WEBVTT

00:00.000 --> 00:05.000
Tired of the everyday grind?

00:05.000 --> 00:11.000
Ever dream of a life of romantic adventure?

00:11.000 --> 00:15.000
Want to get away from it all?

00:15.000 --> 00:17.000
We offer you...

00:17.000 --> 00:19.000
Escape!

00:19.000 --> 00:28.000
Escape, designed to free you from the four walls of today for a half hour of high adventure.

00:28.000 --> 00:49.000
You are a passenger aboard a submarine making its last peaceful voyage across the sea.

00:49.000 --> 00:59.000
While unknown to you, the captain has a plan which if it succeeds will mean for you and the entire crew

00:59.000 --> 01:05.000
a fate from which there can be no escape.

01:05.000 --> 01:29.000
So listen now as Escape brings you Marianne Mosner and Frances Rosenwald's exciting story, The Log.

01:29.000 --> 01:38.000
When I was a cub reporter my boss told me, be there, don't let your own emotions color your story, stick to the facts.

01:38.000 --> 01:42.000
So these are the facts, this is the way it happened.

01:42.000 --> 01:46.000
I met Captain Jan Zabatos in a Scandinavian port.

01:46.000 --> 01:55.000
During the last war he'd been in command of a submarine, the only sub of a nation that fought the dictators side by side with the allies.

01:55.000 --> 02:02.000
When he was finally forced into this neutral port, the captain preferred internment to surrender.

02:02.000 --> 02:06.000
After that his nation went out of the business of being a nation.

02:06.000 --> 02:15.000
He was left behind with his ship, unwanted by the allies and a burden to the government that had become his permanent host.

02:15.000 --> 02:20.000
To pay for the vessel's birth and maintenance the authorities turned her into a tourist's exhibit,

02:20.000 --> 02:25.000
permitting her skipper to stay aboard as caretaker and tourist guide.

02:25.000 --> 02:29.000
We met during one of those guided tours.

02:29.000 --> 02:37.000
And so ladies and gentlemen this concludes the tour of the SS Seagull, a great ship with a peerless war record.

02:37.000 --> 02:47.000
It was my honor and privilege to guide her across hostile waters as master of this man of war that gave battle to the last torpedo.

02:47.000 --> 02:53.000
Thank you. You are very welcome all and this way if you please.

02:53.000 --> 02:58.000
You've got a few minutes captain. I'm Bill Rawlins, New York Globe. I enjoyed your tour a lot.

02:58.000 --> 03:05.000
Thank you Mr. Rawlins. Always glad to talk to gentlemen of the press. I presume you would like to write a story on the Seagull?

03:05.000 --> 03:09.000
Well to be honest about it sir, I'd rather write about her skipper.

03:09.000 --> 03:15.000
I am honored, but without the Seagull you won't have much of a story. She and I are comrades in arms.

03:15.000 --> 03:20.000
The war has been over a long time captain. Yes, yes of course.

03:20.000 --> 03:27.000
Haven't you ever thought of going home? Mr. Rawlins this is my home and always will be.

03:29.000 --> 03:36.000
As we walked across the deck, the Seagull came to life the way her skipper talked about her exploits at sea.

03:36.000 --> 03:42.000
And I saw fifteen hundred tons of steel that never faltered, never failed.

03:42.000 --> 03:51.000
I was busy taking notes when the man came up the gangplank, stocky, brisk, dressed in a natty gray suit, a briefcase under his arm.

03:51.000 --> 03:57.000
How do gentlemen? Where do I find the man in charge?

03:57.000 --> 04:00.000
I'm in command of the Seagull, Captain Yon Chabados. What can I do for you?

04:00.000 --> 04:06.000
My name's Andrew, says McCard. I represent the Liverpool office of the Marine Salvage and Surplus Corporation.

04:06.000 --> 04:12.000
You mind if I look around? The next tour of the Seagull commences at sixteen o'clock.

04:12.000 --> 04:17.000
That's fine, you go right ahead. I know the way around ships, bought and sold them all my life.

04:17.000 --> 04:21.000
This is my first time. I'm afraid you must be mistaken sir, the Seagull is not for sale.

04:21.000 --> 04:25.000
Not anymore. My company just bought her. I closed the deal yesterday.

