1 00:01:47,334 --> 00:01:49,751 That's Howdean, our village, 2 00:01:49,834 --> 00:01:52,251 a couple of hundred houses and cottages, 3 00:01:52,334 --> 00:01:54,292 less than a thousand people living in them 4 00:01:54,376 --> 00:01:56,751 with nothing remarkable ever happening. 5 00:01:56,834 --> 00:01:58,542 There's the church, 6 00:01:58,626 --> 00:02:00,626 early perpendicular, the vicar calls it. 7 00:02:00,709 --> 00:02:03,209 The commons are at the cricket pitch. 8 00:02:03,292 --> 00:02:06,709 The Crown and Anchor where we all have our pints in the evenings. 9 00:02:06,792 --> 00:02:09,917 Mr Dean's General Shop and Post Office. 10 00:02:10,001 --> 00:02:13,084 And there's the manor, Grant House, 11 00:02:13,167 --> 00:02:16,959 where 15 generations of Grants have lived and died, 12 00:02:17,042 --> 00:02:19,917 worked and fought and served their king and country. 13 00:02:21,251 --> 00:02:23,917 And there's the squire, Sir Walter Grant, 14 00:02:24,001 --> 00:02:26,834 hoping to bring home a pheasant or two for supper. 15 00:02:26,917 --> 00:02:29,584 Sir Walter is proud of his well-kept estate, 16 00:02:29,667 --> 00:02:32,751 but proudest of all of his son and heir, Robin 17 00:02:33,792 --> 00:02:35,501 And that's Mrs Leggett. 18 00:02:35,584 --> 00:02:37,626 Her husband was the village drunkard. 19 00:02:37,709 --> 00:02:39,167 We have our share of men and women 20 00:02:39,251 --> 00:02:41,584 who turned their own lives into nightmares, 21 00:02:41,667 --> 00:02:43,917 but Leggett was the prize specimen. 22 00:02:44,001 --> 00:02:46,542 He had a son too, name of Bill, 23 00:02:46,626 --> 00:02:48,501 but he wasn't proud of him at all. 24 00:02:51,459 --> 00:02:54,542 My name is Harvey, Dr Harvey. 25 00:02:55,584 --> 00:03:00,001 Most people call me Doc, meaning no disrespect, I hope. 26 00:03:01,667 --> 00:03:04,126 At the time my story commences, 27 00:03:04,209 --> 00:03:07,834 I had been looking after the people of Howdean for ten years. 28 00:03:08,917 --> 00:03:11,667 I brought their babies into the world 29 00:03:11,751 --> 00:03:14,751 and watched their old and their sick die, 30 00:03:15,917 --> 00:03:18,542 learning that pity is for the living, 31 00:03:19,959 --> 00:03:21,126 and envy for the dead. 32 00:03:22,417 --> 00:03:25,667 "Find the answer," some philosopher once said. 33 00:03:25,751 --> 00:03:29,459 "That life is neither a feast nor a spectacle, 34 00:03:29,542 --> 00:03:30,792 but a predicament". 35 00:03:32,042 --> 00:03:34,667 There's nothing much to show you in Howdean, 36 00:03:34,751 --> 00:03:37,542 nothing that would bring tourists to gape. 37 00:03:37,626 --> 00:03:41,292 Nothing except perhaps that old burnt-out barn. 38 00:03:42,001 --> 00:03:45,042 Yet it all began here as it ended. 39 00:03:45,876 --> 00:03:49,542 But to me, it looked just like a disreputable eyesore 40 00:03:49,626 --> 00:03:53,334 that afternoon when I peeped inside for the first time. 41 00:03:53,417 --> 00:03:56,959 To them, of course, it was a fairy castle. 42 00:03:57,042 --> 00:04:01,001 The girl's name was Lena, Lena Maitland 43 00:04:01,084 --> 00:04:03,376 I think she must have been rising 11 44 00:04:03,459 --> 00:04:05,792 when I came across them that afternoon 45 00:04:12,376 --> 00:04:14,792 Let the tourney begin. 46 00:04:15,709 --> 00:04:18,959 Sir Robin, Sir Bill, salute your queen 47 00:04:48,542 --> 00:04:50,084 Done are you, Sir Bill? 48 00:04:51,834 --> 00:04:53,084 Aye, young Sir Robin. 49 00:05:00,459 --> 00:05:04,001 To the victor, Sir Robin, the royal laurels. 50 00:05:10,376 --> 00:05:14,917 And now, Sir Bill, thou have, thou hath fought well, 51 00:05:15,001 --> 00:05:17,792 for thou, the oak leaves. 52 00:05:21,792 --> 00:05:23,959 Off he went, the defeated knight 53 00:05:24,042 --> 00:05:26,292 I almost started after him, 54 00:05:26,376 --> 00:05:29,292 but then I realised that I mustn't interfere, 55 00:05:29,376 --> 00:05:30,792 for I wasn't asked. 56 00:05:30,876 --> 00:05:32,001 Bill, come back! 57 00:05:32,084 --> 00:05:33,501 Bill! 58 00:05:34,626 --> 00:05:36,459 Now we've have hurt his feelings. 59 00:05:36,542 --> 00:05:38,376 He'll be back Come on. 60 00:05:39,084 --> 00:05:42,084 That was my first glimpse of the three of them, 61 00:05:42,167 --> 00:05:44,709 of the material from which fate 62 00:05:44,792 --> 00:05:47,417 fashioned the four-sided triangle. 63 00:05:48,084 --> 00:05:51,001 Lena, the flash of impish beauty, 64 00:05:52,042 --> 00:05:54,917 those two oddly bad friends, 65 00:05:55,001 --> 00:05:59,126 Robin, solid and dependable and conscientious, 66 00:05:59,709 --> 00:06:02,417 Bill, wild and impetuous. 67 00:06:03,376 --> 00:06:05,251 But Bill was something else too. 68 00:06:06,251 --> 00:06:08,209 That night I learned 69 00:06:08,292 --> 00:06:10,751 that he was a most remarkable youngster 70 00:06:10,834 --> 00:06:12,751 I don't think it's broken, sonny. 71 00:06:13,959 --> 00:06:15,376 It's probably only a sprain. 72 00:06:16,417 --> 00:06:19,001 No, a sprain would've swelled up more than that 73 00:06:19,084 --> 00:06:21,292 I believe it's just a simple fracture, 74 00:06:21,376 --> 00:06:23,292 probably a Colles fracture. 75 00:06:23,376 --> 00:06:25,251 Don't think it'll even need setting. 76 00:06:26,251 --> 00:06:27,376 How did it happen? 77 00:06:27,459 --> 00:06:31,167 I was testing the breaking strain of rope, the tension. 78 00:06:31,251 --> 00:06:33,709 He didn't care that I'd worked it out on paper, 79 00:06:33,792 --> 00:06:35,959 so I got wild and swung on it myself. 80 00:06:36,584 --> 00:06:37,667 And it broke. 81 00:06:39,209 --> 00:06:41,490 Oh, well, we'll just run you along to the cottage hospital 82 00:06:41,542 --> 00:06:43,876 and we'll see what the X-rays say, hmm? 83 00:06:43,959 --> 00:06:46,001 Just pop this over your shoulder. 84 00:06:46,084 --> 00:06:50,251 Mark Twain said that hunger was the handmaiden of genius 85 00:06:50,334 --> 00:06:52,876 and Bill had plenty of her services, 86 00:06:52,959 --> 00:06:55,292 a drunken bully of a father who, 87 00:06:55,376 --> 00:06:57,709 until he was killed in a tavern brawl, 88 00:06:57,792 --> 00:06:59,876 beat him and tormented him. 89 00:06:59,959 --> 00:07:01,626 How could I refuse the appeal 90 00:07:01,709 --> 00:07:03,917 which he never made consciously? 91 00:07:04,001 --> 00:07:06,459 If I hadn't helped him, it would've been like smothering 92 00:07:06,542 --> 00:07:08,959 something strong and fine at birth. 93 00:07:09,709 --> 00:07:12,792 I became his teacher, though only for a little while. 94 00:07:12,876 --> 00:07:15,792 For he soon outpaced me as a hawk would a sparrow. 95 00:07:17,126 --> 00:07:20,084 When his mother died, I became his guardian 96 00:07:20,167 --> 00:07:22,959 I watched him grow, his mind soaring, 97 00:07:23,042 --> 00:07:25,792 and sometimes trembled at the dizzy heights, 98 00:07:25,876 --> 00:07:27,709 for a genius is frightening too, 99 00:07:27,792 --> 00:07:29,834 like lightning or an earthquake, 100 00:07:29,917 --> 00:07:34,542 something we ordinary people could only endure and admire. 101 00:07:34,626 --> 00:07:37,001 Yet he was still a boy in many ways. 102 00:07:37,834 --> 00:07:41,876 Wild, unpredictable, given to sudden rages, 103 00:07:41,959 --> 00:07:45,126 though most often he was angry with himself. 104 00:07:45,209 --> 00:07:48,042 Robin and Lena were his constant companions. 105 00:07:49,001 --> 00:07:50,876 Lena remained his queen, 106 00:07:50,959 --> 00:07:54,959 but Robin was his staunch and unfaltering friend. 107 00:07:57,959 --> 00:08:01,209 The years passed and Lena was the first to go. 108 00:08:01,292 --> 00:08:03,709 Her mother took her back to America, 109 00:08:03,792 --> 00:08:07,376 and soon afterwards, I was saying goodbye to the boys. 110 00:08:08,334 --> 00:08:11,542 They went to Cambridge together to study science. 111 00:08:11,626 --> 00:08:14,292 Bill, needless to say, had won a scholarship. 112 00:08:14,376 --> 00:08:16,959 Sir Walter had started a plastics factory 113 00:08:17,042 --> 00:08:19,084 and wanted Robin to take charge of it. 114 00:08:20,167 --> 00:08:22,626 I felt lonely when Bill had left. 115 00:08:22,709 --> 00:08:25,959 For five years, he had been my whole life. 116 00:08:26,042 --> 00:08:28,876 He had all the qualities that a plodding GP 117 00:08:28,959 --> 00:08:31,126 might dream of possessing. 118 00:08:31,209 --> 00:08:33,251 He was born to do great things. 