01x06 - Assignment One: Part 6

Episode transcripts for the TV show, "Sapphire & Steel". Aired: 10 July 1979 – 31 August 1982.*
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British series follows the two titular detectives, played by Joanna Lumley and David McCallum respectively; assigned by an unknown authority to correct anomalies that have allowed the mysterious and malevolent forces of time itself to break into the present, material world.
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01x06 - Assignment One: Part 6

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Aw...

What has the mean man
done to you?

Made you cry?

It wasn't locked before.

Come on, Rob.

By the wall.

Lead?

- Don't you worry about it,
- Lead?

Lead'll take care of it.

- Lead?!
- Don't worry.

OK? It's all right.

It's locked.

All right.

It isn't now.

Assignment One
Escape through a cr*ck in Time
Episode 6

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.

What have you done
to this door?

I have opened it.

Rob? Are you down there, Rob?

Don't worry about them.

- Rob?
- Don't listen to them.

We'll soon be safe.

Stay there.

Sit down.

- Dad...
- Shh.

- You said Mum was here.
- She is.

- But I can't see her.
- Look.

Still can't see her.

That's because you're not
looking hard enough, Rob.

When people are hiding you've
got to look for them really hard.

- I am!
- Look!

Mum?

Hello, Rob.

There you are.

Come on, you wanted to
see her, didn't you?

- Yes, but...
- But what?

Well, why doesn't she
look at us?

Yes, dear, why don't you
look at us?

No! Sapphire! Help me!

Ah... pretty little thing.

Don't worry,
I will take care of you.

Just there,
just beyond the beams.

- All right as far as the beam?
- Yes.

- What about the beams
themselves? - No!

This is where it starts.

Rob?

'Y...Yes, Steel.
I know what to do. '

Speak to me.

'Well, this is what happened to
Sapphire, isn't it? On the landing.'

- Yes.
- 'So I know what to do.

'I just stand very still, don't I?'

'Don't I? '

Yes, Rob, you do.

'I'm sorry, Steel, but it was my father. He brought me down here

'Well, not him. Not really him.'

- Whatever it was was pretending
to be your father? - 'Yes. '

Is he... Is it still with you?

'No, I'm alone. '

- You're not alone, Rob.
- 'No. '

- Because we're quite close to you.
- 'Yes, Sapphire. '

We're all in the cellar together
and you are one of us.

'Yes. '

Rob, you remember when Sapphire
was trapped on the landing?

'They wanted her to think
she was in a room.'

- Yes, but we kept telling her not to believe...
- 'Not to believe in that room,

- 'not to be a part of it, right...
- Listen to me!

Rob? You're doing all right, son.

- Tell me what you can see.
- I'm outside, I'm in the open.

It looks like the cellar, part
of the cellar but it isn't finished.

It's being built,
the house is being built!

- Rob, is it day or night?
- 'Um...evening. It just got dark.'

- Just stay where you are for the
moment, okay? - 'All right. '

Why should it take him back to the time
when the house was being built?

Rob, can you sing?

- 'Not very well...
- Do you know any songs?

- 'I can whistle. '
- Well, whistle me a tune, then!

'♪ Da dudala dudala dum dum da!'

- '♪ Da dudala dudala dum dum da!'
- You know it!

♪ Da dadala dadala dum dum da dum da dum da dum, dum

♪ Yay, hey...

- ♪ up she rises. Yay, hey... - Those patches
of light need something to lock onto.

There are...there are
no pictures being hung

- There must be... - or rhymes being said
in a house that's being built!

- There must be something.
- We have to find out what it is.

♪ Put him in a longboat
till he's sober... ♪

- ♪ early in the morning!
- What is he doing?

♪ Hey, hey, up she rises,
hey, hey, up she rises

♪ Hey, hey, up she rises
early in the morning

♪ Hey, hey, up she rises... ♪

Let's locate them, shall we?

- Rob?
- 'Yes, Sapphire? '

- Remember those patches of light?
- 'Yes. '

They're there with you somewhere.

- 'I know. '
- You know what?

- 'That they're in here somewhere. '
- Can you see them?

No, but I know they're here.

One of them was pretending to be
my father, the other one my mother.

- Are we going in there?
- Not yet.

Let's find them first.

- Rob, I'm going to make them
appear, right? - 'Yes. '

When you see them,
tell us where they are.

'All right.'

