All language subtitles for Out Of The Unknown S02E03 - Lambda 1 - 1966.english

[theme music plays]

[man over PA]
New York Tau Terminal.

You are now in the New York
terminal of Tau

Inter-Atomic Transport.

Passengers for London
on the scheduled phase,

should proceed at once
to the reception desk,

for final inspection
of documents.

Your ship is the Elektron,

your captain, Nathan Dantor,

your hostess,
Miss Bridie Palmer.

Passengers for other phases,

or those in search of bookings
or information,

are invited to use the
Tau Terminal Lounge,

situated on the top floor
of this building,

and reached by the Gamma-mode
elevator

at the rear of this hall.

Once disembarked in London,

will you be doing any further
travel by conventional means?

Presumably, Miss Palmer.

Well, that all seems
to be in order, madam.

Thank you.

If you'd care to go through
to the ship.

I’ll be through in a few moments
to see if you're comfortable.

- Number?
- 2251403.

- Name?
- Alfred Wilmington Ferris.

- Born?
- London.

- Year?
- Ten.

Vaccinated, no convictions.
Cleared by Tau release.

Well, you seem to have it
all by heart...

If I’m subjected to one more
inspection this evening,

I won't have a secret left.

Is quite so much
checking necessary

simply in order to get me
back to England?

The insistence is a bore,
I know, Mr. Ferris.

But Tau Transport
has found in the past...

Yes...
Was there something else?

No, not really.

I’m anxious to get back
to England too...

[man over PA]
Clearance, please.

Definitive grid clearance.

Tau Transport passenger liner,
Elektron,

destination London,

will be entering phase,

in exactly sixty seconds
from now.

Commencing countdown.

Sixty, 59,

58, 57...

That means
the countdown's started, sir.

Eh?

Countdown, Captain Dantor.

Down with the drink, boy.

Never mind the count.

It is simply that in order to
enter atomic space,

which is the
Tau method of travel,

your body needs
an energy shield.

Afterwards,
you have the run of the ship,

and the screen will only
materialise again

when it's time to out phase...

...to return to normality.

Will you please all
take your seats?

Oh! Pardon me,

thou bleeding piece of earth.

I say, wasn't that the Captain?
Dantor, whatever he's called.

Captain Dantor, yes.

Now will you please
take your seat,

the screen materialises
in five seconds.

[man over PA]
Four...

three...
two... one... Zero.

Generators on.

ln phase.

[power starting]

Hello, New York.

Tau Terminal London,
Central Control.

Just to let you know we are now
tracking the scheduled phase.

Elektron is registering
on our screens.

The mode is Gamma. Over.

Thank you, London. Over and out.

Yes, Mary? What was it?

What was what, Paul?

You left a message
for me with Vera.

Oh, sorry.
Yes, it was something personal.

Personal?

A man called asking
could he see you.

At two o'clock in the morning?

Well, he said he was a friend...

so I asked him to wait in reception
until you were available.

Name of...
Oh, yes, Benedict.

- Eric Benedict.
- Benedict!

Paul Porter?

Why have you come, Eric?

I’ve got 12 hours
to kill in London

before I go on to Rome for the
International MediCon.

I thought I could spend the time
worse than in your company.

What, here?
When I’m on duty?

Senior Controller,
Tau Transport, UK.

Well, you've certainly got
on in the world, Paul...

...even since last we met.

But I always said that
of you to Julie, you know,

that you'd be a success.

You can't have come here
to talk about Julie, surely.

Why not? You blame me that
she left you, isn't that true?

She went to you in trouble, an
old friend and a psychologist.

You as good as advised her
to break up her marriage.

Yes, but Paul, she was afraid.

Afraid?

Of course there are other things
we could talk about if you'd prefer,

the principles of
Tau physics, say--

Oh, for God's sake, Eric!

No, seriously, I've never
properly understood them.

Yet they tell me
in just a few years now,

Tau will have made all other
forms of transport obsolete.

