Class (2016): Season 1, Episode 1 - For Tonight We Might Die - full transcript
TENSE MUSIC
HE BREATHES HEAVILY
HIS BREATH QUIVERS
SCREAMING
♪ What have I been waiting for? ♪
♪ Been wasting all my time ♪
♪ Watching my youth slip
away surely is a crime ♪
♪ We go on and on and on and on and on ♪
- ♪ Never knowing where ♪
- ♪ Never knowing where ♪
♪ We gonna, we gonna, we gonna
end up in the morning-ing-ing ♪
♪ We go on and on and on and on and on ♪
- ♪ Never knowing where ♪
- ♪ Never knowing where ♪
♪ We gonna, we gonna, we gonna
end up in the morning-ing-ing. ♪
♪ Anywhere you are ♪
♪ Ooh ♪
♪ We are never far ♪
♪ Ooh ♪
♪ Want you to feel safe... ♪
Too easy, posh-o. It's
like pushing over a lamb.
♪ ..safe and sound. ♪
INDISTINCT RADIO REPORT
Kevin never got home last night.
Everyone knows students at
this school disappear,
they all just pretend
it isn't happening.
Tanya? Are you coming
to help decorate later?
We need volunteers.
- My mum says I'm too young.
- But its for year 12.
Technically you qualify,
despite, you know, being,
like, two years ahead.
How old are you, anyway?
Oh, because that
question never gets old!
I think I'm going to ask
Charlie to the prom.
And you just made us
fail the Bechdel test.
The what? You're funny!
Besides, I don't think
the new kid is into...
- Wait, prom is tomorrow.
- Mm-hm.
You don't have a date yet?
So that's a yes to helping me decorate.
RUMBLING
How would one dress?
Well, the boys wear dinner jackets
and the girls wear ballgowns,
but you don't need to be
that gender specific.
I don't know what you did
in your last job, but...
I am not a baby-sitter.
Except... you kind of...
are.
TENSE MUSIC
Anyway...
about the p... prom.
Um...
I was thinking that maybe you
and I could... You know.
Oh! Er...
No. I shouldn't think so.
Ha! That was painful.
SCHOOL BELL RINGS
Look at you all. The cream of the crop.
High achievers.
No wonder this country only
exports Downton Abbey.
- I like Downton Abbey.
- Of course YOU like it.
It's a bunch of white people
being nice to each other.
You'd watch it if Idris Elba were in it.
PHONE KEYBOARD CLICKS
Are we cheating already, Charles?
You haven't actually
taught us anything yet.
True.
So how about our first
lesson of the day?
- SCREEN SMASHES
- Your teacher has awful butterfingers.
You can't do that! That's
his private property.
April Maclean, the
answer to the question
are spinsters born or made?
You got a date for the prom yet?
Pretty sure you're not
allowed to ask that.
- I've got a date.
- Of course, Ram.
The boy who hears silent applause
every time he walks into a room.
Solve it.
- Don't look so pained, Matteusz.
- Is this even in the book?
I honestly think she
makes this stuff up.
WHISPERING: It's the Gibbs
probability density
in a classical Klein-Gordon field.
Well, it is.
We're not supposed to understand it.
She just wants us to feel stupid.
I bet she ate that missing kid.
He was eaten?
THEY SNIGGER
Where are you from anyway?
You sound like the Queen.
I'm from Sheffield.
HE LAUGHS Why am I even
talking to you geeks?
Don't make me put you in detention, Ram.
You wouldn't like it.
SCHOOL BELL RINGS
The big decoration tonight.
All volunteers are welcome.
Big decorations night. Autumn Ball.
All volunteers are welcome.
All volunteers are welcome.
Big decoration tonight.
Here you are. Need you.
Come and help me.
Anyone?
Heya.
Having a date to the
prom is important, yes?
Um... Yeah.
I shall ask Matteusz as my date.
Oh...
Oh! Is this not right?
No, no, no...
The schools in Sheffield
are very different.
No, it's great. It's... it's fantastic.
And it totally makes sense.
Good for you.
- Thank you.
- OK.
Of course he is.
Of course.
- On the left!
- Through!
- Open! Move!
- Open! I've got it!
THEY GROAN
- Yes!
- Come on!
THEY CHEER
Ram!
Come on!
Get the ball!
Quick, quick!
TENSE MUSIC
SQUELCHING
Open!
What the hell was that?!
- Coach...
- 20 laps. Now.
- What for?
- 25.
Get a move on.
DISTANT SIRENS, DOG BARKS
SHE HUMS TUNE
No. No. Why would you help decorate
something that you can't even go to?
SHE SIGHS
Because that sad individual is probably
the only chance you have at a friend.
SHE SIGHS
TENSE MUSIC
SHE BREATHS HEAVILY
Yeah, I'm under far too much pressure.
Tell me about it.
- Just a minute.
- All right.
I'll have some of this.
It's two-for-one...
Still weird to see without
your uniform, Tanya.
- I'm in sixth form now.
- Overachiever.
I caught my husband fiddling
with himself on the stairs.
Thank you.
BIRDS CAW
I'm home.
- SHE SNIFFS
- You took your own sweet time.
- DOOR OPENS
- Hello?
You're usually done by now.
Hello to you too.
Mum, you know this prom at school...
You're too young to
be dancing with boys.
But I'm technically...
Your brain is smart enough to
have allowed you to skip ahead,
but you are still a little girl.
One who isn't even finished
with her homework.
- Work fast. Fun is for later.
- When, when I'm 40?
What's the matter?
Why are you upset?
Perhaps a better question
is why aren't you?
All the time, at every moment.
Did you kill that student?
I saw burn marks that look
like they were from your gun.
'Take it!'
Now, you know as well as I do
I'm not allowed to use my gun.
You'd find a way, some loophole.
Did you kill that student?
HE SCREAMS
Yes. Yes!
I tricked that student into
using my gun to kill himself.
I also may not lie to you, remember?
And as long as I am forced
to perform this slavery...
Punishment.
"To-may-to, to-ma-to".
I will keep you safe, but you will NOT...
question me!
Where are you going?
What did I just say?
You have to shoot it!
I can't use the gun!
Shoot it! Shoot it now!
HE SCREAMS
GUN BEEPS
This just means that I can do
it the way that I want it.
Whatever you say.
Look, I'm going to
meet a friend for a...
- PHONE BEEPS
- "granola and kale falafel".
God, how Shoreditch has changed.
Can I trust you with this? Of
course I can trust you with this.
TENSE MUSIC
I've just sat down.
I'm going out with Rachel later.
I need the answers now.
Have you paid into my gaming account?
Yes, you ridiculous nerd.
OK. The first steps you take in
breaking down the formula...
SHE HUMS
A...
night...
full... of promise.
I wonder if that's what prom means...
RUMBLING
Weird.
- Like this?
- Yeah, exactly.
Isn't this great?
