In this thrilling episode of Alien Worlds, we follow the gripping story of Dr. Richard Nicholson, a molecular biologist whose groundbreaking research has earned him the prestigious Brandenburg Science Prize. As he returns to STARLab aboard the Earth shuttle Electra, tragedy strikes, leading to a series of mysterious and dark events. Dr. Nicholson's wife, Anne, finds herself entangled in a web of deceit and danger orchestrated by Simon Toddmaster, a sinister figure with the power to manipulate reality and bring the dead back to life through illusion.
As the plot unfolds, Anne is kidnapped and taken to Lethe, a man-made mortuary planetoid, where Toddmaster's dark intentions become clear. With the help of ISA Commissioner White, Mara Cassidy, John, and Buddy embark on a daring mission to rescue Anne and thwart Toddmaster's nefarious plans. The episode culminates in a dramatic confrontation, revealing the true nature of Toddmaster's powers and the secrets hidden within the shadows of alien worlds. Join us for an unforgettable adventure filled with suspense, intrigue, and the eternal struggle between life and death.
(00:41) Arrival at STARLab
(02:08) Tragic News and Anne's Grief
(03:01) Simon Toddmaster's Dark Powers
(04:54) The Illusion of Resurrection
(06:46) The Plan to Rescue Anne
(10:15) Dinner with the Enemy
(15:11) The Rescue Mission
(22:16) Aftermath and Revelations
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High above Earth's windy skies, slowly rotating to the silent voids of space, is the Arthur C. Clark Astronomical Observatory, STARLab. Styling command coming in. Five kilometers beyond STARLab, the Earth shuttle Electra moves into a docking orbit with a giant space station. Aboard the shuttle, Doctor. Richard Nicholson, a molecular biologist whose research in the field of alien spore mutation has just earned him the Brandenburg Science Prize. As the shuttle approaches, Doctor. Nicholson's wife, Anne, and STARLab research director, Mara Cassidy, enter STARLab control.
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Is that my husband's shuttle on the screen? Sure is.
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Elektra, could we please have doctor Nicholson on screen 12?
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Roger, STARLab.
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Hello, Anne. Welcome back.
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You look terrific. Oh, you look pretty terrific.
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How does it feel to be so famous? It feels fantastic.
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Oh, you should've seen the look from their faces.
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Richard? What got the top of them?
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Colin.
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In the aftermath of Doctor. Nicholson's tragic death, the International Space Authority decrees that he be interred on Lethe, a man made mortuary planetoid created as a resting place for Earth's honored dead. But Anne Nicholson, grief stricken and bitter, refuses to go to Lethe. And when Mora tries to encourage her, Anne becomes angry.
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Then you take him to Lethe, Mora. You salute all those stupid flags and smell all those dying flowers. There won't be any flags, Anne, or any flowers or speeches or anything like that. It's a private ceremony between you and Richard. Oh, I'm tired, Mor. Will you please leave me alone?
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Lethe's supervisor is Simon Toddmaster. Unknown to anyone aboard STIRLab, Simon Toddmaster, since his release from prison, has become an expert manipulator of all those things that go bump in the night. A man who now controls the dark, eerie powers used by ancient demon sorcerers. And the terrifying nature of those powers become apparent when the Orcus Omega docks at STAR Lab, and Toddmaster is left alone with Anne Nicholson.
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Anne Yes. Would you like to see Richard again,
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alive?
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Oh, yes. Oh, yes. I want to see Richard. I want to hold him and touch him and talk to him.
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Then come with me to Lethe and have Richard back again.
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Meanwhile, in STAR Labs communications center, Mara received an urgent message from ISA commissioner White. We just have confirmation
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on it, Mara. God master can control our image infusion, and he's using it to create illusion of bringing the dead back to life.
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Commissioner, he's with Anne right now.
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Get on the inner comment. Tell her to stay put. We're all stand by.
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Jerry. Yes, Mara. Shut the doors on the Orcus Omega's launch bay. Mora,
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the Orcus Omega took off three minutes ago. Was Anne Nicholson aboard? Yes. She was.
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Meanwhile, aboard the Orcus Omega, Toddmaster has put Anne into a deep twilight blossom trance and has learned that only she knows the location of secret bacteriological warfare tapes based on her late husband's research.
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Did she tell you where the tapes
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are? Not yet. But she will
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when her dead husband rises from the grave and takes her in his arms again.
