
Aliens in the Mind - Official Intercessions
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Narrator
Aliens in the mind. Co starring vincent price and as curtis lark and peter cushing as john cornelius. Lark and Cornelius take Flora Kiri away from the remote isle of Luig with its frightening colony of mutants and and bring her to London, where they hope to investigate her mysterious powers as a controller. Under hypnosis, Flora unwittingly exposes more of the mutants nearer to home.
Professor Curtis Lark
Flora, why did you let Molly Kyle die?
Flora Keary
Careful. Because she found out Kiri was not my father. So she. She punished my mother. Punished her for begetting me in sin. She burned her. Burned her in hell fire. She told her her legs were paralyzed. And my mother thought she couldn't walk. And she just lay there screaming and screaming for help. And the flames kept nearer and nearer. And then it was too late. That they were burned in hellfire. And mother was still screaming for help. Help. Help. Oh, help me, somebody, for God's sake.
Professor Curtis Lark
It's all right. It's a paroxysm. It's all right.
Flora Keary
I burned her.
Professor Curtis Lark
Hold her down. Hold her down, for God's sake. Hold her down, child. Can't we stop her?
Colonel Gulliver
It's all right, Flora.
Professor Curtis Lark
It's all right. Here you are.
John Cornelius
What's that? What's going on? Hey.
Flora Keary
Here.
Professor Curtis Lark
What do you think you're doing? I say look out.
Flora Keary
I don't care.
Professor Curtis Lark
Stop him. No, no, no. He's still coming. For God's sake, Curtis. Are you just going to let him pick up the girl and walk out with her? But there's no way of stabbing him.
Flora Keary
Where's he taking her?
John Cornelius
Didn't either of you recognize him?
Professor Curtis Lark
Recognize him? Why should we?
John Cornelius
It's Ian Sanderson.
Professor Curtis Lark
Who's he?
John Cornelius
He's an mp. The opposition spokesman on defence matters.
Professor Curtis Lark
Oh, my God.
John Cornelius
But I just don't understand it. I think I do. What was a subject for scientific research has suddenly become a question of national security.
Butler Gwent
Part four.
Narrator
Four official intercessions.
Security Officer
Would you mind just filling that in, please, sir?
John Cornelius
Certainly.
Security Officer
You too, please, sir.
Professor Curtis Lark
What is it?
Security Officer
A security parcer.
Professor Curtis Lark
What Are they keeping here, John, the crown jewel?
John Cornelius
This is the Home Office, not the Tower of London.
Professor Curtis Lark
Well, what do they keep here, I sometimes wonder. Yeah.
John Cornelius
Thank you.
Security Officer
Thank you, sir. Your appointments with Colonel Gulliver, is it, sir?
John Cornelius
That's right, yes.
Security Officer
He'd be in room. Yes, here we are. Room 517.
John Cornelius
517?
Security Officer
Yes. Follow that corridor down to the end and then take the lift to the fifth floor, sir. If you turn right when you get out, you'll find 517 almost facing you.
John Cornelius
Thank you very much. Come along, Curtis, my boy.
Professor Curtis Lark
I'm coming.
Security Officer
You can't miss it, sir. The rooms are clearly numbered.
Professor Curtis Lark
John. You know, what I don't understand is if this Gulliver is a Colonel, what's he doing in the Home Office, huh?
John Cornelius
Well, Harry Gulliver's ex army, actually. Something to do with security. Now, bit tight lipped on the surface, but he's not a bad sort when you get to know him. Anyway. You sometimes have generals in the White House, don't you?
Professor Curtis Lark
Oh, yes, and we usually end up regretting it. What do they want, Gulliver?
Colonel Gulliver
I've no idea, sir.
Narrator
Not yet.
Professor Curtis Lark
Oh, damn it, man.
Colonel Gulliver
I would have thought you'd have enough in your play without inviting coach loads
Professor Curtis Lark
of civilians to come poking their noses in the security cabinet. I suppose you know what you're doing. Excuse me. Oh, good day to you, sir. Good day to you, sir.
Colonel Gulliver
Ah, there you are, Cornelius. Sorry about that.
