0 00:00:01,000 --> 00:00:04,000 1 00:00:00,105 --> 00:00:05,000 1 00:00:06,591 --> 00:00:10,310 You unlock this door with the key of imagination. 2 00:00:10,345 --> 00:00:12,062 Beyond it is another dimension- 3 00:00:12,097 --> 00:00:14,564 a dimension of sound, 4 00:00:14,599 --> 00:00:16,449 a dimension of sight, 5 00:00:16,484 --> 00:00:18,952 a dimension of mind. 6 00:00:18,987 --> 00:00:21,454 You're moving into a land of both shadow and substance, 7 00:00:21,489 --> 00:00:23,323 of things and ideas. 8 00:00:23,358 --> 00:00:27,077 You've just crossed over into the twilight zone. 9 00:00:38,972 --> 00:00:41,224 Okay, and thank you for calling. 10 00:00:41,259 --> 00:00:43,093 Yeah. 11 00:00:43,128 --> 00:00:44,978 We'll be watching. 12 00:01:02,362 --> 00:01:04,864 That was colonel connacher, honey. 13 00:01:04,899 --> 00:01:07,367 He says daddy is just fine. 14 00:01:07,402 --> 00:01:09,869 Will he... will he be going up soon? 15 00:01:09,904 --> 00:01:11,121 In just about an hour. 16 00:01:11,156 --> 00:01:14,874 That's what colonel connacher said. 17 00:01:14,909 --> 00:01:18,011 Do you want to go back to sleep? 18 00:01:18,046 --> 00:01:20,513 I don't blame you. I can't sleep either. 19 00:01:20,548 --> 00:01:23,016 I'll tell you what. 20 00:01:23,051 --> 00:01:25,518 I'll make some coffee for me 21 00:01:25,553 --> 00:01:28,021 and some cocoa for you. 22 00:01:28,056 --> 00:01:30,523 And you wash your face and hands 23 00:01:30,558 --> 00:01:31,775 and comb your hair. 24 00:01:31,810 --> 00:01:34,894 And then we'll turn on the television set, okay? 25 00:01:34,929 --> 00:01:36,146 Okay. 26 00:02:19,689 --> 00:02:22,192 Be safe, bob. 27 00:02:24,077 --> 00:02:25,945 Be safe, darling. 28 00:02:29,082 --> 00:02:32,202 And come back. 29 00:02:32,237 --> 00:02:36,206 In the vernacular of space this is t minus one hour- 30 00:02:36,241 --> 00:02:40,593 60 minutes before a human being named major robert gaines 31 00:02:40,628 --> 00:02:43,713 is lifted off from the mother earth and rocketed 32 00:02:43,748 --> 00:02:46,216 into the sky farther and longer 33 00:02:46,251 --> 00:02:48,718 than any man ahead of him. 34 00:02:48,753 --> 00:02:52,972 Call this one of the first faltering steps of man 35 00:02:53,007 --> 00:02:55,358 to sever the umbilical cord of gravity 36 00:02:55,393 --> 00:02:57,861 and stretch out a fingertip toward an unknown. 37 00:02:57,896 --> 00:03:00,613 Shortly, we'll join this astronaut named gaines 38 00:03:00,648 --> 00:03:04,984 and embark on an adventure, because the environs overhead- 39 00:03:05,019 --> 00:03:07,487 the stars, the sky, the infinite space- 40 00:03:07,522 --> 00:03:09,989 are all part of a vast question mark 41 00:03:10,024 --> 00:03:13,126 known as the twilight zone. 42 00:04:01,007 --> 00:04:02,258 Huh. Pulse normal? 43 00:04:02,875 --> 00:04:04,127 Reasonable. 44 00:04:04,162 --> 00:04:07,263 Someplace between nonchalance and panic. 45 00:04:07,298 --> 00:04:09,132 I know the feeling. 46 00:04:09,167 --> 00:04:10,883 I called helen. She's fine. 47 00:04:10,918 --> 00:04:12,769 Says to tell you they'll be waiting. 48 00:04:12,804 --> 00:04:14,270 Bless you for that. 49 00:04:14,305 --> 00:04:16,773 Do you have any messages for the angels? 50 00:04:16,808 --> 00:04:20,393 Hmm... give them a kiss for me- any that you meet. 51 00:04:20,428 --> 00:04:23,896 On my last orbit, i'll lasso a pair of gossamer wings 52 00:04:23,931 --> 00:04:26,399 and ship them down to you air express- collect. 53 00:04:28,401 --> 00:04:30,153 Kind of an odd feeling, 54 00:04:30,787 --> 00:04:33,906 knowing i'll be moving around the earth for a week. 55 00:04:33,941 --> 00:04:35,792 That's progress. 56 00:04:35,827 --> 00:04:37,660 Gus grissom went 302 miles, 57 00:04:37,695 --> 00:04:40,797 glenn made three orbits, schirra handled six. 58 00:04:40,832 --> 00:04:45,168 And you, bobby boy, are going to go round and round. 59 00:04:45,203 --> 00:04:48,921 And, when you come back down, maybe we'll be that much closer 60 00:04:48,956 --> 00:04:51,424 to filing a claim on some more sky. 61 00:04:51,459 --> 00:04:52,675 Good luck, buddy. 62 00:04:52,710 --> 00:04:53,926 Thanks, bill. Thanks a lot. 63 00:04:55,178 --> 00:04:57,680 This is capcom. 64 00:04:57,715 --> 00:05:02,068 Time is now at t minus one minute and counting. 65 00:05:07,073 --> 00:05:08,324 Better hurry. 66 00:05:16,449 --> 00:05:18,951 This is capcom. 67 00:05:18,986 --> 00:05:25,208 The mx ten countdown is now t minus 25 seconds. 68 00:05:25,243 --> 00:05:29,212 T minus 20 seconds 69 00:05:29,247 --> 00:05:30,463 19... 70 00:05:30,498 --> 00:05:32,965 18... 71 00:05:33,000 --> 00:05:35,468 17... 16... 72 00:05:35,503 --> 00:05:38,104 15... 14... 73 00:05:38,139 --> 00:05:40,606 13... 12... 74 00:05:40,641 --> 00:05:41,858 11... 75 00:05:41,893 --> 00:05:43,726 ten... 76 00:05:43,761 --> 00:05:45,728 nine... eight... 77 00:05:45,763 --> 00:05:48,865 seven... six... 78 00:05:48,900 --> 00:05:51,367 five... four... 79 00:05:51,402 --> 00:05:55,488 three... two... one... 80 00:05:55,523 --> 00:05:56,739 zero. 81 00:06:21,397 --> 00:06:23,399 Go ahead, ten. We read you loud and clear. 82 00:06:23,434 --> 00:06:27,153 Zero g, and i feel fine. 83 00:06:29,655 --> 00:06:32,775 Spacecraft is beginning to turn now. 84 00:06:32,810 --> 00:06:33,659 Roger. 85 00:06:33,694 --> 00:06:35,528 Turnaround has started. 86 00:06:35,563 --> 00:06:38,664 Spacecraft is almost over. 87 00:06:40,533 --> 00:06:44,420 I can see the booster just a couple of yards behind me. 88 00:06:44,455 --> 00:06:45,671 It's quite a sight. 89 00:06:45,706 --> 00:06:48,791 Roger, ten. We still read you loud and clear. 90 00:06:48,826 --> 00:06:50,676 Next transmission, bermuda. 91 00:06:50,711 --> 00:06:54,797 Roger. Understand next transmission, bermuda. 92 00:06:56,299 --> 00:06:59,435 Phebus ten, bermuda. 93 00:06:59,470 --> 00:07:01,437 Capcom tech on hm. 94 00:07:12,064 --> 00:07:13,950 Phebus ten, 95 00:07:13,985 --> 00:07:15,818 this is zanzibar captech. 96 00:07:15,853 --> 00:07:18,955 We have solid telemetry contact. 97 00:07:22,825 --> 00:07:30,967 Phebus ten. 98 00:07:31,002 --> 00:07:33,469 Capcom calling phebus ten. 99 00:07:33,504 --> 00:07:34,971 We now have i.o.s., over. 100 00:07:35,006 --> 00:07:37,473 Phebus ten, your voice transmissions 101 00:07:37,508 --> 00:07:39,976 are starting to fade very badly. 102 00:07:40,092 --> 00:07:43,846 Capcom, capcom, this is phebus ten. 103 00:07:43,881 --> 00:07:46,349 I've lost contact with you. 104 00:07:52,605 --> 00:07:54,490 I've lost radar here! I've lost radar! 105 00:07:54,525 --> 00:07:56,859 We don't have contact here, either. 106 00:07:56,894 --> 00:07:58,110 No contact at all. 107 00:07:59,362 --> 00:08:01,864 Capcom tech calling phebus ten. 108 00:08:02,498 --> 00:08:05,618 Capcom, capcom, this is phebus ten. 109 00:08:34,897 --> 00:08:36,782 Open the blinds, nurse. 110 00:08:36,817 --> 00:08:38,034 Yes, doctor. 111 00:08:42,405 --> 00:08:45,408 Well, how about it, gaines? 112 00:08:45,443 --> 00:08:46,659 Can you talk? 113 00:08:48,544 --> 00:08:49,161 Sure. 114 00:08:49,196 --> 00:08:51,047 Sure, i can talk. 115 00:08:52,298 --> 00:08:53,549 Hey, billy. 116 00:08:54,166 --> 00:08:56,168 What happened? 