Survivors (1975) s03e12 Episode Script

Sam.
Sam.
Sam! What's the matter? I was only outside.
Something woke me.
I thought I heard a train.
Tom could never have got the railways going up here in Scotland as well.
Well, if it was a train, Tom Walter's train, Jenny might be on it.
There is a railway, we saw it last night.
I was out there just now.
I'd have heard it, wouldn't I? Yeah, I suppose so.
Come on, I'll get the horses.
If we push it we might get to the first of them power stations today.
-What's the hurry? -No point in hanging about.
After we've had some breakfast.
Well? Was it? Well, it was a train, right enough, Mr McAlister, sir.
Stopped at the tunnel, just this side of the loch.
What are they doing? (CHUCKLES) Broken down, I'd say.
There's two of them walking along the track.
This way? Hey, there's someone fishing over there.
Do you think he can help? It's worth a try.
Morning.
My name's Charles Vaughan.
This is Jenny Richards.
We've come up from England on a train we got working.
There are two more of us on it, including the driver.
But it's broken down.
You don't know of any machinery lying around where we could find one of these, do you? What's that? It's a brake connecting rod, but it's broken.
There's a smithy up the glen.
Maybe something can be made for you there.
CHARLES: Whereabouts is that? I wondered how long it would be before the English found their way here.
What's it like in the south? One terrible graveyard, from what we've heard.
Well, it's not so bad now.
We've even got a sort of government established.
You have? That's an extraordinary thing to be wanting again, isn't it? What brings you to Scotland? We're looking for two friends.
They're riding up from Yorkshire.
We may have passed them on the way or they may be ahead of us.
We have to get this fixed first.
Maybe Angus might make one up.
Wee thing like that.
We'd better go and find him.
Take the train driver with you so he'll know what's needed.
-Just a minute.
-Ah, Davey will see to it.
Would you care to take a spot of luncheon with me out at the house, the pair of you? -JENNY: Thank you very much.
-My name's McAlister.
I'm the laird round here.
I'm awfully sorry about the state of the roads.
There just seems to be no one to keep them up these days.
The English have the same problem.
How many people are there round here? Precious few.
We lost nine out of 10 in the plague, an area where there weren't more than a million and a half to start with.
-That was a terrible loss.
-It was worse in England.
Well, you mostly live in cities down there.
But up in the Highlands, well, the plague couldn't spread much through the hills, and most of the isles weren't affected by it.
Even so, I'd say that in the whole of Scotland north of the Tay, there can't be more than, ooh, A hundred and fifty thousand? Out of a million and a half.
We don't believe there are more than 10,000 left in England.
Is that a fact, now? JENNY: Is that your house? MCALISTER: Yes, at least that's still untouched.
CHARLES: If your calculations are correct, Mr McAlister, this means that the Highlands of Scotland are now the most densely populated part of the whole country.
MCALISTER: Makes a change, doesn't it? Whoa.
Whoa.
Well, here we are.
Ah! Hamish, um, take the trap down to the railway.
There's a train from England broken down on the line and these people have a couple of friends down there.
I'd like you to bring them up to the house.
Do you want me to go down to the distillery today? The stock's getting low.
Well, ask Davey first, huh? Okay, off you go.
Well, now, let's go in, shall we, hmm? That's the trouble, you see.
There's no one to deliver any more.
You even have to fetch your own whisky.
Where from? Oh, there's several big distilleries in the neighbourhood.
But don't they get looted? Oh, if we have any trouble like that, I soon hear who it is and give them a good telling off.
Is that sufficient? Well, it's a bold man who defies the laird.
Uh, Barbara, um, Mrs Crombie There's at least two extra for lunch.
There's a couple of fish downstairs you can poach for us.
Well, it'll be a wee while before you can have it.
Don't be too long, now.
From what they've been saying, I doubt if they've had a square meal for months.
I can see that.
Now, would you like to see over the house? (CLOCK CHIMING) Oh, it's magnificent.
