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Come on.

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All right, rough wind.

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It's all right. I'm awake.

I deal with fingers.

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Day

27. Experimental

project ES stroke 5 stroke treble 7

urban examination and

observation. Time of day 8:12 a.m. old

time. Month

January, old

calendar. Year

1,980

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AD.

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Heat. Heat.

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All irregularities will be handled by

the forces controlling each

dimension. Transuranic heavy elements

may not be used where there is life.

Medium atomic weights are available.

gold,

lead,

copper, jet, diamond, radium, sapphire,

silver, and

steel. Sapphire and steel have been

assigned.

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Put you back. Put you

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back. It's still

winter. Well, it would be, wouldn't

it? Eldrid and I seem to be adjusting

quite well to the cold weather. So does

the

baby. Our temperatures are normal.

That's living inside, of course, with a

comparatively civilized system of

heating.

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outside. I'd hate to imagine how we'd

survive outside.

I only have to look out to feel

threatened by it.

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This is the top

floor. And they must be here.

Oh, and I wanted to report a

transference

failure. Eldridge said it was not

important at this

stage, but it is to

me. After all, I am responsible for the

domestic side of this experiment, am I

not? You see, we stopped receiving

supplies of

nutrition 2 days

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ago. It's probably some simple breakdown

that you've already noticed back there.

So, I suppose there's nothing to worry

about.

We still have some supplies left. I'll

try to make them

last. We don't mind making a study of

20th century food, but we shouldn't like

to have to eat the

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stuff. Living room.

This place hasn't been lived in for

months.

We're too late. 86 days. What? It's been

empty for 86 days. It happened 86 days

ago.

No, we would have been told.

People from another time. People who

shouldn't be here. What would 86

terrestrial days mean to them one way or

the other? We would have known. If

something had happened to them, we would

have

known. This whole planet would have

known by now.

You've searched this whole building,

every floor, every room. I know, but

they're here. Well, what are these

people?

Invisible, microscopic?

I don't

know. But whoever they are, I know

they're somewhere here.

and whatever it is that intends to

attack them. I don't think it's even

started. Not properly.

The

kitchen. 8:28 a.m. Day 27.

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Steel. They are here.

Breakfast.

20th century style

steel. There would have been actual

items of food. There would have been

eggs, real eggs, natural

bread, natural

butter, and probably some kind of

preserve. A girl? No, not quite a girl.

A woman? Yes, a woman.

You mean you can hear her? No, I just

know she's here

somewhere. And a man. There's also a

man.

Where are they?

Wait, there's a third

one. A

child?

No, a baby. Yes, it's a small baby.

A

baby here. Yes.

Well, can you hear it? No.

Can they hear us? I don't think so. But

whoever they are, the atmosphere is

normal. It feels normal.

Yes. Well, it's far from

normal. I'm going to check the building

again. No, Steel.

I said they're here.

Here in this room.

No, in another time.

Where? Above

us. They're somewhere above us.

And as well as having to

prepare and cook this food for the

morning meal, our dear housewife and

mother of the late 20th

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century would have been organizing her

evening meal at about the same time. On

the

roof. They're hiding on the roof.

No, they're not hiding. In say nine out

of 10 homes, the main task in the

preparing of that evening

meal would have been the melting of or

the restoring to its proper temperature,

the principal element of that meal. And

that principal element would almost

always have

been a piece of dead

animal. Heat. Heat.

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Heat. Heat.

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What happened?

The attack has started.

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There may be another level. A rooftop

apartment.

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Heat. Heat.

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Hello.

What's wrong?

Nothing.

Lean forward.

Is this the last of the consignment?

Not quite.

Whatever it is, will you tell me,

please?

I mean, it's not as if they're likely to

leave us stranded here in time, are

they? I hope not. Did you hear that?

Yeah. What?

Stop now. It was about about there. Just

over there.

What was it? People talking. Two people.

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9:34 a.m. Day 27.

There it's there now. Voices. Only one

voice this time. I'd like a signal back,

please.

I'd like to be sure that you can still

hear

me. Would you please signal back?

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Can you hear what it's saying?

No. Careful. I don't trust this.

Neither do

I. What about the voice?

Gone. What is it?

Here. It's a wall.

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The wall ends

here. It's a

corner. There's more along there. What

about your side? The same.

Can you feel any windows or doors?

No, just a wall. Well, a wall texture.

It won't signal back.

No.

But what is the texture? Brick, stone,

what? It feels like brick and

yet and yet it has a composite strength.

A strength like metal. It's homogeneous.

Oh, yes. All of one texture. Whatever

this is made of, it's synthetic. Well,

can you identify the substances?

No.

So, which one did you try?

The master panel.

Well, we usually get an instant signal

back from that, don't we?

Yes.

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Experimental project ES stroke 5 stroke

treble 7.

We have been told that certain people

are experimenting with time. People from

the not too distant past or the not too

distant future. Am I right? That's

right. Yes. And consequently, as nobody

should mess around with time except us.

Except

us. That these people are in danger. And

not only them, time itself is in danger.

I think that it's a

capsule and that its crew is a family. A

small family of three.

And tell me something else. From what

date? What what time is that thing? I

mean, give me an estimate.

It's from the

future.

About 1500 years.

Could we please have a signal

back? Only we seem to have lost all

means of communication with

you. Also, the transference system seems

to have broken down. We're getting no

supplies and we've our child here with

us,

remember? So, if you could try to signal

back. I'm frightened.

Frightened?

Yes. Because there's something else.

Something else is

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happening.

Careful. It's all right. It's quite

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safe. And you say they're

hallucinations?

Yes.

Well, I shouldn't worry. No.

No. You were trained to sense things. It

was part of your studies, wasn't it? So,

that's bound to make you more receptive

than the rest of us.

