Speaker 1: The control Group depicts a nuclear catastrophe and the complete
Speaker 1: annihilation of the human race. Listener discretion is advised. We
Speaker 1: are receiving early warnings of a cloud of radioactive particles
Speaker 1: heavy with strontium ninety located in the southwest and drifting
Speaker 1: northeast across the United States. We will update you on
Speaker 1: the location and severity of the cloud as we continue
Speaker 1: to bring you bulletins from the National Office of Civil
Speaker 1: Defense at Connell rad It is now believed that Montgomery,
Speaker 1: already devastated by atomic radiation, has now fallen under the
Speaker 1: control of rioters and looters who seem determined to burn
Speaker 1: the remains of the city to the ground. Residents within
Speaker 1: Eden Valley may notice the glow of the fires in
Speaker 1: the southwest. We urge our listeners not to attempt to
Speaker 1: leave the valley to aid family members or rescue personnel
Speaker 1: in Montgomery's The fate of the city and its people
Speaker 1: would appear to be sealed. I've never seen that. We'll
Speaker 1: sit on fire before you heard what they said. Fallout
Speaker 1: is coming noon and and your mom are out driving
Speaker 1: around in it. How harmful could it be? Come on,
Speaker 1: It'll be like looking at fireworks. You've got to stay close.
Speaker 1: We'll take the radio. And if they say anything about
Speaker 1: fallout being detective. It's such a Gemini. How how did
Speaker 1: you know that? Forget it? Do you see it? Yeah?
Speaker 1: How could you miss it? You have people in Montgomery?
Speaker 1: Not really, I think there's any way to climb up
Speaker 1: the cross that thing from up there? I bet you
Speaker 1: could see the city in flames. There's a ladder around back.
Speaker 1: Should we do it? I'm right behind you. Can you
Speaker 1: see the city? No? Not really, I can see the flames.
Speaker 1: They seem much closer than Montgomery. You think they're moving
Speaker 1: this way? How should I know? Turn on the radio
Speaker 1: for starters. Here your ticket, Keep hold of the ladder
Speaker 1: so you can use your hands. If you feel me leaning,
Speaker 1: You're fine us turn it on, saying old announcements. Stamm Guial,
Speaker 1: Wait a minute, I had been company. I'm here. I
Speaker 1: think I'm here, Nightingale calling quaisar one. Can you hear us?
Speaker 1: Come in quasar one, I'm here. I'm here. Uh, something
Speaker 1: must have gone wrong. I heard a stud but nothing happened. Oh,
Speaker 1: something definitely happened. Zeb Tron says, you're there, I'm where
Speaker 1: still on Helio's three but two hundred and fifty years
Speaker 1: in the past. Look out your window, I can't there's
Speaker 1: a layer of ice. Oh, that's a good sign testing
Speaker 1: atmospheric conditions. Now, since you're determined to mother, how am
Speaker 1: I able to talk to you? Zemtron will explain it,
Speaker 1: But we don't have time and getting a signal from
Speaker 1: her capsule and downloading everything I can, or her to
Speaker 1: remain in the council so that I will have time
Speaker 1: to no point on one, remaining in the consul allowed
Speaker 1: time for the ghosts to recount. We won't be hearing
Speaker 1: anything more from the ghost What does she mean by that?
Speaker 1: The details of the mission are in my suit all light.
Speaker 1: But promise me you'll remain in constant communication with me.
Speaker 1: Fan Yes to few. It's important that you keep your
Speaker 1: suit communicator on at all times. Okay, so just closing in,
Speaker 1: tell me what you see three two one h This
Speaker 1: is definitely a different place than where I was before.
Speaker 1: There's atmosphere. Obviously, it's twilight, so the sky is warm.
Speaker 1: I see bosings in the distance. You see lights, so
Speaker 1: there must be people here. The destination is close. I
Speaker 1: have the coordinates. I'm going to start walking towards it.
Speaker 1: What is good? There's a large gray building, looks like
Speaker 1: it's made of smooth stone. The windows there appear to
Speaker 1: be bars on the windows. Whatever they have inside must
Speaker 1: be very precious. The entire area is surrounded by a
Speaker 1: tall fence, the fortress of some sort a treasury. How
Speaker 1: will you get through? I am through, I landed inside.
Speaker 1: I'm headed to the corner of the structure where an
Speaker 1: opening is supposed to be. H. I don't think the
Speaker 1: bars are for keeping anyone out. What do you mean
Speaker 1: they're for keeping people in? It appears to be a prison.
Speaker 1: I'm on the lower level. It must be a dungeon
Speaker 1: of some sort. There are several barred cells, people sized cages.
