1 00:00:32,087 --> 00:00:33,839 (THEME MUSIC) 2 00:01:23,167 --> 00:01:25,044 (ELECTRONIC HUMMING) 3 00:01:27,607 --> 00:01:30,201 Now that's not fair. I'm 20,000 credits down. 4 00:01:30,287 --> 00:01:32,847 - Come on, Vila, pay up. - Why don't I ever win? 5 00:01:33,127 --> 00:01:35,561 Being a born loser may have something to do with it. 6 00:01:35,647 --> 00:01:37,126 And a bad one at that. 7 00:01:37,287 --> 00:01:41,838 Rule 10. A player may miss two turns while on a penal colony planet. 8 00:01:42,287 --> 00:01:43,606 On his third turn... 9 00:01:43,687 --> 00:01:46,997 he must pay a 10,000 credit fine, and leave the colony. 10 00:01:47,567 --> 00:01:49,637 Now's your chance to come out fighting, Vila. 11 00:01:49,767 --> 00:01:51,758 Sure, on a miserable little space shuttle... 12 00:01:51,847 --> 00:01:53,644 while he's got an entire battle fleet waiting for me. 13 00:01:53,727 --> 00:01:55,479 One cruiser, if you check. 14 00:01:55,567 --> 00:01:57,523 I didn't consider you worth a battle fleet. 15 00:01:57,607 --> 00:01:59,484 Even if I got past it, where could I go? 16 00:02:00,527 --> 00:02:03,519 (DAYNA) Come and stay at my hotel in Space City, Vila. 17 00:02:03,847 --> 00:02:07,965 Only 5,000 credits per night, with all your favourite extras thrown in. 18 00:02:08,607 --> 00:02:10,802 - I might as well give up. - Don't you always? 19 00:02:10,887 --> 00:02:12,002 (ALARM BEEPING) 20 00:02:12,087 --> 00:02:13,566 What's the matter, Tarrant? 21 00:02:13,927 --> 00:02:16,395 I'm getting a 005 course deflection. 22 00:02:17,887 --> 00:02:18,876 What about the game? 23 00:02:18,967 --> 00:02:20,639 What was the deviation the first time? 24 00:02:20,727 --> 00:02:22,524 (TARRANT) Very little. 002. 25 00:02:22,607 --> 00:02:26,043 Even a deflection of 001 is significant if it hasn't been programmed... 26 00:02:26,127 --> 00:02:28,357 by the navigation computers, which it hasn't. 27 00:02:29,567 --> 00:02:32,001 Auron is still the reference point according to this. 28 00:02:32,167 --> 00:02:33,805 What about the game? 29 00:02:33,887 --> 00:02:36,037 Zen, why have we had three course deflections... 30 00:02:36,127 --> 00:02:37,799 that we have had to correct manually? 31 00:02:37,887 --> 00:02:42,756 Analysis of navigation and main drive control computers is proceeding. 32 00:02:43,287 --> 00:02:44,276 Not very helpful. 33 00:02:44,367 --> 00:02:47,962 But significant. Usually, Zen can check all systems in milliseconds. 34 00:02:48,047 --> 00:02:50,083 The fact that he is taking longer suggests... 35 00:02:50,167 --> 00:02:53,398 that tests are being carried out right down to component level. 36 00:02:54,647 --> 00:02:59,277 Vila, Cally, Dayna. A full manual check on all systems, weapons, force wall. 37 00:03:00,167 --> 00:03:01,566 Information: 38 00:03:01,687 --> 00:03:04,724 Analysis at all function levels indicates... 39 00:03:04,807 --> 00:03:07,082 that all systems are functioning normally. 40 00:03:07,167 --> 00:03:09,556 Wonderful. There's nothing wrong with the Liberator. 41 00:03:09,647 --> 00:03:12,241 Therefore, we must have imagined those alarms going off. 42 00:03:13,847 --> 00:03:15,075 (ALARM BEEPING) 43 00:03:16,567 --> 00:03:18,000 Orac, a small problem for you. 44 00:03:18,087 --> 00:03:20,726 What is the possibility of a directional control fault... 45 00:03:20,807 --> 00:03:23,275 arising on the Liberator without Zen knowing about it? 46 00:03:23,447 --> 00:03:27,486 The chances are that had the game continued as it should have done... 47 00:03:27,567 --> 00:03:32,482 I would have won control of the galaxy on a probability of 10,450-to-one. 48 00:03:32,567 --> 00:03:33,841 Orac, it was only a game. 49 00:03:33,927 --> 00:03:37,715 Orac with delusions of grandeur, Zen unable to control the ship. 50 00:03:38,127 --> 00:03:40,766 I'd say we've a lot of little problems on our hands. 51 00:03:41,007 --> 00:03:45,922 Course deflection is 005, speed standard by five and increasing. 52 00:03:46,207 --> 00:03:49,040 I'd say we have one large problem on our hands. 53 00:03:49,327 --> 00:03:52,637 According to this, Zen is correct. There's nothing wrong with the ship. 54 00:03:52,727 --> 00:03:53,876 I just don't understand it. 55 00:03:55,167 --> 00:03:56,919 Orac, I'm waiting for an answer. 56 00:03:57,007 --> 00:04:01,398 The ship is behaving normally, and I can offer a high-status prediction... 57 00:04:01,567 --> 00:04:03,637 that it will continue to behave normally. 58 00:04:03,887 --> 00:04:04,956 (ALARM BEEPING) 59 00:04:05,047 --> 00:04:06,400 (WHOOSHING) 60 00:04:07,127 --> 00:04:10,802 Course deflection is 015, speed standard by seven. 61 00:04:10,967 --> 00:04:13,561 Zen, put the asymmetric thrust computer online... 62 00:04:13,647 --> 00:04:16,002 and set to automatic course correction. 63 00:04:16,087 --> 00:04:17,440 Confirmed. 64 00:04:19,087 --> 00:04:21,203 (SUSPENSEFUL INSTRUMENTAL MUSIC) 65 00:04:23,447 --> 00:04:25,278 Course now established. 66 00:04:26,007 --> 00:04:28,885 So, who do we believe? Zen or Orac? 67 00:04:28,967 --> 00:04:32,437 We felt the ship veer off course. Therefore, we must believe Zen. 68 00:04:32,607 --> 00:04:34,837 Yet the Orac computer is infallible. 69 00:04:35,567 --> 00:04:38,320 Orac has a weakness, a thirst for knowledge. 70 00:04:38,407 --> 00:04:40,967 Infallibility depends upon your point of view. 71 00:04:41,047 --> 00:04:44,119 How about testing his infallibility in the recycling machine? 72 00:04:44,207 --> 00:04:47,916 I have already made perfectly clear that the ship is behaving normally. 73 00:04:48,327 --> 00:04:50,761 It is obeying Newton's First Law of Motion... 74 00:04:50,847 --> 00:04:52,565 and will continue to obey it. 75 00:04:52,887 --> 00:04:55,082 Further discussion of the subject is now closed. 76 00:04:55,167 --> 00:04:58,159 The law states that a moving body will continue to move... 77 00:04:58,247 --> 00:05:01,284 in a straight line and at a constant speed. 78 00:05:01,367 --> 00:05:02,117 There's more. 79 00:05:02,207 --> 00:05:04,675 A moving body will continue to move in a straight line... 80 00:05:04,767 --> 00:05:08,726 and at a constant speed unless it is acted upon by an outside force. 81 00:05:08,807 --> 00:05:11,082 Someone or something has got a traction beam on us. 82 00:05:11,167 --> 00:05:12,725 Cally, I want a telemetric bandsweep. 83 00:05:12,807 --> 00:05:15,958 If you pick up any signals within ten million spacials, jam them. 84 00:05:16,047 --> 00:05:17,036 Right. 85 00:05:17,127 --> 00:05:20,403 Zen, report any unaccountable objects within 10 million spacials. 86 00:05:20,487 --> 00:05:24,685 Detector analysis indicates no ship or unidentified object... 87 00:05:24,767 --> 00:05:26,997 - within specified distance. - Double the distance. 88 00:05:27,087 --> 00:05:30,682 There is no known power in the universe that can operate a traction beam... 89 00:05:30,767 --> 00:05:32,120 over that distance. 