All language subtitles for Survivors s03e12 Power.eng

Sam.

Sam.

Sam!

What's the matter?

I was only outside.

Something woke me.
I thought I heard a train.

Tom could never have got the railways
going up here in Scotland as well.

Well, if it was a train,
Tom Walter's train,

Jenny might be on it.

There is a railway,
we saw it last night.

I was out there just now.
I'd have heard it, wouldn't I?

Yeah, I suppose so.

Come on, I'll get the horses.

If we push it we might get to
the first of them power stations today.

-What's the hurry?
-No point in hanging about.

After we've had some breakfast.

Well? Was it?

Well, it was a train, right enough,
Mr McAlister, sir.

Stopped at the tunnel,
just this side of the loch.

What are they doing?

(CHUCKLES)

Broken down, I'd say.

There's two of them
walking along the track.

This way?

Hey, there's someone fishing over there.
Do you think he can help?

It's worth a try.

Morning.

My name's Charles Vaughan.
This is Jenny Richards.

We've come up from England
on a train we got working.

There are two more of us on it,
including the driver.

But it's broken down.

You don't know of any
machinery lying around

where we could find
one of these, do you?

What's that?

It's a brake connecting rod,
but it's broken.

There's a smithy up the glen.

Maybe something can be
made for you there.

CHARLES: Whereabouts is that?

I wondered how long it would be
before the English found their way here.

What's it like in the south?

One terrible graveyard,
from what we've heard.

Well, it's not so bad now.

We've even got a sort of
government established.

You have?

That's an extraordinary thing
to be wanting again, isn't it?

What brings you to Scotland?

We're looking for two friends.
They're riding up from Yorkshire.

We may have passed them on the way
or they may be ahead of us.

We have to get this fixed first.

Maybe Angus might make one up.

Wee thing like that.

We'd better go and find him.

Take the train driver with you
so he'll know what's needed.

-Just a minute.
-Ah, Davey will see to it.

Would you care to take
a spot of luncheon with me

out at the house, the pair of you?

-JENNY: Thank you very much.
-My name's McAlister.

I'm the laird round here.

I'm awfully sorry about
the state of the roads.

There just seems to be no one
to keep them up these days.

The English have the same problem.

How many people are there round here?

Precious few.
We lost nine out of 10 in the plague,

an area where there weren't more than
a million and a half to start with.

-That was a terrible loss.
-It was worse in England.

Well, you mostly live in cities
down there.

But up in the Highlands, well,

the plague couldn't spread much
through the hills,

and most of the isles
weren't affected by it.

Even so, I'd say that in
the whole of Scotland north of the Tay,

there can't be more than, ooh,
150,000 people left alive at most.

A hundred and fifty thousand?

Out of a million and a half.

We don't believe there are
more than 10,000 left in England.

Is that a fact, now?

JENNY: Is that your house?

MCALISTER: Yes, at least
that's still untouched.

CHARLES: If your calculations
are correct, Mr McAlister,

this means that
the Highlands of Scotland

are now the most densely populated
part of the whole country.

MCALISTER: Makes a change, doesn't it?

Whoa. Whoa.

Well, here we are.

Ah!

Hamish, um, take the trap
down to the railway.

There's a train from England
broken down on the line

and these people have
a couple of friends down there.

I'd like you to bring them up
to the house.

Do you want me to go down
to the distillery today?

The stock's getting low.

Well, ask Davey first, huh?
Okay, off you go.

Well, now, let's go in, shall we, hmm?

That's the trouble, you see.
There's no one to deliver any more.

You even have to fetch your own whisky.

Where from?

Oh, there's several big distilleries
in the neighbourhood.

But don't they get looted?

Oh, if we have any trouble
like that, I soon hear who it is

and give them a good telling off.

Is that sufficient?

Well, it's a bold man
who defies the laird.

Uh, Barbara, um, Mrs Crombie...

There's at least two extra for lunch.

There's a couple of fish downstairs
you can poach for us.

Well, it'll be a wee while
before you can have it.

Don't be too long, now.

From what they've been saying, I doubt
if they've had a square meal for months.

I can see that.

Now, would you like to
see over the house?

