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Alan.

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Darling.

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Look, it's taken.

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Do you see?

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I think you're right.

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Reared from seed.

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Hermesus Chloris, the first in
captivity.

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And it'll blossom, too. I promise you.
You're a very clever girl.

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Yes, of course I am. I caught you,
didn't I?

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Hey, you'll get me the sack.

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Come on.

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Don't forget my good morning kiss.

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See you later.

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I didn't know you had green fingers.

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Economics. Law of supply and demand. Cut
out the middleman.

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Private enterprise.

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I'm growing my own buttonhole.

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Oh, why?

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Oh, I've got to start somewhere.

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Morning sunrise.

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A fully -fledged bloom of delicate,
ruffet tints. And a haunting bouquet

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for you, Mrs. Peel.

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I sense a bribe.

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Nonsense. I want you to get the first
fruits of my labours.

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What nasty situation have you got in
store for me this time, hmm?

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You have your own built -in early
warning system, you know. A certain look

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the eye. Roses.

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Roses. Roses.

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Roses. Ah!

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The missing horticulturalist.

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Bullseye.

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Professors Taylor and Knight and Dr.
Connolly all disappeared without a

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Right. The score now stands at four.

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Another one joined the merry band
yesterday, walked out of a greenhouse,

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trampled across a lot of prized plants
and hasn't been seen since. An old

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acquaintance of yours, Laura Burford.

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Laura? I'm afraid so.

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You introduced me to her once. Fair,
glamorous creature.

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An expert in plant diseases.

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One of the best. What do you think
happened to her?

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It's too soon to know, but the whole
thing's very baffling. Four experts...

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brilliant in their own field of
horticulture, just disappeared.

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Have you anything to go on?

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Not much. What there is is tenuous.

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They all disappeared in this area.
Sorry.

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Who told you about Laura's
disappearance?

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Carter. Who?

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I thought you knew.

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She got engaged a couple of weeks ago to
a chap called Alan Carter.

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He's a botanist too.

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I can't believe that she could go like
this. Like what, Mr. Carter? Exactly

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did happen yesterday?

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Well, nothing. One moment she was here,
happy and excited, and then the next.

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Did you see or hear anything?

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No, but then I might not.

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It's a bad habit, I'm afraid, but
sometimes when I'm concentrating, I turn

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volume down.

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But it was the way that she went.

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Do you see?

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Trampled the flowerbed, smashed through
frames of glass, destroyed months of

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research, almost as though... Almost as
though it didn't matter any longer.

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Mr. Seed, I've got to go. There's a
meeting of the Horticultural Circle.

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Ordinarily, I'd cancel it, but the
President's ill and I've got to stand in

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him. Sir Lyle Peterson?

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Yes, it's the first meeting he's met for
ten years.

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Everything seems to be going wrong
lately.

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I would be grateful if you... If I find
anything, I'll be in touch.

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Thank you.

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Do stay in here until the rain stops.

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There was something I had in the heart
to ask him.

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Law and another man?

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It's possible.

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Anything's possible.

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For instance, it might just be
coincidence.

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Sir Lyle Peterson, an eminent
horticulturalist, missing first meeting

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years, and his home is situated in
Surrey Green.

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My name is Thede. I have an appointment
with Sir Lyle Peterson.

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Yes, sir.

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Come in.

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Sir Lyle will see you shortly, sir.

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Thank you.

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Would you wait here?

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I hope to see more of you.

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Well, that's all for the moment,
gentlemen.

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Further reports later today.

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Ah, Miss Burton.

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Didn't have a chance before.

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Welcome to our little group. Now, if
there's anything you want, don't

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to come to me. Thank you.

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Mr. Teed? The Lyle. Tree Preservation
Society, isn't it? That's right.

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We can talk in my office.

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Do you drink brandy, Mr. Steed?

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If you mean am I accustomed to drinking
brandy, the answer is yes.

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If you mean would I like one now, the
answer is also yes.

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Good. Man differs little from plant
life.

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Liquid nutriment is vitally essential.

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I do so agree.

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Difficult to survive without it?

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And relatively unnecessary.

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Thank you.

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Your, uh...

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Call. Interested me.

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Trees are our national heritage.

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Now, indiscriminate felling, mutilation
is as criminal as an act of violence.

