" They're fixed." " Just a minute." "Oh, no, some are loose." " (High-pitched whirring)" " Stop that!" "Oh, yes." "Give me a hand, Simon." " (Whirring)" " Go on!" "It's our way home!" "(Sarah) No, I can't!" "(Liz) Go on, Sarah!" "There's nothing underneath." "Nothing!" " Perhaps she meant further over." " Where?" " Simon, if you're playing..." " Over there!" " Nothing." " The ground's been turned over." " No." " Course it has." "Plain as anything." " Hey!" " She's not doing anything, just..." "Was machen Sie?" "Come back!" "Come back!" "Liz!" "So it was a trick again. I trusted you and you made a fool of me!" "Liz was only taking Sarah back to her mother." " She'll run, shouting we are here!" " No, she can't!" "You don't understand." "We don't live in 1940." "Shut up!" "It's impossible to run after them now." "We'll send a signal to have them stopped at the double." " Kommen Sie!" " Jawohl, Herr Kapitan." "Look, it's all right." "They can't get us here." "I don't know!" "I'm frightened!" "Never mind." "You're going home to your mother now." " What about him?" " Him?" "That boy" " Simon." "Simon." "Oh, Simon'll be all right." " Your collaborator returned to you." " What is this?" "You fight me because you believe I'm your enemy, but don't put him up to any more tricks." " l shan't fall for them any more." " Good for you, Kapitan!" " What have you been up to?" " Tried to escape." " Liz and Sarah got away." " They got away?" " Yes." " That's fantastic!" "They can alert the authorities." "Gottfried signalled for them to be picked up." "Yes, I've been watching that." " They receive messages too." " Where from?" " The village." " The village. I see." "A series of contacts between here and the coast, letting them know when it's safe to stay put and when they have to move." " That means spies." " That's right." " We don't have spies in England." " Oh, don't we just!" "Why should the Germans come here?" "To a little place like St Oswald?" "Any special reason why they should?" "For a kid who already knows more than he should, you ask stupid questions!" " l only..." " You just mind your own business!" "You may be on the side of the angels, but there are still some things about you I don't understand." "You say they can't come to any harm, but what proof have we got?" "Jean saw that German lifting his gun to bash Liz!" " What happened next?" " l'm not sure." "The picture blurred. I couldn't see." "It fits." "Liz tried to get through a hole in the fence." "The Germans got into the station by cutting a hole in the wire." "You don't care about any of us, do you, Mr Traynor?" "My wife may have seen Liz being murdered by a German thug." "All you do is sit here calmly, as though it was laid on for your benefit!" " Liz can't come to any harm." " You keep saying that!" "You'd swear it, then apologise when proved wrong!" "Listen, Sarah, if we told them what happened, they wouldn't believe us." "Say we were wandering up by the potholes and I found you there." "Got it, Sarah?" "Not at the station." "Do you understand?" "Young Sarah!" "So it's no good just standing here." "Something's got to be done." "I wish I knew what." "Yes, I was right." "You're only interested for yourself." "You don't care about the children, not a jot!" "Where were you, girl?" "Where were you?" "Er...up the old potholes, Mr Bradley." "That's right." "I found her wandering about." "Liz!" "Liz!" " Oh, Liz!" " l'm all right, Mummy." "We were so worried!" "She was up by the old potholes all the time." " No mystery." "Just lost." " Nowhere near the naval station?" " Never!" " Good to know where one's been wrong." "A man must be prepared to face up to his past mistakes, mustn't he, Bradley?" "Now, Liz, what really happened?" "Well, feeling better now, it seems." "Anything we can get you?" "No, I don't think so." "Thank goodness you've come round." "You gave us a shock." "You were getting some food, then you passed out." " Food?" "Food, yes." " Mm." "You did what you had to do while you were getting the food?" "Well?" "It's perfectly safe to speak." "That job I gave you, it's completed?" "Ah...he's recovered." "Yes." "We thought of an ancient herbal remedy and it seems to have worked." "What happened, man?" "What was it?" "Happened?" "What do you mean?" "It's my head." "Bright lights." " Bright lights?" " Then it all went dark again." "Where is this place?" "What am I doing here?" "You'll be yourself soon." "You had a bit of a knock." " ls he well enough to work?" " Work?" " l need a detail for a few minutes." " l don't know." "On your feet, man, let's have a look at you." " l'm fi...fine now." " Splendid, splendid." " And you can come