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Oh. Dark dreams of immortality and the nightmare edge of time as part two of the resurrectionists of Lethe unfolds within the dark, lonely sanctuaries of alien worlds.
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Hi, Mora. Hi. How you doing? Oh, I'm glad to see you too. What's been going on around here? Everyone looks so depressed. Well, losing Richard like that is part of it. Well, what's the other part?
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Anne's been kidnapped. Kidnapped? What? By who? It's a long story. Do you remember Simon John, master?
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As Mora explains the details of Anne Nicholson's kidnapping to Buddy and John, and Commissioner White approaches S. T. A. R. Lab aboard an ISA priority shuttle, the Orcus Omega jets toward the dark horizons of Lethe, a man made mortuary planetoid, which is slowly losing its identity, and will, in the cold satanic nights to come, be transformed into an in world. Alien worlds continues. Hoping to formulate a plan to rescue Anne Nicholson from the spell of Simon Toddmaster's death dreams, and in the process, put an end to Toddmaster's illegal use of image infusion, ISA Commissioner White arrives on StarLab to confer with Mora, John, and Buddy. How did you manage to find out what Todd Master was doing, Commissioner?
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Yeah. I'm kinda curious about that myself. It was purely accidental.
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You remember Benjamin Thorndancer?
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The thought weapon theorist. Didn't he die last year during an omega wave feedback experiment?
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Yes. And he was interred on Lethe. Well, his wife went up there three days ago to visit the crypt. On her way back, she had a serious heart attack. Luckily, there was a physician on board the same shuttle, and he managed to keep her alive until they could reach an ISA hospital ship. Did she pull through? Yes. But they had to perform emergency bypass surgery. She came out of the anesthesia raving about Todmaster and how he brought her husband back to life. So the next day, we sent up an ISA interrogation specialist to talk to her. She told him everything. What did she say actually happened? Well, when she arrived on Lethe, Topmaster presented her with a bouquet of flowers.
Twilight blossoms, she said he called them. One minute she was smelling them, and the next she was in some kind of a, a ring out talking to her husband. And, well, you know the rest. Well, what does Anne have that this crypt keeper wants? Richard had made a major breakthrough in the use of alien spore mutations for bacteriological warfare. Anne is the only one who knows where the data tapes are.
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If that mausoleum maniac gets his hands on those tapes, well, he could put us all six feet under. Mara, commissioner White? What is it, Jerry? I've got a transmission coming in from Leti. It's Anne Nicholson. Anne?
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We'll patch her through, Jerry. Hello, Laura. Anne, are you alright? Of course, I am. Why shouldn't I be? Is, is Simon there with you? Yes. He's right here. He's been wonderful. I don't think I've ever met such a kind and sympathetic man. Laura, I want you to come up to leave me. Simon said he didn't get a chance to spend very much time with you on Zala. He thought it would be nice if we could all have dinner together before I leave. How does that sound? Why that sounds wonderful, Anne. When? Tomorrow night. Just the three of us. Okay? Alright, Anne. Just the three of us. See you tomorrow. Bye.
Just the three of us, John, Betty, what do you say we make at dinner for five?
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Well, I hope it's not formal. My electric tie and tails are still at the cleaners.
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You realize he's setting a trap. I know, but he doesn't know that I know. And if we're careful, we just might be able to get Anne away from that lunatic before something happens to her.
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Old wine, sweet music, candlelight, delicious food,
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good friends.
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It will certainly be an evening to remember. Won't it, Anne?
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Yes. It certainly will, master.
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Eighteen hours later, Delta one blasts off from StarLab and streaks toward Leafy. Mora alone at the controls, John and Vody hidden in a port side storage locker, which has been lying with scanner shielding. A precaution taken before blast off to prevent Todd Master from detecting more than one life form aboard the Delta one.
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Hey, Skipper. How about us getting out of here for a few minutes? I'm starting to feel like a cross between a pretzel and the hunchback of Notre Dame. Relax, buddy. Well, I wish we would've had enough thin core shielding to line the starboard locker. It's a lot bigger.
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Sorry,
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buddy. What do you think Todd Master would do if he detected more than one life form aboard? Oh, please. Don't tell me. He'd probably kill Anne and blow the Delta one into the next galaxy. Skip. I told you not to tell me. Berkey, would you mind stepping in here, please? Not at all, master.
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Here I am, master. Where? Right here in front of you.
