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[THEME MUSIC PLAYING]
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NARRATOR: You're traveling
through another dimension.
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A dimension not only of
sight and sound, but of mind.
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A journey into a wondrous land
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whose boundaries are that of imagination.
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Your next stop, the Twilight Zone.
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[SIGHS]
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MAN [ON SPEAKER]:
Mr. Chambers? Mr. Chambers?
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It is the mealtime.
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Kindly state your preference, please.
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Mr. Chambers?
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It is the mealtime.
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Kindly state your preference, please.
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[SPITS]
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Please deposit cigarettes
in appropriate receptacle.
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This is a safety measure.
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Why don't you take a
flying jump at the moon?
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Kindly repeat request.
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Aw, knock it off, leave me alone.
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You do not care for food at this time?
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Yes, I do not care for food at this time.
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Very well.
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[SIGHS]
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[MUTTERS] "Very well… very, very well."
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[SIGHS]
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[SIGHS]
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[WHIRRING]
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[TAP RUNNING]
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Please conserve water.
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[SIGHS]
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What time is it?
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There is no time in space.
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This is to say,
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there is no chronology
that can be calibrated.
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I said what time is it?
What time is it on Earth?
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Can you tell me that without an
exercise in Euclidean geometry?
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Now, just tell me
what time it is on Earth!
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On Earth, it would be twelve noon.
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[SIGHS]
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[MUTTERING] Twelve noon, twelve noon.
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CHAMBERS [NARRATING]:
This is the way nightmares begin,
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or, perhaps, end.
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Very simple, direct, unadorned.
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Incredible, and yet so terribly real
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that even while they're happening,
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we live with them and digest them
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and assimilate them.
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And if it's twelve noon,
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that's what you preoccupy yourself with.
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You don't think about twelve noon
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on the next day or the day after that.
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But that's what we should
have been thinking about…
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Tomorrow and the day after tomorrow.
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We were preoccupied
with the hands on a clock
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when we should have
been checking off a calendar.
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It was an April day, and
it was noon then, too.
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And people walked and drove
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and bought and sold
and fretted and laughed.
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The world went on much
as it had been going on
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with a tentative tiptoeing
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alongside a precipice of crisis.
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There was Berlin to worry about,
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and Indochina, and Algeria
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and all the other myriad
problems, major and minor
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that somehow had lost
their incisive edge of horror
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because we were so familiar with them.
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-And then…
-[WHIRRING, WHISTLING]
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[NEWS OVER RADIO]
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And that's when it happened.
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That's when we first
heard that they had come.
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That's when we should
have prepared ourselves
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for any eventuality, but we didn't.
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Instead, we milled around
like frightened farm animals
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looking for formulas and father images,
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while the secretary
general of the United Nations
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made the first official announcement
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of the arrival of creatures
from outer space.
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They called themselves Kanamits
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and announced over the short wave
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that on that given afternoon,
they would arrive on Earth.
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At eleven o'clock this morning,
Eastern Standard Time,
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the first of these landings
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took place in an area just
outside of Newark, New Jersey.
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Subsequently, we have
had reports of other landings
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in the Soviet Union, in Norway,
the southern coast of France
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just outside of
Rio de Janeiro and several others.
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Speaking on behalf of the United Nations,
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I can only tell you that at this moment
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it would be premature
to assume hostile intent
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on the part of these, these Kanamits.
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And so, it is the position
of the United Nations
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that the world population remain calm,
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to make no hostile move, to keep in mind
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that all governments are being apprised
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of the events as they happen
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and have the situation well in hand.
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What do they look like?
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Yeah, what do they look like?
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Who are they?
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Can't we get a more specific statement?
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We do not know what they look like.
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We only know that several
of their craft have landed
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-and that they…
-[ANXIOUS MURMURING]
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What's the secret?
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Why can't we have a statement?
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What's going on? What's happening here?
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It appears… It appears
that one of the craft
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has landed just a few blocks away.
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That close?
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Does the Defense Department know?
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One of their representatives
is on his way to this building.
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Fantastic!
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Unbelievable!
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[CLAMORING VOICES]
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[SLOW FOOTSTEPS]
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Respectfully submitted
for your perusal: a Kanamit.
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Height: a little over nine feet.
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Weight: in the
neighborhood of 350 pounds.
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Origin: unknown.
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Motives?