too." " Me?" "As a punishment for that trick you played on me." "Ask Skinner if he did that job I told him to do." " l won't get..." " What's happening?" "I'm just telling the boy to work with a will." "Time's running out." "Pressing on you hard - if the signalling is any indication." "Follow me, please." "Now..." "I want this equipment to be completely dismantled." "All this stuff will have to be moved." "And remember, I'll just be outside." "Did you do what you were supposed to?" " Who are you?" " Me?" " Yes!" " You know me." "Simon." "Simon who came with Liz..." "only Liz got away." " Liz?" " Yes, Liz, Liz Skinner." " What's the matter?" "Can't you..." " Can't I what?" "Well...are you sure you're all right again, Mr Skinner?" "Are you all right now, Liz?" " Yes. I'm just a bit confused." " lt's a confusing situation." "Life here is real, isn't it?" "We go to bed in the evening, get up in the morning." "Time moves on." "But out there, it's kind of real too." "It hasn't stopped for 30 years." "Just that bit of time going on, over and over." "When Germans took over the station and Daddy was hurt?" "Yes. lt's not just coincidence, is it, Mum?" "We come here and somehow I'm given the chance to find Daddy's memory." "After all these years and the trouble we've had." "It's not been easy, with Dad like that." "No." "Bad for him too, darling." "More for him - this awful blank in his mind." "He feels maimed - like a man going through life without an arm or a leg." "You knew before you were married." "I thought we'd manage." "Money didn't matter too much." " Did it afterwards?" " Not to me." "Daddy worried, but he feels crippled by whatever happened at the station." "There you are, Liz. I was waiting to have breakfast with you." "I didn't want breakfast." "I came to talk to Mummy." " But aren't you hungry?" " Frank..." "She's had a nasty experience." "She must eat something." "Daddy, y-you don't remember what happened at the station, do you?" "No, Liz...nothing." "Nothing." "But you were different there." "Like someone else." "Well, then, we'd better get down to sorting out the mysteries." "I can sort out one or two of the problems." "It wasn't opportune to speak before." "It's necessary now." " What do you mean by that?" " There are matters to be discussed." "Grave decisions to be made." "Most important of all, when Liz is going back into the "time bubble"." "(Whirring)" "What's that?" "What is it?" "Yes!" " Yes, destroy it." " Destroy it?" "Yes, important before they..." "No!" " Yes...the power." "Stop the power." " (Engine rumbling)" " (Rumbling stops)" " Yes!" " Herr Kapitan." " Ja?" "Oh!" " What is it?" " Never mind!" "Just destroy it!" "Mr Skinner...?" "That's a ruby!" "Nein, Fritz, nein." "Das ist nichts wert." " Come on, you'd better sit down." " No, no, it's...it's..." "Ohh!" " Now what's happened?" " He's too ill to work!" "He seemed better, I thought." " Fritz!" " Ja, Herr Kapitan?" "Das geht nicht." "You too." "This will do in here now." "So you think I really did dismantle this equipment for you?" "Yes." "We found it in pieces later." "What's so important about it?" "The relevant point is that Gottfried couldn't have got a look at it." "Apart from the equipment, there were certain plans." "I hid them behind the skirting board in my office." " Did the Germans see them?" " l don't know." "You must know!" "Were they there afterwards?" " Yes." " Then they didn't see them." "It's arguable." "Gottfried could have found them, studied them, then left them so I'd think he hadn't found them." "Well, it all seems a long time ago." "What on earth does it matter now?" "Why should it involve Frank and me or Liz?" "It matters in this way, Mrs Skinner." "The research we were following then has become very important again now." "After the war, the Russians imprisoned Gottfried." "If he isn't dead, he's still in the Soviet Union working for them." "So I must find out what he discovered in 1940." "You can't find out." "It's over and done with now." "It isn't over for Liz." "Liz can't go back. lt's impossible." "Your wife's in touch with the child." "She has a rare gift." " What gift?" " Surely you know by now." "The gift of telepathic contact." "Perhaps you're refusing to come to terms with your own powers." "You can communicate with Liz directly." "You're worried, understandably, but what is Liz worried about?" " That doesn't come into it..." " But it does!" "Who else is more immediately involved?" "Well, Liz?" "You haven't said a word yet, have you?" "How do you feel about going back?" "I must get Simon." "And I'd like to find out what happened to Daddy." " (Knocking)" " Herein!" "Danke." "Sage