The Fades (2011): Season 1, Episode 4 - Episode #1.4 - full transcript

OK. So... here's where we are -

the dead, the Fades,
are walking the Earth.

They're angry... and
they're fighting back.

Agh!

They're doing a good job of fighting
back, mainly by eating human flesh,

which allows them to touch.

But on the other side of the net,
there's these guys called the Angelics,

who are trying to stop
these growing-powerful,

eating-flesh dead people.

But they keep getting killed off

by this Angelic-killing Fade guy.
He's bad, and not in a good way.



And something very strange
may have just happened to him,

but I'm not sure of the details.

As the bodies pile up
and people disappear,

in the ordinary world, they're
beginning to ask questions.

People like my
dad, a police officer.

Sadly, they're asking
the wrong questions,

which is why my history
teacher is under arrest

for... dead people's crimes.

Finally, there's my...
friend Paul, an Angelic.

He's a pretty...
special Angelic.

In fact, he may be
the best Angelic,

not that that matters any more

because, um, he got
knocked over by a truck.

Paul!



A truck. Oh, um...

Who's seen my copy of,
um, Wizard Of Oz? Hmm?

Nanoo-nanoo.

Hello?

Excuse me.

Excuse...

Jay?

Jay!

He's going to be OK, isn't he?

Unh!

Hello?

Hello?

Hello?

Son, hello.

Are you OK?

Where's your clothes, son?

Drugs, is it?

We can get you some help.

- Yah!
- Jesus Christ!

21-down, eight letters.

"Blank Bound: The
Incredible Journey."

Anyone?

Homeward...

I'll give you a clue,
it involves animals.

And it's not Ace Ventura, Dr
Dolittle, Lassie or The Jungle Book.

Homeward Bound:
The Incredible Journey.

Three-down, four letters.

1986 movie starring Grace Jones.

Vamp.

Slightly tricky.
Supernatural. Slightly culty.

I'm going to have to
help you out on this one.

Yeah.

You guessed it, it's, um...

Mum...

Vamp.

- Mum...
- We have a winner,

- and the winner is me.
- Mac...

- What a lovely audience you are!
- Mum!

Agh!

Gah!

Meg, can... we
have a private word?

Anything you want to say
to me, you can say to them.

OK.

Paul is brain-dead.

We did everything we could.

I'm so sorry.

But I'm afraid we're going to have
to discuss taking him off life support.

Quick. OK. Got her?

Got her?

Try and keep her under control!

Keep it quiet, please.

Phil, get that.

Yeah?

Neil! Neil!

It's some kid called Mac.

What do you want?

Paul's been hurt.

There's been an accident.

You're honestly sitting there
and saying... that I killed my wife.

That's the second
time you've done that...

talked about her
in the past tense.

Will you stop?!

What changed your mind, Mark?

My wife's divorcing me at the
moment, so I know how hard that is.

That feeling of everything you've
done together... being spoiled.

That feeling of everything
she's told you about yourself...

being lies.

No, she loved me.

I love you.

And I...

And you loved her
back, of course you did.

But you couldn't live together.

Yes, it was difficult...

- So you killed her.
- Will you stop?

I don't know what you've been
doing here, Mark... but you scare me.

How do you work?

How have you done this?

Are you here?

Sarah?

- You're here.
- Mark.

Ah!

Are you not going in?

They say his chances of
survival are a million to one.

That's not very
good odds, then, is it?

No.

Until you consider there's 62
million people in this country.

That means if every single person
in the UK was in the same coma,

62 of them would survive.
And I bet... Paul, with your help,

I bet on Paul definitely
being one of them.

No. No, he's dead.

Worldwide, the
population's 6.91 billion

and we're all citizens
of the world, so...

He's dead?

But they haven't turned the machines
off yet, he still could come back to us.

I thought you were
going to help him.

He's dead?

How do you know?

Because his Fade is
standing right next to you.

Am I dead?

Yeah. I'm sorry...

Mac, but now that I've
found him, we've got to go.

He's here? Can I say something?

Yeah, let him. Le... let him.

I need him to know
how sorry I am.

