1 00:00:10,860 --> 00:00:13,320 It's a sign of his providence. 2 00:00:15,000 --> 00:00:20,480 That the hallowed places are places where food may still be grown. 3 00:00:20,780 --> 00:00:27,340 The church grounds are the only spaces where the cursed weed does not dare 4 00:00:27,340 --> 00:00:34,320 encroach. It puts one in mind of the olive branch brought by the dove after 5 00:00:34,320 --> 00:00:35,320 the great flood. 6 00:00:35,940 --> 00:00:42,540 And like the great flood, We must put our faith in the Lord to overcome our 7 00:00:42,540 --> 00:00:43,540 adversity. 8 00:00:44,840 --> 00:00:51,660 He gives us victory against our foes and brings 9 00:00:51,660 --> 00:00:55,900 us once again the miracle of new life. 10 00:01:59,400 --> 00:02:00,400 We need to move. 11 00:02:00,820 --> 00:02:02,200 There are tunnels down here. 12 00:02:02,600 --> 00:02:03,960 Over to the naval docks. 13 00:02:04,580 --> 00:02:05,580 Right. 14 00:02:05,820 --> 00:02:08,320 Wasn't that just incredible? 15 00:02:09,539 --> 00:02:10,639 Knocks people down. 16 00:02:11,039 --> 00:02:15,540 Imagine what'll happen once we have hold of one of those things. 17 00:02:18,320 --> 00:02:22,380 Expansion is everything. We must get hold of one of those machines. 18 00:02:22,860 --> 00:02:26,020 You truly think they come from Mars? Does it matter? 19 00:02:26,460 --> 00:02:27,460 I mean it. 20 00:02:27,740 --> 00:02:31,720 The world, sir, is being limited. Our object has been to take as much of the 21 00:02:31,720 --> 00:02:32,720 world as possible. 22 00:02:32,880 --> 00:02:35,460 But if we could go up there... 23 00:03:11,470 --> 00:03:12,890 Did you breathe it in? I don't think so. 24 00:03:28,410 --> 00:03:29,410 That's London. 25 00:03:33,510 --> 00:03:34,770 I'll get you some water. 26 00:03:38,650 --> 00:03:41,750 This cart's going to drop to pi - It's rotten. 27 00:03:43,150 --> 00:03:45,150 My husband needs some water. 28 00:03:45,930 --> 00:03:48,490 Very nice of them to move these things about. 29 00:03:54,310 --> 00:03:57,310 Is she a sensible person? 30 00:03:58,950 --> 00:03:59,970 My wife. 31 00:04:02,390 --> 00:04:04,150 In most situations, yes. 32 00:04:05,550 --> 00:04:06,550 Water? 33 00:04:13,130 --> 00:04:17,529 Seeing that, I'd say a sensible person would head for the coast. 34 00:04:36,590 --> 00:04:41,130 I have a summer house in Shubrineth on the Essex coast. 35 00:04:41,830 --> 00:04:43,010 Does George know about it? 36 00:04:43,270 --> 00:04:44,550 Yes, he used to belong to our mother. 37 00:04:45,770 --> 00:04:50,390 Well, Frederick, if he... If he can't get to London, if he can't meet you 38 00:04:50,610 --> 00:04:52,530 maybe he'll go there. 39 00:04:55,710 --> 00:04:56,710 Frederick? 40 00:04:57,210 --> 00:04:59,570 Look, I don't know what's happened to George. 41 00:05:00,130 --> 00:05:01,130 I'm sorry. 42 00:05:01,990 --> 00:05:06,650 But our thoughts for this moment must be on our survival, on your survival. 43 00:05:11,120 --> 00:05:13,140 How are we going to govern this mess? 44 00:05:13,760 --> 00:05:14,760 Fight back. 45 00:05:15,740 --> 00:05:16,860 It's a head north, you understand? 46 00:05:17,500 --> 00:05:18,500 It's my duty. 47 00:05:18,840 --> 00:05:23,000 Especially since the minister... Yes, Frederick, I understand. Thank you for 48 00:05:23,000 --> 00:05:23,599 your help. 49 00:05:23,600 --> 00:05:26,900 What's the address we're coming to? No, we ought to go north. Listen, listen to 50 00:05:26,900 --> 00:05:27,900 me. 51 00:05:30,200 --> 00:05:32,260 Teddy, help me. Should we renounce his head, yes? 52 00:06:31,760 --> 00:06:34,140 He won't be happy about going to France. 53 00:06:35,280 --> 00:06:36,300 Goodness, are you all right? 54 00:06:36,840 --> 00:06:38,940 Your nose is bleeding. Are you all right? 55 00:06:39,200 --> 00:06:41,040 Yes. Do you feel all right? 56 00:06:41,320 --> 00:06:45,460 I'm just feeling a bit under the weather, that's all. 57 00:06:49,240 --> 00:06:51,240 Look, I think the beach is just down there. 58 00:06:51,680 --> 00:06:55,340 You stay here, and I'll come back for you, all right? 59 00:08:37,760 --> 00:08:41,159 Manchester, Birmingham, Liverpool at least. What about the army? What does 60 00:08:41,159 --> 00:08:42,159 army do? 61 00:08:43,520 --> 00:08:46,220 Guns can't touch the mortar shells. 62 00:08:47,260 --> 00:08:48,980 It's like bows and arrows against lightning. 63 00:08:49,460 --> 00:08:50,680 We have to ship out. 64 00:09:14,860 --> 00:09:16,020 You have to come on board the boat. 65 00:09:16,220 --> 00:09:19,200 He'll be here somewhere, Frederick. He'll be here. George isn't coming. 66 00:09:19,980 --> 00:09:21,720 He's very likely dead. 67 00:09:22,120 --> 00:09:26,240 And if by a miracle he isn't, then you'll have done him no good by waiting 68 00:09:26,240 --> 00:09:27,039 to be killed. 