" Inside, I tell you!" " Daddy!" "That's right." "Now, I want no more of this, you understand." "I have important work to do here." "Nothing must interfere with it." "Nothing." " Nehmen Sie den Kapitan zuruck." " Jawohl, Herr Kapitan." "Frank!" "Frank!" "Oh, Frank, what's happened?" "You must do as I say." "Look, Mr Traynor, sir, I'm not going to be pushed around any more." "You stopped being my commander the day I was demobbed in 1940." "You can't believe anything I tell you." "You won't even admit that it's remotely possible." "No." "No, of course it isn't possible." "Moonshine!" "Well?" "What's the matter with him?" "I can't tell." "All I know is he's ill and needs help!" "He went into that room to get some coffee." "Hmph." " Very peculiar." " Do something!" "He's really sick!" "I don't know what's happened, but we've got to help him!" "And that was my father out there!" "It was!" " Everything's getting so mixed up!" " Very well." "Now, I'll tell you what." "If you agree to stop playing games, I'll let you take him inside to see what you can do for him, all right?" " Yes." " But no more tricks." "All right." " Gehen Sie hinein." " Jawohl." " What do you think you're doing?" " Sorry, I was..." "Who told you to touch that?" " Commander Traynor?" " Commander Traynor?" "Destroy it before I had the chance to study it, was that the plan?" "No, Commander Traynor didn't say anything." "We did some experiments like this at school." "At school?" "Your schools in England must be ahead of ours in Germany." "Very well ahead." "You stay here." "And you, you'd better finish the job he was doing." "We still need food." " You said I could look after him!" " Something to keep us going." "But I can't even boil an egg!" "Better and better." "So we'll have no depressing English boiled eggs." "Go." "And now, I think you will assist me in examining this equipment." "You will explain to me some of these experiments you have done at school." " Kommen Sie hier." " Was ist passiert?" " Ein Matrose ist krank." " Bleib still." "Skinner." "Skinner!" "What's been happening?" "Have you..." "Was wollen Sie wissen?" "Kein Doktor, kein Doktor." " Er wird nicht sterben." " Nein, gewiss." "What if it were possible for people to travel from now into the past?" " Oh, for God's sake, Commander!" "Oh!" " What is it?" "I had a... a sudden stabbing pain here." "A headache?" "Yes, it..." "It seemed as if there was a...a sudden flash of bright light..." "Here, wait a bit..." "That could add up." " 1940..." " Yes?" "Something about a...blinding light." "It's important we know what happened to you then." " Why?" " l was under close guard." "You had a certain freedom of action and I gave you a job to do." "Can you remember carrying it out?" " Job?" " There are things you might have seen." " Only you, Skinner!" " No, it's just a blank." "Unless the children are in there observing them again." " Oh, come on!" " l know!" "I'm like a dog at a bone!" "But curiously, being a scientist nowadays only teaches you not to be content with what you can see, touch, and feel." "What doesn't pollute the atmosphere has a tendency to blow up." "So there..." "There have to be other realities, Skinner." "Mysteries beyond our ken." ""Pilchards in tomato sauce."" ""Pilchards in tomato sauce."" ""Pilchards in..." "Now, then, we'll try it." "The transmitter, please, as I showed you." "Very good. increase range now." " (Bleeping)" " Yes!" "Yes, I understand." "It's all too simple, really." " That signal's strange, but I..." " Yes?" "A terminal's loose, needs some solder." "Then solder it." " Pretty elementary stuff." " What?" "Even in backward German schools, we could muddle through to this." " But you British are advanced." " l wouldn't know." " l'm just from the village." " Must be quite a place." "A remarkable centre." "You wouldn't be aware of anything else going on here?" " What else?" " You're asking me to believe that the Royal Navy builds a research centre to conduct school experiments?" "Don't you know anything?" "Open tins from the top!" "I don't want to know!" "Frank, my father, look at him!" " And you go on about opening tins!" " We have to eat!" "Simon, what does it mean - Daddy and Traynor turning up like that?" "I'm not sure, but I think they were really there." " Of course they were!" "So were we!" " No!" " What?" " As far as they knew, we weren't." " We're in 1940, aren't we?" " Are we?" "is it true?" "Because they're in the time we've come from, we saw them, but they couldn't see us and the Germans couldn't see them." "I don't know what you're talking about!" " Why did they come here, then?" " Looking for us, I expect." "And then there's Frank, what about him?" "Don't get all steamed up." "We've got to keep calm..." " lt's all so weird!" " Oh, stop." "You call everything weird!" "But weird's a stupid word!" "We..." "We