04:25.000 --> 04:32.000
Look, this can't be. Nobody has authority to sell my ship.

04:32.000 --> 04:38.000
The government has, according to international law, this isn't your ship anymore, Captain.

04:38.000 --> 04:42.000
Do you realize what it costs this country to keep her docked here?

04:42.000 --> 04:48.000
I suppose I knew that this was going to happen.

04:48.000 --> 04:53.000
Excuse me sir, what does your company plan to do with the Seagull?

04:53.000 --> 04:56.000
Scrapper? What else is she good for?

04:56.000 --> 05:02.000
Yes of course, what else is she? You plan to break her up here?

05:02.000 --> 05:05.000
No, no, we'll have to tow her across Liverpool.

05:05.000 --> 05:09.000
Mr. Andrews, the Seagull is perfectly capable to sail under her own power.

05:09.000 --> 05:14.000
All the way across the North Sea? Must be pretty rusty by now.

05:14.000 --> 05:18.000
My ship is in as good condition as she was ten years ago when we put in this port.

05:18.000 --> 05:22.000
I know how you feel, Skipper, but if you don't mind I'd rather play it safe.

05:22.000 --> 05:28.000
No, I don't think I made myself clear, sir. This ship has had the finest maintenance that you find aboard any vessel.

05:28.000 --> 05:33.000
I have seen to that myself. Would you care to go below and look about, sir?

05:33.000 --> 05:34.000
Sure, why not?

05:34.000 --> 05:36.000
Then if you will follow me.

05:36.000 --> 05:38.000
Rust and corrosion, I understand.

05:38.000 --> 05:43.000
She was a beauty, all right. Her diesel's reposing and gleaning silence.

05:43.000 --> 05:51.000
Her eye, a Zeiss periscope, set to scan the horizon. Her tube's ready for torpedoes.

05:51.000 --> 05:59.000
I felt a strange affinity toward this ship, that to Andrews meant just so many tons of metal to be turned into X amount of dollars,

05:59.000 --> 06:05.000
while to her captain she was a whole world of tradition. A world now coming to an end.

06:05.000 --> 06:10.000
And still I suppose you think that the Seagull should be dismantled and scrapped?

06:10.000 --> 06:13.000
Well, I'm afraid that's what we bought her for.

06:13.000 --> 06:19.000
Then may I respectfully make a last request on her behalf?

06:19.000 --> 06:22.000
I'll be happy to oblige if it's anything reasonable.

06:22.000 --> 06:30.000
Don't, don't tow her away like a crippled ship. Let me guide her on this last journey.

06:30.000 --> 06:34.000
All we need is one week, a skeleton crew. My services are free.

06:34.000 --> 06:42.000
I don't know. All right. I'll tell you what, Skipper. I'll check with my company and get in touch with them.

06:42.000 --> 06:47.000
Well, that sounds like a good idea to me, Andrews. You'd be saving your company quite a bit of money.

06:47.000 --> 06:49.000
My firm's allergic to taking chances.

06:49.000 --> 06:56.000
You don't take chances with the Seagulls.

06:56.000 --> 07:01.000
The cold logic of the dollar in the bank, not the captain's last request,

07:01.000 --> 07:07.000
persuaded the scrap metal man to take a well-calculated risk on the Seagull and her master.

07:07.000 --> 07:10.000
Mr. Andrews was to accompany the ship on her final journey.

07:10.000 --> 07:21.000
I requested and was granted permission to go along and cover the voyage for my paper.

07:21.000 --> 07:26.000
It was a gray overcast morning when we boarded the Seagull.

07:26.000 --> 07:30.000
She was straining gently at her anchors with the last of the ebb tide.

07:30.000 --> 07:35.000
I hope Skipper hired a decent cook, nothing like C.A. to give a man an appetite.

07:35.000 --> 07:39.000
I'm not looking forward to a picnic, Mr. Andrews. All I want is a story.

07:39.000 --> 07:44.000
You won't find it in this barge, Rawlins, but I can give you plenty of stories.

07:44.000 --> 07:48.000
My company isn't averse to publicity.

07:48.000 --> 07:53.000
When we reached the bridge, we found a changed man, Captain Yann Zabatos,

07:53.000 --> 08:00.000
commander of the submarine Seagull, wearing a freshly creased uniform, windbreaker, and his well-worn battle cap.