- 'Can I move? '
- Yes, but very quickly, remember?

'Yes, I remember. '

Behind me, Steel,
just behind me!

The second one's in front of me,
the other side just in front!

All right.
All right, Rob, just keep still.

Oh, we've got them,
we've found them!

Steel, there's something wrong.

It's too easy.
There must be something else.

Keep him singing.

All right, Rob! Now let's really
sing that song! Come on!

♪ What shall we do
with the drunken sailor

♪ What shall we do
with the drunken sailor

♪ What shall we do
with the drunken...

- ♪ sailor early in the morning! - There is something else.

- ♪ Hey, hey, up she rises, hey, hey...
- There's another one, a third one.

♪... up she rises, hey, hey,
up she rises early in the morning

♪ What shall we do with
the drunken sailor...

Come on, Rob! You're doing
fine, son! Come on!

♪ What shall we do
with the drunken sailor

♪ What shall we do
with the drunken sailor

♪ What shall we do
with the drunken sailor... ♪

Rob!

We're going to lose him, Steel.

Rob?

Rob?

He's gone, hasn't he?
Rob's gone!

'No, Helen. I'm still here.
I've fought it and I've won! '

'You can all come in now,
I've fought it and I've won!'

He is still there, Steel,
Rob is still in there.

He's holding them.
You mustn't go in.

'Don't listen to her!
Please, help me!

'Please, help me! '

Please, help him!

Do something!

I'm going to help him, Helen.
I just need a minute.

'Please, I need you! '

Rob, you remember the
first time we came here,

- came to this house?
- 'Yes, Steel. '

- I'm sorry I was so rude.
- 'That's all right, Steel. '

It's just that I'd had a difficult
time, a bad time in that ship.

- Ship... what was the name of that ship?
- 'The Marie Celeste. '

- That's it, that's right.
- Do something!

- Are your mother and father still...
- 'Yes, they're here, Steel. '

I'm sorry, we've never met,
I don't know their names.

What are they called, Rob?

- Henry.
- Sarah.

- Henry and Sarah.
- Thank you, Rob.

We're gonna have to
get some help.

You were right to call the policeman at
the Point, I going to need him after all.

- Can you remember his telephone...
- 'No. '

That's all right, I can look it up.
What's his name?

- 'I don't know. '
- Yes, you do, Rob.

- The policeman at the Point.
- 'I don't know. '

- He came to this house. He's a
friend of yours. - 'I don't know! '

- 'The policeman at the Point,
what's his name?' - 'I don't know! '

- 'His name! '
- 'I don't know! '

- He came to the house.
- 'I don't know! '

- What's his name?
- 'I don't know! '

- Name!
- 'I don't know! '

- 'Name! Name! Name! '
- 'I don't know! I don't know... '

- I don't know. Br.. know. I don't know.
- 'I don't know. I don't know. I don't know.'

Bri... I don't know.

Bri... Brian... Brian Tru...

'Constable Brian Trulalley! '

Steel, it's me!
I'm back, it's really me!

Sapphire was right,
something terrible happened here!

'Not now, Rob! '

- 'But Steel, I know... ' - You're back
where you were, you're not back here!

Yes, Steel. What do I do?

'I need to know what it's in,

'what part of the past it's projecting,
do you understand?

- Yes.
- 'Look quickly and tell me. '

Um, stone. There's something
written on stone.

'I couldn't see what it was,
but I can go back and look. '

No! Stay exactly as you are.

It's a name.
Someone's name marked on it.

No, it's...chipped out of it.

Jed... Mace...

2nd of February...

1736...

Who's Jed Mace?

The builder of this house.
That stone is his mark.

- The first stone to be laid?
- Quite possibly one of the first.

- How much time?
- Time?

From...from where Rob is now back to the
time that stone was set, how much time?

Half a day.

Half a day.

It's all right, Rob,
we know where you are now.

Your troubles are nearly over.
Don't move a muscle!

Sapphire!

It's made a fatal mistake,
you don't build houses backwards.

They came through at the top
of the house, the roof, the gable.

- The last part of the house
to be built. - Right.

But it allowed its satellites
to use that stone to hide in there.

The first part of the house
to be built.

- Be ready to take time back
half a day. - Why?

I'm going to bring it
all down here.

- Down here?
- Yes. Down there,

into the time frame it's chosen.

