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Since the world began,

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ever inventive man has constantly
pushed forward into the unknown.

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One by one the frontiers of science
have fallen before him.

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The science of speed, travel, radio.

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Now he stands on the
threshold of a new age,

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a terrifying age.

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Man goes forward into the unknown.

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But how does the unknown react?

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The unknown planet.

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Planet x.

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All ready, doctor Laird?

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Right.

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Circuit A.

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Circuit A.

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Circuit B.

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That's the B.

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Alright, Gil.
It in GF2.

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Yes, sir.

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Gently.

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Gently.

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GF2 entered, sir.

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Sayers, you fool.

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Get away from there.

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Barney's done today.

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So racking.

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What happened, love?

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We all went white.

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Blinding love.

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It's the second time this week.

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It ain't right.

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Just because they have to muck about
with a current for the sake of that
blooming experiments, we have to suffer.

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They'll bust me too.

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£18 them new tubes cost.

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Who's going to pay me?
I'd like to know, if the tube busts.

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Fred, the old clock stopped again.

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Good.

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After that, I reckon we need just one more.

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Alright.
Is this time?

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Feeling alright now, love?

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Of course, I'm alright.
Don't fuss me.

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Would you like a glass of water?

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Water?

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I want something stronger than that.
I'm gonna finish my drink.

46
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Go or not.

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The things you say,
you're better than any telly.

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Oh, you think so?

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Shall we go?

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- I don't mind.
- Go on, Lynn.

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It's a lovely night.

52
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Hello then, George.
What's the idea?

53
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- What's up, Dick?
- What's up?

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Here's what's up.

55
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It's half past ten,
and you're still serving drinks.

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That clock stopped again.

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Very convenient, that
clock of yours, George.

58
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Very convenient.

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Time, gentlemen, please.
Come along.

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You're well over time.

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Finish up your drinks, please.

62
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How is he, doctor Laird?

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Sayers,
he'll be alright.

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His hand is badly burnt.

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Means he'll be out of circulation
for quite a while.

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Yes, that clumsy doe.

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Why did he want to go near GF2?

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He knew it might arc.

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Why does it arc?

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Heaven knows.

71
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It could be the timing is wrong.

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Sayers never did get the timing
right with this Yankee computer.

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- Oh, sorry, though.
- It's alright.

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We could try a slightly higher frequency,

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but it's more likely to be edge
currents and that'll mean more damping.

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Heaven knows what that'll cost.

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It'd be kind of a job changing
those frequencies without Sayers' help.

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Impossible.

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We'll have to wait for another operator.

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I'll phone Wilson in the morning.
They've got to let me have somebody.

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Morning, Wilson.

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Good morning, Brigadier.

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- Please sit down.
- Thank you.

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I take it you've come about Laird.

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Yes. He's got to stop, Wilson.

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That'll be your recommendation
to the committee?

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Of course.
Don't you agree?

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You're thinking of this
business of Sayers.

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I am thinking of the cost.

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By the way, I've replaced Sayers.

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The devil you have.

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There's no alternative
while the present setup last.

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We're committed to two assistants.

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Then the sooner we close the
whole project down, the better.

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Now look, Wilson,

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I am just a plain bone-headed brass hat.

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I wouldn't say that, Brigadier.

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You would and you shall well do.
I know.

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It's true anyway.

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But I do know when an
experiment is successful,

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and I do know when it's costing
the Earth,

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even though I don't fully understand it.

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I don't suppose there are more
than half a dozen people

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do understand precisely what
it is that Laird is trying to achieve.

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Then why on Earth...

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As far as Laird is concerned,
his work is pure research.

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Pure baloney.

108
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But the practical implications

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may well affect thinking
on defense matters.

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That is why we are financially
supporting the project.

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Financially supporting?

112
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Do you know how much money
we've poured down that drain to date?

113
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A quarter of a million pounds.

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Can you justify that?
Can Laird?

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Justify?

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Has anyone ever been able
to justify pure research?

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At the time.

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Without it?

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No radio, no television,

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no radar, no guided missiles?

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Is Laird under something like that?

122
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Laird is engaged on experiments
which are aimed to study the changes,

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if any, in the nature
and properties

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of metals, living
tissues, and other materials

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when introduced into powerful
magnetic fields.

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I know. I know. I can read.

127
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Alright.

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If Laird can produce a
magnetic field more powerful

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than any that has been produced
before,

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If he can demonstrate that
important changes do occur--

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Has he?

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He's nearly bumped off Sayers,
and he's having trouble with his equipment.

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He's on the phone this morning.
He's asking for more--

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More?
Oh, this is preposterous.

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I'm going straight down there
this morning

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to get to the bottom
of this piece of folly.

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That might be
a good idea, Brigadier.

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Seriously, though, Laird tells me
he's already had some limited success.

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You might check on that.

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I certainly will.

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Oh,

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I promised to send him this.

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Let's see what we're taking.

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What is it?

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Piece of metal.

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An alloy, such as used in aircraft.

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What's Laird supposed
to do with that?

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You can tell him if you like.

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Well, I'd love to.

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In that case,
you better take this piece too.

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I'd like to think that one experiment
at least was some use to the country.

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Is this the same?

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Well, actually, no.
I want testing on both eventually.

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You're going straight away?

155
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Yes, this morning.

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Good.

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We have to soften the old boy up
on his new assistant.

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It's a woman.

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- A woman?
- Yes.

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I can hardly wait to tell him.

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Well, here we are.

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Oh, Gil, this is Brigadier Cartwright
from the Ministry.

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How do you do, sir?

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This is Gil Graham, Brigadier,
my chief assistant.

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He's from McGill in Connecticut.

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- Well, fine university.
- Thank you, sir.

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My other assistant was injured.
We're expecting another one today.

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Oh, lord. I'm sorry.
I've forgotten.

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I was to tell you your new assistant is a woman.

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- A woman?
- You must be joking.

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- Oh, it has to be joking.
- I'm afraid not.

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There's no one else available
to operate this computer of yours.

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But a woman?
This is preposterous.

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This is highly skilled work.

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She's very highly qualified, doctor.

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Yeah.
I know the type.

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Frustrated, angular spinster,

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very dedicated to her calling,

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without a sense of humor, bossy,
and infuriatingly right every time.

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Sorry, I know how you feel.

181
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I'm not having this.
I'll go up and see Wilson.

182
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Look, doctor. Don't you think
you better show me

183
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what you
brought me down here to see?

184
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Maybe you won't need
an assistant soon.

185
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Very well.

186
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Bend this.

187
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This is a piece of copper.

188
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So is this.
Bend it.

189
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But this is flexible like steel.

190
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Precisely.

191
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Doctor Leonard, I'll take these
GF2 figures to your office.

192
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This is really most remarkable.

193
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It has had its molecules
realigned in there.

194
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Oh, I'm so sorry.

195
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I was told to come down here.

196
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Who did you wanna see?

197
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Doctor Laird.

198
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- Are you--
- No, no. I'm Gilbert Graham,

199
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his assistant.

200
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I was told to report here.

201
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Well, he's right here
in the laboratory.

202
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Oh, ahh...

203
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are you the you the new comp
operator,

204
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the replacement for Sayers?

205
00:10:01,046 --> 00:10:03,419
Yes, I am.
I heard about Nicky Sayers.

206
00:10:03,521 --> 00:10:04,786
I'm terribly sorry.

207
00:10:05,349 --> 00:10:06,709
Oh, I don't know.

208
00:10:07,107 --> 00:10:08,513
Weren't you expecting me?

209
00:10:08,928 --> 00:10:10,028
Not exactly.

210
00:10:10,646 --> 00:10:12,333
You're, you're French, aren't you?

211
00:10:12,394 --> 00:10:13,450
Yes, I am.

212
00:10:13,576 --> 00:10:14,606
Are you surprised?

213
00:10:14,631 --> 00:10:16,317
- Very agreeably so.
- Thank you.

214
00:10:16,342 --> 00:10:18,919
And I think that,
doctor Laird will be too.

215
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How is he to work with?

216
00:10:21,037 --> 00:10:23,013
Oh, he's great as long
as you stand up to him.

217
00:10:23,077 --> 00:10:24,122
I see.

218
00:10:24,889 --> 00:10:26,888
Well, mister Graham, can I have a
word with you?

219
00:10:26,913 --> 00:10:29,798
Certainly. This is, Michele Dupont,

220
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- General Cartwright.
- How do you do?

221
00:10:31,475 --> 00:10:33,646
As soon as I see her in the doctor
Laird, I'll meet you up in the office.

222
00:10:33,671 --> 00:10:34,716
Yes.

223
00:10:34,951 --> 00:10:36,122
Excuse me.

224
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In this business of altering the
molecular structure of metals,

225
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has he got any defense angle?

226
00:10:48,168 --> 00:10:50,056
Well, if the molecular
structure of the alloys

227
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used in building an aircraft
were to be altered,

228
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the plane would probably crash.

229
00:10:53,535 --> 00:10:54,551
Remember the comet one.

230
00:10:54,616 --> 00:10:55,724
Oh, yes.
Yes. Of course.

231
00:10:55,897 --> 00:10:58,337
But research of that
nature into metal fatigue

232
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and all that sort of thing,

233
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that's already been carried
on elsewhere.

234
00:11:01,608 --> 00:11:02,608
Well, not quite, sir.

235
00:11:02,633 --> 00:11:03,661
How do you mean?

236
00:11:03,686 --> 00:11:05,900
Well, our research may
lead to discovery of means

237
00:11:05,925 --> 00:11:07,357
to crash an enemy's aircraft.

238
00:11:07,382 --> 00:11:08,717
You're not suggesting I take it

239
00:11:08,742 --> 00:11:10,731
the enemy would allow us to
cook his airplane alloys

240
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in that contraption of yours?

241
00:11:12,268 --> 00:11:15,178
Well, I don't think that'd be necessary.
Let me try to explain.

242
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Magnetism is a force,
the only force other than gravity.

243
00:11:18,803 --> 00:11:20,334
It may be one and the same thing

244
00:11:20,486 --> 00:11:21,981
that operates over a distance.

245
00:11:25,646 --> 00:11:28,201
I see you have nine
circuits in operation here

246
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and only one in reserve.

247
00:11:30,388 --> 00:11:32,107
Is that not rather dangerous?

248
00:11:32,646 --> 00:11:34,518
This infernal machine has only 10 circuits

249
00:11:34,542 --> 00:11:36,475
and I need as many surges as I can get.

250
00:11:36,702 --> 00:11:39,889
The thing is supposed to compute
and then fire the electrical impulses.

251
00:11:40,115 --> 00:11:43,091
I use a field of high intensity
but short duration.

252
00:11:43,186 --> 00:11:44,263
I understand.

253
00:11:44,287 --> 00:11:46,939
Nevertheless, I think you should
have at least three in reserve

254
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and one overriding spare.

255
00:11:49,139 --> 00:11:51,115
And I mean one not in actual use.

256
00:11:51,498 --> 00:11:54,028
That will give me only six charges
and it isn't enough.

257
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Oh, I see you do not understand
this machine.

258
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Each circuit is capable
of use over and over again.

259
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If it has a few
microseconds to clear itself,

260
00:12:02,737 --> 00:12:04,872
that means you can have as many
surges as you like

261
00:12:05,048 --> 00:12:06,317
in banks of three.

262
00:12:07,451 --> 00:12:08,451
Yes.

263
00:12:08,959 --> 00:12:10,146
Yes, of course.

264
00:12:11,982 --> 00:12:14,462
But do you mean that Laird
could produce a magnetic field,

265
00:12:14,486 --> 00:12:16,638
perhaps enough to reach
out beyond the machine,

266
00:12:16,663 --> 00:12:17,669
beyond the house?

267
00:12:17,694 --> 00:12:19,204
From what the people down
in the village are saying,

268
00:12:19,228 --> 00:12:20,497
he's done it already,

269
00:12:20,522 --> 00:12:21,580
spasmodically.

270
00:12:21,605 --> 00:12:23,409
Is it true?
Do you think so?

271
00:12:24,858 --> 00:12:25,894
I don't know.

272
00:12:26,075 --> 00:12:27,075
Sometimes I wonder.

273
00:12:27,100 --> 00:12:29,183
Look, if we're be honest about this,
it's important.

274
00:12:29,568 --> 00:12:31,980
Are you saying all is just
to try and save the project?

275
00:12:32,169 --> 00:12:33,495
No, I'm not.

276
00:12:34,068 --> 00:12:35,706
I'm not at all sure I wanna save it.

277
00:12:35,803 --> 00:12:36,803
Not if...

278
00:12:36,864 --> 00:12:37,864
Not if what?

279
00:12:38,483 --> 00:12:40,995
Well, there are dangers,
the the imponderables.

280
00:12:41,201 --> 00:12:42,294
Look.

281
00:12:42,513 --> 00:12:44,667
I've got a piece of airplane alloy here.

282
00:12:44,951 --> 00:12:47,113
Would Laird experiment on this,
do you think?

283
00:12:47,138 --> 00:12:49,369
Well, if our new assistant
can get the computer going,

284
00:12:49,394 --> 00:12:50,652
we might try it tonight.

285
00:12:50,739 --> 00:12:52,285
Let's go and find out.

286
00:12:52,373 --> 00:12:54,445
I wouldn't say anything to
doctor Laird about the

287
00:12:54,470 --> 00:12:56,138
effects over a distance,

288
00:12:56,168 --> 00:12:57,532
not yet anyway.

289
00:12:58,544 --> 00:12:59,946
Come in, Miss Dupont.

290
00:13:00,372 --> 00:13:01,372
Gil?

291
00:13:01,397 --> 00:13:02,696
Gil, you were hopelessly wrong.

292
00:13:02,721 --> 00:13:04,680
Miss DuPont is brilliant
and not at all bossy.

293
00:13:05,118 --> 00:13:07,726
She's not a bit frustrated,
and I think she's quite good looking.

294
00:13:07,751 --> 00:13:09,833
Don't you?
What do you think, brigadier?

295
00:13:09,872 --> 00:13:11,380
Oh, I'm of your opinion, doctor.

296
00:13:11,421 --> 00:13:12,950
Though I know nothing about computers.

