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[seagulls cawing] [waves crashing]

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[Frankie sobbing]

- [Hooded figure] That's not the way to do it, you know.

[foreboding music]

- What do you mean?

[foreboding music continues]

Dad?

[soft tense music]

Dad, is that you?

[Frankie screaming loudly] [maniacal laughing]

[seagulls cawing]

♪ Down the lanes of foggy chimneys ♪

♪ Through the little seaside towns ♪

♪ Strides the east wind like a dragon ♪

♪ Strewing leaves on ragged ground ♪

♪ Winter's planting icicles ♪

♪ Along the barren shore ♪

♪ And the Punch and Judy man is gone forever ♪

[seagulls cawing] [melodic guitar music]

♪ Mr. Punch and Judy man ♪

♪ Time flows like the yellow sand ♪

♪ Bring me back the childhood land of summers long ago ♪

♪ Hear the ghosts of penny arcades ♪

♪ Jingle jangle on the pier ♪

♪ Gone the sound of laughing children ♪

♪ Fading with the dying year ♪

♪ Songs of sunshine leave the world ♪

♪ To winter's where we wait ♪

♪ And the Punch and Judy man is gone forever ♪

♪ Mr. Punch and Judy man ♪

♪ Time flows like the yellow sand ♪

♪ Bring me back the childhood land of summers long ago ♪

- [Julia] Remember that day?

You were so happy, so happy here.

[seagulls cawing]

- I look happy, yeah, but now I don't remember,

those days at the beach all kind of blur into one, you know.

- Yeah, it was one of those rare days

that your dad was home, he took the photo.

Mobiles didn't have cameras back then,

you had to send them off to get them developed.

- All right, Grandma.

- I'm just saying,

you couldn't take 1000 selfies

to get the perfect one like you can now.

And no filters either.

- I've seen your Instagram thirst straps.

You're a huge fan of filters now.

- Well, what can I say? My DMs were on fire.

Maybe you should try it,

get a bit of male attention for once in your life.

- I'll keep quiet that those bikini pics

are from 2008, yeah?

- Oh yeah, yeah.

Don't go telling the world your mum's secrets.

According to my Insta, we're sisters.

What's got into you today?

I mean, even by your standards,

you look like someone's pissed on your chips.

- Do you want a cup of tea?

- What do you want?

You never offer to make tea.

- You got me.

- Oh, you're not pregnant, are you?

- Oh, as if!

- Oh, thank fuck for that. [sighing]

Right, come on, spit it out.

Elton's on his way over and I need to get my slap on

and get out of these fat housewife clothes.

- Okay.

[Frankie sighing]

Look...

I'm gonna go back to uni, not for long.

But you know, I need to finish this term at least,

or I'm gonna fail.

Look, I'm sorry.

- Well, isn't everything online these days?

I mean, you can just do it from home.

- I wish it was, but my course, you know, it's hands on.

- Whose hands, is this what this is about, some boy?

- Mum, stop it. You'll be fine.

- Oh, I'll be fine, will I?

Oh, I didn't know you were studying something useful

like psychiatry now.

- Mum, stop it, don't do this, please.

- Do what?

What, you think that I like calling my daughter for help

when I'm lying on the bathroom floor

in a pool of my own blood?

What, you think that was just for attention?

[gentle melodic music]

- That won't happen again.

Look, I know you, you're stronger than you think you are.

You raised me pretty much single-handedly.

You're a strong independent woman.

- I'm not fucking Beyonce.

- You're dating, you've got friends.

You're the star at the local karaoke,

even though you're pretty fucking far from being Beyonce.

Look.

I'll be back by the summer,

you know, for like three months.

And until then, I'm only a phone call away.

So if you ever wanna talk, I'll be there for you,

day or night, come on.

[gentle melodic music]

- So you're pissing off to uni now, are you?

- No, Mum, I'm not pissing off.

I'm going tomorrow. Bag's packed, train's booked.

I'm gonna go meet Holly for a coffee, but I'll be back later

and we can get a takeaway or something.

Get a bottle of wine.

- Fucking Holly.

What's that woke idiot up to, saving the gay dolphins?

- I'll tell her you say hi.

- Yeah, well, don't bother coming back.

Elton will be banging my brains out tonight.

- Geez, Mum, too much information.

- Come on, Frankie, I don't mean it.

You'll like Elton, I promise,

he's really funny when you get to know him.

- I'm sure he is.

- Always running away from your responsibilities

one way or another.

You're as bad as your fucking dad!

[gentle tense music]

Frankie.

Frankie baby, please don't do this.

Please, you just don't understand!

[door thudding]

[Julia sighing]

[seagulls cawing]

[gentle tense music]

[soft ominous Music]

- Rah! [laughing]

I didn't scare you, did I?

- No.

- [Elton] Is your mum in?

- [Frankie] Yeah, she's expecting you.

- Have I done something to upset you?

Is everything all right, sweetheart?

- Don't call me sweetheart.

- I know you don't trust me,

but I have only got your mum's best interests at heart.

- She's single, you're single.

None of my business, is it?

