Vintage Sci-Fi Radio

2000 Plus - A Veteran Comes Home

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Duration:: 30m
Broadcast on:: 11 Jul 2024
Audio Format:: mp3

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Get up. (whistling) Seven, eight, nine, ten, eleven, twelve. Well, two men missing. They're completely off. Yeah, two men. David, some marks. What happened? Her dead, sir. Wind toward David's jacket. The sand spider bit him. Wind carried a swarm of them into the grass. What about Martin? Don't know what caused it, but he's dead already. Come on. Let's take a look. There he is, sir. The skin is natural, not blue. The way it turns on the sand spider killed you. Let me see. Good lord. What's the matter? The Martians. Martians. They got him during the sandstorm. It must be around somewhere. Look at his back where I opened the jacket. Hit by a sonic beam. Right. Super sound wave gadget of air. Turns your guts to jelly. The Martians are here. All right. Now, warn the men. Right on. Give me your pocket magnet speaker quick. - Hey, Roger. - Right. Leo, crawl in your belly over to the boys. - Keep low. - Okay. Let me know when you get there. Meanwhile, I'll talk of the magnet speaker. Yes, sir. The Martians will hear me. So here's some lingo they won't understand. Now, here's this. We got company boutique. You figure half eight and remember the animal. This is Leo there again. Can't see him. Wait. He's coming on the new way, Jeff Talkie. He's not going to hear your front. Okay, Leo. No sign of the enemy. We're signing out. We're covered by the red grass. We passed word shoot first. Good. That's an electric rifle. Enemy sighted. The chili got one. They're reached 200 yards. Let's move in. Get them everything. Yes, sir. Come on, Ted. Right by the end. I'm sure they're trying to crawl through this grass. A pit of pistol. Our only scroop is made contact. - Leo. - Yeah? Whoever reaches 100 yards, throw atomic grenade. Right. The Martians haven't returned any fire yet. They're probably waiting to get closer. And they'll fan the area with that sonic beam of the ass. The shed's lost at 100 yards. He's throwing the cookies any second. Plug your ears. Check. That should have cleaned them out. We've got to be careful. We can't go into sea. We don't have any anti-radiation gear. No sound from the Martians. Nothing. Leo. Leo, any report from you? Yeah, I think we got it. Absolutely no sound alive. Both south of few 100 yards, then east. Probe their positions. Right. Captain, I'm pretty sure it's all clear. Yeah, probably right. I just feel conservative right now. I'll be driving to verify the Martians are cleaned out. This hate to stinking grass. What a plant. Well, at least the moon is dead. Why would we set us right when we got to the moon? No, we had to go on to this for second. Listen. The Sonic beam. The Martians are attacking us. We had a group to the south. [screaming] For shattering a bomb. Take it easy. We can't help them just by the thirst. Don't you think I know that? What a tool us against a Martian patrol. Try to reach Leo. Leo. Leo. Come in, Leo. Oh, respond. Hi, John. We can open it. You're staying here. We've got to stay here and try to get out later. But Leo. Leo's my brother. My brother. [music playing] Well, here's your snack darling. I hope you like. Where's Billy? I thought he was in here with you. He went up. To play? I don't know. Oh, he has been so looking forward to having his daddy back. All the kids in the neighborhood are waiting to meet you. He's been boasting about you for a month. Ever since we got word that you were coming home. Yeah, I know. Michael, is something wrong? Did you and Billy have a corner? He's... He's a stranger to me, Mary. A stranger? You're almost gone. He was just a baby when I left. I can't get used to him. Oh, but you will. You can't help loving him. I can't get to know him until he stops this terrible business of reminding me all the time. Reminding me of what I want to forget. But he's proud of you, of what you've done. You know, I told him what it was really like up there. He ran out of here crying. Michael! Well, what do you want me to do? Throw up my chest and brag about being a hero. Pretend that a planet called Mars that's Satan himself with the aid of a few million devils must have created. Pretend that Mars is heaven. It's fighting a war so far away it takes months to get there as fun for the kiddies. Fine, but I'm sorry, Mary. Just leave me alone. Michael, this isn't like you. How do you know what I'm like after all these years? Hardly know myself at this moment. Five years away from people. Away even from the one world in the universe that contains human beings. But there were other men with you all the time, hundreds, thousands of them. What do you mean you were alone? You don't understand. Michael, Dally, I'm worried about you. A spaceship. Half a mile long. Eleven weeks in flight can find quarters. The same blank faces of men torn from their planet catapulted into infinity. A fleck of controlled cosmic dust. And being alone. And on Mars, the base dug underground. Living in plastic shells and barracks. Never being able to move except in patrols. All of us men in a nightmare. And being alone in our souls alone. Give me some coffee. All right, Mikey. Here you are. Thanks. Michael, you're home now. And you're not alone anymore. It's good coffee. Tomorrow, and tomorrow afternoon and evening that is. Yes? I'm giving a party for you. At first I was going to have a surprise for you, but I think you should know. I don't want a party. We've our families here and all your old friends. They want to see you, Michael. Everyone's so happy you're home. Call it off. I don't want to see them. They're smug hello. They're glad you're back, cheddar. They're all what's it like in another world? And how's Mars, old man question? They wouldn't understand the answers if I could somehow force myself to talk about