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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. Harvey?Copy !req
11. What's the monitor
picture now?Copy !req
12. Still distorted.Copy !req
13. And we've got
six or seven minutes left.Copy !req
14. What guarantee do you haveCopy !req
15. that you'll reach the point
that you want to?Copy !req
16. No guarantee at all.Copy !req
17. But if I fail, you simply
mark off one manCopy !req
18. one insignificant humanCopy !req
19. one frail, protesting member
of the race.Copy !req
20. If I do failCopy !req
21. if I end up in hell or limbo,
or the cemeteryCopy !req
22. the responsibility
is exclusively mine.Copy !req
23. You can rest easy
on this fact.Copy !req
24. Feeling pretty secure, paul?Copy !req
25. You sound funereal, harvey.Copy !req
26. Then I sound the way I feel.Copy !req
27. I'm helping you because you
asked me to as a friend, paul.Copy !req
28. I can give you
efficiency and
dedication, but...Copy !req
29. enthusiasm I can't dredge up
even in the minutest degree.Copy !req
30. No sense of adventure,
no wonder at the unknown?Copy !req
31. There's some wonder,
some inquisitivenessCopy !req
32. as to how a human being can
place himself in such jeopardyCopy !req
33. not only with willingness,
but with anticipation.Copy !req
34. Jeopardy?Copy !req
35. The jeopardy I face
comes in shadow.Copy !req
36. Yours happens
to be much more real.Copy !req
37. But of the two, there's
not much choice.Copy !req
38. Did you drink milk
this morning?Copy !req
39. What was
the strontium 90 content?Copy !req
40. Has it occurred to you
that the things you've
been eatingCopy !req
41. might be turning
your bones into sawdust?Copy !req
42. Oh, harvey, speak to me
of jeopardy if you willCopy !req
43. but don't make it sound as ifCopy !req
44. I have an exclusive franchise
on the calculated risk.Copy !req
45. You and I share
this dubious distinctionCopy !req
46. with several million peers
who inhabit the 20th century.Copy !req
47. And you don't care
for the 20th century.Copy !req
48. I do not.Copy !req
49. I will tell you succinctlyCopy !req
50. how I classify the times.Copy !req
51. We live in a cesspool,
a septic tankCopy !req
52. a gigantic sewage complex in
which runs the dregs, the filthCopy !req
53. the misery-laden slop
of the race of men-Copy !req
54. his hatred, prejudices,
passions, and violence.Copy !req
55. And the keeper
man.Copy !req
56. He is a scientifically advanced
monkeyCopy !req
57. who walks upright,
with eyes wide openCopy !req
58. into an abyss
of his own making.Copy !req
59. His bombs, fallout,
poisons, radioactivity-Copy !req
60. everything he designs
as an art for dyingCopy !req
61. is his excuse for living.Copy !req
62. No, we live in an exquisite
bedlam... an insanity.Copy !req
63. Maybe all the more grotesqueCopy !req
64. by the fact that we don't
recognize it as insanity.Copy !req
65. Did it ever occur to youCopy !req
66. that some these
scientifically advanced monkeysCopy !req
67. make bombs as a simple expedient
for survival?Copy !req
68. That across this planet
there are otherCopy !req
69. scientifically advanced monkeys
who would pulverize us into dustCopy !req
70. if they thought they could do so
with impunity?Copy !req
71. I don't need
a lesson in current events.Copy !req
72. I'm pretty well
up on the times.Copy !req
73. The freedom-loving
monkeys make bombsCopy !req
74. while the aggressors
make bombs.Copy !req
75. But ultimately,
somebody pushes a buttonCopy !req
76. and just as ultimately,
this earth disappears.Copy !req
77. And all of this, I suppose,
is rightCopy !req
78. and practical and expedient.Copy !req
79. A few germs will rise up
out of the rubbleCopy !req
80. and wave microscopic
flags of victoryCopy !req
81. and shed a few microscopic tears
for the race of men.Copy !req
82. Harvey, are you content
with this kind of status quo?Copy !req
83. Are you satisfied withthiskind
of 20th century?Copy !req
84. You're in focus now, paul.Copy !req
85. Press the button.Copy !req
86. Press the button, my friend,
send me back into time.Copy !req
87. Exit one paul driscoll,Copy !req
88. a creature of the 20th century.Copy !req
89. He puts to a test
a complicated theoremCopy !req
90. of space-time continuum.Copy !req
91. But he goes
a step further, or tries to.Copy !req
92. Shortly, he will seek out
three moments of the pastCopy !req
93. in a desperate attempt
to alter the present-Copy !req
94. one of the odd
and fanciful functionsCopy !req
95. in a shadowland known as...
