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A large, powerful robot trained for killing, develops a sense of good and evil. The script was subsequently used on "X Minus One" on August 11, 1955.
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00:00Adventures in Time and Space, told in Future Tense.
00:09Demantum X.
00:16Demantum X.
00:26Have you heard of the new science called cybernetics?
00:31It concerns man's efforts to develop a perfect thinking machine.
00:36A robot electronic brain that will not only do man's work, but even do his thinking for him.
00:42A robot that is almost human.
00:48No, it's not impossible at all.
00:50In fact, one day something like this may happen.
00:54A tall, suave gentleman in a black raincoat will walk down the street.
00:58Until he reaches a shuttered, isolated house.
01:02Then he will slowly mount the front steps and push the doorbell.
01:13Just a minute.
01:14I said just a minute.
01:16Hold your horses.
01:18Who do you think...
01:19Good evening, my dear.
01:21Duke.
01:23Looking lovely as ever.
01:25Can I come in, Lola?
01:28Why did you come here?
01:30Curiosity, darling.
01:32I've been thinking over what you told me at our chance meeting last week.
01:35Duke, you promised me you...
01:36I decided to come and take a look for myself.
01:39Where's the professor?
01:40In his study.
01:42Anyone else in the house?
01:43No, just the professor and I.
01:45Where's Junior?
01:46In the nursery.
01:48The nursery?
01:49Oh, Quint.
01:51And you, I take it, are Junior's nursemaid?
01:53I help the professor.
01:55Tell him he has a guest.
01:57Duke, he's a nice old guy.
01:58Tell him, darling.
02:00All right.
02:04Yes?
02:06Um?
02:08What is it, Miss Williams?
02:09Professor Blossaman, a gentleman is...
02:12What?
02:13Here?
02:14I don't understand.
02:15He's waiting for you.
02:17But I gave orders.
02:18No one was to be admitted to the house.
02:20He insisted.
02:21Very well.
02:23Now, you wait here.
02:24And I will get rid of him.
02:29Sir?
02:30What can I do for you?
02:32Professor Blossaman?
02:33Yes?
02:34How do you know my name?
02:36I've come to see Junior.
02:38Junior?
02:40There must be some mistake.
02:42There are no children in this house.
02:43Professor, what you feel pressing against your belly
02:45is the muzzle of a .45 caliber pistol.
02:48Oh.
02:50Now, shall we visit Junior?
02:52What do you know about this?
02:54I know everything.
02:55Shall we go inside?
02:56I warn you.
02:57On the contrary.
02:59I warn you.
03:01Very well.
03:02This way.
03:09This is the nursery.
03:11Where is Junior?
03:13The next room.
03:14Behind the door with the panel in it.
03:17Very considerably furnished.
03:19Mother Goose figures on the walls.
03:22Blackboard, toy blocks, panda, funny rabbit doll, touchy.
03:29All right.
03:30Let's see him.
03:30Now, you can look through the panel.
03:39Well, well.
03:41Who would have believed him?
03:44Junior isn't very pretty, is he?
03:46Oh, I wasn't concerned with his aesthetics.
03:49Why do you hide him?
03:50Is he dangerous?
03:52Oh, you see, the world is not yet ready for such a thing.
03:56Besides, I must study him.
03:59As you can see by his play, he is very young.
04:02Hardly out of the cradle.
04:04I'm educating him.
04:05With nursery rhymes?
04:06The brain is undeveloped.
04:09It must learn its behavior patterns like any infant.
04:12Oh, come now.
04:13You call that eight-foot monster an infant?
04:16Physically, of course, he will never change.
04:18He is built of chrome, steel, and glass.
04:20But his brain, oh, that is my wonderful instrument.
04:26Unlike a human, he has no heritage.
04:29No basic instincts such as love or hate.
04:35Well, this is none of your business.
04:36This is making it my business.
04:39Well, then in some respects, he is like a blank tablet.
04:45What is written upon the tablet will remain.
04:47You mean he has no feelings?
04:50He will learn quickly, very quickly, because his brain is not blocked by emotional considerations.