297
00:13:12,990 --> 00:13:15,372
She's fixed it, Gil.
We've got all the power we need.

298
00:13:15,425 --> 00:13:16,425
For the time being...

299
00:13:16,450 --> 00:13:19,318
That's fine. The brigadier would
like for us to cook this tonight.

300
00:13:19,405 --> 00:13:21,240
Why not?
You'll stay and watch us?

301
00:13:21,265 --> 00:13:23,833
Yes. I think I will.
It should be interesting.

302
00:13:38,918 --> 00:13:40,441
- Hello?
- Hello.

303
00:13:40,519 --> 00:13:41,583
Have you got one yet?

304
00:13:41,608 --> 00:13:42,917
- No.
- Jane.

305
00:13:44,927 --> 00:13:46,753
What do you mean talking
to that tramp?

306
00:13:46,778 --> 00:13:47,808
How dare you?

307
00:13:47,912 --> 00:13:49,888
He's nice.
I met him in the woods yesterday.

308
00:13:49,913 --> 00:13:50,917
What?

309
00:13:50,991 --> 00:13:52,378
He likes insects too.

310
00:13:52,488 --> 00:13:54,668
He's promised to give me
a flea when he can catch one.

311
00:13:54,693 --> 00:13:56,863
I'll give you a flea.
Come on in this minute.

312
00:13:56,888 --> 00:14:00,066
How many times have I told you
not to speak to strange men?

313
00:14:00,974 --> 00:14:01,974
Tell me.

314
00:14:02,256 --> 00:14:04,232
What do you do for entertainment here?

315
00:14:04,873 --> 00:14:05,993
Entertainment?

316
00:14:06,403 --> 00:14:07,403
Yes.

317
00:14:07,428 --> 00:14:09,573
Well, we have television.

318
00:14:09,786 --> 00:14:12,152
Of course, we don't have
much time for that sort of thing.

319
00:14:12,287 --> 00:14:13,874
Once in a while, I combine my pleasures

320
00:14:13,898 --> 00:14:15,613
and watch it down at the village pub.

321
00:14:15,873 --> 00:14:17,503
Oh, I adore, village pubs.

322
00:14:17,599 --> 00:14:19,472
- Do you often go?
- Often as I can.

323
00:14:19,497 --> 00:14:20,573
Like to join me sometime?

324
00:14:20,598 --> 00:14:22,011
- I'd love to.
- Good.

325
00:14:22,278 --> 00:14:25,120
But I warn you though,
we're, not very popular down there.

326
00:14:25,256 --> 00:14:26,511
No?
Why?

327
00:14:26,943 --> 00:14:29,039
Well, they seem to think
that some of our activities

328
00:14:29,063 --> 00:14:30,999
up here create some odd
interferences

329
00:14:31,023 --> 00:14:32,597
in their TV and radio.

330
00:14:33,021 --> 00:14:34,113
Is it possible?

331
00:14:34,193 --> 00:14:35,464
Doctor Laird doesn't think so.

332
00:14:35,826 --> 00:14:37,394
And you?
Do you think so?

333
00:14:37,490 --> 00:14:38,490
Could be.

334
00:14:40,303 --> 00:14:42,238
Is is what we're doing dangerous?

335
00:14:43,241 --> 00:14:44,241
Not yet.

336
00:14:45,514 --> 00:14:47,277
But then you were thinking of Sayers.

337
00:14:47,475 --> 00:14:49,644
No, I was not thinking of
that kind of danger.

338
00:14:49,927 --> 00:14:51,136
That's to be expected.

339
00:14:51,161 --> 00:14:52,183
Yes.

340
00:14:52,522 --> 00:14:55,222
You know, I've been thinking
you don't have to stay here.

341
00:14:55,247 --> 00:14:57,310
I mean, you'll be going back
to France pretty soon.

342
00:14:57,335 --> 00:14:58,363
Why not?

343
00:14:58,513 --> 00:15:00,380
I'm not scared, Mr. Graham.

344
00:15:00,842 --> 00:15:01,962
Of course not.

345
00:15:02,709 --> 00:15:04,898
You know, we're all kind of,

346
00:15:04,922 --> 00:15:07,105
as the English say,
"matey" around here.

347
00:15:07,506 --> 00:15:08,675
Makes things easier.

348
00:15:08,794 --> 00:15:10,770
Think you can manage
to call me by my first name?

349
00:15:10,880 --> 00:15:12,080
Gil, isn't it?

350
00:15:12,309 --> 00:15:13,309
Gill.

351
00:15:14,497 --> 00:15:16,261
I saw your name in the letter you brought.

352
00:15:16,381 --> 00:15:17,381
Michelin?

353
00:15:17,406 --> 00:15:18,406
Michele.

354
00:15:18,498 --> 00:15:19,652
Oh, that's it, Michele.

355
00:15:20,154 --> 00:15:21,371
I like that it suits you.

356
00:15:21,615 --> 00:15:23,120
You didn't answer my question.

357
00:15:23,145 --> 00:15:24,753
- About the danger?
- Yes.

358
00:15:25,420 --> 00:15:28,648
You see, I'm no expert in magnetic fields,

359
00:15:28,851 --> 00:15:33,323
but it just occurred to me this field
Dr. Laird is using here,

360
00:15:33,671 --> 00:15:36,261
well, it's a very large field, isn't it?

361
00:15:37,334 --> 00:15:39,823
I mean, isn't it possible?

362
00:15:40,248 --> 00:15:41,308
Could it spread outwards?

363
00:15:41,379 --> 00:15:43,003
Doctor Laird doesn't seem to worry.

364
00:15:43,028 --> 00:15:44,028
Laird.

365
00:15:44,053 --> 00:15:46,613
You're always telling me
what Laird thinks or doesn't think.

366
00:15:46,646 --> 00:15:47,846
I'm asking you.

367
00:15:48,147 --> 00:15:50,050
I think you're a very clever
young woman.

368
00:15:50,075 --> 00:15:51,761
Mhmm.
I see.

369
00:15:52,139 --> 00:15:53,183
And bossy?

370
00:15:53,654 --> 00:15:54,917
Oh, no.
Wait a minute.

371
00:15:55,026 --> 00:15:56,026
Frustrated?

372
00:15:56,051 --> 00:15:58,027
Look, Michele,
you're taking unfair advantage.

373
00:15:58,052 --> 00:16:00,769
I mean, after all,
I didn't know you then.

374
00:16:01,037 --> 00:16:03,789
What I mean is the female scientist types

375
00:16:03,813 --> 00:16:05,304
that I've always known were,

376
00:16:05,453 --> 00:16:07,683
or shall we say, different.

377
00:16:07,998 --> 00:16:09,073
I'm sure.

378
00:16:09,889 --> 00:16:11,964
Well, I think we'll call the others.

379
00:16:13,092 --> 00:16:14,683
Oh, Michele, look.

380
00:16:14,990 --> 00:16:16,363
Your letter of introduction...

381
00:16:16,854 --> 00:16:18,277
what I mean is...

382
00:16:18,426 --> 00:16:20,097
is there
anything besides your name?

383
00:16:20,163 --> 00:16:21,730
Oh, yes.
Bachelor of science.

384
00:16:21,755 --> 00:16:22,820
Yeah. But...

385
00:16:22,844 --> 00:16:24,120
And mademoiselle.

386
00:16:24,909 --> 00:16:25,909
Mademoiselle.

387
00:16:26,101 --> 00:16:27,566
Well, I do make it nice.

388
00:16:27,974 --> 00:16:31,277
That's American slang.
It means I do make it nice.

389
00:16:31,498 --> 00:16:32,498
Oh.

390
00:16:51,744 --> 00:16:53,563
Well, doctor, I'd like to get back tonight.

391
00:16:53,588 --> 00:16:54,727
Do you think we could start?

392
00:16:54,752 --> 00:16:57,239
Certainly. If that remarkable young lady
has finished her work,

393
00:16:57,372 --> 00:16:58,579
shall we go down?

394
00:16:58,732 --> 00:17:00,645
- Oh, by the way, have you a watch?
- Yes.

395
00:17:00,779 --> 00:17:02,332
I should leave it here if I were you.

396
00:17:02,389 --> 00:17:03,887
Watches are delicate mechanisms.

397
00:17:03,952 --> 00:17:06,190
They're best not taken
to near magnetic fields.

398
00:17:06,521 --> 00:17:08,383
All metals in the lab
are either non magnetic

399
00:17:08,407 --> 00:17:09,715
or have been demagnetized.

400
00:17:09,740 --> 00:17:10,785
I see.

401
00:17:10,842 --> 00:17:12,395
There's no danger, of course.

402
00:17:15,061 --> 00:17:16,767
Alright, Gil.
Switch on the recorder.

403
00:17:17,358 --> 00:17:20,074
We'll record everything, Brigadier.
It's useful for checking later.

404
00:17:21,029 --> 00:17:23,029
But surely tapes are magnetic.

405
00:17:23,458 --> 00:17:25,715
Very smart, miss Dupont,
and you're quite right.

406
00:17:26,224 --> 00:17:27,239
Now, we don't use tapes.

407
00:17:27,264 --> 00:17:30,240
We have a microphone
that we record on disk in the next room.

408
00:17:30,709 --> 00:17:32,199
Switch on the generators, Gil.

409
00:17:35,037 --> 00:17:36,175
I'll take the circuits.

410
00:17:36,253 --> 00:17:38,090
- But, Dr. Larder--
- Over here, Brigadier.

411
00:17:47,817 --> 00:17:49,007
Do sit down, Brigadier.

412
00:17:49,031 --> 00:17:50,100
Thank you.

413
00:18:07,552 --> 00:18:08,807
Circuit A on.

414
00:18:14,537 --> 00:18:15,690
Computer.

415
00:18:17,709 --> 00:18:18,838
Computer on.

416
00:18:22,919 --> 00:18:24,173
Circuit B on.

417
00:18:30,381 --> 00:18:31,381
Integrate.

418
00:18:32,224 --> 00:18:33,224
Integrating.

419
00:18:35,904 --> 00:18:36,904
10.

420
00:18:39,263 --> 00:18:40,263
20.

421
00:18:42,167 --> 00:18:43,167
30.

422
00:18:45,483 --> 00:18:46,483
Hold.

423
00:18:48,764 --> 00:18:49,964
All ready, Gil?

424
00:18:50,607 --> 00:18:51,647
All set, sir.

425
00:18:52,505 --> 00:18:54,065
Right.
Steady now.

426
00:18:54,615 --> 00:18:55,615
GF2.

427
00:19:11,811 --> 00:19:12,811
Gently.

428
00:19:15,006 --> 00:19:16,006
Gently.

429
00:19:19,334 --> 00:19:20,534
GF2 over.

430
00:19:27,915 --> 00:19:30,463
Three banks under reserve
in operation, Doctor.

431
00:19:30,576 --> 00:19:31,675
Good.

432
00:19:43,963 --> 00:19:45,930
Switching off power!

433
00:19:46,339 --> 00:19:48,109
Look out, Michele!

434
00:19:59,673 --> 00:20:01,086
What the devil are you doing?

435
00:20:01,111 --> 00:20:02,544
Good heavens, sir.

436
00:20:05,072 --> 00:20:06,125
Are you hurt?

437
00:20:06,262 --> 00:20:08,389
No, I don't think so.

438
00:20:08,421 --> 00:20:10,202
Must be the rough skin.

439
00:20:10,387 --> 00:20:12,253
Oh, I'm sorry.
It was the only thing to do.

440
00:20:12,336 --> 00:20:14,297
- What happened?
- I don't know.

441
00:20:14,426 --> 00:20:16,109
I'm sorry.
It was my fault.

442
00:20:16,328 --> 00:20:17,861
I left my keys in there.

443
00:20:20,127 --> 00:20:21,563
That was very careless of me.

444
00:20:37,919 --> 00:20:40,453
You seem to have
been successful, Doctor.

445
00:20:45,019 --> 00:20:47,578
Look. What's that?

446
00:20:50,133 --> 00:20:51,733
All in the "Standard"!

447
00:20:51,994 --> 00:20:53,164
All the latest!

448
00:20:53,844 --> 00:20:56,547
Big storm on the south coast!

449
00:20:56,840 --> 00:20:58,336
All in the "Standard"!

450
00:20:58,881 --> 00:21:01,282
Big storm on the south coast,
all the latest!

451
00:21:01,307 --> 00:21:03,383
Ah, let's see.
Ah, yes.

452
00:21:03,408 --> 00:21:04,656
Quote, "Is space travel..."

453
00:21:04,688 --> 00:21:08,090
No, no. Unquote.
I'm sorry, yes. Let's see.

454
00:21:08,162 --> 00:21:10,028
Quote,
"Could they invade us?"

455
00:21:10,069 --> 00:21:11,570
Unquote. Yes,
something like that.

456
00:21:11,676 --> 00:21:14,532
Then, we will carry a follow-up
on page three with readers' letters.

457
00:21:14,775 --> 00:21:17,822
They'll have seen hundreds of
ruddy flying saucers by the
time we're through with them.

458
00:21:17,847 --> 00:21:18,938
Okay.

459
00:21:19,633 --> 00:21:21,723
Who exactly
is invading us? Mars?

460
00:21:21,748 --> 00:21:22,768
Hey?

461
00:21:22,967 --> 00:21:24,831
Oh, oh, no.
They won't like that.

462
00:21:25,070 --> 00:21:28,038
- Who? The Martians?
- Um, idiot, no. The...

463
00:21:28,339 --> 00:21:30,096
No, make it...
make it, uh...

464
00:21:30,801 --> 00:21:32,643
Yes, that's it, Planet X.

465
00:21:32,668 --> 00:21:34,835
The invasion from Planet X.

466
00:21:39,338 --> 00:21:40,871
Well, that was some
of your bold fast,

467
00:21:40,896 --> 00:21:42,247
if you don't mind my saying, sir.

468
00:21:42,324 --> 00:21:44,292
Yesterday you're all for
folding up poor old Laird.

469
00:21:44,317 --> 00:21:46,244
- Today, you tell the committee--
- Look, Wilson,

470
00:21:46,268 --> 00:21:47,927
I couldn't say all I wanted
to in front of the committee.

