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Since the first living thing.

Gazed upward through the darkness,

man has seldom been content merely to be born,

to endure, and to die.

With a curious fervor,

he has struggled to unlock the mysteries of creation.

And of the world in which he lives.

Sometimes he has won, sometimes he has lost,

and sometimes,

in the tumbling torrents of space and time,

he has brief glimpses of a world.

He never even dreams.

Now, you say you found it like this when you came in this morning?

Yes.

All right, Miss, thank you very much.

We'll be in touch with you. Sergeant?

Oh, Dr. Stone?

Hmm?

Dr. Stone.

Yes, yes.

I'm, uh, detective Lt. Runyan,

and this is Sgt. Jackson.

Mmm-hmm.

We can't figure it out, doctor.

This is the 5th optical lab that's been destroyed.

Now, uh, what kind of a weirdo would do such a thing?

Probably someone who just doesn't like spectacles.

Hmm.

It's very interesting.

Very interesting.

Is, uh, he always like that?

Well, he's a very brilliant man.

In what way?

Well, for one thing, he's one of the world's

foremost authorities in optical geometry.

And if you'd ever read his articles

on the laws of rectilinear propagation, you'd know this.

Thanks a lot, Miss, some other time.

Well, how am I going to see without these?

I don't suppose we have another pair.

Oh, unless you want to try prescription 109.

It's very close to your own.

109?

The special lenses you designed for correcting aberrational astigmatism.

They seem to work quite well as ordinary reading glasses.

Oh, yes, yes, I remember.

We made several of these, didn't we?

Yes, 4 pair.

The other 3 were distributed to patients suffering from double vision.

It was on an experimental basis and...

Did, uh, did they work?

The written reports have been on your desk for 2 weeks.

Now, Wilkenson was the one with the little beard.

They're all here. If you want to talk to them personally,

I can call them and have them make appointments

to see you later in the week.

Uh, no, thank you. Thank you, Miss Dunn.

Yes, doctor.

There is nothing wrong with your television set.

Do not attempt to adjust the picture.

We are controlling transmission.

We will control the horizontal.

We will control the vertical.

We can change the focus to a soft blur,

or sharpen it to crystal clarity.

For the next hour, sit quietly.

And we will control all that you see and hear.

You are about to participate in a great adventure.

You are about to experience the awe and mystery.

Which reaches from the inner mind to...

The outer limits.

Dr. Stone, are you all right?

Yeah, did... did you see anything?

See anything? Oh.

Here, I'll do that. Thank you. I heard you scream.

Oh, you looked so awful,

I thought maybe you were hurt.

It's nothing, really. I must have stumbled over something.

Where are those glasses?

Do we have any more of the meteoric quartz

from which these were made?

Yes, sir.

Just enough to make another pair.

I'll try to get a pair from one of the patients.

Meantime, have delta optics make them up immediately.

I want them made to this exact prescription.

Do you understand, Miss Dunn?

Yes, sir.

Now, Miss Dunn.

Yes, sir.

Oh, incidentally, if you want me,

I'll be at my brother's office.

Dr. Stone, I don't mean to be difficult,

but his secretary called last week,

and she said he absolutely will not see you

without an appointment.

That's all nonsense. You just call and say I'm coming over.

Good morning, Dr. Stone. Miss Willet.

Please, doctor, he's in a conference.

Now look, Miss Willet, I...

Why, Miss Willet,

did anyone ever tell you, without glasses, you're beautiful.

I simply can't let you in there.

The entire committee on atomic space propulsion is here.

Admiral Leighton, the chairman himself, is in that room.

Oh, sir, I'm dreadfully sorry. I...

It's quite all right, Miss Willet.

I'm afraid we must accustom ourselves

to these interruptions from my brother.

James, it may interest you to know that you are disrupting

a highly important conference I'm having with the atomic committee

and admiral Leighton.

Oh, Leighton, yes, I... I... shh.

Well, I... I remember him.

He's the one that always refers to me as the, uh, the optical illusion.

And he's also the one who offered you a top Echelon position

on the project, which you promptly rejected.

So I did, didn't I?

That, uh, isn't exactly what I came down to talk to you about.