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We think alike, Mr. Steed. I'm so glad,
because we are pressing the government

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to increase compulsory planting in
cities and towns. Now, your name on our

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of membership would ensure success.

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You shall have it.

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Thank you. And this is delicious.

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I'm so glad.

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You know, Mr. Steed, people often regard
plants like these wax figures.

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Passive, inanimate.

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What pretty hair.

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Yes. Real, too.

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Let's see how these plants climb.

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For all we know, they feel, perhaps even
think.

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I want to show you something.

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My favourite plant.

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The Venus flytrap. Devours insects.

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It's quite a gourmet, aren't you, my
pet?

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Very partial to bluebottles, but can't
abide the domestic housefly.

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However, I have a treat for you today.

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Specially imported.

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I'll see how you like these.

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Yes, now then.

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You have that.

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Now, now, now. Don't snap.

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That's right. One for you, my pretty.

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That's right.

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And you, how about me?

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How's that? And you, all right, all
right. Here it comes.

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There. Is that good?

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Is that good?

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What an interesting gadget.

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Yes, it's experimental.

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It controls soil temperature and water
supply.

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There's no substitute for first -class
equipment or brains. You're certainly

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well -stocked with both. Oh, by the way,
wasn't that Laura Burford I heard? And

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surely Dr.

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Connolly? Just leaving?

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Oh, dear, oh, dear, oh, dear. The cat's
out of the bag, I see.

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Well, the fact is that I'm engaged on
some research with great commercial

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possibilities. A new flowering shrub,
so...

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Naturally, I gathered the greatest team
of experts I could find.

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Perhaps I have been a trifle
overcautious.

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You're certainly very observant.

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Well, the press have been full of them.

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Oh, yes.

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You say you know Miss Burford? I've met
her.

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Then let's have her in.

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Lennox, would you send in Miss Burford,
please?

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Right away, sir.

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Oh, another.

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Thank you, no. I'd rather not. Sally is
such a perfect vintage with repetition.

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Fascinating.

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Ah, Miss Burford, come in.

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Come in. I have an old friend of yours
here.

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You remember? John Steed. I met you with
Mrs Peel.

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Oh, yes, of course. How are you? More to
the point, how are you?

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I'm sorry? I ran into your fiancé the
other day.

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Frantic about you, he is.

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Yes, I can imagine.

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But it isn't often one gets an
opportunity like this.

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It was such an exciting project, so when
Sir Lyle called me, I just dropped

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everything. What exactly are you doing?

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What? The project.

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Well, as I told you, we're experimenting
with a new flowering shrub.

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Yes, a new flowering shrub. Oh.

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Well, I must be getting back.

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Don't it's I. I have some fledgling
forests in Cambridgeshire I must attempt

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I'll send you those, ma 'am, which are
formed.

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Please do.

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Lennox?

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Imagine sitting on that.

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If my car had a roof, I'd have gone
through it. You'd have gone further than

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that. These barbs are deadly.

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I wonder what we did to upset the Lyle.
Oh, I don't know.

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Finding Laura and the others are... Oh!

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You dropped it.

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Where's it gone?

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Underneath there.

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I must say, that oil derrick puzzles me.

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Well, whatever they're drilling for,
it's not oil.

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There is no oil in Surrey.

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You called equipment company?

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Yeah. Peterson placed two orders about a
month ago. One was for the estate.

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And the other one? Ah, got it.

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They're calling me back.

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It was supposed to go to some farmer,
rather, but at the last minute, Peterson

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cancelled. Did they say why?

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No.

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Do you mind?

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Yes,

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this is Miss Peel speaking.

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Would you repeat that?

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Yes, I've got that.

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Moat Farm, Denby.

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Wow.

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This isn't my idea of striking it rich.

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I wonder if Peterson cancelled his
order.

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Oop, mind the puddle.

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Well, after you.

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Oh, after you. Mm -hmm. So kind.

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It's a pleasure, Mrs. Peel.

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I prefer the West Wing.

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Oh, this is not bad.

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What for?

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A pied -à -terre.

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Looks as though there's been a fire. And
there's something under there.

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Mrs. Peel, well, we have a clear
identification.

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And? A spaceship.

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Launched about a year ago.

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And what happened to it?

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A technical failure just after
launching.

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Orchard died.

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Up there. Alone.

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5 ,000 miles up in the cosmos.

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We tried to house the whole thing up, of
course.

