WEBVTT 1 00:00:02.000 --> 00:00:05.719 Fed up with the everyday grind, tired up by the 2 00:00:05.839 --> 00:00:09.119 dull routine, want to get away from it all. 3 00:00:09.640 --> 00:00:10.560 We offer you. 4 00:00:11.960 --> 00:00:19.079 Escape Escape Transcribe to free you from the four walls 5 00:00:19.120 --> 00:00:22.000 of today for a half hour of high adventure. 6 00:00:24.079 --> 00:00:26.839 You are flying over the lonely wastes of the Pacific, 7 00:00:27.199 --> 00:00:30.920 lost tone by the fury of a typhoon, your gas 8 00:00:30.960 --> 00:00:34.960 running out and ahead of you. Is an adventure so strange, 9 00:00:35.079 --> 00:00:39.280 so terrifying, that your mind cannot accept it. 10 00:00:46.399 --> 00:00:48.920 Today we escape from reality with the tale of a 11 00:00:49.000 --> 00:00:51.640 navy flier who vanished from the face of the Earth 12 00:00:51.640 --> 00:00:54.840 into a new world of the future. As Nelson Bond 13 00:00:54.880 --> 00:00:58.079 told it in his story Conquers Isle. 14 00:01:09.760 --> 00:01:12.799 You've got to believe this. It sounds utterly impossible. I 15 00:01:12.840 --> 00:01:15.799 know it sounds crazy. That's why I'm here, sir. 16 00:01:16.239 --> 00:01:17.799 But it's the truth, and you've got to believe it. 17 00:01:17.840 --> 00:01:18.480 You've got to, sir. 18 00:01:18.879 --> 00:01:20.680 That's the way he started. Almost as soon as I'd 19 00:01:20.680 --> 00:01:23.760 walked into his hospital room. He wasn't violent, you understand, 20 00:01:23.760 --> 00:01:26.519 there was no need for restraint, but his every action, 21 00:01:26.599 --> 00:01:30.159 every gesture, was evidence of a psychotic condition to be 22 00:01:30.239 --> 00:01:36.239 extremely charitable battle fatigue. Well, anyway, it was an odd case. 23 00:01:36.560 --> 00:01:40.079 I was already acquainted, of course, with a history young man, 24 00:01:40.159 --> 00:01:44.799 graduate of Annapolis, lieutenant in the Fleet Air Arm, excellent record, 25 00:01:44.879 --> 00:01:48.239 citations for bravery and so forth. Toward the end of 26 00:01:48.239 --> 00:01:50.599 the war, he and his bomber crew disappeared over the 27 00:01:50.599 --> 00:01:54.200 South China Sea. Search failed to turn them up. They were, 28 00:01:54.239 --> 00:01:57.480 of course presumed to be lost. And then a month ago, 29 00:01:57.879 --> 00:02:01.159 almost four years later, Tenant Brady was found by a 30 00:02:01.159 --> 00:02:04.359 Brazilian freighter, drifting helplessly and nearly dead in a tiny 31 00:02:04.400 --> 00:02:08.680 life raft from the airplane. Curiously enough, his position was 32 00:02:08.680 --> 00:02:11.120 not far from that last reported by his radio operator 33 00:02:11.159 --> 00:02:14.439 four years ago. But when he was asked where he'd been, 34 00:02:15.400 --> 00:02:19.439 he gave a story so fantastic, so utibly unbelievable, and you've. 35 00:02:19.280 --> 00:02:21.280 Got to believe it. You've got to, sir. 36 00:02:21.960 --> 00:02:22.800 He's lieutenant. 37 00:02:24.039 --> 00:02:24.759 I'm sorry, sir. 38 00:02:26.000 --> 00:02:28.000 I'm here to consult with you as a position out 39 00:02:28.159 --> 00:02:32.000 order your cure as a superior officer. Now suppose we 40 00:02:32.080 --> 00:02:34.120 ignore the braid while you tell me about it. 41 00:02:34.599 --> 00:02:37.159 Oh, thank you, doctor. Where should I begin? 42 00:02:37.439 --> 00:02:39.919 Why? It's your story? You know what it is you 43 00:02:39.960 --> 00:02:43.159 want me to believe. The trouble began I understand on 44 00:02:43.240 --> 00:02:44.439 your last bombing mission. 45 00:02:44.599 --> 00:02:48.120 Yes, that's right, that's what my troubles began. The thing's 46 00:02:48.159 --> 00:02:51.719 been going on for much longer than that, years, certainly decades. 47 00:02:51.759 --> 00:02:54.159 Perhaps somebody has got to do something. 48 00:02:54.159 --> 00:02:54.479 Doctor. 