T. Bradley shortly before beating.
Host Truman Bradley breaks the glass on a fire alarm and pulls the switch. An alarm begins blaring, and he says, “In a few minutes, 23 fire engines will converge on this place to fight a 3-alarm fire”. He gives a big laugh. “Only, there isn’t any fire! I merely wanted to explain as graphically as possible what happens to a human body overpowered by spreading infection.”
He says when the human body is in danger, “an alarm goes up” and white corpuscles flock to attack the scene of the infection. Like the 50 pissed-off fireman that will beat the crap out of him about 2 minutes from now.
Dr. Scott and a cat walk into Dr. Bach’s office. Bach says only one week ago the cat had a broken back. It was cured by a dose of Scott’s new miracle hormone. In one of several laughingly bad bits of dialogue, Dr. Bach recalls the drug’s previous success:
“The miraculous cure of a rabid dog and a tubercular guinea pig.”
However, Bach still refuses to allow him to try his new wonder drug on a human.
Well, there is one candidate, a hopeless case. They go to the room of a patient “in 
the last stages of tuberculosis.” I mean the very last — she will die in a few hours. Kyra Zelas agrees to try the experimental drug.
Over the next few days, she regains her vitality, begins to eat, and sits up in bed. Scott and Bach examine her x-rays and see that her lungs are entirely clear and shapely. Kyra doesn’t know what to do with her life now that Dr. Scott has cured her. She says:
“He made a dog well and cured a cat. Now me.”
Bach assures the grown woman twice that she is a very important girl. He says, “Why don’t you come stay a few days at my place?” He gives her an injection of vitamin B and notices that the puncture wound heals immediately.
After work, the doctors go to Bach’s house to check on Kyra. Bach tells him about the puncture wound healing and says, “this case is not finished.” Bach’s housekeeper tells him that Kyra never showed up. They get a call from the police. Kyra was picked up near the unemployment office a few minutes after they were robbed, with $700 in her pocket.
The doctors go to the police station. The clerk from the unemployment office is able to give a description of the robber. “She was skinny, looked sick, had on a blue dress, black stringy hair.” They bring in a line-up of women for him to make an identification. Dr. Scott says she is not in the line-up. Bach, however, recognizes her as the 2nd from the left. Scott says, “That’s impossible. That girl is blonde and beautiful.” However, Bach recognizes . . .
“the same bony structure in the face”
Sadly, at this point, the video’s sound went out. If they had a sign language interpreter, he would be slapping his knees at some of this dialogue.
Kyra continues to show up throughout the episode with increasingly stylish hairdos and snappy outfits. Even without sound, it is not hard to follow, though.
Eventually, some creep with a hose in his hand is peeking in her bedroom widow as she goes to sleep, which gives me deja vu.
Hey, wait a minute, I saw this exact same scene in Tales of Tomorrow’s The Miraculous Serum two years ago! That’s why that’s why the Peeping Tom act feels familiar . . . er, yeah, that’s it.
The guy slips the hose in her window and pumps in CO2 to knock her out. He knows it is enough when the candle by her bed goes out. In both episodes, Dr. Bach and Dr. Scott [1] worry that the cured woman has grown too beautiful, too smart, too powerful, and out of their control, ergo must be put back in her place. This must be a metaphor for something . . . or maybe it is just the thing itself in the 1950s.
Both episodes give a story credit to Stanley G. Weinbam for The Adaptive Ultimate. [2]
Other Stuff:
- [1] The doctors retain the same names from the story (give or taken an “e”), however the exotic Kyra Zelas was a pedestrian Carol Williams in the version aired 3 years earlier on Tales of Tomorrow.
- [2] Weinbaum used the pseudonym John Jessel on Science Fiction Theatre. But after his name appearing on Tales of Tomorrow, who wouldn’t?