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Since then, the ship and the body have
been circling in orbit.

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What caused re -entry?

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Ah, that's the question.

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Collision.

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Collision? With what?

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That we are about to find out.

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What on earth's that?

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Looks like some sort of mad octopus.

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Well, what was it doing up in the
cosmos?

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The dent it made in the spacecraft.

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Impact must have been enormous.

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Probably weighs half a hundred weight.
Animal, vegetable, or mineral?

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It's vegetable.

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Vegetable? These aren't tentacles.
They're papas. Oh, papi.

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Definitely vegetable.

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Thirty years of botany.

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and I've never seen anything like this
before.

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But it is of vegetable origin.

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Oh, of that there's no doubt.

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Come, I'll show you.

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Now then, look.

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This is the seed case containing the
embryo and reserves of fruit.

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Rather damaged in collision, I'm afraid.

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And these are undoubtedly peppers.

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Very observant of you, my dear.

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Can you hazard a guess?

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Which family of plant life does it
belong to? Well, it's unusual.

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Very unusual.

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It's not tropical, of that I'm certain.
Of course, I should want a complete

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analysis. Just a guess, Miss Shelton.
Well, don't hold me to it, but I think

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it's a composite.

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Really? You know it better as a
parachute seed, dispersed from the wind,

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the common old garden dandelion.

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Just as Miss Sheldon said, like hundreds
of little parachutes.

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Dispersed on the wind.

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Where does that little beggar come from?

255
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Mars.

256
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Mars? Or even the moon.

257
00:20:34,980 --> 00:20:37,280
Recent photographs show whole areas of
vegetation.

258
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Does it also show some outsized
dandelions? Mr. Teed? Yes, Commander.

259
00:20:42,980 --> 00:20:45,360
A message has just come through from the
Air Ministry.

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Radar control.

261
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They've checked back and they find that
a meteorite was reported on the 4th of

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last month.

263
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Fits in with all this. And you think, in
fact, the meteorite was the spaceship

264
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re -entering? I'm sure of it.

265
00:20:57,410 --> 00:20:59,890
Well, I just thought you'd like to know.
Thank you, Commander.

266
00:21:01,050 --> 00:21:03,050
Fourth of last month. That's odd.

267
00:21:04,150 --> 00:21:06,570
That's the day that Knight, Connolly and
Taylor disappear.

268
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Is there any connection?

269
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Whatever it is, Peterson's got it behind
barbed wire.

270
00:21:11,930 --> 00:21:13,470
Well, we could always cut our way
through.

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You go and have a chat with the locals.
See what they know about you.

272
00:21:16,830 --> 00:21:17,830
And you?

273
00:21:19,150 --> 00:21:20,150
Mr. Carter?

274
00:21:28,630 --> 00:21:29,630
Mr. Carter?

275
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Oh, sorry.

276
00:21:31,230 --> 00:21:32,350
Terrible weather we're having.

277
00:21:32,830 --> 00:21:34,690
I ran into your fiancée. Laura?

278
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Where is she? Is she all right? She's
quite all right. I've spoken to her. But

279
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where is she? She's with Sir Lyle
Peterson.

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If this is some kind of joke, I think
it's in the worst possible taste.

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Oh, that's where she is. She's working
for him.

282
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Working for him?

283
00:21:48,790 --> 00:21:49,930
But she loathes him.

284
00:21:50,610 --> 00:21:51,810
Peterson's one of her pet hates.

285
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Every theory he's ever had is
diametrically opposed to Laura's.

286
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She'd no more work for him than fly to
the moon. All the same, that's where she

287
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is, with Knight, Taylor and Connolly.

288
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What are they doing there?

289
00:22:04,780 --> 00:22:08,240
Well, same as her. They're developing
some new flowering shrub, according to

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Sly. But you can't lift or graft shrubs
at this time of the year.

291
00:22:12,120 --> 00:22:16,100
That's what I heard. All the same, I
should get Laura to explain it to you.

292
00:22:16,100 --> 00:22:18,680
her. What, after she walked out on me
without a word?

293
00:22:18,880 --> 00:22:20,520
Sorry, Green, 1141.

294
00:22:33,610 --> 00:22:34,610
Same again, John.

295
00:22:37,610 --> 00:22:40,410
I'm looking for Joe Mercer, farm
supplier. See ya.

