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Timeslip - The Time of the Ice Box Ep 3 (Colour)
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00:25Mommy!
00:30mummy? mummy what's wrong? it's me Liz. no. no don't come near me. what's the
00:38matter? you're not real. you can't be. mummy don't. it's all right. it's only me.
00:51I thought I saw you before at the door but I told myself I was just imagining it.
00:55we came through the time barrier. Simon and me. Simon? Simon Randall? yes. you remember how we used to be
01:03able to go in and out of the time barrier?
01:05well this time it's brought us here. not here. it's not possible. why not?
01:12the director asked me to ask you about... what are you doing here? I thought you'd gone away.
01:17don't hurt her. I don't want her here. she had no right to come.
01:20it's not her fault she came through the time barrier. just as you were able to do once.
01:26just as she was able to do. yes Liz. try to understand. Beth is you. you when grown up. you're
01:33one of the same person.
01:35it's two people but my only daughter. it's the trick that time barriers played on us.
01:39this is me? yes. but but how? doesn't matter how. what do you mean by coming here?
01:46we've no use for you. don't you realize that? I didn't plan anything.
01:51then what are you doing? following me? spying on me?
01:53Simon and I were just trying to get home from the naval station but when we came through the barrier...
01:57oh that ridiculous barrier. those absurd tricks with time. it's not my fault.
02:01childish immature. how long will it be before I've finally outgrown them?
02:06this is really me grown up. honest. yes Liz. listen to me. I don't understand it all either.
02:12but somehow or other it's happened to us.
02:15people do change you know.
02:17at a certain time in my life I had to take some important decisions.
02:20break with the past. become a different kind of person.
02:23but why? what's the matter with me? I'm still as I always was. I don't want to change.
02:29my dear I was a little idiot when I was young.
02:31I had to do something about forcing myself to grow up. finding a purpose to my existence.
02:36we can't be fools all our lives I'm afraid.
02:39you see Liz you have to appreciate how much things have changed for us in the last years.
02:45how very much.
02:46Beth wanted to come here to the icebox in 1980 and it was just about that time we lost our
02:50home.
02:50why did we lose our home? how?
02:53well we won't talk about that.
02:56I was able to come with her because I'm a telepath.
02:59and the director was interested in having some experiments done in that field.
03:02so that's how I live now.
03:04experimenting with telepathy while the others experiment with physics and medicine.
03:09and daddy?
03:10well is he here too in this icebox?
03:17the question is what's to be done.
03:18you obviously shouldn't be in this time phase at all.
03:21he is here then.
03:22but there may be more to it than meets the eye.
03:24I shall have to make inquiries.
03:26what inquiries?
03:28simon and liz just happened to come through the time barrier exactly as she says.
03:31tumbled through I suppose by the merest chance.
03:34sort of.
03:34I don't believe it.
03:35we don't accept such explanations of things in the icebox.
03:39there have to be deeper reasons for men and women committed to the advancement of science.
03:44what's science got to do with it?
03:46oh liz.
03:47when you find out a little more about the icebox you'll only ask what science hasn't to do with it.
03:52stop that gene.
03:53i can still say what i want can't i?
03:54there was never any agreement i shouldn't speak my mind.
03:56if you start it all again i shall only have to report you to the director.
03:59you know i will.
03:59what's she saying wrong?
04:01keep out of it.
04:01i won't have you interfering just because you burst in on us from the past.
04:04as far as i'm concerned you're something that's finished with behind me dead.
04:10why did she change her name?
04:12liz was charged.
04:13i was asking mommy.
04:14she just wanted to be different liz.
04:16but why?
04:17something happened in 1980.
04:19we don't have to answer impertinent questions from you.
04:22in fact you'll keep your mouth shut from now on.
04:25and i'll find out the real reason why you're here.
04:27there isn't any real reason it's just as she says.
04:31is it?
04:33did you know that the computer had identified liz and simon as volunteers for the ab experiment gene?
04:39now there's a very odd situation wouldn't you say?
04:42the computer doesn't make mistakes.
04:48keep a close eye on her.
04:50wait!
04:51i don't know anything about being a volunteer for an experiment. it's wrong.
04:54the computer doesn't make mistakes.
04:57but you must know why i'm here.
04:58well i mean if you're me and i'm here then you must remember this.
05:03simon and me coming back from the naval station and getting into the icebox.
05:05don't waste my time.
05:06and then going home to tell mommy and the others.
05:09mommy you remember.
