"There is nothing wrong with your television set." "Do not attempt to adjust the picture." "We are controlling transmission." "If we wish to make it louder, we will bring up the volume." "If we wish to make it softer, we will tune it to a whisper." "We will control the horizontal." "We will control the vertical." "We can roll the image, make it flutter." "We can change the focus to a soft blur or sharpen it to crystal clarity." "For the next hour, sit quietly, and we will control all that you see and hear." "We repeat, there is nothing wrong with your television set." "You are about to participate in a great adventure." "You are about to experience the awe and mystery which reaches from the inner mind to..." "Which reaches from the inner mind to..." "Is this the day?" "Is this the beginning of the end?" "There is no time to wonder." "No time to ask, "why is it happening?" "Why is it finally happening?"" "There is time only for fear, for the piercing pain of panic." "Do we pray, or do we merely run now and pray later?" "Will there be a later, or is this the day?" "Or is this the day?" "Gentlemen, Monday's near miss was the fourth such incident since the thermonuclear age began." "So long as the nations of this earth are armed against each other, we're bound to have more such accidents, and eventually, soon, one must prove fatal." "These nations must unite." "We... we must make them unite." "And, gentlemen, we can make them unite." "We're here today to proceed with our plan." "We're here today to proceed with our plan." "It is one of us who must submit to that ordeal." "Now, I don't care what reading of history you take." "The pattern is always the same." "Whenever a bacteria invasion strikes or a fire rages or a wild beast roams the streets, then, and only then, do men stop fighting each other and work together to save themselves." "A common enemy, a common fear." "That is the only answer." "That is the only answer." "If all the men of the earth are threatened by an enemy from a hostile planet..." "Well, gentlemen, we are going to create that enemy out of someone in this room." "Out of someone in this room." "To turn a human being into a thing like that." "Suppose something goes wrong." "The leading biologists and medical men of the world will be examining our enemy from outer space." "And they'll be fooled." "Our studies, our surgical procedures, our entire plan is perfected." "The man who's chosen will be as perfect as that thing in there." "A perfect inhabitant of the planet theta." "A perfect inhabitant of the planet theta." "Perfect?" "Perfect?" "Perfect." "Perfect." "All right, gentlemen." "It's agreed." "We've all written our names." "We've all written our names." ""Allen leighton."" ""Allen leighton."" "Yeah, a little higher to the left." "Ahh." "You know, you could have had a great career in a turkish bath?" "You'll want to know how we're gonna do this." "You'll want to know how we're gonna do this." "We'll call in the specialists as they're needed." "I'm scheduled to do the basic medicine right here on you if you want it that way." "Well, don't just nod, Allen!" "You have to have complete..." "Phil, you're the only guy I choose." "Your entire system's gonna take an incredible jolt." "You have to be able to handle it physically as well as, uh..." "Emotionally." "Now, if you can't, say so." "There's no shame." "We've been through all this." "I know it!" "I don't think it's sunk in yet." "Are you aware we're gonna change every organ in your body?" "Yup." "Yup." "You understand that as soon as I hit you with the calsus- phelexus-medalinc- nuzine hormone, there's no turning back, Allen?" "Yes." "Yes." "Allen!" "Allen!" "Allen!" "Go ahead." "Aren't you gonna let me in?" "I'll be there in a moment, darling." "Go ahead." "Go ahead." "Hi." "Did I break up something important..." "I hope?" "I hope?" "Art critic." "Something about the eyes, red and glassy." "Yeah, all right." "Yeah, all right." "Aw, come on." "I can window shop here." "I'm a married woman." "Oh, isn't that pretty?" "Oh, isn't that pretty?" "Well, it's very pretty." "It's kind of for a special