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X Minus One - "The Scapegoat" (Old Time Radio, 1957) · X Minus One | Old Time Radio

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  Speaker 1: On August 8, 1957, NBC aired episode 106 of X-1,
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  Speaker 1: The Scapegoat. Ernest Kenoy adapted Richard Maples' story, first published
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  Speaker 1: in Galaxy Science Fiction, in June of 1956. Ed steps
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  Speaker 1: in when a frail old man is attacked on a
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  Speaker 1: city street, then brings the apparent victim into his home.
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  Speaker 1: But the man's unsettling past, and his claim to be
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  Speaker 1: something other than human, make the rescue far more complicated
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  Speaker 1: than Ed expected. Kenneth McGregor directs Carl Weber, Wendell Holmes,
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  Speaker 1: Jane Amar, Bobby Alford, Guy Repp, and Roger DeKoven. We
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  Speaker 1: now take you back to the original broadcast.
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  Speaker 2: Countdown for blastoff.
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  Speaker 3: X minus 5, 4, 3, 2, X minus 1, fire.
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  Speaker 2: From the far horizons of the unknown come tales of
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  Speaker 2: new dimensions in time and space.
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  Speaker 3: These are stories of the future.
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  Speaker 2: Adventures in which you'll live in a million could be
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  Speaker 2: years on a thousand maybe worlds. The National Broadcasting Company,
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  Speaker 2: in cooperation with Galaxy Science Fiction Magazine, presents.
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  Speaker 3: X minus 1.
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  Speaker 2: Tonight, The Scapegoat by Richard Maples. But first, hear this.
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  Speaker 2: When the ice is smooth and the sky is blue
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  Speaker 2: And the skater's waltz is played for two You make
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  Speaker 2: it Pabst, cause Pabst makes.
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  Speaker 4: It perfect Yes, Pabst.
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  Speaker 5: Makes it perfect. Just as we always have ever since 1844.
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  Speaker 5: So next time, you make it Pabst, because Pabst makes
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  Speaker 5: it perfect. America's blue-ribbon beer from the Pabst Brewing Company, Milwaukee, Wisconsin.
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  Speaker 3: Yes, Pabst makes it perfect.
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  Speaker 4: Pabst Brewing Company.
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  Speaker 2: THE END Now, X minus one and the scapegoat.
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  Speaker 1: The old guy didn't have a chance.
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  Speaker 3: All he could do was shield his head with his
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  Speaker 3: limp arms and moan while this other fellow, a husky
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  Speaker 3: young six footer, gave him a vicious cold blooded beating. Hey, hey,
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  Speaker 3: cut it out. You cut it out beating up an
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  Speaker 3: old man like that.
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  Speaker 2: I said cut it out.
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  Speaker 3: Now, now, let go of him. Well, what have you
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  Speaker 3: got to say for yourself before I belt you as
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  Speaker 3: hard as you hit the old man here? Well, hey, you, wait! Wait,
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  Speaker 3: you no-good hoodlum! Hey, you all right, Pop? Are you okay?
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  Speaker 3: What happened? Was he trying to rob you or something? Look, look,
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  Speaker 3: you'll be all right now. You'll be okay. Lucky I
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  Speaker 3: came along then. No cops anywhere. Okay, come on, old-timer.
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  Speaker 3: Up on your feet. You're going home with me. I
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  Speaker 3: suppose it seems callous to think of it, but this
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  Speaker 3: old man was just what I'd been looking for. A
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  Speaker 3: brutal assault and a helpless old man, and I was
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  Speaker 3: the hero, just what I needed. You see, I'd just
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  Speaker 3: come from a meeting with the city fathers and the
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  Speaker 3: commissioner of the police department. And old man Jones, my publisher...
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  Speaker 3: and promptly yanked the rug out from under me and chickened.
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  Speaker 3: I'd written the articles panning the city's handling of the
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  Speaker 3: juvenile delinquency problem because Jones had to be in his
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  Speaker 3: bonnet to be the mayor. Now, when the heat was on,
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  Speaker 3: he weaseled out. We had a few words, Jones and I,
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  Speaker 3: and I quit. But now I had him, and I
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  Speaker 3: witnessed the story, no cops anywhere, and a young bruiser
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  Speaker 3: beating up a defenseless old man. I figured I'd take
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  Speaker 3: him home, let my wife fix him up, keep him
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  Speaker 3: around the house until the story broke.
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  Speaker 2: Ed, what's the idea of.
