1. Hello, young Harding.
You're early.Copy !req
2. Yes, I'd finished up. It was too late
to start anything fresh.Copy !req
3. What's all this fuss about
in the papers tonight, Mr. Cabal?Copy !req
4. - Wars and rumors of wars.
- Crying wolf?Copy !req
5. Someday a wolf will come.Copy !req
6. These fools are capable of anything.Copy !req
7. In that case, what happens
to medical research?Copy !req
8. It has to stop.Copy !req
9. That'll mess me up.Copy !req
10. Mess you up? Mess everything up.Copy !req
11. My God! If war gets loose again -Copy !req
12. Happy Christmas, everyone.Copy !req
13. What's the matter with you fellows?Copy !req
14. Oh, that.Copy !req
15. This little upset across the water
doesn't mean anything.Copy !req
16. Threatened men live long
and threatened wars never occur.Copy !req
17. Another speech by him.Copy !req
18. And I tell you, there's nothing in it.Copy !req
19. It's just to buck people up
about the air estimates.Copy !req
20. Now, why meet wars halfway? Why not
look on the bright side of things?Copy !req
21. You're all right.
Your business is going up.Copy !req
22. You've got a jolly wife, a pretty home.Copy !req
23. - All's right with the world, eh?
- Hmm.Copy !req
24. - All's right with the world.
- Certainly.Copy !req
25. Passworthy, you should have
been called Pippa Passworthy.Copy !req
26. Oh, and, Cabal,
you've been smoking too much.Copy !req
27. You're not - You're not eupeptic.Copy !req
28. Oh, come on. it's Christmas.Copy !req
29. No, don't push me about. No.Copy !req
30. Nice toys they have nowadays.
Nice toys.Copy !req
31. The toys we had were simpler,
ever so much simpler.Copy !req
32. Noah's arks and wooden soldiers.Copy !req
33. Nothing complex like these.Copy !req
34. You know, I wonder sometimes
if perhaps all these new toys...Copy !req
35. aren't a bit too much for them.Copy !req
36. It teaches them to use their hands.Copy !req
37. And I suppose their grandchildren
will see even more wonderful things.Copy !req
38. Progress. Progress.Copy !req
39. I'd like to see the wonders they'll see.Copy !req
40. Don't be too sure of progress.Copy !req
41. Oh, listen to the incurable pessimist.Copy !req
42. What's to stop progress nowadays?Copy !req
43. War.Copy !req
44. Firstly, there isn't going to be a war,
and secondly, war doesn't stop progress.Copy !req
45. It stimulates progress.Copy !req
46. Yes. War can be a highly stimulating thing.Copy !req
47. But you can overdo a stimulant.Copy !req
48. Oh, well, after all, aren't we
exaggerating the horrors of war?Copy !req
49. Don't we rather overdo that song?Copy !req
50. After all, you know, the last war
wasn't as bad as some people make out.Copy !req
51. We didn't worry.Copy !req
52. Something - Something great
seemed to have got hold of us.Copy !req
53. Something greater still
may get hold of us next time.Copy !req
54. If we don't end war, war will end us.Copy !req
55. Well, what can you do?Copy !req
56. Yes.Copy !req
57. What can we do?Copy !req
58. Peace on earth, goodwill towards men.Copy !req
59. Real old-fashioned Christmas this year.Copy !req
60. Fresh little snow,
with a nip in the air, eh?Copy !req
61. What was that? Sounded like a gun.Copy !req
62. Oh, no guns here.
Merry Christmas, Cabal.Copy !req
63. Here's to another good year
for all of us.Copy !req
64. Another year of recovery, eh?Copy !req
65. What are the searchlights doing now?Copy !req
66. Yes.Copy !req
67. Well, it must be antiaircraft maneuvers.Copy !req
68. Maneuvers at Christmas? No.Copy !req
69. Listen. Guns again.Copy !req
70. Yes? Cabal speaking.Copy !req
71. The Hill Town aerodrome at 3:00.Copy !req
72. I'll be there.Copy !req
73. Mobilization.Copy !req
74. Oh, God!Copy !req
75. Perhaps it's only
precautionary mobilization.Copy !req
76. Let's hear the radio.Copy !req
77. The unknown aircraft
passed over Seabeach...Copy !req
78. and dropped bombs within
a few hundred yards of the waterworks.Copy !req
79. They then turned seaward again.Copy !req
80. By this time, they'd been picked up by
the searchlights of the battleship Diosaur.Copy !req
81. Before they could mount out of range,
she had opened upon them...Copy !req
82. with her antiaircraft guns,
unfortunately, without result.Copy !req
83. Of course, everyone has said this time
they'll start without any declaration of war.Copy !req
84. Oh, listen.Copy !req
85. We do not yet know
the nationality of these aircraft...Copy !req
86. though, of course, there could be
little doubt of their place of origin.Copy !req
87. But before all things, it is necessary
for the country to keep calm.Copy !req
88. No doubt' the losses suffered
o y the fleet' are serious.Copy !req
89. - What's that? Losses of the fleet?
- Listen. Listen.Copy !req
90. And it is imperative that the whole
nation should at once stand to arms.Copy !req
91. Orders for a general mobilization
have been issued...Copy !req
92. and the precautionary civilian
organization against gas...Copy !req
93. will at once be put into operation.Copy !req
94. Our instructions have just come to hand.Copy !req
95. We shall cut off for five minutes,
then read you the general instructions.Copy !req
96. Please call in all your friends.
Call in everyone you can.Copy !req
97. You've got your stimulant, Passworthy.Copy !req
98. Something great has got you.Copy !req
99. War has come.Copy !req
100. My God, if they've attacked without
a declaration of war, then it's vengeance.Copy !req
101. No quarter. Vengeance.Copy !req
102. Punishment, condign punishment...Copy !req
103. or else the end of civilization altogether.Copy !req
104. But it's just possible there's some mistake.Copy !req
105. You know, I cling to that.Copy !req
106. If not, then it's war to the knife.Copy !req
107. No, its - it's not a war.Copy !req
108. It's extermination of dangerous vermin.Copy !req
109. A vermin hunt without pause or pity.Copy !req
110. Well, good night.Copy !req
111. Please keep still and listen.Copy !req
112. War has broken out suddenly.Copy !req
113. There may be an air raid, but it is
not likely to be a very serious one.Copy !req
114. You must be prepared for it.
The danger will not be great.Copy !req
115. As soon as the danger is over,
bugles will sound all clear.Copy !req
116. The streets will be dangerous.
Do not assemble in crowds.Copy !req
117. Keep indoors. Go home.Copy !req
118. Those who are far from home can
take refuge in the underground railways.Copy !req
119. Go home. Go home. Go home.Copy !req
120. Get out of the square.
Get out of the streets.Copy !req
121. Go home and keep home.Copy !req
122. Put out your lights. Close the windows.Copy !req
123. Put a wet sheet or a wet blanket
over doors and windows.Copy !req
124. Get indoors. Get indoors.Copy !req
125. Get out of the streets.Copy !req
126. Go home and keep home.
Keep indoors. Go home.Copy !req
127. Go home.Copy !req
128. Do not assemble in crowds.Copy !req
129. My dear.Copy !req
130. Are you sorry we had these children?Copy !req
131. No.Copy !req
132. Life must carry on.Copy !req
133. Why should we surrender life
to the brutes and fools?Copy !req
134. I loved you.Copy !req
135. I wanted to serve you and -
and make life happy for you.Copy !req
136. But think of the things
that may happen to them.Copy !req
137. Were we selfish?Copy !req
138. You weren't afraid to bear them.Copy !req
139. We were children yesterday.Copy !req
140. We're anxious...Copy !req
141. but we're not afraid...Copy !req
142. really.Copy !req
143. Courage, my dear.Copy !req
144. And may that little heart have courage.Copy !req
145. Are you an officer, Daddy?Copy !req
146. Well, you've got to do your bit, you know,
Sonny. You've got to do your bit.Copy !req
147. - I'm an officer too, Daddy.
