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The world that orbits a star that you call a ribbon.

All right, what is this game? But he's not playing a game. Somebody's trying to

kill him.

But I won't let anything happen to you. He found something. He must have found

something. A telecom intelligence.

That fool down there doesn't stand a chance.

Why don't you try to silence him? If anything happens to me, I'll always be

you. This is his nightmare.

You must believe in me.

You must believe in me.

You did?

What is it? Well, a Native American made it. He belongs to a tribe called the

Hopi. Hopi? Does that mean hope?

Well, I don't know.

Can I see it?

Oh,

yes.

Look at this.

Look at all these spinning galaxies.

That one's only on loan, though.

Belongs to your mom.

On loan?

Belongs to your mom? That's a strange concept. You know, surviving on this

planet. You have to just think of yourself.

But, Teddy, that's terrible. What if everybody felt like that?

Then you'd be a fool not to.

I also brought you a sandwich. A sandwich?

Did you make this?

Yep. I bet it's very good.

Oh, that is, that's very good.

You're very special, Amber.

You're the most special person I ever met.

No, I'm not.

And I'll bet you're late for school, too.

I've still got a few minutes.

Oh, good.

Teddy?

Teddy, what's wrong?

They're here.

The Confederation.

They know I'm on planet.

They want to kill me.

Why? Who are they?

They're not merchants like my people.

They want to enslave and they want to dominate.

If they kill me, if they destroy my data, my people will never make any

with yours.

And without our technology, you don't stand a chance against them.

But I won't let anything happen to you. Listen to me.

This is a silicone intelligence.

Far beyond your most sophisticated computers.

It has inside it a spirit and it contains the memory of my race.

So promise me, Amber. Please.

I'm Amber Sweeney. Do you want me to call you?

I'd like to meet you.

Thanks.

Sit down.

Your friend, where is he?

Oh, he's coming in a little bit. It's going to take him a little longer than

because he's got to make sure they're not following him.

They? Who are they?

I'd better let him tell you that.

Um, matter of interest, shouldn't you still be at school?

Hmm?

Tell me more about your friend.

Okay.

A few weeks ago, I saw this man almost get hit by a car.

And he fell and hurt himself.

And I helped him up and helped him get better.

You're...

Your parents don't know about this man, do they?

I... I only have a mom. My dad left a long time ago.

Still haven't answered my question?

No. Mom doesn't know about him yet.

Don't you think that she deserves to know who your friends are?

But you see how special he is.

That he's not like those men they warned us about in school.

Well, I believe you.

Given the chance, I'm sure your mother will believe you, too.

Daddy!

Daddy, what's wrong?

Did they hurt you? No, I'm fine. I'm fine.

I was told that if I cling very tightly to the Earth, when they're there, I'll

be all right.

When they were there...

Who were where?

This is my friend, Steady, Mr. McCall.

Why haven't that?

There's darkness in you.

What?

Well, there's light also. There's sun and there's shade and... You've

haven't you?

Oh, dear, oh, dear, oh, dear.

All right. What is this game?

He's not playing a game.

Somebody's after him. Somebody's trying to kill him.

Thank you very much for calling me.

I'll carry on from here, all right?

You go straight back to school, understood?

Oh, that's all right, yes.

Go along.

This one has a torn soul.

Torn what?

Only the people in the universe who cover understand.

And he understands.

I do?

Go along.

Your name is not really DETI, is it?

Why do you say that?

Because DETI is an acronym used by NASA.

It means Search for Extraterrestrial Intelligence.

My name is unpronounceable in your language.

Yes, I see.

Look, if I am to help you, I have to know A, who you are, and B, why you

anybody would want to hurt you in the first place. I can't pronounce my name

this language with the tongue.

Oh! Oh, I see. I see you come from outer space.

Yes.

I am from a world that orbits a star that you call Epsilon Eridani.

I'm a pact maker.

I gather data. I make contacts.

And this body that you see before you was given to me by the Grand Moon.

And it was found dying on a back street.

And when I return to my mothership, this human that you see before you will die,

just as he would have died without me.

But if they catch us... Before we separate, I die with him.

You don't believe me, do you?

It doesn't really matter what I believe in. I mean, you, you believe it, don't

you? I think that really you should get specialized help.

