01x04 - Whatever It Takes

[bunniefuu]

We're looking for Ashdale.

Oi! Do that again,

you'll need a bandage of your

own. Keep your knickers on, love.

We can't just sit around.

We're getting the ferry.

There is room in the car

if you change your mind.

Hello there, young man.

We're looking for a girl

that comes in here. She sends

letters and packages to Ireland.

I think I know the very one.

We're looking for someone.

I'm Fangoria Fangirl.

Found this. Christ.

Hello?

MUFFLED SCREAM

Hey! hey! Hey!

Detectives are keen to speak

to three teenagers from Ireland

who were seen in the area.

All things bright

and beautiful

All creatures great and small

All things wise and wonderful

The Lord God made them all

The purple-headed mountain

The river running by ♪

SHE HUMS ALONG

The sunset and the morning

That brightens up the sky

All things bright

and beautiful

All creatures great and small

All things wise and wonderful

The Lord God made ♪

MUSIC DISTORTS AND FADES

Oh.

It were

..Kate Bannon.

She gave them to me in school.

I didn't even w want them.

I

I wa I was going

to give them back.

HE BREATHES RAPIDLY

REVEREND: This is

the word of the Lord.

CONGREGATION: Thanks be to God.

Now, I'd like to invite the chair

of the commemoration committee,

my dear sister Ethel Greaves,

to say a few words about plans for

this year's centenary ceremony.

This year, we will commemorate

300 years since the people

of this parish sacrificed themselves

to rid a plague from this land.

As we approach this milestone,

we must pause to

ask ourselves why?

Why do we gather to remember?

Well, it's because the plague

never really goes away.

It only changes form.

Today, we deal with a

new kind of a virus

..infecting our children,

turning them towards

depravity and sin.

I'm speaking about

the scourge of sadism,

violence SCREAMING

..and fornication

being spread through

the medium of video.

CONGREGATION MURMURS

Now, I have

..obtained some of these tapes.

You may find some too.

Bring them to be burned,

to say to God and country

that we will deny them

a place in our society.

We, as a community, must

do whatever it takes,

big or small, whatever it takes.

MURMURS OF AGREEMEN

Whatever it takes.

APPLAUSE

That was smashing, Mum.

Ashdale is awake.

The rest of the country

needs the alarm bell.

MUSIC: Ode To Joy by Beethoven

REPORTER: Police in Chesterfield are

continuing to investigate the m*rder

of a teenage girl near Ashdale.

Detectives earlier admitted

they're exploring a possible link

to video nasties, amid

rumours that the m*rder

bore a resemblance to

SHE SWITCHES RADIO OFF

We need to stop for petrol soon.

Look, stop. There's loads left.

And what happens when it

gets dark and we're stuck

in the middle of nowhere?

Relax, Maureen, will you?

I've never run out

of petrol in my life.

Everyone knows the red

line's a sham, anyway.

Oh, so they just stuck it

in there for no reason?

Look, I'm not

stopping, all right?

I just want to get there. OK!

Why are we fighting?

This isn't even

about petrol, is it?

Oh, no. Listen, Abe, this

isn't about the kids.

It's a simple matter of miles

to the gallon. That's all it is.

Who said anything

about the kids?

I'm talking about you

two, the constant arguing.

Why don't you just

talk to each other?

Oh, back off!

Talk? About what?

If you can't talk about

something, you can't deal with it.

Excuse me, I don't want

relationship advice from you,

thank you very much. Yeah.

Do I need to point

out the obvious?

Eileen left you.

Yeah, well, go and

ask her about that.

Nothing to do with me.

Ha! Is that what you think?

That she just ran off with

some other man on a whim?

She always thought you

were so cold towards her.

She didn't know if you loved her or

if you just thought she was an idiot.

I just pray to God you're

not the same way with Billy.

She left us.

Left him.

People will say anything

to justify themselves.

Frank. What?

Frank, have you missed the?

