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Timeslip - The Time of the Ice Box Ep 4 (Colour)
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00:18You? In here?
00:21While that girl? How dare you? I will kill you!
00:25No one dares pry into the director's affairs without...
00:28No one dares pry into the direct...
00:34Director, I wondered if...
00:37Oh, Bukov. Yeah, just the man I wanted to see.
00:40That power failure, section four this morning.
00:41I thought there was something wrong here.
00:43That power failure was your fault. Do you understand?
00:45No, Director. I checked the reactor.
00:47You seem to have picked up the germ of carelessness from Lally,
00:50but we lead an antiseptic existence here, Bukov. We don't tolerate mistakes.
00:53I should say...
00:54Human error! You seem to have picked up the germ of carelessness...
00:59Am I never to get any true cooperation from my staff in this place?
01:01Must I spend the rest of my years bearing the burden of responsibility alone?
01:05Go away!
01:08Help me, all of you!
01:10Or leave me be!
01:24Well, what happened?
01:25I don't know. He got his hand down my throat. I thought he was gonna kill me.
01:29And then?
01:29Well, he just let go.
01:31You were in his room without permission.
01:34Simon, if you're going to meddle in things that aren't here,
01:36there's something you better know.
01:38Professor Devereaux is not like the rest of us in the icebox.
01:41What do you mean by that?
01:43Just what I say.
01:44Oh, he's a brilliant man.
01:45The finest scientific mind in the world.
01:47But he isn't a human being as you and I understand the term.
01:53No, he's a new species.
01:54It's the biggest secret in the icebox.
01:57Professor Devereaux is different, Simon.
01:59A man of the future.
02:01But, Dr Bulgov, I still don't see what you mean.
02:04That's enough for you to be going on with.
02:16When you say he's a new kind of species,
02:18do you mean he's...
02:20well, some kind of machine?
02:24No, a flesh and blood machine is an impossibility.
02:26You ought to know that.
02:28But tell me, do you know anything about imprint cells?
02:30Imprint cells?
02:32For a long time it's been known in biology
02:34that you can extract cells from a living being
02:37that contain his whole genetic structure.
02:40If these cells could then be cultivated, brought to maturity,
02:43the result would be another person.
02:46Exactly the same as the person the cells first came from.
02:49Someone identical.
02:51A more advanced person.
02:54Supposing also that he'd been given the benefit of advanced techniques.
03:00But I still don't get it.
03:02Professor Devereaux is...
03:04A clone.
03:05A clone.
03:06That's the word for it.
03:07And he's the first in the world's history.
03:10Blimey.
03:11He's exactly identical to that other Devereaux,
03:14the one you seem to know so much about.
03:15Oh, I've only just heard of him, that's all.
03:17The famous biologist.
03:19Imprint cells were taken from him,
03:21but because there was no technique available to mature them,
03:24they were scientifically stored.
03:26Then, as in the 70s, when conditions were right,
03:29a new Devereaux was given to mankind.
03:31The finest scientific brain in the world.
03:33Yes.
03:35Of course, we don't know a lot about cloning yet.
03:38The kind of effects he's likely to produce.
03:40So, Professor Devereaux himself could be called an experiment
03:44under observation in the icebox.
03:47But he's running the place.
03:48Oh, naturally.
03:49With abilities like his, he had to be given complete control.
03:52But Dr. Joynton and I have been detailed
03:55by the International Commission who set up the icebox
03:58to keep him under observation and report.
04:01Oh.
04:02So that makes an incident like this evening's
04:04more important than it seems, perhaps.
04:08You seem to go mad for a minute, honestly.
04:12But a moment later...
04:14Yes?
04:16I don't know.
04:29Well, Simon, if you should notice anything you think I ought to know,
04:32I hope you'll tell me.
04:34It seems to me you're involved now.
04:36For some reason, I don't quite understand.
04:52There.
04:55You can't complain you're being harshly treated.
04:59But I want you to stay up here and cool your heels for a while.
