First broadcast 2nd August 1979.
Sapphire and Steel discover the ghost is a young World War I soldier who died in battle.
David McCallum ... Steel
Joanna Lumley ... Sapphire
Gerald James ... Tully
Tom Kelly ... Soldier
David Woodcock ... 1st voice
David Cann ... 2nd voice
Sapphire and Steel discover the ghost is a young World War I soldier who died in battle.
David McCallum ... Steel
Joanna Lumley ... Sapphire
Gerald James ... Tully
Tom Kelly ... Soldier
David Woodcock ... 1st voice
David Cann ... 2nd voice
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00:00You
00:23When will you be back?
00:24tomorrow
00:26At what time still to continue my investigations about 11 o'clock
00:31I'll beg your pardon. I said be quiet. What is it?
00:36The platform again
00:39Something changing something happening
00:42tell me
00:44the flowers have appeared again and the smell of summer but
00:49There's something else steel. There's something else this time
00:53Can you identify it?
00:56Just a
00:58very powerful feeling
01:01of hatred and
01:04resentment a strong feeling of resentment
01:07The whole atmosphere out here is charged with it
01:13And that sound steel
01:16Can you hear that
01:20No
01:23What is it
01:25It's the sound of a band
01:28It's approaching it's coming here
01:37And I can hear men
01:40Watching
01:42You sure that
01:44Be careful so far. You hear it so far. I'd be careful. I'm right steel
01:50I
01:52Leave that
02:15All irregularities will be handled by the forces controlling each dimension
02:23Trends you running heavy elements may not be used where there is life
02:28Medium atomic weights are available
02:31gold lead
02:33Copper
02:36Jet diamond radium sapphire silver and steel
02:43Sapphire and steel have been assigned
02:46I
02:51Sapphire leave that platform. No answer me
03:05Likes the Sun this is it makes this group makes the cool
03:11I can hear wood pitchers
03:13beads
03:17It's very hard
03:19Very very still
03:25He's with them you see it's their special symbol
03:40You hear it you hear that
03:47Why
03:52Passenger planes today the station is closed to ordinary passengers
04:02Waiting doors are locked
04:07They're just the girls
04:12Just the girls who gave
04:17Who gave them
04:25Look look it's daylight out there
04:46You
05:16You
05:46The girls who gave us flowers
06:16I
06:46Oh
07:01Wait
07:16Amazing
07:18Really amazing
07:21Tell me
07:22he
07:23It is without life an external projection. No one after image after image. Yes, it lived once
07:37You think we're witnessing
07:41It's amazing
07:44Would you please be quiet
07:46I
07:48I
07:50I
07:52I
07:54I
07:56I
07:58I
08:00I
08:02I
08:04I
08:06I
08:08I
08:10I
08:12I
08:15Who were you at least give the poor lad a chance, please let him do it his way
08:23You might as well tell me
08:27Reckon you might as well find out for yourself
08:30All right
08:33What do you want here
08:37Reckon you might as well find out
08:45You
09:05See what you've done you've driven him away
09:08So
09:12That's your threat is it that poor lad I
09:19Mean I mean is that really your idea of evil? Yes, it is. Well, it isn't mine
09:31Please come back in the name of God, please come back
09:38I heard a voice from heaven saying unto me blessed of the dead which die in the Lord from henceforth
09:45Yea, set the spirit that they may rest from their labors
09:59The after image belongs someone who died during the Great War Great War
10:031914 to 1918 died here. You mean this was a battleground? No, the send-off was from here
10:09They send off did you hear the train? Yes the women
10:14Women, yes, the ones who once cheered them on their way and made them think that they were heroes
10:20No, I didn't hear them I did it was something he wanted me to experience to participate in
10:27Just momentary, I don't think he wanted to frighten me. He just wanted me to experience it. Why?
10:34Because those women were part of this place for him. He resented what they stood for
10:40You sensed that? Yes
10:43Was it the same feeling of resentment and hatred you felt earlier on on the platform?
10:47Some of it. Yes, but not all of it
10:51So, this is where it all started for him his death started here
10:56Great wars
10:58Civil wars holy wars, you know, sometimes I wonder why they bother to send us here
11:04It's not enough that amount of resentment. It's not enough
11:09He was a soldier he went to war. He must have allowed for the possibility of being killed prematurely
11:15You're sure that was the war he was killed in. Oh, yes, I saw his death
11:21It was something else. He wanted me to experience. Where's Tully? Waiting. Where?
11:27In the waiting room
11:31I'm gonna send him home
11:46You
11:58And we have to find out who he was his name where he lived and exactly where and when he died
12:05What his intentions are
12:08He didn't come back
12:09No
12:10And i'm hoping praying if you like that he hasn't deserted us for good I doubt that he has because that would be a pity
12:15a great pity
12:17I feel the ghost of that poor lad has things to say i'm sure he has things to tell us mr
12:21Tully, so i've decided to stay on tonight not to go home. Have you a sort of emergency service if you like?
