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00:00The End
01:15Alec thinks it's time we've made a start.
01:18This is the second field telephone we've seen this week.
01:22So you're not the only one who knows how to do it?
01:25Well the only other one I know is Greg.
01:26You're so arrogant.
01:28Why do you always assume it's only you and Greg who can do anything?
01:31Come on, if we're going to get to Cumberland today we must make a start.
02:04Where the hell are they now?
02:05Hubert's gone shooting.
02:07Charles went to look at that telephone shelter we spotted.
02:10Jenny's gone to find them.
02:11We should have left hours ago.
02:13Well if we're just going to follow these pylons we're never going to see anything else.
02:16We don't need to see anything else.
02:20Well we could stay here for 24 hours, see who mens that phone.
02:23We're supposed to be going to Scotland, aren't we?
02:26To get the power switched on.
02:28Well if we're going to be distracted by every single thing that we notice on the way.
02:33What's that over there?
02:58Where's it come from?
02:59Blown off onto the pylons.
03:02Don't know which one.
03:10Here, the same thing is written on a bridge over there.
03:14I found a note stuffed in an empty milk bottle.
03:16There.
03:23Message for Charles V.
03:25Greg is at Felbridge Army Camp East Riding.
03:29He needs you urgently.
03:44It doesn't say anything about Felbridge.
03:46We have to get to Marley first.
03:50Aye Captain, that's 20 mile.
03:56So, it's a long walk.
04:02Well, I don't know if my feet last that long.
04:05All the more pickings for me.
04:08Well, you don't even know what we're going to find at this camp.
04:11Look, from what I heard that blackout Preston going on about, it'll be worth a few blisters.
04:20Who wrote it?
04:21Somebody living around here, I suppose.
04:24Has to be.
04:25Someone who knew we were coming this way.
04:27Aye.
04:27Either up the river so we'd see it on the bridge.
04:29And across the field so we'd see it on a pylon.
04:32Now, where is Felbridge East Riding?
04:36Agnes must be with him.
04:37No, Agnes is still in Spencer where I left her.
04:39Yes, but weeks ago.
04:41You told her we were going to Scotland.
04:43She must have found Greg and told him.
04:45How else could he know?
04:47Here it is.
04:48Down below Bridlington.
04:50The east coast.
04:52Must be a hundred miles away.
04:54Oh, he really is organised if he can send a message from a hundred miles away.
04:59Well, I suggest we find whoever's in contact with him here.
05:03Just so long as you don't expect me to go to Felbridge.
05:06We'll be there the day after tomorrow, Ginny.
05:07Yes, but by the time we get there, he'll be somewhere else. He always is.
05:10Well, there's that telephone there as well.
05:12Have Greg's fixed that?
05:13I'm sick and tired of hearing about this Greg character.
05:18And I'm sick and tired of these everlasting changes of plan.
05:22I just want to know what we're going to do, do it and get home.
05:25So we'll get on then.
05:27You want to go?
05:28If you do.
05:30You're outnumbered, Charles.
05:32Maybe.
05:34But I am going to Felbridge.
05:37If anyone wants to come or not, and as the horses are saddled, I might as well go now.
05:42Charles!
05:49Don't you even want to see him?
05:50Of course I do, but...
05:52Do I have to persuade you?
05:54If not, I don't want to waste my time.
05:56Listen, if I really thought he'd be there, I'd go.
06:07Keep to the same route to Perthshire.
06:09I suppose so.
06:10Good.
06:12Then if I don't catch up with you, Greg will.
06:15That'll be the day.
06:17Well, goodbye.
06:19Goodbye, Charles.
06:21Jenny.
06:23You take care.
06:32You couldn't have gone anyway.
06:34Your horse is lame.
06:37She'll be here for a few days yet.
07:08Come on, graduate.
07:10Anyone at home?
07:12Come on,iem.
07:15Come on.
07:17Come on, get up.
07:18Come on.
07:22Do you want to get up?
07:23Let's go.
07:23Kettle on the boil. Nice warm fire.
07:28Suit us nicely.
07:29Depends who's living here.
07:31Why don't you go and have a scout around?
07:33I'll see what the grab situation is.
07:37Hey.
07:39Whoever it is might have a gun.
07:42Good. We could do with a gun.
07:50Hey!
07:52There's a big brass bed in here.
07:54Both of us? Or just me?
07:56Both of us!
07:58That's if the owner doesn't mind.
08:03I don't think the old woman will give us much trouble.
08:07How do you know it's an old woman?
08:10Because she's on her way back now.
08:14Take a look.
08:26They may have been here.
08:29I'll let you know for sure on tomorrow's call.
08:34Okay?
08:36Say the message has been taken away.
08:39Right.
08:41Right, well I'll disconnect now.
09:08We were hoping we'd see someone using that phone.