471
00:21:47,952 --> 00:21:50,588
Hey, they're supposed to be in
the picture. They have to decide...

472
00:21:50,612 --> 00:21:51,819
No, the picture's changed.

473
00:21:51,856 --> 00:21:53,716
This affair is too big
for the committee to handle.

474
00:21:53,749 --> 00:21:55,146
There are security risks.

475
00:21:56,010 --> 00:21:57,802
I'm afraid I don't quite follow.

476
00:21:58,131 --> 00:21:59,217
You showed us the alloy,

477
00:21:59,242 --> 00:22:00,951
and I'll admit it was
most impressive, but

478
00:22:00,976 --> 00:22:02,247
we knew something
of this before.

479
00:22:02,272 --> 00:22:04,248
I showed you and the committee
one piece of alloy,

480
00:22:04,273 --> 00:22:06,560
the piece Laird
put into his apparatus.

481
00:22:06,930 --> 00:22:08,795
Now, this is the other
piece you gave me.

482
00:22:08,905 --> 00:22:09,967
Look.

483
00:22:11,138 --> 00:22:13,529
Now, that remained in this case
during the whole experiment.

484
00:22:13,629 --> 00:22:15,021
It and the case

485
00:22:15,182 --> 00:22:16,619
and the hook it was
hanging from

486
00:22:16,643 --> 00:22:18,482
ended up by flying right
across the laboratory

487
00:22:18,506 --> 00:22:20,052
and almost injuring
the new assistant.

488
00:22:20,085 --> 00:22:21,085
Not another one.

489
00:22:21,115 --> 00:22:22,717
Oh, she's all right
thanks to Gil Graham.

490
00:22:22,742 --> 00:22:23,664
But don't you see?

491
00:22:23,690 --> 00:22:26,318
This wasn't in the confounded
witch's cauldron.

492
00:22:27,457 --> 00:22:28,768
- I see.
- Do you?

493
00:22:29,463 --> 00:22:30,631
Look at this.

494
00:22:31,505 --> 00:22:33,951
That fell off the TV area
along Laird's roof.

495
00:22:34,496 --> 00:22:35,685
It's a different alloy,

496
00:22:35,710 --> 00:22:37,240
but it's gone the same way
as the rest,

497
00:22:37,404 --> 00:22:40,170
at least 30 feet away
from the apparatus.

498
00:22:41,280 --> 00:22:42,802
You know what you're
saying, don't you?

499
00:22:42,827 --> 00:22:43,866
Yes.

500
00:22:44,322 --> 00:22:46,678
Action at a distance,
the military's dream.

501
00:22:47,214 --> 00:22:49,561
Look, Wilson, from now on,
this is top security.

502
00:22:49,722 --> 00:22:52,249
All right. We'd better call in
Jimmy Murray in that case.

503
00:22:52,298 --> 00:22:53,969
Yes, I think we'd better.

504
00:22:59,997 --> 00:23:01,216
Come in.

505
00:23:03,113 --> 00:23:04,287
Hi. How are you feeling?

506
00:23:04,433 --> 00:23:06,763
Broken neck would feel
worse, I guess.

507
00:23:07,552 --> 00:23:09,154
Do you always take
your female assistants

508
00:23:09,226 --> 00:23:11,185
in a low-flying tackle
like that?

509
00:23:11,341 --> 00:23:12,677
Depends on the mood.

510
00:23:13,908 --> 00:23:16,083
When I'm away from
an intense magnetic field,

511
00:23:16,108 --> 00:23:17,741
my technique's a little different.

512
00:23:17,800 --> 00:23:19,067
I should hope not.

513
00:23:19,247 --> 00:23:21,114
You didn't come here
to demonstrate, did you?

514
00:23:21,147 --> 00:23:22,700
Might be kind of interesting.

515
00:23:23,143 --> 00:23:24,380
- Help yourself.
- Thanks.

516
00:23:24,628 --> 00:23:25,860
As a matter
of fact, Michele,

517
00:23:25,885 --> 00:23:27,852
I... I have something else
on my mind.

518
00:23:27,985 --> 00:23:29,278
Can't say I'm sorry.

519
00:23:29,700 --> 00:23:30,887
What's the trouble?

520
00:23:31,481 --> 00:23:32,827
Before I grabbed you last night,

521
00:23:32,852 --> 00:23:34,700
I switched off the power
from the generators.

522
00:23:34,725 --> 00:23:35,726
Yes?

523
00:23:35,751 --> 00:23:37,762
That should've shut the
whole machine off at once.

524
00:23:37,787 --> 00:23:38,997
Well, it did surely.

525
00:23:39,399 --> 00:23:42,434
- Laird was pretty furious.
- Think back for a minute, Michele.

526
00:23:42,545 --> 00:23:43,801
- Must I?
- Please.

527
00:23:44,596 --> 00:23:45,598
Okay.

528
00:23:45,800 --> 00:23:47,192
After we hit the floor, the...

529
00:23:47,217 --> 00:23:49,966
the briefcase flew across
the room into the computer.

530
00:23:50,065 --> 00:23:52,387
- Correct.
- GF2 was arcing then.

531
00:23:52,699 --> 00:23:54,653
- Right.
- Then, how the devil could that be?

532
00:23:55,007 --> 00:23:56,372
With the current off,

533
00:23:56,397 --> 00:23:58,325
the whole contraption
should've been dead.

534
00:23:58,410 --> 00:24:00,739
- That's right, but--
- There's another thing, too.

535
00:24:01,002 --> 00:24:02,778
Of course, that screaming noise!

536
00:24:02,803 --> 00:24:04,845
Yeah, well, then I'm not crazy.
You do remember.

537
00:24:04,869 --> 00:24:05,880
Yes.

538
00:24:05,943 --> 00:24:07,458
The circuits continued to operate

539
00:24:07,483 --> 00:24:09,426
after I'd switched off the power.

540
00:24:09,911 --> 00:24:11,744
But, Gil, what are we saying?

541
00:24:11,769 --> 00:24:13,903
This is completely ridiculous.

542
00:24:13,928 --> 00:24:15,317
You couldn't have switched it off.

543
00:24:15,342 --> 00:24:17,623
Yes, I did. I checked
the switch this morning.

544
00:24:18,123 --> 00:24:21,084
There was no current flowing
from the generator when GF2 arced,

545
00:24:21,239 --> 00:24:22,897
when that briefcase
flew across the room,

546
00:24:22,922 --> 00:24:24,856
and while the circuits
continued to scream.

547
00:24:24,983 --> 00:24:26,708
- There's one way of checking.
- How's that?

548
00:24:26,991 --> 00:24:27,997
The recording.

549
00:24:28,274 --> 00:24:29,953
Of course.
What's the matter with me?

550
00:24:30,005 --> 00:24:31,492
- Come on!
- Wait.

551
00:24:31,517 --> 00:24:33,851
- What? What's the matter?
- I'm still creaky.

552
00:24:33,989 --> 00:24:35,891
- Let me give you a hand.
- Thanks.

553
00:24:35,973 --> 00:24:38,006
You don't look
all that fragile, you know.

554
00:24:51,509 --> 00:24:52,560
This is the bit...

555
00:24:53,079 --> 00:24:54,099
Listen.

556
00:24:54,341 --> 00:24:56,130
<i>Switching off power!</i>

557
00:24:56,713 --> 00:24:58,079
<i>Look out, Michele!</i>

558
00:25:00,977 --> 00:25:02,052
Well?

559
00:25:02,576 --> 00:25:03,912
Gil, what does it mean?

560
00:25:05,259 --> 00:25:06,318
I don't know.

561
00:25:06,503 --> 00:25:07,990
That apparatus was receiving power

562
00:25:08,022 --> 00:25:09,739
from some place, somehow.

563
00:25:10,552 --> 00:25:11,607
The storm maybe?

564
00:25:11,783 --> 00:25:13,333
No. That's absurd.

565
00:25:14,035 --> 00:25:15,197
But very likely.

566
00:25:16,127 --> 00:25:17,143
Gil?

567
00:25:17,552 --> 00:25:18,713
I'm scared.

568
00:25:21,174 --> 00:25:23,140
Yeah, well, so am I, Michele.

569
00:25:28,806 --> 00:25:31,257
So Laird's circus
gets top security rating?

570
00:25:31,408 --> 00:25:32,718
That's about it, Jimmy.

571
00:25:33,082 --> 00:25:34,481
Well, if you both think so.

572
00:25:34,506 --> 00:25:35,507
Don't you?

573
00:25:35,593 --> 00:25:37,445
Frankly, Brigadier,
I just don't register yet.

574
00:25:37,470 --> 00:25:39,251
What you have been
telling me sounds, well...

575
00:25:39,276 --> 00:25:40,431
I know. I know.

576
00:25:40,545 --> 00:25:42,485
But you will take my word
for it at the moment.

577
00:25:42,609 --> 00:25:45,052
Okay. But what with you
and Laird,

578
00:25:45,077 --> 00:25:47,540
freak storms, and the press
going to town about flying saucers

579
00:25:47,565 --> 00:25:48,727
and invasions from Planet X,

580
00:25:48,752 --> 00:25:50,188
I'm beginning to feel
like Dan Dare.

581
00:25:50,213 --> 00:25:51,887
Am I likely to meet
any little green horrors

582
00:25:51,912 --> 00:25:53,379
with eyes on the ends
of their whiskers.

583
00:25:53,404 --> 00:25:55,057
I don't think that at all likely,

584
00:25:55,285 --> 00:25:57,182
though you may meet
some characters with snow

585
00:25:57,207 --> 00:25:58,761
on their boots,
if you know what I mean.

586
00:25:58,786 --> 00:25:59,900
Yes, I know.

587
00:25:59,936 --> 00:26:01,369
And you know we've had a call
from Air Force security

588
00:26:01,394 --> 00:26:02,760
saying that three of their
radar stations

589
00:26:02,785 --> 00:26:04,775
report sighting
some unidentified object?

590
00:26:05,143 --> 00:26:07,408
Do you think there's any connection
between this and Laird's work?

591
00:26:07,433 --> 00:26:09,861
I don't know.
I just don't know,

592
00:26:10,048 --> 00:26:12,058
but we must take
every possible precaution.

593
00:26:12,083 --> 00:26:13,761
You and Wilson travel
down separately.

594
00:26:13,785 --> 00:26:14,688
Okay.

595
00:26:14,713 --> 00:26:15,971
Wilson will supervise the ordering

596
00:26:15,996 --> 00:26:17,595
and delivery of Laird's
new equipment.

597
00:26:17,620 --> 00:26:19,254
It's going down in plain vans.

598
00:26:19,348 --> 00:26:21,082
- Watch it, Murray.
- I will.

599
00:26:21,322 --> 00:26:23,293
And remember, Wilson,
you must impress on Laird

600
00:26:23,318 --> 00:26:25,847
the importance of a wide margin
of safety this time.

601
00:26:26,000 --> 00:26:27,633
Laird seems to be a tricky customer

602
00:26:27,658 --> 00:26:28,707
to give advice to.

603
00:26:28,837 --> 00:26:31,254
He is. In fact,
he's more than tricky. He's...

604
00:26:31,930 --> 00:26:34,785
Oh, well, I suppose you must
make some allowance for genius.

605
00:26:34,958 --> 00:26:36,558
And work in close touch
with Graham.

606
00:26:36,583 --> 00:26:38,332
I'm pretty sure
he's aware of the risk.

607
00:26:38,643 --> 00:26:41,355
And they must understand
the whole aim of the project now

608
00:26:41,380 --> 00:26:42,846
is to make the force directional.

609
00:26:42,871 --> 00:26:44,011
Right, sir.

610
00:26:45,316 --> 00:26:47,616
Keep in touch,
and the best of luck.

611
00:26:58,269 --> 00:27:00,754
I hope that fence will work.
It's costing enough.

612
00:27:01,122 --> 00:27:04,066
Yeah, it should form
an anti-magnetic screen.

613
00:27:04,378 --> 00:27:05,629
Particularly ugly one.

614
00:27:05,912 --> 00:27:08,178
There ought to be a law
about corrugated iron.

615
00:27:10,648 --> 00:27:12,793
Another lorry load
of cabins arriving.

616
00:27:13,231 --> 00:27:14,957
You know, this is
getting a bit ridiculous.

617
00:27:15,348 --> 00:27:17,081
Besides, creating a condenser

618
00:27:17,106 --> 00:27:19,886
to make it look like a sight board
is darned expensive.

619
00:27:20,565 --> 00:27:22,058
I'd better go down and check it in.

620
00:27:22,083 --> 00:27:23,769
Right. Oh, Gerald,
when you're finished,

621
00:27:23,794 --> 00:27:25,394
I'd like to have
a private word with you.

622
00:27:25,419 --> 00:27:27,119
- Okay, I'll be back.
- All right.

623
00:27:53,489 --> 00:27:55,356
Did I frighten you?
I'm sorry.

624
00:27:55,922 --> 00:27:58,918
I'm not frightened. I... I was
just going home anyway.

625
00:27:59,510 --> 00:28:01,441
I don't know you.
What is your name?

626
00:28:01,941 --> 00:28:03,011
Smith.

627
00:28:03,538 --> 00:28:04,543
Smith?

628
00:28:04,724 --> 00:28:06,824
We've got a teacher
at school called Smith.

629
00:28:06,962 --> 00:28:08,363
Are you her husband?

630
00:28:08,621 --> 00:28:09,633
No.

631
00:28:09,735 --> 00:28:11,084
Good. I hate her.

632
00:28:11,174 --> 00:28:12,715
She threw my bugs away.

633
00:28:13,255 --> 00:28:14,777
- Bugs?
- Mm-hmm.

634
00:28:14,828 --> 00:28:16,504
She called them insects, of course.

635
00:28:16,529 --> 00:28:17,996
She's very stupid.

636
00:28:18,296 --> 00:28:20,090
And weren't they insects?

637
00:28:20,744 --> 00:28:23,211
Some were. You see,
all insects are bugs,

638
00:28:23,236 --> 00:28:25,222
but all bugs are not insects.

639
00:28:25,862 --> 00:28:28,761
And is that what you were doing
just now, collecting bugs?