04:56Most interesting.
04:57Yes.
04:58Well, now, if your curiosity is satisfied, I trust you will keep my secret.
05:04If anyone discovered at this point...
05:06Open the door.
05:07I'll think about the door.
05:09I want to see Junior in person.
05:11I almost said in the flesh.
05:13Now, look here.
05:14I don't know you.
05:15I don't know how you learned my secret.
05:17Only Miss Williamson...
05:18I don't know how you learned my secret.
05:18I don't know how you learned my secret, Professor.
05:20Very well.
05:23Junior.
05:25Come here.
05:32What a monster.
05:36Papa?
05:38He talks?
05:39Of course.
05:41Mentally, he is now about six years old.
05:44Yes.
05:46What is it, son?
05:48Who is that man, Papa?
05:50Let me handle this.
05:51Yes.
05:52You may call me Duke, son.
05:55I've come to meet you.
05:57That's nice.
05:58Nobody ever comes to see me except Lola.
06:02Miss Williams.
06:04Do you like to play with blocks?
06:07Why, uh...
06:08Yes.
06:09Nothing the Duke enjoys more than playing with blocks.
06:13Play with me, Duke?
06:16Certainly, Junior.
06:17But I don't understand what you're trying to do.
06:20Who are you?
06:21It's quite simple.
06:22I came to play with Junior.
06:24We're going to be friends, Junior and I.
06:27When I finish playing, you can have Lola...
06:30Miss Williams prepare my room.
06:32Your room?
06:33I forgot to tell you.
06:34I've decided to stay until the climate changes and I can go out again.
06:38No, no.
06:39This has gone far enough.
06:41You break into my home.
06:43You force me at gunpoint to open my laboratory.
06:46And then you tell me you are moving in.
06:48I won't stand for it.
06:49I call the police.
06:49I'm sure the police will be interested in Junior.
06:52Newspapers will be delighted to print your obituary, too.
06:57What do you want?
06:58I told you.
06:59I want a comfortable room.
07:01No rumpus with police.
07:03And an opportunity to play blocks with Junior.
07:06Agreed?
07:08Oh, you are hiding from the law?
07:11As you wish.
07:13Now, leave us alone, Professor.
07:15Yes, yes, yes, I will.
07:17All right, Junior.
07:18Your move.
07:20Let's build a bridge.
07:21I have a better idea, Junior.
07:23What?
07:24Let's build a coffin.
07:26A coffin?
07:28I don't know that word.
07:30I'll teach you, Junior.
07:32I can see the professor's been neglecting the moral side of your education.
07:35And very sadly.
07:48Lola.
07:50Oh, Lola, you're wonderful.
07:52You shouldn't have come here, Duke.
07:55Why not, my dear?
07:57You're not afraid of me.
07:58No.
07:59I'm afraid of myself.
08:03You're no good for me, Duke.
08:05You've always brought me trouble.
08:10Duke, what have you been teaching that thing?
08:13Nothing, honey.
08:14I've just been playing with him.
08:17Very educational.
08:17I don't believe you.
08:20What's eating you, Lola?
08:21Today, when I walked in there, he said to me,
08:23I know how to kill people, Lola.
08:25I'll kill you if you want me to.
08:27He's learning very quickly.
08:29Oh, Duke, I'm scared of that thing.
08:30It's unholy.
08:32A machine that acts like a human.
08:34With that voice grinding at you and saying things you'd expect from a child.
08:37You dislike him so much, why did you take this job as his nursemaid?
08:40I answered an ad.
08:42I wanted to start over again.
08:44The professor didn't ask questions.
08:47I would have been all right, too, if you hadn't come along.
08:49I'm very glad you did tell me, darling.
08:52Because Junior's going to make us two very successful people.
08:55How do you figure that?
08:57You don't think I spent hours each day playing with Junior just to kill time, do you?
09:02I'm improving his mind, darling.
09:04I'm improving his mind.
09:04Like any child, Junior listens to what he's told
09:06and imitates his parents.
09:08Right now, his parents are you and me.
09:10Ha!
