Dead Again (2021) - full transcript

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Hello, this is Kathy Perkin

with Channel 13's
special news report.

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only be receiving audio.

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We have reports coming in
from all around the world

that we are under attack.

I repeat, we are under attack.

Please get to cover,
get to a safe place,

please, I repeat,
we are under attack.

It's just an
incredible situation.

There's never been
anything like this.

All over the world, we're
seeing the devastating impact.

I want as few lives
lost as possible.



Inside and keep it right
here for the very latest.

But this country is not alone.

Prague
invoking war,

ordering people to stay
home for at least 15 days

except for essential activities
such as grocery shopping

or outdoor exercise.

There'll be death.

This
is about borders,

Germany brought
in fresh controls

this morning, dividing
the continent.

It's now going
to turn towards the fight

against this epidemic.

They hit you like
you got hit by a club.

You're gonna
need a bigger boat.

What?

You know?

What?

Come
on you must know.

I mean, I can just
see a shark mask.

Highest grossing film in 1975?

I was born in the 90s.

Hang on, this might
help you get it.

I don't know what that is.

It's "Jaws", everyone on
the planet knows "Jaws".

I don't really know
what you're doing,

is it an initiation thing?

You know, first day
on the job and stuff?

No, it's 'cause
you've got the same name

as Roy Scheider character.

Master cinema survivor?

Only one to survive
the shark attacks,

he blew it to smithereens.

Oh, did he, okay.

Oh come on, your name's
Brody, same as Scheider's.

Oh I can see you're gonna be
a barrel of laughs, ain't ya?

Well come on, what did you do

to get lumbered in
a place like this?

No nothing, I mean there
was a small incident.

Tell ya what, don't worry.

Grab ya coat, I'll give
you the guided tour

of Little Pitchfield.

By the way son, what
is your first name?

Oh, do you really wanna know?

Well yeah, I wouldn't
have asked otherwise.

Around here, we're all
on first name terms.

It's Bruce.

Bruce?

What?

Name of the shark in the
film, it was Bruce.

Was it really?

I thought I was
named after my uncle.

Police Sergeant Cooper?

Police Sergeant Cooper.

Starsky.

What?

My first name, Starsky.

Starsky?

Yeah, apparently
I was conceived

during the very first episode.

Good old Mum and Dad,
God rest their souls.

They loved that show.

Oh what show?

Only the greatest cop
show ever seen on TV.

I don't know it.

"Starsky and Hutch"?

First aired in 1975.

I was born in
the 90s, remember?

Sorry.

It was awesome.

I mean, they had
girls, guns, oh cars!

What more could you
want from a show?

I mean they had this Ford
Grand Torino painted red

and it had this fantastic white
stripe down the side of it.

It was awesome.

Well I'll have to look
it up then, Starsky.

No, Starsky.

Yeah?

You fell for the
oldest trick in the book,

the old fake name joke.

It's not Starsky, it's Shaun.

Oh you are gonna be a
barrel of laughs aren't you?

We're gonna wind you up rotten.

Come on, son.

This place must have been
beautiful in its heyday.

I think it was an old hospital
for the criminally insane.

You'd have fitted
in perfectly then.

You think?

Yes, you're a rogue,
a cad, a bandit.

English lit is
your thing then.

Anyway, I thought
women love a rogue.

Not if the man's a prick.

I just wish we could
explore this place.

Come on then.

We shouldn't.

Why not?

Someone could be in
there and then what?

There's nobody around,
the place is abandoned.

People 'round here
are backwards.

Come on, it's like
going back in time.

And they never locked the doors.

All right but I'm not
having sex with you,

if that's your caddish plan.

Come on.

Definitely not like London.

Phone booths work.

There she is, in all
her glory, the church.

Even the vicar only
had one follower

and that was his cleaner.

Come on Bruce, let's go

and see if we can drum
up a generation gap.

Are you always this comical?

I thought that on this
job you have to be,

you have to be
vigilant all the time.

Vigilant?

You'll soon find out
nothing happens 'round here.

Well, my training
taught me to be prepared

for anything and
everything at any time,

day or night, on duty or off.

Well, I tell you something
they aint prepared you for.

What's that?

Boredom, sheer boredom.

Nothing happens 'round here.

It's like a morgue
in a recession.

Well, then maybe
we need to go out

and find crime, you know,

I mean it happens it everywhere.

They say it's just hidden
behind closed doors.

I used to be just like you
when I first started, keen.

And how long ago was that?

If you don't mind me asking.

25 years.

Actually, I've been
in Little Pitchfield

for 24 and half
now and this is it.

Rush hour.

