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  Speaker 1: In the year 4195, Earth's survivors live beneath a surface
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  Speaker 1: left radioactive by the Third Atomic War. Their underground civilization
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  Speaker 1: is governed by strict genetic rules, with those judged physically
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  Speaker 1: imperfect confined to lower levels. From NBC's X-1 comes Hello Tomorrow,
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  Speaker 1: Episode 40, broadcast February 29th, 1956. George Lefferts wrote the
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  Speaker 1: radio play, directed by Daniel Sutter, with John Larkin and
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  Speaker 1: Jan Miner featured in the cast. It was produced by
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  Speaker 1: William Welch for NBC's Sustaining Schedule. A woman geneticist, Professor
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  Speaker 1: Lois Burton, is assigned to examine Oren, a prisoner classified
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  Speaker 1: as imperfect.
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  Speaker 2: And now, we return to the original broadcast. In just
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  Speaker 2: a moment, X-1.
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  Speaker 3: But first.
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  Speaker 3: Everything from famous criminals to accidents in the home will
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  Speaker 3: be covered tomorrow when the staff of NBC's Weekday brings
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  Speaker 3: you another day of informative and entertaining listening. And back
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  Speaker 3: again to greet you as new hostess is charming Virginia Graham,
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  Speaker 3: well-loved by every radio and television fan. There'll be big
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  Speaker 3: guest stars, too, headliners in every field. Mel Torme, singing sensation.
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  Speaker 3: Gladys Cooper, prominent Broadway actress, and many others. Treat yourself
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  Speaker 3: to the best daytime entertainment with NBC's Weekday Tomorrow. And
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  Speaker 3: now stay tuned for X-1 on NBC.
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  Speaker 2: Countdown for blastoff. X-5, 4, 3, 2, X-1, fire.
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  Speaker 5: From the far horizons of the unknown come transcribed tales
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  Speaker 5: of new dimensions in time and space.
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  Speaker 2: These are stories of the future.
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  Speaker 5: Adventures in which you'll live in a million could-be years
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  Speaker 5: on a thousand maybe worlds. The National Broadcasting Company, in
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  Speaker 5: cooperation with Galaxy Science Fiction Magazine, presents.
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  Speaker 2: X minus 1. Tonight's story, Hello Tomorrow.
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  Speaker 5: After the Third Atomic War, when the Earth was a
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  Speaker 5: mass of red radioactive dust, a handful of.
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  Speaker 2: Men and women went deep underground in the struggle for survival.
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  Speaker 5: A new civilization was built deep underground, a civilization which
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  Speaker 5: must keep a ceaseless vigil against the deadly gamma rays
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  Speaker 5: which filter down through the Earth. A civilization with a
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  Speaker 5: prime consideration... is the genetic survival of the race. It
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  Speaker 5: is to this civilization in the year of our Lord, 4195,
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  Speaker 5: that we take you now.
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  Speaker 2: Professor Lois Burton? Yes.
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  Speaker 6: I have a call from the Director of Emotional Stability
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  Speaker 6: for the third outlaw.
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  Speaker 2: Go ahead, sir.
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  Speaker 3: Hello, darling.
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  Speaker 7: Hello, dear. How is the director of emotional stability? My,
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  Speaker 7: how impressive that sounds.
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  Speaker 6: Don't joke, dear. You never know who may be listening.
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  Speaker 2: Sorry.
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  Speaker 4: How are you?
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  Speaker 7: You sound tired.
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  Speaker 6: Well, we've had some bad cases. Mostly frantic mothers who
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  Speaker 6: insist on imparting their feelings to children. I suspect it's
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  Speaker 6: chromosomes affected by gamma ray leakage from the surface, but
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  Speaker 6: the head of the psychotechnic division says they're glandular cases.
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  Speaker 6: But that isn't why I called. I have good news.
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  Speaker 7: What is it?
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  Speaker 6: Genetic board has approved our application for marriage.
