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Dimension X - "Hello Tomorrow" (1950) · Old Time Sci-Fi Radio | Old Time Radio

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  Speaker 1: On September 15th, 1950, NBC broadcast the 24th episode of
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  Speaker 1: Dimension X, George Lefferts' original radio play, Hello Tomorrow. Deep
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  Speaker 1: beneath a radioactive earth, a surviving civilization lives by rigid
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  Speaker 1: genetic rules and protection.
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  Speaker 2: From the world above.
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  Speaker 1: Professor Lois Burton encounters Orin, a man classified as genetically imperfect,
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  Speaker 1: and that meeting challenges the order around them. Nancy Olsen,
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  Speaker 1: Donald Bucca, Bill Zuckert, Santos Ortega, and Leon Janney are
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  Speaker 1: featured under the direction of Edward King. And now, our
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  Speaker 1: story begins.
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  Speaker 3: The National Broadcasting Company delays the start of this program
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  Speaker 3: to bring you a special news bulletin. From the NBC
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  Speaker 3: newsroom in New York, United Nations troops have begun a
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  Speaker 3: breakthrough from their beachhead in South Korea, launching an attack
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  Speaker 3: from positions north of Taegu for a drive towards Seoul.
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  Speaker 3: The new offensive is timed with a big amphibious assault
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  Speaker 3: at Incheon, which is progressing on schedule. Keep tuned to
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  Speaker 3: your NBC station for the later news.
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  Speaker 4: Space. Transcribed in future tense.
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  Speaker 5: Dimension.
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  Speaker 6: Act, act, act, act, act, act, act.
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  Speaker 4: Tonight, a story of the future and a star of
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  Speaker 4: the future. The story, Hello Tomorrow, and the star, Miss
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  Speaker 4: Nancy Olsen, the talented young actress who is currently winning
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  Speaker 4: critical acclaim for her performance in one of the outstanding
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  Speaker 4: pictures of the year, Sunset Boulevard. Tonight, Miss Olsen becomes
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  Speaker 4: the first of a group of the stage and screen's
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  Speaker 4: most promising young stars of tomorrow to be invited to
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  Speaker 4: appear on the program of tomorrow, Dimension X. It was
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  Speaker 4: in the year 1991 that man disappeared from the face
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  Speaker 4: of the earth. The third atomic war had ended at last,
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  Speaker 4: leaving the land a mass of red radioactive dust, filling
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  Speaker 4: the air with gamma rays so deadly that life on
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  Speaker 4: the surface was no longer possible. There was only one
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  Speaker 4: way out. The few survivors went underground, burrowing their way
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  Speaker 4: deep into the earth like hunted moles, hiding from death
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  Speaker 4: in huge underground caverns. And it was there in the
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  Speaker 4: next 2,000 years that they built the new civilization, a
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  Speaker 4: civilization in which the genetic survival of the race came first,
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  Speaker 4: and every life and every law was shaped to serve
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  Speaker 4: that end. It is to this civilization, in the year
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  Speaker 4: of our Lord 4,195 A.D., that we take you now.
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  Speaker 7: Yes?
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  Speaker 8: I have a call from the Director of Emotional Stability
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  Speaker 8: for the third oblong for Professor Lois Burton at.
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  Speaker 7: The Institute of Genetics.
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  Speaker 9: This is Professor Burton.
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  Speaker 7: One moment. Go ahead, sir. Lois? Listen, darling, good news.
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  Speaker 9: What?
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  Speaker 7: The Genetic Board has approved our application for marriage.
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  Speaker 9: Oh, so soon?
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  Speaker 7: The tests found our chromosomes perfect. We can marry any
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  Speaker 7: time we want. Our offspring should be genetically in the
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  Speaker 7: 19th percentile of perfection. What's the matter, dear?
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  Speaker 9: Oh, nothing. I'm just sort of breathless.
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  Speaker 7: You are happy about it, aren't you, darling?
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  Speaker 9: Oh, of course. Terribly happy.
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  Speaker 7: I'm coming right over to the lab. I have a surprise.
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  Speaker 9: Oh, not now, Walter.
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  Speaker 10: What?
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  Speaker 9: Well, I mean you'll have to give me some time. Time?
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  Speaker 7: What's the trouble?
