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The Parallax Deception · Alien Worlds

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  Speaker 1: Tog a cugat o realtas na hÉireann.
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  Speaker 2: Slowly orbiting at the edge of deep space, 1,000 kilometers
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  Speaker 2: beyond 21st century Earth, is the Arthur C. Clarke Astronomical Observatory, Starlab. Here,
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  Speaker 2: Starlab Research Director Maura Cassidy and scientists and technicians of
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  Speaker 2: the International Space Authority watch over the countless star systems
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  Speaker 2: that fill the universe. This week England's most famous consulting detective,
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  Speaker 2: Sonar T. Foom, and his associate, Dr. MacGuffin Drone, return
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  Speaker 2: to Starlab and become involved in the adventure of the
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  Speaker 2: Parallax Deception on Alien Worlds.
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  Speaker 3: This is Starlab. Go ahead, Shuttle One.
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  Speaker 2: Amora got back this morning, Commissioner. Buddy and John are
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  Speaker 2: still there. Will do.
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  Speaker 4: Thanks, Jerry.
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  Speaker 2: Here's Captain Lester again.
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  Speaker 1: Okay, he's got a lamp.
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  Speaker 4: I'm ready to receive docking orbit insertion coordinates.
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  Speaker 2: We are 800 kilometers out on approach Meridian 690.
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  Speaker 4: And our ETA is 7 minutes, 10 seconds.
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  Speaker 5: Hello, Maura.
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  Speaker 2: How are you doing?
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  Speaker 1: Oh, hello, Commissioner.
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  Speaker 2: Fine.
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  Speaker 6: Madeline, is that you?
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  Speaker 1: It's me, all right.
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  Speaker 3: What did you do to yourself?
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  Speaker 6: You look 20 years younger.
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  Speaker 2: She is 20 years younger, Maura. What?
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  Speaker 1: But how?
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  Speaker 7: Solamine yellow, an age reversal serum I've been experimenting with
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  Speaker 7: at the Latham Institute.
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  Speaker 1: How long have you been experimenting on yourself? Five weeks.
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  Speaker 6: You've lost 20 years in just five weeks?
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  Speaker 2: Mm-hmm.
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  Speaker 6: If this isn't some kind of miracle, I don't know
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  Speaker 6: what is.
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  Speaker 7: Well, there's still a lot of work to be done, Maura.
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  Speaker 7: Control group studies, long-term side effects, things like that. I'm
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  Speaker 7: leaving for England tomorrow to work with an old friend
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  Speaker 7: of mine. Maybe you've heard of her.
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  Speaker 4: Dr.
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  Speaker 7: Vivian Stanchel?
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  Speaker 6: Mm-hmm. Sure, I know her work.
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  Speaker 7: Well, she owns a private research lab near London, so
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  Speaker 7: we're going to start conducting some advanced experiments with the serum.
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  Speaker 7: How many people know about Solomain Yellow, besides Oliver Latham
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  Speaker 7: and Dr.
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  Speaker 6: Stanchel?
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  Speaker 2: The five ISA charter scientists we met with yesterday on
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  Speaker 2: Timion 3, and England's most famous consulting detective, Sonar T. Foom.
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  Speaker 6: Hmm.
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  Speaker 1: Why is Mr. Foom involved?
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  Speaker 2: Well, since half the universe would beat it past the
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  Speaker 2: Madeline's door if they knew about the serum, the project's
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  Speaker 2: top secret. And since Foom knows everything there is to
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  Speaker 2: know about keeping a secret.
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  Speaker 1: The.
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  Speaker 6: ISA has engaged him to work out the security arrangements
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  Speaker 6: for Dr. Stanchel's laboratory.
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  Speaker 2: Right. Foom and Dr. Drone will be here in the morning.
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  Speaker 7: Ah, well, it's way past midnight. I've got a long
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  Speaker 7: day ahead of me tomorrow. Will you show me to
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  Speaker 7: my quarters, Maura?
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  Speaker 2: Of course, Madeline.
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  Speaker 1: And you, Commissioner?