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Berkey, you've gone transparent again. Step back into the light a little bit. Thank you. Sorry. I disappeared like that. That's alright, Berkey. It wasn't my fault. I didn't say it was. You built me.
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I can't help it if I'm here today and gone tomorrow.
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Berkey, if you don't pay attention, you're going to be gone tonight.
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Oh my.
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How is missus Nicholson? Who? Bertie, I'm warning you. Boom.
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I put fresh bouquets of twilight blossoms around her bed just as you ordered. She sound asleep.
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And by a sleep to say we end the heartache and the thousand natural shocks that flesh is heir to. 'Tis a consummation devoutly to be wished. Has doctor Nicholson's replicate been programmed?
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Yes, master. It knows exactly what to ask her. And the illusion theater is ready for your inspection.
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Ah, the illusion theater. The play certainly is the thing, Bertie.
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The play is the thing. Certainly. The thing certainly is.
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The certainly. Oh, I knew he wouldn't get that one. Ratchet. You call, master. Put Imageryna four on the screen. Coming up. Well, my dear Ratchet, you've certainly outdone yourself this time. If I didn't know better, I'd swear I was looking at old Cape Cod. Is that the Nicholson Summerhouse there in the background? Yes, master. Could you bring it in where it belongs, Ratchet? It doesn't look quite right sitting out there in the ocean. Oh, sorry, master. One of the hologram mirrors must have shifted. Yes. Now let me see doctor Nicholson's replicate.
Oh, Richard, are you excited about seeing Anne? Yes, Simon. I am excited. Thank you, Richard. Ratchet, he doesn't seem all that thrilled. Can you pep him up a little? I'll give it my best, master. I'll see that you do. And by the way, how is our replica of Mara Cassidy's father coming along? It will be ready for programming by morning. Oh, thank you, Ratchet. Keep up the good work. Delta one has entered lethie control, master.
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ETA five minutes.
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Very well. Prepare to guide Mara Cassidy down. Bergey, scan the ship and make certain she's alone. Oh, yes, master.
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Only one life form on board. Lethe control to Delta one,
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retro to descent Mora orbits the Delta one into a descent vector above Lethe. John and Buddy hidden in a shielded storage locker to prevent detection by Leakey's life form scanners. On Leakey itself, Ann Nicholson lies in a death sleep coma, induced by narcotic twilight blossoms, only hours away from an encounter with her dead husband. An illusion created by Simon Toddmaster, a man who has abandoned the sunlight and stars and has gone to dwell among the gods of mist and darkness at the razor's edge of alien worlds.
Alien Worlds continues. Mora, John, and Buddy land on the mortuary satellite Lethe. Their safe arrival, the first stage of a plan to rescue Anne Nicholson from Lethe's mysterious mortician, Simon Toddmaster. An undertaking which will soon continue with a quiet dinner between Mora, Anne, and Toddmaster, and hopefully end with Toddmaster getting his just desserts.
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Roger, lady control. I'm on the pad. Stay where you are, Doctor. Cassidy, and I'll be right over to pick you up. Delta one
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out. You two alright in there? I keep telling you, sheriff. This locker just ain't big enough for the both of us.
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We're fine, Mora. I've already switched on the beep center Carl concealed in Richard's medal, and I'll give it to Anne the minute I see her. Your micro receivers are on the console. One of them is tuned to Anne's beeper. The other one is tuned to my button transmitter. Doctor Cassidy For god's sakes, don't lose track of us. Coming. Well, Simon, I see that you've managed to maintain your taste for exotic foods in spite of everything.
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In spite of every of them? What do you mean?
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You know, two years in Jastrow Prison and nearly two years here on Methi. Not exactly the kind of places that encourage the
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aesthetic sensibilities. No. But that's for you're wrong, Morin. Monotony, isolation, and darkness happen to be our greatest gifts. And I respect them because they eventually make one realize that we are truly alone in this highly overrated dimension we call life. And it's only by being alone that we can come to terms with our soul and our senses.
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And is that all there is ultimately? The soul and the senses? Ultimately, yes.
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They know each other better than we can ever know ourselves. They complement each other perfectly, and they reassure each other in times of imbalance. Do you know the works of Oscar Wilde? No. I don't. You should familiarize yourself with them, Mara. There's a particularly beautiful passage in one of his novels, the picture of Dorian Gray. Dorian is out in the garden drinking in the sweet perfume of the lilac blossoms. And Lord Henry walks to him and says, you're quite right to do that, for nothing can cure the soul but the senses. Just as nothing can cure the senses but the soul.
