First broadcast 6th November 1979.
Sapphire and Steel awake to find they have been shunted forward in time twelve days.
David McCallum ... Steel
Joanna Lumley ... Sapphire
Gerald James ... Tully
Tom Kelly ... Pearce
David Cann ... Pilot
David Woodcock ... 1st Submariner
Sapphire and Steel awake to find they have been shunted forward in time twelve days.
David McCallum ... Steel
Joanna Lumley ... Sapphire
Gerald James ... Tully
Tom Kelly ... Pearce
David Cann ... Pilot
David Woodcock ... 1st Submariner
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00:00You
00:31Pierce private s Pierce
00:38You should have left us alone
00:41We were causing no harm
00:44We just wanted what was owed to us. That's all Pierce. Come on
00:53You asked me once remember
00:56You asked me to sit and talk with you
00:58Well, I've sat and I've talked on my terms for a change and not yours
01:09It's gonna be a favorable winter it'll slip into spring like it was one in the same
01:16And then it'll be Easter tide
01:20Anyway, you'll be leaving us soon
01:25You've got no choice
01:29You
01:46All irregularities will be handled by the forces controlling each dimension
01:51Transuranic heavy elements may not be used where there is life medium atomic weights are available
01:58gold lead
02:01copper
02:03Jet diamond radium sapphire silver and steel
02:10Sapphire and steel have been assigned
02:13Sapphire and steel have been assigned
02:28Everything's all right, isn't it?
02:33Tis now yes
02:36Tis now
02:43Hmm
03:13You
03:43You
04:13You
04:43You
04:52Steal yes me. No stay there
05:01All right
05:06It's early morning
05:09It's dawn. I know I just realized why is it dawn?
05:14Well, how should I know why?
05:16What is it?
05:19Look still I've just woken up. I've been having some terrible dreams
05:22I had a few bad dreams myself and one of them you attacked me with a bunch of flowers
05:28Give me your hands
05:33We brought you here after the sales Tully and I brought you to this room, is that right?
05:47Suffer suffer. Do you hear me?
05:53Can you hear me
05:58You can't hear me can you of course I can hear you
06:04We've got work to do
06:06There are some things I must remember
06:10Stop me I
06:13Remember I remember the girl with the flowers. It wasn't me an illusion. Not quite
06:18It was an image a projected image created by Pierce created through Pierce created by the darkness
06:23Even though you didn't see the darkness. I didn't need to I was aware of it
06:29Picking up gold and I remember wooden desks and inkwells a
06:35school an old school Eleanor
06:40Now you don't remember her no, that's probably because she wasn't created by the darkness
06:46She was invited to take part in the sales
06:49Well, you have been busy in my absence
06:53Look
06:55I do remember a flower
06:57What kind of flower?
06:59That's a pasque flower
07:01a wild flower
07:04It's petals are a kind of pup. Well, they're rare
07:09It's very beautiful I think it's very rare, but I don't know why I remember it come next Easter tied on that pasque flower
07:16They suffered why do they have to suffer so much they told you
07:22No, no, I sensed it. What's the solution? What the answer to their problems?
07:26Whatever it is. The darkness has promised them. Did you sense that? No, no, that was kept from me
07:30But you know that they were waiting. Yes, what for?
07:32I don't know. I don't know
07:34I don't know. I don't know
07:36I don't know. I don't know
07:38I don't know. I don't know
07:40I don't know. I don't know
07:42I don't know
07:44Yes, what for for more of their kind then what I don't know were they optimistic? Yes, but you still don't know where they were going
07:50No, but you do know they were definitely going somewhere. Yes, the darkness promised them that why is it morning?
07:57I'm sorry, but you see I also fell asleep and I don't sleep right here
08:05Here
08:10When I awoke there was a cobweb across the doorway here. It wasn't on me. It was on the doorway
08:16Here
08:17Analyze that. I don't have to
08:20How long was I asleep?