69 00:09:27,040 --> 00:09:29,440 No. That means they are coming. 70 00:09:29,680 --> 00:09:33,420 It is quite clear. We are finished. You have to go. 71 00:09:34,440 --> 00:09:37,500 Give him all our love, sir, Frederick. We are children only. 72 00:09:38,400 --> 00:09:39,540 Frederick, I'm going to die. Please, live. 73 00:09:40,360 --> 00:09:41,480 Live. Please. 74 00:09:41,700 --> 00:09:43,900 Do that for George and for my family. 75 00:12:01,740 --> 00:12:02,740 Huh. 76 00:12:37,040 --> 00:12:38,200 Bless you. You'll never lose me. 77 00:12:40,020 --> 00:12:41,020 Ever. 78 00:14:23,310 --> 00:14:24,610 I'm sorry I'm not someone else. 79 00:15:07,120 --> 00:15:08,120 Where have you been? 80 00:15:10,880 --> 00:15:12,280 A death door, mainly. 81 00:15:14,240 --> 00:15:15,280 First cholera. 82 00:15:17,420 --> 00:15:18,560 And then I got this. 83 00:15:19,780 --> 00:15:23,560 Trying to experiment with captured weapons. 84 00:15:26,120 --> 00:15:28,620 I was in a nice enough place for a while. 85 00:15:31,080 --> 00:15:32,480 And then the food ran out. 86 00:15:39,210 --> 00:15:40,770 And you've got this fine young man. 87 00:15:47,730 --> 00:15:48,730 Where's George? 88 00:15:53,810 --> 00:15:54,830 I left him. 89 00:15:56,750 --> 00:15:57,810 Never saw him again. 90 00:16:14,350 --> 00:16:17,050 Not much further, and then we can rest. 91 00:16:38,950 --> 00:16:39,950 Hello? 92 00:16:53,200 --> 00:16:55,260 Well, they've moved on, haven't they? 93 00:16:56,060 --> 00:16:57,060 Moved on. 94 00:16:58,020 --> 00:16:59,840 I don't think I can go much further. 95 00:17:03,600 --> 00:17:07,560 Apologies. Just find me somewhere picturesque. 96 00:17:07,920 --> 00:17:09,579 Be righteous, ninepence. 97 00:17:37,070 --> 00:17:39,110 May as well stay the night. 98 00:17:41,710 --> 00:17:43,350 That gets my vote, stay the night. 99 00:17:54,090 --> 00:17:56,030 Well, someone's fighting back at least. 100 00:18:11,880 --> 00:18:12,880 Let's get you inside. 101 00:18:13,720 --> 00:18:14,960 There's a door here. 102 00:18:22,800 --> 00:18:25,620 The heroic fight back and the great victory. 103 00:18:26,240 --> 00:18:27,240 It's rubbish. 104 00:18:27,920 --> 00:18:28,920 All of it. 105 00:18:30,200 --> 00:18:31,680 The wheat fields in America. 106 00:18:32,860 --> 00:18:34,500 The grain coming from Australia. 107 00:18:35,980 --> 00:18:36,980 It's a lie. 108 00:18:38,280 --> 00:18:40,400 There hasn't been a harvest this year anywhere. 109 00:18:41,640 --> 00:18:42,900 Any fool can see that. 110 00:18:43,760 --> 00:18:46,980 And that's what they feed us, instead of real food. 111 00:18:50,140 --> 00:18:51,540 We've got this totally wrong. 112 00:18:52,720 --> 00:18:54,240 We remember the wrong things. 113 00:18:55,580 --> 00:18:56,580 About the war? 114 00:18:57,720 --> 00:18:59,460 You think it's right to call it a war? 115 00:19:00,980 --> 00:19:01,980 What else? 116 00:19:02,820 --> 00:19:03,820 A massacre? 117 00:19:04,160 --> 00:19:05,360 A visitation. 118 00:19:06,420 --> 00:19:07,580 A reconnaissance. 119 00:19:07,820 --> 00:19:08,820 A feeding. 120 00:19:09,580 --> 00:19:10,580 What? 121 00:19:11,820 --> 00:19:13,760 We may have won something, Mrs. Thing. 122 00:19:14,340 --> 00:19:15,960 Blown them up, killed them off. 123 00:19:17,220 --> 00:19:19,260 But can you really call this victory? 124 00:19:21,000 --> 00:19:23,160 It very much looks like a red planet to me. 125 00:19:33,740 --> 00:19:35,200 What if this is what they wanted? 126 00:19:36,280 --> 00:19:37,280 Send our machines. 127 00:19:38,460 --> 00:19:41,180 To start the process of... Of making Earth again. 128 00:19:42,420 --> 00:19:43,640 In the image of Mars. 129 00:19:46,660 --> 00:19:48,000 That's what the black smoke did. 130 00:19:48,480 --> 00:19:49,480 That's what it was for. 131 00:19:51,480 --> 00:19:54,880 Whatever it left behind has spread across the Earth like a virus. 132 00:19:56,200 --> 00:20:00,140 Growing first into the red weed, and then into the shards we see emerging 133 00:20:00,140 --> 00:20:01,140 the ground. 134 00:20:07,220 --> 00:20:08,220 Harvests fail. 135 00:20:09,320 --> 00:20:10,600 The water's getting redder. 136 00:20:11,780 --> 00:20:12,780 Babies aren't born. 137 00:20:13,940 --> 00:20:16,020 And Max, you can think of some way to stop this. 138 00:20:19,540 --> 00:20:21,260 This will not be our planet anymore. 139 00:20:45,100 --> 00:20:46,600 How do you think the Martians died? 140 00:20:47,980 --> 00:20:50,280 As it says in George Junior's picture book. 141 00:20:51,120 --> 00:20:55,380 Gunned down by the Woolwich Arthur and the mites of the Birmingham Small Art 142 00:20:55,380 --> 00:20:56,380 Company. 143 00:20:58,560 --> 00:20:59,560 Why do you ask? 144 00:21:06,700 --> 00:21:07,700 Hello? 