WEBVTT 1 00:00:02.560 --> 00:00:08.359 The National Broadcasting Company presents Radio City Playhouse Attraction thirteen. 2 00:00:30.440 --> 00:00:33.679 Our play tonight is titled The Dark Hour. It is 3 00:00:33.679 --> 00:00:37.240 an original radio drama by Charles Bennett and one which. 4 00:00:37.079 --> 00:00:37.960 We like very much. 5 00:00:38.000 --> 00:00:41.399 Indeed, we sincerely hope that after thirty minutes heavy laughs, 6 00:00:41.479 --> 00:00:44.960 you will share our opinion. The production is directed by 7 00:00:45.039 --> 00:00:49.600 Harry W. Jenkins and stars John Larkin as Paul. Here 8 00:00:49.679 --> 00:01:07.959 is Radio City Playhouse Attraction thirteen, The Dark Hour. This 9 00:01:08.120 --> 00:01:12.519 is a story about Paul, Paul Gallagher. It is a 10 00:01:12.560 --> 00:01:16.040 story about Paul when something happens to him. It is 11 00:01:16.040 --> 00:01:18.519 the story of the fears and thoughts within him when 12 00:01:18.519 --> 00:01:21.560 it happened, and it is the story of the voice 13 00:01:22.079 --> 00:01:25.599 that speaks these thoughts. It is not, we think, an 14 00:01:25.680 --> 00:01:29.079 ordinary story. Paul won't tell very many people about this. 15 00:01:30.000 --> 00:01:32.799 I say won't because it hasn't happened yet. 16 00:01:33.719 --> 00:01:36.000 It is just now beginning to happen. 17 00:01:40.879 --> 00:01:45.280 Paul, Paul Gallagher, Wake up. Paul. 18 00:01:52.159 --> 00:01:55.079 Paul is lying on the ground asleep. He is on 19 00:01:55.120 --> 00:01:58.560 a summer vacation. This afternoon, he went for a walk 20 00:01:58.560 --> 00:02:01.799 by himself along a dead road that winds through the woods, 21 00:02:01.920 --> 00:02:05.480 about a mile from his family's summer coffee It's a 22 00:02:05.519 --> 00:02:08.919 lonely road, never much traffic on it, but Paul knows 23 00:02:08.960 --> 00:02:12.000 it well. He's been on it dozens of times every 24 00:02:12.000 --> 00:02:14.479 summer of his life, except while he was away in 25 00:02:14.520 --> 00:02:15.000 the army. 26 00:02:16.039 --> 00:02:19.280 Wake up, Paul, open your eyes. 27 00:02:21.400 --> 00:02:24.000 He has stretched out flat on his back, lying still 28 00:02:24.639 --> 00:02:27.599 except for his breathing, which is slow and regular and gentle. 29 00:02:28.919 --> 00:02:32.080 Where is he? Well? After walking a while, he stepped 30 00:02:32.080 --> 00:02:32.759 off the road. 31 00:02:32.560 --> 00:02:34.919 Through an opening in the brush, and then to a 32 00:02:34.960 --> 00:02:38.599 familiar clearing in the wood. It was warm and peaceful, 33 00:02:39.599 --> 00:02:42.120 and he lay down on his back and gazed through 34 00:02:42.159 --> 00:02:46.000 the rippling treetops at the patch of blue sky above him, and, 35 00:02:46.159 --> 00:02:48.800 without meaning to, Paul Gallagher fell asleep. 36 00:02:50.080 --> 00:02:51.680 That's where he is now. 37 00:02:55.319 --> 00:03:01.680 Do you hear me, Paul? You are waking up. That's right, Paul, 38 00:03:02.520 --> 00:03:12.319 move stretch, open your eyes. Listen, Paul, listen deep within you. 39 00:03:14.000 --> 00:03:15.520 I am you. 40 00:03:16.000 --> 00:03:23.319 Paul. You've heard me before, haven't you. I am you. 41 00:03:23.319 --> 00:03:27.520 You'd better wake up, Paul. Do you hear me? Yeah? 42 00:03:28.319 --> 00:03:35.199 Then open your eyes, Paul, open your eyes. Mhm, what's 43 00:03:35.240 --> 00:03:35.719 the matter? 44 00:03:36.400 --> 00:03:38.240 Where am I? Dark? 45 00:03:38.840 --> 00:03:48.960 Pitch God, pitch dark, call out for help. What's the matter? 