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-What's happening?

-I don't know, it seems to have started by itself.

-But that's impossible.

-It won't shut down.

-Quick!

Grab hold of something.

-Analyzing power source.

Power source unknown.

Calculating optimal response.

-If I could just shut down the plasma thrusters.

-Plasma thrusters knocked off.

System's secure.

-Well done, K-9.

-I bypassed the impulse gyrator by realigning

the microtemporal signal inhibitor to reactivate

the nanocapacitator, which had become disengaged

from the gravitational time dilator, which temporarily

released the quantum eraser, allowing

me to secure the plasma thruster.

-I'll remember that for next time.

-Will someone tell me what just happened?

-I would if I could.

The space time manipulator cannot start by itself.

If I find out someone has been touching

something that they shouldn't have--

-I didn't go near that thing.

-Same. -Starkey?

-Oh, sorry.

Me too. I didn't touch a thing.

-Then someone or something has breached the vortex.

-Aw, fan-scrubbing-tastic.

Some unhonorable flatulent beastie

is somewhere in the house.

-K-9, would you like to have a look?

-Affirmative. I'm on my way.

-I'll help you clean up.

-Yeah, I'll give you a hand.

-By the way, you still owe me for those water-face resistics

that I got you.

-Interface resistors.

And you gave me the wrong kind.

They didn't even work.

-Well next time be more specific.

That's 20 creds for the resistors,

and I'll give you the life lesson for free.

Ta.

Anytime.

-He's such a ripoff merchant.

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-What did you find?

-Reviewing memory files.

No presence detected.

-Strange.

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-Warning!

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-Good morning!

-Oh well.

You can't make omelettes without breaking eggs.

Hm?

Oh well.

You can't make omelette without breaking eggs.

Hm?

-Don't give up your day job.

-You allergic to something?

-Not that I know of. -Perhaps it's a cold.

Let's find out, shall we?

What is that? -I don't know.

I've always had it.

It just suddenly got itchy, it never has before.

-Hey, Prof, I got your shopping.

-Didn't you get all that yesterday?

-No offense, Prof, but you are getting molto absent minded.

-Just watch out he doesn't rip you off, too.

-Speaking of which, you still owe me

for those water-face resistics that I got you.

-You're joking?

-No, I never joke about money.

-I paid you yesterday.

-Don't try and scam a scammer, mate.

-I said, I paid you already. -What money?

What are you two bickering about?

-He won't pay me for a job I did.

-Because I've already paid you.

-Not true.

-Jorjie.

She was there when I gave it to you.

She'll back me up.

Jorjie?

-It can't be morning already.

-You were here yesterday when I gave Darius creds

for those dud interface resistors.

-Uh, yesterday he gave you you resistors

and said you owed him 20 creds.

-Ha!

-Wake up, that was three days ago.

-I know he's a rip off merchant, but a deals a deal.

Just gave him the money, Starkey.

-So can I have my money, please?

-Starkey!

-K-9.

You want that.

But you know I, I wouldn't lie. -Analyzing historical data.

No history of lying by Starkey.

-You need to update your memory banks, Fido.

Stark reality here, is a known law

breaker with a criminal history. -All right, that's enough.

I'll pay you.

-Good. -K-9.

-Did you get that?

-Temporal error detected.

-Why would Jorjie lie, unless she wasn't lying, of course.

What if they're right?

What if I didn't pay him the creds?

-Then we have both suffered a temporal error.

-You mean I'm going crazy?

-Negative.

Temporal loss indicated.

-Schizophrenia and associated disorders.

Symptoms include aural and visual hallucinations.

-I calculate I have lost seven seconds.

-I used to hear voices, when I was little.

I heard voices and I saw faces.

I just hoped they were memories.

I am going mad.

-Relax your mind, young master.

I have similar moments.

-Hey.

Have you worked out what happened

to that space time thingamajig?

-Not yet.

-I was wondering, do you think it could have been sabotage?

-Who would have sabotaged it?

No one was here but us.

Certainly wasn't me.

Wasn't you, wasn't you, was it?

-Of course not.

But who else was here?

[sneeze] -Starkey!

Your blood results should be ready.