Look, James, I am aware that your specific problem

is much more important than anybody else's.

But just this once, couldn't it wait?

Now, Bernie, be nice. This will only take a moment.

I just want a little information.

Now, just sit down and make yourself comfortable.

All right, dimension.

Now, that's what it boils down to, dimension.

We all know there are things that exist.

Uh, material things that we can't see

without the aid of unique lights or special lenses.

Just as there are certain sound frequencies that we can't hear.

Will you get to the point, please?

Can a 2-dimensional object

exist in our frame of reference, and if it did, would it, uh...

Would it have material, would it have mass?

Miss Willet.

Will you please step in there and inform admiral Leighton

that I will be detained for a moment?

Yes, sir.

Oh, and obviously, I don't want him to know why.

Bernie, stop acting so pompous and answer my question.

You yourself know that the question is absolutely senseless.

How could anything exist in 2-dimension?

Why couldn't it?

Because, as you may have guessed,

this is a 3-dimensional world.

Oh.

What if it was from, uh, another world?

Uh, hypothetically.

Well, hypothetically, anything is possible.

All right. Let's pursue the hypothesis.

Supposing there was this, uh, this thing.

It had height, width,

contour,

but no depth.

No other dimension, unless you'd like to admit its presence

and its existence in time,

in which case, it would have dimensions 1, 2, and 4,

but no 3rd.

Alive?

Oh, yes. Yes, indeed. To the extent that it moves

and acts upon its environment.

Impossible.

Why, that would defy every known scientific principle.

Well, then you just better find yourself some other principles,

because I think I just saw one.

In the public street, I presume?

No, no, no... No, it was in my lab.

I had on a pair of special glasses and there he was.

You know, I've been thinking about it all the way down here.

It's absolutely fascinating.

Do you realize, if you look at a 2-dimensional thing straight on,

you can see it as plainly as I see you.

But when it turns sideways,

you can't see it at all.

How do you know it was 2-dimensional?

Because when he, uh...

When he turned sideways to me, he disappeared.

Now you see it, now you don't.

You know, if a thing like this wanted to go through a wall,

it wouldn't have any problem at all, as long as it turned sideways.

But when you turn it sideways, and it becomes an up and down line,

it still can't go through the wall.

Miss Willet.

Oh, I'm sorry.

No, no, no, never mind, Miss Willet.

You see, when I turn this, it becomes a line

because it has this dimension.

But this thing that I'm talking about

does not have that particular dimension,

ergo...

Nothing.

As a matter of fact, I think that's how it got out.

Of course, there... there is one thing that concerns me.

What would happen if it tried to go

through a wall straight on?

Think that over, big brother.

Miss Willet.

Miss Willet, I think my brother is really ill.

Oh!

George.

George Wilkenson.

Mmm?

George?

My name is Dr. James Stone, do you remember me?

Oh, yeah.

I stopped by your house to pick up some glasses we made for you

and they told me you'd had an accident.

I... I know that this is no time to bother you with trivialities,

but I wonder if I might have those spectacles back. You see, I...

The police didn't tell you what happened?

The glasses are gone.

What?

An instant before the accident,

something tore them off my face.

Something, George? What kind of something?

You wouldn't believe me.

Nobody believes me.

They think I'm crazy.

Well, I'm not. You hear me? I'm not!

I tell you, I saw a creature!

Something so frightening that...

George, the day you came to my office to pick up the glasses,

there were 2 other people there.

Do you remember their names?

Think real hard, George, this is vitally important.

Do you remember who they were?

I don't know the man,

but I talked to the girl.

Her name was, uh...

Rita Morgan, I think.

George, please help me.

Do you have any idea where she lives?

Come on, George, think real hard.

This is terribly important.

Please.

I... I don't remember, exactly.

Try real hard. Help me, George.

Somewhere in the Rossmore district.

Hmm, the Rossmore district.

Thank you, George.

This could make us look awfully bad.

You got any ideas?

You know, you just give me 2 things,

2 things to put together, and I'll add 'em up.

But this...

No clue,

no modus operandi, no nothing.

If we could only find a motive.

Or a suspect.

Guess who's here?

