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GEIGER COUNTER CLICKS | 0:01:11 | 0:01:13 | |
GEIGER COUNTER INTENSIFIES | 0:01:45 | 0:01:47 | |
GEIGER COUNTER INTENSIFIES FURTHER | 0:01:49 | 0:01:51 | |
-One minute 14, dead. -Very good. -Ah, well done, Webb. | 0:02:04 | 0:02:09 | |
Right, back to your place, Corporal Webb. | 0:02:14 | 0:02:17 | |
Well, I think we'll call it a day, Sergeant. | 0:02:17 | 0:02:20 | |
-Sir! Sir! -Yes, Lancing? What is it? | 0:02:20 | 0:02:23 | |
Please, sir. I haven't had a turn yet. | 0:02:24 | 0:02:27 | |
That's right, Lancing, you haven't, have you? | 0:02:27 | 0:02:29 | |
-I think I should, sir. -All right. | 0:02:29 | 0:02:32 | |
-Bury it again, Sergeant. -Quiet! Come on, Lancing. Move. | 0:02:32 | 0:02:36 | |
-What are you waiting for? -Er, Sergeant... | 0:02:36 | 0:02:41 | |
-bury it somewhere he won't take all day to find it. -Very good, sir. | 0:02:41 | 0:02:43 | |
Och, I told you, didn't I? We'll be last at the cookhouse again. | 0:02:45 | 0:02:49 | |
The food is bad enough when it's warm. | 0:02:49 | 0:02:51 | |
I'll give him "Haven't had a go yet"! | 0:02:51 | 0:02:53 | |
-All ready, sir! -Call him on! | 0:03:04 | 0:03:06 | |
HE BLOWS WHISTLE | 0:03:06 | 0:03:08 | |
Well, you men should have a pretty good idea how to use | 0:03:10 | 0:03:13 | |
a Geiger counter by now. Remember what you've learned here today. | 0:03:13 | 0:03:17 | |
It could save your life. And another thing. | 0:03:17 | 0:03:19 | |
You've been practising with a piece of harmless radioactive material but | 0:03:19 | 0:03:23 | |
if it ever comes to the real thing, the radioactivity won't be harmless. | 0:03:23 | 0:03:26 | |
It'll be extremely lethal, so find it, mark it, | 0:03:26 | 0:03:28 | |
and get out of the way quickly. | 0:03:28 | 0:03:30 | |
Leave it to be dealt with by those who know how. Right? Good. | 0:03:30 | 0:03:33 | |
If Lancing's done his bit, we'll call it a day. | 0:03:33 | 0:03:36 | |
-Cor blimey! Look at Jet Morgan. -He'll take a week to find it. | 0:03:41 | 0:03:44 | |
Not if I can help it, he won't. | 0:03:44 | 0:03:45 | |
Shouldn't take long, sir. | 0:03:46 | 0:03:49 | |
HE WHISTLES | 0:03:50 | 0:03:52 | |
-I think he's found it. -Oh, don't be so sure. | 0:03:56 | 0:03:58 | |
He couldn't find the nose on his stupid face. | 0:03:58 | 0:04:00 | |
There. What did I tell you? | 0:04:02 | 0:04:04 | |
Lancing? What is it? | 0:04:21 | 0:04:23 | |
I'm getting a very good reading, sir. | 0:04:23 | 0:04:25 | |
GEIGER COUNTER CLICKS | 0:04:29 | 0:04:31 | |
-Give me the counter. Sergeant, fetch Major Cartwright. -Right, sir. | 0:04:31 | 0:04:35 | |
-I knew it. We'll be out here all night. -Aye-aye! Talk of the devil. | 0:04:37 | 0:04:41 | |
-Bannerman wants to speak to you, sir. -Oh, good. Where is he? -Over this bridge, sir. | 0:04:47 | 0:04:51 | |
-Mr Bannerman. -I was just coming over to see you, Bannerman. | 0:05:09 | 0:05:14 | |
-Why haven't you got your men moving? They'll miss the transport back to camp. -There's something wrong here. | 0:05:14 | 0:05:18 | |
We're getting a reading on the counter where there shouldn't be one. | 0:05:18 | 0:05:21 | |
-Oh? -It's strongest about here. | 0:05:21 | 0:05:23 | |
-Where have you got your stuff buried? -Over there, sir. | 0:05:23 | 0:05:26 | |
-By the tree. -Right, let's have a look. -Lancing! | 0:05:26 | 0:05:30 | |
-Mark this spot with my stick, will you? -Very good, sir. -Hang on here. | 0:05:30 | 0:05:33 | |
-Come on, Sergeant. Where did you put it? -Somewhere around here, sir. | 0:05:40 | 0:05:43 | |
Try the counter, Mr Bannerman. | 0:05:43 | 0:05:47 | |
-Haggis! Do you know what? -No, what? -It's uranium, that's what it is. | 0:05:47 | 0:05:50 | |
It's a blooming uranium mine. | 0:05:50 | 0:05:52 | |
-I wonder if we'll get a chance to stake a claim? -No, not if the Army get their hooks into it. | 0:05:52 | 0:05:57 | |
Sir! There's something happening over here, sir! | 0:06:08 | 0:06:10 | |
Look, just a minute, Lancing! | 0:06:10 | 0:06:13 | |
Sir! | 0:06:23 | 0:06:25 | |
-See to it, Sergeant. -Right, sir. -You see, sir, | 0:06:25 | 0:06:28 | |
the reaction couldn't possibly be, because... RUMBLING | 0:06:28 | 0:06:31 | |
What on earth's that? | 0:06:31 | 0:06:33 | |
-Don't know, sir. Sounds like thunder. -Sergeant! Get these men dispersed. | 0:06:33 | 0:06:37 | |
-Quickly! -Right, you men. Up on the ridge there! All of you! | 0:06:37 | 0:06:40 | |
Come on, jump to it. Come along! | 0:06:40 | 0:06:43 | |
Lancing! Go and get that man. He's got cloth ears. | 0:06:44 | 0:06:47 | |
Come on! Move up there! | 0:06:51 | 0:06:54 | |
Come on, Lance! | 0:06:54 | 0:06:55 | |
Lancing! Come out of there! Lancing! | 0:06:58 | 0:07:01 | |
'Attention please, attention please. | 0:07:22 | 0:07:24 | |
'Would Dr Adam Royston report to the director's office immediately. | 0:07:24 | 0:07:29 | |
'Attention please, attention please. | 0:07:29 | 0:07:32 | |
'Would Dr Adam Royston report to the director's office immediately.' | 0:07:32 | 0:07:37 | |
Cobalt, container 19. Start your readings. | 0:07:53 | 0:07:57 | |
211.5. | 0:07:57 | 0:07:59 | |
'Dr Royston, report to the director's office immediately.' | 0:07:59 | 0:08:03 | |
'Dr Royston, report to the director's office immediately.' | 0:08:03 | 0:08:06 | |
Sounds as if your father's after Dr Royston's blood. | 0:08:06 | 0:08:08 | |
-He'll be after mine if he catches me doing this. -All finished. | 0:08:08 | 0:08:11 | |
He's supposed to be the office type. Administration. | 0:08:17 | 0:08:21 | |
Peter, just a moment. | 0:08:21 | 0:08:23 | |
-Where's Dr Royston? -Er, he asked me to stand by, sir. -So I see. | 0:08:26 | 0:08:30 | |
Well, he's in his workshop. It's all right. This is purely routine. | 0:08:30 | 0:08:33 | |
Maybe it is, but that's no reason for you to be doing his work for him. | 0:08:33 | 0:08:38 | |
Last container coming up. | 0:08:38 | 0:08:39 | |
Cobalt, container 20. Start reading. | 0:08:47 | 0:08:50 | |
-What is Dr Royston doing in that lab of his? -Just an experiment. | 0:08:50 | 0:08:53 | |
One of his own. | 0:08:53 | 0:08:55 | |
CLASSICAL MUSIC ON RADIO | 0:09:01 | 0:09:03 | |
BUZZING AND CLICKS | 0:09:32 | 0:09:37 | |
KNOCK ON DOOR | 0:10:07 | 0:10:08 | |
-Safe to come in, sir? Safe to come in, sir? -Oh, it's you, Russell. | 0:10:12 | 0:10:16 | |
Come on in. Stay behind the screen. It's all radioactive. | 0:10:16 | 0:10:21 | |
RADIO CRACKLES | 0:10:21 | 0:10:23 | |
Your radio needs fixing, sir. | 0:10:23 | 0:10:25 | |
Your radio. Needs fixing. | 0:10:25 | 0:10:27 | |
Shouldn't make a noise like that. | 0:10:27 | 0:10:29 | |
-That's clever. -What, Watson? -The radio, sir. | 0:10:33 | 0:10:38 | |
When I'm able to...cut the racket out of the radio without... | 0:10:38 | 0:10:42 | |
putting that stuff back in there, then that'll be clever. | 0:10:42 | 0:10:46 | |
Now, what was it you wanted to see me about? | 0:10:48 | 0:10:51 | |
-The director wants you over at the establishment, sir. -Oh, no. | 0:10:51 | 0:10:54 | |
-You got a car out here? -No, sir. I came by bike. -All right, I'll walk. | 0:10:54 | 0:10:58 | |
-I need a little exercise anyway. -He said it was urgent, sir. | 0:10:58 | 0:11:02 | |
-He seemed a bit cross, as you might say. -Yes, I'm sure he did. | 0:11:02 | 0:11:05 | |
Tell him I'll run all the way. | 0:11:05 | 0:11:07 | |
I don't care what you say, Adam. | 0:11:11 | 0:11:13 | |
I'm in charge here and I shall decide what you will do and what you will not do. | 0:11:13 | 0:11:18 | |
While we're on the subject, I do wish you wouldn't waste Peter's time. | 0:11:18 | 0:11:21 | |
-You mean, I should have been wasting my own time? -That is not the point. | 0:11:21 | 0:11:24 | |
Peter's job here is administration. | 0:11:24 | 0:11:26 | |
Oh, I know he wants to be a scientist | 0:11:26 | 0:11:28 | |
but that's no reason for you to encourage him. He has a great future. | 0:11:28 | 0:11:31 | |
-You must allow me to decide what's best for him. -I'm sorry, John. | 0:11:31 | 0:11:35 | |
-I didn't think for a minute... -I know you didn't, Adam. That's just the trouble. | 0:11:35 | 0:11:39 | |
See it doesn't happen again, eh? By the way, the Army have phoned in. | 0:11:39 | 0:11:43 | |
