Spider from the Attic (2021) - full transcript
A deadly nest of spiders lurk in the attic - And the nest is about to be awoken by a news reporter and her colleagues.
- Idiots!
Why discard credible science
because of how ethical the research was?
I've done it.
Finally.
Day 383, the experiment is a success.
By the correction of the gene GH1,
the organism has remained stable.
Subject is breathing, moving,
and aware of its surroundings,
exhibits all the predicted traits.
Biologically immortal,
hyper-aggressive,
and adaptive growth.
Oh.
Linda.
Hi.
- Hi.
Sorry, Chris said that I could wait in your office.
I hope I haven't-
- No, that's fine, you just startled me, yeah.
How are you, darling?
- Yeah, I'm good thanks.
Yeah, just...
You know just cracking on given the current situation.
Um, trying new ways to be inventive.
Look for different stories, different ways to tell them.
Yeah, nothing worries me.
Um, and if anything it's the challenge that excites me.
- The thing is I've been meaning
to come and speak to you, Linda.
I can see you're looking concerned
so I'll just come right to it.
As I'm sure you're aware,
the figures haven't been great recently.
I know you're doing your best
but as a business we can't sustain these figures.
- It's the slot I've been given.
Come on.
Who's really listening at that time in the morning?
Just lorry drivers and night shift workers.
I mean, back when I had the prime slot my ratings were...
I mean you know they were-
- Yes, it's true your numbers were better
when you had the prime slot,
but comparatively there are other types of new shows
that are doing even better now.
We need to stay current.
- Yeah, well, I'm not about to sell myself out like Davey.
I want my show to be serious,
discussing true unsolved crime.
That's what I'm about.
I'm not about to sell myself out
and just start producing low-quality mass appeal content.
- When was the last time your listener figures increased?
I'm not asking you to sell yourself short, Linda.
But something has to change.
I shouldn't be telling you this,
but the execs upstairs are starting a new show
in your time slot two nights a week starting next month.
- Are we competing?
- Essentially they want to understand
what's driving the decrease in listener numbers.
If things don't improve, Linda, I can't protect you.
- Yeah, I understand.
Um, don't want to appear ungrateful really.
Just, just give me a few days to figure it out.
Okay, I'll...
I don't know but things will improve.
- I hope so, Linda, because as a business
we really can't sustain these numbers.
Thank you for stopping by.
- Thank you.
I'll let you know if there are
any further developments.
- Yeah. Thank you.
What you doing up so late?
- Couldn't sleep.
All right?
Yeah.
Just getting a top up of cherry tomatoes and milk.
My new cravings.
Your slot will be coming up soon, won't it?
- No, I'm not on the radio tonight.
- The ratings?
- Hmm.
Been given the night off.
- Aww. Sorry.
- It's all right. I'll figure it out.
- It's gonna be all right, Mum, I promise.
- I just feel that I've worked so hard for so long
to get to this point and for what?
Just so they can throw me on the morning show
that no bastard listens to
and still expect me to get the ratings.
Yeah, people are turning these true crime shows into a joke,
mocking the situation, making it funny
by adding stupid sound bites.
What happened to a serious discussion about it?
You know, the shows they should be classy,
giving the families and the victims proper respect.
- Find a crime, something that's not been looked into before
or not yet.
Reinvent the show, Mum.
You've got this.
Look, Lucy's home tomorrow, I'm ready to pop
so I can't exactly go anywhere.
Let us help you, me and Lucy.
Yeah?
- Thanks, sweetheart.
- We'll sort this out, okay.
Now, that's enough wine, bed, come on.
- Yeah. Just let me finish it.
I'll be up in a minute.
Goodnight, Mum.
- Mm.
Oh my God!
Lucy! - Hi, Mum.
Oh, sweetheart. - You all right?
- Yes, yes.
Oh, how are you?
- I'm okay, I'm good.
- Is that everything?
- Oh, oh, the car's ram packed.
I might need some help in a minute actually.
- Sure.
Look at you.
- Oh god, that journey really took it out of me.
God, it took like 5 hours or something.
- You want a cuppa?
- Oh, please yes. - Mm-hm.
Make it a double though.
Okay.
- Otherwise I might pass out at any moment.
You drinking already?
- It was from last night.
- Mum, what's going on?
- Nothing.
- If it's Dad just tell me and I can go round there myself.
- Oh no, it's got nothing to do with your father.
Look, I don't want to go into it now.
I want to hear what you've been up to.
Okay?
Tell me everything.
- Um, it was all right.
Well, I'm not sure if I wanna go back.
Yeah, I might take some time off.
There's a post waiting for me if I want it.
But I just, I wanna think about my options you know.
- Lucy! - Belle!
- Oh, thank God, you're home.
- Look at the size of ya.
- Oh thanks.
Nice to see you too.
How've you been?
- Yeah, really good.
Just waiting for the little one to pop out.
Do you know what you're having yet?
- Belle.
You said you were gonna keep it as a surprise.
- And I did but then I accidentally found out.
- Oh, come on spill.
- Girl.
We're having a girl!
Congratulations!
- Yes!
So, tell me everything.
What do you mean?
- Mum.
What's going on?
If it's Dad and she's not telling me...
- Jesus, no.
We don't hear from him anymore.
It's work.
- Well, what's wrong with it?
I thought she was doing fine.
- Yeah, she were until she got given the morning slot.
- What?
I thought they were really impressed with her
and the reception that she got.
- Clearly not that impressed.
To be honest, Luce, it sounds like she's on her last legs.
She doesn't get them ratings up, she could be out.
- Christ.
Well, what's the plan then?
- I think she needs to reinvent the show,
make it much more modern
while retaining what she's about,
solving the unsolved and all that.
- Yeah, and I guess there's only really one way
you can do that.
That's by making a smashing comeback.
- Mm.
How the hell is she gonna do that?
- By, by solving a crime.
Like, actually solving a crime.
Yeah, if, if she could find something
that could really blow up her show,
you know, make her more viable,
someone, someone to actually listen to.
- Yeah, but I don't think it's just as easy as that,
to randomly pick a crime and, bam, she's solved it.
- I've got some time.
Yeah, I could help her.
- Well, I was thinking
me and you can help, the both of us.
- Yeah.
Yeah, that'll be nice.
Anyway, how's things with the daddy?
I'm surprised he's not moved in here already.
I've asked him, believe me.
- Right?
- He just comes up with excuses.
His mum doesn't think he's ready to move out
and he's not financially able to anyway.
- You'd think he'd thought about that
before he got you pregnant.
Oh hey, come on. It was just a joke.
- No, but you're right.
What you said, it's completely true.
I don't know why he agreed to any of this
when he's clearly not that committed to me.
But don't worry, I'll sort it.
You know me.
- Yeah.
- I've been looking into some crime cases
but, there's nothing that'll really make
my show go wild.
The lack of mystery in them, it's just...
I need something shocking, something outside the box.
- Well, I was doing some researching.
I think I found something you might be interested in.
So it's slightly sensitive military information.
But it's been on my radar for a while.
It's from when we were doing our training.
It was in the next town.
There were these rumors and stories about this scientist
who was taking his experiments to the extreme.
- I'm listening.
What makes it so interesting?
- Well, I was reading this article.
He was dismissed for ignoring biomedical regulations
and for taking his experiments to the extreme.
Look.
He was trying to further old Nazi research
and create genetically engineered animals.
Hmm.
