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00:00:10The End
00:00:48Colonel Trigger
00:01:03At 0300 this morning, the Expeditionary X-1 rocket ship, missing for 61 days, was sighted by Mount Palomar, drifting
00:01:11in orbit some 90,000 miles out in space.
00:01:14All attempts to establish radio communication have failed so far.
00:01:18We don't know if anyone is left alive on board.
00:01:21The MR-1 appears to be a dead ship.
00:01:25We've had no contact with the rocket since it entered Mars orbit over two months ago and reported preparing to
00:01:30land on the planet.
00:01:31The ship was believed to have crashed in the landing attempt, but she didn't.
00:01:36Gentlemen, the Mars rocket must be retrieved and brought back to Earth intact.
00:01:42That's a tall order, George.
00:01:43I know, but the recording instruments on that ship contain priceless information covering the entire trip.
00:01:49We must have it.
00:01:51Professor Weiner, what are our chances?
00:01:53They depend on several factors, General.
00:01:56The MR-1 is, of course, equipped with robot control, which can be activated by remote triggering from Earth, if
00:02:03they're operative.
00:02:04The Nevada base is alerted to handle it.
00:02:06They're on standby.
00:02:07Go on, Professor.
00:02:09If there's enough fuel on board, we can send the ship homing for the Nevada base.
00:02:13And if the fuel holds out through the re-entry deceleration, we can set her down safely.
00:02:19Here's another if.
00:02:20What if there is someone on board, alive?
00:02:24Major Ross, has communications established any contact?
00:02:28No, sir.
00:02:29None.
00:02:30Could be radio failure.
00:02:32Someone must have taken the ship off Mars.
00:02:34The unexpected, remotely controlled acceleration of, uh, of...
00:02:38Five 6Gs.
00:02:40Five 6Gs could be dangerous to them.
00:02:42Even fatal.
00:02:43And how long will they last if we leave them out there?
00:02:50Then it's decided, we take off for Nevada at once.
00:03:36All I can tell you is if this happens, right, everything's fine up here.
00:03:40Believe me, there's no problem.
00:03:41I think we ought to do this.
00:03:42We're getting them now, sir.
00:03:43On the radar telescope screen.
00:03:46There she is.
00:03:48Good.
00:03:50Are you ready?
00:03:52Yes.
00:03:54Activate.
00:03:58Attention, please.
00:04:00Minus one minute.
00:04:02Repeat.
00:04:03Minus one minute.
00:04:05Start final countdown.
00:04:06Precedence priority.
00:04:10Tracking.
00:04:11Tracking.
00:04:16Rotary fuel pump's on.
00:04:20Recording tape's running.
00:04:23Minus 30 seconds.
00:04:24Minus 30.
00:04:27Mark.
00:04:28Main guiding gyros starting.
00:04:32Running true.
00:04:34Running true.
00:04:37Minus 20 seconds.
00:04:39Minus 20.
00:04:41Remote control firing switches.
00:04:45On.
00:04:48Ten seconds.
00:04:50Nine.
00:04:51Eight.
00:04:52Seven.
00:04:53Six.
00:04:55Five.
00:04:56Four.
00:04:57Three.
00:04:58Two.
00:04:59One.
00:05:00Fire.
00:05:08Four.
00:05:09She's on.
00:05:09Great.
00:05:10Then there is fuel aboard.
00:05:12Right.
00:05:13But there's only one question.
00:05:14How much?
00:05:16Well done, Professor.
00:05:17Davis, I want the exact arrival time of the ship computed.
00:05:20Notify me as soon as you have it.
00:05:33The answers to this and many other questions posed by anxious officials may come tonight,
00:05:39when an attempt will be made to land the Mars rocket ship at a remote Air Force base in Nevada.
00:05:44There is still the question of fuel.
00:05:47Does the ship have enough fuel left for a safe deceleration?
00:05:51Or will it burn up in our atmosphere like a blazing meteor?
00:05:55The world waits with suspense to learn the fate of the ship's crew of four,
00:06:01seen here in newsreel shots prior to the departure of the MR-1.
00:06:06Colonel Tom O'Banion, United States Air Force, the pilot navigator.
00:06:11Dr. Iris Ryan, brilliant young authority on the sciences of biology and zoology,
00:06:17daughter of the late Professor Alfred Ryan.
00:06:19Professor Theodore Gattel, the designer of the rocket ship and the world's foremost authority on space and rocketry.
00:06:27And Chief Warrant Officer Sam Jacobs, electronics and radar expert.
00:06:33The prayers of a grateful nation tonight will be offered in the hope that these four survive their history-making
00:06:40flights.
00:07:00Theodore Gattel, the pilot pilot, the pilot pilot, the pilot pilot, the pilot pilot, the pilot pilot, the pilot pilot,
00:07:02the pilot pilot pilot, the pilot pilot pilot, the pilot pilot pilot, the pilot pilot pilot, the pilot pilot pilot
00:07:02pilot, the pilot pilot pilot pilot pilot pilot pilot pilot pilot pilot pilot pilot pilot pilot pilot pilot pilot pilot
00:07:02pilot pilot pilot pilot pilot pilot pilot pilot pilot pilot pilot pilot pilot pilot pilot pilot pilot pilot pilot pilot
00:07:02pilot pilot pilot pilot pilot pilot pilot pilot pilot pilot pilot pilot pilot pilot pilot pilot pilot pilot pilot pilot
00:07:02pilot pilot pilot pilot pilot pilot pilot pilot pilot pilot pilot pilot pilot pilot pilot pilot pilot pilot pilot pilot
00:07:03pilot pilot pilot pilot pilot pilot pilot pilot pilot pilot pilot pilot pilot pilot pilot pilot pilot pilot pilot pilot
00:07:03pilot pilot pilot pilot pilot pilot pilot pilot pilot pilot pilot pilot pilot pilot pilot pilot pilot pilot pilot pilot
00:07:03pilot pilot pilot pilot pilot pilot pilot pilot pilot pilot pilot pilot pilot pilot pilot pilot pilot pilot pilot pilot
00:07:03pilot pilot pilot pilot pilot pilot pilot pilot pilot pilot pilot pilot pilot pilot pilot pilot pilot pilot pilot pilot
00:07:03pilot pilot pilot pilot pilot pilot
00:07:13Five minutes more.