05:10after simon and i had been in 1940 and we found out about the radar and why daddy was sick.
05:15yes liz i do remember that.
05:16well for goodness sake we came on here.
05:18no liz no i don't think so.
05:20i didn't know a place like this was ever going to exist in those days.
05:25there you see?
05:27all nonsense.
05:30i want you two to understand this matters not to be discussed until i find out everything i can.
05:35i'm certainly not having it noised abroad.
05:37i'm one and the same person as this stupid child.
05:46godly mommy.
05:48it's all crazy.
05:50how could i.
05:52anyone.
05:53turn out like that.
05:56oh mommy i'm sorry.
05:59it's true i came back on purpose a second time.
06:01but only because i'd seen you in this room and had to know what it was all about.
06:05but i didn't mean to upset you.
06:07it's all right liz.
06:09you couldn't know about it.
06:11it's the kind of upset i live with all the time nowadays.
06:15you mean you don't like it here?
06:19and daddy?
06:20you still haven't told me about daddy.
06:22liz.
06:24this has been an awful shock to me.
06:26would you mind if we didn't speak any more about it just now?
06:35so what happened to you eh?
06:36a rocket from the director?
06:38you bet.
06:39you'll have to get used to it simon.
06:40here we're all expected to behave as scientists should.
06:43the work is what matters.
06:45our personal lives are on a bad second.
06:47yes i'm beginning to get the idea.
06:49and your friend liz?
06:51oh well i don't know.
06:53i hope she'll be all right out there on the ice field.
06:55but the computer will find her if she hasn't strayed out of the area.
07:00cheer up.
07:01dr bukoff?
07:02yes?
07:04well i'm still finding out about things around here.
07:06so i was wondering what do you do exactly?
07:08me?
07:09your work.
07:11well um i'm a physicist simon.
07:14everything depends on nuclear energy here so i have charge of all that.
07:18and then i'm continuing the experimentation into the uses of controlled radiation.
07:22do you know?
07:22oh yes yes i see.
07:23intelligence enhancement eh?
07:24what?
07:24the enhancement of intelligence.
07:26bringing people to the limit of their intellectual powers.
07:29oh of course.
07:30it was a great step forward when we discovered the link between that and controlled exposure
07:34to radiation in the 80s.
07:36but you still have to have the right subject.
07:39i'd like to do more on the work.
07:41try and give it an application to everyone.
07:42yes yes i suppose so.
07:44you've had a course?
07:45a course in what?
07:46intelligence enhancement.
07:47oh no no.
07:48oh that's strange.
07:50from the beginning i wondered why else you and liz would have been chosen for the ab experiment.
07:55but the computer never makes mistakes.
07:58oh look don't worry so much about the director sounding off at you.
08:01it's his job.
08:03i've got to have a talk with larry.
08:05you come and have a chat too.
08:13book off.
08:14there you are at last.
08:15what's the matter?
08:16oh my message said pronto didn't it.
08:18come and look.
08:23now this is the power graph for section 4.
08:26isolated from the general operational record.
08:28watch.
08:34there you are.
08:35a blank in the record.
08:360516 hours this morning precisely.
08:38a five second power shut off in section 4.
08:40but that can't happen.
08:41it's there.
08:41i gave the reactor all its checks last night.
08:44there's no conceivable reason for it.
08:45just as there was no conceivable reason for the three minute water supply closed down two days ago.
08:50but that was my baby.
08:51and this one is yours.
08:52your turn to have fume and error blown down your ear book off.
08:55oh yes yes i'll have to inform the director certainly.
08:57well what's wrong dr bukhoff?
08:59the power supply cut off for a brief period early this morning simon.
09:03it's nothing to worry about.
09:04but we've had a number of little things like this going wrong recently.
09:08book off to director operational report.
09:12it's funny he seems to have switched off his audio.
09:15huh?
09:16well he must be going into depth research.
09:18what's that?
09:19depth research?
09:21oh a very complex process simon.
09:23it's something the director has to do every so often.
09:25to make sure our work here is proceeding along the right lines.
09:28only he has the talent.
09:35a five second power failure.
09:40the director must be a very clever man larry.
09:43are you kidding?
09:45he leaves ordinary mortals like you and me for dead son.
09:48why with a computer to check his calculations and generally help his line of thought.
09:52he must be just about the sharpest scientific mind in the world.
09:56he's a strange man though.
09:57i suppose he's related to that other deborah.
10:00what other deborah?
10:01oh but of course he's dead now.