119 00:08:34,001 --> 00:08:36,209 I knew I could never achieve that. 120 00:08:36,292 --> 00:08:38,709 He would instead of me. 121 00:08:38,792 --> 00:08:42,001 As for Lena, apart from an occasional postcard, 122 00:08:42,084 --> 00:08:45,459 bubbling and tantalising, we had no news at all. 123 00:08:46,334 --> 00:08:49,001 Every afternoon when surgery was over, 124 00:08:49,084 --> 00:08:52,001 I'd climb the hill and look down at our village, 125 00:08:52,084 --> 00:08:53,709 where nothing ever happened. 126 00:08:54,667 --> 00:08:59,084 And as the years passed, as I waited for Bill to come home, 127 00:08:59,167 --> 00:09:01,626 I began to think that nothing ever would happen. 128 00:09:01,709 --> 00:09:03,042 How did it go? 129 00:09:03,126 --> 00:09:06,001 There is often less danger in the things we fear 130 00:09:06,084 --> 00:09:08,501 than the things we desire 131 00:09:08,584 --> 00:09:12,751 I should have remembered that the night Lena came back to Howdean. 132 00:09:12,834 --> 00:09:16,209 She came back a self-confessed failure. 133 00:09:16,292 --> 00:09:20,501 She had tried many things, art, music, writing, 134 00:09:20,584 --> 00:09:22,167 but without success. 135 00:09:22,251 --> 00:09:24,459 Now, weary and cynical, 136 00:09:24,542 --> 00:09:27,251 she had returned to the scene of her childhood. 137 00:09:28,126 --> 00:09:29,459 And so? 138 00:09:29,542 --> 00:09:32,376 And so, I came back to sell the things 139 00:09:32,459 --> 00:09:35,334 that Mother left behind and it'll give me enough 140 00:09:35,417 --> 00:09:38,584 to live on for three, perhaps even four months. 141 00:09:38,667 --> 00:09:43,709 And after that, I shall die in some reasonably unmessy fashion 142 00:09:43,792 --> 00:09:45,626 I won't have you talk like that. 143 00:09:45,709 --> 00:09:48,334 Your very words are blasphemy 144 00:09:48,417 --> 00:09:50,542 I thought doctors were supposed to understand how 145 00:09:50,626 --> 00:09:52,751 little life really matters. 146 00:09:52,834 --> 00:09:55,167 There are many scapegoats for our sins and failures, 147 00:09:55,251 --> 00:09:57,917 and the most popular is providence 148 00:09:58,001 --> 00:10:00,501 I shan't blame anyone but myself 149 00:10:00,584 --> 00:10:04,126 I didn't ask to be born, so I have the right to die. 150 00:10:05,459 --> 00:10:06,542 You're wrong, Lena. 151 00:10:07,417 --> 00:10:08,751 No one has that right. 152 00:10:09,792 --> 00:10:10,792 No one. 153 00:10:15,709 --> 00:10:18,834 Did you know Robin and Bill were back in Howdean? 154 00:10:20,001 --> 00:10:21,834 No - Yes, they are. 155 00:10:21,917 --> 00:10:23,834 You remember the old barn? 156 00:10:23,917 --> 00:10:26,501 They've bought it and turned it into a workshop. 157 00:10:26,584 --> 00:10:28,626 Bill's christened it "The Dump". 158 00:10:28,709 --> 00:10:31,542 They're working there night and day on something big. 159 00:10:31,626 --> 00:10:32,876 Something big? 160 00:10:32,959 --> 00:10:34,167 Yes 161 00:10:34,251 --> 00:10:37,084 I don't know what it is They won't tell me till it's finished. 162 00:10:37,167 --> 00:10:39,251 But whatever it is, it's something that's costing 163 00:10:39,334 --> 00:10:41,792 a lot of money and a lot of nervous energy. 164 00:10:42,959 --> 00:10:44,917 They've rigged up a couple of bunks, 165 00:10:45,001 --> 00:10:46,501 practically live in the place. 166 00:10:47,667 --> 00:10:48,917 Would you like to see it? 167 00:10:50,876 --> 00:10:53,709 Darling Doc, you're so transparent. 168 00:10:54,584 --> 00:10:57,542 Of course, let's go see genius at work 169 00:11:20,042 --> 00:11:21,042 Oh! 170 00:11:30,917 --> 00:11:32,792 Hello, Bill Having fun? 171 00:11:33,709 --> 00:11:36,251 We're demonstrating ways of turning the air blue. 172 00:11:36,334 --> 00:11:38,709 Yeah, technical hitch. 173 00:11:38,792 --> 00:11:40,459 The mastermind will recover. 174 00:11:41,417 --> 00:11:42,501 Cigarette, anybody? 175 00:11:42,584 --> 00:11:43,917 I'd like one, please. 176 00:11:48,126 --> 00:11:50,167 Well, by all that's wonderful! 177 00:11:50,917 --> 00:11:54,042 - It's the prodigal daughter. - Welcome home! 178 00:11:55,084 --> 00:11:56,084 Hello, Robin. 179 00:11:56,167 --> 00:11:57,584 Bill. 180 00:11:57,667 --> 00:11:58,977 Doesn't she look wonderful, Bill? 181 00:11:59,001 --> 00:12:00,917 What are all of these contraptions? 182 00:12:01,001 --> 00:12:02,959 Well, that'd be rather hard to explain. 183 00:12:03,042 --> 00:12:04,722 Most of them, have only just been invented. 184 00:12:04,792 --> 00:12:06,268 They haven't got any proper names yet. 185 00:12:06,292 --> 00:12:08,459 What Bill means is, he isn't sure yet if it'll work. 186 00:12:09,084 --> 00:12:11,102 A few weeks more, we'll be able to give a demonstration 187 00:12:11,126 --> 00:12:13,560 that'll speak for itself if it comes off and I'm sure it will. 188 00:12:13,584 --> 00:12:16,917 Though Bill pretends it's doubtful The theory's watertight. 189 00:12:17,001 --> 00:12:18,876 Oh, it all sounds terribly mysterious 190 00:12:18,959 --> 00:12:20,834 and I'm afraid quite above my head. 191 00:12:20,917 --> 00:12:23,209 Well, you see, you'd have to study Einstein. 192 00:12:23,292 --> 00:12:25,542 And who is Mr Einstein? 193 00:12:28,251 --> 00:12:29,876 Pretend you didn't hear. 194 00:12:37,209 --> 00:12:39,209 It's a mess, isn't it? 195 00:12:39,292 --> 00:12:42,209 I don't suppose with genius at work it could be any otherwise. 196 00:12:42,292 --> 00:12:43,834 Oh, yes, it could. 197 00:12:43,917 --> 00:12:46,917 They need regular meals, you know, and someone to remind them 198 00:12:47,001 --> 00:12:49,417 that occasionally one is supposed to sleep. 199 00:12:49,501 --> 00:12:51,376 A ministering angel, no less 200 00:12:51,459 --> 00:12:53,251 I suppose you've picked me for the job? 201 00:12:54,626 --> 00:12:55,834 No, thank you, Doc. 202 00:12:57,417 --> 00:13:00,417 Well, gentlemen, thank you for a most interesting visit 203 00:13:00,501 --> 00:13:01,959 and I hope that you'll invite me 204 00:13:02,042 --> 00:13:04,792 when you present your masterpiece to the world. 205 00:13:04,876 --> 00:13:05,959 Goodnight. 206 00:13:06,751 --> 00:13:07,751 But, Lena. 207 00:13:10,501 --> 00:13:13,001 But of course she changed her mind. 208 00:13:13,084 --> 00:13:14,667 That's a woman's privilege. 209 00:13:15,542 --> 00:13:19,709 She became cook, nurse, confessor, chief bottle washer, 210 00:13:19,792 --> 00:13:22,792 and occasional mechanic to those two conspirators. 211 00:13:22,876 --> 00:13:24,626 She became one of them, 212 00:13:24,709 --> 00:13:26,667 sharing their disappointments, 213 00:13:26,751 --> 00:13:28,501 getting on the right side of Sir Walter, 214 00:13:28,584 --> 00:13:30,751 who was beginning to get worried over his investment 215 00:13:30,834 --> 00:13:32,584 in the mysterious scheme. 216 00:13:33,459 --> 00:13:37,126 Soothing his ruffled feelings when Bill was a little abrupt, 217 00:13:37,209 --> 00:13:39,417 being the most wonderful thing in the world, 218 00:13:40,334 --> 00:13:42,834 a woman who is also a companion 219 00:13:42,917 --> 00:13:45,001 and a comrade to her menfolk 220 00:13:45,084 --> 00:13:46,626 I saw little of her and the boys, 221 00:13:46,709 --> 00:13:48,667 for I was told to keep away, 222 00:13:48,751 --> 00:13:51,876 until one evening Robin asked me to pay a visit 223 00:13:51,959 --> 00:13:53,792 to Grant House with him. 224 00:13:53,876 --> 00:13:56,667 You say these experiments are certain to succeed? 225 00:13:57,459 --> 00:13:59,917 There's no certainty about it, Dad. 226 00:14:00,001 --> 00:14:02,477 Of course, we're more than hopeful and success would mean that. 227 00:14:02,501 --> 00:14:05,376 Oh, yes, quite, quite You said all that 18 months ago, 228 00:14:05,459 --> 00:14:07,042 when I gave you the? 1,000 229 00:14:07,126 --> 00:14:09,292 I don't think your money's been wasted. 230 00:14:09,376 --> 00:14:13,834 And now another few months or a few weeks would see the job finished. 231 00:14:13,917 --> 00:14:16,334 A few weeks, a few months, 232 00:14:17,417 --> 00:14:21,334 a few years and? 2,000. 233 00:14:25,042 --> 00:14:28,001 Oh, Rob, I'm not unreasonable, you know that. 234 00:14:28,084 --> 00:14:31,792 But the answer is definitely no, not another penny. 235 00:14:32,792 --> 00:14:34,632 I wanted you to take over the plastic business, 236 00:14:34,709 --> 00:14:36,376 but you refused 237 00:14:36,459 --> 00:14:37,876 I staked? 