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(menacing music)

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[Voiceover] This is
a story not yet told.

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It begins on a warm
evening some years hence.

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When high on a mountaintop
in Southern California,

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a giant telescope searches the heavens

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for the secrets there contained.

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You can't see it with a naked eye.

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But, the Palomar shows it clearly.

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There's no question of
the change in altitude.

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Dr. Mitchell.

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- Hello, Chris.
- [Chris] Hello, Mitchell.

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Linda.
[Linda] Hello, Doctor.

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Sorry to have kept you waiting.

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They certainly tuck you in up here.

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They wouldn't even let
us into the viewing room.

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They've classified
the sky top secret now.

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Lewis.

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Ask Stella to develop these
as quickly as possible.

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Yes, sir.

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Oh, Boulting, this is
Chris Cronyn, Mrs. Cronyn.

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My assistant, Dr. Boulting.

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- Hello, how do you do?
- [Linda] How do you do?

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It's nice meeting you.

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Come in.

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I hope you don't mind my tagging along.

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Oh, not in the least.

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We're very happy to have you.

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May I take your coat?

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You know, I expected you to be older.

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You are the radioman.

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If you think of yourself as
they guy with the spy glass.

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I really walked right into that.

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I didn't mean it quite as it sounded.

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But, do you seriously believe that you've

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established contact with Mars?

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Well, you take pictures of it,

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why shouldn't I talk to it?

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- Boulting.
- [Boulting] Yes.

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There's no question they
have diminished in size.

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There's no knowing what
tonight's pictures may show.

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We may learn more about Mars
in the next few minutes.

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So, that's the baby in person?

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[Linda] It's so clear,
it's unbelievable.

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[Mitchell] This is the first picture.

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We took it a week ago tonight.

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See, here are the
indentations I told you about.

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They couldn't be plainer.

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And, all going from North to South.

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[Linda] What are they?

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[Chris] Canals, what else?

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Traversing the entire planet.

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[Linda] And, these big shadows?

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Here and here.

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Now you know how New York or Chicago

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would look if photographed from Mars.

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Now, look at those mountains at the pole.

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They must be as high as the Rockies.

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How do you tell they're mountains?

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They have to be.

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What else would throw such deep shadows?

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Dr. Mitchell, what puzzles me is that

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you've had the giant telescope for years.

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Why are you just getting
these pictures now?

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Mars's journey around the
sun is an elliptical curve.

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Let me show you.

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It's now at perihelion, about
35 million miles from Earth

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instead of the usual 63.

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What's this one?

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Same angle, same
exposure five nights ago.

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See any difference?

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Should I?

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Well, what've you got?

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I don't know, I can't believe it.

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Well.

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[Linda] The mountains are gone.

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And, the poles are level.

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You can't wipe out mountains taller

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than the Rockies in the space of a week.

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Boulting.

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Look at the canals.

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[Linda] They're different.

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Now, they reflect light like mirrors.

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Water reflects light.

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Well, so does any other.

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Are you saying you think
those pole formations are ice?

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And, that in a week, these Martians have

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melted ice caps thousands of feet high

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and use the water to irrigate the planet?

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Isn't that what the picture says?

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But, that's impossible.

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There's no way to.

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Oh, there has to be.

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Why they've done it.

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If we could just once ask them how.

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I thought you'd already
established contact.

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Oh, it's Mars I'm getting
my signal from right enough

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but how do I give that signal meaning?

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How do I find a means of communication?

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Come on, Lin, let's get going.

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There's still time to send a signal.

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You're going to broadcast tonight?

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After seeing these,

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what do you think?

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One man who takes pictures.

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Another who believes he can
talk over 35 million miles.

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It's like having a grand stand seat

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for the creation of the world.

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Or, it's death.

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(mellow music)

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Where you going, Lin?

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I just wanna have a
look at the kids first.

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Everything looks peaceful.

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(knocking)

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Hi, son.

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Well, we'll be over at the lab.

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Don't stay up too late.

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Chris.

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Don't send a message tonight.

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What's got into you, Linda?

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Ever since you saw those
pictures, you've been...

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Fear, Chris.

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Always eating fear.

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The whole world's scared.

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Why shouldn't I be?

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Every woman in the world,
we all live in fear,

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it's become our natural state.

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Fear our sons will have
to fight another war.

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Or, fear they'll face worse.

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We've lived on the edge of
a volcano all our lives.

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One day, it has to boil over.

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Me talking to Mars won't
affect this dubious, Lin.

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(whistling)

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Chris.

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How can you be so sure?

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Don't you understand?

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Science has made the
volcano we're sitting on.

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Nobel invented dynamite
to ease man's life.

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It's eased a good many into annihilation.

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Einstein split the atom to create energy.

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Is terror energy?

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Well, that's rubbish, Lin.

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Scientifically, we've advanced further in

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the past 60 years than we
have in the previous 2,000.

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Radio, television, automobile, airplane,

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atomic fission, jet propulsion.

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And then, now, well you...

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You saw those pictures tonight

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and heard what Mitchell said.

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If we can once talk to Mars,

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we may be talking to
brains as far ahead of ours

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as ours are ahead of monkeys.

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In one moment, we may be able to

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leap ahead another 2,000 years.

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And, you'll have done it.

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You'll be the next to advance science

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and maybe us.

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Right into oblivion!

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Linda.

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I'm sorry, Chris.

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But, when I saw those pictures tonight,

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it all seemed too eminent.

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Well, sure it's eminent.

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It's what we worked for, isn't it?

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Why we built this lab.

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Assembled the transmitter.

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That's why we've worked
together all these years.

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They've been good years, Chris.

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Well, they've been great years.

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What do you want me to do now?

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Get a crummy research job in some plant?

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Maybe in 20 years, get a paper published

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in some scientific magazine?

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Now, when we're on the
verge of accomplishing

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everything we've worked for?

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Alright, Chris.

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I'm ready.

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What do I say that...

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That if I thought anything would boomerang

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against you or the kids,
I'd blow up the whole works.

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You know that.

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But, it can't hurt anyone.

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Whatever's been done,
we've done together, Linda.

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Well,

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I don't believe harm
can come from anything

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those hands have had
a part in, that's all.

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Alright, Chris, let's go.

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Who am I to stand in the way of science?

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(suspenseful music)

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Turn it on.

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(humming)

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(clicking)

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(exciting music)

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(foreboding music)

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What do you want?

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How did you get here?

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How did you track me down?

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Get out!

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(clanking)

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Stop acting like a fool.

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Get out of here!

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I told you not to follow me.

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You were supposed to keep in
touch with me by short wave.

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The seal isn't even broken.

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I had nothing to report.

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What are you doing here?

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Answer me.

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You said you would
establish contact with Mars.

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That was your commitment.

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I'm trying.

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We are not paying
you to try, Mr. Calder.

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We expect results.

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And, you might have had results.

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If you had done as I asked.

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Conduct your experiments
at our laboratories

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at the Rasovo.

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Where we could have supplied
you with skilled assistance.

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Instead of which you buried
yourself here in the Andes.

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Alone, no one to assist you.

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You mean, no one to watch over me.

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Thank you.

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I've had one taste of jail.

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I don't know why you complain.

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We extricated you, we helped you.

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We want scientists of
your caliber, Mr. Calder.

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We treat them well when they serve us.

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Serve?

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Are you talking to me?

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I don't owe you anything.

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You owe us your freedom.

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It was the Americans
who threw you into jail

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and our men who helped you to escape.

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Not to mention, all this
equipment which you have piled up.

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This was an investment.

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Now we demand an accounting.

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I'm not a bookkeeper.

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We don't make investments
with no returns.

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You know our policy.

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Are you trying to frighten me?

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We had an agreement.

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And, it's my responsibility
to see that it is carried out.

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You're threatening me
with extermination, huh?

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Is that the policy you refer to?

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You find the idea amusing?

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Highly.

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You won't harm me, you need me.

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Think they have humbled me, huh?

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Bringing me, Franz Calder,

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to this.

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Cringing, hiding.

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Just another rat in his hole.

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But, all this won't last.

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A rat will come out and
then the world will listen.

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You want a report?

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I'll give you one.

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You can tell your masters
that I have failed

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in my experiments.

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I have not been able to
establish contact with Mars.

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Their money's been wasted.

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It is not a report they will appreciate.

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Still, they won't exterminate me.

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Of that I wouldn't be too sure of.

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Because you can also tell
them that the Americans,

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who stole my valve, have succeeded.

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They have established
contact with the red planet.

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Wait outside.

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Are you serious?

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Newspapers will tell
you as much in a few days.

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00:15:35,981 --> 00:15:37,339
It's not in the American character

269
00:15:37,339 --> 00:15:40,128
to keep silent about success.

270
00:15:40,128 --> 00:15:42,522
But, that's incredible
that they should actually...

271
00:15:42,522 --> 00:15:44,910
Why, you expected it from me.

272
00:15:44,910 --> 00:15:46,101
But, you said that your equipment

273
00:15:46,101 --> 00:15:47,540
was the best in the world.

274
00:15:47,540 --> 00:15:49,541
That no one could duplicate
your developments.

275
00:15:49,541 --> 00:15:51,969
I forgot the seven year
start the American had on me.

276
00:15:51,969 --> 00:15:53,671
Seven years while I was in jail.

277
00:15:53,671 --> 00:15:54,822
Seven years.

278
00:15:54,822 --> 00:15:57,239
Don't let start that again.

279
00:15:59,795 --> 00:16:01,621
What should I report?

280
00:16:01,621 --> 00:16:03,510
What can you report?

281
00:16:03,510 --> 00:16:05,524
That the Americans also want the secrets

282
00:16:05,524 --> 00:16:07,482
of a wiser civilization?

283
00:16:07,482 --> 00:16:11,149
So, that they can turn them
into new methods of destruction?

284
00:16:11,149 --> 00:16:13,399
How do you know all this?

285
00:16:14,477 --> 00:16:17,883
Because I'm the one other
person with a hydrogen valve.

286
00:16:17,883 --> 00:16:20,300
I, alone, can pick up their signals.

287
00:16:20,300 --> 00:16:22,056
And, their replies.

288
00:16:22,056 --> 00:16:25,025
Then you can give us the
questions they put to Mars?

289
00:16:25,025 --> 00:16:26,136
And, the answers they receive.

290
00:16:26,136 --> 00:16:27,982
Yes, exactly.

291
00:16:27,982 --> 00:16:31,527
And, that's why I can
laugh at your threats.

292
00:16:31,527 --> 00:16:32,663
Do you still want to kill me?

293
00:16:32,663 --> 00:16:34,200
Oh, don't talk like that.

294
00:16:34,200 --> 00:16:36,410
Nobody is threatening you.

295
00:16:36,410 --> 00:16:38,410
You're invaluable to us.

296
00:16:40,196 --> 00:16:43,271
It's not who gets the information first.

297
00:16:43,271 --> 00:16:45,771
But, who first puts it to use.

298
00:16:46,612 --> 00:16:48,195
Oh, my dear friend.

299
00:16:50,299 --> 00:16:54,299
You must let me send you
a less monotonous diet.

300
00:16:55,883 --> 00:16:58,716
My diet's already taken care of.

301
00:17:01,080 --> 00:17:04,371
I did not spend all
your money on equipment.

302
00:17:04,371 --> 00:17:07,204
Is there anything else you need?

303
00:17:08,724 --> 00:17:10,141
Yes, one thing.

304
00:17:13,458 --> 00:17:14,291
Let's drink to it.

305
00:17:14,291 --> 00:17:17,291
But, by all means, my dear fellow.

306
00:17:22,327 --> 00:17:23,244
What is it?

307
00:17:25,686 --> 00:17:27,738
Your absence.

308
00:17:27,738 --> 00:17:30,738
(suspenseful music)

309
00:17:40,831 --> 00:17:42,761
Thank you very much, comrade.

310
00:17:42,761 --> 00:17:46,344
Considerate of you,
leading us to his lair.

311
00:17:47,676 --> 00:17:49,267
Clever of you dragging him down

312
00:17:49,267 --> 00:17:51,833
all on the strength of a single phrase.

313
00:17:51,833 --> 00:17:54,080
He though himself so clever with his,

314
00:17:54,080 --> 00:17:56,838
"You can find me only
through finding Christ."

315
00:17:56,838 --> 00:17:59,088
(laughing)

316
00:18:02,168 --> 00:18:04,668
(baby crying)

317
00:18:07,353 --> 00:18:10,020
You dropped your bunny rabbit.

318
00:18:27,903 --> 00:18:29,071
What was that outburst?

319
00:18:29,071 --> 00:18:31,538
He woke up and couldn't find his rabbit.

320
00:18:31,538 --> 00:18:34,288
(pleasant music)

321
00:18:48,900 --> 00:18:49,852
Thanks.

322
00:18:49,852 --> 00:18:50,833
I guess I better get the...

323
00:18:50,833 --> 00:18:52,614
Here's your Caboma.

324
00:18:52,614 --> 00:18:54,962
Oh, how'd you know we'd need this?

325
00:18:54,962 --> 00:18:59,259
Did you two ever start
a project and not need it?

326
00:18:59,259 --> 00:19:00,678
She's pretty smart, huh?

327
00:19:00,678 --> 00:19:02,258
Hey, Mom, I got a TL for you.

328
00:19:02,258 --> 00:19:03,569
Yeah, I could use one.

329
00:19:03,569 --> 00:19:05,567
Remember when the parents
came to visit our class?

330
00:19:05,567 --> 00:19:08,038
One of my grimmest memories.

331
00:19:08,038 --> 00:19:09,218
All the fellas decided that you were

332
00:19:09,218 --> 00:19:11,205
the youngest looking mother there.

333
00:19:11,205 --> 00:19:12,103
Isn't that nice.

334
00:19:12,103 --> 00:19:14,122
Boy, you should've
seen those other crows.

335
00:19:14,122 --> 00:19:15,208
Oh, that did it.

336
00:19:15,208 --> 00:19:16,694
Now, clean away this mess and get...

337
00:19:16,694 --> 00:19:18,449
Started on your homework.

338
00:19:18,449 --> 00:19:19,282
Right.

339
00:19:19,282 --> 00:19:20,327
Gosh, I only got my math to do

340
00:19:20,327 --> 00:19:22,313
and you know I don't wanna fuss over that.

341
00:19:22,313 --> 00:19:24,393
Well, before you pin
any medals on yourself,

342
00:19:24,393 --> 00:19:26,193
an extra hour in history wouldn't hurt.

343
00:19:26,193 --> 00:19:28,114
At that, you're no genius.

344
00:19:28,114 --> 00:19:30,882
Well, you can't have everything.

345
00:19:30,882 --> 00:19:33,879
Oh, heavens, who's coming?

346
00:19:33,879 --> 00:19:35,116
Probably Mitchell to find out if Mars

347
00:19:35,116 --> 00:19:37,801
had anything intelligible to say.

348
00:19:37,801 --> 00:19:39,781
(buzzing)

349
00:19:39,781 --> 00:19:40,948
I'll get it.

350
00:19:45,774 --> 00:19:47,672
Is Mr. Cronyn in?

351
00:19:47,672 --> 00:19:48,846
I'm Cronyn.

352
00:19:48,846 --> 00:19:50,064
I'm Bill Carey.