Graz, den Kapitan hierher zu bringen." "Not more pressure, Gottfried, more rush?" "It's about those children." "Nobody in the village has heard of them." "And just who exactly in the village told you that, I wonder?" " Bleiben Sie hier." " Jawohl, Herr Kapitan." "Well?" "What more can I do to frustrate you?" "Just one question, Commander." "Will you tell me what your real work here is?" "Ah, your search has proved fruitless." "Answer me!" "Will you say?" "My dear chap, you've got the wrong address." " No." " You are most insistent." "I have the right to be, both because our information tells us otherwise and because I have a better opinion of you as a scientist." "Traynor, this radar experimentation outside - it's primitive." "There's got to be something else and I intend to know." " Why?" " Why?" "Fair question." "You've said the war doesn't exactly fill you with joy, yet you behave like a soldier of the Third Reich." "The war." "Would you believe me if I said the war has nothing much to do with my coming here?" " No." " You've listened to the propaganda." "Oh, Traynor, you don't understand." "Many of us Germans don't agree with the war aims, don't support Hitler." " But you serve him." " No." "We serve Germany." "Our country was betrayed at Versailles." "Germany must be great again, but not through conquest as is happening now." "Through achievement, industry, art, science." "I see." "You're asking me overlook for the moment the fact your country is overrunning France and Poland, persecuting Jews!" "Just help you build a better Germany." "Don't you understand?" "These things will stop when Hitler falls." "When Hitler falls?" "It's always a possibility." "Do you believe me?" "Gottfried, your splendid naivety is the most alarming thing about you." "I suspect you more than ever." "I must use force to get what I want from you?" " Force?" " l must know, Commander." "Any advance in research, anything new makes my position and that of my friends in Germany more secure." "Graz." " What the..." " Graz is a loyal Nazi, Commander." "He can deal with people who won't speak." " You can't be serious." " l have no choice." "You've every choice in the world!" "A reasonable man, a scientist..." " Well, Liz, how is it done, then?" " l'm still not altogether sure..." "We've agreed. I need to know about those papers hidden in my office." "There's Simon to be thought about." "We daren't delay." "You assure me she can't be hurt?" "The "time bubble", as you call it, is an illusion." "Liz and Simon are sensitive to the past's energy, but it can never claim them." "They still belong to our time." "Yes, I suppose so." "Liz, Liz, sweetheart, you...don't have to go if you don't want to." " You know that, don't you?" " Yes, Daddy." " So?" " l want to go." "Now, then, the mechanics." "There's a barrier just beyond the field." "You can't see it." "You have to find the hole." "Right." "You know what you've got to do for me?" "Find out if the Germans have seen the papers you hid." "That's the stuff." "Well...off you go." "Liz..." "(Gasping)" "Nein!" "Nein!" "Halt!" " l'm sorry, I can't do it this way." " You're sorry?" "How do you think I feel?" "I'm not an animal, I'm not a savage." "Der Strick." "I am sorry. lt was a mistake." "I apologise humbly." "You must tell me what I want to know without this." "Haven't you got the message yet?" "I won't tell you!" " But I must know!" " And I must hold my tongue!" "We're at war, Kapitan!" "War!" "Whether you like it or not!" "Why don't you get that into your head and stop...dreaming?" " Well, what happens now?" " You'll be held prisoner again." "To no purpose." "You'll never get a syllable out of me." " Gehen Sie hinein." "Warten Sie auf mich." " Jawohl, Herr Kapitan." "Don't you understand?" "You're being a fool." "If you'd help me, it would help end the war." "A new government in Germany would mean no more fighting." "Peace." " Gottfried, I feel sorry for you." " Sorry for me?" "You're just an inoffensive old boffin, aren't you?" "A dreamer." "The realities of war are a bit too tough for you." " What's the matter?" " l can't seem to..." " No, Mrs Skinner!" " She's upset!" "Can't you see that?" "I was an idiot to give my consent!" "It's all so stupid!" "Liz..." "Liz, dear..." " Come along, now, that's enough." " But, Mummy..." " She must go back!" "You know that!" " The child's afraid!" "We can't force her!" " l'm not!" "I can't find the barrier!" " What?" "I can't!" "Honestly!" "It was just here, but now it isn't any more, it's gone!" " Gone?" " Oh, Daddy, I can't go back!" "I'll never find out what happened to you now!" "The barrier's vanished!" "Vanished!" "(Sobbing)"