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Courtesy [episode 14], Broadcast 8/18/1955 · X Minus One | Old Time Radio

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  Speaker 2: One to Night Story courtesy. This is the story of
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  Speaker 2: the second expedition to the planet of Lando. I am
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  Speaker 2: recording it for any future expeditions which might land on
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  Speaker 2: this god forsaken sphere, the hope that they may learn
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  Speaker 2: from our tragic example. As I write, there are two
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  Speaker 2: of us left, two out of an original complement of
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  Speaker 2: one hundred and eighty men. One of us, myself, will
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  Speaker 2: be dead in less than twenty three minutes. As for
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  Speaker 2: the other, Heaven have mercy on him, I do not know.
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  Speaker 2: On June third, nineteen ninety seven, less than two months ago,
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  Speaker 2: the last of our supply ships blasted off from Lando
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  Speaker 2: for their return to Earth. After it had gone, I
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  Speaker 2: remember looking out across the plain at the dead City,
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  Speaker 2: one of thousands that dotted this planet. It had tall,
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  Speaker 2: graceful buildings, atomic power systems, vacuum conveyors, all perfect, all deserted,
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  Speaker 2: all ominous. How had it happened? The best guess was
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  Speaker 2: that the plague had frightened the original inhabitants of the planet,
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  Speaker 2: so that they piled into rocket ships and headed for
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  Speaker 2: some distant planet. I often wondered why a civilization so
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  Speaker 2: advanced as Landro could not find a serum to beat
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  Speaker 2: the plague. It had taken out Earth doctors less than
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  Speaker 2: six months to develop an immunization method. Well, maybe those
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  Speaker 2: aborigines back in the hills knew the answer. That strange,
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  Speaker 2: ugly little people who had taken to the caves the
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  Speaker 2: day we landed. I was thinking these things when something
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  Speaker 2: happened that gave me the shock of my life. Good evening, captain,
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  Speaker 2: what brings you here? Doctor? It's the matter of the serum, sir,
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  Speaker 2: What about the serum? It's no good now, God, it's
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  Speaker 2: too old, ten years too old. Didn't you examine it? Yes?
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  Speaker 2: I did, But well, my eyesight has been failing lately.
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  Speaker 2: Are you aware, doctor, that the last supply ship has
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  Speaker 2: returned to Earth? Do you know we'll have no more
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  Speaker 2: contact for two years. I just how long do you
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  Speaker 2: give us? Well, the present immunity will last a week
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  Speaker 2: or so. Then without booster shots, it's just a question
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  Speaker 2: of time until someone picks up the plague. After that,
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  Speaker 2: what about the natives? They don't die from the plague.
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  Speaker 2: The accepted theory is that they have developed an immunity.
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  Speaker 2: We suppose they haven't developed an immunity. Doctor, Suppose they
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  Speaker 2: get the disease, then they must have a treatment for it.
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  Speaker 2: If they don't, there would be no natives. Would you
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  Speaker 2: be willing to go on an expedition to the hills
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  Speaker 2: to find out? At this point, Captain, I'd be willing
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  Speaker 2: to do anything at solutely anything. I I am truly sorry.
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  Speaker 2: You're sorry, Doctor Morgan. Some time, when you aren't too busy,
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  Speaker 2: when you have a moment, I'd hate to inconvenience you.
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  Speaker 2: Would you mind telling me how it feels to murder
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  Speaker 2: a hundred and eighty men, a hundred and eighty one,
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  Speaker 2: including yourself. I did a lot of thinking after doctor
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  Speaker 2: Morgan left my hut. It was still unreal for me.
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  Speaker 2: After all, the planning of an expedition was no simple thing.
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  Speaker 2: You put into it. The result of years of training
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  Speaker 2: and experience, years of study at the academy, years of
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  Speaker 2: learning how to handle men and natives. Every man on
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  Speaker 2: my crew was hand picked for his skin, and yet
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  Speaker 2: a simple thing like a myopic surgeon misreading a label
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  Speaker 2: could blast the whole thing. Yes, it was a shame,
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  Speaker 2: and I did the only thing I could think of.
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  Speaker 2: I yelled for bat Ears. Brady, Brady, get your carcass
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  Speaker 2: in here, take the lead off.
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  Speaker 3: Okay, okay, yeah, what's up?
