1 00:00:50,002 --> 00:00:52,960 -(MYSTERIOUS MUSIC PLAYING) -(INDISTINCT NEWS BROADCASTS) 2 00:00:53,085 --> 00:00:55,085 (STATIC BUZZING) 3 00:00:56,002 --> 00:00:57,752 (MUSIC PLAYS ON BROADCAST) 4 00:00:59,752 --> 00:01:02,002 (CRACKLING AND WHIRRING) 5 00:01:05,627 --> 00:01:07,419 (STATIC HISSING) 6 00:01:07,544 --> 00:01:08,919 (BROADCASTS FADE) 7 00:01:16,252 --> 00:01:17,335 Thom. 8 00:01:18,835 --> 00:01:21,294 Papa used to say not to be blinded 9 00:01:21,419 --> 00:01:22,752 by your own brilliance... 10 00:01:25,044 --> 00:01:26,294 because you are... 11 00:01:28,127 --> 00:01:30,544 more brilliant than even you know, 12 00:01:32,085 --> 00:01:33,585 and also more dangerous. 13 00:01:35,919 --> 00:01:39,919 I want to show you how history can be made and unmade. 14 00:01:43,169 --> 00:01:45,794 How you created something miraculous. 15 00:01:45,919 --> 00:01:47,919 (PENSIVE MUSIC PLAYING) 16 00:02:00,252 --> 00:02:02,002 So, I've gathered together our story 17 00:02:02,127 --> 00:02:05,502 from whatever scraps of footage I could find, 18 00:02:07,877 --> 00:02:09,585 in the hope that somehow, 19 00:02:10,710 --> 00:02:14,752 some time, this film will find you... 20 00:02:17,335 --> 00:02:18,627 and stop you. 21 00:02:25,710 --> 00:02:29,085 I'm going to show you how to see your future. 22 00:02:30,710 --> 00:02:32,877 (UNSETTLING MUSIC PLAYING) 23 00:03:01,919 --> 00:03:04,210 Radio waves never die. 24 00:03:05,544 --> 00:03:08,877 If we can receive broadcasts from the past, 25 00:03:09,002 --> 00:03:12,252 surely we can receive them from the future? 26 00:03:24,127 --> 00:03:25,085 MARS: I'll never forget that day 27 00:03:25,210 --> 00:03:27,419 we switched her on for the first time. 28 00:03:27,544 --> 00:03:28,960 (ELECTRICITY BUZZING) 29 00:03:29,085 --> 00:03:31,419 1st October, 1938. 30 00:03:34,377 --> 00:03:35,669 (CRACKLING) 31 00:03:35,794 --> 00:03:38,419 We named her in honour of Mama. 32 00:03:40,127 --> 00:03:41,294 LOLA. 33 00:03:41,419 --> 00:03:43,544 (WHIRRING) 34 00:03:44,335 --> 00:03:46,669 (RUSTLING) 35 00:03:51,585 --> 00:03:52,835 (BUZZES) 36 00:03:54,502 --> 00:03:57,044 (SINGING) Ground control to Major Tom 37 00:03:57,169 --> 00:03:58,460 It works. 38 00:04:01,710 --> 00:04:03,002 Ground control to Major Tom 39 00:04:03,127 --> 00:04:04,669 We've seen the future. 40 00:04:04,794 --> 00:04:05,794 (CRACKLES) 41 00:04:08,877 --> 00:04:11,085 Take your protein pills 42 00:04:11,210 --> 00:04:14,210 And put your helmet on 43 00:04:14,877 --> 00:04:19,169 This is Ground Control To Major Tom 44 00:04:19,877 --> 00:04:23,002 MARS: LOLA opened a magical new world. 45 00:04:23,127 --> 00:04:25,627 1938 went into 1939, 46 00:04:26,210 --> 00:04:28,419 but those dates meant nothing to us. 47 00:04:28,544 --> 00:04:30,044 We were living in another time. 48 00:04:30,835 --> 00:04:34,085 And we finally had a reliable source of income. 49 00:04:35,502 --> 00:04:37,210 Remember that car I bought you? 50 00:04:37,669 --> 00:04:39,627 Way too small for those legs. 51 00:04:39,752 --> 00:04:42,710 Ground Control to Major Tom 52 00:04:42,835 --> 00:04:46,335 Your circuit's dead There's something wrong 53 00:04:46,460 --> 00:04:49,377 Can you hear me, Major Tom? 54 00:04:49,502 --> 00:04:52,794 Can you hear me, Major Tom? 55 00:04:53,252 --> 00:04:56,210 Can you hear me, Major Tom? 56 00:04:56,669 --> 00:04:57,627 Can you hear... 57 00:04:57,752 --> 00:05:00,752 MARS: But LOLA didn't just show us the world's wonders, 58 00:05:00,877 --> 00:05:03,294 she also showed us its horrors. 59 00:05:03,419 --> 00:05:05,502 The Nazis had torn through Europe, 60 00:05:05,627 --> 00:05:08,210 Paris had fallen, Dunkirk had been evacuated, 61 00:05:08,335 --> 00:05:11,002 and now Hitler had set his sights on Britain. 62 00:05:11,919 --> 00:05:13,669 The Blitz would claim thousands of lives 63 00:05:13,794 --> 00:05:15,502 over the coming months. 64 00:05:15,627 --> 00:05:18,210 LOLA could no longer be just ours. 65 00:05:21,627 --> 00:05:23,377 The world needed her. 66 00:05:23,502 --> 00:05:25,502 (STATIC BUZZING) 67 00:05:26,710 --> 00:05:28,085 NEWSREADER: (ON LOLA) They burst out of the clouds 68 00:05:28,210 --> 00:05:29,502 at less than 2,000 feet 69 00:05:29,627 --> 00:05:32,044 and dropped their deadly cargo on the Isle of Dogs before... 70 00:05:39,919 --> 00:05:41,752 -(BUTTON CLICKS) -(STATIC HISSING) 71 00:05:44,419 --> 00:05:46,710 This is an urgent warning, 72 00:05:46,835 --> 00:05:49,960 1:35 a.m. Hackney and 1:45 Islington. 73 00:05:50,085 --> 00:05:51,710 Due to thick cloud, there will be no warning 74 00:05:51,835 --> 00:05:54,127 from the authorities for any of these attacks. 75 00:05:54,252 --> 00:05:55,794 Please make yourselves safe. 76 00:05:56,835 --> 00:05:57,835 (SIGHS) 77 00:06:04,752 --> 00:06:06,169 3rd May, 1941, 78 00:06:06,294 --> 00:06:08,335 21st furrow for the Angel of Portobello. 79 00:06:09,794 --> 00:06:10,794 (CLAPS) 80 00:06:11,710 --> 00:06:13,710 (CHEERFUL MUSIC PLAYING) 81 00:06:15,419 --> 00:06:18,002 MAN: It has become a nightly occurrence. 82 00:06:18,127 --> 00:06:20,794 After sundown, German bombers cross the Channel 83 00:06:20,919 --> 00:06:21,960 with their deadly cargo. 84 00:06:22,585 --> 00:06:24,710 No one knows where they will target or when. 85 00:06:24,835 --> 00:06:26,252 (EXPLOSION) 86 00:06:26,377 --> 00:06:29,294 No one, that is, but their German commanders 87 00:06:29,419 --> 00:06:31,210 and one mystery woman in England, 88 00:06:31,335 --> 00:06:33,544 nicknamed the Angel of Portobello 89 00:06:33,669 --> 00:06:35,085 by those residents of West London 90 00:06:35,210 --> 00:06:37,669 whose lives have been among the first saved 91 00:06:37,794 --> 00:06:39,210 by her warnings. 92 00:06:39,335 --> 00:06:41,335 (PLAYING GENTLE MUSIC) 93 00:06:42,669 --> 00:06:44,585 (RADIO FEEDBACK) 94 00:06:44,710 --> 00:06:46,919 THOM: (ON SPEAKER) Warning, 1:35 a.m. Hackney 95 00:06:47,044 --> 00:06:49,627 and 1:45 Islington, repeat, 96 00:06:49,752 --> 00:06:52,544 1:35 a.m. Hackney and 1:45 Islington. 97 00:06:52,669 --> 00:06:54,502 Due to thick cloud, there will be no warning 98 00:06:54,627 --> 00:06:56,419 from the authorities for any of these attacks. 99 00:06:56,544 --> 00:06:58,294 Please make yourselves safe. 100 00:06:58,419 --> 00:07:00,460 REPORTER: While the warnings didn't stop the bombings, 101 00:07:00,585 --> 00:07:02,544 they did once again save dozens of lives. 102 00:07:02,669 --> 00:07:05,210 Last night, at about half past 12, 103 00:07:05,335 --> 00:07:06,794 we heard the Angel of Portobello. 104 00:07:06,919 --> 00:07:09,377 We were in a dugout and, er, thanks to the... 105 00:07:09,502 --> 00:07:10,627 thanks to the Angel of Portobello, 106 00:07:10,752 --> 00:07:11,710 we are quite safe. 107 00:07:11,835 --> 00:07:13,752 Thanks to the Angel of Portobello, 108 00:07:13,877 --> 00:07:18,460 my family is all right, but our house got clobbered. 109 00:07:18,585 --> 00:07:20,002 (CAMERA RUSTLING) 110 00:07:21,710 --> 00:07:23,460 (LOLA WHIRRING) 111 00:07:25,794 --> 00:07:27,710 (WHEN, WHEN, WHEN PLAYING ON LOLA) 112 00:07:27,835 --> 00:07:30,710 MARS: Oh, God. No, Thom, not this one. 113 00:07:30,835 --> 00:07:34,377 She has nothing to say about life or freedom. 114 00:07:35,835 --> 00:07:37,377 Well, we can't get it anyway. 115 00:07:37,502 --> 00:07:39,460 But you are wrong, Mars, 116 00:07:39,585 --> 00:07:41,419 the sentiment is tediously accurate. 117 00:07:41,544 --> 00:07:43,919 People would rather buy into fatalism 118 00:07:44,044 --> 00:07:46,210 -than own their own destiny. -MARS: Hmm. 119 00:07:46,335 --> 00:07:47,294 Don't people just want to know 120 00:07:47,419 --> 00:07:48,877 that everything is going to be all right? 121 00:07:49,002 --> 00:07:51,335 (CHUCKLES) Come dance with me, Mars. 122 00:07:51,460 --> 00:07:53,127 MARS: I'm not dancing to this. 123 00:07:53,252 --> 00:07:55,960 (SONG CONTINUES) I really miss you, honey 124 00:07:56,085 --> 00:08:00,002 When, when... 125 00:08:00,127 --> 00:08:01,127 MARS: Here. 126 00:08:03,960 --> 00:08:05,960 -(ELECTRICITY BUZZING) -(MARS GIGGLES) 127 00:08:12,794 --> 00:08:14,377 MAN: (ON LOLA) Preparation of food supplements. 128 00:08:17,044 --> 00:08:18,127 (BUZZING) 129 00:08:18,252 --> 00:08:19,377 NEWSREADER: Perplexed officials say 130 00:08:19,502 --> 00:08:22,335 that the source of the Angel's signal remains a mystery, 131 00:08:22,460 --> 00:08:24,585 and the army has been unable to identify 132 00:08:24,710 --> 00:08:26,544 the mysterious lady broadcaster. 133 00:08:27,044 --> 00:08:28,585 -Normally, we locate... -MARS: Oh! 134 00:08:28,710 --> 00:08:31,502 ...a pirate radio within 15 minutes of broadcasting. 135 00:08:32,085 --> 00:08:33,794 You get a signal search 136 00:08:33,919 --> 00:08:35,877 when pointing in the direction of the source. 137 00:08:36,794 --> 00:08:39,252 Whereas here, the signal is coming from all around us. 138 00:08:39,377 --> 00:08:42,377 It's like we're sitting on top of the antenna. 139 00:08:42,502 --> 00:08:43,460 It's extraordinary. 140 00:08:43,585 --> 00:08:44,877 We'd like the people behind this 141 00:08:45,002 --> 00:08:47,210 to stop their game now and come forward. 142 00:08:47,335 --> 00:08:48,627 We are at war. 143 00:08:48,752 --> 00:08:50,835 NEWSREADER: Our intrepid officers continue their search 144 00:08:50,960 --> 00:08:53,752 for the Angel of Portobello, documenting as they go. 145 00:08:53,877 --> 00:08:55,544 THOM: Well, they're never gonna catch us, anyway. 146 00:08:56,377 --> 00:08:58,335 MARS: No, of course not. You're much too clever. 147 00:08:59,210 --> 00:09:00,210 (CHUCKLES) 148 00:09:02,085 --> 00:09:04,085 SEBASTIAN: Log of Lieutenant Sebastian Holloway, 149 00:09:04,210 --> 00:09:06,044 1st June, '41. 150 00:09:06,710 --> 00:09:09,919 I finally traced the signal source to Shoreham Gasworks. 151 00:09:10,627 --> 00:09:12,544 The Angel of Portobello is using the gasometer 152 00:09:12,669 --> 00:09:14,294 as a natural transmitter. 153 00:09:15,127 --> 00:09:16,710 The metal superstructure magnifies 154 00:09:16,835 --> 00:09:19,252 her weak radio signal and sends it through the mains 155 00:09:19,377 --> 00:09:21,002 into London's pipe networks 156 00:09:21,127 --> 00:09:23,960 which acts as her very own personal antenna. 157 00:09:24,085 --> 00:09:27,252 It explains why her broadcasts are omnidirectional in London. 158 00:09:27,877 --> 00:09:29,794 They were coming from the entire gas grid, 159 00:09:29,919 --> 00:09:30,877 very clever. 160 00:09:31,002 --> 00:09:34,169 2:15, spot what I assume to be the Angel of Portobello. 161 00:09:34,294 --> 00:09:37,169 Young woman, curly blonde hair, on bicycle. 162 00:09:37,919 --> 00:09:40,252 2:25, she climbs the main gasometer. 