All language subtitles for the_ray_bradbury_s02e06_the_small_assassin

People ask, where do you get your ideas?

Well, right here.

Oh, this is my Martian landscape.

Somewhere in this room is an African
belt.

Just beyond, perhaps, is a small
Illinois town where I grew up. And I'm

surrounded on every side by my
magician's toy shop.

I'll never starve here.

I just look around, find what I need,
and begin.

I'm Ray Bradbury, and this is...

Well then, right now, what shall it

be?

Out of all this, what do I choose to
make a story?

I never know where the next one will
take me.

And the trip?

Exactly one half exhilaration, exactly
one half terror.

That's preface section.

It's a wanted child.

What do you mean? Yes.

Yes, as you say.

Alice wanted it too.

It's once upon a time.

Maybe.

It's hardly now.

But she'll... She'll get used to it.

Tell me, is that enough?

I'll love our son to start with.

And Alice will catch up.

Yes.

All right, but she will need help. It
was a near thing.

What do you mean?

I didn't want to worry you, but now
Alice is safe.

It was a very hard birth.

We almost lost her.

What have we got here, then?

What indeed?

Oh, look.

He's beautiful.

Is he?

Doctor?

You're terrific.

Just happened to be passing by.

Special delivery.

Thank you.

You two been introduced?

Baby, mother, mother, baby.

Give me a call later, David, will you?

Here we are.

Good on what man to do the cooking, eh?

I'll have dinner with Mum and Dad
tonight.

Won't it be too hot in that one here?

What do you think?

What's he doing here?

What do you mean, what's he doing here?

He likes company, doesn't he?

He's a good boy.

Hello.

What's the deliberation?

I'm alive.

Well, I'll drink to that.

cheers no champagne for you you know

What's wrong?

Him.

Him.

All day.

All day what?

He never cries when you're here, so you
don't know, but as soon as you walk out

the door, the minute you're gone, he
screams, he shrieks, he yells, and

as soon as you come in, the minute the
door opens,

How? Oh, I'm awful.

I've said it all in front of him, and
look.

Come on, son.

Your mother needs a little rest.

Here's the silent.

I wish we could start all over again.

Be like we once were, just the two of
us.

I love you.

Does your love protect me?

It's what love's about, isn't it?

my baby love me.

Well, you better.

Look, it takes time.

Say there isn't enough time.

Say there isn't time for the child to
learn.

Well, then you've got a little monster
on your hands, haven't you?

to kill me at the bath.

Keeps me awake. Keeps me weak.

And I was there listening to us talking.

I think you'd go with it. He tried to
kill me again.

I swear it.

And I'm not being paranoid.

This business trip tomorrow, perhaps I
should postpone.

You must go.

It's important.

It's only one night after all.

It's a natural recognition of this new
position of strength in an area of

exciting commercial development that we
welcome David onto the board.

And we hope that what has happened in
his area will be echoed in our other

sectors. The company develops its
strength throughout the country, widened

financial base outside the metropolis.

Not that this means, Nigel, that we're
any the less concerned with our

traditional commitments in the South
East.

It's all right. I've given her something
to calm her down.

What happened?

Well, three o 'clock this morning, she
called.

She was going to kill the baby.

The baby had cried for three hours and
she'd gone over to his crib.

And she was going to pull the clothes up
over his face, press him down.

One night in the room.

Where is the baby?

Oh, I left him in the little room just
now.

Oh, he's fine. He's a fiddle.

The baby stopped crying, as babies do.

And then had his phone.

Don't worry, David.

I thought about it a bit, man.

I decided against it, because what she
really needs now most...

is home and you. So she'll sleep for a
little bit.

She'll be fine as soon as she knows that
you're here.

Thanks, Doctor.

Baby.

He knew I was weak from the hospital and
so he cried.

I know so much about him.

I have no love for him.

There never will be.

Huh?

Tommy, I checked the dead boats.

Tommy, wait.

Why's his face so red?

Alice. He hasn't been crying for so
long. He's covered with perspiration.

I'll get you some hot milk.

That

is

ridiculous.

Impossible and stupid.

Why impossible?

Because babies don't do things like
that. Maybe he's a genius.

A genius?

Good God, Ali.

The baby is three weeks old. Keep your
voice down. What, so that he can't hear?

I'll tell you something.

He's being moved to his own room today.

You're only three weeks old, see?

So your mother says you're not to keep
leaping in and out of your crib and

waltzing around the house at midnight.

And keep your junk toys off the stairs!

Do you remember being born?

No one remembers that.

I do.

That makes you a very unusual person.

I am.

I haven't told many people. They always
laugh.

But I remember.

The pressure, the being forced out, the
shock.

My crying, I hated it.

It was all so comfortable, so easy
before, and suddenly I was thrust out

the cold, out into the world.

I hated my mother for making me give up
all that warm, sleepy comfort.

For abandoning me.

It's a very peculiar way of putting it.

Babies don't hate their mothers. They
can't reason.

Exactly.

But they can feel, can't they?

Imagine that my genes, my chromosomes,
have been passed down to my baby.

Imagine that, like me, it's born fully
aware.

That is able to see, hear, feel from the
very moment of birth.

And imagine that baby feeling as I felt,
but more so. I mean, real resentment,

anger, a sort of rage at being born,
wanting to go back.

as a warm, dark comfort, but no forced
art and angry and saying to itself,

feeling to itself.

Who did this to me?

I tried not to be born.

I tried to destroy my mother in the very
act. It didn't work. Now I'm in the

world and I hate her.

Mrs. Lieber. Alice.

I'm sorry.

Alice.

And what if the baby is born not only
fully aware, but able to move,

crawl around the house, weeks,

months before most babies are able to
move or crawl?

It's impossible.

I wish I had your certainty.

And David, I wouldn't dream of telling
him.

So where does that leave me alone,
unprotected?

No one would believe if I said no one
would help.

But a baby... The smallest thing, you
mean.

I... Lovely child.

Forgive me for saying this, but... Do
you think that perhaps... A few days on

your own...

My sister has no children. She's
babysitting for us at the moment.

Well, she's always wanted a son.

Perhaps if she takes charge, our child
will change.

Alice, have you talked to David about
me?

I've decided.

From tomorrow, the baby can't stay with
me any longer.

Shouldn't you give it just a little more
thought?

You want to tell the baby?

Hello, darling.

It's me.

Look, I've just had a chat with Dr
Jeffers.

Why don't you make yourself a nice cup
of tea, go to bed and try and sleep.

I'll be back before you wake.

And what's more, before the baby does, I
think he's fast asleep.

Is he?

Good.

Love you. Bye.

And you.

Goodbye, darling.

I've no more appointments this
afternoon, so I'm off home.

Did the door blow shut so you couldn't
get back into the crib?

Oh, my God, what am I saying?

to bring you into the world.

See, baby?

Something bright, something pretty.