Speaker 1: I heard something. There's something in here with me. Stay still,
Speaker 1: don't move. Mm hm oh what it's It's a small
Speaker 1: it's a child. How can you be sure? I'm going
Speaker 1: to try to talk to it. Hello, a little one.
Speaker 1: I'm a friend. I don't mean to frighten you. No, no, no,
Speaker 1: don't be frightened. I'm just like you. You want to
Speaker 1: see okay, let me show you. Okay, I want what
Speaker 1: are you doing? I want him to see my face?
Speaker 1: So we won't be frightened. Here, not to remove your helmet.
Speaker 1: It's funny. Feel It's okay, sEH, you mean me no harm.
Speaker 1: I'm a friend. I come in peace. Friend. Do you
Speaker 1: understand I'm going to reach out. Don't do that. I
Speaker 1: wouldn't do that. That's it. You want to shake hands? Yes,
Speaker 1: there you go? There there. Okay, I'm backing up. I'm
Speaker 1: I'm backing up. Slow getting out. I'm going back to
Speaker 1: the capsule. I'm ready. You're gonna back. I'm good. I
Speaker 1: think I can do it. No, no no, no, no, no no no,
Speaker 1: I see just get back inside. Belong to win? Where
Speaker 1: is it? What? Where's the castle? There's more of them.
Speaker 1: I can out fund them and find I have kicked
Speaker 1: around me. I common peace, I mean you no harm.
Speaker 1: When is stepping out from he has a wandering club
Speaker 1: of some sword. Peace, I bring peace. One is carrying noisy.
Speaker 1: It's making my hair stand up. Touch you please don't
Speaker 1: make me hurt. Please? What happened? The suit suffered a
Speaker 1: severear electrical shock? How serious? Bad? If it reaches the
Speaker 1: suit central processor it's skirts, How will we know the
Speaker 1: suit will clear the stag and then automatically we start?
Speaker 1: Can we read her vital signs. Not yet, Come on one,
Speaker 1: someone's coming down. Go down, go down. UN's back. Hurry faster,
Speaker 1: stop pushing. You're gonna make me fall. I don't see
Speaker 1: the dog. It's just my mom. Noon's not with her.
Speaker 1: I don't know, Mom. We're over here. What are your
Speaker 1: girls doing? Where's noon Na? Go inside, get our things
Speaker 1: and bring them out. Listen to me, mother. I took
Speaker 1: the radio and I climbed the top of them to
Speaker 1: listen to the news, and we started to pick up
Speaker 1: stations outside the back. Don't have time for that right now.
Speaker 1: He's flying. They're all lying, lying about what. There's no
Speaker 1: emergency outside the valley. Columbus, Montgomery, Atlanta, Birmingham. I heard
Speaker 1: them all. Difficult for you, mother, It's not real. They
Speaker 1: are killing people downtown. I heard the guns. We'll go
Speaker 1: back up to the cross and you can listen to
Speaker 1: it yourself. I don't want to listen to you want
Speaker 1: to What do you want me to say, Becky? What
Speaker 1: is it you're asking me to accept that The authorities
Speaker 1: would tell us the rest of the country has been incinerated,
Speaker 1: and and and and poison. But it's all just a joke,
Speaker 1: a drill. You tell me and your father, Becky. Maybe
Speaker 1: Daddy's not dead, Darling, Is that what this is all about?
Speaker 1: He could be alive. You don't know that. You don't
Speaker 1: know that, don't you? Dare pretend to know that he
Speaker 1: works for the Civil Defense. If he's alive and well,
Speaker 1: why wouldn't he say something? Why would he leave us
Speaker 1: alone like this, letting us believe that he's dead. I
Speaker 1: don't know. You guys need to stop arguing. You've got
Speaker 1: bigger things to worry about. God, it's probably Munon. Does
Speaker 1: Noonon know know what what we know? If he knows,
Speaker 1: why wouldn't he tell us? What do you think, Mrs Langford?
Speaker 1: Why would Noonan want to keep three women chained inside?
Speaker 1: His basement? Was chained? I'll have to sleep. Maybe I
Speaker 1: didn't see me. Don't let On get us back to me.
Speaker 1: If I get a chancel, grab for his gun. If
Speaker 1: I can't get it, something we gotta do this. Mother,
Speaker 1: Just keep talking to him. Don't pretend to be asleep.
Speaker 1: I don't want to be a Hello, Dory, Oh thank
Speaker 1: god you're safe. I thought someone had hijack the truck.
Speaker 1: Or are you okay? I'm fine? What are you doing
Speaker 1: back up here. I I was worried about Becky. I
Speaker 1: heard gunfire in town, and I panicked, and I thought,
Speaker 1: I'm backing up your stuff. What it looks like you're
Speaker 1: back your stuff? You want to leave? You don't have
Speaker 1: to run away. No, if you want to leave, just
Speaker 1: ask me. I'll take you where you want to go.