163 00:09:41,210 --> 00:09:43,752 She spends about 15 minutes making adjustments 164 00:09:43,877 --> 00:09:46,460 to what turns out to be a battery-operated transmitter 165 00:09:46,585 --> 00:09:47,919 and the signal source. 166 00:09:49,669 --> 00:09:51,669 2:45, she spots me 167 00:09:51,794 --> 00:09:55,127 and Lance Corporal Clark, who's filming. She flees. 168 00:09:56,127 --> 00:09:58,335 Cycles west toward the coast. 169 00:09:59,210 --> 00:10:01,502 Very few houses on this stretch of land. 170 00:10:01,627 --> 00:10:02,794 Terrible roads. 171 00:10:03,377 --> 00:10:04,377 She nearly escapes, 172 00:10:04,502 --> 00:10:06,210 but even she finds the conditions difficult, 173 00:10:06,335 --> 00:10:07,794 and we manage to cut her off. 174 00:10:10,960 --> 00:10:12,460 She denies everything, of course. 175 00:10:14,085 --> 00:10:16,669 Says she uses the gasometer for bird watching. 176 00:10:18,002 --> 00:10:19,544 Is extremely rude. 177 00:10:21,252 --> 00:10:22,377 Has no papers. 178 00:10:22,502 --> 00:10:26,252 But does possess radio transmitting equipment, 179 00:10:28,002 --> 00:10:32,377 plus a map of all the gasometers in England. 180 00:10:39,002 --> 00:10:40,752 When I ask her to identify herself, 181 00:10:40,877 --> 00:10:43,169 she makes up some obviously bogus names. 182 00:10:43,294 --> 00:10:46,294 Eartha Kitt, Maria von Trapp, Lady Stardust. 183 00:10:46,419 --> 00:10:48,294 Actual name, Martha Hanbury. 184 00:10:49,419 --> 00:10:52,210 After some gentle persuasion, she finally acquiesces 185 00:10:52,335 --> 00:10:54,710 and agrees to escort us to her house. 186 00:10:55,669 --> 00:10:57,877 Strange old place, quite run-down. 187 00:10:58,627 --> 00:11:02,044 Her sister, Thomasina Hanbury, emerges and is even ruder. 188 00:11:02,169 --> 00:11:04,419 Threatens to do damage to my privates, 189 00:11:04,544 --> 00:11:06,335 but relents when I suggest 190 00:11:06,460 --> 00:11:07,960 returning with a search warrant. 191 00:11:08,835 --> 00:11:11,294 3:15 p.m., I get my first look at their machine 192 00:11:11,419 --> 00:11:12,877 which they call LOLA. 193 00:11:14,460 --> 00:11:15,710 It's going to change history. 194 00:11:15,960 --> 00:11:17,377 (CAMERA RUSTLING) 195 00:11:25,835 --> 00:11:26,919 THOM: Come on, then. You've got 10 minutes, 196 00:11:27,044 --> 00:11:28,044 in and out. 197 00:11:33,710 --> 00:11:36,585 This is... magnificent. It's beautiful. 198 00:11:36,710 --> 00:11:38,169 (FEEDBACK ECHOES) 199 00:11:38,294 --> 00:11:39,544 How do you... How does it work? 200 00:11:41,044 --> 00:11:43,460 Why aren't you doing more to stop people from dying? 201 00:11:43,585 --> 00:11:45,169 Better you tell us how you predict the future. 202 00:11:45,294 --> 00:11:46,252 We know you do. 203 00:11:46,377 --> 00:11:48,294 Mars, what in God's earth did you say to him? 204 00:11:48,419 --> 00:11:50,502 That you can catch radio and television broadcasts 205 00:11:50,627 --> 00:11:51,585 from the future. 206 00:11:51,710 --> 00:11:53,585 I had to tell him. He said we could be hanged as spies... 207 00:11:53,710 --> 00:11:55,127 -Don't touch it! -(FEEDBACK ECHOES) 208 00:11:58,002 --> 00:11:59,419 How did you find us? 209 00:11:59,544 --> 00:12:00,710 I was just lucky. 210 00:12:01,502 --> 00:12:03,710 I couldn't understand how the signal was so dispersed. 211 00:12:03,835 --> 00:12:06,960 But I noticed it was stronger in houses with piped gas. 212 00:12:07,085 --> 00:12:08,585 Using the copper piped gas network 213 00:12:08,710 --> 00:12:10,127 as an antenna, that's genius. 214 00:12:11,419 --> 00:12:12,627 I want to help. 215 00:12:15,335 --> 00:12:17,335 (CAMERA WHIRRING) 216 00:12:19,002 --> 00:12:21,002 MARS: You weren't so easily convinced. 217 00:12:32,294 --> 00:12:34,294 (GENTLE MUSIC PLAYING) 218 00:12:37,544 --> 00:12:38,794 All right, darling? 219 00:12:45,044 --> 00:12:46,752 Do you have to film us in the bath? 220 00:12:47,210 --> 00:12:48,210 MARS: Wash your face. 221 00:12:48,335 --> 00:12:49,294 -(GROANS) -You look a mess. 222 00:12:49,419 --> 00:12:51,377 I hate anyone coming here. 223 00:12:51,502 --> 00:12:52,960 He's pushy and cocky 224 00:12:53,085 --> 00:12:55,044 and there are negative consequences to those defects. 225 00:12:55,169 --> 00:12:57,085 MARS: Well, he could have had us arrested. 226 00:12:57,210 --> 00:12:59,669 I don't think he wants to lord it over us. 227 00:13:01,502 --> 00:13:03,460 -Give me the camera. -MARS: Mm. 228 00:13:04,002 --> 00:13:05,002 (SOFTLY) Give me the camera. 229 00:13:12,335 --> 00:13:14,377 Here's my prognosis. 230 00:13:14,502 --> 00:13:17,669 You, in all probability, are going to make him 231 00:13:17,794 --> 00:13:18,877 fall in love with you 232 00:13:19,002 --> 00:13:20,127 and then you'll leave with him 233 00:13:20,252 --> 00:13:21,960 -and create jolly offspring. -(CHUCKLES) 234 00:13:22,085 --> 00:13:24,627 But who's to say I would love him back? 235 00:13:24,752 --> 00:13:26,627 No, if he falls under my spell, 236 00:13:26,752 --> 00:13:28,419 then we can make him do exactly what we want. 237 00:13:28,544 --> 00:13:30,752 (GASPS) We can make him muck out Scarborough. 238 00:13:30,877 --> 00:13:32,877 THOM: True. Don't be too charming, 239 00:13:33,002 --> 00:13:34,377 I don't think you know when to stop. 240 00:13:34,502 --> 00:13:36,002 He might like you more. 241 00:13:36,127 --> 00:13:37,252 THOM: Oh, my clitoris and I do not 242 00:13:37,377 --> 00:13:39,002 -need extra company. -(CHUCKLES) 243 00:13:39,127 --> 00:13:40,419 (CAMERA RUSTLES) 244 00:13:41,210 --> 00:13:44,627 Well, good morning. This is Major Cobcroft. 245 00:13:44,752 --> 00:13:46,669 He has authorised my presence here. 246 00:13:47,460 --> 00:13:48,627 Where do you want us? 247 00:13:50,544 --> 00:13:52,794 I have realised you were at Cheltenham last year. 248 00:13:53,627 --> 00:13:55,419 Twenty-three wins in a row. 249 00:13:55,960 --> 00:13:57,752 (GRUNTS, EXHALES) 250 00:13:57,877 --> 00:13:59,877 (HORSE SNORTING) 251 00:14:01,169 --> 00:14:02,169 Hello. 252 00:14:05,085 --> 00:14:07,085 Is someone gonna say hello? 253 00:14:08,460 --> 00:14:09,460 MARS: Hello. 254 00:14:12,252 --> 00:14:13,627 Holloway, is this a joke? 255 00:14:14,710 --> 00:14:17,002 Er, Major Cobcroft has kindly provided you 256 00:14:17,127 --> 00:14:18,669 with some special provisions. 257 00:14:18,794 --> 00:14:21,627 There's tea and coffee, ham and cheese, 258 00:14:21,752 --> 00:14:24,127 -fancy canned content. -(HORSE SNORTS) 259 00:14:24,252 --> 00:14:25,585 Friends in high places. 260 00:14:26,127 --> 00:14:27,877 You are most kind. 261 00:14:28,002 --> 00:14:30,127 But my sister will tell you, for me eating is merely 262 00:14:30,252 --> 00:14:32,752 a distraction, and if you imagine we would cook for you, 263 00:14:32,877 --> 00:14:34,085 we are not your women. 264 00:14:35,794 --> 00:14:37,127 I think we need to re-establish 265 00:14:37,252 --> 00:14:38,710 who's in charge here. 266 00:14:43,835 --> 00:14:45,544 (LOLA WHIRRING) 267 00:14:45,669 --> 00:14:47,044 MAN 1: (ON LOLA) As the troops went into Smithfield, 268 00:14:47,169 --> 00:14:48,335 -the porter... -SEBASTIAN: They've just been 269 00:14:48,460 --> 00:14:50,127 working off material like this. 270 00:14:50,835 --> 00:14:52,335 Future news bulletins. 271 00:14:54,210 --> 00:14:55,335 Can you imagine what they could achieve 272 00:14:55,460 --> 00:14:57,627 using intel from military radio? 273 00:14:57,752 --> 00:14:59,835 And if they coordinated the information with us. 274 00:15:01,335 --> 00:15:02,335 No. 275 00:15:05,877 --> 00:15:07,877 (LOLA CRACKLING, BUZZING) 276 00:15:10,002 --> 00:15:11,794 MAN 2: (ON LOLA) What happens when the human body 277 00:15:11,919 --> 00:15:13,210 is rocketed into space? 278 00:15:13,335 --> 00:15:15,877 A foretaste of the fantastic ordeal which awaits 279 00:15:16,002 --> 00:15:17,794 the first man to the Moon. 280 00:15:17,919 --> 00:15:19,627 It reminds me of going home on a bus. 281 00:15:19,752 --> 00:15:21,502 -(CHANNEL SWITCHES) -COBCROFT: Christ. 282 00:15:21,627 --> 00:15:23,627 (INDISTINCT CHATTER FROM BROADCASTS) 283 00:15:25,294 --> 00:15:27,585 (ROCK 'N' ROLL MUSIC PLAYING ON LOLA) 284 00:15:29,169 --> 00:15:31,877 Who on earth are those diabolical creatures? 285 00:15:32,002 --> 00:15:33,002 Show's over. 286 00:15:34,710 --> 00:15:36,210 COBCROFT: They're con artists. 287 00:15:36,335 --> 00:15:37,919 They're projecting B movies onto that screen. 288 00:15:38,044 --> 00:15:39,294 SEBASTIAN: How do you explain their predictions? 289 00:15:39,419 --> 00:15:40,419 COBCROFT: They got lucky. 290 00:15:40,544 --> 00:15:42,044 SEBASTIAN: Just give me one go, sir. 291 00:15:42,169 --> 00:15:44,669 Let them tune into military radio under my supervision. 292 00:15:44,794 --> 00:15:45,960 COBCROFT: This is highly irregular. 293 00:15:46,085 --> 00:15:47,210 SEBASTIAN: I bet a magnum of champagne 294 00:15:47,335 --> 00:15:49,085 we can make a correct prediction with that machine. 295 00:15:51,752 --> 00:15:52,752 COBCROFT: All right. 296 00:15:53,627 --> 00:15:55,169 But we keep this between us. 297 00:15:55,294 --> 00:15:58,127 It backfires, I know nothing, you understand? 298 00:15:58,252 --> 00:15:59,669 SEBASTIAN: Yes, of course. 299 00:16:03,294 --> 00:16:04,252 Why are you filming me? 300 00:16:04,377 --> 00:16:05,919 MARS: You, I'm keeping an eye on. 301 00:16:06,044 --> 00:16:07,669 God, you don't miss anything, do you? 302 00:16:14,460 --> 00:16:16,335 Is that thing recording sound too? 303 00:16:18,044 --> 00:16:19,669 How does it do that? It's titchy. 304 00:16:20,710 --> 00:16:23,085 MARS: Everything goes onto the same piece of film. 305 00:16:23,210 --> 00:16:24,877 I use the space between the sprocket holes 306 00:16:25,002 --> 00:16:26,002 for the soundwave. 307 00:16:27,752 --> 00:16:29,002 You invented this. 308 00:16:29,127 --> 00:16:30,419 MARS: Thom made it for me. 309 00:16:31,669 --> 00:16:32,919 She should patent it. 310 00:16:33,960 --> 00:16:35,377 MARS: Oh, no, no, no, no! 311 00:16:35,502 --> 00:16:37,669 No, that's my dark room. Out. Shut the door. 312 00:16:37,794 --> 00:16:40,210 -Shut the door. -Where's your refrigerator? 313 00:16:40,335 --> 00:16:42,085 MARS: We have a pantry. 314 00:16:43,169 --> 00:16:46,377 Erm... It's pretty draughty, so it's chilly in there. 315 00:16:46,502 --> 00:16:47,460 Well, that's good. 316 00:16:47,585 --> 00:16:50,335 (CHUCKLES) And very in keeping with the war effort. 317 00:16:55,169 --> 00:16:57,710 MARS: So, Sebastian, are you handy in the kitchen? 318 00:17:01,460 --> 00:17:04,085 (MID-TEMPO ELECTRONIC MUSIC PLAYING) 319 00:17:07,835 --> 00:17:09,335 THOM: Here are the rules of the game. 320 00:17:10,044 --> 00:17:13,335 Each morning, I use LOLA to tune into tomorrow's report 321 00:17:13,460 --> 00:17:15,835 from the Royal Signaller's Station. 