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  Speaker 1: On November 3rd, 1955, NBC Radio broadcast episode 23 of X-1,
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  Speaker 1: Hello Tomorrow, a story first heard on Dimension X in 1950.
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  Speaker 1: Sponsored by Street & Smith, publishers of astounding science fiction,
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  Speaker 1: it was written by George Lefferts from his original radio story,
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  Speaker 1: directed by Daniel Sutter, and features Jan Miner and John Larkin.
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  Speaker 1: It takes us to Earth in A.D. 4195, where atomic
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  Speaker 1: war has driven humanity below a radioactive surface into a
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  Speaker 1: strictly regulated underground civilization. There, geneticist Professor Lois Burton is
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  Speaker 1: assigned to examine specimen XJ12, a man classified as genetically imperfect,
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  Speaker 1: and their encounter challenges long-held.
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  Speaker 2: Rules of heredity, emotional control, and survival.
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  Speaker 1: And now, our story begins.
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  Speaker 2: Countdown for blastoff.
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  Speaker 3: X minus 5, 4, 3, 2, X minus 1, fire.
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  Speaker 3: From the far horizons of the unknown come transcribed tales
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  Speaker 3: of new dimensions in time and space. These are stories
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  Speaker 3: of the future, adventures in which you'll live in a
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  Speaker 3: million could-be years on a thousand maybe worlds. The National
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  Speaker 3: Broadcasting Company, in cooperation with Street & Smith, publishers of
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  Speaker 3: astounding science fiction, presents X-Minus One. Tonight's story, Hello Tomorrow.
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  Speaker 3: After the Third Atomic War, when the Earth was a
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  Speaker 3: mass of red radioactive dust, a handful of men and
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  Speaker 3: women went deep underground in the struggle for survival. A
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  Speaker 3: new civilization was built deep underground, a civilization which must
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  Speaker 3: keep a ceaseless vigil against the deadly gamma rays which
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  Speaker 3: filter down through the Earth. A civilization with a prime consideration...
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  Speaker 3: is the genetic survival of the race. It is to
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  Speaker 3: this civilization in the year of our Lord, 4195, that
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  Speaker 3: we take you now.
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  Speaker 2: Professor Lois Burton?
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  Speaker 4: Yes.
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  Speaker 2: I have a call from the Director of Emotional Stability
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  Speaker 2: for the third outlaw.
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  Speaker 5: Go ahead, sir.
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  Speaker 4: Hello, darling.
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  Speaker 6: Hello, dear. How is the director of emotional stability? My,
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  Speaker 6: how impressive that sounds.
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  Speaker 2: Don't joke, dear. You never know who may be listening.
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  Speaker 5: Sorry.
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  Speaker 6: How are you? You sound tired.
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  Speaker 2: Well, we've had some bad cases.
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  Speaker 3: Mostly frantic mothers who insist on imparting their feelings to children.
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  Speaker 3: I suspect it's chromosomes affected by gamma ray leakage from
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  Speaker 3: the surface, but the head of the psychotechnic division says
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  Speaker 3: they're glandular cases.
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  Speaker 2: But that isn't why I called. I have good news.
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  Speaker 6: What is it?
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  Speaker 2: Genetic board has approved our application for marriage.
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  Speaker 6: So soon?
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  Speaker 2: Our chromosomes tested perfect. We can marry any time we want.
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  Speaker 3: As a geneticist, you should know that our offspring should
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  Speaker 3: be 90 percentile of perfection.
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  Speaker 6: I know.
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  Speaker 2: What's the matter? You are happy about it.
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  Speaker 3: Aren't you?
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  Speaker 6: Of course. Terribly happy.
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  Speaker 2: I'm coming right over to the lab.
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  Speaker 6: You'll have to give me some time.
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  Speaker 2: What's the trouble?
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  Speaker 6: No trouble. You know that genetic survey I've been working on?
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  Speaker 2: What about it?
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  Speaker 6: Well, I've finally gotten permission to study an actual living case.
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  Speaker 6: a specimen of imperfect genetic transmission.
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  Speaker 5: Really?
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  Speaker 6: They're bringing him, or it, up from the condemned cages
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  Speaker 6: on the lower level.
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  Speaker 2: You will be careful.
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  Speaker 6: There's nothing to be afraid of. The specimen is XJ12.
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  Speaker 6: It's been studied before many times and is quite well trained. Oh,
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  Speaker 6: there's my door signal. I'll have to hang up, darling.
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  Speaker 3: See you later.
