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1:02

Do you want to continue? You

1:11

know, Clive, much as I

1:13

enjoy these visits, I'm not

1:15

a comfortable silence kind of

1:17

girl. Yeah. Yeah, sorry. Sorry, Pam.

1:21

What's up, Clive? We

1:23

didn't get Briny Halbeck. Okay.

1:26

Someone else did. Who? Aubrey

1:30

fucking Wood. Aubrey Wood is alive?

1:32

Jesus, how old is she?

1:34

She did prison time in a cryopod,

1:36

so not as ancient as you'd think, apparently.

1:38

And when we'd all written her off as

1:40

dead, she was hyper sleeping in bloody Egypt

1:42

or something. How do you know this? Our

1:45

people intercepted someone trying to get

1:47

into London through an illegal channel.

1:49

Do you remember Sophia Kiriakou? Sophia?

1:53

Jesus, the bar girl

1:55

from the Aloha? Yeah. So

1:58

weird. She was... She

2:00

was so young in my memory

2:02

and now she could have been my

2:04

mother, almost. Clive, what aren't you

2:06

telling me? We caught her, brought her

2:08

in, in here, to HQ. Just

2:10

a few floors up. Rebecca interrogated her

2:12

herself. Okay. She didn't even tell

2:15

me what was happening, I found out

2:17

from the guard. When I got

2:19

to the room she was just leaving.

2:21

Rebecca was leaving, she'd finished. She

2:24

killed her, Pam. Like,

2:27

executed her? She

2:31

used a bone cement gun, it's like a

2:33

grouting gun. She poured bone cement into her

2:35

ears and her nose and her mouth. It's

2:37

like paste. It's like blu -tac and then

2:39

it gets hard and it gets hot. And

2:41

then it gets boiling hot, Pam. She burned

2:44

her and suffocated her. Clive. Becky won't stop

2:46

now. She barely listens to me. She's sending

2:48

me out trying to build some kind of

2:50

army for Christ's sake. I mean, what do

2:52

I look like? Clive, listen to me. What

2:54

else do I do? Where else do I

2:56

go? Who can I... Pam, I don't know

2:58

what do. Let's figure it out. You and

3:00

me, right here. What? It doesn't have to

3:02

be like this. I don't know why I'm

3:05

sitting here telling you all of this. I'm

3:07

not supposed to be telling you any of

3:09

this. Hey, look at me. We need to

3:11

talk. We need to think. I've got to

3:13

go. No, you don't. Wait. I've got to

3:15

go. I'll be back. Clive, come back. You

3:17

fucking coward. Coward? Yeah,

3:19

coward is right. Do you have any idea

3:21

how much I wish I was you

3:24

right now? Sacked quietly in a storeroom. You're

3:26

valuable to her. That's why you're here.

3:28

That's why you're protected. She needs you. I'm

3:30

just a big mouth she can roll

3:32

shit into. I thought I knew Becky Landry.

3:34

I thought she had a line and

3:36

then she screwed us over so she could

3:39

keep a spot in the overhead cryingist.

3:41

And then she shot Francesca Jones in the

3:43

head. Then Sophia, he don't know what

3:45

she did to get that information. And it

3:47

was not the information she wanted to

3:49

hear. Yes, I'm a coward. Enjoy

3:52

your food on Pam. Pray you

3:54

stay valuable. Do we at least

3:56

know where they are? Bryony Halbeck,

3:59

Aubrey Wood. Oh yeah, yeah

4:01

we know where they are all right. So

4:53

how did the night go? Not well.

4:55

What happened? I tried first.

4:57

It went like this. Well,

5:12

you have history with her just like I do. It

5:14

stands to reason she's going to hold a grudge. Who

5:17

else has tried? I tried. Hello,

5:21

Brandy. I'm here to

5:23

help you with the darky.

5:25

Any other takers? Stevie

5:28

had a go. Stevie? She

5:30

was being nosy. She always

5:32

wants to help. Hello.

5:34

I just wanted to pop in. Fucking

5:37

hell, she's done you. What's

5:43

her situation now? She's still in

5:45

there. In the dark? You can see her. If

5:47

you get right up to the glass and squint. She's

5:53

just lying on the

5:55

floor. She screamed herself to

5:57

sleep. Any

6:00

other ideas? Give her the eternities.