09:11We were hoping we'd see someone using that phone.
09:14I'm Jenny Richards.
09:15And this is Hubert.
09:17There are two more friends of ours in a house down the road.
09:20Is Charles Vaughan one of them?
09:22Yes, he got a message to go to Fellbridge.
09:24Yes.
09:24I left it for him.
09:25My name's Norton.
09:26Les Norton.
09:28All we need is a bite to eat, Mrs Higgs.
09:32And somewhere to bed down for the night.
09:35Now, you don't mind sleeping by the Rayburn for once, do you?
09:37So Mitch and I can have the bed.
09:40We've travelled 40 miles today.
09:42Can't go another step.
09:43Your feet are killing me.
09:44And if you knew his feet, sure.
09:47Go on.
09:48Yeah.
09:49Show your horrible blisters.
09:51I must ask you to leave.
09:54No, that's not very hospitable.
09:57Well, where are you trying to get to?
09:59The coast.
10:00Fellbridge.
10:02Another 50 miles yet.
10:04Oh, is it the army camp you want?
10:09What do you know about that place?
10:11Well, why are you trying to get there?
10:14That depends what you have to tell us about it.
10:18And what goes on at Fellbridge Camp?
11:05I've had a message from Greg Preston.
11:08I'm Charles Vaughan.
11:09Oh, yes, you're expected.
11:10Just write in.
11:11You'll find Agnes in HQ.
11:13Agnes Carlsen?
11:14The white building at the end on the right.
11:18She's been hoping you'd come for the last week.
11:25How many copies can you make?
11:27As many as this paper to print them on.
11:30It takes time, of course.
11:31She's only a hand press.
11:34Charles!
11:35Oh, Charles, I'm glad to see you.
11:38You got a message I was giving off.
11:39Have you come alone?
11:41Yes.
11:41Joe.
11:42Meet Charles Vaughan.
11:43Hello.
11:44Joe and his wife were living here when my father and I arrived.
11:48Your father?
11:48Yes, all those months ago.
11:50We landed just down the coast from here.
11:52This is where we got the balloon.
11:54Army Transport Depot.
11:55Military fence all round, water, even our own generator.
12:00And Joe and his wife have everything we need to live on.
12:03Cows, pigs, chickens, vegetables.
12:05You'll be wanting something yourself, I reckon.
12:07I'll tell of this.
12:09Oh, don't worry.
12:09I'm not starving.
12:11Shall I bring this off, then?
12:13No, not just yet.
12:14Thanks, Joe.
12:18Joe used to be a printer.
12:21Greg got him an old hand press.
12:23We can publish a newspaper now.
12:26Where's Jenny?
12:27Where's Greg?
12:28About 30 miles from here.
12:32But he...
12:33He told me to come here.
12:35Urgently, he said.
12:36Yes, he told me to send a message.
12:38I guessed which way you were going if you were following the electricity lines.
12:41What is Greg doing 30 miles from here when he wants to see me urgently?
12:45It's always the same.
12:48He's got smallpox.
12:51And it was Preston gave it me.
12:55Mitch wasn't there.
12:57He found me in a ditch after I got out.
12:59Rappling on he was about that camp at Fellbridge.
13:01I was delirious.
13:04But it was information that I received from Preston when he had the fever.
13:08Gold, he kept saying.
13:09Now, is there gold at Fellbridge camp?
13:13Who wants gold anyway?
13:16He kept jabbering away to that girl of his.
13:20And he tricked me and my team into going to Causton Farm.
13:24I was the only one that got out alive.
13:27It was me that looked after you.
13:33Now, Mrs. Hicks should like to cook us a good dinner, wouldn't you?
13:37I wouldn't say no to a nice roast chicken.
13:43Who are you both?
13:45He's called Mitch.
13:47You can call me the captain.
13:50Mason and his friends would have pillaged the whole country if they'd had the chance.
13:53He was after my father's notebooks.
13:55Tried to murder Greg.
13:57Kidnapped me, even threatened to torture me.
14:00How did you get away?
14:01Oh, Greg took them with him to Dr. Adam's place so they'd all catch smallpox too.
14:05Along with their friend the captain.
14:07Unfortunately, he got away.
14:11Greg.
14:12Will you recover?
14:13I hope so.
14:14Now, let me show you around the cap.
14:16Well, the cap will not see Greg.
14:18If he gets well, he'll join us.
14:20There's nothing we can do.
14:22We can go to him.
14:24Where is this Dr. Adam's place?
14:28The whole place is in quarantine with two men who shoot anyone leaving.
14:33Well, this captain got away.
14:35And you?
14:36He seemed to be immune.
14:38Don't know why.
14:38That brucellosis I caught, maybe.
14:40Why did you leave Greg?
14:42He ordered me to.
14:43To carry on his work.