1,000 238 00:14:37,959 --> 00:14:40,792 and I'm not going to throw good money after bad. 239 00:14:41,876 --> 00:14:44,042 And I'm surprised at you, Harvey, 240 00:14:44,126 --> 00:14:47,292 encouraging them in this wild goose chase 241 00:14:47,376 --> 00:14:49,542 instead of making them see reason. 242 00:14:49,626 --> 00:14:52,167 Perhaps reason means something different to me 243 00:14:52,251 --> 00:14:54,376 I think there's method in their madness. 244 00:14:54,459 --> 00:14:55,542 Goodnight, Sir Walter. 245 00:14:56,917 --> 00:14:58,167 Goodnight, Father 246 00:15:08,167 --> 00:15:09,584 I hate to tell Bill. 247 00:15:09,667 --> 00:15:12,001 - Don't tell him. - But what on earth will we do? 248 00:15:12,084 --> 00:15:14,792 Just say Sir Walter wanted a week or so to think things over. 249 00:15:14,876 --> 00:15:16,602 - Yes, but. - I have a few hundreds in the bank. 250 00:15:16,626 --> 00:15:18,584 That'll do to carry on with, 251 00:15:18,667 --> 00:15:21,376 and I shall have to think what I can do about the rest. 252 00:15:21,459 --> 00:15:23,751 Doc, you're an. 253 00:15:23,834 --> 00:15:25,167 Old fool, eh? 254 00:15:25,251 --> 00:15:27,334 Well, I must hurry, not much time to waste. 255 00:15:30,542 --> 00:15:32,917 You know, Doctor, if you hadn't been in such a hurry, 256 00:15:33,001 --> 00:15:36,376 we could have got a much better price for such a well-established practice. 257 00:15:36,459 --> 00:15:38,626 Yes, but you see, Simpson, I was in a hurry. 258 00:15:39,459 --> 00:15:41,167 Thanks for all your help anyway. 259 00:15:41,251 --> 00:15:43,084 That's all right There it is. 260 00:15:43,167 --> 00:15:44,376 Thank you 261 00:16:35,876 --> 00:16:38,876 Oh, what a terrible night, but I had to come. 262 00:16:38,959 --> 00:16:41,709 Well, you just sit down by the fire now and relax 263 00:16:41,792 --> 00:16:43,876 and I'll get you a nice hot drink. 264 00:16:43,959 --> 00:16:45,376 Oh, I really can't stay. 265 00:16:45,459 --> 00:16:47,042 Doc, do you have some Benzedrine? 266 00:16:47,126 --> 00:16:49,417 Those two boys can't keep going on coffee alone. 267 00:16:49,501 --> 00:16:51,084 Then they should rest. 268 00:16:51,167 --> 00:16:53,251 You'll all be going down with nervous prostration 269 00:16:53,334 --> 00:16:55,209 if you don't take some time off soon. 270 00:16:55,292 --> 00:16:56,292 No, really, Lena. 271 00:16:56,376 --> 00:16:59,292 Oh, I admit the last three days have been pretty grim, 272 00:16:59,376 --> 00:17:01,751 but they're almost sure that they've got it now. 273 00:17:01,834 --> 00:17:03,459 One last effort - Come on. 274 00:17:05,126 --> 00:17:06,584 You know, Doc, 275 00:17:06,667 --> 00:17:08,626 I never thought I could get so enthusiastic 276 00:17:08,709 --> 00:17:11,126 about something I don't even know. 277 00:17:17,501 --> 00:17:19,251 Hello, Harvey here. 278 00:17:22,334 --> 00:17:23,959 Well, it's for you, Lena. 279 00:17:30,126 --> 00:17:32,209 Hello - Lena, we've got it licked. 280 00:17:32,292 --> 00:17:34,167 We're ready for the first demonstration. 281 00:17:34,251 --> 00:17:36,292 Curtain going up in ten minutes, you'd better hurry. 282 00:17:36,917 --> 00:17:39,084 They think they've got it and they want to show us. 283 00:17:39,167 --> 00:17:41,501 Come on, Doc, this might be it 284 00:17:47,584 --> 00:17:49,667 Is this it? Have you really got it? 285 00:17:49,751 --> 00:17:51,042 Be with you in a second. 286 00:17:52,126 --> 00:17:55,334 - Well, we're almost sure it will work. - What do you mean "almost"? 287 00:17:55,417 --> 00:17:57,459 I'm the cautious one, do you remember? 288 00:17:57,542 --> 00:18:00,084 Don't you think you ought to tell me what it's all about? 289 00:18:01,251 --> 00:18:03,751 You think our principal backer ought to know? 290 00:18:03,834 --> 00:18:06,126 You know you're just dying to tell him. 291 00:18:06,751 --> 00:18:08,001 All right. 292 00:18:12,334 --> 00:18:13,584 But what are they? 293 00:18:13,667 --> 00:18:15,376 We call it a reproducer. 294 00:18:15,459 --> 00:18:17,751 You might also call it a duplicator. 295 00:18:17,834 --> 00:18:20,376 How does it work? What does it do? 296 00:18:20,459 --> 00:18:23,167 Well, that's not so easy to explain 297 00:18:23,251 --> 00:18:26,376 I could fill your head with figures and names. 298 00:18:26,459 --> 00:18:28,917 Millikan and Faraday and Newton 299 00:18:29,001 --> 00:18:31,542 Dalton, Rutherford, Planck and Oppenheimer. 300 00:18:31,626 --> 00:18:34,876 Not to mention Mr Einstein Even I now know who he is 301 00:18:34,959 --> 00:18:37,542 We can give you a lecture on atoms and protons, 302 00:18:37,626 --> 00:18:40,959 on the theory of indeterminacy and heavy water. 303 00:18:41,042 --> 00:18:42,792 Not to mention something called a wavicle, 304 00:18:42,876 --> 00:18:45,167 which is half wave and half particle. 305 00:18:45,251 --> 00:18:47,376 Hold on, I'm dizzy already. 306 00:18:47,459 --> 00:18:49,667 Can't you put it into words of one syllable? 307 00:18:50,917 --> 00:18:53,376 We'll do better than that We'll show you. 308 00:18:54,667 --> 00:18:57,751 Let Doc have the honour of choosing the very first object for the reproducer. 309 00:18:57,834 --> 00:18:59,292 What'll it be, Doc? 310 00:18:59,376 --> 00:19:01,334 Pick anything you like, any object. 311 00:19:02,209 --> 00:19:04,709 Anything? But what material? 312 00:19:04,792 --> 00:19:07,459 - Stone, metal, fabric? - Anything at all. 313 00:19:16,042 --> 00:19:17,542 What about that? 314 00:19:17,626 --> 00:19:19,001 All right. 315 00:19:19,084 --> 00:19:20,876 Now, you just sit down and relax. 316 00:19:20,959 --> 00:19:22,709 You're the audience, we have to do the work. 317 00:19:22,792 --> 00:19:25,417 And don't be disappointed if the show isn't quite perfect yet. 318 00:19:25,501 --> 00:19:27,667 You'll be careful with that? I've had it for years. 319 00:19:48,459 --> 00:19:49,584 Right 320 00:20:05,459 --> 00:20:07,584 - You know what you have to do? - Yes 321 00:20:10,667 --> 00:20:12,792 Whenever you do, watch that meter. 322 00:20:16,084 --> 00:20:17,251 Ready 323 00:20:18,084 --> 00:20:19,209 Alpha 17. 324 00:20:21,584 --> 00:20:23,167 Alpha 17. 325 00:20:24,542 --> 00:20:25,667 Five. 326 00:20:26,542 --> 00:20:27,542 Five. 327 00:20:28,542 --> 00:20:30,667 Beta two Beta two X. 328 00:20:32,126 --> 00:20:33,584 Beta two. 329 00:20:34,584 --> 00:20:36,001 Beta two X. 330 00:20:37,001 --> 00:20:38,751 Twelve 331 00:20:39,501 --> 00:20:40,751 Twelve. 332 00:20:43,459 --> 00:20:44,751 Gamma seven. 333 00:20:46,126 --> 00:20:47,209 Gamma seven 334 00:20:52,292 --> 00:20:53,417 Thirteen. 335 00:20:54,417 --> 00:20:55,459 Thirteen. 336 00:20:56,584 --> 00:20:58,084 Zeta 11. 337 00:20:59,501 --> 00:21:00,876 Zeta 11. 338 00:21:03,084 --> 00:21:04,251 Fourteen. 339 00:21:04,334 --> 00:21:05,376 Fourteen 340 00:21:15,084 --> 00:21:16,084 Full power. 341 00:21:19,209 --> 00:21:20,084 Now! 342 00:21:33,209 --> 00:21:34,417 Switch off! 343 00:21:35,292 --> 00:21:36,292 Off. 344 00:21:38,667 --> 00:21:40,292 Oh, we've done it, it works! 345 00:21:40,376 --> 00:21:42,584 Oh, Robin, isn't it wonderful? 346 00:21:42,667 --> 00:21:44,667 Bill, it works, it works! 347 00:21:51,542 --> 00:21:52,917 There you are, Doc. 348 00:21:56,167 --> 00:21:57,834 But this is incredible. 349 00:21:59,584 --> 00:22:01,209 It's an exact replica. 350 00:22:02,501 --> 00:22:04,001 Even to this bent link. 351 00:22:11,459 --> 00:22:12,709 Look at that. 352 00:22:13,376 --> 00:22:15,251 How on earth did you do it? 353 00:22:16,459 --> 00:22:17,501 Well 354 00:22:18,334 --> 00:22:21,709 I'll try to explain, but it won't be simple. 355 00:22:23,709 --> 00:22:25,251 Crudely then, 356 00:22:25,334 --> 00:22:27,709 - you know what matter is? - Hmm? 357 00:22:27,792 --> 00:22:30,626 Sure, you know, the stuff everything's made out of, 358 00:22:30,709 --> 00:22:34,084 windows, doors, watches, even doctors. 359 00:22:34,167 --> 00:22:37,126 - Oh, yes, what else? - Well, all through the ages, 360 00:22:37,209 --> 00:22:39,917 men have used matter to create energy, 361 00:22:40,001 --> 00:22:42,792 wood to create heat, coal to make electricity. 362 00:22:42,876 --> 00:22:45,751 Out of inactive, inert mass, 363 00:22:45,834 --> 00:22:47,876 we've created movement, force. 364 00:22:47,959 --> 00:22:49,126 Yes, I've got that. 365 00:22:49,209 --> 00:22:51,542 Well, fairly recently, 366 00:22:51,626 --> 00:22:54,792 we found ways of making matter out of energy, 367 00:22:54,876 --> 00:22:57,042 sort of reversing the process. 