10:03but i remember reading about him in my history of science book back home.
10:06well i wouldn't know about that.
10:08all i'll know about is him.
10:10and the thing that really bugs me.
10:12of course.
10:13well haven't you noticed?
10:14he never seems to see the funny side of anything.
10:17he hasn't got a sense of humour.
10:51he never seems to be near.
10:53he hasn't got a sense of humour.
10:55it's gonna have to be a place for the dead man.
10:56oh my god.
10:57oh my god.
11:00oh my god.
11:03oh my god.
11:27Liz, where did you spring from?
11:29Well, where do you think? The time barrier.
11:30You came back.
11:31Quick, aren't you?
11:32But your father.
11:33My father?
11:35Oh, he changed his mind.
11:36You mean he let you come?
11:38Mm.
11:39Why?
11:40Well, why not?
11:41Well, you were so set against it all.
11:43I was even afraid you'd get into trouble over me coming.
11:45Oh, you get afraid too easily, Simon.
11:47But, well, I suppose I talked him into it a bit.
11:50You did?
11:51Yes.
11:52Then you wanted to come back.
11:54Why, Liz, that's great.
11:55Simon, I've just found out something awful.
11:58I've been discovering things too.
11:59The director...
12:00No, I mean something awful.
12:01For one thing, Mummy is here.
12:03I've just talked to her.
12:04Well, what's so awful about that?
12:05Nothing, except she doesn't seem to like it all very much.
12:08She's doing experiments in telepathy.
12:10Oh.
12:11And that girl, Beth...
12:12Well, what about her?
12:14Well, you see, Simon, Beth and me...
12:17Yes?
12:19Beth and I are the same person.
12:23Oh, I mean it.
12:24It's dead crazy, but it's true.
12:25You see, we've come into future time,
12:27and what I've found out is that Beth is me as I'm going to be in 1990.
12:30You're joking.
12:31I wish I was,
12:32but I suppose it's all possible with the time barrier and so on.
12:35No, even Mummy says it's so.
12:37You mean...
12:38You're going to grow up to be like that?
12:41Well, it's not my fault, is it?
12:44Isn't it?
12:45I don't know.
12:48Blimey.
12:48Where are you going?
12:50Oh, nowhere.
12:51Just for a stroll.
12:52But you can't walk out and leave me.
12:54We've got to talk about this.
12:55Well, talk about what?
12:57Simon, a minute ago you said you were glad to see me.
12:59I was.
13:00I am glad to see you.
13:01To see you.
13:03But if you're going to be...
13:06Beth...
13:06Simon, come back!
13:13I am glad to see you.
13:39Beth.
13:41Director, I'm sorry to intrude,
13:42but I wanted to report to you at the earliest possible moment.
13:45The girl volunteer has been found.
13:47Liz.
13:47Oh, yeah.
13:48Sound physical condition?
13:49Perfect.
13:49Splendid.
13:50Yeah, that's splendid.
13:52We'll initiate the AB experiment as soon as possible.
13:55Start the volunteers on HA57 at once, please, Beth.
13:58I was wondering, Director,
13:59is that strictly necessary?
14:01Necessary?
14:01Is it start them on HA57?
14:03Yes.
14:04They hardly seem the right kind of people
14:05for a prolonged stay in the icebox,
14:07so couldn't we just use them for the experiment
14:09and then get rid of them as quickly as possible?
14:11Beth, you know as well as I do
14:12there has to be a prolonged period of observation afterwards.
14:14Anyway, part of the scheme is
14:15that the volunteers should be kept at their present age
14:17for an indefinite period.
14:19I should like to suggest they be replaced, then.
14:21Why?
14:22Well, they hardly seem the right kind of people
14:24for our community here.
14:26How do we even know they were the volunteers
14:28we were supposed to receive?
14:29Beth, you're not suggesting
14:31I hope the computer has made a mistake.
14:33No.
14:34The computer instruction read,
14:36expect arrivals soonliest.
14:38But it didn't say necessarily these arrivals.
14:41Well, if these aren't the expected arrivals,
14:43who on earth are they?
14:45That's hard to say.
14:47Out here, middle of the Antarctic,
14:48do people arrive here by accident?
14:49No.
14:51Unless...
14:53Unless by some means we don't fully understand.
14:55Well, this is a fine development.
14:57I'm sorry, Director.
14:58I thought you were the one person I could rely on, Beth.
15:00But you can, Director.
15:02I thought you understood.
15:05I've admired your work here on the administrative side.
