Cloak and Dagger Broadcasts

Mystery Theater - International Dateline

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Duration:: 1h 3m
Broadcast on:: 01 Jul 2024
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He says the agents may have been exaggerating the extent of the problem and he says he's setting up a new special office of investigations. This is Doug Polling, CBS News. You walk with your dog and you can be totally and uttering a lot. You can want to talk to yourself, you can talk to yourself. I like sports because to me sports is uncomfortably. I think what I do best is this sports and answer is just understanding what's going on. You have a sixth sense about where to go, what to ask when you're out at an interview. I guess I could call it a feel for sports. If I didn't think I was the best, then I shouldn't be in this business. Wayne does move back. He's what's dancing for. He wants never to lose people. I'm Harlan Falk, Chief Barker for the Variety Club of Nebraska at Kent No. 16. On April 28th, 29th and 30th, volunteers throughout the community will be asking people to give what they can to help local kids. It's a Variety Club annual tag day with all funds raised to support the programs of the University of Nebraska, Myer Children's Rehabilitation Institute, right here in Omaha. This tag day, won't you please give what you can, because kids right here need help right now. It's 907 time for the CBS Radio Mystery Theater. The CBS Radio Mystery Theater presents... Hey! Welcome. I'm E.G. Marshall. It stretches from the North Pole in the Arctic, passing a thousand miles west of the Hawaiian Islands, all the way to Antarctica and the South Pole. It girdles half the globe vertically, but it is horizontally that its magic exists. It is the 180th line of longitude called the International Date Line, and its magic is this. Cross it going west, and you lose a day out of your life. But pass it traveling eastward, and you gain that day an incredible gift of time. Just think about it for a little while. Mr. Catlett, which life are you living now? Come on, let's not hack around. I want to sleep. But not that long, last sleep. I have two to go before that. One? What? One life, Steve Catlett. You sacrificed the other. For the child you gave no chance to live. Our mystery drama International Date Line was written, especially for the Mystery Theater by Ian Martin, and stars Michael Tolan. It is sponsored in part by ARM, Allergy Relief Medicine, and Buick Motor Division. I'll be back shortly with Act 1. The electrodes all washed and loaded, and you're on your way. You figured 300 miles the first day, but with all of Electra's luxury and room, you're out 400 miles before you know it. Not only that, but the EPA mileage estimates are 22 highway, 15 city, and 18 combined. That's with the standard 5.7 liter engine and automatic transmission. Of course, your mileage will vary depending on how and where you drive, your car's condition, and how it's equipped. And EPA estimates are lower in California. But it's nice to know that a car with as much prestige and elegance as Electra can also be efficient. Buick Electra, a car that can actually make you look forward to a long trip. They sure really will have found you, needing something to see. A car that can't open the front, a car that can't be seen. A little tire, a little magic, a little tire. Electra models are equipped with GM-built engines supplied by various divisions. See your dealer for details. It happens somewhere, every day. A blazing house and a fireman nearly beside an overcome charm. Come on, kid. Live. When the eyes flutter open, when the breath finally comes, easy and regular, only then in the fireman relaxed. And maybe take a little pride and pleasure from this special gift he's been given. It's a learned gift with a big name, mouth-to-mouth resuscitation. And it can literally bring people back from death. He's gonna make it. Whenever you wonder where Red Cross money goes, think of this. Part of your money goes to train people in all walks of life to do what needs to be done when the chips are really down. Maybe you'll never need to be brought back to life with mouth-to-mouth resuscitation. Then again, maybe you will. Red Cross is coming on you to help. If you're young enough, I suppose a gift of one whole day, 24 hours is a small thing. If you're old enough, it is a thing beyond price. Even if you're just sort of middling, it is a donation from the gods that boggles the imagination to conceive what it might mean and how it might be used. This is how one man was able to use it. His name is Steve Catlett, but for many reasons, everyone knows him as Cat. This story begins 35 years ago in a world gone mad, where most people in the Western Hemisphere measured their life expectancy in days or hours as death rained from the sky. So what's the good word, Alfie? Not so good, Captain. The waste gunners took one bed in the chest off. The tail sections gone a little bloated with it. Bombay doors won't