It appears they've picked up some radiation reaction. | 0:11:43 | 0:11:46 | |
I'd like you to go and have a look at it. | 0:11:46 | 0:11:48 | |
Well, I've been working on a project. | 0:11:48 | 0:11:51 | |
-Couldn't you possibly send somebody else? -I'm afraid not, Adam. | 0:11:51 | 0:11:56 | |
Have a car out in front in five minutes for Dr Royston. | 0:11:56 | 0:11:59 | |
-May I see those soldiers now? -Of course. | 0:12:15 | 0:12:18 | |
There's no radioactivity there now. There's... | 0:12:18 | 0:12:20 | |
You're quite sure there couldn't possibly have been some mistake? | 0:12:20 | 0:12:23 | |
Wait till you see those men. There's no mistake about them. | 0:12:23 | 0:12:26 | |
Back! Back! Whoa! | 0:12:28 | 0:12:30 | |
Mr Bannerman? Just a moment, please. | 0:12:36 | 0:12:39 | |
This chap was nearest to the explosion. | 0:12:42 | 0:12:45 | |
We thought he was just a bit shaken up at first. | 0:12:45 | 0:12:47 | |
Then these burns started breaking out. | 0:12:47 | 0:12:50 | |
-Not very pretty, is it? -No, it isn't. Thank you, boys. | 0:12:54 | 0:12:59 | |
-What about the other fella? -He's over here. | 0:13:02 | 0:13:05 | |
He went back to fetch that one. He wasn't quite so near the explosion. | 0:13:05 | 0:13:10 | |
Let's have a look at your back, old chap. | 0:13:10 | 0:13:12 | |
What do you make of that, eh? | 0:13:20 | 0:13:21 | |
Were you carrying this when the explosion happened? | 0:13:27 | 0:13:30 | |
-Yes, sir. -Excuse me. | 0:13:30 | 0:13:33 | |
-OK, Sergeant. -All right, sir. | 0:13:34 | 0:13:36 | |
-All right, sir? -Have you finished? -Yes, thank you. | 0:13:41 | 0:13:44 | |
-All right, carry on, Sergeant. -Come along, old chap. | 0:13:44 | 0:13:47 | |
Major, I'd like to get some further equipment out here. | 0:13:50 | 0:13:54 | |
I wonder now if there is any way that | 0:13:54 | 0:13:56 | |
you could get a message back to my office. | 0:13:56 | 0:13:59 | |
Yes, I'll take care of it. I'll send it over the air to HQ. | 0:13:59 | 0:14:01 | |
-They'll phone it through from there. -Good. | 0:14:01 | 0:14:03 | |
Poor old Lance is in a terrible state. Did you see him? Horrible. | 0:14:05 | 0:14:09 | |
I saw a man once, fell up against a furnace door. | 0:14:09 | 0:14:11 | |
Looked just about the same. He's passed over the noo. | 0:14:11 | 0:14:14 | |
-Passed over the what? -Died. Screamed all night, he did. | 0:14:14 | 0:14:18 | |
-'Ere, do you mind? I'm just going to have my tea. -Tea? We'll no be back in time for breakfast. | 0:14:18 | 0:14:22 | |
GENERATORS RUMBLE | 0:14:23 | 0:14:28 | |
-Swing that light off! -If it was so sudden, Major, | 0:14:31 | 0:14:33 | |
how did you have time to disperse the troops? | 0:14:33 | 0:14:35 | |
Major, you didn't answer my question. Do you think it is atomic? | 0:14:35 | 0:14:38 | |
-Well, it was radioactive... -What are they trying to do now? | 0:14:38 | 0:14:41 | |
I think they're trying to sound the depth. | 0:14:41 | 0:14:43 | |
If it was radiation, how do you account for the absence of it now? | 0:14:43 | 0:14:45 | |
-I don't know. -Those burned men? What's to be done about them? | 0:14:45 | 0:14:48 | |
-They've been taken to hospital. -Military, or civil? -Military. | 0:14:48 | 0:14:51 | |
-This one that died? -His name was Lancing. | 0:14:51 | 0:14:53 | |
-A national serviceman? -Yes. | 0:14:53 | 0:14:54 | |
Anything in the fact that the only one who died was | 0:14:54 | 0:14:56 | |
a national serviceman? | 0:14:56 | 0:14:57 | |
-Good heavens, man, he was nearest the explosion! -Sir? -Yes, Sergeant, what is it? | 0:14:57 | 0:15:01 | |
-Dr Royston wants to see you, sir. -And we'd like to see Dr Royston! | 0:15:01 | 0:15:04 | |
Sorry, gentlemen, I told you before. No unauthorised persons allowed to approach. | 0:15:04 | 0:15:07 | |
-JOURNALISTS PROTEST -Listen to me! You are on War Department property, I am in charge. | 0:15:07 | 0:15:13 | |
Either you do as I say, | 0:15:13 | 0:15:14 | |
-or I shall have to have you escorted from here. -Gentlemen, please! | 0:15:14 | 0:15:17 | |
-Dr Royston is over by the equipment, sir. -Thank you, Sergeant. | 0:15:17 | 0:15:20 | |
Good night, gentlemen. | 0:15:20 | 0:15:22 | |
-Och, I'm fair starved. -Did you hear the sergeant tear those newspaper fellas off a strip? | 0:15:26 | 0:15:30 | |
It's all right for him, he's had something to eat. | 0:15:30 | 0:15:32 | |
What's the matter with you? You got worms? | 0:15:32 | 0:15:34 | |
-You're quite certain about that? -Yes, sir. | 0:15:35 | 0:15:37 | |
I'm getting quite a number of readings off the sides, | 0:15:37 | 0:15:40 | |
but I don't think there can be any doubt. | 0:15:40 | 0:15:42 | |
-You want me, Royston? -Oh, Major, yes. | 0:15:42 | 0:15:44 | |
There's nothing more we can do out here, | 0:15:46 | 0:15:48 | |
and I suggest that you leave a couple of men on guard, even if | 0:15:48 | 0:15:50 | |
it's only to keep people from stepping over the edge. | 0:15:50 | 0:15:53 | |
No point in keeping men out here all night. | 0:15:53 | 0:15:55 | |
I'll have the area roped off and put up a couple of "Keep Off" notices. | 0:15:55 | 0:15:59 | |
Peter, will you get things wrapped up? I'll wait for you in the car. | 0:15:59 | 0:16:02 | |
-What is it, anyway? Have you found out how deep it is? -How deep? | 0:16:02 | 0:16:05 | |
No, we haven't. | 0:16:10 | 0:16:12 | |
You mean to tell me this thing might be bottomless? | 0:16:12 | 0:16:15 | |
I mean the operative range of this equipment is limited. | 0:16:15 | 0:16:19 | |
-Good night, Major. -Good night, sir. | 0:16:19 | 0:16:21 | |
-How deep do you think that fissure really is, sir? -I don't know. | 0:16:23 | 0:16:27 | |
The major was going on about it being bottomless, | 0:16:27 | 0:16:29 | |
he said you had told him. | 0:16:29 | 0:16:30 | |
Did I? That was very unscientific of me. | 0:16:30 | 0:16:33 | |
Well, we know it must have a bottom somewhere. | 0:16:33 | 0:16:35 | |
Whatever caused that split had to have a beginning. | 0:16:35 | 0:16:38 | |
Had to have an end, too. | 0:16:38 | 0:16:39 | |
Well, surely the forces causing these surface splits just disperse. | 0:16:39 | 0:16:42 | |
Forces causing surface splits don't burn a man to death by radiation. | 0:16:42 | 0:16:46 | |
What are you getting at, sir? | 0:16:46 | 0:16:48 | |
Peter, I'm not getting anything, I just don't know. | 0:16:48 | 0:16:50 | |
But for the time being, let's assume that you are right. | 0:16:50 | 0:16:53 | |
Let's not conjure up visions of nameless horrors | 0:16:53 | 0:16:55 | |
creeping around in the night. | 0:16:55 | 0:16:57 | |
-It's all clear! -My dad will kill me when I get home. -So will mine. | 0:17:05 | 0:17:09 | |
But we swore. And we cannae break a swear. | 0:17:09 | 0:17:11 | |
Repeat the oath. | 0:17:12 | 0:17:14 | |
"I swear to get into the tower, | 0:17:14 | 0:17:15 | |
"and look to see if old Tom sleeps there every night." | 0:17:15 | 0:17:18 | |
-Are you scared? -No. | 0:17:18 | 0:17:20 | |
Are we away, then? Let's get it over. | 0:17:20 | 0:17:22 | |
-You'll wait here? -I'll wait for five minutes. | 0:17:24 | 0:17:27 | |
BIRD CHIRPS SUDDENLY | 0:17:27 | 0:17:29 | |
Three minutes. Good luck, Willie. | 0:17:29 | 0:17:31 | |
Go on, make haste, Willie! | 0:17:35 | 0:17:37 | |
CRACKLING | 0:18:28 | 0:18:34 | |
CRACKLING GETS LOUDER | 0:18:45 | 0:18:49 | |
HE PANTS | 0:18:49 | 0:18:51 | |
What was it, Willie? What did you see? | 0:19:02 | 0:19:05 | |
Willie, wait for me! | 0:19:07 | 0:19:09 | |
Willie, wait! | 0:19:09 | 0:19:11 | |
Come back! Willie! Don't leave me! | 0:19:11 | 0:19:15 | |
Willie, wait! Willie! | 0:19:15 | 0:19:17 | |
-What rate, Doctor? -60 drops a minute. | 0:19:32 | 0:19:34 | |
Well? | 0:19:36 | 0:19:38 | |
First-degree radiation burns. | 0:19:40 | 0:19:42 | |
I thought so. That's why I called you in. | 0:19:42 | 0:19:44 | |
-Kelly, when did he come in? -About an hour ago. | 0:19:55 | 0:19:58 | |
Perhaps you had better see the parents. They're outside. | 0:19:58 | 0:20:01 | |
-Replace the dressings, nurse, will you? -Yes, Doctor. | 0:20:01 | 0:20:04 | |
What's wrong with him, Doctor? What is it? | 0:20:07 | 0:20:10 | |
Is there anything you can tell us, Doctor? | 0:20:10 | 0:20:12 | |