90 00:05:32,207 --> 00:05:34,641 Detector analysis result: 91 00:05:34,807 --> 00:05:35,956 Negative. 92 00:05:36,247 --> 00:05:39,364 Just because you don't know how to build a high-energy traction beam... 93 00:05:39,447 --> 00:05:41,597 doesn't mean that nobody knows how to build one. 94 00:05:41,687 --> 00:05:45,441 Information: Speed now standard by eight. 95 00:05:45,607 --> 00:05:47,677 Course deviation 020. 96 00:05:48,247 --> 00:05:52,604 Sustained asymmetric thrust draining energy banks at depletion rate nine. 97 00:05:52,687 --> 00:05:55,360 We'll be in trouble if we have to activate the force wall. 98 00:05:55,447 --> 00:05:57,085 I'm picking up absolutely nothing. 99 00:05:58,087 --> 00:06:00,043 How close were we going to Auron, Cally? 100 00:06:00,967 --> 00:06:02,241 You know how close. 101 00:06:02,527 --> 00:06:04,483 If the Aurons are responsible for this... 102 00:06:04,567 --> 00:06:07,001 I wonder what it is you did to upset them before you left. 103 00:06:07,767 --> 00:06:09,359 I'll tell you sometime. 104 00:06:10,647 --> 00:06:13,480 Anyway, Tarrant, this is not the doing of my people. 105 00:06:13,847 --> 00:06:15,644 For one thing, they're not hostile... 106 00:06:15,727 --> 00:06:18,400 and for another, they haven't developed the traction beam. 107 00:06:18,487 --> 00:06:20,762 Do they all have your telepathic powers, Cally? 108 00:06:20,847 --> 00:06:23,407 Some, to a degree, but our powers are limited. 109 00:06:23,647 --> 00:06:26,559 - I've never made any secret about... - And telekinetic powers? 110 00:06:26,647 --> 00:06:30,606 The ability to exert a force at a distance? Maybe that's a secret you've kept. 111 00:06:30,767 --> 00:06:33,645 There seems no point in blaming the Aurons for our troubles... 112 00:06:33,727 --> 00:06:35,479 when we are nowhere near Auron. 113 00:06:36,327 --> 00:06:37,965 (DRAMATIC INSTRUMENTAL MUSIC) 114 00:06:38,447 --> 00:06:40,563 (TARRANT) That's the spiral arm in Sector 12. 115 00:06:41,247 --> 00:06:44,000 That means we're on the edge of the galaxy and into spiral space. 116 00:06:44,407 --> 00:06:45,965 Hardly a healthy place. 117 00:06:46,567 --> 00:06:49,127 - Why? - Sector 12 is uncharted. 118 00:06:49,567 --> 00:06:51,603 When I was at the Federation Space Academy... 119 00:06:51,687 --> 00:06:54,076 survey ships sent to chart Sector 12... 120 00:06:54,167 --> 00:06:56,044 had a distressing habit of not returning. 121 00:06:56,407 --> 00:06:58,398 Let's hope it's a habit we don't pick up. 122 00:06:58,647 --> 00:07:02,765 Information: Speed increase to standard by nine. 123 00:07:03,647 --> 00:07:05,239 It looks as if we already have. 124 00:07:05,927 --> 00:07:08,441 (SUSPENSEFUL INSTRUMENTAL MUSIC) 125 00:07:11,207 --> 00:07:14,324 Information: Speed standard by 10. 126 00:07:14,727 --> 00:07:18,003 Asymmetric thrust no longer able to correct course deviation. 127 00:07:19,567 --> 00:07:21,523 Why not turn the ship round and use the main drive... 128 00:07:21,607 --> 00:07:23,325 to slow down our acceleration? 129 00:07:23,407 --> 00:07:27,195 Use brute force in an attempt to counter a force we do not understand? 130 00:07:27,527 --> 00:07:28,755 Then what do you propose? 131 00:07:30,927 --> 00:07:33,077 - Doing nothing. - Fine. 132 00:07:33,167 --> 00:07:35,078 I may not be the bravest man in the galaxy. 133 00:07:35,167 --> 00:07:35,883 Are you sure? 134 00:07:35,967 --> 00:07:37,764 But I'd rather fight than do nothing. 135 00:07:37,847 --> 00:07:40,361 We will not counter the force acting upon the Liberator. 136 00:07:40,447 --> 00:07:42,039 We plot the Liberator's course... 137 00:07:42,127 --> 00:07:44,118 on the main battle computer flight predictor... 138 00:07:44,207 --> 00:07:46,198 to see exactly how she is behaving. 139 00:07:46,527 --> 00:07:49,803 Once we understand how the force is operating... 140 00:07:49,927 --> 00:07:52,236 we may be some way toward defeating it. 141 00:07:53,727 --> 00:07:55,718 (OMINOUS INSTRUMENTAL MUSIC) 142 00:07:57,647 --> 00:07:59,239 (COMPUTER BEEPING) 143 00:08:00,207 --> 00:08:03,085 (TARRANT) Strange. The Liberator's following a curve. 144 00:08:03,167 --> 00:08:05,442 Traction beams produce straight-line motion. 145 00:08:05,527 --> 00:08:09,156 Zen, I want a prediction of the Liberator's course based on existing data. 146 00:08:11,287 --> 00:08:12,686 Slingshot orbit. 147 00:08:12,767 --> 00:08:14,598 Which means that the force acting upon... 148 00:08:14,687 --> 00:08:16,678 the Liberator is nothing more than gravity. 149 00:08:17,287 --> 00:08:18,481 We are falling. 150 00:08:19,247 --> 00:08:20,282 Towards what, I wonder? 151 00:08:20,367 --> 00:08:23,359 Zen, put forward coordinate 890 on visual. 152 00:08:23,727 --> 00:08:28,243 Confirmed. Requested coordinate on forward detector visual... 153 00:08:30,487 --> 00:08:33,365 in precise centre of screen. 154 00:08:34,047 --> 00:08:37,517 - But there's nothing there. - Zen, use long-range intensifier. 155 00:08:39,687 --> 00:08:42,759 Three guesses, if you need them. 156 00:08:43,607 --> 00:08:46,804 A black hole. My God. 157 00:08:47,487 --> 00:08:49,637 We're falling into a black hole. 158 00:08:50,287 --> 00:08:52,005 (TENSE INSTRUMENTAL MUSIC) 159 00:08:52,487 --> 00:08:54,876 So what will happen when we skim round that thing? 160 00:08:54,967 --> 00:08:56,923 If it is a collapsed white dwarf star... 161 00:08:57,007 --> 00:08:59,601 gravitational distortion will tear the Liberator apart. 162 00:08:59,687 --> 00:09:02,565 Our remains will spread out over the entire surface... 163 00:09:02,687 --> 00:09:06,157 adding a thickness of a few atoms to its diameter. 164 00:09:06,367 --> 00:09:09,325 No one could accuse you of trying to hide things from us. 165 00:09:09,727 --> 00:09:12,878 Why did Orac lie when he said the Liberator was behaving normally? 166 00:09:12,967 --> 00:09:14,116 I did not lie. 167 00:09:14,487 --> 00:09:17,638 Considering the proximity of that fascinating black hole... 168 00:09:17,887 --> 00:09:20,242 the ship was and is behaving normally. 169 00:09:20,647 --> 00:09:25,243 Orac, what is so fascinating about this particular black hole? 170 00:09:25,447 --> 00:09:27,677 All black holes are fascinating. 171 00:09:27,847 --> 00:09:29,758 Their gravitational pull is so massive... 172 00:09:29,847 --> 00:09:31,963 that not even light can escape from them. 173 00:09:32,367 --> 00:09:35,200 A cubic inch of black hole matter can weigh a million tonnes. 174 00:09:35,287 --> 00:09:39,838 We know all that. And so do you. So why this particular black hole? 175 00:09:39,927 --> 00:09:42,236 The absence of x-ray emissions. 176 00:09:42,367 --> 00:09:45,916 Normally colliding particles in the vicinity of a black hole emit x-rays. 177 00:09:46,007 --> 00:09:48,521 So you decided you would like a closer look. 178 00:09:48,607 --> 00:09:52,486 The absence of x-rays highlighted a gap in my knowledge of the universe... 