- That's the spirit.Copy !req
148. Carry on, sir! Carry on.Copy !req
149. Good-bye, Son.Copy !req
150. There.Copy !req
151. Now then. Quick march!Copy !req
152. An air raid is approaching Everytown.
An air raid is approaching Everytown.Copy !req
153. Gas masks are being distributed.Copy !req
154. See that they fit tightly behind the ears.Copy !req
155. Get to cover.
Get under cover at once.Copy !req
156. The enemy are not in any great force...Copy !req
157. and our antiaircraft gunners
will speedily dispose of them.Copy !req
158. Bad shape, eh?Copy !req
159. Why has it come to this?Copy !req
160. God, why do we
have to murder each other?Copy !req
161. Go, my friend.Copy !req
162. That is my gas, and it's a bad gas.Copy !req
163. Funny if I'm - if I'm killed
by my own poison.Copy !req
164. Quick, get this on.Copy !req
165. Here. Get this on, quickly.Copy !req
166. Give it to her.Copy !req
167. I've given plenty to others.
Why should I not have some myself?Copy !req
168. Give it to her! I'm done.Copy !req
169. That's it. Breathe through your mouth.Copy !req
170. I dropped the gas on her.Copy !req
171. Maybe I've killed
her father and mother.Copy !req
172. Maybe I've killed her whole family.Copy !req
173. And then I go and give up my mask
to save her.Copy !req
174. That's - That's funny.Copy !req
175. That's a joke.Copy !req
176. Look! He's carrying the infection.Copy !req
177. Iodine, please.Copy !req
178. Mary, iodine.Copy !req
179. There's no more left, Father.
This is the last drop.Copy !req
180. God.Copy !req
181. What is the use of trying to save
this mad world from these punishments?Copy !req
182. Oh, Father, if only
you could get some sleep.Copy !req
183. How can I sleep?Copy !req
184. See how they wander out to die?Copy !req
185. Why don't you shoot them?Copy !req
186. It's their lives or ours.Copy !req
187. Let's get guards and make a cordon.Copy !req
188. That's how they dealt with
the pestilence in the Dark Ages.Copy !req
189. Richard.Copy !req
190. My sister.Copy !req
191. Gordon, how do you know?Copy !req
192. Her heart beats fast,
and - and she feels faint.Copy !req
193. And she won't answer.Copy !req
194. What can I do for her?
I thought something might be known.Copy !req
195. Poor Janet.Copy !req
196. And you, you poor dear.Copy !req
197. - Richard.
- I might be infected.Copy !req
198. Is there nothing
to make her comfortable?Copy !req
199. Nothing.Copy !req
200. There's nothing will make anyone
comfortable anymore.Copy !req
201. No! Don't shoot.Copy !req
202. Shoot, I tell you! Shoot.Copy !req
203. That's the way to do it. Shoot 'em.Copy !req
204. May Day, 1970.Copy !req
205. The pestilence has ceased.Copy !req
206. Thanks to the determined action
of our chief in shooting all wanderers...Copy !req
207. there have been no cases for two months.Copy !req
208. The pestilence has been conquered.Copy !req
209. The chief is preparing
to resume hostilities...Copy !req
210. against the hill people
with the utmost vigor.Copy !req
211. Soon we shall have victory and peace.Copy !req
212. All is well.Copy !req
213. God save the chief.Copy !req
214. God save our land.Copy !req
215. Have we any more insulated wire?Copy !req
216. We've got no rubbered wire at all, sir.Copy !req
217. Any rubber tape?Copy !req
218. There's not a scrap left in the place.
We used the last on the other motor.Copy !req
219. Oh, what's the use!
There's no petrol anyway.Copy !req
220. I don't believe there's three gallons of petrol
left in this accursed ruin of a town.Copy !req
221. What's the good
of setting me at a job like this?Copy !req
222. Nothing will ever fly again.
Flying's over. Everything's over.Copy !req
223. Civilization's dead.Copy !req
224. Hello.Copy !req
225. It's a Rolls, isn't it?Copy !req
226. Yes. it's a good pre-pestilence machine.Copy !req
227. I oil it and turn it over at times.Copy !req
228. Do you think it'll go fast someday still?Copy !req
229. Oh, I'm not one of your petrol hoarders.Copy !req
230. But all the same,
that engine turns over still.Copy !req
231. Why, I remember when I was a lad,
when it was new...Copy !req
232. we thought nothing
of going a hundred miles in it.Copy !req
233. A whole hundred miles.Copy !req
234. Less than three hours I've done it in.Copy !req
235. But that sort of thing's all gone now.Copy !req
236. - Gone forever, huh?
- Afraid so.Copy !req
237. Hyup! Hyup.Copy !req
238. - Richard.
- What is it?Copy !req
239. - You won't think me mad?
- Why, darling?Copy !req
240. I thought I heard an aeroplane
this morning at dawn.Copy !req
241. I thought it was a dream, but-Copy !req
242. Nonsense. I tell you flying's finished.Copy !req
243. We shall never get in the air again.
Never.Copy !req
244. Hey. Come on. The boss.Copy !req
245. Look! The boss.Copy !req
246. The boss is coming!Copy !req
247. Here's to the boss!Copy !req
248. Hey!Copy !req
249. - Anything to report, Gordon?
- Nothing very hopeful, Chief.Copy !req
250. I must have those aeroplanes somehow.Copy !req
251. I'll do what I can,
but you can't fly without petrol.Copy !req
252. I'll get petrol for you, trust me.
You look after the machines.Copy !req
253. I know you haven't got the stuff,
but you can get round that.Copy !req
254. For example, transfer parts.
Use bits of one to mend another.Copy !req
255. Be resourceful.Copy !req
256. Give me only 10 machines in working order.
Give me only five.Copy !req
257. I don't want them all.
And we'll end this war of ours forever.Copy !req
258. I'll see you get your reward.Copy !req
259. This your wife, Gordon?Copy !req
260. You keep her well hidden.Copy !req
261. Salutation, lady.Copy !req
262. You must use your influence
with our master mechanic.Copy !req
263. The combatant state wants his service.Copy !req
264. I'm sure my husband does his best for you.Copy !req
265. That's hardly enough, lady.
The combatant state demands miracles.Copy !req
266. Not everyone can work miracles
as you do, Chief.Copy !req
267. Oh, I'm sure you could work miracles
if you tried, lady.Copy !req
268. Rudolf!Copy !req
269. Lady, lady, I showed it to you,
but you said you didn't want it.Copy !req
270. If Wadsky's been up to his tricks again,
he'll have to answer for them.Copy !req
271. But he's been keeping things
back from me again.Copy !req
272. Not only Wadsky keeps things back.Copy !req
273. What do you think
of our master mechanic here...Copy !req
274. that won't let me have those planes of mine
to end this war of ours with the hill men.Copy !req
275. Well, can't you make him?Copy !req
276. I thought you could
make everybody do everything.Copy !req
277. Some things you can't do, madam.
You can't fly without petrol.Copy !req
278. You can't mend machines
without tools or material.Copy !req
279. We've gone back too far.
Flying's become a lost skill in Everytown.Copy !req
280. - Are you really as stupid as that?
