Sapphire & Steel (1979–1982): Season 1, Episode 8 - Assignment Two: Part 2 - full transcript
Sapphire and Steel discover the ghost is a young World War I soldier who died in battle. They begin to suspect the railway station might be a recruitment ground for the dead. The appearance of a second ghost and the discovery of a recording with the last words of three dying submariners all but confirm their suspicions. The investigation becomes even more difficult and dangerous when the ghost of a fighter pilot forces Steel to experience a deadly plane crash.
- When will you be back?
- Tomorrow.
- At what time?
- (Sapphire) 'Steel! '
- To continue my investigation...
- Keep quiet.
- Pardon?
- 'What is it? '
(Military drumming)
'It's the platform again.
Something... changing.
'Something happening.'
(# Pack Up Your Troubles
In Your Old Kitbag)
'The flowers have appeared again
and the smell of summer
'but there's something else, Steel,
something else this time.'
'Can you identify it? '
'Just... a very powerful feeling...
of hatred.
'And resentment,
a strong feeling of resentment.
'The whole atmosphere out here
is charged with it.
'And that sound, Steel.'
(Music fades)
(Sapphire) 'Can you hear that? '
'No. What is it? '
'It's the sound of a band.
It's approaching.'
- (Music resumes)
- (Sapphire) 'It's coming here.'
Listen.
(Sapphire)
'And I can hear men... marching.'
Do you hear that?
- 'Be careful, Sapphire.'
- You hear it?
- 'Sapphire, be careful.'
- 'I'm all right, Steel.'
- # What's the use of worrying... #
- 'Sapphire, leave that platform now.
'We're in the waiting room.
Come here now.'
'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.'
- (Band still playing)
- 'Sapphire, leave that platform.
'Answer me.'
It's hot. It's a hot summer day.
# Smile, boys that's the style... #
He likes the sun. He says it makes
things grow, makes the corn ripe.
- # It never was worthwhile... #
- I can hear wood pigeons and bees.
# Pack up your troubles
in your old kitbag... #
It's very hot and very, very still.
He's with them, you see.
It's their special sendoff.
# Pack up your troubles
in your old kitbag
# And smile, smile, smile
- # While you've a lucifer... #
- Do you hear it? Do you hear that?
'Who are you, Sapphire?
'Who are you? '
# What's the use of worrying?
- # It never was worthwhile... #
- No passenger trains today.
This station is closed
to ordinary passengers.
#... and smile, smile, smile #
Wait a minute, the doors are locked.
(People cheering, faint)
There are just the girls.
(Cheering continues)
Just the girls who gave...
who gave them...
(Women shouting and cheering)
Look! Look, it's daylight out there!
(Cheering continues,
train approaching)
It won't open.
(Cheering and shouting,
train approaching)
(Men shouting)
(Train slowing down)
(Train stopping)
The girls who gave us flowers.
(Train pulling away)
(Machine-gun fire and explosions)
(Man groaning and crying in pain)
(Groaning continues)
(Crying and gunfire continues)
(Gasps)
Steel!
Wait!
It's amazing.
Really amazing.
- Tell me.
- He...
- It is without life.
- An external projection?
- No, an after-image.
- After-image?
Yes, it lived once.
To think we're witnessing...
It's amazing.
Would you please be quiet?
Who were you?
Surely you can see he was a soldier?
Who were you?
Who am I, more like.
No. Sorry but you're dead.
- Who were you?
- Give the poor lad a chance.
Please. Let him do it his way.
You might as well tell me.
I reckon you might as well
find out for yourself.
All right.
What do you want here?
I reckon you might as well
find that out and all.
(Whistling Pack Up Your Troubles
In Your Old Kitbag, slowly)
(Whistling continues)
You see what you've done?
You've driven him away.
(Whistling continues)
So that's your threat, is it?
That poor lad.
(Whistling fades)
I mean... I mean is that
really your idea of evil?
Yes, it is.
Well, it isn't mine!
Please come back.
In the name of God, please come back.
"I heard a voice from heaven
saying unto me
"Blessed are the dead which
die in the Lord from henceforth.
"Yea, saith the Spirit, that they
may rest from their labours..."
The after-image belonged to someone
who died during The Great War.
- Great War?
- 1914 to 1918.
Died here? This was a battleground?
No, the sendoff was from here.
Did you hear the train?
- Yes.
- And the women?
- Women?
- Yes. They cheered them on their way
and made them think
that they were heroes.
- (Sighs) No, I didn't hear them.
- I did.
It was something he wanted me
to experience, to participate in.
Just momentarily.
