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Chuckles

so I'm afraid you've both fallen into the trap

of attributing human characteristics

to a simple flexible casing and a handful of circuits.

They can easily programme a machine to have a... a child's mind,

a child's... Why would they do that?

I don't know why. But I can soon find out.

I'll open it up. No.

You keep away from it. Look, steel... steel, steel, steel.

I am the technician.

And there's no machine - past, present...

Or future - that I cannot handle.

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.

Telepathically: 'Let it follow you.

'I want to get behind it.

'Go on, make it follow you!'

Cogs winding

'go to sleep' lullaby plays

'You can't kill it, steel. You can't hurt him.'

Foetus: Touch them both.

No!

Touch them.

I won't!

'It tried to resist something, did you notice?' 'Yes.'

'whatever it is, it's controlling it.'

'the time source?' 'It must be.'

'And what is he?'

'a human transmutation.

'I suppose you could call it a changeling.'

'a changeling?' 'A substitute child.

'It's old folklore.

'Except that this child hasn't been substituted for another.'

He's been substituted for himself? Give or take 30 years, yes.

I wonder what he did to silver?

What he did to everything else.

Like the door.

I think he sent him back. To where?

To the beginning. To his beginnings.

Maybe even further than that.

'Go to sleep' lullaby plays, steel chuckles

what is it?

I was just trying to imagine, but it's impossible.

Imagine what? Silver having any kind of beginning,

any kind of childhood.

That's strange. My thoughts exactly.

About silver? No. About you.

He's the baby from this room. Yes.

I have very positive origins.

Inexpressible, maybe.

But positive.

Without silver, we don't stand a chance

of getting out of this capsule.

What about the parents? What are you gonna do about it?

But what about... Try to get him back.

If he has sent silver back to a time when he... when ever even existed...

What did you say?

What about the parents of that child?

Well, he could hardly have sent them back into the past.

If he'd done that, the child itself wouldn't exist.

It wouldn't be here.

Yes, well, maybe he sent them in different directions.

Yes. The opposite direction. Do you remember the hands?

Left hand... The past.

Right hand? The future. Well, it could be.

It could be, yes.

There must be a power system somewhere.

'Go to sleep' lullaby plays

it must be the machinery.

This room is very special.

It's the only one that isn't pretending to be something else.

Room from the future? Yes. But how does it work?

There's no machinery, nothing. Nothing we can see.

Well, how did it get here? How do we send it back?

We can't send it back, not without its crew.

All right. While we're waiting around,

waiting for them to reappear, what do you suggest we do?

I've no idea. Precisely.

So get silver back. Now?

Now.

You're not forgetting the time source?

Only, I thought you were worried. Worried?

That it's all gone too smoothly. That we got in here too easily.

No, I'm not forgetting the time source, and, yes, I'm still worried.

Good. Now, take time back.

To when the three of us... Were together... in the living room?

See you back there.

'I have impeccable origins.'

Oh... She breathes heavily

no!

Oh! No! She cries out

she groans

Day 27.

Experimental project es/5/777.

Urban examination and observation.

Time of day... Pillow squawks

..8:27am.

I'd like to report a transference failure.

Deep voice: Time... is the measure of durational continuous existence

without reference to extension in space.

Voice drowns out woman absolute time is the matter...

You see... ..Or motion,

and is continuous... ..We stopped receiving...

..Unlimited, and infinitely divisible.

Relative time, by which duration is measured with reference to events.

Sidereal time is based on the rotation of the earth...

Tutting ..with respect to the stars.

Silver! I'm afraid you've both fallen into the trap

of attributing human characteristics to a simple flexible casing...

Echoing: 'Steel!'

echoing: 'Steel!'

time, as measured by clocks, chronometers, et cetera,

is computed on the basis of an average, or mean, solar day...

..Which is always the same length and has no real existence.

She gasps

What do you mean, you can't work in there?

It's impossible. I just can't operate, not in that room.

Then try another room. Try the screen room!

No, it has to be the room that silver was last in.

What's stopping you? The room itself.

It's alive. With what?

With time.

You mean it knew your reasons for going into that room?

Well, it must have done.

What other reason would it have for setting up a barrier like that?

So you are unable to take time back? Under these circumstances, yes.

Whispers: I haven't got the power.

Yeah, but it has. Obviously.

She sighs

are you thinking what I'm thinking? Yes, the same thoughts.

You can't use your powers, and I can't do what I've been sent to do,

and... take this capsule back to it belongs

because the crew aren't here.

