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Well?

I like it.

Do I detect a certain reserve in your voice?

No, I think I said exactly what I meant.

If you asked me whether I thought it would never replace The Week...

Ah, you'd gave to admit that your loyalty to your 100 best tunes remained unshattered.

No, I think my royalty is whatever piece I'm listening to at the moment.

Provided it's by Tchaikovsky, Sibelius, Brahms.

- Something wrong with that? - Not for the 19th-century mind.

Which, by implication, I have.

As far as music's concerned, I'm afraid so.

No, think of all the development you're ignoring over the past, say what, 100 years.

There must be change.

Developments in all aspects of life.

I'm sure there are some things which don't change noticeably

in such a relatively short space of time.

Human emotions, for example.

Listen to it again.

You'll find it clean, economical, picked to the bone.

I'll listen but I'm sure I'll always prefer people to skeletons.

Even though they do exhibit system and order.

Excuse me.

Good evening.

Hello Tom.

What the hell's that?

Music for the development of the human race.

Then I'm all for regression.

Can we have the volume down a bit? Preferably a lot.

You're like a couple of tiny tots

who want to be told the story of Goldilocks every night without a single word changed.

It's rather sad.

Isn't sadness one of those obsolete emotions we were talking about?

Unfortunately not.

I'll leave the record to you. You may learn to love it yet.

- You don't have to go. - I do, I'm afraid,

on this old-fashioned note of concord.

- Quite. - Good night, my dear.

- Good night, Tom. - Good night.

I can see myself out.

Good night, Ron.

Do you mind?

Thank you.

And I'll thank you to let me be the judge of who is welcome in my house.

Specifically, Roy.

We were having a very pleasent evening till you spoilt it.

I'm sorry, I've had a bad night. I'm not in the mood for Roy's hygienic thinking.

But then, I don't suppose you're in the mood for my brand of self-pity?

Not if it's only self-pity.

I don't know if it is or not.

I've been at the clinic visiting Michael.

- Is he any worse? - Could he be?

I'd better go. This was a mistake.

No, don't be silly. I'm glad you came.

Have a glass of wine.

Thanks.

You're still not sleeping?

No.

Because of Mike?

Why don't you come away with me for the weekend?

You bold hussy!

There's nothing to be afraid of. You'll be well chaperoned.

I've been asked to spend the weekend in the country with an old friend.

Well, won't he mind me coming with you?

She won't.

And I'll be glad of you to act as a little light relief.

Karen's got problems. She does her best but I don't think she copes very well.

And I've a new group to test for PK next week.

I could do with a break before I start.

You could?

I'd enjoy it a lot more if you came, too.

You've talked me into it.

Breathe deeply.

I take, the funny smell is fresh air?

You might not like it at first, but it's addictive.

And just listen to all that peace.

Yeah, it's deafening, isn't?

I feel like a new man already.

That's convenient. So do I.

Karen!

I'm sorry.

I meant to be out here to greet you when you came.

Colin's being a bit of nuisance.

He's home, then? That's a nice surprise!

I wasn't expecting to see him on this visit.

Oh, um, Karen, this is Tom Crane.

- I mentioned him on the phone. - Hello, Karen.

She's mentioned you quite a few times on the phone, actually.

Traitor.

Is he your boyfriened?

No, no, don't worry about the luggage. I'll bring it.

Where's Colin, then? He doesn't usually take so long to come and see me when I arrive.

He's in the dog house, I'm afraid.

He got into some trouble in the school and the headmaster sent him home.

That doesn't sound like him.

That's what I thought the first time.

But now I'm beginning to have my doubts.

I didn't know he'd been in trouble before.

Yes, at his last school.

- That's why he had to leave. - Oh, I see.

You never told me.

I wasn't very keen of advertising it.

I thought it would all stop when we moved back up here.

What has he done this time?

I'm not really sure.

The headmaster's letter was a bit vague and Colin won't talk about it.

- Shouldn't you have phones the headmaster? - Oh, I did.

