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I have received word of a strange invention.
What it can do will amaze science and strike terror to the world.
2,000 plus.
Science fiction adventures from the world of tomorrow, the year is beyond 2,080.
2,000 plus presents the insect.
Oh it's wonderful, no darling, it means I'll probably get that research report from
the university.
No, I can hardly believe it, Joe.
Oh, here's the telegraph of the dinosaurs itself.
I'll take a check plate in about two hours and be there in play of time for my meeting
this afternoon.
I know.
I get a bomb of champagne and go celebrate a dinner tonight.
Well, that's nice, but I'm not sure I'll be home for dinner.
Oh.
Maybe I'll have to stay overnight, take the plane back in the morning.
Well, then we'll have champagne for breakfast.
Well, it's not too much.
Hey, hey, I've got to gather my papers and things while I'm going to get to the airport
in time.
You'd better help me.
Then we'll have a turn.
Oh, no, love.
The life of a budding scientific genius shouldn't act like that.
But really, I'm frightened and I go and do not sense that I'm hurt you.
No, I can't stand anything.
That's why I say out of your life, I've got to have help with these papers.
What do you want me to do?
Cancel the meeting because my wife is afraid of the work I do.
Oh, I'm sorry.
Darling, just.
All right.
All right.
I'm trying to do it myself.
Don't be old, George.
If they were ordinary insects, try to wonder maybe it was a distance.
Even with what I've done to them, they're not so big.
So I've taken a spider, a house fire, and a wasp, and by means of my growth, the way I've
made them larger.
The spider still isn't any bigger than my fist.
The house fire is about as large as the pack of cigarettes.
They ask no bigger than a golf ball, they're not giants, but they look too far over there.
Even that big.
Easier to observe and study.
That's why the university is interested in my work.
With a long term appointment and a grant to amplify the growth rate, maybe I can really
increase the size of the insect.
Imagine a fly as big as a horse.
That would be some horse fly.
Hey, that's a joke.
All right, George.
I'll help you.
It's only the papers we're packing.
You won't have to go near the insect cage, George.
Now we're handing those up poison insects.
I'll have them there.
Oh, it did?
Right.
Do you have any poison poison you don't know?
Only Sam, the spider.
He's a real glass cage by those buttons.
Maybe if you'd look, you wouldn't have such ridiculous ideas.
Sam is a nice guy.
He just squats and spares.
Looks like a wise old man.
I'm sorry, I'm looking at you.
Oh, those legs.
Here he's a wolf.
OK, OK.
Now the notebook, please.
Hey, hey, hey, hey, be careful.
Fine.
So what's the name?
That machine is very delicate.
You almost touched it.
Oh, the girlfriend?
Uh-huh.
I don't want that running while I'm done.
So, you know, I can't wait to get out of here.
Oh, let's see now.
We've got everything.
Hmm, yep.
Well, that doesn't.
Come on.
After you remove me, Ketter, spitting you here.
You know, I hope only get to the university.
If I get the appointment, you'll keep your disgusted insects to yourself.
A wife is supposed to build her husband's work.
Faculty wise, do that all the time.
Don't, don't, don't do this.
I just can't help the way I do it.
Sam should really be fed while I'm gone.
Stop!
I'm not going in there.
Oh, no.
What about people?
How's fly?
He's not for me.
He feeds your insects when you get home.
Now hurry up.
There's nothing late.
Sure.
Good morning.
Goodbye.
Oh, you're a guy.
I don't want you to leave him.
You're annoyed like that.
I'm sorry, darling.
I really love you.
But I love my insects, too.
Just a minute.
Coming.
Hello, Mr. Martin.
Here's the groceries you want.
A little girl.
Right in here, okay.
On the table, huh?
Please.
Oh, I wish the oranges were better this time than they were last.
Oh, Mr. Ginkgoheim was said to tell you that these oranges are swell.
Well, I'll know when I squeeze them for breakfast.
Oh, thank you, Bill.
Oh, is Mr. Martin home?
Mr. Martin?
No, he isn't, Bill.
Why?
Well, he was going to show me his bugs.
You don't want to look at them.
But you're dreadful.
I find them very interesting.
Mr. Martin said he picked me into his lab today.
That's why I delivered your order first.
I was anxious to see them.
Oh, Mr. Martin had called a great family.
He got a pair of them and had to leave all of them at once.
But you'll be home tomorrow.
See, this tomorrow I've got to work at the other store,
the one on North Street.
Well, in a few days, then.
This bugs will still be here, Bill.
Mrs. Martin, would it be too much trouble
if you let me peek at them?
I never go into Mr. Martin's lab at all.
I won't hurt me, then.
