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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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[Horns honking
and street sounds]

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[Suspense music]

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She's all set, Mr. Radin.

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How about the sound system?

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You check that out?

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She's all ready to go.

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I don't know where you
got your sound effects

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but you'd sweara
bomb was exploding.

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I mean a big bomb.

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That's precisely the way
it's supposed to sound.

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[Loud explosion]

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[Explosion sound stops]

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That about do it, Mr. Radin?

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That about does it.

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You got quite a setup here.

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This part of the illusion too?

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No, this room is
not an illusion.

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I venture to guess

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that it's the best
designed bomb shelter

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on the face of the
earth... who knows?

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The hydrogen bomb
is not an illusion.

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But tonight it's for gags, huh?

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Something of the sort.

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A practical joke, let's say.

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You can say that again.

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When they start
those sound effects

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and that stuff on the screen

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you'd swear the world
was getting blasted.

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That's the idea.

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I have three guests
coming this evening

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ra ther spec/al guests.

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You did this to fool
three of your friends?

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Must be kind of special friends.

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They are, they are,
indeed... very special friends.

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[Suspense music]

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What you have just looked at

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takes place
300 feet underground,

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beneath the basement
of a New York City skyscraper.

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It's owned and lived
in by one Paul radin.

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Mr. Radin is rich, eccentric
and single-minded.

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How rich,
we can already perceive.

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How eccentric and single-minded,
we shall see in a moment,

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because all of you
have just entered

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the twilight zone.

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[Suspense music]

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(Rad/n over speakers)
Good evening, friends.

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Just step across the hall to
the door straight ahead of you.

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[Whirring]

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(Rad/n, over speakers)
Please, come in if you will.

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Sit down,
make yoursel ves comfortable.

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[Whirring]

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Please sit down.

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[Suspense music]

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How good of you to come.

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Colonel hawthorne, Mr. Hughes,

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Mrs. Langsford.

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It's radin, isn't it?

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Aren't you Paul radin?

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You have an excellent
memory, reverend.

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And you, colonel,
do you recognize me?

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I believe I do.

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Served under me once,
didn't you, radin?

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I did indeed, second
lieutenant, infantry regiment

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under your command,
afr/ca, 1.942.

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I recall it vaguely.

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I seem to recall
something else too.

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It's not surprising it
doesn't flood back to you.

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You had a few thousand
men under you.

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I was onl y one.

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But then again, you didn't
court-martial all of them.

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That distinction
you reserved for me.

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Ah, yes, I do recall.

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You refused to lead
an assault on a hill.

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Refused in the face
of a direct order.

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The delay cost us
almost a company of men.

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That was your contention
to the court-martial board,

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I was stripped of rank,
dishonorably discharged.

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You were fortunate,

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were I to have
dictated the sentence

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I would have had you shot.

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I'm sure
you would have, colonel.

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I'm sure you would have.

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But what a wretched host I am

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to neglect the lady present.

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Mrs. Langsford.

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Do you recall who I am?

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Of course, I do, Paul.

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Itaught you in high school.

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I don't forget my students.

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Oh, sometimes the names
and the faces get confused

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but if I prod my memory

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I usually can connect
a name and a face...

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And, in your case, a character.

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You flunked me, Mrs. Langsford;

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dressed me down
before an entire class.

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Called me names, humiliated me.

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Well, let me say again,

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how good of you to come.

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I'm delighted

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you accepted the invitation.

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(Hawthorne) In vi ta t/on?

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The request tha t I come
here was an ul tima tum.

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Your chauffeur, whoever
it was, said it was a matter

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of life and death.

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Well, yes, yes, indeed.

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That's the way it
was broached to me.

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I was ha ving my dinner

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and my wife Mary went
to answer the door,

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and when she came back,

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she had such a strange
expression on her face.

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Ah, Mr. Hughes,
you've never ceased

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to be a bit on the wordy
side, now, have you?

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It's odd, really, how changeless
we remain over the years.

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But I suppose certain
lifetime habits

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are not easily put aside.

