Speaker 1: Mm hmm.
Speaker 2: Come down for blast off X minus five four three
two x minus one Fire from the far horizons of
the unknown, come transcribed tales of new dimensions in time
and space. These are stories of the future adventures in
which you'll live in a million, could be years, on
a thousand, maybe worlds. The National Broadcasting Company, in cooperation
with Street and Smith, publishers of Astounding Science Fiction, presents.
Speaker 3: He minus minus.
Speaker 4: One Night Story Shanghaide.
Speaker 5: Okay, okay, very funny, very funny. They get over my
boy tomorrow the old ball.
Speaker 6: And chain, eat drink and be merry for tomorrow. You
commit matrimona.
Speaker 7: Come on, we came down here to Scary Square to
have a little fun. We might as well be at
my mother's musical and Beacon Street all.
Speaker 5: The problems of the ridge. And tell me, Jeff, just
where does the coffin fortune come from?
Speaker 8: Pirate treasure? Oh?
Speaker 7: No, I guess it started in Nantucket. My great great
something or other used to be a whaler.
Speaker 9: Oh whaler, the rcy blows dead whaler, stove boat, watch
my trusty harpool.
Speaker 10: Hey, hey, we'll look out at the porn.
Speaker 5: Oh and where's the money now?
Speaker 6: Oh?
Speaker 5: I don't know.
Speaker 7: We've got a lot of commercial holdings, mills, import export outfits,
rocket lines, you.
Speaker 6: Know, mere trivia.
Speaker 4: Alright, look, why.
Speaker 7: Don't we get out of this dumb We go up
to the Copley Plaza. May be stuffy, but at least
the glasses are clean. Well, you're all the condemned man.
All right, you two go ahead and get in the car.
I'll settle all right, me jogging right, excuse me?
Speaker 6: You want something?
Speaker 8: But yeah, the check.
Speaker 6: Okay, okay, hey Manton check, he'll be right out right.
Speaker 11: Thank you.
Speaker 6: Had a right nice not hayting.
Speaker 11: Oh yeah, I suppose so I've been watching you celebrating
sort of am I just got off a deep space
running out the centauris.
Speaker 8: Oh that's a fifteen year run, isn't it?
Speaker 6: Fifteen and three blooming months? Oh June, now you spaceman.
Speaker 8: No, no, not exactly.
Speaker 10: Uh where's that check? Barkeep?
Speaker 6: I got your hat, bud Milt and slow but sure
filled up.
Speaker 11: Charlie say, why don't check John me? Mikeke Yeah, Charlie,
oh no, no, no, thank you. Come on, we don't take
off him. Now we'll celebrate whatever it is you're celebrating
on me.
Speaker 6: Paul.
Speaker 4: Charlie, Well, all right, thank you.
Speaker 8: I guess I might as well. Cheers, all right, cheers.
Speaker 10: Oh what was.
Speaker 6: That, Charlie, Stid Charlie.
Speaker 7: Yeah, well oh say look Charlie, would you get that
waiter out here?
Speaker 8: I've got to meet it.
Speaker 11: I have watch ready, might say you got plenty of time,
right that daisy?
Speaker 10: You don't look so good?
Speaker 8: Oh no, I don't feel so good.
Speaker 6: Yeah that's it.
Speaker 11: Yeah, you feel chipper as the bluemin grasshopper. And no,
I've got to get outside the cars in a hurry up.
Where's the check check?
Speaker 1: Yeah?
Speaker 12: Oh oh all right, up on your feet.
Speaker 6: Wake wakey, wakey, all right, let go on.
Speaker 8: What's the idea?
Speaker 6: Rise and shine and grate the dawn?
Speaker 8: What where am I? What's going on here?
Speaker 6: Come on now, mighty up in there and wakey, wakey, wake.
Speaker 10: Wait a minute.
Speaker 11: So you were at that bar Scarley Square, Come on now,
up on decker you'll be in travel.
Speaker 8: What are you talking about?
Speaker 10: Where am I?
Speaker 6: And it's hard to say exactly?
Speaker 11: Off end about eight hours out of Atlantic Spiceport.
Speaker 8: Atlantic Spaceport.
Speaker 1: Look, what kind of a joke is this? If if
Alan and Peter think this is funny?
