"It's locked." "But it can't be." "I only came this way a few minutes ago." "Here, wait in here." "Don't leave me." "Hurry." "(Alarm bell)" "The girl." "Come on." "Hey, you!" " Liz." " What shall we do?" "We'll have to get through a window or..." "Maria!" " Sh!" "Come this way quickly." " (Pounding on door)" "This goes straight into the yard." "Don't worry, it's a short drop." "(Man) Come on, open the door, I tell you!" " Come with us." " l'm too old for that sort of thing." "Now, hurry!" " Open up!" " What is it?" "They're in here." "Hey, look!" "Come on." " We're miles from anywhere." " No, this way!" " lt's a Ministry field." " l noticed on the way down." "Come on." "This'll do." "They won't come this far." "Look!" " What are we gonna do?" "We're trapped." " We have to go through." "We can't." "We don't know where we'll end up." "What would you rather do?" "Go back into the room without windows?" "Come on, Liz, make your mind up." "It's now or never." " We've come home." " Home?" "What do you mean?" "This is my home, where l live." "Picture of me and Dad taken years ago." "It's always been here." "(Liz laughs)" " What's so funny?" " You look like a little dwarf." " Very amusing." " How old were you in that?" "About six, I suppose. I bet you didn't look much better at that age either." "I'm sorry, Simon. I didn't mean it." "Really I didn't." "But I don't see how we've come out of a time barrier right in your front parlour." "I thought the time barrier was in the Ministry field." "So did I." "There must be a reason for it." " What's the matter?" " The wallpaper's new, and the curtains." " Nothing was like this yesterday." " What does that mean?" "Of course it was." "You're trying to frighten me." "I tell you it wasn't." "Everything's new." "It's changed but, well, it still seems familiar." "What the..." "Who let you in?" " What are you up to?" "Who are you?" " lt's me, Dad." "Simon." "You won't find him down here." "He's upstairs doing what he's supposed to - homework." "Homework?" "(Laughs) I don't see what's so funny about that if he wants to get his eleven-plus." " Eleven-plus?" " Shut up." " What's going on, anyway?" " l'm sorry, Dad, I mean, Mr Randall." "You see, Mr Randall, we're friends of your son Simon." "We came to see him." "The front door was open so we let ourselves in." " l hope you didn't mind." " Of course not." "I don't think I've seen you before, have I?" "Why didn't Simon tell me he had such a sweet, well-mannered lady friend?" "I don't know, I'm sure." "I'm sure he can spare a few minutes to see you. I'll pop up and tell him." "Haven't I seen you somewhere before?" "Once seen, never forgotten." "Yes." "You're right." "What did you do that for?" "I felt such an idiot." "He'd never believe you." "Just imagine." "Your own father doesn't know his son." " l think it's a real hoot." " Really?" "If he doesn't recognise me, it means one thing." "We're backwards in time again." "Oh, Simon, so it does." "We don't want to come backwards." "We want to stay in our own time." "Are we that far back?" " lf that's supposed to be me upstairs..." " Doing your homework." "Could be any time in the past five or six years." "(Young Simon) Dad?" "Dad?" "Are you downstairs?" " Dad?" " Where are you?" "I'm looking all over." " ln the bathroom." " Come down." "You've got friends here." " Friends?" " A nice young lady and a young man." " What's so funny?" " Oh, Simon. ls that really you?" " What do you mean?" " That squeaky little voice." "How could you be so awful?" " Come on." " (Liz laughs)" "This is stupid." "Why can't we just go home?" "If we have come back in time, we've got to find out why." " And how we meet our young versions." " l don't care. I want to go home." "Let's see what your parents say." "What about Beth and the others?" "What's Beth got to do with it?" "She's the future." " You want to stop the Burn Up?" " Yes, but..." "The only way we can do that is to find out how the Master Plan started." "If only we knew the date." "Have you got any money?" " Sixpence, why?" " lt's up here you need it." "Oi." "Are you in a hurry or something?" "You haven't got your change." "You can tip the chauffeur." "Newspapers don't cost a tanner." "Tuppence change." " Thank you." " Good job I'm honest, eh?" "1965." "No wonder Dad didn't know me." "I was only 1 1 years old." "This is fab!" "Let's see me aged 10." "We can take me to the zoo!" " We could all go out together." " And we can go to the circus and... lt's no good." "We've got to be serious." "If this is 1965, we can find out how the Master Plan started." "Blow that." "We can have fun." " We'll