1. Shared by http://DJJ.HOME.SAPO.PT/Copy !req
2. You unlock this door
with the key of imagination.Copy !req
3. Beyond it
is another dimension-Copy !req
4. a dimension of sound,Copy !req
5. a dimension of sight,Copy !req
6. a dimension of mind.Copy !req
7. You're moving into a land
of both shadow and substance,Copy !req
8. of things and ideas.Copy !req
9. You've just crossed over
into the twilight zone.Copy !req
10. Okay, and thank you for calling.Copy !req
11. Yeah.Copy !req
12. We'll be watching.Copy !req
13. That was
colonel connacher, honey.Copy !req
14. He says daddy is just fine.Copy !req
15. Will he... will he
be going up soon?Copy !req
16. In just about
an hour.Copy !req
17. That's what
colonel connacher said.Copy !req
18. Do you want
to go back to sleep?Copy !req
19. I don't blame you.
I can't sleep either.Copy !req
20. I'll tell you what.Copy !req
21. I'll make some
coffee for meCopy !req
22. and some cocoa
for you.Copy !req
23. And you wash your
face and handsCopy !req
24. and comb your hair.Copy !req
25. And then we'll turn on
the television set, okay?Copy !req
26. Okay.Copy !req
27. Be safe, bob.Copy !req
28. Be safe, darling.Copy !req
29. And come back.Copy !req
30. In the vernacular of space
this is t minus one hour-Copy !req
31. 60 minutes before a human being
named major robert gainesCopy !req
32. is lifted off from
the mother earth and rocketedCopy !req
33. into the sky
farther and longerCopy !req
34. than any man ahead of him.Copy !req
35. Call this one of the first
faltering steps of manCopy !req
36. to sever the umbilical cord
of gravityCopy !req
37. and stretch out a fingertip
toward an unknown.Copy !req
38. Shortly, we'll join
this astronaut named gainesCopy !req
39. and embark on an adventure,
because the environs overhead-Copy !req
40. the stars, the sky,
the infinite space-Copy !req
41. are all part
of a vast question markCopy !req
42. known as the twilight zone.Copy !req
43. Huh. Pulse normal?Copy !req
44. Reasonable.Copy !req
45. Someplace between
nonchalance and panic.Copy !req
46. I know the feeling.Copy !req
47. I called helen. She's fine.Copy !req
48. Says to tell you
they'll be waiting.Copy !req
49. Bless you for that.Copy !req
50. Do you have any messages
for the angels?Copy !req
51. Hmm... give them a kiss for me-
any that you meet.Copy !req
52. On my last orbit, I'll lasso
a pair of gossamer wingsCopy !req
53. and ship them down
to you air express- collect.Copy !req
54. Kind of an odd feeling,Copy !req
55. knowing I'll be moving
around the earth for a week.Copy !req
56. That's progress.Copy !req
57. Gus grissom went 302 miles,Copy !req
58. glenn made three orbits,
schirra handled six.Copy !req
59. And you, bobby boy, are
going to go round and round.Copy !req
60. And, when you come back down,
maybe we'll be that much closerCopy !req
61. to filing a claim
on some more sky.Copy !req
62. Good luck, buddy.Copy !req
63. Thanks, bill.
Thanks a lot.Copy !req
64. This is capcom.Copy !req
65. Time is now at
t minus one minute
and counting.Copy !req
66. Better hurry.Copy !req
67. This is capcom.Copy !req
68. The mx ten countdown
is now t minus
25 seconds.Copy !req
69. T minus 20 secondsCopy !req
70. 19...Copy !req
71. 18...Copy !req
72. 17... 16...Copy !req
73. 15... 14...Copy !req
74. 13... 12...Copy !req
75. 11...Copy !req
76. ten...Copy !req
77. nine... eight...Copy !req
78. seven... six...Copy !req
79. five... four...Copy !req
80. three... two... one...Copy !req
81. zero.Copy !req
82. Go ahead, ten.
We read you loud and clear.Copy !req
83. Zero g, and I feel fine.Copy !req
84. Spacecraft is beginning
to turn now.Copy !req
85. Roger.Copy !req
86. Turnaround has started.Copy !req
87. Spacecraft is almost over.Copy !req
88. I can see the booster just
a couple of yards behind me.Copy !req
89. It's quite a sight.Copy !req
90. Roger, ten. We still
read you loud and clear.Copy !req
91. Next transmission, bermuda.Copy !req
92. Roger. Understand
next transmission, bermuda.Copy !req
93. Phebus ten, bermuda.Copy !req
94. Capcom tech on hm.Copy !req
95. Phebus ten,Copy !req
96. this is zanzibar captech.Copy !req
97. We have solid
telemetry contact.Copy !req
98. Phebus ten.Copy !req
99. Capcom calling phebus ten.Copy !req
100. We now have I.o.s., over.Copy !req
101. Phebus ten, your
voice transmissionsCopy !req
102. are starting to
fade very badly.Copy !req
103. Capcom, capcom,
this is phebus ten.Copy !req
104. I've lost contact with you.Copy !req
105. I've lost radar here!
I've lost radar!Copy !req
106. We don't have
contact here, either.Copy !req
107. No contact at all.Copy !req
