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00:00:00The End
00:01:20That's Hauden, our village.
00:01:23A couple of hundred houses and cottages, less than a thousand people living in them, with
00:01:28nothing remarkable ever happening.
00:01:30There's the church, early perpendicular, the vicar calls it, the commons with the cricket
00:01:35pitch, the crown and anchor where we all have our pints in the evenings, Mr. Dean's general
00:01:41shop and post office.
00:01:43And there's the manor, Grant House, where 15 generations of Grants have lived and died,
00:01:50worked and fought and served their king and country.
00:01:54And there's the squire, Sir Walter Grant, hoping to bring home a pheasant or two for supper.
00:01:59Sir Walter is proud of his well-kept estate, but proudest of all of his son and heir, Robin.
00:02:06And that's Mrs. Leggett.
00:02:08Her husband was the village drunkard.
00:02:10We have our share of men and women who turned their own lives into nightmares, but Leggett
00:02:15was the prize specimen.
00:02:17He had a son, too, name of Bill, but he wasn't proud of him at all.
00:02:24My name is Harvey, Dr. Harvey.
00:02:28Most people call me Doc, meaning no disrespect, I hope.
00:02:34At the time my story commences, I had been looking after the people of Hardim for ten years.
00:02:41I brought their babies into the world and watched their old and their sick die.
00:02:49Learning that pity is for the living and envy for the dead.
00:02:55Finding out, as some philosopher once said, that life is neither a feast nor a spectacle,
00:03:02but a predicament.
00:03:04There's nothing much to show you in Hauden, nothing that would bring tourists to gate,
00:03:10nothing except perhaps that old burnt-out barn.
00:03:14Yet it all began here, as it ended.
00:03:19But to me it looked just like a disreputable eyesore that afternoon when I peeped inside for the first time.
00:03:26To them, of course, it was a fairy castle.
00:03:30The girl's name was Lena, Lena Maitland.
00:03:33I think she must have been rising eleven when I came across them that afternoon.
00:03:40Bum, bum, bum, bum, bum, bum, bum, bum, bum, bum, bum.
00:03:45That's the tyranny of the dead.
00:03:48Sir Robin, Sir Belle.
00:03:53Why, black man?
00:03:54You got your hair.
00:04:21I yield, Sir Bill.
00:04:24I yield, Sir Robin.
00:04:33To the victor, Sir Robin, the royal laurels.
00:04:43And thou, Sir Bill, thou hast a hat.
00:04:46Fought well, for thou the Oakleaves.
00:04:54Off he went, the defeated knight.
00:04:57I almost started after him.
00:04:59But then I realised that I mustn't interfere, for I wasn't asked.
00:05:04Bill, come back! Bill!
00:05:07Now we have heard his feelings.
00:05:09He'll be back. Come on.
00:05:12That was my first glimpse of the three of them.
00:05:14Of the material from which fate fashioned the four-sided triangle.
00:05:21Lena, the flash of impish beauty.
00:05:24Those two oddly paired friends.
00:05:28Robin, solid and dependable and conscientious.
00:05:33Bill, wild and impetuous.
00:05:36But Bill was something else too.
00:05:39That night, I learned that he was a most remarkable youngster.
00:05:44I don't think it's broken, Sonny.
00:05:47It's probably only a sprain.
00:05:49No, a sprain would have swelled up more than that.
00:05:52I believe it's just a simple fracture.
00:05:54Probably a collis fracture.
00:05:56Don't think it'll even need setting.
00:05:59How did it happen?
00:06:00I was testing the breaking strain of rope.
00:06:03The kitchen.
00:06:04He didn't guess I'd worked it out on paper.
00:06:06So I got wild and swung on it myself.
00:06:09It broke.
00:06:12Well, I'll just run you around from the cottage hospital.
00:06:15And we'll see what the x-rays say.
00:06:17Just pop this over your shoulder.
00:06:19Mark Twain said that hunger was the handmaiden of genius.
00:06:23And Bill had plenty of her services.
00:06:26A drunken bully of a father who, until he was killed in a tavern brawl,
00:06:31beat him and tormented him.
00:06:33How could I refuse the appeal which he never made consciously?
00:06:37If I hadn't helped him, it would have been like smothering something strong and fine at birth.
00:06:42I became his teacher, though only for a little while.
00:06:45For he soon outpaced me as a hawk would a sparrow.
00:06:50When his mother died, I became his guardian.
00:06:53I watched him grow, his mind soaring.
00:06:56And sometimes trembled at the dizzy heights.
00:06:59For a genius is frightening, too.
00:07:01Like lightning or an earthquake.
00:07:03Something we ordinary people could only endure and admire.
00:07:07Yet he was still a boy in many ways.
00:07:11Wild, unpredictable, given to sudden rages.
00:07:15Though most often he was angry with himself.
00:07:18Robin and Lena were his constant companions.
00:07:22Lena remained his queen.
00:07:24But Robin was his staunch and unfaltering friend.
00:07:30The years passed and Lena was the first to go.
00:07:34Her mother took her back to America.
00:07:36And soon afterwards, I was saying goodbye to the boys.
00:07:41They went to Cambridge together to study science.
00:07:45Bill, needless to say, had won a scholarship.
00:07:47So Walter had started a plastics factory and wanted Robin to take charge of it.
00:07:53I felt lonely when Bill had left.
00:07:55For five years, he had been my whole life.
00:07:59He had all the qualities that a plodding GP might dream of possessing.
00:08:04He was born to do great things.
00:08:06I knew I could never achieve that.
00:08:09He would instead of me.