353
00:19:50,064 --> 00:19:51,710
This is no time to barge
in on you like this

354
00:19:51,710 --> 00:19:54,018
but your reports didn't reach
my desk until this morning.

355
00:19:54,018 --> 00:19:55,025
I flew right out.

356
00:19:55,025 --> 00:19:56,808
My reports brought you out?

357
00:19:56,808 --> 00:19:58,243
Oh, we grasp at any straw to get out

358
00:19:58,243 --> 00:19:59,813
of Washington for 24 hours.

359
00:19:59,813 --> 00:20:01,162
- Please come in, Admiral.
- [Bill] Thank you.

360
00:20:01,162 --> 00:20:02,201
I'm Linda Cronyn.

361
00:20:02,201 --> 00:20:03,252
How do you do, Ms. Cronyn.

362
00:20:03,252 --> 00:20:05,992
Forgive the mess but all
major mechanical projects

363
00:20:05,992 --> 00:20:08,414
seem to get started in the living room.

364
00:20:08,414 --> 00:20:10,582
This is our son, Stewart.

365
00:20:10,582 --> 00:20:12,382
Hiya, fella.

366
00:20:12,382 --> 00:20:13,712
Sit down, Admiral.

367
00:20:13,712 --> 00:20:16,379
Get some more ice, will ya, son.

368
00:20:20,310 --> 00:20:21,697
Stewart.

369
00:20:21,697 --> 00:20:23,399
You will have a drink, won't ya?

370
00:20:23,399 --> 00:20:24,718
Well, at this hour, I can't claim

371
00:20:24,718 --> 00:20:26,846
the sun's not over the yardarm.

372
00:20:26,846 --> 00:20:29,710
Are you the Admiral Carey
who broke the Japanese code?

373
00:20:29,710 --> 00:20:31,216
My one claim to fame.

374
00:20:31,216 --> 00:20:33,623
But, confidentially, it
wasn't a very good code.

375
00:20:33,623 --> 00:20:35,623
[Linda] Come on, Stew.

376
00:20:39,186 --> 00:20:41,926
You don't know how glad I am to see you.

377
00:20:41,926 --> 00:20:44,358
We didn't know if you'd even
bother with our show here.

378
00:20:44,358 --> 00:20:45,986
Rose to it like a marlin.

379
00:20:45,986 --> 00:20:49,208
What beats me, if you are
getting messages from Mars,

380
00:20:49,208 --> 00:20:50,670
how have you kept it out of the paper?

381
00:20:50,670 --> 00:20:52,755
Oh, we're not getting
any messages, not yet.

382
00:20:52,755 --> 00:20:55,295
Darn close to it, if
your reports stand up.

383
00:20:55,295 --> 00:20:56,792
Oh, if we ever do get messages,

384
00:20:56,792 --> 00:20:59,495
understandable ones that
is, they'll be given out.

385
00:20:59,495 --> 00:21:02,749
Four years at Navy gave me
my belly full of hush hush.

386
00:21:02,749 --> 00:21:04,895
I can understand that.

387
00:21:04,895 --> 00:21:06,302
So far, all we're
getting are repetitions

388
00:21:06,302 --> 00:21:08,452
of our own signals coming back at us.

389
00:21:08,452 --> 00:21:09,880
And, all these answers you get.

390
00:21:09,880 --> 00:21:11,947
Please, sit down.

391
00:21:11,947 --> 00:21:13,927
These answers ya get,
couldn't they be your own

392
00:21:13,927 --> 00:21:16,667
signals bouncing off some
object in outer space?

393
00:21:16,667 --> 00:21:19,152
Some other planet booming back at ya?

394
00:21:19,152 --> 00:21:20,731
I'm no authority on electronics, but.

395
00:21:20,731 --> 00:21:21,669
I am.

396
00:21:21,669 --> 00:21:24,335
No, this is no bounce back.

397
00:21:24,335 --> 00:21:27,587
As I told you, we
transformed sound into light.

398
00:21:27,587 --> 00:21:31,258
And, the speed of light
is 186,000 miles a second.

399
00:21:31,258 --> 00:21:32,663
So, you divide the distance to Mars

400
00:21:32,663 --> 00:21:34,738
by the speed of light and
you get the length of time

401
00:21:34,738 --> 00:21:37,159
it takes our light wave to reach Mars.

402
00:21:37,159 --> 00:21:38,374
Double that and you get the time

403
00:21:38,374 --> 00:21:40,364
it takes our messages to come back.

404
00:21:40,364 --> 00:21:42,429
Now, that could all be mechanical.

405
00:21:42,429 --> 00:21:44,975
But, they don't come back in
that exact number of minutes.

406
00:21:44,975 --> 00:21:47,750
It never takes less time, always more.

407
00:21:47,750 --> 00:21:50,115
20 seconds, 40 seconds.

408
00:21:50,115 --> 00:21:51,882
Sometimes, as much as a minute and a half.

409
00:21:51,882 --> 00:21:55,603
Sometimes, like tonight for
instance, we get no answer.

410
00:21:55,603 --> 00:21:57,315
An echo will always sound.

411
00:21:57,315 --> 00:21:59,660
But, sometimes the human brain sleeps.

412
00:21:59,660 --> 00:22:01,725
But, why always the same signal back?

413
00:22:01,725 --> 00:22:03,791
Why never anything you can hang onto?

414
00:22:03,791 --> 00:22:05,907
Because I'm too stupid
to give them a lead.

415
00:22:05,907 --> 00:22:08,271
That's why I yelled for help.

416
00:22:08,271 --> 00:22:10,974
Well, this is not
picnic you've asked me on.

417
00:22:10,974 --> 00:22:13,992
You don't even know what
language they speak, if any.

418
00:22:13,992 --> 00:22:16,094
It's like working out a
system of communication

419
00:22:16,094 --> 00:22:17,833
with golliwogs.

420
00:22:17,833 --> 00:22:21,250
How the devil to find a point of contact.

421
00:22:22,784 --> 00:22:23,951
How bout pi?

422
00:22:25,473 --> 00:22:27,931
That's hardly the way to offer it, Stew.

423
00:22:27,931 --> 00:22:29,382
And, by the size of that slice,

424
00:22:29,382 --> 00:22:31,301
I'd doubt if there's anything left.

425
00:22:31,301 --> 00:22:32,611
I mean pi.

426
00:22:32,611 --> 00:22:33,928
[Chris] Now, what are you talking about?

427
00:22:33,928 --> 00:22:35,245
Well, if we're getting answers,

428
00:22:35,245 --> 00:22:37,949
they have to have a transmitter
as powerful as ours.

429
00:22:37,949 --> 00:22:39,238
Go on, what are you driving at?

430
00:22:39,238 --> 00:22:40,732
Well, they can't
build anything like that

431
00:22:40,732 --> 00:22:42,683
unless they know how to make a wheel.

432
00:22:42,683 --> 00:22:44,848
That means a circle.

433
00:22:44,848 --> 00:22:46,473
And, you can't make a
circle without knowing

434
00:22:46,473 --> 00:22:49,480
the ratio of the diameter
to the circumference, pi.

435
00:22:49,480 --> 00:22:51,400
I still don't understand
what that has to do with...

436
00:22:51,400 --> 00:22:53,459
Your sons ahead of you, Cronyn.

437
00:22:53,459 --> 00:22:54,481
What is pi?

438
00:22:54,481 --> 00:22:56,398
3.1416 as I remember.

439
00:22:57,620 --> 00:22:59,156
- Roughly.
- [Bill] That's it, roughly.

440
00:22:59,156 --> 00:23:02,461
Actually, it's 3.1415926 and so on.

441
00:23:02,461 --> 00:23:04,343
An infinite number of decimals.

442
00:23:04,343 --> 00:23:05,176
Well, so what?

443
00:23:05,176 --> 00:23:08,647
We broadcast 3.1416 to Mars
and what can they answer?

444
00:23:08,647 --> 00:23:10,595
Nothing, but they must be trying as hard

445
00:23:10,595 --> 00:23:12,498
to talk to you as you're
straining to talk to them.

446
00:23:12,498 --> 00:23:14,154
All they're looking for is an opening.

447
00:23:14,154 --> 00:23:14,987
So.

448
00:23:16,019 --> 00:23:18,186
You don't broadcast 31416.

449
00:23:19,048 --> 00:23:20,715
You broadcast 31415.

450
00:23:22,206 --> 00:23:24,393
And, if they understand,
they continue the equation.

451
00:23:24,393 --> 00:23:25,545
[Bill] Right.

452
00:23:25,545 --> 00:23:27,058
Hey, where'd you get that idea, son?

453
00:23:27,058 --> 00:23:28,729
Biting into this.

454
00:23:28,729 --> 00:23:29,581
Come on, let's get over to the lab

455
00:23:29,581 --> 00:23:31,829
and try it on right now.

456
00:23:31,829 --> 00:23:34,579
(exciting music)

457
00:23:36,977 --> 00:23:37,881
Aren't you coming?

458
00:23:37,881 --> 00:23:40,652
Oh, don't mind me, I'm just
a babysitter around here.

459
00:23:40,652 --> 00:23:42,316
If this comes off, I'll
wake you when we come in.

460
00:23:42,316 --> 00:23:45,516
What makes you think I'll be asleep?

461
00:23:45,516 --> 00:23:46,855
Three.

462
00:23:46,855 --> 00:23:48,272
One.

463
00:23:48,272 --> 00:23:49,786
Four.

464
00:23:49,786 --> 00:23:51,248
One.

465
00:23:51,248 --> 00:23:52,081
Five.

466
00:23:53,079 --> 00:23:54,415
Three.

467
00:23:54,415 --> 00:23:55,709
One.

468
00:23:55,709 --> 00:23:56,908
Four.

469
00:23:56,908 --> 00:23:58,106
One.

470
00:23:58,106 --> 00:23:58,939
Five.

471
00:23:59,790 --> 00:24:01,126
Three.

472
00:24:01,126 --> 00:24:02,257
One.

473
00:24:02,257 --> 00:24:03,597
Four.

474
00:24:03,597 --> 00:24:04,793
One.

475
00:24:04,793 --> 00:24:05,626
Five.

476
00:24:06,782 --> 00:24:07,782
Shut it off.

477
00:24:13,064 --> 00:24:15,396
What do we do now?

478
00:24:15,396 --> 00:24:19,146
The black waiting is
always the worst part.

479
00:24:20,490 --> 00:24:22,140
How long?

480
00:24:22,140 --> 00:24:24,168
For three minutes,
eight seconds each way.

481
00:24:24,168 --> 00:24:26,653
Six minutes, 16 seconds all tolled.

482
00:24:26,653 --> 00:24:29,852
Plus, the time it takes them
to answer, if they answer.

483
00:24:29,852 --> 00:24:31,074
You know, this is gonna be the longest

484
00:24:31,074 --> 00:24:34,828
six and a quarter minutes I ever spent.

485
00:24:34,828 --> 00:24:36,374
You light that pipe, Admiral,

486
00:24:36,374 --> 00:24:39,563
and if Chris's hydrogen
doesn't blow you up, he will.

487
00:24:39,563 --> 00:24:41,618
Always the danger of a leak
and no way of telling it.

488
00:24:41,618 --> 00:24:42,925
Hydrogen's odorless.

489
00:24:42,925 --> 00:24:45,696
I told you I was no
authority on electronics.

490
00:24:45,696 --> 00:24:47,290
What's the hydrogen for?

491
00:24:47,290 --> 00:24:49,480
Well, hydrogen sufficiently pressurized

492
00:24:49,480 --> 00:24:50,734
can be brought down to a temperature

493
00:24:50,734 --> 00:24:53,976
of about 451 degrees below zero.

494
00:24:53,976 --> 00:24:56,371
And, nobody knows why but the sound waves

495
00:24:56,371 --> 00:24:57,601
can be picked up at that temperature

496
00:24:57,601 --> 00:25:00,900
or it would be, otherwise,
completely inaudible.

497
00:25:00,900 --> 00:25:02,708
And now, certain minerals also have

498
00:25:02,708 --> 00:25:04,412
incredible acoustic properties.

499
00:25:04,412 --> 00:25:05,643
Quartz, for instance.

500
00:25:05,643 --> 00:25:07,276
That's what this valve is made of.

501
00:25:07,276 --> 00:25:09,979
And, we warp it with a
pressurized hydrogen.

502
00:25:09,979 --> 00:25:12,111
It gives us the energy
for a power transmission

503
00:25:12,111 --> 00:25:14,329
a thousand times greater
than any sound transmitter

504
00:25:14,329 --> 00:25:15,676
ever conceived.

505
00:25:15,676 --> 00:25:17,567
There it is.

506
00:25:17,567 --> 00:25:20,130
The red planet, Mars.

507
00:25:20,130 --> 00:25:23,547
For over 2,000 years, the symbol for war.

508
00:25:28,172 --> 00:25:30,471
And, we dare to fly in
the face of Providence

509
00:25:30,471 --> 00:25:33,568
and try to bring it closer to us.

510
00:25:33,568 --> 00:25:35,135
Sometimes, my wife is

511
00:25:35,135 --> 00:25:38,255
less than enthusiastic about this project.

512
00:25:38,255 --> 00:25:39,255
I'm sorry.

513
00:25:41,841 --> 00:25:44,841
Darling, if nothing happens tonight,

514
00:25:45,698 --> 00:25:47,865
don't be too disappointed.

515
00:25:49,476 --> 00:25:51,226
It's got to happen.

516
00:25:52,329 --> 00:25:54,329
It's just got to happen.

517
00:25:55,359 --> 00:25:56,923
We've waited so blasted long.

518
00:25:56,923 --> 00:25:59,215
I know but if it doesn't.

519
00:25:59,215 --> 00:26:01,751
Poor Linda with all her silly fears.

520
00:26:01,751 --> 00:26:03,284
And, you hope it doesn't happen really.

521
00:26:03,284 --> 00:26:04,648
You know what beats me.

522
00:26:04,648 --> 00:26:06,657
I just can't believe
that you people really

523
00:26:06,657 --> 00:26:08,331
assembled all this yourselves.

524
00:26:08,331 --> 00:26:10,140
Oh, we got a slight assist from.

525
00:26:10,140 --> 00:26:12,339
The Carnegie Foundation.

526
00:26:12,339 --> 00:26:13,647
You realize, if this comes off,

527
00:26:13,647 --> 00:26:15,176
by this time tomorrow, you'll be the most

528
00:26:15,176 --> 00:26:17,359
famous man in the world.

529
00:26:17,359 --> 00:26:19,614
Funny, none of the credit's mine.

530
00:26:19,614 --> 00:26:21,993
Actually, it all belongs
to a German scientist.

531
00:26:21,993 --> 00:26:24,760
A criminal, a brilliant criminal.

532
00:26:24,760 --> 00:26:26,273
With nothing but hate in his heart.

533
00:26:26,273 --> 00:26:27,311
What do you mean?

534
00:26:27,311 --> 00:26:30,080
Did you ever hear of Franz Calder?

535
00:26:30,080 --> 00:26:32,005
Calder? Calder?

536
00:26:32,005 --> 00:26:33,799
Do you remember the famous quotation,

537
00:26:33,799 --> 00:26:36,398
"The human being is the best guinea pig."