close. What about the landing gear? The jetties fixed dead, others all right. We'll never get it down. The bombs all gone away. Oh yes, we left our cold and clogged. We're going to make it down, but give it the old college try. She flies like lead. I got how to keep her trim. We'll be over the channel in a couple of minutes. Before we get there, you, Walter Guinness, Morton, whoever's left better hit the silk and end up a ruddy POW likely, not while it's still around. Let's either that or take a bath in the channel. I'll get you as near as old blide as I can. Whatever's to you. Hey, did you? I think I can answer for the rest of the chaps, Captain. Will you take out chances with you? I would give you odds. I won't. I don't call you cat for nothing, do they? I could be stretching my luck this time. I'll tell you what, Yank, since you boys took over the 8th force, we British types have been running a little pool, see? We think that you always luck out. You have as many lives as your name. You figure you're right now with six down and three to go. Second, it's the court incident. I left the federer. Now, figure it on factor and stripper. Roger, get all the weight over, boys, you can. I'm a man's ammunition to work. And do, and bring it in, cat. We're all riding on your luck. All my life I've been lucky with. Well, lucky enough to know that it doesn't hurt to give the little lady a helping hand as much as you can. Like when Professor Samuel's caught me cheating on the college boards. It didn't hurt to know that he'd been fooling around with Lenny Strong in a senior class. I would have gone on to college with a straight B average, too, but hadn't been for the draft. I lucked out there, too, because I happened to know old Horace Poole on the draft board was also running a betting pool on the side. During my senior year, I shaved points for him on the basketball games as playmaker, that was a cinch. So he steered me out of the infantry of Marines or any of the tough services and into the air force. I had it all figured to fly a desk for the duration, but that's one time I lucked the spirit of me. Kent, you have me on the 5th, do you read me? I read you. How are you doing? I've told everything on that board I can fool rules. Do you need any objects? Well, I was still losing altitude. I want you to get rid of this radio and bail out. Where are we? Over the channel. Captain, the crew wants a stick that you can try to make it a control rule. Not a chance. We're sinking like a stone. I want you all overboard while there's enough altitude to open your chutes. Stay low. That's an order. I don't want that you go with us. And leave an uncontrolled B-17 wandering around? My place is with the plane. Just be sure that your guts, not vicious. Keep on, learn out. We were wallowing unsteadily. I could almost feel each member of the crew as he jumped. But just as I'd hoped, that nearly thousand pounds of human cargo lightened the plane enough to give me a chance to make land. Just another case of getting Lady Luck a boost. I didn't envy the poor chumps I dumped. But my skin was more important than theirs. Now I could concentrate on getting it back in one piece. What is your tower? What is your tower? Emergency? Emergency one. This is little friend, Blue One. Do you read me? Do you read me? Over. Acknowledge. I'm feathering one engine. Tail section half gone. I am somewhere southeast of you. Altitude five thousand and sinking fast. Can you get a fix on me? Impossible to see anything. Heavy overcast below. Losing altitude fast. How about if I hold the button down on radio and leave it open to... Hey, hold it a minute. Cloud break. Yes, I'm over land. Holy Toledo, I'm right on top of you. Hold your hats and stand by. I remember the plane landing. An insuring sideways before I had time to cut the engines. I could feel her want a nose flip and was fighting desperately to keep my control. I remember slithering sideways, straight for the control tower. And resting her somehow out of the skin. And then she was slipping forward. There was a tremendous ripping crash. Excuse me, nurse. Yes? A flight Lieutenant Alfie Patterson. I've got a chit here for medics as I can say hello to my pilot. Captain Steve Catlett. How are you now, flight Lieutenant? Your buddy, Steve Catlett, isn't saying hello to anyone. What you mean? He had a pretty stiff crash landing about six weeks ago, bringing in a B-17. He's been in a coma ever since. Yes, I know. I was his co-pilot. If he hadn't made me in the rest bailout, we'd be lying where he is now. Could I say a word to him? You can try, Lieutenant. Excuse me, less, Lieutenant. And I hope you can reach him. For a long time, I seem to be circling around a deep, deep bowl that disappeared into complete darkness in the center of the earth. Round and down, I went in a spiral in the dark until there was no light. And no feeling. No smell, no taste, just nothingness. Except for the voice. You ready to come to me, Steve Catlett? No. Why not? Because I haven't lived out