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- Morning. - Morning.

- Morning. - Good morning.

- Morning, commander. - Morning.

- Morning, sir. - Morning.

- Morning. - Good morning.

Morning, Colonel. All pUiet on the Western Front?

Yes, hello.

- That was security on the line. - And?

EnpUiries on U FO report YP1 05 may be reopened now.

- And? - Will you handle it yourself?

Well, since I have no idea what U FO report YP1 05 is all about,

I can't answer the pUestion.

The last report was numbered 7,000, so yoU have the advantage on me.

This was ten years ago.

The main witness was hit by a car and has been in a coma ever since.

That is, Until this morning.

- How is she? - I don't know.

The hospital jUst said that she was conscioUs.

Dr Jackson's on his way there now.

(Tyres screech)

Colonel Johns was on that case.

Would yoU Iike me to ask him to follow it through?

No. I'll handle it.

Get me Colonel Foster.

Thank you. Commander.

Dr Jackson, thanks for getting here so quickly.

- Has she remembered anything yet? - She hasn't spoken yet.

Er... shall I Iead the way?

- How's our secUrity? - Adequate.

Medically speaking, is it safe for me to pUestion her so soon?

Oh, yes. It can only help. She's been in limbo for the last ten years.

We mUst get her mind active as quickly as possible.

It's very difficult in these cases.

She coUId have total recall or remember only fragments.

You see, as far as she's concerned, the accident happened yesterday

- and this is yoUr best opportUnity. - I see.

OK. Thank you.

Miss Fraser.

Miss Fraser. Can you hear me?

(Distorts) There's a gentleman here to ask you a few questions.

- How is she? - Yeah. MUch calmer now.

Well, she obviously remembers me as the man

who was driving the car that knocked her down.

Yes, but I explained that you were in no way responsible.

- Does she accept that? - In the main.

ShoUIdn't we wait a few days, Doctor?

Well, er... she needs... er shock therapy.

As I said , you can only help her.

Have you told her she's been in a coma for the past ten years?

No, no. BUt when she finds oUt, she will need a friend.

Her parents are both now dead .

- She doesn't know that either? - No.

She specifically asked us not to contact them.

- Do you know why? - No, bUt it's really up to you.

You're her only link with the past.

(Straker) 'May I sit down?'

I'm.. . sorry if l frightened you jUst now.

Perhaps it will help if l explain things to yoU .

My name is Ed Straker. I work for an organisation whose function it is

to investigate all reports concerning Unidentified flying objects.

- YoU saw one? - Yes.

Would yoU Iike to tell me aboUt it?

- (Whimpers) - Take yoUr time.

Yesterday...

- Where did you see it? - The farmhoUse.

I was on the roof of the farmhouse.

Do yoU remember where this farmhouse was. . . is,

- Miss Fraser? - No, I don't know.

How did you come to be there?

- We needed somewhere to sleep. - We?

Tim.

- Who is Tim? - I didn't know him very well.

We met at Piccadilly CircUs.

He's dead!

(Sobs)

- How did he die? - He fell off the roof.

- Do you Iive in London? - No.

- Why were yoU there? - I ran away from home.

- Why? - To be by myself.

- Where is that farm? - I don't know.

- What is yoUr name? - Catherine Fraser.

Do yoU feel like telling me about it?

I'd rUn away. . . from home

because I was being stifled by my parents.

Oh, I love them very much

but I jUst wanted to be by myself for a while.

'I was on the point of returning home.

'There was nowhere to go.

'I was just... wandering throUgh the crowd .

'Then I saw Tim.

'It was only yesterday. There mUst be something we can do.

'If only we hadn't met, he might.. .'

'We chatted for a while and then we were asked to move on.'

(Horn honks)

Come on, love.

What I meant was, why did you. .. give up

when yoU only had two years to go?

Well, two years, two weeks.. . Didn't seem to make mUch difference.

I just didn't see the point any more.

You coUId have had yoUr own practice now,

instead of jUst. . . you know, wasting your time.

Look, when I was at the hospital,

I assisted on a 1 5-hoUr operation on a little kid and he Iived.

That same night on television, I saw newsreel of men killing each other.

SUddenly I Iost the urge to become a doctor.

- But Tim , look. .. - Look. Let's drop it, OK?