08:00.000 --> 08:02.000
Anchor secure, sir.

08:02.000 --> 08:04.000
All engines back half.

08:04.000 --> 08:09.000
All engines back half, sir.

08:09.000 --> 08:14.000
Course, zero zero five.

08:14.000 --> 08:19.000
Zero zero five, sir.

08:19.000 --> 08:29.000
Port engine back two thirds. Starboard engine ahead, standard.

08:29.000 --> 08:36.000
Port engine back two thirds. Starboard engine ahead, standard, sir.

08:36.000 --> 08:38.000
Stand by, all hands.

08:38.000 --> 08:40.000
Standing by, sir.

08:40.000 --> 08:44.000
Now, gentlemen, we are off.

08:44.000 --> 08:45.000
A little chilly this morning, Skipper.

08:45.000 --> 08:46.000
Perfect weather.

08:46.000 --> 08:48.000
Makes you hungry, anyway. What time do we eat?

08:48.000 --> 08:51.000
Breakfast will be served in my quarters in ten minutes, Mr. Andrews.

08:51.000 --> 09:05.000
Come on down, Rawlins. Let's get some chow.

09:05.000 --> 09:09.000
We had breakfast. It was better than Andrews had expected.

09:09.000 --> 09:13.000
And he was in an expansive mood when we returned to the bridge.

09:13.000 --> 09:21.000
He'd fortified himself with a thick cigar, which stuck out of his mouth like a stubby finger pointed at the captain.

09:21.000 --> 09:23.000
How's it going, Skipper?

09:23.000 --> 09:25.000
Passing the three-mile zone, sir.

09:25.000 --> 09:30.000
Weather seems to be clearing up. Maybe we can do a little deep sea fishing, huh, Rowlin?

09:30.000 --> 09:33.000
I've never fished from a submarine, Mr. Andrews.

09:33.000 --> 09:37.000
Sorry, gentlemen. No fishing. This is not a pleasure cruise.

09:37.000 --> 09:40.000
That's a step, Skipper. Business before pleasure.

09:40.000 --> 09:44.000
And I agree, sir. You will leave the bridge now.

09:44.000 --> 09:45.000
Why? What's wrong?

09:45.000 --> 09:48.000
Nothing, sir. We are getting ready to submerge.

09:48.000 --> 09:53.000
What are you talking about? Submerge? On whose orders?

09:53.000 --> 09:55.000
My orders, Mr. Andrews.

09:55.000 --> 09:57.000
Nothing doing. That's against regulations, and you know it.

09:57.000 --> 09:59.000
This trip is to be made on the surface unless there's an emergency.

09:59.000 --> 10:01.000
Clear diving rudders.

10:01.000 --> 10:04.000
Diving rudders clear, sir.

10:04.000 --> 10:06.000
Did you hear what I said?

10:06.000 --> 10:08.000
Ready the tanks.

10:08.000 --> 10:10.000
Tank standing by, sir.

10:10.000 --> 10:12.000
That's enough, Separatists. You know what the orders are. I'm not going to allow you...

10:12.000 --> 10:16.000
I must inform you, sir, that I am in sole command of the seagull.

10:16.000 --> 10:20.000
I shall surrender her to no one but her rightful owner, my country.

10:20.000 --> 10:22.000
Your country? You've got no country. It's a satellite.

10:22.000 --> 10:24.000
Then I shall sail the seas until I have one again.

10:24.000 --> 10:26.000
You know what you're saying? That's piracy.

10:26.000 --> 10:29.000
Then, Mr. Andrews, I shall be a pirate, shan't I?

10:29.000 --> 10:33.000
Clear the deck. Diving stations.

10:33.000 --> 10:38.000
Diving stations, out of your mind.

10:40.000 --> 10:44.000
Passengers below, please. Now that's an order, Mr. Andrews.

10:44.000 --> 10:46.000
Standing by, sir.

10:54.000 --> 10:57.000
Well, I'd found my story.

10:57.000 --> 10:59.000
When we slipped beneath the surface of the North Sea,

10:59.000 --> 11:03.000
the captain let the men have rum and brandy to celebrate the seagull's return

11:03.000 --> 11:06.000
to what he called active duty.

11:09.000 --> 11:13.000
He's crazy. He's gone star-craving crazy.