Just don't fuck her over, yeah?

- She's stronger than she looks, you know.

- That's still no excuse to fuck someone over.

- All right, all right, geez!

[seagulls cawing]

[soft tense music]

[soft tense music continues]

[soft tense music continues]

- Cheer up, love, might never happen.

You know what you need?

You need to get your laughing gear round this.

Oi, I'm talking to you, sweetheart.

[foreboding music]

On the house, such a pretty girl.

- You're dripping, mate.

- Oi, I'll see you around, yeah?

[gentle tense music]

[seagull cawing]

- So go on, spill it.

Your updates on the socials

have been sparse to say the least.

- [Frankie] It's different.

- Thanks.

Thanks for the update, vague book.

- I don't know what to tell you.

The people are nice, mostly,

some of them are a bit fucking posh, of course.

- How's the boys?

- They're also different.

Very different from the boys around here.

- Oh, lucky you.

How's your course?

- Um, it's going great, yeah.

Well, I mean it was until I missed my last three weeks,

but yeah.

[background pop music]

- How's your mum doing?

- Um...

She, ah, [laughs] she says hi,

but yeah, she's okay, I think, I hope.

Um, she's got a new boyfriend at least.

- Oh, good for her.

- He's Dave Jameson's dad.

- That dickhead. - Do you know him?

- He works for the council, that's all.

Had a few run-ins with them.

- Still trying to change the world, eh?

- Just this tiny, shitty corner of it.

- So who fancies the special, Bob's fresh sausages?

I can even batter them for you.

- No, mate, we're vegans.

- [Bob] Well, sod you then.

- Men, always trying to show us their meat.

- Hol,

ignore him.

I am sorry, you know.

[background pop music]

- I was worried.

Everyone was worried, especially after...

You're not the only person to vanish in this town

and never be seen again.

- This place, it gets a hold on you,

drags you down, I needed to go and not look back.

- And not even tell your best mate?

- I couldn't tell anyone.

My mum, if she knew what I planned,

she'd find a way to stop me somehow.

[Frankie tutting] - You're not gonna get

any signal around here, you know that, right?

- Yeah.

- And it's got worse.

Bunch of fucking yokels burnt down the wireless tower.

You know, the one on the green.

- What, why?

- Some rumor went round that it was infecting people

with 5G radiation or something, melting people's brains.

- I swear everyone over the age of 40

is in some sort of like weird cult.

My mum's the same, she's always on about

how they're out to try and get her,

but she never says who they are.

- It's probably the outsiders, you know,

with their fancy ways, university education.

[both laughing]

[door clicking] [bell jangling]

[baby crying]

[door thudding]

[waves crashing] [seagulls cawing]

This place makes me want to scream like that sometimes.

- [Frankie] You should do, let it all out.

[soft melodic music]

- [Holly] Remember when we used to do that,

scream with joy as we ran out into the ocean?

- [Frankie] [laughs] Pretty sure that was just the cold,

or the sewage.

[both laughing]

- [Holly] Your mum's new boyfriend's on the committee

that blocked our objections to the waste treatment plant.

He's basically the mayor from "Jaws,"

except the shark is like a giant turd.

- [Frankie] I do miss it, you know,

the sea,

its vastness,

constant changing.

[soft melodic music]

Even if it is just a sea of human shit. [laughing]

- [Holly] That's the most poetic thing

I've ever heard you say. [laughing]

Don't keep me in the dark next time, yeah?

- [Frankie] Yeah.

- No more secrets.

No more running away.

- Okay.

I promise.

[soft melodic music]

- [Holly] So we never gave you a proper send off

the first time, so let's do one now.

Bright lights, big city, it's gonna be lit.

- [Frankie] So karaoke at the Fox and Hounds?

- Oh well, Rosie and the Hare.

[Frankie laughing]

Shut until the summer, Rowans closed down last year

and The Ship burnt down in a insurance scam, so.

- So karaoke at the Fox and Hounds.

You know, I hate that place.

[both laughing]

We can do drinks over Zoom or whatever.

But I've gotta go and see my mum.

I can't leave her on bad vibes again.

Yeah? - All right.

Look after yourself.

[both laughing]

See you.

[soft melodic music]

[ominous music]

- Watch where you're going, whore!

- Fuck!

[soft tense music]

- It's you.

I thought you were long fucking gone.

- You don't know me.

- Oh, I know you all right.

I know your mother, don't I?

I knew your dad.

- Come on, Frankie, let's leave this pisshead to it.

- You're making a big fucking mistake coming back.

You want my advice?

- No, she doesn't.

- Get out while you can.

Now, the pair of you, you know what this is?

It's an omen, a fucking portent.

- Leave us the fuck alone or we'll call the police.

[Harbinger laughing]

- Fat lot of good they'll do.

You girls heard of Mr. Punch, right?

[soft ominous music]

You heard what he does to girls like you?

- Listen, mate, we're not scared of you,

we're not gonna shag you

and we're not gonna give you money for crack,

so you can piss your pants in the street for all I care.

Just don't come near us again, yeah?

And take your feathered fuck doll with you as well.