That's beautiful. And how do we
get it down here, invite it?

Yes.

All we need is a nursery rhyme...
and someone as bait.

A human.

No!

I'll let you choose the appropriate
nursery rhyme for her.

This is the house that Jack built

This is the malt that lay in
the house that Jack built

This is the rat that ate the malt

That lay in the house that Jack built

This is the cat that k*lled the rat

That ate the malt

That lay in the house that Jack built

This is the dog that worried the cat

That k*lled the rat that ate the malt

That lay in the house that Jack built

This is the cow
with the crumpled horn

That tossed the dog
that worried the cat...

- Come on, Helen.
- ...that k*lled the rat

- Rob?
- 'Yes? '

- We'll be coming in to get
you soon. - 'Soon? '

Just stay where you are, OK?

This is the cow
with the crumpled horn

That tossed the dog
that worried the cat

That k*lled the rat
that ate the malt

That lay in the house
that Jack built

This is the maiden all forlorn...

That milked the cow
with the crumpled horn...

- 'Helen?'
- ... that tossed the dog...

- 'Helen?'
- Keep going.

- 'Helen?'
- Don't listen to her.

'Come back upstairs, Helen,
it's time for bed.'

'Ah do you hear me? You won't get
a goodnight kiss, Helen.'

Don't look round, Helen,
please don't look round.

It's not Mummy, is it?

No.

That worried the cat

That k*lled the rat that ate the malt

That lay in the house that Jack built

This is the man all tattered
and torn that kissed...

- ...the maiden all forlorn that milked...
- 'Steel! It's coming down! '

... the cow with the crumpled
horn that tossed...

Are you there yet?

Ho, ho, ho!
Yes, you're there!

This is the priest
all shaven and shorn

That married the man
all tattered and torn

That kissed the maiden all forlorn

That tossed...that milked the cow
with the crumpled horn...

That tossed the dog
that worried the cat...

...in the house that Jack built

This is the farmer who
sowed the corn

That kept the cock
that crowed in the morn...

That wakened the priest
all shaven and shorn...

...all tattered and torn

That kissed the maiden all forlorn...

- that milked the cow...
- Yes? - Yes.

...with the crumpled horn

That tossed the dog
that worried the cat

That k*lled the rat that ate the malt

That lay in the house
that Jack built

♪ 'Ring-a-ring o' roses
A pocketful of posies

♪ 'Atishoo! Atishoo...'

...the morn that waked the...

- ...priest all shaven... - Are we
going to let it take the whole house?

- Yes. - ...and shorn that married the man
- And there's no way out of the cellar?

...all tattered and torn
that kissed the maiden all forlorn

...milked the cow
with the crumpled horn...

...that tossed the dog
that worried the cat

that k*lled the rat
that ate the malt...

that lay in the house
that Jack built...

This is the farmer sowing his...

- ...corn that kept the cock...
- 'Helen! '

- that crowed in the morn...
- Get out of the way.

- But Steel, you said...
- Move!

...the priest all shaven and shorn
that married the man all tattered...

- ... and torn - ' The cattle in the meadow
- 'Ring-a-ring o' roses

- 'lying fast asleep
- 'A pocketful of posies

- 'Atishoo! Atishoo! We all fall down!
- 'Hush, hush, hush, now we all

- get up again! The cattle in the meadow
- 'The king has sent his daughter

- 'lying fast asleep
- 'To fetch a pail of water

- 'Atishoo! Atishoo! We all fall down!
- 'Hush, hush, hush, now we all get up again!

'The bird upon the steeple
sits high above the people

- 'Atishoo! Atishoo! We all fall down!
- 'The cattle in the meadow, lying...

- '...fast asleep, hush, hush, hush...
- 'The cows are in the meadow...

'Now we all get up again!

'Take it back now! '

- We forgot something.
- What?

This.

♪ The king has sent his daughter

♪ To fetch a pail of water

♪ Atishoo! Atishoo!
We all fall down!

- ♪ The bird upon the steeple...
- Yes what is it?

You're supposed to be
doing your homework!

- Yes, Mum.
- Well?

Helen dropped this on the stairs.

All right, well give it to her, then.

- Becca!
- Have you really finished it?

Well, get on with it, then.

♪ The bird upon the steeple
Sits high above the people

♪ Atishoo! Atishoo!
We all fall down!

'Rob?

'Goodbye. '
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