If you come with me, I can prove to you who I am.

Do you see that?

They're following us. It's me they're after.

Yes. Well, why don't we just go inside and get up and see?

We'll be safe in here.

The vegans have a confederation that is mankind.

It's an enemy.

And we are their anti -spirit.

Who are you?

And if I kill any chance for peace, then this old sister dies with me.

Put your hand on that.

Then you'll know I'm telling you the truth.

No, it's no good. I can't feel anything.

There is no one after you.

You don't have to live in fear like this.

There are two kinds of sentient beings in the universe. There are builders and

there are destroyers.

You've been both.

You are now Wotan, an interstellar defender.

You're the only one who can help me.

Wotan?

You know, I've heard you called a lot of names before, McCall, but this is the

first. All right, all right, Mickey, all right. It is no longer funny, because

that man needs help, which is why I've asked Dr. Wolf to come along.

Most important thing.

Do you think that that little girl is in any danger from him?

From what you've told me, I doubt it.

He's probably more dangerous to himself.

Why? Why'd you say that?

If he's created this world of his own, it might consume him.

He seems to be educated, resourceful.

Obviously hasn't been on the street all that long.

Well, maybe he's experienced a secondary trauma recently. A psychotic,

precipitating factor.

Mind translating that?

Well, it's possible that he's schizophrenic. And he can live his

without ever going over the edge. But if he suffered a terrible trauma, it might

have created a world, a delusion, that's big enough to contain his horror. I

mean, he desperately wants to live his life, whatever the circumstances.

Exactly. Adaptive behavior. Now, a therapist needs to enter his world and

lead him back to ours. No, he won't go to therapy.

And all you can do right now is extend a circle of friends.

Establish trust and see what you can learn about his past.

Yes, that's right. Thank you. Thank you, Cameron.

Vicky, get that round to the company lab.

I'll have to analyze it, find out what it's made of and where it was made.

Sure, but I think this guy's a waste of your time, McCall.

All right, all right.

I'll take it to the lab.

You go and meet this man who you think is a waste of time.

Go ahead.

You have a new friend to meet.

to be afraid of me.

My name's Mickey Kassmeyer.

What do you want, Mickey Kassmeyer?

I'm a friend of Robert McCall's.

He wants me to look out for you. We work together.

Oh, you are McCall's friend. You're another torn soul.

Yeah, ripped.

I'm going to meet an earth child named Amber. I invite you to accompany me.

Great, I'll give you a ride.

Oh, no, no, no. I don't ride in fossil fuel combustion vehicles. They burn

in the sky.

Fine. We'll walk.

All right.

I'm beginning to enjoy these legs.

Great. I'm real happy for you. You know, where I'm from, we don't have legs. We

get around by thought.

We just image things and we're there.

How's that?

The end time is well.

This planet is overgrown with combustible materials, so it's no wonder

your early scientists thought the fire was an element.

Yes.

Does fire have any special significance on your planet, Teddy?

No, why?

Just curious.

You're a psychiatrist, aren't you?

Yes, I am.

McCall, how's Amber?

Oh, she's fine, fine.

I don't think your enemies know about her yet.

Thank you, Quentin.

Fine. So you're staying with me for a few days, huh?

Yes, of course. I have a mission to complete.

I can't let the end -timers find me.

Well, they certainly won't find you here.

Will they?

Where's Mickey? In the other room. Excuse me a moment?

Thank you.

Hello, Mickey.

Finn.

So, what have you got? Anything?

You've got to be joking.

This guy's place is like a junk shop. Here.

Start here.

Engineer's calculator.

Getting any results on this yet?

No, no. The lab's still checking on that.

What do you got there?

A very interesting kaleidoscope.

Here, check it out.

Gee, gods.

I've never seen anything like this before.

How come?

There's a patent pending number here.

Who knows?

Perhaps he's an inventor.

I think he's from the moon.

Get that patent number to check that, will you?

Hello, McCall.

Mr McCall.

Amber, what's wrong?

Well, my mom says that I can't see Setty anymore, and...

Amber?

Mr. McCall, I've heard many good things about you and I appreciate your concern,

but someone tried to kill that man and I can't let my little girl risk her life

while she's out shopping for a father figure.