640
00:28:29,193 --> 00:28:31,543
- What were you doing?
- Oh, nothing.

641
00:28:32,460 --> 00:28:36,113
Um, please, I was just
trying to find my way.

642
00:28:36,166 --> 00:28:37,865
My goodness.
Are you lost?

643
00:28:38,042 --> 00:28:39,082
Yes.

644
00:28:40,032 --> 00:28:42,035
Fancy getting lost
in Bryerly Woods.

645
00:28:42,315 --> 00:28:43,590
Is this Bryerly Woods?

646
00:28:43,738 --> 00:28:45,895
Of course it is.
Everyone knows that.

647
00:28:45,986 --> 00:28:48,294
Are you a foreigner?
You look like one.

648
00:28:48,319 --> 00:28:49,848
You've got funny whiskers.

649
00:28:50,272 --> 00:28:52,175
Yes, I suppose I am.

650
00:28:52,321 --> 00:28:54,691
At least, I came here
from a long way off.

651
00:28:55,451 --> 00:28:57,484
What's so funny
about my whiskers anyway?

652
00:28:57,509 --> 00:29:00,277
I haven't seen anyone else
with funny whiskers like that.

653
00:29:00,590 --> 00:29:02,394
Well, perhaps I'd better
shave them off then.

654
00:29:02,419 --> 00:29:04,996
I don't want want to look funny
or different from anybody else.

655
00:29:05,180 --> 00:29:06,606
How did you get here?

656
00:29:07,084 --> 00:29:08,879
If I told you,
you wouldn't believe me.

657
00:29:09,197 --> 00:29:10,313
I would, you know.

658
00:29:10,375 --> 00:29:13,020
Even if I said I came on
the back of a giant dragonfly?

659
00:29:13,306 --> 00:29:15,863
Oh, no. There aren't
any drag... dragonflies.

660
00:29:15,988 --> 00:29:17,254
There are where I come from.

661
00:29:17,279 --> 00:29:19,207
There aren't any drag...
dragonflies anywhere.

662
00:29:19,232 --> 00:29:20,668
What about on the moon then?

663
00:29:20,858 --> 00:29:23,027
Oh, well, if you come from the moon,
that's different.

664
00:29:23,141 --> 00:29:24,144
Where are you staying?

665
00:29:24,169 --> 00:29:25,402
I don't know.
As a matter of fact,

666
00:29:25,427 --> 00:29:26,986
I'm looking for somewhere to stay.

667
00:29:27,309 --> 00:29:29,332
I expect we could've
put you up at our house,

668
00:29:29,372 --> 00:29:31,272
only there's a new lodger
coming today.

669
00:29:31,344 --> 00:29:34,066
I don't think I shall like her.
Her name's Forsyth,

670
00:29:34,131 --> 00:29:36,370
and she's going to be
the new teacher at our school.

671
00:29:36,628 --> 00:29:38,028
Is there anywhere else around here

672
00:29:38,053 --> 00:29:39,419
I may be able to stay?

673
00:29:39,936 --> 00:29:41,379
I don't supposed they'd put you up.

674
00:29:41,461 --> 00:29:42,727
They're very narrow-minded.

675
00:29:42,752 --> 00:29:43,817
Oh, of course.

676
00:29:44,569 --> 00:29:46,691
Are there any big places
around here, you know,

677
00:29:46,748 --> 00:29:48,910
factories, workshops,
anything like that?

678
00:29:49,005 --> 00:29:51,668
Nothing like that,
only Dr. Laird's house, of course,

679
00:29:51,832 --> 00:29:53,301
but it's no good going there.

680
00:29:53,326 --> 00:29:54,606
He's a mad inventor.

681
00:29:54,738 --> 00:29:56,035
And what does he invent?

682
00:29:56,151 --> 00:29:57,840
It's a secret.
No one knows.

683
00:29:58,361 --> 00:29:59,547
Well, I must go home.

684
00:29:59,572 --> 00:30:01,122
Why is Dr. Laird mad?

685
00:30:01,915 --> 00:30:03,746
Almost every night,
he switches on his machine

686
00:30:03,771 --> 00:30:05,606
and busts up all
the television sets.

687
00:30:05,877 --> 00:30:06,938
Where does he live?

688
00:30:06,992 --> 00:30:08,034
It's no good.

689
00:30:08,452 --> 00:30:09,801
He won't take lodgers.

690
00:30:10,005 --> 00:30:12,098
You can see his house
from the top of the hill.

691
00:30:12,202 --> 00:30:13,467
Goodbye.

692
00:30:13,909 --> 00:30:15,121
Goodbye.

693
00:30:45,384 --> 00:30:46,421
Mm.

694
00:30:46,446 --> 00:30:48,085
Now, let me get this straight.

695
00:30:48,599 --> 00:30:50,757
What you're trying
to tell me, as I see it,

696
00:30:51,288 --> 00:30:52,929
is that this fearsome
contraption of yours

697
00:30:52,982 --> 00:30:53,992
went on working

698
00:30:54,017 --> 00:30:55,663
after you'd cut off the current.

699
00:30:55,748 --> 00:30:57,335
- Is that it?
- That's it.

700
00:30:58,012 --> 00:31:00,132
I speak from unfathomable
depths of ignorance,

701
00:31:00,165 --> 00:31:01,851
but is that so very remarkable?

702
00:31:02,608 --> 00:31:03,613
Of course it is.

703
00:31:03,754 --> 00:31:06,570
If I switch off, say,
an electric fan,

704
00:31:06,747 --> 00:31:08,406
wouldn't it go
on turning for a while?

705
00:31:08,431 --> 00:31:09,632
Momentum or something?

706
00:31:09,873 --> 00:31:12,765
Yeah, but you wouldn't get an
electric shock from the terminal.

707
00:31:12,916 --> 00:31:14,449
Our circuit, GF2 we call it,

708
00:31:14,474 --> 00:31:17,585
leapt across about 5 seconds
after I switched off the power.

709
00:31:17,752 --> 00:31:18,952
That's impossible.

710
00:31:18,977 --> 00:31:21,510
That's what I keep
telling myself and Dr. Laird.

711
00:31:21,535 --> 00:31:22,632
What did he say?

712
00:31:23,156 --> 00:31:24,921
Same as you did...
impossible.

713
00:31:25,293 --> 00:31:26,523
Refuses to listen.

714
00:31:27,461 --> 00:31:29,476
There's more to it
than that, too, Gerald.

715
00:31:29,943 --> 00:31:31,966
You know, I'm not the brains
of this joint, but...

716
00:31:32,121 --> 00:31:34,617
I've been figuring a few things
out during the past 10 days.

717
00:31:35,084 --> 00:31:37,288
That apparatus was building up
a field far in excess

718
00:31:37,313 --> 00:31:39,280
of anything that we could've
reasonably expected

719
00:31:39,305 --> 00:31:41,208
from the power
we were feeding into it.

720
00:31:41,613 --> 00:31:44,669
Personally, I think you're all getting
slightly neurotic over this business.

721
00:31:44,856 --> 00:31:46,789
Did you say you had
a recording of the session?

722
00:31:46,814 --> 00:31:48,973
That's right.
You ought to hear it.

723
00:31:54,513 --> 00:31:56,942
Hmm. That's funny.
It's gone.

724
00:31:57,309 --> 00:31:59,068
This looks like a case
for Jimmy Murray.

725
00:31:59,197 --> 00:32:00,223
Where is he?

726
00:32:00,248 --> 00:32:02,333
On his way down from London.
I promised to meet him for a pint

727
00:32:02,358 --> 00:32:03,809
in the Crown and Mitre
this evening.

728
00:32:04,243 --> 00:32:05,942
- You'd better come, too.
- Yeah.

729
00:32:06,341 --> 00:32:07,567
Shall I bring Michele?

730
00:32:07,592 --> 00:32:09,060
Not necessary.
She's coming.

731
00:32:09,361 --> 00:32:10,755
I asked her this morning.

732
00:32:11,385 --> 00:32:12,450
Oh...

733
00:32:12,821 --> 00:32:14,528
I'm gonna start
getting up earlier.

734
00:32:50,876 --> 00:32:56,133

735
00:33:14,670 --> 00:33:15,779
Aah!

736
00:33:16,325 --> 00:33:18,497
Help! Help! Help!

737
00:33:18,928 --> 00:33:20,099
Aah!

738
00:33:21,644 --> 00:33:22,677
Help!

739
00:33:30,481 --> 00:33:31,544
Are you all right?

740
00:33:31,747 --> 00:33:33,047
I guess, I think so.

741
00:33:33,072 --> 00:33:34,115
Wait a minute.

742
00:33:35,350 --> 00:33:36,412
Thank you.

743
00:33:37,552 --> 00:33:38,552
Where do you live?

744
00:33:38,577 --> 00:33:40,792
Well, I'm going to Bryerly Bay.

745
00:33:41,020 --> 00:33:42,037
I'm a teacher.

746
00:33:42,091 --> 00:33:43,544
I started the school
there on London.

747
00:33:43,569 --> 00:33:44,569
Bryerly Bay?

748
00:33:44,594 --> 00:33:47,326
Well, after we've reported this
to the police, I'll take you there.

749
00:33:53,435 --> 00:33:54,732
Please sit down, Mr. Murray.

750
00:33:54,995 --> 00:33:56,240
Thank you, Inspector.

751
00:33:56,910 --> 00:33:59,243
We're taking a statement
from Miss Forsyth now.

752
00:33:59,268 --> 00:34:01,755
I understand you're taking her home
to her lodgings at Bryerly Bay.

753
00:34:01,780 --> 00:34:04,314
Yes, I was taking her myself,
to Dr. Laird's establishment.

754
00:34:04,525 --> 00:34:06,677
Inspector, what are you going
to do about this man?

755
00:34:06,907 --> 00:34:08,880
Well, we'll comb
the woods, of course.

756
00:34:09,615 --> 00:34:11,099
But first, let me
ask you a question.

757
00:34:11,124 --> 00:34:13,037
Oh, I don't say I should
be able to reply.

758
00:34:13,225 --> 00:34:14,958
I know you security chaps,

759
00:34:15,668 --> 00:34:16,849
but this is important.

760
00:34:17,547 --> 00:34:19,349
You see, a man has been
seen in the woods,

761
00:34:19,511 --> 00:34:21,373
and it's been reported that
he has a large burn

762
00:34:21,398 --> 00:34:22,932
mark on his face.

763
00:34:23,787 --> 00:34:24,823
Tell me,

764
00:34:24,999 --> 00:34:27,292
has Laird been
using radioactive materials?

765
00:34:27,720 --> 00:34:30,698
I can tell you that, Inspector.
The answer is no, definitely no.

766
00:34:31,956 --> 00:34:33,104
Thank you, sir.

767
00:34:34,303 --> 00:34:36,469
Well, we'll have to try
another line of approach.

768
00:34:36,934 --> 00:34:37,946
Come in.

769
00:34:39,939 --> 00:34:41,242
Miss Forsyth's ready now, sir.

770
00:34:41,267 --> 00:34:42,383
Right. Just coming.

771
00:34:42,646 --> 00:34:43,781
Well, goodbye, Inspector.

772
00:34:43,806 --> 00:34:45,940
Goodbye, and thank you very much
for all your help.

773
00:34:49,204 --> 00:34:52,618

774
00:34:56,256 --> 00:34:58,594
What about another drink?
Not for me, thanks.

775
00:34:58,663 --> 00:34:59,680
Pass.

776
00:34:59,833 --> 00:35:01,047
Do you mind if I...

777
00:35:01,072 --> 00:35:02,205
No.

778
00:35:04,322 --> 00:35:05,961
You're very quiet, Gil.

779
00:35:06,323 --> 00:35:08,078
- What's on your mind?
- Oh, nothing.

780
00:35:08,141 --> 00:35:09,156
Everything.

781
00:35:09,235 --> 00:35:11,164
You mean you feel
comme ci, comme ca?

782
00:35:11,189 --> 00:35:12,203
Eh.

783
00:35:13,146 --> 00:35:14,649
How long you known Gerald?

784
00:35:14,815 --> 00:35:16,524
Why? Does it matter?

785
00:35:17,409 --> 00:35:18,461
Sorry.

786
00:35:18,717 --> 00:35:21,218
Didn't mean to
interfere or intrude.

787
00:35:22,744 --> 00:35:24,813
I don't want to quarrel
with you, Gil.

788
00:35:24,838 --> 00:35:25,883
Cheers.

789
00:35:26,643 --> 00:35:28,163
What about O'Sante?

790
00:35:33,378 --> 00:35:34,789
I wonder where that man Murray is.

791
00:35:34,814 --> 00:35:36,328
He was supposed to meet us here.

792
00:35:39,427 --> 00:35:40,681
What will you have, sir?

793
00:35:41,945 --> 00:35:42,962
What's that?

794
00:35:43,200 --> 00:35:44,200
Well, old Boggs?

795
00:35:44,234 --> 00:35:45,900
- Mild and bitter.
- I'll have that.

796
00:35:45,925 --> 00:35:46,978
Certainly, sir.

797
00:35:47,895 --> 00:35:50,822
That music you hear comes
from a proper band.

798
00:35:52,142 --> 00:35:53,170
At last.

799
00:35:53,194 --> 00:35:54,592
- Sorry I'm late.
- Okay.

800
00:35:54,617 --> 00:35:56,306
Meet Michele Dupont and Gil Graham.

801
00:35:56,331 --> 00:35:57,423
- How do you do?
- How are you?

802
00:35:57,448 --> 00:35:59,260
- What's the trouble?
- Things have been happening.

803
00:35:59,285 --> 00:36:01,018
There's a maniac
at large in the woods.

804
00:36:01,043 --> 00:36:02,712
- A what?
- Maniac?

805
00:36:07,079 --> 00:36:08,611
Oh, there you are.

806
00:36:08,994 --> 00:36:10,720
Nice of you to take me dancing.

807
00:36:10,745 --> 00:36:12,241
What are all the pretty girls
going to do now

808
00:36:12,273 --> 00:36:14,140
that they haven't got
Gene Kelly to dance with,

809
00:36:14,217 --> 00:36:15,565
nurse their perishing colds?

810
00:36:15,590 --> 00:36:17,790
- Oh, I haven't been long.
- Oh, no.