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  Speaker 7: So soon?
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  Speaker 6: Our chromosomes tested perfect. We can marry any time we want.
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  Speaker 6: As a geneticist, you should know that our offspring should
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  Speaker 6: be 90 percentile of perfection.
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  Speaker 3: I know.
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  Speaker 2: What's the matter?
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  Speaker 6: You are happy about it, aren't you?
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  Speaker 7: Of course. Terribly happy.
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  Speaker 2: I'm coming right over to the lab.
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  Speaker 7: You'll have to give me some time.
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  Speaker 2: What's the trouble?
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  Speaker 7: No trouble. You know that genetic survey I've been working on?
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  Speaker 6: What about it?
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  Speaker 7: Well, I've finally gotten permission to study an actual living cake.
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  Speaker 7: A specimen of imperfect genetic transmission.
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  Speaker 2: Really?
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  Speaker 7: They're bringing him, or it, up from the condemned cages
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  Speaker 7: on the lower level.
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  Speaker 2: You will be careful.
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  Speaker 7: There's nothing to be afraid of. The specimen is XJ12.
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  Speaker 7: It's been studied before many times and is quite well trained. Oh,
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  Speaker 7: there's my door signal. I'll have to hang up, darling.
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  Speaker 7: See you later. Yes?
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  Speaker 2: Professor Burton?
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  Speaker 4: Yes.
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  Speaker 2: I'm from the Phylogenic Institute.
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  Speaker 7: Oh, you brought my specimen?
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  Speaker 2: May I come in?
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  Speaker 7: By all means. Oh, how... Horrible?
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  Speaker 4: It all depends on your viewpoint. I happen to have
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  Speaker 4: a twisted leg. My parents were genetically unsound.
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  Speaker 7: But then you.
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  Speaker 2: Yes, I am specimen XJ12.
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  Speaker 7: I see.
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  Speaker 2: I hope you aren't shocked.
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  Speaker 7: No stable person permits feelings to enter into this work.
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  Speaker 7: I will admit to surprise. I was expecting something a
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  Speaker 7: little more abnormal.
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  Speaker 2: Well, I try to be as abnormal as possible. It
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  Speaker 2: pays off.
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  Speaker 4: The phylogenic institute allows me out of the genetic cages
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  Speaker 4: ever so often so I can breathe the pure air
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  Speaker 4: of the upper levels and mingle with the genetically perfect.
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  Speaker 7: You seem quite well educated.
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  Speaker 2: I spent the first years of my life here in
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  Speaker 2: the upper levels.
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  Speaker 7: How is that possible?
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  Speaker 4: As a small child, my mother concealed me from the
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  Speaker 4: director of heredity. My mother actually, dreadful word, loved me.
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  Speaker 7: That would explain your obviously low threshold of emotional control.
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  Speaker 2: If you choose to call it that.
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  Speaker 4: You seem to be struggling to repress a few feelings yourself.
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  Speaker 7: We will confine ourselves to the impersonal aspects of our work.
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  Speaker 2: As you please.
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  Speaker 7: I shall require you as a demonstration for a lecture
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  Speaker 7: I'm delivering to one of my classes tomorrow.
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  Speaker 2: At your service.
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  Speaker 7: Sit here, please. Grip these electrodes tightly. I'm going to
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  Speaker 7: calibrate your electrochemical tension.
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  Speaker 4: I'm quite familiar with the procedure. I realize that as
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  Speaker 4: an imperfect, I am expendable, but I should hate to
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  Speaker 4: be electrocuted.
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  Speaker 7: The charge is not lethal. Plus 15 surface tension.
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  Speaker 2: You know, you have beautiful hair.
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  Speaker 7: Plus 12 at a depth of 4 centimeters. My hair
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  Speaker 7: meets minimal requirements for the genetic code.
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  Speaker 2: Lovely blue eyes. crystal clear.
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  Speaker 7: Cost ten at seven centimeters.