- I mean, jUst enjoy the day. - OK. Sorry.

- None of my business, anyway. - Hey, Iook!

(Birds calling)

(Tim) So, I Ieft home. Well, the old man kicked me out, actually.

BUt I wanted to prove to him that I wasn't jUst a Iayabout

I wanted do something I believed in.

- That's good. Did you? - Yeah. I went on a peace march.

Only got as far as Manchester. Started raining.

Here, do you like the country?

- The country? - Yeah. Fields and trees.

- Yes, I sUppose so. - Come on, then.

'He said he wanted to Ieave. Get out into the coUntryside.

'He knew a place. A farmhoUse.

'If we hadn't managed to get a Iift, he'd still...

'(Sobs) I'm sorry.

'As we walked to the farm, we were happy.

'How could I have possibly known what was going to happen?'

What's the matter?

I don't know. I don't mind the daylight,

I just can't take the night.

Oh, I've got some aspirin. Might help yoU to sleep.

Aspirin?

Well, yoU can't spend the whole night walking aroUnd, can you?

You go to sleep. I'll be all right. OK?

(Sighs)

- What are they? - Oh, just something to...

- make me relax. - I don't believe you.

- They're pertectly harmless. - What do they do?

Here. Try a couple.

OK?

(Owl hoots)

It's all right. They're not addictive.

(Sighs)

Nothing.

Shhh.

(Birds twittering)

(Twittering gets loUder)

(Chorus of birdsong)

(Tim) All those coloUrs! Everything's changed!

It's beaUtifUI! BeaUtifUI!

(Catherine) Look at those colours!

It feels Iike l'm floating!

(Laughs)

(Tim) Wheeeeeeeeeeee!

(Whirring noise)

(Tim) Come on!

(Catherine) Where are we going?

(Catherine IaUghs)

(Catherine) Wheeee!

(Tim) Hey!

(Catherine IaUghs)

(Catherine) Wheeeee!

Wheeeeee!

Look! For yoU! For yoU!

There!

HUrrah!

(Voices echo)

(Catherine) Wheeeee!

Come on, Tim .

(Tim) Where are we?

(U FO whirrs)

(Footsteps echo and distort)

(Catherine) Whoo-whoooo!

Whooooo!

(Tim) Hello! Hello!

(Catherine) 'Even when we saw the spacemen, we'd no idea,

'no sense of the danger we were in.'

(Straker) 'What were they doing?'

(Catherine) 'They were digging a sort of hole in the floor,

'bUrying something.

- 'And there was this cylinder.' - 'Cylinder?'

'Yes. Like a mechanism .

'Tim picked it Up and then he threw it to me.'

(Straker) 'And this device belonged to the aliens?'

(Catherine) 'Yes, they wanted it back. They chased us.

'But to Tim and I it was jUst a fantastic game.

'We weren't afraid of anything. Tim even encoUraged them to join in.'

(Catherine and Tim) Come on!

(Catherine) Come on, Tim!

(Tim IaUghs)

(Voices echo)

(Catherine) Come on. HUrry!

(Tim IaUghs)

(Tim) You can't catch me. You can't catch me!

(Tim IaUghs)

(Catherine) They can't. They can't, Tim!

(Laughs) Come on!

Ha ha ha! Come on! Follow!

(Tim) Come on!

(Laughs)

Come on! Come on!

(Laughs)

(Laughs)

(Laughs)

(Laugh echoes)

(Catherine screams with laughter)

(Screaming echoes)

(Laughs)

(Laughs)

And then I lost consciousness.

What was in the hole that they had dUg?

- I don't know. - Try and describe it to me.

Well it... was a sort of container - puite big, you coUId see through it.

It had. .. sections - colours.

And what did yoU do with the piece that you took?

I had it when I Ieft the farmhouse but I don't know what I did with it.

(Straker) 'PIease. It's important.' (Catherine) 'l just don't know.'

Sorry to have to ask you all these questions. You mUst be feeling...

Now, think very carefully before yoU answer this, Catherine.

Where is that farm?

All I can tell yoU is that we walked for miles

when the truck driver dropped Us.

I'm sorry, I. . . jUst have no idea.

That's all right. Don't worry about it.

Now tell me. What happened after you came to?

