In this thrilling episode of Alien Worlds, we journey to the Arthur C. Clarke Astronomical Observatory, STARLab, where a top-secret scientific breakthrough in age reversal serum, Solamine Yellow, takes a dangerous turn. Professor Madeleine Stoner, who has successfully reversed her age by twenty years, is found in a coma, aged and withered overnight. The mystery deepens as England's most famous consulting detective, Sonar T. Foom, and his associate, Dr. MacGuffin Drone, are called to investigate the attempted murder and unravel the secrets behind the serum.
As the investigation unfolds, Foom and Drone uncover a sinister plot involving Oliver Latham and the Zill assassination regiments from Shikandra. With the help of STARLab's resources and a clever holographic ruse, they expose Latham's treacherous plan to exploit the serum for unimaginable wealth. In a race against time, our heroes must navigate through deception and danger to bring justice to Professor Stoner and prevent the serum from falling into the wrong hands. Join us for a captivating adventure filled with intrigue, science fiction, and a nod to the legendary detective stories of Sherlock Holmes.
(00:34) Introduction to STARLab and the Parallax Deception
(01:35) Arrival of Commissioner White and Professor Stoner
(05:16) The Mysterious Aging of Madeleine Stoner
(08:28) Investigation Begins: The Chromic Projectile
(12:28) Confrontation with Oliver Latham
(18:00) The Hologram Deception and Latham's Arrest
(22:49) Conclusion and New Adventure
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Slowly orbiting at the edge of deep space, 1,000 kilometers beyond twenty first century Earth, is the Arthur c Clark Astronomical Observatory, STARLab. Here, STARLab research director, Maura Cassidy, and scientists and technicians of the International Space Authority watch over the countless star systems that fill the universe. This week, England's most famous consulting detective, Sonar T. Foom, and his associate, doctor MacGuffin Drone, return to STAR Lab and become involved in the adventure of the parallax deception on Alien Worlds.
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I have made priority shuttle one to StarLab control.
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This is star lab. Go ahead shuttle one.
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Please stand by for commissioner White. Jerry, is Mara still on calls with Buddy and John?
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Mara got back this morning, commissioner. Buddy and John are still there.
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Alright. Well, tell Mora I'm on my wing in from Kimian 3 with an old friend of hers, professor Madelyn Stoner.
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Will do.
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Thanks, Jerry. Here's captain Lester again. For 510. Okay. Star lamp. I'm ready to receive docking, orbit and surgeon coordinates. We are 800 kilometers out on approach Meridian 6 Niner 0, and our ETA is seven minutes. Ten seconds.
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Hello, Maura. How are you doing? Oh, hello, commissioner. Fine.
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Madeline, is that you? It's me alright.
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What did you do to yourself? You look twenty years younger. She is twenty years younger, Mora. What?
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But how? Solamine yellow, an age reversal serum I've been experimenting with at the Latham Institute.
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How long have you been experimenting on yourself? Five weeks. You've lost twenty years in just five weeks?
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Mhmm. If this isn't some kind of miracle, I don't know what is. Well, there's still a lot of work to be done, Maura. Control group studies, long term side effects, things like that. I'm leaving for England tomorrow to work with an old friend of mine. Maybe you've heard of her, doctor Vivian Stancho? Mhmm. Sure. I know her work. Well, she owns a private research lab near London, so we're going to start conducting some advanced experiments with the serum.
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How many people know about Solomaniello besides Oliver Latham and Doctor. Stanchall?
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The five ISA charter scientists we met with yesterday on Timion 3 and England's most famous consulting detective Sonar T. Foom.
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And why is mister Foom involved?
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Well, since half the universe would beat it past the Madeline's door if they knew about the serum, the project's top secret.
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And since Foom knows everything there is to know about keeping a secret The ISA has engaged him to work out the security arrangements for doctor Stanchal's laboratory.
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Right. Fulman doctor Dron will be here in the morning.
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Well, it's way past midnight. I've got a long day ahead of me tomorrow. Will you show me to my quarters, Laura? Of course, Madeline.
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And you, commissioner?
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I think I'll wander around StarLab for a while. See you in the morning.
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Okay, commissioner. Night. Night, mad.
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Well, I'll see if Madeline's ready, commissioner. See you in a few minutes.
