0:00:02 > 0:00:05- You know about the missing people. - None of them ever comes back.
0:00:05 > 0:00:08VARG SCREAMS
0:00:08 > 0:00:11You will go to Earth and find him, Lexi!
0:00:11 > 0:00:15We've come through a Never-way. That's the Neverside.
0:00:15 > 0:00:17- What's happened to me? - You've become human.
0:00:17 > 0:00:20Benny said he saw you get in the lift a couple of hours ago.
0:00:20 > 0:00:23I've been here over 30 years!
0:00:23 > 0:00:24HE ROARS
0:01:26 > 0:01:28He's gone.
0:01:28 > 0:01:31OK, I think we should go back to where the lift appeared,
0:01:31 > 0:01:32wait for Gran.
0:01:32 > 0:01:35For how long? We've got to find Varg.
0:01:35 > 0:01:37Nekross intellect will find a way out of this.
0:01:37 > 0:01:39Maybe.
0:01:39 > 0:01:42But that woman, she was here for a couple of hours our time.
0:01:42 > 0:01:43That was over 30 years here.
0:01:43 > 0:01:47Varg got here last night. That's what, 15 hours?
0:01:47 > 0:01:48How long is that on the Neverside?
0:01:48 > 0:01:53You obviously have not got a clue how tough we Nekross are.
0:01:53 > 0:01:54HE ROARS
0:02:00 > 0:02:02Tom! It's coming. Quick!
0:02:09 > 0:02:11Faa - shan - dah!
0:02:23 > 0:02:25You stopped it, Tom!
0:02:29 > 0:02:31Technology might not work here.
0:02:33 > 0:02:34But this is the home of magic.
0:02:41 > 0:02:44Perhaps it's Varg's camp. Come on.
0:02:53 > 0:02:57This can't be Varg's. We've evolved beyond this crude nutrition.
0:02:57 > 0:03:01- Yeah, you trap wizards and drain our magic.- Don't judge me.
0:03:01 > 0:03:04I was born needing magic, like a baby needs its mother's milk.
0:03:07 > 0:03:11- Yeah, well, I'm hungry now too. - And what are you going to say
0:03:11 > 0:03:14when whoever lives here finds you've been eating all their dinner?
0:03:14 > 0:03:16We need friends here, Tom.
0:03:16 > 0:03:19Look, chances are Mrs Hatcher lived here
0:03:19 > 0:03:23and she's not coming back and we need to eat.
0:03:23 > 0:03:25Nekross don't eat meat.
0:03:25 > 0:03:29Yeah, but you're human now, Lexi.
0:03:34 > 0:03:37- Is it good?- Mmm, so good.
0:03:37 > 0:03:40Better than a bacon and sausage sandwich with brown sauce.
0:03:44 > 0:03:47Looks like the Nekross have a taste for crude nutrition after all.
0:03:47 > 0:03:50We'll do whatever we have to to survive.
0:03:58 > 0:03:59Hello, Benny.
0:03:59 > 0:04:01Mr Clarke,
0:04:01 > 0:04:03- you've got to come.- Where's Tom?
0:04:05 > 0:04:08When I was a kid, my gran told me that when wizards passed on
0:04:08 > 0:04:12they turned into stars, keeping watch on those they'd left behind.
0:04:12 > 0:04:13No.
0:04:13 > 0:04:16Stars are luminous spheres of thermonuclear plasma.
0:04:17 > 0:04:20It was her way of making me feel better about my mum.
0:04:21 > 0:04:24Not got the hang of being human yet, have you?
0:04:24 > 0:04:27Not even sure I had the hang of being Nekross.
0:04:27 > 0:04:29It's hard being 17.
0:04:31 > 0:04:33Hang on, you're 17?
0:04:34 > 0:04:36In Nekross years.
0:04:36 > 0:04:39That's practically the same age as me.
0:04:39 > 0:04:43I thought you were older. I mean, because you're so tall.
0:04:43 > 0:04:46All children of the Royal line of Nekron are tall.
0:04:47 > 0:04:50Tomorrow I'll carry on looking for Varg...
0:04:50 > 0:04:52what's left of him.
0:04:55 > 0:05:00Yeah, of course. Then I'll help you.