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  Speaker 7: Yes?
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  Speaker 5: Professor Burton?
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  Speaker 8: Yes.
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  Speaker 5: I'm from the Phylogenic Institute.
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  Speaker 6: Oh, you brought my specimen?
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  Speaker 5: May I come in?
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  Speaker 6: By all means.
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  Speaker 8: Oh, how.
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  Speaker 6: Horrible?
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  Speaker 5: It all depends on your viewpoint. I happen to have
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  Speaker 5: a twisted leg. My parents were genetically unsound.
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  Speaker 6: But then you.
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  Speaker 5: Yes, I am specimen XJ12.
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  Speaker 8: I see.
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  Speaker 5: I hope you aren't shocked.
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  Speaker 6: No stable person permits feelings to enter into his work.
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  Speaker 6: I will admit to surprise. I was expecting something a
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  Speaker 6: little more abnormal.
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  Speaker 5: Well, I try to be as abnormal as possible. It
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  Speaker 5: pays off. The phylogenic institute allows me out of the
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  Speaker 5: genetic cages ever so often so I can breathe the
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  Speaker 5: pure air of the upper levels and mingle with the
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  Speaker 5: genetically perfect.
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  Speaker 6: You seem quite well educated.
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  Speaker 5: I spent the first years of my life here in
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  Speaker 5: the upper levels.
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  Speaker 8: How is that possible?
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  Speaker 5: As a small child, my mother concealed me from the
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  Speaker 5: director of heredity. My mother actually, dreadful word, loved me.
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  Speaker 6: That would explain your obviously low threshold of emotional control.
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  Speaker 5: If you choose to call it that. You seem to
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  Speaker 5: be struggling to repress a few feelings yourself.
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  Speaker 6: We will confine ourselves to the impersonal aspects of our work.
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  Speaker 5: As you please.
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  Speaker 6: I shall require you as a demonstration for a lecture
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  Speaker 6: I'm delivering to one of my classes tomorrow.
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  Speaker 5: At your service.
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  Speaker 6: Sit here, please. Grip these electrodes tightly. I'm going to
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  Speaker 6: calibrate your electrochemical tension.
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  Speaker 5: I'm quite familiar with the procedure.
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  Speaker 6: Oh.
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  Speaker 5: I realize that, as an imperfect, I am expendable, but
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  Speaker 5: I should hate to be electrocuted.
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  Speaker 6: The charge is not lethal. Plus 15 surface tension.
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  Speaker 5: You know, you have beautiful hair.
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  Speaker 6: Plus 12 at a depth of 4 centimeters. My hair
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  Speaker 6: meets minimal requirements for the genetic code.
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  Speaker 5: Lovely blue eyes. Crystal clear. Oh.
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  Speaker 6: Plus ten at seven centimeters.
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  Speaker 5: Pretty. A perfect woman. Lovely expressive hands. And a heart
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  Speaker 5: of stone. Like all the rest of you, perfect survival types.
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  Speaker 6: Shut up.
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  Speaker 5: Could it be you do have feelings?
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  Speaker 3: I seem to sense an air of emotional tension. It's nothing, dear.
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  Speaker 6: This is the specimen.
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  Speaker 5: You.
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  Speaker 3: Specimen. Tell this dolt who I am, Lois.
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  Speaker 6: This is the director of emotional stability for the third oblong.
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  Speaker 6: You will address him as Mr.
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  Speaker 8: Director.
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  Speaker 5: Mr. Director.
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  Speaker 3: This creature seems quite impertinent.
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  Speaker 6: He's only a specimen, darling.
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  Speaker 3: Well, use him and ship him back to the cages.
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  Speaker 3: He's probably radioactive.
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  Speaker 5: Attention!
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  Speaker 2: Attention!
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  Speaker 9: The next demonstration will be conducted by Professor Lois Burton
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  Speaker 9: of the Institute of Genetics. Her topic, the probability of
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  Speaker 9: radioactive damage in the chromosome heredity of imperfect non-survival types.
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  Speaker 2: Professor Burton.
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  Speaker 6: As you know, most imperfects are destroyed at birth. However,
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  Speaker 6: those who, for one reason or another, manage to survive
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  Speaker 6: are segregated in cages on the lower level for study purposes.
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  Speaker 6: The specimen we have today has been trained to tell
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  Speaker 6: in his own words about the factors in his upbringing.
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  Speaker 6: You will have to forgive his immature emotional control factor.
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  Speaker 6: He is, as you can see, quite different. Specimen XJ-12,
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  Speaker 6: you will proceed, please.
