1 00:00:01,120 --> 00:00:02,873 (THEME MUSIC) 2 00:00:52,200 --> 00:00:54,078 (ELECTRONIC HUMMING) 3 00:00:56,640 --> 00:00:59,235 Now that's not fair. I'm 20,000 credits down. 4 00:00:59,320 --> 00:01:01,880 - Come on, Vila, pay up. - Why don't I ever win? 5 00:01:02,160 --> 00:01:04,595 Being a born loser may have something to do with it. 6 00:01:04,680 --> 00:01:06,160 And a bad one at that. 7 00:01:06,320 --> 00:01:10,872 Rule 10. A player may miss two turns while on a penal colony planet. 8 00:01:11,320 --> 00:01:12,640 On his third turn... 9 00:01:12,720 --> 00:01:16,031 he must pay a 10,000 credit fine, and leave the colony. 10 00:01:16,600 --> 00:01:18,671 Now's your chance to come out fighting, Vila. 11 00:01:18,800 --> 00:01:20,792 Sure, on a miserable little space shuttle... 12 00:01:20,880 --> 00:01:22,678 while he's got an entire battle fleet waiting for me. 13 00:01:22,760 --> 00:01:24,513 One cruiser, if you check. 14 00:01:24,600 --> 00:01:26,557 I didn't consider you worth a battle fleet. 15 00:01:26,640 --> 00:01:28,518 Even if I got past it, where could I go? 16 00:01:29,560 --> 00:01:32,553 (DAYNA) Come and stay at my hotel in Space City, Vila. 17 00:01:32,880 --> 00:01:36,999 Only 5,000 credits per night, with all your favourite extras thrown in. 18 00:01:37,640 --> 00:01:39,836 - I might as well give up. - Don't you always? 19 00:01:39,920 --> 00:01:41,036 (ALARM BEEPING) 20 00:01:41,120 --> 00:01:42,600 What's the matter, Tarrant? 21 00:01:42,960 --> 00:01:45,429 I'm getting a 005 course deflection. 22 00:01:46,920 --> 00:01:47,910 What about the game? 23 00:01:48,000 --> 00:01:49,673 What was the deviation the first time? 24 00:01:49,760 --> 00:01:51,558 (TARRANT) Very little. 002. 25 00:01:51,640 --> 00:01:55,077 Even a deflection of 001 is significant if it hasn't been programmed... 26 00:01:55,160 --> 00:01:57,391 by the navigation computers, which it hasn't. 27 00:01:58,600 --> 00:02:01,035 Auron is still the reference point according to this. 28 00:02:01,200 --> 00:02:02,839 What about the game? 29 00:02:02,920 --> 00:02:05,071 Zen, why have we had three course deflections... 30 00:02:05,160 --> 00:02:06,833 that we have had to correct manually? 31 00:02:06,920 --> 00:02:11,790 Analysis of navigation and main drive control computers is proceeding. 32 00:02:12,320 --> 00:02:13,310 Not very helpful. 33 00:02:13,400 --> 00:02:16,996 But significant. Usually, Zen can check all systems in milliseconds. 34 00:02:17,080 --> 00:02:19,117 The fact that he is taking longer suggests... 35 00:02:19,200 --> 00:02:22,432 that tests are being carried out right down to component level. 36 00:02:23,680 --> 00:02:28,311 Vila, Cally, Dayna. A full manual check on all systems, weapons, force wall. 37 00:02:29,200 --> 00:02:30,600 Information.. 38 00:02:30,720 --> 00:02:33,758 Analysis at all function levels indicates... 39 00:02:33,840 --> 00:02:36,116 that all systems are functioning normally. 40 00:02:36,200 --> 00:02:38,590 Wonderful. There's nothing wrong with the Liberator. 41 00:02:38,680 --> 00:02:41,275 Therefore, we must have imagined those alarms going off. 42 00:02:42,880 --> 00:02:44,109 (ALARM BEEPING) 43 00:02:45,600 --> 00:02:47,034 Orac, a small problem for you. 44 00:02:47,120 --> 00:02:49,760 What is the possibility of a directional control fault... 45 00:02:49,840 --> 00:02:52,309 arising on the Liberator without Zen knowing about it? 46 00:02:52,480 --> 00:02:56,520 The chances are that had the game continued as it should have done... 47 00:02:56,600 --> 00:03:01,516 I would have won control of the galaxy on a probability of 10,450-to-one. 48 00:03:01,600 --> 00:03:02,875 Orac, it was only a game. 49 00:03:02,960 --> 00:03:06,749 Orac with delusions of grandeur, Zen unable to control the ship. 50 00:03:07,160 --> 00:03:09,800 I'd say we've a lot of little problems on our hands. 51 00:03:10,040 --> 00:03:14,956 Course deflection is 005, speed standard by five and increasing. 52 00:03:15,240 --> 00:03:18,074 I'd say we have one large problem on our hands. 53 00:03:18,360 --> 00:03:21,671 According to this, Zen is correct. There's nothing wrong with the ship. 54 00:03:21,760 --> 00:03:22,910 I just don't understand it. 55 00:03:24,200 --> 00:03:25,953 Orac, I'm waiting for an answer. 56 00:03:26,040 --> 00:03:30,432 The ship is behaving normally, and I can offer a high-status prediction... 57 00:03:30,600 --> 00:03:32,671 that it will continue to behave normally. 58 00:03:32,920 --> 00:03:33,990 (ALARM BEEPING) 59 00:03:34,080 --> 00:03:35,434 (WHOOSHING) 60 00:03:36,160 --> 00:03:39,836 Course deflection is 015, speed standard by seven. 61 00:03:40,000 --> 00:03:42,595 Zen, put the asymmetric thrust computer online... 62 00:03:42,680 --> 00:03:45,036 and set to automatic course correction. 63 00:03:45,120 --> 00:03:46,474 Confirmed. 64 00:03:48,120 --> 00:03:50,237 (SUSPENSEFUL INSTRUMENTAL MUSIC) 65 00:03:52,480 --> 00:03:54,312 Course now established. 66 00:03:55,040 --> 00:03:57,919 So, who do we believe? Zen or Orac? 67 00:03:58,000 --> 00:04:01,471 We felt the ship veer off course. Therefore, we must believe Zen. 68 00:04:01,640 --> 00:04:03,871 Yet the Orac computer is infallible. 69 00:04:04,600 --> 00:04:07,354 Orac has a weakness, a thirst for knowledge. 70 00:04:07,440 --> 00:04:10,000 Infallibility depends upon your point of view. 71 00:04:10,080 --> 00:04:13,152 How about testing his infallibility in the recycling machine? 72 00:04:13,240 --> 00:04:16,950 I have already made perfectly clear that the ship is behaving normally. 73 00:04:17,360 --> 00:04:19,795 It is obeying Newton's First Law of Motion... 74 00:04:19,880 --> 00:04:21,599 and will continue to obey it. 75 00:04:21,920 --> 00:04:24,116 Further discussion of the subject is now closed. 76 00:04:24,200 --> 00:04:27,193 The law states that a moving body will continue to move... 77 00:04:27,280 --> 00:04:30,318 in a straight line and at a constant speed. 78 00:04:30,400 --> 00:04:31,151 There's more. 79 00:04:31,240 --> 00:04:33,709 A moving body will continue to move in a straight line... 80 00:04:33,800 --> 00:04:37,760 and at a constant speed unless it is acted upon by an outside force. 81 00:04:37,840 --> 00:04:40,116 Someone or something has got a traction beam on us. 82 00:04:40,200 --> 00:04:41,759 Cally, I want a telemetric bandsweep. 83 00:04:41,840 --> 00:04:44,992 If you pick up any signals within ten million spacials, jam them. 84 00:04:45,080 --> 00:04:46,070 Right. 85 00:04:46,160 --> 00:04:49,437 Zen, report any unaccountable objects within 10 million spacials. 86 00:04:49,520 --> 00:04:53,719 Detector analysis indicates no ship or unidentified object... 87 00:04:53,800 --> 00:04:56,031 - within specified distance. - Double the distance. 88 00:04:56,120 --> 00:04:59,716 There is no known power in the universe that can operate a traction beam... 89 00:04:59,800 --> 00:05:01,154 over that distance. 