I come from a planet more beautiful than you could ever believe.
We. We come from that planet.
Shoot it now or it will kill us both!
April. No!
MISS QUILL: You must have got a glancing blow.
You both now share April's heart.
(SCREAMS IN PAIN)
You leave.
Or I'll make you leave.
You have not seen the last of us.
Coal Hill will continue to act like a beacon across all of space/time.
You will help these amazing humans here.
And these amazing humans will help you.
(TARDIS STARTS UP)
So, are we all, like, mates, then?
(OVER RECORDING) It's Ram. Leave a message.
(OVER SPEAKERPHONE) Hey, it's Tanya. Where are you?
I haven't seen you since prom.
APRIL: Hey, it's April.
Just wondered if you want to talk about, you know, things.
Give me a call. We're all worried.
CHARLIE: It's Charlie. I have socks. Call me.
APRIL: Hey it's me!
Call me! You wanna talk, right?
CHARLIE: I can drop the socks off. APRIL: Please talk to us.
CHARLIE: Ram? Ram? APRIL: Ram? Ram!
(INDISTINCT CHATTERING)
COACH DAWSON: Faster than that!
RAM: Henry! Go on.
Go, go!
BOY: Come on, Ram. What's going on?
(GRUNTS, GROANS)
COACH DAWSON: Pretty lame, Singh.
(PANTING, GROANS)
Jesus...
- Singh, come here. - His girlfriend is still missing,
- maybe you could... - Do I look like a counsellor?
You face your demons
and you conquer them.
If you didn't come to do that...
I came to play, Coach.
Well, you could've fooled me.
Don't ever question me in front of the players again.
- You need to lay off the 'roids, man. - What was that?
COACH DAWSON: We're done! Go home!
(INDISTINCT CHATTER)
(DOOR OPENS)
(WATER RUNNING)
You run them too hard.
There's a limit to how much even a teenager...
(WATER STOPS RUNNING)
Coach Dawson?
- Should you even be here? - I don't want to talk about it.
Rachel's only been gone a week.
I said I don't want to talk about it.
I need to see the coach.
(SQUEAKING)
Tom?
(WATER DRIPPING)
- (MONSTER GROWLING) - (COACH CARROLL SCREAMING)
(GASPING)
(PANTING, WHISPERING) Please. Please. Not again, please.
Please, not again.
(SCREAMING)
Not again. Please, not again.
(SCRAPING)
(DOOR UNLOCKS)
(PANTING)
- I said, go home, Singh. - (GASPS)
Did you see?
All I see is a player whose form's dropped.
Coach Carroll.
He went home.
Look, you're my best player, Singh, but I meant what I said.
I'm not a counsellor.
I look forward to getting the real you back,
but, for now, you watching me shower breaks about 17 laws.
- Come to play next time! - Uh...
I... I will.
I'm in control.
Not you. Not you.
(MONSTER GROWLING)
♪ What have I been waiting for?
♪ Been wasting all my time
♪ Watchin' my youth slip away
♪ Surely is a crime
♪ We go on and on and on and on and on
♪ Never knowing where, never knowing where
♪ We gonna, we gonna, we gonna end up in the morning
♪ We go on and on and on and on and on
♪ Never knowing where, never knowing where
♪ We gonna, we gonna, we gonna end up in the morning ♪
(INDISTINCT CHATTER)
Do you think they purposely forget?
Is that a human thing?
You mean all the stuff at the Prom?
This world was partially invaded,
we seem to be the only ones who remember it.
Coal Hill School has a body count way above average.
- They've got to know. - CHARLIE: And just choose not to see?
What a fascinating power.
"Fascinating power." Interesting words.
(SIGHS) Do you honestly think nothing else will happen?
That nothing else will get pooped out through the bunghole of time?
That's not what we're calling it, are we?
APRIL: Maybe it wouldn't be so bad.
If nothing else ever came through the space-time thing.
We'd never get your heart back.
If it's a choice between that and people dying...
Even if something does come through, what are we supposed to do about it?
We're not superheroes.
(SIGHS) Have any of you talked to him?
CHARLIE: He won't let us.
Maybe you don't know what it's like.
Everyone I ever knew was murdered.
