What happens
Walter Feline, an associate professor of anthropology, wakes to find that alien beings called Zanns have conquered Earth and taken the surviving specimens of its life to a zoo. He is held in a room with a woman named Grace Evans. The Zanns, who believe they are immortal, learn that other animals in the zoo are dying, and they demand that Walter reveal how he is causing these deaths. The transcript covers only the first part of the episode. The episode is from the series X Minus One, first broadcast on May 22, 1955, with Alex Scob as Walter and Laurie March as Grace. Walter and Grace are kept under questioning as the Zanns press for an explanation.
Earth after the Zanns' conquest, in a zoo kept by the Zanns where Walter and Grace are confined in a room.
Characters: Walter Feline, Grace Evans, George (a Zann)
Listen for: The Zanns' questioning of Walter about the dying animals, and how the Zanns' belief in their own immortality shapes what they do.
Written from the episode itself; it never gives away the ending. Every recording is remastered for the stream: cleaned of rumble, hiss and mains hum (and the old TV whine where we found it), then levelled in two passes to steady broadcast loudness, so one show is never quieter than the next.