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You're traveling
through another dimension-

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a dimension not only of sight
and sound, but of mind,

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a journey into a wondrous land

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whose boundaries
are that of imagination.

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Your next stop,
the twilight zone.

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Suzy!

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Don't take the lady's water.

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It's all right,
mr. Schuster.

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I've got plenty.

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Nobody's got plenty.

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Oh, mr. Schuster, i thought

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i heard
your voice.

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For the last time, mrs. Bronson,
we're leaving.

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Did you get gas?

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I got 12 gallons.

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I figure that ought to get us
at least to syracuse.

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Where are you going?

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We're trying to get to toronto.

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Mr. Schuster
has a cousin there.

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I'm not sure it's wise
you're doing this.

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The highways are packed
bumper to bumper the radio says.

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And what with the gas shortage
and everything...

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i know that,

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but we've got
to try anyway.

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It's been nice living here.

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You're good neighbors.

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Let's go, honey.

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Bye.

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Good luck.

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Safe trip.

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And now we are two.

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They were the last?

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Building's empty now...

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except for you and me.

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What happens now?

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I don't know.

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I heard on the radio

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that they're only going
to turn the water on

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an hour a day from now on.

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They said
they'd announce what time.

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Aren't you going to leave?

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No.

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No, i'm not going to leave.

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You know, mrs. Bronson,

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i keep getting this
crazy thought...

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...this crazy thought
that i'm going to wake up

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and none of this
will have happened.

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I'll wake up in a cool bed, and...

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it'll be night outside

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and there'll be a wind...

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branches rustling...

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shadows on the sidewalk...

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a moon...

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traffic noises...

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automobiles...

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garbage cans...

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milk bottles...

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and voices.

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There was a scientist
on the radio this morning.

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He said that it'll get
a lot hotter, more each day,

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now that we're moving
so close to the sun.

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And that's why we're...

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that's why we're...

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the word that mrs. Bronson
is unable to put

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into the hot, still, sodden air
is "doomed"

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because the people
you've just seen

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have been handed
a death sentence.

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One month ago,

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the earth suddenly changed
its elliptical orbit,

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and in doing so
began to follow a path

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which gradually,
moment by moment, day by day,

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took it closer to the sun.

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And all of man's little devices
to stir up the air

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are now no longer luxuries.

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They happen to be pitiful
and panicky keys to survival.

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The time is five minutes to 12,
midnight.

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There is no more darkness.

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The place is new york city,
and this is the eve of the end

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because even at midnight,
it's high noon,

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the hottest day in history,

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and you're about to spend it
in the twilight zone.

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Norma, is that
you, honey?

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Yes, mrs. Bronson.

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The store was open.

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Wide open.

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Oh, i think that's the first
time in my life

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i was ever sorry
i was born a woman.

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This is all i was strong
enough to carry.

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There weren't any
clerks around...

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thank you.

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Just a handful of people

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taking what they could grab.

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Well, at least we
won't starve anyway.

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And there are three cans
of fruit juice in there.

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Fruit juice?

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Fruit juice?

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Oh, norma, could we
open a can now?

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Oh, of course we
can open a can now.

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Oh, where's the can opener?

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Oh, in the other drawer.

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Oh, i'm sorry.

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I'm acting
just like an animal, aren't i?

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No.

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No, no, just...

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just like a frightened
woman, that's all.

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You should have
seen me in the store

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running up and down
the aisles,

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and i mean running.

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Knocking things over
and grabbing things

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and throwing them away
and grabbing again.

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And at that,i think i was
the calmest person in the store.

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One woman just stood in the
middle of the room and cried.

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She cried like a baby,

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pleading for someone
to help her.

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Ladies and gentlemen.

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This is station wnyg

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coming on the air
to bring you essential news.

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First, a bulletin
from the police department.

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Keep your doors locked

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and prepare to protect
yourselves, if necessary,

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with any weapons you may have.

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A majority of the police force

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has been assigned
to the crowded highways

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outside this deserted city.

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And citizens
remaining in new york

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may have to protect themselves

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from the cranks and looters
known to be roaming the streets.

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From the weather bureau:

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The temperature
stood at 110 degrees

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at 11:00 this morning.

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Humidity 91%.

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Forecast for tomorrow...

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forecast for tomorrow...

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hot.

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More of the same, only hotter.

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Stop it.

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I don't care.

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Who are they kidding
with this weather report stuff?

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Ladies and gentlemen,

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tomorrow,
you can fry eggs on sidewalks,

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heat up soup in the ocean,

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and get help from wondering
maniacs if you choose.

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What do you mean "panic"?

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Who's left to panic?

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Ladies and gentlemen,

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i'm told that
my departing from the script

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might panic you and...

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let me alone.
Do you hear me?