Speaker 10: What what? What ship is this? R? S?
Speaker 6: Michael m Raffitty Coffin line.
Speaker 8: Oh, Coffin line. Well that makes it easy. Now you've
got to put back the port.
Speaker 6: I forget your toothbrush. Bang listen you.
Speaker 8: Wy don't you take me to the captain?
Speaker 6: Jack?
Speaker 11: All right, get moving, sure, su my dear, I'll take
you to the captain.
Speaker 6: But you're going to be sorry. Morton, What the devil
he doing on the bridge? Get below? Only this year,
gentlemen off to see you.
Speaker 7: That's right there, captain, there's been a mistake made. I'm
afraid it was supposed to be a joke. Oh yes,
you see, I'm going to be married today, and I
suppose the boys thought it'd be funny to make me
miss the ceremony. I'm sure it won't be too much
trouble to have you drop me off back at the
Atlantic spaceport.
Speaker 6: What Morton, what is this? We're simple, Captain. He wants
to tend the shipper and that's all.
Speaker 10: Look if there's any trouble with your superior.
Speaker 8: I'm sure I can fix it up.
Speaker 10: You see, I'm Jeff Coffin.
Speaker 6: Yeah, but you don't understand.
Speaker 10: My father is cyrus coffin he owns this shop?
Speaker 6: Oh he does? Morton?
Speaker 1: Get this drunk all in just a minute. I can
understand you're not believing me, but I can identify.
Speaker 8: Think, where's my wallet?
Speaker 10: I've been robbed. Wha look, captain, wait a minute. All
you have to do is radio back.
Speaker 6: And check mister Black remove this man from the bridge.
Speaker 5: Just but I said you're the captain, Bustard, Wait a minute,
let go on me.
Speaker 10: This is no way to treat a passenger.
Speaker 13: Passenger, huh, wake up, sonny boy, you're one of the crew.
Speaker 10: I'll get below.
Speaker 6: All right now, mate, ready yoursel a buffer, get the works.
Speaker 5: If they can't get away with the sisters kidnapping.
Speaker 11: Perhaps, yes, perhaps now I'll get this here. Take nice
and shiny. We might even see about some crap. I'll
be back in two hours, and mind you, I want
to be able to see me blooming reflection.
Speaker 6: In it got to polis that deckplate.
Speaker 10: They can't get away with us.
Speaker 14: Law says, once you sign on, you're under absolute orders.
Speaker 10: I looked it up, but I didn't sign up and
I was kidnapped. You won't be able to prove it.
Speaker 6: Come on, mister, please, I didn't get anything to eat
yet today, So give me a break.
Speaker 15: Huh?
Speaker 10: All right, what do you do? Run the buffer over it?
Speaker 4: That's right? Like this?
Speaker 5: You sign on?
Speaker 6: Yeah, I ran away from home.
Speaker 8: How old are you?
Speaker 6: Sixteen thirty? When we get back?
Speaker 5: What do you mean thirty?
Speaker 10: We're headed from Mars? Aren't we only the reef you?
Speaker 6: We're out bound a centaurus?
Speaker 8: No, it can't be.
Speaker 10: Well, that's a fifteen year run. What I've got to
get back? Oh yours, I'm getting married my bride to be.
I'll think I'm dead? What what?
Speaker 2: What?
Speaker 6: You want me to come as the black a game?
You'll give you what? Listen?
Speaker 10: Listen to me, listen.
Speaker 7: I've got to get back to ear if I can't
disappear for fifteen years.
Speaker 11: Look, we stop at Mars, right, yes, and you'll be
below decks and the lock and case.
Speaker 10: To me if I can make it worth your while?
If will you get me off at Marsport?
Speaker 6: Jump and shiver?
Speaker 11: That's real, naughty mites one dollars? Why what would I
tell me, poor old mother in say, two thousand five?
Speaker 6: In advance?
Speaker 8: What do you mean in advance?
Speaker 1: You're probably the one that rolled me for my wallet
I'll find a way.
Speaker 6: They don't believe your young coffin, but maybe I know better.
All right, it's a deal.
Speaker 10: Look, mister coffin, can you take me with you?
Speaker 8: I didn't realize what it would be like.
Speaker 14: I can pay my share, I could work it out
for you, or maybe borrow money.
