The Metaphysical Engine, or What Quill Did

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0:00:02 > 0:00:04You could destroy the entire species who killed our people

0:00:04 > 0:00:06and yet, oh, here we stand...in a school!

0:00:06 > 0:00:08You shouldn't avenge genocide with genocide -

0:00:08 > 0:00:12- that's what the Doctor said. - Oh, the Doctor...

0:00:12 > 0:00:14It isn't your decision, Quill.

0:00:14 > 0:00:15Nope.

0:00:16 > 0:00:17But detention is.

0:00:19 > 0:00:20Hey!

0:00:20 > 0:00:23You've all got an hour's detention and I've got things to do.

0:00:23 > 0:00:24You're sworn to protect me.

0:00:24 > 0:00:26And that's why I'm locking you in, Prince.

0:00:26 > 0:00:28It's so you won't come to any harm.

0:00:31 > 0:00:34< What are you going to do? Quill? Hey! Hey!

0:00:35 > 0:00:36Ready.

0:00:36 > 0:00:38Is that what you're wearing?

0:00:39 > 0:00:41Is that what you are?

0:00:41 > 0:00:44They'll stay in the classroom?

0:00:44 > 0:00:47Don't want them trying to solve any mysteries while we're away.

0:00:47 > 0:00:49Oh, they're such goody-two-shoes,

0:00:49 > 0:00:51they'd probably stay in there without a key or a teacher.

0:00:51 > 0:00:53Now, come on, are we leaving or aren't we?

0:00:53 > 0:00:55Are you really so eager?

0:00:55 > 0:00:57The chances of you surviving this...

0:00:57 > 0:00:59I'll either end today dead or with this thing out of my skull.

0:00:59 > 0:01:01Are you entirely sure about that?

0:01:01 > 0:01:04The Arn knows your thoughts, yes?

0:01:04 > 0:01:05Yeah.

0:01:06 > 0:01:08Then it knows you want it out.

0:01:08 > 0:01:12And surely the only reason it hasn't killed you already

0:01:12 > 0:01:15is that you yourself don't believe that this will work.

0:01:15 > 0:01:16What are you getting at?

0:01:16 > 0:01:20At some point today, should everything go according to plan,

0:01:20 > 0:01:21there will come a moment...

0:01:23 > 0:01:25..when you start to believe.

0:01:25 > 0:01:27And when that happens...?

0:01:27 > 0:01:28There will be no going back.

0:01:30 > 0:01:35You really will either end today dead or with your freedom.

0:01:35 > 0:01:36Then let's begin.

0:01:38 > 0:01:41I wish to be free.

0:01:41 > 0:01:43And who, I wonder,

0:01:43 > 0:01:46IS Quill when she's free?

0:01:48 > 0:01:49I am war itself.

0:01:56 > 0:01:58# What have I been waiting for?

0:01:58 > 0:02:01# Been wasting all my time

0:02:01 > 0:02:06# Watchin' my youth slip away surely is a crime?

0:02:06 > 0:02:08# We go on and on, and on and on

0:02:08 > 0:02:11# And on, never knowing where Never knowing where we gonna

0:02:11 > 0:02:15# We gonna We gonna end up in the morning

0:02:15 > 0:02:18# We go on and on, and on and on

0:02:18 > 0:02:21# And on, never knowing where Never knowing where we gonna

0:02:21 > 0:02:25# We gonna We gonna end up in the morning. #

0:02:27 > 0:02:30What exactly are we waiting for?

0:02:32 > 0:02:34Ah, there he is.

0:02:34 > 0:02:37HIGH-PITCHED PULSING

0:02:42 > 0:02:43You're late.

0:02:47 > 0:02:49The Governors keep alien prisoners?

0:02:49 > 0:02:51Does Unit know about this?

0:02:51 > 0:02:54ENERGY PULSES

0:02:56 > 0:02:57PULSING CEASES

0:02:59 > 0:03:00Remarkable.

0:03:01 > 0:03:03Who is this person?

0:03:03 > 0:03:06Quill, Ballon. Ballon, Quill.

0:03:07 > 0:03:09That's all either of you need to know for now.

0:03:11 > 0:03:13Stay out of my way.

0:03:13 > 0:03:15You stay out of mine.

0:03:23 > 0:03:24What's that?

0:03:24 > 0:03:27Very old technology, which, I confess,

0:03:27 > 0:03:30I don't fully understand.

0:03:31 > 0:03:33- DEVICE RINGS - It's quite unstable.

0:03:34 > 0:03:37Liable to kill us all at any moment.

0:03:37 > 0:03:38Is that why they sent you?

0:03:38 > 0:03:40Expendable?

0:03:43 > 0:03:46DEVICE DINGS THEN RATTLES

0:03:50 > 0:03:54Three...two...one...

0:03:54 > 0:03:56BOOM! DOROTHEA GASPS

0:03:56 > 0:03:58PULSING AND CRACKLING

0:03:59 > 0:04:02BOOM! Aah... Oh...

0:04:02 > 0:04:03LOUD THROBBING OF ENERGY

0:04:03 > 0:04:06SHE GRUNTS

0:04:14 > 0:04:16RATTLING AND BANGING

0:04:17 > 0:04:20RINGING

0:04:23 > 0:04:26CREATURE BELLOWS IN DISTANCE

0:04:31 > 0:04:32SHE RETCHES

0:04:34 > 0:04:36I know. Me, too.

0:04:37 > 0:04:39There'll be a period of adjustment.

0:04:40 > 0:04:42Oh, what the hell just happened?

0:04:42 > 0:04:45Kind of atomic fuzzing.

0:04:45 > 0:04:50Makes us quite nearly not exist in the traditional sense,

0:04:50 > 0:04:55but it can take one to the most extraordinary places.