They also tell me there are
still unresolved problems

to interest the psychologist.

- In Tau?
- Aren't there?

After all,
it's something pretty new.

Men have travelled over the
surface of the Earth,

above and under it
for thousands of years now,

but this is the first time
in human history

that man has actually
gone through his world.

Let us suppose a Tau ship
and its passengers,

is disintegrated in New York.

That ship then could pass
through water, sand and rock,

and come out in London.

At first it will be invisible.

It will co-exist with
the other atoms about it.

ln order to materialise,

a mode of re-assembly
must be adapted.

For identification purposes,

it has been named:

Gamma, Delta...

...Epsilon.

I don't understand.

Brett, when did this start?

A few moments ago, Miss Bone.

It’s very odd.

I’ve never known the Elektron
to travel through Tau-space

in anything but a straight
forward Gamma Mode.

- What's her ETA?
- 02:45.

Fifteen minutes time.

Shall I try calling her?

Yes, you'd better.

This is most unusual.

It must be,
of course appreciated,

that none of these modes
is absolutely stable.

'Mode slip' must be accepted as
a permanent hazard

of our form of travel.

[Miss Bone] Delta...
She's slipped back a mode.

We can withdraw her normality in
any mode she stabilises in.

It’s only a matter of phase-matching
on the computers.

But with a ship like
the Elektron,

there shouldn't be
this uncertainty.

Is everything keyed-in, Brett?

Yes, Miss Bone.

We shall just have to
try and catch her

the moment she touches the grid.

- If she slips again-
- Hold on... destabilizing.

Each mode has its own character
and its own terrors.

A ship as a whole
can suffer exposure effects,

during a period of mode slip.

And although Rorsch generators

offer a high standard of
stability and safety--

But the ship must ultimately be
in Gamma, Delta, Epsilon or Zeta?

There's no other mode possible?

Why did you want to ask
something like that?

Because it's what I’ve heard.

The psychological difficulties
they told me of in Tau

didn't relate to any of these
standard modes.

There must be something else.

The question you ask
is a complex one.

Perhaps those who come
after me will find...

...substance for the strange
notion only lately voiced that...

She's going into Epsilon.

- Haven't you raised them yet?
- I’m doing my best!

[clicking]

Elektron. Calling Elektron.

[Dantor] Well, come along,
Birch, what's the mode?

I don't know, Captain Dantor.

Won't seem to stabilize....

As if I needed any telling,
the length of time I’ve been in Tau.

The great grey-green
of the Gamma, eh...

The rose-pink incorruptible
of Delta and Epsilon...

We took it all smack in the face
when I started out,

you know, no normalcy correction
in ships then!

We embraced the unknown!
I tell you--

[siren blares]

Vector coordinating fault, sir,
correcting.

You mean generators
are playing up?

They were checked in New York,
man--

I know that, sir.
But I’m inclined to think--

Think!
Harvey, in the old days we knew!

We had to!

- Where's he gone-
- Three guesses...

Is it the generators?

I’m doing my best to find out.

Thank you.
I just suddenly felt peculiar...

I can't imagine why.

Will we still be arriving in
London on time?

Of course, it's got nothing
to do with that.

I’m glad.

You see, I'm very anxious
to get back--

[clattering]

My apologies, madam.

That man is drunk.

Mr. Ferris, you'll really have
to stop worrying.

[siren blaring]
What's that?

[ominous mechanical groaning]

There. We have now stabilized
on a mode.

ln less than ten minutes' time,

we'll be approaching
the London grip.

No more cause for alarm.

Would you all take your seats
in the inner cabin now, please?

[Miss Bone] Yes, Mrs. Woodgate,
not the nicest experience, I know.

Captain Dantor, I think
it's only fair to tell you.

I mean to report you to your
superiors

when we arrive in London.

Who's that, then?

- A mouse out of the woodwork?
- I’m serious! If you--

No mice in Tau.
No damn woodwork, either.

