First broadcast 19th July 1979.
Steel's drastic measures to save Sapphire and trap the pool of light prove effective, if extremely dangerous.
David McCallum ... Steel
Joanna Lumley ... Sapphire
Steven O'Shea ... Robert Jardine
Tamasin Bridge ... Helen Jardine
Val Pringle ... Lead
Ronald Goodale ... Countryman
Felicity Harrison ... Mother (voice)
Steel's drastic measures to save Sapphire and trap the pool of light prove effective, if extremely dangerous.
David McCallum ... Steel
Joanna Lumley ... Sapphire
Steven O'Shea ... Robert Jardine
Tamasin Bridge ... Helen Jardine
Val Pringle ... Lead
Ronald Goodale ... Countryman
Felicity Harrison ... Mother (voice)
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00:00This is a work of fiction. Any resemblance to anyone, living or dead, is coincidental and unintentional.
00:24Get the child.
00:26Quickly!
00:31Let me check how it's acting.
00:32Come on!
00:35Get her away from me.
00:36It's cold.
00:37Come on!
00:47Someone was killed in this room. A young girl. And it wants me to be hurt. It wants it to happen all over again.
00:56Still, don't!
00:57The girl's killers are here. They've broken down the door.
01:02Still!
01:23Tifa!
01:24Tifa!
01:26It's gone! The room's gone!
01:28But they haven't!
01:29All irregularities will be handled by the forces controlling each dimension.
01:54Transuranic heavy elements may not be used where there is life. Medium atomic weights are available.
02:05Gold, lead, copper, jet, diamond, radium, sapphire, silver and steel.
02:17Sapphire and steel have been assigned.
02:25Still!
02:49I've got it.
02:54I've got it.
03:02What's wrong with steel?
03:04He reduced his temperature to minus 273.1 degrees.
03:08That's near absolute zero!
03:10Yes.
03:13You told me not to touch him.
03:16Rob, will you go down to the kitchen and light a fire, please?
03:19Yes.
03:21Sapphire, look.
03:24Yes.
03:26Go on.
03:32And Rob?
03:33Yes?
03:34Make it a good fire.
03:36Yes.
03:38Not enough.
03:43It was. You held that one.
03:46Enough to hold.
03:48Enough to hold and not enough to stop them.
03:55It mustn't regain its heat.
03:58I know.
03:59It's kept at the same temperature.
04:04Yes.
04:08Helen, will you help us?
04:13You take steel down to the kitchen, but don't touch him.
04:18Yes.
04:44Upstairs and downstairs.
04:48Upstairs and downstairs.
04:51Upstairs and downstairs.
05:19Is he any better?
05:22Not yet, but he will be.
05:27Fire.
05:28What?
05:30Has the fire gone out?
05:32No, it's still burning. It's still hot.
05:35Ah.
05:40Takes all his strength away, doesn't it?
05:43Yes, it does.
05:44Sapphire?
05:46Yes?
05:47Sing us a song.
05:52We'll be all right.
05:56The frozen piece of light.
05:58I've dealt with it.
06:00You follow my instructions?
06:02Yes.
06:03Good.
06:05I go to sleep. Get some rest.
06:10Rob?
06:12Yes?
06:13Are you feeling fit and strong?
06:15Yes.
06:16Good. I need a hand.
06:18Oh.
06:47You're not going to scratch that, are you?
06:49What?
06:50The glass. That was my dad's table.
06:52Emergency measures.
06:54But when will my mum and dad come back?
06:56It'll be all right.
06:57Things will just take a little longer to thaw out, that's all.
07:00Rob.
07:03Stu said that this was just a fragment.
07:05It is.
07:07Will you help me with this?
07:09A fragment of what's in the top room?
07:11Yes.
07:12A fragment of what's in the top room?
07:14Yes.
07:18Oh. Is it alive?
07:20Yes.
07:21Is it hurt?
07:22Who cares if it's hurt?
07:24I tried to cure Sapphire, remember?
07:25Yes.
07:27It's more of a scion than a fragment.
07:29A scion?
07:30Yes, a descendant. A successor. A child.
07:35Is it something that you've seen before?
07:37Not quite.
07:38It's like it. It's different.
07:40As dangerous as before?
07:42More.
07:45There's two more somewhere in the house.
07:47Yes.
07:50Well, I must go and see to Steel.
07:53Will you two bring that down to the cellar for me, please?
07:55Yes.
07:57Come on. Pick it up.
07:59Oh, it's too heavy, Rob.
08:01Oh, come on, Helen.
08:02Oh, Rob.
08:12Wait a minute.
08:15Wake up.
08:17Wake up.
08:19Wake up.
08:21Wake up.
08:23Wake up.
08:25Why can't Steel freeze whatever's upstairs in the attic?
08:29The way he froze those soldiers.
08:32That would only suspend it for a while.
08:35Not even Steel can stop time for always.
08:38Like trying to freeze the whole universe into one block of ice.
08:43Are there others?
08:45Others?
08:46Like you.
08:49There are 127 of us.
08:51Oh.
08:56Come on, Helen.
09:03115.
09:05There are 115 of us.
09:08We must never rely on the transuranics.
09:11Why not?
09:13They're unstable.
09:22Wait for me, Rob!
09:24Come on, Helen.
09:30But if it's a child...
09:31Who said it's a child?
09:33Sophia did. So if it's a child...
09:35She didn't say child.
09:36Well, she didn't mean it.
09:38She said descendant.
09:39And then she said child.
09:41Like puppies or kittens.
09:46It's young.
09:47It's young.
09:50What?
09:51At school, they say it's young.
09:55Yes, but this is different, Helen.
09:57Different from anything we've known.
09:59Different from the things they know at school.