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  Speaker 2: I think I'll wander around Starlab for a while. See
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  Speaker 2: you in the morning. Okay, Commissioner. Night.
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  Speaker 5: Night.
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  Speaker 2: Night, Matthew.
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  Speaker 4: Good night.
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  Speaker 1: Well, I'll see if Madeline's ready, Commissioner.
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  Speaker 2: See you in a few minutes. Madeline. Oh, my.
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  Speaker 1: God, Madeline.
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  Speaker 2: Laura. I'm old. So old. Madeline. Madeline. Alien Worlds will continue.
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  Speaker 2: Alien Worlds continues. Okay, Starlamp. I'm ready to receive docking
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  Speaker 2: orbit insertion coordinates. Following a top-secret science conference on Timian 3,
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  Speaker 2: ISA Commissioner White and Professor Madeline Stoner arrive at Starlab
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  Speaker 2: for a meeting with Maura Cassidy.
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  Speaker 1: Madeline, what did you do to yourself?
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  Speaker 6: You look 20 years younger.
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  Speaker 2: She is 20 years younger, Maura. What?
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  Speaker 5: But how?
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  Speaker 7: Solamine Yellow, an age-reversal serum I've been experimenting with at
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  Speaker 7: the Latham Institute.
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  Speaker 2: But when Maura enters Madeline's quarters the next morning, she
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  Speaker 2: finds her friend lying on the floor, her newfound youth gone,
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  Speaker 2: her eyes glazed with age, transformed overnight into a withered
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  Speaker 2: old woman. Meanwhile, at a small spaceport near London, England's
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  Speaker 2: most famous consulting detective, Sonar T. Foom, and his associate, Dr.
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  Speaker 2: MacGuffin Drones, board Foom's multi-atmosphere cruiser, the Valerafon, and blast
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  Speaker 2: off for Starlab.
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  Speaker 1: All right, drone.
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  Speaker 8: Reduce power 30% and ease back on the controls.
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  Speaker 3: Yes, yes.
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  Speaker 1: Good.
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  Speaker 8: Now, stabilize the attitude gyros and engage the autopilot.
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  Speaker 3: Engaging autopilot.
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  Speaker 1: Well done, my dear drone. You really are becoming a
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  Speaker 1: first-rate pilot.
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  Speaker 9: Well, by Jove, thank you, Foom. That's quite a compliment
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  Speaker 9: coming from you all.
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  Speaker 4: Yes.
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  Speaker 1: Now, let me see.
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  Speaker 2: Right.
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  Speaker 1: Starlab Control, this is the Bellerophon.
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  Speaker 2: Dr.
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  Speaker 8: McGuffin drone in the driver's seat, Sonar T. Foom at
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  Speaker 8: the onboard computer.
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  Speaker 1: Anyone at home up there?
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  Speaker 3: This is Starlab, Mr.
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  Speaker 10: Foam.
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  Speaker 2: Please stand by for Dr. Cassidy. Mr.
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  Speaker 10: Foam.
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  Speaker 1: Hello, Maura. Nice to hear your voice again.
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  Speaker 2: Mr.
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  Speaker 6: Foam, someone tried to kill Madeline Stoner last night.
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  Speaker 3: Great Scott.
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  Speaker 2: She's in a coma and it doesn't look like she's.
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  Speaker 11: Going to make it.
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  Speaker 1: We'll be there in five minutes, Maura. Full power, drone.
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  Speaker 1: We thought at.
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  Speaker 6: First she'd had some kind of reaction to the serum.
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  Speaker 2: But when Dr.
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  Speaker 6: Rossiter examined her, she found this in Madeline's back.
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  Speaker 3: What?
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  Speaker 9: Looks like a needle from an old-fashioned hypodermic syringe.
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  Speaker 1: I'm afraid not, Drone.
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  Speaker 8: This is a projectile from an extremely powerful compressed air pistol.
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  Speaker 8: And I'm certain the blue stain on its tip is
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  Speaker 8: a lethal poison. The weapon that fired this is used
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  Speaker 8: exclusively by the Zill assassination regiments on Shakandra.
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  Speaker 6: Why would a Zill assassin want to kill Madeline anyway?
