speaker 8: nor have any of your innu windows or mumblings. For
Speaker 8: the past six months. I told you in the beginning
Speaker 8: that neither your feelings nor mine would have any bearing
Speaker 8: on you.
Speaker 2: I haven't answered my question.
Speaker 8: I am fully aware of the nature of biological stresses.
Speaker 2: In a scientific way.
Speaker 8: Of course, what distinguishes man from the animal is his
Speaker 8: understanding of these stresses, but mostly his control.
Speaker 2: Control is a traffic cup with a stop sign, Doctor,
Speaker 2: Eventually the traffic has to go somewhere.
Speaker 8: I can understand the frustration of your masculine ego, especially
Speaker 8: in this forced loneliness of the experiment, But we have
Speaker 8: only begun. We have two years or more ago. The
Speaker 8: first phase is highly successful. As a scientist, I am very.
Speaker 2: Plead, strange. My hearing is so good, and I have
Speaker 2: yet to hear. Your heartbeat was light again, but no hearing.
Speaker 2: They devised a new fanglier plugs, and I began six
Speaker 2: months of silence, six months of being deaf as a
Speaker 2: door knob death, but not quite deaf, because I began
Speaker 2: to see sounds, to feel sounds like waves against my skin.
Speaker 2: I began to hear with my body, with my pores.
Speaker 2: Have you ever touched a sound, ever seen thunder? You
Speaker 2: get so you can look at sounds, almost see the
Speaker 2: waves they make, trembling in the air. And have you
Speaker 2: ever tried silence? Try not saying a word, not a syllable,
Speaker 2: for an hour one day. I tried it for six months,
Speaker 2: until all the unsaid words piled up inside my head,
Speaker 2: clung like unborn sounds at the back of my throat.
Speaker 2: Whoever said silence is golden never felt the lump of
Speaker 2: lead that accumulates inside you silence. Then the six months ended,
Speaker 2: and I felt the vibrations of her footsteps down the
Speaker 2: long hall, and I saw the door opening a split
Speaker 2: second before you would normally see it open for my
Speaker 2: eyes or my ears, and they were a jump ahead
Speaker 2: of what they'd ever been before. I saw her lips move,
Speaker 2: and I could read every.
Speaker 8: Word in a moment. You will hear again in just
Speaker 8: a moment.
Speaker 2: Then she removed the fancy ear plugs and the little
Speaker 2: canyon I'd been living and widened to a continent. And
Speaker 2: then her moving lips became sounds.
Speaker 8: Can you hear now? Can you hear me? Nod to
Speaker 8: me or raise your finger when you can hear the
Speaker 8: sound of my voice?
Speaker 5: High?
Speaker 2: I heard you five minutes ago.
Speaker 8: Where the plugs you?
Speaker 5: Oh?
Speaker 2: No, I read your lips incidentally. I take it it's
Speaker 2: okay for me to talk now.
Speaker 8: Of course.
Speaker 2: Have I been a good boy? Have I done everything
Speaker 2: you wanted?
Speaker 8: So much so, mister Kenman, that we're giving you a
Speaker 8: few days rest before we begin your training for taste
Speaker 8: and touch.
Speaker 2: Can I do anything I want?
Speaker 8: Anything? Within reason?
Speaker 5: I'd like to have a drink. Strangely enough, I'd like
Speaker 5: to have.
Speaker 2: You join me.
Speaker 8: Perhaps that can be arranged.
Speaker 2: By the way, do you have a first name or
Speaker 2: are you only a title? Followed by frost uh, followed
Speaker 2: by a long string of degrees.
Speaker 8: My first name is Jessica Jessica.
Speaker 2: Oh, that's more like it, Jessica Jessica. After all that silence,
Speaker 2: it's good just to say a woman's name.
Speaker 8: Well, until the experiment is completely over, mister Kenman, it
Speaker 8: had better remain doctor Frost.
Speaker 2: Okay, doctor Jessica Frost plus degrees. But when I get
Speaker 2: to take you out for a drink as a normal
Speaker 2: human being and not as a guinea pig, let's us
Speaker 2: go to a cocktail. Boh, they don't cheat, cheat, well,
Speaker 2: you ask for a particular brand, this barton to paws
Speaker 2: out a few drops of it and then fills the
Speaker 2: rest of the jigger with some of that cheap stuff
Speaker 2: behind the bar. How do you know, Oh, I've been
Speaker 2: trained in these little subtleties of life by a master mind.
Speaker 2: The one thing I can spot the different gurgling sounds
Speaker 2: of the bottles, And then too, I seem to have
Speaker 2: an uncanny neck these days of seeing around corners. Good, good, well,
Speaker 2: despite the watered down booze, I give you.
Speaker 5: A toast to you.
Speaker 8: You've been very cooperative about this, mister Kenman. I want
Speaker 8: you to know that I like you very much.
Speaker 2: Now I'm sure the experiment is a success because I've
Speaker 2: developed a sixth sense. I distinctly heard a lovely lady
Speaker 2: saying I like you very much, and that couldn't possibly
Speaker 2: have been you. I rather enjoyed the touch tests. It
Speaker 2: was one area I'd never realized, hell such hidden flowers.