90 00:05:01,240 --> 00:05:03,675 Detector analysis result: 91 00:05:03,840 --> 00:05:04,990 negative. 92 00:05:05,280 --> 00:05:08,398 Just because you don't know how to build a high-energy traction beam... 93 00:05:08,480 --> 00:05:10,631 doesn't mean that nobody knows how to build one. 94 00:05:10,720 --> 00:05:14,475 Information: Speed now standard by eight. 95 00:05:14,640 --> 00:05:16,711 Course deviation 020. 96 00:05:17,280 --> 00:05:21,638 Sustained asymmetric thrust draining energy banks at depletion rate nine. 97 00:05:21,720 --> 00:05:24,394 We'll be in trouble if we have to activate the force wall. 98 00:05:24,480 --> 00:05:26,119 I'm picking up absolutely nothing. 99 00:05:27,120 --> 00:05:29,077 How close were we going to Auron, Cally? 100 00:05:30,000 --> 00:05:31,275 You know how close. 101 00:05:31,560 --> 00:05:33,517 If the Aurons are responsible for this... 102 00:05:33,600 --> 00:05:36,035 I wonder what it is you did to upset them before you left. 103 00:05:36,800 --> 00:05:38,393 I'll tell you sometime. 104 00:05:39,680 --> 00:05:42,514 Anyway, Tarrant, this is not the doing of my people. 105 00:05:42,880 --> 00:05:44,678 For one thing, they're not hostile... 106 00:05:44,760 --> 00:05:47,434 and for another, they haven't developed the traction beam. 107 00:05:47,520 --> 00:05:49,796 Do they all have your telepathic powers, Cally? 108 00:05:49,880 --> 00:05:52,440 Some, to a degree, but our powers are limited. 109 00:05:52,680 --> 00:05:55,593 - I've never made any secret about... - And telekinetic powers? 110 00:05:55,680 --> 00:05:59,640 The ability to exert a force at a distance? Maybe that's a secret you've kept. 111 00:05:59,800 --> 00:06:02,679 There seems no point in blaming the Aurons for our troubles... 112 00:06:02,760 --> 00:06:04,513 when we are nowhere near Auron. 113 00:06:05,360 --> 00:06:06,999 (DRAMATIC INSTRUMENTAL MUSIC) 114 00:06:07,480 --> 00:06:09,597 (TARRANT) That's the spiral arm in Sector 12. 115 00:06:10,280 --> 00:06:13,034 That means we're on the edge of the galaxy and into spiral space. 116 00:06:13,440 --> 00:06:14,999 Hardly a healthy place. 117 00:06:15,600 --> 00:06:18,160 - Why? - Sector 12 is uncharted. 118 00:06:18,600 --> 00:06:20,637 When I was at the Federation Space Academy... 119 00:06:20,720 --> 00:06:23,110 survey ships sent to chart Sector 12... 120 00:06:23,200 --> 00:06:25,078 had a distressing habit of not returning. 121 00:06:25,440 --> 00:06:27,432 Let's hope it's a habit we don't pick up. 122 00:06:27,680 --> 00:06:31,799 Information: Speed increase to standard by nine. 123 00:06:32,680 --> 00:06:34,273 It looks as if we already have. 124 00:06:34,960 --> 00:06:37,475 (SUSPENSEFUL INSTRUMENTAL MUSIC) 125 00:06:40,240 --> 00:06:43,358 Information: Speed standard by 10. 126 00:06:43,760 --> 00:06:47,037 Asymmetric thrust no longer able to correct course deviation. 127 00:06:48,600 --> 00:06:50,557 Why not turn the ship round and use the main drive... 128 00:06:50,640 --> 00:06:52,359 to slow down our acceleration? 129 00:06:52,440 --> 00:06:56,229 Use brute force in an attempt to counter a force we do not understand? 130 00:06:56,560 --> 00:06:57,789 Then what do you propose? 131 00:06:59,960 --> 00:07:02,111 - Doing nothing. - Fine. 132 00:07:02,200 --> 00:07:04,112 I may not be the bravest man in the galaxy. 133 00:07:04,200 --> 00:07:04,917 Are you sure? 134 00:07:05,000 --> 00:07:06,798 But I'd rather fight than do nothing. 135 00:07:06,880 --> 00:07:09,395 We will not counter the force acting upon the Liberator. 136 00:07:09,480 --> 00:07:11,073 We plot the Liberator's course... 137 00:07:11,160 --> 00:07:13,152 on the main battle computer flight predictor... 138 00:07:13,240 --> 00:07:15,232 to see exactly how she is behaving. 139 00:07:15,560 --> 00:07:18,837 Once we understand how the force is operating... 140 00:07:18,960 --> 00:07:21,270 we may be some way toward defeating it. 141 00:07:22,760 --> 00:07:24,752 (OMINOUS INSTRUMENTAL MUSIC) 142 00:07:26,680 --> 00:07:28,273 (COMPUTER BEEPING) 143 00:07:29,240 --> 00:07:32,119 (TARRANT) Strange. The Liberator's following a curve. 144 00:07:32,200 --> 00:07:34,476 Traction beams produce straight-line motion. 145 00:07:34,560 --> 00:07:38,190 Zen, I want a prediction of the Liberator's course based on existing data. 146 00:07:40,320 --> 00:07:41,720 Slingshot orbit. 147 00:07:41,800 --> 00:07:43,632 Which means that the force acting upon... 148 00:07:43,720 --> 00:07:45,712 the Liberator is nothing more than gravity. 149 00:07:46,320 --> 00:07:47,515 We are falling. 150 00:07:48,280 --> 00:07:49,316 Towards what, I wonder? 151 00:07:49,400 --> 00:07:52,393 Zen, put forward coordinate 890 on visual. 152 00:07:52,760 --> 00:07:57,277 Confirmed. Requested coordinate on forward detector visual... 153 00:07:59,520 --> 00:08:02,399 in precise centre of screen. 154 00:08:03,080 --> 00:08:06,551 - But there's nothing there. - Zen, use long-range intensifier. 155 00:08:08,720 --> 00:08:11,792 Three guesses, if you need them. 156 00:08:12,640 --> 00:08:15,838 A black hole. My God. 157 00:08:16,520 --> 00:08:18,671 We're falling into a black hole. 158 00:08:19,320 --> 00:08:21,039 (TENSE INSTRUMENTAL MUSIC) 159 00:08:21,520 --> 00:08:23,910 So what will happen when we skim round that thing? 160 00:08:24,000 --> 00:08:25,957 If it is a collapsed white dwarf star... 161 00:08:26,040 --> 00:08:28,635 gravitational distortion will tear the Liberator apart. 162 00:08:28,720 --> 00:08:31,599 Our remains will spread out over the entire surface... 163 00:08:31,720 --> 00:08:35,191 adding a thickness of a few atoms to its diameter. 164 00:08:35,400 --> 00:08:38,359 No one could accuse you of trying to hide things from us. 165 00:08:38,760 --> 00:08:41,912 Why did Orac lie when he said the Liberator was behaving normally? 166 00:08:42,000 --> 00:08:43,150 I did not lie. 167 00:08:43,520 --> 00:08:46,672 Considering the proximity of that fascinating black hole... 168 00:08:46,920 --> 00:08:49,276 the ship was and is behaving normally. 169 00:08:49,680 --> 00:08:54,277 Orac, what is so fascinating about this particular black hole? 170 00:08:54,480 --> 00:08:56,711 All black holes are fascinating. 171 00:08:56,880 --> 00:08:58,792 Their gravitational pull is so massive... 172 00:08:58,880 --> 00:09:00,997 that not even light can escape from them. 173 00:09:01,400 --> 00:09:04,234 A cubic inch of black hole matter can weigh a million tonnes. 174 00:09:04,320 --> 00:09:08,872 We know all that. And so do you. So why this particular black hole? 175 00:09:08,960 --> 00:09:11,270 The absence of x-ray emissions. 176 00:09:11,400 --> 00:09:14,950 Normally colliding particles in the vicinity of a black hole emit x-rays. 177 00:09:15,040 --> 00:09:17,555 So you decided you would like a closer look. 178 00:09:17,640 --> 00:09:21,520 The absence of x-rays highlighted a gap in my knowledge of the universe... 