John Cornelius
Colonel, may I introduce Professor Curtis Lark, Colonel Gulliver.
Colonel Gulliver
Ah, pleased to meet you, Professor.
Professor Curtis Lark
Hello, Colonel.
John Cornelius
Who.
Professor Curtis Lark
Who was that that just went out?
Colonel Gulliver
Brigadier Sherman, my head of Department.
John Cornelius
Like the tank, you know.
Colonel Gulliver
Bit of a blimp really. Take a pew, won't you?
Professor Curtis Lark
Oh, thank you.
John Cornelius
Thank you so much.
Colonel Gulliver
Well, now, what's all this about?
Professor Curtis Lark
You tell it, John.
John Cornelius
Me?
Security Officer
Yeah.
Professor Curtis Lark
You won't embroider it as much as I would?
John Cornelius
Oh, very well. It all started on the Isle of Luig.
Colonel Gulliver
Where the hell's that Luig?
John Cornelius
Oh, it's one of the Outer Hebrides. Professor Lark and I had gone up there to attend the funeral of a mutual friend.
Colonel Gulliver
Now let me get this straight, Cornelius. You're telling me that up on this Scottish island, whatever it's called, the Isle of Luig?
Security Officer
Yes, yes.
Colonel Gulliver
There are these people, these mutants, didn't you call them?
John Cornelius
That's right.
Colonel Gulliver
Who can be manipulated simply by having thoughts put into their heads by these
Professor Curtis Lark
controllers without the mutants being aware of it. That's the point, Colonel. They have no recollection of having been manipulated in this way.
Colonel Gulliver
And it's all done by telepathy?
John Cornelius
Almost certainly.
Colonel Gulliver
Well, it all sounds a bit like science fiction, I must say. Telepathy and mutants and all that. I mean it sounds more like. More like HG Wells Who?
Professor Curtis Lark
Wasn't it Wells who wrote in the country of the blind, the one eyed man is king?
John Cornelius
Very clever.
Colonel Gulliver
You must admit it sounds rather unbelievable. Anyway, I really can't see why you should come to me with this fairy tale.
John Cornelius
We found one of these controllers, as we call them. A girl about 19 years old called Flora Keary. And we managed to get her to London for various tests. Now they might prove something or other.
Colonel Gulliver
Well, that sounds more promising.
John Cornelius
Indeed.
Professor Curtis Lark
But somebody walked off with her last night.
Colonel Gulliver
Walked off?
Professor Curtis Lark
Yes. Stole. Kidnapped?
John Cornelius
Abducted is the word, Curtis.
Professor Curtis Lark
Ah, thank you. Yes, someone abducted her, Colonel.
Colonel Gulliver
And have you informed the police of this abduction?
John Cornelius
That won't be necessary. We know who the man is and why he did it.
Colonel Gulliver
And why did he do it?
Professor Curtis Lark
Because she told him to. She just put the thought in his head.
Colonel Gulliver
Ah, you mean this fellow was one of these mutants?
John Cornelius
Is one of them, Colonel. He is also a member of Parliament.
Colonel Gulliver
Is that meant to be some sort of joke, Cornelius?
Professor Curtis Lark
Oh, you haven't heard the payoff line yet.
Colonel Gulliver
What does he mean Cornelius? Why can't a damn fellow speak English?
John Cornelius
My friends of an accurate. You ain't heard nothing yet.
Colonel Gulliver
Come to the point dammit.
John Cornelius
Our mutant MP is one of the opposition spokesman on defense matters.
Colonel Gulliver
Oh no.
Professor Curtis Lark
Now do you see why we came to you with this fairy tale, Colonel? One way or another. I think we put that over rather well, John. You know, we'd make quite a good double act on the hall.
John Cornelius
Saints preserve us.
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John Cornelius
Personally, I felt we were hamming like mad.
Security Officer
Don't we? Ho.
John Cornelius
Speak for yourself.
Security Officer
Shall we have your parties, gentlemen?
John Cornelius
Yes.
Professor Curtis Lark
Okay. Here you go.
Security Officer
Thank you, gentlemen. Good day to you.