10:02I mean, you saw what that thing did.
10:04Are puppies or kittens capable of that?
10:06No.
10:08Well, then.
10:11But what if its parents come looking for it?
10:14Steel could handle it.
10:16But he's not well.
10:18Yes, but way as well.
10:19Just take himself down.
10:31Who is it, Rob?
10:32I don't know, do I?
10:34Perhaps it's a policeman.
10:36I'll see.
10:37No, Helen!
10:38But we've got to answer it, Rob.
10:41All right.
10:47CLICK
10:50CLICK
11:10A giant?
11:11Yes.
11:12No, a man, but he is, he's almost a giant.
11:14In the doorway?
11:15he appeared. no he knocked on the door. then what? then I tried to open the door
11:19he pushed it open. broke the chain. he came from outside? yes. was he one of the
11:23soldiers? no he was dressed in ordinary clothes. look it's the giant sofa. it's
11:27all right it's all right. did he come into the house? I don't know we ran to
11:31tell you. leaving the door open? he pushed it open. we gotta wake Steele. no.
11:38at the moment I'm afraid they're just the three of us.
11:59it's closed again. yes. now be very quiet and do exactly as I say. do you understand?
12:08yes.
12:16you left it open. yes. it's closed. look.
12:27hello Zephyr. got anything to eat in this place? it's him! it's a giant! well you could call him
12:36that. this is Led. Led? yes he's one of ours. you know what? I'm starving.
12:46all right where is he? where is Steele? Led? is that Led here? yes I'm here. I mean
13:07you can almost guarantee it can't you? you can guarantee that whenever you
13:12wander off and ice yourself up without me around you're in trouble. I am not in
13:19trouble. all right you're not in trouble and you don't need any help. no. but you
13:27do need insulation and that's me. you tell him Zephyr he shouldn't be doing
13:37that below-zero stuff without me. now what about some food? Zephyr are you still the cook I remember?
14:07Zephyr?
14:37by the way Steele Jett sends her love. does she now? and copper's having problems with
15:03silver. again? again. when you finished eating I'll show you what we have to do. all right
15:11Steele. always cool that man. well he has to be in this house. difficult job? yes. be good
15:22training for you then. there's another difficult one waiting for us. when we finish here of course.
16:33Steele! up here.
16:42thank you.
16:52here son. gives you all the tough jobs eh? he's good at that.
17:03you
17:34having trouble? yes. are there many more? yes but Rob's going to help put in the pictures.
17:42it started in there. first a section of the wall then the wall itself now the whole room.
17:58there's nothing like good home cooking. it's using old verse and picture forms. sorry Steele. the main thing? children's
18:13nursery rhymes. the boy's parents. it's all right son. he'll get them back for you somehow.
18:43I'm going in there and I'm gonna freeze it back at least as far as the wall. you're gonna take
19:02yourself down and walk in there? yes. walk into that? but you know what that does to you. yeah but you'll be
19:07in there to help me won't you? my insulation remember? oh yes I remember and I also remember
19:13that it knocks the hell out of me too and if it goes wrong we are both trapped in there. we're
19:19gonna try it. as soon as the books and pictures have been burned. well I guess it can't be any
19:25worse than following you around that bitten ship. I wouldn't count on it. did you help on that ship
19:30too? yes I did a day on it. what was the name of the ship? what was it Steele? I forget. blue something
19:36wasn't it? I thought it was Mary. Mary Mary blue Mary Mary blue blue blue blue blue. not the Marie
19:42Celeste. Marie Celeste that's the one son. that's it. but the Marie Celeste was important. was it?
20:00it's a mystery. people have been trying to solve it for years. have they?
20:31suffer
20:38Helen
20:48and we shall have snow. I know it's your turn suffer. no Helen. I do. Helen it wants you to know it
20:55It's in my head, Safa.
20:57It's in my head.
21:25Come and help me catch it.
21:34Anyway, it couldn't have been the Mae, Celeste.
21:36It was, I remember now.
21:38Because they found it abandoned and Steel City sank the ship.
21:41I sank the real one, yes.
21:50What is it, Steel?
21:53The north wind doth blow, and we shall have snow.
21:57And what will poor Robin do then, Lord?
22:05And hide his head under his wing.
22:08Doth blow, and we shall have snow.
22:25And what will poor Robin do then, Helen?
22:28Stop it!
22:30I can't, I can't, I know it.
22:32No!
22:33I do, it's in my head and it won't go.
22:38And what will poor Robin do then, Helen?
23:08The north wind doth blow, and we shall have snow.
23:23And what will poor Robin do then, Lord?
23:33And what will poor Robin do then, Helen?
23:38He'll sit in a box and keep himself warm.
23:46And what will poor Robin do then, Helen?
23:50Let me out, please, Rob.
23:53Rob?
23:55Rob!
24:02Rob!
24:05Rob!
24:08Wait for me, Rob!
24:13I can't, I can't, I know it.
24:20Rob!
24:22Let me out, please, Rob!
24:25Wait for me, Rob!
24:27Don't listen to him.
24:29Come in through.
24:32Upstairs and downstairs.
24:35Upstairs and downstairs.
24:38Upstairs and downstairs.
24:41Upstairs and downstairs.
24:44Upstairs and downstairs.
24:47Upstairs and downstairs.
24:50Upstairs and downstairs.
24:53Upstairs and downstairs.
24:56Upstairs and downstairs.
24:59Upstairs and downstairs.
25:02Upstairs and downstairs.
25:04Upstairs and downstairs.
25:08The north wind doth blow, and we shall have snow.
25:12And what will poor Robin do then, poor thing?
25:17He'll sit in a box and keep himself warm.
25:22And what will poor Robin do then, poor thing?
25:28Poor thing.
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