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Get the child.

Quickly!

But sapphire's upstairs! Come on!

Get her away from me.

It's cold. Come on!

Clattering on door someone was killed in this room.

A young girl, and it wants me to be her.

It wants it to happen all over again.

Steel, don't!

The girl's killers are here. They've broken down the door!

Steel!

Crackle, she gasps

she inhales deeply sapphire!

It's gone. The room's gone!

But they haven't!

Screams

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.

Steel!

Argh!

She gasps

zap

zap

they scream

wake up!

What's wrong with steel?

We reduced his temperature to -273.1c.

That's near absolute zero!

Yes.

He told me not to touch him.

Rob, will you go down to the kitchen and light a fire, please?

Yes.

Sapphire, look.

Yes. Go on.

And, Rob... Yes?

Make it a good fire. Yes.

Straining: Not... not enough...

It was. You held that one.

N-Not to hold them, not enough to... to s-stop them.

M-Mustn't regain its heat.

I know. Must be kept at same temp... Erature.

Yes.

Helen, will you help us?

You take steel down to the kitchen. But don't touch him!

Voices chanting: Upstairs and downstairs,

upstairs and downstairs... ..And downstairs...

..Upstairs and downstairs... ..Upstairs...

..Upstairs and downstairs,

upstairs and downstairs... ..And downstairs...

Birds chirping

Fire crackling

door opens

is he any better?

Not yet. But he will be.

Telepathically: 'Fire.'

'what?' 'has the fire gone out?'

'no, it's still burning, it's still hot.'

'ah.'

takes all his strength away, doesn't it?

Whispers: Yes, it does. Sapphire?

Yes? So we're lost, then, if that thing comes back.

We'll be all right.

'The frozen piece of light...' 'I've dealt with it.'

'you followed my instructions?' 'Yes.'

'good.'

'now, go to sleep. Get some rest.'

Rob? Yes?

Are you feeling fit and strong? Yes.

Good. I need a hand. Oh.

You're not gonna scratch that, are you? What?

The glass! That was my dad's table! Emergency measures.

But when my mum and dad come back... It'll be all right.

Things will just take a little longer to thaw out, that's all.

Look, Rob.

Steele said that this was just a fragment.

It is. Will you help me with this?

A fragment of what's in the top room? Yes.

Oh... is it alive?

Yes. Is it hurt?

Who cares if it's hurt?

It tried to kill sapphire, remember? Yes.

It's more of a psion than a fragment.

A psion? Yes, descendant.

A successor. A child.

Is it something that you've seen before?

Not quite. It's like it. It's different.

As dangerous as before? More.

And there's two more somewhere in the house.

Yes.

Well... I must go and see to steel.

Will you two bring that down to the cellar for me, please? Yes.

Come on, Helen. Pick it up.

Oh, it's too heavy, Rob!

Come on, Helen. Oh, Rob!

Wait a minute...

Why can't steel freeze... Whatever's upstairs in the attic,

the way he froze those soldiers?

That would only suspend it for a while.

Not even steel can stop time for always.

It would be like trying to freeze the whole universe

into one block of ice.

Are there others?

Others? Like you?

There are 127 of us.

Oh.

Come on, Helen.

115. There are 115 of us.

We must never rely on the transuranics.

Why not? They're unstable.

Wait for me, Rob! Come on, Helen.

But if it's a child... Who said it's a child?

Sapphire did. So, if it's a child... She didn't say child.

Well, she didn't mean it.

She said descendant, and then she said child.

Like puppies, or kittens.

It's young.

What? At school, they say it's young.

Yes... but this is different, Helen. Different from anything we've known.

Different from the things they know at school.

I mean, you saw what that thing did.

Are puppies or kittens capable of that?

No! Well, then.

But what if its parents come looking for it?

Steel could handle it. But he's not well.

Yes, but when he's well... Take himself down.

Mmmmm...

Imitates gunfire, knock at door

who is it, Rob?

I don't know, do I?! Perhaps it's a policeman.

I'll see. No, Helen!

But we've got to answer it, Rob. All right.

Clattering

'A giant?'

yes! No, a man, but he... He is, he's almost a giant!

In the doorway? Yes! He appeared?

No, he knocked on the door.

Then what?

Then I tried to open the door, he pushed it open, broke the chain!

He came from outside? Yes!

Was he one of the soldiers? No, he was just in ordinary clothes.

Look, it's a giant, sapphire!

It's all right, it's all right. Did he come into the house?

I-I don't know. We ran to tell you. Leaving the door open?

He pushed it open!

We've gotta wake steel. No.

For the moment...

..I'm afraid there's just the three of us.

It's closed again. Yes.

Whispers: Now, be very quiet.

And do exactly as I say, do you understand?

You left it open? Yes!

But it's closed.

Look...

Hello, sapphire...

Got anything to eat in this place?

It's him, it's the giant!

Well, you could call him that. This is lead.

Lead? Yes, he's one of ours.

You know what? I'm starving.

Chuckles

he groans

chuckles

all right... where is he?

Where is steel?

Lead? Is that lead here?

Yes, I'm here.

I mean, you can almost guarantee it, can't you?

