"(Alarm sounds)" " Right, get this suit on!" " Right." " There, normal again." " Just another power surge, eh?" " Looks like it." " Another break in process, like the water supply cutoff and the reactor failure?" " We've certainly had a lot lately." " Too much!" "And I would like to know why!" " Simon, hurry up!" " Sorry, Liz, I'm not going." " You're joking!" " l'm interested in that longevity drug." "Blow that!" "If you don't come now, we'll never live to use it!" "That's the only thing that matters now!" " Go and warn your mother of all this!" " No!" "Quick, before someone catches you!" "Daddy?" " l've told you a thousand times!" " Why have these things gone wrong?" " The director says it's human error!" " Oh, come on!" " Beth, listen!" "About the director..." " Yes, Dr Bukov?" "There are certain facts." "The director isn't the same as the rest of us." " Of course not." " He's superior intellectually but..." " ls there something wrong with him?" " l can tell you this." " The director suffers from blackouts." " He works hard all the time." " When he recovers, he has no memory." " Thank you, I was aware of that." "I observed it just half an hour ago." "It doesn't strike me as very surprising under the circumstances." "We don't help the director, do we?" "We hinder him, just as he says." "(Wind howling)" "Daddy, wake up!" "Daddy!" "(Alarm bleeping)" "(Director) So whose fault is it this time, Bukov?" "I don't know, there was that strange rise in temperature." "It must've thawed the hibernation slabs outside." "How did those volunteers escape?" "I don't know." "Liz!" "You were imprisoned behind an electronic shield!" "How did you get free?" " Answer me!" " Can't you see she's upset?" "This has been a shock to her." "She was unhappy here." " And then she saw the slabs..." " (Liz) I'm all right!" "It's a mystery about the electronic shield." " lt just vanished!" " Very convenient!" "You can hardly blame her for that." "Since they were unable to move in that room, neither Liz nor Simon..." "Simon!" "Yes, what has become of Simon?" "(Director) Since those two children came, everything's gone wrong." "I'll have to get more serum from the stores." "You'll need to be artificially fed for a couple of days after such a spell." " Will nobody answer my questions?" "!" " Questions?" "I beg your pardon but are you asking questions or telling us the conclusions you wish us to draw?" "Beth understands." "She knows that in the ice Box, the only way to work is to start with the answers and only then to look for the questions... if we haven't lost the ability, of course." "Bukov!" "How dare you speak to me like that?" "I'll not stand for it!" " Come on, Beth." " Can I stay with the patient for a while?" " Why?" " The hibernation experiment." "I've little in the way of statistics yet." "As he regains consciousness, the children's reactions might be of value." "Very well, Beth..." "By all means!" " Mummy, why didn't you tell me?" " How could I?" "You would never have understood, you know you wouldn't!" "That isn't why!" "You didn't dare." "How could you let this happen to Daddy?" "Oh, Liz, we couldn't manage any longer and Beth..." "Oh, it had to be Beth!" "All this was her doing, wasn't it?" "(Door closes)" "He'll be all right." "It's a regulated experiment." "All factors controlled by the computer." "You and your computer!" "And the director, come to that!" "I suppose he was behind all this!" " You think he's marvellous!" " Yes, I do!" "You never stop to think whether he's right!" "You want to be like him!" "How could you hope to appreciate what the director is trying to achieve?" " You're a stupid little girl!" " That's right, I'm stupid!" "I'd rather stay stupid than become like you!" "I won't let it happen!" "Look what you've done to Mummy and Daddy!" "Mummy's too scared to talk to me!" "She never used to be like that!" " Now, listen..." " Will you both stop it!" "What matters now is Frank." "We're here, it's all happened." "We've got to find a way of dealing with it." "I'm sorry, Mummy. lt's just..." "Somebody tell me, why did he have to be frozen in the ice?" "The hibernation experiment is different from anything else we're doing here." "We've yet to show that long-term freezing produces any ill effects." "This particular experiment will have to be accounted a failure." "Frank should've remained in the ice for ten years." "At least." " Ten years?" " He knew that when he volunteered." " Did he volunteer, Mummy?" " Yes, of course, dear." " You