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- 0:00Speaker 1: The car is beautiful. Where did you end up going
- 0:03Speaker 1: for it?
- 0:03Speaker 2: This exclusive place that Dad has connections with. They have
- 0:06Speaker 2: more cars for more dealerships than like anywhere else.
- 0:09Speaker 1: You have to put me in touch.
- 0:10Speaker 3: What's it called?
- 0:11Speaker 2: It's Dunaidial.
- 0:13Speaker 1: Where?
- 0:15Speaker 2: Dunaidial. There's an accent on the E.
- 0:19Speaker 1: Do you mean.
- 0:19Speaker 2: Yes, I got it on Dundale Cars.
- 0:21Speaker 4: Lift?
- 0:22Speaker 1: Please. Are you going past Kimmage?
- 0:24Speaker 5: Oh, Kimmage.
- 0:25Speaker 6: No.
- 0:26Speaker 2: Dundale Cars. You couldn't possibly go anywhere else.
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- 1:02Speaker 8: And now, Peter Paul Mounds, Almond Joy, and Cadbury Chocolate
- 1:07Speaker 8: Bars presents Alien Worlds. Slowly rotating at the edge of
- 1:15Speaker 8: deep space, 1,000 kilometers beyond the atmosphere of 21st century Earth,
- 1:21Speaker 8: is the Arthur C. Clarke Astronomical Observatory, Star Labs. Here,
- 1:27Speaker 8: Starlab Research Director Maura Cassidy and scientists and technicians of
- 1:32Speaker 8: the International Space Authority watch over the countless stars and
- 1:36Speaker 8: planets that fill the silent distances beyond the giant space station.
- 1:43Speaker 8: This week, an ancient intruder from another galaxy exposes Starlab
- 1:48Speaker 8: to the genetic mysteries of the.
- 1:50Speaker 9: Seeds of time on Alien Worlds.
- 2:13Speaker 8: Fifty kilometers beyond Starlab, the SET interceptor Solaris reduces speed
- 2:20Speaker 8: and moves into a preliminary docking orbit with a huge
- 2:23Speaker 8: space station. Aboard the Solaris, Captains John Graydon and Buddy Griff.
- 2:33Speaker 10: Solaris to Starlab Control.
- 2:36Speaker 4: This is Starlab.
- 2:36Speaker 11: Go ahead, Solaris.
- 2:38Speaker 10: We're holding at the outer boundary, Jerry. How soon can
- 2:40Speaker 10: you get us aboard?
- 2:42Speaker 12: Traffic's pretty heavy right now john i've got a soviet
- 2:45Speaker 12: freighter and two canadian tanks coming in now and three
- 2:49Speaker 12: lunar shuttles in a docking orbit two kilometers out hold
- 2:53Speaker 12: your position i'll get back to.
- 2:54Speaker 4: You in about 10 minutes roger starlab solaris.
- 2:57Speaker 13: Out starlab clear well since 10 minutes usually means half
- 3:02Speaker 13: an hour why don't we put the ship on autopilot
- 3:04Speaker 13: and get down to the cargo bay for a little
- 3:06Speaker 13: zero gravity racket.
- 3:07Speaker 10: Ball do you know where the rackets are They're floating
- 3:09Speaker 10: around down there somewhere.
- 3:11Speaker 11: All right, let's go.
- 3:16Speaker 1: What?
- 3:17Speaker 10: We better stay, Skip. The high-density scanners are picking up something.
- 3:21Speaker 10: How far away?
- 3:24Speaker 13: Three, four, 4.6 kilometers. And it's holding at 081 degrees starboard.
- 3:30Speaker 13: Get a full magnification visual and bring it up on
- 3:32Speaker 13: screen six.
- 3:33Speaker 11: Right.
- 3:37Speaker 10: What is it? I don't know.
- 3:41Speaker 9: I've never seen.
- 3:41Speaker 14: Anything like it.
- 3:44Speaker 8: In the center of the screen, against a background of
- 3:47Speaker 8: jet black space and scattered stars, the mysterious object begins
- 3:53Speaker 8: to slowly rotate, reflected sunlight blazing from each of its
- 3:58Speaker 8: ten smooth surfaces.