538
00:26:36,398 --> 00:26:38,667
High voltage experiments
on the human nervous system.

539
00:26:38,667 --> 00:26:39,824
A Nazi criminal.

540
00:26:39,824 --> 00:26:41,128
He invented the valve.

541
00:26:41,128 --> 00:26:43,069
I found the blueprints at Nuremberg.

542
00:26:43,069 --> 00:26:44,581
It's taken us all a year since then

543
00:26:44,581 --> 00:26:46,169
to build a transmitter capable

544
00:26:46,169 --> 00:26:48,350
of spanning the enormous distance.

545
00:26:48,350 --> 00:26:49,868
And, we've been broadcasting
for eight months.

546
00:26:49,868 --> 00:26:51,867
First, without success and now...

547
00:26:51,867 --> 00:26:53,004
The last three weeks.

548
00:26:53,004 --> 00:26:54,087
We've been getting answers.

549
00:26:54,087 --> 00:26:56,437
Well, you're not gonna give
Calder any of the credit.

550
00:26:56,437 --> 00:26:57,809
Why not? It's his valve.

551
00:26:57,809 --> 00:27:00,345
The devil's entitled to his due.

552
00:27:00,345 --> 00:27:01,845
Two minutes to go.

553
00:27:09,539 --> 00:27:10,944
I wonder what kind of a world

554
00:27:10,944 --> 00:27:13,428
we're opening the door on.

555
00:27:13,428 --> 00:27:15,029
You'd wonder even more if you saw

556
00:27:15,029 --> 00:27:17,732
the pictures of Mars
that we saw last night.

557
00:27:17,732 --> 00:27:19,596
Ice caps, thousands of feet high,

558
00:27:19,596 --> 00:27:21,854
melted away in a few days.

559
00:27:21,854 --> 00:27:25,349
Oh, those people must use
atomic power as we use water.

560
00:27:25,349 --> 00:27:27,678
If we had that power,
why, the largest liner

561
00:27:27,678 --> 00:27:29,470
would cross the ocean
on the energy contained

562
00:27:29,470 --> 00:27:31,137
in one lump of coal.

563
00:27:32,491 --> 00:27:33,868
Then, what would happen to the people

564
00:27:33,868 --> 00:27:36,140
who own and work coal mines?

565
00:27:36,140 --> 00:27:37,505
What happened to the people who owned

566
00:27:37,505 --> 00:27:39,828
or worked on canals when
the railroads started?

567
00:27:39,828 --> 00:27:43,995
Still, Mr. Calder, will have
had his effect on the world.

568
00:27:45,394 --> 00:27:47,568
[Bill] Wonder where he is now.

569
00:27:47,568 --> 00:27:50,642
Where are all good
scientists we don't hear of?

570
00:27:50,642 --> 00:27:53,050
In Russia, I suppose.

571
00:27:53,050 --> 00:27:54,633
10 seconds to go.

572
00:27:56,207 --> 00:27:59,457
Switch out the light, will ya, darling.

573
00:28:01,957 --> 00:28:04,124
(humming)

574
00:28:09,692 --> 00:28:10,525
Three.

575
00:28:12,671 --> 00:28:13,504
One.

576
00:28:16,283 --> 00:28:17,116
Four.

577
00:28:19,269 --> 00:28:20,102
One.

578
00:28:24,799 --> 00:28:25,632
Five.

579
00:28:28,257 --> 00:28:29,090
Three.

580
00:28:31,672 --> 00:28:32,505
One.

581
00:28:35,700 --> 00:28:36,533
Four.

582
00:28:38,820 --> 00:28:39,653
One.

583
00:28:42,956 --> 00:28:43,789
Five.

584
00:28:45,871 --> 00:28:46,704
Three.

585
00:28:49,246 --> 00:28:50,079
One.

586
00:28:53,550 --> 00:28:54,383
Four.

587
00:28:56,700 --> 00:28:57,533
One.

588
00:29:00,749 --> 00:29:01,711
Five.

589
00:29:01,711 --> 00:29:02,821
Our own signal back.

590
00:29:02,821 --> 00:29:05,030
The same blasted story.

591
00:29:05,030 --> 00:29:06,138
Chris, look!

592
00:29:06,138 --> 00:29:08,348
(suspenseful music)

593
00:29:08,348 --> 00:29:09,181
Nine.

594
00:29:11,334 --> 00:29:12,167
Two.

595
00:29:17,956 --> 00:29:18,920
Six.

596
00:29:18,920 --> 00:29:20,586
Linda, we've done it.

597
00:29:20,586 --> 00:29:23,336
Dear Lord, don't make us sorry.

598
00:29:29,915 --> 00:29:32,665
(exciting music)

599
00:29:35,631 --> 00:29:38,381
(people talking)

600
00:29:53,740 --> 00:29:56,490
(people talking)

601
00:30:14,046 --> 00:30:16,967
So far, Cronyn is sticking
to the establishment

602
00:30:16,967 --> 00:30:19,284
of mathematical and chemical formulas.

603
00:30:19,284 --> 00:30:20,735
Very ingenious.

604
00:30:20,735 --> 00:30:22,870
A way but to frame a few questions.

605
00:30:22,870 --> 00:30:25,072
[Argenian] I read
all that in the papers.

606
00:30:25,072 --> 00:30:26,153
What about you?

607
00:30:26,153 --> 00:30:28,651
Have you contacted Mars yourself?

608
00:30:28,651 --> 00:30:30,452
You're a fool, Argenian.

609
00:30:30,452 --> 00:30:33,480
If I can read their
messages, they can read mine.

610
00:30:33,480 --> 00:30:36,958
Why should I let them know that
they have competition, huh?

611
00:30:36,958 --> 00:30:40,195
And so, not only two weeks
ago is a secluded laboratory

612
00:30:40,195 --> 00:30:42,020
in the San Diego Mountains has become

613
00:30:42,020 --> 00:30:43,756
the new center of the world.

614
00:30:43,756 --> 00:30:46,077
Scientists, code experts, newsmen,

615
00:30:46,077 --> 00:30:48,786
all concentrated on only one thing.

616
00:30:48,786 --> 00:30:51,035
The first concrete word from Mars.

617
00:30:51,035 --> 00:30:53,167
Ladies and gentlemen,
step right up closer.

618
00:30:53,167 --> 00:30:55,757
I want to introduce you
to the Keyhole of Mars.

619
00:30:55,757 --> 00:30:58,493
Now, I have the only
authentic, genuine picture

620
00:30:58,493 --> 00:31:00,005
of the planet Mars.

621
00:31:00,005 --> 00:31:01,279
What a film.

622
00:31:01,279 --> 00:31:04,029
(people talking)

623
00:31:09,556 --> 00:31:11,809
Come home, folks, to planet Mars.

624
00:31:11,809 --> 00:31:14,621
They're educational and constructive.

625
00:31:14,621 --> 00:31:17,371
(people talking)

626
00:31:20,256 --> 00:31:22,423
(honking)

627
00:31:23,389 --> 00:31:25,369
Hi, Mr. Cronyn, been to town?

628
00:31:25,369 --> 00:31:26,304
Yeah, I'm just down to see how

629
00:31:26,304 --> 00:31:28,174
the press camp's coming along.

630
00:31:28,174 --> 00:31:30,852
And, they've got to put
up two more buildings.

631
00:31:30,852 --> 00:31:34,513
Stewart wanted to see Admiral
Carey and his staff at work.

632
00:31:34,513 --> 00:31:37,263
(people talking)

633
00:31:43,707 --> 00:31:47,374
(speaking foreign language)

634
00:31:57,631 --> 00:32:01,556
(truck engine running)

635
00:32:01,556 --> 00:32:03,889
(whistling)

636
00:32:10,377 --> 00:32:13,377
(suspenseful music)

637
00:32:42,335 --> 00:32:45,002
(curious music)

638
00:32:48,880 --> 00:32:52,132
And so, the weeks of
preparatory work are over.

639
00:32:52,132 --> 00:32:55,120
Communication with Mars is now a reality.

640
00:32:55,120 --> 00:32:57,182
Tonight has brought us
the first real information

641
00:32:57,182 --> 00:32:59,983
about life on that distant planet.

642
00:32:59,983 --> 00:33:02,853
They were asked the
average lifespan on Mars.

643
00:33:02,853 --> 00:33:05,353
Their answer, 300 Earth years.

644
00:33:06,845 --> 00:33:07,845
300 years.

645
00:33:09,215 --> 00:33:11,298
I hope not your mother.

646
00:33:12,482 --> 00:33:15,232
(exciting music)

647
00:33:19,768 --> 00:33:21,851
Pensions for 235 years.

648
00:33:22,805 --> 00:33:24,722
Who's gonna pay them?

649
00:33:25,588 --> 00:33:28,421
(thrilling music)

650
00:33:50,851 --> 00:33:53,832
The future of the livestock
industry is at stake.

651
00:33:53,832 --> 00:33:55,491
Is the government going
to continue to support

652
00:33:55,491 --> 00:33:57,166
the price of potatoes?

653
00:33:57,166 --> 00:33:59,877
Just a minute, how
about the price of wheat?

654
00:33:59,877 --> 00:34:02,440
The hysteria which has
greeted the Martians claims

655
00:34:02,440 --> 00:34:04,374
has become a national peril.

656
00:34:04,374 --> 00:34:08,486
All this after the release
of only three messages.

657
00:34:08,486 --> 00:34:11,057
Ladies and gentlemen,
I cannot too strongly

658
00:34:11,057 --> 00:34:13,357
stress the necessity for calmness.

659
00:34:13,357 --> 00:34:16,338
Do not allow yourselves to
be emotionally disturbed

660
00:34:16,338 --> 00:34:17,838
by those messages.

661
00:34:19,552 --> 00:34:20,880
Argenian.

662
00:34:20,880 --> 00:34:23,492
This time you'd better get
your masters on the phone.

663
00:34:23,492 --> 00:34:26,003
Cronyn's just received a message from Mars

664
00:34:26,003 --> 00:34:27,586
that's a sensation.

665
00:34:28,605 --> 00:34:30,030
The Martians have now announced that for

666
00:34:30,030 --> 00:34:33,806
the past three centuries,
they haven't used coal,

667
00:34:33,806 --> 00:34:38,614
oil, electricity, any form
of power on which we rely.

668
00:34:38,614 --> 00:34:41,941
Theirs has all been
provided by cosmic energy,

669
00:34:41,941 --> 00:34:46,108
to which, they have made
hundreds of elements fissionable.

670
00:34:49,308 --> 00:34:52,196
If this is true, no miner in America,

671
00:34:52,196 --> 00:34:54,416
no miner in the world will have a job.

672
00:34:54,416 --> 00:34:55,924
Our interests are identical.

673
00:34:55,924 --> 00:34:59,862
We owners represent an
investment of $5,000,000,000.

674
00:34:59,862 --> 00:35:01,565
It took Mars to make you recognize

675
00:35:01,565 --> 00:35:03,536
that identity of interest.

676
00:35:03,536 --> 00:35:05,927
Well, the oil men are
in the same boat with us.

677
00:35:05,927 --> 00:35:07,858
I oughta let them bail it out.

678
00:35:07,858 --> 00:35:10,025
Oil is no concern of ours.

679
00:35:19,852 --> 00:35:22,852
(suspenseful music)

680
00:35:44,412 --> 00:35:46,579
(honking)

681
00:35:53,196 --> 00:35:56,511
(people talking)

682
00:35:56,511 --> 00:35:58,678
(honking)

683
00:36:00,873 --> 00:36:01,706
You're the cause of it all.

684
00:36:01,706 --> 00:36:04,123
We should send you to Mars.

685
00:36:05,299 --> 00:36:08,163
What are you gonna do about
getting our jobs back, huh?

686
00:36:08,163 --> 00:36:10,413
(shouting)

687
00:36:20,153 --> 00:36:24,530
This business keeps up, you'll
need the army to help you.

688
00:36:24,530 --> 00:36:25,823
Christ, get going, damn it.

689
00:36:25,823 --> 00:36:28,573
(people yelling)

690
00:36:41,244 --> 00:36:44,244
(suspenseful music)

691
00:36:49,334 --> 00:36:50,718
(slamming)

692
00:36:50,718 --> 00:36:51,551
Hi, Dad.

693
00:36:52,997 --> 00:36:54,300
You're just in time for the news.

694
00:36:54,300 --> 00:36:57,217
I've had enough news for one day.

695
00:36:58,874 --> 00:36:59,873
[Voiceover] Meanwhile, this morning,

696
00:36:59,873 --> 00:37:01,977
every American bank had long lines

697
00:37:01,977 --> 00:37:06,175
of depositers waiting
to withdraw their funds.

698
00:37:06,175 --> 00:37:08,424
Owing to the difference in time,

699
00:37:08,424 --> 00:37:09,616
the latest bulletin from Mars

700
00:37:09,616 --> 00:37:11,936
had created its effect on Europe

701
00:37:11,936 --> 00:37:15,693
before we Americans had
finished our breakfasts.

702
00:37:15,693 --> 00:37:17,805
In London, the Prime
Minister called a special

703
00:37:17,805 --> 00:37:21,732
meeting of the cabinet at
Number 10 Downing Street.

704
00:37:21,732 --> 00:37:24,370
But, this did not prevent pandemonium

705
00:37:24,370 --> 00:37:26,768
on the London Stock Exchange.

706
00:37:26,768 --> 00:37:28,465
The value of British industrials has

707
00:37:28,465 --> 00:37:31,900
decreased nearly 10 billion pounds

708
00:37:31,900 --> 00:37:33,733
in the last two weeks.

709
00:37:34,934 --> 00:37:37,579
In Paris, the third
government in two weeks

710
00:37:37,579 --> 00:37:39,825
failed of a vote of confidence.

711
00:37:39,825 --> 00:37:41,850
And, President Romyre hopeless in forming

712
00:37:41,850 --> 00:37:45,526
a fourth government
suspended the Constitution

713
00:37:45,526 --> 00:37:49,159
and called upon the army
to establish martial law.

714
00:37:49,159 --> 00:37:51,409
This, however, did not
prevent wide disorders

715
00:37:51,409 --> 00:37:55,232
in Mayeux, Marseilles
and other French cities.

716
00:37:55,232 --> 00:37:56,934
Meanwhile, in Rome, the Holy Father

717
00:37:56,934 --> 00:38:00,538
urged a policy of patience and of faith.

718
00:38:00,538 --> 00:38:02,940
Turn that blasted thing off.

719
00:38:02,940 --> 00:38:04,668
Just on another minute, Dad.

720
00:38:04,668 --> 00:38:06,412
[Voiceover] But, in Milan and Geneva,

721
00:38:06,412 --> 00:38:08,541
there was widespread rioting.

722
00:38:08,541 --> 00:38:10,374
Turn it off, I said.

723
00:38:12,688 --> 00:38:14,130
They gotta hand it to ya, Pop.

724
00:38:14,130 --> 00:38:16,607
When you blow the lid off,
you really blow it off.

725
00:38:16,607 --> 00:38:17,573
Well, that crowd out
there is mad enough...

726
00:38:17,573 --> 00:38:19,452
I thought I told you to
stay out of the street.

727
00:38:19,452 --> 00:38:21,139
I just wanted to take a look.