Just peek.
I was kind of looking forward to seeing them.
I feel that laboratory.
You wait till Mr. Martin gets home.
Sure, Mrs. Martin.
Do you say so?
No, no.
It looks so dumb.
What you then see in those revolving creatures,
I'll never know.
They're scary.
They're so big.
I feel funny when I look at them.
And Mr. Martin explains about science and stuff.
And it's really interesting.
Would you have to be a scientist, Bill?
I sure would.
Well, I suppose I often encourage us.
I don't think we're in, but you can teach.
You know where the door is.
Oh, thanks, Mrs. Martin.
Thanks very much.
But don't talk to anything.
I will.
I better put these groceries away.
Mrs. Martin, help!
Help!
Help!
Bill!
Help!
Help!
Oh!
Oh no.
No!
I...
I saw it before.
Was it either the last time?
I don't know.
This looks too high.
What is it?
It's not the eyes.
It's not the front.
What do you think?
Winged.
It's got wings.
It's a fly-ass.
So is...
You guys...
Get out of here.
We must get out of here.
Yeah.
Walk backwards.
Keep your eyes off it.
It looks like...
Like a moth.
Like a giant moth.
Watch it.
It's a fly-ass.
Open it!
It wants us to go open it.
Quick, open it!
I can't...
It's a key.
It's in the old room.
We can't get out of here!
We can't get out of here.
It's a flying moth.
It isn't going down.
It's sitting there, fanting its wings.
It's so small.
It's so small.
I don't know.
Let's move into the corner.
By that chair.
We can crouch down and find it.
Now...
You'll just sit here.
Watch it.
Now, Mr. Martin, I'm very interested in your growth way.
As seen in science, I want to be certain
that this university encourages billion young scholars
who are experimenting in new fields of research.
I understand.
At the same time, I must be satisfied
that the research will be of fundamental value.
Yes, sir.
Now, who suppose you thought for a while?
Tell me about your work.
Well, I have always been interested
in the effective environment on organisms.
I narrow the environmental practice
to universal conditions applicable to all organisms.
For example, sir, air, temperature, humidity, light, and so forth.
And then I approach each of these conditions
from the point of view of its specific effects on organisms.
I discovered that the presence or absence of light
gave me the widest variance of reaction,
or, excuse me, in what way the widest variance,
when the effect on physical growth changed adaptation.
You see, sir, because light is a general term,
I broke its definition down into all known rays,
infrared, ultraviolet, so forth,
and studied reactions of organisms
to those rays in every conceivable combination.
Now, at two years, I evolved the theory
that a certain rays could be combined electronically
and concentrated on living organisms
or, specified periods of time,
their growth would be greatly stimulated.
And you have constructed such a machine?
Yes, I have.
The electro-dynamic spectrum, the growth ray machine.
What have you accomplished with it, sir, for?
I've multiplied the growth of certain insects many times.
My first machine is small and homemade,
and its power is not too great.
But so far, I've increased the size of a fly
to that of a pack of cigarettes.
The size of a spider to that of my fist.
What kind of spider transfer?
It's a very dangerous and poisonous insect to work with,
while being a tropical spider,
it might be more receptive to light.
Its size has crippled.
Tell me, Mr. Martin, what is the optimum increase in size
to you so far, Tim?
About eight times with the fly.
The size increase varies with the insects.
There's a lot of research you have to put down here.
It's too late to see.
You'll work certainly exactly the imagination.
Think of your having the kind of equipment
that would burn at a 20, 50, hundred,
or even a thousand-fold increase in an insect size.
Imagine an insect large enough to attack
and devour a human being.
Imagine this university needing lion cages
to contain its giant insects.
Well, there's no limit to what new things
we could learn about all manner of organisms
with a growth rate.
Not just insects.
That's right.
Mr. Martin, I'd like you to stay on another few hours
so that we can talk some more.
I'd be very happy if you'd like it on your way
that you'll be a bit late.
Thank you, sir.
You can use the phone in the other office.
Mr. Martin, yes.
When she asks you how everything's going,
you tell her that it's going just fine.
From the source of the environment...
... I can do a sitting there looking at her.
You're the thing I ever see.
Sixty-hi.
It was giant wings.
How does it get here, Mrs. Martin?
Does it cost me the growth rate must have been marked?
It gives off a slight glow, the mouth must have seen it, flowing toward it.
It must have seen us.
For the eyes, they just did our plates.
Maybe it's whirly.
Then it would come toward us.
It would cut its shells.
Then it just don't feel...
Don't say that.
Don't stop, Lord.
This chair must take place with God to get out of here.
The door is locked, but isn't there some other way out?