But he wasn't much help, I'm afraid.

He just waffled away about damage to school property

and the other children being afraid of Colin.

I took it he'd been vandalising things and bullying the other kids.

I don't believe it! That's not the Colin I know.

I was rather hoping you'd have a word with him, Anne.

- Well, of course, I will. - I just can't seem to get through to him.

You said he was sent home from his last school?

What for?

Much the same thing, I think.

They were vague as well.

I just don't know what I'm going to do.

I can't keep him at home here, you see.

Anne's probably told you, I'm an interior designer.

It's not exactly a cottage industry.

I have to go away from home quite a lot.

I can't just leave him here on his own.

If I can't find another boarding school, I don't know what I'm going to do.

The first thing to do is to clear up the mistery of why he was sent home.

Would you like to speak to him now?

Waiting won't make it any easier.

I'll get him.

Excuse me.

Colin's the last boy in the world you'd expect to behave that way.

Unless it's... because of his parents being divorced.

I think Colin misses his father more than Karen would admit.

- Doesn't he come to see him? - Hardly ever.

He's remarried, started another family.

You think Colin might be just lashing out to release his resentment?

I can't account for it in any other way.

- Aren't you going to say hello to Anne? - Hello, darling!

Hello, Anne.

You've grown up a lot since I last saw you.

Come and meet my friend.

I'll make some more coffee.

Colin, this is Tom Crane.

Hello, Colin.

Tom's a journalist.

You used to say you wanted to be a writer.

Yes.

We've got something in common, then.

Your mother tells me you've been sent home from school.

I don't want to talk about it, if you don't mind.

If they're blaming you for something you didn't do, I think you ought to

Did you do it, Colin?

It doesn't matter.

Of course it matters!

If you did do those things, we've got to find out, why.

If you didn't, we've got to stick up for you.

Do you realise how serious this is? Your mother may not be able to get you into another school.

I don't want to go another school. I want to stay here.

I'm sure Mummy wants that, too, but she has to work.

You can't stay here with no-one to look after you.

I can look after myself.

Tell her that, Anne. Tell her she mustn't send me away.

It would only happen again.

Well, what do you make of that?

Sounded like a case of emotional blackmail to me.

Except that he didn't seem to be threatening. He seemed to be... terrified.

terrified.

Look at that.

What?

The ashtray has moved about a foot and a half without anyone touching it.

Karen, has Colin ever broken anything?

Do you know of a boy who hasn't?

Yes, but was there ever a time when a lot of things got broken?

Yes, but he said he didn't break them.

I don't know why he lied about it. It's not as though I make a fuss about that s

But I just couldn't get him to admit he did it.

He got all upset.

Did he ever do anything else you thought funny?

Hide things or move them?

How did you know that?

It happens to some children. They can't help it.

Oh, it's nothing to worry about. They get over it.

Well, I hope he does.

Colin's father insists that he goes to a boarding school.

What am I going to do if I can't find another place for him?

Maybe his headmaster could be persuaded to take him back.

I couldn't persuade him. I wouldn't know what to say.

I could. I do know what to say.

- Would you, Anne? - I'll drive over and see him tomorrow.

But what about Tom? I'll be busy most of the day.

I'm sure Colin could entertain me. We've got a lot in common.

Not bad.

Not bad at all.

I like the bit about the haunted room and the spooky bit in the old crypt.

- You believe in ghosts? - Do you?

Not all time time, but I do when I'm reading ghost stories.

You get the best of both worlds that way.

Have you ever heard of poltergeists?

I used to be bothered by one when I was about your age.

Were you? Were you really?

I was.

You don't think I'm silly saying that?

Oh, no.

It didn't start very dramatically.

Things just used to move when I was around.

Not very far at first.

Then they began to move further.

Sometime even through the air.

You do know. It happened to you as well.

It did. It used to scare the hell out of me.

Does it frighten you?

Yes. I try and run away from it but...

...it always comes with me

Does it still happen to you?

