For Tonight We Might Die Class

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TENSE MUSIC

HE BREATHES HEAVILY

HIS BREATH QUIVERS

SCREAMING

# What have I been waiting for?

# Been wasting all my time

# Watching my youth slip away surely is a crime

# We go on and on and on and on and on

# Never knowing where Never knowing where

# We gonna, we gonna, we gonna end up in the morning-ing-ing

# We go on and on and on and on and on

# Never knowing where Never knowing where

# We gonna, we gonna, we gonna end up in the morning-ing-ing. #

# Anywhere you are

# Ooh

# We are never far

# Ooh

# Want you to feel safe...

Too easy, posh-o. It's like pushing over a lamb.

# ..safe and sound. #

INDISTINCT RADIO REPORT

Kevin never got home last night.

Everyone knows students at this school disappear -

they all just pretend it isn't happening.

Tanya? Are you coming to help decorate later?

We need volunteers.

-My mum says I'm too young.

-But its for year 12.

Technically you qualify,

despite, you know, being, like, two years ahead.

-How old are you, anyway?

-Oh, because that question never gets old(!)

I think I'm going to ask Charlie to the prom.

And you just made us fail the Bechdel test.

The what? You're funny(!)

Besides, I don't think the new kid is into...

-Wait, prom is tomorrow.

-Mm-hm.

-You don't have a date yet?

So that's a yes to helping me decorate.

RUMBLING

How would one dress?

Well, the boys wear dinner jackets and the girls wear ballgowns,

but you don't need to be that gender specific.

I don't know what you did in your last job, but...

I am NOT a baby-sitter.

Except...you kind of...

..are.

TENSE MUSIC

Anyway...

..about the p...prom.

Um...

I was thinking that maybe you and I could... You know.

Oh! Er...

No. I shouldn't think so.

Ha! That was painful.

SCHOOL BELL RINGS

Look at you all. The cream of the crop.

High achievers.

No wonder this country only exports Downton Abbey.

-I like Downton Abbey.

-Of course YOU like it.

It's a bunch of white people being nice to each other.

You'd watch it if Idris Elba were in it.

PHONE KEYBOARD CLICKS

Are we cheating already, Charles?

You haven't actually taught us anything yet.

True.

So how about our first lesson of the day?

-SCREEN SMASHES

-Your teacher has awful butterfingers.

You can't do that! That's his private property.

April Maclean, the answer to the question

are spinsters born or made?

You got a date for the prom yet?

Pretty sure you're not allowed to ask that.

-I've got a date.

-Of course, Ram.

The boy who hears silent applause every time he walks into a room.

Solve it.

-Don't look so pained, Matteusz.

-Is this even in the book?

I honestly think she makes this stuff up.

-WHISPERING:

-It's the Gibbs probability density

in a classical Klein-Gordon field.

Well, it is.

We're not supposed to understand it.

She just wants us to feel stupid.

I bet she ate that missing kid.

He was eaten?

THEY SNIGGER

Where are you from anyway? You sound like the Queen.

I'm from Sheffield.

-HE LAUGHS

-Why am I even talking to you geeks?

Don't make me put you in detention, Ram. You wouldn't like it.

SCHOOL BELL RINGS

The big decoration tonight. All volunteers are welcome.

Big decorations night. Autumn Ball.

All volunteers are welcome.

All volunteers are welcome.

Big decoration tonight.

Here you are. Need you.

Come and help me.

Anyone?

Heya.

Having a date to the prom is important, yes?

Um... Yeah.

I shall ask Matteusz as my date.

Oh...

-Oh!

-Is this not right?

-No, no, no...

-The schools in Sheffield are very different.

No, it's great. It's...it's fantastic.

And it totally makes sense.

Good for you.

-Thank you.

-OK.

Of course he is.

Of course.

-On the left!

-Through!

-Open!

-Move!

-Open!

-I've got it!

