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  Speaker 1: In downtown New York, Mr. Graffius brings a private detective
• 0:03
  Speaker 1: agency an unusual assignment. Find and expose what he believes
• 0:08
  Speaker 1: is a Martian embassy. The agency's detectives dismiss him at first,
• 0:13
  Speaker 1: but his persistence and the clues surrounding the case draw
• 0:16
  Speaker 1: them deeper into the investigation. On July 28, 1955, NBC's
• 0:23
  Speaker 1: X-1 presented The Embassy, Episode 11, adapted by George Lefferts
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  Speaker 1: from Donald A. Walheim's story, originally published under the name
• 0:33
  Speaker 1: Martin Pearson. Daniel Sutter directed a cast including Audrey Blum,
• 0:38
  Speaker 1: Clark Gordon, John Larkin, Virginia Payne, and William Zuckert. Here
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  Speaker 1: is the original broadcast.
• 0:49
  Speaker 2: Countdown for blastoff.
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  Speaker 3: X minus 5, 4, 3, 2, X minus 1, fire.
• 1:23
  Speaker 2: From the far horizons of the unknown come transcribed tales
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  Speaker 2: of new dimensions in time and space. These are stories
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  Speaker 2: of the future, adventures in which you'll live in a
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  Speaker 2: million could-be years on a thousand maybe worlds. The National
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  Speaker 2: Broadcasting Company, in cooperation with Street & Smith, publishers of
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  Speaker 2: astounding science fiction, presents.
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  Speaker 3: X minus 1. Tonight's story, The Embassy.
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  Speaker 2: Out of the infinitude of stars and planets in the
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  Speaker 2: solar system and other systems in the universe, it is
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  Speaker 2: almost mathematically certain that other forms of life exist on
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  Speaker 2: other worlds. Someday, in the future, in a thousand years,
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  Speaker 2: or in the next 25 minutes, daring travelers through space
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  Speaker 2: will make contact with the inhabitants of another world. But
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  Speaker 2: the question is, Will we contact them first, or will
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  Speaker 2: they contact us? A private detective agency in downtown New York.
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  Speaker 3: Mr. Graffius, Mr.
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  Speaker 4: Broderick will see you.
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  Speaker 3: Well, what can I do for you? My name is Graffius,
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  Speaker 3: Graffius of Springfield.
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  Speaker 5: I would like your assistance in helping me locate a
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  Speaker 5: Martian embassy.
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  Speaker 3: Would you say that again very slowly?
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  Speaker 5: I came to New York to locate the Martian embassy.
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  Speaker 3: I assume you were joking.
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  Speaker 5: On the contrary. I am completely serious. As it happens,
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  Speaker 5: I am interested only in Martians at the moment. I see.
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  Speaker 3: Okay, shoot.
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  Speaker 5: Well, it occurred to me in the course of my
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  Speaker 5: studies that we Earth people... cannot possibly be the only
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  Speaker 5: intelligent form of life in the universe. Since Mars is
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  Speaker 5: older geologically, and since it is also an atmospheric planet,
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  Speaker 5: its evolutionary history could easily be similar to ours.
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  Speaker 3: Do you follow me? Well, so far I can't say no.
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  Speaker 5: If this is true, then they must have been watching us,
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  Speaker 5: observing us for hundreds, possibly thousands of years. They also
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  Speaker 5: know we are a militaristic warlike race. We might conceivably
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  Speaker 5: set out to conquer and occupy Mars someday.
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  Speaker 3: In which case, they would try to get the jump
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  Speaker 3: on us. Precisely, Mr. Broderick.
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  Speaker 5: Now, if you were planning to attack an unknown nation,
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  Speaker 5: what would be your first move, Mr.
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  Speaker 3: Broderick? Well, intelligence find out what the odds are. Oh,
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  Speaker 3: you have a very logical mind, sir.
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  Speaker 5: You would send agents to scout the nerve centers of
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  Speaker 5: earthly civilization and advancement.
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  Speaker 3: Not Kansas City or equatorial Africa, my dear sir. But here.
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  Speaker 3: In New York.
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  Speaker 5: The most technically advanced spot on the earth.
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  Speaker 3: And you want me to help you prove this theory
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  Speaker 3: of yours? Precisely. The expense doesn't interest me. Well, now,
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  Speaker 3: this may take a long, long time, Mr. Gravius. After all,
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  Speaker 3: nobody has ever seen the Marshal.