6:02

Not until we've exhausted every other option.

6:04

You know what you need her

6:06

to do. You know what she needs

6:08

to be able to do it.

6:10

Just give her the drugs. We are

6:12

running very low. And we have

6:14

people who need those drugs more than

6:16

she does. They deserve them more

6:18

than she does. That's not the same

6:20

thing. Let's just make sure we've

6:22

gone through every reasonable option first. What's

6:24

in the bag, Aubrey? Are

6:27

you serious? I won't have to use

6:29

it. You're going in there. Would you

6:31

rather send every other person in the station

6:33

in first? Jesus, you said Stevie and

6:36

she's the nicest person here. She could talk

6:38

lemmings back from Cliffs with that accent.

6:40

I would rather. We just accept. We

6:42

need to use the mood stabilisers. Wakey, wakey,

6:44

Dr. Halbeck. Good

6:47

morning, Bryony. I'm going to come in

6:49

and speak to you now. But I

6:51

want you to know, I won't have

6:54

any of this funny business. In my

6:56

hand, I have a dart gun. Now,

6:58

we got a few of these literally

7:00

off the back of a lorry a

7:02

while ago, so it is not a

7:04

top quality piece of kit. The darts

7:06

are very sophisticated. They're meant to cause

7:08

localized paralysis. Very good at de -escalating

7:10

a situation. However, the only darts we

7:12

managed to get are a bit dodgy.

7:15

Some of them work just fine and

7:17

will knock out an arm or a

7:19

leg for a good couple of hours.

7:21

Some of them, however, don't do that

7:23

at all and simply cause your anal

7:25

sphincter to relax. As in, they make

7:27

you shit yourself. And we have no

7:29

way of knowing which ones are which.

7:31

Now, I don't want to use this

7:33

and you definitely don't want me to

7:35

use this, so let's be nice. See?

7:49

I'm putting the dart

7:51

gun down over here.

7:56

I know what it feels like to be angry.

8:00

I know how it feels to hate,

8:02

and the realisation that you also

8:04

know just what to do with that

8:06

anger and hate. How you can

8:08

utilise it, how you can weaponise it.

8:10

That's a scary moment. Well, it

8:12

was for me. Maybe

8:14

that's the difference between us. Anyway,

8:17

Bryony, what I'm getting at is,

8:19

I hate you. You

8:21

know when, alright, here she comes and see

8:23

what you mean. Er,

8:31

Aubrey, I don't think... It's fine. I was

8:33

saying, you know when you fall in

8:35

love, like, really fall in love. The love

8:37

that makes you realise all the other

8:39

times you were in love weren't even love

8:41

at all because this, this is love. I'd

8:44

never truly hated someone until I was

8:46

alone in that cryo -sweet with the

8:48

dead eyes of Winnie the fucking pooh

8:50

staring back at me and I knew,

8:52

by God, I hated Bryony Halberd. For a

8:55

while, I told myself it was more complicated

8:57

than that. I told myself it was

8:59

overhead. I told myself it was high to

9:01

sleep. I told myself that it was

9:03

myself that I hated, but it wasn't. It

9:06

was just you. Here

9:08

to again. up! Er,

9:15

maybe we should stay away from the I

9:17

hate you stuff. Maybe we should get some crash mats

9:19

in here. If

9:22

you're interested, what's happening here is

9:24

called Iquido. It's known

9:26

as the gentle art. It's basically using

9:28

someone's momentum against them. A lot of

9:30

flipping people over, it's great fun. Grace

9:32

has been teaching me over the years.

9:34

He uses it as a channel for

9:36

feelings of anger or frustration, and I've

9:38

been trying to do the same. If

9:40

you like, I'm sure he could show,

9:42

uh? One more time, then. Oh!

9:49

I haven't brought you all the way here to

9:51

punish you, Bryony. It doesn't

9:54

help me. It doesn't help

9:56

you. The truth is, and it

9:58

brings me no pleasure... to say

10:00

this, in all seriousness, I need

10:02

you, I need your mind. We

10:04

can all agree that you have

10:07

a brilliant mind, or at least

10:09

had. I hope you're still in

10:11

there, Briany, because if this is

10:13

all you've got to give, then

10:15

all I've got in return is

10:17

my anger and my hate, and

10:19

I don't want to live like

10:21

that. So, let's stop all this

10:24

messing around and get to work

10:26

putting something right. my

10:28

hand. hand. Brimey!

