" Wait a minute." " What's wrong?" " Your bracelet." " lt's too late." "We can't risk being caught." "If they find it in the time chamber, they'll know we've been in there." "Come on, it won't take a minute." " That's a bit of luck." " Be careful." " lt is here. I was right." " Don't touch it." " What's the matter?" " We were on the floor." "Why's it there?" " Come on." "We're getting out of here." " (Liz gasps)" "Simon!" "Simon, what are they going to do to us?" "I don't know." "Whatever happens, you're not to tell them a thing." "Understand?" "I'm frightened." "We're never going to get away now." "Yes, we are." "They won't hold us." "They wouldn't dare." "(Buzzing)" " What's that noise?" " lt's coming from these things." "It's the beam." "Simon, it's the sound beam!" " They're going to hypnotise us." " Hold on, Liz." "Whatever you do, hold on." "I can't bear it." "The noise!" "It's going through my head." " Simon!" " Hold on, Liz!" "Concentrate on anything but hold on!" "(Vacuum cleaner off)" "From this moment, you will obey one voice." "You will answer only the truth." " 'Do you understand?" "'" " Yes." "(Liz) Yes." "'When I speak, you will hear, but not see." "'Your eyes are tired." "'They need rest." "'Now you are asleep." "'Sleep is the purification of the mind.' lt is the suspension of the consciousness." "Sleep." "Now we are one." "One mind, one person." "Time is no barrier." "We can defy it." "The past, the present, the future... they also are one." "Now you will answer only the truth." " Do you understand?" " Yes." "Go ahead, please." "(Devereaux) 'What are your names?" "' (De Sarem) Answer." " Simon Randall." " Elizabeth Skinner." " 'Why have you come here?" "'" " Answer." "To find the truth." "To know the secret of longevity." "We are from the future." "We can help." "Liz?" "Liz, are you all right?" "It's me, Maria." " Maria!" " Keep still." "You'll feel better in a minute." "It was just awful." "That terrible noise." "I know." "We all feel like that after a session in the time chambers." " You can't move a muscle." " Where's Simon?" "Don't worry." "He's sleeping it off in the boys' ward next door." "Simon!" "We made it!" "I never thought we would." "What's going on around here?" "Would somebody please mind explaining?" "You are supposed to be out for the count." "It's quite simple." "De Sarem thought he'd submitted us to hypnosis." " But it didn't work." " What are you talking about?" "We were able to resist it." "Hypnosis can only be induced if you're susceptible," " or willing to accept it." " And we weren't willing." "Well, now I'm even more confused." "The whole point of the hypno sound beam is that it hypnotises anybody, regardless of whether they want it." "It's De Sarem's own method." "He's researched it." "He'd better go on researching." "It doesn't work." "We're from the future, so we can resist the pressure." "We don't concentrate." "With Maria and the others, it's different." "You're all volunteers." "I don't understand how they managed to get you into the time chamber." "I thought you were making a break out of here." " lt didn't work." "They caught us." " Who?" "The point is, these men are dangerous." "Devereaux, De Sarem, Frazer, the lot." "Devereaux has plans for building a new future, an impossible future." "I don't see where l and the others come into this." "The longevity tests are just part of something much bigger, far more evil." "Hypnosis is just the start, a way of conditioning your mind... ..for another type of experiment." "What experiment?" "We're from the future, Maria." "We can't change what we know has already happened." "(Devereaux) HA57." "At last biology has conquered the fear of dying." "Death is no longer the enemy." " Do you really think we've got that far?" " You doubt the potential of HA57?" "Doubt it?" "No, not the potential, but we still have to study its immediate effect on patients." "I believe that within five years, this drug will have revolutionised the biological structure of the nation." "Without a feasibility test?" "HA57 tests have only been carried out on animal specimens." "With great success, I admit, but we have no guarantee we can achieve similar results with humans." "Take a look, Doctor." "What do you see?" "(Frazer) Cell specimen, category B." "Precisely." "Category B. That patient would be dead by now had it not been for a last-minute injection of HA57." " lt was a gamble that paid off." " He's alive!" "Can't you understand that?" "Don't you see what we've done?" "This is immortality." "Yes, sir." "You've got to help us." "We've got to get out of here." "We're running out of time." "If Devereaux were to catch us now, there'd be no hope left for anybody." "Please, Maria, please." "Well, that's all very well, but why should