[Eerie music]
(Male presenter) There is a fifth dimension
beyond tha t which is known to man.
It is a dimension as vastas space
and as timeless as infinity.
It is the middle ground between lightand shadow
between science and s upers tit/on
and it lies between the pit of man's fears
and the summit of his knowledge.
This is the dimension of ima Gina tion.
It is an area which we call the twilightz one.
Her name is the s.S. Queen of Glasgow.
Her re gis tr y.' British. Gross tonna ge.“ 5,000.
A ge.' Indetermina te.
A t this moment, she's one da y out of liverpool.
Her des Tina tion.' New York.
Dul y recorded on this ship's log is the sailing time,
course to des Tina tion, wea ther conditions,
tempera ture, I on g I tude and la ti tude.
But what? t is never recorded in a log
is the fear tha t washes overa deck like fog and ocean spra y.
Fear like the throbbing s trokes of engine pistons, each likea heartbea t,
parcel ing out ever y hour into brea thless minutes of wa tching,
waiting and dreading.
For the year is 1942.
And this particular ship has lost/ts convoy.
It tra vels alone like an aged blind thing
groping through the unfriendl y dark
stalked by unseen periscopes of steel killers.
Yes, thequeen of Glasgow is a frightened ship,
and she carr/es with her a premonition of... DEA th.
Lights in the salon.
Let's blackout down there.
Sir?
They'll be finished serving dinner soon, sir.
You'd best go in if you want to eat.
Thank you.
Yes, sir.
Thank you.
Are you lanser?
Yes.
Jerry Potter. We looked for you at dinner.
Saw your name on the purser's list. We were wondering where you were.
The captain wasn't able to join us tonight. Come over and have dessert.
Thank you, no. I'm not hungry.
How about some coffee, sir?
Thank you, I would like a cup of coffee.
Here's your seat right over here, Mr. Lanser.
The more the merrier.
We could do with a bit of merriment.
I'll do the honors. This is major devereaux.
How do you do?
And his secretary, miss Stanley.
Are you heading home, Mr. Lanser, or away from home?
Why, I'm... heading away from home.
Um, what do you do, lanser?
Me?
I saw your name on the list. I tried to figure out what you looked like.
It's a game I play.
I try to connect a face with a name.
I thought probably you were an old language professor
from Oxford or something.
Ah, here comes the captain.
Oh, no, no, no. Please, don't get up.
I haven't much time. I just wanted to say hello to some of you.
I do apol ogize for not being able to get down to dinner.
We have a miserable fog out there,
and I thought it best to take my meal on the bridge.
And the rest of the convoy, captain, are they in sight?
They would have to be three feet off the bow to be in sight, major.
That fog out there is very thick.
We ha ve some hopes of making contact with them tomorrow
I'd feel much safer if we were in convoy.
I can almost see those wolf packs...
Isn't that what you call them? Converging on us.
There'll be no wolf packs converging on a single ship, major devereaux.
The principle of the submarine pack is based on the convoy attack.
The gentleman is quite correct. Our principal danger would lie in a single submarine.
I'll tell you something.
I'd rather they go after us in one of those pocket battleships.
That you can see. Not a skulking, crummy tin fish
a couple of miles under water.
If you're being followed, you'll see the sub, Mr. Potter.
It will surface. They won't use all of their torpedoes on us.
Not when they consider the thousand yards and shell us with impuni Ty
and sink us at will.
You'll forgive me, mister...
This is Mr. Lanser, captain.
Mr. Lanser, but you sound ra ther like a u-boa t commander.
Forgive me. That was clumsy of me.
I hope I didn't get any on you, miss Stanley.
Oh, no, you didn't get any on me, but you did quite a job on yourself there.
That's quite all right.
It'll stain, sir.
I said it's all right!
(Ste ward) Yes, sir.
As you sa y, sir. Can I get you some more coffee?
No, thank you. That won't be necessary.
All right, sir.
Won't you please sit down, Mr. Lanser?
Well, I think we can start to get better acouainted noi/I/.
First of all, I hope you'reall as comfortable as possible.
This ship was not designed to ca rr y pa s sengers.
And I hope you'll bear with any little inc on veniences.
Mr. Potter, I understand tha t you 're with the American government?
War production board.
And where is home, Mr. Potter?
Chicago, Illinois. The windy city.
