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Ticking

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Ticking continues

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rustling

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wind howls, ticking

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Inaudible chatter in distance

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woman: 'One three is three,
two threes are six,

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'three threes are nine, four threes are 12.'

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she giggles

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'five threes are 15, six threes are 18.'

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chuckling

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Quietly in distance:
'Eight threes are 24, nine threes are 27.

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'Ten threes are... 30!

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'Ten threes are 30.

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'11 threes are 33, 12 threes are 36!'

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she chuckles

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'now, come along, Helen, it's time for bed.'

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'but you promised I could have one more!'

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'oh! Henry?'

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'please, daddy?'

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'all right, all right.
I know, little miss muffet!'

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'yes!'

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'but this time you read for
mummy and daddy all by yourself.'

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'yes! Little miss muffet sat on her tuffet,
eating her curds and whey.

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'There came a big spider,

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'which sat down beside her,
and frightened miss muffet away!'

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one more!

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No, no more, it's late. Oh, please, mum!

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No! Please?

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Oh, come on, there's time for another one.

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Oh...
well, all right, then, but just the one.

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Erm...

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Mother and daughter: Ring-a,
ring-a roses, a pocket full of posies.

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A tissue! A tissue!

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We all fall down!

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Ticking

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Clicking

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Ticking continues

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wall clock stops

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desk clock stops

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all ticking stops

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he sighs

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Dad?

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Eerie electrical humming

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Dad? What's that noise?

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All the clocks have...

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Electrical humming continues

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Man: 'All irregularities
will be handled by the forces

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'controlling each dimension.

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'Transuranic heavily
elements may not be used

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'where there is life.

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'Medium atomic weights are available.

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'Gold, lead, copper...

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'..Jet diamond, radium,
sapphire, silver and steel.

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'Sapphire and steel have been assigned.'

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Sobbing upstairs

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Squeaking

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Squeaking stops

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where's mum and dad?

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Gone.

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It's all right, Helen. I'm here.

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So, where are they, mum and dad?

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Gone.

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Gone? Gone where?

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Out of the door, downstairs?

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Well, where, then?!

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Just... just went away...

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Here? In the room?

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You mean they disappeared, Helen?

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Yes.

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And the room didn't.

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They just went away.

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But not here, not in the room?

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Yes. They went away.

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Wind whistles

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Footsteps on gravel outside

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footsteps continue

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Drink your milk, Helen.

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Everything's all right, see?

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I ran all the way to the
phone box at skarl's edge,

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telephoned the policeman's
house at the point.

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I told him.

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He's coming out here!

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So, everything's all right, then, isn't it?

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I mean, that policeman,

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he'll only have to come to
the other side of the point,

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and cross the bay in a
boat and he'll be here.

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So, just drink your milk, Helen.

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I think it's going to be all right.

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Knock at door

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stay there.

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Who is it?

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Man: 'Robert Steven jardine?'

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yes?

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'You asked for help.'

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I did, yes!

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'Then unlock the door.'

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that was quick.

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I've only just phoned.

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I don't know you!

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Only... the policeman at the point!

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The policeman at the point isn't coming.

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I've contacted him

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and told him that everything
down here is under control.

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Well, it isn't!

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No.

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That's why we're here and not him.

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He's a shade too serious,
but you'll get used to him.

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But he's got no right to tell the policeman.

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Your parents have disappeared, right?

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Yes! And you want them back?

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Oh, course I want them... Safely?

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Yes.

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Well, then, your policeman at
the point with his idiot notebook

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and his idiot questions, stands no
chance of getting them back for you.

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But we do.

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Whatever it is that's happened to them,
my mother and father...

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..Is it serious?

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Dull electric whirring

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yes.

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How old would you say the house was?

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At a rough estimate, 250 years.

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It's old land, arable land.

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It's probably been that way for centuries.

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There could have been other
buildings on these foundations,

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back in time. Yes.

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Genuine antiques?

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I'd say, most of them.

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Some vibrations!

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And the surname, jardine.

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Old French.

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The father's name is Henry,
the mother's name is Sarah

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and the child is called Helen.

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How do you know?

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Old names, an old house.

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Lots of old things.

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Lots of old... old echoes.

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A pressure point, then?

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It could well be.

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Could well be it.

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You know so much about us?

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We do, yes.

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Then perhaps you'd like to say who you are,
what your names are.

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My name is sapphire and
my friend's name is steel.