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  Speaker 5: Thank you. My mother was a psychotechnician in the fifth oblong.
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  Speaker 5: My father was an historian specializing in the records of
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  Speaker 5: pre-atomic surface culture. In the earthquake of 2170, apparently some
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  Speaker 5: hard radiation filtered down through the tunnels and penetrated the
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  Speaker 5: fifth oblong. The effect on my hereditary factors is quite
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  Speaker 5: apparent in this twisted leg. My father taught me in
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  Speaker 5: the last days before he was executed... that every human
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  Speaker 5: personality is born with certain inalienable natural rights. The rights
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  Speaker 5: to have feelings. The right to mature. And above all,
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  Speaker 5: the right to be different from every other living organism.
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  Speaker 5: Because it cannot be otherwise... I submit to you distinguished students...
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  Speaker 5: that the attempt by this society to abridge these rights...
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  Speaker 5: is a violation of nature. I submit that the imperfects,
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  Speaker 5: the mutants, those who are different, have as much right
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  Speaker 5: to exist and be free as you. And I say
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  Speaker 5: break open the cages.
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  Speaker 3: Stop him!
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  Speaker 5: Give us back the right to be individuals.
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  Speaker 2: Stop him!
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  Speaker 3: Perhaps that will teach you. Professor Burton, take this specimen
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  Speaker 3: back to your laboratory and confine him.
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  Speaker 6: Hold still while I bandage your head. You'll be all right.
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  Speaker 5: I suppose you detest me for getting you into trouble.
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  Speaker 6: I don't detest you.
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  Speaker 8: What?
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  Speaker 6: I don't know why, but as you spoke, something began
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  Speaker 6: to stir in me.
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  Speaker 5: Tell me what you feel. If I moved you, then
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  Speaker 5: I must have moved the others, some of them at least.
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  Speaker 6: For some reason, I took pride in what you were doing,
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  Speaker 6: seeing you stand up against them. Why do you look
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  Speaker 6: at me like that?
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  Speaker 5: I can't help it.
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  Speaker 6: I wish you wouldn't. You're only an imperfect, you know. Please.
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  Speaker 5: My name is Oren.
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  Speaker 6: Please.
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  Speaker 5: Say it. Oren.
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  Speaker 6: Oren.
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  Speaker 5: Again. Oren. Lois.
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  Speaker 8: Oren.
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  Speaker 2: Lois.
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  Speaker 5: Lois.
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  Speaker 2: Lois.
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  Speaker 3: How touching. Walter. I've been listening for some time.
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  Speaker 6: Walter, how could you?
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  Speaker 3: In my capacity as Director of Emotional Stability, it is
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  Speaker 3: my duty... What are you going to do? Specimen XJ12
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  Speaker 3: will be disposed of quite systematically by the state. For
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  Speaker 3: the good of the state, for the good of the
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  Speaker 3: genetic code, and in the name of emotional stability.
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  Speaker 6: Walter, I have to talk to you.
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  Speaker 3: Go right ahead.
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  Speaker 6: Walter, you mustn't destroy him.
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  Speaker 5: The specimen?
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  Speaker 3: Why not?
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  Speaker 6: He's emotionally unstable. You have to expect irrational behavior.
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  Speaker 3: Aren't you forgetting something, my dear? That you were responding
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  Speaker 3: in much the same manner? I... Or had you forgotten?
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  Speaker 3: You see, I'm having him liquidated for your sake. He
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  Speaker 3: has an upsetting effect on you.
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  Speaker 6: Then send him back to the cages. But don't kill him.
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  Speaker 3: You speak of destroying and infuriate a creature as if
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  Speaker 3: it were something unethical.
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  Speaker 5: Walter.
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  Speaker 6: Walter, please, for my sake.
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  Speaker 3: I understand that you have entered a plea for postponement
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  Speaker 3: of marriage at the records bureau.
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  Speaker 5: Yes.
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  Speaker 6: I was too upset to go through with it.
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  Speaker 3: It came as a great disappointment to me.
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  Speaker 6: I'm sorry.
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  Speaker 3: I was hoping that linked to a stable personality such
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  Speaker 3: as mine, you might settle down. If you were married
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  Speaker 3: to me, I might even be persuaded to send him
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  Speaker 3: back to the cages instead of having him destroyed. Think
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  Speaker 3: it over.
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  Speaker 6: If I refuse?
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  Speaker 3: The choice is yours. Well, my dear?
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  Speaker 6: Perhaps you're right.
