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00:28The Lone Ranger
01:03Sam?
01:06Sam?
01:10Sam!
01:12What's the matter?
01:13I was only outside.
01:16Something woke me.
01:17I thought I had a train.
01:19Tom could never have got the railways going up here in Scotland as well.
01:25But it was a train.
01:27Tom Walter's train.
01:28Jenny might be on it.
01:30Well, there's a railway we saw last night.
01:32I was out there just now.
01:33I'd have heard it, wouldn't I?
01:36Yeah, I suppose so.
01:39Come on, I'll get the horses.
01:40If we push it, we might get to the first of them power stations today.
01:44What's the hurry?
01:45No point hanging about?
01:49After we've had some breakfast.
01:50We're going to have a frail.
01:53I don't know.
01:53No.
02:05No.
02:07No.
02:09No.
02:10No.
02:11No.
02:25Well, was it?
02:27Oh, it was a train written off Mr McAllister, sir.
02:31Stopped with the tunnel just this side of the loft.
02:35What are they doing?
02:39Broken down, I'd say.
02:40There's two of them walking along the track.
02:42This way.
02:48Hey, there's one fishing over there.
02:50Do you think he can help?
02:53It's worth a try.
03:01Morning.
03:03My name's Charles Vaughan.
03:05This is Jenny Richards.
03:08Friends, we've come up from England on a train we've got working.
03:13There are two more of us on it, including the driver.
03:15It's broken down.
03:18I don't have any machinery lying around where we could find one of these for you.
03:22What's there?
03:23It's a brake connecting rod, but it's broken.
03:25There's a smithy up there, Glenn.
03:27Maybe something could be made for you there.
03:28What about is that?
03:29I wondered how long it would be before the English found their way here.
03:33What's it like in the south?
03:35On terrible graveyards, what we've heard.
03:37Well, it's not so bad now.
03:39We've even got a sort of government established.
03:41You have?
03:42That's an extraordinary thing to be wanting again, isn't it?
03:45What brings you to Scotland?
03:47We're looking for two friends.
03:48They're riding up from Yorkshire.
03:50We may have passed them on the way, or they may be ahead of us.
03:52We have to get this fixed first.
03:55I thought maybe Angus might make one up.
03:59Anything like that.
04:00We'd better go and find him.
04:01Take the train driver with you so no one's needed.
04:07For just a minute.
04:09Ah, Davey will see to it.
04:10Would you care to take a spot of luncheon with me up at the house, the pair of you?
04:13Thank you very much.
04:15My name's McAllister.
04:17I'm the, um, the laird round here.
04:19I'm awfully sorry about the state of the roads.
04:21It just seems to be known to keep them up these days.
04:24The English have the same problem.
04:26How many people are there round here?
04:28Precious few.
04:30We lost nine out of ten in the plague.
04:32In an area where there weren't more than a million and a half to start with,
04:34that was a terrible loss.
04:35It was worse in England.
04:36Well, we mostly live in cities down there.
04:38But up in the highlands, well, the plague couldn't spread much through the hills,
04:41and most of the isles weren't affected by it.
04:44Even so, I'd say that in the whole of Scotland north of the Tay,
04:46there can't be more than, ooh, 150,000 people left alive at most.
04:51150,000 out of a million and a half.
04:54We don't believe there are more than 10,000 left in England.
04:57Is that a fact now?
04:59Is that your hut?
05:01Yes, at least that's still untouched.
05:05If your calculations are correct, Mr. McAllister,
05:08this means that the highlands of Scotland
05:09are now the most densely populated part of the whole country.
05:12Makes a change, doesn't it?
05:23Well, here we are.
05:27Hamish, um, take the trap down to the railway.
05:30There's a train from England broken down on the line,
05:32and these people have got a couple of friends down there.
05:34I'd like you to bring them up to the house.
05:35Do you want me to go down to the distillery today?
05:37Hey, the stock's getting low.
05:39Well, ask Davy first, huh?
05:41Okay, off you go.
05:45Well, now, let's go in, shall we?
05:53That's the trouble, you see.
05:55There's no one to deliver anymore.
05:57You even have to fetch your own whiskey.
05:59Where from?
06:00Oh, there's several big distilleries in the neighbourhood.
06:02But don't they get looted?
06:03Oh, if you have any trouble like that,
06:04I soon hear who it is and give them a good telling off.