108. Capcom tech calling phebus ten.Copy !req
109. Capcom, capcom,
this is phebus ten.Copy !req
110. Open the blinds,
nurse.Copy !req
111. Yes, doctor.Copy !req
112. Well, how
about it, gaines?Copy !req
113. Can you talk?Copy !req
114. Sure.Copy !req
115. Sure, I can talk.Copy !req
116. Hey, billy.Copy !req
117. What happened?Copy !req
118. Well, we were waitingCopy !req
119. for you to wake up
to tell us, bob.Copy !req
120. Tell you?Copy !req
121. I can't tell you anything,
I blacked out.Copy !req
122. We lost you
on radarCopy !req
123. and radio.Copy !req
124. Absolutely
no contact.Copy !req
125. It boils down
to this, gaines-Copy !req
126. you're the only one
who can explain it.Copy !req
127. I can't explain anything.Copy !req
128. I had an odd sensation.Copy !req
129. Last thing I remember
is the 15th orbit.Copy !req
130. After that,
I don't remember anythingCopy !req
131. except this bed.Copy !req
132. I couldn't reach
the cape at all.Copy !req
133. I kept trying.Copy !req
134. Why don't you let him
get some sleep?Copy !req
135. I think he'll feel
a little clearer later on.Copy !req
136. I won't be any clearer
than I am right now.Copy !req
137. How could you lose me on radar?Copy !req
138. Bill, do you mean to tell meCopy !req
139. every single tracking
station blacked out?Copy !req
140. Really, gentlemen, I...Copy !req
141. just one last
question, please.Copy !req
142. Bob, there's
only one wayCopy !req
143. you could head
back toward earth.Copy !req
144. That's just to spiral in,
and then head for water.Copy !req
145. Your spacecraft
was found, intact,Copy !req
146. 46 miles from where
you were launched.Copy !req
147. Intact, bob,
on the ground.Copy !req
148. There was no evidence
of any damage,Copy !req
149. not even a dent.Copy !req
150. Somehow, some way, you
brought that spacecraft in,Copy !req
151. and you landed her.Copy !req
152. Tell me how.Copy !req
153. Would you please explain to meCopy !req
154. how you performed
an absolutely impossible act?Copy !req
155. I didn't.Copy !req
156. I had nothing
to do with it.Copy !req
157. I blacked out, general.
I simply blacked out.Copy !req
158. There was some
factor up there,Copy !req
159. something which I had
no control over,Copy !req
160. something which must have...Copy !req
161. must have taken over for me.Copy !req
162. Hmm. Okay, uh...Copy !req
163. we'll talk
about it later.Copy !req
164. This whole thing is
temporarily classified-Copy !req
165. I mean everything about it.Copy !req
166. We'll simply make
the statementCopy !req
167. that he regained
entry and he landed.Copy !req
168. He's shaken up but
not seriously hurt.Copy !req
169. And that's the feed.
No extensions,Copy !req
170. no enlargements
beyond that
simple statement.Copy !req
171. After we've been
able to probe this
thing a little while,Copy !req
172. we might be able
to come up with
something we can let go.Copy !req
173. But, in the meantime,
it's a one-line release.Copy !req
174. "He got
back down." unquote.Copy !req
175. You get some
rest, bob.Copy !req
176. Talk to
you later.Copy !req
177. Yeah, you, uh...Copy !req
178. sleep it off.Copy !req
179. There's an explanation
for everything.Copy !req
180. Well, don't worry about it now.Copy !req
181. You're, uh, all doped up,Copy !req
182. and you're also dead tired.Copy !req
183. You sleep it off,
and I'll see
what I can doCopy !req
184. about getting you a
leave to get on home.Copy !req
185. So rest easy, pal.Copy !req
186. Bill?Copy !req
187. All along, I thoughtCopy !req
188. there was some kind
of malfunction up there-Copy !req
189. fuel or propulsion
or just communication.Copy !req
190. Maybe the malfunction
was closer to home.Copy !req
191. Maybe it was
right up here
between my ears.Copy !req
192. Maybe astronaut robert gaines
went off the tracks.Copy !req
193. Maybe he couldn't
cut the mustard.Copy !req
194. Look, you talk like that-
you think like that-Copy !req
195. and you'll come around
to believing it.Copy !req
196. And that's stupid, bob.Copy !req
197. We're dealing with
nine natural lawsCopy !req
198. plus a whole string
of imponderables.Copy !req
199. And reasons are going
to come out-Copy !req
200. legitimate, rational reasons.Copy !req
201. Now, you just lie there
and breathe through your nose.Copy !req
202. I'll call
helen againCopy !req
203. and tell her
you're restingCopy !req
204. and you'll
be home soon.Copy !req
205. Will I? Will I be home?Copy !req
206. Yeah. Unless you persuade
all the people around hereCopy !req
207. that you need an attendant.Copy !req
208. Dream good.Copy !req