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  Speaker 6: And how on earth would one of them get aboard
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  Speaker 6: Starlab without our knowing it? I mean, my God, chicanter
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  Speaker 6: and adults are eight feet tall. Someone would have noticed him.
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  Speaker 2: Hmm.
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  Speaker 8: Where in Professor Stoner's body was this projectile found?
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  Speaker 6: In her back, about three inches below the base of
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  Speaker 6: her skull. The point was embedded in the first cervical vertebrae.
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  Speaker 5: Hmm.
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  Speaker 10: Hmm.
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  Speaker 8: It's fortunate the bone prevented it from entering her body completely.
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  Speaker 10: Oh?
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  Speaker 9: Why do you say that, Foom?
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  Speaker 8: This projectile is made of a synthetic metal that is
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  Speaker 8: 100% chromic.
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  Speaker 2: Chromic? What do you mean?
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  Speaker 9: A chromic substance is one that dissolves in the body
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  Speaker 9: without a trace, Commissioner. If that projectile had penetrated completely,
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  Speaker 9: we'd still be operating under the delusion that Professor Stoner did,
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  Speaker 9: in fact, experience a negative solamine yellow reaction.
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  Speaker 8: That probably is what the would-be assassin wanted us to think.
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  Speaker 4: Yes.
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  Speaker 1: Commissioner, do you have a sample of the serum with you?
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  Speaker 2: There's a small vial in Madeline's bag. Good.
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  Speaker 1: I'll need some laboratory facilities, Maura. Starlab is at your disposal, Mr.
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  Speaker 4: Foon.
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  Speaker 1: All right, then let's get on with it. We have
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  Speaker 1: a lot of work to do.
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  Speaker 8: Why is this Mycroft computer of yours taking so long
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  Speaker 8: to analyze our experiments, Maura? Seems like we've been staring
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  Speaker 8: at this blank screen for days.
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  Speaker 1: Ah, here's our data now. Projectile 100% chromic.
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  Speaker 2: Tip substance.
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  Speaker 8: 30% vathylate, 70% unknown. Properties of the unknown element interacts
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  Speaker 8: exclusively with solamine yellow, converting it to an age acceleration
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  Speaker 8: agent by a factor of 18.6.
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  Speaker 1: Well, that's it, isn't it?
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  Speaker 6: Whoever tried to kill Madeline had to know about Solar
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  Speaker 6: Main Yellow and what it took to reverse the process.
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  Speaker 9: That considerably narrows our list of possible suspects, doesn't.
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  Speaker 2: It, Foom?
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  Speaker 4: Yes.
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  Speaker 1: Oliver Latham, Dr.
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  Speaker 8: Vivian Stanchel, and the five ISA scientists on Timian 3.
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  Speaker 2: If you think it'll do any good, I'll go back
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  Speaker 2: to Timian 3 and investigate the possibility of a security leak. Excellent.
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  Speaker 1: Now, what about Dr.
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  Speaker 2: Stanchel?
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  Speaker 10: No.
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  Speaker 6: Madeline said they were so close they could practically read
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  Speaker 6: each other's minds. They were like sisters.
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  Speaker 8: All right, that's good enough for me. Does Oliver Latham
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  Speaker 8: know what's happened?
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  Speaker 6: Yes, I radioed the Institute just before you docked.
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  Speaker 1: Hmm. Radio him again, Maura, and tell him we're on
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  Speaker 1: our way down to have a chat.
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  Speaker 2: Okay.
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  Speaker 1: Oh, one more thing, Maura.
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  Speaker 8: Have Jerry pull the visual scanner tapes of every docking
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  Speaker 8: procedure that's occurred here within the past 48 hours. This
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  Speaker 8: fiend had to arrive by ship and leave the same way.
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  Speaker 8: Perhaps the tapes will disclose something.
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  Speaker 2: At 0940, the Bellerophon rockets away from Starland, banks 180 degrees,
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  Speaker 2: and jets away toward the Earth. Thirty minutes later, Foom's
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  Speaker 2: powerful ship enters Earth's atmosphere and approaches the Latham Institute,
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  Speaker 2: a complex of pearlescent blue domes situated on the Gold
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  Speaker 2: Coast of New California. Meanwhile, behind the locked doors of
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  Speaker 2: the Institute's executive suite, Oliver Latham sits behind his desk.