THEY GROAN

-Yes!

-Come on!

THEY CHEER

Ram!

Come on!

Get the ball!

Quick, quick!

TENSE MUSIC

SQUELCHING

Open!

What the hell was that?!

-Coach...

-20 laps. Now.

-What for?

-25.

Get a move on.

DISTANT SIRENS, DOG BARKS

SHE HUMS TUNE

No. No. Why would you help decorate something that you can't even go to?

SHE SIGHS

Because that sad individual is probably

the only chance you have at a friend.

SHE SIGHS

TENSE MUSIC

SHE BREATHS HEAVILY

Yeah, I'm under far too much pressure.

Tell me about it.

-Just a minute.

-All right.

-I'll have some of this. It's two-for-one...

Still weird to see without your uniform, Tanya.

-I'm in sixth form now.

-Overachiever.

I caught my husband fiddling with himself on the stairs.

Thank you.

BIRDS CAW

I'm home.

-SHE SNIFFS

-You took your own sweet time.

-DOOR OPENS

-Hello?

You're usually done by now.

Hello to you too.

Mum, you know this prom at school...

-You're too young to be dancing with boys.

-But I'm technically...

Your brain is smart enough to have allowed you to skip ahead,

but you are still a little girl.

One who isn't even finished with her homework.

-Work fast. Fun is for later.

-When, when I'm 40?

What's the matter?

Why are you upset?

Perhaps a better question is why aren't you?

All the time, at every moment.

Did you kill that student?

I saw burn marks that look like they were from your gun.

'Take it!'

Now, you know as well as I do I'm not allowed to use my gun.

You'd find a way, some loophole. Did you kill that student?

HE SCREAMS

Yes. Yes!

I tricked that student into using my gun to kill himself.

I also may not lie to you, remember?

-And as long as I am forced to perform this slavery...

-Punishment.

"To-may-to, to-ma-to".

..I will keep you safe, but you will NOT...question me!

Where are you going?

What did I just say?

'You have to shoot it! I can't use the gun!'

Shoot it! Shoot it now!

HE SCREAMS

GUN BEEPS

This just means that I can do it the way that I want it.

Whatever you say.

Look, I'm going to meet a friend for a...

PHONE BEEPS .."granola and kale falafel".

God, how Shoreditch has changed.

Can I trust you with this? Of course I can trust you with this.

TENSE MUSIC

I've just sat down.

'I'm going out with Rachel later. I need the answers now.'

-Have you paid into my gaming account?

-Yes, you ridiculous nerd.

'OK. The first steps you take in breaking down the formula...'

SHE HUMS

A...

..night...

..full...of promise.

I wonder if that's what prom means...

RUMBLING

Weird.

-'Like this?'

-Yeah, exactly.

Isn't this great?

The two of us...

'talking about something other than what the white people are doing.'

You tell anyone about this, you're dead.

I mean dead.

RUMBLING

'What was that?'

No, is it promenade?

Hm...

TENSE MUSIC

Help!

There's nothing. What did you see?

Was it a shadow?

What do you know about shadows?

RUMBLING

-'Tanya!'

-Ram!

Help! Anyone?!

SHE GROANS

SHE BREATHES HEAVILY

We're in terrible danger.

No, I'm telling you, I'm seeing it right now.

'There's someone attacking her!'

-SHE GROANS

-Wait... What?

'Tanya, what's your address?'

I don't know! Something with a 3 in it.

I think you know what waits for you here.

You think the same plan will work!

But I am what waits for you.

And I am war itself!

Run.

-Where is the prince?

-Prince? The singer?

Oh, shit!

Shit!

I can't use the gun, but you can do it - please!

More lights, Tanya. 'Get rid of all the shadows.'

Well, obviously!

SHE SCREAMS

No!

-'No, please! No!'

-No!

It's part of your shadow! Just shoot it!

Shoot it now, or it'll kill us both!