occasion, though, wouldn't you say?" "Oh, do you mean, am I..." "No, not yet." "No, not yet." "Honey, Dr. truxel has warned you that you're just gonna have to forget about that." "Well, Dr. truxel seems to have changed his mind." "Well, what?" "About what?" "Oh, darling, that's what I came in town for today..." "To see him." "Everything's ok." "Heart's stopped murmuring." "It's just beating now." "I can have quintuplets if I want to." "If it only happened 5 years ago." "Oh, Allen, you talk as if we're pushing 80." "Oh, Allen, you talk as if we're pushing 80." "If something happened to me, how would you raise a child alone?" "Happened to you?" "Mm-mmm." "Mm-mmm." "Mark against evil." "Mark against evil." "Phil?" "Phil?" "Respiration's troubled." "Respiration's troubled." "I'm gulping for air." "I'm gulping for air." "That's expected reaction, Allen." "I'll relieve pressure in a minute, so steady yourself." "You'll fall back." "So steady yourself." "You'll fall back." "I have to give you one final jolt, Allen." "Hang tight." "Pressure will go up to 7 atmospheres." "Put on your oxygen mask." "Put on your oxygen mask." "You all right?" "How was it?" "How was what?" "It was your idea." "What was?" "That I should open up a turkish bath." "Let me see the palms of your hands." "Let me see the palms of your hands." "Ah, yes, I see a long journey in your future..." "During which you will become a small, dark stranger." "Your cell structure's taken the nitrogen." "The transfer should go smoothly." "How long until I begin to sound like that?" "Oh, I'm due at my cropogenetic seminar." "You lie here and rest, huh?" "For at least an hour." "Ok." "Ok." "Al, I..." "Al, I..." "Al, I've been avoiding this, but..." "Al, I've been avoiding this, but..." "You'd better begin winding up your activities and decide how best to arrange your..." "Death." "Right." "Death." "Right." "I hate to leave you." "You have to go?" "To Peru of all places?" "I didn't pick it." "I know." "I know." "Sometimes I wish you'd just take some plain old teaching job at a college in podunk." "At a college in podunk." "A little late now, folks." "A little late now, folks." "Yeah." "Yeah." "Still, I wish you high-powered, scientific brains would do something about this world instead of tackling all those others out there." "Instead of tackling all those others out there." "We could use a few good, normal years ourselves." "We could use a few good, normal years ourselves." "What made you say that?" "What, darling?" "What, darling?" "Nothing." "Nothing." "You know what we really need to stop fighting among ourselves?" "Something else to fight." "Somebody else." "Really." "Something has to come along that'll scare us all right out of our skins." "We stop fighting each other, we start fighting the scarecrow, hmm?" "That's a gorgeous solution." "Well, honey, we don't exactly fight it, but we fear it, and so we unite against it." "And if the threat continues long enough, we gradually become used to being united." "We actually grow to like it." "Some scarecrows don't even scare crows." "Some scarecrows don't even scare crows." "One might." "One might." "Yvette." "Allen, I've changed my mind." "I am going to the airport with you." "Well, I, uh..." "Honey, Phil's gotta go out to a meeting after he drops me off, and, uh, you'd have to come home alone, and I'd worry." "Please?" "Please?" "Mark against evil." "Mark against evil." "Allen." "Doctor." "It had to be different enough to have been conceived on the planet theta, yet conform to sound aerodynamic principles." "What are you using for metal?" "We made a spectroscopic analysis, and came up with something that fits theta's mineral formation." "It's 3 times lighter than aluminum, 4 times the tensile strength of steel." "4 times the tensile strength of steel." "Now let me show you our overall plan." "Once we get you into orbit, you'll line up with the Andromeda constellation." "It'll look like you're descending directly from theta." "Then you'll move into the arc here to give you the correct re-entry angle." "And you'll follow the flight pattern right to the u.N." "If you're on schedule, you