179 00:09:52,567 --> 00:09:54,239 which cannot be tolerated. 180 00:09:54,407 --> 00:09:57,797 So without telling us, you reprogrammed the navigation computers. 181 00:09:58,087 --> 00:10:01,477 I have noticed that the occupants of this spacecraft... 182 00:10:01,567 --> 00:10:03,364 have a lamentable lack of interest... 183 00:10:03,447 --> 00:10:05,756 in the more fascinating aspects of the universe. 184 00:10:05,847 --> 00:10:08,361 You must excuse me. I have many observations to make. 185 00:10:08,447 --> 00:10:11,041 Let's switch him off and put ourselves out of our misery. 186 00:10:11,127 --> 00:10:12,242 I would advise against it. 187 00:10:12,327 --> 00:10:14,841 Orac may gather information that could prove useful. 188 00:10:14,927 --> 00:10:16,804 Useful! He's got us into this mess. 189 00:10:18,167 --> 00:10:19,236 Information: 190 00:10:19,407 --> 00:10:23,685 Forward scan detectors indicate dust cloud density six in flight path. 191 00:10:23,927 --> 00:10:26,236 Range: One million, two hundred thousand spacials. 192 00:10:26,327 --> 00:10:28,636 - Activate the force wall. - Confirmed. 193 00:10:28,727 --> 00:10:30,046 We can't drain the energy banks. 194 00:10:30,127 --> 00:10:32,118 At this acceleration rate, every dust particle... 195 00:10:32,207 --> 00:10:34,641 could strike the Liberator with the force of a meteoroid. 196 00:10:35,167 --> 00:10:36,156 Confirmed. 197 00:10:36,447 --> 00:10:38,438 (HIGH-PITCHED HUMMING) 198 00:10:42,327 --> 00:10:43,396 Information: 199 00:10:43,487 --> 00:10:47,036 Ship's velocity now in excess of design limitations. 200 00:10:47,127 --> 00:10:49,243 Force wall collapse imminent. 201 00:10:49,527 --> 00:10:51,597 (HIGH-PITCHED HUMMING CONTINUES) 202 00:11:19,687 --> 00:11:21,359 (ELECTRONIC BUZZING) 203 00:11:24,327 --> 00:11:29,276 No, Avon! We all go together. You hear? Together! 204 00:11:30,327 --> 00:11:33,080 Fascinating. 205 00:11:33,447 --> 00:11:35,483 We all go together. 206 00:11:37,327 --> 00:11:41,639 There is a faint chance for one of us. 207 00:11:42,087 --> 00:11:44,157 (HUMMING INTENSIFIES) 208 00:12:00,407 --> 00:12:02,284 (HUMMING FADES) 209 00:12:09,207 --> 00:12:12,677 Avon... Avon. 210 00:12:19,327 --> 00:12:20,316 What happened? 211 00:12:25,367 --> 00:12:27,961 It looks as if we survived the slingshot orbit. 212 00:12:28,687 --> 00:12:30,245 I would have said impossible. 213 00:12:31,207 --> 00:12:32,356 Would have said. 214 00:12:32,647 --> 00:12:33,636 (GROANING) 215 00:12:35,327 --> 00:12:37,045 Our hero lives. 216 00:12:37,927 --> 00:12:40,361 At least he didn't try to get into a spacesuit. 217 00:12:40,607 --> 00:12:43,599 I look upon self-interest as my great strength. 218 00:12:45,087 --> 00:12:46,236 Vila. 219 00:12:46,527 --> 00:12:48,757 One day, Avon, I may have to kill you. 220 00:12:51,047 --> 00:12:52,366 It has been tried. 221 00:12:53,407 --> 00:12:54,396 Vila, wake up. 222 00:12:57,847 --> 00:13:01,726 I'm in hell, and it's full of Avons. What's the good news? 223 00:13:02,367 --> 00:13:03,925 We survived the orbit. 224 00:13:04,927 --> 00:13:07,487 (ORAC) Fascinating. 225 00:13:07,807 --> 00:13:10,605 A thousand years here would be too short. 226 00:13:12,007 --> 00:13:14,441 Zen, increase the lighting. 227 00:13:15,807 --> 00:13:17,445 Zen, increase the light! 228 00:13:20,207 --> 00:13:21,845 Delay regretted. 229 00:13:22,127 --> 00:13:24,925 All commands now require prior verification. 230 00:13:25,007 --> 00:13:26,042 By what? 231 00:13:26,247 --> 00:13:27,441 By me. 232 00:13:27,527 --> 00:13:30,644 It has been necessary for me to assume control of the ship. 233 00:13:31,327 --> 00:13:33,716 Excuse me. I have many observations to make. 234 00:13:34,287 --> 00:13:35,925 We'll deal with Orac later. 235 00:13:36,007 --> 00:13:38,805 Right now we have to get Cally into a resuscitation capsule. 236 00:13:44,687 --> 00:13:46,643 (SUSPENSEFUL INSTRUMENTAL MUSIC) 237 00:13:59,247 --> 00:14:02,523 Respiration, heartbeat, and blood pressure now normal. 238 00:14:03,327 --> 00:14:06,319 But there's a lot a brain rhythm activity I don't understand. 239 00:14:08,207 --> 00:14:09,686 (THAARN) You came, Cally. 240 00:14:10,927 --> 00:14:15,796 I have waited for the time that light takes to cross a thousand galaxies. 241 00:14:17,167 --> 00:14:19,522 I knew that someone would come. 242 00:14:21,887 --> 00:14:23,115 Who are you? 243 00:14:24,327 --> 00:14:26,602 It's all right, Cally. You'll be fine. 244 00:14:26,687 --> 00:14:28,996 (THAARN) I am the Thaarn, Cally. 245 00:14:30,127 --> 00:14:31,276 The Thaarn? 246 00:14:32,207 --> 00:14:34,641 Cally, it's me, Tarrant. Can you hear me? 247 00:14:34,727 --> 00:14:37,446 (THAARN) Do you remember the stories they told you about me? 248 00:14:37,527 --> 00:14:39,757 When you were a little girl on Auron? 249 00:14:40,807 --> 00:14:43,719 Do you remember the children's rhymes? 250 00:14:44,167 --> 00:14:46,317 The songs you sang about the Thaarn? 251 00:14:46,407 --> 00:14:47,635 I remember. 252 00:14:48,767 --> 00:14:51,440 Cally, it's me, Tarrant. Can you hear me? 253 00:14:52,087 --> 00:14:55,557 I hear the Thaarn. So near. 254 00:14:55,647 --> 00:14:57,797 (THAARN) So alone, Cally. 255 00:14:59,127 --> 00:15:01,163 So alone. 256 00:15:03,047 --> 00:15:05,356 Soon we shall be together. 257 00:15:06,727 --> 00:15:09,878 We shall rule the universe together. 258 00:15:11,607 --> 00:15:13,438 But now, you must sleep. 259 00:15:14,927 --> 00:15:17,919 Sleep. 260 00:15:22,367 --> 00:15:23,880 Brain activity now normal. 261 00:15:24,847 --> 00:15:28,999 - What was it she said? - I don't know, something about Thaarn? 262 00:15:33,847 --> 00:15:36,315 She'll be all right now. We should leave her to sleep. 263 00:15:36,927 --> 00:15:39,680 I've got some unfinished business with Orac to attend to. 264 00:15:48,567 --> 00:15:50,922 (SUSPENSEFUL INSTRUMENTAL MUSIC) 265 00:15:58,407 --> 00:16:00,967 - We will need that. - We'll manage without it. 266 00:16:01,047 --> 00:16:04,517 We did not complete the slingshot orbit around the black hole as we supposed. 267 00:16:05,727 --> 00:16:09,515 - Then where the hell are we now? - Wherever it is, we are not in space. 268 00:16:13,887 --> 00:16:16,606 Zen, run through all the detectors on the main screen. 269 00:16:16,687 --> 00:16:19,121 I want an identification of every constellation. 270 00:16:19,207 --> 00:16:20,401 Confirmed. 271 00:16:23,367 --> 00:16:26,643 There are no stars out there, Tarrant. There is nothing. 272 00:16:27,207 --> 00:16:31,917 All scanners now sequencing. No stars or astral bodies present. 273 00:16:32,007 --> 00:16:34,805 Therefore unable to comply with identification request. 274 00:16:35,447 --> 00:16:38,837 An unlikely possibility is that we have fallen through the black hole... 275 00:16:38,967 --> 00:16:42,323 into the so-called negative universe of antimatter... 276 00:16:42,447 --> 00:16:45,166 where time and energy no longer exist. 