- Narrator: Current guest in room 2426: Martin Decker, theoretical biochemist. Checked in for observation a week ago. It seems he was displaying anti-social behaviour, wrong thinking, and other intellectual crimes against the State. Diagnosis: schizophrenia, curable only by intense therapy sessions, followed by a full confession and disclosure of the facts. Once cured, Martin will be released - or buried.
- Olstroff: Why did you do the research if you never intended to use it?
- Martin Decker: I'm a scientist. You wouldn't understand this, but there are people who believe that ideas have an innate, intrinsic value.
- Olstroff: Oh, we believe that ideas have value. Values when applied to the service of the State. You see, until then, they are just worthless, abstract, theoretical equations.
- Narrator: As man has progressed, up from the mud and down from the trees, his best tool has always been logical thought. That tool has taken us in a grand arc from the first flint against steel to the apocalypse of colliding atoms. What Martin Decker, man of science, has learned is that every once in a while, we must step out of the confines of logic and take a leap of faith... into the Twilight Zone.