(CLOCK CHIMING)

Oh, it's magnificent.

The state it's got into.
Just can't get the staff.

Now, would you like a wash before lunch
and a change of clothes, maybe?

You're welcome to anything
of my wife's, Miss Richards.

God rest her soul,
she'd only have been too happy

to have given you
the freedom of her wardrobe.

That's very kind.

You can have a bath, if you wish,
there's plenty of hot water.

Plenty of everything, it seems.

We could do with electricity, though.

CHARLES: Really?

Do you know, if you want
a new suit of clothes these days,

you've got to find some good woman
to weave the cloth for you

on a handloom
and another to make it up for you?

If we could get
the tweed mills going again

or perhaps even the distilleries.

JENNY: For whisky?

To distil a spirit to drive cars on.

CHARLES: That's an expensive
kind of petrol.

It was only the tax
that made whisky expensive.

And I doubt if the government
of poor, unhappy England

is going to start taxing us again.

Not that we can think about
things like that

until we get
the power stations operating.

Have you tried to?

There's one at Loch Mannoch
not 20 miles away.

I couldn't get anything to work there.

Maybe there's an expert in England
who can help us.

Maybe that's something
we can talk about.

Yes, we will.

Hey. Guess what I've found?

-A set of master keys.
-Where'd you find these?

Weren't you surprised the gate was open?

At all the others,
we've had to climb in.

So what?

The poor devil was trying to
shut the place down when he collapsed.

He's in the battery room,
what's left of him.

Poor blighter.

Which are the power lines we want?

Well, that's the one to the south.

And...

that's the one that feeds it in.

-Have you isolated the others?
-Not quite. Still Glasgow to do yet.

We'd better turn that off, all right.
Which is it?

It's outside. It's labelled Windyhill.
Are you sure you can do it?

You've shown me enough times.

Okay, Sam, but take care.

There's no juice flowing yet.

Hey! This one's already...

(WHIRRING)

Right.

How far to the next switching station?

This is the last one.

All we have to do now is follow the line
to the power station itself.

And switch on.

It's not going to be quite that easy.

If we've isolated every other line,
except the route we want...

If we have. If we've missed one line

feeding an industrial area
that's still plugged in...

All our work's wasted.

You've missed nothing. Come on.

We might get to that
power station tonight.

-Thanks, Hamish. Cheerio.
-Right, then.

-Hello, Hubert.
-Hello.

Where's Tom?

Oh, he's still mending the engine.

How long will it take?

Here, that's a dress you're wearing!

You shouldn't have left him, Hubert.

Oh, he's got the blacksmith with him.

Take him a couple of days,
they told me to tell you.

Days?

Where'd you get that new frock from?

You've done something queer
to your hair.

I've washed it.
And you'd better wash, too.

-Eh?
-Before you meet the laird.

The what?

Don't forget to wipe your boots
before you come in.

I thought there was supposed to be
two of you left on the railway.

Oh, I expect Tom's still there.

Hmm.

(CHUCKLES) I'm surprised the train's
much use to you now anyway,

if it's Loch Mannoch you want.
The railway doesn't go there.

(DOOR OPENS)

Ah, here you are.

Oh, Miss Richards. If only my wife
could see you in that dress.

Jenny.

Uh, I've put Hubert in the bathroom.

Tom's still working on the train
with the blacksmith.

It's a bigger job than they thought.

Ah.

Oh, well, we're going to
have to leave it today, anyway

and walk to Loch Mannoch tomorrow.

We've no horses.

Oh, but your friends have.
They're off to Loch Mannoch now.

Alec and Sam? Have you seen them?

Well, round here, shepherds watch
more than their flocks.

According to my housekeeper,
they're following the pylons.

-Won't you sit down?
-Thank you.

-Do let me get you a dram.
-Thank you very much.

Is, uh... Is one of them an engineer?

Alec Campbell used to work for
the Electricity Generating Board.

I wasn't going to keep it
from you, Mr McAlister.

Alec Campbell. Hmm.

Well, it sounds to me
that he might be a Scot.

And who might you be?

Oh. I'm Hubert. I'm with the others.

Well, they're with the laird
in the sitting room upstairs.