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  Speaker 2: staring up at the white, skeleton-like face of the eight-foot-tall,
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  Speaker 2: black-cloaked alien who stands before him.
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  Speaker 11: It's the judgment of the Chakondran War Council that you've
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  Speaker 11: overextended yourself, Lathan.
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  Speaker 4: I don't care what your War Council thinks, Brack. I'm
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  Speaker 4: doing the.
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  Speaker 11: The Council's ultimatum is this. If you cannot deliver the
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  Speaker 11: Eprosene you promised... They will terminate the flow of wealth
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  Speaker 11: you so desperately need to maintain this complex of yours.
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  Speaker 3: You have 10 days.
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  Speaker 1: 10 days?
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  Speaker 4: There's no way in the world that I can produce.
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  Speaker 5: 200... Migraine affects half a million people in Ireland. Sumatran
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  Speaker 5: Relief 50mg tablets containing Sumatriptan is now available over the
• 13:00
  Speaker 5: counter from your pharmacist if you've been previously diagnosed with migraines.
• 13:05
  Speaker 5: Unlike painkillers, Sumatriptan acts by having an effect on a
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  Speaker 5: specific receptor in the brain, relieving the intensity of migraine.
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  Speaker 5: Ask your pharmacist about Sumatran relief. Always read the leaflet.
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  Speaker 4: A thousand liters of etrosine in ten days.
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  Speaker 3: And why not?
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  Speaker 11: You produce 200,000 liters of solamine yellow in only six days.
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  Speaker 4: Well, producing solamine yellow in quantity was easy.
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  Speaker 1: It was already developed.
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  Speaker 4: Etrosine is still in the experimental stage.
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  Speaker 11: Latham, if etrosine is so experimental, why did it interact
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  Speaker 11: so perfectly with the solamine yellow in Professor Stoner's system?
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  Speaker 4: Well, I didn't mean that. I meant that process of
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  Speaker 4: converting it from a solid to a liquid is experimental.
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  Speaker 11: Halatham, do you remember how surprised you were when your
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  Speaker 11: old friend Jacob Himmler approached you concerning our.
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  Speaker 3: War with Araxis?
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  Speaker 4: I was more than surprised. I was astonished. I had
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  Speaker 4: no idea he was involved with your.
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  Speaker 3: Astonished, yes.
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  Speaker 11: Now, multiply that astonishment by a factor of ten.
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  Speaker 3: And you will know how much you astonish me.
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  Speaker 4: Astonish you? How?
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  Speaker 11: By the way you confuse an issue in the hope
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  Speaker 11: of gaining an advantage. You said Etruscene was experimental. Now
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  Speaker 11: you say the conversion.
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  Speaker 3: Process is experimental. Which of the two is it?
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  Speaker 1: The process.
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  Speaker 4: It's the process.
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  Speaker 3: The way your mind works is an embarrassment, Latham.
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  Speaker 2: Oh, I see. I see.
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  Speaker 4: And the fact that your planet intends to age Abraxas
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  Speaker 4: into extinction, I suppose that's logical.
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  Speaker 3: Their culture is passive, Latham.
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  Speaker 2: Mr.
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  Speaker 1: Latham, Dr. Cassidy, Mr.
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  Speaker 2: Foom, and Dr.
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  Speaker 4: Drone are here. Oh, all right. Give me a half
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  Speaker 4: a minute. This man Foom could be trouble, Brack.
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  Speaker 3: I'll be the judge of that. Let them in. I'll
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  Speaker 3: wait in the next room.
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  Speaker 4: All right, Miss Fuller. Send them in.
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  Speaker 2: Alien Worlds will continue.
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  Speaker 4: Alien Worlds continues. Three hours after entering Oliver Latham's.
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  Speaker 2: Office Mora, Dr. Drone, and Sonar T. Foom return to
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  Speaker 2: the Institute's spaceport, board the Bellerophon, and blast off for Starla.
