01x02 - Assignment One: Part 2

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You've already seen what can happen,
upstairs, this evening.

But we stopped them.

Held them.
Took the trigger away from them.

The trigger?

Yes, the final ingredient.

A certain traditional nursery rhyme
spoken in a certain room.

Mama? Daddy?

No pictures.

No pictures, Rebecca.

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

That's why we tore it
out of the book.

♪ Ring-a-ring o' roses...

- ♪ A pocketful of posies...
- That's why we b*rned it.

♪ Atishoo! Atishoo!
We all fall down ♪

That's why Sapphire and I...

♪ The king has sent his daughter
To fetch a pail of water

♪ Atishoo! Atishoo!
We all fall down ♪

♪ The wedding bells are ringing
The boys and girls are singing

♪ Atishoo! Atishoo!
We all fall down. ♪

♪ The birds upon the steeple
sit high above the people

♪ Atishoo! Atishoo!
We all fall down. ♪

♪ The cows are in the meadow...

- ♪ lying fast asleep...
- Helen!

♪ Atishoo...

Assignment One
Escape through a cr*ck in Time
Episode 2

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.

♪ We all fall down... ♪

- Sapphire.
- ♪ The king has sent his daughter,

♪ to fetch a pail of water...

♪ Atishoo! Atishoo!
We all fall down ♪

♪ Wedding bells are ringing
the boys and girls are singing,

♪ Atishoo! Atishoo!
We all fall down ♪

♪ The bird upon the steeple...

- ♪ sits high above the people,
- Now!

♪ Atishoo... ♪

Hold her!

♪ Atishoo! Atishoo! ♪

Ringing are bells wedding the,
singing are girls and boys the,

- tissue a, tissue a,
- Becca!

- ...down fall all we.
- I said hold her!

Atishoo! Atishoo!
We all fall down

Ring a ring o' roses

A pocketful of posies

Atishoo! Atishoo!

We all fall down

...lying fast asleep

Hush, hush...

hush, now...

- The child memorised the rhyme.
- Yes.

How many more have you learned?

You keep her with you
at all times.

- Has the child other dolls?
- Yes.

- Downstairs?
- Next floor down, yes.

Then you find her one from there.

Is that the way my mother
and father disappeared?

Yes.

And you almost went the same way.

So until I say differently, this whole
part of the house is out of bounds.

- But my mother's still in there!
- Not any more.

But I heard her!
I heard her voice!

- I did, I heard her!
- No.

I did, in that room.

- It wasn't her.
- Of course it was!

Tell me what you saw.

- In the room?
- Yes.

- Well I saw lots of things,
different things! - People?

Yes, people. And things.
But all very quickly.

Well, I didn't actually see her,
I saw a shadow of her.

Her voice, that's all.

- That wasn't her?
- No.

Mummy's coming home?

Not yet.

Soon?

Yes, soon.

Well, I don't trust you.

I mean, I can't trust you,
either of you.

I don't know who you are
or where you come from.

- How can I trust you?
- You have to.

First a wall, then a room.
You have to trust us.

Come on.

Breakfast?

Um... I'm not hungry, thanks.

- What is it?
- What?

- What can you see?
- Nothing, I'm just looking, that's all.

Oh, I almost forgot, you...Steel wants
you, he asked me to tell you.

- Yes?
- He's at the top of the house.

- What does he want me for?
- He's not likely to tell me, is he?

'I sent no message. '

No.

- Rob, what are you...
- Shh!

Put this on, Helen.

- But I don't want to.
- Put it on, quickly!

- I'm eating my breakfast.
- Well, you can leave that. Here.

- No! - Shh! Please, Helen,
we've got to be ready.

- Ready?
- We're leaving.

The policeman's coming.

Upstairs, just now.
I looked out of the window.

I saw the ferry crossing the bay,
the policeman's car was on it.

- Oh... - He has to be coming
here, there's nowhere else!

- Are we going with him?
- Yes, so hurry.

