There is nothing wrong with your television set.
Do not attempt to adjust the picture.
We are controlling transmission.
We will control the horizontal.
We will control the vertical.
We can change the focus to a soft blur
or sharpen it to crystal clarity.
For the next hour, sit quietly
and we will control all that you see and hear.
You are about to participate in a great adventure.
You are about to experience the awe and mystery
which reaches from the inner mind to...
The mind of man has always longed to know
what lies beyond the world we live in.
Explorers have ventured
into the deeps and the heights.
Of these explorers, some are scientists,
some are mystics.
Each is driven by a different purpose.
The one thing they share in common
is a wish to cross the borderlands
that lie beyond...
The outer limits.
Primaries, 1-6-0.
Stroke, 9. Stroke, 6.
Polarity minus 5-0 degrees.
Oh, no, this equipment won't stand this.
You'll burn out the wiring in the entire building.
It isn't working. Let it go.
Make a record of the field intensity.
Right.
It's still on! aah!
Shut the switch!
My hand, I can't move it!
No, center it! You've put it into the minus!
Look!
My hand.
Look at it!
Dion, can you hear me?
He's trying to reach you.
He's coming closer.
He's reaching out.
He's trying to make you a sign.
Quick, blow out the candles!
Mr. Price, the candles!
Well, what's going on?
It's only a luminous cloth
rigged up on this black thread.
This woman can't reach your son, Mr. Hartley.
I'm afraid she came in here earlier,
cut a slit in the tablecloth,
and stuffed this under it.
Get out of my house.
I did not mean to trick you, Mr. Hartley.
A medium must have the belief
of those around her.
I would do anything to increase that belief,
because out of it comes hidden energy.
Do you still say you saw my son?
I described him to you.
His photograph is right in there on your desk.
I did not see any picture.
I cannot allow you to speak
about Mrs. Palmer this way.
I have been practicing
in the field of clairvoyance
for over 20 years,
and I can tell you that she has powers
beyond your understanding.
Mr. Price. Mrs. Palmer.
I think you'd better go.
We are going.
I am sorry for you, Mr. Hartley.
I know what it is
to want to reach a loved one
who has passed over.
I can tell you that Mrs. Palmer
has helped me.
Wait!
Mr. Hartley,
there is no hope in reaching your son
with these people issuing hostility.
Good night, Mr. Hartley.
Why?
Why did they lie to me?
They're no different than anyone else.
Money.
They didn't ask for money.
They wouldn't.
They'd leave that to someone from, uh...
The other world.
My son?
You'd do anything for him, wouldn't you?
Mr. Russell, I suppose I should be grateful to you
for saving me from making a fool of myself,
but just why have you appointed yourself
my... my spiritual guardian?
Like Mr. Sawyer says, you've got
a lot of money, Mr. Hartley,
and I don't want to see you
throw it away on charlatans.
And you know where you think I should throw it?
Yes.
Is this another way of your asking
for a new research appropriation?
You're the only man in this town
we can go to, Mr. Hartley.
You're the chief stockholder and chairman of the board
of Arrex electronics,
and you're not afraid to explore.
Are you asking me to finance an expedition?
In a way, yes.
You've been reaching out.
You want to go beyond the borderlands
into the unknown.
Mr. Frazier has been chief of research
at Arrex electronics for 5 years,
and I can tell you
he is a hard-minded scientist.
I have read reports about Mr. Frazier.
And Mrs. Frazier is a distinguished mathematician,
holder of the Rensselaer chair
at Midland university.
Then you can appreciate
how they're working together
like the Curies did on radium.
They've made a profound discovery.
Mr. Hartley, I had very little to do with it.
My husband's a genius.
Mr. Frazier, that's quite a compliment.
Are you a genius?
Mr. Hartley, I'm sure you are well aware
of invisible forces at work in the universe,
forces that are so simple, children play with them,
yet so powerful that entire cities
draw electrical energy from their depths.
Now, these are 2 bar magnets,
and there is a field of force surrounding them...
Which is invisible,
connecting them.
Yet, it does exert
an actual influence upon matter.
