00:00In the first six episodes of Time Slip, we saw Liz and Simon fall into a time bubble and get
00:06carried backwards in time.
00:08But what is a time bubble?
00:10Well, you can't see it, of course, but it may help you to visualize it, to think of it as
00:15a balloon.
00:17Some scientists are now working on the theory that wherever you are, you are at the very center of the
00:23universe,
00:23and that the universe is really one giant sphere, and that it has an edge to it.
00:32Information about events is flashing constantly back and forth between you and the edge of that sphere,
00:38so that at any given moment, you are mixed up in the past, the present, and the future, virtually all
00:45at the same moment.
00:47But supposing some little patch of that information, some little patch of history, gets slowed down,
00:53and instead of flashing backwards and forth, it floats gently as if in a bubble.
01:00Well, it might have collided with some solid object and got temporarily halted in its tracks,
01:05or it might be being slowed by some mysterious force, or the edge of the universe might have a hole
01:12in it.
01:14Well, supposing you could somehow get into that time bubble, that bubble of history, and travel with it,
01:21then you could move forwards and backwards in time at will.
01:26Watch now as Liz and Simon move once again through time.
01:34Well, let's roll over in.
01:58Come on, sister.
02:05The Germans are gone now.
02:07I think Simon are escaping.
02:16Simon!
02:23It's so cold!
02:35We'd better get her closer to the fire.
02:37Is she really cold?
02:38She's cold, man. She's shivering.
02:39Does she feel cold?
02:48No.
02:49Ah.
02:52So, what's happened to Liz and Simon now, I wonder?
02:55They're sharing something with her, obviously.
02:58Terrible cold.
02:59Yes.
03:01But Liz and Simon have come back through the barret, haven't they?
03:04I thought they only had to get through the hole in the fence to be back in their own time.
03:07Yes, so did I.
03:08But in an area like this, one's always learning.
03:36You know what I mean?
03:36Uh oh.
03:42Oh.
03:46Oh I'm sorry.
03:47You know what I mean?
03:47Oh I was a vlog online.
03:47I had a tiny little girl named father.
03:47Oh no.
03:49Oh no.
03:50Oh yeah.
03:53Oh yeah.
03:54Oh yeah.
03:55I'm sorry.
04:33For heaven's sake.
04:35Let the infirmary.
04:36There's another one outside.
04:58memory bank, 494-Z, wipe, memory, computer wipe, memory, computer correct, 494-0, all the rest.
05:14But where?
05:16I told you, Ben.
05:16No sign of frostbite.
05:18That's remarkable.
05:20I was out on my rounds and found them near the slabs.
05:24But how's it possible, Dr. Bukhoff?
05:26Why?
05:27No frostbite.
05:28Split me, it's 80 below out there.
05:31Wait a minute.
05:32Wasn't there a carrier drop scheduled for today?
05:34Yes, but only for supplies, not for persons.
05:37Then there's no conceivable way they could have got here.
05:39We shall have to use the resuscitation tent.
05:42Bukhoff, you look after the boy.
05:44There's a good chap.
05:45Of course, Dr. Jackson.
05:54They seem so young.
05:56Very hardy youngsters, Beth.
05:58But you know, even if they'd only been out there on the ice for five minutes,
06:02they should have been dead by now, dressed in these queer clothes.
06:05Oh, it's a mystery, whichever way you look at it.
06:08That girl?
06:09Mm?
06:10Oh, I don't know.
06:12Right.
06:13That should do it.
06:15Well, on the form, I'd say that these two fledglings are going to come up smiling and
06:19baffle medical science.
06:21I don't understand it.
06:23The great thing about that is, Beth, we don't need to.
06:26For the various super brains we've got around this place, we wouldn't need to know.
06:33Has the director been informed, Jess?
06:35Professor Devereaux is still programming the computer, Dr. Joynton.
06:40He'll be notified when it's convenient.
06:5421, computer clean.
06:56Them remain.
06:58Well, no sign of them.
07:01But that doesn't mean they haven't come back through the barrier.
07:04If they had, we'd have seen them back at the inn by now.
07:06Yes, you'd have thought so, wouldn't you?
07:07Well, then.