728
00:38:21,139 --> 00:38:22,272
Haven't you anything better to do than

729
00:38:22,272 --> 00:38:24,818
lollygag around where
you haven't any business?

730
00:38:24,818 --> 00:38:26,339
There's enough work for
you to do around here.

731
00:38:26,339 --> 00:38:27,908
Gosh, I did the whole
lawn this afternoon.

732
00:38:27,908 --> 00:38:29,241
Yeah, and left the mower where everybody

733
00:38:29,241 --> 00:38:31,213
could stumble over it, as usual.

734
00:38:31,213 --> 00:38:32,630
Trick or treat.

735
00:38:34,493 --> 00:38:35,663
Tricks or treat.

736
00:38:35,663 --> 00:38:37,663
What's he made up for?

737
00:38:43,459 --> 00:38:45,266
Halloween, remember?

738
00:38:45,266 --> 00:38:47,668
And, children like to go
out and play trick or treat.

739
00:38:47,668 --> 00:38:50,322
That is children who can
get out of the house do.

740
00:38:50,322 --> 00:38:52,599
And, little boys who can't,

741
00:38:52,599 --> 00:38:56,351
they still like the fun
of getting dressed up.

742
00:38:56,351 --> 00:38:58,626
You look scrumptious, son.

743
00:38:58,626 --> 00:38:59,459
Look.

744
00:39:01,325 --> 00:39:02,692
See, bottle tops.

745
00:39:02,692 --> 00:39:03,525
Trick or treat.

746
00:39:03,525 --> 00:39:04,848
Next year, we'll go trick or treat.

747
00:39:04,848 --> 00:39:06,741
How'll that be?

748
00:39:06,741 --> 00:39:08,058
On your way boys.

749
00:39:08,058 --> 00:39:09,442
And, hands washed.

750
00:39:09,442 --> 00:39:11,895
Stew, will you see that he's polished up?

751
00:39:11,895 --> 00:39:13,141
Oh, Mom, again?

752
00:39:13,141 --> 00:39:15,141
Please, be a good boy.

753
00:39:17,548 --> 00:39:19,965
I'll be in in a minute, dear.

754
00:39:36,166 --> 00:39:37,605
I'm sorry, Lin.

755
00:39:37,605 --> 00:39:40,256
You don't have to take
it out on the kids, Chris.

756
00:39:40,256 --> 00:39:42,339
Is that what I'm doing?

757
00:39:44,991 --> 00:39:45,824
I'm sorry.

758
00:39:51,445 --> 00:39:52,814
Where are you going?

759
00:39:52,814 --> 00:39:54,452
The lab.

760
00:39:54,452 --> 00:39:57,952
Carey's ordered some new gadget installed.

761
00:40:00,520 --> 00:40:01,432
[Stewart] Mom, come here quick.

762
00:40:01,432 --> 00:40:03,721
Roger's splashing water all over.

763
00:40:03,721 --> 00:40:04,554
Hurry.

764
00:40:07,002 --> 00:40:10,002
(crickets chirping)

765
00:40:24,109 --> 00:40:25,526
How's it going?

766
00:40:26,444 --> 00:40:28,796
Oh, evening, sir.

767
00:40:28,796 --> 00:40:30,897
Quite an installation you're getting here.

768
00:40:30,897 --> 00:40:31,762
What is it?

769
00:40:31,762 --> 00:40:33,412
That's the latest thing.

770
00:40:33,412 --> 00:40:35,000
We've only installed one other like it.

771
00:40:35,000 --> 00:40:36,547
That was in the Pentagon.

772
00:40:36,547 --> 00:40:39,278
It's an improvement on the
cathode-ray oscillograph.

773
00:40:39,278 --> 00:40:40,128
As soon as we get it wired up

774
00:40:40,128 --> 00:40:43,147
then we're putting it
outside in a cement vault.

775
00:40:43,147 --> 00:40:45,688
It'll take down your messages
right off the transmitter.

776
00:40:45,688 --> 00:40:48,374
It records them on film.

777
00:40:48,374 --> 00:40:49,614
Go ahead, light it.

778
00:40:49,614 --> 00:40:50,447
Huh?

779
00:40:51,430 --> 00:40:52,663
Be interesting to see if the place

780
00:40:52,663 --> 00:40:54,366
really would blow up.

781
00:40:54,366 --> 00:40:56,949
(wing blowing)

782
00:40:58,770 --> 00:41:01,462
You'll recall, Mr. Secretary,
that the joint chiefs

783
00:41:01,462 --> 00:41:02,913
advised immediate control when

784
00:41:02,913 --> 00:41:04,431
the first message was received.

785
00:41:04,431 --> 00:41:06,748
Yes, I recall quite well, General.

786
00:41:06,748 --> 00:41:09,320
I also recalled that the
President overruled us.

787
00:41:09,320 --> 00:41:10,991
(buzzing)

788
00:41:10,991 --> 00:41:11,824
Yes.

789
00:41:11,824 --> 00:41:13,163
[Voiceover] Admiral Carey, sir.

790
00:41:13,163 --> 00:41:14,746
Have him come in.

791
00:41:18,737 --> 00:41:20,469
Mr. Secretary, General Burdette.

792
00:41:20,469 --> 00:41:21,302
[Burdette] Hello, Bill.

793
00:41:21,302 --> 00:41:23,635
Sit down, Carey, sit down.

794
00:41:26,416 --> 00:41:29,019
Have you decoded any other messages?

795
00:41:29,019 --> 00:41:30,076
No, sir.

796
00:41:30,076 --> 00:41:31,867
We've been sweating over a
batch for nearly a week now

797
00:41:31,867 --> 00:41:33,563
but no success.

798
00:41:33,563 --> 00:41:36,342
Thank heaven for that.

799
00:41:36,342 --> 00:41:38,925
We're closing down that
decoding room out in California.

800
00:41:38,925 --> 00:41:40,363
But, messages are still coming in, sir.

801
00:41:40,363 --> 00:41:41,343
Hell, they've been microwaved here

802
00:41:41,343 --> 00:41:43,046
as fast as they've come in.

803
00:41:43,046 --> 00:41:45,293
And, they're not getting
outside this building.

804
00:41:45,293 --> 00:41:47,490
Your whole staff's coming back today.

805
00:41:47,490 --> 00:41:49,853
Nothing is to be released to the public.

806
00:41:49,853 --> 00:41:52,481
Nothing, you understand, gentlemen?

807
00:41:52,481 --> 00:41:53,314
Nothing.

808
00:41:58,630 --> 00:42:00,799
Is there anything else, sir?

809
00:42:00,799 --> 00:42:03,902
Our economic system, a shambles.

810
00:42:03,902 --> 00:42:06,945
Industrial production shot to blazes.

811
00:42:06,945 --> 00:42:09,685
Our entire civilization
collapsing about our heads

812
00:42:09,685 --> 00:42:11,915
like a house of cards.

813
00:42:11,915 --> 00:42:15,699
And, the whole Western
world going down with it.

814
00:42:15,699 --> 00:42:17,638
This Cronyn has done more to smash

815
00:42:17,638 --> 00:42:19,309
the Democratic world
in the last four weeks

816
00:42:19,309 --> 00:42:24,001
than the Russians have been
able to do in 11 years.

817
00:42:24,001 --> 00:42:27,168
I can hear the laughter in Moscow now.

818
00:42:28,322 --> 00:42:29,655
No, Admiral, no.

819
00:42:30,756 --> 00:42:32,589
There is nothing more.

820
00:42:37,309 --> 00:42:39,726
Calling 2BLM, calling 2BLM.

821
00:42:40,800 --> 00:42:42,708
[Voiceover] 2BLM here, go ahead.

822
00:42:42,708 --> 00:42:44,498
Where's Argenian?

823
00:42:44,498 --> 00:42:46,066
Where's Argenian?

824
00:42:46,066 --> 00:42:48,369
[Voiceover] You will call
him on another wavelength.

825
00:42:48,369 --> 00:42:49,702
9434 kilocycles,

826
00:42:50,844 --> 00:42:52,996
broadcast band E.

827
00:42:52,996 --> 00:42:54,811
Use scrambler number five.

828
00:42:54,811 --> 00:42:56,132
The call number is

829
00:42:56,132 --> 00:42:57,286
9K

830
00:42:57,286 --> 00:42:58,605
BLM.

831
00:42:58,605 --> 00:42:59,864
Your call will be relayed.

832
00:42:59,864 --> 00:43:01,614
He's waiting for you.

833
00:43:04,120 --> 00:43:06,703
Calling 9KBLM, calling 9KBLM.

834
00:43:12,717 --> 00:43:16,384
(speaking foreign language)

835
00:43:34,284 --> 00:43:36,421
Go ahead, Calder, this is Argenian.

836
00:43:36,421 --> 00:43:37,768
Are you alright?

837
00:43:37,768 --> 00:43:39,438
Ah, don't worry about me.

838
00:43:39,438 --> 00:43:40,639
How 'bout you?

839
00:43:40,639 --> 00:43:42,906
How are you, Argenian?

840
00:43:42,906 --> 00:43:45,326
Oh, that's foolish of you
to go where those monsters

841
00:43:45,326 --> 00:43:47,076
can lay hands on you.

842
00:43:48,290 --> 00:43:49,802
Shut up, you fool.

843
00:43:49,802 --> 00:43:53,006
(speaking foreign language)

844
00:43:53,006 --> 00:43:55,072
Are there anymore messages?

845
00:43:55,072 --> 00:43:59,742
Mars seems to have run out
of messages for the moment.

846
00:43:59,742 --> 00:44:02,929
(speaking foreign language)

847
00:44:02,929 --> 00:44:04,896
What are the Americans asking, Calder?

848
00:44:04,896 --> 00:44:06,513
If you can tell us that.

849
00:44:06,513 --> 00:44:07,964
[Franz] As nearly as I can understand,

850
00:44:07,964 --> 00:44:10,214
they want to know how the Martians,

851
00:44:10,214 --> 00:44:12,624
if they use cosmic power for everything,

852
00:44:12,624 --> 00:44:16,681
are kept from blowing each other to bits.

853
00:44:16,681 --> 00:44:19,126
Send us the messages
as soon as you get them.

854
00:44:19,126 --> 00:44:20,709
There must be no slip ups.

855
00:44:20,709 --> 00:44:21,937
Is that understood?

856
00:44:21,937 --> 00:44:26,020
[Franz] Haven't you got
your money's worth yet?

857
00:44:28,052 --> 00:44:31,719
(speaking foreign language)

858
00:44:32,563 --> 00:44:35,230
Is this dog, Calder, reliable?

859
00:44:36,392 --> 00:44:37,508
(speaking foreign language)

860
00:44:37,508 --> 00:44:38,425
In English.

861
00:44:42,357 --> 00:44:44,919
If I want them to understand
me, I'd speak Russian.

862
00:44:44,919 --> 00:44:47,024
Why didn't you insist on
him coming here to work?

863
00:44:47,024 --> 00:44:47,955
I couldn't insist.

864
00:44:47,955 --> 00:44:49,287
He would've destroyed his valve.

865
00:44:49,287 --> 00:44:51,117
He's a mad man, a lunatic.

866
00:44:51,117 --> 00:44:53,917
The world is full of lunatics.

867
00:44:53,917 --> 00:44:55,659
They want to start a war now.

868
00:44:55,659 --> 00:44:58,134
Now, when there is no need.

869
00:44:58,134 --> 00:44:59,703
Stalin did not dare precipitate one

870
00:44:59,703 --> 00:45:02,784
because he could not defeat
the free economy of the West.

871
00:45:02,784 --> 00:45:04,550
Now, the economy is shattered.

872
00:45:04,550 --> 00:45:06,089
The strength of the Western world fades

873
00:45:06,089 --> 00:45:07,553
like a dream in the night.

874
00:45:07,553 --> 00:45:09,886
Their civilization perishes.

875
00:45:12,961 --> 00:45:16,294
Lenin dreamnt of the world in his hands.

876
00:45:21,005 --> 00:45:24,037
Stalin tried to get it in his.

877
00:45:24,037 --> 00:45:26,733
Our Premier will succeed.

878
00:45:26,733 --> 00:45:30,900
We will build our new world
on the ruins of the West.

879
00:45:34,198 --> 00:45:36,281
(typing)

880
00:45:57,067 --> 00:45:58,654
Dr. Stokes.

881
00:45:58,654 --> 00:46:00,190
Yeah.

882
00:46:00,190 --> 00:46:04,140
Yours is identical with
Robert's translation.

883
00:46:04,140 --> 00:46:06,640
It can't mean anything else.

884
00:46:08,072 --> 00:46:09,308
How do you explain it?

885
00:46:09,308 --> 00:46:11,559
I don't even try.

886
00:46:11,559 --> 00:46:13,507
All the other messages
deal with such obtuse

887
00:46:13,507 --> 00:46:16,104
scientific data that we
can't make any headway.

888
00:46:16,104 --> 00:46:19,141
Then, out of the blue, this.

889
00:46:19,141 --> 00:46:20,676
Why it...

890
00:46:20,676 --> 00:46:22,244
It's...

891
00:46:22,244 --> 00:46:25,827
It's inspiring,
Admiral, if nothing else.

892
00:46:26,992 --> 00:46:28,527
Get me the Secretary of Defense.

893
00:46:28,527 --> 00:46:29,870
He's at The White House, sir.

894
00:46:29,870 --> 00:46:31,288
Prepare a memorandum to him.

895
00:46:31,288 --> 00:46:32,121
Aye aye, sir.

896
00:46:32,121 --> 00:46:32,954
Eyes only.

897
00:46:32,954 --> 00:46:33,954
Eyes only.

898
00:46:37,411 --> 00:46:41,753
We can't risk the Russians
decoding those messages.

899
00:46:41,753 --> 00:46:44,003
I certainly don't want war.

900
00:46:47,418 --> 00:46:50,961
But, Moscow, Leningrad, every nerve center

901
00:46:50,961 --> 00:46:54,128
in the Soviet Union must be wiped out.

902
00:46:55,077 --> 00:46:57,567
I cannot fly in the face of 180 years

903
00:46:57,567 --> 00:46:59,566
of American history.

904
00:46:59,566 --> 00:47:01,492
I cannot start a war.

905
00:47:01,492 --> 00:47:02,816
A month from now we may not have

906
00:47:02,816 --> 00:47:04,901
the strength to fight one.

907
00:47:04,901 --> 00:47:07,203
And, the Russians may have,
in their hands, the power.

908
00:47:07,203 --> 00:47:08,036
No.

909
00:47:10,221 --> 00:47:13,038
This country will not launch a war.

910
00:47:13,038 --> 00:47:13,990
Mr. President.

911
00:47:13,990 --> 00:47:16,876
You still know my first name, George.

912
00:47:16,876 --> 00:47:19,467
We've served a great
many years together.

913
00:47:19,467 --> 00:47:20,999
And, there's never been
a day when I couldn't

914
00:47:20,999 --> 00:47:24,213
happily go along with
any decision of yours.

915
00:47:24,213 --> 00:47:27,182
But, I have a responsibility
to this country, too.

916
00:47:27,182 --> 00:47:29,717
And, I can't stand by
and see it destroyed.

