"'Successfully completed stage one of European geographical construction." "'Within a year, Charles Traynor had betrayed his trust." "'Evidence was produced to show he had held up progress 'on the diversion of northern British rivers." "'The Master Plan required completion here by May 1985." "'By June, Traynor was still insisting...'" "Who is it?" "Right, now that you're back, we'll get down to business." "We'll have some explanations." " Commander Traynor!" " Easy." "The jungle's full of eyes and ears." "We don't want to attract attention." " l won't do anything." "You're hurting." " Give me your word." "Promise!" "(Gasps)" "Cos I'm an old man now, you know, and I can't keep up with the youngsters the way I once could." "Now, sit down." "There are some things I need to know." "What are you doing here?" "Why didn't you go back through the time barrier?" " Why should we?" " l saw Simon before." "Didn't he tell you?" "No." "He never said anything about that." " ln fact, all he said about you was..." " Yes?" "I'm not sure." "You couldn't be talked about or something." "Oh." "Then he wouldn't break his word to me." "Not even as far as you were concerned." "Good boy." "Good boy." "Well..." "Perhaps I shouldn't have been quite so violent with you, Liz." "Cos I need my neck for a while yet." "But it's so difficult for me to know friend from enemy any more." "What are you doing in this jungle?" "Why are you?" "That wasn't the question." "It's a strange place for you and Simon to be, isn't it?" "If you wanted to know something about the life of 1990, you'd have been better off in the conurbations." " We went up today to see..." " Yes." "Yes." "To see, I think, Simon's future self." "Tell me, what does Simon think of his future self?" " l don't know." " You don't know?" "He's still up there, a bit mixed up about it all." "And you?" "You like 2957?" " Like him?" " As what Simon will be one day." "No." "Oh, I mean..." "Oh, golly, can he really be like that?" " Such a coward." " Hm?" "Honestly, Commander, it was shameful." "He says he likes her, says he respects her, but he won't lift a finger to help her." "Oh, no, not him." "That would be going too far." "Who, Liz?" "Who does Simon... I mean 2957, like and respect, but won't lift a finger to help?" "What do you want here?" "Ah." "Something stands between us, you mean." "The great issue of the times perhaps." "The struggle between light and darkness." "And each of us must choose his side." "Let me tell you a story, Liz." "Many years ago, I made a very serious mistake but I see now that it was a mistake on the side of the light." "I was responsible for something called the Master Plan." " Geographical reconstruction." " Yes, I know about that." "I refused to divert some rivers up north because I could see quite clearly, until adequate precautions were taken, this move would only result in terrible flooding." "Distressed areas." "Darkness." "I couldn't face that." "So I made my own arrangements." "I tampered with the Master Plan." "But that can be very serious from a social point of view." " lt can make a man into a..." " A misfit?" "If you like." "Commander Traynor, I'm sorry, but I took it for granted you'd be a Technocrat." " Why?" " Well, just because it was you." " l mean, in the past..." " The past!" "The past is a long time ago. lt's been a couple of light years since the past." "I've seen the error of my ways, Liz." "The heat doesn't stop rising, does it?" "Will it go on like this, Commander Traynor?" "Nobody knows, Liz." "We're all at risk now." "All in the grip of the Master Plan." "So, now..." "Who is this mysterious personage that 2957 likes and respects, but won't help, hm?" "Oh, now, we who stand on the side of the light must stand together." "Fearlessly." "Alpha Four?" "Alpha Four?" "Uh..." " Oh, thank goodness." "Are you all right?" " Yes, perfectly." "What on earth happened?" "How very strange. I thought..." "What is it?" "Nothing. I thought..." " Just a dizzy spell." " See a doctor." "No, no. I'm all right." "is there anything new?" " The temperature's risen two degrees." " What did you say?" "I was just coming in here to put the glad tidings on dissemination." "Why?" "For goodness' sake, why is it happening?" "I've got to find a reason." "Controller 2957." "Oh, hadn't you better clamber off that bandwagon?" "You've got it on the brain." "It's perfectly clear to me that even though 2957 may have been cavalier about pushing on with the Sea Curtain and so forth, it can have nothing to do with this situation." " Why not?" " Because the two are not connected." "Oh, I don't see how they could be." "Thank you." "I'm not wrong about this." "A matter we don't understand." "2957 is working against the Master Plan." " We do understand." " He's the kind one might suspect of it." "Not dedicated to his work." "Other things on his mind." "We're all entitled to a private life." "The primary obligation of clones of our status is to