Unearthly Stranger Page #2

Not to worry.

I'm sorry, I should have notified

you officially about my marriage.

Is this her photograph?

Well, it's not my mother.

Have you another photograph? It

would brighten up my files considerably.

Very beautiful.

She's a... alien, isn't she?

She was born in Switzerland.

How are you managing?

Well, I don't know which is more unnerving -

working on this projector being a brand-new husband.

As a confirmed bachelor

I'd rather face the unknown

than a face covered in cold cream at

night and pin curlers over breakfast.

As a confirmed bachelor you

seem to know a lot about it.

When you're less busy, perhaps you could let

me have the details of your wife's background.

Well, I don't suppose I'll be able to help very much.

I only met her a couple of weeks ago in Switzerland.

Oh. Well, perhaps you could get her to give me her parents' name, and so on

- you know the drill.

Tomorrow some time?

Oh, by the way, my department has finished with Professor

Munroe's room, so you're free to move in when you please.

I'll have a word with you, Lancaster.

Lancaster, the information I

gave you about the American...

I've put the, er, minutes of that

meeting on your desk, Professor.

Oh, thank you.

...about the American

and Russian scientists...

who died under the same

circumstances as Professor Munroe;

I must ask you not to pass this on

- especially to Dr Davidson.

If his life is in any kind of

danger he has the right to know.

When the right time comes he'll be told.

- And did you tell Professor Munroe?

- No.

Hadn't the right time come?

No one regrets Professor

Munroe's death more than I do.

If he could've been warned, if his life

could've been saved, it would've been.

And what about Mark?

Am I just to sit here each clay knowing he

may be killed, and just forget about it'?

No one's suggesting he was going to be killed

- except you.

What chance is there of the

Russian reports being false?

Deliberately planted to mislead us?

Every chance in the world.

But I can tell you the

American scientists died.

And were they murdered?

Their bodies showed that they died from

the same shock, but what that was, nobody knows.

And until we do, there will be

the utmost security, otherwise...

-That's all that matters to you,

isn't it? Security. No one must know.

You're all the same.

You lose sight of the

important things...

...because the endless chase to keep things

secret makes you blind to what really matters.

What matters to me is the

safety of this country.

What matters to me is the

safety of the individual.

You put the State first, and the

word "democracy" becomes meaningless.

If you put the safety of the individual before

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