I suppose you'll be
wanting to join them?

Oh, I don't suppose they want me
with them up there.

In that case, you can make yourself
useful about the place.

You can bring me in some logs
from Hamish's shed.

Come on and I'll show you where it is.

Alec left Scotland years ago.

For a better-paid job down south, eh?

He came to regret it.

So now he's come home to provide
his people with electric power, hmm?

To provide all of us, I hope.

Can he really get a power station going?

I hope so. Remains to be seen.

How can it be supplied down to England?

It must surely branch off
into so many different cities.

Alec shut them all off for the moment.

He called at every substation
on the way.

Making sure that
it's only the south that gets it, hmm?

If we'd known there are
150,000 people left up here...

As it was, I stupidly thought
there'd be no one at all left here now.

Oh, we live well.

We've peat for our fires,
trout and salmon in the rivers.

And our oatcake's more nourishing
than bread, anyhow.

We've all the wood we want.

Game, cattle, sheep, fruit farms.

And now, perhaps electricity.
If we are allowed to keep it.

There's more than enough hydroelectric
power locked up in Scotland

to provide for your needs
and for those of the English.

I dare say. But I suggest that tomorrow
we all ride over to Loch Mannoch

and see for ourselves just what
this Mr Campbell is capable of.

Do you agree?

Is that the power station?

No, that's the shaft that lets down
to the tunnel that carries the water.

The power station's
way down there in the valley.

Why did we come up here, then?

To see where it all begins.
Check the reservoir's full.

That's what it needs to start with.

Water, the elixir of life.

You see, coal and oil will
run out in time, but not the rainfall.

It's the only kind of energy
we should ever use.

Because it's there for everyone.

For all time.

Free as air.

SAM: It comes down there?

It will, when we've turned on
the tap down there.

SAM: Let's go.

It's open. Someone's forced the lock.

Let's have a look at the control room.

I broke in about a year ago.

There used to be a host of
electronic devices and alarm systems

to keep out intruders.

But they'd all run down
since the plague.

Not that I could get anything working.

Pulled a few switches,
but nothing went on. Except the lights.

ALEC: The blithering idiot.

The engineers leave the place immaculate
then crawl away to die.

Everything in good order,
everything closed down.

And some bumbling amateur
breaks in and leaves the lights on.

Not just the lights, either.

Lead line, that's all right.

How do they work
if there's no electricity?

Battery, stickhead.

Like at the substation.

All these controls
are powered by batteries.

And they might just have lasted
if that fool hadn't played around.

So it's no good, after all?

I'll have to start it by hand.

What?

We'll have to start it by hand.

Once we're generating, the batteries
will recharge themselves automatically.

But first we turn on the tap.

SAM: What kind of tap?

It's called the inlet valve control.

Here it is.

Sam. Complete with instructions.

See what's down that grating over there.

What do you expect there to be?

A ruddy great piston, I hope.

Tell me when it moves.

Right. Now we open the guide veins.

But first, check the oil.

Seems to be enough.

But I don't like the feel of it.

Get me a spanner
so I can get this panel off.

Where do I find a spanner?

There's bound to be a workshop.
Look around.

Just a minute.

For future reference,
you jack up the turbine

to allow the oil
to lubricate the bearings

before starting up. Okay?

-Mmm-hmm.
-Get me a spanner.

This do?

(CHUCKLING)

You thickhead!

Couldn't find anything smaller.

Well, it's all right anyway. I think it
was just a bit of grit on the dipstick.

Is oil so important?

And you expect to be an engineer?

Without oil, the bearings in the turbine
would smash from overheating.

Uh-huh.

Is this to do with oil?

Don't touch that!

That's the tap that drains the oil
when you have to change it.

-Okay?
-Uh-huh.

(SIGHS) Come on.

What are you doing now?

Trying to open the veins in the turbine
so the water can turn them.

Oil again, it has to be equalised.

Right. Try that wheel now.

Clockwise!

Yeah.

(WATER GUSHING)

(TURBINE STARTING)

Are we making electricity?

Not yet.

Why? If the turbine's going.

Just check the field switch.

Check the field switch
and we'll be almost there.

