1 00:01:32,458 --> 00:01:35,510 there is nothing wrong with your television set. 2 00:01:35,510 --> 00:01:38,146 Do not attempt to adjust the picture. 3 00:01:38,146 --> 00:01:40,815 We are controlling transmission. 4 00:01:40,815 --> 00:01:43,351 We will control the horizontal. 5 00:01:43,351 --> 00:01:45,937 We will control the vertical. 6 00:01:45,937 --> 00:01:48,590 We can change the focus to a soft blur 7 00:01:48,590 --> 00:01:50,692 or sharpen it to crystal clarity. 8 00:01:50,692 --> 00:01:52,694 For the next hour, sit quietly, 9 00:01:52,694 --> 00:01:56,031 and we will control all that you see and hear. 10 00:01:56,031 --> 00:01:59,000 You are about to participate in a great adventure. 11 00:01:59,000 --> 00:02:02,804 You are about to experience the awe and mystery 12 00:02:02,804 --> 00:02:05,807 which reaches from the inner mind 13 00:02:05,807 --> 00:02:07,275 to the outer limits. 14 00:02:29,364 --> 00:02:32,834 Human life strives ceaselessly to perfect itself 15 00:02:32,834 --> 00:02:34,502 to gain ascendancy. 16 00:02:34,502 --> 00:02:36,905 But what of the lower forms of life? 17 00:02:36,905 --> 00:02:39,007 Is it not possible that they, too, 18 00:02:39,007 --> 00:02:40,441 are conducting experiments 19 00:02:40,441 --> 00:02:42,844 and are, at this moment, 20 00:02:42,844 --> 00:02:45,714 on the threshold of deadly success? 21 00:02:45,714 --> 00:02:47,148 What happened? 22 00:02:52,622 --> 00:02:54,122 I'm all right now. 23 00:02:55,925 --> 00:02:57,959 Thank you, professor fields. 24 00:02:57,959 --> 00:02:59,560 My name is regina. 25 00:02:59,560 --> 00:03:01,162 I've come to be your assistant. 26 00:03:01,162 --> 00:03:03,264 I read your ad in the newspaper. 27 00:03:03,264 --> 00:03:06,234 My wife went into town no more than an hour ago 28 00:03:06,234 --> 00:03:09,337 to place that ad in tomorrow's newspaper. 29 00:03:09,337 --> 00:03:10,805 I was there. 30 00:03:10,805 --> 00:03:12,674 I overheard. 31 00:03:12,674 --> 00:03:14,876 I like to steal small advantages. 32 00:03:14,876 --> 00:03:16,811 Must i wait until tomorrow? 33 00:03:20,816 --> 00:03:23,151 Have any experience with my line of work? 34 00:03:23,151 --> 00:03:24,485 Yes. 35 00:03:24,485 --> 00:03:25,987 And with someone as exacting and perfect 36 00:03:25,987 --> 00:03:27,288 as you are. 37 00:03:27,288 --> 00:03:29,991 I understand i'm to live in. 38 00:03:29,991 --> 00:03:32,560 Yes. That was one of the requirements, 39 00:03:32,560 --> 00:03:34,996 but i had a male assistant in mind. 40 00:03:34,996 --> 00:03:37,431 Oh, he'd have to, uh, destroy diseased insects 41 00:03:37,431 --> 00:03:38,967 and clean out hives. 42 00:03:38,967 --> 00:03:41,502 I read your legends of the medieval bee. 43 00:03:41,502 --> 00:03:43,504 Was there truly a monk sebastian 44 00:03:43,504 --> 00:03:45,740 who grew nigerian bees 8 feet long? 45 00:03:49,912 --> 00:03:52,781 You'd have to go over to the health center. 46 00:03:52,781 --> 00:03:54,683 They want some blood to make sure 47 00:03:54,683 --> 00:03:56,484 you're not allergic to bee stings. 48 00:03:56,484 --> 00:03:57,919 I'm not. 49 00:03:57,919 --> 00:04:00,021 Well, uh, i'd have to know. 50 00:04:00,021 --> 00:04:02,791 People have died from the sting of one bee. 51 00:04:06,028 --> 00:04:09,164 Ah, francesca. Come see if i'm right. 52 00:04:11,934 --> 00:04:14,102 You'll think you are whatever my opinion. 53 00:04:14,102 --> 00:04:15,303 Ha ha. 54 00:04:15,303 --> 00:04:16,504 About what, ben? 55 00:04:16,504 --> 00:04:17,706 About regina. 56 00:04:17,706 --> 00:04:19,808 She overheard you place your ad 57 00:04:19,808 --> 00:04:23,211 and stole the advantage. I think she might do. 58 00:04:23,211 --> 00:04:25,413 My luggage was lost in transit. 59 00:04:25,413 --> 00:04:27,949 I have no bags to unpack. 60 00:04:27,949 --> 00:04:29,684 There's no need to see my room 61 00:04:29,684 --> 00:04:31,686 until it's time to go to bed. 62 00:04:31,686 --> 00:04:33,354 I can begin at once 63 00:04:33,354 --> 00:04:35,523 by putting your laboratory in order. 64 00:04:38,527 --> 00:04:40,995 A disorderly man is usually guilty of something 65 00:04:40,995 --> 00:04:43,464 far more chaotic than disorder. 66 00:04:48,904 --> 00:04:51,005 I think you've hired her, ben. 67 00:04:51,005 --> 00:04:53,007 Well, only because the lady 68 00:04:53,007 --> 00:04:54,342 didn't stop me. 69 00:05:17,967 --> 00:05:20,068 You know i'm not an alarmist, ben, 70 00:05:20,068 --> 00:05:22,804 and i'm not- at least i don't think 71 00:05:22,804 --> 00:05:25,473 i object to having an enchanting child 72 00:05:25,691 --> 00:05:26,841 work beside you. 73 00:05:26,841 --> 00:05:28,243 It's sensible and reassuring 74 00:05:28,243 --> 00:05:30,662 to know something of a person 75 00:05:30,662 --> 00:05:32,947 who works with you and lives in your house. 76 00:05:41,157 --> 00:05:42,556 I'll take it. 77 00:06:17,426 --> 00:06:18,626 Well... 78 00:06:18,626 --> 00:06:22,297 i feel as if i should put on a clean coat 79 00:06:22,297 --> 00:06:24,432 and stand by for fingernail inspection. 80 00:06:24,432 --> 00:06:27,802 You have an orderly, organized mind. 81 00:06:27,802 --> 00:06:30,972 That compensates for your tie... 82 00:06:30,972 --> 00:06:32,907 and your fingernails. 