49 00:02:55.120 --> 00:02:57.240 Time is racing by, and with every passing day they 50 00:02:57.280 --> 00:02:59.639 grow stronger. I've got to make people understand, lieutenant. 51 00:03:01.199 --> 00:03:05.400 Now suppose you start at the beginning with that unfortunate 52 00:03:05.479 --> 00:03:06.039 last flight. 53 00:03:06.759 --> 00:03:08.919 Yes, sir, right, I'm sorry. I got a little. 54 00:03:10.280 --> 00:03:10.520 Well. 55 00:03:10.960 --> 00:03:14.439 Then it was this way. We'd finished our mission and 56 00:03:14.479 --> 00:03:17.360 we were starting for home. We were over the South 57 00:03:17.479 --> 00:03:20.719 China Sea, between the Philippines and Indo China, roughly off Palawan. 58 00:03:21.439 --> 00:03:25.199 Everything was peaches and cream. The Ardennalyis was purring along 59 00:03:25.280 --> 00:03:27.000 like a dream, and I was sitting there chewing up 60 00:03:27.000 --> 00:03:29.240 a pack of life Savers, thinking how good that can 61 00:03:29.280 --> 00:03:32.840 of cold beer was gonna taste. When the intercom crackled 62 00:03:32.879 --> 00:03:33.599 in my ear. 63 00:03:33.520 --> 00:03:35.439 Lieutenant jeft Freder ten o'clock. 64 00:03:35.560 --> 00:03:39.479 Euh yeah, you're right. Looks like a single tramp beating 65 00:03:39.560 --> 00:03:43.080 up the coast. We still got a bertha, Yes, sir, okay, 66 00:03:43.159 --> 00:03:46.039 maybe we can have some fun. Read for to Mac, 67 00:03:46.479 --> 00:03:50.400 read f to Mac, go ahead, Read for jet Freighter 68 00:03:50.479 --> 00:03:54.199 ten o'clock. Jack, we've still got a Bertha, how about it? 69 00:03:54.960 --> 00:03:57.719 Why not? It's your party. Go ahead and good luck. 70 00:03:57.960 --> 00:04:05.159 Roger ran out. It was as easy as hitting a 71 00:04:05.280 --> 00:04:10.759 sitting duck. The long dive, the bomb release, the pull out, 72 00:04:11.560 --> 00:04:18.399 the dull concussion. We laid it down a raft stack, 73 00:04:18.720 --> 00:04:21.319 and that Jap ship went up like our Roman candle. 74 00:04:21.399 --> 00:04:23.920 Hey, nice going, Lieutenant, to right on the button. 75 00:04:24.000 --> 00:04:26.439 That's one jet we won't have to worry about anymore, Lieutenant. 76 00:04:26.480 --> 00:04:28.680 We're hit. Huh. A piece of that jet must to 77 00:04:28.680 --> 00:04:30.480 come up and hit us with spread gas all over 78 00:04:30.480 --> 00:04:32.079 the Pacific gut of the left wing tank. 79 00:04:32.199 --> 00:04:35.920 Yeah, I see it now. Well, guys, get ready for 80 00:04:35.920 --> 00:04:37.399 a bath. We'll never make it back. 81 00:04:37.480 --> 00:04:40.120 I've jacket east Saturday night. Never mind, I always didn't 82 00:04:40.120 --> 00:04:41.519 want to pick a ride at one of the little 83 00:04:41.600 --> 00:04:42.240 rubber boats. 84 00:04:42.279 --> 00:04:44.920 No need to worry. The Navy takes care of its own. 85 00:04:45.199 --> 00:04:46.600 I'll be out to get us before we have a 86 00:04:46.680 --> 00:04:49.839 chance to get thirsty Red Fo the Mac, Red Fo, 87 00:04:50.000 --> 00:04:53.519 the Mac, nice going fellow. Yeah only it was a 88 00:04:53.560 --> 00:04:56.319 two way deal. We're hit Mac losing gas fast. 89 00:04:56.639 --> 00:04:57.560 I think you can make it. 90 00:04:57.720 --> 00:04:59.560 No, it's a salt bath for us. 91 00:05:00.160 --> 00:05:02.519 Sorry, fellows, keep your radio on, give your last position 92 00:05:02.560 --> 00:05:04.319 to base before you did it. They'll have a rescue 93 00:05:04.360 --> 00:05:05.120 party out in an hour. 94 00:05:05.199 --> 00:05:06.279 Welcome, see you tonight. 95 00:05:06.399 --> 00:05:10.040 Good luck over Roger out. You see, there was nothing 96 00:05:10.040 --> 00:05:13.399 to it. It happened every day with ships all over 97 00:05:13.439 --> 00:05:15.399 the Pacific. They'd have a destroyer sitting there. When we 98 00:05:15.439 --> 00:05:19.240 came down the half hour later, when our gas was 99 00:05:19.279 --> 00:05:21.120 down to a few cupfuls and the rest of the 100 00:05:21.120 --> 00:05:25.360 squadron was long out of sight, an amazing thing happened. 