- Well, I know you're all about the true crime
but what about a new type of crime?
What about exploring the taboo?
I think he'd be a good one for you to interview, Mum.
- Hm, suppose I could ask Shauna to invest some money
into some on-site interviews,
spend a few days with him.
- Yeah.
You know, he might want the publicity.
Yeah, we could spin this as an opportunity
for a research grant,
to help further his work.
And if he thinks this is gonna get publicized to the masses,
then he might just show us all the weird shit
that he's been up to.
- A last ditched attempt.
We have to go to the extreme,
can't have any passive ideas, et cetera.
- Yeah.
And if you interview him,
it'll be controversial.
It'll be so interesting.
And we can come with you as well.
- Mm. - Yeah, I can drive
and Belle can help too.
- Hmm.
- So, you want me to fund a show in the middle of Kent.
Yeah.
Well, when you put it like that it does sound
rather like a spa weekend but...
I think this could be really great.
Don't you see?
- All I see is you and your daughter
enjoying a luxury weekend.
Sorry to put it bluntly.
I think there is every chance this guy
will just slam the door in your face.
- You were the one that said about reinventing the show.
I think this could be it, this is what I need to do.
You know, I'll be mixing it up,
taking the viewers along with me.
They'll be hearing live recordings.
It could really hook them in,
give them something worth tuning in to.
- This sort of extra budget is usually given to a show
that's already successful.
I don't know how I will persuade the execs upstairs
that this is a good idea,
putting more money into an already failing production.
- You'd be doing it to rebrand the show.
This is a last chance to see it doing well.
- Sorry for being late.
What did I miss?
- Lorena, Linda wants me to fund a show
in the middle of Kent about some loony
who lives on his own and experiments on animals.
Thoughts?
- No, it's more than that.
I think I know
where I was going wrong before.
I need to be way more controversial,
go more extreme
and I think this Nazi researcher
could be the first of a new series.
- You know, I don't think know if I think
this is such a bad idea.
Now, think about it.
I mean it's really commercial
and the listeners love this kind of backwards thinking.
And, if there is a route
to getting him on tape, this could be great.
- Well, you were the one
that wanted something new and refreshing.
This is it.
- Come on, Shauna, please.
- Right.
Fine.
You have your special.
But there are some restrictions.
- Yeah, I'm listening.
- Firstly I'm going to be there.
The first hint I get that this is bullshit
and I will cancel the whole show, no questions.
Secondly, Lorena will be on site.
I'm sorry, love, but we need your expertise.
- It's fine for me.
- This is it, Linda.
You really have to make this work.
- Yeah, I know. Thank you.
How are you feeling about it all?
Yeah, confident.
I mean, if he can say some really on the nose stuff,
I think it could really blow the show up again.
- Yeah.
So was it easy getting the green light?
- No, but then I never thought it would be
considering the bloody thing
is practically dead in the water anyway.
Here we are.
Just need to make the most of it.
- You got this, Mum.
- Danny.
- Guess I'm coming too.
- Belle, I don't know if I can have
any more guests on this one.
- Well, he's not just gonna be a guest, Mum.
And he's super tech savvy.
I'm literally about to drop.
I sort of need him there.
Please.
- All right.
Better make yourself useful on this one, Danny boy.
- What's going on?
- We had another argument.
I couldn't just leave the way it were.
Look, if he didn't come I'd be sat on the phone texting him
the entire time.
I sorta need him there. It's for the best.
- All right.
Just don't let him become a distraction, yeah?
- Yeah. Understood.
- We gotta get through this for Mum.
See you there.
Should've known when we tried calling earlier
and there was no answer that that was a sign.
Christ, what was I thinking?
- Mum, chill out, all right?
- Uh, yeah.
- God, who are you?
You're my mum who gives no shits
and takes not shits from anyone.
So just calm down, yeah?
You've got this.
- Mr. Zizerman?
Hello?
Lucy.
What the hell?
- It's fine.
It's a trick I learned in the military,
a trick where no one will even know that we've broken in.
We can just say he left his back door open. It's easy.
- Yeah, but if we get caught it's illegal.
- Uh, so are many things, Mum.
But leaving your back door open
and someone passing by, that's just normal.
It's time to reinvent yourself, Mum.
The back door was open.
There's no one inside.
Come on.
Go in.
Guys.
21st of February.
We have just arrived at Mr. Zizerman's home.
The back door was left open
and there appears to be nobody inside.
There were signs of uneaten food
in the kitchen.
I'm going to continue to explore the house
to see if there's anything else I can find.
Oh! Oh God.
- We need to talk and I think you know where this is going.
- The door was left open, all right?
Look, we make a plan,
come up with a story, go undercover.
I mean, fuck paying him a few hundred quid for an interview.
This works way better, no?
We go with this.
We say that we were driving along, we got lost.
We had my daughter in the back of the car,
she's pregnant, and she needed a bathroom.
We spotted the house.
We went up, knocked on the door.
It was open, we went in.
Sorry, sir, hope you don't mind.
Come on, as a reporter I've got to start taking risks.
Internet searching a crime
that wasn't solved 50 years ago
is just not cutting it anymore.
I need to push myself.
- All right.
Just be careful, that's all I'm saying.
What if this guy comes home and just calls the police?
- All right. I've got this.
Welcome to Linda's "Dealing with the Taboo."
I'm coming to you live
and undercover from inside Mr. Zizerman's home.
- Time to come on.
You're trying to keep putting off the conversation.
- Yeah, we will talk about it
but I'm here for my mum, Dan.
- All right so why are we here then?
Why have you brought me all this way
if you don't wanna actually talk it out, Bella?
- We will talk about it but come on,
we've literally just got here.
Just give it some time.
- We didn't come here just to chuck it under the rug.
We need to sort it out before it comes.
- She.
We're having a girl.
- I thought we was gonna wait to find the sex out,
as a surprise.
- You should be happy.
- And also shouldn't we be making decisions
like this together?
When did you find out?
Oh, don't be shitty because it's not a boy.
- Bella, you don't get it, do you?
I'm not shitty because it's not a boy.
I'm shitty 'cause I feel like I've got no control
over any of this.
At no point do I feel I've got a say in any of this process.
- I thought you'd be pleased.
- Guys, guys, come on.
Let's leave it out, yeah?
- Back off, Lucy.
- If you're gonna go there,
go some place out of earshot of Mum and her boss, yeah?
- I need some air.
- What were you up to, huh?
Something is in the room with me.
- What's going on here though?
Oh my God!
Oh.
- I think I've found him!
- I got it from over there.
- Whatever he was conjuring with,
it was certainly paying off.
I've never seen a spider quite like that.
- It sure doesn't look happy about being in there.
- You don't think one of them got out
and well, that's what killed him.
- Well, I can't think of any other explanation.
- Do you think there are anymore of those things
hiding around the house?
- Spiders are more afraid of us than we are of them.
As long as we don't frighten or piss them off,
we should be all right to continue.
- Continue?
I'm sorry, I don't think you'll find me lingering
around here a second longer than is necessary.
- Isn't this exactly the sort of thing
we were hoping to find?
Oh come on, Shauna.
This could be the discovery of a lifetime.
If we document everything, put a good story together,
this is gonna blow the show up again.
- I don't know how much I value your success
versus my safety.
- I really don't think you've got anything to worry about.
Please just give me the night to have a look around.
Or if you wanna book into a hotel, fine.
You can check in from afar.
Just don't pull the plug yet.