11:13.000 --> 11:16.000
Look at the crew that madman picked himself.

11:16.000 --> 11:19.000
Well, we'll see about this.

11:19.000 --> 11:22.000
Hey, Bowson. Bowson, come over here.

11:24.000 --> 11:26.000
Hi, sir.

11:26.000 --> 11:28.000
Know how to handle this ship?

11:28.000 --> 11:30.000
I know my job, sir.

11:30.000 --> 11:32.000
How'd you like a bonus, say, a thousand dollars?

11:32.000 --> 11:34.000
I'd like it fine, sir.

11:34.000 --> 11:37.000
All right. Take over. Never mind the captain. I'll back you up.

11:37.000 --> 11:39.000
I'm sorry, sir. He's my captain.

11:39.000 --> 11:41.000
I'm in charge of this ship. He's under my orders.

11:41.000 --> 11:45.000
Yes, sir. I'm sorry, sir. I'm under his orders.

11:45.000 --> 11:48.000
That's how it went with the rest of the crew.

11:48.000 --> 11:52.000
They were all men without a country, hand-picked by the captain,

11:52.000 --> 11:57.000
fanatically devoted to their master and the ship that was their world.

11:57.000 --> 12:02.000
In the meantime, I noticed some activity on the part of the captain and his radio operator.

12:02.000 --> 12:08.000
A constant flow of communications between the ship's wireless and her master's tiny cabin.

12:08.000 --> 12:10.000
Andrews and I went there.

12:10.000 --> 12:12.000
Come in.

12:13.000 --> 12:17.000
The captain was sitting on the bunk, pouring over a chart-filled table.

12:17.000 --> 12:19.000
Mind if you and I have a little talk?

12:19.000 --> 12:23.000
I'm quite busy. Five minutes, Mr. Andrews. Thank you.

12:23.000 --> 12:25.000
Don't you think this farce has gone far enough?

12:25.000 --> 12:27.000
You'll be running out of supplies, you know, and then what?

12:27.000 --> 12:30.000
The sea is abundant with stores of all kinds, Mr. Andrews.

12:30.000 --> 12:31.000
How do you mean?

12:31.000 --> 12:33.000
I shall requisition what I need.

12:33.000 --> 12:35.000
You can't be serious.

12:35.000 --> 12:41.000
Can't I? I have guns, four and aft, shells to go with them.

12:41.000 --> 12:43.000
Give me time. I shall obtain torpedoes as well.

12:43.000 --> 12:44.000
You'll never get away with this.

12:44.000 --> 12:46.000
That remains to be seen.

12:47.000 --> 12:51.000
My wireless has picked up the Blenheim Castle, an English freighter.

12:51.000 --> 12:53.000
We will sight her by nightfall.

12:53.000 --> 12:54.000
You're going to stop her?

12:54.000 --> 12:58.000
Exactly, Mr. Andrews. There are a few supplies that we need.

12:58.000 --> 13:02.000
I am sure her captain will oblige before continuing on his way.

13:14.000 --> 13:17.000
We will return to escape in just a moment, but first,

13:17.000 --> 13:20.000
maybe it rained where you are today.

13:20.000 --> 13:24.000
The United States is pretty big and it's hard for somebody on a coast-to-coast network

13:24.000 --> 13:27.000
to keep track of the weather everywhere.

13:27.000 --> 13:31.000
But even if they did, remember, it's been a very dry summer.

13:31.000 --> 13:35.000
The danger of forest fires is on every hand.

13:35.000 --> 13:41.000
Please be careful with those campfires, those cigarettes, those lighted matches.

13:41.000 --> 13:50.000
And now, back to escape.

14:03.000 --> 14:07.000
Approximately eight hours later, the bosons' pipe shrilled

14:07.000 --> 14:11.000
as the seagull rose stealthily to the ocean surface.

14:11.000 --> 14:16.000
Dead ahead in a choppy sea loomed the massive hull of the freighter Blenheim Castle,

14:16.000 --> 14:22.000
her foaming nose eerily phosphorescent, the position lights glimmering across the sea.

14:22.000 --> 14:27.000
Our searchlight reached up to her bridge with a long white finger.

14:31.000 --> 14:33.000
Light bulb, light!

