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[Theme music playing]

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(Narrator) You're tra vel/ng
through another dimension.

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A dimension not onl y of
sightand sound, but of mind.

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A journey into a wondrous land

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whose boundaries
are tha t of ima Gina t/on.

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Your next stop,
the twilight zone.

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[Suspense music]

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(Narrator) This object, should any
of you ha ve lived underground

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for the better parts
of your lives

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and never had occasion
to look toward the sky,

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is an airplane, its official
designation, a DC-3.

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We offer this
rather ob v/ous comment

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beca use this
particular airplane,

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the one you're looking at,
is a freak.

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Now, most airplanes take off
and land as per schedule.

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On rare occasions, they crash.

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But all airplanes can be
counted on doing one or the other.

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Now, yesterday morning,

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this particular airplane ceased
to be just a commercial carrier.

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As of its arrival,
it became an enigma,

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a seven-ton puzzle made out
of aluminum, steel, wire

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and a few thousand
other component parts

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none of which add up
to the right thing.

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In just a moment, we're going to
show you the tail end of its history.

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We're going to give you 90
percent of the jigsa w pieces

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and you and Mr. Sheckl y here
of the federal a via t/on agency

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will assume the problem
of putting them together,

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along with finding
the missing pieces.

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This we offer
as an even/ng's hobby,

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a little
extra curricular di version,

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which is reall y the national
past/me in the twilight zone.

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[Suspense music]

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[Airplane engine]

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[Brakes]

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[Man over loudspeaker]
Flight 453 to Kansas City

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now readyfor board/ng
through ga te number 14.

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Flight 453, ga te 14.

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Passengers, please board.

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Let's go in there!

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What about it?
You need a can opener?

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What, do they got
a hot poker game in there?

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You tell me.

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What about it?

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You dead, asleep or what?
[Banging]

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[Suspense music]

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George, what's going on here?
There isn't any luggage.

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(Luggage man) Hey, George!

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Ask them who's responsible
for forgett/ng all the luggage.

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You better come in here
and check me out.

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Look, I don't know
what your problems are,

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but you'll have
to tell the passengers

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their luggage has been delayed.

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Some idiot let
this plane take off

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without more
than envelope in there.

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I'd be happy to,
except for one thing.

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Wha t?

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There aren't
any passengers! Come here.

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[Suspense music]

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Robbins, you better
call the airport police

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and get them over here.

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I'll get bengston
in operations. I hope...

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What?

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I hope he lets me
finish the story

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before he has me committed.

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[Walla]

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(Man 1) There was
nobody on the plane,

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absolutel y nobody.

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I don't know... how could it stop

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(man 2) Without
somebody on tha t plane?

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All right, ladies and gentlemen,

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would you knock it off, please?

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This is Mr. Sheckly

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from the federal
aviation agency.

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He'd like to continue
the questioning.

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She's all yours, sir.

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Gentlemen, this is
not a formal hearing.

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It's more in the nature
of a preliminary meeting,

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as your operations chief noted,

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we're here to unearth
as many facts as we can.

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I'd appreciate hearing
from you only facts.

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You can save us all
a lot of time

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if you'd avoid
personal hypotheses,

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so we can keep the air clear

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and not clutter it up
with six dozen theories.

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Theories happen
to be my business.

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In the 20-odd years,
I've been with the f.A.A.

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I've gota pretty good record

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In putting together
jigsa w puzzles.

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Ma ybe some of them
ha ven't been

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as abnormal as this one,
but I'll lay my batting average

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on the line any hour of the day.

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All right? Let's get
down to business.

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Now, which one
of you is cousins?

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R/ght here, s/r.

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(Sheck/y)
You're the ramp a ttendant?

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Yes, sir.

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You were on duty

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when fl/ght 707 arrived?

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That's right, sir.

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Ship came in normally...

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Did you notice
anything abnormal?

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No, she came
in right on the button.

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She followed
my signal up the ramp.

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She stopped right on the
Mark where I told her to.

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She cut her engines
at my signal.

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Did you see the pilots?

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When I signal a plane in,
my attention's on the marks

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and on the aircraft
on either side of her...

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Actually, I don't remember...

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(Sheckly) Bengston, is your
dispatcher here from buffalo?

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Well, that's me, sir.

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I just arrived.

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Will you take a look at this?

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Yes, sir, that's
the flight plan.

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Did you see the pilot sign it?

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I was at his elbow

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th/s morn/ng a t 71:72 am

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(sheckly)
Pilot William j. Slooum?