John Cornelius
Good day.
Professor Curtis Lark
Oh, boy. Fresh air at last.
John Cornelius
Yes, it was a bit stuffy in there, so I think old Gulliver got the message in the end.
Professor Curtis Lark
Yes, but will he do anything about it?
John Cornelius
I doubt it. He can't move openly against someone like Sanderson without definite proof.
Professor Curtis Lark
And we've no proof without Flora.
John Cornelius
No. That's the next step, isn't it?
Professor Curtis Lark
Yes, but what can we do? We can't just walk up and ask for her back.
John Cornelius
What? What did you just say?
Professor Curtis Lark
I said we can't just walk up to Sanderson and ask him to give Flora back to us.
John Cornelius
But that's exactly what we can do. In fact, it's the only way.
Professor Curtis Lark
It is.
John Cornelius
My dear Curtis, you really do have the most unerring nose for these things.
Professor Curtis Lark
Oh, I don't know. It's quite an ordinary nose, really. Chic, perhaps. Patrician, even.
John Cornelius
We can soon alter that.
Butler Gwent
Yes?
John Cornelius
John Cornelius. I telephoned earlier.
Butler Gwent
Oh, yes, Mr. Cornelius.
Professor Curtis Lark
And this must be Professor Curtis Luck.
Butler Gwent
Indeed. Do come in. Mr. Sanderson is expecting you.
Professor Curtis Lark
Thank you.
Butler Gwent
If you would care to wait here for a moment, I'll inform Mr. Sanderson of your arrival.
John Cornelius
Thank you.
Butler Gwent
If you'd excuse me.
Professor Curtis Lark
A real old world English butler. Isn't he just adorable.
John Cornelius
Down, Curtis.
Butler Gwent
Down this way, if you please, Mr. Cornelius. Professor Lark, sir.
Ian Sanderson
Ah, thank you, Gwent. Do come in, won't you?
John Cornelius
This is Professor Lark, sir, and I. Mr. Cornelius.
Ian Sanderson
How do you do? Sit yourselves down, won't you?
John Cornelius
Thank you.
Ian Sanderson
Oh, I know you both by name, of course. And in your case, Mr. Corneille is by reputation. But I can't pretend to understand the. The reason for this visit.
John Cornelius
I'll come straight to the point, Mrs. Harnderson. We've just returned from the Isle of Luig. Luig?
Ian Sanderson
Good heavens. I was born there.
John Cornelius
So we understand.
Ian Sanderson
Such a beautiful place. Marvelous place to grow up in. It has many, many happy associations for me. You were saying about Luig?
John Cornelius
When we came back, we brought with us a young lady who showed all the classic symptoms of what could prove to be a brain tumor. We wanted to run a series of medical checks on her.
Professor Curtis Lark
She's been living in John's apartment just across the road. Until yesterday evening, when she disappeared. Yes.
John Cornelius
Her name is Flora Carey.
Ian Sanderson
Yes, I know. Strange, isn't it? So many years later, not knowing what she was or where she was or what she looked like. And then suddenly waking as for a dream and finding she had come from nowhere to hold your hand and ask to be taken home for tea. And you suddenly realized that all her life she will just stay a child and never do anything but hold your hand and ask to be taken home for tea?
John Cornelius
I'm sorry, I don't quite follow.
Ian Sanderson
Oh, you've brought me hope, Mr. Cornelis. A small hope, but something that I can hang on to, that I. I can at least begin to understand. And for that, I thank you both for myself and my daughter.
Professor Curtis Lark
Your what?
Ian Sanderson
Flora Keery is my daughter, Professor. My natural daughter.
Professor Curtis Lark
Holy mackerel.
John Cornelius
Never profane the mackerel, my dear Curtis. It is the most underrated fish, well spoke and washed down with a little Muscadet. It is to the more discerning palate, eminently preferable to the more esteemed and popular trout.
Professor Curtis Lark
John.
John Cornelius
Mm?
Professor Curtis Lark
It was I who suggested the mackerel.
Narrator
Did you?
Professor Curtis Lark
And the Muscadet.