No. It stopped suddenly.

It always does.

Will it with me?

Very soon.

We don't believe they're cheeky little devils that cause trouble any more.

I know. They talk about psychokinesis now.

What's that?

We don't know what it is.

Only what it does.

I'm glad now mine was a poltergeist.

You know how I got over being afraid of him?

I gave him a name - Timothy.

Can you imagine being afraid of someone called that?

When I went away, I almost missed him.

What would you call yours?

George?

Bit sober and strait-laced.

- Fred. - I like Fred.

Now, what does he look like? Tall, short, fat, thin?

He's short and bald and he's got fat, hairy legs.

Now, are we going to be afraid of someone called Fred who's got fat, hairy leg

No.

Well, off you go, Colin.

Write me a story about as boy who has a poltergeist called Fred.

Who's short and bald and got fat, hairy legs.

Is that what you think is? A poltergeist?

Yes, but it's not as bad as it sounds.

Full of sound and fury, signifying nothing.

I don't understand.

We don't know what these manifestations are caused by,

but we know it's some kind of energy force some people contained for a year or two of their lives,

usually when entering puberty.

It's nothing to worry about.

- Hello? - Hello.

Well, I've seen Colin's headmaster.

He's rather nice.

- That means you got what you wanted. - No, it doesn't.

But I did. Colin can go back after the school holidays.

That's marvellous! But not right away?

The headmaster feels he needs another couple of weeks just to settle down.

There is only one thing.

If it's about the poltergeist, Karen already knows.

Oh, good.

Thank you.

He says, although he's aware of this phenomenon in kids of Colin's age,

and is sympathetic towards it,

that if it should happen again, he would have to ask Colin to leave.

- He'd have no choice, Karen. - I can see that.

But what can we do to stop it happening again?

It's difficult to say. It's not as if it's something you can prescribe a course of antibiotics for.

Oh, well. I think I'll go and tell Colin the good news.

I was wondering if Roy might be able to do something for him.

Like psychoanalyse the poltergeist?

No, but he could put Colin in the right frame of mind.

And what frame's that?

You know as well as I do that it's usually related to puberty and tension.

I suppose Roy could put years on him?

You really have it in for Roy just now, don't you?

I just don't think that a psychiatrist without a noticable trace of warmth could ease tension.

He can be very warm and very charming.

Well, I don't seem to bring out that side of his nature.

Colin might.

I think I'll put the idea to Karen. It'll take him off her hands for a few days anyway.

And put him into your tender loving care.

Yes.

I suspect he doesn't get all he should sometimes.

Are you all right?

And this one's Colins. Really disappointing.

Why is Colin doing PK tests?

We seem to have stumbled across something interesting.

- Oh, really? - Yes.

His stories of objects he didn't like moving, breaking of their own volition,

seems to suggest that his resentment can trigger off psychokinetic energy.

Maybe the poltergeist didn't like them eithrt.

As a scientist, I find it hard to believe in poltergeists.

I'm sure they find it just as difficult to believe in you.

- Tom. - May I go on?

A boy in his school tried to get him into trouble. The boy's room was wrecked.

- So? - So we have a hypothesis that fits the facts.

That this energy is not working in random.

It is directed subconsciously towards particular targets.

Now, if this proves to be correct,

I think we can take giant strides forward.

We came to get rid of his poltergeist, not develop it.

The tests I'm doing are elementary and harmless.

- Colin's results are negative? - It's no more than I expected.

We can treat those tests as a control and go on with others.

- I don't think you should. - It's the only way to find out anything.

- Does it matter compared to the effect on Colin? - Of course it does, or we wouldn't do it.

He feels like a freak already. All you can do by testing him

is make him feel even more freakish and isolated.

That's the opposite of what we promised to do for him.

I thought you said you wouldn't do anything without Karen's permission?

I'm not! I'm getting in touch with her today.

It's only fair to tell you both I've been in touch with her and advised her to refuse.

