 Tired of the everyday routine ever dream of a life of romantic adventure Want to get away from it all we offer you escape Escape transcribe to free you from the four walls of today for a half hour of high adventure You are standing outside a room Horror gripping you well before your eyes seen through the transom window the most beautiful girl in the world Is about to die because of you Today we escape from reality with a fascinating story of a girl who lived a weird second life as John Jessel told it in his gripping story the adaptive ultimate No Daniel. I can't do it. You have a very interesting theory more than a theory doctor back. I've proved it. It works I Tried my serum on tubercula guinea pigs and it cured them. They adapted themselves to the tubercula bacillus and live I tried my serum on a dog with rabies. He adapted himself, too. I Tried it on a cat the broken spine the cat instantly adapted itself to its injury so that the spine had time to knit and heal Don't you see what a tremendous discovery. This is yes, perhaps think what that would mean in accident cases There'd be no further need for emergency surgery. Don't you see that? No matter what the condition the injury to the body are a mere injection of my serum would permit the patient instantly to adapt himself to his condition and Live no matter what his injury exactly a serum made from insects from a common fruit fly the most adaptable of living organisms Tear off a wing and it grows a new one tear off its head even stick on a new head and that too will adhere in time Think of imparting that same adaptability to human being To grow new heads. It has merit now, please dr. Bach. All right. All right. No seriously I know this may be a great thing, but to permit you to experiment on a human being now I was hopeless case. You can find dr. Bach Someone already doomed well if someday I discover in the hospital or hopeless case Understand it will be a hopeless. I understand and if the patient shall consent then you will have your human guinea pig No, dr. Scott you requisitioned for yourself a hopeless case permit me Here is your guinea pig. What is it dr. Bach TV? Yeah final stage the matter of ours at most She might have been attractive once now Yeah, like string skinny like a skeleton and flesh like wax dr. Bach. You call us a fair test I said hopeless, but I didn't say a corpse The lady is returning to life such as it is No, dr. Scott. I regret I have not a more palatable subject for your experiment, but this is what I promise The hopeless case. It's all right. I'll try it. Oh, what's your name? Let me see. It's on the chart here Zeleis. What was that? Her name is Kira Zeleis young lady Permit me. I am dr. Hermann Bach chief of the staff and I would like to introduce one of our promising young doctors he wants to Date I suppose miss Zeleis Hello brown eyes. What your eyes are Brown aren't they miss Zeleis you see I've perfected the syrup. I like Brown eyes this um this syrup might help you, but it has never been tried on a human being before Well, I thought if you have no objection, what are the odds odds Actually you've everything to gain and nothing to lose. Well, how right you are Okay, I'm I'm all yours brown eyes Go ahead Experimental way dr. Bach prepare her on 24 hours and she is yet alive. I would have said yesterday it would be impossible. She should survive the night So it is now 48 hours and she actually seems better But miracles such as this have happened before and without serums a week and she still lives Each day she becomes better. It is miraculous The spots on her lungs are disappearing for coughing is stopped. There is no sign of bacillus in the culture But even more amazing a reaction to abrasion skin punctures Yesterday I took a blood specimen before I had one cc the puncture in her skin had closed Yes in 30 seconds the ordinary person it takes a day two days for it to heal With Miss Kira zealus 30 seconds it is amazing Then I will not dispute it your serum has worked America she is cured and Now I must just discharge her from the hospital. Well, dr. Bach. I had forgotten that time must come some time Hmm, but you see I must she is cured and we need the room. Well, yes. Yes, I know Well, well, she should be under observation. We don't know what effects will show up I think Daniel you have an extraordinary interest in Miss Zealus Yeah, I have asked her to come here. She is outside. Shall we invite her in? Well, yes, of course Send in Miss Zealus, please Now observe. Well your miracle Miss Zealus come in come in sit down. Thanks. Oh Hello, brown eyes. Hello, Kira. I have sent for you Miss Zealus because I have good news today I am discharging you from the hospital. Oh Today you are free to go that pleases you madly Kira, you have people perhaps a family aren't we all brothers and sisters Under the skin Miss Zealus. I will come to the point. I wish to make you a proposition Opposition I mean purely a scientific. Yes, I know an experiment Precisely, we are interested dr. Scott and I to observe the further effects of the serum He gave you yeah, I will pay you board and room and $30 a