[Harbinger laughing]

- It's a fucking omen!

[Harbinger laughing]

[waves crashing] [soft tense music]

♪ Pray I'm never lonely ♪

♪ Say you wanna know me ♪

♪ And you want me too ♪

- Thanks.

Here, take this.

- Thanks.

♪ This could be true love in the city, boy, yeah ♪

[glasses clinking]

- You okay?

- Just shit me up a bit, you know, that's all.

[Holly laughs softly]

Did you know that man?

He seemed to know me.

- He's always under the pier doing meth or crack

or whatever the fuck those guys do under there.

I tried to help them before with soup and stuff,

but they told me to piss off.

- But what he said about, you know, omens,

like that was scary shit.

- Well, the thing is, he's not wrong.

Seagulls are what are known as a sentinel species,

because they're the top of the food chain.

You see one of them dead,

you know there's a big fuck up further down the ecosystem.

[laughs] I'm not helping here, am I?

- [laughing] No.

- Look, it's what happens when you spend too long here.

It'll be me in 50 years.

[both laughing]

♪ If you see this, if you see this ♪

♪ Don't repeat this, don't repeat this ♪

- Did your, ah, did your parents ever tell you about that,

you know, Mr. Punch?

- When I was a kid, yeah.

- He-he mentioned him.

- So what?

Parents have been trying to scare their kids

with Mr. Punch for like forever.

He's bullshit.

[soft tense music]

He's Santa Claus to teenagers.

- He's the bogeyman, that's what he is.

When I was your age, we used to dare ourselves

to go down to the end of the pier at night, alone.

That's where they said we'd find him

and his big,

fat,

club. [hand banging]

[all laughing]

- Please don't, I was scared shitless of Mr. Punch as a kid.

I couldn't even watch him on the puppet shows

at the sea front.

- Good job you didn't, love.

The last guy to do the Punch and Judy show here,

he got arrested, pedo, total nonce.

- See, plenty enough real monsters in this world

without having to invent new ones.

- All right? [laughing]

You girls heard about

my legendary Morrissey impersonation then?

What, you don't like the greatest songwriter

of his generation?

Well, I do a mean Ted Sheeran, bit of Billy Eyelash.

You girls are here for the karaoke, right?

- Oh yeah, I mean, you should hear him.

He's pretty good with voices.

[both laughing] - Thanks, babe.

- Mum, I am, you know, sorry about earlier.

- What about, well what happened earlier?

- No, nothing.

- Hey, can we have our usual please, Babs,

whatever the two girls are having

and a large one for yourself?

- Sure thing, babes.

- Oh, we'd love to stay, Councilor Jameson,

but me and Frankie were just leaving.

Got a good night planned.

- More gay dolphins to save, Miss Manson? [laughs]

- Dolphins are pansexual actually.

- Well, we won't cramp your style.

Although you young uns, you don't know how to get on it

like we used to, do they, babe?

- We used to go to all the illegal raves,

you know, big fish, little fish, cardboard boxes.

[Elton laughing]

Yeah, well, you don't get that on TikTok, do you?

- Hol, let's go.

- You don't want these drinks? Okay.

Cheers, babe. [laughs]

- Cheers. [glasses clinking]

[wind blowing] [waves lapping]

[background pop music]

- Yeah, you know, he was fucking weird that guy.

- I know. [laughs softly] - You know.

- So where's this party at then?

- Well, you know, I thought we could get some tinnies.

You remember, like we were 13 again, down there?

- We can do better than that.

[laughs] Low key better than that.

Let's go see the boys.

- Really?

- Come on, they've missed you, Daryl in particular.

- What, is he gonna be there?

- Where else is he gonna be? Come on.

[traffic rumbling quietly]

[waves crashing]

[soft ominous music]

[fire crackling]

[footsteps crunching] [soft tense music]

[footsteps crunching] [soft tense music]

[footsteps crunching] [soft tense music]

- I should have known you'd come for me eventually.

You're too late anyway.

I've told the girls to get out.

Any luck,

they take this crazy old man's advice.

[gentle tense music]

I gave them the warning I should have given-

[blow thudding] [blood splatting]

[Mr. Punch laughing]

[muffled upbeat music]

- Oi, oi. - All right, Rolo.

- Can't complain, you know, babes, can't complain.

Who's your friend?

- Frankie, you fucking dickhead, who'd you think it was?

- Wankie Frankie. - Wankie Frankie.

- You all right, babes? - Yeah.

- Haven't seen you round here in a while.

Thought she'd done a disappearing act like every other cunt

who thinks they're too good for this place, eh?

- Just back for one night, that's all.

- Oh, you look fucking freezing, babe.

Wanna jump in the back of the Rolo mobile for a bit?

- I haven't got any dumber since I've been away.

I'm still not gonna fuck you

on the pile of McDonald's wrappers you've got back there.

- Um, does Dazzler know you're back?

- He doesn't.

♪ That's my shit ♪

- Well, he fucking does now, doesn't he?