46 00:03:49.240 --> 00:03:52.639 Paul, frightened, only for a moment. 47 00:03:52.719 --> 00:03:56.560 I remember now, Paul, Remember where you are? 48 00:03:56.919 --> 00:03:59.319 Yes, I'm lying a little patch of grass and moss 49 00:03:59.400 --> 00:04:00.680 and the woods right. 50 00:04:00.560 --> 00:04:02.719 Where you lay down this afternoon, Paul. 51 00:04:03.479 --> 00:04:05.319 I remember what. 52 00:04:05.280 --> 00:04:07.080 Time did you go to sleep? Paul? 53 00:04:07.439 --> 00:04:09.360 Oh? About three o'clock, I guess. 54 00:04:09.759 --> 00:04:15.800 And now it's pitch dark, black dark, isn't it. Better 55 00:04:15.879 --> 00:04:19.519 make very sure where you are. Put your hands out 56 00:04:19.560 --> 00:04:21.079 and feel the ground around you. 57 00:04:22.120 --> 00:04:23.959 Yes, it's moss and grass all right. 58 00:04:24.399 --> 00:04:26.240 Well, at least you know where you are. 59 00:04:27.680 --> 00:04:29.920 Oh, vall this group, all things to do, sleeping all 60 00:04:29.959 --> 00:04:30.480 this time? 61 00:04:31.120 --> 00:04:32.439 What time is it, Paul? 62 00:04:33.759 --> 00:04:38.160 I can't see my watch a match because I haven't 63 00:04:38.160 --> 00:04:40.000 any matches in summer. 64 00:04:40.079 --> 00:04:44.759 The twilight lasts until around nine o'clock. It's so dark 65 00:04:44.839 --> 00:04:46.319 now you can't see a thing. 66 00:04:46.360 --> 00:04:47.360 Can you? 67 00:04:47.480 --> 00:04:48.759 Boy? This is one of the books. 68 00:04:49.279 --> 00:04:51.399 You must have been very tired, Paul. 69 00:04:51.759 --> 00:04:54.279 Yes, I must have been very tired, tired enough. 70 00:04:54.079 --> 00:04:58.240 To fall asleep accidentally and sleep for seven hours maybe more. 71 00:04:58.879 --> 00:05:02.879 No, I was that tired when they discharged. 72 00:05:02.240 --> 00:05:05.879 You from that army hospital. What did they tell you? 73 00:05:07.040 --> 00:05:08.920 Oh, that was a long time ago, two yous. 74 00:05:09.560 --> 00:05:11.199 What did they tell you, Paul? 75 00:05:12.040 --> 00:05:12.360 Nothing? 76 00:05:13.040 --> 00:05:16.480 What did they tell you? 77 00:05:17.480 --> 00:05:19.519 They said? Take it easy, be careful. 78 00:05:20.240 --> 00:05:27.920 Why did they say that? Why? Paul? Why Paul? 79 00:05:28.800 --> 00:05:30.680 I had a rough trip getting up here from my vacation, 80 00:05:30.800 --> 00:05:32.839 that long hot train ride, sitting up all night for 81 00:05:32.920 --> 00:05:34.879 two nights. It's very tiring. 82 00:05:35.639 --> 00:05:39.399 Or maybe it's a change of climate. This fresh northern 83 00:05:39.439 --> 00:05:40.759 air just knocked you out. 84 00:05:40.959 --> 00:05:44.199 Yes, that must be it funny, isn't it? Paul? 85 00:05:44.279 --> 00:05:47.439 Get up? You can't just lie there. Sit up here? 86 00:05:48.120 --> 00:05:52.959 I am that's right. Brushed the grass and twigged from 87 00:05:52.959 --> 00:05:55.680 your sweater. What's the matter? 88 00:05:56.920 --> 00:05:57.240 Nothing? 89 00:05:58.079 --> 00:06:00.480 Why are you rubbing the side of your face? 90 00:06:00.680 --> 00:06:05.800 Paw, skin is all dent. I slipping my face, pressing 91 00:06:05.879 --> 00:06:08.560 right into the grass. I guess. 92 00:06:10.360 --> 00:06:14.279 What's the matter, Paul? Why are you rubbing your temple 93 00:06:14.319 --> 00:06:18.360 with your finger? What's the matter? Pole? 94 00:06:19.319 --> 00:06:25.360 My scar stinging like a needle. The twide must have 95 00:06:25.399 --> 00:06:26.879 been digging into it when I was asleep. 