Of course not.

I understand that. Believe me.

Mrs. Sweeney, there is a psychiatrist friend of mine seeing that man at this

moment.

The psychiatrist tells me that Setti needs the friendship, the continuing

friendship of your daughter desperately.

It may well be that it's his last link with sanity. His sanity isn't my

responsibility. All I am concerned with is my little girl.

Yes. And all she's concerned about is the man.

I must say that you have raised that child extremely well.

Highly intelligent, full of compassion.

But she doesn't have a certain kind of independence.

She is alone after school, isn't she?

Yes, until I get home.

Mrs. Sweeney, your daughter knows precisely where we took Jackie.

Now, unless you lock her up 24 hours a day, she's going to try and find him.

And when she does try, then she really will be at risk.

Why don't you let me take her to visit him occasionally, hmm?

And then I can personally monitor those visits.

No harm will come to her.

I'll give him my word You don't have to do that What

was

all that an improvement on your early warning system

Ladies, I'm sorry about that. It's all right. Now, please do come in. Oh,

there's a line.

I'm glad they didn't hurt you.

Oh, it takes more than that to destroy an Iridanian. Hello.

My name's Seti. I'm Amber's mother, Claire. Yes.

And because of Amber, you must be the grandest light in all of humanoid

motherness. Well, no one's said me that line before. Can I show you something? I

just made the most remarkable improvement on Quotan's early warning

didn't I? Yes, you did.

My system works so well, even Quotan does.

Why the hell did you let him mess around with my alarm system? It was good

therapy, Quintana.

Hey, Nicole.

I got the word on SETI.

The kaleidoscope patent was applied for by a guy who sounds a lot like SETI.

Wayne Virgil, assistant engineer.

I can imagine it.

Aerospace. It is.

I got his workplace, too.

Arrow Dimensions Incorporated.

He said he's family.

Did you follow up on that?

He's alone.

Just a few very distant cousins.

Where do we go from here?

Oh, we'll start with Arrow Dimensions.

Get Jonah to access their computers.

I don't want to take you to get back here.

As soon as I lose his tail.

Tail?

You have someone following you.

Hey, these guys aren't your everyday hitters. They're stone professionals.

Where's the guy you covered to?

Right.

Taking Setti to the safe house.

Fifteen minutes.

On my way.

A safe house?

Yes.

It's a place that McCall uses.

To hide people who are in trouble.

Nobody will find you there.

The Antimers found me here, Cameron.

They never give up.

Don't move, Snyder. I'll decapitate you.

It'll be Cosmo.

It'll be damned.

I'd bet on it.

Nice move, Mickey.

Never heard you coming.

Just like death itself.

Don't get too cocky.

You don't know what you just stepped into.

There's a company in on this.

Let's just say that fool down there doesn't stand a chance.

Hey, Mickey. How are you tonight?

Is Eddie okay?

Yeah. It's at the safe house.

What, the little girl?

I took her and her mother through one of their relations.

Jimmy's keeping an eye on them.

So what's your news?

Uh, Snyder wouldn't talk.

Every check the cops ran on him turned up blank. The company's eradicated his

past.

I still think he was freelancing on this one.

That's not a company hit, that's for sure.

Start with they have no motive.

However, Aerodimensions has every possible reason to want Wayne Virgil

Did you get all this data from Jonah? Yeah.

It's tapped into their computer.

Wayne Virgil was systems engineer on Vega 1 rocket project.

That rocket that exploded in Vandenberg last summer?

Twelve ground staff died.

There's your secondary trauma.

Said he must have felt responsible.

His job.

It was computer analysis of everybody else's work.

Propulsions, electronics, design.

So if anything went wrong, he'd be the first to know about it.

He found something. He must have found something.

Now, tomorrow, Barrow Dimensions stockholders are meeting to plan a

with Transnational Aviation.

No wonder they're putting the heat on him.

So what's the next move?

The files on the Vega 1 project are totally incomplete.

They're all conveniently erased when it came to talking about the top people.

So I want you to find out who was the chief engineer on that project.

On my way. And making Snyder and the rest of his security people know who we

now. Watch your back.

He's been this way ever since I told him that he won't be seeing Amber for a

while.

You don't suppose there's a chance?