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Madeline. Oh my god. Madeline.
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Laura, Laura, I'm old. So old, Madeline.
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Alien worlds will continue. Alien worlds continues.
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Okay. StarLab are ready to receive docking orbit insertion coordinates.
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We are 800 kilometers out of Following the top secret science conference on Timian three, ISA Commissioner White and Professor Madeleine Stoner arrive at StarLab for a meeting with Maura Cassidy.
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Madeline. What did you do to yourself? You look twenty years younger. She is twenty years younger, Maura. What?
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But how? Solamine yellow, an age reversal serum I've been experimenting with at the Latham Institute.
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But when Maura enters Madeleine's quarters the next morning, she finds her friend lying on the floor, her newfound youth gone, her eyes glazed with age, transformed overnight into a withered old woman. Meanwhile, at a small space port near London, England's most famous consulting detective, Sonar T. Foon, and his associate, doctor MacGuffin Drone, board Foon's multi atmosphere cruiser, the Velarophon, and blast off for stardom.
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Alright, drone. Reduce power 30% and ease back on the controls. Yes. Yes. Good. Now, stabilize
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pilot. Well, by go. Thank you for that's, quite a compliment coming from you. Yes. Now, let
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on board the onboard computer. Anyone at home up there?
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This is StarLab, mister Foom. Please stand by for doctor Cassidy.
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Mister Foom. Hello, Mora. Nice to hear your voice again. Mister Holm. Someone tried to kill Madeleine Stonerland.
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Great Scott. She's in a coma and doesn't look like she's gonna make it. We'll be there in five minutes, Mora.
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Full power drone.
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We thought at first she'd had some kind of,
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reaction to the serum. But But when doctor Rasator examined her, she found this in Madeleine's back. Why? Looks like a needle from an old fashioned hypodermic syringe.
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I'm afraid not, drone.
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This is a projectile from an extremely powerful compressed air pistol, and I'm certain the blue stain on its tip is a lethal poison. The weapon that fired this is used exclusively by the Zill assassination regiments on Shacandra.
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Why would a Zill assassin want to kill Madelyn anyway? And how on earth would one of them get aboard StarLab without our knowing it? I mean, my god, Shacandran adults are eight feet tall. Someone would have noticed him.
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Where in professor Stoner's body was this projectile found?
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In her back, about three inches below the base of her skull. The point was embedded in the first cervical vertebrae.
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It's fortunate the bone prevented it from entering her body completely. Oh, why do you say that, Fum? This projectile is made of a synthetic metal that is 100% chromic.
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Chromic? What do you mean?
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Chromic substance is one that dissolves in the body without a trace, commissioner. If that projectile had penetrated completely, we'd still be operating under the delusion that professor Stoner did, in fact, experience a negative solamine yellow reaction.
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That probably is what the would be assassin wanted us to think. Yes.
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Commissioner, do you have a sample of the serum with you? There's a small vial in Madeleine's bag. Good.
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I'll need some laboratory facilities, Mora. Starlab is at your disposal, mister Foo. Alright. Then let's get on with it. We have a lot of work to do. Why is this Mycroft computer of yours taking so long to analyze our experiments, Mora? Seems like we've been staring at this blank screen for days. Ah, here's our data now. Projectile, 100% chromic. Tip substance, 30% vathiolate, 70% unknown. Properties of the unknown element interacts exclusively with solamine yellow, converting it to an age acceleration agent by a factor of 18.6.
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Well, that's it, isn't it? Whoever tried to kill Madeleine had to know about Solomane Yellow and what it took to reverse the process.
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That considerably narrows our list of possible suspects, doesn't it, Foome? Yes. Oliver Latham, doctor Vivian Stanshaw,
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and the five ISA scientists on Timion three.
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If you think it'll do any good, I'll go back to Timion 3 and investigate the possibility of a security leak. Excellent.
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Now, what about doctor Stanchaw? No.
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Madeleine said they were so close they could practically read each other's minds. They were like sisters. Alright. That's good enough for me. Does Oliver Latham know what's happened? Yes. I radioed the Institute just before you docked.