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You've been very quiet this evening, Anne. Yes. I know. I'm sorry. I'm very tired. Well, if you'll please excuse me, I want to spend some time in the chapel before I go to bed. Don't forget Richard's medal, Anne. What? Oh, yes. Richard's medal. Thank you for bringing it to me, Maura.
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Good night. Oh, good night. Sleep well.
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I think I'll go to bed too, sir. Well, thank you for a marvelous evening. I'll see you in the morning. Oh, good night, Walter. A good night. Pleasant dreams.
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Oh, pleasant dream, that lousy crypt keeper. Hold it down, buddy. Come on. Let's get to the chapel. Lead on, Skipper.
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This corridor has more turns than a labyrinth.
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I don't remember where the chapel was. I do. It's right over there. Get back, Skipper. Someone's coming. It's Anne. Shut off the beepers. You'll hear him. Okay. Let's it's Todd Master.
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He's a little off tea, wasn't he?
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Lovely, isn't it, Anne? The way the candlelight
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transforms the flowers into living shadows.
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Oh, yes. Beautiful.
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Richard is waiting.
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Oh, Richard.
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I'm not saying this place is cold, Skipper, but if I had any brass monkeys, this is the last place I'd keep them.
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Take it easy. Here comes Mara. Mara, over here.
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Where's Anne?
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She and Todd Master went into the chapel a half hour ago. Half an hour hour ago? Come
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on. Ready? Let's go.
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They're gone.
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John, the gate's scattered.
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Over here.
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She's behind the wall. Well, do you run for a lever or something?
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Here. Here. Behind the tapestry. Hey. Get this. A real life secret panel. Now, Anne, if you'll just sit here. That's right. Bert, can you bring up the lights in the arena? Yes, master.
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Richard. Anne?
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Anne. Damn you, mother. Damn you. Get away from that castle time, master. But the racket, kill the intruder. Big ol' skipper. Topmaster, what? Take out the other two.
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Master. Master. Help us. Albert Master.
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John, blast the control panel.
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I'm not ratcheting my children. You're killing my beautiful children. Laura, what's happening? I am the resurrectionist of It's melting. Todd Master is melting. My god.
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They're awful androids. And Mara,
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where am I? Let's get out of here. This place is gonna blow any minute.
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For Ann Nicholson, a narrow escape from the machineries of deception and death. For Mora, John, and Buddy, another experience to be filed away under the heading of attempted immortality. And for the android, Simon Tottenmaster, the sudden, disquieting stillness that visits all all things electric when the power fails and the lights go out. An artificial man with a synthetic mind, incapable of knowing creation's most perfect flesh and blood law, that death, like life, is its own master. Mahal's end today, Mora. Oh, fine, commissioner.
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Doctor Rossiter says she'll be able to go back to Terra tomorrow. Is it true about Simon?
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Yes. An ISA security squad found his body this morning. It was in a sealed crypt under the floor of the chapel. Spectracite poisoning. A laboratory accident a long time ago. He never told anyone. How did you find out? A diary in his casket. You should all read it sometime. He was an extraordinary man. He perfected image infusion for use as a holographic communicator, nothing more. And because he knew he'd die before he'd finish it, he built a synthetic alter ego to carry on his work. Well, I've got a shuttle waiting. Goodbye for now, and again, congratulations on a job well done. Thanks, Commissioner.
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We'll talk to you later, Mara. I'll be here. Library. Ingrid? It's doctor Cassidy. Will you please check and see if there's anything down there by Oscar Wilde? I'm interested in one of his novels. The Picture of Dorian Gray.
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The Resurrection of Savilethi was based on a story by Betty Julius and written by Ron Thompson, and starred Chuck Olsen, Linda Gary, Bruce Phillip Miller, and Corey Burton, with guest stars Hans Comrade, Susan Brown, George DeCenzo, Cliff Norton, Jack Lukes, Joseph Sikari, and Sally Smaller, associate producer Jeff Allen, musical director Tom Rounds, engineer Stu Jacobs, technical consultant Peter Skye. Alien Worlds was created, produced, and directed by Lee Hansen, and is distributed by Watermark Incorporated. And so until next time, this is Roger Dressler inviting you to join us for another adventure on Alien Worlds.