06:07Is that sufficient?
06:08Well, it's a bold man who defies the laird.
06:12Ah, Barbara, um, Mr. Comby,
06:15there's at least two extra for lunch.
06:17There's a couple of fish downstairs you can poach for us.
06:20Well, it'll be a wee while before you can have it.
06:23Don't be too long now.
06:25From what they've been saying,
06:25I doubt if they've had a square meal for months.
06:27I can see that.
06:30Now, would you like to see over the house?
06:42Oh, it's magnificent.
06:45The state it's got into.
06:46Just can't get the staff.
06:49Now, would you like a wash before lunch
06:51and a change of clothes, maybe?
06:53You're welcome to anything of my wife's, Miss Richards.
06:56God rest her soul,
06:57she'd only been too happy
06:58to have given you the freedom of a wardrobe.
07:00That's very kind.
07:05You could have a bath, if you wish.
07:06There's plenty of hot water.
07:08Plenty of everything, it seems.
07:11It could do with electricity, though.
07:14Really easy.
07:19You know, if you want a new suit of clothes these days,
07:22you've got to find some good woman
07:23to weave the cloth for you on a handloom
07:25and another to make it up for you.
07:27If we could get the tweed mills going again,
07:29perhaps even the distilleries.
07:31For whiskey?
07:32There's still a spirit to drive cars on.
07:34That's an expensive kind of petrol.
07:37There's only the tax that made whiskey expensive.
07:39And I doubt that the government
07:40of poor, unhappy England
07:42is going to start taxing us again.
07:44Not that we can think about things like that
07:45until we get the power stations up, really?
07:55Have you tried to?
07:57There's one at Loch Manhock, not 20 miles away.
07:59I couldn't get anything to work there.
08:02Maybe there's an expert in England who can help us.
08:05Maybe there's something we could talk about.
08:09Yes, we will.
08:37Hey, guess what I've found?
08:44A set of master keys.
08:46Where'd you find these?
08:48Weren't you surprised the gate was open?
08:50At all the others, we've had to climb in.
08:53So what?
08:54The poor devil was trying to shut the place down
08:57when it collapsed.
08:59He's in the battery room, what's left of him.
09:02Oh, blighter.
09:04Which of the power lines we want?
09:06Well, that's the one to the south.
09:11And that's the one that feeds it in.
09:15Have you isolated the others?
09:16Not quite.
09:17Still blousey up to do yet.
09:18We'd better turn that off, all right?
09:20Which is it?
09:21It's outside.
09:22It's labelled Windy Hill.
09:23Are you sure you can do it?
09:24You've shown me enough times.
09:27Okay, Sam, but take care.
09:29There's no juice flowing yet.
09:35Hey!
09:36This one's already...
10:00Right.
10:05How far to the next switching station?
10:07This is the last one.
10:09All we have to do now is follow the line to the power station itself.
10:13And switch on.
10:16It's not going to be quite that easy.
10:18If we've isolated every other line, except the route we want.
10:21If we have.
10:23If we've missed one line feeding an industrial area that's still plugged in.
10:29All our work's wasted.
10:31You've missed nothing.
10:32Come on.
10:33We might get to that power station tonight.
10:46Thanks, Hamish.
10:47Cheerio.
10:47Hello.
10:51Hello, Hubert.
10:53Hello.
10:54Where's Tom?
10:56Oh, we've still met in the engine.
10:58How long will it take?
11:00Here.
11:01That's a dress you're wearing.
11:02You shouldn't have left him, Hubert.
11:04Well, he's got the blacksmith with him.
11:05Take him a couple of days, they told me to tell you.
11:07Days?
11:09Where'd you get that new frock from?
11:11You've done something queer to your hair.
11:13I've washed it.
11:14And you better wash too.
11:16Aye?
11:16Before you meet the laird.
11:18The what?
11:19Don't forget to wipe your boots before you come in.
11:41I thought there was supposed to be two of you left on the railway.
11:43Oh, I expect Tom's still with it.
11:45Hmm.
11:52I'm surprised the train's much used to now anyway,
11:55if it's Loch Manor who want.
11:57The railway doesn't go, sir.
12:00Ah, here you are.
12:03Miss Richards, my wife could see you in that dress.
12:06Jenny.
12:08I've put Hubert in the bathroom.