08:22A few hours. Why?
08:25There's a new layer of dust in the waiting room on the furniture on the floor
08:29This room is the same
08:36I can't see anything
08:40No, but I can
08:42Is it a natural formation of dust?
08:47Yes
08:48The particles are stratified
08:50As an analyst that means it wasn't just dumped here in one go
08:54It is a natural formation of dust
08:56How long would it take this amount of dust to settle naturally?
09:01Chronologically with this degree of stratification
09:05About 12 days
09:09And you've been asleep for a few hours and I for only one
09:13Yes
09:14And all of a sudden it's morning, early morning
09:17That's right
09:18It can't happen
09:19It has happened
09:22We'll see
09:24You say we're 12 days adrift
09:26Approximately, yes
09:31Tully's sandwiches
09:33They were a bit stale but they were well wrapped and perfectly edible
09:37I saw Tully eating one a few hours ago just before the seance and these are...
09:53Maybe it's another image
09:55Not this time
09:57Why not?
09:58The darkness is good at images
10:00You just admitted that
10:01Yes
10:02There's another image that you missed when you were asleep
10:05A barbed wire entanglement
10:07I ran right into it
10:09Where's the barbed wire now?
10:11It's gone of course
10:13But the cobweb hasn't?
10:20It's still there
10:23Did you receive any cuts from the wire?
10:25How could I? It wasn't...
10:26It wasn't what?
10:28It wasn't real
10:34This dust is
10:41When I woke up there was no dust on my clothes
10:43And you said the cobweb hadn't touched you while you were asleep
10:46Therefore those things were not placed in our time
10:48We've been deliberately placed in theirs
10:50Do you mean we've been shunted forward in time?
10:52Yes
10:53And there's something else
10:55They're not here anymore
10:56Pierce and the others, they've gone
10:58Perfect
10:59They have gone
11:00Ever since I've woken up I've realised that
11:02The atmosphere has gone, all of it
11:04The malevolence, the after images
11:05There's nothing like that here anymore
11:07Even the darkness has gone
11:09This place is free now
11:11Free
11:12Twelve days ahead
11:14What happened in between?
11:15Well how should I know that?
11:16Your subconscious
11:17My subconscious will have missed twelve days as well
11:20If this is true then you know what could have happened
11:22Yes
11:23While we have been shunted to one side
11:24Twelve days to one side
11:25The darkness could have kept its promise
11:27To Pierce and the others
11:29It could have, yes
11:31But what has it done with Tully?
11:35Tully?
11:36Yeah
11:37Where is Tully?
11:38I left him with you, I told him to look after you
11:44I've been asleep, remember?
11:46Tully?
11:48Tully?
11:52Tully?
11:56Tully?
12:02We've been moved forward twelve days in time
12:04Tully's been left behind
12:06We're being manipulated
12:07Tully could have been moved forward with us
12:08He could just be hiding
12:10Why would he do that?
12:11I don't know
12:13Well let's find some proof
12:19Tully?
12:20Tully?
12:25Will you ever forgive me?
12:29Here, I'm here
12:38Thank God you're safe
12:42That's all I want to say before I go
12:44Just thank God you're safe
12:46Tully!
12:47Oh no accusations please
12:48I apologize, I apologize here and now
12:55When I realized the darkness must have swallowed you up
12:59When you what?
13:00Well the darkness, it must have swallowed you up
13:02It was everywhere
13:07You're not injured?
13:13No
13:14Thank God for that
13:17You saw me?
13:19What?
13:20Saw me on the wire
13:22More or less, yes
13:29There's your proof
13:31Oh my dear girl
13:34I abandoned you
13:36But I had to you see
13:38Anywhere I was going for help I intended to send back help
13:40You will forgive me won't you?
13:42Where were you?
13:43I intended to send back help as quickly as possible
13:46When you abandoned Sapphire as you put it, where did you go?
13:52I looked for you and then I came up here
13:55Then what?