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Paul, perhaps you'd be
good enough to tell us

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why we've been
asked to come here.

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I'd be delighted to.

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But first, can I
get you something?

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A highball, perhaps,

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or a cup of coffee?

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Reverend, how do you
take your coffee?

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Habits, Mrs. Langsford...

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The incredible
persistence of habits.

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You call me Paul, as
if I were still sitting

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in the front row in
your classroom. [Chuckles]

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But what about you,
Mrs. Langsford?

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A nice cup of tea?

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Thank you, no.

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Oh?

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How about you, colonel?
A tot of rum?

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I would apprecia te

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if you made your
point and let us leave.

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You've obviously called
us here for something

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and I would welcome
hearing whatever it is.

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How staunchly military, colonel.

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Drive, drive, drive!

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Get up against that
objective and wipe it out.

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Red flag in the map

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and troops out of the sun.

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The nerves of steel
and a concrete head.

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That will be all, radin!

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Colonel, you are
no longer in command.

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I'm in command here

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and what I command
is your attention.

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I called you three here

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for a very specific purpose.

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I want to settle
three old scores

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but will do it in chronology.

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My dear old
schoolmarm shall begin.

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That staunch
and intrepid educator

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that looks so out of place

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without her severe specta cles

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co ver/ng severe eyes

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looking out of a severe face

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and possess/ng

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that vast prerogative that comes

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from the school board,
and the vast courage

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that comes with pitting all her
wits and instinct and knowledge

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against captive children.

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Are you finished, Paul?

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My dear schoolmarm,
I've hardly begun.

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Well, then, may I make
an observation?

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Justa comment

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on how incredible
th/s whole thing ls

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that a man like you, a
millionaire three times over,

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an important man who walks
with kings and heads of state

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and industrial tycoons...

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That sucha man should
ha vea mind so tiny

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tha t it could brood

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over a high school
incident of 20 years ago

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and let it fester inside you
as you seem to have done.

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I have never liked humiliation,

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whether it happened 20 years
ago or in the past ten minutes.

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Humiliation?

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All right, Paul, let's
talk about humiliation.

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Let's talk
about your humiliation.

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Mr. Radin was caught

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cheating in an examination.

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Nota crime, of course,

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but perhaps a bit indicative
of the character

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of the person who does it.

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And when he was accused
of this act,

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this cocoon,
soon to become tycoon,

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tried to plant his crib sheets
on an innocent student.

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How right you are,

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Mr. Radin, tha t I stood
you up on your feet

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and in front of the entire class

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I told you exactly
what you were.

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But no room was there
then, Mrs. Langsford,

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for a moment of compassion,

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for an iota of sympathy

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for a poor, frightened,
desperate boy.

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Mr. Radin, I've dealt

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with frightened and desperate
children all my life.

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And it may surprise you to know

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tha t I've lent them
more of s ympa thy

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and of compass/on

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than I have lent
them of knowledge.

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But neither sympathy nor
compassion can be handed out

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wholesale, like
cheap bubble gum.

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The recipient
must be worthy of them

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and you never were.

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You werea devious,
dishonest troublemaker.

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And in spite
of all your millions,

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it's my guess
you are still devious,

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you are still dishonest.

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And I've no doubt, even now,

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you're a troubl emaker.

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You haven't changed,
Mrs. Langsford.

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(Hughes) Mr. Rad/n, ob v/ousl
y many years ha ve passed

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between now and the time you
felt you'd suffered indignities

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at our hands,
but what's to be gained by...

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(Rad/n) A grea t
deal can be gained,

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a very great deal.

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You, for example, accused me
of a lack of character,

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put a scandal over my head,
destroyed my reputation.

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Yes, I remember.

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A girl, Mr. Radin,
a girl you drove to suicide.

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Because even
a t tha t Earl y stage

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you were not a man who held
honor in very high regard.

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[Suspense music] You can
go to the devil, reverend!

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Radin!

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And you, too, colonel.

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Tonight, my friends,

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you will all go to the devil,

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and that/s not
a figure of speech!