safeguard the Master Plan, to protect it from possible enemies, traitors." "Would it make any difference to your opinion of 2957, I wonder, if you knew he was acting as protector to some Misfits?" "Perhaps a number of them." "Oh, yes. I've proof of that." "Or shall have very shortly." "What?" "Alpha Four knows about the Community?" "About Beth?" "He's got the hunters working for him in the jungle." " How did he arrange it?" " lf you don't know, I don't." "We were in this office behind this desk." "We heard him talking to someone on the screen." "A clone called Delta 22." "Simon, you'd better go. I'm grateful for this but you've stayed too long now." "I got rid of Liz before she caused trouble." "I'm different." "They know me." "And what about Beth?" "I was a fool to get mixed up in that!" "She's going to die if she isn't helped." "That's ridiculous." "Nobody dies because..." "Oh, Simon, why does everything have to happen at once?" "If only I could discover the reason for that mist." " What mist?" " Well, it's still there, you know." "It doesn't lift." "The mist over the southern Atlantic." "The whole area's obscured." " But why?" " l don't know. lt just happened." " While here everything's burning up." " Expect me to know the answers." "I was there when the reconstructions were engineered." "At the time of the cutting of the canals, Traynor gave me..." "Wait a minute." "Simon, check these statistics with me, will you?" " What is it?" " The canals." "The drainage canals." "Now, these were originally designed to take away the excess water after the melting of the polar icecaps." " Flow is a variable to be settled at need." " That's right." "The water was to reach the pumps and be dispersed into the Atlantic currents at a volume of 1 ,500 million gallons per day." " No." " What?" "It's got here 1 ,200 million." "What are you talking about?" "The figure was always 1 ,500 million." "It's what's written down." "1 ,200 million." "That's extraordinary." "There's been an error." " l distinctly remember..." " Controller." "There certainly appear to have been errors." "Of all kinds, perhaps." "is it true this young man is a Misfit, Controller?" " Go away, Four." " l have reason to believe he is." "Go away, I said." "I'm at last getting a clue..." "Yes, I overheard." "It doesn't sound promising for you." "1 ,500 million gallons per day pumped away rather than 1 ,200." "An overkill." "Who's to say what effect that has on geographical reconstruction?" " Look, here..." " l wouldn't say much more if I were you." "I'm invoking article 203, section D, of the service code and relieving you of office." "For harbouring a Misfit and under suspicion of tampering with the Master Plan." "You'll find I'm completely within my rights." "Completely." " That's all for today, Vera." " Just a little more." "No." " For my cabbages." " The cabbages are dead." "They won't grow again." "Can't you get it through your head?" "They might." "You never know." "One day it might rain again." "(Beth) Paul." "Commander Traynor." "Yes." "Yes, that's right, Liz." "Or I believe I call you Beth." " l've told him all about us." " He's a Technocrat." "No." "is there somewhere more private where we can talk?" "Well, I don't know. I don't know whether to believe you or not." "(Beth) Commander Traynor on the side of the Misfits." "One of them, whether he likes them or not." "People don't change that much." "You must believe me, Beth." "It's very important now." "I was..." "I was glad to hear about this Community from Liz because I've seen others of them in my wanderings." "We might be able to form some sort of a league eventually." "Start to fight back." " Change the world again?" " Yes." "But is that still possible?" "I thought it had all gone too far now." "I wouldn't take any bets on that if I were you, Liz." "Well, we could always drill for water." "And cultivate food somehow." "Nature is seldom defeated, you know." "She usually manages to recover in time, no matter what men have tried to do." "That from Charles Traynor." "Well, it's a topsy-turvy world, whichever way you care to look at it." "Let's just say that, like the fear of hanging, betrayal by an old friend concentrates the mind wonderfully." " Betrayal?" " Oh, yes." "You see, before a man can be declared a social criminal, as I was, he must first be denounced." "Well, it now appears that all along there was a trusted colleague ready and waiting to do that little thing for me." "Who?" "Controller 2957." "I was a fool to trust him blindly, of course." "One gets into the habit of it." "But from the beginning he was always much too interested in my affairs." "The first time he came into my office, I found him poking his nose into confidential documents," "He even..." "Ah..." "Well, that's all in the past." "Controller 2957 has finally paid the price for his treachery." "What do you mean by that?" "Oh, poetic justice, eh, Beth?" "I have seen to it that 2957 will work