The two of us...
talking about something other than
what the white people are doing.
You tell anyone about this, you're dead.
I mean dead.
RUMBLING
What was that?
No, is it promenade?
Hm...
TENSE MUSIC
Help!
There's nothing. What did you see?
Was it a shadow?
What do you know about shadows?
RUMBLING
- Tanya!
- Ram!
Help! Anyone?!
SHE GROANS
SHE BREATHES HEAVILY
We're in terrible danger.
No, I'm telling you, I'm
seeing it right now.
There's someone attacking her!
- SHE GROANS
- Wait... What?
Tanya, what's your address?
I don't know! Something with a 3 in it.
I think you know what
waits for you here.
You think the same plan will work!
But I am what waits for you.
And I am war itself!
Run.
- Where is the prince?
- Prince? The singer?
Oh, shit!
Shit!
I can't use the gun, but
you can do it, please!
More lights, Tanya. Get
rid of all the shadows.
Well, obviously!
SHE SCREAMS
No!
- No, please! No!
- No!
It's part of your shadow! Just shoot it!
Shoot it now, or it'll kill us both!
- April, no!
- HE GROANS
Did you kill it?
I don't...
What is going on in here?!
You're talking to a boy.
April?
April? April?
Are you hurt?
Don't think so.
What the hell did you do?
- Corakinus.
- They found us.
Something is not right.
GASPING
Now, that's interesting.
What's interesting?
What is that thing?
It's a displacement gun.
One of the few things in time and
space able to kill a Shadow Kin.
It hits both target and shooter,
tearing the body apart, scattering
to the far corners of the universe,
taking the Shadow Kin with it.
But Prince Valiant here had to
get all heroic and you must've
got a glancing blow.
I'm guessing that's a Shadow Kin.
More than that. He's the
king of the Shadow Kin.
That's not an encouraging look.
It sent his heart out into space,
which should have killed him but...
You both now share April's heart.
God knows, it big enough.
What's she talking about?
I think your heart is phasing
in and out of space-time,
because he wants you. He wants your...
SINISTER CHUCKLE
You cannot kill me without
killing the girl, too.
Not a problem.
Kill him, your Highness.
You... What?
I will not.
What?
You would hesitate from killing
the leader of the Shadow Kin?!
I would hesitate from killing a friend.
This is not over.
It isn't.
We've got a problem.
PHONE ALERT
- Are you OK?
- I'm not supposed to talk to you.
- You just got attacked by a shadow.
- Yeah, I know.
We have an enemy to fight.
Who's not here at the moment.
Look, we were told to keep our heads
down and not cause any excitement.
- Wait a minute.
- What was that thing?
Shadow Kin, you ludicrous Care Bear.
Is this how little attention
you pay in class, too?
All right, all right. Look...
Would you believe me if I...
if I said I was from another...
planet?
God, yeah. You're weird and don't
know anything about pop culture.
You either alien or Amish.
I'm totally not prejudiced.
I come from a planet more beautiful
than you could ever believe.
We.
We come from that planet.
It was paradise.
So, not Sheffield, then.
My people were the Rhodia.
We were a cultured, learned society.
- Can you picture it?
- Sort of.
I think I banged my head when I fell.
Well, go on. Tell her.
He was their prince.
You were a prince?
No wonder you're strange.
I am a prince, just...
without a people.
We were at war when it happened.
War against the Quill.
Our teacher here was the
Quill's leading terrorist.
Freedom fighter.
The Quill lived on the smaller
of the southern continents.
They mismanaged their economy and
grew resentful of our success.
The Rhodia ate up all the planets
resources, including those of
the Quill, and then they were
surprised when we objected.
We tried to help you!
By making us so dependent
that we could never recover.
Hang on a minute.
Do you always look like this or
were you totally all alien and
had to modify your
appearance to look human?
No. Why do you ask?
It doesn't matter. We won.
And the Rhodia have a
particularly cruel punishment.
It is just.
They release a creature into
your skull called an ahn.
Something about the size of
two of your weirdly large
human thumbs placed together.
Now imagine it with teeth and
claws, digging into your brain,
each claw tipped with poison.
Oh, and that's the nice bit.
It telepathically links you
to a particular Rhodia,
and you become their slave.
- Their servant.
- It is slavery.
It is punishment. You can't...
If I use a weapon other than my
own hands, the ahn kills me.
Yet, if I fail to protect
you, I am also killed.
If I tried to remove
the ahn, dead again.
- Slavery.
- Our tormentors become our protectors.
The leader of the Quill bound the
future leader of the Rhodia.
What more civilised
punishment could there be?
What does this have to do
with the shadow people?
We were so busy fighting amongst
ourselves, we never saw them coming.
They can exist as pure shadow...
living unnoticed and
untouchable in yours.
In this form, they can
only be killed if you are.
Which is why the gun is
set to shoot both ways.
They'll invade an entire
world before anyone even
knows they're there.
They only need to be in their solid
form for the briefest of moments.
Because why would you
fear your own shadow?
They killed everyone.
Everyone.
Rhodia and Quill alike.
A planet of three
billion, all gone in...
one day.
They killed my mother.
You two survived.
I saved you.
Run!
Agh!
Come on!
And I saved you.
How did you escape?
We were rescued.
By a figure of legend
out of space and time itself.
Whatever.
Arrangements were made.
We were told to try and fit in and
tell people we were from Sheffield.
I don't understand how they found us.
That opening Corakinus
crawled back into.
Are they coming to kill our planet?
I mean, my planet, I guess.
This isn't how they invade.
This is different.
They're clearly looking for us.
Unfinished business.
- We should leave.
- No.
They'll follow us wherever we go.
I won't spend the rest
of my life on the run.
Oh, and yet you hesitate
to take your revenge.
Revenge?
APRIL GASPS
April. April.
What's happening to her? Why
are you standing there?!
- Do something!
- I see them.
I can hear his thoughts.
He wants you.
He wants something you have.
The gun?
He's coming for tomorrow night.
I'm going to have to cancel prom.
No, no.
If they want to kill everyone,
they'll just slide into our
shadows and do it at home.
Great.
Die alone or die at a party.
Plus, if we're all here,
it's the best chance we'll have
of getting your heart back.
You said that you could
hear his thoughts.
It's gone now, but for a minute...
For a minute.
Well, for a minute he could
probably read yours.
They've obviously connected
because of the heart.
I told you we should kill her.
No-one is killing her.
DOOR OPENS
Leave us!
We are decorating.
DOOR CLOSES
If you see anything more,
you tell us immediately. OK?
Oh, thank God you said that.
I'd have just kept it to myself.
Just be careful of your shadows
at the prom tonight, OK?
What have you seen?
Could you believe all that stuff?
Aliens, and Charlie being a prince?
I don't know. I was
attacked by a shadow.
Kind of opens your mind a little bit.
You take care.
You hear?
Thanks.
Ahem... you, too.
