All language subtitles for S01E19_Barriers of Sound

Could you tell us
where we might find
Alexander Graham Bell?

That's an easy enough request.

(EXCLAIMING)

Mr. Watson, come here,
I want you!

(EXCLAIMING)

The telephone
has been born.

I'm gonna give you
the Phineas Bogg crash course

on how to be comfortable
around men.

(LAUGHING)
Phineas.

Bell and Mabel are
supposed to get married.

You don't understand,
I love her.

We can't change history.

BOGG... I can't give her up.

BOGG... We travel through time
to help history along,

give it a push
where it's needed.

Bogg!

BOGG... When the Omni's red,
it means history's wrong.

Our job's to get
everything back on track.

(OMNI DINGS)

Green light, kid! We did it!

(BOTH GRUNTING)

Nice landing, Bogg.

Just be glad
we missed the outhouse.

Bat's breath.
I think I sprained
my knee.

You okay?

For once I was
prepared for this.

Jim Thorpe's old
football equipment
worked great.

You should have
borrowed some.

I've traveled like this
long before I met you,
you know,

and I get by just fine.
Whatever you say.

Now, where are we?

(BEEPING)

Texas, 1890.

Hey, what's going on?

What in Sam Hill
hit the chicken coop?

I think we did.
What for?

Well, you see,
we were gonna...

You two are a little early
for Halloween, ain't you?

Ain't for two weeks yet.
Yeah.

Yeah, we thought we should
get a jump on the other kids.

Your friend's
a pretty big kid.

Hey, look, sonny,
you better run along.

This ain't no place
for a child right now.

Wait. Something wrong?

There's a woman in there
having a mess of trouble

trying to birth
her baby.

Your wife?
No, Mrs. Eisenhower.

My wife and I just
come over to help out

while Mr. Eisenhower
went to fetch a doc.

Eisenhower?

It's a two-day ride
to the nearest doctor.

I don't think that
poor woman can make it
through the night.

President Eisenhower?

President who?
Never mind.

Do you know
if the Eisenhowers

were gonna name
their baby Dwight David?
Yeah.

If it was a boy.

But how did you...

Don't make no
never mind anyhow

'cause that baby ain't
gonna need a name

except one
to put on his tombstone.

Tombstone?
Ain't you been listening?

I told you that woman
is bad off.

My wife's birthed
a lot of babies,
but she ain't no doctor.

Why don't you just call one?
Call one?

What do you think,
there's one just standing out
there in field or something?

No, I mean,
call one on the phone.

Telegraph?
No telephone.

Haven't you ever
heard of it?

You know, you talk
through it to someone
hundreds of miles away.

Without a code?
Just your own voice?

Yeah.
You two from another planet?

No, seriously,
it was invented 13, 14
years ago

by Alexander Graham Bell.

You should have one
in your house by now.

A thing you talk through

and people can hear
what you say
a hundred miles away?

A thousand miles away.

Pixilated. That's it.

A classic case of pixilation
if I ever seen one.

You really...
You don't understand.

You see, we were
just trying to...

Guess something
happened to
the telephone, huh?

Yeah. Without it
President Eisenhower
won't be born

and who knows
how many other problems
it'll cause.

Better check it out.

Boston, 1875 or 1876,
I don't remember which.

(PLUMMETING)

Hey, that's what
I call a landing.

Good.
You can keep
your crash gear, kid.

I think I'm starting
to get the hang of this.

Yeah, until next time.

(BEEPING)

Boston, summer of 1875.
Red light.

Got any ideas
where we can find Bell?

What we need
is a phone book.

(EXPLOSION)

Look out, it's a run away!

Hey, lady, look out!
Get out of the way!

JEFFREY:
Bogg, she's gonna get hit.

Hey, lady!

Are you all right?

Are you all right?

That wagon almost hit me.

Didn't you hear
everybody yelling
at you to watch out?

Hey, is she all right?