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  Speaker 3: All right, take it easy, honey. It's all right. This
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  Speaker 3: old guy just needs some patching up, that's all. Come on, old-timer. Oh,
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  Speaker 3: but he looks awful. Who is he?
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  Speaker 1: What is blood in his.
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  Speaker 3: Now, now, come on, come on. Help me get him inside.
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  Speaker 3: He's cold.
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  Speaker 2: His wrist is cold.
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  Speaker 3: Yeah, a shock, I think. Come on, in with him.
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  Speaker 3: All right, now, let him down on the chair. There
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  Speaker 3: you are, Pop.
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  Speaker 2: Were you in an accident?
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  Speaker 3: No. No, something. Kudlum was beating him up. I chased
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  Speaker 3: him off.
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  Speaker 2: Oh, that's awful.
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  Speaker 3: Did you call the police? There weren't any police there.
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  Speaker 3: I'm going to crack this whole situation wide open with
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  Speaker 3: this story.
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  Speaker 6: Hey, Mom! Hey!
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  Speaker 2: Wow!
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  Speaker 3: Never mind. Go into the bathroom and bring out some towels.
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  Speaker 2: Ed, we'll need some bandages.
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  Speaker 3: Yeah, we'd better get a blanket around him.
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  Speaker 7: A blanket?
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  Speaker 3: It's 90 degrees. It's for shock, son. Go ahead, Tommy.
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  Speaker 4: Okay, Mom.
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  Speaker 2: Ed, I think he's coming too now.
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  Speaker 3: He's opening his eyes. Now, now, you're... You're all right, old-timer.
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  Speaker 3: You're all right.
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  Speaker 8: Well, well.
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  Speaker 3: Isn't this cozy? What's your name? Ash. Ash. And first name?
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  Speaker 3: That's it.
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  Speaker 2: Oh.
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  Speaker 3: Oh, then what's your last name? I don't know. All right,
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  Speaker 3: all right. Take it easy. What happened? Who was that hoodlum?
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  Speaker 3: Did you ever see him before? I don't remember. Well,
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  Speaker 3: why was he hitting you? I don't know. I don't remember.
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  Speaker 4: Hmm.
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  Speaker 3: You missing any money?
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  Speaker 4: I'm not sure.
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  Speaker 3: Well, I suppose I scared him off before he could
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  Speaker 3: rob you.
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  Speaker 7: Yes.
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  Speaker 3: Oh, yes.
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  Speaker 4: You rescued me, didn't you?
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  Speaker 3: I'm really very grateful. I.
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  Speaker 3: Don't try to talk too much now. You'll feel better
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  Speaker 3: after you've had something to eat.
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  Speaker 2: Ed, we have nothing in the house. We were just
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  Speaker 2: going to have a salad.
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  Speaker 3: Well, salad's all right.
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  Speaker 4: Well, Ed, I think maybe we'd better get Mr.
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  Speaker 2: Ash to a hospital or to his house or something.
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  Speaker 3: Look, Nana, I told you I want him here. Ed, please,
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  Speaker 3: come inside. Well, what's the matter with you?
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  Speaker 2: Come inside. Okay.
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  Speaker 3: You just sit right here, Mr. Ash. I'll be right back. Yes,
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  Speaker 3: I'll be all right now. Nan, what's the matter with you?
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  Speaker 2: Get rid of him.
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  Speaker 6: What?
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  Speaker 2: Get him out of here.
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  Speaker 3: Why?
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  Speaker 2: Give me the willies.
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  Speaker 3: Oh, now, it's just the heat.
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  Speaker 7: You must know he leered at me.
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  Speaker 6: He....
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  Speaker 3: Oh, Nan, he's an old man. He's just been beat
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  Speaker 3: up and in shock.
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  Speaker 4: Ed, please.
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  Speaker 3: No. I've got to keep him here. He's my proof.
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  Speaker 3: I'll write a story that'll rip the administration wide open
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  Speaker 3: and Jones can't pull it out because I've got the
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  Speaker 3: proof right here and I was the eyewitness. But, Ed, please. No.
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  Speaker 3: He stays here, and that's all there is to it.