14:33.000 --> 14:39.000
We clearly made out the tanker's captain standing on his bridge in a splotch of white glare

14:39.000 --> 14:41.000
bellowing through a megaphone.

14:41.000 --> 14:45.000
Hey, ho, ho, ho, ho, ho!

14:45.000 --> 14:51.000
Eve II, coming alongside.

14:51.000 --> 14:54.000
Who are you?

14:54.000 --> 14:59.000
Raider, pass a line.

14:59.000 --> 15:04.000
Raider, I won't pass a cow's tail.

15:04.000 --> 15:07.000
Where is the war?

15:07.000 --> 15:09.000
It is starting now.

15:09.000 --> 15:11.000
That's a bloody lie.

15:11.000 --> 15:14.000
Heave away!

15:14.000 --> 15:18.000
Ready a bog or you will be sunk.

15:18.000 --> 15:22.000
Why, you kettle-bottomed, knock down her freighter!

15:22.000 --> 15:26.000
I'll bust your cat-bone till you make water!

15:26.000 --> 15:31.000
Follow my orders or I open fire!

15:31.000 --> 15:35.000
Why don't you mug up and cork off?

15:35.000 --> 15:39.000
I give you three minutes.

15:39.000 --> 15:42.000
I'll give till I kick in the belly!

15:45.000 --> 15:47.000
It was incredible.

15:47.000 --> 15:51.000
Here we were at peace and Captain Zabatos had started his own private war.

15:51.000 --> 15:55.000
He had the guns and the tanker's captain had only his ship.

15:55.000 --> 15:59.000
Before the seagull's gun crew could get a bearing, the tanker lurched forward picking up speed.

15:59.000 --> 16:02.000
Wheel hard over, bent on ramming us.

16:02.000 --> 16:05.000
Our guns started to fire, blasting away at the tanker.

16:05.000 --> 16:07.000
But it kept coming on.

16:07.000 --> 16:10.000
Closer, closer, the sharp bow cutting through the choppy sea.

16:10.000 --> 16:12.000
Die, die, die!

16:12.000 --> 16:28.000
Die, die, die!

16:28.000 --> 16:30.000
We weren't fast enough.

16:30.000 --> 16:32.000
There was a grinding lurch.

16:32.000 --> 16:36.000
And we knew the seagull had been damaged in the collision with the freighter, but we couldn't tell how badly.

16:36.000 --> 16:39.000
The first realization of disaster came when we saw the captain.

16:39.000 --> 16:44.000
His hair damp with perspiration, eyes gleaming feverishly in a face turned ashen gray.

16:44.000 --> 16:47.000
Nobody leaves his station without my orders.

16:47.000 --> 16:48.000
You gentlemen stay out of the way.

16:48.000 --> 16:50.000
I'm not going to take orders from you or anybody else.

16:50.000 --> 16:51.000
I represent the owners of this ship.

16:51.000 --> 16:52.000
You do?

16:52.000 --> 16:53.000
You heard me, Zabatos.

16:53.000 --> 16:55.000
Then tell your owner she has been rammed.

16:55.000 --> 16:56.000
I'll hold you responsible.

16:56.000 --> 17:01.000
As her commander, I accept sole responsibility for ship and crew, including you and Mr. Rawlins.

17:01.000 --> 17:03.000
That's very noble, Mr. But I'm a businessman.

17:03.000 --> 17:04.000
What's the extent of the damage?

17:04.000 --> 17:07.000
Cunning tower smashed and the scope tube cracked.

17:07.000 --> 17:09.000
Oh, that's great. That's great.

17:09.000 --> 17:11.000
Well, surface, send an S.O.S.

17:11.000 --> 17:13.000
I never have sent an S.O.S. and I never will.

17:13.000 --> 17:14.000
That's your business.

17:14.000 --> 17:16.000
I'm an American citizen and so is Mr. Rawlins.

17:16.000 --> 17:17.000
You can't hold us against our will.

17:17.000 --> 17:19.000
You will be put ashore when conditions are favorable.

17:19.000 --> 17:21.000
Let me set you straight, Zabatos.

17:21.000 --> 17:23.000
If you want to go down in misery, I'm not stopping you.

17:23.000 --> 17:26.000
But you can't force me to stick around until this tin can's full of holes.

17:26.000 --> 17:28.000
I want to get out of here.

