"I was born under the sign of Cancer, the crab, the water sign." "For this reason my greatest fear was to die by fire." "But how to explain to a moth that he mustn't come near the flame." "The moth... was me." "Like a moth to a flame" "I get burned" "Just the same" "I'm coming to you I'm coming for" "Your love" "My future is my past..." "My blood!" "Nice death, isn't it?" "Since we can now send a man into the future, it's no longer needed to keep this project secret." "You know, Sylvana, as soon as we can send a man into the past, we'll be able then, with no problem at all, to realize our ancestral dream:" "Immortality." "We won't be able to control him." "Can we trust him?" "Yes, undoubtedly." "He's not only a great actor, he's also an exceptional human being." "You lived with him for three years." "What happened then?" "He became a huge star, right?" "In fact he was already famous way before his marriage." "His wife died three years ago." "Accident or suicide, nobody knows." "Terence lives alone in his castle near Bordeaux." "He hasn't make another movie since the death of his wife." "In fact, we talk about him without really knowing." "Maybe he's not alone anymore." "What kind of life is he living nowadays, without Viviane?" "Maybe he has dragged someone else into his usual atmosphere of secrets and wandering." "We need him." "You're the only one who can approach him." "We're aware that this experiment could mean death for him, but we need Terence." "I have reasons to believe that although he's ready to relive, he's not paying any particular attention to life." "Starting with this interview I felt involved in a very odd story, the ending of which would be tragic." "Was it really curiosity or desire that motivated me to see Terence again?" "So that, a short time later," "I ended up in an unknown house, owned by Terence whom I once loved before we separated." "Strange story..." "I was curious to know the reason for her visit, my old flame." "Surely not that insatiable curiosity, the public curiosity that I had managed to avoid these last years." "She knew me too well." "She taught me everything." "At least about women." "Was it about my late wife?" "Could she be manipulated by beings with mindsets more Machiavellian than hers?" "I decided to wait and observe." "I am very happy to see you again after all these years." "But it seems unreal because" "I could never imagine you living in this kind of place." "You've changed a lot." "I mean... the man I've known, the man you used to be." "The drug addict homosexual." "Among other things." "What are you doing these days?" "I've made a few movies." "And..." "We visited this house with Viviane after we married." "She loved it so we bought it and when... when she died... well, I..." "I decided to stay here." "Because I..." "I feel she's still with me here." "Tell me, what kind of love brought you two together?" "Well, Viviane... was tender and fragile." "Like a child." "Yes, a child..." "A beautiful child.." "And I felt guilty... when she... when she died." "As if I was the only one responsible." "I made a film." "I was doing a picture and Viviane was alone at the castle." "She took some sleeping pills." "After that, I don't know." "I was in no state to react, to face reality." "I felt the urge to be alone, to find myself again." "Hello Terence." " Oh, hi." "How are you?" " OK." "Fine if I watch TV?" " Yes, of course." "See you later." "Who's that?" " What, oh her?" "Yes, it's... the charming Gabriella." "She comes to watch TV." "So, are you satisfied to see me on top form?" "I am really very happy." "I came for several reasons." "I suppose you've already guessed." " Come on, spill the beans!" "First, I wanted to see you again because you are an important part of my life." "Here's the second reason:" "Have you ever heard about... the Temporal Research Institute?" "Not at all." "Well, I met the research team of that Institute." "They've been very convincing and I want to convince you in my turn." "They've been working on a project for many years." "It's an extraordinary project:" "a journey in time." "But, for this journey in time..." "For this, they need a temporal traveler." "The Temporal Research Institute." "It made me smile." "A time travel bargain!" "It appealed to me, I must be frank." "But why me, an old rock star who had ridden the white horse of death and fell from it with no strength left?" "Even now, I don't understand what led me to go back to the city with her." "Perhaps the need for applause, or was I just tired of going round in circles?" "Since you're asking me to meet them..." "I'll see them." "At the same time, for you it means a return to reality." "Mr Terence Stamp is here." " Show him in." "You'll have to convince him." " Yes, I will." "Terence." "Frederic." "We'll use emotional energy as fuel for your time travel." "We know how to capture that energy." "And how to store it." "That energy is provided by human emotion, right?" " That's it." "Where do I step in?" "If we want to send a man into the future, we need a huge quantity of that energy." "A worldwide TV live show where a man would be ready to risk his life." "Such a show would allow us to store that huge quantity of energy." "If it's just about risking his life, any modern gladiator could...." "No." "People would remain completely indifferent to the fate of a simple stuntman." "But if the viewers could identify themselves with the fear of a man facing death, we'd be able to store the maximum energy." "That's it." "An actor could convey emotion." " Exactly." "Fear of death is a good pretext but..." " Listen." "That energy can only be used by the man who prompted it." "To be more specific, you will receive a violent emotional shock that will make you reveal the future like an oracle." "Or the past." "It's a possibility." "But if your return from the future is not a problem for us, we can't guarantee the same