It literally reaches out across space.
Turn one around...
And the opposite poles repel.
I agree with you, Mr. Frazier.
A magnet is very mysterious.
Now, follow me, sir.
In our experiments, we have discovered
that the force surrounding a magnet
is really an extension of mass.
How shall I say it? Mass that extends
into another dimension.
No, I don't follow you, Mr. Frazier.
Let me put it this way.
This magnet...
Is really a miniature model of all things.
The earth. Sun.
Trees. Cells.
Everything is shaped by magnetic fields.
And what we have discovered
in this invisible field...
Is a doorway.
A doorway into the fourth dimension.
A doorway into the fourth dimension?
Yes.
You make Mrs. Palmer sound, uh...
Commonplace.
I can assure you, we're talking
cold, professional science.
And it does make Mrs. Palmer look
about as normal as blueberry pie.
But if you've discovered a doorway,
why do you need me?
It takes power to open the door, Mr. Hartley.
Pure power.
Financial power.
Yes, sir.
It takes a great deal of money to generate
the electrical energy necessary
in the amounts we need to accomplish our purpose.
With all of the power in the generators at Arrex
we could only open the door a tiny crack.
You have actually opened the door
to another dimension?
Yes, sir.
It was done by a sudden reversal of polarity
in an electromagnetic field.
To put it simply, we switched the polarity
in a magnetic field from plus to minus.
And in the transition...
Something happened.
What?
We discovered a new, shall we say,
direction.
Width, depth, height,
and beyond.
I can't describe it to you, I can only show you.
Well, please do.
At 11:24 last night,
Ian Frazier reached into a magnetic field
just as Eva Frazier reversed polarity.
I was a witness.
But a witness of what?
Show him, Ian.
Mr. Hartley, this is my right hand.
And with this, my left hand,
I reached over into the fourth dimension.
2 right hands.
Is this another cloth on a thread?
Touch it, Mr. Sawyer.
See how it joins at the wrist?
Is it painful?
It just feels cold...
As though it's immersed in ice water.
And there's a tingling sensation,
like fine currents of electricity.
Are you sure you weren't, uh,
born with this abnormality, Mr. Frazier?
I'm quite sure, Mr. Sawyer.
And it isn't a skin graft,
and it is not a trick.
Oh, no, no, no, it's not a trick.
I can see that.
I'm afraid we ruined
the electric substation at Arrex.
The power surged for a few seconds
and melted the output circuits.
And you ask me if I could help you
to go further?
We need a larger magnetic field
and enough power.
Enough power?
Yes, sir.
Enough power for a person to cross over.
But, wouldn't it kill that person?
My hand is still alive.
Are you prepared to risk your life?
I can't think of it that way, Mr. Sawyer.
To me it's an exploration.
I hope to see and feel
and... live in another world.
Tell me...
Would you expect to see anyone?
I don't know.
Mr. Hartley, I wouldn't hold out
any false hopes of contacting your son.
But you could try.
Nobody knows what happens to people after they die.
And I certainly can't say they...
Cross over into another dimension.
But they might.
Mr. Hartley, I am a scientist,
not a mystic.
And I can only tell you that the realm beyond life
is unknown.
Mr. Frazier, Mr. Russell,
I will place my financial resources
at your disposal on one condition...
That whatever happens,
you will make an earnest endeavor
to contact my son.
We need enough instantaneous power
to light the city for one hour.
I have a certain amount of influence
with the industries in this district.
Could you take this experiment
into the Midlands power plant?
We could construct a magnetic cell
and the field coils.
Midlands will be perfect.
How soon can you be ready?
11 days...
7.
7 days.
In 7 days,
the Midland power plant will be yours.
I give you my word.
Commissioner, I am not asking you,
I'm telling you.
I want the Midland plant and substation
for one hour.
The hospitals can use their auxiliaries.
That is correct.
I want the entire power system for one full hour.
The governor has already agreed.
Thank you, Commissioner.
All right, up ahead. Up, up, up.
Be extremely careful of the ceramics in the rod.
Come ahead slow. Come ahead slowly.