209. I'll see you later.Copy !req
210. Well?Copy !req
211. Oh, it'll all come
out in the wash.Copy !req
212. Will it?Copy !req
213. Let me tell you
something, colonel...Copy !req
214. a man is sent up into space,
and then he orbits.Copy !req
215. There are only three ways
he can break off contact.Copy !req
216. One is ionization,
and that didn't occur.Copy !req
217. The other is sunspots,
and that didn't occur.Copy !req
218. The third is the man's death,Copy !req
219. and he's lying there
on that bedCopy !req
220. breathing five by five.Copy !req
221. All right, I'm waiting
for a fresh alternative,Copy !req
222. one I can take
without flinching.Copy !req
223. One maybe I can repeat
to the presidentCopy !req
224. without worrying about him
sticking me in a rubber room.Copy !req
225. What happened to gaines?Copy !req
226. Where was he
for six solid hoursCopy !req
227. when nobody in the world
could find him?Copy !req
228. How did he make a reentry
without burning up into a flake?Copy !req
229. Sometime we'll
have to ask him.Copy !req
230. Give her my love.Copy !req
231. Thanks for services rendered.Copy !req
232. I'll talk to you later.Copy !req
233. No question about it.Copy !req
234. Home, james.Copy !req
235. Welcome home.Copy !req
236. What's the matter, bob?Copy !req
237. Is that what you
did for therapy
while I was gone-Copy !req
238. put up that fence?Copy !req
239. What do you mean?Copy !req
240. That fence wasn't there
when I left last week.Copy !req
241. Are you kidding me?Copy !req
242. That fence was there
when we bought the house.Copy !req
243. Outer space does things
to memories, doesn't it?Copy !req
244. Yeah.Copy !req
245. Yeah, so it appears.Copy !req
246. America's latest manned
orbital spaceflightCopy !req
247. ends on a note of mystery today.Copy !req
248. With a cloak of secrecy being
placed over the entire project.Copy !req
249. Millions were watching
the orbital flightCopy !req
250. on television when, suddenly,Copy !req
251. the pictures were interrupted
with a terse announcementCopy !req
252. that no further coverage
would be forthcoming.Copy !req
253. General stanley eatonCopy !req
254. announced late this afternoon
that further informationCopy !req
255. would be forthcoming
at a later dateCopy !req
256. but that, for the moment,Copy !req
257. all aspects
of astronaut gaines' flightCopy !req
258. would continue
to be top secretCopy !req
259. pending further
investigation of data.Copy !req
260. You got any more
coffee out there?Copy !req
261. I'm making some.Copy !req
262. It'll be better in a minute.Copy !req
263. I'm going upstairs
and put on a bathrobe.Copy !req
264. I'll be right back.Copy !req
265. Do you want maggie
to go get it for you?Copy !req
266. Both you and maggie
have been treating meCopy !req
267. like a cross between
an eccentric millionaireCopy !req
268. and a piece
of fragile dresden.Copy !req
269. I'll get my own
bathrobe, woman.Copy !req
270. Be right back.Copy !req
271. That's funny.Copy !req
272. Some chicken colonel
back at the baseCopy !req
273. is going to be running
home in his undershirt.Copy !req
274. Bob, your
coffee's ready.Copy !req
275. You want us to
bring you up a cup?Copy !req
276. No, honey. I'll be right down.Copy !req
277. Want to hear something funny?Copy !req
278. I ran off
with somebody's shirt-Copy !req
279. a full colonel's, no less.Copy !req
280. Bob?Copy !req
281. What?Copy !req
282. Are you all right?Copy !req
283. Helen...Copy !req
284. without trying
to scare you,Copy !req
285. and without trying
to make you wonderCopy !req
286. whether I've still
got all my marbles,Copy !req
287. I'd like to ask
you a question.Copy !req
288. What is it?Copy !req
289. When I left-Copy !req
290. when I walked out of here-Copy !req
291. what was my rank?Copy !req
292. Your rank?Copy !req
293. What was my rank?Copy !req
294. What do you mean?Copy !req
295. Wasn't I a major?Copy !req
296. Haven't I been
a major for 13 months?Copy !req
297. Are you serious?Copy !req
298. No, I'm playing games with you.Copy !req
299. Helen, I want you to tell me.Copy !req
300. You're a colonel, bob.Copy !req
301. You're a
full colonel.Copy !req
302. You've been a
colonel since
last march.Copy !req
303. Last march?Copy !req
304. Last march.Copy !req
305. I want to say
something to you now.Copy !req
306. I, um...Copy !req
307. I don't know what
happened up there.Copy !req
308. I have no idea.Copy !req
309. But, uh...Copy !req
310. I know you
don't wantCopy !req
311. to talk
about it-Copy !req
312. that's why we haven't
said anything- but, uh...Copy !req
