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But if I do make contact with it... It may decide to come back.

It can't come back. It can only come forward. Yes.

It may well decide it wants to do its bargaining from here.

From this room? Well, from somewhere here.

You could be face-to-face with it, steel. Do you realise that? Yes!

All right.

But watch for it.

I may not be able to help you.

Please, be careful.

'We wish to talk with you.

'We have something to say to you.'

distorted voices

'something important.

'Something important.

'Very important.'

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.

'We wish to contact you.

'We wish to make contact with you as soon as possible.

Us?

They want to talk to us?

Surely, it must be us. No.

Not us.

Whispering

it's heard us, steel.

It's heard us. It's coming to us.

Whispering

sapphire: It's stopped.

Where?

It's stopped somewhere.

Now?

In the time we are in?

No. In its own time.

Almost. It's...

The footbridge. It's on the footbridge.

That's the between point.

That's the halfway point.

It's moving again.

It's still in its own time? No.

It's crossed over...

..Into ours.

Whispering

whispering continues

it's coming, steel.

Distorted voices

'Be careful, steel.'

Hissing and whispering

aarrgghh!

Whispering stops

door slams

I sent for you.

I want to talk to you.

Now, let's talk, shall we?

I have something of importance I want to discuss with you.

A deal.

Well, a...

..A transaction.

So, where are you?

I can't very well discuss something of importance

if I can't see you, can I?

You're here.

I know you're here.

So why not show yourself?

We've seen you before.

Seen you as the darkness.

So, let's see you now.

Here on the stairs, if you like.

Neutral ground.

No?

All right. We'll forget the whole thing.

I'm in no mood to play cat and mouse.

As far as I'm concerned, you're not here.

You've gone, you never arrived. The deal is off.

Come on, sapphire, it's not here, it's not interested.

So, let's go, let's not waste our time.

Sapphire, wake up, it's time to go.

I said, wake up.

It's not here.

It's not interested. If it is, it's...

..Not interested.

Come on. 'It's here.'

what? 'I said, it's here.'

where?

Distorted voices 'here.

'Don't play games with it.

'It's inside my head, it's inside my brain.

'But I can't see you because it has my eyes.

'It's watching you and listening to you through my eyes.

'So, please, don't try to trick it.

'It could take my eyes.

'And my mind.

'It could snuff out my mind

'as easily as you could snuff out a candle.'

steel, I can't see you.

I'm here.

I understand what's been said.

'Good, because you asked for it to come.' I did, yes.

'Well, it's here. So ask your questions.'

I don't have any questions, just a proposal.

One proposal.

'What is it?'

the darkness thrives on resentment, am I right?

'That's right, yes.'

it's parasitic.

Resentment is food and drink to it, blood and tissue.

Right again? 'These are questions.'

no, they're not. They're statements. They're facts.

Am I right or not?

'You're right to a degree.'

to a degree.

I have something to offer.

An original source of resentment.

A real reason for resentment.

It's on offer, but it can't be bought cheaply.

'Described the offer.'

sorry.

No.

Please, steel, do as it says.

Then tell it not to try that. It's either you negotiating or it.

'All right.'

well, what about my offer? 'It's not interested.'

no? 'No, it already has its own source of resentment.

'It's happy enough with that.'

well, then, it has poor judgment, doesn't it?

Or blind faith.

I mean, what has it got?

The spirit of some kid of a soldier who died at the wrong time

when his war was over.

The ghosts of three young men

who were trapped in a submarine they didn't belong in.

And some lost soul of a pilot who wished his life flying a death-trap

because nobody would let him fly with them.

I mean, you call that resentment?

'There are others.

'Many of them.' Yes?

Well, I expect they're all third-rate grievances as well.

Steel... No.

'Please, don't make it angry, steel.'

by telling the truth? Please...

I can't see you, steel.

Come back to me.

Where are you? I'm here.

Please, take my hands.

Please, steel.

I'm frightened.

Distorted voices

Thank you.

Tell it, sapphire.

Tell it what I'm offering

could give it enough negative energy, enough resentment

to last for five hundred years, maybe even a thousand years!

'It wants to know.' Well, i'm prepared to tell it, but not here.

Not 12 days out of time.

Tell it to take us back, all three of us, back to where we were

and I'll explain the nature of my offer.

'Every last detail of it?' Yes.

But only if it takes us back.

'It will take you back.' No! No good.

All three of us or none of us.

'It agrees.' Good.

When do we go back?

'Soon.

'It will go back. It will meet us where we were.'

Sapphire...

Door creaks open

You said it had gone. It has.

This way.

Does it matter where we are when it takes us back?

Yes. I want it to be on the footbridge.

On your feet, mr Tully.

We don't have very much time.

But...

But I saw it. Something came through here.

