Sapphire and Steel. E02. The Railway Station. Part 3 of 8.

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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

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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

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