April, no! HE GROANS

Did you kill it?

I don't...

What is going on in here?!

You're talking to a boy.

April?

April? April?

Are you hurt?

Don't think so.

What the hell did you do?

-Corakinus.

-They found us.

Something is not right.

GASPING

Now, that's interesting.

What's interesting?

What is that thing?

It's a displacement gun.

One of the few things in time and space able to kill a Shadow Kin.

It hits both target and shooter, tearing the body apart, scattering

to the far corners of the universe, taking the Shadow Kin with it.

But Prince Valiant here had to get all heroic and you must've

got a glancing blow.

I'm guessing that's a Shadow Kin.

More than that. He's the king of the Shadow Kin.

That's not an encouraging look.

It sent his heart out into space, which should have killed him but...

You both now share April's heart.

God knows, it big enough.

What's she talking about?

I think your heart is phasing in and out of space-time,

because he wants you. He wants your...

SINISTER CHUCKLE

You cannot kill me without killing the girl, too.

Not a problem.

Kill him, your Highness.

You... What?

I will not.

What?

You would hesitate from killing the leader of the Shadow Kin?!

I would hesitate from killing a friend.

This is not over.

It isn't.

We've got a problem

PHONE ALERT

-Are you OK?

-I'm not supposed to talk to you.

-You just got attacked by a shadow.

-Yeah, I know.

We have an enemy to fight.

Who's not here at the moment.

Look, we were told to keep our heads down and not cause any excitement.

Wait a minute. What was that thing?

Shadow Kin, you ludicrous Care Bear.

Is this how little attention you pay in class, too?

All right, all right. Look...

Would you believe me if I...

..if I said I was from another...

..planet?

God, yeah. You're weird and don't know anything about pop culture.

You either alien or Amish.

I'm totally not prejudiced.

I come from a planet more beautiful than you could ever believe.

We.

We come from that planet.

It was paradise.

So, not Sheffield, then.

My people were the Rhodia.

We were a cultured, learned society.

-Can you picture it?

-Sort of.

I think I banged my head when I fell.

Well, go on. Tell her.

He was their prince.

You were a prince?

No wonder you're strange.

I am a prince, just...

..without a people.

We were at war when it happened.

War against the Quill.

Our teacher here was the Quill's leading terrorist.

Freedom fighter.

The Quill lived on the smaller of the southern continents.

They mismanaged their economy and grew resentful of our success.

The Rhodia ate up all the planets resources, including those of

the Quill, and then they were surprised when we objected.

We tried to help you!

By making us so dependent that we could never recover.

Hang on a minute.

Do you always look like this or were you totally all alien and

had to modify your appearance to look human?

No. Why do you ask?

It doesn't matter. We won.

And the Rhodia have a particularly cruel punishment.

It is just.

They release a creature into your skull called an ahn.

Something about the size of two of your weirdly large

human thumbs placed together.

Now imagine it with teeth and claws, digging into your brain,

each claw tipped with poison.

Oh, and that's the nice bit.

It telepathically links you to a particular Rhodia -

and you become their slave.

-Their servant.

-It is slavery.

It is punishment. You can't...

If I use a weapon other than my own hands, the ahn kills me.

Yet, if I fail to protect you, I am also killed.

If I tried to remove the ahn, dead again.

-Slavery.

-Our tormentors become our protectors.

The leader of the Quill bound to the future leader of the Rhodia.

What more civilised punishment could there be?

What does this have to do with the shadow people?

We were so busy fighting amongst ourselves, we never saw them coming.

They can exist as pure shadow...

..living unnoticed and untouchable in yours.

In this form, they can only be killed if you are.

Which is why the gun is set to shoot both ways.

They'll invade an entire world before anyone even

knows they're there.

They only need to be in their solid form for the briefest of moments.

Because why would you fear your own shadow?

They killed everyone.

Everyone.

Rhodia and Quill alike.