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  Speaker 2: You're listening to The Scapegoat, tonight's attraction on X-1. Once
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  Speaker 2: a tall and beautiful tree stood in the forest. It
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  Speaker 2: had been there for two or three hundred years. In
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  Speaker 2: the course of that time, wind shook it and lightning
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  Speaker 2: struck near it. A hurricane bent at once until its
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  Speaker 2: top was nearly at the ground. But none of the
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  Speaker 2: ferocious assaults could fell that tall, proud tree. But then
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  Speaker 2: one day, the most spindly-legged, pot-bellied, adenoidal, open-mouthed creature that
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  Speaker 2: the forest had ever seen sat down in the cool
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  Speaker 2: shade of that tree. This was what was called a man,
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  Speaker 2: and he wanted to smoke what is called a cigar.
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  Speaker 3: He did.
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  Speaker 2: And he threw his match among the pine needles. And
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  Speaker 2: when he had smoked the cigar, he threw that away, too.
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  Speaker 2: And went off, because somewhere down by the lake there
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  Speaker 2: was waiting for him what is called a woman. And
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  Speaker 2: he had the hope that maybe she didn't feel like
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  Speaker 2: nagging anymore. Before nightfall, that tree that had withstood all
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  Speaker 2: those assaults was ashes. And thousands of other trees in
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  Speaker 2: that forest were, too. The man is still living. If
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  Speaker 2: you know any of his species, you might tell him
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  Speaker 2: that trees don't have Adam's apples and shrill voices. Trees
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  Speaker 2: are beautiful. And men ought to be careful with matches.
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  Speaker 2: Now back to X minus one and the scapegoat.
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  Speaker 3: The old man seemed to recover pretty quickly. I suppose
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  Speaker 3: mostly because I'd gotten there in time. As a matter
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  Speaker 3: of fact, he began to talk and he kept it
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  Speaker 3: up through the whole meal. And it was the craziest
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  Speaker 3: story you've ever heard. He insisted he'd come from another
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  Speaker 3: world outside our solar system, where people existed in a
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  Speaker 3: kind of liquid state, bouncing about for the most part
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  Speaker 3: like large water-filled bladders. They were, however, capable of taking
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  Speaker 3: almost any shape their superior minds willed. They could flatten
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  Speaker 3: and drift about on the water, or they could inflate
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  Speaker 3: and rise in the air.
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  Speaker 4: As a matter of fact, they can even become facsimiles
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  Speaker 4: of other living things, taking on the shape and texture
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  Speaker 4: and coloration a capability which adds greatly in their main
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  Speaker 4: function of traveling as missionaries of goodness among.
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  Speaker 3: The peoples of the galaxy. Goodness.
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  Speaker 6: Oh, yes.
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  Speaker 3: They're perfect. As perfect as angels. All right, all right.
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  Speaker 3: I've had enough.
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  Speaker 7: I asked for it.
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  Speaker 3: Nan, where are you going? Don't rush off.
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  Speaker 7: I guess I know when I'm being kidded.
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  Speaker 2: Very funny, Mr.
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  Speaker 6: Ash.
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  Speaker 4: But I'm not kidding.
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  Speaker 3: Don't tell me that you're a missionary to Earth. Oh, no,
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  Speaker 3: I'm here because I was banished. Oh, sort of a
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  Speaker 3: fallen angel. Exactly. Look, Ash, it's too hard for games.
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  Speaker 3: If you don't want to explain what happened this afternoon,
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  Speaker 3: that's your privilege. But as you know, this story means
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  Speaker 3: a lot to me. And I did stick my neck
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  Speaker 3: out for you. One moment, my boy.
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  Speaker 4: Let me finish.
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  Speaker 3: You see, I'm a throwback. A what? A throwback, an atavism.
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  Speaker 4: They tried to reform me, you know, but there was
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  Speaker 4: something rather fundamental about me. Something rather evil. And, of course,
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  Speaker 4: as a last resort, they put me into one of
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  Speaker 4: the machines and they threw the switch.
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  Speaker 3: Oh, sure, sure. They killed you. Look, I'm not in
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  Speaker 3: the mood for shaggy dog stories.
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  Speaker 4: They didn't kill me, exactly. It was sort of like
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  Speaker 4: water being scraped over the edge of a sharp rock.
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  Speaker 4: When I came to, I was drifting through space. And then,
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  Speaker 4: of course, much later, I landed on Earth. Oh, I've
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  Speaker 4: had many shapes through the years. Mainly people who died.
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  Speaker 4: I find that's much more convenient.
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  Speaker 3: Yeah. Well, look, look, if you'll excuse me, I have
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  Speaker 3: to make a telephone call. I'll just go into the
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  Speaker 3: other room. I dare say you want to call the hospital.
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  Speaker 4: I'm not psychotic, really. I've got ice coffee.