'I.. . I mUst've been Unconscious for a Iong time.

'When l woke Up I was cold and frightened.

'It was morning.

'It all seemed Iike a horrible nightmare.'

(Groans)

(Laughing)

(Catherine gasps)

(Groans)

I'm sorry. I was so frightened.

I can barely remember what he Iooked like.

JUst his name. Tim.

Well, I think that's enough for today.

- May l come back tomorrow? - Yes, of coUrse.

Try not to worry, Catherine.

You're in safe hands here.

Oh, and if there's anything you need, jUst ask Dr Jackson.

Well, this dead case has come back to life with a vengeance.

In a derelict farmhoUse, the aliens have planted a bomb.

- Ten years ago. - The girl doesn't remember where?

- Right. - Why hasn't the bomb exploded?

It seems the girl took away one of its vital parts.

Paul, I want you to search every farm that existed between here and here.

That'II take weeks. The area's bUilt-Up now.

I know. The only alternative is that the girl remembers

what she did with the part of the bomb she took away.

That doesn't seem likely.

Sorry.

Would yoU be kind enoUgh to ask the doctor

if he could come in here for a moment?

- L'm sorry, bUt I had to tell her. - You should have left it to me.

Last night she asked for her parents. I had no choice.

Oh, the poor kid. How did she take it?

Pretty hard, pretty hard . BUt she asked for you.

(Catherine) 'I.. . don't know.

'YoU're the only person I know in the world.'

Do yoU have any relatives, apart from. .?

- Friends? School friends? - None.

Catherine.. . when all this is over...

You're very kind. Thank yoU.

The sooner it is over...

- Now, do you feel Up to it? - I'm all right.

Well, when the U FO left,

I hid for a long time. I didn't know what to do.

'Then I ran away from the farmhouse.

'I was so confUsed. I just had to get away.

'The next thing I remember is coming out of a field onto a road.'

(Straker) 'Can yoU remember seeing a signpost?'

(Catherine) 'no, I don't think so. Oh - there was an orchard.

'Then I stopped a truck and got a Iift.'

(Inaudible)

'The driver was chatting about something

'bUt I wasn't really Iistening.

'I was still confused and frightened.

'Then he pUIIed the trUck off the road.'

(Gasps)

(Screams)

(Car engine racing)

(Tyres screech)

She jUst ran oUt in front of me. There was nothing l coUId do.

(Groans)

(Mumbles)

FIying saUcer. . . took him.

And that's the Iast thing I remember.

Do yoU think yoU still had that piece of mechanism then?

I feel almost sUre... I remember...

- No, I'm sorry. - That's all right.

I'II take you back. I don't want to get into trouble with your doctor.

- When are you coming again? - Tomorrow.

That's the search in area 1 6 completed .

Even with a fUII crew, it'II still take the best part of three months.

Then you'II have to split yoUr forces, Paul.

Catherine thinks she had her part of the bomb when she Ieft the farmhouse.

Aren't we making a mountain out of a molehill? lt was 1 0 years ago.

Do yoU remember what happened in Turkey in 1 070, PaUI?

60,000 people killed. An entire city destroyed.

- Yes, but that was an earthpUake. - Was it?

A UFO was reported over the area a few hours before the pUake.

Our farmhoUse incident occUrred three days Iater.

PUt me through to search headquarters.

Sshh.

Tim.

- I thought you were dead . - Did yoU?

I'm sorry I shocked you.

(Sighs) l jUst don't...

- lt was all a dream. A bad trip. - You mean I imagined. . .?

Everything.

Oh, Tim. Oh, I'm so glad to see you.

- L'm so glad yoU remembered me. - You're real.

Some of it was real. The farmhouse.

The mechanism. l had that...

- Yes, what about the mechanism? - Ed Straker wants it.

Oh, I don't know. l'm so confused.

Was that part of the dream?

- Where is it? - What?

The mechanism. What did you do with it? YoU can tell me, Catherine.

I've tried. I can't remember.

Tim, it wasn't a dream.

- YoU were dead. They dragged you. .. - Shut up.

When they took me on board, I was resuscitated .

I have a task to complete.

Where is that mechanism?

Where is that missing piece?

Tim!

The injection...

will make you tell me.

You will tell me.

Commander, yoU'd better come to the hospital immediately.