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  Speaker 2: Pretty.
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  Speaker 4: A perfect woman. Lovely expressive hands. And a heart of stone.
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  Speaker 4: Like all the rest of you, perfect survival types.
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  Speaker 2: Shut up! Could it be you do have feelings? No.
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  Speaker 2: I seem to sense an air of emotional tension.
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  Speaker 7: It's nothing, dear. This is the specimen.
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  Speaker 1: You.
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  Speaker 2: Specimen. Tell this dolt who I am, Lois.
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  Speaker 7: This is the Director of Emotional Stability, the Third Oblong.
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  Speaker 7: You will address him as Mr. Director.
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  Speaker 2: Mr. Director. This creature seems quite impertinent.
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  Speaker 7: He's only a specimen, darling.
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  Speaker 5: Well, use him and ship him back to the cages.
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  Speaker 5: He's probably radioactive.
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  Speaker 2: Attention! Attention!
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  Speaker 8: The next demonstration will be conducted by Professor Lois Burton
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  Speaker 8: of the Institute of Genetics.
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  Speaker 7: Her topic, the.
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  Speaker 8: Probability of radioactive damage in the chromosome heredity of imperfect
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  Speaker 8: non-survival types.
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  Speaker 2: Professor Burton.
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  Speaker 7: As you know, most imperfects are destroyed at birth. However,
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  Speaker 7: those who for one reason or another manage to survive
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  Speaker 7: are segregated in cages on the lower level for study purposes.
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  Speaker 7: The specimen we have today has been trained to tell
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  Speaker 7: in his own words about the factors in his upbringing.
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  Speaker 7: You will have to forgive his immature emotional control factor.
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  Speaker 7: He is, as you can see, quite different. specimen XJ-12.
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  Speaker 7: You will proceed, please.
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  Speaker 2: Thank you.
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  Speaker 4: My mother was a psychotechnician in the Fifth Avalon.
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  Speaker 2: My father was an.
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  Speaker 4: Historian specializing in the records of pre-atomic surface culture. In
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  Speaker 4: the earthquake of 2170, apparently some hard radiation filtered down
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  Speaker 4: through the tunnels and penetrated the Fifth Avalon. The effect
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  Speaker 4: on my hereditary factors is quite apparent in.
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  Speaker 2: This twisted leg.
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  Speaker 4: My father taught me in the last days before he
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  Speaker 4: was executed that every human personality is born with certain
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  Speaker 4: inalienable natural rights. The rights to have feelings, the right
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  Speaker 4: to mature, and above all, the right to be different
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  Speaker 4: from every other living organism. Because it cannot be otherwise,
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  Speaker 4: I submit to you distinguished students that the attempt by
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  Speaker 4: this society to abridge these rights is a violation of nature.
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  Speaker 4: I submit that the imperfects, the mutants, those who are different,
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  Speaker 4: have as much right to exist and be free as you.
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  Speaker 4: And I say break open the cages.
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  Speaker 2: Stop him.
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  Speaker 4: Give us back the right to be individuals.
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  Speaker 2: Stop him. Perhaps that will teach you. Professor Burton, take
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  Speaker 2: this specimen back to your laboratory and confine him.
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  Speaker 7: Hold still while I bandage your head. You'll be all right.
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  Speaker 2: I suppose you detest me for getting you into trouble.
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  Speaker 7: I don't detest you.
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  Speaker 2: What?
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  Speaker 7: I don't know why, but as you spoke, something began
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  Speaker 7: to stir in me.
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  Speaker 4: Tell me what you feel. If I moved you, then
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  Speaker 4: I must have moved the others, some of them at least.
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  Speaker 7: For some reason, I took pride in what you were doing,
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  Speaker 7: seeing you stand up against them. Why do you look
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  Speaker 7: at me like that?
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  Speaker 2: I can't help it.
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  Speaker 7: I wish you wouldn't. You're only an imperfect, you know. Please.
