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Whoa, whoa.

Where's the bloody fire?

Fire? Yeah, the one you've just been banging that shutter about.

Oh, no.

Sorry. You drunk, son?

Drunk? No.

Drug? No.

Eh?

You taking the piss, son?

Taking the... What's your name?

My name's Peter.

Peter.

Why are you here, Peter?

I'm here to save your world.

So there's no sign of alcohol or drugs?

No, nothing.

Completely clean.

No ID, no needle marks, clean clothes, clean hair.

Couldn't be cleaner.

He's been here now for a week, and he still won't tell you who he is or where

he's from, other than this story about being from another planet.

No. I mean, he gives his name, Peter.

Oh, and the name of the planet that he's from.

Astrakhalen.

Which is a planet so far away that we humans have not even yet discovered it,

let alone even heard of.

Oh, and he's here to save us all.

It's funny how they always come to his favour.

Never to destroy us.

And he's not asked for anything.

No, nothing.

Oh, only to speak to someone in authority.

Apparently not quite. Take me to your leader, but as near as dammit.

Idiot's probably from Basingstoke.

And no -one's been reported missing?

No, not that fits him.

And you don't know of any serious crimes that have been reported locally?

Like rape, murder, child abduction?

No, why do you ask?

Well, criminals, especially serial criminals and the like, sometimes

with crime, think they might have made a mistake.

might be about to get caught.

So sometimes they try to get their defence in early, get themselves

a place like this, and plead temporary insanity or amnesia, a whole host of

things, really.

And that means that they could walk away with two years in hospital instead of,

well, a life sentence in prison.

Cunning little bastard.

Well, I'm not saying that's what he's done.

I'm just saying that we ought to check it out.

Let me in.

I'll talk to him.

He looks calm enough.

Couldn't be calmer, sir.

Oh, and for what it's worth, I do think he's at least foreign.

Of course he is.

He's from another bloody planet, isn't he?

Well, let's hope he's just baiting folks, shall we?

My expenses won't stretch to a visit to outer space.

Not far off. though I'll bet.

Just be careful Jude.

He may be young for what he does but he's no mug and he won't stand for any

nonsense.

Hello Peter.

How are you today?

Almost as good as the day I arrived.

And I'll probably be even better the day I leave.

You being treated okay?

Yes, I believe so.

But now I would like to talk to your leading citizen, so I can continue the

quest I came here to do.

And that quest is?

Well, you really know the answer to that, Doctor, because you've just been

talking to your colleagues about me on the other side of that camera.

You watch a lot of reality TV, do you? People are always being observed.

We don't have such things as your TV where I come from.

I just heard you, that's all.

You heard us?

Yes.

You couldn't possibly have heard us. We're three rooms away.

Well, at this precise moment, Nurse Sharon is checking to see whether I've

involved in any crimes, which I can assure you I haven't.

She at least thinks I'm some kind of a foreigner, which...

To her, I guess I kind of am.

Another voice.

Not one I've heard before, but female, I believe.

He seems to think I'm from a place called Bathingstoke, which I've never

heard of.

Not many people have.

Do you listen to everyone's conversations, Peter?

Well, only the ones that interest me.

And when someone forgets to turn the income off, then it's pretty

you know?

And there was me thinking that you've got incredible hearing, like Superman.

Well, I don't know who this Superman is, but if the wind is in the right

direction, then my hearing is excellent.

Right.

This other world that you come from, where exactly is it?

Way. Way outside of your planet.

That's convenient.

How far away?

Ten million light years.

Wow.

So you must have been incredibly young when you first left. In fact, you must

have left around, well, I don't know, many millions of years before you were

even born.

Well, that's only if you believe I am the age which I look.

And you base it on the primitive form of travel that exists on this planet.

On our craft, about one Earth month.

So you live all these millions of miles away and yet you look exactly like us.

The universe is full of beings that look like each other.

And dressed the same?

Just where I am.

Shorts where it's hot, waterproof where it's wet, and Earth man's clothes whilst

on Earth.

What were you expecting, a shiny silver suit?

I wasn't expecting anything, Peter.

Certainly wasn't expecting you.

You just said that you wear Earthman's clothes when you're here.

So that means you've visited us before.

Briefly. To, er, check out the fashions.

What exactly are you after, Peter?

I've already told you, I just want to help.

Yeah, so you keep saying.

But what are you hoping to achieve by playing this game?

Is it a hoax?

For the internet, maybe? Are you hoping to tell a story?

Are you making a sci -fi movie? What?

No, no, none of these things.

I genuinely can help make things better here.

If I'm allowed to.

I can help, I really can.

Of course you can, Peter.

Of course you can.

By telling the truth.

Because you certainly won't be leaving here until you do.

I am telling the truth.

I can help.

I really can.

So, this is our very own little extraterrestrial, eh?