- This is illegal, Linda.
- Yeah, well so was breaking and entering but we did it.
Now look, I'm sorry.
But we can't do anything for that poor guy now
but we can try and uncover what happened here.
Shauna, this is
what real reporting is about.
- And once we've broadcast this to the nation,
how are we going to explain it
to all the officials crawling up our asses, hm?
- We came here with the intention of doing an interview.
We just found the back door open
and were suspicious, came in,
and we caught them, straight away.
- Can you find something legal to protect us with,
just in case?
Yeah, I'll find something.
- Don't fuck this up.
- I am not leaving.
Dan, I'm here for my mum.
I'm not exactly running around the place, am I?
I'm safe.
- You're always so forceful.
Whatever you want goes.
You don't think about no one else, do you?
- Oh please, Dan, just stop yeah, just stop.
- What about when the baby comes, then what?
Your way or the highway?
- Do you know what?
Why can't you be supportive for once?
Why do you always have to turn everything into an argument?
- It's all I do, it's all I've ever done!
I didn't even want this baby, Bella.
Is that right?
- You know it was hard for me.
And if you must know, I wasn't done with my studies.
I wanted to go back, I wanted to do my masters.
But I got a job to support your decision.
- My decision.
We both decided so don't you fucking dare put it all on me.
Ask yourself, when did I ever actually say
that I want this baby?
- If that is what you really want,
then maybe we need to rethink our relationship,
rethink what happens when she arrives.
- Yeah, I think you're right.
I'm gonna get off.
I'll take my car. You can ride back with your mum.
I don't think me being around here is good for anyone.
We'll talk when you get back.
Oh no.
Oh!
- Christ.
Oh, I could throw up.
- It's the smell of a rotting corpse.
Okay, we mustn't touch anything.
I don't wanna disturb the room.
Oh my God.
It looks as if the face is completely burnt off.
And um, looking at the cobwebs,
one can assume that the spider
has laid in wait with him for the whole, the whole week.
- Do you think it intended on eating him?
- Yep.
I think we can assume that it was gonna be a snack
for the coming weeks.
- Hey, did you hear that?
Yep.
- Oh shit!
- Surely there's nothing else in this house, right?
- We're about to find out.
- No, I don't wanna go up there.
- I'll go and I can take some snaps
of whatever I find.
- Right, fuck it.
Come on.
Here.
- Thank you.
Are you sure we can't get in huge shit for being here?
- If we all stick to the same story, we should be fine.
- Yeah, but you're literally giving out
private information, Luce.
Isn't that like fucked. You could like lose your job.
- I'm not bothered.
- What do you mean you're not bothered?
You've worked all your life to be in the forces.
Yeah, and look where it got me.
- You've moved up ranks.
You're an intelligence officer now.
Me and Mum, we're so proud of you.
- Yeah, when I come home, I have nothing.
Yeah, I do well when I'm away most of the year,
but when I actually come home,
what do I have?
You have a family coming together.
Do you know how jealous I am of you?
I worry that everyone I know is moving on with their lives
and I just feel stalled.
- I am nothing
to be jealous of, Luce.
Dan's right, in some ways.
Me keeping this baby was a way to keep him.
He had his concerns about us.
He were questioning whether he wanted me forever.
When I got pregnant, I can't say 100%
that I wanted a kid at this age.
I can't.
But me keeping it were my, my little way of keeping him.
- Oh, Belle, I had no idea.
- Yeah, because everything seems good on the outside.
Nothing's ever as it seems so you cannot compare yourself
to anybody else.
Do you know what? If you're not happy, fuck it.
Don't continue your contract.
You get one life. Do what's gonna make you happy.
- Look, what if something's got out?
What if that one downstairs,
what if that was just like a baby one?
- You've been watching too many horror films.
This isn't a zoo.
Turn off.
It's a man's house.
I mean, that container downstairs,
one of them spider things must've attacked him.
- Yeah, you're right.
Okay, sorry.
Lorena!
- Well, I found it here.
He's obviously wary of something, right?
- Do you know how to use it?
- You click a switch?
Pull a trigger?
- Stop waving it around.
Hey.
Look at these.
- Audio tapes.
These could be something, huh?
- Let's hope so, yeah.
Come on.
Let's see if they're in there.
Okay.
- We found this in the attic.
- What is it?
- Audio recordings.
- Yeah, there's a whole bunch of them.
- Yeah. Shall we have a listen?
- Yeah.
This is Dr. George Zizerman
recording October the 24th, year 2014.
What the hell?
For the last decade I've worked
for Biotech Development in the Genetic Services Division
exploring gene editing for disease prevention.
During my research, I have uncovered some promising research
dating back to World War II from Nazi Germany.
Ignoring morality, they pushed experiments to the extreme
and uncovered something great and promising.
But the research was cut short at the end of the war.
I've discovered what they were trying to achieve.
This is extremely credible
and I will investigate this further.
- Danny!
I had access to an unrecognizable DNA sequence
which they believed to be extraterrestrial,
something from another world.
They've harvested, replicated,
and tried to recreate what it was.
The sketches in the notes were incredible.
I've never seen anything like this.
This is not pseudoscience.
The experiments were becoming increasingly successful.
Advance molecular techniques were used.
They tried to reproduce the creature in artificial wombs
and in vitro methods.
- Something bigger than we could've ever imagined.
- Danny?
Dan?
By selectively picking a handful of animals
to be the host, those whose DNA
most closely resemble the creatures,
they'd hoped to discover what creature could be born.
Biotech have ordered the research to be halted
but I can't let this stop.
This could be the first confirmation of life
from another planet!
I've taken a sample to continue my research.
January the 4th.
The creature continues to grow.
It's been 30 days so far.
It appears to have killed the host from the inside.
But similar to a parasite,
the fetus continues to feed off the corpse.
The host wasn't a perfect match
but it appears to have achieved its purpose.
I would estimate five days remaining until its birth.
Whatever he was doing here,
it just doesn't feel right.
- You're telling me.
The date is the 9th of January.
- Danny.
Dan, come on.
Dan.
Dan.
Oh please.
Dan, please.
The creature is alive.
It's consumed its host entirely
and grown to a rapid size.
It is contained and under close watch.
It appears to adapt to its surroundings
like some fish growing to fit its environment.
After moving the creature to a larger container,
it has become extremely hungry
and is growing at a rapid rate again.
This is the first solid evidence of extraterrestrial life.
It's tried several times to escape the container
and amazingly it appears to be developing additional limbs,
adapting to its new environment.
If that, if...
If it's been growing at the size that he describes,
then, surely well, it it's been a week,
that thing would've got
out of control by now.
I mean, it's not gonna be the size of a small dog.
- Right, ladies, show's over.
Sorry, I think we got what we came for but enough is enough.
What?
Shauna, no.
- Come on, Lorena.
Lorena, come on.
- I think we have something here, Shauna.
Look, it will be a waste to just pass this by.
What does it cost to just wait it out a few more hours
and like see what else we can discover?
Once we've told the authorities, it's over.
- Fine, stay here with Linda and get arrested
and slung in jail for 10 years.
I want no part of it.
- Look, the damage is already done.
Come on, let's just stay a little bit longer.
- Wait, wait, you're crazy to think we could expose
even a quarter of what of we've found out here.
The guy was right.
The authorities will not want anyone to know
about this new species till they've figured out
how to deal with it themselves.
- Oh, Shauna, please.
- I mean, you can do what you like
but I'm having no part of it.