must make a plan to get out of here." " How?" " The hole in the fence." "We should be able to get back that way." "You, me, and Sarah." " Sarah?" " We can't leave her here." "But Sarah's not very bright, Simon." "And what about Frank?" "Frank recovers." "You know he does, or you wouldn't be here." "We'll have to work it out." "I'll be in trouble soon if I don't escape." " You?" " You see, I understand about radar." "I know how it was developed during the war." "Gottfried will make me tell him all I know soon." "Tell him!" "What difference does it make?" "For goodness' sake!" "Don't you know there's a war on?" "(Knocking)" " Food." "Something to eat." " Ah, danke." "Well, looks good." "Do the prisoners of war get food, too?" " l suppose so." " That German guard, create a diversion." " What?" " Distract his attention." " Can I rely on you?" " l'll try." "Good girl." " Here you are." "Nice and..." " Ahhh!" " Skinner, it's me." "Can you hear me?" " Bright lights." " That job, did you manage it?" " Don't..." "Lights..." "Did you do it, man?" "Answer me!" "Skinner, what's happened to you...?" "So he's becoming better." "Well, he seemed to be coming round for a moment." "Very strange." "Healthy, by the look of him." "Yes." " A blackout, then." " A blackout." "Commander, would you do me the honour of taking dinner with me?" " What?" " The young lady has prepared food." "We might enjoy it together." "Perhaps we could talk." " As you wish, Kapitan." " l'm obliged, Commander." "Your friend seems a little better." "Tempt him with something to eat." "After you, sir." "Here we are, Mrs Skinner." "A nice cup of tea just like mother used to make." "Thank you, Mr Bradley." " Feeling better now?" " Yes, yes, it was nothing." "My husband isn't back yet?" "Just after you went upstairs, he went out again with Mr Traynor." "To the old naval station, I think he said." " The naval station?" " Aye." "Don't know what for." "People should stay away from such places." "I mean, it's the past, is that." "Don't want to go digging up the past, do we?" "If there's anything else you want, just ring." "Thank you." "(High-pitched whirring)" "Frank?" "Frank!" "I've got something to eat for you here." " Come on, Frank." " Liz!" "Gone back in time?" "Back in time?" "What are you talking about?" "I honestly believe it may be so." "By a means we don't yet understand," "Liz and Simon has slipped back into another time phase - 1940." "Your vision makes me surer than ever." " Vision?" " Whatever it was that you saw." "Oh, yes, it was quite extraordinary." "Quite different from that other business - the dreams I've had." "I saw Liz clearly, as though she were here, looking after someone who seemed sick." "A young sailor." "Exactly." "Your husband after his injury at the station." " Me?" " Frank..." "This is as hard for me to understand as it is for you, but you were at the station then and that is where you had your accident." "You don't mean to say you believe Mr Traynor?" "No, but I've got to listen, all the same." "It's an explanation of a sort." "Mr Traynor, Liz and Simon are in 1940, you say." " The war." " That's my guess." " At a time when Germans came." " Yes." "Then if it's possible, they're in danger!" "Oh, no. I wouldn't have thought so." "The past can't actually exist again." "But the energy has been released and does remain so people who, for whatever reason, are sensitive to the effects of that energy are not so much actually there in the past as undergoing..." "well, a kind of hallucination." " Hallucination?" " They'll be perfectly safe in 1940." "And I should settle for that?" "Accept it, forget my fears?" "It's the only way it could be accepted in physics." "I see." "Very well." "Since you appear so certain, what do you suggest we do?" " Do?" " Liz and Simon can't be left there!" "If they've vanished into this "time bubble", they've got to be got out!" " Oh, yes, yes, of course." " Then what do we do?" "Well, dear lady, what would you suggest?" "Fritz, kommen Sie." "(Whispers) Liz... I've worked out a plan to get out of here." "That German guard will be back soon." "Listen closely." "All we have to do is..." " Excellent." "Excellent." "A fine meal." " Oh, yes." "Good old pilchards. lf you'd raided Claridge's, you couldn't do better." "I'm sorry?" "It may be handing you an advantage to tell you so, but you amuse me." " Oh?" " You're a sphinx without a secret." " What is this expression?" " Be serious!" "All this politeness is because you want something." "You might as well be honest and come out with it because you won't get it." " l won't?" " No." " l'm fighting a war just as you are." " Yes, the war." "This is true." "Such a misfortune." " Cigar?" " Thank you." "Commander Charles Traynor of the Royal Navy." "It was a surprise when I learnt that you were in charge of this