145 00:21:30,949 --> 00:21:36,510 Hello? Right, I think what we should do is try and find you somewhere to lie 146 00:21:36,510 --> 00:21:37,510 down. Shall we do that? 147 00:21:38,030 --> 00:21:39,030 Shall we look over there? 148 00:21:40,810 --> 00:21:41,810 Yes. 149 00:21:43,170 --> 00:21:43,570 I 150 00:21:43,570 --> 00:21:51,390 just 151 00:21:51,390 --> 00:21:53,110 don't like to think of him. 152 00:21:54,930 --> 00:21:57,610 His body just left. 153 00:21:59,670 --> 00:22:01,230 They're just gonna be left behind, don't worry. 154 00:22:29,450 --> 00:22:30,450 What's your name? 155 00:22:36,150 --> 00:22:37,150 Lord. 156 00:22:42,750 --> 00:22:44,170 Do you know what I think the problem is? 157 00:22:44,470 --> 00:22:46,350 Here, I'll tell you what I think the problem is. 158 00:22:46,610 --> 00:22:52,850 I think that someone, some negligent fellow, has fallen asleep and he's 159 00:22:52,850 --> 00:22:53,850 forgotten to wake up. 160 00:22:54,270 --> 00:23:00,340 And all of us, you, me, Mrs Althamstone, Frederick and Amy, All of us, we've all 161 00:23:00,340 --> 00:23:01,900 gone mixed up in his dream. 162 00:23:02,860 --> 00:23:08,780 And I think that we're stuck here until his alarm clock goes off. 163 00:23:09,320 --> 00:23:11,780 I don't think there's anything more to worry about than that, really. 164 00:23:14,260 --> 00:23:15,560 I think it's just a dream. 165 00:23:18,500 --> 00:23:19,580 And he will wake up. 166 00:24:19,340 --> 00:24:20,500 I didn't find you sooner. 167 00:24:21,000 --> 00:24:22,640 She said things have been rather unusual. 168 00:24:23,420 --> 00:24:25,620 I was a little bit worried about you, I'll be honest. 169 00:24:28,620 --> 00:24:30,300 Other than that, nothing too bad. 170 00:24:31,640 --> 00:24:36,400 Even half my friends are your brother. Well, that's, uh... That's good news. 171 00:24:37,640 --> 00:24:40,640 So, um, the house is still standing. It's still there. 172 00:24:43,640 --> 00:24:47,160 Mary? She, um... I'm sorry to be a bother. 173 00:24:48,140 --> 00:24:49,280 But is there any water? 174 00:24:49,660 --> 00:24:50,660 Yes, of course. 175 00:24:51,520 --> 00:24:52,840 Let me see. 176 00:24:56,980 --> 00:24:57,980 George, 177 00:25:02,960 --> 00:25:04,080 there isn't any, I looked. 178 00:25:05,080 --> 00:25:06,700 She's asleep already, look. 179 00:25:23,530 --> 00:25:26,590 About seven and a half months. January, is it January? 180 00:25:27,610 --> 00:25:32,930 1906. After Christmas, after the... After the summer. 181 00:25:36,030 --> 00:25:38,590 There are so many things I could go on to until then. 182 00:25:44,550 --> 00:25:46,210 What? I saw lots of people killed. 183 00:25:48,930 --> 00:25:51,130 I saw lots of people killed. 184 00:25:54,060 --> 00:25:55,060 And there was one man. 185 00:25:55,880 --> 00:25:58,160 He was, um... He was a soldier. 186 00:26:00,720 --> 00:26:04,760 He wanted my hand, and I didn't give it to him because I ran away. But you see, 187 00:26:04,920 --> 00:26:07,980 the thing is, Amy, is that I wanted to be alive for you and for the... 188 00:26:07,980 --> 00:26:14,880 And there was a baby on Mayberry Hill. No. And it was crying. 189 00:26:14,880 --> 00:26:15,880 No, don't. 190 00:26:16,700 --> 00:26:17,700 Don't. 191 00:26:19,980 --> 00:26:22,040 All we need to concentrate on right now... 192 00:26:24,040 --> 00:26:26,180 You promised me that. I promise you that. I promise you that. 193 00:26:28,420 --> 00:26:31,320 It's just a box of matches and some candles. 194 00:26:31,900 --> 00:26:36,100 Must have taken everything else, but... 195 00:26:36,100 --> 00:26:48,960 Come 196 00:26:48,960 --> 00:26:50,420 on! Under the table! 197 00:28:30,960 --> 00:28:31,879 We should go. 198 00:28:31,880 --> 00:28:33,000 No, we don't know what's out there. 199 00:28:33,860 --> 00:28:37,320 We need rest more than anything. We have a child and a sick person. 200 00:28:39,280 --> 00:28:41,660 I'm not feeling too well myself, to be honest. 201 00:28:44,800 --> 00:28:45,920 You are a little warm. 202 00:28:50,220 --> 00:28:51,860 How long do we stay? A night? 203 00:30:01,610 --> 00:30:02,870 How did it end for you? 204 00:30:06,070 --> 00:30:10,670 Oh, I don't... Hard to say. 205 00:30:14,630 --> 00:30:15,970 I crawled up a drain. 206 00:30:17,630 --> 00:30:18,630 I think. 207 00:30:22,470 --> 00:30:24,090 I've been scalded, you see. 208 00:30:31,660 --> 00:30:35,820 I had to get out of Weybridge, so I jumped into Thames. 209 00:30:39,660 --> 00:30:41,000 They made the water boil. 210 00:30:45,380 --> 00:30:50,340 There was a drain somewhere along the river, so I crawled up there. 211 00:30:53,280 --> 00:30:56,460 For days, the smoke didn't reach me. 212 00:31:02,440 --> 00:31:04,460 There was water there. I had water there. 213 00:31:06,000 --> 00:31:07,200 So that was something. 