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You came to our world and killed yourselves.

What is it that binds these two together?

You will find salt.

You will return her to us. You will advance the plans to change your world.

That's impossible.

Make it possible.

We've tested the samples, but we've never tried severance on an adult homo

amphibian. If we can use salt, I can end this war. You're something of a warrior

yourself, and yet full of despair.

I lost someone.

Barkley, run.

It's a trap.

General, this is a unit operation.

You will withdraw.

You will both walk towards us. You are prisoners of the British Army. You will

surrender to us. Open fire at my command.

On my command, fire at will.

Go.

I'll find you.

You'll never swim alone.

You'll never swim alone. You will never swim alone.

Top of tea.

You eat our dogs. You eat our fish. Well, you can't eat our dogs. You can't

our fish. Our dogs are domesticated.

Our fish are family.

The ambassador from Vietnam would like it on record that taking offense at dog

meat is racist.

It's a distraction.

I'm kind of playing with us.

What are they really doing?

I keep seeing him.

Every day.

Every time I go home.

I'm just going to add some data to the salad.

You'll see. You'll like it.

Why am I always so paranoid?

Why am I too long and too hard to compromise myself?

Why can't this be enough?

And when you see him, how does it make you feel?

Oh, happy.

Obviously, I think it's great.

Don't be stupid.

I know he's dead. It's PTSD, as simple as that. I didn't come for a diagnosis.

just need to know.

I'm on 20 milligrams of paroxetine. Can I double it to 40?

Because I need to keep focused for work. I'm sorry, that's out of the question.

I will have to sign you off.

What for? You're clearly unfit.

With the greatest sympathy, I can't risk you going back to work. We're on the

edge of a worldwide war, so I'm not going anywhere.

I can't let you do that.

I'm sorry.

I've got no choice. I have to report this to your superior. Your daughter is

your husband.

I beg your pardon?

Elizabeth, it's my job to know everything.

So I know.

That you slept with his best friend. The friend found someone else called

Gillian. Your marriage survived.

Your secret is safe.

Until now.

Sir.

Prescription. Please.

The next meeting with Tide is scheduled for

2100. What about Barclay? How is he?

Visually, he's okay. We're still investigating that. But the ZAG

complicated.

Keep getting attacks.

And this whistling sound.

I've got a rash on my neck and my neck's like... Good.

VPN heart rate steady. Step it up.

We're eight kilometres under the sea.

Nothing to fight that.

You're something of a miracle, Mr Pierre Dupont.

It's a marvellous surname.

Where's it from?

My father was French.

Amazing.

Is it?

People think it's posh, but the truth is my dad was a builder.

Well, he wasn't, but now he's unemployed.

Everything he had he drank away, but I reckon that's why I got into you here.

Because I've got a posh surname knowing you're not Roxbury.

You weren't special before, you are now.

The most famous man in the world, aren't they?

Yeah, that's the problem.

She made me so special, and now she's gone.

Now I know what to do with me.

Now if they arrest me, people are confined.

Just don't let me go. People are complaining. They won't just complain.

They'll murder me.

So they put me back in a hotel.

It's just me. Everyone else has been evacuated. It's like a prison.

Everything I eat or drink has to be scammed. And I said to them, for how

I said, the rest of my life.

Very funny!

It hurts.

My back and my neck.

My lungs.

I still need myself real good.

Where?

In the water.

The same word.

Severance. Buried so deep that it sends off a red flag.

Thank you.

Good work.

All the same, Mum, it can wait till tomorrow.

You're not going to stay here all night, are you?

No.

Kate, I need access to all comms, all screens to me, priority override, open

link to the TMP database, my name only.

Granted. This is Professor Bellow, tactics and planning. What have we got?

You're right. From day one.

They were hiding it. You said so. It's all been a distraction.

The diplomatic talks were just war games, while they were doing exactly

thought they do.

Aquakind are melting the ice caps.

They were clever. We were searching the satellite, but we forgot how good they

are with water.

They positioned a layer of ice crystals at three kilometers to hide the heat.

How did you find it?

We didn't.

They dropped the layer. They wanted to see.

What scale?

At this rate, Antarctica will double its loss.

300 billion tons of ice per year.

Jesus. That's three trillion liters of water.

And worse than that, the Prince Friedrich ice shelf.

It vanished.

Today. That should take years. That should take decades.

It melted in six hours.

I think that was a declaration.

What if they go beyond Antarctica?

