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First broadcast 20th October 2021.
After an undercover agent is killed by a poison with a very delayed reaction government men ask Jeff and Jeannie to investigate a secret research laboratory built under a golf course.
Bob Mortimer - Jeff Randall
Vic Reeves - Marty Hopkirk
Emilia Fox - Jeannie Hurst
Tom Baker - Professor Wyvern
Derek Jacobi - Colonel Anger
Dervla Kirwan - Petra Winters
Duncan Preston - Dr. Hickman
Nitin Ganatra - Ramon
Shaaron Jackson - Miss Weekly
Charlie Higson - Bulstrode
Tim Wallers - Lacey
Alibe Parsons - Receptionist
Simon Poole - Mr. Danvers
Newton Boothe - Guard
After an undercover agent is killed by a poison with a very delayed reaction government men ask Jeff and Jeannie to investigate a secret research laboratory built under a golf course.
Bob Mortimer - Jeff Randall
Vic Reeves - Marty Hopkirk
Emilia Fox - Jeannie Hurst
Tom Baker - Professor Wyvern
Derek Jacobi - Colonel Anger
Dervla Kirwan - Petra Winters
Duncan Preston - Dr. Hickman
Nitin Ganatra - Ramon
Shaaron Jackson - Miss Weekly
Charlie Higson - Bulstrode
Tim Wallers - Lacey
Alibe Parsons - Receptionist
Simon Poole - Mr. Danvers
Newton Boothe - Guard
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00:18Mr. Danvers?
00:20Oh, that's me.
00:21Dr. Courtney will see you now.
00:23Great. Well, not great, but okay.
00:27Not scared, are you?
00:52Dr. Courtney!
01:04We're civil servants.
01:05Oh, and I thought you were farmers.
01:07I used to work in the civil service.
01:09I used to put the little cards out in the job centres.
01:11We're not part of the employment service.
01:13But we can offer you employment.
01:15Have you ever heard of the Payne Corporation?
01:18No.
01:19No, you wouldn't have.
01:21Nobody has.
01:22The Payne Corporation is a private company carrying out research on the frontiers of science.
01:28Its sole client is Her Majesty's government.
01:31The place is run by one Colonel Anger.
01:34Have you ever read Heart of Darkness, the novel by Joseph Conrad?
01:38No.
01:39No.
01:41I didn't think so.
01:42Perhaps you've seen Apocalypse Now.
01:45Yes.
01:46Same story.
01:47As you may recall, our hero is sent deep into the jungle to bring back one Kurtz, who has gone
01:53native.
01:54Colonel Anger's not playing ball.
01:56He's up to something, but we don't know what.
01:59So we sent somebody in to try and find out.
02:01Dr. Cartney, one of Harley Street's finest dentists.
02:05And when he resurfaced, he said he was on to something big.
02:08We were on our way to meet him when...
02:17How did he die?
02:19Poisoned.
02:20With a fast-acting acid.
02:21In his own surgery?
02:23The post-mortem said that the poison was administered 48 hours before his death.
02:28People who have been murdered don't usually walk around afterwards.
02:32Well, they can do, actually.
02:34But what, I wonder, could be the connection with the Payne Corporation.
02:39Only a fool could fail to see the connection with the Payne Corporation.
02:45So, a fast-acting poison that takes 48 hours to act?
02:49Exactly.
02:49It's a mystery.
02:50A mystery that we would like you to solve.
02:54But how do we get in?
02:55They're in need of a specialist.
02:57And who better than the esteemed Dr. Randall?
03:06And his assistant, Miss Hurst.
03:08If necessary.
03:13Well, maybe they've developed a slow-acting, fast-acting poison.
03:18You'll have to do better than that.
03:19According to this, you're a research chemist with ten years' experience in cytogenetics.
03:25Yeah.
03:26You're uncomfortable with that.
03:28You're more of a worry, Jeannie.
03:29You're meant to have degrees in physics, maths and bionics, yeah?
03:34Mm-hmm.
03:35Did you even do chemistry at school?
03:38Do you know, I think I must have been off sick the day we did chemistry.
03:41I think we should test you, Jeannie.
03:43I think you're more of a worry.
03:45Bionics.
03:45Right, who played Bionic Man in the 1970s TV series?
03:50Uh, Dougie McCall.
03:52Lee Majors.
03:53Look, Jeannie, they're going to want to know this stuff, you know.
03:59Mr. Wyvern!
04:05Wyvern?
04:08Key for two.
04:16Sorry, I was just being a little teapot.
04:18It's a terrible habit of mine.
04:19Sir, why were you being a little teapot?
04:21Well, it makes a change from being a little coffee pot.
04:25Would you like me to show you how?