811
00:36:17,815 --> 00:36:19,791
You were going to get me
a drink half an hour ago.

812
00:36:19,816 --> 00:36:21,483
I thought you were going
to have a nice cup of tea.

813
00:36:21,508 --> 00:36:22,559
Tea?

814
00:36:22,584 --> 00:36:24,161
Get me a glass
of nourishing stout.

815
00:36:24,186 --> 00:36:25,294
All right, love.

816
00:36:26,030 --> 00:36:27,099
Evening, Art.

817
00:36:27,538 --> 00:36:29,755
Evening, Mrs. Packer.
Evening, Mr. Graham.

818
00:36:29,893 --> 00:36:30,896
Oh, hello, Art.

819
00:36:31,182 --> 00:36:32,240
Where's Gillian?

820
00:36:32,482 --> 00:36:33,556
Isn't she here?

821
00:36:33,580 --> 00:36:34,580
I haven't seen her.

822
00:36:34,605 --> 00:36:36,654
Well, you see, I was supposed
to be working late tonight, and...

823
00:36:36,679 --> 00:36:38,083
well, she said
she'd meet me here.

824
00:36:38,108 --> 00:36:39,115
Here you are.

825
00:36:39,140 --> 00:36:41,326
That's women for you.
Can't let them out of your sight.

826
00:36:41,429 --> 00:36:43,021
Never mind, Art. Have a drink.

827
00:36:43,046 --> 00:36:45,724
I'd expect Gillian's had to wait
until her dad's got home.

828
00:36:45,749 --> 00:36:47,373
He hasn't been too well lately.

829
00:36:47,398 --> 00:36:49,936
No, I, uh, I think
I'll stroll down the lane

830
00:36:49,961 --> 00:36:51,185
and see if I can meet her.

831
00:37:23,349 --> 00:37:25,011
I thought the band was noisy.

832
00:37:25,165 --> 00:37:27,199
The microphone was too near
the loudspeaker.

833
00:37:27,772 --> 00:37:28,860
A syndrome!

834
00:37:28,898 --> 00:37:31,566
That's it. That's what was the matter.
We had a syndrome in the...

835
00:37:31,654 --> 00:37:32,654
in the magnetic field.

836
00:37:32,679 --> 00:37:34,559
- Are you all right, old boy?
- What are you babbling about?

837
00:37:34,591 --> 00:37:36,003
You understand, don't you, Michele?

838
00:37:36,050 --> 00:37:37,094
Yes, I believe I do.

839
00:37:37,118 --> 00:37:39,410
Would you mind explaining?
Or have you both gone crazy?

840
00:37:39,435 --> 00:37:41,441
Did you hear that screech
from the loudspeaker?

841
00:37:41,689 --> 00:37:43,466
- I'm not deaf.
- Yeah, well, look.

842
00:37:43,491 --> 00:37:45,176
The microphone was
too near to the speaker.

843
00:37:45,201 --> 00:37:46,968
The sound goes in.
It comes out louder,

844
00:37:46,993 --> 00:37:47,996
back into the microphone,

845
00:37:48,021 --> 00:37:49,921
around and out louder
still and so on and so on.

846
00:37:49,946 --> 00:37:51,071
It's called a syndrome.

847
00:37:51,096 --> 00:37:52,535
You mean a sort of vicious circle?

848
00:37:52,638 --> 00:37:54,576
That's right. And if you
don't put a stop to it,

849
00:37:54,601 --> 00:37:56,346
it keeps piling up and piling up

850
00:37:56,370 --> 00:37:59,170
until the amplifier or some
part of the circuit goes bust.

851
00:37:59,498 --> 00:38:01,164
I get it. But why all the dramatics?

852
00:38:01,189 --> 00:38:02,277
Have you got your car here?

853
00:38:02,302 --> 00:38:04,047
- Yes, why?
- I want to get back to the lab.

854
00:38:04,072 --> 00:38:06,242
- What? Now?
- I've got to see Dr. Laird right away.

855
00:38:06,267 --> 00:38:07,586
You do understand,
don't you, Michele?

856
00:38:07,611 --> 00:38:09,511
Yes, I do. I think
you ought to go.

857
00:38:09,622 --> 00:38:11,609
Can't you tell us what all
the excitement's about?

858
00:38:11,691 --> 00:38:12,711
I'll try and explain.

859
00:38:12,736 --> 00:38:14,498
- You must go.
- You'll be all right, won't you?

860
00:38:14,523 --> 00:38:16,109
- Of course.
- Come on. Let's go.

861
00:38:16,362 --> 00:38:18,406
Oh, Gerald, I'm sorry,
but this is important.

862
00:38:18,431 --> 00:38:20,328
Gil, I hope you know
what you're talking about.

863
00:38:20,353 --> 00:38:21,485
So do I.

864
00:38:23,182 --> 00:38:24,649
Let's be practical, my boy.

865
00:38:24,674 --> 00:38:26,172
You make an excellent
theoretical case

866
00:38:26,197 --> 00:38:28,055
for the build-up
in the field being syndromic.

867
00:38:28,260 --> 00:38:30,602
But where exactly in the circuit
does the phenomenon occur?

868
00:38:30,627 --> 00:38:32,617
As I see it, it's between
these two circuits.

869
00:38:33,643 --> 00:38:35,008
You have a first-class brain, Gil.

870
00:38:35,033 --> 00:38:37,203
It's a pity that you allow your
imagination to run away with you.

871
00:38:37,228 --> 00:38:38,234
Meaning what?

872
00:38:38,259 --> 00:38:39,606
Meaning that, in the first place,

873
00:38:39,631 --> 00:38:41,487
you have reached the correct
conclusion from the wrong premise.

874
00:38:41,519 --> 00:38:42,695
Oh, I don't understand.

875
00:38:42,720 --> 00:38:45,289
Secondly, that you are allowing
a self-evident fact to scare you.

876
00:38:45,314 --> 00:38:46,727
You were driven to your clever
piece of reasoning

877
00:38:46,752 --> 00:38:48,656
by worrying about a lot
of silly diddle daddle,

878
00:38:48,835 --> 00:38:50,333
freak storms and the like.

879
00:38:50,358 --> 00:38:51,859
Haven't you considered
the possibility

880
00:38:51,884 --> 00:38:53,589
that we might've caused
some of the things

881
00:38:53,614 --> 00:38:55,054
which took place that night?

882
00:38:55,352 --> 00:38:58,149
I never consider anything which
might interfere with my research.

883
00:38:59,019 --> 00:39:00,652
Seems rather short-sighted,
doesn't it?

884
00:39:00,685 --> 00:39:03,664
If one always stopped to calculate
the risks, there would be no research.

885
00:39:03,879 --> 00:39:05,914
But you think I'm right
about the syndrome?

886
00:39:06,750 --> 00:39:07,891
I know you're right.

887
00:39:08,245 --> 00:39:10,511
I reached the same conclusion
over a week ago.

888
00:39:12,121 --> 00:39:13,336
Well, but you said nothing--

889
00:39:13,361 --> 00:39:15,853
Because I knew you
would be all for delay.

890
00:39:17,188 --> 00:39:20,149
Well, wouldn't that be
the wiser course, Dr. Laird?

891
00:39:20,540 --> 00:39:21,781
I don't think so.

892
00:39:22,070 --> 00:39:23,844
We have accidentally
stumbled upon the secret

893
00:39:23,869 --> 00:39:26,508
of producing an enormously
more powerful magnetic field

894
00:39:26,593 --> 00:39:27,719
than we had ever hoped for.

895
00:39:27,884 --> 00:39:29,742
We have saved
ourselves years of work,

896
00:39:29,829 --> 00:39:31,899
and you want to throw
those years away.

897
00:39:32,177 --> 00:39:33,543
No, I don't want to do that.

898
00:39:33,701 --> 00:39:36,586
I just feel that we ought to
proceed with the utmost caution.

899
00:39:37,120 --> 00:39:39,854
We have new equipment,
more powerful generators

900
00:39:39,944 --> 00:39:41,336
but the same circuits.

901
00:39:41,477 --> 00:39:43,945
We have taken great precautions,
the iron fence, for instance,

902
00:39:44,134 --> 00:39:45,254
the direction field,

903
00:39:45,340 --> 00:39:46,406
better insulation

904
00:39:46,569 --> 00:39:49,094
and the screening between
the terminals of GF2.

905
00:39:49,508 --> 00:39:51,010
Yes, well as I see it,
the screening

906
00:39:51,035 --> 00:39:53,736
of the GF2 terminals
is the main danger.

907
00:39:53,838 --> 00:39:55,859
It's like, uh,
like putting a 6-inch nail

908
00:39:55,884 --> 00:39:57,617
across a 5-amp house fuse.

909
00:39:57,642 --> 00:39:59,703
Perhaps you would allow me
to be the best judge of that.

910
00:39:59,728 --> 00:40:01,703
I've been engaged
in this work all my life.

911
00:40:02,462 --> 00:40:04,703
Well, I'm sorry. I... I didn't
mean to sound impertinent.

912
00:40:05,017 --> 00:40:07,151
Not impertinent, just frightened,

913
00:40:07,382 --> 00:40:09,469
and a frightened assistant
is no good to me.

914
00:40:09,781 --> 00:40:11,357
If you would care to terminate
your appointment here?

915
00:40:11,382 --> 00:40:12,781
Oh, of course not.
I...

916
00:40:12,806 --> 00:40:15,656
I wouldn't think of deserting you at
this stage of the game in any case.

917
00:40:15,681 --> 00:40:18,391
Please do not allow questions
of personal loyalty to affect you.

918
00:40:18,680 --> 00:40:20,367
Under the circumstances,
I wouldn't.

919
00:40:20,392 --> 00:40:23,602
I was thinking more the complicated
operation of the apparatus.

920
00:40:23,880 --> 00:40:25,445
It's not so complicated
now, you know.

921
00:40:25,822 --> 00:40:28,422
It will be possible for
only one person to operate.

922
00:40:31,116 --> 00:40:32,248
Yes, sir.

923
00:40:36,464 --> 00:40:37,508
Gillian!

924
00:40:37,706 --> 00:40:40,555
Gillian! Gillian! Gillian!

925
00:40:42,938 --> 00:40:43,971
No.

926
00:41:04,434 --> 00:41:06,015
Aah!

927
00:41:12,669 --> 00:41:13,930
Now then, go ahead down.

928
00:41:13,958 --> 00:41:15,257
How about a drink?

929
00:41:16,168 --> 00:41:17,586
Is the bar closed?

930
00:41:17,674 --> 00:41:19,612
Yes, sir. The dance
goes on until midnight.

931
00:41:30,831 --> 00:41:32,109
It's getting very late.

932
00:41:32,815 --> 00:41:34,899
Is it that I'm
positively repulsive?

933
00:41:34,924 --> 00:41:36,250
Or could there be someone else?

934
00:41:36,295 --> 00:41:37,578
I'm afraid there is.

935
00:41:37,793 --> 00:41:40,024
I'm sorry.
I just realized it now.

936
00:41:40,156 --> 00:41:41,168
Gil?

937
00:41:41,224 --> 00:41:42,570
Please, let's go.

938
00:41:42,698 --> 00:41:43,964
Lucky devil.

939
00:41:46,862 --> 00:41:48,875
Ah, Miss Dupont, are you going?

940
00:41:48,900 --> 00:41:49,957
Yes, why?

941
00:41:49,981 --> 00:41:51,594
It's Gillian Betts. I ahh...

942
00:41:51,769 --> 00:41:53,031
They've just found her.

943
00:41:53,322 --> 00:41:54,500
Is young Art here?

944
00:41:55,148 --> 00:41:56,414
What's happened?
An accident?

945
00:41:56,446 --> 00:41:58,672
No, sir, not an accident, murder.

946
00:41:59,336 --> 00:42:01,679
Murder?
Well, what's this?

947
00:42:01,869 --> 00:42:03,030
In Bryerly Woods, sir.

948
00:42:03,055 --> 00:42:04,055
The maniac.

949
00:42:04,080 --> 00:42:06,055
- Are you quite sure?
- I can't say any more.

950
00:42:06,080 --> 00:42:08,414
No, course not.

951
00:42:08,454 --> 00:42:09,633
Darling, are you all right?

952
00:42:09,658 --> 00:42:11,683
- Yes, but we can't we go?
- You are together, sir?

953
00:42:11,708 --> 00:42:12,793
- Yes.
- And you have a car?

954
00:42:12,818 --> 00:42:14,718
- Oh, yes.
- Then that'll be all right.

955
00:42:14,801 --> 00:42:16,699
You see, we haven't
found the fellow yet.

956
00:42:17,443 --> 00:42:18,461
And what about you, sir?

957
00:42:19,164 --> 00:42:20,222
Are you with...

958
00:42:20,298 --> 00:42:22,298
No, Officer.
I am alone.

959
00:42:22,397 --> 00:42:23,762
If you're going past Bryerly Woods,

960
00:42:23,787 --> 00:42:25,220
I don't think you ought
to be by yourself, sir.

961
00:42:25,245 --> 00:42:26,652
Could I give you a lift?

962
00:42:27,134 --> 00:42:28,214
Thank you.

963
00:42:28,312 --> 00:42:30,144
Not at all. My car's outside.

964
00:42:30,945 --> 00:42:32,411
Goodnight, miss.
Goodnight, sir.

965
00:42:32,436 --> 00:42:34,082
Goodnight. I'll warn
the others upstairs.

966
00:42:34,107 --> 00:42:35,173
Right.

967
00:42:38,113 --> 00:42:39,773
Where shall I drop you, Mr...

968
00:42:39,797 --> 00:42:40,797
Smith.

969
00:42:40,822 --> 00:42:43,410
If you could drop me at the other
end of the village near Dr. Laird's house.

970
00:42:43,435 --> 00:42:44,949
- Oh, yes. We're going that way.
- Thank you.

971
00:42:44,974 --> 00:42:45,988
I'm just thinking,

972
00:42:46,013 --> 00:42:47,646
that young man went
to meet Gillian.

973
00:42:47,730 --> 00:42:49,527
Don't you think we should
tell the police?

