Original subtitles

You've already seen what can happen upstairs this evening.

But we stopped them.

Held them.

Took the trigger away from them.

The trigger?

Yes, the final ingredient.

A certain, traditional nursery rhyme spoken in a certain room.

Door creaks open

wind howls

Mama, daddy.

No pictures.

No pictures, Rebecca.

♪ Ring a ring o' roses

♪ a pocketful of posies... ♪

that's why we tore it out of the book.

Clock ticks ♪ ring a ring o' roses... ♪

that's why we burned it.

♪ A-tishoo! A-tishoo!

♪ We all fall down. ♪

That's why sapphire and I... Clock stops ticking

♪ the king has sent his daughter

♪ to fetch a pail of water

♪ a-tishoo! A-tishoo! ♪ Ticking stops

♪ we all fall down.

♪ The wedding bells are ringing

♪ the boys and girls are singing

♪ a-tishoo! A-tishoo!

♪ We all fall down.

♪ The bird upon the steeple eerie buzzing

♪ sits high above the people

♪ a-tishoo! A-tishoo!

♪ We all fall down.

Buzzing contiues

♪ the cows are in the Meadow... ♪

Rob: Helen! ♪ A-tishoo! ♪

'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.'

Helen: ♪ we all fall down. ♪

Sapphire.

♪ The king has sent his daughter rhythmic whirring

♪ to fetch a pail of water

♪ a-tishoo! A-tishoo!

♪ We all fall down.

♪ The wedding bells are ringing

♪ the boys and girls are singing door handle creaks

♪ a-tishoo! A-tishoo!

♪ We all fall down. ♪

Handle clicks

now!

♪ A-tishoo! ♪

Loud buzzing

hold her!

Ringing are bells wedding the

singing are girls and boys the

tishoo-a. Tishoo-a.

Rebecca! Down fall all we.

I said, "hold her!"

Woman's voice: A-tishoo! A-tishoo!

We all fall down.

Ring a ring o' roses

a pocketful of posies

a-tishoo! A-tishoo!

We all fall down.

Approaching footsteps

Hush. Hush.

Buzzing stops

the child memorised the rhyme. Yes.

How many more have you learned?

You keep her with you at all times.

Has the child other dolls? Yes.

Downstairs? Next floor down, yes.

Will you find her one from there?

Is that the way my mother and father disappeared?

Yes.

And you almost went the same way.

So until I say differently this whole part of the house

is out of bounds.

But my mother's still in that room!

Not any more. But I heard her!

I heard her voice.

I did, I heard her.

No.

I did in that room. It wasn't her.

Of course it was! Tell me what you saw?

In the room? Yes.

Lots of things, different things. People?

Yes, people.

And things.

But all very quickly.

Well, I didn't actually see her.

I saw a shadow of her.

Her voice.

That's all.

That wasn't her?

No.

Mama's coming home?

Not yet.

Soon?

Yes.

Soon.

But I don't trust you.

I mean, I can't trust you, either of you.

I don't know who you are, or where you've come from.

How can I trust you?

You have to.

First a wall, then a room.

You have to trust us.

Come on.

Birds sing

distant tapping

Tapping continues

Horn blows in the distance

Rhythmic whirring

breakfast?

Um, I'm not hungry, thanks.

What is it? What?

What can you see?

Nothing. I'm just looking, that's all.

Oh, I almost forgot. Steel wants you, he asked me to tell you.

Yes.

He's at the top of the house.

What does he want me for?

He's not likely to tell me, is he?

Steel: 'I sent no message.'

no.

Rob, what are you...? Shh!

Put this on, Helen.

But I don't want... Put it on quickly.

I'm eating my breakfast.

Well, you can leave that. Here.

No! Shh!

Please, Helen, we've got to be ready.

Ready? We're leaving.

The policeman's coming.

Upstairs just now I looked out of the window,

I saw the ferry crossing the bay.

The policeman's car was on it.

Oh. He has to be coming here, there's nowhere else.

Are we going with someone? Yes, so hurry.

Did you tell sapphire? Tell her what?

About the policeman?

No, I didn't. Come on.

But she'll be cross. Come on, Helen.

You should have told... they're nailing up the door of your room.

Nailing it.

So that no-one can get in.

And no-one can get out.

Is that the way to bring mum and dad back?

It's all right.

The policeman is coming. It's all right, Helen.

Listen. Car horn beeps

I didn't even speak to him.

I didn't think you had.

This time it's worse than the ship.

Voice in room

this time it can think, it can reason things out.

What kind of things?

Method.

Listen.

Voice: Ring o' roses. Ring...

Like a record that's stuck, isn't it?

Yes. It's not, it's marking time.

Car horn beeps

the boy must've heard the car.

Yes. I'm sorry, he just doesn't trust you.

Does he trust you?

A little.

You're supposed to be the diplomat, aren't you?

Amongst other things.

You're supposed to be the one that sweet talks kids like that,

reassures them. I manage.

So that we can get on with the job and win the battle.

It's nearly here.

Voice: Ring o' roses, ring...

The last thing we need right now is someone coming here

who doesn't know.

Being helped in turn by someone who doesn't understand.

Car horn beeps

can you handle that policeman? No.

You do it.

Stay there.

I have to do it.

It's my home. I live here.

I have to tell... Someone else.

Are you speaking for both of you?

Yes.

I don't think you can.

Come on, Helen.

It doesn't matter.

No? No.

I'm still going to tell him about my parents.

About that room up there, about the things I saw in that room.

Do you think he'll listen to you?

Yes. That policeman knows me.

Knock at door

rhythmic whirring

go on then, try to tell him.

Hello, Rob.

Rhythmic whirring

Knock at door

Hello, Rob.

Rhythmic whirring

knock at door

hello, Rob.