Only the window.
Behind the mouth.
Yes, the window locked.
I can't see the shade is drawn.
Yes.
Yes, the window is locked.
The gosh, it's only slightly out of corner of the room.
Then what would you do?
It's like the front of the window.
Pull up the shade and lock the window.
Get out and get out.
Just feed me along it.
Don't lock me along.
Just create your own room.
What are we doing?
I don't know.
Where will Mr. Martin come home?
It's afternoon.
Tonight.
Maybe not until tomorrow.
Listen.
The phone.
Maybe that's Mr. Martin calling.
Yes.
But you don't answer.
Maybe you'll come home.
No.
No real thing.
I'm not shopping or visiting.
This is my...
What?
The moment?
Stop moving between.
It's nothing like that.
It's gone.
I better hear it with the telephone.
It's here next door.
What?
What?
What is it?
What?
Do you want to call me home?
I don't need room.
I don't think it's happening.
Why doesn't it call the neighbors of the police?
Why don't you come home?
Mr. Martin.
I think it's going to fly.
Oh, we don't.
I don't know.
It will kill us.
If it goes with the phone, it will kill us.
When it flies, crush down these.
Get as much petition from the chair as possible.
And scream.
Yeah.
Anything to make noise.
Okay.
Okay, Mr. Martin.
Oh, there's a way in.
Yes.
There is.
Maybe.
There is one fly.
It will fly.
It will fly.
The phone is stopped ringing.
Yes, there is.
One.
It will be quiet.
It will be quiet.
It will be quiet.
It will be quiet.
It will be quiet.
It will be quiet.
It will be quiet.
It will be quiet.
It will be quiet.
It will be quiet.
It will be quiet.
It will be quiet.
Like a nightmare being...
George, telling you why he did this in sex.
Get the real laboratory in our home.
Oh, the place of the room was filled.
Why am I here?
Why did he tap in the trash bin here?
was it because I refused to help him with his face?
Oh, I'm so pretty!
I don't see the mold.
It's bodies like a worm,
a never-scent,
a rippling,
a gray,
a gray,
a black,
a black,
a black,
a black,
a black,
a black,
a black,
a black,
a black,
a black,
a black,
a black,
a black,
a black,
a black,
a black,
a black,
a black,
a black,
a black,
a black,
a black,
a black,
a black,
a black,
a black,
a black,
a black,
a black,
a black,
a black,
a black,
a black,
a black,
You're the guy's age.
The guy's age, the guy's age, the guy's age.
The guy's age, the guy's age, the guy's age.
Yes, he's got the form.
But the nerve, by the sofa,
the giant's mouth is hitting on the bookshelf.
And then the fur.
He's like a...
I've been...
...borrowless, yes.
The fighter's...
...the terror has killed us.
Well, Mr. Martin, I'm delighted to see you.
The dean told us that you were coming over.
I think I am the last member of the Peitelary Committee
I want you to see.
Oh, sit down.
Oh, thank you, Professor Batley.
Yes, I haven't been going all I've known for one appointment in the other.
And we're all living so happy to talk with you.
The dean is quite excited about it.
It's about to start, you know.
Yes, I'm very pleased about that.
Professor Batley, I hope you won't take me into the room.
Thank you, Professor Batley.
Yes, I haven't been going all I've known for one appointment.
Professor Batley, I hope you won't take me into the room at the beginning of our meeting.
But I wonder if I might use your phone.
Of course, Mr. Martin, is something wrong?
No, I don't think so.
But I've found my wife several times until I was staying on all afternoon.
And there's been no answer.
I'm sure there's nothing wrong, baby.
What means call the phone is right there.
Thank you.
No, please.
I like you 84572.
And reverse the charges, please.
Thank you.
It doesn't seem to be any answer.
Oh, well, that is way in a few more times.
Professor, there is no answer.
Can I keep trying?
Yes, stop right up.
Please keep trying.
I'll call you, sir.
Thank you.
I can't understand it.
It's not like that it'd be away so long.
There's no answer, sir.
Mrs. Martin, here.
Here, there.
Saw the spider last week.
I think it's Mr. Martin's sister.
I don't think it's a glass cage.
I could see the hair on its legs.
What is it?
Mr. Martin showed me its mouth.
Where it bites.
And it's with the poison.
Stop it, Bill.
Stop.
Don't have a knife.
I'm sorry.
Martin.
I can't stop looking at them.
They don't bite with one knife.
That's why they're on the floor.
The whole room is flooded with sunlight since the shade went up.
What even is going to be behind this chair?
It doesn't give us the protection.
Why?
The mark is too big to get out of here.
What's this spider?
It can't screw on the butt under the chair.