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Radio him again, Mora, and tell him we're on our way down to have a chat. Okay. Oh, one more thing, Mora. Have Gerry pull the visual scanner tapes of every docking procedure that's occurred here within the past forty eight hours. This fiend had to arrive by ship and leave the same way. Perhaps the tapes will disclose something.
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At o 09:40, the Bellerophon rockets Thirty minutes later, Foon's powerful ship enters Earth's atmosphere and approaches the Latham Institute, a complex of pearlescent blue domes situated on the Gold Coast Of New California. Meanwhile, behind the locked doors of the Institute's executive suite, Oliver Latham sits behind his desk, staring up at the white skeleton like face of the eight foot tall, black cloaked alien who stands before him.
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It's the judgment of the Chicanran war council that you've overextended
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yourself, Latham. I don't care what your war council thinks, Brack. I'm doing The council's ultimatum
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is this. If you cannot deliver the eprosyne you promised, they will terminate the flow of wealth you so desperately need to maintain this complex of yours. You have ten days.
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Ten days? There's no way in the world that I can produce 200,000 liters of atresine in ten days. And why not?
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You produce 200,000
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liters of solamine yellow in only six days. Producing solamine yellow in quantity was easy. It was already developed. Etracine is still in the experimental stage.
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Latham, if atrazine is so experimental,
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why did it interact so perfectly with the solamine yellow in professor Stoner's system? Well, I didn't mean that. I meant that process of converting it from a solid to a liquid is experimented.
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Alastair, do you remember how surprised you were when your old friend, Jacob Himmler, approached you concerning our war with Abraxas?
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I was more than surprised. I was astonished. I had no idea he was involved with your Astonished.
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Yes. Now multiply that astonishment by a factor of 10, And you will know how much you astonish me. Astonish you? How? By the way you confuse an issue in the hope of gaining an advantage. You said atrazine was experimental. Now you say the conversion process is experimental. Which of the two is it?
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The process. It's the process.
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The way your mind works is an embarrassment, Latham.
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Oh, I see. I see. And the fact that your planet intends to age Abraxas into extinction, I suppose that's logical. Their culture is passive, Latham.
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Mister Latham, doctor Cassidy, mister Foom, and doctor Drone are here. Oh,
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alright. Give me a half a minute. This man Foom could be trouble, Frank. I'll be the judge of that.
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Let them in. I'll wait in the
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next room. Alright, miss Fuller. Send them in.
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Alien worlds will continue. Alien worlds continues. Three hours after entering Oliver Latham's office, Mora, doctor Drone, and Sonar T. Foam returned to the Institute Space Port, board the Bellerophon, and blast off for starlight.
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Foom. When you dropped your pipe in Latham's office and then bed down to retrieve it, I noticed you picked something out of the carpet. What was it? Evidence, my dear drone.
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Evidence that will send Oliver Latham straight into Jastrow Prison for the attempted murder of Madeleine Stoner.
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I don't believe it.
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Come now, fool. You're pulling my leg. I've never been more serious in my life. But what possible motive could he have? Unimaginable wealth, Mora. A fortune in capricite gemstones, the currency of Shikandra.
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What makes you think Shikandra has anything to do with this? Elementary, my dear drone.
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The faint lingering fragrance of night blossom perfume in Latham's office
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perfume
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yes the Zill assassins on Shikandra anoint themselves with it as part of a self purification ritual
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all right let's assume Latham is responsible. How did he get aboard STAR Lab? And what about the fact that he was in his office from seven last night until seven this morning? His door was open. A dozen people saw him. Oh, they saw him alright.
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The bandage on the palm of his left hand proves that. Bandage? Yes. Full speed ahead, drone. I'm anxious to peruse Jerry's docking bay tapes.
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There it is, mister Foom. Lunar shuttle 135. It came in late last night after the pilot radioed he was having trouble with the life support system.
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A perfect excuse to get out of the shuttle wearing the perfect disguise, a pressure suit and helmet.
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What else, Jerry? The stripes on the tail fin. It should be a red stripe, then a stripe of yellow and black checkerboard, then a blue stripe. Mhmm. The red and blue stripes on this shuttle are reversed. Uh-huh. So I called lunar base operations. There is no such vehicle as lunar shuttle one thirty five. Alright then.