Not to frighten me,
he just wanted me to experience it.
Why?
Because those women
were part of this place for him.
He resented what they stood for.
- You sensed that?
- Yes.
Was it the same feeling of resentment
and hatred you felt on the platform?
Some of it, yes, but not all of it.
So
- Tomorrow.
- At what time?
- (Sapphire) 'Steel! '
- To continue my investigation...
- Keep quiet.
- Pardon?
- 'What is it? '
(Military drumming)
'It's the platform again.
Something... changing.
'Something happening.'
(# Pack Up Your Troubles
In Your Old Kitbag)
'The flowers have appeared again
and the smell of summer
'but there's something else, Steel,
something else this time.'
'Can you identify it? '
'Just... a very powerful feeling...
of hatred.
'And resentment,
a strong feeling of resentment.
'The whole atmosphere out here
is charged with it.
'And that sound, Steel.'
(Music fades)
(Sapphire) 'Can you hear that? '
'No. What is it? '
'It's the sound of a band.
It's approaching.'
- (Music resumes)
- (Sapphire) 'It's coming here.'
Listen.
(Sapphire)
'And I can hear men... marching.'
Do you hear that?
- 'Be careful, Sapphire.'
- You hear it?
- 'Sapphire, be careful.'
- 'I'm all right, Steel.'
- # What's the use of worrying... #
- 'Sapphire, leave that platform now.
'We're in the waiting room.
Come here now.'
'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.'
- (Band still playing)
- 'Sapphire, leave that platform.
'Answer me.'
It's hot. It's a hot summer day.
# Smile, boys that's the style... #
He likes the sun. He says it makes
things grow, makes the corn ripe.
- # It never was worthwhile... #
- I can hear wood pigeons and bees.
# Pack up your troubles
in your old kitbag... #
It's very hot and very, very still.
He's with them, you see.
It's their special sendoff.
# Pack up your troubles
in your old kitbag
# And smile, smile, smile
- # While you've a lucifer... #
- Do you hear it? Do you hear that?
'Who are you, Sapphire?
'Who are you? '
# What's the use of worrying?
- # It never was worthwhile... #
- No passenger trains today.
This station is closed
to ordinary passengers.
#... and smile, smile, smile #
Wait a minute, the doors are locked.
(People cheering, faint)
There are just the girls.
(Cheering continues)
Just the girls who gave...
who gave them...
(Women shouting and cheering)
Look! Look, it's daylight out there!
(Cheering continues,
train approaching)
It won't open.
(Cheering and shouting,
train approaching)
(Men shouting)
(Train slowing down)
(Train stopping)
The girls who gave us flowers.
(Train pulling away)
(Machine-gun fire and explosions)
(Man groaning and crying in pain)
(Groaning continues)
(Crying and gunfire continues)
(Gasps)
Steel!
Wait!
It's amazing.
Really amazing.
- Tell me.
- He...
- It is without life.
- An external projection?
- No, an after-image.
- After-image?
Yes, it lived once.
To think we're witnessing...
It's amazing.
Would you please be quiet?
Who were you?
Surely you can see he was a soldier?
Who were you?
Who am I, more like.
No. Sorry but you're dead.
- Who were you?
- Give the poor lad a chance.
Please. Let him do it his way.
You might as well tell me.
I reckon you might as well
find out for yourself.
All right.
What do you want here?
I reckon you might as well
find that out and all.
(Whistling Pack Up Your Troubles
In Your Old Kitbag, slowly)
(Whistling continues)
You see what you've done?
You've driven him away.
(Whistling continues)
So that's your threat, is it?
That poor lad.
(Whistling fades)
I mean... I mean is that
really your idea of evil?
Yes, it is.
Well, it isn't mine!
Please come back.
In the name of God, please come back.
"I heard a voice from heaven
saying unto me
"Blessed are the dead which
die in the Lord from henceforth.
"Yea, saith the Spirit, that they
may rest from their labours..."
The after-image belonged to someone
who died during The Great War.
- Great War?
- 1914 to 1918.
Died here? This was a battleground?
No, the sendoff was from here.
Did you hear the train?
- Yes.
- And the women?
- Women?
- Yes. They cheered them on their way
and made them think
that they were heroes.
- (Sighs) No, I didn't hear them.
- I did.
It was something he wanted me
to experience, to participate in.
Just momentarily.
Not to frighten me,
he just wanted me to experience it.
Why?
Because those women
were part of this place for him.
He resented what they stood for.
- You sensed that?
- Yes.
Was it the same feeling of resentment
and hatred you felt on the platform?
Some of it, yes, but not all of it.
So