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(Rad/n) Do you know why/
buil t this room down here?

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Those walls are 18 inches
concrete w/th reinforced steel.

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And around them,
six inches of lead.

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I ha ve my own genera Tor
system, my own air system.

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Yes, and out there,
beyond tha t door,

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a storeroom the size
of a warehouse.

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You understand
logistics, colonel.

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Does it occur to you
why I should have gone

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to all this trouble and expense?

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[Suspense music]

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To begin a vigil, my friends.

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The long wait and the countdown.

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Yes. I have walked
with kings and tycoons,

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as you perceive, Mrs. Langsford.

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I have walked with them,
and I have listened to them.

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I keep abreast of the times,
and usually well ahead of them.

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I know things
that are going to happen.

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I pay for the service.

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48 hours ago

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I received a most
interesting bit of news,

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something that
perhaps only six men

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in the world know of.

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The world is coming
to an end this evening,

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ladies and gentlemen.

258
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At 11:45, there will be no
more city, no more country.

259
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At 30 minutes after midnight,
there will be no more world.

260
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They are going to bomb us,

261
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and we are going to bomb them.

262
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By dawn, there will be nothing
left but rubble and bodies.

263
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And ina few moments
it will all begin.

264
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You'll be hearing
sirens very shortly.

265
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That's the red alert.

266
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That means their
missiles are on their way.

267
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Ours will follow soon after.

268
00:13:03,574 --> 00:13:07,203
And you are to
survive, Mr. Radin?

269
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Is that the idea?

270
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I am to survive, Mr. Hughes.

271
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I am 300 feet underground.

272
00:13:13,584 --> 00:13:16,045
And what about you, reverend?

273
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Do you wish to survive?

274
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Do the rest of you
wish to survive?

275
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Or am I to be
the only pallbearer?

276
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[High-pitched tone]

277
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(Man over speakers) This is your
civil defense announcer.

278
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Repea ting. The air defense
command has just declared

279
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a take-co ver signal.

280
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This is nota practice
warning, nota drill.

281
00:13:49,329 --> 00:13:53,416
Anattack byenemy forces
is expected atany moment.

282
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You must seek the nearest
shel ter immedia tel y.

283
00:13:56,961 --> 00:13:58,796
If you are in your home,

284
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go to your prepared shel ter
or to the basement.

285
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If you ha ve no shel ter
or basement,

286
00:14:03,801 --> 00:14:06,429
go toward the center of
the house, to the first room

287
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or hall that will put
as many walls

288
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as possible between you
and the outside of the house.

289
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Take your rad/o with you.

290
00:14:14,645 --> 00:14:17,565
If you are in any other type
of building, go to the basement

291
00:14:17,648 --> 00:14:20,693
or lowest floor and getas
close to the center of the building

292
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as possible.

293
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(Announcer) ...Your shel ter
until told it is safe to do so.

294
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This is nota test.

295
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This is a real take-co ver...
[Broadcast sz'ops]

296
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Comments?

297
00:14:44,342 --> 00:14:47,053
Perhaps a little military
sophistry now, colonel.

298
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A quote from general Grant.

299
00:14:48,596 --> 00:14:50,056
Or you, reverend,

300
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something enriching
from the gospel.

301
00:14:53,643 --> 00:14:55,436
Such silence, Mrs. Langsford?

302
00:14:55,520 --> 00:14:57,397
Nothing in that vast repertoire,

303
00:14:57,480 --> 00:14:59,524
that pilgrim's progress
mind of yours,

304
00:14:59,607 --> 00:15:01,234
to handle the situa tion?

305
00:15:01,317 --> 00:15:03,694
A mental eraser
to wipe out reality?

306
00:15:03,778 --> 00:15:05,405
I've got to get to my wife.

307
00:15:05,488 --> 00:15:07,573
By all means, reverend,
get to your wife.

308
00:15:07,657 --> 00:15:11,285
Hold hands and die together.

309
00:15:11,369 --> 00:15:14,122
You turn my stomach, Mr. Hughes.

