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Look!

Look at that Cathedral.

Super, beautiful, yeh.

Hey we must be nearing Kirrin Station soon.

Kirrin! Kirrin Station!

Kirrin Station!

Oh Julian, I don't understand it.

Mum's always waiting on the platform.

Hey look, a circus!

Oh never mind that now, Anne.

Look, George, your mother might have been delayed.

Telephone for you, lot.

I'll get it, it might be Mum.

Opening Thursday, Big Hollow. Hey ,we haven't been to a circus for years.

Shall we go?

Big Hollow's not far.

Isn't that where Tinker and Professor Hayling live?

Course! Maybe Tinker's like to come with us.

I wonder if Tinker's still got his monkey.

Hey George, remember Tinker Hayling?

That was Mr Rogers, the gardener, we've got to take a taxi home.

I wonder what's up?

Leave me with all the luggage as usual.

Oh Rogers, sorry to saddle you with everything, hope you can cope.

Just have to manage I suppose, Professor Kirrin, still there's only the dog.

How long will you be gone?

If they find out its scarlet fever, my wife and I could be in quarantine

for several weeks. - Oh no!

Very good for you, being away on holiday

you could easily have been a contact yourself.

Dad!

Stay where you are. Don't come closer. I'm in quarantine.

Nothing to worry about for the moment,

but Cook's been taken ill and until they find out what it is,

your mother and I are in isolation. - But where is Mum?

At the hospital with cook. Now Professor Hayling's kindly

offered to have you stay with them.

Rogers is going to drive you to Big Hollow and give you all the gen.

Bye for now. Oh, by the way, how's your hay fever.

Alright at the moment, thank you.

Alright. Take care. Bye.

You can keep the change.

You'd better son out what you want to take to Professor Hayling.

I haven't got all that time to hang around here.

I'll get the dog.

Oh no, he stays here.

Timmy always goes with me.

Maybe, but your father's orders were he stays here.

So do I.

Look, you'd better do what you're told for once.

Timmy's my dog, so I'll do what I like with him. I don't care what you say.

George. It won't help upsetting Mr. Rogers. Anyway it's not his fault.

Hey, I wonder what all that stuffs for?

Why ask me?

Well, that's the kind of stuff your father works with.

Could be one of Professor Hayling's inventions.

Tinker. Hello Mischief, remember me?

Isn't this fantastic luck?

Not for Mum and Dad

No, you being here I mean. Especially with Dad being so busy at the moment.

Seen that?

Yes, what is it?

Another invention. Dad works up there now all the time! Here!

Got a terrific surprise for you!

The suspense is killing me.

In that case, you can say hello to Dad first!

Tinker hasn't changed a bit!

Staying with us? All of them?

I'm sorry, Jenny, I meant to tell you.

But Professor Hayling, where will they all sleep?

In the guest rooms of course, where else?

Oh dear, the mattresses.

They're away being recovered.

This is a surprise?

I was only trying to help.

On not to worry, we'll think of something,

even if they have to camp out.

Hey Dad, can we? We've plenty of gear and it's warm enough.

We can camp in the bottom field!

I suppose so, if Mr. Tapper and the circus people won't mind.

Oh, Dad! I was keeping the circus as a surprise!

Well, it's the first time you've managed to keep a secret.

Never mind, Tinker. We saw a circus poster up at the station.

Bet you didn't know it was in our bottom field though!

This is gonna be a fun holiday after all.

Would be if Timmy was here. Don't worry, I'll get my own back on Rogers.

George, don't keep on, it's not his fault.

There he is, that's Sam, he's in charge around here. Sam!

Hello.

Hello! - Hi!

Well, I've heard all about you, lot!

Told him you were coming. - No! Really?

Anything we can do to help?

Well now.

Oh we don't mind, anything.

My caravan could do with a wash down.

Okay. Just show us where the buckets and stuff are.

Well, see that fella in the cap?

He'll son you out. - Great.