my life yet. Which life? My time here. You really believe that superstition of yours, Mr. Cat? Why shouldn't I? Everyone else believes it. Do they? Yes. So much to you by now. Why? You've come for me before. When I had the Scarlet Fever. Yes, I could have welcomed you then. When a girl tried to kick my head off when I was six and she swung too high on the swing and the bolt fractured my skull. Yes, I was ready to welcome you then. When the boy fired the air rifle at me and just missed my eye. I should have insisted then that was before. Before what? Before you changed. Before you began to stretch your luck. Before you finally committed yourself to my care. No. No, you don't own me. Not yet. You prefer to think so. Very well. Now that you run, you're at least shouldn't longer. If the conceit praises you, you have two lives left to your name. Mr. Cat, guard them gently. If you were to stay away from me. And now there was a soft, light luminous behind the blackness. On the cushion of the air I was being carried slowly upwards. In the beginnings of all my senses except sight and voice were returning. I was conscious of voices talking about me far away. He's quite a guy, isn't he? Sorted the earth. They don't come any better. I know I won't see his like again. - Oh, don't say that. - Why not? Well, it sounds like an epic cat. Oh, Lord knows I didn't mean it that way. The last thing I'd want to see old Cat do is cash in his chips. Anyway, as me and the boys figured it ain't time yet. He still has two lives to go. What does that mean? Steve Catford, he's like a cat, you know? Oh, as many as he's to land on his feet. You know how the suit pallets keep us core of all the jetties they've shot down? Yes. Well, with Cat here, counting char tod accidents and all the rest through the blitz. We made a joke that up to this last one, he's used up six lives. Oh, this one here would be the seventh. So you see, there's two to go. You think you'll come out of it? Oh, I do. It ain't his number yet. Why? You and the Docs think he won't? Oh, I can't answer for the doctors, only for myself. I don't think. I know he will. Oh, wow. Because I want it so much. Because I've prayed for it so much. Ridiculous, isn't it? A man I've never really talked to. A man I don't even know. No, that isn't true. I've bathed him. I've shaved him. I've trimmed his hair. Held him in my arms. There's something between us. A bomb that can never be broken. Not from my side, anyway. And I hope someday from his. He'd be a fool if he didn't grab it like a lifetime. Any man would be lucky to have a woman like you, lieutenant. What do you mean? At least they're right. Oh, my up front, Monica's heir friends, er, erphy for short. I'm pleased to know you, Lisa. Thank you, Alfie. Hey, hey. It's him, the cat. He moved. Look, he's trying to open his arm. He's coming around. Is it anything I can do? Yes, yes. Get to the nurse's station and tell him to alert Dr. Stewart and get him here fast. Roger. Oh, yes. Get the doctor. Yes, sir. Oh, what? Oh, yes. Yes, darling, it's all right. Yeah. It's going to be all right. Come alive again. Suddenly the darkness was being stripped away, male by male. The dark smoke lifting and the beginnings of light seeping in behind my closed eyelids. Don't tell me that. Don't be afraid. It's all right. It's all right. Your home face. At last, I had the courage to open my eyes. And her face swam into you, a... Oh, you're something to wake up to. Well, where the devil have I been? Oh, that doesn't matter. Just glad to see you back. Oh, who are you? Lieutenant Wright, your nurse. Oh, too right. Oh, very right. I'm... Captain Steve Catlett, U-S-A-S. Yeah, that's my name. Am I back in the land of a living or is this heaven? You're back. Either way you figured it. Well, I could settle for you, David. You were on. You got a first name, Lieutenant Wright? Yes. Lisa. Mine's Cat. Short for Lucky. Looks like I haven't broken my streak. You brought your plane home safe? And some of the crew? I wasn't thinking of that. I was thinking about you. Somewhere along the line, I thought it was the end. And now it looks like a great new beginning. The luck still holds. Of course, the essential thing about luck is that it's a one-way street. A pleasant and rewarding ride for the Lucky, but there has to be the other side of it. The unlucky who come to the street from the wrong side and are never allowed to traverse it. What's ahead for Cat and Lisa? I'll tell you when I return shortly with Act 2. Life is for living, and Lisa is there. Tokyo Paris, Yugoslavia, the coast of Monaco, Copenhagen, Barcelona. Mexico. Oh, that's a city, but the crew won't see nothing. Got none, Lisa? No, Lisa? No, Lisa? Don't feel like you were saying it's always happening. Nicaragua. Hong Kong, Jamaica. Oh, Chicago. Granada. Oh, San Juan. Chicago. Chicago. Milano. Jamaica. Toronto. Toronto. Sao. Sao. Los. New Jersey. Florida. Mexico. Virginia. Mexico. Florida. Mexico. Florida. Mexico. Mexico. Virginia. Florida. Luxembourg. Florida. Florida. Florida. At home and abroad, Lisa is the most widely recognized cardinal world. Lisa, we're keeping up with you. If you're in business, I'd like a moment of your time. Being in business, you know how competitive your industry is. You know that to keep your share of the marketplace, and to build and grow on that base, you must not let down, not for a moment. In the area of getting your message before the public, you know a wise advertising investment can help your efforts. The new K-tripleau stations, AM and FM, now broadcast the features and programs that are reaching the people you want to reach. 