14:44What do you think Greg's been doing while you and Jenny and your new friends have been pushing off to
14:49Scotland?
14:59There.
15:01Twenty-eight different communities.
15:04Positions marked and details of each listed here.
15:08Roads that are safe for travellers.
15:10Phone links, railways.
15:13Greg has been making your country into a nation again.
15:17I was round here a couple of months back.
15:19Showed us how to get this place, boys.
15:28What do you need bricks for?
15:30Must be plenty of houses round here empty.
15:32Round here, yes.
15:33Down in Derbyshire, they want to build.
15:35Can we send them bricks?
15:36What they can send us.
15:38All the way from the Derbyshire?
15:39Comes up by train once a fortnight.
15:41That's not Tom Walters' train, is it?
15:43You know Tom Walters?
15:44Yeah.
15:45Hey, Tom.
15:45Friends of yours here.
15:47I said I'd find them horse.
15:47One of theirs has gone lame.
15:49Tom, what are you doing here?
15:51How's your mother?
15:52Oh, she's fine.
15:53Stephen Evans?
15:54Yeah, they're okay.
15:54What's been going on?
15:55Tom got his train to Doncaster.
15:58Managed to switch points so he could use the main line north and south.
16:03He's got another train running now with help from a man at York called Albert Banks.
16:08Albert's also got a lorry he runs on coal gas along this road here to us.
16:12Is it safe?
16:14Oh, Greg got people to patrol it and we can communicate with every known settlement too.
16:19From here we can telephone a woman on the Humber, Mrs. Hicks, who can call either Grimsby or Albert Banks
16:28at York.
16:29Northwards we have Nancy who is connected to Scarborough one way and Les Norton up where you were.
16:36It was Mr. Norton who left that message for you.
16:40I need to come here.
16:41Why?
16:43To help form a government.
16:45Government?
16:46It's about time, isn't it?
16:48Greg told me to send for everyone he trusts.
16:52Tom should be here tomorrow.
16:53He's up with Mr. Norton at the moment trading.
16:57Does Tom know Greg's got smallpox?
16:59Yes.
17:01He's the only one who does, apart from you and me.
17:05What's Greg doing at Fellbridge?
17:06Trying to sort things out, get some kind of administration going.
17:10I'm going down there myself tomorrow.
17:11How?
17:12Train to York, then by road.
17:14Perhaps I could come with you?
17:15As long as Charles is gone, I don't think you need bother, Jenny.
17:18But I'd like to.
17:19Here.
17:19I'll phone your horse.
17:21Hey, Les.
17:21Before you send that wagon down to the station, I'd like another 2,000 of them bricks.
17:25In return for what?
17:26Petrol.
17:27Petrol?
17:28Greg's got a million gallon.
17:30What?
17:30We're in underground storage tanks at that army camp.
17:33Any equipment to pump it up.
17:35Now then, what would you want for 2,000 bricks?
17:38A hundred gallon suit you?
17:39You have hundred gallons of petrol with you?
17:41No, but I'll give you a chip from Greg.
17:43Eh?
17:44Here.
17:48I, Greg Preston, promised to pay the bearer on demand at Fellbridge Camp 100 gallons of petrol.
17:55His handwriting, his signature, isn't it, Jenny?
17:58You expect me to part with 2,000 bricks for a scrap of paper?
18:02A scrap of paper you could always use for other things, Les.
18:05Like what?
18:06Anything you may want from me when the time comes.
18:08More cheese, tools, cloth.
18:11And you'll take that letter in exchange?
18:12If you'll take it now for these bricks.
18:15It's money, isn't it?
18:17That's right.
18:18We'll never expand trade till we bring it back.
18:29I, Greg Preston, promised to pay the bearer on demand 100 gallons of petrol.
18:40So that's what he's got there.
18:42How much is that?
18:43Why don't you go and find out?
18:45Because I think you can save us the bother.
18:47Well, what is it to you two, anyway?
18:49Petrol for engines, generators, machinery.
18:53And cars.
18:55And if one had it all oneself?
18:57No wonder he talks of it as gold.
19:01What can you tell us about it, Mrs. Hicks?
19:03I've never even been to Fellbridge.
19:06All I do is answer the phone for them.
19:08Phone?
19:09What phone?
19:10Up on the hill.
19:11That's where I was when you two broke in here.
19:14Who do you speak to on the phone?
19:16Preston?
19:17Is he at Fellbridge camp?
19:18I'm not sure.
19:20Look, all I do is pass on messages to somebody at York and somebody else at Grimsby.
19:26That's all I can tell you.
19:28Aside from explaining how you got this note.
19:31I mean, that didn't come by phone.
19:35Who gave it to you?
19:36And why is Preston promising petrol?
19:39Why do you want to know?
19:42Because if petrol is going to be used again and it's Preston that's got it all.