I know everybody 'round here,

all their ins and their outs

and all their dirty laundry

and believe me, Mrs.
Broomfield at the vicarage

she's got some very
dirty underwear.

Right, okay, yeah.

A bit sexist that, isn't it?

Sexist?

No.

That's why you're P.C. Brody,

stop being so PC, Bruce.

Well government
guidelines suggest

that we should
actually investigate

all hate crime initiators, so.

It's like living in the past.

No one cares about
political connectiveness.

They just go about
their lives as normal.

Same old boring thing
day after day after day.

There's must be some crime.

Otherwise that would
mean Little Pitchfield

is literally a
crime free location.

Let me tell you something.

Little Pitchfield has been
off every crime report

and statistic in
the last 17 years.

No, no really, really.

I read about it somewhere.

Something about us making
the good cops look bad.

So they just leave us off now.

Hang on.

Brody, wait!

Excuse me, sir.

You do realise that
public urination

is a offence under the
Public Order Act of 1986

and as such that can be
considered indecent exposure.

Nicely said, son.

There's no crime here.

Billy.

What have I told you
about peeing up that tree?

Sorry, Shaun.

Go on, son.

Go about your business.

What you do that for?

That, that's an offence.

Public urination.

Look around.

What public?

Anyway, he always gets it wrong.

So hang on wrong?

Yeah, he's peeing
up the wrong tree.

What?

Yeah, the peeing tree
is four down on the left

but he's a bit thick in the
head, bit of a simpleton.

The government
guidelines suggest we call

that a disability, actually.

Disability?

He just doesn't know
his left from his right.

Do you do anything
by the book?

All depends what book it is.

The Police Handbook,
the guidelines.

Ah, there it is,
the bloody guidelines.

Let me tell you something
about the guidelines,

they're only put
there 'cause someone

can't make a decision
between what's right

and what's wrong.

Ah, ah, ah.

Until it's no
longer a guideline.

See, I can do whatever
I want when I want

because 'round here,
I'm the boss, number one

and if you think
some snotty nose,

pencil pushing
guideline and your PC

is gonna come into
my neck of the woods

and tell me what to
do, well then you've

got another thing coming.

Well do you get me?

Yes, sir.

Well do ya, punk?

Yes, sir.

Did you get it?

Clint Eastwood, Dirty Harry.

Yeah, I think
I've seen that one.

See, can you
imagine what it's like

to be Detective Callahan?

Chasing down suspects,
hunting them down

and shooting the bastards.

That was my dream.

17 years.

Huh?

You said that statistically
Little Pitchfield

has been off the police
records for 17 years,

so what happened 17 years ago?

Now that, my boy,
is another story.

So, what happened?

Well, the villagers
said it was some sort

of alien invasion.

Right, okay another
one of your jokes.

No, no, no, no.

This is no joke.

It was the last time
anything interesting

happened around here.

See, it was Guy Fawkes night.

We could see the fireworks
off into the distance.

Did I tell you we haven't

got a fireworks
display around here?

Just haven't got enough people.

Anyway, we could see
it in Great Pitchfield

about three miles away.

I mean, it was a
really clear night

and I remember
because there was me,

Billy, Drake, Bob,
Sandra, Ellen,

Sally and Bernard.

Yeah, Bernard.

See now, Bernard was
trying to hump Sally

all night long,
right in front of us.

We kept telling
him to leave it out

but he just humped away to
his heart's content all night.

In fact, I think he even
missed the fireworks.

Sorry, Bernard is?

Bernard's an afghan hound
and Sally's a shih tzu.

Hang on, hang on.

You thought they was?

Yeah, yeah, yeah.

No.

Anyway, where was I?

Fireworks.

Oh yeah, yeah, the fireworks.

Listen, Sandra and Bob were
looking out into the distance

and to the left of the
fireworks, Bob could see

this bright white light.

Well he did point it out
to me, come to think of it,

but I just dismissed it.

I thought it was just,
you know, other fireworks.

But anyway, listen,
all of a sudden

there was a power surge.

The whole village went
out and back on again.

Well, Sally and
Bernard stopped humping

and started howling.

That made me look
across the field

and there was this
bright white light.

We could all see it, this one,

and all of a sudden it
just and it was gone

but in a completely different
direction to the fireworks.

You know, I mean, those lights

could have been anything, right?

Yeah, maybe.

Guess we'll never know now.

Other strange things
happened that night.

It was, everyone
had something stolen

from properties, you know.

I mean, Hanson reported it

but everyone got
something stolen.

Never did catch the bastards
that stole my scooter.

Uh, scooter?

