Gentlemen, don't mind me. I think I'll be turning in.
Well, I have to be running along pretty well pretty soon myself, so...
Oh, how about a... how about a nightcap?
All right, Jack. Sure. All right, dear?
Oh, yes, of course. Good night.
Good night, Joanna.
Good night, sweetie.
Good night, darling.
I wanted to wait until she'd gone to bed.
I know it's very late, but this is important, Tim.
This... this x-ray business with her broken ribs.
Oh, what about it?
This is serious, Tim.
Let me get these prints, huh? I'll show you what I mean.
Now, this is the... this is the picture that I took the day of the accident.
You see the break?
Sure.
Well, now, this is the print that I took yesterday.
Same Joanna, same position, same rib.
Two days later. What do you see?
Well, it's not broken.
Right. It's completely healed.
Not a scratch, not even any evidence of a fracture.
I tell you, Tim, that it's things like this that makes a fellow study his pictures more closely than ever.
And believe me, I've studied these very, very closely.
That's how I happened to discover these other things.
Oh, what other things?
Her heart, for instance.
You remember a year ago, Joanna came to me for a checkup?
Yeah.
I took an electrocardiograph and took some x-rays.
Her heart was perfectly normal.
Now look.
A heart only half the normal size.
It's unbelievable.
And her appendix.
Look at it.
I can't see it.
It isn't there, Tim.
You mean she has no appendix?
That's right.
But she had one a year ago, and she's had no appendectomy.
No, she hasn't. She has no scar.
No appendix.
A heart half the normal size and a rib that knits in two days.
Tim, there's something medically strange about Joanna.
Very strange.
Oh, I thought you'd be asleep, dear.
Is Jack gone?
Yes.
He tells me that your broken rib is mended perfectly.
Yes, he told me.
What else was he saying?
Oh, nothing. We just talked.
Just talked?
Yes. Well, it's not important, dear.
Just a lot of nonsense about your heart getting smaller,
your rib mending so fast, something about your appendix.
Tim, sit down. Sit down.
We've got to talk about something, Tim.
I didn't intend for you to find out so soon.
Find out what, dear?
How can I make you understand?
Tim, I'm... I'm changing.
I was afraid that Jack would notice something when I went to him about the broken rib.
I sort of hoped he wouldn't.
Perhaps it's better that we talk about it now.
What are you trying to say, dear?
Tim, I'm changing.
I'm changing in many ways, not just the size of my heart, no appendix,
other things that even Jack doesn't know about.
That's the part of it, but only a small part of it.
I've discovered things about myself,
things that are sometimes strange, sometimes even frightening.
I can...
Tim, I can do things I don't think anybody else can do.
I can control objects.
I can make things move, in other words, Tim.
For heaven's name, stop saying things like that.
Please, darling, you must be ill.
No, I'm not.
Now, look, dear, you're exhausted.
You're worn out.
Let's pack up and go away tomorrow.
No, no, no, I must show you.
I must show you, Tim.
Tim, look.
Look.
I must be seeing things.
What is it?
What is this?
Listen to me, listen to me, listen to me.
I have the power to do lots of things other people can't do.
That's what I'm trying to explain to you.
I think that I'm becoming an entirely new kind of human being.
I'm developing every day.
I'm learning things.
I'm growing stronger.
It's almost as if I were just growing up, reaching maturity.
Tim, look in the top drawer of the bureau.
Go ahead, please.
Please.
While you're away during the day, I'm studying.
I'm learning new things.
I'm working.
The elastic impact of the mesons, living guideposts of the past.
John, I'm making nuclear fission as a source of power.
Yes, can't you see that I have an intellect that's developing and advancing just as my other powers are?
This is frightening.
I can't understand it here.
What about us?
What is all going to lead to?
I don't know.
Already I've grown beyond you.
A few months, a few weeks, even.
Then you have to stop it, dear.
I can't stop it.
Can you expect a plant to stop growing?
Can you make it go back into a seed?
I can't help it.
I'm becoming a different being.
Oh, my darling, I can't take you with me.
I can't take you with me.
Darling, I love you.
I love you.
I love you with all my heart.
But soon that love will change.
It'll be the kind of love that we have for Champ.
The sort of love you have for a lower species.
Oh, forgive me, my darling.
I don't want that to happen.
I couldn't bear it.
So I...
I think...
I think we'd better make the break now.
Oh, no.
Yes, yes, yes.
While we have the right memories, pleasant memories, not bitter memories.
Can you understand that, my precious?
I...
I wanted it to take longer.
But now you found out too soon, we'd better face it.
But now, leaving you still hurts.
It hurts very much.
I...
Wait!
I like it that burning.
Together, Christler, we'll have the high moment.
Every one of us gets to hear the psalms.
Aside from all the magic of no, I love it.
All right.
Now everybody's home,
everybody's ready to show the High God mug.