Why don't you tell your mum
the prom's being assigned
as a sociology module?
You look gorgeous!
I don't, but thanks.
- April!
- People just think that nice means fragile.
That somehow if I'm allowed to
see what the real world's like,
then I'll break, but...
I'm tougher than they think.
I know how tough you are.
And you're not nice.
You're kind.
There's a difference.
But kind is better.
Way better.
Yeah, cos that's what people think
when they want a prom date.
"Oh, I wonder who's kind?"
April, just because you
have to do a lot for me...
I don't mind.
Doesn't mean I stop being your mum.
You do look gorgeous.
And that's that.
SPEAKS OWN LANGUAGE
SHOUTING CONTINUES FROM INSIDE
Hello.
Everything all right?
Oh, yeah.
My deeply religious parents are very
happy I'm going to dance with a boy.
This has been in evening
of love and warmth.
Great.
You are a very strange person.
She's got a driver?
Uber, Dad.
Practice in the morning.
Oh, my God!
If you tell me one more time,
I might literally go insane.
Don't abuse the word literally.
It's a good word that
young people squander.
What's that, Dad? Have
a good time tonight?
Well, thanks, I'm sure I will.
You're facing a very important
step in your future soon.
You have no idea what I'm facing, Dad.
What?
- What are you facing?
- See you later, Dad.
- DOOR SHUTS
- Have fun.
You look amazing.
You, too.
DANCE MUSIC
Whoa, whoa, whoa! Get some
space between you. Honestly!
Is that all you people think about?
Look at all of these people!
Oh, this is going to look so good
for my university application.
Do you not have a date?
Is OK.
You can dance with us.
How are you feeling?
How's your... heart?
Weird, but OK.
I keep getting really short of
breath, but I'm adjusting to it.
It's amazing what the
body can get used to.
I do not understand these signs.
Come on, let's dance.
For tonight, we might die.
Are you all right?
OK, seriously, what is wrong with you?
Hey, Ram! Looking good, man.
Nothing, just nerves.
The great Ram Singh, nervous?
♪ You got me feeling for your power ♪
♪ Turn the music louder ♪
♪ Let me feel it, ooh-ooh-ooh-ooh ♪
- ♪ Come on! ♪
- ♪ You got me feeling for your power ♪
♪ Turn the music louder... ♪
Tanya! I thought your mum
wouldn't let you come.
Yeah, I told her missing this would
stunt my interpersonal development.
I have to write an essay
about it, though.
Although, actually, it might
be quite interesting.
♪ So right, so fresh ♪
♪ Top five, no less ♪
♪ So right, I just flash... ♪
Wow.
That's how you do a prom.
I'm dressed really nice...
All right?
DJ: And we're changing the tune, now.
We've got some nice
ones coming your way...
(MUSIC: Fester Skank by Lethal
Bizzle feat. Diztortion)
♪ Fester ♪
♪ Fester ♪
♪ Anywhere I go, I make the gang go ♪
♪ Fester... ♪
- That was such a good one!
- You look so good.
- I'm going to go to the toilet.
- I'll come with you.
OK.
Anything?
Yes, there was a huge attack
I'm keeping secret from you.
I should've put a creature in
your head to make you nicer.
- Yeah, should've, but didn't.
- Hmm.
If there is any trouble,
the gun is set for you.
Something is happening to your friend.
Help, April!
April!
Is she epileptic? Do we
need to call an ambulance?
What do you see?
- SHE GASPS
- They're opening... the tear.
Is that a bad thing?
SHE GASPS
You don't have to prove
anything to me, Ram.
What?
I know that you've got the whole
sporting ego thing going on,
but I like you because I know
that, deep down, that's not true.
Now, will you please let me go to the...
WET SLICING, HE SCREAMS
CRUMBLING
HE SCREAMS
Where is... the prince?!
- The prince?!
- SHE GASPS
- No!
- What?
Oh, no.
You killed her!
Where is the prince?
GROWLING AND GRUNTING
Did you hire a band?
We need to get everybody out.
BLASTER FIRE
DANCE MUSIC PLAYS
Where are all the teachers?!
RETCHING
WET SPLATTERING, COUGHING
Move along, please.
Boyfriend dumped her on prom night.
I must be allergic to the punch!
- You're all in danger.
- You have to go!
Please, you've got to get out!
Stop ignoring me!
There's a fire and you've got
to get out of the building
or you're going to die.
Get out! Oh! For God's sake!
HE YELLS
HE GRUNTS
I will ask you one last time.
Where is the prince?
I am the prince!
- CRASHING, FEEDBACK SQUEAKS
- Whoa!
Will none of you people
listen to niceness ever?!
Turn the music back on!
You'd listen to me if I was some A-hole
telling you how fat you
looked on Instagram!
- ALL CHATTER
- Do they do this at American proms?
All right.
Yeah, back up.
Listen!
- You're all in grave danger.
- From what?
BLASTER FIRE, ALL GASP
BLASTER FIRE
HUSH DESCENDS
SCREAMING
From the smoke.
PANICKED SCREAMS
BLASTER FIRE
GROWLING, RAM GRUNTS
You killed her!
SLICING
WET CRUNCH, HE SCREAMS
HE PANTS
INAUDIBLE
SCREAMING
- April, come here.
- Come on, let's go.
- We have to close that rift.
- Oh, is that where we're going wrong?
The Prince of Rhodia and his little pet.
Kill him. Kill him!
HEARTBEATS THUD
- Ha-ha, you know why I'm here, Prince.
- You can't have it.
Then we'll just have to cover
this planet in shadow, too.
No, you won't.
You won't kill me because
you'll die yourself.
There is enough time of
possibilities other than death.
Argh! April!
No!
They've locked us in. We're trapped!
Stop it. You've got what you wanted.
Just go!
I've not yet got what I wanted.
HE GROWLS
Well, nothing left to
do, then, is there,
but to die well.
HE GROWLS
You know, I never thought
that was possible.
Dying well.
Who wants to die well? Surely, the
aim should be NOT dying well?
You.
- You.
- Who?
- Who?
- Who?
Oh, this is a bit of a mess, isn't it?
I used to be the caretaker
here, you know?
Before it got all fancy. This is
going to be quite a clean-up job.
You've heard of me, haven't you?
You are the great destruction
of the universe.
Yes, but most people
just call me the Doctor.
There was something I wanted
to ask you... Oh, yes!
What exactly do you think
you're doing here?
We might ask you the same question.
Fair enough.
It's just that I seem to
have a soft spot for people
who are the last of their species,
which you have made my friends here.
I found them a home,
but they were supposed
to live quietly. Plus...
they called.
We've got a problem.
This is not your normal modus operandi.
You invade in secret.
And you kill all at once.
You don't just pour in
like any old boring army!
Bit inelegant for the
Shadow Kin, isn't it?
We are here... for the Cabinet.
Oh, the Cabinet!