John Cornelius
Really? Then I commend you, my dear Curtis. Your palate is obviously improving.
Professor Curtis Lark
Could we get back to cases? Do they?
John Cornelius
Oh, by all means. You obviously doubt Sanderson's claim to be Flora's father.
Professor Curtis Lark
Yes, frankly, I do, John. I honestly do. It's all too pat, too glib.
John Cornelius
Well, he seems to believe it, and I think that was genuine.
Professor Curtis Lark
Yes, but who's to say that she didn't put the idea into his head? She desperately needs affection, security, someone to lean on. She only had to think of him as her father and he would have accepted it as fact.
John Cornelius
Agreed, but at least the dates matched. And I really don't think she could have put all that background detail into his head.
Professor Curtis Lark
You could be right. I can't see how she could have known all that stuff either.
John Cornelius
No, I'm sure all she knew was that her mother was murdered. For. What did she call it? Begetting her in sin?
Professor Curtis Lark
Yes. Yes, it all comes back to the Reverend Donald Schooler, doesn't it? That man's got an awful lot to answer for.
John Cornelius
Since the Reverend Schooler is the only person able to verify Sanderson's story, we have no option but to accept it at face value, at least for the moment.
Professor Curtis Lark
Well, does that mean we have to leave Flora and Sanderson's care?
John Cornelius
I really don't see what else we can do. She'll be well looked after and we have complete access to her. Besides.
Professor Curtis Lark
Besides what?
John Cornelius
Well, what will we do with Laura when we've finished all our tests? Checks? Send her back to Louis into the
Professor Curtis Lark
Reverend Schoolhouse tender clutches? Over my dead body.
John Cornelius
Quite right. Sanderson's claim to be her father could suit us very well. Very well, indeed.
Professor Curtis Lark
Could it, Gerard? Or could it be risking Flora's life?
John Cornelius
Curtis, melodrama does not become you. It sits badly on your accent.
Professor Curtis Lark
Look, now, honestly, so seriously, there must be a controller behind Sanderson.
John Cornelius
It doesn't necessarily follow just because Sanderson is a mutant.
Professor Curtis Lark
No, but it's possible and you know it. I mean, otherwise you would never have suggested going to someone like Gulliver.
John Cornelius
All right, Curtis. Point taken.
Ian Sanderson
Good.
Professor Curtis Lark
Then no fully fledged controller is going to take kindly to a butterfly mind like Flora's fouling up the works.
John Cornelius
No, no, I would think that might well be true. On the other hand, one could argue that if there is another controller, Flora's butterfly mind might be just the thing to flush him out into the open.
Professor Curtis Lark
You make her sound more like a sprat to catch a mackerel.
John Cornelius
How appropriate. Curtis, more wine.
Professor Curtis Lark
Well, John, once we get back to the fl. But what's our next step going to be?
John Cornelius
To amuse Flora. Poor Sanderson seems most anxious for us to maintain our professional interest in the girl. Yeah, and we certainly want to keep her under observation.
Professor Curtis Lark
Absolutely.
John Cornelius
So it might be a nice gesture if you were to invite Flora to do a little sightseeing.
Professor Curtis Lark
Me? Why me?
John Cornelius
Oh, why not? It's much more likely that you would want to see the sights than I would. After all, you are a foreigner.
Professor Curtis Lark
If you xenophobia ill becomes you, John. Though it does sit well enough on that accent.
John Cornelius
I thought the changing of the guard might be appropriate.
Professor Curtis Lark
Buckingham Palace? No.
John Cornelius
Horse Guards Parade. Then I thought we might perhaps pop in for morning coffee with Colonel Gulliver. His office is quite close by.
Professor Curtis Lark
And here I was thinking Machiavelli was dead.
Flora Keary
Oh, aren't the horses lovely?
Professor Curtis Lark
They're beautiful.
Flora Keary
Why aren't all the soldiers wearing red?
John Cornelius
Because they're from two different regiments. The ones in red are the lifeguards. The ones in blue are the Royal Horse Guards. Or is it the other way around, Curtis?
Professor Curtis Lark
Why ask me? They're your. Your soldiers, Jo.