974
00:42:49,645 --> 00:42:51,879
Yes, of course.
I'll go back in and tell him.

975
00:42:52,803 --> 00:42:55,656
Will you forgive me if I take this
opportunity of speaking to you?

976
00:42:55,680 --> 00:42:56,769
What is it?

977
00:42:56,840 --> 00:42:59,347
I overheard what Mr. Graham
said tonight about syndromes.

978
00:42:59,372 --> 00:43:00,386
Well?

979
00:43:00,575 --> 00:43:02,550
You see, I understand
something of your work.

980
00:43:02,678 --> 00:43:04,519
How much?
Who are you anyway?

981
00:43:04,699 --> 00:43:05,972
That is not important.

982
00:43:05,997 --> 00:43:08,250
I must speak to you and Mr. Graham
as soon as possible.

983
00:43:08,274 --> 00:43:10,816
It will have to be tomorrow after
we have finish our work at the lab.

984
00:43:10,841 --> 00:43:12,597
Very well. Shall we say
here at 6 o'clock?

985
00:43:12,622 --> 00:43:13,625
All right.

986
00:43:13,703 --> 00:43:15,522
Okay. I told him. Let's go.

987
00:43:21,394 --> 00:43:22,879
Did he give you any clue as to why

988
00:43:22,904 --> 00:43:24,277
he wanted to meet you and Gil?

989
00:43:24,323 --> 00:43:26,957
Not really, but he seemed
to know a lot about our work.

990
00:43:26,982 --> 00:43:28,129
You didn't tell him
anything?

991
00:43:28,154 --> 00:43:30,535
Of course not, Jimmy.
I'm not that stupid.

992
00:43:30,560 --> 00:43:32,593
Well, I don't like it.
I just don't like it.

993
00:43:32,618 --> 00:43:34,011
Who is this chap, Smith?

994
00:43:34,742 --> 00:43:36,089
Know anything about him, Gerald?

995
00:43:36,114 --> 00:43:37,713
- Not a thing.
- Gil?

996
00:43:37,838 --> 00:43:39,848
I saw him for the first time
tonight at the dance.

997
00:43:39,971 --> 00:43:41,837
Gerald, when you took him
in the car tonight,

998
00:43:41,862 --> 00:43:43,137
did he say where he lived?

999
00:43:43,206 --> 00:43:45,139
No, he just told me
to drop him near here.

1000
00:43:45,164 --> 00:43:46,922
Yes, he said it was okay
to drop him here.

1001
00:43:46,947 --> 00:43:48,445
That's right. He must be
staying in the village.

1002
00:43:48,470 --> 00:43:50,766
Well, that should make it easy
for us to keep tabs on him.

1003
00:43:51,141 --> 00:43:52,640
Gil, Michele, you must meet him

1004
00:43:52,665 --> 00:43:53,883
tomorrow evening as arranged.

1005
00:43:53,908 --> 00:43:55,307
- What's the drill?
- See if he tries

1006
00:43:55,332 --> 00:43:56,720
to pump you about Laird's work.

1007
00:43:56,745 --> 00:43:58,214
- Find out all you can.
- Right.

1008
00:43:58,290 --> 00:44:00,331
How did Laird react
to your inspiration, Gil?

1009
00:44:00,359 --> 00:44:01,944
- What, the syndrome?
- Mm-hmm.

1010
00:44:02,054 --> 00:44:03,511
He guessed it already.

1011
00:44:03,778 --> 00:44:04,964
Ah, that's tough.

1012
00:44:05,228 --> 00:44:06,604
Is it going to foul things up?

1013
00:44:07,021 --> 00:44:09,096
Nope. He's pressing
on regardless.

1014
00:44:10,158 --> 00:44:11,323
You're worried, aren't you?

1015
00:44:12,644 --> 00:44:14,018
I am. I'm in a bit of a fix.

1016
00:44:14,043 --> 00:44:16,581
I... I don't like to go
behind the old man's back,

1017
00:44:17,074 --> 00:44:19,074
but I think we're moving along
a little too fast.

1018
00:44:19,700 --> 00:44:20,987
That apparatus
is ready to work,

1019
00:44:21,012 --> 00:44:22,682
but nobody knows
for sure what it'll do.

1020
00:44:22,799 --> 00:44:24,038
Doesn't Laird know?

1021
00:44:24,148 --> 00:44:26,448
You try asking him.
I almost got sacked tonight.

1022
00:44:26,672 --> 00:44:27,909
Oh, no, Gil.

1023
00:44:28,401 --> 00:44:29,987
Would you like me
to contact Cartwright?

1024
00:44:30,012 --> 00:44:31,596
Well, I think
we should in any case,

1025
00:44:31,621 --> 00:44:32,748
but he better not come here,

1026
00:44:32,773 --> 00:44:34,190
not with Laird in his present mood.

1027
00:44:34,215 --> 00:44:35,284
I agree.

1028
00:44:35,309 --> 00:44:36,309
Where then?

1029
00:44:36,334 --> 00:44:37,503
Oh, police headquarters.

1030
00:44:37,635 --> 00:44:40,010
Royal Inspector Burns ought
to be put more in the picture.

1031
00:44:40,097 --> 00:44:41,307
We may need his help yet.

1032
00:44:41,332 --> 00:44:43,393
Just you say, Jimmy. I'll
phone Cartwright in the morning.

1033
00:44:43,418 --> 00:44:44,979
I'll meet him
at the station in the car.

1034
00:44:46,457 --> 00:44:48,179
Well, if there's nothing else,
time for bed.

1035
00:44:49,710 --> 00:44:51,113
- Would you mind?
- Oh, yes.

1036
00:44:51,581 --> 00:44:52,862
Coming, Jimmy?
- Hmm?

1037
00:44:53,585 --> 00:44:54,612
Oh, yeah.

1038
00:44:54,913 --> 00:44:56,473
I'll see you two
before you meet Smith.

1039
00:44:56,498 --> 00:44:58,518
- Good night.
- All right. Good night.

1040
00:45:02,416 --> 00:45:03,456
I'm, uh...

1041
00:45:03,948 --> 00:45:05,987
I'm sorry about tonight.
I didn't mean to butt in.

1042
00:45:06,012 --> 00:45:07,487
It isn't really any of my business.

1043
00:45:07,512 --> 00:45:08,768
Isn't it, Gil?

1044
00:45:09,198 --> 00:45:11,448
After you had gone,
Gerald kissed me.

1045
00:45:11,646 --> 00:45:13,487
Why tell me?
I'm not enjoying it.

1046
00:45:13,644 --> 00:45:15,831
Neither did I.
Funny, isn't it?

1047
00:45:16,502 --> 00:45:17,909
Well, that's too bad.
I'm sorry.

1048
00:45:18,167 --> 00:45:19,440
Are you really?

1049
00:45:20,366 --> 00:45:21,401
Not really.

1050
00:45:28,361 --> 00:45:29,682
I enjoyed that.

1051
00:45:31,548 --> 00:45:32,581
So did I.

1052
00:45:43,662 --> 00:45:44,846
- Hello.
- Hello.

1053
00:45:45,370 --> 00:45:47,167
- Feeling better?
- Yes, much better. Thanks.

1054
00:45:47,506 --> 00:45:48,526
This is Jane.

1055
00:45:48,551 --> 00:45:50,300
I'm staying at her house
for the time being.

1056
00:45:50,325 --> 00:45:51,706
She's taking me to see her school.

1057
00:45:51,731 --> 00:45:54,245
I'm going to catch a beetle for her.
They're horrid-looking.

1058
00:45:54,301 --> 00:45:55,767
I'm terribly thrilled about that.

1059
00:45:56,133 --> 00:45:57,284
When does school start?

1060
00:45:57,309 --> 00:45:59,189
On Monday. I've got the key
from the head

1061
00:45:59,214 --> 00:46:01,705
so I can look around my classroom
and get everything ready.

1062
00:46:01,843 --> 00:46:03,084
You both like being busy,

1063
00:46:03,201 --> 00:46:04,509
what with beetles and school.

1064
00:46:04,574 --> 00:46:05,908
Look, I'm rather tied up today,
but I thought

1065
00:46:05,933 --> 00:46:07,791
of taking a boat out tomorrow, Sunday.

1066
00:46:07,816 --> 00:46:09,096
When did you think about that?

1067
00:46:09,121 --> 00:46:10,439
Just a moment ago.
I can't think why.

1068
00:46:10,464 --> 00:46:11,635
- Care to come?
- I'd love to.

1069
00:46:11,660 --> 00:46:13,744
I must fly now. Got to meet
my chief off the train.

1070
00:46:13,769 --> 00:46:15,033
Oh, by the way, Jane,
ever met a man

1071
00:46:15,058 --> 00:46:16,491
called Smith in the village?

1072
00:46:16,607 --> 00:46:18,674
No, but I met a Mr. Smith
in the woods.

1073
00:46:18,767 --> 00:46:20,408
- What?
- He's nice.

1074
00:46:20,433 --> 00:46:21,853
He helps me look for insects.

1075
00:46:21,878 --> 00:46:23,213
Oh. Well, if you
meet him again,

1076
00:46:23,238 --> 00:46:25,330
try and find out
where he lives, will you?

1077
00:46:28,855 --> 00:46:30,627
So that's our school, Jane?

1078
00:46:30,853 --> 00:46:32,103
Are you going in, Miss Forsyth?

1079
00:46:32,128 --> 00:46:34,088
- Yes, I must.
- Oh, well. If you must.

1080
00:46:34,113 --> 00:46:35,127
And you?

1081
00:46:35,152 --> 00:46:37,019
I'm going to look
for that beetle larvae.

1082
00:46:37,044 --> 00:46:38,572
All right.
But don't be late home.

1083
00:46:38,597 --> 00:46:40,885
- You promised your mother.
- I won't. Goodbye.

1084
00:46:43,645 --> 00:46:45,822
- A lot of beers here, George.
- Thank you, sir.

1085
00:46:49,410 --> 00:46:50,810
There we are.
Thanks.

1086
00:46:50,835 --> 00:46:52,221
Just right.
Thank you, sir.

1087
00:46:53,061 --> 00:46:55,314
All right,
Mr. Smith, shoot.

1088
00:46:55,803 --> 00:46:57,760
I'll come straight
to the point, Mr. Graham.

1089
00:46:57,785 --> 00:46:59,484
I overheard your conversation
last night,

1090
00:46:59,509 --> 00:47:01,442
and that led me to suppose
that you are concerned

1091
00:47:01,467 --> 00:47:02,934
with Dr. Laird's
experiments.

1092
00:47:03,068 --> 00:47:04,103
I see.

1093
00:47:04,161 --> 00:47:06,205
And what's your interest
in those experiments?

1094
00:47:06,417 --> 00:47:07,713
Will you accept, for the moment,

1095
00:47:07,746 --> 00:47:09,502
that it is purely scientific?

1096
00:47:09,937 --> 00:47:10,986
Go on.

1097
00:47:11,517 --> 00:47:12,778
I take a great interest

1098
00:47:12,803 --> 00:47:15,071
in the subject of
magnetic fields, Mr. Graham.

1099
00:47:15,096 --> 00:47:17,869
Why not? What's that got to do
with Dr. Laird's experiment.

1100
00:47:18,634 --> 00:47:21,307
Will you also accept that
I am not a complete fool?

1101
00:47:22,606 --> 00:47:23,689
All right.

1102
00:47:23,858 --> 00:47:24,877
Thank you.

1103
00:47:25,067 --> 00:47:27,213
Dr. Laird is no doubt
a very clever man.

1104
00:47:27,494 --> 00:47:29,322
He must be to have built
an apparatus capable

1105
00:47:29,347 --> 00:47:31,799
of recently causing
such atmospheric disturbance.

1106
00:47:33,494 --> 00:47:36,377
However, I suspect he is also
a single-minded man

1107
00:47:36,538 --> 00:47:38,674
and possibly an unimaginative one.

1108
00:47:39,768 --> 00:47:42,971
Mr. Graham, the earth
has a magnetic field.

1109
00:47:43,682 --> 00:47:45,887
Have you considered the dangers
of upsetting that field?

1110
00:47:45,912 --> 00:47:48,900
It has happened before in history,
you know, with catastrophic results.

1111
00:47:49,117 --> 00:47:52,236
Yes. Yes, I've considered
the possibility.

1112
00:47:53,228 --> 00:47:56,463
You seem to be a remarkably
well informed man, Mr. Smith.

1113
00:47:56,905 --> 00:47:58,025
Please go on.

1114
00:47:58,540 --> 00:48:00,291
There is also another danger,

1115
00:48:00,815 --> 00:48:02,815
the danger of radioactive rays.

1116
00:48:02,992 --> 00:48:05,275
We're not using
any radioactive materials.

1117
00:48:05,409 --> 00:48:08,010
I know that, but not
all radioactive particles

1118
00:48:08,043 --> 00:48:09,721
are man-made.
There is another source.

1119
00:48:09,746 --> 00:48:11,525
Yes, that's true.
There are cosmic rays.

1120
00:48:11,550 --> 00:48:13,885
They bombard us
constantly, but they...

1121
00:48:14,142 --> 00:48:15,841
they do little apparent harm.

1122
00:48:15,866 --> 00:48:17,532
Because you are shielded from all

1123
00:48:17,557 --> 00:48:19,486
but the harmless ones
by the ionosphere,

1124
00:48:19,511 --> 00:48:21,978
the... the so-called
heavy-side layer.

1125
00:48:22,096 --> 00:48:23,395
The heavier it is, the sodium,

1126
00:48:23,420 --> 00:48:25,150
for example, never
normally reach the earth.

1127
00:48:25,175 --> 00:48:26,799
Yes, that's true, but, uh...

1128
00:48:27,154 --> 00:48:28,752
but I don't quite follow you.

1129
00:48:28,877 --> 00:48:32,150
Mr. Graham, the ionosphere
could be affected by magnetism.

1130
00:48:32,287 --> 00:48:34,053
It could be bent or fractured.

1131
00:48:34,213 --> 00:48:37,493
But surely the ionosphere
is 50 or 60 miles up.

1132
00:48:37,636 --> 00:48:39,469
And ships at sea 18 miles away

1133
00:48:39,494 --> 00:48:41,111
were affected by your experiment.

