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they feeling?

KIEREN:

(obviously in some

discomfort)

A bit unnatural.

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ALEX:

That’s cos they are unnatural!

Invented by the living to hide our

true selves.

HANNAH:

Pin Prick and Proud.

General giggles from the group.

KEITH:

Couple of smiles. Good. Keep it up.

On Sunday you’re gonna be seeing

your family and friends again.

Kieren, mate, who are you looking

forward to seeing?

Kieren stops rubbing his sore eyes. The question makes him

forget his discomfort.

KIEREN:

My little sister. Jem.

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EXT. THE LEGION - ROARTON VILLAGE - DAY 1 13

Lights are on inside The Legion. The sign “HVF VETERANS DRINK

FOR FREE” still up. We see Jem walking into the pub.

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INT. THE LEGION - BAR AREA - DAY 1 14

Bell goes and Jem enters the bar area. We follow her and are

introduced to Roarton’s only drinking establishment. Very

rural, backwater feel. Pride of place are old framed photos

of HVF FIGHTERS (including one of Jem) posing with their

weapons and Zombie Kills (The zombies are strung up on the

gibbet, on the village green) and a big home-made flag for

the HUMAN VOLUNTEER FORCE is hung over the roaring fireplace.

The Legion is really the unspoken HQ of the HVF.

Two local lads GARY (25) and DEAN (25) prop up the bar. They

both wear ARMY SURPLUS JACKETS and BLUE ARM BANDS (like Lisa

and Jem’s). Gary is very physically fit (obviously a local

labourer) Dean is less so. Also up at the bar is BILL MACY

(48). Bill is a bear of a man, built like a brick shithouse,

he has a thick moustache and leathery sun-dyed skin. Bill too

has an armband and his ARMY SURPLUS JACKET has 3 yellow

stripes on the shoulder. On the bar next to him is a FOLDER

and RED HANDLED HUNTING KNIFE.

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Bill casually, morosely, is going over an old HVF carving on

the bar with the knife. He turns and sees Jem. His permanent

frown fades. He lights up.

BILL:

There she is. The Rambo of Roarton.

Jem smiles coyly. Puts his arm around Jem. He catches the eye

of PEARL PINDER (45), the landlady.

PEARL:

Yes, Bill?

BILL:

Pint a bitter fer me, and a cider

fer this trigger happy honey.

Pearl gets a glass, pulls on a pump.

PEARL:

Six pound, please love.

BILL:

Yer what?

PEARL:

Six pound fer the drinks, love.

BILL:

But... The sign...?

PEARL:

It’s coming down today. The Human

Volunteer Force veterans - some of

the vets - they’re bleeding me dry.

BILL:

If it hadn’t been fer my fighters

this place would be rubble and

you’d be....You wouldn’t be here

charging me for two bloody pints, I

can tell yer that much!

Gary steps in.

GARY:

I’ll get this one in, ‘ay?

Gary pays for Bill’s drinks.

BILL:

Believe the disrespect?

GARY:

(not happy about it

either)

Things are moving on, suppose.

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BILL:

What are we? F***ing southerners?

(to the whole pub,

grabbing hold of Jem in

solidarity)

Roarton’s sacrifice will never be

forgotten. Not while I draw breath.

“Amen’s” and “here, here’s” from all the patrons and Gary,

Dean and a secretly conflicted Jem.

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15 INT. PDS TREATMENT CENTRE - DAY 1 15

KIEREN stands in a QUEUE waiting to sit down opposite a

TREATMENT ASSISTANT. The assistant has boxes and boxes of

“IRISALWAYS CONTACT LENSES”. Some of the boxes are marked

“blue”, others are marked “brown”.

A PDS SUFFERER leaves. Kieren sits down.

TREATMENT ASSISTANT

Name?

KIEREN:

Kieren Walker.

Treatment Assistant checks the list.

TREATMENT ASSISTANT

Blue or brown?

Kieren’s perplexed.

KIEREN:

I don’t...?

TREATMENT ASSISTANT

Did you have blue eyes or brown

eyes?

Kieren thinks. The Treatment Assistant doesn’t have time for

meaningful reflections. Kieren clocks the assistants look.

KIEREN:

Brown.

The Treatment Assistant gives him three boxes off the pile.

Kieren looks at them.

TREATMENT ASSISTANT

Next!

Kieren gets up.

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Another PDS sufferer waiting behind him sits down.

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16 INT. THE LEGION - BAR AREA - DAY 1 16

JEM sits on a table (the best one in the pub, always reserved

for the HVF) next to BILL and opposite GARY and DEAN. They

are in the middle of a HVF meeting.

Bill is passing out some photocopied rotas. We cut to Jem

throughout the next conversation, deep in thought. Thinking

about her brother coming home.

BILL:

Yer patrol rota fer week ahead.

Lying Bastard Government says

there’s no more rabid rotters out

in woods, but we know better.

The troops dutifully nod.

DEAN:

What about ones on drugs?

BILL:

What about ‘em?

DEAN:

I heard they’re putting ‘em back.

GARY:

In cities, Daz. Government wouldn’t

put treated ones back in Roarton.

They wouldn’t dare.

BILL:

Don’t count on it.

DEAN:

You heard summit, Cap?

BILL:

I’ll say this; Rotter’s a rotter -

drugs or no drugs. If there’s any

round ‘ere, we’ll deal with ‘em.

Yer report everything you see.

(beat)

That said ...

Bill grabs his bag and takes out new Walkie Talkies.

GARY:

New Walkies? Council splashing out?

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BILL:

(scoffs)

These came out me own pocket.

GARY:

Thanks, Cap. They’re tidy.

DEAN:

Aye. Right swish.

Bill looks to Jem, who’s still thinking about her brother.

BILL:

Yer want one of these, do yer,

Lieutenant?

Jem snaps out of it.

JEM:

Sorry, Cap.

BILL:

What’s on yer mind, sweetheart?

JEM:

Nothing just. Yer know. Stuff.

BILL:

I know.

Jem looks alarmed: does Bill know Kieren’s a rotter?

BILL (CONT’D)

Anniversary of The War coming up.

Lots of memories.

Jem nods. Bill raises his pint.

BILL (CONT’D)

To the fallen.

The others raise their pints as well and toast.

JEM / GARY / DEAN

To the fallen.

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17 INT. PDS TREATMENT CENTRE - REC ROOM - DAY 1 17

PDS sufferers chill out, play table tennis. KIEREN enters and

spots ALEX in the corner reading mail. He sits next to him.

ALEX:

You ask Keith bout the riots, when

they first started putting us back?

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KIEREN:

Yeah. He says you’re talking

bollocks.

ALEX:

Course he does. He’s one of them.

The living. Can’t trust a word they

say.

Alex takes out a pen and scribbles a website address on one

of the fan mail envelopes.

ALEX (CONT’D)

(keeping his voice down)

This is a guy you can trust, Kier.

One I told you about; The Undead

Prophet. That’s his website. When

you get home, check it out. He’ll

blow your mind.

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