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Mora, radio the institute and have Latham meet you in professor Stoner's lab at 10:00 this evening. Tell him the ISA has authorized you to pick up her personal effects. Alright. Drone, take the Bellerophon to London and pick up that special equipment we talked about. Meet us at the institute's spaceport no later than 09:00.
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As doctor Droege banks away from StarLab aboard the Baleara Farm, Mora and Foon rocket out of Launch Bay 9 aboard the ISA interceptor Atlantis and jet toward the Gold Coast Of New California.
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I still can't believe Oliver Latham did it. You know my methods, Mora. I never make an accusation I can't prove. And before this night is out, my own evidence will be vindicated by an admission of guilt from Latham himself.
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Isn't that your scanner alarm, Moron? Yes. We have an unidentified spacecraft at 02:05. That blue button, mister Foam. Let's get a visual.
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Well, a Skyraider. The plot thickens,
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Mora? Certainly does. Activate the laser turrets, mister Ford. Those red switches.
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Jolly o, Mora. Close, Close, but no cigar. Oops. Here he comes again. Not a very good shot, is he? What time is it? 08:30.
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Oh, gee. It's getting late, isn't it? Where did I get this over with? Nice shooting, Warner. That's one you owe me, mister Ford.
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One what? One cigar.
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Doctor Cassidy? Are you here?
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Over here, Oliver.
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Madeline? The needle didn't penetrate far enough.
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Oh, Oliver. Why?
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Why did you do it? The institute needed money, Madeline. Solamine yellow and atresine together, the perfect biochemical weapon. I could have made a fortune, but you said no, no more weapons. Life, not death, and I pretended to agree. I never wanted to hurt you Madeline. It was Brax idea. I had no choice. He said it was a a matter of survival, the taking of one life and in order to preserve the future of the Institute. I'm sorry, Madeleine, but I'm afraid that equation for survival still stands. You can't kill me again, Oliver.
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I don't exist.
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Madeleine? Madeline, come back.
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She can't come back, Latham. She was never here. She died half an hour ago. No.
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No. No. She can't be.
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She's alive. She was standing over there. You've been tricked, Latham. The same way you tricked everyone into thinking you were in your office the night you shot her. What?
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You've been talking to a hologram, Latham. What? Vanessa? Madeline? Sorry to disappoint you, Latham, but this happens to be miss Vanessa Lockwood, one of the Royal Shakespeare Company's most versatile and talented actresses. Mister Latham? Vanessa has been good enough to play the role of Madeline Stoner in the next room while we projected her holographic image into this room. Major,
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get him out of here. Come with us, mister Latham. You're under arrest. The Institute needed money. I I I I could have made a fortune. It it was Brax I needed.
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Would you mind clearing up a few things, mister Foam? Jerry's explanation was a little sketchy.
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What was your first clue? This silverized prism fragment I picked out of the carpet in Latham's office. It's from a parallax mirror, that part of a holographic projector concerned with stabilizing the image in relation to the viewer. He accidentally broke the mirror while disassembling the apparatus and cut himself picking up the pieces. But, Sonar,
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doesn't the thing one wishes to project have to be somewhere nearby?
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Normally, yes. But Latham used a preprogrammed visual scanner tape, which permitted him to be in two places at once when he isn't really anywhere at all. He planned it so perfectly.
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Twenty four hours ago, it seemed impossible that he could have done it. Nothing is perfect, Mora.
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And the next time you're confronted with the impossible, remember what the immortal Sherlock Holmes used to say. When the impossible is eliminated, what remains must be the truth, no matter how improbable that truth may be.
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Which of you is mister Foon? I am. I'm Abernathy, Institute Communications. This message just came for you from London by way of STAR Lab. And may I have the envelope,
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please? Certainly. Thank you so much. A gad drone. The historical television archives of the BBC have been ransacked, and every single episode of Monty Python's flying circus has been purloined. Why, this is monstrous. Yes. We must recover those episodes, drone. Come along. The game is afoot, and a new adventure is at hand.
