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How is she? Epona.

I think it's beginning to hit home,

what she was about to...

Come with me now, love.

You here for the festival?

I am.

What do you think of these people?

I think Epona's hiding something.

Do you know about her father?

Sam, Jason's not dangerous!

I need to get off this island.

My wife doesn't know where I am.

And none of the phones are working.

The causeway doesn't open until the morning.

In the meantime, I suggest you settle in,

and get good and pissed.

There's something familiar about your face.

So, you have been here before?

You can't leave.

Stop!

Nathan!

Come back!

Oh, no.

Oh fuck.

I mean, did we actually have sex? Because,

maybe we didn't.

I mean, maybe we just... slept.

Do you remember? I...

I don't remember anything.

What the fuck are you looking for? My boots.

I can't find my boots anywhere.

Oh shit.

There's tissues. Oh shit.

We fucked, didn't we?

If my husband finds out... How will he find out?

He finds shit out.

Did you use a condom?

I don't have condoms.

You asshole! Do you have condoms?

Why would I have condoms? I'm married.

So am I!

Look, th-this is not who I am.

Oh, Jesus Christ. I get pregnant at the drop of a hat.

Thank you. Thank you so much.

There he is!

Fun night last night?

That's Osea for you.

Our festival's gonna be the effing bee's bananas,

as my wife would say.

Got a nice pot of tea here.

I'm gonna give you and Mrs. Paffard

the full English like you've never had it.

Full Osea, I like to call it. You didn't wake me up.

I-I missed the causeway.

And you were gonna bring Epona to me.

Well, I did come to wake you, Sam,

but when I stood outside your door,

I realized that I couldn't disturb you.

Um, not my business at all.

I do not make judgments.

Look, I really need to get home. My wife doesn't know where I am.

I couldn't even call her yester-- Is there a boat?

Well, we were relying on Tomo's runabout if anything happened,

but he went and ran it into the blooming jetty day before yesterday.

Look, there's no phones.

Causeway doesn't open until 4:06.

Don't you deserve to just relax?

Let us spoil you?

We'd love that.

Oh God, butter.

Look, I'm sorry. It's just...

the situation with my husband is complex.

After my first was born, it got bad.

I was really down,

you know? Post-natal, uh...

Oh, no. No, it was him.

Being with him.

So, I was gonna leave.

I had a plan to take her and get out,

and then I got pregnant again.

And I just couldn't.

So, after my second was born, I spiraled.

There was this whole period where I got lost

in booze and people and--

My husband got the courts involved. He's so...

manipulative and clever,

and he made it look like I--

He has custody,

so I don't sleep with people.

I don't drink.

I don't do anything that might affect me seeing my girls.

He's not here.

He's not gonna find out.

Promise?

What is it these people believe?

Christianity.

With a bit of-- Look, the ancient Celts

believed Osea was the soul of the world.

So, when Charrington came here for his great experiment,

he needed belief.

So Charrington became the father of the island,

the first in 2,000 years,

and it worked.

A society of criminals and addicts lived

in blissful, hippie harmony.

When he died, his son took over,

and then his son after that, and so on and so on...

What, they passed it on? Seriously?

I mean, it's not like he's a king or anything.

They just kinda...

I don't know, they trust him.

My granddad was stationed here during the war.

You know it was a military base? Right.

He never talked about it, never.

You asked him, he would clam up like he'd been at Belsen.

I mean, don't you find this all a bit fucking weird?

Yes,

but so is Catholicism and crystals

and quantum physics, but hey.

Whatever gets you through the day.

I mean, these are good people.

They've always been amazing to me,

which is why it freaks me out that

they've discovered I'm a whore.

Don't say that.

It happened. You know, we both did it.

You can regret it-- I don't.

I don't regret it.

At all.

Now, here we are.

Now, a full Osea is not a full Osea without...

Yeah. Very rare.

Slip of couple of them sloppies down your neck,

you'll be right as rain.

Well, they're full of zinc!

Hand her the fuck over!

