"Steed!" "Steed!" "Morning, Mrs. Peel." "My portable dark room." "I'm working on my holiday snaps." "I'll fiinish this roll and take you to lunch." "I have to cancel." " I have another date." " Where?" " at the Bastille?" " No." "I'm going to see a house an uncle left me." " How upsetting!" " I never knew him." "Know you have to dash but I'd like some coffee." "Thank you." "Where is this place?" " 7 Pines, Pendlesham." " Oh, yes, Hampshire." " You know it?" " I've cycled there." "How do I get there?" "Route B31, if I remember right." "a nice, quiet, leafy run." " Generous of the old boy." " Yes, since I never met him." "I didn't know I had an uncle until my lawyers wrote me." "Uncle Jack." "Black Jack?" "Knavish uncle, twice removed." "Sorry about the date." "I'll call you." "Mrs. Peel!" "The castle keys." "Thanks." "Bye!" "Have a look at the cellar." "See if the old boy's laid down any wine." "Hello?" " Mr. Pennington..." " Yes." "My name is John Steed." "I'm a friend of a client of yours." "Mrs. Peel?" "I remember you." "What can I do for you?" "It's about Mrs. Peel's inheritance, her Uncle Jack's house." "I don't follow you." "a legacy, you say?" "I know nothing of it." "Who is Uncle Jack?" "He died and left a house to Mrs. Peel." "Jack?" "It's impossible." "But you wrote her a letter!" "It defiinitely stated..." "Mr. Steed, I've been the Peel family lawyer for years." "I assure you she has no Uncle Jack." "and I never wrote her any letter." "Pongo, Steed here." "I have a job for you:" "Mrs. Peel." "She's on her way to Pendlesham." "Yes, in Hampshire." "Pongo, listen." "She's got a key with her." "It's quite a strange key." "It seems to have... well... electronic properties." "What do you think you're doing?" "I might have killed you!" "at your speed, the stopping distance is 147 feet, with average reflexes." "I was positioned at 150 feet." " Mathematical!" " I'm very mathematical." "and stupid!" "and if I hadn't seen you?" "You'd be responsible for my death." "I'd like a lift." "You scare me to death and then you ask a favor!" " Where to?" " as far as you're going." "I was desperate for a lift." "I'll recompense you." "No need." "Get in." "Where should I drop you?" "as far as you're going, Mrs. Peel." "Mrs. Emma Peel." "I read your name on this." "My advantage." "Frederick Withers." "Yes, where you're going suits me." "Mr. Withers, this is as far as I go." "Of course." "Hello?" "Hello?" "Who is it?" "Hello, who's there?" "Hello?" "Pongo?" "No, Steed." "Pongo hasn't reported back yet." "I can send Colonel Robertson and..." "No." "I'm going to check myself." "Who is it?" "Who's there?" "I'm being watched." "Every move I make, someone is watching." "No, reason it out." "Work it out." "Rooms that move..." "Whole areas that disappear..." "Rollers under the floor..." "Some kind of motor..." "What triggers it?" "The door." "One opens the door... and... an electronic plunger comes out, is activated." "Then as the door swings shut..." "Which of us is moving?" "Me or the hall?" "Me." "If I lift my fiinger..." "This is where it happens." "Let's see who's making it happen." "Welcome, Mrs. Peel." "I hope you fiind this exhibit amusing." "I contrived it especially for you." "I've waited so long for your visit." "You expected me?" "You're highly intelligent." "I knew you'd fiind your way sooner or later." "Show yourself!" "Where are you?" "I'm close by." "Who are you?" "What do you want?" "a magical intrigue." "You're wondering why." "You'll fiind the answer in section 4 of the exhibit." "Section 4." "Good evening." "I'm here at Knight Industries where controversy rages around the young Emma Knight who sacked an automation expert and sparked off..." "She's here!" "Miss Knight!" "Your motive for this dismissal?" " I don't agree with his methods." " Explain." "Total automation." "Replace man with machine." "Subjugate him to it." "Equate man with machine." "I couldn't agree to that." "It's impossible." "That's why I dismissed Pr." "Keller." "Go to section 5." "The fiinal section." "Keller!" "I've waited patiently and here you are, with me." "Equate man to machine." "You thought it impossible." "You laughed at my theories." "You are wrong." "The machine is not man's equal, but his superior." "I'll prove it." "That's why I lured you here." "Simple." "a forged letter from your lawyers." "There will be no violence." "I built this house for you." "It will cherish you, feed you." "You'll be quite safe ." "Safe from physical harm." "The experiment will be long and trying, but I'll prove that the machine is superior to man or woman." "all right, Pr." "Keller..." "Step out slowly." "Hands high." "Professor?" "Get up!" ""This is the horse that kicked the cow" ""that chased the dog that bit the cat" ""that killed the rat" ""that lived in the house that Jack built."" ""This is the bull that tossed the horse" ""that kicked the cow that chased..." ""the dog..." ""that bit the cat that killed the rat" ""that lived in the house that Jack built."" ""..." "Jack built..."" " Who are you?" " "...that chassed the dog..."" "Your name?" "Who are you?" "Bad man." "Bad, bad, bad man." "Ran away." " How did you get here?" " Ran away." "Long time ago." "Very long time ago." "Want to leave." "Help me." "Up you go." ""This is the dog that tossed the horse" ""that killed the cat that chased the cow" ""that bit the rat that lived in the house that Jack built."" "Hands high!" "Give that to me." "You want to get away, don't you?" "I'll help you." "all right, stay here then." "You've found me." "I've been dead quite some time." "Only the house is alive." "My doctors told me I had one year to live." "I used that year effiiciently." "This house is an indestructible machine." "Powered by solar energy." "It will last 1 000 years." "Or forever." "a monument to my ingenuity and the means of your destruction." "a machines does not reason and cannot lose its reason." "That is its superiority." "Its mind has no breaking point, but your mind..." "When the experiment is over, the machine will continue to function, but you... will be quite quite mad!" "The workings of the machine are impregnable." "Still, the test will be fair." "The machine is tuned to your voice and will answer any questions through an automated larynx." "The responses are delayed, as the machine is so complex." "This is the end of my message." "In a few days, I will die, but... my machine will live on." "Sooner or later, you will hear me." "Good bye, dear lady." "all right." "The goal here is to drive me insane." "How will you know when you've succeeded?" "Because you will kill yourself." "How?" "You have key." "Key unlocks door at end of machine." "and then?" "Suicide box." "Once inside, gas released." "It is painless." "Painless." "You've made a mistake." "You've told me what to expect." "I'll know it's a trick." "I can reason it out." "You've made a mistake." "You've told me what to expect." "I'll know it's a trick." "I can reason it out." "The answer is here." "Somewhere." "How do I get in?" "The brain's down there." "Somewhere down there." "If only I could..." "Useless." "anyway, it's empty." "I should make a bomb." "With what?" "If I fiind..." "There is!" "Yes, the key!" "Will it fiit?" "Yes, it does." "I need some wadding and gunpowder." "Gunshot!" "Shotgun!" "Do you have any shells left?" "Shotgun shells!" "Where's your armor?" "at the laundry." "Never mind." "We'll ride off on my old horse."