Timelapse

On the radio, tantalizing snippets of news chatter filter through, mentioning a petrol crisis, the South American Federation, and the Whitehall Seven trial. Gradually, we discover that an electronics engineer named Douglas Hardy, played by Robert Coleby, was assassinated in 1979 because he possessed critical information about Dakin's ambitions to seize absolute power over the State. The assassin, Boyd MacKiel, portrayed by Vincent Ball, is now a key advisor to the Premier and has taken up residence with Hardy's wife, Anne Charleston. Meanwhile, Hardy's body was preserved in a cryogenics lab, and advancements in medical science have enabled a doctor friend to revive him.