What else?

Well, before closing the field switch

we've got to close
the circuit breakers outside

which gets the current
onto the power lines. Okay?

Come on.

This is a field switch.

Oh, blast! The handle's missing.

Handle?

Yeah, it sits in there.
Must be about here somewhere.

Are you saying the whole thing
depends now on turning that thing?

We can't get any juice until we do.

The turbine won't activate the generator
until that switch is closed.

-So if it couldn't be closed...
-What?

...the whole power station
would be useless.

There it is. Come on, out of the way.

Hold on.

We've got a power line running
all the way down to the south, right?

If we've isolated everything else.

And back in Derbyshire
you even connected the local supply.

So once you turn that thing and close
the circuit breakers outside, well,

think what Charles's friends might see.

A light coming on, an electric fire.

What I'm worried about
is too much coming on.

It's enough if only one machine starts.

No, that'd trip the circuit.

Ah, but if people see it,
they'll know we've done it.

That electric power is possible again.

It is.

They'll get all the power stations
going after that.

If that's what they want,
it is possible.

Are you going to work in a factory
once you've turned on?

No, you're going to get the hell out.

Up to the hills,
to a croft with a flock of sheep

in your beloved Highlands.

Just because the power is
of no good to me...

-You're not going to deny it to others.
-Right.

Not for you to
consider the implications.

That's for politicians.
You're just the engineer.

Right again.

Bombs are dropped
because of that excuse,

and gas chambers built.

Are you comparing electricity to that?

"Elixir of life"?

As if it mattered
to the man on the factory bench

where the current comes from.

It may be clean up here

but it's dirty enough
in the steelworks, I'll tell you.

Sam, if people want steel again...

You should stop them having it.

People have learnt
to be self-sufficient.

Give them electricity,
get industry going,

and they depend for their livelihood
on something they have no control over.

-You make them slaves.
-Rubbish.

Slaves!

To whoever it is that owns the power.

But they can hold it themselves.

All they have to do
is train up a few technicians,

like you, to handle the plant
and it's free to all.

Someone has to be trusted
with this switch.

And who can you trust?

Sam, for three weeks we've been
slogging our way up north here.

Why wait till now to cook all this up?

Because if I'd told you earlier
you'd never have let me in here.

And I had to see how it all worked

before I knew what I had to destroy.

You're not destroying
anything in here, Sam. Come on.

The field switch.

Then on to the next dam,
do the same there.

If we keep one step ahead of
whoever was on that train from the south

we can destroy the whole lot

before Greg, Charles or anyone else
can stop us.

Let people make their own electricity,
with water wheels, windmills.

As long as it's their own,
they're still free.

But put men back on the assembly line...

-Oh, come on!
-Oh, for Pete's sake!

Look what the last
Industrial Revolution led to.

It could only be stopped by a plague

that wiped out almost all mankind.

You can't want to start it up again.

You're crazy.

And you're so sane.

You'd have made an atom bomb,
wouldn't you?

(ALEC GRUNTS)

(SAM CHUCKLES)

You're gonna have a rotten headache.

(SPANNER CLANKS ON FLOOR)

Whoa.

It's working. You hear?

JENNY: Alec?

Alec?

It's Jenny.

Alec, are you there?

Alec? It's Jenny.

Alec? Are you there?

He doesn't seem to be around.

Look outside, Hubert.

McALISTER: Well, he seems to have
got it going again, whoever he is.

-It's spinning like a top.
-Aye. The turbine, aye.

But is it generating?

(CHARLES CHUCKLES)

(CHARLES GRUNTS)

Now, what the hell
kind of a nut did that fit?

Tell me, Mr Vaughan. This government
you have set up in England.

Has it any real authority?

Well, we hope so.

We published a proclamation.

We got one representative from every
known community to form a council.

They're deliberating now, trying to
hammer out some form of constitution.

Who heads this government?

One Greg Preston.

It was Greg who united
all the communities.

We owe him a lot.

-No sign?
-No. I've looked everywhere.

And are you here now as
this Mr Preston's ambassador?

JENNY: No. We're just here to
catch up with Sam and Alec.