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Yes, sir.

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Copilot John o'brien,

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that's the name
of the first officer?

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Yes, sir.

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Did you see them
board the aircraft?

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Not exactly, sir.

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I saw them leave
the dispatch office

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and head for the field.

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But to the best
of your knowledge,

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that was the crew of flight 107

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when they took off from
buffalo at 11:30 this morning?

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To the best of my knowledge.

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William j. Slocum, John o'brien.

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Good pilots, both of them.

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Sober, reliable, the best men.

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I'm not casting any
stones, Mr. Bengston.

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It's just that
the names are so...

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So fam I liar. [Suspense music]

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Well, that'll be all now,

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but stay around where
you can be reached.

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Mr. Sheckly.

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This is Paul Malloy,
our public relations man.

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[Chuckles]
Public relations, huh?

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How much public, and
what kind of relations

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are you poor guys going
to have after this one?

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I got 22 years in this saddle

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and I've never been licked yet.

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Oh, some of them
take a long time.

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Couple of tons of metal

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spread over 50 square
miles of countryside.

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Sometimes, all it is is
a misplaced air scoop

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or maybe a loose bolt
in the elevator hinge or,

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once /na blue moon,
a p/lot w/tha psychos/s.

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But It's al wa ys something.

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And that something
always shows up.

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You're talking about a
crashed aircraft, Mr. Sheckly.

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We're talking
about a disappearing act.

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Now, look, this just
couldn't have happened.

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An aircraft can't take off
with a full crew, 13 passengers

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and land an hour and 20
minutes later with nobody on it.

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It simply is not within
the realm of possibility!

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Mr. Malloy, you are dead right.

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But the fact is it happened.

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/t can't ha ve happened.

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An airliner couldn't
land that perfectly

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with nobody controlling it.

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There must be... there
has to be an explanation...

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A legitimate, valid, believable,

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understandable explanation.

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There's only one
possible explanation.

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These 13 people had parachutes.

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They kept them
in the baggage compartment.

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That's why there
wasn't any luggage.

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Some place between here
and buffalo, they jumped out

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a gag or something.

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That's just brilliant.

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And what about the
pilots, Mr. Holmes?

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Or is that part just elementary?

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Maybe they hid in the restroom.

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Sneaked out after I left.

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Cut it out.

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That's quite an
imagination, Mr. Cousins.

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Hey, what if...

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What if...

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What if what?

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No, I don't know.

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It gets me.

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I'll tell you this, though.

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I get spooked just
standing around here.

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I get more spooked
inside, though.

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All those empty blue
seats just staring at you.

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Look, boys.

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We have been theorizing
for six solid hours.

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I'm just a simple-minded
vice president

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in charge of operations,

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but I've got a passel of newsmen
out there bugging me to death

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as to what kind
of haunted operations

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we are running here.

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Tell them to keep
their shirts on.

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That's what you
should be telling them

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or a reasonable
facsimile of an explanation.

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Then you better get
me another head

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because I've been on
that phone for six hours.

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I've had every news
service, television network

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and a couple of
professional mind readers

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trying to figure out what
the great big mystery is

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we're supposed
to be hiding in here.

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You know how long
I can keep it up?

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Maybe another 15 minutes

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then the whole thing
will pop open

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and we'll be stuck with
rotten egg on our face.

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And sheckly and the government

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will take our
franchise away from us.

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Incompetence,
mental instability,

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and you name it,
you can have it!

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Have you checked out

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every name on this
passenger manifest?

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No, I have not.

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That's all I need now
is to have a small army

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of relatives from
upstate New York

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clutching at my lapels, asking
me for a definitive statement

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as to where their loved ones are

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who took flight 107 out
of buffalo this morning.

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You haven't even
had one inquiry yet?

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Now, that's weird, isn't it?

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Not a single inquiry.

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But the ship arrived
only six hours ago.

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Maybe they haven't
had time to miss anyone.

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No, I'm kidding myself.

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Of course, someone would
have made an inquiry by now.

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There goes
that old feeling again.

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[Suspense music] What feeling?

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This passenger manifest.
The names look so familiar.

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Robbins, you said
something before.

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What do you mean?
About the parachutes?

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No, no, no,
you said something else.

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You said you looked
inside the plane

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and you saw the blue seats.

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Yeah, / sa/d
something like tha t.

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They are blue,

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but when I first looked in the
plane, the seats were brown.

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Walt, they were red.

