"(Eerie whirring)" "(Whirring grows more intense)" "Your name really is Frank Skinner?" " Yes." "Like me to phone my mother?" " But it can't be!" " Why can't it be?" " lt just can't!" " What's the matter with you?" " l don't know. lt's weird." "If this is the old naval station..." "Old?" "It's only been up a couple of years." "But it is the naval station?" "On the hill above St Oswald?" "You take the biscuit." "Got let through the fence by a crowd of Germans or whatever the tale was." "Why don't you relax and tell the truth?" "Come on, this cocoa's getting cold." "Wait a minute, I've got to explain." "We've come from..." "Look, you've barged into a classified establishment..." " What was your first name again?" " Liz." "Liz." "Mm, it's a nice name." "I'll put you in the recreation room until we can contact your parents." " You won't find them." " Are you like the other kid?" "What kid?" "The Commander's got a right to be a bit annoyed with you villagers!" "In case you missed the news, there's a war on!" " Mr Skinner..." " Now what?" " Where were you born?" " Stone me!" "You've got a thirst for knowledge!" "Would you like my life story?" "l-l just wondered." "Was it in Rugby?" " Matter of fact, it was." " And round about 19...24?" "23." "Yes." "Yes, that's right, Mr Skinner." " Mrs Skinner feeling better now?" " Huh?" "What?" "I saw you taking her upstairs." "She didn't look too well." "She's worried about Liz and Simon." "They're not back." " Ah." " l'm going for the police." " Not yet, I wouldn't have thought." " What?" "Time enough for the police when we know what the trouble is, perhaps." " This is Simon's book." " l thought it must be." "It was found by a farm labourer by the naval station where that girl Sarah disappeared." " Seems to be open season on children." " What?" "Can't you remember anything of your time here during the war?" "Two children are missing - one is my daughter and one I'm responsible for." "My wife's worried." "I've got to do something." "Can't you remember that, while you were at the station in 1940, I was your commanding officer?" "(Radar bleeping)" "Alice, give me maximum range... now!" "(Bleeping)" "Ach, it's the reception again." "Why?" "Leave it." "We've work to do on the other equipment." "Be right with you." "Check all the other links thoroughly." "We've not perfected the memory units." "Just have a mock-up ready by the end of the month." "End of the month?" "I'll do my best." "We can bounce beams off the objects and pick up the echo, but when it comes to retaining the image..." "(Sobbing)" "Who's that?" " What's the matter?" " Liz, that must be Sarah!" " Sarah?" " The village girl who disappeared." " Well, what's she doing here?" " What are we doing here?" "This girl's done nothing wrong!" "Except trespass into a classified establishment." "There's a war on." "She's crying her eyes out." "It's not like you!" "Not like me?" "I joined the navy to see the world, not to run a kindergarten!" "That's the kid I told you about." "She won't tell us a thing about herself." " She can't." " What do you mean?" " She's not like other girls." " Oh, you mean you know her?" " Sort of." " Thank the Lord!" "I can tell the Commander that we can put all borders ashore!" " But, Mr Skinner..." " Oh, call me Frank." " Frank?" " That's my name." "Unless there's some weird reason why it shouldn't be." "Hey, Liz." "Come on, not you too." "One female with the weeps is all I can cope with." "I don't know, you're a funny kid." "Sometimes it's almost like I..." "Yes?" "(Sighs) I don't know." "Don't let it get you down." "Worse things happen at sea." "That man!" "That man must be my father, Simon, when he was young." "Yes." "Somehow or other, we've gone back in time." "The other side of the fence is our own time but here... lt's 1940!" "That's when my father was at the station!" "And they were working on radar, yes." "But how's that possible?" "People can't go back in time." "1940 was before I was born." "So if that man is my father..." "then I'm not his daughter...yet." "What's the matter?" "What are you looking at?" "Machen Sie schnell." "Kummern Sie sich nicht..." "Geben Sie Acht." "Eine Meldung von Berlin kommt durch." "(High-pitched whirring)" "Sorry, but I've lost my memory about 1940 and I don't know what happened." "I am aware of that, old man." "I've often wondered how you got on after you were taken to hospital." " Listen..." " l'm a physicist by trade." "I was in command of a radar experimentation unit." "Why have you come back?" "Oh, I put in an appearance as soon as I heard that girl Sarah had vanished." "Mr Traynor..." "Commander, tell me what