322 00:17:15,960 --> 00:17:18,044 That way, we will have advanced knowledge 323 00:17:18,169 --> 00:17:20,085 of all enemy attacks. 324 00:17:20,210 --> 00:17:22,544 Sebastian's job is to cross-check 325 00:17:22,669 --> 00:17:26,335 the sign-off codes, so we know the radio report is authentic. 326 00:17:26,460 --> 00:17:28,627 He sends the intelligence to Cobcroft, 327 00:17:28,752 --> 00:17:31,377 who puts the information into action. 328 00:17:31,502 --> 00:17:34,419 Mars continues to document this for prosperity. 329 00:17:34,544 --> 00:17:37,210 And Sebastian needs to stock us up with better food, 330 00:17:37,335 --> 00:17:39,502 more wine and a pile more cigarettes. 331 00:17:42,669 --> 00:17:46,085 MARS: Operation Chrono, 11th August, 1941. 332 00:17:49,835 --> 00:17:52,919 8:00 a.m. at 323 Hertz. 333 00:17:54,294 --> 00:17:56,085 MARS: It was vital that we find 334 00:17:56,210 --> 00:17:58,002 the right piece of intel. 335 00:17:58,127 --> 00:17:59,710 Anything too big would risk 336 00:17:59,835 --> 00:18:01,460 -giving the game away. -(INDISTINCT BROADCAST) 337 00:18:01,585 --> 00:18:02,835 But something too small 338 00:18:02,960 --> 00:18:05,085 might not be enough to impress Cobcroft. 339 00:18:06,252 --> 00:18:08,794 We listened to dozens of reports. 340 00:18:09,710 --> 00:18:11,752 Problems impossible to fix. 341 00:18:13,294 --> 00:18:15,335 We weren't finding what we needed. 342 00:18:16,585 --> 00:18:18,127 -(BROADCAST STOPS) -And let's not forget 343 00:18:18,252 --> 00:18:20,502 that you hated working in a team. 344 00:18:24,627 --> 00:18:27,085 It looked as though our trial was a failure. 345 00:18:28,960 --> 00:18:30,127 And then... 346 00:18:30,877 --> 00:18:33,544 MAN: (ON LOLA) Morning report, August 12th. 347 00:18:33,669 --> 00:18:36,085 Richmond RAF base destroyed. 348 00:18:36,210 --> 00:18:39,127 Enemy attacked from south-easterly bearing. 349 00:18:39,252 --> 00:18:42,044 Cairo, Alpha, Foxtrot, 9, Bravo. Over. 350 00:18:42,169 --> 00:18:43,210 THOM: Okay, that's the one. 351 00:18:43,960 --> 00:18:45,794 Sebastian, check the code. 352 00:18:48,752 --> 00:18:50,585 That's the correct sign-off code, sir. 353 00:18:52,044 --> 00:18:53,627 COBCROFT: (ON SPEAKER) Very well. 354 00:18:53,752 --> 00:18:55,919 I'll warn Richmond anti-air defence. 355 00:18:59,252 --> 00:19:00,585 We could end the war with this machine. 356 00:19:00,710 --> 00:19:01,752 Ever thought of that? 357 00:19:01,877 --> 00:19:03,877 THOM: (CHUCKLES) You are a prick. Of course I have. 358 00:19:04,002 --> 00:19:05,627 See how you get on with that intel. 359 00:19:06,960 --> 00:19:07,960 SEBASTIAN: Sorry. 360 00:19:09,044 --> 00:19:10,919 The enemy can't think we know everything it's doing. 361 00:19:11,044 --> 00:19:12,335 Papa said to never underestimate 362 00:19:12,460 --> 00:19:13,669 the cunning of the desperate. 363 00:19:13,794 --> 00:19:15,419 MARS: He actually said to never underestimate 364 00:19:15,544 --> 00:19:17,335 the violence of the power hungry. 365 00:19:17,460 --> 00:19:19,669 And also, actually, we didn't have military intelligence. 366 00:19:19,794 --> 00:19:21,502 Well, also, actually Papa was anti-war 367 00:19:21,627 --> 00:19:23,044 and not only against taking lives but... 368 00:19:23,169 --> 00:19:24,169 SEBASTIAN: So am I. 369 00:19:24,669 --> 00:19:25,752 (SCOFFS SOFTLY) 370 00:19:26,544 --> 00:19:28,377 For all I know, you could be a spy 371 00:19:28,502 --> 00:19:30,960 with access to British military secrets. 372 00:19:31,085 --> 00:19:32,169 Now, Mars says I should trust you, 373 00:19:32,294 --> 00:19:34,169 so don't fuck it up by acting cocky. 374 00:19:36,835 --> 00:19:37,835 I'm hungry. 375 00:19:42,377 --> 00:19:43,919 He's invading my creative space. 376 00:19:44,044 --> 00:19:45,460 MARS: I wish he'd invade mine. 377 00:19:45,585 --> 00:19:47,210 You are such a tarting flirt. 378 00:19:47,335 --> 00:19:49,502 MARS: (CHUCKLING) A flirting tart, don't you mean? 379 00:19:52,710 --> 00:19:54,169 THOM: Er... Oh. 380 00:19:54,294 --> 00:19:56,210 (MARS LAUGHING) 381 00:19:56,877 --> 00:19:57,877 Oh. 382 00:20:02,210 --> 00:20:03,335 MARS: Well, I think he's the best thing 383 00:20:03,460 --> 00:20:04,919 that's happened to us since we won enough money 384 00:20:05,044 --> 00:20:06,002 to feed ourselves. 385 00:20:06,127 --> 00:20:07,502 THOM: Well, I will make it happen 386 00:20:07,627 --> 00:20:08,960 and he will sit there and watch, 387 00:20:09,085 --> 00:20:11,044 and if he gloats, I will punch him. 388 00:20:13,252 --> 00:20:15,877 (SILENT NIGHT, HOLY NIGHT PLAYING ON PIANO) 389 00:20:16,002 --> 00:20:18,335 MARS: All that was left for us to do was wait 390 00:20:18,460 --> 00:20:20,794 until the morning to see if our plan had worked. 391 00:20:24,960 --> 00:20:27,044 That night, we waited... 392 00:20:28,669 --> 00:20:30,544 -(INDISTINCT BROADCAST) -...and waited... 393 00:20:32,377 --> 00:20:33,710 and waited. 394 00:20:37,627 --> 00:20:38,627 Until... 395 00:20:39,919 --> 00:20:41,210 MAN: (ON SPEAKER) Last night, the military scored 396 00:20:41,335 --> 00:20:44,044 a major victory against the Luftwaffe by shooting down 397 00:20:44,169 --> 00:20:45,794 an entire German bomber squadron 398 00:20:45,919 --> 00:20:47,544 over a Richmond RAF base. 399 00:20:47,669 --> 00:20:49,502 This is a great victory for... 400 00:20:50,960 --> 00:20:52,252 (BOTH SNIGGERING) 401 00:20:52,377 --> 00:20:55,377 Oh, God. God, I'm good. (GRUNTS) 402 00:20:55,502 --> 00:20:56,794 (LAUGHING) 403 00:20:57,627 --> 00:20:59,627 (THOM AND MARS SQUEAL, LAUGH) 404 00:21:08,710 --> 00:21:09,794 MARS: Success. 405 00:21:10,294 --> 00:21:12,044 Our intel had painted a bull's-eye 406 00:21:12,169 --> 00:21:14,669 over every German bomber that night. 407 00:21:14,794 --> 00:21:16,752 -(MEN SHOUTING) -(BOMBS EXPLODING) 408 00:21:18,710 --> 00:21:21,085 The anti-aircraft gunners took care of the rest. 409 00:21:21,960 --> 00:21:24,294 Our plan had worked. 410 00:21:29,127 --> 00:21:30,835 Wait, wait, wait. Wait, hold them up. 411 00:21:30,960 --> 00:21:32,002 Hold them up, let me see them. 412 00:21:32,127 --> 00:21:35,502 (GASPS) Oh, you bake. How cool. 413 00:21:35,627 --> 00:21:37,335 Yeah, I'm afraid the oven wasn't very hot. 414 00:21:37,460 --> 00:21:39,252 MARS: No, I mean cool as in groovy. 415 00:21:39,377 --> 00:21:41,627 Groovy? (CHUCKLES) Is that an adjective? 416 00:21:41,752 --> 00:21:43,710 -(MARS CHUCKLES) -(TELEPHONE RINGS) 417 00:21:43,835 --> 00:21:44,794 Major. 418 00:21:44,919 --> 00:21:47,085 COBCROFT: Bloody hell, Holloway. Outstanding. 419 00:21:47,210 --> 00:21:49,460 We should make Miss Hanbury an Honorary Major. 420 00:21:49,585 --> 00:21:52,794 Open your dispatch bag, the ladies earned it, not you. 421 00:21:52,919 --> 00:21:53,919 Thank you, sir. 422 00:21:54,669 --> 00:21:56,835 -MARS: Major Thom. -Very funny. 423 00:21:56,960 --> 00:21:59,127 -(CHUCKLES) -SEBASTIAN: Oh, very nice. 424 00:21:59,252 --> 00:22:03,169 Oh! Thank you. I think he said for the ladies. 425 00:22:03,294 --> 00:22:06,752 MARS: Unless you'd like to join us for a drink. 426 00:22:08,502 --> 00:22:10,835 (UPBEAT ELECTRONIC MUSIC PLAYING) 427 00:22:22,752 --> 00:22:24,127 MARS: You were brilliant. 428 00:22:25,210 --> 00:22:27,960 You changed the course of the war. 429 00:22:28,085 --> 00:22:30,460 Cities that would have been bombed were saved. 430 00:22:31,169 --> 00:22:33,169 People who wouldn't have been alive 431 00:22:33,294 --> 00:22:35,335 were walking the streets. 432 00:22:38,585 --> 00:22:40,127 (IMPERCEPTIBLE) 433 00:22:40,919 --> 00:22:43,335 (UPBEAT ELECTRONIC MUSIC CONTINUES) 434 00:22:59,877 --> 00:23:02,002 CHURCHILL: We may allow ourselves 435 00:23:02,127 --> 00:23:04,960 a brief period of rejoicing. 436 00:23:06,419 --> 00:23:08,377 Advance, Britannia. 437 00:23:08,502 --> 00:23:11,085 Long live the cause of freedom. 438 00:23:13,335 --> 00:23:15,752 (UPBEAT ELECTRONIC MUSIC CONTINUES) 439 00:23:22,210 --> 00:23:24,835 (PIANO PLAYING ALONG TO UPBEAT MUSIC) 440 00:23:52,294 --> 00:23:55,127 MARS: Sebastian was in awe of LOLA 441 00:23:56,460 --> 00:23:59,669 and, it seemed, a little in love with me. 442 00:23:59,794 --> 00:24:00,794 (MUSIC STOPS) 443 00:24:07,627 --> 00:24:09,835 Stop filming me, I'm peeing! 444 00:24:09,960 --> 00:24:11,752 SEBASTIAN: Girls don't pee standing up. 445 00:24:12,794 --> 00:24:15,294 No, Mama always peed like this. 446 00:24:15,960 --> 00:24:18,210 She said it's much healthier to get the urine 447 00:24:18,335 --> 00:24:21,544 as far away from one's vagina as possible. 448 00:24:21,669 --> 00:24:23,502 -SEBASTIAN: How interesting. -Hmm. 449 00:24:23,627 --> 00:24:25,460 SEBASTIAN: My mother made me pee sitting down 450 00:24:25,585 --> 00:24:27,919 to avoid the seat up/down conundrum. 451 00:24:28,044 --> 00:24:29,919 I think it's really because she wanted another girl. 452 00:24:30,044 --> 00:24:31,919 MARS: (CHUCKLES) Well, 453 00:24:32,044 --> 00:24:34,752 gender divide is an artificial construct. 454 00:24:34,877 --> 00:24:37,335 You know, that was a Papa saying. 455 00:24:37,460 --> 00:24:39,627 (SOFT PIANO MUSIC PLAYING) 456 00:24:41,252 --> 00:24:42,919 (WHISPERING) I said, stop filming! 457 00:24:44,710 --> 00:24:46,044 (MARS GRUNTS) 458 00:24:48,377 --> 00:24:49,919 (CHUCKLES) 459 00:24:50,044 --> 00:24:51,835 SEBASTIAN: Why do you film everything? 460 00:24:51,960 --> 00:24:53,502 Well, because we're alone. 461 00:24:53,627 --> 00:24:55,169 SEBASTIAN: And why are you alone? 462 00:24:55,877 --> 00:24:57,127 MARS: Mm... 463 00:24:58,377 --> 00:25:00,252 Oh, Papa was conscripted. 464 00:25:01,085 --> 00:25:03,127 He lasted two weeks. 465 00:25:03,252 --> 00:25:05,335 -(OBJECT CLATTERS) -(BOTH CHUCKLE) 466 00:25:05,460 --> 00:25:08,044 He lasted two weeks at the front and... 467 00:25:08,752 --> 00:25:12,210 "Fighting for peace is like screwing for virginity." 468 00:25:13,002 --> 00:25:15,877 Or that's what he would have said if he had lived longer. 469 00:25:16,002 --> 00:25:17,627 SEBASTIAN: Gosh. Right. 470 00:25:18,835 --> 00:25:21,210 -So who did... -Hmm? 471 00:25:22,210 --> 00:25:24,294 -Oh, I can't remember. -(BOTH CHUCKLE) 472 00:25:24,419 --> 00:25:27,794 Some dude from the 1960s. 473 00:25:29,002 --> 00:25:30,335 SEBASTIAN: Oh, it's quite disconcerting 474 00:25:30,460 --> 00:25:33,085 that for you two, history goes forwards as well as backwards. 475 00:25:33,669 --> 00:25:34,960 -(CHUCKLES) -Mm. 476 00:25:36,085 --> 00:25:41,960 Now, Mama said Papa was killed at the altar of war worship. 