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I remember how faded they were,

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but they were red.

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(Ma/icy) Wha t is
all this nonsense?

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Haven't we got enough trouble

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without you guys worrying
about the interior decoration?

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(Sheckly) Bengston, come here.

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Do you see a number
on that tail?

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Of course, I see a number.

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Read it off to me.

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(Bengsz'on) N-6-7—5—8-8.

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Hey, Robbins.

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Do you see that same
number on the tail?

253
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(Robbins) N-8-0—4-7—5—8.

254
00:12:54,440 --> 00:12:56,192
(Malloy) Hey, are
we going crazy?

255
00:12:56,276 --> 00:12:58,945
We're all seeing
different numbers.

256
00:12:59,028 --> 00:13:02,323
Gentlemen, I have a theory.

257
00:13:02,407 --> 00:13:06,327
Unfortunately, the only way
I can prove it or disprove it

258
00:13:06,411 --> 00:13:09,289
is going to put me
in considerable jeopardy.

259
00:13:09,372 --> 00:13:11,958
Any one of you ever hear
of mass suggestion?

260
00:13:15,295 --> 00:13:16,963
So?

261
00:13:17,046 --> 00:13:19,299
I think that's what
we're dealing with now...

262
00:13:19,382 --> 00:13:21,509
A kind of hypnosis.
To put it more bluntly

263
00:13:21,592 --> 00:13:23,469
or perhaps a little
less believably,

264
00:13:23,553 --> 00:13:27,140
I don't think this
airplane is really here,

265
00:13:27,223 --> 00:13:28,891
I think every one of us

266
00:13:28,975 --> 00:13:31,352
had a little hypnos/s
performed on h/m,

267
00:13:31,436 --> 00:13:33,396
a little suggestion.

268
00:13:33,479 --> 00:13:37,025
Someone somewhere told us that
a DC-3 is inside this hangar

269
00:13:37,108 --> 00:13:38,860
and that it landed this morning.

270
00:13:38,943 --> 00:13:40,570
That's what they said.

271
00:13:40,653 --> 00:13:42,905
So every one of us
had pictured in his mind

272
00:13:42,989 --> 00:13:44,657
a DC-3 as he knows one.

273
00:13:44,699 --> 00:13:48,411
Therefore, one of us
sees the seats as blue,

274
00:13:48,494 --> 00:13:51,080
another sees them as brown,

275
00:13:51,164 --> 00:13:53,416
still another sees them as red.

276
00:13:53,499 --> 00:13:55,835
I read one number off the tail.

277
00:13:55,918 --> 00:13:59,547
Two other guys read two others.

278
00:13:59,630 --> 00:14:03,926
Don't you understand
what I'm trying to say?

279
00:14:06,804 --> 00:14:09,515
This particular aircraft
doesn't exist.

280
00:14:09,557 --> 00:14:12,185
It really isn't here at all.

281
00:14:12,268 --> 00:14:13,978
Are you mad?

282
00:14:14,062 --> 00:14:15,772
Are you trying to tell us

283
00:14:15,855 --> 00:14:17,440
this is an illusion?

284
00:14:17,523 --> 00:14:19,567
It's no illusion, it's here.

285
00:14:19,650 --> 00:14:21,319
I can feel it, it's here.

286
00:14:21,402 --> 00:14:24,781
I'm going to prove to
you that you're wrong,

287
00:14:24,864 --> 00:14:28,409
or I'm going to prove
to you that I'm wrong.

288
00:14:28,493 --> 00:14:32,789
And if I happen to be wrong,
I also happen to be dead.

289
00:14:32,872 --> 00:14:39,295
Robbins, will you roll the plane
outside and start the engines?

290
00:14:39,379 --> 00:14:41,547
[Suspense music]

291
00:14:49,430 --> 00:14:52,225
[Curtain music]

292
00:14:56,062 --> 00:14:58,022
[Suspense music]

293
00:15:09,909 --> 00:15:14,622
Sheckly, are you sure you
know what you're doing?

294
00:15:14,705 --> 00:15:16,999
I know what I'm doing.

295
00:15:17,083 --> 00:15:20,044
Start the engines.

296
00:15:21,921 --> 00:15:23,756
If this plane is imaginary,

297
00:15:23,798 --> 00:15:27,301
then so are those engines
and so are those props.

298
00:15:27,385 --> 00:15:29,345
So if I stick my hand in them,

299
00:15:29,429 --> 00:15:31,347
nothing is going to happen.