19:46Well, my men didn't die of smallpox, so this chappy who did for them can be king.
19:52Now, come here.
19:56Now, do you want to be around in the morning to say goodbye to us or do you want to
19:59say goodbye now?
20:06She's not usually late.
20:08Try again in five minutes, will you, Mike?
20:16What's this you've given Joe to print up? It reads like a royal proclamation.
20:20To tell people what's happening, that's all.
20:22Trust Greg Preston.
20:24Trust his petrol notes.
20:26Use them for trade. Petrol notes, what the hell are they?
20:29Money.
20:31Your Greg Preston wants to bring back money.
20:35And its use is all written.
20:37How much did you ever see of it?
20:39Plenty.
20:41Profits, wages, prices, dividends.
20:45Money was the cause of everything that destroyed us.
20:47It was the plague that destroyed us.
20:49Society was rotten long before that.
20:52Not in everyone's eyes.
20:53Not in yours, maybe.
20:56Two cars.
20:57Nice house.
21:00Holidays abroad.
21:03Hairdresser once a week.
21:04You were one of the, the haves with the big H.
21:09And you were so inadequate you had to become a junkie.
21:13One of the great unwashed have-nots.
21:16No wonder you're jealous of money.
21:18Jealous, am I?
21:19I've decided to go, Alec.
21:21God, I can see it all.
21:24He's summoning the barons to court.
21:26They'll make laws, raise taxes, great carve-up.
21:30Just because some friend of theirs used a letter of Greg's to obtain some bricks,
21:34there's no need to see anything sinister in it.
21:36You must be blind, then.
21:40Any more than there's any need for you to go to him, Jenny.
21:43I'm going to him because I have to. It's as simple as that.
21:47Do you know he's located nearly 30 different communities?
21:508,000 people, Tom said. Another 2,000 down south they haven't got round to yet.
21:54Three railway lines open.
21:55Sailing barges down the east coast.
21:57Charles was right. We must go to Fellbridge.
22:00Right, the horses.
22:06The cables in these pylons are still dead, Jenny.
22:10Greg hasn't switched on the electricity supply.
22:13There was a generator at that brickyard.
22:15Generators, maybe. Powered by windmills and like.
22:18But we've been following the national power lines.
22:21Checking on each substation on the way, pulling the right switches,
22:24and to hope we can start up the hydroelectric plant in Scotland.
22:28Yes, Greg may have someone on that already.
22:31Then he'll have no need of me.
22:33And in that case I'd rather go to Scotland anyway.
22:36On your own?
22:37No, I'll carry on up north for Sam.
22:40Is there nothing I can say or do to persuade you to come with me?
22:45Alec, I have to go to him.
22:47Even if you're not coming, you must see that.
22:51I do see one thing, clearly enough.
22:53You're still in love with him.
22:57Barter is only good if the other person has what you need.
23:00If not, then back you both go.
23:03Hmm.
23:06How many of these things has Greg signed?
23:08Not enough.
23:09Tom Walter's got three or four he's trying to get circulated.
23:12So has Albert Banks at York and Mrs. Hicks.
23:14But what we have to decide now is whether we should print them.
23:17Print them?
23:18Joe can do it on his purse.
23:25Agnes.
23:27A transport depot is not the only source of petrol in the country, you know.
23:31There are refineries near the coast.
23:33Which we can always blow up.
23:36What to create a monopoly here?
23:37Well, like the gold in Fort Knox.
23:40And petrol is the gold now, Charles.
23:42Is that why you wear a gun?
23:45Alice wants to know if these are all right.
23:47Oh, but they are perfect.
23:50Look, Charles.
23:51Greg's initials arranged as a monogram.
23:54Yes, I know.
23:54I saw them on a gig while I came in.
23:56We've got it on a flag as well.
23:57Which we can fly from the mast by HQ.
24:03Oh, I like Buckingham Palace.
24:06Tell Alice they're fine.
24:07I want them to be worn by everyone we're going to rely on.
24:11Oh, a palace guard now, is it?
24:13How can you have a society without law and order and people to enforce it?
24:18We were managing.
24:19Were we?
24:20What about Broad?
24:21Or Mason?
24:22Or the captain?
24:23You can't have freedom without authority, Greg says.
24:27And he's right.
24:29Oh, I've got to see him.
24:31No!
24:34You mustn't.
24:37Why do you want to see him?
24:39To check up on everything I've told you?
24:41Why do you have to be so suspicious?
24:46If he's dead, he's dead.
24:48But if he's alright, then he'll come as soon as he's well enough to.
24:54Every night I say to myself, if only he would come.
24:59If only he would just walk in and take it all over.
25:09Tom.
25:10You got here?
25:11Well, that one in his truck from York.
25:13With 2,000 bricks we've just taken to the Arbor.