I'm trying to find out.
She won't answer me.

Hey, lady,
I'm talking to you.

Hey, what's the matter,
can't you hear?

No, I'm deaf.

Oh.

I'm sorry,
I didn't realize.

Bogg, she can't hear you.
She's got to see your face
so she can read your lips.

No wonder she couldn't
hear the wagon.

Hey, are you okay?

You saved me, didn't you?

I guess.

I'm sorry.
Nothing to be sorry about.

But I was delighted
to save you.
I'm Phineas Bogg.

This is Jeffrey Jones.

My name is Mabel Hubbard.

But please, I have to go now.
I'm late for class.

Don't run off.

We'll walk you to school.

Bogg, we've have to
find Bell, remember?

Relax. Where do you
go to school?

Boston University, but please,
I don't want you to walk me.

I caused enough
trouble as it is already.

Well, being deaf is
nothing to be ashamed of.
We could...

Bogg, I think I remember
something about Bell
teaching at Boston University.

See. You almost
let her get away.

Hey, least you could do is
let me walk you to school

after I saved your life.

Well, okay. As you wish.

She's cute, isn't she?

Kind of shy if you ask me.

Well, I like them shy.

You like them period.

No, really,
still waters run deep,
you know.

Bogg, give
the poor girl a break.

She's got enough problems
as it is being deaf.

Besides, we've
gotta find Bell.

Well, maybe Mabel can help.

Besides,
I think it's time we included
her in the conversation.

I feel like we're talking
behind her back.

I guess we're being
kind of rude.

Mabel,
do you know a man named
Alexander Graham Bell?

He's a teacher of the deaf
at the university.

MABEL: Father,
what are you doing here?

Where have you been,
young lady?

You're an hour
late for class.

You know my stand
on punctuality,
never late, never sorry.

Since when do you come
to school to check up on me?

Since you snuck away
from your governess
this morning.

Father, I'm too old
to have a governess.

I can take care of myself.

You can't even get yourself
to class on time.

Who are these two
strange looking characters?

Mr. Hubbard, I can explain.

Sir, if you're...

There was
an accident, Father.
They saved my life.

An accident?

Oh, my God.

No, really, sir.
It wasn't that bad.

I didn't hear
a runaway wagon.

Mr. Bogg pulled me
out of the way.

I'm most
grateful to you, sir.

Why can't I get it
through that pretty head
of yours

how dangerous it is
for a deaf girl to walk
the streets alone?

Please, Father,
don't go into this now.

Not in front of strangers.

I'll talk in front of
whomever I wish.

Your governess was hired
to protect you from just
that kind of thing.

I deserve a life of my own.

So you do,
and you shall have
that life of your own

as long as your governess
is with you.

But I'll not have you
endanger your own life.

I can't hear you, Father.
I've got my eyes closed.

I hate it when she does that.

Pretty good way
to end a conversation.

She's perfected it
to an art.

Go to class,
we'll talk later.

I'll see you at home,
Father.

Thank you.

Excuse me, Mr. Hubbard.

Could you tell us
where we might find
Alexander Graham Bell?

Professor Bell?

That's an easy enough request.

He's over there in the gazebo.

He's working
with Tom Saunder's
little boy.

He's the best teacher
of the deaf I've ever seen.

I hired him to help Mabel
when she was younger
with her pronunciation.

Yes, sir, she told us.

He's a great inventor, too.

So he tried to
convince me once.

I'm a patent attorney.
I've seen enough
of men's folly.

Mr. Bell is a very good
teacher of the deaf.

He should continue
doing that.

Well, I have an appointment,

but here's my card.

If I can be
of any further help...

Good day, sir.
Thank you again.

(PRONOUNCING SLOWLY)
Cat.

Cat.

Cat.

Cat.

Good, Georgie, good.

Can I help you?

Are you Professor Bell?

Yes, I am.

Could we talk
to you a moment?

Certainly.
Georgie's finished
with his lesson.