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  Speaker 2: My name is Oren. Please. Say it.
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  Speaker 4: Oren.
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  Speaker 2: Oren.
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  Speaker 1: Again.
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  Speaker 2: Oren. Lois.
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  Speaker 7: Oren.
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  Speaker 6: Lois.
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  Speaker 2: Lois.
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  Speaker 7: Lois.
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  Speaker 2: How touching. Walter. I've been listening for some time.
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  Speaker 7: Walter, how could you?
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  Speaker 5: In my capacity as Director of Emotional Stability, it is
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  Speaker 5: my duty.
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  Speaker 7: What are you going to do?
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  Speaker 5: Specimen XJ-12 will be disposed of 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, and in the name of emotional stability.
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  Speaker 7: Walter, I have to talk to you.
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  Speaker 2: Go right ahead.
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  Speaker 7: Walter, you mustn't destroy him.
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  Speaker 2: The specimen? Why not?
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  Speaker 7: He's emotionally unstable. You have to expect irrational behavior.
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  Speaker 5: Aren't you forgetting something, my dear? That you were responding
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  Speaker 5: in much the same manner? I... Or had you forgotten?
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  Speaker 5: You see, I'm having him liquidated for your sake. He
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  Speaker 5: has an upsetting effect on you.
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  Speaker 7: Then send him back to the cages.
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  Speaker 2: Yes.
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  Speaker 7: 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: was something unethical.
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  Speaker 7: Walter. Walter, please, for my sake.
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  Speaker 2: I understand that you have entered a plea for postponement
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  Speaker 2: of marriage at the record bureau.
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  Speaker 4: Yes.
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  Speaker 7: I was too upset to go through with it.
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  Speaker 2: It came as a great disappointment to me.
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  Speaker 7: I'm sorry.
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  Speaker 5: I was hoping that linked to a stable personality such
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  Speaker 5: as mine, you might settle down. If you were married
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  Speaker 5: to me, I might... even be persuaded to send him
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  Speaker 5: back to the cages instead of having him destroyed.
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  Speaker 2: Think it over.
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  Speaker 7: If I refuse?
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  Speaker 2: The choice is yours. Well, my dear?
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  Speaker 7: Perhaps you're right.
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  Speaker 2: I am.
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  Speaker 7: I suppose I ought to be rational about this. After all,
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  Speaker 7: he's an imperfect.
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  Speaker 2: I'm glad you've come to your senses.
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  Speaker 7: When can we be married?
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  Speaker 2: Tomorrow, if you like.
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  Speaker 7: The sooner the better.
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  Speaker 2: Let me talk to the custodian, please. Hello. This is
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  Speaker 2: the director of emotional stability for the third oblong. I
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  Speaker 2: would like you to cancel the execution of specimen XJ12.
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  Speaker 2: Turn him over to be remanded permanently to the genetic cages.
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  Speaker 2: You'd better go. I'll pick you up in, say, an
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  Speaker 2: hour and we'll make plans. All right? Yes.
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  Speaker 7: Yes, of course.
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  Speaker 2: Hello.
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  Speaker 5: This is the Director of Emotional Stability again. I want
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  Speaker 5: you to cancel that last order. Proceed with the execution,
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  Speaker 5: but under conditions of absolute secrecy. No, don't use the
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  Speaker 5: lethal chamber. Take him through the upper level to the tunnels.
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  Speaker 2: Yes. Yes, I'll issue a pass for the radiation checkpoint.
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  Speaker 2: Into the elevator. Very well. Why are we going toward
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  Speaker 2: the surface? The cages are on the lower levels. Radiation check.
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  Speaker 2: I've never done that before. New procedure.
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  Speaker 5: Walk.
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  Speaker 2: Halt. You can't go beyond this point. There is radioactivity
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  Speaker 2: in the tunnels.
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  Speaker 5: I have a pass from the director of emotional stability
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  Speaker 5: for the third oblong.