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He was an Italy busy, hanky, panky with Elizabeth Barrett. I'm here now, and this is my month. What's the name of this little slice of paradise? Upper Whittlecomb on Tatsby. Yeah, is there a lower Whittlecomb? I suppose, but that's with a hoip and eye. Oh, certainly. What we have here is much too good for the lower classes, with one exception. Oh, what's that? When do we make it absolutely perfect? What does that mean? Oh, you know, Lisa. When you move in with me? I may be sharing my furlough with your sick leave, just to make sure you take care of yourself. But, as a nurse. A nice companion. Well, of course. When we dreamed up this little excursion, I, uh, I felt of you more as a companion. I hope I am. I try to be. Well, the days are not so bad, but the, uh, the nights are lonely. I'm right in the next room, as you're back in college. Oh, no, not quite. One at the same room. Two can live as cheap as one. Maybe the important word there is cheap. I know all supposed to be fair and love and war, but it doesn't work that way for me. I am the original old-fashioned girl. You ever get me, it's going to be for good. I don't know how anyone so luscious can be so forbidding. I thought you loved me. I do love you. And all my heart, soul. But unless you love me back as deeply and as strongly, you won't want to give yourself to me as completely as I would to you. And you shouldn't, unless you're sure. Once we're committed, I'll never let you call. And that's what I'm supposed to be scared of? Mm-hmm, that's right. A fate worse than death. Oh, dear Lord. I hope it would never seem to be. It won't. They come oddly, so laugh. It's a pretty bright occasion. I'm, uh, I'm proposing. And for once, it's legal, moral, and binding. We'll be married as soon as the law allows. Dad. My darling. But in the meantime. Oh, there doesn't have to be any meantime. I've already spoken with the thicker. He's been waiting for my call for the last two days. 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The same old answer. How are you going to like being a father? Well, I made all the right noises. I hope Lisa didn't guess. But, I mean, this wasn't my bag at all. I was really locked in now. The anchor stuck fast. And as the war started to open up and horizons got brighter, I began to search around in my mind for the easiest way out from under. And that's when I met Stan Nukem. Hey, this is really a jumping joint. Man, you've got to know it. Hey, listen, boy. I got a couple of supergales. Light up. You want to cut out. You're talking to a married man. What do you figure before? But I ain't seen the old woman in two years. You know how it is. Oh, my wife is pregnant. It's kind of near her time. I ought to be around. Why don't you give her a buzz and tell her things came up? What things? Well, like this. Like this. Now, you happen in your spot? What spot? I mean in the armed forces. Now you bring it up? No. The way things are going, the heat is on to get all this pilots back up in the air again. And me, I've had that. Well, how do you like to jump with me to the Pacific? This war here is not enough for me. I don't know. I want to get tangled with the Japanese. Oh, oh, oh. This is no combat, friend. This is easy bucket. M-A-T-S. Military Air Transport Service. What's the proof? Well, you've faced a Manila at Clark Field. You fly out transport from Manila to Guam. Or Lulu. Maybe the States. A milk run. This way I can think of to run out for us and get separated. Hey, I like what you're saying, sir. Can you help me get posted there? Could be. We can talk about it later. But how about the girls? I got on the line. How about them? Hello? Are you there? It's cat, honey. How are you? I'm fine. Cooking up a storm for you. Honey, I'm going to bomb out on you. Oh, no. Why? I can't tell you on the phone. New orders being cut. Oh, well, will you be home? Don't count on me tonight. But I'm due back on duty tomorrow morning. Ah, well, operation follow-up. It's a service. OK. Oh, there's a war on. We take it as it comes. The only thing is... Oh, hon, hon, forgive me, but I've got to cut out now. Oh, sure. OK, maybe it was just the wrong time. Could I know that? I mean, she wasn't due for a month. How could I know Lisa would go into labor that particular night? Or that the baby would be born dead? It was a boy. If only... Darling, who are you? The