You know, when I first heard about you, I was expecting a cuddly little E .T.

And what do I get?

Some freak who's probably dropped one acid tap too many.

Boom.

Boom.

Are you going to zap me with your big bad space gun, Petey boy?

Hey, that's what we can call him.

P .T.

P .T.

P .T. phone home. Phone home.

What is the telephone code for Basingstoke?

Let me tell you something, Petey. By the time I finish with you, you will be

begging for me to let you phone home.

Wherever the hell that is.

Enough just packing him, you fucking hands off me. You'll have the same. You

just said you wanted to speak to him, that was all.

Yeah, only because you and that wimp Jefferson can't get this little prick to

admit he's just a pill -popping piss -taker.

So while I'm here, I'm just going to beat the truth out of this lying

Come on.

Come on, we need to go.

It's not worth it. It's not worth getting the sack over.

I'll be seeing you later, Petey.

Because I'm going to make you my pet project.

Don't go falling asleep now.

Because I'm even going to be in your fucking dreams.

Thank you. Thank you. Thank you. Thank you.

Get off!

Get off!

Get off!

What are you doing?

For God's sake, let go! You're hurting me!

What the hell's going on?

Space money's just walked in and started pushing people around and causing

trouble.

Isn't that right, Sharon?

Was that correct, Peter?

No, it bloody well isn't. It was my fault, mine.

If anything, this fella here stopped this nasty cow from giving anyone she

like a good belt.

And trust me, Doc, she don't like anybody.

Then how did you start all this, Bert?

Well, this... It's not working. I just wanted it fixed.

And you set off the alarms because of that? I never set off any bleeding

It just went off on its own.

And then she wades in looking about someone.

We keep trying to tell him it's broken. It has been for weeks.

And then when I offered to get him a new one, he wouldn't give it to me.

And then Spaceman here comes along acting the big tough man and threatens

smash the place up. No, he didn't. You lying lump.

But...

Are the batteries ruined upside down?

No, they weren't.

No, they weren't. That's broken. It has been for weeks. Well, as it's all quiet

now, isn't there something else you should be doing?

All of you.

Not you, Sharon.

What are you doing?

You'd better grow a spine very quickly. I know it's duty to concern Sharon.

Because you're no good to me or this hospital if you don't.

I'm so sorry, sir.

I'll go and lock up Hayley and Boyer. His name is Peter.

It's Peter.

And no, don't lock him in again.

Let him in.

We may find out more about him that way.

I don't know what you've done with this remote, mate, because it's been fucked

for weeks.

I know, because I've bounced the bleeding thing off the wall at least a

times trying to fix it.

So, you're the spaceman.

Shame, I was expecting the bloody alien.

You know, that monster that was in the movie with the fit bird.

What was her name?

Snoggy your beaver.

Yeah, that was it.

Snoggy your beaver.

Sigourney Weaver.

Sigourney Weaver.

Yeah, she might be Sigourney Weaver to you, mate, but she'll always be Snoggy

your beaver to me.

So, why are you here?

I killed my television.

You killed your television?

Yep.

It just kept talking to me. Day after day, on and on it rattled.

And it wouldn't stop talking no matter how many times I used that damn mute

button.

So I took a bloody great axe to it.

And I killed it.

Stone dead.

Can't kill a television.

It's just an object. It's not human.

Yeah, yeah, I'm not stupid.

The problem was, they keep telling me my wife was standing in front of the

fucking thing when I hit it.

Golden rule.

Don't ever ask anyone why they're in here.

Why not?

Because half of them don't know. And the other half don't want you to know.

Well, if you're telling the truth.

They're all telling the truth.

But it's their truth.

Our truth that counts. Not theirs.

Not yours. Ours.

Do you get it?

Don't you worry, you little shit.

I'm not going to kill you just yet.

But you ever humiliate me like that again, I will hit you so many times

think you're fucking surrounded.

So we do have a killer on our patch.

And a particularly nasty one.

Is there any other sort, sir?

No.

Two young girls.

Late teens.

Both sexually assaulted.

Severely beaten.

Buried alive in shallow graves.

The old bill have kept that one quiet.

Well, maybe because both the girls were in local authority care.

Why would that matter where they came from?

Well, basically, they haven't been missed on the outside yet.

So there's no need to panic the general public.

Absolutely no clues, other than the exact same cause of death.

The location of where the bodies were found.

Where is that, sir?

Whitmore Woods.

Do you never read your patient notes, Sharon?

Sorry, sir, but what is it that I missed?

Whitmore Woods is the same place our friendly alien Peter said he landed.

And on the same night that the second murder appears to have taken place.

Wow.

So, what do we do now? Hand him over to the police?

No.

No, not yet.

But he could be a murderer, sir.

Yeah, and he could be completely innocent.

He stays safely locked up here for as long as we want him to be. If we hand

over to the police, he could be back on the streets within 24 hours.