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The adventure of the parallax deception was written by Ron Thompson, and starred Linda Gary, Roger Dressler, Corey Burton, with special guest stars Philip Clark as Sonar T. Foon. Bernard Fox as MacGuffin Drome. Jesse White as Latham. Irv Eimerman as Brad. And Corinne Conley as Madeleine Stoner. Associate producer, Ron Thompson. Music director, Tom Rounds. Engineer, Stu Jacobs. Technical consultant, Peter Sky. Assistant to the producer, Jim Cook. Alien Worlds was created, produced, and directed by Lee Hansen. This episode of Alien Worlds is dedicated to the memory of sir Arthur Conan Doyle, creator of England's most famous consulting detective.
And so until next week, this is Roger Dressler inviting you to join us for a question of conscience from the elsewhere and else when of alien worlds.
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Slowly orbiting at the edge of deep space, 1,000 kilometers beyond twenty first century Earth, is the Arthur c Clark Astronomical Observatory, STARLab. Here, STARLab research director, Maura Cassidy, and scientists and technicians of the International Space Authority watch over the countless star systems that fill the universe. This week, England's most famous consulting detective, Sonar T. Foom, and his associate, doctor MacGuffin Drone, return to STAR Lab and become involved in the adventure of the parallax deception on Alien Worlds.
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I have made priority shuttle one to StarLab control.
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This is star lab. Go ahead shuttle one.
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Please stand by for commissioner White. Jerry, is Mara still on calls with Buddy and John?
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Mara got back this morning, commissioner. Buddy and John are still there.
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Alright. Well, tell Mora I'm on my wing in from Kimian 3 with an old friend of hers, professor Madelyn Stoner.
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Will do.
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Thanks, Jerry. Here's captain Lester again. For 510. Okay. Star lamp. I'm ready to receive docking, orbit and surgeon coordinates. We are 800 kilometers out on approach Meridian 6 Niner 0, and our ETA is seven minutes. Ten seconds.
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Hello, Maura. How are you doing? Oh, hello, commissioner. Fine.
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Madeline, is that you? It's me alright.
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What did you do to yourself? You look twenty years younger. She is twenty years younger, Mora. What?
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But how? Solamine yellow, an age reversal serum I've been experimenting with at the Latham Institute.
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How long have you been experimenting on yourself? Five weeks. You've lost twenty years in just five weeks?
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Mhmm. If this isn't some kind of miracle, I don't know what is. Well, there's still a lot of work to be done, Maura. Control group studies, long term side effects, things like that. I'm leaving for England tomorrow to work with an old friend of mine. Maybe you've heard of her, doctor Vivian Stancho? Mhmm. Sure. I know her work. Well, she owns a private research lab near London, so we're going to start conducting some advanced experiments with the serum.
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How many people know about Solomaniello besides Oliver Latham and Doctor. Stanchall?
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The five ISA charter scientists we met with yesterday on Timion 3 and England's most famous consulting detective Sonar T. Foom.
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And why is mister Foom involved?
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Well, since half the universe would beat it past the Madeline's door if they knew about the serum, the project's top secret.
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And since Foom knows everything there is to know about keeping a secret The ISA has engaged him to work out the security arrangements for doctor Stanchal's laboratory.
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Right. Fulman doctor Dron will be here in the morning.
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Well, it's way past midnight. I've got a long day ahead of me tomorrow. Will you show me to my quarters, Laura? Of course, Madeline.
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And you, commissioner?
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I think I'll wander around StarLab for a while. See you in the morning.
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Okay, commissioner. Night. Night, mad.
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Well, I'll see if Madeline's ready, commissioner. See you in a few minutes.
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Madeline. Oh my god. Madeline.
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Laura, Laura, I'm old. So old, Madeline.
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Alien worlds will continue. Alien worlds continues.
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Okay. StarLab are ready to receive docking orbit insertion coordinates.
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We are 800 kilometers out of Following the top secret science conference on Timian three, ISA Commissioner White and Professor Madeleine Stoner arrive at StarLab for a meeting with Maura Cassidy.
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Madeline. What did you do to yourself? You look twenty years younger. She is twenty years younger, Maura. What?
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But how? Solamine yellow, an age reversal serum I've been experimenting with at the Latham Institute.
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But when Maura enters Madeleine's quarters the next morning, she finds her friend lying on the floor, her newfound youth gone, her eyes glazed with age, transformed overnight into a withered old woman. Meanwhile, at a small space port near London, England's most famous consulting detective, Sonar T. Foon, and his associate, doctor MacGuffin Drone, board Foon's multi atmosphere cruiser, the Velarophon, and blast off for stardom.
