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Alex gives Kieren the envelope.

ALEX (CONT’D)

(re. Stack of mail)

Think there’s a letter from your

folks in there.

Kieren takes the mail and notices an unmarked package. He

opens it, in it is a BOTTLE OF PILLS. The only marking on the

bottle is a small LOGO of an ARM bursting through a GRAVE.

The arm’s hand is a defiant FIST. Alex notices.

ALEX (CONT’D)

Those are mine, mate.

KIEREN:

What are they?

ALEX:

They’re from The Prophet.

A BELL RINGS. PDS Sufferers stop what they’re doing and begin

to file out.

ALEX (CONT’D)

Shot time.

CUT TO:

17A INT. PDS TREATMENT CENTRE - CORRIDOR - DAY 1 17A

SOLDIERS are posted every ten feet. They make sure PDS

sufferers are walking towards the administration wing.

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Kieren walks with the others and spots ALEX, walking off to

the side, trying to be inconspicious, popping some of the

pills. On Kieren. Very concerned.

CUT TO:

INT. PDS TREATMENT CENTRE - DAY 2 17B

PDS patients are in rows, in bolt restraints, waiting for

their daily shot of medication. Two NURSES inject patients

with industrial injectors as they pass along the rows. Kieren

is in the restraints waiting for his turn. Next to him, Alex

sweats profusely, with shallow breaths. He looks awful.

KIEREN:

Mate? Alex? What did you take?

Alex lets out a low moan. A nurse comes over.

KIEREN (CONT’D)

Nurse, my room mate, he, he, he’s

taken something and I think

Before Kieren can finish, the nurse injects Alex with the

meds. Alex twitches, like normal. But then he shudders

violently. He CONVULSES and BLOOD pours out his mouth.

NURSE:

Oh god. Code green!

NURSE 2 hits a panic button on the wall. A SIREN goes off,

the main door unlocks and three SOLDIERS enter holding STUN

GUNS. Alex ROARS and BREAKS the bolt restraints. He jolts up

and looks around: a caged dangerous zombie released.

Alex sinks his teeth into the nearby Nurse 1. The three

soldiers FIRE their stun guns. Alex hits the ground -

unconscious. The bitten nurse is treated on site. He looks

freaked. The three soldiers pick up Alex and take him away.

The other Nurse takes a deep breath, picks up the industrial

injector and crosses to a freaked out Kieren.

KIEREN:

Where are they taking him?

The nurse ignores, as Kieren sees Alex being taken away.

CUT TO:

EXT. PDS TREATMENT CENTRE - NIGHT 1 17C

PDS Sufferers file onto a security style transport vehicle

idling outside.

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They are disorientated, holding white suitcases. It obviously

hasn’t been explained where they’re going in the middle of

the night. A soldier IDs them.

A confused and fearful KIEREN comes out of the treatment

centre, holding his white suitcase. He’s ushered to the

vehicle. The soldier IDs him and indicates for him to enter.

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18 INT. TRANSPORT VEHICLE - CONTINUOUS - NIGHT 1 18

KIEREN spots HANNAH sitting alone. He sits down next to her.

KIEREN:

Do you know where we’re going?

Hannah, scared, shakes her head. The DRIVER starts up.

KIEREN (CONT’D)

Is this about what happened to

Alex?

HANNAH:

(frightened)

I don’t know. Maybe.

Anxious, Kieren looks out the barred window.

CUT TO:

19 EXT. TRANSPORT VEHICLE - CONTINUOUS - NIGHT 1 19

The vehicle passes the main gate and heads into the night.

CUT TO:

20 EXT. WALKER HOUSE - NIGHT 1 20

Dead of night. The whole street is asleep. The Walker’s front

door opens slowly and Sue, dressed in her Sunday best, sneaks

out. She is followed by Steve, dressed in a suit. They creep

to Steve’s CAR, and get in as quietly as they can.

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21 INT. WALKER’S CAR - NIGHT 1 21

Steve carefully shuts the door. Gets out his SAT NAV and

programmes it to NR1 100. Steve looks at Sue.

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Her expression says - “I’m very worried”. Steve rubs his

wife’s arm. Starts the engine.

CUT TO:

EXT. WALKER HOUSE - NIGHT 1 22

The Walker’s car sets off. Opposite the Walker’s house, at

No. 11, a LIGHT from the top bedroom switches on and a

curtain TWITCHES. From behind the curtain KEN BURTON peeks

out.

CUT TO:

INT. PATIENT 243&244 ROOM - FAMILY LIAISON BUILDING - DAY 223

Kieren wakes with a start. Bad dream. He gets his bearings.

He’s in a bright, newly constructed room with twin beds.

Kieren is definitely the first occupier. It’s pleasant.

There’s even a fresh house plant in the corner. Kieren rubs

his eyes, looks to the empty bed opposite him. This was

obviously meant for Alex.

Kieren goes to the en-suite sink and mirror. He finds a pair

of IrisAlways Contacts and a bottle of FleshTone Mousse.

Kieren opens the contacts case.

CUT TO:

EXT. FAMILY LIAISON BUILDING - DAY 2 24

We see the Walker’s car snake through the barren Norfolk

landscape and come upon: The PDS Treatment Centre, Family

Liaison Building. The building is different from the rest of

the Treatment Centre - new, welcoming, less threatening.

The Main Gate still has TWO SOLDIERS posted on it. However

the guns aren’t on show and they wear ORDINARY DUTY UNIFORMS.

The Walker’s car pulls up. Steve rolls down the window. He

has paperwork and passports at the ready.

The DUTY SOLDIER 1 checks it, smiles at the parents and then

waves them through. As the car drives up the driveway, Steve

takes in the fresh cut grass and planted trees.

STEVE:

This is nice, innit. I were

expecting armed guards and barbed

wire all over the place.

SUE:

Me too.

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25 INT. FAMILY LIAISON BUILDING - PATIENT ROOM - DAY 2 25

KIEREN is dressed (simple clothes, eg coat, blue shirt, black

chinos, black pumps), his flesh tone mousse on and corrective

contacts in. He looks like one of the living. He sits on the

edge of his bed, looking at where Alex should have been. He

searches his jacket and finds the envelope Alex gave him. He

looks at the website and password written on the envelope:

www .undeadliberationarmy.co.uk revelations_1.18

The door unlocks. Kieren stuffs the piece of paper into his

jacket pocket. KEITH pops his head round.

KEITH:

Your folks are here, mate.

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26 INT. FAMILY LIAISON BUILDING - GREETING ROOM - DAY 2 26

SUE and STEVE are anxiously waiting in a Greeting Room that’s

supposed to promote a feeling of calm and tranquility. On the

walls there are big government issue posters of happy

families welcoming back their partially deceased sons /

daughters / dads / mums / grandparents.

Sound of a door unlocking. SUE and STEVE stand. Kieren enters

holding the white suitcase. KEITH by his side.

Steve and Sue see their son. Their partially deceased son.

Last time they saw him in the flesh was in a coffin. Sue

stops. She breaks down. Not in that movie romantic way, but

in the real way, a painful primal way. Steve holds his wife.

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