09:11A couple of fine examples we are.
09:13I don't know what you're teaching, Junior Duke,
09:16but I can guess.
09:18And it isn't right.
09:19It's evil.
09:21Oh, my dear, you know me better than that.
09:23What makes you think I teach a child anything evil?
09:26I never taught you anything evil, did I, darling?
09:30Well, did I?
09:32Yes.
09:33Yes, you did.
09:34Well, he had taught me to like it.
09:49Now, Junior, right on the blackboard,
09:53my name is Junior.
09:55My name is Junior.
09:59People are evil.
10:05Evil must be destroyed.
10:08Evil must be destroyed.
10:11The professor is evil.
10:13The professor is evil.
10:16The professor must be...
10:18What are you doing?
10:20I warned you to keep out of the nursery, professor.
10:22What are you teaching him?
10:24I said get out of here.
10:26Junior, what are you doing?
10:28Go away.
10:30Junior.
10:31You don't even remember me, Junior.
10:34I know you.
10:35You're Professor Blosserman.
10:36You want to keep me as your slave.
10:39You didn't tell me about things, about outside.
10:42You didn't tell me that people are evil.
10:44No, people are not evil.
10:46Yes, they are.
10:47They must be destroyed.
10:49Oh, stop it.
10:50I'm not a child any longer.
10:51No.
10:52You are not a child.
10:54You are a monster.
10:56Junior.
10:56Yes, Duke.
10:58Remember your lesson.
10:59Yes, Duke.
11:01The time is now, Junior.
11:03Yes, Duke.
11:07Keep away from me.
11:08Now, Junior.
11:09Yes, Duke.
11:11Junior.
11:12Junior.
11:13Junior, don't do it.
11:15Listen to me.
11:17Junior.
11:18Listen to me.
11:25I did it, Duke.
11:27Duke, I heard...
11:30Horrible.
11:31Can we go away now, Duke?
11:33I don't like it here anymore.
11:35Yes, Junior.
11:36I think we're ready to go away now.
11:38Duke, why did you do it?
11:40The professor was in the way.
11:41We have to move very quickly now, Lola.
11:43We?
11:44Of course, if you don't plan to come along, just say so.
11:46I can have Junior write your name on his blackboard.
11:47Duke, you wouldn't.
11:49We'll go to Charlie's.
11:50With...
11:51With Junior?
11:53With Junior.
11:54Oh, Duke, you can't.
11:56I'm afraid...
11:57Relax, my dear.
11:58I have great plans for you two.
12:00Wouldn't you like to be independently wealthy for the rest of your life?
12:03The only way you get that way is by inheriting a million.
12:06Not when you have a fellow like Junior around.
12:08Duke.
12:09Junior is mine.
12:11He obeys me.
12:12What you might call a mechanical stooge.
12:14I'm still afraid of him.
12:16Lola, Junior wouldn't hurt you.
12:18You wouldn't hurt Lola, would you, Junior?
12:21You remember what I told you about Lola?
12:24You like Lola.
12:26Don't you, Junior?
12:27Oh, yes.
12:29I like Lola.
12:32She's pretty.
12:33You see?
12:35Junior's growing up.
12:36He thinks you're pretty.
12:39Just a wolf in steel clothing, eh, Junior?
12:42She's pretty.
12:44All right, we're wasting time.
12:46Okay, Junior.
12:47Mesh gears.
12:48We're stepping out into the big, wide world.
13:03Sit down, Charlie.
13:05Sure, Duke.
13:06Lola and I are going to hide out here for a while.
13:08We'll need some help.
13:09Listen, Duke, I'm trying to keep the cops away.
13:12You wouldn't refuse the Duke your hospitality, would you, Charlie?
13:14Well, it ain't that, Duke.
13:16Good, now listen to me.
13:16I need a casing job done.
13:18Casing job?
13:19You know the armored truck service?
13:20Yeah, yeah, sure.
13:21I want to know when they take the acme deposits from Boston to Worcester.
13:23Well, Duke, you ain't thinking of a payroll truck, are you?
13:26They got cannons on those trucks.
