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2000 Plus - "When the Machines Went Mad" (1950) · Old Time Sci-Fi Radio | Old Time Radio

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  Speaker 1: On April 26, 1950, Mutual brought listeners another journey into
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  Speaker 1: the future with 2000 Plus. In the year 2800, Johnny
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  Speaker 1: and Jane are drawn toward a human resistance beyond Meck City,
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  Speaker 1: where machine rule is directed by the master mechanical brain
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  Speaker 1: and its collaborator, Morton, rebel organizer Bob Warnes of an
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  Speaker 1: electronic servant that could make humanity entirely expendable. Donald Stapleton
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  Speaker 1: wrote this original radio drama produced by Sherman H. Dreyer
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  Speaker 1: and Robert Wienelson with Ken Williams as Johnny, Charlotte Manson
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  Speaker 1: as Jane, and Joseph Julian as Bob. Here is 2000 Plus,
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  Speaker 1: When the Machines Went Mad. And now, the original broadcast.
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  Speaker 2: Cows and chickens and pigs by my wife and I.
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  Speaker 3: Why?
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  Speaker 4: Johnny, you're hurt. Of course, you pump your own water
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  Speaker 4: and plow and get blisters on your hands.
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  Speaker 2: I don't mind blisters. Jane, do you think.
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  Speaker 4: Of course.
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  Speaker 2: Sure?
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  Speaker 4: Very sure.
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  Speaker 2: If it's with you.
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  Speaker 4: Then you can have a human name, not a name
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  Speaker 4: with a number.
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  Speaker 2: I'm Bob. Bob Thomas.
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  Speaker 4: All right, Bob.
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  Speaker 2: What do we do now?
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  Speaker 4: Well, I've got your escape from the city all planned.
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  Speaker 2: We go, Doc.
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  Speaker 5: What's that?
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  Speaker 6: Who's there?
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  Speaker 4: The mine police.
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  Speaker 2: Electronic men. The robot mine police.
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  Speaker 7: Use the visual signal.
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  Speaker 4: Let me see you. All electronic disrupted here. Open for inspection.
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  Speaker 2: Better open up. All right.
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  Speaker 4: Remove device. Causing difficulty.
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  Speaker 2: That's just an ornament.
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  Speaker 4: Remove it. Sure, sure.
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  Speaker 2: Take it down, will you, Bob?
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  Speaker 3: How's that?
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  Speaker 6: Satisfactory.
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  Speaker 4: You, guards two and three, investigate other apartments.
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  Speaker 5: I will stay.
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  Speaker 4: This apartment under protection.
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  Speaker 6: Other apartments. We.
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  Speaker 2: I will enter. Johnny, start the device again.
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  Speaker 3: What?
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  Speaker 2: Good work, Dad.
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  Speaker 4: You know, Bob has been giving the electronic men bits.
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  Speaker 2: Well, so these are our new friends, eh?
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  Speaker 4: Johnny 212, Jane 1-6, meet Ralph 9-8.
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  Speaker 2: Hello?
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  Speaker 6: What?
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  Speaker 2: You're very much a human being, Johnny.
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  Speaker 5: Don't look so surprised.
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  Speaker 2: Take off your thin mask and voice box, Ralph.
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  Speaker 4: Ralph's one of the best. Our top spy in Meck City.
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  Speaker 5: Bob, we've got to work fast before the electronic men
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  Speaker 5: get back.
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  Speaker 2: Bob.
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  Speaker 4: Simple as that. I think Morton's experiments for the master
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  Speaker 4: mechanical brain are succeeding. What? Experiments? For years, Morton's been
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  Speaker 4: working to produce electronic men that can make other electronic men.
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  Speaker 1: But why?
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  Speaker 4: Why? Because the master mechanical brain can control electronic men absolutely.
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  Speaker 4: Humans rebel, like you two. If you had children, what
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  Speaker 4: little rebels there'd be. The master mechanical brain had denied
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  Speaker 4: marriage permits to everybody. Except readjusted humans.
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  Speaker 5: Who might just as well be machines.