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  Speaker 9: No trouble. It's that genetic survey I've been working on. What? Well,
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  Speaker 9: I've finally gotten permission to study an actual living case.
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  Speaker 9: A specimen of imperfect genetic transmission.
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  Speaker 11: Really?
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  Speaker 9: Yes, they're bringing him up from the condemned cages on
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  Speaker 9: the lower level.
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  Speaker 7: You will be careful, darling.
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  Speaker 9: The supervisor says there's nothing to be afraid of. The
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  Speaker 9: specimen they're bringing is XJ12. It's been studied before many
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  Speaker 9: times and is quite well trained.
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  Speaker 7: Well, I don't like it.
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  Speaker 9: Nonsense, darling. I've been waiting for this opportunity for years. Oh,
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  Speaker 9: there's my door signal. I'll have to hang up, darling.
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  Speaker 9: See you later. Yes?
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  Speaker 5: Professor Lois Burton?
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  Speaker 9: Yes?
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  Speaker 5: I'm from the Philogenic Institute.
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  Speaker 6: Lower level.
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  Speaker 11: Oh.
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  Speaker 9: Then you brought me specimen XJ-12.
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  Speaker 5: May I come in?
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  Speaker 9: By all means. Oh. How?
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  Speaker 5: Horrible.
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  Speaker 12: It all depends on your viewpoint. I happen to have
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  Speaker 12: a twisted leg. My parents were genetically unsound.
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  Speaker 9: But then you... Yes.
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  Speaker 5: I am specimen XJ12.
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  Speaker 9: I see.
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  Speaker 5: I hope you aren't shocked.
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  Speaker 9: No stable person permits feelings to enter into his work.
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  Speaker 9: I will admit to surprise. I was expecting something a
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  Speaker 9: little more abnormal.
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  Speaker 5: Sorry, I try to be as abnormal as possible.
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  Speaker 12: If I am, the phylogenic institute allows me out of
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  Speaker 12: the genetic cages every so often, so I can breathe
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  Speaker 12: the pure air of the upper levels and mingle with
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  Speaker 12: the genetically perfect.
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  Speaker 9: You seem quite well educated.
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  Speaker 5: I spent the first years of my life here in
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  Speaker 5: the upper levels.
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  Speaker 9: How is that possible? They segregate imperfects.
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  Speaker 12: As a small child, my mother concealed me from the
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  Speaker 12: director of selective heredity.
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  Speaker 5: I was brought up in secret. My mother actually, dreadful word,
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  Speaker 5: loved me.
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  Speaker 9: I see. That would explain your obviously low threshold of
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  Speaker 9: emotional control.
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  Speaker 12: If you choose to call it that. At first, you
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  Speaker 12: seemed to be struggling to repress a few feelings yourself.
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  Speaker 9: We will confine ourselves to the impersonal aspects of our work.
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  Speaker 5: As you please.
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  Speaker 9: I shall require you as a demonstration for a lecture
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  Speaker 9: I'm delivering to one of my classes tomorrow.
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  Speaker 5: At your service, Professor.
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  Speaker 9: Sit here, please. Grip these electrodes tightly. I'm going to
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  Speaker 9: calibrate your electrochemical tension.
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  Speaker 5: I'm quite familiar with the procedure.
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  Speaker 12: I realize that as an imperfect, I'm expendable.
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  Speaker 5: But I should hate to be electrocuted.
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  Speaker 9: The charge is not lethal. Plus 15 surface tension.
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  Speaker 5: You know, you have beautiful hair.
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  Speaker 9: Plus 12 at a depth of 4 centimeters.
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  Speaker 5: Lovely blue eyes... Crystal clear.
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  Speaker 7: Plus ten.
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  Speaker 9: Seven centimeters.
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  Speaker 5: Pretty. A perfect woman.
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  Speaker 12: Lovely, expressive hands. And a heart of stone. Like all
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  Speaker 12: the rest of you perfect survival types.
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  Speaker 9: Try not to jump, sir, when the current strikes.
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  Speaker 5: No feelings. Under control. Passed by the director of emotional stability.
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  Speaker 12: Shut up!
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  Speaker 5: Maybe I was wrong. Maybe you... you have feelings.
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  Speaker 2: That will be quite enough. I seem to sense an
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  Speaker 2: air of emotional tension.
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  Speaker 9: Nothing, dear. This is a specimen XJ-12.