the twilight zone.Copy !req
96. I regret
that I kept you waiting.Copy !req
97. I'm told that you speak
english rather well.Copy !req
98. Indeed.Copy !req
99. I venture to say I speak it
perhaps a bit betterCopy !req
100. than you speak japanese.Copy !req
101. I don't speak
any japanese.Copy !req
102. But the english I have
to throw at youCopy !req
103. may be the most important
you've heard in your life.Copy !req
104. Sit down, mr., um...
driscoll, is it?Copy !req
105. A rather efficient
police.Copy !req
106. Much more intent on
putting me in jailCopy !req
107. than in listening
to me.Copy !req
108. You happen to be an enemy alien,
which is the reason why...Copy !req
109. the reason why I was kept
in a cell over six hours.Copy !req
110. It also may be the reason
you'll regret this arrest.Copy !req
111. Go on.Copy !req
112. What I was trying to tell
them, and you nowCopy !req
113. is that within an hour
this city is going
to be destroyedCopy !req
114. and upward of 60,000
to 70,000 human beings
will be killed.Copy !req
115. You don't get it,
do you?Copy !req
116. You're going to be bombed
out of existence!Copy !req
117. There are some things
you could do about it.Copy !req
118. Start an evacuation
of women and children.Copy !req
119. You can save a few
thousand human lives.Copy !req
120. I can?Copy !req
121. By whose say-so,
mr. Driscoll?Copy !req
122. Whodoyou
represent?Copy !req
123. I don't represent anyone.Copy !req
124. Let's say I represent
the voice of history.Copy !req
125. The voice of history.Copy !req
126. That's quaint, mr. Driscoll.Copy !req
127. That's extremely
quaint.Copy !req
128. A new kind of bomb is going
to be dropped here.Copy !req
129. You're going to live
through a nightmareCopy !req
130. beyond any kind of imagination.Copy !req
131. A single aircraft, mr. Driscoll?Copy !req
132. One lone b-29.Copy !req
133. I rather think
we can survive that.Copy !req
134. I must take you to some higher
authorities, mr. DriscollCopy !req
135. who will interrogate you
at army headquarters.Copy !req
136. If you'll be good
enough to follow.Copy !req
137. Listen...Copy !req
138. this is not just a request.Copy !req
139. It's in the nature of a prayer.Copy !req
140. I will make an assumption
you have some illness.Copy !req
141. I won't put you up against
the wall and shoot you.Copy !req
142. I'll give you a chance
to speak to other authorities.Copy !req
143. If you get back
to your countryCopy !req
144. the face of the enemyCopy !req
145. is not devoid
of some compassion.Copy !req
146. You might remember
this conversation.Copy !req
147. And if you're still alive...Copy !req
148. remember that the same thing
could be said of your enemy.Copy !req
149. He tried to save the people
of hiroshima.Copy !req
150. Sieg heil!Copy !req
151. Sieg heil!Copy !req
152. Yes?Copy !req
153. I am here to prepare
your room, mein herr.Copy !req
154. That won't be necessary.Copy !req
155. But I have clean towels,
sir, and soap.Copy !req
156. Well, just a moment.Copy !req
157. Guten tag.
Hello.Copy !req
158. Ach, you have
the loveliest roomCopy !req
159. in the hotel, mein herr.Copy !req
160. Yes.Copy !req
161. Yes, it's
a lovely view.Copy !req
162. Oh, it's more than a view,
much more than a view.Copy !req
163. In just a moment you'll
see history unfolding.Copy !req
164. Do you know that this
whole side of the hotelCopy !req
165. on every floor, has been
rented, completely?Copy !req
166. Just because of ourfuhrer,
just so they can see him.Copy !req
167. Ha, down in the street
it's a madhouseCopy !req
168. and this is the only
place to watch from.Copy !req
169. Yes, that's what
they told me.Copy !req
170. You're not german,
mein herr?Copy !req
171. No, I'm not.Copy !req
172. Then what
are you instead?Copy !req
173. I'm an american.Copy !req
174. Oh, excuse me.Copy !req
175. An american?Copy !req
176. What do they think of ourfuhrer
in america,Copy !req
177. and the new germany?Copy !req
178. We're quite neutral.Copy !req
179. Neutral? You say neutral
but you mean something else.Copy !req
180. Der fuhrer!Copy !req
181. Do you hear that?Copy !req
182. That is our new germany.Copy !req
183. That is something
you'll never understand.Copy !req
184. That, madam,
is the old germanyCopy !req
185. and that is something
you'llnever understand.Copy !req
186. Herr driscoll?Copy !req
187. Open up, please,
immediately!Copy !req
188. Immediately, now,
herr driscoll!Copy !req
189. Will you open up this
door, immediately?Copy !req
190. Now, you said this is
a matter of some urgency,
mr., uh, mr...?Copy !req
191. My name is driscoll,