313. something must
have happened, bob.Copy !req
314. Some delusions.Copy !req
315. Some distortions.Copy !req
316. Like that fence
outside the house.Copy !req
317. I don't remember it.Copy !req
318. And yet you said
it had been thereCopy !req
319. when we bought
the house.Copy !req
320. And that business
with bill connacher.Copy !req
321. He told me he called you
before the flight.Copy !req
322. He made it
a point to tell me.Copy !req
323. And then, afterward...Copy !req
324. afterward, he said
there'd been no such
phone conversation.Copy !req
325. It's unimportant.Copy !req
326. It's insignificant, really.Copy !req
327. And yet...Copy !req
328. and yet it all
seems to be partCopy !req
329. of some sort
of crazy pattern.Copy !req
330. Something is very wrong,Copy !req
331. because he did
tell me he called.Copy !req
332. That fence wasn't there,
and those eagles have never beenCopy !req
333. on my collar before
because, when I left
here, I was a major.Copy !req
334. You, um...
you told me onceCopy !req
335. that there are whole
areas of space medicineCopy !req
336. that we know
practically
nothing about.Copy !req
337. Phenomena and
reaction patternsCopy !req
338. that can only
be guessed at.Copy !req
339. I'm sure this
is one of them.Copy !req
340. I'm sure there's nothing
wrong with you but a...Copy !req
341. couple of fixationsCopy !req
342. that are going
to go away with time.Copy !req
343. Now...Copy !req
344. let's go downstairs
and have a cup
of coffee.Copy !req
345. And don't let
a white fenceCopy !req
346. and a promotion end
the world for you.Copy !req
347. If that's as far as it goes,
I'll try not to.Copy !req
348. But what if...Copy !req
349. what if other things...?Copy !req
350. Um...Copy !req
351. I'd like colonel
william connacher, please.Copy !req
352. I was, uh...Copy !req
353. I was just, uh...Copy !req
354. going to call
bill connacherCopy !req
355. to ask him
if he'd like to...Copy !req
356. like to what?Copy !req
357. Come over for dinner.Copy !req
358. Bob, I, uh...
I just called billCopy !req
359. to have him give me
some reassurance.Copy !req
360. I remember that...
that he said onceCopy !req
361. that there are some aspects
to prolonged weightlessnessCopy !req
362. that makes...Copy !req
363. look, really, like I
said, I'm all right.Copy !req
364. It's you people
I'm worried about.Copy !req
365. Now, where's
my coffee?Copy !req
366. I'll get it for you.Copy !req
367. Don't break any more
saucers, mother's helper.Copy !req
368. I'll try not to.Copy !req
369. Helen?Copy !req
370. Helen, I think it'd
be a whole lot better-Copy !req
371. a whole lot better- if we
dropped all the pretenses.Copy !req
372. If you think there's something
wrong with me, just say so.Copy !req
373. And honey,
I'd consider it
a real favor-Copy !req
374. a major favor- if you wouldn't
walk past me on tiptoeCopy !req
375. with forced smilesCopy !req
376. and "there's nothing
wrong with you" dialogue.Copy !req
377. All right?Copy !req
378. All right.Copy !req
379. Ahh!Copy !req
380. I helped mommy
make the pie.Copy !req
381. You know, someday, I'm going
to lose you to a navy ensignCopy !req
382. who'll marry you
for your father's moneyCopy !req
383. and your cooking.Copy !req
384. Now, honey, you know
I don't take sugar.Copy !req
385. Maggie...Copy !req
386. honey, what's
the matter?Copy !req
387. Nothing.Copy !req
388. Nothing's
the matter.Copy !req
389. Maggie, here.Copy !req
390. Tell daddy
what's the matter.Copy !req
391. Daddy...Copy !req
392. daddy, you're different.Copy !req
393. Well, how, honey?Copy !req
394. How am I different?Copy !req
395. I don't know.Copy !req
396. I don't know, but you are.Copy !req
397. Youaredifferent.Copy !req
398. You're very different. There...Copy !req
399. there's something
wrong.Copy !req
400. Maggie!Copy !req
401. What does
she mean?Copy !req
402. I don't know.Copy !req
403. What does
she mean?Copy !req
404. What does she mean,
I'm different?Copy !req
405. Well, am I?Copy !req
406. Am I, helen?Copy !req
407. Have I changed
somehowCopy !req
408. between now
and when I left?Copy !req
409. I can't...Copy !req
410. I can't
explain it to you.Copy !req
411. I don't know how.Copy !req
412. I have changed,
haven't I?Copy !req
413. There is something
different about me.Copy !req
414. The child sensed it.Copy !req
415. You have, too.Copy !req
416. You have,
haven't you?Copy !req
417. Yes, I have.Copy !req
418. How?Copy !req
419. I...Copy !req
420. I don't know. I...Copy !req
421. I just don't
know. It's...Copy !req
422. it's just that you're...