0:05:02 > 0:05:04But I'm your enemy.
0:05:04 > 0:05:05Not any more.
0:05:12 > 0:05:13HE ROARS
0:05:20 > 0:05:23Every Never-way has a troll as a Gatekeeper.
0:05:23 > 0:05:27They live off its magical energy. Sometimes for hundreds of years.
0:05:27 > 0:05:29They're nasty, tricky little beggars,
0:05:29 > 0:05:31always pretending to be human.
0:05:32 > 0:05:36The building's closed now. Can I help you?
0:05:36 > 0:05:38Actually young man, you can.
0:05:40 > 0:05:41Look...
0:05:41 > 0:05:43pretty, isn't it?
0:05:43 > 0:05:46That's it. Keep watching.
0:05:46 > 0:05:49You shall not know we're here.
0:05:55 > 0:05:57You hypnotised him.
0:05:57 > 0:05:59Worked rather well, didn't it?
0:05:59 > 0:06:02Meanwhile we need to find this troll.
0:06:02 > 0:06:03Did you say troll?
0:06:03 > 0:06:06Oh, dear. I should've hypnotised the whole building.
0:06:06 > 0:06:08No, Mrs Crowe! Alicia's my friend.
0:06:08 > 0:06:11- Oh.- Benny's told me everything.
0:06:13 > 0:06:15Tom used a spell to save us from the Nekross.
0:06:15 > 0:06:19I think that blew all the secrets. Plus she can help us.
0:06:19 > 0:06:20She knows this building.
0:06:20 > 0:06:23So do you know any good troll holes?
0:06:23 > 0:06:25They like it dark and damp.
0:06:25 > 0:06:27Well, there's the basement.
0:06:39 > 0:06:41Tom?
0:06:42 > 0:06:44Tom!
0:06:46 > 0:06:48Faa - shan - dah!
0:06:56 > 0:06:58I didn't know where you were.
0:06:58 > 0:07:00I was reinforcing the border, like every sunrise.
0:07:01 > 0:07:05Takes up most of my magic.
0:07:05 > 0:07:06Are you hunting already?
0:07:06 > 0:07:09I thought you might be in danger.
0:07:09 > 0:07:10I can look after myself.
0:07:10 > 0:07:13- No, you'd starve without me. - Oh, you think?
0:07:13 > 0:07:16Who's caught the most three-legged birds since we've been here?
0:07:16 > 0:07:20- I've caught more fish. - Fishing's for old men and boys.
0:07:20 > 0:07:23I've got something to show you.
0:07:23 > 0:07:25- What do you think?- What is it?
0:07:25 > 0:07:27It's an apple tree.
0:07:27 > 0:07:30Apples? And how long will it take for them to grow?
0:07:30 > 0:07:34Er...a couple of years maybe.
0:07:34 > 0:07:39Years? Tom, are you crazy? I don't want to be here years!
0:07:39 > 0:07:41I want to go home!
0:07:59 > 0:08:00Look at me.
0:08:00 > 0:08:04A Nekross in a human body eating berries
0:08:04 > 0:08:06and apples like something that lives up a tree.
0:08:08 > 0:08:10It's survival, Lexi.
0:08:10 > 0:08:13I thought that was the Nekross thing to do.
0:08:14 > 0:08:16Varg didn't survive.
0:08:16 > 0:08:20We've searched and searched and not even found his bones.
0:08:20 > 0:08:23I've let him down. I've let my father down.
0:08:23 > 0:08:25I've let my whole planet down.
0:08:25 > 0:08:28You haven't let anyone down, Lexi.
0:08:28 > 0:08:31You just miss him.
0:08:31 > 0:08:36I miss everyone too. My gran, my dad and Benny.
0:08:39 > 0:08:42But they'll find us one day, I know it.
0:08:42 > 0:08:44Don't you think I tell myself that every day?
0:08:46 > 0:08:49And I'm leaking water.
0:08:51 > 0:08:54You're crying, Lexi.
0:08:54 > 0:08:57It's OK to cry.
0:08:57 > 0:08:59I've cried.
0:08:59 > 0:09:06When you've not been around, when I've felt alone and scared.