0:04:56 > 0:04:57Gosh!

0:04:57 > 0:05:00Right, well, if you ever do something like that again

0:05:00 > 0:05:01without warning me,

0:05:01 > 0:05:04I'll pluck the eyelids from your screaming face.

0:05:04 > 0:05:06Interesting company we make.

0:05:15 > 0:05:17CREATURE SHRIEKS IN DISTANCE

0:05:29 > 0:05:30PLANTS SQUEAL

0:05:32 > 0:05:35We didn't get buzzed atomically to the Peak District, did we?

0:05:35 > 0:05:37Because, you know, there are trains for that!

0:05:37 > 0:05:38Oh, my, no.

0:05:42 > 0:05:44OK.

0:05:44 > 0:05:45I'll just ask...

0:05:46 > 0:05:49Where are we, o' wise head teacher

0:05:49 > 0:05:51and mistress of nauseating space travel?

0:05:51 > 0:05:54- Someplace wonderful. - Shhh! They're near!

0:05:54 > 0:05:55Who?

0:05:57 > 0:05:58Can't hear anything.

0:06:00 > 0:06:02She said you were meant to be a soldier.

0:06:02 > 0:06:03We're flying a little blind here,

0:06:03 > 0:06:07but our best zoological thinking is that you need to talk about your childhood.

0:06:07 > 0:06:09- Zoological...?- What are your first memories? Quickly!

0:06:09 > 0:06:12- It feeds on those. We think it'll come hunting. - What...?- Your first memory!

0:06:12 > 0:06:14- Shedding your quills?- Now! - Suckling in the nest?

0:06:14 > 0:06:16I can sense them moving away - now, soldier, now!

0:06:16 > 0:06:18- Quickly! - The-the death of our mother!

0:06:20 > 0:06:22Well, birth is the last thing that a Quill does, right?

0:06:22 > 0:06:24She gives birth to her litter and dies.

0:06:25 > 0:06:27And then, her body...

0:06:27 > 0:06:29- And then you eat it, don't you?- God! - For nourishment?

0:06:29 > 0:06:31Yes, yes! A contemptible tradition,

0:06:31 > 0:06:33and medically unnecessary in modern times,

0:06:33 > 0:06:36- but there are archaic cultural pressures, all right... - That's enough.

0:06:36 > 0:06:37They're coming.

0:06:37 > 0:06:40CREATURES SQUAWK IN DISTANCE

0:06:40 > 0:06:42HE YELLS

0:06:44 > 0:06:47HE YELLS

0:06:49 > 0:06:50Aah!

0:06:51 > 0:06:52Yah!

0:06:52 > 0:06:54Aargh!

0:06:57 > 0:06:58HE YELLS OUT

0:07:07 > 0:07:10- That's it? - It's stronger than it looks.

0:07:10 > 0:07:13Well, what was all the, "Aargh!"?! That's the size of a kitten.

0:07:13 > 0:07:14Are kittens dangerous?

0:07:14 > 0:07:16Only if you insult their worshippers online.

0:07:16 > 0:07:18- Are we safe?- Are you kidding me?

0:07:18 > 0:07:21- We're safe, it's dead. - For... Enough!

0:07:21 > 0:07:22YELLS: Where are we,

0:07:22 > 0:07:24who is this Little Lord Growls-A-Lot

0:07:24 > 0:07:27and why are we all so bothered that he just killed a kitten?!

0:07:33 > 0:07:34No.

0:07:34 > 0:07:35Oh, yes.

0:07:36 > 0:07:38That is impossible.

0:07:38 > 0:07:42Indeed. We are in the birthing grounds of the Arn.

0:07:43 > 0:07:45We need the pheromones of a fresh specimen

0:07:45 > 0:07:47to calm the one in your head enough for the procedure.

0:07:48 > 0:07:49What procedure?

0:07:49 > 0:07:52No... No, the Arn are a grown life form,

0:07:52 > 0:07:54they're genetically modified.

0:07:54 > 0:07:56They don't live in some forest.

0:07:56 > 0:07:58Those are the facts that everyone knows to be true

0:07:58 > 0:08:03but it's not, apparently, what the Arn believe.

0:08:05 > 0:08:07What the Arn believe?

0:08:11 > 0:08:13HE GROANS

0:08:13 > 0:08:15DEVICE CLICKS

0:08:19 > 0:08:21- DOROTHEA SIGHS - All right.

0:08:21 > 0:08:25This, as best we can tell, is a metaphysical engine.

0:08:25 > 0:08:28Metaphysics? Metaphysics aren't real, it's just thought.

0:08:28 > 0:08:30Thought, yes.

0:08:30 > 0:08:33Everything in the universe is conserved,

0:08:33 > 0:08:36everything, even belief.

0:08:36 > 0:08:39Get millions of creatures believing something strongly enough

0:08:39 > 0:08:43for long enough and even space responds.

0:08:43 > 0:08:47You are quite right that the Arn weren't exactly wild creatures,

0:08:47 > 0:08:49but parts of them were

0:08:49 > 0:08:53and they dream like us of what comes after.

0:08:53 > 0:08:57I'm sorry, are you actually saying that we are stood...

0:08:58 > 0:09:00..in Arn heaven?

0:09:00 > 0:09:02- Don't be ridiculous. - Good, because...

0:09:02 > 0:09:04We're in the idea of it.

0:09:04 > 0:09:08The belief itself, making it so.

0:09:09 > 0:09:11You are absolutely in...

0:09:13 > 0:09:14It just moved.

0:09:14 > 0:09:17That's the first time it's ever moved without hurting.

0:09:17 > 0:09:18You see?

0:09:19 > 0:09:21It believes.

0:09:21 > 0:09:23All right...