you're not the same somehow.Copy !req
423. You didn't have to
call bill connacher.Copy !req
424. That wasn't necessary.Copy !req
425. Tomorrow I'll turn myself in
for psychiatric help.Copy !req
426. I don't know what it is
that happened.Copy !req
427. Something did.Copy !req
428. Something is
tearing us all apart.Copy !req
429. Something so remote, we can't
even put it into words.Copy !req
430. Something...
something, until we
find out what it is,Copy !req
431. it's going
to wreck us, helen.Copy !req
432. Ivan, there was nothing
he could tell youCopy !req
433. that occurred in spaceCopy !req
434. that could give us some key
or something to all this?Copy !req
435. Nothing that he
could relate to me.Copy !req
436. I wouldn't recommend that
he remain here, however.Copy !req
437. For the time being,
I'd like to treat him
as an outpatient.Copy !req
438. Have him come in
at intervals,Copy !req
439. but in no way suggest
to him that he's inCopy !req
440. an aberrant condition requiring
psychological treatment.Copy !req
441. This is one
of those instancesCopy !req
442. where the psychology
of the situationCopy !req
443. requires
very careful handling.Copy !req
444. We're right back
where we started, then.Copy !req
445. Uh... mrs. Gaines, I don't
mean to sound callous.Copy !req
446. He's an exceptional gentleman,
that husband of yours.Copy !req
447. I think he'll be out
of the woods in no time.Copy !req
448. My concern happens to be,
very specifically,Copy !req
449. a space project, not a man.Copy !req
450. I understand, sir.Copy !req
451. Mrs. Gaines,
what about that fence?Copy !req
452. It was there when
we bought the house.Copy !req
453. And when did he seem
surprised that it was there?Copy !req
454. The moment that he came
home yesterday morning.Copy !req
455. Really a very strange
collection of delusions.Copy !req
456. A white picket fence...Copy !req
457. a story...Copy !req
458. his own rank...Copy !req
459. and the last thing he said
was he doubted very muchCopy !req
460. if president kennedy
would pin any medals on him.Copy !req
461. President who?Copy !req
462. Kennedy.Copy !req
463. Someone named john kennedy.Copy !req
464. Who's john kennedy?Copy !req
465. Someone who
colonel gaines has decidedCopy !req
466. is president of
the united states.Copy !req
467. And I share your bewilderment.Copy !req
468. I never heard of him either.Copy !req
469. Twilight zonewill continue
after station identification.Copy !req
470. It isn't easy to say.Copy !req
471. Well...Copy !req
472. if it isn't
easy to say,Copy !req
473. then it's
better said,Copy !req
474. so get it out.Copy !req
475. Maggie's
noticed it, too.Copy !req
476. Noticed what?Copy !req
477. That there's something...Copy !req
478. there's something
differentabout him.Copy !req
479. It's something I can't
put my finger on, but...Copy !req
480. there's some...
there's something different.Copy !req
481. Suggesting what?Copy !req
482. Suggesting nothing.Copy !req
483. Something or everything.Copy !req
484. What can it suggest?Copy !req
485. Simply that there's
a man in my house who...Copy !req
486. a man in your house who what?Copy !req
487. The question is, a man
in my house whoiswhat?Copy !req
488. Better, a man in
my house who is who?Copy !req
489. I think you just overshot me,Copy !req
490. unless I'm reading
you very wrong.Copy !req
491. No, maybe you're
reading me very right.Copy !req
492. Reassure me, bill.Copy !req
493. Tell me that,
uh... this thingCopy !req
494. my daughter and I
have this ice-cold
feeling about is way off.Copy !req
495. Tell us that we're
just being carried awayCopy !req
496. by his problem.Copy !req
497. Tell us...Copy !req
498. tell us...Copy !req
499. tell us that the
man in this house
is bob gaines.Copy !req
500. Hello, bill.Copy !req
501. How are you?Copy !req
502. Fine.Copy !req
503. I just dropped over
to see how you were.Copy !req
504. Me?Copy !req
505. Well, that depends.Copy !req
506. Depends on just what are the
current standards for sanity-Copy !req
507. the acceptable outer limits.Copy !req
508. I've been going over a set
of encyclopedias up there,Copy !req
509. and jotting down some notes.Copy !req
510. I've uncovered some
very revealing items.Copy !req
511. There are some pretty
basic historical factsCopy !req
512. that simply don't jibe.Copy !req
513. For example,Copy !req
514. it talks about
a man named andersonCopy !req
515. who was sent
by the united states governmentCopy !req
516. to supervise the construction
of the panama canal.Copy !req
517. So?Copy !req
518. So, I never heard
of anyone
named anderson.Copy !req
519. It happened
to be a man
named goethals.Copy !req
