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Intro music

Ominous music

sapphire gasps

music stops

Aha! Found you. Anyone else in there with you?

Ominous music oh, silly.

Screams

'All irregularities will be handled

'by the forces controlling each dimension.'

'transuranic heavy elements may not be used when there is life.'

'medium atomic weights are available.'

'gold, lead,

'copper.

'Jet,

'diamond,

'radium, sapphire,

'silver and steel.

'Sapphire and steel have been assigned.'

screams

thunder rumbles

Annabelle?

Annabelle? Howard!

What on earth are you doing? Oh!

What the devil's going on?

Thud

oh, my god. Oh, come along, Veronica, you're spoiling it all.

We weren't going to play murders till after dinner.

She's not playing, is she, Arthur?

Dramatic music

no.

No, she's not playing.

The girl's dead. Gasps

door opens

mentally: 'Did "it" kill Veronica?'

'or did someone in this house do it?'

sapphire: 'It could be one and the same.'

door closes

who would have done such a thing?

Almost anyone.

Almost anyone in this house, Emma.

Poor, poor, lovely girl.

Felix, ring for the police, will you?

Greville...

Get something to cover the body.

Thunder roars

That storm's come out of nowhere. Sapphire: There's somebody missing.

No, I don't think so.

Tony purnell, someone should tell him.

Maybe he already knows.

Everyone is gonna have to remember

just exactly where they were and what they were doing.

When?

Within the last... Ten minutes?

Yes. Within the last...

Ten minutes.

I can't even remember what happened yesterday.

I can't even remember coming here.

But, I... Get on with it, man.

The knife, sir. What about it?

It's one of ours. One of our carving knives.

I laid it in the dining room earlier this evening, sir.

That would make it accessible to anyone.

Cover the poor girl. And then there were nine.

What's she rambling on about? Arthur.

Did you know that there were ten of us here when we started?

Well, I didn't really check, but... You.

Me.

Emma.

And... Mentally: 'Quick, what's my name?'

sapphire: 'Miles.' Miles.

Thank you.

Howard.

Virginia.

Annabelle.

And...

Felix. Yes?

Veronica blamey. That's nine.

And Tony purnell makes ten.

Wherever he is.

Did you get the police, Felix? No, I couldn't.

Why not? The telephone's dead.

Thunder rumbles telephone, dead?

Steel: Oh, now that's significant.

Why is it significant? A dead telephone?

Because it means this house is cut off

from the rest of the country.

It's all part of the device.

This is not a damn story. This is real.

Is it?

Thunder cracks

Anyway, we're not cut off.

Storm is affecting the telephone, that's all. Felix!

Be a good chap, will you? Get into your car, nip down to the village...

I'm sorry, my dear chap, but I haven't got a car.

We can arrange that. Greville! Annabelle and I...

All I want to do is find a constable and let him know...

My dear fellow, I would go, but I didn't bring a car.

Greville will take you. Mr harborough, sir.

And now the rest of us had better start looking for purnell.

Felicity: Howard, I'm going upstairs.

The doors locked! It's impossible, sir.

Fog!

It's icy cold.

It won't open, sir.

Don't be so stupid, greville, of course it'll open.

You're right. It won't.

The window.

Howard, smash the window.

Supernatural noise

silence, chair pieces fall to floor

Mentally: 'It has completely isolated this house.'

'there's no way out?'

'no conventional way out, no.'

'Which one of them, sapphire?'

'which one of them killed her?'

'which one of them does it control?'

'maybe it's one and the same.'

hello?

Hello, operator?

Hello?

Sighs

Oh, it's you.

The phone's dead... Supernatural noise

Ominous music

steel: It is a time change, most likely.

And there's a logical reason for using this house.

It says here that it's on a ley-line.

The line runs right across this part of the country

and directly through this building.

Mm, it's a perfect place for turning the clock back.

And it's using the summer solstice, the perfect time.

Have you any idea who it's using?

Nothing definite.

I need to get closer to make contact.

Well, then make contact.

Steel, I need something tangible, something concrete.

Tony purnell's champagne glass.

It's his last physical contact since the girl's death.

No one has touched it since he put it down.

You can start there.

Mentally: 'Anthony purnell.'

'son of a merchant banker.'

'fast cars.

'Expensive clothes.'

'money.'

'women.'

sighs

'it's that barrier again, steel.'

'break through it.'

'Tony purnell...'

'he was here only a few days ago.

'June 18th.' 'This year?'

'who did he come to see? Mullrine?'

'no. No, he was in London.

'Purnell came to see someone else in this house.'

'mullrine's secretary!'

'purnell came to see...' 'Anne Shaw.'

'in mullrine's office, here. Behind that green door.'