♪ Vespers only, that's my shit ♪

[car rumbling quietly]

♪ Gas masks on your head ♪

♪ Fresh breath, clean your mouth of crud now ♪

♪ Leave the door open to the moomers ♪

♪ To the basement only when you crash that ♪

♪ Don't be coming back, don't be coming back hard ♪

♪ One minute, everybody know the drop when I'm in it ♪

- Hey.

♪ When I'm in it, everybody know the drop when I'm in it ♪

♪ Yeah, I could smoke dope, everybody know what go ♪

- Can we talk?

♪ Let me know when the clink come good ♪

♪ And they're busting out of the hood ♪

[car door thudding]

[mellow upbeat music]

[car door clicking]

[soft tense music]

[car door thudding]

[soft tense music]

[muffled mellow upbeat music]

- What, so shall I talk first then?

- [Daryl] You're the one who wanted to talk.

- Okay, I get it, you fucking hate me.

- I don't hate you.

- So what is it then? - I don't know.

[muffled mellow upbeat music]

- I shouldn't have left without saying goodbye.

[gentle melodic music]

[Daryl sighing]

I know that.

- Hm.

- I know how much that hurts.

My dad did the same to me.

[Daryl sighing]

[soft melodic music]

Running away must run in the family.

[soft melodic music]

Fuck's sake. Good talking to you anyway.

- [Daryl] Yeah.

- Goodbye for good this time.

[car door clicking] - So.

[car door thudding] Dazzler,

you giving us a lift or what?

- [Daryl] Where? [sighing]

- No, Hol, I'm going. - So what's gonna happen

is Daryl's gonna take us to an all night garage,

we're gonna get some cans and then we're going to a party.

- What party?

- Come on, fasten your seatbelts, both of you.

It's gonna be lit.

- No, it's not 'cause I'm not going fucking anywhere.

- I'm not going, especially with him.

[car engine starting]

[car rumbling]

[soft ominous music] [Mr. Punch breathing loudly]

[melodic upbeat music]

[background people chattering] [melodic upbeat music]

[melodic upbeat music continues]

- What the fuck?

[melodic upbeat music]

[melodic upbeat music]

[muffled upbeat music] [background people chattering]

- Who are these people?

[both laughing softly]

- They're the first canaries of gentrification.

They want to open a vegan cafe

where Dirty Dave's chip shop used to be,

you know, before the incident.

- What, I go away for two minutes and this happens?

- Hol!

[Holly and Tamaryn laughing]

- Hey, lovely.

[muffled upbeat music] [background people chattering]

Oh, ah, this is Justin and this is Tamaryn.

Guys, this is Frankie, my old best mate.

Well, she's still my best mate, she just went away for uni.

- Oh, cool, whereabouts?

- Um, Loughborough, yeah, doing art.

- That is so cool, I'm a sculptor myself,

working with found objects.

I call it decolonizing the detritus

of the maritime patriarchy.

- And I call it collecting shit from the beach. [laughing]

- What about you, what's your ah, medium of choice?

- I like painting, you know.

- Fascinating.

We should go for a drink?

Maybe take some peyote, chat about art,

what it means to us, et cetera?

- Yeah, maybe later. [laughing]

- You girls had one of these?

- [Holly] Thanks.

- Go on.

They're free, don't worry.

Justin got them from Amsterdam.

Come on, Justin.

I'm sure these girls have got loads to catch up on.

- Yeah, sure, I'll speak to you in a bit, ladies.

[muffled upbeat music] [background people chattering]

- So what do you think?

- To what?

- You know.

- What, him?

- And the girl.

They're a couple, but they're poly.

They've asked me to do a threesome. [laughing]

- Oh, fuck off.

There isn't any threesomes and glow up paint orgies here,

this is just some sort of fucking elaborate hoax

to get me to stay, innit?

[Holly sighing]

You know, what happened to when we were like 13

and we'd sit on a pier and chat shit for hours?

I miss those days.

- Come on, this place can change.

I can change.

Give me yours, I need it for the threesome.

- [laughing] No way.

- Come on, you know you don't touch this stuff.

- Yeah, I know I don't, I know that,

but it is my last night, innit?

So fuck it.

- Yes.

[both laughing]

- Good vibes only now, here and now, darling.

[both laughing]

- Stop.

- No fucker's gonna ruin it for me, that's for sure.

[gentle haunting music]

[revelers laughing]

- [Bride] It's out, it's out, it's out.

Stop it.

I need a piss.

- [Maid Of Honor] You slag.

[both laughing drunkenly]

[soft ominous music] [Mr. Punch breathing loudly]

- Oh, oh, oh, hello.

[both laughing]

- Aye, aye!

- Hey, get your tits out!

Get your tits out. - Yeah.

[both laughing]

[soft tense music]

- Hey, why the long face, sexy?

- [Mr. Punch] The blushing bride.

- Oh my God, is it a stripper? - No, no, no, no, no.

Right, I ordered a copper, all right?

Where's the copper? We wanna see the copper.

- [laughs] You should get your cock out anyway.

Get your fucking cock out, I wanna see it.

Eh, I wanna see how big it is.

- How small it is, squeeze it.