The state it's got into.
Just can't get the staff.
Now, would you like a wash before lunch and a change of clothes, maybe? You're welcome to anything of my wife's, Miss Richards.
God rest her soul, she'd only have been too happy to have given you the freedom of her wardrobe.
That's very kind.
You can have a bath, if you wish, there's plenty of hot water.
Plenty of everything, it seems.
We could do with electricity, though.
CHARLES: Really? Do you know, if you want a new suit of clothes these days, you've got to find some good woman to weave the cloth for you on a handloom and another to make it up for you? If we could get the tweed mills going again or perhaps even the distilleries.
JENNY: For whisky? To distil a spirit to drive cars on.
CHARLES: That's an expensive kind of petrol.
It was only the tax that made whisky expensive.
And I doubt if the government of poor, unhappy England is going to start taxing us again.
Not that we can think about things like that until we get the power stations operating.
Have you tried to? There's one at Loch Mannoch not 20 miles away.
I couldn't get anything to work there.
Maybe there's an expert in England who can help us.
Maybe that's something we can talk about.
Yes, we will.
Hey.
Guess what I've found? -A set of master keys.
-Where'd you find these? Weren't you surprised the gate was open? At all the others, we've had to climb in.
So what? The poor devil was trying to shut the place down when he collapsed.
He's in the battery room, what's left of him.
Poor blighter.
Which are the power lines we want? Well, that's the one to the south.
And that's the one that feeds it in.
-Have you isolated the others? -Not quite.
Still Glasgow to do yet.
We'd better turn that off, all right.
Which is it? It's outside.
It's labelled Windyhill.
Are you sure you can do it? You've shown me enough times.
Okay, Sam, but take care.
There's no juice flowing yet.
Hey! This one's already (WHIRRING) Right.
How far to the next switching station? This is the last one.
All we have to do now is follow the line to the power station itself.
And switch on.
It's not going to be quite that easy.
If we've isolated every other line, except the route we want If we have.
If we've missed one line feeding an industrial area that's still plugged in All our work's wasted.
You've missed nothing.
Come on.
We might get to that power station tonight.
-Thanks, Hamish.
Cheerio.
-Right, then.
-Hello, Hubert.
-Hello.
Where's Tom? Oh, he's still mending the engine.
How long will it take? Here, that's a dress you're wearing! You shouldn't have left him, Hubert.
Oh, he's got the blacksmith with him.
Take him a couple of days, they told me to tell you.
Days? Where'd you get that new frock from? You've done something queer to your hair.
I've washed it.
And you'd better wash, too.
-Eh? -Before you meet the laird.
The what? Don't forget to wipe your boots before you come in.
I thought there was supposed to be two of you left on the railway.
Oh, I expect Tom's still there.
Hmm.
(CHUCKLES) I'm surprised the train's much use to you now anyway, if it's Loch Mannoch you want.
The railway doesn't go there.
(DOOR OPENS) Ah, here you are.
Oh, Miss Richards.
If only my wife could see you in that dress.
Jenny.
Uh, I've put Hubert in the bathroom.
Tom's still working on the train with the blacksmith.
It's a bigger job than they thought.
Ah.
Oh, well, we're going to have to leave it today, anyway and walk to Loch Mannoch tomorrow.
We've no horses.
Oh, but your friends have.
They're off to Loch Mannoch now.
Alec and Sam? Have you seen them? Well, round here, shepherds watch more than their flocks.
According to my housekeeper, they're following the pylons.
-Won't you sit down? -Thank you.
-Do let me get you a dram.
-Thank you very much.
Is, uh Is one of them an engineer? Alec Campbell used to work for the Electricity Generating Board.
I wasn't going to keep it from you, Mr McAlister.
Alec Campbell.
Hmm.
Well, it sounds to me that he might be a Scot.
And who might you be? Oh.
I'm Hubert.
I'm with the others.
Well, they're with the laird in the sitting room upstairs.