Then we all lose him.

No.

No, we'll keep quiet about it for now.

And see what more we can find out about him for ourselves.

Where is his fingerprints and DNA taken by the police when he walked into the

station?

No, no, he hadn't done anything wrong, so it was just assumed he was one for

OK, could you organise it for me, please?

And Sharon, not a word about this to anyone.

Are you standing?

Yes, sir.

And I mean anyone.

Morning, Spaceman.

You didn't fall out of bed last night by any chance, did you?

Assisted by a nice slap on the head so no one can see the bruising hidden under

your hair.

Delivered by a fat -faced cow called Judy.

She'll go too far one day, the evil bitch, and kill someone.

Mmm.

Who's that?

Huh?

Well, that's Lady Silent.

Lady Silent? Yeah, she's the daughter of some rich city times.

A stepdad works for the government, no less.

What's she doing here?

No idea.

She's been here two years, having her to speak once.

Well, not even to the staff. Well, yeah, to the staff, but that's rare.

You don't fancy her, do you?

Fancy her. I like her, find her attractive.

Only I think that Jude is into her.

She's always sniffing around her.

And you don't want to go upsetting her again now, do you?

so, do you?

Why not? Is there some kind of rule?

No, but it's just the best if you don't, okay?

There's most nothing causing you trouble, chef.

No, Peter's just going back to his room, aren't you, Peter?

What's all that about?

Nothing, nothing.

Something's up.

Why did you stop him going over to Lady Silent?

Look, nothing's going on, okay?

Archer, what's happening?

Nothing. Yes, there is.

When did it become policy to stop the nutters from mixing?

Hasn't. So why did you stop him from talking to her?

I didn't. Yes, you did. I just saw you.

We only stop them mixing if they become extremely violent.

So why did you stop that soft little shit from talking to her?

I'll tell you something. You've got to keep it to yourself, okay?

Go on.

Jeff. Jeff is in.

He thinks that he might be a killer.

What?

E .T., the cuddly spaceman.

Who's he killed?

What? A butterfly?

A big spider?

Look, there's been two girls murdered.

And the spaceman was...

When you first came to us, you said that you landed in the place we know as

Whitmore Woods.

Is that correct?

Yes.

So where's your spacecraft then?

Many millions of miles away.

Right, so you're stuck here then?

No.

As I said, at the speed with which we travel, I can give a signal when I'm

to leave and it will be here in...

Probably 30 -odd seconds.

Could you do that now?

Send a signal so we can see your spacecraft?

Well, only when I'm ready to leave.

And that time hasn't come yet.

Okay, so you expect me to believe that you've got a... I don't know, what

we call it? A mothership that's hovering many millions of miles above the Earth

and you can call it back here within half a minute?

No.

What then?

I only want you to believe that I can help you.

Yet you give me no proof of your epic journey here.

Your spacecraft would be evidence of that.

I don't want to believe all this crap, Izzy.

Of course not.

He's just trying to trip him up.

Give me another five minutes with him and I'll more than trip him up.

You can see my point, though, can't you?

I mean, if it only takes it, well, 30 seconds to get it here, maybe it's as

clear your space in the car park.

It's very kind of you, but it will only come to take me away.

Then why is that?

That's a slightly awkward question which I can't really answer now.

You see, you're making it very difficult for me to believe you.

At the moment, it's all just words. It's all talk.

Is that not enough?

Well, frankly, no.

You want me to introduce you to the world as the Earth's great saviour, and

you give me nothing to allow me to do that.

You say you're an advanced race, but you just look very ordinary to me.

What would you have me do?

Read your mind?

Fly unaided?

Walk through a warp house?

Well, any of those would be an interesting start.

Which one of those would you like to do first?

Well, reading your mind tells me that you don't believe a word I say, and are

fact just humouring me.

Well, I could go deeper, but that's what's at the forefront of your mind.

hardly unexpected, is it?

That I wouldn't believe you.

Nurse Sharon is at this precise moment deeply terrified that Nurse Judy would

or say something that would embarrass her.

She's in fact quite terrified of Nurse Judy.

That's not true.

Why would I be?

Nurse Judy would like nothing more than to be left alone with me in this room.

She thinks she can beat the truth out of me, which would, in fact, be a lie.

She's a very dangerous woman.

But you already know that.

You what?

But obviously you're trying to cause trouble, sir. Would you please leave,

Judy?

That's not fair.

He's not reading our minds. He's just winding us up.

Please leave.

She's right, though, isn't she?

It's hardly mind -reading, is it?

Well, these are people you've already met.

They're problems you've already witnessed.

Well, the ceiling's are too low in here for me to fly, so...

I guess that just leaves getting from this side of the room to the other side

that wall.

You can do that, can you?

Absolutely.

Okay, feel free to demonstrate.

