The Fades (2011): Season 1, Episode 5 - Episode #1.5 - full transcript
As Mac's father, DCI Armstrong, wonders why there are so many missing persons, the evil Fades increase in numbers including Armstrong's superior amongst their victims. Accused of betrayal by Neil, Paul, his family and friends and other Angelics find themselves besieged in a Community Centre set up as an evacuation point and Paul astounds the onlookers by his supernatural ability to kill Fades. The town is evacuated, with Paul and Neil - who has locked Mac in the boot of his car - agreeing to stay behind to seek out the enemy. Sarah, meanwhile, has been encouraged by John to be reborn by eating flesh and turns up on Mark's doorstep.
Last week, my best
friend came back to life.
The day before, he'd died.
A few days before that, he emerges
as the most powerful member
of this tribe of people
called the Angelics.
He acquires magical powers
they didn't even think was possible.
People used to think he was
mad. They were wrong. He's special.
But him being special's
been a tumultuous time.
Actually, that's not even half of
it! There's these dead people -
the Fades - and they're
trying to come back to life,
led by this dude called John
who died in 1943 and has come
back to life by eating human flesh.
And now he's got a taste
for it, he just can't stop.
Yeah, I know.
He tricked Paul into helping him rescue
this girl, Natalie, from the Angelics.
And with her help, he's bringing a whole
army of dead people back into our town.
- We've got to fight.
- Meanwhile,
the Angelics have
their own plan.
How?
By having one of
our team on theirs.
And those of us stuck in the
middle of it - me, my history teacher,
Paul's mum, Paul's sister, Paul's
girlfriend - we just stick out our chin,
grin and try and pretend we
understand what's going on. Scary.
Now, who's seen
my Matrix box set?
I'm pretty sure I've worked out
who the Architect is a metaphor for.
Na-Nu, Na-Nu!
Due to the high volume of
missing persons enquiries,
a crisis centre has been
set up at St Barnabas School.
I repeat, a missing persons crisis
centre has been set up at the school.
I don't even know if he's all
right or if he should be here!
The doctor didn't even
want to discharge you.
I am allowed to be worried.
He's fine, watch this...
Lord Of The Rings.
Why don't they just fly in and out of
Mordor on the back of a giant eagle?
Boom!
They didn't want to discharge
him because he's too well.
That's ridiculous.
Mission: Impossible Il.
Cruise manages to find a face mask of
the bodyguard without ever having seen
- or met him before.
Yeah, likely - Kaboosh!
Very few people actually come
out of a coma healthier. It's... odd.
My name is Dr Mac the Movie Doctor
and I pronounce a clear bill of health.
He has a good
recall of basic facts.
"Basic facts"?
The Matrix.
This is Steve...
- Where do I start?
- Direct hit.
Erm, Steve! Call me back!
Home run!
"Got well soon."
I see what you've done there.
I'm OK, Mum.
Good to have you home.
Steve's still not
answering my calls.
Yeah, the school's going
to be a secondary location.
We're completely swamped
on missing persons.
Armstrong wouldn't know a
suspect if one bit him on the arse.
Look, Carol, I'll
need to go, right?
Hello.
Hello?
We come in peace.
Oh, do you now?
That must be nice.
Sarah?!
So why are you here?
- Paul's back.
- What?
Back from the dead?
Sarah... Are you OK?
So he's eaten, then?
No, he hasn't eaten.
He just... came back.
He closed an
ascension point, but...
The ascension point's closed?
That's what's happened,
isn't it, eh? Sarah...
Sarah's eaten, hasn't she?
- Hasn't she?
- It was my idea.
At least we're trying for
a solution to this mess.
Sarah eats, she'll be reborn.
Immortal, just like him.
The boy, he came back.
The boy's the answer!
The answer to what?
People have died.
The boy's a joke.
We can beat them.
We need to try.
With Sarah's help, we
can start to fight back.
You're going to
destroy her, Neil.
I'm not staying to watch.
What's happening?
I don't know.
It must be him.
We've got to get
everyone out of here.
We've got two more.
Good.
I love this.
I love you.
I've never been happier
than I am right now.
Thank you...
for what you did.
Tried and failed to save you?
Tried and failed to save me.
Pleasure.
I came back from the dead.
What I am, who I am has
got to mean something.
It probably does.
I was ready to ascend.
I'd let everyone down,
and I was ready to leave this...
rock for ever.
Yeah, yeah, yeah, so
you came back to life.
But can you do this?
Can you, though?
- No.
- Can you?
Well, then you're nothing to me.
Shut up...!
Paul.
Don't tell anyone but I think there's
a real live girl in your bedroom.
Are you wearing
identical pyjamas?
Yeah, they were... they
were the only two I had clean.
Likely story.
So, your mum was pretty clear
I should sleep in Anna's room.
Yeah.
But I don't want to.
No?
Oh. I get it.
Oh, don't mind me. I’ll
just be quiet in the corner.
You do anything you want
to. I won't listen or watch.
- Sofa downstairs it is.
- Yeah.
Night.
You're not even scarred.
The doctor thinks
me a medical miracle.
The doctor thinks
you're a freak.
You're my freak, though.
Yeah.
Are you the man in charge?
- How did you get in here?