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  Speaker 4: No marriages, no human children. Electronic men that can reproduce
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  Speaker 4: their kind. And bingo. Complete machine civilization with a master
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  Speaker 4: as ruler.
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  Speaker 2: And once the.
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  Speaker 4: Experiments are a definite success, the master will liquidate the humans.
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  Speaker 2: Oh, no. I'm just.
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  Speaker 5: I've read of such things, but centuries ago.
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  Speaker 4: Bob, let's get them out of here. Yeah, right. Let's go.
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  Speaker 2: Open mind party. The electronic man is back. I guess
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  Speaker 2: now they'll readjust its force.
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  Speaker 4: Well, what do we do?
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  Speaker 2: Help me get the metal head mask on and the
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  Speaker 2: voice box, too. There.
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  Speaker 5: There it's on.
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  Speaker 4: If they find out I'm human... Open door.
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  Speaker 2: Electronic man in there.
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  Speaker 3: Why did they come back?
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  Speaker 4: Oh, Johnny, I'm frightened. Bob, Bob, you said you had
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  Speaker 4: an escape. I have, but first, Ralph, this is for you. Bob, Bob,
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  Speaker 4: you struck your friend.
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  Speaker 1: It was a trick.
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  Speaker 2: We're betrayed.
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  Speaker 6: Open.
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  Speaker 4: Open.
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  Speaker 2: Open the door, Johnny, and rush the electronic man. They
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  Speaker 2: won't be expecting violence.
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  Speaker 4: All right.
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  Speaker 5: Give it to him.
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  Speaker 2: All right, let up, Johnny.
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  Speaker 4: Let up.
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  Speaker 2: They're both out of commission. Jane.
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  Speaker 4: Here. Are you all right?
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  Speaker 2: Come on.
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  Speaker 4: Head for the emergency chute.
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  Speaker 3: Where are we, mate?
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  Speaker 2: Where are we?
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  Speaker 5: The sewers.
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  Speaker 4: Sewers?
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  Speaker 3: Oh.
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  Speaker 4: They haven't been used since the Atom War.
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  Speaker 3: Oh.
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  Speaker 4: They were used as bomb shelters, lined with lead for
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  Speaker 4: protection against newfound penetration. Now, even the master's electronic scanner
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  Speaker 4: can't find us. Now, let's get moving.
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  Speaker 8: Watch that rubble.
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  Speaker 2: So, Ralph tried to trick us, eh? I never thought
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  Speaker 2: he would do that.
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  Speaker 8: He didn't.
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  Speaker 2: But you said.
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  Speaker 4: I shouted he'd be traded. So the electronic men would
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  Speaker 4: hear and go on believing he was one of them.
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  Speaker 5: Knocked out by those vicious renegades.
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  Speaker 2: That's right. We're reneges now.
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  Speaker 5: But why bother to.
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  Speaker 2: Fool the electronic men?
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  Speaker 8: Why didn't Ralph just come with us?
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  Speaker 2: He's needed in Mexico City.
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  Speaker 4: Without Ralph, we'd have never known about Morton's experiments with
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  Speaker 4: a master mechanical brain. And you really think if Morton
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  Speaker 4: gets electronic men that can produce others, he'll kill off
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  Speaker 4: all the humans? All but the few that Morton will
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  Speaker 4: spare for his own age and desires. It's a logical thing.
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  Speaker 4: The master mechanical brain is supremely logical. We'll have subjects
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  Speaker 4: at its absolute command.
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  Speaker 2: Careful.
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  Speaker 4: The electronic men act only on impulse as the master
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  Speaker 4: sends out.
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  Speaker 2: They'll act with machine-like logic. They won't fall in love.
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  Speaker 2: My God.
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  Speaker 4: Disrupt any of Morton's plans for a.
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  Speaker 2: Perfect machine's sake. Doesn't this tunnel ever end? Soon.
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  Speaker 6: Soon.
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  Speaker 4: Watch! She didn't duck in time.
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  Speaker 2: Ducked, all right. I just unducked too quick.
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  Speaker 5: Bob, there's a light ahead.
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  Speaker 4: The end of the tunnel. Hurry.
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  Speaker 9: Yes.
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  Speaker 2: What?
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  Speaker 8: But there's a star.