- Shauna, please.
- No. I am getting the hell out of here.
No, no no no no no no no no.
Not now, not now, please.
Please don't let it happen.
Please, please.
Please, not now, not now.
- Oh.
My eyes, my eyes!
- Shauna!
Shauna.
- That thing fucking ate her.
- Whatever that was, that was bigger
than the other one, way bigger.
- Its mother.
It's stalking the grounds looking for prey.
This is its home and we are trespassing.
And that is its offspring
and we are meddling.
- All right.
It's probably retreated somewhere nearby.
Okay, and uh, and just like any spider,
she's gonna come out at night to hunt,
realizing we're on her land.
- We don't know how intelligent this species is.
And it's for sure, this is no ordinary spider.
Whatever that doctor was experimenting with
it is some sort of mutation
between spider
and alien DNA.
Christ, even saying that out loud,
I can't believe, I think I'm losing my mind.
What the hell, Mum!
- Lorena found it upstairs, thank God.
We're gonna need something to protect us.
- What are we thinking?
Bolt?
- Well, we can't stay here any longer.
Can you try and call the police?
Shauna was right.
We should've left ages ago.
Where's Belle?
When, when was the last time you saw her?
- I saw her earlier.
Daniel left he, uh, he went home.
- No, no, I saw his car outside.
- No, no, he went home hours ago.
And I saw Belle upstairs somewhere.
She's probably still up there, all right?
I can go and find her.
Any luck? - No, nothing, nothing.
- Mum, where you going?
- I'm going to go and see
if there's any more of those things.
If we've gotta wait for the police,
we wanna make sure there's no more creeping around.
- Damn it!
Oh.
Jesus Christ, Mum.
I'm sorry I just,
I thought you, oh fuck.
- Oh my God.
Think before you go firing that thing.
Give it to me.
I think I found Belle.
- What? Where?
Where?
Lucy.
- I'll show you.
- What, what was that commotion?
Was there another one?
- Mum just nearly blew my head off is all.
- Yeah, false alarm. I won't be doing that again.
- Anything with the phones?
- No, nothing.
The weather outside, it's ruining the signals.
- Yes. Belle is out in the sauna.
We saw her from the top window.
- Well, is she in danger?
- I can't think of any other reason she'd be out there.
I'm going.
- No.
No offense but you just nearly killed me back there.
Look, I'm trained for this.
I can go out there. I know how to use a gun.
I can get her and I can bring her back, all right?
So you just stay here, you check the phones,
you check them all, and walk around the house
and see if you can get signal.
- No, you're not going.
- Have you got any better ideas, Mum?
I'll be careful.
I can do this.
Now, come on. Everyone has gotta do their part.
You check the phones, all right?
Mine's in one of the rooms upstairs.
And if you get anything, you tell them to come now.
- This one's not working.
See if mine is.
- It's got out.
Huh?
- Oh, Belle.
Belle.
Belle, we need to get out of here now.
- My waters have broken.
- Belle, hey, hey.
I need to get you inside the house okay?
- Okay.
- You're gonna be all right, I promise.
We just need to get out of here.
I think this is her lair.
Come on, come on.
- Three, two, one, go!
Mum!
Oh my God, Belle.
Get her on the table.
Control it if you can.
It's all right, it's all right,
sweetheart. - My baby!
It's coming!
It's okay, it's okay.
- Did you get through to anyone?
- No, nothing yet.
Listen, the spider, the one in the lounge got out.
It's not there anymore.
- What?
- Look, if we just stay in this one room,
we should be fine.
- We don't know what it's capable of.
- I know.
- Christ, it could just sneak
its way back in- - I know.
- If it wanted to.
- I know, but we need to stay on guard
and protect your sister, all right?
That's all we can do.
And if we see it, we shoot it dead.
- She's about to give birth any second.
And...
She went into labor when she, when she saw...
- When she saw what?
What?
- Daniel's dead and I think that Belle found him
and it startled her so much- - Oh my God.
- that her water broke.
- Okay.
Right, we just need to keep her calm
and protect her.
She's gonna need us.
She's gonna need all the help she can get, all right?
- Okay, I'm gonna go and find it.
Stay here and look after Belle.
I'm gonna find it and I'm gonna kill it.
- You be careful, all right?
- I will.
Okay.
Oh fuck! - I'm here.
- Mummy, it's coming!
- I got her right now.
- Deep breaths, deep breaths.
There you are.
- We have got to get her to the hospital.
- I know that, but how do we go out there
when that thing is outside?
- But we can't let her give birth in here.
She needs professionals.
We're not equipped for this.
- I know that, but how do you suggest
we get to the car, hmm?
You saw the size of it.
- But still, it's just a spider.
So we treat it like one.
Use the same actions to kill it.
- But it's not just a spider, is it?
- We need to trap it somehow.
- Well, how do you suggest we do that?
- It retreated to the sauna,
making it its home for a reason, right?
Spiders, they're attracted to moisture,
so they tend to take shelter in basements.
Damp air is inside the house.
Your generic house spider tends to live
in quiet hidden spaces
where they can find food and water.
- Like air vents.
Yeah. - Corners of the room, attics.
- Yeah, so lure it to a place like this,
then just set the fucker on fire.
- Yeah.
- Where'd you go?
Fuck.
Fuck!
Fuck!
- Did you hear those gun shots?
- Yeah.
Go and check on her, please.
It's okay, you've got this.
- Did you get it?
- The fucker is dead.
We should be safe now.
- We need to get her to a hospital.
She can't give birth here.
She needs professional help.
- Yeah, I agree.
- We're thinking, trap the big one in the house
and set it on fire.
Once the big one is taken care of,
that is the only way we can get out to get to the cars
and get the hell out of here.
- Why don't we just chance it?
I can take cover.
- We get rid of the big one,
and then we can chance it.
It's too big a risk otherwise.
- It won't go anywhere.
Listen, this is its home.
- Then we give it to her.
We set it on fire after.
- Yeah.
Okay.
Then um, we need to find some gasoline then.
- In the attic.
Look, I saw some bits when I was there earlier.
Okay, let's go.
- Okay.
Ooh okay.
It's all right, sh.
- Oh! - It's all right, sweetheart,
it's all right, it's okay.
- Okay, okay, okay.
I'm gonna go get you some more towels, all right?
Wait here. Wait here.
Okay, all right.
- Oh. That'll do.
Okay.
- There we are.
Yeah. - Okay.
Right, we get this place ready.
- Yeah.
- We get it inside the house.
We set it alight.
- Okay, right, sounds like a plan.
- Okay.
Lorena, don't move.
Don't fucking try it!
Okay, okay.
Come, it's okay now, it's okay.
It's okay.
It's all right, it's okay now.
Come on.
- Lorena, come on.
- Oh oh!
Oh, no!
No, no!
No, no.
No!
Come on now.
- Go, go, go.
- What? - It's in the house.
I know.
Where is, where is it?
- It's all right. It's stuck in the attic.
But it got Lorena.
- What? - I put gas
around the room but you just,
you need to get Belle to the car, okay?
- I'm not leaving you!
- I'm gonna set this place alight. Just go!
You can't stay here.
- Okay. All right, all right.
We're gonna get out,
it's okay.
- Be, oh you be careful.
Come on, baby, I've got you.
I've got you.
- Lucy.
Quickly.
No one would believe us
without these, Mum.
You can keep your show going.