happened, please!" "It's not funny going through life with a blank spot." "I'm just in the dark about the whole war." "Only in civvy life did my memory start working again." "Reliably?" "No." "No, by degrees." "My childhood came back to me quite quickly, but nothing at all about St Oswald." "That loss of memory has worried me ever since." "Yes, well, I suppose you're entitled to know the basic facts." " lt's still restricted information." " Yes?" "Believe it or not, for several hours in 1940, the St Oswald station was taken over by a party of Germans." " Don't move!" "Absolutely still!" " (Gunshot)" "Dr Fordyce!" "Warum?" "Warum?" "Das ist nicht recht!" " ln here quick!" " What is it...?" " That was a shot!" " Who...?" "We saw Germans outside!" "Mr Traynor laughed at us, but we did!" "Germans!" "(Sarah sobbing)" " These documents mustn't be found!" " What's going on?" "Germans!" "Party of raiders." " There's something you must do!" " Those kids..." "The back room." "Secret panel in the rear wall." "Switch behind the board." "Equipment that must be dismantled - at all costs!" " You have a better chance..." " Halt!" "(Screams)" "(Gunshot echoing, eerie whirring)" "Frank?" "Frank?" "Frank!" " Jean?" " Machen Sie schnell!" "Geb... (Slurred) Geben Sie Acht." " That'll be all." "We can manage now." " The lady's ill." "Perhaps a doctor..." "The lady's not ill." "She's sleeping." "No doctors." " There's one just down the road." " No doctors. I will handle this." "As you wish, sir." "This ever happened to your wife before?" " No." "No, never." " Only since you came to St Oswald?" " Yes." " Hmm." "I don't think you need worry about the children." "Not seriously." "What does that mean?" "As I said, I am a physicist, but there are certain events which escape all the theories, all the calculations." "Some of us here and in other countries are pursuing them." "One day, we hope we shall trap the mysteries." " lt's all Greek to me." " We're dealing in unknown quantities." "Like a village girl wandering into an apparently deserted field and disappearing and two other children failing to return from a walk over the hills." "Skinner...do you believe, as most people do, that time simply passes away?" " Passes away?" " Yes, that the past is the past, the future the future, and all we can ever experience is the present." "What else am I supposed to believe?" "People who lived before us released energy by walking and speaking and energy does not pass away." "Some of us wonder whether, if there's been an enormous release of energy, great events happening, shall we say, whether the past doesn't, in some way or other, persist." " Persist?" " Yes." "How can it?" "This is the maddest thing I've ever heard." "What's this got to do with Liz and Simon?" "You have a close relationship with Liz." "Closer than is usual between father and daughter." "Perhaps because of your lost memories." "This is so, isn't it?" "I suppose it is." "Has it occurred to you that, by bringing her here, in close contact with events in which you were deeply involved, you may have enabled her to relive them?" "1940 at the station was a period of great conflict." "We were overrun by the Germans." "Then there's your wife's experience." " What's that got to do with it?" " She's...in touch with something." "Doesn't know German, does she?" "She's just been speaking it." "No, you're..." "You're making too much of it." "There's no mystery about Jean's condition." " Mainly it's my fault." " Your fault?" "I haven't been much of a success down the years." "This memory business." "I started up an engineering concern shortly after we were married, but I never made a go of it." "Life's been hand-to-mouth." "Probably worried Jean more than she admits." "I see." "The children are in trouble." "Call the police." "Wait." "We should search the station first." "We must act delicately." "This is too important for policemen." "Kinder?" "So, this is more comfortable for you." "It was hardly necessary." "Glass splinters, a man wouldn't pay any attention to in battle." "Fortunately, we are not in battle." "You are Commander Traynor of the Royal Navy." " l am." " Allow me to introduce myself." "I am Helmut Gottfried of the German Navy." "I deeply regret your staff member's death." " Deeply regret?" " l have not come here to kill." "Merely to carry out a duty assigned to me." "If you promise to cooperate, there will be no more incidents." " We'll only be staying a few hours." " You're a cool one, I'll say that." " Very good with the English too." " Before the war, I was at Cambridge." " Cambridge?" " You promise to cooperate?" "I'm not quite sure about