1134
00:48:41,301 --> 00:48:42,376
Don't you see?

1135
00:48:42,493 --> 00:48:44,775
If, at the points of maximum
strength of your field,

1136
00:48:44,800 --> 00:48:47,564
the heavy side layer had been
temporarily fractured

1137
00:48:47,719 --> 00:48:49,361
or pulled down close to the earth,

1138
00:48:49,522 --> 00:48:51,642
heavy and possibly
dangerous cosmic rays

1139
00:48:51,667 --> 00:48:53,072
could've reached
the Earth's surface

1140
00:48:53,097 --> 00:48:55,322
and may have affected many
people in strange ways.

1141
00:48:56,222 --> 00:48:57,251
How do you mean?

1142
00:48:57,343 --> 00:48:59,150
I mean, they may have
been driven mad.

1143
00:49:00,665 --> 00:49:02,884
The human beings who may have
been affected by the rays

1144
00:49:02,909 --> 00:49:04,290
will probably all die,

1145
00:49:04,315 --> 00:49:06,400
though not before they may
have killed many people.

1146
00:49:06,720 --> 00:49:07,947
But there is something else.

1147
00:49:08,439 --> 00:49:10,654
It would normally
take many years for any change

1148
00:49:10,679 --> 00:49:12,946
to become apparent
in the human race or in animals

1149
00:49:13,018 --> 00:49:14,697
with a long gestation period.

1150
00:49:14,988 --> 00:49:17,400
But what of the quick breeders,
the insects?

1151
00:49:17,725 --> 00:49:18,824
Insects?

1152
00:49:19,148 --> 00:49:20,595
Oh, <i>mon dieu, no.</i>

1153
00:49:21,517 --> 00:49:22,533
Yes.

1154
00:49:22,646 --> 00:49:24,157
Some insects, ants,

1155
00:49:24,182 --> 00:49:26,736
spiders could already have mutated.

1156
00:49:27,077 --> 00:49:28,118
In what way?

1157
00:49:28,258 --> 00:49:29,822
That is impossible to say.

1158
00:49:29,978 --> 00:49:31,579
They could've become
a different species.

1159
00:49:31,622 --> 00:49:34,090
They could've become
smaller or much larger.

1160
00:51:04,283 --> 00:51:05,588
Look, some of my colleagues are

1161
00:51:05,612 --> 00:51:07,717
in a conference now
at the police station.

1162
00:51:07,950 --> 00:51:10,428
Would you come along with me
and state your case to them?

1163
00:51:10,874 --> 00:51:12,510
No, Mr. Graham.
I'd rather not.

1164
00:51:12,603 --> 00:51:14,403
- But why not?
- There are reasons.

1165
00:51:14,428 --> 00:51:16,742
Besides, they would probably
regard me as a crank.

1166
00:51:16,767 --> 00:51:17,767
Well, I don't.

1167
00:51:17,792 --> 00:51:19,693
I hoped you wouldn't.
That's why I chose to speak to you.

1168
00:51:19,718 --> 00:51:21,084
- Well, please...
- No, Mr. Graham.

1169
00:51:21,109 --> 00:51:23,890
The responsibility rests with you.
I can only wish your success.

1170
00:51:24,541 --> 00:51:25,718
Miss Dupont.

1171
00:51:30,784 --> 00:51:32,734
Well, Gil, what do you think?

1172
00:51:33,672 --> 00:51:35,499
I think he may be right, Michele.

1173
00:51:35,562 --> 00:51:37,112
Look, I... I want
to go see Cartwright.

1174
00:51:37,137 --> 00:51:39,562
- Can you make it home all right alone?
- Of course.

1175
00:51:39,662 --> 00:51:42,162
Darling, make them believe you.

1176
00:51:42,448 --> 00:51:43,757
I know you can be very persuasive

1177
00:51:43,782 --> 00:51:45,038
when you want to.

1178
00:51:45,710 --> 00:51:46,942
Right.

1179
00:51:50,100 --> 00:51:52,334
Excuse me, miss.
Being as you're a scientist,

1180
00:51:52,359 --> 00:51:54,359
I wish you would look
at what our Jane's found.

1181
00:51:54,384 --> 00:51:56,117
I rung the police,
but they didn't say much,

1182
00:51:56,142 --> 00:51:57,835
and, well, I don't like
the look of it.

1183
00:51:57,860 --> 00:51:59,593
Do you have something
to boil this in?

1184
00:51:59,618 --> 00:52:01,609
- Well, yes. I have.
- You boil it immediately.

1185
00:52:01,634 --> 00:52:03,356
- Boil it, Miss? But...
- Please, Mrs. Hale.

1186
00:52:03,381 --> 00:52:04,747
Don't argue. You boil it.

1187
00:52:04,772 --> 00:52:06,898
You understand? You boil it.
It's very dangerous.

1188
00:52:06,923 --> 00:52:08,577
And, incidentally,
you lock your door

1189
00:52:08,602 --> 00:52:10,721
and close all your windows
and keep everybody inside.

1190
00:52:10,746 --> 00:52:12,413
But what about Miss Forsyth?

1191
00:52:12,438 --> 00:52:13,508
Who is Miss Forsyth?

1192
00:52:13,533 --> 00:52:15,702
My new lodger, the new school
teacher, she's still out.

1193
00:52:15,727 --> 00:52:17,398
She went to the school
this afternoon.

1194
00:52:17,423 --> 00:52:18,423
Where is the school?

1195
00:52:18,448 --> 00:52:21,238
Well, the quickest way is through
the woods. There's a path opposite.

1196
00:52:21,263 --> 00:52:23,382
Don't worry.
I'll find Miss Forsyth.

1197
00:52:23,930 --> 00:52:25,296
The whole idea is utter nonsense.

1198
00:52:25,321 --> 00:52:27,101
The chap's trying to scare us off.

1199
00:52:27,321 --> 00:52:28,687
I'm surprised at you, Gil.

1200
00:52:28,712 --> 00:52:30,210
I'm inclined to agree.

1201
00:52:30,235 --> 00:52:31,601
I certainly think this man, Smith,

1202
00:52:31,626 --> 00:52:33,241
needs pulling in
for further questioning.

1203
00:52:33,266 --> 00:52:34,794
You know anything
about him, Inspector?

1204
00:52:34,819 --> 00:52:35,827
Not a thing.

1205
00:52:35,852 --> 00:52:37,752
But then there are
quite a lot of Smiths about.

1206
00:52:37,777 --> 00:52:39,757
Exactly. He's too good
to be true.

1207
00:52:39,847 --> 00:52:41,702
Who is he?
Where does he come from?

1208
00:52:41,838 --> 00:52:43,337
I can't get a lead on him anywhere.

1209
00:52:43,362 --> 00:52:45,492
All the same, I agree with Graham.
We must hold up

1210
00:52:45,517 --> 00:52:47,413
all further experiments
with Laird's apparatus

1211
00:52:47,438 --> 00:52:49,502
until a thorough check-over
has been made.

1212
00:52:49,619 --> 00:52:50,843
All right, that's agreed.

1213
00:52:52,247 --> 00:52:53,476
Excuse me, gentlemen.

1214
00:52:54,798 --> 00:52:56,757
Inspector Burns here.
Yes.

1215
00:52:59,275 --> 00:53:00,296
What?

1216
00:53:03,017 --> 00:53:04,636
Mark Davison's been found,

1217
00:53:05,198 --> 00:53:06,795
dead, mutilated.

1218
00:53:06,958 --> 00:53:09,226
- Oh, my.
- His body was cleaned dry of blood.

1219
00:53:09,251 --> 00:53:11,031
You see? Smith was right.
It's those insects.

1220
00:53:11,056 --> 00:53:12,062
They've mutated,
and they're hungry.

1221
00:53:12,087 --> 00:53:13,887
- Oh, come off it.
- Shut up, will you, Jimmy?

1222
00:53:13,912 --> 00:53:16,242
Inspector, Brigadier, you've
got to cordon off those woods.

1223
00:53:16,267 --> 00:53:17,335
Insects are tremendous eaters.

1224
00:53:17,360 --> 00:53:18,702
There won't be anything
left long in there.

1225
00:53:18,727 --> 00:53:19,812
Get me every available man.

1226
00:53:19,837 --> 00:53:21,531
Graham's right.
No, give me that telephone.

1227
00:53:21,556 --> 00:53:22,851
This is a military operation.

1228
00:53:23,203 --> 00:53:25,047
Get me the nearest army depot.

1229
00:53:58,193 --> 00:53:59,826
Aah!

1230
00:54:00,799 --> 00:54:02,828
Bryerly Woods.
That's it. Goodbye.

1231
00:54:02,853 --> 00:54:04,320
Graham, get down
to the lab at once.

1232
00:54:04,345 --> 00:54:06,334
On no account must Laird touch
that damn machine of his.

1233
00:54:06,359 --> 00:54:07,359
Where's Wilson?

1234
00:54:07,384 --> 00:54:08,812
- He should be at Laird's house.
- I'll phone him.

1235
00:54:08,837 --> 00:54:10,257
He can have a word with Laird.

1236
00:54:11,248 --> 00:54:12,256
Yes, son?

1237
00:54:12,281 --> 00:54:14,601
Well, Sergeant, I didn't think
it was important at first, but now...

1238
00:54:14,626 --> 00:54:15,734
Well? Well?

1239
00:54:15,841 --> 00:54:16,875
Mrs. Hale, sir,

1240
00:54:16,900 --> 00:54:19,093
she rang up to say her daughter
had found a whopping great egg.

1241
00:54:19,118 --> 00:54:20,171
What was that?

1242
00:54:20,643 --> 00:54:22,209
- An egg, sir.
- Who said that?

1243
00:54:22,391 --> 00:54:23,531
Mrs. Hale, sir.

1244
00:54:23,556 --> 00:54:25,937
And she said that her lodger,
a Miss Forsyth, was out late.

1245
00:54:25,962 --> 00:54:28,196
Oh, no. Does she know
where she went?

1246
00:54:28,279 --> 00:54:29,859
She was at the village school, sir.

1247
00:54:34,424 --> 00:54:36,015
Gil, quick, Bryerly School!

1248
00:55:04,242 --> 00:55:07,276
Go back! Go back!

1249
00:55:56,431 --> 00:55:57,797
Aah!

1250
00:56:13,112 --> 00:56:14,935
Aah!

1251
00:56:38,465 --> 00:56:39,683
Helen! Helen!

1252
00:56:39,708 --> 00:56:40,972
Are you all right, Helen.

1253
00:56:41,625 --> 00:56:43,229
There's another girl in the woods.

1254
00:56:43,254 --> 00:56:44,268
Who is it?

1255
00:56:44,293 --> 00:56:46,460
From, uh...
Dr. Laird's assistant.

1256
00:56:46,611 --> 00:56:48,577
- Michele!
- Gil, come back!

1257
00:56:52,555 --> 00:56:53,980
Mr. Graham!

1258
00:56:54,495 --> 00:56:55,847
Michele... she's in here!

1259
00:56:55,872 --> 00:56:57,405
I'll come with you. Hurry.

1260
00:57:05,892 --> 00:57:07,158
Michele!

1261
00:57:52,808 --> 00:57:54,607
Michele!

1262
00:57:55,706 --> 00:57:57,039
- Wait!
- What do you mean, wait?

1263
00:57:57,064 --> 00:57:58,558
Leave this to me!

1264
00:58:13,631 --> 00:58:15,197
This way.

1265
00:59:14,286 --> 00:59:15,746
Aah!

1266
01:00:08,273 --> 01:00:09,839
Oh, what is it? What is it?

1267
01:00:09,864 --> 01:00:11,964
I just had a message from
Brigadier Cartwright, Dr. Laird.

1268
01:00:11,989 --> 01:00:13,582
Oh, I can't be bothered with
you or Cartwright just now.

1269
01:00:13,607 --> 01:00:15,316
I'm sorry, Doctor.
This is important.

1270
01:00:15,384 --> 01:00:16,884
So is this, much more important

1271
01:00:16,909 --> 01:00:18,714
than anything Cartwright
has to gossip about,

1272
01:00:18,739 --> 01:00:20,171
and I'm nearly ready for testing.

1273
01:00:20,196 --> 01:00:21,297
It's about that.

1274
01:00:21,321 --> 01:00:23,297
You mustn't
operate the machine.

1275
01:00:25,200 --> 01:00:27,402
I must not operate
my own apparatus?

1276
01:00:27,912 --> 01:00:29,863
- Did you say that...
- I'm afraid I did!

1277
01:00:30,387 --> 01:00:32,421
Some entirely new factors
have arisen which make it

1278
01:00:32,446 --> 01:00:34,926
imperative that all testing
shall be indefinitely delayed.

1279
01:00:34,951 --> 01:00:36,350
Indefinitely delayed?

1280
01:00:36,375 --> 01:00:39,035
How easily wise old bureaucrats
betray a red-tape fetish.

1281
01:00:39,176 --> 01:00:40,801
Indefinitely delayed.

1282
01:00:43,642 --> 01:00:45,284
There will be no delay,
Mr. Wilson.

1283
01:00:45,855 --> 01:00:47,379
I alone am competent to decide

1284
01:00:47,404 --> 01:00:49,237
when this apparatus
shall be tested,

1285
01:00:49,284 --> 01:00:52,199
not some two-penny brass hat
or upstart civil servant.

1286
01:00:52,308 --> 01:00:53,308
Now, get out!

1287
01:00:53,333 --> 01:00:56,063
Dr. Laird, don't be ridiculous.
Put that gun down!

1288
01:00:56,304 --> 01:00:58,996
You're behaving like a madman.
Nobody wants to interfere.

1289
01:00:59,041 --> 01:01:00,058
Get out!

1290
01:01:00,083 --> 01:01:01,668
If you say another word,
I'll shoot you.

1291
01:01:01,901 --> 01:01:04,175
Do you understand?
I'll shoot you.

1292
01:01:04,320 --> 01:01:05,410
Please listen.

1293
01:01:05,509 --> 01:01:07,433
This apparatus has cost lives.

1294
01:01:07,687 --> 01:01:08,691
It is dangerous--

1295
01:02:19,260 --> 01:02:20,585
Feeling better, Michele?

