World Without End Page #5

will be extinct.

The world's a big place.

There may be other pockets of survival.

Australia, Greenland, who knows?

But if this is the human race,

the human race dies too.

Yes.

Yes, we need these people.

We have to save them

in spite of themselves.

All right, we'll go to the council,

ask for weapons, nothing more.

I've seen the shops,

they can build anything.

We'll go it alone.

There's one obstacle. Mories.

Time after time, it looked as though

we might talk them into something.

But he always jumped in

and turned the council the other way.

Well, that's my fault, I'm afraid.

He's insanely jealous.

He wants Garnet, and she...

Well, go ahead, old man, say it.

She wants you.

Garnet's a wonderful girl, John.

Why shouldn't she prefer you?

You're three times the man he is.

Oh, let's not worry about Mories.

We can do business with Timmek

if we catch him alone.

And they will say they are doing it for us,

for the future of our people.

But among themselves, they have conspired

to get weapons by deceit and cajolery...

...to enslave us, to throw our lives away

in a war of conquest.

How can they repay our kindness

with such treachery?

We see in them all the ills

of the 20th-century man.

Greed, aggressiveness, brutality.

The passion to dominate

that made a shambles of the Earth.

I am stunned.

Are you sure?

Nihka and Jule listened with me.

Garnet assures me

they are kindly, unselfish.

Our women seem to have lagged behind in

their evolution into reasonable creatures.

They actually admire

these reckless and brutal men.

We shall see.

If they try their deceit and cajolery on me,

I will know how to deal with them.

You must see to it

that they do not recover their firearms.

I make you personally responsible

for them.

Deena, try to remember,

what else did your mother tell you?

She said that the beasts

did not drive all the children away.

There were so many of them.

- Normal children you mean?

- Yes.

They needed them to work.

They were very cruel to them,

but they did not drive them away.

- I see.

John?

John.

Johnny, town meeting. We're gonna

get a chance to sell our bill of goods.

Coming, Herb.

I love him.

Herb?

Oh, now, listen, Deena...

Hi, honey.

You ready, Johnny? They're waiting for us.

Sure.

All we ask are weapons, food and water,

and building materials.

Your workmen

can make the weapons for us.

With them, we will repel any attacks

and establish a safe base of operations.

With the material,

we'll build a change of blockhouses...

...linking them with electric fences such as

you use to protect your ventilator intakes.

We will gradually encircle an area of land

in the valley below.

Fighting no more than is necessary

to keep from being interfered with.

We propose to do this ourselves.

If your men care to join us,

we will welcome their help...

...but we do not ask for it.

When a suitable area has been secured...

...you will have the option

of living there or not as you wish.

But we are safe here.

Why should we subject ourselves

to the heat, the cold...

...the discomforts of the surface?

Because if you remain here,

burrowing in the ground like moles...

...your children will die.

How many children do you have here?

In each generation, fewer are born.

And of those, fewer live.

Your children need the sun.

Do you condemn them to death?

Do you condemn your people

to extinction?

We are well aware of the problem.

Our scientists have a solution

within their grasp.

These people seize upon it as a pretext.

They lie when they say

they want to help us.

They want to enslave us...

...to use us for fighting

their senseless wars of conquest.

- But they say...

- They say they want the weapons.

And with the weapons, they will be the

masters and we will be the slaves.

That's not true.

I'm sorry, but Mories is right.

We must solve our own problems.

Weapons have been the curse

of mankind.

We have never made weapons here,

and we will make none now.

Father, Mories is wrong.

Those men are kind and sincere.

This bickering, this conflict,

is new to me.

I don't know.

You must face it, Father.

We are a dying people

and they want to help us.

But Mories heard them plotting.

Mories is jealous. It's poisoned his mind.

Perhaps he misinterpreted what he heard.

Father, I love John Borden.

Could I be wrong about him?

I don't know.

With your permission.

Yes, James, thank you.

- Garnet is with Timmek?

- Yes.

What is she telling him?

She believes Dr. Galbraithe

and his men are sincere.

I suppose Timmek is wavering.

He is considering her arguments.

These are violent men, James.

You and I know that.

They will try to get their weapons.

- They must not get them.

- I know, Mories.

I have them safely hidden

in my own sleeping quarters.

Who is that? Get away from there.

Why can't they see that Mories is lying?

It sticks out like a sore thumb.

Garnet will speak to her father.

Timmek, Timmek, Timmek.

James is dead.

Killed by a blow on the head.

No. No!

The weapons. The accursed weapons.

Good afternoon, sir.

Search.

Can I help you?

What are you looking for?

I don't understand.

What is this?

Wait a minute.

Wait a minute.

The others are coming.

John.

Don't...

Get off me.

Let go of me. What do you mean by this?

Let go of me.

The other one. Jaffe!

What does this mean?

We found these here.

I'm sorry,

but surely there's no great harm done.

No harm?

Is that all a human life means to you?

A human life?

The man who took the weapons

killed James.

No, that's impossible.

What is all this blasted nonsense?

Are they playing games or something?

No games, Herb.

They found the guns here.

What? The guns?

Someone killed James to get them.

Killed James?

Oh, now, doc,

I had nothing to do with it.

Violence, lies, murder.

They all go together.

I am an old man.

I wish I had died

before I saw a day such as this.

Bring them to the council chamber.

We have decided

what is to be one with you.

Decided? Without a trial?

Without giving us a chance

to defend ourselves?

What defense can there be?

You wanted the weapons

and you took them.

The facts speak for themselves.

This is our decision.

You will be put out of our tunnel

exactly as you entered it.

You will be given food and water.

Your weapons will be returned to you.

You will have neither more nor less

than you had when you came.

That's the equivalent

of a death sentence.

We will try to shut you out of our minds

as if you had never been here.

You will be sent out two hours

after the sun sets.

That is all.

Garnet, we had nothing to do with it.

I must see Timmek.

I'm sorry, he is not to be disturbed.

This has been an ordeal to him.

He must see me.

I know who hid the weapons.

The weapons? I will tell him.

Will you wait here?

Mories did it.

I saw him hide the weapons.

Find him.

See that she is taken care of.

We mourn for Mories,

who was our friend...

...but whose fatal weakness of character

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