week. You will live at my house I have a housekeeper. Mrs. Getz. She will look after you. Is that satisfactory? Wouldn't I be a fool to say no? excellent excellent does Brown eyes live there too. No, but dr. Scott will continue to have Clinical interest in the experiment miss Zealus have no fear good Yes, well it is now almost time for dinner. I will take you miss Zealus. You will join us dr. Scott Well, yes fine dr. Bach very well, we should meet outside in what ten minutes That'll do me nicely miss Zealus. You wish to wait here or maybe outside a little fresh air I think I could use a little a good. There is a little park across the street You will find benches there to rest we will meet at the front entrance in ten minutes Like a buck, what is it? What's the matter some sort of commotion across the street in the park There is Kira alive. I thought she'd be here with you. Perhaps. She is still over there in the park. What do you support? Come on? Like a buck it is cure cure. Let me through, please Let us through Officer, what's happened? What is this? Why are you holding this lady? You know this woman? Yes, of course What is it? What's the matter honey? Your lady friend here merely walks up to an old jet about six years Picks up a nice hefty rock and beats his brains officer. There must be some awful mistake. Yeah her mistake cold-blooded murder Come on sister. There's the wagon You'd better come along too. Mr. Mona Lisa here don't seem to be much in the mood for talking We need someone to tell the death sergeant her name Kira this is terrible seeing you here like this. I I've got to get you out of here I've got to help you is not so bad When you're here, listen, this is all a terrible mistake. If you'll tell me was stay Well, yes, of course you Kira you You didn't kill that man if I said yes. What would you do? Well? Why I'd tell him you weren't responsible. I'd tell him about the serum I'd tell him it was my fault that that somehow the serum I gave you caused your mind to snap something that That would be the only explanation you do this ruin your career. No doubt Just to save me. Well, yes, of course I would and what would they do to me? I I don't know exactly put you away under observation something Kira then my answers. No, I did not kill the man. Oh Don't worry. I won't be convicted. I'll take care of myself very well. I'll as you say Adapt myself to the situation All right now mr. Salvatore continue tell the court in your own words precisely what happened This all the man you see is by circus of peanuts from me every day for months every day And this one day pullout is a pocketbook case a billfold and I'm a look It's a stuff with the bills the big money It's a Salvatore. Can I make a change for $20 and I'm a laugh I'm gonna say mr. I'm a peanut man. You take it a peanuts. You pay me tomorrow He said thank you very much. You turn around and then here is this damage you pick up Oh, it's a great the biggest stone and a conks him. It's a murder. I object your honor Continue mr. Salvatore. Oh There's nothing more to say This is a day when she bent over and she reached in his pocket to take the money I'm a grabber people are coming police are coming Mr. Salvatore, can you describe this young lady to us? Oh, see I remember her very well She's a She's a skinny She's named the no beauty, you know, you got the black suit the brown hair I see don't know dark, you know, maybe brown or blue. Thank you. Mr. Salvatore your witness Mr. Salvatore you say that the young lady the assailant had brown hair and dark eyes see Brown hair dark blue eyes and do you see the young lady in the courtroom? Oh see if she's a sit the right though What's the matter mr. Salvatore? Are you pointing at miss Zaylas? See may I ask the defendant to rise, please? Miss Zaylas, will you kindly remove your hat, please? Dr. Barclay Her hair. It's it's become the color of aluminum Your honor, I submit that this defendant does not possess dark hair Nor if you will observe dark eyes I am prepared therefore to submit a lock of her hair to be tested by any chemist the court may appoint to prove that the Pigmentation is entirely natural Now mr. Salvatore, do you still say that this is the young lady you saw in the park? I'm thinking she's Is she? No Good Lord dr. Bach that hair of hers. Did you see it? It was the color of aluminum She was beautiful. Yeah, yeah beautiful and so she's been acquitted. They call her innocent Daniel I am a convert to your great principle of adaptability But where will it end? You start with an ideal And you wake up to discover you have created a monster, but she was acquitted it was all a mistake You really believe that Dr. Bach yes, Mrs. She is here dr. She that woman in the newspaper Oh, you're is here. You said she was so poor such a church mouse. Oh, you should see her What do you mean? So fine so great I'll go and talk to her dr. Bach Hello, Kira Aren't you glad to see me? Oh, yes. Yes, of course. Oh Congratulations on your acquittal today. We were there. I know I sensed it I was hurt that you didn't come up and congratulate me. Well, there were photographers or what? Well, Kira