No.

No. It's too dangerous to bring the girl here.

Listen, I've got to talk to that man.

I don't know. Perhaps you should talk to him. No.

You're the one that he trusts now, not me.

He sees you as an ally.

Go ahead.

Ah, Quintan.

Have you neutralized the end timers?

No. No, not yet.

But we will.

I know who you are.

You are Wayne Virgil, aren't you?

What is this Wayne Virgil?

He's a good man who tried to tell the truth.

He was threatened by very powerful men.

Told to remain silent.

And is suffering because of that silence.

I thought you were one of us, McCall.

I am.

I know what it's like to remain silent when one should speak.

I too have suffered because of that.

Why are you saying this?

What do you want from me?

I want you to give me any hard evidence you have against any of them. And I want

you to give it to me now.

Then we can stop them immediately One of the anti -murderer

It was a friend once He

can help us maybe Who is it

You haven't started your letter?

I want to see him.

So who

is he?

Clinton Brandauer, 26th floor, suite 17.

Aerodimension senior engineer on the Vega project and one of their top

executive officers.

He's working everything from nuclear missile delivery systems to the

And how long has he been an executive officer?

Only about six months.

He moved up real fast, right after the explosion.

Well, that's quite a coincidence, isn't it? Yeah.

You know, McCall, Brandauer was real close to SETI.

Before Brandauer was moved up to senior engineer, he and SETI were a team.

You never cease to amaze me, Mickey. That's good work.

Yeah, but not good enough.

He'll have nothing to use against him.

No, but Brandauer doesn't know that, does he?

South Street Seaport, remember?

Get the end time file and meet me at the sarcophagus.

Okay, Setti.

Please watch out if you see anyone aboard the mission.

I'll be there, Setti.

No one's gonna stop me.

Thank you, little one.

Sir, I said you can't go in there.

Dr. Brandauer, I told this man you weren't to be disturbed.

Who are you?

My name is Robert McCall.

I'm a friend of Wayne Virgil's.

Would you like me to get security, sir?

No, no, no. You may leave us, Miss Brady.

Yes, sir.

Well, do sit down, Mr. McCall.

Well, tell me, how is Wayne? He just disappeared off the face of the earth.

I, uh...

I thought perhaps he was dead.

Oh, do you mean you wish he was dead?

What are you talking about? Wayne's a good friend.

If he's your friend, why are you trying to silence him?

Is this some kind of joke, Mr. McCaw? It is no joke.

I'm being extremely serious, I assure you.

You see, I know all about your cover -up.

Cover -up?

What on earth are you talking about?

Vega One.

The explosion.

The death of those men.

Wayne's given me quite a lot of information.

I don't know what Wayne's been telling you.

But he's an eccentric, as anyone can tell.

I worked with him for ten years.

Had to lead interference for him, constantly.

Wayne's talented, but he's off.

In that ozone layer of his half the time, dreaming those strange dreams of

But this is not one of his dreams.

This is his nightmare.

If you don't tell the stockholders the truth today, I will.

He has been feeding you a fantasy.

Mr. McCaw.

Are you thinking of blackmailing us? No, not at all. That is not why I'm here.

I came here to give you a second chance, as it were. Oh, for heaven's sake, get

out.

Of course, I do know why you agreed to manage this cover -up.

Executive stock options would appear very attractive, wouldn't they, at the

moment especially, with this merger looming up.

You stand to make millions. I said get out. Sir.

I'll see you at the meeting then.

Have security follow that man.

And get me Crandall, Omega One.

Are you okay?

Yes, I'm fine.

I went to the secret spot and I got the antidote.

What are you going to do?

Eddie, are you all right?

The Confederation meet today.

If a town is right, I've got to stand up for them.

This will give me power.

I don't want them to hurt you.

Amber, if anything should happen to me...

I've given this inventory to Cameron. Now, do you remember what to do with it?

Yeah. Throw it into the sea.

And no matter what, I will always be with you.

Don't lie to me, Setti.

Gone is gone. I know that. I know that better than anybody. Listen to me. We

will always be together.

And remember, all you have to do is go to the rooftop and get very quiet.

And I'll be there with the starlight. But you can't see starlight. from the

city. Stop lying to me.

Don't, Amber. Please don't.