04:28Do you reckon it's round here somewhere, do you?
04:30Oh, I see.
04:30You're saying I can't be trusted to read a map, is it?
04:32Yes, I am, Jeannie.
04:33Does this look like a research facility to you,
04:35or just perhaps does it look like a municipal golf course?
04:40You're right, I did it.
04:43Jeff.
04:43Dr. Randall?
04:45Yes?
04:46Well, it was last time I looked in the mirror, yeah.
04:48Hello.
04:49Is that your best chat-up line?
04:51How depressing.
04:53I'm Petra Winters.
04:55Miss Hurst?
04:56Hello.
04:56Ooh-hoo!
04:57Don't like your skirt, your hair, or your name.
05:00You see, if you're not Scottish,
05:02there's no excuse for being called Jeannie.
05:04Now is there.
05:05So, would you stand behind me, please?
05:07What?
05:07What?
05:08Well, come on.
05:08Come on.
05:21The last we'll see of them, Mr. Balstrode?
05:24Oh, I wouldn't be so sure of that, Mr. Lacey.
05:26Our man Rendall might have an unorthodox approach,
05:29but as we have seen, he does get things done.
05:31He has hidden talents.
05:35He does, indeed.
05:37Can't be much fun working down here.
05:40I like a room with lots of windows.
05:43Colonel Anger likes his privacy.
05:45I don't know what I've done at school without looking out the window.
05:48Oh, yeah.
05:49Especially in the sixth form,
05:51when the boys came back from cross-country.
05:55Muddy legs.
06:04Welcome to the pain corporation.
06:10Look at this.
06:12I say, Jeannie, our roads are a disgrace.
06:14Pensioners can't keep their own homes,
06:15but the government pours money into a secret underground laboratory.
06:18I don't know.
06:19That's pretty impressive.
06:22So what are these boffins actually doing?
06:24That's a very stupid question.
06:26Sorry?
06:28Like you, they're all top scientists
06:29in the many and varied fields of chemical research.
06:33Unlike you, however,
06:35their eyes don't keep flicking down to my arse.
06:38Follow me.
06:41What's the matter with her, then?
06:46Well, you do look at women's arses.
06:48You tuck your eyes down just to practice.
06:50I do not.
06:51Passes.
06:53Um, I'm sorry, we don't have any passes.
06:55No.
06:56I have the passes.
06:57I'm giving you your passes.
06:59That's why I said passes.
07:00Right, thank you.
07:01Miss Weekley's our head of security.
07:03Dr. Randall?
07:05Dr. Hurst?
07:08I hope you enjoy your work here.
07:13You see, I didn't look at her arse, did I?
07:15You looked at his, though.
07:20You can choose to look like anything you want to up here with practice.
07:23And you chose to look like you.
07:26Yes.
07:27I found it pays to have an air of dignity,
07:31which I wouldn't have if I looked like this, for instance.
07:36And it really wouldn't go with the voice.
07:39Mr. Wyvern, you're giving me very, uh, confused feelings.
07:45And people just wouldn't accept it?
07:47Even though I do rather like it.
07:50Especially these.
07:52Bye-bye.
07:54It's all a matter of concentration.
07:56So I can choose to look like anyone I want?
07:59Yes.
07:59Henry VIII?
08:00Yes.
08:01Winston Churchill?
08:02Yes.
08:04Britney Spears?
08:06We'll start with the teapot.
08:10Hmm.
08:15Most of our research centers on the chemical composition of the human mind itself.
08:21It's fascinating.
08:22To qualify to ignition, please go to the high of...
08:25Here, they're working on a formula to control the pain centers.
08:34Hmm.
08:42And in here, the pleasure centers.
08:48Using a sonic stimulizer.
08:58And through here...
09:07The gym.
09:10There's also a subsidized canteen and bar.
09:12And a pasta wine and jazz evening every Wednesday night.
09:16No, that is frightening.
09:18The colonel will take over now.
09:25Now, Dr. Hickman, are you on your way?
09:27Yeah.
09:29Goodbye, Petra.
09:30I'm sorry things didn't work out.
09:31I was on the verge of a breakthrough.
09:34I know Colonel Anger never appreciated my work.
09:37I'm sure that wasn't the case.
09:39It's just that...
09:40Just because I don't have a fancy degree.
09:42But I'll show you.
09:45I'll show all of you.
09:49Goodbye.
09:54Well, it was bearable to meet you.
09:56Right.
09:57Perhaps we'll meet up again later, yeah?
09:58I'm sure we will.
10:01But, um...
10:03Bear in mind...
10:04I won't sleep with you for at least two days...
10:06...because I don't want to appear cheap.
10:13Right, let's go and meet our new boss.
10:26It's like a jungle in here.
