First broadcast 7th August 1979.
After Sapphire narrowly saves Steel from meeting the same fate as the doomed fighter pilot, Steel becomes determined to figure out why the ghosts are being recruited at the station.
David McCallum ... Steel
Joanna Lumley ... Sapphire
Gerald James ... Tully
Tom Kelly ... Soldier
David Woodcock ... 1st voice
David Cann ... Pilot
After Sapphire narrowly saves Steel from meeting the same fate as the doomed fighter pilot, Steel becomes determined to figure out why the ghosts are being recruited at the station.
David McCallum ... Steel
Joanna Lumley ... Sapphire
Gerald James ... Tully
Tom Kelly ... Soldier
David Woodcock ... 1st voice
David Cann ... Pilot
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00:00You
00:30So
01:00So
01:30So
02:00So
02:17All irregularities will be handled by the forces controlling each dimension
02:25Transuranic heavy elements may not be used where there is life
02:30Medium atomic weights are available
02:32gold lead
02:35Copper
02:37Jet diamond radium sapphire silver and steel
02:45Sapphire and steel have been assigned
03:00What's wrong?
03:12Will you please tell me what's wrong?
03:26Will you please tell me what's wrong
03:30I
03:34Steal
03:41Look ignore them. I said ignore them. Mr. Tully stay with me. Let's put the flowers up
03:51You must ignore that too
04:00Steel
04:05He seems to be everywhere
04:10Yes, I know steel all I want is a chance to try and talk to you
04:18The soldier mr. Tully, I'm sure you will get your chance but not just now
04:30Steel tell me steel try to tell me what's happened
04:54Doing
04:57There's nothing there
05:01I
05:04Had that
05:06Like being in a room under the ground or under the sea
05:10Yes
05:15Under the sea
05:19Back to normal
05:23Arguing that first piece
05:27You just keep behind me, right
05:30You
05:40Is he asleep
05:43Or what is he ill
05:44Mr. Tully, yes, can I help would you check the other rooms on this floor, please check them?
05:49Make sure there's nothing strange in them
05:53Leave it to me
05:56If you get worried
06:00I
06:09Steal
06:17Take it back so far take time back, but hurry
06:23Oh
06:25It's all right, please stay
06:29I'm conscious mr. Tully. I know I know what to do just stay
06:34All right quickly so far take time back
06:38With Tully here, you'll have to you must get me back quickly
06:43Take my hand then
06:45Keep me here
06:48I'll do in there first
07:05Quickly quickly
07:08Quickly
07:13Quickly or I'm as dead as he is
07:21Tell me what
07:38I
08:08I
08:27I'll do in there first piece. You just keep behind me, right?
08:38Yes
08:40We've been looking for you why because
08:46Yes, why
08:49Wasn't I supposed to be checking out the other rooms in this floor something? Yes
08:53Making sure there's nothing strange in them. That's right. Yes, leave it to me
09:02Remember I'm not sure
09:09I remember now
09:18It was a death
09:21Someone's death
09:22Yes, it was your turn to experience it
09:25Who was sitting in that chair the soldier? No, it was someone else another arrival a new recruit. What did he look like?
09:34He was young he was wearing flying clothes
09:38What time period their Second World War?
09:41But there were no connections with this place. None at all. Not during his life none that I could sense
09:47And how close did I come to joining him in his last flight?
09:55Almost as near as the real thing. Yes
09:59Well, I had enough of ghosts waging war on us it's time we fought back
10:08It's all all right out there lights, hmm
10:13Lights are for the living
10:15What?
10:17The darkness is for the dead, right?
10:20well, I
10:21Think it's about time. We got some of these working. You'll be lucky. I
10:26Should think so. Yes, these lights have been out of action for donkey's years. So so how do you expect to get them to work?
10:35Light it
10:38Yes
10:39Well, how on earth do you expect me to like that?
10:43With a match
10:45Come on up you get
10:48Will you get up and light it?
10:57But they're obsolete oh you should know about obsolescence, mr. Tully I beg your pardon just light it
11:03But
11:07What about all the other lamps they're waiting to be lit they're waiting to be lit
11:33Oh
11:50Beautiful
12:03One two, three, four five one two, three, four five one two, three, four five
12:10When it was did you sense anything not really
12:13No response. It didn't last for very long
12:17Did you sense anything that was once human there wasn't enough time?