- I'm as hopeless as that.Copy !req
281. And now, Chief,
what are you going to do about it?Copy !req
282. He's going to let me have those machines,
and I'm going to let him have coal-Copy !req
283. stuff to make oil.Copy !req
284. It's a lost skill. It's a dream of the -Copy !req
285. There it is! You were right!
A plane once more!Copy !req
286. Look! There he is.Copy !req
287. He's shutting off.
He's coming down.Copy !req
288. What's the meaning of this?Copy !req
289. They've got aeroplanes before us?Copy !req
290. And you told me we couldn't fly anymore.Copy !req
291. While we've been fumbling,
they've been active.Copy !req
292. Here, some of you - you and you.Copy !req
293. Find out who this is and what it means.
There's only one man in it. Hold him.Copy !req
294. Somewhere they can
still make new machines.Copy !req
295. I didn't dream it was still possible.Copy !req
296. Yes, but who is this man?
How does he dare come here?Copy !req
297. Fetch him to the town hall. Guard
his machine and bring him to me there.Copy !req
298. Come along, Mary.
I must see that machine.Copy !req
299. Who's in control
of this part of the country?Copy !req
300. The chief. What we call the boss.Copy !req
301. Good. I want to see him.Copy !req
302. He sent me to arrest you.Copy !req
303. You can't do that.
But I'll come and see him.Copy !req
304. Well, you're under arrest
whether you'll admit it or not.Copy !req
305. The country's in a state of war.Copy !req
306. Well, come along. I know the way.Copy !req
307. I remember this place well.
I used to live over there for years.Copy !req
308. - Ever heard of a man named Passworthy?
- No.Copy !req
309. - Harding?
- Yes.Copy !req
310. Look! Here he comes now.Copy !req
311. So you're Harding?Copy !req
312. I seem to remember something about you.Copy !req
313. You were a young man.Copy !req
314. You're John Cabal.Copy !req
315. I remember you.Copy !req
316. I used to visit your house here...Copy !req
317. endless years ago, before the wars.Copy !req
318. You're still flying?Copy !req
319. Your hair is gray,
but you look young enough.Copy !req
320. How are things here?
Who's in control in this place?Copy !req
321. Well, we have a chief, a warlord.Copy !req
322. The usual thing.Copy !req
323. I want to look up your warlord.Copy !req
324. Where can we go and talk?Copy !req
325. My laboratory is the best thing.
It's just over here.Copy !req
326. Right.Copy !req
327. Here!Copy !req
328. You can't go in there!
You're under arrest.Copy !req
329. - You gotta go with me to the chief.
- All in good time.Copy !req
330. I must see this gentleman first.Copy !req
331. Well, you gotta go with me!
Orders are orders. The boss first!Copy !req
332. Where is this man?
Why isn't he brought here?Copy !req
333. He's gone off with Dr. Harding.Copy !req
334. He has to be brought here.
I must deal with him.Copy !req
335. Here, you can't go to him.
That's impossible. He must come to you.Copy !req
336. Send another man for him. Send three men.
He's got to be brought here.Copy !req
337. So that's the sort of man your boss is?
Not an unusual type.Copy !req
338. Everywhere we find these little
semi-military upstarts robbing and fighting.Copy !req
339. That's what endless warfare
has led to - brigandage.Copy !req
340. What else could happen?Copy !req
341. But we, who are all that are left
of the old engineers and mechanics...Copy !req
342. have pledged ourselves
to salvage the world.Copy !req
343. We have the airways -
or what's left of them.Copy !req
344. We have the seas.
And we have ideas in common.Copy !req
345. The brotherhood of efficiency...Copy !req
346. the freemasonry of science.Copy !req
347. We're the last trustees of civilization
when everything else has failed.Copy !req
348. I've been waiting for this.Copy !req
349. - I'm yours to command.
- Not mine. Not mine.Copy !req
350. No more bosses.
Civilization's to command.Copy !req
351. Tell him he'll have to come.Copy !req
352. If he won't come on foot,
well, we'll have to carry him.Copy !req
353. I don't know what'll happen to me, sir,
if you don't come.Copy !req
354. Well, what do you want to see me about?Copy !req
355. Who are you?
Do you know this country's at war?Copy !req
356. At war?Copy !req
357. Still at it, eh?Copy !req
358. - We must clean that up.
- What do you mean we must clean that up?Copy !req
359. War's war.Copy !req
360. - Who are you, I say?
- The law.Copy !req
361. - Law and sanity.
- I am the law here!Copy !req
362. I said law and sanity.Copy !req
363. Where do you come from?
Who are you?Copy !req
364. Wings Over the World.Copy !req
365. Well, you know, you can't come
into a country like this in this fashion.Copy !req
366. I'm here.Copy !req
367. Do you mind if I sit down?Copy !req
368. And now, for the fourth time,
who are you?Copy !req
369. I tell you, Wings Over the World.Copy !req
370. - That's nothing. What government
are you under? - Common sense.Copy !req
371. I belong to World Communications.
We just run ourselves.Copy !req
372. Eh? You'll run into trouble
if you try and land here in wartime.Copy !req
373. - What's the game?
- Order and trade.Copy !req
374. Trade, eh?Copy !req
375. - Can you do anything in munitions?
- Not our line of business.Copy !req
376. Tools? Spare parts?
We've got planes. We've got planes.Copy !req
377. I've got boys that have trained a bit
on the ground.Copy !req
378. We've no fuel. It hampers us.
We might do a deal.Copy !req
379. We might.Copy !req
380. I know where I can get some fuel.
I've got my plans later.Copy !req
381. But if you can manage a temporary
accommodation, we'd do business.Copy !req
382. World Communications
helps no one to make war.Copy !req
383. End war. End war.Copy !req
384. I want to make victorious peace.Copy !req
385. I seem to have heard that phrase before...
when I was a young man.Copy !req
386. But it's made no end of war.Copy !req
387. Now look here, Mr. Aviator.
Let's see how we stand.Copy !req
388. Come down to actuality.Copy !req
389. The way you swagger, you don't seem
to realize you're under arrest.Copy !req
390. You and your machine.Copy !req
391. You'll find other planes looking for me
if I happen to be delayed.Copy !req
392. We'll deal with them later.Copy !req
393. Now, you can start
a trading agency here if you like.Copy !req
394. I have no objection.Copy !req
395. The first thing we shall want
is to get our planes in the air again.Copy !req
396. Quite a laudable ambition.Copy !req
397. But our new order has an objection
to private aeroplanes.Copy !req
398. The impudence!Copy !req
399. I'm not talking about private aeroplanes.Copy !req
400. Our aeroplanes are public aeroplanes.Copy !req
401. This is an independent
sovereign state at war.Copy !req
402. I know nothing about any old order.Copy !req
403. I'm the chief here...Copy !req
404. and I'm not taking any orders,
old or new, from you.Copy !req
405. I suppose I've walked into trouble.Copy !req
406. Yeah, you can take that as right.Copy !req
407. Where do you come from?Copy !req
408. I flew from our headquarters at Basra
this morning.Copy !req
409. We have some hundreds of new-type planes,
and we're building more fast.Copy !req
410. The factories are working again.Copy !req
411. We're gradually restoring order and trade
in the whole Mediterranean area.Copy !req
412. We're scouting this region now
to see how things are.Copy !req
413. You've found out.Copy !req
414. This is an independent sovereign state.Copy !req
415. Yes, we must talk about that.Copy !req
416. We don't discuss it.Copy !req
417. We don't approve
of independent sovereign states.Copy !req
418. You don't approve?Copy !req
419. - We mean to stop them.
- That's war.Copy !req
420. If you will.Copy !req
421. All right.
I think we know how we stand.Copy !req
422. Burton, take this man.Copy !req
423. If he gives you any trouble, club him.Copy !req
424. Do you hear that,
Mr. Wings Over Your Wits?Copy !req
425. My friends know my whereabouts.Copy !req
426. If I don't come back,
they'll send a force to find me.Copy !req
427. Perhaps they won't find you.Copy !req
428. - They'll find you.
- They'll find me ready.Copy !req
429. Take him to the detention room
downstairs.Copy !req
430. - Now, was that wise?
- Wise?Copy !req
431. - Yes, wise, to quarrel with at once.
- Quarrel with him?Copy !req
432. Confound him.
He began the quarrel with me.Copy !req
433. "We must clean that up."Copy !req
434. Clean that up! My war.Copy !req
435. - There's things behind him.