- You need to get everyone out of town.
It's not safe here.
- Full scale evacuation?
- Great! You're just what I need
You need to leave. Now.
You're going to
die here. All of you!
If you don't get out now you're going
to be arrested, do you understand?
Men with power. You think you
can scare me, you little, little man?
I'm actually average height.
- Any news on Clement?
- Nothing.
When do we add him to that?
What now?
There's only one thing to do,
we've got to try and find Paul, eh?
Alice?
Rargh!
What's she?
- The girlfriend?
- Yeah.
Pretty.
Neil, what are you doing here?
You were dead.
I know.
And now you're back.
Alice thinks that
makes you important.
What do you think?
Oh, I think I should have a
knife at your throat right now.
Why did you do it?
Why did you help him?
- He promised he wouldn't hurt you.
- And you believed him?!
- A murderer?
- You were cutting Natalie up.
You were torturing her.
He told me that's what the Angelics
had always done. Suppressed, policed.
That's what I believed.
What we did, we did
for the good of everyone.
We thought they could be
dangerous. It turns out, we were right.
The past is a hole
and it's full of what-ifs.
And I live in the present.
You? Don't know where you live.
You confuse me.
One thing I do know...
is that you are going to matter.
And when we find
out why that is...
you're gonna
have to pick a side.
Just make sure you
pick the right side, kid.
Hello, Sarah.
Welcome.
I can't...
You want to.
One time, during the war...
I was fighting alongside this NCO
called, erm, Richard... something.
They brought a man
with his guts ripped out
into the hole that we were in.
Then someone shouted
out for medical support...
and Richard raised
his hand in the air,
"I'm a medic."
And then I watched him...
as he went and held
this man's guts together
and then watched
him till he died.
And afterwards I said to him,
"Richard, I didn't know
that you were a medic."
And he turned to
me and he said...
"I'm not.
"I just wanted to know what
the insides of a man felt like."
Urges are OK.
They're human.
Just eat
and you'll be reborn.
Don't fight it, Sarah. We win.
Sarah?
Sarah!
Oh...
Oh, shit!
Mum?
Mum!
Bad dream?
Yeah.
I didn't wet the bed,
though, so that's a bonus.
We're going to school.
- Are we?
- They've set up a crisis centre.
Steve's not answering my calls.
I think he's missing and Mum says
she'll drive me, but only if you come.
Paul, I'm not
asking. I'm telling!
I don't know whether
there's enough people...
Hi. Excuse me? My
name's Mark Etches.
I was told to report to you.
Not unless you're in need of
help and guidance you weren't.
Peter. Peter Tremlett. Doctor.
I'll be running a
counselling service.
Right. So...
Well, thanks for coming in, Mark.
We're going to need everyone we can get.
Let's see if we can find someone
to show Mark around, all right?
OK.
You really don't have to show me
- everywhere, you know.
- I want to.
And just round here,
we're starting up an online
database of missing persons.
Steve?
- What you doing here?
- Didn't you know?
I'm dead civic-minded, sir.
I work with the elderly, too.
Wiping their arses
and everything.
We've actually had a remarkably good
response to our request for volunteers.
I've got a clipboard and all.
Hi, hello. We're looking
for missing persons.
- Who are you missing?
- Steve.
- Steve McEwan.
- Steve?
He's not missing.
He's a volunteer.
Steve's a volunteer?
He's helping with
the online databasing.
Anna, wait. Anna!
I think I could be
of more use here.
Yes, join me.
Hello, stranger.
Oh... Hello...
stranger still.
Surprised to see you here.
My housemate's
mum has gone missing.
I'm... moral support.
Is your wife still missing?
Erm...
Pretty much officially dead.
Pink suits you.
What's so funny?
What?
What's so funny?
Sorry, who are you?
Erm, Vicky, this is...
Dr Tremlett, right?
No, no, no, I'm sorry.
I'm just kind of interested...
in what's so funny
right now, yeah?
It was just a private joke.
Yeah, and we're actually quite
busy, so unless you want something?
Yeah.
Yeah, I want something.
Oh!
Oof.
Argh!
"Volunteering"?
He's seen some opportunity to
seek out some new pussy, more like.
If I had you, I'd
never let you go.
In order for you to have me,
I'd have to be gagged,
blindfolded and locked in a chest.
That could be arranged.
Why's this door locked?
Oh, speak of the fucking
devil. Where have you been?
- Being a devil, I guess.
- Are you dribbling?!
Course I am. I've
missed you, sweetness.
Tch! Does that work?
Does that work in your head?
"Haven't seen my
girlfriend for days, I’ll just flob
"on myself and
she'll forgive me."
Anna. Stop. That's not normal
dribble. He's one of them.
One of what?
Yeah, one of what?
- Don't come any closer.
- Or what?
- Paul, he's my boyfriend.
- Yeah, and now he's dead, or...
He used to be dead,
now he's come back to life!
- What?!
- Babe, that's not true.
Anna, trust me.
He wants to kill you.
Go.
Steve, what the
fuck are you doing?
Steve?
Argh!
Have to keep feeding...
- Sarah. Sarah!
- They're coming for them so quickly.
Sarah. It's me. Sarah,
where were you?
We need to keep killing.
