1 00:02:28,354 --> 00:02:30,401 This is where he was found. 2 00:02:32,543 --> 00:02:36,091 Ted Barker, resident of Lower Stockington for 42 years. 3 00:02:37,072 --> 00:02:39,795 Snare setter, pheasant fancier, partridge pincher. 4 00:02:39,962 --> 00:02:41,976 You mean the local poacher. How did he die? 5 00:02:42,675 --> 00:02:45,367 Inhalation of fluid, resulting in asphyxia. 6 00:02:45,543 --> 00:02:46,710 He was drowned right here. 7 00:02:46,880 --> 00:02:48,577 In the middle of a field? But that's impossible? 8 00:02:49,256 --> 00:02:51,092 All the same, that's what happened. 9 00:02:51,231 --> 00:02:52,518 Strange, isn't it? 10 00:02:53,516 --> 00:02:54,605 So's this. 11 00:02:54,762 --> 00:02:58,778 There's a chap called Jonah Barnard, and he keeps writing to the Times. 12 00:02:58,947 --> 00:03:01,339 It's the tenth time this month. 13 00:03:02,004 --> 00:03:03,517 Have all the letters been like this? 14 00:03:06,468 --> 00:03:09,335 Here we are, ''We should all start building our arks, 15 00:03:09,521 --> 00:03:12,050 because the great flood is coming.'' 16 00:03:19,806 --> 00:03:22,984 Ted Barker lived there. His brother Eli's still there. 17 00:03:23,199 --> 00:03:25,799 A chance for me to weave my homespun charm, eh?. 18 00:03:25,994 --> 00:03:27,194 That's the idea. 19 00:03:27,315 --> 00:03:29,536 I'm going to Jonah Barnard's, meet me there. 20 00:03:29,728 --> 00:03:32,602 Treat Eli warily. He's a weird old bird. 21 00:03:32,817 --> 00:03:35,422 The power of evil, that's what Ted had in him. 22 00:03:36,082 --> 00:03:38,652 The power of evil. 23 00:03:39,517 --> 00:03:42,263 I warned him. He paid me no heed. 24 00:03:45,951 --> 00:03:48,930 He turned a sinner's deaf ear to my words, 25 00:03:49,666 --> 00:03:54,336 and so he fell into the pit of iniquity. 26 00:03:54,486 --> 00:03:56,302 You take milk, Mrs. Peel? 27 00:03:56,502 --> 00:03:57,918 Hm? - Milk? 28 00:03:57,983 --> 00:03:59,374 Oh, yes, thank you. 29 00:03:59,874 --> 00:04:03,228 My own brother with the mark of sin upon him. 30 00:04:05,826 --> 00:04:08,502 He wasn't always like that: sinful. 31 00:04:08,712 --> 00:04:11,390 No, at heart he wasn't really bad. 32 00:04:14,499 --> 00:04:18,590 Did a bit of poaching now and then, but poaching isn't like stealing, is it? 33 00:04:18,798 --> 00:04:20,110 Did he do much fishing? 34 00:04:35,297 --> 00:04:36,727 I said, did he do much fishing? 35 00:04:36,925 --> 00:04:38,431 Fishing? 36 00:04:40,706 --> 00:04:43,604 Oh, there were blue skies this morning, too. 37 00:04:44,995 --> 00:04:47,071 No, he'd be hard pressed to go fishing. 38 00:04:47,242 --> 00:04:50,920 There isn't a river for miles, and Ted wasn't one for travelling far. 39 00:04:51,026 --> 00:04:52,399 Well, then how do you account for his death? 40 00:04:52,614 --> 00:04:54,144 The demon drink. - Oh. 41 00:04:54,352 --> 00:04:55,585 Did he drink much ? 42 00:04:55,757 --> 00:04:58,252 I wouldn't sit there, Mrs. Peel, not there! 43 00:04:58,956 --> 00:05:01,608 You'll spoil your fine city clothes. 44 00:05:02,824 --> 00:05:03,876 Thank you. 45 00:05:07,460 --> 00:05:12,498 It's been like this for months now. This rain, this torrential rain. 46 00:05:12,722 --> 00:05:16,278 But the people don't understand, see. 47 00:05:16,432 --> 00:05:17,925 They don't realize. 48 00:05:18,118 --> 00:05:21,035 And they've been told, they've been warned. 49 00:05:21,197 --> 00:05:24,309 But they don't realize, it's a sign. 50 00:05:25,651 --> 00:05:29,492 All the signs around them, yet still they do not heed. 51 00:05:29,640 --> 00:05:31,206 Oh, you mean about the warnings about the flood? 52 00:05:31,394 --> 00:05:34,166 Ah, you've heard. - Well, I've heard about Jonah Barnard. 53 00:05:34,354 --> 00:05:36,637 A great man, a fine man. 54 00:05:36,803 --> 00:05:38,734 And you really believe the flood is coming? 55 00:05:38,925 --> 00:05:41,862 Believe? I know. 56 00:05:42,044 --> 00:05:43,683 It's my seaweed, see? 57 00:05:43,877 --> 00:05:45,186 It's always wet. 58 00:05:45,696 --> 00:05:46,723 Oh. 59 00:05:46,916 --> 00:05:49,906 I can't be sitting here gossiping. Time's running out. 60 00:05:50,094 --> 00:05:51,948 I must be helping Jonah. 61 00:05:53,042 --> 00:05:54,790 Helping him to spread the word. 62 00:05:54,984 --> 00:05:58,729 Mr. Barker, you were telling me about your brother, you said he drank too much. 63 00:05:58,929 --> 00:06:01,645 Imbibed to excess on stolen liquors. 64 00:06:01,826 --> 00:06:05,102 Stolen? - Aye, he thought he was unobserved. 65 00:06:05,307 --> 00:06:06,350 But I saw him. 66 00:06:07,121 --> 00:06:10,230 Sneaking into ''Granny Gregson's''. - ''Granny Gregson's''? 67 00:06:10,387 --> 00:06:13,320 ''Granny Gregson's Glorious Grogs, lnc.'' 68 00:06:13,518 --> 00:06:18,528 Just beyond the village. A factory engaged in the fermentation of intoxicating liquors. 69 00:06:18,720 --> 00:06:20,422 And you actually saw him going in there? 70 00:06:20,616 --> 00:06:24,380 Late at night, creeping in to steal liquors. 71 00:06:24,592 --> 00:06:26,946 To gorge on glorious grogs. 72 00:06:27,138 --> 00:06:31,588 That was his undoing you see, when he slipped and fell. 73 00:06:31,760 --> 00:06:33,773 Into the pit of iniquity. 74 00:06:34,766 --> 00:06:38,198 No, into ''Granny's Sparkling Spring Water''. 75 00:06:38,412 --> 00:06:42,322 Well, you make yourself at home, Mrs. Peel, and finish your cup of tea. 76 00:06:42,493 --> 00:06:44,295 Spring water? 77 00:06:45,325 --> 00:06:48,225 Yes, they've got tanks of it at the factory. 78 00:06:48,409 --> 00:06:51,605 Tanks big enough for a man to drown in. 79 00:07:12,947 --> 00:07:15,085 You see, my friends, you see. 80 00:07:15,800 --> 00:07:19,633 And the Lord said to Noah: ''The end of all flesh is before me, 81 00:07:19,810 --> 00:07:21,923 ''for the earth is filled with violence, 82 00:07:22,119 --> 00:07:25,148 ''And behold, l will destroy them with the earth.'' 83 00:07:25,365 --> 00:07:26,550 That's what the Lord said. 84 00:07:26,742 --> 00:07:30,087 Now, my friends, within the humble walls of this barn, 85 00:07:30,256 --> 00:07:34,533 my salvation is growing. and your salvation too, if you will grasp it. 86 00:07:34,713 --> 00:07:37,793 Here, my friends, is my ark. 87 00:07:37,946 --> 00:07:39,530 Burn it! 88 00:07:39,724 --> 00:07:42,631 I see the signs of nature my friends, and they do not lie. 89 00:07:42,776 --> 00:07:48,250 It is the forewarning, a hint of impending doom, of Nemesis. 