army says, "Jump, what are you going to do?" What turned up so suddenly that was so important? Well, we can talk about that when you're feeling better. There's only one thing that can make me feel better, Cat. What? I want to get out of here and go home. So we can start another one to take his place. That really tore it for me. The last thing I ever wanted in my life was to be tied down. A wife was bad enough, but a kid... I figured I had a lucky escape. And now Lisa wanted to pin me down again. Well, it was time to get out from under. I went hunting Stan Nukem. And by the time Lisa came home from hospital, I was all set. Oh, wait a minute. He's there for what? He's done your tour. Couldn't you have ducked out? Tell it to the brass. They didn't think so. What am I going to do without you? It isn't forever, Lisa. Well, maybe I can get transferred to the Pacific. Look, why don't we just sweat it out? The war's got to end sometime. Meantime, my orders are cut, and I have to pull out. Is that what you really want, Cat? Oh, why would I want that? Well, you better not. I warned you. You bought me for the duration. And that doesn't mean the war. It means all the way. I'll be waiting, Cat. However long it is, I'll be waiting. Okay, Lisa, so you'd be waiting. But I'm not ready to be tied down. You crap my style. I should have the guts to tell you straight out, but... somehow I'm not built that way. Oh, two hours out of Hawaii and we just crossed the International Dateline, Cat. How does it feel to jump straight from today right into tomorrow? Great stand. Just my speed. I left all my worries behind me. Oh, I'm so relaxed that I got the sack. Yeah, meant, buddy. See? In the film, man. Man, this is the life. But which life, Steve? Do you know? You again. What do you want? Just the answer to a simple question. Which life are you living now, Mr. Cat? Oh, come on, let's not hack around. I want to sleep. But not that long, last sleep. I have two to go before that. What? What? One, Steve, Cat, you sacrificed the other for the child. You gave no chance to live. But that wasn't my fault. If you had been there, you could have brought Lisa to the hospital in time. How do you know? It's my business to know such things and to teach you to believe them. Who are you? Who are you? The answer to that question lies in your heart. Huh? Uh, did you say something, Carol? Uh, no, no, I... I just had a bad dream, that's all. A bad dream? Possibly. A man with his few ethics as Steve Catlett could well be found to them. But what is the voice that speaks to him? His better self. Conscious, remorse. Does it come from beyond him or from his inner soul? And can it help him spend his last life in a better fashion than his others? I should return shortly with Act 3. We're going to stick our neck out and tell you something. It's hard to make the arrow, arrow shirt. And the reason is so simple. America's shirt maker is arrow shirt. America's shirt maker has done it again with what is probably the best shirt collar ever made. Arrow's patented custom collar and only arrows got it. It's a whole inch brighter at the bottom than the top, just like your neck is. It's adjustable by a full half inch and it's got a special notch so the neck band doesn't show over your top. America's shirt maker is arrow shirt. See where we're sticking our neck out. Stick your neck into an arrow custom collar. America's shirt maker is arrow shirt maker. 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In the public service of this station, the U.S. offices of education and the advertising council. Whatever voices or doubts or shadows haunt Steve Catlett's dreams, they failed to cramp his style once he reached Manila. Manila was a town in a mad world of euphoria. MacArthur's return, the ousting of the Japanese, the return of freedom to the island, set the town on fire, and these beautiful people gave themselves wholeheartedly to their deliverables. Oh man, this is one jumping town. If you can say it against that. And the women. You know something funny? I just thought of it. You know when we are sitting right now there, standing upside down? Who's standing upside down? So what's so funny about that? Come on, don't you get it? How could they know what we're doing if they're looking the wrong way? I sure hope you're right. Oh, yes, I am. The thing to do, boys, stay out of an open, safety and numbers. For a couple of months, it was a great life. The girls were plentiful and the rum cost about 30 cents a fifth. Flight duty was a breeze. We climbed the altitude, set her on automatic, and take turns, sleeping off the high living. Oh yes, we had it made all right. That is until I met Porita. Have, uh, have another drink, baby? No. Thank you. Captain, calculate. And the name is not baby. Oh, sorry. I don't believe I caught it when we were introduced. I am Porita Illusorio. Miss Illusorio. Oh, well, that's a relief. Is it? From what I know of your reputation? Would it make so much difference if I weren't married? Well, of