10:34

Put that right,

10:37

you charity

10:39

shop, Sarah

10:41

Connors. Hot

10:43

dog! Young

10:45

kind of

10:47

frog. Alba

10:53

-cucky. Aubrey,

10:59

do you think we could have a quick wet? We

11:17

may need to discuss our definitions

11:19

of reasonable options. It could have gone

11:21

a lot worse. How? She didn't shit herself.

11:23

We may need a higher bar for success

11:25

if we are to progress. We're trying

11:27

everything. Now we know she doesn't respond

11:29

well to rough housing. How about monologging

11:32

or being shot? Both areas she used

11:34

to excel in. It must be hard

11:36

being on the other end. Now you've

11:38

got that out of your system. Do

11:40

you have any constructive ideas on how

11:42

we move forward or should we have

11:45

kept our receipts? This

11:47

is a terrible idea. I agree. We

11:50

could at least experiment with positivity, everyone.

11:52

This come and have been the plan

11:54

all along. You wanted us kept apart.

11:56

No, that's true. Which actually was a

11:58

great idea. I thought so. Well, yes, in a

12:01

perfect world, I would never put you

12:03

in a room together, but we didn't

12:05

expect her to be quite as spicy

12:07

as she is. Spicy? That's

12:09

what we're calling it. Aggressive? Unpredictive?

12:11

Violent? Unstable? I could

12:13

go on. Surely I would be the

12:15

last person on your list. Who else

12:18

has tried talking to her? The three

12:20

of us. Well, she knows all of

12:22

you, so that's not helping. Ergo probably

12:24

stands to reason I'm not going to

12:26

fare very well either. What about... Who

12:28

else have you got? What's her name

12:30

seems nice. Stevie? Nope. We're not going

12:32

to work through the list of crazy

12:34

names are we? Marmite On Toast, Billy

12:36

Dog Jim, T -Bone, McFucka, whatever. Warren, you're

12:39

different to everyone else. Of

12:41

course you are. She might

12:43

treat you differently. She always

12:45

had... She's always had what? Power over

12:47

you. Yeah, yeah, I'd say that's

12:50

right. That doesn't actually make me feel

12:52

better about a trial by combat with her.

12:54

Maybe she won't be like that with you. Why

12:56

is she like this anyway? Why aren't the mood

12:58

stabiliser things working on her? Er...

13:01

You haven't given her any, have

13:04

you? I told you we didn't have

13:06

many. I wasn't exaggerating. They're

13:08

needed for you, hopefully for Gordon, for our

13:10

guests and some of our residents, Warren.

13:12

I don't want to waste them on someone

13:14

who... Someone we urgently need to

13:16

perform life -saving cryo -heroics on my

13:18

best friend, Jesus. Give her the

13:20

pills. Oh, Bray. You know he's

13:22

right. It's not about you. I

13:25

know that. Do you, though? How long

13:27

do they kick in? We can give

13:29

the medication IV. We'll probably have

13:31

to sedate her first. She'll be groggy,

13:33

but we might see the start

13:35

of her response later today, or maybe

13:37

tomorrow. Fine. Give her the stuff.

13:39

I will try and talk to her.

13:43

And what if that doesn't work? Aubrey,

13:47

what if that doesn't work? I don't

13:49

know. Awesome.

13:53

Am I alright to go back to the

13:55

ward? I said I'd help out. Sure. You

13:58

know. You're nearly happy

14:01

for a minute. What do you mean?

14:03

I almost thought you guys knew what the

14:05

hell you were doing. Of course you don't

14:07

know what you're bloody doing. Yes, I

14:09

thought you might agree. Well, I've been

14:11

telling you for years. Yes, you have.

14:14

I've been telling you that for years.

14:16

You don't have to raise your voice?

14:18

I don't have to do anything. You

14:20

thought you were having a good day.

14:22

I'm outdoors. I'm dressed. I can recognize

14:24

your face. This is as good as good

14:26

as good as good as it gets. If

14:31

you knew what you were doing, we wouldn't

14:33

even be outside of course. Anyone

14:35

could be watching them, sacriite, drones.

