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Speaker 1: M h.

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Speaker 2: Count down for blast off x minus five minus four

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minus three minus two x minus one.

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Speaker 1: Fire from the.

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Speaker 2: Far horizons of the unknown come transcribe tales of new

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dimensions in time and space. These are stories of the

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future adventures in which you'll live in. A million could

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be years on a thousand would be worlds. The National

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Broadcasting Company presents X minus one.

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Speaker 3: Tonight Universe.

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Speaker 2: We are just beginning to discover how boundless our universe

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really is. And yet as man reaches out to the stars,

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out toward infinity, ironically enough, he may be building himself

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a new kind of prison. What would it be like

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to live all your life in a world no larger,

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say than a single gigantic rocket ship bound on an

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endless mercy.

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Speaker 1: Que. Look out, you're right, yes, just miss me?

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Speaker 4: What was it?

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Speaker 1: Newton with a slingshot? I think must have dash down

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that passage away. I want to go after it now.

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We'd never catch it. Alan probably twelve decks above us

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by now.

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Speaker 5: I didn't think they ever came down as far.

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Speaker 1: Trolls usually get them.

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Speaker 5: Before they reach this level.

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Speaker 1: They get more daring each generation. This will look like

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a female.

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Speaker 6: Male or female. It might have killed us.

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Speaker 2: I told you this trip was pure foolishness, climbing twenty

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four deck levels to hear a crazy old man rave.

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Speaker 1: All right, Adam, we're almost there now. Let me see

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Compartment X fifteen, level twenty four.

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Speaker 7: This is the place serious smells as if it hadn't

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been visited by a sanitation crew for generations.

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Speaker 1: This part of the ship is almost deserted. Yes, is

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this the compartment of John the Witness?

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Speaker 6: Who are you?

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Speaker 1: My name is Hugh Hoyland. Get that from scientist Barracks.

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This is my friend Alan mahoney.

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Speaker 4: What do you want to John the Witness?

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Speaker 1: Well, only to talk?

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Speaker 6: Are you a believer in Jordan?

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Speaker 1: Naturally?

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Speaker 5: I have heard that there.

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Speaker 6: Are those among the younger scientists who doubt the word

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of Jordan, to.

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Speaker 1: Doubt his death. We're not heretics.

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Speaker 3: Ah And.

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Speaker 1: I've brought you a gift of tobacco grown on the

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richest level. It smells good. I assure you it's of

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the best.

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Speaker 4: Wait here, I'll get him.

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Speaker 3: What a ratsness?

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Speaker 1: What the devil you think he can tell you? Alan?

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I'm not sure. I'm not sure. Well are you John

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the Witness? I am good eating to you. I'm you Hoyland.

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This is my friend, Alan Mahoney.

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Speaker 6: What brings a gentleman of the scientists cast to my

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humble compartment.

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Speaker 1: I've heard that you and your parents before you have

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been keepers of the legend of the ship since Jordan

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gave the word. I'm anxious to hear the word as

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Jordan's spoke it. Why because our young scientists well among them,

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there have been some who talk against the word.

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Speaker 6: There are regulations against such heresy.

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Speaker 1: Still, some of them say the ship has no purpose.

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They say that we are here accidentally, that we have

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no more grace in Jordan's eyes than the most deformed

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mutant who dwells in the highest level of the ship.

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Speaker 6: What shall I say to you?

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Speaker 1: And I wish to hear the word from the mouth

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of one who knows, in order that I may become

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more convinced.

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Speaker 6: Sid you a gift for the witness.

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Speaker 1: The finest tobacco, good old.

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Speaker 6: And the lights. I'll pay close attention for these other words,

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as my father's father's father gave them to his son's sons. Son.

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This is how the ship came into being, how our

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people were created. In the beginning, there was only Jordan,

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thinking his lonely thoughts. Out of his thoughts came a vision.

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Out of the vision came a planning, and out of

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the planning came decision. Jordan's hand was lifted and the

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ship was borne mile after mile of good compartments, tank

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after tank for golden corn, ladder and passage, door and locker,

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fit for the needs of the yet unborn. He looked

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on his work and found it pleasing meet for a

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race that was yet to be. He thought of man,

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and man came into being. Then Jordan checked his thoughts

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and set for a key. Man untamed would shame his maker.

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Man unruled would spoil the plan. So Jordan made the regulations,

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and order came to the works of Man. A crew

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he created to work at their stations, scientists to guide

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the plan.

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Speaker 1: Over them.