We've lost our technician.

The only one who can get us out... And get us in.

He's a...

..Useful sort of person, isn't he?

Whispers: I miss him.

There's a time field outside this place.

And now, apparently, a time barrier within.

What did you do? What did I do when?

When you entered the room, did you... prepare things? What?

I-I just thought about what I had to do

to take time back and to get silverback.

You only had to think it? Yes.

Think it now.

'Steel?' 'yes, I saw that.

'Come back here.'

the roof. Yes, but the past or the future?

I don't know. It could have been either.

'Try it here. Take time back here.

'When you and I and silver first came back from the screen room.

'Try that.'

Door opening

So, which one did you try?

The master one.

Well, we usually get an instant signal back from that, don't we?

Yes.

That was... People from the future.

Well, why were they dressed like that?

It's part of their experiment. Did you expect something different?

Y...

Some sort of transmitter, silver said.

Yes, and a monitor.

Something that sees us. Watches us.

Well, there's probably one in every room.

Maybe there is nothing tangible.

Maybe there doesn't need to be.

Oscillating drone

steel?

It's here.

Oscillating drone

I'm in line with it here. Do you remember on the roof?

'Yes. Here, I'm in line with it here.'

yes. I remember.

It's very powerful, steel. It can do anything.

Try to communicate with it. I can't possibly!

Is it only a machine? Yes!

Capable of... Doing anything it wants.

Yes. Capable of everything?

Yes.

Droning stops

Soft droning

Soft droning

Those clever people of the future with their brilliant minds...

They harnessed it... Deep voice: Remember...

..They used it, whatever it is.

Oh. Oh! Oh! No!

Oh! The pain!

She moans it's all right.

It's all right!

It's all right. She exhales deeply

wait here.

It moved.

Good.

Anything now? No.

If only we knew how these walls were constructed.

It could be anywhere.

Yes, it...

..Has a right to be anywhere in this capsule.

Could have access to any part of it.

Built-in...

What were those noises? Sounds of pain.

What's that?

The whole capsule is built like that.

See if...

You'll never shift it.

But silver could.

Yeah, silver probably could.

Distressed animal cries

maybe there is a way of getting him back.

Steel? A quick way, a swift way.

Look!

Blood. It's animal blood.

Animal blood?

What exactly are they guilty of?

And what have they used as a time source?

That's capable of everything?

Yeah, well, there's one thing it hasn't been capable of doing.

Something decided to disobey it, remember?

The left hand, the past, the right hand, the future.

I mean, what would happen if... Steel, it's dangerous.

I know, I live dangerously.

What would happen if you disappeared?

You'd just have to cope as best you can.

You know what it can do. I know very well what it can do.

Steel, remember, it's watching you, it's listening to you.

Don't you see? That's what I'm relying on!

You cannot take that chance! All right!

All right. I'm just gonna talk to it.

What is your name?

Name? Yes.

You must have a name.

We want to help you.

We want to give you back...

The things you need.

Sleep...

..And warmth...

..And food.

Those are the things you want...

..Aren't they?

'Go to sleep' lullaby plays

well... we're going to help you...

To get those things back.

You would like that, wouldn't you?

You would like that a lot.

I'm going to give you everything you want.

And you know what?

We're going to send you back.

Send you back... where you belong.

Mm...

No!

He will hurt you.

No! He screams

He gasps

Baby cries

Rothwyn!

The past again. This is the present.

The present?

Baby coos

Baby cries

your child. Rothwyn sighs with relief

he's quite safe, he's unharmed. We've brought him back for you.

Brought him back from where? Don't ask them anything!

I want to know what happened! Don't even talk to them!

Shh, shh, shh... I believe you now.

The things... The things you've said you'd seen...

Well, now I believe you. We're both imagining things!

We're not imagining anything. Well, of course we are!

These people are real.

Well, aren't you? Yes, we're real.

What are your names? How can they possibly be real?

How could we possibly not be?

Eldred whimpers

What are your names? You might as well tell him.

We can't! His name is eldred.

Mine is rothwyn. Names from the past.

Oh, yes.

But you're from the future.

Am I right? You're right.

And there's only the three of you?

Well, tell me.

Ye... yes.

There's only the three of us here. But it's impossible!

What's impossible?

Them being here! No-one can enter this place.

No-one can get in! No?

No-one from this time period! Where are you from?

Please wait here until you're needed.

Psst.

Scratching

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