- 4:04Speaker 10: Solaris to Starlab.
- 4:07Speaker 11: This is Starlab. Go ahead for last.
- 4:08Speaker 10: Jerry, we're visually monitoring a UFO. Are you picking it
- 4:11Speaker 10: up on your scanners?
- 4:14Speaker 4: No, I don't think so. Oh, wait a minute.
- 4:20Speaker 3: Yeah, there is something out there about four kilometers from
- 4:23Speaker 3: your present position.
- 4:24Speaker 14: Right.
- 4:26Speaker 13: Okay, tell Morrow what the situation is, and you'd better
- 4:29Speaker 13: notify Professor Ballin, too.
- 4:31Speaker 10: We're going in for a closer look.
- 4:33Speaker 4: I'll keep an eye on you from here, John.
- 4:35Speaker 11: Be careful. Starlab out.
- 4:39Speaker 14: What do you think, buddy?
- 4:41Speaker 10: Well, let's play it safe and sort of sneak up
- 4:43Speaker 10: on it. I'll do a tomography profile at three kilometers.
- 4:47Speaker 13: If the thing's not dangerous, we can get in close
- 4:49Speaker 13: and do a phase one scanner series.
- 4:51Speaker 10: And what if it explodes and blows us to kingdom come?
- 4:56Speaker 10: You know, maybe we.
- 4:57Speaker 14: Should stick to racquetball.
- 5:11Speaker 11: Whoa.
- 5:12Speaker 14: Talk about sensory overload.
- 5:14Speaker 9: I wonder how she keeps her balance.
- 5:17Speaker 14: Maybe it's trick photography.
- 5:20Speaker 9: Couldn't be. No photographer is that tricky.
- 5:26Speaker 5: This is Starlab.
- 5:27Speaker 9: Go ahead, Maggie.
- 5:28Speaker 4: We've got a problem, Jerry.
- 5:30Speaker 1: We're still working on this new orbital power satellite at
- 5:33Speaker 1: vector 706, and we've just lost our last bundle of
- 5:37Speaker 1: solar panels.
- 5:38Speaker 14: What happened?
- 5:39Speaker 7: An anchoring cable on the superstructure let go, and the
- 5:43Speaker 7: panels were drifted off into deep space.
- 5:46Speaker 4: Can you help us out? This thing's supposed to be
- 5:48Speaker 4: operational by tonight.
- 5:49Speaker 15: How many panels do you need?
- 5:53Speaker 16: Ten.
- 5:54Speaker 9: What type?
- 5:58Speaker 17: Hold on, I'll check the computer and see what we got.
- 6:00Speaker 17: This is your lucky day, Maggie. We've got two dozen
- 6:05Speaker 17: SB-16s in storage. Will this be a pickup or a delivery?
- 6:09Speaker 4: I won't be able to spare any of our turds
- 6:12Speaker 4: for another hour or so.
- 6:14Speaker 1: What's available on your end?
- 6:16Speaker 15: Well, we've got a Soviet freighter heading your way in
- 6:19Speaker 15: about 15 minutes.
- 6:21Speaker 10: I'll have the captain contact you, okay?
- 6:22Speaker 11: Okay.
- 6:28Speaker 9: Starlab Control, clear.
- 6:31Speaker 10: Docking Bay 12, this is the bridge.
- 6:33Speaker 14: Bay 12, go ahead, Jerry.
- 6:35Speaker 15: Yeah, Ernie, call Storage Bay 19 and tell them to
- 6:38Speaker 15: deliver 10 Ampletron SP-16 solar panels to the Odessa, and
- 6:42Speaker 15: then have Captain Vashenko contact Construction Orbiter 5. It's kind
- 6:46Speaker 15: of an emergency.
- 6:47Speaker 11: Will do, Jerry.
- 6:49Speaker 9: Now, where was I?
- 6:52Speaker 4: Right.
- 6:54Speaker 9: Sensory overload.
- 6:55Speaker 18: Oh, yeah.
- 6:56Speaker 9: Yeah.
- 6:58Speaker 14: Wow. Oops.
- 7:00Speaker 4: Hi, Jerry.
- 7:01Speaker 10: Hi, Mara.