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Speaker 8: All he created captain, made him judge of the race

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of Man. Thus it was in the Golden age.

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Speaker 1: These are the true words.

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Speaker 6: As my father's father taught them.

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Speaker 1: But what are the strange beast like people on the

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upper levels of the ship. Surely Jordan did not create them.

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Speaker 6: Jordan is perfect. All below him lack perfection. You have

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heard of the legend of Huff.

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Speaker 1: I have heard that he mutinied against Jordan.

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Speaker 6: Darkness swallowed the ways of virtue. Sin prevailed upon the ship,

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and before wisdom prevailed in the bodies of Huff and

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his followers were fed into the converter. Some of the

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rebels escaped and lived to father the mutants. They are

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tainted with the sins of their fathers.

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Speaker 1: Witness one more quest, speak, what is the ship?

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Speaker 4: The ship is a great sphere twenty five kilometers wide

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and one hundred levels deep.

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Speaker 1: I know that, but the upper levels.

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Speaker 4: Regulations forbid est to venture into the upper levels. But

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it is said that beyond the levels of the mutants

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lies the forbidden place where Jordan's spirit p So.

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Speaker 1: I've heard yet something troubles me, something which prompted my

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coming here. Yes, my son, what lies beyond the ship? What?

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What lies beyond the ship? This is here is answer me.

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Speaker 6: I will not permit such talk. The ship is complete,

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The ship is universal, The ship is everywhere. The ship

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is endless.

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Speaker 1: Your mutterings are those of a frightened old man. They

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answer nothing.

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Speaker 4: You question the world.

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Speaker 1: I think you lie.

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Speaker 4: Hear me, mister Hoyland, for what you have already said.

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I can have your body fed into the converter. You're

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so launched on the endless trip you'll threaten me?

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Speaker 1: You for Jordan's sake, do you think I fear this

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dried figure of a man? You, sir, My friend is impetuously.

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He does not understand I.

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Speaker 6: Might be persuaded to forget substantial gift.

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Speaker 1: Why you Alan, come on the side of this so

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called holy man of friends me. You shall not leave.

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Don't try to frighten me with that gun. Old man,

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where you are heretics? I warn you. Put down that gun,

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no closer, rape it.

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Speaker 4: Very well, then death to the heretic.

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Speaker 1: Alan, get him, Alan, he's not breathing. Is he dead?

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I don't know. Come on here, we've got to get

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out of here, right nowhere. We can't go back. They'd

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feed us into the converter before we can even what's

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up an alarm? That old woman must have turned it in.

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Come on, Alan, the patrol will be here in no time.

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Where'll we go? Well, where the upper level? So the

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mutants will have to take our turn, He says, come on,

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let's go. Listen, that's the patrol. Come on, we've got

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to climb.

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Speaker 9: There's a htchway on the Cord quickly, quickly Helen, Helen

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up clatter.

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Speaker 1: Sure pure Wait how far away from the outside wall?

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Judging the slope of the deck about two miles. Let's

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try this passageway here. If you hadn't asked him that

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stupid question, how there's no use going over that?

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Speaker 6: Why did you do it?

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Speaker 1: I've been thinking about it for a long time, and

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he began to give me those stupid tight answers. I

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just saw red. I guess, who are.

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Speaker 3: You to question the ways of Jordan?

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Speaker 2: When you asked me to go with you to visit

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the witness, I I thought you wanted spiritual help.

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Speaker 1: And I'm sorry, Alan, I'm sorry I couldn't foresee this.

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Speaker 3: Wait a minute, what.

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Speaker 1: I saw something?

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Speaker 3: Move?

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Speaker 1: I don't see anything.

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Speaker 10: Maybe my eyes are going back list kill me, highness?

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Speaker 1: Oh what are you that night? Keep away from you?

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Speaker 3: Are you forget my friend Bobo? Like so many of

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my people, he's rather impetuous. Where members of the so

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called super race?

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Speaker 1: Who are you? What place is this?

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Speaker 3: H I guess on my leg, I'm a mutant mutant?

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Speaker 5: Where where is allan?

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Speaker 3: Your friend is dead. I was not able to restrain

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my people in time to save him.

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Speaker 1: Why don't you destroy me and get it over with.

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Speaker 3: We do not kill for pleasure, mister Hyland, only when necessary.

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Speaker 1: You know my name?

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Speaker 3: I read you're identification tag.

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Speaker 1: Who are your mutants? Can't read?