300
00:15:31,431 --> 00:15:33,766
But if my theory
is for the birds

301
00:15:33,850 --> 00:15:35,560
and those props are real,

302
00:15:37,019 --> 00:15:39,188
make sure you notify my wife.

303
00:15:39,272 --> 00:15:41,274
Go ahead, do it.

304
00:15:46,779 --> 00:15:49,615
[Starts engine]

305
00:16:24,692 --> 00:16:27,778
[Suspense music]

306
00:16:55,890 --> 00:16:57,433
Well, gentlemen,

307
00:16:57,517 --> 00:17:00,061
I bel/eve I've proven my po/nt.

308
00:17:13,449 --> 00:17:15,576
Bengston?

309
00:17:17,036 --> 00:17:18,871
Malloy?

310
00:17:23,334 --> 00:17:25,461
Cousins!

311
00:17:30,716 --> 00:17:33,010
Robbins!

312
00:17:33,094 --> 00:17:34,595
Bengston!

313
00:17:34,679 --> 00:17:36,180
Malloy!

314
00:17:38,391 --> 00:17:41,185
[Panting] Bengston! Malloy!

315
00:17:41,269 --> 00:17:44,146
(Sheckly)
Hey, where are you people?

316
00:17:44,230 --> 00:17:45,565
Hey, bengs ton!

317
00:17:45,648 --> 00:17:48,776
Where are you peop...

318
00:17:48,859 --> 00:17:50,570
What happened?

319
00:17:54,740 --> 00:17:56,659
Bengston, what happened?

320
00:17:56,742 --> 00:18:02,039
What are you talking about?

321
00:18:02,123 --> 00:18:05,001
Aren't you...

322
00:18:05,084 --> 00:18:07,128
You're sheckly, aren't you?

323
00:18:07,211 --> 00:18:09,922
Aren't you sheckly
of the f.A.A.?

324
00:18:10,006 --> 00:18:12,341
What kind of a gag is this?

325
00:18:12,425 --> 00:18:14,343
Who do you think I am?

326
00:18:14,427 --> 00:18:17,513
What's going on?
What is the problem?

327
00:18:17,597 --> 00:18:19,015
What's the problem?

328
00:18:19,098 --> 00:18:21,267
Bengston, are you
off your rocker?

329
00:18:21,350 --> 00:18:24,186
One minute, there's a hangar
full of men and an aircraft.

330
00:18:24,270 --> 00:18:25,938
The next minute I prove

331
00:18:26,022 --> 00:18:28,482
that not only doesn't
the aircraft exist, but...

332
00:18:35,239 --> 00:18:38,200
What else didn't exist?

333
00:18:38,284 --> 00:18:40,703
Mr. Sheckly, are you drunk?

334
00:18:40,786 --> 00:18:45,374
Or are you sick or what?

335
00:18:45,458 --> 00:18:47,209
Bengston,

336
00:18:47,293 --> 00:18:49,962
bengston, where's Malloy?

337
00:18:50,046 --> 00:18:52,173
Malloy? [Scoffs]

338
00:18:57,845 --> 00:19:00,056
Malloy, you better get up

339
00:19:00,139 --> 00:19:01,724
and zero in your boss here

340
00:19:01,807 --> 00:19:04,226
as to the cause
and effects of insanity.

341
00:19:04,310 --> 00:19:05,728
You...

342
00:19:11,067 --> 00:19:14,737
(Sheckly) "Miss penn y ja ok son,
bea ut/ful, young mo vie starlet

343
00:19:14,820 --> 00:19:16,572
"ls shown here arr/v/ng

344
00:19:16,656 --> 00:19:20,034
"on trans-east airline,
flight 107

345
00:19:20,117 --> 00:19:25,498
which arrived from buffalo
this morning."

346
00:19:25,581 --> 00:19:28,417
What's going on?

347
00:19:28,501 --> 00:19:30,670
Who is this guy?

348
00:19:30,753 --> 00:19:33,422
How could they have
taken that picture?

349
00:19:33,506 --> 00:19:35,091
How could they say it landed

350
00:19:35,174 --> 00:19:36,342
and everything went...

351
00:19:36,425 --> 00:19:37,677
Went what?

352
00:19:37,718 --> 00:19:39,929
You know this guy?

353
00:19:40,012 --> 00:19:41,972
Mr. Sheckly,

354
00:19:43,516 --> 00:19:45,935
this is Paul Malloy,

355
00:19:46,018 --> 00:19:47,812
our public relations man.