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  Speaker 2: Special mission. I'll open the airlock. March inside. Turn around.
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  Speaker 2: This is how they get rid of the imperfects. Before
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  Speaker 2: you dispose of me... Yes? They.
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  Speaker 1: Help!
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  Speaker 7: Security! Security!
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  Speaker 2: What is it?
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  Speaker 4: What's happened?
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  Speaker 7: The prisoner struck me.
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  Speaker 2: He escaped into the tunnels. He won't last long. Can
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  Speaker 2: you go after him?
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  Speaker 8: I could send a robot, but it isn't worth the trouble.
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  Speaker 8: There's no way back from the tunnels except through here.
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  Speaker 8: The only other direction he can go is toward the surface.
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  Speaker 8: And the closer he gets, the hotter the radiation.
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  Speaker 2: Oh.
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  Speaker 8: I think you can consider your prisoner officially dead.
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  Speaker 2: More wine?
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  Speaker 7: No, thank you, Walter.
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  Speaker 2: You look very beautiful, my dear. Very beautiful.
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  Speaker 7: Thank you.
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  Speaker 2: The wedding will be a small affair.
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  Speaker 5: The director of endocrine control, the chief of the security guard.
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  Speaker 7: Walter!
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  Speaker 2: Yes?
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  Speaker 7: Was he returned to the cages?
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  Speaker 2: Oh, now, why must you spoil it?
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  Speaker 7: Was he, Walter?
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  Speaker 2: Well, as a matter of fact, there was a little difficulty.
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  Speaker 4: Difficulty?
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  Speaker 7: Yes.
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  Speaker 2: Yes, you see, XJ-12 escaped.
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  Speaker 7: How? Where?
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  Speaker 2: He struck a guard and ran off into the tunnels.
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  Speaker 7: The tunnels? But that's your death.
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  Speaker 2: He's free to return any time he chooses. Now, don't
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  Speaker 2: become upset, darling.
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  Speaker 7: You planned it, didn't you, Walter?
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  Speaker 2: Stability, darling, stability.
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  Speaker 7: Stability, stability. Here's what I think of stability.
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  Speaker 2: Halt! State your business.
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  Speaker 7: I'm Professor Burton of the Genetic Institute.
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  Speaker 2: You can't go into the tunnels, Professor.
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  Speaker 7: You'll have to let me by. I'm the fiancé of
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  Speaker 7: the Director of Emotional Stability.
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  Speaker 2: Oh. I suppose you're after the one who escaped? Yes.
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  Speaker 2: He's quite dangerous, I understand.
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  Speaker 7: I'm well armed.
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  Speaker 2: Wouldn't it be better to send a robot?
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  Speaker 7: I'm quite capable of handling him. He was my subject.
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  Speaker 2: All right, miss. It's your risk. Checkpoint.
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  Speaker 6: This is the Director of Emotional Stability.
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  Speaker 2: Yes, sir.
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  Speaker 6: If Professor Burton tries to pass the checkpoint, I want
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  Speaker 6: her taken into custody.
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  Speaker 2: Professor Burton just passed, sir. You idiot! But, sir, she
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  Speaker 2: said that she had... I don't care what she said.
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  Speaker 4: Stop her.
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  Speaker 6: Send robots after her. Get her back.
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  Speaker 2: Yes, sir. At once, sir.
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  Speaker 9: Robot control. Checkpoint to robot control. Order out all televocal
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  Speaker 9: robots into the tunnels. Have them bring back any humans.
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  Speaker 9: This is a first priority order.
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  Speaker 7: Oren!
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  Speaker 8: Oren!
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  Speaker 2: Oren!
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  Speaker 8: Oren!
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  Speaker 7: Oren! Oren!
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  Speaker 2: Oren, where are you?
• 18:53
  Speaker 7: Oren!
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  Speaker 2: Hello?
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  Speaker 7: Oren, it's Lois.
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  Speaker 2: This way, behind the rock. Over here.
