Why was a fully-blown chemical weapon being transported
across the country?
You contain the spill, and I'll contain the people.
My mum, brother and little sister are all in Dambury.
They attacked you. They took one bag, with all the drugs in it?
I say it's an inside job.
You didn't even bury her.
She's cosy.
SHE GROANS
She's alive.
Get out, and get your family before it's too late.
Oh, shit. Nan?
Where is she now?
Mum?
Argh! Fuck!
Get off! SHE SCREAMS
HE YELLS
CHILD SHOUTS ON VIDEO
SHE CHUCKLES
CLUNK ON WINDOW
Hello?
Is anybody there?
Hello?
What are you doing here?
Hungry.
GROWL SHE SCREAMS
ALARM BLARES
Steff. Mm? Steff.
Mm?
The phones have gone mad.
What?
What is that?
Hey.
Agh...
Hey.
Agh, f...
There's checkpoints on the edge of town.
Yep. They're not letting anyone through.
Brilliant. I was going on holiday this week.
CLASSICAL MUSIC PLAYS
Who are you?
What's going on?
I was watching that. Hey!
Turn it back on.
You don't know me, but we...
When is breakfast?
Is it eggs? We have come to bring you news.
We have been given a gift.
Is it a free gift?
Something that we want to share with you.
Nothing free? No.
Watch this.
APPLAUSE AND CHEERING
That's what we want to share with you.
I was dying,
but now the disease has gone.
Wow.
That was impressive.
It's you, Morgan.
Hello, Cecily. Long time no see.
I thought you'd skipped Dambury. Off to find yourself.
Long, long time ago.
So did you?
Hmm, what?
Find yourself?
Still looking.
What happened to you to make you so spry?
I don't have to explain myself to you.
Listen, everyone.
These people are infected.
Just look, look at them.
You're always moaning, Morgan.
You said the care home was oppressing you.
SHE LAUGHS I think he's got
your number, Morgan! Crypto-fascists, you said.
They see us as monsters and they lock us away out of sight.
But maybe it's time for us to BE monsters once in a while.
Cecily...
..I'd be very careful what you wish for.
Oh, don't listen to him. Yeah.
He can't stop us. They can't stop us.
They... They!
THEY CHANT: They, they, they, they!
All right, OK, fine.
I believe in democracy.
So I'll just, um...
I'll just slip off now. Thank you.
CHANTING: They, they, they, they, they, they!
Bring him back, Frank.
Kelly. Hey, how's your dad?
Hey. Um...
Well, my mum says he's going to be all right, but...
..I don't think he is, is he?
Right, yeah, I'm coming over.
OK everybody out, please. Wait.
It's a general evacuation. We need all patients out.
Wait, we can't just empty the hospital.
We're transferring anyone who came in the last few days
to a temporary military ward. Excuse me.
Thank you. What military ward?
Yep, quick as we can. That's confidential.
Charlie, soldiers are here. I-I've got to go.
CHANTING CONTINUES
Dambury Emergency Response. Yeah. Hello.
Do you require assistance?
Yeah.
I need some help. I'm in a bit of trouble.
He's just woken up! He's not fit to be moved!
Don't fucking touch him! He's just woken up!
Up we get guys. Quickly as we can, please. Thank you.
What are you doing?!
Ow, fuck! Listen, I'm his wife, that's his daughter.
Where are you taking him?
Come on, you...
CHANTING CONTINUES
No, you stupid!
Agh!
Come out, you! Come here, you!
Come on, come on, come on, you stupid little key!
Come on!
Come here, you!
Look, I think maybe you should calm down.
You're going to have a heart attack.
Already had one!
Whoa, you're the new beau?
What do you know about it?
No, I'm just curious.
Get him, Paul.
Argh!
Bastard! Come here!
Right, go round!
Get round!
Get back. Move right back.
I don't know, he's just woken up!
Kelly! Kelly!
How does it work? Where am I going? Get out the way!
Dad!
My wife's over there. Can I just talk to her?
DAD!
Kelly!
Let me talk to me wife! You stay with Charlie.
I'll call you, OK. Where are you going?
I need the bike. Kelly?
Kelly, what are you doing? Kelly!
Kelly! Stay back! Just stay back!
Kelly, be careful!
Dad!