117 00:08:56,203 --> 00:08:58,054 Well, we were waiting 118 00:08:58,089 --> 00:09:00,556 for you to wake up to tell us, bob. 119 00:09:00,591 --> 00:09:01,674 Tell you? 120 00:09:01,709 --> 00:09:04,176 I can't tell you anything, i blacked out. 121 00:09:04,211 --> 00:09:06,679 We lost you on radar 122 00:09:07,313 --> 00:09:08,064 and radio. 123 00:09:08,099 --> 00:09:09,315 Absolutely no contact. 124 00:09:09,350 --> 00:09:11,183 It boils down to this, gaines- 125 00:09:11,218 --> 00:09:13,686 you're the only one who can explain it. 126 00:09:13,721 --> 00:09:15,571 I can't explain anything. 127 00:09:18,074 --> 00:09:21,193 I had an odd sensation. 128 00:09:21,228 --> 00:09:24,330 Last thing i remember is the 15th orbit. 129 00:09:25,581 --> 00:09:28,701 After that, i don't remember anything 130 00:09:28,736 --> 00:09:29,952 except this bed. 131 00:09:29,987 --> 00:09:32,455 I couldn't reach the cape at all. 132 00:09:32,490 --> 00:09:33,706 I kept trying. 133 00:09:33,741 --> 00:09:36,208 Why don't you let him get some sleep? 134 00:09:36,243 --> 00:09:38,711 I think he'll feel a little clearer later on. 135 00:09:38,746 --> 00:09:40,846 I won't be any clearer than i am right now. 136 00:09:40,881 --> 00:09:42,715 How could you lose me on radar? 137 00:09:42,750 --> 00:09:44,600 Bill, do you mean to tell me 138 00:09:44,635 --> 00:09:47,103 every single tracking station blacked out? 139 00:09:47,138 --> 00:09:48,220 Really, gentlemen, i... 140 00:09:48,854 --> 00:09:51,357 just one last question, please. 141 00:09:54,477 --> 00:09:56,362 Bob, there's only one way 142 00:09:56,397 --> 00:10:00,733 you could head back toward earth. 143 00:10:00,768 --> 00:10:03,986 That's just to spiral in, and then head for water. 144 00:10:04,620 --> 00:10:07,123 Your spacecraft was found, intact, 145 00:10:07,158 --> 00:10:09,625 46 miles from where you were launched. 146 00:10:09,660 --> 00:10:12,128 Intact, bob, on the ground. 147 00:10:12,163 --> 00:10:13,996 There was no evidence of any damage, 148 00:10:14,031 --> 00:10:15,247 not even a dent. 149 00:10:15,282 --> 00:10:19,635 Somehow, some way, you brought that spacecraft in, 150 00:10:19,670 --> 00:10:20,886 and you landed her. 151 00:10:20,921 --> 00:10:21,504 Tell me how. 152 00:10:21,539 --> 00:10:24,006 Would you please explain to me 153 00:10:24,041 --> 00:10:27,760 how you performed an absolutely impossible act? 154 00:10:27,795 --> 00:10:29,011 I didn't. 155 00:10:29,046 --> 00:10:31,514 I had nothing to do with it. 156 00:10:31,549 --> 00:10:34,650 I blacked out, general. I simply blacked out. 157 00:10:35,901 --> 00:10:39,021 There was some factor up there, 158 00:10:39,056 --> 00:10:42,024 something which i had no control over, 159 00:10:42,059 --> 00:10:43,909 something which must have... 160 00:10:44,527 --> 00:10:47,029 must have taken over for me. 161 00:10:48,664 --> 00:10:51,167 Hmm. Okay, uh... 162 00:10:51,202 --> 00:10:54,286 we'll talk about it later. 163 00:10:54,321 --> 00:10:56,789 This whole thing is temporarily classified- 164 00:10:56,824 --> 00:10:59,291 i mean everything about it. 165 00:10:59,326 --> 00:11:01,794 We'll simply make the statement 166 00:11:01,829 --> 00:11:04,296 that he regained entry and he landed. 167 00:11:04,331 --> 00:11:07,433 He's shaken up but not seriously hurt. 168 00:11:07,468 --> 00:11:09,185 And that's the feed. No extensions, 169 00:11:09,220 --> 00:11:11,687 no enlargements beyond that simple statement. 170 00:11:11,722 --> 00:11:14,306 After we've been able to probe this thing a little while, 171 00:11:14,341 --> 00:11:17,443 we might be able to come up with something we can let go. 172 00:11:17,478 --> 00:11:20,563 But, in the meantime, it's a one-line release. 173 00:11:20,598 --> 00:11:23,699 "He got back down." unquote. 174 00:11:26,068 --> 00:11:28,571 You get some rest, bob. 175 00:11:28,606 --> 00:11:30,456 Talk to you later. 176 00:11:33,576 --> 00:11:34,827 Yeah, you, uh... 177 00:11:34,862 --> 00:11:36,078 sleep it off. 178 00:11:36,113 --> 00:11:38,581 There's an explanation for everything. 179 00:11:38,616 --> 00:11:41,083 Well, don't worry about it now. 180 00:11:41,118 --> 00:11:42,968 You're, uh, all doped up, 181 00:11:43,003 --> 00:11:44,837 and you're also dead tired. 182 00:11:44,872 --> 00:11:47,840 You sleep it off, and i'll see what i can do 183 00:11:47,875 --> 00:11:50,342 about getting you a leave to get on home. 184 00:11:50,377 --> 00:11:52,228 So rest easy, pal. 185 00:11:55,347 --> 00:11:57,233 Bill? 186 00:11:58,601 --> 00:12:00,486 All along, i thought 187 00:12:00,521 --> 00:12:03,606 there was some kind of malfunction up there- 188 00:12:03,641 --> 00:12:06,742 fuel or propulsion or just communication. 189 00:12:06,777 --> 00:12:09,495 Maybe the malfunction was closer to home. 190 00:12:09,530 --> 00:12:11,997 Maybe it was right up here between my ears. 191 00:12:12,032 --> 00:12:14,500 Maybe astronaut robert gaines went off the tracks. 192 00:12:14,535 --> 00:12:15,751 Maybe he couldn't cut the mustard. 193 00:12:15,786 --> 00:12:18,871 Look, you talk like that- you think like that- 194 00:12:18,906 --> 00:12:21,373 and you'll come around to believing it. 195 00:12:21,408 --> 00:12:23,259 And that's stupid, bob. 196 00:12:23,294 --> 00:12:25,761 We're dealing with nine natural laws 197 00:12:25,796 --> 00:12:28,264 plus a whole string of imponderables. 198 00:12:28,299 --> 00:12:30,132 And reasons are going to come out- 199 00:12:30,167 --> 00:12:32,017 legitimate, rational reasons. 200 00:12:32,052 --> 00:12:35,771 Now, you just lie there and breathe through your nose. 201 00:12:35,806 --> 00:12:37,022 I'll call helen again 202 00:12:37,057 --> 00:12:38,891 and tell her you're resting 203 00:12:38,926 --> 00:12:40,776 and you'll be home soon. 204 00:12:40,811 --> 00:12:42,027 Will i? Will i be home? 205 00:12:42,062 --> 00:12:45,781 Yeah. Unless you persuade all the people around here 206 00:12:45,816 --> 00:12:47,650 that you need an attendant. 207 00:12:47,685 --> 00:12:49,535 Dream good. 208 00:12:49,570 --> 00:12:51,403 I'll see you later. 209 00:13:08,921 --> 00:13:10,806 Well? 210 00:13:10,841 --> 00:13:13,309 Oh, it'll all come out in the wash. 211 00:13:13,344 --> 00:13:15,177 Will it? 212 00:13:15,212 --> 00:13:17,062 Let me tell you something, colonel... 213 00:13:17,097 --> 00:13:20,182 a man is sent up into space, and then he orbits. 214 00:13:20,217 --> 00:13:23,319 There are only three ways he can break off contact. 215 00:13:23,354 --> 00:13:25,187 One is ionization, and that didn't occur. 216 00:13:25,222 --> 00:13:28,324 The other is sunspots, and that didn't occur. 217 00:13:28,359 --> 00:13:30,192 The third is the man's death, 218 00:13:30,227 --> 00:13:32,077 and he's lying there on that bed 219 00:13:32,112 --> 00:13:33,946 breathing five by five. 220 00:13:36,448 --> 00:13:38,951 All right, i'm waiting for a fresh alternative, 221 00:13:38,986 --> 00:13:41,453 one i can take without flinching. 222 00:13:41,488 --> 00:13:43,956 One maybe i can repeat to the president 223 00:13:43,991 --> 00:13:48,344 without worrying about him sticking me in a rubber room. 224 00:13:48,379 --> 00:13:49,595 What happened to gaines? 