- Things behind him?Copy !req
436. Some sort of aerial bus driver.Copy !req
437. Standing up to me, like an equal.Copy !req
438. So you lost your temper
and you bullied him.Copy !req
439. I don't bully. I just handled the man.Copy !req
440. He's the first real aviator
that has come this way for years.Copy !req
441. Think of what that means, my dear.Copy !req
442. You want aeroplanes, don't you?
You want your aeroplanes put in order?Copy !req
443. A really clever man could have had
some of those machines up long ago.Copy !req
444. I'm sure of it.Copy !req
445. Along comes this stranger
who's going to clean me up...Copy !req
446. and you expect me to hand my planes
over to him lock, stock and barrel.Copy !req
447. Why talk nonsense? You could have
persuaded him, under supervision.Copy !req
448. Supervision? The sort of oafs
I've got here to supervise him.Copy !req
449. He'd be too much for them.Copy !req
450. Oh, well, of course, if he's going to be
too much for you, why don't you hang him...Copy !req
451. and hide his machine
before the others are after you?Copy !req
452. I don't agree with you.
I don't agree with you.Copy !req
453. Now, this stranger
hasn't taken me by surprise.Copy !req
454. I knew he was coming.Copy !req
455. Yes, I knew he was coming.Copy !req
456. I felt this conspiracy of air bus drivers
brewing somewhere in the world.Copy !req
457. I felt they were getting ahead with
their aeroplanes down there somewhere.Copy !req
458. Very well. Now's our chance.Copy !req
459. We've got this fellow bottled up.
They won't even begin to miss him for days.Copy !req
460. I've got everything fixed now
for an attack straightaway...Copy !req
461. on the Floss Valley to the old coal
and shale pits, where there's oil too.Copy !req
462. Then up we buzz.Copy !req
463. Victory approaches!Copy !req
464. Your sacrifices have not been in vain.Copy !req
465. Our old struggle with the hill men
has come to its climax.Copy !req
466. Our new victory at the coal pits...Copy !req
467. has brought a great supply of oil
within our reach.Copy !req
468. Once more, we may hope to take the air...Copy !req
469. look our invaders in the face.Copy !req
470. We've 40 aeroplanes -Copy !req
471. as large a force, I venture to say,
as any in the world.Copy !req
472. This new oil can be adapted to our needs.Copy !req
473. That's quite a simple business.Copy !req
474. Nothing remains
but the conclusive bombing of the hills.Copy !req
475. Then for a time, we can hope
for a rich, rewarding peace.Copy !req
476. The peace of the strong man, armed,
who keepeth his house.Copy !req
477. And now, at this supreme crisis,
you, Gordon, our master mechanic,
refuse your help.Copy !req
478. Where are my planes?Copy !req
479. The job's more difficult than you think.
Half your machines are hopelessly old.Copy !req
480. You haven't 20 sound ones -
to be exact, 19.Copy !req
481. You'll never get the others off the ground.Copy !req
482. The thing can't be done as you imagine it.
I want assistance.Copy !req
483. - What assistance?
- Your prisoner.Copy !req
484. What, you want that chap in black,
that Wings Over the World?Copy !req
485. - You want him released?
- He knows his business.Copy !req
486. I don't enough.
Make him my technical adviser.Copy !req
487. I don't trust you technical chaps.Copy !req
488. - Then you won't get an aeroplane up.
- I want those planes.Copy !req
489. Well, if you get him?Copy !req
490. - Then I want Dr. Harding out too.
- They're old associates.Copy !req
491. I can't help that.Copy !req
492. If anybody in Everytown can adapt to that
crude oil for our aeroplanes, it's Harding.Copy !req
493. If not, it can't be done.Copy !req
494. Oh, we've had a bit of an argument
with Harding lately.Copy !req
495. He's the only man
who can do this work for you.Copy !req
496. Get him.Copy !req
497. Undo his hands.Copy !req
498. Well?Copy !req
499. - Well what?
- The salute.Copy !req
500. Damn the salute!Copy !req
501. Ah, never mind the salute now.
We'll talk about that later.Copy !req
502. Now look here.
Let's see how we stand.Copy !req
503. You, Gordon, are to undertake
the reconstruction of our air force.Copy !req
504. The prisoner, Cabal,
is to be placed at your disposal.Copy !req
505. Everywhere he goes,
he's to be under guard and observation.Copy !req
506. No relaxing on that.Copy !req
507. Neither you nor he are to go within
a hundred yards of his aeroplane. Mind that.Copy !req
508. Now you, Harding, are to assist Gordon
with his fuel problem...Copy !req
509. and place your knowledge
of poison gas at our disposal.Copy !req
510. I'll have nothing to do with poison gas!Copy !req
511. You've got the knowledge
if I have to wring it out of you.Copy !req
512. The state's your mother, your father,
the totality of your interests!Copy !req
513. No discipline can be too severe for
the man that denies that by word or deed!Copy !req
514. Nonsense!
We have a duty to civilization.Copy !req
515. You and your sort are driving us
straight back to eternal barbarism.Copy !req
516. But this is pure treason!Copy !req
517. I protest against
being dragged away from my work!Copy !req
518. Confound your silly war and your war
material and all the rest of it.Copy !req
519. All my life has been interrupted
and wasted and spoilt by war.Copy !req
520. I'll not stand it any longer!Copy !req
521. - But this is treason, treason!
- No, no, no, no. Stop that.Copy !req
522. We've need of your service.Copy !req
523. - Well, what do you want?
- You're conscripted!Copy !req
524. You're under my orders now
and under no other orders in the world.Copy !req
525. I'm master here. I'm the state.Copy !req
526. I need fuel and gas!Copy !req
527. Neither fuel nor gas.Copy !req
528. - You refuse?
- Absolutely.Copy !req
529. I don't want to be forced
to extremities.Copy !req
530. May I have a word?Copy !req
531. I understand you want all of those
out-of-date crocks of yours -Copy !req
532. which you call your air force -
to fly again and fly well.Copy !req
533. They shall!Copy !req
534. With the help of that man, Cabal,
you have in the cells...Copy !req
535. and Dr. Harding here...Copy !req
536. you may even have a dozen
of your planes in the air again.Copy !req
537. You! You're a traitor to civilization.Copy !req
538. I won't touch it!Copy !req
539. If you will give me Cabal...Copy !req
540. and if you leave me free
to talk with Harding...Copy !req
541. I promise you
you'll see your air force -Copy !req
542. a third of it, at any rate -
in the sky again.Copy !req
543. You talk as if you're driving
a bargain with me.Copy !req
544. I'm sorry, Chief.
It's not I who makes these conditions.Copy !req
545. It is the nature of things.Copy !req
546. You cannot have technical services,
you cannot have scientific help...Copy !req
547. without treating the men
who give it to you properly.Copy !req
548. That's what I've said all along.Copy !req
549. You're bullying too hard, my dear,
and there's a limit to bullying.Copy !req
550. Why? You can't make a dog hunt
by beating it.Copy !req
551. I want those planes!Copy !req
552. Chief and commanders, a health!Copy !req
553. Our war leader, our peace maker -
Rudolf the Victorious.Copy !req
554. - To Rudolf!
- Speech! Speech!Copy !req
555. Speech! Speech!Copy !req
556. Come on! Speech!Copy !req
557. My captains, my commanders,
I greet you.Copy !req
558. Could anything in life
be better than this moment?Copy !req
559. You've faced difficulties and dangers.Copy !req
560. But now,
at this bright moment of victory...Copy !req
561. we relax to gather strength
for the supreme effort...Copy !req
562. that will make this land forever ours.Copy !req
563. Hear! Hear!Copy !req
564. A man's land we're making -Copy !req
565. a land for strength and for courage.Copy !req
566. None but the brave deserve the land.Copy !req
567. None but the brave deserve the fair.Copy !req
568. Our dear old world.
Our dear old land.Copy !req
569. There are some among us
that dare to run down our land.Copy !req
570. It isn't this. It isn't that.
It isn't what it used to be.Copy !req
571. "We haven't got chemists."Copy !req
572. - Well, who wants chemists?