Well, I'm afraid it's a little early yet to... | 0:20:12 | 0:20:14 | |
-Your son has been badly burned. If you could tell us how... -Burned? | 0:20:14 | 0:20:19 | |
Burned by what? | 0:20:19 | 0:20:20 | |
That's what we're trying to find out. When did you first notice anything? | 0:20:20 | 0:20:24 | |
-It was this morning. -I went into his room to wake him up. | 0:20:24 | 0:20:27 | |
He was lying there with those horrible marks all over him! | 0:20:27 | 0:20:31 | |
Yesterday, what happened yesterday? Where did he go, do you know? | 0:20:31 | 0:20:35 | |
We don't know. | 0:20:35 | 0:20:36 | |
He stopped out late with a friend of his, Ian Osborne. Ask him. | 0:20:36 | 0:20:39 | |
He'll be able to tell you where they were last night. | 0:20:39 | 0:20:42 | |
CHURCH ORGAN PLAYS | 0:20:46 | 0:20:49 | |
Oh, Ian? Just a moment. | 0:20:57 | 0:20:59 | |
Somebody wants to meet you, Ian. | 0:21:05 | 0:21:07 | |
Ian, | 0:21:11 | 0:21:13 | |
this is Dr Royston. Dr Royston, this is Ian Osborne. | 0:21:13 | 0:21:16 | |
How are you, Ian? Thank you. Let's sit down. | 0:21:16 | 0:21:20 | |
You know, I've just come from visiting your friend, Willie Harding. | 0:21:20 | 0:21:26 | |
-He's not very well, Ian. -What's wrong with him? | 0:21:26 | 0:21:29 | |
Well, you know, you and he were out late last night, weren't you? | 0:21:29 | 0:21:33 | |
Something must have happened to him where you were. | 0:21:33 | 0:21:35 | |
I'd like you to tell me what it was. | 0:21:35 | 0:21:37 | |
Where did you go, Ian? Where was it, Ian? | 0:21:39 | 0:21:43 | |
I cannae tell you. We swore an oath. | 0:21:43 | 0:21:45 | |
Willie is sick. He's very sick, Ian. | 0:21:45 | 0:21:49 | |
I cannae, I cannae! | 0:21:49 | 0:21:51 | |
We swore an oath. | 0:21:51 | 0:21:53 | |
Yes, yes, but that was when Willie was fit and healthy, wasn't it? | 0:21:53 | 0:21:57 | |
Wasn't it? | 0:21:59 | 0:22:01 | |
Now that he's sick, see, that's different. | 0:22:01 | 0:22:03 | |
He'd want you to tell. | 0:22:03 | 0:22:05 | |
-Are you sure? -I'm very sure. | 0:22:05 | 0:22:08 | |
Well, we went oot to the tower in the marshes. It was awful creepy. | 0:22:09 | 0:22:14 | |
I dared Willie to go to the tower. | 0:22:14 | 0:22:16 | |
TAPPING | 0:23:20 | 0:23:23 | |
TAPPING CONTINUES | 0:23:30 | 0:23:32 | |
Hello? Anybody there? | 0:23:39 | 0:23:41 | |
DRIPPING | 0:24:01 | 0:24:04 | |
Mister? Wake up, mister! | 0:24:12 | 0:24:16 | |
COUGHS AND SPLUTTERS | 0:24:16 | 0:24:18 | |
What! What, what is it? | 0:24:18 | 0:24:20 | |
Oh! Look at the wheat. | 0:24:25 | 0:24:28 | |
COUGHS | 0:24:37 | 0:24:40 | |
You care for a dram? | 0:24:42 | 0:24:43 | |
No, no, thank you. I came up here because... | 0:24:43 | 0:24:46 | |
Oh, come on, man. Have a dram. | 0:24:46 | 0:24:49 | |
That container. That's mine. It came from my workshop. | 0:24:55 | 0:24:58 | |
-Where did you get it? -This? I found it lying on... | 0:24:58 | 0:25:01 | |
-Don't touch it. -Here, man, mind what you're up to! | 0:25:01 | 0:25:04 | |
Stay away from that. You touch it, it might kill you. | 0:25:04 | 0:25:07 | |
KNOCK AT DOOR | 0:25:15 | 0:25:16 | |
Come in. | 0:25:16 | 0:25:17 | |
Good evening, sir. | 0:25:18 | 0:25:20 | |
I can see what you meant on the phone. Is it safe? | 0:25:22 | 0:25:26 | |
Unfortunately, yes. | 0:25:26 | 0:25:27 | |
-This is lead, isn't it? -Half an inch thick. | 0:25:37 | 0:25:39 | |
There's a...sort of... | 0:25:40 | 0:25:42 | |
I know, I found the same thing up at the tower. | 0:25:42 | 0:25:44 | |
There's a towel over there. | 0:25:44 | 0:25:46 | |
You won't be able to wipe it off, Peter. | 0:25:50 | 0:25:51 | |
It'll just disappear in an hour or two. | 0:25:51 | 0:25:53 | |
What is it? | 0:25:53 | 0:25:54 | |
Well, whatever it is, it's all over the place. | 0:25:56 | 0:25:58 | |
How do you explain it, sir? | 0:25:58 | 0:26:00 | |
All this extraordinary damage just to steal an old sample container. | 0:26:00 | 0:26:05 | |
You know what's in that container, Peter? It's trinium. | 0:26:05 | 0:26:09 | |
Don't be alarmed, now. Completely harmless. | 0:26:09 | 0:26:11 | |
And how long would you say trinium retains its radioactivity? | 0:26:11 | 0:26:14 | |
Well, it's not a very stable compound. About 30 years. | 0:26:14 | 0:26:17 | |
28, actually. | 0:26:17 | 0:26:18 | |
Now, let's take a radiation reading. | 0:26:18 | 0:26:21 | |
Well, the counter's working all right. Here, look. | 0:26:26 | 0:26:29 | |
COUNTER PULSES | 0:26:29 | 0:26:30 | |
Just the luminous paint on my watch. | 0:26:30 | 0:26:32 | |
What happened, sir? I don't understand. | 0:26:32 | 0:26:34 | |
Peter, I'm afraid I don't either. | 0:26:35 | 0:26:37 | |
Yesterday, the material in that container | 0:26:37 | 0:26:39 | |
was giving a danger point radiation reading. | 0:26:39 | 0:26:41 | |
Now, as you just saw, it's nothing. | 0:26:41 | 0:26:43 | |
But that's impossible! | 0:26:43 | 0:26:44 | |
-Isn't it? -Yesterday, I would have said yes. | 0:26:46 | 0:26:48 | |
But this fact is inescapable. | 0:26:48 | 0:26:51 | |
The energy trapped in that trinium has been sucked right out of it, | 0:26:51 | 0:26:54 | |
and furthermore, these windows were barred | 0:26:54 | 0:26:56 | |
and that door was locked all night. | 0:26:56 | 0:26:58 | |
So whoever it was came in here must be most unusual. | 0:26:58 | 0:27:02 | |
Really, Inspector McGill... | 0:27:04 | 0:27:05 | |
Mr. I'm sorry. But the whole thing is quite ridiculous. | 0:27:05 | 0:27:09 | |
I never thought anyone would call you people in on this. | 0:27:09 | 0:27:11 | |
The local police called us. | 0:27:11 | 0:27:13 | |
As you know, sir, any crime, however small, | 0:27:13 | 0:27:15 | |
connected with this establishment automatically comes through to us. | 0:27:15 | 0:27:18 | |
Quite possibly. But this crime, if you can call it that, | 0:27:18 | 0:27:20 | |
has nothing whatever to do with the establishment. | 0:27:20 | 0:27:23 | |
This, this tin can was stolen from Dr Royston's own workshop. | 0:27:23 | 0:27:26 | |
It's purely a personal matter. I should have thought | 0:27:26 | 0:27:29 | |
the local police were well able to take care of that. | 0:27:29 | 0:27:31 | |
As for this story of Dr Royston's | 0:27:31 | 0:27:32 | |
about the tin containing some radioactive material, | 0:27:32 | 0:27:35 | |
I have spoken to the doctor about that, and I don't want to hear | 0:27:35 | 0:27:38 | |
-any more about the matter, thank you. -But I do, sir. | 0:27:38 | 0:27:40 | |
So perhaps you can tell me where I can find Dr Royston. | 0:27:40 | 0:27:43 | |
Obviously, Inspector... | 0:27:43 | 0:27:45 | |
Mr McGill, if you place any credence in this story, | 0:27:45 | 0:27:48 | |
you don't know the first thing about the basic facts of science. | 0:27:48 | 0:27:51 | |
-Now, let me... -Dr Royston does. -Does what? | 0:27:51 | 0:27:54 | |
Know about the basic facts of science. | 0:27:54 | 0:27:57 | |
Look here, sir, I've been sent up here to pursue an investigation. | 0:27:57 | 0:28:01 | |
Perhaps you'll allow me to do just that. | 0:28:01 | 0:28:03 | |
Where can I find Dr Royston? | 0:28:03 | 0:28:04 | |
Don't you chaps even stop to eat? | 0:28:24 | 0:28:26 | |
My name's McGill. Do you mind if I sit down? | 0:28:28 | 0:28:29 | |
"United Kingdom Atomic Energy Commission. | 0:28:36 | 0:28:38 | |
"Internal security division. Sounds very impressive." | 0:28:38 | 0:28:41 | |
Impressive, yes. Except on paydays. | 0:28:41 | 0:28:44 | |
Well, Inspector, what can I possibly... Mr. | 0:28:44 | 0:28:46 | |
OK, Mac, what can I tell you? | 0:28:48 | 0:28:50 | |
It's about that child that was burned. | 0:28:50 | 0:28:52 | |
Any idea how it happened? | 0:28:52 | 0:28:55 | |
Not for sure, no. | 0:28:55 | 0:28:56 | |
It's possible he may have handled that sample container of mine, but... | 0:28:56 | 0:28:59 | |
A case of the missing radiation. Yes, I've heard about that already. | 0:28:59 | 0:29:02 | |
-From the director? -From the director. | 0:29:02 | 0:29:04 | |
-There's no doubt as to his opinions about the matter. -What about yours? | 0:29:04 | 0:29:07 | |
I'm not entitled to have any opinions. | 0:29:07 | 0:29:09 | |
I'm only interested in facts. | 0:29:09 | 0:29:11 | |