They can only eat flesh.
What did you see?
Did you find him?
- I've done...
- It's OK, you'll be fine.
- Some things.
- Tell me where you've been.
Sarah, you're going
to be fine. Listen to me.
It hurt. So bad...
- Too badly.
- I know it did.
There were bodies.
So much blood.
Why is every door... locked?!
Steve's dead? My
boyfriend's dead?!
Surely more important is
the fact that he's a zombie?
He was dead. Now he's not,
which makes him a zombie.
It's more complicated than that.
In fact, you were dead and now
you're not. Makes you a zombie.
Mac, this is real. This is,
is... is dangerous. This...
There you go.
Oh, lovely.
So, er... So your
children are at this school?
Yeah, Paul and Anna Roberts.
Anna, well, you've met her.
She's loud. Paul...
Well...
Well, he's...
Paul's quieter.
More contemplative.
If you ever want
to talk to anyone,
Dr Tremlett runs a
counselling service in the gym.
OK, thank you.
What are you doing with us?
We... are...
keeping you.
Keeping us for what?
Keeping us for what?!
Come on!
How'd you know
where the key was?
I volunteer here sometimes.
You're a library monitor?
My boyfriend's dead, and
you're a library monitor?!
Paul, what the fuck
has happened to Steve?
What is he?
If I was to make
an educated guess,
he died,
OK? He became a ghost. A Fade.
Then this guy called John, he's from
the 1940s, he used to be a Fade ghost,
he's probably taught him how
to eat flesh and grow a new body.
- This is serious, Paul.
- I am being serious.
We are in so much danger.
So trap him or something.
You ain't afraid of no ghost.
No, no, you're mental.
You're both mental.
Steve's mental, you're mental...
and Jay's a fucking
library monitor!
I'm sorry, Anna.
My brother?
My stupid pissing brother?
Little pig, little
pig, let me in!
Anna! Anna, let me in!
Let me in right now.
That's it. That's it.
Dad? Dad? Aw, it's
gone to answerphone.
The one time having a dad who's a
policeman might be useful. School. Now!
There's...
Fuck.
I'm going to rip your fucking
head off and spit down your neck.
I'm not afraid of you, Steve.
No-one could be that
scary with a dick your size!
We're going to die here.
I knew this would
happen. Death before life.
I'm going to die and I haven't
even felt a breast in my hand.
Haven't even seen a breast.
That's your excuse to
flash me, by the way.
- Flash this!
- Hmm.
Ah!
We need weapons.
Weapons are no use.
Can't kill them.
They're immortal.
I don't even know how
many of them there are.
Well, what about Mum?
She's still in the hall.
We need to get out of
here, get back to her.
Oh, shit, fuck, shit, fuck, shit.
Paul, what are we going to do?
Right. Who's first?
Me!
- That's for scaring my...
- Argh!
See? Now he's de...
This is your mess. I shouldn't
be cleaning up your mess!
He'll be back. Let's go.
Where's Jay?
- Jay?
- Jay?
- Jay?
- Jay?
- Jay?
- Jay?
Jay!
Ah!
Aagh!
You have 30 seconds to tell me
everything I need to know about Paul.
Start with what he can do.
He came back for a reason.
To stop you.
Wrong answer.
Me?
No, no, no, take
one of the others.
I can be useful, I can
show you where things are.
Please! I don't want to die yet!
Oh, fuck!
OK. I'll try again.
Paul.
The boy that was, that now is.
How has he dragged himself
back to life? Did he eat?
No.
He's important.
Eeny...
meeny...
miny...
moe.
You...
are...
it.
No, no, no, no, no...
It's OK, it's OK. It's OK.
Phil. Phil!
Phil!
I went to them.
Yeah?
I didn't mean to,
but I went to them.
I was drawn there.
Where? Where, Sarah?
I fucked up, Neil. I fucked up.
Jay...
We've got to find her...
Go!
You're pretty. I mean, you've got
hair like a boy, but you're pretty.
Do you think I'm pretty?
Don't cry.
This life is going to
be better for all of us.
I was never happy as a human.
But when the change
happens to you, and it will...
the world just... opens up.
Natalie.
Don't worry, he'll come for you.
Jay. Have you, erm...?
Have you seen Jay?
Jay? I'm sorry. She was
the last one they took.
They took Phil.
Where? Where did they take her?
Paul!
Hello, Paul.
Dr Tremlett.
How's the nightmares?
Still wetting the bed?
He's one of them.
Dr Tremlett...
I need to leave.
Are you going to get out my way?
Paul...
don't pick a fight with it.
You should listen
to your friend, Paul.
He's afraid.
I'm surprised you're not.
You used to always
be afraid of everything.
I'm still afraid.
I'm afraid of letting
my friends down,
I'm afraid of not
being good enough,
I'm afraid of not
doing the right thing.
But you?
I'm bored of being
afraid of things like you.
Do you remember I told you
once that you reminded me of me?
Do you remember I've told
you once to get out of my way?
They've got my girlfriend
so I need to get back to her.
You always were...
such a whingeing little shit.
And all that talking, whining...
"I can't control my bladder."
Well, fuck you and fu...
We may not be able to kill you but
we can keep you from doing damage.
