Survivors (2008–2010): Season 2, Episode 4 - Episode #2.4 - full transcript

He's going to be my apprentice.
Everyone take something they need.

Where are we? End of the road.

No. No!

Get down! Tom, no!

Tom Price goes on trial tomorrow.
Guilty.

This court sentences him
to seven years.

You're not going to ask about
the conditions he'll be kept in?

No.

Let him go!

When I said "put it down",
I meant drop it. Take them both.

Where are they?



This is a coal mine.
Work hard, survive.

You can't do this.

Yes, we can.

Look, mate,
if we don't work, we don't eat.

I'm not your mate.

Pull!

Once we've filled six wagons,
we get allowed to rest.

Six?

Hey! Another load ready!

What kind of people are you?

Get back to work.

What's your name? Get back to work!

Who were you a year ago?
Did you have a home, a family?

No-one has the right to treat
a fellow human being like this.



Any exceptions to that rule, Greg?

What's that supposed to mean?

You voted to put me in here.

I also came back for you, remember?
If I hadn't, I wouldn't be here now.

The irony's killing me.

We're going round in circles.

We'll go down every bloody road in
England. We don't give up on our own.

Which way? We have to find Billy. If
anyone knows where they are, he will.

Come on, all of you out!

How long do they give us?
About half an hour.

Sometimes more.

MEN COUGHING
Come on!

What the hell is this?
Move along.

And the next, come on!

Argh! Don't move faster.
We all choke. Quiet!

Hold him down. Hold him.

Get his hands. Cuff him.

Come here.

Get up there. Come on.

Come on.

Punish him.

He has to learn who is master here.

If you don't, he will master you.

Good. And again.

Leave him alone!
Shut up. Get in line.

You are all responsible
for each other's welfare.

That's enough!

You see?

You are in control.

Now wipe that blood off your nose.

You look like a savage.

Never get quite used to it, do you?

The emptiness.

No-one left.

I think about things differently
now everyone's gone.

All my girlfriends going on
all the time about getting married,

having babies, settling down.

It all seemed so boring.

Now I think... I'd like to one day.

You know...

.. maybe with someone. Have kids.

I didn't mean with you!

Why not?

Hey.

We will find Tom, you know.

Tomorrow or the day after.

We'll find out where they took him.

But will he want to see us...

after what we did to him?

We have to sleep with these things?

They only unlock us
when we're down the mine.

Where do they keep the keys?

The guards have a set.

Smithson too.

We need to get hold of
those keys.

If we all got loose,
we could overpower them easily.

You reckon, Greg?

If we're going to get out of here,
we've got to work together.

Well, I've had enough
working with you.

Votes,

debates...

.. juries. All right.

If you want to have a go at me, fine.
Bring it on.

But let's get out of here first.

I'll look after myself, thanks.

Someone's coming!

It's Billy.

Stop. Stop!

Come on. Quick!

That's him over there.

Blimey. It's you lot.

Didn't you see us
on the road back there?

No. World of me own
behind the wheel.

Look, we need your help.
Come indoors, then.

Meet my old lady.

The good thing about the virus,
the bar's always open.

No breathalysers either.

Do you fancy a real cup of tea?
That would be amazing.

Just let me find the old girl.
.. Sally?

Where's the daft cow gone?

Sally?

Sally, where are you?

Sally?

Oi, where've you been?
Sorry, Billy. I was just...

Never mind. We've got company.

You'll need to handle this lot carefully.
They caused a ruckus at Willis's place

and Smithson's got their mates
down the mine, so keep them happy.

Aren't you staying, Bill? I spotted kids on
the road. I don't want to let them slip away.

Now, John and the lads will be over
for lunch any minute.

They can take it from there.
What if they don't want to stay?

Just keep them talking.
You're no fool.

Smile, love. It might never happen.

Hiya. Hi, one and all.
Ready for a nice cuppa, are we?

I'm Sally, by the way.

Sally... I can't remember.
Doesn't really matter now.

I'll never remember
all your names straight off.

I've just got something to drop off.
I'll see you later.

Listen, Billy,
we've got something to ask you.

Can you think of anywhere you've
passed there might be a prison? Prison?

I can't, no.
I mean, I pass the old prisons

now and again,
but there's no-one left in there.

No-one alive anyway.