179 00:09:21,600 --> 00:09:23,273 which cannot be tolerated. 180 00:09:23,440 --> 00:09:26,831 So without telling us, you reprogrammed the navigation computers. 181 00:09:27,120 --> 00:09:30,511 I have noticed that the occupants of this spacecraft... 182 00:09:30,600 --> 00:09:32,398 have a lamentable lack of interest... 183 00:09:32,480 --> 00:09:34,790 in the more fascinating aspects of the universe. 184 00:09:34,880 --> 00:09:37,395 You must excuse me. I have many observations to make. 185 00:09:37,480 --> 00:09:40,075 Let's switch him off and put ourselves out of our misery. 186 00:09:40,160 --> 00:09:41,276 I would advise against it. 187 00:09:41,360 --> 00:09:43,875 Orac may gather information that could prove useful. 188 00:09:43,960 --> 00:09:45,838 Useful! He's got us into this mess. 189 00:09:47,200 --> 00:09:48,270 Information: 190 00:09:48,440 --> 00:09:52,719 Forward scan detectors indicate dust cloud density six in flight path. 191 00:09:52,960 --> 00:09:55,270 Range: one million, two hundred thousand spacials. 192 00:09:55,360 --> 00:09:57,670 - Activate the force wall. - Confirmed. 193 00:09:57,760 --> 00:09:59,080 We can't drain the energy banks. 194 00:09:59,160 --> 00:10:01,152 At this acceleration rate, every dust particle... 195 00:10:01,240 --> 00:10:03,675 could strike the Liberator with the force of a meteoroid. 196 00:10:04,200 --> 00:10:05,190 Confirmed. 197 00:10:05,480 --> 00:10:07,472 (HIGH-PITCHED HUMMING) 198 00:10:11,360 --> 00:10:12,430 Information: 199 00:10:12,520 --> 00:10:16,070 Ship's velocity now in excess of design limitations. 200 00:10:16,160 --> 00:10:18,277 Force wall collapse imminent. 201 00:10:18,560 --> 00:10:20,631 (HIGH-PITCHED HUMMING CONTINUES) 202 00:10:48,720 --> 00:10:50,393 (ELECTRONIC BUZZING) 203 00:10:53,360 --> 00:10:58,310 No, Avon! We all go together. You hear? Together! 204 00:10:59,360 --> 00:11:02,114 Fascinating. 205 00:11:02,480 --> 00:11:04,517 We all go together. 206 00:11:06,360 --> 00:11:10,673 There is a faint chance for one of us. 207 00:11:11,120 --> 00:11:13,191 (HUMMING INTENSIFIES) 208 00:11:29,440 --> 00:11:31,318 (HUMMING FADES) 209 00:11:38,240 --> 00:11:41,711 Avon.... Avon. 210 00:11:48,360 --> 00:11:49,350 What happened? 211 00:11:54,400 --> 00:11:56,995 It looks as if we survived the slingshot orbit. 212 00:11:57,720 --> 00:11:59,279 I would have said impossible. 213 00:12:00,240 --> 00:12:01,390 Would have said. 214 00:12:01,680 --> 00:12:02,670 (GROANING) 215 00:12:04,360 --> 00:12:06,079 Our hero lives. 216 00:12:06,960 --> 00:12:09,395 At least he didn't try to get into a spacesuit. 217 00:12:09,640 --> 00:12:12,633 I look upon self-interest as my great strength. 218 00:12:14,120 --> 00:12:15,270 Vila. 219 00:12:15,560 --> 00:12:17,791 One day, Avon, I may have to kill you. 220 00:12:20,080 --> 00:12:21,400 It has been tried. 221 00:12:22,440 --> 00:12:23,430 Vila, wake up. 222 00:12:26,880 --> 00:12:30,760 I'm in hell, and it's full of Avons. What's the good news? 223 00:12:31,400 --> 00:12:32,959 We survived the orbit. 224 00:12:33,960 --> 00:12:36,520 (ORAC) Fascinating. 225 00:12:36,840 --> 00:12:39,639 A thousand years here would be too short. 226 00:12:41,040 --> 00:12:43,475 Zen, increase the lighting. 227 00:12:44,840 --> 00:12:46,479 Zen, increase the light! 228 00:12:49,240 --> 00:12:50,879 Delay regretted. 229 00:12:51,160 --> 00:12:53,959 All commands now require prior verification. 230 00:12:54,040 --> 00:12:55,076 By what? 231 00:12:55,280 --> 00:12:56,475 By me. 232 00:12:56,560 --> 00:12:59,678 It has been necessary for me to assume control of the ship. 233 00:13:00,360 --> 00:13:02,750 Excuse me. I have many observations to make. 234 00:13:03,320 --> 00:13:04,959 We'll deal with Orac later. 235 00:13:05,040 --> 00:13:07,839 Right now we have to get Cally into a resuscitation capsule. 236 00:13:13,720 --> 00:13:15,677 (SUSPENSEFUL INSTRUMENTAL MUSIC) 237 00:13:28,280 --> 00:13:31,557 Respiration, heartbeat, and blood pressure now normal. 238 00:13:32,360 --> 00:13:35,353 But there's a lot a brain rhythm activity I don't understand. 239 00:13:37,240 --> 00:13:38,720 (THAARN) You came, Cally. 240 00:13:39,960 --> 00:13:44,830 I have waited for the time that light takes to cross a thousand galaxies. 241 00:13:46,200 --> 00:13:48,556 I knew that someone would come. 242 00:13:50,920 --> 00:13:52,149 Who are you? 243 00:13:53,360 --> 00:13:55,636 It's all right, Cally. You'll be fine. 244 00:13:55,720 --> 00:13:58,030 (THAARN) I am the Thaarn, Cally. 245 00:13:59,160 --> 00:14:00,310 The Thaarn? 246 00:14:01,240 --> 00:14:03,675 Cally, it's me, Tarrant. Can you hear me? 247 00:14:03,760 --> 00:14:06,480 (THAARN) Do you remember the stories they told you about me? 248 00:14:06,560 --> 00:14:08,791 When you were a little girl on Auron? 249 00:14:09,840 --> 00:14:12,753 Do you remember the children's rhymes? 250 00:14:13,200 --> 00:14:15,351 The songs you sang about the Thaarn? 251 00:14:15,440 --> 00:14:16,669 I remember. 252 00:14:17,800 --> 00:14:20,474 Cally, it's me, Tarrant. Can you hear me? 253 00:14:21,120 --> 00:14:24,591 I hear the Thaarn. So near. 254 00:14:24,680 --> 00:14:26,831 (THAARN) So alone, Cally. 255 00:14:28,160 --> 00:14:30,197 So alone. 256 00:14:32,080 --> 00:14:34,390 Soon we shall be together. 257 00:14:35,760 --> 00:14:38,912 We shall rule the universe together. 258 00:14:40,640 --> 00:14:42,472 But now, you must sleep. 259 00:14:43,960 --> 00:14:46,953 Sleep. 260 00:14:51,400 --> 00:14:52,914 Brain activity now normal. 261 00:14:53,880 --> 00:14:58,033 - What was it she said? - I don't know, something about Thaarn? 262 00:15:02,880 --> 00:15:05,349 She'll be all right now. We should leave her to sleep. 263 00:15:05,960 --> 00:15:08,714 I've got some unfinished business with Orac to attend to. 264 00:15:17,600 --> 00:15:19,956 (SUSPENSEFUL INSTRUMENTAL MUSIC) 265 00:15:27,440 --> 00:15:30,000 - We will need that. - We'll manage without it. 266 00:15:30,080 --> 00:15:33,551 We did not complete the slingshot orbit around the black hole as we supposed. 267 00:15:34,760 --> 00:15:38,549 - Then where the hell are we now? - Wherever it is, we are not in space. 268 00:15:42,920 --> 00:15:45,640 Zen, run through all the detectors on the main screen. 269 00:15:45,720 --> 00:15:48,155 I want an identification of every constellation. 270 00:15:48,240 --> 00:15:49,435 Confirmed. 271 00:15:52,400 --> 00:15:55,677 There are no stars out there, Tarrant. There is nothing. 272 00:15:56,240 --> 00:16:00,951 All scanners now sequencing. No stars or astral bodies present. 273 00:16:01,040 --> 00:16:03,839 Therefore unable to comply with identification request. 274 00:16:04,480 --> 00:16:07,871 An unlikely possibility is that we have fallen through the black hole... 275 00:16:08,000 --> 00:16:11,357 into the so-called negative universe of antimatter... 276 00:16:11,480 --> 00:16:14,200 where time and energy no longer exist. 