I'll take off my shoes.
Something to hear with it.
It's honest.
There.
Now you take one of them.
Look.
It's waiting for the room.
It's going to fly again.
But that's not funny.
It might scare the spider.
It's amazing, too.
I don't know.
Very good.
They're on the right side.
The spider.
They're on the other side.
The spider.
Look at him.
No, no, no.
They were on the intrwoem.
They were on the right side.
They were on that middle.
And were on it's side.
They were on the floor.
And they were on the right side.
There is still no answer sir, shall I keep trying?
No answer yet? No sir. Of course I did tell Betty that I might be later even
stay overnight. She may have gone to all mothers. It was a real pleasure finding a young man
who cares that much for his wife. I suppose this is not the same way about you.
All Betty's wonderful. I'm sure she is. After all, not many women would approve their husband's
inventing machines that make insects larger. You've got a rare wife Mr Martin, one who doesn't
reject the giants' action in the house.
Keep the shoe tight, you know how I feel. It is even harder. It's hard. Yes, ma'am.
I will. My hands are trembling. My hands are trembling.
It's cold, ma'am. It's too much, Mr Martin. I bet that's a dangerous thing. You mustn't
fail. I could have a great of water. It's awesome. If I can squeeze it, see this?
Yeah, but if it's too much, it's kind of a rip. And it's not. Oh, that disgusty world.
I don't know why, but somehow that you have to have your life.
It was only the hand of your spirit touching my leg. I thought it was a spider.
Oh, Mr Martin, the term satisfactory? Oh, yes, very much so. Thank you, sir.
Well, Mr Martin, the term satisfactory? Oh, yes, very much so. Thank you, sir.
It's very good to be a great pleasure having you at the University. And I know that you find your association with us
a really incentive to carry on your work with our growth rate. I'm sure of that.
I'll go my very best to the University and to scientific research. My boy, if you believe
you want to catch the 610 and be home to tell your wife, you just get home and you'll find that
there's an explanation for why she didn't answer the phone all day. I'm sure you're right.
Thank you, Gendine. Thank you very much.
You feel better now, Mr Martin? I guess I do. I know, cry down. I have material.
What's Mr Martin? I'm going to try to reach the window. But you know, the mob is back on the couch.
I think I can make a room for the window once I push the chair inside of the door.
If you might have tapped you for me. But maybe you won't. But you're good with this.
The mob is so weak, it seems high. You know, just what happened to either of us is a computer attack.
Or we'd be eaten alive. Do they have tea?
Really, George? Who knows? He's also supposed to be.
George, but no exactly. I had a whole group of cool and rowing last year.
It seems to be okay, Gendine. I'm dying.
Oh, you are, I don't know what to say.
I go to try. I'll crouch down. I'll push the chair out a little.
Swooped by between the chair and the wall and make a dash for the window.
Gendine, push the side. Now, give me my shoes.
Okay, push it back.
Alright, go.
I'm here. I'll try to unlock the window.
Look out! Somebody fly back to me!
Get away! Get away! Get away!
Get away! Get away!
Get away! Get away! Get away!
Get away! Get away! Get away!
Get away!
Get away! Get away!
Get away! Get away!
No one home?
Lights off.
Yeah, that's better. That's very God.
Very?
Very, you're here?
Hey, where are you?
There's a lot going on.
Good luck.
What? What?
Where's the key?
Here.
Oh, my darling.
Oh, my darling.
Oh, my darling.
Where's the key?
Where's the key?
Where's the key?
Look at that wall.
I can't believe it.
It's dead.
There.
What?
Oh, Mr. Martin.
Mr. Martin.
Mr. Martin.
The glass goes down the floor.
Let's get out of here fast.
All right, Mr. Downbow.
The heaven's sick. What happened?
Mr. Downbowling. I'll get you a drink.
Here you are.
Now, not for me.
But the laboratory knows that behind us,
it's right, Martin's there.
The monster of the dark cave with the spider.
We thought we'd die.
And I thought, I thought, you know what I did.
I'll find a spider and kill it.
But as for the morph, darling,
despite its size, you had nothing to fear.
Well, you see, darling, the adult morph doesn't eat.
It has no mouth.
Nothing to attack or kill with.
Despite its size,
tricophic or tapet cellar,
the closed morph is utterly harmless.
Yeah, yeah, yeah.
You think we could have just sewed it away?
And opened the window?
Of course, dear.
The reason it's dead,
and why you could have waited for that,
worrying is that a morph cannot live
more than six hours in sunlight.
The superhero, this horror,
was unnecessary.
Next week, a strange drama of a silver rocket
at an unseen visitor from space.
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