520. It also talks about an american
ace named eddie rickenbackerCopy !req
521. from world war I
who was lost on a raftCopy !req
522. in the next war and never found.Copy !req
523. That's right.Copy !req
524. He crashed, and that
was the end of it.Copy !req
525. But that wasn't the end of it.Copy !req
526. The raft was found.Copy !req
527. Rickenbacker was saved.Copy !req
528. He became the president
of an airlines company.Copy !req
529. I've got dozens of items
like that.Copy !req
530. Men talked about
who never existed.Copy !req
531. Men who existed
and not even mentioned.Copy !req
532. Historical events that I know
happened a certain wayCopy !req
533. somehow, according to
the encyclopedia,Copy !req
534. didn't happen,
or happened another way.Copy !req
535. The things I remember
are not delusions.Copy !req
536. They're the legitimate
recollections of things
as I remember them.Copy !req
537. But somehow, some way,Copy !req
538. this world seems to have
turned upside down for me.Copy !req
539. Well, not in
every way, you understand.Copy !req
540. Uh... by and large,
the people are the same.Copy !req
541. The names,
the streets,Copy !req
542. the mutual recollections
we all haveCopy !req
543. of people and events.Copy !req
544. It's as if there were...Copy !req
545. there were another world
parallel to mine.Copy !req
546. As if this world
were almost a twin,Copy !req
547. except for
some minor differencesCopy !req
548. that happened somewhere
along the line of evolution.Copy !req
549. Bob, for the
love of heaven...Copy !req
550. do you want to follow
that line of reasoning?Copy !req
551. Because, if you do,
there are a coupleCopy !req
552. of built-in conditions
that go along with it.Copy !req
553. Conditions that
I don't think youCopy !req
554. or anyone else
wants to admit.Copy !req
555. First and foremost,Copy !req
556. they happen to
be that if all
this is true-Copy !req
557. if you suddenly uncovered
a theoryCopy !req
558. that there are two earths,Copy !req
559. two sets of people,
two histories-Copy !req
560. and you somehow, inexplicably,Copy !req
561. crossed over to
the other dimension-Copy !req
562. then you're not
who we think you are.Copy !req
563. And we're not
who you think we are.Copy !req
564. Maggie?Copy !req
565. Bob!Copy !req
566. Let's get it out,
shall we?Copy !req
567. I'm so sick of
tiptoeing and whispers.Copy !req
568. Maggie!Copy !req
569. Come down here, baby.Copy !req
570. Come down right away.Copy !req
571. Honey...Copy !req
572. think this over
before you answer...Copy !req
573. but answer.Copy !req
574. Who am I, honey?Copy !req
575. Tell mommy and colonel
connacher who I am.Copy !req
576. Bob, please.Copy !req
577. No.Copy !req
578. Now, sweetheart...Copy !req
579. you say whatever's on your mind.Copy !req
580. Tell them who I am.Copy !req
581. I don't know who you are.Copy !req
582. Maggie, this
is your daddy.Copy !req
583. This is
your daddy.Copy !req
584. He's not my daddy.Copy !req
585. I don't know who he is.Copy !req
586. Oh, that wasn't fair.Copy !req
587. You've taken a little
child, impressionable-Copy !req
588. you've superimposed
on her your own doubts.Copy !req
589. I've done nothing
of the sort.Copy !req
590. I merely let her
say out loudCopy !req
591. what helen's been
thinking all along.Copy !req
592. And, heaven help me,
what I've been thinking.Copy !req
593. What you've just
told me is fantastic.Copy !req
594. How can you possibly...?Copy !req
595. It's incredible.Copy !req
596. Incredible.Copy !req
597. I helped build that spacecraft.Copy !req
598. I know it very well.Copy !req
599. And this oneCopy !req
600. is not the same one
we sent off.Copy !req
601. It's almost
a twin to it,Copy !req
602. down to the very
last nut and bolt,Copy !req
603. but it's simply not
the same spacecraft.Copy !req
604. It's a different vehicle.Copy !req
605. It's almost as if it came
out of the same mold,Copy !req
606. but every now and then-Copy !req
607. in the wiring,
in the control panel
and in the structure-Copy !req
608. there's a tiny
insignificant alteration.Copy !req
609. You add them all upCopy !req
610. and you come up with one
very irrevocable fact:Copy !req
611. Colonel gaines went up
in one spacecraft,Copy !req
612. but he's obviously
come back in another.Copy !req
613. That leaves us
with two alternatives.Copy !req
614. Colonel gaines
actually blacked outCopy !req
615. and has no knowledge
of what occurred.Copy !req
616. Or two:Copy !req
617. Colonel gaines is not
who we think he is.Copy !req
618. Colonel...Copy !req
619. I want you to examine
this vehicle carefully.Copy !req
620. I want you to be