but that's not important.Copy !req
192. Then perhaps you'd tell me,
sir, what is important.Copy !req
193. Unfortunately, I'm due on the
bridge in just a few moments.Copy !req
194. Captain, is there any way
of altering the course?Copy !req
195. I beg your pardon.Copy !req
196. The course, the present
course the ship is taking,Copy !req
197. is there any way
of altering it?Copy !req
198. Well, now, since my country
is a belligerentCopy !req
199. and these waters are a zone
of combatCopy !req
200. I think I would rather discuss
this with higher authorityCopy !req
201. before taking such a step.Copy !req
202. Supposing I told you, captain,
that if you hold this courseCopy !req
203. for as long as perhaps
five minutesCopy !req
204. this ship is going
to be torpedoed.Copy !req
205. Just who are you,
mr. Driscoll?Copy !req
206. You won't find me on
the passenger list there.Copy !req
207. My name isn't on it.Copy !req
208. Yet you got aboard. How?Copy !req
209. That doesn't matter,
I did get aboard.Copy !req
210. But I'm not sailing
for my health.Copy !req
211. I'm sailing for your healthCopy !req
212. and that of your crew
and passengers.Copy !req
213. I happen to know that this ship
is going to be torpedoed!Copy !req
214. Right here, right off
old head of kinsale island.Copy !req
215. May the 7th.Copy !req
216. May the 7th?Copy !req
217. Yes, sir.Copy !req
218. That's today.Copy !req
219. You say youknowthis.Copy !req
220. How do you know?Copy !req
221. If I told you, you'd probably
say I was a lunatic.Copy !req
222. I won't
deny that.Copy !req
223. But neither will I alter
the course of this shipCopy !req
224. simply on the word of one man
who seems strangely reticentCopy !req
225. to say anything beyond
one single wild statement.Copy !req
226. Say I am a lunatic, say
everything I'm telling youCopy !req
227. is the product
of a deranged mind.Copy !req
228. How many minutes could you lose
by altering course?Copy !req
229. That's not the point.Copy !req
230. Thatis
the point.Copy !req
231. Otherwise, 1,100 people
are going to drown.Copy !req
232. I think that will be
about enough, mr. Driscoll.Copy !req
233. If you happen to be one
of the fortunate few...Copy !req
234. remember, when that court
of inquiry convenes...Copy !req
235. that's enough, mr. Driscoll.Copy !req
236. I'll ask you to leave.Copy !req
237. Captain, I'm not asking you
to scuttle the shipCopy !req
238. I'm only asking you to alter
course one single degree!Copy !req
239. Steward, steward.Copy !req
240. Come in here, please.Copy !req
241. Sir?Copy !req
242. Escort mr. Driscoll out
of my quarters, please.Copy !req
243. Come along,
if you would, sir.Copy !req
244. Oh, captain, there's
still time.Copy !req
245. Mr. Driscoll,
there's still timeCopy !req
246. to confine you
to your cabin.Copy !req
247. And mind you, sir, after
I make inquiryCopy !req
248. as to how you got aboard,
I may do that.Copy !req
249. Well, go on, paul.
Then what?Copy !req
250. Then nothing.Copy !req
251. Hiroshima, august 1945.Copy !req
252. Attempt number one,
failure number one.Copy !req
253. Then august 1939,
the hotel berlinCopy !req
254. another blow
for law and orderCopy !req
255. hitting nothing, and
accomplishing just that.Copy !req
256. And finally, thelusitania,
1915- one of the causesCopy !req
257. of our entering
the first world war.Copy !req
258. Three tries, three misses.Copy !req
259. Then you must know now, paul,
that the past is inviolate.Copy !req
260. Whatever has happened, must
remain as having happened.Copy !req
261. You can't change anything.Copy !req
262. I believe you.Copy !req
263. I believe it's not possible
to alter the pastCopy !req
264. and because of that, there
isn't anything we can doCopy !req
265. about the present or the future.Copy !req
266. Study of 19th century
midwest america?Copy !req
267. Open that to page 90.Copy !req
268. It talks about a place there
called homeville, indiana.Copy !req
269. There's a picture, shows
how it looked in 1881.Copy !req
270. Hmm, this is charming...Copy !req
271. parasols, bicycles...Copy !req
272. it's all very serene.Copy !req
273. Apropos of what, paul?Copy !req
274. Apropos of the fact that
I'm going back there.Copy !req
275. I'm going back, not
to change anythingCopy !req
276. but to become
a part of it.Copy !req
277. A world of band concerts and
summer nights on front porches.Copy !req
278. A world that never heard
of an atomic bombCopy !req
279. world war, or germ warfare-
that'swhere I'm going.Copy !req
280. All right,
but remember this, paulCopy !req
281. everything is cause and effect,