0:09:06 > 0:09:07Why are you kind to me?
0:09:07 > 0:09:11The Nekross, we, me...
0:09:11 > 0:09:13I've done terrible things to wizards...
0:09:13 > 0:09:15to you.
0:09:15 > 0:09:17That wasn't you, not the Lexi I know now,
0:09:17 > 0:09:20not the Lexi I always knew was in there.
0:09:24 > 0:09:25Whoa!
0:09:25 > 0:09:27Sorry.
0:09:27 > 0:09:30Isn't that what humans do when they like someone?
0:09:30 > 0:09:32Well, yes.
0:09:32 > 0:09:37And if I'm trapped here with a human, as a human...
0:09:39 > 0:09:42..I'm glad it's you, Tom.
0:09:42 > 0:09:47You know, for a Nekross, you make a great human.
0:09:50 > 0:09:52It smells like a troll hole.
0:09:55 > 0:09:58- But no troll.- There's been one here all right.
0:09:59 > 0:10:05In Dragon Vault, trolls live in caves of blood ice, not office basements.
0:10:05 > 0:10:07Not in the real world.
0:10:07 > 0:10:10The Ambassador Hotel, 1862.
0:10:10 > 0:10:14Hang on, that's Mervyn the janitor!
0:10:16 > 0:10:19I think we've found our troll.
0:10:20 > 0:10:22Thirsty, Tom?
0:10:25 > 0:10:28You should be taking it easy.
0:10:28 > 0:10:29Don't worry.
0:10:29 > 0:10:33It might be a human body, but I'm Nekross inside.
0:10:33 > 0:10:34You're the one that's 30.
0:10:34 > 0:10:37On Nekron, you'd be a grandfather!
0:10:37 > 0:10:40Sit down, anyway.
0:10:40 > 0:10:44There'll be plenty of apples this year. You make a good farmer.
0:10:44 > 0:10:47I just hope I make a half-decent dad.
0:10:47 > 0:10:51You'll teach them to play football, I'll teach them to hunt.
0:10:51 > 0:10:54Oh, is that what kids do on Nekron, learn how to hunt?
0:10:54 > 0:10:57I haven't really thought about Nekron for years.
0:10:57 > 0:10:59I'll tell you what we haven't seen for years.
0:10:59 > 0:11:02Remember the big boy with the horns?
0:11:02 > 0:11:04I wonder what happened to him.
0:11:04 > 0:11:09I don't care, as long as it means our baby can grow up safely.
0:11:11 > 0:11:14Who'd have thought this place would have turned into paradise?
0:11:14 > 0:11:16BABY CRIES
0:11:24 > 0:11:29We are going to take such good care of you and keep you safe.
0:11:30 > 0:11:34Because anything that wants to hurt you out there...
0:11:37 > 0:11:42..it's got to come through me first, and I'm not going to let that happen.
0:11:43 > 0:11:47Because one day you're coming home with us.
0:11:51 > 0:11:54BABY CRIES
0:12:11 > 0:12:14Trolls have no respect for wizardry.
0:12:14 > 0:12:17I'm afraid we'll have to be unpleasant.
0:12:17 > 0:12:19Flay - mash - dah!
0:12:20 > 0:12:23That should turn the heat up.
0:12:30 > 0:12:34You'll get nothing from me by singeing my breeches, wizard!
0:12:34 > 0:12:37We want my son back from the Neverside.
0:12:37 > 0:12:41- You might not want him back now. - What's that supposed to mean?
0:12:41 > 0:12:47Time moves differently where he's gone. Some age, some change.
0:12:47 > 0:12:51The Neverside does strange things to them that don't belong there.
0:12:51 > 0:12:54I know that you don't belong here
0:12:54 > 0:12:57and that you rely on the magic from the Never-way to stay alive.
0:12:57 > 0:12:58You sick gnome!
0:12:58 > 0:13:01I'm a troll! I'm not a gnome!
0:13:01 > 0:13:05I've feasted well with them that took the lift
0:13:05 > 0:13:07and got off at the 13th floor.
0:13:07 > 0:13:11The 13th floor. That must be the Never-way!
0:13:11 > 0:13:12Then that's where we're going.