'they're kissing.'

'no.

'No, she's angry with him.

'She knows about Veronica blamey.'

'she's jealous.'

'He tells her not to worry.

'He says Veronica will not be a threat.'

'he says he can easily get rid of her.'

Smashes

gunshot

purnell. Where?

I don't know, somewhere in the house.

A gunshot, I think.

When?

Soon.

What on earth?

Sir. What is it, greville?

There is no sign of mr purnell at the back of the house, sir.

No sign at all? None of the servants have seen him.

Well, that can't be possible.

I mean, the man can't just disappear into the air, can he?

..Darling, please try to grow up.

Did you find anything?

Nothing. His room's a shambles.

He's not there. I can't find him anywhere.

Well, he can't get out. Sapphire: That's right.

No one can get out.

Now, look here...

I want to know what the devil's going on.

For starters, I want to know who you two are.

I beg your pardon? We were invited.

We're not gate-crashers.

You're not answering the question. Yes, who are you? I don't remem...

..Remember.

I doubt if any of you can remember very much.

What are you talking about? A tear in the fabric of time.

I read somewhere that the inability to remember is one of the symptoms.

I'm awfully sorry, but you're not making any sense at all.

I can remember perfectly. Can you, sir? Yes.

Where were you, lord mullrine, three days ago, on June 18th?

Here.

No. Well, I must have been in London then. Correct.

And what were you doing in London? What I always do, business. Go on.

In the afternoon, I went to my club, the Denver, for lunch.

And in the evening, I went to the theatre,

the knightsbridge tivoli, to see... Impossible.

Are you calling me a liar?

With all respect, sir, it is impossible

for you to have done either of those things three days ago.

The knightsbridge tivoli closed its doors for the last time in 1934,

and the Denver was, I believe, blitzed in 1941.

You see?

It's some sort of conjuring trick. Is it?

Where were you yesterday, mr harborough?

Where did you have lunch today, mrs harborough?

What is the registration number of your car, mr mcdee?

Can't remember?

No? Well, what kind of a car is it?

What make, mr mcdee? Well, it's a...

Oh, no!

Oh, yes.

By now, I would venture to say that

none of us can remember arriving at this house tonight, nor why we came.

Come and sit down, miles.

Thank you.

Now, it is impossible to know what is happening outside this house.

Assuming that there is an outside... Thunder roars

The clock is moving backwards.

For the moment, there is no past...

..And no future.

There was a murder, I remember that.

Was there? All talking

well, of course there was, I found the body, don't be so stupid.

Then let us refresh our memories.

If greville would be kind enough... Of course, sir.

..To remove the sheet from the body. Oh, no, please!

Now, look here, that's obscene. Sir?

Yes, go ahead.

Ominous music

..Changing, bodies disappearing...

There's no logic to it, and that's what I don't like!

Well, you cannot rely on... The girl was murdered!

There was a knife sticking out of her back.

She couldn't have put it there.

And now she's gone and Tony purnell's disappeared.

There is a logic to it somewhere... Rubbish!

..If we can find it.

Listen, my memory's gone completely.

I can't think where I had lunch today, I simply can't remember.

I can't even remember my own car.

There's no logic and no sense to it.

No, no, no, no, there is a sense to it.

You see, lord mullrine provided the setting -

a party.

A celebration back in 1930.

Everything authentic.

And set in a house that sits astride an ancient ley-line.

Miles, what exactly is a ley-line?

It's a line of increased magnetic activity on the earth's surface.

I believe birds navigate by them.

And then there's the date. The summer solstice.

No, it's... It's all very significant.

June 21st, 1930.

Felicity: That's today!

Yes, today, but... 50 years ago.

What was he doing, and what was he working on?

Why don't you ask yourself? He's here.

You can't interrupt him while he's in his laboratory. This is absurd!

No, you can't disturb him, Felix, no! Don't you dare go in there.

You can't get in any way.

Tony purnell may be in there. Nobody's looked, have they?

We are talking about George mcdee, about his work.

George never talks about his work.

At least not until the project he's working on is finished.

You must have some idea?

Yes, it's a medicine of some sort, I think. Medicine?

Yes, he's in there messing about with genetics.

You know, biology and all that stuff.

Hm, have you ever heard anything so ludicrous?

Mentally: 'Genetic engineering.' 'Serum biology.' 'Yes.'

anyway, someone at the ministry has swallowed the idea, evidently.

It's all very secret. Hush-hush. A medicine, for which disease?

To hear him talk, all of them.

Hm, he's nattering on about giving it to the whole population.

Ha-ha-ha, George!

'What was he doing, sapphire? What was he working on?'

'he...

'He's almost succeeded.'