if we send you into the past." "To resume, your set-up is a live show on TV, the actor will stand in the middle of a large beach and the danger will be the rising sea." "Ah, here's our famous metaphysician botanist!" "Our General is feeding his hobby in this garden." "Japanese arboriculture." "He's a veritable master of this art." "It's a method which uses prayer to increase growth." "The secret lies in the vibrations of the voice." "You see, when we film that experience, our team will be so far away that your life will be in real danger." "We'll play the game without the slightest concession." "You'll be alone." "And the danger confronting you will be real." "Aren't you afraid of losing that man?" "No." "Our main worry is that the man selected for that experiment may not really sense fear." "We create an event." "We hope to have half the worldwide population as an audience for that event." "And we hope that our audience, take care of that rock, will be strongly affected." "That's where you step in." "To convey your terrible dread to this huge audience." "It's a nice script, huh?" "I guess so." "When we have captured all that energy, we'll be able to send you into the future." "And keep you there too." "Whilst the energy lasts." "When it's spent, you'll be automatically recalled to the present." "How long into the future?" " It depends." "Your concept of time is probably different than ours." "Frank, could you explain to him?" "You see, when you travel in space, going fast can be a misleading impression." "Of course you'll travel at the speed of light, but... what will seem for you a very short time in space will be infinitely longer for us." "As we'll stay stuck on Earth." " In other words, one hour for you can mean two days for us." "I see." "What positive result do you expect from all this?" "On a financial matter, we want to put up the biggest media operation in its entire history." "You can imagine what that means." " Other motives than marketing strategies?" "It's the kind of dream which we're all fascinated by." "To rule the world." "We all want to be Gods." "Yes, I understand." "It's interesting." "Let's have a walk." " Listen." "You'll have to be very focused on the time of your departure for the future because it will also be the time of your return." "Under no circumstances are you allowed to forget this fact." "If you focus on another tragic moment of your life in your memory, you'll die there." "You're offering me the opportunity of an exciting adventure!" "Camera" " Check." " Delay transmission interval three seconds." "Energy conversion unit." " Check." " Energy accumulator control sphere." "The copter has just dropped off Terence in the middle of the sea, 10 km from the coast." "The sea is rising very quickly today." "Remote control panel..." "I played them the egomaniac actor routine and they bought it." "It restored my confidence." "When I was certain that they would need me after the first phase, for their time travel, I told myself, there's no real danger." "They can't kill me live on TV." "I'll make a few faces, I'll take the money and go home." "I was wrong." "The other screen broadcasts with a slight delay, in case something happens and we have to stop the show." "What, for instance?" " Well, there's a real danger." ""Ready to go on air in long distance Mondio-Vision."" "Dear audience, good morning." "We are gathered here for Phase 1, in the most audacious and exciting experiment in human history:" "Time travel." "Terence Stamp has just been dropped in the middle of Mont St. Michel's bay, 10 kilometers from the coast and with no possibility of being rescued." "He's going to risk his life in front of thousands of viewers." "Alone." "surrounded by quicksands, he'll have to defend his life against the rising tide and icy currents." "The aim of Phase 1 is simple:" "To provoke fear in you, dear viewers, in a quantity sufficient to produce and gather emotional energy." "That energy will be captured live and if the experiment succeeds it will serve as fuel for travel into the future," "Phase 2 of our experiment." "In Phase 1, Terence Stamp's survival is imperative since it's him who generates in you, dear viewers, the emotional energy for which he's the only one able to make good use during Phase 2." "Those waters are very strange" "Very strange..." "Is the energy accumulator functioning?" "Quivering, strange and smooth..." "Very subtle..." "Very mysterious..." "Very cunning..." "Will the tide come from behind him?" "Not only." "It's rising from all sides." "How tempting that little isle, yet inaccessible because of the tide and the quicksands!" "Checking on audio signal levels." "How's the quality?" " 45 dbs." "How about the receptor's noise factor?" " Minus 318." "You slide towards me on the wet sand, liquid, effervescent, self-assuredly..." "We look alike, you know." "I'm like a bubble." "And you too." "You want me back." "He doesn't seem to enjoy himself!" "The accumulator levels show now the arrival of an intense emotional charge." "Leak that info." "It will be useful to intensify the suspense of the show." "Accept the Iranian offer." "The ocean is closing its trap." "Escaping has become impossible." "The sea is moving forward on all sides." "In a few moments, icy currents will invade Terence's last refuge." "We must bring him back!" "Why?" "He seems to enjoy the situation." "He's panic-stricken." "He's trying to escape the currents to avoid water's deadly trap." "But I have the impression that the currents are too strong and too cold for him." "Call the rescue team now!" "Decoy show ready to be transmitted" " Thanks." "What does it mean?" "We have developed a thought transmission capsule that Terence has swallowed." "What you see on that screen is the result of the mental pictures he's sending us." "Check energy accumulator input." "They're produced by his imagination." "I don't want to die here." "I