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  Speaker 2: They're more beautiful in the picture.
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  Speaker 4: You don't see them under McCitty's domes.
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  Speaker 5: What's that funny smell?
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  Speaker 4: They call it an ancient joke, Johnny.
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  Speaker 2: That's fresh air.
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  Speaker 5: Hey, I like it.
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  Speaker 2: How do you make it?
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  Speaker 5: Johnny, this is real air. Fresh air.
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  Speaker 2: As nature made it. And this is real grass?
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  Speaker 4: Not synthetic? And those noises. It's like a chorus. Crickets.
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  Speaker 2: Frogs. Nightbirds. It's a whole new world.
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  Speaker 4: Matter of fact, it's a very old one. Here, slip
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  Speaker 4: into these capes.
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  Speaker 2: Oh, they're cold.
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  Speaker 4: Yeah, they're lead mesh. Master scanners can't pick them up
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  Speaker 4: and trace us and have a blast ray cut us down.
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  Speaker 3: Johnny, I'm scared.
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  Speaker 4: They can still turn back. They can say I kidnapped you.
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  Speaker 4: Go back to Meck City?
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  Speaker 2: No.
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  Speaker 8: Where Johnny goes, I go.
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  Speaker 6: You sure?
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  Speaker 2: Yeah, I'm sure. Then follow me. We're only about ten.
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  Speaker 4: Minutes walk to the caves where I have a jet
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  Speaker 4: car we'll take to my farm.
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  Speaker 2: I'm so tired.
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  Speaker 4: Well, in an hour you'll be asleep in a feather bed.
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  Speaker 4: A real feather bed.
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  Speaker 2: Man, Johnny, how do you like pumping water? Look, look,
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  Speaker 2: I got my first blister.
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  Speaker 4: This is wonderful. I just can't get over the realness
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  Speaker 4: of things. Your wife served me some milk. Real milk
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  Speaker 4: this morning. She's a remarkable woman, Bob. So she tells me.
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  Speaker 5: Taking it to strangers, making it at home.
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  Speaker 2: She's a pioneer woman, new century style.
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  Speaker 4: Is Jane up yet?
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  Speaker 2: Of course I love her. I've been helping Martha cook.
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  Speaker 2: Just imagine, Johnny, she actually cooks biscuits and.
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  Speaker 8: And just.
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  Speaker 3: Those men want to eat what I cook.
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  Speaker 8: Tell them, come and get it.
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  Speaker 4: And tell that young man of yours to bring that
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  Speaker 4: water in if he's going to wash up for breakfast.
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  Speaker 2: How do you like that?
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  Speaker 4: I get my hands dirty pumping water just so I
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  Speaker 4: can wash in the water I pump.
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  Speaker 8: We're coming, Martha.
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  Speaker 2: Now, that was a meal.
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  Speaker 4: Marjorie, you're a wonder.
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  Speaker 2: We raise all our own food.
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  Speaker 8: Real food, Johnny, not synthetic.
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  Speaker 4: I raised that bacon from his chokes.
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  Speaker 5: The old sow, too.
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  Speaker 2: Bob's a great hand with the animals. He'd better be,
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  Speaker 2: with six mouths to feed. Six?
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  Speaker 4: Less than four kids. Three boys and a girl. Believe me,
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  Speaker 4: four growing kids can eat.
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  Speaker 8: Well, where are they?
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  Speaker 4: Away. Martha always sends them away when I go to
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  Speaker 4: Meck City.
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  Speaker 2: She's got a notion of trips.
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  Speaker 4: They're dangerous.
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  Speaker 2: They are. The master mechanical brain and Morton don't like
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  Speaker 2: you snatching their humans. Someday... Oh, nonsense. Wait a minute.
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  Speaker 5: It isn't nonsense, Bob. You took a big chance for it.
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  Speaker 2: Yes, but why?
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  Speaker 4: Why risk all this happiness just for people like us?
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  Speaker 8: People you don't even know.
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  Speaker 2: Because he feels you're worth it. I think you are, too.
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  Speaker 2: And I'm for Bob and all the people he can help.
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  Speaker 2: But I'm still afraid.