This was a mistake!
I'm losing me.
- I've got this hunger. This hunger.
- No. You're strong.
You're strong. You're
stronger than you know.
Listen to me.
You need to go to the school.
I'm not leaving you. I'm not leaving
you. No way am I leaving you.
You did this for us.
For me.
That's not true, Neil.
Neil, that's not true.
I did it partly for you,
and partly because...
I was frightened of what was
going to happen to me, but mostly...
mostly... I did it
because Mark didn't want me
around any more and I couldn't...
You always did
see the best in me.
Mark...
Please, please leave me.
Leave me.
You need to go to the school.
You need to stop him.
For me.
For everyone.
The boiler room.
The boiler room.
OK.
I'll always see the best in you.
You're all right.
It's all right.
Paul! Paul!
This is a school.
Not a fucking... fridge.
It is...
what it needs to be.
Paul!
Neil. Neil!
Paul, go!
What did I do? What
did I do to him, Neil?!
You killed him, Paul!
You can kill them. Where
is he? Where's the killer?
He's getting away!
I need you, Paul! I can
only slow them down.
Paul!
Paul!
I'm a freak.
But I'm your freak, remember?
Paul! Come on!
Oh, shit.
- Paul?
- No, no, no. Stay back. Stay back!
Paul, you can kill,
you need to kill him.
I can't see him.
I can't see him!
It could be any of them.
Kill them all. Kill them all!
- My mum's in this room!
- He's there.
He's over there.
Do it! Do it, Paul!
My name is Detective
Chief Inspector Armstrong.
But I'm not here as a policeman.
I'm here as a citizen,
as a man,
as a father...
to tell you I think you
should leave town.
We don't know what's happening,
we don't know how it's happening,
and we've got no idea how
to stop it. Not the murders,
the attacks, or the tremors.
We need to evacuate now.
Now!
This can't be why I came back.
No.
I killed Steve.
And that... girl.
Natalie.
They burnt up.
But they were
dead already, right?
I don't want to be a killer.
You don't have to be one.
Superman could crush Lois Lane
after an argument about the washing-up.
He could melt the Daily Planet
after a bad day at the office.
He doesn't.
He uses his powers for good.
That's all you need to do.
I've got to go.
So it's you and me, then.
We'll start a
clean-up, Paul, now.
And identify them? How?
I can't tell them apart from
ordinary people, can you?
We don't even know how
many of them there are.
Well, we'll find a way.
A way that doesn't
involve me killing everyone?
Look after him, won't you?
Paul?
I think he can
look after himself.
Hmm.
Look after your mum.
That I will try to do.
Look after yourself.
You want me to look after me?
Yeah.
Give me your hands.
You've got three seconds.
- OK.
- Three...
two... one.
- OK?
- OK.
Look after yourself, too.
Yeah.
You ready?
Probably not.
Come.
A 17-year-old boy, Neil.
And if these powers have been
given to me for a reason, then...
maybe it's not to kill everyone.
Maybe it's because I can
see past your shit and his shit.
Is that the shit that
just saved your life?
If all the world needed
was more death...
then you'd have been
given these powers.
If I had one-tenth of
your powers right now,
I'd be giving you
such a fucking kicking.
I'm going to find a better plan.
Another way.
Ascension is broken,
I'm going to put it right.
Better? You think
you can do better?
You're signing a death
warrant for everyone here.
There's going to be reborns
everywhere. Do not walk away from me.
Don't walk away from me!
Hello.
Hi.
Can I come in?
- You've got no time. No time.
- Dad, I have things in here
worth thousands of pounds
on eBay. I refuse to rush.
Yeah. Why rush?
Tortoise always wins.
I'm here to take
you with me, Mac.
Where?
Somewhere I can
persuade Paul to follow.
You're taking me hostage?
Yeah.
That's about the most
efficient way of putting it.
Why?
Because he's stronger
than me... in every way...
except one.
He has people he cares about.
I'm his weakness?
Yep.
And I intend to take full
advantage of that fact.
Come on, Mac. Hurry up!
Do not make me hurt your dad,
Mac, because I am this close.
Get a move on.
Mac?
Mac!
Mac!
Paul, kitchen. Anna,
get some clothes.
Jay, call your mum.
You've got five minutes.
Paul.
What I saw you do...
It's best to forget
about that, Mum.
Sometimes, I'd sit outside your bedroom
door listening to you having nightmares.
I'm scared.
That's understandable.
I don't know whether to be
scared for you or scared of you.
I'm going to make
you proud of me, Mum.
I hope so.
I'm a teeny tiny
bit claustrophobic,
- so if you can leave the light on...
- Shut up.
Ah! Can you knock?!
Erm, where's that stripy hoodie
of yours? Your one that I...
Have you packed all the
food? We need to move quickly.
I'll kill you.
Now!
If you make one move
towards my family.
Jesus. You almost
sounded grown-up, then.
That was very manly, very good.
And meant...
- I mean it.
- You know, it's interesting, isn't it?
When I kill,
people can come back.
But then when you kill, people
are wiped from existence.
Yeah? Why's that interesting?
Because I'm the one
people think is the monster.
And today, you killed the one
person I had left that I loved.
And I wanted you
to feel similar pain.