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Sapphire? Yes.

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That's a... What?

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Well, that's a beautiful name.

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Thank you.

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There are lots of clocks in this house.

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Yes,
my father collects them and makes them work.

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Then why aren't they working now?
They do work.

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They all stopped when...

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Yes?

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Well, just before it happened.

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I did search the house after.

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At the time it happened, where were you?

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Down here in this room.

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And your parents were where?

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In Helen's room itself,
they were reading to her.

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Mummy and daddy just went away.

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I think we'd all better
go up to the top room.

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Yes. We'll take some clocks with us.

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Bring the child.

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When the clocks stopped,
did you hear anything?

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I heard Helen crying.

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Anything else?

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Well, there was this... Kind of sound.

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What kind of sound?

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Well... Describe it!

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It was like a low murmur,
a low rumbling sound.

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So, where've they gone?

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My parents?!

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Look! I want to know... now!

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I mean, you...
You come here, just like that,

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this place where you can hear people
or cars approaching from miles away!

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But you two, you arrived, just like that.

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Yes.

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So...

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Well, I want to know at least
something before we go in there

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to do whatever we're going to do.

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There is a corridor...

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'It can't be explained to him.'

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'it can, in a way, but not by you, perhaps.'

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there is a corridor and
the corridor is time.

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It surrounds all things.

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And it passes through all things.

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Oh, you can't see it,
only sometimes, and it's dangerous.

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This corridor... Can you enter it?

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No, not in the way you imagine.

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You cannot enter into time, but sometimes...

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Time can try to enter into the present.

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Break in.

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Burst through and take things.

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Take people.

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The corridor is very strong - it has to be.

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But sometimes, in some places,
it becomes weakened.

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Like fabric, worn fabric.

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And when there is pressure
put upon the fabric...

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Time comes in?

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Reaches in and takes out what it wants.

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And we think that time
has broken into that room.

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Broken through, and taken away your parents.

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Come on.

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Will they work again?

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Yes.

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They've simply wound themselves down,
that's all.

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But my father winds those
clocks almost every day!

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I expect he does.

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But clocks don't do that, it isn't possible!

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No, and yet it happened.

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You were in this room with your
mother and father and sister

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before you went downstairs? Yes.

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And that's the last you saw of your parents?

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Yes.

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Where was the child?

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Sitting up in bed.

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Like that? Kneeling.

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Kneel.

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It's all right, Helen.

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Your father was where?

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Sitting in that chair.

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Sit in it, will you, please?

222
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What?

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Just sit there.

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Please don't touch anything.

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Your mother was sitting
in the rocking chair?

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Yes.

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So, all three like this, then? Yes.

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I take it your mother was
reading aloud to the child.

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Yes.

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Reading from this book.

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She did it... She does it every night.

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My dad often sits with them.

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Traditional nursery rhymes.

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Do you know which particular
rhyme was being read

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when the clocks began to stop?

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No.

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When things began to happen...
No, I was downstairs.

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It is important to know the exact rhyme.

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Do you know which one it was?

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Helen?
She's not very talkative with strangers.

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Then you try.

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Helen... when mamma,
just before mum went away, you remember?

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What was she reading to you?
Which nursery rhyme?

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I don't know.

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You do know, Helen, tell us... please?

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The best one.

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Your favourite?

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Ring-a, ring-a roses?

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Good.

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Ring-a, ring-a roses dates
back to the time of the plague!

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Yes, another echo, another ingredient.

252
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Pages turn I've found it.

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Wait!

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Read the rhyme carefully.

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He winds clock whenever I raise my hand,
stop.

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When I lower it, continue.

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Right.

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Clock ticks if I say "back, back",

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reverse the order of the words immediately.

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I know. But carefully.

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Not one mistake, not even one wrong letter.

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No.

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All right.

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Now... begin.

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Ring-a, ring-a roses, a pocketful of posies,

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a tissue, a tissue, we all fall down.

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The king has...

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Ticking continues

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the king has sent his daughter
to fetch a pail of water.

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Ticking stops

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he whispers: Go on...

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A tissue, a tissue, we all fall down.

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Knocking

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the bird upon the steeple
sits high above the people.

275
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Door opens, creaking

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a tissue, a tissue, we all fall down.

277
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The cows are in the Meadow,
lying fast asleep,

278
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a tissue, a tissue, we all get up again.

