the
the universe
and i'm going to be so fast
the proponents distance is beyond the concept of the average human being
a sprawling sea of space
the world
this is the story of a man
who was none before him
probe its mystery
challenged at emptiness and found a great secret
and the story of this woman
who angry with fate
hungered for the secret
and the power
it would give to her
yes commissioner
but they flew to president ennix
a priority call
i'll tell its secretary and call you back
they must be crazy
if you think of himself but i don't think i'm going to be something all right
i think that it's okay to think that that would be a funny
i'd be happy to try to
that is if you tell me what it's all about
i'll tell you
it's about me we can't you know
and it takes a little bit of people
thank you
on commission
and then down the line in a moment
president jennings speaking
what make a better
excellent job that the people of the three-time queen for them to the planet
i am
i find the galaxy council approval of a request this morning
what about it
absurd
there's a big nation to all
people on that
people on the planet that we've written about that he cannot and when she got
the galaxy council opinion that our threats are empty one
ten years of war reduced her resources for nothing
for you don't believe that
i'm afraid i do have a
i wouldn't put my signature to the paper
well after
and i'm not going to
your judgment and withdraw my objective
i want the sky flash
you'll then ready to transport
the cut
but they're all paying for school and i don't know what we're going to find
that even if it's a good thing
are that'll happen
he requested the sky flash to transport our
the council for no reason to object
but i think that i thought we'd be ready at all that
now that the doctor
by remote control
i have to break my promise
meeting dot the weather the absolutely amazing
and not i'd accelerate
that's the way to be i don't know what to say
fantastic
but what do you think
you've got it now right
but that's not what i thought i would have to go back to the fact that i think
that they were going to ship those of the sound barrier
everybody said it was going to be a resurgence
but that happened
commonplace they're driving up for a sunday picnic
i'm afraid of the difference but
we have to make a great many tests
what do you think the president of the
you know more about this than any man alive
and human beings survive at a speed faster than right
i can give you a theory
opinion not fact you understand
under normal conditions i think there'll be no doubt about that no human being
could survive the speed
but it should could be constructed strong enough to withstand the shock of
passing through the right there
i'm not so sure
i think
are presently spaceships
would be able to carry human beings past the life barrier provided
provided what
provided the interior of the ship was vacuumized with time
why not doctor zarkov
we can create an air vacuum
a sound vacuum
why not a time vacuum
impossible
i do not admit the existence of the word impossible doctor zarkov
because i have already drawn up the specifications for an apparatus that
will do precisely that
create a time vacuum
could you build it into the sky flash and fit it out with your thermotron
of course doctor zarkov you've got to let him do it
i can't make a unilateral decision on any matter like that flash
permission will have to come from the ministry of research
professor weatherby
you get the okay from the ministry
i certainly try it
but in the meantime doctor zarkov
i have a favor to ask of you
yes doctor
deladen was the best atheronomic student i've ever had
i need assistance for some preliminary studies
sometimes i wish you were such a brilliant assistant dale i'd have you around more working for me
now doctor i think you cook up these loanouts just to get me on the way
and everything is set professor weatherby
you get the sky flash ready
and i'll fly it faster than the speed of light
but commissioner i was just going to ask you to relieve me of my reconnaissance
assignment to the furniture galaxy
sorry flash
this assignment comes right from the galaxy council
i don't have to tell you the importance of such an order
more important than traveling faster than the speed of light
traveling faster than the speed of...
