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People ask, where do you get your ideas?

Right here.

Oh, this is my magician's toy shop.

I'm Ray Bradbury, and this is...

We've missed the rocket.

We're all alone now.

I know.

Someone will come back, won't they?

Of course they will.

You believe that?

I do.

Still here.

One small...

Everything okay?

Yeah.

It's getting late.

Time for bed, kids.

John?

I'm all right, Cora.

You're not.

You're thinking about the past.

What else is there to think about?

You go on back in the house. I'm going to take my walk.

I thought so.

Do you forgive me for what I've done?

I was very much alone.

You do understand, don't you?

You keep waiting.

I'm thinking, maybe, some night, a new rocket may come from

Earth.

20 years.

It is.

It is.

Dear God, it is.

Cora!

Bad Tom!

Come look!

Come, quick!

Come here. What is this?

Look.

It's a rocket.

A ship. See it even with the naked eye. It's coming this way.

We're going home.

We need a million light.

Bright stars.

We're going home.

I thought we had some strawberries in here.

Yeah, there should be some juice and nuts in there as well.

Yeah,

there they are.

Tom, give me a hand. We're going to need some chicken, some beans. We'll upgrade

the big freezer.

Then we'll go down and meet the ship.

We'll be back soon.

Better hurry up. They'll be landing soon.

Mom, which one should I wear?

That one, dear.

Your father wants us to look our best

Wilder? Hathaway.

It's been a long time, Captain. I got old.

Who hasn't?

John Hathaway from my old crew, the Fourth Expedition. Bill Williamson,

Renfro. Bill?

Elaine?

It has been a long time. So much has happened.

I can imagine.

We've made a welcome celebration for you.

We? Yes.

Oh, of course, your wife.

When they established First Town, he came here with his wife.

You had children.

My son, my daughter. I remember.

They're all here now.

It's a long story.

We can all go in my buggy.

I'm sure that you're hungry for real food.

Compute our departure time and follow us.

Right, Captain.

So what happened?

We were out in the mountains. We got stuck on a dig, some old ruins.

We got back to town one week late. Everybody was gone.

I remember that order. Forget all the stragglers.

We were the only ones left behind.

Yes, I think you are. You are. We have circled this place twice and found no

one. It's virtually dead.

It's lucky we saw your light.

Well, I couldn't take a chance. Did you mind missing?

What's happening on Earth? I get Earth radio once in a while, but the signal's

so faint I can't hear anything.

The wars are over.

We're rebuilding.

This is the first expedition since peace to check out Mars for survivors.

Will you go back with us?

Will I?

Tom, what do you think?

Do we want to go back to Earth?

Captain Wilder?

Yes, of course. How are you? Well, thank you.

And this is Bill Williamson and Elaine Renfro. This is my wife, Cora.

You've met Tom and this is our daughter, Marguerite.

Marguerite.

Cora, how long has it been?

20 years.

You look like... Thank you.

I can't get over this place.

Is that gingerbread I smell?

Fresh -baked.

Come and have some. We raided the freezer for you guys.

You manage to keep food in the freezer all the time? When we realized we were

stranded, we moved very quickly to store whatever we could.

And we saved some for a special occasion, like this.

We're honored.

No, we are.

More coffee, Captain?

Yes, thank you.

You're not eating?

Oh, we stuffed ourselves while preparing all this.

Some more chicken.

It's John's favorite, but I'm sure he won't mind.

Cora, your food is wonderful.

She was always a great cook.

She taught all of us.

There's not really very much else to do here, you know. You're a lucky man.

She's talented, beautiful. She doesn't look a day over three.

Flattery will get you everything.

Uh, some more wine.

Captain.

I went to school with Tom Hathaway. That's what, 20 years ago?

He should be at least 40.

I know.

And the girl.

My cutting date of Marguerite Hathaway before they left for Mars in the year

2005.

She was 17 years old then.

Tom.

How old are you now?

21.

And you, Marguerite?

Hey, I'm going to have to take you guys into town after lunch.

It's got a lot of surprises for you.

With everybody gone, the town was a little lonely, so I...

I've brought it back to life.

You're a brilliant man, John.

And with a town full of technology, I can see how you could do anything you

wanted to.

Not everything.

I couldn't build a rock. I couldn't get us back to Earth.

But now we're going back with you, so it's all right.

I told Cora to be ready. She's always very prompt. Right.

You go on inside.

I'll... join you in a moment. There's something I have to take care of just

before we go.

Thank you.

Very quickly, in a single week, they were all gone.

Tom was the first.

I tried everything I could think of.

But this is Mars, and the virus was new to us.

I couldn't identify it. I couldn't isolate it. I never did.

You had no medications?

Nothing worked.

Marguerite was next.

My baby.

My poor baby.

And the next night, I heard her whimper in her sleep.

When I reached over to touch her, she was burning up.

Lost all of one week.

Lost everything.

I prayed to the virus to take me, too.

I never got sick.

I was alone on the planet.

Entire planet, alone.

All I could think of was them.

I couldn't do my work. What for?

Their faces.

Didn't get dim the way they're supposed to. They got stronger.

The sound of them, the way they laughed.

And out of all that, an idea began to

take over.

I began to piece together bit by bit the things that were dear to me.

A brilliant man played God.

I created him.

Recreated my family.

I programmed the new ones with all the memories.

Of what they had been.

Of what they could still become.

And now they are my family.

You've been living with androids for 20 years.

With memories.

My memories.

In the end, that's all anybody has.

I don't know.

Maybe.

We have to leave soon.

Yes, how soon?

Within the hour.

That's not very much time. I have to prepare them for the trip.

By the way, we can only take you.

Can't do it.

if you wish.

Please just give me a few minutes alone.

There are some things that we've never even talked about

all these years.

Talked about saying goodbye.

Goodbye? What is goodbye?

Captain Wilder's ship has to go,

leave, very soon.

Oh, God.

They can't take you.

Going away.

No one has ever gone away.

No, but... It won't be.

No one has ever gone away before.

Will he go?

Not with us.

He, uh, passed away.

With heart.

I'm sorry.

I feel fine, thank you.

He told us this would happen one day.

But he didn't want us ever to feel sad or cry.

He said the worst thing for anyone was to know how to be lonely or sad or cry.

So he didn't teach us.

Mr. Hathaway did a good job on you and the children.

He would have liked to hear you say that.

He was very proud of us after a while. He forgot that he made us in the end

He loved and took us as his real wife and

children And in a way we are You

were a great country to him There's another thing he couldn't do

make us grow old He got older and older every day, but we stayed the

same.

I guess he didn't mind. I guess he wanted us this way.

Maybe we could bury him on a slope with the others.

I think he would like that.

Goodbye, Cora.

Goodbye, Captain Walter.

Goodbye, children.

Your favorite, Tony.