everything.Copy !req
282. You go back in time
to this homevilleCopy !req
283. and you inadvertently change
one event, alter it minutelyCopy !req
284. and you might start
a chain reactionCopy !req
285. beyond anything
that we can even imagine.Copy !req
286. I'm going back there
toliveCopy !req
287. not to change anything.Copy !req
288. Now, harvey,
how about it?Copy !req
289. All right, now,
heaven help me.Copy !req
290. And heaven
help you, paul.Copy !req
291. Well, what's
your order, sir?Copy !req
292. I'll have a beer.Copy !req
293. That'll be a nickel.Copy !req
294. A nickel?Copy !req
295. That's the price tag.Copy !req
296. You got a nickel?Copy !req
297. You from around here?Copy !req
298. No. No, I'm from out of state.Copy !req
299. Out of state,
you say?Copy !req
300. Just passing through?Copy !req
301. No. As a matter of fact,Copy !req
302. I was thinking
of settling down here.Copy !req
303. Just as I expected.Copy !req
304. Boarding house
across the square.Copy !req
305. Ma chamberlain's place.Copy !req
306. Real nice accommodations.Copy !req
307. She runs a clean place.Copy !req
308. Gonna stay there?Copy !req
309. For the present.Copy !req
310. It begins.Copy !req
311. Right away, it begins.Copy !req
312. It's tomorrow.Copy !req
313. It's tomorrow.Copy !req
314. It's tomorrow
that garfield...Copy !req
315. what did you say?
When what?Copy !req
316. Oh, nothing, I was
just talking to myself.Copy !req
317. Odd fellow...Copy !req
318. real odd.Copy !req
319. Maybe he just don't hold
with president garfield.Copy !req
320. Maybe he's a democrat.Copy !req
321. President james abram garfieldCopy !req
322. shot in a washington railway
station, july 2, 1881.Copy !req
323. Died september 19, 1881.Copy !req
324. So be it.Copy !req
325. Room comfortable?Copy !req
326. Yes, very,
thank you.Copy !req
327. Should be.Copy !req
328. Best room
in the house.Copy !req
329. Northern afternoon sun,
southern exposure.Copy !req
330. The nicest
view I've got.Copy !req
331. Are you a traveling man,
mr. Driscoll?Copy !req
332. Oh, no, mrs. Chamberlain,
I'm not.Copy !req
333. What is your business,
mr. Driscoll?Copy !req
334. Well, I'm a physicist.Copy !req
335. Physicist?Copy !req
336. When I've got more time,
explain that to me.Copy !req
337. Well, now...Copy !req
338. I must tell you the rest
of the rules of the house.Copy !req
339. No visitors upstairs
after 8:30 p.m.Copy !req
340. Lady visitors downstairs
in the parlorCopy !req
341. no gambling, no chewing,
breakfast 8:30 sharpCopy !req
342. dinner at noon,
supper at 6:00.Copy !req
343. If you're late,
you're out of luck.Copy !req
344. Each week's bill,
paid inadvance.Copy !req
345. Abigail, I want you
to meet the new boarder.Copy !req
346. This is mr. Driscoll,
he's from the east.Copy !req
347. This is miss
abigail sloan.Copy !req
348. She teaches school
here in town.Copy !req
349. Pleased to
meet you.Copy !req
350. Thank you.Copy !req
351. Are you planing to stay
for a time?Copy !req
352. I hope to.Copy !req
353. Well, I hope you enjoy it.Copy !req
354. Thank you.Copy !req
355. Lovely girl,
ain't she?Copy !req
356. And a moral girl, too.Copy !req
357. I mean real moral.Copy !req
358. Nuclear fallout...Copy !req
359. indochina...Copy !req
360. berlin wall...Copy !req
361. what are you?Copy !req
362. I never heard of you.Copy !req
363. It's summer, first of july.Copy !req
364. Going to be a band concert
in a couple of days...Copy !req
365. lemonade, fireworks...Copy !req
366. it's 1881, homeville, indiana.Copy !req
367. And I'm home.Copy !req
368. Twilight zonewill continue
after station identification.Copy !req
369. And I tell you,
mrs. ChamberlainCopy !req
370. that until this
government of oursCopy !req
371. assumes its rightful
place of responsibility
in the worldCopy !req
372. we will remain an isolated,
terribly provincialCopy !req
373. static community of states.Copy !req
374. You know what I say
we should do about it?Copy !req
375. I'll tell you what we should do.Copy !req
376. We should take
the american fleetCopy !req
377. send it over to the orient
and plant the american flag.Copy !req
378. Then on down
to australiaCopy !req
379. then back across
the pacific to
south americaCopy !req
380. planting the american
flag as we go.Copy !req
381. Planting her deep,
planting her high,Copy !req
382. planting her proud.Copy !req
383. You ought to run for office,
mr. Hanford.Copy !req
384. Believe me, my dear lady,
I've thought of it,Copy !req
385. but finance comes first.Copy !req
386. It's the lifeblood
of the nation.Copy !req