I'm not a circus act, Dr. Jefferson.

Well, you certainly could have fooled me.

Right, we need to take your fingerprints and a DNA swab. Is that okay?

I'll see you soon, Peter.

Oh, Doctor.

Don't forget to pick up a birthday card for your daughter.

How could you possibly know that?

Because it was on your mind.

And you wrote it on your folder so you wouldn't forget.

Yes.

It's just a very good circus act, Peter.

Just a very good circus act.

Come on, open your mouth.

I need to take a talk.

You're wasting your time, you know.

As far as this fact is concerned, I don't exist.

might not be the wisest thing that you've ever said.

Now open your mouth.

Quite funny, really.

I don't think so.

Neat trick, though.

Maybe.

But for a couple of things.

He couldn't possibly have known that I wrote that note.

Lucky guess.

Yeah, but all the note says is card.

He said, don't forget to get a birthday card for your daughter.

He couldn't have known that it was a birthday card, or indeed that it was for

daughter.

It's all broken into pieces.

Do you think you could fix it like you did Bert's remote?

It's in pieces because it's a jigsaw.

Go on, clear off, loopy tunes.

Hey, watch this.

Hey, loopy tunes!

Now that's what you call a proper woman.

Peter.

Dr. Jefferson needs to see you in the interview room in half an hour. He'd

another chat with you.

With all due respect, it's not Dr. Jefferson I should be talking to.

It's somebody in your government.

Well, the Minister of All Things Cosmic Related isn't available until the 31st

of February.

So Dr. Jefferson will just have to do.

Where are you going?

What's it got to do with you?

Everything.

I'm your senior nurse.

Oh. Have you been sipping on the I'm a stupid cow juice or what?

No. If you think you can unwind Peter, then you can think again.

Peter?

You mean Peter as in spaceman, skagged man from Basingstoke, Peter?

Look, unless it's a case of a severe emergency, you've been ordered to have

further contact with Peter. Do you understand?

You what?

Since when?

Yesterday, when you nearly lost it in front of Jefferson.

You're lucky you've still got a job.

Oh, wait, peace off.

It's true, I really had to fight your corner for you.

You all know I asked you to, did they, lady?

Whoops, looks like somebody's rattled the witch bitch's cage.

You'd better watch yourself, spaceman.

Hello, Lady Silence.

I need to ask you a favour.

I want you to go and talk to our friendly spaceman over there.

And if you don't do as I ask, I may be forced to pop into your room tonight.

You know what happens when I do that.

Don't you, Lady? Leave her alone.

Why?

What are you going to do?

Zap me with your laser gun?

Please, just leave her alone.

Stop that. Don't you dare touch her.

Nurses. I didn't touch her.

Get him out of here.

I didn't touch her.

I haven't done anything.

What the hell is going on in here?

I haven't gone for five minutes. I did exactly what you said and I stayed away

from him.

Next thing I know he was jumping all over Lady Silent here.

Isn't that right, Izzy?

I thought that constituted an emergency.

So I had him restrained and I waited for help.

As per my training as a junior psychiatric staff nurse.

Get out, Jude.

Go on while you've still got a job.

For now, Chas.

But remember, I've got more crap on you than Nelson's column.

And I will spread it.

Are you okay, Izzy?

Look, I won't say anything to her, but was she telling the truth?

Can I speak to you in the games room now, please?

Nurse Judy said I have to talk to you.

Why?

I think she wants to get you in trouble.

And she said she'll visit me in my room if I don't.

I've been a party to Nurse Judy's visits.

It's okay.

You don't have to talk to me.

But I want to.

You want to?

Yes. I'm not like everybody else in here.

You're different.

Kind.

Kind.

Yes, kind.

You protect others, but you don't protect yourself.

Did you know we were being watched?

No, I didn't.

I think it's nice, Judy.

Would you thumb me up?

No, no, I would never do that. It's okay, it's okay, I believe you.

Come on, guys.

Staff only in a sneaker, man. You know better than us.

The spaceman's got Lady Silent talking.

Where? Out in the corridor.

Oh, that's nice.

I've not seen her open her mouth since she got here.

Maybe. Has got superpowers, then.

I wonder if he's got one of those screwdrivers like Doctor Who.

He's got something, but I bet it's not a bloody screwdriver.

Go on, my son.

I'm telling you, they're together.

I just spotted him trying it on with her in the games room.

Poor kid was petrified she was fighting him off.

In the games room?

Fighting him off, you say?

Yes.

Well, she was.

What are you doing?

Getting help.

Because I can't touch him, remember?

Just leave it. I saw her and she looked happy enough.

Actually, she was actually talking.

But he's banned from going anywhere near her. I'll lift the ban, OK?

Do I have to remind you he's a...

Oh, what are you doing?

You idiot.

Don't go saying things like that in front of everyone else.

Go on, get out.

Just leave, will you? Just get out.