Flora Keary
Oh, no.
John Cornelius
What's the matter, Flora?
Flora Keary
Someone's looking for me.
Professor Curtis Lark
Oh, come on, Flora, relax. Look at the soldiers. They're so pretty.
John Cornelius
I think striking would be more apt.
Flora Keary
I want to go home.
Professor Curtis Lark
But we've only just arrived.
Flora Keary
Someone's looking for me.
John Cornelius
Nonsense, Flora.
Flora Keary
I'm frightened. I want to go home.
John Cornelius
Oh, no. Come along, Flora. Don't be so silly. You're imagining things.
Professor Curtis Lark
That doesn't reassure me one whit. Please, John, why don't you take Flora, go see our friend Gulliver?
John Cornelius
And what do you propose doing?
Professor Curtis Lark
Well, I'll hang around here and make sure that no one is following her.
Butler Gwent
Following?
John Cornelius
Oh, come on, Curtis, please.
Flora Keary
I must go home.
Professor Curtis Lark
You know, John, as well as I do that Flora has an unfortunate habit of being right about these things. Anyway, it might even be the first of your mackerel. Please do as I suggest. Please, John, take Flora to see Gulliver. If anyone is following her. There's no way he can cross street as wide as Whitehall without showing himself.
John Cornelius
And if he does?
Professor Curtis Lark
Well, then I'll follow him, of course.
John Cornelius
Oh, very well. Come along then, Flora.
Flora Keary
Oh, thank you.
John Cornelius
There's no one following us yet.
Flora Keary
He's still looking for me.
John Cornelius
Well, I wish he'd show himself if he's going to.
Flora Keary
Oh, so do I. I wish he'd show himself. I wish he'd show himself. I'm frightened.
John Cornelius
There, Father. There's nothing to be frightened of. You're quite safe enough with me, I promise.
Flora Keary
Oh, there he is,
Narrator
Poor devil.
John Cornelius
Slight concussion, contusions on the face and arms. Nothing serious, Colonel.
Colonel Gulliver
Where is he now?
Professor Curtis Lark
In the hospital. Presumably they took him off in an ambulance.
Colonel Gulliver
And you think he was following you?
Professor Curtis Lark
Following Flora, Colonel? I'm sure of it.
Flora Keary
He was looking for me. He was the one.
Colonel Gulliver
Well, he wasn't one of my men.
John Cornelius
His name was McBinnie.
Colonel Gulliver
How do you know that?
Professor Curtis Lark
Well, we checked his identity before they put him in the ambulance.
Colonel Gulliver
Well, I don't have anyone of that name on my staff.
Professor Curtis Lark
The police on the Isle of Luig have a sergeant by that name.
John Cornelius
This wasn't the same man, though.
Flora Keary
No, but there's lots of McBinnies on
Colonel Gulliver
L. Ms. Carey, is there any reason, any reason at all why anyone from Luig should be looking for you to take me back?
Professor Curtis Lark
Laura, listen to me. Did you want that man, McVinnie? Did you want him to cross the road?
Flora Keary
I wanted him to show himself. I didn't mean to hurt him. I wanted him to show himself.
John Cornelius
It's all right, Flora. Really it is.
Flora Keary
There, you see? Said you wanted him to show himself. So I concentrated and willed him too. I didn't know he'd get hurt.
Colonel Gulliver
Stop this silly charade. I don't believe a word of it. It's all some damn fool prank. I'm surprised that you, Cornelius, a man in your position. And you, young lady, I don't know what you hope to gain from all this nonsense.
Flora Keary
I want to go home.
Colonel Gulliver
I'm sure you do. But you're not going.
Flora Keary
Take me home.
Colonel Gulliver
You're not going anywhere till we've got to the bottom of this tissue of ludicrous lies.
Flora Keary
Take me home.
Professor Curtis Lark
Sit down.
John Cornelius
Steady on, Colonel. There's no need to adopt that tone.
Colonel Gulliver
I shall adopt whatever damn tone I please.
Professor Curtis Lark
Take me home and it will stop that sniveling. Oh, come on now, Flora. Be a good girl and keep quiet.