05:02I wasn't doing anything wrong outside the director's office.
05:05This room locks electronically.
05:07I shall throw the switch.
05:08Look, it's just because it's me, isn't it?
05:11I beg your pardon?
05:12Anyone else you wouldn't worry about, but me you've got to pick on.
05:15Liz?
05:16How did I ever grow up to be like you?
05:18Shut up.
05:18Well, how?
05:19You're hard.
05:20You're mean.
05:21You're a rotten old cow.
05:22I told you you weren't to speak to me like that.
05:24You're an old ratbag.
05:25And what's more, you're not even pretty.
05:27Not as pretty as that Larry seems to think you are anyway.
05:30Poor chump.
05:31Now let's get this thing straight, shall we?
05:34I don't want anything to do with you.
05:36If the computer hadn't summoned you,
05:38I'd take you by the scruff of the neck
05:39and shove you straight back through that ridiculous time barrier of yours.
05:43The computer summoned me.
05:45It didn't do anything of the kind.
05:46The computer doesn't make mistakes.
05:50However strange, however impossible it may seem,
05:53the computer summoned you and the computer shall have you.
05:57My wishes and my feelings come second to that.
06:01And Simon?
06:02Simon wasn't doing anything wrong down there either.
06:07I'm locking this door.
06:33Stick up!
06:36Allars!
06:37Liz?
06:39Liz?
06:42Mummy!
06:42It's locked!
06:48What's happened?
06:49Can't you see I've been locked in?
06:51Yes but why?
06:52Because Beth thought I should be.
06:54Simon and I were just having a bit of a prowl around the director's office and she put me in
06:58jail for it.
06:59The director's office?
07:01Simon wanted to find something out if he could.
07:05Mummy, why is Beth like she is? I can't understand it.
07:08And why does she hate me so? If I'm really her as she was once, then she should be kind
07:12to me.
07:13Liz, listen to me. You must be very careful when you're here.
07:17Believe me, they can be very hard when they're like these people.
07:20I can see they've got you believing it anyway.
07:22What?
07:24Mummy, you hate the whole place, so why did you ever come?
07:27We're not talking about me, we're talking about you and the way that...
07:29Well, let's talk about you, then. Please, I honestly, I can't stand much more.
07:33It's all so confusing. Beth, you! It's bar me!
07:38Yes. Yes, I suppose you've got a right to know more.
07:47Well, Liz, it all began, as I told you, in the late 70s when we lost our hope.
07:51Mummy, how did that happen?
07:54Your father's business failed.
07:56Daddy...
07:56He'd never really been very successful, you know, Liz.
08:00Times were bad and he took a big chance and lost.
08:03So we all had to look for another way of living.
08:06But why?
08:07Beth had the idea of coming here to the Icebox in 1980.
08:11When did I, she, change her name to Beth?
08:16That same year.
08:19She'd gone in for what was called an intelligence enhancement course.
08:23Oh, it's quite a common thing today.
08:25It's supposed to extend a person to the limit of their capacity.
08:28But in Beth's case, it seemed to bring about a change of personality.
08:32She was just completely different.
08:34I could hardly recognize her as the girl she'd been before.
08:38As Liz.
08:41I often wondered if she took the course before it was completely safe to do so.
08:46I've heard of similar cases.
08:50Anyway.
08:51That's it, Liz.
08:52You became Beth.
08:54And I came here because there wasn't anything else to do.
08:57And also, I still wanted to be near her in case someday she should change back.
09:03It's been hard for you, Mummy.
09:06But...
09:06Yes?
09:09What about Daddy?
09:13Oh, please don't go.
09:14I've got to ask you, haven't I?
09:16Why won't you answer?
09:17Is there something wrong?
09:18No.
09:19Then why won't you tell?
09:21Your father isn't dead.
09:23Then what?
09:24Please!
09:26There's nothing for you to worry about, Liz.
09:29I'd like to say more, but I've decided it would be unwise.
09:32And you mustn't worry about Beth either.
09:35I'll see that you're let out of here.