225 00:13:49,630 --> 00:13:52,097 Where was he for six solid hours 226 00:13:52,132 --> 00:13:54,600 when nobody in the world could find him? 227 00:13:54,635 --> 00:13:58,971 How did he make a reentry without burning up into a flake? 228 00:13:59,605 --> 00:14:02,107 Sometime we'll have to ask him. 229 00:14:13,118 --> 00:14:14,620 Give her my love. 230 00:14:14,655 --> 00:14:16,238 Thanks for services rendered. 231 00:14:16,273 --> 00:14:17,489 I'll talk to you later. 232 00:14:17,524 --> 00:14:19,241 No question about it. 233 00:14:19,276 --> 00:14:20,492 Home, james. 234 00:14:57,780 --> 00:15:00,282 Welcome home. 235 00:15:04,036 --> 00:15:05,921 What's the matter, bob? 236 00:15:05,956 --> 00:15:09,041 Is that what you did for therapy while i was gone- 237 00:15:09,076 --> 00:15:10,926 put up that fence? 238 00:15:10,961 --> 00:15:12,177 What do you mean? 239 00:15:12,212 --> 00:15:15,297 That fence wasn't there when i left last week. 240 00:15:15,332 --> 00:15:17,182 Are you kidding me? 241 00:15:17,217 --> 00:15:20,302 That fence was there when we bought the house. 242 00:15:21,553 --> 00:15:24,056 Outer space does things to memories, doesn't it? 243 00:15:24,091 --> 00:15:25,941 Yeah. 244 00:15:25,976 --> 00:15:28,444 Yeah, so it appears. 245 00:15:39,555 --> 00:15:42,574 America's latest manned orbital spaceflight 246 00:15:42,609 --> 00:15:44,460 ends on a note of mystery today. 247 00:15:44,495 --> 00:15:47,579 With a cloak of secrecy being placed over the entire project. 248 00:15:47,614 --> 00:15:50,082 Millions were watching the orbital flight 249 00:15:50,117 --> 00:15:51,333 on television when, suddenly, 250 00:15:51,834 --> 00:15:54,336 the pictures were interrupted with a terse announcement 251 00:15:54,371 --> 00:15:56,839 that no further coverage would be forthcoming. 252 00:15:56,874 --> 00:15:58,090 General stanley eaton 253 00:15:58,125 --> 00:16:01,093 announced late this afternoon that further information 254 00:16:01,128 --> 00:16:03,595 would be forthcoming at a later date 255 00:16:03,846 --> 00:16:05,097 but that, for the moment, 256 00:16:05,132 --> 00:16:07,599 all aspects of astronaut gaines' flight 257 00:16:07,634 --> 00:16:09,485 would continue to be top secret 258 00:16:09,520 --> 00:16:11,987 pending further investigation of data. 259 00:16:13,856 --> 00:16:15,107 You got any more coffee out there? 260 00:16:15,142 --> 00:16:16,992 I'm making some. 261 00:16:17,027 --> 00:16:18,243 It'll be better in a minute. 262 00:16:18,278 --> 00:16:20,746 I'm going upstairs and put on a bathrobe. 263 00:16:20,781 --> 00:16:21,997 I'll be right back. 264 00:16:22,032 --> 00:16:23,866 Do you want maggie to go get it for you? 265 00:16:23,901 --> 00:16:26,368 Both you and maggie have been treating me 266 00:16:26,403 --> 00:16:28,871 like a cross between an eccentric millionaire 267 00:16:28,906 --> 00:16:30,756 and a piece of fragile dresden. 268 00:16:30,791 --> 00:16:32,624 I'll get my own bathrobe, woman. 269 00:16:32,659 --> 00:16:33,876 Be right back. 270 00:17:00,152 --> 00:17:02,037 That's funny. 271 00:17:02,072 --> 00:17:03,906 Some chicken colonel back at the base 272 00:17:03,941 --> 00:17:06,408 is going to be running home in his undershirt. 273 00:17:06,443 --> 00:17:08,293 Bob, your coffee's ready. 274 00:17:08,328 --> 00:17:10,796 You want us to bring you up a cup? 275 00:17:10,831 --> 00:17:12,664 No, honey. I'll be right down. 276 00:17:12,699 --> 00:17:14,550 Want to hear something funny? 277 00:17:14,585 --> 00:17:16,418 I ran off with somebody's shirt- 278 00:17:16,453 --> 00:17:18,303 a full colonel's, no less. 279 00:18:07,352 --> 00:18:09,721 Bob? 280 00:18:09,756 --> 00:18:10,973 What? 281 00:18:13,475 --> 00:18:15,360 Are you all right? 282 00:18:17,863 --> 00:18:20,365 Helen... 283 00:18:20,400 --> 00:18:21,617 without trying to scare you, 284 00:18:21,652 --> 00:18:24,119 and without trying to make you wonder 285 00:18:24,154 --> 00:18:25,988 whether i've still got all my marbles, 286 00:18:26,023 --> 00:18:28,490 i'd like to ask you a question. 287 00:18:28,525 --> 00:18:30,375 What is it? 288 00:18:32,244 --> 00:18:33,495 When i left- 289 00:18:33,530 --> 00:18:35,998 when i walked out of here- 290 00:18:36,033 --> 00:18:37,883 what was my rank? 291 00:18:37,918 --> 00:18:39,751 Your rank? 292 00:18:39,786 --> 00:18:41,637 What was my rank? 293 00:18:41,672 --> 00:18:43,505 What do you mean? 294 00:18:43,540 --> 00:18:45,390 Wasn't i a major? 295 00:18:45,425 --> 00:18:47,893 Haven't i been a major for 13 months? 296 00:18:49,761 --> 00:18:51,647 Are you serious? 297 00:18:51,682 --> 00:18:55,400 No, i'm playing games with you. 298 00:18:55,435 --> 00:18:57,903 Helen, i want you to tell me. 299 00:18:58,520 --> 00:19:01,023 You're a colonel, bob. 300 00:19:01,058 --> 00:19:03,525 You're a full colonel. 301 00:19:03,560 --> 00:19:07,279 You've been a colonel since last march. 302 00:19:09,781 --> 00:19:11,033 Last march? 303 00:19:11,667 --> 00:19:12,918 Last march. 304 00:19:12,953 --> 00:19:16,672 I want to say something to you now. 305 00:19:16,707 --> 00:19:18,540 I, um... 306 00:19:20,425 --> 00:19:22,928 i don't know what happened up there. 307 00:19:22,963 --> 00:19:25,430 I have no idea. 308 00:19:25,465 --> 00:19:26,682 But, uh... 309 00:19:26,717 --> 00:19:28,550 i know you don't want 310 00:19:28,585 --> 00:19:29,801 to talk about it- 311 00:19:29,836 --> 00:19:33,555 that's why we haven't said anything- but, uh... 312 00:19:33,590 --> 00:19:35,440 something must have happened, bob. 313 00:19:35,475 --> 00:19:37,059 Some delusions. 314 00:19:40,195 --> 00:19:42,064 Some distortions. 315 00:19:42,099 --> 00:19:44,566 Like that fence outside the house. 316 00:19:45,200 --> 00:19:46,451 I don't remember it. 317 00:19:46,486 --> 00:19:49,571 And yet you said it had been there 318 00:19:49,606 --> 00:19:51,456 when we bought the house. 319 00:19:51,491 --> 00:19:54,576 And that business with bill connacher. 320 00:19:54,611 --> 00:19:58,330 He told me he called you before the flight. 321 00:19:58,365 --> 00:20:00,215 He made it a point to tell me. 322 00:20:00,250 --> 00:20:02,084 And then, afterward... 323 00:20:02,119 --> 00:20:07,089 afterward, he said there'd been no such phone conversation. 324 00:20:07,124 --> 00:20:09,591 It's unimportant. 325 00:20:09,626 --> 00:20:13,345 It's insignificant, really. 326 00:20:13,380 --> 00:20:15,230 And yet... 327 00:20:17,733 --> 00:20:20,235 and yet it all seems to be part 328 00:20:20,270 --> 00:20:22,738 of some sort of crazy pattern. 329 00:20:24,606 --> 00:20:26,491 Something is very wrong, 330 00:20:26,526 --> 00:20:28,994 because he did tell me he called. 331 00:20:29,029 --> 00:20:32,114 That fence wasn't there, and those eagles have never been 332 00:20:32,149 --> 00:20:35,867 on my collar before because, when i left here, i was a major. 333 00:20:39,004 --> 00:20:42,758 You, um... you told me once 334 00:20:42,793 --> 00:20:45,877 that there are whole areas of space medicine 335 00:20:45,912 --> 00:20:49,014 that we know practically nothing about. 