917
00:47:29,717 --> 00:47:31,117
Our difference is that I don't believe

918
00:47:31,117 --> 00:47:34,269
it can be destroyed by 13 slips of paper

919
00:47:34,269 --> 00:47:36,185
covered with obscure symbols.

920
00:47:36,185 --> 00:47:40,390
A Japanese empire was
destroyed by a slip of paper

921
00:47:40,390 --> 00:47:43,322
covered with obscure symbols.

922
00:47:43,322 --> 00:47:47,240
Once those symbols were
translated into power.

923
00:47:47,240 --> 00:47:48,678
Excuse me, sir.

924
00:47:48,678 --> 00:47:50,178
[President] Yes.

925
00:47:52,471 --> 00:47:55,229
You said to interrupt the
minute they arrive, sir.

926
00:47:55,229 --> 00:47:56,102
Oh, yes.

927
00:47:56,102 --> 00:47:58,185
Have them come in please.

928
00:48:02,110 --> 00:48:04,443
Won't you come in, please.

929
00:48:05,441 --> 00:48:06,525
How do you do, Mrs. Cronyn.

930
00:48:06,525 --> 00:48:08,127
How do you do, Mr. President.

931
00:48:08,127 --> 00:48:08,960
Mr. Cronyn.

932
00:48:08,960 --> 00:48:09,943
Mr. President.

933
00:48:09,943 --> 00:48:11,259
It was very good of you to come.

934
00:48:11,259 --> 00:48:13,800
I'm only sorry you didn't
bring your boy with you.

935
00:48:13,800 --> 00:48:15,011
I wanted to meet the culprit

936
00:48:15,011 --> 00:48:17,628
who started this whole business.

937
00:48:17,628 --> 00:48:19,151
Oh.

938
00:48:19,151 --> 00:48:21,887
Mr. and Mrs Cronyn, Secretary
of Defense, Mr. Sparks.

939
00:48:21,887 --> 00:48:22,938
- How do you do?
- [Sparks] Mrs. Cronyn.

940
00:48:22,938 --> 00:48:24,394
- Mr. Sparks.
- [Sparks] Mr. Cronyn.

941
00:48:24,394 --> 00:48:25,924
And, General Burdette.

942
00:48:25,924 --> 00:48:26,757
- How do you do?
- [Chris] General Burdette.

943
00:48:26,757 --> 00:48:27,800
Hello.

944
00:48:27,800 --> 00:48:30,217
Won't you sit down, please.

945
00:48:35,334 --> 00:48:38,364
I'm not gonna drag this out, Cronyn.

946
00:48:38,364 --> 00:48:41,439
I'm afraid I've got to break your heart.

947
00:48:41,439 --> 00:48:43,393
You made a pretty fair
start on that, Mr. President,

948
00:48:43,393 --> 00:48:45,030
when you pulled Carey back to Washington,

949
00:48:45,030 --> 00:48:46,893
clamped the censorship on us.

950
00:48:46,893 --> 00:48:49,013
Have any further messages been decoded?

951
00:48:49,013 --> 00:48:50,648
Or, aren't we allowed to know?

952
00:48:50,648 --> 00:48:53,182
There have been no further decodings.

953
00:48:53,182 --> 00:48:56,240
And now, there will be no
further messages to decode.

954
00:48:56,240 --> 00:48:57,886
You must shut down your transmitter.

955
00:48:57,886 --> 00:48:59,355
Shut it down, you're not serious.

956
00:48:59,355 --> 00:49:00,959
I've got to clamp the
lid on this business.

957
00:49:00,959 --> 00:49:03,940
Stop these communications.

958
00:49:03,940 --> 00:49:05,444
Well, I suppose that
lies within your power,

959
00:49:05,444 --> 00:49:07,360
Mr. President, you can
declare a national emergency.

960
00:49:07,360 --> 00:49:08,936
I don't have to declare it.

961
00:49:08,936 --> 00:49:10,072
It's here.

962
00:49:10,072 --> 00:49:11,442
And, not nearly national.

963
00:49:11,442 --> 00:49:13,609
You've shattered the economy
of the civilized world.

964
00:49:13,609 --> 00:49:16,313
I'm not interested in
economics, Mr. Secretary.

965
00:49:16,313 --> 00:49:18,182
Who makes or who loses money doesn't seem

966
00:49:18,182 --> 00:49:20,935
as important to me as the
chance to advance civilization

967
00:49:20,935 --> 00:49:22,802
a thousand years in one jump.

968
00:49:22,802 --> 00:49:25,351
Our job isn't the
advancement of civilization.

969
00:49:25,351 --> 00:49:27,499
It's to preserve the
country handed down to us.

970
00:49:27,499 --> 00:49:28,864
If we believe that, every scientists

971
00:49:28,864 --> 00:49:30,965
from Franklin to Edison
would've been suppressed.

972
00:49:30,965 --> 00:49:33,451
Gentlemen, gentlemen.

973
00:49:33,451 --> 00:49:35,020
I'm sorry, Mr. President.

974
00:49:35,020 --> 00:49:36,342
If you order it, sir, of course I'll have

975
00:49:36,342 --> 00:49:38,238
to shut my transmitter down.

976
00:49:38,238 --> 00:49:39,994
But, I'll never do it of my own volition.

977
00:49:39,994 --> 00:49:43,008
Even though it threatens
national security?

978
00:49:43,008 --> 00:49:44,625
Does it threaten national security

979
00:49:44,625 --> 00:49:47,706
to know that man can look
forward to a longer life span?

980
00:49:47,706 --> 00:49:49,157
That he has, at his disposal, the power

981
00:49:49,157 --> 00:49:51,463
to eliminate 90% of the world's work?

982
00:49:51,463 --> 00:49:54,326
We've learned that from the
poor messages we've decoded.

983
00:49:54,326 --> 00:49:57,866
There are 13 others that
we haven't translated.

984
00:49:57,866 --> 00:50:00,484
[Secretary] Plus the
one we received today.

985
00:50:00,484 --> 00:50:01,529
So long as they're not decoded,

986
00:50:01,529 --> 00:50:02,965
they can't threaten anything.

987
00:50:02,965 --> 00:50:05,553
I said that we haven't translate it.

988
00:50:05,553 --> 00:50:07,125
Carey released the bulletin on

989
00:50:07,125 --> 00:50:10,274
a cosmic power at 11:22pm
Pacific Coast Time

990
00:50:10,274 --> 00:50:12,171
the night of the 27th.

991
00:50:12,171 --> 00:50:14,138
The same bulletin was released in Moscow

992
00:50:14,138 --> 00:50:17,461
at 9:30am the morning of the 28th.

993
00:50:17,461 --> 00:50:18,513
What of it?

994
00:50:18,513 --> 00:50:21,002
We broadcast everything on
the voice of America anyway.

995
00:50:21,002 --> 00:50:22,832
But, there's an eleven hour differential

996
00:50:22,832 --> 00:50:25,721
between Moscow and San Diego, Cronyn.

997
00:50:25,721 --> 00:50:27,054
9:30am in Moscow

998
00:50:27,927 --> 00:50:29,975
is 52 minutes earlier

999
00:50:29,975 --> 00:50:33,229
than 11:22 the night before in San Diego.

1000
00:50:33,229 --> 00:50:35,874
You mean the Russians are
intercepting and decoding?

1001
00:50:35,874 --> 00:50:38,462
Well, is any other explanation possible?

1002
00:50:38,462 --> 00:50:40,269
- Calder.
- [President] Who?

1003
00:50:40,269 --> 00:50:42,123
The man who invented the hydrogen valve.

1004
00:50:42,123 --> 00:50:43,057
It's the very heart of the transmission.

1005
00:50:43,057 --> 00:50:44,913
Now you see how important it is to stop

1006
00:50:44,913 --> 00:50:46,686
your communication with this other planet?

1007
00:50:46,686 --> 00:50:49,372
I see now why they can't be stopped.

1008
00:50:49,372 --> 00:50:50,893
What do you mean?

1009
00:50:50,893 --> 00:50:52,609
If Calder can pick up our messages,

1010
00:50:52,609 --> 00:50:54,780
he can also pick up messages of his own.

1011
00:50:54,780 --> 00:50:56,499
We may stop but he won't.

1012
00:50:56,499 --> 00:50:59,558
And then, our national
security really is threatened.

1013
00:50:59,558 --> 00:51:00,391
Yes.

1014
00:51:00,391 --> 00:51:04,224
For the Secretary, Mr.
President, eyes only.

1015
00:51:10,853 --> 00:51:13,369
It's a note from Admiral Carey.

1016
00:51:13,369 --> 00:51:16,742
They've decoded another message today.

1017
00:51:16,742 --> 00:51:18,516
Carey's outside now, Mr. President.

1018
00:51:18,516 --> 00:51:20,963
Have him come in, please.

1019
00:51:20,963 --> 00:51:22,296
Admiral Carey.

1020
00:51:23,650 --> 00:51:26,447
Come in, Admiral, come in.

1021
00:51:26,447 --> 00:51:28,197
You'll forgive me, Mr.
President, but the Secretary

1022
00:51:28,197 --> 00:51:29,880
left orders that no
matter where you are...

1023
00:51:29,880 --> 00:51:31,963
Have you got another message?

1024
00:51:31,963 --> 00:51:33,713
Yes, we've got one.

1025
00:51:35,344 --> 00:51:37,201
Oh, may I, sir?

1026
00:51:37,201 --> 00:51:39,868
I think he's entitled to that.

1027
00:51:43,754 --> 00:51:46,207
Well, this is nonsense, it's impossible.

1028
00:51:46,207 --> 00:51:47,067
What is it, Cronyn.

1029
00:51:47,067 --> 00:51:48,285
Well, you remember, sir, we asked them

1030
00:51:48,285 --> 00:51:50,278
how their free use of cosmic energy,

1031
00:51:50,278 --> 00:51:51,212
they were prevented from blowing

1032
00:51:51,212 --> 00:51:53,344
each other off the face of the map.

1033
00:51:53,344 --> 00:51:56,053
If they have an answer
to that, I'll welcome it.

1034
00:51:56,053 --> 00:51:58,078
Well, according to this, they submitted

1035
00:51:58,078 --> 00:52:01,133
the question to their supreme leader.

1036
00:52:01,133 --> 00:52:02,905
You say spiritual, Bill.

1037
00:52:02,905 --> 00:52:06,284
I'm not sure it shouldn't
be something even stronger.

1038
00:52:06,284 --> 00:52:09,706
God-like was Dr. Stoke's translation.

1039
00:52:09,706 --> 00:52:12,189
What is the message, Chris?

1040
00:52:12,189 --> 00:52:13,310
You have been given knowledge

1041
00:52:13,310 --> 00:52:15,666
and have used it for destruction

1042
00:52:15,666 --> 00:52:17,943
seven lifetimes ago.

1043
00:52:17,943 --> 00:52:21,605
You were told to love
goodness and hate evil.

1044
00:52:21,605 --> 00:52:23,749
Why have you denied the truth?

1045
00:52:23,749 --> 00:52:25,897
The sermon on the mountain.

1046
00:52:25,897 --> 00:52:27,360
On Mars.

1047
00:52:27,360 --> 00:52:29,628
Well, don't talk nonsense, Linda.

1048
00:52:29,628 --> 00:52:31,800
Love goodness and hate evil.

1049
00:52:31,800 --> 00:52:33,203
What else would you call it?

1050
00:52:33,203 --> 00:52:36,554
Well, I... I don't understand it.

1051
00:52:36,554 --> 00:52:37,870
I don't either, Chris.

1052
00:52:37,870 --> 00:52:39,703
But, I'm glad we
installed the oscillograph

1053
00:52:39,703 --> 00:52:42,045
because once the messages
are recorded on film,

1054
00:52:42,045 --> 00:52:45,212
no one can accuse us of garbling them.

1055
00:52:46,274 --> 00:52:47,726
Well, Mr. President, I said I'd never

1056
00:52:47,726 --> 00:52:50,051
voluntarily suppress a message

1057
00:52:50,051 --> 00:52:51,158
but I was wrong.

1058
00:52:51,158 --> 00:52:52,208
This one can't go out.

1059
00:52:52,208 --> 00:52:53,078
Why not?

1060
00:52:53,078 --> 00:52:53,950
Well, it doesn't make sense.

1061
00:52:53,950 --> 00:52:55,185
It's not scientific.

1062
00:52:55,185 --> 00:52:56,727
Well, maybe it's the
one scientific truth

1063
00:52:56,727 --> 00:52:57,560
we've forgotten.

1064
00:52:57,560 --> 00:52:58,817
You mean, you take
this message seriously.

1065
00:52:58,817 --> 00:53:00,938
We took the others seriously, didn't we?

1066
00:53:00,938 --> 00:53:04,162
If we were right to release one message.

1067
00:53:04,162 --> 00:53:06,335
We must release this, too.

1068
00:53:06,335 --> 00:53:07,548
Mr. President, you know the panic

1069
00:53:07,548 --> 00:53:09,111
those other messages have caused.

1070
00:53:09,111 --> 00:53:11,278
Loose a wave of religious
hysteria on top of it

1071
00:53:11,278 --> 00:53:12,597
and every crack pot and his brother

1072
00:53:12,597 --> 00:53:15,437
will be lecturing on street corners.

1073
00:53:15,437 --> 00:53:17,238
Mr. President.

1074
00:53:17,238 --> 00:53:19,685
You're worried about national security.

1075
00:53:19,685 --> 00:53:21,120
Is there one word in that message

1076
00:53:21,120 --> 00:53:23,094
that threatens our security?

1077
00:53:23,094 --> 00:53:24,594
Or, anyone else's?

1078
00:53:27,776 --> 00:53:30,443
And, solution, there was none.

1079
00:53:31,382 --> 00:53:34,049
Saving the rule of Christ alone.

1080
00:53:39,863 --> 00:53:43,042
My father was very fond of Emerson.

1081
00:53:43,042 --> 00:53:45,625
May I see that message, please.

1082
00:53:49,012 --> 00:53:51,941
You're not going to release it?

1083
00:53:51,941 --> 00:53:54,012
Your arguments in defense
of scientific freedom

1084
00:53:54,012 --> 00:53:55,163
have convinced me.

1085
00:53:55,163 --> 00:53:57,956
Well, this time Cronyn
is right, Mr. President.

1086
00:53:57,956 --> 00:54:01,530
We can't hitch our wagon to that star.

1087
00:54:01,530 --> 00:54:04,697
We've switched stars, Mr. Secretary.

1088
00:54:07,241 --> 00:54:11,568
Now, we're following
the Star of Bethlehem.

1089
00:54:11,568 --> 00:54:14,519
That message is to be
broadcast all over the world.

1090
00:54:14,519 --> 00:54:16,415
In all languages.

1091
00:54:16,415 --> 00:54:17,965
Exactly as decoded.

1092
00:54:17,965 --> 00:54:20,715
(exciting music)

1093
00:54:22,968 --> 00:54:25,718
(people talking)

1094
00:54:43,431 --> 00:54:47,098
(speaking foreign language)

1095
00:55:11,542 --> 00:55:14,310
Yes, yes, Calder, I heard you.

1096
00:55:14,310 --> 00:55:16,062
But, what does it mean?

1097
00:55:16,062 --> 00:55:17,145
Why ask me?