83 00:06:34,543 --> 00:06:36,577 Um, regina, 84 00:06:36,577 --> 00:06:38,646 come here. 85 00:06:38,646 --> 00:06:39,948 Um... 86 00:06:39,948 --> 00:06:42,650 i'm gonna have to check your references. 87 00:06:42,650 --> 00:06:44,452 I have none. 88 00:06:44,452 --> 00:06:45,202 Oh? 89 00:06:48,590 --> 00:06:49,991 What is it? 90 00:06:51,660 --> 00:06:53,761 The man i worked for last- 91 00:06:53,761 --> 00:06:56,164 i'd rather not tell you his name. 92 00:06:56,164 --> 00:06:59,500 If i tell you anything at all about him, 93 00:06:59,500 --> 00:07:00,969 you'd recognize him instantly. 94 00:07:00,969 --> 00:07:02,103 He was innocent. 95 00:07:02,103 --> 00:07:04,505 His wife had been wanting a divorce. 96 00:07:04,505 --> 00:07:06,941 She had met a younger man and... 97 00:07:06,941 --> 00:07:08,442 she threatened to ruin my reputation 98 00:07:08,442 --> 00:07:09,593 and her husband's. 99 00:07:09,593 --> 00:07:11,112 She had already ruined mine 100 00:07:11,112 --> 00:07:13,714 by the time he submitted and saved his. 101 00:07:16,218 --> 00:07:19,387 My parents suggested that i leave the city, 102 00:07:19,387 --> 00:07:22,223 only until the gossipers found new prey, of course. 103 00:07:23,859 --> 00:07:26,961 He never even answered my letters. 104 00:07:26,961 --> 00:07:29,230 So i stopped writing. 105 00:07:29,230 --> 00:07:31,532 But if you want their address, i'll- 106 00:07:31,532 --> 00:07:33,534 no, no. Ha ha. 107 00:07:33,534 --> 00:07:35,636 Look at this, regina. Look. 108 00:07:37,739 --> 00:07:39,340 What you're looking at are 109 00:07:39,340 --> 00:07:41,976 the fertilized eggs of a nigerian queen bee. 110 00:07:41,976 --> 00:07:43,644 There must be a million. 111 00:07:43,644 --> 00:07:45,479 No. There are more than that. 112 00:07:45,479 --> 00:07:46,981 And they're all the result 113 00:07:46,981 --> 00:07:48,482 of a single mating. 114 00:07:48,482 --> 00:07:50,484 Would you like to be the father 115 00:07:50,484 --> 00:07:52,253 of that many children? 116 00:07:55,891 --> 00:07:58,492 No. I'll settle for one... 117 00:07:58,492 --> 00:08:00,261 in a thousand. 118 00:08:00,261 --> 00:08:04,065 And before i'm 25, of course. 119 00:08:04,065 --> 00:08:06,066 I've asked everybody, 120 00:08:06,066 --> 00:08:08,102 but if anybody gave out your ad, 121 00:08:08,102 --> 00:08:09,437 nobody's admitting it. 122 00:08:09,437 --> 00:08:11,772 And you don't recall anyone standing close by 123 00:08:11,772 --> 00:08:13,774 while i dictated it to you? 124 00:08:13,774 --> 00:08:15,776 Not close enough to hear 125 00:08:15,776 --> 00:08:18,446 what you were saying over a telephone. 126 00:08:18,446 --> 00:08:20,914 And certainly not a stranger. 127 00:08:20,914 --> 00:08:22,483 All right. Thank you. 128 00:08:22,483 --> 00:08:25,119 Still want us to run the ad? 129 00:08:25,119 --> 00:08:27,988 Oh, no. No, that won't be- 130 00:08:27,988 --> 00:08:30,558 well... yes. 131 00:08:30,558 --> 00:08:32,860 Yes, of course, mr. Lund. 132 00:08:32,860 --> 00:08:35,963 After all, the girl may not work out. 133 00:08:38,867 --> 00:08:40,968 Ordinary bees are already within 134 00:08:40,968 --> 00:08:43,103 the human range of intelligence, you know. 135 00:08:43,103 --> 00:08:44,505 I know. 136 00:08:44,505 --> 00:08:47,141 The ones i've accelerated are already compiling 137 00:08:47,141 --> 00:08:49,277 a grammar and a dictionary. 138 00:08:52,814 --> 00:08:55,082 This is a language analyzer. 139 00:08:55,082 --> 00:08:56,284 I know. 140 00:08:56,284 --> 00:08:58,886 You've never seen one quite like that before. 141 00:08:58,886 --> 00:09:00,488 It's the only one in existence. 142 00:09:00,488 --> 00:09:01,822 I built it myself. 143 00:09:01,822 --> 00:09:04,091 Would you explain it to me, please? 144 00:09:04,091 --> 00:09:05,426 All right. 145 00:09:05,426 --> 00:09:07,928 It, um, picks up 146 00:09:07,928 --> 00:09:10,464 and transmits the sound of bees. 147 00:09:12,100 --> 00:09:14,635 5 cycles per second 148 00:09:14,635 --> 00:09:16,437 to 60,000. 149 00:09:18,507 --> 00:09:19,973 That's, uh, 150 00:09:19,973 --> 00:09:21,642 3 times the range 151 00:09:21,642 --> 00:09:23,877 of the human ear and vocal cords. 152 00:09:34,356 --> 00:09:35,523 Ben? 153 00:09:37,158 --> 00:09:40,027 He's occupied, mrs. Fields. 154 00:09:54,242 --> 00:09:57,044 This is an artificial bee. 155 00:09:59,648 --> 00:10:02,082 Would you hand me that memory bank, please? 156 00:10:04,553 --> 00:10:05,919 Thanks. 157 00:10:22,937 --> 00:10:25,506 Mary had a little lamb. 158 00:10:25,506 --> 00:10:27,875 Alpha, beta, gamma, delta. 159 00:10:27,875 --> 00:10:29,510 Testing. 160 00:10:29,510 --> 00:10:31,412 1, 2, 3, 4. 161 00:10:31,412 --> 00:10:32,132 I see. 162 00:10:35,767 --> 00:10:37,651 Well, we're about ready to begin. 163 00:10:49,598 --> 00:10:51,766 The oscilloscope shows the bee sounds 164 00:10:51,766 --> 00:10:53,901 outside our hearing range. 165 00:10:53,901 --> 00:10:55,369 It converts these sounds 166 00:10:55,369 --> 00:10:56,604 into light waves 167 00:10:56,905 --> 00:10:58,773 and transmits them into the computer, 168 00:10:58,773 --> 00:11:00,107 where they're translated 169 00:11:00,107 --> 00:11:02,042 and made audible to our ears. 170 00:11:02,042 --> 00:11:04,077 Now watch. 171 00:11:33,675 --> 00:11:35,576 Danger! Danger! 172 00:11:37,345 --> 00:11:39,196 Stop, combs forward. 