- [closing narration]
- Control Voice: Agents of the justice department are rounding up the machines now. But these machines, these inventions of another planet have been cunningly conceived to prey on our most mortal weakness. In the last analysis dear friends, whether O.B.I.T. lives up to its name or not will depend on you.
- Mr. Byron Lomax: The machines are EVERYWHERE! Oh you'll find them all, you're a zealous people. And you'll make a great show of smashing a few of them, but for every one you destroy hundreds of others will be built. And they will demoralize you, break your spirits, create such rifts and tensions in your society that no one will be able to repair them! Oh, you're a savage, despairing planet; and when we come here to live, you friendless, demoralized flotsam will fall without even a single shot being fired. Senator, enjoy the few years left you. There is no answer. You're all of the same dark persuasion! You demand - *insist* on knowing every private thought and hunger of everyone: your families, your neighbors, everyone - but yourselves.
- Mr. Byron Lomax: People with nothing to hide have nothing to fear from O.B.I.T.
- Senator Orville: [scoffs] Are you *that* perfect, Mr Lomax? I'd hate to have that thing trained on *me* when I was cussing out fellow senators or former law partners or the President of the United States, to say nothing of my wife!
- [opening narration]
- Control Voice: In this room, twenty four hours a day, seven days a week, security personnel at the defense department Cyprus Hill's Research Center keep constant watch on its scientists through O.B.I.T., a mysterious electronic device whose very existence was carefully kept from the public at large. And so it would have remained but for the facts you are about to witness...
- Barbara Scott: These past months before they took him away... he...
- Senator Orville: Please go on.
- Barbara Scott: Well, he... he imagined things about me. He accused me of horrible things. He called me a monster. And then he began to speak of seeing... real monsters. And finally, one night he didn't come home and they told me that he had had a physical breakdown and that they had taken him somewhere. I don't know what to believe.
- Dr. Clifford Scott: When I told them what I saw, they got very quiet, and looked at me with great, quiet eyes. Quiet can tell you so much. Until they looked at me that way, I was certain that I had seen what I had seen. Dead certain. Of course, I hadn't. It was just that my life had become a nightmare, so naturally I saw the sort of things that inhabit a nightmare world.
- Senator Orville: Dr. Scott...
- Dr. Clifford Scott: I saw a monster. When I told them that, they got very quiet.