- 7:02Speaker 1: You heard from John and Buddy?
- 7:03Speaker 15: Yeah, about 20 minutes ago. They've maneuvered the Solaris into
- 7:06Speaker 15: a side-by-side position with the UFO, and Buddy said he'd
- 7:10Speaker 15: contact us as soon as he did the preliminary scan series.
- 7:13Speaker 14: Okay.
- 7:14Speaker 1: What's that magazine you're holding behind you?
- 7:17Speaker 14: Magazine?
- 7:19Speaker 1: Come on, Jerry. Hand it over.
- 7:20Speaker 14: Oh, Mara.
- 7:23Speaker 1: The Astounding Adventures of Galactic Gladys the Girl Wonder?
- 7:28Speaker 9: Well, you know.
- 7:30Speaker 19: Which.
- 7:31Speaker 1: One of these bimbos is Galactic Gladys?
- 7:34Speaker 15: I believe that's her there, locked in mortal combat with
- 7:37Speaker 15: the evil swamp gas creature.
- 7:39Speaker 1: Well, she's certainly a wonder, all right. I'll bet she
- 7:43Speaker 1: hasn't seen her feet in years. Jerry, where did you
- 7:47Speaker 1: get this publication?
- 7:49Speaker 15: I found it in the technician's lounge.
- 7:51Speaker 14: Uh-huh.
- 7:52Speaker 1: I wondered why they were all running around down there
- 7:55Speaker 1: with their tongues hanging out.
- 7:57Speaker 9: Jerry! Hi, Professor Ballin.
- 8:01Speaker 14: How you doing, Jerry?
- 8:02Speaker 1: David, you're just in time for a little X-rated science fiction.
- 8:06Speaker 1: Look at this.
- 8:09Speaker 14: What happened to our clothes?
- 8:11Speaker 9: The evil swamp gas creature ate them.
- 8:13Speaker 14: Well, yum, yum.
- 8:15Speaker 1: I don't know about you, David. Three days on Starlab
- 8:18Speaker 1: and you're already starting to sound like Buddy Griffith.
- 8:21Speaker 14: It must be the altitude.
- 8:23Speaker 11: Solaris to Star Lab Control.
- 8:25Speaker 10: This is Star Lab. Go ahead, John.
- 8:27Speaker 11: We finished their preliminary scans on the UFO. Is Mara there?
- 8:31Speaker 1: I'm right here, John, and so is our new alienologist.
- 8:33Speaker 11: Okay, here's Buddy.
- 8:36Speaker 4: The object is three meters square and shaped like a decohedral.
- 8:40Speaker 3: It's made of some kind of copper-colored metal that's about
- 8:44Speaker 3: 75% hydrogen.
- 8:45Speaker 4: As far as we can tell, there's no inboard or
- 8:47Speaker 4: outboard propulsion system.
- 8:49Speaker 1: How fast is it moving, Buddy?
- 8:52Speaker 11: How fast do you want it to move?
- 8:54Speaker 1: What does he mean, John?
- 8:56Speaker 11: Well, it was stationary when I brought the ship alongside,
- 8:59Speaker 11: but for the past 10 minutes it's been matching our speed,
- 9:02Speaker 11: no matter how fast we go.
- 9:05Speaker 14: What kind of a readout did you get on the
- 9:06Speaker 14: tomography scan, buddy?
- 9:08Speaker 4: The interior of the thing is filled with some kind of.
- 9:10Speaker 3: Ionized gelatin that converts to nitrogen plasma.
- 9:14Speaker 4: And then reconverts to gelatin at 12-second intervals.
- 9:18Speaker 1: Buddy, is it giving off any kind of sound?
- 9:22Speaker 11: Yes, it is.
- 9:24Speaker 3: When the gelatin converts to plasma, the object gives off
- 9:27Speaker 3: what sounds like accelerated heartbeats. When the plasma reconverts to gelatin,
- 9:33Speaker 3: we hear the heartbeats in reverse.
- 9:38Speaker 8: Alien Worlds will continue.
- 9:45Speaker 5: This woman's sorry.
- 9:49Speaker 16: For keeping you guessing You never know.