- Out! I wanna see it.

[Maid of Honor laughing]

- [Mr. Punch] Whatever will your future husband say?

- No, don't talk about Darius.

- Oh, he's fucking useless.

He's with them slags in the strip club, isn't he?

Um, do you fancy a nosh under the pier or what, 'cause?

- Oh yeah.

- I'm gagging.

- She's good, she's really, really good.

- I'm really good.

- [Mr. Punch] If you think you can handle it.

[soft tense music]

- No, let's go, go find the girls, come on.

- No, I like a bit hard wood, come on.

- No, come on.

[Bride laughing]

- [Mr. Punch] Oh, you can't leave now, girls,

you've got me all excited.

[soft tense music]

[blow thudding] - Ah!

[Bride thudding to ground] [Maid of Honor screaming]

[soft ominous music]

[baseball bat crunching] [Bride groaning]

- Get off her! [gasping]

[baseball bat crunching] [Mr. Punch laughing]

No, stop!

No, no, no, stop it!

Stop!

[baseball bat crunching] [Bride groaning]

- [Mr. Punch] Weddings always get me choked up too.

[Bride groaning] [Mr. Punch laughing]

[baseball bat crunching] [blood splatting]

- Oh my God, leave her alone, get back.

[baseball bat crunching] [blood splatting]

No, no, no, no, no!

[blood splatting] [Mr. Punch laughing]

[soft tense music]

Fuck you, fuck you!

[Maid of Honor whimpering]

- [Mr. Punch] Always the bridesmaid.

Never the bride. [laughing]

- No, please, no!

[neck crunching] [Mr. Punch laughing]

[Maid of Honor thudding to ground]

[Mr. Punch breathing heavily]

[Mr. Punch laughing] [waves crashing]

[soft ominous music]

[upbeat dance music]

[upbeat dance music continues]

[upbeat dance music continues]

[upbeat dance music continues]

[upbeat dance music continues]

[upbeat dance music continues]

[upbeat dance music continues in background]

- [Daryl] Whoa.

- [Partygoer] Mate, what the fuck?

Can't you see we're busy in here?

♪ It will feel so right ♪

♪ I, I, I want you, you, you ♪

♪ I, I, I ♪

- Ssh! [door thudding]

[muffled dance music]

Come on, let's do this properly.

- [Daryl] Sweet.

- No, [laughing] fuck's sake! I don't mean like that.

- Fucking hell.

- I mean,

talk.

- To me?

[both laughing]

[muffled dance music]

What?

- What? - What?

- What? [Daryl laughing]

You know I'm sorry.

[gentle melodic music]

Look, I didn't mean to hurt you.

- Yeah, well, you did.

Look, you can't just run away from your feelings, Frankie,

sometimes you've gotta face them.

Or some shit, innit? I don't know, don't ask me.

- Yeah, you're not the first person

that's said that to me today.

[muffled dance music]

[soft melodic music]

I did miss you, you know?

- Yeah and I um...

I fucking love you, Frankie.

- Really?

- Yeah.

- Or is that just the drugs talking?

[both laughing softly]

- Oh, a little from column A.

- Little from column B. - B.

- Yeah.

Oh, that's the most romantic thing anyone's ever said to me.

- [Daryl] Really?

- Of course not, you fucking dickhead. [laughing]

- Fuck's sake, Frankie.

- But it'll do.

[gentle melodic music]

[gentle melodic music continues]

- [Daryl] Fuck.

- [laughing] For fuck's sake. - Shit.

- [Frankie] Ssh!

[both laughing]

[soft melodic music]

[soft melodic music continues]

[soft melodic music continues]

Can't believe you've forgotten how to do it.

Just unclip it.

[bra clasp clicking]

[soft melodic music]

[upbeat dance music] [fire whooshing softly]

[upbeat dance music] [fire whooshing softly]

[door clicking]

- Oh!

- [Frankie] Jesus, Hol.

One threesome ain't enough for you?

- You both wish.

Come on, we're leaving, get your kit on.

- What? what about- - The threesome's off.

Justin and Tamaryn had a massive row, now she's crying

and now he's downing home-brew with some jugglers

This party's turning to shit.

- Sounds like it just got started to me.

- Shut up, Dazzler.

Me and Tam are going to the beach,

get away from all these boys.

- What about me?

- What about you?

[soft tense music]

- [laughs softly] Who the fuck's this clown?

- [Mr. Punch] I'm Mr. Punch.

[blow thudding] [blood splatting]

Who the fuck are you?

How do you murder a clown?

You go straight for the jugular.

[kick thudding] [Mr. Punch laughing]

[melodic dance music]

[melodic dance music continues]

♪ Drop the bass ♪

[upbeat dance music]

[upbeat dance music continues]

[blow thudding]

[upbeat dance music continues]

[blow thudding]

[blows thudding] [blood splatting]

[upbeat dance music continues]

[blow thudding]

[partygoer shouting] [upbeat dance music]

[ominous music]

[upbeat dance music]

[ominous music]

[muffled partygoers screaming]

[footsteps thudding] [soft tense music]

- [Partgoer] Hey, babe.