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Therein hangs the
tale, for in just a moment
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we're going to ask you to
shake hands, figuratively,
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with a Christopher Columbus
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from another galaxy and another time.
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This is the Twilight Zone.
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KANAMIT [TELEPATHICALLY]:
Ladies and gentlemen of the Earth,
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we greet you in peace and friendship.
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We come from a planet
far beyond this galaxy,
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a planet far more developed than Earth,
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but we come as friends.
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Although we know your language,
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our own methods of communication
are mental rather than verbal.
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Hence, the voice you
hear me speaking with
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is totally mechanical.
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Our intentions are honorable.
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We desire above all things
to help the people of Earth…
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[SIMULTANEOUS TRANSLATIONS]
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…to establish embassies here,
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and, in the near future,
to set up reciprocal visits
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between Earth people and Kanamits.
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CHAMBERS [NARRATING]: Perhaps
you watched this initial questioning
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most people on earth did…
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On television sets, radios, shortwave.
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Surely, some of the questions
asked by your representatives
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must have been identical
to a few of your own
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because as a race, we're
unaccustomed to charity.
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Brutality is a far more
universal language to us
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than an expression of
friendship from outer space.
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Would you be willing
to be interrogated here
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and at this time?
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There are UN delegates present
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of most of the important countries
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and the television cameras
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are carrying our meeting
throughout the world.
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I will be glad to.
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Señor Valdes of Argentina is recognized.
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VALDES: Thank you, Mr. Secretary.
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Señor, could you please inform us
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precisely why have you
chosen this planet for your visit?
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It has come to our attention
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that Earth has been plagued
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by both natural and
unnatural catastrophes,
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all of which could easily be
acted upon and prevented.
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We are here to help you.
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Recognizing Dr. Denis Leveque,
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the representative of France.
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Monsieur, my government
wishes me to ask you
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the nature of your help.
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What forms will it take?
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Indeed, if we should
prefer not to avail ourselves
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of the various aids that you mentioned,
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your reply would be what?
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We will not force anything on you.
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You will take only that
which you choose to take.
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For example, tomorrow we will demonstrate
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to all interested parties
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a new and extremely
interesting power source
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which is atomic in nature
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and which can supply
a form of electric power
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for entire countries
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for the cost of a few dollars.
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It's extremely economical.
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Mr. Gregori, the representative
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of the Soviet Union, is recognized.
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The Soviet people would
like to ask the Kanamits
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precisely… I repeat that to him…
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Precisely what are your motives
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in coming here quite uninvited?
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Are we to assume that
there is no ulterior motive
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beyond this vast humanity you speak of?
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There is nothing ulterior in our motives.
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Nothing at all.
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You will discover this for
yourselves before too long
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simply by testing the various devices
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which we will make available to you.
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We can show you, for example,
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how to add a certain very
cheap nitrate to the soil
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and end famine on Earth for good and all.
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We can demonstrate
to you quite practically
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the principles of the force field
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in which you may cloak each nation
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with an invisible wall,
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absolutely impenetrable
by bombs, missiles,
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or anything else.
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We ask only that you trust us.
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Only that you simply trust us.
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CHAMBERS [NARRATING]:
That was what we all thought.
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It was the age of Santa Claus.
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Only these Kris Kringles
came without white whiskers
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and rosy cheeks and twinkling eyes.
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They were nine-feet tall enigmas
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who descended on us like locusts.
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But nobody was counting or worrying.
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Except perhaps a few professionals
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whose job it was to second guess.
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In a sense, I was one of these…
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A decoding specialist for
the United States government,
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and this is where I got into the act.
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MAN: Well, Chambers, what have you got?
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A corker of a migraine
headache and eye strain.
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You can't lick it?
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No, not in eight hours, I can't.
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Colonel, it took us almost a year
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to crack the Japanese code…
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We had an army of men working on that.
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But this is a language of
people from outer space,
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probably 500 times
as intelligent as we are
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and a thousand times more complex.
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You need more help?
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All donations gratefully accepted.
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I showed this to every man on our staff.
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I've had a dozen people
working on it since late last night.
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We've tried pretty much everything…
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Single transposition,
double transposition.
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We've tried every known
method of cryptography there is,
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and I don't know whether we're even close
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or a million miles away.
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Are you saying it's indecipherable?
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No, we've just got to
keep trying, that's all.
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Standard, direct, reversed,
systematically mixed,
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keyword mixed, random mixed,
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reciprocal, conjugate.
