The Girl with All the Gifts Page #4

Yeah, she loves me.

I just couldn't get out the way in time,

that's all.

I'm not a good person.

I've never met a good person or a bad one.

You just do whatever's in you to do.

So no one's ever responsible for anything?

Responsible to who?

MELANIE:
(READING IN DISTANCE)

"'He's dreaming now, ' said Tweedledee.

"'And what do you think

he's dreaming about?'

"Alice said, 'Nobody can guess that.'

"'Why, about you!' Tweedledee exclaimed,

clapping his hands triumphantly.

"'And if he left off dreaming about you,

where do you suppose he'd be?'

"'Where I am now, of course, ' said Alice.

"'Not you, '

Tweedledee retorted contemptuously.

"'You'd be nowhere.

You're only a sort of thing in his dream."'

Do you want to see the picture, Kieran?

PARKS:
This does not look good.

That ruckus yesterday

must have brought them.

Look, if we wait, something will turn up.

A cat or a... Something,

and they'll run off chasing it.

We could be waiting a bloody long time.

- It's gonna be all right.

- I can do it.

No. I won't allow it.

I'm the only one who can go down there

and not get hurt.

If we let her go,

there is no reason for her to come back.

Yes, there is. I want to be with you.

- With Miss Justineau and Kieran, anyway.

- "Kieran"?

HELEN:
You were gonna put

a bullet in her head yesterday.

- What have you got to lose?

- I have a great deal to lose.

She is indispensable to my programme.

There is no programme any more.

There's just us.

And I'll come back because I said I would.

I don't tell lies.

Also...

Can I wear my new clothes, please?

(MELANIE CHUCKLES)

(PARKS CLEARS THROAT)

(SNIFFS AND SNARLS)

(BANGS ON DOOR)

Hello?

(GIGGLES)

Transit! Transit! You friggin' abortions!

Wow.

(BOTTLE CLATTERS)

(DOG BARKS)

(DOG BARKS)

(DOG WHINES)

(SNARLS)

(ALL SNARLING)

(ALL GIBBER AND SNARL)

It fell off. But it's safe to come down.

My God.

I'm not hungry now.

Good job.

Let's go.

(SEAGULLS CRY)

HELEN:
So we're just

gonna wade in again then?

PARKS:
Not if I can help it.

Do you wanna get some more exercise?

You can run ahead and

find us a clear route.

Can I use the radio thing?

Gallagher, give her your radio thing.

- Sarge?

- She'll give it you back.

Right, there you are.

Show me.

Push that button to talk.

Then let go so I can talk back.

(BEEP)

- (FEEDBACK WHINES)

- It's Melanie.

Hello, I'm over here.

Just like that, yeah. Off you go, then.

(CHUCKLES)

Don't play with anybody that looks dead.

She better not bloody lose it.

Hello, it's Melanie. Melanie calling.

On the radio.

PARKS:
I know. What have you got?

Well, the third street's the best one.

There's a few hungries right at the top,

but if you keep on going there's no one.

Thank you. Over and out.

Well done.

HELEN:
Do you want a cat?

I already had one.

GALLAGHER:
F*** me.

- PARKS:
Doctor...

- (GASPING)

I saw this in Bristol.

And the team in Glasgow

says it's spreading everywhere.

It's the next stage in the

pathogen's life cycle.

PARKS:
Leave it.

This is the same thing that's in my brain.

Will that happen to me?

Well, it depends.

Do you know what symbiosis is?

Like the little birds

that clean a crocodile's teeth?

Exactly. In the second generation,

your generation,

the fungus may function as a symbiote.

It certainly seems to.

Let me know if you start to sprout.

HELEN:
It's gone quiet all of a sudden.

Must be the off-season.

Gallagher, don't step on them.

HELEN:
We're never gonna get past this.

We're gonna have to go around it.

GALLAGHER:
What the f*** is that?

PARKS:
What are we looking at, Caldwell?

