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In the name of god...

..Please tell me who you are.

Because I know you're here.

I'm a friend.

And I want to help you.

So will you let me help you?

Please?

You can trust in me. Burst of static

Wings flapping

Footsteps approaching

I...

I want to help you.

Who...

Whoever you are.

All irregularities will be handled

by the forces controlling each dimension.

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

Medium atomic weights are available.

Gold, lead...

Copper...

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

Sapphire and steel have been assigned.

I want to help you.

So, in the name of god...

..Who are you?

Who are you?

You... I am from the other side.

What? The down platform.

My candle!

Do you know what you've done?

Yes.

You've blown it out during an important psychical investigation.

Have I?

Yes, that could be dangerous. Mind the thread there, please.

Thread twangs

there's another one there! Thread twangs

I'd appreciate an explanation. For what?

Breaking in here and... You own this place, do you?

No, but I'm in the process of conducting an investigation...

So am I. What?

Conducting an investigation, a serious one.

You'd better pack up your junk and leave.

When I was here first? Oh, no.

Telepathically: 'Steel...'

I've been observing here for nearly two months.

'Yes?' 'anything on the footbridge?'

'no. Where are you?' 'The platform, your side.

'I think you'd better come here, now.'

it's my ghost, you know. I located it first.

Have you seen it? No, but I've heard it.

I've been observing here faithfully for nearly two months.

And that gives me every right... You have no rights.

Not in this.

You see, it happens to be more than just a ghost.

Door slams

Now what?

The time of year now? Late October, why?

Not here, not on this platform. What?

It's summer.

Summer? Yes, can you feel it?

It's a summer night, can you feel the warmth?

No. In the air.

It's filled with the smell of flowers.

And trees. The movement of them.

And the smell of newly cut grass.

What time period? I don't know.

And a source?

I can't tell. It's just that...

It doesn't seem malevolent. The sensation of...

..Warmth and calmness.

It is malevolent. It has to be.

Sapphire, there are no trees, there are no flowers.

There's only you and I, it, and a man.

It's not locked.

Who is the man? Some would-be ghost catcher.

He's in the booking hall,

busy trying to make contact with what he thinks is a lost soul.

Does it feel like summer in here? No.

This man... What's in there?

What's in there? Leads to the reception area.

Reception area? Yes, this wasn't just a station.

There was once a small hotel attached to it. A railway hotel.

How romantic.

1947.

They still had steam engines in those days.

Why a derelict station?

I don't know. I mean, why choose this place?

It's hardly what we expected. It depends what it has in mind.

What form it's taken.

Or whose form it's taken. Yes.

Landing, hotel bedrooms.

There are two more floors like this.

How many rooms are there in all? About 20.

Only it doesn't seem to have taken up residence in any of them.

You expect it to arrive with a suitcase, do you?

No.

Steel?

There's something happening in here. Something changing.

Stay there. Watch me.

What am I looking at? Well, it happened just now, twice.

My... my clothes and my hair seemed to change.

Into what?

It was a light cotton shirt and a straw hat.

Summer clothes. Yes.

Summer clothes, I don't see them.

You smell summer on the platform, I don't.

From here? Yes.

No? No.

It seems to be interested in you. Whatever it is.

Melodic whistling

What did it look like to you? Human.

Male or female? I couldn't tell.

Steel.

They're real, they exist.

The soil's fresh, it's been newly dug.

Chrysanthemum compositae, geraniaceae, caryophyllaceae...

Summer flowers in full bloom. In late October.

Yes.

The man in the booking hall... What about him?

Does he exist?

He's in there. But is he real?

You said it could take any form. Did you do a spot analysis?

Now, you know that's not my territory.

It is mine, though.

Are you playing tricks with me?

Tricks? Yes, tricks with flowers.

I happened to be a psychical investigator, not a conjurer.

So you've seen the flowers, have you?

I've seen some flowers, yes. On the platform?

Well, I shouldn't worry.

They won't be there long. They never are.

Even if you took some home, they'd still disappear later.

I've tried it.

What about you? Me?

Yeah, are you likely to disappear later?

I shouldn't think so, no.

If I didn't make these notes straighta...

How do you do? My name is sapphire.

Oh. And your name is?

Tully. George Tully.

Well, I'm so very pleased to meet you, mr Tully.