What happens if they melt all the ice in the world?

Sea levels will rise 100 meters worldwide.

And it's not just the water.

All that carbon will be released into the atmosphere.

We will flood.

We will drown.

We will choke.

They've won the war.

What is ice but water in the form of land?

We are restoring it to its natural state.

Well, nevertheless, with respect, it must be noted that we... You started it.

Humankind was melting the ice long before we awoke.

We have heat waves underwater caused by you.

So we are completing what you began.

But with respect, we do need to know... But you started this.

Nevertheless, I have to ask... You started this.

Yes, if we could just push... It was started by you.

I don't think it's appropriate... You made this happen!

We think your schedule of five years might not be... Five years is all you

Yes, I think we might not actually... You have five years.

Or all the water of the world will be set free.

I'm to be certain of this, little people.

This was never a war.

This was an inconvenience.

You were the dirt that gathered while we were away.

But now we have returned.

And you will be clean.

Five years.

We can't clean a single river in five years.

Never mind the world.

Come on.

It's fine.

I know how to do it. I completely understand. I told you. I told you. I

you. I completely understand.

Come on. It's fine.

We met over there.

You were drunk.

No, I was just a little bit happy.

Happy and lucky.

Are we all going to drown?

Is that what's going to happen?

Are all of us going to drown?

I don't know. You're their bloody friend.

Why are you always so useless?

We had a visitor.

From the unit, he was one of your lot.

He said, what about you and Kirby? You're connected to Barclay in

High. You won't be safe.

He said it's Eunice's job to protect you.

For life.

He said we can move you, you know.

You can live in a safe house.

On higher ground, one of those gated communities.

With security.

The rest of our lives.

Can I visit you? Can I see you?

Absolutely. You can see us whenever you want. You can see Kirby absolutely any

time.

You have to believe me, that's the first thing I said.

OK. I really did.

OK. That's honestly what I said.

OK. I believe you, I do.

Go on, we can meet behind gates. What's happened to us?

You fell in love with a fish.

Sorry.

Sure.

Well, you did.

Did you?

I don't know.

I just keep thinking I wish I could hear her.

What do you mean?

So... We had this connection.

You said that to me once.

We did.

I keep thinking, right?

We're 60 % war, right? So I'm 60 % war.

And whale song can travel thousands of miles.

So I thought, maybe she could hear me.

He taught me a piece of tech to override the cameras.

Thanks. I didn't see anything.

So every night... I got eight hours before the next shift.

Every single night.

And I drive.

I drive into the night.

Every night.

Every night, I go to the coast.

Lucky's calling to me.

The water.

All night long.

Because she is out there.

Somewhere.

In the night.

In the water.

In the dark.

Every night, I call her name.

And I keep trying.

Just as we planned.

He's calling for her.

Every night, he waits till dawn, then he drives back, hides in his hotel, tries

again the next night.

But he doesn't get a response?

We don't talk, mate.

Thanks. I didn't see anything.

But I'd say not.

Maybe he's gone for God.

Or maybe she can't hear him.

He's on the English Channel.

My government have put bafflers in the water along the coast.

Sonic disruption.

To interfere with aqua -kind communication.

Maybe they're stopping salt.

Anything you can do?

I could ask for a pause.

Then maybe she gets through.

And then... separate.

I never said yes.

For the history books, my name is not on this.

Sorry, haven't got time.

I need the signature on this.

You didn't need to bring it in person.

I'd also like a word.

You could finish off, folks.

Thanks. Yes, sir.

You need to be quick. I really haven't got time.

We have five years to rebuild civilization.

What's severance?

In what way?

It's a word picked up on comms. It was buried in one of Sir Keith's final

messages.

Sad loss.

He was a good man.

He was murdered, and we don't know why.

We do. The police were very clear. It was a protest against privatized water.

And I might remind you, Sir Keith was not a member of this government. But the

word severance crops up in your comms too.

I'm sure it does.

It would have a thousand meanings.

It would call Brexit a form of severance. But you don't.

The word has only appeared since the arrival of Homo Aqua.

Its context has been scrubbed. Someone clever has tried very hard to hide it.

But my staff are really very good.

Then what do you think severance is?

You tell me.

Is it some sort of weapon?

Oh, for God's sake.

I can help.

These are extraordinary days, sir. The pressures on you are immense.

And at times like this, people can panic, do the wrong thing.

I thought maybe if you're in too deep, if you need someone...

I don't know what you mean.

