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Light wind

What is it?

A service station. Some kind of halfway place.

And the time? The present.

Inhabited?

I don't know. I haven't looked yet.

Locker squeaks

well, let's look.

Locker closes

time of day? 8:54pm.

What is the time of year?

Summer, mid-July.

I wonder if there's anybody running this place.

There isn't.

Apart from us...

There's only two other people here.

And they arrived in that.

I've given it a quick visual examination, but I'm sure you...

And the result of your visual examination?

I'd say the car was manufactured in 1946.

Mm-hm. It's no more than two years old.

Where are they?

Hm? Oh, they are in here.

All irregularities will be handled

by the forces controlling each dimension.

Transuranium heavy elements may not be used where there is life.

Medium atomic weights are available...

Gold, Mercury...

..Copper...

Jet, diamond, radium, sapphire, silver and steel.

Sapphire and steel have been assigned.

Do they go with the car? Yes.

Heavy clanging

have you question them? No, not yet.

I thought I'd leave that to you.

I'm not very good at intimidation.

Are they real? I mean, do you believe them?

Well, I have been given no reason to disbelieve him.

So far, that is. A couple and a car.

Two people and a machine driving here from 1948.

To this place? To this time period?

Well, I did say so far. Machine clangs

coins jingle

after all, perhaps this side could be wrong.

Coins clanging

what do you mean, "this side could be wrong"?

Well, why not?

After all... Coins jingle

..it seems just as perfectly set in it's period

as those people do in theirs, but one side has to be wrong.

And this side?

Well, that's also a little odd. Machine clangs

tell us.

Silver, you're supposed to gamble.

Gamble?

Yes, sometimes you're supposed to lose.

Well, most times you're supposed to lose.

Oh!

Huh! I wondered why I wasn't enjoying it.

I said, tell us.

You see, I was standing here.

Now, I was told, and you were told,

that there was going to be a time-break.

So, I was sent here to watch and to wait.

And then, the car arrived.

But I think the time-break had happened quite a time for that.

Did you see it arrive?

Well, I should say it appeared. I didn't hear its approach.

Could you do it? Yes.

Show me.

Love to.

Engine murmurs

handbrake creaks

What on earth...?

What's your opinion?

Opinion?

Yeah, you've been here, you've been watching.

What do you think's going on? I think...

Well, I'm almost sure. ..That there's no time here.

Not any more. You mean, it's stopped?

Yes. Well, it's a kind of... A pocket.

Like a vacuum.

Yes. Yes, you could say there is no time here any more.

Evidence?

Well, the traffic. You can hear it.

Car engines in the distance

yes?

You see, the through road would be round about there.

But listen to those sounds. Cars grumble

it's the sound of the same vehicles passing.

Yes, the ones that would've been passing

when the time-break occurred.

They're still travelling, but they're not going anywhere.

The time...

What about it?

It's still 8:54.

Yes, it's been 8:54 for the past six hours.

Ever since I got here.

But all the clocks are still working.

They don't tell us what the right time ought to be,

but they are still working. You see.

No, no!

Thank you.

What's normal time?

Normal time?

Yes, time as it is.

You remember that.

What is it?

Three minutes, 23 seconds after midnight.

Cash register rings

and you've been here for six hours. Roughly, yes.

So what does that tell us, that it happened at 8:54pm

yesterday, the day before, when? I don't know.

Well, perhaps the radio can tell us.

The radio?

Door creaks

brass notes repeat

'The referee's... The referee's...

'The referee's... '

classical notes repeat

'..54.

'..Be 8:54.'

time as it shouldn't be for this place.

Neither for us. No.

'..Be eight...'

Door closes

Are you going to show more surprise than your friend?

Surprise? Yes.

He didn't show any.

Well, suppose you tell us why we should be surprised.

Because we are here. And where is here?

Oh, come on now.

I've no doubt you represent authority,

and I suppose he sent for you. It's not a crime.

Whatever's happened to us, it can't be a crime, can it?

No.

Well, then, reason with him.

Don't argue with him.

This is the future, isn't it?

We were driving, minding our own business.

Suddenly, we arrive here into the future without warning.

That's why we are sitting here.

We are not making a fuss.

We are just sitting here waiting.

So that perhaps we may go back without warning.

This isn't a trick on our part, you know.

It's not some sort of game, I mean...

You may think it is... No.

No, we don't think it is.

Good.

Because I know this place isn't a game.

Well, I suppose it's how the future would feel. I mean...

It even smells and tastes like a different time.

It scares me.

When you were... driving along and minding your own business,

what happened?

Well, she's already said.

Well, explain it.

Explain it to us.

We'd taken the long toll turning. It's an old toll bridge road.

There's a small garage, which I know there.

It's only got one pump.

They sell eggs, and fruit and milk.

Most people wouldn't know it's a garage.

Grass and weeds growing all over the place.