477 00:25:43,919 --> 00:25:45,627 She fired all the help, 478 00:25:45,752 --> 00:25:47,419 she stopped sending us to school 479 00:25:47,544 --> 00:25:49,294 and she... (SIGHS) 480 00:25:49,419 --> 00:25:51,752 went to her room and listened to records. 481 00:25:52,960 --> 00:25:55,044 And then she started going for very long walks. 482 00:25:55,169 --> 00:25:56,877 And then one day, they found her 483 00:25:57,835 --> 00:26:00,044 stuck between two rocks, halfway down a crag 484 00:26:00,169 --> 00:26:03,419 that plummets into the nearby cove. 485 00:26:06,419 --> 00:26:08,919 SEBASTIAN: Saving people for the ones we lost. 486 00:26:09,377 --> 00:26:11,710 (SOFT PIANO MUSIC CONTINUES) 487 00:26:18,127 --> 00:26:19,127 (MUSIC STOPS) 488 00:26:21,627 --> 00:26:23,710 (JAZZ MUSIC PLAYING FAINTLY) 489 00:26:26,294 --> 00:26:28,335 MARS: I was enjoying my new-found company 490 00:26:28,460 --> 00:26:30,627 while you were busy defending the country. 491 00:26:35,460 --> 00:26:38,502 Not that you were getting the credit, of course. 492 00:26:40,002 --> 00:26:42,210 (MILITARY MARCH MUSIC PLAYING) 493 00:26:43,960 --> 00:26:45,960 (JOYFUL MUSIC PLAYING) 494 00:26:53,669 --> 00:26:54,960 (ENGINE WHINING) 495 00:27:08,960 --> 00:27:10,335 (IMPERCEPTIBLE) 496 00:27:19,294 --> 00:27:22,460 It's an honour to have been made a Knight Commander 497 00:27:22,585 --> 00:27:24,002 of the Order of the Bath. 498 00:27:25,169 --> 00:27:26,710 I am proud of the work I've done 499 00:27:26,835 --> 00:27:29,669 in turning the tide of war against Adolf Hitler. 500 00:27:32,502 --> 00:27:35,794 But this evening isn't all about my achievements, 501 00:27:36,710 --> 00:27:37,835 it's about you, 502 00:27:39,169 --> 00:27:42,502 my fellow officers of the Intelligence Corps, 503 00:27:42,919 --> 00:27:45,460 who've helped me to put an end to the Blitz. 504 00:27:46,585 --> 00:27:48,210 This is only just the beginning. 505 00:27:49,710 --> 00:27:51,627 By God, we are good. 506 00:27:56,335 --> 00:27:58,419 (MELLOW JAZZ MUSIC PLAYING) 507 00:27:58,544 --> 00:27:59,752 (IMPERCEPTIBLE) 508 00:28:27,294 --> 00:28:28,460 (MUSIC CONCLUDES) 509 00:28:28,585 --> 00:28:30,169 (APPLAUSE) 510 00:28:35,169 --> 00:28:36,127 (MIC FEEDBACK) 511 00:28:36,252 --> 00:28:37,710 This is one of our favourites, 512 00:28:37,835 --> 00:28:39,169 you won't be hearing it again for some time. 513 00:28:39,294 --> 00:28:40,960 (DISCORDANT NOTES PLAYING ON PIANO) 514 00:28:41,544 --> 00:28:43,835 (PLAYING RAPID ASCENDING NOTES) 515 00:28:43,960 --> 00:28:45,335 Thom, that's, erm... 516 00:28:45,669 --> 00:28:48,294 (PLAYING YOU REALLY GOT ME BY THE KINKS) 517 00:28:52,752 --> 00:28:55,669 (SINGING) Girl You really got me goin' 518 00:28:55,794 --> 00:28:58,877 You got me now I don't know What I'm doin' now 519 00:28:59,002 --> 00:29:02,627 -(RHYTHMIC CLAPPING) -Yeah, you really got me now 520 00:29:02,752 --> 00:29:05,460 You got me So I can't sleep at night 521 00:29:06,752 --> 00:29:09,585 Yeah, you really got me now 522 00:29:09,710 --> 00:29:13,002 You got me so I don't know What I'm doin' now 523 00:29:13,127 --> 00:29:16,544 Oh, yeah You really got me now 524 00:29:16,669 --> 00:29:18,752 You got me So I can't sleep at night 525 00:29:18,877 --> 00:29:22,085 You really got me You really got me 526 00:29:22,210 --> 00:29:23,377 You really got me 527 00:29:24,377 --> 00:29:25,752 (JAZZ BAND JOINS IN) 528 00:29:26,294 --> 00:29:27,627 (CROWD CHEERING) 529 00:29:27,752 --> 00:29:30,460 See, don't ever set me free 530 00:29:30,585 --> 00:29:32,919 I always wanna be by your side 531 00:29:34,835 --> 00:29:37,544 Girl, you really got me now 532 00:29:37,669 --> 00:29:40,044 You've got me So I can't sleep at night 533 00:29:41,794 --> 00:29:44,585 Yeah, you really got me now 534 00:29:44,710 --> 00:29:48,044 You've got me so I don't know What I'm doin' now 535 00:29:48,169 --> 00:29:51,544 Oh, yeah You really got me now 536 00:29:51,669 --> 00:29:53,669 You got me So I can't sleep at night 537 00:29:53,794 --> 00:29:57,085 You really got me You really got me 538 00:29:57,210 --> 00:29:58,752 You really got me 539 00:29:58,877 --> 00:30:02,752 Yeah! Whoo! Yeah! 540 00:30:02,877 --> 00:30:05,544 (JAZZ BAND CONTINUES PLAYING YOU REALLY GOT ME) 541 00:30:35,335 --> 00:30:37,794 (JAZZ RENDITION OF YOU REALLY GOT ME CONTINUES) 542 00:30:50,002 --> 00:30:51,294 (CLAPS ALONG TO MUSIC) 543 00:30:56,585 --> 00:30:57,585 (SONG ENDING) 544 00:30:57,710 --> 00:31:00,127 (CROWD CHEERING AND APPLAUDING) 545 00:31:07,419 --> 00:31:08,960 (CAMERA RUSTLING) 546 00:31:19,044 --> 00:31:20,044 No! 547 00:31:20,960 --> 00:31:22,335 My camera. 548 00:31:23,002 --> 00:31:25,085 So, LOLA is so much more than a war fighter. 549 00:31:25,835 --> 00:31:27,169 This is the true magic. 550 00:31:29,627 --> 00:31:30,627 Erm... 551 00:31:31,627 --> 00:31:34,294 Movies, documentaries. 552 00:31:34,419 --> 00:31:37,294 Newsreels. Play-outs from LOLA. 553 00:31:47,627 --> 00:31:49,502 -SEBASTIAN: Oh, my God. -(CHUCKLES) 554 00:31:49,627 --> 00:31:50,919 (SEBASTIAN CHUCKLES) 555 00:31:57,627 --> 00:31:59,210 Is this our future? 556 00:31:59,335 --> 00:32:01,419 MARS: Well, this is the future I'm interested in. 557 00:32:02,877 --> 00:32:05,794 Mama always said that art was the weathervane of the soul. 558 00:32:06,752 --> 00:32:08,502 Now, see that wall over here? 559 00:32:08,627 --> 00:32:11,252 There, or over there. (CHUCKLES) 560 00:32:11,377 --> 00:32:12,877 That wall is our past. 561 00:32:13,794 --> 00:32:15,919 She captured every waking moment 562 00:32:16,044 --> 00:32:17,419 with such attention to detail. 563 00:32:18,085 --> 00:32:19,585 SEBASTIAN: Oh, is that you? 564 00:32:19,710 --> 00:32:21,877 -MARS: (SQUEALS) Maybe, yeah. -(SEBASTIAN CHUCKLES) 565 00:32:22,419 --> 00:32:23,419 SEBASTIAN: No, I want to look. 566 00:32:23,544 --> 00:32:26,169 No, our children are going to love this. 567 00:32:26,294 --> 00:32:27,752 At last, a musical rebellion 568 00:32:27,877 --> 00:32:29,919 against the stuffed shirts that run the world. 569 00:32:30,044 --> 00:32:31,710 -(CHUCKLES) -SEBASTIAN: Our children? 570 00:32:35,335 --> 00:32:36,669 (MARS CHUCKLES) 571 00:32:37,460 --> 00:32:39,710 And who is this chap? 572 00:32:39,835 --> 00:32:42,377 MARS: (CHUCKLES) Bob Dylan. 573 00:32:42,502 --> 00:32:45,002 He's one of my all-time favourites. 574 00:32:45,127 --> 00:32:49,294 He speaks of freedom and heartbreak, 575 00:32:49,419 --> 00:32:51,294 of a nation lost, 576 00:32:52,252 --> 00:32:54,710 and of the joy and pain of the authentic soul. 577 00:32:56,877 --> 00:32:58,085 SEBASTIAN: Like you. 578 00:33:01,794 --> 00:33:03,002 Come here. 579 00:33:04,585 --> 00:33:05,835 (SEBASTIAN CHUCKLES) 580 00:33:08,210 --> 00:33:09,710 (STATIC CRACKLING) 581 00:33:11,835 --> 00:33:13,419 MARS: Come on. SEBASTIAN: What? 582 00:33:14,085 --> 00:33:15,502 MARS: Not a word to Thom. 583 00:33:15,627 --> 00:33:16,960 -Promise? -Promise. 584 00:33:17,085 --> 00:33:19,044 MARS: Right, go over there to that panel back there, 585 00:33:19,169 --> 00:33:20,544 over there to the left. 586 00:33:20,669 --> 00:33:23,127 See the switches in the middle row? 587 00:33:23,252 --> 00:33:24,960 -Yeah. -MARS: Third one in. Flick it. 588 00:33:25,585 --> 00:33:26,544 -(WHIRRING) -Yes! 589 00:33:26,669 --> 00:33:28,460 Now over to the other side. 590 00:33:28,585 --> 00:33:29,544 Other side, quickly. 591 00:33:29,669 --> 00:33:31,585 And the three silver ones. 592 00:33:31,710 --> 00:33:33,002 -Flick them up. -Yeah. 593 00:33:33,710 --> 00:33:35,502 MARS: One, two, three. Yes. 594 00:33:35,627 --> 00:33:36,585 We're going to need a power surge 595 00:33:36,710 --> 00:33:37,960 where we're going. 596 00:33:38,085 --> 00:33:39,919 Oh, that's far out. 597 00:33:40,044 --> 00:33:41,169 Far out of where? 598 00:33:41,294 --> 00:33:43,669 MARS: Now, tune it to 133 kilohertz. 599 00:33:45,544 --> 00:33:47,044 (BUZZING) 600 00:33:47,585 --> 00:33:48,877 9:03 p.m., 601 00:33:50,669 --> 00:33:51,960 8th March, 602 00:33:54,877 --> 00:33:57,544 1973. 603 00:33:58,210 --> 00:34:00,627 Christ, this thing can see 30 years into the future. 604 00:34:00,752 --> 00:34:03,002 MARS: Not just major broadcasts, royal weddings, 605 00:34:03,127 --> 00:34:04,460 signals beamed around the world. 606 00:34:04,585 --> 00:34:06,252 The diamonds, though, are the hit songs. 607 00:34:06,377 --> 00:34:07,585 SINGER: (SINGING) The sound of marching feet 608 00:34:07,710 --> 00:34:09,294 In the street below 609 00:34:09,419 --> 00:34:10,377 (SEBASTIAN CHUCKLES) 610 00:34:10,502 --> 00:34:11,627 MARS: No, you've the wrong time. 611 00:34:12,835 --> 00:34:15,127 You... You said 9:03, 8th March... 612 00:34:15,252 --> 00:34:16,544 MARS: 1973. 613 00:34:16,669 --> 00:34:17,835 Let me see. 614 00:34:20,960 --> 00:34:23,669 (SONG CONTINUES) Polish up your jackboots 615 00:34:24,335 --> 00:34:27,044 Learn to march in time 616 00:34:27,669 --> 00:34:29,044 And fall into line 617 00:34:29,169 --> 00:34:30,460 The sound of marching feet 618 00:34:30,585 --> 00:34:32,252 (STATIC BUZZES) 619 00:34:33,335 --> 00:34:35,335 MAN: (ON LOLA) And cracking the chart barrier 620 00:34:35,460 --> 00:34:37,169 at number one for the 10th week running, 621 00:34:37,294 --> 00:34:40,377 Reginald Watson's The Sound of Marching Feet. 622 00:34:40,502 --> 00:34:43,377 It looks like Watson will be making musical history 623 00:34:43,502 --> 00:34:45,710 as his new hit, Meet Me at the Gallows, 624 00:34:45,835 --> 00:34:47,585 has just crashed number two. 625 00:34:47,710 --> 00:34:49,210 (MEET ME AT THE GALLOWS BY REGINALD WATSON PLAYING) 626 00:34:49,335 --> 00:34:51,419 (BREATHES HEAVILY) I don't understand. 627 00:34:52,377 --> 00:34:55,044 Thom! Thom! 628 00:34:57,377 --> 00:34:58,377 What are you doing? 629 00:34:59,794 --> 00:35:01,044 MARS: He's not there. 630 00:35:01,502 --> 00:35:02,544 SEBASTIAN: Who? 631 00:35:02,669 --> 00:35:03,794 David Bowie. 632 00:35:03,919 --> 00:35:05,044 SEBASTIAN: Who's David Bowie? 633 00:35:05,169 --> 00:35:07,752 MARS: He's gone. Bowie's gone. 634 00:35:08,960 --> 00:35:10,502 Thirty years is a long time away, 635 00:35:10,627 --> 00:35:11,669 the adjustment of variables 636 00:35:11,794 --> 00:35:13,710 could lead to a new set of consequences. 637 00:35:14,377 --> 00:35:16,460 MARS: But we've tuned into him hundreds of times, 638 00:35:16,585 --> 00:35:17,669 why is it suddenly changed? 639 00:35:17,794 --> 00:35:18,794 Mars, 640 00:35:18,919 --> 00:35:21,752 thanks to us, a lot of people are alive who would be dead. 641 00:35:21,877 --> 00:35:23,794 It also means we might have erased him. 642 00:35:25,169 --> 00:35:28,252 MARS: No, you can't kill David Bowie. 643 00:35:28,377 --> 00:35:30,169 Maybe he lives but will have a different childhood 644 00:35:30,294 --> 00:35:31,502 and become a dentist. 