Stop where you are. They've got... They've got my dad in there.
Please! Enough, enough, enough, enough.
Dad! Dad! Please. We can't, no.
Kelly!
Colonel, I'm concerned about the truck's travel manifest.
How so?
Why was it being transported at all?
Well, it looks like the danger rating has been downgraded.
And who was responsible for that?
I don't know. Somebody at Kafferton?
Well, you better find out who,
because this thing is coming down on your shoulders.
Well, that is the least of my worries.
Round up anyone to do with the care homes,
any radical politicians.
What, in Dambury?
RADIO: Dambury Emergency Response. A curfew order is now in place.
All residents of the town
must return to their homes until further notice.
Please follow these public orders
in order to keep yourself and others safe.
Argh!
Fucking hell!
Why don't you text like a human?
Because I'm a weirdo, as you so kindly diagnosed the other day.
And I can't get hold of Morgan. Morgan?
Why do you want to talk to him?
I'm allowed to be worried about him, aren't I?
What, some old dude you met through a school project?
No, he's like a patriarchal anchor slash counter culture figurehead.
Oh, yeah, I guess.
But why you dragging me into this?
Steff, the investigation.
You know, old people-gate - the conspiracy.
The two of us - ace reporters for The Bugle?
You know, like Peter Parker and Jonah J Jameson,
or Woodward and Bernstein.
Mark Ruffalo and Rachel McAdams.
I don't watch the news.
How did I let you talk me into this?
Basic coercive tactics.
I'm not that easy to manipulate.
Kelly's meeting us here.
Is she?!
No, she's fucking not.
This is blood.
OK, let's get out of here.
Wait, where are you going?!
Hello?
There's no-one here.
Come on! Hello?
Hello?
OK, there's no-one.
Finn? Stop fucking about.
Finn, where'd you go?
Finn?
Agh!
BANG Agh!
THEY SCREAM
Just help me out of here.
R-Right, OK.
Oh, jeez.
What happened?
Well, um, I just got chased by a gang of ghouls...
..and it was led by an ex-girlfriend.
Oh! Yeah.
So, what, you're Steff?
Yeah. Yeah? Yeah.
Yeah, well, we all have pasts, Steff.
Ah...
They took the residents, all of them.
B-But they didn't take you?
Yeah, well, you know, too clever.
Ran away and hid. VEHICLE APPROACHES
What's that?
SOLDIERS CALL
Whoa, whoa, whoa, whoa! That's the army.
Maybe they traced my call. What call?
Um... Emergency Services.
Why would they do that? Er...dunno.
Maybe they know I know that it's a cover-up for chemical weapons spill.
Maybe they want to silence me.
What? Yeah.
Well, he showed me proof.
W-Why should we trust you?
Well, I trust him. What because he's a counter anchor or whatever?
I know what to do.
No, no, no, no, no, no, no, no. Bye?
We've got to hide.
The claw.
So, you got bitten over an ex-girlfriend?
Yeah, well, I had a fairly hectic '80s and...
This is deep. ..I met Cecily.
SHE SCOFFS Cecily?
Oh, hey, army sergeant dude.
Um, my-my name is Stephan Paulson.
My-My mum is the manager. Er, she sent me here
because one of the caretakers had said there'd been a disturbance.
B-B there's no-one here.
Um, but when my parents come, they can explain everything, you know?
Yeah, I met her at an animal rights protest in, what was it, 86?
What are those soldiers doing here?
Oh, no, no, no, that's Steff.
There they are.
Oh, hey Mum and Dad. I'm here, as you asked me.
Pal, what's going on? Well, um... What's going on?
Everyone's gone. Gone? All gone?
Yeah. Where are the staff? You're going to have to leave, ma'am.
Where's Hatty? Do you have any paperwork with authority for this?
You can go, or you can be detained under the emergency orders.
It's your choice. Erm...emergency orders.
What emergency orders? Didn't you get the text this morning?
A text? Did we get a text? I haven't got time for this.
Private, put these two in the truck, please. No! No!
We're going, thank you. Get in the car. You two, search the place.
Hey, Private.
We did some pretty wild things, you know. We...
Some break-ins and...liberated a few things.
What?! You held all that back for my Voices In The Community essay!
Cecily was quite an activist.