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  Speaker 5: I assure you they will be very ordinary appearing people...
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  Speaker 5: Very likely they live together in downtown New York. Most
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  Speaker 5: certainly they live in a private house with no servants
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  Speaker 5: to prime their affairs.
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  Speaker 6: Oh, some ordinary people who live in a private house
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  Speaker 6: in downtown New York. How much is the world look
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  Speaker 6: of Martians in the classified section of the phone book?
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  Speaker 3: There's one other lead which might help you. What's that?
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  Speaker 5: They would be almost certain to subscribe to every conceivable
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  Speaker 5: type of newspaper, scientific journal, and foreign language publication.
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  Speaker 3: Now, that might be something. Okay, Mr. Graffius, it's a deal. Excellent.
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  Speaker 3: I shall contact you tomorrow.
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  Speaker 4: Boss, here's an address that takes everything from Pick Magazine
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  Speaker 4: to the Manchester Guardian.
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  Speaker 3: Here, listen to this here. Pick, look, Scientific.
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  Speaker 4: America, the Daily News, Daily Worker, the Police Gazette, Journal
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  Speaker 4: of Engineering, Scientific Quarterly, American Psychiatric Journal.
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  Speaker 3: Let me see that. Yeah, yeah.
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  Speaker 6: Oh, Doolin, Doolin, sometimes I wonder, what is the address
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  Speaker 6: on this?
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  Speaker 3: It's 9 West 124th Street.
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  Speaker 6: Which happens to be the Harlem branch of the New
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  Speaker 6: York Public Library. Now listen, noodle brain, what we're looking
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  Speaker 6: for is a private house.
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  Speaker 4: Boss, what is the sense of all this? You know
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  Speaker 4: there ain't no Martian embassy in New York.
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  Speaker 6: This crackpot is paying us $ 100 a day, and we
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  Speaker 6: gotta keep him happy, do you understand?
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  Speaker 3: Yes.
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  Speaker 6: Also, I have a hunch that Mr. Graffius is not
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  Speaker 6: looking for any Martian embassies. He is looking for something
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  Speaker 6: quite different. So we are going to find it for him.
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  Speaker 3: The End Which house is it, Doolan? It's right down there,
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  Speaker 3: number 108. Nobody comes out, nobody goes in. I asked around.
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  Speaker 6: You haven't been blabbing around the neighborhood that we're looking
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  Speaker 6: for the Martian.
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  Speaker 3: Embassy, have you? Boss, I'm stupid, but I ain't that stupid.
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  Speaker 3: Who'd you talk to?
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  Speaker 4: I struck up what you might call a casual acquaintanceship
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  Speaker 4: with those two girls standing with the baby carriages up
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  Speaker 4: the street.
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  Speaker 3: That cute one is real cute. Now, look, Doolan, don't
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  Speaker 3: try to do anything intelligent, all right?
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  Speaker 4: No.
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  Speaker 3: Just keep walking up and down, see? Check. I'm going
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  Speaker 3: back to the office to meet Graffia. I'll see you later, boss. Hiya, beautiful. Hiya, flatfoot.
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  Speaker 3: Name is Dolan, honey. Iron Man Dolan. Your line is
• 7:20
  Speaker 3: getting rusty, Iron Man.
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  Speaker 4: So help me, honey. If I'm feeding you a line,
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  Speaker 4: may the heavens open up and strike me dead.
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  Speaker 3: Hey, what's that?
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  Speaker 7: Look out!
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  Speaker 3: I'm sorry to have kept you waiting, Mr. Graffius. Thank you.
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  Speaker 6: But I've had due in casing our first lead for
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  Speaker 6: a week now. It's a house down in Greenwich Village,
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  Speaker 6: privately rented, number 108 Conklin Street. Nobody seems to know
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  Speaker 6: anything about who lives there except that they subscribe to
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  Speaker 6: every paper and scientific journal put out.
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  Speaker 3: Also, there's a radio antenna on the roof.
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  Speaker 5: Oh, you don't suppose your Mr. Doolan will try to
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  Speaker 5: get inside the house? If this place is the Martian embassy.
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  Speaker 3: Oh, don't worry. Doolan can take care of himself. I'm
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  Speaker 3: going to stop him now. Excuse me. Hello. Yeah, speaking. Doolan? Yeah,
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  Speaker 3: he works for me. What? No. No, I can't think
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  Speaker 3: of anything. Yeah, sure. Okay, I'll... I'll be right down. Okay,
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  Speaker 3: Lieutenant Young. Yeah, right away. Something the matter? Doolin is dead, Mr. Gravius.