00:08:12As for Lena, apart from an occasional postcard bubbling and tantalizing, we had no news at all.
00:08:19Every afternoon when surgery was over, I climbed the hill and looked down at our village where nothing ever happened.
00:08:27And as the years passed, as I waited for Bill to come home, I began to think that nothing ever
00:08:34would happen.
00:08:35How did it go?
00:08:36There is often less danger in the things we fear than the things we desire.
00:08:41I should have remembered that the night Lena came back to Haudi.
00:08:46She came back a self-confessed failure.
00:08:49She had tried many things, art, music, writing, but without success.
00:08:54Now, weary and cynical, she had returned to the scene of her childhood.
00:09:01And so?
00:09:02And so?
00:09:04I came back to sell the things that mother left behind.
00:09:07And it'll give me enough to live on for three, perhaps even four months.
00:09:12And after that, I shall die in some reasonably un-messy fashion.
00:09:17I won't have you talk like that.
00:09:19The very words are blasphemy.
00:09:21I thought doctors were supposed to understand how little life really matters.
00:09:25There are many scapegoats for our sins and failures.
00:09:28And the most popular is Providence.
00:09:31I shan't blame anyone but myself.
00:09:33I didn't ask to be born.
00:09:35So I have the right to die.
00:09:38You're wrong, Lena.
00:09:40No one has that right.
00:09:42No one.
00:09:48Did you know Robin and Bill were back in Howdeen?
00:09:53No.
00:09:53Oh, yes they are.
00:09:55You remember the old barn?
00:09:56They bought it and turned it into a workshop.
00:09:59Bill's christened it The Dump.
00:10:01They're working their night and day on something big.
00:10:05Something big?
00:10:06Yes.
00:10:07I don't know what it is.
00:10:08They won't tell me it is finished.
00:10:10But whatever it is, it's something that's costing a lot of money and a lot of nervous energy.
00:10:16They've lived up a couple of bunks.
00:10:18Practically live in the place.
00:10:20Would you like to see it?
00:10:24Darling, Doc.
00:10:25You're so transparent.
00:10:27Of course.
00:10:29Let's go see genius at work.
00:10:43Yes, sir.
00:10:52Yes, sir.
00:11:00That is a complete secondary convene.
00:11:00I was hungry to eat it.
00:11:00Well, I just can't do that.
00:11:03Hello, Bill. Having fun?
00:11:06You're demonstrating ways of turning the air blue.
00:11:09Yeah, a technical hitch.
00:11:11The mastermind will recover.
00:11:14Cigarette, anybody?
00:11:15I'd like one, please.
00:11:21Well, by all, it's wonderful.
00:11:23It's the prodigal daughter.
00:11:26Welcome home.
00:11:28Hello, Robin.
00:11:30Bill.
00:11:31Doesn't she look wonderful, Bill?
00:11:32What are all of these contraptions?
00:11:34Well, that'd be rather hard to explain.
00:11:36Most of them, they've just been invented.
00:11:38They haven't got any proper names yet.
00:11:39What Bill means is he isn't sure yet that it'll work.
00:11:42A few weeks more, we'll be able to give a demonstration
00:11:44that'll speak for itself if it comes off,
00:11:46and I'm sure it will, though Bill pretends it's doubtful.
00:11:48The theory's watertight.
00:11:50Oh, it all sounds terribly mysterious,
00:11:52and I'm afraid quite above my head.
00:11:54Well, you see, you'd have to study Einstein to...
00:11:56And who is Mr. Einstein?
00:12:01Pretend you didn't hear.
00:12:10It's a mess, isn't it?
00:12:12You don't suppose with genius at work it could be any other one?
00:12:15Oh, yes, it could.
00:12:16They need regular meals, you know.
00:12:19And someone to remind them that occasionally one is supposed to sleep.
00:12:22A ministering angel, no less.
00:12:24I suppose you'd pick me for the job.
00:12:27No, thank you, Doc.
00:12:30Well, gentlemen, thank you for a most interesting visit,
00:12:34and I hope that you invite me when you present your masterpiece to the world.
00:12:38Good night.
00:12:39But Lena!
00:12:43But, of course, she changed her mind.
00:12:46That's a woman's privilege.
00:12:48She became cook, nurse, confessor, chief bottle washer,
00:12:52and occasional mechanic to those two conspirators.
00:12:56She became one of them, sharing their disappointments,
00:13:00getting on the right side of Sir Walter,
00:13:01who was beginning to get worried over his investment in the mysterious scheme,
00:13:06soothing his ruffled feelings when Bill was a little abrupt,
00:13:10being the most wonderful thing in the world,
00:13:13a woman who is also a companion and a comrade of her men folk.
00:13:18I saw little of her in the boys, for I was told to keep away
00:13:21until one evening, Robin asked me to pay a visit to Grant House with him.
00:13:27And you say these experiments are certain to succeed?
00:13:30There's no certainty about it, Dad.
00:13:33Of course, we're more than hopeful and success would mean a tremendous amount.
00:13:36Oh, yes, quite, quite.
00:13:37You said all that 18 months ago when I gave you the thousand pounds.
00:13:40I don't think your money's been wasted.
00:13:42And now another few months or a few weeks, we'll see the job finished.
00:13:47A few weeks, a few months.
00:13:50A few months.
00:13:51A few years.
00:13:52And two thousand pounds.
00:13:58Oh, Rob, I'm not unreasonable, you know that.
00:14:01But the answer is definitely no, not another penny.
00:14:05I wanted you to take over the plastic business, but you refused.
00:14:09I staked a thousand pounds, and I'm not going to throw good money off to bed.