What'd you fuckin' say to me?! What'd you fuckin' say?!

Alright, alright... I'm calm.

Here.

Wanker said you need shoes.

Thank you.

How's Epona?

Alive.

Can I see her?

Why?

You don't trust us?

I'm not saying that. I just...

You know, the festival and...

She's up at the Big House. The Big House?

What you said, it's been taken note of.

They're talking to her.

We need the festival. We're on our knees,

but we won't put it before that girl.

I told her about your loss.

I wanted her to see that she's not alone in feeling pain.

So, what? You think we're...

connected then? Why?

'Cause I found her?

Maybe you were meant to find her.

I don't believe in stuff like that.

No, you don't think you do, Sam.

But you just might.

Somewhere in you.

I'll bring her to you when they're done,

but it might be a while, yeah?

Burn the sin from his soul!

Sear all doubt in his mind.

For he hath sacrificed!

In the name of the Christ...

take this man! In the name of the Lord,

take this man!

And in the name of the sea and the land,

take this man, God,

and strike redemption into his heart!

Burn the sin from his soul,

which thou hath made separate.

And these things we fight inside this sinner.

Oh God, was it not said?

He reveals deep and secret things...

and He knows what is in the darkness.

For oh God, was it not said...

I will fill your mountains with the dead!

The hills, valleys, streams,

with bodies, slaughtered by the sword.

For oh God, was it not said...

woe unto the inhabiters of the Earth

...for the devil has come down onto thee!

Now, I want you to look at this man that kneels before me.

See what he has lost!

The blood of his blood has been spilled for you!

Oh Lord, take this sacrifice from this man.

Let him swim in the sea of your love.

Take the blood of his blood...

that we have spilled for you.

Show him redemption! Drown him!

Until he is clean...

They said you'd be down here.

Yeah, hiding my slutty face.

God knows what they're saying.

No one cares about gossip, Jess.

Everyone cares about gossip!

Sam, I wanted to apologize about what I said this morning.

I know not everyone's marriage is as fucked up as mine--

I'm-I'm-I'm not sorry you said it.

I've been through stuff as well, Jess.

What you said and what we did...

made me feel like I could actually breathe.

What stuff?

My son was murdered.

They found his body in a river on the mainland.

Near here.

Yesterday was the anniversary.

Every year, I...

put another piece of his clothing in that water.

It's the only way we can let go of him, one piece at a time.

Sam...

My God, I--

Stop. You don't have to say anything...

clever or wise. It's not like in a film.

I don't live it every second of every day.

You go to work, you watch TV...

you feel guilty about

the gym membership you don't use.

You just happen to have a hole inside you that doesn't heal.

What happened?

I arranged to meet this man...

near Maldon.

He was a friend of my granddad.

Just out of curiosity.

I decided to take Nathan.

And the man didn't show up, so we had a spare day.

I found a fair.

And we were there.

I took this call, this very intense call.

And I turned around...

And he was gone.

He just wasn't there.

You know what it's like.

When you lose them for a second and in that moment,

your whole world drops.

Well, it was like that, but it never went away.

He was missing for two weeks.

He hadn't been abused, it was nothing like that.

The man just took him.

His name was Goltan.

I remember they made a big fuss about that at the time.

Name like a supervillain. You know, "Goltan."

In truth, he was...

a Romanian guy with learning difficulties.

He'd had previous convictions in his own country.

So...

Came forward and confessed, and then he killed himself

before he went to trial,

so we never found out why he did it.

Oh God...

Your wife.

Your poor wife.

You haven't done anything.

Okay, we're still together. We love each other,

but pain doesn't work that way.

You can't share it.

Agony's...

Agony's bespoke. Yours is yours, theirs is theirs.

Mostly, grief's just...

lonely.

So we've done that. That's over with.

Should we talk about something else?

Tell me about all this. Sam.

Tell me, please. Jesus, Sam--

Please.

Okay.

So there's a trinity of gods:

Teutates, Taranis, and Esus.

But, you know, actually-- Esus is the one from the festival.