214 00:31:12,140 --> 00:31:19,020 By the time I gathered enough strength to come to my senses, victory was won. 215 00:31:43,660 --> 00:31:44,680 How did it end for you? 216 00:31:58,500 --> 00:31:59,500 I don't remember. 217 00:32:13,710 --> 00:32:14,710 What time is it? 218 00:32:15,250 --> 00:32:16,270 It's 9 o 'clock. 219 00:32:18,670 --> 00:32:20,590 But it can't be. 220 00:32:26,910 --> 00:32:29,350 Well, it's 9 .02 a .m. 221 00:32:34,830 --> 00:32:36,430 The day hasn't dawned. 222 00:32:53,960 --> 00:33:00,340 It's the, uh, it's the smoke. I... I saw it rising up across London. 223 00:33:02,020 --> 00:33:07,340 And then shutting out the sun, is that the idea? They're going to smother the 224 00:33:07,340 --> 00:33:08,340 Earth in it. 225 00:33:09,920 --> 00:33:11,500 Maybe that's what the sky looks like on Mars. 226 00:33:32,080 --> 00:33:34,320 I can't believe it just dropped. What killed it? 227 00:33:35,520 --> 00:33:37,540 I imagine it was hit by explosions. 228 00:33:47,520 --> 00:33:48,740 We need food and water. 229 00:34:23,179 --> 00:34:25,159 Use some of these. They need your strength. 230 00:34:26,480 --> 00:34:29,179 A few days ago, me and Mrs. 231 00:34:29,380 --> 00:34:33,380 E, we drank some rather unpleasant -looking water, so I think that perhaps 232 00:34:33,380 --> 00:34:34,380 that's what's responsible. 233 00:34:36,060 --> 00:34:38,100 That was a bit silly, wasn't it? It was a bit. 234 00:34:38,960 --> 00:34:41,500 Well, you do, and I'm not here to take care of you. 235 00:34:42,020 --> 00:34:43,020 Evidently. 236 00:34:46,060 --> 00:34:47,600 There's a door unlocked down the hall. 237 00:34:49,860 --> 00:34:51,280 Come on, let's see if we can find anything. 238 00:34:53,200 --> 00:34:54,200 Dressed. 239 00:34:56,980 --> 00:34:58,140 In my sweeties. 240 00:35:15,980 --> 00:35:17,120 Where is everyone? 241 00:35:17,940 --> 00:35:19,800 This was supposed to be a refuge. 242 00:35:21,020 --> 00:35:22,540 Maybe no one ever made it here. 243 00:35:24,100 --> 00:35:25,100 Someone's been here. 244 00:35:25,440 --> 00:35:27,000 Otherwise there'd be food, supplies. 245 00:35:28,320 --> 00:35:29,600 It's like they just vanished. 246 00:35:41,440 --> 00:35:42,580 These must be unlocked. 247 00:35:43,700 --> 00:35:46,240 Must be a storeroom or something somewhere. 248 00:36:37,900 --> 00:36:38,900 It's normal. 249 00:36:58,180 --> 00:36:59,220 You that way. 250 00:36:59,640 --> 00:37:00,640 I this. 251 00:38:38,350 --> 00:38:39,350 What, what? 252 00:38:42,870 --> 00:38:45,010 Her body's scattered all over the roof. 253 00:38:45,430 --> 00:38:46,430 They're your refugees. 254 00:38:47,230 --> 00:38:48,610 God knows how they ended up there. 255 00:38:53,950 --> 00:38:54,950 Some water. 256 00:38:54,970 --> 00:38:57,570 It's enough for Methadone and St. George and the child. 257 00:38:58,110 --> 00:38:59,710 I'm not sure the old lady should have any. 258 00:39:01,390 --> 00:39:06,590 What? She's dying. I think she's got typhoid. We need to prioritize people 259 00:39:06,590 --> 00:39:07,590 have a chance. 260 00:39:11,250 --> 00:39:12,250 Don't tell George. 261 00:39:13,270 --> 00:39:14,330 He'll only give her his. 262 00:39:15,930 --> 00:39:17,930 There's nothing else here. We can't stay. 263 00:39:23,930 --> 00:39:24,930 Run. 264 00:40:59,600 --> 00:41:01,280 Who is it? 265 00:42:53,550 --> 00:42:54,550 Shut us up, dude. 266 00:43:30,560 --> 00:43:32,420 Rog? What is it? 267 00:43:33,860 --> 00:43:34,860 Is he all right? 268 00:43:37,420 --> 00:43:41,540 Of course not. He's starving and his sickness is getting worse. 269 00:44:13,260 --> 00:44:15,160 We must think of something, Mrs. Teng. 270 00:44:55,120 --> 00:44:57,020 I tried to do this as often as I can. 271 00:44:59,400 --> 00:45:00,560 Did you ever see anything? 272 00:45:01,500 --> 00:45:02,700 No, nothing unusual. 273 00:45:04,100 --> 00:45:05,100 Except the planet. 274 00:45:10,360 --> 00:45:12,800 Mars isn't as close as it was five years ago. 275 00:45:15,100 --> 00:45:21,160 I think perhaps that they start doing things once they get into opposition. 276 00:45:23,740 --> 00:45:24,740 Look. 277 00:45:26,350 --> 00:45:27,350 Burning the bodies. 278 00:45:29,090 --> 00:45:30,310 There's fever in the village. 279 00:45:34,230 --> 00:45:36,330 I'll try to do a couple more hours before bedtime. 280 00:45:38,890 --> 00:45:40,050 Do you believe in God? 281 00:45:41,850 --> 00:45:42,850 Assuredly not. 282 00:45:44,050 --> 00:45:45,770 Then how do you explain the church arts? 283 00:45:46,310 --> 00:45:47,310 In what way? 284 00:45:47,350 --> 00:45:52,150 The church arts at Burial Ground have been the only fertile places in the last 285 00:45:52,150 --> 00:45:53,150 few years. 286 00:45:53,190 --> 00:45:54,510 So if you don't believe in... 287 00:45:56,770 --> 00:45:59,190 God. Miracles. Providence. How do you explain that? 288 00:46:00,690 --> 00:46:02,450 It's clearly something to do with the corpses. 