that, Gottfried." "For reasons of your own, you've taken over my establishment." "I may find myself obliged to resent that." "As you wish." "Then I must inform you, your staff will be placed under arrest." "Stop this officers-and-gentlemen stuff, all this rigid formality." " What's this about?" " l'm sorry?" "Sure you haven't got the wrong address?" "We are very small beer here." "Just a naval records office." " No, no." "A research centre." " Oh?" "We have information...and it is the research I'm interested in." " Information." "How did you get that?" " lf you please." "How did you penetrate into England 20 miles past the coastal defences?" "If you please." "No more talk now." "I think it will be better, Commander, if we preserve the formality." "Village, village?" "Was heiBt das?" "We're from the village." "Stadt, Dorf." "Nothing to do with the naval station." "Ich erlaube den Kindern nicht, faule Witze zu machen." "We're here by mistake, can't you understand?" " Who are these young people?" " To be frank, I don't know." "They got in here as mysteriously as you did." " lt is so?" " We don't conscript children yet." "(Sobbing)" "What are your names, please?" "Hm?" "Simon, sir." "Simon Randall." "Liz Skinner." " And this one?" " Sarah." "She's very frightened." "Don't be hard on her." "Who said anything about being hard on you?" "It's just puzzling." "They can stay here with you, Commander." "As for the rest, they will be bound and gagged and taken to the sheds." "They'll suffer no ill effects." "Ich werde mitessen." " Don't touch me!" " Do as they say, Doctor Fortune." "They seem to have the upper hand..." "for the moment." " You, what's your name?" " Skinner, sir." "Skinner?" "The same name as the little girl?" " Yes." "Coincidence." " lt is so?" "That's right." "He's never seen me before in his life." "My men and I are hungry." "You will get us some food." " l don't..." " Don't try anything." "My men have arms." "You've seen I can't prevent them from using their arms." " You understand?" " Yes, of course." "Get our guests some food." "You hold the key to the supply cupboard." "Now, you others, inside." "Nehmen Sie die Kinder." "(Nonchalant whistling)" "(Whistling)" " Care for a game?" " Beg your pardon?" " This one doesn't speak any English?" " No." "Set the reds up for me." "(Carries on whistling)" "Game." "Er..." "Spiel." "(Nonchalant whistling)" "How did you kids get in here?" "The truth." " There was this hole in the fence..." " The truth!" "The Germans paid you to force an entry." "No!" "No?" "How did they get in without being observed?" "We saw them just after we fo..." "I mean, after we came through." "We tried to tell you we saw Germans." "(Whistling)" "Liz and I had nothing to do with the Germans coming." "Honestly!" "Play." "And, er, how do you know my name, eh?" "That's another mystery we haven't cleared up." "Back at the hotel..." "Oh, it's so difficult to explain." "Yes, you've said that before." "They've, er, come because you're working on radar." "Radar?" "What the devil do you know about radar?" " l just..." " Nobody knows what we're doing here!" "Nobody except ourselves and the top brass!" "What's your game?" "Answer..." "Er...you don't get a point for that." "Pot a red first." "Take the shot again." "(Gas hissing)" " Halt!" " Er...coffee." "I have to get some more coffee from the stores." "(Switches clicking)" "(German sailor) Hey!" "Hey, Matrose!" "Matrose!" " (Knocking)" " You in there, open up!" "Du darin!" "Offnen Sie!" "Was ist das?" "Wie lange ist er dort darin?" "Open up!" " They're not here and you know it!" " You agreed to search the station." " Yes..." " They were known to be here." " Simon!" " What's the matter?" "Come and look!" "It's..." " You're just playing for time." " My dear..." "You don't want me to call the police." "Don't you see?" "It's Daddy!" "Daddy and Mr..." "Mr..." " Daddy!" " Halt!" " What the devil..." "You'll get..." " Halt!" "Daddy, we're in here!" " l'm not wasting any more time!" " Daddy..." " The police won't find them." " How can you say that?" " Because I know!" " These crazy ideas of yours..." " They are not crazy ideas..." " Daddy!" "Daddy, it's me, Liz!" "People don't vanish out of their own time!" " They don't seem to hear you." " What's the matter with you?" "Can't you see, it's her father and Mr Traynor over there!" "Her father?" "Where?" "Are you mad?" "What kind of a trick is this?" "There's nobody there." " Nobody there?" " Nobody!" "Do you think you can fool me with cheap little games?" "Back inside." " No!" "Daddy!" " Inside, I say." "Come on, inside, both of you." "Inside, I tell you." "Come on."