Speaker 10: I couldn't stand fifteen years.
Speaker 6: I'd go crazy.
Speaker 10: All right, Sure, what about it?
Speaker 11: Mortan boil cost you another thousand chief Swing in now,
mister coffin. I'm all that stands between you and a
lovely pleasure cruise for fifteen years. So I'll thank you
to treat me with a respect and politeness what a
gentleman like myself deserves.
Speaker 5: Stand by stand by for landing.
Speaker 11: Procedure, all right, now it's and careful. This is the
cable locker for the grappling anchor. Right when she lands
this actual open cables go out. Don't get yourself caught
in them. You'll be tore apart.
Speaker 10: All right, we've got the sure we can get out.
Speaker 11: Now you just do what I say. We drop down
to the last bit. Nobody will be there. I lowen
the pit till dark got.
Speaker 10: That right now, Look, Morton, I'll tell the patrol.
Speaker 8: You helped us get away.
Speaker 10: That'll help you when they catch up with this game.
Speaker 11: We thank yourself. Thank you kindly. I've got to get
to my station now lock nice. Thanks mister Morton.
Speaker 8: There's a landing point.
Speaker 10: Keep clear that cable. Joy Here we go.
Speaker 14: On t.
Speaker 10: It goes to grappling candy.
Speaker 7: All right, come on, drop through the hatch just about
six feet yeah, all right, it's clear.
Speaker 10: Hurry upright, come.
Speaker 11: You?
Speaker 10: All right, this is my ankle. Sorry, all right, that's
the blast pit. Get going right now. We're all right
so far the ship hides us. Here's the pit.
Speaker 7: All right, I'll get down so they can't see you.
Wait a minute, here's somebody coming.
Speaker 4: Keep still.
Speaker 10: Maybe we better look up if we stick our heads
up over the edge.
Speaker 7: I'll say a short Now keeps down and keep still, yoush.
Speaker 9: Well, well, well look what we have here, two little babes.
Speaker 6: In the wood.
Speaker 10: Now you too moving, I'll shoot you in the belly. Morten,
you got good eye.
Speaker 6: Tell you so.
Speaker 11: I'm coming this way, mister Black jumping ship. My, that's
a terrible thing today.
Speaker 3: Mister Black Infarmerships Company, that these two men have been
found Gilly of attempted desertion.
Speaker 1: Desertion, You kidnap me, your dirty crook.
Speaker 10: Don't you talk?
Speaker 3: The captain holl that way, I'd sending thing them to
twenty four hours hull watch, take them.
Speaker 4: Away, but take them to the air block, I said.
Speaker 6: You'll calm down after twenty four hours. Held watch? What's hull?
Speaker 12: Watch?
Speaker 11: Any simple? We put you two in spacesuits, shove you
through the air lock on the end of a line.
You sit out there and watch the elf for twenty
four hours. No food, no water, and the eating units
in those suits are just a little bit defective.
Speaker 6: Makes it interesting. Long about the eighteenth four Yeah, but
here we are, gentlemen. The air lock.
Speaker 11: You get in there, got five minutes to get into
them suits before we blow the air out. See you
in twenty four hours. Maybe. Well, welcome back to all
below water. Water firsty eh, you should control these animal's instincts, right, yeah, yeah,
it's lapping like the bloody hair.
Speaker 10: Joy joy pasta.
Speaker 6: Help him, he'll be all right.
Speaker 11: Teach your lesson, both of you. Take my advice and
behave yourself. You've got fifteen years to go on this airship.
Your might as well make the best of it. Hi, Hey, Martin,
what do you call this? That's your supper? Mighty food? Concentrate?
Speaker 5: What's the idea?
Speaker 10: Only two months out?
Speaker 6: Non concentrates? Already you complaining? Yeah, I'm complaining.
Speaker 11: If Captain Howell's chiseling on the manifest, that's his business.
Speaker 10: But when he tries to take.
Speaker 11: It up now, I keep poiet and tading into mister Blake.
Concentrate is what you get to eat from your on at.
I'll shove it into your face and keep quiet. Suppose
I shove it into your face and say, are you
light your what's going on in here?
Speaker 6: What's going on? Morton? He struck me?
Speaker 10: What forty eight hours? I'll watch all right, what are
you all looking at? Get back into your places? Morton,
bring that man down.