Remember when you used to put your hands

to the sides of your head and think hard

so that you could gain insight, so that

you could communicate? I mean,

communication.

Yes, I really am frightened. Frightened

for all of us.

All

right, we'll talk to the others this

evening. Yes. See what they think.

This is a terrible part of time in which

to be trapped. But we're not trapped.

It's brutal. It's cruel. People like us,

we never survive. But we're safe in

here. We're protected. Nothing can

possibly get in. Not in here. But the

things I felt, the things I saw. A

pillow. How can we possibly be harmed or

feel threatened by a

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pillow? Steel.

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Still, there's something in there with

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them. Still, can you hear

me? Steal your

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back.

Steal. Steal. Whatever it is, it's seen

you. Steal. It's coming for

you.

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Still steal.

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the

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child.

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Heat. Heat.

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Heat. Heat.

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Did you see it? Yes.

A

bird. Some kind of bird.

was a swan,

but not a real one. Not

exactly. I'd say it was being used as an

instrument of attack. Well, it did a

good job. It came through that thing.

No, it appeared to. Appeared to. I was

the victim of that attack.

Where are the

marks? It's still trying to destroy me.

Oh yes.

Something soft, something made of

feathers. And yet it can reach out and

strike. Strike through that thing. And

we can't even scratch the surface.

Why a

swan? Why not something like an eagle?

Does it matter? Yes.

The only thing that matters to me right

now is who or what provoked that attack.

What do you think? Was it our little

family in there? Or was it whatever's

hiding in there with them?

I don't know yet.

Time to set the charges. No, Steel. Yes,

Sapphire. I have to. As a precaution, we

have to be

prepared. We just might lose this one.

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What about the people downstairs? That's

their bad luck. You're talking about the

lives of 63 people and 15 animals.

They'll be saving the whole of humanity.

Human beings love a good sacrifice.

Don't worry. When a building falls down,

they'll blame the architect.

It's only a precaution.

Hopefully, all we have to do is to block

off this

stairway, keep the roof, this

floor, and that invasion force to

ourselves. What about the lift? I'll

arrange it so it only comes up as far as

the eighth floor. Why don't you just

immobilize it? Oh, no. Life must go on

normally down there while we do what

we've been set to.

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They're only human beings.

They are capable of creating something

that is invisible and

impenetrable. Of what else are they

capable? Friends upstairs with 1,500

years of accumulated knowledge.

Who knows what their plans

are? What their reason is for being

here.

A man, a woman, and a baby. It's hardly

an invasion force, is it?

And

here

look in that that coach it moved by

itself.

These things, Eldridge, where did they

come from? Things? Yes. Everything.

Everything in this place. The furniture,

the clothes, everything. Where did it

come from? It was provided.

Are they real antiques? Well, some may.

I mean, they can't be real. They're in

too good a condition to be antiques.

Then perhaps a reconstruct. I need to

know. Well, I'm sorry. I don't know.

Everything was provided.

And this How did this get here?

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Look. Look. They're objects. That's all.

Items. Pieces of equipment.

Well, one of these objects, one piece of

this equipment tried to kill our child.

Oh, sweet. And you? It tried to make me

kill you. What?

Rothwin, I've just seen the

child. There's nothing wrong with it.

Well, what about these things? How do

they move? I've never seen them move.

And the woman?

Woman?

Yes, I saw a woman dressed in blue. Very

beautiful. So, where did you see her?

Well, I saw her outside.

Outside?

Yes. Then how could you see her?

Well, I saw her through the wall, of

course.

In there.

Which wall?

That one.

Eldrid, we have to go back. Back to our

proper time as soon as possible. If the

communications are broken down, it's

only a temporary fault. You said that.

Yes. Yes. A chart to be only temporary.

Well, perhaps in the meantime, you could

contact the others.

I've already said that I would this

evening,

Elry. Yes, because there's a thoughts as

well.

Thoughts? Yes. They only began today

after I What kind of thoughts?

Well, just a strong desire to leave

here. But haven't we just said, "No,

these thoughts have nothing to do with

leaving this time period, just with

leaving this

place. Just a strong desire to pick up

the child and leave. To escape, I

suppose." Escape?

Yes. It's as if something's

urging me to go outside.

But you know that's impossible.

Yes. We're sealed in

here. The doors and the

windows, they're not

real. These

thoughts, do you have them at this

moment?

So, could you please contact the others?

Perhaps I will later. Well, why not now?

What's wrong with now? Because it's part

of the procedure of this project. Lots

of things going on in this contraption

that have nothing to do with the rules

and regulations of the project.

Yes. And the state of your mind is

obviously one of them.

All

right, I'll set up the screens. Thank

you.

Look, it's still receiving information.

I know that. You see, a change in time,

it can be like a sudden change in

altitude. Some minds just can't adjust.

But I was chosen because of my training.

Problem?

Well, I think that deserves a report.

Don't you?

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Time is the measure of duration or

continuous existence without reference

to extension in space.

Absolute time is unrelated to matter or

motion and is continuous, unlimited and

infinitely

divisible. Relative time by which

duration is measured with reference to

events.

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The stairs, they're

blocked. All of them. Does it between

the eighth and ninth

floor? This looks all complicated. Take

a knot in the cable. When it goes up as

far as the drum, then lift will only

come up as far as the

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eighth floor.

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Cidurial time is based on the rotation

of the earth with respect to the

stars. Solar time is based on the same

movement with respect to the sun. And as

the solar day varies in length because

of the earth's own movement in its

orbit, time as measured by clocks,

chronometers, etc. is computed on the

basis of an average or mean solar day.

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Experimental project. ES stroke 5 stroke

treble

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7. Urban study group transmitting to

rural study group.