- We don't want 'em.Copy !req
573. "They don't print books anymore."Copy !req
574. Who wants books to muddle
their thoughts and their ideas?Copy !req
575. "We can't travel anymore."Copy !req
576. Well, isn't our land good enough for us?Copy !req
577. I wanted to look at you.Copy !req
578. I am at your service, madam.Copy !req
579. You're the most interesting thing
that has happened in Everytown for years.Copy !req
580. You honor me.Copy !req
581. You come from... outside.Copy !req
582. I'd begun to forget
there was anything outside.Copy !req
583. - I want to hear about it.
- May I offer you my only chair?Copy !req
584. - You know, I'm not a stupid woman.
- I'm sure.Copy !req
585. This life here is limited.Copy !req
586. War - always going on and never-ending.
Flags. Marching.Copy !req
587. Oh, I adore the chief.Copy !req
588. I've always adored him since he
took control in the pestilence days...Copy !req
589. when everyone else lost heart.Copy !req
590. He rules. He's firm.Copy !req
591. Everyone, every woman
finds him strong and attractive.Copy !req
592. I can't complain.Copy !req
593. I have everything that is to be had here.Copy !req
594. And yet -Copy !req
595. This is a small, limited world we live in.Copy !req
596. You bring in the breath
of something greater.Copy !req
597. When I saw you swooping down
out of the air -Copy !req
598. when I saw you marching
into the town hall-Copy !req
599. I felt, "This man lives in a greater world."Copy !req
600. You spoke of the Mediterranean and
the East, of your camps and factories.Copy !req
601. I've read about the Mediterranean
and Egypt and Greece and India.Copy !req
602. Oh, I can read - a lot of those old books.Copy !req
603. I'm not like
most of the younger people here.Copy !req
604. I learned a lot before education
stopped and schools closed down.Copy !req
605. I want to see that world -Copy !req
606. skies, snowy mountains,
blue seas, sunshine, palms.Copy !req
607. If I had my way, you could fly
to all that in a couple of hours.Copy !req
608. If you were free...Copy !req
609. and if I was free.Copy !req
610. I don't suppose any man
has ever understood any woman...Copy !req
611. since the beginning of things.Copy !req
612. You don't understand our imagination...Copy !req
613. how wild our imaginations can be.Copy !req
614. I wish I were a man.Copy !req
615. Oh! If I were a man!Copy !req
616. What are your people
trying to do to us?Copy !req
617. What are you going to do
to this boss of mine?Copy !req
618. The immediate question seems,
what does he mean to do to me?Copy !req
619. Something violent and foolish,
unless I prevent it.Copy !req
620. That's how I see things.Copy !req
621. And if he kills you?Copy !req
622. We shall come here and clean things up.Copy !req
623. But if you're killed,
how can you say We"?Copy !req
624. We go on.
That's how things are.Copy !req
625. We are taking hold of things.Copy !req
626. In science and government,
in the long run, no man is indispensable.Copy !req
627. The human things go on.Copy !req
628. We - forever.Copy !req
629. I see.Copy !req
630. And this warlike state of ours here?Copy !req
631. It has to vanish - like the tyrannosaurus
and the saber-toothed tiger.Copy !req
632. Ah! So here you are.Copy !req
633. I said I should talk to him,
and I have.Copy !req
634. I told you to leave that fellow alone.Copy !req
635. Yes, and sat up there drinking
and swaggering and looking
as proud as you could.Copy !req
636. Rudolf the Victorious.Copy !req
637. And here am I trying to find out
what this black invader means.Copy !req
638. You think I wanted to come and
talk to him - this gray, cold man?Copy !req
639. While you're swaggering here...Copy !req
640. there are more planes
away there at Basra getting ready.Copy !req
641. - Basra?
- His headquarters.Copy !req
642. Have you never heard of Basra?Copy !req
643. These are matters for us to talk about.Copy !req
644. This lady has been putting me through
a severe cross-examination.Copy !req
645. But the gist of it is that,
away there in Basra...Copy !req
646. new aeroplanes are rising night and day,
like hornets round a hornets' nest.Copy !req
647. What happens to me is a small affair.Copy !req
648. They'll finish you.Copy !req
649. The new world of united airmen
will finish you.Copy !req
650. Listen. You can almost
hear them coming now.Copy !req
651. Not a bit of it.Copy !req
652. - What he says is the truth.
- What he says is bluff.Copy !req
653. Make peace with the airmen
and let him go.Copy !req
654. That means surrender
of our sovereign independence.Copy !req
655. But more machines will be coming
and more and more.Copy !req
656. Yeah, and he's here,
hostage for their good behavior.Copy !req
657. Come, madam. Enough of this
little diplomatic mission of yours.Copy !req
658. You've got the subtlety of a bullfrog.Copy !req
659. [Laughing 1Copy !req
660. Here, I don't know
what she's been saying to you.Copy !req
661. I don't much care.Copy !req
662. But there's no making peace
between you and me.Copy !req
663. It's your world or mine,
and it's going to be mine.Copy !req
664. For all your threats of swarms of
hornets and so on, you're a hostage.Copy !req
665. Remember that.Copy !req
666. And don't be too sure you'll win.Copy !req
667. So just sit here and think that over,
Mr. Wings Over the World.Copy !req
668. Get round to the other side and look at
these engine bearer braces. Quickly.Copy !req
669. If I could get to my plane,
there's a wireless there.Copy !req
670. - It's hopeless. They won't even trust me.
- We shall have to make a job of this.Copy !req
671. I can manage to get your reserve petrol.Copy !req
672. - They'll let me have that for this plane.
- Good.Copy !req
673. It won't be easy to make a getaway.Copy !req
674. These oil pump connections aren't
very good, but we'll have to risk it.Copy !req
675. I think we'll manage it all right
now that Harding knows his part of the job.Copy !req
676. Good.Copy !req
677. Look! it's your Gordon.
He's flying at last.Copy !req
678. Look! An aeroplane out of the ark, boys.Copy !req
679. It's pre-war.Copy !req
680. - Where do you come from?
- He comes from the north, sir, from Everytown.Copy !req
681. He says Cabal is a prisoner there.Copy !req
682. They've got him, sir, and he's in danger.
I had great difficulty in getting here.Copy !req
683. - You say Cabal is in danger?
- In very great danger.Copy !req
684. - The boss there is a violent tough.
- Hmm. Job for our new squadron.Copy !req
685. Well, now we've got a chance to try
the new gas of peace on somebody.Copy !req
686. There's no time to lose, sir.
May I report to headquarters?Copy !req
687. Yes. Take him to the council.Copy !req
688. - At last, we have definite news.
- What is it?Copy !req
689. Gordon didn't fall into the sea.
He got away.Copy !req
690. A fishing boat saw him
making for the French coast.Copy !req
691. - Perhaps he reached his pals.
- Well?Copy !req
692. Well, he'll be coming back.
He'll be bringing the others with him.Copy !req
693. Curse these World Communications.Copy !req
694. Curse all airmen
and gas men and machine men!Copy !req
695. Why didn't we leave their machines
and their sciences alone?Copy !req
696. I might have known.
Why did I tamper with flying?Copy !req
697. Well, we needed aeroplanes -
against the hill state.Copy !req
698. Somebody else would have started
in again with aeroplanes
and gas and bombs if we hadn't.Copy !req
699. These people would have come
interfering anyhow.Copy !req
700. Why was all this science ever allowed?
Why was it ever let begin?Copy !req
701. Science? it's an enemy of everything
that's natural in life.Copy !req
702. I dreamt of those fellows last night-
great ugly, black, inhuman chaps.Copy !req
703. Half like machines.Copy !req
704. Bombing and bombing.Copy !req
705. - Yes, I guess they'll come bombing,
all right. - Then we'll fight 'em!Copy !req
706. Since Gordon got away,
I've had those air boys up to see me.Copy !req
707. They've got guts.
They'll do something still.Copy !req
708. We'll fight 'em. We'll fight 'em.Copy !req
709. Ha! We've got hostages.Copy !req
710. I'm glad I didn't shoot them anyway.Copy !req
711. There's that chap Harding.Copy !req
712. Of course! He can tell us
what to do against this gas...Copy !req
713. if I have to pull his arm off
and knock his teeth down his throat.Copy !req
714. - Get him! Get him!
