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- Archobaler's lights out everybody. It is later then you thing turn out your lights. Now. Some of you may not know this, but beneath many of our cities there's a subworld, not only of subways, but sub sub basements and man made caverns where little trains run and deliver the goods to the department stores and the factories of our industrial complex. Today we're going to some of those sub sub basements and a play I've written for you titled sub Basements. But of course I can run an elevator. I was just asking, and I told you, well, here we are, all right? All right? Are you're getting out? I suppose to suppose so. For ten years, that's all I've heard. What do you work? What do you do? Why didn't you let me see? Oh? Why not angry? I'm just telling you, come on this way. That's a big basement. We don't know the half of it. It's like a whole city down here. A person goes to the department store and doesn't know all this is underneath. Say that again, and you're in charge of everything down here? There's another fact. Yeah, what are they? What are they? Oil? Benny? Each in their conditions, the whole building up above. Funny stories? H Where is everybody nothing but a watchman? At this hour? Than I? Everything shut down? It's the matter with you? Nothing? What did you do that for? What? I just wanted to hear my voice? It's like a big cave down here out like that. Won't you ever grow up? I'll be angry? Right, come on, come on in here another You want to see everything, don't you? Yes, yes, I do down samoa, Yeah all right, another thing? Yeah, go ahead. It's funny a light to see behind what's down here? On over here? I'll show you there in the wall. Is it a tunnel? That's what it is. But put a tunnel down here? See those tracks? Where did they go? How do you think all the merchandise has brought to all the stores here in the business section tunnel system, that's how right under the city streets. I had no idea. Mighty few people have trains run on those tracks? Bring the stuff right in train? Oh you think all I got to do is make jokes? Do you think the only kind of a train's a big one? Well, I just don't know the little one. They run on electric batteries, just like they had down in the mines. Come on, I'll show you in a tunnel. But it's so dark, the lights every little ways. Come on, I don't think so. What's the matter with you? I'm afraid? Well, said John? Say for years you've tested me and tested me to see you. Come along and let you understand, or Annie, this is fine for John's sake? What's the matter with you now? I don't come on. There's one of the little engines parked down at the end of the tunnel. You might as well see it. I'll keep walking. I think i'd down this way you'll see the train. Yes, But Annie, the light? Honey, where are you right here? What's the matter matter? Why are you standing so close to me? I'm your husband, Arnie's healthy, silly. I'm going to tell you something with me for the last time, last time, Honnie. What's the matter with you? You know that you can't get out of here? What you can't get out of here? Honnie? What are you talking about? What are you talking about? Oh? You haven't made a choke like that. And you the last time you tried to scare me was right after we were married. Remember with that third piece you made off with a dead animal that had gotten into petroom. You remember, I remember? Come along further. As long as I know what you're up to, I don't mind. How far? Are we going? A long way? All right, Donnie? Anything you say, don't I know it? All right? All right? What this is? As far as where you're going? Oh, I feel funny. I've never been under the ground, so fine, so long. It was very nice of you, Annie to take me down here, so interesting, Very nice of you, Ernie. I don't you say something funny? Is something in that? Really? You can't frighten me? Not? Now you know? Anny? Are we waiting for someone? If we are, I think I hear him, hear him? Well, yes, don't you no? But I heard tell you? There's no one down here? All right? All right? If you say so, Annie, I say so. If I say so, If I say so, can't you say something else but that? Even now? Now? Yes, I'm where I heard it again? Are there trains running this late at night? If it's a train, you ought to get out of here tunnel? So now, Annie, case come up, Ny listen here? Will you shut up? Who's there? Who's there? Isn't there supposed to be anyone? Of course? Not? I thought to it is that you? Is that you? Tom? Tom? Are you down here? One of the watchmen. I told him i'd police boxes to night. I told him Tom, Hey, Tom, what's wrong Tom? What's the matter with you? Come on out here? Do you hear me? Come out right away or I'm firing you. Tom? Is he playing joke? I'll break his neck at my hand? No, Honey, don't leave me. Honey. Where did you go? Honey? So doctor tell him? Honey, where are you? I look with that you look? It is you? Did you cry out? What? Stay back? You? That man? Who? From what's left of his face? I I think it's Tom? What what happens that train? I know? I know answering? What? Pray? Oh? Something's torn out his through? Come on, I gotta get out of here. I'm thin down here, honey, honey, wait I police, I'll get the police. Mony. Why are you just standing here? When I jumping the door? Door closed before? It won't open. It won't open. We'll be there in a minute, but I carry it's an emergency. Always kept hoping I was stop asking me that I don't know what? Stop talking? Will you? I don't know anything? Why did you stop talking? Why stop you said the emergency egg. I said, behind those timbers, it's blocked off. You understand it's blocked off. What do we do? We can't just stand here, Hono, that man was killed. There's someone down here. I'm afraid. Get me on the Oh wait a minute, wait a minute to think think? Oh, whoever killed Tom? Not down here? Necessarily you don't think so why should he be nothing to steal down here? Tom is always borrowing money from me, people, somebody he didn't pay back. Yeah, that's it. Put the door. Well, he got out and closed the doors. Whatever