645 00:35:33,002 --> 00:35:34,627 MARS: That is a very severe negative consequence. 646 00:35:34,752 --> 00:35:37,960 THOM: Mars, negativity is not emotionally quantifiable. 647 00:35:38,085 --> 00:35:40,335 There will be someone else as extraordinary as Bowie. 648 00:35:40,460 --> 00:35:42,627 No, there's Reginald fucking Watson! 649 00:35:43,835 --> 00:35:46,919 THOM: We are trying to end the war. 650 00:35:50,502 --> 00:35:52,127 You knew this could happen? 651 00:35:52,252 --> 00:35:54,585 (MEET ME AT THE GALLOWS CONTINUES PLAYING) 652 00:35:58,252 --> 00:36:01,502 I'm not sure it's moral to erase lives. 653 00:36:01,627 --> 00:36:03,835 What happens to people whose worlds we erased? 654 00:36:03,960 --> 00:36:05,252 Or is it moral to save lives? 655 00:36:05,377 --> 00:36:07,252 I mean, hypothetically you can make love with someone 656 00:36:07,377 --> 00:36:08,794 and create life, by choosing not to do that, 657 00:36:08,919 --> 00:36:09,877 are you erasing potential life? 658 00:36:10,002 --> 00:36:12,127 Fix this Watson car crash and get Bowie back! 659 00:36:14,752 --> 00:36:17,627 Sometimes you have to make sacrifices 660 00:36:17,752 --> 00:36:19,002 for the greater good. 661 00:36:31,169 --> 00:36:32,544 (WHIRRING) 662 00:36:33,294 --> 00:36:35,877 MARS: We'd erased all my heroes. 663 00:36:36,002 --> 00:36:40,377 Bob Dylan. Nina Simone. David Bowie. Stanley Kubrick. 664 00:36:41,835 --> 00:36:45,210 Now, they were but memories on my Moviola. 665 00:36:47,460 --> 00:36:50,335 LOLA was profoundly changing the course of the war. 666 00:36:50,460 --> 00:36:51,960 But we had no way of predicting 667 00:36:52,085 --> 00:36:53,960 how we were meddling with the future. 668 00:36:57,294 --> 00:36:59,127 What else had we sacrificed? 669 00:36:59,835 --> 00:37:01,210 (FEEDBACK CRACKLES) 670 00:37:01,919 --> 00:37:03,502 COBCROFT: (ON SPEAKER) Morning, Miss Hanbury. 671 00:37:03,627 --> 00:37:05,669 We've updated the signature codes. 672 00:37:05,794 --> 00:37:07,335 They'll be in Holloway's dispatch bag. 673 00:37:07,460 --> 00:37:08,752 THOM: (ON SPEAKER) Why haven't you managed to hit 674 00:37:08,877 --> 00:37:10,127 any of the U-boat fleet? 675 00:37:10,252 --> 00:37:11,877 I've given you first-class intel. 676 00:37:12,002 --> 00:37:13,460 COBCROFT: They're bloody elusive. 677 00:37:14,085 --> 00:37:16,502 Even when we know which ship they're going to sink, 678 00:37:16,627 --> 00:37:19,502 locating the U-boat's attack point is impossible. 679 00:37:19,627 --> 00:37:21,835 Trying to spot a sub 50 feet below the Atlantic 680 00:37:21,960 --> 00:37:24,460 is like trying to find a hymen in a whorehouse. 681 00:37:24,585 --> 00:37:26,919 THOM: So, you need to wait for them to rise to the surface. 682 00:37:27,044 --> 00:37:29,585 COBCROFT: By which stage, the subs are in attack mode. 683 00:37:29,710 --> 00:37:31,919 Do that and you risk our ships. 684 00:37:32,044 --> 00:37:33,460 THOM: Do nothing and the sub will live 685 00:37:33,585 --> 00:37:36,169 to attack another day. We have to lull them in. 686 00:37:36,294 --> 00:37:37,544 Let them surface and fire, 687 00:37:37,669 --> 00:37:39,794 that way your fighter planes are sure to spot them. 688 00:37:40,585 --> 00:37:41,877 COBCROFT: Christ. 689 00:37:42,460 --> 00:37:45,585 You're suggesting we sacrifice a civilian ship. 690 00:37:46,835 --> 00:37:48,419 THOM: A pawn for a queen. 691 00:37:48,544 --> 00:37:49,794 (FEEDBACK CRACKLES) 692 00:37:54,085 --> 00:37:56,419 (GENTLE GUITAR MUSIC PLAYING) 693 00:38:02,002 --> 00:38:03,294 SEBASTIAN: We should go back. 694 00:38:04,627 --> 00:38:08,419 Mm... No. She can do the next broadcast alone. 695 00:38:10,585 --> 00:38:12,460 You and I are otherwise engaged. 696 00:38:18,252 --> 00:38:19,460 (MARS CHUCKLES) 697 00:38:27,960 --> 00:38:29,710 MAN: (ON RADIO) The war office has just announced 698 00:38:29,835 --> 00:38:32,044 that the RAF has destroyed the entire 699 00:38:32,169 --> 00:38:33,460 -German U-boat fleet... -MARS: Oh, my God. 700 00:38:33,585 --> 00:38:35,377 -...in the Atlantic Ocean. -MARS: Sebastian! 701 00:38:36,002 --> 00:38:37,252 -This marks a huge... -(MARS LAUGHS) 702 00:38:37,377 --> 00:38:39,919 ...turning point in the war against Nazi Germany. 703 00:38:41,252 --> 00:38:43,252 Mr Churchill will address the nation 704 00:38:43,377 --> 00:38:45,210 on this major development. 705 00:38:46,877 --> 00:38:49,544 MAN 2: This is the moment when the RAF achieved 706 00:38:49,669 --> 00:38:50,877 what many said was impossible. 707 00:38:51,002 --> 00:38:53,419 The annihilation of the Nazi U-boat fleet. 708 00:38:53,544 --> 00:38:56,835 But this stunning victory wasn't without cost. 709 00:38:56,960 --> 00:38:58,835 Tragically, our forces were unable 710 00:38:58,960 --> 00:39:03,460 to save the American civilian liner, SS Abraham Lincoln. 711 00:39:03,585 --> 00:39:06,210 Two thousand souls lost their lives. 712 00:39:10,710 --> 00:39:12,960 MARS: (PANTS) Thom! Thom! 713 00:39:14,752 --> 00:39:16,044 SEBASTIAN: Thom, you're incredible. 714 00:39:16,169 --> 00:39:17,710 Champagne for Boudicca! 715 00:39:17,835 --> 00:39:19,419 MARS: Darling, are you okay? 716 00:39:20,585 --> 00:39:22,127 SEBASTIAN: Did you enact the battle right here? 717 00:39:22,252 --> 00:39:23,794 MARS: What happened? 718 00:39:23,919 --> 00:39:25,877 We received a report of the Abraham Lincoln 719 00:39:26,002 --> 00:39:27,835 being attacked by a flotilla of U-boats 720 00:39:27,960 --> 00:39:29,127 and once the attack started, 721 00:39:29,252 --> 00:39:30,919 Cobcroft had the subs bombed from the air. 722 00:39:31,044 --> 00:39:32,044 SEBASTIAN: Hang on. 723 00:39:33,627 --> 00:39:35,585 You allowed the attack to start? 724 00:39:39,127 --> 00:39:40,919 Thom, they sunk the Abraham Lincoln. 725 00:39:41,044 --> 00:39:42,835 We needed bait to get the U-boats to rise. 726 00:39:45,419 --> 00:39:46,752 SEBASTIAN: How many people were on that liner? 727 00:39:46,877 --> 00:39:49,752 Well, army man, it's the semiotics of combat. 728 00:39:49,877 --> 00:39:52,752 Those U-boats wiped out 40 liners last month. 729 00:39:52,877 --> 00:39:55,294 Now, we're going to destroy the Kriegsmarine 730 00:39:55,419 --> 00:39:57,460 and then we'll go after their air force. 731 00:39:57,585 --> 00:39:58,960 SEBASTIAN: Let's get the shutters. 732 00:40:02,085 --> 00:40:03,127 (LOLA WHIRS) 733 00:40:03,252 --> 00:40:04,585 (RADIO FEEDBACK) 734 00:40:05,210 --> 00:40:06,585 MAN 1: (ON LOLA) Over 2,000 people died... 735 00:40:06,710 --> 00:40:08,294 -THOM: How did you do that? -...on the American liner. 736 00:40:08,419 --> 00:40:10,460 MAN 1: President Roosevelt is demanding to know 737 00:40:10,585 --> 00:40:12,044 why Britain didn't deploy 738 00:40:12,169 --> 00:40:13,960 its celebrated early warning system 739 00:40:14,085 --> 00:40:15,460 -to protect the vessel. -THOM: Mars. 740 00:40:15,585 --> 00:40:16,627 (STATIC BUZZES) 741 00:40:16,752 --> 00:40:18,502 Did you show him how to work LOLA? 742 00:40:19,169 --> 00:40:21,544 (TRIUMPHANT MUSIC PLAYING ON LOLA) 743 00:40:23,044 --> 00:40:24,585 MAN 2: (ON LOLA) Churchill's hopes of persuading 744 00:40:24,710 --> 00:40:27,252 the United States of America to abandon its neutrality 745 00:40:27,377 --> 00:40:28,502 have been dashed. 746 00:40:28,627 --> 00:40:31,044 Preliminary investigations have found that the British 747 00:40:31,169 --> 00:40:33,627 deliberately allowed the Abraham Lincoln to be sunk 748 00:40:33,752 --> 00:40:36,085 as a means to entice the German U-boat fleet 749 00:40:36,210 --> 00:40:37,252 -to the surface. -(BROADCAST STOPS) 750 00:40:37,377 --> 00:40:38,335 SEBASTIAN: What have you done? 751 00:40:38,460 --> 00:40:39,710 What have you been doing? 752 00:40:42,960 --> 00:40:44,460 You are a child. 753 00:40:45,544 --> 00:40:48,585 A lustful, suggestible child. 754 00:40:49,877 --> 00:40:51,169 The pair of you. 755 00:40:52,002 --> 00:40:53,210 -MARS: Thom, I... -Get out. 756 00:40:53,335 --> 00:40:54,752 MARS: I shouldn't have... 757 00:40:54,877 --> 00:40:57,294 -Thom, I'm... -Get out! 758 00:40:57,419 --> 00:40:58,919 (CAMERA RUSTLING) 759 00:41:01,169 --> 00:41:03,794 (RADETZKY MARCH, OP. 228 BY JOHANN STRAUSS SR. PLAYING) 760 00:41:10,835 --> 00:41:12,752 NEWSREADER: Anger spilled onto the streets today 761 00:41:12,877 --> 00:41:14,919 when State Department investigators made 762 00:41:15,044 --> 00:41:16,710 the sensational discovery 763 00:41:16,835 --> 00:41:18,335 that Britain had prior knowledge 764 00:41:18,460 --> 00:41:20,835 of the attack on the Abraham Lincoln. 765 00:41:20,960 --> 00:41:22,460 According to the investigators, 766 00:41:22,585 --> 00:41:25,419 British fighter pilots circled overhead and looked on 767 00:41:25,544 --> 00:41:27,169 as dozens of Nazi subs 768 00:41:27,294 --> 00:41:29,252 attacked the defenceless liner. 769 00:41:29,377 --> 00:41:30,960 Within minutes, the doomed vessel 770 00:41:31,085 --> 00:41:32,169 lay at the bottom of the Atlantic 771 00:41:32,294 --> 00:41:36,002 along with 2,000 men, women and children. 772 00:41:36,127 --> 00:41:38,127 President Roosevelt said it was clear 773 00:41:38,252 --> 00:41:40,210 that the British had sacrificed the liner 774 00:41:40,335 --> 00:41:42,252 to draw the U-boats to the surface. 775 00:41:42,377 --> 00:41:43,710 He immediately recalled 776 00:41:43,835 --> 00:41:45,877 Ambassador Joseph Kennedy from London. 777 00:41:46,002 --> 00:41:49,752 I leave England at this time with real regret. 778 00:41:52,960 --> 00:41:54,835 NEWSREADER: But England remains defiant. 779 00:41:54,960 --> 00:41:58,627 Churchill strenuously rejected the allegations 780 00:41:58,752 --> 00:42:02,502 and proclaimed that Britain shall prevail without the aid 781 00:42:02,627 --> 00:42:05,294 of the United States of America. 782 00:42:08,585 --> 00:42:10,252 (CAMERA RUSTLING) 783 00:42:10,377 --> 00:42:12,419 (INDISTINCT BROADCAST PLAYING) 784 00:42:15,419 --> 00:42:17,002 Thom, come on, open up. 785 00:42:17,127 --> 00:42:19,127 (LOLA BUZZING RHYTHMICALLY) 786 00:42:24,752 --> 00:42:26,960 (INDISTINCT BROADCAST PLAYING ON LOLA) 787 00:42:33,627 --> 00:42:35,335 (OBJECTS CLATTERING) 788 00:42:35,460 --> 00:42:36,460 She's mad. 789 00:42:39,502 --> 00:42:40,710 Fucking mad. 790 00:42:50,877 --> 00:42:54,585 MARS: LOLA had just received the perfect piece of intel. 791 00:42:54,710 --> 00:42:55,752 It was irresistible. 792 00:42:55,877 --> 00:42:56,835 MAN: (ON LOLA) This is Southampton. 793 00:42:56,960 --> 00:42:59,585 We are under sustained attack, six German destroyers... 794 00:42:59,710 --> 00:43:02,960 MARS: You had Cobcroft deploy the entire navy to intercept 795 00:43:03,085 --> 00:43:05,919 an all-out German attack on Southampton. 