0:09:25 > 0:09:27DEVICE CLICKS AND RATTLES

0:09:27 > 0:09:29How many times have you travelled on this...device?

0:09:31 > 0:09:33Headmistress?

0:09:34 > 0:09:35Headmistress!

0:09:35 > 0:09:38This is my first actual time, though we've run several simulations.

0:09:38 > 0:09:39- QUILL AND BALLON:- Your first?!

0:09:39 > 0:09:42I've been fully briefed, I know what I'm doing...

0:09:42 > 0:09:43ALL YELL

0:09:43 > 0:09:45BALLON GROANS

0:09:45 > 0:09:49OK, so, basically, we're in the hands of a learner driver.

0:09:49 > 0:09:52You're in the hands of the only one of us who's done the research

0:09:52 > 0:09:55on how to stay alive while using it.

0:09:55 > 0:09:57I mean, this is like a geek vomited.

0:09:57 > 0:09:59BANGING

0:10:01 > 0:10:06The Governors study the tears in space and time at Coal Hill.

0:10:06 > 0:10:09There are those who think the tears aren't accidental,

0:10:09 > 0:10:11that they were placed there to provide for those who will listen.

0:10:11 > 0:10:15Coal Hill provides, it always provides.

0:10:19 > 0:10:21And what do you get out of this, then?

0:10:24 > 0:10:29- My freedom.- And who is Ballon when he is free, I wonder?

0:10:29 > 0:10:30Some kind of hunter, I reckon.

0:10:30 > 0:10:32Oh, no-no, my dear - he's your surgeon.

0:10:32 > 0:10:35You can't get an Arn out through surgery.

0:10:35 > 0:10:38You can if the surgeon is a shape-shifter.

0:10:39 > 0:10:40That's the theory, anyway.

0:10:40 > 0:10:43Shape-shifter, eh? I've heard of you on Earth.

0:10:43 > 0:10:46- Yeah, you're a Zygoat.- I am a Law...

0:10:46 > 0:10:49Who was posing as a Zygon.

0:10:49 > 0:10:51One shape-shifter posing as another, eh?

0:10:51 > 0:10:55- That's meta.- It is a fine way to hide, Zygons are protected on Earth.

0:10:55 > 0:10:56So what did you do?

0:10:56 > 0:10:58You are on this trip as well, Quill.

0:10:58 > 0:11:00What did YOU do?

0:11:00 > 0:11:02I'm a victim of circumstance.

0:11:02 > 0:11:04- As am I.- Yes.

0:11:04 > 0:11:06I'm sure the families of the people you both murdered

0:11:06 > 0:11:10would be happy to consider themselves "a circumstance".

0:11:10 > 0:11:12- No-one was supposed to die. - RINGING

0:11:12 > 0:11:13BALLON YELLS

0:11:15 > 0:11:17Remember what I promised you.

0:11:17 > 0:11:22Ask yourself, what would being unfrozen mean to you?

0:11:22 > 0:11:23Everything!

0:11:24 > 0:11:26- But why? - ALL YELL

0:11:26 > 0:11:28BOOM! ALL YELL

0:11:28 > 0:11:30- QUILL GROANS - Uh...

0:11:32 > 0:11:34DOROTHEA GASPS AND PANTS

0:11:41 > 0:11:42No!

0:11:43 > 0:11:46- This isn't real.- Does no-one listen to the posh any more?

0:11:46 > 0:11:49No, it is not real, but, yes, we are really here.

0:11:49 > 0:11:52- Oh, God... WHERE?!- This is Law...

0:11:52 > 0:11:54Law hell, more or less.

0:11:55 > 0:11:57Isn't it amazing?

0:11:58 > 0:12:00Surprisingly quiet, for hell.

0:12:02 > 0:12:05An awful, awful quiet.

0:12:06 > 0:12:07We are creatures that flow.

0:12:07 > 0:12:11We live in the constant flow.

0:12:11 > 0:12:13And this is the opposite of flowing.

0:12:16 > 0:12:18A punishment I already suffer.

0:12:18 > 0:12:20You said the second step was the retrieval of the key.

0:12:21 > 0:12:23CREATURE ROARS

0:12:23 > 0:12:24No.

0:12:24 > 0:12:26- ROARING - No!

0:12:28 > 0:12:30This seems cruel, even for you.

0:12:30 > 0:12:33His hands need to shift to get into your brain.

0:12:33 > 0:12:35For that, I need a key to unlock them.

0:12:35 > 0:12:38But it is impossible to reverse the freezing of a shape-shifter...

0:12:38 > 0:12:39Except in an impossible place.

0:12:39 > 0:12:42CREATURE ROARS

0:12:46 > 0:12:47So, what's this key then?

0:12:49 > 0:12:50It's the blood of our god.

0:12:50 > 0:12:53CREATURE ROARS

0:12:57 > 0:12:59What, we're supposed to get the blood of a god?!

0:12:59 > 0:13:01- That's the theory!- You just say theory again, I dare you!

0:13:01 > 0:13:04- CREATURE GROWLS - Get up!

0:13:04 > 0:13:08You'll have to do it alone. There is a special knife...

0:13:08 > 0:13:10Whoa! No... No, no, I can't use knives, remember?

0:13:10 > 0:13:12That is the whole point of this trip!

0:13:12 > 0:13:14Oh. Oh, dear, that was an oversight.

0:13:14 > 0:13:17CREATURE ROARS

0:13:17 > 0:13:18What can I do?

0:13:20 > 0:13:22Soldier, tell me what I need to do!

0:13:24 > 0:13:26DOROTHEA PANTS

0:13:26 > 0:13:27Listen to me.

0:13:27 > 0:13:30Listen to me. In Quill, we call this the first fear.

0:13:30 > 0:13:33This is the one you always go back to and the one you can't face,

0:13:33 > 0:13:35and everyone has it, everyone, even Quill.