Me and you, we're the same.
I'm the chosen one of my people.
You're the chosen one of yours.
Nah, we're not alike.
I will find a way...
to hurt you.
To kill you.
I didn't come back
to be a monster.
D'you hear me?
I'll find a way to help you.
To free you.
No, good luck with that.
You have been nothing
but helpful so far.
Argh!
friend came back to life.
The day before, he'd died.
A few days before that, he emerges
as the most powerful member
of this tribe of people
called the Angelics.
He acquires magical powers
they didn't even think was possible.
People used to think he was
mad. They were wrong. He's special.
But him being special's
been a tumultuous time.
Actually, that's not even half of
it! There's these dead people -
the Fades - and they're
trying to come back to life,
led by this dude called John
who died in 1943 and has come
back to life by eating human flesh.
And now he's got a taste
for it, he just can't stop.
Yeah, I know.
He tricked Paul into helping him rescue
this girl, Natalie, from the Angelics.
And with her help, he's bringing a whole
army of dead people back into our town.
- We've got to fight.
- Meanwhile,
the Angelics have
their own plan.
How?
By having one of
our team on theirs.
And those of us stuck in the
middle of it - me, my history teacher,
Paul's mum, Paul's sister, Paul's
girlfriend - we just stick out our chin,
grin and try and pretend we
understand what's going on. Scary.
Now, who's seen
my Matrix box set?
I'm pretty sure I've worked out
who the Architect is a metaphor for.
Na-Nu, Na-Nu!
Due to the high volume of
missing persons enquiries,
a crisis centre has been
set up at St Barnabas School.
I repeat, a missing persons crisis
centre has been set up at the school.
I don't even know if he's all
right or if he should be here!
The doctor didn't even
want to discharge you.
I am allowed to be worried.
He's fine, watch this...
Lord Of The Rings.
Why don't they just fly in and out of
Mordor on the back of a giant eagle?
Boom!
They didn't want to discharge
him because he's too well.
That's ridiculous.
Mission: Impossible Il.
Cruise manages to find a face mask of
the bodyguard without ever having seen
- or met him before.
Yeah, likely - Kaboosh!
Very few people actually come
out of a coma healthier. It's... odd.
My name is Dr Mac the Movie Doctor
and I pronounce a clear bill of health.
He has a good
recall of basic facts.
"Basic facts"?
The Matrix.
This is Steve...
- Where do I start?
- Direct hit.
Erm, Steve! Call me back!
Home run!
"Got well soon."
I see what you've done there.
I'm OK, Mum.
Good to have you home.
Steve's still not
answering my calls.
Yeah, the school's going
to be a secondary location.
We're completely swamped
on missing persons.
Armstrong wouldn't know a
suspect if one bit him on the arse.
Look, Carol, I'll
need to go, right?
Hello.
Hello?
We come in peace.
Oh, do you now?
That must be nice.
Sarah?!
So why are you here?
- Paul's back.
- What?
Back from the dead?
Sarah... Are you OK?
So he's eaten, then?
No, he hasn't eaten.
He just... came back.
He closed an
ascension point, but...
The ascension point's closed?
That's what's happened,
isn't it, eh? Sarah...
Sarah's eaten, hasn't she?
- Hasn't she?
- It was my idea.
At least we're trying for
a solution to this mess.
Sarah eats, she'll be reborn.
Immortal, just like him.
The boy, he came back.
The boy's the answer!
The answer to what?
People have died.
The boy's a joke.
We can beat them.
We need to try.
With Sarah's help, we
can start to fight back.
You're going to
destroy her, Neil.
I'm not staying to watch.
What's happening?
I don't know.
It must be him.
We've got to get
everyone out of here.
We've got two more.
Good.
I love this.
I love you.
I've never been happier
than I am right now.
Thank you...
for what you did.
Tried and failed to save you?
Tried and failed to save me.
Pleasure.
I came back from the dead.
What I am, who I am has
got to mean something.
It probably does.
I was ready to ascend.
I'd let everyone down,
and I was ready to leave this...
rock for ever.
Yeah, yeah, yeah, so
you came back to life.
But can you do this?
Can you, though?
- No.
- Can you?
Well, then you're nothing to me.
Shut up...!
Paul.
Don't tell anyone but I think there's
a real live girl in your bedroom.
Are you wearing
identical pyjamas?
Yeah, they were... they
were the only two I had clean.
Likely story.
So, your mum was pretty clear
I should sleep in Anna's room.
Yeah.
But I don't want to.
No?
Oh. I get it.
Oh, don't mind me. I’ll
just be quiet in the corner.
You do anything you want
to. I won't listen or watch.
- Sofa downstairs it is.
- Yeah.
Night.
You're not even scarred.
The doctor thinks
me a medical miracle.
The doctor thinks
you're a freak.
You're my freak, though.
Yeah.
Are you the man in charge?
- How did you get in here?
- You need to get everyone out of town.
It's not safe here.
- Full scale evacuation?
- Great! You're just what I need
You need to leave. Now.
You're going to
die here. All of you!
If you don't get out now you're going
to be arrested, do you understand?
Men with power. You think you
can scare me, you little, little man?
I'm actually average height.
- Any news on Clement?