796 00:43:09,877 --> 00:43:12,169 This intel could wipe out the German navy. 797 00:43:14,044 --> 00:43:15,085 SEBASTIAN: This is fucking pathetic. 798 00:43:15,210 --> 00:43:16,585 It's petty. Come on, open up. 799 00:43:18,502 --> 00:43:20,502 MARS: But it was too good to be true. 800 00:43:21,085 --> 00:43:22,127 THOM: I need your help. 801 00:43:22,252 --> 00:43:23,960 (FEEDBACK ECHOES) 802 00:43:27,627 --> 00:43:29,502 COBCROFT: (ON SPEAKER) What the hell have you done? 803 00:43:30,377 --> 00:43:33,127 The Kriegsmarine is three miles off the coast of Dover, 804 00:43:33,252 --> 00:43:36,835 our entire fleet is 100 miles away in Southampton. 805 00:43:36,960 --> 00:43:38,127 The Kriegsmarine should have arrived 806 00:43:38,252 --> 00:43:40,085 at Southampton one minute ago. 807 00:43:40,210 --> 00:43:41,585 Did you check the signature code? 808 00:43:43,127 --> 00:43:44,752 Can you replay it? 809 00:43:44,877 --> 00:43:46,502 (REWINDING) 810 00:43:47,127 --> 00:43:48,460 (EXPLOSIONS ON LOLA) 811 00:43:48,585 --> 00:43:49,669 MAN 1: (ON LOLA) This is Southampton. 812 00:43:49,794 --> 00:43:52,710 We are under sustained attack, six German destroyers 813 00:43:52,835 --> 00:43:55,252 supported by a heavy air bombardment. Over. 814 00:43:55,377 --> 00:43:56,669 SEBASTIAN: There's no signature code. 815 00:43:58,252 --> 00:43:59,294 THOM: It was a bogus signal, 816 00:43:59,419 --> 00:44:00,960 there was never an attack on Southampton. 817 00:44:01,085 --> 00:44:02,335 The Germans know we've got something. 818 00:44:02,460 --> 00:44:03,419 They must have sent that signal. 819 00:44:03,544 --> 00:44:05,710 Oldest trick in the book. (BREATHING HEAVILY) 820 00:44:05,835 --> 00:44:08,294 COBCROFT: You've left us completely exposed. 821 00:44:08,419 --> 00:44:10,960 You fucking bitch. You've fucked me. 822 00:44:11,085 --> 00:44:12,085 (CONNECTION ENDS) 823 00:44:13,502 --> 00:44:15,210 (WHIRRING) 824 00:44:16,002 --> 00:44:17,502 MAN: (ON LOLA) Authorities are not revealing 825 00:44:17,627 --> 00:44:19,210 the extent of the attack, 826 00:44:19,335 --> 00:44:21,252 except to say that the coast around Dover 827 00:44:21,377 --> 00:44:23,210 is now under German occupation. 828 00:44:23,335 --> 00:44:25,752 -THOM: No, no, no, no, no. -(CLICKING) 829 00:44:26,794 --> 00:44:27,752 MAN 2: (ON SPEAKER) Hello? 830 00:44:27,877 --> 00:44:29,460 There is going to be an attack at Hastings. 831 00:44:29,585 --> 00:44:31,752 -MAN 2: Who is this? -Cobcroft? 832 00:44:31,877 --> 00:44:33,544 MAN 2: Major Henry Cobcroft is unavailable. 833 00:44:33,669 --> 00:44:35,460 No, I need to speak to him now. Where the fuck is he? 834 00:44:35,585 --> 00:44:36,544 This is Lieutenant Holloway. 835 00:44:36,669 --> 00:44:37,710 I report directly to Major Cobcroft. 836 00:44:37,835 --> 00:44:38,835 I need him on the line immediately. 837 00:44:38,960 --> 00:44:40,710 MAN 2: Major Cobcroft is not available. 838 00:44:40,835 --> 00:44:43,252 Then you... Go get him, we're being invaded! 839 00:44:43,544 --> 00:44:45,335 -MARS: Where are you going? -To... 840 00:44:45,960 --> 00:44:47,044 warn the army. (BREATHING HEAVILY) 841 00:44:47,169 --> 00:44:49,377 -MARS: Hold on. -Look, I'll be right back. 842 00:44:49,502 --> 00:44:52,544 And... try and connect to someone on intel. 843 00:44:55,294 --> 00:44:57,294 (DIALLING TELEPHONE) 844 00:44:58,169 --> 00:44:59,127 ...to move defences away from... 845 00:44:59,252 --> 00:45:00,377 (LINE DISCONNECTS) 846 00:45:03,002 --> 00:45:04,335 MARS: Can we undo this? 847 00:45:07,252 --> 00:45:08,210 (SLAMS RECEIVER) 848 00:45:08,335 --> 00:45:09,835 (YELLS) Can I unbreak that telephone? 849 00:45:09,960 --> 00:45:11,960 (OBJECTS RATTLING) 850 00:45:12,794 --> 00:45:14,794 (ROAR OF AIRCRAFT ENGINES) 851 00:45:34,419 --> 00:45:38,544 MARS: What the hell had we done? 852 00:45:39,377 --> 00:45:41,794 (DRAMATIC CLASSICAL MUSIC PLAYING) 853 00:45:50,210 --> 00:45:51,169 NEWSREADER: Early this morning, 854 00:45:51,294 --> 00:45:53,002 catastrophe struck Britain. 855 00:45:53,127 --> 00:45:55,419 German forces breached coastal defences 856 00:45:55,544 --> 00:45:58,044 following a major intelligence blunder. 857 00:45:58,169 --> 00:46:00,710 Commanding officers had diverted the RAF 858 00:46:00,835 --> 00:46:03,669 and the Royal Navy to Southampton, leaving Dover 859 00:46:03,794 --> 00:46:06,919 and the Southeast of England gravely exposed. 860 00:46:07,044 --> 00:46:08,960 The enemy launched a full-scale invasion, 861 00:46:09,085 --> 00:46:11,085 landing effectively unopposed. 862 00:46:11,210 --> 00:46:14,335 Town after town fell to the merciless attackers. 863 00:46:14,794 --> 00:46:17,127 Christening the invasion Black Sunday, 864 00:46:17,252 --> 00:46:20,710 the Prime Minister issued a full call to arms. 865 00:46:20,835 --> 00:46:23,044 CHURCHILL: The Battle of Britain is about to begin. 866 00:46:23,169 --> 00:46:24,502 On this battle depends 867 00:46:24,627 --> 00:46:27,419 the survival of Christian civilisation. 868 00:46:27,544 --> 00:46:29,127 If we fail, 869 00:46:29,252 --> 00:46:31,377 then the whole world will sink 870 00:46:31,502 --> 00:46:34,669 into the abyss of a new Dark Age. 871 00:46:37,752 --> 00:46:39,377 NEWSREADER: With the Nazis advancing inland, 872 00:46:39,502 --> 00:46:42,627 Head of Army Intelligence, Major Sir Henry Cobcroft, 873 00:46:42,752 --> 00:46:45,127 was summoned to explain the disastrous breach 874 00:46:45,252 --> 00:46:46,919 in Britain's defences. 875 00:46:47,044 --> 00:46:49,460 Major Cobcroft said that after an investigation, 876 00:46:49,585 --> 00:46:51,752 he had discovered that two Nazi double agents 877 00:46:51,877 --> 00:46:54,044 had infiltrated his department. 878 00:46:56,169 --> 00:46:57,752 COBCROFT: Lieutenant Holloway and I 879 00:46:57,877 --> 00:47:00,377 were receiving intelligence from two agents, 880 00:47:01,210 --> 00:47:03,335 Thomasina and Martha Hanbury. 881 00:47:05,085 --> 00:47:06,419 They were double-crossing us. 882 00:47:07,127 --> 00:47:08,960 Taking orders from Berlin. 883 00:47:10,085 --> 00:47:12,627 Their maliciously false intel 884 00:47:12,752 --> 00:47:15,710 resulted in this country being invaded. 885 00:47:17,252 --> 00:47:19,960 These loathsome creatures will be found 886 00:47:20,877 --> 00:47:23,169 and hanged for treason. 887 00:47:23,294 --> 00:47:24,252 MARS: What do we do? 888 00:47:24,377 --> 00:47:25,419 NEWSREADER: On bidding farewell 889 00:47:25,544 --> 00:47:28,002 to the King, who was evacuated to Canada, 890 00:47:28,127 --> 00:47:30,585 Mr Churchill addressed the nation. 891 00:47:30,710 --> 00:47:33,044 CHURCHILL: Despite the traitresses in our midst... 892 00:47:33,169 --> 00:47:34,127 MARS: Shit! 893 00:47:34,252 --> 00:47:36,877 ...the Nazi forces shall not prevail 894 00:47:37,002 --> 00:47:39,502 in their attempts to break the spirit of... 895 00:47:39,627 --> 00:47:41,669 MARS: Thom, we have to leave now. 896 00:47:41,794 --> 00:47:43,627 THOM: I'm not leaving LOLA. MARS: For God's sake, Thom, 897 00:47:43,752 --> 00:47:45,544 what are you going to do, put it in a suitcase? 898 00:47:45,669 --> 00:47:47,419 THOM: I'm staying. I can still fight this, 899 00:47:47,544 --> 00:47:49,210 tell the army what the Germans are going to do next. 900 00:47:49,335 --> 00:47:50,419 MARS: Never mind the Germans, 901 00:47:50,544 --> 00:47:52,335 it's Cobcroft that's going to hang us. 902 00:47:52,460 --> 00:47:54,335 THOM: Then get your boyfriend to tell them the truth. 903 00:47:55,085 --> 00:47:56,294 MARS: What? 904 00:47:56,419 --> 00:47:59,044 THOM: He's left you, Mars. He's saving his own skin. 905 00:47:59,169 --> 00:48:00,252 MARS: Horseshit. 906 00:48:00,377 --> 00:48:02,044 He would have saved you from yourself 907 00:48:02,169 --> 00:48:03,335 if you'd let him check the codes. 908 00:48:03,460 --> 00:48:04,919 THOM: He was too busy bonking you in the woods. 909 00:48:05,044 --> 00:48:06,002 MARS: You locked us out. 910 00:48:06,127 --> 00:48:07,294 THOM: You were compromising my work 911 00:48:07,419 --> 00:48:08,669 with your sentimentality. 912 00:48:08,794 --> 00:48:11,169 MARS: I'd rather be sentimental than psychotic. 913 00:48:11,294 --> 00:48:13,210 THOM: You are mawkish and weak, just like Mama. 914 00:48:13,335 --> 00:48:14,627 -(VEHICLE APPROACHING) -MARS: And you're every bit 915 00:48:14,752 --> 00:48:16,085 as selfish as she was. 916 00:48:16,752 --> 00:48:17,710 THOM: Shit. 917 00:48:17,835 --> 00:48:19,210 (VEHICLE DOORS CLOSE) 918 00:48:20,919 --> 00:48:22,294 Mars, let's just go. 919 00:48:22,419 --> 00:48:23,835 (BANGING ON DOOR) 920 00:48:25,210 --> 00:48:27,419 (MARS BREATHING HEAVILY) 921 00:48:30,627 --> 00:48:31,794 (DOOR CRASHES OPEN) 922 00:48:38,585 --> 00:48:40,919 (SOLEMN CHORAL MUSIC PLAYING) 923 00:48:46,002 --> 00:48:47,627 (IMPERCEPTIBLE) 924 00:49:37,585 --> 00:49:39,585 (IMPERCEPTIBLE) 925 00:49:46,377 --> 00:49:48,710 (SOLEMN CHORAL MUSIC CONTINUES) 926 00:50:05,919 --> 00:50:07,252 (EXPLOSION) 927 00:50:08,627 --> 00:50:10,627 (CLAMOURING) 928 00:50:22,544 --> 00:50:24,960 (SOLEMN CHORAL MUSIC CONTINUES) 929 00:50:43,252 --> 00:50:45,669 (SOLEMN CHORAL MUSIC CONTINUES) 930 00:51:14,419 --> 00:51:15,627 (MUSIC ENDING) 931 00:51:25,752 --> 00:51:28,127 (SOMBRE PIANO MUSIC PLAYING) 932 00:51:53,877 --> 00:51:55,585 (CAR DOOR OPENS) 933 00:52:08,627 --> 00:52:09,835 SEBASTIAN: (WHISPERING) For fuck's sake. 934 00:52:10,377 --> 00:52:11,377 Pigs. 935 00:52:15,919 --> 00:52:17,377 Stop. Put the camera down. 936 00:52:18,752 --> 00:52:20,835 Mars, put it down. 937 00:52:23,752 --> 00:52:25,335 If they ask us, we're farmers. 938 00:52:29,460 --> 00:52:31,085 (GERMAN ACCENT) Where are you going? 939 00:52:31,210 --> 00:52:33,335 Home. We live just down the coast. 940 00:52:34,794 --> 00:52:35,794 Papers. 941 00:52:36,669 --> 00:52:37,877 They're at home. 942 00:52:39,460 --> 00:52:41,460 If you allow us through, I can get them for you. 943 00:52:43,877 --> 00:52:45,669 You will have to turn back. 944 00:52:45,794 --> 00:52:47,877 MARS: Please, we're looking for my sister. 945 00:52:50,419 --> 00:52:52,585 (SOLDIER SPEAKING GERMAN) 946 00:52:58,835 --> 00:53:00,002 Excuse me? 947 00:53:01,627 --> 00:53:02,877 You can't proceed. 948 00:53:08,419 --> 00:53:11,877 -(GUN COCKS) -I said, turn back. 949 00:53:18,294 --> 00:53:20,960 (WHISPERS) For fuck's sake. Pigs. 950 00:53:28,169 --> 00:53:29,377 NEWSREADER: (ON RADIO) British Fascist leader, 951 00:53:29,502 --> 00:53:31,002 Sir Oswald Mosley, said it was folly 952 00:53:31,127 --> 00:53:32,419 to have gone to war with Germany. 953 00:53:33,419 --> 00:53:34,960 MARS: Dissidents of the new regime 954 00:53:35,085 --> 00:53:38,002 had set up a refuge in an old warehouse. 