Look, I got no time for games.

Bring him in.

What brings you here, doctor?

Curiosity, I suppose.

Don't touch the evidence, doctor.

What have you got to do with her?

Nothing. Just a friend.

Hmm.

You got any more friends like her?

I don't understand that.

A report just came in.

We've another case just like this on the east side.

Police are dispersing crowds as rapidly as possible,

but more of the curious keep arriving.

We repeat,

all unauthorized persons are warned to stay out of the area.

We now return you to our main studio.

The most incredible thing in the history of this city.

Police admit themselves completely baffled.

For those of you who are just tuning in,

the 37-story security building.

At first and grand has been sheared, at the 19th floor,

so cleanly that it has not yet toppled.

Hello, Miss Dunn? About those glasses we distributed.

Yes, I know the first 2.

It was George Wilkenson and Rita Morgan.

But who was the 3rd?

He was a... a rather thick set man.

So, as we have said, the occurrence answers to no logical explanation.

Y-yes I'm watching television now,

but so far he hasn't said anything about... shh-shh.

Some sort of monster, which sheared through the walls.

Of his wrought iron shop.

Yes, shh-shh, I'm listening.

The welder, John Kowalski, is still being questioned.

By the police, who are, however, inclined to discredit his testimony,

because, until recently, he is alleged to have suffered from double vision,

which he claims was cured by special lenses.

Which he was wearing at the time of the incident.

Pardon me, just a moment.

Scientists are being questioned, in the hope that they can throw some light...

Hello.

Yes, the whole thing is incredible.

Miss Dunn, I know this is an imposition at this hour,

but about those glasses we ordered...

I wonder if you could do something for me.

I've got a follow-up assignment on this case, doctor,

and so far we're flying blind as a bat.

As far as your brother's concerned...

Any answer yet, Miss Willet?

Not yet, sir.

I assure you, I have no idea what my brother was doing in that apartment.

If he claims to have been there as a friend,

I see no reason to disbelieve him.

Certainly not because of what happened to the building.

What...

What kind of a thing could cut through an entire building?

A laser could do it, of course.

A laser can cut through anything, but not on a broad front.

The essence of laser power is a concentration of light energy.

What about this monster that Kowalski's supposed to have seen?

Such a thing would defy every known scientific principle.

It would have to be a... monster.

Haven't you heard from my brother yet?

Not yet, sir.

You were saying it would have to be what, doctor?

Oh, please.

Until we have time to assemble and examine all the evidence,

it's ridiculous to speculate.

I'm sorry, sir, his home doesn't answer.

Then try his office,

and keep ringing.

Half the time he doesn't even answer his phone!

Yes, doctor.

Dr. Stone?

Hmm?

Dr. Stone?

What is it? What?

Oh, Miss Dunn, I'm terribly sorry. Have you been here long?

I came as quickly as I could.

Fine, fine.

Please, come over here and sit down.

There was enough quartz for 2 pair.

Splendid, splendid.

Miss Dunn, you've been with me some time.

3 years.

Well, that should be long enough.

What do you think of me?

I beg your pardon?

Well, I mean, uh, do you think of me in terms of, uh...

Do you think I'm a rational human being?

Well, I know it's a... It's a silly question,

but you must be aware of the fact that people say that I'm...

Irresponsible and, uh, absent-minded, and, uh...

Oh, what was that other word that Det. Runyan used?

Uh, a weirdo?

Does it matter what anyone says?

Well, I'm not irresponsible.

I'm a trifle preoccupied from time to time, that's true,

but that doesn't necessarily mean, uh...

What I'm trying to say is,

supposing I told you something that seemed

totally incomprehensible,

would you believe it or would you think

it was just another of my idiosyncrasies?

I think I'd believe most anything you told me.

Thank you, Miss Dunn.

I must warn you though, even so eminent a scientist

as my brother thought I was a little lightheaded when I told him.

Didn't you used to wear your hair differently?

No, sir.

That's strange...

All of a sudden you look different.

Dr. Stone?

Yes.

You were about to tell me something I wouldn't believe.

Hmm.

Oh, exactly...

As you know, Miss Dunn, there's something running around this city

that isn't exactly of this world.