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Every nature of
sequence of letters there is.
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I'll tell you something,
Colonel, this is a tough nut.
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This is a real tough nut.
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How important is it?
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Hmm, I don't know.
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That, that Kanamit,
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or whatever it is he calls himself,
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walked off and left this
book yesterday at the un.
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The White House feels if
we can decipher this book
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we can find out what they're up to.
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Well, obviously, nothing but our good.
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He hasn't commented
on the loss of this book.
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Probably unconcerned that we have it.
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Why should we be so concerned?
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They've done all right by us so far.
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Parlor tricks.
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They don't seem like tricks, Colonel.
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That new nitrate use they demonstrated
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in Argentina this morning…
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That soil had more
vitamins in it six hours later
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than a drugstore chain.
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I know that country.
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That's as barren and fruitless
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as any place on earth.
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Well… we might lick this, we might not.
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But I got a strange feeling.
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What?
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That we're looking
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a gift horse in the mouth.
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I got another funny feeling, too.
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And that is?
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That if these Kanamits
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are as helpful as I think they are,
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you boys will be out of a job.
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And probably, so will I.
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Am I to assume
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this is a scientific
analysis, Mr. Chambers,
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or just some Kentucky windage?
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Well, I don't know what it is, Colonel,
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beyond an instinctive feeling.
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When this earth gets enough to eat
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and there are no more
wars or diseases or famines,
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this is going to be a Garden of Eden.
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Your optimism is most
refreshing, Mr. Chambers,
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but I suggest you continue
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your process of deciphering
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until you can tell us precisely…
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And I mean precisely…
what that book says.
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We've licked the title, anyway.
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What does it say?
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How much does it tell us?
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Here it is.
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Well, that makes the cheese
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more binding, wouldn't you say, Colonel?
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I'd call that a reasonably
altruistic phrase,
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do you agree, Patty?
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Well, I, uh…
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Well, I want to believe it, but…
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I don't know what to think.
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"To serve man."
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I hope so.
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I fervently hope so.
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SECRETARY GENERAL:
Gentlemen, the purpose of this meeting
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is to acquaint you with certain
tests made over the past week.
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At the request of several delegates
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and with the full consent
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of our guests, the Kanamits,
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these tests were filmed, cut
together into one short film
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and you can watch them now.
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Kindly lower the screen.
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[WHIRRING]
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MAN [ON FILM]: These are
the standard instruments used
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to determine the truth of a statement.
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Our first object,
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since the physiology of the
Kanamits is unknown to us,
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was to determine whether
or not they react to these tests
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as human beings do.
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We will now repeat one of
the many experiments made
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in an effort to discover this fact.
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This instrument records
the subject's heartbeat.
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This one shows the electrical
conductivity of the skin
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in the palm of the hand…
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A measure of perspiration,
which increases under stress.
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This one shows the pattern
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and intensity of the electrical waves
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emanating from the subject's brain.
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Which of these is longer than the other?
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KANAMIT: The gray.
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I shall repeat the question.
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Which of these is longer than the other?
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The black.
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How did you get to this planet?
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Walked.
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Once again, how did
you get to this planet?
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In a spaceship.
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Many such experiments were made
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and my colleagues
and myself are satisfied
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that the mechanisms are effective.
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Now, I shall ask our distinguished guest
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to reply to the question
put at the last session
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by several of the delegates.
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Namely, what is the
motive of the Kanamit people
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in offering such great gifts
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to the people of the Earth?
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I hope that the people of Earth
will understand and believe
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when I tell you that our mission
upon this planet is simply this:
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To bring to you the peace and
plenty which we ourselves enjoy
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and which we have in the past
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brought to other races
throughout the galaxy.
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When your world has no more hunger,
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no more war, no more needless suffering,
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that will be our reward.
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CHAMBERS [NARRATING]: And
the machine showed no deviation.
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According to it, the
Kanamit was telling the truth.
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You and I and the rest of
this earth had a ringside seat
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to the rebirth of every dream
man had ever dreamed.
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[SPEAKING FRENCH]
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[SPEAKING JAPANESE]
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[SPEAKING SPANISH]
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CHAMBERS: Santa Claus came through.
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Arid deserts became gardens
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with the devices the Kanamits
showed us how to use.
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The force field that was to
end war did precisely that.
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Armies and navies were
practically disbanded.
