Sapphire and Steel. E01. Escape Through A Crack In Time. Part 3 of 6.
First broadcast 17th July 1979.
Sapphire and Steel investigate the upstairs hallway after Rob sees a pair of ghostly soldiers on the landing.
David McCallum ... Steel
Joanna Lumley ... Sapphire
Steven O'Shea ... Robert Jardine
Tamasin Bridge ... Helen Jardine
Felicity Harrison ... Mother
Sapphire and Steel investigate the upstairs hallway after Rob sees a pair of ghostly soldiers on the landing.
David McCallum ... Steel
Joanna Lumley ... Sapphire
Steven O'Shea ... Robert Jardine
Tamasin Bridge ... Helen Jardine
Felicity Harrison ... Mother
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00:00Just kneel down by the door.
00:26Just outside the door.
00:29Come along, Rob.
00:30Kneel down by the door.
00:33It's easy enough to open the door.
00:35Easy enough to let us out.
00:36How?
00:37You just put your face close to the door.
00:40Come along, Rob.
00:41You can do it.
00:42That's right.
00:43That's fine.
00:44Now then, all you have to do is to say a rhyme, a nursery rhyme, an old one, any one
00:59providing it's old.
01:01Well, can't you remember one?
01:04Then just say it, Rob.
01:05Just say it.
01:06Say it.
01:07I can't.
01:08Say it.
01:09I'm too old to say nursery rhymes.
01:13Well then, let's call it history.
01:17Now, you're old enough for history, aren't you, Rob?
01:19Yes.
01:20And a lot of nursery rhymes are a part of history.
01:22I've always taught you that, haven't I, Rob?
01:24No!
01:25So, say the one that's in your head.
01:26Which one?
01:27The one that's in there now.
01:28Don't lose it, Rob.
01:30Think of the soldiers.
01:32Soldiers?
01:33Climbing the stairs, swords in their hands, searching for people.
01:39Goosey goosey gander!
01:41The one.
01:42Where shall I?
01:43Where shall I?
01:44Where shall I wander?
01:45Upstairs and downstairs.
02:11All irregularities will be handled by the forces controlling each dimension.
02:33Transuranic, heavy elements may not be used where there is life.
02:40Medium atomic weights are available.
02:43Gold, lead, copper, jet, diamond, radium, sapphire, silver and steel.
02:55Sapphire and steel have been assigned.
03:02No!
03:04Sapphire!
03:05Steel!
03:07Steel!
03:38It could not have been your mother.
03:41But it called to me.
03:43Called your name?
03:44Yes, it called.
03:46Rob!
03:47Like that.
03:48I thought it was my mother.
03:49It was her voice.
03:51Just like it.
03:52Except it got a few things wrong.
03:54It made mistakes.
03:56I wasn't fighting her this time, honest.
03:59The voice called me.
04:01I had to go, didn't I?
04:03Have they all stopped again?
04:05Yes.
04:06I mean, I did as I was told.
04:08I wouldn't have gone up there if the voice hadn't have called out to me.
04:11I believe you.
04:12This time.
04:23Did the soldiers come out of the room?
04:25No, they came up the stairs.
04:27Well, not all the way up.
04:30They just kind of appeared on the top staircase.
04:40Something could have been let loose during the breakthrough.
04:43A visual refraction.
04:44Visual refraction.
04:47Yes, you'd probably call them...
04:49What would he call them?
04:50Ghosts.
04:51Ghosts!
04:54Did anything come out of that room?
04:56No!
04:57And the door's not nailed up anymore.
04:59No.
05:00No, it's a different door.
05:03Another refraction.
05:05Probably.
05:06Look, I saw it!
05:08I mean, you can't have a ghost door as well, can you?
05:11Yes.
05:14But those soldiers looked solid enough.
05:16They would.
05:20They kicked the door open.
05:41What is it?
05:44Something.
05:45I'm not sure, just something.
05:48Is it still going?
05:50Yes, but it's lost seven minutes.
05:53Since we came up the stairs?
05:54Yes.
05:56My dad's had that clock for years.
05:57Has it always been reliable?
05:59I don't really know.
06:02This is where the soldiers first appeared.
06:09Are you sure nothing came out of that room?
06:11I told you!
06:28Anyway, it'll be open now.
06:30The different door.
06:32Look, I'll show you!
06:34Wait!
06:43You see?
07:02It's back as it was.
07:04And so is the clock.
07:06So those seven minutes were lost down there on that landing.
07:22Keep still!
07:38And that's what you saw.
07:39No variation.
07:40They didn't seem different.
07:44The clock's working perfectly.
07:46It didn't stop.
07:47It didn't lose time.