I was talking to that old reprobate up in the tower, old Tom. | 0:29:11 | 0:29:14 | |
One fact I did manage to learn | 0:29:14 | 0:29:16 | |
was that that child never went near that container of yours. | 0:29:16 | 0:29:18 | |
He was burned by something else. | 0:29:18 | 0:29:20 | |
Dr Royston, I'd like you to help me to find out what it was. | 0:29:20 | 0:29:24 | |
WOMAN SOBS | 0:29:31 | 0:29:33 | |
I'm so sorry. | 0:29:37 | 0:29:39 | |
Willie! | 0:29:48 | 0:29:50 | |
SHE SOBS | 0:29:50 | 0:29:51 | |
-I expect you'd like to stay here for a while. Use my room. -Thank you. | 0:29:58 | 0:30:02 | |
-Willie! -The boy's parents. | 0:30:05 | 0:30:06 | |
-Is he dead? -I'm afraid so. He never regained consciousness. | 0:30:12 | 0:30:16 | |
Adam, we've got to find out how this thing happened. | 0:30:16 | 0:30:19 | |
-That's what we are trying to do, Dr... -Kelly. -McGill. | 0:30:19 | 0:30:21 | |
That's why we came to see the boy. | 0:30:21 | 0:30:23 | |
-Dr Royston, isn't it? -Mr Harding, how... | 0:30:28 | 0:30:31 | |
There's nothing you can say will help. | 0:30:31 | 0:30:33 | |
I know about you, Dr Royston. | 0:30:33 | 0:30:35 | |
You're a scientist, not a doctor. | 0:30:35 | 0:30:36 | |
You don't look after the sick, you meddle with things that kill, | 0:30:36 | 0:30:39 | |
like they killed my boy in there! | 0:30:39 | 0:30:41 | |
You should be locked up, Royston. | 0:30:42 | 0:30:44 | |
Locked up with others like you, letting off bombs you can't control. | 0:30:44 | 0:30:48 | |
You're not safe. | 0:30:48 | 0:30:50 | |
-You're a murderer! -Mr Harding, please. | 0:30:50 | 0:30:54 | |
I don't know, Dr Kelly. I just don't know. My wife... | 0:30:55 | 0:30:59 | |
I don't think he really meant what he said, Adam. | 0:31:14 | 0:31:17 | |
Yes, he did, Mac, he meant it. It isn't true, you know. | 0:31:17 | 0:31:20 | |
It isn't true at all. We only try to create, not destroy. | 0:31:20 | 0:31:23 | |
Two minutes? Right. | 0:31:40 | 0:31:42 | |
Zena. In here. | 0:32:17 | 0:32:18 | |
Oh! Cosy. | 0:32:25 | 0:32:28 | |
-Convenient, too. -So I've heard from the other nurses. | 0:32:30 | 0:32:32 | |
-You don't want to take any notice of what they tell you. -Oh, but I do. | 0:32:32 | 0:32:35 | |
That's why I'm here. | 0:32:35 | 0:32:37 | |
What did you think I came down for? | 0:32:37 | 0:32:39 | |
A course of...radium treatment? | 0:32:39 | 0:32:42 | |
Zena, darling, why didn't we start doing this earlier? | 0:32:54 | 0:32:58 | |
I've given you enough encouragement, haven't I? | 0:32:58 | 0:33:00 | |
But you should have been more direct. | 0:33:00 | 0:33:02 | |
You should have come up and said, "Harry, I want..." | 0:33:02 | 0:33:05 | |
-BUZZER -"I want..." | 0:33:05 | 0:33:07 | |
What the...? | 0:33:07 | 0:33:09 | |
It's switched on! Must be your electric personality. | 0:33:09 | 0:33:11 | |
Stay here. Don't move. | 0:33:17 | 0:33:19 | |
INTENSE CRACKLING | 0:33:27 | 0:33:29 | |
HE SCREAMS | 0:33:51 | 0:33:53 | |
This is where we stored the radium. | 0:34:12 | 0:34:14 | |
Yes. | 0:34:14 | 0:34:15 | |
Obviously, the radium was the target. | 0:34:15 | 0:34:18 | |
The safe proved no obstacle whatever, did it? | 0:34:19 | 0:34:21 | |
What sort of heat would be required to do this? | 0:34:21 | 0:34:23 | |
Heat far beyond anything we have ever dreamed of. | 0:34:23 | 0:34:25 | |
Don't forget the time element. | 0:34:25 | 0:34:26 | |
Whatever happened in here must have taken place in a few seconds. | 0:34:26 | 0:34:29 | |
Perhaps we'll learn a bit more when we can talk to the girl. | 0:34:29 | 0:34:32 | |
-Look, there's another thing, Adam. -It's all over the place. | 0:34:32 | 0:34:34 | |
Same as in your workshop. | 0:34:34 | 0:34:36 | |
-Any luck? -I don't know if she'll recover, | 0:34:39 | 0:34:41 | |
but I think it would be a good thing | 0:34:41 | 0:34:42 | |
if we got her away from here as quickly as possible. | 0:34:42 | 0:34:44 | |
You mean she won't be able to tell us what happened? | 0:34:44 | 0:34:47 | |
She won't be able to tell you her own name. | 0:34:47 | 0:34:49 | |
Royston. | 0:34:50 | 0:34:52 | |
What is this? What are we dealing with? | 0:34:53 | 0:34:55 | |
How could anyone get in here | 0:34:55 | 0:34:56 | |
when there are people outside there in the corridor all the time? | 0:34:56 | 0:34:59 | |
Well, apparently, this is the only place it could come in. | 0:34:59 | 0:35:02 | |
But the grill doesn't open! It's cemented to the wall. | 0:35:02 | 0:35:04 | |
-Came in through the grill. -But Adam, that's impossible. | 0:35:04 | 0:35:07 | |
Whatever it was that did all this | 0:35:07 | 0:35:08 | |
certainly wasn't small enough to come through there. | 0:35:08 | 0:35:11 | |
-Well, how small is 10,000 gallons of oil? -What do you mean? | 0:35:11 | 0:35:14 | |
Well, 10,000 gallons of oil would take up a pretty large area, | 0:35:14 | 0:35:17 | |
-wouldn't it? -Why... | 0:35:17 | 0:35:18 | |
And yet 10,00 gallons of oil could come through | 0:35:18 | 0:35:20 | |
the holes in that grill, couldn't it? | 0:35:20 | 0:35:22 | |
-Yes, it could. -Then that's the way it got into my workshop. | 0:35:22 | 0:35:25 | |
It came in under the door. You know, obviously, | 0:35:25 | 0:35:27 | |
this thing can take up any shape it needs to. | 0:35:27 | 0:35:29 | |
Where do you think it is now? | 0:35:29 | 0:35:31 | |
Somewhere out on the ridges? | 0:35:31 | 0:35:33 | |
Well, thank goodness that major didn't take my advice | 0:35:33 | 0:35:35 | |
and station a couple of soldiers out there. | 0:35:35 | 0:35:37 | |
But he did. | 0:35:37 | 0:35:38 | |
Brew up. | 0:35:44 | 0:35:45 | |
CLANG | 0:35:51 | 0:35:53 | |
-What's that? -Tea. -Did you not hear something? | 0:35:53 | 0:35:56 | |
-Like what? -I don't know. Must have been... | 0:35:57 | 0:35:59 | |
No, it couldn't have been. | 0:36:02 | 0:36:03 | |
Hey, Spider. There's a ruddy great glow out here. | 0:36:11 | 0:36:14 | |
-What is it, Haggis? -I'm not sure. | 0:36:19 | 0:36:20 | |
-You'd better go and have a look. -Yeah. | 0:36:21 | 0:36:24 | |
-Why me? -Frightened? | 0:36:25 | 0:36:27 | |
Yeah. And I don't mind admitting it, either. | 0:36:28 | 0:36:30 | |
You know these parts better than me. You go and have a look. | 0:36:30 | 0:36:33 | |
-I don't know these parts. -You're a Scot, aren't you? | 0:36:33 | 0:36:35 | |
Aye, but I was born 300 miles from here. | 0:36:35 | 0:36:37 | |
Doesn't matter now, anyhow. It's gone away. | 0:36:39 | 0:36:41 | |
Well, I suppose I'd better go and have a look. | 0:36:42 | 0:36:44 | |
-Keep my tea warm, Spider. -OK. | 0:36:50 | 0:36:53 | |
Here, Haggis! Haggis, I've been thinking. | 0:36:54 | 0:36:57 | |
Why don't you and me go to Glasgow on our next 48? | 0:36:57 | 0:37:00 | |
You can show me the castle. | 0:37:00 | 0:37:01 | |
Hey, Spider. Come here, quick! Look! | 0:37:03 | 0:37:06 | |
HAGGIS SCREAMS | 0:37:06 | 0:37:08 | |
Haggis! | 0:37:10 | 0:37:11 | |
Haggis? | 0:37:13 | 0:37:14 | |
What's the matter, Haggis? | 0:37:16 | 0:37:17 | |
What is it, Haggis? | 0:37:24 | 0:37:25 | |
Haggis? | 0:37:26 | 0:37:27 | |
Where are you, Haggis? | 0:37:37 | 0:37:38 | |
Haggis? | 0:37:39 | 0:37:40 | |
INTENSE CRACKLING | 0:37:57 | 0:38:00 | |
Aargh!! | 0:38:16 | 0:38:17 | |
Guard? | 0:38:35 | 0:38:36 | |
Guard?!! | 0:38:39 | 0:38:40 | |
Looks like we're too late. | 0:38:42 | 0:38:44 | |
I suggested this meeting because I think I have an idea | 0:39:20 | 0:39:23 | |
of what we may be dealing with. | 0:39:23 | 0:39:24 | |
Perhaps one of you may have a solution. | 0:39:24 | 0:39:26 | |
Then again, perhaps one of you may think I'm talking a lot of nonsense | 0:39:26 | 0:39:30 | |
-and can offer a more logical conclusion. -Is this fact or theory? | 0:39:30 | 0:39:34 | |
-Partly fact, mostly theory. -I see. Well, carry on. We're all listening. | 0:39:34 | 0:39:38 | |
I'd like to resurrect, if I may, a treatise I did when I was a student, | 0:39:38 | 0:39:41 | |
which has to do with the cooling of Earth's surface. | 0:39:41 | 0:39:44 | |
Hundreds of millions of years ago, the Earth was like the Sun. | 0:39:44 | 0:39:47 | |
There was no form or solidity to it. It was just a blazing mass of energy. | 0:39:47 | 0:39:51 | |
Then, the Earth cooled and outer crust formed. | 0:39:51 | 0:39:54 | |