10:28Oh, very well observed, Dr. Randall.
10:32It is exactly like a jungle in here.
10:37The dense, impenetrable jungle of the Esmadar Basin.
10:43A fold in the darkest shadows of the Amazon interior.
10:47You must be Colonel Anger.
10:49Jeff Randall, how do you do?
10:53Yes.
10:55I imagine you heard a lot about me.
10:58No, not really.
11:01Oh, you will do, my dear.
11:15Dr. Hickman.
11:17Your P-45, P-60.
11:20Leaving cards signed by us all.
11:25And, er...
11:25Book tokens, as I couldn't think of what to get you.
11:30I'm free to go.
11:31Free to go, Dr. Hickman.
11:33I really can just walk away, knowing what I know.
11:36Yes, of course.
11:37You are free to go.
11:39Which is why I said you are free to go.
11:43Well...
11:43Goodbye, then.
11:45Goodbye, Dr. Hickman.
11:53Dr. Geoffrey Randall, a research chemist of no mean ability.
11:59From the north of England.
12:02How very quaint.
12:03And his assistant, the fair genie.
12:07Hello.
12:10How exactly do you assist, Dr. Randall?
12:14Well, I help him with his experiments.
12:19You know, pass the test to you.
12:21She's very good.
12:22Very, very good.
12:22I also require special assistance.
12:26A service Miss Weekly has been providing, but she really is far too busy.
12:33Would you mind awfully if I borrowed her?
12:36No, no.
12:37Borrow away.
12:37That's fine.
12:39I have spent much time in the Amazon.
12:42Happy memories you want to keep alive, yeah?
12:44Oh, God, yes.
12:46There you have it.
12:49Boo.
12:51Sorry.
12:52Boo.
12:54Oh!
12:55Sorry, I didn't see you that nice.
12:57It's a talent of the Inmathka tribe.
13:00To walk unheard through the forest.
13:03It's time for your medication, sir.
13:05Yes.
13:07My old medicament.
13:09I have a liver complaint.
13:12It's a nice skill, not bad, but you really shouldn't creep up on people, you know.
13:16Especially in wooded areas.
13:19Now, Dr. Randall, you will report to Lab 23 tomorrow morning at 7 o'clock.
13:27Dr. Hurst, I will expect you back here at half past.
13:32I don't like the idea of assisting him.
13:35Oh, come on, Jeannie, it's a bonus.
13:36We thought it was going to be difficult to get near him.
13:38Yeah, but you said we were going to stick together.
13:40I mean, what's he going to expect?
13:41I'm not really a scientist.
13:44Besides, he's just a dirty old man.
13:46Yeah, well, perhaps that means we'll get very close to him.
13:48Jeff, Jeff, I wanted to...
13:51Jeannie.
13:52Petra.
13:54Listen, I wanted to apologise.
13:57Really?
13:58Mm-hmm.
13:59Yeah, I volunteered for a drug trial earlier this morning,
14:02and it's a truth serum,
14:04and now it's just wearing off,
14:07and I hope I didn't say anything.
14:09Oh, we just thought you were naturally the rudest person we'd ever met.
14:12Oh.
14:13Oh, I said I hated your skirt, didn't I?
14:16Oh, and that thing about the schoolboy, muddy legs.
14:21Oh.
14:23And I said I...
14:26Hmm.
14:28I'm going to go now.
14:32Poor girl.
14:35Yes, it's very sad, isn't it?
14:41Here's my handle.
14:43Here's your spout.
14:45Ha, ha, ha, ha.
14:47Not bad for a beginner.
14:48Don't overdo it.
14:49Don't, don't...
14:50Ah.
14:51Oh.
14:52You must conserve your psychic energy
14:54until we try again.
14:57I can't wait to show Jeff.
14:59No, no, no.
14:59It can be quite dangerous.
15:02Sometimes I think I'm talking to myself.
15:05Sometimes I think I'm talking to myself.
15:07I am talking to myself.
15:08I am talking to myself.
15:10Hello?
15:12Hmm, hello.
15:18Darling, let me caress you.
15:23Darling.
15:25Ah!
15:26Who the hell are you?
15:33I'd like to get your attention somehow.
15:35Oh, no!
15:37What have I done?
15:39I think you should transform yourself back quickly, Marty.
15:42I can't.
15:42I've used up all my energy.
15:44Look, Jeff, I've got...
15:48Nice ones, though.
15:51No.
15:52No.
15:53Not because you're too tight to buy yourself an alarm clock.
15:58No, no.
16:00Ah.
16:01Morning.
16:01Right on time.
16:02Sleep well?
16:03No.
16:04I never do.
16:08You?
16:09We of the Inmaska tribe dream troubled dreams.