0:13:12 > 0:13:15Oh, so be it, but you'll never return.
0:13:15 > 0:13:21For coming back, you'll have to make a bargain with the Gatekeeper.
0:13:21 > 0:13:25And what can you offer a troll for his services?
0:13:27 > 0:13:29What about your freedom?
0:13:29 > 0:13:32Open the Never-way for me to bring back my grandson and
0:13:32 > 0:13:35I will take your place as Gatekeeper.
0:13:37 > 0:13:41Come on! You can score.
0:13:41 > 0:13:42Nearly!
0:13:42 > 0:13:44Remember what I taught you!
0:13:50 > 0:13:52Maah - gann - dah!
0:14:00 > 0:14:04- Yeah!- Yes! Benny!
0:14:04 > 0:14:07That's my boy!
0:14:07 > 0:14:09- Dad!- A chip off the old block!
0:14:09 > 0:14:12- Can I go and hunt now? - And your mother's son too.
0:14:12 > 0:14:14Don't go too far.
0:14:14 > 0:14:16And if you see anything that frightens you,
0:14:16 > 0:14:18cast the protection spell your father taught you
0:14:18 > 0:14:19and run straight home.
0:14:19 > 0:14:23Mum, the forest is my friend. There's nothing scary there.
0:14:27 > 0:14:28Bye!
0:14:28 > 0:14:31He's right, you know. The forest is his friend.
0:14:31 > 0:14:32This is his home.
0:15:03 > 0:15:05Are you hungry, Benny Junior?
0:15:10 > 0:15:13Ursula, you can't do this, there has to be another deal.
0:15:16 > 0:15:18The bargain is agreed.
0:15:18 > 0:15:24The question is, can I trust a wizard?
0:15:30 > 0:15:33I'll have that back for starters. I've been looking for this!
0:15:42 > 0:15:46Go on, get to the Gateway if you're going. But I'll need some surety.
0:15:46 > 0:15:49What? Let us go, pig chops!
0:15:49 > 0:15:51It's all right, my dear. Michael, keep her safe.
0:15:51 > 0:15:53Benny, come with me, we're going to find Tom.
0:15:55 > 0:15:57Have you seen Benny Junior?
0:15:59 > 0:16:02- Isn't he back yet? - No, and it's going to be dark soon.
0:16:03 > 0:16:06OK. I'll find him.
0:16:06 > 0:16:08Don't worry, we haven't seen anything dangerous
0:16:08 > 0:16:10out there in years.
0:16:10 > 0:16:14But I never lost the feeling there was something there. Watching us.
0:16:14 > 0:16:15Come on.
0:16:25 > 0:16:28'Doors opening. Floor 13.'
0:16:28 > 0:16:31Looks like my floor.
0:16:47 > 0:16:50- PING! - Mrs Crowe!- 'Doors closing.'
0:16:50 > 0:16:52Maah - vash - dah!
0:16:52 > 0:16:54I'll hold the doors as long as I can, Benny,
0:16:54 > 0:16:55but you have to find Tom!
0:16:55 > 0:16:59- 'Doors closing.'- Quickly! Quickly!
0:17:04 > 0:17:09The wizard is fighting, but she won't win.
0:17:09 > 0:17:12No?
0:17:12 > 0:17:15I reckon you've been trolled.
0:17:15 > 0:17:17Come on!
0:17:17 > 0:17:19TROLL SCREAMS
0:17:20 > 0:17:25- Benny!- Benny! Come to your mother!
0:17:25 > 0:17:29- Benny!- Benny!- Benny!
0:17:29 > 0:17:31- Benny, come to your mother! - Your parents search for you.
0:17:31 > 0:17:34Come with me. They shouldn't be scared of you.
0:17:34 > 0:17:37That cannot be. They think me a monster.
0:17:37 > 0:17:39Now, you must go.
0:17:40 > 0:17:42Benny?
0:17:42 > 0:17:45- Benny!- Dad, no!
0:17:46 > 0:17:48Drax - shah - zah - dah!
0:17:49 > 0:17:51- He's my friend!- What?
0:17:53 > 0:17:58Your magic is more potent in this world...
0:17:58 > 0:17:59Tom Clarke.