don't sound so sure!" " Stop asking questions." "Daddy came here with you, just to do something like this?" " That's confidential information, Jean." " l want to know!" "Very well, Liz..." "Your father's volunteering for this was a condition of our coming here." " Jean...!" " What's the good of evading the truth?" "In the beginning, the authorities had no use for your father." "Then they said that if he would do this... I could come with Beth as I wanted to." "That's why he did it?" "So you could be with Beth?" "Yes, Liz..." "This is a wicked place!" "You know that too now!" "Go away. I've had as much of you as I can take!" "You won't remember the past!" "You're frightened of it!" "Jean, ask her to go away." "She's nothing to do with me." "But I am!" "I am you!" "Only, you're not me." "You've changed too much!" "Better intelligence, scientific progress and your..." " l'm not staying to listen to this!" " Please, don't go!" "Don't you see?" "We can't escape from one another, you and I." "It's the director who worries you." "You can't go against him." " l will not stay..." " You think he's always right!" "But how can he be when he lets things like this happen?" "How can you say the rise in temperature is my doing?" "You keep saying Liz and Simon weren't responsible." " They were imprisoned." " They've caused enough trouble, yet you go out of your way to excuse them. I query your motives!" " Director, I cannot allow you..." " Allow, Bukov?" "!" "I want the truth." "Larry could not have been solely responsible." "It'd be out of the question to blame Beth or Jean." "That leaves you." " l thought you wanted the truth." " Sorry?" "Director, I have to tell you I have certain evidence concerning the things that've gone wrong." "I was intending to report to the lnternational Commission but know I see I must show it to you." "What right have you to make a report?" "Every right." "I know you'll question my right to do this but Edith Joynton and I have a special brief from the lnternational Commission." " l know nothing of it." " No, our brief was to report on you." "You?" "Report on me?" "!" "This case contains computer tapes." "I do not accept that you were detailed to spy on me!" "If you think..." "Each of these tapes contains a break at a critical point." "There's an interruption, a break in programming." " lmpossible!" " Aren't we starting with conclusions and working our way back to questions?" "With your permission, Director." " You'd better come and see this." " Yeah?" " Bukov!" " What is it?" "The temperature control again." "Only this time, we're showing a heat loss." "(High-pitched tones)" "(Humming sound increases in frequency)" "That's three degrees in half an hour!" "Not an abnormal variation." "You said you were looking for the truth." "I have it for you." "No, like everyone else who works against me, all you have is theories." "Only I can be relied upon for the truth." "Every operation of the computer is checked by you daily on brain link." "The computer can't make mistakes but if, while you're programming..." "Enough, Bukov!" "I'll hear no more!" "Not a word!" "Nearly four degrees." "(intense humming)" "(Frequency increases)" "It's all right." "He's coming round." "Beth!" " l don't think you should stay." " l want to be with him." "It would be too much for him." "He thinks of you as belonging to the past, the good past." "Will you stay, Beth?" "No, Jean." "No..." "(Moans)" "Frank..." "Frank, my dear..." " Liz?" " What is it this time?" "I know you don't like me much, with good reason..." " Don't like you?" "I hate you!" " Be fair!" "You make decisions and hope they come out for the best." "You'll know that soon." "But I'll never make your decisions, will I?" "And how did I come to make them?" "We're the same, Liz." "I'm like a person you could never be and you're like someone I never was!" " Liz, guess what I found in there?" " ln the director's office again?" " l understand about the testament!" " Stop this!" " You've interfered once too often." " You don't know, either!" "All you did was service that computer for Devereaux." "You never knew what it was truly for." "Come on, you've got to see!" " Just watch this." " What?" "(Simon) There." "What does it mean?" "I don't know what you'd call it properly but I think it's a kind of life history." " The director's?" " Do you know what the director is?" "I mean, what he truly is?" "Dr Bukov once told me the director was a clone." "A clone?" "What's a clone?" " No, it can't