16:15Fine.
16:16Good morning, Ramon.
16:19So, um, what exactly do you want me to do then?
16:21Ah.
16:22Well, you must understand, all this has been created for a purpose.
16:26To grow a very special plant.
16:29This jungle is accurate in almost every detail, but...
16:33There is one element I could not reproduce.
16:37The mighty storms of Esmodar.
16:39The night made day as if Hlachlach.
16:42The rain god had split the sky asunder.
16:47Well, I'm not promising you anything.
16:52Hi, everyone.
16:54Sorry I'm a bit late.
17:00You know, I once knew a girl like this.
17:03Many years ago.
17:06If I close my eyes a little, I could believe you to be her.
17:11I wonder, do you appreciate what it is to be young and strong and beautiful?
17:22Shape-shifting is a very delicate art, Marty.
17:25Sometimes difficult to reverse.
17:27What, you mean I stay like this forever?
17:29I look like some kind of four-thread drag act.
17:32I tried to warn you.
17:35You've got to change me back.
17:37I don't want to stay like this for the rest of me life.
17:39Life?
17:40Do not use that word here.
17:45Yeah.
18:07The colonel was on board when it crashed into the jungle 25 years ago.
18:12How did he get out?
18:15Ramon saved him.
18:1725 years ago?
18:20But that would mean Ramon could only have been, what, eight years old.
18:25Don't ask questions when you should be watering.
18:28If you're so good at it.
18:30Miss Weakley.
18:32Don't you have things to do?
18:34I'm sorry, Colonel.
18:41This is her.
18:44Your wife.
18:47She's very lovely.
18:48She died before we were married.
18:51I'm sorry.
18:53How did she die?
18:55She died.
18:58Stupid of me.
18:59I hate people asking that question.
19:04What a security officer.
19:06Report to pay laboratory 23, please.
19:28Hi, Petra.
19:29Look, don't worry about what you were saying.
19:31Could you pass me the colloid?
19:32Yes, of course I can.
19:35The pink one.
19:36The pink one.
19:37Right.
19:39There you are.
19:39It's a nice choice.
19:46Look, Petra, it wasn't your fault, you know, and if we're going to be working together, then we...
19:49Look, Jeff, can I be blunt?
19:50What, more blunt than you usually are?
19:52I want to ask you a question, and it's a very important question.
19:56Right, well, fire away.
19:59Where do you stand on bonded platelets?
20:03I'm sorry?
20:04Well, it's a...
20:04It's just a...
20:05It's our big stumbling block, and...
20:07Yes, no, well, it would be bonded platelets.
20:09Oh, they are nasty, aren't they?
20:11Yeah, I mean, I do know of people who, for example, have always considered the platelets to be a kind
20:17of juvenile plate,
20:19and I've never taken...
20:21I do take that view.
20:24So, you were also married?
20:27Nearly.
20:29He was working with Jeff.
20:30It was an accident, and he died before we had a child.
20:33Oh, my poor girl.
20:35So, he was another scientist, then?
20:38What?
20:39No, he was a...
20:41Well, he wasn't a scientist.
20:42But I thought you said he was working with Jeff.
20:44Yes, but not as a scientist.
20:46Yeah, I mean, the platelets itself is a mystery, isn't it?
20:49Until, of course, like I have, you find out and unravel that mystery,
20:53and...
20:53and...
20:54and...
20:54and turned along the way with a bit of luck.
20:55I know I was.
21:00Transfiguration of ectoplasm is a very delicate business.
21:02Let me concentrate.
21:10Somehow that doesn't look quite right.
21:15Huh?
21:17What's this?
21:20Hang about.
21:21Jeff's in trouble.
21:23If you'd asked me about the...
21:25the unbonded platelet,
21:26that would have been a completely different matter,
21:28cos, er, I've resolved that one.
21:29I've resolved that one in my mind a long time ago.
21:32Erm...
21:33That's easy-peasy kid stuff.
21:35What's the matter?
21:36You're a horse with tits.
21:39I'm sorry?
21:41No, I'm sorry.
21:42Petra, I'm sorry.
21:44It's a condition I have.
21:45When I'm under stress,
21:46I blurt out these rude, rude images,
21:49and so you're a fat pig.
21:51As of I don't mean you're a fat pig.
21:52I was just an example of how it manifests itself.
21:55What was the question?
21:57I wanted to know where you stood on the vexed question
21:59of platelet reduction of lipids, fixed or variable.
22:02Relaxed lipids, fixed or variable?
22:05Staller, Jeff.
22:07Right.
22:07Yeah.
22:08Of course you want to know where I stand.
22:10Well, it's a continuum, right?
22:14So, how exactly did Ramon save you from the crash?