289 00:46:03,830 --> 00:46:09,090 Either some nourishment that they give to the earth, or some rot from the 290 00:46:09,090 --> 00:46:11,230 putrefaction that repels the weed. 291 00:46:12,870 --> 00:46:15,570 Fasciitis bacteria, maybe. We did some experiments with that. 292 00:46:16,850 --> 00:46:20,570 Although most of my colleagues still believe that infection was caused by bad 293 00:46:20,570 --> 00:46:21,570 air. 294 00:46:23,130 --> 00:46:24,130 It didn't work. 295 00:46:27,379 --> 00:46:29,140 Perhaps it has something to do with God, then. 296 00:46:30,680 --> 00:46:31,680 Like they say. 297 00:46:33,280 --> 00:46:36,440 You put your hope in that rubbish, Mrs. Bing. We're in the Dark Ages. We're 298 00:46:36,440 --> 00:46:37,500 already in the Dark Ages. 299 00:46:56,650 --> 00:46:59,330 Now, I know things might look bleak, but let's keep our shins up. 300 00:46:59,990 --> 00:47:02,710 It's not all gloom and gloom. 301 00:47:02,930 --> 00:47:06,890 And whatever that thing is out there, we outnumber it. There's four of us 302 00:47:06,890 --> 00:47:08,370 against one creature. 303 00:47:10,270 --> 00:47:12,070 And clearly it doesn't know yet we're here. 304 00:47:14,350 --> 00:47:16,210 Therefore, we have an advantage. 305 00:47:16,890 --> 00:47:19,830 Let's not forget that chaps have been in situations like this before, and 306 00:47:19,830 --> 00:47:22,490 they've come out smiling. Just think of Baden -Potluck making. 307 00:47:23,330 --> 00:47:24,350 Key thing... 308 00:47:24,670 --> 00:47:29,590 It spells preservation and defense. So, firebombs. 309 00:47:31,470 --> 00:47:33,070 Make them from lamp oil. Come on. 310 00:47:33,670 --> 00:47:34,670 Come on. 311 00:47:35,110 --> 00:47:37,510 All hands to the pump. That means you two. 312 00:47:38,750 --> 00:47:40,650 Georgie, can you fill these bottles? 313 00:47:41,010 --> 00:47:45,170 How many matches? Amy, can you help me tear these into strips to make wigs? How 314 00:47:45,170 --> 00:47:46,170 many matches, Frederick? 315 00:47:47,950 --> 00:47:48,950 Two. 316 00:47:54,220 --> 00:47:55,440 It's Baden -Powell and Lave King. 317 00:47:56,220 --> 00:47:57,220 What? 318 00:47:59,800 --> 00:48:06,740 Don't you think that this... ...could 319 00:48:06,740 --> 00:48:07,740 be our fault? 320 00:48:08,240 --> 00:48:11,740 Whose? Us. Um, Englishmen. 321 00:48:14,320 --> 00:48:16,220 Are you quite serious? 322 00:48:16,600 --> 00:48:17,600 Yes. 323 00:48:17,880 --> 00:48:22,060 I mean, this is what we do, isn't it? We've been doing this to... 324 00:48:23,600 --> 00:48:25,160 People for years, people that know no better. 325 00:48:25,380 --> 00:48:26,780 Take a breath. No. 326 00:48:29,720 --> 00:48:31,100 What if this is punishment? 327 00:48:31,460 --> 00:48:32,460 It's not. 328 00:48:32,820 --> 00:48:33,900 Life doesn't work like that. 329 00:48:36,280 --> 00:48:43,280 Just think what it would have been like for a man in the jungle to have seen 330 00:48:43,280 --> 00:48:49,260 white people for the first time, to not have received friendship, but death, to 331 00:48:49,260 --> 00:48:50,260 be cut down by bullets. 332 00:48:50,940 --> 00:48:52,120 That is what we do. 333 00:48:53,070 --> 00:48:59,530 We move across the earth, and we take land, and we build railways, 334 00:48:59,710 --> 00:49:05,150 machines, and smoke, and metal, 335 00:49:05,230 --> 00:49:08,610 all in our own image. That is us. 336 00:49:10,370 --> 00:49:16,510 We cut people down with bullets and fire, when all they have is stones and 337 00:49:16,510 --> 00:49:19,250 spears. That's just rubbish, George. Why? 338 00:49:19,720 --> 00:49:22,560 Because it's just complete rubbish. Do you think that we bear some of the 339 00:49:22,720 --> 00:49:24,220 No, to be perfectly honest, I don't, no. 340 00:49:24,760 --> 00:49:26,340 Who do you think is punishing us? God? 341 00:49:26,900 --> 00:49:30,520 And do you think that's the same God that made us, also made them? You think 342 00:49:30,520 --> 00:49:34,020 that God created heaven and earth and Mars? 343 00:49:34,920 --> 00:49:35,920 Well, who else? 344 00:49:36,880 --> 00:49:38,780 God created Mars. 345 00:49:39,540 --> 00:49:42,340 And all the little old ladies up on Mars. 346 00:49:43,160 --> 00:49:47,040 They put on their best hats and they go to church on a Sunday and they sing 347 00:49:47,040 --> 00:49:50,400 hymns and there's a little Martian Jesus with all the little Martian Romans 348 00:49:50,400 --> 00:49:52,100 nails. Don't laugh at me! 349 00:49:52,500 --> 00:49:54,240 See, that is the problem with you lot! 350 00:49:56,040 --> 00:50:00,500 You're always trying to see the other chap's side, which is fine when you're 351 00:50:00,500 --> 00:50:04,820 sitting in your drawing room in Weybridge drinking sherry, but it 352 00:50:04,820 --> 00:50:07,180 when you are fighting for your life! 353 00:50:11,860 --> 00:50:12,860 Frederick. 