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  Speaker 5: I am.
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  Speaker 6: I suppose I ought to be rational about this. After all,
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  Speaker 6: he's an imperfect.
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  Speaker 3: I'm glad you've come to your senses.
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  Speaker 6: When can we be married?
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  Speaker 3: Tomorrow, if you like.
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  Speaker 6: The sooner, the better.
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  Speaker 3: Let me talk to the custodian, please.
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  Speaker 5: Hello.
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  Speaker 3: This is the director of emotional stability for the third oblong.
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  Speaker 3: I would like you to cancel the execution of specimen XJ12.
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  Speaker 3: Turn him over to be remanded permanently to the genetic cages.
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  Speaker 3: You'd better go. I'll pick you up in, say, an hour,
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  Speaker 3: and we'll make plans. All right?
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  Speaker 5: Yes.
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  Speaker 8: Yes, of course.
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  Speaker 3: Hello. This is the Director of Emotional Stability again. I
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  Speaker 3: want you to cancel that last order. Proceed with the execution,
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  Speaker 3: but under conditions of absolute secrecy.
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  Speaker 5: No, no.
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  Speaker 3: Don't use the lethal chamber. Take him through the upper
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  Speaker 3: level to the tunnels.
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  Speaker 5: Yes.
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  Speaker 3: Yes, I'll issue a pass for the radiation checkpoint.
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  Speaker 5: Into the elevator.
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  Speaker 2: Very well.
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  Speaker 3: Why are we going toward the surface?
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  Speaker 5: The cages are on the lower levels.
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  Speaker 3: Radiation check. I've never done that before. New procedure.
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  Speaker 2: Walk.
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  Speaker 3: Halt. You can't go beyond this point.
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  Speaker 5: There is radioactivity in the tunnels.
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  Speaker 3: I have a pass from the director of emotional stability
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  Speaker 3: for the third oblong.
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  Speaker 5: Special mission. I'll open the airlock.
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  Speaker 3: March inside. Turn around.
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  Speaker 5: So this is how they get rid of the imperfects.
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  Speaker 5: Before you dispose of me... Yes?
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  Speaker 2: They.
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  Speaker 3: Help!
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  Speaker 6: Security! Security!
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  Speaker 2: What is it? What's happened? The prisoner struck me. He
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  Speaker 2: escaped into the tunnels.
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  Speaker 4: He won't last long.
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  Speaker 3: Can you go after him?
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  Speaker 4: I could send a robot, but it isn't worth the trouble.
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  Speaker 4: There's no way back from the tunnels except through here.
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  Speaker 4: The only other direction he can go is toward the surface.
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  Speaker 4: And the closer he gets, the hotter the radiation. Now,
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  Speaker 4: I think you can consider your prisoner officially dead.
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  Speaker 6: Dead?
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  Speaker 3: More wine?
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  Speaker 6: No, thank you, Walter.
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  Speaker 3: You look very beautiful, my dear. Very beautiful.
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  Speaker 6: Thank you.
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  Speaker 3: The wedding will be a small affair. The director of
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  Speaker 3: endocrine control, the chief of the security guard... Walter!
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  Speaker 5: Yes?
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  Speaker 6: Was he returned to the cages?
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  Speaker 3: Oh, now, why must you spoil it?
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  Speaker 6: Was he, Walter?
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  Speaker 3: Well, as a matter of fact, there was a little difficulty.
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  Speaker 6: Difficulty?
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  Speaker 1: Yes.
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  Speaker 3: Yes, you see, XJ-12 escaped. How?
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  Speaker 5: Where?
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  Speaker 3: He struck a guard and ran off into the tunnels.
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  Speaker 6: The tunnels? But that's your death.
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  Speaker 3: He's free to return any time he chooses. Now, don't
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  Speaker 3: become upset, darling.
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  Speaker 6: You planned it, didn't you, Walter?
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  Speaker 3: Stability, darling, stability.
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  Speaker 8: Stability, stability.
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  Speaker 6: Here's what I think of stability.
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  Speaker 2: Halt!
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  Speaker 5: State your business.
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  Speaker 6: I'm Professor Burton of the Genetic Institute.
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  Speaker 5: You can't go into the tunnels, Professor.
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  Speaker 6: You'll have to let me by. I'm the fiancé of
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  Speaker 6: the Director of Emotional Stability.
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  Speaker 3: Oh.
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  Speaker 5: I suppose you're after the one who escaped? Yes. He's
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  Speaker 5: quite dangerous, I understand.