Slowly, not too fast. Match the bottom leg.
Come ahead, that's it.
That's it. Now, let it down easy.
Match the red dot with the plate
on the top of the crossbar.
Linc!
Match the plate. Hold off.
Settle back now, just turn...
Uh! Don't drop it.
Eva? huh?
Oh, I'll get that.
You haven't slept, have you?
Neither has Ian.
He doesn't seem to need it.
Oh, he needs it, all right.
Just won't take it.
Eva.
Hmm?
If anything happens to him...
I mean, anything serious,
you know I'll take care of you.
Mr. Sawyer.
Mrs. Palmer.
What do you want?
I want to talk business to you.
You had your chance and you ruined it.
I didn't ruin it.
They turned on the lights,
caught the thread.
You've been paid... For nothing.
That's not my fault.
I was ready to do everything
you told me to do...
To tell him that his son
was calling to him,
to buy a plot of land.
Where is it? Freeman and Carlton.
And who owns that piece of ground?
Be careful, Mrs. Palmer.
I am careful, Mr. Sawyer.
Careful to collect what is due to me.
Mrs. Palmer,
I'm Mr. Hartley's executive director.
I allocate the funds when and where I want.
Then perhaps you won't mind
my talking to him.
Talk all you like.
If I say you're a liar,
he'll know who to believe.
Don't be too sure, Mr. Sawyer.
There's something about the truth
that gets through to people.
I shall tell him everything
you told me to say, step by step.
You'll see.
Mrs. Palmer, I wouldn't give you 5 cents.
You'd be back every day with your hand out.
I only need what is due to me.
Forget it, Mrs. Palmer,
and if I were you, I'd leave town.
The police want a license for side-shows.
Hmm, police.
I'll tell them a few things.
Talk all you like. I'm asking you to talk.
Talk your head off.
I'm not a side-show freak, Mr. Sawyer.
There's more to it than you think.
Are you going to put a curse on me?
There's no need.
You have a curse on you.
You want to take over.
To run everybody and everything.
You want power, but you're not big enough.
So you steal it piece by piece.
But it's tainted, Mr. Sawyer.
Tainted and spoiled.
And you'll weaken. You'll sicken.
Step by step, you'll weaken
and the power will leave you.
Thank you, Mrs. Palmer.
That'll be all.
OK, I got it.
Mr. Frazier.
Well, how do you like it?
I guess I owe you an apology, Mr. Frazier.
Oh? What for?
I've been against this project from the start.
I thought you were going to throw the money around.
But, you've kept the costs within reason.
We'll be ready for tests
as soon as the breakers are installed.
Mr. Frazier, when you, uh...
Go over...
You might see something.
You might acquire some information
that might be of value.
It's understood, of course,
that any such discovery
is the property of the Arrex firm.
If I discover anything, Mr. Sawyer,
you'll get your share.
I'm glad we had a chance to talk about this
ahead of time.
I wouldn't want you to go ahead
without knowing who's in charge.
Are you saying you won't let us use the power?
Not at all.
You give me your word that you'll report anything
of any importance to me, directly,
and you'll have all the power you need.
Yes, sir, Mr. Sawyer.
Good.
What are those things?
Oh, these are elements.
We're about to test the effect of reversal
on their atomic structure.
I thought you were
going to use living matter?
Oh, we are, but we have to do
some preliminary tests.
You've only got the plant for one hour.
Well, this first test will only take half power
at 3 seconds.
Mr. Sawyer, my husband's about to risk his life.
He has a right to be as safe as possible.
Leave them alone, Benson.
Mr. Sawyer, Mr. Hartley, please.
Go to the safety shield.
We're going to divert over a billion volts.
All we need is one fault in the ceramics
and we'll get an overload
worse than any thunderstorm you've ever seen.
Stand by.
Stand by, please.
All clear.
All clear, please.
Stand by.
Generators half.
Load 1 through 6-0. 6-0.
1 through 6-0.
6-1 through 1-2-0.
1-2-0.
6-1 through 1-2-0.
Power reading?
Primaries, 1-7-1, stroke, 1-1,
stroke, 1-7.