should get there while the general assembly is in session." "Where do you want me to land, in the middle of the street?" "No." "No." "We want you to come down right on the terrace in front of the secretariat." "It's wide enough." "If I miss by 100 feet, I'll be in the east river." "Don't worry." "The capsule will float, and you can even propel it to the nearest shore." "You better start learning to pilot your ship, Allen." "You better start learning to pilot your ship, Allen." "Don't get too fond of that instrument panel." "You're gonna have one with an infrared display system." "Very quick, Allen." "We've got a lot of work to do back at the lab." "In fact, we should return tonight." "In fact, we should return tonight." "1, 2, 3, 4, 5, 6, 7, 8... 1, 2, 3, 4, 5, 6, 7, 8..." "Want a cigarette?" "No, thanks." "No, thanks." "Any unusual reactions to the treatment?" "Some." "What, nightmares?" "Heart palpitations?" "Terrors?" "Well, I can only sleep for about 20 minutes at a time, then I wake up in a sweat." "Then I wake up in a sweat." "When I think about never seeing yvette again, it gets bad." "Come on." "Don't sit on your fears." "Uncork." "Come on." "Don't sit on your fears." "Uncork." "Can't see how making a fuss is gonna help things any." "Is gonna help things any." "That's courage, Allen, of the highest order." ""Grace under fire."" "You tell her yet?" "You tell her yet?" "Well, you're gonna have to." "You can't keep her hanging, not hearing from me." "I was, uh, waiting until they composed a telegram." "I was, uh, waiting until they composed a telegram." "I'll do it today." "She's coming by for lunch." "She's coming by for lunch." "She'll be here any minute." "She'll be here any minute." "Phil, help!" "Oh, here." "Oh, here." "Hey." "Hey." "You haven't heard from Allen, of course." "You haven't heard from Allen, of course." "Uh, yes, I..." "I have." "Ohh..." "Ohh..." "Oh, that... why didn't he write to me?" "Oh, that... why didn't he write to me?" "They were flying over the andes." "They were flying over the andes." "Why wasn't it in the papers?" "Why wasn't it in the papers?" "It was a secret mission, but I suppose it will be if they ever find the plane." "But I suppose it will be if they ever find the plane." "No." "No." "I don't believe it." "I don't believe it." "If he were dead..." "I would know it." "No, he's not dead." "Yvette... yvette!" "Come on." "Let me take you home." "Come on." "Let me take you home." "Come on." "Come on." "We're all familiar with kidney transplants." "Our problem here is basically the same, except of course, we have massive restructuring to do." "I'll do our first procedure on the digestive tract, combining the esophagus and trachea in one tube." "Why not begin with the blood chemistry exchange of iron to copper?" "I know what you're thinking." "It would facilitate healing, but, uh..." "It's too tricky." "We don't know the overall effect." "Allen?" "Al, what's wrong?" "I was a little wobbly, like I was seasick." "Comes in waves." "When did it start?" "Just now." "Just now." "Well, it could be yesterday's shots, but it should pass." "How bad is it?" "It's nothing I can't handle." "It's nothing I can't handle." "How's yvette?" "How's yvette?" "She loved you very much." "Phil..." "You will take care of her?" "You will take care of her?" "Sorry." "Doctor?" "Doctor?" "I suggest 3 stages." "I suggest 3 stages." "Why not all major work..." "Stomach, lungs, gas diffusion in one operation?" "The healing will take weeks." "How do we keep him alive?" "You're talking about respiration." "We can handle it directly through the bloodstream." "As a matter of fact, that'll give us a chance to recycle slowly from oxygen to nitrogen." "I think it's too much." "Easier on him than going through it 2 or 3 times." "Well, you might be right." "Well, you might be right." "Getting worse?" "Getting worse?" "Allen!" "Listen, there's more to this levitation than just the physical." "I am..." "I'm really able to fly." "Are you aware of that?" "Come on, Allen, snap out of it!" "Snap out of it!" "It's me, Phil gainer!" "No, I know Phil gainer." "Professor