Warped pulsing

'muscular power emission ergs per second, mass times acceleration,

'times distance, divided by time...'

well, I must say I'm very pleased to meet you.

I suppose my friend didn't bother to introduce himself.

No. 'Spinal contraction enables movement

'to be made either voluntarily or involuntarily.'

he never does, I'm always having to apologise for him.

Are you? Oh.

'Voluntary muscle existing mainly for movement of the skeleton

'at the command of the will...'

do you know, at first he thought you might be a ghost.

Well, I thought he was one.

'Circulating throughout the vertebrate body,

'carrying nutrients and oxygen to the tissues.'

well, you certainly don't look like a ghost to me, mr Tully.

Oh, I'm not. Flesh and blood, like everyone else, I'm afraid.

'Blood has four main constituents:

'Plasma, erythrocytes, leucocytes...'

'in other words, it's human.' 'Yes.'

'life expectancy of present subject, 57.03 years.'

This ghost of yours... mr Tully?

Yes?

Describe it to me. What?

Well, I'm glad you asked that question,

but it's not really my ghost.

"It's my ghost, you know, I located it first."

Yes, when I said... Describe it to me.

That young woman, is she, erm...? Is she what?

Is she a relative of yours, or just a friend?

A business associate. Oh.

Business, yes, I understand. Mr Tully...

Of course, I always work alone myself.

Not that I prefer it that way, but it's...

Difficult to find someone compatible, someone...

Business associate.

Melodic whistling

A kind of darkness, that's all.

Like a piece of darkness, not quite a shadow.

Yes, like a piece of darkness.

And that's all you've seen?

Well, it's enough for the time being. I'm a patient observer.

Two months. What?

You say you've been observing this presence for two months.

Approximately, yes.

Been with you long? What?

Your business associate? Quite a long time, yes.

Good working relationship? Perfect.

Well, that's a godsend these days...

How long has it been haunting this place?

As far as I can make out, for just those two months.

From the time I happened to find it.

I regard that as an important private and personal discovery.

So, what's your interest?

I'm here to get rid of it.

Melodic whistling

Whistling stops

Whistling resumes

Making contact with that ghost, as I have done

and as I will continue to do, is... is essential!

Not to me. It's necessary.

It is of supreme importance both to psychical and theological groups

all over the... you won't get rid of that ghost, you know.

You can't. It is not just a ghost.

Thank you. Well, what else can it be?

Whatever it is...

..It represents a kind of energy. What kind of energy?

Negative energy.

Cranks like you could never understand it.

You only increase the danger.

By trying to help?

By interfering.

You're still in the dark ages, mr Tully.

Am I?

Well, at least, in my ignorance, I'm sympathetic.

At least I know he's in trouble.

And he's been hurt in some way.

That he needs help.

He?

Whistling returns

I just feel that it's a man, that's all. The ghost of a man.

Why?

It's just that... Well, I sense it, I suppose.

I accept that it's a man. I hadn't seen him, but...

I just know.

And then there's the sounds.

What sounds?

Of the things he carries.

Heavy sounds.

Well, not all that heavy, but it's as if, well...

As if he were carrying a lot of bulky objects -

bags, luggage, things like that.

That's why I feel he was a traveller or a member of the station staff.

I feel...

I feel he cares about this place.

He has a... weird kind of interest in the place, yes.

No, he cares.

And someone who provides flowers,

has the power to decorate that platform with beautiful flowers,

how could he possibly represent danger or evil?

Whistling resumes

When will you be back? Tomorrow.

At what time? 'Steel!'

to continue my investigations...

'Yes?' be quiet.

I beg your pardon? I said be quiet.

'What is it?' Marching drums

'the platform again.

'Something... changing, something happening.'

'tell me.'

'the flowers have appeared again, and the smell of summer, but...

'There's something else, steel. There's something else this time.'

'can you identify it?'

'just... a very powerful feeling...

'..Of hatred.

'And resentment, a strong feeling of resentment.

'The whole atmosphere out here is charged with it.'

marching band music continues

'and that sound, steel.

'Can you hear that?'

'no.

'What is it?'

'it's the sound of a band.

'It's approaching. It's coming here.'

listen.

'And I can hear men...' Hey, wake up.

'..Marching.' you hear that?

'Be careful, sapphire.' You hear it?

'Sapphire, be careful.' 'I'm all right, steel.'

'sapphire, leave that platform now.

'We're in the waiting room, come in here now.'

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