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  Speaker 9: Foom, when you dropped your pipe in Latham's office and
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  Speaker 9: then bent down to retrieve it, I noticed you picked
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  Speaker 9: something out of the carpet.
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  Speaker 3: What was it?
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  Speaker 1: Evidence, my dear Drone.
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  Speaker 8: Evidence that will send Oliver Latham straight into Jastrow Prison
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  Speaker 8: for the attempted murder of Madeline Stoner.
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  Speaker 1: I don't believe it.
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  Speaker 3: Come now, fool.
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  Speaker 9: You're pulling my leg.
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  Speaker 8: I've never been more serious in my life.
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  Speaker 6: But what possible motive could he have?
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  Speaker 8: Unimaginable wealth, Maura. A fortune in capricite gemstones. The currency
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  Speaker 8: of Shakandra.
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  Speaker 9: What makes you think Shakandra has anything to do with this?
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  Speaker 8: Elementary, my dear Drone. The faint, lingering fragrance of night-blossom
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  Speaker 8: perfume in Latham's office.
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  Speaker 2: Perfume? Yes.
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  Speaker 8: The Zil Assassins on Shakandra anoint themselves with it as
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  Speaker 8: part of a self-purification ritual.
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  Speaker 6: All right, let's assume Latham is responsible. How did he
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  Speaker 6: get aboard Starlab? And what about the fact that he
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  Speaker 6: was in his office from seven last night until seven
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  Speaker 6: this morning?
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  Speaker 1: His door was open. A dozen people saw him. Oh,
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  Speaker 1: they saw him, all right. The bandage on the palm
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  Speaker 1: of his left hand proves that. Bandage?
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  Speaker 2: Yes.
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  Speaker 8: Full speed ahead, drone. I'm anxious to peruse Jerry's docking
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  Speaker 8: bay tapes.
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  Speaker 4: There it is, Mr.
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  Speaker 10: Foom.
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  Speaker 1: Lunar shuttle 135.
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  Speaker 10: It came in late last night after the pilot radioed
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  Speaker 10: he was having trouble with the life support system. Hmm.
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  Speaker 8: A perfect excuse to get out of the shuttle wearing
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  Speaker 8: the perfect disguise.
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  Speaker 1: A pressure suit and helmet. What else, Jerry?
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  Speaker 10: The stripes on the tail fin. It should be a
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  Speaker 10: red stripe, then a stripe of yellow and black checkerboard,
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  Speaker 10: then a blue stripe. The red and blue stripes on
• 17:52
  Speaker 10: this shuttle are reversed.
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  Speaker 2: Aha.
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  Speaker 1: So I called Lunar Base Operations.
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  Speaker 10: There is no such vehicle as Lunar Shuttle 135.
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  Speaker 2: All right, then.
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  Speaker 4: Mora?
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  Speaker 8: Radio the Institute and have Latham meet you in Professor
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  Speaker 8: Stoner's lab at 10 o'clock this evening. Tell him the
• 18:08
  Speaker 8: ISA has authorized you to pick up her personal effects.
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  Speaker 2: All right.
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  Speaker 8: Drone, take the Bellerophon to London and pick up that
• 18:15
  Speaker 8: special equipment we talked about. Meet us at the Institute's
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  Speaker 8: spaceport no later than 9 o'clock.
• 18:31
  Speaker 2: As Dr. Drove banks away from Starlab aboard the Bellerophon,
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  Speaker 2: Mora and Foon rocket out of Launch Bay 9 aboard
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  Speaker 2: the ISA Interceptor Atlantis and jet toward the Gold Coast
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  Speaker 2: of New California.
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  Speaker 6: I still can't believe Oliver Latham did it.
• 18:50
  Speaker 8: You know my methods, Mora. I never make an accusation
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  Speaker 8: I can't prove. And before this night is out, my
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  Speaker 8: own evidence will be vindicated by an admission of guilt
• 19:00
  Speaker 8: from Latham himself.
• 19:04
  Speaker 1: Isn't that your scanner alarm, Mora?