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  Speaker 3: All right, come on, we get a cab. I have
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  Speaker 3: to identify the body. Lieutenant, I'm Broderick. Oh, there's your boy, Broderick.
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  Speaker 3: Anybody see it? A maid pushing a baby carriage. We
• 9:18
  Speaker 3: can't seem to get any sense out of her. You
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  Speaker 3: mind if I talk to her? Hanson, this guy wants
• 9:22
  Speaker 3: to ask the girl a few questions. Please.
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  Speaker 8: I told you what I saw.
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  Speaker 3: How many times I got to tell you?
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  Speaker 5: Look, miss.
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  Speaker 3: The dead man was a personal friend of mine. Would
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  Speaker 3: you tell me what happened?
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  Speaker 9: Helen and I were standing in front of Rathman's candy
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  Speaker 9: store up on the corner.
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  Speaker 3: We both had the babies out.
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  Speaker 8: He said hello and joked a little.
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  Speaker 3: Then... What happened? It's too awful. No, please. Well, first
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  Speaker 3: he squashed. And then a stone.
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  Speaker 7: Fell on him.
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  Speaker 3: Did you repeat that? They don't believe me. But Helen
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  Speaker 3: thought too. Saw what?
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  Speaker 6: First he squashed, and then it fell on him.
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  Speaker 3: He was mashed flat before it even hit him. Now look,
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  Speaker 3: that's the story, Broderick. Please, let me alone. Let me
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  Speaker 3: go home. I told you what I saw, now let
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  Speaker 3: me alone. Let me alone. Did you learn anything, Mr. Broderick?
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  Speaker 3: I don't know.
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  Speaker 5: May I ask?
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  Speaker 3: What do you intend doing? Well, as soon as the
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  Speaker 3: cops clear out and this place quiets down... Little Broderick
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  Speaker 3: is going to pay a personal call on the Martian embassy.
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  Speaker 3: Or whatever number 108 is.
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  Speaker 3: To the U.R. Open that door.
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  Speaker 7: Yes? Oh.
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  Speaker 3: Well, young man. Oh, excuse me, ma'am. Is the lady
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  Speaker 3: of the house at home? I'm the lady of the house.
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  Speaker 6: Oh, well, my name is Broderick. I represent the Manhattan
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  Speaker 6: Child Adoption Center. We're soliciting funds and clothing for stranded
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  Speaker 6: and unadopted children.
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  Speaker 3: Why don't you come inside? Well, we don't usually.
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  Speaker 9: Oh, now since I'm old enough to be your grandmother. Besides,
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  Speaker 9: my son Lauren is working at home.
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  Speaker 3: Your son? Oh, he's a bibliographer.
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  Speaker 9: He writes summaries of articles and books from scientific journals
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  Speaker 9: and publications for libraries and universities.
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  Speaker 3: Oh, I see. Sit down, Mr. Broderick.
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  Speaker 8: Let me pour.
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  Speaker 3: You a cup of tea. Oh, thank you. You know,
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  Speaker 3: I'm not much of a tea drinker, but... It seems
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  Speaker 3: to have a strange taste. Oh, it's my own recipe.
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  Speaker 3: All right. Well, I think that I'd better be running
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  Speaker 3: along now. Oh, but you haven't finished your tea, Mr. Patrick. No, no, really.
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  Speaker 3: I feel a little funny. I'll call Laurie. No, no, no, no.
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  Speaker 3: It's all right. I'm leaving now. I just feel kind
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  Speaker 3: of dizzy.
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  Speaker 9: I'm sure Lauren would like to hear about the adoption center.
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  Speaker 3: I'll call him.
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  Speaker 7: No, don't.
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  Speaker 3: No, but I must. Besides, you aren't well. And tea. Lauren.
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  Speaker 3: I've got to get out. Lauren. Lauren, hurry.
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  Speaker 2: Look out.
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  Speaker 3: You'll get out of my way.
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  Speaker 7: No, no.
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  Speaker 3: You must stay. Yes, mother. You drugged my tea. You
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  Speaker 3: let go of my arm.
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  Speaker 5: Lauren.
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  Speaker 3: Let go. No. I've got to get out the front door. Open.
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  Speaker 7: Open.