13:57Did the darkness swallow you up as well?
14:00I have no idea, I fell asleep
14:02Sound asleep
14:04You fell asleep?
14:06Yes
14:08I saw the ghost of that poor airman down there
14:10And then I saw the ghost of the young soldier up there
14:13And I crossed the bridge and
14:16And I fell asleep, I slept like a log
14:20Slept for hours
14:23I must have done it, it's dawn, it's almost daylight
14:27And now you're leaving?
14:29It's simply that my work here is done
14:31Who decided that?
14:33I did
14:34Nothing decided it for you?
14:37Well if you mean have I been frightened a little
14:39Well I don't mind admitting it, I have been frightened somewhat
14:43That's why I have to leave
14:44Mr. Tully
14:45Yes
14:46Take a look at your sandwiches, Mr. Tully
14:52If you leave now
14:53No, I'm not concerned about a few sandwiches
14:55Mr. Tully, ideally
14:56I am concerned about having to leave when there's so much more to learn
15:02But that's the way it must be, I'm afraid
15:06Naturally I'm thankful for the things I've witnessed here
15:09The opportunity to see the spirits of the dead, even speak to some of them
15:15But I'm sorry I have to deny myself the chance of talking to the others
15:18What others?
15:19Before they've even had time to express their troubles to me
15:21I said what others?
15:23Well the new ones of course
15:27You haven't seen them?
15:29No, I haven't seen them
15:33Tell me about them
15:35Well they arrived
15:36When?
15:38Just before I fell asleep last night
15:40It wasn't last night, Mr. Tully
15:43It was twelve days ago
15:50What?
15:51It was twelve days ago
15:55Where did you see them?
15:57On the platform, waiting
15:58How many new arrivals?
16:01Oh I don't know
16:02Nine to ten, something like that
16:08Anyway, I have to go
16:13Please let me go
16:15I have to leave
16:19Why?
16:20Well I've explained, my work here is done
16:22No it isn't, you've just been complaining about missed opportunities
16:25Yes but when I say that
16:26Tell me
16:27I don't necessarily mean
16:28Tell me!
16:29Why are you leaving?
16:32Because I...
16:34I made a promise
16:36A promise?
16:37Yes
16:38To whom?
16:39To it
16:40To the darkness?
16:41The darkness that brought the ghosts here?
16:43That's supposed to have swallowed me up?
16:44Swallowed Sapphire up?
16:45Well you're both alright
16:46Yes but you didn't know that at the time, did you?
16:48Yes but I told you I was going to get help
16:50You made a promise, did you?
16:52To the darkness that plays games with people's minds
16:55That plays games with time
16:56Well I'm a man of my word
16:57You're a what?
16:58Alright then
16:59They gave me my freedom and I asked them for my freedom
17:02You pleaded for it
17:03Yes, if you like, pleaded for it
17:05And they gave it to me, they gave it me last, last night
17:12Why are you still here, Mr Tully?
17:16What?
17:17If it wanted you to leave, why did it make you sleep?
17:23I don't know
17:36Please
17:37I'm so frightened
17:41I didn't think I'd ever be this frightened after so many years of observing
17:45But I am
17:47I'm scared, silly
17:53I mean the way I deserted the pair of you
17:55Sit down
17:56I did, I deserted you
17:58But it frightened me, you see
18:01Even my prayers didn't seem to work
18:04Mr Tully
18:05Yes
18:08It's gone
18:11What?
18:12The darkness, it's not here anymore
18:17And the ghosts of those poor lads?
18:20They've also gone
18:22In peace, do you think?
18:24We hope so
18:27You understand
18:30Don't you?
18:35Because they deserve peace, you know, those poor lads
18:39And all their problems, their bad luck
18:43It isn't fair
18:44What isn't fair?
18:45Well, there they are looking for peace after death, after such short lives
18:52And here am I, hoping for peace in my old age
19:03So far?