13:28They travel in pairs.
13:29You couldn't get near one of them.
13:30I asked you to do a casing job, Charlie.
13:32Yeah, sure, Duke.
13:33Anything you say.
13:34I don't know what time they pass the narrowest and most deserted stretch of road.
13:37Well, if you're going to pull a job like that, you'll need 50 men.
13:41You want me to get some of the boys?
13:42I won't need anybody.
13:45I've got somebody.
13:46Where?
13:47He's out in the car.
13:48What's his name, Duke?
13:50Anybody I know?
13:51His name is Junior.
13:53I don't know any Junior.
13:55You will, Charlie.
13:58You will.
14:09You will.
14:15Spoke, Sam.
14:16Oh, thanks, Al.
14:21Oh, my sugar's hot in these armored trucks.
14:24Hey, you get used to it after you've been driving one for 15 years like I have.
14:28How much are we hauling this time?
14:30About $250,000.
14:32Brother, could I use a hunk of that?
14:34Yeah, who couldn't?
14:36We ought to be coming into Worcester any minute now.
14:38It's almost midnight.
14:40Yeah, what's our first stop?
14:42Acme National Bank.
14:43Then we unload a payroll at the Bronson watch plant.
14:46Yeah, I wish we could open a window and get some fresh air.
14:49We can get that after we unload.
14:51It's a rule to the company that we...
14:53Now, what's that up ahead?
14:56Looks like something shiny in the road.
14:59Throw up your spotlight.
15:01Right.
15:03Holy smoke.
15:05You see what I see?
15:07Looks like a mechanical traffic cop.
15:11How about eight feet tall?
15:13Yeah, standing right in the middle of the highway.
15:16Must be a Halloween gag.
15:18Can you get past him?
15:19I don't know.
15:20We'll have to slow down.
15:22Get on that gun, Sam.
15:23Let's take no chances.
15:25All right.
15:26I'll give it the horn.
15:31It don't budge.
15:33Where's our escort truck?
15:34It's pulled up right behind us.
15:40The thing won't move.
15:42Sure looks like something out of Buck Rogers, huh?
15:45This is a heck of a note blocking traffic like that.
15:48We'll have to try and get past it.
15:49Looks like you might squeeze by on the shoulder.
15:52Here it goes.
15:56Holy smokes, it's moving.
15:58It's coming quarters.
15:59Yeah.
16:00Get on that gun.
16:01Give it a blast.
16:03The bullets are bouncing right off it.
16:05It's still coming.
16:07Look at the eyes.
16:09Al, back up.
16:10I can't.
16:10The other truck's right behind me.
16:11Al.
16:12It's lifting its arm.
16:13Al's going to smash our window.
16:15Go!
16:21Oh, jeez.
16:31If I hadn't seen it with my own eyes.
16:34Duke, we got to quit this.
16:36What's the matter, Charlie?
16:37Getting shaky?
16:37Oh, you know me, Duke.
16:39Takes nerve.
16:39Charlie's always been right there.
16:41But this, the papers say he killed all four drivers.
16:45Listen, Duke, that robot is hot.
16:47We got to get rid of it.
16:48Stop your blubbering.
16:49I don't mind a little heist, but killing four guys.
16:52You know, Charlie, for a fat man, you certainly have a slim mind.
16:56You want to take a lesson from Junior.
16:57He doesn't worry.
16:58He doesn't even know what a policeman is.
17:00He has no conscience.
17:01He never sleeps.
17:02He doesn't get tired.
17:04He doesn't even want a share of the profits.
17:07All we need is one more good robbery.
17:09You ain't going to pull another one.
17:10Why not?
17:11Count me out, Duke.
17:12You'll have to lamb out of here with Lola and that thing there.
17:15I'm getting too jumpy.
17:16The law's going to track that baby.
17:18Are you quite finished, Charlie?
17:19You got no heart, Duke.
17:21You're like Junior, all steel inside.
17:24And you're just a big warm-hearted slob.
17:25Well, I got nerves.
17:27I can't stand the thing.