101 00:05:26.319 --> 00:05:29.920 One minute the sky was clear and cloudless. The next 102 00:05:29.959 --> 00:05:33.720 minute we were surrounded by thunderheads and a typhoon burst 103 00:05:33.800 --> 00:05:34.120 on us. 104 00:05:36.319 --> 00:05:38.920 Holy count, Lieutenant, where did this come from? 105 00:05:39.040 --> 00:05:42.079 I don't know, but it's a lulu passing your safety belt, says, 106 00:05:42.079 --> 00:05:49.959 no telling what this I'll do to us? It was 107 00:05:49.959 --> 00:05:52.879 a granddaddy typhoon, all right. But it lasted only a 108 00:05:52.920 --> 00:05:56.079 few minutes. Then we got out of it as miraculously 109 00:05:56.120 --> 00:06:00.399 as we'd come into it. And wonder of wonders, we 110 00:06:00.399 --> 00:06:02.439 were directly over a small island. 111 00:06:02.639 --> 00:06:05.000 Well, what do you know, take a look at that 112 00:06:05.120 --> 00:06:08.079 site for sore eyes. Man, oh man, it looks mighty 113 00:06:08.120 --> 00:06:10.279 fine to me. Uh, what island is? 114 00:06:10.279 --> 00:06:13.600 It, Lieutenant, I don't know. I don't recognize it. After 115 00:06:13.600 --> 00:06:15.399 the way we got tossed around back there, I haven't 116 00:06:15.439 --> 00:06:18.000 any idea of our position. We could be anywhere from 117 00:06:18.000 --> 00:06:20.839 the coast of China to the Philippines. Who knows, who cares? 118 00:06:20.879 --> 00:06:22.720 It's dry land, Ah. 119 00:06:22.680 --> 00:06:23.279 Just in time. 120 00:06:23.480 --> 00:06:26.079 We're out of gas at jack. Yeah. See if you 121 00:06:26.079 --> 00:06:27.639 can get a fix and radio opposition. 122 00:06:27.959 --> 00:06:28.759 We're going down. 123 00:06:37.040 --> 00:06:39.639 We landed safely on a little strip of Sandy Beach, 124 00:06:40.439 --> 00:06:42.720 and only after we'd climbed out of the plane did 125 00:06:42.759 --> 00:06:45.800 we begin to have any misgivings. What do you think, skipper, 126 00:06:46.480 --> 00:06:47.720 That doesn't look like much. 127 00:06:47.759 --> 00:06:50.920 But I don't see anybody, not a sign of life. 128 00:06:51.000 --> 00:06:53.120 I got a good look from topside coming down. 129 00:06:53.120 --> 00:06:54.480 There weren't any houses. Nothing. 130 00:06:54.839 --> 00:06:58.079 Still, you can't tell. It could be Japs or worse, 131 00:06:58.680 --> 00:07:01.360 head hunters. Maybe we'd better stick together, stay close to 132 00:07:01.439 --> 00:07:04.759 the plane. Shouldn't be more than a few hours. Except hey, 133 00:07:04.839 --> 00:07:05.439 what the hold? 134 00:07:06.120 --> 00:07:08.759 There? A white man? Hey? 135 00:07:08.759 --> 00:07:09.399 What is this? 136 00:07:09.879 --> 00:07:10.600 Keep your eyes open? 137 00:07:10.639 --> 00:07:12.160 It might be a trap, But he's a white man, 138 00:07:12.199 --> 00:07:13.879 he speaks English and he's not armed. 139 00:07:14.319 --> 00:07:17.600 No, I don't see any good just the same watching Welcome. 140 00:07:17.240 --> 00:07:19.680 Gentlemen, welcome. We saw you lands who I hurried out 141 00:07:19.720 --> 00:07:21.800 to see if I could be of any assistance. May 142 00:07:21.879 --> 00:07:22.800 I introduced myself. 143 00:07:22.839 --> 00:07:24.839 I am doctor Groove, I'm a Lieutenant Brady, and these 144 00:07:24.879 --> 00:07:28.079 are my men, Radio man Kavanaugh, my gunnar, Sergeant Keiller. 145 00:07:28.160 --> 00:07:30.879 Hi, Hi, right, ex pleasure, gentlemen, pleasure? Are any of 146 00:07:30.920 --> 00:07:32.199 you in need of medical assistance? 147 00:07:32.720 --> 00:07:37.000 Oh? Thanks, we're all okay, just a little surprised to 148 00:07:37.040 --> 00:07:38.040 find anyone agre. 149 00:07:38.279 --> 00:07:40.560 Yes, of course that can be explained to you later. 150 00:07:41.000 --> 00:07:43.439 But right now you'll be wanting food and rest. 151 00:07:43.600 --> 00:07:46.680 Hey, now, little chow wouldn't be bad, but first we 152 00:07:46.839 --> 00:07:48.000 have to get in touch with our base. 153 00:07:48.439 --> 00:07:51.279 Give him my position, Oh of course, but such things 154 00:07:51.279 --> 00:07:53.160 take some time in these primitive areas. 