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  Speaker 3: What happened? The other one, that Broderick, he was here.
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  Speaker 3: I drugged his teeth. He got away? He was suspicious.
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  Speaker 2: Fool.
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  Speaker 3: Idiot. Go after him. Risk another murder on our doorstep.
• 12:52
  Speaker 3: Are you insane? But he suspects. We'll have to take
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  Speaker 3: our chances.
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  Speaker 8: We'll have to think of some other way.
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  Speaker 3: If he goes to the authorities... Oh, they'll laugh at him.
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  Speaker 3: How did they find out? I don't know how. But
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  Speaker 3: I'm certain someone else sent them.
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  Speaker 5: Who?
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  Speaker 3: I don't know. I'm afraid to let myself think. It
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  Speaker 3: might be. It just might be. Them. Bill. Bill. to
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  Speaker 3: get help. Look out. Miss, please. All right, miss, we'll
• 13:38
  Speaker 3: take care of him. Come along, mister. I'm going to
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  Speaker 3: give you a break and take you back to the
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  Speaker 3: wife and kids. No, no, you can't.
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  Speaker 7: I'm sick.
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  Speaker 3: Sick, is it? What's the matter? I'm drugged. They drugged me.
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  Speaker 3: Who drugged you? The number 108, the Martians. Who? The
• 13:54
  Speaker 3: Martians and 108 at Martian embassy. Well, I've seen them
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  Speaker 3: with pink elephants, rabbits, and mice, but you're the first
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  Speaker 3: one that's got Martians.
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  Speaker 9: Oh, it's true.
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  Speaker 3: I tell you. Come along. Listen, don't take me back there.
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  Speaker 3: They'll kill me. I've got to make you understand.
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  Speaker 7: Here, here.
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  Speaker 3: I'll help you up the stairs. Listen to my name.
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  Speaker 3: My name is Broderick, a private dick. We'll find out
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  Speaker 3: about this.
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  Speaker 8: No.
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  Speaker 3: Here, don't try any tricks. Officer, listen. Please. I'll give
• 14:24
  Speaker 3: you anything. A thousand dollars, but please listen to me.
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  Speaker 3: For God's sake, listen, listen. Yes, officer? Why, Broderick. You
• 14:37
  Speaker 3: know this Lush, Granny?
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  Speaker 9: Oh, why, that's my son, Broderick.
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  Speaker 3: Luscious Martian. He's in pretty bad shape. You better get
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  Speaker 3: him to bed. Oh, dear.
• 14:46
  Speaker 9: And he was doing so well at the Alcoholic Society.
• 14:50
  Speaker 9: He must have gotten off again.
• 14:52
  Speaker 3: Looks like he's ready to pass out. Lawrence. Lawrence. What
• 14:56
  Speaker 3: is it, Mother? Oh, Brodrick.
• 14:58
  Speaker 9: Your brother, Brodrick, has been drinking again.
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  Speaker 3: No, Officer, please. Look out. He's passed out. Oh, I'll
• 15:06
  Speaker 3: take care of him, Officer. We've handled this sort of
• 15:08
  Speaker 3: thing before. Can you manage okay? We'll be fine. Thank you.
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  Speaker 9: Oh, you've been very kind, officer.
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  Speaker 3: Nothing at all, Granny. I know how it is with
• 15:17
  Speaker 3: these Alkies. Well, I'll be seeing you. The End Martian embassy. Martian. Oh,
• 15:47
  Speaker 3: my head. Our Mr. Broderick is regaining consciousness, madam. What?
• 15:56
  Speaker 3: What happened? I can't get up. Do not struggle, Mr. Broderick.
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  Speaker 8: It will be impossible for you to rise from that chair.
• 16:06
  Speaker 8: The pressure from this ray will keep you there.
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  Speaker 2: Ray?
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  Speaker 3: Ray? Well, you've already guessed, Mr. Broderick. You mean this
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  Speaker 3: really is the... The Martian embassy?
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  Speaker 2: Yes.
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  Speaker 8: Yes, you have the honor to be the first prisoner
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  Speaker 8: of the imperial government of Mars.
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  Speaker 3: First prisoner? Yes. After the invasion, of course, you will
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  Speaker 3: all be our prisoners. What... What sort of nonsense is this?
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  Speaker 3: No nonsense, Mr. Broderick.