22:19Oh, it wasn't only Ramon.
22:21There was the whole Inmatla tribe, of course.
22:25I see.
22:26Rescuing me was the most stupid thing they could have done.
22:30I had measles.
22:32I killed them all.
22:33All except Ramon, of course.
22:35An entire culture.
22:37Millennial old.
22:38Wiped out.
22:40In as little time as it takes to wait for a bus.
22:44It's been my ambition
22:45to preserve as much of their world as I can.
22:56This is urgent.
22:57Where do you stand on the vexed question
22:59of platelet reduction of lipids,
23:00fixed or variable?
23:02Who wants to know?
23:03It doesn't matter, it's an emergency.
23:05Variable phoresis looks like the answer.
23:09It doesn't matter, sir.
23:10Right.
23:13Why?
23:13Well, the thinning of the acid layer coating a string-bonded molecule is variable.
23:17It stands to reason.
23:20Great.
23:20Why do you ask?
23:26It doesn't matter.
23:30The actual concept of variability in itself is a whole cat with worms, isn't it, really?
23:35Flexibility.
23:36Sounds like a bank.
23:37The answer is, it's variable, because the thinning of the acid layer coating a string-bonded molecule is variable.
23:42But if you're going to put me on the spot, and you are, I would say it's variable,
23:46because the thinning of the acid coating on a string-bonded molecule is, of course, variable.
23:52It stands to reason.
23:52It stands to reason.
23:54It's like a man who gives a straight answer.
23:57Well, here's a straight question.
23:58Are you up for a drink tonight?
23:59Yeah.
24:00Not you.
24:02All he wants me to do is water.
24:04You said to watch out.
24:05The only danger I'm in is from a repetitive strain injury.
24:08Look, if that's what he wants you to do, that's what you've got to do.
24:11Yeah, but I didn't train for this.
24:13I've got a degree in maths, physics, biochemistry, genetic engineering, you name it.
24:17No, you haven't, Jamie.
24:19Look, just keep on watering and stick close to the kernel.
24:22So, what have you found out?
24:24Not a lot.
24:26Except that he's trying to grow something in his jungle.
24:29Something that won't grow anywhere else.
24:31What about you?
24:32Is anyone suspicious?
24:34No, I've just been keeping in the background, you know, blending in.
24:37I don't think anyone's actually noticed me, really.
24:41Could we make it 7.45?
24:43Yeah, that's fine.
24:48Remember, karaoke night is Wednesday.
24:51You're meeting up with her?
24:53Yeah, only for a drink.
24:54After what she said.
24:58Because of what she said.
24:59Look, I just thought I might probe her.
25:02For information.
25:04On the case, Jeannie.
25:05Yeah, right.
25:06Yeah, right.
25:07Look, she's the senior scientist in the lab I'm working in.
25:10So?
25:10So if anyone knows what's going on here, it's going to be her, isn't it?
25:13It's the same as with you and Anger.
25:14It's not the same as with you and Anger.
25:24You've missed a leaf.
25:27Sorry.
25:28What is this plant, anyway?
25:30It's called Nyasa.
25:32It grew in only one place in the whole world.
25:35The Asmodar Basin?
25:36Exactly.
25:37But now it's disappeared from the wild, along with its natural habitat.
25:41So my specimen needs very special attention.
25:45It's important to you, isn't it?
25:47The secret of life, Jeannie.
25:50My secret.
25:53And secrets must be kept.
26:03Oh, it's the girl who can never tell a lie.
26:05Jeannie.
26:06Jeannie, I'm sorry about yesterday.
26:08Listen, I might as well tell you in the blunt way that you seem to like to leave Jeff alone.
26:13Sorry I didn't realize you had a claim on him.
26:15I don't.
26:16I'm just protective.
26:18We look out for each other.
26:20Right.
26:21Well, I'll tell him about a little chat, then.
26:23No.
26:25You know, Jeannie, you should try the truth serum sometime.
26:47Oh, Jeff.
26:49This is the kind of case we should have had when I was alive.
26:51You know, secret people doing secret things in secret places with secret stuff.
26:56Have you got a plan, then?
26:56Yeah.
26:57What is it?
26:59It's secret.
27:00Just tell us the plan.
27:02I've said too much already.
27:04I'll just go ahead.
27:49Well, I have to say, at first I thought he was incompetent, but he's extraordinary.
27:54He, uh, he acts like a child, but he has all the answers.
27:59Uh, it's as if he was playing with me.
28:02Oh.
28:05Petra, you may go.
28:11Jeff, look out!
28:33Jeff, what are you doing?
28:42Our greatest problem.
28:4420 years of advanced theoretical study, the finest minds in the world, baffled, and he just wanders down here and
28:53solves it.