00:14:14Now, then I'm surprised at you, Harvey.
00:14:17Encouraging them in this wild goose chase.
00:14:20Instead of making them see reason.
00:14:22Perhaps reason means something different to me.
00:14:25I think there's method in their madness.
00:14:27Good night, Sir Walter.
00:14:29Good night, Father.
00:14:41I hate to tell Bill.
00:14:43Don't tell him.
00:14:44But what on earth will we do?
00:14:45Just say Sir Walter wanted a week or so to think things over.
00:14:48I have a few hundreds in the bank.
00:14:50That'll do to carry on with.
00:14:51And I still have to think what I can do about the rest.
00:14:54Don.
00:14:56You're an old fool, Henry.
00:14:58Well, I'm sorry.
00:14:59I'm not time to waste.
00:15:03No, Doctor.
00:15:04If you hadn't been in such a hurry,
00:15:06we could have got a much better price for such a well-established practice.
00:15:09Yes, but you see, Simpson, I was in a hurry.
00:15:12Thanks for all your help anyway.
00:15:14That's all right.
00:15:15There it is.
00:16:09What a terrible night.
00:16:11I had to come.
00:16:12You just sit down by the fire now and relax.
00:16:15And I'll get you a nice hot drink.
00:16:17Oh, I really can't stay.
00:16:19Doctor, do you have some Benzedrine?
00:16:20Those two boys can't keep going on coffee alone.
00:16:22Then they shall rest.
00:16:24You'll all be going down with nervous prostration
00:16:26if you don't take some time off soon.
00:16:28No, really, Dana.
00:16:29Oh, I admit the last three days have been pretty grim.
00:16:32But they're almost sure that they've got it now.
00:16:35One last effort.
00:16:36Come on.
00:16:38You know, Doc,
00:16:39I never thought I could get so enthusiastic
00:16:41about something I don't even...
00:16:50Hello.
00:16:51I'll be here.
00:16:55What's for you, Lena?
00:17:03Hello.
00:17:04Lena, we've got it licked.
00:17:05We're ready for the first demonstration.
00:17:07Curtain going up in 10 minutes.
00:17:08You better hurry.
00:17:10They think they've got it, and they want to show us.
00:17:12Come on, Doc.
00:17:13This might be it.
00:17:20Is this it?
00:17:22Have you really got it?
00:17:23Give me a second.
00:17:25Well, we're almost ready for work.
00:17:27What do you mean, almost?
00:17:28I'm the cautious one, remember?
00:17:30Don't you think you ought to tell me what it's all about?
00:17:34You think our principal backer ought to know?
00:17:37You know you're just dying, you tell him.
00:17:40All right.
00:17:45But what are they?
00:17:47We call it a reproducer.
00:17:48You might also call it a duplicator.
00:17:51How does it work?
00:17:52What does it do?
00:17:53Well, that's not so easy to explain.
00:17:56I could fill your head with figures and names.
00:17:59Milliken and Faraday and Newton.
00:18:02Dalton.
00:18:03Rutherford.
00:18:03Planck and Oppenheimer.
00:18:05Not to mention Mr. Einstein.
00:18:06Even I now know who he is.
00:18:08We could give you a lecture on atoms and protons,
00:18:11on the theory of indeterminacy and heavy water.
00:18:14Not to mention something called a wavicle,
00:18:16which is half wave, half particle.
00:18:18Hold on, I'm dizzy already.
00:18:20Can't you put it into words of one syllable?
00:18:24You'll do better than that.
00:18:25We'll show you.
00:18:27Let Doc have the honor of choosing the very first object
00:18:30of the reproducer.
00:18:31What'll it be, Doc?
00:18:32Think anything you like.
00:18:33Any object.
00:18:35Anything?
00:18:36But what material?
00:18:38Stone, metal, fabric?
00:18:39Anything at all.
00:18:49What about that?
00:18:50All right.
00:18:52Now you just sit down and relax.
00:18:54You're the audience.
00:18:55We have to do the work.
00:18:56And don't be disappointed if the show isn't quite perfect yet.
00:18:58You'll be careful with that.
00:18:59I've had it for years.
00:19:20Right?
00:19:38Do you know what you have to do?
00:19:43Whatever you do, watch that meter.
00:19:49Ready.
00:19:50Alpha 17.
00:19:53Alpha 17.
00:19:56Five.
00:19:59Five?
00:20:01Beta 2, Beta 2x.
00:20:04Beta 2.
00:20:07Beta 2x.
00:20:10Twelve.
00:20:12Twelve.
00:20:16Gamma 7.
00:20:17Gamma 7.
00:20:25Thirteen.
00:20:27Thirteen.
00:20:29Vita 11.
00:20:32Vita 11.
00:20:36Fourteen.
00:20:36Fourteen.
00:20:38Fourteen.
00:20:47Full power.
00:20:51Now.
00:20:53Thirteen.
00:21:08Oh, you're done it. It works. Oh, Robin, isn't it wonderful Bill? It works. It works. It works.
00:21:24Here you go, Doc.
00:21:29This is incredible.
00:21:32It's an exact replica.
00:21:35Even to this bent link.
00:21:44Look at that.
00:21:46How on earth did you do it?
00:21:51Well, I'll try to explain, but it won't be simple.
00:21:56Crudely, then, you know what matter is?
00:22:01Sure, you know, the stuff everything's made out of.
00:22:03Windows, doors, watches, even doctors.
00:22:07Well, all through the ages, men have used matter to create energy.
00:22:13Wood to create heat, coal to make electricity.