- Did you tell Sapphire?
- Tell her what?

- About the policeman?
- No I didn't. Come on.

- But she'll be cross.
- Come on, Helen!

- You should've told her. - They're nailing
up the door of your room, Helen!

Nailing it.
So that no one can get in.

And no one can get out.

Is that the way
to bring Mum and Dad back?

It's all right. The policeman's
coming, it's all right, Helen.

Listen.

- I didn't even speak to him.
- I didn't think you had.

Now this time it's
worse than the ship.

- This time it can think, it can reason
things out. - (Ring a Ring a roses...)

(Ring a Ring a roses...)

What kind of things?

- Method. Listen.
- (Ring a Ring a roses...)

- Like a record that's
stuck, isn't it? - Yes.

It's not, it's marking time.

- Boy must've heard the car.
- Yes.

I'm sorry, he just
doesn't trust you.

- Does he trust you?
- A little.

You're supposed to be the
diplomat, aren't you?

Amongst other things.

Supposed to be the one that
sweet-talks kids like that,

- and reassures them.
- I manage.

So we can get on with the job
and win the battle.

It's nearly here.

Then the last thing we need right now is
someone coming here who doesn't know,

being helped in turn by someone
who doesn't understand.

- Will you handle that policeman?
- No.

You do it.

Stay there.

I have to do it.

It's my home. I live here.
I have to tell... someone else.

Are you speaking for both of you?

Yes.

I don't think you can.

Come on, Helen.

- It doesn't matter.
- No?

No. I'm still gonna tell him
about my parents,

about that room up there, about
the things I saw in that room.

- Do you think he'll listen to you?
- Yes.

That policeman knows me.

Go on, then, try to tell him.

Hello, Rob.

Hello, Rob.

Hello, Rob.

I can keep that going for
as long as is necessary.

- Hello, Rob. Hello, Rob. - Just as long as it
takes to prevent you from talking to him.

- Hello, Rob.
- It could take ages.

So be fair. I'm sure the poor man
has better things to do.

Hello, Rob.

Hello, Rob.

Hello, Rob.

- He... Oh.
- Yes?

Oh, that... that's strange.

- What is?
- Well, it...

Must've been the long drive up here.

But I could've sworn I...

Well, I thought that door had already
been opened for me once.

No.

Only after the call last night I thought I'd
come over and see if everything's all right.

- Everything's fine.
- Good.

- And you are?
- A friend of the family.

Here for some... peace and quiet.

Well, that's all right, then.

- But how can you do it?
- I just did it.

- But how?
- It doesn't matter how.

Do you want me to start
all over again?

He'll be gone soon, so why don't you give
him a chance to get on with his business.

- This is his business!
- No.

All right then, suppose I went to that
window and climbed through?

Well I'd probably see you,

I might make you spend the
next few hours

climbing through the window
and not getting anywhere.

- If you can make Time go backwards....
- Who said I can?

You just did it out there.

And what you did last night when you
kept changing into different clothes...

The changing of the clothes
was an illusion,

they were just things I'd
worn in the past.

I was just projecting an image
for you, that's all.

But out there, just now, that wasn't an illusion, was it?

- No. - That was Time,
you were making Time go back.

Yes. Now sit down and get
on with your breakfast.

- Then why can't you take it back 24 hours
or more? - Want a little bit more milk?

Why can't you take it back
to just before yesterday,

when my parents were still here?

I haven't the power to
take time back that far.

If I had, don't you think
I'd have done it?

I suppose so.

Imagine a rubber ball.
Imagine a rubber ball bouncing.

And the first time the ball
hits the ground is the incident,

the bouncing that follows
is just the echo.

Momentum.

And I'm able to keep the momentum going
for just a little bit longer, that's all.

Just long enough. It helps.

- Does anyone have the power to...
- What?

Well, to take time back further?

- Something does, yes.
- Something, not someone?

- Something.
- Whatever's in that corridor?