28:56I must know more.
29:00This could be my salvation.
29:05Watch him, Rommel.
29:07Watch him for me.
29:09You know, it's about time you got yourself a woman.
29:11Yeah, you've got that right.
29:12And once again, it's all thanks to me.
29:14No, I think you'll find it's down to my natural charm, Matt.
29:17Right.
29:18She only fancies it because she thinks you know about chemistry, and oh, oh, oh, has she got a surprise
29:21coming for her.
29:22No, I think if you recall, Marty, she made her intentions perfectly clear before she knew I was a scientific
29:26genius.
29:27Oh, really?
29:28And are you going to give me a little bit of credit, just a little bit, that much?
29:31I'll give you that much, yeah.
29:32You know, sometimes I feel like the cat in Hong Kong Phooey.
29:39So the strong-force interaction is fed through a centrifuge effect?
29:45Strong-force interaction.
29:47Uh-huh.
29:49Got it.
29:50Only if the equivalent seismosis expands exponentially.
29:53Only if the equivalent seismosis expands exponentially.
30:01And what about the weak-force interaction?
30:08Weak-force interaction.
30:13Ah!
30:14Here it is, Jeff.
30:15Not possible without a focused field frame.
30:19It isn't possible without a focused field.
30:25Oh, and what about the coagulation of sediments?
30:29Coagulation of sediments.
30:31Oh, you have a fantastic mind.
30:35So have you.
30:37I can almost feel it.
30:39Throbbing.
30:40Do I have to sit here and listen to this tripe?
30:42No, you can get lost, you big bag of bollocks.
30:45That's just my condition again.
30:49You really aren't like other scientists.
30:51You got that right.
30:55Randall has no knowledge.
30:58He may not even be a scientist.
31:01And what about this creature that you saw?
31:05The restless ones.
31:07They wander the earth, each attached to a mortal, neither dead nor alive.
31:13Tell me.
31:14Did you hear Randall use his name?
31:19Would that name be Marty?
31:27Jeannie.
31:28No, she doesn't really mean anything to me.
31:30I love her.
31:32I love her as a friend, you know.
31:34But there's nothing between us.
31:37Jeff.
31:37Um, when I said, um, I wouldn't sleep with you for at least two days.
31:42Yeah.
31:43Mm-hmm.
31:43Um, well, uh, the serum must have been wearing off because, uh, the truth is I meant one.
31:58Jeff, what's wrong?
31:59It's my arm.
32:01I barely touched you.
32:02Is this your way of backing out?
32:04Oh, I trapped it in the door a few hours ago.
32:06What, and it's just beginning to hurt you now?
32:08Yes.
32:09Jeff, have you been near the Niral?
32:11I had a bit.
32:12Well, we'd better get you some more.
32:14I have some left.
32:16Ow.
32:16Here, let me.
32:27It's amazing.
32:28Hmm.
32:30I think I'd better keep this.
32:33I should never have told you.
32:36Calm down, boy.
32:37You cannot make deals with the dead.
32:39They are sworn not to pass their knowledge to mortals.
32:41Well, evidently, this one can't keep his mouth shut.
32:44I cannot allow you.
32:45I have given you everything.
32:47You killed my people.
32:50Ramon, you know if I could change anything.
32:53Ramon, I need you.
32:55No, you don't.
32:58Not anymore.
33:05It was dislocated for two hours, Jeannie, and I didn't feel a thing.
33:08Niral, it could be worth millions.
33:10Right, so we had the evidence and you ate it.
33:12Well, not all of it.
33:13Oh, I forgot you gave the rest to Petra.
33:15Look, I had no choice, Jeannie.
33:17The pain was incredible.
33:18I felt what I should have felt when I was actually hurt.
33:21You know, it's like the pain was delayed.
33:23They're not making a painkiller here, you know, Jeannie.
33:25They're making a pain delayer.
33:27No.
33:29The dentist walked around for two days after he'd been poisoned.
33:32That's not a pain delayer, that's a death delayer.
33:36We've got to get some more of this Niral, Jeannie.
33:38Come on.
33:38Niral?
33:40Niral?
33:41Did you say Niral?
33:43You've heard of it, then?
33:44No.
33:44No.
33:45Well, I've heard of something similar.
33:46Then I asked a leaf of the Amazon interior.
33:48Oh, I wish you'd told me about this earlier.
33:51You've got a very doomy look on your face, Mr. Wyvern.
33:54I can do doomy.
33:55Doomy comes very naturally, you see.
33:58Jeff didn't feel any pain because his mind was not quite in his body.
34:02Oh.
34:21Dr. Hickman, the scientist who left.
34:24Jeff, we've got to get out of here.