Flora Keary
Take me home. I want to go away from here.
Professor Curtis Lark
Yes, I know, Flora. Just leave it to old Uncle Corney, eh? He's going to talk our way out of this, aren't you?
John Cornelius
Oh, my God.
Colonel Gulliver
Well, you've certainly got some explaining to do.
Professor Curtis Lark
Thank you, dear. Sherman.
Colonel Gulliver
What can I do for you, sir? But, sir.
Professor Curtis Lark
Forget it, Colonel. There's nothing you can do but watch. We can go home.
Flora Keary
We can go home. Please.
Professor Curtis Lark
We can go home. We can go home. We can go. Go home.
Colonel Gulliver
Where's he taking her?
John Cornelius
Home, by the sound of it. We'd better go after them.
Professor Curtis Lark
You go, John. You might be able to sweet talk her into switching off. And you, I'd better stay here. I've got some explaining to do.
John Cornelius
Do your best.
Professor Curtis Lark
Okay.
Colonel Gulliver
Would you mind filling me in?
Professor Curtis Lark
What?
Colonel Gulliver
What exactly is going on around here?
Professor Curtis Lark
Well, to put it simply. Simply? Flora's been sending out telepathic distress signals. And your gallant Brigadier answered them.
Colonel Gulliver
You mean.
Professor Curtis Lark
I do. And it couldn't happen to a nicer man.
Colonel Gulliver
The brigadier's the head of the department.
Professor Curtis Lark
In that case, Colonel, the department's got quite a headache. You should have seen poor Gulliver's face, John. It was a picture, an absolute picture.
John Cornelius
So was Sherman's. He was halfway down the corridor when I caught up with him. And he couldn't understand what he was doing there. He was terribly concerned about himself. Anyway, it's an ill wind.
Flora Keary
Is this our street?
John Cornelius
Yes. Your father's house is just down there
Flora Keary
on the left where the ambulances.
John Cornelius
Ambulance?
Professor Curtis Lark
She's right. There is an ambulance and the police.
John Cornelius
Stop here, driver.
Security Officer
Very good, sir.
Professor Curtis Lark
Now, Flora, you stay with Uncle Cornelius, and I'll just go and see what's going on, huh?
Butler Gwent
All right, all right. Stand back there, please.
Professor Curtis Lark
Come on.
Butler Gwent
Move along, if you would. There's nothing more to see.
Professor Curtis Lark
What happened, officer?
Butler Gwent
And that's what we're trying to find out, sir.
Professor Curtis Lark
But why the ambulance?
Butler Gwent
Because someone went and got themselves shot, didn't I?
John Cornelius
That piece.
Butler Gwent
Come along now. It's all over.
Professor Curtis Lark
But who, Officer? Who's been shot?
Butler Gwent
They're bringing him out now, sir. Let us know if he's a friend of yours, won't you? Now, come along. Now, stand back, if you please.
Professor Curtis Lark
Let the man breathe a little oh, my God.
Flora Keary
It's.
Professor Curtis Lark
It's Gwent.
Security Officer
Gwent?
John Cornelius
Who's he?
Professor Curtis Lark
Saunderson's butler.
Security Officer
What?
Professor Curtis Lark
Well, now you understand why I was hustling you and Flora away from there. Yes, Well, I couldn't say much in front of her.
John Cornelius
No, no, of course.
Professor Curtis Lark
It could have set the whole Clockwork Orange ticking all over again.
John Cornelius
My word. Yes, it's a rum business.
Professor Curtis Lark
You can say that again. Well, cheers.
John Cornelius
Cheers.
Professor Curtis Lark
Where's Flora now?
John Cornelius
Staring out of her bedroom window, waiting for her father. For Sanderson to come back.
Professor Curtis Lark
It shouldn't be long now. Apparently he went down to the police station to make a formal statement.
John Cornelius
Those things can drag on for hours. Wonder if Gulliver's heard the news.
Professor Curtis Lark
Does the left hand ever knoweth what the right hand doeth?
John Cornelius
No, it doesn't. That's the British definition of security. I better go and phone him.
Professor Curtis Lark
You do just that.