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  Speaker 6: I'm well armed.
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  Speaker 5: Wouldn't it be better to send a robot?
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  Speaker 6: I'm quite capable of handling him. He was my subject.
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  Speaker 5: All right, miss. It's your risk.
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  Speaker 3: Checkpoint.
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  Speaker 2: This is the director of emotional stability.
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  Speaker 6: Yes, sir.
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  Speaker 3: If Professor Burton tries to pass the checkpoint, I want
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  Speaker 3: her taken into custody.
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  Speaker 5: Professor Burton just passed, sir.
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  Speaker 3: You idiot!
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  Speaker 5: But, sir, she said that she had.
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  Speaker 2: I don't care what she said.
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  Speaker 5: Stop her.
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  Speaker 2: Send robots after her. Get her back.
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  Speaker 5: Yes, sir.
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  Speaker 6: At once, sir.
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  Speaker 7: Robot control. Checkpoint to robot control. Order out all televocal
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  Speaker 7: robots into the tunnels. Have them bring back any humans.
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  Speaker 7: This is a first priority order.
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  Speaker 5: Oren!
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  Speaker 6: Oren!
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  Speaker 5: Oren! Oren!
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  Speaker 6: Oren! Oren! Oren, where are you?
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  Speaker 2: Oren!
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  Speaker 9: Hello?
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  Speaker 8: Oren, it's Lois.
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  Speaker 2: This way, behind the rock. Over here.
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  Speaker 6: Oh, darling, darling. Lois.
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  Speaker 5: Lois, why did you come here? It's suicide. I had to.
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  Speaker 6: Oh, darling, are you all right?
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  Speaker 5: So far.
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  Speaker 6: You've got to turn back. Give yourself up.
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  Speaker 5: They'll kill me.
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  Speaker 6: You can't stay here. The radiation is plus four at
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  Speaker 6: this point. It gets worse as you approach the surface.
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  Speaker 5: Lois, darling, go back.
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  Speaker 6: What will you do?
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  Speaker 3: I'm going ahead.
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  Speaker 6: But you can.
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  Speaker 5: I can. I'm going to the surface.
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  Speaker 6: It's certain death. Not even the robots can survive it.
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  Speaker 5: At least I'll be the first human in 1,100 years
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  Speaker 5: to see what the surface of the earth looks like.
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  Speaker 6: Oh, come back with me.
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  Speaker 5: No, Lois.
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  Speaker 6: Then I'm going with you. Lois! Don't try to stop me, darling.
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  Speaker 6: There's nothing to go back to now. Nothing but Walter
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  Speaker 6: and emotional stability.
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  Speaker 5: You really want to come with me? Yes. You know
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  Speaker 5: what it means?
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  Speaker 7: I don't care.
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  Speaker 5: My mother used to believe there was a life after death.
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  Speaker 5: A place called heaven.
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  Speaker 6: We'll believe it, too.
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  Speaker 5: Oh, no, Lois, I can't let you go.
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  Speaker 8: Oren, I.
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  Speaker 6: I love you.
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  Speaker 3: See?
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  Speaker 6: I know how to say it now.
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  Speaker 5: Say it again.
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  Speaker 6: Oren, I love you.
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  Speaker 3: What is that?
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  Speaker 6: It sounds like... Oren, it's a robot patrol. They're looking
• 19:30
  Speaker 6: for us.
• 19:30
  Speaker 5: All right, come on. This way.
• 19:31
  Speaker 2: Oren. Lauren.
• 19:45
  Speaker 6: Wade.
• 19:45
  Speaker 5: It can't be much bother, darling.
• 19:46
  Speaker 6: The robots. They're coming. I can see their lights. now.
• 19:52
  Speaker 5: Listen, they stopped.
• 19:53
  Speaker 6: The lights are swinging round. Oren, they see us.
• 19:57
  Speaker 5: Come on. Look, Lois, look ahead. You can see the
• 20:01
  Speaker 5: lights reflecting from something.
• 20:02
  Speaker 6: It looks like a lead door.
• 20:08
  Speaker 5: Come on through. There must be some way to close it.
• 20:12
  Speaker 9: Oh, yes, here.
• 20:12
  Speaker 6: Let me help.
• 20:14
  Speaker 5: Well, they won't get through that. It's solid lead.
• 20:32
  Speaker 6: Warren, I feel so strange.
• 20:35
  Speaker 8: Where are we?
• 20:37
  Speaker 5: I don't know. Look.
• 20:39
  Speaker 3: Up there.