1098
00:55:17,999 --> 00:55:22,166
I'm an expert on electronics
not religious movements.

1099
00:55:23,370 --> 00:55:25,025
Are there any other messages?

1100
00:55:25,025 --> 00:55:27,442
Questions by the thousands.

1101
00:55:29,261 --> 00:55:30,594
But, no answers.

1102
00:55:31,952 --> 00:55:33,685
Are there any other messages?

1103
00:55:33,685 --> 00:55:35,935
Questions by the thousands.

1104
00:55:37,943 --> 00:55:40,005
But, no answers.

1105
00:55:40,005 --> 00:55:44,172
Bother the questions, let
us know when they answer.

1106
00:55:47,793 --> 00:55:49,678
I know I am not alone in being struck

1107
00:55:49,678 --> 00:55:53,399
by the phrase with which
the message begins.

1108
00:55:53,399 --> 00:55:55,983
'Seven lifetimes ago' are the words.

1109
00:55:55,983 --> 00:55:59,218
But, we know that the
Martians' life is 300 years.

1110
00:55:59,218 --> 00:56:02,912
So, seven lifetimes is about 2,100 years.

1111
00:56:02,912 --> 00:56:04,573
Or, as near as one could ask,

1112
00:56:04,573 --> 00:56:08,271
to the era in which the
carpenter of Nazareth

1113
00:56:08,271 --> 00:56:10,763
went forth to preach his message.

1114
00:56:10,763 --> 00:56:12,724
Is it only coincidence that the message

1115
00:56:12,724 --> 00:56:16,373
he broadcast 2,000 years ago, should again

1116
00:56:16,373 --> 00:56:20,040
be broadcast from the
supreme being on Mars?

1117
00:56:21,284 --> 00:56:25,082
If so, then how explain
that this authority

1118
00:56:25,082 --> 00:56:26,905
should know what we on Earth were told

1119
00:56:26,905 --> 00:56:28,768
20 centuries ago?

1120
00:56:28,768 --> 00:56:31,864
Or, is it possible that
the man of Nazareth

1121
00:56:31,864 --> 00:56:35,078
and the man of Mars are the same?

1122
00:56:35,078 --> 00:56:36,662
Get them curlers out of your hair.

1123
00:56:36,662 --> 00:56:37,690
What for?

1124
00:56:37,690 --> 00:56:41,107
We're going to church, that's what for.

1125
00:56:42,086 --> 00:56:43,277
Do you feel alright?

1126
00:56:43,277 --> 00:56:44,232
Now look, don't argue with me.

1127
00:56:44,232 --> 00:56:45,126
Get the curlers outta your hair,

1128
00:56:45,126 --> 00:56:48,626
let's get dressed and get outta here, I...

1129
00:56:50,600 --> 00:56:53,668
This ain't no time to take chances.

1130
00:56:53,668 --> 00:56:56,973
(church bell ringing)

1131
00:56:56,973 --> 00:56:59,556
(somber music)

1132
00:57:25,727 --> 00:57:29,567
It has brought hope when
we have lost all hope.

1133
00:57:29,567 --> 00:57:33,400
It has brought light
into a world of darkness.

1134
00:57:35,465 --> 00:57:37,048
All over the world,

1135
00:57:39,250 --> 00:57:42,995
regardless of their religious beliefs,

1136
00:57:42,995 --> 00:57:45,586
men have found a new faith

1137
00:57:45,586 --> 00:57:47,277
by which to live.

1138
00:57:47,277 --> 00:57:49,642
No, not a new faith.

1139
00:57:49,642 --> 00:57:51,220
But, an old one.

1140
00:57:51,220 --> 00:57:53,613
Many of us have allowed ourselves to lose.

1141
00:57:53,613 --> 00:57:57,387
A faith that is universal
in men of all faiths.

1142
00:57:57,387 --> 00:57:59,914
For, while to us, the words from Mars

1143
00:57:59,914 --> 00:58:02,710
seem the very essence of
the Christian doctrine,

1144
00:58:02,710 --> 00:58:05,928
let us not forget that
they are also the essence

1145
00:58:05,928 --> 00:58:07,818
of all other religions.

1146
00:58:07,818 --> 00:58:09,022
Christian,

1147
00:58:09,022 --> 00:58:10,159
Mohammedan,

1148
00:58:10,159 --> 00:58:11,253
Jewish,

1149
00:58:11,253 --> 00:58:12,309
Buddhist.

1150
00:58:12,309 --> 00:58:14,444
All are heeding the call to prayer.

1151
00:58:14,444 --> 00:58:18,209
Kneeling humbly in the
search for divine guidance.

1152
00:58:18,209 --> 00:58:22,976
I pray, particularly, that
behind the iron curtain,

1153
00:58:22,976 --> 00:58:26,690
where our eyes are not permitted to see,

1154
00:58:26,690 --> 00:58:30,968
men will open their hearts
to the message of peace

1155
00:58:30,968 --> 00:58:35,135
and the promise that their
rulers have so long denied them.

1156
00:58:36,664 --> 00:58:38,497
Today's message reads,

1157
00:58:40,215 --> 00:58:41,873
Ye have denied.

1158
00:58:41,873 --> 00:58:42,706
God's word

1159
00:58:43,980 --> 00:58:45,850
and worshiped

1160
00:58:45,850 --> 00:58:46,767
false Gods.

1161
00:58:48,777 --> 00:58:49,694
Thy torment

1162
00:58:51,179 --> 00:58:53,679
is the price of thine own sin.

1163
00:58:54,799 --> 00:58:57,235
(speaking foreign language)

1164
00:58:57,235 --> 00:58:59,818
(somber music)

1165
01:00:05,724 --> 01:00:08,224
(grand music)

1166
01:00:40,758 --> 01:00:44,425
(speaking foreign language)

1167
01:00:56,806 --> 01:00:59,306
(guns firing)

1168
01:01:00,995 --> 01:01:03,261
These messages are spreading
all over the country.

1169
01:01:03,261 --> 01:01:06,785
Poland, Romania, Bulgaria
and no one knows how.

1170
01:01:06,785 --> 01:01:08,612
Villages that have never
even seen the radio

1171
01:01:08,612 --> 01:01:09,826
suddenly erupt.

1172
01:01:09,826 --> 01:01:11,846
[Franz] Have you heard
the latest message?

1173
01:01:11,846 --> 01:01:12,931
Is there another?

1174
01:01:12,931 --> 01:01:15,285
The Americans released it an hour ago.

1175
01:01:15,285 --> 01:01:17,149
(speaking foreign language)

1176
01:01:17,149 --> 01:01:19,703
He who follows the tyrant's banner

1177
01:01:19,703 --> 01:01:22,789
shall wear the tyrant's chains.

1178
01:01:22,789 --> 01:01:25,737
He who carries God's banner,

1179
01:01:25,737 --> 01:01:28,070
shall know everlasting life.

1180
01:01:30,369 --> 01:01:32,931
Do you expect me to tell them that?

1181
01:01:32,931 --> 01:01:36,514
What you tell them
is no concern of mine.

1182
01:01:43,958 --> 01:01:45,865
Everlasting life.

1183
01:01:45,865 --> 01:01:48,115
(rumbling)

1184
01:02:01,996 --> 01:02:04,935
Hello, Calder, are you there?

1185
01:02:04,935 --> 01:02:06,768
Calder, are you there?

1186
01:02:07,688 --> 01:02:10,122
(speaking foreign language)

1187
01:02:10,122 --> 01:02:11,455
Come in, Calder.

1188
01:02:16,096 --> 01:02:17,596
He doesn't answer.

1189
01:02:21,251 --> 01:02:23,878
Comrade General, I would not suggest.

1190
01:02:23,878 --> 01:02:25,477
Suggest what?

1191
01:02:25,477 --> 01:02:28,706
These uprisings, is it possible that.

1192
01:02:28,706 --> 01:02:31,569
It is possible that
another mass transplantation

1193
01:02:31,569 --> 01:02:33,570
of population may be necessary.

1194
01:02:33,570 --> 01:02:35,471
We had fostered that plan 30 years ago,

1195
01:02:35,471 --> 01:02:37,268
we shall foster another.

1196
01:02:37,268 --> 01:02:40,601
Let 20 or 30 millions of this should die

1197
01:02:42,330 --> 01:02:45,248
and see how long the
religious faith lives.

1198
01:02:45,248 --> 01:02:47,967
But, if the message is continued?

1199
01:02:47,967 --> 01:02:50,075
We have found the
religious revival necessary

1200
01:02:50,075 --> 01:02:52,606
to get them to fight the Germans.

1201
01:02:52,606 --> 01:02:56,606
We'll have another and
they will fight the West.

1202
01:03:03,896 --> 01:03:05,541
Are you sure the valve's working?

1203
01:03:05,541 --> 01:03:07,237
I've checked it a dozen times.

1204
01:03:07,237 --> 01:03:09,821
There must be some reason
for their silence up there.

1205
01:03:09,821 --> 01:03:11,356
Oh, there can be a thousand.

1206
01:03:11,356 --> 01:03:13,465
We've got two atmospheres to get through.

1207
01:03:13,465 --> 01:03:16,367
Ours may be clear and theirs
may be impenetrable or

1208
01:03:16,367 --> 01:03:18,168
maybe their transmitter's out of wack.

1209
01:03:18,168 --> 01:03:19,602
Maybe the operator's got the measels

1210
01:03:19,602 --> 01:03:22,249
or maybe he's finished his
allotted 300 years or maybe...

1211
01:03:22,249 --> 01:03:24,442
They've said everything
they have to say.

1212
01:03:24,442 --> 01:03:26,692
Maybe the rest is up to us.

1213
01:03:29,125 --> 01:03:30,427
Calling 2B7XK.

1214
01:03:30,427 --> 01:03:32,677
He won't answer, come on.

1215
01:03:33,683 --> 01:03:36,382
There is no need for me in there.

1216
01:03:36,382 --> 01:03:38,359
You can have the honor
of telling the Premier

1217
01:03:38,359 --> 01:03:41,345
that your communication had broke down.

1218
01:03:41,345 --> 01:03:44,428
I don't want to answer his questions.

1219
01:03:50,827 --> 01:03:54,494
(speaking foreign language)

1220
01:04:07,518 --> 01:04:09,982
Talk English, you fool.

1221
01:04:09,982 --> 01:04:13,040
Anything is preferable
to that atrocious accent.

1222
01:04:13,040 --> 01:04:15,095
I'm sorry Comrade Premier.

1223
01:04:15,095 --> 01:04:17,578
Perhaps, if I tried again.

1224
01:04:17,578 --> 01:04:19,778
Has the Patriarch arrived yet.

1225
01:04:19,778 --> 01:04:20,913
(speaking foreign language)

1226
01:04:20,913 --> 01:04:22,330
Call the airport.

1227
01:04:27,911 --> 01:04:29,080
Well?

1228
01:04:29,080 --> 01:04:30,830
There is no answer.

1229
01:04:32,096 --> 01:04:35,763
(speaking foreign language)

1230
01:04:40,806 --> 01:04:42,169
Comrade Premier.

1231
01:04:42,169 --> 01:04:44,507
If I may suggest, the transmitter,

1232
01:04:44,507 --> 01:04:47,087
we could contact the airport with it.

1233
01:04:47,087 --> 01:04:47,920
Hurry!

1234
01:04:52,157 --> 01:04:55,824
(speaking foreign language)

1235
01:05:00,105 --> 01:05:02,352
(speaking foreign language)

1236
01:05:02,352 --> 01:05:03,767
We're trying.

1237
01:05:03,767 --> 01:05:07,434
(speaking foreign language)

1238
01:05:10,599 --> 01:05:14,099
Look, the lights are still on out there.

1239
01:05:15,902 --> 01:05:17,384
(speaking foreign language)

1240
01:05:17,384 --> 01:05:19,551
(singing)

1241
01:05:20,788 --> 01:05:21,621
Singing.

1242
01:05:26,365 --> 01:05:30,532
It was one of the favorite
anthems of the cathedrals.

1243
01:05:33,080 --> 01:05:35,497
(gun firing)

1244
01:05:36,610 --> 01:05:39,110
That will silence their hymns.

1245
01:05:40,270 --> 01:05:43,174
What do the superstitious peasants think?

1246
01:05:43,174 --> 01:05:46,379
They cannot compete against our guns.

1247
01:05:46,379 --> 01:05:48,712
(exploding)

1248
01:05:51,942 --> 01:05:52,775
(crackling)

1249
01:05:52,775 --> 01:05:54,942
(singing)

1250
01:06:01,942 --> 01:06:04,109
(ringing)

1251
01:06:07,676 --> 01:06:09,107
Hello.

1252
01:06:09,107 --> 01:06:11,081
Oh, yes, Dr. Mitchell.

1253
01:06:11,081 --> 01:06:13,633
No, she and Stewart went to
town, haven't got back yet.

1254
01:06:13,633 --> 01:06:16,196
Baby had the sniffles and I.

1255
01:06:16,196 --> 01:06:17,029
What?

1256
01:06:17,994 --> 01:06:19,686
Are you serious?

1257
01:06:19,686 --> 01:06:22,202
Well, yes, yes, right away.

1258
01:06:22,202 --> 01:06:23,202
What that?

1259
01:06:25,614 --> 01:06:26,864
Come on, son.

1260
01:06:31,733 --> 01:06:32,945
[Voiceover] The first program ever

1261
01:06:32,945 --> 01:06:36,515
to be televised to the
Western world from Russia.

1262
01:06:36,515 --> 01:06:39,619
Ladies and gentlemen, the
British ambassador to Moscow.

1263
01:06:39,619 --> 01:06:41,303
And, I have been appointed to speak

1264
01:06:41,303 --> 01:06:43,960
for my fellow members
of the Diplomatic call.

1265
01:06:43,960 --> 01:06:46,672
In days to come, thousands of volumes

1266
01:06:46,672 --> 01:06:48,156
will be written about the miracles

1267
01:06:48,156 --> 01:06:50,277
of these last 12 days.

1268
01:06:50,277 --> 01:06:53,694
The miracle of a nation finding its soul.

1269
01:06:54,648 --> 01:06:59,268
As the messages from Mars
spread throughout the country,

1270
01:06:59,268 --> 01:07:01,272
the heart of the Russian people began

1271
01:07:01,272 --> 01:07:03,842
to swell with an old faith.

1272
01:07:03,842 --> 01:07:07,305
And, spontaneous demonstrations
of that faith took place.

1273
01:07:07,305 --> 01:07:10,691
From the churches, they
moved on the jails.

1274
01:07:10,691 --> 01:07:12,488
The fortresses.

1275
01:07:12,488 --> 01:07:15,092
And, here in Moscow, the arrival yesterday

1276
01:07:15,092 --> 01:07:18,181
of the Patriarch of the
Russian Orthodox Church

1277
01:07:18,181 --> 01:07:21,955
provided the tinder that
burned down the Soviet edifice.

1278
01:07:21,955 --> 01:07:26,122
Thousands of the residents
of this city are now dead.

1279
01:07:27,361 --> 01:07:31,651
They died in the creation
of a new government.

1280
01:07:31,651 --> 01:07:34,798
The Patriarch as its provisional head.