0:13:35 > 0:13:38- Law, we call it cowardice. - No, that is not true.

0:13:38 > 0:13:40A soldier without fear is useless, inefficient.

0:13:40 > 0:13:42They win battles, but they lose wars.

0:13:42 > 0:13:44CREATURE ROARS

0:13:44 > 0:13:47- How can we overcome it? - Hopefully quickly.

0:13:47 > 0:13:49CREATURE ROARS

0:13:50 > 0:13:52Yeah, we'll need that.

0:13:57 > 0:13:58Come on!

0:14:00 > 0:14:01Oh!

0:14:01 > 0:14:03Oh, I don't even have a shot!

0:14:03 > 0:14:05Hold the knife out.

0:14:05 > 0:14:07Hold it out! SHE PANTS

0:14:07 > 0:14:09I will be your arms, soldier!

0:14:09 > 0:14:11BOTH YELL

0:14:11 > 0:14:14CREATURE GROWLS

0:14:14 > 0:14:17Medical degradation seems at least 50% faster than originally...

0:14:17 > 0:14:19- < Aah! - ..theorised.

0:14:19 > 0:14:21Request further information from the...

0:14:22 > 0:14:25CREATURE GROWLS

0:14:26 > 0:14:28This won't look good on the report.

0:14:32 > 0:14:34- Oh! - DOROTHEA PANTS

0:14:34 > 0:14:37- How? - It thought we were already statues!

0:14:39 > 0:14:42- Ah...- So, is that how you Law see the rest of us then?

0:14:42 > 0:14:44Like we're pretty much already dead?

0:14:44 > 0:14:45Yes.

0:14:48 > 0:14:50Now we can unfreeze your hands.

0:14:50 > 0:14:53BALLON PANTS

0:14:56 > 0:14:58It's, erm...

0:15:01 > 0:15:04..been too long since I've fought side-by-side with an actual soldier.

0:15:06 > 0:15:07Yes.

0:15:09 > 0:15:10For me, too.

0:15:12 > 0:15:15Oh, right! Yeah, sure, you're welcome(!)

0:15:15 > 0:15:17YELLS: Aah!

0:15:18 > 0:15:19That hurt!

0:15:19 > 0:15:22You're starting to believe this might work,

0:15:22 > 0:15:25which means this really is your last chance to turn back.

0:15:25 > 0:15:29From here on, there is only death or freedom.

0:15:30 > 0:15:32An unfree life isn't a life.

0:15:35 > 0:15:36So, come on...

0:15:37 > 0:15:38..where to next?

0:15:38 > 0:15:41You wouldn't believe me.

0:15:41 > 0:15:43BOOM! LOUD THROBBING OF ENERGY

0:15:43 > 0:15:45Will you just stop doing that?!

0:15:49 > 0:15:50Whoa!

0:15:51 > 0:15:54I don't know how long we're going to last.

0:15:54 > 0:15:56- What? - Why? How far is where we're going?

0:15:58 > 0:16:00What, you...? You have to check your notes?

0:16:00 > 0:16:03How...? How did you even get picked for this?!

0:16:03 > 0:16:04I volunteered.

0:16:04 > 0:16:06I had to fight to convince the Governors

0:16:06 > 0:16:08that we should continue at all.

0:16:08 > 0:16:11No-one else was all that committed to saving you, Quill.

0:16:11 > 0:16:13Is that such a surprise?

0:16:13 > 0:16:14No, not really.

0:16:14 > 0:16:16Now, if you'll just let me read my notes.

0:16:20 > 0:16:24The Arn sits on your midbrain,

0:16:24 > 0:16:26yet I must only see the pathway there.

0:16:27 > 0:16:29And as all Quill brains were destroyed on Rhodia

0:16:29 > 0:16:31and you're using yours at the moment...

0:16:31 > 0:16:33Where are you going to find a Quill brain?

0:16:35 > 0:16:39No, our afterlife myth, that died out, like, 1,000 years ago!

0:16:39 > 0:16:42Let us hope not, or this will be a very short trip.

0:16:42 > 0:16:44RINGING Oh!

0:16:44 > 0:16:46SHE YELLS Oh...

0:16:46 > 0:16:47Dammit!

0:16:48 > 0:16:50So, where is this exactly?

0:16:52 > 0:16:54QUILL LAUGHS

0:16:56 > 0:17:01Well, our information isn't omniscient, but if our theory...

0:17:01 > 0:17:05Oh, for... If you say theory again, I swear to this guy's god, I'm...

0:17:05 > 0:17:09It is correct. This is where the Quill goddess is about to be born.

0:17:09 > 0:17:12- QUILL CHUCKLES - So THIS is YOUR heaven?

0:17:14 > 0:17:19Oh, right! Well, excuse me, statue boy...

0:17:19 > 0:17:21but we only believed in all this before we realised

0:17:21 > 0:17:24that the only thing out there protecting us was us.

0:17:24 > 0:17:29Huh! No goddess in a Quill nest looking out for our best interest!

0:17:29 > 0:17:32It's so sad you think that's what belief is.

0:17:32 > 0:17:34- Yes.- And do I really need to do to you two

0:17:34 > 0:17:36what I did to those very nice people

0:17:36 > 0:17:37who no longer come to my front door?

0:17:37 > 0:17:40RUMBLING

0:17:42 > 0:17:43What's happening?

0:17:46 > 0:17:47Oh, for...

0:17:49 > 0:17:52OK, so this is a Quill nest.

0:17:52 > 0:17:55This is the first Quill nest, allegedly.

0:17:55 > 0:17:57The Quill goddess is supposed to...

0:18:00 > 0:18:02..emerge from the underworld...

0:18:02 > 0:18:04Where she has been trapped.