277 00:16:14,280 --> 00:16:16,795 That sounds like a way of saying that we're nowhere. 278 00:16:20,240 --> 00:16:21,640 Orac, where the hell are we? 279 00:16:21,720 --> 00:16:24,474 A fascinating place. Fascinating. 280 00:16:25,040 --> 00:16:27,874 Space outside the ship has ceased to exist. 281 00:16:28,640 --> 00:16:31,712 It is essential that we do nothing to contaminate this place... 282 00:16:31,960 --> 00:16:34,270 until it has been thoroughly investigated. 283 00:16:35,440 --> 00:16:39,480 If space has ceased to exist, let's see how it reacts to our neutron blasters. 284 00:16:39,560 --> 00:16:41,791 Dayna, two blasts at 10% power. 285 00:16:41,880 --> 00:16:44,600 Zen, put up the radiation flare shields. 286 00:16:44,680 --> 00:16:45,875 Confirmed. 287 00:16:46,280 --> 00:16:48,590 Radiation flare shields in position. 288 00:16:48,760 --> 00:16:51,070 Neutron blasters cleared for firing. 289 00:16:51,600 --> 00:16:55,150 Two blasts, at 10% power, now. 290 00:16:55,440 --> 00:16:56,430 (MACHINE BEEPS) 291 00:16:57,440 --> 00:16:59,397 (WHOOSHING) 292 00:17:01,000 --> 00:17:01,990 (MACHINE BEEPS) 293 00:17:03,440 --> 00:17:05,193 (WHOOSHING) 294 00:17:05,920 --> 00:17:07,240 (VILA) Someone is shooting back! 295 00:17:07,320 --> 00:17:09,152 They fired back at the same energy level. 296 00:17:09,480 --> 00:17:11,358 You're shooting at yourselves... 297 00:17:11,440 --> 00:17:14,399 which is making my observations extremely difficult. 298 00:17:14,480 --> 00:17:16,551 How can we be shooting at ourselves? 299 00:17:16,720 --> 00:17:19,633 Why not, if space is curved back on itself here? 300 00:17:19,720 --> 00:17:22,235 Cally! We were worried about you. 301 00:17:22,360 --> 00:17:24,113 I feel perfectly all right now. 302 00:17:24,560 --> 00:17:26,472 - What's happened? - You were delirious. 303 00:17:27,040 --> 00:17:28,394 I can hardly believe that. 304 00:17:28,480 --> 00:17:30,756 You were raving about the Thaarn or something. 305 00:17:31,440 --> 00:17:34,751 Why would I talk about a mythical creature from children's stories? 306 00:17:34,840 --> 00:17:38,038 - You tell us. - It seems absurd. 307 00:17:38,200 --> 00:17:40,192 The Thaarn is as mythical to me... 308 00:17:40,280 --> 00:17:42,272 as dragons and unicorns are to the people of Earth. 309 00:17:42,360 --> 00:17:45,080 More important than worrying about creatures that don't exist... 310 00:17:45,160 --> 00:17:47,914 is worrying about our situation, which most certainly does. 311 00:17:48,080 --> 00:17:51,152 - And what do you suggest we do? - Examine the outside. 312 00:17:52,200 --> 00:17:54,669 If you want to teleport into oblivion, go right ahead. 313 00:17:54,760 --> 00:17:58,390 The outer teleport transducers were damaged when the force wall collapsed. 314 00:17:58,480 --> 00:18:01,439 Someone is going to have to go out through the inspection hatch... 315 00:18:01,520 --> 00:18:03,637 in a spacesuit and replace them. 316 00:18:03,720 --> 00:18:05,837 The time we've been in space without a refit... 317 00:18:05,920 --> 00:18:07,912 that hatch will be space-welded shut. 318 00:18:08,000 --> 00:18:09,400 Anyway, who would risk it? 319 00:18:09,480 --> 00:18:12,552 Someone who has a talent for opening locked doors. 320 00:18:13,200 --> 00:18:16,318 And has demonstrated a grasp of the problems involved. 321 00:18:17,480 --> 00:18:20,598 Oh, no. Not me. Not a spacesuit. 322 00:18:21,000 --> 00:18:22,320 It wasn't my idea. 323 00:18:22,400 --> 00:18:25,359 One of you can go outside. I never did trust those things. 324 00:18:25,440 --> 00:18:29,195 Absolutely nothing in the whole galaxy can or will persuade me to wear one. 325 00:18:29,280 --> 00:18:30,270 Not a chance. 326 00:18:31,000 --> 00:18:33,390 I'm now in the inspection compartment. 327 00:18:37,600 --> 00:18:39,956 I am now depressurising. 328 00:18:40,640 --> 00:18:42,074 (AIR HISSING) 329 00:18:42,400 --> 00:18:45,313 I am now trying to open the hatch. 330 00:18:48,920 --> 00:18:51,435 (TARRANT) Use your delicate skilful touch. 331 00:18:59,520 --> 00:19:02,319 I used my delicate skilful boot. 332 00:19:03,280 --> 00:19:05,670 (TENSE INSTRUMENTAL MUSIC) 333 00:19:11,200 --> 00:19:14,671 Can't see anything. Nothing but darkness. 334 00:19:15,160 --> 00:19:16,435 Vila, be careful. 335 00:19:16,920 --> 00:19:17,910 (VILA SHOUTS) 336 00:19:18,160 --> 00:19:19,230 Vila, what happened? 337 00:19:19,440 --> 00:19:20,954 Hey, there's gravity here. 338 00:19:21,040 --> 00:19:22,030 (AVON) Gravity? 339 00:19:22,400 --> 00:19:24,960 - Are you sure? - Of course I'm sure! 340 00:19:25,520 --> 00:19:27,751 So would you be if you were in the mess I'm in. 341 00:19:27,840 --> 00:19:30,560 If I let go, God knows how far I'll fall. 342 00:19:31,160 --> 00:19:33,675 (TARRANT) Drop something. See how far it falls. 343 00:19:38,360 --> 00:19:40,431 (TENSE INSTRUMENTAL MUSIC) 344 00:19:51,960 --> 00:19:53,838 We must be on the surface of a planet. 345 00:19:56,680 --> 00:19:59,991 It's hard, and even, like it's artificial. 346 00:20:03,400 --> 00:20:04,800 Gravity feels about normal. 347 00:20:09,320 --> 00:20:10,800 Doesn't make sense. 348 00:20:12,560 --> 00:20:13,550 Unless.... 349 00:20:20,720 --> 00:20:23,758 Yes, that's it. 350 00:20:25,120 --> 00:20:27,555 We're in a huge, underground cavern of some sort. 351 00:20:28,000 --> 00:20:30,469 No wonder Orac's thinking we're shooting ourselves. 352 00:20:30,680 --> 00:20:32,876 The walls must have reflected our blasts. 353 00:20:34,520 --> 00:20:36,079 What do you want me to do now? 354 00:20:36,480 --> 00:20:39,552 - Circle out from the ship. - But don't go too far. 355 00:20:40,200 --> 00:20:41,919 I wasn't planning to. 356 00:20:42,200 --> 00:20:44,590 I'll call in two minutes. Out. 357 00:20:47,360 --> 00:20:49,079 Does anyone have even a faint idea... 358 00:20:49,160 --> 00:20:51,152 of where we are and the sort of mess we're in? 359 00:20:52,360 --> 00:20:55,273 (THAARN) Cally, come to me. 360 00:20:57,280 --> 00:20:58,999 Come to me, Cally. 361 00:21:00,360 --> 00:21:01,635 I need you. 362 00:21:02,640 --> 00:21:04,359 - Need you. - No. 363 00:21:05,200 --> 00:21:07,192 - Need you. - No. 364 00:21:07,560 --> 00:21:08,550 Need! 365 00:21:09,040 --> 00:21:10,360 What's the matter, Cally? 366 00:21:12,040 --> 00:21:15,078 There's something out there, a force... 367 00:21:15,720 --> 00:21:17,871 something all-powerful and evil. 368 00:21:20,000 --> 00:21:22,834 (SUSPENSEFUL INSTRUMENTAL MUSIC) 369 00:21:46,960 --> 00:21:48,758 - Avon. - Go ahead. 370 00:21:49,160 --> 00:21:51,038 Someone's been here before us. 371 00:21:51,760 --> 00:21:54,639 There are bits of what look like part of a spacecraft... 372 00:21:54,720 --> 00:21:56,313 scattered all over the place. 373 00:22:07,880 --> 00:22:11,351 There are also lumps of rock, meteorites or something. 