296
00:22:41,270 --> 00:22:42,270
Joe,

297
00:22:45,390 --> 00:22:46,730
there's someone for you.

298
00:22:48,310 --> 00:22:52,290
Looking for me, lady? Yes, my name is
Mr. Peel, and I've just bought a

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smallholding near here.

300
00:22:53,770 --> 00:22:59,830
I gather you... I gather you supply a
friend of mine, Sir Lyle Peterson.

301
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He's my best customer.

302
00:23:01,670 --> 00:23:03,390
John! And a pint for the lady.

303
00:23:03,670 --> 00:23:05,050
I supply him with everything.

304
00:23:05,270 --> 00:23:07,870
Wire fencing, insecticides, and this
stuff.

305
00:23:08,290 --> 00:23:09,330
What's the polythene for?

306
00:23:09,730 --> 00:23:13,130
It conserves heat and moisture and helps
seedlings to germinate.

307
00:23:13,370 --> 00:23:15,010
Mind you, this is all I've got left.

308
00:23:15,210 --> 00:23:16,250
The same with the fertilizer.

309
00:23:16,650 --> 00:23:18,050
He's had every ounce in the place.

310
00:23:18,250 --> 00:23:19,250
Oh, thank you.

311
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Cheers.

312
00:23:21,050 --> 00:23:22,050
Cheers.

313
00:23:24,870 --> 00:23:26,850
What's he growing up there? I wouldn't
know.

314
00:23:27,210 --> 00:23:30,330
But I must have supplied him with 20
tons in the past month.

315
00:23:30,700 --> 00:23:32,420
In fact, the last lorry load's just gone
up.

316
00:26:18,950 --> 00:26:19,950
Commander Davis.

317
00:26:20,970 --> 00:26:22,170
Commander Davis.

318
00:26:22,410 --> 00:26:28,730
Come here. Come here. Now then, take a
look at that. Go on. No, no, focus it.

319
00:26:28,790 --> 00:26:31,350
Focus it. Now then, what do you see?

320
00:26:31,610 --> 00:26:33,810
It looks like a sponge.

321
00:26:34,390 --> 00:26:35,630
A sponge.

322
00:26:36,130 --> 00:26:37,930
Oh, this is unbelievable.

323
00:26:38,870 --> 00:26:40,530
History in the making.

324
00:26:41,010 --> 00:26:42,870
What you see there are cells.

325
00:26:43,490 --> 00:26:44,650
Brain cells.

326
00:26:45,800 --> 00:26:49,000
This seed had an embryonic brain.

327
00:26:49,440 --> 00:26:53,120
Oh, what a disaster that it was damaged.

328
00:26:53,620 --> 00:26:56,700
Imagine. A plant that could think.

329
00:26:57,460 --> 00:26:58,460
Think.

330
00:27:06,740 --> 00:27:07,740
There, you see?

331
00:27:08,600 --> 00:27:10,280
I've tried more than a dozen times.

332
00:27:11,000 --> 00:27:12,340
And there's never anyone there.

333
00:27:12,580 --> 00:27:14,800
Maybe the phone's out of order. No, I
had it checked.

334
00:27:16,880 --> 00:27:19,540
Are you sure Peterson is there? He was
when I left.

335
00:27:21,780 --> 00:27:23,360
I've been thinking about what you said.

336
00:27:24,140 --> 00:27:25,560
About Peterson and Laura.

337
00:27:26,600 --> 00:27:28,320
It doesn't make sense.

338
00:27:29,000 --> 00:27:33,680
Why should she work for him? She's got a
good job and full research facilities.

339
00:27:34,040 --> 00:27:37,780
Money. Brains are marketable. And
Peterson wants the best.

340
00:27:38,100 --> 00:27:39,400
But that's just my point.

341
00:27:40,300 --> 00:27:41,300
Laura's clever.

342
00:27:42,560 --> 00:27:44,840
She was a pupil of mine. That's how we
met.

343
00:27:45,340 --> 00:27:46,640
But she's got a lot to learn.

344
00:27:46,860 --> 00:27:47,880
That wouldn't be so great.

345
00:27:48,300 --> 00:27:51,120
Look, if Peterson had approached me, I
would have said no. I'm surprised he

346
00:27:51,120 --> 00:27:55,600
didn't. But for that matter, if I were
looking for the most able botanist, I

347
00:27:55,600 --> 00:27:56,600
wouldn't have picked Connolly.