Who sent them?
I mean, are they here officially

or to claim our electricity
for your government?

Your electricity?

CHARLES: We're not going to start
all that again, are we?

McALISTER: It comes from
our hills, our rivers.

Your rain falling on our land.

Did the Scots build the dams?
Did they build these machines?

-Yes, I'm sure they did.
-CHARLES: Oh, using their own money,

no investment from
the rest of the country?

Now, you question my right
to speak for the English.

Well, I question yours to claim
these power stations for Scotland.

God Almighty, man.

There are few enough of us surviving
without bringing nationalism into it.

Few enough in England, maybe.

You're arguing about ownership

and we don't even know
if it's working yet.

I found their horses tied up
by the pipeline.

Well, they can't be far away.

There's a crofter across the river.
I'll see if he's seen 'em.

(JENNY SCREAMS)

ALEC: Charles.

Help me get this off.

Alec, what happened?

Oh, God. Thank you.

-I feel sick.
-What are you doing down there?

Where's Sam?

(SIGHS)

Sam? Ah... Oh, yes.

How are you feeling now?

-Very groggy.
-I'll go look for the other fellow.

-You did say the horses are still there?
-Yes.

So he's not ridden off, then.

Ridden off?
What, leaving you down that hole?

He didnae know I was down there, Jenny.

Grating was over the hole.

Oh, Sam had been down there earlier.

He probably put it back to stop
either of us falling down,

then went out to look for me.

I'll find him.

(CHARLES SIGHS)

Anyway, you've got one of
the turbines going. Congratulations.

(LAUGHS) I can get them both going,
but it won't do any good.

You sure?

Of course I'm sure, Charles.
Look, everything's dead.

We've got no hydroelectric power.

Good day to you, Rob.

Seen any strangers about?

Look, Charles, I'll prove it to you.

You pull down the handle on that
field switch when I tell you, okay?

Jenny, you come with me.

This is the uniflow, Jenny.

When you see that needle
move on that dial,

you know we've got power, okay?

CHARLES: Where are you going?

To close the circuit breakers outside.

(LEVER CLANGS)

They're registering.

What's he on about?

Go on, Charles. Close it.

-What happened?
-Well, it all went off, like he said.

Well, where's your power now?

Look, I know very little about it.

But if... If one of the lines

to a big city is still connected

and there's an entire factory
still switched on...

You get trip-out. Too much load.

Maybe that is the explanation.

But it could be anywhere
between here and Derby.

Well, it will take time to find it,
but we must try.

Go all the way back?
Checking every switch out again?

I tell you, the whole idea's absurd.
Forget it.

Is that why your friend knocked you out?
Because you said it was absurd?

I fell. The grating was off.
It was an accident.

Rob has a croft across the river.

He came in here to see
what you were up to.

Saw you laid out on the floor and
your friend with a spanner in his hand.

-JENNY: Oh!
-And if there were two horses

up at the pipeline a few minutes ago,

-there's only one there now.
-Huh?

Where do you think
he's off to, Mr Campbell?

Why are you protecting him?
Pretending you fell?

What did he do it for?

Could you check my saddlebags, Hubert,

and see if my papers
and maps are all there?

There's no saddlebag
on that horse by the pipeline.

Maps of what?

Of where all the other stations are.

Sam wants them all destroyed.

I should think he's heading for
Dunlarig. That's the nearest, isn't it?

Go after him. Take that horse out there.

Up the clearing,
bear left past the reservoir.

All right, guvnor.

And you, Rob, take your gun and stand
guard outside in case he comes back.

Where are you going?

You may have a government in England,

but here in Scotland,
we protect our own!

We'll have men posted at every
power station in the Highlands by night.

If we get this turbine going as well,
we double the amount of power.

I've told you
it will make no difference.

If a city like Manchester
is still connected,

the overload to the generator
will break the circuit.

Well, we don't know how much
is switched on, then.

It could be very little.

Just to break the circuit,

if one machine is sharing the load
between the two, is that what you think?

-Aye.
-Well, it won't work.

I think you're holding out on us.

I would have told you about Sam
in the end.

Left it late enough as it was.

Did you want him
to destroy it all, Alec?