- Nothing.
When do we add him to that?
What now?
There's only one thing to do,
we've got to try and find Paul, eh?
Alice?
Rargh!
What's she?
- The girlfriend?
- Yeah.
Pretty.
Neil, what are you doing here?
You were dead.
I know.
And now you're back.
Alice thinks that
makes you important.
What do you think?
Oh, I think I should have a
knife at your throat right now.
Why did you do it?
Why did you help him?
- He promised he wouldn't hurt you.
- And you believed him?!
- A murderer?
- You were cutting Natalie up.
You were torturing her.
He told me that's what the Angelics
had always done. Suppressed, policed.
That's what I believed.
What we did, we did
for the good of everyone.
We thought they could be
dangerous. It turns out, we were right.
The past is a hole
and it's full of what-ifs.
And I live in the present.
You? Don't know where you live.
You confuse me.
One thing I do know...
is that you are going to matter.
And when we find
out why that is...
you're gonna
have to pick a side.
Just make sure you
pick the right side, kid.
Hello, Sarah.
Welcome.
I can't...
You want to.
One time, during the war...
I was fighting alongside this NCO
called, erm, Richard... something.
They brought a man
with his guts ripped out
into the hole that we were in.
Then someone shouted
out for medical support...
and Richard raised
his hand in the air,
"I'm a medic."
And then I watched him...
as he went and held
this man's guts together
and then watched
him till he died.
And afterwards I said to him,
"Richard, I didn't know
that you were a medic."
And he turned to
me and he said...
"I'm not.
"I just wanted to know what
the insides of a man felt like."
Urges are OK.
They're human.
Just eat
and you'll be reborn.
Don't fight it, Sarah. We win.
Sarah?
Sarah!
Oh...
Oh, shit!
Mum?
Mum!
Bad dream?
Yeah.
I didn't wet the bed,
though, so that's a bonus.
We're going to school.
- Are we?
- They've set up a crisis centre.
Steve's not answering my calls.
I think he's missing and Mum says
she'll drive me, but only if you come.
Paul, I'm not
asking. I'm telling!
I don't know whether
there's enough people...
Hi. Excuse me? My
name's Mark Etches.
I was told to report to you.
Not unless you're in need of
help and guidance you weren't.
Peter. Peter Tremlett. Doctor.
I'll be running a
counselling service.
Right. So...
Well, thanks for coming in, Mark.
We're going to need everyone we can get.
Let's see if we can find someone
to show Mark around, all right?
OK.
You really don't have to show me
- everywhere, you know.
- I want to.
And just round here,
we're starting up an online
database of missing persons.
Steve?
- What you doing here?
- Didn't you know?
I'm dead civic-minded, sir.
I work with the elderly, too.
Wiping their arses
and everything.
We've actually had a remarkably good
response to our request for volunteers.
I've got a clipboard and all.
Hi, hello. We're looking
for missing persons.
- Who are you missing?
- Steve.
- Steve McEwan.
- Steve?
He's not missing.
He's a volunteer.
Steve's a volunteer?
He's helping with
the online databasing.
Anna, wait. Anna!
I think I could be
of more use here.
Yes, join me.
Hello, stranger.
Oh... Hello...
stranger still.
Surprised to see you here.
My housemate's
mum has gone missing.
I'm... moral support.
Is your wife still missing?
Erm...
Pretty much officially dead.
Pink suits you.
What's so funny?
What?
What's so funny?
Sorry, who are you?
Erm, Vicky, this is...
Dr Tremlett, right?
No, no, no, I'm sorry.
I'm just kind of interested...
in what's so funny
right now, yeah?
It was just a private joke.
Yeah, and we're actually quite
busy, so unless you want something?
Yeah.
Yeah, I want something.
Oh!
Oof.
Argh!
"Volunteering"?
He's seen some opportunity to
seek out some new pussy, more like.
If I had you, I'd
never let you go.
In order for you to have me,
I'd have to be gagged,
blindfolded and locked in a chest.
That could be arranged.
Why's this door locked?
Oh, speak of the fucking
devil. Where have you been?
- Being a devil, I guess.
- Are you dribbling?!
Course I am. I've
missed you, sweetness.
Tch! Does that work?
Does that work in your head?
"Haven't seen my
girlfriend for days, I’ll just flob
"on myself and
she'll forgive me."
Anna. Stop. That's not normal
dribble. He's one of them.
One of what?
Yeah, one of what?
- Don't come any closer.
- Or what?
- Paul, he's my boyfriend.
- Yeah, and now he's dead, or...
He used to be dead,
now he's come back to life!
- What?!
- Babe, that's not true.
Anna, trust me.
He wants to kill you.
Go.
Steve, what the
fuck are you doing?
Steve?
Argh!
Have to keep feeding...
- Sarah. Sarah!
- They're coming for them so quickly.
Sarah. It's me. Sarah,
where were you?
We need to keep killing.
They can only eat flesh.
What did you see?
Did you find him?
- I've done...
- It's OK, you'll be fine.
- Some things.
- Tell me where you've been.
Sarah, you're going
to be fine. Listen to me.
It hurt. So bad...
- Too badly.
- I know it did.
There were bodies.
So much blood.
Why is every door... locked?!