Why do you think I drink,
eh, mouse ?

- Captain Dantor.
- To dull the pain?

- To drown my insecurities?
- Get your hands off me!

I drink because out there
there's an undiscovered mystery,

and I’ve learned
just enough of it

to be able to flinch
at the horrors!

Not like you, cringing and safe
behind normalcy screens.

Do you want to know
what it's really like outside?

The world beyond reason?

No, sir--

[screams]

[Dantor laughing]

Epsilon. And it deteriorates
to things worse.

Oh, God...

[struggling to breathe]

There's danger here too, then.

Terrible danger.
[whimpering]

The only reason I travelled
by Tau was because...

when I went to America by rocket
there was an undershoot...

...we were forced down on the
surface,

in that blazing heat...

Ten hours before
the rescue craft came!

I couldn't take
the chance again!

But if there's the same
risk here--

Look, it's all right now,
Mr. Ferris.

No sir--

[woman screaming]

[explosion]

Alex, what is it?
What's happening?

I don't know, Bridie.
Captain Dantor?

Captain Dantor, sir!

[high-pitched whirring]

Well, try the auxiliary then,
anything!

- Harvey... Harvey, look!
- What is it?

The screen, man.
Will you look?

But it isn't possible!

- How the devil--
- Shut up, Brett!

It’s happening.

The Omega mode.

Omega, called the ultimate...

...because while its existence,

has never been
strictly demonstrated,

workers of Tau,
who claim

to have encountered it,
all say that--

- Why did you do that?
- Because it's all nonsense!

No matter what Rorsch held,
there are no grounds

for believing in this fanciful,
horrific Omega mode.

Yet it's what you fear?

Fear?

Paul, I’ve given your case
more thought and study

over the last few months
than you know.

- Now listen to me!
- Oh, Eric.

I saw Julie in New York
not more than a week ago.

She's sorry about
everything that happened,

and wants desperately
to come back to you.

What?

As a matter of fact,
she asked me to look in on you

at this time, particularly,
to prepare you.

She's travelling back
to England

on one of your ships.
The Elektron.

Mr. Porter, could you come
at once, please?

[Miss Bone]
Paul, quickly, Paul!

The Tau Elektron?
She's arrived?

[siren calling]
Yes, that's her siren

requesting out-phase.
But what do we do about this?

[siren wails]

Omega...

And you mean to tell me
the Elektron is actually

out there on the grid
at this very moment,

even though we can't see
or touch her?

- That's right, Mr. Benedict.
- Astonishing.

Tau physics are certainly unlike
the conventional kind.

Tau psychology must have
a character of its own, too.

[man over PA]
Tau Terminal London, calling Elektron.

Tau Terminal London,
calling Elektron.

Do you read me, please?

All right, I’ll try them
through Delta-Echo, then.

There must be same way of
locking with their frequency.

- Stability lock, Brett!
- Yes, Miss Bone.

Lock off.
Scanning once more.

What was that?

Something hopeful for a moment.

It looked as if the Omega
might be slipping up the scale

into something we could handle,
a Zeta mode, say.

There's no way of withdrawing
direct from an Omega mode then?

It’s not supposed to exist,
remember?

If we can't coax
the Elektron out of it,

we shall have to tell the
Captain

to remove his ship to
a remote point on the globe...

- ...and wait.
- Wait for what?

For his generators
to stop functioning.

The vessel falls back
into normal atomic condition.

So you get two large
aggregates of matter

occupying the same space,
at the same time.

The resulting explosion

shouldn't really remove
more than half a continent.

Please! Professor Caradus,

you are the greatest
living authority on Tau.

But a ship in Omega?

Isn't there any precedent?

Look, we've even tried to
introduce the mode and failed.

We decided it was pure legend.

You're keeping the whole thing
under a security blanket?

I haven't informed
my superiors here yet.

What am I to do?

To withdraw your ship
from Omega to normality?

- Yes.
- I don't know.