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  Speaker 5: Oh, I see.
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  Speaker 2: An inferior type.
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  Speaker 9: Quite.
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  Speaker 2: You, specimen. Can you understand me? Yes. Yes what? Tell
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  Speaker 2: this dolt who I am, Lois.
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  Speaker 9: This is the director of emotional stability for the third oblong.
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  Speaker 9: He also happens to be my selected genetic partner. You
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  Speaker 9: will address him as sir.
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  Speaker 10: Yes, sir.
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  Speaker 2: This creature seems quite impertinent.
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  Speaker 9: He's only a specimen, darling.
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  Speaker 2: I suppose. We'll use him and ship him back to
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  Speaker 2: the cages at the institute. He's probably radioactive.
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  Speaker 4: You, specimen.
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  Speaker 5: Mr. Director.
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  Speaker 11: You will confine your speech to answering only those questions
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  Speaker 11: addressed to you.
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  Speaker 6: Understand?
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  Speaker 2: Understand.
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  Speaker 7: Yes, sir.
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  Speaker 9: Perfectly.
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  Speaker 6: Attention!
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  Speaker 13: Attention!
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  Speaker 6: The next demonstration will be conducted by Professor Lois Burton
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  Speaker 6: of the Institute of Genetics.
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  Speaker 3: Her topic, the probability of radioactive damage in the chromosome
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  Speaker 3: heredity of imperfect non-survival types.
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  Speaker 5: Professor Burson.
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  Speaker 9: We are very fortunate today in having obtained a specimen
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  Speaker 9: of an imperfect genetic type through the good graces of
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  Speaker 9: the Philogenic Institute. Moreover, this specimen has been trained to
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  Speaker 9: tell in his own words about the factors in his upbringing.
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  Speaker 9: Specimen XJ12.
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  Speaker 5: Thank you.
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  Speaker 12: My mother was a psychotechnician in the Fifth Oblong. My
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  Speaker 12: father was a historian specializing in the records of pre-atomic
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  Speaker 12: surface culture. In the earthquake of 2170, apparently some hard
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  Speaker 12: radiation filtered down through the tunnels and penetrated the Fifth Oblong.
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  Speaker 12: The effect on my hereditary factors is quite apparent in
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  Speaker 12: this twisted leg. I appreciate that you do not laugh
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  Speaker 12: Most audiences seem compelled to laugh Perhaps you are different.
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  Speaker 12: If so, perhaps you can be made to understand somehow
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  Speaker 12: what it means to be labeled an imperfect. Perhaps in
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  Speaker 12: some way I can penetrate the insulation with which the psychotechnicians,
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  Speaker 12: the drugs, and the glandular experts have surrounded your emotions.
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  Speaker 14: Wait.
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  Speaker 11: As director of emotional stability for this oblong, I order
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  Speaker 11: you to confine yourself to the subject.
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  Speaker 12: My father taught me in the last days before he
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  Speaker 12: was executed that every human personality is born with certain
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  Speaker 12: inalienable natural rights. The right of free expression. The right
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  Speaker 12: to have feelings. And the right to mature. And above all,
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  Speaker 12: the right to be different from every other living organism.
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  Speaker 5: Because every organism is different. I submit to you distinguished students.
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  Speaker 12: that the attempt by this society to abridge these rights
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  Speaker 12: is a violation of nature. I say that the imperfects,
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  Speaker 12: the mutants, those who are different have as much right
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  Speaker 12: to exist and be free as you.
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  Speaker 5: I say break open the cages.
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  Speaker 12: Free my people.
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  Speaker 5: Give us back the right to be individuals.
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  Speaker 9: I say.
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  Speaker 11: Professor Burton, take this specimen back to your laboratory and
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  Speaker 11: confine him.
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  Speaker 9: Yes, Mr.
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  Speaker 1: Director.
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  Speaker 2: You, specimen, go quietly.
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  Speaker 7: I warn you.
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  Speaker 5: I have nothing but contempt for your warnings.
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  Speaker 2: I'll have you destroyed for this.
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  Speaker 9: The specimen is unstable. He doesn't know what he's saying.
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  Speaker 2: Then get him out of here.
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  Speaker 4: Quickly.
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  Speaker 2: He's an affront to our genetic type.
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  Speaker 9: Hold still while I bandage your head. He'll be all right. I.