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So either something is happening here or

it's my mind, my imagination.

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Urban study group transmitting to rural

study

group. Rural study group room two

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please.

Hello.

Hello. Urban study group transmitting to

provincial study

group. Back to rural study

group. Room three,

please. I realize that you cannot advise

me at this stage, but perhaps a medical

analysis will be of use in the interim

period. In the meantime, there's nothing

to worry about. We're making contact

with the other two study groups. As you

know, there's a doctor in study group

three. Perhaps he can help. Provincial

study group two, please.

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Godwin, Alfredo.

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Solar time is always at the same length

and has no real

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existence. Heat. Heat.

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steel.

What is it?

There are three power sources being

used. So,

one

is one is some kind of

tabulator for record keeping.

Yes. Well, we we predicted that.

Now that stopped. That one

stopped. The second one.

Well, I think that's the system for

communication. Communication between

them and who else? I'm not sure. Yes,

it's definitely a means of

communication.

Is there anything unusual about it?

Well, it all

fits. Records,

communication. It's not those two power

sources I'm worried

about. It's the other one. The third

one.

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Yes. Here. I'm in line with it here.

Which way? It's wrong. The third one is

wrong. Where is it? Something else is

wrong. The child. Maybe. It's no longer

in there.

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The man and the woman are still there.

And there's someone else. I think it's

another adult. You think? I'm not sure,

but there is a connection between

between the third power source and the

new adult. Yes. What is the third power

source? The third power source. What is

it?

It's not

power. It's not energy as

such. It's

time. It's

time. It's

time. It's time. What would that family

have used to travel back 1500 years?

Time itself. What form would it take?

A unit. Some sort of machine.

They've succeeded in crystallizing a

unit of

time.

Yes. A crystal of

time. Then it could be

unstable. A time unit gone wrong.

Well, I can't communicate with it. Not

without being in there.

So, it's not an outside force that's

attacking it. It's an inside one.

Something that came with them. Something

that they used to travel back from 1500

years. It helped to bring them back.

Why isn't it on their side

anymore? Try to communicate with it. I

can't communicate with the crystal.

No. Oh, go on. Time's your your

specialty. They have things in

common. All right. If you can't

communicate with it, then try exciting

it. But let's see it. All

right. I'll try.

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It's no good.

Keep trying.

It's a piece of apparatus. I can I can

analyze its function. You've already

done that.

Try to communicate with it. I can't

possibly.

Is it only a machine? Yes.

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No. No, it's not. It's not only a

machine. Well, not completely. Not all

of it.

I can't. You can tell

me it's

capable of so many

things. Tell

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me

no.

No. The

pain. The

pain for

always forever.

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Sappa. Sappa.

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Please, Sapphire, where are you?

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Come

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on. You're welcome.

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Good

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morning. I fixed the lift, I'm afraid.

I wasn't going to walk up.

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Oh, it's all right. I haven't touched

your knot.

Silver, don't touch it.

I'd be careful if I were you. It's a

capsule from 1500 years in the

future. Of course, you don't have to

take my word for it. Oh, I believe you.

Good.

Steel. Steel.

Where's Sapphire?

What? What is it? I'll show you.

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Ah, there you are. What do you mean no?

Oh, what? Just no. She won't be in

there.

Not in there. Look, if you know

something I don't No, no, no. I know

about communications. I know about

machines. That's

all. Um, would you excuse

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me? Oh, that's not the only capsule, by

the way. There were two others. Did you

know that?

What exactly are you doing here? Me?

Yes. Why did they send you? Believe it

or not, I just happen to be passing.

Why? Well, it has nothing to do with the

danger to this planet. Well, not

directly. Anyway, but uh if you were to

destroy that capsule, you would increase

the uh danger. And that's why they sent

you to tell me that.

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Not exactly.

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Some unknown force is doing its best to

cause havoc with that capsule. And if I

destroy the capsule, I would be

assisting that force. If you like. Yes.

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How is it that you seem to know more

than I do? Oh, I wouldn't say that. I

would. My information was wrong. No, not

wrong. Incomplete, perhaps, but not

wrong. I'm going to need this.

Whatever attacked me is in that capsule

on the roof.

something that came with those people

from the

future. If we're going to eliminate it,

we have to get into that

capsule. But we are not equipped to

enter a place that isn't there. We

Sapphire and I Ah, we cannot enter a

structure that does not

exist. I was almost destroyed trying and

now Sapphire has disappeared.

But there must be a way in. Well,

actually there

is. And that's why I'm here.

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But there must be a way in.

Well,

actually there

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is. And that's why I'm here.

What's wrong? Oh, nothing really. Just a

sort of echo

here in this room. Yes.

No. Half in this room, half in my

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head. I don't hear

anything. It's

gone. I don't hear anything. I don't

hear anything.

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Whatever it

was, it's

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gone. When can we go in?

As soon as I prepare the way. Good,

because I need Sapphire back. Oh, quiet.

I know how you feel.

You do? Yes,

we She's very attractive.

The other two capsules.

Where are they located? You don't need

to worry about them. They don't matter

anymore.

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Urban study group calling rural study

group.

Anyone there?

Nothing at all. See? And you called

them? I've been calling them for the

past

hour. Ro experiment, room

four. It could be just a minor

breakdown. Remember how they were always

going wrong during the preparation

course? We should still be seeing the

others. Not necessarily. We're seeing

that. Why aren't we seeing them? Because

they're all we've got. Royal experiment

room three, please.

If we're trapped here, they are all

we've got. No one else can help us.

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The others, they wouldn't have gone back

without us, would they?

No, of course not. It'll be dark

soon. I must see to the child. Yes.

Come with me.

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What's happened to it?

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Look,

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Elri, the child, he's

gone. How come you have gone?