Yeah, yeah you know.

Oh like a moped.

- Yeah.
- Oi, oi, oi.

Don't ever call a
scooter a moped.

I'll give you a slap next time.

Anyway, there was one good
thing come out of that night.

See, Sally had the
strangest puppies

that you'd ever seen.

Puppies, right.

See, told you
this place was okay.

I guess.

It's both a beautiful
and a really sad place.

Sad?

Looking at it
now, I can imagine

what it once might have been

but then all those years
of neglect and loneliness.

It must have been amazing
when it was full of life.

Now, it just looks
like my grandma,

just hanging in there.

You do have a way with words.

I could see you becoming
a great novelist one day.

Yeah?

What sort of books
would I write?

Romantic ones for sure.

Really?

You see me as a Mills
& Boons novelist?

Possibly.

Am I a graphic novelist?

I doubt that.

I saw you when Catherine got
that nosebleed last year.

You were hysterical.

You saw that?

Uh huh.

She was bawling her eyes out.

And so the male brain
gets it wrong yet again.

Hmm?

I wasn't hysterical
because of the blood.

I was upset for my friend.

She had a date that
night and she got blood

all down her blouse.

It was the one she was
gonna wear on the date.

I see, okay, so.

It could be graphic novels.

All I know is you've
got a pretty mind.

Pretty mind?

That could almost be
considered flirting.

Men don't flirt.

No, they don't, I agree.

They make it too obvious.

I know exactly why
you've brought me here

and what you want.

And why is that?

The question isn't why.

The question is answered
just by my being here.

What was that?

Yeah, I heard that.

Listen.

Sounds like crying.

Like a woman crying.

We should leave.

No, I want to
see what that is.

I don't like this.

That sounded like death itself.

Whatever it is it sounds
weird and pissed off.

I think we should leave.

No, I need to
know what that is.

What is it?

Don't come up here.

What is it?

Dan?

Dan.

Dan!

What?

Something is watching us.

What is that?

I have no idea.

What do we do?

Run.

Run.

Run!

Bloody kids.

Fuck.

So what we got here, then?

I can't believe you've
never heard of the film Jaws.

It was a Spielberg masterpiece.

Do you know it took 159
days to make that film

'cause the shark
just wouldn't work.

What films you into, anyway?

Calling PS Cooper,
PS Cooper, are you there?

Yeah, receiving, over.

Breaking
and entering reported

at Little Pitchfield Manor.

Suspects on site,
I see one male,

and I see one female.

Also reports of IC9 in location.

Yeah, on route.

What's on IC9?

IC9 is unknown.

Oh right.

Where's Little
Pitchfield Manor?

Just 'round the corner.

- There?
- Yeah.

Come on.

Oi, what are you doing?

I'm going in.

No, hang on.

I've got to get my
breath back, first.

Are we going in or not?

Hang on.

Jesus, you scared
the shit out of me.

I just got here.

Got scared, didn't
want to go inside

in case there are
dangerous criminals.

'round here.

Anyway, you would of scared
them all away, Ellen.

It should be okay, now.

Bob has them cornered
in the library.

Come on.

Hang on.

Where'd you say they was?

Library.

Excuse me, sorry.

Madam, thank you.

I've got 'em.

I've kept them safe.

They're not gonna go anywhere.

You can count on me.

You can always count on me.

Nice work, Bob.

Sir, if you could just put
that weapon down for me, sir.

- Shaun, Shaun.
- Sir, sir.

It's all right, it's okay.

I think it's outrageous that
you come onto my property.

I'll take it from here, Ellen.

Now, I don't recognise yous two.

Names.

I'm Dan, this is Katie.

Ah Great Pitchfield
by the looks of em,

I would say.

Yeah, look like a couple
of wrongens to me, as well.

Did you see it?

See what?

The thing in the woods.

It was chasing us.

Oh, funny.

Very funny.

Bob is this, Ellen did
you put him up to this?

Is this someones
birthday or something?

This deadly serious.

This is fucking serious.

Excuse me, sir.

Have you or Katie found yourself

taking any illegal
substances today?

No.

Have you checked the grounds?

It was chasing it.

It attacked Dan.

This is pathetic.

What attacked you?

Some thing.

We heard it.

Yeah, we were on the
grounds, we admit that.

We heard a noise in the woods,

we went to investigate it.

Oh, you don't do that.

What?

Well, if you've ever
seen any horror film

you know you never
ever investigate.

You get our ass cheeks out
there as soon as possible.

I agree with Bob.

Can we please
stick to the facts?

Tell me what happened.

Uh, well it was,

it was, it was like.

It was like.