Oh, that's easy.
There's this painfully strange
shop here called Ikea...
The Cabinet of Souls.
What's the Cabinet of Souls?
It's the centre of Rhodian religion.
The soul of every Rhodian who
dies is supposed to go there.
It's a repository for a future paradise.
And a weapon.
Yes.
That, too.
It's the power of all that life
crammed down into
single specks of light.
It could be enough to
destroy an entire species.
- He can use it against us.
- Yes.
- Yes, and who would blame him?
- I would.
Why avenge genocide with genocide?
Why avenge? Trust me...
It doesn't matter.
The Cabinet is empty.
I knew it would be.
Every Rhodian does.
It's just bedtime stories for
children to make death less scary.
As if death should be
anything but terrifying.
Then why would you take it?
I kept it in memory of my people.
All my people who are gone!
Yes.
That is a crime that has
not yet been answered for.
And who will make me?
You are powerful...
but we are a legion.
SHE GRUNTS
You leave...
or I'll make you leave.
What's going on here?
SCREWDRIVER TRILLS
You have been very busy
here, haven't you?
- One heart. Two people.
- It's why you can't kill me.
But I can.
You leave...
- or you die.
- CHARLIE: April, no.
If you came for me, take me.
Leave these people alone.
Weren't any of you listening when
I talked about not dying well?
- No-one else is dying here today.
- We disagree.
Tell me, Corakinus...
Yes, I know who you are.
You have one weakness.
It's why you skulk.
Even in your most solid form,
you cannot exist when there are no...
TANYA: Shadows!
LIGHTS BUZZ
- I thought that would work...
- You thought correctly.
You just need a boost to the voltage!
SCREWDRIVER TRILLS
HE GROANS
You have not seen the last of us.
Yeah, I get that a lot.
No, he still has April's heart!
Oh, for God's sake!
I don't care how you do
it, but save her heart.
Sacrifice yourself if you must!
- I have no choice but to obey, Master.
- Don't call me that!
SHE YELLS
I shall take my heart with me.
Do something with your laser pointer!
It's a screwdriver.
- WHIRRING
- What will you do, Doctor?
Kill us both or let us both live?
Those are your choices.
April! Duck.
SHE GRUNTS
Who says you're the only one who
gets to make the decisions?
I will find you!
SCREWDRIVER WHIRS
- That was very brave.
- He killed her.
He did even think about it. He just...
HE GROANS
ALL GASP
DOOR OPENS
Will he live?
Yes, yes, he will.
But the more interesting question is,
what are we going to do with you lot?
That opening the Shadow
Kin came through,
- you couldn't close it all the way.
- Well, obviously,
there's been so much artron
energy around good old Coal Hill
that time itself has worn thin.
I bet they didn't take that into
account when they renovated.
And it can only be patched up so well.
Even by me.
So, those things will come back?
Well, they'll have to find you first.
I scrambled the pulsation.
Of course, Cole Hill will
continue to act like a beacon
across all of space-time,
to any being who might want
to make mischief with it.
So, you will have to be on your guard.
What?
No, no, no.
I thought you were going
to get us out of here?
Why would you be safer somewhere else?
Time has looked at your faces.
And time...
time...
never forgets.
OK, Doctor.
Hey, hey, listen.
Um...
All right, these people...
Yes, they may disgust me,
but at the end of the day,
they're just children.
- They can't cope with this.
- I think that they have shown
some rather extraordinary
spirit, don't you?
A willingness to sacrifice
themselves to save others.
Resourcefulness.
- Bravery.
- DOOR OPENS
And, oh, yes...
An absolute understanding
of how precious life is.
- You got your leg back?
- I had some spares in the medical bay.
The Lothan, giant centipedes,
experts in prosthetic legs.
You'll get the hang of it.
You just have to train it
to act like your own leg.
GEARS WHIR AND CLICK
What about football?
Unbelievably boring sport.
Now, darts...
Darts is something worth practising for.
Maths and alcoholic beverages.
The best way to spend a morning.
No, wait.
Wait...
You can't seriously expect
these juveniles to deal with
whatever is going to come through
these tears in space and time?
- Through the what?
- It's like the Hellmouth.
- Or that town in Once Upon A Time.
- Or The Vampire Diaries.
- You watch Vampire Diaries?
- Everyone is very attractive.
Yes, it's true.
SHE GROANS
Well, they won't be on their own.
Oh, no...
No, no, please...
It is bad enough that I am
a slave to that... prince.
You have committed a crime
and you will be punished.
No, I was a freedom
fighter for my people.
- We were oppressed by...
- You know what I'm talking about.
- Oh...
- Hm...
I can't be everywhere.
So!
You will help these
amazing humans here...
and these amazing humans will help you.
How? I can't fire weapons!
I can't use swords and
knives and screwdrivers!
Your brain, Miss Quill.
Best weapon there is.
Look at you! What an amazing team!
You'll be able to handle anything
that time throws at you.
Oh, come on! Cheer up!
It's not that hard.
It's no harder than all these exams
that you have to take these days.
Except for Media Studies. It's
going to be harder than that.
RHYTHMIC THRUMMING
THRUMMING FADES
SHE SIGHS
So, are we all, like, mates, then?
DOOR CLOSES
HE WINCES
SHE SIGHS
I'm sorry. About your heart.
We'll get it back, promise.
It feels so strange.
But maybe I'll be able to see
if those things come back.
You're remarkably calm about this.
We'll be living on a knife edge.
All life is on a knife edge.
My mum,
she was paralysed in a car
accident and she should've died,
but she didn't.
She adjusted
and I will, too.
I'll see you Monday.
She's probably not going to
let us out of our homework.
MUM: So...
How was it? Tell me everything.
I'd, um...
have to say it was...
uneventful.
TANYA: Hey.
Hey.
You OK?
I don't think I'll ever be OK.
SHE SIGHS
I'm so sorry about Rachel.
Look, I'm sorry...
I don't mean to...
Don't worry.
I don't want to be alone, either.
How...?
How are you not deranged with grief
for your people as I am for mine?
How does the rage not consume
your life at every waking moment?
How do you know it doesn't?
A prince can't simply run around
being furious. A prince is...
responsible for his people.
What do you mean? You...
The Cabinet of Souls IS empty?
I wish it wasn't as much as you.
Shame.
We could have killed them. We
could have killed them all.
Committing one genocide for another.
Were you ever going
to let that stop you?
- SHE SCOFFS
- It wouldn't stop me.
WHOOSHING
RHYTHMIC THRUMMING
THUDDING ON DOOR
THUDDING CONTINUES
Do you know the feeling of dread?
SCREAMING, WET SQUELCHING
DRIPPING
- TANYA: Has something happened?
- RAM: I saw something.
- HE SCREAMS, WET SLITHERING
- It was horrible.
Like, really horrible.
Who are you? What are you doing here?
The Doctor said you're supposed
to help us. You're my protector.