You had your chance, Sharon.

I'm going straight to Jefferson with this.

Night after night, he would come into my room.

Sometimes we'd be at the park or the zoo or something.

My mum would go to get a drink or an ice cream.

And he'd make me touch him.

It was as if a chance of being caught turned him on more.

And of course, when we were at home and alone...

Then one day I just said

no.

He beat me.

And then he raped me.

And he beat me again.

But then you reported him that time, surely?

He said I arrived home with the cuts and bruises.

He said I told him a boyfriend did it to me.

That was that.

He just believed him.

because he's so important.

Yeah.

Then because he couldn't risk me making a fuss, he had me put in here to keep me

quiet.

What about your mum?

He convinced her that I'd been drinking and doing drugs and sleeping around and

that the scandal would ruin her.

It was... It was just because

he was this big anti -child porn man.

Mum sided with him.

What about your real dad?

He died when I was four.

I barely remember him.

I'm really sorry, Izzy.

How long have you been here?

Over two years.

And no one believes you?

At first, I tried and tried to get people to believe me.

No one did.

I mean, who's going to listen to a 16 -year -old girl that says her stepdad

abused her since she was eight?

Especially when he's so powerful and against exactly what he was doing to me.

So then you just stopped talking altogether?

Seemed to suit everyone.

Everyone except you.

She said that Spade runs a rapist

and a murderer. Is that right?

Is it?

Is it?

Look, Nurse Judy should never have said that. Peter is none of those things.

But he might be. And he's in here with us.

But why are you hiding behind me?

They said I put an axe through my own wife's fucking head.

You said you killed your television.

Don't be such a silly cow.

You can't kill a television.

It's just an object.

It's not human.

It's just a bloody television.

Wendy.

Are you okay, Izzy?

Of course she isn't.

Look at her. She's terrified of him. Aren't you, Izzy? That's from this

she was suspended.

I want you to get your things and leave my hospital now.

Now! Or I'll have you removed.

Ran rings around you, the spaceman did.

Cosmic rings.

So are you okay, Izzy?

Yeah, we were just talking.

Is that correct, Peter?

Why do you find it so difficult to believe the simple truth?

I am merely asking a question, Peter. I'm not judging.

Were you just talking?

Yeah.

And now, if it's okay with you and in full view of everybody else, we'd like

continue.

Would you like that, Izzy?

Yes, yes, I would.

All right.

But in the communal room and in full view of the others at all times. You

understand?

Keep an eye on Peter.

He seems to be getting very close to the others.

Maybe too close.

It does help them though, sir.

Yes?

That's their job.

They'll be expecting him to walk on water next.

Hi, this is Molum Hall Mental Hospital. I'm calling regarding the patient we

have here.

My name?

Well, I'd rather not say because I could get into serious trouble, but it's

concerning the two murders you're investigating?

Yes?

Yes, of course, I'll hold.

Spaceman, we were just talking about you.

This is Freddy, my financial advisor.

Hello. He wondered if there was anything you wanted to invest.

I'm Freddy, the financial fixer, and I can guarantee a return on your

of three, no, four hundred percent overnight.

Freddy used to run an international bank.

He knows everything there is to know about investments. You can invest in any

currency.

Any? Even yours.

Oh, I'm sorry, I really don't have anything to invest.

500%. Thanks.

No, um, but there is something I do need.

Personal protection insurance. I can arrange that.

No, no, uh, right.

This is what I need from you.

I think you'll find you're wrong. Unless you charge him, he stays here with us.

But you've had him here for weeks.

Secretly, I may add, and got nowhere.

We've got ten days, actually, and we're not treating him as a suspect in a

murder case.

He is a patient.

He's a sick man, not a sick killer.

That's not what one of your nurses said when she called us.

Whoever called you, I can assure you, does not work here. It's someone causing

trouble. But you admit that this... What do I call him? What is he? For the

hundredth time, his name is Peter.

Is a patient. He's not a spaceman or a murder suspect.

Oh, not yet, maybe.

But this is a patient who admits to being in exactly the right place at the

right time. A patient who you say isn't a spaceman, but believes he most

definitely is.

Sounds well bloody dodgy to me. Dodgy, maybe, but you've just interviewed him

for four hours. Do you think he's capable of murder?

Listen, pal, you wouldn't think Rose West was capable of murder, but look

that bitch did.

Pizza is a man.

Lost his mind, more like.

Maybe. But I, for one, do not think he is capable of murder.

Okay.

It's late.

You agree to a tracking device and I'll leave him with you.

For now.

Agreed. Thank you.

You know, it's hard enough trying to work out if they're bad.

But mad?

I don't know how you do it.

Patience. We try to be patient with our patients.

Patient with our patients.

Good one.

Yes.

Patience.

As opposed to knocking their teeth out with a big stick.

Making them sign a confession in their own blood.