- It was my fault.
- No.

He was looking at me
when a truck hit him.

Neil... please...

just... say something.

He's not to blame.

Sounds like it
was his fault to me.

Responsibility.

Blame.

Guilt.

They're not always bad things.

Paul?

Paul... Paul...

Come on, darling.

Oi! Put it back!

Creepy fucker.

I told you this place would
be a fucking goldmine.

Hey, li... listen, we
don't do refunds.

Who?

Who?

Paul.

Paul Roberts,

AKA sports
personality of the year.

He's in a coma. Some loss!

Fucking freaks.

This is Steve here. I'm not here
right now. Leave us a message.

Hi, Steven.

Remember that time you
blew a raspberry on my twat

and thought it was funny, and I
didn't speak to you for a week?

This is worse.

Call me back.

We've been using
this place for 20 years.

It was built as a bunker
during World War Il.

Left to rot. Now... it's ours.

While there's an
Angelic killer on the loose,

it's the safest place for us.

You know, you're not
speaking too much,

and I'm not great at mind-reading.
What, are you sulking?

Why did you bring me here?

You said I'm no use to
you now. So why am I here?

To prove a point.

Nothing.

The camera's not picking her up.

She seems to be changing.

This is organic matter.

Paul?

- So he's really dead, then?
- Yup.

He's really dead.

Shit.

- You know what? It's a good thing.
- A good thing?!

Because there's no relying on
some sort of rescue package now.

OK? Superman is dead.

God is dead.

The Easter Bunny is dead.

That's what I prove?

Yes, that's what you prove.

All right? This is now a war.

She's going to tell
us how to win it.

Higgy, Maddy...

Where is he,
Natalie? Where is he?

- Stop! Stop, Neil!
- Where's the Angelic killer?!

Do it, go on.

Where is he?

Where's the killer?

Neil! Neil!

Neil, Neil, Neil, Neil, what
are you doing with that knife?

Shut up. You had an
opportunity, you, and you blew it.

OK, kid?

We have a code, Neil!

Fuck the code.

Do you understand
how much shit we're in?

Do you understand
that there's going to

come a tipping point soon, beyond
which we won't be able to beat them?

Now, you can
fight me if you want,

but you're not going to convince
me that this is not the right thing to do.

Do you want to fight me?

- No.
- Right. Then let go of my fucking hand.

This is wrong. This... is wrong.

Where do you think you're going?

You're a Fade. You
can't open doors.

Yeah, well, he's not
going alone, is he, Neil, eh?

Phil... Phil! Shit!

Well, that sorted out
the wheat from the chaff.

I'm going to ask you one
more time before I use this.

Where is he, Natalie?

Where's the Angelic killer?

No?

- Paul!
- Paul!

- Let me out.
- No, just wait a minute.

Let me out! I don't
want to be here!

What's he even doing?!

I don't know. Whatever
he feels is right.

- We can't stop him?
- Yeah, well,

maybe we can with your help.

You could be important.

I'm not important.

I'm dead.

- Leave me alone.
- Paul!

Hi.

Hello.

I thought you probably needed
something to eat, so, um...

I brought you a sandwich.

Well, I brought you
several, because...

despite spending the last 17
years of my life in your house,

I'm not sure of your
filling preference.

I got a cheese
ploughman's, which, um...

advertises that it has no
mayonnaise, like it's a good thing,

spicy chicken...

and ham and pickle.

- I'm not hungry.
- Which is a response I anticipated.

I'd like to counter that
with the notion that...

Paul wouldn't want
you to make yourself ill.

You know?

You should eat
because he'd like you to.

Which one do you want?

I'm truly indifferent.

My taste buds aren't up to much.
My mum smoked through pregnancy.

I always just mainly
taste the bread.

I'll have the ham.

Good choice.

Please don't turn
off the machines.

I'm here to beg you to
not turn off the machines.

You're here to do what?

I love him more than any
other person in this world,

which I know is not as
much as you, but I do.

And I think it makes me the
only person that can understand

even a tenth of what
you're going through.

We're not having a competition
to see who loves Paul best.