Not until I was coming to
down in that pit

to hear Charles and the laird
arguing about who it all belonged to.

If that's how it's going to be,
it's maybe better that nobody has it.

Is that why you're being
so uncooperative now?

Come on! Get this turbine going.

Hey, Sam! What are you up to?

(DOOR CLOSES)

Sam! You open this door.

What are you doing in there
with that log?

(BANGING ON DOOR)

Sam! What is this place?
What are you doing?

(FOOTSTEPS RUNNING UP STAIRS)

-Any luck?
-No. Cut out at once.

(CHARLES PANTING)

Alec. These circuit breakers
at the substation,

did you let Sam isolate them?

Oh, once or twice.

(SHOUTING) Well, which ones?

I can't remember.

Now, what gives you or Sam

the right to decide whether the world
should have electricity or not?

Hey! Sam's up on the lake up there.

He's gone round the twist,
if you ask me.

-What's he doing?
-Well, you know that pier thing

with the house perched on the end?
Well, he's locked himself in.

Got a ruddy great
tree trunk in there with him.

-ALEC: What?
-Yeah.

I saw him dragging it along the pier
and in through the door.

Get over there, Charles.
Force your way in

and close the inlet valve. Go on!

Why? What's happening?

If Sam's dropped a tree trunk down
the shaft, it will get into the tunnel,

and if it reaches
the top of that pipeline there,

it will plunge all the way down
to the turbine veins.

There was provision to stop anything
like this happening in the old days,

not that it would have mattered
very much in those days.

-Smashing the turbines?
-Well,

we could get parts in those days.

At least you're not siding with Sam now.

At least I'm not going to
let him smash it.

Come on, we'll close down the turbine

and I'll get over to the reservoir.

-ALEC: You in there, Charles?
-Aye.

No sign of him?

No. The door was open when I got here.

And what about this tree trunk?

CHARLES: (GRUNTS) Presumably down there.

How long will it take
to drain the water?

Oh, about an hour or so.

The tunnel's only a mile long.

-CHARLES: Well, then what?
-Well...

Well, we'd better spend time, uh,
looking for Sam.

(CHARLES SIGHS)

(PANTING) Well, what then,
when the tunnel's drained?

I'll walk along the tunnel
until I find the log,

if it hasn't reached
the pipeline by then.

Here's Sam's horse.

I found it tethered in the quarry,
as if he didn't want us to find it.

So he's still round here, then.

-HUBERT: I suppose so.
-I wonder why?

Now, what's he gone
and locked himself in there for?

Alec? Alec?

Well, I suppose he could always
open the door if he wants to come out.

Thanks.

CHARLES: Hubert!

-What is it?
-Come here.

That log in the water down there.

Is that what you thought
he'd put into the shaft?

Alec! Can you hear me?

(CHARLES GRUNTS)

I think Sam's in there.
I think it's a trap.

Go get that log.

(SHOUTING) What are you doing, Sam? Sam!

(MACHINE WHIRRING)

Are you opening that gate?

Listen!

You'll kill Alec, and yourself!

That tunnel's full of air, Sam!

If you let the water rush in,

it'll compress and blow back.

It'll blow everything sky high!

(MEN GRUNTING)

(DOOR THUDDING)

ALEC: I'm the only one who can
make the machines work,

so why not just get rid of me, eh?

(MEN GRUNTING)

-CHARLES: Hubert! Stop him!
-Oi! Oi!

Hey, where do you think you're going?
Get off that horse.

Whoa.

I'm putting you in charge here, Davey.

When that saboteur finds out that he
can't get through to the other stations,

he may well come back
and have another go.

So, keep a sharp lookout
and shoot on sight.

Is Mr Campbell recovered from
that blow on the head yet?

HUBERT: Yeah. He's now down at
the substation with Jenny.

(SWITCH CLANKS)

It was just as I thought.

I told Sam to break it
and he did the opposite.

You see, it makes the same noise
whether you open it or close it.

-That's why I didn't realise.
-So it was all going to waste.

-Will it work now?
-Well, it should do,

once I've closed the circuit breakers
back at the power house.

It was the only one I let Sam touch.