09:37I'll look after you, Liz, just as I did in other days.
09:40Now, trust me, darling.
09:42Please, trust me.
09:49All hands on deck.
09:50Action station.
09:52Get Fenn in.
09:53One day that woman will drive me round the bend.
09:55Don't make it a long journey.
09:57There you are.
09:57One for you, Bukov.
09:59One for you.
10:00Two.
10:01Simon.
10:01One for you, Liz.
10:03The director, of course, has his dosage delivered privately.
10:06One for you, Beth.
10:07And one for you, Larry.
10:10Well, here's to the next hundred years, my children.
10:14Ciora.
10:15Ciora.
10:16Ciora.
10:19Well, come on, Liz, have a try.
10:21No, I don't want to.
10:22What are you afraid of?
10:23It's the standard form of relaxation around here.
10:26No, no, not yet.
10:27If she doesn't have to, she doesn't want to, does she?
10:29Sister, if you don't change your ways, I'll have to believe you're as bad as Beth.
10:32Oh, that's an awful thing to say.
10:35Beth?
10:38I've never believed you're as uptight as they say.
10:40So, let's show the kid out.
10:42The computer can join our fantasies together if we want.
10:45We could fly to the moon.
10:47Honest?
10:48I'm busy, Larry.
10:49Surely you can see that.
10:51What is it I like about you, anyway?
10:53The slip way you draw up a schedule?
10:55Fly to the moon, Larry?
10:56Really?
10:57Sure.
10:58The computer can do anything for you once you're plugged in.
11:01You and I could really fly to the moon?
11:03Why not?
11:04Oh, look, Liz.
11:04Then let's do it.
11:05Terrific!
11:06Now I know why I came to this place.
11:08To find a right girl to get lost in the stars with.
11:10Come on.
11:10If I remember rightly, Larry, you came to this place because you'd been found redundant at home and needed a
11:15job.
11:16Your work was just good enough for us to accept you.
11:20Oh, the lady speaks nothing but the truth. Don't worry.
11:24But I sometimes wonder if she believes in anything.
11:26Apart from those personnel reports she has to write.
11:29Okay, kid. Blast off.
11:32Oh, look, wait.
11:41Right.
11:42We hold hands.
11:43Yes.
11:44And that links us computer-wise.
11:46Hold hands.
11:48Oh, it's really deep.
11:50Quiet.
11:51Quiet.
11:52Deep.
11:53Fantasy now.
11:56Sir.
12:13segment Buzz.
12:14Anyway, that's a good tidrai to call D-O-Jay.
12:15Good damn.
12:16Meet you all.
12:18Look.
12:20This one has a funny ending.
12:23doctor jointing first thing in the morning for calibration checks present this slip calibration
12:29checks what are those what they sound like measurements dimensions oh yes for clothes
12:33don't be stupid the director wants to get started on the ab experiment and we have to have the
12:39precise measurements of the organs of your body to be replaced with machine parts you intend to
12:44replace our organs with artificial ones of course so that's the ab experiment to fill this and me
12:50up with machine parts you volunteered oh yes but oh simon you don't deceive me no matter how you got
12:55here the computer summoned you as volunteers you and liz are really very lucky young people
13:03inefficient and obsolete organs of your body are to be removed and replaced
13:07you'll be the first man machine in the history of the world
13:20you
13:22one four two
13:42dr johnson and
13:45And O, O, five.
13:48Right, Director. That should do it.
13:50Out of harness, kids. All through.
13:52Feed those calculations into the computer.
13:54Make sure there's no margin of error.
13:55Of course, Director.
13:56And double-check the specifications for the boy's new heart.
13:59That's an area we can't have the least deviation.
14:01Yes, Director.
14:06I shall want you to do the surgery yourself, Dr. Donton.
14:09Thank you, Director.
14:10We can set a tentative date two weeks from today.
14:12I think that settles the matter of the internal ovens.
14:14Now, there remains the matter of the limbs we intend to replace.