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  Speaker 5: I suppose you detest me for getting you into trouble.
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  Speaker 9: Don't squirm.
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  Speaker 5: Not that I blame you.
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  Speaker 9: I don't detest you. In fact, I thought you quite magnificent.
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  Speaker 5: You what?
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  Speaker 9: As you spoke, something began to stir in me.
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  Speaker 5: You don't hate me.
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  Speaker 9: I've never felt so strange.
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  Speaker 5: Tell me what you feel. If I moved, you.
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  Speaker 13: Then I must have moved the others, some of them
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  Speaker 13: at least.
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  Speaker 9: I don't know quite how to explain it. A strange sympathy.
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  Speaker 5: Compassion.
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  Speaker 9: For some reason I took pride in what you were doing.
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  Speaker 9: Seeing you stand up against them. Why do you look
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  Speaker 9: at me like that?
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  Speaker 5: Because I can't help it.
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  Speaker 9: I wish you wouldn't. You're only an imperfect, you know.
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  Speaker 9: You have no rights. Please, XJ-12.
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  Speaker 5: My name is Oren.
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  Speaker 9: Please.
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  Speaker 5: Say it.
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  Speaker 8: Oren.
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  Speaker 5: Oren?
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  Speaker 12: Again.
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  Speaker 6: Oren.
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  Speaker 5: Lois. Oren. Lois, Lois, Lois.
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  Speaker 9: What is it? Why do I feel this way?
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  Speaker 5: In the cages, they call it love. Love?
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  Speaker 14: Love?
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  Speaker 9: We have no such concept in the upper level.
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  Speaker 5: You've destroyed it.
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  Speaker 9: Would it be correct to say, I feel love for you?
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  Speaker 5: It would be correct.
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  Speaker 9: I feel love for you.
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  Speaker 5: Darling, darling. Lois, what about Walters? You're going to marry him?
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  Speaker 12: No.
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  Speaker 5: You're genetically suited.
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  Speaker 7: To each other.
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  Speaker 9: I don't care. I won't marry him. There must be
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  Speaker 9: some other way.
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  Speaker 5: But.
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  Speaker 14: Walter!
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  Speaker 7: Very touching.
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  Speaker 2: Very tender.
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  Speaker 9: Walter, how could you spy?
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  Speaker 11: In my capacity as Director of Emotional Stability, it is
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  Speaker 11: my duty to spy. Specimen XJ-12 will be disposed of
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  Speaker 11: quite systematically by the state.
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  Speaker 2: For the good of the state. For the good of
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  Speaker 2: the genetic code.
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  Speaker 11: And in the name of emotional stability.
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  Speaker 2: Come in, Lois. I wondered how long it would be
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  Speaker 2: before you came to my office.
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  Speaker 9: Walter, I have to talk to you.
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  Speaker 2: Go right ahead.
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  Speaker 9: Walter, you mustn't destroy him. Send him back to the cages,
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  Speaker 9: but don't kill him.
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  Speaker 2: You speak of destroying an inferior creature as if it
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  Speaker 2: were something unethical.
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  Speaker 9: Walter, Walter, please, for my sake.
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  Speaker 11: Lois, I understand that you've entered a plea for postponement
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  Speaker 11: of our marriage at the records bureau.
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  Speaker 13: Yes, I.
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  Speaker 9: I was too upset to go through with it.
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  Speaker 11: It came as a great disappointment to me. If you
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  Speaker 11: were married to me, you would be safe from influences
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  Speaker 11: such as this XJ-12. In which case, I might even
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  Speaker 11: be persuaded to send him back to the cages instead
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  Speaker 11: of having him destroyed.
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  Speaker 2: You see?
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  Speaker 13: Yes. I see.
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  Speaker 2: Think it over.
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  Speaker 7: Well, my dear.
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  Speaker 9: When can we be married?
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  Speaker 11: Soon.
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  Speaker 2: Tomorrow, if you like.
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  Speaker 9: The sooner the better.
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  Speaker 6: Lois.
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  Speaker 2: Lois, you make me very.
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  Speaker 5: What about XJ12? Oh, I see.
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  Speaker 2: A bargain is a bargain. Let me talk to the custodian, please. Hello.
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  Speaker 5: Hello.
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  Speaker 11: This is the director of emotional stability for the third oblong.