90 00:07:48,437 --> 00:07:50,991 Friends, the flood is coming. 91 00:07:51,193 --> 00:07:52,798 Aye, so is Christmas. 92 00:07:53,010 --> 00:07:55,875 My friends, please, please, heed me. 93 00:07:56,091 --> 00:07:58,100 For behold, it came to pass, 94 00:07:58,303 --> 00:08:02,652 after seven days, that the waters of the flood were upon the earth. 95 00:08:02,858 --> 00:08:05,894 Friends, the flood is coming. 96 00:08:05,986 --> 00:08:08,010 You'll have to learn to swim, then. 97 00:08:08,184 --> 00:08:11,083 Brothers, act, and act now. 98 00:08:11,298 --> 00:08:16,521 Take unto your families, and build your arks, as l am building mine, now. 99 00:08:16,690 --> 00:08:19,360 And the animals came in two by two. 100 00:08:20,645 --> 00:08:24,350 No, no, listen to him. He speaks the truth. 101 00:08:25,362 --> 00:08:28,300 Brothers, brothers, I implore you, listen to me. 102 00:08:28,471 --> 00:08:30,280 I've seen the signs in the sky. 103 00:08:30,463 --> 00:08:33,828 My friends, please act. Act! 104 00:08:36,018 --> 00:08:39,198 Ah, it's no use. No use. 105 00:08:39,378 --> 00:08:44,016 You were marvellous, Jonah. Fire and brimstone that speech was. Fire and brimstone. 106 00:08:44,212 --> 00:08:45,421 I have failed. 107 00:08:45,573 --> 00:08:48,760 But you did your best, Jonah. You did your best. 108 00:08:48,960 --> 00:08:49,259 Not good enough. 109 00:08:49,396 --> 00:08:51,672 Most interesting address. 110 00:08:52,904 --> 00:08:56,365 This ark of yours, it will really stand up to all weather? 111 00:08:56,559 --> 00:08:58,833 It will resist storm and tempest. 112 00:08:58,993 --> 00:09:01,922 First class timbers throughout of the finest British oak. 113 00:09:02,126 --> 00:09:05,062 You did not close your ears to me. You believe? 114 00:09:05,232 --> 00:09:07,024 I certainly think it's a theory worth investigating. 115 00:09:07,137 --> 00:09:08,256 Steed. John Steed. 116 00:09:08,447 --> 00:09:10,481 Delighted to meet you, sir. Delighted to meet you. 117 00:09:10,661 --> 00:09:12,490 I am Jonah Bernard, and this is Eli. 118 00:09:12,685 --> 00:09:14,364 How are you? - You see, Eli. 119 00:09:14,567 --> 00:09:17,898 My words did not fall entirely on barren soil. 120 00:09:18,070 --> 00:09:21,511 Oh, sir, you give me fresh heart, new hopes. 121 00:09:21,652 --> 00:09:26,540 Eli, it's a sign. Our work must go on. 122 00:09:26,788 --> 00:09:28,995 Yes, I go to spread the word, Jonah. 123 00:09:29,133 --> 00:09:30,131 Hallelujah! 124 00:09:30,305 --> 00:09:32,360 Hallelujah! - Hallelujah! 125 00:09:33,367 --> 00:09:35,120 Hallelujah. 126 00:09:35,326 --> 00:09:38,727 Mr. Steed, as you see, I am a simple man, 127 00:09:38,871 --> 00:09:41,270 but you are more than welcome to my table. 128 00:09:41,468 --> 00:09:42,456 Thank you. 129 00:09:42,662 --> 00:09:45,301 What turn of fate set your footsteps to my door, Mr. Steed? 130 00:09:45,490 --> 00:09:47,612 I read your letters in the Times. - You did? 131 00:09:49,165 --> 00:09:51,985 You've had warning of the flood? - Oh, indeed I have. 132 00:09:52,791 --> 00:09:56,237 Something more positive than this I hope. - Butterflies. 133 00:09:56,435 --> 00:09:58,533 In the stomach? - In the district. 134 00:09:58,670 --> 00:10:03,905 The March Fritilare, oh, a rare little creature usually found in watery districts. 135 00:10:04,078 --> 00:10:06,638 But lately, the village has been swarming with them. 136 00:10:07,362 --> 00:10:08,476 And then there's the birds. 137 00:10:08,679 --> 00:10:10,876 The birds, the bearded tits. 138 00:10:11,022 --> 00:10:12,313 In from the marshland. 139 00:10:12,488 --> 00:10:17,344 Suddenly every tree is alive and bristling with their twitterings. 140 00:10:18,056 --> 00:10:22,741 I tell you, Mr. Steed, this part of the country is renown for its dryness. 141 00:10:22,946 --> 00:10:29,596 Yet we are invaded by creatures known to inhabit watery places. 142 00:10:29,741 --> 00:10:32,537 The balance, the balance of nature is disturbed. 143 00:10:32,728 --> 00:10:34,001 Doom is in the air. 144 00:10:34,173 --> 00:10:37,150 It's odd I'll grant you, but not conclusive. 145 00:10:37,341 --> 00:10:40,092 Then how do you account for the weather we've been having lately? 146 00:10:40,294 --> 00:10:42,524 You can't convince me with that, not in this country. 147 00:10:42,668 --> 00:10:49,360 Mr. Steed, suppose you saw the same cloud in the same position in the sky, every day? 148 00:10:50,094 --> 00:10:53,155 Impossible you say? But I have seen such a thing. 149 00:10:54,044 --> 00:10:58,846 The same cloud in the same position in the sky, unchanging. 150 00:10:59,026 --> 00:11:03,206 Save that each day it gets a little larger. 151 00:11:03,394 --> 00:11:05,796 Is it there today? - It's there everyday. 152 00:11:05,981 --> 00:11:06,976 Come, I'll show you. 153 00:11:07,772 --> 00:11:09,372 On the chair, if you please. 154 00:11:12,864 --> 00:11:15,274 There, over the wine factory. 155 00:11:23,167 --> 00:11:27,192 Sorry, I'm late, Doctor. The weather, you know. 156 00:11:27,376 --> 00:11:29,460 Yes, most inclement. 157 00:11:32,866 --> 00:11:35,309 Try this. What do you think of it? 158 00:11:39,598 --> 00:11:41,276 A little bit too dry. 159 00:11:44,916 --> 00:11:48,067 Yes? - Excuse me, Dr. Sturm, there's a Mrs. Peel to see you. 160 00:11:48,270 --> 00:11:49,951 What does she want, do you know? 161 00:11:50,151 --> 00:11:54,244 It's something to do with a man named Barker, Ted Barker. 162 00:11:54,454 --> 00:11:55,742 I'm coming. 163 00:11:56,205 --> 00:11:58,090 He'll be with you in a moment. - Thank you. 164 00:12:08,837 --> 00:12:09,907 Mrs. Peel? 165 00:12:10,579 --> 00:12:13,068 Doctor Sturm? - I'm afraid I'm very busy. 166 00:12:13,277 --> 00:12:15,674 The I'll come right to the point. It's about Ted Barker. 167 00:12:15,871 --> 00:12:18,038 Yes, I remember. Very tragic. Well? 168 00:12:18,218 --> 00:12:20,134 He was found in a field nearby. 169 00:12:20,272 --> 00:12:22,518 As a matter of fact, that field over there. 170 00:12:22,670 --> 00:12:25,277 And the extraordinary thing about it is, he was drowned. 