Speaker 1: Please put down the gun. The gun. Oh no, no, no, Dory, Gosh,
Speaker 1: you misunderstand I was. I was worried about you. I'm sorry.
Speaker 1: I didn't. I thought someone, it's on the truck and
Speaker 1: you in it. And then I get up here and
Speaker 1: I see the truck, and I figured that I only
Speaker 1: took my truck. And how they're taking over the bunk
Speaker 1: or get shot and if anything happened to me, Becky
Speaker 1: would be left all alone. What did what did you
Speaker 1: expect me to do? What was you planning to do?
Speaker 1: I came to get Becky and take her home. We
Speaker 1: don't feel safe here safe. There's six inches of reading
Speaker 1: forced concrete over our heads and and six inches of
Speaker 1: sword on top of that. What do you mean safe?
Speaker 1: It's safe from you? He's lying for When was I
Speaker 1: anything but a gentleman? Uh? I asked your permission to
Speaker 1: pay court to your daughter. I would I would never
Speaker 1: do a thing to her, would you? And what did
Speaker 1: I do? Ain't I been respectful? I know I ain't
Speaker 1: much to look at it, but I am a good person.
Speaker 1: Isn't that what matters? What's on the inside, Becky, Tell
Speaker 1: her and make her understand that y'all need to stay here.
Speaker 1: The fallouts coming down. We're inside now, that's it, noon
Speaker 1: and we leave now, and you won't make it home alive.
Speaker 1: We'll take her chances. So that's how it is. You'd
Speaker 1: rather be dead than stay here with me? Gathering? No, no, no, no,
Speaker 1: hold on a minute here, Becky. She don't have to
Speaker 1: go if she don't want to. What it's her decision.
Speaker 1: You're not serious, Becky, Come on now, maybe instead of
Speaker 1: telling her what to do, you should let her make
Speaker 1: her own. She's fifteen years old enough to choose. For
Speaker 1: she's a child. I am not a child. Mother. It's
Speaker 1: what I've been telling you for months. I'm a woman.
Speaker 1: Shut your mouth with that kind of talk. You shut
Speaker 1: your mouth. Let her choose. I'm her mother. Let her choose.
Speaker 1: I would rather cut my own throat than stay here
Speaker 1: with you. Noon In and Lorraine. I think now would
Speaker 1: be a good time. What it is? So you put
Speaker 1: them up to this? Shut up? I should have known
Speaker 1: you're no count. Sit down, Dorry, give me the keys
Speaker 1: to his truck. Mom, do it, I'll drive. Come here, Becky,
Speaker 1: you hold the gun. No are you gonna shoot me? Becky?
Speaker 1: If he moves pulled the trucker, don't hesitate You ever
Speaker 1: shot a pump action twelve games before? No? Is it? Carton?
Speaker 1: Is Sarah? Is there a shell in that chamber? Is
Speaker 1: a safety? Own? Please stop talking. I'll go stare at
Speaker 1: the truck. Never point a gun in a man now
Speaker 1: head you make your call her, call him off his chase.
Speaker 1: Don't know the funk? You don't. Blondie, come, gon't leave us.
Speaker 1: I got hard. She's bread one. Can you hear me?
Speaker 1: Come in? Ways are one. I'm inside of building, activating
Speaker 1: me down a long corridor. If you can reach a
Speaker 1: chest place and protect the hoobas but he died. I
Speaker 1: don't think she's feels you were headed by Elden. There
Speaker 1: nothing we can do. I'm trying. I'm trying to do
Speaker 1: a thing to understand. I need no harm. Please, please,
Speaker 1: I want you don't need to find my arms. I
Speaker 1: am not your enemy. They have me strapped to a bed.
Speaker 1: H Now they're pushing the bed, pushing me through your door.
Speaker 1: It's a large there are other people here. Now wait
Speaker 1: remember you turn animated a much smaller roam. I'm a
Speaker 1: mathematical Supplisa's thanks, more serious. Thank we have any day?
Speaker 1: Will you see your mother? Can you let me speak?
Speaker 1: Will you listen? Allow me to wait? Mother? Mother activated
Speaker 1: the translator, child sucking play, I'll be don't sin thinking
Speaker 1: at amos samsa. My name is quiz all wine. I
Speaker 1: come from another time. Wirrel that way. No, they're putting
Speaker 1: some pa on my head, one side, one head, and
Speaker 1: that they have what is wanted. Okay, caps they have tasing.