12:10Tom's still working on the train with the blacksmith.
12:12It's a bigger job than they thought.
12:15Ah.
12:16Oh, well, we're going to have to leave it today anyway.
12:19And walk to Loch Manor tomorrow.
12:22We've no horses.
12:23Oh, but your friends, sir.
12:24They're off to Loch Manor now.
12:26Alec and Sam.
12:27Have you seen them?
12:29Well, round here,
12:31shepherds watch more than their flocks.
12:33According to my housekeeper,
12:34they're following a pile of us.
12:35Won't you sit down?
12:38Do let me get you a dram.
12:39Thank you very much.
12:43Is, uh,
12:44is one of them an engineer?
12:47Ali Campbell used to work for the electricity generating board.
12:52I wasn't going to keep it from you,
12:53Mr. McGullis, sir.
12:55Annick Campbell.
12:57Well, it sounds to me
12:58that he might be a Scot.
13:10And who might you be?
13:13Oh.
13:14I'm Hubert.
13:15And were the others?
13:17Well, they're with the laird
13:18in the sitting room upstairs.
13:20I suppose you'll be wanting to join them.
13:23Well, I suppose they want me with them up there.
13:25In that case,
13:26you can make yourself useful about the place.
13:27You can bring me in some logs from Hamish's shed.
13:30Come on,
13:30and I'll show you where it is.
13:33Alec left Scotland years ago.
13:35For a better paid job down south,
13:37he came to regret it.
13:40So now he's come home
13:41to provide his people with electric power.
13:44To provide all of us, I hope.
13:47Can you really get a power station going?
13:50I hope so.
13:51Remains to be seen.
13:53How can it be supplied down to England?
13:55It must surely branch off into so many different cities.
13:58Alec shut them all off for the moment.
13:59He called at every substation on the way.
14:02Making sure that it's only the south that gets it, hmm?
14:05If we'd known there were 150,000 people left up here.
14:09As it was,
14:10I stupidly thought
14:12there'd be no one at all left here now.
14:14We live well.
14:16We beat for our fires,
14:18trout and salmon on the rivers,
14:20and oat cake's more nourishing than bread anyhow.
14:23We have all the wood we want.
14:25Game, cattle, sheep, fruit farms.
14:28Now perhaps electricity.
14:30If we're allowed to keep it.
14:33There's more than enough hydroelectric power
14:35locked up in Scotland
14:36to provide for your needs
14:37and for those of the English.
14:39I dare say.
14:41And I suggest that tomorrow
14:42we all ride over to Loch Manor
14:44and see for ourselves
14:45just what this Mr. Campbell is capable of.
14:47Do you agree?
14:51Is that the power station?
14:54No, that's the shaft that...
14:56that's down to the tunnel that carries the water.
14:59The power station's way down there in the valley.
15:02Why do we come up here then?
15:05To see where it all begins.
15:07Check the reservoir's full.
15:10That's what it needs to start with.
15:12Water.
15:13The elixir of life.
15:17You see, coal and oil will run out in time
15:20but not the rainfall.
15:24It's the only kind of energy we should ever use
15:27because it's there for everyone
15:30for all time.
15:33Free as air.
15:37It comes down there.
15:39It will
15:41when we've turned on the tap down there.
15:43Let's go.
15:51It's open.
15:53Someone's forced the lock.
15:59Let's have a look at the control room.
16:02I broke in about a year ago.
16:04There used to be a host of electronic devices
16:06and alarm systems to keep out intruders.
16:08But they'd all run down since the plague.
16:10Not that I could get anything working.
16:12Pulled a few switches.
16:13Nothing went on
16:14except the lights.
16:16The blethering idiot.
16:18The engineers leave the place immaculate
16:20then crawl away to die.
16:21Everything in good order.
16:23Everything closed down.
16:25And some bumbling amateur
16:27breaks in and leaves the lights on.
16:29Not just the lights either.
16:33Lead lag, that's all right.
16:39How do they work
16:41if there's no electricity?
16:43Battery stick head.
16:47Like at the substation.
16:49All these controls.
16:51are powered by batteries.
16:53And they might just have lasted
16:54if that fool hadn't played around.
16:57So it's no good.
16:59After all.
17:03I'll have to start it by hand.
17:06What?
17:08We'll have to start it by hand.