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  Speaker 3: Oh, yes, you're just in time, Mrs. Potter.
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  Speaker 4: I think perhaps I'd better prove my story, if you'll
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  Speaker 4: wait just a moment. You see, it's done by the
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  Speaker 4: generation of a high electrostatic field.
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  Speaker 3: Something like this. If you'll notice, my face begins to
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  Speaker 3: lose definition. It moves as if it had a life
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  Speaker 3: of its own. Now watch!
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  Speaker 6: Ash!
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  Speaker 3: Ash, stop it! Ash!
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  Speaker 4: Well, that looks considerably younger, doesn't it?
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  Speaker 7: Thirty years younger. Thirty years just dropped away like Listen,
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  Speaker 7: this story will set the whole country on its ear
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  Speaker 7: with my byline on it.
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  Speaker 3: Oh, Ed, Ed, don't let him take you in.
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  Speaker 2: It's a trick.
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  Speaker 3: It's math hypnotism or something. I saw it. I saw
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  Speaker 3: it right here. So did you. I'll have an exclusive.
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  Speaker 3: Life will have to come to me for the story.
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  Speaker 3: I've got to admit that I could share something of
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  Speaker 3: Anne's point of view. He wasn't really very pleasant. As
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  Speaker 3: a matter of fact, he had what you call colossal galls.
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  Speaker 3: After supper, he came right down to cases.
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  Speaker 4: Naturally, if I'm to stay here and keep my identity
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  Speaker 4: secret until you can arrange for an exclusive story, I
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  Speaker 4: will need a little pocket money.
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  Speaker 3: Hey, how much? How much you got? Well, I don't know.
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  Speaker 3: I got about $ 22, and payday isn't till Thursday. Well,
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  Speaker 3: how about your bank account? Hey, now, now, wait a minute. Well,
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  Speaker 3: we'll see what we can arrange later.
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  Speaker 4: I am a little tired, though. I think it's about
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  Speaker 4: time to go to bed. Ah, I noticed a rather
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  Speaker 4: comfortable bed in here. Well, I'll see you all in
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  Speaker 4: the morning.
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  Speaker 3: Good night.
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  Speaker 4: And thank you again for rescuing me.
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  Speaker 3: Ed, that's our bedroom. I know.
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  Speaker 2: Well, you go right in there and tell him that
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  Speaker 2: he can't sleep.
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  Speaker 3: He locked the door. Oh, Ed, do something. All right.
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  Speaker 3: You get some sheets from the linen closet and I'll
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  Speaker 3: make up the couch. Next day, I made careful inquiries.
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  Speaker 3: Started to feel around for contacts on live at the AP.
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  Speaker 3: Someplace to really break the story big. About five in
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  Speaker 3: the afternoon, Jones, the publisher, called me into his office.
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  Speaker 3: Sit down, Ed. I've got some good news. Now look, Mr. Jones,
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  Speaker 3: ever since you left me out on a limb at
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  Speaker 3: the mayor's conference... Oh, now, let's not worry about that, Ed.
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  Speaker 9: We've got something very interesting going for us now that
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  Speaker 9: changes everything.
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  Speaker 3: They've... They've arrested a gang of kids for shoplifting.
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  Speaker 2: Well.
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  Speaker 3: Well, one of them is Tommy, your son. What? Arrested Tommy? Wait, Ed.
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  Speaker 9: Don't go off half-cocked. It's a break, don't you see?
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  Speaker 9: You can cover delinquency with the lid off now. You'll
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  Speaker 9: be riding as a parent in the same boat with
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  Speaker 9: other parents.
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  Speaker 2: Hey, wait a minute.
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  Speaker 3: Where are you going? At the police station, I had
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  Speaker 3: the distinct feeling they'd been waiting for me. Well, Mr.
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  Speaker 10: Potter, we meet under unfortunate circumstances.
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  Speaker 3: Can the pony sympathy, Thompson? Just let me see my boy.
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  Speaker 10: We'd better have a little talk first about all those
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  Speaker 10: articles you're writing about the police force.
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  Speaker 3: I've got no talking to do. This is a lousy
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  Speaker 3: frame-up against me and the paper. Now you get my
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  Speaker 3: son out here and do it fast. You don't understand, Mr. Potter.
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  Speaker 2: Your son is in trouble.
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  Speaker 10: He's been identified as leading a gang of kids who
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  Speaker 10: spent most of the morning shoplifting in the stores all
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  Speaker 10: over town.
