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Thank you.

Mr. Hanley.

Who are you?

What do you want from me?

You know who we are.

No. No one can escape his punishment, Mr. Hanley. Punishment?

What punishment? I haven't done anything.

There's been a mistake.

The tribunal doesn't make mistakes.

Terrible, terrible dream. People were chasing me.

Some kind of a tribunal sent them, they said.

Probably the Tribunal Collection Agency.

Maybe we should forget about that new car we were looking at.

Hey.

Is it that's it?

Well, I took two courses in psychology, didn't I?

To qualify you to marry a deranged scientist.

Don't you talk about my husband that way.

Oh, boy, that dream, I tell you. He is a great genius who is going to win the

Nobel Prize.

His wife, on the other hand, is still a struggling designer who is late for

work. Hey, hope that wasn't all my fault.

You're sure you're all right?

Just had a bad dream, that's all.

No more pizza and pepperoni before bedtime.

I swear.

Sorry for waking you.

Howard, I had a dream last night.

Uh -huh. Well, this morning, I should say, I guess. Some people were chasing

Repressed guilt? Edible fantasies? One of them cut me with a sharp edge of a

bracelet he was wearing, and when I woke up, the cut was still there.

Same place.

You probably cut yourself the day before and didn't even notice it.

Then in your dream, the injury emerged from your subconscious.

Routine stuff.

Can't even charge your feet.

it down to specific cases.

This is O 'Hara.

Nice little fellow, but not too heavy in the think department.

We put him in the maze and told him to hunt down his dinner.

But the maze is a little too much for him.

As you see, he's not very good at it.

Like father, like son.

Of O 'Hara's 12 children and 102 grandchildren, only 16 completed the

the time that an average guinea pig can do it.

What happens to the O 'Haras of the animal world? What future can they look

forward to?

None. They're doomed.

The difference between a genius and a mental defective is determined by a

substance present in every living cell.

DNA, the keeper of the genetic code.

After two years of experimenting, we isolated the intelligence factor in DNA,

reproduced it in the lab, and injected some into a newly pregnant O 'Hara

pig.

The result?

A new O 'Hara.

It's obviously no problem for this fella to get that married.

here in the laboratory we can and must do for the race of man.

The fate of newborn children will no longer be left to chance.

Every child, every human creature will have the capacity to become an Einstein,

a Freud.

He'll be able to shape his own destiny, to have a full, rich life, to contribute

to society, to the world in which he lives.

It's an age -old dream.

But in our lifetime,

If we will it, the dream can become a reality.

Jim, that was quite a demonstration.

I'd like to talk to you when you have time.

At your convenience, Dr. Malcolm.

impractical. Brave new world.

A better world, hopefully.

Maybe you're overlooking something.

Nature made some men strong and some weak.

Perhaps there was a good reason for it.

I don't believe in the infallibility of nature.

We improve on nature to heal the sick.

But you want to make everyone an Einstein.

What the world needs are laborers as well as Einsteins.

And slaves.

masters. Do you want to put the power into the hands of millions so they can

destroy the natural order of everything?

No.

I prefer the optimistic view.

You're very sure of yourself, aren't you?

That can be very dangerous.

Proposal to the board of the Heisenberg Institute.

In light of the possibilities opened up by the recent successful

experiments in the field of DNA chemistry.

No.

Proposal to the Heisenberg Institute.

Recent development in the field of DNA chemistry.

Recent development in the field of DNA chemistry.

Recent...

How are you feeling?

Was it necessary to be that rough?

Your orders were to bring him in. I wasn't very cooperative.

I had to chase him all over the place.

What is it that you want of me? Who are you?

We were sent by the tribunal.

What tribunal?

This is where they tell us they're all innocent.

They haven't done anything.

Death row is full of innocent men.

I didn't mean to kill her. I didn't know the gun was loaded.

You see, we have heard all the pleas, you know. Every one of them.

You get your chance just like the others. This is insane.

