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Ominous voice exhales

wind blows

Ruth's voice: 'What's happening? What's happening?!

'What's happening? What's happening?!'

Ruth screams, fire crackling

'no!'

screaming continues

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.

What's he done? He's burned them alive.

Fire crackling no, don't!

Take time back. Save them!

Take time back now.

Supernatural ringing

chiming

It's too late. Here.

It's too late to save those people.

That's the second time you've failed.

He creates a kind of barrier. He?

It.

Williamson. What did he discover?

She just...

She just disappeared from there. From that thing.

I watched it. I saw it happen, I heard her screaming.

She asked if she was in danger. I heard her when...

..When you made her talk.

Made the picture talk.

Is she in danger? Liz...

Don't tell her. We are all in danger.

Because of him?

The man on the stair? Yes. That's why you must leave.

You must pack a case and leave now.

The other picture, the big one with Ruth in it,

could I have it, please?

We haven't finished with it yet.

Oh. See...

..She's...

Well, suppose she's the best friend I've ever had.

You could say the only friend.

I don't really collect friends.

Anyway... I'll pack a case. Good.

Oh, it's not good, but it comes easy to me.

Story of my life, knowing how to pack a case.

I'm almost an expert at it.

I feel like this lot sometimes.

Looking like they've been somewhere. Going somewhere.

But, when you think about it, they're staying where they are.

They're going nowhere. Right?

Heh. Anyway...

When you bring Ruth back from wherever she is...

..Will you let me know, somehow?

Yes. Thanks.

H Williamson esquire.

Just exactly what did he discover?

Supernatural thrum

supernatural thrum

Ominous music

Entity breaths

falls silent

ominous music

falls silent

Tricks!

Tricks.

Tricks. Tricks with film, tricks with cameras.

We've been looking for proof,

for evidence of some great photographic discovery...

Mr Williamson, photographer, was no more than a clever conjurer.

Light patterns, multiple images, mirrors.

That was the extent of his talent. Excuse me.

To someone like Ruth, it was no doubt talent enough.

A few cheap tricks to impress the ladies.

Well, at least he bothered to impress them.

He simply used to photography. Slides. Nothing spectacular.

He combined them.

He combined pictures of people with pictures of places.

But, more important, he combined pictures taken at different times.

They never learn, do they?

About the dangers of mixing the old and the new?

No.

Projector whirrs

excuse me.

Combining the old and the new...

That was his first trick. And his last.

Oh, no! Projector turns off

go sit on the sofa.

Come on.

It's so primitive, I don't know why he bothered.

I suppose Ruth was curled up on a cushion,

so he felt he had to put on a bit of a parade for her.

A kaleidoscope! A toy invented in 1817.

There's no way he could have known that he was...

Manufacturing an instrument of such power.

A mirrored prism.

A photograph taken from the multiple-image slide.

Now, that...

..Goes in here...

..Like that.

The field of vision is fairly small, but it's enough.

Ooh, goodness, you are clever. No wonder Ruth was impressed.

The shorter the focal length of the lens,

the more numerous the reproduced images.

Is there a film in that camera? No, not this time.

Well, take the picture out.

It's perfectly safe, provided... Take the picture out.

You can never be sure.

It was an accident.

He brought it here... By accident.

And he didn't just bring it here.

He invited it here, he dragged it here, with this.

A mirrored prism, acting like a kind of... kind of funnel.

Like a siphon? Yes.

For something that's been trapped for almost 200 years.

Between times.

Child: 'As I was going up the stair,

'i met a man who wasn't there.

'He wasn't there again today.

'I wish, I wish he'd stay away.'

he dragged it in there... And held it there for a while,

but then he decided to take his apparatus apart.

In here was a force,

that it adopted not just one human shape, but many.

Trapped and held by their own reflections.

There are 17 mirrors in this house.

Yes, now we know where he's hiding. We've got him!

No. What do you mean, "no"?

No! Containing him is not enough.

Well, it'll have to do for the time being.

Until we think of a way of sending him back.

Ruth and Williamson were killed by him.

He imprisoned then in a photograph and then burned them alive.

That must never happen again.

Supernatural thrum

Children: ♪ see-saw sacredown

♪ which is the way to London town?

♪ One foot up and the other foot down

♪ this is the way to London town! ♪

Who is it this time? Who is it, please?

Two more people.

People we've been looking for for a very long time.

Let me see!

Now, where shall we put them?

There, just there.

Let's put them there.

Can we play games now? Can we play games with them?

Later. There'll be time for games later.