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Shrodinger's cat and kittens!

-Is something wrong?

-Your blood plasma is producing some very strange antibodies.

I've never seen anything like it.

-I always knew you were weird.

-Analysis complete.

Origin, alien.

-I knew it!

He's an alien mutant.

-Oh no, no, no, no.

Your blood plasma is human.

But you have an immune response to alien pathogens.

-Put it in English, Prof.

He's an alien mutant. -Negative.

Starkey is fully human.

-Alien immunology is beyond the limits of our science.

Only two people have ever been insane enough

to attempt experiments on it, and they were--

-What?

Professor, this is my blood we're talking about.

-Starkey, some things are better left unanswered.

-Who were they? -A couple.

Husband and wife.

They disappeared years ago, surrounded

by accusation and rumor.

Their work on alien immunology was radical, but genius.

-Could they have done this to me?

-Starkey, it's best not to speculate without evidence.

But they experimented on themselves, and on their child.

-They had a child?

-A boy.

Starkey, I know this is hard.

But you have to let this lie.

To do that to a child is insane.

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[coughing]

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-What do I do?

K-9!

Now you're recalibrating?

K-9, wake up!

He told me what he did.

K-9!

I don't know what to--

He bypassed the impulse gyrator by realigning

the microtemporal signal inhibitor.

Which reactivated the nanocapacitor,

which had become disengaged from the gravitational time dilator.

Which temporarily released the quantum eraser,

which should allow me to secure the plasma thrusters.

Brilliant! -Starkey!

-I stopped it, Prof!

-Let me see.

-It's like someone's got power over this thing.

K-9 was busy recalibrating his time clock.

I couldn't remember.

I was going crazy.

-Someone's been trying to access time.

-That's what I've been trying to tell you.

It's like deja vu.

It's happening all over again, exactly like yesterday.

-What happened yesterday?

-The space time manipulator started on its own.

It almost sucked us all into oblivion.

-Starkey, that didn't happen.

-Yes, affirmative.

-You think I switched it on?

-Affirmative.

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Can I come?

-Why?

I'm either a liar or a psycho, like my parents.

-Perhaps they weren't mad.

Perhaps you have lost the memory files

containing the explanation.

-Lost memory files.

You've been losing memory files.

Gryffen, Darius, and Jorjie have all lost memories.

K-9, you scouted the house after the first breach.

What did you find? -Nothing unusual.

-And all the memory files for every room intact?

-Temporal loss has corrupted one file.

-Which room?

-The cellar.

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-Come on, K-9.

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-OK.

-Affirmative.

-No, I mean, OK, let's look around.

-OK.

-Now you're getting it.

-Stop! -What?

Do you have any idea what it is? -Negative.

-Where's Fido and the dorkster?

What's happened?

-Unfortunately, I think he's been tampering with time.

-So, that alien mutant blood has taken over at last.

-Sadly, the cause is much more human.

Starkey is trying to find his parents.

-Are you coming?

-What is that?

-I'm searching database for--

[garbled speech]

-So are you going to give me a hint?

Does it spit acid?

Does it come from some weirdo planet I've never heard of?

K-9?

-Starkey?

There is something seriously [inaudible] going on.

What?

-Starkey's been fiddling with time.

Gryffen caught him at the STM.

-Could the STM be causing time shifts, all over London?

-Impossible. It's completely localized.

-Then it isn't Starkey fiddling.

It's something much bigger.

-Apologies to all those who complained

about missing the broadcast of the King's birthday message,

and to those unhappy about seeing it twice.

Our next guest is spokesperson for TubeCorp, Brook Thomas.

-Pleasure to be here.

-Yes, Ms. Thomas, wild reports are coming in from all

over London that tube after tube is arriving on time.

-That's right.

We are proud to announce 100% on time running, even

for trains running several hours late.

-Surely that's impossible.

-Oh, no, no, no, no.

According to the TubeCorp timetable,

some trains are arriving before they leave.

The time table is much more reliable than the trains.

-Our next guest is a spokesperson for TubeCorp--

-You've already said that.

-No I haven't.

-According to the TubeCorp timetable,

some trains are arriving before they leave.