gainer." "Dr. gainer." "Dr. gainer." "Herr oberdoktor gainer, allow me to present these mad doctors here, constant as you are of the space-time continuum." "They're globules of solid..." "Propellant." "Come on." "To send me on my long..." "Journey..." "Through the, um, underworld or the overworld." "Now, listen..." "You gotta put, uh..." "Pennies on my eyes." "Ok, now." "Come on." "Come on, lie down." "According to fector's law..." "According to fector's law..." "I'm sorry." "Come on." "I'm sorry." "Come on." "Bzzt!" "Bzzt!" "Heh heh heh!" "We'd better tie him down." "You better catch him fist." "I see you all." "You have fat faces, you know that?" "Baby eyes over baby pouts." "Come on." "Skitter along here on your little rat's feet." "Skitter along here on your little rat's feet." "I am Callahan..." "Uh, Cal... caliban." "With a ph.D." "With a ph.D." "Ha ha ha!" "Baa baa black sheep, have you any krell?" "Upstairs, downstairs, in my lady's nightshade." "All around the town, crying through the locks," ""are the children in their beds?" "Now it's 8:00."" "Stay back." "Stay back." "You think your putty little hands can hold prometheus?" "Odysseus?" "Tycho star?" "Tycho star?" "Goosey, goosey gander, whither you wander?" "Goosey, goosey gander, whither you wander?" "Back." "Stay back." "I turn on this X-ray machine, and it's no more you." "To heaven..." "On the roentgen rays." "On the roentgen rays." "Must be the nitrogen." "Could be any of a dozen things." "Could be any of a dozen things." "Go around that way, and get his attention." "Go on!" "And get his attention." "Go on!" "I want to talk to my son!" "I want to talk to my son!" "Hello?" "Hello?" "Who is it?" "Hello?" "Who is it?" "Who is it?" "Who's there?" "Who's there?" "!" "You had a schizophrenic episode." "When?" "A few days ago." "We've had to keep you under sedation." "I thought it was a nightmare." "You did a lot while I was out." "No, no, no, that's normal tissue growth." "No, no, no, that's normal tissue growth." "Did I hurt anybody?" "No." "And it won't happen again, so don't worry about it." "We found the cause." "It was one of the hormone extracts." "It was one of the hormone extracts." "We're going ahead." "I'll prepare you for surgery." "I'll prepare you for surgery." "You mustn't come in here." "I'm Mrs. leighton." "My husband worked here." "Please stay outside, Mrs. leighton." "What's the matter?" "I want to see Dr. gainer!" "I want to see Dr. gainer!" "Yvette, you mustn't keep coming here." "I have to ask you something." "I have to ask you something." "I came here to get Allen's things, and the strangest feeling came over me." "I can't shake it." "I have the feeling he's here." "Yvette, you've lost someone very close, but..." "You can't keep on with these morbid fantasies." "Allen is gone." "The other night, the phone..." "I went to answer it." "There was no one there, but..." "Yvette, now stop it!" "He's dead." "Accept it." "Please... go home." "Please... go home." "You've got a baby to think about now." "You've got a baby to think about now." "Body temperature?" "Body temperature?" "All right." "All right." "We can suture the abdominal wall." "We can suture the abdominal wall." "It's all yours." "It's all yours." "Starting in the lung cavity." "Attach artificial lung." "Attach artificial lung." "Lungs removed." "Attach nitrogen system." "Attach nitrogen system." "You'd better fix the fluid balance first." "He's coming from a dry planet." "2 microns perceptible moisture." "2 microns perceptible moisture." "Move, artificial lung isn't handling the load." "Hypo!" "Hypo!" "Detach artificial lung." "Detach artificial lung." "Can you hear me?" "It's blasting." "Sorry, Allen, is that better?" "Sorry, Allen, is that better?" "All right, you can answer us." "You're hooked into the voice box." "It'll make the sound for you." "It'll make the sound for you." "Come on, Allen, keep at it." "Imagine how it felt to speak." "Imagine how it felt to speak." "Odd sensation..." "To speak..." "With nothing moving." "You're doing fine." "Go on." "Very little..." "Pain now, but..." "Occasional..." "Bizarre..." "Nerve patterns." "Toothache