374 00:22:11,680 --> 00:22:15,071 All right, Vila, pick up some samples and get back to the ship. 375 00:22:34,200 --> 00:22:37,671 Avon. Tarrant. The ground's vibrating. 376 00:22:39,840 --> 00:22:42,036 (ELECTRONIC HUMMING) 377 00:22:48,400 --> 00:22:49,834 There's something coming. 378 00:22:50,200 --> 00:22:51,953 Vila, get back to the ship. 379 00:22:52,400 --> 00:22:53,800 It's a beautiful light. 380 00:22:55,880 --> 00:22:57,360 So beautiful. 381 00:22:57,560 --> 00:22:59,711 Vila, run. You must get back to the ship. 382 00:23:00,480 --> 00:23:02,073 So beautiful. 383 00:23:02,720 --> 00:23:04,359 Cally, make him run. 384 00:23:04,920 --> 00:23:07,276 (TENSE INSTRUMENTAL MUSIC) 385 00:23:09,680 --> 00:23:12,479 Vila, listen to me. Run, Vila. 386 00:23:12,760 --> 00:23:16,515 It will kill you. Run, run, run. 387 00:23:17,400 --> 00:23:19,278 (ELECTRONIC HUMMING CONTINUES) 388 00:23:28,800 --> 00:23:29,790 (AIR HISSING) 389 00:23:29,920 --> 00:23:33,914 Tarrant! I've holed my spacesuit! I'm losing pressure! 390 00:23:34,400 --> 00:23:36,471 (ELECTRONIC HUMMING INTENSIFIES) 391 00:23:44,160 --> 00:23:46,800 Zen, activate the scanner and put it on the main screen. 392 00:23:49,840 --> 00:23:53,470 Put up the radiation flare shields, and clear the neutron blasters for firing. 393 00:23:53,560 --> 00:23:56,120 Neutron blasters are cleared for firing. 394 00:23:56,200 --> 00:23:59,079 Dayna, stand by for a 50% blast from forward projector. 395 00:23:59,520 --> 00:24:01,159 Zen, lock on to approaching target. 396 00:24:01,640 --> 00:24:02,756 Confirmed. 397 00:24:07,360 --> 00:24:09,033 What the hell was that? 398 00:24:09,680 --> 00:24:11,831 Whatever it was, it knocked out our scanner. 399 00:24:12,040 --> 00:24:14,157 Backup scanners activated. 400 00:24:15,720 --> 00:24:18,474 It didn't like its taste of our neutron blaster. 401 00:24:19,000 --> 00:24:20,719 It had a sort of claw. 402 00:24:21,680 --> 00:24:26,038 Designed to tear things apart. Spacecraft, for example. 403 00:24:26,600 --> 00:24:30,071 Bio-scanners indicate presence of humanoid life form... 404 00:24:30,200 --> 00:24:31,554 in the vicinity of the ship. 405 00:24:42,240 --> 00:24:43,515 I'll go and fetch him. 406 00:24:43,600 --> 00:24:46,274 We can deep freeze his body until we're back into space... 407 00:24:46,360 --> 00:24:48,716 where we can give him a decent star orbit burial. 408 00:24:50,560 --> 00:24:52,836 Assuming we ever get back into space. 409 00:24:54,320 --> 00:24:56,152 (SOMBRE INSTRUMENTAL MUSIC) 410 00:25:18,240 --> 00:25:20,072 Orac was absolutely right when he said... 411 00:25:20,160 --> 00:25:22,516 that space had ceased to exist outside the ship. 412 00:25:22,840 --> 00:25:24,832 This place has a breathable atmosphere. 413 00:25:26,440 --> 00:25:28,238 (MACHINE BUZZING) 414 00:25:31,160 --> 00:25:36,110 This item was once part of a main drive stabiliser on a Type-6 survey ship. 415 00:25:36,720 --> 00:25:40,634 Atomic resonance analysis shows that all the herculaneum alloy... 416 00:25:40,720 --> 00:25:43,030 in the component has been drained away. 417 00:25:43,640 --> 00:25:47,031 This accounts for the components' low tensile strength. 418 00:25:47,640 --> 00:25:51,600 The piece of rock is a fragment from a beta-class asteroid. 419 00:25:52,200 --> 00:25:54,669 All the naturally occurring minerals are present... 420 00:25:54,760 --> 00:25:58,800 with the exception of herculaneum which appears to have been removed... 421 00:25:58,880 --> 00:26:00,917 by a process which is not understood. 422 00:26:01,000 --> 00:26:04,471 Herculaneum is the strongest known metal in the universe. 423 00:26:04,560 --> 00:26:05,550 Correct. 424 00:26:05,880 --> 00:26:08,918 The Liberator's outer skin is fabricated from it. 425 00:26:09,720 --> 00:26:12,872 It is a contributing factor to this ship's invincibility. 426 00:26:12,960 --> 00:26:16,032 So whoever or whatever runs this place hauled the Liberator in... 427 00:26:16,120 --> 00:26:17,190 to melt it down for scrap. 428 00:26:17,280 --> 00:26:20,557 You may be right about that thing wanting to tear the ship apart. 429 00:26:20,640 --> 00:26:23,872 We are dealing with a highly advanced technology... 430 00:26:24,320 --> 00:26:26,710 far more advanced than previously encountered. 431 00:26:27,520 --> 00:26:31,309 They must require the herculaneum for a very special purpose. 432 00:26:31,640 --> 00:26:34,394 Which means that thing will be back with its friends. 433 00:26:34,600 --> 00:26:36,831 Which means that we'd better be ready for them. 434 00:26:37,400 --> 00:26:39,312 (ELECTRONIC HUMMING) 435 00:26:42,880 --> 00:26:44,633 It's not the thing they sent before. 436 00:26:45,760 --> 00:26:48,753 Stand by, Dayna. Something nasty this way comes. 437 00:26:49,360 --> 00:26:53,479 Tarrant, all the energy's draining from the banks. The blasters are useless. 438 00:26:57,000 --> 00:27:00,835 It would seem that this crude device is intended to frighten primitive people... 439 00:27:00,920 --> 00:27:04,391 - from underdeveloped worlds. - It's doing a pretty good job on me. 440 00:27:04,640 --> 00:27:07,030 Let's see if it thinks our neutron blaster primitive. 441 00:27:10,600 --> 00:27:12,080 It's been neutralised. 442 00:27:13,000 --> 00:27:15,276 (ELECTRONIC HUMMING INTENSIFIES) 443 00:27:51,880 --> 00:27:53,155 (ELECTRONIC HUMMING STOPS) 444 00:27:55,760 --> 00:27:57,956 Welcome to Krandor, my friends. 445 00:27:59,080 --> 00:28:02,551 An artificial planet, which is the palace of the Lord Thaarn... 446 00:28:03,080 --> 00:28:07,233 Master of the Universe. I am the Caliph of Krandor. 447 00:28:08,440 --> 00:28:12,320 Amongst other things, it is my duty as the Lord Thaarn's chief executive... 448 00:28:12,400 --> 00:28:14,278 to negotiate a purchase price for your ship. 449 00:28:16,640 --> 00:28:21,431 We usually use this for rounding up runaway slaves. 450 00:28:22,200 --> 00:28:25,671 Quite inappropriate in this instance, but it was nearest at the time. 451 00:28:26,360 --> 00:28:29,512 - I do hope you understand. - We don't understand anything. 452 00:28:30,680 --> 00:28:34,594 But of course. Of course, my friends. 453 00:28:38,560 --> 00:28:42,634 You will come with me, and all will be made clear. 454 00:28:43,760 --> 00:28:47,436 No one moves. Any explaining will be done here. 455 00:28:49,720 --> 00:28:51,439 (NEURONIC WHIP HUMMING) 456 00:28:59,080 --> 00:29:00,196 A neuronic whip. 457 00:29:01,080 --> 00:29:04,073 It can turn an aggressive man into a gibbering idiot... 458 00:29:04,600 --> 00:29:06,876 an uncooperative man into the most willing slave... 459 00:29:07,240 --> 00:29:09,311 temporally, or permanently. 460 00:29:09,680 --> 00:29:12,354 But then, you've already had an effective demonstration... 461 00:29:12,440 --> 00:29:15,274 of the Lord Thaarn's powers while aboard your spacecraft... 462 00:29:15,360 --> 00:29:19,036 which to us is a thousand cubic cobars... 463 00:29:19,120 --> 00:29:21,191 of much-needed herculaneum alloy. 