348
00:27:57,280 --> 00:27:58,360
But Dr. Sheldon.

349
00:27:58,680 --> 00:28:00,500
And why all this secrecy?

350
00:28:01,560 --> 00:28:03,520
Why didn't she discuss the matter with
me?

351
00:28:03,740 --> 00:28:04,659
Well, ask her.

352
00:28:04,660 --> 00:28:07,280
I would if I could reach her. Well, I'll
do my best.

353
00:28:09,020 --> 00:28:10,020
Excuse me.

354
00:28:13,840 --> 00:28:14,799
Yes, Dean speaking.

355
00:28:14,800 --> 00:28:15,800
Hello?

356
00:28:16,260 --> 00:28:19,120
I'm not going to wait any longer. I'm
going over to Peterson's to see what

357
00:28:19,120 --> 00:28:21,340
all about, and I'll break in if I have
to. But, Dr.

358
00:28:21,560 --> 00:28:22,780
Sheldon... Carter!

359
00:28:23,100 --> 00:28:24,100
Carter!

360
00:28:24,880 --> 00:28:25,880
Yes?

361
00:28:26,560 --> 00:28:27,560
You what?

362
00:28:43,340 --> 00:28:44,340
Thank you.

363
00:29:39,080 --> 00:29:44,300
And now, as our project is nearing
completion, I should like your reports

364
00:29:44,300 --> 00:29:45,300
order of priority.

365
00:29:46,280 --> 00:29:48,140
Germination, Professor Taylor?

366
00:29:49,120 --> 00:29:51,780
Satisfactory. Expected at 1800.

367
00:29:52,380 --> 00:29:56,780
Under soil heating, Professor Knight?
The specified temperature is being

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00:29:56,780 --> 00:29:57,780
maintained.

369
00:29:58,520 --> 00:30:00,200
Irrigation, Dr. Connolly?

370
00:30:00,500 --> 00:30:03,040
All channels tested and working
normally.

371
00:30:03,280 --> 00:30:04,320
Excellent, excellent.

372
00:30:04,660 --> 00:30:06,500
And finally, pest control.

373
00:30:08,460 --> 00:30:10,840
All preparations on schedule, Sir Lyle.

374
00:30:13,740 --> 00:30:14,780
These cells.

375
00:30:15,240 --> 00:30:17,220
They're identical to the human brain
cells.

376
00:30:17,640 --> 00:30:23,700
Yes, but the shape. In my opinion, this
is the seed of a climbing plant.

377
00:30:24,040 --> 00:30:25,040
A beanstalk.

378
00:30:25,280 --> 00:30:27,040
Nothing. Where are we?

379
00:30:27,400 --> 00:30:34,140
Yes, the average bean's about half an
inch long and grows, say, four or five

380
00:30:34,140 --> 00:30:35,140
feet high.

381
00:30:35,740 --> 00:30:42,400
Proportionately, this would grow to,
well, say, 200 times higher than the

382
00:30:42,400 --> 00:30:43,399
State Building.

383
00:30:43,400 --> 00:30:44,420
Charming prospect.

384
00:30:44,860 --> 00:30:46,500
And think of the tendrils.

385
00:30:46,800 --> 00:30:49,180
I'd rather not. Reaching out for miles.

386
00:30:49,520 --> 00:30:54,060
If it were allowed to feed, it would
cover the earth in, well, a matter of

387
00:30:54,060 --> 00:30:56,820
weeks. Well, there'd be no shortage of
beans.

388
00:30:57,360 --> 00:31:00,820
Ah, but this isn't the common old garden
vegetable.

389
00:31:01,060 --> 00:31:04,040
If it has brains, it has reflexes.

390
00:31:04,540 --> 00:31:10,480
These tendrils would move, feed, protect
it. Oh, I beg your pardon.

391
00:31:10,820 --> 00:31:15,080
Now then, what puzzles me is its
digestive system.

392
00:31:15,300 --> 00:31:22,000
To germinate, this would require tons of
fertilizer, enormous heat, and endless

393
00:31:22,000 --> 00:31:23,240
supplies of water.

394
00:31:23,580 --> 00:31:25,740
Miss Sheldon, this has just arrived.

395
00:31:26,160 --> 00:31:31,780
Aha, now I shall be able to tell you
something. A report from the laboratory.