I?" "Why should I believe this story about the two of you coming from the future?" "I know it's difficult to believe but..." "Well, you've just got to trust us, that's all." "Trust you?" "Trust..." "That's something I'm rapidly forgetting." "I came to this place with hopes." "We all did." "Hopes we could help build a decent future." "Now you tell us we're helping to destroy the future." "I don't know who to trust or believe." "Maria, in the next five years, a lot of things are going to happen to you." " Five years?" " You'll be told you'll never grow old." "The future can belong as much to you as to your children, but it can't." "For one thing, the drugs they use won't work." "You see, Maria, you can't help yourself, but you can help us to change the future." "What do you want me to do?" "But you can't, sir." "You asked for proof, Doctor, and I'm giving it to you." "A few mils of a drug that will give immortality." "You have no right to use an untested drug on humans." "No, I do not have the right." "Unless, of course, I'm prepared to prove irrevocably that HA57 is not only a giant step forward for science, but also that it is quite harmless." "Injection, please, Doctor." "No." "Injection." " What now?" " We'll never get through reception." " Too many people." " There must a window without bars." "You must be joking." "There is a way but I don't think you'll like it." "Who cares?" "As long as we can get out." "Right, this way." "I don't think there's any doubt about it." " She has submitted herself to hypnosis." " Hypnosis?" "It's not uncommon." "Often a hypnotic state of mind can be self-induced." "Mind you, I know very little about it but workers in this field suggest that hypnosis can be self-induced either deliberately or accidentally." "But surely it needs a hypnotist." "Not necessarily." "It's possible that your wife is susceptible to this behaviour." "You mean we've got to leave her as she is?" "We can't wake her up?" "If you force any kind of shock, I can't be responsible for what might happen." "Maria, what a place to bring us to, the mortuary." " l'll show you." " No, Maria." "It's only a dummy, Liz." "They use lots of them. I've seen several in the time chambers." " Something to do with pathology." " But they're made of wax." "They're the same as in the wax room." "Being used for the cloning process." " instead of human models?" " That must come later." " How do we get out of here?" " Over here." "Simon, you bring the other one down." "Quickly." " Right, climb aboard." " What?" "Get up on the stretcher." "You, Liz, get on this one." "What's the idea?" " You want to get out of here?" " Yes, but..." "Soon two men will come through the doors and take away the specimens nearest the door." " You mean us?" " Who do you think?" " No, Maria, I won't." " l'm not going home without an arm." "Now, don't be silly." "Nothing can happen to you, not if you're careful." "Every day they take specimens to the pathology department." " lt's a separate building five miles away." " How do you know all this?" "We don't go around in a hypnotic trance all the time." "Listen, when you got to the T-junction on the main road to St Oswald, make a jump for it." "You'll be gone before they even notice." "I don't like the idea very much." "No alternative." "Somebody's coming." "Supposing we're caught or something." "In that case, see you back in the time chamber." "Good luck." "Those two." "Listen." "Dr Frazer." "What are you doing down here?" "Don't you know this is a restricted area?" "I was on my way to hypnotherapy." "Time chamber 4." "Time chamber 4 is on the second floor." "I know. I lost my nerve." "My dear, there's nothing to be scared of." "I know. I've been in the time chamber lots of times but it still frightens me." "So I came down here to get away from all the brainwashing." "Haven't you learned hypnotherapy is not brainwashing?" "It's a mental stimulant." "I don't believe you, Dr Frazer." "I don't believe anything you say." "You mean you're refusing hypnosis?" "I mean I'm refusing everything." "Now, you listen to me." "You are, of course, a volunteer with the experimental programme." "You came here of your own free will and you're at liberty to come and go." "Then why are there iron bars on every window in this building?" "I want to go home, Dr Frazer." "I want to get out of this place forever!" "That'll do." "Carry on." "Very well." "You shall." "Firstly, we should have a word with Professor Devereaux." "It would only be common courtesy, after all." "Elizabeth Skinner, Simon Randall." "Do you mind telling me what this is about?" "You don't burst into a government building without a good reason." "Please, it's not our fault." "We had to come." " Why?" " We can't tell you." " You're for the junior