- 9:55Speaker 18: What I'll do That's why I'm here confessing it's because
- 10:05Speaker 18: sometimes I feel like a nut sometimes I don't.
- 10:10Speaker 1: Sometimes I feel like a nut, sometimes I.
- 10:14Speaker 20: Don't Sometimes I feel like a nut, sometimes I don't.
- 10:42Speaker 16: Alien Worlds continues.
- 11:03Speaker 8: Aboard the Solaris, SET captains John Graydon and Buddy Griff
- 11:08Speaker 8: encounter an unidentified flying object 50 kilometers beyond Starlab.
- 11:13Speaker 3: The object is 3 meters square and shaped like a decohedron.
- 11:18Speaker 3: It's made of some kind of copper-colored metal that's about
- 11:20Speaker 3: 75% hydrogen.
- 11:22Speaker 8: As John maneuvers the Solaris into a side-by-side position with
- 11:26Speaker 8: the UFO, Buddy continues to analyze the object.
- 11:30Speaker 11: With a.
- 11:34Speaker 3: Filled with some kind of ionized gelatin that converts to
- 11:36Speaker 3: nitrogen plasma and then reconverts the gelatin at 12 second intervals.
- 11:42Speaker 1: What do you think, David?
- 11:43Speaker 21: I think we better see about getting that thing into
- 11:44Speaker 21: one of the isolated laboratory pods.
- 11:47Speaker 1: Buddy, shoot a magnetic grappler over and see if you
- 11:49Speaker 1: can bring it in.
- 11:50Speaker 3: We already tried that, Maura. The grappler pad won't stick.
- 11:54Speaker 3: The object is anti-magnetic.
- 11:56Speaker 1: How about if you go EVA and try to push
- 11:58Speaker 1: it into the Solaris' cargo bay?
- 12:00Speaker 11: Hold on just a moment, please. I don't think that'll
- 12:03Speaker 11: be necessary. From the way it's been matching our speed,
- 12:05Speaker 11: I think it'll follow us in.
- 12:07Speaker 1: All right, give it a try. If it works, get
- 12:09Speaker 1: the object as close as you can to the outward
- 12:11Speaker 1: airlock of ISO Lab 9. I'll have a crew standing
- 12:14Speaker 1: by to take it inside.
- 12:15Speaker 11: Okay, Maura. Solaris out.
- 12:17Speaker 10: Star Lab clear.
- 12:18Speaker 1: Come on, David. Let's get down there.
- 12:30Speaker 8: The Solaris maneuvers the object into a position two meters
- 12:33Speaker 8: away from Isolab 9's outboard airlock. Then, as John guides
- 12:39Speaker 8: the Solaris into a nearby docking bay, the lab's airlock
- 12:43Speaker 8: opens and a crew of technicians in yellow pressure suits
- 12:47Speaker 8: and tinted glass helmets take the alien Decahedron inside. Ten
- 12:52Speaker 8: minutes later, the object rests on a slowly rotating observation
- 12:57Speaker 8: pad in the center of the lab's brightly lit quarantine chamber.
- 13:05Speaker 14: It's remarkably beautiful, isn't it?
- 13:08Speaker 1: Frightens me.
- 13:10Speaker 19: Why?
- 13:11Speaker 1: The way it looks. The color and size.
- 13:14Speaker 9: Texture.
- 13:16Speaker 1: All those desperately perfect angles constantly repeating themselves. Its physical
- 13:22Speaker 1: aspects are so familiar, we can call them by name
- 13:24Speaker 1: in a language we all understand. And yet we don't
- 13:28Speaker 1: know what it calls itself or what it might be
- 13:30Speaker 1: calling us.
- 13:32Speaker 14: You feel whatever is inside is alive?
- 13:35Speaker 9: Don't you?
- 13:37Speaker 14: Yes.
- 13:38Speaker 1: Well, at least our scientific selves are still in sync.
- 13:44Speaker 14: Mara, please, not now.
- 13:47Speaker 5: Who's here?
- 13:49Speaker 10: Well, I'm glad to see it hasn't blown up yet.
- 13:51Speaker 10: Come on, Skip. Let's go inside for a close-up.
- 13:53Speaker 11: Yeah, okay.