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  Speaker 7: Oh, darling, darling.
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  Speaker 2: Lois. Lois, why did you come here? It's suicide. I
• 19:08
  Speaker 2: had to.
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  Speaker 7: Darling, are you all right?
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  Speaker 2: So far.
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  Speaker 7: You've got to turn back. Give yourself up.
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  Speaker 2: They'll kill me.
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  Speaker 7: You can't stay here. The radiation is plus four at
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  Speaker 7: this point. It gets worse as you approach the surface.
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  Speaker 2: Lois, darling, go back.
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  Speaker 7: What will you do?
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  Speaker 4: I'm going ahead.
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  Speaker 7: But you can't.
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  Speaker 2: I can't. I'm going to the surface.
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  Speaker 7: It's certain death. Not even the robots can survive it.
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  Speaker 4: At least I'll be the first human in 1,100 years
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  Speaker 4: to see what the surface of the earth looks like.
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  Speaker 7: Oh, come back with me.
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  Speaker 4: No, Lois.
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  Speaker 7: Then I'm going with you.
• 19:31
  Speaker 4: Lois!
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  Speaker 7: Don't try to stop me, darling. There's nothing to go
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  Speaker 7: back to now. Nothing but Walter and emotional stability.
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  Speaker 2: You really want to come with me?
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  Speaker 7: Yes.
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  Speaker 2: You know what it means?
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  Speaker 7: I don't care.
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  Speaker 4: My mother used to believe there was a life after death.
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  Speaker 2: A place called heaven.
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  Speaker 6: We all believe.
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  Speaker 7: It, too.
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  Speaker 2: No, Rose, I can't let you go.
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  Speaker 7: Oren, I love you.
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  Speaker 2: See?
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  Speaker 7: I know how to say it now.
• 19:59
  Speaker 2: Say it again.
• 20:00
  Speaker 7: Oren, I love you.
• 20:01
  Speaker 2: What is that?
• 20:05
  Speaker 7: It sounds like... Oren, it's a robot patrol. They're looking
• 20:08
  Speaker 7: for us.
• 20:08
  Speaker 2: All right, come on. This way.
• 20:20
  Speaker 7: Warren, wait.
• 20:23
  Speaker 2: There can't be much farther, darling.
• 20:24
  Speaker 7: The robots. They're coming. I can see their lights now.
• 20:30
  Speaker 2: Listen, they've stopped.
• 20:32
  Speaker 7: The lights are swinging round. Warren, they see us. Come on.
• 20:37
  Speaker 4: Look, Lois, look ahead. You can see the lights reflecting
• 20:40
  Speaker 4: from something.
• 20:40
  Speaker 7: It looks like a lead door.
• 20:46
  Speaker 4: Come on through.
• 20:48
  Speaker 2: There must be some way to close it.
• 20:50
  Speaker 7: Oh, yes, here. Let me help.
• 20:59
  Speaker 2: Well, they won't get through that. Solid lead.
• 21:10
  Speaker 7: Oren, I feel so strange. Where are we?
• 21:15
  Speaker 2: I don't know.
• 21:16
  Speaker 7: Look. Up there. A huge round light.
• 21:22
  Speaker 4: Lois.
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  Speaker 7: Yes, Oren.
• 21:25
  Speaker 2: Lois, that's Luna.
• 21:27
  Speaker 3: The moon.
• 21:30
  Speaker 2: We're on the surface.
• 21:32
  Speaker 7: How strange and red everything looks. How it glows.
• 21:36
  Speaker 2: It's the radioactivity.
• 21:38
  Speaker 7: Quiet and peaceful. And deadly.
• 21:41
  Speaker 2: Hush, darling, hush. Sit here and rest a while.
• 21:45
  Speaker 7: Put your arm around me.
• 21:46
  Speaker 2: Oren.
• 21:49
  Speaker 7: Oren, I'm afraid. Oren, we're going to die.