I asked you to rest. I saw!

Did you get some rest? Not really, no.

Fine.

Why the footbridge? What?

I said, why the footbridge?

You said it was a halfway point, a between point.

For anything that wants to cross time, yes.

Well, we're crossing time, aren't we? We're what?

No, steel!

No, steel.

We're being taken back.

That's what I don't like.

Not being responsible for my own actions.

Could we hurry, please? I negotiated this deal, remember?

The deal still stands.

Except for one amended clause.

I've already warned you about the darkness, steel.

You can't play tricks with it. I've realised that.

Good. Now, would someone mind telling me...? Yes.

I'll tell you.

We're going back 12 days.

Well, not exactly 12.

11.

It means that you will lose one day of your life.

But you can afford that. One day of my...?

Steel...

It's easy. Easy?

For you. Easy? What I just did now was not easy.

That was dangerous. Exactly.

That's why I want to be one day ahead of the darkness.

You can hold time for a day, can't you?

Yes.

Well, then.

While we're being taken back 12 days,

we'll jump off at 11.

Jump off?

Mr Tully, if you're in an elevator and the button has been pushed

and there's somebody on the ground floor you're not sure of,

what do you do? You get off on the floor above.

And you...? And you walk the rest.

Exactly.

Whispering you must do it, sapphire.

I won't trick it any more, I promise.

It's only one day out of 12.

All right.

Mr Tully...

You'll be all right, mr Tully.

You promise? I promise.

Well, if I can be of any... Take my hand.

'The stillness.

'Mark.

'Eleven.

'Ten.

'Nine.

'Eight.

'Seven.

'Six.

'Five.

'Four.

'Three.

'Two.

Now, sapphire.

Now!

Wind howls

One day.

22.736 hours.

Well, that's close enough.

Look...

Wind howls

whispering

whispering continues

Tully...

Go back up on the footbridge. Wait there.

Wait there? Yes.

Exactly where we were before. And keep watch.

For the platform? The platform.

You still need me, then?

Oh, yes, we need you.

Ah.

Steel...

And we thought you'd gone.

Us?

No.

But we will leave. Unlike you.

You'll never go.

You'll never leave this place.

Oh, we're going.

When? Soon.

We're all here now. We'll be going soon.

Where?

Exactly where will you be going?

We're going to live again. We are.

And that's what it's told you? Yes.

To live where? How?

To live your own lives again? No.

New lives, is that what it's promised you?

In a way, yes. Tell him, sapphire.

It can't be done.

It can't be done because of the nature of the power

that is using you.

It thrives on the resentment of the dead.

So, what use would you be to it alive?

Once the others have arrived,

it will start at the beginning again with you.

Me? Yes, you.

You will arrive here again alone.

And you will start to wait for the others.

It's like a loop, like a circle.

It is feeding on you, therefore, it cannot let you go.

For ever and ever, pearce.

You'll never see those green fields or those hot summer days

for ever and ever.

The same motions, the same actions, the same circles over and over.

Oh, no.

And when they pull this place down and build something new,

you'll still be here, walking up and down,

whistling your songs, waiting, for ever and ever.

It can't be like that. We were promised!

Sorry.

We were!

I mean, I'd rather...

What?

I'd rather go back.

Go back for good and all.

Well, we all would.

No.

No, not this place.

Not for always.

No! I can make sure.

What? That you go back.

All of us? Yes.

But it won't let us. Oh, it will.

You leave it to me.

Whispering

voices grow louder

Whispering continues

distorted voices

sapphire...

It's all right.

There are no tricks. The deal still stands. The transaction.

Your negotiable goods are here on the platform.

We've brought ours with us.

For exchange of all of your dead, we give you one of the living.

Someone who is due to die in approximately five years' time.

His time of death is not estimated, it is known, it is recorded.

Take him now and you will have the amount of resentment I promised you.

Not from him! He doesn't matter.

But from time itself.

You will have damaged time, perhaps even future history.

And that could cause havoc in high places.

Is it a deal?

Your ghosts, who remain dead...

..For one living subject, who isn't due to die

for approximately five years.

Well?

Well?

Not Tully.

Yes. But I promised.

It has to be.

It's gone.

They've all gone.

Now, for our part of the deal.

Steel...

Yes?

I wondered how we were doing.

We're doing fine.

You just wait up there...

..Where I told you to wait.

Right.

We'll be leaving soon.

Do I need to collect my things?

I'll let you know.

Whispering

Winning, are we?

Yes.

Tully cries out

whispering stops

They have all gone.

Yes.

You sense nothing any more?

No. There's only that.

That's all that's left.

It's a pasqueflower.

They only bloom at eastertide.

But it's late October. I know.

I think you said it once.

I said what once?

There must be something wrong with a ghost that has feelings.

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