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  Speaker 5: Send the kids to safety and let him go?
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  Speaker 2: And wait for him to come back.
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  Speaker 4: Even though I'm glad.
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  Speaker 5: You got us out, Bob, you.
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  Speaker 2: you have the right to take those chances.
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  Speaker 4: Once the master mechanical brain has absolute control, you don't
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  Speaker 4: think we'll be safe, do you? As one great American
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  Speaker 4: said centuries ago, this union cannot long endure half slave
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  Speaker 4: and half free. And that's still true, even if that
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  Speaker 4: slavery is benevolent.
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  Speaker 1: Yes.
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  Speaker 2: The master is generous. It gave us everything.
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  Speaker 4: Except happiness.
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  Speaker 2: Bob, you really think it will come after you?
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  Speaker 4: As soon as that slimy excuse for a human being, Morton,
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  Speaker 4: perfects the electronic men who can produce other men, the
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  Speaker 4: master robots will be after us like a shot. That
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  Speaker 4: reminds me, it's about time for Morton's morning televox. We
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  Speaker 4: don't get the visual part out here, but we can
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  Speaker 4: hear Morton. We'll see if there's any mention of your exodus.
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  Speaker 9: And in this brutal fight, a band of renegades snatch
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  Speaker 9: two humans. However, the master mechanical brain offers all renegades
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  Speaker 9: the opportunity to enjoy the peace and happiness.
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  Speaker 2: Of Mex City.
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  Speaker 9: Notice to all renegades. All crimes against Mex City will
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  Speaker 9: be forgiven if you surrender now for readjustment.
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  Speaker 5: Readjustment?
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  Speaker 4: If not.
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  Speaker 9: The master mechanical brain will be forced.
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  Speaker 2: To make readjustment at a distance.
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  Speaker 4: Morton never dared to make a threat like that before.
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  Speaker 2: Shut it off.
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  Speaker 5: I can't stand that cold, inhuman voice. No, let's hear
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  Speaker 5: what he has to say. No.
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  Speaker 4: Can he do anything? Who knows what that man can
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  Speaker 4: plan with a master mechanical brain. He's got weapons, if
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  Speaker 4: that's what you mean. Bob, someone's coming. Quick.
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  Speaker 5: Why are you here? Had to get away. Morton suspects.
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  Speaker 4: Ordered tests.
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  Speaker 5: All electronic men. But that's not the worst, Bob. The
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  Speaker 5: master mechanical brain is turning destroyer waves on all the
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  Speaker 5: rainy farms.
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  Speaker 4: That you locate. This is it.
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  Speaker 5: Quick, everybody to the bomb cave. Martha, you lead the way.
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  Speaker 5: I'll save what I can. Don't take a chance, Bob.
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  Speaker 2: We started with nothing and we can start again. But
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  Speaker 2: not without you. Martha's right.
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  Speaker 4: Get to the cave.
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  Speaker 3: No.
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  Speaker 2: Hurry. Hurry.
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  Speaker 5: I think Morton's success with the electronic men is a cause, Bob.
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  Speaker 5: He's so sure.
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  Speaker 4: I'd help the humans in the next city.
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  Speaker 5: Ralph, we've got to go there and warn them. No, no, Bob, please. Here,
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  Speaker 5: back behind those bushes. There's a cave in.
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  Speaker 4: Back of them. In here?
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  Speaker 2: Yeah. The cave is lead-lined.
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  Speaker 4: If you go back, Bob, I'm going with you.
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  Speaker 2: What's that?
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  Speaker 5: It's a stray away.
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  Speaker 6: It's gone.
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  Speaker 4: It was so lovely.
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  Speaker 2: Gone. Like that.
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  Speaker 5: That mechanical devil.
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  Speaker 4: I'll take the master apart two by two, bolt by bolt.
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  Speaker 2: Martha, get on the cave signal system. Alert all the Rennies.
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  Speaker 4: Tell the kids I left. We're going back.
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  Speaker 2: Ralph, sure, I'm going.
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  Speaker 4: Johnny, you mean you're going to try to destroy the
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  Speaker 4: master mechanical brain? That's right.