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  Speaker 11: I would like you to cancel the execution of specimen XJ12.
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  Speaker 2: Yes.
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  Speaker 11: Yes, that's right. Turn him over to the security guard.
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  Speaker 11: He's to be remanded permanently to the genetic cages.
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  Speaker 9: Let me talk to him, Walter.
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  Speaker 2: My dear, I don't think that.
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  Speaker 9: Please, I want to be sure he's all right.
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  Speaker 2: Very well. Hello. Connect a circuit in the cell block
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  Speaker 2: I want to talk to XJ12. Here you are, my dear.
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  Speaker 7: Hello?
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  Speaker 9: Oren? Yes. No, I'm all right. How are you?
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  Speaker 4: Fine.
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  Speaker 9: Oren, I've been talking to Walter. He's going to send
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  Speaker 9: you back to the cages.
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  Speaker 8: Yes.
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  Speaker 9: Yes.
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  Speaker 5: Yes. No.
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  Speaker 9: No, I'm going to marry him. Because I want to.
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  Speaker 9: I'm not lying to you. I'm very happy.
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  Speaker 10: Yes.
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  Speaker 9: Yes, I've got to hang up now.
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  Speaker 6: Goodbye. Goodbye.
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  Speaker 2: And now, Lois?
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  Speaker 9: Walter, please, I... I've got to get back to the
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  Speaker 9: lab Of.
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  Speaker 11: Course I'll pick you up in, say, an hour And
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  Speaker 11: we'll make plans for the wedding All right?
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  Speaker 9: Yes Yes, of course Goodbye, Walter.
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  Speaker 11: Hello This is the director of emotional stability again I
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  Speaker 11: want you to cancel that last order Proceed with the execution,
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  Speaker 11: but under conditions of absolute secrecy.
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  Speaker 12: No.
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  Speaker 2: Don't use the lethal chamber. Take him to the tunnels
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  Speaker 2: on the upper level. That's correct.
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  Speaker 9: Fine.
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  Speaker 10: This way where are you taking me you're being returned
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  Speaker 10: to the philogenic institute orders from the director of emotional stability.
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  Speaker 5: Into the elevator very well why are we going toward
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  Speaker 5: the surface the cages are on the lower.
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  Speaker 10: Levels radiation check.
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  Speaker 5: They've never done that before new procedure all right walk Hulk,
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  Speaker 5: state your business.
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  Speaker 10: I'm the custodian for the third oblong. This imperfect is
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  Speaker 10: my prisoner.
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  Speaker 14: You can't go beyond this checkpoint. There's radioactivity in the tunnels.
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  Speaker 10: This is a special mission, if you know what I mean.
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  Speaker 5: Oh, I see. Just a moment, I'll open the airlock.
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  Speaker 13: Go ahead.
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  Speaker 14: You'll find two radiation suits in the chamber.
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  Speaker 10: We will need only one.
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  Speaker 5: So this is how they get rid of imperfects. March inside.
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  Speaker 7: All right.
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  Speaker 5: Turn around. Suppose I refuse.
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  Speaker 10: It'll be less painful if you cooperate.
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  Speaker 5: Before you dispose of me, could I give you a
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  Speaker 5: message for a friend? That depends.
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  Speaker 10: What is the message?
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  Speaker 14: This!
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  Speaker 12: Security!
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  Speaker 9: Help!
• 19:45
  Speaker 12: Security!
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  Speaker 9: What is it?
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  Speaker 5: What happened?
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  Speaker 12: The prisoner, he struck me. Before I could recover, he
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  Speaker 12: escaped into the tunnels.
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  Speaker 7: Well, he won't last long.
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  Speaker 5: If the radiation doesn't get him, he'll starve to death.
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  Speaker 5: Can you go after him?
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  Speaker 14: I could send a robot, but it isn't worth the trouble.
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  Speaker 14: There's no way back from the tunnels except through here.
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  Speaker 14: Only other direction he can go is toward the surface.
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  Speaker 14: The closer he gets, the hotter the radiation. Now I
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  Speaker 14: think you can consider your prisoner dead.
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  Speaker 6: More wine, my dear?