- 13:54Speaker 14: I think you better stay on this side of the
- 13:55Speaker 14: glass for a while. The object's still being scanned.
- 13:57Speaker 21: If you go in there now, your body impulses will
- 14:00Speaker 21: be included in the scan of data.
- 14:01Speaker 1: Hmm.
- 14:02Speaker 13: Maybe we should go in anyway, just to blow their
- 14:04Speaker 13: minds up in data processing.
- 14:06Speaker 10: I can hear Professor Clark now. I say, Ramsey, have
- 14:10Speaker 10: you seen this printout? Graydon and Griff are trapped inside
- 14:13Speaker 10: that alien gizmo. Really?
- 14:15Speaker 5: How do you know it's them?
- 14:17Speaker 14: Elementary, my dear Ramsey.
- 14:18Speaker 13: The tall one's thumbing his nose, and the short one
- 14:22Speaker 13: thinks it's funny.
- 14:27Speaker 4: Maura?
- 14:28Speaker 9: David?
- 14:29Speaker 10: Not even a smile? What's with you two?
- 14:31Speaker 1: We've got a lot on our minds, John.
- 14:34Speaker 9: Yeah, I see.
- 14:35Speaker 14: Well, okay.
- 14:37Speaker 10: Come on, Skip. Let's go have dinner.
- 14:38Speaker 11: Yeah, right.
- 14:39Speaker 14: We'll see you guys.
- 14:40Speaker 4: See you later.
- 14:43Speaker 1: It's time we had a talk, David. Let's go up
- 14:46Speaker 1: to my quarters.
- 14:55Speaker 14: Coming to Starlab wasn't my idea, Maura. We go where
- 14:58Speaker 14: the ISA wants us to go, you know that.
- 15:00Speaker 1: If I'd known you were married, I would have asked
- 15:02Speaker 1: Commissioner White to send someone else.
- 15:04Speaker 14: Why?
- 15:05Speaker 1: When I was told you were going to spend three
- 15:07Speaker 1: months on Starlab, I thought we were getting a second chance.
- 15:11Speaker 14: Second chance for what, Maura? To pick it up where
- 15:13Speaker 14: it fell apart three years ago?
- 15:16Speaker 1: Why not?
- 15:17Speaker 21: Because your work has always been more important to you
- 15:20Speaker 21: than anything else. And I don't think that'll ever change.
- 15:24Speaker 21: Even when things were good, we were never together more
- 15:26Speaker 21: than three months out of the year. Your whole life
- 15:30Speaker 21: was spaceports and laboratories and conferences and trips off the planet.
- 15:34Speaker 1: You make it sound like I didn't care at all.
- 15:38Speaker 21: I don't mean to, Maura. I know you cared. And
- 15:43Speaker 21: I know you loved me. But you loved the rockets more.
- 15:48Speaker 4: I'm sorry, David.
- 15:50Speaker 14: So am I. I'll, uh.
- 15:55Speaker 19: I'll see you in the morning, Marv.
- 16:15Speaker 15: Okay, Lunar Shuttle 10, I have you on the screen.
- 16:17Speaker 15: You're docking orbit insertion coordinates are 5-0-9-er at subvector 7-0-alpha.
- 16:25Speaker 11: 5-0-9-R at 7-0-alpha. Roger, Starlab. Lunar shuttle 10, out.
- 16:32Speaker 9: Starlab control clear.
- 16:36Speaker 1: Morning, Mara. Jerry, have you seen David?
- 16:39Speaker 9: Not since yesterday afternoon.
- 16:40Speaker 16: Morning, everyone.
- 16:45Speaker 14: Good morning.
- 16:46Speaker 1: Have either of you seen David?
- 16:48Speaker 21: Yeah, we saw him after dinner last night when we
- 16:50Speaker 21: went down to have another look at the UFO.
- 16:52Speaker 9: He was in the isolab with it.
- 16:54Speaker 10: Maybe he's still there.
- 16:55Speaker 1: I checked the Isolab 20 minutes ago.
- 16:58Speaker 10: Well, maybe you missed him. Let's get on and take
- 17:00Speaker 10: another look.
- 17:00Speaker 16: There he is, Maura.