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  Speaker 8: As your people will soon find out. Our preparations for
• 16:45
  Speaker 8: invasion are nearly completed now. As soon as we give
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  Speaker 8: this signal, our armed forces will launch a surprise attack.
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  Speaker 8: And then the Earth will be ours. Are you crazy?
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  Speaker 8: Or not half as mad as you, Mr. Broderick, to
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  Speaker 8: come muddling so foolishly into our affairs.
• 17:00
  Speaker 3: It was a mistake, Mr. Broderick. A fatal mistake. So
• 17:05
  Speaker 3: Doolan's death was no accident, then, huh? Assuredly not.
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  Speaker 8: We found it necessary to use a pressure ray on
• 17:12
  Speaker 8: your friend... The block of concrete was an afterthought. We
• 17:15
  Speaker 8: thought it might help to divert suspicion.
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  Speaker 3: All right. So what happens now? If you cooperate, you
• 17:23
  Speaker 3: can look forward to a quick, painless death. Like your friend, Mr. Doolin.
• 17:30
  Speaker 3: If not... Oh, this pressure ray has many delicate adjustments.
• 17:34
  Speaker 8: It can move a pin, or it can crush a boulder.
• 17:40
  Speaker 3: Let me demonstrate. You see, Mr.
• 17:47
  Speaker 8: Broderick, as if an invisible vice were crushing you.
• 17:53
  Speaker 3: What do you want? The name of your client.
• 17:57
  Speaker 8: We are interested in knowing who is so anxious to
• 18:00
  Speaker 8: locate the Martian embassy.
• 18:01
  Speaker 3: The names of my clients are confidential. Well?
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  Speaker 7: All right, I.
• 18:11
  Speaker 3: All right! Turn it off, Mother. Mr.
• 18:15
  Speaker 8: Broderick has seen the wisdom of speech.
• 18:28
  Speaker 3: His name is Graffius. Graffius? Yes.
• 18:33
  Speaker 9: An unusual name for an Earthman.
• 18:36
  Speaker 3: Describe him. Well, I.
• 18:38
  Speaker 3: I don't think I really can. Describe him.
• 18:45
  Speaker 7: He's tall. He's a big four. About 60. Wears thick glasses.
• 18:58
  Speaker 3: He's bald. Lauren, it sounds like one of them.
• 19:02
  Speaker 8: Yes.
• 19:03
  Speaker 3: Yes, it does. Contact the planner.
• 19:06
  Speaker 8: Tell him we suspect that our plans are known.
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  Speaker 3: Ask for an acceleration of the invasion day.
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  Speaker 7: At once.
• 19:10
  Speaker 3: What about me? Oh, I am sorry, Mr. Broderick.
• 19:15
  Speaker 8: But I'm afraid you know too much now. In exactly
• 19:18
  Speaker 8: five seconds, you will feel the full impact of the
• 19:21
  Speaker 8: ray which faces you. I would suggest that you relax
• 19:25
  Speaker 8: and meet your fate calmly.
• 19:27
  Speaker 3: Oh, no, no, no. Wait a minute.
• 19:28
  Speaker 8: You will feel no pain, just a wall of force
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  Speaker 8: crushing you.
• 19:32
  Speaker 3: Yes, but listen.
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  Speaker 7: Five.
• 19:34
  Speaker 3: But you can't do this. Four. This isn't human. Yes,
• 19:38
  Speaker 3: I know we're not human.
• 19:39
  Speaker 5: Three.
• 19:39
  Speaker 3: Yes, but do you understand now? One. Mother in heaven. Now.
• 19:46
  Speaker 9: Lauren!
• 19:48
  Speaker 3: It... It didn't work! Something has happened. The magnetic field
• 19:53
  Speaker 3: is dead. Stand back from the pressure, Rachel. It will
• 19:57
  Speaker 3: not function anyway. I have decontrolled your field. Lauren! Lauren,
• 20:02
  Speaker 3: it's one of them! They found us! Did you think
• 20:05
  Speaker 3: we wouldn't? You are free to move now, Mr. Brown.
• 20:09
  Speaker 6: Look, I don't know how you got in here, Graffius,
• 20:11
  Speaker 6: but stick around. These babies are really Martians, just like
• 20:14
  Speaker 6: you said. They're planning to invade the Earth and take over.
• 20:17
  Speaker 3: There will be no invasion. All right, you keep these
• 20:19
  Speaker 3: characters covered. I'll get the police. There will be no
• 20:22
  Speaker 3: need for the police. I intend to handle them myself. But, Graffius,
• 20:26
  Speaker 3: the police will want to... Do not call the police.