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KANAMIT: Please check your guest visas.
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This is flight number 267
from Earth to our planet.
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They tell me they have a
mean temperature of 76 degrees
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on their planet, and the
sun never goes down.
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And their clothing…
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It's a metallic
substance, just beautiful.
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Kind of like a spun gold.
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My sister wrote me.
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She says the day you land,
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they take you on a
conducted tour of all their shops
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and you can pick out
as much of it as you want.
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00:18:48,625 --> 00:18:50,167
But it's an entire planet.
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Bigger than China.
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Besides it's an opportunity
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to spread peaceful
coexistence to an entire galaxy.
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Stand aside, please,
I have diplomatic visa.
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It's just one big holiday
when you get there.
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They've even got a form of baseball.
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Leagues of everything,
just like we've got.
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And the whole trip, billions of miles,
387
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only takes just a few days.
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Oh, man, I don't think
I'll want to come back
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once I do get there. [LAUGHS]
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[HUMMING]
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I'm going home, boss.
Need me for anything?
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Need you for anything? Like what?
393
00:19:26,610 --> 00:19:29,528
This isn't exactly what you
call a beehive of activity.
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00:19:29,612 --> 00:19:33,531
Well, this is the new story of man.
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Nobody needs to decipher
much of anything anymore
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because there aren't any more codes
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00:19:39,036 --> 00:19:41,829
simply because there aren't
any more secret messages.
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Odd.
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00:19:43,497 --> 00:19:44,873
Huh?
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00:19:44,957 --> 00:19:46,583
Well, I mean,
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we're not reading about the hydrogen bomb
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or war scares or insurrections
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00:19:51,711 --> 00:19:55,630
or anything like that anymore.
404
00:19:55,714 --> 00:19:56,882
Millennium.
405
00:19:56,966 --> 00:19:58,883
Yeah, close to it.
406
00:20:04,512 --> 00:20:06,430
How many of them are around now?
407
00:20:06,514 --> 00:20:09,056
Anybody ever figure it out?
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00:20:09,140 --> 00:20:10,892
A few thousand, I guess.
409
00:20:10,976 --> 00:20:13,435
They've got embassies
in every country now.
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00:20:13,519 --> 00:20:15,436
And for every one of them that comes,
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a few thousand of us
take off in their ships
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to live with them. [CLICKS TONGUE]
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00:20:19,731 --> 00:20:21,566
Yeah, that's the odd thing:
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The fantastic ease with which
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human beings make adjustments.
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One day, they watch with bated breath
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00:20:28,655 --> 00:20:31,573
while a single
individual orbits the Earth
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00:20:31,657 --> 00:20:33,407
in a rinky-dink little cubicle
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00:20:33,491 --> 00:20:35,825
and they think this is
the most historic moment
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that's ever happened
in the history of mankind.
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00:20:38,662 --> 00:20:40,454
And then, one year later,
422
00:20:40,538 --> 00:20:42,456
they stand in line
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waiting to take off in a spaceship
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00:20:44,541 --> 00:20:48,460
to go 100 billion miles off into space,
425
00:20:48,544 --> 00:20:51,462
and they act and react
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00:20:51,546 --> 00:20:56,466
as if this were a weekend
picnic in the country.
427
00:20:56,550 --> 00:21:01,469
Oh, strange and complex sanity of man.
428
00:21:01,553 --> 00:21:06,473
Nothing fazes him.
429
00:21:06,557 --> 00:21:08,474
Are you going?
430
00:21:08,558 --> 00:21:11,100
Well, as a matter of fact…
431
00:21:11,184 --> 00:21:14,853
I'm on a ten-year
exchange group waiting list.
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00:21:14,937 --> 00:21:16,271
Mm-hm.
433
00:21:16,355 --> 00:21:18,272
And what about you, Patty?
434
00:21:18,356 --> 00:21:20,399
I'm on the list, too.
435
00:21:20,483 --> 00:21:22,609
The trouble is, their quotas fill
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00:21:22,693 --> 00:21:24,236
just as soon as they make
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00:21:24,320 --> 00:21:25,903
the announcement of a new trip.
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00:21:25,987 --> 00:21:27,446
While I'm waiting,
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00:21:27,530 --> 00:21:29,155
I think I'll do the next best thing.
440
00:21:29,239 --> 00:21:31,616
I'm still working on that book.