Yeah.

Their priests would dress as things from the sea,

and take non-Celts-- Picts and Gauls--

and bring them here for sacrifice.

Uh, for Taranis, it was drowning,

for Teutates, fire, and Esus, hanging.

But they're not so keen to talk about it these days

'cause it might not be great for the festival to know

you're glamping on the site of a sustained ethnic genocide.

Hm.

If you wanna know more about it, you should talk to Mimir.

The stuff he has found-- Mimir, you said Mimir.

Yeah, he's the archaeologist, or they call him that because he--

Wait, why? Do you know him?

No, no.

Hello?

Are you okay?

Are you Mimir?

Are you Mimir?

Do you know who I am?

Why do you have this?

Did you see my son?

What did we do to you?

What did you do to me?

Mimir, you cunt! Go!

Don't open it!

Go!

You've been talking, cunt.

Never! I love Osea.

You can get rid of all this shit.

It's been lying out in the open too long.

He wants to talk to you, boy.

Somethin' big's happening.

Come on.

Come on, good boy!

Hey!

Hey!

Who is that?

Alright, listen. This isn't...

If you're trying to frighten me--

I'm not interested in--

Alright, what are you gonna do?

Hm?

What exactly are you gonna do?

Ah!

You fucking...

My child is dead.

No, no, no, that can't be--

Because of you.

No...

I saved her-- Do not fuckin' talk.

Okay?

I know what you feel.

I know its heat.

You want to pretend you don't hate.

I see hate dripping from you.

You wanna rip flesh open.

And that's what I want.

I wanna do it right now.

No...

You don't have to-- You don't have to give into that.

What if I want to?

What if I wanna give in?

Kill you right now.

Don't, please...

It's coming.

The darkness.

The darkness is coming.

Help me with this.

What? We have to get off the island.

They're chasing me!

Who? Men in masks. Those big fucking masks they wear.

There were men. Sam, Sam, that's the Sajora.

That's just this tradition here.

It's not the tradition. I know the tradition.

This wasn't the tradition. It was people trying to fucking kill me.

Jess, they threw a lump of metal at my head.

A chunk of... motorbike,

and it crashed inches from my face!

Oh my God. Yeah, I only got away because

Epona's dad showed up with a shotgun

and fired-fired at them. He fired a fucking gun?

Yes! And they ran and then I thought he was gonna kill me!

Why would he kill you?

Because Epona's dead. What?

No. Sam, I just spoke to Mr. Martin--

No, he was lying! He said she's fine! She's--

Her father told me.

She's dead. No, no, no. Well, maybe he was lying.

I mean, that guy is a fucking mess. He wasn't lying.

I know what it feels like to lose a child,

and that man has lost a child.

I saw things, Jess.

Flesh and mutilation, and her top covered in blood.

Oh my God. And Mimir? Mimir...

he had this.

You said he was an archaeologist.

No, no, no. That's just what they call him

because he likes to dig around in the past.

I think-- I think he's a doctor. A coroner!

He was a coroner. He was looking into my son's death.

We never met him.

And now he's living here.

And Epona's dead the day after trying to hang herself

in the exact spot where Nathan was-was-was found.

They're connected. And these fucking people

know about it, and they-- W-w-what do you mean?

Like-- like a serial thing?

No. No, something else. Some kind of serial...

What? Y-you talked of...

sacrifice here.

Sacrifice?

Sam, that was 2,000 years ago! Look at this place.

Is there anything fucking normal here?

I found dead animals all over this island.

Who's doing that? And there are pictures down there

hanging on the wall of Jack the Ripper's victims.

Is that standard?

Men in masks have just chased me!

Someone nearly shot me! Okay,

if this is all true, then what do we do? We get off the island!

We find a phone, we call the police now. Okay, how?

Can you swim?

What the fuck? Yeah, no, I can't.

I'm a terrible swimmer. You mean across there? No,

I can't swim two miles to the mainland. They talked of a boat,

Tomo's boat...

Oh, they said it was, uh, broken.