00:22:15Out of inactive, inert mass, we've created movement, force.
00:22:21Yes, I've got that.
00:22:22Well, fairly recently, we found ways of making matter out of energy.
00:22:28Sort of reversing the process.
00:22:30It was first done some years ago by the GE labs in New York.
00:22:34Their machine, the Betatron, used high-powered X-rays and produced brand-new electrons.
00:22:38Freshly created particles of matter.
00:22:40You've lost me somewhere on the bay, but never mind, Bill.
00:22:42Oh, just let's forget all the scientific jargon.
00:22:44You must take it on trust, Doc.
00:22:46We can reproduce anything in the world.
00:22:48Gold, platinum, diamond?
00:22:50The Venus de Milo.
00:22:51Aureomycin.
00:22:52All the rare and costly drugs, all the blood plasma the world wants.
00:22:55But this is terrific.
00:22:57Have you thought out the tremendous implications?
00:22:59What's there to think out?
00:23:01We've done it.
00:23:02That's all that matters.
00:23:03Not quite, Bill.
00:23:05We've a responsibility to ourselves, to the world.
00:23:07Well, that's your father, Robin.
00:23:09After all, he advanced the first thousand.
00:23:11Don't you think he ought to be told?
00:23:12Well, I thought of keeping it a secret until we get organized,
00:23:14until we discover the best way of using the reproducer.
00:23:17Robin, I think your father has a right to know.
00:23:19All right, let's do it.
00:23:21After all, we can always buy out his share.
00:23:24Oh, let's don't talk business tonight.
00:23:25I feel like celebrating.
00:23:27I took enough out of the petty cash to buy a couple of bottles of champagne.
00:23:31Come on, let's go try it.
00:23:32I've even got a bucket of ice.
00:23:38Would you care to endorse it, Sir Walter?
00:23:49Sure.
00:23:49You can watch as fast as you like.
00:24:01Right.
00:24:19Ready.
00:24:21Alpha, 21.
00:24:24Alpha, 21.
00:24:27Five.
00:24:28Five.
00:24:30Beta, four.
00:24:32Beta, four, x.
00:24:33Beta, four.
00:24:35Beta, four, x.
00:24:37Seven.
00:24:39Seven.
00:24:41Gamma, 12.
00:24:43Gamma, 12.
00:24:4620.
00:24:4820.
00:24:50Theta, 13.
00:24:51Theta, 13.
00:24:54Theta, 13.
00:24:55Thirteen.
00:24:56Thirteen.
00:24:57Full power.
00:24:59Now.
00:25:08Robin.
00:25:09Bill.
00:25:11Harvey.
00:25:12Do you swear this isn't some trick?
00:25:15This second check?
00:25:16Even the numbers are the same.
00:25:18He's really...
00:25:19Yes, yes, created out of nothing.
00:25:21Reproduced, if you like.
00:25:22Of course, sir.
00:25:23One of them's no good.
00:25:24Well, we didn't exactly intend to go in for forgery, Sir Walter.
00:25:27Of course, it would be different if they were gold bars
00:25:29or a couple of ton of platinum
00:25:31or perhaps a hundred weight of rubies.
00:25:38And you say you can reproduce anything?
00:25:41Anything at all.
00:25:42If it's not too large to go into the domes.
00:25:45Of course, we could build new domes any size.
00:25:48Does anybody know about this?
00:25:50No one but us.
00:25:51Then I implore you not to tell anybody
00:25:53until I've had time to get in touch with the proper authorities.
00:25:56What all the proper authorities got to do with it?
00:25:59It isn't a secret weapon.
00:26:00Oh, isn't it?
00:26:01You say you can reproduce anything.
00:26:04Atom bombs.
00:26:06Poison gas.
00:26:07Bacteria of other billions.
00:26:08Oh, well, we would never do a thing like that.
00:26:10My dear, of course I know you wouldn't.
00:26:13Neither would my son here.
00:26:14Nor would Bill.
00:26:17I'm not so sure about Bill.
00:26:19He might do it in a spirit of detached scientific curiosity.
00:26:24Now what you've got to decide is what you want yourselves.
00:26:28Two things, Dad.
00:26:30Security so our work shouldn't be disturbed.
00:26:32I think the government would insist upon that anyway.
00:26:35Now what else?
00:26:38Our equipment is rather makeshift.
00:26:40We have to make it safe and efficient.
00:26:41So I suppose we need a new place and a larger source of power.
00:26:45And of course the originals of the things to reproduce.
00:26:48Yes, rare drugs, complex and costly medical apparatus.
00:26:51Electronic computers, radium.
00:26:53Works of art to make beauty available to all.
00:26:55They're not in this for personal gain, Sir Walter.
00:26:58Now listen.
00:26:59You've achieved something immense.
00:27:02But you've got to watch every step.
00:27:05I think you want too little and yet too much.
00:27:08Will you trust me to handle this?
00:27:11Your Uncle Henry is the logical man to approach.
00:27:14He's the permanent undersecretary for economic affairs.
00:27:19Yes, he's also a stuffed shirt.
00:27:20Oh really, Robin.
00:27:22He's also a statesman.
00:27:26I'll explain everything to him.
00:27:28Of course you'll have to brief me, you know, in non-technical language.
00:27:33And we'll be guided by what he says.
00:27:35I'm not so sure about that, sir.
00:27:37And why not, young man?
00:27:39Well, this is something for all mankind, not just for one country.
00:27:43If Lord Grant wants to keep it just for ourselves,
00:27:45I would resist that with all my might.
00:27:47Hold your horses, Bill.
00:27:49No, Doc, he's right.