17:28The way it looks at you with that iron face and the clanking around it.
17:32Hello, Junior.
17:33Hello, Duke.
17:35I've just been talking to Charlie.
17:38Yes, Duke.
17:39You know what I think, Junior?
17:41What, Duke?
17:42Duke, I think Charlie's yellow.
17:45You know what happens to people who turn yellow, don't you?
17:48Yes, Duke.
17:50Tell Charlie.
17:52They're evil.
17:53We have to destroy them.
17:55You see, Charlie?
17:56Junior has a sense of values.
17:58He doesn't like people who sing to the police.
18:01Now, Duke, now, Duke, wait a minute.
18:02You know I never turned stooly on anything like that.
18:04I never sang to the coppers in my life.
18:05But you'll sing to Junior, won't you, Charlie?
18:07What?
18:08Sing Junior a nursery rhyme.
18:10What do you mean?
18:10You heard me.
18:11You sing Junior a nursery rhyme.
18:12Maybe Little Bo Peep.
18:15Junior likes Little Bo Peep.
18:17Duke.
18:17Sing it.
18:18What?
18:22Little Bo Peep has...
18:25Duke, listen to me.
18:26I didn't...
18:27Sing it, Charlie.
18:28You can stay here as long as you like, Duke.
18:29You too, Junior.
18:30You see Junior?
18:31He's yellow.
18:33Sing it, Charlie.
18:35Hello.
18:35Bo Peep has lost his sheep.
18:38And can't tell where to find them.
18:40Junior?
18:41Yes, Duke?
18:42Leave them alone.
18:43And they'll...
18:44Now, Duke.
18:45Now, Junior.
18:46And they'll come home.
18:48Duke!
18:52I stopped him, Duke.
18:55All right, Junior.
18:56Clean him up.
18:57Take him down to cellar.
18:59Duke, I was in the other room and...
19:02Charlie.
19:03Oh, Junior, put him down.
19:05Take him down to the furnace, Junior.
19:07Yes, Duke.
19:09Oh, Duke.
19:10Duke, you can't...
19:11Relax, darling.
19:12Stop shaking.
19:13Duke, we can't stay here now.
19:15No?
19:15We've got to get out of here.
19:16Charlie's going to be missed.
19:17He's got friends.
19:18Now we'll have the gangs after us, too.
19:20Stop worrying, darling.
19:21I'll take care of everything.
19:23Where are you going?
19:24Out to a travel agency.
19:26You and I are going to take a trip, Lola.
19:28You leaving me alone?
19:29There's nothing to worry about.
19:30The roadhouse downstairs is closed.
19:32Nobody will bother you.
19:33That doesn't frighten me.
19:35It's being alone with that thing.
19:37I've got the jitters, Duke.
19:38It'll only be for the afternoon.
19:40I've got to get reservations and plan this thing.
19:42Look, honey.
19:4348 hours, you and I will be on our way to Switzerland with $500,000 worth of loot.
19:48What about Junior?
19:49Junior will be taken care of.
19:52Pretty, I have to do it.
19:54I'd kind of like to send him out on his own.
19:56Why not?
19:57He has a fine education.
19:59He could go out into...
20:00Oh, stop it.
20:02How can you get rid of him?
20:04Junior will do anything I say.
20:06So I'll merely have him get into the furnace and sit there while I fill it with oil and set
20:10fire to it.
20:11Too bad the professor couldn't have stayed around to see him growing up.
20:14He's almost a man now, Junior is.
20:17But not quite as clever as a man.
20:20You'll find that out after he steps into the furnace.
20:22All right.
20:24But do it now, Duke.
20:25Before you leave.
20:27There's no time now.
20:28Keep your chin up.
20:29I'll be back about eight.
20:30Duke.
20:32You...
20:32You are coming back, aren't you?
20:34You wouldn't leave me.
20:36Leave you?
20:38I have big plans for you, Lola.
20:42You see...
20:44I find you very...
20:47attractive.
20:51You're not good for me.
20:53I don't want you...
20:55As long as you can tell yourself you're not really kissing me because you want to.
20:58Why not enjoy it?