- All right, come on, we need to get your sister
to the hospital.
- Okay.
You're the one he was working on.
Get in the car.
Why discard credible science
because of how ethical the research was?
I've done it.
Finally.
Day 383, the experiment is a success.
By the correction of the gene GH1,
the organism has remained stable.
Subject is breathing, moving,
and aware of its surroundings,
exhibits all the predicted traits.
Biologically immortal,
hyper-aggressive,
and adaptive growth.
Oh.
Linda.
Hi.
- Hi.
Sorry, Chris said that I could wait in your office.
I hope I haven't-
- No, that's fine, you just startled me, yeah.
How are you, darling?
- Yeah, I'm good thanks.
Yeah, just...
You know just cracking on given the current situation.
Um, trying new ways to be inventive.
Look for different stories, different ways to tell them.
Yeah, nothing worries me.
Um, and if anything it's the challenge that excites me.
- The thing is I've been meaning
to come and speak to you, Linda.
I can see you're looking concerned
so I'll just come right to it.
As I'm sure you're aware,
the figures haven't been great recently.
I know you're doing your best
but as a business we can't sustain these figures.
- It's the slot I've been given.
Come on.
Who's really listening at that time in the morning?
Just lorry drivers and night shift workers.
I mean, back when I had the prime slot my ratings were...
I mean you know they were-
- Yes, it's true your numbers were better
when you had the prime slot,
but comparatively there are other types of new shows
that are doing even better now.
We need to stay current.
- Yeah, well, I'm not about to sell myself out like Davey.
I want my show to be serious,
discussing true unsolved crime.
That's what I'm about.
I'm not about to sell myself out
and just start producing low-quality mass appeal content.
- When was the last time your listener figures increased?
I'm not asking you to sell yourself short, Linda.
But something has to change.
I shouldn't be telling you this,
but the execs upstairs are starting a new show
in your time slot two nights a week starting next month.
- Are we competing?
- Essentially they want to understand
what's driving the decrease in listener numbers.
If things don't improve, Linda, I can't protect you.
- Yeah, I understand.
Um, don't want to appear ungrateful really.
Just, just give me a few days to figure it out.
Okay, I'll...
I don't know but things will improve.
- I hope so, Linda, because as a business
we really can't sustain these numbers.
Thank you for stopping by.
- Thank you.
I'll let you know if there are
any further developments.
- Yeah. Thank you.
What you doing up so late?
- Couldn't sleep.
All right?
Yeah.
Just getting a top up of cherry tomatoes and milk.
My new cravings.
Your slot will be coming up soon, won't it?
- No, I'm not on the radio tonight.
- The ratings?
- Hmm.
Been given the night off.
- Aww. Sorry.
- It's all right. I'll figure it out.
- It's gonna be all right, Mum, I promise.
- I just feel that I've worked so hard for so long
to get to this point and for what?
Just so they can throw me on the morning show
that no bastard listens to
and still expect me to get the ratings.
Yeah, people are turning these true crime shows into a joke,
mocking the situation, making it funny
by adding stupid sound bites.
What happened to a serious discussion about it?
You know, the shows they should be classy,
giving the families and the victims proper respect.
- Find a crime, something that's not been looked into before
or not yet.
Reinvent the show, Mum.
You've got this.
Look, Lucy's home tomorrow, I'm ready to pop
so I can't exactly go anywhere.
Let us help you, me and Lucy.
Yeah?
- Thanks, sweetheart.
- We'll sort this out, okay.
Now, that's enough wine, bed, come on.
- Yeah. Just let me finish it.
I'll be up in a minute.
Goodnight, Mum.
- Mm.
Oh my God!
Lucy! - Hi, Mum.
Oh, sweetheart. - You all right?
- Yes, yes.
Oh, how are you?
- I'm okay, I'm good.
- Is that everything?
- Oh, oh, the car's ram packed.
I might need some help in a minute actually.
- Sure.
Look at you.
- Oh god, that journey really took it out of me.
God, it took like 5 hours or something.
- You want a cuppa?
- Oh, please yes. - Mm-hm.
Make it a double though.
Okay.
- Otherwise I might pass out at any moment.
You drinking already?
- It was from last night.
- Mum, what's going on?
- Nothing.
- If it's Dad just tell me and I can go round there myself.
- Oh no, it's got nothing to do with your father.
Look, I don't want to go into it now.
I want to hear what you've been up to.
Okay?
Tell me everything.
- Um, it was all right.
Well, I'm not sure if I wanna go back.
Yeah, I might take some time off.
There's a post waiting for me if I want it.
But I just, I wanna think about my options you know.
- Lucy! - Belle!
- Oh, thank God, you're home.
- Look at the size of ya.
- Oh thanks.
Nice to see you too.
How've you been?
- Yeah, really good.
Just waiting for the little one to pop out.
Do you know what you're having yet?
- Belle.
You said you were gonna keep it as a surprise.
- And I did but then I accidentally found out.
- Oh, come on spill.
- Girl.
We're having a girl!
Congratulations!
- Yes!
So, tell me everything.
What do you mean?
- Mum.
What's going on?
If it's Dad and she's not telling me...
- Jesus, no.
We don't hear from him anymore.
It's work.
- Well, what's wrong with it?
I thought she was doing fine.
- Yeah, she were until she got given the morning slot.
- What?
I thought they were really impressed with her
and the reception that she got.
- Clearly not that impressed.
To be honest, Luce, it sounds like she's on her last legs.
She doesn't get them ratings up, she could be out.
- Christ.
Well, what's the plan then?
- I think she needs to reinvent the show,
make it much more modern
while retaining what she's about,
solving the unsolved and all that.
- Yeah, and I guess there's only really one way
you can do that.
That's by making a smashing comeback.
- Mm.
How the hell is she gonna do that?
- By, by solving a crime.
Like, actually solving a crime.
Yeah, if, if she could find something
that could really blow up her show,
you know, make her more viable,
someone, someone to actually listen to.
- Yeah, but I don't think it's just as easy as that,
to randomly pick a crime and, bam, she's solved it.
- I've got some time.
Yeah, I could help her.
- Well, I was thinking
me and you can help, the both of us.
- Yeah.
Yeah, that'll be nice.
Anyway, how's things with the daddy?
I'm surprised he's not moved in here already.
I've asked him, believe me.
- Right?
- He just comes up with excuses.
His mum doesn't think he's ready to move out
and he's not financially able to anyway.
- You'd think he'd thought about that
before he got you pregnant.
Oh hey, come on. It was just a joke.
- No, but you're right.
What you said, it's completely true.
I don't know why he agreed to any of this
when he's clearly not that committed to me.
But don't worry, I'll sort it.
You know me.
- Yeah.
- I've been looking into some crime cases
but, there's nothing that'll really make
my show go wild.
The lack of mystery in them, it's just...
I need something shocking, something outside the box.
- Well, I was doing some researching.
I think I found something you might be interested in.
So it's slightly sensitive military information.
But it's been on my radar for a while.
It's from when we were doing our training.
It was in the next town.
There were these rumors and stories about this scientist
who was taking his experiments to the extreme.
- I'm listening.
What makes it so interesting?
- Well, I was reading this article.
He was dismissed for ignoring biomedical regulations
and for taking his experiments to the extreme.
Look.
He was trying to further old Nazi research
and create genetically engineered animals.
Hmm.
- Well, I know you're all about the true crime
but what about a new type of crime?
What about exploring the taboo?