This boy...

This boy is part of me.

- No, I know.
- And the doctor says

turning off the machines
will make things better for him.

Doctors can be wrong.

After what you've done,

- you dare to come in here and...
- He was...

I was...

I'm sorry.

He ran into a road
with his ears shut.

I know.

- I saw and...
- You were careless with him, Mac.

And that means it's my decision,

not yours.

Steve?

Oh, sorry.

I... am... John.

I... am...

John.

What?

You can see me.

I can.

You're in my dreams.

Who are you?

Wait!

Agh! Agh!

Uh!

When I was a boy, there were these
sweets called... Pontefract cakes.

What were you doing in my dream?

- They were nice on their own, but...
- How can you see me?

You put them on your mouth with
a Mackintosh rosemary chocolate,

which actually were
my mother's favourite...

heaven,

a heavenly mixture.

But...

that was 1932, and this is now.

And this chocolate is not bad.

19... 32?

Sorry. Where are my manners?
Are you... Are you hungry?

I'm starving.

I'm hungrier than starving.

I'm... I'm famished.

I'm ravenous.

I'm food impoverished.

You were a boy in 1932?

You're not much older than me!

Huh!

Shocking, isn't it?

There was, of course,
a... a dead bit in between.

I died for a bit.

And now I live.

Let's walk.

I still don't get what you
were doing in my dream.

Haven't you worked it out yet?

Who I am?

Fuck off.

It's you... you
tried to kill me.

Now here's the fun
part - I can't kill you!

You're a Fade now.
You can't touch,

you can't feel, but
you can be trapped.

Those doors are shut. How are
you going to open them, Paul?

You could be stuck up here
for a very long, lonely time.

Unless...

you can tell me
what I need to know.

What do you need to know?

I sent a young girl to
follow you. Her name's...

Natalie.

And I like her.

And I think damage is being
done to her by your people.

And I want her back.

She tried to kill me.

So did I.

So you want me to help a
murderer find a murderer? Fuck you!

You're one of those
honourable types. How modern!

I'd rather spend for
ever up here than...

I wouldn't help you even
if it cost me everything!

Cost you everything?

You don't know what
"everything" means.

For nearly 70 years I
watched my wife suffer

while my Fade body
rotted away from me.

You're a fucking child.

And I will not be
lectured by you!

I was one of the first.

Sicily, 1943.
Killed by a mortar.

One of many that year.

There was so much death, it's
no wonder the ladder got broken.

And when it did, I, along with
thousands, possibly millions of others,

became trapped in a world
in which I couldn't touch.

I could only watch as my
loved ones carry on without me.

And, while I watched, my
body continued to age, and rot.

Not a nice situation.

I didn't deserve
it. None of us did.

So you killed people...

to make it better?

No, I didn't kill.

That's not how it started.

I was saved.

By my wife, as it happens.

We were married at 18.

At 20, I was sent to war
and at 22, I didn't return.

I watched her marry again
to a man that beat her.

I watched her give birth to children
who didn't think that much of her.

And then...

when the cancer came...

I watched her choose dignity.

All I could do was watch.

I couldn't touch.
I couldn't cry out.

The pain of that first drop of
blood on my face was excruciating.

But the thought of leaving her
was even more excruciating,

so I lay there... took the pain.

Three days of her
blood dripping on me,

drying on me, enveloping me.

And it was that
blood... that saved me.

It burnt me, and where it
burnt me, I grew new skin.

Skin that I could feel with.

I found a way... to be free.

But to be free...

you became a killer.

Don't even think what I
did even starts to compare

with what the Angelics did.

What did the Angelics
do that was so bad?

From the start, we
begged them for help.

We said that there must be a
way for them to reopen ascension.

That they had to
reopen ascension.

So they met,

they talked...

and they decided that
interfering with ascension

was beyond the Angelic remit.

We'd just have to
learn to accept our pain.

They ref... refused to help?

We couldn't touch the living,

but they became afraid
of what we might do.

So they made guns tipped
with organic matter to hurt us.

They herded us like cattle.

They became our prison guards.