310
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"Get to your wife."

311
00:15:15,623 --> 00:15:17,583
That's not what's on your mind.

312
00:15:17,667 --> 00:15:21,462
What's on your mind is
what's on the colonel's mind

313
00:15:21,546 --> 00:15:23,131
and the schoolmarm's mind.

314
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Your precious hide,
your sanctified flesh.

315
00:15:25,550 --> 00:15:27,718
That's what preoccupies
you at the moment.

316
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If I'm to die tonight

317
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I want to be
with someone I love.

318
00:15:31,222 --> 00:15:34,517
"Somebody I love..."
How theatrical! Ha!

319
00:15:34,600 --> 00:15:36,811
But more burlesque
than legitimate.

320
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Have the decency, reverend,
to depart this earth

321
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with just a fragment of
the truth in your mouth.

322
00:15:41,983 --> 00:15:43,985
Tell me to my face
that you're so scared,

323
00:15:44,068 --> 00:15:45,570
so miserably frightened,

324
00:15:45,653 --> 00:15:47,530
that you'd sell
your wife by the pound

325
00:15:47,613 --> 00:15:49,449
if it meant your own survival.

326
00:15:49,532 --> 00:15:52,243
If those were the last
words I spoke before I died,

327
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they would also be
the worst falsehood

328
00:15:54,620 --> 00:15:56,831
I ever uttered on earth.

329
00:15:56,914 --> 00:15:58,624
Now, will you open this door?

330
00:15:58,666 --> 00:16:01,461
Will you let me leave now?

331
00:16:05,298 --> 00:16:06,549
[Sirens blaring]

332
00:16:21,731 --> 00:16:23,149
How did you know, radin?

333
00:16:23,232 --> 00:16:25,026
How could you
possibly have known?

334
00:16:25,109 --> 00:16:26,652
What difference does it make,

335
00:16:26,694 --> 00:16:28,571
if he'll let us leave now

336
00:16:28,654 --> 00:16:31,157
perhaps we can reach our
homes before it happens.

337
00:16:31,240 --> 00:16:32,950
Shall we drop the pretenses now?

338
00:16:33,034 --> 00:16:34,994
Shall we, all of us now,
tell the truth?

339
00:16:35,077 --> 00:16:37,205
I told you how th/s
room was constructed...

340
00:16:37,288 --> 00:16:39,207
Steel, concrete and lead.

341
00:16:39,290 --> 00:16:42,418
It may be the only place on
earth where you can survive.

342
00:16:42,502 --> 00:16:45,505
Now, what is this nonsense
about going back to your homes?

343
00:16:45,588 --> 00:16:48,424
Do you mean to say that you
would walk out of here and die

344
00:16:48,508 --> 00:16:52,762
when by simply sitting
here you could live?

345
00:16:52,845 --> 00:16:54,847
Are we to understand, Mr. Radin,

346
00:16:54,931 --> 00:16:57,266
that you will permit
us this luxury?

347
00:16:57,350 --> 00:16:59,393
You will allow us to stay?

348
00:16:59,477 --> 00:17:01,687
Of course, colonel.
As a matter of fact,

349
00:17:01,771 --> 00:17:04,106
it's precisely why
I've asked you to come.

350
00:17:04,190 --> 00:17:06,609
Each of you in his own
way has tried to destroy me.

351
00:17:06,692 --> 00:17:08,569
But I'll not repay
the compliment.

352
00:17:08,653 --> 00:17:11,155
That is to say, I will not
require an eye for an eye,

353
00:17:11,239 --> 00:17:13,324
nothing as primitive
or as naked as that.

354
00:17:13,407 --> 00:17:15,952
What is your price, Mr. Radin?

355
00:17:16,035 --> 00:17:17,954
I'd be interested.
[Suspense music]

356
00:17:18,037 --> 00:17:20,540
The colonel would be interested.

357
00:17:20,623 --> 00:17:22,750
I presume the reverend
and the schoolmarm

358
00:17:22,833 --> 00:17:25,044
would be interested.