I don't know how it got here, but I have a suspicion

it's desperately trying to get back to where it came from.

Well, where's that?

I don't know that, either.

But I do know it's a world other than this one.

How can you be sure?

Well, this thing, whatever it is,

exists in only 2 planes of reference. Somewhat, uh...

Well, it's somewhat like an image on a motion picture screen.

And it's alive?

Oh, very much so.

Well, how is that possible?

That's another question I can't answer.

But I saw it right here in this office, this morning.

Now, why... why should these particular lenses

make him visible when nothing else does?

Perhaps because they're made from material

which came from another world.

What?

Meteoric quartz.

You said it had unusual refraction indices.

That's it!

I'd forgotten. Meteoric quartz. Of course!

And it was this thing that attacked you?

I don't think he really meant to attack me.

I think he wanted to get the glasses away from me so that I couldn't see him.

But why?

Well, as long as he remained invisible, he felt reasonably safe,

but when he realized that I was seeing him, he came after the glasses.

He also took the names and addresses of the people that had the other 3 pair.

What?

I couldn't remember Kowalski's name.

I came back and I found the page Missing.

That's how he located Wilkenson and Kowalski and, of course, poor Miss Morgan.

Then he's rational.

Not only is he rational, he is highly intelligent.

I wish there was some way I could communicate with him.

Perhaps there is.

How? What do you mean?

Well, he knows you designed the spectacles and...

Doesn't that indicate that he may come back here?

James, I've got to talk to you.

Well, come in, I'm always accessible.

This is my secretary. Miss Dunn,

this is my brother, Dr. Bernard Stone.

How do you do? How do you do, doctor?

James,

this is a matter of the utmost urgency.

Very well.

You came to me with some wild story

about a 2-dimensional creature that can cut through walls.

Yes.

Well, I'm afraid I may have been... Well, I was a little brusque.

Bernie, what is it you want?

James, I must know.

Were you in earnest?

Did you really see something?

Yes!

But how?

How could anything just slice through a building?

I've been thinking about that,

and in my opinion, he's a living laser,

composed of concentrated light particles that expand or contract at will.

But such a thing would have destructive powers beyond comprehension.

True, but with all this formidable power at his disposal,

doesn't it strike you as curious that he hasn't done more damage?

Great Scott, man!

He sliced through a building!

Are you trying to say that isn't destructive?

Why, if that building had been occupied,

any number of people might have been killed!

I know. All I'm trying to say is that I'm convinced it wasn't intentional.

Bernie, if he could destroy that building, he could just as easily

destroy this entire city!

And just because the damage is unintentional, are we supposed to stand by

and watch, while this thing, whatever it is,

spreads unlimited havoc?

He's a living entity.

He's caught in a world he doesn't understand and he's...

He's frightened.

You think!

I'll bet my life on it.

He could have killed me right here in the office this morning, and he didn't.

Yes.

Never mind. There's something I want to talk to you about.

I just heard that this, uh, this welder, uh...

What's his name? Kowalski.

Yes, uh, Kowalski,

was wearing a pair of spectacles that

you made for him when he saw this thing.

That's true.

And I also recall that you were wearing spectacles

at the time you claimed to have seen it.

Yes.

Are these the ones?

Leave those alone.

Very interesting.

Bernie, give me those glasses.

Meteoric quartz, I think you said, huh?

All in good time.

I don't see anything so unusual about these glasses.

As a matter of fact, they...

My...

Is it?

Yes.

Elizabeth, please don't.

I want to see.

If you can understand me,

do you have a name?

I am called Eck.

How is it you can communicate with us?

I cannot explain.

I absorb.

I integrate.

I know.

When you attacked me, were you afraid of being seen?

Yes.

Why have you changed?

I am no longer afraid. I am aware that you wish to help me.

I'd do anything I can to help, but...

I don't know where to begin.

You know about light and vision.

I am almost blind.

It is why I have closed so many eyes.

They are not normally a part of you?

I do not see with what you call eyes,

but when I broke the time barrier,

something happened to my senses.

I cannot seem to find my way back.

How did you get here?

Through a time warp.

You would not understand.