My name is Jim Hanley. I know who you are, Dr. Hanley. I've followed your work

with the greatest interest.

Oh, well.

And you must be a scientist, too.

Let us say I am an observer of scientists.

Let's get on with it. It's getting late.

Comments you made this morning after my lecture. Very interesting.

Wow. Flattered.

Thank you very much.

What's your name?

Ernest Kagan.

What happened to your leg?

Oh, I tripped on the stairway when I was leaving a demonstration this morning.

They fixed me up in the infirmary.

How did you happen to come to my lecture? I haven't seen you around this

institute before.

But I'm not enrolled here. I was given special permission to audit your

demonstration.

I'm aware of your reputation.

I hope you didn't mind.

Uh, no. What, uh, you were wearing a bracelet.

It's on your left hand.

Now, you must be mistaken thinking of someone else.

Nice talking to you.

I dreamed and in the lecture hall.

I saw it. I know I saw it.

And his windshield was smashed in exactly the same place where I smashed

In the dream?

Yeah. Except it wasn't just a dream. It was... It was something more real.

Why do you say that?

What about that cast on his leg?

He said they treated him in the infirmary. Nobody there knew anything

So I checked him out with the security people.

Nobody had seen him there either.

You don't believe me?

You think I'm crazy?

I think you're frightened.

Those people who were chasing me, they wanted to punish me for something.

They wanted me dead.

I know it.

How are things going in the rest of your life?

Oh, it's fine.

You've been under a strain, Jim.

Fourteen -hour work days, month after month.

A controversial project that's heading off into the scientific unknown.

No matter how well you think you've been handling it, there have to be tensions.

And naturally, they'll emerge when your conscious guard is down in your dreams.

Well, thanks for clearing it all up for me. I'll just take a tranquilizer and go

to bed with a copy of Freud's Psychopathology.

I'm not just some kind of a superstitious nut. I'm a scientist.

I deal in the rational, the explainable.

And I have no rational explanation for what's happening, and neither do you.

You can't be sure of what you've been dreaming or what you're imagining.

As a psychiatrist, I've seen dozens of cases like it.

And in your case, there's no evidence for any diagnosis except mental and

emotional strain.

Now, one serious problem.

You're overdue for a vacation.

Oh.

My informants tell me the Albacore are coming inshore. Big as Marla.

How about coming out with me next weekend?

It's nothing like a case of seasickness to make me forget my troubles.

I'll think about it.

Jim?

Sorry, I startled you.

Jim,

there's something that I've been concerned about.

As you know, we're not entirely autonomous here at the interview.

We depend upon quite a few public as well as private agencies for the

especially for the more avant -garde projects such as your own. DNA projects

only in the believe -it -or -not category.

I was awarded a Mannheim Fellowship for my work.

Yes, I understand that, but... Jim, this morning I got a call from one of our

trustees. He's not happy with the direction you're taking.

Oh, so? What's bothering him?

I heard about your demonstration.

He's very much concerned that your artificial creation of life is going to

a storm in religious circles.

Forty years ago, Clarence Darrow had to defend a school teacher named Scopes

against the charge of teaching the theory of evolution.

But that was over 40 years ago. I'd like to think we've progressed a little

since then. Jim, that is not the point.

You're one of our most important people, but we depend on public funds and

public support for our work.

I want you to stop the project.

If my work is too advanced for this institute, I'm sure there are other

that would welcome me.

Nobody is going to stop this project.

Well, of course I can't order you. I won't hear of you leaving.

But Jim, we do have a problem.

All I ask is you think about what I've said before you reject me.

For all our sakes.

I just can't believe it.

Imagine, telling me to abandon the project.

You think some cocoa might help calm you down?

Thanks. Merely because it happens to offend someone's sensibilities.

Darling, you've been working with Dr. Malcolm now for five years.

He's a very nice man who tries to keep everybody happy. That's his job.

No one can force you to do anything.

You're a Mannheim fellow with lifelong tenure.