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Alright, drone. Reduce power 30% and ease back on the controls. Yes. Yes. Good. Now, stabilize
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pilot. Well, by go. Thank you for that's, quite a compliment coming from you. Yes. Now, let
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on board the onboard computer. Anyone at home up there?
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This is StarLab, mister Foom. Please stand by for doctor Cassidy.
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Mister Foom. Hello, Mora. Nice to hear your voice again. Mister Holm. Someone tried to kill Madeleine Stonerland.
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Great Scott. She's in a coma and doesn't look like she's gonna make it. We'll be there in five minutes, Mora.
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Full power drone.
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We thought at first she'd had some kind of,
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reaction to the serum. But But when doctor Rasator examined her, she found this in Madeleine's back. Why? Looks like a needle from an old fashioned hypodermic syringe.
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I'm afraid not, drone.
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This is a projectile from an extremely powerful compressed air pistol, and I'm certain the blue stain on its tip is a lethal poison. The weapon that fired this is used exclusively by the Zill assassination regiments on Shacandra.
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Why would a Zill assassin want to kill Madelyn anyway? And how on earth would one of them get aboard StarLab without our knowing it? I mean, my god, Shacandran adults are eight feet tall. Someone would have noticed him.
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Where in professor Stoner's body was this projectile found?
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In her back, about three inches below the base of her skull. The point was embedded in the first cervical vertebrae.
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It's fortunate the bone prevented it from entering her body completely. Oh, why do you say that, Fum? This projectile is made of a synthetic metal that is 100% chromic.
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Chromic? What do you mean?
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Chromic substance is one that dissolves in the body without a trace, commissioner. If that projectile had penetrated completely, we'd still be operating under the delusion that professor Stoner did, in fact, experience a negative solamine yellow reaction.
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That probably is what the would be assassin wanted us to think. Yes.
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Commissioner, do you have a sample of the serum with you? There's a small vial in Madeleine's bag. Good.
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I'll need some laboratory facilities, Mora. Starlab is at your disposal, mister Foo. Alright. Then let's get on with it. We have a lot of work to do. Why is this Mycroft computer of yours taking so long to analyze our experiments, Mora? Seems like we've been staring at this blank screen for days. Ah, here's our data now. Projectile, 100% chromic. Tip substance, 30% vathiolate, 70% unknown. Properties of the unknown element interacts exclusively with solamine yellow, converting it to an age acceleration agent by a factor of 18.6.
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Well, that's it, isn't it? Whoever tried to kill Madeleine had to know about Solomane Yellow and what it took to reverse the process.
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That considerably narrows our list of possible suspects, doesn't it, Foome? Yes. Oliver Latham, doctor Vivian Stanshaw,
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and the five ISA scientists on Timion three.
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If you think it'll do any good, I'll go back to Timion 3 and investigate the possibility of a security leak. Excellent.
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Now, what about doctor Stanchaw? No.
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Madeleine said they were so close they could practically read each other's minds. They were like sisters. Alright. That's good enough for me. Does Oliver Latham know what's happened? Yes. I radioed the Institute just before you docked.
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Radio him again, Mora, and tell him we're on our way down to have a chat. Okay. Oh, one more thing, Mora. Have Gerry pull the visual scanner tapes of every docking procedure that's occurred here within the past forty eight hours. This fiend had to arrive by ship and leave the same way. Perhaps the tapes will disclose something.
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At o 09:40, the Bellerophon rockets Thirty minutes later, Foon's powerful ship enters Earth's atmosphere and approaches the Latham Institute, a complex of pearlescent blue domes situated on the Gold Coast Of New California. Meanwhile, behind the locked doors of the Institute's executive suite, Oliver Latham sits behind his desk, staring up at the white skeleton like face of the eight foot tall, black cloaked alien who stands before him.
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It's the judgment of the Chicanran war council that you've overextended
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yourself, Latham. I don't care what your war council thinks, Brack. I'm doing The council's ultimatum
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is this. If you cannot deliver the eprosyne you promised, they will terminate the flow of wealth you so desperately need to maintain this complex of yours. You have ten days.