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High above Earth's windy skies, slowly rotating to the silent voids of space, is the Arthur C. Clark Astronomical Observatory, STARLab. Styling command coming in. Five kilometers beyond STARLab, the Earth shuttle Electra moves into a docking orbit with a giant space station. Aboard the shuttle, Doctor. Richard Nicholson, a molecular biologist whose research in the field of alien spore mutation has just earned him the Brandenburg Science Prize. As the shuttle approaches, Doctor. Nicholson's wife, Anne, and STARLab research director, Mara Cassidy, enter STARLab control.
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Is that my husband's shuttle on the screen? Sure is.
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Elektra, could we please have doctor Nicholson on screen 12?
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Roger, STARLab.
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Hello, Anne. Welcome back.
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You look terrific. Oh, you look pretty terrific.
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How does it feel to be so famous? It feels fantastic.
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Oh, you should've seen the look from their faces.
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Richard? What got the top of them?
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Colin.
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In the aftermath of Doctor. Nicholson's tragic death, the International Space Authority decrees that he be interred on Lethe, a man made mortuary planetoid created as a resting place for Earth's honored dead. But Anne Nicholson, grief stricken and bitter, refuses to go to Lethe. And when Mora tries to encourage her, Anne becomes angry.
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Then you take him to Lethe, Mora. You salute all those stupid flags and smell all those dying flowers. There won't be any flags, Anne, or any flowers or speeches or anything like that. It's a private ceremony between you and Richard. Oh, I'm tired, Mor. Will you please leave me alone?
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Lethe's supervisor is Simon Toddmaster. Unknown to anyone aboard STIRLab, Simon Toddmaster, since his release from prison, has become an expert manipulator of all those things that go bump in the night. A man who now controls the dark, eerie powers used by ancient demon sorcerers. And the terrifying nature of those powers become apparent when the Orcus Omega docks at STAR Lab, and Toddmaster is left alone with Anne Nicholson.
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Anne Yes. Would you like to see Richard again,
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alive?
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Oh, yes. Oh, yes. I want to see Richard. I want to hold him and touch him and talk to him.
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Then come with me to Lethe and have Richard back again.
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Meanwhile, in STAR Labs communications center, Mara received an urgent message from ISA commissioner White. We just have confirmation
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on it, Mara. God master can control our image infusion, and he's using it to create illusion of bringing the dead back to life.
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Commissioner, he's with Anne right now.
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Get on the inner comment. Tell her to stay put. We're all stand by.
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Jerry. Yes, Mara. Shut the doors on the Orcus Omega's launch bay. Mora,
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the Orcus Omega took off three minutes ago. Was Anne Nicholson aboard? Yes. She was.
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Meanwhile, aboard the Orcus Omega, Toddmaster has put Anne into a deep twilight blossom trance and has learned that only she knows the location of secret bacteriological warfare tapes based on her late husband's research.
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Did she tell you where the tapes
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are? Not yet. But she will
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when her dead husband rises from the grave and takes her in his arms again.
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Oh. Dark dreams of immortality and the nightmare edge of time as part two of the resurrectionists of Lethe unfolds within the dark, lonely sanctuaries of alien worlds.
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Hi, Mora. Hi. How you doing? Oh, I'm glad to see you too. What's been going on around here? Everyone looks so depressed. Well, losing Richard like that is part of it. Well, what's the other part?
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Anne's been kidnapped. Kidnapped? What? By who? It's a long story. Do you remember Simon John, master?
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As Mora explains the details of Anne Nicholson's kidnapping to Buddy and John, and Commissioner White approaches S. T. A. R. Lab aboard an ISA priority shuttle, the Orcus Omega jets toward the dark horizons of Lethe, a man made mortuary planetoid, which is slowly losing its identity, and will, in the cold satanic nights to come, be transformed into an in world. Alien worlds continues. Hoping to formulate a plan to rescue Anne Nicholson from the spell of Simon Toddmaster's death dreams, and in the process, put an end to Toddmaster's illegal use of image infusion, ISA Commissioner White arrives on StarLab to confer with Mora, John, and Buddy. How did you manage to find out what Todd Master was doing, Commissioner?
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Yeah. I'm kinda curious about that myself. It was purely accidental.
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You remember Benjamin Thorndancer?
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The thought weapon theorist. Didn't he die last year during an omega wave feedback experiment?