No. I tell you what, I do have
a few contacts here and there.

I could ask around,
see what turns up.

You sit tight here. How's that?
OK, that would be great. Thank you.

Right then, tea.

We're wasting time.

Something isn't right here.

No. I'd better take a look.

Naj, let's go for a walk.

Where are you going?

Oh, we're just going to
stretch our legs a little.

Don't stray too far because
it's easy to get lost around here.

Come on! Move it.

Come on.

Ow!

I think I know
how to get us out of here.

It would mean me getting out first.

That's a slice of luck.

And then I'd come back
for the rest of you.

Of course you will.

What, do you think
I'd just look out for myself?

You can't get us out of here, Greg.
Haven't got the bollocks for it.

Look out!

Someone help me down here.
We've got a man injured!

Are you all right?

No.

My stomach! It really hurts.

OK, we need to get him out of here.

Get someone to have
a proper look at him.

Have you got any bright ideas?
Yeah, as it happens.

Everyone, stop! Don't move.

No-one move.
Careful no-one makes a spark.

What's going on down there?

We've hit a gas pocket.

So what? Dig the coal.
Are you crazy?

One spark could blow us all up.
You too.

Who the hell's in charge
around here?

Oh! Me stomach's bad.
You'll be all right.

It's lucky Greg smelt that gas.
There is no gas.

He's just at it,
trying to get a chance to leg it.

Smart idea, that.

Yeah.

You men, out now. All of you!

Nice place. Mm.

Do you think anyone lives here?
I don't know.

Let's just wait here.

Naj! Which part of "wait here"
do you not understand?

It's Greg.

What's that thing around his neck?

He's a prisoner.

Come on!

Any scraps, if you just put them
in there for the pigs.

You have pigs as well? Yeah.

Not just Billy, then?

Pigs have got better manners!

How did you meet him, anyway?

He found me...

you know, in the road, crying.

I'd lost everyone.

It was the same for all of us.
Even my little ones.

Both of them.

And their dad and my mum, his mum,
both my sisters, all their kids...

Imagine that, all of them.

It was horrible.

You are going to have me
crying in a minute.

Tears won't bring them back.

Right, anyone for more tea?

Expecting someone?

Not Billy?

You think you owe him, don't you?

He brought me here.

You don't owe him more than thanks.

The things we have to do now
just to survive,

we'd have been ashamed
back then, wouldn't we?

Come on. Let's go.

Wait there.

The Anabasis.

Do you know Xenophon?

Great Athenian warrior writer.

"The sea, the sea. "
It's a quotation.

Thalatta! Thalatta!

100 years ago, every reasonably
well-read schoolboy in Britain

would have been able to identify it.

One can't help admiring the Greeks.

So many of their thinkers
were men of action.

If you've grown work-shy,
that's fine.

But you will be given no more food.
You've a fire-damp down there.

Have you any idea what that means?
I'm afraid not.

There's a large pocket of methane gas
trapped in your seam.

It's highly volatile.
One spark from a pickaxe

and it could go up like a bomb
and kill everyone down there.

Oh, that would be a pity. Labour
is very difficult to get these days,

as you know from
personal experience.

You think it's funny to put men
in chains and make them slaves?

Got to get our world working again,
haven't we?

Scavenging is fine while summer
lasts, but when winter comes...

we'll soon learn
who the real survivors are.

If the damp combusts, it'll bring
the entire gallery down with it.

You know something about this?

I studied geology
for a couple of years. Where?

Greenwich University.
Huh! Former polytechnic, I believe.

Why on earth do you think I would
believe this arrant pack of lies?

Do you want to take a chance?

It's the men who had Greg.
We've got to warn Abby.

Hey, hey, hey!
They'll see us, you idiot.

Stay down.

You've got to hide.
What's happening?

What? In the kitchen,
while you still can.

You're so nice,
I can't let them take you.

Who? I can't bear this any more.

What's going on? Just stay quiet.

Spitting feathers...
All right, lads? Pints all round?

What's for lunch, gorgeous?
Pork casserole.

Billy been back, has he?
Came and went. You know Billy.

No deliveries for us today?

No. No, he said
it was pretty quiet on the road.

We've had to bring all the prisoners
above ground.

The mine's shut down at the moment.
Gas scare.

