"Morning." "Morning." " Morning." " Morning." " Morning, Sir." " Morning." " Morning." " Good morning." "Morning, Colonel." "All quiet on the Western Front?" " I'll let you know." " Good." "Yes, hello!" " That was security on the line." " And?" "Enquiries on UFO report YP195 may be reopened now." " And?" " Will you handle it yourself?" "Well, since I have no idea what UFO report YP195 is all about," "I can't answer the question." "The last report was numbered 7,000, so you have the advantage on me." "This was 10 years ago." "The main witness was hit by a car and has been in a coma ever since." "That is, until this morning." " How is she?" " I don't know." "The hospital just said that she was conscious." "Dr Jackson's on his way there now." "Colonel Johns was on that case." "Would you like me to ask him to follow it through?" "No." "I'll handle it." "Get me Colonel Foster." "Thank you." "Commander." "Dr Jackson, thanks for getting here so quickly." " Has she remembered anything yet?" " She hasn't spoken yet." "Shall I lead the way?" " How's our security?" " Adequate." "Doctor, medically speaking, is it safe for me to question her so soon?" "Yes." "It can only help." "She's been in limbo for the last ten years." "We must get her mind active as quickly as possible." "It's very difficult in these cases." "She could have total recall or remember only fragments." "You see, as far as she's concerned, the accident happened yesterday" " and this is your best opportunity." " I see." "OK." "Thank you." "Miss Fraser." "Miss Fraser." "Can you hear me?" "There's a gentleman here to ask you a few questions." " How is she?" " Much calmer now." "She obviously remembers me as the man who was driving the car that knocked her down." "Yes, but I explained that you were in no way responsible." " Does she accept that?" " In the main." "But it's up to you to gain her confidence." "Shouldn't we wait a few days, Doctor?" "Well, she needs..." "shock therapy." "As I said, you can only help her." "Have you told her she's been in a coma for the past 10 years?" "No, no." "But when she finds out, she will need a friend." "Her parents are both now dead." " She doesn't know that either?" " No." "She specifically asked us not to contact them." " Do you know why?" " No, but it's really up to you." "You're her only link with the past." "'May I sit down?" "'" "I'm sorry if I frightened you just now." "Perhaps it will help if I explain things to you." "My name is Ed Straker." "I work for an organisation whose function it is to investigate all reports concerning unidentified flying objects." " You saw one?" " Yes." "Would you like to tell me about it?" "Take your time." "Yesterday..." " Where did you see it?" " The farmhouse." "I was on the roof of the farmhouse." "Do you remember where this farmhouse was... is," " Miss Fraser?" " No, I don't know." "How did you come to be there?" " We needed somewhere to sleep." " We?" "Tim." " Who is Tim?" " I didn't know him very well." "We met at Piccadilly Circus." "He's dead!" " How did he die?" " He fell off the roof." " Do you live in London?" " No." " Why were you there?" " I ran away from home." " Why?" " To be by myself." " Where is that farm?" " I don't know." " What is your name?" " Catherine Fraser." "Do you feel like telling me about it?" "I'd run away from home because I was being stifled by my parents." "I love them very much, but I just wanted to be by myself for a while." "'I was on the point of returning home.'" "'There was nowhere to go.'" "'I was just wandering through the crowd.'" "'Then I saw Tim.'" "'It was only yesterday." "There must be something we can do.'" "'If only we hadn't met, he might...'" "'We chatted for a while and then we were asked to move on. '" "Come on, love." "What I meant was, why did you give up when you only had 2 years to go?" "2 years, 2 weeks..." "Didn't seem to make much difference." "I just didn't see the point any more." "You could have had your own practice instead of just..." "wasting your time." "Look, when I was at the hospital," "I assisted on a 15-hour operation on a little kid and he lived." "That same night on television, I saw newsreel of men killing each other." "Suddenly I lost the urge to become a doctor." " Tim, look..." " Look." "Let's drop it, OK?" " I mean, just enjoy the day." " OK." "Sorry." " None of my business, anyway." " Hey, look!" "So, I left home." "Well, the old man kicked me out, actually." "But I wanted to prove to him that I wasn't just a layabout and do something I believed in." " That's good." "Did you?" " Yeah." "I went on a peace march." "Only got as far as Manchester." "Started raining." "Do you like the country?" " The country?" " Yeah." "Fields and trees." " Yes, I suppose so." " Come on, then." "'He said he wanted to leave." "Get out into the countryside.'" "'He knew a place." "A farmhouse.'" "'If we hadn't managed to get a lift, he'd still...'" "'I'm sorry.'" "'As we walked to the farm, we were happy.'" "'How could I have possibly known what was going to happen?" "'" "What's the matter?" "I don't know." "I don't mind the daylight," "I just can't take the night." "I've got some aspirin." "Might help you to sleep." "Aspirin?" "You can't spend the whole night walking around, can you?" "You go to sleep." "I'll