00:07:15What do you think?
00:07:16Anyone aboard?
00:07:17Alive, I mean.
00:07:18We'll know soon enough.
00:07:20Hey, look.
00:07:35You know what I think?
00:07:37What?
00:07:37That thing up there.
00:07:39It's a flying coffin.
00:07:43Looks good so far.
00:07:47Colonel Davis, anything on the distant radiation counter?
00:07:50Negative.
00:07:51Radiation monitors in position.
00:07:54Radiation monitors checked.
00:07:59Attention, please.
00:08:00This is a repeat of previous instructions.
00:08:03No one is to approach the ship unless ordered by control.
00:08:06I repeat, no one is to approach the ship unless so ordered.
00:08:33No one is to approach the ship unless we lose the ship unless we choose everything.
00:09:00Radiation monitors, proceed to the rocket.
00:09:03Start your check.
00:09:17All counts still in the green zone.
00:09:32All radiation within safety zone.
00:09:35Good.
00:09:36Radiation monitors, stand back.
00:09:38Recovery squad, move up.
00:09:41No shielding necessary to open airlock.
00:09:44Monitors, stand by to check interior radiation.
00:09:47Hold it, look.
00:09:48Recovery squad, hold.
00:09:50Someone's alive.
00:09:52The girl.
00:09:54The hell with radiation.
00:09:55Let's go.
00:10:01Hey, come on.
00:10:03Come on.
00:10:22Stretch him bare.
00:10:25Now.
00:10:36Stretch him bare.
00:10:37Stretcher.
00:10:37Stretcher bear.
00:10:53Come on, Sarans, give me a break, will you?
00:11:05Who is it?
00:11:06Can't see his face.
00:11:08Hey, what is it, man?
00:11:23Come on, Iris.
00:11:25Anything that can be done for him will be done.
00:11:28How can anyone cope with that?
00:11:32Come on, Dr. Ryan, we'll follow.
00:11:57I've given him a sedative.
00:11:59We should keep him quiet.
00:12:01He's running a high temperature.
00:12:03But, Gordon, that growth, what are we up against?
00:12:07I don't know.
00:12:08It's spreading rapidly.
00:12:09Do you have any idea what it might be?
00:12:11No, I haven't yet.
00:12:13If we only knew how or by what he was infected, we might know how to combat the disease.
00:12:18But we're working in the dark.
00:12:20What about the tape records?
00:12:21Has anything been learned from them?
00:12:23That's just it.
00:12:24General Trigger informed me that there are no records.
00:12:26No tapes at all?
00:12:28Yes, many of them.
00:12:30Marked and filed from the first day out.
00:12:32They've examined about half of them by now, all of them empty.
00:12:36Nothing on them?
00:12:38Silent, as though they'd been erased by some powerful magnetic force.
00:12:42Trigger expects they're all like that.
00:12:44Then we may never know.
00:12:46We have one chance.
00:12:47The girl.
00:12:49She is actually our only hope.
00:12:51If she could give us a lead.
00:12:53What is Dr. Ryan's condition?
00:12:55It's a strange shock.
00:12:56She's resting.
00:12:57We should be able to talk to her in a couple of hours.
00:12:59We have very little time.
00:13:02I hope she comes through.
00:13:15Dr. Ryan, will you talk to us now?
00:13:21I'll try.
00:13:23How is he?
00:13:24Will he be all right?
00:13:25We're doing everything we can.
00:13:28What happened to him?
00:13:32I don't know.
00:13:34I can't remember.
00:13:36Iris, a lot will depend on what you can tell us.
00:13:40Please, try to remember.
00:13:42How was he infected?
00:13:44By what?
00:13:48I can't.
00:13:49I can't remember.
00:13:52Why don't you start at the beginning?
00:13:54Tell us everything that happened from the day you left.
00:13:56It may help clear your mind.
00:13:58Yes.
00:13:59Yes, yes, I'll try.
00:14:03Takeoff was as we expected.
00:14:07We reached escape velocity.
00:14:10And Tom cut in the steady 1G acceleration rockets.
00:14:13We were all in high spirits as we finished our flight check.
00:14:18Well, it's not much different from the dry run in the space test cabin on the base, huh?
00:14:22A lot easier, if you ask me.
00:14:24And no eager trigger to throw imaginary problems at us either.
00:14:27That's what the man said, Sam.
00:14:29The trip will probably be boring routine.
00:14:34So you blasé space travelers don't get too bored, the radiation count is jumping.
00:14:39Radioactive media?
00:14:40Looks like it.
00:14:42Both the radar scope pattern and the erratic gamma count fit.
00:14:45Well, let's double check.
00:14:47Visual direct, too.
00:14:48Right.
00:14:48All right.
00:15:04Media are confirmed.
00:15:09Intersecting course.
00:15:22Safety margin adequate.
00:15:28I wish my parents could have seen this.
00:15:30They spent their lives making it possible.
00:15:36Mars.
00:15:37The red planet.
00:15:40Our destination.
00:15:41Look, both moons are visible.
00:15:43Hey, two moons.
00:15:44What a place for romance, huh?
00:15:46And songwriters.
00:15:48Two moons.
00:15:49Da, da, da, da, da, da, da, da, da, da.
00:15:51Let's close your mouth and the port guards, huh?
00:15:54No use getting the view plate scratched up by meteor dust.
00:16:01I know, I know.
00:16:02Okay, okay.
00:16:06MR-1 to EB-9.
00:16:08MR-1 to EB-9.
00:16:10Come in, please.
00:16:11Oh, Sam, get it all on tape, will you?
00:16:13I've got it on the auxiliary tape, sir.
00:16:16MR-1.
00:16:17This is EB-9.
00:16:19Over.
00:16:20MR-1 to EB-9.
00:16:21Condition A.
00:16:23Condition A.
00:16:24Everything's under control.
00:16:25Over.