we can get out, Come on, I told you these tunnels lead to the buildings all over the business section. All of the tunnel to the next sub basement of the next building. We'll get out, that's all, honey. I'm getting too fire ahead. I'll just walk back with you. Oh honey, I'd a forward so very much to tonight. It had been so long since I'd even thought about me. I knew that it's nice are you calling up? I'm timing to meet you here. And then when you're trying to play those crazy scary shows before even very nice and I m Herma, you see it too, she said, after it don't talk. Oh my, that's too bad. Honey, don't leave me behind. Honey, I can't run in his says, honey, waking, honey, honey, honey, brokenness broke, honey, come on, hold, No, you can't line here. The thing is coming. I don't know. I can't see it. I was running rock under my foot. I was coming here, Tyler paid behind me. If I help you, could you go over the hide give me m oh my, hold you hold my hand tight. Come on, get over there, I'll help you. Take didn't he win it? We're getting word back here? The oh help me down? You want to go? Oh? Oh? Who they are? I? H h Can you can you see it? No? No, it's gone. Just just don't I think about it. Hon you what was it? You hear me? What was it? You went to school, you study things like that. That thing was it? Didn't you hear me? Yes? I heard you? What it was? It was a lizard, some kind of a lizard. I did for the lizard, some kind of a lizard. Oh, why do you say it that way? I saw it? Good army Well in school one of the books, there was an animal like that. How hard did it get down here? Lizard. That's big. I don't know. You don't understand geology books. The thing wasn't a lizard exactly. That was a dinosaur. Are you crazy? No, I'm telling you what I saw. It sort of sat up on its hime seat. Just got the picture in the book. What are you trying to do? Make me crazy too? Why those things died millions of years ago? Honey? Look way down the tunnel by a light. Ah, it is mone It is a dinosaur. Has it gone away? I don't know, it's been so long. Okay, just don't move. It just looked at us. Yeah, why doesn't come after us? Why? Huh? Maybe maybe he didn't see it what it was. It was like something that they had been in the dock for a long long time. Yes, don't over awhelm. Oh that's a little room back here. How would you rather go out there angry with me? Or an angry Why should I be angry? You went to school, you studied those things. You called it a dinosa. Yeah, all these hours I've been thinking, how could have thing like that, which was supposed to have passed out of the world so many years ago? How could it be realized? No? I don't know I'm this and I know this tunnel under the business district. They were putting on an extension blasting in the rock. Maybe that thing came out from inside there. Maybe you're you know Friday, and I no, why not? Because with you? If it came back, what could I do for you? It's just being with you? Yeah, I keep thinking that cool watchman. Yeah, it would really be something on this morning and everyone finds out about it, what do you think they'll do? I'll hand it down, please, we'll get it soon enough, I'm not Yeah, what if it won't be here? Then? Huh? It's an hour since you last starts standing down there? What if it's gone back? Where came fom? It's all right with me, But what is there? Mail? Hand it down? They'll find it, Arnold, what's all right? Everything's all right? But what was six o'clock? That was the bell back in the basement the day engineer turned off one of the sprinkler lots. Oh oh, come on, come on down to help you go? What do you wait? Look over there that it's back health. He's looking right at us. But they didn't hear us, but it did. It's it's starting this way hardly Oh, how slowly it's smoothing. If it can hardly see, that's it. That's what it's blind. That thing is blind, lived under the earth alone, can't see. But it's still coming this way. Oh, I need come on down to me alone. Go ahead, don't why, I'll care you can't carry ahead. I'm go ahead. I tell you on, go on, don't stay here, I tell you go on, Please stay here with me. I wanted to kill you to night you hear me. I brought you down here to kill you, know your own. I'm telling you the truth. I brought you down here to kill you. No one else stay with you one. I brought you down here to kill you. Now that's the truth. Look at me and believe it, because it's the truth. That's why. That's why I suddenly got so wonderful. I was sick and tired of you, sick and tired of living. So I brought you down here to kill you and then kill myself. Look at it out there, feeling its way along. Well, he'll take care of me. But you you've got to get out of here, and no, I got to get out. I deserve to die, but I'm not you. You're so blasted good. Guess that's why I got tired of you, of it. There's no reason for you to die. I'm stopped looking at me like that. You've got to get out. Run straight down the tunnel, keep running and you get away, Irma, Just don't look at me. Get going. You know why don't you say what you've always said to me all these years? Just as you say Annie, just as you say oh, or will you get out of here? Slowly? Move? It is blind, bless you. Look when you listen to me. Will you go? You've got to go. They'll think I've killed you. No, they won't. They Well I will. I left a note back home to the police. I told him I had kill you. If that thing kills you and me, they'll still think I was the one who did it. Now do you want me to be a murderer? Do you want that you left a note? Yes? Yes? Don't you remember I turned back after you went out the door on the dining room table, and get out of here and get that note. Don't make them think I'll kill you and I didn't. I don't want too. You're such a good it's it's too good for me. I was tired and I was crazy. Don't make me a murderer. Am I goodbye? Goodbye? Yes? Yes, sorry? Straight ahead. He won't get you, I promised. Let's go. Mm hm all right, you blind thing. You here? I am mm hmm yeah here, I am here. Mhm huh. I'm not scared. Come and get me. It is later than you think.