Transfer load to magnetic circuit.
What are they doing?
Some kind of experiment.
Why are they using so much electricity?
Probably turning lead into gold.
Stand by to cut the main breaker.
Here it comes.
Tell me when it's at half.
Minus 3-1 degrees.
Polarity!
Polarity... reverse!
3, 2, 1, break it!
All right, pull 'em out!
Let me see.
Seals are reversed.
The temperature has diminished.
We have to examine them
under the electron microscope.
How long will that take?
A few minutes.
How can you tell if they're reversed?
We're more interested in stress analysis, Mr. Hartley.
Structural faults... Crushing, melting.
Eva, let's get a move on.
I'm holding at half.
Bring it up 2/3. Set up phase 2.
Phase 2.
What's that for?
Oh, we have to use ordinary objects.
We're testing for mirror images.
Right/left hand reversal phenomena.
Generator 2/3.
Mr. Sawyer, you better clear out of there.
The power increase might cause a flare-up.
Stand by.
Load 1 through 1-2-0.
1-2-0.
1 through 1-2-0.
1-2-0 to red line.
Red line.
1-2-0 to red line.
Red line.
Power reading?
Primary, 2-7-1, stroke. 1-1, stroke, 7.
Polarity minus 3-9 degrees.
Begin.
Stand by, breakers.
Power 2/3.
Zero. Polarity.
Polarity... reverse!
6, 5, 4, 3, 2, 1...
Break it! break it!
All right, take them out.
Look! They're turning
those things around somehow.
I'll tell you what they're trying.
Transmigration.
Moving matter.
Probably setting up Mr. Hartley
for a spirit reading.
That's the way it is, isn't it?
Kick us out and take our place.
You're right, Mrs. Palmer, Hartley would not be here
if they weren't trying to reach over.
They put up a very good show.
I saw it. It turned 'round.
It did more than that.
It reversed polarity and stabilized.
But... did they go into the other dimension?
They had to.
They became negative matter.
We'd better keep going.
These ceramics ought not lose too much temperature.
How many tests before the big one?
One more.
The scientist's best friend.
And if it lives?
I'm next.
Stand by.
Bring in from 2/3 to 3/4.
Generators in.
Reading?
Primaries, 2-7-1, stroke.
1-1, stroke, 3.
Polarity minus 3-4 degrees.
Go up 6 more.
Stand by, breakers.
Bring it in.
Power 3/4.
Polarity minus 1-7 degrees.
Power holding.
Holding.
Zero. Polarity.
Polarity... reverse!
10... 9...
8... 7...
Keep it steady.
6... 5... 4...
Keep it steady!
Needles are centered.
Now try to ease down.
Ease it down. It'll reassemble.
We hope.
All right. Ease it down.
Ease it! One degree at a time.
Try to center it.
I said center it!
The primaries will never take the power imbalance.
It's centering. It's holding steady.
All right.
Break it!
Take him out!
It's drifted.
Is it dead?
It got out of phase somehow.
Looked like a time distortion.
Yes. It may be a mirror image.
Some sort of X-ray effect.
Like glass or some...
Don't touch it!
It's fading.
What happened?
We're not sure.
You're still going?
I don't know.
We think it was the instability
of the power level.
Living matter is composed of chains of molecules.
The field wasn't steady enough
to keep them sequential.
Your hand.
My hand was subjected to an overload.
We couldn't measure how high it went.
We're gonna try again, at full power.
If the field is steady enough
and strong enough, it should work.
Linc, I need the log sheet.
Right.
Ian, it may have something to do with mass.
Nothing over a certain size can survive it.
I don't think so.
You can't go without further testing.
They won't let us keep using the power plant.
We'll go to the government.
It would take months.
And they might not let me go.
What about Eva?
She knows how I feel.
Set it at full.
No reserve?
I said full.
Start second tape relay.
Line in.
Reading?
Primaries, 3, 3, 1, stroke,
1, 1, stroke, 1.
Polarity minus 1-4 degrees.
Ready breakers.
Ready. Bring it in.
Full power.
Polarity 4 degrees.