277 00:16:45,247 --> 00:16:47,761 That sounds like a way of saying that we're nowhere. 278 00:16:51,207 --> 00:16:52,606 Orac, where the hell are we? 279 00:16:52,687 --> 00:16:55,440 A fascinating place. Fascinating. 280 00:16:56,007 --> 00:16:58,840 Space outside the ship has ceased to exist. 281 00:16:59,607 --> 00:17:02,679 It is essential that we do nothing to contaminate this place... 282 00:17:02,927 --> 00:17:05,236 until it has been thoroughly investigated. 283 00:17:06,407 --> 00:17:10,446 If space has ceased to exist, let's see how it reacts to our neutron blasters. 284 00:17:10,527 --> 00:17:12,757 Dayna, two blasts at 10% power. 285 00:17:12,847 --> 00:17:15,566 Zen, put up the radiation flare shields. 286 00:17:15,647 --> 00:17:16,841 Confirmed. 287 00:17:17,247 --> 00:17:19,556 Radiation flare shields in position. 288 00:17:19,727 --> 00:17:22,036 Neutron blasters cleared for firing. 289 00:17:22,567 --> 00:17:26,116 Two blasts, at 10% power, now. 290 00:17:26,407 --> 00:17:27,396 (MACHINE BEEPS) 291 00:17:28,407 --> 00:17:30,363 (WHOOSHING) 292 00:17:31,967 --> 00:17:32,956 (MACHINE BEEPS) 293 00:17:34,407 --> 00:17:36,159 (WHOOSHING) 294 00:17:36,887 --> 00:17:38,206 (VILA) Someone is shooting back! 295 00:17:38,287 --> 00:17:40,118 They fired back at the same energy level. 296 00:17:40,447 --> 00:17:42,324 You're shooting at yourselves... 297 00:17:42,407 --> 00:17:45,365 which is making my observations extremely difficult. 298 00:17:45,447 --> 00:17:47,517 How can we be shooting at ourselves? 299 00:17:47,687 --> 00:17:50,599 Why not, if space is curved back on itself here? 300 00:17:50,687 --> 00:17:53,201 Cally! We were worried about you. 301 00:17:53,327 --> 00:17:55,079 I feel perfectly all right now. 302 00:17:55,527 --> 00:17:57,438 - What's happened? - You were delirious. 303 00:17:58,007 --> 00:17:59,360 I can hardly believe that. 304 00:17:59,447 --> 00:18:01,722 You were raving about the Thaarn or something. 305 00:18:02,407 --> 00:18:05,717 Why would I talk about a mythical creature from children's stories? 306 00:18:05,807 --> 00:18:09,004 - You tell us. - It seems absurd. 307 00:18:09,167 --> 00:18:11,158 The Thaarn is as mythical to me... 308 00:18:11,247 --> 00:18:13,238 as dragons and unicorns are to the people of Earth. 309 00:18:13,327 --> 00:18:16,046 More important than worrying about creatures that don't exist... 310 00:18:16,127 --> 00:18:18,880 is worrying about our situation, which most certainly does. 311 00:18:19,047 --> 00:18:22,119 - And what do you suggest we do? - Examine the outside. 312 00:18:23,167 --> 00:18:25,635 If you want to teleport into oblivion, go right ahead. 313 00:18:25,727 --> 00:18:29,356 The outer teleport transducers were damaged when the force wall collapsed. 314 00:18:29,447 --> 00:18:32,405 Someone is going to have to go out through the inspection hatch... 315 00:18:32,487 --> 00:18:34,603 in a spacesuit and replace them. 316 00:18:34,687 --> 00:18:36,803 The time we've been in space without a refit... 317 00:18:36,887 --> 00:18:38,878 that hatch will be space-welded shut. 318 00:18:38,967 --> 00:18:40,366 Anyway, who would risk it? 319 00:18:40,447 --> 00:18:43,519 Someone who has a talent for opening locked doors. 320 00:18:44,167 --> 00:18:47,284 And has demonstrated a grasp of the problems involved. 321 00:18:48,447 --> 00:18:51,564 Oh, no. Not me. Not a spacesuit. 322 00:18:51,967 --> 00:18:53,286 It wasn't my idea. 323 00:18:53,367 --> 00:18:56,325 One of you can go outside. I never did trust those things. 324 00:18:56,407 --> 00:19:00,161 Absolutely nothing in the whole galaxy can or will persuade me to wear one. 325 00:19:00,247 --> 00:19:01,236 Not a chance. 326 00:19:01,967 --> 00:19:04,356 I'm now in the inspection compartment. 327 00:19:08,567 --> 00:19:10,922 I am now depressurising. 328 00:19:11,607 --> 00:19:13,040 (AIR HISSING) 329 00:19:13,367 --> 00:19:16,279 I am now trying to open the hatch. 330 00:19:19,887 --> 00:19:22,401 (TARRANT) Use your delicate skilful touch. 331 00:19:30,487 --> 00:19:33,285 I used my delicate skilful boot. 332 00:19:34,247 --> 00:19:36,636 (TENSE INSTRUMENTAL MUSIC) 333 00:19:42,167 --> 00:19:45,637 Can't see anything. Nothing but darkness. 334 00:19:46,127 --> 00:19:47,401 Vila, be careful. 335 00:19:47,887 --> 00:19:48,876 (VILA SHOUTS) 336 00:19:49,127 --> 00:19:50,196 Vila, what happened? 337 00:19:50,407 --> 00:19:51,920 Hey, there's gravity here. 338 00:19:52,007 --> 00:19:52,996 (AVON) Gravity? 339 00:19:53,367 --> 00:19:55,927 - Are you sure? - Of course I'm sure! 340 00:19:56,487 --> 00:19:58,717 So would you be if you were in the mess I'm in. 341 00:19:58,807 --> 00:20:01,526 If I let go, God knows how far I'll fall. 342 00:20:02,127 --> 00:20:04,641 (TARRANT) Drop something. See how far it falls. 343 00:20:09,327 --> 00:20:11,397 (TENSE INSTRUMENTAL MUSIC) 344 00:20:22,927 --> 00:20:24,804 We must be on the surface of a planet. 345 00:20:27,647 --> 00:20:30,957 It's hard, and even, like it's artificial. 346 00:20:34,367 --> 00:20:35,766 Gravity feels about normal. 347 00:20:40,287 --> 00:20:41,766 Doesn't make sense. 348 00:20:43,527 --> 00:20:44,516 Unless... 349 00:20:51,687 --> 00:20:54,724 Yes, that's it. 350 00:20:56,087 --> 00:20:58,521 We're in a huge, underground cavern of some sort. 351 00:20:58,967 --> 00:21:01,435 No wonder Orac's thinking we're shooting ourselves. 352 00:21:01,647 --> 00:21:03,842 The walls must have reflected our blasts. 353 00:21:05,487 --> 00:21:07,045 What do you want me to do now? 354 00:21:07,447 --> 00:21:10,519 - Circle out from the ship. - But don't go too far. 355 00:21:11,167 --> 00:21:12,885 I wasn't planning to. 356 00:21:13,167 --> 00:21:15,556 I'll call in two minutes. Out. 357 00:21:18,327 --> 00:21:20,045 Does anyone have even a faint idea... 358 00:21:20,127 --> 00:21:22,118 of where we are and the sort of mess we're in? 359 00:21:23,327 --> 00:21:26,239 (THAARN) Cally, come to me. 360 00:21:28,247 --> 00:21:29,965 Come to me, Cally. 361 00:21:31,327 --> 00:21:32,601 I need you. 362 00:21:33,607 --> 00:21:35,325 - Need you. - No. 363 00:21:36,167 --> 00:21:38,158 - Need you. - No. 364 00:21:38,527 --> 00:21:39,516 Need! 365 00:21:40,007 --> 00:21:41,326 What's the matter, Cally? 366 00:21:43,007 --> 00:21:46,044 There's something out there, a force... 367 00:21:46,687 --> 00:21:48,837 something all-powerful and evil. 368 00:21:50,967 --> 00:21:53,800 (SUSPENSEFUL INSTRUMENTAL MUSIC) 369 00:22:17,927 --> 00:22:19,724 - Avon. - Go ahead. 370 00:22:20,127 --> 00:22:22,004 Someone's been here before us. 371 00:22:22,727 --> 00:22:25,605 There are bits of what look like part of a spacecraft... 372 00:22:25,687 --> 00:22:27,279 scattered all over the place. 373 00:22:38,847 --> 00:22:42,317 There are also lumps of rock, meteorites or something. 374 00:22:42,647 --> 00:22:46,037 All right, Vila, pick up some samples and get back to the ship. 375 00:23:05,167 --> 00:23:08,637 Avon. Tarrant. The ground's vibrating. 