And now she's a cannibal.
Search the place.
..back. We're not... Listen to your mother, please!
Mum, we have to go back! Steff!
We're not staying here while she's over there... No, no, no, no!
..and those military men are taking her to...
Look, stop whinging or I'll turn my hearing aids off, and I am...
That is unfair! That is petty! Stop it, Steff!
That is petty! You can't be arguing, so you turn off your...
SILENCE
SIREN WAILS
Oh!
It won't come out. Stop.
Mum. Mum, Mum, Mum, just... SHE SOBS
Hey, just...
SHE SOBS
MUFFLED SOBS
Thanks, Charlie. That's all right.
It's all right.
I just got a text. I've got to go to the army medical centre.
I'll come too. No. Why not?
I need you to stay home. What if they find your nan?
Just let...let me deal with your dad,
and I'll call you, then, all right?
I know it sounds bad, but...
..you might have to prepare yourself for the worst.
About your dad.
I can't believe you, Charlie.
What, is this why you're all doomy,
so I can join Dead Dad Club with you and just give up?
What? No, not give up, just...
..you know, confront the chance that it might actually happen,
do you know what I mean? Look...
..my dad's going to live,
so you can either support me with this or you can get fucked.
It's a bit mad out there, Steff, don't you think?
I'm not staying here while my friends are in danger!
You will do as you are told!
We left Finn. We left her!
What were you even doing there in the first place?
I was taking a risk, which is more than you've ever done, Dad.
That's enough. Be quiet.
Oh, you can talk to him like that, but don't try that on me!
I'm fucking here. I'm not a cuck!
A cuck? What's a cuck?
You are.
Well, I take it... I take it that's a...
I take it that's a bad thing, Steff?! "Oh, is it a bad thing?"
Of course it's a bad thing, you stupid cuck!
Oh, for God's sake. Oh, you...!
OK, so, um...
I got a clearer picture of that truck
and the canister on the back.
Look at that, it's really specific.
I've seen that before at Kafferton. The MoD Labs?
The same labs that Cecily and I broke into.
On a date?
We were kids. Young activists trying to save the world.
Well, what is it? What have they spilt?
It's nasty.
Very nasty indeed. It's called Salvepuerian.
It attacks older members of the community,
making them strong, violent, aggressive.
It regenerates bodies...
..allowing them to survive injuries that would kill you and I.
It regenerates bodies?
Yeah, on older people the slower immune system allows them
to survive longer if...
HE CHUCKLES DARKLY ..they continue eating flesh.
On young people, not so much.
Yesterday, a woman attacked us. She was young.
Yeah, well, it kills the young quicker.
It burns straight through them.
She died in front of us.
I'm sorry. You shouldn't have had to see that.
It makes the old eat the young?
It's a society killer.
Yeah, you can blow up buildings, you can kill, maim, but...
..the spirit of the people will always overcome it.
But this weapon...
This weapon's specifically designed to create an event so horrific
that society would lose all cohesion.
And this thing was in that truck?
Not any more.
Mum?
Hey, Mum?
What the fuck!
Billy?
Agh! I've missed you! Get off! You're hurting me!
Stop doing your army shit, man. I'm sorry.
What, you don't like fighting any more?
Why are you wearing my clothes?
It's a disguise. I'm on a mission.
Oi, get the boots off my bed!
Oh, bro.
Gorgeous!
Oh, my God. Hey.
Oh, my God!
THEY CHUCKLE
Maisy... Billy...
Maisy. ..there's something I've got to tell you.
Maisy.
What? What is it?
Billy.
Hey, Billy! Stop, man.
No, Charlie, man. I'm actually done with it.
I genuinely thought she'd left him, you know.
What is he still doing here?
It's a mystery.
I don't know. I'm gone.
Oh...
Billy! Charlie!
Maisy, stay there. Come back!
Let me come! I'll be right back. Please!
Let her go. This is what she does, innit?
Look, she's always hated me, hasn't she?
She thinks I'm trying to be her dad or summat. I don't know.
Argh!
Yeah, argh.
Oh, my God.
Oh.
How long until the infection takes hold?
Depends how...the virus is introduced to the body.
In a single bite and through saliva, six to 12 hours.
In its pure form, multiple bites, much quicker.
Classic Billy.
