The 27th Day Page #4

keep doing what

you're doing and don't

try to judge me.

- I'm not interested in your opinion.

- Well, I have a right to them!

I don't think you do.

As far as I'm concerned,

you lost your

rights when you threw

those capsules away.

I'm sorry.

Men commit a variety

of crimes, and they

always seem to have

the same excuse.

We've been here ten

days and we manage

to disagree on

ever one of them..

It's normal

Take two strangers

and put them in closed quarters

have them clean, cook, talk...

actually we had all the

disadvantages of a

marriage without any

of the advantages.

- Jonathan Clark!

- But it's true..

It's time I went to bed.

Sleep well.

Jonathan?

Yeah?

Were you in the last war?

Were you a determined soldier?

What do you mean?

I mean if you had an objective to take

Were you always successful?

That's nice.

What'd you say?

I said 'good night'.

- Good evening

- Good evening.

I'm Dr.Stephen Maiser.

O Dr.Hawkins and I

have been asked to examine

professor Bechner

Sorry, doctor. We got orders no

one is to see Professor Beckman

I think this will supersede

any previous orders.

This is Kelly. Give me a check

on a license in New York.

5- F-9836

I guess I can't argue with

this. Go ahead, Doctor.

Thank you.

- Who was that just went in?

- Dr.Stephen Maiser.

Maisner? Maisner is home is bed, Come on!

I do not have it, I tell you

they took it away from me.

Looking for the box, professor?

I don't know where the box is.

You must believe me.

- You two alright?

- Yes, but who are they?

I think we can both make

a pretty good guess.

Bechner was unharmed and

is now resting comfortably.

The official bulletin

said merely that two

unidentified men were shot

and killed last night.

In an attempt on Professor Bechner's life.

But it is widely assumed that

the two would-be assassins.

Were foreign agents attempting

to recover the mysterious box.

Believed to be given Bechner

while on the alien spaceship.

The search for Jonathan Clark

still goes on, without success.

The federal authorities are

repeating their warnings.

People are not to take

the law into their own hands.

In the past 48 hours,

One man answering the description of

Jonathan Clark

has already been killed.

Remember, Clark is

only in condemn

for refusal to obey

a congressional

summons to surrender

to the authorities.

You're no more to blame

for the panic in

the world than any

of the rest of us..

We all avoided our

responsibility

by running away from it.

Do you think maybe a man could

be so pigheaded wrong he can't

see the truth even when it's

spelled out for him?

I wouldn't have much

respect for a man who

wasn't pigheaded.When he

was sure he was right.

- A man like that could be dangerous.

- Maybe.

When the alien first

gave us these capsules,

I thought the whole

thing was preposterous.

It seemed pretty obvious

that all we had to do

was keep them hidden till

the 27 days were up.

Even the Chinese girl and Ivan, devem

would have seen that.

It was all too easy.

It would have been alright if the alien

hadn't made the broadcast.

Yeah. But he did.

And now we're being hunted like animals.

They tried to kill Professor Bechner and

I hate to think what

may be happening

to Ivan and the Chinese girl.

Do you think if Ivan talked

his government would use the weapon?

They might.

They've been racing

to see who could

discover the most

powerful weapon of war.

Compared to this,

the Hydrogen Bomb is a toy.

Now both nations

have the ultimate weapon.

I try to stay out of it by hiding.

Are you thinking of giving yourself up?

I don't know what to think anymore.

If I come in on my own accord, I might

be able to stop some of the panic.

I thought you told me that the

world was built on self preservation.

And the most important thing in life

was to look out for number one.

A lot of my convictions

are beginning

to wear pretty thin

the last few days.

For instance, I had a very

strong conviction that there

was no woman alive that

could make me fall in love.

What did you say?

It's a miserable way

to find out, isn't it?

It's a miserable way to say it.

Maybe someday

I can say it better.

You're sure it isn't just all this?

I'm sure.

There's so little time.

Only a few days.

Maybe even less.

I know.

You know, it's not going to be

so easy to give ourselves in.

You just can't walk in the town and say:

" Here we are."

What about the guard?

No.

When we give ourselves up,

I want a lot of authority around.

Come on.

Good morning.

I'm Jonathan Clark.

- His mind will clear?

- For a time.

To administer pentathol

after only five days...

you can question him, sir.

But you understand his condition.

Ivan, there is no need to be frightened.

I know now you wanted only to protect

us from the horrors of war.

Is that not so?

Yet you have failed.

The imperialist nations have

pooled the alien's weapons.

We find ourselves defenseless, unless...

You can help us, Ivan

You and you alone can save your people.

From destruction.

Your father gave his life in the defense

of his country.

I have here a letter

from your mother.

She wants you to ensure

that your father's life

was not given in vain.

Help us, Ivan.

If you should have a relapse,

we will be at the mercy

of our enemies.

I'll tell you everything.

But we can't just

sit here and do nothing.

Now that we know that

Ivan has put the

weapon in the hands

of his government

are you proposing that we use ours?

That would be the first step in

fulfilling the alien's plan.

All this nonsense about

their high morality!

Let's double talk!

They give us a

weapon and they

expect us to use it.

And yet they give the impression

that they hope we won't!

Morality!

Like they're so full of

morals and loving kindness?

How come they just had

happen to have 15 nice,

shiny human exterminators

lying around?

I don't think you're

being fair to the aliens.

Fair?!

They could have simply

used their capsules and taken our planet.

Jonathan

imagine what we must

look like in their eyes.

Since the first men hit

one another with clubs

the human race has spent

more time destroying itself

than in any other endeavor.

But the aliens are

not trying to judge us.

They have merely intensified

our choice.

A choice that has faced us

since the first atomic bomb.

With them it's not so much a

choice, is it? It

is an ultimatum.

I think we are all

missing a significant point.

What's that, professor?

If we were a stable and mature

people, this would be almost nothing,

The alien would have

presented us with the capsules

And we, upon returning to earth

would have promptly tossed

them into the nearest sewer

or the nearest ocean.

Instead, we returned to earth terrified.

Why? because we knew that the human race

could not be trusted to handle these bombs,

anymore than an

undisciplined child would

be trusted with the

high powered rifle.

That still doesn't help us to know

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