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Speaker 3: My name is Gregory Gregory. I'm a leader of my people.

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You see, although we are unfortunately now I read it

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to mister Hoyland. Many of us are quite intelligent.

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Speaker 1: And why do you live like animals?

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Speaker 3: You'd rather live like free animals than like regimented slaves

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as you do.

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Speaker 1: I've heard you practice cannibalism.

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Speaker 3: Undoubtedly you hear any things about us turn your head.

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Why that.

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Speaker 1: A monster? I've never seen a creature.

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Speaker 3: Kim Bobo isn't unfortunate. He was born without the power

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of speech.

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Speaker 1: How can you tolerate such a monstrusty?

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Speaker 3: We've learned to live with difference. If we began to

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destroy our imperfect as you do on the lower levels,

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that would soon be no one left. It violates the

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regulations a word of Jordan's state language. Your people are

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really quite primitive and barbaric.

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Speaker 1: Dare say that to me?

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Speaker 3: And there say a good deal more. Let us go

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to my compartment and speak further. I'm always interested in

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information on the lower levels. I'll give you no information, Bobo.

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Mister Harland and my cabin please adplies you to go

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climb in too. Holand Bobo has a hatred of superior beings,

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which is unfortunate but quite understandable. Proceed and to mister Harland,

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this is where you live. Yes, but you have books

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and from your library is mister Holland.

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Speaker 1: Caps philosophy that are still a navigation solicitium mechanic.

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Speaker 3: You've read these, most of them.

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Speaker 1: I had no idea that you Why did you bring

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me here? What do you intend to do?

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Speaker 3: Do you believe in Jordan? Mister Holland? There is no

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other belief? And the trip I suppose you believe in

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the trip to what.

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Speaker 1: Else is there to believe? When you die, your remains

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a fend of the converter and your soul makes the trip.

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Speaker 3: And where does the trip take you?

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Speaker 1: And a centauris? Of course?

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Speaker 3: Ah? And where what is saurus?

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Speaker 1: Centaurus is? Mind you? I'm just telling you the Orthodox

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answers sent tauris is where you arrive when you've made

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the trip, grace, where everybody is happy, and where there's

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always good eating, and you believe this well. The peasants

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believe it literally, but many of the younger scientists, like

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myself know it is figurative and symbolic. Why do you ask?

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Speaker 3: Did it ever occur to you, mister Holland? But the

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trip is exactly what your peasants believe. It is what

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and that the ship and all the crew were actually

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going somewhere moving.

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Speaker 1: Ship can't go anywhere. It already is everywhere.

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Speaker 3: Imagine a place bigger than the ship, mneyig, with the

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ship inside it, moving inside it.

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Speaker 1: There can't be any place bigger than the ship. There

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just wouldn't be any place for it to be.

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Speaker 3: For half sake, listen, you know the lowest level. Of course,

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if you started digging a hole in the lowest level,

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where would that hole go?

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Speaker 1: It's forbidden to think such thoughts.

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Speaker 3: Where would it go?

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Speaker 1: I can't think about.

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Speaker 3: It, Bobbo, I take mister Hoyland to the place. No where,

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Where are we going to the top level? That's certain

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death nonsense. I've been there a thousand times.

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Speaker 1: No, I won't, I won't. You can't make me. I

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think we can.

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Speaker 5: Please, now.

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Speaker 3: We proceed peacefully, or shall I have Bubo persuade you

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wo open the door, bubble inside.

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Speaker 1: Oh what place is this?

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Speaker 3: This, mister Hoyland, is the main control room. And mister Hoyland,

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you're trembling.

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Speaker 1: It isn't true. Oh, there's no such place except in mythology.

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Speaker 3: You younger men are so wise, mister Hoyland, except for

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one thing. This happens to be the main control room

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of the ship.

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Speaker 1: Main control. But it's just a huge room with an

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instrument panel.

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Speaker 3: And what did you expect?

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Speaker 1: How do you know this is the main control room?

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Speaker 3: See these instruments using them to navigate, and many hundreds

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of years ago, actually steered the ship on its voyage.

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Speaker 1: I don't understand. I didn't suppose you would sit down

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very well?

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Speaker 3: Look up?

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Speaker 1: What do you see?

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Speaker 5: A huge shield?

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Speaker 3: Watch it for one moment, mister Hoyland. You're going to

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see something that few of us have ever been privileged

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to witness.

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Speaker 1: What are you doing laming the lights?

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Speaker 3: Don't be frightened, Keep your eyes focused on the shield

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above us. Ready, watch.