your hair. It's black again. Isn't it always don't you like it? Oh, yes. Yes, of course It's beautiful and I beautiful brown eyes Very very beautiful and Are you happy to have me back? I always did like brown eyes It tell me how do you like my new clothes my gun? Well, it's very nice nice It's exquisite. I have a whole new wardrobe hat shoes. Oh, how Kira? Where did you get the money money? You only had three dollars when you left the hospital. Oh So I did Kira Kira you did take that wallet from the old man and naturally You you did murder him Certainly. Oh Come don't look so shocked I'm tired brown eyes You'll excuse me if I appropriate dr. Bach's room Good night Dr. Bach we've got to do something. Yes, I haven't slept a wink all night trying to think of what we can do I've been here in the laboratory all night. I think I know what this serum of yours. It has accomplished a miracle Yeah, it is the adaptive ultimate Changes that take the ordinary person days or months. She accomplishes instantly She walks into the sunlight. She's tan. She walks out. She is pale again When she is in danger She adapts she could survive the electric chair the hangman's noose She was in danger in the courtroom. She adapted. She changed her whole appearance at will so she could not be identified Yes, I know I know you must not blame yourself. You could not know what you are creating now This morning. I operated on one of your guinea pigs. I found this The pineal gland hypertrophy that is what causes it well then then we could operate and And maybe change her back. Yeah, but she can adapt to anything anesthesia included How can we operate unless we get our consent? Well, perhaps. Oh, you are dreaming Daniel Do you really think she will consent now now that she has power? Perhaps more power than any human being ever possessed before power for evil and She has already killed one man remember, but if we watch to dr. Kept her under guard again Pigmalion falls in love with his galatea. No Daniel. No, she must be destroyed. We must perform surgery at once She'll die. She will go back to what she was With but a few hours to live It is best then Yes, I suppose so Yes, yes, Mrs. Getz Okay, what is it dr. Bach and so perhaps she is also telepathic She sensed what we were about to do and now it is too late. What do you mean miss Zillers is gone disappeared Dr. Bach did you call for me? Yeah, Daniel Have you seen the evening paper yet? No, not yet. Then here after two months. There is news of our miss Kira zealots What let me see that where oh The surprise of the evening was the appearance of John Callan ambassador at large diplomatic extraordinary the man slated to head the forthcoming world atomic energy control commission Mr. Callan one of Washington's confirmed bachelors squired the Gorgeous Kira zealots. You see she has become gorgeous Drab little urchin miss zealots the dazzling beauty who affects a dark week by day and a white one at night a great power of Adaptability courtesy of dr. Daniel Scott dark by day white by night. Well, what are we going to do doctor do? The world atomic energy control the one real hope of world peace curie isn't interested in peace What can we do surgery? I know but politics we must wait and see We must wait and see how far your mad woman will go Washington is a gog with rumors about the romance between glamorous key rezealous and John Callan the newly appointed head of the world Atomic energy control one of the most powerful political figures on the globe John Callan leaves tomorrow for the crucial atomic energy conferences at Geneva, Switzerland and Sailing on the same boat as the exotic Miss Kira zealots with whom his name has been frequently linked Rumor has it miss Ailis acts as a sort of unofficial assistant to mr. Callan thus making her one of the most important women in the world Glamorous exotic Of such fragile stuff is world peace fashioned these days Daniel. I wonder what she intends to Some of the calling at dinner time. I'll sit still dr. Buck. I'll see who it is Yes, Kira. Hello brown eyes. May I come in? Well? Yes, of course Oh Exotic guinea pig good evening dr. Buck. I'm not intruding of course not. You're very kind John and I you've read about mr. Callan. Oh, yes. Yes, we're leaving for Europe tomorrow for the conferences in Switzerland Yes, he had a series of meetings to attend tonight. So I told him I would stay here You're staying here. I took the liberty of saying you were my uncle dr. Buck Oh, John will call for me in the morning on his way to the airport. We're leaving at 8. I Do hope I'm not too late for dinner not at all In fact, we're very happy to have you here. Aren't we dr. Scott? Kira hello brown eyes What are you doing out here in the garden waiting for you? You knew I'd follow you of course Have you missed me? You know I have oh Kira listen to me Do you love this John Callan when I want love? I'll come to you brown eyes Well, then why what is it money money? I don't need money anymore What does an empress need with money? Empress that's what you've made me the most powerful woman the world's ever known John Callan he's supposed