0:18:01 > 0:18:05What once nourished me here destroys me.
0:18:06 > 0:18:07Varg?
0:18:10 > 0:18:14It's you, Varg, my poor lost brother.
0:18:14 > 0:18:16Greetings, Sister.
0:18:18 > 0:18:23All these years, it was you.
0:18:23 > 0:18:26My form shamed me,
0:18:26 > 0:18:29as I know yours must you.
0:18:32 > 0:18:36Do you think in this form my spirit will be allowed to
0:18:36 > 0:18:39hunt in the Valley of Forever with our Nekross ancestors?
0:18:40 > 0:18:43Oh, Varg...
0:18:43 > 0:18:46your spirit will always be Nekross.
0:18:46 > 0:18:47I'm so sorry,
0:18:47 > 0:18:51but how did THIS happen?
0:18:52 > 0:18:56The instant I stepped from the elevator, I was transformed.
0:18:58 > 0:19:02For 100 years, I was a beast in this world,
0:19:02 > 0:19:04nothing but a fearsome beast.
0:19:06 > 0:19:11But as I watched and remembered you, Sister,
0:19:11 > 0:19:14I found a purpose - to protect you.
0:19:18 > 0:19:21And then...
0:19:21 > 0:19:23your son found me
0:19:23 > 0:19:26and he did not fear me.
0:19:28 > 0:19:32His friendship gave me back so much that I had lost.
0:19:33 > 0:19:36Thanks to him...
0:19:36 > 0:19:39at least I will not end my life as a beast.
0:19:42 > 0:19:45Tom!
0:19:45 > 0:19:47- Benny!- Tom!
0:19:48 > 0:19:52- Benny!- Tom!
0:19:52 > 0:19:54Tom! It's you!
0:19:54 > 0:19:57How long has it been? How long have we been away?
0:19:57 > 0:19:58Six hours.
0:20:01 > 0:20:05It's been 20 years for us, Benny. And look!
0:20:05 > 0:20:08Look!
0:20:08 > 0:20:11This is our son, Benny Junior.
0:20:11 > 0:20:14Oh, Tom! This is amazing!
0:20:18 > 0:20:21And this is Varg, but he's dying.
0:20:21 > 0:20:24If we can get him back to the lift, to our world, maybe we can save him.
0:20:24 > 0:20:26Tell me we can get back home!
0:20:26 > 0:20:28Gran is holding the Never-way open.
0:20:28 > 0:20:30Quickly, we haven't got much time! Come on!
0:20:45 > 0:20:48You cannot escape.
0:20:48 > 0:20:51Just as wizards shall never overcome the Never-way!
0:20:54 > 0:20:56Come on, quickly!
0:20:58 > 0:21:01- Tom! Is it you?! - Gran! You came for us!
0:21:01 > 0:21:03Quickly! Quickly!
0:21:03 > 0:21:07I've held the Never-way open too long - the realm is collapsing!
0:21:07 > 0:21:10- Who's that?- That's your great-grandma.- 'Doors closing.'
0:21:10 > 0:21:13And there are going to be so many other big surprises where
0:21:13 > 0:21:15we're going, mates to play with.
0:21:15 > 0:21:17You're going to have an amazing time, I promise.
0:21:17 > 0:21:21- Will we play football?- That's my boy!- Tom! Come on!
0:21:21 > 0:21:23Quickly!
0:21:25 > 0:21:27'Doors closing.'
0:21:27 > 0:21:29Come on!
0:21:34 > 0:21:36They've escaped!
0:21:36 > 0:21:38The Never-way is no more!
0:22:05 > 0:22:08- Benny Junior... - But he was right behind us.
0:22:08 > 0:22:10- He's just vanished. - Open the door!
0:22:10 > 0:22:14- It will do no good. - Out of my way, hag!
0:22:19 > 0:22:22The enchantment is broken. The realm is gone.
0:22:24 > 0:22:27Along with everything that happened there.
0:22:29 > 0:22:31No, no, no. We had a child!
0:22:31 > 0:22:33I'm sorry, Tom.
0:22:33 > 0:22:38I know it's hard to understand but in this world...
0:22:38 > 0:22:40he never existed.