I'm really sorry to drag you out of bed.

It's OK. Just tell me exactly what happened.

From the beginning.

I woke up, heard a door banging in the wind,

got up, closed up,

looked in to see if Colin was all right and he wasn't there.

I didn't know what to do. So I called you.

Can you think of anywhere he might have gone?

I don't know.

He doesn't know anyone here.

- Shall I call Karen? - No, not yet.

No point in upsetting her unless we have to.

Did he take his clothes and things?

No, he just seems to have got up and dressed and gone out.

And he didn't leave a note?

- Well, I don't know, I didn't look... - It's all right, I'll go and look.

Dr Reynolds and I believe that these tests would be of great value to our research

and would not harm Colin in any way.

They might conceivably help him.

- Well, I don't know. - Neither does Dr Martindale, Karen.

I don't think his treatment so far has had any beneficial effects.

- Has Colin ever walked in his sleep? - Not that I'm aware of.

Well, it seems that he did the night before last.

Or that Anne imagined he did.

But if he did,

It can't possibly attributed to the elementary tests we did.

Rubbish.

Were you be able to do anything for him?

He's only been with us for a few days, Mrs Muirhead

Given a little longer, I can demonstrate to him that he...

he possesses a gift which is something to be proud of, not something to fear.

Nothing will change, of course. He'll just feel happier about it.

It's called 'becoming adjusted'.

Can't you stop these things happening to him?

If we can teach him to bring these things under control, under his own control,

we'll have achieved three things.

Colin will have peace in mind,

his schooling will be uninterrupted in future,

and you will be able to carry on with your work.

I don't know what to say, Karen.

Certainly, Colin would be very helpful to us in our work.

What is not so certain is that we'll be as helpful to him.

But it is certain that, if he goes home now, Mrs Muirhead,

your troubles will continue.

I think if there is any doubt at all, I'd better take him home.

Then I must accept your decision, Mrs Muirhead.

But don't hesitate to ask our help, if you feel you should need it.

Anne will take you to Colin now.

I thought you took that rather well.

Well, you win some, you lose some.

- May I? - Of course.

I have come about Colin.

- What's he done? - Nothing wrong, if that's what you think.

I have come on a matter of national security.

National security?

I don't understand.

If I said my work was not unconnected with the Ministry of Defence, would that help?

No, I'm afraid it wouldn't.

I see. Er, no. No thank you.

Then you don't know the importance we place on Dr Martindale's research?

- He never told me. - I don't suppose he did.

But it is a matter of considerable national importance.

We have had reports of your son's gifts, Mrs Muirhead.

No doubt you have regarded them as something less than a blessing.

But I can assure you that our country could, with your permission,

benefit greatly from them.

Is it something to do with those tests Dr Martindale wanted to make?

Very much to do with them.

So you can imagine how disappointed we were when you refused permission

for Dr Martindale to continue with the tests.

Well, I'm very sorry but Colin's health comes first.

I'm sure we're all agreed upon that.

But what leads you to believe that his health might suffer?

They told me he'd started walking in his sleep

And Tom Crane advised me to take Colin away.

I am sure Mr Crane intentions are of the best.

But he is not a doctor.

Would you say that he was really qualified to express an opinion on the boy's health?

No, I suppose not.

And you suppose rightly.

But Dr Martidale, on the other hand, is highly qualified.

And he is sure the tests would not be detrimental to Colin's health.

On the contrary, he believes that, by exercising his power,

I don't know. I really don't know.

We have already consulted Colin's father.

He has agreed.

Colin's father won't have to look after him if anything should happen to him.

Nothing's going to happen to him, Mrs Muirhead.

There are three parties involved in ths decision.

Yourself, Colin's father...

and Colin.

Would it not be wise to ask Colin's opinion?

If he against it, then we will consider the matter closed.

If he is in favour, perhaps you would reconsider your decision.

- How do you like your room, Colin? - It's great.

Are you sure you wouldn't rather stay with me?

You might feel funny being so long away from me.