1281
01:07:34,798 --> 01:07:37,745
As the new leader of a new Russia,

1282
01:07:37,745 --> 01:07:39,747
he will speak to you himself.

1283
01:07:39,747 --> 01:07:40,580
Dad.

1284
01:07:41,787 --> 01:07:44,370
(serene music)

1285
01:07:48,572 --> 01:07:52,820
This morning, our armies, in occupation

1286
01:07:52,820 --> 01:07:55,653
of other lands, have been recalled

1287
01:07:56,532 --> 01:07:58,662
to our own soil.

1288
01:07:58,662 --> 01:08:01,476
We have thrown off our chain

1289
01:08:01,476 --> 01:08:03,902
of 40 years of bondage.

1290
01:08:03,902 --> 01:08:07,698
We now free our neighbors of theirs.

1291
01:08:07,698 --> 01:08:09,948
This is the first act

1292
01:08:09,948 --> 01:08:11,781
of our new government.

1293
01:08:12,804 --> 01:08:16,566
The second is the
reopening of our churches

1294
01:08:16,566 --> 01:08:18,424
so that our people

1295
01:08:18,424 --> 01:08:20,459
may worship God

1296
01:08:20,459 --> 01:08:24,996
in freedom and in accord
with their own passions.

1297
01:08:24,996 --> 01:08:27,737
The perils of those churches

1298
01:08:27,737 --> 01:08:29,154
now speak for us.

1299
01:08:30,058 --> 01:08:31,308
They speak only

1300
01:08:32,269 --> 01:08:34,102
what is in our hearts.

1301
01:08:36,316 --> 01:08:37,707
The prayer

1302
01:08:37,707 --> 01:08:40,540
that all man can, henceforth, live

1303
01:08:41,589 --> 01:08:42,422
in peace.

1304
01:08:45,088 --> 01:08:47,631
I wish you were a little older, son.

1305
01:08:47,631 --> 01:08:50,214
I wish you could remember this.

1306
01:08:56,798 --> 01:08:58,881
Now I have to go again.

1307
01:09:10,736 --> 01:09:12,457
You play with it.

1308
01:09:12,457 --> 01:09:14,464
We're famous people,
son, your mother and I.

1309
01:09:14,464 --> 01:09:17,906
Names in the papers,
decorations, scientific awards.

1310
01:09:17,906 --> 01:09:19,967
You know what's really important.

1311
01:09:19,967 --> 01:09:21,044
You.

1312
01:09:21,044 --> 01:09:22,253
You're our immortality.

1313
01:09:22,253 --> 01:09:23,426
You and your brother.

1314
01:09:23,426 --> 01:09:25,921
Kids you'll have and
the lives you'll lead.

1315
01:09:25,921 --> 01:09:28,421
You're the blessed generation.

1316
01:09:29,598 --> 01:09:31,081
Chris.

1317
01:09:31,081 --> 01:09:33,081
Have you heard the news?

1318
01:09:36,787 --> 01:09:38,354
Mitchell called me,
I couldn't believe it.

1319
01:09:38,354 --> 01:09:39,964
I heard it on the car radio.

1320
01:09:39,964 --> 01:09:41,663
Chris, you should see that crowd.

1321
01:09:41,663 --> 01:09:43,702
You should see their faces.

1322
01:09:43,702 --> 01:09:47,869
And, I didn't want the
religious messages released.

1323
01:09:48,720 --> 01:09:51,470
Dad, the Russians' on the radio.

1324
01:09:51,470 --> 01:09:52,637
Sovereign cow.

1325
01:09:54,915 --> 01:09:57,165
(laughing)

1326
01:09:59,647 --> 01:10:01,098
Maybe you've reformed the Russians, Pop,

1327
01:10:01,098 --> 01:10:02,931
but not young hopeful.

1328
01:10:16,777 --> 01:10:18,169
Lin.

1329
01:10:18,169 --> 01:10:19,613
Yes.

1330
01:10:19,613 --> 01:10:21,659
Suppose it's over.

1331
01:10:21,659 --> 01:10:23,762
Communications I mean.

1332
01:10:23,762 --> 01:10:26,193
Suppose we never make it again.

1333
01:10:26,193 --> 01:10:27,709
There's nothing wrong
with the transmitter.

1334
01:10:27,709 --> 01:10:29,987
Atmospheric conditions
won't explain it either.

1335
01:10:29,987 --> 01:10:32,747
No matter how bad they are,
we'd pick up something.

1336
01:10:32,747 --> 01:10:34,830
Would it really matter?

1337
01:10:36,349 --> 01:10:38,343
We talk of their older civilization

1338
01:10:38,343 --> 01:10:39,792
and what have they given us?

1339
01:10:39,792 --> 01:10:42,704
Nothing we couldn't have had all along.

1340
01:10:42,704 --> 01:10:45,693
Prayers were given us
long before wireless.

1341
01:10:45,693 --> 01:10:48,610
[Franz] Good evening, Mr. Cronyn.

1342
01:10:51,211 --> 01:10:52,378
Who are you?

1343
01:10:53,550 --> 01:10:55,383
How'd you get in here?

1344
01:10:57,609 --> 01:10:59,026
My credentials.

1345
01:11:07,413 --> 01:11:09,668
The hydrogen valve.

1346
01:11:09,668 --> 01:11:11,701
The original specifications.

1347
01:11:11,701 --> 01:11:13,684
Where did you get these?

1348
01:11:13,684 --> 01:11:14,800
I drew them.

1349
01:11:14,800 --> 01:11:15,633
Calder.

1350
01:11:16,614 --> 01:11:17,558
Franz Calder.

1351
01:11:17,558 --> 01:11:19,808
Where have you come from?

1352
01:11:20,810 --> 01:11:22,808
This afternoon, you
parked your station wagon

1353
01:11:22,808 --> 01:11:25,272
in front of the post office.

1354
01:11:25,272 --> 01:11:27,808
Didn't look in the back
when you drove home.

1355
01:11:27,808 --> 01:11:30,111
Neither did the guards
that surround your place.

1356
01:11:30,111 --> 01:11:31,614
(laughing)

1357
01:11:31,614 --> 01:11:34,219
This is the most stupendous
joke I've ever heard.

1358
01:11:34,219 --> 01:11:35,414
We thought you were in Russia.

1359
01:11:35,414 --> 01:11:37,092
And, here you were in this
country, all the time.

1360
01:11:37,092 --> 01:11:40,009
Only since yesterday, Mr. Cronyn.

1361
01:11:46,551 --> 01:11:49,384
Wasn't exactly a triumphant entry.

1362
01:11:53,632 --> 01:11:55,482
Mr. Cronyn, did you ever have to crawl

1363
01:11:55,482 --> 01:11:58,561
through the mud beneath
a barbed wire fence?

1364
01:11:58,561 --> 01:12:02,969
Hide like a hunted animal to
avoid the boarder inspectors?

1365
01:12:02,969 --> 01:12:04,647
In heavens name, why?

1366
01:12:04,647 --> 01:12:05,480
Why?

1367
01:12:10,045 --> 01:12:12,479
I developed a dislike of jails.

1368
01:12:12,479 --> 01:12:13,312
Jail?

1369
01:12:13,312 --> 01:12:14,262
Are you out of your mind, man?

1370
01:12:14,262 --> 01:12:16,508
Have you heard nothing of
what's happened in the world?

1371
01:12:16,508 --> 01:12:17,812
In spite of your record, there'd have been

1372
01:12:17,812 --> 01:12:21,732
an open door for the inventor
of the hydrogen valve.

1373
01:12:21,732 --> 01:12:23,626
Which you stole.

1374
01:12:23,626 --> 01:12:25,471
Well, don't talk nonsense.

1375
01:12:25,471 --> 01:12:27,538
Your specifications became
government property.

1376
01:12:27,538 --> 01:12:28,862
Anyone had a right to use them.

1377
01:12:28,862 --> 01:12:31,279
That's a matter of opinion.

1378
01:12:33,276 --> 01:12:34,949
Don't worry, Mr. Calder.

1379
01:12:34,949 --> 01:12:36,243
Chris has given you credit for everything

1380
01:12:36,243 --> 01:12:37,678
that belongs to you.

1381
01:12:37,678 --> 01:12:40,287
Every scientific journal
has given you full credit.

1382
01:12:40,287 --> 01:12:42,321
If you'll forgive me, where I've been,

1383
01:12:42,321 --> 01:12:45,367
the latest scientific
journals were not attained.

1384
01:12:45,367 --> 01:12:48,658
I lived in a hut at
11,000 feet in the Andes.

1385
01:12:48,658 --> 01:12:50,908
An avalanche finished them.

1386
01:12:53,430 --> 01:12:55,263
But, I dug myself out.

1387
01:12:57,215 --> 01:12:58,382
Nine days ago.

1388
01:13:02,038 --> 01:13:04,094
Well, I'm glad you got out anyway.

1389
01:13:04,094 --> 01:13:05,423
We're just about to broadcast.

1390
01:13:05,423 --> 01:13:06,451
You might be interested in seeing...

1391
01:13:06,451 --> 01:13:09,919
You are right, sir, it will amuse me.

1392
01:13:09,919 --> 01:13:10,933
All set, Lin?

1393
01:13:10,933 --> 01:13:11,766
Yes.

1394
01:13:14,655 --> 01:13:16,822
(humming)

1395
01:13:22,220 --> 01:13:24,470
(rattling)

1396
01:13:30,142 --> 01:13:31,182
It's a shame you didn't get a chance

1397
01:13:31,182 --> 01:13:33,228
to carry on your work yourself.

1398
01:13:33,228 --> 01:13:34,688
In a small way, I did.

1399
01:13:34,688 --> 01:13:35,908
You built a transmitter?

1400
01:13:35,908 --> 01:13:36,921
Naturally.

1401
01:13:36,921 --> 01:13:38,838
Then you might have picked up Mars.

1402
01:13:38,838 --> 01:13:41,255
I tried, I never succeeded.

1403
01:13:43,833 --> 01:13:46,198
Alright, Lin, shut it off.

1404
01:13:46,198 --> 01:13:47,394
Well, with your knowledge and the valve,

1405
01:13:47,394 --> 01:13:49,932
you should've succeeded.

1406
01:13:49,932 --> 01:13:52,052
Unless, of course,
atmospherics played tricks

1407
01:13:52,052 --> 01:13:53,355
at that altitude.

1408
01:13:53,355 --> 01:13:55,573
On some people, Mr. Cronyn.

1409
01:13:55,573 --> 01:13:58,780
You won't mind if I take my coat off, huh?

1410
01:13:58,780 --> 01:13:59,613
Yes.

1411
01:14:01,138 --> 01:14:02,948
On some people.

1412
01:14:02,948 --> 01:14:04,484
What do you mean by that?

1413
01:14:04,484 --> 01:14:06,054
Of course, I only
got out with what I had

1414
01:14:06,054 --> 01:14:10,137
in my pockets but I think
this will interest you.

1415
01:14:17,492 --> 01:14:20,911
There our messages and
the replies, all of them.

1416
01:14:20,911 --> 01:14:23,481
The ones that weren't decoded, too.

1417
01:14:23,481 --> 01:14:25,566
Then you did pick up Mars.

1418
01:14:25,566 --> 01:14:26,983
No.

1419
01:14:26,983 --> 01:14:28,436
How else could you get these?

1420
01:14:28,436 --> 01:14:30,434
When did you hear from Mars last?

1421
01:14:30,434 --> 01:14:31,636
Nine days ago, wasn't it?

1422
01:14:31,636 --> 01:14:33,698
A little after eight o'clock.

1423
01:14:33,698 --> 01:14:36,658
Now, you figure the difference in time

1424
01:14:36,658 --> 01:14:40,111
and you'll find it was about half an hour

1425
01:14:40,111 --> 01:14:42,278
before my set was smashed.

1426
01:14:45,598 --> 01:14:46,783
I don't believe it.

1427
01:14:46,783 --> 01:14:51,477
How slow you were in
thinking up that pi formula.

1428
01:14:51,477 --> 01:14:54,594
And, the creation of a vocabulary.

1429
01:14:54,594 --> 01:14:57,311
Aren't you grateful that
I made it so easy for you?

1430
01:14:57,311 --> 01:14:59,561
(laughing)

1431
01:15:03,640 --> 01:15:06,440
Here you were, the whole mobilized science

1432
01:15:06,440 --> 01:15:08,389
of the world behind you.

1433
01:15:08,389 --> 01:15:12,119
And, there was I, alone,
giving you answers.

1434
01:15:12,119 --> 01:15:14,145
You sent the messages.

1435
01:15:14,145 --> 01:15:16,876
The whole thing was a fraud.

1436
01:15:16,876 --> 01:15:19,361
That credit I will share with you.

1437
01:15:19,361 --> 01:15:21,722
Why? What were you after?

1438
01:15:21,722 --> 01:15:22,889
Shall we say

1439
01:15:23,810 --> 01:15:24,643
amusement.

1440
01:15:25,990 --> 01:15:28,905
You thought you'd created a new Earth.

1441
01:15:28,905 --> 01:15:30,405
And, I destroy it.

1442
01:15:31,299 --> 01:15:32,382
A new heaven.

1443
01:15:33,751 --> 01:15:36,301
And, that I shall destroy.

1444
01:15:36,301 --> 01:15:38,137
Once my story is told.

1445
01:15:38,137 --> 01:15:39,637
You can't do it.

1446
01:15:42,994 --> 01:15:46,318
You can see the possibilities
for entertainment, huh?

1447
01:15:46,318 --> 01:15:48,707
Listen to me, Mr. Calder.

1448
01:15:48,707 --> 01:15:51,260
I've two children over there in that house

1449
01:15:51,260 --> 01:15:53,316
and I'm just one of millions.

1450
01:15:53,316 --> 01:15:54,977
Millions of women that,
for the first time,

1451
01:15:54,977 --> 01:15:56,859
know their children are secure.

1452
01:15:56,859 --> 01:15:58,714
You can't destroy that!

1453
01:15:58,714 --> 01:16:02,354
Paradise lost, Mrs.
Cronyn, paradise lost.

1454
01:16:02,354 --> 01:16:04,858
That's my present to the world.

1455
01:16:04,858 --> 01:16:06,007
He's lying, Linda.

1456
01:16:06,007 --> 01:16:07,221
Those messages were from Mars.

1457
01:16:07,221 --> 01:16:08,717
They came from outside the atmosphere.

1458
01:16:08,717 --> 01:16:11,335
You take me for an amateur, huh?

1459
01:16:11,335 --> 01:16:13,658
But, I shot my signals up
to hit the heavy side layer.

1460
01:16:13,658 --> 01:16:15,726
They deflected down at any angle.

1461
01:16:15,726 --> 01:16:19,207
Naturally, they seem to come
from outside the atmosphere.

1462
01:16:19,207 --> 01:16:20,040
No.

1463
01:16:21,534 --> 01:16:25,534
Once I detected your
signals, the rest was easy.

1464
01:16:27,586 --> 01:16:31,753
I could accomplish much more
making you believe I was Mars

1465
01:16:32,815 --> 01:16:35,132
than ever getting past myself.

1466
01:16:35,132 --> 01:16:36,795
- Chris.
- [Chris] What is it?