173 00:11:39,196 --> 00:11:41,181 Worker bees to battle lines. 174 00:11:41,181 --> 00:11:43,617 Drones, move the queen eggs below. 175 00:11:43,617 --> 00:11:46,053 What is it? What is it? 176 00:11:46,053 --> 00:11:47,688 Invader! Invader! 177 00:11:50,325 --> 00:11:54,094 Friend. Lost way. Wing broken. 178 00:11:56,331 --> 00:11:58,899 Does he offer pollen? 179 00:12:00,502 --> 00:12:02,670 Pollen sack empty. Offers nothing. 180 00:12:02,670 --> 00:12:06,474 Appears like one of us, but is not one of us. 181 00:12:06,474 --> 00:12:08,208 Is not one of us. 182 00:12:11,045 --> 00:12:13,481 The body is not like our body. 183 00:12:13,481 --> 00:12:15,816 The odor is not like our odor. 184 00:12:15,816 --> 00:12:17,485 Destroy, destroy. 185 00:12:35,570 --> 00:12:37,437 Can you be certain 186 00:12:37,437 --> 00:12:39,406 you're translating them correctly? 187 00:12:39,406 --> 00:12:40,741 I, uh... 188 00:12:42,343 --> 00:12:44,011 i watch them do the same things 189 00:12:44,011 --> 00:12:45,312 that humans do- 190 00:12:45,312 --> 00:12:48,015 rearing of children, searching for food, 191 00:12:48,015 --> 00:12:49,583 mating. 192 00:12:49,583 --> 00:12:51,184 And the sounds they make 193 00:12:51,184 --> 00:12:53,353 i match up with our words. 194 00:12:53,353 --> 00:12:54,955 Of course, their vocabulary 195 00:12:54,955 --> 00:12:56,023 is very simple, 196 00:12:56,023 --> 00:12:58,025 but i can translate, 197 00:12:58,025 --> 00:13:00,694 oh, perhaps 70% of everything they say. 198 00:13:00,694 --> 00:13:03,314 Did they really say all these things, ben? 199 00:13:03,314 --> 00:13:04,632 I only record 200 00:13:04,632 --> 00:13:07,535 what the analyzer claims they're saying. 201 00:13:07,535 --> 00:13:09,537 And, um... 202 00:13:09,537 --> 00:13:11,739 professor fields feels 203 00:13:11,739 --> 00:13:14,675 less exacting and perfect 204 00:13:14,675 --> 00:13:16,360 when he's called ben. 205 00:13:19,213 --> 00:13:21,532 And more human? 206 00:13:35,564 --> 00:13:36,847 Yes? 207 00:13:36,847 --> 00:13:39,633 Can i see you the moment you're free, ben? 208 00:13:39,633 --> 00:13:40,768 Yeah. Very moment. 209 00:13:47,809 --> 00:13:51,845 Um, i'll have francesca take you shopping 210 00:13:51,845 --> 00:13:55,583 and, uh, get you some- a starched uniform. 211 00:14:09,030 --> 00:14:10,965 This is your queen. 212 00:14:10,965 --> 00:14:13,467 I can speak only human. 213 00:14:13,467 --> 00:14:17,137 Listen. The human drone's machinery will translate. 214 00:14:17,137 --> 00:14:19,807 I have passed the threshold, 215 00:14:19,807 --> 00:14:21,642 and i am beautiful. 216 00:14:21,642 --> 00:14:25,913 The human drone has already begun to aspire to me, 217 00:14:25,913 --> 00:14:27,815 and when he dies, 218 00:14:27,815 --> 00:14:29,817 his memory will live on 219 00:14:29,817 --> 00:14:31,919 in our million children. 220 00:14:47,402 --> 00:14:51,472 Was this room originally intended as a nursery? 221 00:14:51,472 --> 00:14:52,973 It must be devastating 222 00:14:52,973 --> 00:14:55,175 to know your husband wants children. 223 00:14:55,175 --> 00:14:58,445 Ben discussed that with you? 224 00:14:58,445 --> 00:15:01,982 Well, we were discussing our mutual tragedies. 225 00:15:01,982 --> 00:15:04,551 I told him mine, and he alluded to his. 226 00:15:15,030 --> 00:15:18,632 Regina, how did you find out about the ad? 227 00:15:18,632 --> 00:15:21,468 I was there when you placed it. 228 00:15:21,468 --> 00:15:23,404 I heard you. 229 00:15:23,404 --> 00:15:26,006 Except that i phoned it in. 230 00:15:26,006 --> 00:15:28,008 The girl who received it 231 00:15:28,008 --> 00:15:29,309 repeated it to me. 232 00:15:29,309 --> 00:15:31,245 Mr. Lund received it. 233 00:15:32,847 --> 00:15:35,715 I did not wish to incriminate him, 234 00:15:35,715 --> 00:15:37,251 mrs. Fields. Must i? 235 00:15:37,251 --> 00:15:39,619 He was only trying to be helpful. 236 00:15:39,619 --> 00:15:40,339 I see. 237 00:15:44,259 --> 00:15:47,127 Regina, where are you from? 238 00:15:48,796 --> 00:15:50,130 Scotland. 239 00:15:52,067 --> 00:15:54,435 And i'm very tired. 240 00:15:56,871 --> 00:15:59,506 Would you rather have dinner up here alone? 241 00:15:59,506 --> 00:16:00,707 Why? 242 00:16:00,707 --> 00:16:02,543 I was thinking if you're tired, 243 00:16:02,543 --> 00:16:04,244 you might want to get into bed and- 244 00:16:04,244 --> 00:16:07,081 am i not to live here on equal terms with you? 245 00:16:10,085 --> 00:16:12,852 Dinner will be ready in half an hour. 246 00:16:12,852 --> 00:16:14,421 Mrs. Fields? 247 00:16:14,421 --> 00:16:15,622 My mother was 248 00:16:15,622 --> 00:16:19,193 a vain, envious, and selfish woman. 249 00:16:19,193 --> 00:16:21,328 Her beauty was regal, 250 00:16:21,328 --> 00:16:24,565 and she'd always assumed it was unsurpassable. 251 00:16:24,565 --> 00:16:26,967 Such women should have sons 252 00:16:26,967 --> 00:16:28,469 or homely daughters. 253 00:16:28,469 --> 00:16:32,072 She treated me as if i were an ugly duckling, 254 00:16:32,072 --> 00:16:33,507 because i wasn't. 255 00:16:33,507 --> 00:16:34,975 And as a result, 256 00:16:34,975 --> 00:16:37,644 i expect all elderly women to exclude me 257 00:16:37,644 --> 00:16:40,214 from the simple pleasures of family life. 258 00:16:40,214 --> 00:16:42,282 If i misjudged you- 259 00:16:42,282 --> 00:16:44,918 i'm not as elderly as all that. 260 00:16:46,454 --> 00:16:48,255 Would you like to help me? 261 00:16:48,255 --> 00:16:49,256 How? 262 00:16:49,256 --> 00:16:51,725 Oh, set the table, light the candles. 