387. And the bank needs me.Copy !req
388. Mr. Driscoll, what are
your international views?Copy !req
389. I don't have any,
mr. Hanford.Copy !req
390. Of course you do, man.Copy !req
391. Everybody has to have views as
to the destiny of our country.Copy !req
392. Now, you take the case of the
indian wars, five years ago.Copy !req
393. All this silly conciliatory
nonsenseCopy !req
394. about giving the indians lands.Copy !req
395. As if you could actually make
savages understand treaties.Copy !req
396. We should have had
20 george custers
and 100,000 menCopy !req
397. and we should have swept
across the plainsCopy !req
398. destroying every redskin
who faced us.Copy !req
399. And then we should have planted
the american flagCopy !req
400. deep, high, and proud!Copy !req
401. I think the country is tired
of fighting.Copy !req
402. I think we were bled dry
by the war.Copy !req
403. Anything we can get by treaty
is the proper course to pursue.Copy !req
404. Now, here, young lady...Copy !req
405. I trust that this isn't the pap
you spoon-feed to your students.Copy !req
406. Treaties, indeed;
peace, indeed.Copy !req
407. Why, the virility
of a nationCopy !req
408. is in direct proportion
to its fighting qualities.Copy !req
409. We'll live to see the dayCopy !req
410. when this country fields
an army of a million menCopy !req
411. sweeping everything...Copy !req
412. I'm sorry,
mrs. Chamberlain,
I, uh...Copy !req
413. I get carried away.Copy !req
414. You some kind of pacifist,
are you, driscoll?Copy !req
415. No, I'm some kind
of sick idiotCopy !req
416. who's seen too
many young men dieCopy !req
417. because of too many
old men like youCopy !req
418. who fight their battles
at dining room tables.Copy !req
419. Oh, my goodness.Copy !req
420. I take offense at that
remark, mr. Driscoll.Copy !req
421. And I take offense
at armchair warriorsCopy !req
422. who don't know what a shrapnel
wound feels likeCopy !req
423. or what death smells like
after three days in the sunCopy !req
424. or the look
in a man's eyesCopy !req
425. when he's minus a leg and
his blood is seeping out.Copy !req
426. Mr. Hanford, you have
a great enthusiasmCopy !req
427. for planting the flag deep.Copy !req
428. But you don't have
a nodding acquaintanceCopy !req
429. with what it's like to bury men
in the same soil.Copy !req
430. I'll not sit here
and take talk like that.Copy !req
431. No, no...Copy !req
432. you'll go back to your bankCopy !req
433. and it'll be business
as usual until dinnertimeCopy !req
434. when you'll give us
another vacuous speechCopy !req
435. about a country growing strong
by filling its graveyards.Copy !req
436. Well, you're in for some
gratifying times, mr. Hanford.Copy !req
437. Believe me, there'll be a lot
of graveyards for you to fillCopy !req
438. in cuba
and in franceCopy !req
439. then all over europe,
and all over the pacific.Copy !req
440. You can sit on the sidelines
and wave your pennantsCopy !req
441. because,
according to your definitionCopy !req
442. this country's going
to get virile as the devil.Copy !req
443. From san juan
to inchonCopy !req
444. we'll show how
red our blood isCopy !req
445. because we'll
spill it.Copy !req
446. There are two unfortunate
aspects of this.Copy !req
447. One is, that you won't have
to spill any.Copy !req
448. And the other is, you won't live
long enough to know I'm right.Copy !req
449. A violent man.Copy !req
450. Mr. Driscoll.Copy !req
451. Mr. Driscoll, I...Copy !req
452. I...Copy !req
453. well, have I sufficiently
endeared myselfCopy !req
454. to them in there?Copy !req
455. I've been living there for
almost two years, mr. Driscoll.Copy !req
456. That means two years
of mealtimesCopy !req
457. with mrs. Chamberlain's
homemade piesCopy !req
458. and mr. Hanford's rhetoric.Copy !req
459. I... I lost a father
and two brothers in the war.Copy !req
460. All three of them
died in one afternoon.Copy !req
461. For the 12 years
that my mother livedCopy !req
462. well, there was a funeral
in our house every day.Copy !req
463. She never stopped mourning them.Copy !req
464. I, I think they died
for something, but...Copy !req
465. but tonight, for the first time,
mr. DriscollCopy !req
466. I heard somebody make a, a pointCopy !req
467. that-that there are things
preferable to dyingCopy !req
468. and patriotism doesn't have
to come with pain.Copy !req
469. It's very decent of you
to tell me this, miss sloan.Copy !req
470. Why don't you
just call me abby?Copy !req
471. Abby.Copy !req
472. My first name's paul.Copy !req
473. Paul.Copy !req
474. It fits.Copy !req