12:31So no more jokes
12:33I'd rather you didn't make fun of me
12:36I'm not stupid
12:37I happen to realize
12:39Realize what but the pair of you seem to be working along similar lines to me
12:44All right, then alternative lines. Yes, i'd prefer that. I mean i'm aware of your
12:49Well, I suppose you're toward a force
12:52Oh what the way you're able to communicate
12:55Some method of thought transference, is it something like that? Yes, very clever
12:59And you obviously have a leaning towards clairvoyance also must have taken years of practice now my approach to the supernatural is a much more
13:06Yes
13:08Do you have any more tapes for this machine?
13:15I have some yes recordings you've made here during the past two months. Yes
13:22But i'm not giving them to you
13:25You refer to my equipment as junk. It's still junk. Give them to me. Oh, no
13:29No, this happens to be part of a record of my research now
13:32I've answered a great deal of questions from you, but you haven't answered one of mine
13:36So as fellow investigators a part of my research information in exchange for a part of yours
13:43Tell him
13:50This much
14:05So
14:35So
14:53This force what does it look like
14:55We don't know yet
14:57And yet you say that it's dangerous. It's evil
14:59Yes, then it can hardly be the ghost of that poor soldier
15:02The man who killed him perhaps
15:05No, this force is not human
15:08But you said it simply draws its power from emotional responses of the humankind. You mean the human soul?
15:15No, I do not mean the human soul I mean responses like what?
15:20Like hatred anger resentment
15:26You're trying to tell me that this force thrives upon the feelings upon some of the worst human feelings
15:30Yes of living people no preferably the dead
16:00So
16:03So
16:27So, where does this force come from
16:29We don't know that either but you seem to know enough yes
16:33Now, how can this force use the persona of the dead?
16:36Because the persona lives on where in the atmosphere. It only has to be activated. All right
16:41So where do you no more questions, please? What the exchange is over. It is not
16:46I let your friend have four tape recordings all i've had so far in return is a few hints about how dead people
16:55Mr. Tully
16:57Ah, just the man I wanted the first tape on this machine. Yes, had it ever been used before no
17:04It's a blank tape
17:05A new one. Did you check it before you used it? Of course I always do and
17:11Well, I just said it was blank. The first and only recording made with this tape was out there earlier this evening
17:16Yes, have you played it back since well, I haven't had much chance. Have I what is it still?
17:22Listen
17:24I
17:26In the name of god
17:31Please tell me who you are
17:35I know you're here
17:38I'm a friend
17:42And I want to help you well, there's nothing wrong with that listen
17:49So would you let me help you
17:55Please
17:59You can trust in me
18:03A pigeon
18:07That's you moving the machine yes, you don't switch it off when you move it no
18:25I
18:27What are they doing
18:31Radio
18:33Radio messages making
18:38Making distress call
18:43Jamie's passed out
18:47The air
18:49Not enough air and don't waste it talking
18:55Hey
18:57How
18:59How deep are we
19:02At the bottom
19:06Hey
19:08No pumps working and and we're at the bottom
19:13Hey
19:17Tank's full
19:19And we're at the bottom
19:22Right at the bottom don't
19:24Don't talk
19:27Save save the air
19:32Slowly not during an important psychical investigation and that could be dangerous
19:42And that was picked up on the footbridge stairs
19:47But I heard nothing at the time no
19:49Have you ever heard anything like it before? No, nothing like that. No
19:55Only the sounds of the soldier
19:57It sounded like death again someone's death. Yes
20:01But where were they?
20:03in a submarine
20:06And yet
20:08What well
20:11Our young soldier was obviously from the first world war and that seemed sort of
20:16Sort of later why later?
20:19Well, I don't think they had electric pumps for ballast tanks in the first world war, I mean I couldn't swear to that but
20:28I was at the top of the stairs on the footbridge. Tully was at the foot here. He was my way up
20:35Working his way up try the stairs
20:48So nothing what about the top
21:04Yes
21:06There's something
21:08Somewhere it's not very strong
21:11But it's somewhere here
21:13What are you sensing resentment?
21:16No hatred
21:17Neither of those it's more like
21:20Fear and hopelessness
21:24What's the temperature
21:26cold
21:27That's odd. I've never recorded a temperature drop. They're always the opposite
21:32Yes, it's quite cold
21:37Give me details
21:43It's just cold
21:46Oh, it's a strange sort of cold like
21:50Like at the bottom of the sea
21:54No the other extreme
21:57What
21:59It's like high in the air
22:01The air is thin. It's a high altitude
22:04But it's still dark
22:06No, the sun is shining
22:07It's very bright. It's almost dazzling
22:13It's gone
22:16Whatever it was it's gone still maybe it's all designed to confuse us
22:27It's all a bit of a mixture, isn't it
22:30bottom of the sea
22:31high in the air
22:33Things out of order out of time
22:37And the voices
22:42It has to be the soldier the main instrument is the soldier
22:46Yes
22:48We've seen him
22:50We know this place is important to him
22:54But his resentment started here is that what you're thinking or what you're hoping hoping
23:04I'd rather not have to think the obvious that this could be a recruiting ground for the dead. Yes
23:11Yes
23:15I'm gonna check the other three tapes
23:41So
24:11So
24:41So
25:11So
25:41So
26:11So
26:41So
27:11You