0:18:04 > 0:18:06Isn't that correct?

0:18:07 > 0:18:08And she rises with...

0:18:08 > 0:18:11Fury and venom, according to the text we have.

0:18:12 > 0:18:14Oh, how exciting!

0:18:15 > 0:18:19Yeah, I beginning to think you don't know as much about my people as you think you do.

0:18:19 > 0:18:22RUMBLING GROWS STRONGER

0:18:22 > 0:18:23- Oh!- Oh!

0:18:23 > 0:18:26LOW GROWL

0:18:29 > 0:18:31LOUD THUMP

0:18:31 > 0:18:33Well...

0:18:33 > 0:18:34Get to it.

0:18:34 > 0:18:37GODDESS ROARS

0:18:37 > 0:18:39GODDESS HISSES AND SNARLS

0:18:39 > 0:18:41HE YELLS

0:18:46 > 0:18:47Hey!

0:18:50 > 0:18:52QUILL GRUNTS

0:18:54 > 0:18:56Ugh!

0:18:59 > 0:19:02GODDESS GROWLS

0:19:04 > 0:19:07QUILL GROANS

0:19:07 > 0:19:10You don't deserve my belief!

0:19:12 > 0:19:14Do you know how oppressed Quill have been for centuries?

0:19:14 > 0:19:15We died!

0:19:15 > 0:19:18And died again! And where were you?

0:19:18 > 0:19:21I should rip your head off for even daring to exist!

0:19:21 > 0:19:23Do it!

0:19:23 > 0:19:28I was a soldier and you weren't there to stop them taking that from me, and where am I now, hey?

0:19:28 > 0:19:30QUILL PANTS

0:19:30 > 0:19:33GODDESS HISSES

0:19:34 > 0:19:37GODDESS EMITS A LOW GROWL

0:19:37 > 0:19:38What? What are you saying...?

0:19:38 > 0:19:40BALLON YELLS, GODDESS SHRIEKS

0:19:40 > 0:19:43No! No, stop!

0:19:43 > 0:19:45No! Stop!

0:19:46 > 0:19:49BALLON YELLS, GODDESS REELS IN PAIN

0:19:52 > 0:19:54GODDESS GROANS

0:19:54 > 0:19:57BALLON PANTS

0:19:57 > 0:20:01No! I... I think she was about to speak to...!

0:20:01 > 0:20:03I could have been the first Quill ever...!

0:20:03 > 0:20:06Would you REALLY want to hear what your god would say?

0:20:06 > 0:20:08Well, as a matter of fact, yeah!

0:20:08 > 0:20:12- If it meant...- Yes!- ..that YOU would have to believe in her?

0:20:12 > 0:20:14If it meant that you would have to worship her?

0:20:14 > 0:20:17That you would have to change everything you think about yourself,

0:20:17 > 0:20:18about your universe?

0:20:18 > 0:20:21- But you believe!- I always have.

0:20:21 > 0:20:23It's part of who I am.

0:20:23 > 0:20:26Your self has already formed.

0:20:26 > 0:20:28BALLON PANTS

0:20:29 > 0:20:31Yeah, well, we didn't decapitate YOUR god, did we?

0:20:31 > 0:20:34No, we just took a blood sample.

0:20:34 > 0:20:38If she's right, if this is a metaphysical place,

0:20:38 > 0:20:40your goddess will rise again.

0:20:40 > 0:20:42She will always be born.

0:20:43 > 0:20:45All gods are.

0:20:46 > 0:20:50I thought perhaps... she was your first fear.

0:20:52 > 0:20:56I thought perhaps you needed the arm of a... A fellow soldier.

0:21:01 > 0:21:04DOROTHEA GROANS

0:21:12 > 0:21:13SHE UNZIPS BAG

0:21:20 > 0:21:24- Ugh!- Why don't you just use that blood to unfreeze yourself?

0:21:24 > 0:21:25There's not nearly enough.

0:21:32 > 0:21:33I don't see why you...

0:21:33 > 0:21:36Well, we... We start in the nest, we end in the nest, it's...

0:21:37 > 0:21:39It's our way.

0:21:40 > 0:21:42But this isn't even your real goddess.

0:21:43 > 0:21:45Yeah, well, that wasn't your real devil,

0:21:45 > 0:21:47but you were still petrified of it.

0:21:47 > 0:21:50Because it could still freeze me for ever in one shape.

0:21:50 > 0:21:52It's a fate worse than your death.

0:21:52 > 0:21:54The fate you're in now.

0:21:56 > 0:21:58I was caught as I shifted.

0:21:58 > 0:22:00I'm neither one thing nor the other.

0:22:03 > 0:22:05Their punishment was doubly unjust.

0:22:05 > 0:22:06You killed people.

0:22:14 > 0:22:17HE SIGHS

0:22:17 > 0:22:22Look, my planet was attacked by an enemy we could not hope to fight.

0:22:22 > 0:22:24I lost everything.

0:22:27 > 0:22:29The Law I loved.

0:22:30 > 0:22:32The rest of my family, scattered.

0:22:34 > 0:22:35We'd intended to meet on Earth,

0:22:35 > 0:22:38to seek sanctuary there together, but...

0:22:40 > 0:22:42..when I arrived...

0:22:45 > 0:22:47..I found neither them...

0:22:49 > 0:22:51..nor any form of welcome.

0:22:51 > 0:22:54We have a poet on Earth and she says...

0:22:54 > 0:22:59no-one leaves home unless home is the mouth of a shark.

0:23:04 > 0:23:06I did not mean for anyone to die.

0:23:08 > 0:23:09I'd just arrived.

0:23:09 > 0:23:12I was starving.

0:23:13 > 0:23:14It was the home of a family.

0:23:16 > 0:23:19When they caught me, "Monster," they said.