25:16Good.
25:17They need them.
25:18Excuse me.
25:19We're trying to get through to Mrs. Hicks on the phone and she's not answering.
25:23I'll be back in a minute.
25:26Hello, Tom.
25:27Charles.
25:28Heard you on your wheel.
25:30Oh, this is, uh, Albert Banks from York.
25:32Charles Vaughan.
25:33Albert.
25:33How do?
25:35You see Jenny?
25:36Mm-hmm.
25:38Have you told her how old Greg is these days?
25:42I just told her what he'd been doing.
25:43I hope he gets here soon.
25:45People are suspicious about those petrol notes.
25:47Eh, Tom?
25:48Ah, they'll come to accept him in the end.
25:51I told Agnes they ought to be printed.
25:54That's why they don't put a picture of Greg on them.
25:56The King's head?
25:57Why not?
25:58That's what he seems to be becoming these days, isn't it?
26:00King of England?
26:03Who do you think should be king?
26:07He's not here.
26:08So I have been conned.
26:10Mrs. Hicks is still not answering the phone.
26:12She must be ill.
26:15This is Mr. Norton.
26:16He wants to see Greg.
26:18Les Norton.
26:19Our contact up north.
26:21I'm afraid Greg is away.
26:22Then I'll wait till he gets back.
26:24Why do you want to see him?
26:25On demand, it says.
26:27At Talbridge Camp.
26:28One hundred gallons of petrol.
26:30How do you want it?
26:31A couple of fifty-gallon drums?
26:33I hope your horse can carry it.
26:35Take Mr. Norton to HQ.
26:37We'll bring him the petrol there.
26:49I've got a couple accepted on the strength of Greg's promise.
26:52But if they can't find others to take them...
26:54They'll presumably come here to be paid in cash.
26:56What's the devil of a way for most people, Tom?
26:58Exactly.
26:59So rather than make the journey, they'll do everything they can to make people use their notes.
27:02And if they fail?
27:03I mean, they'll just tear them up.
27:04They'll never trust Greg again.
27:06Acceptance of a currency is the first step to unification, Albert.
27:17How much petrol is in that store?
27:20About two hundred gallons.
27:21And the rest?
27:23Underground.
27:26Whereabouts?
27:27We know what we're doing, Charles.
27:31Look, Agnes, why do you have to lie to me?
27:33Because I don't know if I can trust you yet.
27:36Well, I do know that I can't trust you.
27:43There is no million gallons, is there?
27:46There never was.
28:11It looks deserted.
28:14Yes.
28:16It suits me.
28:17Ivan, where's the petrol?
28:19Shall we find out?
28:21Or climb the fence.
28:25All we have to do is show the pass at the gate.
28:31Real thing?
28:34How do you pump it up?
28:35Ordinary petrol pumps.
28:37Powered by what?
28:48Electricity.
28:50From our generator.
28:52And a million gallons underground.
28:54A storage for the old Hummerside.
28:57Now then, how are we gonna shift that lot for you?
29:00Can you put it on your truck, Albert?
29:01I could do it.
29:03Right then.
29:04We'll stick it on the train at York.
29:05Okay, Les?
29:06Just hand over that note and it's all yours.
29:08Maybe I don't want it after all.
29:10Eh?
29:11Well, maybe I never did.
29:12You see, I've been showing that note around back home.
29:14And to folks I met on the way here too.
29:16I said I'd check it out for them.
29:18See if it was alright, I mean.
29:19If it is, I haven't other people who want to use them too.
29:22Makes life a lot easier having money again.
29:24Right, well, tell them then.
29:26But if there's no petrol here after all.
29:27You've seen it for yourself.
29:29Not a million gallons.
29:30No, I want to see that petrol float on for the good of all.
29:34As long as he doesn't take the petrol away,
29:36there'll always be enough for anyone else who comes.
29:39Not all going to come at once.
29:41It's fraud.
29:43What did it say on your old English bank note?
29:47I promised to pay the bearer on demand the sum of one pound
29:50with a picture of the Queen.
29:53Did she have enough gold for everyone in the Bank of England?
29:57The Queen's authority was enough to give value to the note.
30:00So is Greg's authority now.
30:03That's all a currency needs.
30:05To be honoured by someone who symbolises the nation itself.
30:10Greg's to do that?
30:13It means we must fly this flag wherever we can.
30:17Get that proclamation issued.
30:20Show people where to trade.
30:22When to trade.
30:24What roads are safe.
30:27Show people a central authority exists.
30:39Les wants to see the petrol tanks.
30:42They're underground.
30:43The covers then.
30:44The pumps.
30:45How do you get it up?
30:47Over there.
30:48You'll find a brick bunker with steel doors.
30:51All the pumping equipment's inside.
30:52But only Greg has the key.