359
00:17:25,127 --> 00:17:26,963
I submit, dear friends,

360
00:17:27,046 --> 00:17:28,798
you're not just interested.

361
00:17:28,881 --> 00:17:31,384
It's probably the only
thing in god's earth

362
00:17:31,467 --> 00:17:33,219
that has any meaning
left at all.

363
00:17:33,302 --> 00:17:36,973
But the price, colonel,

364
00:17:37,056 --> 00:17:38,599
you will beg my pardon,

365
00:17:38,683 --> 00:17:40,518
you will ask my forgiveness,

366
00:17:40,601 --> 00:17:43,229
and, if need be, will get
down on your hands and knees

367
00:17:43,271 --> 00:17:44,689
to perform the function.

368
00:17:44,772 --> 00:17:46,983
"Pretty please
with sugar on it."

369
00:17:47,066 --> 00:17:48,776
How's that? Speak up, teacher.

370
00:17:48,859 --> 00:17:51,612
"Pretty please
with sugar on it."

371
00:17:51,696 --> 00:17:55,616
It's what children say
to exact a favor.

372
00:17:55,700 --> 00:17:58,869
I don't want your
favor, Mr. Radin!

373
00:17:58,953 --> 00:18:00,580
Let me out of here!

374
00:18:00,663 --> 00:18:03,457
If I'm to spend my last
quarter hour on earth

375
00:18:03,541 --> 00:18:06,252
I'd rather spend it
with a stray cat

376
00:18:06,335 --> 00:18:08,713
or alone in central park

377
00:18:08,796 --> 00:18:10,798
or in a city full of strangers

378
00:18:10,881 --> 00:18:13,259
whose names I'll never know.

379
00:18:13,342 --> 00:18:15,386
(Hughes) The door, ra din.

380
00:18:15,469 --> 00:18:17,680
Will you open the door now?

381
00:18:17,763 --> 00:18:21,434
(Hawthorne) Open up, rad/n.

382
00:18:21,475 --> 00:18:23,019
[Suspense music]

383
00:18:23,102 --> 00:18:25,062
You're too blind
or you're too stupid,

384
00:18:25,146 --> 00:18:27,148
because none of you
seem to understand.

385
00:18:27,231 --> 00:18:29,108
All you have to do...

386
00:18:29,191 --> 00:18:32,486
Literally, all you have
to do... is to say a sentence.

387
00:18:32,570 --> 00:18:34,905
Just a string
of silly, stupid words.

388
00:18:34,989 --> 00:18:36,282
Like a command, colonel,

389
00:18:36,365 --> 00:18:38,784
or like a lesson, teacher,

390
00:18:38,868 --> 00:18:42,580
or like a prayer, reverend.

391
00:18:42,663 --> 00:18:45,791
All you have to say
is you're sorry.

392
00:18:54,800 --> 00:18:58,387
All right,
you want to die, fine.

393
00:18:58,471 --> 00:19:01,432
But you'll be back
inside five minutes.

394
00:19:06,395 --> 00:19:08,314
There's the elevator! Take it!

395
00:19:08,397 --> 00:19:10,149
Take the farce
to its conclusion.

396
00:19:10,232 --> 00:19:12,151
Go up into the street
and see the panic

397
00:19:12,234 --> 00:19:13,819
and the frenzy and the horror.

398
00:19:13,903 --> 00:19:15,529
And come back to your salvation.

399
00:19:15,613 --> 00:19:17,615
Or watch it all down
here on that screen.

400
00:19:17,698 --> 00:19:19,992
You can see it all
happen, the whole thing.

401
00:19:20,076 --> 00:19:22,328
Watch the world being
sho veled into a gra ve.

402
00:19:30,378 --> 00:19:32,338
It's your last chance.

403
00:19:32,421 --> 00:19:37,051
It's your last chance,
I mean it.

404
00:19:37,134 --> 00:19:40,012
Tell me, reverend, is
life so stinking cheap

405
00:19:40,096 --> 00:19:41,931
that you can throw
it down a drain?