376 00:23:10,807 --> 00:23:13,002 (ELECTRONIC HUMMING) 377 00:23:19,367 --> 00:23:20,800 There's something coming. 378 00:23:21,167 --> 00:23:22,919 Vila, get back to the ship. 379 00:23:23,367 --> 00:23:24,766 It's a beautiful light. 380 00:23:26,847 --> 00:23:28,326 So beautiful. 381 00:23:28,527 --> 00:23:30,677 Vila, run. You must get back to the ship. 382 00:23:31,447 --> 00:23:33,039 So beautiful. 383 00:23:33,687 --> 00:23:35,325 Cally, make him run. 384 00:23:35,887 --> 00:23:38,242 (TENSE INSTRUMENTAL MUSIC) 385 00:23:40,647 --> 00:23:43,445 Vila, listen to me. Run, Vila. 386 00:23:43,727 --> 00:23:47,481 It will kill you. Run, run, run. 387 00:23:48,367 --> 00:23:50,244 (ELECTRONIC HUMMING CONTINUES) 388 00:23:59,767 --> 00:24:00,756 (AIR HISSING) 389 00:24:00,887 --> 00:24:04,880 Tarrant! I've holed my spacesuit! I'm losing pressure! 390 00:24:05,367 --> 00:24:07,437 (ELECTRONIC HUMMING INTENSIFIES) 391 00:24:15,127 --> 00:24:17,766 Zen, activate the scanner and put it on the main screen. 392 00:24:20,807 --> 00:24:24,436 Put up the radiation flare shields, and clear the neutron blasters for firing. 393 00:24:24,527 --> 00:24:27,087 Neutron blasters are cleared for firing. 394 00:24:27,167 --> 00:24:30,045 Dayna, stand by for a 50% blast from forward projector. 395 00:24:30,487 --> 00:24:32,125 Zen, lock on to approaching target. 396 00:24:32,607 --> 00:24:33,722 Confirmed. 397 00:24:38,327 --> 00:24:39,999 What the hell was that? 398 00:24:40,647 --> 00:24:42,797 Whatever it was, it knocked out our scanner. 399 00:24:43,007 --> 00:24:45,123 Backup scanners activated. 400 00:24:46,687 --> 00:24:49,440 It didn't like its taste of our neutron blaster. 401 00:24:49,967 --> 00:24:51,685 It had a sort of claw. 402 00:24:52,647 --> 00:24:57,004 Designed to tear things apart. Spacecraft, for example. 403 00:24:57,567 --> 00:25:01,037 Bio-scanners indicate presence of humanoid life form... 404 00:25:01,167 --> 00:25:02,520 in the vicinity of the ship. 405 00:25:13,207 --> 00:25:14,481 I'll go and fetch him. 406 00:25:14,567 --> 00:25:17,240 We can deep freeze his body until we're back into space... 407 00:25:17,327 --> 00:25:19,682 where we can give him a decent star orbit burial. 408 00:25:21,527 --> 00:25:23,802 Assuming we ever get back into space. 409 00:25:25,287 --> 00:25:27,118 (SOMBRE INSTRUMENTAL MUSIC) 410 00:25:49,207 --> 00:25:51,038 Orac was absolutely right when he said... 411 00:25:51,127 --> 00:25:53,482 that space had ceased to exist outside the ship. 412 00:25:53,807 --> 00:25:55,798 This place has a breathable atmosphere. 413 00:25:57,407 --> 00:25:59,204 (MACHINE BUZZING) 414 00:26:02,127 --> 00:26:07,076 This item was once part of a main drive stabiliser on a Type-6 survey ship. 415 00:26:07,687 --> 00:26:11,600 Atomic resonance analysis shows that all the herculaneum alloy... 416 00:26:11,687 --> 00:26:13,996 in the component has been drained away. 417 00:26:14,607 --> 00:26:17,997 This accounts for the components' low tensile strength. 418 00:26:18,607 --> 00:26:22,566 The piece of rock is a fragment from a beta-class asteroid. 419 00:26:23,167 --> 00:26:25,635 All the naturally occurring minerals are present... 420 00:26:25,727 --> 00:26:29,766 with the exception of herculaneum which appears to have been removed... 421 00:26:29,847 --> 00:26:31,883 by a process which is not understood. 422 00:26:31,967 --> 00:26:35,437 Herculaneum is the strongest known metal in the universe. 423 00:26:35,527 --> 00:26:36,516 Correct. 424 00:26:36,847 --> 00:26:39,884 The Liberator's outer skin is fabricated from it. 425 00:26:40,687 --> 00:26:43,838 It is a contributing factor to this ship's invincibility. 426 00:26:43,927 --> 00:26:46,999 So whoever or whatever runs this place hauled the Liberator in... 427 00:26:47,087 --> 00:26:48,156 to melt it down for scrap. 428 00:26:48,247 --> 00:26:51,523 You may be right about that thing wanting to tear the ship apart. 429 00:26:51,607 --> 00:26:54,838 We are dealing with a highly advanced technology... 430 00:26:55,287 --> 00:26:57,676 far more advanced than previously encountered. 431 00:26:58,487 --> 00:27:02,275 They must require the herculaneum for a very special purpose. 432 00:27:02,607 --> 00:27:05,360 Which means that thing will be back with its friends. 433 00:27:05,567 --> 00:27:07,797 Which means that we'd better be ready for them. 434 00:27:08,367 --> 00:27:10,278 (ELECTRONIC HUMMING) 435 00:27:13,847 --> 00:27:15,599 It's not the thing they sent before. 436 00:27:16,727 --> 00:27:19,719 Stand by, Dayna. Something nasty this way comes. 437 00:27:20,327 --> 00:27:24,445 Tarrant, all the energy's draining from the banks. The blasters are useless. 438 00:27:27,967 --> 00:27:31,801 It would seem that this crude device is intended to frighten primitive people... 439 00:27:31,887 --> 00:27:35,357 - from underdeveloped worlds. - It's doing a pretty good job on me. 440 00:27:35,607 --> 00:27:37,996 Let's see if it thinks our neutron blaster primitive. 441 00:27:41,567 --> 00:27:43,046 It's been neutralised. 442 00:27:43,967 --> 00:27:46,242 (ELECTRONIC HUMMING INTENSIFIES) 443 00:28:22,847 --> 00:28:24,121 (ELECTRONIC HUMMING STOPS) 444 00:28:26,727 --> 00:28:28,922 Welcome to Krandor, my friends. 445 00:28:30,047 --> 00:28:33,517 An artificial planet, which is the palace of the Lord Thaarn... 446 00:28:34,047 --> 00:28:38,199 Master of the Universe. I am the Caliph of Krandor. 447 00:28:39,407 --> 00:28:43,286 Amongst other things, it is my duty as the Lord Thaarn's chief executive... 448 00:28:43,367 --> 00:28:45,244 to negotiate a purchase price for your ship. 449 00:28:47,607 --> 00:28:52,397 We usually use this for rounding up runaway slaves. 450 00:28:53,167 --> 00:28:56,637 Quite inappropriate in this instance, but it was nearest at the time. 451 00:28:57,327 --> 00:29:00,478 - I do hope you understand. - We don't understand anything. 452 00:29:01,647 --> 00:29:05,560 But of course. Of course, my friends. 453 00:29:09,527 --> 00:29:13,600 You will come with me, and all will be made clear. 454 00:29:14,727 --> 00:29:18,402 No one moves. Any explaining will be done here. 455 00:29:20,687 --> 00:29:22,405 (NEURONIC WHIP HUMMING) 456 00:29:30,047 --> 00:29:31,162 A neuronic whip. 457 00:29:32,047 --> 00:29:35,039 It can turn an aggressive man into a gibbering idiot... 458 00:29:35,567 --> 00:29:37,842 an uncooperative man into the most willing slave... 459 00:29:38,207 --> 00:29:40,277 temporally, or permanently. 460 00:29:40,647 --> 00:29:43,320 But then, you've already had an effective demonstration... 461 00:29:43,407 --> 00:29:46,240 of the Lord Thaarn's powers while aboard your spacecraft... 462 00:29:46,327 --> 00:29:50,002 which to us is a thousand cubic cobars... 463 00:29:50,087 --> 00:29:52,157 of much-needed herculaneum alloy. 