155 00:07:53.240 --> 00:07:55.600 Or we have a radio on the plane, did have skipper? 156 00:07:55.720 --> 00:07:57.879 Well, I was just starting to tell you it went 157 00:07:57.879 --> 00:07:59.399 out just for we sighted the island. 158 00:07:59.680 --> 00:08:01.240 Must we got wanged up in that storm? 159 00:08:01.279 --> 00:08:02.120 We can you fix it? 160 00:08:02.560 --> 00:08:05.600 I suppose so if it's nothing serious, I'll tell you 161 00:08:05.600 --> 00:08:07.959 better after I have a chance to look at of course, 162 00:08:08.000 --> 00:08:11.160 But in the meantime I hope you'll accept our humble hospitality. 163 00:08:11.560 --> 00:08:14.240 We don't have the pleasure of entertaining you guests here often. 164 00:08:14.600 --> 00:08:16.720 It'll be good to chat with you all if you'll 165 00:08:16.720 --> 00:08:18.120 follow me, please, how about it? 166 00:08:18.199 --> 00:08:18.600 Skipper? 167 00:08:19.480 --> 00:08:20.639 Sure? Why not? 168 00:08:21.800 --> 00:08:23.519 After the last half hour we could all you was 169 00:08:23.560 --> 00:08:24.879 a little relaxation. 170 00:08:24.759 --> 00:08:26.319 Very good write this week. 171 00:08:26.959 --> 00:08:29.800 I should have smelled it right then. It was something 172 00:08:29.920 --> 00:08:33.000 strange about the whole thing. There were a lot of 173 00:08:33.080 --> 00:08:36.679 questions in my mind, but somehow I didn't ask them. Instead, 174 00:08:36.720 --> 00:08:39.240 we walked down the jungle path behind Doctor Grove like 175 00:08:39.720 --> 00:08:43.080 lambs to the slaughter. Tom Gill I must have had 176 00:08:43.080 --> 00:08:45.559 the same misgivings, because he whispered in my ear, I 177 00:08:45.639 --> 00:08:47.440 don't get it, Skipper, don't get what time? 178 00:08:47.559 --> 00:08:48.840 Where do these guys come from? 179 00:08:48.840 --> 00:08:50.799 Where do they hang out? When we were coming in, 180 00:08:50.840 --> 00:08:52.159 I made sure to take a good. 181 00:08:51.960 --> 00:08:54.320 Look at this island. There were no houses, no nothing. 182 00:08:54.320 --> 00:08:57.039 I know. I guess we'll find out soon enough. 183 00:08:57.159 --> 00:09:01.440 Yeah, hey, stop the cow, Will you look at that? 184 00:09:02.519 --> 00:09:04.639 Doctor Grove stopped in front of what looked like a 185 00:09:04.679 --> 00:09:09.320 big rock, and then we saw it was expertly camouflaged 186 00:09:09.440 --> 00:09:11.679 cement with the sliding door. 187 00:09:17.399 --> 00:09:19.919 Here we are, gentlemen. You'll be good enough to win. 188 00:09:20.879 --> 00:09:26.840 You know what that don't be alarmed. It's only an elevator. 189 00:09:27.120 --> 00:09:30.919 An elevator in this jungle? What kind of monkey business 190 00:09:30.960 --> 00:09:32.159 is this? Anyhow do you mean to tell me you 191 00:09:32.200 --> 00:09:32.919 live underground? 192 00:09:33.000 --> 00:09:35.720 My dear lieutenant, I'll be glad to explain everything later. 193 00:09:35.799 --> 00:09:38.960 It's all very simple. But at first I must insist 194 00:09:39.039 --> 00:09:40.159 that you went in the shafs on. 195 00:09:40.320 --> 00:09:43.919 Now you're insisting, and suppose we prefer not to step 196 00:09:43.919 --> 00:09:45.159 into your elevator, then. 197 00:09:45.000 --> 00:09:50.080 What then I should be compelled most regretfully to enforce 198 00:09:50.159 --> 00:09:50.759 my request? 199 00:09:51.039 --> 00:09:54.399 Yes again, pal, we happen to be armed a gun? 200 00:09:54.559 --> 00:09:57.600 Three guns? That's one detail you overlooked. 201 00:09:57.879 --> 00:10:02.279 I overlooked no details. Lieutenant. Would you be kind enough 202 00:10:02.320 --> 00:10:03.360 to fire your gun? 203 00:10:03.519 --> 00:10:04.399 Watch your self skip. 204 00:10:04.399 --> 00:10:05.720 It's a trick he wants you to suit. 205 00:10:05.759 --> 00:10:07.080 The sun will bring help. 206 00:10:07.080 --> 00:10:11.759 Wrong, my friend, I need no help very well. If 207 00:10:11.799 --> 00:10:13.519 you won't accept my invitation. 