14:16Oh, yes, yes, certainly.
14:18Well, Liz, come on. You'd better come along with me.
14:22What for?
14:24Because we're going to give you a nice new arm.
14:26And we have to take a cast of the one you've got now.
14:28But I don't want a nice new arm.
14:30Liz!
14:31Well, what's the matter with the one I've got? It's all right.
14:33I'll look a freak with a tin arm.
14:34A tin arm? That's a good joke.
14:37Girlie, the kind of prosthetic arm we're going to give you
14:40is a thousand times more efficient than the one you've got now.
14:43Just think of it, Liz. Stronger, easier to use.
14:45Just like the leg we're going to give you, Simon.
14:48A leg?
14:48You bet. You'll rarely be able to kick a football around with that.
14:52Yeah.
14:53Oh. Well, you come along ten minutes after, Liz.
14:57Hello.
15:04Simon.
15:06Yes, Director?
15:07Never enter my office again, you hear?
15:09Never for any reason.
15:13I was only curious.
15:14Curious? My boy, curiosity is a vice in a place like the icebox.
15:17I program the computer.
15:18The computer lays down the pattern of our lives.
15:20That's all there is to it.
15:22I suppose you learn how to program the computer through depth research.
15:26Depth research? What do you know about depth research?
15:29Only what Dr. Bulkow was saying.
15:31I suppose you found the secret of HA57 through depth research.
15:34Well, I think it's something terrific.
15:36Well, it must be the greatest scientific advancement
15:38since the beginning of the world.
15:40So you're concerned for the advancement of science, are you?
15:43Yes.
15:43For its own sake, incomplete detachment, beguiling innocence.
15:47If you had the luck in the ingenuity, Simon,
15:50you could make your name ring from pole to pole.
15:53Check?
15:53Check.
15:54You could emerge from your period in the icebox
15:56as the greatest scientific innovator of all time,
15:58the inventor of the long-evented drug.
16:00Oh, no, I didn't mean anything.
16:00Don't lie to me, boy.
16:02People are far greater moment than you would like to get hold
16:03of the formula that I and the computer have perfected.
16:06But it won't happen.
16:07But, Director, I...
16:07The formula is well-guarded, personal to me and to...
16:19So keep out of my office, Simon.
16:21Attend to your own business.
16:25No more prying.
16:31But they really mean to do it, Mommy.
16:33They're going to give us new lungs and legs and arms
16:35and all sorts of awful things.
16:36We've been missing out for them.
16:38So that's the A-B experiment.
16:39I didn't know.
16:40They say they'll operate in a fortnight's time.
16:42It must have been a terrible mistake.
16:44Hasn't anyone realised?
16:45No, they're all convinced we're the volunteers.
16:47They keep saying the computer can't make mistakes.
16:50Even Beth, who knows who we are?
16:52Only one could get away from the compute.
16:54Oh, Mommy, this is a dreadful place.
16:55How can you bear to stay here?
16:58Liz, we can't cope with the situation.
17:00You must go back.
17:01You and Simon, back through the time barrier.
17:04But I can't.
17:05Not till I know about Daddy.
17:07And I can't tell you.
17:08Why don't you understand?
17:09You mean you just let them do all these awful things to me?
17:12Well, how can I stop them?
17:13I'm something of a prisoner myself.
17:14I'll stay if you don't speak.
17:16You can't do that.
17:18Don't you think I'd speak willingly if only I could?
17:21Now, be fair, Liz.
17:22I want to protect you, but you must think of me too.
17:25To have you with me again like this after so long, it's like a miracle.
17:28But I have so much trouble with Beth that I can do without more from you.
17:32Now, please go.
17:36Mummy, why is it that you can't remember that you let me come to the icebox?
17:42I let you come.
17:44You did.
17:46Simon and I went back after we found the place and I told you I'd seen you here and you
17:50said...
17:51Oh, Liz.
17:54I don't remember anything about that.
17:57Well, why?
17:57It's the biggest mystery of all.