171 00:12:25,407 --> 00:12:26,720 I am familiar with the facts. 172 00:12:26,942 --> 00:12:29,345 I understand you have a number of water tanks in the area? 173 00:12:29,523 --> 00:12:31,178 Tell me, Mrs. Peel, what is your interest? 174 00:12:31,360 --> 00:12:32,656 Are you a relative of the dead man, 175 00:12:32,828 --> 00:12:35,002 trying to extort compensation? 176 00:12:35,177 --> 00:12:37,704 No, I'm a journalist, a freelance journalist. 177 00:12:37,869 --> 00:12:40,561 And when I heard about Barker's death, I thought there might be a story in it. 178 00:12:40,762 --> 00:12:43,404 Our water tanks are within the compound of the factory. 179 00:12:43,586 --> 00:12:45,551 Our security arrangements are very strict. 180 00:12:45,740 --> 00:12:47,963 No outsider could enter here without our knowledge. 181 00:12:48,172 --> 00:12:49,835 We need feel no responsibility. 182 00:12:49,994 --> 00:12:51,849 Then you have no objections to my looking around the area? 183 00:12:52,665 --> 00:12:55,388 I'm afraid I have the strongest objections. Good day, Mrs. Peel. 184 00:12:58,795 --> 00:12:59,724 Doctor Sturm! 185 00:13:00,641 --> 00:13:02,792 Good day to you, Mrs. Peel. 186 00:13:10,384 --> 00:13:11,894 Dear, dear, dear, dear, dear... 187 00:13:19,274 --> 00:13:21,054 Mrs. Peel, it's you again. 188 00:13:21,262 --> 00:13:23,778 You should be preparing. The flood cometh. 189 00:13:23,969 --> 00:13:25,905 Yes, well, I put a down payment on a canoe. 190 00:13:26,009 --> 00:13:27,977 Eli, I want to know more about your brother. 191 00:13:28,197 --> 00:13:29,905 He's gone. There's no more to be said. 192 00:13:30,057 --> 00:13:32,048 You say you actually saw him going into the factory? 193 00:13:32,256 --> 00:13:34,226 Several times. Late at night. 194 00:13:34,403 --> 00:13:35,800 Could you show me the place? 195 00:13:36,784 --> 00:13:37,904 Eli... 196 00:13:38,111 --> 00:13:40,967 We have a responsibility now, don't we? 197 00:13:42,206 --> 00:13:45,231 We've got to remove temptation from the path of potential sinners. 198 00:13:45,428 --> 00:13:48,108 Now, if there's a way into the factory... - Oh, there's a way in all right. 199 00:13:48,272 --> 00:13:50,572 Well, I could take steps to have it blocked off. 200 00:13:50,772 --> 00:13:53,798 We don't want ''Granny's Grogs'' to claim another victim, now do we? 201 00:13:54,626 --> 00:13:58,158 There's a way in through one of the storage huts on the north side. 202 00:13:59,671 --> 00:14:02,288 Meet me there at 9 o'clock. 203 00:14:18,424 --> 00:14:21,453 Good evening. - Good evening, Mr. Steed. 204 00:14:21,658 --> 00:14:23,572 You haven't by some chance seen a young lady? 205 00:14:23,698 --> 00:14:26,269 Mrs. Peel? - Yes, I told her to meet me here. 206 00:14:26,437 --> 00:14:28,411 Well, she was in, some time ago. 207 00:14:29,110 --> 00:14:32,218 Tell me... is she a very sinful woman? 208 00:14:32,398 --> 00:14:33,746 I beg your pardon? 209 00:14:33,926 --> 00:14:37,584 This Mrs. Peel. She looks so young. 210 00:14:37,773 --> 00:14:39,876 But then you can never tell by appearances. 211 00:14:40,035 --> 00:14:42,036 Are you sure we're talking about the same person? 212 00:14:42,198 --> 00:14:45,852 Yes, Mrs. Peel. Tall, slim, very attractive. 213 00:14:46,634 --> 00:14:51,132 It's a pity, a great pity, because she doesn't seem a sinful woman. 214 00:14:51,311 --> 00:14:54,114 Then why do you think she is? - It's what she said. 215 00:14:54,308 --> 00:14:59,283 She came in, left a message for you, that you're not to worry. 216 00:14:59,484 --> 00:15:02,782 But she was going into the pit of iniquity. 217 00:15:04,046 --> 00:15:07,344 Is that all she said? - That's all. 218 00:16:37,420 --> 00:16:39,282 Drowned, you say? - Yes. 219 00:16:39,449 --> 00:16:43,920 Poor Eli. And I promised him salvation from the flood. 220 00:16:44,681 --> 00:16:47,818 But it was not to be. Poor Eli. 221 00:16:50,818 --> 00:16:51,797 It could be an accident. 222 00:16:51,919 --> 00:16:55,883 He decided to sip the surreptitious sap and slipped. Splash. 223 00:16:56,035 --> 00:16:57,718 Impossible. Eli was a teetotaller. 224 00:16:57,896 --> 00:17:00,059 Ah, when the finger of temptation beckons... 225 00:17:00,244 --> 00:17:01,742 Also, it was a water tank. 226 00:17:01,916 --> 00:17:05,070 There seems to be a surfeit of H2O in this vicinity. 227 00:17:06,636 --> 00:17:08,384 How's your meteorological science? 228 00:17:08,570 --> 00:17:09,674 Bright in patches. 229 00:17:09,862 --> 00:17:12,693 There's a load of equipment waiting at the station to be picked up. 230 00:17:12,854 --> 00:17:16,525 Now ordinarily I'd collect it, but... - Extraordinarily you'd collect it. 231 00:17:16,698 --> 00:17:20,242 We'll meet here in an hour. I've got to buy some wine. 232 00:17:29,948 --> 00:17:31,243 Can I help you? 233 00:17:32,980 --> 00:17:34,384 Anytime. 234 00:17:34,578 --> 00:17:39,319 Steed. John Steed of ''Steed, Steed, Steed, Steed, Steed and Jacques Ltd.'' 235 00:17:39,539 --> 00:17:41,172 Wine merchants extraordinary. 236 00:17:41,346 --> 00:17:43,982 How did Jacques get in? - He didn't, he doesn't exist. 237 00:17:44,182 --> 00:17:48,026 But in the wine trade you must have that French touch, so I invented Jacques. 238 00:17:48,244 --> 00:17:49,564 Do your relatives approve? - Eh? 239 00:17:50,458 --> 00:17:51,668 ''Steed, Steed, Steed...'' 240 00:17:52,201 --> 00:17:55,516 Oh, as a matter of fact I invented them too. Looks better on the card. 241 00:17:55,684 --> 00:17:58,038 So you are the real Steed. 242 00:17:58,254 --> 00:18:00,260 I am he and I have the pleasure of... 243 00:18:00,429 --> 00:18:02,593 Joyce Jason. - Delighted. 244 00:18:02,786 --> 00:18:03,840 I have an appointment. 245 00:18:04,028 --> 00:18:07,362 Dr. Sturm told me to look after you. - Even more delighted. 246 00:18:07,534 --> 00:18:09,876 You want to buy some of our wine? 247 00:18:10,090 --> 00:18:12,328 Oh, yes, that was my intention. 248 00:18:12,530 --> 00:18:14,924 Surely your method of fermentation is a little primitive. 249 00:18:15,117 --> 00:18:17,514 It's more like chutney, that mighty cucumber. 250 00:18:17,628 --> 00:18:20,911 Oh, that was 60 years ago. Things have changed since then. 251 00:18:21,102 --> 00:18:23,099 Especially since Dr. Sturm took over. 252 00:18:24,643 --> 00:18:25,973 When was that? 253 00:18:26,130 --> 00:18:31,085 Two years ago. He's introduced modern equipment, scientific apparatus. 