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Well.
John Cornelius
Hello, Flora.
Flora Keary
Hello, Uncle Cornelius.
John Cornelius
Go on in. I'll be with you in a second. Just have to make a phone call.
Professor Curtis Lark
Hello, Flora.
Flora Keary
Hello, Professor.
Professor Curtis Lark
Your daddy not back yet?
Flora Keary
He came back to snow.
Professor Curtis Lark
Oh, good. That'll make you happy.
Flora Keary
Yes. He came in a big car. There were two other men with him. Oh, yes, there were two.
Professor Curtis Lark
Well, they were just policemen. Probably policemen Only to look after him. Your daddy's a very important man, you know.
Flora Keary
Oh, yes.
Professor Curtis Lark
Anyway, let's go tell Mr. Cornelius the good news and then we'll take you home.
John Cornelius
I'd be most grateful if you would tell him that. Bye. Well? He wasn't there.
Professor Curtis Lark
Well, Sanderson's just got back.
John Cornelius
Oh, Dan.
Professor Curtis Lark
I thought I'd just walk her across.
John Cornelius
Right. Her. John Cornelius, Ian Sanderson speaking.
Ian Sanderson
Is Flora with you?
John Cornelius
Oh, yes, she is. Hold on, Curtis. She was just about to leave.
Ian Sanderson
Well, I'd rather she didn't. Not just at the moment. The place is in a bit of a shambles.
John Cornelius
Yes, I imagine it would be.
Ian Sanderson
I don't want her to see it like this. It. It might upset her.
John Cornelius
I can understand that. Don't concern yourself about her. Perhaps you'll let us know when you'd like her to come back.
Professor Curtis Lark
Yes.
Ian Sanderson
Yes, I will. Thank you.
John Cornelius
Not at all.
Ian Sanderson
By the way.
John Cornelius
Yes?
Ian Sanderson
There are two men on their way over to you now. Policemen.
Professor Curtis Lark
Oh.
Ian Sanderson
They want to talk to Flora about the business here this afternoon. Someone broke into my flat, you know. Damn near killed my butler.
John Cornelius
Yes, so I heard. But Flora knows nothing about it. She was. She was with us all the afternoon.
Ian Sanderson
Yes, I told them that, but they insist. They seem to think Flora was the intended victim. Not Gwent. Cornelius.
John Cornelius
They could very well be right, Mr. Sanderson. They could very well be right.
Ian Sanderson
I'll ring you later. Goodbye.
John Cornelius
Goodbye. That's odd.
Professor Curtis Lark
What is it?
John Cornelius
John Sanderson said there's a couple of policemen on their way over to talk to Flora.
Professor Curtis Lark
So it must be them already.
John Cornelius
Well, I suppose I'd better let them in.
Professor Curtis Lark
No.
John Cornelius
What?
Flora Keary
No, don't let them in.
Professor Curtis Lark
But they're only policemen, Flora. Don't be silly.
Flora Keary
No, don't let them in. Don't let them in. Keep them out. Keep them out.
John Cornelius
She's putting the chain on the poor.
Professor Curtis Lark
Flora.
Flora Keary
They're going to kill me. They're going to kill me.
Professor Curtis Lark
Charms. She means it. Quick, phone Gulliver.
John Cornelius
I did. He's not there.
Professor Curtis Lark
Well, we mustn't let those men in.
Flora Keary
They're going to kill me. They're going to kill me.
Professor Curtis Lark
Calm down, Flora. Calm down and concentrate.
Flora Keary
They're going to kill me.
Professor Curtis Lark
Now listen. Listen to me, Flora. They can't kill you if you want them to go away. Now will them to go away. I can make them go away, Flora. Oh, come on. You can do it if you want to.
Flora Keary
I can. I can. I won't go.
Professor Curtis Lark
Oh, try. Try.
Flora Keary
I am trying.
Professor Curtis Lark
Come on, Flora.
Flora Keary
It's not working, man. It's not working. They're going to kill me.
Professor Curtis Lark
Get down, sonny, get down. Keep down. Flora. Don't move. Flora. Flora, are you all right? Flora.