07:48They didn't affect it.
07:51Something did.
08:07When the voice called to you, which rhyme did you say?
08:10Which one did you choose?
08:12Well, I didn't exactly choose it.
08:14I was more or less told to say it.
08:16Told to say it?
08:18Yes, it was kind of put into my head.
08:20So I was thinking it.
08:22Which one?
08:23Don't say it out loud.
08:25Look at me.
08:28Look at me and remember exactly what you said.
08:31Say it in your mind.
08:36Goosey goosey gander!
08:39Where shall I wander?
08:43Upstairs and downstairs.
08:47And you only said those three lines out loud?
08:50Yes.
08:51And then the soldiers appeared?
08:53Yes.
08:56Upstairs and downstairs.
08:58Upstairs and downstairs.
08:59Upstairs and downstairs.
09:08Sapphire?
09:09Upstairs and downstairs.
09:11Yes, Steel?
09:16Do it again.
09:17Walk up the stairs again.
09:41Nothing.
09:43So what do we do?
09:45Blame the clock?
09:47The first mercy rhyme derives from the time of the plague
09:50and the second one, which Rob was made to say,
09:52also has historical relevance.
09:54It refers to the Parliamentary Wars.
09:56Parliamentary Wars?
09:58When Commonwealth troops searched houses
09:59looking for people who wouldn't pray.
10:02Wouldn't pray?
10:03Unbelievers.
10:04Ah.
10:05Don't you know your history?
10:09I know mine, yes.
10:17But you must have heard of Cromwell.
10:21How many lines of that second rhyme did you say?
10:23Three.
10:24I wouldn't say it all.
10:26I fought it.
10:28So the danger is still contained in that room.
10:32And the visual refraction, those soldiers that we saw,
10:35they're harmless.
10:36The room's full of them.
10:38They're just things let loose.
10:40Does she mean let loose by the breakthrough?
10:42Yes.
10:44You mean not part of the plan.
10:47They must be harmless.
10:49Those soldiers are an anachronism.
10:52They must have lived and died a good hundred years
10:54before this house was even built.
10:58You know, most of this is history gone wrong.
11:01We've never had that before.
11:05And then again, maybe it is part of the plan.
11:07What?
11:08The confusion.
11:10It's a way of diverting us.
11:12From what?
11:14I don't know.
11:15But they know it's us.
11:17They're not likely to use tricks we already know, are they?
11:26Steel!
11:30Sapphire?
11:32Sapphire?
11:33Yes, Steel.
11:35Speak to me.
11:37I'm in a room.
11:38In a tiny room.
11:39How are you standing?
11:40Facing a wall.
11:41You haven't changed your position.
11:43No, I'm as I was when I was last in the house with you.
11:45You're still in this house, Sapphire.
11:47Yes.
11:48Keep remembering that.
11:49And don't move.
11:50Don't change your position.
11:51Don't make yourself a part of that room.
11:53No.
11:55We walked right into it, didn't we?
11:57I walked right into it.
11:59Don't think that.
12:00You're still in this house with us.
12:02Right?
12:04Sapphire?
12:06Yes, I heard that.
12:08Good.
12:10Now describe the room to me.
12:13It's part of a cottage.
12:16Probably discovery in an old cottage.
12:21Day or night?
12:23Day.
12:24But it's not.
12:25It's night.
12:26Keep remembering that it's night and that you're here with us.
12:29Yes.
12:30Think of that room as a picture.
12:32Nothing else.
12:33I'm looking at a picture.
12:35It was a picture.
12:37Yes?
12:38It was a picture of a cottage at the top of the stairs.
12:40Can you see it?
12:41Yes, I can see it.
12:42It was waiting for us.
12:44It got into the picture.
12:46It wants me to think I'm in a room in that cottage.
12:48Well, you're not.
12:50No.
12:53It's cold here.
12:55You're not in that room, Sapphire.
12:58It's very cold here.
13:02It happened in this room once.
13:04That room?
13:06Something terrible.
13:09It knows that.
13:11It wants me to know it.
13:13It wants me to sense it.
13:16It wants me to be a part of this room.
13:22To be a part of what happened.
13:24Sapphire!
13:27Sapphire!
13:30It's all right.
13:32I'm in control of it.
13:34I won't think what it wants me to think.
13:37Now, when I tell you, I want you to do something for me.
13:41I want you to look over your right shoulder.
13:44Do it very quickly and then back.
13:47Can you hear me?
13:49Yes.
13:51I want to know if you can still see the picture.
13:55Very quickly, then back.
13:58Now.
14:04Sapphire?
14:06It's all right. The picture's not there.
14:08Don't tell me!