17:59I remember you and Simon coming back from 1940, yes.
18:02But after that, it's strange.
18:05It's just a blank.
18:08We live among mysteries, Liz.
18:10We must be brave enough to bear them.
18:13I can tell you this much.
18:16I do think this is a dreadful place.
18:18The things they do here frighten me.
18:21Then why do you stay just for Beth?
18:24Isn't that a good enough reason?
18:25I think Beth's hopeless, all mixed up.
18:28Nothing to do with me.
18:30All right, Liz, there's another reason.
18:32I'll tell you on condition that you go back through the time barrier as soon as possible.
18:35Now, it's not much, Liz, but it's as much as I can say.
18:39I stay here for your father's sake.
18:43If it wasn't for him, I wouldn't be here.
18:49There.
18:53All right, Larry.
18:54I'm ready for brain link now.
18:56Convert the computer from order control.
18:58Yes, Director.
19:12And now, he is one with the computer.
19:15How?
19:15What's the process?
19:17Well, the electrical charges in his brain are recorded and interpreted by the computer to
19:21correct human error.
19:22Then the computer sends back the corrected thoughts so that they're absolutely reliable.
19:27Sir, there's a lot only the director can do around here.
19:29Oh, yes.
19:29He's an exceptional person.
19:33Dr. Bukov?
19:34Yes?
19:36Well, you know, you said if ever I noticed anything about the director, I was to speak.
19:40Yes?
19:40Well, there is one thing.
19:41He has blackouts every so often.
19:44Blackouts?
19:44Yes, I know it's strange.
19:46I wasn't sure at first, but I am now.
19:48When he found me in his office, he tried to strangle me.
19:50You said that.
19:52And then he stopped in the middle of it.
19:53Changed his mind?
19:55No, it was almost as if he'd, well, fallen asleep.
19:58He just wasn't there for a minute.
20:01Oh, what mean?
20:03Well, haven't you ever noticed it, Dr. Bukov?
20:05I know, Simon.
20:06I can't say that I have.
20:07Well, what could it mean?
20:09Well, as I told you, a clone is a new species of human being.
20:15It's always possible...
20:16Bukov, we've got power surge on the number 14 channel again.
20:19Maybe you'd better have a look.
20:20Of course.
20:22Say nothing to anyone about this.
20:35Right, we'll have to do it now.
20:36The director's on brain link to the computer
20:37so we can find out about the longevity drug.
20:39But why?
20:41Well, we can't hang around here.
20:42Do they fit us up with new arms and legs?
20:44I didn't mean that.
20:45I mean, what does it matter about the longevity drug?
20:47Well, I promise Commander Trainer.
20:48Oh, Commander Trainer.
20:50Well, what matters more, anyway?
20:52Mummy and what's going on in this place.
20:54And Larry.
20:55What do you mean by that?
20:56We were getting on just fine with him in the fantasy room, weren't you?
20:59Well, he's fun, isn't he?
21:00He makes me laugh.
21:01You never do.
21:02And while we're on the Saturday...
21:02You're right, I didn't mean to start anything.
21:04This doesn't matter.
21:05You two are OK.
21:07Lovers too, fair?
21:09Oh, my.
21:10I reckon we haven't had one of those round here
21:12since they sunk the foundations.
21:14Keep up the good work, kids.
21:17Look, Liz, I've got to find out.
21:19Can't you understand?
21:24Keep going.
21:34And he's still in this space.
21:35And he's ready for that.
21:35I've got to find out.
21:35He's like, oh, my God.
21:35He's like, oh, my God.
21:36My God.
21:36He's like, oh, my God.
21:36Oh, my God.
22:01Why are we going here?
22:03But it's all dark.
22:04There must be a light somewhere.
22:07Quick!
22:18Here we go.
22:51Here we go.
23:21Here we go.
23:22Who is it?
23:34You two again?
23:36Who is it?
23:37Get off!
23:44Dr. Joynton?
23:48Dr. Joynton?
24:16Yes, sir.
24:31You
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