368 00:22:57,959 --> 00:23:00,792 It was first done some years ago by the GE Labs in New York. 369 00:23:00,876 --> 00:23:03,251 Their machine, the Betatron, used high-powered X-rays 370 00:23:03,334 --> 00:23:05,084 and produced brand new electrons, 371 00:23:05,167 --> 00:23:06,667 freshly created particles of matter. 372 00:23:06,751 --> 00:23:09,018 You've lost me somewhere on the Bayou, but never mind, Bill. 373 00:23:09,042 --> 00:23:11,626 Oh, just let's forget all the scientific jargon. 374 00:23:11,709 --> 00:23:15,459 You must take it on trust, Doc, we can reproduce anything in the world. 375 00:23:15,542 --> 00:23:18,042 - Gold, platinum, diamond. - The Venus de Milo. 376 00:23:18,126 --> 00:23:20,917 Aureomycin, all the rare and costed drugs, 377 00:23:21,001 --> 00:23:22,477 all the blood plasma the world wants. 378 00:23:22,501 --> 00:23:23,751 But this is terrific. 379 00:23:23,834 --> 00:23:26,584 Have you thought out the tremendous implications? 380 00:23:26,667 --> 00:23:28,001 What's there to think out? 381 00:23:28,084 --> 00:23:30,126 We've done it! That's all that matters. 382 00:23:30,209 --> 00:23:31,834 Not quite, Bill. 383 00:23:31,917 --> 00:23:34,501 We've a responsibility to ourselves, to the world. 384 00:23:34,584 --> 00:23:37,584 There's your father, Robin After all, he advanced the first thousand. 385 00:23:37,667 --> 00:23:39,334 Don't you think he ought to be told? 386 00:23:39,417 --> 00:23:41,352 Well, I thought of keeping it a secret until we get organised, 387 00:23:41,376 --> 00:23:43,792 until we discover the best way of using the reproducer 388 00:23:43,876 --> 00:23:46,167 Robin, I think your father has a right to know. 389 00:23:46,251 --> 00:23:47,501 All right, let's tell him. 390 00:23:48,167 --> 00:23:50,584 After all, we can always buy out his share. 391 00:23:50,667 --> 00:23:52,292 Oh, let's don't talk business tonight 392 00:23:52,376 --> 00:23:53,959 I feel like celebrating 393 00:23:54,042 --> 00:23:55,542 I took enough out of the petty cash 394 00:23:55,626 --> 00:23:57,751 to buy a couple of bottles of champagne. 395 00:23:57,834 --> 00:24:00,626 Come on, let's go try it I've even got a bucket of ice. 396 00:24:05,376 --> 00:24:07,792 Would you care to endorse it, Sir Walter? 397 00:24:15,501 --> 00:24:16,584 Thank you. 398 00:24:16,667 --> 00:24:18,751 You can watch us first if you'd like. 399 00:24:28,126 --> 00:24:29,167 Right 400 00:24:45,584 --> 00:24:46,584 Ready? 401 00:24:48,334 --> 00:24:49,542 Alpha 21. 402 00:24:51,501 --> 00:24:53,126 Alpha 21. 403 00:24:54,417 --> 00:24:56,584 Five - Five. 404 00:24:58,001 --> 00:25:00,001 Beta 4 Beta 4X. 405 00:25:00,584 --> 00:25:01,959 Beta 4. 406 00:25:02,542 --> 00:25:03,792 Beta 4X. 407 00:25:04,959 --> 00:25:06,876 Seven - Seven. 408 00:25:07,959 --> 00:25:09,626 Gamma 12. 409 00:25:10,626 --> 00:25:12,292 Gamma 12. 410 00:25:14,334 --> 00:25:16,167 Twenty - Twenty. 411 00:25:16,251 --> 00:25:17,834 Zeta 13. 412 00:25:18,709 --> 00:25:20,126 Zeta 13. 413 00:25:21,834 --> 00:25:23,084 Thirteen! 414 00:25:23,167 --> 00:25:24,251 Thirteen. 415 00:25:24,334 --> 00:25:25,542 Full power! 416 00:25:26,209 --> 00:25:27,251 Now! 417 00:25:35,292 --> 00:25:39,042 Robin, Bill, Harvey, 418 00:25:39,126 --> 00:25:41,501 do you swear this isn't some some trick? 419 00:25:41,584 --> 00:25:45,001 This second cheque even the numbers are the same. 420 00:25:45,084 --> 00:25:47,667 - It's really. - Yes, yes, created out of nothing. 421 00:25:47,751 --> 00:25:49,126 Reproduced, if you like. 422 00:25:49,209 --> 00:25:51,126 Of course, one of them's no good. 423 00:25:51,209 --> 00:25:54,209 Well, we didn't exactly intend to go in for forgery, Sir Walter. 424 00:25:54,292 --> 00:25:56,435 Of course, it would be different if they were gold bars 425 00:25:56,459 --> 00:25:58,042 or a couple of ton of platinum, 426 00:25:58,126 --> 00:26:00,001 or perhaps a hundredweight of rubies. 427 00:26:05,042 --> 00:26:07,792 And you say you can reproduce anything? 428 00:26:07,876 --> 00:26:09,376 Anything at all. 429 00:26:09,459 --> 00:26:11,709 If it's not too large to go into the domes. 430 00:26:12,501 --> 00:26:15,417 Of course, we could build new domes, any size. 431 00:26:15,501 --> 00:26:17,834 - Does anybody know about this? - No one but us. 432 00:26:17,917 --> 00:26:20,417 Then I implore you not to tell anybody, 433 00:26:20,501 --> 00:26:23,709 until I've had time to get in touch with the proper authorities. 434 00:26:23,792 --> 00:26:25,685 What have the proper authorities got to do with it? 435 00:26:25,709 --> 00:26:28,459 It isn't a secret weapon - Oh, isn't it? 436 00:26:28,542 --> 00:26:30,626 You say you can reproduce anything? 437 00:26:31,501 --> 00:26:33,792 Atom bombs, poison gas, 438 00:26:33,876 --> 00:26:36,834 - bacteria by the billions. - But we would never do a thing like that. 439 00:26:36,917 --> 00:26:39,792 My dear, of course I know you wouldn't. 440 00:26:39,876 --> 00:26:42,542 Neither would my son here, nor would Bill. 441 00:26:44,542 --> 00:26:46,667 Well, I'm not so sure about Bill. 442 00:26:46,751 --> 00:26:50,459 He might do it in a spirit of detached scientific curiosity. 443 00:26:51,334 --> 00:26:54,209 Now, what you've got to decide is, what you want yourselves. 444 00:26:55,084 --> 00:26:56,751 Two things, Dad. 445 00:26:56,834 --> 00:26:59,251 Security so our work shouldn't be disturbed. 446 00:26:59,334 --> 00:27:01,626 Oh, I think the government would insist upon that anyway. 447 00:27:01,709 --> 00:27:02,876 Mm-hm - And what else? 448 00:27:04,834 --> 00:27:06,709 Our equipment is rather makeshift. 449 00:27:06,792 --> 00:27:08,626 We have to make it safe and efficient, 450 00:27:08,709 --> 00:27:10,501 so I suppose we need a new place 451 00:27:10,584 --> 00:27:12,792 and a larger source of power. 452 00:27:12,876 --> 00:27:15,060 And of course, the originals of the things to reproduce. 453 00:27:15,084 --> 00:27:18,334 Yes, rare drugs, complex and costly medical apparatus. 454 00:27:18,417 --> 00:27:19,834 Electronic computers, radium. 455 00:27:19,917 --> 00:27:22,084 Works of art to make beauty available to all. 456 00:27:22,167 --> 00:27:24,376 They're not in this for personal gain, Sir Walter. 457 00:27:25,292 --> 00:27:29,001 Now listen, you've achieved something immense, 458 00:27:29,084 --> 00:27:31,126 but you've got to watch every step. 459 00:27:31,959 --> 00:27:34,459 I think you want too little and yet too much. 460 00:27:35,376 --> 00:27:37,042 Will you trust me to handle this? 461 00:27:38,334 --> 00:27:41,334 Your Uncle Henry is the logical man to approach. 462 00:27:41,417 --> 00:27:45,667 He's the Permanent Under-Secretary for Economic Affairs. 463 00:27:45,751 --> 00:27:47,292 Yes, he's also a stuffed shirt. 464 00:27:47,376 --> 00:27:49,126 Oh, really, Robin! 465 00:27:49,209 --> 00:27:50,917 He's also a statesman 466 00:27:52,876 --> 00:27:54,417 I'll explain everything to him. 467 00:27:55,584 --> 00:27:58,167 Of course, you'll have to brief me, you know, 468 00:27:58,251 --> 00:28:00,251 in non-technical language, 469 00:28:00,334 --> 00:28:02,501 and we'll be guided by what he says 470 00:28:02,584 --> 00:28:04,542 I'm not so sure about that, sir. 471 00:28:04,626 --> 00:28:06,084 And why not, young man? 472 00:28:06,167 --> 00:28:09,417 Well, this is something for all mankind, not just for one country. 473 00:28:09,501 --> 00:28:12,417 If Lord Grant wants to keep it just for ourselves, 474 00:28:12,501 --> 00:28:14,042 I would resist that with all my might. 475 00:28:14,126 --> 00:28:15,584 Hold your horses, Bill. 476 00:28:15,667 --> 00:28:16,959 No, Doc, he's right. 477 00:28:17,876 --> 00:28:21,084 But I'm sure we can work out a way that's satisfactory to both sides. 478 00:28:22,917 --> 00:28:25,334 And I agree with Dad that we shouldn't be too hasty. 479 00:28:25,417 --> 00:28:27,126 Well, that's settled then 480 00:28:27,209 --> 00:28:28,667 I'll go up to London tonight. 481 00:28:29,959 --> 00:28:32,917 Well, I suppose you'll come to the point sooner or later. 482 00:28:34,626 --> 00:28:36,584 I know you pretty well, Bill 483 00:28:36,667 --> 00:28:39,792 I've nursed you through some black moods. 