14:10Are you facing the way you were?
14:12Yes.
14:13Good, then stay like that.
14:15Don't move.
14:21Can't we get the picture?
14:23Wouldn't that stop it?
14:25If you had the picture, you'd end up in this room with me.
14:46What was that?
14:56Couldn't we smash the picture?
14:59It wouldn't smash what's hiding inside it.
15:02Apart from which, it might smash me.
15:11Sapphire, could you try to take the picture?
15:16I can't.
15:18I'm afraid I can't.
15:21Sapphire, could you try to take time back?
15:27I could try, yes.
15:29And even ten minutes would do it.
15:31I'll try. Will you help me?
15:33Yes.
15:41Now concentrate.
15:52Hello?
15:54Shh! Go to sleep, Helen.
15:56No, I want Sapphire.
15:58Where is she?
16:00Keep her down there.
16:02Is she upstairs?
16:04No, Sapphire, take it back.
16:06Yes, take it back.
16:08I can hear her.
16:09I know.
16:10But I can't see her. Where is she?
16:12Helen, please, I'm begging you.
16:14I'm begging you.
16:16I'm begging you.
16:18I'm begging you.
16:20Where is she?
16:21Helen, please, be quiet.
16:22Where are you, Sapphire?
16:23It's all right, Helen. Just do as Rob says.
16:26Yes, Sapphire.
16:27You've got to do it now, Sapphire, before it's too late.
16:41That's it.
16:42Don't you know your history?
16:44I know mine, yes.
16:47But you must have heard of Cromwell.
16:49That's me.
16:50How many lines of that second rhyme did you say?
16:53Three.
16:54I wouldn't say it all.
16:55I fought them.
16:58Don't lose it.
17:00Don't lose it.
17:03So the danger is still contained in that room.
17:06And the visual refraction, those soldiers that we saw,
17:09well, they're harming us.
17:11They're almost swarming with them.
17:13I mean, we saw them, they're just things let loose.
17:16Does she mean let loose by the breakthrough?
17:18Yes.
17:19You mean they're not part of the plan?
17:21They must be harmless.
17:23Those soldiers are an anachronism.
17:25They must have lived and died a good hundred years
17:28before this house was even built.
17:30I mean, most of this is history gone wrong.
17:33We've never had that before.
17:35Keep it going.
17:37Keep it going.
17:44You can do it, Sapphire.
17:46I can't.
17:47You can.
17:48I can't.
17:49You can!
17:51Please, Steel, it's no good.
17:54It's in here with me.
18:01Sapphire.
18:03It's fighting, and it's winning.
18:05I'm not strong enough.
18:07I can't win.
18:10You don't have to win, Sapphire.
18:12Can you hold it for two minutes?
18:15Can you give me two minutes?
18:17Yes.
18:19Steel, be careful.
18:23What are you going to do?
18:25I'm going to your father's workshop for a moment.
18:28Till I come back, you keep Helen here.
18:33Try to keep Sapphire talking.
18:35Right.
18:37Right.
19:08Sapphire, Steel said...
19:10Yes, I heard.
19:12Is this like the ship?
19:14The what?
19:15The job you had to do on a ship.
19:18Um, yes, only this is slightly more difficult.
19:22Sorry.
19:24Only I'm supposed to keep you talking.
19:26You're doing fine.
19:28Sapphire?
19:30Hello, Helen.
19:31I want to see Sapphire.
19:33Soon, Helen. Soon.
19:35Just be patient.
19:37Yes.
20:05You
20:35I'll tell you one thing, Rob.
20:59Yes?
21:00I'm glad that I'm of choice.
21:02What?
21:04I could have settled for oranges and lemons.
21:35Yes.
21:37Then again, if Round Hood soldiers belong anywhere, they belong in this hellhole.
22:07Rob, do you hear that?
22:17Hear what?
22:28Rob, will you fetch steel?
22:32Rob, quickly, please.
22:36Something terrible happened here.
22:39Oh, please, help me.
22:43Steel!
22:45Steel!
22:46Don't come in.
22:47Please, help me.
22:50Quickly, please.
22:57Open the door and stand clear.
23:02Don't touch me.
23:05Don't come near me.
23:11Get the child.
23:13Quickly!
23:19Come on!
23:22Get her away from me.
23:24Come on!
23:34Someone was killed in this room.
23:36A young girl.
23:37And it wants me to be hurt.
23:38It wants it to happen all over again.
23:43Steel, don't!
23:45The girl's killers are here.
23:47They've broken down the door.
23:51Steel!
24:13It's gone.
24:14The room's gone.
24:15Good-bye, Hobbs.
24:45THE END
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