- Go get Dr. Harding.Copy !req
715. They have to come to earth sometime.Copy !req
716. What is this World Communications?Copy !req
717. A handful of men like ourselves.Copy !req
718. They're not magic.Copy !req
719. To you, I entrust these good,
tried, tested machines.Copy !req
720. You are not mechanics.
You are warriors.Copy !req
721. You have been trained not to think,
but to do...Copy !req
722. maybe to die.Copy !req
723. I salute you, I, your chief!Copy !req
724. What do you know about
these World Communications people?Copy !req
725. - Have they gas? What sort of gas?
- I know nothing about gas.Copy !req
726. Tell us about these masks anyway.Copy !req
727. Oh, they're rotten.
They're no good at all.Copy !req
728. What sort of gas have they got?Copy !req
729. I tell you, gas isn't my business.Copy !req
730. They can't gas us
when you're here anyway.Copy !req
731. Here they are.Copy !req
732. Listen. They're coming already!Copy !req
733. We're here.
Tell them to stand by.Copy !req
734. Clumsy great things!Copy !req
735. Our boys will have them down
in no time.Copy !req
736. They're too clumsy.Copy !req
737. What, only six of us up?
Where are the rest of our fellows?Copy !req
738. Go on! Up at him.Copy !req
739. - Poor boy! it's got him!
- They're both coming down. Cowards!Copy !req
740. But they can't use gas
if we have hostages.Copy !req
741. The hostages! I'm not done yet.
Go on. Fetch them.Copy !req
742. Bring them out here out in the open.
Tie 'em up where they can be seen.Copy !req
743. Where's the other fellow?
He's the prize hostage.Copy !req
744. He's the best of the lot.
They'll know him. Fetch him.Copy !req
745. Fetch him.Copy !req
746. Look! Is that gas?Copy !req
747. Anyway, you won't get out of this.Copy !req
748. - You?
- Don't you see? We're beaten.Copy !req
749. Shoot them!Copy !req
750. What are you all doing?
Why don't you move?Copy !req
751. I never did you any harm.Copy !req
752. I saved your father, and I saved you.Copy !req
753. Couldn't you call up to your man there
to stop this?Copy !req
754. I won't have it like this!Copy !req
755. What's happening?Copy !req
756. Everything's swimming.Copy !req
757. Shoot! Shoot!Copy !req
758. We never shot enough yet!Copy !req
759. We never shot enough.Copy !req
760. We spared them.
Now they've got us.Copy !req
761. Our world or theirs.Copy !req
762. [Gasping, Coughing 1Copy !req
763. Why should I be beaten like this?Copy !req
764. Shoot! Shoot!Copy !req
765. Shoot! Shoot!Copy !req
766. [Clanging 1Copy !req
767. There they are.Copy !req
768. Mary!Copy !req
769. No, no. She's not hurt.
She's asleep like the others.Copy !req
770. Cabal's safe!Copy !req
771. - Cabal!
- Well done, Gordon!Copy !req
772. Well, they laughed at me
for sticking to my gas mask.Copy !req
773. But thanks to that,
I'm here and everyone else is sleeping.Copy !req
774. I wonder if they'll ever
use gas masks again.Copy !req
775. - Sir!
- What is it?Copy !req
776. This man's not sleeping.
He's dead.Copy !req
777. Dead. And his world dead with him.Copy !req
778. And a new world beginning.Copy !req
779. Poor old Boss here
and his flags and his follies.Copy !req
780. And now for the rule of the airmen
and a new life for mankind.Copy !req
781. Our job is only beginning.Copy !req
782. For now, we have to
put the world in order.Copy !req
783. It will be a long
and complicated struggle...Copy !req
784. but we have the unity of a common
order and a common knowledge.Copy !req
785. This is how I conceive
our plan of operations.Copy !req
786. First a roundup of brigands -Copy !req
787. that last dismal vestige
of ancient predatory soldiering...Copy !req
788. the last would-be conquerors.Copy !req
789. Then settle, organize, advance.Copy !req
790. This zone, then that.Copy !req
791. And at last, Wings Over the World...Copy !req
792. and the new world begins.Copy !req
793. Do you realize
the immense task we shall undertake...Copy !req
794. when we set ourselves
to an active and aggressive peace...Copy !req
795. when we direct our energies
to tear out the wealth of this planet...Copy !req
796. and exploit all these
giant possibilities of science...Copy !req
797. that have been squandered hitherto
upon war and senseless competition?Copy !req
798. We shall excavate the eternal hills.Copy !req
799. We shall make such use of the treasures
of sky and sea and earth...Copy !req
800. as men have never dreamt of hitherto.Copy !req
801. I would that I could see
our children's children...Copy !req
802. in this world we shall win for them.Copy !req
803. But in them and through them,
we shall live again.Copy !req
804. Is it any better world
than it used to be?Copy !req
805. I rebel against this progress.Copy !req
806. What has this progress,
this world civilization, done for us?Copy !req
807. Machines and marvels.Copy !req
808. They've built these
great cities of theirs, yes.Copy !req
809. They've prolonged life, yes.Copy !req
810. They've conquered nature, they say,
and made a great white world.Copy !req
811. Is it any jollier than the world
used to be in the good old days...Copy !req
812. when life was short and hot and merry
and the devil took the hindmost?Copy !req
813. - All the same, what can
we do about it? - Rebel.Copy !req
814. - And rebel now. Now. Now is the time.
- Why now in particular?Copy !req
815. Why, because of this space gun business...Copy !req
816. because of this project to shoot
human beings at the stars.Copy !req
817. People don't like it, shooting humans
away into hard, frozen darkness.Copy !req
818. - They're murmuring. - They've murmured
before, and nothing came of it.Copy !req
819. Because they had no leader.Copy !req
820. But now...Copy !req
821. suppose someone cried, "Halt!Copy !req
822. Stop this progress!"Copy !req
823. Suppose I shouted to the world,
"Make an end to this progress!"Copy !req
824. I could talk, talk.
Radio is everywhere.Copy !req
825. This modern world is full of voices.Copy !req
826. I'm a master craftsman.
I have the right to talk.Copy !req
827. Yes, but will they listen to you?Copy !req
828. They'll listen, trust them...Copy !req
829. if I shout, "Arise! Awake!Copy !req
830. Stop this progress before it is too late!"Copy !req
831. - I like these history lessons.