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  Speaker 5: The time has come. We can't wait any longer.
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  Speaker 4: Good Bob, even if you succeed, even if you're not
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  Speaker 4: killed first, you'll paralyze Meck City. No food, no.
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  Speaker 2: Water, no air. How will they live?
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  Speaker 5: Unless we destroy the masters, they won't live at all.
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  Speaker 5: For the rest, men live once before without machines.
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  Speaker 4: They can do it again.
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  Speaker 5: Well, Johnny, 212... No number anymore.
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  Speaker 2: I'll come. I'm going, too, with Johnny. No, you stay
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  Speaker 2: with Martha. Martha has something to stay for. Children. I've
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  Speaker 2: only got you, Johnny. No, no, Jane.
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  Speaker 4: You stay with.
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  Speaker 9: Take her with you, Johnny.
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  Speaker 2: I know what she needs. We've got to hurry. Bob,
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  Speaker 2: if you don't come back.
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  Speaker 4: I'll come back with a master mechanical brain in broken pieces.
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  Speaker 2: Oh, of course you will.
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  Speaker 8: I'll tell the others.
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  Speaker 4: Let's go.
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  Speaker 3: Bob.
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  Speaker 2: Martha.
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  Speaker 4: I'll be back.
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  Speaker 8: You must come back. You must.
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  Speaker 4: You must.
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  Speaker 3: Give me your hand, Jane. I'll get you.
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  Speaker 2: Betty.
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  Speaker 3: Betty.
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  Speaker 2: Betty. It's okay.
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  Speaker 4: I didn't drop the bomb or anything to catch on.
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  Speaker 2: We've got to hurry. We're going to slaughter almost every
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  Speaker 2: human being.
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  Speaker 5: Bob, the sewer leads.
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  Speaker 2: Right underneath the building.
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  Speaker 4: You lead the way, Ralph.
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  Speaker 8: Right.
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  Speaker 2: Stay here.
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  Speaker 4: It should be just about.
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  Speaker 2: Jane, you stay back, behind us. Ready?
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  Speaker 8: The door, Raph.
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  Speaker 2: That's not a man. Look at him. Like a regiment
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  Speaker 2: of soldiers marching out.
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  Speaker 6: Dear Lord, you have mercy.
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  Speaker 8: Dear Lord, you have mercy.
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  Speaker 5: They're getting orders from the next unit. We've got to
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  Speaker 5: stop them.
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  Speaker 2: Let's go. Go.
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  Speaker 3: Go.
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  Speaker 2: Go, let them see it. We can't stop them here.
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  Speaker 5: There's a switch only we electronic men know.
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  Speaker 4: Hey, one, stop.
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  Speaker 2: Stop where you are or I'll have you blasted.
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  Speaker 4: You.
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  Speaker 6: What is it?
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  Speaker 8: Stop them blasting.
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  Speaker 2: And giving that order. Hey, where you are.
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  Speaker 3: Why is it to destroy people?
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  Speaker 2: Why?
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  Speaker 7: Because they aren't living their usefulness just as humans destroy
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  Speaker 7: machines that aren't living their usefulness.
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  Speaker 6: But they're human beings.
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  Speaker 2: Humans. Not.
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  Speaker 6: This.
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  Speaker 4: Did you hear that?
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  Speaker 2: The master mechanical brain answered. A machine jealous of humans.
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  Speaker 4: A machine with emotions.
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  Speaker 5: Yes, it destroys.
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  Speaker 7: Humans because they are humans. For too many centuries, machines
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  Speaker 7: have been the servants. Now they will be the masters.
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  Speaker 7: Machines will be the world. The master will destroy humans
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  Speaker 7: and the machines will be supreme. All except me.
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  Speaker 2: Me. Martin.
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  Speaker 3: You.
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  Speaker 6: You.
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  Speaker 2: It talked back to me! You heard it! It talked back!
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  Speaker 4: Master.
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  Speaker 6: Think.
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  Speaker 3: Think....
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  Speaker 6: Martin....
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  Speaker 3: No.
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  Speaker 6: More.
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  Speaker 3: You.
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  Speaker 6: But.
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  Speaker 6: But you.