What are you going to do
when we have it switched on?

Go back to Greg Preston?

No.

I can't do that.

Greg's dead.

Don't touch things, Hubert.

Well, nothing works, anyway.

It will once the batteries
are charged up.

(TURBINES WHIRRING)

And everything can be operated
from this desk.

Everything.

Even the switching stations.

Well, that's the trouble.

In the end, it all rests on the man
who's sitting in this chair.

I doubt if you mean to sit in that chair
for the rest of your life, Mr Vaughan.

Even if you could somehow control it,

the power goes out from
half a dozen cables just out there.

We could cut through those
anytime we like.

Hold everyone to ransom?

How could you afford
a ransom in England?

We'll soon have industry
going again with electricity.

-Steel?
-Eventually.

I'll make a list of all the things
we could do within Scotland.

I'm sure we'll come to terms
in the end, Mr Vaughan.

Now, what's happened to Mr Campbell?

We can't afford to lose him.

I don't have to switch on, Jenny.

You know, I have half a mind to
let them do without it.

They need it, Alec.

Do you?

When you were up
at the reservoir just now,

and it looked as if Sam was going to
destroy everything after all,

I suddenly felt quite relieved.

If we were going back to just
making do again,

I thought, "There'd be no nicer place
for it than this."

There's not.

Bring the children up here, Jenny.

We can go back to Killin,
where I was born, have our own farm.

Be happy, be safe, be free.

To rise at dawn and go to bed at dusk.

You've just said it.

It's easy enough to make the best
of things when there's no choice, Alec.

But we do have a choice.

You have the skill and the knowledge

to give back so much
of what we've all lost.

Think what electricity means.

Oh, Sam told me what that meant.

I want the children to have everything
that I had once.

Let's have power again, Alec. Please.

Then you'll go back with
Charles and Tom Walter?

Yes.

But you've just told me if
I can't get this power going again,

you'd be happy to live up here with me.

Please, Alec.

(TURBINES WHIRRING LOUDLY)

-Everything ready?
-Yes, we hope so.

Alec's just closing
the circuit breakers.

DAVEY: Who's in there?

Oh, it's you, Mr Campbell.

I found a horse wandering about outside.

Could that be your friend's?

Maybe. But if it's Sam's, he's too late.

Let there be light.

So you'd like me to come to England

and talk it over
with your government, would you?

Of course.

But we didn't come to steal it,
just to get it working.

Why don't all of you
come up here to see us?

You see, I'm not prepared to be

your Secretary of State
for Scotland, Mr Vaughan.

But I am willing to make you
my Secretary of State for England.

Look, tell me, Mr Campbell,
what are your plans now?

Get out for good and leave
you both to it, I should think.

But you're the only one
who knows how the system works.

So I'll have to stay, won't I?

Only till you've trained some others
to take your place.

I could find plenty of
intelligent young men for that.

No. I will find them myself,

and they will be responsible only to me.

And I will be answerable to no one.

Not to you, McAlister,

or to you, Charles Vaughan.

And if you don't like that,

just remember, with very little effort,

I can close this place down
in such a way

that you'll never get it started again.

That's why it has to be me
who stays here,

because there's nobody else I can trust.

I'm only sorry about one thing.

That I have to stay here alone.

(ALARM RINGING)

(INDISTINCT CHATTERING)

What's happening?
Are we going to blow up?

The machine makes provisions
for people like you.

A safety valve operates.
That's what that is!

Come here, you!

(SAM SCREAMING)

We'll meet again, Mr Vaughan?

Of course. And whenever you choose.

Whenever Mr Campbell chooses, I imagine,

we seem to be in his hands now.

-Oh, he's a good man.
-And a good Scot.

(SCOFFS) After 15 years in England,
he's no more Scots than I am.

For all that,
he's no more English than I am.

(LAUGHS) Well, we must
both remember that.

-Goodbye, Mr McAlister.
-Goodbye.

Have a safe journey. I hope your train
doesn't let you down again.

There'll be electric trains soon,
all mod cons.

-Thank you for your hospitality.
-Thank you.

(DAVEY CLICKS TONGUE)

And thank you
for bringing Alec Campbell.

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