[muffled partygoers screaming]

- [Mr. Punch] Now what do we have here?

- G'day, mate, come in, the water's so nice.

[gentle tense music]

Do you want some?

You look like you need to chill the fuck out.

- [Mr. Punch] I'll be back for you later, babe.

Please excuse me for one moment.

- [Mr. Punch] Ready or not, here I come. [laughing]

[blow thudding] [door banging]

- [Partygoer] What the fuck?

- [Mr. Punch] What's long and hard and fucks kids?

[blow thudding] - Uh!

- James! [soft tense music]

Fuck.

- What the fuck is wrong with you?

- [James] Simon, tell him, please, what the fuck?

[head thudding] Uh!

[James thudding to floor]

- [Mr. Punch] Let that sink in. [laughing]

[soft tense music] - [sobbing] James.

- [Mr. Punch] Well, I can do you too.

Want a taste of this?

- No!

[blow thudding] Uh!

- [Mr. Punch] Time to get back in the closet.

[blow thudding] - Uh!

- [Mr. Punch] [laughing] I said back in the closet.

Who's a pretty boy then?

[blow thudding] Not you!

Not anymore! [blow thudding]

[blows thudding] [Mr. Punch laughing]

[blood splatting]

Frankie, where are you?

[car door clicking]

- Fuck, man!

[car door thudding] [keys jangling]

Oh shit, bloody keys.

[soft ominous music] [Mr. Punch breathing loudly]

What?

[baseball bat crunching] [Rolo groaning]

Take the car.

Take-take my weed, take my treat, it's a fucking mint.

- [Mr. Punch] Naughty boy.

Were you going to drink and drive?

- No, no, I promise, look.

Take my keys.

[baseball bat crunching] [Rolo groaning]

You want a hand job, is that it?

Look, I'll spit on it but I won't suck it.

[baseball bat crunching] [Rolo groaning]

Okay, okay, I'll suck it, just let me fucking breathe, man.

- [Mr. Punch] I just wanna know

where your little friends are.

- Who?

[baseball bat crunching] [Rolo groaning]

- [Mr. Punch] Wrong answer.

[dramatic music]

Aw, sleep tight.

[soft tense music] [waves lapping]

[soft tense music] [waves lapping]

[fire crackling]

- Guys, we definitely made the right choice.

That party was going downhill real fast.

- I don't know, I was having a pretty good time.

- It's so beautiful out here.

Got the fire and the sound of the waves.

[waves crashing]

[Frankie and Daryl laughing quietly]

You know, I'm so glad that I moved out of the city

to somewhere so,

just so peaceful.

[gentle melodic music]

- Yeah.

It's okay, I suppose.

[Tamaryn laughing softly]

[gentle melodic music]

We should go.

We should go like skinny dipping!

[Daryl laughing]

Yes!

Surrender ourselves to the waves

and just feel Mother Nature on our skin.

Yes!

[footsteps crunching] Whoo!

[both laughing]

Whoo! [laughing]

Whoo! [Holly laughing]

Look at that!

- Is she for real? - Shut up.

- Whoo! [both laughing]

[footsteps crunching]

- You'll die of hyperthermia

before you even get a lung full of effluence.

We can go to Davy Wavy's Waterpark tomorrow.

It's got a wave machine and everything, much safer.

- Okay.

- You big city folk have a lot to learn from us yokels.

- Hm.

- Yeah, you know, Hol, it was a good idea coming out here.

[soft melodic music] Somewhere romantic.

- Ugh! [Frankie laughing]

[soft melodic music]

- Are you reconsidering moving away?

- Oh, don't be my mum again.

Just let me enjoy this one night.

- I get you.

- Right, I'm gonna go piss.

- Thanks for ruining the moment.

- Shut up, [laughing]

I've had like 20 beers, what do you expect?

- Bollocks, have you, you've had about half that. [laughing]

[footsteps crunching]

- Ah, Dazzler, keep walking, don't wanna hear you.

[gentle melodic music]

[soft tense music]

[gentle melodic music]

So you and Daryl an item again then?

- Don't know.

Feels right,

right now.

We'll deal with the awkward shit in the morning.

- I mean, he's just,

I don't know, like not your type.

- And how do you know what my type is?

- I'm not being horrible, hun.

It's just...

You're an artist studying at uni

and well, he's just... [Holly laughing]

- The last book he read was "The Gruffalo,"

he only managed to finish that last year.

- You two don't know him like I do.

He's funny, he's smart, proper caring,

just hides it really fucking well.

- Really fucking well.

- Yeah, all right.

He's a monosyllabic dickhead that gets on better with cars

than he does with, you know, people, but...

He's my monosyllabic dickhead.

- Sounds like love to me.

- Mm-hm.

- Shut up, does it.

[gentle melodic music] [fire crackling]

[waves crashing]

[soft tense music]

[urine trickling]

[soft ominous music] - Oh dear.

- [Daryl] What?

- [Mr. Punch] You really pissed on your chips now.

- Who the fuck are you supposed to be, you silly cunt?