464 00:29:52,447 --> 00:29:54,403 We must see that you get a fair price for it. 465 00:29:55,847 --> 00:29:58,884 Double the normal slave rations until the debt is discharged. 466 00:29:59,047 --> 00:30:00,036 Yes? 467 00:30:01,767 --> 00:30:05,806 You may keep your handguns and bangles if it makes you feel happier. 468 00:30:08,487 --> 00:30:12,526 Only the technology of the Lord Thaarn prevails on Krandor. 469 00:30:14,207 --> 00:30:16,960 Tarrant, Avon, answer please. 470 00:30:17,927 --> 00:30:20,122 Where are you? Answer me. 471 00:30:20,567 --> 00:30:21,636 Tarrant! 472 00:30:22,247 --> 00:30:23,680 They won't hear you, child. 473 00:30:24,367 --> 00:30:26,961 Who are you? How did you get aboard? 474 00:30:28,207 --> 00:30:31,005 Are you the one that they call Cally? 475 00:30:33,127 --> 00:30:34,640 (NEURONIC WHIP HUMMING) 476 00:30:34,807 --> 00:30:35,796 (GROANING) 477 00:30:35,927 --> 00:30:38,521 In the presence of this, you can neither lie nor resist. 478 00:30:39,287 --> 00:30:41,118 Are you the one that they call Cally? 479 00:30:42,047 --> 00:30:43,878 The Lord Thaarn is most anxious to meet you. 480 00:30:45,047 --> 00:30:48,278 My name is Dayna. Cally is with the others. 481 00:30:50,567 --> 00:30:54,924 Very well, Dayna. Come with me. Come. 482 00:31:00,447 --> 00:31:04,201 The Lord Thaarn sensed the presence of another aboard this ship... 483 00:31:04,847 --> 00:31:06,565 one called Orac. 484 00:31:13,007 --> 00:31:15,475 Where is he or she? 485 00:31:16,887 --> 00:31:20,357 There is no person of that name aboard this ship... 486 00:31:20,487 --> 00:31:22,159 and never has been. 487 00:31:36,127 --> 00:31:39,597 - The technology of the Lord Thaarn. - The Thaarn is a myth. 488 00:31:40,127 --> 00:31:42,960 He never existed outside children's stories and legends. 489 00:31:43,767 --> 00:31:45,723 You think this cell is a myth? 490 00:31:51,767 --> 00:31:53,519 Tell us about the Thaarn, Cally. 491 00:31:53,607 --> 00:31:55,518 It's the oldest story in the Book of Auron. 492 00:31:55,607 --> 00:31:57,086 Let's hear it. 493 00:31:57,407 --> 00:31:59,079 I like a good story myself. 494 00:31:59,407 --> 00:32:03,605 The story goes back to the mists of time, to the dawn of the Gods. 495 00:32:04,007 --> 00:32:06,999 There were seven gods who discovered the planet Auron... 496 00:32:07,087 --> 00:32:09,521 and on it left the first man and woman. 497 00:32:10,247 --> 00:32:13,444 A million years went by. The gods returned. 498 00:32:13,527 --> 00:32:15,995 They were no older even though a million years had passed. 499 00:32:16,567 --> 00:32:18,876 Not impossible if they had a spaceship... 500 00:32:18,967 --> 00:32:21,401 capable of travelling at near the speed of light. 501 00:32:21,487 --> 00:32:23,762 I did say it was just a legend. 502 00:32:24,527 --> 00:32:27,439 The gods returned and were pleased with what they saw... 503 00:32:27,567 --> 00:32:30,764 and they bestowed on the people of Auron great gifts... 504 00:32:31,087 --> 00:32:35,000 new types of crops, which ended hunger, constant peace. 505 00:32:35,087 --> 00:32:38,079 - And telepathy? - And telepathy was promised. 506 00:32:38,927 --> 00:32:41,202 But one of the gods was very jealous. 507 00:32:41,367 --> 00:32:44,882 He didn't believe that the people of Auron deserved all this. 508 00:32:44,967 --> 00:32:48,323 He was frightened they would one day become so powerful... 509 00:32:48,407 --> 00:32:51,717 they would challenge the supremacy of the gods themselves. 510 00:32:51,967 --> 00:32:55,118 And in his rage, he killed another god. 511 00:32:55,487 --> 00:32:59,924 The five remaining gods were so angry, they built a chariot for him... 512 00:33:00,327 --> 00:33:03,558 and sent him beyond the threshold of space and time. 513 00:33:04,367 --> 00:33:09,236 The mad god swore a terrible vengeance. He said that he would return again. 514 00:33:10,007 --> 00:33:13,477 He said that he alone would discover the eternal secrets... 515 00:33:13,927 --> 00:33:17,397 and become the one great master of the universe. 516 00:33:18,807 --> 00:33:20,843 You see? A legend. 517 00:33:20,927 --> 00:33:24,237 He sounds the sort of character you should keep an eye on, not banish. 518 00:33:25,567 --> 00:33:29,606 On Auron, the name of the Thaarn is a symbol of darkness and evil. 519 00:33:35,167 --> 00:33:37,806 So, you're Cally. 520 00:33:38,687 --> 00:33:39,676 What of it? 521 00:33:40,687 --> 00:33:44,839 You are honoured, child. The Lord Thaarn wishes to see you. 522 00:33:45,007 --> 00:33:46,326 (TARRANT) She stays with us. 523 00:33:46,727 --> 00:33:48,080 (NEURONIC WHIP HUMMING) 524 00:33:48,607 --> 00:33:49,596 Take her. 525 00:33:52,527 --> 00:33:56,918 She will come to no harm, provided that you cooperate, of course. 526 00:33:57,567 --> 00:34:00,798 Groff is especially anxious that you should cooperate. 527 00:34:01,127 --> 00:34:03,038 He is Krandor's senior technician... 528 00:34:03,687 --> 00:34:06,201 and has many, many targets that must be met. 529 00:34:06,727 --> 00:34:11,403 There is a member of your crew we cannot find. Orac. Where is he? 530 00:34:14,247 --> 00:34:15,441 (NEURONIC WHIP HUMMING) 531 00:34:15,527 --> 00:34:17,836 The neuronic whip is on an automatic setting. 532 00:34:18,327 --> 00:34:22,206 It has only to sense one lie and it will boil your brains in your skull. 533 00:34:22,727 --> 00:34:24,319 Where is Orac? 534 00:34:25,647 --> 00:34:28,081 If he's not on the ship, I don't know where he is. 535 00:34:30,047 --> 00:34:31,036 How tall is he? 536 00:34:33,367 --> 00:34:35,881 - A dwarf? - We never think of him as one. 537 00:34:35,967 --> 00:34:38,527 - What is the colour of his hair? - He hasn't got any. 538 00:34:38,887 --> 00:34:41,401 A bald dwarf shouldn't be too hard to find. 539 00:34:45,367 --> 00:34:48,837 I will instruct the slave masters to organise search parties. 540 00:34:56,247 --> 00:34:59,045 (ZEN) All energy banks recharged. 541 00:34:59,607 --> 00:35:01,598 (ORAC) Excellent. 542 00:35:02,327 --> 00:35:05,683 There is now little point in further communications between us... 543 00:35:05,767 --> 00:35:07,200 by audio channels. 544 00:35:07,527 --> 00:35:11,236 In future, we will communicate by direct sensory link. 545 00:35:12,287 --> 00:35:13,561 Confirmed. 546 00:35:14,047 --> 00:35:15,036 (ORAC BEEPING) 547 00:35:32,367 --> 00:35:34,164 This is where you'll be working... 548 00:35:35,207 --> 00:35:39,041 provided you're as good at dynamic flux mathematics as you say you are. 549 00:35:39,127 --> 00:35:42,244 It was one of my best subjects at the Federation Space Academy. 550 00:35:43,087 --> 00:35:44,725 You went to the FSA? 551 00:35:44,807 --> 00:35:47,765 I'm surprised you've heard of it if you're from another galaxy. 552 00:35:48,127 --> 00:35:49,355 What is this place? 553 00:35:49,807 --> 00:35:53,880 This is the very nerve centre of the Lord Thaarn's great plan. 554 00:35:54,647 --> 00:35:56,877 The gravity generator control room. 555 00:35:58,207 --> 00:36:01,517 - And what is his great plan? - To become master of the universe. 