Just let me dismiss him.

Is the glove
an invention of yours?

I wouldn't call it
an invention.

It's more of a teaching tool.

See, Georgie can neither
hear nor read lips.

To get him to speak
I had to come up

with a way to communicate
with him.

We're interested
in another one
of your inventions.

Really. Which one?
The telephone.

Oh, that.

I'm surprised
you've heard of it.

What's left of it
is around my shop
collecting dust.

But why?

Well, I spend my days teaching
so I'll have the money

to pay for my rent
and eat a few meals.

That only leaves me
my nights free to work

on a more
lucrative invention,

the harmonic telegraph.

But the telephone
is worth millions.

So I've tried to convince
my backers,

but they were only willing
to give me a small sum,

a very small sum
to continue my experiments
on the telegraph.

Wait a minute,
aren't you married
or engaged?

Me?

I have no money
to support a wife.

Not even a girlfriend?

I teach all day and work
on my telegraph at night.

Who has time for courting?

Something coming to you?
Yeah.

If you'll excuse me,
I have to get to my lecture.

If you'd like
to see my telegraph,

you're welcome
to stop by my shop.
It's also my home.

We'd like that.

Fine. It's
at 409 Court Street.

When I'm not here,
I'm there.

You okay?

It's all coming back
to me now.

What?
Now I know
why I feel so weird.

I've seen all this before.
How?

On the late show.

Don Ameche played
Alexander Graham Bell.

You mean they made
a movie about all this?

Yeah.

Bell got
all the money he needed
for his experiments

from his wife's father.

You wouldn't happen
to remember his wife's name,
would you?

I think it was Mabel.
Mabel?

Like the girl
we saved today, Mabel?

Yeah, and her father
in the movie was
a patent attorney,

just like Mr. Hubbard.
Mr. Hubbard.

Which means that Bell
is supposed to marry
Mabel Hubbard.

Exactly.
They barely know each other.

I know. I think
that's why we're here.

So, we got to get
Mabel Hubbard
and Alexander Graham Bell

to fall in love.
Come on.

The way I see it,
we got two problems.

Mabel's too shy
and inhibited
to meet a man,

and Bell doesn't have
enough time to meet
a woman.

Swell, now that
you've figured that out,

what are we gonna
do about it?

Well, wise guy,
one of us should bring
Mabel out of her shell,

and the other
should convince Bell
he should get married.

I've got a feeling
I'm the one who has to
convince Bell.

No, I thought I should.
Why?

You saw how shy Mabel was.

A young boy would be
less threatening to her.

No. I don't think
she's gonna listen
to a kid.

Besides, you're much
better with women.

You're right.
You go over to
Bell's this afternoon.

I'll pay Mabel a visit.

I hope she'll see you.

I saved her life,
of course she'll see me.

Miss Hubbard
sends her regrets,
but she can't see you.

Why not?
She didn't say
and I didn't ask.

Did you tell her
I'm Phineas Bogg,

the guy that saved
her life this morning?

Yes, and she said
she's very grateful.

Well, she has a fine way
of showing her gratitude.

Mabel! Mabel!

Mabel.
It won't do no good
to yell, Mr. Bogg,

she's deaf.

Yeah, but she can see
my lips moving.

I'm just gonna yell louder
until she comes down here.

In fact, I'm gonna yell
so loud

the whole neighborhood's
gonna know that Mabel...

Please, Mr. Bogg,
stop, I'll come down.

I'll be waiting.

Hiya.

Mr. Bogg, you should not
have shouted like that.

This is a very quiet
neighborhood.
Why wouldn't you see me?

I couldn't. I can't.

Why couldn't you?

I was afraid.
Afraid of what?

My experiences
with men are limited.

You don't need experience.

I just want to be friends.
I thought maybe we'd both
enjoy taking a ride

and get something to eat.

Alone. You mean,
me and you?

Why make it sound so terrible?
But...

