Ames couldn't get the chief. I was talking to a dead circuit.
6 seconds sound clip from the Dimension X - The Outer Limit by Graham Doar classic radio play.
You can hear this line at 00:26:58 in the radio play.
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- Yes, sir. Come on, Mr. Weston.
- Okay. Good night, Hank. I'm kinda beat. It's been a tough night.
- I thought for a minute that he was gonna blast those rockets and send us all to Kingdom Come.
- Yeah.
- Quite a stunt, getting the ray bomb test called off.
- Ames couldn't get the chief. I was talking to a dead circuit.
- Bomb goes off in a couple of minutes.
- Oh. Poor Steve. He was one of the best. He was the best. One in ten million.
- Some story of his, poor guy. For a while, he almost had me believing in that quarantine.
- That's a very common delusion. End of the world.
- It's a nice night. Never saw the stars so bright.
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