I think he'd be a good one for you to interview, Mum.
- Hm, suppose I could ask Shauna to invest some money
into some on-site interviews,
spend a few days with him.
- Yeah.
You know, he might want the publicity.
Yeah, we could spin this as an opportunity
for a research grant,
to help further his work.
And if he thinks this is gonna get publicized to the masses,
then he might just show us all the weird shit
that he's been up to.
- A last ditched attempt.
We have to go to the extreme,
can't have any passive ideas, et cetera.
- Yeah.
And if you interview him,
it'll be controversial.
It'll be so interesting.
And we can come with you as well.
- Mm. - Yeah, I can drive
and Belle can help too.
- Hmm.
- So, you want me to fund a show in the middle of Kent.
Yeah.
Well, when you put it like that it does sound
rather like a spa weekend but...
I think this could be really great.
Don't you see?
- All I see is you and your daughter
enjoying a luxury weekend.
Sorry to put it bluntly.
I think there is every chance this guy
will just slam the door in your face.
- You were the one that said about reinventing the show.
I think this could be it, this is what I need to do.
You know, I'll be mixing it up,
taking the viewers along with me.
They'll be hearing live recordings.
It could really hook them in,
give them something worth tuning in to.
- This sort of extra budget is usually given to a show
that's already successful.
I don't know how I will persuade the execs upstairs
that this is a good idea,
putting more money into an already failing production.
- You'd be doing it to rebrand the show.
This is a last chance to see it doing well.
- Sorry for being late.
What did I miss?
- Lorena, Linda wants me to fund a show
in the middle of Kent about some loony
who lives on his own and experiments on animals.
Thoughts?
- No, it's more than that.
I think I know
where I was going wrong before.
I need to be way more controversial,
go more extreme
and I think this Nazi researcher
could be the first of a new series.
- You know, I don't think know if I think
this is such a bad idea.
Now, think about it.
I mean it's really commercial
and the listeners love this kind of backwards thinking.
And, if there is a route
to getting him on tape, this could be great.
- Well, you were the one
that wanted something new and refreshing.
This is it.
- Come on, Shauna, please.
- Right.
Fine.
You have your special.
But there are some restrictions.
- Yeah, I'm listening.
- Firstly I'm going to be there.
The first hint I get that this is bullshit
and I will cancel the whole show, no questions.
Secondly, Lorena will be on site.
I'm sorry, love, but we need your expertise.
- It's fine for me.
- This is it, Linda.
You really have to make this work.
- Yeah, I know. Thank you.
How are you feeling about it all?
Yeah, confident.
I mean, if he can say some really on the nose stuff,
I think it could really blow the show up again.
- Yeah.
So was it easy getting the green light?
- No, but then I never thought it would be
considering the bloody thing
is practically dead in the water anyway.
Here we are.
Just need to make the most of it.
- You got this, Mum.
- Danny.
- Guess I'm coming too.
- Belle, I don't know if I can have
any more guests on this one.
- Well, he's not just gonna be a guest, Mum.
And he's super tech savvy.
I'm literally about to drop.
I sort of need him there.
Please.
- All right.
Better make yourself useful on this one, Danny boy.
- What's going on?
- We had another argument.
I couldn't just leave the way it were.
Look, if he didn't come I'd be sat on the phone texting him
the entire time.
I sorta need him there. It's for the best.
- All right.
Just don't let him become a distraction, yeah?
- Yeah. Understood.
- We gotta get through this for Mum.
See you there.
Should've known when we tried calling earlier
and there was no answer that that was a sign.
Christ, what was I thinking?
- Mum, chill out, all right?
- Uh, yeah.
- God, who are you?
You're my mum who gives no shits
and takes not shits from anyone.
So just calm down, yeah?
You've got this.
- Mr. Zizerman?
Hello?
Lucy.
What the hell?
- It's fine.
It's a trick I learned in the military,
a trick where no one will even know that we've broken in.
We can just say he left his back door open. It's easy.
- Yeah, but if we get caught it's illegal.
- Uh, so are many things, Mum.
But leaving your back door open
and someone passing by, that's just normal.
It's time to reinvent yourself, Mum.
The back door was open.
There's no one inside.
Come on.
Go in.
Guys.
21st of February.
We have just arrived at Mr. Zizerman's home.
The back door was left open
and there appears to be nobody inside.
There were signs of uneaten food
in the kitchen.
I'm going to continue to explore the house
to see if there's anything else I can find.
Oh! Oh God.
- We need to talk and I think you know where this is going.
- The door was left open, all right?
Look, we make a plan,
come up with a story, go undercover.
I mean, fuck paying him a few hundred quid for an interview.
This works way better, no?
We go with this.
We say that we were driving along, we got lost.
We had my daughter in the back of the car,
she's pregnant, and she needed a bathroom.
We spotted the house.
We went up, knocked on the door.
It was open, we went in.
Sorry, sir, hope you don't mind.
Come on, as a reporter I've got to start taking risks.
Internet searching a crime
that wasn't solved 50 years ago
is just not cutting it anymore.
I need to push myself.
- All right.
Just be careful, that's all I'm saying.
What if this guy comes home and just calls the police?
- All right. I've got this.
Welcome to Linda's "Dealing with the Taboo."
I'm coming to you live
and undercover from inside Mr. Zizerman's home.
- Time to come on.
You're trying to keep putting off the conversation.
- Yeah, we will talk about it
but I'm here for my mum, Dan.
- All right so why are we here then?
Why have you brought me all this way
if you don't wanna actually talk it out, Bella?
- We will talk about it but come on,
we've literally just got here.
Just give it some time.
- We didn't come here just to chuck it under the rug.
We need to sort it out before it comes.
- She.
We're having a girl.
- I thought we was gonna wait to find the sex out,
as a surprise.
- You should be happy.
- And also shouldn't we be making decisions
like this together?
When did you find out?
Oh, don't be shitty because it's not a boy.
- Bella, you don't get it, do you?
I'm not shitty because it's not a boy.
I'm shitty 'cause I feel like I've got no control
over any of this.
At no point do I feel I've got a say in any of this process.
- I thought you'd be pleased.
- Guys, guys, come on.
Let's leave it out, yeah?
- Back off, Lucy.
- If you're gonna go there,
go some place out of earshot of Mum and her boss, yeah?
- I need some air.
- What were you up to, huh?
Something is in the room with me.
- What's going on here though?
Oh my God!
Oh.
- I think I've found him!
- I got it from over there.
- Whatever he was conjuring with,
it was certainly paying off.
I've never seen a spider quite like that.
- It sure doesn't look happy about being in there.
- You don't think one of them got out
and well, that's what killed him.
- Well, I can't think of any other explanation.
- Do you think there are anymore of those things
hiding around the house?
- Spiders are more afraid of us than we are of them.
As long as we don't frighten or piss them off,
we should be all right to continue.
- Continue?
I'm sorry, I don't think you'll find me lingering
around here a second longer than is necessary.
- Isn't this exactly the sort of thing
we were hoping to find?
Oh come on, Shauna.
This could be the discovery of a lifetime.
If we document everything, put a good story together,
this is gonna blow the show up again.
- I don't know how much I value your success
versus my safety.
- I really don't think you've got anything to worry about.
Please just give me the night to have a look around.
Or if you wanna book into a hotel, fine.
You can check in from afar.
Just don't pull the plug yet.
- This is illegal, Linda.
- Yeah, well so was breaking and entering but we did it.