I'm sharing a heart with the genocidal alien who did that.
(SIGHS)
TANYA: Still.
- Membrane of Time? - Chasm?
- Fracture? - Bunghole.
- MISS QUILL: What? - An inspector.
Sorry, a what?
(SIGHS) The school is being inspected, Miss Quill,
and your class is part of the school.
Though your continuous surprise of that fact is troubling.
No.
No, I'm not a monkey to be jumping through hoops.
All teachers are monkeys, Miss Quill.
Haven't you been listening to the Education Secretary?
The inspector will be here today. He's especially interested
in us improving our science rating.
I'm sure you'll do us proud.
Don't show up if you didn't come to win.
Hey. How's it feeling?
Ask me again. Go on.
How's it feeling?
- I'm just wondering if you're okay... - We're not friends, dickface.
I'm not part of whatever losers-save-the-world crew this is.
I've got enough to deal with on my own.
You don't have to do it alone.
- Ask me again, go on. - (BOOKS CLATTER)
MISS QUILL: Abysmal.
(SIGHS) Abysmal.
Abysmal.
Tell me, Ram, was there a great, big window of porn open as you typed?
RAM: Yeah, I was spanking myself off a good one.
Had to do the whole paper with my left hand.
Don't think I won't put you in detention, Ram.
Be nice to him. His girlfriend is... missing.
But he's got football practice. You can’t just...
Would you all just leave me alone?
- I don't need anyone's help. - (DOOR OPENS)
Sounds like such a cry for help.
(DOOR SLAMS)
(PEN SCRIBBLING)
Surprise quiz.
(BELL RINGING)
(STUDENTS CHATTERING)
- (KNOCKS ON DOOR) - Mr Dawson.
(SIGHS) Is Coach Carroll around? I was hoping to do some extra training.
Nope. He quit on me.
Getting a lot of that lately.
Yeah, you see that, do you? (SCOFFS)
- Way I been playing... - Yeah, the way you been playing.
- You used to have strength, Singh. - I'll get it back.
I'll earn my place. I've got to.
(SIGHS)
I know about your girlfriend.
(SIGHS)
But this game isn't built on niceness.
- I don't want it to be. - Good.
There is no third team, if you get my meaning.
Don't screw up again. Now go.
Go!
(EXHALES HEAVILY)
RAM: You are going crazy, Ram.
(CREAKING)
(SIGHS)
(FLICKING LIGHTER)
(WOMAN CLEARS THROAT)
- (EXHALES) - Mmm.
Do you ever feel like you're losing it?
In my country, I was an accountant.
I already lost it. (CHUCKLES)
(RUMBLING)
- (CLAN KS) - (BOTH GASP)
(SCREECHING)
(SCREAMING)
- (SCREAMING) - (BONES CRUNCHING)
(BLOOD TRICKLING)
- (CRUNCHING) - (GROWLING)
(PANTING)
(WHIMPERS)
(GROWLING)
(FOOTSTEPS THUDDING)
(BOTH SCREAM)
(BOYS CHATTERING)
TANYA: (OVER LAPTOP) Ram, where the hell have you been?
We've been trying to...
- Has something happened? - RAM: I saw something.
At first, I thought I was imagining it, like PTSD or something, but...
It was horrible.
- Like really horrible. - Horrible we-can-tell-an-adult
or horrible we're-going-to-have-to- figure-it-out-by-ourselves?
(SIGHS)
(MONSTER SCREECHING)
(SIGHS)
Do you have any idea what the discipline of a Nigerian parent is like?
I'll be lucky not to wind up in a convent if she catches me.
RAM: It was over there.
TANYA: Definitely alien?
First time, I just saw gore and grossness,
but this time, it killed that woman.
- (SCREAMS) - She seemed really nice.
She was just sneaking a fag and that thing...
- Skinned her alive? - Ugh.
You were smoking?
- Are you serious? - You're an athlete.
How can you do something that stupid?
Because that's totally the issue here, Tanya!
What are we mixed up in?
How are we supposed to handle people being skinned alive?
- Miss Quill is meant to help us. - Oh, yeah.
Her and the Happy Super Best Sparkle Team.
(SIGHS)
Are we going to go over there
or are we just going to wave from a distance?