This is my truth, Paul, and it is
the truth, and I think you know it.

And I think what they're doing
to Natalie right now proves it.

I tried to get
them to let her go.

I can't help you.

They won't listen to me.

All I need you to
do is take me there.

I won't hurt them, I won't
kill them, I give you my word.

I’ll just go in and get her out.

The camera's picking her up.

So they can be seen.

She's becoming flesh.

Pre-ascension
jitters? Forget about it.

You'll definitely ascend.

Have you come to see us?

Argh. Fuck!

He'll be OK, right?

He'll be fine. Come on.

Whoa. That's...

What have you been
doing to her, Neil?

Who are you here with?

Phil and Alice come back,
have they? Come crawling back?

Higgy let me in.

Neil?

What's going on?

Paul, where's Higgy?

Higgy!

You stay and watch Natalie.

Paul, you come with me.

Neil, why don't
you just let her go?

Seriously, Neil,
just let her go.

Neil?

What the...

Neil?

Neil!

Neil...

Someone's in, someone's in!

Maddy!

Maddy!

No!

Fuck off!

Move over.

- It's OK, Maddy.
- Maddy?

Oh...

No!

Maddy!

No. She's dying. She's gone.

Come on, Maddy.

Maddy.

How did he get in?

I'll give you three guesses.

You'll only need one.

Neil...

Neil...

Neil. Neil, Neil!

Oh, my... No, no!

No!

Neil! No! Neil!

- Arrrgh!
- Higgy!

Higgy! No!

Get inside! In there! Go!

You killed them.

You killed them.

Do you understand
what I've just learned?

I'm immortal.

This is better than I thought.

You killed them.

You... you promised!

I really hope you don't ascend.

You'll be a very useful
member of my team.

Who is he?

Who is he?

That's your Angelic killer.

He promised he
wouldn't hurt anyone.

He what?

He pro... he promised you?!

Why?

Why did you do this to us?

Walk away from me, Paul, now.

Walk away from me!

I'm glad you fucked him.
In case you were worried.

Nice that he had a chance to...

you know, with a real girl.

Thanks.

And frankly, you're pretty good
looking and you've got a great arse,

so he probably did better
than he should have done.

Which is good, cos...

now he's dead.

Are you OK, Anna?

Sorry. Stupid question.

I can't get this thought
out of my head...

if Mum had the choice...

I'd be on that bed, not him.

That's not true.

Selfish bitch, aren't I?

We got forensics back.

And?

The teeth don't match.

Sorry, sir. It's not our man.

We're letting you go.

But I will be watching you.

Paul?

Are you here?

Paul?

Are you... here?

If your ghost is here,
just give me a signal.

Shut the fuck up! What?

Really? Oh, this is really OK.

OK. Shit.

I've got so many
questions to ask you...

Well, let's start with who you are
and what you're doing in this room.

I'm Mac, I'm Mac! I was
looking for Paul's ghost and...

I have nowhere else to go.

Shit. It's the kid
from the phone.

Sorry, we just didn't
know who you were.

I know who you are.
You're wizards, right?

You answered Neil's phone, so
that probably makes you wizards.

You're here to bring him
back to life. I knew it! I knew it!

- Bollocks.
- When I cut myself, he made it better.

He just did. You did the same
thing, but on a bigger scale.

He's back. He's alive!

We're here looking for Paul's
Fade before he goes into ascension.

And we can't bring
him back to life, all right?

I mean, this
life-and-death thing,

it's a bit more complicated
than a busted arm.

- I'm sorry.
- OK,

so they're complicated,
that means we can't even try?

Because I'm heartbroken.

His girlfriend's heartbroken, his
twin sister's heartbroken. His mum...

It just doesn't seem fair.

Wait a minute...
did you say twin?

What? What?

And Paul says he's the
one with magic powers.

Where have you been?

Here...

there...

everywhere.

Well, it's good that you're back

cos we've got an hour...

until they turn
the machines off.

They're turning the
machines off at eight o'clock?

Yes, weirdo.

We're taking it in
turns to say goodbye.

No, we're not.

What?