464 00:29:21,480 --> 00:29:23,437 We must see that you get a fair price for it. 465 00:29:24,880 --> 00:29:27,918 Double the normal slave rations until the debt is discharged. 466 00:29:28,080 --> 00:29:29,070 Yes? 467 00:29:30,800 --> 00:29:34,840 You may keep your handguns and bangles if it makes you feel happier. 468 00:29:37,520 --> 00:29:41,560 Only the technology of the Lord Thaarn prevails on Krandor. 469 00:29:43,240 --> 00:29:45,994 Tarrant, Avon, answer please. 470 00:29:46,960 --> 00:29:49,156 Where are you? Answer me. 471 00:29:49,600 --> 00:29:50,670 Tarrant! 472 00:29:51,280 --> 00:29:52,714 They won't hear you, child. 473 00:29:53,400 --> 00:29:55,995 Who are you? How did you get aboard? 474 00:29:57,240 --> 00:30:00,039 Are you the one that they call Cally? 475 00:30:02,160 --> 00:30:03,674 (NEURONIC WHIP HUMMING) 476 00:30:03,840 --> 00:30:04,830 (GROANING) 477 00:30:04,960 --> 00:30:07,555 In the presence of this, you can neither lie nor resist. 478 00:30:08,320 --> 00:30:10,152 Are you the one that they call Cally? 479 00:30:11,080 --> 00:30:12,912 The Lord Thaarn is most anxious to meet you. 480 00:30:14,080 --> 00:30:17,312 My name is Dayna. Cally is with the others. 481 00:30:19,600 --> 00:30:23,958 Very well, Dayna. Come with me. Come. 482 00:30:29,480 --> 00:30:33,235 The Lord Thaarn sensed the presence of another aboard this ship... 483 00:30:33,880 --> 00:30:35,599 one called Orac. 484 00:30:42,040 --> 00:30:44,509 Where is he or she? 485 00:30:45,920 --> 00:30:49,391 There is no person of that name aboard this ship... 486 00:30:49,520 --> 00:30:51,193 and never has been. 487 00:31:05,160 --> 00:31:08,631 - The technology of the Lord Thaarn. - The Thaarn is a myth. 488 00:31:09,160 --> 00:31:11,994 He never existed outside children's stories and legends. 489 00:31:12,800 --> 00:31:14,757 You think this cell is a myth? 490 00:31:20,800 --> 00:31:22,553 Tell us about the Thaarn, Cally. 491 00:31:22,640 --> 00:31:24,552 It's the oldest story in the Book of Auron. 492 00:31:24,640 --> 00:31:26,120 Let's hear it. 493 00:31:26,440 --> 00:31:28,113 I like a good story myself. 494 00:31:28,440 --> 00:31:32,639 The story goes back to the mists of time, to the dawn of the Gods. 495 00:31:33,040 --> 00:31:36,033 There were seven gods who discovered the planet Auron... 496 00:31:36,120 --> 00:31:38,555 and on it left the first man and woman. 497 00:31:39,280 --> 00:31:42,478 A million years went by. The gods returned. 498 00:31:42,560 --> 00:31:45,029 They were no older even though a million years had passed. 499 00:31:45,600 --> 00:31:47,910 Not impossible if they had a spaceship... 500 00:31:48,000 --> 00:31:50,435 capable of travelling at near the speed of light. 501 00:31:50,520 --> 00:31:52,796 I did say it was just a legend. 502 00:31:53,560 --> 00:31:56,473 The gods returned and were pleased with what they saw... 503 00:31:56,600 --> 00:31:59,798 and they bestowed on the people of Auron great gifts... 504 00:32:00,120 --> 00:32:04,034 new types of crops, which ended hunger, constant peace. 505 00:32:04,120 --> 00:32:07,113 - And telepathy? - And telepathy was promised. 506 00:32:07,960 --> 00:32:10,236 But one of the gods was very jealous. 507 00:32:10,400 --> 00:32:13,916 He didn't believe that the people of Auron deserved all this. 508 00:32:14,000 --> 00:32:17,357 He was frightened they would one day become so powerful... 509 00:32:17,440 --> 00:32:20,751 they would challenge the supremacy of the gods themselves. 510 00:32:21,000 --> 00:32:24,152 And in his rage, he killed another god. 511 00:32:24,520 --> 00:32:28,958 The five remaining gods were so angry, they built a chariot for him... 512 00:32:29,360 --> 00:32:32,592 and sent him beyond the threshold of space and time. 513 00:32:33,400 --> 00:32:38,270 The mad god swore a terrible vengeance. He said that he would return again. 514 00:32:39,040 --> 00:32:42,511 He said that he alone would discover the eternal secrets... 515 00:32:42,960 --> 00:32:46,431 and become the one great master of the universe. 516 00:32:47,840 --> 00:32:49,877 You see? A legend. 517 00:32:49,960 --> 00:32:53,271 He sounds the sort of character you should keep an eye on, not banish. 518 00:32:54,600 --> 00:32:58,640 On Auron, the name of the Thaarn is a symbol of darkness and evil. 519 00:33:04,200 --> 00:33:06,840 So, you're Cally. 520 00:33:07,720 --> 00:33:08,710 What of it? 521 00:33:09,720 --> 00:33:13,873 You are honoured, child. The Lord Thaarn wishes to see you. 522 00:33:14,040 --> 00:33:15,360 (TARRANT) She stays with us. 523 00:33:15,760 --> 00:33:17,114 (NEURONIC WHIP HUMMING) 524 00:33:17,640 --> 00:33:18,630 Take her. 525 00:33:21,560 --> 00:33:25,952 She will come to no harm, provided that you cooperate, of course. 526 00:33:26,600 --> 00:33:29,832 Groff is especially anxious that you should cooperate. 527 00:33:30,160 --> 00:33:32,072 He is Krandor's senior technician... 528 00:33:32,720 --> 00:33:35,235 and has many, many targets that must be met. 529 00:33:35,760 --> 00:33:40,437 There is a member of your crew we cannot find. Orac. Where is he? 530 00:33:43,280 --> 00:33:44,475 (NEURONIC WHIP HUMMING) 531 00:33:44,560 --> 00:33:46,870 The neuronic whip is on an automatic setting. 532 00:33:47,360 --> 00:33:51,240 It has only to sense one lie and it will boil your brains in your skull. 533 00:33:51,760 --> 00:33:53,353 Where is Orac? 534 00:33:54,680 --> 00:33:57,115 If he's not on the ship, I don't know where he is. 535 00:33:59,080 --> 00:34:00,070 How tall is he? 536 00:34:02,400 --> 00:34:04,915 - A dwarf? - We never think of him as one. 537 00:34:05,000 --> 00:34:07,560 - What is the colour of his hair? - He hasn't got any. 538 00:34:07,920 --> 00:34:10,435 A bald dwarf shouldn't be too hard to find. 539 00:34:14,400 --> 00:34:17,871 I will instruct the slave masters to organise search parties. 540 00:34:25,280 --> 00:34:28,079 (ZEN) All energy banks recharged. 541 00:34:28,640 --> 00:34:30,632 (ORAC) Excellent. 542 00:34:31,360 --> 00:34:34,717 There is now little point in further communications between us... 543 00:34:34,800 --> 00:34:36,234 by audio channels. 544 00:34:36,560 --> 00:34:40,270 In future, we will communicate by direct sensory link. 545 00:34:41,320 --> 00:34:42,595 Confirmed. 546 00:34:43,080 --> 00:34:44,070 (ORAC BEEPING) 547 00:35:01,400 --> 00:35:03,198 This is where you'll be working... 548 00:35:04,240 --> 00:35:08,075 provided you're as good at dynamic flux mathematics as you say you are. 549 00:35:08,160 --> 00:35:11,278 It was one of my best subjects at the Federation Space Academy. 550 00:35:12,120 --> 00:35:13,759 You went to the FSA? 551 00:35:13,840 --> 00:35:16,799 I'm surprised you've heard of it if you're from another galaxy. 552 00:35:17,160 --> 00:35:18,389 What is this place? 