I suppose you'll be wanting to join them? Oh, I don't suppose they want me with them up there.
In that case, you can make yourself useful about the place.
You can bring me in some logs from Hamish's shed.
Come on and I'll show you where it is.
Alec left Scotland years ago.
For a better-paid job down south, eh? He came to regret it.
So now he's come home to provide his people with electric power, hmm? To provide all of us, I hope.
Can he really get a power station going? I hope so.
Remains to be seen.
How can it be supplied down to England? It must surely branch off into so many different cities.
Alec shut them all off for the moment.
He called at every substation on the way.
Making sure that it's only the south that gets it, hmm? If we'd known there are As it was, I stupidly thought there'd be no one at all left here now.
Oh, we live well.
We've peat for our fires, trout and salmon in the rivers.
And our oatcake's more nourishing than bread, anyhow.
We've all the wood we want.
Game, cattle, sheep, fruit farms.
And now, perhaps electricity.
If we are allowed to keep it.
There's more than enough hydroelectric power locked up in Scotland to provide for your needs and for those of the English.
I dare say.
But I suggest that tomorrow we all ride over to Loch Mannoch and see for ourselves just what this Mr Campbell is capable of.
Do you agree? Is that the power station? No, that's the shaft that lets down to the tunnel that carries the water.
The power station's way down there in the valley.
Why did we come up here, then? To see where it all begins.
Check the reservoir's full.
That's what it needs to start with.
Water, the elixir of life.
You see, coal and oil will run out in time, but not the rainfall.
It's the only kind of energy we should ever use.
Because it's there for everyone.
For all time.
Free as air.
SAM: It comes down there? It will, when we've turned on the tap down there.
SAM: Let's go.
It's open.
Someone's forced the lock.
Let's have a look at the control room.
I broke in about a year ago.
There used to be a host of electronic devices and alarm systems to keep out intruders.
But they'd all run down since the plague.
Not that I could get anything working.
Pulled a few switches, but nothing went on.
Except the lights.
ALEC: The blithering idiot.
The engineers leave the place immaculate then crawl away to die.
Everything in good order, everything closed down.
And some bumbling amateur breaks in and leaves the lights on.
Not just the lights, either.
Lead line, that's all right.
How do they work if there's no electricity? Battery, stickhead.
Like at the substation.
All these controls are powered by batteries.
And they might just have lasted if that fool hadn't played around.
So it's no good, after all? I'll have to start it by hand.
What? We'll have to start it by hand.
Once we're generating, the batteries will recharge themselves automatically.
But first we turn on the tap.
SAM: What kind of tap? It's called the inlet valve control.
Here it is.
Sam.
Complete with instructions.
See what's down that grating over there.
What do you expect there to be? A ruddy great piston, I hope.
Tell me when it moves.
Right.
Now we open the guide veins.
But first, check the oil.
Seems to be enough.
But I don't like the feel of it.
Get me a spanner so I can get this panel off.
Where do I find a spanner? There's bound to be a workshop.
Look around.
Just a minute.
For future reference, you jack up the turbine to allow the oil to lubricate the bearings before starting up.
Okay? -Mmm-hmm.
-Get me a spanner.
This do? (CHUCKLING) You thickhead! Couldn't find anything smaller.
Well, it's all right anyway.
I think it was just a bit of grit on the dipstick.
Is oil so important? And you expect to be an engineer? Without oil, the bearings in the turbine would smash from overheating.
Uh-huh.
Is this to do with oil? Don't touch that! That's the tap that drains the oil when you have to change it.
-Okay? -Uh-huh.
(SIGHS) Come on.
What are you doing now? Trying to open the veins in the turbine so the water can turn them.
Oil again, it has to be equalised.
Right.
Try that wheel now.
Clockwise! Yeah.
(WATER GUSHING) (TURBINE STARTING) Are we making electricity? Not yet.
Why? If the turbine's going.
Just check the field switch.
