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2000 Plus - A Veteran Comes Home · 2000 Plus

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  Story of a soldier and a war beyond the Moon. A G I in
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  the Years Beyond two thousand plus two thousand plus science fiction Adventures from the World
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  of Tomorrow. The Years Beyond two thousand A d two thousand plus presents a
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  veteran comes home by Rocky rocket Shift Moon arriving Rong Moon that rocket rail war.
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  Smile, you got the one with Daddy, nist, Billy, I
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  told you before Daddy's space ship arrived, he said, hours ago, the
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  spaceship from Marsden here since eleven o'clock. Then why is he? Why don't
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  I see my daddy? Because, Darling, all the soldiers have to go
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  through quarantine and army regulations and all sorts of things. Why my daddy's a
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  space soldier. I'll bet he had all sorts of adventures all beaty shun,
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  please, cried Billy. Listen, Oh is a military person now of rocket
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  shift life a too raw bars all day blue far reform two Kay five,
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  Oh, Billy, that's us. The soldiers are going to come out in
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  a few minutes. Come on, Darling, come on, Willy, nommy
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  manny line no here, watch for your walking Billy. Of course he'll know
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  you, dear, He'll see me first and then he'll see you. Oh
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  I ever saw this picture? Stand by that rope, Billy. We can
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  see Gate five from here. Boy, tell me all about the war on
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  Mars. Oh, Billy, it's so good to have him back. Five
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  years, five long years. And I see the spaceship Blame lady, lady
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  rendstility personnel, space chef philoson, blame do not flow for wife flying.
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  They're starting to come out. Now, let me then in the way uniforms.
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  Give me a towny gunness. My picture will tell us all about them.
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  Eleven weeks on the spaceship, getting Tomorrow's, eleven weeks coming back to
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  Earth, and more than four years fighting on Mars. Five years, Billy,
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  stand, I do cross the white lines Life Sven Rocket Shift Player from
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  Earth to Moon, will last Fall in instanute, Rock Rock and frail line,
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  Last Shock. Yeah, here we are, Yeah, here we are?
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  Who was there? Enough? Ronny O Banion. They're going to play
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  news. They're welcoming the soldiers home, Billy, the first soldiers home from
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  the war on the more soldiers coming out. Mommy, Oh, Billy,
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  I'm so excited he see you? What hey? Mom? That's where rocket.
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  See him with the green uniform. Oh boy, he shoots rocket gun.
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  I don't see him, but I don't see him yet. So many
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  men, so many. Can I have a drink of water, Mamma,
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  I'm thirsty. Uh, I don't see him. Yes, I still don't
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  see him. I want to drink. Billy, not now? Oh,
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  look how you get daddy? No, no, it's not. Oh,
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  Mike Michael, where are you? I'm gonna show my daddy my toy guns.
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  We'll play Space Soldier together. We'll have Finally, Billy, I see
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  him, I see your baddy. Will which one is? He plays?
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  Swim? Billy looking around here? We're here and then yellow unifox over there.
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  Michael Michael going here, we are, Michael, Jesus money. She's
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  running till it. He's looking the other people lay. Oh, you look
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  so wonderfully, Michael, Michael, Why are you crying? He's come home,
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  dude, Michael, come home, Ji, Yeah, comes. Oh
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  Mary Darling. Donald's so lone since I hell you. But Michael, you've
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  got to meet your son. Hello, son, Hello? Is that all
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  you've got to say to your Oh? He doesn't have to say anything.
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  Just let me look at him. Oh, you've got forever to do that
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  now, Donnie, because you're a home Oh a soldier has come home three
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  o'clock in the afternoon. Mom, Why is Daddy asleep? He was tired
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  of Billy. He wanted to rest. He didn't talk much when he came
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  home. Daddy, No, but he will you and he will have a
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  lot to talk about. Hey, I think I heard him getting out.
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  We'll open the door carefully and keep in. I'll be quiet and Katie still
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  is. Keep it s all right, I'm awake. Oh, well,
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  you slept two hours. I haven't been asleep. Man, just lying here?
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  Is something wrong? Likea Do you feel all right? Sure? Sure?
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  Just can't get used to being home. I'll make a snack for you,
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  Billy, Now you can talk to your father. Come here, son,
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  Yuh sit on the bed. Okay, Dad, I'll call you when
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  everything's ready. Uh what do you uh wanna tell me? Billy? Uh?
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  I I don't know, but your mother said, well, do you
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  like me? Well? Of course I like you. Will you play with
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  me? Well, I'm I'm a little tired, son, but I guess
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  it can be arranged. Or do you wanna play soldiers? Space? Soldiers.
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  You're a soldier or nothing else. You don't like m just just play
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  something else that's wrong. All the kids think it's swung my dad's space soldiers.