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Ten days? There's no way in the world that I can produce 200,000 liters of atresine in ten days. And why not?
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You produce 200,000
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liters of solamine yellow in only six days. Producing solamine yellow in quantity was easy. It was already developed. Etracine is still in the experimental stage.
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Latham, if atrazine is so experimental,
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why did it interact so perfectly with the solamine yellow in professor Stoner's system? Well, I didn't mean that. I meant that process of converting it from a solid to a liquid is experimented.
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Alastair, do you remember how surprised you were when your old friend, Jacob Himmler, approached you concerning our war with Abraxas?
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I was more than surprised. I was astonished. I had no idea he was involved with your Astonished.
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Yes. Now multiply that astonishment by a factor of 10, And you will know how much you astonish me. Astonish you? How? By the way you confuse an issue in the hope of gaining an advantage. You said atrazine was experimental. Now you say the conversion process is experimental. Which of the two is it?
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The process. It's the process.
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The way your mind works is an embarrassment, Latham.
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Oh, I see. I see. And the fact that your planet intends to age Abraxas into extinction, I suppose that's logical. Their culture is passive, Latham.
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Mister Latham, doctor Cassidy, mister Foom, and doctor Drone are here. Oh,
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alright. Give me a half a minute. This man Foom could be trouble, Frank. I'll be the judge of that.
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Let them in. I'll wait in the
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next room. Alright, miss Fuller. Send them in.
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Alien worlds will continue. Alien worlds continues. Three hours after entering Oliver Latham's office, Mora, doctor Drone, and Sonar T. Foam returned to the Institute Space Port, board the Bellerophon, and blast off for starlight.
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Foom. When you dropped your pipe in Latham's office and then bed down to retrieve it, I noticed you picked something out of the carpet. What was it? Evidence, my dear drone.
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Evidence that will send Oliver Latham straight into Jastrow Prison for the attempted murder of Madeleine Stoner.
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I don't believe it.
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Come now, fool. You're pulling my leg. I've never been more serious in my life. But what possible motive could he have? Unimaginable wealth, Mora. A fortune in capricite gemstones, the currency of Shikandra.
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What makes you think Shikandra has anything to do with this? Elementary, my dear drone.
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The faint lingering fragrance of night blossom perfume in Latham's office
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perfume
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yes the Zill assassins on Shikandra anoint themselves with it as part of a self purification ritual
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all right let's assume Latham is responsible. How did he get aboard STAR Lab? And what about the fact that he was in his office from seven last night until seven this morning? His door was open. A dozen people saw him. Oh, they saw him alright.
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The bandage on the palm of his left hand proves that. Bandage? Yes. Full speed ahead, drone. I'm anxious to peruse Jerry's docking bay tapes.
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There it is, mister Foom. Lunar shuttle 135. It came in late last night after the pilot radioed he was having trouble with the life support system.
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A perfect excuse to get out of the shuttle wearing the perfect disguise, a pressure suit and helmet.
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What else, Jerry? The stripes on the tail fin. It should be a red stripe, then a stripe of yellow and black checkerboard, then a blue stripe. Mhmm. The red and blue stripes on this shuttle are reversed. Uh-huh. So I called lunar base operations. There is no such vehicle as lunar shuttle one thirty five. Alright then.
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Mora, radio the institute and have Latham meet you in professor Stoner's lab at 10:00 this evening. Tell him the ISA has authorized you to pick up her personal effects. Alright. Drone, take the Bellerophon to London and pick up that special equipment we talked about. Meet us at the institute's spaceport no later than 09:00.
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As doctor Droege banks away from StarLab aboard the Baleara Farm, Mora and Foon rocket out of Launch Bay 9 aboard the ISA interceptor Atlantis and jet toward the Gold Coast Of New California.
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I still can't believe Oliver Latham did it. You know my methods, Mora. I never make an accusation I can't prove. And before this night is out, my own evidence will be vindicated by an admission of guilt from Latham himself.
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Isn't that your scanner alarm, Moron? Yes. We have an unidentified spacecraft at 02:05. That blue button, mister Foam. Let's get a visual.
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Well, a Skyraider. The plot thickens,
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Mora? Certainly does. Activate the laser turrets, mister Ford. Those red switches.