475. Does it?Copy !req
476. Yes, it fits
very well.Copy !req
477. Do you know
something?Copy !req
478. You look like
a man in love.Copy !req
479. Not with a woman...Copy !req
480. with what, then?Copy !req
481. With a moment, a place.Copy !req
482. What were those names you
said... san juan, inchon?Copy !req
483. Where are those places?Copy !req
484. When you said, "other
graveyards, other wars..."Copy !req
485. what did you
mean by that?Copy !req
486. Oh, nothing.Copy !req
487. Why do I get this feelingCopy !req
488. that you're on
the outside looking inCopy !req
489. just, well, passing by,
looking in.Copy !req
490. Abby... I don't want
to be just passing by.Copy !req
491. I want to come in.Copy !req
492. I wish... I wish
I could come in.Copy !req
493. Why can't you?Copy !req
494. Everything is
possible... everything.Copy !req
495. Garfield... it's
finally happened.Copy !req
496. Just came over the telegram...
president garfield's been shot!Copy !req
497. Paul... how did
you know that?Copy !req
498. You couldn't possibly
have heard what they said.Copy !req
499. How did you know that?Copy !req
500. Paul, what's the matter?Copy !req
501. Abby, you're wrong.Copy !req
502. Not everything is possible.Copy !req
503. I wish I could tell you,
but I can't explain it.Copy !req
504. You mean...
you and me.Copy !req
505. Especiallyyou and me.Copy !req
506. Why?Copy !req
507. Why?Copy !req
508. It's getting late, abby.Copy !req
509. It's time for you to go in.Copy !req
510. Good morning.Copy !req
511. Good morning.Copy !req
512. We missed you
at breakfast.Copy !req
513. Oh, the... president
was badly wounded.Copy !req
514. Yes, so it says.Copy !req
515. But there's hope
here for his recovery.Copy !req
516. I guess that's all that's left
sometimes, isn't it?Copy !req
517. Just hope.Copy !req
518. Abby, I'm sorry
about last night.Copy !req
519. I'm truly sorry.Copy !req
520. I wish I could
explain it to you,Copy !req
521. but I can't, I couldn't
make you understand.Copy !req
522. Oh, it-it's perfectly
all right, really it is.Copy !req
523. There's no harm done,
no harm at all.Copy !req
524. You've got to forgive
schoolteachers-Copy !req
525. they're very impressionable.Copy !req
526. They're inclined to...
well, they're inclinedCopy !req
527. to read many things
into a glance, a word...Copy !req
528. a touch.Copy !req
529. Well,Copy !req
530. I've got a very
busy day today.Copy !req
531. There's so much
preparationCopy !req
532. for tomorrow, you know.Copy !req
533. Parade at 9:00,
speech at 11:00Copy !req
534. games from noon till 5:00Copy !req
535. picnic supper
and then fireworks.Copy !req
536. And, oh, of course-
my children.Copy !req
537. Your children?Copy !req
538. Yes.Copy !req
539. 27 flat little voices.Copy !req
540. 14 boys, 13 girls will entertain
you with their own renditionCopy !req
541. of "columbia,
the gem of the ocean,"Copy !req
542. sung in six different keys
with...Copy !req
543. 27 highly individual
interpretations.Copy !req
544. Well, we're... we're going
to practice now and...Copy !req
545. let me tell you something.Copy !req
546. Trying to keep
27 children quiet in...Copy !req
547. a school building
in the middle of summerCopy !req
548. the day before
the fourth of july, that...Copy !req
549. that happens to be...Copy !req
550. well, that happens
to be quite a...Copy !req
551. an accomplishment.Copy !req
552. Who are you, paul driscoll,
and where are you from?Copy !req
553. It doesn't make any
difference, abby.Copy !req
554. Doesn't it?Copy !req
555. All right, we'll
leave it at that.Copy !req
556. It doesn't make any difference.Copy !req
557. And it follows, it doesn't
make any differenceCopy !req
558. that you... held me
and kissed me and...Copy !req
559. howdy, mr. Driscoll.Copy !req
560. How are you?Copy !req
561. Flat.Copy !req
562. Well, that's better.Copy !req
563. Tomorrow's the big doings,
you know.Copy !req
564. Fourth of july concert.Copy !req
565. Yes, I'm looking
forward to that.Copy !req
566. She does a good job
with those kids.Copy !req
567. Miss sloan.Copy !req
568. Yes, so I've heard.Copy !req
569. Awful pretty girl
to be a schoolmarm.Copy !req
570. So I've noticed.Copy !req
571. I've noticed that you noticed.Copy !req
572. Aw, doggone, I never
had no schoolmarmCopy !req
573. looked like that
when I was a kid.Copy !req
574. All my schoolmarms looked like
they came out of a pickle jar.Copy !req
575. Ah, it's a funny
little town, isn't it?Copy !req
576. Don't change.Copy !req
577. You see pictures of it
50 years agoCopy !req
578. and everything's the same...