The energy was still there, but compressed beneath this crust. | 0:39:54 | 0:39:58 | |
As time went by, the crust grew deeper | 0:39:58 | 0:40:00 | |
and the compression became greater, as its vast energy was squeezed | 0:40:00 | 0:40:04 | |
-into an ever-decreasing space... -May I interrupt, Adam? | 0:40:04 | 0:40:07 | |
What you're telling us is something every schoolboy knows. | 0:40:07 | 0:40:09 | |
I'm sorry, maybe I should skip the preliminaries. | 0:40:09 | 0:40:12 | |
No, don't skip anything. I was never very bright at school. | 0:40:12 | 0:40:16 | |
Then, in a comparatively short space of time - | 0:40:16 | 0:40:18 | |
a matter of 100,000 years - man has evolved. | 0:40:18 | 0:40:21 | |
Man has evolved from nothing | 0:40:21 | 0:40:22 | |
into the most intelligent creature on the surface of this planet. | 0:40:22 | 0:40:26 | |
Considering the far greater span of time involved, | 0:40:26 | 0:40:29 | |
isn't it reasonable to assume that the forces contained in | 0:40:29 | 0:40:32 | |
the centre of Earth have developed an intelligence of their own? | 0:40:32 | 0:40:34 | |
If we accept this, we must consider what these forces would think. | 0:40:34 | 0:40:38 | |
Their world is slowly being compressed out of existence. | 0:40:38 | 0:40:41 | |
Survival must be uppermost in their thoughts. | 0:40:41 | 0:40:44 | |
What's more natural in their search for survival | 0:40:44 | 0:40:46 | |
than that they should return to the face of the planet where once they lived? | 0:40:46 | 0:40:49 | |
If you check, you will find that, every 50 years, | 0:40:49 | 0:40:53 | |
by virtue of the position of Earth in the solar system, | 0:40:53 | 0:40:56 | |
a greater pull is exerted on the surface of Earth than at other times, | 0:40:56 | 0:40:59 | |
quite unnoticeable to us. But 2,000 miles down, who knows? | 0:40:59 | 0:41:04 | |
During the short period of time this pull is at its most powerful, | 0:41:04 | 0:41:08 | |
you will also find there has always been a freak earth tremor. | 0:41:08 | 0:41:11 | |
In each of these cases, a fissure has opened on the Earth's surface. | 0:41:11 | 0:41:15 | |
What if some of the vast energy trapped below caused those tremors, | 0:41:15 | 0:41:19 | |
in an attempt to reach the surface? | 0:41:19 | 0:41:21 | |
What if, in fact, it did reach the surface? | 0:41:21 | 0:41:23 | |
It looked around for a means to sustain its existence. | 0:41:23 | 0:41:26 | |
To live, one must have nourishment | 0:41:26 | 0:41:28 | |
and these forces are almost pure energy. | 0:41:28 | 0:41:31 | |
-What does energy live on? -Energy. -Exactly. | 0:41:31 | 0:41:34 | |
Energy can only be fed with more energy, | 0:41:34 | 0:41:36 | |
or radiation, if you like. | 0:41:36 | 0:41:39 | |
50, 100, 150 years ago, these forces found themselves | 0:41:39 | 0:41:42 | |
without any means of sustenance and their mass became unstable | 0:41:42 | 0:41:45 | |
and they disintegrated. Now, we come to this 50-year cycle. | 0:41:45 | 0:41:49 | |
This time, there's radiation. | 0:41:49 | 0:41:51 | |
There was radiation in the hospital, there was radiation in my workshop. | 0:41:51 | 0:41:55 | |
As long as this thing feeds, it will live. | 0:41:56 | 0:41:58 | |
The more it lives, the more it will grow. | 0:41:58 | 0:42:01 | |
-It's fantastic. -I admit it does sound that way, doesn't it? | 0:42:01 | 0:42:04 | |
But if anyone can offer a simpler explanation of what's been going on, | 0:42:04 | 0:42:08 | |
I'd be grateful, and relieved, to hear it. | 0:42:08 | 0:42:10 | |
Are you telling us that some sort of creature came up out of the fissure? | 0:42:10 | 0:42:13 | |
I'm not trying to tell you anything. I'm putting forward a theory, | 0:42:13 | 0:42:17 | |
-based on the facts we know. -So, what do we look for? -I don't know. | 0:42:17 | 0:42:20 | |
And what do we do if we find something? | 0:42:20 | 0:42:22 | |
I'm afraid I don't know that, either. | 0:42:22 | 0:42:24 | |
How big is this thing supposed to be? | 0:42:24 | 0:42:27 | |
Might be the size of my fist, might be as large as a house. | 0:42:27 | 0:42:31 | |
We can't stand about here. | 0:42:31 | 0:42:32 | |
-We've got to find this thing and destroy it. -Destroy it? | 0:42:32 | 0:42:35 | |
How are you going to do that? Shoot it, burn it, blow it up? | 0:42:35 | 0:42:39 | |
We've been told a story, based on a little fact | 0:42:39 | 0:42:41 | |
and a great deal of fiction. | 0:42:41 | 0:42:42 | |
I'm amazed that this has been accepted by all of you without | 0:42:42 | 0:42:46 | |
the slightest doubt or hesitation. | 0:42:46 | 0:42:48 | |
I said I thought the whole thing was fantastic. I'll go further - | 0:42:48 | 0:42:51 | |
it's absolute rubbish. | 0:42:51 | 0:42:52 | |
Dr Royston, you're a scientist, you deal with facts. | 0:42:52 | 0:42:55 | |
A man of your intelligence and capabilities has no right | 0:42:55 | 0:42:58 | |
-to talk as you have. You astound me. -What about that boy being burned? | 0:42:58 | 0:43:02 | |
-We've been through that. -And that hospital business? | 0:43:02 | 0:43:05 | |
There must be a logical explanation. | 0:43:05 | 0:43:06 | |
I suggest we leave the police to find out what it is. | 0:43:06 | 0:43:09 | |
I'm the police, in a way. I've come to get Dr Royston's advice. | 0:43:09 | 0:43:12 | |
In that case, I'll waste no more time. Good night, gentlemen. | 0:43:12 | 0:43:16 | |
I'm sorry if anybody else feels that way. | 0:43:19 | 0:43:22 | |
Let's try and get a look at this thing. | 0:43:22 | 0:43:24 | |
The only way we can do that is to go to the fissure. | 0:43:24 | 0:43:27 | |
We've been there more than once already. We've seen nothing. | 0:43:27 | 0:43:30 | |
You misunderstood me. Somebody has got to go down the fissure. | 0:43:30 | 0:43:33 | |
-Well? -All ready, sir. | 0:43:46 | 0:43:47 | |
Peter, you're quite sure you still want to go through with this? | 0:43:47 | 0:43:51 | |
We've argued this before. I did volunteer for the job. | 0:43:51 | 0:43:54 | |
-He's right, Adam. -OK, Peter. -Thank you. | 0:43:54 | 0:43:57 | |
-Zena doesn't like it, at all. -Nor do any of us. | 0:43:58 | 0:44:00 | |
Director of the establishment's been on to him, | 0:44:00 | 0:44:03 | |
-told him he thinks the whole thing's a waste of time. -Hope you're not in trouble, Major. | 0:44:03 | 0:44:06 | |
-I have strict orders what to do... -All ready, sir! | 0:44:06 | 0:44:09 | |
-You're all right, now, are you? -Yes, sure. -What's the drill? | 0:44:15 | 0:44:18 | |
If there's any radioactivity on that Geiger counter, | 0:44:18 | 0:44:21 | |
-let us know and we'll get you out of there. -Mm-hm. Right, lower away. | 0:44:21 | 0:44:25 | |
Keep going. | 0:44:35 | 0:44:36 | |
Lower. | 0:44:38 | 0:44:39 | |
Lower away. | 0:44:42 | 0:44:43 | |
Keep going. Lower. | 0:44:44 | 0:44:46 | |
You all right, sir? | 0:44:47 | 0:44:50 | |
Nothing to report, sir. | 0:45:00 | 0:45:01 | |
Ah. | 0:45:05 | 0:45:06 | |
Oop. | 0:45:06 | 0:45:07 | |
Oop. Stop lowering. | 0:45:10 | 0:45:11 | |
Hold it! | 0:45:11 | 0:45:12 | |
All right, lower away again. | 0:45:15 | 0:45:16 | |
Stop lowering! | 0:45:17 | 0:45:20 | |
Are you all right, sir? | 0:45:23 | 0:45:26 | |
He's all right. | 0:45:26 | 0:45:27 | |
HE EXHALES | 0:45:30 | 0:45:31 | |
Eugh. | 0:45:39 | 0:45:40 | |
Eugh! | 0:45:52 | 0:45:53 | |
What is it? | 0:45:53 | 0:45:54 | |
He's all right, but something's happening, sir. | 0:45:55 | 0:45:58 | |
No, it's all right. Keep lowering. | 0:46:02 | 0:46:05 | |
Keep lowering. | 0:46:05 | 0:46:06 | |
Stop! Stop lowering! | 0:46:11 | 0:46:12 | |
ELECTRONIC CRACKLING | 0:46:14 | 0:46:16 | |
CRACKLING GETS LOUDER AND LOUDER | 0:46:17 | 0:46:24 | |
Get me out of here. Get me out of here, quick!! | 0:46:27 | 0:46:30 | |
Faster! Faster! | 0:46:30 | 0:46:32 | |
Faster! As fast as you can! Come on, now! | 0:46:32 | 0:46:35 | |
Bring him up, boys. Come on, boys. | 0:46:37 | 0:46:39 | |
Faster! Faster! Heave! Faster! | 0:46:41 | 0:46:44 | |
Quick! Faster! | 0:46:44 | 0:46:46 | |
Come on, now! Faster! | 0:46:46 | 0:46:48 | |
Come on, come on! | 0:46:48 | 0:46:49 | |
You were right, sir. There's a body of a soldier down there. | 0:46:57 | 0:47:00 | |
-It's all burnt up. -What else? | 0:47:00 | 0:47:02 | |