You've missed the turn!

Jesus, you're such a gobshite!

MUFFLED SCREAMS

SHE PANTS

She wakes.

Welcome back to the

land of the living.

Might be a short stay.

THEY WHIMPER

Told you.

Told you there was room.

Now we can get to

know each other.

Fully.

SCREAMING: Stop! Stop!

Excuse me, I'm trying to

have a conversation here.

You're going to get

what's coming to you.

CON SCREAMS

ZOE SCREAMS

Help! Help! Help!

Argh!

Help! Help!

Get Get off!

f*ck off!

No!

SCREAMING CONTINUES

No!

SHE GRUNTS

No! I said no!

Put her back.

Put her back.

HE SIGHS

I told you to guard the door.

This? No.

We are guardians of God's will.

The devil waits for us.

Do not be tempted.

They're not to be

harmed in any way.

When they die, they die clean.

No injuries, no evidence.

Nothing that points

to anyone else.

MUFFLED SCREAMS

BLADE GLIDES

Keep your distance.

Guard the door.

Pray and repent.

And get the drill just in case.

Don't worry. I have no

intention of making you suffer.

When the time is right and

the world is baying for blood,

you'll go quickly

..at each other's hands.

And everyone will know

you k*lled that girl

..and those videos

made you do it.

Please!

We just want to go home.

We all want to go home

..to our Lord and Saviour.

Think of this as your calling.

It is a noble thing to

lay down one's life.

You're here to give

yourselves for our souls.

For arseholes?

No, for

No, for our souls!

OUR SOULS!

You see?

Warped little minds.

You're too far gone.

But you'll save others.

Now

..rest up.

Say your prayers.

You're about to be

famous. MUFFLED WHIMPERS

DOOR CLOSES

ENGINE REVS WEAKLY

What's going on?

Ugh!

You're some specimen,

do you know that?

You see that? That's contempt.

Classic sign of

marital problems.

f*ck off, Abe. ABE CHUCKLES

Seriously! With pleasure.

I knew that Don't!

I don't want to

hear it, Maureen.

No! I was going to say

one thing No, Maureen.

I saw the news in the house.

There was a girl k*lled

in the woods last night.

Right by the lake.

I told you it wasn't nothing.

And she was the postmistress.

They're some f*cked-up family.

They've landed us here

and they're going to put us

on the hook for everything.

The police think we did it.

I don't

Why us?

Because you were the

perfect mark, Billy.

Some weirdo who's obsessed

with video nasties.

What are we going to do?

What's the plan? I

don't I don't know.

I don't have anything.

SHE SIGHS

CLANGING

Con, what are you doing?

The pen knife.

I think I can get it.

Hurry up, then!

Ah!

WHISPERS: Hurry!

I've got it!

I've got it.

DOOR OPENS

Hide it, hide it!

FOOTSTEPS APPROACH

DRILL WHIRS

You after doing

something funny? What?

Cos I am

..dying to do a bit of DIY.

We need some water.

Hey!

She said we're not to be harmed.

We're going to die

of thirst in here.

If you help me, I can help you.

Yeah.

All you have to do is go

and get us some water.

And I can help you.

No-one has to know.

No.

No, no, no, no, no!

DRILL WHIRS No!

You're on the devil's business.

And I don't deal with the devil.

You stay away from me.

Come on, Con.

I can't pick it up.

Well, slide it over here, then.

Come on.

KNOCK ON DOOR

DOOR OPENS

Hi. Hello.

Sorry, I know it's late.

I ran out of petrol.

It sounds like you have

a generator back here.

If you could give me enough

just to get into Ashdale,

I'd be very grateful.

I'm looking for my

son. He's missing.

He travelled from Ireland.

He's in some trouble,

but he's a good boy.

He didn't do anything wrong.

I think maybe I did.

Stay here. Yes.

Don't go walk walkabouts.

No.

Get rid of him.

Quickly!