don't want to die here." "It's coming for me." "It's coming for me." "My dreams have dragged me here." "There's no way out." "It's coming for me." "For me..." "He's really living it." " Yep, it's working great." "What a terrifying struggle!" "How long will he last?" "The situation is desperate." "He's carried by the currents!" "That's his imagination again." "No, it's real!" "Cut!" "Cut!" "The broadcast has been interrupted." "Stay tuned." "The show will resume soon." "We're off the air, time for us to learn from Control Center what's going on." "From Control Center." "Recovery is negative." "They saved me." "They brought me to this place." "What is this woman saying to her children?" "Strange... strange words..." "It's difficult..." "It's difficult for me to be here listening to these words." "It's so painful." "It's so painful for me to listen to these words." "Clouds." " Clouds." "Water." " Water." "Fire." " Fire." "Far away..." "The wind." "Noise of the wind and of the sea." "Hello?" "So he's alive." "Yes, I see." "By a fisherman." "It's unbelievable!" "Glad to see you again." " Yeah, me too." "You played your part to perfection." "Everything worked out just as planned." "We have all we need." " Perfect." "Very well." "We were able to store so much energy!" "We're ready for Phase 2 now." "The great departure is for tomorrow." "I don't want to brag but the Phase 1 results have exceeded all our expectations." "Viewers have responded positively." "It's unbelievable." "Look, we even got a suicide." "Wrap me in mourning for being so forgetful, for what I lost." "I was certain to find you here." "Why did you run away?" "Why try to escape?" "What are you afraid of?" "Why run away from me?" " What do you want?" "I want you back." "Why did I drag him into this nightmare?" "I knew how fragile he was." "Gabriella's unexpected suicide has really upset him." "It was so like Viviane's death." "I saw him but he ran away." "I think he took off on a motorcycle in the direction of Bordeaux." "Control Center calling Unit 33." "Act carefully." "He might be dangerous." "Bring him in alive." "Control Center speaking." "The fugitive shook off Unit 33." "Start general research procedure." "The death of the young girl had upset me." "My relationships with young people have always ended tragically." "Two similar suicides, like a recurrent nightmare." "To remember Viviane's death made me feel guilty again." "I felt lost like the first night without her." "Do you have a room?" "The motorcycle chase calmed me down a little." "I needed time to snap out of it." "I wasn't superstitious." "I could see the trap." "I was afraid." "Look!" "It nothing." "It's nothing." "But..." " It's nothing." "It's awful." " I know, they're dead." "Hello, Terence." "Listen." "Hello." "Control Center speaking." "Interception attempt by Mental Unit has failed." "He's now on a dangerous glacier." "I refuse!" "I refuse..." "My rescuer's coming..." "He's a Seraphim..." "I don't want to lose my eyesight!" "Alpha 5 to Control Center." "Birdman is on the scene." "Recovery is on." "Alpha 5 to Control Center." "Birdman is on the scene." "Recovery is on." "Alpha 5 to Control Center." "Birdman is on the scene." "Recovery is on." "Look at the clouds." "Look at the clouds." "When the sun burned my eyes I knew it meant my end." "I got them on the run for a while but now I was finished for sure." "They were playing with me." "I remember thinking to myself:" "If I recover my eyesight, I'll do their damn travel." "Good morning." "We're in Mondo-Vision to live together Phase 2 of our travel in time." "Today's event is the final act of an unparalleled experience." "Man's attempt to break down the limits of time." "A trip to the future accomplished by one man transported in time by emotional energy." "Many questions still remain." "Can the traveler absorb the huge quantity of emotional energy stored in the Time Dome?" "What confronts him, once in the future?" "And there's the delicate problem of his return from the future." "Therein lies the main danger, the unknown." "When the return procedure is activated," "Terence Stamp will be taken back to the time of his departure." "To make it work, his mind will have to focus on the exact time of this departure." "If he thinks about the past at any given moment, it means certain death." "Am I sending him to his death?" "Am I sending you to your death?" "Do you know that one wrong move means death?" "If you think about the past for one second, if you let yourself go for one second, you'll die." "Do you know that I still love you?" "We have destroyed the world." "We have finally succeeded in destroying it." "But I was alive and free." "And alone." "I didn't want to be scared by this loneliness." "I had to keep my mind calm, empty and receptive, to see only the beauty." "Only the present mattered for me." "No more past and future." "Neither purpose nor prospects." "It was so simple that it had me laughing." "But I hadn't foreseen the insidious and permanent activity of my mind." "I had underestimated it." "And slowly I was overwhelmed by my memory and my past." "If I ever get back my eyesight" "I'll fall quiet" "I'm thinking now about Viviane..." "I'm afraid..." "And I doubt..." "It's scary..." "Why?" "Why return?" "Even if I come back... you won't be there." "There with me." "But if I stay here," "I'll stay alone." "All alone." "It's my thoughts, Viviane, my thoughts are my enemies." "Remembering you is a torture." "How to return?" "How to return near you?" "Or the past." " It's a possibility." "But your return from the future is not a problem for us, while we can't guarantee the same if we send you into the past." "We can't guarantee the same if we send you into the past." "If you think about the past for one second, if you let yourself go for one second, you'll die." "I'm coming back to you." "translation: aloysius70 timings+editing: corvusalbus"