96 00:06:27.439 --> 00:06:28.879 You'd better be getting home. 97 00:06:29.160 --> 00:06:32.279 Yes, stand up? Yeah, I'm standing. 98 00:06:33.759 --> 00:06:34.839 What are you waiting for? 99 00:06:35.920 --> 00:06:41.279 I I don't know which way to go? So dark, 100 00:06:42.319 --> 00:06:46.199 I've never known to be so dark before. Like, I 101 00:06:46.240 --> 00:06:48.160 can't even tell where the trees end and the sky 102 00:06:48.240 --> 00:06:49.000 begins up there. 103 00:06:49.680 --> 00:06:52.560 Probably it clouded over while you were asleep. 104 00:06:52.839 --> 00:06:53.439 And that's it. 105 00:06:53.800 --> 00:06:56.839 You're not afraid of the dark, Paul. 106 00:06:57.839 --> 00:07:00.399 Think how often you walked home along that road in 107 00:07:00.439 --> 00:07:01.839 the dark when you were a kid. 108 00:07:02.920 --> 00:07:05.160 You can do it again, of course I can do 109 00:07:05.199 --> 00:07:05.600 it again. 110 00:07:06.600 --> 00:07:08.639 The first thing is to get out of the clearing 111 00:07:08.720 --> 00:07:10.839 onto the road. Figure it out. 112 00:07:11.720 --> 00:07:15.920 Let's see, I came in out of the old tree, 113 00:07:16.920 --> 00:07:20.120 and then the opening must be in this direction. 114 00:07:20.439 --> 00:07:21.560 Which way, Paul? 115 00:07:22.560 --> 00:07:22.959 This way? 116 00:07:23.839 --> 00:07:27.399 Go on, Paul, stretch out your arms in front of you. 117 00:07:28.399 --> 00:07:33.000 Step forward, step, step step? 118 00:07:34.800 --> 00:07:35.519 What's the matter? 119 00:07:36.360 --> 00:07:38.000 I should have reached the edge of the clearing by now, 120 00:07:38.040 --> 00:07:38.720 one way or another. 121 00:07:39.279 --> 00:07:40.519 Do you feel anything yet? 122 00:07:41.519 --> 00:07:41.759 No? 123 00:07:42.319 --> 00:07:44.319 Maybe you hit the exit from the clearing right on 124 00:07:44.360 --> 00:07:45.519 the button the first time. 125 00:07:45.600 --> 00:07:47.279 Yeah, maybe I did step forward. 126 00:07:47.360 --> 00:07:49.240 Then what happened? 127 00:07:49.360 --> 00:07:52.639 I don't know. Somebody slapping in the face. 128 00:07:53.000 --> 00:07:55.120 Put out your hand and see what it was. 129 00:07:55.240 --> 00:08:03.120 No, go on, what It's only a leaf, a little 130 00:08:03.120 --> 00:08:04.560 branch hanging down over my head. 131 00:08:05.639 --> 00:08:06.800 You missed the opening. 132 00:08:08.160 --> 00:08:09.240 How am I going to get out of here? 133 00:08:09.639 --> 00:08:12.879 Suppose a car went by on the road outside the clearing, 134 00:08:13.079 --> 00:08:15.720 Why then then you would know where the exit is. 135 00:08:15.959 --> 00:08:19.399 Yes, how often do cars go. 136 00:08:19.319 --> 00:08:20.399 By on that road? 137 00:08:21.439 --> 00:08:24.680 It might be hours before one went by. I don't 138 00:08:24.680 --> 00:08:29.800 want to wait. I want to get out of here. Think, Paul, 139 00:08:32.879 --> 00:08:35.039 I know what a branch. 140 00:08:35.320 --> 00:08:42.840 Good, Paul, that's right, Grab it, I'll pull it down. 141 00:08:43.919 --> 00:08:51.200 Go on, twist it, twist. The branch broke off right 142 00:08:51.200 --> 00:08:52.720 into your hands, didn't it. 143 00:08:53.840 --> 00:08:57.240 Now what that's right, Paul. 144 00:08:58.000 --> 00:09:04.919 Strip off the twigs, the leaves, all of them there. 145 00:09:05.480 --> 00:09:09.559 Now what have you got now? 146 00:09:09.679 --> 00:09:11.879 A stick? Now I can feel where I'm going. 