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  Speaker 2: Sit down, bat Ears? You have trouble, keV. We got trouble, right,
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  Speaker 2: The serum's no good? What Morgan forgot to check it?
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  Speaker 2: It's ten years to holy jumping snails. You're gonna court myself.
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  Speaker 2: Wouldn't do much good. We'll all be dead pretty soon
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  Speaker 2: unless somebody figures something out. Ah, what are you gonna do, keV? Well,
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  Speaker 2: there's only one chance, one chance in ten million. What then,
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  Speaker 2: cave rats, what good can they do us? They don't
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  Speaker 2: get the plague, so maybe they know a cure. Okay,
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  Speaker 2: let's get a few of them and beat it at them.
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  Speaker 2: That's why you're here. Shoot, how'd you like to come
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  Speaker 2: along on a little expedition up to the Cave Country, You, me,
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  Speaker 2: the doctor, and Ukner. Faulkner all listen, Cap. He's worse
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  Speaker 2: than that, yes, but he knows more about the native
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  Speaker 2: culture than anybody here. He's the only one who's completely
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  Speaker 2: familiar with the records of the first expedition.
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  Speaker 3: Okay, so it's me, you, the dark, and Faukner when
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  Speaker 3: we start.
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  Speaker 2: Tonight in half an hour. We should reach the cave
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  Speaker 2: country by tomorrow, but luck we'll be able to find
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  Speaker 2: natives before night. Benny Faulkner was the expedition anthropologist, one
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  Speaker 2: of the most unfortunate looking individuals have ever met. An
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  Speaker 2: ugly man with large ears and a big nose. His
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  Speaker 2: body was small and consumpting, but he had a good brain.
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  Speaker 2: He was the best anthropologist the InterPlaNet Institute could recommend.
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  Speaker 2: He and doctor Morgan were the only two civilians on
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  Speaker 2: the expedition. We set out and after several hours hard walking, Cap,
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  Speaker 2: Now what is it? Don't look now, but very slowly
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  Speaker 2: turn your eyes to the right and look behind that
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  Speaker 2: big yellow rock. Okay, you see anything, No, keep looking,
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  Speaker 2: don't stop walking. Then Okay, there, yes, look like a
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  Speaker 2: shadow or something.
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  Speaker 3: It's one of them gimpos he's been found us now
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  Speaker 3: for almost an hour, dodging in and out behind the rocks.
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  Speaker 2: Shall I ring him in? No, not yet. Just pretend
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  Speaker 2: you don't see him. Tell the others if they noticed,
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  Speaker 2: to show no fear, because nothing will start these simple
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  Speaker 2: minded cavemen like fear. The manual said, under no circumstances
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  Speaker 2: shall a member of the patrol display fear before a native.
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  Speaker 2: The dignity of the earth man must be preserved at
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  Speaker 2: all costs. Just before dawn we reached the cave country.
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  Speaker 2: We were tired and hungry, and we stopped to cook
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  Speaker 2: some food and rest. Everything was quiet. There was no
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  Speaker 2: sign of the gimpo which had been trailing us until Okay,
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  Speaker 2: get in there. You're sneaking with a nucky man. Come on,
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  Speaker 2: come on, before I break this shovel on your star.
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  Speaker 2: What's the trouble, cap, I caught me one of these
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  Speaker 2: gimpos sneaking around outside the tent. And bring him in
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  Speaker 2: the light of the fire. We can get a look
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  Speaker 2: at him, Parkner, Yes, sir, keep an eye on him.
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  Speaker 2: Try to establish some communication, all right, look out, No
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  Speaker 2: need to knock him down, Patty. Oh, that's the only
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  Speaker 2: language I understand. See if you're going to reaching Faukner. Okay, captain,
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  Speaker 2: I'll need a drummer some sort.
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  Speaker 3: What.
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  Speaker 4: Well, they have no language as we know it, and
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  Speaker 4: they have a very rudimentary sense of hearing it. I
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  Speaker 4: find they communicate with one another through a very primitive
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  Speaker 4: kind of vibration of the tongue. The closest I can
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  Speaker 4: come as a series of drum beats, a sort of
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  Speaker 4: Morse code. The psychologist on the first expedition had it
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  Speaker 4: worked out before he was killed by the plague.