00:16:27Now, we're still in our own backyard.
00:16:28The radio time lags only a few seconds.
00:16:30Well, it's a couple of hours.
00:16:32Well, that conversation's going to be a real drag then.
00:16:36MR-1.
00:16:37Base computations confirm report.
00:16:40You're on course, on schedule.
00:16:43Hey, you look real good up there.
00:16:45Over and out.
00:16:46Thanks a lot.
00:16:47Over and out.
00:16:49Good old mother hen watching over her four old old chicks.
00:16:53We're thousands of miles out in space.
00:16:56It's hard to believe.
00:16:58Yeah.
00:16:58Any minute I expect to see General Trigger come through that hatch and say,
00:17:02All right.
00:17:03Enough work for today.
00:17:04Let's everybody go out to Tony's and have a little drink.
00:17:07Well, that'll be a little hard to do.
00:17:09Tony's is 30,000 miles from here.
00:17:12Well, we want to be able to face reality on our watch.
00:17:15Come on, Sam.
00:17:16Let's get some rest, huh?
00:17:18Okay, Professor.
00:17:19I dig.
00:17:21Okay.
00:17:24Okay.
00:17:25Okay.
00:17:27Okay.
00:17:30Okay.
00:17:31You know, Irish, reminds me of when I was a kid.
00:17:33I can just see you.
00:17:36I remember when I got my first dog.
00:17:39I was crazy about that dog.
00:17:41I wanted him to sleep in my room, but my family wouldn't allow it.
00:17:46I used to go downstairs a dozen times during the night to make sure that he was there.
00:17:51Then you were sure.
00:17:52Uh-huh.
00:17:54And pretty soon people will be just as sure of space travel as I was of my dog.
00:18:02And as I'd like to be of you.
00:18:17It makes Broadway look like a dark alley.
00:18:21When we get back, Irish, how about exploring that dark alley?
00:18:28Together.
00:18:30You, Colonel, sir.
00:18:36May have a date.
00:18:45MR-1 to EB-9.
00:18:47MR-1 to EB-9.
00:18:49Report 7-9.
00:18:51Time, 17 days, 1100, 3 hours.
00:18:55Position, triangle, easy, Fox, Baker.
00:18:59On course, on schedule.
00:19:02Condition A.
00:19:04Over and out.
00:19:11Hey, when's chow, huh?
00:19:14Coming up.
00:19:15Come on, Tom.
00:19:15You can help me with the rations.
00:19:17I'd rather be calving a thick steak at Tony's.
00:19:19Make it medium rare and I'll join you.
00:19:21Will you take a rain check?
00:19:22Well, if it won't bounce.
00:19:34Here we are between two dots.
00:19:37We could miss either one of them.
00:19:40Never know it.
00:19:46Mars, rocket one, ration B.
00:19:55Mars, the angry red planets.
00:19:58Sounds so foreboding, doesn't it?
00:20:00Mars, the ancient god of war.
00:20:05Afraid, Irish?
00:20:06A little.
00:20:08Apprehensive, I guess.
00:20:10Oh, we all are.
00:20:11We wouldn't be human.
00:20:14I know this is a funny way for a scientist to feel, but I wonder if some things aren't better
00:20:19unknown.
00:20:21That's what they said on the Santa Maria before they discovered the new world.
00:20:25By mistake.
00:20:26You know, Irish, you're the first scientist I've ever known with a lovely long red hair.
00:20:32And you're the first pilot I've ever gone to Mars with.
00:20:36And listen, my name is Iris, not Irish.
00:20:40I never know if you're calling me by name or nationality.
00:20:45When I call you by name, you'll know it.
00:20:52So Ula ran screaming across the burning Martian sands as the monster Angola relentlessly pursued her.
00:20:59His five arms reaching hungrily for her to be continued next week.
00:21:06And that was the last issue before we took off.
00:21:19Mars.
00:21:21Martians, monsters.
00:21:29I wonder if I'll ever get to see that next issue.
00:21:36TV-9 to MR-1.
00:21:38Report number 76.
00:21:406.
00:22:082-6.
00:25:27Well, should we go out and claim the planet in the name of Brooklyn?
00:25:31Not yet, Sam.
00:25:32Open the viewports, Tom.
00:25:34Okay.
00:25:35Turn on the outside mic, Sam.
00:25:37Yes, sir.
00:25:47Strange.
00:25:48Strange.
00:25:50Nothing moves.
00:25:51Everything seems to be waiting.
00:25:56Shoot anything that moves and pick up anything that doesn't.
00:25:58You know something, I'm going to take that advice, especially on the first count.
00:26:01Turn up the volume, Sam.
00:26:10Come on, Iris.
00:26:11Let's get to work on our tests, huh?
00:26:17You take the micro count and radiation.
00:26:20I'll work on the atmospheric composition, temperature.
00:26:23Keep a sharp lookout, Sammy.
00:26:26If anything moves, yell.
00:26:28You know, it's so quiet out there.
00:26:29If anything does move, I'm going to jump right out of my skin.
00:26:33Something will.
00:26:35With all that vegetation out there, there's bound to be something alive.
00:26:38You mean like five-armed Angolas?
00:26:41What?
00:26:45Don't worry, Sammy.
00:26:47We O'Banians are chum.
00:26:50Yeah, but maybe us Jacobs ain't.
00:26:54You know, my dad, when I was a kid, told me about my grandfather.
00:26:57He had sort of a sixth sense.
00:26:59Particularly in Indian country.
00:27:01When there were any Indians around, his ears would begin to twitch.
00:27:06Runs in the family.
00:27:07Oh, well, I am reassured, Colonel, sir.
00:27:10Only do me a small favor, will you?
00:27:12If your ears start to twitch, will you let me know fast?
00:27:14I'll twitch with you.
00:27:25Anything move yet, Sam?
00:27:26Not a thing.
00:27:29Stay here.
00:28:00I told you not to leave that thing laying around.
00:28:02Sam?
00:28:06Iris tripped over it.
00:28:07She dropped a tray of test tubes.
00:28:09Why, I'm sorry, Colonel.
00:28:10It's all right, Sammy.