396
00:31:31,780 --> 00:31:33,640
sent some specimens up for analysis.

397
00:31:36,439 --> 00:31:42,280
Hydrochrome oxidase. A chemical enzyme
present in the tissue.

398
00:31:42,580 --> 00:31:44,240
But enzymes are perfectly harmless.

399
00:31:44,440 --> 00:31:47,060
Yes, but essential for growth.

400
00:31:47,460 --> 00:31:51,340
We may think ourselves lucky that this
was damaged.

401
00:31:51,860 --> 00:31:58,680
Why? On Earth, there's only one source
of hydrochrome oxidase. Man. Man?

402
00:31:58,820 --> 00:32:02,080
Yes, this was a man -eating plant.

403
00:32:04,010 --> 00:32:10,330
If it had germinated, it would have
required just as much as we require

404
00:32:10,330 --> 00:32:13,850
vegetables. Ah, it's lucky there's only
one of them.

405
00:32:20,430 --> 00:32:21,430
Increase.

406
00:32:32,830 --> 00:32:33,930
Temperature, five degrees.

407
00:32:38,170 --> 00:32:41,350
Please indicate rate of growth.

408
00:32:41,690 --> 00:32:44,030
Three hundred and rising teletype.

409
00:33:50,860 --> 00:33:51,839
Miss Sheldon?

410
00:33:51,840 --> 00:33:52,840
Collecting the herbicide.

411
00:33:53,220 --> 00:33:55,600
Well, if there isn't another seed, she'd
better be quick or we'll all be on the

412
00:33:55,600 --> 00:33:57,400
menu. That's only one of our problems.

413
00:33:57,620 --> 00:34:01,500
Oh? The missing horticulturalist. They
must have been under some sort of spell.

414
00:34:01,840 --> 00:34:02,719
How's that?

415
00:34:02,720 --> 00:34:03,720
Well, take Peterson.

416
00:34:04,040 --> 00:34:08,100
He ordered supplies, a special drill for
planting at the right depth. Well, how

417
00:34:08,100 --> 00:34:09,460
did he know? He must have been directed.

418
00:34:10,360 --> 00:34:13,460
Now, those missing scientists were hand
-picked by the plant.

419
00:34:13,719 --> 00:34:17,080
So why not pick on Alan or Miss Sheldon?
They were much more qualified. Why not

420
00:34:17,080 --> 00:34:18,400
indeed? Now, put that on.

421
00:34:19,659 --> 00:34:24,260
Well, don't you recognize a death aid?
Pardon? A death aid. Who needs a death

422
00:34:24,260 --> 00:34:27,659
aid? Breaking into the estate. Now, go
on, put it down. But if Alan and Miss

423
00:34:27,659 --> 00:34:30,420
Sheldon were... Were immune, what do
they have in common?

424
00:34:30,920 --> 00:34:32,179
Ah. Now,

425
00:34:33,159 --> 00:34:34,158
how does it work?

426
00:34:34,159 --> 00:34:37,780
Well, probably a transistorized circuit.
Acts as a barrier.

427
00:34:39,420 --> 00:34:40,699
A barrier. Oh!

428
00:34:41,659 --> 00:34:43,520
Yeah, well, don't lose it, will you? Why
not?

429
00:34:44,100 --> 00:34:45,620
The plant's only man -eating.

430
00:35:00,970 --> 00:35:02,130
Temperature to maximum.

431
00:35:41,900 --> 00:35:43,520
This herbicide, are you sure it'll work?

432
00:35:43,800 --> 00:35:44,800
Oh, yes.

433
00:35:44,820 --> 00:35:47,480
Nothing more effective than propionic
acid.

434
00:35:47,740 --> 00:35:52,460
A teaspoonful of this would kill a large
oak tree. Good. Well, let's hope the

435
00:35:52,460 --> 00:35:53,800
plants no bigger by the time we arrive.

436
00:36:39,950 --> 00:36:41,030
My friends, you've done well.

437
00:36:41,470 --> 00:36:44,250
And I promise you your services will not
go unrewarded.

438
00:36:44,930 --> 00:36:47,050
Your experience will prove invaluable.

439
00:36:48,690 --> 00:36:49,690
Have no fear.

440
00:36:50,070 --> 00:36:51,070
No fear.