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  Nobody else in my gang has a dad who's gone to March. I
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  told him when my dad came home and showed me how to play real soot
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  it Yes, sir, don't say yes sir to me. I don't ever
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  wanna hear you say that. Wow, you are frying. Men aren't supposed
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  to cry space for two hundred years. The world hasn't had a war for
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  two hundred years. The human race finally got peace federated world. In the
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  years after two thousand, science flourishes, civilization grows. Then we learn how
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  to travel in outer space, first the Moon for scientific observations, then we
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  go on to other planets. Mars, the one planet we know is capable
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  of sustaining human life, and all the two hundred years of peace gets rotted
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  away because the Earth wants to explore Mars, and the Martians object new worlds
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  to conquer. Where the Columbus is of two thousand plus, and the interplanetary
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  war begins. We have to fight for every canal, every inch on Mars.
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  Well, I don't want any son of mine thinking it's so great.
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  I hate it, hate it. I was gonna play Space Soldiers with Space
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  Soldier? What did I do for you? Full of the romance of Mars
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  or mysteries of the unknown. How can you or anybody on this particular world
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  though, what it's like in that unhuman place called Mars play Space soldier play.
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  I remember the patrol patrol into the red grass, blade, sharpest sword
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  and covered with that sickening oos of the Martian vegetation. We went on patrol
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  of us. I was the patrole leader. Alright, let's stuttle in it.
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  Oh oh, oh kay, at what again? Do you see anything?
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  Just the red grass? Oh wait, about a mile and a half
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  over there are sand belt. Can give me a glasses right, yeah,
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  that's right. Every the grass meets the sand belt. We gotta be careful.
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  Those sand spiders more dangerous than a cobra. One bite and you're dead
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  in half a minute. Men are all wearing shin boots. We better put
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  on our mask and gloves too. Sometimes a spider crawls up the clothing.
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  Okay, masks and gloves protect your gear, protective gear on. Uh,
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  it's too quiet. I've almost got the feeling the Martians are around when it's
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  just quiet. Yeah, I know what you mean. We'll go on.
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  Uh. Leo, you take four men and cover the left, use electric
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  rifle, yes, sir. I Mulroney take four men and cover the right.
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  Torpedo pistol, yes, sir, Ted, and I'll take the other
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  man and move straight on. Ted will use atomic show clips in our guns.
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  We meet opposition and have to blast them. Leos and Maroney's groups can
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  cover us as we move around the area we've radiated. Better keep our belt,
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  Geiger Counter's handy. Okay, let's move this slime from the grass sticks
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  to every time careful because it's a sharp rush. There certainly aren't any Martians
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  on that sand oughter. We'd see him. They're around here at all.
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  They're between us and the sand bot hiding in this red grass. Away amost
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  step on a stothard. I didn't see it. A toothflowers flowers and hard
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  as ivory. It's a carnivorous plant. You walk too close to it,
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  it'll bite your leg and half Mars the nightmare planet. And we'll keep moving
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  and keep your eyes, peels of kile vegetation. An enemy martian setting hot
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  always gets like a moment about the day you know, scrope is moving ahead.
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  Apparently they found nothing dangerous. Judge, Hello, Hello, I am
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  waving. Everything's okay. I'll be too sure. Step over there, handstorm
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  whipping across the sand belt like, come up in seconds, blast by one
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  hundreds of miles an hour, and I abny dot hit who's all over the
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  grass blades like an adium staker lying down in a bed of knife hundred doors,
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  hunt the sand thorns? Lets me up, going down, farm,
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  going down? Wait a few seconds, all right, get up? Seven,
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  eight, nine, ten, eleven, twelve, twelfth. Two men
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  missing becomes Leo. Two men Davis and Martin. What happened? Are dead?
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  Sir Wind threw a Davis jacket. A sand spider bit him. Wind
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  carried a swarm up into the ground. What about Martin? I don't know
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  what caused it. He's dead, al right, come on, let's take
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  away here. He is, sir, Hein is natural and not blue the
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  way it turns when the sand spider kills you. Let me see, good
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  lord, what's the matter. The Martians Marsians that got enduring the same storm
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  must be around somewhere. Look at his back where I opened the jacket hit
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  by a sonic beam. Right, super sound wave, gadget of ass trings
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  your gusts of jelly emotions a hero right now, warn the men right on.
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  Give me your pocket magnet speaker quick here right, Leo, crawling your
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  belly over to the boys, keep going, okay, let me know when
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  you get there. Meanwhile, I'll talk with the magnet speaker. Yes,
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  sir, the martians will hear me. So here's some lingo they won't understand.