1296
01:02:20,677 --> 01:02:22,225
You're going to be
all right, Michele.

1297
01:02:23,202 --> 01:02:24,923
- Well?
- I think we've covered this section

1298
01:02:24,948 --> 01:02:26,077
of the woods, Mr. Murray.

1299
01:02:26,151 --> 01:02:27,518
I wouldn't like that job again.

1300
01:02:27,543 --> 01:02:28,757
Any casualties?

1301
01:02:29,029 --> 01:02:30,489
It's a good job
we acted when we did.

1302
01:02:30,514 --> 01:02:31,780
The woods were thick with eggs.

1303
01:02:31,805 --> 01:02:33,740
- Another few days and we'd...
- Yes, all right.

1304
01:02:33,765 --> 01:02:34,849
There is to be no relaxing.

1305
01:02:34,874 --> 01:02:35,896
Keep patrolling all night

1306
01:02:35,921 --> 01:02:37,671
and tomorrow
we'll have a thorough comb-out.

1307
01:02:37,696 --> 01:02:39,225
You better report to Brigadier
Cartwright straight away.

1308
01:02:39,250 --> 01:02:40,272
Right, sir.

1309
01:02:40,788 --> 01:02:41,897
Good Lord.

1310
01:02:41,963 --> 01:02:44,230
To think we have to do this
in every wood in the country.

1311
01:02:44,284 --> 01:02:46,147
That will not be necessary,
Mr. Murray.

1312
01:02:46,172 --> 01:02:47,202
Hmm?

1313
01:02:47,727 --> 01:02:48,843
Mr. Smith.

1314
01:02:49,407 --> 01:02:51,374
One or two questions
I'd like to ask you.

1315
01:02:51,525 --> 01:02:52,850
Where do you come from?

1316
01:02:53,001 --> 01:02:54,436
Uh, Jimmy, uh,

1317
01:02:54,802 --> 01:02:58,069
I'm afraid that's going to be a kind of
an awkward question for him to answer.

1318
01:02:58,094 --> 01:02:59,585
- Isn't it, Mr. Smith?
- Yes, indeed.

1319
01:02:59,662 --> 01:03:01,600
Uh, you said that
some of the RAF boys

1320
01:03:01,625 --> 01:03:04,350
had reported unidentified
objects flying south.

1321
01:03:04,531 --> 01:03:06,092
Yes, that's right.
The usual sort of nonsense.

1322
01:03:06,117 --> 01:03:08,608
Yes, well, this time,
it wasn't nonsense, I'm afraid.

1323
01:03:08,633 --> 01:03:09,741
Was it, Mr. Smith?

1324
01:03:09,766 --> 01:03:11,288
I landed here shortly

1325
01:03:11,313 --> 01:03:13,242
after your first
disastrous experiment.

1326
01:03:13,408 --> 01:03:15,007
Landed?
What are you talking about?

1327
01:03:15,153 --> 01:03:16,436
Well, this is difficult.

1328
01:03:16,983 --> 01:03:18,811
Let me put it this way,
Mr. Murray.

1329
01:03:19,142 --> 01:03:20,530
Without being aware of it,

1330
01:03:20,679 --> 01:03:22,579
your newspapers
were very near the truth

1331
01:03:22,604 --> 01:03:25,921
when they spoke of mysterious
invaders from Planet X.

1332
01:03:26,189 --> 01:03:27,475
Am I going crazy?

1333
01:03:27,646 --> 01:03:29,846
In fact, there was but one invader.

1334
01:03:29,871 --> 01:03:30,882
It was I.

1335
01:03:31,539 --> 01:03:33,921
Jimmy, I... I realize
it's going to be a little...

1336
01:03:34,164 --> 01:03:35,311
hard for you to believe.

1337
01:03:35,336 --> 01:03:36,850
But the truth of the matter is,

1338
01:03:37,132 --> 01:03:40,780
Mr. Smith is the legendary
character from outer space.

1339
01:03:41,021 --> 01:03:42,087
Right?

1340
01:03:51,615 --> 01:03:53,449
Get me Brigadier Cartwright.

1341
01:03:53,474 --> 01:03:54,475
Hurry.

1342
01:03:56,391 --> 01:03:57,463
<i>Cartwright here.</i>

1343
01:03:57,527 --> 01:03:58,585
Cartwright?

1344
01:03:58,919 --> 01:04:00,257
Wilson here.

1345
01:04:00,508 --> 01:04:01,514
Listen.

1346
01:04:02,080 --> 01:04:03,761
Laird's gone mad.

1347
01:04:03,786 --> 01:04:05,039
<i>What's that?</i>

1348
01:04:05,487 --> 01:04:06,921
No. Don't talk.
Listen.

1349
01:04:07,912 --> 01:04:09,553
He shot me.

1350
01:04:10,897 --> 01:04:13,915
Come...
quick.

1351
01:04:15,017 --> 01:04:16,501
For heaven's sake, come.

1352
01:04:17,646 --> 01:04:18,798
He's alone.

1353
01:04:21,375 --> 01:04:22,376
<i>Wilson!</i>

1354
01:04:22,452 --> 01:04:23,626
<i>Wilson!</i>

1355
01:04:24,928 --> 01:04:26,126
<i>Wilson...</i>

1356
01:04:26,405 --> 01:04:27,548
<i>Wilson!</i>

1357
01:04:28,149 --> 01:04:29,242
<i>Wilson!</i>

1358
01:04:33,195 --> 01:04:35,329
We have had your planet
under close observation

1359
01:04:35,354 --> 01:04:36,438
for many years.

1360
01:04:36,734 --> 01:04:37,899
Flying saucers?

1361
01:04:38,152 --> 01:04:40,548
That's what you have chosen
to call our spacecraft.

1362
01:04:40,688 --> 01:04:42,373
We've also been
monitoring your radio.

1363
01:04:42,398 --> 01:04:44,282
That's how I come
to speak passable English.

1364
01:04:44,462 --> 01:04:46,337
But, you...
you are like us.

1365
01:04:46,554 --> 01:04:48,610
Is that so very surprising,
Miss Forsyth?

1366
01:04:48,635 --> 01:04:50,100
There are many planets
with the same

1367
01:04:50,125 --> 01:04:51,805
physical conditions
as here on Earth.

1368
01:04:51,830 --> 01:04:53,289
And, on them, life has gone through

1369
01:04:53,314 --> 01:04:54,868
the same evolutionary processes.

1370
01:04:54,908 --> 01:04:56,523
Where is this Planet X?

1371
01:04:56,890 --> 01:04:59,224
If I were to tell you,
you would neither understand

1372
01:04:59,249 --> 01:05:00,274
nor believe me.

1373
01:05:00,426 --> 01:05:03,368
Time and space are still
the great mysteries to you.

1374
01:05:03,805 --> 01:05:05,805
Why have you come
to pay us this visit?

1375
01:05:06,468 --> 01:05:08,743
Because of your
experiments in magnetism.

1376
01:05:08,953 --> 01:05:10,827
You brought down one
of our spacecraft

1377
01:05:10,852 --> 01:05:12,493
on the night of your experiment.

1378
01:05:12,941 --> 01:05:14,640
Our craft use the planetary lines

1379
01:05:14,665 --> 01:05:16,985
of magnetic attraction
as their means of propulsion.

1380
01:05:17,107 --> 01:05:19,247
That's why we were so concerned
with your experiments.

1381
01:05:19,317 --> 01:05:20,571
Alarmed, I might say.

1382
01:05:20,721 --> 01:05:22,721
We had to act
in what you would call

1383
01:05:22,762 --> 01:05:24,431
enlightened self-interest.

1384
01:05:24,838 --> 01:05:26,805
Is that the only reason
that you came?

1385
01:05:26,830 --> 01:05:27,863
No.

1386
01:05:28,347 --> 01:05:31,008
We have never interfered
with your development before.

1387
01:05:31,190 --> 01:05:33,691
But, this time, your entire
planet was in danger.

1388
01:05:33,716 --> 01:05:35,985
It still is if you continue
with your experiments.

1389
01:05:36,226 --> 01:05:38,245
You mean we might reverse
the Earth's polarity,

1390
01:05:38,270 --> 01:05:39,751
tilt the Earth on its axis?

1391
01:05:39,924 --> 01:05:40,944
Yes, I do.

1392
01:05:41,272 --> 01:05:44,085
It has happened before, but
then the force was extraterrestrial.

1393
01:05:44,110 --> 01:05:46,716
I thought you said there was no
further danger from these insects.

1394
01:05:46,740 --> 01:05:47,782
That is correct.

1395
01:05:48,017 --> 01:05:50,050
We were able to calculate
the center of disturbance

1396
01:05:50,075 --> 01:05:51,719
and the points
of maximum intensity.

1397
01:05:51,744 --> 01:05:53,744
This, I assure you,
is the only place on land

1398
01:05:53,777 --> 01:05:55,821
to be affected
by cosmic ray bombardment.

1399
01:05:55,885 --> 01:05:56,962
On land?

1400
01:05:57,817 --> 01:05:59,720
There were some areas in the sea.

1401
01:05:59,844 --> 01:06:02,024
There, life will have been
spontaneously created,

1402
01:06:02,049 --> 01:06:03,049
microscopically,

1403
01:06:03,074 --> 01:06:05,108
just as it was
millions of years ago

1404
01:06:05,290 --> 01:06:07,540
before there was an ionosphere
to protect you.

1405
01:06:08,042 --> 01:06:10,142
You've had a very narrow
escape, Mr. Graham.

1406
01:06:12,164 --> 01:06:14,119
- Well?
- Message from Brigadier Cartwright, sir.

1407
01:06:14,144 --> 01:06:16,579
Will you and Mr. Graham come down
to Dr. Laird's house immediately?

1408
01:06:16,604 --> 01:06:18,555
- What's happened?
- It's Mr. Wilson, sir.

1409
01:06:18,733 --> 01:06:19,868
He's been shot.

1410
01:06:20,229 --> 01:06:21,724
Gerald shot?

1411
01:06:22,325 --> 01:06:24,133
- Is he...
- We're afraid he's dead.

1412
01:06:24,657 --> 01:06:26,009
Dr. Laird seems
to have gone mad,

1413
01:06:26,034 --> 01:06:28,623
and the Brigadier's worried he
may start his machines again, sir.

1414
01:06:28,775 --> 01:06:29,943
I was afraid of this.

1415
01:06:30,303 --> 01:06:32,469
- We've got to stop him.
- Let me come with you.

1416
01:06:50,115 --> 01:06:51,216
It's like I thought,

1417
01:06:51,684 --> 01:06:52,773
locked and bolted.

1418
01:06:52,798 --> 01:06:54,187
We could break it down, I suppose?

1419
01:06:54,212 --> 01:06:56,508
We might, but it'd be a tough job.
It'd take hours.

1420
01:06:56,533 --> 01:06:58,518
Oh, that will be enough
to set him off.

1421
01:07:07,188 --> 01:07:09,048
Look here, Smith.
Can you help us?

1422
01:07:09,073 --> 01:07:11,315
- Do you really want me to?
- Of course we do.

1423
01:07:13,678 --> 01:07:15,665
Smith, there's very
little time left.

1424
01:07:15,853 --> 01:07:18,071
If Laird switches
on that infernal machine...

1425
01:07:18,125 --> 01:07:20,617
well, I understand you know more
about these things than we do.

1426
01:07:20,642 --> 01:07:21,680
I do, sir.

1427
01:07:21,977 --> 01:07:23,774
We must stop him.
Can you help us?

1428
01:07:23,799 --> 01:07:25,337
Look. How about that...
that gun thing,

1429
01:07:25,362 --> 01:07:26,712
the one you used
to kill the spider with?

1430
01:07:26,737 --> 01:07:27,837
No.

1431
01:07:28,001 --> 01:07:30,860
I can help you, but the decision
for what I do must be yours.

1432
01:07:30,885 --> 01:07:31,930
Go on.

1433
01:07:32,304 --> 01:07:34,103
It is a question of one man's life

1434
01:07:34,128 --> 01:07:36,061
or perhaps the very
existence of the Earth.

1435
01:07:36,086 --> 01:07:37,657
That's not a difficult decision.

1436
01:07:37,880 --> 01:07:40,032
For us, it would be.
Life is more simple for you.

1437
01:07:41,043 --> 01:07:44,063
Your press has spoken
of our world as Planet X.

1438
01:07:44,969 --> 01:07:47,194
We too have the equivalent
of X in our language.

1439
01:07:47,219 --> 01:07:49,520
Our children learn in their schools
about the strange

1440
01:07:49,544 --> 01:07:51,274
world of Planet X.

1441
01:07:51,631 --> 01:07:52,829
You mean, uh...

1442
01:07:53,111 --> 01:07:54,126
Yes.

1443
01:07:54,302 --> 01:07:56,962
Yours is the strange
world, Mr. Graham.

1444
01:07:57,852 --> 01:07:59,626
Brigadier, if I were
to destroy this machine,

1445
01:07:59,651 --> 01:08:01,284
would you promise me
not to rebuild it?

1446
01:08:01,309 --> 01:08:02,675
I give you my word.

1447
01:08:02,700 --> 01:08:04,376
Without Laird,
I don't think we could.

1448
01:08:04,454 --> 01:08:06,387
- Right, Graham?
- Absolutely right.

1449
01:08:06,790 --> 01:08:08,495
Very well. I want you to take your
men away

1450
01:08:08,519 --> 01:08:09,610
from the house, well away.

1451
01:08:09,635 --> 01:08:10,790
What are you going to do?

1452
01:08:10,945 --> 01:08:13,258
Mr. Graham, Miss Dupont,
would you come with me, please?

1453
01:08:13,589 --> 01:08:16,073

1454
01:08:35,190 --> 01:08:36,621
Now we must wait.

1455
01:09:02,936 --> 01:09:04,011
There it is.

1456
01:10:12,834 --> 01:10:13,857
Goodbye.

1457
01:10:14,044 --> 01:10:15,302
Will you come back?

1458
01:10:15,715 --> 01:10:16,857
Who knows?

1459
01:10:44,334 --> 01:10:47,029
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1459
01:10:48,305 --> 01:11:48,343