- 17:10Speaker 10: Hit the intercom button, Skip.
- 17:13Speaker 1: David, can you come out for a minute?
- 17:14Speaker 22: There's no need.
- 17:17Speaker 14: To be frightened, Maura. Professor Balan has not been harmed.
- 17:23Speaker 1: David, what's the matter with you? You sound so.
- 17:26Speaker 10: Mora, his hands are transparent.
- 17:31Speaker 1: David, what happened to your hands?
- 17:33Speaker 9: It's not David.
- 17:36Speaker 14: I am not Professor Balan, Mora. I am of him.
- 17:41Speaker 14: David is safe inside my vehicle.
- 17:44Speaker 1: Well, then open it.
- 17:45Speaker 10: Let him out.
- 17:46Speaker 14: As you wish, Mora.
- 17:51Speaker 4: David!
- 17:53Speaker 14: Good God.
- 17:55Speaker 10: Isolab control to sickbay.
- 17:57Speaker 4: Sickbay, Dr.
- 17:59Speaker 16: Oster.
- 17:59Speaker 5: Diana, this is Spidey.
- 18:01Speaker 10: Get down to Isolab 9 as fast as you can.
- 18:03Speaker 10: And bring a portable vital sign indicator. David's balance inside
- 18:07Speaker 10: the UFO. He said, chase him some kind of gelatin.
- 18:09Speaker 14: There is no.
- 18:10Speaker 9: Need to be frightened.
- 18:13Speaker 19: Professor Balan has not been harmed.
- 18:19Speaker 8: Alien Worlds will continue.
- 18:25Speaker 20: Let the sensation, a cool combination, chocolatey and mint.
- 18:29Speaker 9: York peppermint patty.
- 18:32Speaker 5: Cool the sensation, a perfect.
- 18:34Speaker 9: Relation, chocolatey and mint. From Peter Paul. Cool as the snow.
- 18:40Speaker 8: Falling light on the trees.
- 18:42Speaker 9: Just take a bite.
- 18:43Speaker 22: For a cool minty breeze. Let the York peppermint patty.
- 18:49Speaker 18: And get the sensation Get your sensation A cool combination
- 18:56Speaker 18: Trappity and.
- 18:57Speaker 9: Mint York Peppermint Patty.
- 18:59Speaker 20: Cool the sensation A perfect relation Trappity and.
- 19:04Speaker 9: Mint From Peter Paul Send.
- 19:06Speaker 18: A shiver of cool right down to your knees After
- 19:10Speaker 18: one taste you just gotta say please.
- 19:13Speaker 20: I want a York Peppermint Patty To get the sensation
- 19:20Speaker 20: Get the sensation.
- 19:22Speaker 9: Walk with the mentality.
- 19:24Speaker 16: Get the sensation.
- 19:25Speaker 22: Get the sensation.
- 19:41Speaker 8: Alien Worlds continues. Entering the control booth of IsoLab 9, Maura, Buddy,
- 19:49Speaker 8: and John discover that the substance inside the alien Decahedron
- 19:53Speaker 8: has transformed itself into a duplicate of Professor David Balan,
- 19:58Speaker 8: leaving the real David Balan encased in a cocoon of
- 20:02Speaker 8: translucent white gelatin.
- 20:05Speaker 22: Diana, hurry!
- 20:16Speaker 5: Have you tried to get into the chamber?
- 20:18Speaker 10: The hatch is sealed from the inside.
- 20:20Speaker 14: There's no need to be frightened, Dr.
- 20:23Speaker 11: Rossiter.
- 20:24Speaker 14: Professor Balin has not been harmed.
- 20:28Speaker 1: He knows me.
- 20:29Speaker 10: He knows all of us, Diana.
- 20:32Speaker 5: Connect the vital sign indicator to the scanner terminal, John.
- 20:35Speaker 9: Oh, he's all right.
- 20:42Speaker 5: His vital signs are perfect.
- 20:43Speaker 10: Oh, boy. Well.
- 20:47Speaker 14: If you will be patient, the seed placenta will soon evaporate,
- 20:51Speaker 14: and David will be released.
- 20:54Speaker 10: Soon?
- 20:55Speaker 5: How long is soon?