SCREAMING
GROWLING
DRIPPING
HE BREATHES HEAVILY
HIS BREATH QUIVERS
SCREAMING
♪ What have I been waiting for? ♪
♪ Been wasting all my time ♪
♪ Watching my youth slip
away surely is a crime ♪
♪ We go on and on and on and on and on ♪
- ♪ Never knowing where ♪
- ♪ Never knowing where ♪
♪ We gonna, we gonna, we gonna
end up in the morning-ing-ing ♪
♪ We go on and on and on and on and on ♪
- ♪ Never knowing where ♪
- ♪ Never knowing where ♪
♪ We gonna, we gonna, we gonna
end up in the morning-ing-ing. ♪
♪ Anywhere you are ♪
♪ Ooh ♪
♪ We are never far ♪
♪ Ooh ♪
♪ Want you to feel safe... ♪
Too easy, posh-o. It's
like pushing over a lamb.
♪ ..safe and sound. ♪
INDISTINCT RADIO REPORT
Kevin never got home last night.
Everyone knows students at
this school disappear,
they all just pretend
it isn't happening.
Tanya? Are you coming
to help decorate later?
We need volunteers.
- My mum says I'm too young.
- But its for year 12.
Technically you qualify,
despite, you know, being,
like, two years ahead.
How old are you, anyway?
Oh, because that
question never gets old!
I think I'm going to ask
Charlie to the prom.
And you just made us
fail the Bechdel test.
The what? You're funny!
Besides, I don't think
the new kid is into...
- Wait, prom is tomorrow.
- Mm-hm.
You don't have a date yet?
So that's a yes to helping me decorate.
RUMBLING
How would one dress?
Well, the boys wear dinner jackets
and the girls wear ballgowns,
but you don't need to be
that gender specific.
I don't know what you did
in your last job, but...
I am not a baby-sitter.
Except... you kind of...
are.
TENSE MUSIC
Anyway...
about the p... prom.
Um...
I was thinking that maybe you
and I could... You know.
Oh! Er...
No. I shouldn't think so.
Ha! That was painful.
SCHOOL BELL RINGS
Look at you all. The cream of the crop.
High achievers.
No wonder this country only
exports Downton Abbey.
- I like Downton Abbey.
- Of course YOU like it.
It's a bunch of white people
being nice to each other.
You'd watch it if Idris Elba were in it.
PHONE KEYBOARD CLICKS
Are we cheating already, Charles?
You haven't actually
taught us anything yet.
True.
So how about our first
lesson of the day?
- SCREEN SMASHES
- Your teacher has awful butterfingers.
You can't do that! That's
his private property.
April Maclean, the
answer to the question
are spinsters born or made?
You got a date for the prom yet?
Pretty sure you're not
allowed to ask that.
- I've got a date.
- Of course, Ram.
The boy who hears silent applause
every time he walks into a room.
Solve it.
- Don't look so pained, Matteusz.
- Is this even in the book?
I honestly think she
makes this stuff up.
WHISPERING: It's the Gibbs
probability density
in a classical Klein-Gordon field.
Well, it is.
We're not supposed to understand it.
She just wants us to feel stupid.
I bet she ate that missing kid.
He was eaten?
THEY SNIGGER
Where are you from anyway?
You sound like the Queen.
I'm from Sheffield.
HE LAUGHS Why am I even
talking to you geeks?
Don't make me put you in detention, Ram.
You wouldn't like it.
SCHOOL BELL RINGS
The big decoration tonight.
All volunteers are welcome.
Big decorations night. Autumn Ball.
All volunteers are welcome.
All volunteers are welcome.
Big decoration tonight.
Here you are. Need you.
Come and help me.
Anyone?
Heya.
Having a date to the
prom is important, yes?
Um... Yeah.
I shall ask Matteusz as my date.
Oh...
Oh! Is this not right?
No, no, no...
The schools in Sheffield
are very different.
No, it's great. It's... it's fantastic.
And it totally makes sense.
Good for you.
- Thank you.
- OK.
Of course he is.
Of course.
- On the left!
- Through!
- Open! Move!
- Open! I've got it!
THEY GROAN
- Yes!
- Come on!
THEY CHEER
Ram!
Come on!
Get the ball!
Quick, quick!
TENSE MUSIC
SQUELCHING
Open!
What the hell was that?!
- Coach...
- 20 laps. Now.
- What for?
- 25.
Get a move on.
DISTANT SIRENS, DOG BARKS
SHE HUMS TUNE
No. No. Why would you help decorate
something that you can't even go to?
SHE SIGHS
Because that sad individual is probably
the only chance you have at a friend.
SHE SIGHS
TENSE MUSIC
SHE BREATHS HEAVILY
Yeah, I'm under far too much pressure.
Tell me about it.
- Just a minute.
- All right.
I'll have some of this.
It's two-for-one...
Still weird to see without
your uniform, Tanya.
- I'm in sixth form now.
- Overachiever.
I caught my husband fiddling
with himself on the stairs.
Thank you.
BIRDS CAW
I'm home.
- SHE SNIFFS
- You took your own sweet time.
- DOOR OPENS
- Hello?
You're usually done by now.
Hello to you too.
Mum, you know this prom at school...
You're too young to
be dancing with boys.
But I'm technically...
Your brain is smart enough to
have allowed you to skip ahead,
but you are still a little girl.
One who isn't even finished
with her homework.
- Work fast. Fun is for later.
- When, when I'm 40?
What's the matter?
Why are you upset?
Perhaps a better question
is why aren't you?
All the time, at every moment.
Did you kill that student?
I saw burn marks that look
like they were from your gun.
'Take it!'
Now, you know as well as I do
I'm not allowed to use my gun.
You'd find a way, some loophole.
Did you kill that student?
HE SCREAMS
Yes. Yes!
I tricked that student into
using my gun to kill himself.
I also may not lie to you, remember?
And as long as I am forced
to perform this slavery...
Punishment.
"To-may-to, to-ma-to".
I will keep you safe, but you will NOT...
question me!
Where are you going?
What did I just say?
You have to shoot it!
I can't use the gun!
Shoot it! Shoot it now!
HE SCREAMS
GUN BEEPS
This just means that I can do
it the way that I want it.
Whatever you say.
Look, I'm going to
meet a friend for a...
- PHONE BEEPS
- "granola and kale falafel".
God, how Shoreditch has changed.
Can I trust you with this? Of
course I can trust you with this.
TENSE MUSIC
I've just sat down.
I'm going out with Rachel later.
I need the answers now.
Have you paid into my gaming account?
Yes, you ridiculous nerd.
OK. The first steps you take in
breaking down the formula...
SHE HUMS
A...
night...
full... of promise.
I wonder if that's what prom means...
RUMBLING
Weird.
- Like this?
- Yeah, exactly.
Isn't this great?
The two of us...
talking about something other than
what the white people are doing.