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Let me alone.
Let go of me.

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There, you...

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you see, mrs. Bronson?

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You're not the only one
who's frightened.

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There we are.

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Go ahead, drink it.

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It's grapefruit juice.

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No, i can't. I can't
live off you like this.

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You need it for yourself.

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Mrs. Bronson,

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we're going to have to start
living off each other from now on.

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Here's looking at you.

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Current's off again.

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It stays on a shorter
time each day.

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Norma, what if it shuts off
and doesn't come back on again?

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This place would
be like an oven.

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As hot as it is,

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it could be
so much worse.

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Oh, norma, it could
be so much worse.

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Norma...

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please paint
something cool today.

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Paint something...
pastoral...

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with a waterfall and...

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trees bending in the wind.

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Please paint something cool.

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Don't paint the sun anymore!

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Don't paint the sun anymore!

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Mrs. Bronson?

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Mrs. Bronson?

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You all right?

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Yes, i'm all right.

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It's so quiet.

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I haven't heard a sound.

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What time is it?

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3:00 in the afternoon.

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Did you get any sleep?

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I laid down awhile.

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What was that?

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Sounds like something fell.

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No...

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it was someone.

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Didn't you lock the roof door?

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Yes.

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No, i...

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i don't know, i...

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i don't remember.

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I thought i did.

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Hey, somebody in there?

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Come on out.

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Come on out, baby.

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Come on out and be friendly.

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I ain't got all day.

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If you don't come out,
i'm going to come in.

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Did you hear that?

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That was a gun.

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Get out of here.

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Down the stairs
and out the front door.

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Leave us alone.

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Okay, baby.

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I never argue with 
a lady with a gun.

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Oh, i'm so glad he's gone.

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He hasn't come out
the front door yet.

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No!

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No!

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Crazy dames!

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It's too hot to play games.

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Much too hot.

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You do this?

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You're good.

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You paint real good.

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My wife used to paint.

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Please leave us alone.

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We didn't do you any harm.

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Please.

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She was so fragile,
just... just a little thing.

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She couldn't take this heat.

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I tried to keep her cool...

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but she couldn't take the heat!

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Baby didn't live
more than an hour.

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Then she followed him.

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I'm not a housebreaker.

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I'm a decent man.

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I swear to you,
i'm a decent man.

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I've been
walking around

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all... all day
trying to find some water.

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I wouldn't hurt you.

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I wouldn't do you any harm.

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Honest.

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Please believe me.

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Please...

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please forgive me, would you?

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I'm just off my rocker.

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Please forgive me.

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Why doesn't it end?

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Why don't we just...

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just burn up?

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I painted it for
you last night.

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It's for you.

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Oh, it's beautiful, norma.

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I've seen waterfalls
just like that before.

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There's one near ithaca,
new york.

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Yes,
it's the highest waterfall...

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the highest waterfall
in this part of the country.

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And i love the sound of it.

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That wonderful blue water
tumbling over the rocks.

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That wonderful,
cool, clear water.

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You hear it, norma?
Hear it?

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You do hear it,
norma, don't you?

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That wonderful sound?

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You know, we could...

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we could swim
in that waterfall.

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Let's do that.

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Let's swim in it, shall we?

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I used to do that
when i was a little girl.

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Just...just sit there and...

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and let the water
come down over me.

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Mrs. Bronson?

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Mrs. Bronson?

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Mrs. Bronson?

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She's coming out of it now.

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Norma?

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Norma?

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Yes?

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You were running a high fever,
but it's broken now.

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Fever?

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You gave us a start, child.

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You were so ill,

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but you're going
to be all right now.

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Isn't she, doctor?

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Isn't she going to be all right?

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Of course.

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I wish i had something
left to give her

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but the medicine's pretty much 
all gone now.

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I won't be able to come back.

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I'm going to move my
family south tomorrow.

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My friend has a private plane.

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Well, they say on the
radio, miami is warmer.

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So they say.

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But we're only prolonging it.

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There was a scientist
on the radio this morning.

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He was trying
to explain what happened.

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How the earth
had changed its orbit

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and was starting
to move away from the sun,

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and that within one, two,
or maybe three weeks at the most,

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there wouldn't be
any more sun-

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we'd all freeze.

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Oh, mrs. Bronson.

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I had such a terrible dream.

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It was so hot.

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It was daylight all the time.

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There was...a midnight sun.

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There wasn't any night
at all.

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No night at all.

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Isn't it wonderful

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to have darkness and coolness?

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Yes, my dear.

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It's wonderful.

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The poles of fear,

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the extremes of how the earth
might conceivably be doomed.

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Minor exercise in the care
and feeding of a nightmare,

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respectfully submitted

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by all the thermometer-watchers
in the twilight zone.