I tell you what, you can give me a hand later on tonight

to bed the animals down! - Oh good.

It'll be changing water buckets mostly.

Oh, I don't mind. I love animals.

Here, he's got me. Get hold of that gorilla.

Oh no, not again.

Hey, look!

He's got the paper wet. Get hold of it.

Don't be frightened of him. Go on, get him.

Come on!

Oh, I'll get that, Sam, I'll kill him!

I'm sorry about that, Mr. Tapper.

Look at it!

I've told you before, Sam.

Either you keep Charlie locked up or he goes!

But Mr. Tapper.

Teaching Charlie tricks is one thing. I can't run a circus like this.

Get offyou. Look, Sam, you're in charge of the acts, you should set an example.

I want you to meet Mr. Wooh and...

My Assistant.

His Assistant. Mr Wooh is our new 'Memory Man'. I want Mr. Wooh's act

to go between the acrobats and yours, now see that everybody knows, Sam.

And don't you forget what I said about him!

Get off you.

Have we met before somewhere?

Manchester, Piccadilly Station, Train call, three thirty, Tuesday,

22th of September 1974.

It was raining.

Yeah! Well I'm afraid you'll have to excuse us. Come on, Charlie.

And are you travelling with the Circus? - Wish we were!

I'm Professor Hayling's son. These are friends of mine. Matter of fact,

this is our field.

Not THE Professor Hayling. - You've heard of him?

Hayling's Electronic Guidance Systems, 1969. The Sko-wheel,

1958. The mini chip accelerator.

So many amazing inventions, he must be a brilliant man.

Matter of fact, he's working on one right now!

Oh?

Course it's secret.

Well of course. Excuse us, please.

You ought to be more careful talking to strangers

about your father's secret work.

Hello, good boy. Everything3 alright?

Come on, in you go. Eh, come here!

Do you ever get tired of travelling around all the time, Sam?

It's the only life we know, isn't it, Charlie!

Then you'd better behave yourself, Charlie!

You can say that again.

When Mr. Tapper says it's your last chance, he usually means it.

It's getting late, we'd better be off.

Thanks for your help.

Night Sam. See you tomorrow. - G'night. Sleep well.

I'm surprised you didn't recall our meeting more precisely.

I wouldn't want to steal your thunder, Mr Wooh.

Besides I've got other things on my mind.

Where are you going?

To get Timmy. And no splitting!

But it's the middle of the night!

I'm going to take Tinker's bike. It won't be long.

Charlie!

How did you get out?

Charlie, come here!

You're going to get Sam into terrible trouble, come here!

Charlie, come here.

Charlie!

George, are you sure it was Charlie

you saw last night and not a dog or something?

I know the difference between a dog and a chimpanzee!

It's a pity you didn't get Timmy.

So that's what you were doing up.

Professor Hayling would be furious if he knew.

Anyway, it's more important we should find Charlie!

Yeah, before Mr. Tapper finds out.

Better we wake Sam and tell him, come on!

Quiet, Mischief!

It's Sam!

He's gone.

That's odd!

What's really odd is how Charlie got out, surely Sam wouldn't..

I thought I heard somebody crawling about.

What the devil do you think you're doing?

Mr Tapper, we...

We were looking for Mischief.

Mischief!

Tinker's pet monkey.

Sorry, Mr Tapper. He got out.

Did he. Well, don't let it happen again! I'm fed up with animals running amok.

I won't stand for it.

Sorry, Mr Tapper.

Oh, thought I heard a commotion, have I missed all the fun again?

Now see what you've done. Everyone's awake. Now look everyone get back to their beds

and let me get to mine.

Good night, Mr Tapper.

Good night.

Well, what's this then?

Thursday's running order, you know. Follow Madelon and her musical horses,

second act, it's a nice spot.

Look, supposing somebody else let Charlie out of his cage. And Charlie,

if he came back here, he'd go to Sam, so Sara would put him back in his cage.

I can't see what you're getting at?

Sam might not even have known Charlie was roaming around. Look, there he is,

let's ask him.