this isn't a dream anymore commissioner dale is going to work on a project with professor weatherby
such a project is ridiculous we won't discuss it further
well mr. gordon
are you taking me or are you not
what's an order your highness of course i'm taking you
it's a pity that i won't be in the refitted sky flash
it would be most interesting to travel faster than the speed of light
certainly but of course it's just a dream
most interesting especially if the law ends that gerald's contraction theory is true
what's that your highness
let us put it in a term
upon exceeding light speeds all is reversed possibly evenly timed
shall we go mr. gordon
i'll be back in two days we can talk then
we haven't talked too much already
it is several months later
queen credentia safely delivered to her planet diana
has been forgotten
plans on the fast and light project finally approved by the minister of research
by moving rapidly
okay professor weatherby i'll drop in tomorrow for the changeover talk
good night
come on dale let's stop by doctor's office for a minute before we go to dinner
yes
harry keir
get me dr. weatherby yes commissioner
dr. weatherby speaking harry keir doctor could come over here for a moment
certainly commissioner be there in three minutes all right
come on dale relax i've never seen you act this way before
i know you think i'm so impressed well i can't help it
this whole project gives me the creeps what can happen
i'm going to be the first man to fly faster than the speed of light
faster than 186 000 miles per second
but why but
why do people climb mountains swim the channel
it's a challenge i guess
186 000 miles per second
sounds tremendous doesn't it
sounds ridiculous well when i sat down and figured it out mathematically it was so fast
that
well you'll meet yourself coming from wherever you're going
oh sure sure it sounds funny but
well i can't help it class
quite seriously
i'm sick about the project and i wish you'd give it up
russie
i'm sorry dale
would you forgive me if i get dinner with you tonight
i'm a little tired
okay
dr. jackoff be out in a minute slash i'm in the guard room
okay i want to make it
dale
how
I.
I suppose I ought to congratulate you for that now that the Ministry of Research
has given you a go ahead and your project is still the same I'm going to start
west you don't approve you know first of all that's my right hand. I can't even
imagine trying to operate this you would know that what makes you think you will
do no one can survive such a speed that remains to be proven. But I don't want to
be a great deal of respect for you I think your accomplishments have been extraordinary
if you tell me that flash was perfectly safe I would feel a million percent better
no guarantees you think that's why I asked you can't no one can that's
the way it has gotten this billed commissioner presented with
a challenge and you know I think. I think you don't get to my lab at once but
that's why she's been attacked. He's all right but commissioner what they'll has
been kidnapped she's disappeared I'm coming right over.
To have gracious majesty Queen credentialed by an
American mission accomplished thanks to her glorious Queen signed.
To. All of. Time will be mine.
I didn't even get a glimpse of the attackers they were hooded. I was out like
a fly knew what hit me but one of them was it. Only clear that I'm not going to
investigate it was a good work and I've got to work fast I know you've got enough
to come along with me yes I'm OK.
But he is the activating part of the pressure of whether the government.
Of Macron. What do you think.
You.
By getting good out of. Outreach.
To know where you draw on from there. And you make them.
a. But taking them so long now that they know
what sixty hours and they'll disappear but I'm not going to bed. Have
you found anything I think I did a photograph of the text of the oath of the cave
checked it against the fires the only source of the rule of open into the cave is
a. I knew it I knew that why catch it and it would start.
But they'll. What's in the universe which you want with. I can tell you that
if she's after the secret of flight faster than the speed of light impossible how
could you know we had such a project it's been top secret and how could you know
that they'll I told you. If anything happens today I'm responsible. Self
recrimination is going to say. No. Two things must be done first try to figure
out what credential went with the fact that the night secret we can take steps to
tackle the second. I'm going to take you play they say the answer to the first is
fantastic. It could then you can move faster than the speed of light. She has
a good chance of moving back through time. If she is able to move back through
time she can go back go back to the intergalactic war you can go back to the
morning when she made that one great tactical error that defeated her she can
correct it she today this minute will be the supreme ruler of our galaxy.
They. Don't know the formulas and the activating force of
a metronid credential will torture her relentlessly until she learns.
The secret formula they are. The secret of the metronid.
And there is no oxygen left in your head hardly enough to sustain your life.
And. They'll often be for it's all gone.
Speak. Or die.
They're like in the kidnapped by Queen Prudential was trying to torture her into
revealing the secret of termite rock the ingredient that makes flight faster than
life possible with this knowledge credential could go back through time and when
an intergalactic war which she was planning learning from the G.B.I.
where they always disappear to almost three days later flash Gordon and Dr.
Zarkov prepare to take off from the sky flash almost ready to try testing flight
flight faster than light. My installation that is complete fresh I still have
a little more adjusting to do on the remote control apparatus at the left I can't
be used to prematurely without remote control impossible. Once you break through
the right for you will be fine but I just want to be able to get up to you your
flight has to be controlled by an operator who can trace your movements on
a radar plate it's the only way I was hoping we could use this time and possibly
catch up with the spaceship used by the kidnappers I'm afraid not. That's going to
bother. But at best. Thanks. But
you guys think.
a.