Okay. Well, um,

well, if they're lying about that-- How do we get off--

You in there?

We wanna have a little chat with you about all this silliness.

Sam, let Mrs. Paffard come out now, please.

She's not got to do with any of this.

Oh, Sam. Don't be silly now.

That ain't gonna stop anything, is it?

Are you serious? Take it.

Sam... Are we gonna hurt people?

We're coming in now, okay?

Fuck me, you are a silly sausage.

Nice cup of tea.

I took the liberty of putting a drop of whiskey in there.

Oh, don't be a fucking arsehole.

Fair enough, love. Epona,

are you alright?

My neck's a bit sore, but yeah. I'm okay.

Epona, if there's something, anything, going on

here in this place that scares you--

You don't have the right-- I'm talking to Epona.

What is it you people believe in?

We're Christians. Christians?

What? And-and-and that wall and the symbols? I mean...

what, what, what, Jack the bloody Ripper?

Goodness sakes, Sam...

Someone once said Charrington was Saucy Jack.

That's for the tourists, that's all! Sam...

Really? What, you think this is fine? I was chased.

They tried to kill me.

Kill you? I don't think kill you.

They threw a chunk of metal

at my skull!

They chased me--

Ah, here's Tomo.

Alright. Who's this?

Did you chase this man?

Who threw the metal at him?

Sorry.

Sorry?

You could've taken his flip-darned head off!

Your dad's out there, Peter Roberts,

and we'll tell him what you've been up to!

What's so funny?

Nothing.

Eh? You! Nothing.

Go on! Flip off!

There's your killers.

It wasn't them.

What? Oh, for heaven's sake, Sam.

They were bigger, they...

I mean, the clothes, yes.

Jess. Look, this isn't...

Her dad told me she was dead.

He said that?

He said Epona's dead?

He said, "My child is dead."

That's not Epona.

Sam, yours isn't the only tragedy remembered

this time of year.

Jason had a son, Epona's brother.

It was an accident with a combine,

Jason was operating.

Around this time, things really get bad for him.

He spins out. Then why did he blame me?

Sam, he blames everyone.

No, something's going on.

I've seen anger, arguments--

Does that surprise you

when you're saying what you're saying about this girl's father?

Okay, it's not just this. It's-it's not that. It's just--

It's like I've been here before. I saw something.

It was bloody and violent.

Where did you see blood? It was...

I had this dream. Sam...

A fucking dream?! No! No, I know how that sounds. It was so violent.

She was mutilated! Alright, that's enough!

Epona, you can talk to me, okay? Leave her alone.

I'm talking to her!

Epona, if something happened here,

something's scaring you-- No,

don't look at her. Look at me.

Is there someone frightening you here on the island?

Who?

You.

Epona, why don't you

and shit-for-brains go and sort out our teas?

Come on, Epona.

Something appalling happened to you.

It reached down inside you,

and ripped a piece of you out.

Killed it dead.

And all the time you were saying,

"No, no, don't blame them."

When really, you were raging inside.

No, I didn't...

No, that's not true.

But rage will out, Sam.

Grief wants its pound of flesh.

It wants mayhem and chaos and havoc.

It wants to destroy.

Now, I understand that.

But I'm not letting it happen here.

We never got to see him.

His body, you know?

The current took him over a weir, and he was...

too damaged...

to view.

I mean, he was-- he was dead.

There was no doubt.

But it just felt so unfinished.

You go. You don't get to touch or hold...

There was this time after...

episodic psychosis, they called it,

but I don't think they knew what it was.

I'd suddenly be convinced

that everyone was lying about it.

I accused people.

The neighbors, the police.

Cas' father one time.

I have no memory of doing it.

The worst was when, uh...

I thought--

I thought he was still alive, and then I'd remember,

and the, uh, the hurt was...

It's true what she says about the rage.

Publicly, I was, "Don't blame immigrants.

Don't blame-- don't blame them."

But inside...

I just had to see a Roma man, and I-I'd...

I'd get this blind rage.