- Mm-hmm.Copy !req
832. What a funny place New York was,
all sticking up and full of windows.Copy !req
833. They built houses like that
in the old days.Copy !req
834. Why?Copy !req
835. They had no light inside their cities
as we have.Copy !req
836. So they had to stick them up
into the daylight, what there was of it.Copy !req
837. They had no properly mixed
and conditioned air.Copy !req
838. Everybody lived half out of doors.Copy !req
839. They had windows of brittle glass.Copy !req
840. The age of windows lasted four centuries.Copy !req
841. They never seemed to realize that we
could light the interiors of our houses
with sunshine of our own...Copy !req
842. so there was no need to stick them up
ever so high into the air.Copy !req
843. Weren't the people tired
going up and down those stairs?Copy !req
844. They were all tired,
and they had a disease called colds.Copy !req
845. Everybody had colds.Copy !req
846. And they coughed and sneezed
and ran at the eyes.Copy !req
847. Sneezed. What's "sneezed"?Copy !req
848. Oh, you know.Copy !req
849. Ah-tishoo!Copy !req
850. Ah-tishoo?
Everybody said "ah-tishoo"?Copy !req
851. That must have been funny.Copy !req
852. Not so funny as you think.Copy !req
853. And you remember all that,
Great-grandfather?Copy !req
854. Well, I remember some of it.Copy !req
855. The colds we had...Copy !req
856. and indigestion, too,
from the queer, bad foods we ate.Copy !req
857. Oh, it was a poor life -
never really well.Copy !req
858. Did people laugh at it?Copy !req
859. Well, they had a way
of grinning at it.Copy !req
860. They used to call it humor.Copy !req
861. We had to have a lot of humor.Copy !req
862. I've lived through
some horrid times, my dear.Copy !req
863. Oh, horrid.Copy !req
864. Horrid? I don't want
to hear about that.Copy !req
865. The wars, the wandering sickness...Copy !req
866. and all those dreadful years.Copy !req
867. None of that will come again,
Great-granddad, ever?Copy !req
868. Well, not if progress goes on.Copy !req
869. They keep on inventing
new things now, don't they...Copy !req
870. and making life lovelier and lovelier?Copy !req
871. Lovelier. Yes.Copy !req
872. And bolder.Copy !req
873. I suppose I'm an old man, my dear,
but some of it seems like going too far.Copy !req
874. This space gun of theirs
that they keep on shooting.Copy !req
875. What is this space gun,
Great-grandfather?Copy !req
876. Well, it's a gun
they discharge by electricity.Copy !req
877. It's a lot of guns inside one another...Copy !req
878. and each one discharges
the gun next inside.Copy !req
879. I don't properly understand it...Copy !req
880. but the cylinder it shoots out last goes -
swish - right away from the Earth.Copy !req
881. I wish I could fly round the moon.Copy !req
882. Well, that in time.Copy !req
883. Won't you come back
to your history pictures again?Copy !req
884. I'm glad I didn't live in the old world.Copy !req
885. I know that John Cabal and his airmen
tidied it all up.Copy !req
886. Did you see John Cabal,
Great-granddad?Copy !req
887. Well, you can see him in your pictures.Copy !req
888. But you saw him when he lived.
You really saw him?Copy !req
889. Yes. I saw the great John Cabal
with my own eyes when I was a little boy.Copy !req
890. He was a lean, brown old man
with hair as white as mine.Copy !req
891. He was the great-grandfather
of our Oswald Cabal...Copy !req
892. the president of our council.Copy !req
893. I take it the space gun's
passed all its preliminary trials...Copy !req
894. and there's nothing left now
but to choose the two who are to go.Copy !req
895. That's going to be the trouble.Copy !req
896. Thousands of young people
have been applying -Copy !req
897. young men and young women.Copy !req
898. I never dreamt the moon
was so attractive.Copy !req
899. Practically, the gun's perfect now.Copy !req
900. There are risks, but reasonable risks.Copy !req
901. And the position of the moon
in the next three or four months...Copy !req
902. gives us the best conditions
for getting there.Copy !req
903. It's only the choice of the two now
that matters.Copy !req
904. - Well?
- There are going to be difficulties.Copy !req
905. That man Theotocopulos
is talking on the radio about it.Copy !req
906. He's a fantastic fellow.Copy !req
907. Yes, but he's making trouble.Copy !req
908. It's not going to be easy
to choose these young people.Copy !req
909. With all these thousands
offering themselves?Copy !req
910. We've looked into thousands of cases.Copy !req
911. We've rejected everyone
of imperfect health...Copy !req
912. or anyone who had friends who objected.Copy !req
913. And the fact is,
we want you to talk to two people.Copy !req
914. There's Raymond Passworthy
of General Fabric. You know him?Copy !req
915. - Yes, I know him.
- And his son.Copy !req
916. We want you to see the son,
Maurice Passworthy.Copy !req
917. - Why?
- He asks to go.Copy !req
918. We think you ought to see him.
He's waiting here.Copy !req
919. - Is Maurice Passworthy there?
- He's on his way.Copy !req
920. Good.Copy !req
921. - You want to talk to me?
- Forgive me, sir. I came straight to you.Copy !req
922. - You're asking a favor?
- A very big favor.Copy !req
923. I want to be one of the first two
human beings to go round the moon.Copy !req
924. It means danger,
great hardship anyhow.Copy !req
925. You realize there's an even chance
of never corning back alive...Copy !req
926. a still greater chance
of coming back a cripple.Copy !req
927. - Give me credit for not
minding that, sir. - Mm-hmm.Copy !req
928. Yes, a lot of you young people
don't mind that.Copy !req
929. But why should I give you a favor?Copy !req
930. Well, I'm - I'm the son
of a friend of yours and -Copy !req
931. Well, people seem to feel you oughtn't
to send someone you don't know, sir.Copy !req
932. Go on.Copy !req
933. We've talked about this
over and over again.Copy !req
934. - We?
- Yes, both of us.Copy !req
935. It's her idea even more than it's mine.Copy !req
936. Her idea? Who is she?Copy !req
937. Someone much closer to you
than I am, sir.Copy !req
938. Go on.Copy !req
939. It's Catherine, your daughter.Copy !req
940. She says you can't possibly
send anybody's child but your own.Copy !req
941. I might have known.Copy !req
942. Today, I'm going
to put it to the world plainly.Copy !req
943. Is this thing to go on...Copy !req
944. or are we sane and normal
human beings to put an end to it...Copy !req
945. and an end to all such follies forever?Copy !req
946. What is this progress?Copy !req
947. What is the good of all this progress
onward and onward?Copy !req
948. We demand a halt.
We demand a rest.Copy !req
949. The object of life is happy living.Copy !req
950. We will not have human lives
sacrificed to experiment.Copy !req
951. Progress is not living. It should
only be the preparation for living.Copy !req
952. They stage the old Greek tragedy again...Copy !req
953. and a father offers up his daughter
to his evil gods.Copy !req
954. That voice is sounding to the whole world.Copy !req
955. I might suppress it. No.Copy !req
956. They'll have to hear him
and make what they can of him.Copy !req
957. What does this space gun portend?Copy !req
958. Make no mistake about it.Copy !req
959. The slaveries
they put upon themselves today...Copy !req
960. they will impose tomorrow
upon the whole world.Copy !req
961. Is man never to rest...Copy !req
962. never to be free?Copy !req
963. A time will come
when you in your turn...Copy !req
964. will be forced away to take your
chance upon strange planets...Copy !req
965. and in dreary,
abominable places beyond the stars.Copy !req
966. An end to progress.Copy !req
967. Make an end to this progress now.Copy !req
968. Let this be the last day
of the scientific age.Copy !req
969. Make the space gun the symbol
of all that drives us and destroy it!Copy !req
970. NOW!Copy !req
971. I wonder what they will make of him.Copy !req
972. It's all very well for you, Cabal.Copy !req
973. You're the great-grandson of John Cabal,
the air dictator...Copy !req
974. the man who changed
the whole course of the world.Copy !req
975. You've got experiment in your blood,
you and your daughter.Copy !req
976. But I'm - I'm more normal.Copy !req
977. I don't believe my boy
would have thought of it.Copy !req
978. - The two of them must have got together.
- They'll come back together.Copy !req
979. This time, there's no attempt
to land on the moon.Copy !req
980. When - When is this great experiment
to be made?Copy !req
981. How much longer have we got
before they go?Copy !req
982. - When the space gun is ready.
- Some time this year you mean?Copy !req
983. Soon.Copy !req
984. Then is there no way of saving
our children from this madness?Copy !req
985. But would it be saving our children?Copy !req
986. Well, here they are.Copy !req
987. - Father, we're to go?
- Yes, you're to go.Copy !req
988. - It's announced?
- Two hours ago.Copy !req
989. - Already?
- Why not?Copy !req
990. - But... my son.