have to go back to R1 ." " Have you forgotten what happened?" "If I had, I wouldn't want to go back, would I?" "That strange look in Maria's eyes." "So young." "And yet her skin was old." "Oh, it was terrible. I won't go back." "We've got to. I think Devereaux started the cloning and longevity tests at R1 ." " For some reason, they went wrong." " Devereaux's dead." "No, he isn't." "Not in 1965." "Traynor told me he died in 1969." "But if we go back now, there's no knowing what might happen." "He won't hurt us." "He can't." "Remember when we were in 1914, you were shot?" "It didn't harm you." "We can't be hurt outside our own time." "How do you know?" "He tried once, he can try again." "If this is 1965, if we really have gone back, Traynor won't even know us." "Now, come on." " Ooh." " Oh, terribly sorry." "Are you all right?" "Well, yes." "One bruised elbow, one broken shoulder blade and an incipient housemaid's knee." "Well, if it's that bad, I'd better help you up." "Come on." "Here." "Hey, you really are hurt, aren't you?" "I think weak legs are just part of the treatment." " What treatment?" " l'm one of the volunteers." "Didn't you know?" "No." "No, I didn't." "Well..." "What made you volunteer?" "Idealism?" "Perhaps. I suppose I felt I owed a debt to society." "I'm beginning to think I've paid it." ".02, holding reasonably steady." "There does seem to be some slight variation in cohesion." " l hope we avoid a brain haemorrhage." " We'll try later." "Training period two." "I think it'll be too much." "The patient's brain can't take more hypnotherapy." " l said we'd try again later, Dr Frazer." " Yes." " Devereaux?" " Good morning, Commander." "What the hell's going on here?" " Those young people." "Where are they?" " Young people?" "The new patients." "Guinea pigs, human guinea pigs." " We won't go into that." " Who gave you permission?" "Do I have to seek government permission each time I need help?" "Well, frankly, yes." " These are human beings, not animals." " l'm rather tired of all this moralising." "The new batch are all volunteers." "No one's here against their will." "I gave a written undertaking to the home secretary that no human beings would be involved in experiments in this institute." "We're not here to honour your undertakings to a home secretary." "You are here because I produced the government grant for you to start here." "And let me remind you. I am just as capable of having that grant withdrawn." " This is madness. lf we're caught..." " We must get into Devereaux's office and find out about the cloning process." "Ah, there you are." "I've been waiting for you." "I take it you're asking me to resign." "Don't be a fool, man. I have far too much respect for what you're trying to do here." " Oh, so nice." " lt's just your methods I disapprove of." "You knew the experiments would be unusual when you asked me to do this." "Look." "When we send a man to the moon, we have to be sure we can get him down." "Can you give me the same assurances about longevity?" "All right." "What am I supposed to do?" "Send all the patients home?" "Sorry. I can't allow you to continue these experiments on human beings." "It's more than my job's worth and against every code of conduct." "You can't extend human life by experimenting on monkeys." "Mental control is not necessary in longevity research." "To extend a human life span to perfect the cloning transplant, then mental adjustment is vital." " Thank you." " We can only do this with hypnotherapy." "But this kind of control is savage." "It could lead to serious mental instability." " lt could...but it won't." " How can you possibly be sure?" "I'm as much at risk as anyone in these experiments and remember I'm the only one who's volunteered genetic cells for the cloning." "Oh, yes." "After your death." "That does make quite a difference." "Excellent." "And the next, please." " What's your name, young lady?" " Skinner, sir." "Elizabeth Skinner." "Elizabeth, eh?" "Good English name." "It'll help you in your journey in the unknown." "Next, please." " What brings you to join us, eh?" " Sir..." "Keep still." "You volunteered to help the cause of scientific progress." "You must know why." "Well, I've always thought that science was..." "Never mind." "The thought is there." "That's all that matters." "Thank you." "Now... listen to me, please." "My name is De Sarem." "From now on, I will be your teacher, your mother and father, and your guide." "From now on, you will no longer think for yourselves." "I shall be your inner self." "We will work together, play together." "And above all, we will think