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  Speaker 11: No, thank you, Walter You look very beautiful, my dear
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  Speaker 11: Very beautiful Thank you These hydroponic fruits are delicious, aren't they? Oh,
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  Speaker 11: uh The wedding will just be a small affair. I've
• 20:42
  Speaker 11: arranged for a few friends. The director of endocrine control,
• 20:45
  Speaker 11: the chief of the security guards, one or two assistants
• 20:47
  Speaker 11: to high council members.
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  Speaker 9: Walter did.
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  Speaker 5: Yes?
• 20:52
  Speaker 9: Was he returned to the cages?
• 20:54
  Speaker 11: Now, why must you spoil this lovely dinner by bringing
• 20:57
  Speaker 11: that up?
• 20:58
  Speaker 9: Was he, Walter?
• 21:00
  Speaker 7: Well.
• 21:00
  Speaker 5: Was he?
• 21:01
  Speaker 2: Well, as a matter of fact, there was a little difficulty.
• 21:03
  Speaker 9: Difficulty?
• 21:04
  Speaker 10: Yes.
• 21:05
  Speaker 2: You see, he escaped.
• 21:08
  Speaker 5: Escaped?
• 21:10
  Speaker 11: He struck a guard and ran off into the tunnels.
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  Speaker 9: The tunnels? But that's death.
• 21:16
  Speaker 2: He's free to return any time he chooses.
• 21:19
  Speaker 9: When did it happen?
• 21:20
  Speaker 2: Just a few hours ago, as a matter of fact.
• 21:21
  Speaker 1: Walter.
• 21:22
  Speaker 2: Now, don't become upset again, darling.
• 21:24
  Speaker 9: You planned it, didn't you, Walter?
• 21:26
  Speaker 2: Stability, darling.
• 21:28
  Speaker 5: Stability.
• 21:28
  Speaker 9: Stability. Stability! Is that all I'm to hear from you
• 21:31
  Speaker 9: for the rest of my life?
• 21:32
  Speaker 13: Darling.
• 21:33
  Speaker 9: Here's what I think of stability!
• 21:38
  Speaker 11: Were we not to be married, I'd be compelled to
• 21:42
  Speaker 11: turn you over to the endocrine surgeons for doing that.
• 21:45
  Speaker 9: Well, you can go right ahead, because we aren't going
• 21:48
  Speaker 9: to be married.
• 22:02
  Speaker 8: Checkpoint.
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  Speaker 7: This is the director of emotional security. Yes, sir. If
• 22:07
  Speaker 7: Professor Burton tries to pass the checkpoint, I want to
• 22:10
  Speaker 7: take it into custody.
• 22:11
  Speaker 5: Well, Professor Burton just passed, sir. She said... You idiot.
• 22:14
  Speaker 7: But she said... I don't care what she said. Stop her.
• 22:17
  Speaker 7: Send robots after her. Get her back. I'll have you
• 22:19
  Speaker 7: destroyed as incompetent if you fail.
• 22:21
  Speaker 11: Yes, sir.
• 22:21
  Speaker 5: At once, sir. Robot control. Checkpoint to robot control. Order
• 22:26
  Speaker 5: out all televocal robots into the tunnels. Have them bring
• 22:29
  Speaker 5: back any humans. This is a first priority order.
• 22:49
  Speaker 12: Oren?
• 22:51
  Speaker 7: Oren?
• 22:54
  Speaker 9: Oren, where are you?
• 22:58
  Speaker 6: Oren? Hello? Oren, it's Louis.
• 23:03
  Speaker 7: This way.
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  Speaker 10: Behind the rocks.
• 23:05
  Speaker 6: Over here.
• 23:09
  Speaker 9: Oh, darling, darling.
• 23:10
  Speaker 5: Lois, Lois, why did you come here? It's suicide.
• 23:13
  Speaker 9: I had to. Darling, are you all right?
• 23:15
  Speaker 12: So far.
• 23:16
  Speaker 9: You've got to turn back. Give yourself up.
• 23:17
  Speaker 5: They'll kill me.
• 23:18
  Speaker 9: You can stay here. The radiation is plus four at
• 23:20
  Speaker 9: this point. It gets worse as you approach the surface.
• 23:23
  Speaker 5: Go back, darling.
• 23:24
  Speaker 12: What will you do?
• 23:24
  Speaker 5: I'm going ahead.
• 23:25
  Speaker 9: But you can't.
• 23:26
  Speaker 4: I can't.
• 23:26
  Speaker 5: I'm going to the surface.