Why should I? I'm nearly always away from home.

I remember you saying that you like Superman. So I got some posters.

Sometimes you surprise me, Roy.

Do you think there possibly could be a Superman?

Somebody that does all the things he does?

That's something our tests are supposed to discover.

We might find that you're Superman. Would you like that?

I don't know, sir.

Here's that sticky stuff you wanted.

Thanks, Tom.

- Hey, you're all right? - Yeah, I'm fine.

You don't look it.

I bet you haven't got the energy to chew that rubbish.

I bet I can.

Has anything happened?

Has Fred been chucking things around again?

It's psychokinesis now, not Fred.

What have you been doing?

Just sitting. Trying to make lights flash while they measure my electricity.

Have you moved anything yet?

I haven't tried yet. Roy thinks I'll be able to control my psychokinetic energy.

He said that, before you've even tried?

Do you think it's possible?

We have to believe anything's possible in this game.

Maybe he said it just to encourage me

He doesn't need to encourage you. You came because you wanted to, didn't you?

Well, didn't you?

I just feel so tired all the time.

Are you not sleeping well?

I sleep all right, but when I wake up, I feel just as tired as when I went to bed.

Well, maybe I'd better get Anne to cancel that riding lesson tomorrow.

Good night.

Pull a tiny bit towards you.

That's fine.

I wonder which one will get dizzy first.

- Hmm? - Colin or the horse?

Colin's looking a bit peaky, isn't he?

Do you think maybe this work he's doing for you is taking too much out him?

It shouldn't be.

I've seen some of the tests Roy's doing with him. They're not very advanced.

I'm not sure I did the right thing, letting him come.

Even though that man said it was in the national interest and all that.

What man?

The man from the government department.

Do you not know about him?

No.

I thought it was you that sent him.

He came and told me how important it was that Colin went back to the unit.

Mum, we're going or a ride now, OK?

Fine. Take care now.

Which department of the government did he say he was from?

He said something about defence.

- And his name? - I can't remember.

I'm not even sure he gave me a name.

Is something the matter?

No. Of course, not.

I wish Roy would stop all these tests on Colin.

The poor kid's shattered

What on earth made Karen let him come?

She felt she had to.

Some man from some government department asked her to.

How would they know about him?

I expect Roy told Scott-Erskine and asked him to put pressure on her.

Maybe I'd better get him to take it off.

Aren't you taking rather a lot upon yourself, Thomas?

Somebody's got to. There's nobody except us to see that Colin is all right.

I'm not even sure you're with me all the way on this one.

Not all the way, perhaps. I'd like to learn what what could be learn from him but...

Well, I'm with you in wanting to protect him.

- Can I use your phone? - Yes, of course.

I think the sooner I get this sorted out with Roy, the better.

No answer.

Maybe he's at the unit.

Hello, this is Tom Crane.

Could I speak to Dr Martindale, please?

Ah, OK.

He's not there. Come on, let's go and see Colin.

It's nearly ten o'clock. He'll be asleep by now.

- If he is, we can always come away. - Let's leave it till the morning.

- I want to go now. - Why?

I don't know.

It's only cos you're loosing.

I see. It's like that, is it?

Yes.

OK.

Where do you suppose he is?

I've no idea.

Unless he's sleepwalking again.

If that's what he is doing, we'd better find him.

You try the rooms up here. I'll look downstairs.

Oh, Tom. If you find him, don't waken him. Just lead him gently back to bed.

Right.

Nothing.

What the hell's going on here?

Don't touch it.

Good evening.

- What exactly are you playing at, Martindale? - I never play anything, Crane.

Please, go to my office. I'll see you there.

- You're just not real. - There's more than one reality.

Why are you doing this, Roy?

Because the boy has extraordinary powers

and it's my job to find out as much about them as I can as quickly as I can.

And because of what you might call...

divine curiosity.

Though you may say there is... there is no divinity when it's merely scientific.

What have you find out?