263 00:16:51,725 --> 00:16:53,693 No, thank you. 264 00:17:08,643 --> 00:17:10,777 And then this sweet young thin type 265 00:17:10,777 --> 00:17:12,613 said that her husband is 266 00:17:12,613 --> 00:17:14,948 one of the new fair-haired physicists 267 00:17:14,948 --> 00:17:15,949 at the university, 268 00:17:15,949 --> 00:17:18,285 and did my husband do anything? 269 00:17:22,023 --> 00:17:24,458 Francesca still attends the faculty wives' teas 270 00:17:24,458 --> 00:17:26,460 in order to maintain 271 00:17:26,460 --> 00:17:28,462 her sole contact with unreality. 272 00:17:29,730 --> 00:17:32,399 Did you tell her that i'm on a sabbatical 273 00:17:32,399 --> 00:17:35,001 that her taxes are helping to pay for? 274 00:17:35,001 --> 00:17:37,471 I told her you were an entomologist 275 00:17:37,471 --> 00:17:38,672 and, uh... 276 00:17:38,672 --> 00:17:40,707 working on a top secret project. 277 00:17:42,277 --> 00:17:43,644 Did that titillate her? 278 00:17:43,644 --> 00:17:46,346 She hoped you were developing an insecticide 279 00:17:46,346 --> 00:17:48,348 that housewives could believe in. 280 00:17:48,348 --> 00:17:49,949 Her words. 281 00:17:49,949 --> 00:17:51,552 I didn't know housewives 282 00:17:51,552 --> 00:17:53,420 were afraid of insects. 283 00:17:53,420 --> 00:17:55,922 Well, it isn't necessarily fear. 284 00:17:55,922 --> 00:17:57,123 Isn't it? 285 00:17:57,123 --> 00:17:59,226 Oh, i doubt if many women 286 00:17:59,226 --> 00:18:01,261 would even think of using insecticides 287 00:18:01,261 --> 00:18:02,796 if the insects would stay 288 00:18:02,796 --> 00:18:04,464 in their own world outside. 289 00:18:04,464 --> 00:18:06,600 But if they insist on coming in- 290 00:18:06,600 --> 00:18:08,635 are you afraid of insects, 291 00:18:08,635 --> 00:18:09,603 mrs. Fields? 292 00:18:11,839 --> 00:18:14,841 Well, i think we all are a little. 293 00:18:14,841 --> 00:18:17,144 We talk more about our fear 294 00:18:17,144 --> 00:18:19,446 of the larger forms of animals. 295 00:18:19,446 --> 00:18:21,515 It doesn't seem so cowardly 296 00:18:21,515 --> 00:18:24,285 to admit fear of crazed panthers 297 00:18:24,285 --> 00:18:26,053 or giant vultures. 298 00:18:26,053 --> 00:18:30,324 But i think we're all a little... 299 00:18:30,324 --> 00:18:33,994 uneasy about the tiny things 300 00:18:33,994 --> 00:18:36,463 that crawl and fly. 301 00:18:36,463 --> 00:18:39,200 You can't see what they're thinking 302 00:18:39,200 --> 00:18:42,570 you can't look into their eyes. 303 00:18:42,570 --> 00:18:44,871 But you can hear what they're thinking... 304 00:18:44,871 --> 00:18:48,209 if you happen to be married to a certain entomologist. 305 00:18:48,209 --> 00:18:50,143 Well, i wasn't thinking of bees. 306 00:18:50,143 --> 00:18:51,745 Of course, they sting. 307 00:18:51,745 --> 00:18:54,481 But i am inoculated at regular intervals. 308 00:18:54,481 --> 00:18:56,783 Against their sting... 309 00:18:56,783 --> 00:18:59,052 not their thoughts. 310 00:18:59,052 --> 00:19:01,822 Are their thoughts dangerous? 311 00:19:04,626 --> 00:19:06,126 Only to the drones. 312 00:19:08,096 --> 00:19:10,197 They don't think of it that way. 313 00:19:11,833 --> 00:19:13,100 They fight 314 00:19:13,100 --> 00:19:16,437 for the privilege to die. 315 00:19:16,437 --> 00:19:18,272 They compete for it. 316 00:19:18,272 --> 00:19:20,441 The marriage of the queen bee 317 00:19:20,441 --> 00:19:21,609 and the drone 318 00:19:21,609 --> 00:19:24,245 is one of the most beautiful rituals 319 00:19:24,245 --> 00:19:26,179 ever conceived or observed. 320 00:19:30,685 --> 00:19:31,685 Hmm. 321 00:19:42,330 --> 00:19:44,931 Well, mind getting back to work 322 00:19:44,931 --> 00:19:47,401 while the bees are still among us? 323 00:20:22,069 --> 00:20:24,104 Hey, it's past 12:00. 324 00:20:25,973 --> 00:20:27,908 Well, it's certainly bedtime, huh? 325 00:20:39,321 --> 00:20:41,254 Hey, just a minute. 326 00:20:41,254 --> 00:20:43,957 Civilized people usually say good night. 327 00:20:47,261 --> 00:20:48,962 Good night, ben. 328 00:22:01,269 --> 00:22:02,536 What is it? 329 00:22:05,440 --> 00:22:06,874 Sh-she- 330 00:22:06,874 --> 00:22:08,609 she disturbs me. 331 00:22:10,545 --> 00:22:11,745 Why? 332 00:22:14,549 --> 00:22:16,483 If our baby had only- 333 00:22:16,483 --> 00:22:19,052 oh, shh. Francesca. 334 00:22:19,052 --> 00:22:22,322 She would have been regina's age. 335 00:22:22,322 --> 00:22:25,492 At the dinner table tonight, you... 336 00:22:25,492 --> 00:22:27,160 treated regina 337 00:22:27,160 --> 00:22:31,799 as you would have smiled at your daughter. 338 00:22:31,799 --> 00:22:32,519 And i- 339 00:22:35,002 --> 00:22:37,471 i became extremely jealous. 340 00:22:37,471 --> 00:22:39,506 Well, of course you did. 341 00:22:39,506 --> 00:22:41,141 Regina isn't our daughter 342 00:22:41,141 --> 00:22:42,509 regardless of her age 343 00:22:42,509 --> 00:22:44,277 or how i smile at her. 344 00:22:46,080 --> 00:22:49,450 It made me wonder if i might have become 345 00:22:49,450 --> 00:22:51,251 what her mother became. 