Speaker 6: To the aft air lock.
Speaker 10: It's murder, that's what plain murder.
Speaker 5: Space code gives a thirty hour limit for punishment.
Speaker 10: They didn't even have a burial, just shove them out
the lock.
Speaker 8: If the owners knew about this, they'd stop it.
Speaker 15: A fat lad of good that's going to do us
during the next fifteen years.
Speaker 10: Wait a minute, we get the ship back to Mars.
Speaker 15: Nah two weeks after we landed, we'd be hung. That's
what space code says about mutiny. And if they catch
you in the act, they shoot you down.
Speaker 10: And no question right, I'm willing to take that chance.
Speaker 1: We're gonna let Black and Howell kick us around for
fifteen years.
Speaker 10: Why don't we take over and head back?
Speaker 5: Right, let's go back.
Speaker 6: Going, gentlemen, discussion joking about the camptain.
Speaker 11: Maybe grab him yet if you want out of the
shifts off for your life, rushing, throw on.
Speaker 4: My own, Rag Morton.
Speaker 6: That's done it. He's an officer who cares.
Speaker 10: We've got to move now.
Speaker 7: Joey, Yeah, you get up the radio room and smashed
the set before they can get a message out.
Speaker 10: Pop, you get a tell the engine. Watch the rest
of us go up in the bridge. How about this
rat tie him up?
Speaker 8: Speed counts.
Speaker 1: Now, we've got to take over before they know what
hit him.
Speaker 10: All right, careful, we've got to surprise him. Don't worry,
we'll get him cool yet quiet.
Speaker 14: The box was seving when I got in, but I
knocked him out and smashed the set.
Speaker 11: We're okay, good boy, all right, come on right past
the bullhead.
Speaker 4: Look out.
Speaker 10: The blast bullhead.
Speaker 5: Were cut off from the bridge.
Speaker 6: You gotta get through that.
Speaker 10: It must have out somehow the intercom. Black can turn
it on from the bridge.
Speaker 5: You heard the whole thing.
Speaker 10: We better get out of here.
Speaker 1: What do they do?
Speaker 10: I don't know.
Speaker 5: We got all the controls up there. We can shut
down the driver, but we can't steer.
Speaker 10: You better dog down the hatch behind us.
Speaker 5: All right, man, capt'n Howl, giving you one minute.
Speaker 10: To give up quiet in a pig tie.
Speaker 5: Black, you'll hang from huting me, every one of you.
Speaker 6: We do not quiet.
Speaker 10: They can hear everything on the intercom. If I pull
a jack out, that's the boy. Look, we've got to
get through to the bridge.
Speaker 5: It's a Mexican stand off. We can't get it, then
they can't get it.
Speaker 6: At what's that?
Speaker 10: The pruss is down?
Speaker 15: It's Howl. He blew the hats on the mess hall section.
Just open her up and let the air out.
Speaker 10: Morton, do you know what Black's going to do. He's
gonna bleed off the air down here?
Speaker 6: Say you all right? I admire, we a see all
out on the till your frouz.
Speaker 7: Still forgetting something. Morton, you're back here with us. What
you if Black and Howl blow out? Compartments one, buy
one or bleed they're off. You'll get it two.
Speaker 6: Eh, they'll take care of me. Don't you worry about that?
Speaker 10: Oh you think so? Huh?
Speaker 7: Joey plug that at a comeback in, right, Captain happen,
give me up.
Speaker 10: We've got Morton back here.
Speaker 4: Yeah.
Speaker 1: If you try anything on us, he'll get it too.
Speaker 5: What am I supposed to do?
Speaker 3: Praying?
Speaker 5: You don't care?
Speaker 4: If he dies, that's his problem.
Speaker 3: We're gonna drop the archicon level five percent.
Speaker 11: Can't do that to me, Captain kept It's unfortunate.
Speaker 3: That you were, Captain Martin, but the security of my
ship comes first.
Speaker 6: I mean you don't care. You see me dead precisely?
Speaker 11: Well, your can't. It's murdered, that's what. I'm not one
of them. You can't kill me, your cot Joey Pully.
Speaker 10: In a complut?
Speaker 8: All right?
Speaker 10: Tell you are Morton.