it. But it won't be like that. They love you. They're happy that it's that. Well, that time though. Darling, you can't go on like this. Fighting the Martians and your memories. And fighting the human beings who love you. For your sake, Michael, I am not going to call off the party. Everyone is coming just as I planned. And you've got to meet them and see for yourself. You've got to understand for yourself that you're home again on Earth. And that you have a life to live once more. Do you mean that, Mary? I do, Michael. Darling, I do. Because I love you. Well, I'm really a stranger in this house. Not really the head of it. Still alone. A barracks filled with chint curtains. Of honor. All right, Mary. Have your party. Without the guest of honor. Michael! Michael! Michael! All right, could you get out of the house? Walk or walk forever. It's been shining, beautiful and peaceful. Trees, tall trees, green and yellow leaves. No red grass, no red grass, anywhere. The birds. The wonderful sounds they make. Five years, never saw, never heard a bird. The only creatures that ever made a sound up there were the Martian controllers, fat, greasy lizards that screamed like tortured souls. Look at those flowers. Blue, green, red orange, clean, white. Sweet glorious smell. Peaceful. So peaceful in which to be alone. The grass was short, soft, carpet-like blades. A carpet of green, cool and gentle. I'll just sit on the grass. Lie on the grass and rest. Rest and think. Think. Think. I remember when Ted and I got back to command post. The Martian sky was dark. Clouds a band never looked like these clouds. We hadn't spoken to each other for a long while. How we got away alive from the ambush I'll never know. And now we were coming to the base of the commander. Can I have the four report captain? Yes, commander? That's right, sir. The fourth successful ambush by the Martians in as many days. We're going to have to do something drastic to stop it. Air observation doesn't help. Endless miles of grass and sand. The Martians are small. Hide in this stuff. Take on its coloring like the millions. But the word for their sonic beam, those killing sound waves that could probably handle them. I know, I know. Can't the Earth Science Council work out a sensor? As they're trying to. But even if they do, we get it up here, we'll all be decimated. I'm thinking of an old weapon. Poison gas. That's an outlaw weapon, isn't it, commander? Our lord on Earth, yes. They're not fighting on Earth, captain. Sometimes I wish they'd never invented spaceships. Well, let's not worry about it now. You may need some writ. Report to the hospital barracks. Take five days there. Yes, sir. Oh, one more thing. Lieutenant. The 12 men of the patrol were lost. One was your brother, am I right? Yes, sir. I'm sorry. Thank you. Thank you. I get to the barracks and get some rest. We've got a lot to do in five days. That's all, gentlemen. Commander is sorry. Now, get to the barracks. Don't take it so hard. No, why shouldn't I? It isn't. Just because Leo was my brother. Because he was someone special. Up here on this rotten apple called Mars, we're... All people out of touch with the decent things of our world are located. Every man who lives here lives up here lives in his own vacuum. Can't believe what's happened to him. Finding himself in a place where things that are unreal to the human mind are everyday realities. But I had something. I had the one thing that made me a human being up here. I had...I had someone who loved me. Now whom I loved. And now he's dead. And I've got no one. I'm like everyone else up here now. I've got no one. Marry? Marry? Marry? Marry? Marry? Marry? Marry? Marry? Marry? Marry? Marry is in here. Where is she, Billy? She's crying. She went next door to the Navy. Why'd you make my Marry cry? You're not nice. I don't like you. I'm...I'm sorry, son. I guess I haven't been very nice at that. Come here, Billy. Son, I brought back a lot of bitterness from the other side of the universe. But a little while ago I thought back to what another man told me on Mars. And I realized something that I didn't understand at the time. I'll be all right from now on, Billy. You and I are going to be real friends. Real pals. Can we play solo? How would you like to play baseball or build model jet planes together? Or go on a hike in the woods? See, you'd better be swell if I liked that. You didn't care what you did with your dad just so you did something with him, huh? Mm-hmm. And all you could think of was soldier because that's what I did. Just proves how right Ted was. To be together and to love someone. That's what makes us human beings. Michael? Hello, Marry. Ted, you and I are going to play baseball and have a hike in everything. Oh, Michael. Michael. It's all right now, darling. It's all right. Your soldiers, come home. Next week another exciting and unusual story from the world of tomorrow. And the years beyond 2000, they do. Be sure to listen. 2000 plus is produced by dryer and when also productions incorporated. In today's cast, Bill Griffith portrayed Mike. Joan Shea was Mary, Alan Shea was Billy, Charles Smith was Ted, and Ron Clark was the commander. The orchestra was conducted by Emerson Buckley, a music composer by Elliot Jacoby. Sound, Walt Shaver and Adrienne Penner. Engineer Bob Albright, both of Ken Marvin speaking. This program came from New York. When it comes to renting out your property, the uncertainty of finding reliable tenants can feel like a real guessing game. Responsible renter or perpetual party animal. Enter renter's warehouse, the pros who turned the uncertainty of finding great tenants into peace of mind. Renter's warehouse offers top-notch leasing and tenant placement services, ensuring you get trustworthy renters without the hassles and headaches. With no upfront fees, Renter's warehouse works for you, not the other way around. 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