336 00:20:49,049 --> 00:20:51,633 Phenomena and reaction patterns 337 00:20:51,668 --> 00:20:54,136 that can only be guessed at. 338 00:20:54,171 --> 00:20:56,638 I'm sure this is one of them. 339 00:20:56,673 --> 00:21:01,026 I'm sure there's nothing wrong with you but a... 340 00:21:01,061 --> 00:21:02,277 couple of fixations 341 00:21:02,312 --> 00:21:05,397 that are going to go away with time. 342 00:21:08,650 --> 00:21:09,901 Now... 343 00:21:09,936 --> 00:21:13,655 let's go downstairs and have a cup of coffee. 344 00:21:13,690 --> 00:21:16,158 And don't let a white fence 345 00:21:16,193 --> 00:21:18,043 and a promotion end the world for you. 346 00:21:18,660 --> 00:21:21,296 If that's as far as it goes, i'll try not to. 347 00:21:21,913 --> 00:21:23,165 But what if... 348 00:21:23,200 --> 00:21:25,417 what if other things...? 349 00:22:24,109 --> 00:22:25,977 Um... 350 00:22:26,012 --> 00:22:29,731 i'd like colonel william connacher, please. 351 00:22:43,495 --> 00:22:45,380 I was, uh... 352 00:22:45,415 --> 00:22:47,883 i was just, uh... 353 00:22:47,918 --> 00:22:50,385 going to call bill connacher 354 00:22:50,420 --> 00:22:52,254 to ask him if he'd like to... 355 00:22:52,289 --> 00:22:54,005 like to what? 356 00:22:54,040 --> 00:22:57,142 Come over for dinner. 357 00:23:01,263 --> 00:23:03,765 Bob, i, uh... i just called bill 358 00:23:03,800 --> 00:23:06,268 to have him give me some reassurance. 359 00:23:06,303 --> 00:23:08,770 I remember that... that he said once 360 00:23:08,805 --> 00:23:12,524 that there are some aspects to prolonged weightlessness 361 00:23:12,559 --> 00:23:13,775 that makes... 362 00:23:13,810 --> 00:23:16,278 look, really, like i said, i'm all right. 363 00:23:16,313 --> 00:23:18,780 It's you people i'm worried about. 364 00:23:18,815 --> 00:23:21,917 Now, where's my coffee? 365 00:23:21,952 --> 00:23:23,785 I'll get it for you. 366 00:23:23,820 --> 00:23:26,922 Don't break any more saucers, mother's helper. 367 00:23:26,957 --> 00:23:28,790 I'll try not to. 368 00:23:39,434 --> 00:23:42,554 Helen? 369 00:23:42,589 --> 00:23:45,056 Helen, i think it'd be a whole lot better- 370 00:23:45,091 --> 00:23:47,559 a whole lot better- if we dropped all the pretenses. 371 00:23:47,594 --> 00:23:51,196 If you think there's something wrong with me, just say so. 372 00:23:51,231 --> 00:23:54,950 And honey, i'd consider it a real favor- 373 00:23:54,985 --> 00:23:57,452 a major favor- if you wouldn't walk past me on tiptoe 374 00:23:57,487 --> 00:23:58,703 with forced smiles 375 00:23:58,738 --> 00:24:01,823 and "there's nothing wrong with you" dialogue. 376 00:24:01,858 --> 00:24:03,708 All right? 377 00:24:05,577 --> 00:24:06,828 All right. 378 00:24:18,840 --> 00:24:20,091 Ahh! 379 00:24:20,126 --> 00:24:21,977 I helped mommy make the pie. 380 00:24:22,012 --> 00:24:25,096 You know, someday, i'm going to lose you to a navy ensign 381 00:24:25,131 --> 00:24:27,599 who'll marry you for your father's money 382 00:24:27,634 --> 00:24:30,101 and your cooking. 383 00:24:30,136 --> 00:24:33,238 Now, honey, you know i don't take sugar. 384 00:24:38,860 --> 00:24:40,245 Maggie... 385 00:24:40,280 --> 00:24:42,113 honey, what's the matter? 386 00:24:42,148 --> 00:24:43,615 Nothing. 387 00:24:43,650 --> 00:24:45,500 Nothing's the matter. 388 00:24:46,117 --> 00:24:49,254 Maggie, here. 389 00:24:49,289 --> 00:24:51,122 Tell daddy what's the matter. 390 00:24:52,123 --> 00:24:54,009 Daddy... 391 00:24:54,044 --> 00:24:56,511 daddy, you're different. 392 00:24:56,546 --> 00:24:58,129 Well, how, honey? 393 00:24:58,164 --> 00:25:00,015 How am i different? 394 00:25:00,050 --> 00:25:01,883 I don't know. 395 00:25:01,918 --> 00:25:03,134 I don't know, but you are. 396 00:25:03,768 --> 00:25:05,020 Youaredifferent. 397 00:25:05,055 --> 00:25:06,888 You're very different. There... 398 00:25:06,923 --> 00:25:08,773 there's something wrong. 399 00:25:09,391 --> 00:25:10,642 Maggie! 400 00:25:12,394 --> 00:25:14,896 What does she mean? 401 00:25:18,650 --> 00:25:19,901 I don't know. 402 00:25:19,936 --> 00:25:21,152 What does she mean? 403 00:25:21,187 --> 00:25:24,906 What does she mean, i'm different? 404 00:25:24,941 --> 00:25:28,043 Well, am i? 405 00:25:28,078 --> 00:25:29,294 Am i, helen? 406 00:25:29,329 --> 00:25:31,162 Have i changed somehow 407 00:25:31,197 --> 00:25:33,665 between now and when i left? 408 00:25:35,550 --> 00:25:37,419 I can't... 409 00:25:39,921 --> 00:25:42,424 i can't explain it to you. 410 00:25:42,459 --> 00:25:44,309 I don't know how. 411 00:25:46,177 --> 00:25:49,314 I have changed, haven't i? 412 00:25:49,349 --> 00:25:52,434 There is something different about me. 413 00:25:52,469 --> 00:25:54,319 The child sensed it. 414 00:25:54,354 --> 00:25:57,439 You have, too. 415 00:25:57,474 --> 00:25:59,324 You have, haven't you? 416 00:26:01,192 --> 00:26:02,444 Yes, i have. 417 00:26:02,479 --> 00:26:04,946 How? 418 00:26:06,831 --> 00:26:08,700 I... 419 00:26:10,585 --> 00:26:12,454 i don't know. I... 420 00:26:14,339 --> 00:26:17,459 i just don't know. It's... 421 00:26:17,494 --> 00:26:21,212 it's just that you're... you're not the same somehow. 422 00:26:27,469 --> 00:26:29,971 You didn't have to call bill connacher. 423 00:26:30,605 --> 00:26:33,108 That wasn't necessary. 424 00:26:33,143 --> 00:26:36,861 Tomorrow i'll turn myself in for psychiatric help. 425 00:26:38,980 --> 00:26:41,483 I don't know what it is that happened. 426 00:26:41,518 --> 00:26:42,734 Something did. 427 00:26:42,769 --> 00:26:45,236 Something is tearing us all apart. 428 00:26:45,271 --> 00:26:48,990 Something so remote, we can't even put it into words. 429 00:26:49,025 --> 00:26:53,244 Something... something, until we find out what it is, 430 00:26:53,279 --> 00:26:55,747 it's going to wreck us, helen. 431 00:27:00,135 --> 00:27:02,387 Ivan, there was nothing he could tell you 432 00:27:02,422 --> 00:27:04,255 that occurred in space 433 00:27:04,290 --> 00:27:07,392 that could give us some key or something to all this? 434 00:27:07,427 --> 00:27:11,763 Nothing that he could relate to me. 435 00:27:11,798 --> 00:27:15,266 I wouldn't recommend that he remain here, however. 436 00:27:15,301 --> 00:27:18,403 For the time being, i'd like to treat him as an outpatient. 437 00:27:18,438 --> 00:27:20,271 Have him come in at intervals, 438 00:27:20,306 --> 00:27:22,774 but in no way suggest to him that he's in 439 00:27:22,809 --> 00:27:25,910 an aberrant condition requiring psychological treatment. 440 00:27:25,945 --> 00:27:27,162 This is one of those instances 441 00:27:27,779 --> 00:27:29,664 where the psychology of the situation 442 00:27:29,699 --> 00:27:31,533 requires very careful handling. 443 00:27:31,568 --> 00:27:34,669 We're right back where we started, then. 444 00:27:34,704 --> 00:27:37,789 Uh... mrs. Gaines, i don't mean to sound callous. 445 00:27:37,824 --> 00:27:40,925 He's an exceptional gentleman, that husband of yours. 446 00:27:40,960 --> 00:27:42,794 I think he'll be out of the woods in no time. 447 00:27:42,829 --> 00:27:45,930 My concern happens to be, very specifically, 448 00:27:45,965 --> 00:27:47,799 a space project, not a man. 449 00:27:47,834 --> 00:27:50,935 I understand, sir. 450 00:27:50,970 --> 00:27:54,689 Mrs. Gaines, what about that fence? 451 00:27:54,724 --> 00:27:57,809 It was there when we bought the house. 