First broadcast 13th January 1981.
After Sapphire disappears while trying to contact the creature inside the capsule, Steel must figure out where she has gone and how to proceed with the investigation.
David McCallum ... Steel
Joanna Lumley ... Sapphire
David Collings ... Silver
Catherine Hall ... Rothwyn
David Gant ... Eldred
Russell Wootton ... Changeling
After Sapphire disappears while trying to contact the creature inside the capsule, Steel must figure out where she has gone and how to proceed with the investigation.
David McCallum ... Steel
Joanna Lumley ... Sapphire
David Collings ... Silver
Catherine Hall ... Rothwyn
David Gant ... Eldred
Russell Wootton ... Changeling
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00:00It's capable of so many things.
00:29Tell me.
00:30No.
00:31No.
00:32No.
00:33The pain.
00:34The pain.
00:35The pain.
00:36The pain.
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00:38The pain.
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00:40The pain.
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00:58All irregularities will be handled by the forces controlling each dimension.
01:14Transuranic heavy elements may not be used where there is life.
01:22Medium atomic weights are available.
01:25Gold, lead, copper, jet, diamond, radium, sapphire, silver and steel.
01:37Sapphire and steel have been assigned.
01:52Sapphire.
02:13Sapphire.
02:17Sapphire.
02:22Sapphire.
02:25Sapphire.
02:28Sapphire.
02:31Sapphire.
02:34Sapphire.
02:37Sapphire.
02:53Sapphire.
03:02Please, Sapphire, where are you?
03:22Sapphire.
03:25Sapphire.
03:28Sapphire.
03:31Sapphire.
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03:37Sapphire.
03:40Sapphire.
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03:48Sapphire.
03:51Sapphire.
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04:15Sapphire.
04:20Sapphire.
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04:26Sapphire.
04:29Sapphire.
04:32Sapphire.
04:35Sapphire.
04:38Sapphire.
04:41Sapphire.
04:44Sapphire.
04:56Good morning.
05:09I fixed the lift, I'm afraid.
05:19I wasn't here to walk up.
05:27Oh, it's all right, I haven't touched your knot.
05:31Silver!
05:34Don't touch it.
05:38I'd be careful if I were you.
05:41It's a capsule from 1,500 years in the future.
05:45Of course, you don't have to take my word for it.
05:49Oh, I believe you.
05:52Good.
05:55Steel.
05:59Steel.
06:09Where's Sapphire?
06:25What? What is it?
06:28I'll show you.
06:54Ah, there you are.
06:57What do you mean, no?
07:00Oh, well, just no. She won't be in there.
07:04Not in there.
07:05Look, if you know something, I don't.
07:07No, no, no, no, I know about communications.
07:09I know about machines, that's all.
07:12Um, would you excuse me?
07:19I'm sorry.
07:22Oh, that's not the only capsule, by the way.
07:26There were two others.
07:28Did you know that?
07:39What exactly are you doing here?
07:41Me?
07:42Yes, why did they send you?
07:44Believe it or not, I just happened to be passing.
07:46Why?
07:47Well, it has nothing to do with the day in particular.
07:50Nothing to do with the danger to this planet?
07:52Well, not directly, anyway.
07:54But if you were to destroy that capsule, you would increase the danger.
07:59And that's why they sent you?
08:01To tell me that?
08:05Not exactly.
08:20I'm sorry.
08:50I'm sorry.
09:21Some unknown force is doing its best to cause havoc with that capsule.
09:26And if I destroy the capsule, I would be assisting that force?
09:30If you like, yes.
09:32Yes.
09:48How is it that you seem to know more than I do?
09:51Oh, I wouldn't say that.
09:53I would.
09:55My information was wrong.
09:57No, not wrong.
09:59Incomplete, perhaps, but not wrong.
10:03I'm going to need this.
10:08Whatever attacked me is in that capsule on the roof.
10:15Something that came with those people from the future.
10:19If we're going to eliminate it, we have to get into that capsule.
10:24But we are not equipped to enter a place that isn't there.
10:27We?
10:28Sapphire and I.
10:31We cannot enter a structure that does not exist.
10:35I was almost destroyed trying, and now Sapphire has disappeared.
10:42But there must be a way in.
10:45Well, actually, there is.
10:50And that's why I'm here.
10:58But there must be a way in.
11:03Well, actually, there is.
11:10And that's why I'm here.
11:17I have to get in.
11:19I have to get in.
11:21I have to get in.
11:23I have to get in.
11:25what's wrong? oh nothing really. just a sort of echo. here? in this room? yes. no.
11:41half in this room. half in my head.
11:45I don't hear anything.
11:59it's gone.
12:02whatever it was it's gone. when can we go in?
12:33as soon as I've prepared the way. good because I need Sapphire back. oh quiet.
12:41I know how you feel. you do? yes we... she's very attractive. the other two
12:52capsules. where are they located? you don't need to worry about them. they
13:00don't matter anymore.
13:06urban study group calling rural study group. anyone there? nothing at all.
13:15see? and you called them? I've been calling them for the past hour.
13:21rural experiment room four. it could be just a minor breakdown. remember how
13:34they were always going wrong during the preparation course. we'll still be seeing the
13:37others. not necessarily. we're seeing that. why aren't we seeing them? because they're
13:43all we've got. rural experiment room three please.
13:51if we're trapped here they are all we've got. no one else can help us.
14:10the others they wouldn't have gone back without us would they? no of course not.
14:18it'll be dark soon. I must see to the child. yes. come with me.
14:49you
14:59what's happened to him?
15:02look.
15:14Audrey the child is gone. how can he have gone? look.
15:26it feels like sand. there was a glass. a glass of water on that table.
15:42pops you believe me now? frost wind. no. I'm going to find my child.
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18:50they have some sort of communications room. now what we have to do is to find
18:56the room that's directly below it. it'll be on the same scale. I saw it you know.
19:01what? the inside of the capsule just briefly before Sapphire disappeared. can
19:07you describe it? no. would you hold that for a moment please?
19:15thank you. it was just a glimpse nothing more.
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20:19apparently all three capsules have the same ground plan as one of these flats.
20:27identical layouts.
20:33you've worked with her a lot haven't you?
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20:56do you hear that? yes. no Rothwin. what's your solution this time then? do I have
21:12another talk to a monitor to a box on the wall? will that help? Rothwin!
21:16whatever's happening here whatever happens to us nothing is going to harm
21:21my child.
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22:15I know him.
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22:19please Rothwin.
22:21music
22:23I know him.
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23:15are there any more rooms?
23:17just one.
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23:29silver!
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23:47success at last.
23:49catch.
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23:53this is the one. good.
23:55steel?
23:57what was that?
23:59I thought I...
24:01steel?
24:03sapphire?
24:07I'm in the top floor flat.
24:09where are you?
24:11I'm in some kind of communications room.
24:13but I can't find any controls.
24:15you mean
24:17you're above us in the capsule on the roof.
24:21no I'm not.
24:23where are you?
24:25I'm in another capsule.
24:27I suppose we should call it capsule number two.
24:29have you looked in any other rooms there?
24:31yes.
24:33I've seen all that there is to see.
24:35does it have a crew?
24:39sapphire?
24:43they're all dead.
24:45that's why they don't matter anymore.
24:47that's right. sapphire?
24:49yes?
24:51silver is here with me.
24:55good.
24:59he's going to get us into the capsule.
25:01this one here.
25:03I understand.
25:05sapphire?
25:07silver?
25:09according to silver this is the governing one.
25:11the main one.
25:13silver's right of course.
25:15he always is.
25:19tell me more about the crew of the second capsule.
25:43THE END