- [Mr. Punch] I'm Mr. Punch and I know the way to do it.

- [Daryl] Step off it, I'll spark you clean out.

- [Mr. Punch] Oh, you wanna give Mr. Punch a punch, do you?

Come on then, big man.

[baseball bat whooshing] [Mr. Punch laughing]

[blow thudding]

[Mr. Punch laughing]

If you come at Mr. Punch, you'd better not miss.

[soft tense music] - Uh!

[soft ominous music] [Mr. Punch laughing]

[blow thudding]

[Daryl thudding to ground]

Come on, boy. [laughing]

[soft tense music] [Mr. Punch laughing]

[Daryl thudding to ground]

Are you a piece of cod?

You're about to get battered. [laughing]

- Did you hear that?

- Hear what?

- This sort of weird high-pitched voice

- It's just the wind or the sea.

- [Holly] Or a seagull eating a rat.

- A rat?

- Yeah.

These boats are full of them, big as cats.

Luckily, the seagulls are as big as vultures.

Or it could be Mr. Punch, course.

[soft tense music]

- I remember saying good vibes only tonight.

Cut it out.

- Who's Mr. Punch?

- You don't wanna know.

- Come on, Frankie.

If Tam here wants to be part of our group,

then she needs to be kept up to speed

with the local celebrities.

- Ignore her, Tam,

he's just someone our parents used to warn us about,

he scared me shitless.

- Legend says that he stalks the town at night

looking for teenagers,

girls misbehaving in particular.

He hits their heads with a big fat club.

[soft ominous music]

Toxic masculinity in the flesh.

And on nights like this, when the wind howls,

we can hear him laughing as he murders another teenager

that was doing something they shouldn't.

- He's not real, like he doesn't actually exist, right?

- Of course he doesn't. [laughing]

- [Mr Punch] Oh yes, he does.

[loud ominous music]

- Daryl.

[soft tense music]

- If that's you, Dazzler, I'll feed your dick

to the fucking sand rats!

- Yeah, Daryl, come on, knock it off.

It's not funny.

- [Mr. Punch] Oh yes, it is.

- Look, Daryl, really not fucking funny.

- Hol,

I w-wanna go home, I don't like it out here anymore.

[Mr. Punch laughing]

- Yeah, same, let's leave Frankie

with the least fucking funny dickhead in the world!

- Hey, you can't leave me on my own.

[loud ominous music] [Mr. Punch laughing]

- [Mr. Punch] Oh, you're not alone, Frankie.

[Frankie screaming]

[soft intense music]

I hope she's carbon neutral.

[Tamaryn screaming]

[Mr. Punch laughing]

[both shrieking]

- Frankie, he can't follow the both of us.

[soft ominous music] [Mr. Punch laughing loudly]

[footsteps crunching] [soft tense music]

- Daryl!

[footsteps crunching] [soft tense music]

[footsteps crunching] [soft tense music]

[footsteps crunching] [soft tense music]

Daryl.

[footsteps crunching] [soft tense music]

[waves lapping] [soft tense music]

[waves lapping] [soft tense music]

[Holly breathing heavily]

[cellphone ringing]

- Hello. - Emergency, which service?

- Police and fucking police.

- [Emergency Operator] Okay, can you calmly

state your location and what your emergency is?

- The-the beach, just-just past the caravan park and...

There's a man in a mask, a Punch mask.

[emergency operator speaking indistinctly]

[soft tense music]

Hello?

- [Mr. Punch] You can never get a signal,

when you need it, can you? [laughing]

[Holly screaming]

Snitches get stitches. [laughing]

Time to sleep with the dolphins. [laughing]

[soft ominous music] [water splashing]

[water gurgling] [muffled Holly screaming]

[waves crashing]

[water gurgling] [soft intense music]

[waves crashing]

[footsteps crunching]

[loud ominous music]

[Holly coughing]

[soft ominous music]

[footsteps crunching] [Holly whimpering]

What do you call a man stuck out at sea?

[blow thudding] [blood splatting]

Bob, you get it?

[blows thudding] [blood splatting]

Tough crowd. [Mr. Punch laughing]

[blow thudding] [blood splatting]

[Mr. Punch laughing]

[footsteps crunching]

[loud ominous music] [Frankie screaming]

- Frankie.

Frankie, Frankie, it's me, it's me, it's me, it's me.

- What did he do to you?

- Fuck, I've had worse.

- Holly and-and Tamaryn. - Right, okay.

- Frankie, listen to me! - Holly and Tamaryn!

- Frankie, Frankie, listen to me, for fuck's sake!

[Frankie sobbing loudly]

Frankie. - I can't.

- [Mr. Punch] Oh, how sweet.

[soft tense music] [Frankie sobbing]

Hey Frankie, you should be with a real man,

not a little boy. [laughing]

- No! [sobbing] - Frankie, take this.

Frankie, take it and if he gets past me,

then you fucking stab him, right?

[Mr. Punch yawning loudly]

- No! - Run, Frankie, run!

- No! [footsteps crunching]

- [Mr. Punch] Roll up, roll up, all the fun of the fair!