00:28:20No surprises, Tom.
00:28:23The atmosphere is pretty much like we thought.
00:28:26Thin.
00:28:26Extremely thin.
00:28:28Not enough oxygen to sustain us,
00:28:30but undoubtedly enough for some kind of native animal life.
00:28:33Well, like you said, Professor,
00:28:34no surprises.
00:28:41Have you seen anything yet, Sam?
00:28:43Just those frozen vegetables.
00:28:45Any sounds?
00:28:47Not a peep.
00:28:49If those Martians are out there, they must be invisible.
00:28:52No movement at all.
00:28:55Weirdsville, as my grandmother used to say.
00:28:58Keep your eyes open, huh?
00:28:59Yes, sir.
00:29:03We've landed near the equatorial belt.
00:29:05Now, if there is any native intelligence around here,
00:29:08it should be in this area.
00:29:09I think you must be right.
00:29:16Sorry about the sound effects.
00:29:18Oh, forget it, Irish.
00:29:19This crazy silence and lack of movement's gotten us all.
00:29:29It doesn't make any sense, Sammy.
00:29:32Something's got to move.
00:29:33What's the matter, Colonel, of yours, Twitch?
00:29:35Just a hunch.
00:29:36You know what?
00:29:38I know there's something out there.
00:29:41Sure, like the invisible Martian?
00:29:44Are you certain the outside mics are on, Sam?
00:29:47Full volume.
00:29:49You know, the atmosphere is very rare.
00:29:52It wouldn't conduct sound too well.
00:29:55Of course.
00:29:56That might also explain why the plants don't move.
00:29:59No breeze.
00:30:00I wonder.
00:30:02Could it be intentional?
00:30:07Intentional?
00:30:08Now, I know it sounds unreasonable.
00:30:10But it just doesn't seem natural.
00:30:12You mean you think it's controlled?
00:30:15What beings could possibly exercise such fantastic control?
00:30:20Well, there's one way to find out.
00:30:21I'm going out there.
00:30:23Tom, wait.
00:30:23I don't want to...
00:30:24No, no, no.
00:30:24We'll all go.
00:30:26It's about time Iris and I had a chance to use some of this expensive lab equipment of ours.
00:30:30All right.
00:30:31I'll get you suits.
00:30:40You know, Sam, Professor?
00:30:42First time in my life I've ever really been scared.
00:30:46There's nothing out there except a bunch of crazy plants.
00:30:50It takes a brave man to admit his fears, Sam.
00:30:53We're all afraid of the unknown.
00:30:56Yeah.
00:31:00Yeah.
00:31:03You okay, Irish?
00:31:05Mm-hmm.
00:31:05I'm actually looking forward to start to work.
00:31:11No.
00:31:13I can't say that I recommend spacesuits for beautiful young dolls.
00:31:17What happened to all your lovely curves?
00:31:19No, Sammy.
00:31:20Some of the creations I've seen in New York store windows didn't look too much better.
00:31:24Yeah, well, I'm convinced that all fashion designers are woman haters.
00:31:35Dr. Ryan, what is it?
00:31:37What happened?
00:31:38I don't know.
00:31:39I can't remember.
00:31:41All I know is it was horrible.
00:31:44All right.
00:31:46All right.
00:31:48You rest now and we'll talk to you later.
00:31:51Nurse, sodium luminol, two and a half grains.
00:31:53Yes, doctor.
00:31:54Intervene us.
00:31:55Yes.
00:32:02She's obviously had a tremendous shock.
00:32:05She has a mental block.
00:32:07Her mind refuses to remember something.
00:32:11You noticed her memory is already beginning to take on a quality of unreality.
00:32:14We must know what happened.
00:32:16A man's life, perhaps more, depends on it.
00:32:18I know.
00:32:19Suppose this alien infection spreads to all of us.
00:32:23Every moment counts.
00:32:25What about the tapes?
00:32:26Any result?
00:32:27We've gone through nearly all of them.
00:32:29Empty.
00:32:30Dr. Ryan must remember.
00:32:33What about an acro-synthesis?
00:32:36Well, it's our only hope, but she's pretty weak.
00:32:40She ought to get some rest before we use drugs.
00:32:43Her mind might snap if we forced her to remember the horror she has so carefully obliterated from her conscious
00:32:50level.
00:32:51Would she be able to remember what actually happened?
00:32:54She'll be able to remember anything familiar quite normally.
00:32:57Although when we penetrate her mind block into her suppressed memories, her recall will be undoubtedly colored by her mind's
00:33:05own interpretation of what she experienced.
00:33:07In effect, whenever she's remembering anything that was alien, frightening to her, we'll see it as her mind saw it.
00:33:14Exactly.
00:33:16Exactly.
00:33:16And remember, her mind had to save itself by forgetting it.
00:33:22Dr. Gordon, how is he?
00:33:29Is he getting worse?
00:33:31I'm afraid so.
00:33:33We don't know what it is we're fighting, Iris.
00:33:37And I'm the only one who can help you by remembering.
00:33:44There is a way you can force me to remember, isn't there?
00:33:47There is?
00:33:50Then use it.
00:33:51Dr. Ryan, you've had quite an ordeal.
00:33:54You need to build up your strength.
00:33:56You need rest.
00:33:57The shock of forced memory recall under the influence of drugs can be dangerous for you.
00:34:03And how long can he wait?
00:34:07Please, Dr. Gordon.
00:34:08Mm-hmm.
00:34:39What is it, Irish?
00:34:41The port outside.
00:34:43Tom, it was horrible.
00:34:44Stay with us, Sammy.
00:34:56There's nothing there, Irish.
00:34:58But I saw it.
00:34:59What did you see?
00:35:01It was like a huge distorted face with three bulging eyes.
00:35:06But there's nothing there now.
00:35:08I tell you, it was there.
00:35:10Hey, three eyes.
00:35:11What a crazy peep in time, huh?
00:35:14It was staring right at me.
00:35:18There's nothing moving.
00:35:19There's nothing there.
00:35:22You don't believe me, do you?
00:35:25Hey, everybody.