147 00:09:13.080 --> 00:09:14.720 Which way are you going to? Try? 148 00:09:16.320 --> 00:09:18.440 Left? I think yes? Left? 149 00:09:24.039 --> 00:09:25.000 Is that the opening? 150 00:09:25.320 --> 00:09:29.320 Wait? I I'm walking on leaves? 151 00:09:29.600 --> 00:09:30.679 What does that mean? 152 00:09:31.399 --> 00:09:33.240 Oh? I must be going into the woods instead of 153 00:09:33.279 --> 00:09:34.120 bout by the opening. 154 00:09:34.480 --> 00:09:41.240 And do something like back up, back out of there. Now, 155 00:09:41.360 --> 00:09:43.679 go on, Paul, to the left. 156 00:09:46.240 --> 00:09:49.360 Keep at it, Paul, I might go deeper into the woods. 157 00:09:49.559 --> 00:09:50.879 Keep at it, Paul. 158 00:09:54.519 --> 00:10:00.240 Wait, wait, I think, why are you stopping, Paul. I've 159 00:10:00.279 --> 00:10:02.519 made it. I'm out. I'm through the opening up by 160 00:10:02.519 --> 00:10:05.360 the road. I know what. I can feel it, I can, 161 00:10:05.399 --> 00:10:07.080 I can. I can feel more space around me. 162 00:10:07.399 --> 00:10:10.360 Better be sure, use the stick. 163 00:10:12.399 --> 00:10:19.759 Step forward, Paul, slowly, slowly, slowly, watch out. 164 00:10:19.600 --> 00:10:24.480 For the well. Paul. 165 00:10:25.000 --> 00:10:27.519 You had to step over that roadside ditch when you 166 00:10:27.559 --> 00:10:31.720 went to the clearing before falling asleep. Didn't you remember 167 00:10:31.879 --> 00:10:34.840 now you saw the water ended in the mud and 168 00:10:34.879 --> 00:10:38.879 the wet leaves, then didn't you get up? 169 00:10:39.759 --> 00:10:47.720 Get to your feet? Go on, Paul, there you should 170 00:10:47.720 --> 00:10:52.600 be standing by the side of the road. Now, stop trembling. 171 00:10:52.159 --> 00:10:56.919 A ditch and lousy rocking foul misbegotten the cursed ditch, Paul, 172 00:10:57.120 --> 00:11:00.000 I forgot the ditch, lousy rocking ditch. 173 00:11:00.200 --> 00:11:05.559 Calm down, Paul, Shake the mud off your clothes. Where 174 00:11:05.639 --> 00:11:07.120 is your sense of proportion? 175 00:11:09.720 --> 00:11:11.679 Sure, a blazers isn't my night, is it? 176 00:11:11.960 --> 00:11:13.200 You'd better get going? 177 00:11:14.440 --> 00:11:14.759 Yes? 178 00:11:16.559 --> 00:11:17.879 What are you waiting for? 179 00:11:17.960 --> 00:11:21.039 Paul? Now? When I was a kid and walked home 180 00:11:21.080 --> 00:11:24.039 on this road at night, even on the darkest nights, 181 00:11:24.039 --> 00:11:27.840 the sky was just faintly lighter than the wood. It 182 00:11:27.919 --> 00:11:29.480 made a sort of canyon of the road that you 183 00:11:29.480 --> 00:11:33.279 could follow easy. You couldn't see the road, but some 184 00:11:33.360 --> 00:11:35.480 kind of visual sense let you know what it was. 185 00:11:36.159 --> 00:11:39.960 But not tonight, Paul, Tonight, tonight, I can't see a 186 00:11:40.000 --> 00:11:43.600 blessed thing. The darkest night I've ever seen. Its black. 187 00:11:43.639 --> 00:11:45.240 I don't know. 188 00:11:45.320 --> 00:11:46.919 I are you nervous? 189 00:11:48.039 --> 00:11:50.039 Yes, yes, I am? 190 00:11:50.440 --> 00:11:51.159 In what way? 191 00:11:51.399 --> 00:11:55.879 I don't quite know? I can't quite quite figure it out. 192 00:11:56.399 --> 00:11:58.320 What do you feel, Paul? 193 00:11:59.159 --> 00:12:01.240 In my stomach sick? 194 00:12:01.960 --> 00:12:07.960 Do you feel something strange, something wrong? Have you ever 195 00:12:08.039 --> 00:12:09.360 felt it before? Paul? 196 00:12:10.039 --> 00:12:10.240 No? 197 00:12:10.559 --> 00:12:10.799 Never? 