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(Radio:
Romantic instrumental music)
(Woman) No, Cass.
- I have a possible sighting.
- Bearing?
Coming up now.
This is Moonbase Control.
Yellow alert.
'Repeat, yellow alert.
'
'Red alert.
Confirming UFO.
'Four-two-nine-one-one-seven blue.
'
Red alert.
Interceptors, immediate launch.
- We have the termination, sir.
- What is it?
- Western Europe.
- Anything more specific?
The flight path indicates reference
UX-one-zero-four, southern England.
Southern England.
Thank you.
- Interceptors closing in.
- I'll give the command.
- Sir?
- Tell them I'll give the command.
Yes, sir.
Moonbase, orders from Commander
Straker.
Suspend Interceptors
(SID) 'UFO closing.
Range 11 million miles.
- 'Nine million miles.
'
- Interceptors coming into range.
Sir, do we intercept?
'Range closing.
Seven million miles.
'
Sir, do we intercept?
No.
- Negative.
- Negative?
- That's what I said.
- (SID) 'Five million miles.
'
SHADO Control to Moonbase.
Interception negative.
'Repeat, interception negative.
Interceptors to return to Moonbase.
'
This is Moonbase Control
to Interceptors.
'Return to base.
'
(SID) 'UFO passing outer defences.
'UFO maintaining course.
'Confirm speed
four-point-seven-decimal-four.
'
UFO signal now negative, sir,
presumably landed.
- Map reference.
- One-one-nine-one-two-zero.
One-one-nine-one-two-zero.
That's somewhere there.
I want the whole area cordoned off.
- Alert Mobiles 1, 2 and 3.
- Yes, sir.
Colonel Foster, I think
you'd better get out there with them.
- Yes, sir.
- Alert Mobiles 1, 2 and 3.
(PA message drowned by engine)
(Man on PA) 'Transporter 2, proceed
to area one-one-nine-one-two-eight.
'Transporter 3, proceed to area
one-one-nine-one-three-two.
'
It's not much further now.
(Owl hoots)
You did a good job, Liz.
- Cass, I can't
- Shh.
Go and get it.
Roger.
This is Commander Straker
to all Mobile operatives.
You are to locate UFO
designated nine-zero-four-one-F.
Termination area approximately
one-one-nine-one-two-zero.
- Colonel Foster?
- Sir?
- 'You cover blue area X-seven.
'
- OK.
- Hello, Alec.
- So you let one through.
- That's right.
- Why don't we do the job properly?
- What do you mean?
- Ask the aliens round for drinks.
Let's go into the office.
We're fighting a series
of losing battles here, Alec.
Why? Because we don't really know
who or what we're fighting.
I've waited months
for a chance like this, Alec.
A UFO right on our own doorstep.
That's why I let this one through.
And those Mobiles are on their way
to bring it in - intact.
Before any deterioration sets in.
Meanwhile, there's a potential killer
or killers at large.
Yes, I know.
It's a risk.
But the area has a low population
density.
It's mostly *** forest.
The danger factor
must be very slight.
Mobile 1 to SHADO Control.
Go ahead, Mobile 1.
'Have covered search area
blue X-seven P, Q and R.
'
- UFO negative.
- 'Roger, Mobile 1.
'
Proceed to link with Mobile 3 at
location one-one-eight-one-zero-nine.
SHADO Mobiles 2 and 3
are due to report now, sir.
Areas X-eight and nine
are practically covered.
- Mobile 1?
- He's slower, with the densest area.
Every inch of that forest
must be searched.
Somewhere in there, there's a UFO.
And we're going to find it
intact.
- (Dog whining)
- Shh.
- (Whimpering)
- Quiet, quiet.
(Whispering) Come on, boy.
Move.
Go on.
What the?
(Dog growling)
Go back.
Back.
Quiet!
(Snarling and barking)
(Quietly) Quiet! Quiet, you fool!
(Dog snarling)
Look out.
Sultan!
(Whistling)
(Whistling)
- Sultan!
- (Whimpering)
Sultan?
Hey, that's a good boy.
Come on.
Come on.
Oh!
Come on, come on.
What's the matter with you, eh?
That's a good boy.
(Guard screaming)
Sultan!
(Sultan barking)
Ah!
(Yelps)
(Panting)
(Whimpering)
(Gunfire)
(Screams)
Mobile 1 to SHADO Control.
- Go ahead, 1.
- 'Have located UFO.
'Position blue area
one-one-nine-one-one-three.
'
This is Straker.
Advise on condition.
'It's a total wreck.
'
- Is there any sign of life, Colonel?
- Investigating now, sir.
- Nervous?
- How long have you been there?
Come on, pull yourself together.
Let's go over it once again.
Take it from 11 o'clock.
From 11 o'clock.
At 11 o'clock, we finish supper.