19:05It's all right
19:09It's all I want
19:13Well?
19:15The darkness hasn't really gone, has it?
19:17As far as we are concerned, yes
19:19But it's playing games with time
19:21It's using time against us, isn't it?
19:26Yes
19:27Therefore, in its own way, it must be around here somewhere
19:32I suppose so
19:33Good
19:35I suppose so
19:36Good
19:44I can't do that, Steele
19:46Can't do what?
19:47I can't take time back twelve days
19:49I don't want you to
19:50I want it to take us back
19:53And you make contact with it
19:57I make contact with the darkness?
19:58Yes
20:02Possibly if I tried
20:03Then try
20:05Look, it's hardly likely to...
20:06Cooperate? I think it will
20:15I want to make a deal with the darkness
20:17You want me to negotiate the deal?
20:19No, I'll do that after it's taken us back
20:27Just the two of us?
20:29Yes
20:34And Mr. Tully?
20:57It may not give us a second chance, Steele
20:59There's no real guarantee it's given us a first one yet
21:03No
21:04Who says we're safe here in storage?
21:09So let's make that deal
21:11Find it, Sapphire
21:13Find the darkness
21:28Tully
21:30Wait for me
21:42Sapphire asked you to rest
21:44She did, yes
21:45Then sit down and rest
21:49It's for your own good, Mr. Tully
21:52What is?
21:54You've been frightened
21:55You said so yourself
21:56Yes
21:57Well, then you should sit down and rest
22:00Calm yourself
22:01All right
22:03That's better
22:06How old are you? Fifty-three?
22:08Fifty-two
22:09Fifty-two, ah, well, well
22:12All the more reason to take care of yourself
22:16You'd rather I didn't leave, then?
22:19Go home
22:23Not because of the promise I made
22:25I realized that was wrong
22:26That was as bad as making a promise to the devil
22:30And that would never do
22:31No
22:33I didn't want to leave just because I was frightened
22:35It's just that I
22:37I don't feel I'm of any use
22:40My faith has taken a knock, you see
22:50Well, we'd rather you stayed
22:52We need you
22:54Really?
22:55I need you
22:57You?
23:00I never thought I'd
23:01ever hear that kind of admission
23:03You needing me
23:05All right, I was
23:06I was wrong about you
23:07Well, that's easy enough to me
23:08You just sit there and relax
23:11Sapphire and I
23:13have things to discuss
23:15What things?
23:17Private things
23:19Ah
23:25By the way, Mr. Tully
23:27Do you have a family?
23:28A family?
23:29At home
23:30No, I live alone
23:31except for my cat
23:32I have a cat
23:34Nelson
23:35Nelson?
23:37He's only got one eye, you see
23:39Oh
23:40Yes, but don't worry
23:41My neighbor always feeds him
23:42if I'm not there
23:43Oh
23:44Good
23:48I'm sorry
23:50I'm sorry
23:52I'm sorry
23:54I'm sorry
24:00Now, quickly
24:02What's Tully doing?
24:04Relaxing
24:07This deal you want me to make
24:08No, Sapphire
24:09What exactly is it?
24:10I can't tell you, not yet
24:12But if I'm to make contact with the darkness
24:13That's all I want you to do
24:15Make contact with it
24:17All right
24:20But if I do make contact with it
24:21It may decide to come back
24:23It can't come back
24:24It can only come forward
24:25Yes
24:26It may well decide it wants to do its bargaining from here
24:28From this room
24:29Well, from somewhere here
24:30You could be face-to-face with its deal
24:32Do you realize that?
24:33Yes
24:35All right
24:37But watch for it
24:39I may not be able to help you
24:42Please be careful
24:53Thank you
25:04We wish to talk with you
25:10We have something to say to you
25:16Something important
25:20Something important
25:23Very important
25:53Very important
25:57Very important
26:00Very important
26:03Very important
26:05Very important
26:23Very important