There's nothing here, Ram. It's clean.
In fact, it's really clean.
It happened, Tanya,
and I didn't do anything. I just hid. I let it kill her.
Do you honestly think you could have stopped it?
(SIGHS) You're right. just stupid.
Stupid leg I can barely stand on.
People are dead.
- Rachel's dead. - (BOTH SCREAM)
I can't even stop a ball any more.
You saved April from being taken by the Shadow Kin.
You might not think you could stop anything anymore,
but you stopped them from taking her.
And you did that hopping on one leg.
(SIGHS)
Oh, for God's sake, Ram. I'm 14. I'm not a therapist!
I'm three years younger than our entire year!
All I want to do is make actual friends
and then this happened
- and I thought do you know... - (MONSTER GROWLING)
- (GASPS) - (GRUNTS)
What the hell are you doing?
(STAMMERING) Sorry, we thought you were...
I can't wait to hear the end of that sentence.
There's weird things about, Coach.
- Are you high, Singh? - No.
Is that why your form has dropped?
And what are you doing on school grounds,
little non-sports person who I've never seen before
but whose name I'll be only too happy to learn?
I doubt you're supposed to be here either.
I'm a teacher. I work here.
Is a coach really a teacher?
If I never see you again,
my life will improve a good 30, 35%.
And you.
- What a disappointment. - (SIGHS)
Get out of here, both of you.
Wouldn't want anything "weird" to find you.
- Do not tell the others. - Ram...
- Maybe I am cracking up. - (HISSES)
- (MONSTER CHITTERING) - This is getting out of control.
We agreed...
Fix it.
(MISS QUILL DUSTING HANDS)
(PENS SCRIBBLING)
(IN DISTINCT CHATTERING)
(GROANS)
Oh.
Ooh!
Shit.
Yes, yes, Yes, yes.
- MAN: Well done, guys. - Well done.
There's no reason to lose hope about Rachel, son.
- She's dead. - You don't know that.
- She might have just run away... - Dad, just stop it, please.
Just stop it! Can everyone just stop with the comforting bullshit, please!
Stop trying to make me talk about it!
(DOOR SHUTS)
Mum?
- (BEEPS) - (SNIFFS)
(KEYPAD CLACKING)
(BEEPS)
(SIGHS)
MISS QUILL: I think we 're in terrible danger.
CHARLIE: "Paul Smith."
MISS QUILL: I couldn't find anything about him online.
At first, I thought he was an evil designer
of casual coats and gifts, but I guess that's somebody else.
Because this Paul Smith, he's nowhere to be found!
Maybe he's a normal citizen. You can't look everyone up.
Oh, yes, you can. Have you seen what this species
puts about themselves online?
So much genitalia.
Did you not see his clothes? Of course you didn't. (SIGHS)
His jacket was made this year, you can tell by the collar,
but the stitches in his trousers were at least 40 years out of date.
I looked them up.
His spectacles, no curvature to the lenses.
Obviously costume. And his hands, which he uses all day for writing with,
had no writing callous on his second finger.
And you're sure it's not just because he gave you a bad report?
You know what, fine. Fine.
You and your little team, you go pretend to save the world.
I’ll just stick to saving you from boring old death.
TANYA: (OVER LAPTOP) What about non-Quill subjects?
Maths is ridiculously easy this year.
RAM: Why aren't you trying to make me talk about it?
About Rachel.
(SCOFFS) Because talking about it didn't do me any good.
Not at first, anyway.
RAM: You?
My dad died almost two years ago.
A stroke.
He was fine at dinner, just never woke up the next morning.
I didn't know that.
The point is, I didn't know what anyone wanted me to say,
so I didn't say anything. (CHUCKLES)
Until one day, I did.
(CLOCK TICKING)
(SCRIBBLING)
Who are you? What are you doing here?
- (SCRIBBLING) - What do you keep writing?
Why don't you talk?
Whoever you are,
I am gonna string you up on that wall by your bu...
I don't even understand some of these swear words.
He was purposely provoking me.
You know, I'm not even supposed to get this report.
But amazingly, he hasn't asked for your immediate dismissal.
He wants to observe you again.
- Maybe he likes you. - (SCOFFS)
- No, no one likes me. - MR ARMITAGE: I like you.