Come on, I'm dying for a drink.

Well, I don't smell any gas.

Methane is odourless.
Convenient!

So how do you know it's there?

I heard it escaping.

Lend me your cigarette lighter.

Methane is lighter than oxygen.

As I raise the flame, it'll leap
and turn blue if the gas is present.

But won't that cause an explosion?

It could do.

All right. There's no need for that.

So what do we do?

Fill a wagon with earth,
shovel it in,

pack it down hard
and that should cap it off.

Great. Well, do that,
then get that lot up there to help

and you'd better come back
to the house.

I think we should talk further.

Go!

We know where Greg is. They're
both here, both your friends.

Oh, I'm sorry.

They've been made to work
at Mr Smithson's coal mine.

Billy brings them here...

.. people that he finds on the road.

It's my job to keep them happy
until the men take them.

I was so lost and lonely,
so grateful to see a friendly face.

I'm so ashamed.

Then why do you do it?
What choice have I got?

At least it's safe here.
There's food to eat.

Mr Smithson, he looks after us.

I only do the cooking.
I'm not as bad as some of them.

Sally, we are going to get
our friends back.

You can't...
And you are going to help us.

We'll find a room for you here.

It'll be pleasant to have
some civilised company.

That can't be very comfortable.

I suppose you haven't had
a hot shower since the plague hit?

You have one here?

Coal-fired.

Get yourself scrubbed up
and we'll talk further.

You have to take me with you.
I can't stay here.

Of course we will. Promise?

And no more Billy.
I'd like that.

Come on. Let's go.

OK, Anya and I will keep Smithson
busy as long as we can.

Al, you and Naj go to the mine and
wait for Sarah to bring you the keys.

Release Tom and Greg
and meet us on the motorway.

What about the other prisoners?

We'll do what we can, but...
Tom and Greg come first.

Keep down. There are guards.

Woah!

Woah!

Slow it down.

I found these charts
of the old mine workings.

They mean anything to you?

Oh, yes, this is very, very useful.

From this it seems
the vein is still pretty extensive.

Prove to me
you can get the coal out efficiently

and you can join me
as a stakeholder.

Which is worth what, exactly?

For now, a warm bed
and three good meals a day.

But when winter comes
and we really start to sell,

we'll name our price.

Excuse me, Mr Smithson.

There's two ladies at the door. They
say they've got a business proposal.

Well, tell them I'll be there
in a moment.

We need to drill boreholes
through here and here. That way...

Well, tell John what you need.
Excuse me a moment.

What a delightful surprise.

Survivors who don't look like
they've gnawed their way here.

We drove. It was easier.

Henry Smithson. Abby Grant.

And this is Anya Raczynski.

We heard you had coal here.

That's quite correct.
We'd like to barter with you.

We have vegetables
and pigs and chickens too.

In line! Shut up!

How many of you are there
in your group? Over 30 now.

Ah! Well, I was just about to
have dinner.

Why don't you join me
and we'll talk about it further?

Great.

John, these ladies
will be joining us for dinner.

Would you let Sally know?
Of course, Mr Smithson.

So, this group of yours,
it's a commune, no doubt?

Fluffy chicks and earnest
discussions about democracy?

We don't have time for politics.
We're just trying to stay alive.

Ah! You're there.
We were just going up for dinner.

You... You know each other?

No. This is my new mining manager.

You've chosen your moment wisely.

We were just discussing how to raise
our productivity, weren't we?

Sally.

They've just gone up to dinner.

Where does he keep the keys?

In his desk in the study.

It's off the main hall
at the top of the stairs.

OK, wait till it's safe,
then go get them, bring them to me.

You can do it.

What are you doing?

Mr Smithson's ready for his dinner
now and there's three extra.

Three?

I'll meet you back here
in ten minutes. Go on, Sally.

Argh!

Arghh!

Somebody help!

Please. It's killing me.

Please! Shut that bloody noise up!

Ow! Arrgh!

If he doesn't shut up...

Argh!

.. none of you eat tonight.

Good lad.

So this commune of yours...

.. where is it? The Wye Valley.

Ah, you have come a long way.

How did you find out about us?

Billy told us.

Ah, of course.

Our window on the world. There are
people joining us all the time.

I suppose you have to be careful
about the sort of person you let in.

Yes, it's a concern.