Look,

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it it feels like sand.

There was a

glass glass of water on that

table. Perhaps you believe me now. Frost

wind. No.

I'm going to find my child.

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Hello.

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They have some sort of communications

room. Now, what we have to do is to find

the room that's directly below it. It'll

be on the same scale. I saw it. You know

what? The inside of the capsule just

briefly before Sapphire disappeared.

Well, can you describe it? No.

Would you hold that for a moment,

please? Thank you.

It was just a glimpse, nothing more.

Can't be helped.

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[Laughter]

Apparently, all three capsules have the

same ground plan as one of these flats.

Identical

layouts. You've worked with her a lot,

haven't you?

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Do you hear that? Yes. No. Rothwin,

what's your solution this time then? Do

I have another talk to a monitor to a

box on the wall? Will that help?

Rothwin, whatever's happening here,

whatever happens to us, nothing is going

to harm my child.

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quickly. Roth. But I know him.

Please, Roth.

But I do. I know him.

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The other

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Are there any more rooms?

Just one.

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Silva, what is

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this? Success at last.

Catch.

This is the one good

steel. What was that?

I thought I steal.

I'm in the top floor flat. Where are

you? I'm in some kind of communications

room, but I can't find any controls.

You mean you're above us in the capsule

on the roof?

No, I'm not. Well, where are you? I'm in

another capsule. I suppose we should

call it capsule number two. Have you

looked in any other rooms there? Yes,

I've seen all that there is to see. Does

it have a

crew? Safar,

they're all dead. That's why they don't

matter anymore. That's right. Sapphire.

Yes.

Silver is here with me.

Good.

He's going to get us into the capsule.

This one here. I understand.

Sapphire.

Silver. I shall have. According to

Silva, this is the governing one. The

main one. This is where the power source

lies. Silva is right. Of course, he

always is.

Tell me more about the crew of the

second capsule. Come with me. Well, how

can I? Just follow my voice. I'll talk

you around the place. But it's a

different It's the same. It's the same

plan, the same layout. Just step into

your hallway.

How long?

Soon. Very

soon. As long as you're back in here.

And she's back in her communication room

in um 4

minutes and 32 seconds.

Quite a work of art, isn't it?

But I suppose you'll prefer something a

little less

decorative, something

more coldly efficient.

Are you through the door?

Yes.

This is the downstairs hallway of a

farmhouse.

Now turn right and follow the corridor

around. This capsule is disguised as

just one floor of a

farmhouse. None of the windows or

entrance doors are functional.

Everything is sealed. There's no way in

or

out. The sun will have set in an hour or

so here. What about there?

the same.

It wasn't an invasion force after all.

Well, if it was, this crew wasn't a part

of it.

What do you suppose they were doing?

You're part of a survey team.

What were they surveying? I don't know.

Something fairly harmless. The survival

of the family structure into the 20th

century or something like

that. Only it turned out to be far from

harmless. Safar.

Sorry. Now, there's something very

strange just here. What was once glass

or glass ornaments has been turned into

silicon dioxide, sodium carbonate, and

calcium oxide.

Sand, soda ash, and lime. Yes. The glass

has reverted to its original silicut

statement.

Anyway, the crew

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The main

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bedroom. There are five bodies, two

adults, three

children. Were they attacked? No, I

would say that they died by their own

hand,

but something drove them to it. You can

be sure of that. Whatever's in the main

capsule.

Yes, it's responsible for this.

Sapphire. Yes. In a few seconds, we're

going into that main capsule.

We could be too late again.

Nevertheless, we're going in. There's

still the time for us. That crystal to

be dealt with. Yes.

Go back to the communications room right

now. There must be a screen in there.

Some kind of a screen. Yes. Is it

activated? Yes, it is. Then go to that

screen, stand by it, and

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wait because we'll all be going in

together. All three of us at the same

time.

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No.

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No. Heat. Heat.

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I'm ready, Steel. I'm ready to go

in. Down just a little bit more.

Perfect.

Steel, tell her to stay close to the

screen. You tell her. Yes, why not? Stay

close to the screen. So far,

wait, something's changed. What do you

mean changed? Well, do you remember the

last time we were on the roof? Yes. And

I said I sensed the child was gone. That

it was no longer in there. I remember

that. Yes. Well, now the two adults seem

to have gone. And the child, it's still

not there. It's still not in there.

Well, who is in there? The third one,

the other

adult. That's all. That's the only

person left in the capsule. What about

the power source? the the crystal.

Nothing. It's as if it's dead. I could

always try to

No. Whatever you do, don't make contact

with it again.

Are you ready? Yes. Still, because I

think I know what it might be trying to

do,

right? It better be quick. Oh, it'll be

quick. Because if it catches us halfway,

you wouldn't need to do that. What? What

it has to do is to switch off that

screen.

How would you like to be transported

1500 years into the future? Tell Safar

it's now.

Now,

Sappa.

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[Music]

Heat. Heat.

two days

[Music]

ago. Heat.

[Applause]

[Music]

You both came through there.

Yes. What happened? Just look at this

place. I said what happened? We got in.

That's what happened. There was a

defensive time field, a sort of vacuum.

And that was it.

This place is amazing. Who set up this

time field? Whoever made the capsule, it

was built in. Some sort of security

device. The time source wasn't involved.

Well, it must have had something to do

with it. That would have been part of

its job.

Sensory controls. It's all very

sophisticated. Don't touch anything. Oh,

absolutely not. You know, this must be

one hell of a communications problem.

I said don't touch anything not in here.

What is it? Steel. But if that time

source was involved with the defensive

field. It's bound to be. It's involved

with everything. Right. It brought the

capsules here. It's instrumental in

bringing. But what would it have used to

create that field? It would have been

space, wouldn't it? No. No. Static

space. So it could have left us out

there in time and space. Yes. Yes. It

could have left us there indefinitely if

it wanted to. And why didn't it? It's

been fighting us ever since we got here,

trying to prevent us from getting in.