Then I do the washing up.
- There's something else.
- What do you mean?
What do you do
before doing the washing up?
I call up Midge Clayton.
I tell her that I'm ringing her
from the cottage.
I ask her over
for lunch tomorrow.
Then
Why?
Why do you invite her over for lunch?
I'm nervous about being here
on my own.
Then I Then I tell her two things.
Firstly, that Jack can't be with me
because he has to go north
on a business trip.
Secondly, that I'm going to go to bed
and take a sleeping pill.
Dispatch analysis teams to the area.
Yes, sir.
SHADO Control to ADP unit.
Proceed to
blue area one-one-nine-one-one-three.
- Just one thing puzzles me.
- You should be so lucky.
How come that UFO is a wreck?
It hasn't been in the atmosphere
long enough to deteriorate.
Maybe it was the difficulty
of the landing area.
Could be a thousand reasons.
Mobile 1 has reported a body
inside the wreck of the UFO.
- An alien?
- They can't tell, it's very charred.
They'll call back
with more information.
Then at 11.
30
I check the front door to see that
it isn't locked from the inside,
so that Jack can get in.
- And then I go to bed.
- You don't go to bed!
There's something else.
Oh, yes, I I change the bulb
by the front door
- for a dud one.
- Right.
Go on.
Then Then I go to bed
and I put out the light.
No, no, I I read for five minutes,
but I find I can't concentrate,
so I turn out the light
and wait for Jack.
And when he comes?
I hear the gate creak.
So I get up and I come in here.
So
So I take the gun.
You take the gun, then what?
- Then what?
- I stand at the bedroom door
with the gun
pointing towards the front door.
Go on.
Then when Jack
opens the front door
You take aim and you fire, right?
- I can't! I can't, Cass, I can't!
- It's perfectly simple.
You're all alone here, someone
breaks in, you take aim and you fire.
- Aren't you forgetting one thing?
- What's that?
I'll be here right beside you.
Oh, Cass, stay here.
Stay here!
Mobile 1 to SHADO Control.
Go ahead, 1.
'The body inside the UFO
is definitely not an alien.
'
Mobile 1, this is Straker.
Explain yourself.
The body was charred, but there were
no hermetic seals around the neck.
We're searching the area on foot.
The alien must be in the forest.
It's time.
Go on.
(Ringing)
Answer it.
Hello?
(Man) 'Hello, darling.
Just ringing
through to say I'm on my way.
'
Fine.
That's fine.
- Well, it worked.
- 'What do you mean? '
Your little idea.
'No calls, no interruptions
for our weekend together.
'The office think
I'm at that conference.
'Even Miss Kettle
won't know where I am.
- 'Hello? You there? '
- Yes.
- 'Yes, I'm here.
'
- Good.
- I've got a little present for you.
- You have?
'Don't you want to know what it is? '
Yes Yes, of course I do, Jack.
What is it?
'Burlington Arcade? '
Oh, yes.
Yes, I remember,
the the pendant.
- The blue pendant.
- 'You don't sound very pleased.
'
I can easily get something else
if you'd rather.
No.
No, I'm sorry, Jack.
I'm sorry.
That was very thoughtful of you.
You all right?
Yes, I'm all right.
I've just got
a slight headache, that's all.
- 'Why don't you go to bed, then? '
- No, I'll be fine.
You go to bed.
I'll arrive about 12,
I'll try not to disturb you.
- 'All right.
'
- Bye, then.
Goodbye, Jack.
- You heard.
- Yes.
You heard how he was talking.
I don't think I can do it, Cass.
I can't go through with it.
Do you know how long
we've known each other?
Ten months? A year?
It's exactly one year and one month
ago I first came into your house.
I noticed how he spoke to you then,
I've heard him a million times since.
- Well?
- Every time he talks to you,
- it's in that way.
- Cass
Words.
What's he ever given you
but words?
You've said so yourself
over and over again.
He's clothed you, fed you
bought you
Blue area to SHADO Control,
blue area to SHADO Control.
We found a couple of things, sir.
First, a piece of torn fabric
from an alien spacesuit.
'There's also signs of a struggle.
'
Yes, what else?
We've found a dog with collar number
nine-nine-five-nine-eight-seven.
Listen, we have details here of
a missing person in the blue area.
A game warden, name of Mitchell.
That dog collar information checks.
It's my guess it's Mitchell's body
you found in the debris.
Try using the dog to locate
the alien, he may pick up the scent.
Yes, sir.
Come on.
Come on, boy.
(Foster) OK, follow me.
(Bird-like shrieking)
- What's that?
- The lights!
- Cass!
- The lights!
He's come an hour early!
(Footsteps)
- What are we going to do?
- Don't worry.
- We're ready for him.
- Cass, we can't! The lights!