Good.

Thank you.

And if I might say, the task of this side is beyond you.

The economy will collapse within six months. You'll be voted out. The next

will storm into power, promising anti -Aqua legislation.

The war will begin all over again. And on and on and on it goes. But I will

still be here.

Waiting.

And I promise you, Harry, when you're out of office and history has swept you

aside, there will be a reckoning.

With me.

Thanks. Right, yeah.

It's just burger and chips, but that's the funny thing. Hotel burgers are

good. Well, yeah, it's because I incinerate them.

Cheap meat, cooked to death.

You can't beat it.

Cheers. Cheers.

Oh, that's great.

I call to you every night.

I knew you'd be to the south of the land, but I couldn't hear.

You people are so funny in your clothes.

I thought I'd never see you again.

We don't have much time.

I could go anywhere.

We can go down the coast, Storm.

We don't know anything anywhere.

Your civilization is falling.

They're melting the ice.

But I swear they never told me there were tides within tides.

But you can still help humanity.

Oh, for God's sake!

No one listens to me!

I'm nothing, Storm.

You.

You might be so special.

For one moment.

And now look at us. We're reduced to this.

The tides still head towards you.

Currents are converging. And I don't know why.

But maybe it's for this.

You've got to go back. We can escape.

Go back. Please.

And tell your people to ask for Accord.

Accord? Tell your people to ask Aquakind for Accord.

The word carries an ancient weight that every one of my kind will have to

respect. What does it mean? If you know what it means, there's every chance

humankind will try to stop you.

But find the ones you trust.

Send out a signal to the thieves.

Ask them for a cord.

And we might just survive.

All of us. I don't understand.

No, no, stay, please!

She said accord.

Just that word, accord, and that's all I know. But it could help.

Well, I mean, don't ask me to make sense of it, Kate. All I know is that I trust

her. Accord, dictionary definition, to give someone status, or to be harmonious

or consistent with.

I like harmonious.

I'm loving harmonious. But she could be showing us a way out.

Actually, mate, you don't have stink.

Yeah, well, surely I've been in the sea, OK, and I keep finding sand.

If I can suggest...

If we ask the governments of the world permission to send the signals aqua

-kind, that's three months of debate.

At least.

And then they'll say no. They'll do more than that. They'll try and stop us.

But we send aqua -kind parcels of information every day.

Just basic diplomacy.

So, I could filter the word accord into the signal.

Disguised? Exactly.

Use my eye tracking.

Does it leave a keyprint?

I don't think there's a translator on the land that would notice it.

But in the eyes of Homo Aqua, there's a convex eye spot.

They literally gather more light than we do. Which means that if the word accord

is embedded in the message,

that's clear.

And then what? We'll find out.

It's a bit of a risk.

Word is the gathering of 195 nations are currently asking how many nuclear

strikes the ocean can take.

That's the risk.

Yeah, but come on. We're a union. That's what we do, isn't it? We save the

world. And let me stand against the government.

So be it.

The clerk from transport.

Yeah, but I'm here only by mistake, remember?

We're not completely beyond the laws of the land.

We could all be arrested for treason.

Okay. Fine. Good.

What will Christopher say?

Make it happen.

Yes, ma 'am.

I will monitor your personal comm for the next 30 years to make sure not a

of this gets out. Is that understood?

Yes, ma 'am. I've taken the word of court and packaged it and hidden it.

It's ready to go. I'll cross -channel it and this will transmit to all the

oceans at the bar.

I understand.

How do we not listen?

We're just after hope, aren't we?

Any word?

No. The water's quiet.

It's been days.

Maybe this Accord thing has sent them back into hibernation.

We should be so lucky.

Then what are they doing?

It's strange.

We've got nothing.

It's silent out there.

All across the ocean.

And it wasn't the accord signal.

Things went dead before we sent her.

Running silent.

That's what they call it on submarines.

When you turn the engines off to avoid detection.

Which means they're planning something.

Or hiding.

Or scared.

Scared of what?

Yeah.

Vamos!

Even here in the heart of London, one thing is obvious.

They're dying.

Homo Aqua is dying.

Yeah, but is it all of them?

Is it everyone?

What about Salt?

All right.

Can I speak to Kate, please?

Every coastline in the world is reporting the same thing. The death of

Aquus.

What have we got?

say they shed scales like we shed skin, but the shedding has stopped, which

means the excess scales build up and they drown.

All of them?