Why not this time? When it would have

had the advantage.

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Yes.

Do we go back the same way? There's no

other way.

There's a comforting

thought, Sapphire.

I I don't quite understand. It hasn't

been burned and it hasn't been cut. But

what has happened to it? It's lost its

No, it's never achieved its molecular

structure. In other words, this part of

the door has never

existed. Zinc carbonate, parietes of

copper, and cellular tissue, plant

tissue, the primary states of brass and

wood. Do you mean something someone did

that?

Yes.

And whoever it was,

they were standing

here. They were standing right here.

When? Not long before we arrived.

So where are they now?

Somewhere. We better locate it first.

Look, I get you in, I get you out. I'm a

technician. I'm not an explorer.

You want to wait here?

Alone?

No, wait.

These are real, just like in the other

capsule.

But this isn't.

No bricks, no plaster work.

Is it the same as the outside wall? Yes,

it's synthetic material. What about the

people? There's still only one.

could have been wrong. Wrong? Yes. About

the crew members, I could easily have

been wrong.

My calculations could No,

you were right the first time.

I told

you sealed.

There was a child in here.

How long ago? Few hours. And now

Same sort of material as the outside

wall. Some kind of um metal.

Look.

Good heavens. It's all over the place.

Now, this had happened in the other

capsule. What is it? You mean what was

it? All right. What was it? It's glass.

When? A few hours ago. You

mean like this?

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[Applause]

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Nothing. No.

Nobody. Not a soul.

And where have they gone?

However, there is something here. Some

kind of machine.

The time source. No, no, not that kind

of power. It's some sort of recording

device or a transmitter. Something like

that. Transmitting to where? Back to

their base control, I suppose. To a base

control, it's 1500 years in the future.

Yes. Now, what sort of signal would they

need for that? Is it working now? No.

No. It needs to be triggered. I could

get it to operate. I'm sure you could.

I'm sure you could cause a fair amount

of panic in the process. Panic? Back at

base? I mean, what's the first thing

they might do if they heard strange

voices coming over the wires?

It's recall the capsule. Do you think

you could get us off in time? No. Steel.

It's in here in this room.

It can't be it. Yes.

Something. Someone.

You stay there.

Up there on that level. Yes. Where?

There.

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There. Come back down here.

Sapphire. Sapphire.

[Music]

Where are the

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others? Where are the

others?

Others. The woman and the child. Where

are they?

There are no others.

Do you know who we are?

Yes.

And are you not surprised to find us in

here?

Yes.

Safar. I can't do an analysis. Not from

here.

I need to be closer to him. No.

Tell us about your project.

Project? Yes. Your reason for being

here.

I mean, you're part of a a team, aren't

you? Part of a survey

team on a survey into the past.

Yes.

Prepare.

Experimental project ES stroke 5 stroke

7

urban examination and observation.

All references according to old time and

old

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calendar.

Fine. Now, where are the

others? The other members of your

team. Where are they?

There are no

others. There's only me.

Well, if that represents the future, he

doesn't. But he does steal. In a way, he

does. How can that possibly represent

future? Some kind of future. I'm just

not sure.

His own future.

He

represents his own future. It's time.

It's to do with time.

That's a machine. No. And I can fix a

machine anyway. Don't interrupt, Silver.

Come on now, Steel. You've tried talking

to that thing. What sort of answers have

you had? It's human. It can't be. Leave

it to Sapphire. Let her work it out.

Humans give answers. Proper answers.

Machines don't. We're risking our lives

in this contraption.

[Music]

Human. You are human. No, Sapphire. Keep

clear. But there's something

wrong. It's at the beginning.

It doesn't know anything. It doesn't

sense anything. See, I told you it's a

machine. No, it has no knowledge. But it

has a need. It depends on things. What

things?

Warmth and

sleep. It needs

sleep and

warmth and food.

[Music]

and love.

[Music]

Steel. It's a baby. A baby? Yes.

How old is it? 10, 12

weeks. So, I'm afraid you've both fallen

into the trap of attributing human

characteristics to a simple, flexible

casing and a handful of circuits. They

can easily program a machine to have a a

child's mind. A child's Why would they

do that? I don't know why, but I can

soon find out. I'll open it up. No. You

keep away from it. Look. Steel. Steel.

Steel. Steel. Steel. I am the

technician.

[Music]

And there's no machine past, present, or

future that I cannot handle.

[Music]

[Music]

Let it follow

you. I want to get behind it. Go on.

Make it follow you.

[Music]

[Music]

You can't kill it, Ste. You can't hurt

it.

[Music]

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No, I won't.

It tried to resist something. Did you

notice? Yes. Whatever it is that's

controlling it. The time source. It must

be.

What is he? A human transmutation. I

suppose you could call it a changing.

A changing? a substitute child. It's old

folklore. Except that this child hasn't

been substituted for another.

He's been substituted for himself. Give

or take 30 years. Yes. I wonder what he

did to Silver. What he did to everything

else like the door?

I think he sent him back to where? To

the beginning. to his beginnings. Maybe

even further than that.

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What is it?

I was just trying to imagine, but it's

impossible. Imagine what? Silver having

any kind of beginning, any kind of

childhood.

That's strange. My thoughts exactly

about Silver?

No. About you?

[Music]

He's the baby from this room.

Yes. I have very positive

origins. Inexpressable

maybe, but positive.

[Music]

Without silver, we don't stand a chance

of getting out of this capsule. What

about the What are you going to do about

it? Try to get him back.

He has sent Silva back to a time when he

when he never even existed.