17:12Once we're generating
17:14the batteries will recharge themselves
17:16automatically.
17:19But first we turn on the tap.
17:23What kind of tap?
17:24It's called the inlet valve control.
17:28Here it is.
17:34Sam.
17:36Complete with instructions.
17:38See what's down that grating over there.
17:39What do you expect that to be?
17:41A ruddy grate piston, I hope.
17:43Tell me when it moves.
17:44All right, now we open the guide vents.
17:57But first, check the oil.
18:11It seems to be enough.
18:15But I don't like the feel of it.
18:17Get me a spanner
18:17so I can get this panel off.
18:19Where do I find a spanner?
18:20There's bound to be a workshop.
18:21Look around.
18:23Just a minute.
18:25For future reference,
18:26you jack up the turbine
18:27to allow the oil to lubricate the bearings
18:30before starting up.
18:31Okay?
18:32Get me a spanner.
19:10Let's do it.
19:18You dickhead.
19:20Couldn't find anything smaller.
19:23Really, it's all right anyway.
19:24I think it was just a bit of grit on the dipstick.
19:28Is oil so important?
19:30And you expect to be an engineer?
19:33Without oil,
19:34the bearings in the turbine
19:35would smash from overheating.
19:37Uh-huh.
19:44Is this to do with oil?
19:45Don't touch that!
19:49That's the tap
19:50that drains the oil
19:51when you have to change it.
19:53Uh-huh.
19:54Okay?
19:54Uh-huh.
19:56Come on.
20:07What are you doing now?
20:09Trying to open the veins
20:11and the turbines
20:12so the water can turn them.
20:14Oil again.
20:14It has to be equalized.
20:20Right.
20:20Try that wheel now.
20:26Clockwise!
20:30Yeah.
21:06Are we making electricity?
21:08Not yet.
21:10Why?
21:11If the turbine's going.
21:14Just check the fuel switch.
21:16Check the fuel switch
21:17and we'll be almost there.
21:19What else?
21:21Well,
21:22before closing the fuel switch,
21:24we've got to close
21:25the circuit breakers outside
21:26which gets the current
21:28onto the power lines.
21:29Okay?
21:32Come on.
21:46This is a fuel switch.
21:49Oh,
21:49last,
21:50the handle's missing.
21:51Handle?
21:53Yeah,
21:53it fits in there.
21:55Must be about here somewhere.
21:58Are you saying
21:59the whole thing depends now
22:00on turning that thing?
22:01We can't get any juice
22:03until we do.
22:04The turbine
22:05won't activate
22:05the generator
22:06until that switch is closed.
22:08So if it couldn't be closed?
22:10What?
22:10The whole power station
22:12would be useless.
22:14There it is.
22:15Come on,
22:16out the way.
22:16Hold on.
22:17We've got a power line
22:19running all the way
22:20down to the south,
22:21right?
22:22If we're vice
22:23on it,
22:23you don't think us.
22:24And back in Derbyshire,
22:25you even connected
22:25the local supply.
22:27So once you turn that thing
22:28and close the circuit breakers
22:30outside,
22:31well,
22:32think what Charles'
22:33friends might see.
22:35A light coming up.
22:37An electric fire.
22:39What I'm worried about
22:40is too much coming on.
22:42It's enough
22:42if only one machine
22:43starts off.
22:44No,
22:44that trip the circuit.
22:45Ah,
22:45but if people see it,
22:46they'll know we've done it.
22:48That electric power
22:49is possible again.
22:50It is.
22:51They'll get all the power stations
22:53going after that.
22:54If that's what they want,
22:56it is possible.
22:57Are you going to work
22:57in a factory
22:58once you've turned on?
23:00No,
23:01you're going to get
23:02the hell out.
23:03Up to the hills
23:04to a croft
23:05with a fucker sheep
23:06in your beloved islands.
23:08Just because the power
23:09does have no good
23:09to be...
23:10You're not going to
23:11deny it to others.
23:12Right.
23:13Not for you
23:13to consider the implications.
23:15That's for politicians.
23:16You're just the engineer.
23:18Right again.
23:19Bonds are dropped
23:19because of that excuse.
23:21And gas chambers built.
23:23Are you comparing
23:24electricity to that?
23:26Elixir of life.
23:29As if it matters
23:30to the man
23:30on the factory bench
23:31where the current
23:32comes from.