able to say to me,Copy !req
621. without a single
shred of doubt,Copy !req
622. that this is the spacecraft
you were sent up in,Copy !req
623. and the spacecraft
you came down in.Copy !req
624. This is of the essence now.Copy !req
625. Phebus ten, bermuda.Copy !req
626. Capcom tech m.h.m.Copy !req
627. You understand me?Copy !req
628. What?Copy !req
629. What's the matter with you?Copy !req
630. Bob, what the general
is trying to get atCopy !req
631. is that there areCopy !req
632. delusions that a man
can suffer under stress.Copy !req
633. Now, all we want to do now is
try to retrace the chronologyCopy !req
634. from the blastoff
through the orbits.Copy !req
635. And we want you
to check over
this capsule.Copy !req
636. I am talking about
a microscopic check, now, bob.Copy !req
637. We want to make
absolutely certainCopy !req
638. that we can separate
what is delusionCopy !req
639. from what might
conceivably beCopy !req
640. an incredible
series of events.Copy !req
641. The weather in the recovery are
is excellent.Copy !req
642. Bob, what's the matter with you?Copy !req
643. Three-foot waves,
only one-tenth cloud coverage,Copy !req
644. ten miles visibility.Copy !req
645. Don't you hear that voice?Copy !req
646. Phebus ten, phebus ten...Copy !req
647. capcom tech, do you read me?Copy !req
648. Don't you hear that voice?Copy !req
649. What are you talking about?Copy !req
650. What voice are
you talking about?Copy !req
651. Leave the retro package onCopy !req
652. through the entire reentry.Copy !req
653. Gaines will have to override...Copy !req
654. that voice.Copy !req
655. to 0.05...Copy !req
656. that voice!Copy !req
657. Retract the scope.Copy !req
658. Do you read?Copy !req
659. Don't you hear
that voice?Copy !req
660. Recommend you go
to reentry attitude and...Copy !req
661. we'll give you the countdown
on retro-sequence time, bob.Copy !req
662. You're looking good.Copy !req
663. We have only 50 seconds
to retrograde. Over.Copy !req
664. I'll give you a mark.Copy !req
665. 45...Copy !req
666. mark.Copy !req
667. I am on 8scs now,
and backing it up manually.Copy !req
668. 30 seconds, bob.Copy !req
669. Capcom, this is phebus ten.Copy !req
670. The retro warning is on.Copy !req
671. Roger, bob.Copy !req
672. Leave your retro pack on
through your pass over texas.Copy !req
673. Do you read?Copy !req
674. Roger.Copy !req
675. Five... four... three...Copy !req
676. two... one... fire.Copy !req
677. Retros are firing.Copy !req
678. I'm starting my reentry now.Copy !req
679. I'm going to fly by wire.Copy !req
680. I'm down to 15% on manual.Copy !req
681. Capcom, this is phebus ten.Copy !req
682. It's a real fireball out there.Copy !req
683. How are you doing?Copy !req
684. What's your general condition?Copy !req
685. How are you feeling?Copy !req
686. I'm feeling... I'm feeling fine.Copy !req
687. Condition is good.Copy !req
688. There's an awful lot
of fire out there.Copy !req
689. Capcom...Copy !req
690. one last question:Copy !req
691. Go ahead, bob. Go ahead.Copy !req
692. Who's the president
of the united states?Copy !req
693. Say again, would you, bob?Copy !req
694. We don't think we
got that. Say again.Copy !req
695. Who is the president
of the united states?Copy !req
696. It sounds like you're
asking who the president is.Copy !req
697. That's precisely the question.Copy !req
698. I hope you said kennedy.Copy !req
699. I hope you said kennedy.Copy !req
700. Open the blinds, nurse.Copy !req
701. Yes, doctor.Copy !req
702. Our wandering boy is awake.Copy !req
703. Bill.Copy !req
704. Right here, buddy.Copy !req
705. How you feeling, gaines?Copy !req
706. That depends.Copy !req
707. Did you hear that last
question I asked up there?Copy !req
708. Just before reentry?Copy !req
709. You asked who
the president is.Copy !req
710. Was that some
sort of a gag?Copy !req
711. I didn't hear the answer.Copy !req
712. It was no gag.Copy !req
713. President kennedy.Copy !req
714. You were only gone
two days, major,
not two years.Copy !req
715. What happened on that
second morning, gaines,
about your 15th orbit?Copy !req
716. We lost all contact
with you for a period
of almost six hours.Copy !req
717. No radar, no contact at all.Copy !req
718. We couldn't find out
what was wrong here.Copy !req
719. And we asked you that question
several timesCopy !req
720. after we picked
you up again,Copy !req
721. but you ignored it.Copy !req
722. Six hours?Copy !req
723. That's how long it took.Copy !req
724. Then you came back in
loud and clear.Copy !req
725. I think later, sir.Copy !req
726. Right now, I think
he should rest.Copy !req
727. Bill...Copy !req
728. something...
