Eve of the War Annie: Only me. Didn’t want to Rent-a-Ghost in and startle you. Just… {she indicates the tea}. Oh, I’m itching for a cuddle. Go on, I’ll give you fifty quid. {silence} I was thinking that I could take her out. Just into the garden. Just to give you a bit of a […]
Episode 1 : Lia Newsreader: Four weeks since the attacks in Box Tunnel, and the police have yet to make any arrests. However— {the screen breaks up and Annie cuts in} Annie: Mitchell? Mitchell? Can you hear me? Mitchell: Annie? Annie: Help, Mitchell. I’m so scared. Mitchell: Don’t go! Can you see me? Are you […]
Annie: Do you know what the weird thing is? Hennessey (Adrian Schiller): Annie says, “Do you know what the weird thing is.” George: For the eighteenth time, I can hear her. Annie: So. Looks like we found Mitchell’s girlfriend. George: Yeah. Small world. Annie: Why do you think she didn’t tell him that she had […]
London 1941 Ivan (Paul Rhys): Does she have a name? Daisy (Amy Manson): Pearl. After her daddy’s mommy. Ivan: Where is her daddy? Daisy: He was on the HMS Princess Charlotte. Sub caught fire six months back. Ivan: And is Pearl your jewel? Daisy: She cries a lot. I don’t understand her. It’s like she […]
George: So what are you, just flinging pottery around like a common poltergeist? Annie: Did you just call me a poltergeist! Mitchell— Mitchell, listen to this. This is classic, this is. Go on. Say it to Mitchell, go on. Say it again, go on. George: Would you just shut up for a millisecond? Mitchell, Sam […]
London, 1969 Mitchell: Come on, let’s get out of here. Herrick (Jason Watkins): Well I can’t leave the place looking like this. Mitchell: Don’t other people take care of this kind of thing? Herrick: Back in Bristol, sure. Mitchell: What, there’s no vampires in London? Herrick: Yeah, but their head guy and I, we don’t, […]
One Year Ago Kemp (Donald Sumpter): I’m not here about a job. I’m here about those wonderful papers you wrote last year. Lucy (Lyndsey Marshal): Oh, great. Kemp: Your theory of a gene that could be the cause of all evil, was a revelation. Lucy: Those papers were merely speculative. An intellectual exercise that some […]
Bristol 1665 Inquisitor: Your teeth will be smashed from your skull, as a warning to other devils. And your head will be removed from your body… {checks the back of the scroll.} No, that’s it actually. Proceed! Lucy (Lyndsey Marshal): Gotta say, I’ve never seen the condition in a hospital porter before. I suppose the […]
Vienna 1999 Mitchell: Why are you doing this? Carl (Steve John Shepherd): Because it’s what you’d do for me, Mitchell. George: I promised Annie I’d visit. I hope you don’t mind. Hugh (Nathan Wright): Oh, not at all. Two customers, we’ll be talking about this for years. Mitchell: I don’t know how to talk to […]
Cure and Contagion Annie: Nina, if there’s one thing that I’ve learned about this world is that it doesn’t follow logic. We’re talking about magic and curses. We’re off the map here. Annie: Okay, shut up, I’m going to tell you. I have applied for a job! George: As what? Annie: Well. It’s something that […]
George: I was actually looking forward to this, living with Nina. But I’m not sure even… I mean yeah, yeah, there’s moisturizer and there’s Tampax in the bathroom but it’s not like we’re having sex. We watch TV and she’s just sitting on the other— I mean if she could see the screen from the […]
Two Years Earlier Annie: It was nothing really. Just a small good deed in the darkness. But fate is always playing a long game. Seth (Dylan Brown): They don’t know who we are. Thug: They do. I got here before you arrived and got talking to the owner. His nan’s died, and he wanted an […]
George: We meet people and fall in love. And when we part, they leave marks for us to remember them by. Our lovers sculpt us. They define us. For better or worse. Like a pinball, we slam into them and rebound in a different direction. Propelled by the contact. And after their parting, we might […]
Mitchell: Where do I belong? Where do I fit? Who are my people? Where do my loyalties lie? We all choose our tribe. It’s that need to belong. To live within boundaries. ‘Cause it’s scary on the outside; on the fringes. Some labels are forced on us. They mark us, set us apart ’til we’re […]
George: Love should be the opposite of death. It should be our biggest reason for wanting to be here. I mean, what else have we got? Football? Shoes? But love gets complicated. It gets twisted up with other things like possession. Heartbreak. Lust. And death. Mitchell: Woah! We can’t go in there. It’s not safe. […]
Mitchell: He should be dead within thirty seconds. The werewolf heart is about two-thirds the size of a human’s. But in order to shrink, first it has to stop. In other words, he has a heart attack. All the internal organs are smaller. So while he’s having his heart attack, he’s having liver and kidney […]
Everyone dies… Uh, actually, can I start that again? Everyone deserves a death. I was going to die of old age. That was the plan. […]
Flotsam and Jetsam Annie Sawyer (Lenora Crichlow): Everyone dies… Uh, actually, can I start that again? Everyone deserves a death. I was going to die of old age. That was the plan. Mitchell was going to go down in a blaze of gunfire and glory…. Not cold and alone and shit scared. He didn’t think […]
Sally Calypso (Erika Macleod): Salutations. This is Sally Calypso with the traffic news at 10:15. We’ve got reports of a multiple stockpile at Junction 509. With a spate of carjackings reported on New Fifth Avenue. So you take care now. Drive safely! The Doctor: Just one trip. That’s what I said. One trip in the […]