You're a pain in my bottom, but at least a fresh kind of pain.
And for a head teacher, that's almost... Marriage.
No. (CLEARS THROAT)
No, there's a whiff around him. I'm telling you,
he's evil.
He's from Ofsted. Of course he's evil.
At least try not to get us into any special measures.
The Governors wouldn't like it.
CHARLIE: But you didn't see anything?
TANYA: No, but he wasn't lying.
He didn't even want me to tell you about it.
He's been really upset lately. Maybe he just thinks he saw something...
That's what he said, but people don't do that.
What are we supposed to do, okay?
Aren't we supposed to be working this out together?
I thought we'd be like...
- I don't know, like... - You are lonely.
Yeah, because that's how people talk to each other.
Tanya we're your friends.
- I only tell my friends I play violin. - You play violin?
- Folk music, mainly. - What's folk music?
Meanwhile, Ram is really suffering
and Miss Quill is horrible
and I'm having no luck hacking into UNIT...
- Hacking into what? - See?
We're almost helpless! At least I'm trying to do something.
Why do they all dance in a circle?
But this is the first time you've told us about it,
and it might not even be real!
The head teacher, he's your friend, right?
Mr Armitage?
I wouldn't say "friend."
Let's ask him about the missing cleaner. Let's at least find out how real it is.
(SIGHS)
As it happens, there was a cleaner who didn't turn up today.
Why?
(WHISPERS) I didn't think this through.
Was there anything weird about her not showing up?
How did you know it was a her?
(IN DISTINCT CHATTERING)
Start with 10 laps, then I want side-to-sides.
All laziness will be punished!
Coach?
My God, if it isn't my own personal broken record.
I have to say, I'd be surprised if any of you three are up to mischief.
Especially you, April.
(SCOFFS) I can be mischievous.
MR ARMITAGE: I'm on your side.
You can talk to me.
I know all teachers say that, but we mostly actually mean it.
Okay. You're probably not going to believe this but...
- April! - (WHISPERS) What?
We can’t just...
- (CRACKLING) - (GASPS)
(GASPS)
Can't just what?
I'm sorry, but you're out of chances.
Coach. Have I ever questioned you?
- No. - That's because I want to learn.
I want what's best for me, Coach.
I need to be on a team. That's who I am.
Get out! Run!
MONSTER: There is hunger...
There is anger...
Is there a happiness, maybe?
(MR ARMITAGE SCREAMS)
Maybe you could give me some tutoring?
I could... I could get my form back. Get better.
I've always respected you.
Even when you've been a total dick.
(ALL WHIMPERING)
(BONES CRUNCHING)
(ALL SCREAM)
(GROWLING)
(PANTING)
(MONSTER GROWLING)
(SIGHS) You know, Ram,
maybe this is the universe's way of saying
sport isn't for you.
Now, go home.
(MONSTER GROWLING)
(SIGHS)
APRIL: There was blood everywhere!
We weren't making it up.
No, no. Of course you weren't.
Young people never play pranks on authority figures.
Hey!
The Doctor said you were supposed to help us. You're my protector.
Yeah, don't I know it.
But who's mine?
We really are on our own.
You're in control.
(BREATH SHUDDERING)
(BEEPING)
When did you know the time was right to start talking?
(CHIMING)
APRIL: Hey.
I talked to my brothers.
Which I didn't expect, (CHUCKLES) but...
RAM: But they knew.
Because the same thing happened to them.
It wasn't, like, big group hugs or anything. (CHUCKLES)
We'd play Xbox and Jarvis would say,
"Do you remember how bad Dad was at this?"
And Damon would say, "Yeah,"
and I'd say, "Yeah,"
and then we'd laugh and keep playing.
It'd be a little better. Not a lot.
But at least a little bit.
(SIGHS) I miss her.
(SIGHS) I know.
All I see when I close my eyes is her dying.
I just saw Mr Armitage being skinned alive.
What do we do?
You're the prince. You tell me?
You've seen genocide. You've seen monsters.
- You saw it? Why didn't you say? - I've been trying to all evening!
- You wouldn't answer! - Tanya!
Charlie and April saw it, too.
We were all there.