Never mind about that. Let's get away from here. | 0:47:02 | 0:47:04 | |
-Peter, what did you see down there? -I don't know what it was. | 0:47:10 | 0:47:13 | |
It was like something out of a nightmare. It was horrible. | 0:47:13 | 0:47:16 | |
We'll talk about that later. Get in the car, Peter. | 0:47:16 | 0:47:19 | |
I told you I had my orders, sir. They were to take action | 0:47:19 | 0:47:22 | |
-if anything was found down there. -What sort of action? | 0:47:22 | 0:47:24 | |
Kill whatever it is, then concrete the whole thing over. | 0:47:24 | 0:47:27 | |
-Concrete it over? You don't mean that? -Those are my orders. | 0:47:27 | 0:47:30 | |
Well, Major, when do you start? | 0:47:39 | 0:47:41 | |
-Tonight. Right away. Sergeant. -Right, sir. | 0:47:41 | 0:47:44 | |
EXPLOSION | 0:47:56 | 0:47:58 | |
Well, you seem to be making a job of it. | 0:48:00 | 0:48:03 | |
I think this should do the trick. What about you? | 0:48:03 | 0:48:05 | |
You know this Royston chap. Brilliant, of course, I'm sure. | 0:48:05 | 0:48:08 | |
The trouble with some of these scientific types is they can't see | 0:48:08 | 0:48:11 | |
the easy way out of anything. It's got to be complicated, to work. | 0:48:11 | 0:48:14 | |
EXPLOSION | 0:48:16 | 0:48:18 | |
KNOCKING | 0:48:30 | 0:48:31 | |
Come in, come in. | 0:48:31 | 0:48:32 | |
Hello, Mac. | 0:48:35 | 0:48:37 | |
Where have you been all day? | 0:48:37 | 0:48:38 | |
-Here, hold this. -Down at the fissure. -Oh, are they finished down there? | 0:48:38 | 0:48:42 | |
-What did they do, exactly? -Practically everything. | 0:48:42 | 0:48:45 | |
Flame-throwers, high explosive and a neat little concrete tombstone. | 0:48:45 | 0:48:49 | |
-Rest in peace, huh? -You don't think it's done any good, do you? | 0:48:49 | 0:48:53 | |
How could it? Let's look at the facts. | 0:48:53 | 0:48:55 | |
Here, give me that. | 0:48:55 | 0:48:56 | |
This X, this unknown quantity, whatever it is, has forced its way | 0:48:56 | 0:48:59 | |
through miles of solid rock. | 0:48:59 | 0:49:02 | |
How's a couple of feet of concrete going to stop it? | 0:49:02 | 0:49:04 | |
But what about the flame-throwers and explosive? | 0:49:04 | 0:49:07 | |
-Nothing could live after that. -Perhaps nothing we've ever | 0:49:07 | 0:49:10 | |
encountered before, but this isn't a living organism, as we know it. | 0:49:10 | 0:49:14 | |
Its life source may be the same as we've got here. | 0:49:14 | 0:49:18 | |
Stay on this side of the screen. | 0:49:18 | 0:49:20 | |
Excuse me. | 0:49:21 | 0:49:22 | |
WHIRRING | 0:49:24 | 0:49:28 | |
Now, Mac, how would you go about killing that? | 0:49:29 | 0:49:32 | |
What is it? | 0:49:33 | 0:49:34 | |
It's a particle of mud but, by virtue of its atomic structure, | 0:49:36 | 0:49:40 | |
it emits radiation. That's all it is - just mud. | 0:49:40 | 0:49:44 | |
How do you kill mud? | 0:49:44 | 0:49:45 | |
Have you informed anyone in London about all this? | 0:49:50 | 0:49:52 | |
-Hmm! Not more than half a dozen times. -And? | 0:49:52 | 0:49:56 | |
At first, they were interested, but sceptical. | 0:49:56 | 0:49:58 | |
They suggested I get in touch with the director about it. | 0:49:58 | 0:50:01 | |
Later on, the director got in touch with them. | 0:50:01 | 0:50:04 | |
-The result is I've been called back to London. -When? | 0:50:04 | 0:50:07 | |
Tonight. I'm catching the last plane from Glasgow. | 0:50:07 | 0:50:10 | |
Mac, I'm sorry to hear that. You've become one of my staunchest allies. | 0:50:10 | 0:50:14 | |
Adam, this thing's going to break out again, isn't it? | 0:50:16 | 0:50:20 | |
-In my opinion, yes. -Isn't there anything we can do to stop it? | 0:50:20 | 0:50:24 | |
I don't know. It's something I've been working on a long time now, | 0:50:24 | 0:50:27 | |
a method of disintegrating atomic structure, | 0:50:27 | 0:50:30 | |
-obviating the resultant explosion. -What's that? | 0:50:30 | 0:50:33 | |
ADAM CHUCKLES | 0:50:34 | 0:50:35 | |
Well, it's... Look, what's an atomic bomb? | 0:50:35 | 0:50:37 | |
It's a breaking up of atomic particles, isn't it? | 0:50:37 | 0:50:40 | |
Not quite, but close enough. I'm trying to achieve this breaking up | 0:50:40 | 0:50:44 | |
without the explosion. This is a... Look, I'll show you. | 0:50:44 | 0:50:47 | |
In that lead container is an atomically unstable compound. | 0:50:52 | 0:50:54 | |
Two things can happen to it. | 0:50:54 | 0:50:56 | |
Either it will continue to give off radiation for the next 200 years, | 0:50:56 | 0:50:59 | |
or it can be subjected to an outside force which will disintegrate it in a fraction of a second. | 0:50:59 | 0:51:04 | |
-A bomb, in fact. -If you like, yes, | 0:51:04 | 0:51:06 | |
but that's what I'm trying to prevent. | 0:51:06 | 0:51:08 | |
Theoretically, if you draw this stuff between the scanners, | 0:51:08 | 0:51:13 | |
and adjust the scanners to a certain pitch, | 0:51:13 | 0:51:15 | |
A neutralising effect should be achieved. | 0:51:15 | 0:51:18 | |
You mean to say this apparatus would neutralise an atomic bomb | 0:51:19 | 0:51:22 | |
so it wouldn't explode? | 0:51:22 | 0:51:23 | |
That's my point. It couldn't. It wouldn't be a bomb any more. | 0:51:23 | 0:51:26 | |
It would be just a handful of mud in a very expensive casing. | 0:51:26 | 0:51:29 | |
But Adam, that's fantastic. | 0:51:31 | 0:51:33 | |
A step in the right direction anyway, isn't it? | 0:51:33 | 0:51:35 | |
Will you be able to use this against that thing out there? | 0:51:35 | 0:51:38 | |
Six months' time, perhaps, but... | 0:51:38 | 0:51:39 | |
KNOCK ON DOOR | 0:51:39 | 0:51:42 | |
Yes, Russell. What is it? | 0:51:42 | 0:51:43 | |
Mr Peter sent me down to remind you of the time, sir. | 0:51:43 | 0:51:45 | |
Oh, yes, thank you. | 0:51:45 | 0:51:48 | |
Oh, Russell, you were able to locate Mr Elliott, weren't you? | 0:51:48 | 0:51:51 | |
-Not yet, sir. -That's too bad. | 0:51:51 | 0:51:52 | |
All right, thank you, I'll be right out. | 0:51:52 | 0:51:54 | |
We're taking the cobalt out of the pile tonight | 0:51:54 | 0:51:57 | |
and we haven't been able to locate John yet. | 0:51:57 | 0:51:59 | |
-Mac, we're sure going to miss you around here. -Goodbye, Adam. | 0:51:59 | 0:52:02 | |
Good luck. | 0:52:02 | 0:52:03 | |
CRACKLING | 0:52:19 | 0:52:23 | |
-Oh, Peter, is that truck ready? -Yes, it's standing by outside, sir. | 0:52:34 | 0:52:38 | |
As soon as these are all out, I want you to get a quick reading | 0:52:38 | 0:52:41 | |
and then we'll load them. | 0:52:41 | 0:52:42 | |
'The pile is now inactive. The pile is now inactive.' | 0:52:42 | 0:52:45 | |
Let's get started, and I'll get these out. | 0:52:45 | 0:52:48 | |
No, sir, I don't. I think we have every chance of seeing it again. | 0:52:53 | 0:52:56 | |
-CRACKLING -Excuse me. | 0:52:56 | 0:52:59 | |
I'm sorry, sir, the line's bad. | 0:52:59 | 0:53:01 | |
-PHONE RINGS -I see. I only want one more night. | 0:53:01 | 0:53:04 | |
If nothing happens, I can catch the first plane tomorrow morning. | 0:53:04 | 0:53:07 | |
-Station sergeant speaking. -Yes, of course. -Aye? | 0:53:07 | 0:53:10 | |
Aye. Where? | 0:53:10 | 0:53:12 | |
Thank you, sir. There's one other thing. | 0:53:12 | 0:53:15 | |
I believe the director, Mr Elliott, got in touch with you earlier today. | 0:53:15 | 0:53:18 | |
You must speak up. This phone is bad. | 0:53:18 | 0:53:20 | |
-Oh, yes, I've seen him. -I got that. | 0:53:20 | 0:53:22 | |
What about the occupants? | 0:53:23 | 0:53:25 | |
What? You must be mad. | 0:53:25 | 0:53:27 | |
No, sir, he doesn't, I know, but all the same... | 0:53:27 | 0:53:30 | |
All right, sir. Goodbye. | 0:53:30 | 0:53:32 | |
All right, I'll send somebody out right away. | 0:53:32 | 0:53:35 | |
Williams, I want you to go out. There's been an accident. | 0:53:35 | 0:53:37 | |
-Right, Sarge. -Thank you, Sergeant. -Right, sir. | 0:53:37 | 0:53:39 | |
Tell McDonald to report to me when he comes off duty. | 0:53:39 | 0:53:42 | |
People melting, indeed. | 0:53:42 | 0:53:44 | |
-What's that you say? -There's been an accident, sir. Four miles away. | 0:53:44 | 0:53:47 | |
I know, I heard that, but what's this about people melting? | 0:53:47 | 0:53:49 | |
-That's what the man on the beat says. -Let me have that address. Thank you. | 0:53:49 | 0:53:53 | |