- 20:57Speaker 14: Now.
- 21:02Speaker 1: David, are you all right?
- 21:04Speaker 14: I think so, yes. I suggest you leave the chamber now, David.
- 21:12Speaker 14: The placenta residue will soon convert to a toxic gas
- 21:16Speaker 14: that could mutate your senses.
- 21:20Speaker 22: Yes, all right.
- 21:31Speaker 1: Hey, welcome home.
- 21:33Speaker 10: Where have you been?
- 21:37Speaker 21: When that thing opened up last night and took me inside,
- 21:39Speaker 21: I thought I was a goner. But as soon as
- 21:42Speaker 21: the seat was out and started to cover me, I
- 21:44Speaker 21: wasn't afraid anymore. It was incredible. I sensed everything that
- 21:49Speaker 21: was going on. And when my duplicate emerged, it was
- 21:53Speaker 21: like one of those films where the guy dies and
- 21:56Speaker 21: you see a spirit leave his body.
- 21:58Speaker 10: Film, huh?
- 22:00Speaker 9: I guess art imitates life after all.
- 22:03Speaker 10: I think it's the other way around, Skip.
- 22:06Speaker 14: Life and art should be the same.
- 22:10Speaker 5: Yes, they should be. But they rarely are.
- 22:15Speaker 14: Perhaps we should learn the lesson of the Balinese. They
- 22:19Speaker 14: say they have no art. They simply do everything as
- 22:23Speaker 14: well as they can.
- 22:25Speaker 1: You once said that to me, David.
- 22:27Speaker 14: I know. It's amazing, isn't it, how precisely I've been duplicated.
- 22:31Speaker 5: Well, David number two, what now?
- 22:36Speaker 14: I want to return to my world, Diana. And I
- 22:39Speaker 14: want to take.
- 22:40Speaker 4: Mara with me.
- 22:42Speaker 1: Now, hold on a minute, you. I'm not in the
- 22:44Speaker 1: habit of running off to alien worlds with life forms
- 22:47Speaker 1: I hardly know.
- 22:48Speaker 14: You know me, Mara. And I know you. He's got
- 22:54Speaker 14: a point there, Mara.
- 22:56Speaker 1: Well, be that as it may, I just don't think
- 22:58Speaker 1: the original me and the duplicate you are ready for.
- 23:02Speaker 15: You.
- 23:03Speaker 1: I'm... Well, why are your hands transparent anyway?
- 23:06Speaker 14: David was wearing protective gloves that prevented the seed placenta
- 23:10Speaker 14: from taking a precise imprint of his hands. And Maura,
- 23:15Speaker 14: a duplicate of you is all I want.
- 23:18Speaker 1: Why?
- 23:20Speaker 14: I still love you, Maura.
- 23:23Speaker 20: Oh, David.
- 23:25Speaker 22: Why didn't you.
- 23:27Speaker 1: Wait a minute. What am I saying?
- 23:30Speaker 10: This is weird.
- 23:31Speaker 3: David?
- 23:32Speaker 17: Yes?
- 23:32Speaker 11: Yes?
- 23:33Speaker 5: Oh, I'm sorry, David. I mean the duplicate David.
- 23:37Speaker 14: Yes, Diana.
- 23:40Speaker 5: I think all of us would like to know a
- 23:42Speaker 5: little more about your origins.
- 23:44Speaker 14: Centuries ago, explorers from another galaxy visited my planet. Their
- 23:50Speaker 14: bodies contained bacteria. Harmless to them, but lethal to us.
- 23:56Speaker 14: There was a plague. And before the end came, our
- 23:59Speaker 14: scientists created the placenta substance and filled it with the
- 24:03Speaker 14: genetic seeds that were the essence of our race. Then
- 24:08Speaker 14: they placed these seeds of time in hundreds of vehicles
- 24:13Speaker 14: like this one and set us adrift in the universe.
- 24:17Speaker 10: Was your race humanoid?
- 24:18Speaker 14: Yes, buddy, it was. But some of the cells were
- 24:22Speaker 14: randomly coded so we could become whatever organic life form
- 24:27Speaker 14: we contacted. I could have been a bird or an insect,
- 24:32Speaker 14: or even a flower. Any living thing in which the seeds.