Steve's dead? My
boyfriend's dead?!
Surely more important is
the fact that he's a zombie?
He was dead. Now he's not,
which makes him a zombie.
It's more complicated than that.
In fact, you were dead and now
you're not. Makes you a zombie.
Mac, this is real. This is,
is... is dangerous. This...
There you go.
Oh, lovely.
So, er... So your
children are at this school?
Yeah, Paul and Anna Roberts.
Anna, well, you've met her.
She's loud. Paul...
Well...
Well, he's...
Paul's quieter.
More contemplative.
If you ever want
to talk to anyone,
Dr Tremlett runs a
counselling service in the gym.
OK, thank you.
What are you doing with us?
We... are...
keeping you.
Keeping us for what?
Keeping us for what?!
Come on!
How'd you know
where the key was?
I volunteer here sometimes.
You're a library monitor?
My boyfriend's dead, and
you're a library monitor?!
Paul, what the fuck
has happened to Steve?
What is he?
If I was to make
an educated guess,
he died,
OK? He became a ghost. A Fade.
Then this guy called John, he's from
the 1940s, he used to be a Fade ghost,
he's probably taught him how
to eat flesh and grow a new body.
- This is serious, Paul.
- I am being serious.
We are in so much danger.
So trap him or something.
You ain't afraid of no ghost.
No, no, you're mental.
You're both mental.
Steve's mental, you're mental...
and Jay's a fucking
library monitor!
I'm sorry, Anna.
My brother?
My stupid pissing brother?
Little pig, little
pig, let me in!
Anna! Anna, let me in!
Let me in right now.
That's it. That's it.
Dad? Dad? Aw, it's
gone to answerphone.
The one time having a dad who's a
policeman might be useful. School. Now!
There's...
Fuck.
I'm going to rip your fucking
head off and spit down your neck.
I'm not afraid of you, Steve.
No-one could be that
scary with a dick your size!
We're going to die here.
I knew this would
happen. Death before life.
I'm going to die and I haven't
even felt a breast in my hand.
Haven't even seen a breast.
That's your excuse to
flash me, by the way.
- Flash this!
- Hmm.
Ah!
We need weapons.
Weapons are no use.
Can't kill them.
They're immortal.
I don't even know how
many of them there are.
Well, what about Mum?
She's still in the hall.
We need to get out of
here, get back to her.
Oh, shit, fuck, shit, fuck, shit.
Paul, what are we going to do?
Right. Who's first?
Me!
- That's for scaring my...
- Argh!
See? Now he's de...
This is your mess. I shouldn't
be cleaning up your mess!
He'll be back. Let's go.
Where's Jay?
- Jay?
- Jay?
- Jay?
- Jay?
- Jay?
- Jay?
Jay!
Ah!
Aagh!
You have 30 seconds to tell me
everything I need to know about Paul.
Start with what he can do.
He came back for a reason.
To stop you.
Wrong answer.
Me?
No, no, no, take
one of the others.
I can be useful, I can
show you where things are.
Please! I don't want to die yet!
Oh, fuck!
OK. I'll try again.
Paul.
The boy that was, that now is.
How has he dragged himself
back to life? Did he eat?
No.
He's important.
Eeny...
meeny...
miny...
moe.
You...
are...
it.
No, no, no, no, no...
It's OK, it's OK. It's OK.
Phil. Phil!
Phil!
I went to them.
Yeah?
I didn't mean to,
but I went to them.
I was drawn there.
Where? Where, Sarah?
I fucked up, Neil. I fucked up.
Jay...
We've got to find her...
Go!
You're pretty. I mean, you've got
hair like a boy, but you're pretty.
Do you think I'm pretty?
Don't cry.
This life is going to
be better for all of us.
I was never happy as a human.
But when the change
happens to you, and it will...
the world just... opens up.
Natalie.
Don't worry, he'll come for you.
Jay. Have you, erm...?
Have you seen Jay?
Jay? I'm sorry. She was
the last one they took.
They took Phil.
Where? Where did they take her?
Paul!
Hello, Paul.
Dr Tremlett.
How's the nightmares?
Still wetting the bed?
He's one of them.
Dr Tremlett...
I need to leave.
Are you going to get out my way?
Paul...
don't pick a fight with it.
You should listen
to your friend, Paul.
He's afraid.
I'm surprised you're not.
You used to always
be afraid of everything.
I'm still afraid.
I'm afraid of letting
my friends down,
I'm afraid of not
being good enough,
I'm afraid of not
doing the right thing.
But you?
I'm bored of being
afraid of things like you.
Do you remember I told you
once that you reminded me of me?
Do you remember I've told
you once to get out of my way?
They've got my girlfriend
so I need to get back to her.
You always were...
such a whingeing little shit.
And all that talking, whining...
"I can't control my bladder."
Well, fuck you and fu...
We may not be able to kill you but
we can keep you from doing damage.
This was a mistake!
I'm losing me.
- I've got this hunger. This hunger.
- No. You're strong.
You're strong. You're
stronger than you know.
Listen to me.
You need to go to the school.
I'm not leaving you. I'm not leaving
you. No way am I leaving you.
You did this for us.
For me.
That's not true, Neil.
Neil, that's not true.
