- Narrator: Forget it, man, and get with the countdown. Shake this square world and blast off for Kicksville.
- Narrator: 'It's Saturday night, and everyone else is out having fun.' It's the best excuse in the world to join the party.
- [first lines]
- Narrator: Since time began, the snake has been symbolic of evil, destruction, death. Out of the slime and darkness it comes to inflict its life destroying poison the careless, the unweary, the unprotected. No sane person would deliberately expose himself to its venom. No intelligent person would venture within striking distance of its fangs. Yet, today, young people are flirting with a poison every bit as deadly as that of the snake.
- Narrator: One of the potentials for illegal drug traffic is the school. Here, the connection can be found with these peddlers of misery who prey on the unwary, the uninformed, the curious, the thrill seekers. Most young people will continue through life as normal, responsible citizens. Others - the shunted and unloved, the unguided, the seekers of thrills and kicks - are candidates for the slave world of lifelong drug addiction. But no one is immune.
- Narrator: Pete isn't interested in sometime, or maybe, or squares. If you want to swing, call him. Right now, he's got to split. He's got to find fish ready to be hooked - victims to supply him with money for the heroin he needs today, and tomorrow, and tomorrow.
- Narrator: The exertion of the dance, the excitement of Helen, and several beers have taken effect. Inhibition and caution are forgotten.
- Narrator: When Helen suggests they have a few more beers, he's all for it! Why not? Everyone else is doing it. To refuse would be... square. And that terrible label must be avoided at all costs. Besides, he's never been high on it before, and he never will. He can handle the stuff.
- Narrator: Throw out the sucker bait. It's time for the next step. The next step is the garage. There, some of the gang are really blasting. That's where the real action is.
- Narrator: Come on, and take a look. Take a trip from Squaresville. Live a little, and see what it's like for yourself.
- Narrator: The senses are dulled - just enough to be reckless. Helen, the music, the beer, the promise of excitement press in on him. Now, curiosity has to be satisfied.
- Narrator: This is the real action: The pot party. The trippers. The grasshoppers. The hip ones. All gathered in secrecy, and flying high as a kite.
- Narrator: Drag it man! Try anything once. Fly! You can't get a habit from weed. Quit whenever you like. Don't be chicken!... Come on, man. Get with it!
- Narrator: John surrenders his dignity, and lays his future on the chopping block. Not whether it's good or bad, or right nor wrong. But if he stopped to think, he would see the stupidity of it all. Now he's too involved to think. He's having kicks! He's away, and flying. Up, up, out of this world.
- Narrator: Everything that goes up must come down. When John came down, he landed with a thud. Due to the effects of the alcohol and the late hours of the party, the following day he was too tired, too sick to study.
- Narrator: A hooked mainliner beyond hope. He is long past getting any kicks from marijuana. His body is conditioned to heroin, one of the most powerful, dangerous drugs known to man..
- Narrator: Every day the cost of his habit rises. Eighty dollars, ninety dollars, a hundred dollars a day and more. Every day he must have increasing amounts of the drug. To get it, he will lie, steal, murder - even trap the innocent.
- Narrator: This is it, then. The big time. The main line. The high point of every drug addict's existence. Of every thousand hypes who ride the toboggan to hell, only a few ever get off.
- Narrator: To secure this money, John must now do things he would never dream of doing before he was hooked. First he sold his wristwatch, then his Hi-Fi; today, it's his mother's best silverware.
- Narrator: Helen - the swinger, the hip chick of the gang - has been picked up for shoplifting in a downtown store. Her previous arrests for shoplifting and prostitution, her addiction to narcotics, weigh heavily against her. But the shame, the stigma, the prison sentence she faces are of secondary importance now. Her immediate problem is getting another fix, to hold off the terrible withdrawals.
- Narrator: In the vicious racket that preys on human misery, there is no trust, no credit, no mercy. It's cash on the line, or the unbearable agony of withdrawal.
- Narrator: Too late, he realizes that by joining to belong, he's more alone than ever. This is the one trip he must make all alone.
- [last lines]
- John: [voiceover] I wonder if Pete and Hank are out of prison yet. It won't do any harm to stop by, and just say hello.
- Title card: There is NO END