Hey, what do you think you're doing? | 0:54:04 | 0:54:06 | |
Do you hear me? | 0:54:06 | 0:54:08 | |
I say, what do you think you're doing? | 0:54:08 | 0:54:12 | |
Sorry, sir. | 0:54:12 | 0:54:13 | |
Where's the nearest telephone? | 0:54:25 | 0:54:27 | |
The nearest public phone is a couple of miles away, sir. | 0:54:27 | 0:54:30 | |
Maybe one of these people will let you use theirs. | 0:54:30 | 0:54:32 | |
-Anybody live near here with a phone? -Aye, there's a phone in my shop, | 0:54:32 | 0:54:36 | |
half a mile down the road. You can use that. | 0:54:36 | 0:54:38 | |
Thanks very much. Pop in the car. I'll drive you down. | 0:54:38 | 0:54:41 | |
Dr Royston. | 0:54:44 | 0:54:46 | |
John, we've just taken the cobalt out of the pile. | 0:54:48 | 0:54:51 | |
-There wasn't time... -On whose authority? | 0:54:51 | 0:54:53 | |
There wasn't really time to check with you. | 0:54:53 | 0:54:55 | |
Do you know how long it takes to get that pile started again? | 0:54:55 | 0:54:57 | |
You'll put the cobalt bombardment weeks behind schedule. | 0:54:57 | 0:55:00 | |
-PHONE RINGS -On your own initiative, you break in on an official experiment, | 0:55:00 | 0:55:03 | |
deactivate the pile without consulting me? | 0:55:03 | 0:55:05 | |
-This isn't your workshop. This is a government establishment. -Hello? | 0:55:05 | 0:55:08 | |
-And I'm its director. -I'm sorry, you'll have to speak louder. | 0:55:08 | 0:55:12 | |
No, he's busy right now. This is Peter Elliott. Oh, yes? | 0:55:12 | 0:55:16 | |
Yes. I'll tell him right away. | 0:55:20 | 0:55:22 | |
Dr Royston, it's McGill. | 0:55:23 | 0:55:25 | |
It appears that what you were afraid of has happened. | 0:55:25 | 0:55:28 | |
It's just killed four people in a car. | 0:55:28 | 0:55:31 | |
The line is terrible, but I think he said they'd melted. | 0:55:31 | 0:55:34 | |
Hello, Mac, this is Royston. What's this all about? | 0:55:37 | 0:55:41 | |
Yes... | 0:55:41 | 0:55:43 | |
Wait a minute. Just a minute. | 0:55:43 | 0:55:45 | |
Have you a pencil, please? | 0:55:47 | 0:55:48 | |
Go ahead. Yes? | 0:55:49 | 0:55:52 | |
Where? Yes, right. Right. | 0:55:52 | 0:55:55 | |
Got it. | 0:55:57 | 0:55:59 | |
-You have a local survey map in your office? -Yes, there's one up there. | 0:56:02 | 0:56:06 | |
-Let's take a look at it, shall we? -Yes, of course. Come on. | 0:56:06 | 0:56:09 | |
This point right here is the fissure. | 0:56:09 | 0:56:11 | |
Here is the hospital. | 0:56:11 | 0:56:12 | |
This is where something was seen glowing. | 0:56:12 | 0:56:15 | |
Now, over here is my workshop. | 0:56:15 | 0:56:18 | |
If we follow this line, | 0:56:18 | 0:56:20 | |
right here is the old tower. | 0:56:20 | 0:56:22 | |
You know, this thing can obviously sense radioactivity, | 0:56:22 | 0:56:25 | |
and once it does, nothing can stop it. | 0:56:25 | 0:56:27 | |
It makes straight for the radiation and then returns to the fissure. | 0:56:27 | 0:56:30 | |
And by these lines, it's pretty clear it returns by the same route. | 0:56:30 | 0:56:34 | |
Now, this latest report, this burned-out car is right here. | 0:56:34 | 0:56:37 | |
If we extend the line from the fissure through this point, | 0:56:37 | 0:56:40 | |
somewhere along this extended line is where it's headed. | 0:56:40 | 0:56:43 | |
-I see. -Here. | 0:56:43 | 0:56:45 | |
That's right. It's on its way for the biggest meal of its life. | 0:56:45 | 0:56:48 | |
CAR HORN BLARES | 0:56:52 | 0:56:53 | |
Hurry up, man! Hurry up! Open the gate! | 0:56:55 | 0:56:57 | |
-All right, all right. -Come along, man, open up the gate! | 0:56:57 | 0:57:00 | |
-Let's see your pass. -You know me. Come on, open up! | 0:57:00 | 0:57:03 | |
Sorry, sir. Let's see your pass first. | 0:57:03 | 0:57:05 | |
-Here. -All right, sir. | 0:57:05 | 0:57:07 | |
We daren't put that cobalt back in the pile. | 0:57:13 | 0:57:15 | |
We've got to get it out of here fast. | 0:57:15 | 0:57:17 | |
There must be a limit to the distance it can sense radiation. | 0:57:17 | 0:57:20 | |
We've got to get beyond that point. | 0:57:20 | 0:57:21 | |
Adam! I just wanted to say that... | 0:57:21 | 0:57:24 | |
Oh, never mind. I'll go and warn the security people. | 0:57:24 | 0:57:27 | |
-Mac. -Adam. | 0:57:42 | 0:57:44 | |
-Any sign of it yet? -No, not yet. -It can't be far off. | 0:57:44 | 0:57:47 | |
I've warned everybody to keep indoors, upstairs if possible. | 0:57:47 | 0:57:50 | |
I've posted every man I could lay hands on to keep watch for it. | 0:57:50 | 0:57:53 | |
I tried to phone London, but there's something wrong with the line, | 0:57:53 | 0:57:56 | |
-interference. -We've got the same trouble here. | 0:57:56 | 0:57:58 | |
-Nobody spotted a thing? -None of my men have seen anything. | 0:57:58 | 0:58:00 | |
I'd like to know why. A thing that big can't simply disappear. | 0:58:00 | 0:58:03 | |
No, but it might alter its form and become almost invisible. | 0:58:03 | 0:58:06 | |
What's going on here? | 0:58:06 | 0:58:07 | |
We're trying to get this cobalt loaded and out of here. | 0:58:07 | 0:58:10 | |
Mr Elliott, what about the gates around this place? | 0:58:10 | 0:58:12 | |
They're being watched. I've got men patrolling the wire. | 0:58:12 | 0:58:15 | |
-I'd like to phone round. -Internal phone in there. | 0:58:15 | 0:58:17 | |
The line isn't very good, I'm afraid. | 0:58:17 | 0:58:19 | |
Raise it up. Steady. | 0:58:19 | 0:58:21 | |
PHONE RINGS | 0:58:23 | 0:58:26 | |
CRACKLING | 0:58:31 | 0:58:34 | |
CRACKLING GETS LOUDER | 0:58:40 | 0:58:43 | |
Help. Help... | 0:58:58 | 0:58:59 | |
ALARM HOOTS | 0:59:02 | 0:59:04 | |
-Peter! Check the main gates. See if you can spot it. -Right. | 0:59:06 | 0:59:10 | |
Clear this yard, boys! | 0:59:21 | 0:59:22 | |
-What about the cobalt? -Nothing we can do about that now. | 0:59:24 | 0:59:27 | |
But if it gets to it, it might explode. | 0:59:27 | 0:59:29 | |
Then we'll be the first to explode a cobalt bomb. Now clear out of here. | 0:59:29 | 0:59:32 | |
Get inside, come on! | 0:59:32 | 0:59:34 | |
Hey! Wait a minute! | 0:59:37 | 0:59:39 | |
-The main gate, where can we see it from? -Up that ladder, sir. | 0:59:41 | 0:59:44 | |
Tell everyone you see to keep clear of the west approach to the reactor building. It's coming in that way. | 0:59:56 | 1:00:01 | |
Our only chance is the cobalt. It absorbs radiation. | 1:00:02 | 1:00:05 | |
-Won't that make it as unstable as the cobalt is now? -Yes, it would. | 1:00:05 | 1:00:08 | |
Dr Royston! It's on its way. | 1:00:08 | 1:00:11 | |
The man on the main gate had it just like the others. | 1:00:11 | 1:00:13 | |
It's coming in on the west side. | 1:00:13 | 1:00:15 | |
Look! There it is, on the roof. | 1:00:15 | 1:00:16 | |
Up there, quick. | 1:00:19 | 1:00:21 | |
It's growing larger. | 1:00:28 | 1:00:30 | |
The mass has to increase to accommodate the extra radiation. | 1:00:30 | 1:00:33 | |
How big will it get? | 1:00:33 | 1:00:35 | |
The important thing is, how unstable is it going to get? | 1:00:35 | 1:00:37 | |
Isn't there anything we can do? | 1:00:37 | 1:00:40 | |
Well, we can try, but not here. | 1:00:40 | 1:00:42 | |
The only thing we can do is to let it go back to the fissure. | 1:00:44 | 1:00:47 | |
We know the exact route it will take, | 1:00:47 | 1:00:49 | |
so let's clear that route and get everybody out of its path. | 1:00:49 | 1:00:51 | |
The Army has a helicopter. We can use that to keep a check on it | 1:00:51 | 1:00:54 | |
-in case it changes direction. -What are you going to do, Adam? | 1:00:54 | 1:00:57 | |
-I'm going to my workshop. -It's moving! | 1:00:57 | 1:00:59 | |
-Any luck? -I cannae hear a thing. The static's drowning out everything. | 1:01:19 | 1:01:22 | |
-The sergeant says that's a sure sign that thing's not far off. -Aye. | 1:01:22 | 1:01:25 | |
-Let's nip back to Lochmouth. -Aye. | 1:01:25 | 1:01:28 | |
Come on now, hurry! You'll all be safe inside the church. | 1:01:43 | 1:01:49 | |
Come on now. Inside. Hurry. | 1:01:49 | 1:01:52 | |
You need any help, Minister? | 1:01:53 | 1:01:56 | |
I don't think so. How near is it going to come? | 1:01:56 | 1:01:59 | |
It should pass within 100 yards of where we are now. | 1:01:59 | 1:02:01 | |