208 00:10:13.159 --> 00:10:14.759 Wait, I'm gonna keep your hand out of your pocket. 209 00:10:15.200 --> 00:10:18.399 Perhaps you would care to stop me, lieutenant? Okay, if 210 00:10:18.440 --> 00:10:23.240 you asked for it, Hey, lieutenant, try again, lieutenant, but 211 00:10:23.320 --> 00:10:29.159 your gun will not work. And now perhaps you'll be 212 00:10:29.279 --> 00:10:31.000 kind enough to step into the shaft. 213 00:10:31.080 --> 00:10:32.480 Look, I don't know what's going on here, but I 214 00:10:32.480 --> 00:10:33.960 don't want any part of it here I neither die. 215 00:10:34.120 --> 00:10:36.360 Come on, gang Let's get out of here a minute. 216 00:10:37.279 --> 00:10:41.399 I'm sorry you force me to use harsh measures. Believe me, 217 00:10:41.480 --> 00:10:42.679 I do so reluctantly. 218 00:10:43.799 --> 00:10:45.000 What's that you've got there? 219 00:10:45.279 --> 00:10:49.000 Just a small tube, but a very potent weapon. I 220 00:10:49.080 --> 00:10:49.799 must warn you. 221 00:10:50.279 --> 00:10:53.919 Eh, well, then you'd better use it first. I made 222 00:10:53.919 --> 00:10:57.759 a desperate lunch for him, and suddenly tiny shaft of 223 00:10:57.840 --> 00:11:01.399 light flicked out from the tube and touched me, and 224 00:11:01.480 --> 00:11:07.720 I stopped, frozen in my tracks, conscious, my eyes open, 225 00:11:07.840 --> 00:11:12.519 seeing him, hearing him. But try as I would, I 226 00:11:12.559 --> 00:11:17.320 could not move a muscle. I was as if turned 227 00:11:17.399 --> 00:11:20.240 to stone. 228 00:11:25.080 --> 00:11:28.519 In just a moment, we will return to Escape, but first, 229 00:11:29.480 --> 00:11:32.639 both Gangbusters and the Adventures of Philip Marlowe are regular 230 00:11:32.679 --> 00:11:36.200 Saturday Night features on most of these same CBS Network stations, 231 00:11:36.679 --> 00:11:39.320 So be listening to Night when they bring you an exceptional, 232 00:11:39.440 --> 00:11:43.720 fast moving, gripping hour of mystery. And now, with our 233 00:11:43.759 --> 00:11:46.840 stars David Elice, Ted Von ELTs, and Bill Johnstone, we 234 00:11:46.879 --> 00:11:50.679 returned to the second act of Escape and Conquerors Isle. 235 00:12:01.399 --> 00:12:05.080 I was paralyzed, Doctor Garum, completely paralyzed, as if turned 236 00:12:05.080 --> 00:12:07.559 a stone. I had all my senses I could, I 237 00:12:07.559 --> 00:12:09.559 could see and hear and feel. But I couldn't move 238 00:12:09.559 --> 00:12:10.840 a muscle, not even turn my eyes. 239 00:12:10.919 --> 00:12:12.960 And you say this happened because of some kind of 240 00:12:13.080 --> 00:12:13.759 light beam, But. 241 00:12:13.759 --> 00:12:17.440 Not exactly a beam, sir. Perhaps not exactly light, just 242 00:12:17.480 --> 00:12:19.360 a kind of kind. 243 00:12:19.159 --> 00:12:21.600 Of radiance, a gas perhaps. 244 00:12:21.279 --> 00:12:24.000 No, because it had no form, no odor, no taste. 245 00:12:25.440 --> 00:12:28.080 It was like becoming enmeshed in a web of moonbeams. 246 00:12:28.320 --> 00:12:31.360 I see. And it's only effect on you was to 247 00:12:31.440 --> 00:12:32.320 immobilize you. 248 00:12:32.519 --> 00:12:35.639 Yes, that's right. It didn't burn a sting or cause 249 00:12:35.679 --> 00:12:40.120 pain in any way. I simply couldn't move. It was 250 00:12:40.200 --> 00:12:43.919 like a hypnotic trance. And then then some of doctor 251 00:12:43.919 --> 00:12:46.840 Grove's companions came out of the elevator. They picked us 252 00:12:46.879 --> 00:12:50.320 up and carried us. I could feel their hands very softly, 253 00:12:51.000 --> 00:12:53.840 as if they were far away from my body, as 254 00:12:53.879 --> 00:12:55.799 if there were layers of rubber between them and me. 255 00:12:57.279 --> 00:12:59.120 I could hear doctor Grove talking. 