441
00:21:31,700 --> 00:21:34,618
Deciphering that title
has been of no help
442
00:21:34,702 --> 00:21:37,036
because their capital
letters are different
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00:21:37,120 --> 00:21:38,621
than the other signs they use,
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00:21:38,705 --> 00:21:40,163
just as ours are.
445
00:21:40,247 --> 00:21:42,748
But it's starting to fall into place.
446
00:21:42,832 --> 00:21:45,125
I think I'll get the answer eventually.
447
00:21:45,209 --> 00:21:46,960
Well, I gave up trying a month ago.
448
00:21:49,962 --> 00:21:53,631
KANAMIT: This is flight number 914
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from Earth to our planet.
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00:21:55,717 --> 00:22:01,178
We will be taking off in three minutes.
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00:22:01,262 --> 00:22:02,388
Mr. Chambers.
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00:22:05,057 --> 00:22:06,975
Mr. Chambers!
453
00:22:07,059 --> 00:22:08,976
Don't get on that ship!
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00:22:09,060 --> 00:22:11,978
The rest of the book, To Serve Man… It's…
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00:22:12,062 --> 00:22:13,605
It's a cookbook!
456
00:22:18,566 --> 00:22:20,693
No! No!
457
00:22:20,777 --> 00:22:23,444
No, no, no!
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00:22:23,528 --> 00:22:25,946
Hey! No!
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00:22:32,534 --> 00:22:33,994
[WHIRRING, WHISTLING]
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KANAMIT: You have not
eaten enough, Mr. Chambers.
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00:22:56,968 --> 00:22:59,512
Please, enjoy.
462
00:22:59,596 --> 00:23:01,722
Eat hearty.
463
00:23:17,608 --> 00:23:20,152
Please, Mr. Chambers, eat.
464
00:23:20,236 --> 00:23:24,239
We wouldn't want you to lose weight.
465
00:23:32,619 --> 00:23:34,537
How about you?
466
00:23:34,621 --> 00:23:37,497
You still on Earth or
on the ship with me?
467
00:23:37,581 --> 00:23:40,207
Well, it doesn't make
very much difference
468
00:23:40,291 --> 00:23:41,792
because sooner or later…
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We'll all of us be on
the menu… all of us.
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NARRATOR: The recollections
of one Michael Chambers
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with appropriate
flashbacks and soliloquy.
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00:23:53,592 --> 00:23:56,510
Or more simply stated,
the evolution of man,
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00:23:56,594 --> 00:24:00,055
the cycle of going from dust to dessert,
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00:24:00,139 --> 00:24:03,058
the metamorphosis from
being the ruler of a planet
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00:24:03,142 --> 00:24:05,517
to an ingredient in someone's soup.
476
00:24:05,601 --> 00:24:08,645
It's tonight's bill of fare
on The Twilight Zone.
477
00:24:11,480 --> 00:24:14,565
PRESENTER: Rod Serling,
creator of The Twilight Zone,
478
00:24:14,649 --> 00:24:16,525
will tell you about next week's story
479
00:24:16,609 --> 00:24:20,028
after this message.
480
00:24:20,112 --> 00:24:22,237
And now, Mr. Serling.
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00:24:22,321 --> 00:24:24,822
Next week on The Twilight Zone,
contributor Charles Beaumont
482
00:24:24,906 --> 00:24:26,824
provides us with a most charming tale
483
00:24:26,908 --> 00:24:28,825
of an old man and some children…
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00:24:28,909 --> 00:24:31,410
An old man who's an exceptional playmate,
485
00:24:31,494 --> 00:24:33,454
exceptional because, well,
486
00:24:33,538 --> 00:24:36,247
how many old men do you know
who can change into monsters?
487
00:24:36,331 --> 00:24:38,582
Mr. Beaumont's excellent-tasting stew
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00:24:38,666 --> 00:24:41,418
is further seasoned by
an element of mystery.
489
00:24:41,502 --> 00:24:43,044
It's called "The Fugitive."
490
00:24:43,128 --> 00:24:45,088
We hope to see you next week.
491
00:25:14,901 --> 00:25:16,568
This is James Arness.
492
00:25:16,652 --> 00:25:18,736
You know, it's only a short hop
493
00:25:18,820 --> 00:25:20,737
from the Twilight Zone to
Dodge City and Gunsmoke.
494
00:25:20,821 --> 00:25:23,324
Saturday nights over
most of these stations.