same buildings, even.Copy !req
579. This schoolhouse, for example.Copy !req
580. I'll bet it's 60 years old,
as she stands there.Copy !req
581. It'll probably stand till
somebody pulls it down.Copy !req
582. What?Copy !req
583. I was talking about
that school building.Copy !req
584. What did you say about it?Copy !req
585. It'll probably
keep standing till...Copy !req
586. that's what I was
trying to remember.Copy !req
587. The school building.Copy !req
588. The school building.Copy !req
589. Oh, my god.Copy !req
590. My dear god.Copy !req
591. "The site of the homeville
national bankCopy !req
592. "was formerly occupied
by a school buildingCopy !req
593. "built in 1823 and gutted
by a fire which startedCopy !req
594. "at approximately 2:00 in
the afternoon of july 3, 1881Copy !req
595. "seriously injuring 12 children,
who were rehearsingCopy !req
596. "for the fourth of july
celebration.Copy !req
597. "The fire was caused
by a kerosene lanternCopy !req
598. from a runaway wagon."Copy !req
599. I can't do anything.Copy !req
600. I can't say anything.Copy !req
601. Can't even warn anyone.Copy !req
602. Everything has to happen
the way it's supposed to happen.Copy !req
603. Sorry, mr. President,
recover, you shall not.Copy !req
604. You're to die on september
the 19th of this year.Copy !req
605. And you shall burn.Copy !req
606. This afternoon at 2:00.Copy !req
607. "Seriously injuring
12 children."Copy !req
608. And I can't do anything
about it.Copy !req
609. I have to stand around
and watch it happen.Copy !req
610. I have to let it happen.Copy !req
611. Children, children,
back to rehearsal now.Copy !req
612. Go on inside
and join the others.Copy !req
613. Go on.Copy !req
614. Everything is cause and effectCopy !req
615. everything.Copy !req
616. You go back in time to this...
this homevilleCopy !req
617. and you inadvertently
change one eventCopy !req
618. alter it even minutely, you
might start a chain reactionCopy !req
619. beyond anything that
we could even imagine.Copy !req
620. All right, neighbors,
gather round here.Copy !req
621. That's it, get close.Copy !req
622. Give me your attention,
you'll never be sorry.Copy !req
623. Do you know
what I'm doing?Copy !req
624. Do you perceive my activity?Copy !req
625. You, sir...Copy !req
626. do you know the symbolismCopy !req
627. that professor eliot
is using at this moment?Copy !req
628. Like diogenes, I'm looking
for an honest man.Copy !req
629. An honest man who'll
try one sipCopy !req
630. of professor eliot's
wonder medicine and tell meCopy !req
631. whether it's the finest medicine
he's ever tasted.Copy !req
632. Here it is,
friends.Copy !req
633. The most safe and efficientCopy !req
634. alternative and
de-obstruent propertiesCopy !req
635. for the cure of scrofula,
king's evilCopy !req
636. white swellings, indurate
tumors, gout, scurvy.Copy !req
637. 25 cents a bottle.Copy !req
638. It's guaranteed
to immediately alterCopy !req
639. a depraved or impure state
of the blood or body fluids.Copy !req
640. Here, madam, thank you.Copy !req
641. Will you have one, sir?Copy !req
642. There you are.Copy !req
643. Here you are.Copy !req
644. Thank you, thank you,
thank you.Copy !req
645. Thank you very much.Copy !req
646. How about you,
my friend?Copy !req
647. Don't be in a hurry,
my friend...Copy !req
648. do me a favor, will you?Copy !req
649. What?Copy !req
650. Well...Copy !req
651. oh, nothing, never mind.Copy !req
652. Unhitch those horses.Copy !req
653. What did you say?Copy !req
654. I can't tell you why.Copy !req
655. Unhitch those horses.Copy !req
656. What's your trouble?Copy !req
657. Dyspepsia, liver complaint?Copy !req
658. This is what you need, sir.Copy !req
659. I need those horses
unhitched.Copy !req
660. Now, just a minute.Copy !req
661. Listen, I can't argue
with you anymore.Copy !req
662. You've got to unhitch
those horses.Copy !req
663. This wagon mustn't move
a foot from this spot.Copy !req
664. Why mustn't it?Copy !req
665. You get out of here,
you hear me?Copy !req
666. Walk away from here!Copy !req
667. Leave me and my horses be!Copy !req