23:34It may be clean up here,
23:35but it's dirty enough
23:37when the steel works
23:38into it.
23:43Sam,
23:44if people want steel again...
23:46You should stop them
23:47having it.
23:51People have learned
23:52to be self-sufficient.
23:54Give them electricity,
23:55get industry going,
23:57and they depend
23:58for their livelihood
23:59on something
24:00they have no control over.
24:02You make them slaves.
24:03That is...
24:04Slaves.
24:05To whoever it is
24:06haunted by.
24:07But they can
24:08hold it themselves.
24:09All they have to do
24:10is train up
24:11a few technicians,
24:12like you,
24:13to handle the cloud,
24:16and it's free to all.
24:17Someone has to be trusted
24:18with this switch.
24:20And who can you trust?
24:24Sam,
24:25for three weeks
24:25we've been slogging
24:27our way up north here.
24:28Why wait till now
24:30to pick all this up?
24:31Because if I told you earlier,
24:33you'd never have let me in here.
24:36And I had to see
24:37how it all worked
24:38before I knew
24:39what I had to destroy.
24:42You're not destroying
24:44anything in here, Sam.
24:45The field switch.
24:46Then on to the next dam.
24:48Do the same there.
24:50If we keep one step ahead
24:51of whoever was on that train
24:52from the south,
24:53we can destroy the whole lot
24:55before Greg, Charles,
24:56or anyone else
24:56can stop us.
24:58Let people make
24:59their own electricity
25:00with water wheels,
25:02windmills.
25:03As long as it's their own,
25:04they're still free.
25:05But put men
25:07back on the assembly line
25:09Oh, come on.
25:10Oh, for Pete's sake.
25:13Look what the last
25:14industrial revolution led to.
25:17It could only be stopped
25:18by a plague
25:19that wiped out
25:21almost all mankind.
25:24You can't want
25:25to start it up again.
25:27You're crazy.
25:29And you're so sane.
25:32You'd have made
25:32an atom bomb,
25:33wouldn't you?
25:49I'm going to have a rotten headache.
25:51OK.
25:52We've got you.
25:55The
25:55the
25:55is
25:55the
25:55is
25:55the
25:55is
26:06the
26:22is
27:08It's wacky.
27:09Are you here?
27:12Alec!
27:15Alec!
27:17It's Jenny.
27:20Alec, are you there?
27:24Alec!
27:26It's Jenny!
27:29Alec!
27:31Are you there?
27:39They don't seem to be around.
27:42Look outside, Gilbert.
27:50Well, he seems to have got it going again, wherever he is.
27:53Spitting like a top.
27:54Aye, the turbine, aye.
27:56Is it generating?
28:04Well, what the hell kind of a nut did that fit?
28:10Tell me, Mr. Vaughan, this government you have set up in England, has it any real authority?
28:16Well, we hope so.
28:18We've published a proclamation.
28:20We've got one representative from every known community to form a council.
28:24They're deliberating now, trying to hammer out some form of constitution.
28:29Who heads this government?
28:31One Greg Preston.
28:33It was Greg who united all the communities.
28:36We owe him a lot.
28:37No sign?
28:38No, I've looked everywhere.
28:41And are you here now as this Mr. Preston's ambassador?
28:44No, we're just here to catch up with Sam and Alec.
28:47Who said them?
28:48I mean, are they here officially, or to claim our electricity for your government?
28:53Your electricity?
28:56We're not going to start all that again, are we?
28:58It comes from our hills, our rivers.
29:00Your rain, falling on our land.
29:03Did the Scots build the dams?
29:05Did they build these machines?
29:06Yes, I'm sure they did.
29:07Oh, using their own money, no investment from the rest of the country.
29:10Now, you question my right to speak for the English.
29:12Well, I question yours to claim these power stations for Scotland.
29:16God almighty, man, there are few enough of us surviving without bringing nationalism into it.
29:20Few enough in England, maybe.
29:21You're arguing about ownership, and we don't even know if it's working yet.
29:26We found their horses tied up with a pipe like that.
29:28Well, they can't be far away.
29:30There's a coffer across the river.
29:32I'll see if he's seen them.
29:35Ah!
29:37Charles, you can't forget the song.
29:41Oh, what happened?
29:53That feels sick.
29:54What are you doing down there?
29:56Where's Sam?
