First broadcast 8th November 1979.
Sapphire succeeds in making contact with the darkness at a great personal risk.
David McCallum ... Steel
Joanna Lumley ... Sapphire
Gerald James ... Tully
Tom Kelly ... Pearce
David Cann ... Pilot
David Woodcock ... 1st Submariner
Sapphire succeeds in making contact with the darkness at a great personal risk.
David McCallum ... Steel
Joanna Lumley ... Sapphire
Gerald James ... Tully
Tom Kelly ... Pearce
David Cann ... Pilot
David Woodcock ... 1st Submariner
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00:00You
00:22But if I do make contact with it it may decide to come back it can't come back it can only come forward
00:28Yes, it may well decide it wants to do its bargaining from here from this room from somewhere here
00:33You could be face-to-face with it steel. Do you realize that yes?
00:38Right
00:40But watch for it, I may not be able to help you
00:45Please be careful
00:58We wish to talk with you
01:13We have something to say to you
01:19Something important
01:23Something important
01:25Very important
01:39All irregularities will be handled by the forces controlling each dimension
01:47Transuranic heavy elements may not be used where there is life
01:51medium atomic weights are available
01:54Go
01:59Jet diamond radium sapphire silver and steel
02:06Sapphire and steel have been assigned
02:14We wish to contact you
02:24We wish to make contact with you as soon as possible
02:33They want to talk to us surely it must be no not us
02:48It's her to steal
02:54It's hurt us it's coming to us
03:01It stopped where it stopped somewhere
03:07Now in the time we are in
03:12No in its own time
03:15Almost it's
03:18The footbridge it's on the footbridge
03:21That's the between point
03:23That's the halfway point
03:29It's moving again
03:41Still in its own time. No, it's crossed over into ours
03:54It's coming still
04:17Be careful still
04:23I
04:53I
05:21Sent for you
05:24I want to talk to you
05:29Let's talk shall we I
05:34Have something of importance I want to discuss with you a deal well a
05:42Transaction
05:47So, where are you I
05:50I can't very well discuss something of importance if I can't see you. Can I
05:56You're here I
05:58Know you're here
06:01So why not show yourself?
06:05We've seen you before
06:08Seen you as the darkness
06:12So, let's see you now here on the stairs if you like
06:17Neutral ground
06:20No
06:24All right, well forget the whole thing I'm in no mood to play cat and mouse
06:29As far as I'm concerned, you're not here. You've gone. You never arrived. The deal is off
06:35Come on Sapphire, it's not here. It's not interested. So let's go. Let's not waste our time
06:43Sapphire wake up. It's time to go
06:50I said wake up
06:53It's not here
06:55it's not interested if it is it's
06:58Not interested
07:00Come on it's here
07:04What I said it's here
07:11Where
07:15Yeah
07:18Don't play games with it
07:21It's inside my head. It's inside my brain. I
07:24Can't see you because it has my eyes
07:27It's watching you and listening to you through my eyes
07:30So, please don't try to trick it
07:33It could take my eyes and my mind it could snuff out my mind as easily as you could snuff out a candle
07:41Still
07:45Still I can't see you. I'm here. I understand what's been said good because you asked her to come I did. Yes
07:54Well, it's here. So ask your question. I don't have any questions just a proposal one proposal
08:02What is it
08:04The darkness thrives on resentment. Am I right? That's right. Yes
08:10It's parasitic
08:12Resentment is food and drink to it blood and tissue right again. These are questions. No, they're not their statements. They're facts
08:18Am I right or not?
08:21You're right to a degree
08:25To a degree I
08:30Have something to offer
08:32an original source of resentment a
08:37Real reason for resentment it's on offer, but it can't be bought cheaply
08:46Describe the offer
08:48Sorry, no
08:54Please steal do as it says and tell it not to try that. It's either you negotiating or it. All right
09:02Oh
09:05What about my offer it's not interested no, no, it already has been source of resentment. It's happy enough with that
09:11Then it has poor judgment, doesn't it?
09:15All blind faith
09:18Hey, what has it got the spirit of some kid of a soldier who died at the wrong time when his war was over
09:24The ghosts of three young men who were trapped in a submarine. They didn't belong in
09:30Some lost soul of a pilot who risked his life flying a deathtrap because nobody would let him fly with her
09:35I mean you you call that resentment
09:37There are others many of them. Yes, I
09:42Expect they're all third-rate grievances as well
09:50Steel no, please don't make it angry steel by telling it the truth, please
09:59I can't see you steel
10:03Come back to me
10:07Where are you I'm here
10:11Please take my hands
10:14Please steal
10:17I'm frightened
10:29I
10:31Give it enough negative energy enough resentment to last for 500 years
11:01Thousand years it wants to know I'm prepared to tell it but not here not 12 days out of time
11:06Tell it to take us back all three of us back to where we were
11:09I'll explain the nature of my offer every last detail of it. Yes, but only if it takes us back
11:15It will take you back. No, no good all three of us or none of us
11:20It agrees good
11:23When do we go back soon it will go back it will meet us where we were
11:30Oh
11:53You said it is gone it has
11:56This way does it matter where we are when it takes us back? Yes, I want it to be on the footbridge
12:05On your feet mr. Tully
12:08We don't have very much time
12:10But I saw it something came through here. I asked you to rest. I saw did you get some rest? Not really. No, I
12:20Why the footbridge what
12:23What I
12:25Said why the footbridge you said it was a halfway point a between point for anything that wants to cross time
12:30Yes, we're crossing time aren't we? We're what?