254 00:18:31,177 --> 00:18:33,136 I hope I might be privileged to meet him. 255 00:18:33,322 --> 00:18:34,777 Well, I don't know that... 256 00:18:34,949 --> 00:18:38,290 Oh, come now. If I like what I see I shall make a very substantial order. 257 00:18:38,482 --> 00:18:39,634 You want to sell your wine, don't you? 258 00:18:39,811 --> 00:18:41,177 Of course. Of course, we do. 259 00:18:41,355 --> 00:18:44,989 It's just that Dr. Sturm he doesn't like people prying. 260 00:18:45,176 --> 00:18:49,149 Appraising, Miss Jason. I shall be appraising his ingenuity. 261 00:18:49,354 --> 00:18:52,262 One doesn't buy the tree without sampling the fruit. 262 00:18:53,648 --> 00:18:55,354 But our catalogue is very comprehensive. 263 00:18:55,539 --> 00:18:56,935 Catalogue? 264 00:18:58,428 --> 00:19:01,081 Honeyed blarberry wine. 265 00:19:01,811 --> 00:19:03,880 That means nothing to me, Miss Jason! 266 00:19:04,067 --> 00:19:10,386 Where is the tang of blue blackberries gathered in the early morning dew by barefoot peasant girls? 267 00:19:10,577 --> 00:19:14,142 The rich nectared taste of honeyed syrup? 268 00:19:14,331 --> 00:19:18,801 Not here, but here: the sun glinting on amber liquid. 269 00:19:18,974 --> 00:19:25,084 And here: the nostrils assaulted by the heady aromatics of a perfect bouquet. 270 00:19:25,285 --> 00:19:27,030 And here, most of all, here: 271 00:19:27,218 --> 00:19:31,591 rolling, smooth syrup, sweet liquid around the mouth. 272 00:19:31,762 --> 00:19:38,274 alerting the taste buds, savouring the sheer sensuality of a unique experience. 273 00:19:39,706 --> 00:19:41,690 I have a very acute palate, Miss Jason. 274 00:19:41,824 --> 00:19:47,724 I'm very sorry, but I really cannot find any help in this catalogue. 275 00:19:47,883 --> 00:19:50,549 I'll talk to Dr. Sturm. 276 00:20:11,099 --> 00:20:12,859 But we know nothing about this man. 277 00:20:13,998 --> 00:20:15,702 In my opinion, you shouldn't have agreed. 278 00:20:15,909 --> 00:20:19,796 Don't be silly. I told you I checked on him when he made his appointment. 279 00:20:20,010 --> 00:20:21,538 He's a bonafide wine merchant. 280 00:20:21,699 --> 00:20:24,454 But letting him wander around loose, suppose he sees something? 281 00:20:24,649 --> 00:20:27,563 What can he see? Our secret process is our secret. 282 00:20:30,168 --> 00:20:31,489 Mr. Steed. 283 00:20:34,064 --> 00:20:35,292 This way. 284 00:20:39,222 --> 00:20:40,120 Good morning, Mr. Steed. 285 00:20:40,314 --> 00:20:44,179 Dr. Sturm? - Yes. And this is my assistant, Martin Smythes. 286 00:20:44,351 --> 00:20:47,310 How do you do? It's extremely kind of you to let me look around. 287 00:20:47,520 --> 00:20:50,490 Not at all, if you're going to sell our wine, I think you should have a look around. 288 00:20:50,724 --> 00:20:53,714 Now, this is our main distillation area. 289 00:20:53,882 --> 00:20:55,406 Distillation of wine? 290 00:20:55,590 --> 00:20:57,815 Oh, I see what you mean. We ferment our wine of course. 291 00:20:58,020 --> 00:21:00,578 The final distillation is merely to insure the perfect quality. 292 00:21:00,782 --> 00:21:06,906 Over there we have the plant which cleans and prepares our raw material. 293 00:21:07,104 --> 00:21:09,793 And this is one of our pulping presses. 294 00:21:12,330 --> 00:21:15,171 You see, the old method of treading won't do for us. 295 00:21:15,354 --> 00:21:17,834 Oh? - No, we make vegetable wine. 296 00:21:18,033 --> 00:21:20,762 Mr. Steed, have you ever tried to tread potatoes? 297 00:21:20,968 --> 00:21:23,163 Point taken. 298 00:21:23,308 --> 00:21:25,043 It's my own design, by the way. 299 00:21:25,910 --> 00:21:29,332 Here on this panel, I can control the drop of the press, 300 00:21:29,532 --> 00:21:33,487 accurately to 1/10,000 of an inch, so we can pulp yet not bruise. 301 00:21:33,687 --> 00:21:35,044 Now watch this, Mr. Steed. 302 00:21:36,160 --> 00:21:40,230 This is a solid piece of brass. There. 303 00:21:40,799 --> 00:21:45,503 All I do, is lift this lever. 304 00:21:52,081 --> 00:21:53,425 Remarkable! 305 00:21:53,849 --> 00:21:56,819 Forty tons to the square inch, Mr. Steed. 306 00:21:57,014 --> 00:21:59,046 Quite a giant. - Yet a gentle giant. 307 00:21:59,220 --> 00:22:01,272 You designed it yourself? - Every inch of it. 308 00:22:01,427 --> 00:22:02,871 A long way from wine making. 309 00:22:03,077 --> 00:22:04,266 Oh, I wouldn't say that. 310 00:22:04,454 --> 00:22:07,101 After all, it's an improvement of the old method isn't it? 311 00:22:07,254 --> 00:22:09,087 But then I dabble in many things... 312 00:22:09,274 --> 00:22:12,202 Now you're being too modest. That's a fine engineering feat. 313 00:22:12,349 --> 00:22:14,039 Thank you very much indeed Mr. Steed. 314 00:22:14,165 --> 00:22:17,663 Well, we won't bore you much longer. I'm sure you'd like to see our wine store, wouldn't you? 315 00:22:17,838 --> 00:22:20,767 The main purpose of my visit. Thank you very much indeed. 316 00:22:23,736 --> 00:22:27,126 Ah, scientific, very scientific. 317 00:22:29,190 --> 00:22:30,971 Thank you, gentlemen. 318 00:22:33,320 --> 00:22:35,429 Martin, you worry too much. 319 00:22:36,690 --> 00:22:39,459 I think you'll find this a rather surprising wine. 320 00:22:39,674 --> 00:22:41,297 Not unlike a dry Hark. 321 00:22:42,586 --> 00:22:44,595 What is it? - Old bark. 322 00:22:44,804 --> 00:22:46,579 Must have put the dog in it too. 323 00:22:46,774 --> 00:22:49,572 This then, a sparkling buttercup. 324 00:22:49,725 --> 00:22:51,302 Buttercup, eh? 325 00:22:54,094 --> 00:22:55,872 Now that's more my cup of tea. 326 00:22:57,455 --> 00:22:58,754 Filthy day. 327 00:22:59,496 --> 00:23:01,478 Must have been a great year for buttercups. 328 00:23:01,702 --> 00:23:02,990 You've decided then? 329 00:23:03,165 --> 00:23:04,831 Well, I'll be pleased to take your order. 330 00:23:05,021 --> 00:23:05,630 Delicious. 331 00:23:05,768 --> 00:23:08,802 I always wondered why cows had that contented look. 332 00:23:08,938 --> 00:23:11,155 Thought it must have something to do with bulls. 333 00:23:11,331 --> 00:23:12,295 Obviously the buttercups. 