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  Speaker 3: That's nonsense. How could my boy do anything like that?
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  Speaker 3: He's only 12. Who identified him, anyway?
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  Speaker 10: The shopkeepers and the other members of the gang.
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  Speaker 3: You can see him, Mr.
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  Speaker 2: Potter, but I still think we'll want to have our
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  Speaker 2: little talk.
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  Speaker 6: Son, what's this all about?
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  Speaker 3: It was Ash. Ash?
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  Speaker 7: Yes, I told them about the gang.
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  Speaker 3: What the heck are you talking about? Some of the
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  Speaker 3: fellas got together and built a hut for a clubhouse.
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  Speaker 3: What does the gang do?
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  Speaker 6: Oh, different things.
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  Speaker 3: One of the fellas is a 22 and we hunt
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  Speaker 3: rats and... Well, go ahead. What is it? We smoke.
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  Speaker 2: Oh.
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  Speaker 3: And what else? That's all honest. What about shoplifting?
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  Speaker 2: No, that was Ash. He warned me to talk the
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  Speaker 2: gang into shoplifting, but I wouldn't.
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  Speaker 3: Then he changed himself to.
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  Speaker 2: Look like me and talked the fellas into it when
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  Speaker 2: I wasn't around.
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  Speaker 3: I only knew about it because I ran into them
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  Speaker 3: after they'd robbed their store. Who is this Ash he
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  Speaker 3: keeps talking about? Why, he's... Well, he's a man. Ah,
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  Speaker 3: never mind. Listen, the boy's beside himself because of all
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  Speaker 3: he's been through. Will you let me take him home
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  Speaker 3: with me? Of course, Mr. Potter, but the charges still hold.
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  Speaker 10: Don't forget to stop in and have our little talk
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  Speaker 10: before you report back to juvenile court.
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  Speaker 3: I called the house and Ash answered the phone. I'm
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  Speaker 3: glad you called, Ed. I'm out of cash, you know.
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  Speaker 3: I need a small loan. Now listen to you. The
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  Speaker 3: police have picked up Tommy. He's been charged with the
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  Speaker 3: shoplifting you did today. Oh, now I'm sorry about that.
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  Speaker 4: You see, there's a certain cultural difference between... I didn't understand.
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  Speaker 3: You're going to help me get him out, you hear?
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  Speaker 3: You're going to tell everybody the truth.
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  Speaker 6: Well, of course.
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  Speaker 3: Of course I will. Now listen, I'm coming home. Nan
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  Speaker 3: will be back from her mother's any minute. Don't you
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  Speaker 3: tell her about this, you hear? Well, of course I won't.
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  Speaker 6: I'll be waiting right here.
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  Speaker 3: I suppose I was a fool, but I still wanted
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  Speaker 3: that story. I wanted it so bad I could taste it.
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  Speaker 3: The exclusive account of an extraterrestrial being. Driving home, I
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  Speaker 3: had it all figured out. I'd bring Ash down to
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  Speaker 3: the police station. He'd tell the story, go through his
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  Speaker 3: changing act to convince him, and spring Tommy. I'd have
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  Speaker 3: my story already filed and beat everybody. In the meantime,
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  Speaker 3: I just hoped Nan wouldn't spoil everything along with it.
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  Speaker 3: And then suddenly I let my foot come down on
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  Speaker 3: the accelerator like it was made out of lead. I
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  Speaker 3: pulled the car to a stop and sprinted up the driveway.
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  Speaker 6: Nan!
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  Speaker 2: Nan, where are you?
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  Speaker 4: They were looking at me.
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  Speaker 3: Nan stood in a far corner with her back against
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  Speaker 3: the wall. Her shoulders were scratched and her lip cut.
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  Speaker 3: She held a heavy bookend, poised to strike it as
• 18:10
  Speaker 3: she was in front of her, moving stealthily forward. He
• 18:13
  Speaker 3: turned as I came in, and I froze in amazement.
• 18:16
  Speaker 3: I couldn't recognize him. And then, all at once, I
• 18:20
  Speaker 3: realized I was looking at the spitting image of myself.
• 18:24
  Speaker 3: And I knew it wasn't you.
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  Speaker 7: I knew it wasn't you.
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  Speaker 4: Well, if you'll both excuse me.
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  Speaker 3: Come back here. I'll get you. I'll get you. I
• 18:34
  Speaker 3: vaulted through the window and circled the house. I spotted
• 18:37
  Speaker 3: him rushing down the street and I caught him around
• 18:38
  Speaker 3: the corner in the same spot where I'd first seen him.