You tell anyone about this, you're dead.
I mean dead.
RUMBLING
What was that?
No, is it promenade?
Hm...
TENSE MUSIC
Help!
There's nothing. What did you see?
Was it a shadow?
What do you know about shadows?
RUMBLING
- Tanya!
- Ram!
Help! Anyone?!
SHE GROANS
SHE BREATHES HEAVILY
We're in terrible danger.
No, I'm telling you, I'm
seeing it right now.
There's someone attacking her!
- SHE GROANS
- Wait... What?
Tanya, what's your address?
I don't know! Something with a 3 in it.
I think you know what
waits for you here.
You think the same plan will work!
But I am what waits for you.
And I am war itself!
Run.
- Where is the prince?
- Prince? The singer?
Oh, shit!
Shit!
I can't use the gun, but
you can do it, please!
More lights, Tanya. Get
rid of all the shadows.
Well, obviously!
SHE SCREAMS
No!
- No, please! No!
- No!
It's part of your shadow! Just shoot it!
Shoot it now, or it'll kill us both!
- April, no!
- HE GROANS
Did you kill it?
I don't...
What is going on in here?!
You're talking to a boy.
April?
April? April?
Are you hurt?
Don't think so.
What the hell did you do?
- Corakinus.
- They found us.
Something is not right.
GASPING
Now, that's interesting.
What's interesting?
What is that thing?
It's a displacement gun.
One of the few things in time and
space able to kill a Shadow Kin.
It hits both target and shooter,
tearing the body apart, scattering
to the far corners of the universe,
taking the Shadow Kin with it.
But Prince Valiant here had to
get all heroic and you must've
got a glancing blow.
I'm guessing that's a Shadow Kin.
More than that. He's the
king of the Shadow Kin.
That's not an encouraging look.
It sent his heart out into space,
which should have killed him but...
You both now share April's heart.
God knows, it big enough.
What's she talking about?
I think your heart is phasing
in and out of space-time,
because he wants you. He wants your...
SINISTER CHUCKLE
You cannot kill me without
killing the girl, too.
Not a problem.
Kill him, your Highness.
You... What?
I will not.
What?
You would hesitate from killing
the leader of the Shadow Kin?!
I would hesitate from killing a friend.
This is not over.
It isn't.
We've got a problem.
PHONE ALERT
- Are you OK?
- I'm not supposed to talk to you.
- You just got attacked by a shadow.
- Yeah, I know.
We have an enemy to fight.
Who's not here at the moment.
Look, we were told to keep our heads
down and not cause any excitement.
- Wait a minute.
- What was that thing?
Shadow Kin, you ludicrous Care Bear.
Is this how little attention
you pay in class, too?
All right, all right. Look...
Would you believe me if I...
if I said I was from another...
planet?
God, yeah. You're weird and don't
know anything about pop culture.
You either alien or Amish.
I'm totally not prejudiced.
I come from a planet more beautiful
than you could ever believe.
We.
We come from that planet.
It was paradise.
So, not Sheffield, then.
My people were the Rhodia.
We were a cultured, learned society.
- Can you picture it?
- Sort of.
I think I banged my head when I fell.
Well, go on. Tell her.
He was their prince.
You were a prince?
No wonder you're strange.
I am a prince, just...
without a people.
We were at war when it happened.
War against the Quill.
Our teacher here was the
Quill's leading terrorist.
Freedom fighter.
The Quill lived on the smaller
of the southern continents.
They mismanaged their economy and
grew resentful of our success.
The Rhodia ate up all the planets
resources, including those of
the Quill, and then they were
surprised when we objected.
We tried to help you!
By making us so dependent
that we could never recover.
Hang on a minute.
Do you always look like this or
were you totally all alien and
had to modify your
appearance to look human?
No. Why do you ask?
It doesn't matter. We won.
And the Rhodia have a
particularly cruel punishment.
It is just.
They release a creature into
your skull called an ahn.
Something about the size of
two of your weirdly large
human thumbs placed together.
Now imagine it with teeth and
claws, digging into your brain,
each claw tipped with poison.
Oh, and that's the nice bit.
It telepathically links you
to a particular Rhodia,
and you become their slave.
- Their servant.
- It is slavery.
It is punishment. You can't...
If I use a weapon other than my
own hands, the ahn kills me.
Yet, if I fail to protect
you, I am also killed.
If I tried to remove
the ahn, dead again.
- Slavery.
- Our tormentors become our protectors.
The leader of the Quill bound the
future leader of the Rhodia.
What more civilised
punishment could there be?
What does this have to do
with the shadow people?
We were so busy fighting amongst
ourselves, we never saw them coming.
They can exist as pure shadow...
living unnoticed and
untouchable in yours.
In this form, they can
only be killed if you are.
Which is why the gun is
set to shoot both ways.
They'll invade an entire
world before anyone even
knows they're there.
They only need to be in their solid
form for the briefest of moments.
Because why would you
fear your own shadow?
They killed everyone.
Everyone.
Rhodia and Quill alike.
A planet of three
billion, all gone in...
one day.
They killed my mother.
You two survived.
I saved you.
Run!
Agh!
Come on!
And I saved you.
How did you escape?
We were rescued.
By a figure of legend
out of space and time itself.
Whatever.
Arrangements were made.
We were told to try and fit in and
tell people we were from Sheffield.
I don't understand how they found us.
That opening Corakinus
crawled back into.
Are they coming to kill our planet?
I mean, my planet, I guess.
This isn't how they invade.
This is different.
They're clearly looking for us.
Unfinished business.
- We should leave.
- No.
They'll follow us wherever we go.
I won't spend the rest
of my life on the run.
Oh, and yet you hesitate
to take your revenge.
Revenge?
APRIL GASPS
April. April.
What's happening to her? Why
are you standing there?!
- Do something!
- I see them.
I can hear his thoughts.
He wants you.
He wants something you have.
The gun?
He's coming for tomorrow night.
I'm going to have to cancel prom.
No, no.
If they want to kill everyone,
they'll just slide into our
shadows and do it at home.
Great.
Die alone or die at a party.
Plus, if we're all here,
it's the best chance we'll have
of getting your heart back.
You said that you could
hear his thoughts.
It's gone now, but for a minute...
For a minute.
Well, for a minute he could
probably read yours.
They've obviously connected
because of the heart.
I told you we should kill her.
No-one is killing her.
DOOR OPENS
Leave us!
We are decorating.
DOOR CLOSES
If you see anything more,
you tell us immediately. OK?
Oh, thank God you said that.
I'd have just kept it to myself.
Just be careful of your shadows
at the prom tonight, OK?
What have you seen?
Could you believe all that stuff?
Aliens, and Charlie being a prince?
I don't know. I was
attacked by a shadow.
Kind of opens your mind a little bit.
You take care.
You hear?
Thanks.
Ahem... you, too.
Why don't you tell your mum
the prom's being assigned
as a sociology module?