You must believe in me, Amber.

You must believe in me.

And you will.

I know you will.

Nicole.

I was just on my way over.

I've got bad news.

Teddy's run off. Oh, damn you. When?

Less than 20 minutes ago.

Mickey's here. And we think that Teddy's headed for the duck holders meeting.

That place is going to be crawling with security.

Put Mickey on.

Yeah, I just got here. Listen, the girl's missing too.

All right.

Get over to Arrow Dimensions building as soon as possible. We've got to get

there before he does.

I hope he's got the sense not to take that girl with him.

Yeah, me too.

I remember.

Hey,

Crandall. Well, Mickey Costmire.

So what are you charging for freelance in these days?

You got proxies to get inside?

They don't need them.

That's right.

Didn't the company teach you anything about strategy, Crandall?

Surely.

Aerodimensions doesn't want to shoot at it.

With their own security men.

Right outside the door where their annual stockholders' meeting is about to

place. Do they?

Step into my office, gentlemen.

There's enough evidence in there to bury every one of them.

Thank you.

Are you going to be all right, Setti?

My name is Wayne Virgil.

the final option, the proposed measure of transnational aviation will almost

double the value of your shares.

You know, just a year ago, I was an engineer.

The dreams I dreamed have come true, and so have the dreams of Aerodimensions.

No, uh...

If you have questions of us, may I direct you to come here to the podium.

Dr. Brendon.

Gentlemen, you can't come in here. Only proxy holders.

Please, leave now and we'll say no more about this.

Hello, everybody.

My name is Wayne Bird.

And I was the systems engineer on Vega 1, the rocket that exploded.

Could we have security in here, please? Security, right away, please.

Could you bring in the security?

Let him speak, doctor.

Leave him alone.

I just want you all to know that that accident was our fault.

The man is a liar.

And it wasn't the weather.

A pressure buildup in the faulty nozzle made the carbon cloth

delaminate. This man... is a liar. He is trying to blackmail the company because

he was fired. Let him speak.

And after the lamination, a fissure was created in the men.

On the ground, they died in flames.

But you see, we were all born in flames.

Every one of us was created in starfire.

So you see, we are all one.

And every, every Adam, Wayne,

In our blood. Wayne. And carbon in our skin.

And calcium in our teeth.

Wayne. It was tempered in the fire of a star.

Wayne. Wayne Virgil.

Tell, tell everybody about Vega One.

You see, we are all one.

We're all born in the same fire.

But, Tom, you know that.

Tell them. Wayne. We're all one.

We were all created out of starfire.

Ladies and gentlemen, Wayne Virgil has the evidence right here.

Dr. Brandauer is totally responsible for the cover -up and will have to face the

consequences.

He also hired men to kill Wayne Virgil.

Transnational aviation will touch your company now.

And your stock will plummet.

No, stop, please.

Let go of me, Tommy.

When will you humans ever learn to forgive?

Forgive?

Yes, forgive.

Come with me Clint.

away with Dr.

Wolf, Amber, I'll never be far.

If you need me, I'll come to you with the dark light, just like I promised.

But what about your galaxy and the mothership?

Amber, you know where the farthest and the brightest and the most wonderful

galaxy in the whole wide universe is?

Inside.

Way deep down inside of you.

Time to go, Teddy.

My brother, the wolf.

Vicky, Claire, I'm glad you could make it.

Quartan, are you coming with us?

No, no, I... I have things to do here.

I understand, Quartan.

Claire, your daughter sees the truth.

She's very special.

Amber, you're going to bring peace to this planet.

I'll always love you, Teddy.

I'll be back for this, so you take very good care of it.

Okay.

Bye, Amber.

Bye.

Shall we go?

Yes, Eddie.

Robert, I got the lab results from the metal disc.

Bit late for that now, isn't it?

Evidently, NASA wants to see it.

Why should they?

Some kind of rare earth element.

An alloy that can only be produced in weightless.

You... Are you telling me that they are telling us that this thing was made in

outer space?

Look up.

The moon, Teddy.

And the Equalizer returns with another episode tomorrow night at 10.

But next on Plastic is staying with us, Dennis Waterman and George Cole are

joined by Rula Lenska in a special episode of Mind Up.