00:27:51But I'm sure we can work out a way that's satisfactory to both sides.
00:27:56And I agree with Dad that we shouldn't be too hasty.
00:27:58Well, that's settled then.
00:28:00I'll go up to London tonight.
00:28:03Well, I suppose you'll come to the point sooner or later.
00:28:07I know you pretty well, Bill.
00:28:09I've nursed you through some black moods.
00:28:14What is it?
00:28:17It's a paradox, that's what it is.
00:28:21Well, the bloke said once that a paradox is only a truth standing on his head to attract attention.
00:28:28Oh, Doc, I must be serious.
00:28:33Just serious.
00:28:36Well, that girl, that silly, wonderful Lena, she doesn't know what she wants.
00:28:46But I do.
00:28:48I know what I want.
00:28:51I want her.
00:28:54I need her.
00:28:57I love her.
00:28:59Why don't you tell her so?
00:29:02You know how it is.
00:29:05If she doesn't know what she needs, she might...
00:29:07Turn you down?
00:29:09That can't be helped.
00:29:10It shouldn't stop you from trying.
00:29:13It does stop me.
00:29:16You know what it is.
00:29:19It's pride.
00:29:22I can't help it.
00:29:24I'm too sensitive.
00:29:29Would you...
00:29:31Would you sort of...
00:29:34probe her, Doc?
00:29:36Would you?
00:29:38Yes, of course I will, my boy.
00:29:40But you must give me time.
00:29:42At the moment, all our minds are too full of this invention of yours.
00:29:47When we've got it organized a bit, I'll talk to her.
00:29:49I promise.
00:29:50But you must leave me to choose the moment.
00:29:53All right.
00:29:55Yes, of course.
00:30:01Annette.
00:30:03I wanted to know.
00:30:05I can't tell her myself.
00:30:10Thank you, Doc.
00:30:12Thank you for everything.
00:30:18Now, Bill, try to behave yourself.
00:30:20I know it's not easy, but it's worth it.
00:30:23Well, is it?
00:30:27I'm tired of the whole reproducer, Rob.
00:30:31It was fun developing it, but...
00:30:33now I'd rather start on something new.
00:30:38I didn't know you felt like this, Bill.
00:30:41Just think, at a few months,
00:30:43the hospitals of the world will have all the radium they need.
00:30:46No polio victim need die now for the want of an iron lung.
00:30:50and all the beauty we can give to the people
00:30:52who never before have owned a great painting
00:30:54or a beautiful statue.
00:30:57No, I'm not tired of our work yet.
00:31:02Well, perhaps you're right.
00:31:05Come on.
00:31:06Let's go downstairs.
00:31:11Oh, well...
00:31:12Put it on to me, all right, I'll do it.
00:31:18Look, I'm not very much of a hand at making a speech,
00:31:23but I feel that this is an occasion.
00:31:26The presence of a distinguished statesman,
00:31:30who is also a member of my family,
00:31:33makes me feel doubly diffident.
00:31:36But you won't, I know, grudge me a few words.
00:31:41I think I can flatter myself that I was among the first...
00:31:45In fact, I was the very first
00:31:47to realize the world-shattering importance of the reproducer.
00:31:51Some men might have refused to invest in a seemingly fantastic venture.
00:31:58But I had faith in these brilliant young men.
00:32:02I had faith to the tune of a very substantial sum.
00:32:06Hear, hear.
00:32:08However, my faith was fully justified.
00:32:11My expectations are more than fulfilled.
00:32:14I am happy to say that the government
00:32:16has given its full consent to our plans.
00:32:20And Lord Grant is here to discuss
00:32:23the implementation of our suggestions.
00:32:27What Walter means is
00:32:29we're willing to do as you wish.
00:32:32Within reason.
00:32:34Yes, sir.
00:32:35Yes, of course.
00:32:36Now, may I give you a toast
00:32:38to the Universal Reproducer Company.
00:32:42May it transform the world into a place of peace,
00:32:46and plenty.
00:32:48Yes.
00:32:50Now, Walter,
00:32:52we've got to be practical about this.
00:32:55First of all, I want all the blueprints and formulae
00:32:58transferred to our safe custody.
00:33:00And the sooner the better.
00:33:02Yes, of course, Henry.
00:33:03I can quite see that security is of the highest importance.
00:33:06Exactly.
00:33:07And I want these two geniuses of yours
00:33:10to come up to London and explain everything in detail
00:33:14to our big boffins.
00:33:15Yes, that's very practical.
00:33:18I'd be very glad to come up with you myself.
00:33:20That may not be necessary.
00:33:22Let's ask them anyway
00:33:24when they can make the trip where it's Robin.
00:33:27Well, I saw him a moment or two ago.
00:33:29I think he was with Lena.
00:33:32Dad, mother, everybody.
00:33:34Congratulate us.
00:33:36Lena and I are going to be married.
00:33:39I am going to be married.
00:33:41Charlie!
00:33:42Yes!
00:33:43Yes!
00:33:43Yes!
00:33:43Yes!
00:33:43Well, this is...
00:33:50Steady, Bill.
00:33:53Thanks, darling.
00:33:55I almost made a fool of myself.