You look gorgeous!
I don't, but thanks.
- April!
- People just think that nice means fragile.
That somehow if I'm allowed to
see what the real world's like,
then I'll break, but...
I'm tougher than they think.
I know how tough you are.
And you're not nice.
You're kind.
There's a difference.
But kind is better.
Way better.
Yeah, cos that's what people think
when they want a prom date.
"Oh, I wonder who's kind?"
April, just because you
have to do a lot for me...
I don't mind.
Doesn't mean I stop being your mum.
You do look gorgeous.
And that's that.
SPEAKS OWN LANGUAGE
SHOUTING CONTINUES FROM INSIDE
Hello.
Everything all right?
Oh, yeah.
My deeply religious parents are very
happy I'm going to dance with a boy.
This has been in evening
of love and warmth.
Great.
You are a very strange person.
She's got a driver?
Uber, Dad.
Practice in the morning.
Oh, my God!
If you tell me one more time,
I might literally go insane.
Don't abuse the word literally.
It's a good word that
young people squander.
What's that, Dad? Have
a good time tonight?
Well, thanks, I'm sure I will.
You're facing a very important
step in your future soon.
You have no idea what I'm facing, Dad.
What?
- What are you facing?
- See you later, Dad.
- DOOR SHUTS
- Have fun.
You look amazing.
You, too.
DANCE MUSIC
Whoa, whoa, whoa! Get some
space between you. Honestly!
Is that all you people think about?
Look at all of these people!
Oh, this is going to look so good
for my university application.
Do you not have a date?
Is OK.
You can dance with us.
How are you feeling?
How's your... heart?
Weird, but OK.
I keep getting really short of
breath, but I'm adjusting to it.
It's amazing what the
body can get used to.
I do not understand these signs.
Come on, let's dance.
For tonight, we might die.
Are you all right?
OK, seriously, what is wrong with you?
Hey, Ram! Looking good, man.
Nothing, just nerves.
The great Ram Singh, nervous?
♪ You got me feeling for your power ♪
♪ Turn the music louder ♪
♪ Let me feel it, ooh-ooh-ooh-ooh ♪
- ♪ Come on! ♪
- ♪ You got me feeling for your power ♪
♪ Turn the music louder... ♪
Tanya! I thought your mum
wouldn't let you come.
Yeah, I told her missing this would
stunt my interpersonal development.
I have to write an essay
about it, though.
Although, actually, it might
be quite interesting.
♪ So right, so fresh ♪
♪ Top five, no less ♪
♪ So right, I just flash... ♪
Wow.
That's how you do a prom.
I'm dressed really nice...
All right?
DJ: And we're changing the tune, now.
We've got some nice
ones coming your way...
(MUSIC: Fester Skank by Lethal
Bizzle feat. Diztortion)
♪ Fester ♪
♪ Fester ♪
♪ Anywhere I go, I make the gang go ♪
♪ Fester... ♪
- That was such a good one!
- You look so good.
- I'm going to go to the toilet.
- I'll come with you.
OK.
Anything?
Yes, there was a huge attack
I'm keeping secret from you.
I should've put a creature in
your head to make you nicer.
- Yeah, should've, but didn't.
- Hmm.
If there is any trouble,
the gun is set for you.
Something is happening to your friend.
Help, April!
April!
Is she epileptic? Do we
need to call an ambulance?
What do you see?
- SHE GASPS
- They're opening... the tear.
Is that a bad thing?
SHE GASPS
You don't have to prove
anything to me, Ram.
What?
I know that you've got the whole
sporting ego thing going on,
but I like you because I know
that, deep down, that's not true.
Now, will you please let me go to the...
WET SLICING, HE SCREAMS
CRUMBLING
HE SCREAMS
Where is... the prince?!
- The prince?!
- SHE GASPS
- No!
- What?
Oh, no.
You killed her!
Where is the prince?
GROWLING AND GRUNTING
Did you hire a band?
We need to get everybody out.
BLASTER FIRE
DANCE MUSIC PLAYS
Where are all the teachers?!
RETCHING
WET SPLATTERING, COUGHING
Move along, please.
Boyfriend dumped her on prom night.
I must be allergic to the punch!
- You're all in danger.
- You have to go!
Please, you've got to get out!
Stop ignoring me!
There's a fire and you've got
to get out of the building
or you're going to die.
Get out! Oh! For God's sake!
HE YELLS
HE GRUNTS
I will ask you one last time.
Where is the prince?
I am the prince!
- CRASHING, FEEDBACK SQUEAKS
- Whoa!
Will none of you people
listen to niceness ever?!
Turn the music back on!
You'd listen to me if I was some A-hole
telling you how fat you
looked on Instagram!
- ALL CHATTER
- Do they do this at American proms?
All right.
Yeah, back up.
Listen!
- You're all in grave danger.
- From what?
BLASTER FIRE, ALL GASP
BLASTER FIRE
HUSH DESCENDS
SCREAMING
From the smoke.
PANICKED SCREAMS
BLASTER FIRE
GROWLING, RAM GRUNTS
You killed her!
SLICING
WET CRUNCH, HE SCREAMS
HE PANTS
INAUDIBLE
SCREAMING
- April, come here.
- Come on, let's go.
- We have to close that rift.
- Oh, is that where we're going wrong?
The Prince of Rhodia and his little pet.
Kill him. Kill him!
HEARTBEATS THUD
- Ha-ha, you know why I'm here, Prince.
- You can't have it.
Then we'll just have to cover
this planet in shadow, too.
No, you won't.
You won't kill me because
you'll die yourself.
There is enough time of
possibilities other than death.
Argh! April!
No!
They've locked us in. We're trapped!
Stop it. You've got what you wanted.
Just go!
I've not yet got what I wanted.
HE GROWLS
Well, nothing left to
do, then, is there,
but to die well.
HE GROWLS
You know, I never thought
that was possible.
Dying well.
Who wants to die well? Surely, the
aim should be NOT dying well?
You.
- You.
- Who?
- Who?
- Who?
Oh, this is a bit of a mess, isn't it?
I used to be the caretaker
here, you know?
Before it got all fancy. This is
going to be quite a clean-up job.
You've heard of me, haven't you?
You are the great destruction
of the universe.
Yes, but most people
just call me the Doctor.
There was something I wanted
to ask you... Oh, yes!
What exactly do you think
you're doing here?
We might ask you the same question.
Fair enough.
It's just that I seem to
have a soft spot for people
who are the last of their species,
which you have made my friends here.
I found them a home,
but they were supposed
to live quietly. Plus...
they called.
We've got a problem.
This is not your normal modus operandi.
You invade in secret.
And you kill all at once.
You don't just pour in
like any old boring army!
Bit inelegant for the
Shadow Kin, isn't it?
We are here... for the Cabinet.
Oh, the Cabinet!
Oh, that's easy.
There's this painfully strange
shop here called Ikea...