Check the field switch and we'll be almost there.
What else? Well, before closing the field switch we've got to close the circuit breakers outside which gets the current onto the power lines.
Okay? Come on.
This is a field switch.
Oh, blast! The handle's missing.
Handle? Yeah, it sits in there.
Must be about here somewhere.
Are you saying the whole thing depends now on turning that thing? We can't get any juice until we do.
The turbine won't activate the generator until that switch is closed.
-So if it couldn't be closed -What? the whole power station would be useless.
There it is.
Come on, out of the way.
Hold on.
We've got a power line running all the way down to the south, right? If we've isolated everything else.
And back in Derbyshire you even connected the local supply.
So once you turn that thing and close the circuit breakers outside, well, think what Charles's friends might see.
A light coming on, an electric fire.
What I'm worried about is too much coming on.
It's enough if only one machine starts.
No, that'd trip the circuit.
Ah, but if people see it, they'll know we've done it.
That electric power is possible again.
It is.
They'll get all the power stations going after that.
If that's what they want, it is possible.
Are you going to work in a factory once you've turned on? No, you're going to get the hell out.
Up to the hills, to a croft with a flock of sheep in your beloved Highlands.
Just because the power is of no good to me -You're not going to deny it to others.
-Right.
Not for you to consider the implications.
That's for politicians.
You're just the engineer.
Right again.
Bombs are dropped because of that excuse, and gas chambers built.
Are you comparing electricity to that? "Elixir of life"? As if it mattered to the man on the factory bench where the current comes from.
It may be clean up here but it's dirty enough in the steelworks, I'll tell you.
Sam, if people want steel again You should stop them having it.
People have learnt to be self-sufficient.
Give them electricity, get industry going, and they depend for their livelihood on something they have no control over.
-You make them slaves.
-Rubbish.
Slaves! To whoever it is that owns the power.
But they can hold it themselves.
All they have to do is train up a few technicians, like you, to handle the plant and it's free to all.
Someone has to be trusted with this switch.
And who can you trust? Sam, for three weeks we've been slogging our way up north here.
Why wait till now to cook all this up? Because if I'd told you earlier you'd never have let me in here.
And I had to see how it all worked before I knew what I had to destroy.
You're not destroying anything in here, Sam.
Come on.
The field switch.
Then on to the next dam, do the same there.
If we keep one step ahead of whoever was on that train from the south we can destroy the whole lot before Greg, Charles or anyone else can stop us.
Let people make their own electricity, with water wheels, windmills.
As long as it's their own, they're still free.
But put men back on the assembly line -Oh, come on! -Oh, for Pete's sake! Look what the last Industrial Revolution led to.
It could only be stopped by a plague that wiped out almost all mankind.
You can't want to start it up again.
You're crazy.
And you're so sane.
You'd have made an atom bomb, wouldn't you? (ALEC GRUNTS) (SAM CHUCKLES) You're gonna have a rotten headache.
(SPANNER CLANKS ON FLOOR) Whoa.
It's working.
You hear? JENNY: Alec? Alec? It's Jenny.
Alec, are you there? Alec? It's Jenny.
Alec? Are you there? He doesn't seem to be around.
Look outside, Hubert.
McALISTER: Well, he seems to have got it going again, whoever he is.
-It's spinning like a top.
-Aye.
The turbine, aye.
But is it generating? (CHARLES CHUCKLES) (CHARLES GRUNTS) Now, what the hell kind of a nut did that fit? Tell me, Mr Vaughan.
This government you have set up in England.
Has it any real authority? Well, we hope so.
We published a proclamation.
We got one representative from every known community to form a council.
They're deliberating now, trying to hammer out some form of constitution.
Who heads this government? One Greg Preston.
It was Greg who united all the communities.
We owe him a lot.
-No sign? -No.
I've looked everywhere.
And are you here now as this Mr Preston's ambassador? JENNY: No.
We're just here to catch up with Sam and Alec.