Knock at door

I can keep that going for as long as is necessary,

just as long as it takes to prevent you from talking to him.

It will take ages.

So be fair, I'm sure the poor man has better things to do.

Knock at door hello, Rob.

Er...

Oh... Yes?

Oh, that's...

That's strange.

What is? Well...

It must've been the long drive up here.

But I could have sworn I...

Well, I thought that door had already been opened for me once.

No.

Only after the call last night, I thought i'd, er,

come over and see if everything's all right.

Everything's fine.

Good.

And you are? A friend of the family.

Here for some, er, peace and quiet.

Well, that's all right then.

But how can you do it? I just did it.

But how? It doesn't matter how.

Do you want me to start it all over again? He'll be gone soon.

Why don't you give him a chance to get on with his business.

This is his business. No.

All right, suppose I run to that window and climb through?

Well, I'd probably see you.

I might make you spend the next few hours climbing the window

and not getting anywhere.

If you can make time go backwards.

Who says I can? You just did it out there.

And what you did last night

when you kept changing into different clothes.

The changing of the clothes was an illusion.

They were just things I'd worn in the past.

I was projecting an image for you, that's all.

But out there, just now, that wasn't an illusion, was it?

No. That was time.

You were making time go back.

Yes. Now sit down and get on with your breakfast.

Why can't you take it back 24 hours or more?

A little bit more milk?

Why can't you take it back to just before yesterday

when my parents were still here?

I haven't the power to take time back that far.

If I had, don't you think I'd have done it?

I suppose so.

Imagine a rubber ball.

Imagine a rubber ball bouncing.

Now the first time the ball hits the ground is the incident.

And the bouncing that follows is just the echo.

Momentum.

I'm able to keep the momentum going for a little bit longer, that's all.

Just long enough.

It helps. Front door closes

car engine starts

does anyone have the power to...? What?

Well, to take time back further?

Something does, yes. Something, not someone?

Something. Whatever's in that corridor?

Mm-hm. It can take time backwards, or forwards, or sideways,

or anyway if it's allowed to.

Only there's no sense to it.

Not sense as we know it.

And no purpose.

Only its own purpose.

What I saw in Helen's room.

Oh, it was just a fraction, just a peep.

But stopping it whenever it happens is our job

and that's all we're doing here.

So will you please stop fighting us

and try to believe in us for once. We're all you've got on your side.

First a wall, then a room.

What then?

A house? A road?

A village? A town?

What next?

I need a room to work in.

What sort of a room?

Would you know which is the youngest room in the house?

The youngest? The last one to be built?

My father had a small extension built last year, an office.

Show me it.

Please.

When you said you did a job like this once on a ship.

Yes. What happened?

We had to sink the ship.

'For its own good, of course.

'And it's not as easy to sink a house.'

Mm, this is much better.

Clock ticks

Clocks tick

Clocks tick

Eerie buzzing

clock ticks

What about this?

40, 50 years old?

1938.

And this?

Now that must be all right.

Six to eight months most of it. Most of it?

There are some recycled elements there.

One of them's a good 100 years old.

So nothing's safe? No.

Rob? Yes?

Everything. What?

I want an empty room.

They do clutter their lives, don't they?

Sorry. Would you get the wastepaper basket?

What was the trigger?

What?

When you said that time broke through here, in Helen's room.

You said there was a trigger, a fine ingredient to make it happen?

That's right.

What was the trigger, the fine ingredient on that ship?

Oh, an out of date ship's log.

The captain had a weakness for nautical heritage.

Oh. He collected old things from ships.

Not so silly then, are they?

Who?

These creatures that are trying to break through the time fabric.

A ship's log at sea, a nursery rhyme in a child's room.

Sounds to me as if they know what they're doing.

What's wrong?

Just something the boy said.

It reminded me of something you said earlier on.

Me? Yes.

About methods being used.

Woman's voice: Rob?

Rob?

Shouts: Rob!

..And downstairs.

Upstairs.

Upstairs and downstairs.

Rob?

Mum!

Mum? Just what an earth is going on, Rob?

Oh, mum. Will you open this door at once?

Of course.

Oh, I forgot it's nailed up.

Nailed up, what do you mean, nailed up?

What have you been doing?

Look, mum, let me explain. You can explain when I'm out.

So just open it will you right now. I will, mum.

Helen's gonna be so pleased. Will you open this door?

Yes, mum, just wait. I'll fetch sapphire and steel.

Oh, there's no need to fetch them.

How do you know them?

Well, whoever they are.

I don't know, friends of yours, I suppose. I don't know them.

Now, please, open this door. I can't open the door without help.

Of course you can, it's very simple.

Just kneel down by the door.

Just outside the door.

Come along, Rob, kneel down by the door.

It's easy enough to open the door.

Easy enough to let us out. How?

You just put your face close to the door.

Come along, Rob, you can do it.

That's right.

That's fine.

Now then.

All you have to do is to say a rhyme -

a nursery rhyme. An old one.

Any one providing it's old.

Well, can't you remember one?

Then just say it, Rob, just say it.

Say it!

I can't. Say it!

I'm too old to say nursery rhymes.

Well, then... Let's call it history.

Now you're old enough for history, aren't you, Rob?

Yes. And a lot of nursery rhymes are a part of history.

I've always taught you that, haven't I, Rob?

No! So, say the one that's in your head.

Which one? The one in there now. Don't lose it.

Think of the soldiers.

Soldiers.

Climbing the stairs, swords in their hands,

searching for people.

Goosey, goosey, gander.

That's the one.

Where shall I? Where shall I?

Whither shall I wander. That's it.

Upstairs and downstairs.

Eerie buzzing

approaching footsteps

No!

Sapphire! Steel!

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