0:23:19 > 0:23:20"Freak," they said.

0:23:22 > 0:23:24They beat me. They would have beaten me to death.

0:23:26 > 0:23:28- So you killed...?- I did not mean to.

0:23:28 > 0:23:30I'd heard of Unit -

0:23:30 > 0:23:33all arriving refugees do.

0:23:33 > 0:23:36I thought I'd be arrested, but the Governors got to me first...

0:23:38 > 0:23:41- ..and ruined me. - But now they're setting you free.

0:23:41 > 0:23:45If I can get that thing out of your head without your death...

0:23:45 > 0:23:46Sounds cheering(!)

0:23:46 > 0:23:49I...lost the Quill I loved.

0:23:49 > 0:23:51He was...killed...

0:23:51 > 0:23:53in the destruction of your planet?

0:23:53 > 0:23:54No.

0:23:56 > 0:23:59No, he was killed in the war with my enemies.

0:24:00 > 0:24:02He died in the same battle that they arrested me.

0:24:04 > 0:24:05Took him from me.

0:24:08 > 0:24:09And took my will...

0:24:11 > 0:24:13And you know what they did next?

0:24:13 > 0:24:15The worst thing they did?

0:24:18 > 0:24:20Made me used to it.

0:24:24 > 0:24:26I shout my power.

0:24:27 > 0:24:31I shout my toughness and my danger, but I'm shouting it to children.

0:24:35 > 0:24:37It's like they just...

0:24:40 > 0:24:44They just amputated the essential part of who I was.

0:24:46 > 0:24:47(Who I am.)

0:24:48 > 0:24:50You were frozen, too.

0:24:52 > 0:24:54I'm sorry.

0:24:55 > 0:24:57I don't want your pity.

0:24:57 > 0:24:59I do not offer you pity.

0:24:59 > 0:25:01I offer you shared sorrow.

0:25:01 > 0:25:04What a soldier would ask next is...

0:25:04 > 0:25:06how do I make them pay?

0:25:09 > 0:25:11Yeah, and that is part of my problem...

0:25:12 > 0:25:14..cos they've gone...

0:25:15 > 0:25:16..all of them,

0:25:16 > 0:25:18without being made to pay for their crime.

0:25:22 > 0:25:24All but one.

0:25:26 > 0:25:28SHE INHALES

0:25:28 > 0:25:29You OK?

0:25:32 > 0:25:33No.

0:25:35 > 0:25:36No, I don't think I am.

0:25:40 > 0:25:44I think I just started to believe that this might work.

0:25:44 > 0:25:46DOROTHEA STIRS

0:25:51 > 0:25:52What hap...?

0:25:52 > 0:25:53- You got its head?- HER head.

0:25:53 > 0:25:56- And, yes.- Oh...- What's wrong?

0:25:57 > 0:25:58It's the Arn -

0:25:58 > 0:26:01- it's fighting her. - Then we're out of time.

0:26:09 > 0:26:11DEVICE CLICKS

0:26:12 > 0:26:14- ALL:- Oh!

0:26:14 > 0:26:17QUILL PANTS

0:26:17 > 0:26:19Oh, good...my own personal hell(!)

0:26:20 > 0:26:23No... No, no, this is inappropriate.

0:26:23 > 0:26:25It's not sterile, it's not antiseptic...!

0:26:25 > 0:26:26But it is a place I can control.

0:26:26 > 0:26:28I suggest you get started quickly.

0:26:30 > 0:26:32No!

0:26:32 > 0:26:34MUSIC STANDS CLANG AND RATTLE

0:26:34 > 0:26:36Oh, are you not staying?

0:26:37 > 0:26:40- To watch me die?- The mission didn't go as planned, I'll have to explain.

0:26:40 > 0:26:43Ah, yes, your mysterious Governors.

0:26:43 > 0:26:45SHE SHRIEKS

0:26:45 > 0:26:48QUILL MOANS AND PANTS

0:26:49 > 0:26:53There are bigger things in the universe than this life,

0:26:53 > 0:26:56hidden things we can't even imagine,

0:26:56 > 0:27:00and if a place can be created from belief, if a goddess...

0:27:00 > 0:27:02Then what else might you be able to make...

0:27:03 > 0:27:05..if you just believe hard enough?

0:27:09 > 0:27:10Try not to die.

0:27:12 > 0:27:14You are...

0:27:14 > 0:27:16intriguing.

0:27:25 > 0:27:27Pheromones of Arn...

0:27:28 > 0:27:29..the blood of my god...

0:27:30 > 0:27:32..and a Quill brain.

0:27:42 > 0:27:43It works...

0:27:44 > 0:27:46..in theory.

0:27:48 > 0:27:52- I will shift my finger to avoid nerves.- Huh...?

0:27:52 > 0:27:54There will be some pain as the Arn comes out.

0:27:54 > 0:27:57- How much pain? - Would you turn back now if you knew?

0:27:59 > 0:28:00No.

0:28:04 > 0:28:05Ah...

0:28:05 > 0:28:08SHE INHALES DEEPLY

0:28:14 > 0:28:16This will be horrible.

0:28:19 > 0:28:21SHE GASPS

0:28:22 > 0:28:24Ah...

0:28:29 > 0:28:31I've found the Arn. You have to be very still.

0:28:33 > 0:28:35It's releasing.

0:28:37 > 0:28:38Here it comes.

0:28:38 > 0:28:40ARN SQUEALS Aah!

0:28:42 > 0:28:43Get it out, get it out!

0:28:47 > 0:28:48BALLON YELLS

0:28:48 > 0:28:51SHE SCREAMS

0:29:00 > 0:29:02QUILL GROANS IN PAIN

0:29:04 > 0:29:07Quill, Quill! Look at me. Look at me.