Chickens running under your wheels.

But you can knock on the door any time of the day or night,

the old fellow will always serve you.

So, you drove in there?

Yes. Then what?

Well, then it became this place. Suddenly.

Without any kind of warning.

Was there any people here? No.

Then he arrived.

He wasn't very helpful. Sorry.

Time of day? What?

What was the time of day when you drove in here

through the grass, and weeds and the chickens?

It was nearly midnight.

Yes. It'll be almost midnight.

And the date?

The 25th of July. And the year?

1948.

Telepathically: 'Do we believe them?'

'we can always do tests.' 'Even the car.'

'because if they are not what they say they are,

'victims of the time break, then they could be a part of it.'

'what, all of it?'

'i don't see that.'

There's quite an age difference between them.

About 14 years. Mm.

But they are married.

Oh, yes, they're married. Mm.

But not to each other.

Clanging

whoops.

Well, as the catering staff seem to have deserted us,

I'm quite prepared to cook some food.

So, can I get you something? No, thank you.

Surely... We don't trust it.

We prefer to wait until we give back to our own time.

That might be quite a while. We'll still wait, thank you.

What about you? Me?

Well, he didn't really ask you.

He doesn't have to.

Surely you must be hungry? No, I'm not.

After that journey? I mean, 30-odd years.

He chuckles

what about an omelette?

I can soon get an omelette together. A nice ham omelette.

I'm afraid that would constitute a meat meal away from home. What?

Page three, paragraph nine of their ration book, rb1.

Half a coupon per person.

Oh, yes, of course.

You do have your ration book?

We don't want the food, so you don't get the coupon.

Fair enough.

But... if it will satisfy your curiosity.

You talk about food.

What about those?

Those plates.

Some haven't even been touched.

There's cigarettes and matches on that table.

There are coats over the chairs, but there are no people.

You expect me to eat something...

Touch food here?

A glass of water, that's all I want from this place.

Because this place terrifies me.

Beeping

ringing, money jingles

drawer closes

This. What about it?

Well, do you know what it is? No.

It's a simple calculator. I don't know want to know.

All you have to do is... Didn't you hear what she said?

We're not interested.

Not even this?

Not even in that.

Well, what about all the other gadgets in this room?

Aren't you curious? Don't you want to know what they are?

How they work? No.

Why, things you'll never have seen before.

You do surprise me. We are interested in only one thing.

Getting back to where we belong. Yes.

I think what he is trying to say is

why don't you take this back with you to 1948?

You could invent it. You could make a fortune.

Mm. We're still not interested.

Well, that's good.

The future should be left intact.

Quite.

But how many people would consider that?

I would expect people to take what they could from the future.

To make the most of the experience.

But not you.

All you want... Is one glass of water.

Yes.

Steel: 'Out here.'

When you arrived here, did you switch any lights on?

No. No, they were already on, why?

Well, if the time-break happened on what was a bright summer evening,

why was every single light left on in this place?

And there is an image. Of a person?

Yes.

An old man.

In there.

In another building. Well, a part of another building.

Wait.

That was the image you saw before?

The same man, different background.

What are you getting?

A sense of fear.

And violence.

It is possible, isn't it, for a time-break,

either by accident or design,

to pick up some powerful emotion from the past?

Like a sort of side-effect or a follow-through?

Yes. Mm, I'd agree with that.

A small garage that sells eggs, and fruit and milk...

With grass and weeds growing everywhere.

July the 25th was a Sunday. Yesterday, was a Sunday, yes.

Well, this small shack of a garage that you drove into...

Yes. ..Is it open on Sunday?

I've already said.

It's opened at all hours, any day of the week.

Provided you knock on the door and get the old man to serve you.

That's right. What about midnight?

It's no different.

But the old man...

How did you know if he was in?

Because he never goes out.

I see.

Anyway, he always leaves his lights on.

All night long.

A light burning in every room.

He's a sort of local joke.

Why? Ah, a character.

Ah... Why are you asking us this?

I mean, we are stuck here in the wrong time,

in the wrong place.

We don't really need unnecessary questions.

Where were you going? Going?

Yes, where were you going when you drove in here for pe...?

There are suitcases in your car. Don't answer his questions.

You looked, did you?

Yes, I looked.

I said, don't answer his questions.

We don't have to. You do have to.

If you want us to get you back into your own time.

To face whatever consequences you have to face.

What do you mean "consequences"?

I don't know. You tell me. I said, what do you mean?

It's obvious you're both running away from something.

Are we? Don't!

Don't you think we've had enough?

Gaming machine rattles

that's odd. I was thinking of playing that machine.

Oh, my god. Look!

I was holding that... Look...

What? Look at the clock.

It's moved forward by ten minutes.

But our bodies haven't been affected.

Only this place has.

So what is it moving forward to?

To whatever is going to happen...

Here.

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