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  Now, yes day we got company routine. You figure happy and remember
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  the animal's Leo. Then here, can't see him. Wait, he's coming
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  on the new way chest talking. Step on your your front. Okay,
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  Leo, how shine of the enemy were shining out? Are covered by the
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  red grass? We passed words shoot first good, that's an electric rifle.
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  Enemy said it the chilly cut when there reads two hundred yards. Let's move
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  in. Give me everything, yes, sir, go on that right.
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  But here I heard her trying to crawl through this grass. Compedo pistols.
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  All on his groups may contact Leo Leo yuh. Whoever reaches one hundred yards.
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  Throw atomic grenade right, and Martians haven't returned any fire yet. They're
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  probably waiting to ley it closer and they'll fan the area with that sonic beam
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  of the ass. She'd loaves at one hundred yards. He's throwing the cookies.
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  Any second, plug your ears check. I should have cleaned him out,
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  and we've gotta be careful. We can't go in to see. We
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  don't have any anti radiation gear. No sound from the Martians, nothing,
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  Leo, leo, any report from you. I think we got absolutely no
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  sign of life. Moved souths a few hundred yards, then east. Probe
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  their position, right, Captain, I'm pretty sure it's all player. Yeah,
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  yeah, probably right. I just feel conservative. Right now I'll be
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  trying to verify the Martians are cleaned out. This heat is stinking grass.
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  What are planning? At least the moon is dead? Why would we set
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  us when we got to the moon. No, we had to go on
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  to this forsaken Listen to the sunny theme. The Martians are attacking us.
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  We had a group of the South were shattering of clowns. We can't help
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  just for the thirst to old man, don't you think I know that what
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  are two of us against the Martian patrol? Try to reach Leo? Leo,
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  Leo, Come in, Leo? Why John get over here? You're
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  staying here. We got to stay here and try to get out later.
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  But Leo, Neil's my brother, my brother. Well, here's Joe mac
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  Darling. I hope you like. But Billy I thought he was in here
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  with you. He went up to play. I don't know. Oh,
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  he has been so looking forward to having his daddy back. All the kids
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  in the neighborhood are waiting to meet you. He's been booting about you for
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  months, ever since we got worried that you were coming home. Yeah,
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  I know, Michael, is something wrong? Did you and Billy have a
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  corner? He's he's a stranger to me, married a stranger. You're wrong,
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  Sorry, he was just a baby when I left. I I can't
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  get used to him. Oh, but you will. You can't help loving
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  him. I can't get to know him until he stops this terrible business of
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  reminding me all the time, reminding me of what I want to forget.
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  But he's proud of you, of what you've done you. I told him
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  what it was really like up there. He ran out of here crying.
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  Michael, what do you want me to do? Throw out my chest and
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  brag about being a hero. Pretend that a planet called Mars that Satan himself
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  with aid of a few million devils must have created. Pretend that Mars is
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  heaven, that fighting a war so far away it takes months to get there
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  is fun for the kiddies. I'm I'm sorry, Marry. Just leave me
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  alone. Michael. This isn't like you. How do you know what I'm
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  like? After all these years, I hardly know myself at this moment,
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  five years away from people, away even from the one world in the universe
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  it contains human beings. Were other men with you all the time? Hundred
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  thousands of them? What do you mean you were alone? You don't understand,
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  Michael's darling. I'm worried about you. A spaceship half a mile long,
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  eleven weeks in flight, confined quarters, the same blank faces of men
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  torn from their planet, catapulted into infinity, a fleck of controlled cosmic dust,
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  and being alone and on Mars. The base dug underground, living in
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  plastic shells for barracks, never being able to move except on patrols. All
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  of us men in a nightmare and being alone in our souls alone. Give
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  me some coffee, all that mighty here you are. Thanks, Michael.
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  You're home now and you're not alone anymore. It's good coffee. But tomorrow,
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  tomorrow, afternoon and evening, that is. Yes, I'm giving a
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  party for you. At first, I was going to have it a surprise
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  for you, but I think you should know I don't want a party.
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  We've all families here and all your old friends. They want to see you,
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  Michael. Everyone's so happy you're home. Call it off. I don't
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  want to see them, and you understand I don't want to see them.
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  They're smug. Hello, they're glad you're back. Chader though, what's it
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  like in another world? And how's mars? Old man questions? They wouldn't
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  understand the answers if I could somehow force myself to talk about it, But
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  it won't be like that. They love you. They're happy to time.
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  Lo Darling. You can't go on likely fighting the Martians and your memories and
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  fighting the human beings who love you. For your sake, Michael, I
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  am not going to call off the party. Everyone is coming, just as
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  I plan and you've got to meet them and see for yourself. You've got
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  to understand for yourself, and you're home again on earth, and that you
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  have a life to live once more. Do you mean that, Mary?