• 23:28
  Speaker 9: Not even the robots can survive it.
• 23:30
  Speaker 12: At least I'll be the first human in 1,100 years
• 23:32
  Speaker 12: to see what the surface of the Earth looks like.
• 23:34
  Speaker 9: Come back with me.
• 23:34
  Speaker 5: No, darling.
• 23:35
  Speaker 9: Then I'm going with you.
• 23:36
  Speaker 6: Lois.
• 23:37
  Speaker 9: Don't try to stop me, darling. There's nothing to go
• 23:39
  Speaker 9: back to now. Nothing but Walter and emotional stability.
• 23:43
  Speaker 13: Lois, you.
• 23:44
  Speaker 5: You really want to come with me?
• 23:45
  Speaker 9: Yes.
• 23:46
  Speaker 5: You know what it means?
• 23:47
  Speaker 12: I don't care.
• 23:47
  Speaker 5: Oh, darling, I can't let you go.
• 23:50
  Speaker 7: Oren, I.
• 23:51
  Speaker 9: I love you.
• 23:53
  Speaker 10: See? I.
• 23:54
  Speaker 9: I know how to say it now.
• 23:56
  Speaker 5: Say it again.
• 23:56
  Speaker 9: Oren, I love you.
• 24:01
  Speaker 12: Lois.
• 24:02
  Speaker 5: Lois, what's that?
• 24:03
  Speaker 9: Sounds... Oren, it's the robot control. It's looking for us.
• 24:09
  Speaker 5: Come on. We've got to hurry.
• 24:11
  Speaker 9: This way.
• 24:11
  Speaker 5: Hurry.
• 24:22
  Speaker 6: Oh, and.
• 24:26
  Speaker 5: Wait. It can't be much further, darling.
• 24:28
  Speaker 7: We're over it gaining.
• 24:30
  Speaker 9: Here.
• 24:30
  Speaker 12: Here, let me help you.
• 24:31
  Speaker 6: I can't.
• 24:31
  Speaker 7: I just can't.
• 24:32
  Speaker 5: All right, darling. We'll stop here. We may as well
• 24:36
  Speaker 5: wait for it.
• 24:37
  Speaker 6: Oh, all right.
• 24:38
  Speaker 9: Coming i can see it's light now darling listen it
• 24:46
  Speaker 9: stopped the lights are swinging around.
• 24:51
  Speaker 6: Or and it sees us.
• 24:54
  Speaker 5: Come on darling one last effort come on.
• 24:56
  Speaker 12: Run look look ahead you can see the lights reflecting
• 25:00
  Speaker 12: from something.
• 25:01
  Speaker 9: It looks like a door it is no it's it's.
• 25:05
  Speaker 12: A heavy lead door there's a lever hurry.
• 25:09
  Speaker 7: Come on through.
• 25:10
  Speaker 5: Lois, there must be some way to close it.
• 25:13
  Speaker 2: Here.
• 25:13
  Speaker 9: Let me help you.
• 25:16
  Speaker 5: It won't get through that. It's solid lead.
• 25:22
  Speaker 9: Oren, where are we? I.
• 25:26
  Speaker 5: I don't know.
• 25:27
  Speaker 9: Look. Up there. A huge round light.
• 25:33
  Speaker 13: Lois.
• 25:35
  Speaker 1: Yes, Oren?
• 25:36
  Speaker 5: That's... That's Luna. Luna.
• 25:40
  Speaker 9: The moon.
• 25:41
  Speaker 5: We're on the surface.
• 25:43
  Speaker 9: How red everything looks. How it glows.
• 25:47
  Speaker 5: It's the radioactivity.
• 25:49
  Speaker 1: Quiet.
• 25:50
  Speaker 9: Peaceful.
• 25:52
  Speaker 5: Deadly. Oh, darling. Sit here and rest a while.
• 25:57
  Speaker 9: Put your arm around me. Oren, I'm afraid. Oren, we're
• 26:03
  Speaker 9: going to die.
• 26:04
  Speaker 5: Don't think about it.
• 26:05
  Speaker 13: Just think about us alone. The first humans to stand
• 26:10
  Speaker 13: on the surface of Earth in 2,000 years. Lois, that
• 26:15
  Speaker 13: door must have been placed there by the last handful
• 26:17
  Speaker 13: of survivors who went underground after the atomic wars.