be true." " Somebody tell me what a clone is." "A clone is a person constructed from the genetic cells of someone else." "From that other Devereaux who died." "It doesn't..." "I didn't know it was possible!" "Nobody knew it was possible and the director's keeping it that way." "This computer is here to build another clone and what we've just seen is as far as it's got." "And that's the testament, too." "The secret of the longevity drug." "Now it's part of the new clone." "Once that becomes mature, it'll be Devereaux all over again... and the secret will be safe inside his head." "It's dropping all the time." " Well?" " No, Director, procedurally OK." " Remarkable!" " Remarkable?" "The fault can only be in the programming." "Bukov, for the last time, that's impossible!" "Why?" "Because every operation of the computer is checked by you on brain link and you can't admit that you could have made a mistake?" "Lies!" "lnsinuations!" "You won't hear what I've got to say, then?" "Larry...from now on, you'll do everything I say, please." "I'm assuming command." "Too much danger, Director." "You can't be trusted to govern us any more." "It's so cold." "What's wrong?" " (Director) No!" " Director!" "Beth, help me!" "Emergency signal, central control!" "I've no choice." "His mistakes will kill us if I don't take over!" " No!" " Larry, get his arms. inside, quickly!" "(Larry) Right!" " Ah!" "Agh!" " A computer headclamp, Larry!" " What for?" " Don't argue, get it!" " No!" " Here you are..." " Throw an electronic shield around him." " Oh!" "Agh!" "Right... (Director moans)" "No!" "How dare you!" "Beth, help me!" "(Bukov) We're going to analyse one of these instruction tapes." "It's the one from yesterday morning." "Your programming of the HA57 dosage." "It was because her dosage was incorrect that Edith Joynton died." " That's a lie!" " Memory scanner!" " The heat is seven below, Bukov!" " Beth, don't let them do it!" "No, no, there was no error, you understand?" "So, Director, you have contact?" "Answer, please." "(Director) Yeah, yeah, contact..." "Ah, this is clear..." "That's right..." "You're programming the drug dosage for..." "Beth, I think." " All in order." " This is idiocy...!" "Ah, yes, Edith Joynton." "You begin programming..." " There was no error!" " You continue..." "You are just prescribing the variable dosage when..." " Aaaagh!" " A blank!" "A break in programming!" "When the computer converted your instruction to manufacture, there was still a blank and Edith died!" " No!" " Shall we analyse the other tapes?" "The ones relating to the water supply, the volunteers?" "It's because you suffer from blackouts, Director." "Were you aware of that?" " Blackouts?" "!" " They're beyond your control, your mind goes blank." "You're not perfect, after all." "15 below, Bukov!" "Director, you must go on brain link, correct the error you've made." "Error..." "All this time..." "Error?" "No time to waste, Director!" "Can't be..." "My brain..." "The computer..." "Most reliable combination in the world." " You must reprogram." " No, I don't believe you." "You're deceiving me, all of you." "Yeah..." "You're working against me as always." "You, Beth, Bukov...everyone!" "You're not worthy of me." "I shall leave you." "I shall leave you to your fate." "Director!" " No!" " You must reprogram!" "No!" "Ow!" "Director!" "Larry, it's so cold... 20 below..." "That's ice, Beth. lce..." "What are we going to do?" " The antifreeze." " What?" "The serum, the stuff Bukov called antifreeze." "You're right..." "We can't wait any longer." "Emergency signal to Central Control... (Beeping)" "..and the supply cupboard." "Larry..." "I'm sorry." "It's all right." "The serum, I'm taking it to Mummy and Daddy." "I think he ran right outside, Simon, right onto the ice." "The finest scientific mind in the world, unable to face the fact that he could've made a mistake." "Take these, Mummy." "Give Daddy some too." "It'll keep you alive till help arrives." "It's so cold." "What's happened?" "The Ice Box is freezing over." "The director could've saved us but he's gone." " Gone?" "Where to?" " l don't know..." "He wouldn't reprogram the computer." "Bukov proved it was his fault Dr Joynton died." "It's his fault we're freezing." "He couldn't face being wrong." "(Sighs)" "Don't worry, Mummy, Simon and I will get out of here, back to our own time, to you and Daddy." "We'll go on living as we did before." "I won't let any of this happen, I promise I won't!" "(Wind whistles)"