Rorsch himself
never dismissed the idea

of some kind of terrible
nightmare deep in Tau.

Perhaps we have to think
in terms of dream,

rather than fact.

Give me a half-hour.

Don't speak to anyone else
'til you've heard from me.

Paul... Paul, what's wrong?

It’s this Omega business,
just as you thought.

You talked about fear!
It’s been with me for years.

Yes, Paul, I know.
Julie told me about it.

I’d just finished my training...

...when they sent me
to France

to one of their experimental
stations.

The Camargue, at that time.

I was to bring in this
three-man crew,

with some student
navigators aboard.

Yes?

They were nearly home when
suddenly, something went wrong.

The mode slipped,
and I lost contact.

Whilst I struggled
to get it back,

I thought for one wild moment
I saw Omega on the screen.

Then it was gone,
a straight Delta.

I phase-matched, withdrew
the ship to normality...

...but when I did...

Well?

Eric, they were all dead.

It seemed one man
had gone out of his mind,

killed the other two
before doing away with himself.

It was all hushed up, of course.

But I keep wondering
what drove him to do it.

Whether it wasn't something...

Something of the mind,
rather than of matter.

[buzzer]

- Yes?
- [Miss Bone] We've made contact

- with the Elektron.
- Right, there at once.

[Dantor]
Are you out of your heads?

Crazy, every last one of you?

Or perhaps you take me
for an idiot?

Captain Dantor! Listen!

It’s your responsibility,
not mine! You do something!

What's wrong?

The captain, we've told him
he may have to move his ship

and he isn't
taking kindly to it.

Dantor, this is Porter,
Senior Controller.

Everything possible is being
done to help your ship.

Now I wish to make an urgent
enquiry about a passenger--

- Who... Who's that then?
- Porter, Senior Controller!

My wife's aboard your craft!
Tell her--

Well, now, that's just the exact
exulted personage,

I should be talking to,
isn't it?

Do you know what it's like in
this phase, Senior Controller?

Omega, do you know?

Please, Dantor!

I’ve a Number One
with half his head cut away,

because of the gravity
imbalance,

or whatever you care
to call the phenomenon.

Look out!

Dantor, try and understand
what I'm saying to you.

My wife is aboard your ship!

Now please get a message
to her from me.

Tell her--

[Dantor screams]

Dantor...
Captain Dantor?

- What's happened?
- I don't know, sir,

- we seem to have lost them--
- Then get then back!

- Yes, sir.
- Quickly!

Elektron, calling Elektron.

[groaning]

Come on, my goodness,
you are in a bad way.

- I didn't realise--
- My husband!

We'll find your husband
the minute we normalise.

- But you don't understand!
- Yes, I do.

Paul!

We're doing our best,
all of us!

- Take it easy!
- Paul...

More hysterics? I’ll give her a shot
the minute I’m finished here.

No, that won't be necessary.

Let me help.

Paul...

What are we going to do, Bridie?

- Have you thought about that?
- Do?

If this goes on
for any length of time.

You know what it is really,
don't you?

What they call it?

No, but I wondered
if it was that.

Omega... the mode that doesn't
exist that drives men mad.

Dantor won't do much to help.

So what do we do, you and I?

- [Mrs Porter] Paul! Paul!
- You're simply to lie still.

- Alex.
- What's the matter?

Mrs. Porter...

...and the generators, Brett.
The generators?

Yes sir, checked out
in New York as okay.

Though tech records
do say on her last two trips,

the Elektron actually came in
on a Delta.

What?

You mean we should have been
notified and weren't?

Then that's it!

How often haven't I pleaded
with the powers that be

not to persevere
with a generator

once it shows a tendency
to mode-slip!

- Anything else, Brett?
- Her cargo.

- Which is?
- The usual concession of passengers,

plus five hundred tons of
psilomelane gas.

What's psilomelane gas?

Low combustion industrial fuel.

Poisonous if inhaled
in large quantities.

Priority call coming
in on Channel 4.

