The Tomorrow People Worlds Away Part 2
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00:00Quite astonishing that the apparatus is still working after all this time.
00:04Still it proves we are on the right track.
00:06You've seen this before?
00:07Yes, there are several coltan pyramids on other planets in this sector.
00:10They are all basically similar.
00:12And that is a coltan?
00:14The image of one, yes. Come on.
00:26This is it.
00:27The radiation room.
00:29And the radiation equipment.
00:31All fortunately no longer working.
00:34Now, Timus, are you going to tell us who the coltan were and what this is all about?
00:39I'm sure it's not just an archaeology lesson.
00:41The coltan once had a mighty empire.
00:44On most of the worlds they ruled there were human inhabitants.
00:48Because the coltan are particularly fond of human beings.
00:52You say are particularly fond of human beings?
00:55I thought all this happened a long time ago.
00:57No, no, no. The coltan still exist.
00:59And they still try to colonize worlds.
01:02And they are still very fond of human beings when they can get them.
01:07They eat them alive, I believe.
01:09You're joking.
01:10I wish I were.
01:13But if the coltan still exist, why isn't the Earth still part of their empire?
01:18The Galactic Federation forced them to give up the Earth about 6,000 of your years ago.
01:23And we only found out quite recently what it was the coltan had left behind on the worlds they were forced to give up.
01:30What?
01:31Machines like this.
01:33This is the reason why telepathic life took so long to evolve on your planet.
01:37Fortunately it has recently worn itself out and ceased to operate.
01:41Operate? How?
01:43It transmits a radiation into a planet's magnetic field.
01:47The effect of that radiation is to prevent psionic powers like telethopy, teleportation, psychokinesis and so on from operating.
01:55So that even if tomorrow people like yourselves do evolve, they can never use their powers.
02:01And so they never know they possess them.
02:04Lucky for us the machines stopped transmitting.
02:06Indeed. Or you would never have found your powers.
02:09But why would they want to build a machine that would take away people's telepathic powers?
02:14Because the coltan themselves are not telepathic and never can be.
02:18They are what is known as a psi-null species.
02:21You mean they're jealous of species that can evolve to telepathy?
02:24That is part of their motive, yes.
02:25The other is if they are to hang on to colonies, they must prevent tomorrow people from breaking out is the term you use, I believe.
02:33Yes. Yes, I think I can see why.
02:36On a planet of tomorrow people it would be rather hard for a race of non-tomorrow people to hold down.
02:42Well, no matter how advanced and sophisticated their technology was.
02:45Unless they had a psi-damping transmitter like this.
02:50Horrid thing.
02:51Hey, Liz, don't. If I do that to my TV set it starts working again.
02:55Is the Federation doing something about the world the coltan still colonize?
03:00That is what I have come to see you about.
03:05There is a planet called Piri which we know the coltan have colonized.
03:09Before they took it over, Piri was about to develop a telepathic life form.
03:14We, the Galactic Federation, want you to go to Piri and destroy the psi-damping transmitter.
03:20It is in a pyramid very like this one.
03:24You will need this.
03:27After that, you must persuade the coltan to leave.
03:35Just like that.
03:37Just like that?
03:39You don't have to come if you don't want to.
03:41We want to come, don't we, Tyso?
03:42Yeah, sounds like it's going to be the best adventure in a long time.
03:45But why did the Galactic Federation choose us?
03:47I mean, they must have thousands of better trained investigators and secret agents.
03:51Well, that's because whilst on the surface of Piri, we'll be totally without any of our special powers.
03:57I've only just learned how to use them.
03:59That's why they need us. We still know how to operate without them.
04:02Most of the Federation's agents don't. Without their special powers they'd be lost.
04:05Yes, but without our special powers, how are we going to get there and back?
04:08Well, we can be jaunted there, and if our mission is a success, we can jaunt back.
04:15And if it isn't, I take it we'll be stuck up there forever.
04:18No, they'll send a Federation space patroller to take us off.
04:21Well, that's if they can get it past the coltan space fleet, of course.
04:24Oh, yes, of course, that's if.
04:26So, when do we start?
04:28Well, first we go to the Trig to learn the language and customs of the planet.
04:33Presumably we'll have to wear Pirian costume.
04:35Oh, yes, of course.
04:37Well, then they'll project us onto the surface of the planet, which I believe is very like Earth.
04:54Hey, not bad. Old Timers has done us proud.
04:58Timer said that this cave was originally set up and equipped by his close clone brother, Tikno.
05:02I wonder if we'll ever find him.
05:04There'll be a bonus if you manage to do that.
05:06Our main purpose here is to destroy the psi-damping transmitter, and if possible, send the coltan packing.
05:12Listen, I think you two ought to do a recce of the area, see what you can see.
05:15But be careful. Remember, this isn't a surrey wood, it's an alien and hostile world.
05:20And don't forget, you don't have your special powers.
05:28All right, off you go.
05:58Something's coming. Men on foot.
06:25What do you make of that?
06:27They had a prisoner of some sort.
06:29Looked like a young girl to me.
06:31Yeah, I think we'd better report back to John.
06:40Did you see who the prisoner was?
06:42No, they're too far away.
06:44They're foremen, sort of like fighters.
06:46They were armed, and the prisoner was a girl.
06:48What were they doing to her?
06:49They were dragging her behind a horse.
06:51Did you see where they were taking her?
06:52No, we didn't think it wise to follow.
06:54Pity, because I couldn't make out any detail that I so saw.
06:57Listen.
06:58What?
06:59Can you hear her?
07:00Well, I can't hear anything.
07:08Well, that sounded like a supersonic jet.
07:11Was another jet coming over?
07:13Out in the forest.
07:14Who?
07:15Well, that's only animals, surely.
07:17Not them, not animals.
07:19Well, that wasn't animals.
07:25Come on.
07:27That sounded like a hunt.
07:29Yeah, but it's not animals around here.
07:31We must help them.
07:32Dizer, come back.
07:34Let's guard the entrance.
07:36David, take a stun gun and come with me.
07:42Here.
07:55Yah!
08:09Yah!
08:10Yah!
08:16Yah!
08:17Yah!
08:19Yah!
08:23Ow!
08:26Yah!
08:40Yah!
09:06Let's try this way.
09:11Yah!
09:27Ah!
09:28Ah!
09:30Ah!
09:31Ah!
09:32Ah!
09:33Ah!
09:34Ah!
09:35Let's buckle up.
09:37Ah!
09:38Ah!
09:40Here, take it.
09:41Get back to the cave.
09:42I'll lead the hunt away.
09:43Okay, come on, this way.
09:56Ah!
09:57Ah!
09:58Ah!
10:12Yah!
10:13Ah!
10:19la, la, la!
10:28Oh, this is what they were hunting.
10:39Poor thing.
10:40Oh, where's Tizer?
10:41He's out leading the hunters away.
10:46We should have given him a stungle at least.
10:47There's no time.
10:48He just shot off.
11:49We should have given him a stungle at least.