- He's of age. He's volunteered.Copy !req
991. Yes, but I want to talk it over first.Copy !req
992. I must talk it over.
Why have you announced this so soon?Copy !req
993. There is still time to talk it over,
isn't there?Copy !req
994. Not so very long now, Father.Copy !req
995. We're got several months yet surely.Copy !req
996. It's just one month and three days.
Everything's ready.Copy !req
997. And the moon's coming into the right
position even while we're talking now.Copy !req
998. They're leaving it a month longer
to make sure.Copy !req
999. You mean you're going in four weeks?Copy !req
1000. Four weeks? I forbid it!Copy !req
1001. This man Theotocopulos is right.
This thing must not be.Copy !req
1002. It's human sacrifice!Copy !req
1003. Your speech has struck fire.Copy !req
1004. All the people are excited and angry.Copy !req
1005. Some of them are already going
out of the city towards the space gun.Copy !req
1006. Nothing is wanted now but leading!Copy !req
1007. We must go right on with this.Copy !req
1008. To the space gun!Copy !req
1009. And so we end an age.Copy !req
1010. Young people just beginning life...Copy !req
1011. and you want to go
into that outer horror.Copy !req
1012. Why don't you send somebody
who's sick of life?Copy !req
1013. They want fit young people -
alert and quick.Copy !req
1014. And we're fit young people.
We can observe and come back and tell.Copy !req
1015. Cabal, I just want to ask you
one plain question.Copy !req
1016. Why did you let your daughter dream
of going on this mad moon journey?Copy !req
1017. Because I love her, and I want her
to live to the best effect.Copy !req
1018. Dragging out life to the last possible
second is not living to the best effect.Copy !req
1019. The nearer the bone,
the sweeter the meat.Copy !req
1020. The best of life, Passworthy,
lies nearest to the edge of death.Copy !req
1021. I'm a broken man.Copy !req
1022. I don't know where honor lies.Copy !req
1023. You haven't got things right, Passworthy.Copy !req
1024. Our fathers and our fathers' fathers
cleaned up the old order of things...Copy !req
1025. because it killed children.Copy !req
1026. It killed those
who were unprepared for death.Copy !req
1027. Because it tormented people in vain.Copy !req
1028. Because it outraged
human pride and dignity.Copy !req
1029. Because it was an ugly spectacle of waste.Copy !req
1030. But that was only a beginning.Copy !req
1031. There's nothing wrong in suffering
if you suffer for a purpose.Copy !req
1032. Our revolution didn't abolish
danger or death.Copy !req
1033. It simply made danger
and death worthwhile.Copy !req
1034. Cabal!Copy !req
1035. Cabal, the gun's in urgent danger.
It's a race against time now to save it.Copy !req
1036. Theotocopulos is out
with a crowd of people already.Copy !req
1037. He's going to the space gun now.Copy !req
1038. They're gonna break it up.
They say it's the symbol of your tyranny.Copy !req
1039. - Have they weapons?
- Bars of metal.Copy !req
1040. They can smash delicate apparatus.
They can do endless mischief.Copy !req
1041. But you have a traffic control.
Can't they produce the police?Copy !req
1042. Very few. We've nothing
but the gas of peace, and it isn't ready.Copy !req
1043. It'll take hours yet.Copy !req
1044. We must hold this crowd back at any cost
for a time until the gas of peace is ready.Copy !req
1045. Listen.Copy !req
1046. Look!Copy !req
1047. Cabal, they're rioting!
It's barbarism come back.Copy !req
1048. - Who are you? - William Jeans
- Astronomical Department, Space Gun.Copy !req
1049. We've stopped the airways.
They'll have to go afoot.Copy !req
1050. And they'll take an hour or more to get
there, even those who've already started.Copy !req
1051. That gun mustn't be broken up after all
the final experiments have been made!Copy !req
1052. - When everything was ready!
- When everything was ready?Copy !req
1053. If they smash up that infernal gun,
then honor is satisfied and you needn't go.Copy !req
1054. - They won't smash the gun.
- Suppose the gun was fired now?Copy !req
1055. - Would the cylinder reach the moon?
- It would miss and fly into outer space.Copy !req
1056. It's 5:00 now.
If the gun were fired before 7:00 -Copy !req
1057. - And it could be?
- Yes.Copy !req
1058. - Then — We go now.
- No, no, no!Copy !req
1059. I don't know what to say,
but don't go. Don't go.Copy !req
1060. But, Father, we must go now,
or we may never go.Copy !req
1061. Then for the rest of our lives, we'll
feel we've shirked and lived in vain.Copy !req
1062. We must go now.Copy !req
1063. Quickly. This way.Copy !req
1064. If you go up to the platform,
we'll guard this below.Copy !req
1065. Right.Copy !req
1066. Contract all your muscles
when the concussion comes.Copy !req
1067. In five minutes, you'll be able
to get loose and move about.Copy !req
1068. There's the man!Copy !req
1069. There's the man who would offer up
his daughter to the devil of science.Copy !req
1070. What do you want here?Copy !req
1071. We want to save these young people
from your experiments.Copy !req
1072. We want to put an end
to this inhuman foolery.Copy !req
1073. We mean to destroy that gun!Copy !req
1074. We have a right to do
what we like with our lives -Copy !req
1075. with our sort of lives.Copy !req
1076. We don't grudge you your artistic life.Copy !req
1077. You have safety, plenty - all you want.Copy !req
1078. We want to make the world safe for men.Copy !req
1079. No one prevents you.Copy !req
1080. How can we do that
when your science and inventions...Copy !req
1081. are perpetually changing life for us...Copy !req
1082. when you're everlastingly
contriving strange things...Copy !req
1083. when you make what we think great
seem small...Copy !req
1084. when you make what we think strong
seem feeble?Copy !req
1085. We don't want you
in the same world with us.Copy !req
1086. We don't want this expedition.Copy !req
1087. We don't want mankind to go
out to the moon and to the planets.Copy !req
1088. We shall hate you more if you succeed
than if you fail.Copy !req
1089. Destroy the gun!Copy !req
1090. Before you can even reach
the base of the gun, it will be fired.Copy !req
1091. Beware of the concussion.Copy !req
1092. Beware of the concussion!Copy !req
1093. Stand by, Control Room.Copy !req
1094. Clear all outside observers.Copy !req
1095. Stand by to fire.Copy !req
1096. There! There they go.Copy !req
1097. That faint gleam of light.Copy !req
1098. - I feel that what we've done is monstrous.
- What they've done is magnificent.Copy !req
1099. - Will they come back?
- Yes, and go again and again -Copy !req
1100. until the landing is made
and the moon is conquered.Copy !req
1101. This is only a beginning.Copy !req
1102. And if they don't come back -
my son and your daughter -Copy !req
1103. what of that, Cabal?Copy !req
1104. Then presently others will go.Copy !req
1105. Oh, God! ls there never to be
any age of happiness?Copy !req
1106. Is there never to be any rest?Copy !req
1107. Rest enough for the individual man.Copy !req
1108. Too much and too soon,
and we call it death.Copy !req
1109. But for man, no rest and no ending.Copy !req
1110. He must go on,
conquest beyond conquest.Copy !req
1111. First this little planet
and its winds and waves...Copy !req
1112. and then all the laws of mind
and matter that restrain him.Copy !req
1113. Then the planets about him...Copy !req
1114. and, at last, out across
immensity to the stars.Copy !req
1115. And when he has conquered
all the deeps of space...Copy !req
1116. and all the mysteries of time...Copy !req
1117. still he will be beginning.Copy !req
1118. But we're such little creatures.Copy !req
1119. Poor humanity - so fragile, so weak.Copy !req
1120. Little - Little animals.Copy !req
1121. Little animals.Copy !req
1122. And if we're no more than animals, we must
snatch each little scrap of happiness...Copy !req
1123. and live and suffer and pass...Copy !req
1124. mattering no more than all
the other animals do or have done.Copy !req
1125. It is this... or that.Copy !req
1126. All the universe or nothingness.Copy !req
1127. Which shall it be, Passworthy?Copy !req
1128. Which shall it be?Copy !req