You outrank practically everyone at the Institute.

So why get upset about some minor league bureaucratic static?

You know, you're right.

I've been much too emotional about it.

Much too much.

These dreams must be getting to me.

You know, Dr.

Malcolm is really just trying to be a good friend.

Yeah, as you say, he's a very nice man.

I'm trying to be better to him in the future. You want to turn those lights

and let's get to bed, huh?

You do what you have to do, I guess.

Officer! Officer! Open the door! Help me!

Officer! Officer!

Please!

You must know all about them, then.

I've always known.

Well, why didn't you tell me? I couldn't take a chance before.

Jim, you've got to get away.

Once the tribunal starts after a man, they won't stop them. They've huddled

down. Why me?

What have I done?

Don't you know? No.

You've known me all my life, practically.

What do you think I'm guilty of?

Well, whatever they're after you for, they'll put you on trial if they find

And there's only one way for it to end.

Help me.

You've got to help me, Howard.

I'm one of a group of... people called the Friends.

We're trying to fight the tribunal.

If we can get to our headquarters down the coast, that'll be safe.

Now you stay hidden, and I'll meet you here back... No!

You can't beat me! I've got to find someone. How is it? How is it? How is

How is it?

Jim?

Dr. Goodman, this is Laurel Hanley.

It's Jim. Can you come over quickly, please?

Thank you.

It probably was a severe spasm of the chest muscles. Sometimes you can have a

stomach spasm.

It feels as though it's in your chest.

Oh, I'll take it for you, Doctor.

Thank you.

Watch it.

Stay in bed.

Take it easy.

Call me if there's any reoccurrence whatsoever. And I'd like to see you in

office at about...

Well, two o 'clock this afternoon. Oh, no, there's no need for that. I'm fine.

I'm sure you are, Jim, but I just want to make doubly sure in the office where

can give you a thorough examination.

Oh, Dave. I'll see you at two.

Don't let him give you any trouble.

Thank you, Doctor.

Dave. Huh?

That shot you gave me.

Oh, that was just something to put you to sleep.

Oh, no.

Look, you're not a machine. You can't work every minute of your life.

I'll see you later.

The dream again?

Three times in a row.

What are you going to do?

I'm going to call Howard. Why are you going to call Howard? Who else have I

to talk to?

All right, lay down. I'll call him. I'm not an invalid. I'll call him.

Yes, this is Mrs. Hanley. May I speak to Dr. Geary, please?

I see.

When he comes back, would you please ask him to call Dr. Hanley?

Thank you.

He's gone motorcycling for the day.

He'll call you as soon as he checks in.

Now, you get some sleep.

Come on, I'm going to stay home today, and I want you to rest.

No, I... Come on, now. I don't want to go to work.

No, I'm staying home.

And you're going to get some rest. No.

You see them there?

We'll head across the back part of town. Pick up the main road leading out of

town.

Please get in on busy signal 555 -4699.

It's an emergency.

My name is Jim Henry.

Dr. Geary's office.

May I help you? Yes, please, Dr. Geary.

It's urgent.

This is Dr. Geary's service. Dr.

Geary is at the county hospital.

An emergency.

Hey, what happened?

Guy got killed on a motorcycle.

Smashed into a gas pump.

Oh, yeah. Oh, God.

How awful life can be.

For Dr.

Geary to die like that in a crazy accident.

It was no accident.

It was murder.

I want you to get away for a while. Take some time off.

Perhaps you and Laurel can go somewhere together.

Howard's dead, but I'm not.

And you're not getting me out of the way.

I'm going to finish the DNA project, and neither you nor anyone else is going to

trick me into abandoning my work.

Jim!

This has nothing to do with the project, Jim.

I don't intend to watch you run yourself into the ground.

Now, you're going to take a vacation.

That's an order.

I'm sorry. I've been under restraint. Forgive me.

My family owns an old house up north. It's a small town, ideal place to relax.

Why don't you both fly up there in the morning? I'll have the caretaker meet

at the airport.