It can take Time backwards or
forwards or sideways or anyway,

If it's allowed to.
Only there's no sense to it.

Not sense as we know it.
And no purpose, only its own purpose.

- What I saw in Helen's room...
- Oh, it's just a fraction, just a peep,

But stopping it, whenever it happens, is
our job and that's all we're doing here.

So will you please stop fighting us,
and try to believe in us for once?

We're all you've got on your side.

First a wall, then a room...

What then?

A house, a road, a village,

A town... What next?

- I need a room to work in.
- What sort of a room?

Would you know which is the
youngest room in the house?

- The youngest?
- Yes, the last one to be built.

My father had a small extension
built last year, an office.

Show me it. Please?

When you said you did a job
like this once on a ship...

- Yes.
- What happened?

We had to sink the ship.

'For it's own good, of course. '

'And it's not as easy
to sink a house. '

Hmm, this is much better.

And what about this?

40, 50 years old?

1938.

And this.

Now that must be all right.

- Six to eight months, most of it.
- Most of it?

There are some recycled elements there.

One of them is a good
hundred years old.

- So nothing's safe.
- No.

- Rob!
- Yes?

- Everything.
- What?

I want an empty room.

They do clutter their lives,
don't they?

- Sorry. - Would you get
the wastepaper basket?

- What was the trigger?
- What?

Well when you said that Time broke
through, here, in Helen's room

you said there was a trigger, a final
ingredient to make it happen.

That's right.

Well what was the trigger, the
final ingredient on that ship?

Oh, an out-of-date ship's log.

The Captain had a weakness
for nautical heritage,

- Oh. - He collected
old things from ships.

Not so silly, then, are they?

- Who? - These creatures that are trying
to break through the Time-fabric.

A ship's log at sea,
a nursery rhyme in a child's room.

It sounds to me as if
they know what they're doing.

What's wrong?

Just something the boy said, it reminded
me of something you said, earlier on.

- Me?
- Yes.

About methods being used.

Rob?

Rob?!

Rob!

And downstairs...

Upstairs...

Upstairs...

And downstairs...

- Rob!
- Mum!

- Mum? - Just what on earth
is going on, Rob?

- Oh, Mum! - Will you open
this door at once, please!

Of course!
Oh I forgot, it's nailed up!

Nailed up? What do you mean nailed
up? What have you been doing?

Look, Mum, let me explain...

You can explain when I'm out of this room!
So just open it will you, right now!

- I will, Mum, Helen's gonna be so pleased!
- Will you open this door?!

Yes, Mum. Just wait!
I'll fetch Sapphire and Steel!

Oh there's no need to fetch them.

How do you know them?

Well... whoever they are.

I don't know, friends of yours,
I suppose. I don't know them.

Now, please open this door!

- But I can't open the door without help!
- Of course you can, it's very simple.

Just kneel down by the door,
just outside the door.

Come along, Rob,
kneel down by the door!

It's easy enough to open the door,
easy enough to let us out.

- How? - You just put your
face close to the door.

Come along, Rob, you can do it!

That's right. That's fine.

Now, then, all you have to do
is to say a rhyme.

A nursery rhyme. An old one.

Any one, providing it's old.

Well, can't you remember one?

Then just say it, Rob,
just say it. Say it!

- I can't!
- Say it!

I'm too old to say nursery rhymes!

Well then,
let's call it history.

- Now you're old enough for history,
aren't you Rob? - Yes.

And a lot of nursery rhymes
are a part of history,

I've always taught you that,
haven't I, Rob?

- No! - So, say the one
that's in your head.

- Which one? - The one that's
in there now! Don't lose it, Rob!

- Think of the soldiers.
- Soldiers...

Climbing the stairs,
swords in their hands,

searching for people!

- Goosey goosey gander!
- That's the one!

- Where shall I...
- Where shall I...

- Whither shall I wander?
- That's it!

Upstairs and downstairs...

In my...

No! Sapphire! Steel!