Good morning, Peter.

Comfortable night?

How's the tracker?

We don't have, um, such primitive things on my planet, but, uh, there's no

problem. Peter, you do realise how serious things are becoming now, don't

Yeah.

Much too serious.

That's why I walked on water yesterday.

A little, uh...

Circus trick to lighten the mood.

Why did you do that?

It just shows us that everything you've done so far is just that, a circus

trick. Or I did it to prove to you that it's far easier to be accepted as a

clown rather than a man of honour, a man of truth.

Look, all I'm saying is that if the police get their way... You could find

yourself locked up in prison for a very, very long time.

There are many innocent people in prison, especially on this planet.

Yeah, but not on your planet.

We don't have prisons on my planet. They're not needed.

Okay, Peter, have it your way.

Sharon needs to check your tracker. I'll see you later.

We've got a problem.

This place is full of problems.

Well, these problems aren't going to get fed if we don't get this problem

sorted. What are you talking about?

The chef hasn't turned up.

And he's got the keys to the walk -in fridge.

Oh, shit. Not again.

You're very clever at tricks, aren't you?

With a pizza lock.

Mary!

Mary, come out!

I'm not going to hurt you.

Mary, please come out. I love you, Mary.

What are you doing here? You're supposed to be suspending.

I'm helping the police with some inquiries.

And I'm going to make sure that the spaceman goes away for a very, very long

time. He'll run rings around you, you big, thick bastard.

Big, thick bastard, am I?

I ordered a chicken salad. What on earth's that?

A fish finger sandwich.

Sorry, a what?

A fish finger sandwich.

Chef didn't turn up and Peter came to the rescue. Peter?

So with the other injuries to Bert indicating a severe beating, and you

the only one at the scene, I'm sorry, Peter, but I can't protect you anymore.

I would never hurt Bert.

I would never hurt anyone, as you keep saying.

But unless you start talking sensibly, then I'm going to have to hand you over

to the police and let them question you.

I found him like that.

I would never hurt him.

I loved Bert.

Peter, please, tell me the truth.

Who are you?

Where do you live?

My name is Peter.

And I live on astrocalum. This isn't helping, Peter.

I need the truth. The truth?

What does it matter?

Here, one man's truth is another man's lie.

You just take the answers that you want and you twist them until they serve you.

Let me know when you've said your goodbyes, Peter.

Everyone knows you didn't hurt Bert. All those poor girls.

Thank you.

Look, I have to tell you something.

You're leaving, aren't you?

I have to.

They don't believe me either.

I have to leave.

I'm going home.

You can't.

Please don't leave me here by myself.

I have to. The police are on their way and if I'm here when they get here

then... I have to leave.

Please, please take me with you.

If you leave me here, I'll be here forever.

No one will ever know the truth.

Where are we going?

Through the main gate, and then home.

I haven't got home.

You only want the truth about your stepfather coming out.

So how are we getting out of here?

I don't know.

Until now

Come

on

Is

there

anything you can't do?

Yes

Drive? Well, at least nothing this old or ancient, anyway.

Just spaceships, then?

Something like that.

I can drive. I've never driven on a road before, but I can drive.

Okay.

Shit, you're tagged.

As soon as you leave the grounds, the police will know that you've left.

They'll know you've broken your car, and they'll start following.

It's okay, I'll just take it off.

No, you can't take it off. You'll break it. If you break it, an alarm will go

off, and there's no way you can take it off without breaking it.

I'm not broken.

Just thrive, Kathleen.

So you never saw Bert while you were here at lunchtime?

No. I came in, saw you about the phone call to the police, which, just to

myself, I had nothing to do with.

And then I went home.

And then you called me back, so here I am.

End of.

I thought it's a silly old sod gone and done.

Has he gone walkabouts?

Well, you'll hear soon enough, so I may as well tell you.

I'm afraid Bert died today.

Bert?

Dead?

Jesus Christ, how?

We're not sure yet.

This isn't possibly suicide.

Pills, was it?

Because that old buzzard was saving them up for something.

As we said, we're not sure yet.

Wave happily.

Slowly.

Have you checked the spaceman out?

You know he's been trouble since he got here.

And it wouldn't surprise me if it wasn't him that made that phone call to the

police. So he could speak to one of our leaders.

Well, the police are going to interview everyone.

Yourself included.

No problem, Doc.

No problem.

You know me. Always here to help.

Um, OK if I say hello to my mates?

No.

You're still suspended.

Get Nelson's column, chef.

What was that about Nelson's column?

Oh, I have no idea what she meant, sir.

Right.

Anyway, what can I do for you?

Um, Pete has done a run -up there.

Oi.

That is no longer our problem.

Let the police deal with him.

The trouble is he's taken Izzy with him.

No, that is a problem.

All I'm asking, Mary, is did you definitely see Izzy and Peter leave

I think so.