334 00:23:12,505 --> 00:23:14,009 Mr. Steed, I don't want to rush you, 335 00:23:14,134 --> 00:23:16,946 Raining cats and dogs. What terrible weather we're having. 336 00:23:17,149 --> 00:23:18,409 but l am rather busy. 337 00:23:19,250 --> 00:23:22,448 I'm terribly sorry. I'll take a couple of gross of these. Confirm with you later. 338 00:23:22,916 --> 00:23:25,360 This way. 339 00:23:28,686 --> 00:23:29,928 Lovely weather we're not having. 340 00:23:30,094 --> 00:23:30,977 You can leave this way. 341 00:23:31,114 --> 00:23:34,540 You've been a very great help. Now, I'll be paddling along. 342 00:24:02,322 --> 00:24:05,682 Dear, oh dear, oh dear, 343 00:24:06,376 --> 00:24:09,347 oh dear, oh dear, oh dear... 344 00:24:09,458 --> 00:24:13,123 Ah, Mrs. Peel, science cannot avert the approaching doom. 345 00:24:13,316 --> 00:24:15,744 Perhaps not, but science will at least prepare us for it. 346 00:24:15,900 --> 00:24:18,000 Oh, I can see you do not believe in the flood. 347 00:24:18,986 --> 00:24:21,050 You think I'm just a crazy old man. 348 00:24:21,193 --> 00:24:22,209 No, Jonah, I don't. 349 00:24:22,948 --> 00:24:26,154 But I'm not prepared to believe anything until I've made a thorough investigation. 350 00:24:26,344 --> 00:24:28,666 What, with a portable weather machine? 351 00:24:28,848 --> 00:24:31,431 I wish I could make you see. Help you to believe. 352 00:24:31,597 --> 00:24:33,072 Have you shown her the cloud? 353 00:24:33,251 --> 00:24:36,493 All set, Mrs. Peel? - Hey, what's all this about a cloud? 354 00:24:36,674 --> 00:24:41,487 It's a kind of permanent fixture, isn't it, Jonah. Same cloud, same place, every day. 355 00:24:41,672 --> 00:24:43,116 It's a sign. 356 00:24:43,315 --> 00:24:44,562 It's a cloud. 357 00:24:45,548 --> 00:24:47,646 You can see it from over there. I suggest you have a look. 358 00:24:47,808 --> 00:24:51,401 We can go out later and find out what your box of tricks makes of it all. 359 00:24:51,982 --> 00:24:53,870 You get a better view from the chair. 360 00:24:57,310 --> 00:24:59,320 Oh, yes, near the wine factory. 361 00:24:59,510 --> 00:25:02,750 As a matter of fact, it's just over the field where Ted Barker was found. 362 00:25:35,783 --> 00:25:38,878 Doctor Sturm. - Yeah. 363 00:25:44,245 --> 00:25:47,048 There, in the field. 364 00:25:49,042 --> 00:25:51,826 It's impossible, Steed. Quite impossible. 365 00:25:52,548 --> 00:25:54,173 A humidity reading as high as this. 366 00:25:54,950 --> 00:25:56,100 Is that bad? 367 00:25:56,274 --> 00:25:58,698 Well, to get a reading this high, you'd have to be in the jungles of Brazil, 368 00:25:58,856 --> 00:26:02,066 or parts of equatorial Africa, but here in England it's unheard of. 369 00:26:02,907 --> 00:26:04,854 Yet here it is. - I know. 370 00:26:05,857 --> 00:26:07,732 Could it have been that cloud brought it about? 371 00:26:07,913 --> 00:26:11,143 No, a normal cloudy day only produces a reading of... 372 00:26:11,362 --> 00:26:14,274 It must be the machine. It's giving me a faulty reading. 373 00:26:14,750 --> 00:26:17,304 Perhaps. Well, we'll check up on it. 374 00:26:17,490 --> 00:26:18,831 Oh, how? 375 00:26:19,007 --> 00:26:20,719 Heard of Sir Arnold Kelly? 376 00:26:20,904 --> 00:26:22,961 Of course, he's the best meteorological man in the country. 377 00:26:23,138 --> 00:26:25,892 I've sent for him. He should be waiting for us at Barnard's now. 378 00:26:26,033 --> 00:26:27,442 Your flowers. 379 00:26:43,402 --> 00:26:44,232 Sir Arnold. 380 00:26:44,401 --> 00:26:46,611 Oh, Mr. Steed? 381 00:26:49,320 --> 00:26:50,616 Whoa! 382 00:26:50,803 --> 00:26:54,042 Over here. - Yes, so sorry, so sorry. 383 00:26:54,246 --> 00:26:57,668 These spectacles of mine, keep misting up. I can't understand it. 384 00:26:57,848 --> 00:26:59,596 Well, now Mr. Steed... 385 00:27:00,292 --> 00:27:01,376 Oh. 386 00:27:01,942 --> 00:27:04,231 Mrs. Peel, Sir Arnold Kelly. 387 00:27:04,395 --> 00:27:08,453 Very pleased to meet you, though how anyone could mistake you for a man. 388 00:27:08,646 --> 00:27:10,578 Sorry to keep you waiting. - Not at all, not at all. 389 00:27:10,766 --> 00:27:14,647 Been having a discussion with Mr. Barnard about the weather. 390 00:27:14,851 --> 00:27:16,787 Very droll. 391 00:27:17,778 --> 00:27:19,576 Well then, what have we? 392 00:27:19,710 --> 00:27:21,916 Well, I've made a preliminary reading. 393 00:27:22,114 --> 00:27:24,842 Really? With what results ? - These. 394 00:27:27,293 --> 00:27:32,064 I'm sorry, I thought for a moment that read 395 00:27:32,238 --> 00:27:35,208 67.8 % humidity. 396 00:27:35,371 --> 00:27:36,788 It does. - Eh? 397 00:27:37,877 --> 00:27:42,024 A little joke, eh, Steed? - I'm afraid it's no joke, Sir Arnold. 398 00:27:42,228 --> 00:27:46,181 What? Oh, come now. 67.8 %, ridiculous. 399 00:27:46,371 --> 00:27:49,885 That was the reading I got. 400 00:27:50,085 --> 00:27:51,008 Well, equipment must be faulty then. No other explanation. 401 00:27:51,191 --> 00:27:52,884 Perhaps you'd like to see for yourself? 402 00:27:53,064 --> 00:27:58,570 Right away, I think. 67.8 %! Luckily I brought my own equipment. 403 00:28:01,689 --> 00:28:04,468 Now then, let's see. 404 00:28:15,467 --> 00:28:19,340 Broken, absolutely shattered. No wonder you got a false reading. 405 00:28:20,054 --> 00:28:21,894 But never mind. Use my own equipment. 406 00:28:22,002 --> 00:28:24,595 We'll see you later, Sir Arnold. - Eh? Oh, yes, yes. 407 00:28:24,749 --> 00:28:27,176 Now, let's see what I'll... 408 00:28:27,508 --> 00:28:30,045 That equipment was all right when we left. - I know. 409 00:28:30,250 --> 00:28:31,393 What do you think? 410 00:28:31,582 --> 00:28:34,594 I think I'm going to sample another bottle of Buttercup Brew. 411 00:28:40,272 --> 00:28:41,960 Good bye. 412 00:28:46,690 --> 00:28:49,568 Terribly sorry to burst in on you like this. Knew you wouldn't mind. 413 00:28:49,738 --> 00:28:52,830 Decided to take home with me a couple of bottles of Best Buttercup, 414 00:28:52,974 --> 00:28:56,959 taken at random, just to test their overall quality. Ah, this way, isn't it ? 415 00:28:57,099 --> 00:28:58,132 Mr. Steed! 416 00:28:58,266 --> 00:29:00,884 Don't let me drag you away from your work. I can find my own way. 417 00:29:01,778 --> 00:29:05,029 All set for a wet winter. I like that. Think ahead. This way? 418 00:29:05,665 --> 00:29:08,639 Mr. Steed! - Don't let me disturb you, gentlemen. 