17:28.000 --> 17:31.000
Now I order you for the last time surface and signal for help.

17:31.000 --> 17:33.000
Andrus, if you wish to leave now, you may take a sleep at...

17:33.000 --> 17:34.000
You're crazy.

17:34.000 --> 17:35.000
Not at all.

17:35.000 --> 17:37.000
The damage is trifling.

17:37.000 --> 17:41.000
But since you feel so frightened of your life, I suggest that you leave.

17:41.000 --> 17:43.000
So help me when we get out of this.

17:43.000 --> 17:44.000
I'm going to have you busted.

17:44.000 --> 17:45.000
Jail hung if I can.

17:45.000 --> 17:47.000
Get out of my way, if you please.

17:47.000 --> 17:49.000
I have no time to discuss the matter with you.

17:49.000 --> 17:50.000
Come on, Andrus.

17:50.000 --> 17:52.000
Whose side are you on anyway, Rawlins?

17:52.000 --> 18:05.000
Nobody's. I just want to live.

18:05.000 --> 18:08.000
The hours passed slowly at the ocean bottom.

18:08.000 --> 18:13.000
The stillness echoing the attempts of the men working to repair the damage.

18:13.000 --> 18:16.000
The air was getting foul.

18:16.000 --> 18:19.000
Breathing becoming more difficult.

18:19.000 --> 18:27.000
It's happening a bit more.

18:27.000 --> 18:29.000
Storage battery's going, sir.

18:29.000 --> 18:34.000
Then dim the lights, Bowson.

18:34.000 --> 18:37.000
Oxygen's running low.

18:37.000 --> 18:38.000
Ration it.

18:38.000 --> 18:40.000
I've got two men in sick bay already, sir.

18:40.000 --> 18:45.000
All right. All right. Carry on.

18:45.000 --> 18:47.000
Sir.

18:47.000 --> 18:49.000
What? What? What is it, Bowson?

18:49.000 --> 18:55.000
The men need air. It's very bad aft.

18:55.000 --> 18:59.000
All right. Very well, Bowson.

18:59.000 --> 19:02.000
We go up.

19:02.000 --> 19:06.000
All engines ready.

19:06.000 --> 19:10.000
All engines ready, sir.

19:10.000 --> 19:13.000
Clear pressure tanks.

19:13.000 --> 19:15.000
Clearing tank, sir.

19:15.000 --> 19:17.000
Diving rudder.

19:17.000 --> 19:20.000
Stand up.

19:20.000 --> 19:22.000
Vessels approaching overhead, sir.

19:22.000 --> 19:35.000
Ease rudder. Hold tanks.

19:35.000 --> 19:39.000
Surface vessel calling on out channel, sir.

19:39.000 --> 19:48.000
Don't answer.

19:48.000 --> 19:50.000
British subchaser closing in, sir.

19:50.000 --> 19:55.000
Request ship to ship communication.

19:55.000 --> 19:58.000
All right.

19:58.000 --> 20:00.000
I talk to them.

20:00.000 --> 20:02.000
Stand by.

20:02.000 --> 20:04.000
SS Seagull, come in.

20:04.000 --> 20:09.000
Go ahead, NS 127.

20:09.000 --> 20:11.000
Are you in trouble, Seagull?

20:11.000 --> 20:14.000
No trouble, sir.

20:14.000 --> 20:17.000
Surface at once.

20:17.000 --> 20:21.000
State your conditions.

20:21.000 --> 20:23.000
None.

20:23.000 --> 20:27.000
Then I regretfully refuse her.

20:27.000 --> 20:29.000
Following orders, Seagull.

20:29.000 --> 20:33.000
Come up or we drop depth charges.

20:33.000 --> 20:35.000
Do so, then.

20:35.000 --> 20:37.000
You can't get away.

20:37.000 --> 20:40.000
We've got a sonar fix on you.

20:40.000 --> 20:42.000
No surrender.

20:42.000 --> 20:44.000
We are ready with depth charges, Seagull.

20:44.000 --> 20:46.000
Wait. Get back.

20:46.000 --> 20:49.000
Wait up there. Americans down here.

20:49.000 --> 20:51.000
We need...

20:51.000 --> 21:04.000
...hot communications.

21:04.000 --> 21:08.000
The first depth charge was a warning.