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Yes. And he was interred on Lethe. Well, his wife went up there three days ago to visit the crypt. On her way back, she had a serious heart attack. Luckily, there was a physician on board the same shuttle, and he managed to keep her alive until they could reach an ISA hospital ship. Did she pull through? Yes. But they had to perform emergency bypass surgery. She came out of the anesthesia raving about Todmaster and how he brought her husband back to life. So the next day, we sent up an ISA interrogation specialist to talk to her. She told him everything. What did she say actually happened? Well, when she arrived on Lethe, Topmaster presented her with a bouquet of flowers.
Twilight blossoms, she said he called them. One minute she was smelling them, and the next she was in some kind of a, a ring out talking to her husband. And, well, you know the rest. Well, what does Anne have that this crypt keeper wants? Richard had made a major breakthrough in the use of alien spore mutations for bacteriological warfare. Anne is the only one who knows where the data tapes are.
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If that mausoleum maniac gets his hands on those tapes, well, he could put us all six feet under. Mara, commissioner White? What is it, Jerry? I've got a transmission coming in from Leti. It's Anne Nicholson. Anne?
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We'll patch her through, Jerry. Hello, Laura. Anne, are you alright? Of course, I am. Why shouldn't I be? Is, is Simon there with you? Yes. He's right here. He's been wonderful. I don't think I've ever met such a kind and sympathetic man. Laura, I want you to come up to leave me. Simon said he didn't get a chance to spend very much time with you on Zala. He thought it would be nice if we could all have dinner together before I leave. How does that sound? Why that sounds wonderful, Anne. When? Tomorrow night. Just the three of us. Okay? Alright, Anne. Just the three of us. See you tomorrow. Bye.
Just the three of us, John, Betty, what do you say we make at dinner for five?
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Well, I hope it's not formal. My electric tie and tails are still at the cleaners.
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You realize he's setting a trap. I know, but he doesn't know that I know. And if we're careful, we just might be able to get Anne away from that lunatic before something happens to her.
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Old wine, sweet music, candlelight, delicious food,
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good friends.
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It will certainly be an evening to remember. Won't it, Anne?
[00:10:10] Unknown:
Yes. It certainly will, master.
[00:10:15] Unknown:
Eighteen hours later, Delta one blasts off from StarLab and streaks toward Leafy. Mora alone at the controls, John and Vody hidden in a port side storage locker, which has been lying with scanner shielding. A precaution taken before blast off to prevent Todd Master from detecting more than one life form aboard the Delta one.
[00:10:42] Unknown:
Hey, Skipper. How about us getting out of here for a few minutes? I'm starting to feel like a cross between a pretzel and the hunchback of Notre Dame. Relax, buddy. Well, I wish we would've had enough thin core shielding to line the starboard locker. It's a lot bigger.
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Sorry,
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buddy. What do you think Todd Master would do if he detected more than one life form aboard? Oh, please. Don't tell me. He'd probably kill Anne and blow the Delta one into the next galaxy. Skip. I told you not to tell me. Berkey, would you mind stepping in here, please? Not at all, master.
[00:11:23] Unknown:
Here I am, master. Where? Right here in front of you.
[00:11:28] Unknown:
Berkey, you've gone transparent again. Step back into the light a little bit. Thank you. Sorry. I disappeared like that. That's alright, Berkey. It wasn't my fault. I didn't say it was. You built me.
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I can't help it if I'm here today and gone tomorrow.
[00:11:46] Unknown:
Berkey, if you don't pay attention, you're going to be gone tonight.
[00:11:50] Unknown:
Oh my.
[00:11:53] Unknown:
How is missus Nicholson? Who? Bertie, I'm warning you. Boom.
[00:11:59] Unknown:
I put fresh bouquets of twilight blossoms around her bed just as you ordered. She sound asleep.
[00:12:06] Unknown:
And by a sleep to say we end the heartache and the thousand natural shocks that flesh is heir to. 'Tis a consummation devoutly to be wished. Has doctor Nicholson's replicate been programmed?
[00:12:21] Unknown:
Yes, master. It knows exactly what to ask her. And the illusion theater is ready for your inspection.
[00:12:29] Unknown:
Ah, the illusion theater. The play certainly is the thing, Bertie.
[00:12:36] Unknown:
The play is the thing. Certainly. The thing certainly is.