A planet of three billion, all gone in...

..one day.

They killed my mother.

You two survived.

I saved you.

Run!

Agh!

Come on!

And I saved you.

How did you escape?

We were rescued.

By a figure of legend

out of space and time itself.

Whatever.

Arrangements were made.

We were told to try and fit in and tell people we were from Sheffield.

I don't understand how they found us.

That opening Corakinus crawled back into.

Are they coming to kill our planet?

I mean, my planet, I guess.

This isn't how they invade. This is different.

They're clearly looking for us.

Unfinished business.

-We should leave.

-No. They'll follow us wherever we go.

I won't spend the rest of my life on the run.

Oh, and yet you hesitate to take your revenge.

Revenge?

APRIL GASPS

April. April.

What's happening to her? Why are you standing there?!

-Do something!

-I see them.

I can hear his thoughts.

He wants you.

He wants something you have.

The gun?

He's coming for it tomorrow night.

I'm going to have to cancel prom.

No, no.

If they want to kill everyone,

they'll just slide into our shadows and do it at home.

Great.

Die alone or die at a party.

Plus, if we're all here,

it's the best chance we'll have of getting your heart back.

-You said that you could hear his thoughts.

-Mm.

It's gone now, but for a minute...

For a minute.

Well, for a minute he could probably read yours.

They've obviously connected because of the heart.

I told you we should kill her.

No-one is killing her.

DOOR OPENS

Leave us!

We are decorating.

DOOR CLOSES

If you see anything more, you tell us immediately. OK?

Oh, thank God you said that.

I'd have just kept it to myself.

Just be careful of your shadows at the prom tonight, OK?

What have you seen?

Could you believe all that stuff?

Aliens, and Charlie being a prince?

I don't know. I was attacked by a shadow.

Kind of opens your mind a little bit.

You take care.

You hear?

Thanks.

Ahem...you, too.

Why don't you tell your mum the prom's being assigned

as a sociology module?

You look gorgeous!

I don't, but thanks.

-April!

-People just think that nice means fragile.

That somehow if I'm allowed to see what the real world's like,

then I'll break, but...

..I'm tougher than they think.

I know how tough you are.

And you're not nice.

You're kind.

There's a difference.

But kind is better.

Way better.

Yeah, cos that's what people think when they want a prom date.

"Oh, I wonder who's kind?"

April, just because you have to do a lot for me...

I don't mind.

..doesn't mean I stop being your mum.

You do look gorgeous.

And that's that.

SPEAKS OWN LANGUAGE

SHOUTING CONTINUES FROM INSIDE

Hello.

Everything all right?

Oh, yeah.

My deeply religious parents are very happy I'm going to dance with a boy.

This has been an evening of love and warmth.

Great.

You are a very strange person.

She's got a driver?

Uber, Dad.

Practice in the morning.

Oh, my God!

If you tell me one more time, I might literally go insane.

Don't abuse the word literally.

It's a good word that young people squander.

What's that, Dad? Have a good time tonight?

Well, thanks, I'm sure I will.

You're facing a very important step in your future soon.

You have no idea what I'm facing, Dad.

What?

-What are you facing?

-See you later, Dad.

-DOOR SHUTS

-Have fun.

You look amazing.

You, too.

DANCE MUSIC

Whoa, whoa, whoa! Get some space between you. Honestly!

Is that all you people think about?

Look at all of these people!

Oh, this is going to look so good for my university application.

Do you not have a date?

Is OK.

You can dance with us.

How are you feeling?

How's your...heart?

Weird, but OK.

I keep getting really short of breath, but I'm adjusting to it.

It's amazing what the body can get used to.

I do not understand these signs.

Come on, let's dance.

For tonight, we might die.

Are you all right?

OK, seriously, what is wrong with you?

Hey, Ram! Looking good, man.

Nothing, just nerves.

The great Ram Singh, nervous?