14:37

You're probably right. And of course,

14:39

if you knew what you were

14:41

doing, you would have let Godbe

14:43

and Paulock in the rubber where

14:45

you found them. Or better yet. Not

14:47

all better yet. Switched off their ice

14:49

tube trees. And let them rest in

14:51

peace. And you make it sound so

14:53

straightforward. Well it is. Or it would

14:55

be, if you still believed in the

14:58

cause. God, I did a better job

15:00

on you than I ever could have

15:02

imagined. Chairman of overhead, the man who

15:04

wanted to live forever. Look at you now.

15:06

And look at what you've done with that

15:08

great power of yours. A great leader. A

15:10

great purse leader. The good fortune you had,

15:12

that the people who found Briany Halbeck on

15:15

the other side of the world. No, no,

15:17

no, no. It's not good fortune. The respect

15:19

given to you. Respect you earned by doing

15:21

what has to be done time and time

15:23

and time again. They reached out to you

15:26

first. They reached out to you first. You

15:28

could have given the order and Halbeck could

15:30

be gone from the world as she

15:32

should have been years ago. I did

15:34

not kill people and I did not

15:36

give orders any more. Oh, don't lighten

15:38

me. I mean, look, you can lighten

15:41

your accolades, right? You can lighten your

15:43

lovely wife, but don't lighten me. You

15:45

can hide at the back of Jade's

15:47

party, you can squirrel yourself away in

15:49

the record room listening back to your

15:51

bad memories, but like it or like it

15:54

not. You are still captain of this little

15:56

ship and you need to make the hard

15:58

decisions none of them can Do you

16:00

think any of these decisions have

16:02

been easy? Do you think I

16:05

sleep better knowing I've brought her

16:07

here to our home? No,

16:09

you sleep because of your

16:11

mood stabilizes. Your little eternities,

16:13

that's how you sleep. Don't

16:15

look at me like that.

16:17

I know things. I know

16:19

you drink my moonshine true.

16:22

More than most. Malcolm, I

16:24

don't worry. I'm a demented

16:26

old man. Your secrets couldn't

16:28

be any safer. I mean,

16:30

no one listens to me.

16:32

You know, it's decisions

16:34

I've made that are

16:37

the reason you're alive,

16:39

you're all busted. I'm

16:41

a fat lot of good,

16:43

it's done me. I

16:45

think they'll even say

16:47

anything less to me

16:50

today. You've

17:13

got a guard

17:15

with a dart

17:17

gun trained on

17:19

her, but I

17:21

would still keep

17:23

your distance. You

17:26

could put me

17:28

on Mars and

17:30

I wouldn't be far

17:32

enough away. Anytime

17:35

you want, you

17:37

just walk away,

17:39

Warren. Yeah. Of

17:42

course you're here. You

17:44

look terrible. It's a

17:46

real labour putting mascara

17:49

on, what with the one

17:51

arm and the no eyelashes,

17:53

but you always look lousy

17:55

when you run into an

17:57

ex, don't you? So, I heard...

18:00

an evil tech conglomerate abused you,

18:02

physically and psychologically, in an

18:04

attempt to perfect hypersleep tech. I

18:06

just wanted to say, if

18:08

you ever need to talk about

18:10

that with someone who's been

18:12

there, you can, you know, fuck

18:15

yourself. Well,

18:17

if we can learn anything from my

18:19

experience, it's that you really didn't

18:21

have it all Not bad. You

18:24

look quite well, all things

18:26

considered. Why are

18:28

you stood all the way over there? Because

18:31

you've got this new habit of

18:33

charging at people like a rabid dog

18:35

and trying to claw their eyes

18:37

out. Also, you're a dickhead. And

18:40

I hate you. I

18:43

wouldn't worry about the

18:45

first part. Don't really

18:47

feel like charging or

18:49

clawing or anything really.

18:53

What marvelous medicine have I been

18:55

given? It turns out, when

18:57

you create a new technology

18:59

that involves rewiring someone's brain so

19:01

it simulates being massively traumatized,

19:03

you need a pretty powerful mood

19:05

stabilizer to give to that

19:07

person once they wake up. So

19:09

they don't, you know, lose

19:11

their minds. Wow.

