Episode Five, originally transmitted on BBC1 on 12 December 1991
To evade Inga and the other 'archaeologists', Marcie and Thomas have run into
the pit dug by Miss Pendragon and her cohorts. In this supposed Celtic burial
chamber the kids find a light switch and a set of concrete steps. Using
torchlight, they investigate further.
Not far behind are Pendragon and her followers. She has been here before,
many years ago; on a noticeboard are old newspaper cuttings featuring
photographs of a much younger Pendragon.
Marcie and Thomas discover an abandoned office designated to Pendragon, where
they find old files marked 'Ministry of Defence'. But then they are caught by
Pendragon's people. Marcie escapes by ferreting up a ventilation shaft while
Thomas is captured. Pendragon sees Thomas's (dyed) blonde hair and mistakes him
for Aryan stock - he could be the new Chosen One.
Marcie discovers the files relate to project BHM - Behemoth! Meanwhile,
Pendragon locates the Behemoth's control panel and reawakens it. As windows
shatter in the school directly above, Pendragon's followers enter a large
control room and see Behemoth for the first time - a large, antiquated machine.
Pendragon reveals Behemoth to be a great machine mind... and a war machine.
Marcie re-enters the school via the gym hall air vents and finds Reet and
Miss Maitland studying the school plans - the Behemoth device is clearly
directly under the school.
Pendragon, who developed Behemoth until her extremist politics meant the
project was axed decades ago, explains that the computer needs a human mind to
complete its program - the Chosen One! Pendragon insists Thomas will go in the
pilot's chair but as she stands in front of it, Thomas pushes her into the seat
and binding metal arms clasp around her. A large headset descends on Pendragon,
who says all is now ready for the visionary who has planned all of this.
Inga declares that the Behemoth must rise - the pilot's chair begins to
ascend to meet with the mysterious leader who waits above. In fact directly
above, standing on the gym hall stage, is Marcie who has deduced the Behemoth's
precise location.
A black-coated figure enters the gym hall at that moment - it is Marcie's old
enemy Mr Eldritch. He has arrived just in time to witness the Behemoth, with
Pendragon aboard, crash through the hall's stage amid dazzling
lights.