34:25I don't want to end up like the dentist or him.
34:27You're right.
34:29You must leave and take the knowledge of the restless one with you.
34:36Take these passes.
34:40Leave and never return.
34:45Mystics down there are always trying to do it.
34:47Astral projection, out-of-body experiences,
34:49and they use certain herbs like nyassa as an aid.
34:53You mean herbs?
34:54Herbs.
34:55And if this kernel anger plans to synthesize and manufacture nyassa,
35:00I'd shiver if I could remember how.
35:03Why?
35:04Humans could develop spirit talents,
35:06keep themselves alive forever.
35:08You can't have life without death.
35:10Or death without life.
35:12Mortality is a great motivator of all human achievement.
35:15You mean if death wasn't so much of a big deal,
35:16we wouldn't bother getting out of bed?
35:18Decay and stagnation.
35:21Blurring of the boundaries.
35:23Forget dislocated arms, Marty.
35:25I'm talking dislocated soul.
35:28What do you mean?
35:29I mean that if someone took enough of it,
35:31he might be able, among other things, to see you.
35:34I have a friend.
35:36He might be able to explain.
35:37This is Manda, an elder of the Inmathka.
35:41They're gone.
35:44Forget about them.
35:46Yes.
35:48I think perhaps it's time for you to leave too.
35:52We've been through so much together.
35:56But there always comes a time when the son must leave the father.
36:03But first, and I ask her.
36:06It's gone.
36:07It's all gone.
36:10I'm sorry.
36:12It is the end for you.
36:24Jeff, what Anger never knew,
36:26why he could never grow the niacid properly,
36:28and what Ramon was too young to know,
36:29is that water...
36:30All pass-outs have been cancelled.
36:32What?
36:33It must be an admin error.
36:34Right, OK.
36:35Tell him you've got permission from Anger,
36:37and he can ring and check up if he wants.
36:38That always works.
36:39Look, we've got permission from Colonel Anger.
36:40You can ring and check if you want.
36:43I will.
36:45Er, right, erm...
36:48It's him.
36:52I'm back.
36:55Come on!
36:58It's water, Jeff.
37:00It destroys the potency of the niacid.
37:01The Enmathka spent their whole lives
37:04trying to kick water off the leaves.
37:06It was staring him right in the face.
37:08Is this lift going sideways, Jeff?
37:10What do you mean?
37:11The lift's still gone sideways.
37:16Jeff?
37:17Jeff?
37:29Oh, Jeff.
37:30I had my doubts about you at first,
37:33but you've surprised us all.
37:35And now you're going to get rid of me.
37:37On the contrary,
37:38I want to offer you a permanent job here,
37:40you and Marty.
37:42Now, that would be difficult, Colonel.
37:43I'm afraid he's dead.
37:45I know.
37:45I'm an equal opportunities employer.
37:48It's just a plug, Jeff.
37:51Oh, God.
37:58Oh, God.
37:59It's true.
38:01I think he can see me, Jeff.
38:02And hear you.
38:04Thanks to the pure niacid leaf that has killed my pain for 25 long years.
38:09Delayed it, you mean.
38:10Oh, yes.
38:12Until now, only the pure form of niacid leaf
38:14was powerful enough to prevent my disintegrating.
38:17We couldn't grow it, and we couldn't synthesize it.
38:20Oh, nyril works up to a point,
38:22but it can't do what the pure niacid leaf can.
38:25I've taken my last dose.
38:26When it wears off,
38:27my mind will fully return to my body.
38:30The pain will finally reach me.
38:33Already.
38:34I can feel it creeping closer.
38:37Ooh, ooh.
38:37Like Ursula Andress in She.
38:40You must have seen that, Jeff.
38:41Will you please shut up?
38:44You hold the key, Jeff.
38:46You and Marty.
38:48You are linked together.
38:49Soul brothers.
38:50Two spirits that even death couldn't separate.
38:54And he is going to show me how to do it.
38:58Do what?
38:59How to grow the niacid.
39:03You can't expect me to go around
39:05giving away the secrets of the afterlife.
39:08Besides, I think you've got a few years left in that body yet.
39:11This?
39:12A mere shell.
39:15Masks off.
39:16At midnight.
39:38Jeff?
39:39Jimmy.
39:41You see, I anticipated some resistance this week.
39:48Oh, what the hell was that?
39:52Wave of signals to the pleasure centers.
39:55Yes.
39:56Jeff.
39:57All very nice unless the levels are set too high.
40:03Shock of pleasure can kill, as well as pain.
40:08Tell me what I need to know.
40:11I'm not sure.
40:11Jeff, you can't go giving him the secrets of the hero after it breaks all the rules.
40:15Yeah, but rules are there to be broken.