484 00:28:41,209 --> 00:28:42,334 What is it? 485 00:28:43,667 --> 00:28:46,126 It's a paradox, that's what it is. 486 00:28:47,917 --> 00:28:50,834 A bloke said once that a paradox is only a truth 487 00:28:50,917 --> 00:28:53,417 standing on its head to attract attention. 488 00:28:56,209 --> 00:28:57,876 Look, I must be serious. 489 00:29:00,001 --> 00:29:01,209 It is serious. 490 00:29:03,001 --> 00:29:05,292 And that girl, that 491 00:29:06,126 --> 00:29:08,251 silly, wonderful Lena. 492 00:29:09,876 --> 00:29:11,584 She doesn't know what she wants. 493 00:29:13,251 --> 00:29:14,334 I do. 494 00:29:15,709 --> 00:29:16,917 I know what I want. 495 00:29:18,542 --> 00:29:19,584 I want her. 496 00:29:21,126 --> 00:29:22,209 I need her. 497 00:29:24,292 --> 00:29:25,376 I love her. 498 00:29:26,126 --> 00:29:27,751 Why don't you tell her so? 499 00:29:29,459 --> 00:29:30,959 You know how it is. 500 00:29:32,042 --> 00:29:34,584 She doesn't know what she needs She might. 501 00:29:34,667 --> 00:29:36,292 Turn you down? 502 00:29:36,376 --> 00:29:37,667 That can't be helped. 503 00:29:37,751 --> 00:29:39,876 It shouldn't stop you from trying. 504 00:29:39,959 --> 00:29:41,084 It does stop me. 505 00:29:43,834 --> 00:29:45,084 I know what it is. 506 00:29:46,542 --> 00:29:47,667 It's pride. 507 00:29:49,459 --> 00:29:50,501 I can't help it. 508 00:29:51,792 --> 00:29:52,876 I'm too sensitive. 509 00:29:57,126 --> 00:29:58,626 Would you 510 00:29:58,709 --> 00:30:01,751 would you sort of probe her, Doc? 511 00:30:02,917 --> 00:30:03,959 Would you? 512 00:30:05,042 --> 00:30:06,876 Yes, of course I will, my boy, 513 00:30:07,751 --> 00:30:09,584 but you must give me time. 514 00:30:09,667 --> 00:30:13,626 At the moment, all our minds are too full of this invention of yours. 515 00:30:13,709 --> 00:30:16,709 When we've got organised a bit, I'll talk to her, I promise. 516 00:30:17,709 --> 00:30:20,626 But you must leave me to choose the moment, all right? 517 00:30:22,001 --> 00:30:23,584 Yes, of course. 518 00:30:30,001 --> 00:30:33,834 I want her to know and I can't tell her myself. 519 00:30:36,626 --> 00:30:37,792 Thank you, Doc. 520 00:30:39,459 --> 00:30:40,751 Thank you for everything. 521 00:30:45,417 --> 00:30:47,667 Now, Bill, try to behave yourself 522 00:30:47,751 --> 00:30:50,501 I know it's not easy, but it's worth it. 523 00:30:50,584 --> 00:30:51,667 Well, is it? 524 00:30:53,751 --> 00:30:56,501 I'm tired of the whole reproducer, Rob. 525 00:30:57,876 --> 00:30:59,209 It was fun developing it, 526 00:30:59,292 --> 00:31:02,501 but now I'd rather start on something new. 527 00:31:05,459 --> 00:31:07,501 I didn't know you felt like this, Bill. 528 00:31:08,584 --> 00:31:10,001 Just think, in a few months, 529 00:31:10,084 --> 00:31:12,584 the hospitals of the world will have all the radium they need. 530 00:31:13,501 --> 00:31:17,376 No polio victim need die now for the want of an iron lung. 531 00:31:17,459 --> 00:31:18,977 And all the beauty we can give to the people 532 00:31:19,001 --> 00:31:21,292 who never before owned a great painting 533 00:31:21,376 --> 00:31:23,251 or a beautiful statue. 534 00:31:24,459 --> 00:31:26,501 No, I'm not tired of our work yet. 535 00:31:29,792 --> 00:31:31,209 Well, perhaps you're right. 536 00:31:32,792 --> 00:31:34,751 Come on, let's go downstairs. 537 00:31:38,084 --> 00:31:41,501 Oh, well I've put it off All right, I'll 538 00:31:41,584 --> 00:31:43,417 Erm. 539 00:31:44,417 --> 00:31:49,584 Look, erm, I'm not very much of a hand at making a speech, 540 00:31:50,459 --> 00:31:52,667 but I feel that this is an occasion. 541 00:31:52,751 --> 00:31:55,792 The presence of a distinguished statesman, 542 00:31:57,876 --> 00:32:00,084 who is also a member of my family, 543 00:32:00,167 --> 00:32:03,126 makes me feel doubly diffident. 544 00:32:03,209 --> 00:32:07,167 But you won't, I know, grudge me a few words. 545 00:32:08,334 --> 00:32:12,042 I think I can flatter myself that I was among the first. 546 00:32:12,126 --> 00:32:14,417 In fact, I was the very first 547 00:32:14,501 --> 00:32:18,917 to realise the world-shattering importance of a reproducer. 548 00:32:19,001 --> 00:32:21,626 Some men might have refused to invest 549 00:32:21,709 --> 00:32:24,542 in a seemingly fantastic venture, 550 00:32:25,501 --> 00:32:28,667 but I had faith in these brilliant young men. 551 00:32:29,459 --> 00:32:32,876 I had faith to the tune of a very substantial sum. 552 00:32:32,959 --> 00:32:34,376 Hear, hear! 553 00:32:35,376 --> 00:32:38,167 However, my faith was fully justified. 554 00:32:38,251 --> 00:32:41,626 My expectations are more than fulfilled 555 00:32:41,709 --> 00:32:46,751 I'm happy to say that the government has given its full consent to our plans 556 00:32:46,834 --> 00:32:50,542 and Lord Grant is here to discuss 557 00:32:50,626 --> 00:32:54,167 the implementation of our suggestions. 558 00:32:54,251 --> 00:32:58,667 What Walter means is we're willing to do as you wish. 559 00:32:59,751 --> 00:33:03,542 - Within reason. - Yes, yes, of course. 560 00:33:03,626 --> 00:33:05,876 Now may I give you a toast 561 00:33:05,959 --> 00:33:08,709 to the Universal Reproducer Company. 562 00:33:09,459 --> 00:33:11,084 May it transform the world 563 00:33:11,167 --> 00:33:14,334 into a place of peace and plenty 564 00:33:14,417 --> 00:33:17,501 The Universal Reproducer Company. 565 00:33:17,584 --> 00:33:21,626 Now, Walter, we've got to be practical about this. 566 00:33:21,709 --> 00:33:24,167 First of all, I want all the blueprints 567 00:33:24,251 --> 00:33:27,292 and formulae transferred to our safe custody, 568 00:33:27,376 --> 00:33:28,876 and the sooner the better. 569 00:33:28,959 --> 00:33:30,001 Yeah, of course, Henry 570 00:33:30,084 --> 00:33:32,792 I can quite see that security is of the highest important. 571 00:33:32,876 --> 00:33:37,792 Exactly, and I want these two geniuses of yours 572 00:33:37,876 --> 00:33:42,417 to come up to London and explain everything in detail to our big boffins. 573 00:33:42,501 --> 00:33:44,501 Yes, I think that's very practical 574 00:33:44,584 --> 00:33:46,876 I'd be very glad to come up with you myself. 575 00:33:46,959 --> 00:33:48,917 That may not be necessary. 576 00:33:49,001 --> 00:33:52,001 Let's ask them anyway whether they can make the trip. 577 00:33:52,084 --> 00:33:53,751 Where is Robin? 578 00:33:53,834 --> 00:33:56,042 I saw him a moment or two ago 579 00:33:56,126 --> 00:33:57,876 I think he was with Lena - Hmm. 580 00:33:59,042 --> 00:34:01,292 Dad, Mother, everybody. 581 00:34:01,376 --> 00:34:04,209 Congratulate us Lena and I are going to be married 582 00:34:06,001 --> 00:34:07,751 - Darling! - Congratulations 583 00:34:07,834 --> 00:34:10,167 I'm so glad It's the most wonderful news 584 00:34:10,251 --> 00:34:12,542 - I'm really very, very happy. - Well, this is a surprise 585 00:34:16,876 --> 00:34:18,209 Steady, Bill. 586 00:34:20,292 --> 00:34:21,417 Thanks, Doc. 587 00:34:22,626 --> 00:34:24,417 Almost made a fool of myself. 588 00:34:26,792 --> 00:34:29,376 I thank you for something else too. 589 00:34:29,459 --> 00:34:30,667 What's that, son? 590 00:34:32,292 --> 00:34:36,209 Not speaking to Lena about that evening when I. 591 00:34:37,292 --> 00:34:38,917 Isn't it wonderful, Bill? 592 00:34:40,501 --> 00:34:42,167 I never thought she'd have me. 593 00:34:43,251 --> 00:34:44,584 I'm terribly glad, Rob 594 00:34:46,626 --> 00:34:48,001 for both of you. 595 00:34:49,626 --> 00:34:51,751 I know you'll be very happy. 596 00:34:53,584 --> 00:34:54,751 Thanks, Bill 597 00:35:01,126 --> 00:35:04,126 Will you come back to my place, Bill? 598 00:35:04,209 --> 00:35:05,376 Thanks, Doc. 599 00:35:06,334 --> 00:35:07,542 I can manage 600 00:35:08,792 --> 00:35:09,834 by myself. 601 00:36:29,084 --> 00:36:30,251 Bill. 602 00:36:58,376 --> 00:36:59,376 Bill 603 00:37:03,167 --> 00:37:04,209 Bill. 604 00:37:05,417 --> 00:37:06,792 Oh, it's you, Doc. 605 00:37:07,376 --> 00:37:09,209 What are you doing out here? 606 00:37:11,376 --> 00:37:13,209 Come inside and I'll tell you 607 00:37:14,751 --> 00:37:16,667 I've got to tell somebody. 608 00:37:18,667 --> 00:37:21,042 I have suggested to Rob that we try and see 609 00:37:21,126 --> 00:37:23,709 just how far the reproducer would take us. 610 00:37:24,626 --> 00:37:26,709 Purely as a matter of curiosity. 611 00:37:26,792 --> 00:37:28,501 And what does he think of the idea? 612 00:37:29,584 --> 00:37:30,876 Not much. 613 00:37:30,959 --> 00:37:33,167 Well, you know Robin and his code of honour. 