07:08Mrs. Skinner, you've really lost all touch with them, have you?
07:11I think so.
07:12There's nothing now.
07:14Just that terrible feeling of cold after they reach the fence, and then nothing.
07:19Cold, yes.
07:20Now, look here, Traynor, what's happened?
07:22You're the expert in these matters.
07:24You must know.
07:25I told you before, Skinner, this is an area in which I'm always learning.
07:28Mrs. Skinner, I think perhaps we'd better go back to the hotel and wait there.
07:30There's precious little more we can do here.
07:33Yes, I expect you're right.
07:35Computer clean.
07:45No, Larry.
07:47I can manage.
07:48Proceed according to schedule.
07:49Put the computer back on order control.
07:51Yes, Director.
08:02I think you're fine.
08:03Larry!
08:05You made a minimal mistake when recording the pulse readings this morning.
08:09I'm sorry, Director.
08:10The computer was quite explicit about it.
08:12I've told staff members these things must be correct to the microdecimal.
08:15It's the only way of ensuring that everyone gets his accurate dose of HA57.
08:19Of course, Director.
08:21I'm sorry, Director.
08:22Human error.
08:24Last enemy in a technological world.
08:27But, Director.
08:28Yeah?
08:29I thought you were going to find out that is...
08:30Well, ma'am, what is it?
08:31Come on.
08:31That stop-off in the laboratory water supply late last night, sir.
08:34I mentioned it to you.
08:36It was recorded as lasting three minutes when I made my check this morning.
08:39You said you'd investigate it on Brain Link.
08:48Human error again, Larry.
08:51The computer abnegates all responsibility.
08:53The computer can't lie, so the fault must be elsewhere.
08:56See what we're up against.
09:04Oh, excuse me, Director.
09:06Ah, yes, Beth.
09:06The new arrivals.
09:07Oh, yes, of course.
09:09You know about them, sir.
09:10I've been on Brain Link to the computer, Beth.
09:12Their coming was noted by the area scanners and the information passed on,
09:15but it wasn't very clear.
09:16It seems that they are young people.
09:19Yes.
09:20Bukov found them out on the ice.
09:22On the ice?
09:24Half dead.
09:26Well, well.
09:27And children!
09:36Come in, Beth.
09:38Come in.
09:42Where am I?
09:44Take it easy.
09:45You're in the icebox.
09:48Icebox?
09:49Now, that's what we call it, anyway.
09:52That's where you were heading for.
09:53The International Institute for Biological Research.
09:56Okay?
09:58Oh, look.
09:59Your brother's waking up, too.
10:07He's not my brother.
10:08Raring to go, by the looks of him.
10:11Well, boyfriend, then.
10:12He's not my boyfriend, either.
10:15You mean you don't know him?
10:18Look, Simon's just...
10:21Simon!
10:22I haven't got a boyfriend.
10:24Take it easy, I said.
10:25At least you seem to know his name.
10:28And no sign of any ill effects on him, either.
10:32Well, I call this the funniest thing I've struck.
10:35So let's get the whole story, shall we?
10:37Look, I'm Dr. Joyton.
10:39You're Simon.
10:40And you're, uh...
10:41Liz.
10:42Liz.
10:42And you both of you came in on the drop carrier, right?
10:45Only then started watering off from the shelter.
10:48That was a very silly thing to do.
10:50You might get away with it once,
10:52but you couldn't hope to do so a second time.
10:58We've, uh...
10:59We're in the icebox, Simon.
11:03Icebox?
11:04Yes.
11:05That's what they call it.
11:07You remember?
11:08The International...
11:11Institute for...
11:12For Biological Research.
11:13That's it.
11:15You remember?
11:17Oh, yes.
11:19Yes.
11:20You bet.
11:21We didn't get a notification that you were coming, apparently.
11:24That's queer.
11:26Don't you a bit young for all this, really?
11:29Oh, well.
11:30I'll just put out a video flash that you've come round.
11:32Um, Dr. Joyton.
11:34Hmm?
11:34Where is this place exactly?
11:37You mean you don't know?
11:39No.
11:41But, Sonny boy,
11:43if you're a volunteer,
11:44you must have been given a destination briefing.