30:00Sam.
30:02Ah, hi, yes.
30:08What are you feeling now?
30:11Very groggy.
30:12I'm going to look for the other fellow.
30:14You did say the horses are still there.
30:16Yes.
30:17So he's not ridden off, then?
30:19Ridden off?
30:20What, leaving you down that hole?
30:22He didn't even know I was down there, Jenny.
30:26Grating was over the hole.
30:28Oh, Sam had been down there earlier.
30:30He probably put it back to stop either of us falling down.
30:33Then went out to look for me.
30:35I'll find him.
30:40Anyway, you've got one of the turbines going.
30:42Congratulations.
30:43I can get them both going, but it won't do any good.
30:47You sure?
30:49Of course I'm sure, Charles.
30:51Look, everything's dead.
30:53We've got no hydroelectric power.
30:56A deity, Rob.
30:58Seen any strangers about?
31:04Look, Charles, I'll prove it to you.
31:05You pull down the handle on that fuel switch when I tell you, okay?
31:09Jenny, you come with me.
31:16This is the unicorn, Jenny.
31:18When you see that needle move on that dial,
31:20you know we've got power, okay?
31:26Where are you going?
31:28To close the circuit, Branker's outside.
31:35They're registering.
31:37What's he on about?
31:41Go on, Charles.
31:42Close it.
31:56What happened?
31:58Well, it all went off, like he said.
32:00Well, close your palm now.
32:02Look, I know very little about it.
32:06But if one of the lines to a big city is still connected,
32:12and there's an entire factory still switched on...
32:14You get tripped out.
32:15Too much learn.
32:18Maybe that is the explanation.
32:20But it could be anywhere between here and Darwin.
32:22Well, it'll take time to find it, but we must try.
32:25All the way back, checking every switch out again.
32:29I tell you, the whole idea's absurd.
32:31Forget it.
32:31Don't I, your friend, knock you out
32:32because you said it was absurd?
32:35I fell.
32:36The betting was off.
32:37It was an accident.
32:39Rob has a croft across the river.
32:41He came in here to see what you were up to,
32:43saw you laid out on the floor,
32:44and your friend with a spanner in his hand.
32:45Oh.
32:46And if there were two horses up at the pipeline
32:48a few minutes ago, there's only one there now.
32:50Where do you think he's off to, Mr. Campbell?
32:51Why are you protecting him?
32:54Pretending you fell?
32:55What did he do it for?
32:58Could you check my saddlebag, Schubert,
33:00and see if my papers and maps are all there?
33:02There's no saddlebag on that horse by the pipeline.
33:04Maps of what?
33:05Of where all the other stations are.
33:07Sam wants them all destroyed.
33:10I think he's heading for Delay.
33:13That's the nearest, isn't it?
33:14Go after him.
33:15Take that horse up there.
33:16Up the clear, and then where are the rest of the little reservoir?
33:20And you, Rob, take your gun
33:21and stand guard outside in case he comes back.
33:24What are you doing?
33:27You may have a government in England,
33:29but here in Scotland we protect our own.
33:32We'll have men posted every,
33:33every power station in the Highlands by night.
33:54We'll get this turbine going as well.
33:56We'll double the amount of power.
33:58I've told you it will make no difference.
34:00If a city like Manchester is still connected,
34:02the overload to the generator will break the circuit.
34:05Boy, don't know how much it's switched on there.
34:07Could be vertical.
34:09Just to break the circuit,
34:11and one machine sharing will load between the two.
34:13Is that what you think?
34:14Aye.
34:14Well, it won't work.
34:19I think you're holding out on us.
34:23I would have told you about Sam in the end.
34:26I lived it late enough as it was.
34:28Did you want him to destroy it all, Alec?
34:31Not until I was coming to down in that pit
34:33to hear Charles and the laird
34:36arguing about who it all belonged to.
34:38If that's how it's going to be,
34:40it's maybe better that nobody has it.
34:44We're being up so cooperative now.
34:47Come on, get this turbine going.
34:49Hey, Sam!
34:50What are you up to?
34:59Sam!
35:01You open this door!
35:03What are you doing in there with that log?
35:07What is this place?
35:09What are you doing?
35:29Any luck?
35:30No, cut out at once.
35:33Alec,
35:34these circuit breakers
35:36at this substation,
35:38did you let Sam isolate them?