something
happened.Copy !req
729. I know you're not
going to believe this.Copy !req
730. I'm not absolutely certain
that I believe it myself.Copy !req
731. There's another dimension.Copy !req
732. I don't know how it exists
or where it exists.Copy !req
733. But there's another world,
parallel to ours-Copy !req
734. the same people,
the same places,Copy !req
735. most of the same
chronology of events.Copy !req
736. Except, now and then,Copy !req
737. there's something
a little bit
different.Copy !req
738. How do you know
all this?Copy !req
739. Because I was there, general.Copy !req
740. I was there for almost a week.Copy !req
741. That's impossible.Copy !req
742. We only lost you
for about six hours.Copy !req
743. We had contact with you
all the rest of the time.Copy !req
744. I can't help that, sir.Copy !req
745. During that six hours,
I lived out a week.Copy !req
746. Doing what?Copy !req
747. Looking at our counterparts.
Looking at us.Copy !req
748. Us?Copy !req
749. Us, as we exist
in a parallel world.Copy !req
750. One that exists alongside,
but which we can't see.Copy !req
751. The world I stumbled into.Copy !req
752. I don't know how.Copy !req
753. Some kind of
space-time continuum,Copy !req
754. some warpage.Copy !req
755. There's a doorway
up there somewhere into it.Copy !req
756. It exists.Copy !req
757. Every now and then,
I think it's possibleCopy !req
758. for somebody to fall through it,
and I did.Copy !req
759. How did you get back, bob?Copy !req
760. I don't
even know that.Copy !req
761. All I can remember is running
toward the spacecraft.Copy !req
762. Then... I was up there again...Copy !req
763. and then I was back here.Copy !req
764. Well...Copy !req
765. bob, I think, uh...Copy !req
766. sleep on this for a
little while, will you?Copy !req
767. Why?Copy !req
768. Because...Copy !req
769. I think, uh... this may
just be a delusion.Copy !req
770. Delusion?Copy !req
771. Bill, I can recount
to you every minuteCopy !req
772. and everything that happened.Copy !req
773. Every line of dialogue,
every person that I met.Copy !req
774. I could recall to you
the streets,Copy !req
775. the places, everything.Copy !req
776. This was no delusion.
It was no dream.Copy !req
777. I have no proof.Copy !req
778. I've told you that.Copy !req
779. Mm-hmm.Copy !req
780. Well, um,
okay, major...Copy !req
781. we'll talk
about it later.Copy !req
782. Did anybody
phone helen?Copy !req
783. She, uh... asked what
you wanted for supper.Copy !req
784. Will I be
able to leave?Copy !req
785. At least for an overnight.
Mm-hmm.Copy !req
786. I want you back first thing in
the morning for some critique.Copy !req
787. I want to have a look
at those psychiatrists' facesCopy !req
788. when you start talking to them
about parallel dimensions.Copy !req
789. Meanwhile,
get some rest, major.Copy !req
790. One last question.Copy !req
791. Be my guest.Copy !req
792. If we each have a counterpart,Copy !req
793. and you saw them,Copy !req
794. where was yours, bob?Copy !req
795. I don't know,
but he was a colonel.Copy !req
796. A full colonel.Copy !req
797. I hope he got back,Copy !req
798. 'cause he has
a very beautiful wifeCopy !req
799. and a very lovely
little daughter.Copy !req
800. I hope he got back.Copy !req
801. What do you think?Copy !req
802. Uh-uh.Copy !req
803. I don't think.Copy !req
804. Not on this one, sir.Copy !req
805. What kind of trauma...?Copy !req
806. Something to set him
tilt like that? I...Copy !req
807. can we call
it "tilt," sir?Copy !req
808. Oh, what else?
Another dimension?Copy !req
809. Another world
parallel to ours?
Call that rational?Copy !req
810. Up there, who knows
what's rationalCopy !req
811. and what isn't?Copy !req
812. We don't even
know the rules, sir,Copy !req
813. let alone the facts.Copy !req
814. We're...Copy !req
815. we're like little antsCopy !req
816. that have just
made it to the desert.Copy !req
817. Now we say we've
conquered the saharaCopy !req
818. and we haven't
conquered anything.Copy !req
819. We're only starting to find
the mysteries, general.Copy !req
820. We haven't even
begun to solve them.Copy !req
821. We're going to do
a lot of gropingCopy !req
822. through a lot of dark nights,
through a lot of dark space,Copy !req
823. before we find the clues,
let alone the answers.Copy !req
824. We've got a long
way to go, sir.Copy !req
825. Okay.Copy !req
826. General?Copy !req
827. There's a message
from capcom, sir.Copy !req
828. I'll give it to you
as we got it.Copy !req
829. It doesn't make
much sense.Copy !req
830. Let me be the judge of that.
What's the message?Copy !req
831. Capcom reports telemetryCopy !req
832. with an
unidentified space vehicle.Copy !req
833. What?Copy !req
834. Yes, sir.
They had voice communicationCopy !req
835. for about a minute and a half.Copy !req
836. The spacecraft identified
itself asastro seven,Copy !req
837. and the person
in it said-Copy !req
838. what'd he say?
What'd he say?Copy !req
839. He identified himself
as a colonel robert gaines.Copy !req
840. He asked for
reentry data.Copy !req
841. Colonelrobert gaines?Copy !req
842. Yes, sir.Copy !req
843. Then we got some garbled stuff,
and then nothing.Copy !req
844. And then what?Copy !req
845. And then nothing, sir.Copy !req
846. We lost the visual sighting.
We lost all voice.Copy !req
847. The thing just disappeared.Copy !req
848. Get a transcript
of everything
that was said.Copy !req
849. Have it brought
to my office.Copy !req
850. And keep trying
to raise, uh...
whoever it was.Copy !req
851. Yes, sir.
We're still trying.Copy !req
852. Good. Uh... you
keep me in touch.Copy !req
853. Yes, sir.Copy !req
854. Well, bill...Copy !req
855. you certainly were rightCopy !req
856. when you said we
haven't even begun.Copy !req
857. We don't have
all the answers.Copy !req
858. We've got
a long way to go.Copy !req
859. What's on your mind?Copy !req
860. One thing. I'd
like to tell
astronaut gainesCopy !req
861. that his proof
just showed up
on a radar screen,Copy !req
862. however briefly.Copy !req
863. Yeah. Be my guest.Copy !req
864. Do me a favor,
would you, honey?Copy !req
865. Tell me who I am.Copy !req
866. What, daddy?Copy !req
867. Thank you, honey.Copy !req
868. That's all
I need to know.Copy !req
869. Welcome home.Copy !req
870. It's good
to be home.Copy !req
871. Major robert gaines,Copy !req
872. a latter-day voyager just
returned from an adventure.Copy !req
873. Submitted to youCopy !req
874. without any recommendations
as to belief or disbelief.Copy !req
875. You can accept or reject.Copy !req
876. You pays your money,
and you takes your choice.Copy !req
877. But credulous or incredulous,Copy !req
878. don't bother to ask anyone
for proof that it could happen.Copy !req
879. The obligation's
a reverse challenge-Copy !req
880. prove that itcouldn't.Copy !req
881. This happens
to be the twilight zone.Copy !req
882. A new author joins the ranks
of thetwilight zonecrewCopy !req
883. when john furia jr. Gives us
several stunningly new twistsCopy !req
884. to a classic character
in "I dream of genie."Copy !req
885. Join howard morris,
patrica barry and loring smithCopy !req
886. as they take their trip
into the twilight zone.Copy !req
887. Who...
who... who...?Copy !req
888. Who were
you expecting?Copy !req
889. Who...?Copy !req
890. I'm a genie in a lamp.
That's who.Copy !req
891. Aladdin, magic,
the whole bit.Copy !req
892. If... if you
are the genie,Copy !req
893. then I must be the
master of the lamp.Copy !req
894. Big deal. Master of the lamp.Copy !req
895. All right, you got yourself
a free wish.Copy !req
896. I can't believe it.Copy !req
897. Anything I want
in the whole world.Copy !req
898. Anything.Copy !req
899. But only one wish.Copy !req