Who sent them? I mean, are they here officially or to claim our electricity for your government? Your electricity? CHARLES: We're not going to start all that again, are we? McALISTER: It comes from our hills, our rivers.
Your rain falling on our land.
Did the Scots build the dams? Did they build these machines? -Yes, I'm sure they did.
-CHARLES: Oh, using their own money, no investment from the rest of the country? Now, you question my right to speak for the English.
Well, I question yours to claim these power stations for Scotland.
God Almighty, man.
There are few enough of us surviving without bringing nationalism into it.
Few enough in England, maybe.
You're arguing about ownership and we don't even know if it's working yet.
I found their horses tied up by the pipeline.
Well, they can't be far away.
There's a crofter across the river.
I'll see if he's seen 'em.
(JENNY SCREAMS) ALEC: Charles.
Help me get this off.
Alec, what happened? Oh, God.
Thank you.
-I feel sick.
-What are you doing down there? Where's Sam? (SIGHS) Sam? Ah Oh, yes.
How are you feeling now? -Very groggy.
-I'll go look for the other fellow.
-You did say the horses are still there? -Yes.
So he's not ridden off, then.
Ridden off? What, leaving you down that hole? He didnae know I was down there, Jenny.
Grating was over the hole.
Oh, Sam had been down there earlier.
He probably put it back to stop either of us falling down, then went out to look for me.
I'll find him.
(CHARLES SIGHS) Anyway, you've got one of the turbines going.
Congratulations.
(LAUGHS) I can get them both going, but it won't do any good.
You sure? Of course I'm sure, Charles.
Look, everything's dead.
We've got no hydroelectric power.
Good day to you, Rob.
Seen any strangers about? Look, Charles, I'll prove it to you.
You pull down the handle on that field switch when I tell you, okay? Jenny, you come with me.
This is the uniflow, Jenny.
When you see that needle move on that dial, you know we've got power, okay? CHARLES: Where are you going? To close the circuit breakers outside.
(LEVER CLANGS) They're registering.
What's he on about? Go on, Charles.
Close it.
-What happened? -Well, it all went off, like he said.
Well, where's your power now? Look, I know very little about it.
But if If one of the lines to a big city is still connected and there's an entire factory still switched on You get trip-out.
Too much load.
Maybe that is the explanation.
But it could be anywhere between here and Derby.
Well, it will take time to find it, but we must try.
Go all the way back? Checking every switch out again? I tell you, the whole idea's absurd.
Forget it.
Is that why your friend knocked you out? Because you said it was absurd? I fell.
The grating was off.
It was an accident.
Rob has a croft across the river.
He came in here to see what you were up to.
Saw you laid out on the floor and your friend with a spanner in his hand.
-JENNY: Oh! -And if there were two horses up at the pipeline a few minutes ago, -there's only one there now.
-Huh? Where do you think he's off to, Mr Campbell? Why are you protecting him? Pretending you fell? What did he do it for? Could you check my saddlebags, Hubert, and see if my papers and maps are all there? There's no saddlebag on that horse by the pipeline.
Maps of what? Of where all the other stations are.
Sam wants them all destroyed.
I should think he's heading for Dunlarig.
That's the nearest, isn't it? Go after him.
Take that horse out there.
Up the clearing, bear left past the reservoir.
All right, guvnor.
And you, Rob, take your gun and stand guard outside in case he comes back.
Where are you going? You may have a government in England, but here in Scotland, we protect our own! We'll have men posted at every power station in the Highlands by night.
If we get this turbine going as well, we double the amount of power.
I've told you it will make no difference.
If a city like Manchester is still connected, the overload to the generator will break the circuit.
Well, we don't know how much is switched on, then.
It could be very little.
Just to break the circuit, if one machine is sharing the load between the two, is that what you think? -Aye.
-Well, it won't work.
I think you're holding out on us.
I would have told you about Sam in the end.
Left it late enough as it was.