Yes, Professor?

[professor over intercom]
Anything new your end?

We contacted the Elektron
for a while, then we lost touch,

It was like a line
into the underworld,

we haven't broken the mode.

I’ve been thinking...

Mode-slip, isn't a very
usual phenomenon,

with vessels of the
Elektron class, is it?

- It’s the generators.
- But it isn't usual?

Of course it isn't!

The whole history of Tau,

has been a progression
towards stability.

They say Rorsch's original craft,
the old Lambda I,

has a mode-slip on an average
of every two minutes or so.

How the devil he ever completed
his experiments--

I was hoping you'd mention
something of that sort.

A less stable craft would stand
a greater chance of slipping,

into the Omega mode.
Agreed?

Statistically, yes...

- Well, where is it, then?
- Where is what?

The Lambda I! Don't you have it
somewhere there in London?

Yes, it's in our
Terminal Museum, but...

Professor...
you're not suggesting?

Far be it from me
to suggest anything, Porter!

I don't even know if
a transfer between

two vessels is
possible in Tau,

but when an old surface ship
was sinking,

the practice was
to send out lifeboats.

Well, he's crazy...
out of his mind!

I couldn't do a thing like that,
no man could.

Not even to save Julie?

[Bridie] Hello, hello,
Tau Terminal, London!

Tau Terminal, London!

Are you receiving me?
This is the Elektron.

Hello, London Terminal!
Can you hear me? Please...

Harvey! Leave him, try and
get them on the Delta-Echo.

[Harvey coughs]
Hello? Tau Terminal, London.

Tau Terminal, London.
This is the Elektron.

London Terminal?
London Terminal?

- Well?
- Didn't you hear anything?

Interference, nothing more.

[Bridie over radio]
We must have your help!

This is the Elektron,
calling Tau...

Stabilise on beam.
Hello, Elektron?

Hello, receiving you. Over.

What is your message?

We can't maintain the situation
very much longer!

This is Bridie Palmer,
hostess aboard Elektron.

Many of our passengers
are injured

due to anti-gravity effect.

All are terrified!

Calling Tau Terminal, London.

Can you hear me?
Please answer.

We're getting them, they don't
seem to be getting us.

[Bridie over radio] Tau Terminal,
London. Tau Terminal, London.

Captain Dantor is...

[Dantor screams, groans]

...no longer capable
of being in command!

One passenger, Alfred Ferris,
attempted suicide,

and in need of
medical attention!

Also a woman passenger
is expecting a child!

A Mrs. Julie Porter.

We didn't know she was pregnant
when the phase began.

Porter here.

- Did you say my wife--
- It’s no good, sir!

They can't hear us.

Please advise!

This is Bridie Palmer,
hostess aboard--

- Damn! Get after them!
- Right.

Elektron, calling Elektron.

Benedict, why didn't--

Yes, Paul, I knew,

But she, naturally, wanted
to tell you about it herself.

[Brett over PA]
Clearance, please.

Definitive grid clearance.

Standing by for phase entry.

Rescue craft Lambda I
now in position.

Grid clearance, please.

Right you are, Miss Bone,
countdown whenever you say.

Give me the ship, Brett.

Hello, hello, Paul?
This is Mary.

Everything is all ready here,
what about you?

[Paul over radio]
As ready as we'll ever be, Mary.

I never realised just how
primitive Lambda I really is.

No tele-screens,
only elementary couplers,

and closed-circuit radio.

When we enter phase,

you'll have lost contact
with us.

[Miss Bone over radio]
Paul, wouldn't it be better to wait

until we can adapt Lambda I
more adequately?

Even if we could mock up
some sort of normalcy screens?

No, Mary.
Rorsch took his chance

on Tau exposure,
and so must I.

At least I'm not alone.

Good luck then, Paul...
good luck.

Grid clearance, final call.

Rescue ship, Lambda I,
about to enter phase.

Stand by.

Phase entry in ten seconds
from now...