Speaker 2: After a few months, my fingertips knew the difference between
Speaker 2: crystal and diamonds. I could tell if you had a
Speaker 2: son tan merely by touching your cheek. And as for
Speaker 2: the taste test, food suddenly became a symphony concert Sourness
Speaker 2: had many degrees, Sweetness had arranged as wide as the
Speaker 2: spectrum of a rainbow. And then then all of my
Speaker 2: highly developed senses brought on a new perception, something over
Speaker 2: and beyond, something added to the rest more than a
Speaker 2: summation of all the senses. Did you ever swerve the
Speaker 2: steering wheel of your car suddenly without knowing why, and
Speaker 2: then you realize the move saved your life? Or wonder
Speaker 2: you thought of an old friend whom you hadn't seen
Speaker 2: or communicated within years, and then you found a letter
Speaker 2: from him in the box that morning. Coincidence black magic?
Speaker 2: I once thought, so I didn't anymore I had a
Speaker 2: knowledge beyond knowledge.
Speaker 5: Then sit down, mister kin Thank you.
Speaker 9: Your period of training has been completed, We've taken the
Speaker 9: final tests, and we've decided to retain you. Will you
Speaker 9: execute the contract please, mister Kimman. It's the arrangement as decided,
Speaker 9: twenty thousand dollars a year for the next five years.
Speaker 9: Is anything wrong, mister Kimmen, No, nothing wrong, Not now,
Speaker 9: mister Kinman.
Speaker 5: What are you doing?
Speaker 2: Obviously I'm not signing it. Why Because I'm afraid what
Speaker 2: is there to be afraid of? Of myself, Professor, of
Speaker 2: what I know now, what I'm going to know in
Speaker 2: the future, of of what you and doctor Frost may
Speaker 2: ask me to do.
Speaker 9: Afraid to make contribution to scientific progress undreamed of progres Professor.
Speaker 2: Remember the sixth sense you gave me. Do you know
Speaker 2: what I can see? I can see beyond the test
Speaker 2: tubes and the telescopes, all your theories and experiments, and
Speaker 2: I don't see one important thing. I don't see happiness,
Speaker 2: only fear in falling buildings. That's all I see coming
Speaker 2: out of my suit for sense.
Speaker 9: I suppose then that you think that all my work,
Speaker 9: our work, is to go to death and destruction.
Speaker 2: It might That's not fair, isn't it? What happens if
Speaker 2: I sign the contract? Who makes the decisions?
Speaker 5: These are things I can't honestly answer.
Speaker 2: I know that's what I mean. It might be out
Speaker 2: of your hands. Then governments would pay billions for me,
Speaker 2: our own country would guard me like Fort Knox. I
Speaker 2: would be the most valuable thing in the world alive,
Speaker 2: even more valuable for some people dead. But a thing,
Speaker 2: not a man. That's not going to be for me,
Speaker 2: not that way.
Speaker 8: All this work, everything we've done, doesn't mean anything. Then
Speaker 8: it's all for nothing.
Speaker 2: I don't know. I'm sorry. I guess you picked the
Speaker 2: wrong man for the job.
Speaker 5: What are you going to do now? Back?
Speaker 2: My thing's go way?
Speaker 10: I don't know where.
Speaker 2: It doesn't really matter, Jessica. I probably won't see you
Speaker 2: again before I go. Thanks for everything, and I'm sorry
Speaker 2: you feel that I've let you down.
Speaker 5: So long?
Speaker 2: Well, ah, that is that.
Speaker 8: Oh I was just going.
Speaker 2: To try to talk me.
Speaker 8: Out of it, Yes I was, but not anymore.
Speaker 2: I'm very glad you changed your mind.
Speaker 8: What are you going to do?
Speaker 2: I don't know, not yet. Kind of funny going out
Speaker 2: of here. Almost the way I came one suit case
Speaker 2: haddingquote only difference. I've got all the knowledge of the
Speaker 2: world up here. I don't know what I'll do with it.
Speaker 2: I I haven't been able to think, not clearly. I
Speaker 2: know one thing, though. There are a lot of things
Speaker 2: I can try what you can't, sir. Heart disease does
Speaker 2: other things. Yes, might not be bad for a start.
Speaker 8: Oh, that's not bad for a start. Do you think
Speaker 8: you might need some one to help?
Speaker 2: Yes, yes, I I I think I might.
Speaker 8: I've talked to Professor Baird. I think perhaps he understands ah,
Speaker 8: does he?
Speaker 2: Yes?
Speaker 8: Eh, It's It's a little uncomfortable for a woman. I'm
Speaker 8: not supposed to say anything until you do. You already
Speaker 8: know what I'm thinking, don't you.
Speaker 2: Let's be old fashioned. I love you. Will you come
Speaker 2: with me?
Speaker 8: Yes? I love you too, I know.
Speaker 2: Come on, let's go.
Speaker 3: Under the direction of Anthonilla's Escape has Brought You The
Speaker 3: Man from Tomorrow by Irving Reese, starring Lawrence Dubkin as Dix.
Speaker 3: Featured in the cast were viv Janis, Edgar Barrier, Kurt Martel,
Speaker 3: Jack Carroll, and Barney Phillips. Special music for Escape was
Speaker 3: composed and conducted by Leith Stevens.
Speaker 4: Next week we present a story of two boys and
Speaker 4: the dreadful game which they played. You might have read
Speaker 4: about it in your newspaper. It might have happened in
Speaker 4: your town, and if it did, it must never happen again.
Speaker 3: So listen next week when Escape will bring you Anthony
Speaker 3: Ellis's terrifying play the Game.
Speaker 2: Would you be.
Speaker 3: Interested in the Alsopp family, how it diminished and grew?
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