Castles in the Sky Page #4

in Slough ever since.

So you're an untried PhD student?

Can I ask you, will I be working

for you or for him?

Oh, him.

In that case, thanks for the tie,

Rob, and, er, I will take the post.

Thanks. Welcome to the team.

Are you sure these men are the right

ones for the job? I'm positive.

We need free-thinkers,

rule-breakers, men without ties.

These men will strive

to make this thing work

Higgy, very pleased

you're going to join us.

Sorry, I knocked but...

It's all right, come on in.

I'll pop back later

if you still want me?

Mr Tizard is on his way over.

Since you won't listen to me,

perhaps you could discuss

your team with him?

Sorry, sir. Sorry.

I don't want to be fobbed off

with a bunch of Oxford academics

I've never even met.

These are all people I've worked

with before. I trust them.

It's your team. I'm very happy

for you to choose who you want.

Thank you.

Our intelligence says

that Hitler has built 3,000 planes.

Passenger planes?

Two-seaters.

By the time the world wakes

up to the noise that's building

in Germany it will be too late.

Your theories, experiments, tests,

are all well and good, Robert,

but you need to understand

that very soon German planes

may well be dropping bombs

onto our homes.

There are others at the Ministry

who want to channel all our efforts

into striking Germany hard and fast.

There's opposition

to what we're doing?

I've managed to get you

a little funding,

a base to test and experiment,

and I'm backing you

every step of the way,

but we don't yet know

if this thing will work.

It will.

It has to, Robert.

It HAS to.

Are you all right, Uncle Robert?

What? Er, yes, sorry.

I just fell asleep with my eyes open.

It's time I took you home.

I'll get my stuff.

You look tired.

I've got to go away for a while.

Work.

The secret thing?

You'll be away from home.

For how long? I don't know.

As long as it takes for me to

mess it up and get fired, I expect.

I'm sure that won't happen.

I'm not.

Is there anything I can do to help?

I don't think so.

You could visit.

Not at work, of course, but we could

sneak away to a wee hotel?

We can be together

every other weekend or so?

I'm your wife.

This is our home.

You finish work at the same time,

every day, you come home,

we have dinner, we listen to

the wireless, we go to bed.

That's what we do.

That's who we are.

You are not a secret

Government employee

and I am not some girl

who visits hotels.

We'll be together here

when you've finish your work.

OK.

Professor?

You're in my office.

Tell me what Tizard

and this weatherman are up to?

Tell me.

They're researching a project.

That much I know.

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