• 19:06
  Speaker 6: Yes, we have an unidentified spacecraft at 2-0-5.
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  Speaker 1: That blue button, Mr.
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  Speaker 4: Foom.
• 19:10
  Speaker 1: Let's get a visual. Well, a Chikandran Skyraider. The plot thickens, eh, Mora?
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  Speaker 1: It certainly does. Activate the laser turrets, Mr.
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  Speaker 2: Foom.
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  Speaker 1: Those red switches. Tally-ho, moron. Close, but no cigar. Oops,
• 19:33
  Speaker 1: here he comes again. Not a very good shot, is he?
• 19:40
  Speaker 1: What time is it?
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  Speaker 2: Uh, 8.30.
• 19:42
  Speaker 1: Oh, gee, it's getting late, isn't it?
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  Speaker 6: Now I've got to get this over with.
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  Speaker 2: With.
• 19:51
  Speaker 1: Nice shooting, Maura. That's one you owe me, Mr.
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  Speaker 10: Fool.
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  Speaker 2: Uh, one what? One cigar.
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  Speaker 1: Ha, ha, ha, ha.
• 19:57
  Speaker 2: Ha, ha, ha, ha.
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  Speaker 4: Dr.
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  Speaker 2: Cassidy, are you here?
• 20:18
  Speaker 1: Over here, Oliver.
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  Speaker 4: Madeline!
• 20:22
  Speaker 7: The needle didn't penetrate far enough.
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  Speaker 3: Oh, Oliver.
• 20:27
  Speaker 4: Why?
• 20:27
  Speaker 2: Why did you do it?
• 20:28
  Speaker 4: The Institute needed money, Madeline. Solamine yellow and etrosine together.
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  Speaker 4: The perfect biochemical weapon. I could have made a fortune.
• 20:40
  Speaker 3: But you said no.
• 20:43
  Speaker 1: No more weapons. Life, not death.
• 20:47
  Speaker 4: And I pretended to agree. I never wanted to hurt you, Madeline.
• 20:51
  Speaker 4: It was Brack's idea. I had no choice. He said
• 20:55
  Speaker 4: it was a matter of survival, the taking of one
• 20:59
  Speaker 4: life in order to preserve the future of the Institute.
• 21:04
  Speaker 4: I'm sorry, Madeline, but I'm afraid that equation for survival
• 21:08
  Speaker 4: still stands.
• 21:09
  Speaker 7: You can't kill me again, Oliver.
• 21:10
  Speaker 3: I don't exist.
• 21:14
  Speaker 2: Madeline?
• 21:15
  Speaker 1: Madeline, come back!
• 21:17
  Speaker 2: She can't come back, Latham. She was never here. She
• 21:23
  Speaker 2: died half an hour ago.
• 21:25
  Speaker 8: No.
• 21:26
  Speaker 4: No.
• 21:26
  Speaker 2: No, she can't be.
• 21:28
  Speaker 1: She's alive.
• 21:29
  Speaker 2: She was standing over there.
• 21:30
  Speaker 6: You've been tricked, Latham. The same way you tricked everyone
• 21:34
  Speaker 6: into thinking you were in your office the night you
• 21:36
  Speaker 6: shot her. What?
• 21:37
  Speaker 1: You've been talking to a hologram, Latham.
• 21:40
  Speaker 6: What?
• 21:40
  Speaker 1: Vanessa?
• 21:41
  Speaker 10: Vanessa?
• 21:42
  Speaker 2: Madeline?
• 21:43
  Speaker 8: Sorry to disappoint you, Latham, but this happens to be
• 21:46
  Speaker 8: Miss Vanessa Lockwood, one of the Royal Shakespeare Company's most
• 21:50
  Speaker 8: versatile and talented actresses.
• 21:52
  Speaker 2: Mr.
• 21:53
  Speaker 4: Latham?
• 21:53
  Speaker 8: Vanessa has been good enough to play the role of
• 21:56
  Speaker 8: Madeline Stoner in the next room, while we projected her
• 21:59
  Speaker 8: holographic image into this room.
• 22:01
  Speaker 2: Major, get him out of here.