346 00:22:53,321 --> 00:22:57,424 Have i been glad that we never had another child? 347 00:22:57,424 --> 00:22:59,225 Have you? 348 00:22:59,225 --> 00:23:01,728 I never thought so. 349 00:23:01,728 --> 00:23:03,229 Neither have i. 350 00:23:03,229 --> 00:23:04,431 You'd rather be 351 00:23:04,431 --> 00:23:06,633 just about anything in the world 352 00:23:06,633 --> 00:23:08,469 except a normal, healthy, vibrant, 353 00:23:08,469 --> 00:23:09,402 jealous wife. 354 00:23:13,207 --> 00:23:15,476 Well, i suppose i- 355 00:23:15,476 --> 00:23:17,845 i try to be 356 00:23:17,845 --> 00:23:21,314 a little like your bees, ben. 357 00:23:21,314 --> 00:23:23,750 All organization 358 00:23:23,750 --> 00:23:26,152 and gears neatly meshed, 359 00:23:26,152 --> 00:23:27,488 efficient, 360 00:23:27,488 --> 00:23:31,424 and no tiresome emotions. 361 00:23:31,424 --> 00:23:33,494 There are some tiresome emotions 362 00:23:33,494 --> 00:23:35,996 that don't tire me at all. 363 00:23:35,996 --> 00:23:39,199 What time shall i come down in the morning? 364 00:23:42,570 --> 00:23:44,838 Would you mind putting those things away, 365 00:23:44,838 --> 00:23:46,106 please? 366 00:25:29,677 --> 00:25:31,812 Ben! Ben! 367 00:25:31,812 --> 00:25:34,681 Benedict! Ben, that girl... 368 00:25:44,042 --> 00:25:46,910 has she finally gone to sleep? 369 00:25:46,910 --> 00:25:48,579 Mm-hmm. 370 00:25:48,579 --> 00:25:50,781 Did you make this? 371 00:25:50,781 --> 00:25:53,116 I wanted to do something. 372 00:25:54,886 --> 00:25:57,788 I felt so helpless... 373 00:25:57,788 --> 00:25:59,122 so responsible. 374 00:26:03,995 --> 00:26:05,462 Responsible? 375 00:26:07,799 --> 00:26:10,133 I heard the things she screamed... 376 00:26:11,769 --> 00:26:13,704 and it was i in the garden. 377 00:26:16,007 --> 00:26:17,207 Yeah. 378 00:26:18,676 --> 00:26:21,211 What were you doing out there, regina? 379 00:26:26,517 --> 00:26:28,318 The moonlight drew me. 380 00:26:32,189 --> 00:26:34,190 I was... 381 00:26:34,190 --> 00:26:36,192 i smell the things 382 00:26:36,192 --> 00:26:38,061 that bloom in the night. 383 00:26:41,032 --> 00:26:42,633 Come to think of it, 384 00:26:42,633 --> 00:26:44,467 i did have my nosy nose 385 00:26:44,467 --> 00:26:45,636 poked in a flower. 386 00:26:45,636 --> 00:26:47,303 But you didn't transform yourself 387 00:26:47,303 --> 00:26:48,972 into a mammoth glowing bee. 388 00:26:50,041 --> 00:26:50,791 No. 389 00:26:58,315 --> 00:26:59,415 Yes? 390 00:27:01,485 --> 00:27:03,353 I'll send him right up. 391 00:27:07,424 --> 00:27:10,593 She sounded so well and normal, ben. 392 00:27:10,593 --> 00:27:13,764 She's going to be all right. 393 00:27:13,764 --> 00:27:15,298 Go to her, ben. 394 00:27:18,536 --> 00:27:19,803 What is it? 395 00:27:19,803 --> 00:27:21,672 What? 396 00:27:21,672 --> 00:27:23,106 Oh, nothing. 397 00:27:23,106 --> 00:27:24,440 It's gone now. 398 00:27:43,527 --> 00:27:45,062 Hello, darling. 399 00:27:48,199 --> 00:27:49,900 You all right? 400 00:27:49,900 --> 00:27:54,738 Just-just stay close a moment longer. 401 00:27:56,373 --> 00:27:58,308 I just need 402 00:27:58,308 --> 00:28:01,678 a tiny bit more of your strength. 403 00:28:01,678 --> 00:28:02,612 Oh. 404 00:28:24,902 --> 00:28:25,936 Yes? 405 00:28:28,005 --> 00:28:30,640 Oh, i drank the last of it, ben. 406 00:28:30,640 --> 00:28:33,877 I'll make a fresh pot and bring it right up. 407 00:28:52,029 --> 00:28:54,965 You really are all right, francesca? 408 00:28:54,965 --> 00:28:57,300 I'm trying to be, 409 00:28:57,300 --> 00:29:00,170 but your solicitude is awfully tempting. 410 00:29:09,647 --> 00:29:12,115 I love to watch you brush your hair. 411 00:29:18,289 --> 00:29:19,890 Instincts warn, 412 00:29:19,890 --> 00:29:21,224 all not well. 413 00:29:23,294 --> 00:29:24,928 Pain! 414 00:29:24,928 --> 00:29:27,730 Did we not make you perfect enough? 415 00:29:27,730 --> 00:29:29,900 Are we at fault? 416 00:29:29,900 --> 00:29:31,034 No. 417 00:29:32,670 --> 00:29:36,606 I do not know what is wrong. 418 00:29:36,606 --> 00:29:38,909 Will you survive? 419 00:29:38,909 --> 00:29:39,749 I must. 420 00:29:41,279 --> 00:29:42,545 I will. 421 00:29:45,616 --> 00:29:48,318 Our struggle to affect your transformation 422 00:29:48,318 --> 00:29:49,953 must not go unrewarded. 423 00:29:49,953 --> 00:29:51,454 You must produce. 424 00:29:51,454 --> 00:29:52,789 You must. 425 00:29:52,789 --> 00:29:55,125 Once we have begun to breed, 426 00:29:55,125 --> 00:29:59,229 once we have the strength and life span of the humans, 427 00:29:59,229 --> 00:30:01,064 millions and millions of us- 428 00:30:01,064 --> 00:30:02,899 born in the same breath, 429 00:30:02,899 --> 00:30:04,567 swarming over their chaotic world- 430 00:30:04,567 --> 00:30:05,902 we will conquer. 431 00:30:05,902 --> 00:30:07,470 We will rule. 432 00:30:07,470 --> 00:30:10,140 I will wait no longer. 433 00:30:10,140 --> 00:30:12,675 I have been patient, 434 00:30:12,675 --> 00:30:15,145 only because i've learned 435 00:30:15,145 --> 00:30:17,147 that humans- 436 00:30:17,147 --> 00:30:19,649 good humans believe 437 00:30:19,649 --> 00:30:21,318 they must 438 00:30:21,318 --> 00:30:22,919 experience love. 439 00:30:25,389 --> 00:30:29,425 Instincts tell me 440 00:30:29,425 --> 00:30:31,761 he has begun to... 441 00:30:43,807 --> 00:30:44,557 oh! 442 00:31:46,437 --> 00:31:47,870 Shh. 443 00:31:57,648 --> 00:31:58,714 Why? 444 00:32:01,085 --> 00:32:02,885 Why all this darkness? 