Use the superjet flash superjet back to the horse and buggy.
You're
a fool. Tell me the secret of the. And I'll give you
a. Even a planet to rule.
A few words. And the cell will be flooded with
oxygen you can breathe. Breathe freely.
Freely and easily. A few words.
The
You're going to love this!
I tell you!
Artist to.
You will not regret this day on your reward to the later than anyone has before
a planet of your own.
Earth is sterile.
Now tell me,
the activating force of permacotton,
what is it?
No.
No, Tredentia.
I waited for a moment,
but now I know that death,
twice as horrible as this,
is a thousand times preferable
to giving you a secret that will let your maddened mind rule a galaxy.
You fool!
Now you'll die!
Coming in for a landing.
What kind of a reception do you think Tredentia will give us?
In the first place, she doesn't know we're coming.
In the second, she wouldn't dare try anything with us.
A desperate woman will try anything, Platt.
This woman has a man's mind. It weighs and balances.
She knows that if anything happens to Dale, or to us,
the G.B.I. would destroy her once and for all.
She'd take more imprisonment.
Always sure that she'll get out and that next time she'll succeed.
A typical criminal mind.
You fool!
Fool!
You could have had power,
you could have had a will to command, a bend to your will.
There you are, Tredentia.
What have you done to Dale?
Dale, Dale, wake up.
Please wake up, please.
Tredentia, I warn you, don't touch her.
Leave her here just the way she is.
If you disobey this order, Tredentia,
I'll hunt you down to the end of the universe to avenge Dale.
I'll kill you.
I'll kill you.
Tredentia, I'll hunt you down to the end of the universe to avenge Dale.
Let's go, Doctor.
Doctor Zarkov, what happens when you travel faster than light?
That's a question. I'm serious.
Well, according to the Lorenz-Fitzgerald contraction theory,
at the moment when you exceed the speed of light,
you turn inside out.
Everything is reversed. Everything.
As I understand it, that's the theory.
Even time?
Time, that's what I asked.
Well, if you consider that time is finite, as many scientists do,
yes, according to the theory, time would reverse.
Skyflash calling GBI headquarters.
Gordon calling GBI headquarters on Earth.
Skyflash calling GBI.
Go ahead, Skyflash.
Connect me with Commissioner Herrick.
Yes, sir.
Herrick here.
Skyflash calling, sir.
I'll take it.
Herrick here.
Commissioner, is Professor Wynne to be finished his work on the remote control apparatus?
But, Flash, forget that. What about Dale?
Put Weatherby on.
But, Flash.
I said put Weatherby on.
Weatherby here.
How soon can you get the thermotron working?
Why, I...
Well, how soon?
Actually, it's ready now.
But there's still some double checking that should be done.
I'm not absolutely sure of the calibration of the remote control apparatus.
Forget it.
Time check.
Coming up to 1129.
Five, four, three, two, one.
Check.
Okay.
Let's go on exactly straight up.
But I...
Stop arguing.
Is there any last minute instructions we have to have?
Note the small clock next to the large one on your panel.
When you break through the light barrier, the hands will reverse.
Can we contact you by communicator?
You can contact us, but we can't contact you.
You'll be traveling too fast for radio beams to reach you.
Okay.
Wait for our signal.
When you get it, de-accelerate our speed.
When you get it.
Not before, do you understand?
Yes.
Okay.
Straight up.
Fifteen seconds.
Ten.
Five, four, three, two, one, zero.
Okay.
There's the light barrier.
They're fast.
They're past the barrier.
They're flying faster than the speed of light.
You understand, don't you?
If time reverses, we can reach Diana and come to safe field.
How long is she dead, Dr.
Not more than a few minutes.
Skyflash calling Zarkov's lab.
Gordon calling Professor Weatherby at Zarkov's lab.
De-accelerate.
Safe.
They're safe.
Thank goodness.
There's the Skyflash.
There's the Skyflash.
Flash, what about Dale?
No time now.
Explain when we get back.
Cutting off.
Set the course for Diana.
Her dangerous torture chamber is just around the next corner.
Do you think it'll work, Dr.?
Are we really back in time?
We'll know when we see if Dale is still alive.
Let's see her.
I understand.
Dale!
Dale.
Ladies, after you.
After you.