30:54He'll be back in a week or two if you'd like to wait.
30:57No one else has the key for security reasons.
30:59Well, that makes sense when you think of what's there.
31:02If it is there.
31:03Greg will show you when he returns.
31:05Rather than wait, I think I'll go to him.
31:08Where is he?
31:10Norway.
31:11I'll take my petrol and go home.
31:13You'll be better off with a no.
31:15If Greg said so, I'd believe him.
31:16But you, Tom, or you, miss, who are you to tell me what's what?
31:20If Greg assures me that all this organisation you've set up is really going to work,
31:24I'll be the first one to help him.
31:28Charles!
31:33The man at the gate says Greg isn't here.
31:36Again.
31:38You told me he was, Tom.
31:40But I didn't tell you to come.
31:41They say he's in Norway.
31:44Norway?
31:44Well, he's not.
31:45He's in a certain Dr. Adams' place.
31:48Causton Farm, that Dr. Adams.
31:50You know?
31:51Yes, Agnes told us about that ages ago.
31:53Is that where he is?
31:55This time I will find him.
31:57You can't, Jenny.
31:58He's got smallpox.
31:59Charles!
32:00Just what kind of a state do you intend to set up, Agnes,
32:04if it's to be based on deceit?
32:06Right.
32:06Well, I'm going to load those barrels of petrol on your friend's truck.
32:09At least I'll get out with what you owe me.
32:11On demand, it says.
32:13Yes, well, what's your name?
32:16Does that matter?
32:17It just says pay bearer on the note.
32:20You'd better see Miss Carlson.
32:21Blonde girl.
32:23She's somewhere on the parade ground, I think.
32:25Over there.
32:49When did he get it?
32:51Soon after he tried to meet us at Swartham.
32:54Did he go to Slote and Spencer?
32:58I don't think so.
33:00The children might have got it.
33:02Well, we'll ask Agnes.
33:04I don't want to talk to her.
33:08Well, she's the only one who can tell you all about it.
33:11She nursed him.
33:14Nursed him?
33:17How far is it to Causton Farm?
33:20Jenny.
33:20I have to go to him, Charles.
33:23However ill he may be.
33:45Make sure no one leaves the camp.
33:46How do I do that?
33:48You're supposed to be on guard, aren't you?
33:49What do you imagine that gun's for?
33:51I use this.
33:52If necessary.
33:58Albert and Les can't start the truck.
34:00Well, not from the moment anyway.
34:01Good.
34:02Tell them to meet me in the council room.
34:04I have some very important news for them.
34:05They may not be interested.
34:06Then you'd better have a gun too.
34:09If they want to go, we won't be able to stop Magnus.
34:12You will.
34:13Get a gun from the armory.
34:17Magnus.
34:20Jenny says she's going to find Greg and she's going now and I'm going with her.
34:23And I don't suppose I'll see either of you ever again.
34:27Please, bring her to the council room.
34:29What about those two I let in just now?
34:31What two?
34:44There's no petrol in there.
34:47And the old woman did say a million gallons.
34:50Yeah, by that time she'd have said anything.
34:52Feeling sorry for her, Mitch?
34:54There was no need to have done her in.
34:55If we hadn't, she'd have telephoned as soon as we left.
34:58So we could have cut the phone.
34:59Do you want out of this, Mitch?
35:03Are we going to lift a million gallons anyway in buckets?
35:07We're not going to lift it.
35:08We're going to do what Preston thinks he's done.
35:12Take possession.
35:16You'll get in to see him but not out.
35:19There are two men with rifles who shoot anyone leaving.
35:23Well, we can talk to him from outside if necessary.
35:25Come on, Charles, let's go.
35:26What gives you the right to see him?
35:30Greg was terrified you'd try.
35:32He didn't have worried, need he?
35:34If I'd known that he had smallpox.
35:37So he has to be dying, does he?
35:39Jenny is entitled to see him, Agnes.
35:41Entitled?
35:42What has?
35:43His wife?
35:45You didn't even come to Swatham that day.
35:48Send Charles instead.
35:49You were off to Scotland with some new man in your life.
35:53I love Greg.
35:55I love Greg.
35:55Now you say it.
35:57I've always said it.
35:59Just because I haven't been with him doesn't mean to say I don't love him.
36:02Well, I too have always loved him.
36:08From the day he took off in the balloon.
36:11Saw your great green country spread out below.
36:15The day Greg came to life.
36:17Understood what my father had in mind.
36:20Saw what could be done.
36:22You never even believed in him.
36:26Perhaps if you hadn't been so busy believing in him, he'd have been able to find his way back to
36:31me.
36:32Yes, I'm afraid he would have done.
36:36To hold your hand, tell bedtime stories to the children, dangle the baby on his knee.
36:42That's all you ever wanted of him.
36:44You meant more to him than any of that.