452 00:27:57,844 --> 00:28:00,311 And when did he seem surprised that it was there? 453 00:28:00,346 --> 00:28:02,814 The moment that he came home yesterday morning. 454 00:28:04,699 --> 00:28:09,704 Really a very strange collection of delusions. 455 00:28:09,739 --> 00:28:12,207 A white picket fence... 456 00:28:12,824 --> 00:28:14,709 a story... 457 00:28:14,744 --> 00:28:16,578 his own rank... 458 00:28:16,613 --> 00:28:19,714 and the last thing he said was he doubted very much 459 00:28:19,749 --> 00:28:23,468 if president kennedy would pin any medals on him. 460 00:28:23,503 --> 00:28:25,336 President who? 461 00:28:25,371 --> 00:28:26,588 Kennedy. 462 00:28:26,623 --> 00:28:28,473 Someone named john kennedy. 463 00:28:28,590 --> 00:28:29,841 Who's john kennedy? 464 00:28:30,475 --> 00:28:33,094 Someone who colonel gaines has decided 465 00:28:33,129 --> 00:28:34,979 is president of the united states. 466 00:28:35,014 --> 00:28:36,848 And i share your bewilderment. 467 00:28:36,883 --> 00:28:39,350 I never heard of him either. 468 00:28:42,620 --> 00:28:46,941 Twilight zonewill continue after station identification. 469 00:29:13,101 --> 00:29:15,603 It isn't easy to say. 470 00:29:15,638 --> 00:29:17,472 Well... 471 00:29:17,507 --> 00:29:19,357 if it isn't easy to say, 472 00:29:19,392 --> 00:29:21,226 then it's better said, 473 00:29:21,261 --> 00:29:23,728 so get it out. 474 00:29:23,763 --> 00:29:26,865 Maggie's noticed it, too. 475 00:29:26,900 --> 00:29:28,733 Noticed what? 476 00:29:28,768 --> 00:29:32,487 That there's something... 477 00:29:32,522 --> 00:29:36,875 there's something differentabout him. 478 00:29:36,910 --> 00:29:41,246 It's something i can't put my finger on, but... 479 00:29:41,281 --> 00:29:46,885 there's some... there's something different. 480 00:29:46,920 --> 00:29:48,753 Suggesting what? 481 00:29:51,890 --> 00:29:53,758 Suggesting nothing. 482 00:29:53,793 --> 00:29:56,895 Something or everything. 483 00:29:56,930 --> 00:29:58,763 What can it suggest? 484 00:29:58,798 --> 00:30:03,151 Simply that there's a man in my house who... 485 00:30:04,402 --> 00:30:06,271 a man in your house who what? 486 00:30:06,306 --> 00:30:10,658 The question is, a man in my house whoiswhat? 487 00:30:11,910 --> 00:30:15,663 Better, a man in my house who is who? 488 00:30:17,782 --> 00:30:19,667 I think you just overshot me, 489 00:30:19,702 --> 00:30:22,170 unless i'm reading you very wrong. 490 00:30:22,205 --> 00:30:25,924 No, maybe you're reading me very right. 491 00:30:29,043 --> 00:30:31,546 Reassure me, bill. 492 00:30:31,581 --> 00:30:33,431 Tell me that, uh... this thing 493 00:30:33,466 --> 00:30:38,436 my daughter and i have this ice-cold feeling about is way off. 494 00:30:38,471 --> 00:30:41,556 Tell us that we're just being carried away 495 00:30:41,591 --> 00:30:44,058 by his problem. 496 00:30:44,093 --> 00:30:45,944 Tell us... 497 00:30:47,195 --> 00:30:49,063 tell us... 498 00:30:50,350 --> 00:30:54,702 tell us that the man in this house is bob gaines. 499 00:30:56,571 --> 00:30:57,822 Hello, bill. 500 00:30:57,857 --> 00:30:59,073 How are you? 501 00:30:59,108 --> 00:31:00,325 Fine. 502 00:31:00,360 --> 00:31:02,827 I just dropped over to see how you were. 503 00:31:02,862 --> 00:31:04,078 Me? 504 00:31:04,113 --> 00:31:05,330 Well, that depends. 505 00:31:05,365 --> 00:31:09,083 Depends on just what are the current standards for sanity- 506 00:31:09,118 --> 00:31:10,969 the acceptable outer limits. 507 00:31:11,004 --> 00:31:14,088 I've been going over a set of encyclopedias up there, 508 00:31:14,123 --> 00:31:15,974 and jotting down some notes. 509 00:31:16,009 --> 00:31:18,476 I've uncovered some very revealing items. 510 00:31:18,511 --> 00:31:20,979 There are some pretty basic historical facts 511 00:31:21,014 --> 00:31:22,847 that simply don't jibe. 512 00:31:22,882 --> 00:31:24,098 For example, 513 00:31:24,133 --> 00:31:25,600 it talks about a man named anderson 514 00:31:25,635 --> 00:31:28,102 who was sent by the united states government 515 00:31:28,137 --> 00:31:29,988 to supervise the construction of the panama canal. 516 00:31:30,023 --> 00:31:31,239 So? 517 00:31:31,274 --> 00:31:33,741 So, i never heard of anyone named anderson. 518 00:31:33,776 --> 00:31:36,244 It happened to be a man named goethals. 519 00:31:36,279 --> 00:31:39,998 It also talks about an american ace named eddie rickenbacker 520 00:31:40,033 --> 00:31:42,500 from world war i who was lost on a raft 521 00:31:42,535 --> 00:31:45,003 in the next war and never found. 522 00:31:45,038 --> 00:31:46,371 That's right. 523 00:31:46,406 --> 00:31:48,873 He crashed, and that was the end of it. 524 00:31:48,908 --> 00:31:51,376 But that wasn't the end of it. 525 00:31:51,411 --> 00:31:52,627 The raft was found. 526 00:31:52,662 --> 00:31:54,512 Rickenbacker was saved. 527 00:31:54,547 --> 00:31:58,883 He became the president of an airlines company. 528 00:31:58,918 --> 00:32:00,768 I've got dozens of items like that. 529 00:32:00,803 --> 00:32:03,271 Men talked about who never existed. 530 00:32:03,306 --> 00:32:05,773 Men who existed and not even mentioned. 531 00:32:05,808 --> 00:32:09,277 Historical events that i know happened a certain way 532 00:32:09,312 --> 00:32:11,145 somehow, according to the encyclopedia, 533 00:32:11,180 --> 00:32:13,648 didn't happen, or happened another way. 534 00:32:13,683 --> 00:32:16,034 The things i remember are not delusions. 535 00:32:16,069 --> 00:32:20,405 They're the legitimate recollections of things as i remember them. 536 00:32:20,440 --> 00:32:21,656 But somehow, some way, 537 00:32:21,691 --> 00:32:25,410 this world seems to have turned upside down for me. 538 00:32:25,445 --> 00:32:28,546 Well, not in every way, you understand. 539 00:32:28,581 --> 00:32:31,666 Uh... by and large, the people are the same. 540 00:32:31,701 --> 00:32:33,551 The names, the streets, 541 00:32:33,586 --> 00:32:36,054 the mutual recollections we all have 542 00:32:36,089 --> 00:32:37,305 of people and events. 543 00:32:37,672 --> 00:32:40,174 It's as if there were... 544 00:32:40,209 --> 00:32:44,562 there were another world parallel to mine. 545 00:32:46,431 --> 00:32:48,316 As if this world were almost a twin, 546 00:32:48,351 --> 00:32:50,184 except for some minor differences 547 00:32:50,219 --> 00:32:53,321 that happened somewhere along the line of evolution. 548 00:32:54,689 --> 00:32:57,191 Bob, for the love of heaven... 549 00:33:03,448 --> 00:33:05,950 do you want to follow that line of reasoning? 550 00:33:05,985 --> 00:33:08,453 Because, if you do, there are a couple 551 00:33:08,488 --> 00:33:11,589 of built-in conditions that go along with it. 552 00:33:11,624 --> 00:33:13,091 Conditions that i don't think you 553 00:33:13,126 --> 00:33:14,959 or anyone else wants to admit. 554 00:33:14,994 --> 00:33:17,462 First and foremost, 555 00:33:17,497 --> 00:33:19,964 they happen to be that if all this is true- 556 00:33:19,999 --> 00:33:22,467 if you suddenly uncovered a theory 557 00:33:22,502 --> 00:33:24,352 that there are two earths, 558 00:33:24,387 --> 00:33:27,472 two sets of people, two histories- 559 00:33:27,507 --> 00:33:30,608 and you somehow, inexplicably, 560 00:33:30,643 --> 00:33:33,728 crossed over to the other dimension- 561 00:33:33,763 --> 00:33:36,230 then you're not who we think you are. 562 00:33:36,265 --> 00:33:38,733 And we're not who you think we are. 563 00:33:48,993 --> 00:33:50,244 Maggie? 