I opened a narrow passage into your world.

I came through by mistake.

Now, I cannot find my way back.

But you must know where the passage is.

Yes, I know.

It is above the public square.

Well, if you know where it is, why can't you go back through it?

I have told you, I cannot see it clearly.

My vision is blurred.

But if it is left open and something of your world goes through it,

it may rip the entire fabric of time.

And destroy the world.

But what can we do to help?

I need the lenses you can make to correct my vision.

I have designed my eyes on your principles,

but something is wrong.

I've been through a half dozen laboratories.

Searching for other lenses, but nothing helps,

not even the ones you made.

You must make a new lens for me.

To do that, I would need your eyes.

I will give you one.

Here.

Gentlemen, I know you find this difficult to believe,

and I don't blame you.

When my brother first came to me with the news

that he had seen this thing, I didn't believe him, either.

But you know me. You know my reputation.

You know I do not imagine horrors.

I tell you, I saw this thing through those glasses.

And I am not going out of my mind.

No one thinks you are going out of your mind, doctor.

These frames belong to Kowalski, the welder,

who claims he saw the same thing you saw.

George Wilkenson owned these.

He drove his car through freeway divider

into a multiple collision.

Those frames were found near the scene of the accident.

And... Rita Morgan

died early this evening of a heart attack

induced, as we now think, by the sight of the same thing you described.

My brother made all these?

Well, they were ground by the delta optical,

but designed by Dr. James Stone.

And he also provided material for their manufacture.

I can't contradict it.

As a potential for destruction

beyond our comprehension.

The problem is how do you fight it?

Well, how do you attack something you don't even see?

My brother made these,

it's logical to assume that he has more.

All right, doctor. Let's go.

There is a time limit.

What?

There is nothing on your planet to sustain me.

I cannot assimilate 3-dimensional food.

I'm growing weaker.

If I die, the time passage will remain open.

Sooner or later, a bird, or an aircraft,

or something, will go through it.

And destroy your world.

Only I can close it as I leave.

How much time do I have?

I only can survive between sunrises...

24 hours.

24 hours?

What's left of it, that is.

I can survive until the sun comes up again.

I'll do the best I can, but 24 hours? Even less?

Yes?

Sorry to disturb you, doctor,

but we'd like to talk to you.

Come in.

I don't quite know how to begin this, but...

Supposing you start by telling me what you want.

We want your help.

To do what?

To capture this thing that's terrorizing the city.

To capture him, or to destroy him?

James, if you had any sense at all...

I'll do the talking, doctor, if you don't mind.

Now, your brother has explained your position.

You think this thing doesn't intend any harm.

He doesn't.

How can you be sure of that?

You'll just have to take my word for it.

I see.

Well, I'd like you to look at it from my standpoint for a moment, doctor.

My job is to protect the public.

I'm aware of that and I assure you,

if you do nothing,

if you'll just trust me, there will be no more trouble.

You're asking a great deal.

That's because I have to.

Why?

I can't explain, but I promise you there'll be no more incidents.

All I ask is 8 hours.

To do what?

You wouldn't understand.

In the meantime, I don't suppose you'd be willing to provide us

with some glasses, just in case.

Sorry.

So am I, doctor.

But let me warn you of one thing.

If what your brother says is true,

if the destruction potential of this so-called monster

is as great as he thinks it is,

then the lives of every man, woman and child

in this city is in your hands.

And I hope you're aware of the enormity of that responsibility.

Couldn't he be forced to cooperate?

I don't know how, but I'm sure going to try and find a way.

I hope he knows what he's doing.

Eck.

Eck, are you still here?

I am here.

I'm sorry about what happened.

Why do they want to destroy me?

They're afraid of you.

I do not mean any harm.

I know that, but they don't.

I was frightened.

By what?

By your welder, Kowalski.

He had a fire gun. Fire can destroy me instantly,

as it would paper or dry leaves.

I understand.

In my world, nothing can prevail against fire.

Eck, can you tell us a little something about your world?

You could not understand.

It is too different, too far removed from anything you could imagine.

It is not even a world at all, as you think of it.

I see.

Elizabeth, would you turn on the television set?