# You got me feeling for your power

# Turn the music louder

# Let me feel it, ooh-ooh-ooh-ooh

-# Come on!

-You got me feeling for your power

# Turn the music louder.... #

Tanya! I thought your mum wouldn't let you come.

Yeah, I told her missing this would stunt my interpersonal development.

I have to write an essay about it, though.

Although, actually, it might be quite interesting.

# So right, so fresh

# Top five, no less

# So right, I just flash... #

Wow.

That's how you do a prom.

I'm dressed really nice...

All right?

-DJ:

-And we're changing the tune, now.

We've got some nice ones coming your way...

MUSIC: Fester Skank by Lethal Bizzle feat. Diztortion

# Fester

# Fester

# Anywhere I go, I make the gang go

# Fester... #

That was such a good one! You look so good.

-I'm going to go to the toilet.

-I'll come with you.

OK.

Anything?

Yes, there was a huge attack I'm keeping secret from you.

I should've put a creature in your head to make you nicer.

-Yeah, should've, but didn't.

-Hmm.

If there is any trouble,

the gun is set for you.

Something is happening to your friend.

< Help, April!

April!

-Is she epileptic?

-Do we need to call an ambulance?

What do you see?

-SHE GASPS

-They're opening...the tear.

Is that a bad thing?

SHE GASPS

-You don't have to prove anything to me, Ram.

-What?

I know that you've got the whole sporting ego thing going on,

but I like you because I know that, deep down, that's not true.

Now, will you please let me go to the...

WET SLICING, HE SCREAMS

CRUMBLING

HE SCREAMS

Where is...the prince?!

-..The prince?!

-SHE GASPS

-No!

-What?

-Oh, no!

You killed her!

Where is the prince?

GROWLING AND GRUNTING

Did you hire a band?

We need to get everybody out.

BLASTER FIRE

DANCE MUSIC PLAYS

Where are all the teachers?!

RETCHING

WET SPLATTERING, COUGHING

Move along, please.

Boyfriend dumped her on prom night.

I must be allergic to the punch(!)

-You're all in danger.

-You have to go!

Please, you've got to get out! Stop ignoring me!

There's a fire and you've got to get out of the building

or you're going to die.

Get out! Oh! For God's sake!

HE YELLS

HE GRUNTS

I will ask you one last time. Where is the prince?

I am the prince!

CRASHING, FEEDBACK SQUEAKS Whoa!

Will none of you people listen to niceness ever?!

Turn the music back on!

You'd listen to me if I was some A-hole

telling you how fat you looked on Instagram!

ALL CHATTER Do they do this at American proms?

All right.

Yeah, back up.

Listen!

-You're all in grave danger.

-From what?

BLASTER FIRE, ALL GASP

BLASTER FIRE

HUSH DESCENDS

SCREAMING

From the smoke.

PANICKED SCREAMS

BLASTER FIRE

GROWLING, RAM GRUNTS

You killed her!

SLICING

WET CRUNCH, HE SCREAMS

HE PANTS

INAUDIBLE

SCREAMING

-April, come here.

-Come on, let's go.

-We have to close that rift.

-Oh, is that where we're going wrong(?)

The Prince of Rhodia

and his little pet.

Kill him. Kill him!

HEARTBEATS THUD

-Ha-ha, you know why I'm here, Prince.

-You can't have it.

Then we'll just have to cover this planet in shadow, too.

No, you won't.

You won't kill me because you'll die yourself.

There is enough time of possibilities other than death.

-Argh!

-April!

No!

They've locked us in. We're trapped!

Stop it. You've got what you wanted. Just go!

I've not yet got what I wanted.

HE GROWLS

Well, nothing left to do, then, is there,

but to die well.

HE GROWLS

You know, I never thought that was possible.

Dying well.

-Who wants to die well? Surely, the aim should be NOT dying well?

-You.

-You.

-Who?

-Who?

-Who?