668. Get away
from my horses!Copy !req
669. You hear me? Get away!Copy !req
670. How did you know?Copy !req
671. You did, didn't you?Copy !req
672. Yes, I knew.Copy !req
673. I knew there'd be a fire.Copy !req
674. And I knew it would happen
this afternoon, at 2:00.Copy !req
675. But what I didn't know...Copy !req
676. I didn't know that
I would cause it.Copy !req
677. I shouldn't have come
here, I know that now.Copy !req
678. It won't work.Copy !req
679. I know that, too.Copy !req
680. It can't work because
I know too many things.Copy !req
681. I know... I know about
too many tomorrows.Copy !req
682. Tomorrows?Copy !req
683. Your history, abby.Copy !req
684. You, and this town,
and the people in it.Copy !req
685. Everything about it,
your history...Copy !req
686. and I can't change you.Copy !req
687. I can't even...
touch you.Copy !req
688. Paul, why not?Copy !req
689. Because the past
is inviolate.Copy !req
690. The past is sacred.Copy !req
691. It belongs to those
of you who live in it.Copy !req
692. It's not for interlopers...Copy !req
693. for people who are just
passing by, look inCopy !req
694. and wish they were
a part of it.Copy !req
695. Where are you going?Copy !req
696. I'm going back.Copy !req
697. Back to where
I came from.Copy !req
698. Back where I belong.Copy !req
699. I couldn't live in a world
menaced by a bombCopy !req
700. and I find out now that it
doesn't make any differenceCopy !req
701. if it's a world
or 12 children burned in a fire.Copy !req
702. Even so, I've found
more than I expectedCopy !req
703. because you were here.Copy !req
704. I've overstayed
my welcome.Copy !req
705. Good-bye, abby.Copy !req
706. Stay well.Copy !req
707. Hello, harvey.Copy !req
708. Back so soon?Copy !req
709. Well, as it happens,
back a little late.Copy !req
710. You changed something?Copy !req
711. I tried to.Copy !req
712. And in doing it,
I caused it.Copy !req
713. And now, paul?Copy !req
714. Where do you go now?Copy !req
715. Here.Copy !req
716. Here in the 20th century,
where I belong.Copy !req
717. That's what I've learned,
harvey.Copy !req
718. To leave
the yesterdays alone...Copy !req
719. do something... do something
about the tomorrows.Copy !req
720. They're the ones that count,
the tomorrows.Copy !req
721. Tomorrows...Copy !req
722. god let there be tomorrows.Copy !req
723. Well.Copy !req
724. Incident on a july
afternoon, 1881.Copy !req
725. A man named driscoll
who came and wentCopy !req
726. and, in the process,
learned a simple lessonCopy !req
727. perhaps best said by a poet
named lathberry, who wrote:Copy !req
728. "Children of yesterday,
heirs of tomorrowCopy !req
729. "what are you weaving,
labor and sorrow?Copy !req
730. "Look to your looms again,
faster and fasterCopy !req
731. "fly the great shuttles
prepared by the masterCopy !req
732. life's in the loom,
room for it, room."Copy !req
733. Tonight's tale
of clocks and calendarsCopy !req
734. in the twilight zone.Copy !req
735. Next ontwilight zone,Copy !req
736. we take a page out of a book
on the space age,Copy !req
737. and we project
just a couple of degreesCopy !req
738. as to what conceivably might
happen to an astronautCopy !req
739. if suddenly and inexplicably,
in the middle of an orbit,Copy !req
740. he disappears.Copy !req
741. Our story tells you how,
why and where.Copy !req
742. It stars steve forrest.Copy !req
743. It's called "the parallel."Copy !req
744. Capcom, capcom,
this is phebus ten.Copy !req
745. I've lost contact with you.Copy !req
746. I've lost radar here!
I've lost radar!Copy !req
747. We don't have
contact here, either.Copy !req
748. Capcom, capcom,
this is phebus ten.Copy !req
749. What you just told
me is fantastic.Copy !req
750. I helped build that spacecraft.Copy !req
751. I know it very well.Copy !req
752. It's not the same one
we sent off.Copy !req
753. It's almost
a twin to it,Copy !req
754. down to the very last
nut and bolt,Copy !req
755. but it's simply
not the same spacecraft.Copy !req
756. Colonial gaines...
went up in one spacecraft,Copy !req
757. but he's obviously
come back in another.Copy !req