That sounds wonderful.

Thank you.

There's only one other time I've seen this house.

In my dream.

The day that Howard Gary was killed.

Jim, those kind of decorations are in lots of old houses.

If you were the kind of person who noticed things instead of thinking about

molecules all the time, you'd remember being in houses like this dozens of

times.

Oh, honey, please.

These are not ordinary dreams.

Something is happening that cannot be explained away.

They're fandoms.

You're here to forget all about that, remember?

I can't forget it.

Maybe you ought to talk to somebody else about this.

One of Howard's friends.

You mean a psychiatrist?

You talked to Howard. He was a psychiatrist. Howard was my best friend.

Jim, we're splitting hairs.

I'm only trying to help you face up to the doubts you have yourself.

You need someone you can talk to who can help you.

Do you think something is happening to my mind?

Do you?

Turning these dreams into an obsession.

I'm just trying to understand what's happening.

And it's driving you crazy.

All I'm saying is talk to someone who can be objective about it.

Someone who has a perspective and can bring some kind of reality to this. Stop

it. I know what I've seen. I know.

Why do you doubt my sanity?

You just said I was going crazy.

Please, Jim.

I love you.

Just trying to help you.

Maybe I'm saying all the wrong things.

But I don't know what to say.

Or think.

or believe anymore.

I'm innocent.

No.

Please.

I'm innocent.

Please. I'm innocent.

I don't understand. I'm innocent.

I'm innocent.

You all right?

What are you doing?

Oh, good morning.

I saw the camera and I was putting some new film in it, so would you take it

out?

There was a picture in the mirror.

What did you do with it? I thought it was an old one that was spoiled.

I told you I was going to prove that my dreams are real. Now what did you do

with that picture?

I threw it away.

What? Where?

In a waste paper basket. I just...

I'm gonna go in and get dressed.

Well, it sure doesn't seem like it, but you know we've been home for almost a

week.

You in there?

Jim, do you know what day this is? It's the last day of your vacation.

In the old days, you'd be studiously planted in front of the television set,

watching 18 consecutive hours of football games.

Season's over.

Oh.

Oh! Well, then.

I hear there's a great new group down at Harry's Cellar.

Would you believe the eardrums?

We can eat at Albert's.

I'll get my hair done.

You'll think you're married to a brand new wife.

I'm afraid what you need is a brand new husband.

Hey, sounds great.

Go ahead, get your hair fixed.

Okay.

I'll see you later.

Operator, get me the police.

He's on to it. Control him.

There's a man in my dream. What do you people want from me? I've never seen you

before. Don't you lie to me. You're insane.

I tell you, you're the man in my dream.

He broke into my house.

They've got my wife up there.

They've kidnapped her.

I have never seen this man before, officer. He must be dreaming.

He's lying.

And there's another one.

His name's Kagan.

He's got my wife up there, in that room.

Officer, I've lived in this house for 15 years.

Your captain will attest to the fact that I am not in the kidnap business.

Please, listen to me.

My wife is up there in that room.

I heard her voice.

Why don't you have a look?

If you don't mind, Mr. Delgrave.

Not at all.

Let me go with you.

Please.

My wife's voice.

Come on, let's go.

Come on, we're placing him under arrest. But he's lying, I tell you. I can prove

it. He told you he'd never seen me before, huh?

Here, take a look at this picture.

I was right in front of him when I took it.

He saw me, all right.

What's this, some kind of joke?

I'm going to be honest with you, Jim.

Charges have been dropped. I was able to get one of the sponsors of the

Institute who has influenced the District Attorney.

I told him you were a valuable and important scientist who has been under

stress at work.

He was able to get the District Attorney to drop the charges.

This time.

If you should get into this trouble again, I'm not about to risk the

reputation to help you.

I'm sorry that I have to put it that way.

We're very grateful for everything you've done.

Well, we'll put this whole thing behind us and we'll forget it ever happened.