Oh, this is a bit of a mess, isn't it?

I used to be the caretaker here, you know?

Before it got all fancy. This is going to be quite a clean-up job.

You've heard of me, haven't you?

You are the great destruction of the universe.

Yes, but most people just call me the Doctor.

There was something I wanted to ask you... Oh, yes!

What exactly do you think you're doing here?

We might ask you the same question.

Fair enough.

It's just that I seem to have a soft spot for people

who are the last of their species -

which you have made my friends here. I found them a home,

but they were supposed to live quietly. Plus...

..they called.

We've got a problem.

This is not your normal modus operandi.

You invade in secret.

And you kill all at once.

You don't just pour in like any old boring army!

Bit inelegant for the Shadow Kin, isn't it?

We are here...for the Cabinet.

Oh, the Cabinet!

Oh, that's easy.

There's this painfully strange shop here called Ikea...

The Cabinet of Souls.

What's the Cabinet of Souls?

It's the centre of Rhodian religion.

The soul of every Rhodian who dies is supposed to go there.

It's a repository for a future paradise.

And a weapon.

Yes.

That, too.

It's the power of all that life

crammed down into single specks of light.

It could be enough to destroy an entire species.

-He can use it against us.

-Yes.

-Yes, and who would blame him?

-I would.

Why avenge genocide with genocide?

Why avenge? Trust me...

It doesn't matter.

The Cabinet is empty.

I knew it would be.

Every Rhodian does.

It's just bedtime stories for children to make death less scary.

As if death should be anything but terrifying.

Then why would you take it?

I kept it in memory of my people.

All my people who are gone!

Yes.

That is a crime that has not yet been answered for.

And who will make me?

You are powerful...

..but we are a legion.

SHE GRUNTS

You leave...

..or I'll make you leave.

What's going on here?

SCREWDRIVER TRILLS

You have been very busy here, haven't you?

-One heart. Two people.

-It's why you can't kill me.

But I can.

You leave...

-or you die.

-CHARLIE:

-April, no.

If you came for me, take me. Leave these people alone.

Weren't any of you listening when I talked about not dying well?

-No-one else is dying here today.

-We disagree.

Tell me, Corakinus...

Yes, I know who you are.

You have one weakness.

It's why you skulk.

Even in your most solid form,

you cannot exist when there are no...

-TANYA:

-Shadows!

LIGHTS BUZZ

-I thought that would work...

-You thought correctly.

You just need a boost to the voltage!

SCREWDRIVER TRILLS

HE GROANS

You have not seen the last of us.

Yeah, I get that a lot.

No, he still has April's heart!

Oh, for God's sake!

I don't care how you do it, but save her heart.

Sacrifice yourself if you must!

-I have no choice but to obey, Master.

-Don't call me that!

SHE YELLS

I shall take my heart with me.

-Do something with your laser pointer!

-It's a screwdriver.

-WHIRRING

-What will you do, Doctor?

Kill us both or let us both live?

Those are your choices.

April! Duck.

SHE GRUNTS

Who says you're the only one who gets to make the decisions?

I will find you!

SCREWDRIVER WHIRS

-That was very brave.

-He killed her.

He did even think about it. He just...

HE GROANS

ALL GASP

DOOR OPENS

Will he live?

Yes, yes, he will.

But the more interesting question is,

what are we going to do with you lot?

That opening the Shadow Kin came through,

-you couldn't close it all the way.

-Well, obviously,

there's been so much artron energy around good old Coal Hill

that time itself has worn thin.

I bet they didn't take that into account when they renovated.

And it can only be patched up so well.

Even by me.

So, those things will come back?

Well, they'll have to find you first.

I scrambled the pulsation.

Of course, Coal Hill will continue to act like a beacon

across all of space-time,

to any being who might want to make mischief with it.

So, you will have to be on your guard.

What?

No, no, no.

I thought you were going to get us out of here?