19:15

That's really

19:17

quite clever. My

19:20

God. What? That never crossed

19:22

your mind, did it? The aftercare.

19:24

What would happen if someone

19:27

wanted to actually live their life

19:29

after being treated by you?

19:31

That wasn't my job. Did you

19:33

ever speculate that the reason

19:35

you got sent to work

19:37

underneath the already secret and

19:39

isolated facility in the Highlands

19:41

was not due to other

19:43

people's boundaries, but because you're

19:45

a fucking psychopath. You got fired

19:48

from your job killing people

19:50

in wildly extravagant ways and

19:52

your first act was to...

19:54

Why did you do it? Why

19:58

did I do what? Don't pretend. And why

20:00

did you shoot him? Shoot? Oh,

20:04

Gavin? I

20:06

said don't.

20:10

Your brain needed to remain in

20:12

a traumatised state in order to

20:14

survive being in hypersleep. You wanted

20:16

to go back in the pod.

20:18

I made sure you'd survive. Again,

20:22

you're welcome. Yeah, I

20:24

wondered how quickly it would be my fucking fault.

20:28

Okay, fine. Gordon Pollock

20:30

was the reason I was fired,

20:32

wasn't he? If he just kept

20:34

his head down and got on

20:36

with the job, he'd probably still

20:38

be alive. Perhaps

20:40

I overreacted, but in my

20:42

defence, I had killed a

20:45

lot of people in, as

20:47

you say, wildly extravagant ways.

20:49

So he was hardly out

20:51

of character. He

20:53

was lucky it was just a gunshot. There

20:57

are worse things that can happen to a

20:59

person, wouldn't you agree? You

21:01

know, I was hoping your experience might have

21:03

changed you. I'd have more luck changing the

21:06

face of that mountain. Is

21:08

this my fate? To see out

21:10

the end of the world, listening

21:12

to the moral judgements of a

21:14

group of fellow killers? Oh,

21:17

I forget. Aubrey Wood's

21:19

retired now, isn't she? Some

21:22

take -up gardening or watercolours,

21:24

but I guess euthanasia

21:26

is an interesting enough hobby.

21:29

Is that what I'm here for? To

21:32

bump off old biddies? Maybe she

21:34

wants to set up a franchise. I'm

21:36

not here to talk to you about

21:39

Aubrey Wood. I don't care what she's

21:41

done or is doing. Her, anyone else

21:43

here for that matter. And there is

21:45

a chasm of difference between the choices

21:47

you and I have made. You

21:50

are a killer, Warren.

21:54

I know. I

21:59

only took you for... 40 years to summon up

22:01

the courage to find out? We're

22:03

here to talk about you, Ryanie,

22:05

about giving you the chance to

22:08

put one thing right. Oh, really?

22:10

Gordon is still alive. Here, in

22:12

a cryopod, fresh from being shot

22:14

by you, and you're going to

22:17

get him out alive and well.

22:19

Golly! And what if I refuse?

22:21

Oh, you're going to do it.

22:23

You're going to save him. Am I

22:25

indeed? And why is that? We're not

22:28

Amos Tech. We're not going to

22:30

throw you into hyper sleep until

22:32

the rest of your limbs fall

22:34

off. But we will take away

22:36

the medicine and you'll be feral

22:38

again. And we will lock you

22:40

in a room with no windows.

22:42

But mostly, you're going to do it

22:44

because it's a chance, isn't it?

22:46

I'm sure you'll make the most

22:49

of any opportunity we give you

22:51

to get, you know, whatever it is

22:53

that you actually want. And what do

22:55

I want? Can you still pick

22:58

up supermarket flowers and a

23:00

Michael Bubley CD these days? Oh

23:02

I used to hear you humming that

23:04

shit in the kitchen. It's cold, going

23:06

in, enjoy the Highland breeze. Hmm,

23:08

look at us. The inventor of

23:10

hyperslip and the man whose jeans

23:13

made it all happen. In a

23:15

world of people, either desperate to

23:17

continue or desperate to kill anyone

23:19

who does. both in the custody

23:22

of the world's leading cryoterrorist. I

23:24

wonder what Aubrey Wood has in

23:26

store for the both of us.