00:35:26Come on, with all this waiting around, it's a wonder I didn't get to see the thing.
00:35:30I did see it, Sam.
00:35:31I really did.
00:35:33Please.
00:35:34Couldn't you just make believe you didn't?
00:35:35I'd be much less scared.
00:35:36If that thing is out there, we won't find out about it in here.
00:35:39You're so right.
00:35:40Let's go out and take a look at tell.
00:35:42Irish, you stay here with Sammy.
00:35:44Not on your life, Colonel O'Banion.
00:35:48I'm going, too.
00:35:49Well, hey, wait for me.
00:35:50I don't see you.
00:35:51Take a look at the answer.
00:36:18I don't know.
00:36:55Now, check your oxygen gauge.
00:37:01Okay.
00:37:02Now, this will be SOP.
00:37:04Even though these intercoms carry for miles,
00:37:07the one should always stay inside of me.
00:37:09Sam, your ultrasonic freeze gun hooked up all right?
00:37:11Yes, sir.
00:37:12Why don't we check it?
00:37:15That plant over there.
00:37:37All right, huh?
00:37:39Yeah.
00:37:41Very all right.
00:37:42Wow.
00:37:43The pickup mics are on, Tom.
00:37:44I heard a chatter.
00:37:44How about you?
00:37:46Yes, Jax.
00:37:46Loud and clear.
00:37:47Four by four.
00:37:48All right.
00:37:49Let's go and see what's in that jungle.
00:37:50Let's go.
00:37:51Go.
00:37:51Let's go.
00:37:52Let's go.
00:37:57Go.
00:38:16Let's go.
00:38:18Let's go.
00:39:05Come on, Irish.
00:39:06Wait a minute. I won't be long.
00:39:08This is amazing.
00:39:10Just let me make a preliminary examination.
00:39:12If you ask me, I think we ought to make a preliminary examination for Martians.
00:39:16Yeah, we can stay here for a while.
00:39:17Now, you cover that side and I'll stay here, Sammy.
00:39:21Okay.
00:39:30Fantastic.
00:39:32All the characteristics of plant life, but hardly any chlorophyll.
00:39:37And there seem to be indications of a nervous system.
00:39:42Nervous system?
00:39:43Well, it looks like it.
00:39:44Of course, I'll have to make some more specific tests.
00:39:47What about the minerals?
00:39:49Well, I haven't found anything yet to contradict the theory that the basic matter throughout the universe is the same.
00:39:54But I have run across some most unusual chemical combinations.
00:40:02Almost like fingers.
00:40:10Where are you going, Irish?
00:40:11I'm tracing this vine.
00:40:13I'm curious to see where it comes from.
00:40:15You better stick close to me.
00:40:16Oh, Tom, really.
00:40:18I know you think I acted like an hysterical female back in the ship,
00:40:22but I assure you I'm perfectly capable of taking care of myself.
00:40:25I won't get out of your sight.
00:40:28Have it your way, Irish.
00:40:30Irish.
00:40:31Yeah.
00:40:44Oh, my God.
00:40:46Oh, my God.
00:41:11Tom!
00:41:14Tom!
00:41:15Tom!
00:41:17Tom!
00:41:19Tom!
00:41:23Tom!
00:41:25Tom!
00:41:29Tom!
00:41:33Tom!
00:41:34Stay back!
00:41:54Get it, Sam! Get it!
00:42:18I think so. Just let me count to ten.
00:42:23Count to a hundred if you like.
00:42:26I'm all right now.
00:42:28Hey, what was that thing?
00:42:30The giant carnivorous plant, Sam.
00:42:32It feeds by trapping animals and digesting.
00:42:36Live.
00:42:38Lots of luck.
00:42:39Here, come on, take a look.
00:42:51If it weren't for you and Tom, that could have been me.
00:42:58Well, at least we know there's animal life up here, huh?
00:43:01Now he tells me.
00:43:02It's remarkable.
00:43:04You were right, Iris.
00:43:05This is more than just a plant.
00:43:07It's a low form of neuromuscular vegetal creature.
00:43:11What do you say we call it a day and go back to the ship?
00:43:13I agree.
00:43:15We've had enough excitement and swashbuckling for one day.
00:43:18I'm for that.
00:43:19Any swash I ever had just came unbuckled.
00:43:22Let's go.
00:43:40I'm sure glad the boys in Ordnance developed you, baby.
00:43:44I think I'll call you Cleopatra because you're such a cool doll.
00:43:51Believe me, Cleo, you and I will never part.
00:43:54Never.
00:44:06Here, Sammy, for your scrapbook.
00:44:10Hey, what a handsome couple.
00:44:11Look, Colonel.
00:44:12Me and my new pinup.
00:44:17There must be other creatures around.
00:44:21You better take care of that thing.
00:44:23You never know what else we'll find.
00:44:25Or what'll find us.
00:44:28Oh, well.
00:44:30Chin up, Sammy boy.
00:44:31Chin up.
00:44:32You know, Sam.
00:44:34There's only a little bit of difference between keeping your chin up
00:44:37and sticking your neck out.
00:44:41Colonel, sir, I for one know it.
00:44:44Now.
00:44:46Was that thing really trying to kill Iris?
00:44:49It wasn't just a friendly embrace.
00:44:51But why weren't we attacked before?
00:44:54We all passed that, that plant creature.
00:44:57What are you driving at, Professor?
00:44:59Well, I can't help feeling that we're being watched.
00:45:03That there is some purpose behind it all.
00:45:06Hey, what's the matter, Professor?
00:45:07Your ears twitched too?
00:45:12Obviously, there is animal life here.
00:45:14Probably intelligent life as well.
00:45:16And yet we haven't seen any.
00:45:19Now, this quiet.
00:45:21This lack of motion.
00:45:22Oh, you still think it's...
00:45:25It's intentional.
00:45:27Controlled.
00:45:29I...
00:45:30I don't know.
00:45:31But why?
00:45:33Perhaps in a way we're being controlled too.
00:45:36Through the actions of these lower life forms.
00:45:39Kept harmless, so to speak.
00:45:41What could control all life here?