406
00:19:42,014 --> 00:19:46,811
Life is very dear, Mr. Radin,
infinitely valuable.

407
00:19:46,894 --> 00:19:49,689
But there are other things
that come even higher.

408
00:19:49,772 --> 00:19:51,565
Honor is one of them...

409
00:19:51,649 --> 00:19:53,693
Perhaps the most
expensive of them all.

410
00:19:53,776 --> 00:19:55,778
Amen.

411
00:19:55,861 --> 00:19:58,322
(Langsford) Try not
to get too lonel y.

412
00:19:58,406 --> 00:19:59,907
Use mirrors. They ma y help.

413
00:19:59,990 --> 00:20:02,159
Put them all around the room.

414
00:20:02,243 --> 00:20:05,037
Then you'll have the company
of a world full of rad/ns.

415
00:20:05,079 --> 00:20:06,872
It'll bea fantasy, of course,

416
00:20:06,956 --> 00:20:09,208
but then your whole life
has beena fantasy,

417
00:20:09,250 --> 00:20:10,918
a parade of illusions...

418
00:20:11,001 --> 00:20:13,337
Illusions about what
people have done to you,

419
00:20:13,421 --> 00:20:15,214
illusions about what justice is,

420
00:20:15,297 --> 00:20:17,341
illusions about
what is the dignity

421
00:20:17,425 --> 00:20:19,593
of even the lowest of us.

422
00:20:19,677 --> 00:20:21,554
A fantas y, Mr. Radin,

423
00:20:21,637 --> 00:20:23,639
and now you can have
itall to yourself.

424
00:20:28,894 --> 00:20:32,273
No, it's not true,
it's not a fantasy.

425
00:20:32,356 --> 00:20:34,900
No, it's not a fantasy!

426
00:20:34,984 --> 00:20:38,904
[Sirens blaring]

427
00:20:38,988 --> 00:20:41,866
[O ver speakers] This is your
civil defense announcer.

428
00:20:41,949 --> 00:20:45,494
Our militaryauthorities ha ve
just ordered a take-cover alert.

429
00:20:45,578 --> 00:20:48,164
A tta ck b y enemy forces
is imminent.

430
00:20:48,247 --> 00:20:50,750
Take cover immedia tel y.

431
00:20:50,833 --> 00:20:54,086
If you are in your car driving
a way from your city, continue.

432
00:20:54,170 --> 00:20:55,254
Keep on driving.

433
00:20:55,337 --> 00:20:56,964
Do not stop.

434
00:20:57,047 --> 00:20:59,008
When movement
is no longer possible,

435
00:20:59,091 --> 00:21:00,760
seek the best a vailable refuge.

436
00:21:00,801 --> 00:21:02,261
That's enough!

437
00:21:02,344 --> 00:21:03,804
If you are outdoors on foot,

438
00:21:03,888 --> 00:21:05,389
hurry to the nearest shel ter,

439
00:21:05,473 --> 00:21:06,766
[sirens continue]

440
00:21:11,312 --> 00:21:14,648
[Explosion]

441
00:21:17,109 --> 00:21:18,986
That's quite enough!

442
00:21:22,114 --> 00:21:23,949
[Sirens stop]

443
00:21:32,958 --> 00:21:35,294
[Suspense music]

444
00:21:59,193 --> 00:22:00,986
[Whimpering]

445
00:22:03,614 --> 00:22:05,658
[Tragic music]

446
00:22:32,643 --> 00:22:35,229
[Sobbing]

447
00:22:38,816 --> 00:22:39,942
[Sobbing continues]

448
00:22:40,025 --> 00:22:41,610
[Car horn honking]

449
00:22:41,694 --> 00:22:45,281
[Wailing]

450
00:22:45,364 --> 00:22:47,908
Anybody?

451
00:22:47,992 --> 00:22:49,952
Somebody.

452
00:22:50,035 --> 00:22:51,912
Please.

453
00:22:51,996 --> 00:22:53,539
Somebody...

454
00:22:53,622 --> 00:22:55,708
(Man) Hey, ma c, ma c.