40:17Yes, I know.
40:17I once parked in a disabled spot in a National Trust car park near Hadrian's Wall.
40:22It was a lovely day.
40:22But this is the difference between the living and the dead.
40:25Tell me now.
40:26Quickly.
40:31Oh, Jeff.
40:34Oh, Marty.
40:35Do something, Jeff.
40:36She dies.
40:37Right here, right now, unless you tell me.
40:40Stop this.
40:41What you are doing is wrong.
40:42You cannot make deals with the dead ones.
40:44What are you going to do to me?
40:45Nothing.
40:46You're already a dead man.
40:47I am already dead.
40:51Ramon.
40:53Very well timed.
40:55The last dose should be wearing off by now.
40:57And you still claim there is no more Nyasa?
41:04All right, I'll tell you.
41:06What?
41:07It's water.
41:10Water destroys Nyasa.
41:13Jeff.
41:15Now we both die.
41:22Come on.
41:23Call not so soon.
41:44You're not hurting me, mate.
41:45You're not hurting me, mate.
41:56Listen, I know this isn't the place to talk about relationships.
41:58Oh, look, just get me out of here, okay?
42:02If you want him, you grab him.
42:04He's not going to resist, it's obvious.
42:06What is?
42:07But he's in love with you.
42:09People always see some taste in our relationship with his friends, okay?
42:12Is there somebody else in the way?
42:13You both behave as if there was.
42:14No, not anymore.
42:15Well, then go for it.
42:18Thanks.
42:25You will help me cheat death.
42:28Time's up, Anger.
42:29He was up 25 years ago.
42:50I could have lived forever if you died in the attempt.
42:57Use your powers, Marty.
43:04He has a lot of pain to catch up on.
43:15Feel that?
43:18Huh?
43:23Oh.
43:36Hey, lads!
43:37Lads, it's not getting anywhere.
43:39Well done a bit, son.
43:40You, try me nuts.
43:44No.
43:46Oh, look.
43:47Just listen, everybody.
43:50Are we going to carry on like this all day?
43:53Will you stop it?
43:56The Colonel's dead!
44:09Always the quiet ones, Jeff.
44:14Oh, my God.
44:17Marty.
44:20It's the nigh roll, Jeff.
44:21She can see me.
44:23I can see him, Jeff.
44:26He's there.
44:27I can see Marty.
44:28There's nobody there.
44:31It's all right, Jeannie.
44:33It's just a drug.
44:34It's affected your mind.
44:35You're seeing what you want to see.
44:38Just close your eyes and I'll be gone.
44:43I don't know that I want that.
44:48Just close your eyes.
45:01You all right?
45:05It's been quite a day.
45:15This all sounds rather far-fetched.
45:18No, it must seem so, but the ground opens up.
45:21There's a lift down to the laboratory itself.
45:23It's just here.
45:24Underground.
45:27Underground?
45:28I thought you could do better than that.
45:30Just bear with us.
45:31Try by here, Jeannie.
45:32It's very difficult.
45:33It's all very similar.
45:38Yes, that's very entertaining.
45:43Tell you what.
45:43Why not give us a call when you've, uh, found it?
45:46No, Mr. Bulstrode.
45:48It's just here.
45:49We promise we're telling the truth.
45:51It's here.
45:52It's underground, you see.
45:54It's underground.
45:55Your plan to use Randall work then, Mr. Bulstrode?
46:00Yeah.
46:01You know, I'm almost becoming fond of him.
46:04Really?
46:09Don't worry.
46:10I'm still utterly devoted to you.
46:15Drive on, my dear.
46:19Care for a nip?
46:25So once again, we saved the world, Jeannie.
46:28And get no thanks for it.
46:30Yeah, well, at least we saved the world.
46:35Listen, Jeff.
46:38Petra said something, and, um...
46:42Well, there's a subject that we've been avoiding.
46:46What?
46:48Know nothing, carry on.
46:51Well, I think maybe that it's time that we talk about...
46:55What?
46:56What?
46:57What are you doing?
46:59It's the niral.
47:02It's wearing off.
47:12Jane, I want you to know that I feel just...
47:16Ow!
47:18Ow!
47:20Stop!
47:21No!
47:21Oh, oh, oh, oh, oh, oh, oh, oh, oh, oh, oh, oh, oh, oh, oh, oh, is that it?
47:32Please say this.
47:34No.
47:34I can't do any more.
47:35No.
47:36I...
47:36You?
47:37Me?
47:38What?
47:38Me?
47:38You?
47:39Yeah.
47:39What happened?
47:40I asked him to...
47:41What?
47:42Kick me.
47:43No?
47:44Yeah.
47:44Where?
47:45In me.
47:46Ah!
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