I promise if you don't
have a good time

I'll take you right back.

No, I can't.
Father wouldn't allow it.

Well, let's ask him.
He's not home.

Well, good,
then he's not here
to say no.

But when he finds out...
If he starts yelling at you,

all you gotta do
is close your eyes.

I get away with a lot
when I do that.

I noticed.
It's a cute trick.

Well, I am kind of hungry.

Good. Now, let's go.

This is your lab?

Well,
we like to call it home.

Since we work here
and eat here
and sleep here.

Maybe we should
call it prison.

You should've seen
the lab Edison has.

You know him?
Sort of.

I hear he's very good.

That he's made some
remarkable improvements
on the telegraph.

Yeah, but nothing like
what you're doing.

That's why they call
his work improvements
and ours experiments.

Don't mind Watson,
he's been working
too hard.

What's this harmonic telegraph
you told me
you were working on?

Well, for right now

you can only send
one message at a time
over a telegraph wire.

If mine will work,
you'll be able to send
many different messages

at the same time.

Well, it's nothing compared
to what the telephone can do.

Well, of course,
the telephone can't do
anything at all.

It will.

It's gonna be
one of the greatest
inventions of all time.

It's nice to have
one believer.

Can I see it?

Well, we haven't worked
on it in months.

Where did we put it, Watson?

Here you go, kid,

the greatest invention
of all time.

BELL: Don't pay any attention
to Watson.

JEFFREY: Does it work?

Well, if it worked,
we wouldn't let it sit around
and collect dust.

Why'd you stop?

The almighty dollar.

We worked on it
till the money ran out.

But you have money
to work on
the harmonic telegraph.

Barely.

The father of the boy
I teach, Mr. Sanders,

gives me just enough
money to pay
for this room

and some supplies.

And he gives me that money
to work on the telegraph,

not on the telephone.

I'm afraid
this will have to wait

until I make some money
on inventions
other people believe in.

Tomorrow you're gonna
meet a woman who's gonna
solve all your problems.

A woman?

You remember them, Aleck?

They're soft,
they wear dresses.

Their voices have
a higher pitch than men's.

I think we used to
take them out on dates
once in a while.

I remember.

Jeffrey, as much
as I would like
to meet a woman,

I do not have the time.

Besides,
I do not have the money

or the place to entertain.

It's not just for romance.

You could talk
some business, too.

What kind of business?

Well, her father's
a wealthy patent attorney.

He can give you the money
you need for the telephone.

This woman's name
wouldn't be Hubbard,
would it?

Yeah, Mabel Hubbard.

Why, I taught
Mabel years ago.

She's very young.

Not anymore,
she's all grown up.

Well, it really
wouldn't work anyway

because I've already
asked Mr. Hubbard
for financial support.

He was not interested
in my invention.

But Mabel can talk
her father into anything.

You convince her,
she'll convince her father.

I would never use a woman
to obtain money.

Forget the money.

Just see her because
you're a Ionely old grouch

and her company would
probably do you some good.

No, I can't,
I'm much too busy.

Well, you have to make time.

She's already planning
to come over tomorrow.

(WHISPERING) I hope.

MAN: Hey, waiter.

Chocolate cake.
Waiter!

We ordered
cherry phosphate,
not lemonade.

Oh, my, you're right.
I'm sorry. Look,
it's my first day.

It's too much. I just
can't handle it all.
That's okay.

Lemonade's fine,
really.

Thank you, so much.
Thanks.

You haven't said
a word since we left
your house.

I don't know what to say.

Come on, relax.

(SIGHING)

I think we better
get back now.

We just got here.

I shouldn't be doing this.

I promised myself
I wouldn't see men anymore.

And why is that?

I'm deaf.

Men aren't interested
in a deaf wife.

That's not true.

I'm afraid it is.

A lot of men
approach me because
they find me attractive.

But you ought to see
how the looks on
their faces change

when I tell them
I'm deaf.

Suddenly, they don't
come around anymore.