be all right." "OK?" " What are they?" " Just something to..." " make me relax." " I don't believe you." " They're perfectly harmless." " What do they do?" "Here." "Try a couple." "Look." "It's all right." "They're not addictive." "Nothing." "'All those colours!" "Everything's changed!" "'It's beautiful!" "Beautiful!" "'" "'Look at those colours!" "'" "'It feels like I'm floating!" "'" "'Come on!" "'" "'Where are we going?" "'" "'Look!" "For you!" "For you!" "'There!" "'Come on, Tim.'" "'Where are we?" "'" "'Hello!" "Hello!" "'" "'Even when we saw the spacemen, we'd no idea, 'no sense of the danger we were in.'" "'What were they doing?" "'" "'They were digging a sort of hole in the floor, 'burying something." " 'And there was this cylinder.' - 'Cylinder?" "'" "'Yes." "Like a mechanism." "'Tim picked it up and then he threw it to me.'" "'And this device belonged to the aliens?" "'" "'Yes, they wanted it back." "They chased us." "'But to Tim and I it was just a fantastic game." "'We weren't afraid of anything." "Tim even encouraged them to join in.'" "'Come on!" "'" "'Come on, Tim!" "'" "'Come on." "Hurry!" "'" "'You can't catch me." "You can't catch me!" "'" "'They can't." "They can't, Tim!" "'" "Come on!" "Come on!" "Follow!" "Come on!" "Come on!" "Come on!" "And then I lost consciousness." "What was in the hole that they had dug?" " I don't know." " Try and describe it to me." "Well it was a sort of container, quite big." "You could see through it." "I had sections, colours." "And what did you do with the piece that you took?" "I had it when I left the farmhouse but I don't know what I did with it." " 'Please, try." "It's important.' - 'I don't know.'" "Sorry to have to ask you all these questions." "You must be feeling..." "No." "It's all right." "Now, think very carefully before you answer this, Catherine." "Where is that farm?" "All I can tell you is that we walked for miles when the truck driver dropped us." "I'm sorry, I just have no idea." "That's all right." "Don't worry about it." "Now tell me." "What happened after you came to?" "'I must have been unconscious for a long time." "'When I woke up I was cold and frightened." "'It was morning.'" "'It all seemed like a horrible nightmare.'" "I'm sorry." "I was so frightened." "I can barely remember what he looked like." "Just his name." "Tim." "Well, I think that's enough for today." " May I come back tomorrow?" " Yes, of course." "Try not to worry, Catherine." "You're in safe hands here." "Oh, and if there's anything you need, just ask Dr Jackson." "Well, this dead case has come back to life with a vengeance." "In a derelict farmhouse, the aliens have planted a bomb." " 10 years ago." " The girl doesn't remember where?" " Right." " Why hasn't the bomb exploded?" "It seems the girl took away one of its vital parts." "And lost it." "We have to find that bomb." "Paul, I want you to search every farm that existed between here and here." "That'll take weeks." "The area's built-up now." "I know." "The only alternative is that the girl remembers what she did with the part of the bomb she took away." "That doesn't seem likely." "Sorry." "Would you be kind enough to ask the doctor if he could come in here for a moment?" " I'm sorry, I had to tell her." " You should have left it to me." "Last night she asked for her parents." "I had no choice." "The poor kid." "How did she take it?" "Pretty hard, pretty hard." "But she asked for you." "'I don't know.'" "'You're the only person I know in the world.'" "Do you have any relatives apart from...?" "No." "My parents weren't young and I was an only child." " Friends?" "School friends?" " None." "Catherine, when all this is over..." "You're very kind." "Thank you." "The sooner it is over..." " Now, do you feel up to it?" " I'm all right." "Well, when the UFO left," "I hid for a long time." "I didn't know what to do." "'Then I ran away from the farmhouse.'" "'I was so confused." "I just had to get away.'" "'The next thing I remember is coming out of a field onto a road.'" "'Can you remember seeing a signpost?" "'" "'No, I don't think so." "Oh - there was an orchard.'" "'Then I stopped a truck and got a lift.'" "'The driver was chatting about something, but I wasn't really listening.'" "'I was still confused and frightened.'" "'Then he pulled the truck off the road.'" "She just ran out in front of me." "There was nothing I could do." "Flying saucer... took him." "And that's the last thing I remember." "Do you think you still had that piece of mechanism then?" "I feel almost sure..." "I remember..." " No, I'm sorry." " That's all right." "I'll take you back." "I don't want to get into trouble with your doctor." " When are you coming again?" " Tomorrow." "That's the search in area 18 completed." "Even with a full crew, it'll still take the best part of 3 months." "Then you'll have to split your forces, Paul." "Catherine thinks she had her part of the bomb when she left the farmhouse." "Aren't we making a mountain out of a molehill?" "It was 10 years ago!" "Do you remember Turkey in 1974?" "80,000 people killed." "An entire city destroyed?" " Yes, but that was an earthquake." " Was it?" "A UFO was reported over the area a few hours before the quake struck." "Our farmhouse incident occurred 3 days later." "Put me