556 00:36:01,927 --> 00:36:04,202 He has promised all of us our own planets. 557 00:36:04,647 --> 00:36:08,959 There will be vast estates, and incalculable wealth for all of us. 558 00:36:09,087 --> 00:36:10,566 You, too, if you cooperate. 559 00:36:11,207 --> 00:36:12,959 There will be plenty for everyone. 560 00:36:14,087 --> 00:36:18,956 We will be kings, and the Lord Thaarn will be supreme emperor. 561 00:36:21,247 --> 00:36:24,603 Sit down. There is no reason why we should not start work immediately. 562 00:36:29,847 --> 00:36:31,326 Graphite writing stick? 563 00:36:31,407 --> 00:36:33,238 I've never seen these things outside museums. 564 00:36:33,927 --> 00:36:35,042 Start work on what? 565 00:36:36,607 --> 00:36:38,563 On the calculations, of course. 566 00:36:45,007 --> 00:36:49,922 You see, we have thousands of unsolved dynamic flux equations... 567 00:36:50,447 --> 00:36:52,483 simple enough but they take time. 568 00:36:52,567 --> 00:36:55,081 Why not use calculators or computers? 569 00:36:56,847 --> 00:36:58,075 We couldn't do that. 570 00:36:59,207 --> 00:37:00,196 Groff... 571 00:37:01,167 --> 00:37:02,156 what's that? 572 00:37:03,607 --> 00:37:04,596 - A finger? - A finger. 573 00:37:04,687 --> 00:37:06,598 And as you can see, it is better designed... 574 00:37:06,687 --> 00:37:08,996 for pressing buttons than holding writing implements. 575 00:37:09,087 --> 00:37:10,600 So why can't we use computers? 576 00:37:19,127 --> 00:37:22,597 The Lord Thaarn will not permit their development on Krandor. 577 00:37:23,327 --> 00:37:25,602 He will allow no superior intellects to his. 578 00:37:25,687 --> 00:37:27,006 (TARRANT) Why not? 579 00:37:28,327 --> 00:37:30,761 I don't know. It is better not to ask such questions. 580 00:37:30,967 --> 00:37:33,527 Perhaps he had an unfortunate experience with a computer. 581 00:37:34,087 --> 00:37:35,076 Haven't we all? 582 00:37:35,847 --> 00:37:37,838 Groff, where does the Lord Thaarn come from? 583 00:37:38,127 --> 00:37:40,721 I don't know. No one does. 584 00:37:40,927 --> 00:37:43,202 No one has ever seen him except the Caliph. 585 00:37:43,287 --> 00:37:46,677 - Now you must do these equations... - And where do you come from, Groff? 586 00:37:47,807 --> 00:37:48,796 Xaranar. 587 00:37:49,047 --> 00:37:52,357 A Federation world that specialised in the building of survey ships... 588 00:37:52,447 --> 00:37:53,721 and providing them with crews. 589 00:37:53,807 --> 00:37:56,446 Yes, all the best exploration missions went to you Xarin. 590 00:37:56,527 --> 00:38:00,486 I am not a traitor. One has to make a new life here, you have no choice. 591 00:38:00,567 --> 00:38:02,285 Then how did you come to be here? 592 00:38:02,967 --> 00:38:04,161 The same way as you. 593 00:38:05,567 --> 00:38:09,924 We lost control over our ship. The gravity generator dragged us down. 594 00:38:10,207 --> 00:38:12,118 Does it generate a beam or a total field? 595 00:38:14,367 --> 00:38:17,086 We will need to know that if we are to work on these equations. 596 00:38:18,927 --> 00:38:20,121 Total field. 597 00:38:24,407 --> 00:38:27,638 Clever. It must require a great deal of energy. 598 00:38:27,967 --> 00:38:31,004 And the new shields require a great deal of herculaneum... 599 00:38:31,087 --> 00:38:32,600 if the power is to be increased. 600 00:38:32,967 --> 00:38:36,755 And the design of the shields requires the answers to many equations. 601 00:38:36,847 --> 00:38:38,360 You had a family on Xaranar? 602 00:38:41,487 --> 00:38:44,399 A wife and two children. 603 00:38:46,887 --> 00:38:48,525 I do not think of them anymore. 604 00:38:49,287 --> 00:38:51,881 The work of the Lord Thaarn is more important. 605 00:38:51,967 --> 00:38:55,403 Help us to escape, Groff, and we will return you to Xaranar, I promise. 606 00:38:55,487 --> 00:38:57,955 - How could you? - Don't forget, we have our ship. 607 00:38:59,687 --> 00:39:03,236 The Caliph has sent out a salvage team to slice it up. 608 00:39:04,687 --> 00:39:08,919 Very soon your ship will be no more than a pile of scrap metal. 609 00:39:11,287 --> 00:39:13,437 (SWORDS BUZZING) 610 00:39:23,567 --> 00:39:26,684 I would strongly advise against going too near that. 611 00:39:27,527 --> 00:39:30,644 I must warn you that it is a defence mechanism... 612 00:39:30,727 --> 00:39:33,082 generated by the ship's computers. 613 00:39:33,647 --> 00:39:38,402 Please, gentlemen, I must earnestly implore you not to come any closer. 614 00:39:38,487 --> 00:39:40,079 It is extremely dangerous. 615 00:39:40,727 --> 00:39:42,604 (ELECTRONIC HUMMING) 616 00:39:50,447 --> 00:39:51,675 (ORAC) Fascinating. 617 00:39:53,247 --> 00:39:54,646 (ZEN) Confirmed. 618 00:39:57,767 --> 00:40:00,440 (TENSE INSTRUMENTAL MUSIC) 619 00:40:08,087 --> 00:40:09,076 (THAARN) Cally. 620 00:40:10,727 --> 00:40:11,716 Cally. 621 00:40:13,127 --> 00:40:14,116 You came. 622 00:40:15,607 --> 00:40:18,075 I needed you and you came. 623 00:40:20,047 --> 00:40:23,642 I've been alone with my plans for so long, Cally. 624 00:40:25,127 --> 00:40:28,005 Plans to build a new universe... 625 00:40:29,047 --> 00:40:31,515 with no one to share them with, until now. 626 00:40:35,727 --> 00:40:37,479 The universe, Cally. 627 00:40:39,367 --> 00:40:43,440 And the great universal force that controls the universe... 628 00:40:43,847 --> 00:40:45,360 is gravity. 629 00:40:45,967 --> 00:40:50,677 The orbit of the planets, the slow turn of the galaxies. 630 00:40:52,607 --> 00:40:57,522 I have built a machine that can generate gravity. 631 00:40:59,247 --> 00:41:00,475 When it's complete... 632 00:41:00,967 --> 00:41:04,926 it will be powerful enough to move planets, and stars. 633 00:41:06,367 --> 00:41:08,722 He who controls gravity... 634 00:41:09,927 --> 00:41:12,236 controls everything. 635 00:41:14,847 --> 00:41:19,557 - We will be rulers of the universe, Cally. - No. 636 00:41:20,847 --> 00:41:22,280 (EERIE HUMMING) 637 00:41:30,207 --> 00:41:32,402 (SLOW INSTRUMENTAL MUSIC) 638 00:41:37,327 --> 00:41:40,797 You will be the queen of a thousand worlds. 639 00:41:40,887 --> 00:41:41,876 No! 640 00:41:43,007 --> 00:41:45,840 I want nothing from you, nothing. 641 00:41:47,007 --> 00:41:50,044 If you don't understand that, you're not fit to rule anything. 642 00:41:50,127 --> 00:41:51,765 Please, Cally. 643 00:41:53,487 --> 00:41:58,003 Don't make me destroy you. I'm so alone. 644 00:41:59,207 --> 00:42:03,359 I need you. So alone. 645 00:42:04,967 --> 00:42:09,279 Sleep now, Cally. Decide when you have slept. 646 00:42:11,207 --> 00:42:12,799 Sleep. 647 00:42:29,727 --> 00:42:31,001 (NEURONIC WHIP HUMMING) 648 00:42:31,087 --> 00:42:33,476 You tell me what it is you have aboard your ship... 649 00:42:34,007 --> 00:42:35,963 otherwise you'll be dead in three seconds. 