- 24:36Speaker 11: Could take root.
- 24:37Speaker 10: What would have happened if you had become a flower?
- 24:40Speaker 14: I would have simply pollinated other flowers of the same species,
- 24:45Speaker 14: and my race would have been reborn as a genus
- 24:47Speaker 14: of conscious, intelligent orchids or roses.
- 24:51Speaker 13: Would you eventually have re-evolved your original humanoid form?
- 24:55Speaker 10: Eventually, yes.
- 24:57Speaker 14: But I'm not a flower, am I? I'm an ion-negative
- 25:02Speaker 14: duplicate of a human male. And my race can be
- 25:06Speaker 14: reborn only if I interact with an ion-positive duplicate of
- 25:11Speaker 14: a human female.
- 25:13Speaker 1: All right, I'll do it.
- 25:14Speaker 10: Good girl.
- 25:16Speaker 14: Thank you, Maura.
- 25:18Speaker 1: It's okay. Just remember, I don't fool around on the
- 25:21Speaker 1: first date. What do you want me to do?
- 25:25Speaker 14: Saturate yourself with pure oxygen for two minutes. That will
- 25:30Speaker 14: protect you from the toxic residue. Then come into the
- 25:34Speaker 14: chamber and enter the secondary placenta compartment of my vehicle. Okay.
- 25:41Speaker 1: Get me an E4 oxygen unit, buddy. I'm about to
- 25:44Speaker 1: become a double feature.
- 25:46Speaker 16: Okay.
- 26:00Speaker 4: How do you feel, Maura?
- 26:02Speaker 5: I'll be all right, Diana.
- 26:03Speaker 19: I'll be all right, Diana.
- 26:05Speaker 1: Listen to that. I'm in stereo. Thank you, Maura. Thank you.
- 26:11Speaker 1: I have a question.
- 26:12Speaker 9: Yes?
- 26:14Speaker 1: When you and David, this David, are, you know, when you're...
- 26:22Speaker 1: Will I feel anything?
- 26:24Speaker 10: We don't know, Maura.
- 26:26Speaker 16: It's possible.
- 26:29Speaker 14: You'd better leave the chamber now, Maura. The placenta residue
- 26:33Speaker 14: is starting to become toxic.
- 26:35Speaker 22: All right.
- 26:38Speaker 16: Bye.
- 26:39Speaker 9: Goodbye, Maura.
- 26:50Speaker 1: Did you arrange for a ship, John?
- 26:51Speaker 10: There's a long-range shuttle waiting for them just outside the airlock.
- 26:55Speaker 1: Mara, you'll be able to fly the shuttle, won't you?
- 26:58Speaker 21: Yes.
- 27:00Speaker 4: I love the rockets as much as you do now.
- 27:02Speaker 22: Goodbye.
- 27:05Speaker 14: Well, so long, you two.
- 27:07Speaker 10: Good luck.
- 27:13Speaker 14: It looks like we're getting that second chance after all, Mara.
- 27:16Speaker 23: You're right, David.
- 27:17Speaker 1: You're absolutely right.
- 27:48Speaker 8: The Seeds of Time was written by Ron Thompson and
- 27:52Speaker 8: starred Linda Gary, Chuck Olson, Bruce Philip Miller, and Corey Burton,
- 27:57Speaker 8: with special guest stars Pete Renaudet and Francis Bay, associate
- 28:02Speaker 8: producer Ron Thompson, music director Tom Rounds, engineer Stu Jacobs,
- 28:09Speaker 8: technical consultant Alien Worlds was created, produced, and directed by
- 28:18Speaker 8: Lee Hansen and is distributed by Watermark Incorporated. And so,
- 28:24Speaker 8: until next week, this is Roger Dressler inviting you to
- 28:28Speaker 8: join us for our next adventure, The Madonnas of Zanzibar Alpha,
- 28:32Speaker 8: from the Elsewhere and Elsewhen of Alien Worlds. Peter Paul
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- 30:16Speaker 10: for it? This exclusive place that Dad has connections with.
- 30:24Speaker 2: They have more cars for more dealerships than like anywhere else.
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