279
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Wind whistles

280
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she screams

281
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she squeals, glass shatters

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electric humming

283
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the cows are in the Meadow,
lying fast asleep.

284
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A tissue, a tissue, we all get up again.

285
00:18:16,440 --> 00:18:18,959
Male voice echoes:
'The cattle in the Meadow...'

286
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the wedding bells are ringing,
the boys and girls are singing.

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Electric humming intensifies

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a tissue, a tissue, we all fall down.

289
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Hush, hush, hush, now we all get up again.

290
00:18:27,560 --> 00:18:32,639
The cattle in the Meadow, lying fast asleep.

291
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Hush, hush, hush, now we all get up again.

292
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No!

293
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Back! Backwards!

294
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Ringing are bells wedding the,
singing are girls and boys the.

295
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Tissue a, tissue a, down fall all we.

296
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Down...

297
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Fall all we.

298
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Pictures! I saw pictures!

299
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Yes, Helen.

300
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So, it's there, then? Yes.

301
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We can't seal it yet?

302
00:19:03,000 --> 00:19:05,119
No. Not till we've
brought those people back.

303
00:19:05,120 --> 00:19:07,159
But tear the rhyme out of the book!

304
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Destroy it.

305
00:19:21,320 --> 00:19:23,479
Has the child somewhere else to sleep?

306
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She can sleep in my room.

307
00:19:24,800 --> 00:19:26,559
Take her there, then, will you?

308
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Come on.

309
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Becca!

310
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Is there a key to this door?

311
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No. It was lost years ago.

312
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No-one is to come back into this room,
do you understand?

313
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Not till we've done what we have to.

314
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Take it downstairs and burn it.

315
00:20:38,720 --> 00:20:41,280
Wind whistles

316
00:20:42,560 --> 00:20:44,839
he sighs

317
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Helen's fast asleep.

318
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Ticking

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oh! I suppose I've surprised you.
Well, I fancied a change.

320
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Steel says I shouldn't use time as
if it's some sort of a wardrobe,

321
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but he's so serious.

322
00:21:00,240 --> 00:21:02,279
I get bored wearing the same old clothes.

323
00:21:02,280 --> 00:21:04,119
Now, salt and pepper?

324
00:21:04,120 --> 00:21:05,479
Over there.

325
00:21:05,480 --> 00:21:07,279
But where did you get them from? What?

326
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The clothes?

327
00:21:08,520 --> 00:21:11,039
Oh, these aren't real. Not real?

328
00:21:11,040 --> 00:21:13,119
No, these aren't real ones.

329
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Salt and pepper.

330
00:21:20,480 --> 00:21:23,519
Look, this was my favourite last week,
what do you think?

331
00:21:23,520 --> 00:21:26,319
Well, I think that... Yes?

332
00:21:26,320 --> 00:21:28,839
..I just think that you are beautiful.

333
00:21:28,840 --> 00:21:30,119
Thank you.

334
00:21:30,120 --> 00:21:33,319
And the name, sapphire...
Like blue, as if you were blue.

335
00:21:33,320 --> 00:21:34,919
And steel?

336
00:21:34,920 --> 00:21:38,079
Well, I suppose he's... Like steel, gray.

337
00:21:38,080 --> 00:21:39,519
Hm.

338
00:21:39,520 --> 00:21:41,679
The corridor, have you ever seen it?

339
00:21:41,680 --> 00:21:42,919
Seen inside it?

340
00:21:42,920 --> 00:21:46,039
Not properly.
I did catch a glimpse once, on a ship.

341
00:21:46,040 --> 00:21:48,199
A ship? Mm, in the middle of the sea.

342
00:21:48,200 --> 00:21:50,679
Anyway, it was a simple operation,
we fixed it.

343
00:21:50,680 --> 00:21:53,519
And you say you saw...?
Well, just a glimpse.

344
00:21:53,520 --> 00:21:55,719
It was like looking through frosted glass,

345
00:21:55,720 --> 00:21:57,879
all the images were blurred, and broken.

346
00:21:57,880 --> 00:21:59,319
Like the images upstairs?

347
00:21:59,320 --> 00:22:01,040
Something like that, yes.

348
00:22:03,160 --> 00:22:04,999
Sorry.

349
00:22:05,000 --> 00:22:06,879
Perhaps when you're finished telling the boy

350
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about the nicer aspects of our job,
you'll tell him about the dangers.