When you're ready to get back to work, I'm sure that we can find a project you

can work on with much less strain, Jim.

can shake him free of his obsession, we'll all be grateful.

I heard your voice.

Jim. I heard you.

I recognize your voice anyplace. You were in that house. Jim, you promised

wouldn't. Of course I promised. What choice did I have?

One wrong word and they'd have kept me locked up there for good.

But I'm home now and nobody is listening but you. And I'm telling you, you were

in that house. I heard you.

I was at the hairdresser.

A dozen people saw me. How could I possibly have been anyplace else? I

know, but there's something that you're not telling me. Jim!

Jim, for the sake of everything we've ever had together, please

stop it, or they will take you away.

Oh, no, I have to talk about it, and I have to talk to you.

Who else do I have?

Don't you want to help me? Of course I want to help you.

Of course I do.

It just would be easier if you were calm.

And that picture, it wasn't blank.

What picture?

The one that was in my camera.

The one that I took of Delgrave.

The man of my dream.

When I left our house, I took his picture with me.

I showed it to the police.

There was nothing on it. It was black.

His whole image was just... Well, it had just vanished.

Is that possible? I know.

That's what I told myself. A thing like that just doesn't happen in real life.

But what if this isn't?

What if this isn't real life?

In reality, things follow an ordinary pattern.

But in a dream, anything can happen.

Like that picture going blank all of a sudden.

Are you saying that what happened at that house was a dream?

Delgrave said it.

I told the police officer that I heard your voice in that room upstairs.

Delgrave said I was dreaming.

Is it possible that now, this moment, while talking like this together, is it

possible that what we think of as our...

I thought you were going to sleep all day. My shoes.

Can't find them. Looked everywhere.

I shined them for you.

Oh, gee. How nice of you.

Thank you, sweetheart. That's wonderful.

That's nice.

Oh, thank you.

A dream.

What about it?

I didn't have it last night.

I did have one, though.

Just an ordinary one.

I dreamed I was back in the Yankee Stadium as a kid with my brother Pete.

The Yankees were playing. It was the first game of the World Series.

Did they win?

I don't know.

I woke up in the bottom of the eighth.

The dream's gone, Jim.

Because I missed one night?

You were under a terrific strain.

That was what was causing the dreams.

Now that you're off the project, you're free of all the tension and the

conflict. Last night was the proof that dreams won't come back again.

I sure hope you're right.

I don't know. I can't believe it. Oh, I can.

Because I want to believe it. I do believe it.

And so will you.

It's all over.

But all those things, it's happened. A trick for the imagination.

Dr. Geary told you that the first time you went to see him, remember?

The strain of the project probably picked off some deep...

unresolved conflict that goes back to your childhood.

It's finished.

You're free.

I've certainly given you a rough time, haven't I?

It's just part of the contract.

I'm just... I'm just so glad that it's all over.

Let's have a good old Sunday at home.

We'll just blaze around the rest of the day.

I'll fix you a special supper.

How about Lynn and Arnie's famous lasagna recipe? What do you say?

I say Lynn and Arnie's famous lasagna recipe.

And we won't even ask Lynn and Arnie.

Because who knows what we might decide to do later.

I'll go to the store and pick up some things and some candy.

I'll be right back.

Hurry.

Hurry.

Why'd you forget this time?

Excuse me.

The house that used to be there.

What happened to it? The house?

Yeah. What happened to the house that used to be over there in that lot?

You must be thinking of someplace else. There never was a house on there.

You sure?

Been living on this street since I was born.

52 years come March.

Never was a house on that lot.

If I do say so myself, it was the best Sunday supper of all time.

I'm going to eat for a minute.

Hello there.

Remember me?

Oh, yeah. You're the cook, yeah?

Thanks a lot.

Wonderful dinner.

Supper, I mean. Delicious.

Ready for bed?

Oh, I forgot. I've got some work I have to do. You go ahead.

Without you?

Well, I promised Taylor that I'd look over some papers that he left by for me.