00:34:00and thank you for something else too what's that so I'm not speaking to Lena about that evening
00:34:09weather isn't it wonderful Bill I never thought you'd have me I'm terribly glad Rob
00:34:19for both of you I know you'll be very happy
00:34:32thanks Bill
00:34:34you'll come back to my place Bill thanks doc thank manager by himself
00:35:00so
00:35:26so
00:35:30so
00:35:36so
00:35:37so
00:35:45so
00:35:49so
00:35:51so
00:36:01so
00:36:03so
00:36:05so
00:36:15so
00:36:17so
00:36:18so
00:36:20so
00:36:21so
00:36:21so
00:36:31Bill
00:36:36Bill
00:36:38it's you doc
00:36:40what are you doing out here
00:36:44come inside and I'll tell you
00:36:48you've got to tell somebody
00:36:51I've suggested to Rob that we try and see just how far the reproducer would take us
00:36:57purely as a matter of curiosity
00:37:00and what did he think of the idea
00:37:02not much
00:37:04well you know Robin and his code of honor
00:37:06he said he was a physicist not a biologist
00:37:09and the current of electricity we'd have to pass through the guinea pig or rabbit or whatever it was would
00:37:13be rather painful
00:37:14well I didn't think very much of that objection after all chloroform or morphia would eliminate it
00:37:19so you gave it up for a while
00:37:21yeah
00:37:23but a week ago
00:37:26I started with a guinea pig
00:37:29oh yeah
00:37:31I did have two guinea pigs
00:37:33perfect replicates
00:37:36in this one the original came around all right when the dope wore off
00:37:40and the duplicate
00:37:43I didn't live
00:37:47I tried everything
00:37:51massage, adrenaline
00:37:53I even built a miniature iron lung
00:37:56it was no use
00:37:58did you try surgery?
00:38:00made an incision, massaged the heart
00:38:04didn't work
00:38:06perhaps it's just as well that it didn't
00:38:08but it's got to work
00:38:09and you've got to help me doc
00:38:10how can I help?
00:38:12when I've got something
00:38:15it's really an adaptation of a gadget called the autojector
00:38:19I haven't got it perfect yet
00:38:21it's a matter of spinal surgery
00:38:23and I'm no hand at that
00:38:25if you could give me just a little help doc
00:38:27I don't know Bill
00:38:28this is very different from anything you've ever asked me before
00:38:33I still have to think it over
00:38:38I'll tell you tomorrow
00:38:41yes
00:38:43you do that doc
00:38:48I'll be waiting
00:38:52I haven't got much time left
00:38:55not much time
00:38:59that night for the first time
00:39:01I felt that there was something strange
00:39:03something feverish in Bill
00:39:06but he was driven by a force he couldn't control
00:39:09the words of Solomon burned in my mind
00:39:12love is strong as death
00:39:15jealousy is cruel as the grave
00:39:18but words didn't help
00:39:20I knew from the beginning that I would help him
00:39:23I also knew that I'd hate helping
00:39:26I thought
00:39:28but even thought stopped short
00:39:30this is my last card you know
00:39:33how does it work Bill?
00:39:35you gave me the clue
00:39:37I realized from what you said
00:39:38that I had to have something acting not only as a heart pump
00:39:41setting up a circulation artificially
00:39:44but also a gadget that oxygenated the blood at the same time
00:39:50if this fails I'm done
00:39:55come on
00:39:56come on
00:39:56come on
00:40:00come on
00:40:01oh chicken
00:40:03yeah
00:40:04yeah
00:40:05yeah
00:40:06alright
00:40:07not gonna hurt you
00:40:11don't you have him there?
00:40:12the red bull
00:40:34yeah
00:40:36it's gone nicer to sleep
00:40:44right
00:40:54you
00:40:58do
00:40:59do
00:40:59do
00:40:59do
00:40:59do
00:40:59do
00:40:59do
00:41:00do
00:41:04Let's go.
00:41:30Let's go.
00:42:12Let's go.
00:42:15Full power.
00:42:17Now.
00:42:53Let's go.
00:43:19Let's go.
00:44:03Let's go.
00:44:17Well, Doc, we've done it.
00:44:21You've done it, Bill.
00:44:22We, I, what's it matter?
00:44:25Isn't the secret simple?
00:44:27Just pump the blood through the veins till the creature's own heart pump begins to work in sympathy.
00:44:32Bill, I beg of you, now that you've got it, don't do anything hasty.
00:44:35It's a terrible secret, it's a terrible secret, an immense responsibility.
00:44:40No one really should know about it.
00:44:42I, myself, don't want to know what modifications you've made to your original autojecta.
00:44:47Believe me, Doc, I'm not interested in turning out rabbits about a million.
00:44:52Leave that to nature.
00:44:55I think you know why I've done all this.
00:44:57I think you know.
00:45:00And you'll help me, won't you?
00:45:03No, Bill, I won't.
00:45:05I can't help you.
00:45:06I can't.
00:45:08You'll have to do it yourself.
00:45:17A week after that fantastic night, Lena came back.
00:45:21Robin had to stay in London, where the talks with government experts were still continuing.
00:45:27Lena looked as happy as any human being could ever be.
00:45:31I watched Bill.
00:45:33He seemed to be composed, almost serene.
00:45:37Lena told us that she'd come back to prepare their new home,
00:45:40and to ask Bill to join Robin in London.
00:45:43Do be a stubborn mule, Bill.
00:45:45They need you up in London.
00:45:46Robin can deal with all that.
00:45:48He's for the man of Bourne.
00:45:50I don't think you're impatient and spoil things.
00:45:52Well, I can't put you in a straitjacket and post you off,
00:45:55but I do think you're being silly.
00:45:58No.
00:45:59I don't think so.
00:46:02I've got something else to do.
00:46:05Something much more important.
00:46:09Come for a walk, and I'll tell you.
00:46:11Our genius is in one of these moods.
00:46:13Do you mind, Doc?
00:46:14As I watched Bill carrying off Lena that afternoon,
00:46:18a chill came over me.