1467
01:16:36,795 --> 01:16:39,007
He did not send the religious messages.

1468
01:16:39,007 --> 01:16:41,612
Of course I didn't, you know that.

1469
01:16:41,612 --> 01:16:42,776
What do you mean?

1470
01:16:42,776 --> 01:16:44,144
Here are his messages.

1471
01:16:44,144 --> 01:16:46,411
The very first few as we received them.

1472
01:16:46,411 --> 01:16:48,182
But, when we asked how
they've kept themselves

1473
01:16:48,182 --> 01:16:50,816
from blowing each other
to bits, his answer was

1474
01:16:50,816 --> 01:16:53,058
one tribe must hold the power.

1475
01:16:53,058 --> 01:16:55,197
It had nothing to do with
the sermon on the mountain.

1476
01:16:55,197 --> 01:16:57,648
It was the prophet talking to us.

1477
01:16:57,648 --> 01:16:58,815
The prophet.

1478
01:17:00,199 --> 01:17:01,510
Clever of you to create him.

1479
01:17:01,510 --> 01:17:04,093
You played right into my hands.

1480
01:17:07,466 --> 01:17:10,785
I smashed your economic
system with a power panic.

1481
01:17:10,785 --> 01:17:12,844
But, that still left my friends in Moscow.

1482
01:17:12,844 --> 01:17:14,927
I had to smash them, too.

1483
01:17:17,406 --> 01:17:20,941
From my hut, I could see
the statue of Christ.

1484
01:17:20,941 --> 01:17:23,570
I never thought of using him against them.

1485
01:17:23,570 --> 01:17:25,570
Thank you for that idea.

1486
01:17:26,758 --> 01:17:28,413
They must have been desperate.

1487
01:17:28,413 --> 01:17:29,640
Who?

1488
01:17:29,640 --> 01:17:31,853
Carey, Sparks, all of them.

1489
01:17:31,853 --> 01:17:34,033
They must have done this in Washington.

1490
01:17:34,033 --> 01:17:36,347
Darling, you were there.

1491
01:17:36,347 --> 01:17:38,852
You spoke with Sparks and the President.

1492
01:17:38,852 --> 01:17:40,446
Did you think they were play acting?

1493
01:17:40,446 --> 01:17:41,894
I don't know, I don 't know.

1494
01:17:41,894 --> 01:17:43,638
Who did it was immaterial.

1495
01:17:43,638 --> 01:17:44,738
When I saw the effect on Moscow,

1496
01:17:44,738 --> 01:17:47,388
I knew you had created my weapon for me.

1497
01:17:47,388 --> 01:17:50,576
That's why I let you raise the world up

1498
01:17:50,576 --> 01:17:51,512
with all that muck.

1499
01:17:51,512 --> 01:17:53,493
Right up to the sky.

1500
01:17:53,493 --> 01:17:57,660
So, I can dash it down to
hell when I tell my story.

1501
01:18:01,394 --> 01:18:03,397
You can't do it, Calder.

1502
01:18:03,397 --> 01:18:05,359
Who's to stop me?

1503
01:18:05,359 --> 01:18:06,715
God?

1504
01:18:06,715 --> 01:18:09,382
He had his chance nine days ago.

1505
01:18:10,363 --> 01:18:13,140
If I hadn't dug myself out.

1506
01:18:13,140 --> 01:18:15,061
You'd have gotten away with your fraud.

1507
01:18:15,061 --> 01:18:16,571
It was no fraud.

1508
01:18:16,571 --> 01:18:17,988
You'd have won.

1509
01:18:19,269 --> 01:18:20,769
It was no fraud.

1510
01:18:22,055 --> 01:18:23,072
You don't expect me to believe

1511
01:18:23,072 --> 01:18:24,971
those messages were not faked.

1512
01:18:24,971 --> 01:18:26,975
We expect you to believe the truth.

1513
01:18:26,975 --> 01:18:29,176
Just the way the rest
of the world believes.

1514
01:18:29,176 --> 01:18:31,185
Just the way we believe.

1515
01:18:31,185 --> 01:18:33,806
But, here is my proof.

1516
01:18:33,806 --> 01:18:35,725
There have been no messages

1517
01:18:35,725 --> 01:18:38,642
since my transmitter was shattered.

1518
01:18:40,124 --> 01:18:44,291
How will you explain that
to the world, Mr. Cronyn.

1519
01:18:45,709 --> 01:18:48,258
Sermon on the mountain.

1520
01:18:48,258 --> 01:18:49,508
Peace on Earth.

1521
01:18:50,390 --> 01:18:52,503
No, Mrs. Cronyn.

1522
01:18:52,503 --> 01:18:56,586
You are not dealing with
a superstitious peasant.

1523
01:18:59,893 --> 01:19:04,060
If those first messages were
faked, the last were, too.

1524
01:19:05,472 --> 01:19:07,936
The world will believe me.

1525
01:19:07,936 --> 01:19:10,510
Just as your husband believes me.

1526
01:19:10,510 --> 01:19:13,513
And then, you'll all be at
each other's throats again.

1527
01:19:13,513 --> 01:19:14,430
All of you.

1528
01:19:15,456 --> 01:19:17,373
And, I'll have done it.

1529
01:19:18,322 --> 01:19:22,072
Better to reign in hell
than serve in heaven.

1530
01:19:23,249 --> 01:19:26,531
My favorite poem, Mrs. Cronyn.

1531
01:19:26,531 --> 01:19:28,448
The Unconquerable Will.

1532
01:19:29,421 --> 01:19:31,891
And, Study of Revenge.

1533
01:19:31,891 --> 01:19:32,974
Immortal hate

1534
01:19:34,259 --> 01:19:37,342
and courage never to submit or yield.

1535
01:19:38,212 --> 01:19:40,716
That's my God, Mrs. Cronyn.

1536
01:19:40,716 --> 01:19:41,549
Satan.

1537
01:19:42,916 --> 01:19:44,416
Lucifer's my hero.

1538
01:19:45,920 --> 01:19:47,003
God beat him.

1539
01:19:48,888 --> 01:19:51,055
But, I'll have beaten God.

1540
01:19:52,316 --> 01:19:55,066
And, nothing will convince you?

1541
01:19:55,903 --> 01:19:56,736
Nothing.

1542
01:20:10,481 --> 01:20:13,671
It's 8:26 according to your clock.

1543
01:20:13,671 --> 01:20:16,264
I sent a telegram with your name.

1544
01:20:16,264 --> 01:20:19,431
Inviting the press to be here at 8:30.

1545
01:20:26,050 --> 01:20:30,217
I wanted to wait a few minutes
before they hear my story.

1546
01:20:45,904 --> 01:20:47,828
Why didn't you tell it right away?

1547
01:20:47,828 --> 01:20:50,253
Why did you come here to torture us?

1548
01:20:50,253 --> 01:20:52,512
Suppose someone had stolen
the fruits of your genius,

1549
01:20:52,512 --> 01:20:55,832
wouldn't you want to see
them humbled in the dust?

1550
01:20:55,832 --> 01:20:57,050
Perhaps.

1551
01:20:57,050 --> 01:20:58,550
It doesn't matter.

1552
01:21:00,004 --> 01:21:00,837
Linda.

1553
01:21:01,947 --> 01:21:04,325
You go back to the house.

1554
01:21:04,325 --> 01:21:05,615
Do you remember what you said to me

1555
01:21:05,615 --> 01:21:07,595
the night of the first message?

1556
01:21:07,595 --> 01:21:11,497
Nothing I was connected
with could produce evil.

1557
01:21:11,497 --> 01:21:13,547
It won't, Chris.

1558
01:21:13,547 --> 01:21:15,630
We'll finish it together.

1559
01:21:20,840 --> 01:21:23,090
I want you with the boys.

1560
01:21:29,297 --> 01:21:31,591
It'll only take a minute.

1561
01:21:31,591 --> 01:21:34,174
Is that what you really want?

1562
01:21:35,714 --> 01:21:37,381
I love you, darling.

1563
01:21:47,485 --> 01:21:49,568
You do think me a fool.

1564
01:21:50,523 --> 01:21:52,057
You think I let you walk out of here

1565
01:21:52,057 --> 01:21:55,224
to call those timered guards of yours?

1566
01:22:00,885 --> 01:22:03,570
What's the matter, man, cheer up.

1567
01:22:03,570 --> 01:22:05,729
The reporters will be
here in a few minutes.

1568
01:22:05,729 --> 01:22:08,146
You like publicity don't you?

1569
01:22:09,251 --> 01:22:12,168
Two minutes before they get here.

1570
01:22:20,083 --> 01:22:23,129
(somber music)

1571
01:22:23,129 --> 01:22:26,120
Give me a cigarette, Chris.

1572
01:22:26,120 --> 01:22:27,982
I can't go through
with it, Lin, not now.

1573
01:22:27,982 --> 01:22:30,784
The boys are safe, this is their chance.

1574
01:22:30,784 --> 01:22:32,617
Give me the cigarette.

1575
01:22:37,925 --> 01:22:39,215
Funny.

1576
01:22:39,215 --> 01:22:42,570
In all the years, I've
never seen you smoke.

1577
01:22:42,570 --> 01:22:45,570
You're not going to smoke in here.

1578
01:22:48,524 --> 01:22:51,486
God gave us free will, Mr. Calder.

1579
01:22:51,486 --> 01:22:54,322
It's what distinguishes
us from the animals.

1580
01:22:54,322 --> 01:22:57,946
We can choose between good and evil.

1581
01:22:57,946 --> 01:23:00,967
But, if we choose evil now.

1582
01:23:00,967 --> 01:23:02,756
That's the end of the human story.

1583
01:23:02,756 --> 01:23:03,589
Can't let you do it.

1584
01:23:03,589 --> 01:23:05,732
Stay where you are.

1585
01:23:05,732 --> 01:23:08,502
It's a simple problem,
isn't it, Mr. Calder?

1586
01:23:08,502 --> 01:23:10,830
To let you tell your story

1587
01:23:10,830 --> 01:23:13,841
and risk setting mankind at
each other's throats again.

1588
01:23:13,841 --> 01:23:17,924
Or, to see that you keep
silent and save mankind.

1589
01:23:19,444 --> 01:23:20,444
The valve.

1590
01:23:21,873 --> 01:23:23,495
Give me a light.

1591
01:23:23,495 --> 01:23:24,745
Don't, don't.

1592
01:23:25,676 --> 01:23:27,977
The room's alive with hydrogen.

1593
01:23:27,977 --> 01:23:29,395
A spark now would...

1594
01:23:29,395 --> 01:23:32,728
Stop, stop, you wouldn't kill your wife.

1595
01:23:33,570 --> 01:23:34,737
Chris, look.

1596
01:23:36,388 --> 01:23:39,388
(suspenseful music)

1597
01:23:41,565 --> 01:23:43,640
Now, will you believe?

1598
01:23:43,640 --> 01:23:46,208
Your set's destroyed.

1599
01:23:46,208 --> 01:23:48,958
But, there's a message coming in.

1600
01:23:50,439 --> 01:23:52,022
There's your proof.

1601
01:24:00,859 --> 01:24:02,026
No, not now.

1602
01:24:03,057 --> 01:24:04,440
He won't

1603
01:24:04,440 --> 01:24:05,779
beat me now.

1604
01:24:05,779 --> 01:24:06,612
(gun fires)

1605
01:24:06,612 --> 01:24:08,945
(exploding)

1606
01:24:14,364 --> 01:24:16,678
We do not know, and never shall,

1607
01:24:16,678 --> 01:24:18,658
what caused the destruction
of that laboratory

1608
01:24:18,658 --> 01:24:20,502
in California?

1609
01:24:20,502 --> 01:24:24,669
We only know that Chris
and Linda Cronyn are gone.

1610
01:24:25,540 --> 01:24:28,871
And, that in our time, there
will be no more messages

1611
01:24:28,871 --> 01:24:30,309
from Mars.

1612
01:24:30,309 --> 01:24:33,294
For God and his infinite wisdom

1613
01:24:33,294 --> 01:24:36,058
has decreed that the revelations

1614
01:24:36,058 --> 01:24:38,902
which came through them, his servants,

1615
01:24:38,902 --> 01:24:41,655
were sufficient to fulfill his purpose.

1616
01:24:41,655 --> 01:24:43,466
At the very moment when
they were snatched up

1617
01:24:43,466 --> 01:24:45,656
in that chariot of fire,

1618
01:24:45,656 --> 01:24:48,364
into the bosom of truth everlasting,

1619
01:24:48,364 --> 01:24:51,268
a final message was being received.

1620
01:24:51,268 --> 01:24:54,212
Only the first few words of
that message were recorded

1621
01:24:54,212 --> 01:24:57,085
before the explosion cut it short.

1622
01:24:57,085 --> 01:25:01,252
Those words were, "Ye have
done well, my good...".

1623
01:25:02,247 --> 01:25:03,914
The rest is silence.

1624
01:25:04,763 --> 01:25:05,596
Silence.

1625
01:25:07,452 --> 01:25:08,285
No.

1626
01:25:09,476 --> 01:25:12,382
No, for as I speak, the
bells of a million churches

1627
01:25:12,382 --> 01:25:15,049
in every far corner of the earth

1628
01:25:16,058 --> 01:25:20,225
ring out in salutation to
the earth's new day of hope.

1629
01:25:21,608 --> 01:25:24,061
The voices of the joyful

1630
01:25:24,061 --> 01:25:26,369
rise in a thousand hymns.

1631
01:25:26,369 --> 01:25:27,886
Hymns

1632
01:25:27,886 --> 01:25:28,886
not of grief

1633
01:25:30,642 --> 01:25:32,309
but of thanksgiving.

1634
01:25:35,340 --> 01:25:39,507
And, mankind, kneeling in
gratitude for its redemption,

1635
01:25:40,559 --> 01:25:44,974
praise the spirit of
this man and this woman.

1636
01:25:44,974 --> 01:25:48,123
Of them, as of no mortals before them,

1637
01:25:48,123 --> 01:25:50,044
it may be said,

1638
01:25:50,044 --> 01:25:52,961
the whole Earth is their sepulcher.

1639
01:25:54,200 --> 01:25:58,135
And so, the message does
not remain unfinished.

1640
01:25:58,135 --> 01:26:02,106
The miracle we have beheld
has cleansed our souls

1641
01:26:02,106 --> 01:26:05,023
and wiped the scales from our eyes.

1642
01:26:05,925 --> 01:26:08,640
With the new vision given us,

1643
01:26:08,640 --> 01:26:10,732
we, who are left,

1644
01:26:10,732 --> 01:26:12,899
can complete that message.

1645
01:26:14,848 --> 01:26:16,431
"Ye have done well,"

1646
01:26:17,720 --> 01:26:20,137
"good and faithful servants."

1647
01:26:21,639 --> 01:26:22,472
Enter ye

1648
01:26:23,916 --> 01:26:26,083
into the joy of your lord.

1649
01:26:28,571 --> 01:26:29,571
Thy monument

1650
01:26:30,496 --> 01:26:32,163
is a world of peace.

1651
01:26:36,709 --> 01:26:38,718
You're lucky boys.

1652
01:26:38,718 --> 01:26:40,218
You're their sons.

1653
01:26:48,302 --> 01:26:50,552
(singing)