Now look, I'm sorry.
But we can't do anything for that poor guy now
but we can try and uncover what happened here.
Shauna, this is
what real reporting is about.
- And once we've broadcast this to the nation,
how are we going to explain it
to all the officials crawling up our asses, hm?
- We came here with the intention of doing an interview.
We just found the back door open
and were suspicious, came in,
and we caught them, straight away.
- Can you find something legal to protect us with,
just in case?
Yeah, I'll find something.
- Don't fuck this up.
- I am not leaving.
Dan, I'm here for my mum.
I'm not exactly running around the place, am I?
I'm safe.
- You're always so forceful.
Whatever you want goes.
You don't think about no one else, do you?
- Oh please, Dan, just stop yeah, just stop.
- What about when the baby comes, then what?
Your way or the highway?
- Do you know what?
Why can't you be supportive for once?
Why do you always have to turn everything into an argument?
- It's all I do, it's all I've ever done!
I didn't even want this baby, Bella.
Is that right?
- You know it was hard for me.
And if you must know, I wasn't done with my studies.
I wanted to go back, I wanted to do my masters.
But I got a job to support your decision.
- My decision.
We both decided so don't you fucking dare put it all on me.
Ask yourself, when did I ever actually say
that I want this baby?
- If that is what you really want,
then maybe we need to rethink our relationship,
rethink what happens when she arrives.
- Yeah, I think you're right.
I'm gonna get off.
I'll take my car. You can ride back with your mum.
I don't think me being around here is good for anyone.
We'll talk when you get back.
Oh no.
Oh!
- Christ.
Oh, I could throw up.
- It's the smell of a rotting corpse.
Okay, we mustn't touch anything.
I don't wanna disturb the room.
Oh my God.
It looks as if the face is completely burnt off.
And um, looking at the cobwebs,
one can assume that the spider
has laid in wait with him for the whole, the whole week.
- Do you think it intended on eating him?
- Yep.
I think we can assume that it was gonna be a snack
for the coming weeks.
- Hey, did you hear that?
Yep.
- Oh shit!
- Surely there's nothing else in this house, right?
- We're about to find out.
- No, I don't wanna go up there.
- I'll go and I can take some snaps
of whatever I find.
- Right, fuck it.
Come on.
Here.
- Thank you.
Are you sure we can't get in huge shit for being here?
- If we all stick to the same story, we should be fine.
- Yeah, but you're literally giving out
private information, Luce.
Isn't that like fucked. You could like lose your job.
- I'm not bothered.
- What do you mean you're not bothered?
You've worked all your life to be in the forces.
Yeah, and look where it got me.
- You've moved up ranks.
You're an intelligence officer now.
Me and Mum, we're so proud of you.
- Yeah, when I come home, I have nothing.
Yeah, I do well when I'm away most of the year,
but when I actually come home,
what do I have?
You have a family coming together.
Do you know how jealous I am of you?
I worry that everyone I know is moving on with their lives
and I just feel stalled.
- I am nothing
to be jealous of, Luce.
Dan's right, in some ways.
Me keeping this baby was a way to keep him.
He had his concerns about us.
He were questioning whether he wanted me forever.
When I got pregnant, I can't say 100%
that I wanted a kid at this age.
I can't.
But me keeping it were my, my little way of keeping him.
- Oh, Belle, I had no idea.
- Yeah, because everything seems good on the outside.
Nothing's ever as it seems so you cannot compare yourself
to anybody else.
Do you know what? If you're not happy, fuck it.
Don't continue your contract.
You get one life. Do what's gonna make you happy.
- Look, what if something's got out?
What if that one downstairs,
what if that was just like a baby one?
- You've been watching too many horror films.
This isn't a zoo.
Turn off.
It's a man's house.
I mean, that container downstairs,
one of them spider things must've attacked him.
- Yeah, you're right.
Okay, sorry.
Lorena!
- Well, I found it here.
He's obviously wary of something, right?
- Do you know how to use it?
- You click a switch?
Pull a trigger?
- Stop waving it around.
Hey.
Look at these.
- Audio tapes.
These could be something, huh?
- Let's hope so, yeah.
Come on.
Let's see if they're in there.
Okay.
- We found this in the attic.
- What is it?
- Audio recordings.
- Yeah, there's a whole bunch of them.
- Yeah. Shall we have a listen?
- Yeah.
This is Dr. George Zizerman
recording October the 24th, year 2014.
What the hell?
For the last decade I've worked
for Biotech Development in the Genetic Services Division
exploring gene editing for disease prevention.
During my research, I have uncovered some promising research
dating back to World War II from Nazi Germany.
Ignoring morality, they pushed experiments to the extreme
and uncovered something great and promising.
But the research was cut short at the end of the war.
I've discovered what they were trying to achieve.
This is extremely credible
and I will investigate this further.
- Danny!
I had access to an unrecognizable DNA sequence
which they believed to be extraterrestrial,
something from another world.
They've harvested, replicated,
and tried to recreate what it was.
The sketches in the notes were incredible.
I've never seen anything like this.
This is not pseudoscience.
The experiments were becoming increasingly successful.
Advance molecular techniques were used.
They tried to reproduce the creature in artificial wombs
and in vitro methods.
- Something bigger than we could've ever imagined.
- Danny?
Dan?
By selectively picking a handful of animals
to be the host, those whose DNA
most closely resemble the creatures,
they'd hoped to discover what creature could be born.
Biotech have ordered the research to be halted
but I can't let this stop.
This could be the first confirmation of life
from another planet!
I've taken a sample to continue my research.
January the 4th.
The creature continues to grow.
It's been 30 days so far.
It appears to have killed the host from the inside.
But similar to a parasite,
the fetus continues to feed off the corpse.
The host wasn't a perfect match
but it appears to have achieved its purpose.
I would estimate five days remaining until its birth.
Whatever he was doing here,
it just doesn't feel right.
- You're telling me.
The date is the 9th of January.
- Danny.
Dan, come on.
Dan.
Dan.
Oh please.
Dan, please.
The creature is alive.
It's consumed its host entirely
and grown to a rapid size.
It is contained and under close watch.
It appears to adapt to its surroundings
like some fish growing to fit its environment.
After moving the creature to a larger container,
it has become extremely hungry
and is growing at a rapid rate again.
This is the first solid evidence of extraterrestrial life.
It's tried several times to escape the container
and amazingly it appears to be developing additional limbs,
adapting to its new environment.
If that, if...
If it's been growing at the size that he describes,
then, surely well, it it's been a week,
that thing would've got
out of control by now.
I mean, it's not gonna be the size of a small dog.
- Right, ladies, show's over.
Sorry, I think we got what we came for but enough is enough.
What?
Shauna, no.
- Come on, Lorena.
Lorena, come on.
- I think we have something here, Shauna.
Look, it will be a waste to just pass this by.
What does it cost to just wait it out a few more hours
and like see what else we can discover?
Once we've told the authorities, it's over.
- Fine, stay here with Linda and get arrested
and slung in jail for 10 years.
I want no part of it.
- Look, the damage is already done.
Come on, let's just stay a little bit longer.
- Wait, wait, you're crazy to think we could expose
even a quarter of what of we've found out here.
The guy was right.
The authorities will not want anyone to know
about this new species till they've figured out
how to deal with it themselves.
- Oh, Shauna, please.
- I mean, you can do what you like
but I'm having no part of it.
- Shauna, please.
- No. I am getting the hell out of here.