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Speaker 1: It's sliding back.

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Speaker 5: Coostaph Jorn.

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Speaker 3: Well what.

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Speaker 1: Am I seeing?

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Speaker 3: The universe, mister Hyland. The universe and all its beauty,

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the stars, the planets, the suns and moons and constellation.

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Speaker 1: No, no, it can't be. The ship is the universe.

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There is nothing but the ship.

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Speaker 3: But there it is. You see it before your eyes

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spread out like a canno pir of glory. Do you

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still deny it? Answer me, mister Hoyland.

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Speaker 1: Do you deny it?

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Speaker 5: No?

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Speaker 1: No, I can't deny it. They've lied, They lied to

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all of us.

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Speaker 3: I have showed this to others of your people whom

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we captured, and though they saw it before their very eyes,

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they would not believe it.

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Speaker 1: Please please tell me all about it. Tell me the

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truth about the ship and about the universe. What are

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these things? How did this come about?

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Speaker 3: Many thousands of years ago, on a planet like those

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you have just seen, a planet called Earth, a scientist

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named Jordan decided to build a ship that would carry

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men from one planet to another. For many years, Jordan

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and thousands of others studied and planned, and when they

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were finished, they built the ship, a ship so large

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that it had to be assembled in its own orbit

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beyond the place called the moon. Sixty years it took

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them to construct, and when it was finished, a whole

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new science had been conceived. Then the trip was begun.

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The trip that was to land a colony of earthmen

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on a far off planet called Saint Paoris, millions of

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light years beyond the furthest planet ever reached before.

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Speaker 1: How do you know these things?

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Speaker 3: Among my books are the log which Jordan himself kept,

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and the records of the journey for the first forty years.

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Speaker 1: What happened?

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Speaker 3: There was a mutiny. A man named Hath led a

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rebellion of those who wanted to turn back in the struggle,

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the navigators were killed, the crew fell into a state

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of anarchy. In the years to follow, small groups of

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men trying to organize the ship for navigation, and each

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time they failed. Finally the whole idea was abandoned. And

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so for centuries we have swung in space, unmanned, un directed,

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living in the lost world of our own making, without purpose,

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without direction. Why have you told me this? Can't you

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guess you want to finish the trip? Yes, but I can't.

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You can't look at me, mister Hoyland. You see a mutant,

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a man with a twisted leg. My people are outcasts,

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condemned to death. If we saw much as set foot

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in the lower levels of the ship. The main drive

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is in the lower levels where my people a forbidden

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to go. Oh, it would mean that both our people

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would have to work together. Our difference is encouraged rather

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than denied.

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Speaker 1: All right, I'll see the Captain himself. I have an

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uncle on the central board. I'll tell him what I've

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seen here.

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Speaker 3: And do you think he'll believe you?

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Speaker 1: Send one of your people with me.

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Speaker 3: That's asking a good deal.

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Speaker 1: I'm risking a good deal by going back.

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Speaker 3: Very well, Bobo will go with you.

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Speaker 1: Bobo, he can't talk.

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Speaker 3: There will be no need for talk. I will write

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a message guaranteeing safe conduct for a group of unarmed

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scientists to visit the main control room. Bobo will take

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you safely through our territory. What happens when you reach

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your own level?

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Speaker 1: He's up to you?

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Speaker 5: Yes, what you quick?

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Speaker 1: Uncle? Let us in here? But this is this Newton

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he's hartness? Please Uncle, please?

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Speaker 5: Now, what is this you're wanted for?

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Speaker 1: I know all about that, Uncle, Listen. I must see

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the captain. Captain, are you mad? Uncle? You're a council member.

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You can get me to see you.

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Speaker 5: Cure you.

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Speaker 1: You're wanted for, Harris, I don't care. I must speak

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with the captain now, Uncle, you're close to him, you

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can arrange it. I don't understand.

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Speaker 5: Listen to me.

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Speaker 1: The ship is moving. I can prove it. You understand

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there is a purpose in the ship. I don't understand

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what you're babbling them and never mind. Just talk to

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the captain. Tell him I have information of tremendous importance.

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Tell him I've arranged a truce with the mutants. Here.

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Show him this paper signed by their leader. Do it, Uncle,

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for my sake. I don't know what, uncle. Please, if

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I'm to die, let this be my last request to you.

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Very well. I'll speak to the captain.

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Speaker 11: And you say, mister Hoyland, that you saw this with

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your own eyes.