You need to tell them.

They won't believe us.

Try us.

Okay.

It looked like a zombie.

Oh that wee Billy.

Probably.

I think, I think what
they're referring to

is the IC9 reported
to be in the vicinity.

IC9, is that police
code for zombie?

No.

It means unknown.

What I think this is, sir,

is a clearly a case
of mistaken identity.

We were chased by this thing.

Are you in charge here?

And what makes
you say that, little lady?

You are Police
Sergeant Cooper.

Oh, you've heard
of me, have you?

Yeah, my uncle works
in traffic police

and we've heard of you and
this shitty little hamlet.

In Great Pitchfield,
you were voted

the most incompetent sergeant
in the whole district.

Go that far?

You need to know
what we understand

what we witnessed here.

I think you need to
tell us what is going on.

You need to describe
the individual for us.

Person, they were lying down.

Put it this way, all
their insides, yeah,

they were on the outside.

Right, you've described
that person as a person,

why not a man or a woman?

'Cause it was so mutilated.

I couldn't tell, all right.

I think we need to
do a perimeter search

and I think we
need to do one now.

Yeah, I think you're right.

Do you
have any weapons?

No, we don't carry firearms.

That's a specialist unit does.

I got weapons.

You're not really listening
to this drivel, are you?

So.

So, what
was the award for?

What?

Well, the
most incompetent

police sergeant in the district.

What's wrong?

Whatever it is,
I've just seen it.

Where?

It was just staring at me.

Evil eyes.

Do you need them weapons?

Weapons.

Yous all stay here.

Bob, we'll talk about
those weapon later.

I've got tonnes of
them in the greenhouse.

Did you lose it?

There are no weapons.

What do they look like then?

Run, run.

Brody, wait!

Wait.

Come on!

Wait for me.

Shit, go, go, go.

Quick, help us.

We've got people here.

What?

Get it up.

What happened here?

No, put your end down.

Push it.

Some chairs, some chairs.

Okay, I'll block it up.

Man, you said,
you said nothing

ever happens here, normally.

It don't.

That's not normal.

Apart from that runaway
a couple of days ago.

What runaway?

Hello, is anyone there?

This is PC Brody.

We need immediate backup
at Little Pitchfield Manor.

How many were there?

Dozens of em.

They just kept
coming out the woods.

What do you think it is?

Zombies?

I knew it.

Our barricade's not
gonna hold them for long.

Jesus.

Joe, do you hear me?

It's Shaun Cooper.

We're at the old manor house.

Look, we need backup now.

There's just dozens of
them, like creatures.

IC9s.

IC9s, do you hear me, over.

Well, what do we do now?

We hold them off and
we wait for backup.

Yeah?

Look, I agree.

Better out than in.

Oh please.

I'm sorry, I just get
nervous in these situations.

We're all nervous.

Just try to control yourself.

Hey, it looks
like they're gone.

No, no I don't care.

Okay, we stay here
where we are safe

and we wait for them
to come and get us.

So your whole plan is
to sit and do nothing?

Well it sounds like
a great plan to me.

It's been two
hours and nothing.

Calm down.

It's gotta be some
sort of chemical attack,

it's got to be.

If it was a chemical attack,

why aren't we infected?

What do you think?

I don't know.

Like I said, zombies.

No, no about getting
someone here to help.

Okay, someone has to
go and find a phone.

No.

Bob, do you have
a landline here?

In my room but that's over
the other side of the manor.

I'll go.

No, they could
still be out there.

Well look, we
can't risk it okay.

I was my college record holder

over 100 metre sprint.

I will be in and out.

I know where it is.

Don't go.

Stay here.

Dan, Dan, Dan.

Come back through
the barricade, okay.

- It's not safe out there.
- I will be two minutes.

I'll be right back.

Fuck's sake.

Well, at least the
power's still on.

Think they're still out there?

Of course they're
still out there.

You should have stopped him.

You should have made him stay.

It's not within our
remit to use force

or aggression to
control a situation.

Okay, we deescalate.

- Deescalate.
- Yeah.

PC Brody was
only doing his job.

You shut up.

You wanted to press
charges and now he's dead.

Why don't you all shut up?

It's the end of the world!

I've seen it.

I've seen it for
nigh on 30 years.

In my dreams and
nightmares, this is it.

What are you talking about?

I'm telling you straight,
I've seen it before, in visions.

Nigh, it is out there.

Nigh, it is waiting.

Who?

Them.

So not zombies then?

Zombies is like a
picnic compared to this.

17 years ago, do you remember?

17 years ago they came
a-looking, stalking

like burglars looking
'round a house

they're gonna raid.