955 00:53:38,127 --> 00:53:39,210 We were happy just to be safe. 956 00:53:39,335 --> 00:53:41,169 ENOCH: Oh, this is the tip of the iceberg. 957 00:53:41,294 --> 00:53:43,169 The unseen face of Fascism. 958 00:53:43,919 --> 00:53:45,377 If you can get these pictures out to America, 959 00:53:45,502 --> 00:53:47,377 it might help counter all the propaganda. 960 00:53:47,502 --> 00:53:49,377 Hey! Stop that! 961 00:53:49,502 --> 00:53:51,627 -(BABY CRYING) -WOMAN: What's wrong? 962 00:53:51,752 --> 00:53:52,960 You know, like the colour of the sky 963 00:53:53,085 --> 00:53:54,419 -before it goes to night time. -ENOCH: Nice. 964 00:53:54,544 --> 00:53:55,585 -It's that kind of thing. -ENOCH: Nice. 965 00:53:55,710 --> 00:53:57,210 MARS: Indigo. ENOCH: Yeah. 966 00:53:57,335 --> 00:53:59,335 Oy! (CHUCKLES) 967 00:53:59,460 --> 00:54:00,960 (MARS LAUGHS) 968 00:54:02,210 --> 00:54:03,419 Oy! 969 00:54:03,544 --> 00:54:04,960 MARS: You need something to do. 970 00:54:05,085 --> 00:54:06,085 Little rascal. 971 00:54:07,169 --> 00:54:10,585 So, Leo, here is how we put the bits of film together 972 00:54:10,710 --> 00:54:12,710 to make the images become a story. 973 00:54:14,752 --> 00:54:17,419 So, erm, hold it still. 974 00:54:18,127 --> 00:54:19,210 Still. 975 00:54:19,335 --> 00:54:21,627 And allow the camera to become your eye. 976 00:54:21,752 --> 00:54:23,752 Try to figure out where you should be looking next. 977 00:54:25,252 --> 00:54:27,585 Yeah, so maybe down to my hands 978 00:54:27,710 --> 00:54:29,794 if I'm playing with these things. 979 00:54:29,919 --> 00:54:31,169 Onto my hands, like this. 980 00:54:32,044 --> 00:54:34,627 Or maybe over to there 981 00:54:35,710 --> 00:54:36,752 where I'm talking to you 982 00:54:36,877 --> 00:54:38,252 and then back to my face again. 983 00:54:39,210 --> 00:54:40,335 That's it. 984 00:54:41,169 --> 00:54:42,752 (CHUCKLES) And a bit more upright. 985 00:54:44,835 --> 00:54:46,044 I think you're a natural. 986 00:54:46,169 --> 00:54:47,752 (CAMERA RUSTLING) 987 00:54:51,419 --> 00:54:53,419 (CHILD COUGHING) 988 00:55:00,127 --> 00:55:02,127 (BABY CRYING) 989 00:55:03,252 --> 00:55:05,044 NEWSREADER: (ON RADIO) ...Mosley to lead Britain 990 00:55:05,169 --> 00:55:08,544 to a new prosperity and friendship with Germany. 991 00:55:08,669 --> 00:55:10,752 MOSLEY: (ON RADIO) I claim that in the ranks 992 00:55:10,877 --> 00:55:12,669 of our Blackshirt legions, 993 00:55:12,794 --> 00:55:15,960 march the mighty ghosts of England's past. 994 00:55:23,002 --> 00:55:24,669 NEWSREADER: (ON RADIO) Today, our new German liberators 995 00:55:24,794 --> 00:55:27,710 freed more political prisoners detained under the old regime. 996 00:55:27,835 --> 00:55:29,460 -There's Leo. -Amongst those released 997 00:55:29,585 --> 00:55:32,460 were scientist Thomasina Hanbury, falsely accused... 998 00:55:32,585 --> 00:55:34,585 (RADIO CRACKLING) 999 00:55:35,960 --> 00:55:38,127 ...by the previous government. Miss Hanbury's research 1000 00:55:38,252 --> 00:55:40,752 is of great interest to the Third Reich. 1001 00:55:41,377 --> 00:55:43,377 (CAMERA RUSTLES) 1002 00:55:44,960 --> 00:55:46,502 (WHIRRING) 1003 00:55:50,085 --> 00:55:52,502 (TRIUMPHANT MUSIC PLAYING ON SCREEN) 1004 00:56:00,544 --> 00:56:02,044 MARS: Try to keep the camera still. 1005 00:56:04,419 --> 00:56:07,210 This evening, we are joined by a very special guest, 1006 00:56:07,335 --> 00:56:09,335 Miss Thomasina Hanbury, 1007 00:56:09,460 --> 00:56:12,210 a self-educated orphan who was condemned to death 1008 00:56:12,335 --> 00:56:14,752 by the old regime three months ago, 1009 00:56:14,877 --> 00:56:16,419 only to be dramatically rescued 1010 00:56:16,544 --> 00:56:19,835 by our liberators mere hours before her execution. 1011 00:56:19,960 --> 00:56:21,502 Since then, she has transformed 1012 00:56:21,627 --> 00:56:22,585 the nation's fortunes 1013 00:56:22,710 --> 00:56:25,085 in the field of strategic forecasting. 1014 00:56:25,210 --> 00:56:29,085 Of particular note is her mysterious invention, LOLA. 1015 00:56:29,210 --> 00:56:33,085 Miss Hanbury, may I ask, how does your machine work? 1016 00:56:34,252 --> 00:56:37,377 It consists of a system of electrical processors 1017 00:56:37,502 --> 00:56:39,169 which filter and amplify 1018 00:56:39,294 --> 00:56:41,419 even the faintest electromagnetic wave 1019 00:56:41,544 --> 00:56:43,044 into a coherent signal. 1020 00:56:44,085 --> 00:56:45,627 And when combined with an understanding 1021 00:56:45,752 --> 00:56:47,502 of quantum mechanics, LOLA allows us 1022 00:56:47,627 --> 00:56:49,294 to observe broadcasts from the future. 1023 00:56:49,585 --> 00:56:50,960 How impressive. 1024 00:56:51,585 --> 00:56:53,377 I hear the machine has baffled 1025 00:56:53,502 --> 00:56:57,294 the greatest engineering minds of both Britain and Germany. 1026 00:56:57,419 --> 00:56:59,085 The men they sent to examine LOLA 1027 00:56:59,210 --> 00:57:01,585 were limited by their lack of imagination 1028 00:57:01,710 --> 00:57:04,294 as much as their formal scientific training. 1029 00:57:04,419 --> 00:57:06,794 Thankfully, I prefer to work alone. 1030 00:57:06,919 --> 00:57:08,710 My home laboratory is everything I need. 1031 00:57:08,835 --> 00:57:11,794 What inspired you to build this machine? 1032 00:57:14,252 --> 00:57:18,502 My father was an inventor, an idealist. 1033 00:57:18,627 --> 00:57:19,710 And he believed 1034 00:57:19,835 --> 00:57:21,669 humankind was being transformed for the better 1035 00:57:21,794 --> 00:57:23,377 by technological advances. 1036 00:57:23,502 --> 00:57:25,502 The work I do today strives to this ideal. 1037 00:57:25,627 --> 00:57:27,169 To what end? 1038 00:57:27,294 --> 00:57:28,794 To create the perfect society. 1039 00:57:29,419 --> 00:57:31,794 A society in which we all prosper. 1040 00:57:31,919 --> 00:57:34,210 No government blunders that send people into poverty. 1041 00:57:34,335 --> 00:57:35,460 No more murders on the streets. 1042 00:57:35,585 --> 00:57:37,085 No conflicts and no war. 1043 00:57:37,835 --> 00:57:41,752 You've personally experienced your fair share of adversity. 1044 00:57:42,502 --> 00:57:45,335 After the tragic death of your parents, 1045 00:57:45,460 --> 00:57:48,919 you were left alone to raise your sister, Martha, 1046 00:57:49,669 --> 00:57:52,252 while still very much a child yourself. 1047 00:57:52,377 --> 00:57:54,335 That must have been difficult. 1048 00:57:55,252 --> 00:57:56,460 We managed. 1049 00:57:57,877 --> 00:58:01,127 Your current standing must be all the more gratifying 1050 00:58:01,252 --> 00:58:03,002 considering the disgraceful way 1051 00:58:03,127 --> 00:58:05,960 Churchill's government treated you and your sister, 1052 00:58:06,085 --> 00:58:08,585 who was sadly executed 1053 00:58:08,710 --> 00:58:10,085 before the liberators could reach her. 1054 00:58:10,210 --> 00:58:12,627 There was nothing gratifying about my sister's death. 1055 00:58:15,502 --> 00:58:17,502 When I received the news, it was... 1056 00:58:18,627 --> 00:58:19,919 a horrible blow. 1057 00:58:20,710 --> 00:58:22,127 She deserved better. 1058 00:58:27,002 --> 00:58:31,127 It is a shame that LOLA can't fix the past. 1059 00:58:31,252 --> 00:58:35,460 If Martha were alive today, what would you say to her? 1060 00:58:37,294 --> 00:58:39,002 I would tell her to live her life... 1061 00:58:40,835 --> 00:58:42,294 and to leave me behind. 1062 00:58:46,669 --> 00:58:48,502 (BABY CRYING) 1063 00:58:49,627 --> 00:58:51,169 We need to get her out of there. 1064 00:58:52,919 --> 00:58:54,377 It's too dangerous. She'll get killed. 1065 00:58:54,502 --> 00:58:55,835 Well, she never goes a day without swimming, 1066 00:58:55,960 --> 00:58:57,419 -so we can go and get her. -Martha. 1067 00:58:58,377 --> 00:59:00,210 Look at me. We're safe here. 1068 00:59:01,127 --> 00:59:02,835 Let go of me. 1069 00:59:03,502 --> 00:59:05,294 I'm going to get her. I'm going to find her now. 1070 00:59:05,419 --> 00:59:06,544 SEBASTIAN: How are you gonna get there? 1071 00:59:06,669 --> 00:59:07,877 MARS: Are you gonna come with me or not? 1072 00:59:08,294 --> 00:59:09,252 Fine, just let me go... 1073 00:59:09,377 --> 00:59:10,335 SEBASTIAN: They're looking for you... 1074 00:59:10,460 --> 00:59:11,419 MARS: Just let me go on my own. I'm fine. 1075 00:59:11,544 --> 00:59:13,085 SEBASTIAN: You're not safe. MARS: I don't need you. 1076 00:59:36,252 --> 00:59:38,252 (INDISTINCT CHATTER) 1077 00:59:48,752 --> 00:59:50,502 SEBASTIAN: Mars, get out of here. 1078 00:59:50,627 --> 00:59:51,627 MARS: Wait. 1079 00:59:53,335 --> 00:59:55,752 SEBASTIAN: Look. MARS: What are you doing here? 1080 00:59:55,877 --> 00:59:57,419 SEBASTIAN: Get out of there. SOLDIER: Intruder! 1081 00:59:57,544 --> 00:59:59,002 -(GUN FIRES) -SEBASTIAN: Mars! Go on, go! 1082 00:59:59,127 --> 01:00:00,210 -(MARS WHIMPERS) -(SOLDIER SHOUTS) 1083 01:00:00,335 --> 01:00:01,502 -(MARS PANTING) -(GUN FIRES) 1084 01:00:01,627 --> 01:00:03,210 -(SEBASTIAN GROANS) -MARS: Sebastian! 1085 01:00:05,085 --> 01:00:06,085 (MARS WHIMPERS) 1086 01:00:14,169 --> 01:00:16,752 (GENTLE GUITAR MUSIC PLAYING) 1087 01:00:21,210 --> 01:00:25,710 MARS: (SINGING) I drew a line In the sands of time 1088 01:00:27,752 --> 01:00:31,502 Dared you to step over it 1089 01:00:33,377 --> 01:00:34,960 And you did 1090 01:00:40,960 --> 01:00:45,252 Saw your visage In the looking glass 1091 01:00:47,502 --> 01:00:49,502 Such a pretty face 1092 01:00:50,585 --> 01:00:54,002 But such a bitter taste 1093 01:00:54,127 --> 01:00:58,169 Do you remember tomorrow? 1094 01:00:58,294 --> 01:01:01,460 The roads that we followed 1095 01:01:01,585 --> 01:01:06,044 To a life that might Never come to be 1096 01:01:08,085 --> 01:01:12,835 The future is a distant memory 1097 01:01:12,960 --> 01:01:14,669 To me now 1098 01:01:24,169 --> 01:01:25,419 SEBASTIAN: Let me guess. 1099 01:01:26,544 --> 01:01:27,544 Bob Dylan? 1100 01:01:29,419 --> 01:01:31,085 No. That was me. 1101 01:01:41,669 --> 01:01:43,669 (BABY CRYING) 1102 01:01:52,085 --> 01:01:53,835 (FAINT CHATTERING) 1103 01:02:04,335 --> 01:02:07,252 MARS: My world became empty and cold. 1104 01:02:09,710 --> 01:02:14,002 You, on the other hand, were soaring to new heights. 1105 01:02:15,419 --> 01:02:18,585 (THE SOUND OF MARCHING FEET BY REGINALD WATSON PLAYING) 1106 01:02:18,710 --> 01:02:20,335 The sound of marching feet 1107 01:02:20,460 --> 01:02:21,960 Can you hear it? 1108 01:02:22,085 --> 01:02:23,835 The sound of marching feet 1109 01:02:23,960 --> 01:02:27,377 In the street below 1110 01:02:28,752 --> 01:02:30,210 Together we are strong 1111 01:02:30,335 --> 01:02:32,002 Crush the weaklings 1112 01:02:32,127 --> 01:02:33,294 So sing our fascist song 1113 01:02:33,877 --> 01:02:37,919 In the street below 1114 01:02:39,669 --> 01:02:42,085 Send to all the world a message. 