354 00:50:16,750 --> 00:50:18,490 He can't stay here. None of us can. 355 00:50:19,230 --> 00:50:20,410 We have to leave. 356 00:51:05,130 --> 00:51:06,510 He's no better, Robbie. 357 00:51:07,210 --> 00:51:08,590 If anything, he's worse. 358 00:51:10,890 --> 00:51:12,850 What do you think they've got down in the village? 359 00:51:13,790 --> 00:51:15,790 Well, they're weak from lack of food. 360 00:51:16,970 --> 00:51:18,110 The water's bad. 361 00:51:18,330 --> 00:51:19,850 Do you think it could be typhoid fever? 362 00:51:22,810 --> 00:51:26,070 Can you culture typhoid? 363 00:51:27,370 --> 00:51:28,370 Oh, yes, I suppose. 364 00:51:28,870 --> 00:51:30,210 You mean make a serum? 365 00:51:30,490 --> 00:51:32,490 Yes, but just culture it. 366 00:51:34,730 --> 00:51:35,730 Well, yes, it could. 367 00:51:36,810 --> 00:51:38,830 If I had access to someone as sick. 368 00:51:46,410 --> 00:51:47,410 Why? 369 00:51:54,630 --> 00:51:56,530 I don't think that we killed them. 370 00:51:57,950 --> 00:52:01,810 And I mean that I don't think we killed them with guns. 371 00:52:06,589 --> 00:52:11,770 See, people were in hiding or they were isolated, they were far away, but I was 372 00:52:11,770 --> 00:52:12,770 there. 373 00:52:15,930 --> 00:52:18,230 I was there when they came out of their machines. 374 00:52:22,550 --> 00:52:23,930 They came out of their machines. 375 00:53:20,970 --> 00:53:21,970 Something's wrong with her. 376 00:53:22,650 --> 00:53:24,770 Maybe it's injured, or is it sick? 377 00:53:25,350 --> 00:53:26,990 Either way, this is our chance. 378 00:53:28,310 --> 00:53:29,710 And then we make a run for it. 379 00:53:30,070 --> 00:53:31,070 All of us. 380 00:53:31,350 --> 00:53:32,350 There's a way. 381 00:53:32,370 --> 00:53:33,550 Around the edge of the machine. 382 00:53:34,070 --> 00:53:35,070 Come on. 383 00:53:35,110 --> 00:53:36,110 Where is she? 384 00:53:36,130 --> 00:53:40,410 She... She's just going to get her... Come on, darling. 385 00:54:54,280 --> 00:54:59,740 I never told anyone how it, um... how it ended for me. 386 00:55:03,000 --> 00:55:04,640 I thought you said you couldn't remember. 387 00:55:06,840 --> 00:55:08,040 I didn't think I did. 388 00:55:12,080 --> 00:55:16,260 I think I've just... kept it locked away. 389 00:55:31,050 --> 00:55:33,190 It was easier not to remember. 390 00:55:56,680 --> 00:56:01,240 The thing is though, Puffy, they ate flesh. 391 00:56:06,480 --> 00:56:07,480 What? 392 00:56:11,300 --> 00:56:13,480 They ate human flesh. 393 00:57:21,450 --> 00:57:22,450 They ate flesh. 394 00:57:25,250 --> 00:57:27,710 They ate human flesh. 395 00:57:33,030 --> 00:57:38,370 I think that's what killed them. 396 00:58:07,160 --> 00:58:10,680 I saw it. People saw. 397 00:58:11,070 --> 00:58:13,830 Many things under great grief. Half of them are fairy stories. 398 00:58:14,230 --> 00:58:16,350 Fairy tales of people being eaten alive. 399 00:58:16,650 --> 00:58:18,810 It won't hurt just to let us in and try. 400 00:58:19,550 --> 00:58:20,550 No. 401 00:59:14,350 --> 00:59:15,350 He'll be fine. 402 00:59:15,610 --> 00:59:16,610 I promise you. 403 00:59:17,590 --> 00:59:18,590 We have to try. 404 01:00:01,260 --> 01:00:04,440 I need to go in in the morning because I need to give Greaves a column and a 405 01:00:04,440 --> 01:00:05,440 half. 406 01:00:05,660 --> 01:00:10,620 So then I'll hand in my notice. But I just have to finish this. 407 01:00:10,980 --> 01:00:13,240 I just have to finish this article first. 408 01:00:14,100 --> 01:00:15,100 All right, George. 409 01:00:17,800 --> 01:00:22,100 Just do it in the morning, yes? 410 01:00:23,220 --> 01:00:24,220 Mm -hmm. 411 01:01:04,360 --> 01:01:05,940 There must be something in the air. 412 01:01:06,860 --> 01:01:10,160 Or maybe it's in the meat, something they don't like, something that weakens 413 01:01:10,160 --> 01:01:11,160 them. 414 01:01:12,200 --> 01:01:14,140 It would be rather poetic, wouldn't it? 415 01:01:15,160 --> 01:01:19,980 If they'd studied us, if they'd... If they'd worked out how to do it. I 416 01:01:19,980 --> 01:01:22,880 every bit of pain that has come to me. 417 01:01:24,220 --> 01:01:27,120 It's just no fun, and I guarantee you'll have no liner. 418 01:01:28,460 --> 01:01:31,640 I've always been a coward. You broke my heart. I'm afraid to face up to your 419 01:01:31,640 --> 01:01:33,740 responsibility. It's his house. 420 01:01:34,420 --> 01:01:36,780 You emptied my life of all its best years. 421 01:01:37,180 --> 01:01:37,500 We 422 01:01:37,500 --> 01:01:45,160 should 423 01:01:45,160 --> 01:01:46,160 just call out to him. 424 01:01:47,120 --> 01:01:51,060 George! I'll go and speak to him. I'll go and reason with him. It must be worth 425 01:01:51,060 --> 01:01:51,999 the reason. 