to be important But in my hands he's clay to be molded as I wish Do you see what that means? Yes, I see You hold the fate of the world in your hands exactly to do with as I want and I shall Would you like to rule the world with me brown eyes? Kira you're evil. What is good. What's evil? Come here brown eyes Look at me Forget such things Are you asleep dr. Buck sleep who can sleep? Kira's insane doctor. Do you know what she's planning to do? I heard oh Maybe maybe we could get to this Callan ring and then what well if we could talk to him Tell him tell him what didn't I talk to you would you listen? There is oh, she's gone to sleep. I tell you there's only one remedy surgery It is the only hope but she'll never consent to surgery dr. Bach, and she's probably immune to anesthesia Maybe not maybe not all anesthesia. What downstairs in my laboratory. I have a tank of ethyl chloride. You mean Operate here tonight. Yeah tonight right here. Well, she sleeps I Stop staring down at her Pour the anesthesia onto the cone. Hurry That ought to be enough to anesthetize an elephant onto the face quickly. All right Then tightly hold it She's forcing my hands Did you think you could make me unconscious You you are going to operate on me Is that what you were planning? Or were you going to slit my throat with that scalpel? Look Kira don't there. You'll see I plunge your knife into my heart. I will draw it and The wound is healed Now go away both of you. I want to sleep John will be calling for me at eight First five in the morning One and a half hours more and she will leave And the world will be one step near our chaos We are scientists then we have a responsibility to civilization. We must find a way to destroy the carbon dioxide Carbon dioxide is a fundamental biological law. No human can survive in its own waste product carbon dioxide is a human waste Dr. Bach if we could fill the room where she's sleeping with carbon dioxide. She'd become unconscious. You could operate 10 Who you're calling the hospital? I will have them send over two tanks of carbon dioxide. Do you think it should work then? We must try anything Hello, this is dr. Bach. Let me talk to surgery. Now hurry. It is an emergency The tube is ready you seal the crack under the door. Yes, you close the window. Yes All right Let us start the gas But then To do the transom above the bedroom door you will be able to observe her reactions You placed the lighted candle inside the room. Yes, doctor. I left the candle on the table Observe it carefully. All right when it goes out your mischievous a less should be unconscious then Can you see inside the room from up there? Yes, doctor Candle is flickering dr. Wait No, it's still flickering it It's just gone out doctor excellent It means there is now a concentration of eight or ten percent carbon dioxide The average person would long since be dead doctor. Yeah, then what? On just a minute Yes, yes She's breathing much more quickly now Convulsively she's still breathing. She She's opening her eyes now, but she's She's getting up getting up. She's staggering Holding her throat doctor She's gasping she's Moving toward the door She's trying to unlock She's seen me She she's trying to Try it What is it? She's collapsed It's all yes. How do you do dr. Bach? I'm John Callan John. Oh, yes. Yes, of course come in I haven't taken you away from anything. Oh, no. No, we were performing some surgery my associate and I I have a miniature surgery here for emergencies and we have just finished is that the patient on the table Yeah, yes, is she yes She is dead too bad She'd be linking creature wasn't she she was a charity case Well, I won't keep you as Kira here. No, she she changed her plans She said there were some things she wished to do and she would meet you at the airport Oh, that's a woman's prerogative isn't it changing plans here. I'd better get a move on then nice to see you doctor I I hope we'll meet again when I return from Europe. Yes, that will be nice Mr. Callan and good luck on your mission. Thank you, sir. Goodbye. Yeah, goodbye Well Daniel, maybe we will get some sleep now Then huh? Oh, I'm I'm sorry doctor. I was daydreaming She's lovely isn't she lovely Yeah, then lovely May she always be in your memory Escape is produced and directed by Norman McDonald Today we have presented transcribe the adaptive ultimate by John Jessel adapted for radio by Chet Spurgeon and Herb Futran with editorial supervision by John Dunkel Starring Edgar Barrier as Dr. Bach and Stacey Harris as Dan Scott Feature in the cast were Elsie Holmes, Frank Gerstle, Larry Dobkin, Tom Charlesworth and Ann Morrison Special music was arranged and played by Ivan Dittmar's Next week you are trapped in a dark empty house a girl lying dead at your feet and Surrounding you closing in on you are the band of killers deadly enemies of your country and yourself and They are intent on murdering you Next week we escape with a famous story Confidential agent by Graham Greene Be sure to tune in at this same time next week when once again we offer you escape This is Roy Rowan speaking for CBS the Columbia broadcasting system