256 00:13:00.559 --> 00:13:00.960 Gently. 257 00:13:01.039 --> 00:13:03.600 Please, I could see him bending over me into my 258 00:13:03.639 --> 00:13:04.320 line of vision. 259 00:13:04.679 --> 00:13:08.879 I'm sorry, lieutenant, I sincerely regret having to inconvenience you. 260 00:13:09.720 --> 00:13:12.320 But you see, just as we have the means of 261 00:13:12.360 --> 00:13:16.879 hampering your primitive mechanical devices, your guns, your radio, so 262 00:13:17.039 --> 00:13:20.360 do we have the means to enforce our requests, requests 263 00:13:20.360 --> 00:13:23.320 which are I assure you, only reasonable and necessary under 264 00:13:23.360 --> 00:13:26.960 the circumstances. Very well, take us down. 265 00:13:31.279 --> 00:13:34.480 My head was reeling, and fear was growing in me. 266 00:13:35.759 --> 00:13:37.679 Who were these men to talk of radio as a 267 00:13:37.720 --> 00:13:41.919 primitive device? What kind of men were they? Where were 268 00:13:41.960 --> 00:13:43.159 they taking the three of us? And what were they 269 00:13:43.159 --> 00:13:43.399 going to. 270 00:13:43.399 --> 00:13:44.559 Do with us? 271 00:13:45.440 --> 00:13:47.919 As if you'd read my thoughts, Doctor Grove leaned over 272 00:13:47.960 --> 00:13:48.360 me again. 273 00:13:48.679 --> 00:13:52.080 There's no need to be alarmed, Lieutenant, no need at all, 274 00:13:54.879 --> 00:14:01.039 all right, Gently carry them gently, well, Frazer. I am sorry, 275 00:14:01.039 --> 00:14:04.879 fred Dawdan, it was necessary. They would not come willingly. 276 00:14:05.360 --> 00:14:08.279 I see er a few of them, do. 277 00:14:10.480 --> 00:14:12.960 I'll put them in the sleeping chambers until they recover, 278 00:14:14.320 --> 00:14:15.080 and be gentle. 279 00:14:16.039 --> 00:14:25.000 They are so frightened. Poor things, poor things, poor things, 280 00:14:25.000 --> 00:14:28.879 he'd said, not as if we were human beings at all, 281 00:14:29.159 --> 00:14:32.840 but animals, some weak, dumb animals with whom they must 282 00:14:32.840 --> 00:14:33.320 be gentle. 283 00:14:34.919 --> 00:14:36.919 It was then that I began to know real fear. 284 00:14:38.159 --> 00:14:40.600 We were in a great underground city, but I could 285 00:14:40.639 --> 00:14:43.440 see little of it, nothing except what passed in front 286 00:14:43.440 --> 00:14:47.200 of my rigid eyes. Then I was carried into a room, 287 00:14:47.639 --> 00:14:51.480 deposited upon a soft couch and left alone. I could 288 00:14:51.480 --> 00:14:54.039 not close my eyes, but gradually the light began to 289 00:14:54.080 --> 00:14:59.639 fade to melt away. I was in deep blackness, and 290 00:14:59.720 --> 00:15:06.519 I I don't know whether the return of the light 291 00:15:06.519 --> 00:15:09.519 awakened me or whether it came on automatically when I 292 00:15:09.559 --> 00:15:12.120 woke up, but the room was bright and I could 293 00:15:12.120 --> 00:15:15.279 move again. I jumped up tide the door, and of 294 00:15:15.279 --> 00:15:17.720 course it was locked, and there was no other way 295 00:15:17.759 --> 00:15:21.399 of escape. The room was a small cell with metal 296 00:15:21.440 --> 00:15:24.159 walls and ceiling, a kind of metal I'd never seen before. 297 00:15:25.200 --> 00:15:27.519 There was a cot, a desk, and a chair and 298 00:15:27.559 --> 00:15:30.960 nothing else. But the really amazing thing was the light. 