When Worlds Collide Page #5

This will hold you on course.

- All the way to Zyra?

- No, but far enough.

The blackout won't last

too long...a few minutes, tops.

This is no time

to start doubting the ship, doc.

I'm not. I know howwell

it's been put together.

The trouble is I just learned

how Dr Frye's put together.

His chance of coming out

of the blackout isn't good.

- I've seen older men make it.

- At the speed we'll climb?

His heart won't stand that pressure.

When did you discover that?

Yesterday. When I made

his cardiograph test.

I haven't told anyone yet -

not even Frye.

Well, don't!

It won't help to scare everyone.

Like Doomsday, that can't be avoided.

We can't let Frye handle this flight.

Look, doc...

maybe...well...

Dr Hendron and Frye must be told.

I can't take that responsibility.

That isn't what I wanted to say.

No...you're right.

You'll have to tell them, I guess.

There's no other choice.

If anything happens to Frye

after we get out into space...

I don't suppose it makes any difference,

crashing from 1,500 miles up,

or dying on earth.

Either way, you're just plain dead.

After the blackout,

one ofthe technology students,

Eddie Cummings could take over,

if Frye tells him what to do.

If Frye is able to tell him

after the blackout.

Dave, you're hedging!

We both know who can handle this flight.

Maybe not as good as Frye,

but good enough.

Do you doubt being able to fly this ship?

I can fly her.

There isn't anyone else.

You're our life insurance.

If Frye doesn't make it,

you can land the ship.

For months, I've tried to find

a legitimate reason to go.

I never could. Maybe things

were meant to happen this way.

Diagnose it any way you want.

All I know is, I'd feel a lot easier,

not having to tell Frye the news.

Be right back!

This is the last of the chloroform.

Put it somewhere handy

to the animal pens.

You going to give the animals

a mickey finn?

If we don't,

the pressure will drive them mad.

We wouldn't want to see them

kick the ship apart.

I'll never forget what you did

for Dave and me, Tony.

I told you the doctor would fix everything.

Come here, Whatsis.

- Come on.

- Where are you from, boy?

- He's mine.

- Where did you get him, Mike?

- Downtown.

- You mean down at the airfield?

He was walking around.

I hate to remind you, but you said

the doctor can fix everything.

That's right, I did, didn't I?

Let's weigh him.

Incidentally, he's a she.

Nine lbs, two ounces.

Sure, Whatsis is gonna pinch it

for a couple of plump chickens.

Urgent! We are still

Those making the attempt to reach Zyra,

report without delay to Dr Drake.

- I knew it would be like this!

- What did you expect?

My number - it's on! I'm on the list!

Julie! I'm on the list!

Julie! My number!

I'm on the list!

Remember, if we delay the take off

as long as possible,

Zyra's position will form

a perfect orbit with ours.

I hope we can retain that eXtra fuel

to keep us flying over Zyra,

while we look for landing room.

Zyra will be about here

in relation to earth.

If you hold the ship to this curve,

we can meet her orbit and run parallel.

The fuel will last longer with less cargo!

Why risk taking so many people?

You and that chair weigh 186 lbs.

That's a lot of fuel.

Do you want to donate that weight?

No more than you want to donate your life!

or your daughter's.

I paid for this ship. You would have been

wiped out with the rest of the world!

Before you paid, you tried to make this

a personal enterprise.

A private rocket ship

for your own special use.

This project was started by real

humanitarians. By Marston and Spiro.

They gave their money

with no strings attached.

You're not here under any special licence.

You're always shouting for facts.

Remember these facts.

our chance of reaching the new world

is as thin as you becoming a humanitarian!

Ifwe make it, will we be able to land?

Will the air be fit to breathe?

Will there be water? Vegetable life?

Men and women here

have been praying for God's help.

Not your kind of hypocritical praying,

but the kind that comes

from deep inside a man.

- Sorry. I'll come back later.

- No. We can't put things offtill later.

I just wanted to leave this

for someone else to use.

He has a girl, Julie Cummings.

I guess he doesn't want to leave her.

There's that extra fuel.

He must weigh close to 180.

You heard him volunteer to stay behind.

Shut the door.

You're not taking it from him!

He turned it back of his own free will.

Get out. Ferris!

The other side ofthe door for you.

Shut up!

This is one ofthe good ones, isn't it?

I'm sorry.

The people have all been selected.

- I'm going too.

- Put that gun down.

I'd almost rather kill you than go along.

For seven years, ever since I started

pushing this chair around,

I've hated your insides.

You're a very easy man to hate.

I'd like to reason things out.

You see...

No! You three are running things.

You'll tell everybody I'm going!

This is my number.

That's all the reasoning I want to know.

And if I don't go...

- He was going to kill us.

- Better give it to me.

I said this would happen.

And not just Ferris!

There'll be others. All of them.

They won't wait to die here.

- He may be right.

- There's a lot of bad feeling.

one boy was stabbed after the list was

posted. There've been fist fights.

It's dog eat dog.

The law of the jungle.

We can't risk it.

What do we do now?

Move the women on board

and lock the gates.

The men can wait outside until take off!

- The guns are in my room.

- That's out!

We'll have to move people and animals

as quietly as possible.

- There's a girl...

- Julie Cummings.

Tell her there's been a mix-up.

She and Eddie Garson are going.

We'll gamble on less flying time

over the new world.

- Let me tell you...

- Don't say it Stanton!

Don't say anything.

The last dawn!

I think we can start boarding.

All right, everyone, inside the ship!

I'll bring Mr Stanton.

Why should our lives be decided by

a raffle? How do we know it wasn't fixed?

- It should have been by voting!

- Let's take the ship!

Gangway, boys.

- Here are the guns Stanton left.

- That's all we need!

- Let's go. Grab a gun.

- There's no sense in this.

- We agreed to the drawing.

- Listen to him.

Take the ship. Then what?

only 40 can get away.

The rest of us will get rid of that 40,

and the next 40

until we kill each other or get caught

when the worlds collide!

Stick around until the collision

puts you out ofyour misery.

Get me on board.

You were right. You're a better judge

of people than I am.

Get me aboard. No, Hendron.

What are you doing? Stop him!

Hendron, what are you doing?

No. Wait. Help!

Dr Hendron.

Get on board, hurry.

Hold the gangplank.

Hold the ramp, wait!

We're the extra fuel they might need.

The new world isn't for us.

It's for the young.

Dave! The ship is moving. stand by.

We're out of the pressure zone.

The engines are off.

We're on course.

You invented those cardiographs

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