36:49You, who gave him nothing.
37:06Good afternoon.
37:09Who are you?
37:10Friends of Greg Preston.
37:11You'd better see Agnes. Greg's away.
37:14So Agnes is here, is he?
37:17Well, what do you do in this place?
37:19It makes money quite a look of it.
37:20I try to, but it's only Ambris I've got through there.
37:24It's difficult to get the notes identical.
37:27So we're going to be rich again, are we?
37:29Buy anything we want.
37:31Only if we have enough for these.
37:32There's plenty to do, Mitch.
37:34I'll tell Agnes you won't.
37:37No, don't let's interrupt your work.
37:41We can find Agnes ourselves.
37:43Anytime we'd like.
37:45Of course he'd have come back to you sooner, if I'd let him.
37:50You admit that.
37:52Which was more important?
37:54You?
37:55Or what he was trying to do for this country?
37:58If it hadn't been for his wanting to find you, we could have done so much more.
38:02Then it wouldn't be in such danger of all collapsing now.
38:09Still, that doesn't matter to you, does it?
38:12As long as you know he loves you.
38:21So what's this news you've got for us then?
38:24That there is no petrol?
38:25That's not news.
38:27The news is that...
38:29Go on, miss.
38:32There has to be a government.
38:34A what?
38:35Some kind of authority.
38:38That's why Charles and Tom are here to discuss it.
38:42Others will be arriving in a day or two, maybe even today, to form a council to decide how best
38:47to manage things.
38:48But if you leave before they even get here, start telling people that Greg has smallpox, that there isn't enough
38:55petrol to back up those notes, then everything Greg started will collapse.
39:00It's up the spout anyway if Greg's sick.
39:02No.
39:03And if there's no petrol after all?
39:04Tell people that and they'll tear up those notes.
39:07It'll be back to barter.
39:08Every man for himself.
39:09Do you really want that?
39:10I just want to see Greg.
39:13Now, stop her, Tom.
39:16Arrest me?
39:18What in the name of Greg?
39:20In the name of everything he stands for.
39:22The safety of the state.
39:24He hasn't been crowned king yet, Agnes.
39:27Would you rather be king yourself?
39:30Nobody need be king.
39:32All we want is a loose federation of communities peacefully trading with each other.
39:37And who is going to keep the peace?
39:39Why do you assume they fight?
39:41The strongest take over the weakest.
39:44Have it your way, Charles, and you'll all be so free that any unscrupulous gangster can prey on anyone he
39:50likes.
39:50Then he becomes king.
39:52And you reckon this money will catch on, do you?
39:55Agnes wants to put up posters about it.
39:58Like that one.
40:02Trust Greg Preston.
40:04Trust his petrol notes.
40:06Use it for trade.
40:09Wear his badges.
40:11And trust the man with the GP badge.
40:14What's that?
40:15Must be these.
40:16My wife's been making them.
40:18To be worn by Preston's men.
40:20Copper's again, is he?
40:22Why don't you go and talk to Agnes about it, not me?
40:25It's time we have police again.
40:28There are too many villains about.
40:31They get away with murder.
40:33Burning houses, robbing old ladies.
40:35Hey, this could be a job for you and me, Captain.
40:41Get a few others together.
40:43Give them badges.
40:46Revolvers.
40:47Then people will know they're protected again.
40:50Why, but what do we live on?
40:53Taxes.
40:55People don't expect to be protected for nothing.
40:58If they find their farms are raided too often, they'll be only too willing to pay.
41:05Now, where do you get this gun from, John?
41:08Ask Agnes.
41:10Oh, yes.
41:13We will ask you.
41:15I'm only asking you to stay a few days until the others arrive and some kind of council is set
41:22up.
41:22You're not asking at all.
41:24You're relying on Tom over there to keep us here by force.
41:26Only if you won't see reason.
41:28I'm not sure you have the right to do that, miss.
41:31What right have any of you to go out of here and bring everything worthwhile to an end?
41:36Well, I'm not staying to be kept prisoner by you, Agnes.
41:39Or you, Tom.
41:40Agnes is right.
41:41Authority is meaningless unless you can prove it has teeth.
41:44Agnes!
41:45I've just made the morning phone call to Mrs Hicks and Philip Blythe answered.
41:48He couldn't get through to her either yesterday, so he rode over to see she was all right.
41:52He found her tied up in her kitchen with her throat cut.
41:56Now, perhaps you see what I'm talking about.
42:00I told him he could have just cut the phone wires.
42:02But if you're Agnes, you probably know the captain better than me.
42:05He's got that fella that prints the money.
42:08He sent me to collect your guns, then he needs to take me to the armory.
42:10Where is he?
42:11Look, nothing you can do to me is gonna match what the captain will do to your friend.
42:28Where are you taking me?