564 00:33:50,279 --> 00:33:51,496 Bob! 565 00:33:53,131 --> 00:33:54,999 Let's get it out, shall we? 566 00:33:55,034 --> 00:33:58,753 I'm so sick of tiptoeing and whispers. 567 00:33:58,788 --> 00:34:00,004 Maggie! 568 00:34:03,508 --> 00:34:04,759 Come down here, baby. 569 00:34:04,794 --> 00:34:06,644 Come down right away. 570 00:34:17,021 --> 00:34:19,273 Honey... 571 00:34:19,308 --> 00:34:22,410 think this over before you answer... 572 00:34:22,445 --> 00:34:24,278 but answer. 573 00:34:27,031 --> 00:34:28,916 Who am i, honey? 574 00:34:30,284 --> 00:34:32,537 Tell mommy and colonel connacher who i am. 575 00:34:32,572 --> 00:34:33,788 Bob, please. 576 00:34:33,823 --> 00:34:35,039 No. 577 00:34:37,175 --> 00:34:39,043 Now, sweetheart... 578 00:34:39,078 --> 00:34:42,180 you say whatever's on your mind. 579 00:34:42,215 --> 00:34:44,048 Tell them who i am. 580 00:34:47,051 --> 00:34:49,554 I don't know who you are. 581 00:34:49,804 --> 00:34:51,689 Maggie, this is your daddy. 582 00:34:51,724 --> 00:34:52,940 This is your daddy. 583 00:34:52,975 --> 00:34:56,310 He's not my daddy. 584 00:34:56,345 --> 00:34:58,813 I don't know who he is. 585 00:35:01,949 --> 00:35:04,452 Oh, that wasn't fair. 586 00:35:04,487 --> 00:35:07,572 You've taken a little child, impressionable- 587 00:35:07,607 --> 00:35:10,708 you've superimposed on her your own doubts. 588 00:35:10,743 --> 00:35:12,577 I've done nothing of the sort. 589 00:35:12,612 --> 00:35:14,462 I merely let her say out loud 590 00:35:14,497 --> 00:35:16,964 what helen's been thinking all along. 591 00:35:18,833 --> 00:35:22,587 And, heaven help me, what i've been thinking. 592 00:35:28,092 --> 00:35:31,979 What you've just told me is fantastic. 593 00:35:32,014 --> 00:35:34,482 How can you possibly...? 594 00:35:34,517 --> 00:35:36,350 It's incredible. 595 00:35:36,385 --> 00:35:37,602 Incredible. 596 00:35:37,637 --> 00:35:39,854 I helped build that spacecraft. 597 00:35:41,105 --> 00:35:44,242 I know it very well. 598 00:35:44,277 --> 00:35:46,110 And this one 599 00:35:46,145 --> 00:35:48,613 is not the same one we sent off. 600 00:35:48,648 --> 00:35:50,498 It's almost a twin to it, 601 00:35:50,533 --> 00:35:53,000 down to the very last nut and bolt, 602 00:35:53,035 --> 00:35:55,503 but it's simply not the same spacecraft. 603 00:35:55,538 --> 00:35:57,371 It's a different vehicle. 604 00:35:57,406 --> 00:36:01,759 It's almost as if it came out of the same mold, 605 00:36:01,794 --> 00:36:03,010 but every now and then- 606 00:36:03,045 --> 00:36:08,633 in the wiring, in the control panel and in the structure- 607 00:36:08,668 --> 00:36:11,769 there's a tiny insignificant alteration. 608 00:36:11,804 --> 00:36:13,020 You add them all up 609 00:36:13,055 --> 00:36:16,774 and you come up with one very irrevocable fact: 610 00:36:16,809 --> 00:36:21,145 Colonel gaines went up in one spacecraft, 611 00:36:21,180 --> 00:36:24,282 but he's obviously come back in another. 612 00:36:24,317 --> 00:36:27,285 That leaves us with two alternatives. 613 00:36:27,320 --> 00:36:31,038 Colonel gaines actually blacked out 614 00:36:31,073 --> 00:36:34,158 and has no knowledge of what occurred. 615 00:36:34,193 --> 00:36:36,661 Or two: 616 00:36:36,696 --> 00:36:39,163 Colonel gaines is not who we think he is. 617 00:37:02,069 --> 00:37:03,321 Colonel... 618 00:37:03,356 --> 00:37:07,074 i want you to examine this vehicle carefully. 619 00:37:07,109 --> 00:37:10,828 I want you to be able to say to me, 620 00:37:10,945 --> 00:37:13,447 without a single shred of doubt, 621 00:37:13,482 --> 00:37:15,950 that this is the spacecraft you were sent up in, 622 00:37:15,985 --> 00:37:17,835 and the spacecraft you came down in. 623 00:37:17,870 --> 00:37:19,704 This is of the essence now. 624 00:37:19,739 --> 00:37:21,589 Phebus ten, bermuda. 625 00:37:21,624 --> 00:37:22,840 Capcom tech m.h.m. 626 00:37:22,875 --> 00:37:25,343 You understand me? 627 00:37:25,378 --> 00:37:27,211 What? 628 00:37:27,246 --> 00:37:29,096 What's the matter with you? 629 00:37:31,599 --> 00:37:34,101 Bob, what the general is trying to get at 630 00:37:34,136 --> 00:37:35,970 is that there are 631 00:37:36,005 --> 00:37:39,106 delusions that a man can suffer under stress. 632 00:37:39,141 --> 00:37:42,860 Now, all we want to do now is try to retrace the chronology 633 00:37:42,895 --> 00:37:45,363 from the blastoff through the orbits. 634 00:37:45,398 --> 00:37:48,482 And we want you to check over this capsule. 635 00:37:49,116 --> 00:37:51,619 I am talking about a microscopic check, now, bob. 636 00:37:51,654 --> 00:37:54,121 We want to make absolutely certain 637 00:37:54,156 --> 00:37:56,624 that we can separate what is delusion 638 00:37:56,659 --> 00:37:59,126 from what might conceivably be 639 00:37:59,161 --> 00:38:01,629 an incredible series of events. 640 00:38:01,664 --> 00:38:03,497 The weather in the recovery are is excellent. 641 00:38:03,532 --> 00:38:04,749 Bob, what's the matter with you? 642 00:38:04,784 --> 00:38:08,502 Three-foot waves, only one-tenth cloud coverage, 643 00:38:08,537 --> 00:38:11,005 ten miles visibility. 644 00:38:11,040 --> 00:38:12,890 Don't you hear that voice? 645 00:38:12,925 --> 00:38:14,759 Phebus ten, phebus ten... 646 00:38:14,794 --> 00:38:17,261 capcom tech, do you read me? 647 00:38:17,296 --> 00:38:19,764 Don't you hear that voice? 648 00:38:19,799 --> 00:38:21,649 What are you talking about? 649 00:38:21,684 --> 00:38:23,517 What voice are you talking about? 650 00:38:23,552 --> 00:38:25,403 Leave the retro package on 651 00:38:25,438 --> 00:38:26,654 through the entire reentry. 652 00:38:26,689 --> 00:38:28,522 Gaines will have to override... 653 00:38:28,557 --> 00:38:30,408 that voice. 654 00:38:30,443 --> 00:38:31,659 ...to 0.05... 655 00:38:34,814 --> 00:38:36,664 that voice! 656 00:38:40,034 --> 00:38:41,919 Retract the scope. 657 00:38:41,954 --> 00:38:43,170 Do you read? 658 00:38:43,205 --> 00:38:46,290 Don't you hear that voice? 659 00:38:46,325 --> 00:38:49,427 Recommend you go to reentry attitude and... 660 00:39:04,442 --> 00:39:08,562 we'll give you the countdown on retro-sequence time, bob. 661 00:39:08,597 --> 00:39:10,448 You're looking good. 662 00:39:10,483 --> 00:39:13,818 We have only 50 seconds to retrograde. Over. 663 00:39:16,320 --> 00:39:17,571 I'll give you a mark. 664 00:39:17,606 --> 00:39:19,457 45... 665 00:39:21,325 --> 00:39:22,576 mark. 666 00:39:23,210 --> 00:39:27,832 I am on 8scs now, and backing it up manually. 667 00:39:27,867 --> 00:39:29,967 30 seconds, bob. 668 00:39:31,836 --> 00:39:34,338 Capcom, this is phebus ten. 669 00:39:34,373 --> 00:39:36,223 The retro warning is on. 670 00:39:36,258 --> 00:39:38,092 Roger, bob. 671 00:39:38,127 --> 00:39:40,594 Leave your retro pack on through your pass over texas. 672 00:39:40,629 --> 00:39:41,846 Do you read? 673 00:39:41,881 --> 00:39:42,730 Roger. 