He's going to have to take them the first thing in the morning.

Work, work, work.

I thought that was all over.

It will be.

Good night.

See you in the morning.

What are you doing here?

I had to find you.

How do you know where I'd be?

I just knew.

You must know what this is all about.

Who are they?

Why are they after me?

They said if I ever wanted to see you again...

I'd better cooperate.

They said you'd get a fair trial.

You know so much about them.

I only know what they told me.

I said I would try to find you.

To persuade you to turn yourself in.

I had to. It was the only way to get away from them and find you.

Do you know anything about the friends?

Yes.

It's my only way out, isn't it?

The friends wanted to help you.

I was afraid to tell you because there aren't enough of them to do any good.

other friend.

Dr. Hanley

No, one of them.

The friends.

There are no friends.

Yes, there are.

Howard Geary was taking me to them. He was taking you to a loss.

No.

No, he wouldn't do that.

Not Howard.

You're lying.

What is it?

What is it that you want from me?

What? I tried to warn you. I sent Delgrave to you. You wouldn't listen.

To Delgrave?

To the voice of civilization.

You became an enemy of civilization.

You wanted to tamper with man's genetic inheritance to change the natural order

of life.

No. No, I wanted to set man free.

You would have plunged him into chaos and anarchy.

Some men are born to rule and others to serve.

We had to stop you, Jim.

You can roll it.

It will be daylight soon.

Tribunal in possession.

Trial is held in the detention.

The accused will hear the evidence.

How does this tribunal vote?

You can kill all of us, but there'll be hundreds of others to carry the sentence

up.

Jim? I saw you sleeping on the couch when I got up this morning.

I hope that's not going to be a permanent part of our lifestyle. When

begin? Was it before we were married?

What?

You and Malcolm.

How long has it been going on?

What are you talking about?

I've been sentenced to death.

Oh, but you know all about that, don't you?

Honey, please don't talk like this.

You're frightening me.

I mean to frighten you.

I'm going to frighten you into telling me everything.

I want to know all about them.

Jim, I... Jim! Jim!

Who are they?

You answer me!

Why are they trying to kill me?

Huh?

Jim, please!

Will! Are you going to answer me? Are you?

Why are they trying to kill me?

Is it because of what I'm doing?

My work in the lab!

What's wrong?

Well, physically he'll be all right.

You mean mentally he won't be?

We can't say that yet. His condition is still uncertain.

May I see him?

Well, I'm afraid I couldn't advise that.

We had to restrain him.

Straightjacket? We don't do that sort of thing here.

We did place him in a comfortable security room.

We've refrained from giving him any medication. We don't want to put him

the reach of diagnosis. I thought you might be able to help.

Oh, I'll do anything.

Anything.

But please, please, first may I see him?

All right.

She's not my wife. She's a murderer, like all the others.

Don't run into her.

She'll try to kill me.

Take her away. I know I want to see you again.

I'm sorry,

Mrs. Handley. I'm very sorry.

He isn't like that.

It's the strain he's been under.

The nightmares.

Nightmares? Well, he hasn't had a decent night's sleep in weeks.

He's been having these...

These terrible dreams.

Prolonged sleeplessness can induce a psychotic state.

If that's what's causing it, get McPeters. Yes, sir.

I'm going to give him a drug.

Just some sedations so that he can sleep.

Oh, yes.

That's what he needs.

More than anything.

We're going to give you a sedative, Dr. Hanley.

Something to make you sleep. Oh, no.

No.

No, I can't. I can't sleep.

I can't. Please.

Not without a gun.

They'll kill me.

Open it. I may be faking it. Open it!

Get Dr. Farrell!

Get his lights.

Is he dead?

There's no pulse.

Adrenaline IV, 2 ,000 units.

Just take it easy You're gonna be okay

Just take it easy

I tell you, I saw him back there.

Too bad he had to die.

Is it possible that what we think of as our life

is a dream?

Our dreams are reality.