• 18:40
  Speaker 3: Let go of me. You've got this coming to you.
• 18:42
  Speaker 3: You've got this coming to you. I slugged him. Yet
• 18:49
  Speaker 3: I knew it was useless the instant the blow landed.
• 18:52
  Speaker 3: He felt just like Spongebob, yet I kept hitting him.
• 18:55
  Speaker 3: I didn't bother listening to his cries, even after he
• 18:57
  Speaker 3: changed himself back to an old man. And then suddenly
• 19:01
  Speaker 3: I felt a hand grab my shoulder and whirl me around,
• 19:03
  Speaker 3: and a fist exploded in my eye. What's the matter
• 19:05
  Speaker 3: with you? What do you think you're doing, beating up
• 19:06
  Speaker 3: an old man like that? You're no good. I searched
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  Speaker 3: desperately for an explanation. And then, abruptly, without having said
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  Speaker 3: a word, I reeled and stumbled down the street. Home
• 19:25
  Speaker 3: to Nan.
• 19:45
  Speaker 2: Fred Collins again, and I'll have another word for you
• 19:48
  Speaker 2: about X-1 in a moment. Hi, this is Walter O'Keefe.
• 19:53
  Speaker 8: You know, they say there's nothing new under the sun,
• 19:55
  Speaker 8: and maybe that's true, but there is something new under
• 19:58
  Speaker 8: the moon, and that's Nightline. In Nightline, we think we've
• 20:01
  Speaker 8: found the way to use the intimacy as well as
• 20:03
  Speaker 8: the lightning-fast maneuverability of radio in an hour-and-a-half package of high-voltage,
• 20:08
  Speaker 8: different entertainments. We found a way to make the airwaves
• 20:11
  Speaker 8: your magic carpet to wherever big things are happening, anywhere
• 20:15
  Speaker 8: in the country, for that matter, anywhere in the world. Now,
• 20:18
  Speaker 8: let's say that your favorite comedian is performing at a
• 20:21
  Speaker 8: Las Vegas nightclub. He's packing them in, and you've really
• 20:25
  Speaker 8: got to have connections to get a table. Well, Nightline
• 20:28
  Speaker 8: is that connection, and your radio is your ringside table.
• 20:31
  Speaker 8: More things than you'd believe are happening in the so-called
• 20:34
  Speaker 8: still of the night, and Nightline is your line to
• 20:37
  Speaker 8: exciting entertainment after dark. My feeling is Nightline marks a
• 20:42
  Speaker 8: new era in nighttime entertainment. Tune us in every Tuesday, Wednesday,
• 20:45
  Speaker 8: and Thursday, and you'll hear what I mean.
• 20:48
  Speaker 2: You have just heard X-1, presented by the National Broadcasting
• 20:53
  Speaker 2: Company in cooperation with Galaxy Science Fiction Magazine, which this
• 20:57
  Speaker 2: month features Shadow World by Clifford D.
• 21:01
  Speaker 3: Simak.
• 21:02
  Speaker 2: Of all the upsetting phenomena, the most alarming was this.
• 21:07
  Speaker 2: I had a little shadow that went in and out
• 21:09
  Speaker 2: with me. It's in Galaxy Magazine on your newsstand today. Tonight,
• 21:16
  Speaker 2: X-1 has brought you The Scapegoat, written by Richard Maples
• 21:19
  Speaker 2: and adapted for radio by Ernest Canoy. Featured in our
• 21:23
  Speaker 2: cast were Carl Weber as Ed, Wendell Holmes as the
• 21:27
  Speaker 2: changeable Mr. Ash, Jane Amar as Nan, Bobby Alford as Tommy,
• 21:32
  Speaker 2: Guy Repp as Mr. Jones, and Roger DeCoven as Thompson.
• 21:36
  Speaker 2: This is Fred Collins. X-1 was directed by Kenneth McGregor
• 21:42
  Speaker 2: and is an NBC Radio Network production. There's excitement in
• 22:00
  Speaker 2: the air at night, and Nightline brings it to you.
• 22:03
  Speaker 2: Hear Nightline with Walter O'Keefe next on most of these
• 22:07
  Speaker 2: NBC stations.
• 22:13
  Speaker 1: Our presentation of X-1, The Scapegoat, now comes to its close.
• 22:18
  Speaker 1: Follow X-1 for more classic broadcasts.