0:22:40 > 0:22:42No, you lie! I bore a child.
0:22:42 > 0:22:45- I did not imagine that!- You've left the Neverside, and everything
0:22:45 > 0:22:47has gone back to the way it was.
0:22:56 > 0:23:00The wizard has the truth of it.
0:23:00 > 0:23:02Perhaps this way is best.
0:23:04 > 0:23:06'Doors closing.'
0:23:16 > 0:23:19'Doors opening, Floor Zero.'
0:23:26 > 0:23:28- Tom!- Dad!
0:23:29 > 0:23:31I've missed you so much!
0:23:33 > 0:23:36- What happened to Mervyn? - He just vanished.
0:23:36 > 0:23:39The Never-way has collapsed and taken its Gatekeeper with it.
0:23:39 > 0:23:41Then it's over.
0:23:41 > 0:23:45No, it'll never be over.
0:23:46 > 0:23:49Tom...
0:23:49 > 0:23:50what happened over there?
0:23:50 > 0:23:55What happened in that place, what we lost...
0:23:55 > 0:23:59what we all lost is best left there.
0:23:59 > 0:24:01The Neverside is like a dream world...
0:24:03 > 0:24:05..and like a dream, it fades.
0:24:11 > 0:24:13I will not forget him,
0:24:13 > 0:24:15whatever the hag says.
0:24:19 > 0:24:22You're Nekross again, Lexi.
0:24:22 > 0:24:26I can hear it in your voice, you're forgetting already.
0:24:26 > 0:24:29No, I shall never forget.
0:24:33 > 0:24:35What colour were his eyes?
0:24:40 > 0:24:41I'm not sure, either.
0:24:43 > 0:24:45I've lost him and now I'm going to lose you.
0:24:49 > 0:24:53I lived a lifetime in human skin with you, Tom Clarke...
0:24:54 > 0:24:58..a life that no-one else could truly understand.
0:24:59 > 0:25:02I am Nekross again...
0:25:02 > 0:25:05and that life is gone.
0:25:07 > 0:25:09Goodbye, Tom.
0:25:10 > 0:25:12Goodbye, Lexi.
0:25:15 > 0:25:16Brother.
0:25:23 > 0:25:25ZAP!
0:25:37 > 0:25:38Will he be all right?
0:25:41 > 0:25:45One morning, tomorrow, or a week from now,
0:25:45 > 0:25:48he'll wake up and what happened on the Neverside
0:25:48 > 0:25:50will be like fragments of a dream.
0:26:01 > 0:26:02Sister.
0:26:02 > 0:26:05Wizards tell their children that the loved ones
0:26:05 > 0:26:07that they lose become stars.
0:26:09 > 0:26:14It is an unscientific concept based on emotion...
0:26:16 > 0:26:18..but not without beauty.
0:26:19 > 0:26:23There is a new star in the sky tonight.
0:26:23 > 0:26:24It burns so brightly.
0:26:27 > 0:26:30Perhaps there is sometimes more to the universe than science.
0:26:44 > 0:26:46Are you OK?
0:26:46 > 0:26:49Yeah, I will be.
0:26:49 > 0:26:51It's like a dream.
0:26:51 > 0:26:53Soon you'll remember it all better than me.
0:26:57 > 0:27:00You and your girlfriend, Alicia.
0:27:00 > 0:27:03- She's not my girlfriend. - Nerdfriend, then.
0:27:05 > 0:27:07Thanks for coming for me.
0:27:07 > 0:27:10I'm sorry it took a while.
0:27:10 > 0:27:12Tom...
0:27:12 > 0:27:15I'm really sorry about Benny Junior.
0:27:17 > 0:27:20He was part of the Neverside, Benny.
0:27:20 > 0:27:23That's where he belonged.
0:27:25 > 0:27:29Maybe he's up there...
0:27:29 > 0:27:30with Mum.
0:27:40 > 0:27:43The Passing of the Moon, it will be almost upon us!
0:27:43 > 0:27:45Totality. That is impossible.
0:27:45 > 0:27:47Fire! Trust us!
0:27:47 > 0:27:49The Moon, it's going to hit us!
0:27:49 > 0:27:52Let there be darkness!
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