Speaker 1: They'd kill you just as soon as look at you. Now, listen,
we've got to get through that bulkhead.
Speaker 6: You know this ship.
Speaker 8: There must be some way, Morton were your only.
Speaker 5: Chance get us through the bulkhead?
Speaker 6: All right?
Speaker 8: All right?
Speaker 6: Why shortened I they killed me?
Speaker 11: Well, and there is a way they get through an
emergency relief the down't tail crewmen about it to keep
him from breaking through in an engine blast and leaking
radiation to the braid.
Speaker 10: Will and let's get going.
Speaker 7: We've got to get through that bulkhead before howl cuts
the air down and gets us all. Here's the bulkhead, Morgan,
where's the release.
Speaker 6: Under the floor panal? You can pry it up? All right?
Speaker 10: Hurry, I got it, I got it.
Speaker 11: She's up wax on a key ready, all right?
Speaker 6: Morton, open it up? Here it goes.
Speaker 5: What He's dead, electrocuted and the bulkhead still clothed.
Speaker 10: They didn't even get to turn that key.
Speaker 7: It killed him instantly. Harry, Yeah, have you got your
watch gloves they're insulated.
Speaker 5: Oh yeah, sure, get Porton out of the way.
Speaker 10: Don't touch them, Joey, he's got the current throat.
Speaker 5: I'll shot him weight with the gloves, all right, now
standing by? Here goes a key.
Speaker 11: All right, let's call Kevin, come on stand back there,
all right?
Speaker 6: See how you like this trap the gun?
Speaker 10: Joey, look out, Let go that gun?
Speaker 6: How all right?
Speaker 10: Hold them both.
Speaker 5: You don't have to worry about Black. I got him
square with the ranks we better tie up. The captain.
Speaker 3: Well, what do you think you're gonna do now? We're
gonna turn around and go back home. I don't think so.
I burned the navigation tapes and none of you can
recalculate them. Why you you're just wandering space that the
fuel gives out.
Speaker 4: You'll die right here on this ship.
Speaker 14: Jeff, Jeff, you have the separate Screenze went on media. No, no,
it's a ship, patrol ship coming up on us.
Speaker 5: They must have got an off ye.
Speaker 10: Wait a minute, we don't have to worry. We can
just tell them the truth.
Speaker 3: You're not familiar with space code, young man. Mutiny is
punishable by immediate execution. In other words, they don't ask questions,
they just shoot.
Speaker 5: He's right, Jeff, that's true. And we get away, not
from a patrol ship already sent us a heat to
flash run. They'll blow us out of space.
Speaker 3: I'm afraid your mutiny is about over with.
Speaker 8: Gentlemen.
Speaker 10: There'll be a board in an hour.
Speaker 6: Ten minutes after that, you'll all be dead.
Speaker 13: Oberty Booth Sergeant, take a squad and secure the ship,
collect all weapons, and post a guard in the engine room.
Speaker 3: Will Well, I'm the law to see you, Major, I
wasn't quite here. My soos had gotten through. Oh your captain, Howell,
that's right, and I.
Speaker 10: Can swear out the abidae of the mutiny.
Speaker 9: I don't think a mutiny charge will stand up, Howell,
not with the relief of command warrant out for you.
Speaker 10: I think we'll just forget about it.
Speaker 6: But you can't do that.
Speaker 3: Space Cooat is clear you recorded my sos.
Speaker 10: No, we didn't howl.
Speaker 6: And how'd you get here?
Speaker 8: They sent us after you to get.
Speaker 10: Jeff Coffin Where I'm Jeff Coffin.
Speaker 9: Jeff, we had a missing person's alarm for you, and
then when a check you signed turned up at mars
Port a check m Well.
Speaker 10: That's right.
Speaker 8: I gave one to Morton to help me get away.
Speaker 9: And he sold to a fence for half face value.
We traced it back to this ship. I've got orders
to escort you personally. We're taking you back to Worth.
Speaker 8: Can I send out a message, Major?
Speaker 9: And of course, oh, well, that reminds me, Jeff, I've
got one for you from your fiance. She said to
tell you that she didn't object a bachelor party in principle,
but she did think six months was stretching it a bit.
You have just heard X minus one, presented by the
National Broadcasting Company in cooperation with Street and Smith, publishers
of astounding science fiction.
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