445 00:32:05,456 --> 00:32:07,390 What's wrong? 446 00:32:07,390 --> 00:32:09,326 I must- i mustn't fail. 447 00:32:09,326 --> 00:32:10,994 I mustn't. 448 00:32:10,994 --> 00:32:12,495 Help me, sisters! 449 00:32:12,495 --> 00:32:13,729 Help me! 450 00:32:15,299 --> 00:32:17,167 Shh, shh, shh. 451 00:32:24,008 --> 00:32:26,209 Am i going to die? 452 00:32:26,209 --> 00:32:27,610 No, regina. 453 00:32:27,610 --> 00:32:29,145 What's wrong with me? 454 00:32:29,145 --> 00:32:30,780 Dr. Warren thinks- 455 00:32:30,780 --> 00:32:32,315 don't let me die 456 00:32:32,315 --> 00:32:34,717 without knowing love, ben. 457 00:32:34,717 --> 00:32:37,587 He thinks it's only food poisoning. 458 00:32:37,587 --> 00:32:40,323 It's very painful but not fatal. 459 00:32:40,323 --> 00:32:41,891 Love me, ben. 460 00:32:43,894 --> 00:32:45,528 Regina. 461 00:32:48,466 --> 00:32:51,901 Regina, i'm very, very much in love with my wife. 462 00:32:51,901 --> 00:32:54,804 I see only that you're married to her. 463 00:32:54,804 --> 00:32:57,307 I'm married to her because i love her. 464 00:32:57,307 --> 00:32:58,841 If you married me, 465 00:32:58,841 --> 00:33:00,810 then would you love me? 466 00:33:00,810 --> 00:33:02,145 No. 467 00:33:02,145 --> 00:33:05,448 If i loved you, then i would marry you. 468 00:33:07,385 --> 00:33:08,951 Then i won't die, ben. 469 00:33:11,989 --> 00:33:14,724 I will live... for you. 470 00:33:16,193 --> 00:33:17,460 Regina. 471 00:33:17,460 --> 00:33:18,961 Does it make you angry 472 00:33:18,961 --> 00:33:20,263 to be loved, ben? 473 00:33:20,263 --> 00:33:21,464 If it's 474 00:33:21,464 --> 00:33:23,466 the beautiful, precious thing 475 00:33:23,466 --> 00:33:25,035 you think it is, 476 00:33:25,035 --> 00:33:26,702 it should make you smile. 477 00:33:47,791 --> 00:33:49,259 Is she asleep? 478 00:33:50,727 --> 00:33:51,727 Yes. 479 00:33:53,064 --> 00:33:54,630 The pain is gone? 480 00:33:54,630 --> 00:33:56,799 It's quieted. Yes. 481 00:33:56,799 --> 00:33:58,501 You must let her go, ben, 482 00:33:58,501 --> 00:33:59,669 in the morning. 483 00:33:59,669 --> 00:34:01,003 Shh. 484 00:34:01,003 --> 00:34:02,272 If she's really asleep, 485 00:34:02,272 --> 00:34:03,440 she can't hear me. 486 00:34:03,440 --> 00:34:05,442 And if she isn't really asleep? 487 00:34:05,442 --> 00:34:07,944 Well, then she's deceiving us. 488 00:34:07,944 --> 00:34:09,279 There's no reason 489 00:34:09,279 --> 00:34:10,880 to spare the feelings 490 00:34:10,880 --> 00:34:12,615 of deceitful people. 491 00:34:12,615 --> 00:34:15,285 It doesn't sound like you, francesca. 492 00:34:16,853 --> 00:34:18,854 And you don't sound like you. 493 00:34:20,524 --> 00:34:22,492 This will wait until morning. 494 00:34:22,492 --> 00:34:23,626 Ben... 495 00:34:23,626 --> 00:34:26,229 ben, you get some sleep. I'll sit with her. 496 00:34:27,698 --> 00:34:28,898 All right. 497 00:35:29,026 --> 00:35:31,294 I do not know what is wrong. 498 00:35:31,294 --> 00:35:33,129 Will you survive? 499 00:35:33,129 --> 00:35:34,297 I must. 500 00:35:34,297 --> 00:35:36,065 I will. 501 00:35:36,065 --> 00:35:37,066 Our struggle 502 00:35:37,066 --> 00:35:38,334 to affect your transformation... 503 00:35:48,679 --> 00:35:49,879 oh, ben? 504 00:35:52,049 --> 00:35:54,850 She's upstairs. Francesca is sitting with her. 505 00:35:54,850 --> 00:35:57,420 I've already looked in. 506 00:35:59,723 --> 00:36:02,392 How did she seem this morning? 507 00:36:02,392 --> 00:36:03,660 Ben... 508 00:36:05,729 --> 00:36:08,164 ben, she's a medical anomaly. 509 00:36:08,164 --> 00:36:09,432 I've never seen blood fluid 510 00:36:09,432 --> 00:36:10,700 like hers. 511 00:36:10,700 --> 00:36:13,069 The erythrocytes and leukocytes- 512 00:36:13,069 --> 00:36:15,438 totally out of balance. 513 00:36:15,438 --> 00:36:19,442 The plasma level is up from 55 to 70%, 514 00:36:19,442 --> 00:36:22,111 and the entire serum is 515 00:36:22,111 --> 00:36:24,947 a floating mass of cholesterol globules. 516 00:36:27,618 --> 00:36:29,552 Ben, she's the closest thing 517 00:36:29,552 --> 00:36:31,354 to a complete mutant 518 00:36:31,354 --> 00:36:32,689 i've ever seen. 519 00:36:32,689 --> 00:36:33,789 Mutant? 520 00:36:52,876 --> 00:36:54,644 You only examined her superficially. 521 00:36:54,644 --> 00:36:56,779 You can't have gathered enough data 522 00:36:56,779 --> 00:36:58,481 to support such a fantas- 523 00:36:58,481 --> 00:37:01,317 now, ben, i may not know the difference 524 00:37:01,317 --> 00:37:03,753 between a bee and a buzzard, 525 00:37:03,753 --> 00:37:05,921 but i do know a thing or two 526 00:37:05,921 --> 00:37:07,156 about human beings. 527 00:37:27,010 --> 00:37:28,210 Regina? 528 00:37:29,846 --> 00:37:32,782 I do not like good-byes, ben. 529 00:37:32,782 --> 00:37:34,784 I'm sorry you found me. 530 00:37:34,784 --> 00:37:36,819 You well enough to leave? 531 00:37:36,819 --> 00:37:38,821 Your wife is ill, ben. 532 00:37:38,821 --> 00:37:40,623 I seem to have accelerated 533 00:37:40,623 --> 00:37:42,292 her disintegration. 