441
00:36:51,650 --> 00:36:56,910
Protection will be afforded to you all
when we have complete control.

442
00:37:04,830 --> 00:37:05,830
Doctor!

443
00:37:06,610 --> 00:37:07,610
Where's the driver?

444
00:37:08,130 --> 00:37:09,230
I'll give you three gets.

445
00:37:09,740 --> 00:37:10,860
Come on, we'll park here.

446
00:38:14,640 --> 00:38:15,640
This is everybody.

447
00:38:47,950 --> 00:38:50,230
The battery must have... Miss Sheldon?

448
00:38:51,450 --> 00:38:56,990
Oh, dear.

449
00:38:59,830 --> 00:39:00,830
Oh, dear.

450
00:39:01,470 --> 00:39:02,850
How very extraordinary.

451
00:41:15,310 --> 00:41:16,570
You can't, Gloria.

452
00:41:16,830 --> 00:41:19,570
Oh, you should see it in the summer.

453
00:41:28,450 --> 00:41:29,450
It's the roof.

454
00:41:29,730 --> 00:41:30,890
The forest.

455
00:41:31,350 --> 00:41:35,530
The rate of growth is fantastic. You can
actually see it moving.

456
00:41:35,890 --> 00:41:37,430
It's growing darker every second.

457
00:41:38,910 --> 00:41:40,590
Peterson's office, the controller in
there.

458
00:42:43,690 --> 00:42:44,690
Don't touch that!

459
00:42:45,830 --> 00:42:47,110
Get away from it, you hear me?

460
00:42:47,670 --> 00:42:48,670
Get away from it!

461
00:43:25,870 --> 00:43:26,870
It's taken them all.

462
00:43:27,310 --> 00:43:28,310
Every one.

463
00:43:28,950 --> 00:43:32,270
You try, but you can't resist it. I'll
get you a drink. Thank you.

464
00:43:34,470 --> 00:43:35,770
It's covered the whole building.

465
00:43:36,550 --> 00:43:38,030
In a few hours, it'll feed.

466
00:43:47,650 --> 00:43:50,490
Keep it in. It'll act as a barrier
against the pull of the plant.

467
00:43:50,930 --> 00:43:52,630
Now, is there anything we can do?
Nothing.

468
00:43:54,540 --> 00:43:57,620
How does this work? Oh, it's too late
for that. It's out of hand. It's like

469
00:43:57,620 --> 00:43:58,720
prehistoric monster.

470
00:43:59,100 --> 00:44:01,160
The only chance is a powerful herbicide.

471
00:44:01,360 --> 00:44:02,339
We've got some.

472
00:44:02,340 --> 00:44:03,340
Miss Sheldon.

473
00:44:08,500 --> 00:44:10,180
Where's the herbicide? You had it last.

474
00:45:16,110 --> 00:45:18,130
I'm all right. Thank you, sir.

475
00:46:02,049 --> 00:46:03,990
Apparently not. How?

476
00:47:29,640 --> 00:47:32,200
It's all around us. We won't be able to
get out. The herbicide. Get it.

477
00:47:32,540 --> 00:47:33,740
What? The herbicide.

478
00:47:34,640 --> 00:47:35,740
Oh, yes.

479
00:47:46,340 --> 00:47:47,340
Oh, for heaven's sake, hurry!

480
00:48:21,320 --> 00:48:22,320
You think you don't work?

481
00:49:51,210 --> 00:49:54,390
What happened to... Oh, that.

482
00:49:55,230 --> 00:49:57,790
I'm a herbicidal maniac, didn't you
know?

483
00:50:03,950 --> 00:50:10,710
Lunch first, I think. Then meander away
across the Surrey Downs. Brew woodland

484
00:50:10,710 --> 00:50:11,710
glaze.

485
00:50:11,970 --> 00:50:15,950
Just in time for tea and clotted cream
with an old friend of mine.

486
00:50:16,810 --> 00:50:19,330
He runs a nursery, grows all sorts of
things.

487
00:50:19,790 --> 00:50:23,670
Roses, daffodils, giant climbers. What?

488
00:50:23,930 --> 00:50:25,930
They grow as tall as this.

489
00:50:26,470 --> 00:50:27,910
What are its eating habits?

490
00:50:29,210 --> 00:50:30,510
Strictly vegetarian.

491
00:50:34,230 --> 00:50:36,470
Oh, boy.