Just smashing into our lives like a fucking wrecking ball.
Oh, shut up, Charlie. What's your plan then?
You know there was a crash outside Dambury four days ago?
And they spilt all this toxic shit everywhere.
Billy, it's already here.
Kelly's Nan attacked her dad.
What's my plan?
To get you and Maisy the fuck out of here.
Yeah?
Thanks. You're welcome.
I can't lie, you are harsh on Mum.
You know, it's not easy.
You know she was seeing Michael before, back then?
Before Dad died.
Did Dad know?
Think so.
Before he died?
Yep.
You make it sound like he...
Did he kill himself? I don't know, Charlie.
But they broke Dad's heart. So, I'm sorry if I'm a bit harsh.
I better get back actually.
Charlie, will you be ready when I come for you?
Yeah, we both will.
MESSAGE TONE
Oh, Mum.
I think you're drinking...
That's Sandy, that's Bob and then that's Michelle.
Bob looks like Shrek.
Explain it again?
Business deal, small thing, it went wrong, messed it up.
No, I don't get it.
A business deal with a kid? Why is he still here?
It's fine, Karen... Five stars.
There is no saving this generation.
SHE LAUGHS
This is drugs, isn't it?
Yeah, it is. Yeah, but it's safe.
Fuck sake, Michael. It's safe. Trust me. Trust the process, Karen.
BANG ON DOOR
All right?
Soldiers.
Kofi.
Hello? Mrs Owen? Yeah?
We're looking for your daughter, Billy. Why, is she...?
Can I come in? Yeah, course you can. Yeah.
You got a warrant, mate? A warrant?
Got any ID? Oh, don't be silly, just come in. It's fine.
What you inviting them in for?
Search upstairs.
Oh, don't mind me carpets, mate.
Anything?
Are you the dad, are you? Fuck, no.
Right.
Well, this has got nothing to do with you then, has it.
Hiya.
You all right?
Anything?
Nothing upstairs.
Look...if you see Billy... Yeah.
..give me a call on this number. Yeah.
We just want to help her.
Thank you for your time.
Hang on a sec, mate.
Can I have a word?
Is there a-a reward?
Yeah. Yeah? Yeah, there is, yeah.
That's interesting.
Dismissed.
You OK?
Yeah. HE CHUCKLES
Funny thing is, I don't feel-I don't feel bad at all.
Here, come on.
There we go.
So, this is where I die?
Yeah, Golden Uplands stands where
the original Dambury Cathedral was situated.
What happened to it?
Henry VIII happened. Pulled it down.
These tunnels are all that's left.
I never knew there was so much history here. This
town's built on blood.
Yeah, in the 14th century they made bows, arrows, armour, cannons.
And in the 20th century made mustard gas and rifles.
And now the biggest employer,
aeronautics systems making missiles and drones.
So welcome to casa scientifico.
Oh, like a secret lair.
Yep.
You actually think you can do anything with this old junk?
Old does not necessarily mean junk.
Now, this is hopefully something that will slow down the infection.
I stole it on my little day trip to Kafferton Laboratories in '86.
Well, good luck jabbing yourself with some 40-year-old serum.
Yeah, well, it should slow
the spread of it till I can work things out.
What you think you can cure it?
HE CHUCKLES Sure.
You told someone about this, you went to the papers?
Of course I did.
It was just covered up.
I want you to promise me something. What?
Please be more careful.
Look around you. There is no careful.
Finn, I lost my wife and young family
and I wouldn't want that to happen again.
I know you know how that feels.
Is that why you don't talk about them, your family?
COMPUTER BLEEPS
Hello. Someone's upstairs.
It's Steff.
TWIG SNAPS
RUSTLING
Hello?
I know you're there.
MAN SHOUTS: Who are you?
I'm Janine.
THEY SNIFF EACH OTHER
SNIFFS
SHOUTS: She seems OK!
ZOMBIES GROWL
Hungry.
Are you in charge?
We have no leaders.
HE CHUCKLES
SHE CHUCKLES
TRAP DOOR OPENS Argh.
You came back. I wasn't going to leave you here.
Um, w-we better get going. Th-th-th-there's a curfew on.
OK, bye, Morgan.
Uh!
UH!
What's going on?
Quiet.