I'm sure.

Please...

I'm afraid it's only simple fare

but at least the wine
won't disappoint. Thank you, Sally.

Say what you will about the virus,
but it did offer me

a pretty free run
at the St John's College cellar.

So you weren't in mining before,
then? No.

I was professor of classical history
at Oxford.

My colleague here,
he worked in mining.

Not really, um...

I studied geology at university.
Yes, Norwich.

Greenwich.

Of course, the polytechnic.

Still, you had the benefits
of some sort of education,

unlike the rest of our happy band.
Most of them barely read or write.

Take John, for example,
he flogged motor insurance.

I was senior broker.

Cold calling over the telephone.
I was bloody good at it.

Now you're a coal miner?

I'm not one of them losers,
I'm the foreman.

Good for you.

No-one's looking. I could get
into the hut and get the keys.

Just sit still
and wait for Sarah, OK?

The best way for a plan to go wrong
is to change it midway.

It could have gone wrong already.

Tom...

It's going to be OK, isn't it?

Sure is. I'll see you.

One of the prisoners
has escaped!

Right, there he is.

Come on! It's Tom!

Get round the back.
We need to help him.

Stay there!

You leave him alone.

Get off! Stay there.

Our life here is hard,
of course,

but we like to think of ourselves
as a small outpost...

More wine?

Sally?

Where's Sally? Sally!

Sorry.
Gently there, Sally. Gently.

And how do you get the coal out?

It can't be an easy job.

We have a system.
Tried and test over millennia.

What system?

We use a form of... slavery.

It's cheap...

and effective.

And immoral.

Depends on the morality you choose,
doesn't it?

Well said, that man.

Most choose a moral code which
chimes with their own survival needs.

And who are these slaves?
Criminals, thieves...

The detritus of our new society.

Well, they can't all have done
something wrong.

Not all of them, no,
some of them are just unfortunate.

Tell me, would you haul coal all day
if you had a choice?

Of course you wouldn't.
You'd have to be forced.

And we need that coal.

Our future depends on it.

DOGS BARK

We need to reinvent our society,
don't you agree?

Yes, yes, of course.

But you can't have society
without an economy.

Aren't you ashamed
of what you are doing?

Not in the least. All civilisations
in their formative years

were built on slavery.

Later they gave the slaves wages
and later still

holidays and home loans,

but the principle remains the same.

Which is what?
Never let them look up.

Oh! Sorry.

Oh, Sally,
you are fingers and thumbs tonight.

Here, let me give you a hand.

I'm sorry. Thank you, Mr Smithson.

Thank you.

You know, what you are doing is cruel.
Men are going to die in these conditions.

They're dying anyway out there.

Killing each other over a litre of
petrol or a carton of baked beans.

It is cruel, the facts are cruel.

Our species is nearly extinct.

I suppose you won't be wanting
our coal now, will you?

We still have to keep warm
in winter.

Yes.

Yes, she's right, we, um...

we need the coal.

So, how long have you been manager,
Greg?

Not long at all.

Um, it'll be dark soon, I won't be
able to survey the ground until morning

if I don't do it right away.
You want to leave us now?

I've got a lot of work to do.
Of course.

I'll get a couple of chaps
to take you out...

No, I can find my own way.
Not at all.

I'll bring the car round
to the front.

Delightful company, don't you think?

Yes, they seem very nice.

It's strange,
but for a moment there,

I could have sworn that you and
Mrs Grant recognised each other.

No, she reminded me of someone.

Oh, I do know, we all live
in a world of ghosts now.

This way.

Ah, your escort.

I don't think you and Mrs Grant
were introduced, were you?

Odd that she should know your name.

It is a pity.

I could have really done
with someone who knew about mining.

So...

Mrs Grant,

how long have you known Greg?

You know, we have a chance to
start civilisation all over again,

and of all possible courses,
you choose slavery.

I'm sure our descendants
will look back on us

with shame, but from what
I remember of the old world,

as long as it happens out of sight,
no-one cares too much.

Well, you seem to have found
a set of people who agree with you.

Who wouldn't rather be a master
than a slave...

if that were the only choice?

He must have stolen the key
when I tried to help him.

Get off him!

Get back!

Aaargh!

Aargh! Aargh!

We just came here for our friends.