198 00:12:11.080 --> 00:12:11.279 No? 199 00:12:11.759 --> 00:12:14.360 How about the war, Paul? 200 00:12:14.759 --> 00:12:15.039 No? 201 00:12:15.399 --> 00:12:17.000 Remember the war? Paul? 202 00:12:17.080 --> 00:12:17.440 No? 203 00:12:17.440 --> 00:12:21.600 No, yes, yes, Paul, you have felt like this before? 204 00:12:21.840 --> 00:12:22.360 No? Never? 205 00:12:22.559 --> 00:12:28.879 Oh yes, Paul, I think think about it? Remember it? 206 00:12:29.000 --> 00:12:31.080 No? Maybe alone? 207 00:12:31.279 --> 00:12:35.840 The war, Paul, the war? The war? 208 00:12:54.679 --> 00:13:01.679 Thank? Yeah, mag listen here, Paul, I'm listened. I how 209 00:13:01.759 --> 00:13:02.639 never mind? It's nothing? 210 00:13:03.279 --> 00:13:04.399 Hey, what's eating you? 211 00:13:04.519 --> 00:13:05.840 You look like you're ready for your shower? 212 00:13:06.000 --> 00:13:09.039 No, it's nothing, bocking your frame when this lousy trench 213 00:13:09.080 --> 00:13:09.879 giving you the willies? 214 00:13:09.960 --> 00:13:14.639 Huh? Well, I say, what is the matter with you? Well, 215 00:13:14.679 --> 00:13:18.440 it's look mac to me a favor, will you? Yeah, 216 00:13:18.039 --> 00:13:22.519 here's my wallet and some other stuff. I keep them 217 00:13:22.519 --> 00:13:25.120 for me, will you? And then if you only, if 218 00:13:25.120 --> 00:13:26.879 you have to, you know what to do with them? 219 00:13:27.080 --> 00:13:29.799 Oh no, wait a sec, Paul. Sure, I can keep 220 00:13:29.840 --> 00:13:31.879 them if you want. But you're just putting the women 221 00:13:32.000 --> 00:13:34.200 on yourself. Oh no, I just got a feeling that's 222 00:13:34.240 --> 00:13:36.639 wrong today? Is it the ticket? I wanted the label 223 00:13:36.679 --> 00:13:39.679 on it and all let junk. I wish I could 224 00:13:39.720 --> 00:13:42.840 be funny about it, but I just feel so ratting, 225 00:13:42.960 --> 00:13:46.960 lousy bad. You want to talk to the chaplain lady. 226 00:13:47.279 --> 00:13:51.799 Oh no, I've talked to him. Thanks. Look at me, Max, 227 00:13:52.279 --> 00:13:53.000 look right at me. 228 00:13:53.200 --> 00:13:53.840 Yeah. 229 00:13:53.960 --> 00:13:58.000 I'm scared, but I'm not just scared. I know it's 230 00:13:58.039 --> 00:14:01.039 gonna happen. I can feel it all through me. Do 231 00:14:01.039 --> 00:14:12.720 you understand me, mat I know it, know it. 232 00:14:22.399 --> 00:14:27.600 Oh, steady, Paul, you're still standing by the side of 233 00:14:27.639 --> 00:14:32.120 the road. Is that the way you feel? Again? 234 00:14:32.399 --> 00:14:35.360 I'll leave me alone. I don't remember, all right, Paul. 235 00:14:36.200 --> 00:14:39.240 All right, I've gotta relax. 236 00:14:40.039 --> 00:14:41.720 You'd better get going, Paul. 237 00:14:42.000 --> 00:14:44.519 Yes, but how am I going to stay on the 238 00:14:44.559 --> 00:14:46.120 road if I can't see it? 239 00:14:46.440 --> 00:14:49.240 Figure it out? What kind of a road is it? 240 00:14:49.720 --> 00:14:55.279 Why? It's an ordinary dirt road? And yes, yes, I 241 00:14:55.320 --> 00:14:58.320 see car wheel throw most of the dirt and gravel 242 00:14:58.360 --> 00:15:01.080 to the side. That leaves hard are bare tracks in 243 00:15:01.120 --> 00:15:03.759 the center, and all I have to do is feel 244 00:15:03.799 --> 00:15:05.799 for a hard, bare part with my feet and it 245 00:15:05.799 --> 00:15:08.519 will be like a track to follow. I feel myself 246 00:15:08.519 --> 00:15:10.679 walking in loose gravel. I know I'm getting on the 247 00:15:10.679 --> 00:15:13.799 shoulder off the road. Good for you, Paul, And now 248 00:15:13.840 --> 00:15:21.480 I'm getting smart. There there's a bare track. 