Hey Sam! - Hey, I want to have a word with you.

Mr. Tapper tells me you kids were up here in the middle of the night.

What was going on?

But we were come to have a word with you.

Me? - About Charlie.

What about Charlie?

About him getting out last night!

But Charlie didn't get out last night.

Course he did. We even saw you putting him back in his cage.

We were afraid Mr. Tapper might find out.

No. You've got it all wrong. Charlie was kicking up a row.

I got up to quiet him. It's probably what woke Mr. Tapper.

Look, Sam, I went to get a bike.

No, you look. I mean I work here. I mean just because we're mates doesn't mean

that you can start taking liberties. I appreciate your concern,

but Mr. Tapper, you know what he's like? He might stop you coming up here at all.

Well, I like that!

I suppose he's right.

But Sam was lying about Charlie!

Look, this proves it. I saw Charlie steal it from the cycle shed!

So what? Sam isn't going to admit Charlie was out last night, is he?

S'pose not. Just seems peculiar, why was he trying to burn them?

You're lucky, Mr Wooh. Well, you don't have to practise your act.

Not like a juggler nor an acrobat, no.

Can you memorise anything?

Anything I wish to, yes.

Well, so can my father.

Oh do look at Charlie!

Come here.

I wonder how he makes that.

Money? Money?

What is wrong?

Go on. Take it all.

He takes all the money.

No wonder Charlie's always pinching papers, if Sam trains him to do it.

Very clever.

Come on, Charlie!

Is that all Charlie's going to do for today?

Little at a time is the secret with animals. Overdo it and they get bored

and they lose interest. - Quite impressive.

Well, let's hope Mr Tapper thinks so when he sees the new act.

He, now we're a bit more organised,

d'you fancy joining me for a bit of supper later.

We could barbeque some bangers.

And I'can see what I can get from Jenny, maybe a pie or something.

Great.

Ah, fancy joining us later Mr Wooh. Then the kids can test your memory.

Thank you.

Right. My turn, Julian! Nine hundred and twenty eight thousand

multiplied by fifty six.

Divided by seven and multiplied by nine!

Sixty six million, eight hundred and sixteen thousand.

What day was August the 9th 1965.

It was a Thursday.

That's right. I know it was because I was born then.

You must be a genius, Mr. Wooh.

Just a little elementary magic.

I'm sure this boy's father would be just as quick as I am.

Dad's too busy with his inventions, doesn't have time for tricks.

I mean, sometimes he's working in his tower all night.

Tower?

That's where he does all his work.

I'd like to meet your father some time,

but you said he was busy with an invention?

Oh he's finished it actually, he's just doing the paperwork now.

Matter of fact, this new invention is... owch!

Watch where you're putting your feet!

Just noticed the time. We promised Jenny we'd be back in bed early tonight,

didn't we?

Oh yeah.

We haven't finished yet!

Better do as you promised, there's always another day.

Thank you very much for the supper.

Bye ! - Bye!

You really are a fat-head, Tinker!

Hope I never let anyone get me talking about my father's secret work!

I was not!

You were! Mr Wooh was all ears!

Yeah. There's something strange about him.

All clever people are strange.

Why shouldn't Mr Wooh be interested in my father,

they're both mathematicians!

You don't know what Mr. Wooh might be interested in.

I'm sure he's not interested in stupid people

who make up stupid mysteries about nothing!

Nobody could get at father's secret papers,

even if they wanted to and I'm fed up with you lot telling me what to do!

Tinker! Didn't expect to see you.

I'm going to bed!

Make sure you shut your door. I don't want Mischief

running about the house in the night.

Oh that wretched little animal!

Mischief! Oh where is he? Mischief!

Professor Hayling! Oh Professor, wake up. Hurry, Professor!

Oh dear, the Professor's valuable papers!

Professor! Oh Professor.

Jenny! What is it?

Hurry! Somebody's trying to break into the Tower!

But that's not possible!