In a large, remote, coastal house, a mother and father read rhymes to their daughter. Downstairs, fourteen-year-old Rob is doing his homework. One by one the clocks stop and his parents vanish. Rob phones the local policeman and, seconds later, Sapphire and Steel arrive. They are menaced by Roundhead soldiers and images of plague victims. Sapphire becomes trapped in a painting and Steel reduces his body temperature to absolute zero to release her. Eventually, together with another elemental called Lead, they lure the enemy into the cellar. Here the force is crushed out of the foundations of the house by Lead. Sapphire and Steel disappear and the parents return as though they had never been gone.
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