455
00:22:55,791 --> 00:22:58,043
Had a little bit too much?

456
00:22:58,127 --> 00:22:59,712
Hey, Mac.

457
00:22:59,795 --> 00:23:02,047
I didn't want it this way.

458
00:23:02,131 --> 00:23:03,465
Let me take you home, Mac.

459
00:23:03,549 --> 00:23:05,217
I didn't want it this way.

460
00:23:05,301 --> 00:23:07,219
No, somebody, please.

461
00:23:07,303 --> 00:23:10,890
Anybody, won't
somebody listen to me?

462
00:23:10,973 --> 00:23:13,559
[Sobbing]

463
00:23:13,642 --> 00:23:15,728
[Clamoring voices]

464
00:23:15,811 --> 00:23:20,149
(Policeman) Go on now, move
along. Move along, please.

465
00:23:20,232 --> 00:23:22,026
Move along, please!

466
00:23:22,109 --> 00:23:24,778
Please, move along,
please, please. It's okay now,

467
00:23:24,862 --> 00:23:27,072
we're gonna help you.

468
00:23:27,156 --> 00:23:29,283
Isn't there anybody left?

469
00:23:29,366 --> 00:23:30,784
Nobody?

470
00:23:30,868 --> 00:23:32,328
You're gonna be all right.

471
00:23:32,411 --> 00:23:33,787
Nobody!

472
00:23:33,871 --> 00:23:35,039
Now, go on, break it up.

473
00:23:35,122 --> 00:23:36,248
Go on, go on.

474
00:23:36,332 --> 00:23:38,000
Nobody.

475
00:23:38,083 --> 00:23:40,127
[Suspense music] N o b o dy...

476
00:23:40,210 --> 00:23:42,922
Oh, god.

477
00:23:43,005 --> 00:23:45,549
God.

478
00:23:49,678 --> 00:23:53,015
(Narrator) Mr. Pa ul ra
din, a dealer in fantasy

479
00:23:53,098 --> 00:23:55,267
who s/ts in the rubble
of his own making

480
00:23:55,309 --> 00:23:57,686
and ima gines tha t he's
the last man on earth,

481
00:23:57,770 --> 00:24:00,814
doomed to a perdition
of unutterable loneliness

482
00:24:00,898 --> 00:24:03,734
becausea practical joke
has turned into a nightmare.

483
00:24:03,817 --> 00:24:06,654
Mr. Paul radin,
pallbearer a ta funeral

484
00:24:06,737 --> 00:24:11,200
tha t he manufactured himself
in the twilight zone.

485
00:24:13,869 --> 00:24:16,789
(Announcer) Rod serl/ng,
creator of the twilight zone,

486
00:24:16,872 --> 00:24:19,124
will tell you
about next week's story

487
00:24:19,208 --> 00:24:20,334
after th/s message.

488
00:24:22,169 --> 00:24:24,213
And now, Mr. Serling.

489
00:24:24,296 --> 00:24:27,383
Next week, through the good
offices of Mr. Charles beaumont,

490
00:24:27,466 --> 00:24:29,718
we take a walk
in some dead man's shoes.

491
00:24:29,802 --> 00:24:32,262
It's the story of a hobo
who takes some shoes

492
00:24:32,346 --> 00:24:35,099
off a recently-deceased
hoodlum, and then discovers

493
00:24:35,182 --> 00:24:37,267
that if the shoe fits,
you have to wear it.

494
00:24:37,351 --> 00:24:39,144
You have to do as the shoes do...

495
00:24:39,228 --> 00:24:41,397
Go where they tell you to
and then perform

496
00:24:41,480 --> 00:24:43,607
some services above
and beyond the norm.

497
00:24:43,691 --> 00:24:46,694
I hope we see you next week
for "dead man's shoes."

498
00:25:17,057 --> 00:25:20,519
(Announcer) Sea t bel ts can
reduce serious injury b y one-third.

499
00:25:20,561 --> 00:25:24,565
Does your fam/I y have
the security of sea t bel ts?