15:08You know, I've been thinking for a while
15:09I should have a personal assistant
15:11to relieve me of some of the responsibilities.
15:13It had occurred to me that you might be the right person for that job.
15:15Not anymore, it seems.
15:17Why not?
15:17I haven't said anything to make any difference.
15:19You're questioning, Beth.
15:21The computer requires blind obedience.
15:23I require it.
15:24No matter how unlikely,
15:25how perverse a particular directive may seem,
15:28it is beyond all question the right one.
15:30Liz and Simon could not have come here at all
15:33if the computer haven't summoned them.
15:36That's the fact.
15:37Everything else is relevant.
15:39I'm sorry, Director.
15:40I've been silly.
15:40I beg your pardon.
15:41Now, go and start those volunteers on 8J57 at once, Beth.
15:44That's what's required.
15:46That's what we do.
15:49Yes, Director.
15:54Ouch!
15:56There you are.
15:56That's your last anti-infection booster.
15:59Hardly a disease known to man
16:01that you could catch now,
16:02either of you,
16:03even if you wanted to.
16:04All set, Beth.
16:05Thank you, Dr. Joynton.
16:06Well, come along.
16:07You fed in all the vital data over 10 minutes ago.
16:10How long do we have to wait for the 8J57 dosage?
16:13Oh, the computer takes its own time, you know.
16:16How about some music tonight, Beth?
16:19With whom?
16:20Me.
16:20When we're off duty,
16:22I've discovered some good old-fashioned Andre Previn
16:24in the repertoire.
16:25We could have a go at it together.
16:27Thank you, Larry,
16:27but I've got better things to do
16:28than listen to music tonight.
16:30You've always got better things to do, haven't you?
16:33When it's me making suggestions, anyway.
16:35I'll listen to some music with you tonight, Larry.
16:37You?
16:39Liz, honey, I didn't know you cared.
16:40I didn't mean it like that.
16:42I just like music.
16:43And I don't like girls who can't be polite.
16:46Did you hear that?
16:48They'll be fighting over me any minute.
16:49Oh, Liz, be mine.
16:51We'll make such wonderful music together.
16:55Really?
16:57Come over here.
16:57I'll show you something.
17:05What's that, Dr. Bukov?
17:07This?
17:07Well, Simon,
17:08this is what you could call our last ditch.
17:11Last ditch against what?
17:12Well, we have to provide for every emergency here.
17:15So if by any unlikely chance
17:17the computer were to blow up
17:18or the reactor fall to pieces,
17:21these little bottles would be our salvation.
17:24Well, in what way?
17:24They contain antifreeze.
17:27Oh, yes, I see.
17:28To stop us bursting when it gets cold.
17:30If everything failed here,
17:32we'd ice over.
17:32So we'd swallow these
17:34and manage to survive
17:35until help came.
17:39Honestly?
17:40Short-term hibernation, yes.
17:42We've solved the problem of that.
17:44But as for long-term hibernation,
17:46that's a headache.
17:48Did the director invent this antifreeze stuff too, sir?
17:50Oh, no, that's a development
17:52from a much older technique.
17:53H.A. 5-7.
17:55That's the director's great claim to fame.
17:57It must be a pretty extraordinary formula.
17:59Only he knows the secret
18:00and he keeps it up here in his head
18:02where it can't go astray.
18:05So there's nothing written down, then?
18:07Now, why should you want to know a thing like that?
18:09Like what?
18:10You want to know too much,
18:11particularly for a boy
18:13who's only a volunteer for an experiment.
18:17Look, a moment ago I said
18:19that we have to provide for every emergency here.
18:21Well, we do.
18:22So, if anything were to happen to the director,
18:24and that's the unlikeliest chance of all,
18:26there's a testament somewhere.
18:29A testament?
18:30The work will always go on, you see, Simon,
18:33no matter what.
18:34The work is what matters.
18:36Much more than us.
18:39There's your order, kids.
18:41Cotton piping.
18:42Come and get it.
18:43Dr. Johnston,
18:44do you have to behave on all occasions
18:46as if you were summoning cowboys
18:47into the ranch for supper?
18:49You don't have to mind me, Beth.
18:51Ruffer's bags jointed,
18:52they used to call me
18:53at the medical school in Geneva.
18:55But for all that,
18:56I still turn out a better physician and surgeon
18:58than most of the smoothies in the place.
19:00There you are.
19:01Take that now
19:02and come back each day
19:03at the same time for another delivery.