RUFFLING

Oh!

Sh! Somebody could be coming.

Got to wait by the door, OK?

Someone will come in eventually.

We push them out of the way

and we make a run for it.

We use this if we have to.

Yeah?

No.

Not me.

I got us into this

mess, all right? I

I don't know.

It's all right.

It's not your fault.

Did you hear me?

Everything that's happened

..it's not your fault, OK?

I trusted that freak.

This is on me.

Kings will be your guardians,

and they will bow down

to you with their

Bow down

Kings will be your guardians,

and they will bow down to you

with their faces to the earth,

and you will know I am the Lord.

Those who hopefully

wait for me will not

Sir? Sorry, I

Where's the fuel?

It's not in the cabinet.

What?

One of their parents

is looking for them.

They broke down and came to

the door looking for petrol.

My mum Mum wants me to

The generator. Go. Now.

Kings will be your guardians

and they will bow down to you

with their faces to the earth

BILLY URINATES

Seriously, Billy?

What?

What? I'm bursting! Do you

want me to piss myself?

What am I doing with the knife?

I'm absolutely

sh1tting myself here.

What are you doing?!

Apaches.

What?! Apaches.

Remember that scary-a*s PSA

film where the kid dies in, erm,

in a slurry pit?

Yeah. So?

So this used to be an

animal shed, right?

There must have been

a pit under here.

The cow sh*t has

to get out somehow.

Exactly.

They pipe it through

these big channels.

That's the way out.

The way out?

Come on!

Thank you.

God bless you.

Ooh! That was lucky.

What are the odds of finding

someone up at this hour?

Well, er, insomnia is a k*ller.

HE LAUGHS

You are funny.

Yeah, you'd best be on your way.

Who's going first?

I'll do it.

We don't know how deep it is.

How are we going to get down?

Where the f*ck is he?

This is your mess.

Fine, aye. Take his side.

Well, at least he's willing

to man up and sort it out.

What's with the big Abe

crush all of a sudden?

You hated him two hours ago.

Yeah, well, maybe he's

talking some sense.

Maybe we're in denial.

About what?

I don't know.

About everything. About us.

About the kids. About the fact

that we don't speak any more.

About the fact that we

don't ever Jesus Christ!

Just drop it.

If you can't talk about something,

then you can't deal with it.

HE SCOFFS

What? Now you're quoting him!

He's f*cking Oscar

Wilde now, is he?

Why don't you just go and

shag him and be done with it?

Huh! At least one of us

would be getting some.

You're the one who can't

What?

Nothing. No, go on, say it.

Oh, nothing, nothing.

You know what I'm talking

about, though. Mm.

That's because you lay

there like a corpse.

Sorry, Maureen, but necrophilia's

never been my thing.

Fine.

Go ahead and blame

me for your problems.

Cos you're soft, Frank.

You're just soft.

I slept with someone else.

No complaints there,

I can tell you.

It's not me who's

got the problem.

Excuse me.

It doesn't look like a

slurry. It smells like one.

Oh, God.

What if there's no way out?

Billy!

BILLY GRUNTS

Come on!

Ah!

Ah, Con!

THEY GASP

Oh, God!

Oh! Oh!

Oh! Oh!

Oh, my

Oh, oh, oh What

are we doing here?

Oh, my God! Hey, hey, hey.

Look at me, look at me.

It's going to be OK, all right?

It's going to be OK.

Oh, oh, oh, oh, oh!

Oh!

DRILL WHIRS Hey!

THEY GROAN

Oh!

Con, do something!

CON SCREAMS

GROANING CONTINUES

Go! Go!

BILLY GRUNTS

Go, go, go!

Stay down, stay down!

Just stay down!

You let them get away.

No, no, no. No

Argh!

THEY PAN

Wait, wait!

What? We need to go back.

What?! The tape!

Are you mental?

Forget it, Billy.

Just keep running.

Come on! Come on!

Dad?