The Unfolding Page #3

I mean, have you got

any idea how hard it is to

get funding for postgraduate

study in this field?

Have you any idea whatsoever?

- Jesus, Rose, we discussed this.

- I think things have changed a bit

since we discussed that, Tam.

Have you even noticed

what's going on out there? I mean...

Nothing we can do. Nothing.

Harvey's right. What can

ordinary people do? Sit and wait.

There is someone else

in the house, Tam. I saw her.

I know. On the stairs,

this afternoon, you said.

No, that wasn't her.

I saw her outside.

Where?

I'm sure it was here.

Here?

Are sure? Really?

It was here, Tam. There was

a beautiful flower garden.

It's gone.

You don't believe me, do you?

Well, I don't see any

beautiful flower garden.

- What are they?

- They look like high-altitude bombers.

- God, I just hope they're on exercise.

- Bloody hell.

What's going on?

Oh, God! There was someone there.

Jesus Christ!

- There's no one there.

- Oh! There was.

- Calm down.

- There was someone there.

Wait, wait, wait.

What was that?

I've f***ing had it with this guy.

I think we should stay up here.

Oh... look at this.

Oh, sh*t.

He's in here.

- He's in here, he's in here.

- Yeah.

You ready?

F***ing right I am.

- Oh, God!

- What the f*** is that?

Oh!

It's literally freezing in here.

- Jesus! Go!

- Where's it gone?

What was that?

There is power to the house.

So these power cuts...

I just can't explain them.

There it is again.

I've never seen anything

like this before in my life.

The way it got in. It's coming again,

it's coming again.

And it's the same in here.

The temperature's just...

- Just dropped.

- Just dropped instantly.

Instantly.

The crisis becomes financial M,

as share prices drop.

The Dow Jones and Nikkei down

a further 30 percent.

Harvey! Harvey!

There's someone right behind you.

I know, I know, Rose.

He's just touched my arm.

I can feel it.

Something moving around us.

Hello?

Uuuh!

We didn't imagine that. No.

- It's warm in here, guys.

- God, Tam, you missed it.

Missed what? Harvey?

I've never been so scared in my life.

- Right, that's it.

- Jesus, I'm sweating.

- I'm calling the Professor.

- Eh?

- No, Tam, we have to leave.

- There's something happening here.

Harvey feels it. I'm calling

the Professor and that's that.

This is rare, honestly.

You don't get this.

Thanks, Tam.

Thanks a lot.

Oh!

The Black Swan is already

over the horizon.

She is approaching.

She will arrive in a matter of days.

She will then lay her offspring.

- Where's Harv?

- Huh?

- Where's Harv?

- Not sure.

Just trying to get his stuff down.

Nothing has recorded yet.

Hi, matey. How you doing?

I can't stay here any more, Tam.

Because of last night?

Harv, what's wrong?

I saw Sam last night.

Sam? You saw Sam?

Mm.

I'm sorry. Sam?

When I was 14, my...

My brother was killed in an accident.

He was, er...

Cycling home and he was hit by a car,

and it killed him instantly.

One minute he was there

and the next he was gone.

Oh, God, Harv, I'm so sorry.

Are you sure it wasn't a dream?

Sure?

He was there.

He was stood there. He was trying to...

He was talking to me.

What did he say, Harv?

He said that he wanted to help,

but he couldn't and soon

it wouldn't matter anyway.

Okay, Harv. Just relax, okay?

Why don't we just wait for

the Professor to get here

and we'll see what he thinks

and we'll take it from there.

- It's just this house.

- I know, I know.

Airstrikes need to be ramped up.

Meanwhile, Germany has come under fire

for abstaining on the UN's vote

to commit military assets,

for fear of being sucked into a war.

That's him.

Morning.

Morning, Professor.

- Remember Rose?

- Hi again.

Hi, Rose.

This is Harvey Waller,

an old friend of mine.

Just joined us to have

some fun at our expense.

- Well, that's a good use of resources.

- Well, that was the idea.

- And you are a...?

- A Geophysicist.

Oh, good. Well, welcome aboard, Harvey.

Well, Tam and myself

did discuss the fault lines.

Well, there is another theory

to take into account.

That a form of energy, a sub-microwave

level radiation,

is released by the fault,

and that, in some way, interacts

with the human neural system.

Does it make us more psychic

or does it make us hallucinate?

It's impossible to be

certain at this point.

Well, Professor, a day ago,

I would have laughed at such a theory.

But now?

There's definitely

something in this house.

What is your actual field, Professor?

Astronomy, although I do have a very

healthy interest in the paranormal.

Astronomy, wow!

But I don't see a connection.

Well, the universe is

a complicated place.

And the more we study it,

the less we seem to understand it.

I've just spent many years

pondering time and space,

and so I suppose I've

come to a conclusion that

perhaps humans might exist, operate,

independently of time and space.

Which leaves me to wonder if

perhaps we can't also operate

independently of mortality.

Ghosts.

You're talking about ghosts, aren't you?

The human mind is

a force in this universe,

which we know very little about.

Professor.

Did you manage to get all this on film?

- None of it.

- Ah.

As regards The Tor, I have heard

of similar events, of course.

A time slip, perhaps.

A ripple in time.

Or you may have been experiencing

someone else's memory of the place.

The Tor has got a great deal

of history attached to it.

It's been a hotbed of paranormal

activity since records began,

but so much seems to be happening here,

it's hard to keep up.

I'm wondering if perhaps

this house isn't

acting as some sort of psychic beacon,

and that everything that is happening

out there in the greater world

is in some way influencing events here,

just making them more pronounced,

amplifying them, if you will.

Tam, I'm also worried about Rose.

Look, I know she doesn't like it here.

I suggest that the opposite

might well be true.

In a very short period of time,

Rose seems to have developed

a profound spiritual

and emotional connection to this place.

Today to respond to

a situation of great gravity.

We are here because, for the first time

in several generations,

British forces, along with

the forces of their NATO allies,

are now in a state of

extreme readiness...

Good heavens.

I can hear whispering.

Lower the television.

Yesterday was a day of rumor and...

This is exactly the sort of thing

that's been happening.

I'm glad you're here to witness this.

All right. Look, what

we have to do is, we

have to just attack

this situation head on.

All right? We need to get involved

in a way that we'll understand

that whatever is happening

here can't harm us.

We have to take the

stress out of the situation.

That's exactly what I was thinking

about when I saw my brother Sam.

Harvey! Harvey! Where are you?

Professor? It's Harvey.

I think something has him.

- Harvey!

- Harvey!

Harvey!

Get him down. Oh, let him go!

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