00:46:20It was as if they'd suddenly become ghosts,
00:46:24intangible and lost in the shadows.
00:46:26I pitied Bill, and I trembled for Lena.
00:46:30Yet there was nothing I could do.
00:46:45Bill, I think that above all, we should be honest with each other.
00:46:49That's what I've been trying to do all the time.
00:46:53You must have known how it was.
00:46:55Ever since Robin and I fought that duel with the wooden swords.
00:46:58But I didn't.
00:46:59I didn't know until that night at Grant's house.
00:47:02And even then.
00:47:03It was too late.
00:47:03Even if I had known before.
00:47:05I know that.
00:47:07I knew it even if I couldn't quite face it.
00:47:10Even if it weren't Robin.
00:47:12But you can help me, Lena.
00:47:14You must help me.
00:47:15Help me?
00:47:16Yes.
00:47:17While you and Robin were away,
00:47:21I found something.
00:47:22I found a way to make another Lena.
00:47:28I think he's considered all that.
00:47:32And he's absolutely certain there's no danger of any harm to you.
00:47:36He told me that every brain cell,
00:47:39every nerve would be reproduced intact
00:47:41and in perfect working order.
00:47:45Here, I sound as though I'm arguing on his side,
00:47:47but I only want you to know the facts
00:47:49and then to be quite sure of yourself
00:47:52before you finally make up your mind.
00:47:54But what about after?
00:47:56Will she be different after we're separated?
00:48:00Like us, twin sister?
00:48:03Yes.
00:48:04I'm pretty sure of that.
00:48:08Oh, if only I could talk to Robin.
00:48:11But he'd never...
00:48:13My dear.
00:48:15You know how fond I am of the three of you.
00:48:18And I do honestly believe
00:48:20that you could make Bill happy
00:48:22without losing Robin,
00:48:23without impairing your own happiness in the least.
00:48:26But as I said before,
00:48:29it is for you to decide.
00:48:30I'll be right back.
00:48:34I'll be right back.
00:48:54I'll be right back.
00:49:07I'll be right back.
00:49:12I'll be right back.
00:49:22THE END
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00:52:20Full power!
00:52:21Now!
00:52:38Let's go!
00:52:40Let's go!
00:52:44Let's go!
00:53:14Oh, my God.
00:53:39Oh, my God.
00:53:59Oh, my God.
00:54:29Oh, my God.
00:54:59Oh, my God.
00:55:30Oh, my God.
00:55:57Oh, my God.
00:56:00Oh, my God.
00:56:45Oh, my God.
00:56:48Oh, my God.
00:57:18Oh, my God.
00:57:46Oh, my God.
00:58:42Oh, my God.
00:59:10Oh, my God.
00:59:13Oh, my God.
00:59:43Oh, my God.
00:59:50Oh, my God.
00:59:59Oh, my God.
01:00:33Oh, my God.
01:01:03Oh, my God.
01:01:05Oh, my God.
01:01:08Oh, my God.
01:01:41Oh, my God.
01:01:54Oh, my God.
01:02:19Oh, my God.
01:02:54Oh, my God.
01:02:58Oh, my God.
01:03:02Oh, my God.
01:03:24Oh, my God.
01:03:52Oh, my God.
01:04:19Oh, my God.
01:04:49Oh, my God.
01:05:09Oh, my God.
01:05:26Oh, my God.
01:05:33Oh, my God.
01:05:34Oh, my God.
01:05:35Oh, my God.
01:06:21Oh, my God.
01:06:37Oh, my God.
01:07:02You're the shoes are youeté grow,
01:07:09Oh, my God.
01:07:17Oh, my God, oh, my God.
01:07:28And at first, I thought I could bear it somehow.
01:07:35Don't you realize that I share all of Lena's memories
01:07:42up to the time I was created?
01:07:47My dear, I do want to help you and to help Bill, too.
01:08:08Bill, I beg of you, listen to me.
01:08:10I know how you love Helen just as you love Lena.
01:08:14I know that now she means everything to you.
01:08:17I understand that.
01:08:18But, Bill, happiness isn't our birthright.
01:08:23Only it's pursuit.
01:08:25There are other kinds of happiness, other ways of achieving it.
01:08:31Doc, I don't believe in all that.
01:08:35In all my life, I've only wanted two things.
01:08:39Knowledge and, well, I suppose, love.
01:08:45I used the first to try and gain the second.
01:08:49But now...
01:08:50Don't hold on to her, Bill.
01:08:52Let her go.
01:08:53Even if I did let her go, what good would it do?
01:08:57Don't forget there are two of them.
01:08:59In love with the same man.
01:09:04If I accept my own loneliness and longing,
01:09:10that won't lessen hers.
01:09:23Thank you, Doc.
01:09:25For everything.
01:09:29I seem to be saying that all my life, don't I?
01:09:35I want you to go back to Hydeen.
01:09:38How can I?
01:09:39How can I leave you to...
01:09:40No, please.
01:09:41Trust me.
01:09:44Just...
01:09:44give me a little time.
01:09:48All right, Bill.
01:10:08I'm going to go in for the next sec.
01:10:08I'll be back.
01:10:08You can't smile at all.
01:10:09What?
01:10:09Ha.
01:10:12I'll be back.
01:10:13You will be back.
01:10:13I'm back.
01:10:21I hoped you'd come, Nina.
01:10:23Where is she?
01:10:27Bill,
01:10:28Doug told me what you're going to do and that you needed help.
01:10:31But don't you think you've done enough?
01:10:33You're not God, Bill.