I'm sorry,
I guess I didn't understand.

Oh, it's okay.

Ever since the last one,
I learned to accept it.

You want to
tell me about it?

There was this boy,
I loved him very much.

So much that I pretended
I could hear.

He was handsome and smart.

Worst of all
he was a musician.

I never took my eyes
off his face for fear

I'd miss something
he said and he'd find out.

So, I commented on
how birds sang,

how pleasant crickets sounded
on summer's evening,

and I'd spend hours
listening to him play a piano
that I couldn't hear.

What happened?

On the night that
he took me to meet
his parents

I sat at the dinner table
frantically watching
everyone's lips.

I didn't hear the maid
drop a stack of plates
behind me.

And that's it?
He stopped seeing you?

Not right away.

He was a nice boy.

He saw me one more time
and pretended
that it didn't matter.

Then I got
a very sweet letter.

Look,
I don't know what to say.

That's a sad story,
but everybody
is not like that.

Sure.

Listen, I know somebody
you should meet.

Somebody that wouldn't care
at all that you're deaf.

Look, some other time,
all right.
No, really.

In fact he already knows
you can't hear.
It's Alexander Bell.

Professor Bell?
My old teacher?

Yeah.

Oh, I'm sorry.
Let me clean that off.

I'll get some water.
Let me...
I'll get some water.

(LAUGHING)

What's so funny?

How could you?
How could I what?

You mean this?

Oh, no. You wouldn't.

(KNOCKING ON DOOR)

Don't answer it, it's
probably the bill collector.
Probably the bill collector.

Hey.

How did it go?

Pretty well.
Does Bell want to
meet Mabel?

Yeah, I even think
he's excited about it.

Bring her over about 4:00.
He's got classes till noon,

and I'll need
the rest of the time
to get him ready.

Good, I need time
to teach a little class
of my own.

See you.

But why do you want me
to meet Mr. Bell?

I mean, he's got long hair
and he dresses funny.

Oh, so what?
What did I look like
when you first met me?

Oh, yeah.

What do you mean,
oh, yeah?

Oh, I don't know, Phineas.

I mean, I get so nervous
and shy around men.

Don't worry, if you can
get used to me you can
get used to anybody.

Besides, I'm gonna give you
the Phineas Bogg crash course

on how to be comfortable
around men.

This should be interesting.
No, really.

Start out by being
light, happy.
Smile a lot. Laugh a lot.

What if he doesn't
say anything funny?

Laugh anyway.

And if he starts
talking about things
you don't understand,

just nod your head,
yes, throw in a couple
of uh-huh's.

And when he pauses,
say something like,
"That's very interesting."

Even if it's not?

Especially if it's not.

Well, what if he doesn't
say anything at all?

Easy, you ask him
a question about himself.

Pretend he's the most
interesting man in
the whole world.

What if he asks me
to dance?

He's not gonna
ask you to dance.

You never know, Phineas.

You know, you don't
have to hear to be able
to dance.

Well, don't you think
it would be nice if I could
keep step with the music?

You can. Get up.

Come on.

(SOFT MUSIC PLAYING)

Okay. Okay, now,
just follow me.

Ready?

(HUMMING)

There's just one problem.
What's that?

I can't watch the music
and my feet at the same time.

Well, don't watch your feet.
Just move with my body.

(LAUGHING)

Phineas, this is wonderful.

You're doing great.

I never knew dancing
could be so much fun.

That last step was murder.

Are you okay?

I can't remember
when I've felt better.

Mabel should be here
any minute. I got to go.

Jeffrey, Jeffrey,
you don't have to run off.

I'm sure Mabel wouldn't
mind if you stayed.

Mr. Bell,
you're on your own.

Mabel.

Mabel, about what
happened back there.

Yes, Phineas?

It shouldn't have.
It was a mistake.

Yeah, of course.

I mean we both
got carried away
in the lesson, that's all.

You're right.