249 00:15:21.840 --> 00:15:25.279 Turns your right, Paul, start walking. 250 00:15:27.039 --> 00:15:28.879 Walk, I'm walking. 251 00:15:29.720 --> 00:15:32.840 Soon you won't have to concentrate so hard on feeling 252 00:15:32.879 --> 00:15:36.159 the road through your feet. Soon your feet will keep 253 00:15:36.200 --> 00:15:43.639 to the road almost automatically. Soon you want it? What 254 00:15:43.960 --> 00:15:44.720 is it, Paul? 255 00:15:46.679 --> 00:15:49.799 My wound a scar stinging again? 256 00:15:50.120 --> 00:15:50.720 You're a scar? 257 00:15:51.480 --> 00:15:52.720 Oh, it's a matic with it anyway? 258 00:15:53.399 --> 00:15:55.639 Hasn't bothered you for a long time? Has it? 259 00:15:55.960 --> 00:15:59.679 No? Now it's stinging. It goes right through my head? 260 00:16:00.240 --> 00:16:02.840 Is that why you're holding your head in your hands? 261 00:16:03.840 --> 00:16:11.399 Steady ball? What are you thinking of, Paul? The war again? 262 00:16:12.799 --> 00:16:13.399 Dizzy? 263 00:16:13.759 --> 00:16:18.039 Why are you thinking of the war again? Paul? And 264 00:16:18.600 --> 00:16:19.279 you're healthy? 265 00:16:20.519 --> 00:16:22.639 Oh? Oh, dizzy? 266 00:16:23.879 --> 00:16:34.879 Steady fall, steady fall, steady. 267 00:16:37.159 --> 00:16:39.159 What time is it, Paul? Three sixteen? 268 00:16:39.320 --> 00:16:41.279 The two nineteen's supposed to take that hill over there. 269 00:16:41.320 --> 00:16:43.879 Soon you divide some of the spy from us. Huh yeah, man, 270 00:16:44.360 --> 00:16:50.320 What time do you say it was three sixteen? What 271 00:16:50.480 --> 00:16:52.519 time is it now? What comedy? What times do I 272 00:16:52.559 --> 00:16:56.240 have to tell you? All right? 273 00:16:56.240 --> 00:16:56.519 Paul? 274 00:16:56.600 --> 00:16:58.840 Hey, I am who I. 275 00:17:15.880 --> 00:17:17.000 Walk? Paul? 276 00:17:17.759 --> 00:17:18.279 I'm walking? 277 00:17:18.960 --> 00:17:20.160 Are you all right now? 278 00:17:20.440 --> 00:17:21.599 Yes? Yes, I'm all right. 279 00:17:22.319 --> 00:17:24.359 What's the matter with your head? Paul? 280 00:17:24.880 --> 00:17:25.960 I don't know my wound? 281 00:17:26.039 --> 00:17:27.400 What was it? 282 00:17:27.519 --> 00:17:28.039 Trapnel? 283 00:17:28.839 --> 00:17:30.680 What do you remember about it? 284 00:17:31.799 --> 00:17:32.240 Remember? 285 00:17:32.559 --> 00:17:36.200 Yes, don't you remember anything about your wound? 286 00:17:36.559 --> 00:17:38.240 No, it's all fixed up now. 287 00:17:38.599 --> 00:17:41.680 Don't you remember the hospital? 288 00:17:42.480 --> 00:17:44.400 The hospital? Yes? 289 00:17:45.039 --> 00:17:47.079 What did they do in the hospital? 290 00:17:47.720 --> 00:17:47.799 Do? 291 00:17:48.559 --> 00:17:49.839 What did they do? 292 00:17:50.839 --> 00:17:52.440 They fixed it up? They fixed up the wound. 293 00:17:52.599 --> 00:17:57.799 Don't you remember what? Where is your wound, Paul? 294 00:17:58.799 --> 00:17:59.480 My head? 295 00:17:59.680 --> 00:18:00.920 Where in your head? 296 00:18:01.400 --> 00:18:08.720 My temple? Where my temple? Say it again, Mike temple. 297 00:18:11.240 --> 00:18:15.799 Is that a bad place to be wounded for? Is 298 00:18:15.839 --> 00:18:21.119 that a bad place? Paul? What did they do in 299 00:18:21.160 --> 00:18:28.599 the hospital, Paul? Do you remember now, Paul? The hospital? 300 00:18:29.880 --> 00:18:31.160 The hospital? 