Is this homo aqua or homo amphibia too?

I think it's all of them, but no other life forms, only aqua kind. What about

us? That's the strangest thing.

Be careful.

There's no danger.

Not anymore.

It's like I'm finding the aftermath of a virus without the virus itself, which

means... A virus that's been designed.

That's frontline warfare.

Virus is programmed for strike and then decay. That... Oh, for God's sake.

That's human technology.

It was us.

I didn't see it happening.

Severance.

Severance was the virus.

What are your people saying?

What's the level of contagion out there? Uh, 90 % on first evidence.

A 90 % death rate worldwide.

We think aqua kind are connected by an algae network.

This proves it.

One virus has circled around all the oceans of the world.

Story of the human race.

From the moment homo sapiens learned to walk.

We meet a new species.

We slaughter them.

Well, we've got a signal.

It's a deep aqua need.

The same signal repeats it over and over again.

I think it's an SOS.

They're calling for help.

Barclay, I'm sorry. They need you at the Emperor's Hall.

What for?

You're the ambassador.

Hello, that's good.

I'm nothing. I'm the man who's literally nothing.

The request has come to revert to day one.

They say they want to end the war for the final session.

Who does?

Home, I'm Vibia.

Why is it so?

Is she alive?

I don't know.

I'm sorry, but this is a critical moment.

I demand a cease.

Do we know anything more?

About the virus? How did it happen?

Nothing. We have the information, but we can't... We can't prove anything.

Good luck.

Ma 'am, there is a message from Dr Banerjee. Not now. Stay with Barclay.

Tank is stable and maintaining integrity. Open water lock one.

We have three life forms.

Identify them. Two homo aqua, one homo amphibia.

Which one?

Is it her?

I have come to inform mankind.

The war is over.

You have won.

We are defeated.

We grant you victory.

I'm sorry.

Barclay, stay on message.

I'm so sorry.

What happened down there?

What's it like?

We are destroyed.

The virus brought fire to the world of water.

And we burnt.

You survived.

One in ten.

They live by design.

I didn't know.

I swear, I didn't know.

No, not you.

But there are others.

There are creatures in this room who want a prize

for winning the war.

They desire our technology.

But there are oceans, unknown to you, running deep beneath the mantle of this

world.

And we have sunk our prizes deep down below.

Lost to you.

Forever.

But more than that, you had thought you had chosen your weapons well.

Because a virus contains no water.

And yet, it rides the back of a water molecule like a

parasite upon a host.

And we can read every drop stained

with these fingerprints of yours.

Water will find you one day.

The Accord. Will never happen.

What was it?

It was a way of two species joining and sharing and celebrating.

Which is now lost.

Buckley, the first offer, page 15.

We can offer help.

We would grant you land.

There is a haven, this trench, in the Pacific Ocean, 3 ,000 kilometers long,

kilometers wide, and 12 kilometers deep.

The deepest place on Earth.

This can be your home.

We will protect your boundaries from pollution and sound and viruses.

And we can rebuild our relationship.

There's two species on it.

We could be friends.

We will accept this offer.

If you give this land its true name.

A hunting ground.

We will live there in full knowledge of what you will do to us.

We will do whatever you want.

Because we are terrified of you.

Thus ends the war.

No,

no, no.

That's all there is more to say.

Will I see you again?

Green shoot protocols, everyone.

Congratulations.

Or shame on us all.

I'm not sure which.

Abandon the hall, everyone. Out! Out!

Mr. Du Bois, anything to say?

We won.

How about that?

Tell them we won.

We won the war.

I need to find somewhere to live.

I said to Lauren, Kate could stay with us.

He said no.

Fair enough. You've never got on. Mum.

No. I keep thinking.

The times when the doctor is nowhere to be seen.

You said to me once, I'd save the human race, I don't shape the human race.

You can get that wrong all on your own.

Mum,

there's a message.

I said no. I'm sorry, he insists.

It's Dr. Banerjee, Barclay's doctor. He says it's priority one.

Kate Lethbridge -Stewart.

And you.

No, no, no, no, no, no, no.

Sorry, is there something wrong?

Is it that bottle? Could you go back and pick it up?

Pick it up what?

Could you go back and pick it up?

What for?

If you could, thank you.

Sorry, love, it's gone now.

Well, go back and pick it up.

You pick it up.

I'm asking you, please.

To go back and pick up that bottle.

And what if I don't?

Pick it up.

I said, pick it up.

Pick it up!