The whole purpose
was to get you at ease
around men enough

to meet Mr. Bell.

I guess we got
a little too at ease.

Yeah.

Okay, remember
everything I told you?

Big smile, light,
happy, attentive.

Good. He's gonna be
crazy about you.

I hope so.

I wouldn't want to
let down my teacher.

How nice to see you
again, Professor Bell.

Jeffrey was right,
you have grown up.

(LAUGHING)

What an amusing
thing to say.

I didn't mean it
to be amusing.

I...

May I come in?

Oh, of course.

Please, sit down.

So far so good.

You think so?

She got through
the door okay.
He didn't trip.

So, Mr. Bell, I...

Please, call me Aleck.

Please, call me Mabel.

So, Aleck, I hear
you're quite an inventor.

I hope so.

You know, there's one
particular invention
I'm very excited about.

It's a device that will
send the human voice
through a wire

much the same way
a telegraph does.

Really? I'd love
to see how it works.

And I'd love to show it you

but I'm afraid
it's impossible.

Yeah, I guess it would be
a waste showing me,

since I can't hear
the human voice
or anything else.

No, no, that's not it at all.

I can't show it to you
because it doesn't work yet.

Oh.

Well, it was certainly
nice of you to invite me
over like this.

Invite you? But I...

I mean, Jeffrey said that
you were coming by and...

You didn't invite me?

Well, I would have
if I had thought of it but...

But you didn't.

(SIGHING)

Oh, I get it.

Phineas Bogg
asked you to see me.

No, that's not it at all.

It's just that I make
a practice of not
getting involved

with any
of my female students.

Because they're deaf?

No.

(SOBBING)

No, it's because usually
they're too young.

Sure, I understand.
It's all right, Mr. Bell.

I mean, there's no reason
you should be any different
than any of the others.

What are you talking about?

Men. None of them,

including you,
could ever get serious
about a deaf girl.

I mean, you have to see them
all day at school.

Why do you want to be
bothered with them
when you get home?

That's not...
That's not true, Mabel.

In fact,

there's one deaf woman
in particular
I'm very serious about.

I used to go home
to her every day.

Who's the lucky girl?

My mother.

I'm sorry, I didn't know.

No, there's no reason
to be sorry.

She is a great woman.

And she taught me
that it doesn't matter

if you can hear or see,
or walk.

The important thing is what
kind of a person you are
in spite of it all.

Right now,
I feel like a fool.

No, no, you're not.

You're a beautiful,
intelligent woman

who's probably been hurt
a few times.

So you're deaf.

I'm not incredibly handsome.
Does that make us
any less as people?

No, I guess not.

I guess not.

Here, dry your eyes

and I'm gonna show you
a great invention

that doesn't work.

Well, I'm ready to receive
when you're ready to send.

Be ready in a minute.

So you like her.

Mabel? Yes.

But do you really like her?

She has a spirit
that's irresistible.

And she's pretty too.

Very.

And, yes, I want
to see her again.

All right!
Soon.

But for right now
let's concentrate on
the harmonic telegraph.

You know,
I bet if you were
engaged to Mabel,

Mr. Hubbard would give you
the financial support
for your inventions.

Boy, you like
to rush things.

All we know is
I like her.

We still don't know
if she likes me.

Oh, she does.

(SIGHING)

I haven't had a chance
to ask you how it went
with Mr. Bell today.

I thought you were watching.

The kid made me leave
about halfway through.

Well, I had a very nice time.

Oh, good, good.

You talked?

Yeah, we talked a lot.

He is a very interesting man.

Did you know that
he's perfected a form
of visible speech

whereby a person
can imitate a sound
he's never heard?

No, no, I didn't know that.

So you really liked him, huh?

He's quite an original man.

He's warm,
sensitive, intelligent.

And he made me feel
very much at ease.

Yeah, I liked him,
quite a lot.

Do you think you could
love a man like Bell?

Yes, I think I could.