42:30Somewhere safe.
42:35Don't worry.
42:35You'll come to no harm.
42:38Agnes knows me, so she won't take risks.
42:44He hasn't even told me where he's taking him.
42:46He just said I've got exactly five minutes, in fact less than three now, for you to give me your
42:50guns or go out and look for them.
42:52All right, the seven of you.
42:53One of you might find him in just over two and a half minutes, but it's a big camp.
42:57She knows there's nothing to fear from killing you.
43:00Preston's police are not on the beach yet.
43:02Is that all that would stop you?
43:04What else?
43:08Alice!
43:21Here, you're the two.
43:23He has a gun.
43:25So are we.
43:34My wife will be her energy if it bring in the barrel back.
43:38What's going on?
43:40Shut up.
43:41You told your friend that when they handed over the guns, he was to let one off so you'd know.
43:45So keep quiet and listen.
43:47He's had more than five minutes by now.
43:51Agnes knows I wouldn't hesitate.
43:52If she had to choose between saving me and letting you take over, she won't hesitate either.
43:58Agnes is as hard as nails.
44:01Is she?
44:04Get out.
44:06Go on! Get up!
44:07Both of you!
44:22He's dead.
44:24He's killed her.
44:26Don't shoot, Hubert.
44:28Help Tom take him to the guard room.
44:29Lock him in the cell with the other one.
44:31Lock him in a cell?
44:32What for?
44:36Move!
44:43Why not put him on trial?
44:45Judge and jury.
44:49Better to have shot them at once.
44:51Why?
44:52Save ourselves the horror of having to pass judgment.
44:55Quick revenge in the heat of the moment.
44:57No questions ever asked.
44:58Is that how it's going to be?
44:59No, Agnes is right.
45:01We're not going to have any law.
45:02We're no better than the captain.
45:03So who is going to judge them?
45:06Agnes in Greg's name?
45:08Or Greg himself?
45:11Greg's dead.
45:13He died some weeks ago.
45:15I buried him myself.
45:17I'm sorry.
45:18I would have told you before.
45:21I wanted to wait until the council was here.
45:24It was bad enough everyone hearing he had smallpox.
45:28But if they knew he was dead, I couldn't let that come out.
45:31That's why I had to stop you going to him.
45:35We have had to know sooner or later.
45:38I would have told you when everyone was here.
45:41So I could be sure he didn't die for nothing.
45:45And he mustn't.
45:47This must make no difference.
45:51Dead.
45:52That just about wraps it up then.
45:54Come on, Albert. Let's get this truck of yours moving.
45:57At least we've got guns now to protect ourselves.
46:00Look after number 1A, is that it?
46:02Oh, Albert and I will survive.
46:03Aye, but will others.
46:04Like that woman Mrs Hicks that got killed or Joe's wife.
46:07Nothing could be done without Greg.
46:09He was the one person everyone trusted.
46:11Admired.
46:12Respected.
46:13Depended upon.
46:14He'd been everywhere.
46:15But if he's underground, it makes no difference.
46:18No difference?
46:19No.
46:20A council elected from his community can still act on his name.
46:23Well, make out he's still alive.
46:25Aye, why not?
46:27If he provides as a figurehead the authority needed to uphold the law.
46:31What law?
46:32There is none.
46:33No?
46:34Well, if you believe that, you might as well let those two in the guard house go.
46:38All they ever believed in doing was looking after number 1.
46:40Where's Adamus?
46:42Why?
46:42There are people at the gate.
46:43Someone from Peterborough, someone else from Lincoln and a woman from Grimsby.
46:46They say that they've been sent for, but after the last two I let in...
46:49A council is gathering.
46:51Or you can let them in.
46:54Well?
46:55Do you want to join it?
46:57To decide what it becomes of those killers?
46:59Aye.
47:00And what sort of world do you want?
47:03Alec and Sam are on their way to Scotland to get electricity onto the national grid again.
47:08Would Greg have approved?
47:10If the council approves.
47:11The council is Greg now.
47:14You can't love a council.
47:16Your friends going to Scotland must be told we have a government, Jenny.
47:20Their loyalty must be ensured.
47:25Did he really often talk about me?
47:29Not something I'd have made up, is it?
47:31I loved him too.
47:33For all that he did for his country.
47:35For all he could have done.
47:37If it hadn't been for what he felt for you.
47:40I'm not really so selfish, Agnes.
47:42It's just that I don't have your strength.
47:45You won't?
47:46I mean, you know, the council.
47:48Don't worry.
47:50I wouldn't ever let Greg down.
47:58The king is dead.
48:02Long live the king.
48:16They are everyday at home.
48:23It's Dad.
48:28Don't worry, man.
48:30Don't worry, darling.
48:34Let's sing.
48:34Before, let him ask him to take over.
48:42Don't worry.
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