11:47Oh, well, they, uh, they didn't tell us.
11:50This whole place has been constructed under the ice, hasn't it?
11:53Which is why they call it the icebox.
11:55You'll go far, this one.
11:57Well, I suppose I didn't think it was going to be so cold out there.
12:00I've never felt cold like that before.
12:02With the South Pole just down the road.
12:05What else did you expect?
12:07South Pole?
12:08Incidentally, you might have had the sense
12:10to put on some more protective clothing
12:12when you left the carrier.
12:14The Antarctic in winter
12:15is in Palm Beach, my children.
12:45Just a moment.
12:49Yeah, that's it, I think.
12:50Why, of course, Director.
12:52The message from the computer's quite clear.
12:54Isolate from the memory bank, please, Beth.
12:55Convert to captions.
13:17There, you see?
13:18A complete briefing from the computer.
13:20Plain as day.
13:20Earmarked for action.
13:22Expect arrival soon, list, it says.
13:24Must I attend to everything myself in this place?
13:27Larry!
13:28Yes, Director?
13:29Reference computer memory bank,
13:31AB494 stroke Z.
13:32Scan immediately.
13:33Let me have your comments, soon as possible.
13:34Ah, if it's about the new arrivals, Director.
13:36Yeah?
13:36Well, I did a bit of checking myself.
13:38We had no confirmation from Central Control
13:40that they'd actually got around to sending any volunteers.
13:43So I didn't think the experiment AB494Z was to be considered operational.
13:48If confirmation had been necessary,
13:50the computer would have requested it.
13:51Can't you understand this, Larry?
13:53I'm tired of telling people that I programmed the computer
13:55to attend to things like this by itself?
13:57Yes, Director.
13:59Don't pit your wits against the computer, man.
14:01You'll discover one day you haven't a chance.
14:08The human element, Beth.
14:11Sometimes I think the human element
14:13will frustrate everything I'm trying to do here.
14:15You're just upset, Director.
14:17If those two volunteers had been left stranded on the ice,
14:20we'd have had to answer for that.
14:22The computer, Beth.
14:24Every day, I link to it.
14:25Perfecting it.
14:27Refining its operations.
14:28If I'm not prevented by fools,
14:30one day I'll bring it to such a peak of perfection.
14:32There will be nothing I can do.
14:33But you've achieved so much already, Director.
14:36There's no reason to feel depressed.
14:38The icebox has long since justified its existence,
14:41if that's what you mean, Beth.
14:42But scientific experimentation
14:45is a road without an ending.
14:47We must push on.
14:48Our task is to remake the imperfect world
14:50to advance the human species
14:52beyond its own understanding.
14:56Would you like to see the new arrivals now, sir?
14:58Dr. Joynton's video flash
15:00said they were ready for interview.
15:03Director,
15:05the new arrivals.
15:10No, Beth.
15:11No, I have something more important to do right now.
15:14I'll leave them in your hands
15:15till we're ready to discuss the experiment,
15:17introduce them to the place,
15:18show them their way around.
15:19Yes, Director.
15:22And Beth?
15:23Yes, Director.
15:24Why is it I can talk to you, I wonder?
15:27Only you seem to understand.
15:55What a fantasy room.
15:57You'll find out, why it's called that.