What is that? What the fuck is that?

That's grief.

That is just grief.

Is it?

Because I don't know.

How's Epona? Alive.

She's alive because of you.

Back home, I feel like I might lose my girls every single day.

He won't even let me outta the country

unless he has someone he trusts to spy on me.

But what you went through,

I don't have a clue what that is like.

I've never been even remotely close to that.

I think I recognize things here.

Like I've been here.

You know you haven't, right?

You know you can't recognize things.

They told me to tell you the causeway closes in 20 minutes.

But they also said that you're welcome to stay...

for the dry run of the festival.

You should go.

I know you have to go.

Shit. I'm sorry.

Sound Tech One, two. One, two...

No!

I'm sorry.

No. I'm sorry.

I said stuff that--

No, not about that.

What? What about?

I don't want you to go.

Why? Why don't you want that?

Heave!

Heave! Heave!

Heave!

Oh my God! Fireworks and shit!

Are you pissed?

I am so pissed.

That didn't take long.

Yeah, that's me.

Do you feel that?

It's safe.

Now that's what they have here.

No wonder they wanna preserve it.

And you said that's what you wanted for your family.

Well, if you lived here, you'd already have it.

Maybe. Maybe my ass.

There's something special about this place.

All the bullshit,

they don't care.

When was the last time you really let go, Sam?

Don't know. Long time. Mm...

This place just fucking begs you to.

Doesn't it?

What are you up to?

Oh my God, are you kidding?

What? Jesus, that's for kids! Christ!

How old are you?

How old are you? Me? I'm not doing that.

Oh. No, you're right. You shouldn't,

considering...

It's just they pack the kids away to bed in a minute,

and then this place is really gonna start...

rocking!

Seriously? Dropping acid?

What, you never done it?

Yeah, but in my 20s.

And did you like it?

Who are you?

This person.

This husband something terrible happened to.

Is that it?

Well, you're none of that here.

Not tonight.

Tonight, you're whoever the fuck you wanna be.

A vacation from Sam.

And all his woes,

for one night...

only! No, no, no!

Don't do that.

You--

You're off your head! I will be in a minute.

Come with me.

Come on.

In the name of the Father,

and the Son,

and the hairy toast.

Are you getting anything yet?

When was the last time you said that sentence?

June 1998.

Oh, fuck. What?

I might be getting something.

Yeah, I think I am.

Actually, I think you might be right.

It's snowing.

What's those lights? That's the village.

Right. Is it?

Yeah, it is. Okay.

Where's the bonfire?

It's on the other side.

We should go there.

Just wait a minute. Okay.

Sam?

Was that the right thing to do?

Just wait here. I'm gonna come right back.

Okay. Oo-kay.

Little doggies.

Is the fire coming out?

What? There is no fire.

It's dead.

Is it?

I thought it was coming out, like,

coming out of the--

Come with us.

What?

Are you with us now?

What are you talking about?

Sam, you need to come with us.

Are you two off your tits?

Larry's coming for you.

What? What do you mean?

They've got weapons, Sam.

Knives, hatchets, we've only just found out.

They want you dead, Sam, they mean it.

What did he say?

Why?

Something to do with Epona.

What? No, no, no. No, no, no. You and Epona.

We need to get you away from here.

You have to fucking trust me.

Where's Jess? We left her with my husband.

Stay with me, don't get separated.

I need to see that the coast is clear. You stay here, okay?

Are you going? I'll be five minutes, I promise.

Don't, please...

Oh! Ah! Ah!

Ah!

Hello?

Someone there?

Epona?

Is that you?

Corrected by == Flatto (subscene.com) ==

They did things to me.

Like a ceremony.

Can you feel it coming? The darkness?

We on this island bear such responsibility.

We were in decline. The world was in decline.

We panicked.

What are they doing?

They're looking for him.

The whole city's getting dragged into this now.

Flipping-- This is bad. This is really flipping bad.

Listen to me. I wanna get off this island!

Is now the time

that you're gonna give in to the rage?