1115 01:02:42,210 --> 01:02:45,127 England lives and marches on! 1116 01:02:46,919 --> 01:02:49,419 (SONG CONTINUES) Learn to march in time 1117 01:02:50,085 --> 01:02:52,127 And fall into line 1118 01:02:52,252 --> 01:02:53,585 The sound of marching feet 1119 01:02:54,085 --> 01:02:55,419 Can you feel it? 1120 01:02:55,544 --> 01:02:57,377 The sound of marching feet 1121 01:02:57,502 --> 01:03:02,085 See the torches glow 1122 01:03:03,794 --> 01:03:07,127 -Put this record on -(CLAMOURING) 1123 01:03:07,252 --> 01:03:10,002 Learn all of the lyrics 1124 01:03:10,127 --> 01:03:13,127 If your friends Don't sing along 1125 01:03:13,877 --> 01:03:15,460 Call the police 1126 01:03:15,585 --> 01:03:17,752 (SIREN WAILING) 1127 01:03:20,460 --> 01:03:23,085 The sound of marching feet 1128 01:03:23,710 --> 01:03:28,710 Left, right, left, left, left Left, right, left 1129 01:03:28,835 --> 01:03:32,210 Left, left, left, right, left 1130 01:03:32,335 --> 01:03:33,752 Left, left 1131 01:03:33,877 --> 01:03:36,544 The sound of marching feet 1132 01:03:36,669 --> 01:03:38,960 Left, left, left, right, left 1133 01:03:39,085 --> 01:03:42,210 Left, left, left, right, left 1134 01:03:42,335 --> 01:03:44,419 -The sound of marching feet -The sound of marching feet 1135 01:03:44,544 --> 01:03:46,835 -The sound of marching feet -The sound of marching feet 1136 01:03:46,960 --> 01:03:49,002 -The sound of marching feet -The sound of marching feet 1137 01:03:54,044 --> 01:03:56,960 Do not fraternise 1138 01:03:57,085 --> 01:04:00,335 With radicals and perverts 1139 01:04:00,460 --> 01:04:03,627 Learn to march in time 1140 01:04:03,752 --> 01:04:06,127 And fall into line 1141 01:04:06,252 --> 01:04:08,544 (PENSIVE MUSIC PLAYING) 1142 01:04:10,169 --> 01:04:11,794 (DEEP BREATHING) 1143 01:04:24,044 --> 01:04:27,085 MARS: There was only one thing left for me to do. 1144 01:04:34,002 --> 01:04:36,127 (TRIUMPHANT MUSIC PLAYING) 1145 01:04:42,210 --> 01:04:45,460 Today, the Prime Minister announced that Adolf Hitler 1146 01:04:45,585 --> 01:04:48,752 will be making his first state visit to England. 1147 01:04:48,877 --> 01:04:51,460 The Führer will be dropping in on a very special house 1148 01:04:51,585 --> 01:04:54,127 on the Sussex Coast, where government scientist 1149 01:04:54,252 --> 01:04:58,127 Thomasina Hanbury has been conducting pioneering work. 1150 01:04:58,752 --> 01:05:00,544 Because of this remarkable woman, 1151 01:05:00,669 --> 01:05:03,044 rescued and championed by the Führer, 1152 01:05:03,169 --> 01:05:05,002 we say to our enemies, 1153 01:05:05,127 --> 01:05:07,794 "Watch out, we know what you're going to do 1154 01:05:07,919 --> 01:05:09,627 "before you even think of it." 1155 01:05:09,752 --> 01:05:12,419 And now, it is my pleasure to introduce you 1156 01:05:12,544 --> 01:05:17,669 to Master Reginald Watson, the voice of the future. 1157 01:05:17,794 --> 01:05:24,419 (SINGING) Land of Hope Thy hope is crowned 1158 01:05:25,002 --> 01:05:31,752 God make thee mightier yet 1159 01:05:32,085 --> 01:05:33,877 (CAMERA WHIRRING) 1160 01:05:40,627 --> 01:05:43,794 On sovereign brows 1161 01:05:43,919 --> 01:05:47,252 Beloved 1162 01:05:47,377 --> 01:05:52,502 Once more thy crown is set 1163 01:05:52,627 --> 01:05:54,960 (CAMERA WHIRRING) 1164 01:05:55,085 --> 01:05:57,169 (WHISPERS) Leo, stop filming. 1165 01:05:58,127 --> 01:06:03,044 God, who made thee mighty 1166 01:06:03,169 --> 01:06:04,335 (CROWD CHEERING) 1167 01:06:04,460 --> 01:06:10,919 Make thee mightier yet 1168 01:06:11,544 --> 01:06:17,960 God, who made thee mighty 1169 01:06:18,085 --> 01:06:24,585 Make thee mightier yet 1170 01:06:39,044 --> 01:06:41,210 (PATRIOTIC MUSIC PLAYING) 1171 01:06:47,377 --> 01:06:49,794 (NEWSREADER SPEAKING GERMAN) 1172 01:07:10,710 --> 01:07:13,169 (NEWSREADER CONTINUES SPEAKING GERMAN) 1173 01:07:27,710 --> 01:07:29,835 (ELECTRICITY BUZZING) 1174 01:07:29,960 --> 01:07:31,210 (FEEDBACK ECHOES) 1175 01:07:38,294 --> 01:07:39,294 NEWSREADER: (ON LOLA) At the rally, 1176 01:07:39,419 --> 01:07:41,710 President Lindbergh celebrated how National Socialism 1177 01:07:41,835 --> 01:07:43,752 had brought the American people together and... 1178 01:07:50,544 --> 01:07:52,544 (BUZZING) 1179 01:07:53,669 --> 01:07:54,794 NEWSREADER 2: ...developed by British 1180 01:07:54,919 --> 01:07:57,044 and German scientists, this is the ultimate weapon 1181 01:07:57,169 --> 01:07:58,419 against the Bolshevik. 1182 01:08:00,502 --> 01:08:02,627 -(EXPLOSION) -(CLAMOURING) 1183 01:08:04,627 --> 01:08:06,210 NEWSREADER 3: Martha Hanbury had entered the house 1184 01:08:06,335 --> 01:08:08,294 with the intention of assassinating the Führer 1185 01:08:08,419 --> 01:08:10,877 but, fortuitously, her bomb went off prematurely 1186 01:08:11,002 --> 01:08:12,377 in an adjoining room, 1187 01:08:12,502 --> 01:08:14,502 and the deranged woman was captured. 1188 01:08:14,627 --> 01:08:15,585 The shocked Führer 1189 01:08:15,710 --> 01:08:16,752 -escaped unscathed... -THOM: Mars. 1190 01:08:16,877 --> 01:08:19,169 ...and issued an order for the female terrorist 1191 01:08:19,294 --> 01:08:20,960 to be put to death immediately. 1192 01:08:21,752 --> 01:08:23,752 -(BUZZING) -(DISTANT CLAMOURING) 1193 01:08:25,044 --> 01:08:27,044 (CRYING) 1194 01:08:36,835 --> 01:08:39,419 (MEET ME AT THE GALLOWS BY REGINALD WATSON PLAYING) 1195 01:08:52,669 --> 01:08:56,627 REGINALD: (SINGING) There is Nothing so gladdens the heart 1196 01:08:57,710 --> 01:09:01,752 Than to watch a traitor march 1197 01:09:01,877 --> 01:09:04,919 To the gallows 1198 01:09:07,085 --> 01:09:09,669 -To the gallows -(BREATHING HEAVILY) 1199 01:09:10,460 --> 01:09:11,627 MAN: Hold! 1200 01:09:18,210 --> 01:09:22,377 Like a gardener pulling weeds 1201 01:09:23,127 --> 01:09:27,294 The path of treason only leads 1202 01:09:27,419 --> 01:09:30,169 To the gallows 1203 01:09:30,294 --> 01:09:31,252 (SONG STOPS) 1204 01:09:31,377 --> 01:09:33,085 MARS: I'm so glad I bought you that car. 1205 01:09:33,210 --> 01:09:34,752 (SONG RESUMES) To the gallows 1206 01:09:34,877 --> 01:09:37,210 -(ENGINE RUMBLES) -(GUNS FIRING) 1207 01:09:42,585 --> 01:09:43,752 (ENGINE REVVING) 1208 01:09:45,585 --> 01:09:46,585 (GRUNTS) 1209 01:09:47,294 --> 01:09:49,710 (MEET ME AT THE GALLOWS CONTINUES PLAYING) 1210 01:09:55,502 --> 01:09:56,502 (GROANS) 1211 01:10:06,752 --> 01:10:08,294 (GUNS FIRING) 1212 01:10:08,419 --> 01:10:09,419 (SONG STOPS) 1213 01:10:17,377 --> 01:10:19,585 (MELANCHOLY MUSIC PLAYING) 1214 01:10:37,877 --> 01:10:39,585 MARS: I hid for days. 1215 01:10:44,294 --> 01:10:46,294 (CAMERA RUSTLING) 1216 01:10:53,627 --> 01:10:57,002 When the Nazis left, I returned... 1217 01:11:01,085 --> 01:11:02,419 and found this. 1218 01:11:08,627 --> 01:11:10,752 THOM: (ON PHONOGRAPH) April 12th, '42. 1219 01:11:11,794 --> 01:11:14,502 Preparations for LOLA's demonstration are complete. 1220 01:11:16,085 --> 01:11:18,210 It's hard to believe I am saying these words. 1221 01:11:19,044 --> 01:11:21,877 Adolf Hitler will be here tomorrow. 1222 01:11:23,585 --> 01:11:25,835 (SIGHS) How's it come to this? 1223 01:11:26,835 --> 01:11:29,127 Fascism has truly won. 1224 01:11:30,669 --> 01:11:31,627 I was a fool to believe 1225 01:11:31,752 --> 01:11:33,127 I could work with these people. 1226 01:11:34,294 --> 01:11:37,335 What would Papa think? Or Mars? 1227 01:11:39,127 --> 01:11:40,335 I'm almost glad they're not alive 1228 01:11:40,460 --> 01:11:42,002 to witness this spectacle. 1229 01:11:44,877 --> 01:11:47,960 I don't know when it started to go wrong, 1230 01:11:48,835 --> 01:11:51,002 but I fear it was long ago. 1231 01:11:52,419 --> 01:11:55,210 LOLA was never meant to be an instrument of violence. 1232 01:11:56,169 --> 01:11:57,419 Mars was right. 1233 01:11:58,294 --> 01:12:00,544 The magic of LOLA was the beauty 1234 01:12:00,669 --> 01:12:02,752 of the world she opened for us, 1235 01:12:03,669 --> 01:12:06,085 those sounds and images from another time. 1236 01:12:07,794 --> 01:12:10,127 Her power lay in what we could learn from her. 1237 01:12:10,669 --> 01:12:12,127 Mars understood that. 1238 01:12:14,002 --> 01:12:16,585 But perhaps because she was a dreamer, 1239 01:12:18,335 --> 01:12:20,919 she was the one with the real imagination. 1240 01:12:21,044 --> 01:12:22,460 I can see that now. 1241 01:12:24,835 --> 01:12:26,294 Maybe if she were here, 1242 01:12:27,044 --> 01:12:29,627 we could find a way to undo all of this together. 1243 01:12:32,627 --> 01:12:33,752 I miss her. 1244 01:12:37,210 --> 01:12:39,169 MARS: I miss you too, Thom. 1245 01:12:40,585 --> 01:12:43,835 But maybe there is a way we can undo this together. 1246 01:12:44,877 --> 01:12:47,210 I've made this film for you. 1247 01:12:48,585 --> 01:12:52,169 It's the last broadcast of the Angel of Portobello. 1248 01:12:53,169 --> 01:12:54,502 It's a shot in the dark. 1249 01:12:56,085 --> 01:12:58,252 And I'm sorry, Thom, 1250 01:12:58,377 --> 01:13:00,252 because if this film doesn't find its way to you, 1251 01:13:00,377 --> 01:13:03,669 then you will have died pointlessly and stupidly, 1252 01:13:03,794 --> 01:13:07,127 and I will truly have lost everything. 1253 01:13:10,460 --> 01:13:12,794 We will all have lost more than is bearable. 1254 01:13:16,210 --> 01:13:18,752 This film is for us, Thom. 1255 01:13:20,669 --> 01:13:21,627 And if we're lucky, 1256 01:13:21,752 --> 01:13:25,210 you'll be watching it long before this horror unfolds. 1257 01:13:27,502 --> 01:13:31,169 Then perhaps you can turn these words and images 1258 01:13:31,294 --> 01:13:33,877 into shadows of something that could have happened. 1259 01:13:36,460 --> 01:13:37,794 Even though I'll have to say goodbye 1260 01:13:37,919 --> 01:13:39,335 to the man I'll never meet. 1261 01:13:42,919 --> 01:13:44,169 Darling Thom... 1262 01:13:45,794 --> 01:13:48,210 can you save us after all? 1263 01:13:51,002 --> 01:13:53,294 (MELANCHOLY MUSIC CONTINUES) 1264 01:14:28,669 --> 01:14:31,044 (WHEN, WHEN, WHEN PLAYING) 1265 01:14:31,169 --> 01:14:36,335 When, when, when 1266 01:14:36,460 --> 01:14:41,794 Will we be together again? 1267 01:14:45,002 --> 01:14:49,085 I want to spend 1268 01:14:49,210 --> 01:14:53,585 My life with you 1269 01:14:55,960 --> 01:14:58,835 I really miss you, honey 1270 01:14:58,960 --> 01:15:03,877 When, when, when 1271 01:15:04,002 --> 01:15:08,794 Will your arms enfold me? 1272 01:15:08,919 --> 01:15:14,252 And hold me like Your life on it depends 1273 01:15:14,377 --> 01:15:17,919 When, when 1274 01:15:18,044 --> 01:15:23,502 Will I see you again? 1275 01:15:23,627 --> 01:15:27,794 I really miss you 1276 01:15:34,794 --> 01:15:37,335 (SOMBRE PIANO MUSIC PLAYING)