0:29:07 > 0:29:09We're about to do a sacred thing.

0:29:09 > 0:29:12Oh, great(!) Just do it quick!

0:29:13 > 0:29:16Please! SHE SCREAMS

0:29:24 > 0:29:27SHE PANTS

0:29:31 > 0:29:34(How can I still see?)

0:29:34 > 0:29:36How do I still have my eye? I...

0:29:37 > 0:29:40The blood of my devil, as you call him,

0:29:40 > 0:29:42allowed me to manipulate your flesh.

0:29:42 > 0:29:45Though, you are scarred.

0:29:48 > 0:29:49Oh, yeah.

0:29:50 > 0:29:51Well...

0:29:52 > 0:29:55What good is a soldier without a scar?

0:29:56 > 0:29:59HE EXHALES

0:30:04 > 0:30:07SHE PANTS

0:30:21 > 0:30:23SHE GRUNTS

0:30:25 > 0:30:26SHE YELLS

0:30:26 > 0:30:29SHE PANTS

0:30:42 > 0:30:45Quill celebrate victory in battle in a certain way.

0:30:45 > 0:30:47- HE CHUCKLES - All species say that.

0:30:48 > 0:30:49All are lying.

0:31:02 > 0:31:05It has been too long since I was close to someone.

0:31:05 > 0:31:08Oh, don't worry about it, the last person I kissed was a robot.

0:31:08 > 0:31:09Mmm...

0:31:10 > 0:31:13SHE PANTS

0:31:18 > 0:31:22It's made me course, unshifting...

0:31:23 > 0:31:25..like this form I wear.

0:31:30 > 0:31:32Yeah, we do wear forms...

0:31:33 > 0:31:35..you and I, don't we?

0:31:40 > 0:31:41All I want is to be free.

0:31:46 > 0:31:47(I want that, too.)

0:33:46 > 0:33:48A place you recognise, perhaps?

0:33:52 > 0:33:54No, where are we? Where's the school gone?

0:33:54 > 0:33:56You were never there, I'm afraid.

0:33:56 > 0:33:57A hologram.

0:33:59 > 0:34:00We had to come to here,

0:34:00 > 0:34:03but the chances of you reacting badly were rather high.

0:34:03 > 0:34:05This is the closest to Rhodian soil we could find,

0:34:05 > 0:34:09increased the survival chances of the surgery by nearly 4%.

0:34:11 > 0:34:12We're in the Cabinet of Souls?

0:34:14 > 0:34:15We're in a cabinet?

0:34:16 > 0:34:19Oh, yeah, it's... It's way bigger on the inside.

0:34:19 > 0:34:20And so beautiful.

0:34:23 > 0:34:24Wish I hadn't had to leave.

0:34:24 > 0:34:26What?

0:34:28 > 0:34:30Another hologram, I'm afraid.

0:34:30 > 0:34:32The reliquary really is dying.

0:34:34 > 0:34:37I had to come home or there was a chance I would never get back.

0:34:38 > 0:34:40Though I did send you back a present.

0:34:47 > 0:34:50Go ahead, open it.

0:34:59 > 0:35:02- QUILL GASPS - A Quill needs her gun.

0:35:04 > 0:35:06Uh-uh, not yet, I'm afraid.

0:35:06 > 0:35:09You have a mighty dilemma facing you - both of you.

0:35:09 > 0:35:13Ever Upward Reach calculated an 85% chance only one of you

0:35:13 > 0:35:15would survive the trip.

0:35:15 > 0:35:18You've already beaten some pretty long odds, but, unfortunately,

0:35:18 > 0:35:19that ends now.

0:35:19 > 0:35:22Despite my arguing, the Governors have voted.

0:35:22 > 0:35:25There's only enough energy in the reliquary for one of you to return.

0:35:26 > 0:35:29If it's any comfort, the decision at least is yours.

0:35:30 > 0:35:32What, you're leaving one of us here to die?!

0:35:32 > 0:35:34You're breaking your word.

0:35:35 > 0:35:38So we're supposed to, what? Agree to die so the other lives?

0:35:38 > 0:35:41It's not what I wanted, I assure you.

0:35:41 > 0:35:45In another life, you and I could have been great friends, Miss Quill.

0:35:45 > 0:35:48Oh, I'd rather swim in my own vomit.

0:35:48 > 0:35:49Regardless,

0:35:49 > 0:35:51the little we know of both your species

0:35:51 > 0:35:53suggests a fight to the death.

0:35:54 > 0:35:56But, again, up to you.

0:35:56 > 0:35:58I just saved her life...

0:35:59 > 0:36:00..I will not now take it.

0:36:01 > 0:36:04- Ditto.- There's something else I need to tell you.

0:36:07 > 0:36:11It turns out there is another Law on Earth - your niece.

0:36:11 > 0:36:12Wait.

0:36:13 > 0:36:15She's alive.

0:36:18 > 0:36:19No.

0:36:19 > 0:36:23This is a lie. I never sensed another Law.

0:36:23 > 0:36:26I have been assured that she is alive and well and waiting for you,

0:36:26 > 0:36:28if you return.

0:36:28 > 0:36:30No. We will not fight each other.

0:36:33 > 0:36:36You will never be free unless you do!

0:36:37 > 0:36:39Never return from this living death!

0:36:39 > 0:36:42Never see your family again!

0:36:42 > 0:36:47And YOU, a Quill, with the greatest weapon her people ever made,

0:36:47 > 0:36:50enough to force a certain Prince to wipe the Shadow Kin

0:36:50 > 0:36:53from the grinning, smirking face of the universe.

0:36:53 > 0:36:56You say you are war itself, now you actually can be.

0:37:00 > 0:37:03I have been told to say the gun is set for open firing, but don't delay.

0:37:04 > 0:37:06Time passes differently here.