Eck, I think you'd better stay here.

You'll be safer here.

I will remain.

Good.

The terrifying prospect of dealing with this building.

That stands in our midst so precariously.

City officials have been in constant...

He's 2-dimensional.

It is their feeling that a disaster is not imminent.

Repeat, a disaster is not...

Maybe he can show me the way out!

Eck, Eck, no!

No, no, Eck, no!

Look, he's luminous!

The electricity is probably disseminated.

Now everyone can see him.

He's my brother, but I have never been able to figure him out.

What did he mean when he promised us

that nothing else would happen?

Heaven only knows.

All my life, I've been trying to understand him.

But this, it's just impossible to believe that the government

can't find some way to force him to cooperate.

Your brother's a private citizen, Dr. Stone.

He has certain inalienable rights.

Well, but not when the safety of the entire country is at stake.

It seems to me there should be some sort of writ or order

that could be issued against him.

Dr. Stone, you can order a man to be seized,

you can order a man to be searched,

and you can order a man to cease and desist whatever he's doing,

but there is no order that can make a man talk

when he refuses to talk.

Ah!

And you say, Mr. Grayson, you jumped clear of the car

an instant before it caught fire.

I'm lucky to be alive.

And this, uh, thing, this monster, was still there?

Oh, it was there, all right. You can be sure of that.

Hovering around,

glowing and shooting off sparks.

But it, uh, left

the moment the gas tank exploded.

Like a banshee.

Fire.

That's our weapon. Sergeant, get on the phone.

Tell them we need a flamethrower.

Right.

Now if it shows up again, we'll know how to deal with it.

Yes, well, suppose it doesn't?

Well, there's just one man who can tell us if it's going to.

I'll go and talk to him.

Well, you just do that, doctor. And you lay it on the line,

because if he's protecting that thing, he's in a lot of trouble.

I'll make sure he understands.

Eck, Eck, I think I've got it.

Elizabeth! Elizabeth!

I found the key, look.

This is the formula for the normal aberrational coefficients, right?

Now, this is the same formula altered by the sign for young's aplanatic spheres

and corrected for X, relative refraction index.

In this case, a plus 3 as opposed to a plus 1.

But aren't these formulas based on a standard optic geometry?

Of course, that's the point.

They must be.

And the lenses will be made of glass.

Not meteoric quartz?

Eck is from another world.

We need material from another world in order to see him.

By the same token, for him to see us in our environment,

his eyes must be corrected by our lenses.

Eck, I don't know if you'll understand this,

but on earth, optical systems

can generally have only one set of aplanatic surfaces.

But the eyes you have made for yourself have at least 12.

We also have coefficients of aberrations, numbering as many as 35.

But your system has 280.

Now, that's 5 times the earth maximum.

I'm sorry to have caused so much difficulty.

Oh, that's all right. That isn't important.

The only thing that's important is that we correct your vision.

And I think I can, only...

Only, what?

Only how can it be done in time?

I'll have to make the lenses myself, Miss Dunn... or Elizabeth...

You know what I'll need, will you get it for me?

Yes, sir.

Where's my brother?

I'm sorry, doctor. You can't go in there.

And why not?

Because Dr. Stone cannot be disturbed.

Young lady, will you please stand out of my way?

What do you want, Bernie?

Well, I... I want to talk to you.

I don't think you and I have anything further to talk about.

You had better listen to me.

We know how to destroy your monster.

Oh?

With fire!

We expect your help, James.

I think you'd better get out of here, Bernie,

before I throw you out.

Now, don't you threaten me.

I came here to help you, to try and make you see reason.

I know you've got some crazy idea

about wanting to protect this monstrosity of yours.

Why? I will never know.

But do you realize there are over a 100 people hospitalized,

that half the city's power lines are out of comMission,

all because of this creature that you claim is harmless?

I never said he was harmless!

I simply said he didn't intend any harm, and he doesn't!

And you also gave your word to the police

that there would be no more trouble!

Well...

I never dreamed...

No, that's just the point.

You don't know what that thing is liable to do.

What's to prevent, boom, next time, the whole city.

There won't be any next time!

No? And who do you think will believe that now?