course. Aren't you? Me? Uh-huh. Free, white, and encumbered. Then don't let me cramp your style. Look, why don't we take a walk outside and find out what you meant by that remark? I could use some air, but that doesn't mean my explanation will bring you much pleasure. I'll, uh, take my chances. Porita, or Porita, which was a nickname, was a knockout. She glowed with some inner fire. Her skin was light burnished copper. Her eyes brown liquid, shot with flecks of gold, and she moved as sleekly and gracefully as a cat. Uh, one thing she had in common with Lisa, she was untouchable unless... So, I, uh, I mumbled the right words and made the promises, pleading belay only until I could get the permission of my commanding officer to marry. Which, of course, I never intended to do. But the deception worked. And Porita and I took up housekeeping without benefit of clergy in her apartment in her meter, downtown Manila. This run is gettin' to be dozewill. That's about a few minutes of light chit-channy. Oh, what's he talkin' about? Well, like, for example, there's a new day in town. White Russia, but, ooh, has she got a sister? Hey, come on, Stan, you know, I don't make that kind of scene anymore. Too occupied with Porita. Huh? Oh, yeah, if you have to know. That's pretty cozy little setup you have there, pal. Just the word of the wise. I think twice about gettin' too cozy with a little illusario dame. She comes to acquire a Filipino family with a lot of clouds. You ask 'em to trouble. Did I ask you for any advice? Now button up and let me get some sleep. Ladies and dreams. Oh, it's a bad habit. I don't dream. But that statement was to come back to haunt me. Because a few weeks later, on a long haul to Honolulu, I was rocked to discover my wife was not as far away as I thought she was. Even before I landed, ground control had told me that Lisa was in the islands and waiting for me at the Kamalama Hotel. Darling, darling, darling, we're back together again. It's greatly so super, but how the world-- I just couldn't be away from you any longer, so I came running. But how did you manage to wangle her? Hey, you're in cities. You mean that-- Darling, the world's almost at an end. My enlistment was up. I grabbed it the chance to get out. But your career-- Career? Oh, you think I wanted to be a nurse? That was my conscience working. Now I'm concentrating on something ne'er at all. Us. I don't quite follow. As soon as I can get clearance, I'm coming to Manila so we can start being man and wife again. That really jolted me. I was going to have to do something about pouring and fast. All the way back on a return to Manila, I was-- It is Ryan Seacrest here. There was a recent social media trend which consisted of flying on a plane with no music, no movies, no entertainment. But a better trend would be going to Chumbakocino.com. It's like having a mini social casino in your pocket. Chumbakocino has over 100 online casino style games all absolutely free. It's the most fun you can have online and on a plane. So grab your free welcome bonus now at Chumbakocino.com. Sponsored by Chumbakocino. No purchase necessary. VGW Group. Void we're prohibited by law. 18+ terms and conditions apply. Trying to figure it out. No. No, no, no. Wait a minute. Hey, hey, hey, hey, hey. Can't work up. Man, wake up. I thought you didn't dream. Hey, what happened? You were talking in your sleep. What do I say? Hey, nothing. Your could stand. Don't know. So your wife is moving back in on you. And you had yourself set up so pretty on each side of the international deadline. It's the two words. Looks like now you're going to have settled for one. Yeah. But which? That shouldn't be too hard. Two readers from another culture, another background. In any way, she can't support you in the same kind of style as a Lisa, right? What does that mean? Don't you know who Lisa is? A family of me? There's been a war on, remember? I never had a chance to meet them. Lisa never said much about them. I guess you figured she didn't have to. Not about George Luellen. Right. You ever heard of me? I know her father's name is George, isn't it? Hey. Wait a minute. You mean the steel man? White tools? The aircraft factories? Yes, father. A billionaire at least once. Okay, kid. Now can you make up your mind which way are you going to jump? There wasn't any doubt which way. But how? And then my old luck came back. They dropped the bomb. Japan surrendered aboard the USS Missouri and suddenly discharges what a dime a dozen. It was easy to persuade Lisa to forget Manila since I'd be home. The only problem was pouring, who kept making more and more noises of our marriage. Still, it looked as if I might get away with it. Till one evening at dinner time, I was scheduled on a run that night at midnight when she dropped our own private bomb. Hi, protein honey. Oh, glad you got home. I just got ordered to pull out again tonight. You are not going anywhere tonight. Hey, thank you, baby. These are orders in the army. You got obey orders. Yeah. Sheet. You. You