Ten, nine, eight...

...seven, six, five,

four, three, two, one.

Zero. Generators on.
ln phase.

[generators starting up]

[whirring]

[Eric]
Paul... Paul? You all right?

[Paul]
Yes, Eric... yes, I think so.

We're in phase.

Is this how it should be?
Black like this?

I don't know.

Wait, I’ll try and adjust.

Gamma!

So this is what they mean by it,

the great grey-green.
The twilight desert.

Don't you always
experience this?

No. ln today's ships
all effects are blanked out.

Perhaps we shouldn't
take anything at face value.

That, for instance.

Is it worthy of our attention,
or simply a trick of the light?

- Eric, he needs our help--
- No, Paul!

- He does! I've got to--
- Stop that! Listen to me!

One move outside
that hatch, and you're lost!

What?

Why do you think I wanted
to come along on this trip?

Because I needed to know
what Tau really was!

And I’m beginning to understand
that the interaction

of our atoms and atomic space
is complex and deceiving.

[harmonic female voices singing]

What's that?
What's happening now?

Julie! Julie!

[muted screaming, silence]

[harmonic singing continues]

Julie! Julie!

- No, Paul, don't go out there--
- But it's Julie--

It’s an hallucination--

- But you see it too?
- Yes!

Then how can it be
an hallucination?

Two men cannot share
the same vision!

[rumbling]

[Paul]
What... What's happening now?

Epsilon, Epsilon, Eric!

We've slipped two modes!
But why?

I just don't understand
about Julie!

It is not enough to say
it's an hallucination, Eric.

[screams]

Eric!

What is it now? Out there,
you wouldn't believe it.

Eric...

And in that day the wicked
shall fly vengeance...

...but it shall be visited
on them

in rivers of fire
and sulphurous fumes!

[all]
Amen!

And darkness
shall cover the land,

and no man shall see
hill or vale.

[all]
Amen.

And in that hour,

the righteous man
shall seek justice...

The justice of heaven!

[all]
Amen.

Get out of my way!

[Dantor] And the servants of
righteousness...

It’s nothing.
I tried to stop Dantor,

and he shoved me aside.
I hit my head.

They're still listening
to him, then?

More and more!

I tell you he's gone mad,

he'll drive the others mad too
if we don't think of something.

But what?

Bridie, we're not going to
get out of this.

They should have withdrawn us
long before this.

- Alex, don't talk--
- And the next thing is,

they'll all lose control
out there,

they'll start slaughtering
each other.

- Unless we--
- [Dantor] Justice!

[others]
Amen.... Amen....

For the last time, who are you?

Where do you come from?
What do you want?

Still nothing to say?

Where's Benedict, eh?
Is he dead?

Have you come to try
and drive me mad... Is that it?

Well, you won't succeed,
you know. Not so simply.

Oh, no! I can stop you
from driving me mad.

[Dantor] How long
shall the wicked triumph?

Has not their day come,
their hour sounded?

And are not we
the servants of righteousness?

Evil servants, to shrink
when duty commands!

Base slaves, to fall away...

...in the hour of trial!

[Dantor continues]
Go forth...

Go forth in the name of justice.

[hissing]

[Dantor, muffled]
Rise up, rise up and be strong!

Strike the wicked!
Cut, burn...

...slay the unrighteous!

[coughs]

I’ll give you one final chance,
to answer my questions.

Do you hear?
Who are you?

Where's my friend?

[man speaks in foreign language]

Whoever you are, you won't
interfere with this craft!

[thunderous explosion]

Eric... but what... l--

Yes... I think I understand!
Paul!

Paul, what did you see me as
just now?

- See you?
- We've slipped into Delta.

It seems one of the
characteristics

of the Epsilon mode, is a
kind of identity distortion.

You appeared to me just then,
as some kind of gross insect.

Insect?

Something happens
inside the head...

The interactions
is between Tau matter,

and the fabric
of the brain itself.