I'll tell you I'll be glad to get to see her, too.
And you, Mr. Lanser?
Where is home for you?
Home?
I was born in Frankfurt.
Frankfurt? Frankfurt, like in Germany?
Yes, Germany.
How long had you been in england?
How long? Uh...
Not very long.
And not long at all.
Uh, please forgive me. I'm not feeling well today.
I think I'd better go to my cabin.
That's too bad, lanser. I was hoping we might get up a poker game.
Perhaps later, if you feel better.
Yes, perhaps later, good night.
Good night, Mr. Lanser.
Good night.
Miss Stanley?
The fog carries a chill with it, doesn't it?
Yes, yes, it does.
Have we met before?
I don't think so.
You'll forgive me.
You looked so familiar.
But for that matter, they all did.
Mr. Lanser, are you all right?
Yes, yes, I'm all right.
It's just that I have these crazy feelings.
What?
A feeling of doing things,
saying things.
A feeling that you've done them before?
I know that feeling. I've had it occasionally.
Being in a room somewhere
and being able to swear that you'd been there before.
Even the conversation seems identical to another time.
And the people?
Yes, and the people, too.
How odd.
I don't seem to recall.
I don't seem to recall
getting on this ship
or anything else for that matter.
It's suddenly as if I woke up and found myself standing on deck
and hearing your voices
coming from the salon.
Like amnesia?
No, not really. I know who I am.
I'm Carl lanser. I am Carl lanser.
I was born in Frankfurt, Germany. I am in the...
In the what?
You were going to tell me.
You were in something or other.
Who was I?
I don't remember.
Mr. Lanser, perhaps if you got some sleep.
No, sleep couldn't help me. I don't think I could get to sleep.
I feel as if...
As if... I'm in a nightmare.
It's so strange.
I feel as if there's disaster out there.
Doom.
We are being stalked.
I know we're being stalked.
There is a sub out there, a u-boat.
I know.
I know it's there. I know it.
Mr. Lanser?
I'm lanser.
The captain's compliments, sir. He wonders if you'd come with me to the bridge.
He'd like to have a few words with you.
Certainly.
Will you follow me, please, sir?
Thank you for coming up, Mr. Lanser.
I wonder if you'd mind answering a few questions.
No, no. Not at all.
First of all, would you mind showing me your passport?
My-my passport?
Yes, if you don't mind.
Just routine, sir. On our passenger manifest
it seems that your passport number was not put down.
I'm afraid I don't have my wallet with me here. I must've left it in my cabin.
It's all right. Sometime in the next few days you show it to me.
Are you all right, Mr. Lanser? I mean,
is there anything, well, anything that you want to tell us?
There is very little that I can tell you as I don't remember anything.
I don't really know how I got on this ship.
I don't recall anything about it.
I seem to remember only odd, disjointed things.
I know for example that my name is Carl lanser.
I know that I was born in Frankfurt.
Go on, Mr. Lanser.
Go on, go on, how?
It seems to be all that I know.
Well, at the table you seemed to show a remarkable working knowledge
of German submarines.
Could that perhaps give you a thought?
I'm afraid it couldn't. It doesn't seem to.
Go to bed, Mr. Lanser. Have a good night's rest. We'll talk tomorrow, you and I.
All right.
That's all, Mr. Lanser. Goodnight.
Goodnight.
Odd. Very odd.
I'd say that he bears watching.
See that a steward is sent down to his cabin.
I want to have a look at his passport.
Right away, sir.
I believe that's it, sir.
Anything else I can do to help?
Oh, I didn't see this.
War souvenir, sir?
Beg your pardon?
Uh, this, sir. I was wondering if it was a war souvenir.
War souvenir?
Uh, yes, sir. German naval officer's cap.
Submarine commander, as a matter of fact, sir.
Don't touch anything that doesn't concern you.
Terribly sorry, sir. I thought I might hang it up for you.
That won't be necessary. I'll hang it up mys...
McCloud, captain here.
We've simply got to have more revs.
If you can give me maximum speed for 12 more hours.
Captain, these engines needed an overhaul two months ago.
Instead of that, they're getting worked to death.
All right, McCloud, do what you can.
A ye, a ye, sir.
What do you think? Pretty cheerful deal we've got here.
Reduce speed and give those engines a break and we don't stand a chance.