674 00:39:45,232 --> 00:39:47,735 Five... four... three... 675 00:39:47,770 --> 00:39:51,489 two... one... fire. 676 00:39:54,026 --> 00:39:56,494 Retros are firing. 677 00:39:56,529 --> 00:40:00,865 I'm starting my reentry now. 678 00:40:00,900 --> 00:40:04,618 I'm going to fly by wire. 679 00:40:04,653 --> 00:40:07,755 I'm down to 15% on manual. 680 00:40:10,257 --> 00:40:13,010 Capcom, this is phebus ten. 681 00:40:13,045 --> 00:40:16,013 It's a real fireball out there. 682 00:40:16,048 --> 00:40:16,881 How are you doing? 683 00:40:16,916 --> 00:40:18,766 What's your general condition? 684 00:40:18,801 --> 00:40:20,017 How are you feeling? 685 00:40:20,052 --> 00:40:22,770 I'm feeling... i'm feeling fine. 686 00:40:22,805 --> 00:40:24,638 Condition is good. 687 00:40:25,139 --> 00:40:27,641 There's an awful lot of fire out there. 688 00:40:27,676 --> 00:40:29,276 Capcom... 689 00:40:31,779 --> 00:40:34,281 one last question: 690 00:40:34,316 --> 00:40:36,650 Go ahead, bob. Go ahead. 691 00:40:36,685 --> 00:40:38,652 Who's the president of the united states? 692 00:40:43,657 --> 00:40:45,543 Say again, would you, bob? 693 00:40:45,578 --> 00:40:48,045 We don't think we got that. Say again. 694 00:40:48,080 --> 00:40:51,549 Who is the president of the united states? 695 00:40:51,584 --> 00:40:54,802 It sounds like you're asking who the president is. 696 00:40:54,837 --> 00:40:57,171 That's precisely the question. 697 00:41:04,678 --> 00:41:07,181 I hope you said kennedy. 698 00:41:08,432 --> 00:41:10,317 I hope you said kennedy. 699 00:41:28,586 --> 00:41:29,837 Open the blinds, nurse. 700 00:41:29,872 --> 00:41:31,705 Yes, doctor. 701 00:41:39,213 --> 00:41:42,099 Our wandering boy is awake. 702 00:41:42,134 --> 00:41:43,968 Bill. 703 00:41:44,003 --> 00:41:45,853 Right here, buddy. 704 00:41:45,888 --> 00:41:47,471 How you feeling, gaines? 705 00:41:49,356 --> 00:41:51,859 That depends. 706 00:41:51,894 --> 00:41:54,979 Did you hear that last question i asked up there? 707 00:41:55,014 --> 00:41:56,230 Just before reentry? 708 00:41:56,265 --> 00:41:58,115 You asked who the president is. 709 00:41:58,150 --> 00:42:00,618 Was that some sort of a gag? 710 00:42:00,653 --> 00:42:02,486 I didn't hear the answer. 711 00:42:02,521 --> 00:42:03,120 It was no gag. 712 00:42:03,155 --> 00:42:04,989 President kennedy. 713 00:42:05,024 --> 00:42:08,125 You were only gone two days, major, not two years. 714 00:42:13,631 --> 00:42:17,384 What happened on that second morning, gaines, about your 15th orbit? 715 00:42:17,419 --> 00:42:21,138 We lost all contact with you for a period of almost six hours. 716 00:42:21,173 --> 00:42:26,143 No radar, no contact at all. 717 00:42:26,178 --> 00:42:28,646 We couldn't find out what was wrong here. 718 00:42:28,681 --> 00:42:31,148 And we asked you that question several times 719 00:42:31,183 --> 00:42:33,017 after we picked you up again, 720 00:42:33,052 --> 00:42:34,268 but you ignored it. 721 00:42:34,902 --> 00:42:36,770 Six hours? 722 00:42:36,805 --> 00:42:38,272 That's how long it took. 723 00:42:38,307 --> 00:42:40,157 Then you came back in loud and clear. 724 00:42:40,192 --> 00:42:41,775 I think later, sir. 725 00:42:41,810 --> 00:42:44,278 Right now, i think he should rest. 726 00:42:46,780 --> 00:42:48,032 Bill... 727 00:42:48,067 --> 00:42:50,284 something... something happened. 728 00:42:50,319 --> 00:42:53,170 I know you're not going to believe this. 729 00:42:53,205 --> 00:42:56,924 I'm not absolutely certain that i believe it myself. 730 00:42:56,959 --> 00:42:58,792 There's another dimension. 731 00:42:58,827 --> 00:43:02,546 I don't know how it exists or where it exists. 732 00:43:03,180 --> 00:43:07,551 But there's another world, parallel to ours- 733 00:43:07,586 --> 00:43:10,688 the same people, the same places, 734 00:43:10,723 --> 00:43:13,190 most of the same chronology of events. 735 00:43:13,225 --> 00:43:14,441 Except, now and then, 736 00:43:14,476 --> 00:43:16,944 there's something a little bit different. 737 00:43:16,979 --> 00:43:18,195 How do you know all this? 738 00:43:18,230 --> 00:43:19,813 Because i was there, general. 739 00:43:20,447 --> 00:43:22,316 I was there for almost a week. 740 00:43:22,351 --> 00:43:23,200 That's impossible. 741 00:43:23,235 --> 00:43:25,703 We only lost you for about six hours. 742 00:43:25,738 --> 00:43:28,822 We had contact with you all the rest of the time. 743 00:43:28,857 --> 00:43:30,207 I can't help that, sir. 744 00:43:30,242 --> 00:43:33,327 During that six hours, i lived out a week. 745 00:43:33,362 --> 00:43:35,579 Doing what? 746 00:43:35,614 --> 00:43:38,716 Looking at our counterparts. Looking at us. 747 00:43:38,966 --> 00:43:40,217 Us? 748 00:43:40,252 --> 00:43:42,720 Us, as we exist in a parallel world. 749 00:43:42,755 --> 00:43:46,473 One that exists alongside, but which we can't see. 750 00:43:46,508 --> 00:43:48,342 The world i stumbled into. 751 00:43:48,377 --> 00:43:49,843 I don't know how. 752 00:43:49,878 --> 00:43:53,597 Some kind of space-time continuum, 753 00:43:53,632 --> 00:43:55,482 some warpage. 754 00:43:55,517 --> 00:43:58,102 There's a doorway up there somewhere into it. 755 00:43:58,137 --> 00:43:59,353 It exists. 756 00:43:59,388 --> 00:44:02,489 Every now and then, i think it's possible 757 00:44:02,524 --> 00:44:05,609 for somebody to fall through it, and i did. 758 00:44:05,644 --> 00:44:07,494 How did you get back, bob? 759 00:44:07,529 --> 00:44:09,363 I don't even know that. 760 00:44:09,398 --> 00:44:13,751 All i can remember is running toward the spacecraft. 761 00:44:13,786 --> 00:44:17,504 Then... i was up there again... 762 00:44:17,539 --> 00:44:20,007 and then i was back here. 763 00:44:23,510 --> 00:44:26,013 Well... 764 00:44:26,048 --> 00:44:28,515 bob, i think, uh... 765 00:44:28,550 --> 00:44:31,018 sleep on this for a little while, will you? 766 00:44:31,053 --> 00:44:32,269 Why? 767 00:44:32,304 --> 00:44:34,138 Because... 768 00:44:34,173 --> 00:44:37,891 i think, uh... this may just be a delusion. 769 00:44:37,926 --> 00:44:39,143 Delusion? 770 00:44:39,178 --> 00:44:42,279 Bill, i can recount to you every minute 771 00:44:42,314 --> 00:44:44,782 and everything that happened. 772 00:44:44,817 --> 00:44:49,153 Every line of dialogue, every person that i met. 773 00:44:49,188 --> 00:44:51,655 I could recall to you the streets, 774 00:44:51,690 --> 00:44:52,906 the places, everything. 775 00:44:52,941 --> 00:44:55,409 This was no delusion. It was no dream. 776 00:44:55,444 --> 00:44:57,911 I have no proof. 777 00:44:57,946 --> 00:45:00,414 I've told you that. 778 00:45:00,449 --> 00:45:01,665 Mm-hmm. 779 00:45:01,700 --> 00:45:04,168 Well, um, okay, major... 780 00:45:04,203 --> 00:45:07,304 we'll talk about it later. 781 00:45:08,555 --> 00:45:11,675 Did anybody phone helen? 782 00:45:11,710 --> 00:45:14,812 She, uh... asked what you wanted for supper. 783 00:45:16,063 --> 00:45:18,565 Will i be able to leave? 784 00:45:19,817 --> 00:45:21,685 At least for an overnight. Mm-hmm. 785 00:45:21,720 --> 00:45:24,822 I want you back first thing in the morning for some critique. 786 00:45:24,857 --> 00:45:27,324 I want to have a look at those psychiatrists' faces 787 00:45:27,359 --> 00:45:31,695 when you start talking to them about parallel dimensions. 