Sapphire: 'Steel.

'Steel.'

steel: 'The...

'The... the girl...

'..L-Liz.

'The only one left to help us is...

'Is Liz.'

'you sent her away, do you remember?'

'wha...? You told her to leave.'

'yes.

'Can you see anything?'

'not clearly, no.'

'can you move?'

he strains

'no.'

'neither can I.

'Do you remember what the voice of Ruth said to us?

'N-N... yes.'

'like being half asleep, half aware.

'Like... like daydreaming.'

'like being...

'..Inside a photograph.

'Part of a...

'Of a... of an old photograph.'

'yes.'

'I'm also remembering something...

'..Something else.' 'Go on.'

'whatever it is that has put us here...

'..It has access to any photograph, including this one.

'And...

'It-it can also move around inside a photograph.

'We... we witnessed that.

'So...

'So why can't we move?

'Can you take time back?' 'That's impossible now.'

'the girl, then. It has to be the girl.

'Try it, she may still be here.'

'Liz?

'Elizabeth Owen.'

faint: 'Liz?

'Steel, I think she's still there.

'Liz?

'Please, Liz.

'Liz, try to hear me.

'Try to hear me, with your mind.

'Please, Liz.'

Liz sighs

she gasps

'oh, she's going.' 'What?'

'she's going away!' Steel groans

'Liz!'

I was... well, I'm leaving.

I know it's short notice. No notice.

But I've found somewhere better.

Closer to me work. I see.

Anyway, me rent's paid up.

Well paid in advance, so you can keep what's left over.

Oh, thank you.

Keys and rent book are upstairs in me room.

Fine.

Now, er...

..Would you mind?

Thanks.

Supernatural thrum

'Liz?

'I think she's gone, steel.' 'There's something else.

'We can try something else.

'We can... we can make a mirror.

'Make a mirror fr-from this glass.' 'Well, how?'

'if we concentrate, both of us.'

footsteps approaching

'think of Mercury and silver.' 'Yes.'

'think of what they can do.

'Borrow from their minds.

'It can be done, if we both concentrate!'

'steel!'

Steel groaning

Door opens

who's there?

Supernatural thrum

I said, "who's there?"

'He's vanished.' 'Where?

'Where's he gone?'

'he's... He's escaped into a photograph.

'Then he's coming here! He's coming into this one.

'He's gonna destroy us.'

'Liz.

'Please, Liz.'

'she's here?' 'Yes.

'And so is he. He's in here with us.'

chiming 'a prism.

'A mirrored prism, we must create one.'

'Liz?' yeah?

'You must help us.'

yes, of course, but I really don't know what to do.

'Quickly!' 'no questions, there isn't time.

'Just do as I say, Liz.' Yeah.

'Now, there are some framed pictures in the corner of the cellar,

'do you see them?'

yeah. 'Then bring them here now, bring them to this photograph.

'Now!'

Chiming

'don't look at them, Liz.

'Put the pictures by the mirror.

'One on each side.

'Leave your bag, leave it!

'Now, do you remember the mirror on your dressing table?' Yeah.

'Angle the pictures towards you.'

like that? 'Yes, like that.

'More, more!

'Hurry, Liz!'

clattering

She screams

What's happened to him? He's trapped.

Forever? No, not yet.

Tell me what happened to Ruth.

She's dead, Liz.

Oh.

Screaming from photographs

take it.

Screaming and clattering

screaming continues

We need something to keep him in.

Genie in a bottle. Well, let's find the bottle.

Screaming continues

Evil voice: 'Each and every photo is mine.

'They all belong to me.

'Trees and towns and villages, all made of paper.

'And paper burns.

'You...'

screaming from photographs '..Girl. No-one hides from me.

'In years to come, I'll find a photograph.

'Your photograph.' Screaming continues

'I'll be back.'

the kaleidoscope!

'Paper burns.

'Nothing lasts.

'Only me.'

screaming and clattering

he says it can never be forever.

We can arrange something, a kind of forever.

Young girl: 'No! Please!'

please, no! No!

Falls silent

you said a kind of forever. Yes. Well, that isn't.

Can I see? No! That won't hold him for long.

For 75 years.

In 12 minutes and nine seconds,

a ship is due to sink. Where?

In the arctic ocean, west of the Bering strait.

It will remain immersed in a pyramid of ice

for three quarters of a century.

We must be sure that this is on board when the ship goes down.

And in 75 years' time?

We will be waiting. There will be other shipwrecks.

Find every photograph of you that there is. Burn them.

Never have another taken.

Man screaming

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