01:10:35What if something should go wrong?
01:10:37Nothing can.
01:10:38You want to know that, Nina.
01:10:40I thought you'd want this just as much as I do.
01:10:43Hi.
01:10:45Have you forgotten, Robin?
01:10:51What do you want me to do?
01:10:54Control the high-voltage apparatus.
01:10:56I can't be in two places at the same time.
01:10:59You've done it before.
01:11:01I'll cure you.
01:11:19Helen, you trust me, don't you?
01:11:23I've worked it all out.
01:11:24There can be no danger.
01:11:26Bill,
01:11:28how can you be sure it'll work?
01:11:31Darling,
01:11:32I can't explain in detail.
01:11:35This new contraption is a modification of a treatment they use in nervous diseases.
01:11:40Now,
01:11:41I don't mean to imply that you're not sane.
01:11:45You see,
01:11:46thought is an electrical process itself.
01:11:50Memory is stored in the cells of the brain
01:11:52and could be drawn off
01:11:53just to draw electricity out of a battery.
01:11:56Don't worry about that.
01:11:59You'll be asleep after the first two seconds.
01:12:03At the end,
01:12:05when you wake up,
01:12:07you have no memories.
01:12:09No regrets.
01:12:14You know,
01:12:14I wouldn't hurt you for anything in the world.
01:12:19But even if I gave up
01:12:21everything,
01:12:24I wouldn't make you happy.
01:12:32Yes, Bill.
01:12:34You're right.
01:12:36An empty mind.
01:12:39And a new beginning.
01:13:02You'll be being mated.
01:13:02I don't seem to worry about it at all.
01:13:02You're right.
01:13:02I'll be mulch.
01:13:02I'm hungry.
01:13:03I can'tقط the lying.
01:13:38Ready, darling?
01:13:46Goodbye, Robbie.
01:13:50Well, I didn't expect to see you.
01:13:52I had to come back to fetch Bill.
01:13:54But I thought you could settle everything without him.
01:13:56So did I.
01:13:57And then I found out that the blueprints and formula were incomplete.
01:14:00You know how careless Bill has always been about these things.
01:14:02There were a dozen details of which I didn't know myself.
01:14:05The latest improvements he had made, some essential ones.
01:14:08But where is he and where's Lena?
01:14:10She wasn't at the house.
01:14:12Sit down, goodbye.
01:14:14This is going to take a little time.
01:14:17I'm afraid I've got a bit of a shock for you, Robin.
01:14:20No, no, no, don't worry.
01:14:22Lena's perfectly all right.
01:14:25Well, it's no good beating about the bush.
01:14:30Bill's been in love with Lena for some time.
01:14:34Bill?
01:14:36But...
01:14:38Where is he?
01:14:39I must talk to him.
01:14:41If this should come between us...
01:14:43You ought to know that nothing could make any difference between you and Lena.
01:14:47She loves you.
01:14:51Poor Bill.
01:14:53Poor Bill, indeed.
01:14:55For a time, he was happy.
01:14:58Happy?
01:15:00You remember those live experiments he was so keen on and that you disliked so much?
01:15:05Yes.
01:15:07He carried on with them alone.
01:15:09And...
01:15:11He succeeded.
01:15:14What?
01:15:15He then asked me and Lena to help him to create another Lena.
01:15:24Another Lena?
01:15:28There is another Lena, Robin.
01:15:31One, two, three, four...
01:15:34There is another Lena.
01:15:34One, one, three, three...
01:15:37Heドодар has a dog in all the camps, in all of the camps.
01:15:38One, two, three, four...
01:15:48And...
01:15:50One, three!
01:15:52Two, three, four...
01:15:53Good Moe andotch...
01:15:53Do not you get with her пока.
01:16:59Bill!
01:17:01Bill!
01:17:19Bill!
01:17:21Oh, my God.
01:17:57There'll be a pool, Robin.
01:17:59There's nobody alive in there now.
01:18:00Let me go.
01:18:01Let me go.
01:18:30It's all right, Robin.
01:18:31She's not badly hurt.
01:18:35There's one thing, though.
01:18:37What is it?
01:18:37I must know.
01:18:39She's lost her memory.
01:18:41She can't remember anything.
01:18:42What?
01:18:43But then it must be...
01:18:44Robin, tell me, sir.
01:18:47It could still be Lena, you know.
01:18:49Anything could have happened in that barn.
01:18:51Stop, please.
01:18:52I'm not a child.
01:18:53You saw Lena and the other one.
01:18:56You told me yourself that there was no way of telling them apart.
01:19:00Yes, I did say that.
01:19:02There was no way unless one knew.
01:19:04Knew what?
01:19:06When Bill created Helen, he had to use a contraption of his, an autojector, in order to start her half
01:19:13-beating.
01:19:14It left two tiny scars on the back of her neck.
01:19:18Then there is a way.
01:19:19Doc, did you look?
01:19:22No.
01:19:24I didn't dare.
01:19:26Well, perhaps I felt it was your right to.
01:19:42Thank you, Miss.
01:19:48This is Robin, my dear.
01:20:06Let me look at you again, dear.
01:20:19Leave her.
01:20:22Leave.
01:20:25Leave.
01:20:37Leave.
01:20:38Leave.
01:20:40Leave.
01:20:43Leave.
01:20:43Leave.
01:20:44Leave.
01:20:44Leave.
01:20:44Leave.
01:20:46Leave.
01:20:48Leave.
01:20:49Leave.
01:20:51Leave.
01:20:51Leave.
01:20:51Leave.
01:20:51Leave.
01:20:52Leave.
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