351
00:22:10,280 --> 00:22:12,999
He knows about them. He knows about them?

352
00:22:13,000 --> 00:22:15,839
About the dangers in this house?

353
00:22:15,840 --> 00:22:18,199
The corridor... Don't try and imagine it.

354
00:22:18,200 --> 00:22:21,439
It's immense. Time is immense.

355
00:22:21,440 --> 00:22:26,159
Try and imagine instead,
you, Rob, or your lifetime,

356
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as approximately one inch in length.

357
00:22:29,920 --> 00:22:33,479
Then compare it to the corridor of time,
which is...

358
00:22:33,480 --> 00:22:36,079
A thousand million miles long.

359
00:22:36,080 --> 00:22:39,879
One inch, you.

360
00:22:39,880 --> 00:22:43,679
Time and the unknown,
a thousand million miles.

361
00:22:43,680 --> 00:22:45,399
Just compare them.

362
00:22:45,400 --> 00:22:47,519
It's very, very big.

363
00:22:47,520 --> 00:22:49,919
And it's very, very dangerous.

364
00:22:49,920 --> 00:22:51,360
Dangerous?

365
00:22:52,840 --> 00:22:56,879
There are things, creatures, if you like,

366
00:22:56,880 --> 00:23:00,439
from the very beginnings of time,
and the very end of time.

367
00:23:00,440 --> 00:23:04,039
And these creatures have
access to the corridor.

368
00:23:04,040 --> 00:23:06,559
They're forever moving along it.

369
00:23:06,560 --> 00:23:08,559
Searching...

370
00:23:08,560 --> 00:23:10,679
Looking, trying to find a way in.

371
00:23:10,680 --> 00:23:12,199
Ticking intensifies

372
00:23:12,200 --> 00:23:15,519
they're always searching, always looking.

373
00:23:15,520 --> 00:23:17,479
For the hole in the fabric?

374
00:23:17,480 --> 00:23:18,639
Yes.

375
00:23:18,640 --> 00:23:21,199
But they must never be allowed in,
never, ever!

376
00:23:21,200 --> 00:23:22,439
Ticking slows

377
00:23:22,440 --> 00:23:25,319
you've already seen what can happen upstairs,
this evening.

378
00:23:25,320 --> 00:23:27,200
But we stopped them...

379
00:23:28,800 --> 00:23:30,279
..Held them.

380
00:23:30,280 --> 00:23:32,839
Took the trigger away from them.

381
00:23:32,840 --> 00:23:34,679
The trigger?

382
00:23:34,680 --> 00:23:37,239
Yes, the final ingredient.

383
00:23:37,240 --> 00:23:41,720
A certain traditional nursery rhyme,
spoken in a certain room.

384
00:24:06,560 --> 00:24:08,400
Mumma, daddy.

385
00:24:10,680 --> 00:24:12,879
No pictures!

386
00:24:12,880 --> 00:24:14,480
No pictures, Rebecca.

387
00:24:17,840 --> 00:24:22,439
Ring-a, ring-a roses,
a pocketful of posies...

388
00:24:22,440 --> 00:24:24,439
That's why we tore it out of the book.

389
00:24:24,440 --> 00:24:26,599
'Ring-a, ring-a roses...'

390
00:24:26,600 --> 00:24:28,079
that's why we burned it.

391
00:24:28,080 --> 00:24:31,879
A tissue, a tissue, we all fall down!

392
00:24:31,880 --> 00:24:34,359
And that's why sapphire and I...

393
00:24:34,360 --> 00:24:37,679
'The king has sent his daughter
to fetch a pail of water.

394
00:24:37,680 --> 00:24:40,959
'A tissue, a tissue, we all fall down!

395
00:24:40,960 --> 00:24:45,159
'The wedding bells are ringing,
the boys and girls are singing.

396
00:24:45,160 --> 00:24:49,159
'A tissue, a tissue, we all fall down.'

397
00:24:49,160 --> 00:24:52,959
the bird upon the steeple
sits high above the people.

398
00:24:52,960 --> 00:24:54,679
A tissue, a tissue, we all fall down.

399
00:24:54,680 --> 00:24:56,239
Loud electric whirring

400
00:24:56,240 --> 00:24:59,599
echoing: 'The cows are in the Meadow...'
Helen!

401
00:24:59,600 --> 00:25:01,479
'..Lying fast asleep. A tissue...'

402
00:25:01,480 --> 00:25:03,520
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