01x04 - Assignment One: Part 4

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Get the child.

Quickly!

Come on, Helen.

- But Sapphire's upstairs.
- Come on!

Get her away from me.

- It's cold!
- Come on!

Someone was k*lled
in this room, a young girl.

And it wants me to be her,
it wants it to happen all over again!

Steel, don't!

The girl's K*llers are here!
They've broken down the door!

Steel!

Sapphire!

It's gone, the room's gone!

But they haven't!

Assignment One
Escape through a cr*ck in Time
Episode 4

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.

Steel!

What's wrong with Steel?

He reduced his temperature
to minus 273.1 degrees.

That's near absolute zero!

Yes.

He told me not to touch him.

Rob, will you go down to the kitchen
and light a fire, please?

Yes.

Sapphire, look.

Yes. Go on.

- And Rob...
- Yes?

- Make it a good fire.
- Yes.

No...not enough...

It was. You held that one.

E...Enough to hold them,
not enough to st...stop them.

M...Mustn't regain its heat.

- I know.
- Must be kept at same temperature.

Yes.

Helen, will you help us?

You take Steel down to the kitchen.
But don't touch him.

Upstairs and downstairs...

Upstairs and downstairs...

Is he any better?

Not yet but he will be.

'Fire. '

- 'What? '
- 'Has the fire gone out? '

'No it's still burning,
it's still hot.'

'Higher. '

- It takes all his strength away,
doesn't it? - Yes, it does.

- Sapphire?
- Yes?

It's only us, then,
if that thing comes back.

We'll be all right.

'The frozen piece of light. '

'I've dealt with it. '

- 'You followed my instructions? '
- 'Yes. '

'Good. '

'Now go to sleep, get some rest. '

- Rob?
- Yes?

- Are you feeling fit and strong?
- Yes.

- Good, I need a hand.
- Oh.

- You're not gonna scratch
that are you? - What?

- The glass, that was my dad's table.
- Emergency measures.

- But when my mum and dad
come back... - It'll be all right.

Things'll just take a little longer
to thaw out, that's all.

Look, Rob.

- Steel said that this was
just a fragment... - It is.

Will you help me with this?

- Fragment of what's in the top room?
- Yes.

- Oh. But it's alive?
- Yes.

- Is it hurt?
- Who cares if it's hurt?

- It tried to k*ll Sapphire,
remember? - Yes.

It's more of a scion
than a fragment.

- A scion?
- Yes, a descendant. A successor.

A child.

Is this something like
you've seen before?

Not quite. It's like it,
it's different.

- As dangerous as before?
- More.

- And there's two more somewhere
in the house. - Yes.

Well, I must go and see to Steel.

Will you two bring that down
to the cellar for me, please?

Yes.

Come on, Helen, pick it up.

Oh, it's too heavy, Rob!

- Come on, Helen.
- Oh, Rob!

Wait a minute.

Why can't Steel freeze
whatever's upstairs in the attic

the way he froze those soldiers?

That would only
suspend it for a while.

Not even Steel
can stop time for always.

It'd be like trying to freeze the whole
universe into one block of ice.

Are there others?

- Others?
- Like you.

There are 127 of us.

Oh.

Come on, Helen.

115. There are 115 of us.

You must never rely
on the transuranics.

- Why not?
- They're unstable.

- Wait for me, Rob!
- Come on, Helen!

- But if it's a child...
- Who said it's a child?

- Sapphire did. So if it's a child...
- She didn't say "child".

Well she didn't mean it.

She said "descendent",
and then she said "child".

Like puppies or kittens.

It's young.

- What?
- At school they say "it's young".

Yes, but this is different, Helen.

Different from anything we've known.
Different from the things they know at school.

I mean, you saw what that thing did.
Are puppies or kittens capable of that?

- No.
- Well, then.

But what if its parents
come looking for it?

- Steel could handle it.
- But he's not well.

Yes, but when he's well,
he'll just take himself down.

- Who is it, Rob?!
- I don't know, do I?

Perhaps it's the policeman.

- I'll see.
- No Helen!

But we've got to answer it, Rob!

All right.

A giant?

- Yes! - No, a man! But he is,
he's almost a giant!

- In the doorway?
- Yes!

- He appeared?
- No! He knocked on the door!

Then what?

Then I tried to open the door,
he pushed it open! Broke the chain!

- He came from outside?
- Yes!

- Was he one of the soldiers?
- No, he was dressed in ordinary clothes.

- No! It's a giant, Sapphire!
- It's all right, it's all right.

- Did he come into the house?
- I don't know, we ran to tell you.

- Leaving the door open?
- He pushed it open!

- We gotta wake Steel.
- No.

For the moment...

I'm afraid there's just
the three of us.

- It's closed again.
- Yes.

Now, be very quiet and do exactly
as I say, do you understand?

- You left it open?
- Yes.

- It's closed.
- Look!

Hello, Sapphire.

Got anything to eat in this place?

It's him! It's the giant!

Well, you could call him that.
This is Lead.

- Lead?
- Yes, he's one of ours.

You know what? I'm starving.

All right, where is he?
Where is Steel?

Lead? Is that Lead here?

Yes, I'm here.

I mean you can almost
guarantee it, can't you?

