Timeslip

The year is 1970. A young girl called Sarah is walking along the boundary of a disused naval base in St. Oswald beyond a sign which clearly says "Ministry of Defence. Keep Out" She stops as she hears a strange electronic noise. She wanders…

Jean is having a nightmare about Simon and Liz. Her nightmare appears to be connected to events in 1940. Liz cannot accept that the young naval rating could be her father and that the place they are in is the derelict naval station at St.…

An angry Gottfried takes Simon and Liz back to the Operations room. On the floor is the unconscious Frank. Traynor and Skinner are still arguing outside the naval station. Gottfried asks Liz what is wrong with Frank. He checks the supply…

With Gottfried occupied with trying to find whatever it was that Sarah said she saw being buried and Simon helping him, Liz forces Sarah through the time barrier. When she tries to follow, she gets her sleeve caught on the fence and strugg…

Liz is struggling to find the time barrier. Gottfried has opened up the skirting board and is struggling to find out what is behind it. Liz becomes panicky has she realises that the time barrier has vanished. Gottfried replaces the skir…

Jean is watching horrified as the events in 1940 unfold in her mind's eye. Simon is tormented by Graz and a struggle ensues. Frank grapples with Graz as Liz and Simon head for the window to escape. Graz fires at Frank then turns to Liz an…

Liz and Simon emerge from the time barrier not in 1970, as they expect, but in an icy landscape. In the biting cold, they both collapse. Back in 1970 Jean is sharing the experience and is shivering. Frank notices this but Traynor comments…

Liz is still looking at the family photograph when Jean enters the office. Jean is initially cold towards Liz but soon comes to realise that the girl she saw earlier really is her young daughter. The family reunion is broken up by the sudd…

The Director, furious to find Simon in his office, makes a grab for him and attempts to throttle him. He suddenly begins repeating his speech and then halts as if frozen, allowing Simon to escape his grip. Dr. Bukov enters, without knockin…

Dr. Joynton is struggling to reach a switch set into the wall. Beth sees the children trying to escape the office when an alarm klaxon blares out. All of them head for the Fantasy room where Dr. Bukov has discovered the prone form of Dr. …

Simon and Liz enter the lobby of the Ice Box. Simon hands Liz a survival suit and tells her to put it on. In the Computer Room Beth indicates that the temperature is now normal again. Dr. Bukov notes it is another breakdown in the standar…

Simon and Liz exit the time barrier and find themselves back in the Ministry Field in 1970. As the two make their way back home, Simon reluctantly finds himself thanking Liz for returning to find him. Liz says that she didn't. Simon tells …

Vera is gently watering her small plot of vegetables when a group of raggedly dressed children enter the village. Vera asks one of the boys how they have done. One of them, Paul, replies that it gets harder every day and shows her a poor c…

The old man ........ proceeds to unravel one of the spools of tape on a nearby computer bank. He snips a section of the unravelled tape and pockets it before attempting to re-attach the two cut ends. Simon sees this and creeps up on him. A…

As Simon and Beth try to comfort a distressed Vera, a heavy branch falls from a tree. Beth comments that 2957 and the technocrats have finally done it. "They're burning us up!" In London at the Ministry, Controller 2957 is in a meeting fi…

n the computer room, Alpha 4 is still watching the record tape. Commander Traynor apparently betrayed the Master Plan by holding up the progress of the diversion of the northern British rivers. Before the tape can conclude, Simon who is st…

Beth and Liz have found their way into the Ministry and into 2957's office. Liz tries to uses the video screen to find Simon. Flipping between locations she eventually brings up an image of Simon and 2957 in their cell. They are being serv…

Alpha 4 refuses to acknowledge Traynor's authority calling him a traitor to the Master Plan. He seems to believe more, 2957 however Traynor is quick to describe 2957's duplicity. Liz tries to defend him but Traynor dismisses her "lies" and…

Simon and Liz struggle through the dying jungle on their way back to the time barrier. Liz stops to catch her breath. Simon tries to coax her to move on. She reflects on whether Beth and her community will survive with the caves as their r…

Simon is at the Ministry of Forward Development in Whitehall looking for Commander Traynor. The doorman is adamant he can't enter the building without a pass. Spotting Miss Stebbins in the corridor, Simon brushes past the doorman and plead…

Liz and Simon make their way back to the window, through which Simon climbed in, when he first arrived at R1, but it is now locked. Simon pushes Liz into the room he had originally hid in and closes the door on her. Liz is shocked to see t…

Commander Traynor turns to face Devereaux and Frazer only to discover he is now alone in the monitoring room. He walks across to the door, which he finds is locked. A hissing sound fills the room and Traynor glances upwards to see a nozzle…

As Liz and Simon pass the time chamber room, Simon realises that Liz's bracelet is still in there. They must retrieve it otherwise Devereaux and his people will know they have been in there. Luckily for them the time chamber door is still …

Simon reaches out for the time barrier. He finds it. Liz tells him she is scared of what lies beyond the barrier and where they might end up. Even if they do get back, how can they stop what is going to happen. Simon explains that it isn't…

Jean is staring into the time barrier. She can see something. Frank asks her what. She isn't sure but it isn't Liz. Suddenly, she realises that it is Traynor himself. As Traynor become more and more agitated by the contents of the file, h…