in arm." "Eyeballs itch." "Headache..." "In back of neck." "How about psychological reactions?" "At first..." "Deep depression." "Lifting now, but feel removed, in limbo." "Thoughts primitive." "Dream of... yvette." "Dream of... yvette." "Dress shops." "Dress shops." "Allen, Dr. herschel's been coordinating plans for your space shot." "He wants to talk to you." "He wants to talk to you." "Is my mic registering?" "Is my mic registering?" "I just spoke to our people on the atoll." "We're flying you out there." "The plan is to send you into orbit as a weather satellite." "The flight has been cleared with the appropriate government agencies." "They have no idea, of course, that we're doing this." "Once in orbit, you will be retro-rocketed to the predesignated position, then begin re-entry sequence to destination." "At arrival, proceed directly to the general assembly." "See that they realize you'rethe first to come, that more can come at any moment." "Allen..." "The laser weapon." "Use it only as an emergency." "Use it only as an emergency." "Is there..." "Anything you want to say before..." "Anything you want to say before..." "Wait." "Can it..." "Really work?" "Really work?" "Allen, there are no absolutes." "You know that better than anyone, but I put your probability of success at... 70, 80%." "Millions of soldiers have gone into battle in wars of hate with less odds and with less cause." "I..." "Did need that." "Thanks." "Thanks." "This is Carl Ford in New York." "The latest on that unknown space capsule, knowledge of whose existence is denied by everyone." "It is now descending to earth." "It will enter our atmosphere at 11:49 A.M., approximately 10 minutes from now." "According to all calculations, it should land in this vicinity." "Listeners are urged not to telephone newspapers or the police." "Stayed tuned to this station for the latest developments." "Is there any indication of it?" "The re-entry pattern is off." "The re-entry pattern is off." "At 11:49, the capsule entered the earth's atmosphere and all radio contact was lost." "Officials are speculating whether the space craft met with an accident, or its radio transmission was cut off by design." "The capsule was last received by the point arquello tracking station." "By the point arquello tracking station." "There he is!" "But he's not on target." "Not at the u.N." "He'll return to the lab." "We must be there." "He'll return to the lab." "We must be there." "Hey, you guys, come here." "Hey, you guys, come here." "Hey, Bert, you think that's that mystery thing they've been talking about on TV?" "How would I know?" "How would I know?" "Let's go take a look." "Let's go take a look." "Ginger!" "Ginger!" "Come back here!" "Ginger!" "Let's get out of here." "What's that?" "What's that?" "United laboratories." "Hurry!" "United laboratories." "Hurry!" "Allen... it's Allen!" "Yvette!" "P-please try to understand." "We thought that..." "We thought that..." "I know what you thought." "I know what you thought." "He told me what you thought." "He told me what you thought." "But how could you think?" "!" "It could've been any of us." "We drew lots." "We drew lots." "Men like you..." "Using tricks." "Using tricks." "A scarecrow would change everything." "A scarecrow would change everything." "You killed him." "You killed him." "And for what?" "And for what?" "Yvette..." "If he could go so far to save us all, maybe everywhere, people..." "Maybe everywhere, people..." "All of us could..." "Might be shamed into stooping just a little to save ourselves." "Scarecrows and magic and other fatal fears do not bring people closer together." "There is no magic substitute for soft caring and hard work, for self-respect and mutual love." "If we can learn this from the mistake these frightened men made, then their mistake will not have been merely grotesque." "It will at least have been a lesson, a lesson at last to be learned." "A lesson at last to be learned." "We now return control of your television set to you until next week at this same time, when the control voice will to you to..." "When the control voice will to you to..."