614 00:37:33,251 --> 00:37:36,042 He said he was a physicist, not a biologist. 615 00:37:36,126 --> 00:37:38,227 And the current of electricity we'd have to pass through 616 00:37:38,251 --> 00:37:40,011 the guinea pig or rabbit, or whatever it was, 617 00:37:40,042 --> 00:37:41,417 would be rather painful. 618 00:37:41,501 --> 00:37:43,102 Well, I didn't think of any much of that objection. 619 00:37:43,126 --> 00:37:46,001 After all, chloroform or morphia would eliminate it. 620 00:37:46,084 --> 00:37:48,334 So you gave it up for a while? 621 00:37:48,417 --> 00:37:49,417 Yes. 622 00:37:50,709 --> 00:37:51,792 But a week ago, 623 00:37:53,126 --> 00:37:54,584 I started with a guinea pig. 624 00:37:56,667 --> 00:37:58,292 Oh, yes 625 00:37:58,376 --> 00:38:01,376 I did have two guinea pigs, perfect replicas. 626 00:38:02,667 --> 00:38:06,084 And this one, the original, came round all right when the dope wore off. 627 00:38:07,709 --> 00:38:09,209 But the duplicate 628 00:38:10,751 --> 00:38:12,209 well, it didn't live. 629 00:38:14,376 --> 00:38:16,167 I tried everything. 630 00:38:17,626 --> 00:38:19,667 Massage, adrenaline. 631 00:38:20,667 --> 00:38:24,209 I even built a miniature iron lung It was no use. 632 00:38:25,584 --> 00:38:26,959 Did you try surgery? 633 00:38:27,667 --> 00:38:31,876 I made an incision, massaged the heart, didn't work. 634 00:38:32,834 --> 00:38:34,709 Perhaps it's just as well that it didn't. 635 00:38:34,792 --> 00:38:37,459 But it's got to work, and you've got to help me, Doc. 636 00:38:37,542 --> 00:38:38,917 Oh, how can I help? 637 00:38:39,876 --> 00:38:41,251 Well, I've got something. 638 00:38:42,251 --> 00:38:45,709 It's really an adaptation of a gadget called the autojector. 639 00:38:46,834 --> 00:38:48,126 I haven't got it perfect yet. 640 00:38:48,209 --> 00:38:52,126 It's a matter of spinal surgery and I'm no hand at that. 641 00:38:52,209 --> 00:38:54,376 If you could give me just a little help, Doc 642 00:38:54,459 --> 00:38:58,334 I don't know, Bill This is very different from anything you've ever asked me before. 643 00:38:59,709 --> 00:39:01,417 I shall have to think it over. 644 00:39:04,876 --> 00:39:06,542 I'll tell you tomorrow. 645 00:39:07,959 --> 00:39:09,001 Yes. 646 00:39:10,542 --> 00:39:11,876 You do that, Doc. 647 00:39:15,126 --> 00:39:16,459 I'll be waiting 648 00:39:19,084 --> 00:39:20,626 I haven't got much time left. 649 00:39:22,834 --> 00:39:24,084 Not much time. 650 00:39:25,959 --> 00:39:28,209 That night for the first time, 651 00:39:28,292 --> 00:39:30,834 I felt that there was something strange, 652 00:39:30,917 --> 00:39:32,959 something feverish in Bill, 653 00:39:33,042 --> 00:39:36,251 that he was driven by a force he couldn't control. 654 00:39:37,126 --> 00:39:39,917 The words of Solomon burned in my mind. 655 00:39:40,001 --> 00:39:42,501 "Love is strong as death. 656 00:39:42,584 --> 00:39:45,376 Jealousy is cruel as the grave". 657 00:39:45,459 --> 00:39:46,917 But words didn't help. 658 00:39:48,001 --> 00:39:50,751 I knew from the beginning that I would help him 659 00:39:50,834 --> 00:39:54,292 I also knew that I'd hate helping him, I thought, 660 00:39:55,251 --> 00:39:57,584 but even thought stopped short. 661 00:39:57,667 --> 00:39:59,459 This is my last card, you know? 662 00:40:00,459 --> 00:40:02,001 How does it work, Bill? 663 00:40:02,084 --> 00:40:03,709 You gave me the clue 664 00:40:03,792 --> 00:40:05,167 I realised from what you said, 665 00:40:05,251 --> 00:40:08,667 that I had to have something acting not only as a heart pump, 666 00:40:08,751 --> 00:40:10,876 setting up a circulation artificially, 667 00:40:11,709 --> 00:40:15,167 but also a gadget that oxygenated the blood at the same time. 668 00:40:17,334 --> 00:40:18,959 If this fails, I'm done. 669 00:40:21,959 --> 00:40:23,292 Come on. 670 00:40:33,542 --> 00:40:35,584 All right, I'm not gonna hurt you. 671 00:40:37,792 --> 00:40:39,917 - Would you hold him there? - All right, Bill. 672 00:41:01,709 --> 00:41:04,626 There, he's gone nicely to sleep 673 00:42:43,042 --> 00:42:44,292 Full power! 674 00:42:44,376 --> 00:42:45,292 Now! 675 00:44:44,167 --> 00:44:46,667 Well, Doc, we've done it. 676 00:44:47,834 --> 00:44:50,584 - You've done it, Bill. - We, I, what's it matter? 677 00:44:52,126 --> 00:44:53,417 Isn't the secret simple? 678 00:44:54,251 --> 00:44:55,959 Just pump the blood through the veins 679 00:44:56,042 --> 00:44:58,751 till the creature's own heart pump begins to work in sympathy. 680 00:44:58,834 --> 00:45:00,876 Bill, I beg you, now that you've got it, 681 00:45:00,959 --> 00:45:02,667 don't do anything hasty. 682 00:45:02,751 --> 00:45:06,126 It's a terrible secret, an immense responsibility. 683 00:45:06,876 --> 00:45:09,376 No one really should know about it 684 00:45:09,459 --> 00:45:12,084 I myself don't want to know what modifications you've made 685 00:45:12,167 --> 00:45:13,876 to your original autojector. 686 00:45:13,959 --> 00:45:18,709 Believe me, Doc, I'm not interested in turning out rabbits by the million. 687 00:45:18,792 --> 00:45:20,167 Leave that to nature. 688 00:45:21,751 --> 00:45:23,751 I think you know why I've done all this. 689 00:45:24,667 --> 00:45:27,876 I think you know, and you'll help me, won't you? 690 00:45:30,292 --> 00:45:31,959 No, Bill, I won't 691 00:45:32,042 --> 00:45:34,251 I can't help you I can't! 692 00:45:35,501 --> 00:45:36,751 You'll have to do it yourself 693 00:45:44,376 --> 00:45:48,167 A week after that fantastic night, Lena came back. 694 00:45:48,251 --> 00:45:50,001 Robin had to stay in London, 695 00:45:50,084 --> 00:45:53,667 where the talks with government experts were still continuing. 696 00:45:53,751 --> 00:45:57,751 Lena looked as happy as any human being could ever be. 697 00:45:58,626 --> 00:46:00,167 I watched Bill. 698 00:46:00,251 --> 00:46:02,959 He seemed to be composed, almost serene. 699 00:46:03,917 --> 00:46:07,334 Lena told us that she'd come back to prepare their new home 700 00:46:07,417 --> 00:46:09,959 and to ask Bill to join Robin in London. 701 00:46:10,042 --> 00:46:13,209 Don't be a stubborn mule, Bill They need you up in London. 702 00:46:13,292 --> 00:46:16,084 Oh, Robin can deal with all that, he's to the manor born. 703 00:46:16,959 --> 00:46:19,376 I'd only get impatient and spoil things. 704 00:46:19,459 --> 00:46:21,876 Well, I can't put you in a straitjacket and post you off, 705 00:46:21,959 --> 00:46:23,917 but I do think you're being silly. 706 00:46:25,167 --> 00:46:27,459 No, I don't think so 707 00:46:29,459 --> 00:46:31,292 I've got something else to do. 708 00:46:32,126 --> 00:46:33,542 Something much more important. 709 00:46:36,292 --> 00:46:38,042 Come for a walk and I'll tell you. 710 00:46:38,126 --> 00:46:40,001 Our genius is in one of his moods. 711 00:46:40,084 --> 00:46:41,501 Do you mind, Doc? 712 00:46:41,584 --> 00:46:45,001 As I watched Bill carrying off Lena that afternoon, 713 00:46:45,084 --> 00:46:46,959 a chill came over me. 714 00:46:47,042 --> 00:46:50,167 It was as if they'd suddenly become ghosts, 715 00:46:50,251 --> 00:46:53,417 intangible and lost in the shadows 716 00:46:53,501 --> 00:46:57,042 I pitied Bill and I trembled for Lena. 717 00:46:57,126 --> 00:46:59,001 Yet, there was nothing I could do 718 00:47:11,959 --> 00:47:15,876 Bill, I think that above all, we should be honest with each other. 719 00:47:15,959 --> 00:47:17,917 That's what I've been trying to do all the time. 720 00:47:20,001 --> 00:47:21,709 You must have known how it was, 721 00:47:22,417 --> 00:47:24,810 ever since Robin and I fought that duel with the wooden swords. 722 00:47:24,834 --> 00:47:28,209 But I didn't I didn't know until that night at Grant House. 723 00:47:29,167 --> 00:47:30,626 And even then - It was too late. 724 00:47:30,709 --> 00:47:33,292 - Even if I had known before. - I know that. 725 00:47:34,417 --> 00:47:36,459 I knew it even if I couldn't quite face it. 726 00:47:37,709 --> 00:47:39,751 Even if it weren't Robin. 727 00:47:39,834 --> 00:47:42,251 But you can help me, Lena You must help me. 728 00:47:42,334 --> 00:47:43,584 - Help you? - Yes. 729 00:47:44,667 --> 00:47:47,001 While you and Robin were away, 730 00:47:47,959 --> 00:47:49,167 I found something. 