23:29

You know, I don't know if

23:31

it's the voice or the clothes

23:33

or if it's just being in

23:35

the future, but your puppet master

23:37

Schick just doesn't work anymore. I

23:39

needed two hands to hold all the

23:41

strings. Back

23:49

inside, now! When

24:07

do we press go? I don't want

24:09

to press go. We shouldn't have

24:11

even brought it inside. I agree.

24:13

Take it outside and smash it

24:15

up. We scanned it. You scanned

24:18

it. Shut your mind. Give it

24:20

a rest. I asked her to bring it

24:22

in. What's all the fuss about? Come

24:24

on. Let's play it. Warren. Come in.

24:26

Come in. What is that? That is

24:28

a messenger drone. It just arrived. It

24:31

looks like a messenger drone? Indeed. Mom,

24:33

I'd shut up. It's a messenger drone.

24:35

It's been scanned. There aren't any signals

24:37

of any kind coming or going out

24:39

of it, and if it was going

24:41

to kill us all, it would have

24:44

done it already. It is a crappy,

24:46

old, overhead messenger drone and nothing more.

24:48

Stevie, play the message. At last. I

24:50

hope you're right about this. I'm right,

24:52

Malcolm. Oh, and someone get ready to

24:54

catch Warren. He's about to have a

24:57

nerdgasm. The message is going to

24:59

look like the Princess Leah hologram

25:01

from Star Wars. Say what? Here

25:03

we go. All right, this is a message

25:06

for Aubrey Wood. It is still alive.

25:08

If it's not, this is a

25:10

message for whoever's keeping the lights

25:12

on at Red Valley. My name is

25:14

Clive Shill. You might have heard of

25:17

me. Clive Shill is still alive. He's

25:19

at well. He's age terribly well, isn't

25:21

he? So, we know you had a

25:23

special delivery recently. Our very own Briany

25:25

Halbeck. Given no one even knew she

25:28

was still alive, she was on the

25:30

other side of the planet and the

25:32

world's infrastructure currently seems to be made

25:34

out of juplow, it must have been

25:36

incredibly difficult to both find her and

25:39

bring her all the way home. So,

25:41

well done you. Yes, hurry up. We

25:43

don't get it. All right. Right. We

25:45

don't know why you want her. If

25:47

you've dragged her halfway across the world,

25:50

you probably don't want her dead. Not

25:52

yet, not yet, anyway. To be honest

25:54

I don't care what you do. handheld

25:56

back over to us. In return, you

25:58

get to keep ready. Red Valley is

26:01

your little nursing home, whatever it

26:03

is. We won't tell the bastion

26:05

that you're here or the nature

26:07

of your heretical little enterprise. If

26:09

you refuse, and I really hope

26:11

you don't because it'll be a

26:13

huge pain in the ass for

26:15

everyone involved, what if you refuse?

26:17

Well, Red Valley is still technically overhead

26:19

property. So, as your landlord, we would

26:21

have to issue a strongly worded notice

26:24

of eviction. Extremely, strongly worded. We'll get

26:26

back in touch in a couple of

26:28

days and we can begin to organize

26:30

transport for Halbeck. It's not piss about.

26:33

Right, is that inside you two minutes

26:35

or however long it needs to be?

26:37

Yeah, that's great. Actually, we do have

26:39

some time left over. Hello everyone. I'm

26:41

Rebecca Landry, CEO of overhead Industries. Just

26:44

so there's no ambiguity here, we want

26:46

Briny so we can recreate the continued

26:48

tech. We want to do that so

26:50

we can go back into hypers and

26:52

try and sidestep this slow motion extinction

26:54

extinction event that we're all living through

26:56

living through. We'd like to try and

26:58

save as many people as possible, so,

27:00

you know, there's still a human race.

27:02

So yes, weirdly enough, it's the evil

27:05

tech corporation that wants to save mankind,

27:07

and your plucky rebellion that apparently was

27:09

to kill us all. You know, when

27:11

I put it like that, really makes

27:13

me think, maybe you're the bad guys.