What did you say?

What about the parents of that child?

Well, he could hardly have sent them

back into the past. If he done that, the

child itself wouldn't exist. It wouldn't

be here.

Well, maybe he sent them in different

directions. Yes, the opposite direction.

Do you remember the hands?

Left hand the past. Right hand the

future. Well, it could be.

It could be.

Yes. There must be a power system

[Music]

somewhere. It must be the machinery.

[Music]

[Music]

This room is very

special. It's the only one that isn't

pretending to be something else. Room

from the future. Yes. But how does it

work when there's no machinery? Nothing.

Nothing we can see. Well, how did it get

here? How do we send it back? We can't

send it back. Not without its crew. All

right. While we're waiting around,

waiting for them to reappear, what do

you suggest we do?

I have no idea

precisely. So, get Silva back. No. No.

You're not forgetting the time source.

I mean, I thought you were worried.

Worried?

That it's all gone too smoothly. That we

got in here too easily? No, I'm not

forgetting the time source. And yes, I'm

still worried. Good. Now, take time back

to when the three of us were

together in the living room. See you

back

there. I have impeccable origins.

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No, no.

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Heat. Heat.

[Music]

Heat. Heat.

[Music]

[Applause]

[Music]

day 27.

Experimental project ES stroke 5 stroke

treble 7 urban examination and

observation. Time of day 8:27

a.m. I'd like to report a transference.

Measure of duration for your continuous

existence without reference to extension

in

space. Absolute time is unrelated to

matter or motion and continuous,

unlimited and infinitely

divisible. Relative time by which

curation is measured with reference to

events. Curial time is based on the

rotation of the Earth with respect to

the star. Silver. I'm afraid you've both

fallen into the trap of attributing

human characteristics to a simple

flexible casing.

Steel, steel, steel, steel, steel,

steel, steel, steel. Time as measured by

clocks, chronometers, etc. is computed

on the basis of an average or mean. So

the

day which is always the same length and

has no real existence.

[Applause]

What do you mean you can't work in

there? It's impossible. I just can't

operate. Not in that room. Then try

another room. Try the screen room. No,

it has to be the room that Silver was

last in. What's stopping you? The room

itself.

It's alive. With what? With time.

You mean it knew your reasons for going

into that room? Well, it must have done.

What other reason would it have for

setting up a barrier like that?

So, you are unable to take time back

under these circumstances? Yes.

I haven't got the power.

Yeah, but it has. Obviously.

You thinking what I'm thinking? Yes. The

same thoughts. You can't use your powers

and I can't but do what I've been sent

to do and take this capsule back to

where it belongs because the crew aren't

here. We've lost our technician.

the only one who can get us out and get

us

in. He's

a useful sort of person, isn't

he? I miss

him. There's a time field outside this

place and now apparently a time barrier

within.

What did you do? What I do when when you

entered the room, did you prepare

things? What?

I I just thought about what I had to do

to take time back and to get Silver

back. You only had to think it. Yes.

Think it now.

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steel.

Yes, I saw

that. Come back here.

The roof. Yes, but the past or the

future? I don't know. It could have been

either. Try it here. Take time back here

when you and I and Silva first came out

from the screen

room. Try that.

[Music]

So, which one did you try?

The master pan.

Well, we usually get an instant signal

back from that, don't we?

Yes.

[Music]

That was people from the future.

Oh, why were they dressed like that?

It's part of their experiment. Did you

expect something different? Yeah.

Some sort of transmitter, Silver said.

Yes. And a monitor. Something that sees

us, watches us. Well, there's probably

one in every room.

Maybe there is nothing

tangible. Maybe there doesn't need to

be.

[Music]

Steel. It's here.

I'm in line with it here. Do you

remember on the roof?

Yes. Here. I'm in line with it here.

Yes, I remember.

[Music]

It's very powerful, Steel. It can do

anything. Try to communicate with it. I

can't possibly. Is it only a machine?

Yes. Capable of doing anything it wants?

Yes. Capable of everything?

Yes.

Those clever people of the future with

their brilliant

minds. They harnessed it, used it,

whatever it is. Oh. Oh. Oh,

no. The

pain. It's all right. It's all right.

It's all

right. Wait here.

[Music]

It

moved. Good.

Anything now? No.

If only we knew how these walls were

constructed. could be anywhere

as

it has a right to be anywhere in this

capsule. Could have access to any part

of

it built in.

What were those noises? Sounds of pain.

What's that?

The whole capsule is built like that.

See

if you never shift.

Silva could.

Yes, Silva probably could.

Maybe there is a way of getting him

back. Steel. A quick way. A swift way.

Look. Blood. It's animal

blood. Animal

blood. What exactly are they guilty of?

And what have they used as a time

source? That's capable of everything.

Yeah. Well, there's one thing it hasn't

been capable of doing. Something decided

to disobey it. Remember the left hand,

the past, the right hand, the future. I

mean, what would happen if steel? It's

dangerous. I know. Oh, I live

dangerously. What would happen if you

disappeared as well? You just have to

cope as best you can. You know what it

can do. I know very well what it can do.

Still, remember, it's watching you. It's

listening to you. Don't you see? That's

what I'm relying on. You cannot take

that chance. All

right. All right. I'm just going to talk

to

it. What is your name?

name.

Yes, you must have a

name. We want to help

you. We want to give you

back the things you need.

sleep and

warmth and

food. Those are the things you

want, aren't

they? Well, we are going to help you.

to get those things

back. You'd like that, wouldn't

you? You'd like that a

[Music]

lot. Going to give you everything you

want. And you know

what? We're going to send you back.

send you

back where you belong.

No, he will hurt you.

[Music]

No.

[Music]

I'm going to die.