19:06You feed your personal statistics
19:09into the computer
19:09just as we showed you.
19:12Down the hatch.
19:13What are you waiting for?
19:15Oh, don't be afraid, my children.
19:18This one's a mire in magic.
19:20What men have searched for
19:22down the centuries,
19:24the elixir of life.
19:26Ha, ha, ha.
19:44He's left his office.
19:45It's okay.
19:46Who's left what office?
19:47The director.
19:48We're all right.
19:49Oh, that.
19:50Yes.
19:52Listen,
19:52Bukov told me
19:53there was a testament somewhere
19:54explaining about the longevity drug.
19:56Well, the sooner I can get hold of that
19:57for Commander Traynor,
19:58the sooner we can get out of here.
20:00Look, I'm not so sure
20:01I want to get out of here right away, Simon.
20:03I want to find out more about
20:05Mummy and what happened.
20:09Who are they talking about?
20:10Me? Daddy?
20:12The worst thing is
20:12they won't tell me about Daddy,
20:13whether he's here or whether he's...
20:15Liz, we'll stop and find out
20:16whatever you like,
20:17but I must find out
20:18about the longevity drug first.
20:20And now's the time.
20:21Everyone's off duty.
20:23All right, Simon.
20:24Come on.
20:37All you've got to do
20:38is keep watch.
20:38Signal me if anyone comes.
20:40Three loud knocks, okay?
20:42Okay.
21:06What are you doing?
21:08Didn't you hear me?
21:09What are you doing?
21:11What are you doing?
21:20What's it got to do with you?
21:23I can be here if I want to, can't I?
21:25No, not without a reason.
21:26Well, if you must know,
21:27I want to see the director.
21:28What about?
21:29That's my business.
21:30I was just going to knock.
21:32It's no use knocking.
21:33He's not there.
21:34What do you want to see him about?
21:35That's my business.
21:36Leave me alone.
21:37Now, come on.
21:37I'm not having any trouble from you.
21:39The truth.
21:47Answer me.
21:47What are you up to?
21:48What's going on here, Beth?
21:50Oh, director,
21:50this young lady
21:51was trying to get into your office.
21:53How dare you?
21:53I wasn't.
21:55Simon!
22:00I'll deal with her later.
22:01I wasn't doing anything wrong
22:03outside the director's office
22:04and Simon is...
22:05It's no use calling
22:05to your friends now.
22:06But I only wanted to see the director
22:08and talk to her about something.
22:13You?
22:14In here?
22:16While that girl?
22:17How dare you?
22:18I will kill you!
22:20No one dares pry into the director's affairs
22:22without...
22:23No one dares pry into the direct...
22:28Director, I wondered if...
22:32Oh, Bukov.
22:33Yeah, just the man I wanted to see.
22:34That power failure,
22:35Section 4 of this morning.
22:36I thought there was something wrong here.
22:38That power failure was your fault.
22:39Do you understand?
22:40No, director.
22:41I checked the reactor.
22:42You seem to have picked up
22:43the germ of carelessness from Lally,
22:44but we lead an antiseptic existence here, Bukov.
22:47We don't tolerate mistakes.
22:48I should say...
22:49Human error.
22:49You seem to have picked up
22:50the germ of carelessness...
22:53Am I never to get any true cooperation
22:55from my staff in this place?
22:56Must I spend the rest of my years
22:57bearing the burden of responsibility alone?
23:00Go away!
23:02Help me, all of you!
23:04Or leave me be!
23:20Well, what happened?
23:22I don't know.
23:22He got his hands around my throat.
23:24I thought he was going to kill me.
23:25And then?
23:27He just let go.
23:28You were in his room without permission.
23:31Simon, if you're going to meddle in things around here,
23:33there's something you'd better know first.
23:36Professor Devereaux isn't like the rest of us in the icebox.
23:39What do you mean by that?
23:40Just what I say.
23:41Oh, he's a brilliant man,
23:42the finest scientific mind in the world.
23:44But he isn't a human being,
23:46as you and I use the term.
23:48No, no, he's a new species, in fact.
23:50It's the biggest secret in the icebox.
23:52Professor Devereaux is different, Simon.
23:56A man of the future.
24:33I'm not a saint.
24:33It's the biggest secret in the icebox.
24:33I don't know if he's got him.
24:33Maybe I don't know him.
24:34He can't.
24:36Okay.
24:36I know if I was a Mohamed person.
24:42I don't know if he was a human being.
24:43But I don't know if I could.
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