27:15

Like Clive said, you just want to

27:17

stick to bumping off one granny at

27:19

a time, fill your boots. Let the

27:21

rest of us get almost saving the

27:23

world. There, that's got to be too,

27:25

surely. Grace,

27:27

how's she doing? Briley, she's getting

27:30

the medication. I cannot tell you

27:32

how I can get the tape. Warren,

27:34

how did it go with her just

27:37

now? How was she? How was

27:39

she, um, sarcastic, unrepentant, generally

27:41

not nice? Not so screamy

27:43

and punchy then? Grace, get

27:45

your operating team together and

27:47

start prepping, we're doing it

27:49

tonight. Tonight? God, let them

27:52

know everything you're going to need

27:54

in surgery. Yes, Aub, Aubrey. Look,

27:56

don't take anything I say into

27:58

account versus actual medical... stuff I'm just

28:00

I mean what are we talking about

28:02

here? She might be able to make P

28:05

.T .1 Liners but that does not mean

28:07

she can manage an emergence of a mortally

28:09

wounded subject after 40 years of suspended

28:11

animation. Aubrey we don't know what overhead will

28:13

do we don't. You're right we don't

28:15

know we don't know anything we don't have

28:17

the contacts we don't have the resources

28:19

they could be a thousand miles away with

28:22

nothing but a clapped out messenger drone

28:24

or they could be on the other side

28:26

of the mountain with a goddamn helicarrier

28:28

we don't know. I'm sorry I still

28:30

don't really get the future what are

28:32

we actually weighing up here? Overhead might

28:34

be planning to take Bryony by force.

28:36

And that's something we should definitely be

28:38

worried about I mean it might just

28:40

be those two goons they didn't look

28:42

too scary. You didn't know overhead back

28:45

then and you don't know them now.

28:47

If they don't seem like a threat

28:49

it will have been her choice. She'll

28:51

want you to underestimate her to think

28:53

you have the advantage. And how would

28:55

you know that? It's what I listen

28:57

her father. Aubrey

28:59

it's time. Yes Malcolm

29:02

of course. So

29:05

is the discussion over? I'm

29:08

taking Malcolm back to his quarters. Hester

29:11

we need to lock everything down. Everyone sub

29:13

level before it gets dark. Stevie I

29:15

want you checking over the defences then back

29:17

down here. Valley floor defense system first.

29:19

Grace once you've rounded up your team you're

29:21

in charge of getting Bryony Halbert to

29:23

do what we need her to at any

29:25

cost. Any more questions? Right.

29:29

We're waking up Gordon Pollock tonight.

29:31

Get to work. Red

29:57

Valley is written by Jonathan

29:59

Williams. Directed by Alan

30:01

Mandel and Associate Directed by

30:03

Carol Pestridge with music editing

30:06

and sound design by Richard

30:08

Orpheus Campbell. Additional sound effects

30:10

editing by Luke Elliot. Original

30:13

podcast artwork by Claire Hoops

30:15

and promotional artwork by Noah

30:17

Dow. Transcripts by Karen Butler.

30:20

Performances by Rachel Fowler as

30:22

Pamela Jennings. Alexander Broad as

30:24

Clive Shell. Cashries banks as

30:26

Aubrey Wood. Susan Hindley Hingley

30:29

as Hester Hiyashi, Dayon Broney

30:31

as De gracious Malay, May

30:33

Cunningham as Briany Halbeck, Kelsey

30:35

Griffin as Stevie, Jonathan Williams

30:37

as Warren Godby, David Charles

30:40

as Malcolm Landry, Blair Anderson

30:42

as Marmite, Alan Mandel as

30:44

Gord, and Natalie Day as

30:46

Rebecca Landry. Additional voices by

30:48

henage Suede, Ali Baloot and

30:50

Carol Pestridge. Thanks as always

30:52

to the overhead board of

30:55

directors, Jack Reese, Marguerite Kenner.

30:57

Dev Patel, Paul James and

30:59

Haley Daniel. Red Valley is

31:01

recorded at Orpheus Studio London

31:03

and brought to you by

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So scream me. Just no up

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front, I'm going to have input.

32:00

happen. Are you all right? Tell

32:02

us everything. Seems like you want

32:04

to scare us into thinking you're

32:06

going to let us starve. But

32:08

should your treatment of us ever

32:10

cause this decent man to let

32:13

me off the leash again? Anything

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