00:45:44Well, it could be some super intelligent community mind, I suppose.
00:45:48Community mind?
00:45:50Yes.
00:45:51Like the inexplicable mysterious control which keeps a colony of ants functioning in perfect unity back on Earth.
00:45:57Look, I got news for you, Professor. I'll take the ants any day.
00:46:00We have four days left to find out.
00:46:03Isn't your Earth contact a little late, Sammy?
00:46:06It is.
00:46:07Over an hour late.
00:46:13Try your equipment.
00:46:17It's not equipment failure. I got nothing but dead air.
00:46:21Keep your line open and try transmitting.
00:46:27This is MR1.
00:46:29And this is a test transmission.
00:46:31Transmission.
00:46:32No use. Our signal keeps bouncing back at us.
00:46:36I can't get through.
00:46:40There must be some kind of ionized layer in the Martian atmosphere keeping those radio waves from going through.
00:46:47Yeah, and keeping Earth's reports from reaching us.
00:46:50I never heard of anything that would stop the frequencies I'm using.
00:46:52Well, you're hearing about it now.
00:46:55Keep taping our reports, Sammy.
00:46:58We're gonna stay here the full five days, even if it means no contact with Earth.
00:47:02Time.
00:47:21Good night.
00:47:31Thank you, Miss.
00:47:32It's like a nightmare of unending silence.
00:47:35I know.
00:47:37We all feel it.
00:47:40Then it isn't just me because I'm a woman?
00:47:45Women don't have any monopoly on fear.
00:47:48Men are more afraid of being called cowards.
00:47:52Cowardice is one thing I guess we can never forgive ourselves.
00:47:57Look, sun's rising.
00:48:00Yeah.
00:48:03It looks sort of angry.
00:48:07All right, everybody.
00:48:09Come and get it.
00:48:10Breakfast ready.
00:48:11Hot coffee, hardtack, and vitamin pill.
00:48:17Hot coffee, hardtack.
00:48:17I'm sorry.
00:48:47We'll be right back in that direction. Now remember, stay together.
00:49:28Come on, Irish.
00:49:32Well, this certainly looks different.
00:49:33Look, those trees over there. They look different, too.
00:49:36Yeah, like nothing we've seen.
00:49:38Hey, let's take a closer look at them.
00:49:40Okay, Sammy can tell you to stay here.
00:49:42Keep Cleo handy.
00:49:44I'll go with you.
00:49:58It doesn't look like bark.
00:50:00Let me have your machete, Tom.
00:50:03Here.
00:50:09Let me have your machete.
00:50:12Let me have your machete.
00:50:17Let's go.
00:51:22Cleo isn't budging it!
00:51:24Stay here.
00:51:49Aim for the eyes, Sam.
00:51:50Blind it!
00:51:52Get it!
00:52:05Are you all right?
00:52:06Yeah.
00:52:07Give me a moment.
00:52:08Are you hurt?
00:52:09No, no worries.
00:52:11I'll be all right.
00:52:13No, the balls don't have just approached a bit.
00:52:23By some playmate.
00:52:25King Kong's big brother.
00:52:28Even Cleo only gave it a slight chill.
00:52:30You must be about 40 feet high.
00:52:32Come on.
00:52:33Let's get back to the ship.
00:52:35No, no, no.
00:52:35Wait, Iris.
00:52:36We don't have much time exploring as it is.
00:52:38We mustn't lose any more of it on account of me.
00:52:40It's too important.
00:52:41I'll be fine.
00:52:42I've been curious as to what's on the other side of that ridge.
00:52:45Let's go.
00:53:18Let's go.
00:53:45Well, there it is.
00:53:47A Martian lake.
00:53:49It has that same feeling of deadness.
00:53:53Yeah.
00:53:54No, wait a minute, Iris.
00:53:57Oh, my God.
00:54:06It's all right.
00:54:08No abnormal radiation.
00:54:12So there's water on Mars after all.
00:54:15Besides the polar ice caps on me.
00:54:17If it is water.
00:54:19Well, it feels kind of oily.
00:54:22Seems...
00:54:23Seems heavier than ordinary water.
00:54:25Well, it probably has an entirely different mineral content.
00:54:29I'm sure it couldn't sustain life.
00:54:31At least not life as we know it.
00:54:34I wonder what's on the other side.
00:54:37Well, tomorrow we'll bring the boat.
00:54:39The lake isn't too wide.
00:54:40We'll have a look.
00:54:44It's getting late.
00:54:46It's getting late.
00:54:46We made in more creatures like the last one.
00:54:49I'd hate to have to fight him in the dark.
00:54:51Come on.
00:55:17Some baby, that rat-bat spider nightmare, huh?
00:55:20Walked away from Cleo, and even after Cleo, turn on all her charms, too.
00:55:24At least she scared it away.
00:55:26Yeah.
00:55:27Good girl, that Cleo, huh?
00:55:29Mwah!
00:55:31You know the only thing that bothers me?
00:55:33Someday maybe she'll meet a monster that'll ignore her.
00:55:36Break her heart.
00:55:38Mine, too.
00:55:39Iris.
00:55:40Sam.
00:55:42The professor and I have come to a decision.
00:55:44Yes.
00:55:45In view of everything, we've decided not to stay the full five days.
00:55:49Huh?
00:55:49And we're going to take off tonight.
00:55:51Tonight?
00:55:52Mm-hmm.
00:55:53Sam, prepare the panel for takeoff, will you?
00:55:55Yes, sir.
00:55:56But why?
00:55:57Well, Iris, it's probably mostly because of me.
00:56:00You see, I can't seem to get it out of my head that there is an even greater danger here
00:56:04than we realize.
00:56:07The controlling force?
00:56:08Yes.
00:56:09Now, look, my orders from General Trigger were to take no unnecessary chances.
00:56:13We've fulfilled our mission.
00:56:14We've landed on Mars.
00:56:15Mm-hmm.
00:56:16And we've collected a lot of information.
00:56:18Plenty to prepare for the next expedition.
00:56:21Now, prepare for blast-off.
00:56:22Strap in.
00:56:32You tell to close the ports.