419 00:29:08,813 --> 00:29:11,858 I tried to stop him. - A bottle or two of Buttercup Brew. 420 00:29:11,980 --> 00:29:12,582 Mr. Steed! 421 00:29:12,754 --> 00:29:14,922 I'm going to pass it around my friends. Give them a little taste. 422 00:29:15,044 --> 00:29:16,503 And it's all good for business. 423 00:29:16,658 --> 00:29:18,296 Please, Mr. Steed! - Be my guest, my dear. 424 00:29:19,051 --> 00:29:20,595 I hope you don't mind? 425 00:29:20,804 --> 00:29:22,686 Of course we don't mind, Mr. Steed. 426 00:29:22,848 --> 00:29:24,139 As you say, it is good for business. 427 00:29:24,352 --> 00:29:26,493 Thank-you young fellow. After you, my dear. 428 00:29:32,578 --> 00:29:36,090 I hope you don't mind my sampling a little of your brew while I'm in there? 429 00:29:36,268 --> 00:29:39,941 My goodness me, what have we here? Pulverized dry ice. 430 00:29:40,158 --> 00:29:42,913 Ah ha, I've caught you out. 431 00:29:43,042 --> 00:29:44,952 Part of the secret process, eh? 432 00:29:45,138 --> 00:29:49,010 That's what puts the sharp tangy flavor into Buttercup Brew. 433 00:29:49,221 --> 00:29:51,280 You're quite right, Mr. Steed. You've caught us out. 434 00:29:51,434 --> 00:29:54,664 Ah ha, excuse me, my dear. 435 00:29:58,396 --> 00:30:00,709 See he gets what he wants then get the idiot out of here. 436 00:30:00,885 --> 00:30:03,804 Ah! 437 00:30:09,143 --> 00:30:11,986 One bottle of buttercup and one of dead weed. 438 00:30:24,107 --> 00:30:25,792 Will that be all, Mr. Steed? 439 00:30:26,803 --> 00:30:28,763 I think so. Thank you very much. 440 00:30:36,150 --> 00:30:38,052 Very kind of you to let me impose like this. 441 00:30:39,072 --> 00:30:39,728 Not at all. 442 00:30:39,896 --> 00:30:42,533 Splendid place you have here. - l'm glad you approve. 443 00:30:42,690 --> 00:30:45,281 Absolutely first class. Strange about the rain, though. 444 00:30:45,445 --> 00:30:46,476 Rain? 445 00:30:46,654 --> 00:30:49,322 Yes, back there, sound of rain all the time. Very odd. 446 00:30:50,459 --> 00:30:54,721 Oh, that's just an illusion, Mr. Steed. What you hear is this. 447 00:30:57,136 --> 00:31:00,116 Liquid pouring into the vats Many people make the same mistake. 448 00:31:00,313 --> 00:31:02,675 Really, trouble with your washer? 449 00:31:02,845 --> 00:31:04,193 You mean to say it was that all the time? 450 00:31:04,386 --> 00:31:05,886 Yes. - Oh, I can't believe it. 451 00:31:06,086 --> 00:31:08,302 I'll tell you what, you turn it off and I'll go back and listen. 452 00:31:08,488 --> 00:31:11,546 I'm afraid, Mr. Steed, we must ask you to leave now. 453 00:31:11,736 --> 00:31:13,554 You're interrupting important work. 454 00:31:13,744 --> 00:31:17,702 l'm most terribly sorry. Most foolish of me. Well, good bye to you. 455 00:31:17,870 --> 00:31:18,563 Good bye to you. 456 00:31:18,726 --> 00:31:22,924 Well, Miss Jason, I think I'll have a couple of gross of the wheat and raisin. 2 dozen... 457 00:31:23,100 --> 00:31:27,160 Idiot! Perhaps now I can get back to my job. 458 00:31:27,285 --> 00:31:30,605 Your troubles aren't over. There's somebody down in the field again. 459 00:31:33,613 --> 00:31:35,272 Can you see who it is? - No. 460 00:31:35,498 --> 00:31:38,052 It may be the same one as before. It's hard to say from here. 461 00:31:38,888 --> 00:31:40,660 He's alone this time, anyway. 462 00:31:40,818 --> 00:31:42,860 Freddy, give me my glasses, please. 463 00:31:46,473 --> 00:31:48,090 Thank you. 464 00:31:50,304 --> 00:31:51,974 He's obviously got some new equipment. 465 00:31:53,104 --> 00:31:54,084 Here. 466 00:31:56,892 --> 00:31:58,237 He's not wearing a mackintosh. 467 00:31:59,543 --> 00:32:01,552 Pity, it looks like rain. 468 00:33:32,219 --> 00:33:34,029 You know who he was? - No. 469 00:33:34,190 --> 00:33:36,538 Sir Arnold Kelly. - The meteorologist? 470 00:33:36,656 --> 00:33:40,679 Yes, one of the nation's top weathermen. 471 00:33:40,875 --> 00:33:41,411 You got rid of him? 472 00:33:41,612 --> 00:33:43,590 He's safely out of sight. - Good, good. 473 00:33:44,070 --> 00:33:47,664 But what was he doing here? And that woman who came to see us? 474 00:33:47,831 --> 00:33:49,431 Mrs. Peel. - Yes, where is she? 475 00:33:49,655 --> 00:33:52,240 She's down at Jonah's place waiting for Kelly to come back. 476 00:33:52,989 --> 00:33:56,982 Sir Arnold Kelly and Mrs. Peel, they didn't arrive here by accident. 477 00:33:58,043 --> 00:34:02,898 Their interest was aroused by something and I have an idea just what that something was. 478 00:34:03,105 --> 00:34:05,692 Jonah Barnard, and his letters to the Times. 479 00:34:05,905 --> 00:34:07,968 Yes, I think he lowers the tone of the neighbourhood. 480 00:34:08,135 --> 00:34:08,947 Don't you think so? 481 00:34:09,123 --> 00:34:11,629 Something should be done about it. - Naturally. 482 00:34:12,313 --> 00:34:15,895 Oh, by the way, Mrs. Peel was very anxious to see over the plant, wasn't she? 483 00:34:16,068 --> 00:34:19,112 I think we should extend that courtesy to her. 484 00:34:51,902 --> 00:34:52,969 Mrs. Peel. 485 00:34:53,166 --> 00:34:57,338 We haven't met before. Smythe. Martin Smythe. I work with Dr. Stern. 486 00:34:57,538 --> 00:34:58,886 Oh? - Yes. 487 00:34:59,080 --> 00:35:03,137 The fact is, Mrs. Peel, the doctor rather regrets turning you away the other day. 488 00:35:03,299 --> 00:35:05,548 Can't antagonize the press, can we? 489 00:35:05,685 --> 00:35:07,245 He'd like you to come over, now. 490 00:35:07,409 --> 00:35:10,019 Right this minute? - Please. 491 00:35:10,172 --> 00:35:12,516 Well, I'm afraid it's simply not convenient. 492 00:35:12,700 --> 00:35:13,904 Please. 493 00:35:39,841 --> 00:35:42,945 What are you doing there? What are you doing, brother? 494 00:35:43,129 --> 00:35:45,198 I, I want to help you build your ark. 495 00:35:45,402 --> 00:35:47,894 But you're from the wine factory. You believe? 496 00:35:48,060 --> 00:35:50,196 Yeah, I believe. I want to be saved. 497 00:35:51,196 --> 00:35:51,979 You do? - Yeah. 498 00:35:52,142 --> 00:35:54,488 Oh, boy, have I misjudged you. 499 00:35:54,786 --> 00:35:57,528 Well, Mrs. Peel, I don't think you've told us all you know. 500 00:35:58,365 --> 00:36:00,253 But you will, I assure you, you will. 501 00:36:01,276 --> 00:36:03,072 It may take a little time of course. 