• 20:40
  Speaker 6: A huge round light.
• 20:44
  Speaker 5: Lois.
• 20:45
  Speaker 6: Yes, Oren?
• 20:47
  Speaker 5: Lois, that's Luna. The moon. We're on the surface.
• 20:53
  Speaker 6: How strange and red everything looks.
• 20:56
  Speaker 8: How it glows.
• 20:57
  Speaker 5: It's the radioactivity.
• 20:59
  Speaker 6: Quiet and peaceful.
• 21:02
  Speaker 8: And deadly.
• 21:03
  Speaker 3: Hush, darling, hush.
• 21:04
  Speaker 5: Sit here and rest a while.
• 21:06
  Speaker 6: Put your arm around me.
• 21:07
  Speaker 3: Oren.
• 21:10
  Speaker 6: Oren, I'm afraid. Oren, we're going to die.
• 21:12
  Speaker 5: Don't think about that. Just think about us. Alone. The
• 21:19
  Speaker 5: first humans to stand on the surface of Earth in 1,100 years.
• 21:23
  Speaker 5: That door must have been placed there by the last
• 21:25
  Speaker 5: handful of survivors who went underground after the atomic wars.
• 21:29
  Speaker 6: And those other lights, the small ones, they must be stars.
• 21:32
  Speaker 8: Oren, I'm so tired.
• 21:37
  Speaker 5: Go to sleep, darling. Put your head on my shoulder
• 21:41
  Speaker 5: and sleep.
• 21:42
  Speaker 8: Hold me, Oren. Hold me very close.
• 22:03
  Speaker 6: Oren? Oren, wake up.
• 22:08
  Speaker 5: What?
• 22:08
  Speaker 3: Look.
• 22:09
  Speaker 6: It's light. The whole universe is light. Oh, Oren, how beautiful.
• 22:14
  Speaker 8: Look.
• 22:16
  Speaker 5: This must be the heaven my mother talked about.
• 22:19
  Speaker 6: See the plants? All green and fresh. And the birds.
• 22:23
  Speaker 6: How strange they look. Lois, this.
• 22:27
  Speaker 5: This isn't heaven.
• 22:28
  Speaker 6: But we must be dead, Oren. We should be dead.
• 22:31
  Speaker 8: The radiation.
• 22:32
  Speaker 5: By all the laws of nature, yes.
• 22:33
  Speaker 3: By all the laws of nature.
• 22:35
  Speaker 6: Oren. Oren, we're not dead. This is Earth. And we're alive.
• 22:39
  Speaker 6: We're not going to die.
• 22:40
  Speaker 5: What law is the radiation?
• 22:41
  Speaker 2: It's present.
• 22:41
  Speaker 5: You can see its effect.
• 22:42
  Speaker 6: Oren, did you ever hear of geotropism?
• 22:45
  Speaker 5: I'm not a geneticist.
• 22:45
  Speaker 6: There is a natural law of adaptation by which an
• 22:48
  Speaker 6: organism will try to adjust itself to its environment by
• 22:51
  Speaker 6: changing its call, geotropism. Don't you see?
• 22:53
  Speaker 5: No.
• 22:53
  Speaker 6: All these generations, we've been bombarded by radiation filtering down
• 22:57
  Speaker 6: through the Earth. Each successive generation must have inherited some
• 23:00
  Speaker 6: degree of immunity.
• 23:01
  Speaker 4: But.
• 23:01
  Speaker 6: Or it can't hurt us. Don't you see? We're immune.
• 23:05
  Speaker 6: We're probably the first generation to inherit sufficient immunity.
• 23:10
  Speaker 5: Darling, if that's true, then... Then we can transmit that immunity.
• 23:16
  Speaker 5: We can pass it along to our children.
• 23:18
  Speaker 6: And they to their children. Come on. We'll have to
• 23:22
  Speaker 6: find food and water.
• 23:24
  Speaker 5: The practical way. Wait a minute.
• 23:27
  Speaker 6: What are you doing with that rock?
• 23:28
  Speaker 5: I want to scratch something on the outside of this
• 23:31
  Speaker 5: lead door.
• 23:36
  Speaker 6: Lois and.
• 23:40
  Speaker 3: Oren.
• 23:42
  Speaker 5: 4195 A.D.
• 23:45
  Speaker 6: Hello, tomorrow.
• 23:48
  Speaker 3: THE END You have just heard X-1 presented by the
• 24:00
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• 24:05
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• 24:10
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• 24:26
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• 24:31
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