magistrates court." " Please, sir." "Listen to me." "It's not that we don't want to talk to you." "It's just...well, we can't." "That's all." " We've got to see Colonel Murray." " Colonel Murray?" " You want to talk to the Minister?" " lt's about Commander Traynor." "You know him, do you?" "It's extraordinary that he never mentioned that to me." "Oh, well, of course, he's no longer our responsibility." "He's helping out with some experimental work at Professor Devereaux's institute." "It's all very hush-hush and all that, you know." "As a matter of fact, I've taken over his job." " Have you?" " Why, yes." "Didn't he tell you?" "(Ticking)" "Frank?" "Frank, are you there?" "Darling, are you all right?" "Oh, yes, I think so." "Why is it so dark?" " l hate the dark." " There's nothing to worry about." "I'm with you now." "We're together." "There's nothing to worry about." "It's so different." "All of a sudden, it's so different." "What's happened?" "You weren't very well." "That's all." "But it is different." "Where are Liz and Simon?" "That man." "This isn't the place." "This isn't the office." "Extraordinary." "I've known Traynor all this time and yet I don't really know him, he keeps himself to himself." "With him, of course, he'd have to." "I suppose you must be related to him." " Not exactly." " That's right." "Niece and nephew." "I thought I could tell the family likeness." "It's in the eyes, I think." "Do you see him often?" " Sir?" " Your uncle." "Commander Traynor." "Oh, yes, sir, we see quite a lot of Uncle Charles, don't we, Liz?" "What's all this about anyway?" "Are you in trouble?" "Oh, no, sir." "Nothing like that." "It's just that we were looking for an excuse to get inside the building." "I didn't realise we'd be breaking regulations." "I somehow don't think your uncle would be pleased about this." "However, no harm done." "I'll tell you what. I'll make a bargain." "If you promise to say nothing about this, neither will l. ls that a bargain?" " Bargain, sir." " Right, you hang on here." "I'll find someone to escort you through the main reception." "Don't want you stumbling across government secrets." "Simon, what did you..." " What are we going to do now?" " We'd best try and get home." "Come on." "Oh, no." "Not you two again." "Sorry to disturb you, Mr Randall, but could we see Simon?" "No, you cannot see Simon." "What do you take me for, a mug or something?" "Where did you get to the last time?" "Sorry about that, but we had to rush off." "Prior engagement and all that." "Prior engagement." "That's exactly what I've got now, so hop it." "Mr Randall, it's terribly important." "It concerns...your son's entire future career." " Career?" " Yes." "We were talking to his teacher a few minutes ago and she was telling us what a highly intelligent son he is." "Wasn't she, Si..." "I mean, wasn't she, Fred?" "Oh, yes." "He's a very intelligent bloke, your Simon, Mr Randall." "Well, er, in that case, I suppose you'd better come in." "Thank you so much." "Just wait in there, will you?" "He's upstairs doing his homework at the moment." " l'll go and get him." " A hard-working chap." "Hard work never did no man any harm, my boy." " Didn't your father tell you that?" " He never stopped telling me that." "So his teacher thinks he's intelligent?" "She never put that in his report." "Some things don't have to be said, do they?" "I'll go and get him and don't go doing that vanishing act on me this time." "No, sir." "We promise." "I could swear I've seen your face before somewhere." "Oh, no, sir." "It must have been somebody else." " (Mr Randall) Simon, are you up there?" " Hurry, Simon." "Yes, it's here. I've found it." "Come on." " Simon, I'm scared." " Why?" "Suppose it doesn't work?" "Suppose it all goes wrong again?" "We might end up in goodness knows where." "It won't go wrong this time, because we want to get back to our own time." "How do we know going back will stop Devereaux?" "It's the only thing we can do." "If only we'd realised it's not Traynor who's the threat, but Devereaux." " He's responsible for the Burn Up." " How?" "The Devereaux we met in the ice Box wasn't a clone, but a projection of one." " What?" " (Mr Randall) Are you coming..." "We must hurry." "If the Devereaux in the ice Box isn't a clone, then what is he?" "Please, Liz." "All right." "Devereaux as a clone is merely a projection." "A projection of what he could become in the future." "But how did it all start?" "The Burn Up, the ice Box, the room without windows." " Simon, tell me." " Oh, come on." " At least we're on familiar ground." " Yes, no jungles or ice fields." " l wish I knew the date." " Simon." "Commander Traynor, how did you escape?" "It's no good, Liz." "We've come back to our own time." "Take them away."