You think so?

I think so.

But you're not certain?

I'm certain Spaceman never hurt Bert.

Yes, but I didn't ask you that, Mary, did I?

No, but if you do, I'm certain he never hurt Bert.

Did you see them leave together, Freddie?

Yes. You did?

They've gone to get their mortgage application.

For the house they're buying together.

I'm arranging the loan.

Did you hear where they might have gone, Mary?

I just told you.

They've gone to get their mortgage application.

I'm arranging all their finances.

Gratis. Free. For a wedding present.

Who's getting married?

Izzy and Peter.

I've had my hair done special.

I have royal connections, you know.

Royal Bank of Scotland. Comes to me for all her financial advice, Her Majesty.

Really?

Did you go to the palace?

Oh, it's Prince Charles, not... What are you trying to do? I'm not a bloody

television set. But it worked for Bertie.

Yeah, but you're not my bloody Bertie, are you?

Any joy?

No.

Half of them don't even know who they are, let alone who Peter and Izzy are.

Well, they're doing a very good job of hiding something.

Do you want me to inform his parents?

Oh, good God, no.

No, no, let's try and get her back here without causing any fuss.

The father will have my career in a small cardboard box if he hears about

We're going to have to do something soon before it gets dark.

It's time for the police, I suppose. They'll have to track him off his tag.

Can you get that wheelchair moved?

I do, and I just keep pulling it back.

Have you seen my car?

Some shit has nicked my car.

What car is that?

What?

I have been coming in and out of here twice a day for the last five years.

And you don't know what car I drive.

Yeah, and I've been standing there for the last five years and you've never so

much as bloody given me a wave thank you or a smile.

So, what makes you think I give a shit what car you drive?

Oh, no, no, I do remember now. A young nurse took the spaceman out, innit?

What? Yeah, pretty little thing.

The girl, not the spaceman.

You didn't think you'd stop them?

Well, why should I?

She's a nurse.

They're in a car.

What? Yes, my car.

Oh, no, no, no, no. They could be miles away by now.

What on earth possessed you to let them have your car?

Are you fucking mad?

They nicked it.

Nicked it.

Why do you keep going on about your stupid bloody car? It's got all my stuff

it. What stuff?

I sincerely hope you've not been stealing from the hospital, because if

have... If you must know, it's...

My gardening tools.

I moonlight doing the old biddy's gardens.

Well, that sounds like a very good permanent career move for you, ex -Nurse

Judy.

Detective Mortimer.

There's been a development.

Really?

I'm scared.

Don't be.

Your mum?

Yeah.

Beautiful. Yeah.

Nice.

So you... You said your dad got home soon?

Stepdad and Jess.

Well, then, let's make sure we're ready to say hello.

But I did warn you. I said he should be in custody.

And now we have a possible murderer driving around God knows where, probably

sitting next to his next victim. Well, the security guard on the gate said that

Izzy was driving, so maybe spacemen can't drive.

It's irrelevant who was driving. It should never have got this far.

Never.

Now, you're sure she won't go back to the family home?

Well, definitely not.

She convinced herself that her stepfather was going to rape her and

kill her. She's terrified of the place. She'd never go back there.

Did you ever find any proof that she was telling the truth?

You do know who her stepfather is, don't you?

No. Why would I? He's just the guy that the last government and the coalition

have brought in from the US to help us control the huge influx of child porn on

the internet.

Delaney?

Oh, you really are in trouble.

He's made an amazing speech today at the police conference, demanding zero

tolerance on child porn. A real hang and quarter them kind of speech. Thanks for

that.

So, she was lying then?

In our professional opinion, yes.

She was attention seeking.

After her mother remarried. It's a classic case of rejection and revenge.

So, we have a jealous fantasist and a man who thinks he's from Mars on the

Yeah? They found the electronic tag, sir.

Please tell me it's still attached to his bloody ankle.

No, sir. It's in the boot of the car they stole.

And the girl?

No sign, sir.

OK.

Get forensics to the car. I want it checked for her blood.

Just in case.

Ah.

Haven't you got a phone call you need to make?

To her parents?

What's up?

Is this you?

No.

It's my cousin, Hannah.

My mum's niece.

Nothing in this room is mine.

They obviously thought you weren't coming back.

You don't get it, do you?

He's replaced me with her.

She's only nine.

He's starting again.

Well that's an even bigger reason why you have to stop him.

Wow.

Hello Daddy.

Where the hell did you come from?

They let me go.

They did.

No one told me.

Why did they let you go?

Because I told the truth.

Which is?

I

said,

which is?

Which truth did you tell him this time, Isabella Bella?

That I lied.

Why would you do that?

I don't want to stay there anymore. I wanted to come home.

You certainly look more grown up than the last time I saw you.

Especially in your mother's dress, which fits you way better than it ever did

her.