That with help, the boy can control and direct his psychokinetic energy towards any target.

- Are you sure? - I was sure before he came back to use.

- How could you be? - You don't have the monopoly of intuition.

Colin was hypnotised in there.

It is necessary.

He can control his energy in response to suggestion.

- When he wakens, he'll remember nothing? - Nothing at all.

When he went missing from your flat, he wasn't sleepwalking.

Roy hipnotised him and brought him here.

I did.

My God!

I asked his permission to hypnotise him. He agreed. We've used hypnotism extensively.

You know that! What's your objection here?

- Can't you see? - Frankly no.

You try and tell him, Anne. I can't get through to him.

Roy, is Colin that important?

I'm setting up an experiment for Scott-Erskine in the morning. Come and see for yourself.

It might convince you that what I'm doing is not only valuable but necessary.

I'm not quarrelling with you what you're doing, but the way you're doing at it.

I promise you one thing.

If the experiment fails, Colin can go home.

And if it doesn't?

I'll go on till I found the limit of his powers.

Dr Martindale tells me you're not happy about the way he's worked on this boy.

No, I'm not. You can see why if you look at his face.

He's spent and he's lost a lot of weight.

Isn't that to be expected?

Yes, but there are limits you shouldn't go beyond.

You think he's approaching these limits?

The loss of weight tends to be relative to the results. It can't be predicted.

Dr Martindale promises that the results will be spectacular.

Doesn't that justify his procedure?

If he moves a mountain and then dies,

you might feel justified but I don't think his mother would agree with you.

- Is that likely to happen, Anne? - No. - Which?

- Moving a mountain or him dying? - Both.

But his death is the more likely of the two.

I suppose anything is possible, Tom.

But we must take some risks.

- You're not the one who's taking the risks. - I've taken my share in my time.

Why are you so anxious to protect this particular boy?

Because he's relying on me to do it.

He's established some contact with me so it's me who hears him when he calls for help.

And because you've taken him away from the people who would naturally protect him

I? How?

By putting governmental pressure on his mother.

Indeed.

Where do you stand on this matter, Anne?

In the worst possible position.

I can see both points of view.

- Ready now? - Ready.

Good luck.

Luck is the last thing I want today.

Dim the lights down, will you, please?

This is Roy Martindale, Colin. Can you hear me?

There's a plate of glass in front of you. Can you see it?

Fix that glass in your mind, Colin.

Think of nothing else.

Glass is brittle.

Glass is breakable.

That glass is your prison.

That glass is shutting you in.

Closing in on you.

It's breakable, Colin.

Concentrate.

Give your whole mind to it.

Smash it, Colin.

Break the glass and set yourself free.

Break it.

Smash it.

Destroy it.

Impressive.

I've never seen anything like it.

Colin!

You can't go on using the boy this way!

We not only can. We must.

Looking beter today, Colin. How do you feel?

Fine, thank you.

- Good - He's bored to death.

Can't we take him out somewhere?

I thought you were the one who insisted he needed rest.

Only from the experiments.

I think another day in bed will do him good.

If it builds up the tension, we can use that. He's got a strenuous day ahead of him.

This test is designed to check the range of Colin's power,

to see at what distance he can affect objects,

how he can affect them.

Give me target one, will you?

Now, they're set up in a room in this building.

Target two.

That's set up in a room about a quarter of mile away.

Number three.

The bonfire's set up at about a mile.

- Does the boy know where the targets are? - No.

These contain photographs of the three targets. They're firmly sealed.

Each envilope will be handed to Colin in turn.

He'll be told to concentrate on the photographs inside.

What makes you think he can do any of these things?

He has already done them in less ambitious forms.

- Sight unseen? - Yes, or seen by some form of ESP.

As before, Colin's in a state of light hypnosis to help him concentrate.

I'll call out the targets to him and he'll attempt to affect them.

We can see any results on the monitors.

- Aren't you expecting too much of him? - Gladys, take those to the boy.

I expect nothing at all.