Fuck goodbyes, I hate them. I
much prefer the French way -

au revoir - come back soon.

That's not what au revoir means.

I've met some
really clever wizards.

What?

I found an exhaust port.

We're going to save
your brother's life. Please.

What the fuck are
you talking about?

You know my favourite time?

First thing in the morning.

I used to leave you in
bed while I... had a shower,

and then when I came back
into the bedroom, you'd always...

have fallen asleep again.

You'd wake me up by putting
your cold, wet hand on my back.

I'd just watch you.

Just watch you sleep.

And you looked...

perfect, you just
looked perfect.

Once again, I'm not sure
if I'm talking to myself or...

Actually...

the truth is...

if you are there...

I wish you weren't.

Cos I can't cope with
knowing that you're there.

I can't cope with the idea
that you're watching me

and I can't see you.

Can't feel you.

I wanna touch you too.

It's like, knowing that you're
there, it should fill me with joy,

but it doesn't. In fact, it's
beginning to make me hate you.

So... just... fuck off.

Please.

Out of my life, please.

OK.

OK, baby.

Door was open.

You look like shit.

What... happened here?

Do you remember Natalie?

Unlike you, I never
remembered their names...

We had Natalie,
and now she's gone.

It gets worse...

The Fade who killed you...

he's eaten flesh,
taken human form.

They all can, Sarah.

It was him who did this.

- You've got to get this cleared up.
- I know.

Sarah, am I, um...

Am I a good man?

You're a principled wanker
who gets confused sometimes.

You're also one of
the best men I know.

You were right, you know.

It's inevitable,
this whole thing.

There's nothing
any of us can do.

Tonight, I shot a man,
he came back to life...

How can we fight immortals?

How can I help people?

How can I be good?

Well, if I was right...

you were right too -

even if the world is ending,
even if they are inevitable...

we can't give up.
We've got to fight.

How? How can we fight them?

By having one of
our team on theirs.

It's time for me to...

It's time for me to eat, Neil.

Don't tell me you
haven't considered it.

I never considered

- you'd want to do it.
- I don't.

But I will.

It's not going to be pleasant.

But it's the only way.

Thank you.

- Paul?
- Paul?

What are you doing here?

Mac?

Why have you got my sister?

We're here to do
a... a sort of a...

a soul transplant - we're
going to bring you back to life.

It's like a... it's like
a liver transplant.

We just take a piece and
then just watch it grow.

- This is fucking stupid...
- No, no, no, no!

We haven't got a lot
of time, guys, please.

Please, please.

No, it won't work.

I'm dead. I'm done.

Cursed. Yeah? Well, we disagree,

so get over here and do
as you're told, all right?

I shouldn't even be here.

You're not listening to me.

I got Maddy and Higgy killed...

You know what,
Paul? You're right.

- I'm not listening to you.
- Is he having doubts?

Tell him there's
no time for doubts.

I don't need to tell him
anything - he can hear you.

He can hear us?

Paul, this will work.
Listen - remember that time

when we was 11
in sex ed class...

No time for fond
memories, all right?

Now, we need to do this
and we need to do it now,

so you get over here.

I just don't want to wait
a moment more for Anna.

Never was there
when I needed her.

What are you waiting for?

Reflection.

Go ahead.

Oh!

You did everything you could.

Yeah.

And I failed.

We failed?

I told you I'm cursed.

I'm sorry.

What do you mean, sorry?

- Paul?
- Just tell Mac...

Do something, Paul-I need you!

Tell him to try something else!

I need him.

Paul?

Paul?

Paul!

- What's wrong with him?
- Doctor, what's happening?

Whoa, whoa, whoa, whoa!

He moved.

He just moved.

- What?
- What?

Paul?

- Where's he gone?
- Paul!

He's ascended?

Well, whatever
happened, it wasn't us.

What is this?!

Someone make it stop.

My son.

My son's back.

My son is back. My son is back.

My son is back.

Fuck.

♪ I never knew you

♪ But now I'm
haunted by your past

♪ How long will this last?

♪ I thought you loved me

♪ You say you love me

♪ Life's just a shadow
that you cast. ♪