Hey, great. 'Cause...
I could,

that is, if I wasn't already
in love with you.

(TAPPING)

Nothing happened
on the third one.

The free end of the reed
must be too close to
the electromagnetic pole.

It's probably frozen.

See if you can
pluck it free.
Okay.

Bogg, come here,
you gotta see this.

I got to talk to you.

Look, I hope you understand
what I'm gonna tell you.

I don't like it
when you get serious.

Yeah, well, this is serious.

No, I can't go on
with this anymore.

On with what?

Bell and Mabel.

We got to find some other
way to get the money
for the telephone.

Why?

Because I love Mabel,
and she loves me.

And I can't give her up.

I mean it,
I've never felt this way
about anyone before.

But we have a job to do.
I know.

We'll figure some other way
to get the money.
No!

We can't change history.

Why am I telling you this?
You're the one
who's always telling me.

Bell and Mabel are
supposed to get married.

You don't understand,
I love her.

I've heard that one before.
No, you haven't.

I've fallen
for a few in my time

but I never said
I loved any of them.

So what do you plan to do,
stop being a voyager,

stay home and raise kids?

I know that sounds crazy,
but right now that's exactly
what I feel like doing.

No, Bogg, it doesn't
just sound crazy,
it is crazy.

Yeah, well, it's hard
traveling around all the time,
you know.

Just when I get close
to somebody I got to
leave again.

I know, I get Ionely, too.

But like it or not
we've got the most
important job in history.

And if we don't do that job,
history is gonna change.

Telephone won't be invented,
Eisenhower won't be born

and millions of other things
will be different.

You're not telling me
anything I haven't
already told myself.

The fact is, kid,
I don't know
what I'm gonna do.

(VIBRATING)

Watson!

Watson, what are you doing?

I'm plucking the reed free.

Keep doing it,
I can hear the vibrations.

This is it!

It's generating
audible sounds.

What's going on?

I can hear the exact sound
Watson is producing.

I can hear its timbre.

No less complex
or subtle than the sound
of symphonies.

And speech.
Yes. And speech.

Does this mean you've
invented the phone?

No, no, I'm afraid
I'm a long way from that.

But this proves
it will work.

You mean, we finally
made progress?

Good progress.
We still need money
for supplies.

Without it, we're not
much further along.

Yes, but now you can
convince people.

Now that this has happened?

No, they won't know
what this means,
how much closer we are.

The telephone
has been born.

But for a while,
a long while,

it will remain an infant.

(BEEPING)

Good morning, sweetheart.

Is there something wrong?
With me?

No, no, couldn't be better.

So, where do you
want to go for lunch?

Well, I really just came by
to say I couldn't go.

What? Why not?

I just have some things
I got to do.

But last night,
we made plans.

I know, I know,
but things change.

We've seen too much
of each other already.

Well, it hasn't been
too much for me.

See, that's what
I was afraid of.

You're getting too attached.

Too attached?

Yeah, I mean I'm not
the kind of guy
that gets serious.

I like to stay loose,
on the move.

I don't want
any woman hanging on.

But last night... I mean,
you said you loved me.

Did I?

Well, I guess,
I say that to a lot of girls.

Oh, please, Phineas,
don't talk like this.

It's like I don't
even know you.

Look, this is
the real Phineas Bogg,
okay?

I'll say anything
or do anything to get
a girl interested.

Please, Phineas,
I know that's not true.

Well, face it, will you?

You're just another
pretty face to me.

You don't mean any more
to me than the girl I met
last week

or the girl I'll probably
meet tomorrow.

(SOBBING)

Mabel, I hope someday
you can forgive me.

And I hope someday
I can forget
how much I love you.

I'm glad you came over,
Mabel.

Did you really mean
all those things you said
the other day?

Of course.

I may not be much,
but I am honest.

I'll be honest with you, too.

I came over here today
because someone I thought

I really cared about
hurt me badly.

I understand.