299 00:15:32.080 --> 00:15:34.519 I searched the entire room carefully, but there were no fixtures, 300 00:15:34.519 --> 00:15:38.759 no indirect lighting arrangements. The light came out of the 301 00:15:38.799 --> 00:15:45.480 walls evenly, filling the room, casting no shadows. Suddenly I 302 00:15:45.519 --> 00:15:48.120 wanted to see Kavanaugh and Geller. I yelled. I yelled 303 00:15:48.159 --> 00:15:52.120 at the top of my lungs. There was almost no sound, 304 00:15:52.639 --> 00:15:56.480 no echo from the walls. They simply absorbed the sound 305 00:15:56.519 --> 00:16:02.039 into utter silence. Then, as I stood there, with fear 306 00:16:02.200 --> 00:16:05.759 cold in my stomach, I heard a faint sound a 307 00:16:05.799 --> 00:16:10.799 footstep behind me. I whirled around, just in time to 308 00:16:10.840 --> 00:16:14.679 see doctor Grove stepping through the wall. 309 00:16:16.720 --> 00:16:20.039 You were you said, through the wall, Lieutenant. Of course 310 00:16:20.080 --> 00:16:22.240 you mean through the door. 311 00:16:22.559 --> 00:16:26.639 Through the wall. Through the wall, sir, The door was 312 00:16:26.639 --> 00:16:29.720 in front of me, but doctor Grove stepped into myself 313 00:16:29.759 --> 00:16:31.440 through the solid metal wall. 314 00:16:31.679 --> 00:16:34.320 You realize that what you're saying is impossible. 315 00:16:33.799 --> 00:16:36.159 To us, it is to them. Nothing is impossible nothing. 316 00:16:37.039 --> 00:16:39.120 That's why we must act, and act now before it's 317 00:16:39.159 --> 00:16:41.519 too late. You must believe me, sir. This is man's 318 00:16:41.600 --> 00:16:42.200 last chance. 319 00:16:42.240 --> 00:16:46.159 I'll do my best. Perhaps you'd better continue now this 320 00:16:46.320 --> 00:16:48.600 doctor Grove stepped through the wall. 321 00:16:49.240 --> 00:16:53.399 Yes, as I'll tell the rest as quickly as I can. 322 00:16:53.480 --> 00:16:57.559 I can see that you don't believe me. But someone 323 00:16:57.679 --> 00:17:02.120 must somewhere, Sometimes someone must. 324 00:17:02.480 --> 00:17:02.639 Well. 325 00:17:02.679 --> 00:17:06.759 As I said, doctor Grove stepped into myself through the wall. 326 00:17:08.039 --> 00:17:11.440 Suddenly my panic ended. I looked at him now with awe. 327 00:17:12.400 --> 00:17:16.519 We talked not as man to man, but as man 328 00:17:16.559 --> 00:17:19.079 to a lesser creature me. 329 00:17:20.079 --> 00:17:23.519 You must not be frightened, Lieutenant. You do not understand 330 00:17:23.559 --> 00:17:25.799 how I passed through a wall which to you seemed 331 00:17:25.839 --> 00:17:29.440 solid and not understanding you feel it. But yet there 332 00:17:29.519 --> 00:17:33.119 is nothing supernatural or fearful about what I did. Any 333 00:17:33.160 --> 00:17:35.480 of us can do it it will. You see, there 334 00:17:35.559 --> 00:17:37.880 is no such thing as as solid in this world 335 00:17:37.880 --> 00:17:40.920 of relativity. We know that there is plenty of room 336 00:17:41.000 --> 00:17:43.680 for the molecules of our bodies to pass between the 337 00:17:43.720 --> 00:17:47.400 molecules of those walls. We simply make a necessary mental 338 00:17:47.400 --> 00:17:51.160 adjustment and walk where we will. It is an ability 339 00:17:51.200 --> 00:17:54.079 as basic to us as breathing. To a person like you? 340 00:17:55.359 --> 00:17:57.359 What kind of men are you? 341 00:17:57.359 --> 00:17:59.920 You have been educated, Durer, studied Darwin. You know the 342 00:18:00.039 --> 00:18:03.519 facts of evolution. You know how man has progressed through 343 00:18:03.599 --> 00:18:07.759 various stages from the primitive savagery of the Neanderthal man. Yes, 344 00:18:07.880 --> 00:18:12.559 obviously this process can and will continue. To suppose that 345 00:18:12.640 --> 00:18:15.160 the evolution of man is complete with you is a 346 00:18:15.200 --> 00:18:15.799 mistake of. 347 00:18:15.759 --> 00:18:20.160 Conceit human You are the next stage. 348 00:18:20.240 --> 00:18:23.759 Exactly. You have heard of the process of mutation? Perhaps 349 00:18:24.079 --> 00:18:26.839 how suddenly a white rose is produced of a family 350 00:18:26.880 --> 00:18:31.079 of red roses, and from then on produces only white descendants. Yes, 351 00:18:31.440 --> 00:18:36.519 so have we been evolved as mutants, infinitely superior to 352 00:18:36.599 --> 00:18:40.279 our parents and our fellow men, knowing by instinct right 353 00:18:40.400 --> 00:18:44.359 from birth what you must study years to learn. Your 354 00:18:44.440 --> 00:18:48.880 most difficult physics and mathematics, our A. B. C's, our 355 00:18:49.000 --> 00:18:51.799 studies far beyond your understanding. 