356
00:19:47,895 --> 00:19:50,272
What are you talking about?

357
00:19:50,356 --> 00:19:51,691
I know who it is.

358
00:19:51,774 --> 00:19:53,025
What's going on here?

359
00:19:53,109 --> 00:19:54,527
Maybe you'd better tell us.

360
00:19:54,610 --> 00:19:56,070
What is so odd

361
00:19:56,153 --> 00:19:57,988
about a picture
of a flight arrival?

362
00:19:58,072 --> 00:19:59,740
What's so od...

363
00:19:59,824 --> 00:20:02,785
Bengston, you check me out.

364
00:20:02,868 --> 00:20:05,121
Didn't that flight arrive

365
00:20:05,204 --> 00:20:06,872
with nobody on it?

366
00:20:06,956 --> 00:20:09,625
No crew, no stewardess,

367
00:20:09,709 --> 00:20:11,544
no passengers, no baggage?

368
00:20:11,627 --> 00:20:13,629
No, Mr. Sheckly.

369
00:20:13,713 --> 00:20:15,464
Flight 107 from our airline

370
00:20:15,548 --> 00:20:17,633
arrived at 12:50
today on schedule.

371
00:20:17,717 --> 00:20:19,301
[Shouting] You mean to tell me,

372
00:20:19,385 --> 00:20:21,262
you're not missing an aircraft?

373
00:20:21,345 --> 00:20:23,305
That's exactly what
he's telling you.

374
00:20:23,389 --> 00:20:25,141
We're not missing
any flight 107,

375
00:20:25,224 --> 00:20:26,976
or any other flight.

376
00:20:32,064 --> 00:20:35,067
Well, how could that be?

377
00:20:37,611 --> 00:20:40,489
You never missed a flight 107?

378
00:20:43,033 --> 00:20:44,452
That's right.

379
00:20:44,535 --> 00:20:46,036
That's right.

380
00:20:46,120 --> 00:20:48,122
You were the
examiner on that one.

381
00:20:48,205 --> 00:20:49,457
On what one?

382
00:20:49,540 --> 00:20:51,167
We lost just one flight

383
00:20:51,250 --> 00:20:53,043
in some 20-odd years, just one.

384
00:20:53,127 --> 00:20:54,253
Flight 107.

385
00:20:54,336 --> 00:20:56,005
Flight 107.

386
00:20:56,088 --> 00:20:58,132
But, Mr. Sheckly,

387
00:20:58,215 --> 00:21:02,970
that was some 17
or 18 years ago.

388
00:21:03,053 --> 00:21:04,680
Flight 107 out of buffalo.

389
00:21:04,764 --> 00:21:06,474
Flight 107 out of buffalo.

390
00:21:06,557 --> 00:21:08,976
But like I said, that
was 17, 18 years ago.

391
00:21:09,059 --> 00:21:11,270
Well, what happened to her?

392
00:21:11,353 --> 00:21:13,731
Lost in the fog, never found,

393
00:21:13,814 --> 00:21:16,525
we figured she must
have gone off course,

394
00:21:16,609 --> 00:21:19,195
went out over the ocean,
went down there.

395
00:21:19,278 --> 00:21:20,946
(Malloy) You never found her?

396
00:21:21,030 --> 00:21:23,032
(Bengsz'on) Never found her.

397
00:21:23,115 --> 00:21:25,367
Mr. Sheckl y
here in ves t/ga Ted.

398
00:21:25,451 --> 00:21:27,119
But that was one case

399
00:21:27,161 --> 00:21:29,538
you were never
able to button up.

400
00:21:29,622 --> 00:21:32,792
Nobody was ever able
to button it up.

401
00:21:32,833 --> 00:21:35,127
Just s/ts on the books as lost,

402
00:21:35,211 --> 00:21:37,963
presumed crashed
for reasons unknown.

403
00:21:38,047 --> 00:21:41,133
[Suspense music]

404
00:21:41,217 --> 00:21:42,968
Mr. Sheckl y,

405
00:21:46,680 --> 00:21:50,684
why don't you let me
drive you home?

406
00:21:50,768 --> 00:21:55,397
For reasons unknown?

407
00:21:55,481 --> 00:22:01,487
But I never been licked
on a case yet. Never.

408
00:22:01,570 --> 00:22:04,323
[Faltering voice] We've
always found the causes.

409
00:22:04,365 --> 00:22:08,911
Always.