together." "If there is a problem, you will not conceal it." "If you do, our work will not succeed." "Remember that, my friends." "Then your presence here will be worthwhile." "Now, in single file, follow me." "You will move slowly at all times." "Try to remember." "Your limbs do not belong to you." " Where are we now?" " l don't know." "I'd say it's some sort of control room." "Pretty complex equipment." "The last time we were here, this was an operating theatre, remember?" "What do you suppose they need television monitors for?" " Liz, you fool." " Oh, Simon..." " What is it?" " Liz, come and look at this." "Who are all those people?" "They're like dummies." "Wax dummies, more like." "It's terrifying." "Like the inside of a tomb with dead bodies." "Dead bodies don't need iron bars at the windows." "Iron bars?" "Anyway, what's a room like that doing in a research institute?" "At least we know what these are for - keep an eye on that lot." "Simon, look." " No, don't. lt's too dangerous." " Why do you think they've done this?" "To keep people out or keep people in?" "Release the patients, sir?" "Do you know what you're saying?" "Do I speak in riddles?" "I said release the patients at once." "including the new intake?" "Very good, sir." "Then I take it you won't want to see my reports about the group one volunteers." "I can assure you they are most fascinating." "A clear tendency towards hypnoparticipation." "I want them off the premises by the end of the week." "Who the hell is that creature?" "Roderick De Sarem is no creature, I assure you." "He is one of the greatest authorities in advanced psychiatric studies in Western Europe." "Ah." "He's your hypnotist." "is that what you mean?" " Just a moment. I'd like a word with you." " There's nothing more to say." " l'm on my way to release the patients." " Don't be hasty." "There's work to do." "Do hurry up. lf anyone comes in now..." "The bolt won't budge." "Be quiet, clumsy." " What's happening?" " Nothing." "Absolutely nothing." "Right." "Two down, one to go." "Five years." "That's all it would have taken." "Do you realise that?" "Five years to develop the complete theory of cloning." "I'd sacrifice the whole programme if we could avoid one day of human suffering." "If science had to rely on men like you, there'd be no progress." "Progress?" "You call it progress to tear a man's mind to pieces, to disregard every convention?" "We don't have the right." "Not you, nor me, nor that tame hypnotist of yours." "How can you talk about something you have never experienced?" "I tell you hypnotherapy treatment is an essential part of long-term cloning." "If we can condition the mind to prolonged activity," " we're halfway to creating a clone." " No." " At least...give me a chance to prove it." " How?" "Come and see for yourself before De Sarem releases the patients." "See for yourself that your fears for their safety were unfounded." " Someone's coming." " Where?" "You have to give me a hand." "Quick." "Push." "This is all a waste of time." "You won't change my mind." " Quick." " (Devereaux) Come, Traynor... (Electronic buzzing)" "We'll get a good view from here." "The patients are about to do training period two." "Nothing to worry about." "Dr Frazer, would you like to clear optimum five, left channel?" "Yes, sir." " What's that?" " l think you might see better from there." "What's going on in there?" "This is the thought elimination process, a kind of brainwashing." "It helps us to obey and not to think for ourselves." "By use of the hypno sound beam, our patients are transported into a period of time illuminated by their surroundings." "Here you see our Regency drawing room, a time chamber drawing room." "They hear nothing, they see nothing." "Not at this age, at any rate." "Here." "Let me show you." "Dr Frazer, increase beam volume to 8.5." "(Buzzing)" "7.9." "8...8.1 ." " Coming up to maximum." " Stop this." "It's the most inhuman thing I've ever seen." "How dare you subject these people to such savagery?" " Maximum." " Did you hear what I said?" "Devereaux!" "You're a fool if you thought you could blackmail me to give up a lifetime's work." "Put a stop to these experiments at once, or I'll make sure the government finishes you and your institute." "One day, Traynor, technology'll be the master." "Look at them." "Look at them, they're puppets." "You've taken every dignity away from them." "You're murderers." "Do you hear me?" "You're nothing but mur..." "Devereaux?" " Frazer?" "!" " (Rattles handle)" "What are you playing at?" "Let me out of here... (Hissing)" "Devereaux, for God's sake!" "(Coughing)"