00:56:35All right.
00:56:43Instrument lights.
00:56:49Minus 15 seconds.
00:56:51Mark.
00:56:52Main firing switches.
00:56:54On.
00:56:55Minus 10.
00:56:569.
00:56:578.
00:56:587.
00:56:596.
00:57:005.
00:57:014.
00:57:023.
00:57:032.
00:57:041.
00:57:04Fire.
00:57:24Fire.
00:57:244.
00:57:344.
00:57:345.
00:57:386.
00:57:395.
00:57:395.
00:57:416.
00:57:429.
00:57:446.
00:57:474.
00:57:485.
00:57:51What is it, Tom?
00:57:54We can save our fuel.
00:57:55We're not going anywhere.
00:57:58Look, every pin is glued to the top.
00:58:00We're in some sort of a force field.
00:58:04Tremendously powerful.
00:58:06Holding us right here.
00:58:08The control.
00:58:11Whoever they are, they don't want us to leave.
00:58:22Why don't they come out in the open, whoever they are?
00:58:25This weighting.
00:58:28Uncertainty.
00:58:29Not knowing.
00:58:32Why are they keeping us here?
00:58:34What do they want with us?
00:58:36What are we, guinea pigs?
00:58:38Take it easy, Irish, easy.
00:58:41Now think a minute.
00:58:42They can't really want to harm us.
00:58:44If they did, they could have destroyed us a long time ago.
00:58:47They must have another reason for keeping us here.
00:58:49Tom, I've run a few tests.
00:58:52We're being held by a gravitational pull so strong
00:58:55that it would take a hundred times the thrust power we have to break free.
00:58:59I wonder, will we ever get back to Earth again?
00:59:03No, we're not going to wait.
00:59:05Sam, break out the boat.
00:59:07We'll see what's across that lake.
00:59:37Didn't we calculate that the other shore was just over the horizon?
00:59:41We did.
00:59:42Well, then we should see it quite soon.
00:59:45I don't like this place.
00:59:47Now, I'm with you.
00:59:48Why?
00:59:50It's so dead.
00:59:53Well, it's better than that walking forest we just ran into.
00:59:57Tom, take a look at this.
00:59:59What do you like of it?
01:00:06Now, we're getting somewhere.
01:00:08Those buildings didn't just grow.
01:00:10They were made.
01:00:13Let's get closer.
01:00:15Yeah.
01:00:16Look at those Martian girls.
01:00:26We thought we had it made.
01:00:28How tall are those buildings?
01:00:31Well, at least half a mile, I'd say.
01:00:34Let's get closer.
01:00:47Good job.
01:00:52Good job.
01:00:52Oh, look at that!
01:01:17Let's go.
01:01:52Irish, you can tell. Get back to the ship.
01:01:54Sam, Frank Leo again.
01:01:56Yeah, right.
01:02:17Irish!
01:02:17Irish!
01:03:00Hold the door.
01:03:06Hold it.
01:03:08Colonel.
01:03:19Come on.
01:03:48Close the door.
01:04:08Sam, he just...
01:04:10Easy, Irish, easy.
01:04:12I'll open the view porch.
01:04:15Look!
01:04:24Try the screens.
01:04:28It's all around us.
01:04:31Tom, your arm.
01:04:33Part of that creature touched you.
01:04:36It's eaten right through the suit.
01:04:37Like... like Sam.
01:04:39You better get out of that.
01:04:41I'll get some myosin compound, just in case.
01:04:44Give me that suit, Tom.
01:04:46We'll put it in the disposal unit.
01:04:52Iris.
01:04:54What is your opinion of that creature?
01:04:56Well, I'm sure it's a unicellular animal.
01:04:59Two areas inside it must be the nucleus and the contractile vacuole.
01:05:03Oh, wait a minute.
01:05:04Whoa.
01:05:04Let me in on it, Irish.
01:05:06It's like an amoeba, Tom.
01:05:08A giant amoeba.
01:05:10One single cell without intelligence, without a nervous system at all.
01:05:14Reacts completely on instinct to external stimuli.
01:05:17No, we must be safe in here.
01:05:20The amoeba engulfs its prey and digests it with extremely strong acids.
01:05:26It's... it's trying to get to us.
01:05:28It's incredible.
01:05:30Well, I wouldn't say that, Tom.
01:05:32Not after what we saw it do to poor Sam.
01:05:35Yeah.
01:05:36It'll take time, but it probably can eat right through the ship.
01:05:40Oh, we've got to get rid of it some way.
01:05:42But how?
01:05:43It can't even be touched with anything we have.
01:05:46Iris, you've experimented with amoeba on Earth.
01:05:47What sort of thing affects them?
01:05:49They're almost impossible to kill.
01:05:51Even if you cut them in half, both parts will live.
01:05:55Well, there's got to be some way to get at it.
01:05:58It can insist, Tom.
01:05:59That is, secrete and form a sort of protective envelope.
01:06:03That's how it withstood the sonic gun.
01:06:06Heat, fire.
01:06:08I could turn on the rocket.
01:06:10Oh, you can't do that, Tom.
01:06:12With that creature clogging our thrust chamber, we'd have an internal explosion.
01:06:16Oh, we've got to do something.
01:06:19I can't think of anything.
01:06:23Hey, wait a minute.
01:06:25I do remember.
01:06:26We experimented with electricity.
01:06:28What happened?
01:06:29Well, the power from a small flashlight battery killed thousands of amoeba.
01:06:34That's it, electric shock.
01:06:36I can generate half a million volts.
01:06:38But how are you going to get to it, to electrocute it?
01:06:41You can't go outside or even open the airlock.
01:06:43I won't have to.
01:06:46But what I have in mind could backfire.
01:06:49If you both don't agree, I won't go through it.
01:06:54What is your plan, Tom?
01:06:56I'll need your help.
01:06:57I'll need your help.
01:06:57Check me out.
01:06:58This ship has a double hull, right?
01:07:00That's correct.
01:07:01The outer hull acts as a meteor bumper.
01:07:03And the outer hull is completely insulated from the inner one?
01:07:06It's quite effectively.