poisoned tongue. What's gotten into you? You have taken me, shamed me and used me. And I was full enough to listen to your promises. Puring. Puring. I love you. Soon we will marry. As soon as a commanding officer gives permission. That's Air Force regulation. You've got to wait for that. Could he give you permission when you know? He knows that you are already married. You have a wife. You cannot marry me. You liar. You. If I can't have you, no one can. I kill myself for how you have shamed me. But first. First. I kill you. Puring. Puring. I kill you. I kill you. You nothing. I'll take that knife. I'll take that knife. I'll not watch it. Give it to me. No. No. No. Let's get rid of it. Then. I kill you with my hands. I have a heart. I have no heart anymore. You will not leave. I will scream the town down before you do. You're crazy. Because you make me so. Oh, six. Be quiet. I'll never be quiet. Not as long as I'm dead. Oh, oh, oh, oh. Pury. Puryn, I didn't mean to. Pury. Oh, no. She's death. It happened so fast. I couldn't believe it. She was so little. Her neck. It had just snapped under my hands. At first I was paralyzed. It took three or four drinks before my mind started to move. And then I knew what I had to do. A raptor and a blanket. Waited for dusk. Carried it to my jeep. On the way to the field I sidetracked to a deserted bridge and dropped her in the passig river. The tide was going on. With any luck she'd be carried out to Manila Bay in the China Sea. And I said it for what I'd made up my mind would be my last flight out of Manila. I can't. What's the matter with you? You're jumpers, you're named. I don't feel so hot. Maybe I'm coming down with something. You will. Maybe you better let me take the first leg to Guam. You sleep at all. I wouldn't have believed it. I did sleep. Like I'd been knocked out. Then at Guam stand conked out while I took over. And now wide awake, the horror of it was back with me. What to do? What to do? If only. If only I could go back. If only today had never been. And then suddenly gazing blankly at the instrument board in a sort of blinding flash I saw we were just about to cross the International Bay Line. If only I could date. If only there really was a gift of time that would... What? What would you do with a cat? See you again. It's me always. What would you do with the day? A cat. I wouldn't kill her. I'd find some other way. And what would you give? If you have the chance. Anything. Anything. Then go see if you can find the way. There was a blinding flash of light. And then darkness. And then morning. And waking up and repeating the day as if in a dream. I saw Pauline off to work. We said the same words. I reported to the base. Got my orders to fly out at 2400 that night. I saw the same people. I ate the same food. And at last it was evening and I was waiting for Pauline to come home. Hi Pauline honey. I'm glad you got home. I don't believe it. What do you mean? I just came from your commanding officer. I know the truth God. I know you are married. I was going to tell you. Were you? Well it doesn't matter. What are you going to do about it? What are you afraid of? That I would tell your wife ruin her life. Did you have mine? I'm begging you Puring. It would kill me sir. You have nothing to worry about. I don't want her blood on my hands. I leave it to yours. You will go back to her. Yes. She would be better off without you. But that is her business. I was a fool to give myself to you. You are not worth it. I come of an old and proud race. And I had no right to pollute my bloodlines. Now get out of my sight. What? What are you going to do? That is none of your business. So don't worry. I will never trouble you again. You mean I'm free? And now once again I'm sitting at the controls of the plane. Crossing the international date line. And listening to the voice. So we are back where we were? Yes. But I fixed it. It seemed to me the girl fixed it. What's the difference? She's gone. I'm free. You are free from her but not from me. I'm grounding you for good Mr. Pallard. It's last. But you can't? I am. I still have one life left. Oh you did have one life left. But when you went back you made an exchange or rather took someone else's debt. Porin? Porin. But I didn't kill her. No she killed herself. Jumped from a bridge over the plastic river to float out on the tide to Manila Bay and the China Sea. But that wasn't my fault. Of course it was your fault. Come along. Don't waste any time anymore. But Lisa, Lisa needs me. A girl who just died and said that. Your wife is a million times better off without someone like you. No. No you can't. You can't have it your way. For once and for all. So cross the international baseline and move into tomorrow's act. Too bad isn't it? That's the end. There aren't anymore tomorrow for you. Anymore. It was a small squared in the papers. A maths plane bound for Hawaii was lost in the vicinity of the international date line. 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