Bernie, you and I have never seen eye to eye on anything,

but listen to me just this once.

Eck blundered into our world.

All he's trying to do is find his way back

to where he came from.

Pure supposition.

No, no, take my word for it.

He came through a passageway in time.

And that doorway is still open.

If anything should fall through the opening, like a bird or a plane,

it could rip the fabric of time and destroy our world.

How do you know all this?

I've spoken to him.

You've spo...

You'll say anything, won't you?

You'll say anything, and you'll do anything,

so long as you can keep on masterminding this whole affair.

Bernie, for once in your life, take something on faith.

This poor, frightened creature is risking his life to save us.

Save us?

He doesn't want the disaster to happen,

he's trying to prevent it.

And this is the thing you want to destroy.

The admiral is right.

You should be locked up.

I bet you've got that thing in here right now, haven't you?

Bernie, get out!

We're coming after him, James.

I just hope and pray you don't try to stop us.

Eck? Eck?

He's gone.

Well, he must have overheard the talk about chasing him with fire.

He's visible now, they'll be able to find him.

What do we do?

I'm sure he'll come back.

If I can just make those lenses in time, perhaps there's still a chance.

Well, what did you find out?

Not very much.

What about that thing? That monster?

Is it up there now?

That's what I don't know.

I tried to get into my brother's private office, but he came out,

slammed the door behind him.

Then it must be there.

We've got every inch of that building surrounded, haven't we, sergeant?

Every inch.

Now, remember now it's luminous.

All we have to do is look for a glow.

I don't think he can get away from us now.

How soon will that flamethrower be here?

About 6 minutes.

Well, I think we're on the right track.

I'll go and get the men alerted.

And now, let's have a look at the weather situation.

Santa Clara county and surrounding country may expect...

Well, that completes it.

Mid-morning temperatures should be in the mid-70s tomorrow,

with a possible high of...

And now for the frame.

And the front, moving in from the west, should arrive in the area.

Tomorrow evening, bringing lower temperatures.

With possible showers during the night, clearing by mid-morning.

The mountain and resort areas may expect a few snow flurries.

From the storm, with increasing northwesterly winds.

The weather bureau reports, however,

that the balance of the week should be clear and sunny.

I'm so glad, doctor, for him.

Warning!

The police are ordering all citizens.

Out of the area adjacent to the optical center research building.

On maple street and 27th.

There is a report that "the thing" is trapped in the building.

A blockade is being drawn around all entrances.

What in the world will we do?

All right, move in, move in.

You must not do this.

Jackson, get this man out of here.

But I can save him. There's no need to harm him.

James, it's out of your hands, now. The thing must go.

Jackson!

Eck!

Clear this room, everybody.

There it is.

All right.

Let him have it.

Let's clear out of here.

I'm sorry, James.

I'll bet you are.

How does it feel to be a deliberate murderer?

We destroyed a monster.

A thing that was a menace to the lives and

property of all the people in this community.

Dr. Stone.

Eck.

I'm here.

But I thought...

I wasn't actually in the office.

But the glow...

I transferred some of my energy.

To the statue near the table.

Eck, you're wonderful.

Thank you.

And I want to thank you, doctor,

before it's too late,

for what you tried to do to help me.

It was too much to expect in so short a time.

Might have been more merciful if they'd succeeded in destroying him.

The lens!

You have it!

I only had time to make one, but I think it'll work.

I can see.

Now I can find the opening of the passageway into time.

Oh, thank you.

I'll remember you both, always.

We'll remember you, too, Eck.

It's 3-dimensional.

It won't go through the wall.

It is a problem.

Here. Give it to me.

We'll meet you at the square.

I will wait for you.

Shall we go down to the square and say goodbye to a friend?

Paradoxically, man's endless search.

For knowledge has too often plundered his courage.

And warped his vision,

so that he has faced the unknown with terror.

Rather than awe,

and probed the darkness with a scream.

Rather than a light.

Yet, there have always been men.

Who have touched the texture of tomorrow.

With understanding and with courage.

Through these men, we may yet touch the stars.

We now return control of your television set to you.

Until next week, at the same time,

when the control voice will take you to...

The outer limits.