[00:12:42] Unknown:
The certainly. Oh, I knew he wouldn't get that one. Ratchet. You call, master. Put Imageryna four on the screen. Coming up. Well, my dear Ratchet, you've certainly outdone yourself this time. If I didn't know better, I'd swear I was looking at old Cape Cod. Is that the Nicholson Summerhouse there in the background? Yes, master. Could you bring it in where it belongs, Ratchet? It doesn't look quite right sitting out there in the ocean. Oh, sorry, master. One of the hologram mirrors must have shifted. Yes. Now let me see doctor Nicholson's replicate.
Oh, Richard, are you excited about seeing Anne? Yes, Simon. I am excited. Thank you, Richard. Ratchet, he doesn't seem all that thrilled. Can you pep him up a little? I'll give it my best, master. I'll see that you do. And by the way, how is our replica of Mara Cassidy's father coming along? It will be ready for programming by morning. Oh, thank you, Ratchet. Keep up the good work. Delta one has entered lethie control, master.
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ETA five minutes.
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Very well. Prepare to guide Mara Cassidy down. Bergey, scan the ship and make certain she's alone. Oh, yes, master.
[00:14:02] Unknown:
Only one life form on board. Lethe control to Delta one,
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retro to descent Mora orbits the Delta one into a descent vector above Lethe. John and Buddy hidden in a shielded storage locker to prevent detection by Leakey's life form scanners. On Leakey itself, Ann Nicholson lies in a death sleep coma, induced by narcotic twilight blossoms, only hours away from an encounter with her dead husband. An illusion created by Simon Toddmaster, a man who has abandoned the sunlight and stars and has gone to dwell among the gods of mist and darkness at the razor's edge of alien worlds.
Alien Worlds continues. Mora, John, and Buddy land on the mortuary satellite Lethe. Their safe arrival, the first stage of a plan to rescue Anne Nicholson from Lethe's mysterious mortician, Simon Toddmaster. An undertaking which will soon continue with a quiet dinner between Mora, Anne, and Toddmaster, and hopefully end with Toddmaster getting his just desserts.
[00:15:44] Unknown:
Roger, lady control. I'm on the pad. Stay where you are, Doctor. Cassidy, and I'll be right over to pick you up. Delta one
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out. You two alright in there? I keep telling you, sheriff. This locker just ain't big enough for the both of us.
[00:16:09] Unknown:
We're fine, Mora. I've already switched on the beep center Carl concealed in Richard's medal, and I'll give it to Anne the minute I see her. Your micro receivers are on the console. One of them is tuned to Anne's beeper. The other one is tuned to my button transmitter. Doctor Cassidy For god's sakes, don't lose track of us. Coming. Well, Simon, I see that you've managed to maintain your taste for exotic foods in spite of everything.
[00:16:44] Unknown:
In spite of every of them? What do you mean?
[00:16:47] Unknown:
You know, two years in Jastrow Prison and nearly two years here on Methi. Not exactly the kind of places that encourage the
[00:16:54] Unknown:
aesthetic sensibilities. No. But that's for you're wrong, Morin. Monotony, isolation, and darkness happen to be our greatest gifts. And I respect them because they eventually make one realize that we are truly alone in this highly overrated dimension we call life. And it's only by being alone that we can come to terms with our soul and our senses.
[00:17:17] Unknown:
And is that all there is ultimately? The soul and the senses? Ultimately, yes.
[00:17:22] Unknown:
They know each other better than we can ever know ourselves. They complement each other perfectly, and they reassure each other in times of imbalance. Do you know the works of Oscar Wilde? No. I don't. You should familiarize yourself with them, Mara. There's a particularly beautiful passage in one of his novels, the picture of Dorian Gray. Dorian is out in the garden drinking in the sweet perfume of the lilac blossoms. And Lord Henry walks to him and says, you're quite right to do that, for nothing can cure the soul but the senses. Just as nothing can cure the senses but the soul.
[00:18:00] Unknown:
You've been very quiet this evening, Anne. Yes. I know. I'm sorry. I'm very tired. Well, if you'll please excuse me, I want to spend some time in the chapel before I go to bed. Don't forget Richard's medal, Anne. What? Oh, yes. Richard's medal. Thank you for bringing it to me, Maura.
[00:18:20] Unknown:
Good night. Oh, good night. Sleep well.
[00:18:24] Unknown:
I think I'll go to bed too, sir. Well, thank you for a marvelous evening. I'll see you in the morning. Oh, good night, Walter. A good night. Pleasant dreams.
[00:18:36] Unknown:
Oh, pleasant dream, that lousy crypt keeper. Hold it down, buddy. Come on. Let's get to the chapel. Lead on, Skipper.