Security Officer
What?
Professor Curtis Lark
Flora's dead.
John Cornelius
I can't believe it. Such a waste.
Professor Curtis Lark
Yes, John, but now you have to believe that there. There is another controller right here in London.
Narrator
That was part four of Aliens in the Mind. Co starring Vincent Price as Curtis Lark and Peter Cushing as John Cornelius. With Sandra Clarke as Flora Keary, Fraser Carr, Ian Sanderson, William Eadle Gulliver, Clifford Norgate, Brigadier Sherman and Michael Harbour as Gwent. Aliens in the Mind was written by Rennie Basilico from an idea by Robert Holmes. Production by John Dyess.
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Date: March 6, 2026
Host: Harold's Old Time Radio
This episode is part four of the classic radio thriller "Aliens in the Mind," starring Vincent Price and Peter Cushing. The drama centers on the aftermath of Flora Keary’s rescue from the isolated Isle of Luig, a place harboring a community of powerful telepathic mutants. Curtis Lark and John Cornelius have brought Flora to London to investigate her psychic abilities, only to be swept into a rapidly escalating web of intrigue, paranoia, and danger, where questions of national security and personal identity entwine.
Lark and Cornelius navigate government bureaucracy to explain their findings to Home Office security man Colonel Gulliver.
The duo reveals Flora’s abilities and how she orchestrated her own abduction by planting thoughts in Sanderson’s mind, hinting how deeply mutants may have infiltrated British society.
A confrontation with Sanderson leads to the bombshell—he claims to be Flora’s father.
Lark is skeptical, dubbing the claim "too pat, too glib" (13:14), but some details—verified only by the Reverend Schooler—appear to check out. The duo debates whether Flora might have implanted the idea in Sanderson’s mind.
Colonel Gulliver refuses to believe in telepathic powers, but Flora admits she subconsciously willed McBinnie to “show himself,” leading to his injury.
Tensions with Gulliver escalate as he accuses them of lies and melodrama, even as events suggest something far stranger is at work.
Sanderson is now guarded by police; Flora grows increasingly fearful, convinced people are coming to kill her.
She barricades herself, and Cornelius and Lark urge her to use her powers to fend off the two men coming for her.
On government skepticism about supernatural phenomena:
(06:24, Colonel Gulliver): "And it's all done by telepathy?"
(06:26, John Cornelius): "Almost certainly."
(06:27, Colonel Gulliver): "Well, it all sounds a bit like science fiction, I must say."
On the risk mutants and controllers pose:
(07:48, John Cornelius): "Our mutant MP is one of the opposition spokesman on defense matters."
(07:52, Colonel Gulliver): "Oh no."
On Flora’s mental and emotional fragility:
(13:21, Professor Lark): "She desperately needs affection, security, someone to lean on. She only had to think of him as her father and he would have accepted it as fact."
The cost of meddling with psychic powers:
(27:44, John Cornelius): "I can't believe it. Such a waste."
(27:48, Professor Lark): "Yes, John, but now you have to believe that there… There is another controller right here in London."
| Time | Key Segment | |-----------|--------------------------------------------------------| | 01:35 | Flora’s hypnosis and emotional outburst | | 03:11 | Flora abducted by Ian Sanderson | | 04:06 | Lark & Cornelius arrive at Home Office | | 06:06 | First full explanation of mutant telepathy | | 12:29 | Sanderson claims to be Flora’s father | | 16:51 | Flora’s sightseeing and rising paranoia | | 18:28 | McBinnie incident (flushed by Flora’s will) | | 22:09 | Police/ambulance at Sanderson’s home: butler shot | | 26:19 | Flora's panicked stand against police | | 27:43 | Flora’s death |
"Official Intercessions" dramatically raises the stakes: psychic abilities, government secrets, and deepening paranoia converge with life-and-death consequences. Flora’s death is both a shock and a dark affirmation that the threat of mind control is not only real but perhaps now inescapably close at hand. The episode ends on a somber note, setting up further confrontations with unseen controllers and compelling listeners to question where the real danger lies—in the minds of the mutants, or perhaps in the institutions charged to contain them.