01:07:07Good.
01:07:08Now, is there any way I can get to the outer hull from in here?
01:07:12One place only.
01:07:13The detector instrument cable access channel.
01:07:17I want to feed the radar power through the outer hull.
01:07:20Can it be done?
01:07:22Well, it would take a lot of rewiring, but yes, we can do it.
01:07:27You see, what I have in mind is to feed the current through the outer hull without it spilling back
01:07:31into the inner one.
01:07:32What do you think?
01:07:35And if there is a spill?
01:07:38Then we won't have to wait for that thing to eat through to us.
01:07:44Well, I'm for it.
01:07:48So I am.
01:07:50Good.
01:07:50Let's go.
01:08:10Almost through.
01:08:12Open the view plates.
01:08:27Now, that's it.
01:08:31Cut in the generators.
01:08:47Go ahead, Tom.
01:09:29It's hell.
01:09:32What is it?
01:09:36It's all right, Iris.
01:09:38It's all right.
01:09:41Just a little pain, that's all.
01:09:44The exertion, I suppose.
01:09:46Oh, come on, take it easy, Professor.
01:09:49I'll start rewiring just in case whatever is holding us here decides to let us blast off in a few
01:09:54days.
01:09:57The radio works.
01:09:59The force field must be off.
01:10:01Turn on the recorder, Irish.
01:10:07Men of Earth, we of the planet Mars give you this warning.
01:10:12Listen carefully and remember.
01:10:33Professor Gatel.
01:10:37Iris.
01:10:39I'm sorry.
01:10:40The take off.
01:10:44The acceleration pressure.
01:10:47Don't talk now.
01:10:49Let me help.
01:10:51Oh, no.
01:10:53Wait, Irish.
01:10:57The ship.
01:11:01Wearing.
01:11:04You, you was trying to...
01:11:16Tom, in the cabin, the cabin.
01:11:52The cabin, the cabin, the cabin.
01:11:52The cabin, the cabin.
01:15:13Will she be all right?
01:15:14With a lot of rest.
01:15:17Giant amoeba.
01:15:23He told us what we had to know.
01:15:25About Tom?
01:15:26Yes.
01:15:28It's an enzymatic infection.
01:15:30And my new part of the amoebic creature must have reached Tom's skin.
01:15:34And it's growing.
01:15:35Literally eating his tissues.
01:15:37Can you save him?
01:15:38Now we know what we're fighting.
01:15:41Now we know what we're fighting.
01:15:41At least we have a chance.
01:15:57Dr. Gordon.
01:16:02All right.
01:16:04Three cc's.
01:16:07All right.
01:16:11All right.
01:16:25All right.
01:16:27Tell me immediately if there's any change.
01:16:28Yes, Doc.
01:16:36Dr. Gordon tells me it has resisted everything we've tried.
01:16:40We have slowed down its growth, but that's all.
01:16:42You know more about this creature than anyone.
01:16:45We thought that...
01:16:45General Trigger, there is a biological laboratory here, isn't there?
01:16:49Yes, of course.
01:16:51Yes, of course.
01:17:23It's fine.
01:17:31Dr. Ryan.
01:17:32Dr. Ryan.
01:17:34Dr. Gordon.
01:17:36I think we found the solution.
01:17:38What can we do?
01:17:39I'll show you.
01:17:44Electricity.
01:17:45We have already thought of that, Dr. Ryan.
01:17:47But any kind of electric shock strong enough to kill the amoeba will also kill Tom.
01:17:52I know.
01:17:53Then how?
01:17:54We've been attacking the alien amoeba as if it were a disease, but it isn't.
01:17:57It's an animal.
01:17:58An animal with instincts.
01:17:59And most important of all, a will to act.
01:18:02It only makes it harder to destroy.
01:18:04And gives it a vulnerability we also have.
01:18:07That of making a wrong choice.
01:18:09Look.
01:18:10We had two identical tissue cultures there.
01:18:12Both infested with our own microscopic amoeba and placed very close to each other.
01:18:16One we left alone.
01:18:18The other we subjected to light, periodic electric shocks.
01:18:21Before long, all the amoeba on the irritated culture had made their choice.
01:18:26They moved to the nearby, undisturbed culture.
01:18:29Then that is what we have to do.
01:18:31We will prepare a large tissue culture and place it next to the infected arm.
01:18:35Then subject Tom to electric shocks, just short of being harmful to him.
01:18:45Better hurry and get out of that bed, Colonel, sir.
01:18:48Broadway's waiting.
01:18:49Broadway?
01:18:50Just like to know if I can cash my rain check.
01:18:54It's up to you, Iris.
01:19:05Tom, Iris, I have something I want you to hear.
01:19:08You were right.
01:19:09The whole speech was on the recorder.
01:19:11The last tape.
01:19:12I think you should listen to it.
01:19:14Sounds important.
01:19:16Judge for yourself.
01:19:17Mr. Weiner.
01:19:20Men of Earth, we of the planet Mars give you this warning.
01:19:24Listen carefully and remember.
01:19:27We have known your planet Earth since the first creature called out of the primeval slime of your seas to
01:19:33become man.
01:19:35For millennia, we have followed your progress.
01:19:38For centuries, we have watched you, listened to your radio signals, and learned your speech and your culture.
01:19:44And now, you have invaded our home.
01:19:48Technological adults, but spiritual and emotional infants.
01:19:52We kept you here, deciding your fate.
01:19:55Had the lower forms of life of our planet destroyed you, we would not have interfered.
01:20:01But you survived.
01:20:03Your civilization has not progressed beyond destruction, war, and violence against yourselves and others.
01:20:09Do as you will to your own and to your planet.
01:20:12But remember this warning.
01:20:14Do not return to Mars.
01:20:18You will be permitted to leave for this sole purpose.
01:20:21Carry the warning to Earth.
01:20:23Do not come here.
01:20:26We can and will destroy you.
01:20:29All life on your planet, if you do not hate us.
01:20:32You have seen us, been permitted to glimpse our world.
01:20:35Go now, born mankind, not to return unbidden.
01:20:43All life on you, Lord.
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