Well, all my clothes are gone.

We never thought you'd be back.

The charity shop did well, though. I only bought you the best, right? The

best.

I... I see you changed my room as well.

Yes, well, we sometimes have your cousin Hannah stay over.

Help her mom out a bit.

Lovely little girl.

Good of you.

Well, I try and be a good man. You know that.

I could be even better if you were a good girl again.

That's all I want, Daddy.

To be a good girl.

How good?

Better than before.

Better than Hannah.

Ah, do I sense a little jealousy?

No, no.

If I came back, you wouldn't need her anymore.

She's so young.

So young she doesn't understand the difference between right and wrong. So

still likes to please me.

Unlike you, you poor frigid little bitch.

Don't you struggle? If you struggle, I will beat you worse than last time.

Peter!

Peter, help me!

Who the fuck are you?

Peter, from the hospital.

What on earth is going on?

And what are you doing wearing my dress?

Dress?

You just nearly caught your husband trying to rape your daughter and all

worried about is a dress?

I saw and heard nothing.

But mummy...

He tried to rape me just like all those other times.

Don't you see your daughter was always telling the truth?

I know, you idiot.

You knew?

I've always known.

But you've always known.

Why didn't you do something?

Like what?

Report him?

If you think that I'm going to give up everything that I've got for a silly

little girl like you, you are very much mistaken, madam.

But I... I... What?

Listen.

I was younger than you when I had you.

I didn't want you then.

And I certainly don't want you now.

But I was just a child.

Why didn't you stop him?

Well, when he was messing with you, darling, he certainly wasn't messing

me. That's my girl.

Please don't cry.

No, I'm just taking a filthy makeup off.

How could you do this to me?

How could you do this to Hannah?

Come on, Tom.

It will be okay.

No.

I haven't got anything to live for anymore.

Yes, you have.

Hannah.

Just keep thinking of Hannah.

No one will believe me. I can't. I can't help her.

Yes, they will.

It's your stepfather's phone.

I took it from his pocket when I was hiding in the bathroom.

I filmed everything on the phone for camera.

Oh, God.

Even though the phone was in my pocket when your mother arrived, I'm fairly

certain that I recorded her confession as well.

What are we going to do with it?

Well, by the looks of it, your stepfather certainly knows a lot of

important people.

Hundreds of them, in fact.

Some of these people I came here to meet.

Anyway.

They're just about to receive a very interesting message from him.

He sent that to all of his contacts.

But they're the people you came here to see.

You could have spoken to them. Yeah.

And they wouldn't have believed me any more than the others.

And we so believe you.

Did... did you lose somebody too?

Yes.

There's a police station just around the corner.

If you go in and tell them who you are, they'll know the truth.

It'll be fine.

But what about you? Where will you go?

I failed.

Time to go home.

Where is home?

I told you.

Astrakhalen? Of course.

It'll be okay.

You'll be okay.

You will.

You

will.

Wait.

I want to come with you.

It's okay.

I was panicking when I buried it.

I thought that my people would catch me and take me back to our ship.

I was sure I wouldn't find it again.

Is that okay?

We'll find out.

You might want to take a step back.

What are we looking for?

Please.

Please tell me you didn't.

Well, did you?

Yes, but I was only trying to help. How many times have I told you I don't want

help?

I didn't stop you from trying. That was over 2 ,000 years ago.

And they're a lot more primitive now than they were then.

But I still didn't stop you from trying.

And look what happened.

I came down.

Like you.

Naive.

Willing to try to help them to change.

But what did they do?

They put me on a cross and crucified me. I know.

I saw.

Look, Dad.

I'm really, really sorry. You should be.

I still have nightmares, you know.

Are you okay?

Yeah.

Look, no real harm done, eh?

No nail holes in your hands.

Who's she?

Oh, uh... Dad, this is... Izzy, this is Dad.

Look, she didn't have anywhere to go, so I thought she could come with us.

Sure, cool.

Hop aboard before anyone else turns up.

It's not the Ark, you know.

And don't tell your mother.

I won't.

I don't know what drug they gave me in the hospital, but... I so, so want this

to be real.

Is he who I think he is?

Yeah.

My dad.

Yes.

He is.

It is real.

And that's the truth.

In more breaking news concerning the arrest of Frank Delaney, the government

czar on child porn, and his wife Eve on multiple child sex abuse and rape

claims, we've just been informed that a nurse, Judy Bayliss, who worked at the

same mental hospital where Mr Delaney's stepdaughter had been a long -term

patient, has also been arrested in connection with the unrelated death of a

resident known as Bert Taylor.

Bayliss is also being questioned about the murder of two teenage girls found in

the local Whitmore Woods after bloodstains were discovered in her car.

Meanwhile, Mr Delaney's stepdaughter Izzy, last seen with a patient known

as Peter, is still missing.

More on this story as we get it.