426 01:01:52,000 --> 01:01:53,360 Because it's intelligent, isn't it? 427 01:01:53,680 --> 01:01:58,240 It's intelligent, and this can't be the first meeting between it. I think it's 428 01:01:58,240 --> 01:02:00,620 just a terrible... George, stop! 429 01:02:00,900 --> 01:02:03,800 George, stop! Just for any reason... George, stop! 430 01:02:36,270 --> 01:02:40,030 I need to wait here for a while and it will die like the other one did. 431 01:03:34,640 --> 01:03:35,880 It was George Jr.'s. 432 01:03:36,220 --> 01:03:37,220 It was his. 433 01:03:39,640 --> 01:03:43,000 I used the blood I collected before we gave him the serum. 434 01:03:43,740 --> 01:03:45,900 I cultivated typhoid bacteria. 435 01:03:47,420 --> 01:03:50,920 Salmonella typhi, combined it with fasciitis, rotting flesh. 436 01:03:52,620 --> 01:03:53,620 It's dead. 437 01:03:54,500 --> 01:03:55,500 You killed it. 438 01:04:02,320 --> 01:04:03,320 It's a start. 439 01:04:04,400 --> 01:04:05,400 Me too. 440 01:04:11,760 --> 01:04:17,480 Perhaps not too late in the year to clear some land, plant some seeds, 441 01:04:17,660 --> 01:04:20,640 and we can just make it through another year. 442 01:04:22,460 --> 01:04:26,680 There's no guarantee that things will grow, but this is how we do it. 443 01:04:26,980 --> 01:04:30,440 Not by praying, not by saluting the bloody Union Jack. 444 01:04:32,860 --> 01:04:34,680 When he's better, Mrs. Thing. 445 01:04:35,460 --> 01:04:41,440 I would like to take George for a swim in the sea without him being clogged up 446 01:04:41,440 --> 01:04:42,440 with all that horrid stuff. 447 01:04:47,200 --> 01:04:48,920 I should like a bacon sandwich. 448 01:04:50,980 --> 01:04:52,000 It's a start. 449 01:04:52,260 --> 01:04:53,260 It's a start. 450 01:05:05,290 --> 01:05:07,730 It's proof of nothing. It's hardly anything. 451 01:05:07,970 --> 01:05:09,170 Take it or leave it, sir. 452 01:05:10,250 --> 01:05:11,250 It's dying. 453 01:05:12,550 --> 01:05:17,410 And the victory, the knowledge of victory, the knowledge that God and 454 01:05:17,410 --> 01:05:21,590 Britain repelled the creatures, you would take that away and have the men 455 01:05:21,590 --> 01:05:24,930 instead that it was their own rot that was humanity's salvation. 456 01:05:25,350 --> 01:05:29,330 I think it's more suggestive of a higher purpose that the Martians were killed 457 01:05:29,330 --> 01:05:32,230 by the smallest creatures that God put on the planet. 458 01:05:32,940 --> 01:05:36,740 That we have learned to fight off or live with over millions of years at the 459 01:05:36,740 --> 01:05:38,540 cost of millions of lives. 460 01:05:39,080 --> 01:05:43,440 That's not Christianity, sir. That's Darwinism. All survival is built on 461 01:05:43,440 --> 01:05:45,740 sacrifice. And that is a fact. 462 01:05:50,780 --> 01:05:52,280 Something else to happen soon. 463 01:06:37,200 --> 01:06:39,880 George, I'm all right. Please, lie down. 464 01:06:47,180 --> 01:06:48,180 Amy. 465 01:06:48,600 --> 01:06:49,600 What? 466 01:06:51,340 --> 01:06:53,320 I don't think anything's going to happen to him. 467 01:06:56,320 --> 01:06:57,840 I don't think it's going to go away. 468 01:07:09,260 --> 01:07:10,260 to reason, doesn't it? 469 01:07:12,460 --> 01:07:13,460 There's two of us. 470 01:07:16,020 --> 01:07:17,020 And there's one of it. 471 01:07:19,620 --> 01:07:20,618 Can't get us both. 472 01:07:20,620 --> 01:07:21,620 What? 473 01:07:22,960 --> 01:07:23,960 I'm a nice fellow. 474 01:07:25,360 --> 01:07:26,360 I'll just talk to it. 475 01:07:28,480 --> 01:07:32,180 And I'll tell it that I have a... I have a wife. 476 01:07:44,170 --> 01:07:45,310 I would very much like to spare. 477 01:07:45,930 --> 01:07:47,390 Please, George, don't. 478 01:10:52,620 --> 01:10:54,880 He'd gone half mad with typhoid. 479 01:10:56,000 --> 01:10:57,440 We were in an orphanage. 480 01:10:57,900 --> 01:10:59,320 I'd been there for days. 481 01:11:00,820 --> 01:11:02,100 There was a creature there. 482 01:11:05,240 --> 01:11:06,520 It had killed the others. 483 01:11:08,140 --> 01:11:09,720 It was only George and I left. 484 01:11:12,780 --> 01:11:15,200 And he wanted to go out and tell it that we were there. 485 01:11:17,160 --> 01:11:18,240 I wouldn't let him. 486 01:11:24,910 --> 01:11:30,450 And then eventually, the days passed and we were 487 01:11:30,450 --> 01:11:33,550 dying of thirst. 488 01:11:40,530 --> 01:11:42,050 I knew I'd lose the baby. 489 01:11:46,750 --> 01:11:47,910 So I let him go. 490 01:11:50,390 --> 01:11:51,870 And I was able to get away. 491 01:11:57,450 --> 01:11:59,150 I didn't see him die. I just ran. 492 01:12:01,070 --> 01:12:03,050 I suppose I've always hoped he lived. 