Run them at maximum and they'll seize up within two hours.
And they're out there.
God knows, they're out there
waiting like vultures.
Begging your pardon, sir, but it's-it's very late.
They don't sound right.
Sir?
The engines. They sound labored.
They always sound like that, sir.
You get used to it after a bit on this tub.
Ha! You should hear McCloud on the subject.
He's the engineer, you know.
He says that these engines was originally designed for lord Nelson.
I t's five after twel I/e.
Five past twelve.
1:15.
Beg your pardon, sir?
1:15.
Something's going to happen at 1:15.
Something's going to happen, sir?
I don't know. I really don't know.
Except...
Except 1:15. It sticks in my mind.
Tray to the bridge, please.
Just being made up, sir. Be done in a minute.
I'll wait.
[Engines stop]
The engines have stopped.
Why have the engines stopped?
It's probably just routine, sir.
Don't give me that they've broken down.
Oh, I don't think it's serious, sir.
You don't think it's serious?
Adrift in waters like these without any power, you don't think that's serious?
We're defenseless. We're absolutely defenseless!
Oh, they'll be repaired, sir. We'll be underway again soon.
No, we won't be underway soon.
We will drift
until 1:15.
[Engines start]
[Engines stop]
The u-boat's coming.
We have to get the engines started.
No, we must abandon ship. Yes! That's what we must do.
We must abandon ship, yes! We must abandon ship.
It's here!
That's the u-boat out there!
The u-boat's here.
The u-boat's here!
We've got to get out of here, everybody!
We have got to leave the ship! Everybody!
They're going to sink us!
Don't you hear me?
Are you out of your minds all of you?
There's a u-boat here. I saw it. It's going to sink us.
What do I have to do to you? Do I have to grab you and put you on deck?
Do I have to grab you and put you in the lifeboa ts?
Do I have to knock you unconscious or...
Queen of Glasgow
[groans]
Potter!
Miss Stanley!
Major devereaux!
Captain!
Steward!
[Sobbing]
Fe uer, frei.
[Machine gunfire]
[Crying and coughing]
[Gunfire]
[Screams]
[Coughing]
[Screams]
[Coughing]
Fe uer, frei!
[Explosions]
[Humming]
[Knock at door]
A good catch tonight, huh?
The queen of Glasgow a 5,000 tonner.
Isn't that what the registry said?
Yes, sir.
Oh, you ha ve nerves, muller.
No, notreally, sir.
A little shaky, perhaps.
Why?
Nothing, sir.
Why?
Sir, there were people on that ship. Women, too.
So?
Sir, we gave them no warning.
Oh, you'd ha ve us give them warning, huh?
So their radio operator can signal his position
which happens to be, incidentally, our position.
You have sentiment, muller, but no brains.
You're an old woman, you know that?
I just...
I just found it difficult to...
To do what?
To reconcile the killing of men and women without any warning.
It makes me wonder if we are not damned now.
[Chuckles]
In the eyes of the British admiralty we most certainly are.
I mean, sir, in the eyes of god.
Oh, you're not only a fool, leutnant,
but also a religious fool, and perhaps a mystic at that.
Suppose we are damned? What will happen then?
I've had dreams about it.
Perhaps there's a special kind of hell for people like us.
Perhaps to be damned is to have a fate like the people on that ship.
To suffer as they suffered.
And to die as they die.
You are a mystic, leutnant,
we ride the ghost of that ship every night.
Every night, herr kapitan, for eternity.
They could die only once.
Just once.
But we could die a hundred million times.
We 'd ride the ghost of tha t ship ever y night.
Every night for eternity, herr kapitan.
A ghost of tha t ship.
(Male presenter) The 8.8. Queen of Glasgow hea ding for New York
and the time is 1942.
For one man, it is al wa ys 1942.
Lights in the salon. Let's blackout down there.
And this man will ride the ghost of tha t ship ever y night for eternity.
This is what? tis meant b y "pa ying the fiddl er."
This is the comeuppa Noe a waiting every man
when the ledger of his life is opened and exam/ned.
The tall ymade and then the re wa rd or the penal Ty pa ID.
In the case of Carl lanser,
former kapitan leutnant, na vy of the third reich
this is the penal Ty.
This is the justice me Ted out.
This is judgment night in the twil igh t zone.
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