-Between those trees. -How much longer? | 1:02:01 | 1:02:03 | |
About two minutes, as far as I can tell. | 1:02:03 | 1:02:06 | |
Come on, Mrs Haggerty. Let me take your bundle. | 1:02:08 | 1:02:11 | |
Come on, it's nice and warm inside. | 1:02:11 | 1:02:13 | |
There you are. | 1:02:14 | 1:02:15 | |
It's changed direction! It's not following the same route. | 1:02:37 | 1:02:41 | |
Try the map the other way up. | 1:02:41 | 1:02:43 | |
That was close. | 1:03:00 | 1:03:02 | |
Army copter to Mobile. Heading up from Lochmouth, travelling east. | 1:03:03 | 1:03:08 | |
CRACKLING | 1:03:08 | 1:03:09 | |
Oh, what's the use? They'll never hear anything with this static. | 1:03:09 | 1:03:12 | |
-Have you got an Aldis lamp? -There's one down by my right foot. | 1:03:12 | 1:03:15 | |
Fine. Let's get over to checkpoint three. Just there. | 1:03:15 | 1:03:18 | |
Come on, ladies, hurry, there isn't time to lose. | 1:03:26 | 1:03:29 | |
Hurry. Inside quickly. | 1:03:29 | 1:03:32 | |
BELL TOLLS | 1:03:32 | 1:03:34 | |
CHILD GIGGLES | 1:03:45 | 1:03:47 | |
CHILD GIGGLES | 1:03:50 | 1:03:53 | |
Wait here. | 1:04:02 | 1:04:03 | |
CRACKLING | 1:04:06 | 1:04:09 | |
CHILD GIGGLES | 1:04:11 | 1:04:13 | |
Every line out of this place is useless. | 1:04:23 | 1:04:25 | |
Radio's even worse. | 1:04:25 | 1:04:27 | |
We've no hope of getting through to London now. | 1:04:27 | 1:04:29 | |
We've got to handle this ourselves. | 1:04:29 | 1:04:30 | |
I still think that as soon as it gets to the fissure, | 1:04:30 | 1:04:32 | |
we ought to leave it alone. | 1:04:32 | 1:04:34 | |
-That is until we can get in touch with the minister. -Look, Mr Elliott, | 1:04:34 | 1:04:37 | |
Adam said, "The larger this thing grows, | 1:04:37 | 1:04:38 | |
"the more its range will increase." | 1:04:38 | 1:04:40 | |
Do you know the next point it will make for? | 1:04:40 | 1:04:42 | |
There, that's it. | 1:04:42 | 1:04:44 | |
The experimental nuclear power station at Glencairn. | 1:04:44 | 1:04:47 | |
And to reach there, it will go right through the centre of Inverness. | 1:04:47 | 1:04:50 | |
Now do you see? We've got to stop this thing at the fissure. | 1:04:50 | 1:04:53 | |
And we've got to stop it for good. | 1:04:53 | 1:04:55 | |
MACHINE WHINES | 1:04:55 | 1:04:57 | |
CRACKLING | 1:05:06 | 1:05:08 | |
KNOCK AT DOOR | 1:05:10 | 1:05:12 | |
Well, Adam, how's it going? | 1:05:13 | 1:05:15 | |
Not too good, I'm just ready to try again. | 1:05:15 | 1:05:17 | |
Watch out now, just in case. | 1:05:17 | 1:05:19 | |
CRACKLING | 1:05:19 | 1:05:21 | |
MACHINE WHINES | 1:05:22 | 1:05:24 | |
-That's it, it's worked! -You've done it, Adam, you've done it! | 1:05:58 | 1:06:02 | |
Adam! Look! | 1:06:02 | 1:06:04 | |
The container, it's glowing! | 1:06:04 | 1:06:06 | |
What's happening, sir? | 1:06:07 | 1:06:08 | |
GLASS SMASHES | 1:06:10 | 1:06:11 | |
That won't do, we'll have to try again. | 1:06:17 | 1:06:19 | |
There's no time to try again. | 1:06:19 | 1:06:21 | |
If a piece of material no bigger than a pin head can cause | 1:06:21 | 1:06:23 | |
an explosion like that, can't you imagine what would happen out there? | 1:06:23 | 1:06:26 | |
-We've got to have time. -I don't care, we've got to take the chance. | 1:06:26 | 1:06:29 | |
We've got to try and stop this thing at the fissure. | 1:06:29 | 1:06:32 | |
Dr Royston? | 1:06:32 | 1:06:33 | |
Those scanners, they could have slipped out of synchronisation. | 1:06:33 | 1:06:37 | |
They might have, yes. It might have been 100 other things. | 1:06:37 | 1:06:39 | |
But could it have been the scanners, Adam? | 1:06:39 | 1:06:41 | |
Yes, yes, they... | 1:06:42 | 1:06:44 | |
Being out of sync might have caused it. | 1:06:44 | 1:06:47 | |
Everything you've asked for is at the fissure, Adam. | 1:06:47 | 1:06:49 | |
Trucks, radioactive material, everything's ready. | 1:06:49 | 1:06:52 | |
Well, if that's the way it's got to be, let's get started. | 1:06:52 | 1:06:55 | |
Tell him to get that copter away from here. | 1:07:12 | 1:07:13 | |
Noise enough to wake the dead, | 1:07:13 | 1:07:15 | |
-let alone that thing down there. -Right, sir. | 1:07:15 | 1:07:17 | |
Is everything here, Major? | 1:07:28 | 1:07:29 | |
-Half an hour ago. -Well, what are these men doing? | 1:07:29 | 1:07:31 | |
Mac, let's clear this area. | 1:07:31 | 1:07:33 | |
If anything goes wrong, it wouldn't matter much where they are. | 1:07:33 | 1:07:35 | |
True, but they'll get in our way. | 1:07:35 | 1:07:37 | |
-Now, is this our jeep? -That's it, just as you ordered. | 1:07:37 | 1:07:39 | |
You know what you've got on the back there is bait? | 1:07:43 | 1:07:45 | |
-Yes, sir. -The purpose is to entice whatever is down there out. | 1:07:45 | 1:07:48 | |
Now, don't you get any closer than 15 feet, do you understand that? | 1:07:48 | 1:07:51 | |
Very good, sir. | 1:07:51 | 1:07:52 | |
-Let's get started. Have the trucks follow. -Right. | 1:07:53 | 1:07:56 | |
-Mr Thompson, follow this car here. -Right, sir. | 1:07:56 | 1:07:58 | |
Now, Peter, don't let that jeep get any closer than 15 feet. | 1:08:59 | 1:09:02 | |
-Remember that, 15 feet. -Right, sir. | 1:09:02 | 1:09:04 | |
Can we do anything to help, Adam? | 1:09:09 | 1:09:11 | |
No, Mac, just keep your fingers crossed. | 1:09:11 | 1:09:13 | |
-We'll stay out of your way anyhow. -Major, impress upon your men | 1:09:13 | 1:09:15 | |
the importance of keeping these scanners on phase. | 1:09:15 | 1:09:18 | |
-As soon as we're ready, I'll give the signal for the switch-on. -Right. | 1:09:18 | 1:09:20 | |
-Everything all right? -Watch it, sir, I've got the cobalt out. | 1:09:34 | 1:09:36 | |
-Shall I get the men under cover, sir? -What? Er, yes, yes. | 1:09:36 | 1:09:39 | |
All right, you lads, take cover. | 1:09:43 | 1:09:45 | |
Come along, all of you, get your heads down behind this bank here. | 1:09:45 | 1:09:48 | |
What are you waiting for? | 1:09:51 | 1:09:53 | |
What's going to happen, Sarge? | 1:09:53 | 1:09:55 | |
I'm going to kick your head in if you don't get it down. | 1:09:55 | 1:09:57 | |
-Give me the OK as soon as you're synchronised. -Right. | 1:10:11 | 1:10:13 | |
-You ready, number one? -Ready, sir. | 1:10:15 | 1:10:17 | |
Are you ready, number two? | 1:10:18 | 1:10:20 | |
Ready, sir. | 1:10:21 | 1:10:22 | |
Excuse me, Major. | 1:10:26 | 1:10:27 | |
Peter, send out the jeep. | 1:10:29 | 1:10:31 | |
Bring out the jeep! | 1:10:32 | 1:10:35 | |
ENGINE STARTS | 1:10:35 | 1:10:37 | |
ENGINE SPUTTERS | 1:10:39 | 1:10:41 | |
Hey, what's the matter? | 1:10:49 | 1:10:50 | |
Come on, get out, I'll take it. | 1:10:53 | 1:10:54 | |
ENGINE STARTS | 1:11:01 | 1:11:03 | |
Good luck, sir. | 1:11:06 | 1:11:08 | |
You better take cover too. | 1:11:11 | 1:11:13 | |
It's Peter. | 1:11:18 | 1:11:19 | |
What do you think you're doing? | 1:11:25 | 1:11:26 | |
Somebody's got to do it, the driver's sick. | 1:11:26 | 1:11:28 | |
That's no reason why you should... | 1:11:28 | 1:11:30 | |
Careful, son. | 1:11:30 | 1:11:31 | |
What's he doing? Peter! | 1:12:29 | 1:12:32 | |
Peter, don't go any closer! | 1:12:32 | 1:12:33 | |
Peter, don't go any closer! | 1:12:35 | 1:12:37 | |
Peter! | 1:12:37 | 1:12:39 | |
Peter! Peter, don't be a fool! Get back, get back. | 1:12:39 | 1:12:41 | |
ELECTRICITY CRACKLES | 1:13:07 | 1:13:09 | |
Peter! Peter, get out of the jeep! Get out of it, run for it. | 1:13:44 | 1:13:47 | |
Switch on one. | 1:14:01 | 1:14:02 | |
Switch on. | 1:14:02 | 1:14:04 | |
MACHINE POWERS UP | 1:14:05 | 1:14:07 | |
-Switch on. -Switch on. | 1:14:08 | 1:14:11 | |
MACHINE POWERS UP | 1:14:12 | 1:14:15 | |
CRACKLING | 1:14:15 | 1:14:17 | |
MACHINE WHINES | 1:14:20 | 1:14:25 | |
It's gone. | 1:15:13 | 1:15:14 | |
MACHINE POWERS DOWN | 1:15:16 | 1:15:17 | |
-Adam, it's gone! -Worked, Mac, didn't it? | 1:15:17 | 1:15:19 | |
Bring out the Geigers, let's have a reading. | 1:15:27 | 1:15:29 | |
What was that? | 1:15:48 | 1:15:50 | |
I don't know, but it shouldn't have happened. | 1:15:50 | 1:15:53 | |
But the thing's gone. | 1:15:53 | 1:15:55 | |
You should be very proud, Adam, your theory's worked. | 1:15:55 | 1:15:57 | |
It has, Adam. | 1:15:57 | 1:15:58 | |
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