301 00:18:50.680 --> 00:18:54.200 Hello you Paul Gallagher, aren't you? That's right? Every time 302 00:18:54.240 --> 00:18:56.160 I turn overcomes a new nurse. Are you new on 303 00:18:56.240 --> 00:18:56.559 this ship? 304 00:18:56.759 --> 00:18:56.839 No? 305 00:18:57.200 --> 00:19:00.599 No, I'm not on the worry Well. Hello, anyway, we're 306 00:19:00.599 --> 00:19:03.400 ready for your apple? You ready for me? Yes? 307 00:19:04.160 --> 00:19:04.880 What what? 308 00:19:05.079 --> 00:19:05.599 Kids? 309 00:19:05.920 --> 00:19:06.920 Why for your operation? 310 00:19:07.039 --> 00:19:08.759 Of course? Operation? 311 00:19:09.480 --> 00:19:12.039 Oh yes, didn't anyone tell you? 312 00:19:12.039 --> 00:19:15.640 No, no they didn't. So that's what all that fussing 313 00:19:15.720 --> 00:19:18.119 with me was about last night and this morning. Oh great, 314 00:19:18.200 --> 00:19:20.240 isn't that just like the army? I'd say, a rotten thing. 315 00:19:21.880 --> 00:19:25.359 Why do they have to operate? I don't know it's 316 00:19:25.359 --> 00:19:28.079 practically heal. I thought it was perfectly all right. What's 317 00:19:28.079 --> 00:19:30.200 the matter with it? Come on, Paul, they're waiting for you. 318 00:19:30.559 --> 00:19:31.640 Yeah, put on your slippers. 319 00:19:31.720 --> 00:19:33.599 Or isn't it healing properly? What's wrong with it? Nurse? 320 00:19:33.720 --> 00:19:35.680 Come on, Paul. We can't keep them waiting. Well, can't 321 00:19:35.720 --> 00:19:36.880 you tell me what's the matter? 322 00:19:49.079 --> 00:19:53.440 All right, Paul, I'm gonna put this over your face. Yeah, 323 00:19:53.599 --> 00:20:00.720 we breathe deeply? Take the deep what's this one? 324 00:20:00.799 --> 00:20:01.079 Doctor? 325 00:20:01.480 --> 00:20:04.200 Small piece of shrapnel in the temple seemed all right 326 00:20:04.240 --> 00:20:10.960 at first, and let it feel without taking it out. Readiness, 327 00:20:11.240 --> 00:20:14.240 danger of pressure on the optic nerve. It's going to 328 00:20:14.240 --> 00:20:15.000 be a tricky business. 329 00:20:16.079 --> 00:20:18.799 Any chance of loss of vision a chance? 330 00:20:18.920 --> 00:20:22.000 Yes, I don't think so. But he could be all 331 00:20:22.079 --> 00:20:25.519 right tomorrow and then some time later. I just can't 332 00:20:25.519 --> 00:20:30.400 tell now. Yes, blindness is unlikely, but perfectly possible. 333 00:20:32.400 --> 00:20:34.359 Any chance lost sub vision? 334 00:20:35.000 --> 00:21:04.559 Perfectly? Do you remember, now, Paul? 335 00:21:05.359 --> 00:21:07.319 I must have slept back there with my scar pressing 336 00:21:07.319 --> 00:21:09.960 on a twigger or small stone or something pressed on 337 00:21:10.000 --> 00:21:11.720 a nerve. Probably that's what makes it sting. 338 00:21:11.839 --> 00:21:16.400 So that's probably it dark, isn't it? 339 00:21:17.319 --> 00:21:18.200 Look up? Paul? 340 00:21:18.559 --> 00:21:23.039 Look up to the sky. Do you see anything, Paul? 341 00:21:23.960 --> 00:21:25.599 I already be able to see something, shouldn't I. 342 00:21:25.880 --> 00:21:27.440 It's uncanny, isn't it. 343 00:21:27.880 --> 00:21:29.960 No, it's clouded over, that's all. It's clouded over. 344 00:21:33.480 --> 00:21:36.279 You're all alone in the dark. It feels hollow and 345 00:21:36.559 --> 00:21:38.240 tight in the pit of your stomach. 346 00:21:39.039 --> 00:21:44.839 Well, that's natural, that's perfectly natural. Oh, Paul, it's so dark. 347 00:21:45.799 --> 00:21:50.319 It couldn't be any worse, could it? If you were blind? 