against the light no more." "In fact, at this very moment, I should say he's languishing in the darkness." "Sorry about this, but under the circumstances..." "That's all right." "We both understand the form." "Then may I ask you to sit down?" "What's happened?" "I can't move." "An electronic lock, Simon." "We get food and drink in due time, I take it?" "There are rules, even for villains who spent an entire career sabotaging the Master Plan." "The boy is a Misfit, Controller." "That at least needs explaining." "What happens now?" "We wait and see how far Alpha Four gets with his charges against me." "What have you done wrong?" "You didn't make the mistake about the water pumped into the ocean." "I had personal control and I organised it all on the basis of 1 ,500 million gallons per day." "Not 1 ,200 million." "Does it account for everything that's going wrong?" " Those tapes." " What tapes?" "Hm?" "Oh, something else that went wrong." "Some instruction tapes of mine turned out to have been crudely edited." " The culprit was never found." " Edited?" "Tapes?" "Now, wait a minute." "I gave my word not to say anything at the time, but now I think it's different." "You remember that first day you brought me here?" "I found Commander Traynor in the computer room." "He was messing with a computer tape." "Traynor?" "But how on earth..." "Oh, then that's it." "Good grief, I might have guessed it." "All this is Traynor's doing." "What's Traynor got against you?" "It was I who denounced Traynor, Simon." "It was I who declared him a social criminal." "So he's carefully fabricated evidence against me to bring me down." "To destroy me." "Why haven't you produced results?" "'We can't find something that isn't here.'" "There are people in that jungle and you know it." " 'No, sir.' - l need that evidence now." "Things have changed." "I shall have to take personal control." "Where are they?" "That's all I'm asking." "You don't know what it's like. lt's hot." "Everything's dying off." "A rabbit couldn't stand this place much longer." "Will he find your receptor?" "Any chance?" "No." "We concealed it in a tree." "Good." "Then we can keep a close eye." "They carry provisions. lf we wait till they're worn out and mount an attack..." "Yes." "But the only important thing is that they don't find us." "Beth, what's the matter?" "I don't understand." "Sometimes it's worse when the sun's gone down. lt's hard to breathe." "I don't mean that." "You're worried about 2957, aren't you?" "Nonsense." "Whatever happened, he brought it on himself." "I would like to know what Traynor meant by saying he'd paid the price, I admit." "He worries me." "Commander Traynor's changed." "He's different these days." "But Simon's not come back." "He must still be up there with 2957." " Simon?" " Whatever's happened... (Big Ben chimes)" "A routine maintenance check." "The Delta clones keep up a round-the-clock shift." " l wish I knew more about clones." " Clones?" "I only know the general theory, not much else." "You're lucky to know even that." " lt's been top secret from the start." " Has it?" "Yes." "There was a time when Traynor took personal control." "Wouldn't even allow press releases." "Clones were his concern more than anyone else's." "They're the sort of creatures who don't argue, just get on with things." "But Commander Traynor betrayed the Master Plan." " Yes, that's right." " You denounced him for it." "Yes." "is it true that clones have a sort of built-in weakness?" "Simon, what are you talking about?" "Just something I thought I heard once." "The only built-in weakness that I'm aware of is their devotion to the job in hand." "They're utterly dedicated." "Which means that right now I'm at the mercy of Alpha Four's sense of duty." " What's this?" " Controller 2957's office." "I thought we might find out what happened to Simon." " lf we're caught..." " We won't be." "You only decided to come because you were worried about 2957." "That's not true. I let you come because you were in a state about Simon." "I've still the Community to think about." "I can't wander around like this." "Wait!" "Look." " They're prisoners in those chairs." " Looks like it." "I thought I might as well bring it along myself." "Very well, you can release them for a little now." "Let's see what we've got here." "I told the chef to take it seriously." " lf we could find it..." " lt shouldn't be too hard." "I'm afraid there's some worrying news." "There's been a measurable change in the nitrogen content of the air." " Oh, no." " lt's true." "Readings taken an hour ago." "Try and get some sound on the picture." "Hang on." " We've had confirmation from Europe?" " Yes. lt varies in places but there's a general consensus." " lt may be a temporary phenomenon." " lt better be." "A shift in the nitrogen balance could have serious consequences for us all." "Stop." "Don't move." "No one's advanced a viable theory yet." "Argh!" " Argh!" " Come on!"