I just needed
someone to lean on,
a shoulder to cry on.

You were the first
person I thought of.

I'm glad you did, Mabel.

Here's my shoulder.

It's all yours.

Come on.

You did the right thing.
I don't know.

If there was a medal
for voyager action
above and beyond

the call of duty,
you'd deserve it.

Thanks.

(DINGS)

Green light,
let's get out of here, huh?

We gotta see
the telephone get invented.

How long before
that happens?

I think I remember
from the late show

it was sometime in March.

Okay, we'll Omni forward.
But if Mabel's there,

I don't think I'll be able
to stick around.

It's March, all right,
and it's coming in
like a lion.

Yeah, let's get inside.

(KNOCKING ON DOOR)

Well, I'll be.
We thought we lost
you two forever.

Aleck, look who's here.

Where have you two been?

We had to go away
for a while.

Well, I'm glad you're back.

And I have great news.
Mabel and I are engaged.

Congratulations, that's great.
You're a lucky man.

You don't have to tell me.

And if it wasn't
for the two of you

I never would have
gotten to know her.

Hey, did Mr. Hubbard
finally come around
and give you support?

You were right, Jeffrey,
Mabel talked him into it.

Great.

Come, we were just about
to try something new.

Inside this cone
I have placed a diaphragm

much like the eardrum
in your ear.

When I talk into it,
the vibrations are sent
through this wire

that sits in the water.

That causes
an electric current
that varies

and those variations
are sent to
the receiving diaphragm,

reproducing the human voice.

When you gonna try it?
Right now.

Jeffrey, you and Watson
go in the other room.

Mr. Bogg,
you can stay with me.

Don't get your hopes
up too high, kid.

This ain't the first time
we tried this.

We've been at this thing
for three hours.

It's never going to work.

Sure it is, it has to.

Yeah, well, if a miracle
happens you wake me up.

I'm gonna take a nap.

I don't understand,
it should work.

Why is the wire in the water?

Water acts as a conductor
for the electricity.

Maybe it's not
a good enough conductor.

I can fix that.

This acid will make it
a better conductor.

Let's see if it
works any better.

(EXCLAIMING)

Mr. Watson, come here,
I want you!

Mr. Watson!

It works! It works!
Watson, wake up, it works!

Mr. Watson!

Come here, I want you!

(EXCLAIMING)

We heard your voice!
You should have,
I was yelling loud enough.

I dropped acid on my leg.

No, we heard your voice
over the wire.

You did?

It works.

It works!

It works!

(BABY CRYING)

He's crying.
He's all right.
It's a boy.

No, I don't have to see it
to know it's a boy.

His name is Dwight David
and he's gonna be president.

Yeah, I'll ask them.
How's the mother?

BOGG: She's fine,
smiling like crazy.

She's fine, Doc.

Yeah,
we can take it from here.

You'll be here tomorrow?

All right, I'll tell them.
Bye-bye, Doc.

Hey, kid, you gotta see this.

You did it, Bogg.

Well, I just brought in
the hot water and towels,

Mrs. Thomas delivered him.

You know,
this baby is gonna be head
of the allied forces

in World War II.

President
of the United States.

Don't tell
Mr. Eisenhower that,

he's had enough
excitement for one day.

How is he?
Great.

He's just sitting in there
staring at his wife
with a big grin on his face.

And he said
to say thank you.

JEFFREY:
There's one other person
he should thank.

Who's that?

Alexander Graham Bell.
Oh, yeah.

Him and Mabel
are probably gonna have
a couple of these, huh?

Tell me something, Bogg.

Would you really have
given up being a voyager
to stay with Mabel?

And miss a moment like this?

We're voyagers, kid,
and this is the only pay
we get.

JEFFREY... If you wanna
learn more about
Alexander Graham Bell

and his inventions
or President Dwight
David Eisenhower,

take a voyage
down to your public library.

It's all in books!

Done by (c) dCd / January 2008