356 00:18:53.000 --> 00:18:54.559 Are there many of you? 357 00:18:54.839 --> 00:18:57.240 Yes, you see. The process has been going on for 358 00:18:57.319 --> 00:19:00.400 many years. Hundreds thousands more come to us every year 359 00:19:00.480 --> 00:19:03.720 from all over the world, drawn here by telepathic message, 360 00:19:04.319 --> 00:19:10.319 where we have isolation to study, learn, build, prepare ourselves, prepare, 361 00:19:11.759 --> 00:19:15.960 prepare for what for the task ahead? Obviously, when we 362 00:19:16.000 --> 00:19:18.680 are ready, when we are numerous enough to fill all 363 00:19:18.720 --> 00:19:22.960 the necessary positions, our superior intelligence must shape. 364 00:19:22.680 --> 00:19:28.119 A new world, take over the world. Obviously, and you 365 00:19:28.119 --> 00:19:33.160 will destroy man. How little you understand us? Do you 366 00:19:33.240 --> 00:19:36.240 destroy the animals of the field, because they are not yours, 367 00:19:36.640 --> 00:19:37.920 intellectual peers. 368 00:19:38.640 --> 00:19:41.799 Our obligation is to keep and protect you, to act 369 00:19:41.799 --> 00:19:45.119 as your friendly guardians in a world which will be 370 00:19:45.200 --> 00:19:49.799 strange to you and frightening, as my walking through the 371 00:19:49.839 --> 00:19:51.160 wall was frightening to you. 372 00:19:52.200 --> 00:19:57.359 I see, yes, I see. Then what is your plan? 373 00:19:57.960 --> 00:20:02.440 Rather say Nature's plan? And the answer to that lives 374 00:20:02.480 --> 00:20:06.799 in history. What became of the anthropoids, the cave men? 375 00:20:08.200 --> 00:20:13.880 They died out, Civilization passed them by, They fell before 376 00:20:13.880 --> 00:20:15.960 the on rush of higher forms of life. 377 00:20:16.599 --> 00:20:24.880 Even so, even so, but I give you our plagelet 378 00:20:25.319 --> 00:20:28.759 we will be kind, We will be kind. 379 00:20:32.039 --> 00:20:35.039 And then he took me out into that great underground city, 380 00:20:35.960 --> 00:20:39.599 through its corridors and great halls and laboratories and shops, 381 00:20:40.480 --> 00:20:44.039 took me among the thousands of his fellow men. There 382 00:20:44.119 --> 00:20:46.680 I saw marvels of which I could talk for hours. 383 00:20:47.279 --> 00:20:51.400 There were, but they would be beyond your comprehension, as 384 00:20:51.440 --> 00:20:54.680 they were beyond mine. You wouldn't believe me, and so 385 00:20:54.839 --> 00:20:58.359 I won't bother to tell you. Then I met others 386 00:20:58.400 --> 00:21:02.319 like us, some two captive cattle people who had stumbled 387 00:21:02.359 --> 00:21:05.039 under this island as I had. There were famous names, 388 00:21:05.079 --> 00:21:07.599 among them, a famous author whose ship disappeared in the 389 00:21:07.599 --> 00:21:11.599 Pacific years ago, a big game hunter, a famous aviatrix 390 00:21:11.960 --> 00:21:15.559 for whom a dozen fleets had sought in vain. All 391 00:21:15.599 --> 00:21:20.880 of us prisoners, we were treated with great kindness, made comfortable, 392 00:21:20.920 --> 00:21:26.759 relatively happy. We were their pets, you see, their dumb 393 00:21:27.000 --> 00:21:37.039 animal pets. For over three years I stayed there. After 394 00:21:37.079 --> 00:21:40.160 a while, I ceased to struggle, even in my mind. 395 00:21:40.640 --> 00:21:44.599 I was defeated, and so I succumbed to the peaceful 396 00:21:44.640 --> 00:21:49.400 Bucolic existence. That was my fate, at least, at least 397 00:21:49.440 --> 00:21:53.920 that's what I thought. Then came that last day Doctor 398 00:21:53.960 --> 00:21:57.000 Grove had made me his special pet. I was allowed 399 00:21:57.000 --> 00:21:59.200 to follow him about it at work, to talk to 400 00:21:59.240 --> 00:22:02.640 him at length, and on this day he confided in 401 00:22:02.680 --> 00:22:04.000