Is the power holding?
Holding.
Zero. Polarity.
Reverse!
10... 9... 8...
7... 6... 5...
4... 3... 2...
1... break it!
Break it!
He's alive.
Don't let the power decay.
Put him back in.
If he crosses both ways, were set.
All right, clear the area.
Generators.
Generators full.
Full power.
Zero.
Polarity.
Reverse!
9... 8... 7...
6... 5... 4...
Circulation normal.
Bone structure intact.
No internal injuries.
Any radiation effects?
Thank you.
Dr. Sung will make the blood and tissue tests.
I'd better get ready.
Ian...
Yeah?
Ian, we should test more.
It's bad science to go without checking
every step of the way.
It's a worse science to miss out
on a prime discovery.
Well, Mr. Hartley will give you more time.
Mr. Sawyer won't.
We could find another backer.
Somebody less eccentric.
Eva, who else would throw away millions
on something sight unseen?
Well, there's got to be a scientific foundation.
Oh, I'm sure there is.
But it would take a year to find them,
maybe 2 years. 3 more to persuade them.
But it faded and drifted,
like shortwave.
Then we lost the signal.
It's gone, Ian, and we don't know where.
We don't know if it's...
Alive or dead.
We just know that it lost its moorings
and slipped away into...
3 years is too long to wait, even to be safe.
Eva, I've got a feeling.
I can see myself later, alive and well,
with you.
I've got to say it, Ian.
I see you lost.
There's always a risk,
whether I go now or test it a million times.
You know our topological studies are right.
You worked out the mass structure completely.
I could have made an error.
There is always the principle of uncertainty!
I'm sorry.
Eva, the odds are with us.
Anyone who goes out beyond the markers takes a risk.
The ocean explorers, the first airmen,
the astronauts.
They had time... To test.
Dr. Sung has a saying.
"It's better to live 2 weeks as a tiger than...
A whole lifetime as a lamb."
Ian...
I'm sorry.
I guess I'm just suffering from...
Intuition.
Ian...
A clean bill of health. No radiation effects.
No particle tracks or tissue tears.
No sign of deterioration.
Good.
Let's go. yeah.
Mrs. Palmer, they have no right
to take over Mr. Hartley.
He's our client.
And we have a right to protect our interests.
They've got him, Mr. Price.
There's nothing we can do about it.
You saw what happened
when the power wasn't on full.
They won't let that happen again.
There's a way to ease off the power.
You don't know these machines.
Mm. It's like any other.
You drop something into the wheels,
blow out a generator, they've got to lose power.
You don't want to kill anyone.
There's a big difference between being dead
and being unaccounted for.
It's no use, Mr. Price.
Even if we wreck their experiment,
Mr. Hartley's had a taste
of their machines and tricks.
He won't listen to us again.
No, no. You can help Mr. Hartley.
You and you alone.
Where are you going?
To look at those generators.
You won't do anything?
Mr. Hartley needs help. It's for his own good.
I don't know if this UHF radio will work.
Your voice will never carry
if the atmosphere in the area
is reversing polarity with you.
Ionic disturbance will probably jam it.
You've got to use it.
We probably receive enough electro-static energy
to unscramble.
Not in another dimension.
No, but during the reversal stage,
the computers could control the demodulations
and read the mirror image signal and reverse it.
I don't know. I don't know.
If anything goes wrong...
A time drift or... Distortion...
We've got to have communication.
Mr. Russell.
Mm-hmm?
What are they waiting on?
Connecting some new equipment.
For communications. Excuse me.
Mr. Frazier.
Yes?
When you cross,
you're to call on my son's name... Dion.
Dion. No less than 3 times.
He was killed when he was 17.
He... he may be disfigured.
He was crushed in his car
late at night.
I gave you my word, Mr. Hartley. I'll look.
But you mustn't expect anything.
But I do, Mr. Frazier. I do. I... I feel it.
I... I feel I shall reach my son.
I'll do my best.
Good luck.
Thank you.
What are you going to do?
If this drops down in there,
it'll cause a short circuit.
It's wrong, Mr. Price.
There are dozens of other generators.