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  Speaker 2: I've studied his notes, and I think it'll work. You mean,
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  Speaker 2: these little critits can talk to one another. I believe
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  Speaker 2: they can.
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  Speaker 4: At any rate, we'll have a chance to find out. Uh,
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  Speaker 4: do we have something I can use for a drum?
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  Speaker 2: Hear? Take my water bottle?
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  Speaker 4: Thank you doctor. Now, I'll tap it three times. That's
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  Speaker 4: a greeting of some sort. Just a moment, sir.
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  Speaker 2: I don't want you treating this fellow like an equal.
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  Speaker 2: Don't give them the idea that we're desperate. Once they
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  Speaker 2: sense that you're lost, I have to communicate with him, sir.
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  Speaker 2: I'll just bear in mind what I say, dignity, Yes, sir,
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  Speaker 2: I'll do my best, sir. It was a strange sight.
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  Speaker 2: On one side of the water bottle, crouched little Bene Faukner,
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  Speaker 2: looking for all the world like a human spider. Across
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  Speaker 2: from him crouched the Landrier, a humpbacked, gray little creature
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  Speaker 2: with an enormous head in those huge, soft lavender eyes.
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  Speaker 2: Every few moments, one would stop the strange tattoo of communication,
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  Speaker 2: and the other would take it up. I'm setting forth
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  Speaker 2: in this narrative the most vital part of their conversation,
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  Speaker 2: as Benny Faukner later transcribed it from the best of
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  Speaker 2: his memory, Benny asked, why were your cities abandoned? Was
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  Speaker 2: it the plague? The native said yes. Benny said, do
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  Speaker 2: you still fear the plague? The native answered yes. Do
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  Speaker 2: any of your people become afflicted? The answer was some.
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  Speaker 2: How do you treat them? Silence? How can we find
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  Speaker 2: a cure for the plague? More silence? Then the native said,
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  Speaker 2: go among my people. Then he asked, will we find
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  Speaker 2: the answer among your people? The native replied, my people
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  Speaker 2: have the answer. Then he said, will you tell me
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  Speaker 2: the answer? The native repeated, go among my people. As
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  Speaker 2: far as the Landering was concerned, the conversation was ended.
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  Speaker 2: He rose to go, and Faulkner stepped from his path,
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  Speaker 2: but Brady was there to ensure the bed. Hold on there, Bucko,
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  Speaker 2: you ain't going no place. Don't maltreating Brady. What did
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  Speaker 2: he say, Tony? He says, his people have the answer.
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  Speaker 2: What do you think?
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  Speaker 4: There may be some truth in it, he says, some
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  Speaker 4: of his people still get the plague.
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  Speaker 2: That must mean it isn't a question of immunity. They
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  Speaker 2: must have a cure. Well, he wasn't clear on that.
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  Speaker 2: Then they must have a vaccine to keep it from spreading.
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  Speaker 2: Does he know his answer is for us to go
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  Speaker 2: among his people. Well, and that leaves it up to us.
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  Speaker 2: The first level of caves is on top of that
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  Speaker 2: cliff about a mile ahead. It's a trap. I'll bet
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  Speaker 2: my last dollar on it. Hell, maybe not, We'll have
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  Speaker 2: to risk it. Wait, well, let me go. I got
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  Speaker 2: you all into this. How will you talk? Benny here
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  Speaker 2: can give me enough of the code so I can
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  Speaker 2: ask the big question. You understand that they might just
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  Speaker 2: decide to cut your throat. I'm fully aware of the risk.
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  Speaker 2: All right, doctor, you go ahead. We'll wait at the
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  Speaker 2: foot of the cliff. If you aren't back down in
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  Speaker 2: three hours, we'll come up after you. What about the
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  Speaker 2: gimpo here, we'll hold him as a hostage to ensure
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  Speaker 2: the doctor's safety. If the doc comes back all right,
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  Speaker 2: we'll let him go. If not, that's your job, Brady,
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  Speaker 2: A pleasure. It took Dr Morgan about an hour to
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  Speaker 2: pick his way up the side of the cliff to
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  Speaker 2: the first of the openings, where the Landrian's lift. He
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  Speaker 2: waved to us before he entered the mouth of the cave,
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  Speaker 2: and we waved back. Then we settled down to wait.