I did it partly for you,
and partly because...
I was frightened of what was
going to happen to me, but mostly...
mostly... I did it
because Mark didn't want me
around any more and I couldn't...
You always did
see the best in me.
Mark...
Please, please leave me.
Leave me.
You need to go to the school.
You need to stop him.
For me.
For everyone.
The boiler room.
The boiler room.
OK.
I'll always see the best in you.
You're all right.
It's all right.
Paul! Paul!
This is a school.
Not a fucking... fridge.
It is...
what it needs to be.
Paul!
Neil. Neil!
Paul, go!
What did I do? What
did I do to him, Neil?!
You killed him, Paul!
You can kill them. Where
is he? Where's the killer?
He's getting away!
I need you, Paul! I can
only slow them down.
Paul!
Paul!
I'm a freak.
But I'm your freak, remember?
Paul! Come on!
Oh, shit.
- Paul?
- No, no, no. Stay back. Stay back!
Paul, you can kill,
you need to kill him.
I can't see him.
I can't see him!
It could be any of them.
Kill them all. Kill them all!
- My mum's in this room!
- He's there.
He's over there.
Do it! Do it, Paul!
My name is Detective
Chief Inspector Armstrong.
But I'm not here as a policeman.
I'm here as a citizen,
as a man,
as a father...
to tell you I think you
should leave town.
We don't know what's happening,
we don't know how it's happening,
and we've got no idea how
to stop it. Not the murders,
the attacks, or the tremors.
We need to evacuate now.
Now!
This can't be why I came back.
No.
I killed Steve.
And that... girl.
Natalie.
They burnt up.
But they were
dead already, right?
I don't want to be a killer.
You don't have to be one.
Superman could crush Lois Lane
after an argument about the washing-up.
He could melt the Daily Planet
after a bad day at the office.
He doesn't.
He uses his powers for good.
That's all you need to do.
I've got to go.
So it's you and me, then.
We'll start a
clean-up, Paul, now.
And identify them? How?
I can't tell them apart from
ordinary people, can you?
We don't even know how
many of them there are.
Well, we'll find a way.
A way that doesn't
involve me killing everyone?
Look after him, won't you?
Paul?
I think he can
look after himself.
Hmm.
Look after your mum.
That I will try to do.
Look after yourself.
You want me to look after me?
Yeah.
Give me your hands.
You've got three seconds.
- OK.
- Three...
two... one.
- OK?
- OK.
Look after yourself, too.
Yeah.
You ready?
Probably not.
Come.
A 17-year-old boy, Neil.
And if these powers have been
given to me for a reason, then...
maybe it's not to kill everyone.
Maybe it's because I can
see past your shit and his shit.
Is that the shit that
just saved your life?
If all the world needed
was more death...
then you'd have been
given these powers.
If I had one-tenth of
your powers right now,
I'd be giving you
such a fucking kicking.
I'm going to find a better plan.
Another way.
Ascension is broken,
I'm going to put it right.
Better? You think
you can do better?
You're signing a death
warrant for everyone here.
There's going to be reborns
everywhere. Do not walk away from me.
Don't walk away from me!
Hello.
Hi.
Can I come in?
- You've got no time. No time.
- Dad, I have things in here
worth thousands of pounds
on eBay. I refuse to rush.
Yeah. Why rush?
Tortoise always wins.
I'm here to take
you with me, Mac.
Where?
Somewhere I can
persuade Paul to follow.
You're taking me hostage?
Yeah.
That's about the most
efficient way of putting it.
Why?
Because he's stronger
than me... in every way...
except one.
He has people he cares about.
I'm his weakness?
Yep.
And I intend to take full
advantage of that fact.
Come on, Mac. Hurry up!
Do not make me hurt your dad,
Mac, because I am this close.
Get a move on.
Mac?
Mac!
Mac!
Paul, kitchen. Anna,
get some clothes.
Jay, call your mum.
You've got five minutes.
Paul.
What I saw you do...
It's best to forget
about that, Mum.
Sometimes, I'd sit outside your bedroom
door listening to you having nightmares.
I'm scared.
That's understandable.
I don't know whether to be
scared for you or scared of you.
I'm going to make
you proud of me, Mum.
I hope so.
I'm a teeny tiny
bit claustrophobic,
- so if you can leave the light on...
- Shut up.
Ah! Can you knock?!
Erm, where's that stripy hoodie
of yours? Your one that I...
Have you packed all the
food? We need to move quickly.
I'll kill you.
Now!
If you make one move
towards my family.
Jesus. You almost
sounded grown-up, then.
That was very manly, very good.
And meant...
- I mean it.
- You know, it's interesting, isn't it?
When I kill,
people can come back.
But then when you kill, people
are wiped from existence.
Yeah? Why's that interesting?
Because I'm the one
people think is the monster.
And today, you killed the one
person I had left that I loved.
And I wanted you
to feel similar pain.
Me and you, we're the same.
I'm the chosen one of my people.
You're the chosen one of yours.
Nah, we're not alike.
I will find a way...
to hurt you.
To kill you.
I didn't come back
to be a monster.
D'you hear me?
I'll find a way to help you.
To free you.
No, good luck with that.
You have been nothing
but helpful so far.
Argh!