Speaker 1: When my comples require require copy electrical. Give me a
Speaker 1: chance to cool now that you're weird, give coming. No
Speaker 1: one kill me. I don't want my baby. I don't want,
Speaker 1: not even one year to hear me. No food that
Speaker 1: your poor arms. You're gonna be fine, trying not to
Speaker 1: touch your face. Now I have to get you to
Speaker 1: a hospital. I want to go. Oh baby, I don't
Speaker 1: think I need to walk. The family has painkillers. Take one.
Speaker 1: That's it. Guess with here you're tune for you mm hmm.
Speaker 1: Open your mouth until your head. Yeah. Can you swallowed that? Oh?
Speaker 1: He swallowed m hm m hmm. Your house is still there,
Speaker 1: the sweet We can't trust anything, he told us. How
Speaker 1: we can't there. Well, I'll put you in my neck
Speaker 1: and I'm care at least until we get to a
Speaker 1: first aid station. H here we go, now ready? Oh
Speaker 1: maybe you can do it. No you can't. You on
Speaker 1: and leave it. Then lean over me. I don't care, babe,
Speaker 1: I'm just like this. I'm gonna figure it down next
Speaker 1: to mine. Let me carry you. Oh are you called sweetie? Yes?
Speaker 1: I could never be women there eat sleep? You want
Speaker 1: to sleep in your own bed, so he said, yeah,
Speaker 1: I don't see why not like that. I think it
Speaker 1: would do you a world of good. Do he to
Speaker 1: be back in your bad hand, in your room, just
Speaker 1: like before, like happier times. Oh we're home. I'm gonna
Speaker 1: I'm gonna try and get you up the steps and
Speaker 1: into your better Okay, just hold on to me the
Speaker 1: best you can. I'm gonna take it nice and slow. Okay,
Speaker 1: I'm gonna be easy. I'm gonna easier. Back onto the
Speaker 1: bed and lie you back. This may hurt a little bit.
Speaker 1: Ah your home, baby, you're cold. I'm gonna I'm gonna
Speaker 1: make you a cup of tea if the guess is
Speaker 1: still on them. Thank you a nice warm a cup
Speaker 1: of tea with honey, and you can get a good sleep.
Speaker 1: How does that sound here? Put this pill under your tongue.
Speaker 1: You don't have to swallow it, just just let it dissolve. Now,
Speaker 1: I'll bring a washcloth and get you cleaned up. I'm
Speaker 1: gonna make a nice cup of tea for both of us,
Speaker 1: honey and I. The kettle warms, I'm gonna I'm gonna
Speaker 1: sit down and put my head down for just a
Speaker 1: minute and close my eyes. I'm gonna rest, but only
Speaker 1: for a moment until the water boils. Ah ah ah.
Speaker 1: I'm Helen Huntley, and I thank you again for letting
Speaker 1: me visit in your home, your community, shelter, or automobile.
Speaker 1: A lot of you know me from my daytime talk
Speaker 1: show that was broadcast every morning on w e A
Speaker 1: l t V twelve right here in New Canaan. And
Speaker 1: I've also been a radio personality for years on a
Speaker 1: M eleven sixty. That's where you could always find me
Speaker 1: when there wasn't a national emergency. Remember that, because this
Speaker 1: will all be over soon. And when it is, I'll
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Speaker 1: I promise you that no bombs have been dropped on
Speaker 1: American soil. It is all a hoax perpetrated by the
Speaker 1: US government to test your what the hell and dangerous
Speaker 1: experiment performed without your consent and at great personal riff.
Speaker 1: Come m did you hear what she said? She said
Speaker 1: there are no bombs something do such a thing? Will?
Speaker 1: Would you be illegal to tell everyone? Test us? Quiet,
Speaker 1: both of you. Let's listen channels. Do you think it's
Speaker 1: true what she said? Do you really think there's no something?
Speaker 1: Something's happening? Now? This is Johnny Cage. I'd like all
Speaker 1: of you to remember that America can withstand enemy attack
Speaker 1: community and learned the hip hours. It concerns a top
Speaker 1: secret government operation that's being run by the Office of
Speaker 1: Civil Defense and Connell Rad, the U S military, and
Speaker 1: state and local government. They are all all right. I've
Speaker 1: had about enough of this horse ship Robert soundly all
Speaker 1: clear apples, wait and get the power back on. We
Speaker 1: can't just stop it. Tell Connell Rad to sound the
Speaker 1: all clear. The full scale evacuation to its that were
Speaker 1: held in major cities. This is ex is h m hmm.
Speaker 1: Can I come in? I made us some tea. Princess
Speaker 1: Baby made you some tea? Do you want to try it?
Speaker 1: Let me now, let me just just hold the cup
Speaker 1: up your lips. See if it's something you'd like a
Speaker 1: little taste up you. No, No, it's cold, baby m m.
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