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  Speaker 2: It was a long, long wait. Eight o'clock. He's been
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  Speaker 2: up there more than three hours. Cap. We'll give him
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  Speaker 2: a little more time. It's getting colder. Let's keep that
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  Speaker 2: fire going. How much long are you gonna wait? Cap? Oh,
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  Speaker 2: we've got lots of time.
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  Speaker 3: You'd think we'd have heard of something by now if
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  Speaker 3: they were gonna knock him off on me.
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  Speaker 2: Not necessarily. Wait, look up on the cliff. That's him,
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  Speaker 2: all right, And what's you running for? Don't know? He
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  Speaker 2: looks scared. That's crazy, fool. If you don't look out,
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  Speaker 2: doctor Morgan, look out, look out. We've found the doctor
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  Speaker 2: at the foot of the cliff crumpled and broken. There
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  Speaker 2: were no marks on his body, nothing except a twisted
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  Speaker 2: mocking grin on his face. Oh yes, and one other thing.
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  Speaker 2: Scrawled across the pad he had taken with him on
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  Speaker 2: which to make notes concerning the answer was a single word.
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  Speaker 2: The word was courtesy. We threw the paper away. The
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  Speaker 2: expedition was a failure, though Battiers claimed he'd get it
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  Speaker 2: out of the gimpo fied letter. I nodded in agreement.
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  Speaker 2: Battiers took the little native off behind an outcropping of rock.
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  Speaker 2: He was back in fifteen minutes, dripping with sweat.
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  Speaker 3: Well, let's go camp. Nothing but nothing is he. They
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  Speaker 3: ain't made very good, these little gray people. They come
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  Speaker 3: apart too easy.
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  Speaker 2: So let's go. I'll camp all right, Benny, Benny, what
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  Speaker 2: is I feel kind of sick, all of a sudden
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  Speaker 2: in the back of my head, dull kind of pain.
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  Speaker 2: Let me see your tongue. Ugh, come on, give me
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  Speaker 2: my hand. Bat here, we've got to get him back
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  Speaker 2: to camp. What is it? I'm not sure, but that
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  Speaker 2: blackness on the tongue and the headache, it could be
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  Speaker 2: the plague. By the time we got Benny Faulkner back
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  Speaker 2: to camp. He had the red spots on his body,
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  Speaker 2: and then the fever began to rage. It was the plague,
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  Speaker 2: no mistake about it. Before morning, Collins, the supply sergeant,
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  Speaker 2: had it. Then it was Peabody. After that the men
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  Speaker 2: went down like ten pins. Then one morning bat Here's
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  Speaker 2: Brady dragged himself into my tent and sat down. The
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  Speaker 2: lines in his face told me the end was coming
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  Speaker 2: pretty fast. Sit down, Brady.
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  Speaker 3: What's the count six left? We buried the chaplin today?
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  Speaker 3: Got anything to drink?
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  Speaker 2: Sorry, I'm all out? How about a cigarette? Then? You
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  Speaker 2: you got a cigarette? Yeah? Sure, yeah? How was fucking?
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  Speaker 3: I don't get it. He's still alive, still alive, yep.
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  Speaker 3: In fact, he's getting better. He's sitting up.
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  Speaker 2: Holy mackerel. It's a good cigarette. It's like any other. No, no,
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  Speaker 2: this one's different. This is my last. What do you mean, Brady?
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  Speaker 3: Take a look at my tongue, see little black spots.
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  Speaker 2: Somehow I managed to get him into bed. He was
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  Speaker 2: already raving when I gave him the last of the morphing.
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  Speaker 2: It was incredible, big brawling bat ears Brady, a tower
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  Speaker 2: of strength, lying sick and whimpering in a cot when
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  Speaker 2: he died. I went out on the moors to think.
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  Speaker 2: The sun was a dull rape glow, cold breeze with
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  Speaker 2: somehow I couldn't forget Faulkner. Why should Faulkner recover from
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  Speaker 2: a plague from which no man has ever recovered? Surely
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  Speaker 2: there must be a reason. Nothing happened without a reason.
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  Speaker 2: I turned and went back to see Benny Faulkner. Hello, Captain,
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  Speaker 2: Hello Benny, how are you pretty good? I got up
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  Speaker 2: and walked a couple of steps to day. How goes it?