21:08.000 --> 21:12.000
Followed by another coming closer.

21:12.000 --> 21:14.000
And another still closer.

21:14.000 --> 21:16.000
The pressure was enormous.

21:16.000 --> 21:21.000
The ship rocked from bow to stern and started to take water.

21:21.000 --> 21:24.000
All engines, ahead full.

21:24.000 --> 21:30.000
All engines ahead full, sir.

21:30.000 --> 21:34.000
Course 02, standard.

21:34.000 --> 21:38.000
Course 02, standard, sir.

21:38.000 --> 21:41.000
Don't try it, Captain. This is wrong. It can't help now.

21:41.000 --> 21:43.000
Stand out of my way, Mr. Orleans.

21:43.000 --> 21:45.000
You're a naval officer, not a murderer.

21:45.000 --> 21:48.000
Your ship is finished. You have no right to kill your crew.

21:48.000 --> 21:50.000
And that's what it's going to mean if you don't stop.

21:50.000 --> 21:56.000
This... this is my ship. My life.

21:56.000 --> 21:58.000
You don't understand.

21:58.000 --> 22:01.000
It's still murder.

22:01.000 --> 22:06.000
Standing by, your order, sir.

22:06.000 --> 22:10.000
Well, what are you going to do?

22:10.000 --> 22:14.000
Oh.

22:14.000 --> 22:15.000
Surface.

22:15.000 --> 22:20.000
Surface.

22:20.000 --> 22:24.000
Surface. Stand by, surface.

22:24.000 --> 22:27.000
No response, sir. Tanks won't operate.

22:27.000 --> 22:29.000
All engines, stop.

22:29.000 --> 22:45.000
All engines, stop.

22:45.000 --> 22:47.000
Now what?

22:47.000 --> 22:54.000
I seem to have no choice, do I?

22:54.000 --> 22:58.000
Stand by to abandon ship.

22:58.000 --> 23:03.000
Abandon ship.

23:03.000 --> 23:06.000
That was almost the end of it.

23:06.000 --> 23:08.000
The sub couldn't get up to the surface.

23:08.000 --> 23:10.000
She could only go down.

23:10.000 --> 23:14.000
And the way she was taking water, it wasn't going to be long.

23:14.000 --> 23:17.000
The men lined up outside the escape chamber.

23:17.000 --> 23:22.000
And one by one, they shook hands with the captain as they moved by.

23:22.000 --> 23:25.000
He could see in his eyes what they meant to him.

23:25.000 --> 23:29.000
And in their low voices, their feelings for him.

23:29.000 --> 23:32.000
Goodbye, captain.

23:32.000 --> 23:36.000
Goodbye, sir.

23:36.000 --> 23:39.000
Goodbye, captain.

23:39.000 --> 23:43.000
Goodbye, my captain.

23:43.000 --> 23:45.000
Goodbye, captain.

23:45.000 --> 23:47.000
Goodbye, sir.

23:47.000 --> 23:50.000
Then it was Andrew's turn to go.

23:50.000 --> 23:52.000
The boss is in the lock.

23:52.000 --> 23:57.000
He will give you your instructions as to how to get to the surface.

23:57.000 --> 24:00.000
I live through this, Subotus. I'm going to see that...

24:00.000 --> 24:02.000
I know, I know.

24:02.000 --> 24:08.000
I am sorry for the discomfort you have been caused.

24:08.000 --> 24:11.000
Goodbye, Mr. Andrews.

24:11.000 --> 24:13.000
Coming, coming, Rollins?

24:13.000 --> 24:18.000
Sure. You go ahead, one at a time, you know.

24:18.000 --> 24:21.000
Well, good luck.

24:21.000 --> 24:24.000
And to you.

24:29.000 --> 24:32.000
Now, Mr. Rollins, huh?

24:32.000 --> 24:36.000
I imagine you would have quite the story to write for your newspaper.

24:36.000 --> 24:38.000
Well, let's forget that. It's not important.

24:38.000 --> 24:40.000
What about you?

24:40.000 --> 24:43.000
Andrews isn't kidding, you know. Once you get up there...

24:43.000 --> 24:47.000
I wonder if... Would you do me one last service?

24:47.000 --> 24:50.000
Of course.