'he's very close.'

'he's broken the genetic code.'

'he's replacing...

'No, he's manipulating the genetic characteristics of a virus.'

'it will save thousands of lives.'

'one more day, steel. One more day and he will succeed.'

'to save lives? Then why should "it" keep him alive?'

'because he's careless, steel.'

'he will cause the extinction of life

'on this planet by his carelessness.'

'so, on June 21st, 1930, this planet faces extinction?

'Unless...' on June 22nd, George mcdee dies.

No! What are you saying?

That's tomorrow!

How do you know my grandfather dies tomorrow?

Because he has to. If you're so clever, mr cavendish, at what time?

Emma: Arthur...

We've got a little bit of a problem.

Oh, god, a little bit of a problem, says Emma. It's about dinner.

Greville's getting quite anxious.

Dinner? Who the devil can think about dinner, Emma?

Well, somebody has to.

We've got jugged hare and all sorts of lovely other things.

The kitchen staff went to a great deal of trouble. Is nobody hungry?

Somebody gasping

mr purnell, sir, they've been looking for you.

Yes, I know.

You all right, sir? No, I'm not.

S-Someone, or something, tried to kill me!

I'll tell lord mullrine, sir.

No! Mutters

tell cavendish. Tell him I'm in here, tell him I must speak to him.

Yes, sir. No one else, greville, no one else.

Just as you say, sir.

Why don't you sit down, sir?

What is so significant about 1930?

What happened in this house 50 years ago?

If we find out who it is, then we'll know.

Come on, let's try George mcdee again.

Aye, he must have had this in his hands at some time or other.

You're asking for a manifestation? Yes, published in 1922.

Well, it's too difficult.

It's a very long time ago and it's too dangerous.

Give it a try.

Yes, he was in this room sometime during that day.

But I can't tell when.

Sapphire.

Door creaks

mr mcdee? Voice of mr mcdee: Yes.

Chair scrapes across floor what do you want?

To talk.

Well, I've no time for that, I've work to do.

Who are you, anyway, one of Arthur's flapper set?

Not exactly.

All right, well, you'd better get back out there.

I'm sure Emma's about to organise

one of those duff party games of hers.

Sardines, I shouldn't wonder.

Well, we've already played that.

Aye, well, I've no time for idle chatter, young man.

What do you know of deoxyribonucleic acid, mr mcdee?

What?!

The transference of coded genetic material.

Cloning bacteria, encouraging them to produce your vaccine.

How do you know about that?

Has Arthur been blathering again?

Do you know the danger involved? There is no danger!

The only real danger is to the millions who may die

without my vaccine.

Such laboratory procedures must be carefully controlled.

They are carefully controlled!

Bacteria can escape from the laboratory.

It couldn't happen. You cannot be certain.

Even if it did, they'd be killed off.

They could never withstand the change in temperature,

for one thing.

Ah, but is it not possible for a strain of bacteria,

not only to withstand the change in temperature,

but also to become immune, and therefore highly lethal?

Are you a scientist?

I can tell you what will happen

if you don't call a halt to your work right now.

Who put you up to this? Are you one of Alec Fleming's lot?

Others will come later,

they will find a means to control and use genetic engineering.

I sincerely hope so. You don't have the facilities yet!

I've lost him!

Of course I have the facilities! I've lost him.

I've been working on this theorem for six years. How dare you?!

Mr cavendish! I'm sorry, sir, madam, did I disturb you?

Yes, I'm afraid you did, greville.

Uh, it's mr purnell, sir. You found him?

He-he-he's in the dining room, sir, he didn't really appear to be lost.

Somewhat dishevelled, though.

He said that he wanted to see you, sir.

Sapphire mentally: 'Don't go.' Of course, greville.

Uh, nobody else. Certainly.

Mr purnell led me to believe that it was, uh, rather urgent, sir.

Don't go, steel. Don't go in there.

What is it? Listen.

Gunshot

you told me.

You forgot.

That was a gunshot, sir! Yes, it was.

From inside the dining room.

Don't be silly, nobody takes guns into dining rooms.

Emma, stop your prattling! It might be Tony in there.

Where are the others, Howard and Felix?

Felix went upstairs to get some cigarettes. And I thought...

Howard was in the library. No, he isn't.

Well, for god's sake, let's get in there.

Dramatic music

Tony!

And then there were eight.

Suicide. The gun is well out of his reach.

He killed the girl then shot himself.

Stands to reason. There's no reason for any of this!

Oh, yes, there's a reason for all of it.

The time change, the murders, the barrier around this house.

It's just very difficult for miles to pinpoint.

If you don't pinpoint it quickly, there won't be any of us

left to care... Echoing: Care.

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