You can guarantee that whenever you
wander off and ice yourself up

without me around, you're in trouble.

- I am not in trouble.
- All right.

You're not in trouble
and you don't need any help.

No.

But you do need...

Insulation. And that's me.

You tell him, Sapphire.

He shouldn't be doing
that below-zero stuff without me.

Now...

What about some food?

Sapphire...

Are you still the cook I remember?

Ahh...

By the way, Steel...
Jet sends her love.

Does she, now?

And Copper's
having problems with Silver.

- Again?
- Again.

When you've finished eating,
I'll show you what we have to do.

All right, Steel.

- Always cool, that man.
- Well he has to be, in this house.

- Difficult job?
- Yes.

Be good training for you, then.

There's another
difficult one waiting for us.

When we've finished here, of course.

Ahh!

- Steel!
- Up here!

Thank you.

Here, son.

Gives you all the tough jobs, eh?

- Uh, no. I...
- He's good at that.

- Having trouble?
- Yes.

Are there many more?

Yes, but Rob's going to help when
he's done with pictures.

Good.

It started in there.

First a section of the wall, and then the
wall itself, and now the whole room.

Oh, there's nothing like
good home cookin'!

It's using old verse
and picture forms.

Sorry, Steel. The main trigger?

Children's nursery rhymes.

Upstairs and downstairs...

- Upstairs and downstairs...
- Has it taken anyone?

- Yes.
- Upstairs and downstairs...

The boy's parents.

It's all right, son, he'll get them
back for you somehow.

- Lovely. These are easy,
aren't they? - Yes.

Oh!

OK. Can I have another one?

Oh.

I'm going in there and I'm going to freeze
it back as least the far as the wall.

- You gonna take yourself down
and walk in there? - Yes.

Walk into that?
But you know what that does to you.

Yeah. But you'll be in there
to help me, won't you?

My 'insulation', remember?

Oh yes, I remember.

And I also remember that it
knocks the hell out of me, too!

And if it goes wrong
we are both trapped in there.

We're gonna try it!

As soon as the books and pictures
have been b*rned.

Well I guess it can't be any worse than
following you around on that itty-bitsy ship.

- I wouldn't count on it.
- Did you help on that ship, too?

- Yes, I did a day on it.
- What was the name of the ship?

- What was it, Steel?
- I forget.

- Blue...something, wasn't it?
- I thought it was Marie.

Mary, Mary, blue, Mary, Mary,
blue, blue blue blue blue...

- Not the Marie Celeste?!
- Marie Celeste! That's the one, son!

That's it, that's it!

Upstairs and downstairs...

Upstairs and downstairs...
Upstairs and downstairs...

Upstairs and downstairs...

- But the Mary Celeste was
important! - Was it?

But it's a big mystery! People have
been trying to solve it for years!

Have they.

Are there any more books?

Just one.

Sapphire!

Helen...

'The north wind doth blow and
we shall have snow... '

- I know that one, Sapphire.
- No, Helen!

- I do.
- Helen it wants you to know it!

It's in my head, Sapphire.
It's in my head.

Helen, help me catch it.

Anyway, it couldn't have
been the Mary Celeste.

It was! I remember now!

Cuz they found it, abandoned,
and Steel said he sunk the ship.

I sank the real one, yes.

What is it, Steel?

'The north wind doth blow
and we shall have snow

'and what will Poor Robin
do then?

'... and hide his head
under his wing...

'... doth blow and we shall have snow

'and what will Poor Robin
do then? '

Helen, stop it!

- I can't! I can't! I know it!
- No!

I do! It's in my head
and it won't go!

'The north wind doth blow... '

'... shall have snow...

'and what will Poor Robin do then? '

'Upstairs and downstairs... '

'Upstairs and downstairs... '

'He'll sit in a barn

'and keep himself warm... '

- 'Upstairs and downstairs... '
- 'Rob!'

- 'Upstairs and downstairs... '
- '... and hide... '

- 'Let me out, please Rob!'
- 'Upstairs and downstairs... '

- 'Rob?! Rob!'
- 'Upstairs and downstairs... '

'Rob!'

'Wait for me, Rob!'

'Upstairs and downstairs,

- 'Upstairs and downstairs,
- 'Hush, hush...

- 'Upstairs and downstairs...
- 'now we all get up again!

- 'Upstairs and downstairs...
- 'The cattle in the meadow... - 'Rob!'

- 'Lying fast asleep... 'Upstairs and
downstairs... - 'Let me out, please, Rob!'

- 'Upstairs and... '
- Wait for me, Rob!

- Don't listen to it!
- It's... coming... through...

'Upstairs and downstairs,
upstairs and downstairs...

'Upstairs and downstairs...

- 'Upstairs and downstairs...
- Downstairs.

- 'Upstairs and downstairs...
- No!

'Upstairs and downstairs,
upstairs and downstairs,

'upstairs and downstairs,
upstairs and downstairs... '

- 'Upstairs and downstairs...
- Go!!

'Upstairs and downstairs,
upstairs... '

'The north wind doth blow
and we shall have snow

'And what will Poor Robin
do then, poor thing?

'He'll sit in a barn
and keep himself warm

'And hide his head under
his wing, poor thing...

'Poor thing... '