OVERLAPPING SHOUTING, ARGUING
That's my parents.
How long do we have before the curfew?
The last thing I said to my dad was bad.
Probably wasn't that bad,
considering the context of what's happened.
I called him a loser and a cuck.
Yeah, that's bad.
Using lame American alt right slang as well.
I mean, who says cuck any more?
I feel awful. He's not a loser. I love him.
What is going on here?
They must have broken curfew looking for me.
It's not just a curfew, Steff.
It's a coup.
Will you fucking keep your hands off her?
Why you pointing a gun at us? Is that even safe?
Have you seen this?
He's pointing a fucking gun like a fucking animal.
Oh... MUNCHING
..this is so good.
I don't know why I ever cooked anything.
If you eat it quick enough, it's still warm.
When I bit into my son, it was electric.
Was there something in the flesh?
It was different.
I mean, all these strangers taste incredible, it's true,
but when I bit into my son...
..I felt complete.
How does that work, then?
Are you saying there's a connection?
Just talking about my feelings.
It's common sense that your own flesh would taste better, isn't it?
They, they've done something to us. They need to change us back.
After what we've done? There's no going back.
Oh, God, I know what I've eaten, I've killed.
You can't be having doubts now. You were the one that led us.
I never would have had the courage if it wasn't for you.
I felt weak and tired before.
I felt like I'd been sold a lie.
I worked hard all my life and for what?
The country I worked for has gone. Everything I knew has gone.
You can call it a disease if you want.
I call it, freedom!
And I feel like I'm back. Woo.
MAN: Freedom!
She's talking about eating our relations.
OTHERS CHANT: They, they, they! Yes. It's radical.
But it's wrong.
Of course it's wrong.
But everything is these days.
OTHERS: They, they, they, they, they, they, they, they, they, they.
They, they, they, they, they, they, they, they, they, they.
Oh, you all right, Kel?
Hey. How's your mum?
Um, she's... CHARLIE!
Yeah? She all right? KELLY.
Oh, come up.
I'm really fucking scared.
My mum, she just texted from the military hospital.
She said, "Don't come."
I'm really sorry.
Like with your dad, I know how you feel
about him and I shouldn't have said that... No, it's all right, it's OK.
I don't even know what to think of him any more.
TOILET FLUSHES
Just that he's gone.
And now I'm just stuck with this idiot boyfriend.
HE SIGHS
What's up? Crisis?
Er, yeah. Everybody hates me as usual.
STEFF SHOUTS: Charlie... CHARLIE!
It's Finn and Steff.
CHARLIE.
Hello? Hi?
CONTINUE BANGING
KAREN: Hi. All right. Bloody hell. You'll have me windows off.
Mind the bloody door... It's open.
Oh, right.
Oh, Jesus Christ. Whoa, whoa, it's like rush hour in here.
CHARLIE. They're arresting people.
What's going on? They've got my mum and dad, right.
You're going to get arrested... What'd you mean?
..when the police turn up. There's a curfew, man.
That doesn't matter. We've got to go get them.
All right, let's go then.
KAREN: All right, just upstairs, go on, just.
Whoa, whoa, whoa. Shoes. Take off your shoes. No time.
No, sh-shoe...
What the fuck?
We go down there and we bust them out.
And Billy's back.
Billy will know what's happening at that base. She's Army.
She could help get your parents out of there.
Would she do that, Charlie?
I don't know.
Yeah, but you don't know where she is.
She could be like, dead...
Bro, look, the fire's gone and her bag's not there.
..or has been eaten by a cat. I'm pretty sure there's stuff like that in the woods.
What? Where do you think we are? Yeah, well, I don't know.
It's dangerous, there's loads of people.
I'm just bare stressed out and I... GUN COCKS
Whoa, woman, fucking hell.
Charlie. Who the fuck are these kids?
Look, let it... It's OK.
Look, let's just be still and quiet. It's Kelly.
Kelly? What, Lorraine and Jason's Kelly?
How the fuck am I supposed to recognise her?
I haven't seen her since she was ten.
Well, I didn't know you were going to jump out with a gun, did I?
Is that a real gun? Yeah.
Can I hold it? No, you fucking cannot. Is that you, Steff?
Yeah. You recognise me? This is Finn.
Charlie, why have you bring these people here?