Did you want him to destroy it all, Alec? Not until I was coming to down in that pit to hear Charles and the laird arguing about who it all belonged to.
If that's how it's going to be, it's maybe better that nobody has it.
Is that why you're being so uncooperative now? Come on! Get this turbine going.
Hey, Sam! What are you up to? (DOOR CLOSES) Sam! You open this door.
What are you doing in there with that log? (BANGING ON DOOR) Sam! What is this place? What are you doing? (FOOTSTEPS RUNNING UP STAIRS) -Any luck? -No.
Cut out at once.
(CHARLES PANTING) Alec.
These circuit breakers at the substation, did you let Sam isolate them? Oh, once or twice.
(SHOUTING) Well, which ones? I can't remember.
Now, what gives you or Sam the right to decide whether the world should have electricity or not? Hey! Sam's up on the lake up there.
He's gone round the twist, if you ask me.
-What's he doing? -Well, you know that pier thing with the house perched on the end? Well, he's locked himself in.
Got a ruddy great tree trunk in there with him.
-ALEC: What? -Yeah.
I saw him dragging it along the pier and in through the door.
Get over there, Charles.
Force your way in and close the inlet valve.
Go on! Why? What's happening? If Sam's dropped a tree trunk down the shaft, it will get into the tunnel, and if it reaches the top of that pipeline there, it will plunge all the way down to the turbine veins.
There was provision to stop anything like this happening in the old days, not that it would have mattered very much in those days.
-Smashing the turbines? -Well, we could get parts in those days.
At least you're not siding with Sam now.
At least I'm not going to let him smash it.
Come on, we'll close down the turbine and I'll get over to the reservoir.
-ALEC: You in there, Charles? -Aye.
No sign of him? No.
The door was open when I got here.
And what about this tree trunk? CHARLES: (GRUNTS) Presumably down there.
How long will it take to drain the water? Oh, about an hour or so.
The tunnel's only a mile long.
-CHARLES: Well, then what? -Well Well, we'd better spend time, uh, looking for Sam.
(CHARLES SIGHS) (PANTING) Well, what then, when the tunnel's drained? I'll walk along the tunnel until I find the log, if it hasn't reached the pipeline by then.
Here's Sam's horse.
I found it tethered in the quarry, as if he didn't want us to find it.
So he's still round here, then.
-HUBERT: I suppose so.
-I wonder why? Now, what's he gone and locked himself in there for? Alec? Alec? Well, I suppose he could always open the door if he wants to come out.
Thanks.
CHARLES: Hubert! -What is it? -Come here.
That log in the water down there.
Is that what you thought he'd put into the shaft? Alec! Can you hear me? (CHARLES GRUNTS) I think Sam's in there.
I think it's a trap.
Go get that log.
(SHOUTING) What are you doing, Sam? Sam! (MACHINE WHIRRING) Are you opening that gate? Listen! You'll kill Alec, and yourself! That tunnel's full of air, Sam! If you let the water rush in, it'll compress and blow back.
It'll blow everything sky high! (MEN GRUNTING) (DOOR THUDDING) ALEC: I'm the only one who can make the machines work, so why not just get rid of me, eh? (MEN GRUNTING) -CHARLES: Hubert! Stop him! -Oi! Oi! Hey, where do you think you're going? Get off that horse.
Whoa.
I'm putting you in charge here, Davey.
When that saboteur finds out that he can't get through to the other stations, he may well come back and have another go.
So, keep a sharp lookout and shoot on sight.
Is Mr Campbell recovered from that blow on the head yet? HUBERT: Yeah.
He's now down at the substation with Jenny.
(SWITCH CLANKS) It was just as I thought.
I told Sam to break it and he did the opposite.
You see, it makes the same noise whether you open it or close it.
-That's why I didn't realise.
-So it was all going to waste.
-Will it work now? -Well, it should do, once I've closed the circuit breakers back at the power house.
It was the only one I let Sam touch.