502 00:36:03,257 --> 00:36:05,548 Intervals of 1/1000 of an inch. 503 00:36:11,555 --> 00:36:14,063 Not an excessive pressure at the moment, no? 504 00:36:15,949 --> 00:36:18,892 No, I think another half inch before breathing becomes difficult. 505 00:36:19,400 --> 00:36:23,723 Well, we'll give you a little time to think about it, Mrs. Peel, until we are back. 506 00:36:23,885 --> 00:36:26,538 A fraction more pressure and your ribs will bend. 507 00:36:26,667 --> 00:36:28,803 Another fraction and your ribs will crack. 508 00:36:28,989 --> 00:36:34,954 Well, think about it, and be ready with your answers by the time we return, won't you? 509 00:37:11,026 --> 00:37:13,354 Evil vipers o'er the land. 510 00:37:13,522 --> 00:37:17,724 Man has destroyed mountains with his science, 511 00:37:18,459 --> 00:37:20,854 has caused his fellows to suffer. 512 00:37:22,111 --> 00:37:26,485 His sins need to be expiated, cleansed. 513 00:37:26,691 --> 00:37:30,175 And for this, the flood will come. 514 00:37:30,937 --> 00:37:36,082 Mountains will disappear, buildings will crumble. 515 00:37:36,924 --> 00:37:41,834 Not a tree will be seen over the entire land. 516 00:37:47,032 --> 00:37:51,002 Well, thank you, thank you, friend. Act on it. 517 00:37:51,202 --> 00:37:54,070 Act, and act soon. Thank-you. 518 00:37:54,946 --> 00:37:56,492 I think you've won over the dog. 519 00:37:56,688 --> 00:37:58,822 Oh, not just the dog, Mr. Steed. 520 00:37:59,028 --> 00:38:00,408 Oh, another convert? 521 00:38:00,600 --> 00:38:02,675 From the pit of iniquity, itself. - Good. 522 00:38:02,867 --> 00:38:05,260 Where's Mrs. Peel? - She was here some time ago. 523 00:38:05,464 --> 00:38:11,216 I tell you, all is not lost when I reclaim a soul from that evil place of intoxicating liquors. 524 00:38:11,376 --> 00:38:12,966 The wine factory? - The very place. 525 00:38:13,159 --> 00:38:15,952 And their foreman, a young fellow named Frederick. 526 00:38:17,134 --> 00:38:19,395 He was here? - It wasn't but a half hour ago. 527 00:38:19,532 --> 00:38:22,922 I tell you, I was inspired. He came unbidden. 528 00:38:23,110 --> 00:38:24,724 You haven't seen Mrs. Peel since he arrived? 529 00:38:24,856 --> 00:38:26,536 Why no. What are you driving at? 530 00:38:27,024 --> 00:38:29,060 What did he do while he was here? 531 00:38:29,244 --> 00:38:31,982 He listened to me. - No, I mean where did he go, where did he stand? 532 00:38:32,184 --> 00:38:33,537 Well, he was interested in the ark. 533 00:38:37,592 --> 00:38:40,432 Where was he then? - Well, he was working there. 534 00:38:41,248 --> 00:38:43,438 He was most anxious to help. 535 00:38:46,257 --> 00:38:48,082 These timbers, how are they secured? 536 00:38:48,322 --> 00:38:51,053 Oh, wooden pegs and waterproof glue. 537 00:38:51,906 --> 00:38:54,196 They're as secure as they can be? - Sure. 538 00:38:54,404 --> 00:38:57,823 I made them myself. They would last 1000 years. 539 00:38:57,988 --> 00:38:59,186 Stand back. 540 00:39:07,122 --> 00:39:08,615 It was meant to kill you. 541 00:39:09,479 --> 00:39:13,260 You mean that man from the wine factory? Why should anyone want to kill me ? 542 00:39:13,439 --> 00:39:16,281 Why should anyone want to kill Ted Barker or Eli? 543 00:39:17,004 --> 00:39:19,718 And Sir Arnold Kelly, he ought to be back by now. 544 00:39:21,524 --> 00:39:22,994 Mr. Steed! 545 00:39:23,181 --> 00:39:24,854 I am not a violent man by nature, 546 00:39:25,043 --> 00:39:27,978 but when faced with a problem of survival... 547 00:39:50,994 --> 00:39:54,231 I had an auntie used to make biscuits like this. 548 00:39:55,236 --> 00:40:00,355 ''Rain contains silver iodide. Excessive amount indicates it was introduced by man.'' 549 00:40:00,509 --> 00:40:01,997 What's silver iodide? 550 00:40:02,145 --> 00:40:04,760 They used it 2 or 3 years ago in Arizona. 551 00:40:04,939 --> 00:40:06,089 Arizona, America? 552 00:40:06,969 --> 00:40:08,254 There was a big drought there. 553 00:40:09,063 --> 00:40:11,559 They were trying to find ways of making rain. 554 00:40:13,087 --> 00:40:14,491 Doesn't it strike you as odd? 555 00:40:14,636 --> 00:40:18,336 Odd? Making rain? It's flying in the face of nature! 556 00:40:18,494 --> 00:40:21,573 No. By all accounts this field has a fairly high degree of rainfall. 557 00:40:22,329 --> 00:40:24,311 And yet it never seems to stay very wet. 558 00:40:24,977 --> 00:40:28,558 What does that suggest to you? - Good drainage. 559 00:40:28,773 --> 00:40:32,113 This field is absolutely flat. There's no natural drainage. 560 00:40:32,267 --> 00:40:34,054 But you see, Mr. Steed, around here... 561 00:40:52,634 --> 00:40:53,519 Well... 562 00:40:53,719 --> 00:40:56,977 Come on, we'll get it up. 563 00:41:01,857 --> 00:41:02,939 Now what? 564 00:41:03,042 --> 00:41:05,398 Looks like being a damp journey. 565 00:41:06,299 --> 00:41:08,615 Now, mind yourself. Mind yourself down there. 566 00:41:14,713 --> 00:41:18,281 Well, Mrs. Peel, are you ready to tell me who sent you here? 567 00:41:18,459 --> 00:41:22,869 No one sent me. I heard about Ted Barker's death and... 568 00:41:23,007 --> 00:41:26,834 Oh, no no no, that won't do at all. 569 00:41:27,018 --> 00:41:29,202 How about Sir Arnold Kelly? 570 00:41:30,516 --> 00:41:32,765 I suppose his presence here was merely accidental, was it? 571 00:41:32,979 --> 00:41:34,508 Well? 572 00:41:35,197 --> 00:41:37,477 Well, I'll just have to squeeze the information out of you. 573 00:41:40,305 --> 00:41:41,366 This way. 574 00:41:50,942 --> 00:41:52,417 Come on. 575 00:41:55,103 --> 00:41:56,600 Uncomfortable, Mrs. Peel? 576 00:41:56,724 --> 00:41:58,007 But no pain, I trust? 577 00:42:00,564 --> 00:42:03,860 No, you're still 1/8th of an inch from real pain. 578 00:42:05,153 --> 00:42:08,843 Believe me, Mrs. Peel, I don't enjoy this any more than you do. 579 00:42:09,767 --> 00:42:11,345 But I have to protect my interests. 580 00:42:11,535 --> 00:42:14,709 My colleague and I have just reached the end of a long, hard road. 581 00:42:14,910 --> 00:42:20,090 We don't want to have that jeopardized. Not now, that we've finally succeeded. 