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Jolly o, Mora. Close, Close, but no cigar. Oops. Here he comes again. Not a very good shot, is he? What time is it? 08:30.
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Oh, gee. It's getting late, isn't it? Where did I get this over with? Nice shooting, Warner. That's one you owe me, mister Ford.
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One what? One cigar.
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Doctor Cassidy? Are you here?
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Over here, Oliver.
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Madeline? The needle didn't penetrate far enough.
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Oh, Oliver. Why?
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Why did you do it? The institute needed money, Madeline. Solamine yellow and atresine together, the perfect biochemical weapon. I could have made a fortune, but you said no, no more weapons. Life, not death, and I pretended to agree. I never wanted to hurt you Madeline. It was Brax idea. I had no choice. He said it was a a matter of survival, the taking of one life and in order to preserve the future of the Institute. I'm sorry, Madeleine, but I'm afraid that equation for survival still stands. You can't kill me again, Oliver.
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I don't exist.
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Madeleine? Madeline, come back.
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She can't come back, Latham. She was never here. She died half an hour ago. No.
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No. No. She can't be.
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She's alive. She was standing over there. You've been tricked, Latham. The same way you tricked everyone into thinking you were in your office the night you shot her. What?
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You've been talking to a hologram, Latham. What? Vanessa? Madeline? Sorry to disappoint you, Latham, but this happens to be miss Vanessa Lockwood, one of the Royal Shakespeare Company's most versatile and talented actresses. Mister Latham? Vanessa has been good enough to play the role of Madeline Stoner in the next room while we projected her holographic image into this room. Major,
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get him out of here. Come with us, mister Latham. You're under arrest. The Institute needed money. I I I I could have made a fortune. It it was Brax I needed.
[00:21:48] Unknown:
Would you mind clearing up a few things, mister Foam? Jerry's explanation was a little sketchy.
[00:21:53] Unknown:
What was your first clue? This silverized prism fragment I picked out of the carpet in Latham's office. It's from a parallax mirror, that part of a holographic projector concerned with stabilizing the image in relation to the viewer. He accidentally broke the mirror while disassembling the apparatus and cut himself picking up the pieces. But, Sonar,
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doesn't the thing one wishes to project have to be somewhere nearby?
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Normally, yes. But Latham used a preprogrammed visual scanner tape, which permitted him to be in two places at once when he isn't really anywhere at all. He planned it so perfectly.
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Twenty four hours ago, it seemed impossible that he could have done it. Nothing is perfect, Mora.
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And the next time you're confronted with the impossible, remember what the immortal Sherlock Holmes used to say. When the impossible is eliminated, what remains must be the truth, no matter how improbable that truth may be.
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Which of you is mister Foon? I am. I'm Abernathy, Institute Communications. This message just came for you from London by way of STAR Lab. And may I have the envelope,
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please? Certainly. Thank you so much. A gad drone. The historical television archives of the BBC have been ransacked, and every single episode of Monty Python's flying circus has been purloined. Why, this is monstrous. Yes. We must recover those episodes, drone. Come along. The game is afoot, and a new adventure is at hand.
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The adventure of the parallax deception was written by Ron Thompson, and starred Linda Gary, Roger Dressler, Corey Burton, with special guest stars Philip Clark as Sonar T. Foon. Bernard Fox as MacGuffin Drome. Jesse White as Latham. Irv Eimerman as Brad. And Corinne Conley as Madeleine Stoner. Associate producer, Ron Thompson. Music director, Tom Rounds. Engineer, Stu Jacobs. Technical consultant, Peter Sky. Assistant to the producer, Jim Cook. Alien Worlds was created, produced, and directed by Lee Hansen. This episode of Alien Worlds is dedicated to the memory of sir Arthur Conan Doyle, creator of England's most famous consulting detective.
And so until next week, this is Roger Dressler inviting you to join us for a question of conscience from the elsewhere and else when of alien worlds.
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Introduction to STARLab and the Parallax Deception
Arrival of Commissioner White and Professor Stoner
The Mysterious Aging of Madeleine Stoner
Investigation Begins: The Chromic Projectile
Confrontation with Oliver Latham
The Hologram Deception and Latham's Arrest
Conclusion and New Adventure