410
00:22:08,994 --> 00:22:13,123
We've always found the causes.

411
00:22:13,207 --> 00:22:16,126
Always.

412
00:22:16,210 --> 00:22:20,422
[Sobbing] I never been
licked on a case yet.

413
00:22:20,506 --> 00:22:23,843
We've always found the causes.

414
00:22:23,884 --> 00:22:28,472
Always found the causes.

415
00:22:28,556 --> 00:22:30,432
We've al wa ys found the causes.

416
00:22:30,516 --> 00:22:33,060
I never been I/cked
ona case yet.

417
00:22:38,065 --> 00:22:40,025
I guess so.

418
00:22:43,946 --> 00:22:49,201
[Sheckly, shouting]
Flight 107.13 people.

419
00:22:49,243 --> 00:22:52,496
Pilot, William j. Slocum.

420
00:22:52,580 --> 00:22:55,207
Copilot, John o'brien.

421
00:22:55,291 --> 00:22:57,376
What happened to you?

422
00:22:57,459 --> 00:23:00,629
What went wrong?

423
00:23:00,713 --> 00:23:02,965
Where did you go down?

424
00:23:03,048 --> 00:23:04,300
Flight 107!

425
00:23:04,383 --> 00:23:06,135
[Roar of plane engine]

426
00:23:09,597 --> 00:23:13,809
(Sheckly) Hey, flight 107!

427
00:23:13,893 --> 00:23:16,061
Why didn't you leave a clue?

428
00:23:16,145 --> 00:23:19,732
Why didn't you make a contact?

429
00:23:21,400 --> 00:23:23,903
Why didn't you?

430
00:23:25,696 --> 00:23:28,407
Why didn't you leave a clue?

431
00:23:31,285 --> 00:23:34,997
Why didn't you ever tell
anyone what happened to you?

432
00:23:35,080 --> 00:23:36,999
[Sobbing]

433
00:23:37,082 --> 00:23:39,335
[Loud roar of an engine plane]

434
00:23:42,421 --> 00:23:45,090
(Narrator) Picture of a man
with an aohilles' heel,

435
00:23:45,174 --> 00:23:46,800
a mystery tha t landed
in his life

436
00:23:46,884 --> 00:23:48,677
and then turned
into a heavy we/ght,

437
00:23:48,761 --> 00:23:50,554
dragged across the years

438
00:23:50,638 --> 00:23:52,890
to ul t/ma tel y take
the form of an ill us/on.

439
00:23:52,973 --> 00:23:54,850
Now, tha t's the cl/n/cal answer

440
00:23:54,934 --> 00:23:57,186
that they put on the tag
as they take h/mawa y.

441
00:23:57,269 --> 00:23:59,647
But if you choose to think
tha t the explana t/on

442
00:23:59,730 --> 00:24:01,899
has to do with an
a/rborne flying dutchman,

443
00:24:01,982 --> 00:24:03,943
a ghost sh/p
In a fog-enshrouded n/ght

444
00:24:04,026 --> 00:24:05,986
on a fl/ght tha t never ends,

445
00:24:06,070 --> 00:24:08,489
then you're do/ng your
business in an old stand

446
00:24:08,572 --> 00:24:14,161
in the twilight zone.
[Curtain music]

447
00:24:14,244 --> 00:24:16,956
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448
00:24:17,039 --> 00:24:19,124
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00:24:19,208 --> 00:24:21,627
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450
00:24:21,669 --> 00:24:23,087
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451
00:24:23,170 --> 00:24:24,797
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452
00:24:24,880 --> 00:24:26,840
we use a camera like an X-ray

453
00:24:26,924 --> 00:24:29,927
and look under the skin of a
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454
00:24:30,010 --> 00:24:32,721
It's a little experiment
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455
00:24:32,805 --> 00:24:34,765
on the night
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456
00:24:34,848 --> 00:24:36,350
shatters their composure

457
00:24:36,433 --> 00:24:38,477
with an announcement
of terse terror...

458
00:24:38,519 --> 00:24:40,062
A bomb is coming.

459
00:24:40,145 --> 00:24:42,147
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are a little far out.

460
00:24:42,231 --> 00:24:44,274
This one is very close in.

461
00:24:44,358 --> 00:24:47,987
You'll see what I mean next week
when we present "the shelter."

462
00:24:48,070 --> 00:24:51,281
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463
00:25:16,515 --> 00:25:20,853
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464
00:25:20,894 --> 00:25:25,274
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465
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