35:40Once or twice?
35:41Well, which ones?
35:44I can't remember.
35:49Now, what gives you,
35:50or Sam,
35:52the right to decide
35:52whether the world should have electricity or not?
35:55Hey!
35:56Sir Sam's up on the lake up there.
35:58He's got around the twist, if you ask me.
35:59What's he doing?
36:01Well, you know that pier thing
36:02where the house perched on the end?
36:04Well, he's locked himself in.
36:05He's got a ruddy great tree trunk in there with him.
36:08What?
36:09I saw him drugging it along the pier
36:10and in through the door.
36:13Get over there, Charles.
36:14Force your way in
36:15and close the inlet valve.
36:17Go on!
36:18Why?
36:18What's happening?
36:20If Sam's dropped a tree trunk down the shaft,
36:23it will get into the tunnel.
36:24And if it reaches the top of that pipeline there,
36:26it will plunge all the way down to the turbine bay.
36:29There was provision to stop anything like this happening in the old days.
36:33Not that it would have mattered very much in those days.
36:36Smashing the turbines?
36:37Well,
36:38we could get past in those days.
36:41At least you're not siding with Sam now.
36:43At least I'm not going to let him smash it.
36:46Come on, we'll close down the turbine
36:47and I'll get over to the reservoir.
36:58You there, Charles?
36:59Aye.
37:01You want to sign the room?
37:02Aye.
37:03The door was open when I got here.
37:05And what about this tree trunk?
37:07No.
37:08It's going to be down there.
37:09How long will it take to drain the water?
37:11They're all about an hour, sir.
37:14The tunnel's only a mile long.
37:17Well, then what?
37:19Well, we'd have to spend the time to look at the cell.
37:24Well, what then?
37:25When the tunnel's straight?
37:27I'll walk along the tunnel until I find the log.
37:30If it hasn't reached the pipeline by then.
38:01Here is Sam's horse.
38:02I found it tethered in the quarry
38:04as if he didn't want us to find it.
38:06So he's still round here then?
38:08I suppose so.
38:09I wonder why.
38:15What's he gone and locked himself in there for?
38:18Alec?
38:20Alec?
38:21I suppose he could always open the door
38:22if he wants to come out.
38:26Thanks.
38:28You hurt?
38:29What is it?
38:30Come here.
38:33That log in the water down there.
38:35Is that what you thought he'd put into the shaft?
38:45Alec?
38:46You hear me?
38:48I think Sam's in there.
38:50I think it's a trap.
38:52Go get that log.
38:55Sam!
38:57Are you opening that gate?
39:00Listen!
39:02You kill Alec
39:03and yourself!
39:06That tunnel's full of air, Sam!
39:09If you let the water rush in,
39:11it'll compress and blow back.
39:13It'll blow everything sky high!
39:16Hey!
39:33I'm not the one that can make the machines work,
39:35so why not just include a bit, eh?
39:36Oh, Jesus!
39:41Oh, I saw me out!
39:43Oh, hey!
39:44Oh, hey!
39:45Hey, where do you think you've gone?
39:46Get off that horse!
39:49Oh!
39:56I'm putting you in charge here, Davy.
39:59When that sabbatar finds out
40:00that he can't get through to the other stations,
40:01he may well come back and have another go.
40:04So keep a sharp lookout and shoot on sight.
40:09Has Mr. Campbell recovered from that blow in the head yet?
40:11Yeah, he's now down at the substation with Jenny.
40:13Oh.
40:29It was just as I thought.
40:31I told Sam to break it and he did the opposite.
40:34You see, it makes the same noise
40:35whether you open it or close it.
40:37That's why I didn't realize.
40:38So it was all going to waste.
40:40Will it work now?
40:41It should do.
40:42Once I've closed the circuit back
40:43as back of the powerhouse,
40:44it was the only one I let Sam touch.
40:50What are you going to do
40:51when we have switched on?
40:55Go back to Greg Preston?
41:00No.
41:02I can't do that.
41:15Greg's dead.
41:17Don't touch things, Hubert.
41:19Nothing works anyway.
41:21Will wants the batteries are charged up.
41:25And everything can be operated from this desk.
41:28Everything.
41:30Even the switching stations.
41:33And that's the trouble.
41:35In the end, it all rests on the man
41:37who's sitting in this chair.