The Cabinet of Souls.
What's the Cabinet of Souls?
It's the centre of Rhodian religion.
The soul of every Rhodian who
dies is supposed to go there.
It's a repository for a future paradise.
And a weapon.
Yes.
That, too.
It's the power of all that life
crammed down into
single specks of light.
It could be enough to
destroy an entire species.
- He can use it against us.
- Yes.
- Yes, and who would blame him?
- I would.
Why avenge genocide with genocide?
Why avenge? Trust me...
It doesn't matter.
The Cabinet is empty.
I knew it would be.
Every Rhodian does.
It's just bedtime stories for
children to make death less scary.
As if death should be
anything but terrifying.
Then why would you take it?
I kept it in memory of my people.
All my people who are gone!
Yes.
That is a crime that has
not yet been answered for.
And who will make me?
You are powerful...
but we are a legion.
SHE GRUNTS
You leave...
or I'll make you leave.
What's going on here?
SCREWDRIVER TRILLS
You have been very busy
here, haven't you?
- One heart. Two people.
- It's why you can't kill me.
But I can.
You leave...
- or you die.
- CHARLIE: April, no.
If you came for me, take me.
Leave these people alone.
Weren't any of you listening when
I talked about not dying well?
- No-one else is dying here today.
- We disagree.
Tell me, Corakinus...
Yes, I know who you are.
You have one weakness.
It's why you skulk.
Even in your most solid form,
you cannot exist when there are no...
TANYA: Shadows!
LIGHTS BUZZ
- I thought that would work...
- You thought correctly.
You just need a boost to the voltage!
SCREWDRIVER TRILLS
HE GROANS
You have not seen the last of us.
Yeah, I get that a lot.
No, he still has April's heart!
Oh, for God's sake!
I don't care how you do
it, but save her heart.
Sacrifice yourself if you must!
- I have no choice but to obey, Master.
- Don't call me that!
SHE YELLS
I shall take my heart with me.
Do something with your laser pointer!
It's a screwdriver.
- WHIRRING
- What will you do, Doctor?
Kill us both or let us both live?
Those are your choices.
April! Duck.
SHE GRUNTS
Who says you're the only one who
gets to make the decisions?
I will find you!
SCREWDRIVER WHIRS
- That was very brave.
- He killed her.
He did even think about it. He just...
HE GROANS
ALL GASP
DOOR OPENS
Will he live?
Yes, yes, he will.
But the more interesting question is,
what are we going to do with you lot?
That opening the Shadow
Kin came through,
- you couldn't close it all the way.
- Well, obviously,
there's been so much artron
energy around good old Coal Hill
that time itself has worn thin.
I bet they didn't take that into
account when they renovated.
And it can only be patched up so well.
Even by me.
So, those things will come back?
Well, they'll have to find you first.
I scrambled the pulsation.
Of course, Cole Hill will
continue to act like a beacon
across all of space-time,
to any being who might want
to make mischief with it.
So, you will have to be on your guard.
What?
No, no, no.
I thought you were going
to get us out of here?
Why would you be safer somewhere else?
Time has looked at your faces.
And time...
time...
never forgets.
OK, Doctor.
Hey, hey, listen.
Um...
All right, these people...
Yes, they may disgust me,
but at the end of the day,
they're just children.
- They can't cope with this.
- I think that they have shown
some rather extraordinary
spirit, don't you?
A willingness to sacrifice
themselves to save others.
Resourcefulness.
- Bravery.
- DOOR OPENS
And, oh, yes...
An absolute understanding
of how precious life is.
- You got your leg back?
- I had some spares in the medical bay.
The Lothan, giant centipedes,
experts in prosthetic legs.
You'll get the hang of it.
You just have to train it
to act like your own leg.
GEARS WHIR AND CLICK
What about football?
Unbelievably boring sport.
Now, darts...
Darts is something worth practising for.
Maths and alcoholic beverages.
The best way to spend a morning.
No, wait.
Wait...
You can't seriously expect
these juveniles to deal with
whatever is going to come through
these tears in space and time?
- Through the what?
- It's like the Hellmouth.
- Or that town in Once Upon A Time.
- Or The Vampire Diaries.
- You watch Vampire Diaries?
- Everyone is very attractive.
Yes, it's true.
SHE GROANS
Well, they won't be on their own.
Oh, no...
No, no, please...
It is bad enough that I am
a slave to that... prince.
You have committed a crime
and you will be punished.
No, I was a freedom
fighter for my people.
- We were oppressed by...
- You know what I'm talking about.
- Oh...
- Hm...
I can't be everywhere.
So!
You will help these
amazing humans here...
and these amazing humans will help you.
How? I can't fire weapons!
I can't use swords and
knives and screwdrivers!
Your brain, Miss Quill.
Best weapon there is.
Look at you! What an amazing team!
You'll be able to handle anything
that time throws at you.
Oh, come on! Cheer up!
It's not that hard.
It's no harder than all these exams
that you have to take these days.
Except for Media Studies. It's
going to be harder than that.
RHYTHMIC THRUMMING
THRUMMING FADES
SHE SIGHS
So, are we all, like, mates, then?
DOOR CLOSES
HE WINCES
SHE SIGHS
I'm sorry. About your heart.
We'll get it back, promise.
It feels so strange.
But maybe I'll be able to see
if those things come back.
You're remarkably calm about this.
We'll be living on a knife edge.
All life is on a knife edge.
My mum,
she was paralysed in a car
accident and she should've died,
but she didn't.
She adjusted
and I will, too.
I'll see you Monday.
She's probably not going to
let us out of our homework.
MUM: So...
How was it? Tell me everything.
I'd, um...
have to say it was...
uneventful.
TANYA: Hey.
Hey.
You OK?
I don't think I'll ever be OK.
SHE SIGHS
I'm so sorry about Rachel.
Look, I'm sorry...
I don't mean to...
Don't worry.
I don't want to be alone, either.
How...?
How are you not deranged with grief
for your people as I am for mine?
How does the rage not consume
your life at every waking moment?
How do you know it doesn't?
A prince can't simply run around
being furious. A prince is...
responsible for his people.
What do you mean? You...
The Cabinet of Souls IS empty?
I wish it wasn't as much as you.
Shame.
We could have killed them. We
could have killed them all.
Committing one genocide for another.
Were you ever going
to let that stop you?
- SHE SCOFFS
- It wouldn't stop me.
WHOOSHING
RHYTHMIC THRUMMING
THUDDING ON DOOR
THUDDING CONTINUES
Do you know the feeling of dread?
SCREAMING, WET SQUELCHING
DRIPPING
- TANYA: Has something happened?
- RAM: I saw something.
- HE SCREAMS, WET SLITHERING
- It was horrible.
Like, really horrible.
Who are you? What are you doing here?
The Doctor said you're supposed
to help us. You're my protector.
SCREAMING
GROWLING
DRIPPING