0:37:07 > 0:37:10You may awake tomorrow and find you are already old.

0:37:26 > 0:37:28Don't.

0:37:32 > 0:37:33SHE GRUNTS

0:37:36 > 0:37:38I have been imprisoned for too long.

0:37:38 > 0:37:41- Yes, so have I.- My family...

0:37:41 > 0:37:44- If that's even true.- Is that not a risk you would take yourself?

0:37:44 > 0:37:45- Ooh!- Aah!

0:37:47 > 0:37:49It's a risk I would take for a fellow soldier.

0:37:49 > 0:37:50- Yah!- Aah!

0:37:51 > 0:37:52We just fought side-by-side.

0:37:52 > 0:37:55- I know.- If you have no loyalty on the battlefield...

0:37:55 > 0:37:56I know!

0:37:56 > 0:37:58HE GROWLS

0:37:58 > 0:37:59SHE GRUNTS

0:38:00 > 0:38:03But if a soldier isn't fighting for the safety of his family...

0:38:03 > 0:38:05HE GROANS, SHE GRUNTS

0:38:06 > 0:38:07..why does he fight at all?

0:38:10 > 0:38:11SHE GRUNTS

0:38:12 > 0:38:13I'm sorry.

0:38:14 > 0:38:16SHE GROANS

0:38:16 > 0:38:18That's a sorrow I share.

0:38:18 > 0:38:19HE GRUNTS

0:38:20 > 0:38:22Aah! Stop.

0:38:23 > 0:38:24Stop.

0:38:45 > 0:38:48So, you really believe she's going to set you free.

0:38:48 > 0:38:51I have to take that chance.

0:38:55 > 0:38:56Look away.

0:38:57 > 0:38:58I will not.

0:39:03 > 0:39:04Do it.

0:39:08 > 0:39:10Forgive me.

0:39:10 > 0:39:11Oh, I do.

0:39:17 > 0:39:19SCREAMS: No!

0:39:20 > 0:39:22SHE SOBS

0:39:22 > 0:39:24(She did it, she set the gun.)

0:39:29 > 0:39:31No!

0:40:00 > 0:40:02Ah, now you come.

0:40:02 > 0:40:05Ha! You come to see me grieve!

0:40:05 > 0:40:06SHE GRUNTS

0:40:06 > 0:40:09SHE YELLS

0:40:19 > 0:40:21"Time passes differently here."

0:40:26 > 0:40:28How much of my life am I losing?

0:40:35 > 0:40:38You just keep taking.

0:40:38 > 0:40:40Is that all you ever did?

0:40:42 > 0:40:46But I fought you and I will still fight you.

0:40:47 > 0:40:48Because you know what?

0:40:51 > 0:40:53I am free.

0:40:56 > 0:40:58I am free

0:40:58 > 0:40:59and you are not the last.

0:41:01 > 0:41:03There is one of you still living.

0:41:04 > 0:41:06Show me the way out.

0:41:11 > 0:41:13'I suffered in your home world...

0:41:16 > 0:41:18'..and I have suffered in your heaven,

0:41:18 > 0:41:20'but I will suffer no more.

0:41:22 > 0:41:24'No more!

0:41:26 > 0:41:27'Because I...

0:41:31 > 0:41:33'I am war itself!'

0:41:41 > 0:41:45SHOUTING

0:41:54 > 0:41:56STUDENTS SHOUT AND PLEAD

0:42:02 > 0:42:05You can't even handle detention right.

0:42:05 > 0:42:07SHE SIGHS

0:42:07 > 0:42:10- How can...? How can you...? - I'm in no mood to talk.

0:42:10 > 0:42:12I'm... I'm gone!

0:42:13 > 0:42:14Aren't you going to go after him?

0:42:14 > 0:42:16- No!- But if the rope was making us angry...

0:42:16 > 0:42:20- You'll understand when you get a boyfriend.- And there it is!

0:42:22 > 0:42:24- SHE SIGHS - Why do we rely on other people?

0:42:28 > 0:42:30How can you fire a gun?

0:42:30 > 0:42:33You do not want to talk to me after the day I've had.

0:42:33 > 0:42:35Day?

0:42:35 > 0:42:37You've only been gone 45 minutes.

0:42:37 > 0:42:38Really?

0:42:40 > 0:42:41Seemed like a lifetime.

0:42:42 > 0:42:44What's happened to your eye

0:42:44 > 0:42:47- and your hair? - And how can you fire a gun?

0:42:47 > 0:42:50I just saved you, didn't I?

0:42:50 > 0:42:52Isn't that my punishment?

0:42:52 > 0:42:56- But...- Yeah, well, consider it my last favour, Prince.

0:42:56 > 0:42:57Last?

0:43:00 > 0:43:02- It's...- It's the Arn.

0:43:05 > 0:43:07I'm no longer your slave, Prince.

0:43:09 > 0:43:10I have my free will back...

0:43:12 > 0:43:13..and I have my gun.

0:43:13 > 0:43:15GUN CHARGES

0:43:15 > 0:43:17And things...

0:43:18 > 0:43:21Yeah, things are going to change around here.

0:43:23 > 0:43:26# Live fast, die young Bad girls do it well

0:43:26 > 0:43:29# Live fast, die young Bad girls do it well... #

0:43:30 > 0:43:32No.

0:43:32 > 0:43:34N-n-no, it can't be.

0:43:35 > 0:43:36Oh.

0:43:38 > 0:43:42'Look at you and your little circle...

0:43:45 > 0:43:48'..pretending to be heroes who never expected to pay a price,

0:43:48 > 0:43:51'and you will keep paying

0:43:51 > 0:43:54'till you've lost yourself.'

0:44:01 > 0:44:03'And the war begins again...'

0:44:04 > 0:44:06..today.