12:37No steel
12:39I
12:46Know steel we are being taken back. That's what I don't like not being responsible for my own actions
12:54Can we hurry please? I negotiated this deal. Remember the deal still stands
12:59except for one amended clause
13:09I
13:25Already warned you about the darkness deal you can't play tricks with it. I realize that could I would someone might tell yes
13:31I'll tell you
13:35We're going back 12 days
13:38Well, not exactly 12
13:4111 it means that you will lose one day of your life, but you can afford that one day of steel
13:47It's easy easy for you easy. What I did just now was not easy. That was dangerous exactly
13:53That's why I want to be one day ahead of the darkness
13:57You can hold time for a day, can't you? Yes, well then
14:02While we're being taken back 12 days
14:05We'll jump off at 11 jump off
14:09Mr. Tully if you're in an elevator and the button has been pushed and there's somebody on the ground floor
14:14You're not sure of what do you do?
14:15Will you get off on the floor above and you and you walk the rest?
14:22You must do it suffer I won't trick it anymore I promise
14:28It's only one day out of 12
14:38Mr. Tully
14:42You'll be all right mr. Tully you promise I promise what if I could be of any take my hand
14:58You
15:15Stillness mark
15:22Eleven
15:24Ten
15:27Nine
15:30Eight
15:33Seven
15:35Six
15:38Five
15:44Three
15:46Two
15:49Now suffer
15:58One
16:00Day twenty two point seven three six hours. That's close enough
16:27I
16:58You
17:23I
17:28I
17:29Go back up on the footbridge. Wait there. Wait there. Yes exactly where we were before and keep watch
17:38Still need me there
17:43We need you
17:57I
18:09Still
18:12And we thought you'd gone us
18:17No
18:19But we will leave unlike you
18:22You'll never go
18:24You'll never leave this place. Oh, we're going
18:28Soon, we're all here now
18:30We'll be going soon
18:32where
18:33Exactly, where will you be going?
18:35We're gonna live again
18:37We are and that's what it's told you. Yes
18:41To live where how to live your own lives again? No
18:48New lives is that what it's promised you in a way? Yes. Tell him suffer
18:53It can't be done
18:56It can't be done because the nature of the power that is using you
19:00It thrives on the resentment of the dead. So what use would you be to it alive?
19:05Once the others have arrived, it'll start the beginning again with you me. Yes you
19:11You will arrive here again alone and you will start to wait for the others
19:15It's like a loop like a circle it is feeding on you. Therefore. It cannot let you go forever and ever Pierce
19:22You'll never see those green fields or those hot summer days
19:25Forever and ever the same motions the same actions the same circle. Oh
19:31And when they pull this place down and build something new you'll still be here
19:36Walking up and down whistling your songs waiting forever and ever
19:42Can't be like that. We were promised
19:45Sorry
19:46We were I
19:49Mean I'd rather
19:52What
19:56I'd rather go back
19:58Go back for good and all what we all would
20:04No
20:06No, not this place not for always no I can make sure
20:14What that you go back all of us yes
20:18Oh it will you leave it to me
20:48Ah
21:06It's alright
21:09There are no tricks the deal still stands the transaction
21:12No negotiable goods are here on the platform. We've brought ours with us
21:16For exchange of all of your dead we give you one of the living someone who is due to die in approximately five years time
21:25Time of death is not estimated it is known it is recorded
21:29Take him now and you will have the amount of resentment. I promised you
21:34Not from him. He doesn't matter from time itself. You will have damaged time perhaps even future history
21:41And that could cause havoc in high places
21:46Is
21:50It a deal
21:53Your ghosts who remain dead for one living subject who isn't due to die
22:05Well
22:07You
22:12Yes, but I promised it has to be
22:27It's gone they've all gone
22:37Ah
22:40Now for our part of the deal
22:43I
23:10Wonder how we were doing
23:13We're doing fine
23:17You just wait up there where I told you to wait
23:22Right
23:25We'll be leaving soon
23:29Do I need to collect my things
23:33I'll let you know
23:43Winning are we
23:50Yes
24:13You
24:28They have all gone yes
24:37You sense nothing anymore no, it's only that
24:43That's all that's left
24:47It's a pasque flower
24:53The only bloom at Eastertide
24:56But it's late October. I know I
24:59Think you said it once I
25:01Said what one?
25:03It must be something wrong with a ghost that has feelings
25:12I
25:42You