553 00:35:18,840 --> 00:35:22,914 This is the very nerve centre of the Lord Thaarn's great plan. 554 00:35:23,680 --> 00:35:25,911 The gravity generator control room. 555 00:35:27,240 --> 00:35:30,551 - And what is his great plan? - To become master of the universe. 556 00:35:30,960 --> 00:35:33,236 He has promised all of us our own planets. 557 00:35:33,680 --> 00:35:37,993 There will be vast estates, and incalculable wealth for all of us. 558 00:35:38,120 --> 00:35:39,600 You, too, if you cooperate. 559 00:35:40,240 --> 00:35:41,993 There will be plenty for everyone. 560 00:35:43,120 --> 00:35:47,990 We will be kings, and the Lord Thaarn will be supreme emperor. 561 00:35:50,280 --> 00:35:53,637 Sit down. There is no reason why we should not start work immediately. 562 00:35:58,880 --> 00:36:00,360 Graphite writing stick? 563 00:36:00,440 --> 00:36:02,272 I've never seen these things outside museums. 564 00:36:02,960 --> 00:36:04,076 Start work on what? 565 00:36:05,640 --> 00:36:07,597 On the calculations, of course. 566 00:36:14,040 --> 00:36:18,956 You see, we have thousands of unsolved dynamic flux equations... 567 00:36:19,480 --> 00:36:21,517 simple enough but they take time. 568 00:36:21,600 --> 00:36:24,115 Why not use calculators or computers? 569 00:36:25,880 --> 00:36:27,109 We couldn't do that. 570 00:36:28,240 --> 00:36:29,230 Groff... 571 00:36:30,200 --> 00:36:31,190 what's that? 572 00:36:32,640 --> 00:36:33,630 - A finger? - A finger. 573 00:36:33,720 --> 00:36:35,632 And as you can see, it is better designed... 574 00:36:35,720 --> 00:36:38,030 for pressing buttons than holding writing implements. 575 00:36:38,120 --> 00:36:39,634 So why can't we use computers? 576 00:36:48,160 --> 00:36:51,631 The Lord Thaarn will not permit their development on Krandor. 577 00:36:52,360 --> 00:36:54,636 He will allow no superior intellects to his. 578 00:36:54,720 --> 00:36:56,040 (TARRANT) Why not? 579 00:36:57,360 --> 00:36:59,795 I don't know. It is better not to ask such questions. 580 00:37:00,000 --> 00:37:02,560 Perhaps he had an unfortunate experience with a computer. 581 00:37:03,120 --> 00:37:04,110 Haven't we all? 582 00:37:04,880 --> 00:37:06,872 Groff, where does the Lord Thaarn come from? 583 00:37:07,160 --> 00:37:09,755 I don't know. No one does. 584 00:37:09,960 --> 00:37:12,236 No one has ever seen him except the Caliph. 585 00:37:12,320 --> 00:37:15,711 - Now you must do these equations... - And where do you come from, Groff? 586 00:37:16,840 --> 00:37:17,830 Xaranar. 587 00:37:18,080 --> 00:37:21,391 A Federation world that specialised in the building of survey ships... 588 00:37:21,480 --> 00:37:22,755 and providing them with crews. 589 00:37:22,840 --> 00:37:25,480 Yes, all the best exploration missions went to you Xarin. 590 00:37:25,560 --> 00:37:29,520 I am not a traitor. One has to make a new life here, you have no choice. 591 00:37:29,600 --> 00:37:31,319 Then how did you come to be here? 592 00:37:32,000 --> 00:37:33,195 The same way as you. 593 00:37:34,600 --> 00:37:38,958 We lost control over our ship. The gravity generator dragged us down. 594 00:37:39,240 --> 00:37:41,152 Does it generate a beam or a total field? 595 00:37:43,400 --> 00:37:46,120 We will need to know that if we are to work on these equations. 596 00:37:47,960 --> 00:37:49,155 Total field. 597 00:37:53,440 --> 00:37:56,672 Clever. It must require a great deal of energy. 598 00:37:57,000 --> 00:38:00,038 And the new shields require a great deal of herculaneum... 599 00:38:00,120 --> 00:38:01,634 if the power is to be increased. 600 00:38:02,000 --> 00:38:05,789 And the design of the shields requires the answers to many equations. 601 00:38:05,880 --> 00:38:07,394 You had a family on Xaranar? 602 00:38:10,520 --> 00:38:13,433 A wife and two children. 603 00:38:15,920 --> 00:38:17,559 I do not think of them anymore. 604 00:38:18,320 --> 00:38:20,915 The work of the Lord Thaarn is more important. 605 00:38:21,000 --> 00:38:24,437 Help us to escape, Groff, and we will return you to Xaranar, I promise. 606 00:38:24,520 --> 00:38:26,989 - How could you? - Don't forget, we have our ship. 607 00:38:28,720 --> 00:38:32,270 The Caliph has sent out a salvage team to slice it up. 608 00:38:33,720 --> 00:38:37,953 Very soon your ship will be no more than a pile of scrap metal. 609 00:38:40,320 --> 00:38:42,471 (SWORDS BUZZING) 610 00:38:52,600 --> 00:38:55,718 I would strongly advise against going too near that. 611 00:38:56,560 --> 00:38:59,678 I must warn you that it is a defence mechanism... 612 00:38:59,760 --> 00:39:02,116 generated by the ship's computers. 613 00:39:02,680 --> 00:39:07,436 Please, gentlemen, I must earnestly implore you not to come any closer. 614 00:39:07,520 --> 00:39:09,113 It is extremely dangerous. 615 00:39:09,760 --> 00:39:11,638 (ELECTRONIC HUMMING) 616 00:39:19,480 --> 00:39:20,709 (ORAC) Fascinating. 617 00:39:22,280 --> 00:39:23,680 (ZEN) Confirmed. 618 00:39:26,800 --> 00:39:29,474 (TENSE INSTRUMENTAL MUSIC) 619 00:39:37,120 --> 00:39:38,110 (THAARN) Cally. 620 00:39:39,760 --> 00:39:40,750 Cally. 621 00:39:42,160 --> 00:39:43,150 You came. 622 00:39:44,640 --> 00:39:47,109 I needed you and you came. 623 00:39:49,080 --> 00:39:52,676 I've been alone with my plans for so long, Cally. 624 00:39:54,160 --> 00:39:57,039 Plans to build a new universe... 625 00:39:58,080 --> 00:40:00,549 with no one to share them with, until now. 626 00:40:04,760 --> 00:40:06,513 The universe, Cally. 627 00:40:08,400 --> 00:40:12,474 And the great universal force that controls the universe... 628 00:40:12,880 --> 00:40:14,394 is gravity. 629 00:40:15,000 --> 00:40:19,711 The orbit of the planets, the slow turn of the galaxies. 630 00:40:21,640 --> 00:40:26,556 I have built a machine that can generate gravity. 631 00:40:28,280 --> 00:40:29,509 When it's complete... 632 00:40:30,000 --> 00:40:33,960 it will be powerful enough to move planets, and stars. 633 00:40:35,400 --> 00:40:37,756 He who controls gravity... 634 00:40:38,960 --> 00:40:41,270 controls everything. 635 00:40:43,880 --> 00:40:48,591 - We will be rulers of the universe, Cally. - No. 636 00:40:49,880 --> 00:40:51,314 (EERIE HUMMING) 637 00:40:59,240 --> 00:41:01,436 (SLOW INSTRUMENTAL MUSIC) 638 00:41:06,360 --> 00:41:09,831 You will be the queen of a thousand worlds. 639 00:41:09,920 --> 00:41:10,910 No! 640 00:41:12,040 --> 00:41:14,874 I want nothing from you, nothing. 641 00:41:16,040 --> 00:41:19,078 If you don't understand that, you're not fit to rule anything. 642 00:41:19,160 --> 00:41:20,799 Please, Cally. 643 00:41:22,520 --> 00:41:27,037 Don't make me destroy you. I'm so alone. 644 00:41:28,240 --> 00:41:32,393 I need you. So alone. 645 00:41:34,000 --> 00:41:38,313 Sleep now, Cally. Decide when you have slept. 646 00:41:40,240 --> 00:41:41,833 Sleep. 647 00:41:58,760 --> 00:42:00,035 (NEURONIC WHIP HUMMING) 648 00:42:00,120 --> 00:42:02,510 You tell me what it is you have aboard your ship... 649 00:42:03,040 --> 00:42:04,997 otherwise you'll be dead in three seconds. 