Put down your bags and come out wherever you are at noon.
In the Old Lady's Lounge.
Here we go.
I bet someone just had a last one, didn't they?
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Quite a story, quite a story.
The next morning, the morning after the doctor paid us his visit, she was gone.
Just like that?
Just like that.
What did you do?
What could I do?
I had no one to turn to.
I couldn't expect anyone to believe me.
What about the doctor?
Did you talk to him?
I tried.
What's the use?
He's a medical man.
The only thing that interested him were the physical changes.
You said it was five years ago that she left you.
But tonight?
Well, I saw her a year later.
You did?
How?
Oh, I kept waiting, hoping, reading newspapers.
I didn't know exactly what I was looking for, but something told me that one day I'd find
something.
And then, one day, I did.
The picture was blurred.
The name was different.
But something seemed to tell me it was Joanna.
It couldn't be anyone except Joanna, even though the paper said she was only 20 years
old.
I took a plane to Berkeley, California.
Joanna!
Tim!
Sit down and be quiet.
I know over here is Marianne Parkhurst.
Joanna, you've come back to me.
You've got to come back to me.
Don't be silly.
I've explained it all to you.
But I can't understand that, dear.
All I know is that I love you and I want you with me.
Tim, don't.
Darling, it was all a trick, wasn't it?
Tell me it was a trick.
The statuettes, the x-rays.
You were angry about something you wanted to get away from.
But that's all past, dear.
Come back to me.
It wasn't a trick.
I'm sorry.
Joanna.
Wait.
Joanna.
Well, I guess I will have that drink.
A broom closet, huh?
It disappeared through the wall, you figure?
You tell me.
Did you see her again?
Not for four years.
Not for four years, you say?
But I heard from her, though.
Oh?
She wrote to you?
No, no.
I kept reading newspapers and scientific periodicals.
I kept this scrapbook.
You see, every once in a while I'd read about an invention by some young woman scientist.
I knew always that it was Joanna.
Some new discovery in the field of radiation.
Now, for example, you take this.
I knew that that was Joanna.
And over here is that electronic telescope.
It all led to the same thing.
I kept track of it.
Joanna, somewhere in the world, working, growing, developing.
I couldn't forget her.
Four years passed.
And then, tonight, I saw her again.
I suppose I've been growing despondent over losing Joanna, drinking too much.
I even thought of killing myself.
I bought a gun.
But I guess you'd say I was on the skids.
But I kept thinking it would suddenly be all right again.
That I'd come in the house one evening and Joanna would be there and it would be like old times.
Tonight I went to the Clover Club.
Lately I've been going there more and more frequently.
But tonight, as I walked in, my heart almost stopped.
There she was.
More beautiful and radiant than ever.
It was as if she had come back after all.
This horrible nightmare was over.
My Joanna was mine again.
Warm and beautiful.
Right in front of me.
Joanna.
Joanna, darling, Joanna.
Don't touch me.
Joanna.
You've come back to me.
I'm waiting for someone else. Go away and leave me alone.
Joanna, darling, I still love you.
Can't we forget these past five horrible years and begin again?
Yes.
We're a different species now.
I'm not of your kind anymore. Go away.
Joanna.
You're nothing to me. Nothing.
My time...
Our time to rule is coming soon.
Sooner than even I realized.
You've been listening.
Joanna.
You've...
I have to...
You've killed him.
He heard us.
But you...
You killed him in cold blood.
I didn't kill him.
But you... you killed him in cold blood.
Why?
He might have told others.
We're not ready yet. I can't wait.
So you decide just like that.
You destroy just like that.
You're not human.
You have no feelings for me or for anyone.
You've got too much power, Joanna.
There's no one to stop you.
Get rid of anyone who stands in your way.
You're ruthless, hard, cold. That's what you are.
A menace, a terror.
Heartless, godless.
Tim.
No one is safe while you live.
And you ran all the way home after you shot her?
You didn't stop anywhere?
No.
No, I came right home.
I suppose it's murder.
I'd call it execution.
She was my wife, but she wasn't human anymore.
She could have made the world unfit to live in.
If I hadn't killed her, someone else would have.
People like her...
have got to be killed, and killed they will be.
This so-called new class will find out...
that might does not make right now or in the future.
You're wrong, Hathaway.
Wrong?
Joanna is still alive.
What?
Your bullets couldn't possibly harm Joanna.
She's alive and she's waiting for me.
Waiting for you?
Just as she was waiting for me tonight...
when you interfered.
When I interfered?
Yes.
You see, she's not the only one.
Between Joanna and me...
the new race will begin.
What are you saying?
Are you trying to tell me that you...
Me, Hathaway?
Our secret's got to be kept...
a little while longer.
So ends our tale of tomorrow.
Two weeks from tonight, look for an exciting new tale of tomorrow...
The Crystal Egg, by H.G. Wells and starring...
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