[00:18:45] Unknown:
This corridor has more turns than a labyrinth.
[00:18:48] Unknown:
I don't remember where the chapel was. I do. It's right over there. Get back, Skipper. Someone's coming. It's Anne. Shut off the beepers. You'll hear him. Okay. Let's it's Todd Master.
[00:19:24] Unknown:
He's a little off tea, wasn't he?
[00:19:37] Unknown:
Lovely, isn't it, Anne? The way the candlelight
[00:19:41] Unknown:
transforms the flowers into living shadows.
[00:19:46] Unknown:
Oh, yes. Beautiful.
[00:19:50] Unknown:
Richard is waiting.
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Oh, Richard.
[00:19:59] Unknown:
I'm not saying this place is cold, Skipper, but if I had any brass monkeys, this is the last place I'd keep them.
[00:20:07] Unknown:
Take it easy. Here comes Mara. Mara, over here.
[00:20:14] Unknown:
Where's Anne?
[00:20:15] Unknown:
She and Todd Master went into the chapel a half hour ago. Half an hour hour ago? Come
[00:20:20] Unknown:
on. Ready? Let's go.
[00:20:28] Unknown:
They're gone.
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John, the gate's scattered.
[00:20:32] Unknown:
Over here.
[00:20:36] Unknown:
She's behind the wall. Well, do you run for a lever or something?
[00:20:40] Unknown:
Here. Here. Behind the tapestry. Hey. Get this. A real life secret panel. Now, Anne, if you'll just sit here. That's right. Bert, can you bring up the lights in the arena? Yes, master.
[00:21:05] Unknown:
Richard. Anne?
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Anne. Damn you, mother. Damn you. Get away from that castle time, master. But the racket, kill the intruder. Big ol' skipper. Topmaster, what? Take out the other two.
[00:21:22] Unknown:
Master. Master. Help us. Albert Master.
[00:21:28] Unknown:
John, blast the control panel.
[00:21:30] Unknown:
I'm not ratcheting my children. You're killing my beautiful children. Laura, what's happening? I am the resurrectionist of It's melting. Todd Master is melting. My god.
[00:22:00] Unknown:
They're awful androids. And Mara,
[00:22:04] Unknown:
where am I? Let's get out of here. This place is gonna blow any minute.
[00:22:16] Unknown:
For Ann Nicholson, a narrow escape from the machineries of deception and death. For Mora, John, and Buddy, another experience to be filed away under the heading of attempted immortality. And for the android, Simon Tottenmaster, the sudden, disquieting stillness that visits all all things electric when the power fails and the lights go out. An artificial man with a synthetic mind, incapable of knowing creation's most perfect flesh and blood law, that death, like life, is its own master. Mahal's end today, Mora. Oh, fine, commissioner.
[00:23:04] Unknown:
Doctor Rossiter says she'll be able to go back to Terra tomorrow. Is it true about Simon?
[00:23:11] Unknown:
Yes. An ISA security squad found his body this morning. It was in a sealed crypt under the floor of the chapel. Spectracite poisoning. A laboratory accident a long time ago. He never told anyone. How did you find out? A diary in his casket. You should all read it sometime. He was an extraordinary man. He perfected image infusion for use as a holographic communicator, nothing more. And because he knew he'd die before he'd finish it, he built a synthetic alter ego to carry on his work. Well, I've got a shuttle waiting. Goodbye for now, and again, congratulations on a job well done. Thanks, Commissioner.
[00:23:57] Unknown:
We'll talk to you later, Mara. I'll be here. Library. Ingrid? It's doctor Cassidy. Will you please check and see if there's anything down there by Oscar Wilde? I'm interested in one of his novels. The Picture of Dorian Gray.
[00:24:25] Unknown:
The Resurrection of Savilethi was based on a story by Betty Julius and written by Ron Thompson, and starred Chuck Olsen, Linda Gary, Bruce Phillip Miller, and Corey Burton, with guest stars Hans Comrade, Susan Brown, George DeCenzo, Cliff Norton, Jack Lukes, Joseph Sikari, and Sally Smaller, associate producer Jeff Allen, musical director Tom Rounds, engineer Stu Jacobs, technical consultant Peter Skye. Alien Worlds was created, produced, and directed by Lee Hansen, and is distributed by Watermark Incorporated. And so until next time, this is Roger Dressler inviting you to join us for another adventure on Alien Worlds.
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