DR CALDWELL:
I told you.

The next stage in the fungus' life cycle.

The mature sexual stage.

This is why there are no hungries here.

When the density is the highest,

when enough of them come together...

- MELANIE:
They turn into a forest?

- (EXCLAIMING SOFTLY)

This is a sporangium, a seed pod.

There must be tens of thousands of them

in that mass.

If they were to open...

What?

The end of the world...

Probably.

PARKS:
Let's keep moving.

- You're sick, Dr Caldwell.

- I'm fine. Thank you.

You smell sick.

I saw you.

You picked one up. Can I see it?

Why would it be the end of the world

if it opened?

The hungry pathogen would become airborne.

You'd catch it by just breathing.

But look...

(HARD KNOCKING)

It's a bad design.

Mutants have to take the rough

with the smooth.

PARKS:
What the hell is this?

PARKS:
It's full armour. Coded access.

Emergency access

is under the midsection door.

- And you know this because?

- We made them.

Fully functional mobile labs.

Armed and armoured,

so they could go anywhere.

Solar-powered, so they never had to stop.

PARKS:
Emergency access, show me.

It's under there.

(MOTOR HUMS)

Come on, Kieran.

(TAPS BUTTONS)

(DR CALDWELL GASPS)

Solars are still working.

See if the engine's any good.

(IGNITION SPUTTERS)

(IGNITION SPUTTERS)

(MATCHES RATTLE)

I need to find some food.

(CLATTERING AND BANGING)

GALLAGHER:
Wonder where they are.

Maybe they went out to explore.

And stayed over their friends'?

(DOOR CREAKS OPEN AND SHUT)

- How's the engine, Sarge?

- Should be able to get it working.

- Let's try Beacon first.

- (RADIO STATIC)

Runaways from base Hotel Echo,

calling Beacon. Over.

(STATIC)

Runaways from base Hotel Echo,

calling Beacon. Over.

Runaways calling any friendlies

in the southeastern area. Over.

(STATIC)

- Did you check out the kitchen?

- HELEN:
Cupboard's bare.

I could do a supply run, Sarge.

(PANTING)

- PARKS:
OK. We'll work on the engine.

- (VOICE ECHOING)

PARKS:
Gallagher, stay close.

Call in every 10 minutes.

GALLAGHER:
Sarge.

(PANTING)

- What?

- I need to eat, too. I can smell you.

I can smell all of you.

(SNIFFING)

(WINGS FLAP OVERHEAD)

(PIGEONS COOING)

Right, try that.

(ENGINE TURNS OVER)

Good job.

(GROANS)

(EXHALES)

(CHILD SQUEALING)

(CHILDREN SQUEALING)

(DOOR OPENS)

(GIBBERS)

(SNARLS)

(SNIFFS DEEPLY)

(SNIFFS AND SNARLS)

(ALL GIBBERING AND SNARLING)

No. Oh, no.

(GIBBERING AND SNARLING)

(FLICKS SWITCHES)

(SIGHS)

(STIFLED GROAN)

Want me to change that dressing?

No, thank you. There's no point.

Is it healing?

I'm dying.

(CHUCKLES)

I'm surprised you hadn't noticed.

Inflammatory sepsis.

Blood poisoning from the cuts.

I dosed up on flucloxacillin

when we arrived,

but I'm pretty sure it's too late.

- I'm sorry.

- How sorry?

Would you let me have her?

Forget it.

I was almost there when the base fell.

With this equipment, I can do it.

I can synthesise the vaccine.

But I need her brain and her spine.

Isoflurane.

Surgical anaesthetic.

She'd feel nothing.

That's more your thing than hers.

(BANGING ON DOOR)

MELANIE:
Miss Justineau!

Kieran is out there

and they're out there with him.

They've got his smell

and they're looking for him right now.

And you've got to find him first.

Now! You've got to go now!

Melanie, who are you talking about?

The children. They're going to eat him.

I saw them. They're exactly the same as me.

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