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  Speaker 2: Brady's gone? Oh? I just buried him. Listen, Benny, there
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  Speaker 2: must be some reason.
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  Speaker 4: Why is nothing strange about me, nothing different from any
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  Speaker 4: other man?
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  Speaker 2: There must be You survived the virus, Benny. I want
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  Speaker 2: you to tell me everything you know about yourself, everything
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  Speaker 2: you can remember, because somewhere in your makeup is some
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  Speaker 2: little thing that makes the difference. If I can find
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  Speaker 2: that thing, then maybe I can do something to save
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  Speaker 2: myself and the rest. Even if I can't, at least
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  Speaker 2: I can leave a record for any future expedition that
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  Speaker 2: comes to Lanrew. Okay, okay, Captain, Where should I start
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  Speaker 2: at the beginning? I'm going to take notes. Well.
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  Speaker 4: I was born on the second of July in nineteen
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  Speaker 4: seventy one. My parents were ordinary people.
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  Speaker 2: My father was.
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  Speaker 4: Look captain. I've told you everything I can remember. Three
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  Speaker 4: days now you've gone over me. Pardon me, question me?
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  Speaker 2: What else can I I tell you? Benny, let's go
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  Speaker 2: over that last part once again. Where should I stop?
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  Speaker 2: Take it from where the natives started to walk away?
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  Speaker 2: You stepped out of his path and Brady grabbed him. Okay,
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  Speaker 2: so I stepped out of his path. Why what do
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  Speaker 2: you mean? Why? Why did you step out of his path?
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  Speaker 2: Why not? Courtesy? I guess what's the matter? Courtesy? That's
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  Speaker 2: the word that doctor Morgan had scrawled in his notebook.
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  Speaker 2: I don't see that. I don't either. Tell me, Benny,
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  Speaker 2: why should you want to be courteous to a native?
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  Speaker 2: Why not? What about maintaining your own dignity? Are you
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  Speaker 2: talking about dignity or arrogance? I don't know, Benny. Listen,
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  Speaker 2: Maybe we were all wet in our deductions. Maybe these
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  Speaker 2: cities here and Landro weren't deserted centuries ago. Maybe these
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  Speaker 2: little people up in the caves are the same people
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  Speaker 2: who used to live in those big cities. Why would
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  Speaker 2: they leave? Maybe they found out the big cities weren't
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  Speaker 2: the answer. Maybe they found out that civilization doesn't necessarily
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  Speaker 2: bring happiness, so they just packed up and left, returned
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  Speaker 2: to the simple. It doesn't make sense. You're forgetting the plague.
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  Speaker 2: What is the plague? Benny Well, I don't know. Is
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  Speaker 2: it a virus? I don't think they ever found out.
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  Speaker 2: You know what I think why? I think the plague
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  Speaker 2: is nothing more than what we know as greed and arrogant. Captain,
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  Speaker 2: you're going off your ruck. I think maybe we're in
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  Speaker 2: line to die. Syum was good. In fact, I don't
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  Speaker 2: think the Syrium had anything to do with I never
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  Speaker 2: heard anything as crazy fantastic in my life. No, I
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  Speaker 2: think I'll go back to my tent and finish writing
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  Speaker 2: the report. I am beginning to sweat a little, Captain.
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  Speaker 2: Maybe it isn't a blank. It is I've seen her
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  Speaker 2: too many times to kid myself about it. Maybe hot
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  Speaker 2: compresses or something. No better.
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  Speaker 4: Listen, Captain, you don't you don't believe that junk about courtesy,
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  Speaker 4: do you?
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  Speaker 2: I mean, that's a lot of nonsense. You must know
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  Speaker 2: that micro Captain, you you do believe it, don't you.
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  Speaker 2: Good night, Benny. I think I'd like to be alone
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  Speaker 2: for a while. Okay, good night, captain. Maybe the supply
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  Speaker 2: ship will be early. You can you can probably stick
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  Speaker 2: it out. Sure, good night, captain. And this concludes my report.
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  Speaker 2: I'm turning it over to Benny Faulkner in the hopes
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  Speaker 2: that he will be able to transmit it to any
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  Speaker 2: other expedition commander who contemplates exploring the planet of Landron.
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  Speaker 2: The fever is beginning to mount. Now my hands tremble.
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  Speaker 2: Is I right? The end should not be far off.
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