Just let us collect them
and we'll leave and never come back.

Sorry, my dear,
I really can't spare the manpower.

Let go!

Oh, do stop whimpering, Sally.
I'm not going to harm you.

Just remember
whose side you're on in the future.

Tell me exactly where it hurts.

Everywhere.

You'll be all right, mate.

No problem.

At least Tom got away.

He'll come back for us.

Except he doesn't know you're here.

He knows you are.

Oh, come on,
he wouldn't abandon you.

Mm, you think...? I know! Get real,
Abby, he's not coming back.

Hi, mate. Need a hand?

Help!

Help!

You can shout all you want,

no-one's going to hear you.

Don't leave me here. I'll die.

Help!

Get out. Come on.

Scarper!

Whatever he told you,
he was lying, now let's go.

Don't take sweets from strangers.

Where's Billy?
Go on, hop it.

# I turned 21 in prison
doing life without parole

# No-one can steer me right
But Mama tried... #

Come on, move it.

I've got a critically injured boy
here. I want him taken somewhere

where I can look after him properly.
Get to work, all of you!

Poor boy. What happened to you?

Stop looking at me!

What did I tell you, John?
Don't talk to them.

Human contact loosens control.

Not him.

Both the Spartans and the Athenians
were as one

on the remedy to a slave rebellion.

The punishment should be
so draconian...

.. that no slave would dare
show resistance again.

Hang him.

Greg!

Go on, John. Just get on with it.

No! No!

No!

You heard what Mr Smithson said.

No!

What's Billy doing down here?

Where is he, then?

The hands.

Let's go.

No, Abby's here with the others.
Come on.

Abby? Abby!

Grab your P45s, lads!

Come on!

Abby, are you OK?

What the hell are you lot
doing here? Looking for you.

Well, you're mugs, then.

Go on, get him!

From now on we stick together,
no matter what.

What's going on?
The mine's closing down.

Come on, let's get him in the truck.

We can't just let them kill
everyone.

They'll kill us if we try to stop
them, now let's go! What about Sally?

We can't save everyone.

He's right. We have to look out
for ourselves now.

No, we get Sally and then we leave.
Come on.

Sally?

Sally!

You think anarchy
is better for anyone?

Well, we'll all starve now!

All of us!

Even you!

You'll starve now!

You'll starve! We need control!

Abby...

We need control!

Sally!

Come on! We won't let them hurt you.
Come on.

Let's get you out of here, come on.
Come on, quickly.

Back the way we came.

In the car, come on.

He's bleeding internally.

I think his spleen is ruptured.
There must be something you can do.

Oh, help me, please.

I can't stand it any more. Just...

Please, just finish it.

Argh!

Argh!

Argh!

Oh! Argh!

It's just a case of waiting now.

But he's in so much pain.

Can't you do anything?
SCREAMING CONTINUES

There's no morphine in the truck,
nothing to make it...

easy, and...

.. anyway, I... don't know if I could.

You all right, mate?

I want to go home.

I know, mate.

Mam...

I was in the garden

and Mam was...

just feeding the birds

and she was telling me
all their names,

like the sparrow and the thrush
and all that, and...

.. and I like it when they come up
close and they eat out of my hand.

I'll sit with him.

Go on. It's OK.

Argh!

Hey...

You see in the trees...

over there?

See the birds?

What birds?

Them with the bright feathers.

Up in the branches.

Can you see them?

Maybe, yeah.

Just keep looking.

You'll see them.

Who we were before, all the things
we did, it doesn't matter any more.

All that matters...

is who we are now.

It's Billy.

Give us a hand, son.

I wasn't going to hurt you.

I was taking you somewhere nice.

Oh.

Good lad.

I'll see you all right for this.

What's your name, son?

Peter.

Peter Grant.

Peter Grant?

You stick with me, Peter.

I know some people
who have been looking for you.

Get down. On your knees!

Just cos you're in love doesn't mean
everyone else has to be.

You like her, don't you?

I'm glad you came.

I'm not scared of you.
Are you scared of me?

I love you. It can't happen.

It feels blessed, this place.

Oh, my God!

You shouldn't be here.

Where's Sarah?

I'm Mr Stevens.

You haven't come for me, have you?

I'm going back to the lab. The virus
finally broke through their defences.

Abby?

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