[Applause]

[Music]

[Laughter]

[Music]

The past again. This is the present.

The present.

your

child. He's quite safe. He's unharmed.

We've brought him back for you. Brought

him back from where? Don't ask them

anything. I want to know what happened.

Don't even talk to them. I believe you

now. The things? The things you said

you'd seen? Well, now I believe you.

We're both imagining things. Not

imagining anything. Well, of course we

are. These people are real.

Well, aren't you? Yes, we're real.

What are your names? How can they

possibly be real?

How could we possibly not be?

[Music]

What are your names? You might as well

tell him. We can't. His name is Eldred.

Mine is Rothwin. Names from the past.

Oh,

yes. But you're from the

future. Am I right? You're right.

And there's only the three of you.

Well, tell me.

Yeah. Yes. There's only the three of us

here. But it's impossible. What's

impossible?

Them being here. No one can enter this

place. No one can get in. No.

No one from this time period. Where are

you from? Please wait here until you're

[Music]

[Applause]

[Music]

needed. Ah.

Oh, I was just about to No, no, I was

just

Well, I was just in the process of doing

something. Yes. So, what was it? You

were busy making a mistake. I never make

mistakes. Come here. In fact, I'm unable

to make mistakes. It's built in. Instant

reduplication. It never fails. It did

this time. No, it silver.

Open that.

Well, can you? It would help if I knew

what it was. Just a minute.

Would you mind? What?

I think he wants us to go with him. Come

on.

This is

them. What is that?

What's behind there? We don't know. Why

should we know? Because you belong in

this thing. That's why. We're not What?

Well, we're not engineers.

What are you then? Historians,

researchers? Look both. Well, you don't

know what it is that brought you here.

But not how it did. You don't know that.

No. Well, what information can you give

us? You are in danger. Do you know that

much? Well, yes, we realize that. Good.

Cuz we put ourselves in danger because

of you. Don't thank us. It's not you we

care about.

You'll just have to guess, right?

[Music]

We are

real and it is our job to safeguard the

structure of time. The past, the

present, and the future. All of it.

It was an experiment. That's all.

Experiment. Yes. I mean, what's the

point of a future? What's the use of

accumulated technology? What's the use

of learning? You can't experiment. Yes.

If you can't go bulldozing back where

you don't belong. We haven't exactly

bulldozed where we You came here hoping

to play happy families in the 20th

century, but it's gone wrong, hasn't it?

You're stuck here. You're stranded. You

don't even know how to use the machinery

that brought you here that left you

here. And then there's a language. You

just about got that right for the

present time. Thank you. But not the

names you chose. You got those wrong by

several hundred years. How's that for

learning?

How's that for accumulated technology?

[Music]

Um, do you think I might have

that? What about me?

[Music]

Thank you.

I need to tell them.

Tell them what?

Well, there are others. Others like us

here. Two other groups. We already know

that.

But there's an engineer in one of the

other groups. Perhaps he could help. I'm

afraid it's too late.

Too late?

They're all dead.

Ah, something out of nothing.

How did they die? The others, we'd like

to know how they died.

They killed

themselves because of the danger. Not

only to them but to everything and every

Yes.

Would you have done the same thing?

Well, if it meant You can always do it

now. You know, it save us a lot of

trouble.

No. Someone some of us have to tell them

what went wrong to make sure it never

happens again. Yes.

So, we have to go back. If we can get

you back. Yes. What if you can't?

How do these things work?

[Music]

I was there.

That's the farmhouse. Yes. You were

there? Yes. Well, that tells me nothing.

All

right. Royal study group, room two,

please.

Neither does that. The bedroom. What?

the bedroom of that place. I want to see

it.

Well, show me. I can't. Can't. No. You

mean there's no monitor in that room?

There's a monitor in every room. Then

show me that room.

Look, if it's a question of secrecy,

then forget it. There'll be no secret.

It's not exactly a question of secrecy.

Then what is it?

If you must know, it's more a question

of privacy, of decency. Privacy. Yes.

Decency.

What is he talking about? I'm talking

about the fact that unlike these times

and the times in between, we have

acquired or rather gained certain

standards.

What kind of standards?

If you like moral standards.

Are you trying to tell us that it's

taken500 years of troubles, wars, and

famines to learn not to peep into one

another's bedrooms? If you feel that you

need to laugh at us, then don't

preach. Save it for your own

time. Now, show us that

room. Rule study

group, room five, please.

Pep. Peps are asleep.

No, they're not asleep.

In the third

group, the same thing has happened to

them.

[Music]

Please switch it off.

This monitoring device that you have, it

doesn't work properly. Not between you

and your control point. No, but what

about between groups? Between? Well,

each group keeps its own log, its own

recorded diary, right? Yes. Well, do you

have access to their log? Of course, but

they're dead. Then it's no use to them

anymore. So, let's hear it. I need to

know more about the power system being

used. Whatever it is that brought you

across time, I've already said built

into this capsule.

It's a kind of

time time source. Yes. Oh, so you do

know that? Yes, but only that much. Only

that much? Yes. That something some

piece of machinery? Yes. Machinery was

used to bring us back here.

Why didn't you ask what it was?

We didn't think it was necessary.

Well, that piece of machinery did bring

you here, and it's keeping you here.

But now it's acting on its own

behalf. It's thinking for

itself. It's already caused people to

kill

themselves. Now, what has it got in mind

for you and your baby?

But if we don't know the answers,

[Music]

they

might.

Yes. We'll get her out of here.

Their last log will be with them. Yes.

Well, that's about it. I mean, it's

coming slowly, but I can't do much more

without taking this entire capsule

apart. That wouldn't be very sensible,

would it? No. What's she doing? Ah. Uh

uh. This is where the time source lives.

Is it still here? Oh, yes.