• 22:04
  Speaker 3: Come with us, Mr.
• 22:05
  Speaker 2: Latham.
• 22:06
  Speaker 1: You're under arrest. The Institute needed money.
• 22:12
  Speaker 2: I could have made a fortune. It was Bragg's idea.
• 22:18
  Speaker 2: Would you mind clearing up a few things, Mr. Foom?
• 22:20
  Speaker 2: Jerry's explanation was a little sketchy. What was your first clue?
• 22:24
  Speaker 8: This silverized prism fragment I picked out of the carpet
• 22:28
  Speaker 8: in Latham's office. It's from a parallax mirror, that part
• 22:32
  Speaker 8: of a holographic projector concerned with stabilizing the image in
• 22:35
  Speaker 8: relation to the viewer. He accidentally broke the mirror while
• 22:39
  Speaker 8: disassembling the apparatus and cut himself picking up the pieces.
• 22:42
  Speaker 7: But, Sonar, doesn't the thing one wishes to project have
• 22:46
  Speaker 7: to be somewhere nearby?
• 22:48
  Speaker 8: Normally, yes, but Latham used a pre-programmed visual scanner tape,
• 22:52
  Speaker 8: which permitted him to be in two places at once
• 22:54
  Speaker 8: when he isn't really anywhere at all.
• 22:57
  Speaker 6: He planned it so perfectly. Twenty-four hours ago, it seemed
• 23:00
  Speaker 6: impossible that he could have done it.
• 23:02
  Speaker 1: Nothing is perfect, Morak.
• 23:04
  Speaker 8: And the next time you're confronted with the impossible, remember
• 23:07
  Speaker 8: what the immortal Sherlock Holmes used to say. When the
• 23:10
  Speaker 8: impossible is eliminated, what remains must be the truth, no
• 23:14
  Speaker 8: matter how improbable that truth may be.
• 23:20
  Speaker 4: Which of you is Mr.
• 23:21
  Speaker 2: Foom?
• 23:22
  Speaker 1: I am. I'm Abernathy, Institute Communications. This message just came
• 23:26
  Speaker 1: for you from London by way of Starlab. May I
• 23:28
  Speaker 1: have the envelope, please?
• 23:31
  Speaker 2: Certainly.
• 23:32
  Speaker 1: Thank you so much. Egad, Drone.
• 23:39
  Speaker 8: The historical television archives of the BBC have been ransacked,
• 23:43
  Speaker 8: and every single episode of Monty Python's Flying Circus has
• 23:46
  Speaker 8: been purloined.
• 23:47
  Speaker 2: Why, this is monstrous. Yes.
• 23:49
  Speaker 1: We must recover those episodes, Drone.
• 23:52
  Speaker 2: Come along.
• 23:53
  Speaker 1: The game is afoot, and a new adventure is at hand.
• 24:23
  Speaker 2: The Adventure of the Parallax Deception was written by Ron
• 24:26
  Speaker 2: Thompson and starred Linda Gary, Roger Dressler, Corey Burton, with
• 24:32
  Speaker 2: special guest stars Philip Clark as Sonar T. Foom, Bernard
• 24:37
  Speaker 2: Fox as MacGuffin Drone, Jesse White as Latham, Irv Immerman
• 24:43
  Speaker 2: as Brack, and Corinne Conley as Madeline Stoner. Associate producer,
• 24:48
  Speaker 2: Ron Thompson. Music director, Tom Rounds. Engineer, Stu Jacobs. Technical consultant,
• 24:55
  Speaker 2: Peter Skye. Assistant to the producer, Jim Cook. Alien Worlds
• 25:01
  Speaker 2: was created, produced, and directed by Lee Hansen. This episode
• 25:06
  Speaker 2: of Alien Worlds is dedicated to the memory of Sir
• 25:09
  Speaker 2: Arthur Conan Doyle, creator of England's most famous consulting detective.
• 25:14
  Speaker 2: And so until next week, This is Roger Dressler inviting
• 25:18
  Speaker 2: you to join us for a question of conscience from
• 25:22
  Speaker 2: the elsewhere and elsewhen of Alien Worlds.