534 00:37:42,292 --> 00:37:43,826 That's not true. 535 00:37:43,826 --> 00:37:46,296 Well, something has. 536 00:37:46,296 --> 00:37:47,797 She's not disintegrating. 537 00:37:47,797 --> 00:37:49,766 That's what's not true. 538 00:37:49,766 --> 00:37:50,516 Oh. 539 00:37:51,535 --> 00:37:53,903 I no longer love you, ben. 540 00:37:53,903 --> 00:37:56,506 I cannot love a man who deludes himself, 541 00:37:56,506 --> 00:37:59,141 and you do, ben, because if you didn't, 542 00:37:59,141 --> 00:38:01,210 you'd know that you loved me 543 00:38:01,210 --> 00:38:04,113 and admit it to yourself if not to me. 544 00:38:04,315 --> 00:38:06,248 Good-bye, ben. 545 00:38:33,126 --> 00:38:35,061 No, ben, i am not being 546 00:38:35,061 --> 00:38:36,295 a foolish woman. 547 00:38:36,295 --> 00:38:38,797 You asked her to leave, and she left. 548 00:38:38,797 --> 00:38:39,932 I'm glad. 549 00:38:42,369 --> 00:38:44,303 Francesca, is this possible? 550 00:38:44,303 --> 00:38:46,638 Have you so little faith in me? 551 00:38:46,638 --> 00:38:49,141 All my faith is in you, ben. 552 00:38:49,141 --> 00:38:51,810 You think because i can be touched 553 00:38:51,810 --> 00:38:54,180 by a small and touching thing, 554 00:38:54,180 --> 00:38:55,981 because she moved me to smile at her, 555 00:38:55,981 --> 00:38:57,049 that you think- 556 00:38:57,049 --> 00:38:58,650 i think that you 557 00:38:58,650 --> 00:39:00,352 have done and said and felt nothing wrong. 558 00:39:00,352 --> 00:39:01,920 Then why send away 559 00:39:01,920 --> 00:39:04,223 a homeless, sick child? 560 00:39:10,663 --> 00:39:13,199 You think she was anything more than that? 561 00:39:13,199 --> 00:39:15,367 I don't know what she was. 562 00:39:16,836 --> 00:39:19,638 I do know she was not what she seemed. 563 00:39:19,638 --> 00:39:21,773 I didn't trust her. 564 00:39:21,773 --> 00:39:24,943 I was-i was unable to like... 565 00:39:24,943 --> 00:39:26,044 why? 566 00:39:27,514 --> 00:39:29,115 Oh, she's gone, ben. 567 00:39:29,115 --> 00:39:31,083 It should no longer matter. 568 00:39:31,083 --> 00:39:33,452 It does matter. 569 00:39:33,452 --> 00:39:35,787 I was unable to like her. 570 00:39:35,787 --> 00:39:38,457 I did not want her in our home. 571 00:39:38,457 --> 00:39:41,227 She was not a threat to me, ben. 572 00:39:41,227 --> 00:39:43,162 She was a threat to us. 573 00:40:57,904 --> 00:41:00,306 You should not have felt concern. 574 00:41:00,306 --> 00:41:02,608 I did not intend to leave. 575 00:41:02,608 --> 00:41:04,243 I am merely employing 576 00:41:04,243 --> 00:41:06,478 the devious methods they themselves use. 577 00:41:06,478 --> 00:41:08,080 They must not think 578 00:41:08,080 --> 00:41:10,482 i wish to harm him or the woman. 579 00:41:10,482 --> 00:41:13,719 You see, they live by what they think, 580 00:41:13,719 --> 00:41:15,521 not by what they know. 581 00:41:15,521 --> 00:41:17,523 We beg forgiveness, queen, 582 00:41:17,523 --> 00:41:19,325 for having doubted you. 583 00:41:19,325 --> 00:41:21,893 We did not understand it was a game. 584 00:41:21,893 --> 00:41:23,495 We are at your service. 585 00:41:23,495 --> 00:41:25,731 We will- warning! Warning! 586 00:42:04,137 --> 00:42:05,237 No! 587 00:43:10,337 --> 00:43:11,737 Yes? 588 00:43:11,737 --> 00:43:13,472 Ben? 589 00:43:13,472 --> 00:43:15,741 I've been calling all afternoon. 590 00:43:17,377 --> 00:43:19,110 Well, i've been here... 591 00:43:21,881 --> 00:43:23,482 down in my lab... 592 00:43:25,552 --> 00:43:27,686 straightening things up and... 593 00:43:30,223 --> 00:43:33,992 listening to some... tapes. 594 00:43:33,992 --> 00:43:35,427 I, uh... 595 00:43:37,063 --> 00:43:39,398 i didn't hear the phone ring. 596 00:43:39,398 --> 00:43:40,799 You need anything? 597 00:43:44,404 --> 00:43:47,639 No, i don't need anything. 598 00:43:47,639 --> 00:43:48,574 Ben? 599 00:43:50,042 --> 00:43:51,142 Huh? 600 00:43:51,142 --> 00:43:53,011 Have you taken those pills? 601 00:43:54,981 --> 00:43:55,947 Pills? 602 00:43:55,947 --> 00:43:57,783 I gave you some pills 603 00:43:57,783 --> 00:43:59,985 when we were leaving the cemetery. 604 00:43:59,985 --> 00:44:01,720 Oh. Those. 605 00:44:03,990 --> 00:44:06,525 What are they for, howard? 606 00:44:06,525 --> 00:44:08,226 Tranquilizers. 607 00:44:08,226 --> 00:44:09,160 Huh. 608 00:44:10,797 --> 00:44:13,298 Are you sure they work? 609 00:44:13,298 --> 00:44:15,667 Are they as effective 610 00:44:15,667 --> 00:44:19,137 as the inoculations you gave francesca? 611 00:44:19,137 --> 00:44:24,777 Ben, i've told you stings did not kill her. 612 00:44:24,777 --> 00:44:26,244 Yeah, that's right. 613 00:44:26,244 --> 00:44:28,079 I keep forgetting that. 614 00:44:29,982 --> 00:44:32,718 What did kill her, howard? 615 00:44:32,718 --> 00:44:35,120 Get some sleep, ben. 616 00:44:35,120 --> 00:44:37,022 What did kill her, howard? 617 00:44:37,022 --> 00:44:39,124 I don't know. 618 00:44:39,124 --> 00:44:40,859 Poison. 619 00:44:40,859 --> 00:44:43,328 They're still working on it, ben. 620 00:44:43,328 --> 00:44:45,997 We can't identify it. 621 00:44:45,997 --> 00:44:48,266 Maybe i can help you, howard... 622 00:44:50,570 --> 00:44:52,671 because i'm an exacting... 623 00:44:54,574 --> 00:44:57,910 perfect award-winning scientist. 624 00:45:00,413 --> 00:45:03,549 I can identify a lot of strange things. 