-Welcome to the show. I'll be speaking with--

-Are you starting again?

-No!

-Time itself is unreliable.

I Everywhere.

-Are you all right, K-9?

-Temporal error detected.

-How much time did you lose?

-Three seconds.

Possible more.

My memory files have been corrupted.

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-Whoa.

What's this?

-It's some sort of reptilian skin.

-Let's get this to the analyzer.

[sneeze]

What was that?

-Unknown.

-Why didn't I believe him?

I as good as accused him of sabotage.

-He was telling the truth.

It's our memories that have been stolen.

-Well, I'm keeping that money.

-Guys.

There's something down there, and it's

doing really really weird things to K-9.

-My boy, I'm so sorry.

I don't know what I was thinking.

-Can we do this later?

I'm really worried about K-9.

He keeps having a log dysfunction,

and he's lost at least 10 seconds.

Whatever is down there is stealing time.

-It's happening to everyone, Starkey.

People are losing hours, some have lost days.

-Show them what you've found, Starkey.

-We've picked this up down there.

-Snake skin, isn't it?

-That's what it looks like.

-Why is it never anything fluffy or friendly.

-We need to do a full analysis.

-So what does shedding its skin mean?

-Snakes shed their skin when they grow.

Which means it's getting bigger.

-Which means it's getting hungrier.

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-Have a look at this.

-Skin cells are from an Ouroboros.

-The cosmic serpent!

Hoyle's Boyles! -Slow down.

What's an Ouroboros?

-It is a predator which leeches time from other dimensions.

-It turned Centauri into a black hole

by siphoning off its future.

-So the Ouroboros came here to suck up our time.

That's why everyone's been losing their memories.

-Except Starkey, because he's been vaccinated.

-That's why I'm the only one that can go back down there.

I have to stop it.

And I have to do it alone.

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-Starkey, there is no point going

down there without a plan.

-It's eating time all over London.

It must be moving through the sewers.

-But once you get there, what are you going to do with it?

-It came through the STM.

So that's the way we should get rid of it.

-But how do we get the snake into the machine?

-The vortex of the STM goes about three or four meters down

into the cellar.

-OK.

So I led the Ouroboros to the cellar,

straight underneath the STM.

Gryffen turns it on and vacuums it back to infinity.

-The obvious gap in that logic is--

-How do I lead an alien snake anywhere.

-I hesitate to suggest it, but if Starkey showed himself

to the Ouroboros, he would appear as a tasty morsel,

to be wolfed down on the spot.

-Tasty morsel of what?

-One lifetime.

Starkey's entire future. -Wow.

This is so mad.

So Starkey will be the bait, because the snake

will see him as a time snack.

-But if for any reason the vaccination

isn't completely effective--

-Unfortunately, the young master's life

would be consumed.

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-Be careful down there, Starkey.

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-Indian snake charmers use very slow, hypnotic movements

to send the snake into a trance.

-No they don't, they sew the cobra's lips together.

-I can hear what you're saying.

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[sneeze]

-Any sign of it? -Negative.

[inaudible]

-Oh, I can't bear to watch.

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-I can see it.

-That's it.

Let him see you.

-That's the way.

Slow and steady.

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-Starkey, get out of there!

-The Ouroboros is blocking the doorway.

I have to hold on. -It's too dangerous.

We'll abort the mission.

-He's underneath now.

He's big and hungry and coming straight for me!

Go, go, go!.

-Now!

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-The snake!

It's gone!

[relieved laughter]

-Where's Starkey?

-Starkey!

Young master!

-It might have been easier to sew his lips together.

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-Starkey!

-Well done, son.

-Starkey did it!

-I thought you were a goner.

-Well done, K-9.

-You're welcome.

-We defeated the Ouroboros!

[knocking on door] -Come in.

-I'm sorry I doubted you.

-That's cool.

-No, no, that was foolish of me.

I found something.

I was searching an old database, and I found this.

That's Charles and Marie Sobe.

They're the couple I was telling you about.

I think they're your parents.

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-Oh, yes, I almost forgot.

Darius said, don't forget, you still

owe him for those interface resistors.

-What?

-I'm just messing with you.

Good night, Starkey.

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