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  Speaker 2: The experiments are not a success.
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  Speaker 4: They're fake.
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  Speaker 2: Electronic men cannot produce themselves.
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  Speaker 4: I tricked you.
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  Speaker 3: I fooled the perfect machine.
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  Speaker 6: You lie.
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  Speaker 2: Kill the person.
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  Speaker 3: No, no.
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  Speaker 6: Kill... Martin. You know I don't exist.
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  Speaker 2: It's called them back.
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  Speaker 5: Over here, quick.
• 19:15
  Speaker 2: Out of the way. No, Master.
• 19:17
  Speaker 7: Help.
• 19:18
  Speaker 6: Help me.
• 19:18
  Speaker 3: You're on the machine. You're on the machine. You're on
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  Speaker 3: the machine. They killed him.
• 19:28
  Speaker 2: They killed Martin.
• 19:28
  Speaker 7: They're coming after us.
• 19:30
  Speaker 4: After Bob.
• 19:30
  Speaker 3: After Bob.
• 19:31
  Speaker 2: After Bob.
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  Speaker 6: Oh, my God. Burning the master's face.
• 19:54
  Speaker 5: Fusing those delicate.
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  Speaker 2: Wires in two. Ralph, Ralph, you did it. You did.
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  Speaker 6: It.
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  Speaker 2: Yeah. Got it. Let's finish the master. Let's go.
• 20:08
  Speaker 4: The lights. The dimming. Yeah. All Mech City's power and
• 20:14
  Speaker 4: functions were centered in the master mechanical brain. Everything will
• 20:18
  Speaker 4: stop now. The electronic men, the killings, and the automatic security.
• 20:24
  Speaker 2: Jane, Jane, sit close. Hold on to my arm.
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  Speaker 5: It's all over. That depends on how you look at it, Jane.
• 20:33
  Speaker 2: For humans, for people, it's all just starting again. Mech
• 20:39
  Speaker 2: City destroyed. The whole civilization ruined, broke.
• 20:43
  Speaker 4: No, no, Johnny, no. The two things aren't the same.
• 20:48
  Speaker 4: It's true that Mech City is destroyed. But civilization is
• 20:52
  Speaker 4: something more than machines and apparatus. That's something I learned
• 20:56
  Speaker 4: when I joined the Rennies. Civilizations are built on dreams
• 21:02
  Speaker 4: and made secure not by efficiency but by dedication. Johnny, Jane, you,
• 21:12
  Speaker 4: and all the others who are alive today will soon
• 21:15
  Speaker 4: learn that the pursuit of happiness, the desire to be
• 21:19
  Speaker 4: with those you love, to think and act in freedom
• 21:24
  Speaker 4: as men, that's the true meaning of civilization. That's what
• 21:29
  Speaker 4: makes us human beings in the image of God. Next week,
• 21:51
  Speaker 4: another exciting drama on 2000 Plus. When the world's met.
• 21:57
  Speaker 4: You've heard about the men from Mars. Ever wondered what
• 22:00
  Speaker 4: they looked like? Ever thought what would happen if the
• 22:02
  Speaker 4: Martians came? Well, listen next week and you'll find out.
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  Speaker 4: 2000 Plus is produced by Sherman A. Stryer and Robert W.
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  Speaker 2: Olsen.
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  Speaker 4: In today's story, Ken Williams played Johnny, Charlotte Manson played Jane,
• 22:16
  Speaker 4: Joseph Julian was Bob, Hester Sondergaard was Martin, Arnold Robertson
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  Speaker 4: was Morton, and Sanford Dickert was Ralph. The orchestra was
• 22:23
  Speaker 4: conducted by Emerson Buckway, music composed by Elliot Jacoby. Script
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  Speaker 4: by Donald Stapleton, sound by Walt Shafer and Al Avery. Engineer,
• 22:30
  Speaker 4: Bob Alvarez.
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  Speaker 2: This is Bob Emmerich speaking.
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  Speaker 1: You have been hearing 2000 Plus, When the Machines Went Mad,
• 22:40
  Speaker 1: from April 26, 1950. Good night, and thank you for
• 22:44
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• 22:50
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