Why would you be safer somewhere else?

Time has looked at your faces.

And time...

..time...

..never forgets.

OK, Doctor.

Hey, hey, listen.

Um...

All right, these people...

Yes, they may disgust me,

but at the end of the day, they're just children.

-They can't cope with this.

-I think that they have shown

some rather extraordinary spirit, don't you?

A willingness to sacrifice themselves to save others.

Resourcefulness.

Bravery. DOOR OPENS

And, oh, yes...

An absolute understanding of how precious life is.

-You got your leg back?

-I had some spares in the medical bay.

The Lothan - giant centipedes - experts in prosthetic legs.

You'll get the hang of it.

You just have to train it to act like your own leg.

GEARS WHIR AND CLICK

What about football?

Unbelievably boring sport.

Now, darts...

Darts is something worth practising for.

Maths and alcoholic beverages.

The best way to spend a morning.

No, wait.

Wait...

You can't seriously expect these juveniles to deal with

whatever is going to come through these tears in space and time?

-Through the what?

-It's like the Hellmouth.

-Or that town in Once Upon A Time.

-Or The Vampire Diaries.

-You watch Vampire Diaries?

-Everyone is very attractive.

-Yes, it's true.

SHE GROANS

Well, they won't be on their own.

Oh, no...

No, no, please...

It is bad enough that I am a slave to that...prince.

You have committed a crime and you will be punished.

No, I was a freedom fighter for my people. We were oppressed by...

You know what I'm talking about.

Oh... Hm...

I can't be everywhere.

So!

You will help these amazing humans here...

..and these amazing humans will help you.

How? I can't fire weapons!

I can't use swords and knives and screwdrivers!

Your brain, Miss Quill.

Best weapon there is.

Look at you! What an amazing team!

You'll be able to handle anything that time throws at you.

Oh, come on! Cheer up!

It's not that hard.

It's no harder than all these exams that you have to take these days.

Except for Media Studies. It's going to be harder than that.

RHYTHMIC THRUMMING

THRUMMING FADES

SHE SIGHS

So, are we all, like, mates, then?

DOOR CLOSES

HE WINCES

SHE SIGHS

I'm sorry. About your heart.

We'll get it back - promise.

It feels so strange.

But maybe I'll be able to see if those things come back.

You're remarkably calm about this.

We'll be living on a knife edge.

All life is on a knife edge.

My mum,

she was paralysed in a car accident and she should've died,

but she didn't.

She adjusted

and I will, too.

I'll see you Monday.

She's probably not going to let us out of our homework.

-MUM:

-'So...'

How was it? Tell me everything.

I'd, um...

have to say it was...

uneventful.

TANYA: 'Hey.'

'Hey.'

You OK?

'I don't think I'll ever be OK.'

SHE SIGHS

I'm so sorry about Rachel.

'Look, I'm sorry...

'I don't mean to...'

Don't worry.

I don't want to be alone, either.

How...?

How are you not deranged with grief for your people as I am for mine?

How does the rage not consume your life at every waking moment?

How do you know it doesn't?

A prince can't simply run around being furious. A prince is...

..responsible for his people.

What do you mean? You...

The Cabinet of Souls IS empty?

I wish it wasn't as much as you.

Shame.

We could have killed them. We could have killed them all.

Committing one genocide for another.

Were you ever going to let that stop you?

-SHE SCOFFS

-It wouldn't stop me.

WHOOSHING

RHYTHMIC THRUMMING

THUDDING ON DOOR

THUDDING CONTINUES

Do you know the feeling of dread?

SCREAMING, WET SQUELCHING

DRIPPING

-TANYA:

-Has something happened?

-RAM:

-I saw something.

-HE SCREAMS, WET SLITHERING

-It was horrible.

Like, really horrible.

Who are you? What are you doing here?

The Doctor said you're supposed to help us. You're my protector.

SCREAMING

GROWLING

DRIPPING