348 00:21:52.799 --> 00:21:54.799 How do you know you're not blind? 349 00:21:55.079 --> 00:21:55.359 Paul? 350 00:21:56.720 --> 00:22:00.400 How do you know it's a very dark night. How 351 00:22:00.440 --> 00:22:03.680 do you know it isn't about four o'clock in the afternoon. 352 00:22:04.799 --> 00:22:07.640 How do you know you didn't fall asleep with two 353 00:22:07.680 --> 00:22:11.000 good eyes and wake up blind? 354 00:22:12.960 --> 00:22:17.400 What did the doctors say? Why is there a pain 355 00:22:17.559 --> 00:22:18.319 in your temple? 356 00:22:18.960 --> 00:22:21.119 Oh? I'm crazy, I'm absolutely crazy. 357 00:22:21.480 --> 00:22:24.920 On the other handful, why should you be blind? 358 00:22:25.240 --> 00:22:28.599 The doctors they said it was possible, didn't they did? 359 00:22:28.640 --> 00:22:30.240 They say it was probable? 360 00:22:30.480 --> 00:22:30.720 No? 361 00:22:30.880 --> 00:22:32.640 Why shouldn't it be a dark night? 362 00:22:32.759 --> 00:22:33.279 It could be? 363 00:22:33.359 --> 00:22:35.319 Why shouldn't you sleep several hours? 364 00:22:35.440 --> 00:22:36.359 I was very tired. 365 00:22:36.559 --> 00:22:39.039 It's not very likely that you're blind, is it. 366 00:22:39.160 --> 00:22:40.200 No, it's not very likely. 367 00:22:40.400 --> 00:22:45.000 Figure it out? Then, what haven't you done all this time? 368 00:22:46.200 --> 00:22:47.240 What haven't I done? 369 00:22:48.079 --> 00:22:48.960 Your ears? 370 00:22:49.559 --> 00:22:50.119 My ears? 371 00:22:50.720 --> 00:22:54.720 Yes, listen, what's that? 372 00:22:55.799 --> 00:22:59.839 Just the breeze and the trees up there and that 373 00:23:00.799 --> 00:23:03.079 crickets and insects? 374 00:23:03.599 --> 00:23:04.960 What about birds? 375 00:23:05.480 --> 00:23:06.119 Birds? 376 00:23:06.160 --> 00:23:09.039 If you heard birds singing, it wouldn't be nighttime, would it. 377 00:23:11.359 --> 00:23:15.359 What was that? What didn't you hear it? Sounded like 378 00:23:15.400 --> 00:23:17.119 a robin, didn't I don't know. 379 00:23:17.200 --> 00:23:21.839 Maybe there was that a crawl. 380 00:23:22.279 --> 00:23:24.880 Birds don't sing in the heat of the day. It 381 00:23:24.960 --> 00:23:27.160 might still be too hot at four in the afternoon, 382 00:23:28.000 --> 00:23:30.920 So even if you don't hear birds, it might be daytime. 383 00:23:32.440 --> 00:23:33.799 Do you feel the warm sun? 384 00:23:34.960 --> 00:23:41.400 I don't know. Yes, are you sure? Yes? No, No, 385 00:23:41.480 --> 00:23:42.160 it's not warm. 386 00:23:42.400 --> 00:23:44.519 Listen? Was that a squirrel? 387 00:23:44.640 --> 00:23:48.599 Where now there's a robin? I think so? No, I 388 00:23:48.599 --> 00:23:51.279 don't know. I didn't hear anything, the squirrel chattering. 389 00:23:51.319 --> 00:23:52.079 Don't you hear it? 390 00:23:52.160 --> 00:23:52.640 I don't know. 391 00:23:52.880 --> 00:23:54.160 You're listening too hard. 392 00:23:57.200 --> 00:23:58.920 I don't know. I don't know. I don't know. You 393 00:23:58.960 --> 00:24:03.559 don't know what you Oh, dear God, please what? 394 00:24:04.599 --> 00:24:05.880 Pull yourself together? 395 00:24:07.079 --> 00:24:07.480 All right? 396 00:24:08.319 --> 00:24:12.400 So letting it get you down? Race up, Paul. 397 00:24:12.519 --> 00:24:14.720 Whether you're blind or not, I'm not blind. 398 00:24:15.440 --> 00:24:16.519 You've got to get home. 399 00:24:16.680 --> 00:24:17.880 I'm not blind. 400 00:24:18.799 --> 00:24:23.119 No. But suppose suppose you. 401 00:24:23.200 --> 00:24:27.000