788 00:45:31,730 --> 00:45:34,198 Meanwhile, get some rest, major. 789 00:45:43,340 --> 00:45:45,209 One last question. 790 00:45:45,244 --> 00:45:46,460 Be my guest. 791 00:45:47,094 --> 00:45:50,214 If we each have a counterpart, 792 00:45:50,249 --> 00:45:52,716 and you saw them, 793 00:45:52,751 --> 00:45:53,967 where was yours, bob? 794 00:45:54,002 --> 00:45:57,104 I don't know, but he was a colonel. 795 00:45:57,139 --> 00:45:58,355 A full colonel. 796 00:45:58,390 --> 00:46:00,224 I hope he got back, 797 00:46:00,259 --> 00:46:03,977 'cause he has a very beautiful wife 798 00:46:04,012 --> 00:46:07,731 and a very lovely little daughter. 799 00:46:07,766 --> 00:46:09,616 I hope he got back. 800 00:46:25,749 --> 00:46:27,634 What do you think? 801 00:46:27,669 --> 00:46:29,503 Uh-uh. 802 00:46:29,538 --> 00:46:31,388 I don't think. 803 00:46:31,423 --> 00:46:33,257 Not on this one, sir. 804 00:46:33,292 --> 00:46:35,142 What kind of trauma...? 805 00:46:35,177 --> 00:46:38,262 Something to set him tilt like that? I... 806 00:46:38,297 --> 00:46:40,147 can we call it "tilt," sir? 807 00:46:40,182 --> 00:46:42,015 Oh, what else? Another dimension? 808 00:46:42,050 --> 00:46:45,769 Another world parallel to ours? Call that rational? 809 00:46:45,804 --> 00:46:47,654 Up there, who knows what's rational 810 00:46:47,689 --> 00:46:48,906 and what isn't? 811 00:46:48,941 --> 00:46:51,408 We don't even know the rules, sir, 812 00:46:51,443 --> 00:46:52,659 let alone the facts. 813 00:46:53,946 --> 00:46:55,779 We're... 814 00:46:55,814 --> 00:46:57,664 we're like little ants 815 00:46:57,699 --> 00:47:00,784 that have just made it to the desert. 816 00:47:00,819 --> 00:47:03,287 Now we say we've conquered the sahara 817 00:47:03,322 --> 00:47:05,789 and we haven't conquered anything. 818 00:47:05,824 --> 00:47:08,926 We're only starting to find the mysteries, general. 819 00:47:08,961 --> 00:47:11,428 We haven't even begun to solve them. 820 00:47:11,463 --> 00:47:13,931 We're going to do a lot of groping 821 00:47:13,966 --> 00:47:17,050 through a lot of dark nights, through a lot of dark space, 822 00:47:17,085 --> 00:47:19,553 before we find the clues, let alone the answers. 823 00:47:19,588 --> 00:47:22,689 We've got a long way to go, sir. 824 00:47:25,192 --> 00:47:27,060 Okay. 825 00:47:29,563 --> 00:47:31,448 General? 826 00:47:34,568 --> 00:47:36,453 There's a message from capcom, sir. 827 00:47:36,488 --> 00:47:38,322 I'll give it to you as we got it. 828 00:47:38,357 --> 00:47:39,573 It doesn't make much sense. 829 00:47:39,608 --> 00:47:42,075 Let me be the judge of that. What's the message? 830 00:47:42,110 --> 00:47:43,961 Capcom reports telemetry 831 00:47:43,996 --> 00:47:46,463 with an unidentified space vehicle. 832 00:47:47,714 --> 00:47:49,583 What? 833 00:47:49,618 --> 00:47:51,468 Yes, sir. They had voice communication 834 00:47:51,503 --> 00:47:53,337 for about a minute and a half. 835 00:47:53,372 --> 00:47:55,839 The spacecraft identified itself asastro seven, 836 00:47:55,874 --> 00:47:57,090 and the person in it said- 837 00:47:57,125 --> 00:47:58,342 what'd he say? What'd he say? 838 00:47:58,377 --> 00:48:01,478 He identified himself as a colonel robert gaines. 839 00:48:01,513 --> 00:48:04,598 He asked for reentry data. 840 00:48:05,232 --> 00:48:07,100 Colonelrobert gaines? 841 00:48:07,135 --> 00:48:08,352 Yes, sir. 842 00:48:08,387 --> 00:48:10,854 Then we got some garbled stuff, and then nothing. 843 00:48:10,889 --> 00:48:12,105 And then what? 844 00:48:12,140 --> 00:48:13,357 And then nothing, sir. 845 00:48:13,392 --> 00:48:17,110 We lost the visual sighting. We lost all voice. 846 00:48:17,145 --> 00:48:19,613 The thing just disappeared. 847 00:48:20,864 --> 00:48:24,001 Get a transcript of everything that was said. 848 00:48:24,618 --> 00:48:26,503 Have it brought to my office. 849 00:48:26,538 --> 00:48:29,006 And keep trying to raise, uh... whoever it was. 850 00:48:29,041 --> 00:48:30,257 Yes, sir. We're still trying. 851 00:48:30,292 --> 00:48:32,125 Good. Uh... you keep me in touch. 852 00:48:32,160 --> 00:48:34,011 Yes, sir. 853 00:48:36,513 --> 00:48:38,382 Well, bill... 854 00:48:38,417 --> 00:48:40,884 you certainly were right 855 00:48:40,919 --> 00:48:43,387 when you said we haven't even begun. 856 00:48:43,422 --> 00:48:45,889 We don't have all the answers. 857 00:48:45,924 --> 00:48:48,392 We've got a long way to go. 858 00:48:48,427 --> 00:48:51,528 What's on your mind? 859 00:48:51,563 --> 00:48:54,031 One thing. I'd like to tell astronaut gaines 860 00:48:54,066 --> 00:48:57,150 that his proof just showed up on a radar screen, 861 00:48:57,185 --> 00:48:57,784 however briefly. 862 00:48:57,819 --> 00:49:00,287 Yeah. Be my guest. 863 00:49:18,805 --> 00:49:20,674 Do me a favor, would you, honey? 864 00:49:20,709 --> 00:49:22,926 Tell me who i am. 865 00:49:22,961 --> 00:49:24,811 What, daddy? 866 00:49:24,846 --> 00:49:26,063 Thank you, honey. 867 00:49:26,680 --> 00:49:29,182 That's all i need to know. 868 00:49:41,078 --> 00:49:42,946 Welcome home. 869 00:49:42,981 --> 00:49:44,831 It's good to be home. 870 00:49:46,583 --> 00:49:48,452 Major robert gaines, 871 00:49:48,487 --> 00:49:52,839 a latter-day voyager just returned from an adventure. 872 00:49:52,874 --> 00:49:54,091 Submitted to you 873 00:49:54,126 --> 00:49:57,844 without any recommendations as to belief or disbelief. 874 00:49:57,879 --> 00:49:59,096 You can accept or reject. 875 00:49:59,131 --> 00:50:02,215 You pays your money, and you takes your choice. 876 00:50:02,250 --> 00:50:04,101 But credulous or incredulous, 877 00:50:04,136 --> 00:50:07,854 don't bother to ask anyone for proof that it could happen. 878 00:50:07,889 --> 00:50:10,357 The obligation's a reverse challenge- 879 00:50:10,392 --> 00:50:12,225 prove that itcouldn't. 880 00:50:12,260 --> 00:50:15,362 This happens to be the twilight zone. 881 00:50:21,702 --> 00:50:24,821 A new author joins the ranks of thetwilight zonecrew 882 00:50:24,856 --> 00:50:29,209 when john furia jr. Gives us several stunningly new twists 883 00:50:29,244 --> 00:50:32,579 to a classic character in "i dream of genie." 884 00:50:32,614 --> 00:50:35,716 Join howard morris, patrica barry and loring smith 885 00:50:35,751 --> 00:50:38,835 as they take their trip into the twilight zone. 886 00:50:41,722 --> 00:50:44,841 Who... who... who...? 887 00:50:44,876 --> 00:50:46,727 Who were you expecting? 888 00:50:46,762 --> 00:50:47,978 Who...? 889 00:50:48,013 --> 00:50:50,480 I'm a genie in a lamp. That's who. 890 00:50:50,515 --> 00:50:52,983 Aladdin, magic, the whole bit. 891 00:50:53,018 --> 00:50:55,485 If... if you are the genie, 892 00:50:55,520 --> 00:50:59,239 then i must be the master of the lamp. 893 00:50:59,274 --> 00:51:01,358 Big deal. Master of the lamp. 894 00:51:01,393 --> 00:51:03,860 All right, you got yourself a free wish. 895 00:51:03,895 --> 00:51:06,863 I can't believe it. 896 00:51:06,898 --> 00:51:09,366 Anything i want in the whole world. 897 00:51:09,401 --> 00:51:11,251 Anything. 898 00:51:18,759 --> 00:51:20,627 But only one wish.