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  I do, Michael, Dolly, I do because I love you. Well,
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  I'm really a stranger in this house, not really the head of it.
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  Still alone, the barracks filled with chintz. Havana. Boy. All
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  right, marry, have your party without the guests, Savanna, Michael,
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  Michael, h It's good to get out of the house. Walk or walk
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  forever, sunshiny, beautiful, peaceful trees, tall trees, green and yellow
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  leaves. No red grass, no red grass anywhere. The birds, the
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  wonderful signs they made five years never saw never, never heard a bird.
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  The only creatures that ever made a sound of There was a Martian controlly,
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  fat, greasy lizards that screamed like tortured souls. Look at us. Flowered
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  blue screens, burd orange, clean, white, sweet, glorious, smell
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  peaceful, so peaceful in which to be alone. The grass. The grass
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  was short, soft, carpet like blades, a carpet of green, cool
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  and gentle. I just sit on the grass. Why on the grass and
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  rest, rest and think, think, think. I remember when Tad and
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  I got back to command post. The Martian sky was darker. Clouds of
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  that ever looked like these clouds. We hadn't spoken to each other for a
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  long while. Now we got away alive from the ambush I'll never know.
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  And now we were coming to the base and the commander that the four report,
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  Captain, Yes, Commander that writes, sir, the fourth success pil
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  ambushed by the Martians in as many days. We're gonna have to do something
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  drastic to stop it. Air observation doesn't help. Endless miles of grants and
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  sand. The Martians are small, hide in the stuff, take on its
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  coloring like chameleons. If I weren't for those sonic beam, those those killing
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  sound ways, they could probably handle them. I know, I know.
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  Can't the Earth Science Council work out offenser as they're trying to. But even
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  if they do, til we get it up here, we'll all be decimated.
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  I'm thinking of an old weapon, poisoned gas. That's an outlawed weapon.
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  Isn't the commanding out lord on Earth? Yes? They were not fighting
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  on Earth, Captain. Uh. Sometimes I wish they'd never invented space ships.
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  Oh, let's not worry about it. Now you may need some wreck.
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  Report to the hospital barracks. Take five days there, yes, sir,
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  Oh one more thing. But the twelve minute the patroller were lost.
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  When was your brother my right? Yes, sir, I'm sorry, Thank
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  you, sir. I got to the barracks and get some rest. We
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  got a lot to do in five days. If I've got on the commander
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  is sorry, I'll get to the barracks. Don't think it's so hard to
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  have No, why shouldn't I It isn't just because Leo was my brother,
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  but because he was someone special up here on this rotten apple called Mars,
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  where all people out of touch with the decent things of our world. A
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  little kid, every man who lives here, lives up here. He's in
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  his own vacuum. Can't believe what's happened to him, finding himself in a
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  place where things that are unreal to the human mind are everyday realities. But
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  I had something, I had, the one thing that made me a human
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  being. Up here. I had I had someone who loved me, whom
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  I loved. And now he's dead, and I've got no one. I
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  like everyone else up here, now I've got no one. Marry, marry
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  marry. Mommy is in here? Where is she? Billy was crying.
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  She went next door to the neighbor. Why'd you make my mommy cry?
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  You're not nice? But I don't like you. I'm I'm sorry, sir.
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  I I guess I haven't been very nice at that. Come here,
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  Billy Son, I've brought back a lot of bitterness from the other side of
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  the universe. But a little while ago, I thought back to what another
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  man told me on Mars, and I realized something that I didn't understand at
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  the time. I'll be all right. From now on, Billy, you
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  and I are gonna be real friends, royal pals. Kim, wech kim,
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  We play soldier. How would you like to play baseball? Or build
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  model jet planes together? Or go on a hike in the woods? See,
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  that'll be swell. I like that you didn't care what you did with
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  your dad, just so you did something with him. I and all you
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  could think I was a soldier because that's what I did, just proved alright,
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  ted was to beat it together and to love someone. That's what makes
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  us human. Being Michael. Hello, Mary, Kenny and I are gonna
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  play bakst on her a Heinke and everything. Oh, Michael, Michael,
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  it's all right now, Darling. It's all right. Your soldiers come home
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  next week. Another exciting and unusual story from the world of Tomorrow over the
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  years beyond two thousand AD be sure to listen. Two thousand plus is produced
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  by Dryer and win Elson Productions Incorporators. In today's cast, Bill Griffiths fourth
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  Raye, Mike John Shay was Merry, Alan Shay was Billy. Charles met
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  with Ted and Lon Clark was the Commander. The orchestra was conducted by Emerson
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  Buckley. Music composed by Elliot Jacobe down to Wall Shaver and Adriam Penner,
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  Engineer Bob Albright, lad Is Ken, Marvin speaking. The program came from New York