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Speaker 1: I swear it, Captain, I swear it on the word

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of Jordan.

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Speaker 11: Hmmm, let me see the paper again. Commanderest what do

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you think.

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Speaker 1: I don't know, sir.

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Speaker 6: It might be a trick.

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Speaker 1: I guarantee you safe conduct.

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Speaker 11: If these things are as mister Hoyland reports them, it

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would pay to risk a few lives.

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Speaker 3: A man is a convicted heretic.

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Speaker 11: Still, we must not discount his word. He has a

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safe conduct, and the mutant risked its life coming with him.

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I think we might investigate captain, you mean you will

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do it. I will have an expedition outfitted. Dismissed, mister Hoyland,

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Thank you, sir, Captain demanders, Sir, you will make the

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necessary arrangements for an expedition, and I trust you understand.

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Speaker 5: Perfectly, sir, perfectly.

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Speaker 1: Lieutenant hard are you better heart? For men here? This

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is a what I see?

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Speaker 3: No welcoming party of mutants.

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Speaker 1: They've been in. Their leader will meet you inside the

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main control room.

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Speaker 3: You don't say? Just where is this main control room?

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Speaker 1: Beyond that door? I see? All right? Man? Ready on, lieutenant,

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Why are you ready? Arms in case of ambush? Ambush?

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Wait a minute, lieutenant, what are those men doing with

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that raygun?

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Speaker 5: Just staiming it at the door?

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Speaker 1: Are you mad? No, mister Harland.

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Speaker 7: But most certainly you are to think that we could

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be lured up here to be slotted with a fantastic

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story about some mythical control rooms.

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Speaker 1: Tenant, I warn you these people have acted in good faith.

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You can't break that thing, oh mutant.

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Speaker 10: Out for Jordan's sake, Lieutenant, why comfort, but don't open

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the door.

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Speaker 1: I won't let anything happen this opening.

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Speaker 3: Ready, man, someone's coming out, ready.

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Speaker 1: Very stay for.

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Speaker 4: Two fools.

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Speaker 3: You've killed him, become the rest of them, High High.

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Speaker 7: I should teach him a lesson. They won't forget horraight

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men inside the room. You're under arrest and a conspirator

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in this amble.

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Speaker 1: Ambush you fool, you blind, stupid fool.

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Speaker 7: That'll be on now. I've been inside this place before. Yes,

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what's this machinery?

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Speaker 1: These are the controls he would have used to steer

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the ship. Gone out of his mind. You can stay

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of the ship. The leader, the one you killed, This

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ugly mutant. This ugly mutant happened to be a man

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of true genius, are you, mad am? I lieutenant? This

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man had a vision which would have saved you, but

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you chose to kill him because you couldn't stand the

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sight of his difference from your help island. Don't listen

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to him.

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Speaker 9: Man, You can't shut your eyes, and you can't shut

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your minds, and you can't shut your ears to this.

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Speaker 1: You'll, yes, look, Let the.

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Speaker 9: Vision of this confound your ignorance and blind your eyes.

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This is the heritage of stars and open skies for

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which men of you are for centuries. Try to destroy this,

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and you will only destroy yourselves.

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Speaker 3: Go to the hurritic.

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Speaker 1: I I say to you, but you can't keep this

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from our people. They they will seek it out. Ship

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will be amen, and the ship will be steered, and

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there will be freedom, purpose and respect for ourselves. This

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is your heritage.

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Speaker 6: Look look upon the universe.

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Speaker 2: X minus one has just brought you Universe, a story

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written by Robert Heinlein and adapted for radio by George Leffards.

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Speaker 1: Heard in the cast for Donald Buck.

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Speaker 2: As Hugh, Peter Cappel as Gregory, Bill Griffis as Allen,

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Abby Lewis as the woman, Edgar Staley as the witness,

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Jason Johnson as the Uncle, John Seymour as the captain,

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and Ian Martin as the Lieutenant. Your announcer is Fred Collins.

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X minus one is directed by Fred Way and as

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a transcribed NBC Radio Network production. Nah next week, next week,

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we have a strange story to tell, a sweet, blood

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curdling little story that is really only two sentences long.

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The last man on Earth sat alone in a room,

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and then there was a knock on the door.

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Speaker 3: What knocked on that door?

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Speaker 1: You'll find out next week on one.

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Speaker 2: When you buy United States Savings bonds, you helped to

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build your own future security. Here's an opportunity to save

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systematic for long range personal objectives, so invest in United

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States savings bonds.

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