41:39I doubt if you mean to sit in that chair
41:40for the rest of your life, Mr. Paul.
41:42Even if you could somehow control it.
41:44The power goes out
41:45through half a dozen cables just out there.
41:47We could cut through those anytime we like.
41:49Hold everyone to ransom.
41:51How can you afford a ransom in England?
41:53We'll soon have industry going again
41:55with electricity.
41:56Steel.
41:57Eventually.
41:59I'll make a list of all the things
42:00we could do with in Scotland.
42:03I'm sure we'll come to terms in the end, Mr. Paul.
42:06Now, what's happened to Mr. Campbell?
42:08We can't afford to lose him.
42:10I don't have to switch on, Jenny.
42:15Even now, I have half a mind to
42:17let them do without it.
42:19They need it, Alec.
42:23Do you?
42:26When you were up at the reservoir just now
42:28and it looked as if Sam
42:30was going to destroy everything after all,
42:33I suddenly felt quite relieved.
42:37If we were going back
42:39to just making do again,
42:40I thought there'd be no nicer place
42:42for it than this.
42:43There's not.
42:45Bring the children up here, Jenny.
42:47We can go back to Klyn,
42:49where I was born.
42:50Have our own farm.
42:51Be happy, be safe, be free.
42:55To rise at dawn
42:56and go to bed at dusk.
42:58You've just said it.
43:00It's easy enough to bake the best of things
43:02when there's no choice, Alec.
43:04But we do have a choice.
43:06You have the skill and the knowledge
43:08to give back so much of what we've all lost.
43:12Think what electricity means.
43:15Oh, Sam told me what that meant.
43:17I want the children to have everything
43:19that I had once.
43:22Let's have power again, Alec.
43:23Please.
43:28Then you go back with Charles and Tom Water?
43:31Yes.
43:34But you've just told me
43:35if I can't get this power going again,
43:36you'd be happy to live up here with me.
43:41Please, Alec.
44:05Everything ready?
44:06Yes, we hope so.
44:07Alec's just closing the circuit breakers.
44:09Push in there.
44:12Oh, it's you, Mr. Campbell.
44:14I found a horse wondering about her side.
44:17Could that be your friends?
44:18It may be.
44:19But if it's Sam's, it's too late.
44:22Wether the light.
44:24So you'd like me to come to England
44:25and talk it over with your government, would you?
44:27Of course.
44:29Though we didn't come to steal it,
44:30just to get it working.
44:33Why don't all of you come up here to see us?
44:39You see, I'm not prepared to be your secretary of state for Scotland, Mr. Foreman.
44:43But I am willing to make you my secretary of state for England.
44:47Tell me, Mr. Campbell, what are your plans now?
44:51Get out for good and leave you both to it, I shall think.
44:54But you're the only one who knows how the system works.
44:56So I'll have to stay, won't I?
44:58Only till you've trained some others to take your place.
45:01I can find plenty of intelligent young men for that.
45:04No.
45:05I will find them myself.
45:07And they will be responsible only to me.
45:10And I will be answerable to no one.
45:13Not to you, McAllister.
45:16Or to you, Charles Wally.
45:18And if you don't like that,
45:20just remember, with very little effort,
45:22I can close this place down in such a way
45:25that you'll never get it started again.
45:42That's why it has to be me who stays here.
45:45Because there's nobody else I can trust.
45:51I'm only sorry about one thing.
45:55But I have to stay here alone.
46:06Get off those kids.
46:10What's happening?
46:12You're going to go!
46:28The machine makes provisions for people like you.
46:31A safety valve operates.
46:33That's what that is.
46:38Come here, you little girl!
46:49We'll meet again, Mr. Vaughan?
46:50Of course.
46:52And wherever you choose.
46:53Wherever Mr. Campbell chooses, I imagine.
46:55We seem to be in his hands now.
46:56Always a good man.
46:58And a good Scot.
46:59After 15 years in England, he's no more Scots than I am.
47:02For all that, he's no more English than I am.
47:05Well, we must both remember that.
47:17Good bye, Mr. McAllister.
47:19Good bye.
47:19Have a safe journey.
47:21I hope your train doesn't let you down again.
47:22Have electric trains soon.
47:24All my cons.
47:25Thank you for your hospitality.
47:36Thank you for bringing Alec Campbell.
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