• 26:21
  Speaker 5: Those are the lights. The small ones. They must be... stars. Oren, I.
• 26:30
  Speaker 9: I'm so tired.
• 26:32
  Speaker 5: Go to sleep, darling. Put your head on my shoulder
• 26:35
  Speaker 5: and sleep.
• 26:37
  Speaker 9: Hold me, Oren. Hold me very close. Oren. Oren, wake up.
• 27:01
  Speaker 5: What is it?
• 27:02
  Speaker 9: Look, it's light.
• 27:04
  Speaker 13: What?
• 27:04
  Speaker 9: The whole universe is light. Oh, Oren, how beautiful.
• 27:09
  Speaker 15: Look.
• 27:11
  Speaker 13: By all the laws of nature, we should be dead. Lois,
• 27:15
  Speaker 13: no life could survive this.
• 27:18
  Speaker 9: By all the laws of nature.
• 27:20
  Speaker 2: Oren.
• 27:22
  Speaker 7: What is it?
• 27:23
  Speaker 9: We're not dead. This is Earth and we're alive. We're
• 27:26
  Speaker 9: not going to die.
• 27:27
  Speaker 5: But the radiation, it's present. You can see its effect.
• 27:31
  Speaker 9: Oren, did you ever hear of adaptation?
• 27:32
  Speaker 5: Of what?
• 27:33
  Speaker 9: There is a natural law of adaptation by which an
• 27:36
  Speaker 9: organism will try to adjust itself to its environment by changing.
• 27:40
  Speaker 9: It's called a geotropism.
• 27:41
  Speaker 5: I don't see what that has to do with.
• 27:43
  Speaker 9: All these generations, we've been bombarded by radiation filtering down
• 27:47
  Speaker 9: through the Earth. Each successive generation must have inherited some
• 27:50
  Speaker 9: degree of immunity to the effects of radiation.
• 27:52
  Speaker 5: And you think that.
• 27:53
  Speaker 9: Oh, and it can't hurt us. Don't you see? We're immune.
• 27:57
  Speaker 9: We're probably the first generation to inherit sufficient immunity.
• 28:02
  Speaker 13: But if that's true, then... Then we can transmit that immunity.
• 28:06
  Speaker 13: We can pass it along to our children.
• 28:08
  Speaker 9: Come on, darling. We'll have to find food and water.
• 28:11
  Speaker 5: The practical wife. Oh, wait a minute, darling.
• 28:14
  Speaker 9: What are you doing with that rock?
• 28:16
  Speaker 12: I want to scratch something on the outside of this
• 28:18
  Speaker 12: lead door.
• 28:22
  Speaker 9: Lois and Oren.
• 28:24
  Speaker 13: 4195 A.D.
• 28:33
  Speaker 9: Hello, tomorrow.
• 28:53
  Speaker 15: Tonight, Dimension X, the program of the future, has introduced
• 28:57
  Speaker 15: a new star of the future, Miss Nancy Olsen. Miss
• 29:01
  Speaker 15: Olsen appeared by courtesy of Paramount Pictures and may currently
• 29:04
  Speaker 15: be seen in their production, Sunset Boulevard. Next week on
• 29:08
  Speaker 15: Dimension X, the strange and sinister story of Dr.
• 29:12
  Speaker 4: Grimshaw's Sanitarium.
• 29:17
  Speaker 8: Tonight, Dimension X has transcribed Hello Tomorrow, written by George Lefferts,
• 29:22
  Speaker 8: appearing with Nancy Olsen with Santos Ortega as Walter and
• 29:25
  Speaker 8: Donald Buca as Oren. Your narrator was Norman Rose. Music
• 29:29
  Speaker 8: by Albert Berman, engineer Bill Chambers. Dimension X is produced
• 29:33
  Speaker 8: by Van Woodward and directed by Edward King.
• 29:36
  Speaker 11: Enjoy Bob Hope and Baby Snooks when they return this fall.
• 29:40
  Speaker 2: On NBC.
• 29:44
  Speaker 1: This has been Dimension X, episode 24, Hello Tomorrow. Until
• 29:49
  Speaker 1: our next visit to radio's imagined futures, good night. Follow
• 29:53
  Speaker 1: old-time sci-fi radio for more classic science fiction broadcasts.