625 00:45:33,680 --> 00:45:36,414 Take that off! Where did you get it?! 626 00:45:36,414 --> 00:45:38,083 Now, take it off! 627 00:45:48,495 --> 00:45:50,095 Oh, forgive me, dear ben. 628 00:45:50,095 --> 00:45:52,330 I only wanted to make you laugh. 629 00:45:52,330 --> 00:45:54,833 I found it in my room in the cedar chest. 630 00:45:54,833 --> 00:45:56,835 And when i put it on, 631 00:45:56,835 --> 00:45:58,737 i looked so comical, i laughed. 632 00:45:58,737 --> 00:46:00,338 I thought you would, too. 633 00:46:00,540 --> 00:46:03,208 Oh, i wanted to make you laugh again. 634 00:46:07,514 --> 00:46:09,581 It's called grief, isn't it? 635 00:46:12,318 --> 00:46:14,319 Yes, it's called grief. 636 00:46:14,319 --> 00:46:16,755 Does it pass? 637 00:46:16,755 --> 00:46:18,289 After a long time. 638 00:46:19,826 --> 00:46:23,094 We help each other live through it 639 00:46:23,094 --> 00:46:24,563 or with it. 640 00:46:24,563 --> 00:46:26,732 We share it, you see, 641 00:46:26,732 --> 00:46:29,200 as francesca and i shared ours. 642 00:46:31,370 --> 00:46:34,039 We have a very nice saying, regina. 643 00:46:34,039 --> 00:46:35,373 Say it, ben. 644 00:46:35,373 --> 00:46:36,808 Please say it. 645 00:46:39,378 --> 00:46:42,814 A grief shared is half a grief. 646 00:46:42,814 --> 00:46:45,250 A joy shared is twice a joy. 647 00:46:47,554 --> 00:46:50,321 If i share your grief, ben, 648 00:46:50,321 --> 00:46:52,591 will you share my joy? 649 00:46:54,060 --> 00:46:56,161 You have a joy? 650 00:46:56,161 --> 00:46:58,196 Oh, yes, ben. 651 00:46:58,196 --> 00:47:00,231 Can you describe it? 652 00:47:00,231 --> 00:47:02,634 I can show you. 653 00:47:02,634 --> 00:47:03,835 Come. 654 00:47:05,471 --> 00:47:06,872 Come, look. 655 00:47:09,341 --> 00:47:10,876 Look. 656 00:47:10,876 --> 00:47:13,011 Now, what do you see? 657 00:47:15,682 --> 00:47:19,685 A lonely man... with swollen eyes. 658 00:47:19,685 --> 00:47:21,987 Oh, no, ben. 659 00:47:21,987 --> 00:47:24,189 You see my joy. 660 00:47:24,189 --> 00:47:26,792 You see you, ben. 661 00:47:26,792 --> 00:47:28,961 You're my joy. 662 00:47:28,961 --> 00:47:30,896 I'm your joy? 663 00:47:30,896 --> 00:47:32,898 Now can we be married? 664 00:47:34,567 --> 00:47:36,167 Right now? 665 00:47:36,167 --> 00:47:36,917 No? 666 00:47:37,770 --> 00:47:39,871 Well, there are 667 00:47:39,871 --> 00:47:43,475 all manner of obstacles, regina, 668 00:47:43,475 --> 00:47:47,145 streams and streams of red tape, 669 00:47:47,145 --> 00:47:48,814 tons of legalities- 670 00:47:48,814 --> 00:47:51,850 all designed to prevent fervent people 671 00:47:51,850 --> 00:47:54,185 from getting married right now. 672 00:47:54,185 --> 00:47:57,555 I am not opposed to a ritual, ben. 673 00:47:57,555 --> 00:47:58,490 Oh. 674 00:48:00,059 --> 00:48:03,361 And ours is such a beautiful ritual, regina. 675 00:48:04,998 --> 00:48:07,532 It happens only once in a person's life... 676 00:48:09,002 --> 00:48:13,438 at least it should... and it usually does. 677 00:48:13,438 --> 00:48:17,609 It happens, and then it's over- 678 00:48:17,609 --> 00:48:19,444 almost quickly. 679 00:48:21,014 --> 00:48:24,082 And the veil is laid in cedar. 680 00:48:24,082 --> 00:48:27,786 And the memory is laid in your heart. 681 00:48:27,786 --> 00:48:30,656 And no one, nothing, 682 00:48:30,656 --> 00:48:33,291 can uproot that memory- 683 00:48:33,291 --> 00:48:36,461 no sudden, senseless tragedy, 684 00:48:36,461 --> 00:48:38,463 no willful murderer 685 00:48:38,463 --> 00:48:41,399 can rip it out and desecrate it. 686 00:48:43,569 --> 00:48:47,272 When we love and get married, 687 00:48:47,272 --> 00:48:51,242 we share our acts of love with god. 688 00:48:51,242 --> 00:48:52,944 When there are children, 689 00:48:52,944 --> 00:48:54,813 we share them with god, 690 00:48:54,813 --> 00:48:56,982 and when there are none, 691 00:48:56,982 --> 00:48:59,284 we share our grief with god. 692 00:48:59,284 --> 00:49:02,320 That's our ritual, regina. 693 00:49:02,320 --> 00:49:03,789 It's called life. 694 00:49:03,789 --> 00:49:06,257 And no evil, no inhuman mutation 695 00:49:06,257 --> 00:49:08,927 has ever been able to stop it. 696 00:49:08,927 --> 00:49:10,628 It goes on and on 697 00:49:10,628 --> 00:49:12,430 just as the kind of life 698 00:49:12,430 --> 00:49:13,965 where you come from goes on and on- 699 00:49:13,965 --> 00:49:17,703 the way it was meant to go on and on! 700 00:49:17,703 --> 00:49:18,737 Aah! 701 00:49:59,979 --> 00:50:02,614 When the yearning to gain ascendancy 702 00:50:02,614 --> 00:50:05,817 takes the form of a soulless, loveless struggle, 703 00:50:05,817 --> 00:50:08,620 the conflict must end in unlovely defeat, 704 00:50:08,620 --> 00:50:09,955 for without love, 705 00:50:09,955 --> 00:50:12,657 drones can never be made, 706 00:50:12,657 --> 00:50:15,894 and men can only be drones. 707 00:50:15,894 --> 00:50:19,097 We now return control of your television set to you 708 00:50:19,097 --> 00:50:22,117 until next week at this same time- 709 00:50:22,117 --> 00:50:24,669 when the control voice will take you to... 710 00:50:24,669 --> 00:50:26,772 the outer limits. 711 00:50:31,110 --> 00:50:34,045 Captioning made possible by mgm home entertainment 712 00:50:34,045 --> 00:50:37,048 captioned by the national captioning institute