We've all been through the same thing. Again.
- (BEEPING) - Oh, hold on. That's Tanya.
- Hey, Ram. - Enough, April.
- You saw it? - Um, yeah, it was...
What did it look like?
(SIGHS) Show him the drawing.
TANYA: Wow, that's really good. RAM: That's what killed the cleaner.
Have you seen it before, Charlie?
I haven't seen every alien. The universe is unimaginably big.
Would it be in that database you're hacking, Tanya?
Hacking isn't as easy as people think.
But you were smart enough to write it. That's very clever.
I, um, downloaded it from Reddit.
- Oh, shit. - ALL: What?
Show me that again.
Cover its head with your hand.
Of course.
Of course, you idiot.
I know where we gotta go.
APRIL: No Matteusz?
CHARLIE: Grounded.
(STUTTERS) Whatever that means.
RAM: Oh, come on Tanya.
(SNIFFLES)
MISS QUILL: "Oh, please, Quill, help us with a skin-peeling dragon.
"We're just little asses of smart
"who don't even know what evil looks like."
Not u n handsome buttocks.
When you make your aggressive move,
and you will,
then you'll regret ever thinking you could inspect Miss Quill.
Oh, for God's sake, what? What do you want?
Really?
Mmm.
(PANTING)
Finally.
Can I just stress again how much more I'm risking than any of you?
My mum would punish God if he snuck out.
We're all here.
- What do we do? - We find Coach Dawson.
Who's Coach Dawson?
Yeah, we're all on the same team.
(MUSIC PLAYING)
Ooh! You have no idea how alone I am.
I'm trapped here. I, literally... I can't leave.
(BREATHING HEAVILY)
And I quite liked the headmaster.
Not that anybody asked.
So maybe you're perfect for me.
Someone who won't ask anything of me at all.
(CRACKLING)
(GROWLING)
(SNARLING)
They weren't kidding.
(MONSTER SNARLING)
RAM: It's a tattoo. TANYA: What is?
The picture you showed me. The Coach has a tattoo exactly like it.
- The thing we saw wasn't a tattoo. - Neither was the thing I saw.
But we're all here now, and it's time to do something, right?
That's what you all want. That's what this is supposed to be.
We're supposed to deal with what comes through.
(BLOOD DRIPPING)
There's no going back to the life before.
So let's go find the Coach.
Is that him?
APRIL: Oh, my God.
Is that...
Mr Armitage?
(MONSTER ROARING)
TANYA: Okay. What's the plan?
So we came here without a plan.
Why am I not surprised?
I've got a plan.
(GRUNTS)
- (MONSTER GRUNTS) - (SHRIEKS)
(GASPS)
(ROARING)
(SIGHS) Okay. I'm... I'm out of ideas.
Maybe not.
Sorry.
- (RASPY BREATHING) - (BEEPS)
So what are we talking about here? A sentient tattoo? An alien tattoo?
It comes off his body. It kills people.
Skins them.
You mean this one?
(SNARLING)
(MONSTER SNARLING)
(ELECTRICITY CRACKLING)
(CLATTERING)
He was a robot?
Oh, damn.
I don't know what exactly's going on.
I know you're right in the middle of this.
Ask yourself what you want more, Singh.
To be wrong
or do you want to be right?
I used to look up to you. I did.
You used to push me. You made me better.
And you were the right kind of scary.
- But now... - You're not afraid?
No, I am afraid. I just... I just realised that.
But I'm gonna kick your ass anyway.
(GRUNTING)
- I have to get it to attack you! - What?
- Hey! - It's the only way I can fight it!
(ALL GASP)
(GROWLING)
(ROARS)
TANYA: I don't think it's the one on his body, Ram.
No. It's not the one on my body.
That's her mate.
MISS QUILL: And the Inspector? He was a robot.
All right, fine. Yeah, I get it. It's only Quill.
- Who cares if she kissed a robot? - You kissed him?
Oh, right, yeah. Now you're listening, aren't you?
COACH DAWSON: You can't have her.
You can never have her. She's mine!
- RAM: What did you do? - I was nothing.
I was weak.
Even the players didn't respect me.
One day I felt her burnt into my skin.
