The Outer Limits (TV Series)

The Guests (1964)

Bob Johnson: The Host

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• The Host : Would you agree that the race thought, the mental drives of your species, could be analyzed, separated into its components, and described as a seriess of mathematical symbols?

  [Wade nobs] 

  The Host : Then you will agree that such a mathematical expression is equal to the ultimate destiny of your species. Watch closely the walls of my thought. You will see the answer computed from its component factors. First, the positive factors: the instinct to survive - procreation, work, faith, art. Art COULD be Man's destiny if there were no negative factors in the equation, but there are: destruction, fear, hopelessness, hate. There is the answer to the equation - total destruction of this planet Earth.

  Wade Norton : You left something out, if that's the answer to the equation.

  The Host : Yes, there IS a missing quantity. The equation does not balance. That missing quantity may be in YOUR experience. I will search your mind for it.

  Wade Norton : No.

  The Host : You intend to resist.

  Wade Norton : I don't know why. At least I have to try to resist it.

  The Host : What is this emotion that youre transmitting? I have not encountered it until now.

  Wade Norton : Everyone I've ever known has called it defiance.

• The Host : Yes. Yes, it IS in you. I don't understand it yet, but I know it's there. Come close. Let me dissect it. Let me absorb it. Bring it here. Bring your brain here.

• The Host : I have more time than forever.