What are you going to do when we have it switched on? Go back to Greg Preston? No.
I can't do that.
Greg's dead.
Don't touch things, Hubert.
Well, nothing works, anyway.
It will once the batteries are charged up.
(TURBINES WHIRRING) And everything can be operated from this desk.
Everything.
Even the switching stations.
Well, that's the trouble.
In the end, it all rests on the man who's sitting in this chair.
I doubt if you mean to sit in that chair for the rest of your life, Mr Vaughan.
Even if you could somehow control it, the power goes out from half a dozen cables just out there.
We could cut through those anytime we like.
Hold everyone to ransom? How could you afford a ransom in England? We'll soon have industry going again with electricity.
-Steel? -Eventually.
I'll make a list of all the things we could do within Scotland.
I'm sure we'll come to terms in the end, Mr Vaughan.
Now, what's happened to Mr Campbell? We can't afford to lose him.
I don't have to switch on, Jenny.
You know, I have half a mind to let them do without it.
They need it, Alec.
Do you? When you were up at the reservoir just now, and it looked as if Sam was going to destroy everything after all, I suddenly felt quite relieved.
If we were going back to just making do again, I thought, "There'd be no nicer place for it than this.
" There's not.
Bring the children up here, Jenny.
We can go back to Killin, where I was born, have our own farm.
Be happy, be safe, be free.
To rise at dawn and go to bed at dusk.
You've just said it.
It's easy enough to make the best of things when there's no choice, Alec.
But we do have a choice.
You have the skill and the knowledge to give back so much of what we've all lost.
Think what electricity means.
Oh, Sam told me what that meant.
I want the children to have everything that I had once.
Let's have power again, Alec.
Please.
Then you'll go back with Charles and Tom Walter? Yes.
But you've just told me if I can't get this power going again, you'd be happy to live up here with me.
Please, Alec.
(TURBINES WHIRRING LOUDLY) -Everything ready? -Yes, we hope so.
Alec's just closing the circuit breakers.
DAVEY: Who's in there? Oh, it's you, Mr Campbell.
I found a horse wandering about outside.
Could that be your friend's? Maybe.
But if it's Sam's, he's too late.
Let there be light.
So you'd like me to come to England and talk it over with your government, would you? Of course.
But we didn't come to steal it, just to get it working.
Why don't all of you come up here to see us? You see, I'm not prepared to be your Secretary of State for Scotland, Mr Vaughan.
But I am willing to make you my Secretary of State for England.
Look, tell me, Mr Campbell, what are your plans now? Get out for good and leave you both to it, I should think.
But you're the only one who knows how the system works.
So I'll have to stay, won't I? Only till you've trained some others to take your place.
I could find plenty of intelligent young men for that.
No.
I will find them myself, and they will be responsible only to me.
And I will be answerable to no one.
Not to you, McAlister, or to you, Charles Vaughan.
And if you don't like that, just remember, with very little effort, I can close this place down in such a way that you'll never get it started again.
That's why it has to be me who stays here, because there's nobody else I can trust.
I'm only sorry about one thing.
That I have to stay here alone.
(ALARM RINGING) (INDISTINCT CHATTERING) What's happening? Are we going to blow up? The machine makes provisions for people like you.
A safety valve operates.
That's what that is! Come here, you! (SAM SCREAMING) We'll meet again, Mr Vaughan? Of course.
And whenever you choose.
Whenever Mr Campbell chooses, I imagine, we seem to be in his hands now.
-Oh, he's a good man.
-And a good Scot.
(SCOFFS) After 15 years in England, he's no more Scots than I am.
For all that, he's no more English than I am.
(LAUGHS) Well, we must both remember that.
-Goodbye, Mr McAlister.
-Goodbye.
Have a safe journey.
I hope your train doesn't let you down again.
There'll be electric trains soon, all mod cons.
-Thank you for your hospitality.
-Thank you.
(DAVEY CLICKS TONGUE) And thank you for bringing Alec Campbell.