(SNARLING)
(GROANS)
Some sort of accident when she travelled here,
but she was trapped on me, on my skin.
Suddenly, I had dragon blood running through my veins.
I was bigger, stronger.
And then her mate came looking.
I knew he'd never do anything to risk her harm.
But there is a price.
Her mate has to kill to provide blood for her to drink.
That's how they feed.
She's trapped in me. There's no other way.
But I have it under control.
(GROWLING)
Though I'm sorry that you've all seen so much.
(SNARLING)
Kill them.
(ROARS)
Don't worry. I get it.
Quill fights to the death so you can all live.
You're just going to take that?
TANYA: Now would be a great time for that plan, Ram.
He doesn't have any choice.
He needs my skin intact or she dies.
And if you don't kill these kids right now...
(SCREECHING)
(GASPS)
You're going to do this forever?
- You're going to grieve forever? - Ram! No!
She is trapped...
- You didn't say it could talk. - TANYA: Yeah. Sorry.
So she's trapped.
And maybe you'll never get her off his body.
That's the new reality. What are you going to do about it?
At least I've been fighting this arse hole. What have you done?
Let him set the rules for you?
I'll harm her. You know I will.
He won't kill her, though.
Otherwise, you'll kill him.
So it's a standoff.
But why does it have to be a standoff on your terms?
Terms...
Don't you know what we do with skin in this world?
Have you never heard of leather?
- Leather... - No, no, no, no, no, no.
Make a chair out of him or something.
Maybe you'll never have her back the way you want.
But I will never get Rachel back either.
But at least you'll have her.
And maybe you can find a way to make the new reality work.
I'm done!
Kill me!
Skin me!
I don't want to keep seeing the things I've seen.
I don't want the future to keep feeling impossible.
Or don't.
- (GROWLS) - I don't care.
It's your life.
(BOTH GASP)
- (ROARS) - No, no, no, no, no. Wait.
I swear I'll...
(SHOUTING) No! Please! Please!
- (BLOOD SPLATTERING) - (SCREAMING)
(PANTING)
CHARLIE: We did it.
- We stopped the dragon. - RAM: "We?"
APRIL: Is this what we do now? We kill people?
TANYA: Well, he did kill a lot of other people.
APRIL: And that makes it okay? MISS QUILL: I'm okay with it.
APRIL: That's not really proof.
RAM: And we still have no idea what that was?
So we're just as blind and stupid as we was before.
TANYA: Well, we still did it, though.
- We stopped it. - I just thought it would feel better.
TANYA: Oh, Ram. (CLICKS TONGUE) Ram, wait!
We killed somebody.
We killed a bad guy.
Charlie, I don't think I want to kill anybody.
Not even bad guys.
I mean, can't we just send them back through the bunghole of time?
Please say we're not calling it that...
(BOTH CHUCKLE)
So, is no one going to ask about the robot?
TANYA: Wait!
Jesus, Ram!
You meant what you said.
You didn't care if it killed you.
But it didn't.
It left me with the rest of my stupid life, didn't it?
Yeah. Yeah, it did.
You're still not going to make me talk about it, are you?
Lift back to your house?
(VIOLIN PLAYING)
(MOBILE VIBRATING)
(CONTINUES PLAYING)
(BALL THUDDING)
(RATTLES)
(SIGHS)
Is it a physical thing, son?
Because we can check with a doctor.
Dad.
Can I talk to you about something?
- (WHIRRING) - You don't have to believe it.
You don't have to believe any of it.
But it's what's been happening.
A rip in space and time?
- Dragons? - It's what I've seen Dad.
- (INHALES DEEPLY) - Hey. Hey, son.
(SNIFFLES)
Look, um...
Do you remember when I used to line up the balls for you?
(BOTH CHUCKLE)
You were so small, you used to fall over them sometimes.
(LAUGHS)
But you got better.
(GRUNTS)
(SIGHS)
(GRUNTS)
(BALLS THUDDING)
MISS QUILL: "The Governors".
Now who might you be?
(MOBILE CHIMING)
RAM: Come on, Tanya, where are you?
- (DOOR CREAKING) - TANYA: Daddy?
Two streets up then left.
(SCREAMING)
(PANTING)
Ripped & Corrected By mstoll January 2017
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