The loss of one will only lessen the power
a few degrees.
It might be enough to kill him.
Generator failure is not unusual.
What if he crosses over and reaches the other world?
You may be tampering with something very important.
Ah, he's the one who's doing the tampering.
Your way is the right way, Mrs. Palmer.
I understand they're setting up a way
to communicate with you.
We're not sure it'll transmit,
but we can try.
Mr. Frazier, you understand our agreement?
If you see anything of any value,
you're to report it to me and me only.
And if you use this means of communication,
you're to keep your messages general.
Mr. Sawyer, I...
I'll remember.
Good luck.
Shield.
Check one.
Mike one.
2.
Code one.
3.
Code 2.
4.
UHF.
Check 5.
Headset.
6.
Linc...
If anything goes off the track,
please... take care of Eva.
Nothing's going off the track.
Ian... can you hear me?
Yes, I can hear you.
You are loud and clear.
The computers are patched in to track you.
Eva, I...
I know.
Stand by.
Generators up to full.
Generators at full.
Are they lined in?
Lined in.
Reading?
Primary, 3-3-1, stroke, 1-1, stroke, 1.
Polarity minus 1-2.
Ready, breakers.
If you lose my voice, take your own count
on the second reversal.
Ready to go.
All right, we go.
Bring in magnetic circuit.
Is it holding?
Holding.
Zero.
Polarity!
Reverse!
Ian. Ian, can you hear me?
I'm falling!
6 seconds! 6 seconds!
I can't see!
Don't kill him! Don't do it to him!
Breakers!
No! The power's failing!
Cut it off! Keep it in one place!
Build it up again!
I can't! The unit's failing!
Breakers!
Ian, can you hear me? Can you hear me, Ian?
Eva! Eva!
I hear you!
I can't hear you!
Eva!
I'm here! I hear you! I hear you.
I can see you!
Now you're transparent!
But I can't hear you!
Don't try to touch me!
There's some kind of overlap of space!
Eva!
3 generators are out.
How long will it take to get them going?
We're not going to try.
We're tying into the substation at Oxton.
He can't hear me, but he can see me.
You fade in and out!
I'm afraid I'll lose contact!
There's another landscape! Superimposed!
I can't tell if it's another planet
or the earth in another time!
Everything is just barren!
I'm not in either place!
Eva! Eva!
I feel as though I'm falling!
Don't move!
Eva!
I'm drifting!
There's a wind blowing!
The clouds are tearing up!
Eva!
My time sense is going!
Please!
Everything is reversed!
I see you...
In slow motion!
There's a temporal drift!
Eva!
I'm going to reach forward,
out of the field,
try to reverse my left hand!
Eva! Touch me!
Hold on to my hand!
It can help keep me centered in the field!
I'm drifting!
I'm here!
I see a crater!
And shadows!
I'm drifting! Eva!
I'm falling!
Ian! I won't let you go!
Ian!
Dion! Dion!
Dion!
He's calling your son.
Dion! Dion!
No answer. It's gone dead.
But he's there! I know he's there!
Go tell them to keep on trying.
Tell Dr. Sung to work the control bars!
I'll tell him what to do!
Dr. Sung, come over here!
Take over her station!
Connect the red switches!
Pull 1 through 9!
Hold on to 10!
Power full!
Power at full!
Polarity minus 4 degrees.
Take it past the red line.
We need enough to bring him back!
We'll black out the city.
Black it out!
Take it past the red line.
Cut in the last one!
Now the master switch!
Zero. Polarity!
Reverse!
Unh! Unh!
He's there. I know.
He is.
I know he's there.
Dion.
Dion!
Mr. Hartley, come back!
Dion. Dion!
Where did he go?
To find his son.
Eva.
I'm back.
Yes, darling, you're back.
Safe.
There are worlds beyond and worlds within
which the explorer must explore.
But there is one power which seems to transcend
space and time, life and death.
It is a deeply human power
which holds us safe and together
when all other forces combine to tear us apart.
We call it
the power of love.
We now return control of your television set to you,
until next week at this same time,
when the control voice will take you to...