He's right.

This aint no zombies.

This aint gonna end.

Nobody's coming to save us.

We have to save ourselves.

He's right.

It's aliens!

How can
you be so excited?

'Cause for once in my life

I get to be Sigourney Weaver.

Look, I might just have a way
of getting us out of this.

Okay, so
what's the plan then?

Weapons, bloody loads of them.

Bob, where are those weapons?

Bob, Bob wait wait.

What?

Give me the weapon.

It's mine.

Now, I don't like
this as much as you do

but give me the weapon.

Now stay behind me.

Not that close.

Absolute silence.

That be good.

Where are those weapons, Bob?

In the greenhouse,
out by the allotment.

Come on.

There it be.

Wait, wait, wait.

Is that one of the creatures?

He looks buggered.

No, they don't.

Are we gonna go or what?

Oh come on, Bob.

We've all seen
enough of them films

to know it's not dead.

It's just laying there
waiting for us to approach

and when we do it will be alive.

I'll bash it with this.

That won't work.

It will still be alive.

Are you gonna
make a decision soon

or others will come.

All right, come
on, let's do it.

There it be.

Thundercats!

That's Billy.

Can't be.

We only seen him
a few hours ago.

That's definitely him.

That means whatever's
infected them

is killing them in
just a couple of hours.

Thank you.

It's them.

They're coming for us now.

It's okay, it's okay.

It's gonna be fine.

It's gonna be absolutely fine.

Oi, Katie, what are you doing?

I can get out.

They're distracted
with those two.

I can get out.

No, no, just, uh, don't move.

You didn't stop Dan.

Why would you stop me?

Katie!

Fuck's sake.

What's wrong?

It's my leg, it really hurts.

Is it where Billy grabbed ya?

No, no I scarped it on
an old tree stump just now.

Tell me the truth, Bob.

Nothing happened.

No it's not.

It's where Billy, that
creature, grabbed you

and now you're infected.

You're gonna turn into
one of them monsters.

It was just an old
tree stump, I tell ya.

You're lying!

You don't believe me?

If you turn into
one of them things

I'll blow your
bleeding head off.

I'm telling you
the truth, believe me.

Okay, come on.

Brody, Brody!

Brody.

Brody!

Oh, shit.

Here, take this.

We thought you were dead.

Wait, where's Katie?

- It's nothing.
- She's gone.

I couldn't stop her.

What's happened?

There's dozens of em.

Look, I need to speak to you.

One of them creatures was Billy.

Billy?

Pissed up the tree Billy?

Yeah.

That means this must be a virus

and I'm guessing it's passed
on by physical contact.

Does that mean
it could actually

be a chemical weapon's attack?

No, not in Little Pitchfield.

Anyway, it's not airborne.

All right, what
weapons did we get?

Let's do our weapon's check.

Have you had any
weapons training?

Oh yeah.

We had a weeks intensive
combat training.

Trust me, I know my
way a few of these.

How is he?

We need a doctor.

What now?

Come here, I need to talk to ya.

You know I said one of
them creatures was Billy?

We see him less
than 24 hours ago.

Yeah, well he was half
dead before I killed him.

This could only mean one thing.

What?

This aint just a virus.

It's an annihilation.

We're being exterminated.

You promised me!

I lied.

Look, once you kill
'em, no more virus.

No, what does that,
what does that mean?

It means we might
just survive this.

Listen, listen!

It's down to us now.

I know this was your
first day and my last

and I take back
everything I said

about nothing
happening in this town

but this is my town
and I'm not retiring.

I'm gonna make a stand for
it, right here, right now!

Are you with me?

Fuck yes!

Yeah, come on.

Well come on!

Shaun!

Shaun!

Shaun.

Oh shit.

Bat!

They're still coming.

Shaun!

Hello,
this is Kathy Perkin

with a channel 13
special news report.

Breaking live.

All parts of the
world are under attack

from what appears to
be alien spaceships.

I cannot believe I'm saying this

but reports coming in are
that Toronto, New York,

Paris, Moscow, and
London have been attacked

and many famous landmarks
have been destroyed.

Some world leaders
have been killed.

We can now see some footage.

This is like a scene
out of a war movie.

It's total devastation
and destruction.

The humanity.

We don't know how many
causalities there have been

but early estimates are
it's in the thousands.

This is not a drill.

This is a warning from
central government.

Get away from the cities,

go to a safe place
in the country.

Arm yourself if you
can and be ready.

They are coming.

We're gonna need
a bigger boat.

So you have seen it then?

Of course I have.

Now let's give em hell.

But this time,
let's make it war.