- We're ready, Roy. - Thank you, Anne.

Bring the lights down.

This is Roy Martindale. Can you hear me, Colin?

Can you see target one?

Move them, Colin.

Bend them.

Do it, Colin.

Do it.

Now.

Target one unaffected.

Target two, Colin.

Can you see target two?

Push against it, Colin.

Push it over.

Feel its surface against your will.

Push it over.

Now.

Target two unaffected.

Target three, Colin.

Can you see target three?

Yes.

Burn it, Colin.

Burn it... now.

Target unaffected.

Something's happened.

Something terrible has happened.

Feeling better?

Yeah, I'm OK.

Roy wanted to send you to the clinic, but I thought you'd be comfortable here.

How right you were.

I'd have preferred somewhere less impersonal than the spare bedroom.

It's too early to start discussing your bedroom preferences.

- Shall I boil you an egg? - You're inspired this morning.

- I won't be a minute. - I hope you will. I don't like raw eggs.

It went up at exactly the same time as the experiment.

Coincidence.

- It can't be. - That ship was about five miles away.

And he didn't affect the targets at all.

He didn't even try until the last one.

Do you still have that envilope?

Yes.

All sealed, just as they were.

What are you looking for?

Anything in this picture that might have misunderstood.

Anything that might have directed his mind towards that place or tanker.

I can't see anything that would have done that, can you?

No.

My God. ***

How did that get in there?

Did it happen? Did it really happen?

Did what happen, Colin?

Did it blow up? Did it burn?

Yes.

It was seeing the dead birds.

It made me angry.

That't what I did it, Tom.

I didn't think about the men on board.

Did any of them die?

They all died, didn't they?

- I killed them all. - It's all right, Colin.

Anne and I will take you home tonight.

You're convinced that the boy was responsible for the explosion on that ship?

Quite convinced.

Yet you tell me he's of no further use to us.

I find that difficult to accept.

Well, I have him tested thoroughly.

It seems that the energy he released against that ship took him to the limits of his power.

And we're back to square one, is that it?

Well, hardly.

We now know how much destructive power a subject can contain.

We know it can be chanelled, directed.

I'd say we'd advanced quite a number of squares.

What we need now is another subject of Colin's quality help us make further advances.

Colin's burned out.

I don't agree.

I think perhaps it's just that his batteries have run down.

I'm wondering whether a series of physical and psychological tests might not be a good idea.

- Well, if you insist... - I haven't decided where

Possibly Davidson's unit in Cambridge.

I see.

After... a decent interval, I take it?

He has been somewhat overstrained.

I'm touched by your concern

belated though it might be.

Don't you feel better for that?

Wonderful

I don't know why you didn't carry on to John O'Groats. It couldn't have been far off.

Come on.

Where have you two been?

- About 15 miles further than I'd intended. - Rubbish!

You never believe what's happened since you've been out.

I've been offered the commission of my life.

To do over a whole mansion in Yorkshire.

An Adam house. They want me down right away.

That's wonderful! But what about Colin?

Well, it's incredible.

Mr Scott-Erskine's office rang to say they want him in London as soon as possible.

He feels Colin would benefit from some simple physical tests.

- And how does Colin feel about it? - Well, it's only for a week this time.

- Then I'll be back for the Easter holidays. - That's marvellous, Karen. I'm really pleased.

They're sending a car to pick him up. I've got so much to do.

- I'm afraid lunch... - Don't worry about us. We'll cope.

It's all worked out so well, I can hardly believe it.

Have you got everything?

I don't want to go to London. I want to stay here.

It's only for a week.

Then we'll have the whole of the Easter holidays together.

Here's the car now.

Come on, sunshine.

Hey, hey

Take care, lovey.

I shall expect a written account of your experiences.

See you on Friday. OK?

I'll answer it.

Look at that car they've sent for you.

What luxory, eh?

That was Scott-Erskine's office.

They said they want Colin for tests

and they'll be sending a car tomorrow.