No, no no no no no no no no.
Not now, not now, please.
Please don't let it happen.
Please, please.
Please, not now, not now.
- Oh.
My eyes, my eyes!
- Shauna!
Shauna.
- That thing fucking ate her.
- Whatever that was, that was bigger
than the other one, way bigger.
- Its mother.
It's stalking the grounds looking for prey.
This is its home and we are trespassing.
And that is its offspring
and we are meddling.
- All right.
It's probably retreated somewhere nearby.
Okay, and uh, and just like any spider,
she's gonna come out at night to hunt,
realizing we're on her land.
- We don't know how intelligent this species is.
And it's for sure, this is no ordinary spider.
Whatever that doctor was experimenting with
it is some sort of mutation
between spider
and alien DNA.
Christ, even saying that out loud,
I can't believe, I think I'm losing my mind.
What the hell, Mum!
- Lorena found it upstairs, thank God.
We're gonna need something to protect us.
- What are we thinking?
Bolt?
- Well, we can't stay here any longer.
Can you try and call the police?
Shauna was right.
We should've left ages ago.
Where's Belle?
When, when was the last time you saw her?
- I saw her earlier.
Daniel left he, uh, he went home.
- No, no, I saw his car outside.
- No, no, he went home hours ago.
And I saw Belle upstairs somewhere.
She's probably still up there, all right?
I can go and find her.
Any luck? - No, nothing, nothing.
- Mum, where you going?
- I'm going to go and see
if there's any more of those things.
If we've gotta wait for the police,
we wanna make sure there's no more creeping around.
- Damn it!
Oh.
Jesus Christ, Mum.
I'm sorry I just,
I thought you, oh fuck.
- Oh my God.
Think before you go firing that thing.
Give it to me.
I think I found Belle.
- What? Where?
Where?
Lucy.
- I'll show you.
- What, what was that commotion?
Was there another one?
- Mum just nearly blew my head off is all.
- Yeah, false alarm. I won't be doing that again.
- Anything with the phones?
- No, nothing.
The weather outside, it's ruining the signals.
- Yes. Belle is out in the sauna.
We saw her from the top window.
- Well, is she in danger?
- I can't think of any other reason she'd be out there.
I'm going.
- No.
No offense but you just nearly killed me back there.
Look, I'm trained for this.
I can go out there. I know how to use a gun.
I can get her and I can bring her back, all right?
So you just stay here, you check the phones,
you check them all, and walk around the house
and see if you can get signal.
- No, you're not going.
- Have you got any better ideas, Mum?
I'll be careful.
I can do this.
Now, come on. Everyone has gotta do their part.
You check the phones, all right?
Mine's in one of the rooms upstairs.
And if you get anything, you tell them to come now.
- This one's not working.
See if mine is.
- It's got out.
Huh?
- Oh, Belle.
Belle.
Belle, we need to get out of here now.
- My waters have broken.
- Belle, hey, hey.
I need to get you inside the house okay?
- Okay.
- You're gonna be all right, I promise.
We just need to get out of here.
I think this is her lair.
Come on, come on.
- Three, two, one, go!
Mum!
Oh my God, Belle.
Get her on the table.
Control it if you can.
It's all right, it's all right,
sweetheart. - My baby!
It's coming!
It's okay, it's okay.
- Did you get through to anyone?
- No, nothing yet.
Listen, the spider, the one in the lounge got out.
It's not there anymore.
- What?
- Look, if we just stay in this one room,
we should be fine.
- We don't know what it's capable of.
- I know.
- Christ, it could just sneak
its way back in- - I know.
- If it wanted to.
- I know, but we need to stay on guard
and protect your sister, all right?
That's all we can do.
And if we see it, we shoot it dead.
- She's about to give birth any second.
And...
She went into labor when she, when she saw...
- When she saw what?
What?
- Daniel's dead and I think that Belle found him
and it startled her so much- - Oh my God.
- that her water broke.
- Okay.
Right, we just need to keep her calm
and protect her.
She's gonna need us.
She's gonna need all the help she can get, all right?
- Okay, I'm gonna go and find it.
Stay here and look after Belle.
I'm gonna find it and I'm gonna kill it.
- You be careful, all right?
- I will.
Okay.
Oh fuck! - I'm here.
- Mummy, it's coming!
- I got her right now.
- Deep breaths, deep breaths.
There you are.
- We have got to get her to the hospital.
- I know that, but how do we go out there
when that thing is outside?
- But we can't let her give birth in here.
She needs professionals.
We're not equipped for this.
- I know that, but how do you suggest
we get to the car, hmm?
You saw the size of it.
- But still, it's just a spider.
So we treat it like one.
Use the same actions to kill it.
- But it's not just a spider, is it?
- We need to trap it somehow.
- Well, how do you suggest we do that?
- It retreated to the sauna,
making it its home for a reason, right?
Spiders, they're attracted to moisture,
so they tend to take shelter in basements.
Damp air is inside the house.
Your generic house spider tends to live
in quiet hidden spaces
where they can find food and water.
- Like air vents.
Yeah. - Corners of the room, attics.
- Yeah, so lure it to a place like this,
then just set the fucker on fire.
- Yeah.
- Where'd you go?
Fuck.
Fuck!
Fuck!
- Did you hear those gun shots?
- Yeah.
Go and check on her, please.
It's okay, you've got this.
- Did you get it?
- The fucker is dead.
We should be safe now.
- We need to get her to a hospital.
She can't give birth here.
She needs professional help.
- Yeah, I agree.
- We're thinking, trap the big one in the house
and set it on fire.
Once the big one is taken care of,
that is the only way we can get out to get to the cars
and get the hell out of here.
- Why don't we just chance it?
I can take cover.
- We get rid of the big one,
and then we can chance it.
It's too big a risk otherwise.
- It won't go anywhere.
Listen, this is its home.
- Then we give it to her.
We set it on fire after.
- Yeah.
Okay.
Then um, we need to find some gasoline then.
- In the attic.
Look, I saw some bits when I was there earlier.
Okay, let's go.
- Okay.
Ooh okay.
It's all right, sh.
- Oh! - It's all right, sweetheart,
it's all right, it's okay.
- Okay, okay, okay.
I'm gonna go get you some more towels, all right?
Wait here. Wait here.
Okay, all right.
- Oh. That'll do.
Okay.
- There we are.
Yeah. - Okay.
Right, we get this place ready.
- Yeah.
- We get it inside the house.
We set it alight.
- Okay, right, sounds like a plan.
- Okay.
Lorena, don't move.
Don't fucking try it!
Okay, okay.
Come, it's okay now, it's okay.
It's okay.
It's all right, it's okay now.
Come on.
- Lorena, come on.
- Oh oh!
Oh, no!
No, no!
No, no.
No!
Come on now.
- Go, go, go.
- What? - It's in the house.
I know.
Where is, where is it?
- It's all right. It's stuck in the attic.
But it got Lorena.
- What? - I put gas
around the room but you just,
you need to get Belle to the car, okay?
- I'm not leaving you!
- I'm gonna set this place alight. Just go!
You can't stay here.
- Okay. All right, all right.
We're gonna get out,
it's okay.
- Be, oh you be careful.
Come on, baby, I've got you.
I've got you.
- Lucy.
Quickly.
No one would believe us
without these, Mum.
You can keep your show going.
- All right, come on, we need to get your sister
to the hospital.
- Okay.
You're the one he was working on.
Get in the car.