You can guarantee that, whenever you wander off and ice yourself up,

without me around, you're in trouble.

I am not in trouble.

All right. You're not in trouble...

And you don't need any help. No.

But you do need... Hmm!

..Insulation.

And that's me. You tell him, sapphire.

He shouldn't be doing that below-zero stuff without me.

Now...

..What about some food?

Sapphire?

Are you still the cook I remember?

Ethereal beeping

Long ethereal beep

ethereal beep

Ah...

By the way, steel... Jet sends her love.

Does she now?

And copper's having problems with silver. Again?

Again. She chuckles

when you've finished eating... I'll show you what we have to do.

All right, steel.

Always cool, that man.

Well, he has to be, in this house.

Difficult job? Yes.

Be good training for you, then.

He chuckles

there's another difficult one waiting for us.

When we're finished here, of course.

He chuckles

arrrrrgh!

He laughs

he sighs

Steel! Up here.

Thank you.

Here, son. He laughs

gives you all the tough jobs, hey? Well, no, I...

Oh, he's good at that.

He laughs

Having trouble? Yes.

Are there many more?

Yes, but Rob's going to help when he's done with pictures. Good.

Laughs

it started in there.

First a section of the wall, then the wall itself, now the whole room.

♪ There's nothing like good home cooking! ♪

He laughs

it's using old verse and picture forms.

He continues laughing

ah, sorry, steel. The main trigger?

Children's nursery rhymes.

Voices chanting: Upstairs and downstairs...

Has it taken? Yes.

..Upstairs and downstairs... The boy's parents.

It's all right, son.

He'll get them back for you somehow.

Lovely. Easy, easy.

Oh! Helen laughs

ok. Can I have another one?

Ethereal tinkling oh!

I'm going in there,

and I'm gonna freeze it back at least as far as the wall.

You're gonna take yourself down and walk in there? Yes!

Walk into that? But you know what that does to you.

Yeah, but you'll be in there to help me, won't you?

My "insulation", remember? Oh, yes, I remember.

And I also remember that it knocks the hell out of me, too.

And, if it goes wrong, we are both trapped in there.

We're gonna try it!

As soon as the books and pictures have been burned.

Well, I guess it can't be any worse

than following you around that flea-bitten ship.

I wouldn't count on it. Did you help on that ship, too?

Yes, I did a day on it. What was the name of the ship?

What was it, steel? I forget.

Blue something, wasn't it? I thought it was Mary.

Mary, Mary, blue, um... Mary, Mary, blue, blue, blue...

Not the Mary Celeste?!

Mary Celeste, that's the one, son. That's it! That's it!

Voices chanting: Upstairs and downstairs,

upstairs and downstairs, upstairs and downstairs,

upstairs and down...

But the Mary Celeste was important! Was it?

And it's a mystery. People have been trying to solve it for years!

Have they?

Look at these books. They chuckle

ethereal tinkling

are there any more books?

Just one.

Sapphire!

Helen!

Man: "Doth blow, and we shall have snow..."

I know that one, sapphire. No, Helen!

I do! Helen, it wants you to know it!

It's in my head, sapphire. It's in my head.

Ethereal screech

Helen, help me catch it!

Anyway, it couldn't have been the Mary Celeste.

It was, I remember now.

Cos they found it abandoned, and steel said he sank the ship!

I sank the real one, yes.

What is it, steel?

Man: "The north wind doth blow, and we shall have snow.

"And what will poor Robin do then? Poor..."

"And hide his head under his wing."

"Doth blow, and we shall have snow.

"And what will poor Robin do then?"

Helen... stop it!

I can't, I can't! I know it! No!

I do, it's in my head, and it won't go!

"The north wind doth blow..."

Wind whipping

glass shattering

"we shall have snow..."

"And what will poor Robin do then? Poor thing."

Voices chanting: Upstairs and downstairs...

"He'll sit in a barn..." Upstairs...

"And keep himself warm..."

Upstairs and downstairs... Woman: Rob!

"And hide his head..." Let me out, please, Rob!

"Under his wing." Rob?

Upstairs and downstairs... Rob!

Ethereal tinkling

Rob!

Wait for me, Rob! Upstairs and downstairs...

Upstairs and down... upst...

Upstairs and downstairs... Hush, hush...

..Upstairs and downstairs... How long it had been...

The cattle in the Meadow... Rob?

..Lie fast asleep. Let me out, please, Rob!

Upstairs and downstairs... Wait for me, Rob!

Don't listen to it! Lead: It's coming through!

Rhythmic banging

ethereal tinkling

..Downstairs, upstairs and downstairs,

upstairs and downstairs... Downstairs.

..Upstairs and downstairs... No!

..Upstairs and downstairs, upstairs and downstairs,

upstairs and downstairs, upstairs and downstairs...

Woman: Ring-a-ring... ..Upstairs and downstairs...

..Of roses... ..Upstairs and downstairs,

upstairs and downstairs... No!

..Of roses... ..Upstairs and downstairs, up...

Man: "The north wind doth blow, and we shall have snow,

"and what will poor Robin do then? Poor thing."

Tinkling intensifies

"he'll sit in a barn and keep himself warm,

"and hide his head under his wing, poor thing.

"Poor thing."

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