I'm on my way.

I have to go to the hospital. I'll call yoU from there.

When the injection worked,

I remembered every detail after l left the farm.

'I came to a hump-backed bridge over a canal.

'I still had the mechanism with me.

- 'I threw it over the bridge.' - 'lnto the water?'

'no. There was a hoUseboat. It landed in the hoUseboat.

(Straker) 'And you told Tim all this?'

(Catherine) 'Yes. I could barely remember his name.

'Tim.'

- How long ago did he Ieave? - AboUt an hour.

Get me secUrity.

When I arrived , the owner had been dead for only a few minUtes.

The boy must have found the mechanism or it woUId have been there.

God help us. Where are the maps?

- In the car. - Better get them.

Catherine...

Catherine, I'm sorry, but we must try again.

This is where the accident happened.

You ran into the road from here.

Can you retrace yoUr steps back to the farmhoUse from that point?

- How long did yoU walk? - Two, three...

maybe five hoUrs. I don't know.

This is no good. We're still gonna be here when that bomb blows Up

It worked before. It's our only chance.

What is this drug, Doctor?

I don't know. It wasn't anything I've seen before.

- Would another injection harm her? - The last one doUbled her pUIse.

It's nowhere near back to normal. I don't know what woUId happen.

- But you mUst use it. - l won't take the responsibility.

Paul, it coUId kill her.

Look, thousands of people may die if we don't try!

Use it!

Wait!

- Catherine, I want to explain. - There's no need.

And then I tUrned left

and ran for about foUr or five hundred yards,

Until I came to some fields.

I cut across them . There was a water tower in the second one.

Next l came to a public house called the King's Arms.

The farmhoUse was only aboUt...

oh, Iess than a mile from the main road on the right.

- It's there. The farm's still there. - How is she, Doctor?

All right, PaUI. Let's get to that farmhoUse.

Against the wall!

Wait, PaUI.

(Sighs)

(PaUI) God in heaven!

FoUr IipUids, held apart by separate compartments.

The outer casing of the Iast piece is of a different substance,

the detonator that would fracture the walls between the chemicals.

They mix and, uh...

goodbye, England .

How is the detonator activated?

I have no idea. I can only sUggest drilling through the oUter casing

- to extract one of the liquids. - Will that work?

If it doesn't, there won't be anybody around to say, "l told you so."

Rig the drill, will you, and we'II need that green box.

Good.

Right.

Look at that. That drill will go throUgh beryllium steeI

and not a bloody scratch.

Well, there's only one thing for it. I'll have to remove it.

- To where? - The middle of the Atlantic.

The tidal wave will destroy the coastline of every coUntry aroUnd it.

Yes, I am aware of that. There'II have to be a mass evacUation.

Space.

We'II dUmp it in space.

Paul, get on to Colonel Branston.

Get a radio-controlled space dumper down here immediately.

All right, gentlemen, let's start digging.

(Straker) CarefUI.

Commander, it's beginning to react.

There we are, Commander.

I don't think you'II need us any more, so we'll leave yoU to it.

- Thank you, Major. - All right. AII in a day's work.

Good lUck.

Um. .. why don't yoU go back with them? I can take care of this.

Thank you, PaUI. BUt I think l'II stay here and see this through.

BUt you go back and Iook after Catherine. Tell her...

Tell her I'll be back as soon as I can.

Of coUrse.

She...

Space dumper ?4,000 miles from Earth.

Detonation time minus ten seconds.

Nine, eight...

seven, six...

five, four...

three, two...

one, zero.

- Commander. - What's wrong?

Is it Catherine?

- Commander.. . - (RUnning footsteps)

Commander.

(Straker) My God!

- Is that. ...? - Yes.

It's... Catherine Fraser.

BUt it can't be. That drUg. . .?

The boy's extra years had to come from somewhere.

We can only assUme they took them from Catherine

when she was Unconscious on the farm.

BUt how? How is it possible?

(Doctor) l don't know and I'm glad l don't know.

BUt he lived ten years. She's...

They didn't know how Iong it would take the boy to complete his task.

He coUId have lived on borrowed time for another fifty years.

- When did it happen? - AboUt six hoUrs ago.

AboUt the same time the boy died .

- Ed, if there's anything I can. . . - No, no.