731 00:47:49,959 --> 00:47:51,792 I found a way to make another Lena. 732 00:47:55,167 --> 00:47:56,501 Another Lena? 733 00:47:57,251 --> 00:47:59,667 I think he's considered all that 734 00:47:59,751 --> 00:48:03,251 and he's absolutely certain there's no danger of any harm to you. 735 00:48:03,334 --> 00:48:06,084 He told me that every brain cell, 736 00:48:06,167 --> 00:48:08,876 every nerve would be reproduced intact 737 00:48:08,959 --> 00:48:10,709 and in perfect working order. 738 00:48:11,709 --> 00:48:13,829 Well, here, I sound as though I'm arguing on his side, 739 00:48:13,876 --> 00:48:16,126 but I only want you to know the facts, 740 00:48:16,209 --> 00:48:18,709 and then to be quite sure of yourself 741 00:48:18,792 --> 00:48:20,667 before you finally make up your mind. 742 00:48:21,542 --> 00:48:23,376 What about after? 743 00:48:23,459 --> 00:48:26,292 Will she be different after we're separated? 744 00:48:27,376 --> 00:48:28,917 Like a twin sister? 745 00:48:30,001 --> 00:48:32,626 Yes, I'm pretty sure of that. 746 00:48:35,251 --> 00:48:38,126 Oh, if only I could talk to Robin! 747 00:48:38,209 --> 00:48:40,001 But he'd never. 748 00:48:40,084 --> 00:48:41,376 My dear. 749 00:48:42,542 --> 00:48:45,459 You know how fond I am of the three of you, 750 00:48:45,542 --> 00:48:47,292 and I do honestly believe 751 00:48:47,376 --> 00:48:50,376 that you could make Bill happy without losing Robin, 752 00:48:50,459 --> 00:48:52,876 without impairing your own happiness in the least. 753 00:48:53,709 --> 00:48:57,667 But as I said before, it is for you to decide 754 00:52:46,917 --> 00:52:48,417 Full power! 755 00:52:48,501 --> 00:52:49,501 Now! 756 00:53:05,667 --> 00:53:07,001 Switch off! 757 00:58:28,501 --> 00:58:30,459 Do you want to go in? 758 00:58:30,542 --> 00:58:31,542 No. 759 00:58:33,459 --> 00:58:34,959 But I must look. 760 00:58:39,792 --> 00:58:40,876 Surprised? 761 00:58:40,959 --> 00:58:42,001 No. 762 00:58:43,334 --> 00:58:46,084 I just can't seem to find the right words 763 00:58:57,542 --> 00:58:59,542 Bill called her Helen, 764 00:58:59,626 --> 00:59:02,042 but even this was only another form of Lena. 765 00:59:03,084 --> 00:59:05,626 I made a couple of silly mistakes at first. 766 00:59:05,709 --> 00:59:08,584 Forgot that Helen would have the same memories as Lena 767 00:59:08,667 --> 00:59:11,084 after the moment of her creation. 768 00:59:11,167 --> 00:59:13,792 But after a few hours, my embarrassment wore off. 769 00:59:14,667 --> 00:59:18,126 Helen helped too, she was natural, unaffected. 770 00:59:19,001 --> 00:59:20,792 Then they went on for a holiday, 771 00:59:20,876 --> 00:59:23,459 for, as Bill said, Helen had to get used to him. 772 00:59:24,542 --> 00:59:26,042 I watched that train pull out 773 00:59:26,126 --> 00:59:28,917 and I should have been happy too. 774 00:59:29,542 --> 00:59:32,584 If I wasn't, it must have been my fault, 775 00:59:33,584 --> 00:59:36,542 or the fault of the small, still voice 776 00:59:36,626 --> 00:59:39,417 that cried a warning inside me 777 01:00:18,292 --> 01:00:19,292 Go on. 778 01:00:20,084 --> 01:00:21,126 Oh, it's nice 779 01:00:55,209 --> 01:00:56,251 No regrets? 780 01:00:59,417 --> 01:01:00,667 Ten days now. 781 01:01:02,042 --> 01:01:04,209 Ten mad, wonderful days. 782 01:01:07,292 --> 01:01:08,917 Lena's known me all my life. 783 01:01:10,959 --> 01:01:12,292 But you, Helen 784 01:01:13,251 --> 01:01:14,751 you see inside me. 785 01:01:16,167 --> 01:01:17,542 You know what I really am. 786 01:01:19,834 --> 01:01:21,834 Suppose you hadn't liked what you found? 787 01:01:25,959 --> 01:01:28,667 Seems strange that you never wanted me to take this ring off. 788 01:01:30,209 --> 01:01:32,459 Perhaps because it's part of you, 789 01:01:33,751 --> 01:01:35,417 until I give you mine 790 01:02:13,001 --> 01:02:14,501 Robin, darling 791 01:02:37,042 --> 01:02:40,126 Why have sandwiches no imagination in this country? 792 01:02:40,209 --> 01:02:42,459 Perhaps it's a general lack of 793 01:02:42,542 --> 01:02:45,167 I must turn my great brain onto inventing something 794 01:02:45,251 --> 01:02:47,251 really choice in the way of sandwiches. 795 01:02:50,709 --> 01:02:52,792 I think I'll take a swim. 796 01:02:52,876 --> 01:02:54,501 Yes, all right, darling 797 01:02:54,584 --> 01:02:56,251 I'll guard the camp 798 01:03:43,917 --> 01:03:44,959 Helen! 799 01:03:45,792 --> 01:03:47,792 Helen! Come back! 800 01:03:48,626 --> 01:03:49,834 Come back! 801 01:04:17,459 --> 01:04:19,126 What is it, Bill? What's happened? 802 01:04:20,542 --> 01:04:21,751 Come up here. 803 01:04:31,334 --> 01:04:35,876 Doc, for perhaps the first time in my life, I'm frightened. 804 01:04:38,417 --> 01:04:40,751 Yesterday, we were having a picnic on the beach. 805 01:04:41,792 --> 01:04:43,084 She went for a swim. 806 01:04:45,042 --> 01:04:46,959 If I hadn't been quick. 807 01:04:47,042 --> 01:04:48,292 What do you mean? 808 01:04:50,042 --> 01:04:51,667 She tried to commit suicide. 809 01:04:52,667 --> 01:04:54,376 Only just got there in time. 810 01:04:55,501 --> 01:04:59,959 She didn't struggle and there was something in her eyes, 811 01:05:00,876 --> 01:05:02,334 as if she'd spoken aloud, 812 01:05:04,251 --> 01:05:07,084 "I'll try again and again until I succeed." 813 01:05:08,542 --> 01:05:10,084 I could see it in her eyes. 814 01:05:11,084 --> 01:05:14,126 But I thought you were happy down here, that everything went so well. 815 01:05:14,209 --> 01:05:15,876 It did, it was wonderful. 816 01:05:15,959 --> 01:05:17,459 The first two weeks 817 01:05:18,251 --> 01:05:21,376 the plans I made, I felt I could share everything with her. 818 01:05:23,001 --> 01:05:24,876 And then suddenly. 819 01:05:26,792 --> 01:05:30,459 She won't tell me and I can't press her 820 01:05:30,542 --> 01:05:31,959 I can't hurt her. 821 01:05:33,959 --> 01:05:35,459 Will you talk to her, Doc? 822 01:05:36,167 --> 01:05:38,292 Will you find out what it is? 823 01:05:38,376 --> 01:05:41,376 Of course I will, my boy, at once 824 01:05:58,167 --> 01:05:59,376 Who is it? 825 01:05:59,459 --> 01:06:01,876 It's Doc, Helen, may I come in? 826 01:06:03,417 --> 01:06:04,667 Come in, Doc. 827 01:06:10,084 --> 01:06:11,834 Did Bill send for you? 828 01:06:12,626 --> 01:06:15,001 I'm too old to learn how to lie. 829 01:06:16,709 --> 01:06:18,417 What did he tell you? 830 01:06:18,501 --> 01:06:20,792 That yesterday you tried to kill yourself. 831 01:06:21,792 --> 01:06:22,834 Why? 832 01:06:24,751 --> 01:06:27,501 Do you remember what I what Lena said once? 833 01:06:28,584 --> 01:06:31,834 I didn't ask to be born, so I had the right to die. 834 01:06:33,126 --> 01:06:34,792 These are just words, Helen. 835 01:06:35,626 --> 01:06:37,459 You must have had a reason. 836 01:06:45,834 --> 01:06:49,167 Well, that night when I opened my eyes for the first time and saw him, 837 01:06:50,209 --> 01:06:52,334 the first conscious image, 838 01:06:52,417 --> 01:06:55,459 the first thought in my mind was not of Bill. 839 01:06:56,459 --> 01:06:57,751 It was of Robin. 840 01:07:01,126 --> 01:07:02,834 Don't you understand? 841 01:07:02,917 --> 01:07:04,876 Bill created me in the image of Lena. 842 01:07:04,959 --> 01:07:08,167 He wanted another Lena, no more, no less. 843 01:07:09,334 --> 01:07:12,376 He succeeded, he succeeded perfectly. 844 01:07:13,417 --> 01:07:15,042 I am Lena, 845 01:07:16,667 --> 01:07:17,959 not just her twin. 846 01:07:19,501 --> 01:07:22,501 We knew that, my dear We knew that. 847 01:07:23,584 --> 01:07:24,876 But you didn't know. 848 01:07:24,959 --> 01:07:27,626 You didn't stop to think that I'd be born not only to think 849 01:07:27,709 --> 01:07:32,751 and act as Lena, but also to feel exactly as she does, 850 01:07:33,876 --> 01:07:35,876 to be her image in everything. 851 01:07:38,167 --> 01:07:41,876 Above all, in her love for Robin 852 01:07:49,334 --> 01:07:52,459 I can't blame Bill or anybody else. 853 01:07:55,459 --> 01:07:59,084 The first time, I thought I could bear it somehow. 854 01:08:02,001 --> 01:08:03,417 Don't you realise 855 01:08:04,834 --> 01:08:07,751 that I share all of Lena's memories 856 01:08:08,751 --> 01:08:10,667 after the time I was created 857 01:08:13,792 --> 01:08:16,751 My dear, I do want to help you and to help Bill too 858 01:08:34,959 --> 01:08:37,334 Bill, I beg of you, listen to me 859 01:08:37,417 --> 01:08:40,501 I know how you love Helen, just as you loved Lena 860 01:08:40,584 --> 01:08:43,834 I know that now she means everything to you 861 01:08:43,917 --> 01:08:46,417 I understand that, but, Bill 862 01:08:47,542 --> 01:08:51,917 happiness isn't our birthright, only its pursuit is. 863 01:08:52,584 --> 01:08:54,667 There are other kinds of happiness, 864 01:08:54,751 --> 01:08:56,334 other ways of achieving it. 865 01:08:58,209 --> 01:09:00,001 Doc, I don't believe in all that. 866 01:09:02,126 --> 01:09:04,834 In all my life I've only wanted two things. 