24:50.000 --> 24:53.000
He got his log out and started to write.

24:53.000 --> 24:57.000
I looked over his shoulder as he made his last entry.

24:57.000 --> 25:01.000
All men off ship.

25:01.000 --> 25:04.000
Strong list to port.

25:04.000 --> 25:08.000
Storage batteries zero.

25:08.000 --> 25:11.000
Oxygen 20.

25:11.000 --> 25:14.000
Ship secure.

25:14.000 --> 25:17.000
Signed Captain Jan Zabatos.

25:17.000 --> 25:21.000
Commander SS Sego.

25:21.000 --> 25:24.000
You oblige me by taking this log up with you.

25:24.000 --> 25:26.000
It can be fastened to your belt.

25:26.000 --> 25:30.000
Well, why don't... Why don't you carry it?

25:30.000 --> 25:34.000
There are one or two other things I must take with me.

25:34.000 --> 25:35.000
Now, look...

25:35.000 --> 25:37.000
No, Mr. Rollins, go on. I will follow you.

25:37.000 --> 25:40.000
Yes, but... Please, go on.

25:40.000 --> 25:43.000
Okay. Hurry up, though, will you?

25:43.000 --> 25:47.000
Okay. She won't last long.

25:53.000 --> 25:55.000
I got up to the surface.

25:55.000 --> 25:59.000
A boat from the subchaser picked me up five minutes later.

25:59.000 --> 26:03.000
Every man of the crew and Andrews was safe.

26:03.000 --> 26:07.000
After that, we cruised about for hours, waiting.

26:07.000 --> 26:10.000
Hoping that Zabatos would appear.

26:10.000 --> 26:12.000
But he didn't.

26:12.000 --> 26:15.000
I should have known he'd stay with the seagull.

26:15.000 --> 26:18.000
The skipper of the chaser understood what had happened

26:18.000 --> 26:21.000
a lot better after he'd read the log.

26:21.000 --> 26:25.000
I guess seamen have a feeling about such things.

26:25.000 --> 26:29.000
Well, that's the story.

26:29.000 --> 26:43.000
That's all there is to it.

26:43.000 --> 26:46.000
Under the direction of Anthony Ellis,

26:46.000 --> 26:48.000
Escape has brought you the log,

26:48.000 --> 26:52.000
a story by Marianne Mosner and Frances Rosenwald,

26:52.000 --> 26:55.000
starring Lawrence Dubkin and Byron Cain.

26:55.000 --> 26:57.000
Featured in the cast were Alan Reed,

26:57.000 --> 27:00.000
Kurt Martell, Frank Gerstel, Eric Snowden,

27:00.000 --> 27:02.000
Richard Peele and Jim Nusser.

27:02.000 --> 27:07.000
The special music for Escape was composed and conducted by Leith Stevens.

27:07.000 --> 27:09.000
Next week...

27:13.000 --> 27:16.000
You are walking the streets of an Indian city,

27:16.000 --> 27:19.000
terrifying, sweltering streets,

27:19.000 --> 27:24.000
while the man you fear has already made his mark on you,

27:24.000 --> 27:30.000
a mark from which there can be no escape.

27:30.000 --> 27:33.000
So listen next week when Escape will bring you

27:33.000 --> 27:37.000
James Henderson's frightening story, The Untouchable.

27:37.000 --> 27:40.000
The Untouchable

27:52.000 --> 27:55.000
I Confess is the graphic title of tomorrow night's

27:55.000 --> 27:58.000
Luxe Radio Theater film play adaptation.

27:58.000 --> 28:01.000
Cary Grant and Phyllis Thaxter co-star.

28:01.000 --> 28:04.000
You'll remember I Confess as one of Alfred Hitchcock's

28:04.000 --> 28:06.000
most suspenseful thrillers,

28:06.000 --> 28:08.000
and you'll enjoy every minute of it

28:08.000 --> 28:11.000
on most of these same stations tomorrow night

28:11.000 --> 28:15.000
when CBS Radio presents the Luxe Radio Theater.

28:15.000 --> 28:18.000
This is Roy Rowan speaking.

28:23.000 --> 28:27.000
Remember, you can hear Jack Benny every Sunday night

28:27.000 --> 28:37.000
on the CBS Radio Network.

28:57.000 --> 29:01.000
The Untouchable