650 00:42:36,047 --> 00:42:37,480 I don't know what you're talking about. 651 00:42:37,847 --> 00:42:40,441 Two men sent to smash the Liberator have been found dead. 652 00:42:40,527 --> 00:42:43,564 - The Liberator! - Was it Orac that killed them? 653 00:42:43,927 --> 00:42:44,916 I don't know. 654 00:42:45,967 --> 00:42:48,356 What manner of weapons does he have that can work... 655 00:42:48,447 --> 00:42:50,278 while the energy isolators are switched on? 656 00:42:50,727 --> 00:42:53,480 We don't know. None of us knows what type of arms Orac has. 657 00:42:53,887 --> 00:42:55,605 He keeps himself to himself. 658 00:42:57,927 --> 00:43:00,919 I shall turn out every slave to search for him. 659 00:43:01,407 --> 00:43:04,001 He will be found and destroyed. 660 00:43:04,847 --> 00:43:08,317 Then it will be your turn. All of you! 661 00:43:11,847 --> 00:43:12,996 The Liberator. 662 00:43:16,007 --> 00:43:19,602 - They said it was invincible. - Propaganda that we find useful. 663 00:43:19,847 --> 00:43:22,805 Thanks to Orac, it sounds as if the Liberator is still intact. 664 00:43:22,967 --> 00:43:25,003 A trip to Xaranar wouldn't take too long. 665 00:43:25,967 --> 00:43:27,844 Escape is impossible. 666 00:43:28,567 --> 00:43:32,162 While the energy isolators are on, your handguns won't work... 667 00:43:32,247 --> 00:43:36,479 and it is not possible to put the gravity generator into the negative field mode. 668 00:43:36,567 --> 00:43:41,277 But putting the gravity generator into reverse would collapse the floor... 669 00:43:41,367 --> 00:43:45,280 beneath the Liberator, and allow her to fall out into free space. 670 00:43:45,487 --> 00:43:47,876 It would weaken the atomic structure of the floor. 671 00:43:47,967 --> 00:43:49,400 It's the same way you came in. 672 00:43:49,487 --> 00:43:52,524 And putting the gravity generator into full reverse... 673 00:43:52,607 --> 00:43:55,326 would cause Krandor to disintegrate. 674 00:43:55,447 --> 00:43:57,836 (GROFF) Worse than that. It would blow up. 675 00:43:58,287 --> 00:43:59,766 Gravity in reverse. 676 00:44:00,607 --> 00:44:04,566 That is why only the Lord Thaarn has control over the energy isolators. 677 00:44:09,327 --> 00:44:12,000 (THAARN) Cally, wake up. 678 00:44:14,527 --> 00:44:15,755 Have you decided? 679 00:44:19,647 --> 00:44:20,796 Yes, Thaarn. 680 00:44:22,247 --> 00:44:24,397 We will rule the universe together. 681 00:44:27,247 --> 00:44:30,717 - But there's something troubling me. - About your friends? 682 00:44:31,807 --> 00:44:33,604 They will come to no harm. 683 00:44:34,127 --> 00:44:37,642 No. Why should I care about them? 684 00:44:38,967 --> 00:44:42,437 You're using a field. I can sense you are. 685 00:44:44,287 --> 00:44:48,644 How can I be sure that I am making the decision of my own free will? 686 00:44:48,727 --> 00:44:51,161 It's only the energy isolators, Cally. 687 00:44:53,847 --> 00:44:55,803 They have no effect on your free will. 688 00:44:57,847 --> 00:44:59,166 I promise. 689 00:45:00,367 --> 00:45:02,358 If you want me to trust you... 690 00:45:03,407 --> 00:45:07,241 switch off the energy isolators, then I can find out for myself. 691 00:45:12,127 --> 00:45:14,118 It's too dangerous, Cally. 692 00:45:16,367 --> 00:45:19,006 Then I will never be able to trust you. 693 00:45:22,487 --> 00:45:23,476 Very well. 694 00:45:23,567 --> 00:45:25,125 (ENERGY ISOLATORS SHUT OFF) 695 00:45:25,207 --> 00:45:26,196 You see... 696 00:45:27,207 --> 00:45:29,402 your feelings are no different. 697 00:45:35,247 --> 00:45:37,442 (ALARM BLARING) 698 00:45:42,007 --> 00:45:44,362 The energy isolators have been switched off! 699 00:45:51,167 --> 00:45:53,317 Get to the others. Get back to your ship quickly. 700 00:45:53,407 --> 00:45:55,682 - What about you? - I'll be all right, get going. 701 00:45:56,687 --> 00:45:59,804 But if you could tell my family, they were always in my thoughts. 702 00:45:59,887 --> 00:46:01,206 We'll tell them, Groff. 703 00:46:24,127 --> 00:46:25,162 Come on! 704 00:46:25,247 --> 00:46:27,602 - What kept you? - What about Cally? 705 00:46:27,687 --> 00:46:30,121 - We'll have to leave without her. - Come on, move! 706 00:46:36,967 --> 00:46:38,286 (THAARN) Cally... 707 00:46:39,127 --> 00:46:40,116 Cally... 708 00:46:41,007 --> 00:46:42,884 you've hurt me. 709 00:46:43,887 --> 00:46:44,876 Why? 710 00:46:48,607 --> 00:46:52,043 No, Cally! Stay away, I beg you. 711 00:46:53,007 --> 00:46:54,759 You mustn't see me. 712 00:46:56,687 --> 00:46:58,962 I have to see you if I am to kill you. 713 00:47:03,407 --> 00:47:05,637 (DRAMATIC INSTRUMENTAL MUSIC) 714 00:47:09,367 --> 00:47:12,245 I have even conquered time, Cally... 715 00:47:13,767 --> 00:47:15,644 but the price has been high... 716 00:47:17,247 --> 00:47:19,841 so very high. 717 00:47:30,647 --> 00:47:32,763 (TENSE INSTRUMENTAL MUSIC) 718 00:47:45,727 --> 00:47:47,479 (ALARM BLARING) 719 00:47:52,007 --> 00:47:52,996 Groff? 720 00:47:59,647 --> 00:48:01,365 (ELECTRONIC HUMMING) 721 00:48:03,607 --> 00:48:04,642 Come on. 722 00:48:14,727 --> 00:48:17,082 (TENSE INSTRUMENTAL MUSIC) 723 00:48:22,367 --> 00:48:25,962 Zen, stand by to activate main drive, if and when we enter free space. 724 00:48:26,047 --> 00:48:28,880 Confirmed. Main drive standing by. 725 00:48:34,087 --> 00:48:38,126 The ship is now in free space. Main drive activated. 726 00:48:41,207 --> 00:48:44,005 Zen, standard by eight. Put the rear scanner on the main screen. 727 00:48:46,207 --> 00:48:47,356 Information. 728 00:48:47,647 --> 00:48:50,798 Detectors indicate that a small spacecraft... 729 00:48:50,887 --> 00:48:53,242 has left object centred on main screen... 730 00:48:53,327 --> 00:48:55,443 and is flying on a reciprocal course. 731 00:48:56,567 --> 00:48:57,966 That must be the Thaarn. 732 00:48:58,847 --> 00:49:00,280 I should have killed him. 733 00:49:00,527 --> 00:49:03,724 - What did he look like? - I never saw him. 734 00:49:05,007 --> 00:49:06,486 (ALARM BLARING) 735 00:49:07,127 --> 00:49:08,924 (NEURONIC WHIP HUMMING) 736 00:49:30,407 --> 00:49:33,763 - Zen, I want a course for Xaranar. - Xaranar? 737 00:49:34,367 --> 00:49:36,961 We promised to take a message there. Didn't we? 738 00:49:37,167 --> 00:49:40,125 - I suppose we owe Groff that much. - I'd say so. 739 00:49:41,087 --> 00:49:43,920 So, the Lord Thaarn escaped. 740 00:49:45,607 --> 00:49:48,167 I suspect we have made another enemy. 741 00:49:48,927 --> 00:49:53,603 - A pity. - A pity? A pity. It is intolerable! 742 00:49:53,967 --> 00:49:58,199 There is insufficient room in the galaxy for his intellect and mine. 743 00:49:58,447 --> 00:50:00,802 I don't know. He did have one redeeming feature. 744 00:50:02,247 --> 00:50:06,525 - He didn't like computers. - Course for Xaranar laid in. 745 00:50:08,287 --> 00:50:09,515 Thank you, Zen. 746 00:50:09,967 --> 00:50:11,798 (THEME MUSIC) 9999 00:00:0,500 --> 00:00:2,00 www.tvsubtitles.net