867 01:09:06,209 --> 01:09:07,542 Knowledge and. 868 01:09:08,876 --> 01:09:10,626 Well, I suppose love. 869 01:09:12,417 --> 01:09:14,834 I used the first to try and gain the second. 870 01:09:16,209 --> 01:09:17,209 But now. 871 01:09:17,292 --> 01:09:19,459 Don't hold on to her, Bill. 872 01:09:19,542 --> 01:09:20,709 Let her go. 873 01:09:20,792 --> 01:09:22,959 Even if I did let her go, what good would it do? 874 01:09:24,251 --> 01:09:25,917 Don't forget, there are two of them 875 01:09:26,626 --> 01:09:28,251 in love with the same man. 876 01:09:31,334 --> 01:09:35,251 If I accept my own loneliness and longing, 877 01:09:37,376 --> 01:09:38,959 that won't lessen hers. 878 01:09:49,834 --> 01:09:52,667 Thank you, Doc, for everything. 879 01:09:55,876 --> 01:09:57,917 I seem to be saying that all my life, don't I? 880 01:10:02,292 --> 01:10:03,959 I want you to go back to Howdean. 881 01:10:05,167 --> 01:10:07,209 How can I? How can I leave you two? 882 01:10:07,292 --> 01:10:09,251 No, please Trust me. 883 01:10:10,626 --> 01:10:12,917 Just give me a little time. 884 01:10:15,459 --> 01:10:16,834 All right, Bill 885 01:10:48,167 --> 01:10:50,376 I hoped you'd come here. 886 01:10:50,459 --> 01:10:51,542 Where is she? 887 01:10:54,126 --> 01:10:58,126 Bill, Doc told me what you're going to do and that you needed help, 888 01:10:58,209 --> 01:11:00,251 but don't you think you've done enough? 889 01:11:00,334 --> 01:11:01,709 You're not God, Bill. 890 01:11:02,292 --> 01:11:03,959 What if something should go wrong? 891 01:11:04,042 --> 01:11:06,376 Nothing can You ought to know that, Lena. 892 01:11:07,792 --> 01:11:10,292 I thought you'd want this just as much as I do. 893 01:11:10,376 --> 01:11:11,376 I? 894 01:11:12,084 --> 01:11:13,626 Have you forgotten Robin? 895 01:11:18,709 --> 01:11:20,251 What do you want me to do? 896 01:11:21,042 --> 01:11:22,834 Control the high-voltage apparatus. 897 01:11:23,501 --> 01:11:25,792 I can't be in two places at the same time. 898 01:11:25,876 --> 01:11:27,626 You've done it before 899 01:11:28,334 --> 01:11:29,834 I'll cue you. 900 01:11:44,709 --> 01:11:47,501 Helen, you trust me, don't you? 901 01:11:49,834 --> 01:11:52,167 I've worked it all out, there can be no danger. 902 01:11:53,167 --> 01:11:56,876 Bill, how can you be sure it'll work? 903 01:11:58,459 --> 01:12:00,792 Darling, I can't explain in detail. 904 01:12:02,334 --> 01:12:04,126 This new contraption is a modification 905 01:12:04,209 --> 01:12:06,376 of a treatment they use in nervous diseases. 906 01:12:07,751 --> 01:12:10,709 Now, I don't mean to imply that you're not sane. 907 01:12:11,834 --> 01:12:15,876 You see, thought is an electrical process itself. 908 01:12:16,917 --> 01:12:20,126 Memory is stored in the cells of the brain and can be drawn off 909 01:12:20,209 --> 01:12:22,292 just to draw electricity out of a battery. 910 01:12:23,542 --> 01:12:25,209 Don't worry about that. 911 01:12:26,167 --> 01:12:28,459 You'll sleep after the first two seconds. 912 01:12:30,709 --> 01:12:33,042 At the end, when you wake up, 913 01:12:34,126 --> 01:12:37,751 you'll have no memories and no regrets. 914 01:12:40,626 --> 01:12:43,334 You know I wouldn't hurt you for anything in the world. 915 01:12:46,709 --> 01:12:49,376 But even if I gave up everything, 916 01:12:51,334 --> 01:12:52,709 it wouldn't make you happy. 917 01:12:59,334 --> 01:13:02,001 Yes, Bill, you're right. 918 01:13:03,459 --> 01:13:07,251 An empty mind and a new beginning 919 01:14:05,292 --> 01:14:06,709 Ready, darling? 920 01:14:13,501 --> 01:14:14,917 Goodbye, Robin. 921 01:14:17,084 --> 01:14:19,334 Well, I didn't expect to see you 922 01:14:19,417 --> 01:14:20,876 I had to come back to fetch Bill. 923 01:14:20,959 --> 01:14:22,852 But I thought you could settle everything without him. 924 01:14:22,876 --> 01:14:24,959 So did I, and then I found out 925 01:14:25,042 --> 01:14:26,922 that the blueprints and formula were incomplete. 926 01:14:27,001 --> 01:14:29,584 You know how careless Bill has always been about these things. 927 01:14:29,667 --> 01:14:32,251 There were a dozen details which I didn't know myself. 928 01:14:32,334 --> 01:14:35,417 The latest improvements he had made, some essential ones. 929 01:14:35,501 --> 01:14:37,209 But where is he and where's Lena? 930 01:14:37,292 --> 01:14:38,709 She wasn't at the house. 931 01:14:38,792 --> 01:14:40,001 Sit down, my boy. 932 01:14:41,042 --> 01:14:42,792 This is going to take a little time. 933 01:14:44,292 --> 01:14:47,167 I'm afraid I've got a bit of a shock for you, Robin. 934 01:14:47,251 --> 01:14:50,376 No, no, don't worry Lena's perfectly all right. 935 01:14:52,209 --> 01:14:55,001 Well, it's no good beating about the bush. 936 01:14:56,376 --> 01:14:59,167 Bill's been in love with Lena for some time. 937 01:15:01,209 --> 01:15:02,292 Bill? 938 01:15:04,917 --> 01:15:06,667 Where is he? I must talk to him. 939 01:15:08,709 --> 01:15:09,949 If this should come between us. 940 01:15:10,001 --> 01:15:12,459 You ought to know that nothing could make any difference 941 01:15:12,542 --> 01:15:13,959 between you and Lena. 942 01:15:14,751 --> 01:15:16,042 She loves you. 943 01:15:19,001 --> 01:15:20,542 Poor Bill. 944 01:15:20,626 --> 01:15:22,209 Poor Bill, indeed. 945 01:15:22,292 --> 01:15:23,959 For a time he was happy. 946 01:15:25,876 --> 01:15:27,126 Happy? 947 01:15:27,209 --> 01:15:30,251 You remember those live experiments he was so keen on 948 01:15:30,334 --> 01:15:32,667 and that you disliked so much? 949 01:15:32,751 --> 01:15:33,751 Yes. 950 01:15:33,792 --> 01:15:36,709 He carried on with them alone and 951 01:15:38,417 --> 01:15:39,834 he succeeded. 952 01:15:41,667 --> 01:15:42,709 What? 953 01:15:43,417 --> 01:15:49,626 He then asked me and Lena to help him to create another Lena. 954 01:15:51,459 --> 01:15:52,959 Another Lena? 955 01:15:55,126 --> 01:15:57,751 There is another Lena, Robin 956 01:17:25,709 --> 01:17:26,709 Bill! 957 01:17:29,167 --> 01:17:30,292 I've got Helen! 958 01:17:47,126 --> 01:17:48,126 Lena! 959 01:18:24,792 --> 01:18:26,084 Don't be a fool, Robin! 960 01:18:26,167 --> 01:18:28,459 - There's nobody alive in there now. - Let me go! 961 01:18:28,542 --> 01:18:30,209 - Robin! - Let me go! 962 01:18:57,209 --> 01:18:59,751 It's all right, Robin, she's not badly hurt. 963 01:19:02,334 --> 01:19:03,792 There is one thing though. 964 01:19:03,876 --> 01:19:05,876 What is it? I must know. 965 01:19:05,959 --> 01:19:08,876 She's lost her memory She can't remember anything. 966 01:19:08,959 --> 01:19:11,126 What? But then it must be. 967 01:19:11,209 --> 01:19:13,001 Now, now, Robin, calm yourself. 968 01:19:13,667 --> 01:19:16,084 It could still be the Lena, you know. 969 01:19:16,167 --> 01:19:18,209 Anything could have happened in that barn. 970 01:19:18,292 --> 01:19:20,251 Doc, please, I'm not a child. 971 01:19:20,334 --> 01:19:22,376 You saw Lena and the other one. 972 01:19:23,251 --> 01:19:26,292 You told me yourself that there was no way of telling them apart. 973 01:19:27,209 --> 01:19:28,584 Yes, I did say that. 974 01:19:29,167 --> 01:19:31,959 - There was no way unless one knew. - Knew what? 975 01:19:33,334 --> 01:19:36,084 When Bill created Helen, 976 01:19:36,167 --> 01:19:38,001 he had to use a contraption of his, 977 01:19:38,084 --> 01:19:40,834 an autojector in order to start her heart beating. 978 01:19:40,917 --> 01:19:44,709 It left two tiny scars on the back of her neck. 979 01:19:44,792 --> 01:19:46,209 Then there is a way? 980 01:19:46,292 --> 01:19:48,376 Doc, did you look? 981 01:19:49,084 --> 01:19:50,209 No. 982 01:19:51,001 --> 01:19:52,501 No, I didn't dare. 983 01:19:53,417 --> 01:19:56,542 Or perhaps I felt it was your right to. 984 01:20:09,251 --> 01:20:10,792 Thank you, Nurse. 985 01:20:15,376 --> 01:20:17,459 This is Robin, my dear. 986 01:20:33,042 --> 01:20:35,459 Let me look at you again, dear. 987 01:20:46,001 --> 01:20:47,292 Lena 988 01:20:49,292 --> 01:20:50,626 Lena