Uh, I think I heard your baby crying a

moment

ago. Look,

I know. Animal blood. What's all about

animal? I don't know. I'd need to do

tests. I didn't do tests. Well, that

rather depends on whether the steel No,

I'm sorry. It rather depends upon me. I

need to know.

Look.

[Music]

Now these are impulse stimulators,

electronic nerves if you like. A sort of

artificial nervous system. Well, partly

artificial. See, these would be used to

trigger existing nerves and voluntary

muscle. It's a way of bypassing the

original

brain. Now,

these well, as you know, these are the

sort of gadgets they use in scientific

surgical operations.

Operations on living animals. Yes. It's

very advanced. They're going by this.

It's very sophisticated, but still a

form of vivisection. Oh, yes.

The sounds of pain. What?

It's just something Steel once asked,

and I didn't know the answer. Then, what

was the question? They're scientists of

the

future. 1500 years in the

future. What are they guilty of?

Do those tests. Hm.

The children were included in the

discussion. It seemed only right that

they should

be. The time unit that brought us here

is to blame. It is

responsible, but not because of any

malfunction. Its actions were

deliberate. It has turned against us.

Turned against us all. Could it? Yes. It

has played tricks with our minds and it

is now our turn to be experimented upon

and

used. It urges us to escape into this

time period. It wants us to become a

risk to become a threat to both the past

and the future. In other words, a threat

to the whole human

race. It has the power of time

itself. And we are no match for it.

Therefore, therefore, the only

alternative, the only shore safeguard is

our own

self-destruction. This final entry is

logged at 8:45 p.m. Day 25. Old Canada.

You said it was an

animal. Some kind of animal.

Well,

I can't make any sense of

it. What kind of animal is it?

[Music]

[Music]

It's not one animal. It seems to be

every kind, every species of animal

in one small sample of blood. Yes.

Where's Eldrid?

This is our sleeping room. A private

room. We don't expect to be disturbed.

We want you to tell us something. Tell

you something about the future. About

the time that you come from. We have no

objection. So, if you'd like to wait

outside, we want you to tell us about

the animals. Animals? Yes. What animals?

The animals that exist in your period.

But there are no animals. Not there. Not

anymore. Only in children's books,

legends, things like that.

But none living? No. Well, we've no

further use for them. Well, no one would

consider eating their flesh. Not

anymore. No one has for the past several

hundred years. What about pets? Pets?

Domesticated and animals in zoos? That's

the past. The atomic age. That's

history. Yes. Anyway, the world, it's

better off without them. They were

unclean. They were cruel. And most of

them carried some kind of disease.

Cruel? Yes.

What about the scientists? Oh, well,

there's that. Yes, but that's different.

Well, what did they do? You're

scientists.

Well, creatures that are used, they're

they're not really animals. Not in that

state.

What exactly are they?

Just pieces.

Pieces? Yes. Pieces kept

[Music]

alive. Propagated as pieces.

reproduced,

[Music]

but we never see them. Of

course, the public never sees

them. Well, they're never allowed out of

the laboratories.

Well, that's where you're wrong.

What did he mean wrong?

What did he mean?

We'd like to know what you meant by

that. Whatever is in there did leave one

of those laboratories. It came back here

with you. It was made to train to. It's

responsible for bringing you back here.

Pieces of animal and pieces of machinery

made to work together, made to

coordinate, perfected, and then shaped

into a time unit. Given a kind of mind,

a kind of brain. A brain? Yes. And one

that's decided to work against you. Work

against us. But why?

Let's think of a hundred reasons, shall

we? Or a thousand.

Things that once ran wild, but at least

free. Things that breathe and ate and

produced their young. Things that swam

in the sea. Things that managed to

survive

once. Reduced to a few living

pieces. Well, it's in here now

somewhere. It can hear us and it can see

us. And it only wants one thing from its

encounter with the human

race. It wants revenge.

[Music]

Steel. Yes. It's broken free. It's

escaped. It's out here with us. Where is

it now? I don't know. But it's in the

open. Yes. Wait here.

[Music]

Heat.

[Music]

[Applause]

Heat. Heat. Heat.

[Music]

No

steel. It's an illusion.

[Music]

[Music]

Baby,

keep the child with us at all times.

Get them to take this capsule back now.

Back. You said you could make contact

with their base control. There must be

enough power in those monitors to make a

hell of an emergency signal. Yes, make

one now. Can you do it? Yes. Get on with

it. All right, you two enter the screen.

Come on, quickly.

Yeah.

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It's fighting us still.

Yes. But how?

What the [ __ ]

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Don't turn around.

Steel. Steel. It let us in here.

Remember? Now we know

why. It's using us to help it escape

from this council. We have to send it

back before it can break out. Did I hurt

you? We don't have much time.

But what about Rothman and Eldridge? We

can't send them back with it. It is

their problem. We can't. And they caused

it. Let them see it. Belongs in the

future. It doesn't belong here.

So, first we have to contain it. Get it

back in its hole. How? Lure it back.

It's made of all animals. It'll eat

anything. Feed it.

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What have you done? We fed

I want to know what's going to happen.

You're going home. That's what's

happening. Come on. Place is everybody.

Please. Quickly.

Right. There's the future. That's home.

That's home. Not ours though, is it?

Definitely not. Please, please. Fingers

crossed. Can I ask you something? This

is hardly the time. Yes, you may. The

figure, the man we saw, the one that

made us sleep, was that our child?

Yes, it was. Very good. Hold tight.

Well, it's gone.

Just an empty roof. Yes.

Still, you can't leave like that. You

know

what? You put a knot in the lift gate.

Imagine a world without animals.

Yes, but they're not quite as clever as

I thought they were. You know what do

you mean? Well, I did have mice in that

capsule.

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