What we see in Tau must often
only be a half truth.

That portion of the stimuli

which the brain can resolve
in imagery

based on personal experience.

Trust nothing
in atomic space, Paul.

We're taking the chance
on our own psyches here...

...for better or for worse.

[siren blares]
What's that?

It’s the Elektron! Her signals!

Short blasts.
Eric, it's her distress signal !

We must be close enough to her

in the mode pattern
to receive her SOS!

Strike them!
Strike the wicked!

Unsheathe the sword of justice.

“It is time”,
says the voice out of Heaven.

Iniquity... be strong...

Strike! Take up the sword!

[siren wails in background]

[sobbing]

The distress system works
automatically.

When a generator
falls below par, say,

or the air or power supply fail.
A thousand reasons!

Under normal conditions,

it's a priority request
for withdrawal from Tau.

Yet we still have to
get our own craft into Omega...

- ...to be of any help...
- Exactly!

I’ll try and jump
the vector setting.

[coughing]

Miss Palmer! Miss Palmer!

What is it?

The gas... gas!
Where's it coming from?

Gas...
Psilomelane...

Come on! You must tell me!
You must tell me!

ln the cargo...

- But you mustn't...
- No.

I’ll do everything I can...

[coughs]

No, it's no use!
Why won't it slip?

Tau is the interaction
of spatial matter...

...on the very fabric
of the brain.

I’ll try once more.

If I can alter
the generator balance,

that might do it.

[screams]

For God's sake!
What are you doing?

I don't understand.

The screen, man, the screen!
What does it say?

Omega.

And yes... Eric...
There, look.

The Elektron! We've done it.
We've reached her.

There isn't a moment to lose.
We've got to board her.

We can't go out--

How else can we
rescue Julie and the others?

We'd be dashed to pieces
if we tried to get through that!

There are rocks,
didn't you see them?

No, you idiot.

Omega, that drives men crazy.

First you try to kill yourself,
then you want to kill others!

Leave me!

[siren in background]

[coughs]

[struggles, grunts]

Paul, Paul,
listen to me, can't you?

[grunting, yelping]

- Help, help! I’ll drown!
- Stop that!

- I can't fight against--
- Stop it, I say!

When will you understand
it's happening inside your head?

Just like the other things.

But the difference is if you believe
in the Tau vision, then it's actual.

That sea out there can drown you
or leave you unharmed.

Just as you choose.

That's why your man went mad
in the Camargue,

because his violence had brought
him to just such a Tau-phase,

and he believed in it too.

- Violence?
- Yes...

Omega's not a mode you slip
into, not by any means.

It’s one you thrust yourself at!

Come on, Paul!
Julie needs you!

Julie?

Julie.

Julie.

- Oh, Paul!
- It’s all right.

It’s all right.

[faint feedback]

- Is she all right?
- I think so.

It must have been she
who turned off the gas.

She was the only one
left conscious.

Pollution's at a tolerable
level.

Air-clearance should do
the rest.

I wonder if I can work this well
enough to contact Mary Bone?

They should be able
to withdraw us to normalcy now.

Eric, tell me.
How did you do it?

I backed a hunch
and it paid off, that's all.

But the key is somewhere in the
Tau interaction with the psyche.

It came to me that just before
the Elektron slipped into Omega,

there was an act of desperation.

A man tried to commit suicide,
so I attempted the same thing.

And we slipped too.

Meantime, Julie had independently
set out to save the ship,

from a further act
of desperation.

Remember she's carrying a child.

That makes her
a creature of life.

As certainly as the others are
creatures of death.

The will to live,
the will to die...

...is that the key to Tau-Omega?

We'll have to work on it.

[man over radio]
Hello, Elektron?

Hello, Elektron?

This is Tau Terminal, London.
Are you receiving us?

Hello, Tau Terminal.
This is Elektron.

Stabilising on Delta,
and requesting out-phase.

Whenever you're ready, please.
Out-phase...

[whirring]