• 21:51
  Speaker 2: Don't think about that. Just think about us. Alone.
• 21:58
  Speaker 4: The first humans to stand on the surface of Earth
• 22:00
  Speaker 4: in 1,100 years. That door must have been placed there
• 22:03
  Speaker 4: by the last handful of survivors who went underground after
• 22:06
  Speaker 4: the atomic wars.
• 22:08
  Speaker 7: And those other lights, the small ones, they must be stars. Oren,
• 22:14
  Speaker 7: I'm so tired.
• 22:16
  Speaker 2: Go to sleep, darling. Put your head on my shoulder
• 22:20
  Speaker 2: and sleep.
• 22:21
  Speaker 7: Hold me, Oren. Hold me very close.
• 22:43
  Speaker 2: Oren.
• 22:44
  Speaker 7: Oren, wake up.
• 22:47
  Speaker 2: What?
• 22:47
  Speaker 7: Look. It's light. The whole universe is light. Oh, Oren,
• 22:52
  Speaker 7: how beautiful.
• 22:53
  Speaker 2: Look. This must be the heaven my mother talked about.
• 22:58
  Speaker 7: See the plants? All green and fresh. And the birds.
• 23:02
  Speaker 7: How strange they look.
• 23:05
  Speaker 2: Lois, this... This isn't heaven.
• 23:08
  Speaker 7: But we must be dead, Oren. We should be dead.
• 23:10
  Speaker 4: The radiation.
• 23:11
  Speaker 2: By all the laws of nature, yes.
• 23:13
  Speaker 7: By all the laws of nature. Oren. Oren, we're not dead.
• 23:16
  Speaker 7: This is Earth. And we're alive. We're not going to die.
• 23:19
  Speaker 2: But, Lois, the radiation, it's present. You can see its effects.
• 23:22
  Speaker 7: Oren, did you ever hear of geotropism?
• 23:25
  Speaker 2: I'm not a geneticist.
• 23:25
  Speaker 7: There is a natural law of adaptation by which an
• 23:27
  Speaker 7: organism will try to adjust itself to its environment by
• 23:30
  Speaker 7: changing its call, geotropism. Don't you see?
• 23:33
  Speaker 2: No. No.
• 23:33
  Speaker 7: All these generations we've been bombarded by radiation filtering down
• 23:36
  Speaker 7: through the earth. Each successive generation must have inherited some
• 23:40
  Speaker 7: degree of immunity.
• 23:41
  Speaker 4: But.
• 23:41
  Speaker 7: Or it can't hurt us. Don't you see? We're immune.
• 23:45
  Speaker 7: We're probably the first generation to inherit sufficient immunity.
• 23:48
  Speaker 2: Darling, if that's true, then... Then we can transmit that immunity.
• 23:56
  Speaker 2: We can pass it along to our children.
• 23:58
  Speaker 7: And they to their children. Come on. We'll have to
• 24:02
  Speaker 7: find food and water.
• 24:04
  Speaker 2: The practical life. Wait a minute.
• 24:07
  Speaker 7: What are you doing with that rock?
• 24:08
  Speaker 4: I want to scratch something on the outside of this
• 24:11
  Speaker 4: lead door.
• 24:16
  Speaker 7: Lois and Oren.
• 24:18
  Speaker 2: 4195 A.D. Hello, tomorrow morning.
• 24:38
  Speaker 5: You have just heard X-Minus One presented by the National
• 24:41
  Speaker 5: Broadcasting Company in cooperation with Galaxy Science Fiction Magazine. It
• 24:46
  Speaker 5: was an original story by George Lefferts, starring Jan Miner
• 24:49
  Speaker 5: and John Larkin, and directed by Daniel Sutter. Next week,
• 24:52
  Speaker 5: a gun for dinosaur by L. Sprague DeCamp on X-Minus One.
• 24:56
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• 25:03
  Speaker 1: We close with X-1, episode 40, Hello Tomorrow. Follow X-1
• 25:08
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