I said I was coming to get you.
My dad was bitten.
They took him to the hospital that the Army set up
on the edge of town.
We saw Steff's parents down there as well.
It's like they're, they're in prison.
I don't know why they rounded up Steff's parents but,
probably part of a public order thing.
Well, we need to get them out of there. Get 'em free.
And I can help you, how?
Er, I thought you had a plan?
Yeah, I'm formulating it. I've got a van.
You have a van but no plan.
Charlie, I was meant to come for you, Maisy and Mum,
not break people out of a military prison or whatever
the fuck you want me to do. But there is a way.
You shouldn't have told anyone about me.
Billy, just listen, man... You've put us all at risk.
The football pitch has a drainage ditch that runs under it.
We used to play... Oh, really, a secret tunnel? ..there as kids.
It comes up right up where they've built the compound.
Well, they won't be expecting it and I doubt they have
the stomach for shooting unarmed people.
Wow. You really have thought this through. Haven't you? Fucking kids.
Right, well, look we wait here till dark,
and then we go in.
It has to be tonight or they might get moved.
I don't understand.
She takes all these risks to Dambury and doesn't help.
Well, what she's doing makes sense.
What'd you mean? Maybe you should stay.
Save your mum and sister.
Charlie, what's it going to be?
Are you staying here or coming with us?
Maybe I should help her.
Oh, great. So you're not coming to help either?
Oh, well, that's just fucking great.
Where's he going? I'll talk to him.
OK.
Steff? Hey?
What do you want me to do?
What did you actually want me to do?
Honestly, ditch them.
If I do, Steff is a gonner.
OK, so what?
It'll be OK.
Yeah. Sure.
Feel like my soul is just waiting to catch up with my body.
I thought he was my best mate.
Anyone here not sure?
No.
No. OK. We can do this. We just have to be careful.
They'll never expect this because it's...too insane.
Oh, yeah. Idiocy as a strategy. Nice.
Thought you were leaving Dambury with your sister?
What and leave you to get yourself killed. No way.
What? Nah. Billy's going to get Maisy and Mum out
and then we'll follow.
Well, I thought-I thought you abandoned us.
Abandon my best mates? Why would I do that?
You literally just did.
Yeah, but it's not what you say, is it? It's what you do that counts.
Can we, um, put our hands together?
Like cheerleaders?
Yeah.
OK.
United we stand. Divided we're lumbered.
Right, let's make a move.
OK, this, is it? This leads straight to the base.
KELLY: Oh, shit. Hold this.
STEFF: Are you sure about this?
Yeah. Or do you want to ask nicely at the front gate?
There's no other way in.
It's a very over engineered drainage tunnel for a football pitch.
Think they were going to build a shopping centre there.
Wait here.
There's a sort of cage holding area.
There's people in it.
Maybe if we cause a diversion while the soldiers are dealing with it,
we get over there and open it up. Yeah?
Yes. All right.
PRISONERS CHATTER INDISTINCTLY
Sh.
KELLY: Jesus.
Steff. Dad.
What you doing?
EXPLOSION Stand back.
KELLY: Terry, have you seen my mum?
Er, in the first green tent.
Mum... Mum. Oh, God. Oh.
SHE CRIES
Mm.
Mm. Hungry.
Oh.
Kelly. I'm sorry.
Ugh.
HUNGRY!
No. Come here. HUNGRY.
YELLS
Argh. Argh!
Argh. HUNGRY.
Let her go. Let her go.
KELLY. RUN, KELLY.
GUNSHOT
KELLY: No! No. No.
Jesus. Fuck.
Left, left, left.
Army. Stop or I'll shoot.
OVERLAPPING SHOUTING
KLAXON BEEPS
Get in.
GUNSHOTS
Quick.
GUNSHOT
GUNFIRE
Stop... Stop. KLAXON BEEPS
RAPID GUNFIRE
I've just got to lie down. I need a lie down.
Kelly...
your dad bit me.
MUSIC: When We Fall by Beak
# As we stand in line
# In the pouring rain
# Where the mist settles down on us all
# With the sound of the children left behind
# Makes us choke on our fear even more
# As the smoke becomes fake and all we can see
# Is the flames of the fading forms
# We return to the naked, won't we flea
# With our medals still never worn... #
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