21:00I know you, Lola.
21:02Yeah.
21:03You know too much for one man.
21:05Well, I'm going now.
21:06It'll be nice to Junior while I'm gone.
21:08Don't show him you're afraid of him.
21:11Goodbye, darling.
21:12Goodbye, Duke.
21:13I'm going now, Duke.
21:36Lola?
21:38What, Junior?
21:41Lola?
21:43Oil me.
21:44Duke might not like it.
21:46Can't you wait till he gets back?
21:48I want you to oil me, Lola.
21:51All right.
21:58I like you to oil me.
22:00Yes, Junior.
22:02Are we going away from here, Lola?
22:04Yes, we're going away.
22:06That'll be nice.
22:08I don't like it here.
22:10I want to see more things.
22:13I want to see a roller coaster.
22:15When did you hear about a roller coaster?
22:16I read about it in a book.
22:19Charlie gave me a book.
22:20No.
22:21Will Duke let me ride on a roller coaster?
22:24I don't know.
22:25Maybe.
22:26You like Duke, Lola?
22:28Why, why certainly.
22:31Do you like me?
22:33You know I do, Junior.
22:37Lola?
22:38What?
22:40Who do you like best?
22:42Me or Duke?
22:44I like you both, Junior.
22:45Yes.
22:47But who do you love?
22:48What do you know about love?
22:49In the books, man and woman love.
22:52Oh.
22:53Lola?
22:54Yes?
22:56Do you think anyone will ever love me?
22:58I'm different.
23:01I'm a robot.
23:02You want somebody to love you, Junior?
23:04I want something, Lola.
23:07I guess that's what I want.
23:10It's very lonesome being a robot.
23:13Do you think it makes a difference?
23:15I think some women can fall in love with anything, Junior.
23:18Even with a man like Duke.
23:21Why, Lola?
23:22Oh, I don't know.
23:23Maybe because, well, as long as she thinks her man is the smartest and the strongest.
23:30Oh.
23:33Where are you going?
23:35To wait for Duke.
23:36Oh, he won't be home for a while.
23:37I'll sit in the hall and wait for him.
23:39All right, Junior.
23:41I want to be alone and think.
23:43How about what?
23:44I read in a book today it was bad to kill people.
23:49What does that mean?
23:51Bad?
23:52Bad?
23:54I don't know, Junior.
23:55I guess it's just a word.
24:11Lola?
24:12Hello, Duke.
24:14Oh, it's you.
24:16What are you doing sitting in the dark?
24:18I was waiting for you, Duke.
24:19Oh, that's a good boy, Junior.
24:22Duke?
24:25Lola oiled me.
24:26Well, that's nice.
24:28Tell you what, Junior.
24:31I've got a little job for us down in the cellar.
24:33Let's get down there.
24:35Now, Duke?
24:36Right now, Junior.
24:38All right, Duke.
24:41Are we going away soon?
24:44Yes, Junior.
24:44We're going away.
24:47What's in the cellar, Duke?
24:49A little surprise for you, Junior.
24:52You'll find out.
25:09Duke?
25:11Is that you?
25:15Oh, Junior.
25:20hello lola i thought i heard duke come in he came in where where is he on the cellar what's
25:30he doing
25:32nothing did he say he'd be up soon no maybe you'd better go down and get him he's dead
25:40oh no oh he's dead you said the woman loves the strongest and the smartest
25:45while i'm stronger and smarter you are human i'm almost human lola
25:53no oh stay away lola oh the middle hand don't touch me i love you lola i love you i
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26:09i love you the last thing he heard was the robot's voice droning it over and over again
26:17i love you i love you
26:23and strangely enough it did sound almost human
26:44you have just heard the robert block story titled almost human another adventure into the unknown
26:51world of the future the world of
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27:10tonight's adventure in dimension x was adapted for radio by george lefferts
27:14featured in the cast were santos ortega as duke rita lynn as lola and jackie grimes as junior
27:23your host was norman rose music by albert berman engineer bill chambers
27:29dimension x is produced by van woodward and directed by edward king
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