15:59in you go
16:04so our orphans of the snows they're all right now they might just as well have
16:09been sunbathing out there I don't get it what do people do here just relax take
16:15it easy after a hard day's work it's a sort of fun room really but there are
16:20one or two special features now over here
16:29one for you thank you dr. joint and I've been waiting for this the computer
16:36prints off copies of the world's newspapers as soon as the papers reach
16:40the streets and here you can tune in to any news bulletin any television program
16:47on earth and here it's fantastic now here you can listen to music although the space
16:54is small it's worked out by the computer that it's just like being at a concert
16:59and it doesn't interfere with anyone else either and here come on now this is the
17:08device that gives the room its special name the fantasy apparatus you put this
17:15on and you get a straight brain link to the computer then the computer takes over
17:20your dream and makes it come alive do you have to go to sleep no no no you just
17:24shut your eyes and relax would you like to try it oh I'm not sure oh it's a very
17:30pleasant experience really it's like being in a film instead of just looking at it if
17:36you know what I mean I always go home in fantasy where is home dr. jointon I come
17:42from New Zealand yeah we're very international community here but I seem to miss the old
17:49places more than the others yes I do
18:15you find it unusual huh
18:23it's quite new oh I'm book off by the way I picked you up outside oh then I suppose we'd
18:31both ought to say thanks very much sir we shouldn't have strayed from the shelter but you certainly
18:36shouldn't this this computer dr. jointon's talking about it must be a pretty advanced sort of machine
18:42to be able to do what she says it does oh their computer is everything here more important than
18:47us we are simply its servants heat light food we depend upon the computer entirely it even guides our
18:55research you're here for the a b experiment aren't you a b experiment well that's what the record said
19:02oh oh yes of course there'll be no action for a while we come at things gently here first of
19:08all
19:08they have to put you on h a five seven and that takes a week or two in itself what's
19:14h a five seven
19:15you don't know about that of course it's a secret outside the icebox well my boy you're ah there you
19:22are
19:22the new arrivals
19:36the sleeping quarters are on the floor below you'll be allotted places in due time
19:41you've no right to be here why did you follow me don't let me catch you interfering
19:50that's a director's office you'll never go in there without permission
20:00well what do you know company oh larry these are the new arrivals simon and liz larry the technician
20:07who services the computer hi simon great to have you with us and this well certainly a pleasure to have
20:14another pretty girl around the place you must forgive larry he's a little light-minded likes to try and
20:20make clever remarks nothing clever about that statement of fact that's all perhaps you wouldn't mind
20:26explaining the computer to them larry the director asked me to introduce them to the icebox but as
20:32it happens i've had enough of that for the moment quite enough
20:41what's the matter with her ah don't take it too seriously beneath that rough exterior there beats a heart
20:47of purist leather what the computer liz so meet the computer it attends to all our needs here you name
20:57it the computer does it ah over here is the important bit now this is where the daily dosage of
21:08ha57 is
21:09delivered it has to be freshly prescribed every morning for each individual according to changes
21:14in body temperature pulse rate and all that look what is this aka 57 the longevity drug well what does
21:25stop the process of decay so people who take it simply don't grow any older you mean they can live
21:30forever oh well i'll have to have notes of that question but it's certainly the biggest discovery
21:35the director has made since the icebox was founded take dr jointon now how old would you say she was
21:41oh i don't know well i'll tell you she's getting on for a hundred no on the level
21:47oh blimey and you larry uh-uh what we do in the icebox is to test out new biological techniques
21:56until we're sure they're safe for release to the public liz there can be side effects often enough
22:01we have to find out about that the things you're doing here they're pretty way ahead aren't they
22:05i mean the outside world doesn't know a thing like the longevity drug is possible just as well it doesn't
22:12look at that business of brain computer links people were going about it in the wrong way
22:16doing themselves a lot of harm until we perfected a system in 1985. perfecting when you said you
22:24perfected brain computer links in 1985. something the matter with you two no it's just 1985 well that would be
22:45how many years ago now what's up forgotten how to count no look larry we're we're just a bit confused
22:52getting lost on the ice and that but 1985 six seven i'd say you are confused 1985 ought to be
23:03uh five years
23:03ago to my reckoning isn't this 1990
23:15right now we've got to get out of here seven how can we i don't know but we've got to
23:20we've somehow slipped into the future and we're not going to stick around to be part of some new
23:24experiment or other they think we're a couple of guinea pigs do you think the time barrier is still there
23:29look if we wear these on the ice we won't collapse again oh dr pukoff i wanted to ask you
23:37about liz and
23:38simon you simply discovered them out on the ice you said yes and there was no indication that they
23:44could have come from the drop shelter there's nowhere else they could have come from i think i better
23:49have another word with them hurry get the door open we'll have to make a dash for it
23:57lock that door fat head
23:59no simon
24:03hey you two what do you think you're doing stop come back
24:13look pull yourself together we're gonna run for it but sabi you don't understand you know who was in
24:17that room it was mommy mommy
24:58you
24:59you
25:00you
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