station." "I remembered you for physics papers in the lnternational Science Review." "Especially one in 1937 on the possibility of radio signals from beyond the atmosphere." "I wrote to you questioning one or two points, you may recall." "Gottfried!" "Helmut K Gottfried of..." "Heidelberg University, Faculty of Physics!" "Well, I'll be damned!" "As a matter of fact, you helped me a great deal." "Two of your objections were valid and as a result of that, I was..." "Exactly." "As you point out, we are fighting a war." "So I won't get what I want from you, Commander." "Well...perhaps not as an enemy, but as a scientist?" "There are certain questions, I'm afraid." " First of all, that boy." " What boy?" "Simon." "You know more about him." "He helped you to get in." " No." " He didn't?" "We Germans have not yet stooped to using children." " But he's very knowledgeable." " Yes, he is, isn't he?" "That's it. I don't know who the kid is or how he comes by his knowledge." " Very well." "Question two..." " (Knocking)" "Herein!" "Danke." "I may have less time here than I had hoped." "So, I've examined the equipment and it tells me very little I didn't know." "So will you tell me, please, what your real work here is?" "(Clears throat)" " Excuse me, sir." " Yes, what is it?" "There's something you ought to know about." "Oh, really?" "Such as?" "Before you arrived, we were outside in the field." " Yes." "How did you get there?" " What?" "How did you get there?" " Oh...we climbed the fence." " Really?" "Then the sailors brought us inside, but the point is Sarah saw some..." "Sarah?" "Who is Sarah?" " The other girl." " She saw someone burying something." " Burying something?" "What?" " Near the fence." "Sarah said it looked like a machine." " ls that so?" " Yes." " Why are you telling me this?" " We thought you ought to know." " You want to help me?" " No." "The Commander's been pretty hard on us." "You're better." "Villagers don't like people here." "They're..." " Weird." " Yes, weird." "And hard on people." "Now, what's all this about, I wonder?" "You don't behave like children out of a village anywhere, especially Simon." "Now tell me the truth." "The real truth." "What are you doing here?" "Nothing!" "We were playing, then happened to get in here." " The sailors took us prisoner." " Very well." "We'll go to where this machine was buried." " Only Sarah knows that." " Go and get her." "I hope I explain myself properly to both of you." "I haven't a great deal of time." "I'm not going to be pleased if I find people are wasting it." "Come on, Simon." "Come on, we're going for a walk." "You want to get home to your mother, don't you?" " My mother?" " Yes, your mother!" "Don't you?" " What's the trouble?" " Nothing." "She's just frightened." "Come on." "You have to do everything we say." "To see your mother again." " (Liz) Understand?" " Where are you taking that girl?" " l have to question her." " Gottfried!" "The children are under my authority." "If anything should happen to them..." "How many times do I have to tell you that I am not here to harm anyone?" "For us, war isn't an opportunity to maim and kill, especially not children." "It's just something we have to put up with - a tragedy, a misfortune." "So it could be true, Jean." " lt could be true." " l saw Liz." "Yes, you saw Liz and I must admit, up at the station with Traynor, I felt..." "Oh, look, you say. I just don't know what's the best thing to do." "We can still call the police if you think we should." "If it is true, the police wouldn't be any help." "This theory of Mr Traynor's, it clears a lot of things up in a strange way." " What things?" " Well...the dreams, you know." "They had me worried to begin with cos l didn't know what to relate them to." "Now I see they could really be a sort of... shared knowledge, an understanding between me and Liz." "What happens exactly?" "If they're in this other time and we can't get them out... then what do we do?" "Oh, I don't know." "Darling, you're tired." "Look, you have a lie down." "Try and get some rest." "I'll bring you up a nice hot drink." "(High-pitched whirring)" "So...where is this burial place?" "Sarah, show him where you saw the men digging." "You saw them burying something, didn't you?" " Eh?" " You told us." "Some men, a kind of machine." "They buried it." " Sarah!" " Yeah, yeah, I remember." "Where, please, where?" "There, just there." " By those rocks?" " Yeah." " The ground hasn't been touched." " She meant under the rocks, sir." " Under them?" " That's what you meant, isn't it?" "That's what she meant." "Under them." " They're fixed." " Just a minute." " Oh, no, some are loose." " (Sarah squealing)" "Stop!" "Oh, yes." "Give me a hand, Simon." "Go on, it's our way home!" " (Sarah) No, I can't!" " 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..." "Liz!"