through to search headquarters." "Tim." " I thought you were dead." " Did you?" "I'm sorry I shocked you." "I just don't..." " It was all a dream." "A bad trip." " You mean I imagined...?" "Everything." "Oh, Tim." "I'm so glad to see you." " I'm so glad you remembered me." " You're real." "Some of it was real." "The farmhouse." "The mechanism." "I had that..." " Yes, what about the mechanism?" " Ed Straker wants it." "Oh, I don't know." "I'm so confused." "Was that part of the dream?" " Where is it?" " What?" "The mechanism." "What did you do with it?" "You can tell me, Catherine." "I've tried." "I can't remember." "Tim, it wasn't a dream." " You were dead." "They dragged you..." " Shut up." "When they took me on board, I was resuscitated." "I have a task to complete." "Where is that mechanism?" "Where is that missing piece?" "Tim!" "The injection... will make you tell me." "You will tell me." "Commander, you'd better come to the hospital immediately." "I'm on my way!" "I have to go to the hospital." "I'll call you from there." "When the injection worked," "I remembered every detail after I left the farm." "'I came to a hump-backed bridge over a canal." "'I still had the mechanism with me." " 'I threw it over the bridge.' - 'Into the water?" "'" "'No." "There was a houseboat." "It landed in the houseboat.'" "'And you told Tim all this?" "'" "'Yes." "I could barely remember his name.'" "'Tim.'" " How long ago did he leave?" " About an hour." "Get me security." "When I arrived, the owner had been dead for only a few minutes." "The boy must have found the mechanism or it would have been there." "God help us." "Where are the maps?" " In the car." " Better get them." "Catherine..." "Catherine, I'm sorry, but we must try again." "This is where the accident happened." "You ran into the road from here." "Can you retrace your steps back to the farmhouse from that point?" " How long did you walk?" " Two, three, maybe five hours." "I don't know." "This is no good." "We're still gonna be here when that bomb blows up and Britain splits in half!" "It worked before." "It's our only chance." "What is this drug, Doctor?" "I don't know." "It wasn't anything I've seen before." " Would another injection harm her?" " The last one doubled her pulse rate." "It's no way near back to normal." "I don't know what would happen." " But you must use it." " I won't take the responsibility." "Paul, it could kill her." "Look, thousands of people may die if we don't try!" "Use it!" "Wait!" " Catherine, I want to explain..." " There's no need." "And then I turned left and ran for about four or five hundred yards, until I came to some fields." "I cut across them." "There was a water tower in the second one." "Next I came to a public house called the King's Arms." "The farmhouse was only about less than a mile from the main road on the right." " It's there." "The farm's still there." " How is she, Doctor?" "All right, Paul." "Let's get to that farmhouse." "Against the wall!" "Wait, Paul!" "God in heaven!" "4 liquids, held apart by separate compartments." "The outer casing of the last piece is of a different substance, the detonator that would fracture the walls between the chemicals." "They mix and... goodbye, England." "How is the detonator activated?" "I have no idea." "I can only suggest drilling through the outer casing" " to extract one of the liquids." " Will that work?" "If it doesn't, there won't be anybody around to say, "I told you so"." "Rig the drill and we'll need that green box." "Good." "Right." "Look at that." "That drill will go through beryllium steel and not a bloody scratch." "There's only one thing for it." "I'll have to remove it." " To where?" " The middle of the Atlantic." "The tidal wave will destroy the coast of every country around." "I am aware of that." "There'll have to be a mass evacuation." "Space." "We'll dump it in space." "Paul, get on to Colonel Branston." "Get a radio-controlled space dumper down here immediately." "All right, gentlemen, let's start digging." "Careful." "Commander, it's beginning to react." "There we are, Commander." "I don't think you'll need us any more, so we'll leave you to it." " Thank you, Major." " All right." "All in a day's work." "Good luck." "Why don't you go back with them?" "I can take care of this." "Thank you, Paul." "I think I'll stay here and see this through." "But you go back and look after Catherine." "Tell her..." "Tell her I'll be back as soon as I can." "Of course." "She..." "Space dumper 24,000 miles from earth." "Detonation time minus 10 seconds." "9, 8, 7, 6," "5, 4, 3, 2," "1, 0." " Commander..." " What's wrong?" "Is it Catherine?" "Commander!" "Commander." "My God!" " Is that...?" " Yes." "It's Catherine Fraser." "But it can't be." "That drug...?" "The boy's extra years had to come from somewhere." "We can only assume they took them from Catherine when she was unconscious on the farm." "But how?" "How is it possible?" "I don't know and I'm glad I don't know." "He lived 10 years." "She's..." "They didn't know how long it would take the boy to complete his task." "He could have lived on borrowed time for another 50 years." " When did it happen?" " About 6 hours ago." "About the same time the boy died." " Ed, if there's anything I can..." " No, no."