493 01:12:04,850 --> 01:12:06,650 Why have you carried this for so long? 494 01:12:07,590 --> 01:12:08,670 How could I not? 495 01:12:12,110 --> 01:12:13,110 Amy. 496 01:12:14,710 --> 01:12:17,750 You had a child growing inside you. 497 01:12:19,370 --> 01:12:22,310 One of the last children to be born here. 498 01:12:23,490 --> 01:12:26,370 Perhaps even one of the last children ever to be born. 499 01:12:27,950 --> 01:12:29,250 George was delirious. 500 01:12:31,590 --> 01:12:33,130 Probably dying in any case. 501 01:12:35,150 --> 01:12:36,630 So how can you blame yourself? 502 01:12:41,730 --> 01:12:43,550 You were not being selfish. 503 01:12:44,990 --> 01:12:51,830 You did this impossible thing in order that your child might be born 504 01:12:51,830 --> 01:12:53,090 and might live. 505 01:12:54,110 --> 01:12:56,610 In which case that makes me no better than them. 506 01:12:57,310 --> 01:12:59,750 If I do unspeakable things just to survive. 507 01:13:01,010 --> 01:13:05,710 For one, I fell in love with George and he was married to a perfectly good 508 01:13:05,710 --> 01:13:06,710 woman. 509 01:13:07,370 --> 01:13:08,810 I took him for myself. 510 01:13:11,250 --> 01:13:14,770 She's on the list. She's in a plague pit somewhere in Highgate. 511 01:13:15,790 --> 01:13:19,350 And perhaps if George had been there to take care of her, then maybe she'd be 512 01:13:19,350 --> 01:13:20,430 alive now. 513 01:13:22,050 --> 01:13:23,150 These things happen. 514 01:13:23,350 --> 01:13:25,190 What good has it done? Look at him. 515 01:13:28,170 --> 01:13:29,450 I haven't been any sort of mother. 516 01:13:31,990 --> 01:13:32,990 Look at him. 517 01:13:35,450 --> 01:13:36,450 He's on his own. 518 01:13:38,290 --> 01:13:39,290 No. 519 01:13:42,310 --> 01:13:45,030 Amy, he's alive. 520 01:13:47,510 --> 01:13:48,850 And that's what counts. 521 01:13:51,030 --> 01:13:52,210 Life is what counts. 522 01:17:50,670 --> 01:17:51,730 Tell me about things. 523 01:17:55,270 --> 01:17:58,550 Things in the world. 524 01:18:22,160 --> 01:18:23,260 You'll move up then. 525 01:18:25,500 --> 01:18:26,500 Come here. 526 01:18:34,580 --> 01:18:40,620 You know, George, there's lots of marvellous things. 527 01:18:43,460 --> 01:18:47,960 Where I grew up, people didn't look like us here. 528 01:18:49,220 --> 01:18:50,800 They had brown skin. 529 01:18:52,670 --> 01:18:56,330 And often they were very poor. 530 01:18:58,190 --> 01:18:59,970 Didn't always have enough to eat. 531 01:19:02,670 --> 01:19:03,770 You know what? 532 01:19:04,870 --> 01:19:08,650 They were so cheerful and so happy. 533 01:19:10,330 --> 01:19:13,310 And they wore really bright colours. 534 01:19:14,750 --> 01:19:19,750 And the sun... 535 01:19:21,800 --> 01:19:26,260 And the sun shone there. It was so warm. 536 01:19:27,780 --> 01:19:28,940 So bright. 537 01:19:31,160 --> 01:19:38,020 And the sky wasn't grey and 538 01:19:38,020 --> 01:19:39,020 pink. 539 01:19:40,380 --> 01:19:41,660 It was blue. 540 01:19:43,640 --> 01:19:44,740 Clear blue. 541 01:19:47,700 --> 01:19:49,180 And a lot of animals. 542 01:19:51,020 --> 01:19:53,600 sorts of birds of different colours. 543 01:19:54,600 --> 01:19:56,640 Tigers, mongoose, snakes. 544 01:20:00,800 --> 01:20:02,220 And there were the mountains. 545 01:20:03,740 --> 01:20:10,500 The mountains were... And they were bigger than you could even dream, 546 01:20:10,980 --> 01:20:17,500 And they were purple, black, grey. Some of them were even white with snow. 547 01:20:20,910 --> 01:20:21,990 Cold, white snow. 548 01:20:25,010 --> 01:20:29,930 I used to go visit my father up there, be drawing maps. 549 01:20:33,550 --> 01:20:39,670 And one day, when I was a little bit older, I got 550 01:20:39,670 --> 01:20:41,670 on a ship. 551 01:20:42,750 --> 01:20:48,330 I sailed across the oceans and I came here. 552 01:20:51,310 --> 01:20:53,890 And I got off the ship and I thought, oh, 553 01:20:54,850 --> 01:20:55,850 it's a little bit rainy. 554 01:20:58,810 --> 01:21:00,190 And I thought it was pretty. 555 01:21:02,670 --> 01:21:04,010 A bit of the countryside. 556 01:21:06,710 --> 01:21:08,130 And the hitties. 557 01:21:10,970 --> 01:21:11,970 People. 558 01:21:14,070 --> 01:21:15,070 Millions of people. 559 01:21:18,690 --> 01:21:19,690 And children. 560 01:21:21,000 --> 01:21:22,860 Thousands of children, children everywhere. 561 01:21:24,800 --> 01:21:29,420 Playing and laughing, singing and eventually going to sleep. 562 01:21:33,800 --> 01:21:35,440 One day can we go then? 563 01:21:47,420 --> 01:21:49,520 I will start packing our bags. 564 01:22:03,690 --> 01:22:04,690 No, no, mommy. 565 01:22:17,570 --> 01:22:18,610 I love you. 566 01:24:53,200 --> 01:24:57,940 Do you like me spend hours poring over books and magazines trying to dream up 567 01:24:57,940 --> 01:25:01,880 the perfect home? 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