12:22One two, three four
12:24So there was only really a change in the quality of the sound yes
12:29And you think it came from the submarine from a compartment in that submarine, yes
12:42I want to help you
12:51That
12:58That no, I didn't hear that you didn't hear that and you didn't hear the sound of the electric generator
13:14Not enough air there is realistic talking and one's unconscious
13:24How deep young voices
13:29Voices of young sailors no pumps working and we're at the bottom. I think hey I
13:38Think that what Tully and I experienced was later than that when the electrical supply to the submarine had failed
13:46The men were already dead well, there's no air left for them to breathe
13:51But
13:53They were all young
13:55The soldier the pilot the men from the submarine seems like young men die in war. It's accepted. So they can't be using that
14:04Maybe they were working still here. It's supplying them with power
14:10It's allowing them to use after images of their own deaths to fight us
14:15Therefore each one has his own death his own individual resentment. Maybe they're working as a group
14:21a
14:22Collective grievances the soldier acting as head man a spokesman. Yes. Yeah, maybe
14:31Spokesman usually wants to negotiate and he hasn't asked for anything from us
14:39Not yet
14:42Just before I took that crash dive he was keeping things cheerful by whistling that little tune of his
14:50There was another thing written on the window 11
14:54Yes
14:57The Great War ended with suspension of hostilities the fighting stopped at the 11th hour of the 11th day of the 11th month
15:05There were four 11s
15:09So the ghosts make mistakes with their arithmetic
15:12What was this particular ghost made another kind of mistake? Would you say he feels a bit too sorry for himself? Why?
15:18Showing you the kind of women that sent him to war
15:24Wanting the place that gave him the send-off writing up the date of a ceasefire. He never lived to see. Yeah
15:28He's a ghost with feelings
15:30It's almost as as if he's asking for sympathy. I
15:35Think whatever it is made a bad choice in him. Don't be too sure a
15:42Ghost with feelings
15:48I'm gonna bring those feelings out what?
15:52You stay there watch from the window watch the platform. I'm gonna bring him out
15:58I'm gonna make things really irritating for him after all he's been through he needs cheering up
16:06Right
16:09Just watch the platform let me know when you see him
16:18You
16:31What do you mean sing I want you to sing
16:35Cheer this place up a bit. I wonder if you might tell me why
16:40The soldier yes, we're going to bring him to us Oh
16:45By singing his song for him. That's how
16:49We're not going to do it the way he does it
16:54We're gonna liven things up a bit. Do you know the words words? Yes to the tune. He's always whistling. Yes sing
17:08Come on mr. Tully, let's hear them pack up your it's fine
17:19Holly yes, I can't do it without you
17:27Let's make them sound happy come on
17:33Pack up your troubles in your own kit great bag and a smile smile smile
17:42While you've a lucifer to light your fat
17:49I
17:51What's the use of worrying it never was worth while
17:58so
18:00Back up your troubles in your own kit bag and smile smile smile
18:08again
18:09Come on, you want to see your ghost again? Yes, you want to make contact with him? Of course. Well, let's waken the dead shall we?
18:16Back up your troubles in your own kit bag and smile smile smile
18:33What's the use of worrying it never was worthwhile
18:41so
18:42Cup your troubles in your own kit bag and smile smile smile
18:50back up
19:06What's the use of worrying it never was worthwhile
19:13so
19:14Back up your troubles in your own kit bag and smile smile smile
19:22Back up your troubles in your own kit bag and smile
19:32Your bag smile boys
19:42I
20:12you
20:32Back up your troubles in your own kit bag and smile smile smile
20:39I
20:42Mr. Tully, oh, come on. No, no
20:49I'm sorry. I didn't want to do it. Really I didn't
21:02I'm sorry
21:09Please bring back the flowers again, will you?
21:18Let's see the flowers again
21:26Flair what?
21:38I
22:08Mr. Tully
22:38Oh
23:09I
23:27Excuse me, sir
23:29I
23:37So far Tully
23:55Mr. Tully
23:59I
24:29I
24:59I
25:29I
25:59You
26:29You