582 00:42:20,268 --> 00:42:22,679 Succeeded? In what? 583 00:42:22,863 --> 00:42:24,951 Succeeded in making rain, Mrs. Peel. 584 00:42:25,145 --> 00:42:28,045 Rain such as the world has never seen before. 585 00:42:28,227 --> 00:42:30,915 Torrential, driving rain to order. 586 00:43:02,772 --> 00:43:05,298 Can you comprehend the power now in my hands? 587 00:43:06,240 --> 00:43:08,084 A machine, a system of convection, 588 00:43:08,258 --> 00:43:11,311 chemicals and electronics, geared to one process. 589 00:43:11,513 --> 00:43:13,991 What's that? - The manufacture of rain. 590 00:43:14,185 --> 00:43:18,143 As you may know there is moisture in the air, which we breath at all times. 591 00:43:18,321 --> 00:43:21,031 And my machine makes use of that moisture. 592 00:43:22,265 --> 00:43:23,265 Excellent use. 593 00:43:23,457 --> 00:43:25,347 To what end? 594 00:43:26,248 --> 00:43:29,695 Well, originally to a very selfish end. I wanted to water my garden. 595 00:43:29,807 --> 00:43:32,835 But now I suppose I will grow fat from my discovery. 596 00:43:33,038 --> 00:43:35,703 Because Martin wants to sell to the highest bidder. 597 00:43:35,808 --> 00:43:37,984 One of the big military nations. 598 00:43:38,156 --> 00:43:41,510 He's already put out feelers in certain parts of the globe. 599 00:43:41,699 --> 00:43:44,612 A military nation with a rain making device? 600 00:43:44,800 --> 00:43:46,734 But it's much more than that, Mrs. Peel. 601 00:43:46,888 --> 00:43:51,387 Don't you see? It's the biggest military weapon since the nuclear bomb. 602 00:43:51,597 --> 00:43:53,753 Relentless, never ceasing rain. 603 00:43:53,941 --> 00:43:55,809 Rockets and planes grounded. 604 00:43:56,015 --> 00:43:58,375 Whole armies locked down or washed away. 605 00:43:58,562 --> 00:44:02,651 Centuries of multicultural wealth destroyed in a couple of minutes. 606 00:44:02,829 --> 00:44:05,537 A great flood to order. 607 00:44:06,597 --> 00:44:08,284 Doctor Sturm? 608 00:44:09,064 --> 00:44:12,475 We're waiting for you. - Ah, yes, yes, I'm coming. 609 00:44:13,802 --> 00:44:17,160 Forgive me, Mrs. Peel. Campaigns to plan. 610 00:44:17,322 --> 00:44:19,598 But I'll be back, you may depend on that. 611 00:44:24,511 --> 00:44:27,433 You diabolical mastermind you. 612 00:44:46,997 --> 00:44:49,489 Gentlemen should knock before entering. 613 00:44:53,664 --> 00:44:55,637 What are you? The sparkle in the seaweed soda? 614 00:44:55,833 --> 00:44:57,805 No, I'm the kick in the nettle noggin. 615 00:44:58,557 --> 00:45:02,314 Never mind. I'll have you out of here in two shakes of a swizzle stick. 616 00:45:03,819 --> 00:45:07,775 Dr. Sturm told me how to operate this to 1/1000 of an inch. 617 00:45:10,407 --> 00:45:12,143 I twiddle this little knob here, 618 00:45:12,345 --> 00:45:14,527 turn this switch here, 619 00:45:16,075 --> 00:45:17,941 and press this lever up. 620 00:45:19,479 --> 00:45:20,719 Or was it down? 621 00:45:20,922 --> 00:45:22,579 l think it was up. 622 00:45:23,541 --> 00:45:25,067 Well, let's make a change. Press it down. 623 00:45:29,217 --> 00:45:30,367 Hallelujah! 624 00:45:33,039 --> 00:45:35,677 You were looking at it upside down, Mrs. Peel. 625 00:45:35,831 --> 00:45:39,167 Come on. It must have been terrible experience. 626 00:45:39,352 --> 00:45:39,678 There you are. 627 00:45:39,805 --> 00:45:44,293 ...a terrible experience. 628 00:45:44,486 --> 00:45:46,855 Untie her ankles. I'll warm her up to get the circulation going. 629 00:45:47,779 --> 00:45:51,325 Did you know what you were doing or am I just lucky? 630 00:45:51,510 --> 00:45:54,683 Of course I knew. I'll show you. 631 00:45:56,538 --> 00:45:59,411 Take one ordinary Cornwell Garden bowler hat. 632 00:46:00,230 --> 00:46:04,941 One turns this knob here, pushes up this lever, 633 00:46:05,079 --> 00:46:10,131 and the gentle giant crashes down to stop within 1/1000 of an inch 634 00:46:10,317 --> 00:46:11,540 of my bowler hat. 635 00:46:30,449 --> 00:46:32,823 It was over very quickly. I don't think it suffered. 636 00:46:32,942 --> 00:46:37,824 You heard what Sturm said. The coming flood is not the work of nature. 637 00:46:37,987 --> 00:46:40,859 Some kind of machinery. Let's try through there. 638 00:47:01,984 --> 00:47:03,762 Hallelujah. 639 00:47:06,281 --> 00:47:07,633 Thank you, Mrs. Peel. 640 00:47:10,034 --> 00:47:12,202 Lovely for the complexion. 641 00:47:23,053 --> 00:47:23,942 Dr. Sturm? 642 00:47:26,789 --> 00:47:29,765 It says on these charts it's been raining here for about a year. 643 00:47:30,699 --> 00:47:32,427 There it is. 644 00:47:37,802 --> 00:47:40,399 They're about in for a dry spell. 645 00:48:09,446 --> 00:48:13,328 The flood is here! The flood is here! 646 00:48:14,078 --> 00:48:15,663 Hallelujah! 647 00:48:19,384 --> 00:48:23,381 Hallelujah! And the wicked shall be cast into... 648 00:48:26,933 --> 00:48:29,546 Who done that? - Ready? 649 00:48:31,439 --> 00:48:32,594 The flood is coming! 650 00:48:51,414 --> 00:48:55,753 Ah! The flood is coming! I told you! I told you the flood is coming! 651 00:48:55,953 --> 00:48:58,431 Get out of here! Get out of here! 652 00:48:59,957 --> 00:49:02,961 The flood is coming! The flood is coming! 653 00:49:03,805 --> 00:49:07,021 Hallelujah! 654 00:49:30,533 --> 00:49:33,507 Put them over here where we can keep our eye on them. 655 00:49:36,457 --> 00:49:38,484 One, two, three. 656 00:49:38,975 --> 00:49:40,092 Where's Dr. Sturm? 657 00:49:40,322 --> 00:49:41,694 Oh, I didn't know. I thought you... 658 00:49:41,823 --> 00:49:42,959 l thought you... 659 00:49:45,457 --> 00:49:46,575 The machine's burnt out. 660 00:50:12,722 --> 00:50:14,796 Bless you! - Oh, I think I'm catching a cold. 661 00:50:15,139 --> 00:50:16,339 Get your feet wet? 662 00:50:18,235 --> 00:50:21,169 This'll do you good: ''Granny Gregson's Marrow Rum.'' 663 00:50:21,360 --> 00:50:22,321 What's that? 664 00:50:23,239 --> 00:50:26,622 I got a ticket for Jonah's ark. I like to be on the safe side. 665 00:50:26,779 --> 00:50:30,050 Bon Voyage. I see you're sharing a cabin with a Jersey cow. 666 00:50:30,244 --> 00:50:34,472 l've got a weakness for big brown eyes. 667 00:50:35,685 --> 00:50:39,070 Bless you. 668 00:50:42,707 --> 00:50:49,831 Subtitles : rick@peoplesguidetothecosmos.com