• 20:29
  Speaker 3: I don't get it. You fool of an earthling. Don't
• 20:31
  Speaker 3: you realize with whom you are dealing?
• 20:33
  Speaker 8: The invasion of Earth by Mars will be like child's
• 20:35
  Speaker 8: play compared with what.
• 20:43
  Speaker 3: Holy mackerel. They just flattened out. Yes. Like your friend, Mr. Doole. Oh,
• 20:53
  Speaker 3: I detest the use of violence where the intellect can rule.
• 20:58
  Speaker 3: But unfortunately, the Martians are a threat.
• 21:00
  Speaker 5: To us and must be destroyed so that we can
• 21:04
  Speaker 5: proceed with our own plans.
• 21:07
  Speaker 3: What plans? Naturally, you wouldn't comprehend. Wait a minute.
• 21:13
  Speaker 6: There are some things here that I do understand. A
• 21:17
  Speaker 6: second ago, that pressure ray didn't work. Now you're using
• 21:19
  Speaker 6: it like.
• 21:19
  Speaker 3: It was a toy. Now that you get in here anyway...
• 21:23
  Speaker 3: Who are you? Another one of these Martians? No, Mr. Broderick.
• 21:28
  Speaker 3: I happen to be a Venusian. A what? A representative
• 21:32
  Speaker 3: of the planet of Venus. You're crazy. Not at all.
• 21:36
  Speaker 5: Martian invasion would be like child's play compared to ours.
• 21:40
  Speaker 5: The Martians would simply have conquered and enslaved your people.
• 21:45
  Speaker 5: We Venusians intend to exterminate you completely.
• 21:50
  Speaker 6: Then I suppose that you are going to start by
• 21:51
  Speaker 6: knocking me off.
• 21:52
  Speaker 5: On the contrary, you are free to leave any time
• 21:55
  Speaker 5: you please.
• 21:56
  Speaker 3: Leave?
• 21:57
  Speaker 7: Yes.
• 21:59
  Speaker 3: Are you kidding? I.
• 22:01
  Speaker 3: I know your plans, the invasion. I can go... Hello, Pooley.
• 22:06
  Speaker 3: Go ahead. Why don't you try it, brother? Because the
• 22:10
  Speaker 3: minute I turn my back, you're going to let me
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  Speaker 3: have it.
• 22:13
  Speaker 5: Suppose you try it and see. I have no interest
• 22:17
  Speaker 5: in stopping you.
• 22:18
  Speaker 3: Go ahead. Run to the police. Tell them anything you like.
• 22:24
  Speaker 3: All right, buster. You ask for this. I'm alive. You
• 22:34
  Speaker 3: let me go. Here, here. Where do you think you're
• 22:37
  Speaker 3: running to? Officer, listen to me. Oh, it's you again.
• 22:39
  Speaker 3: The one with the Martians. Listen, listen.
• 22:41
  Speaker 6: That story is true. You've got to believe me. You've
• 22:43
  Speaker 6: absolutely got to believe me.
• 22:45
  Speaker 3: They're inside that house. Inside number 108. He killed them.
• 22:49
  Speaker 3: Who killed them? Graffius, the leader of the Venusian invasion.
• 22:51
  Speaker 3: Venusian invasion. Look, they're going to take over the earth.
• 22:54
  Speaker 3: Listen to me. Go in that house. Martians, now Venusians. Okay, brother,
• 23:00
  Speaker 3: I've heard enough. Your Betty is a bedbug. Come along. Please,
• 23:03
  Speaker 3: where are you taking me? Bellevue Psychiatric Ward, my friend.
• 23:06
  Speaker 3: Come on. Come along. You don't understand. Why are you
• 23:10
  Speaker 3: such a fool? Let go of me. There's going to
• 23:15
  Speaker 3: be an invasion. The Venetians are going to invade us.
• 23:19
  Speaker 3: Why don't you listen to me? Why don't you listen?
• 23:30
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  Speaker 2: science fiction. Tonight, by transcription, X-1 has brought you The Embassy.
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  Speaker 3: By Donald A.
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  Speaker 2: Wolheim, adapted for radio by George Lefferts. Featured in the
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  Speaker 2: cast were John Larkin, Tao Goetz, Bill Zuckert, Audrey Blum,
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