I can't! I can't do it, Cass.
Look, I'm here, right beside you.
(Approaching footsteps)
He's stopped.
He's coming round to the front, Cass.
He's at the door.
For God's sake, I
(Door opens)
(Liz) Oh, God!
Now!
What's the matter, Cass?
What are you doing?
I'm trying to think.
How are we going to explain it?
- Who is he?
- Shut up!
You're not leaving me here?!
But you know I must.
Our only chance
is to go through with the plan!
- But how can we?
- We must!
I don't know any more than you do!
You shot an intruder, understand?
Do you understand?!
I must go.
Give me three minutes,
that's all, then phone the police.
Cass! Cass! Wait with me!
Wait! Wait! Just until I call!
- Three minutes.
- Please, Cass, please!
Cass! Cass
- Please get your coat, Mrs Newton.
- Why are you here? Who are you?
Are you the police?
How do you know my name?
Please.
(Owl hooting)
Ah, Mrs Newton, Mr Fowler.
We've been expecting you.
This way, please.
Would you care to sit down?
Freeman, Alec.
'Voice-print identification positive.
Nine-seven, Freeman, Alec E.
'
Now if you'll just follow me, please.
- Look, what is going on here?
- Please, Mr Fowler.
- You've had a harrowing experience.
- Right.
- You're entitled to an explanation.
- Right again.
Mr Straker will explain
why you're here.
For now, make yourselves comfortable.
I'm sure you'll find
everything you need.
What are you doing?
Just be very careful what you say.
Where are we?
We're under some kind of film studio.
- I don't understand.
- Neither do I.
We must get our stories straight.
Liz?
Liz?
Who are you?
More to the point, who are you?
The rest of the story
is exactly the same.
- Who are these people?
- I don't know.
The one that brought us here said
something about a man called Straker.
Isn't he a film producer
or something?
(Door opens)
I apologise
for having you brought here.
- Mr Fowler, Mrs Newton.
- Now, listen here.
And I've had you brought here
for a discussion.
Now if you'll both please sit down.
Was your wife expecting you?
- Naturally.
- Sure?
But of course.
I phoned her
on the way down here.
- Why do you ask?
- Do you recognise these?
Photographs of this room.
- Did you take them?
- No.
- Know who did?
- I've never seen them before.
Do you keep a gun here, Mr Newton?
- Yes.
- Who knew about it?
- My wife.
- Anyone else?
I'm not sure.
Don't think so.
Look, what is this all about?
I'm sorry, you'll have to bear with
me.
I suggest you return to London.
I'll arrange for your wife to
join you there as soon as possible.
Unidentified flying objects?
Aliens from another planet?
A world defence organisation?
It's incredible.
Then the lives of everyone can be
in terrible danger all the time.
Very great danger.
That's the reason
for all the security.
The general public must never know.
One thing I don't understand is
if your organisation is so secret,
why did you bring us here?
To help you forget the whole thing.
Forget?
Yes, you see, SHADO have developed
an amnesia drug, for obvious reasons.
We administer it to people
who've had contact with aliens.
- Or indeed, with our organisation.
- An amnesia drug?
Yes.
It's perfectly harmless.
All it will do is erase all memory
of the past 12 hours.
It's tasteless.
Would you, er
care for some more coffee?
What's wrong?
Paul has come up with
a very interesting theory.
- Oh?
- Tell him.
Mrs Newton and Fowler
said they shot an intruder
- as he forced open the door.
- Plausible.
Yes, if they weren't expecting
the husband.
The husband?
He came back to the cottage
- Is our security angle covered?
- Taken care of.
(Foster) But don't you see
what it means?
They planned a cold-blooded ***.
They had it all worked out.
But unfortunately for them, an alien
arrived instead of her husband.
It all fits.
Morally, they're guilty.
Hmm.
Well, the amnesia drug was
administered a few minutes ago.
- They won't remember a thing.
- We can't let them go free.
I suppose you think I should hand
them over to the public prosecutor.
He'd sure have a great case.
What would he go for?
The attempted *** of a husband
or the killing of an alien?
We can't produce that body, there's
no concrete evidence agains them,
and the accused would
both have genuine, total amnesia.
So there's nothing we can do.
- We're not in the morality business.
- What about the husband?
They wanted to kill him once,
they're bound to try again.
(Straker) Hmm.
Well, in the line of duty,
we've stumbled onto a triangle.
SHADO's involvement made it a square.
All we're doing is erasing
the past 12 hours.
So, it's back to the triangle.
Colonel Foster, get back to that UFO.
Get all the information you can.
Right.
Alec, get the medical team
to work on that alien.
On my way.
How are Mrs Newton and Mr Fowler?
(Intercom) 'They're receding, sir.
'
Well, get them out of here.
- 'But sir, I don't think '
- Just get them out of here.