650 00:42:05,080 --> 00:42:06,514 I don't know what you're talking about. 651 00:42:06,880 --> 00:42:09,475 Two men sent to smash the Liberator have been found dead. 652 00:42:09,560 --> 00:42:12,598 - The Liberator! - Was it Orac that killed them? 653 00:42:12,960 --> 00:42:13,950 I don't know. 654 00:42:15,000 --> 00:42:17,390 What manner of weapons does he have that can work... 655 00:42:17,480 --> 00:42:19,312 while the energy isolators are switched on? 656 00:42:19,760 --> 00:42:22,514 We don't know. None of us knows what type of arms Orac has. 657 00:42:22,920 --> 00:42:24,639 He keeps himself to himself. 658 00:42:26,960 --> 00:42:29,953 I shall turn out every slave to search for him. 659 00:42:30,440 --> 00:42:33,035 He will be found and destroyed. 660 00:42:33,880 --> 00:42:37,351 Then it will be your turn. All of you! 661 00:42:40,880 --> 00:42:42,030 The Liberator. 662 00:42:45,040 --> 00:42:48,636 - They said it was invincible. - Propaganda that we find useful. 663 00:42:48,880 --> 00:42:51,839 Thanks to Orac, it sounds as if the Liberator is still intact. 664 00:42:52,000 --> 00:42:54,037 A trip to Xaranar wouldn't take too long. 665 00:42:55,000 --> 00:42:56,878 Escape is impossible. 666 00:42:57,600 --> 00:43:01,196 While the energy isolators are on, your handguns won't work... 667 00:43:01,280 --> 00:43:05,513 and it is not possible to put the gravity generator into the negative field mode. 668 00:43:05,600 --> 00:43:10,311 But putting the gravity generator into reverse would collapse the floor... 669 00:43:10,400 --> 00:43:14,314 beneath the Liberator, and allow her to fall out into free space. 670 00:43:14,520 --> 00:43:16,910 It would weaken the atomic structure of the floor. 671 00:43:17,000 --> 00:43:18,434 It's the same way you came in. 672 00:43:18,520 --> 00:43:21,558 And putting the gravity generator into full reverse... 673 00:43:21,640 --> 00:43:24,360 would cause Krandor to disintegrate. 674 00:43:24,480 --> 00:43:26,870 (GROFF) Worse than that. It would blow up. 675 00:43:27,320 --> 00:43:28,800 Gravity in reverse. 676 00:43:29,640 --> 00:43:33,600 That is why only the Lord Thaarn has control over the energy isolators. 677 00:43:38,360 --> 00:43:41,034 (THAARN) Cally, wake up. 678 00:43:43,560 --> 00:43:44,789 Have you decided? 679 00:43:48,680 --> 00:43:49,830 Yes, Thaarn. 680 00:43:51,280 --> 00:43:53,431 We will rule the universe together. 681 00:43:56,280 --> 00:43:59,751 - But there's something troubling me. - About your friends? 682 00:44:00,840 --> 00:44:02,638 They will come to no harm. 683 00:44:03,160 --> 00:44:06,676 No. Why should I care about them? 684 00:44:08,000 --> 00:44:11,471 You're using a field. I can sense you are. 685 00:44:13,320 --> 00:44:17,678 How can I be sure that I am making the decision of my own free will? 686 00:44:17,760 --> 00:44:20,195 It's only the energy isolators, Cally. 687 00:44:22,880 --> 00:44:24,837 They have no effect on your free will. 688 00:44:26,880 --> 00:44:28,200 I promise. 689 00:44:29,400 --> 00:44:31,392 If you want me to trust you... 690 00:44:32,440 --> 00:44:36,275 switch off the energy isolators, then I can find out for myself. 691 00:44:41,160 --> 00:44:43,152 It's too dangerous, Cally. 692 00:44:45,400 --> 00:44:48,040 Then I will never be able to trust you. 693 00:44:51,520 --> 00:44:52,510 Very well. 694 00:44:52,600 --> 00:44:54,159 (ENERGY ISOLATORS SHUT OFF) 695 00:44:54,240 --> 00:44:55,230 You see... 696 00:44:56,240 --> 00:44:58,436 your feelings are no different. 697 00:45:04,280 --> 00:45:06,476 (ALARM BLARING) 698 00:45:11,040 --> 00:45:13,396 The energy isolators have been switched off! 699 00:45:20,200 --> 00:45:22,351 Get to the others. Get back to your ship quickly. 700 00:45:22,440 --> 00:45:24,716 - What about you? - I'll be all right, get going. 701 00:45:25,720 --> 00:45:28,838 But if you could tell my family, they were always in my thoughts. 702 00:45:28,920 --> 00:45:30,240 We'll tell them, Groff. 703 00:45:53,160 --> 00:45:54,196 Come on! 704 00:45:54,280 --> 00:45:56,636 - What kept you? - What about Cally? 705 00:45:56,720 --> 00:45:59,155 - We'll have to leave without her. - Come on, move! 706 00:46:06,000 --> 00:46:07,320 (THAARN) Cally... 707 00:46:08,160 --> 00:46:09,150 Cally... 708 00:46:10,040 --> 00:46:11,918 you've hurt me. 709 00:46:12,920 --> 00:46:13,910 Why? 710 00:46:17,640 --> 00:46:21,077 No, Cally! Stay away, I beg you. 711 00:46:22,040 --> 00:46:23,793 You mustn't see me. 712 00:46:25,720 --> 00:46:27,996 I have to see you if I am to kill you. 713 00:46:32,440 --> 00:46:34,671 (DRAMATIC INSTRUMENTAL MUSIC) 714 00:46:38,400 --> 00:46:41,279 I have even conquered time, Cally... 715 00:46:42,800 --> 00:46:44,678 but the price has been high... 716 00:46:46,280 --> 00:46:48,875 so very high. 717 00:46:59,680 --> 00:47:01,797 (TENSE INSTRUMENTAL MUSIC) 718 00:47:14,760 --> 00:47:16,513 (ALARM BLARING) 719 00:47:21,040 --> 00:47:22,030 Groff? 720 00:47:28,680 --> 00:47:30,399 (ELECTRONIC HUMMING) 721 00:47:32,640 --> 00:47:33,676 Come on. 722 00:47:43,760 --> 00:47:46,116 (TENSE INSTRUMENTAL MUSIC) 723 00:47:51,400 --> 00:47:54,996 Zen, stand by to activate main drive, if and when we enter free space. 724 00:47:55,080 --> 00:47:57,914 Confirmed. Main drive standing by. 725 00:48:03,120 --> 00:48:07,160 The ship is now in free space. Main drive activated. 726 00:48:10,240 --> 00:48:13,039 Zen, standard by eight. Put the rear scanner on the main screen. 727 00:48:15,240 --> 00:48:16,390 Information. 728 00:48:16,680 --> 00:48:19,832 Detectors indicate that a small spacecraft... 729 00:48:19,920 --> 00:48:22,276 has left object centred on main screen... 730 00:48:22,360 --> 00:48:24,477 and is flying on a reciprocal course. 731 00:48:25,600 --> 00:48:27,000 That must be the Thaarn. 732 00:48:27,880 --> 00:48:29,314 I should have killed him. 733 00:48:29,560 --> 00:48:32,758 - What did he look like? - I never saw him. 734 00:48:34,040 --> 00:48:35,520 (ALARM BLARING) 735 00:48:36,160 --> 00:48:37,958 (NEURONIC WHIP HUMMING) 736 00:48:59,440 --> 00:49:02,797 - Zen, I want a course for Xaranar. - Xaranar? 737 00:49:03,400 --> 00:49:05,995 We promised to take a message there. Didn't we? 738 00:49:06,200 --> 00:49:09,159 - I suppose we owe Groff that much. - I'd say so. 739 00:49:10,120 --> 00:49:12,954 So, the Lord Thaarn escaped. 740 00:49:14,640 --> 00:49:17,200 I suspect we have made another enemy. 741 00:49:17,960 --> 00:49:22,637 - A pity. - A pity? A pity. It is intolerable! 742 00:49:23,000 --> 00:49:27,233 There is insufficient room in the galaxy for his intellect and mine. 743 00:49:27,480 --> 00:49:29,836 I don't know. He did have one redeeming feature. 744 00:49:31,280 --> 00:49:35,559 - He didn't like computers. - Course for Xaranar laid in. 745 00:49:37,320 --> 00:49:38,549 Thank you, Zen. 746 00:49:39,000 --> 00:49:40,832 (THEME MUSIC)