♪ Bow bow bow bow, bow bow bow bow ♪

♪ Doo dee dee ♪

[blow thudding] - Uh!

[Daryl thudding to ground] [Frankie screaming]

- [Mr. Punch] Home run. [laughing]

I thought he was never gonna shut up.

[Frankie screaming] [Mr. Punch laughing]

But now.

- No! - Now, you and me,

we can have some quality time together.

Talk about those daddy issues of yours.

[Frankie screaming] [Mr. Punch laughing]

[footsteps crunching] [Frankie screaming]

[soft tense music]

[footsteps crunching]

[hand tapping]

[soft tense music]

- [Frankie] [sobbing] Please.

[footsteps crunching]

[soft intense music] [waves lapping]

[soft intense music] [wind blowing]

[soft intense music continues]

[soft intense music continues]

[soft intense music continues]

[soft intense music continues]

[dog barking] [soft intense music]

[soft intense music continues]

[soft intense music continues]

[soft ominous music]

[muffled rock music] [Frankie breathing heavily]

[hand tapping]

[muffled rock music]

[Frankie knocking]

[music clicking off]

[Frankie knocking]

[door clicking] - Open the door. [sobbing]

Please, you have to help me, please, please.

- I can't, I-I'm sorry, babe.

- [Frankie] No, please, you don't understand.

[soft ominous music] - You heard her.

- Oh! - We can't help you.

[Frankie sobbing]

- Please.

- The only way to keep Mr. Punch away

is to be a good girl and do as you're told.

Isn't that right? [Frankie sobbing]

So fuck off.

- Please.

[soft tense music]

Please.

- Yeah, fuck off, please.

- No, please! [door thudding]

[hand tapping]

Open the door, please!

No. [soft tense music]

- [Mr. Punch] Don't you know the rules, Frankie?

- No!

- [Mr. Punch] When the caravan's rocking,

don't come a-knocking.

[Mr. Punch laughing]

[soft tense music]

[sirens wailing in distance]

[soft tense music]

[footsteps thudding]

[sirens wailing]

[tires screeching]

[Frankie sobbing]

[car door clicking]

- Help!

Help! [car door thudding]

Help!

- You all right, miss?

You been drinking?

How about drugs?

Listen, you need to calm down.

- No! [sobbing]

There's a man in a mask and he-he tried to kill my friend!

- All right, look, look, look,

we've obviously got a lot to unpack here, eh?

Listen, why don't you come down to the station with me,

we can get a proper statement

and maybe get you a bed for the night, eh?

- No, no.

My friend, she... [sobbing]

- Oi, I asked nicely, don't make me use force.

Get into the back of the car.

- I can't, what are you, what are you doing?

- Don't make me use these, I will if necessary.

Now take a seat in the back.

- No. [sobbing]

[Frankie gasping]

- [Policeman] Oh, what now?

[gentle tense music]

- He...

He's behind, he's behind you.

- Look, this ain't a pantomime.

[soft ominous music] - Oh yes, it is.

[blow thudding] [Frankie screaming]

You'll never take me alive, officer. [laughing]

[blows thudding] [blood splatting]

- No!

Please, please don't!

[blow thudding] [blood splatting]

- [Frankie] No!

[soft intense music]

[car door thudding]

[soft intense music] [Mr. Punch breathing loudly]

[Frankie breathing heavily]

[soft intense music]

[soft intense music continues]

[soft tense music continues]

[soft tense music continues]

["I Do Like to be Beside the Seaside" tinny music]

[soft intense music]

[soft tense music]

[Frankie breathing heavily]

[object thudding in distance] [person shrieking]

[Mr. Punch laughing in distance]

[soft tense music] [Frankie breathing heavily]

[soft rapid tense music]

[gate rattling]

[lock clanking]

[gate creaking]

[soft rapid tense music]

[soft rapid tense music continues]

[soft rapid tense music continues]

[soft ominous music]

[object clanking quietly]

[gentle tense music]

[object clanking quietly]

[soft tense music]

[soft tense music continues]

[soft tense music continues]

[object clanking quietly]

[soft tense music]

[object rattling quietly]

[soft tense music]

[soft tense music continues]

[object clanking quietly]

[soft ominous music]

[arcade machine mannequin laughing]

[arcade machine music]

[arcade machine music continues]

[coins clattering]

[arcade machines whirring]

[arcade machine music]

[soft tense music]

[soft ominous music]

- [Mr. Punch] I say, I say...

What's the difference between five dicks and a joke?

Your mother can't take a joke! [laughing]

You can't run from your problems forever, Frankie.

Sooner or later, they're going to catch up with you

and when they do.

[baseball bat banging] [Mr. Punch grunting]

I fucking hate clowns. [laughing]

[soft tense music]

[soft ominous music]

[soft tense melodic music]

[soft tense melodic music continues]

[soft tense melodic music continues]

[soft ominous music]

[Frankie thudding] [coins clattering]

Jackpot! [laughing] [slot machine music]

- Oh, fuck.

- [Mr. Punch] Come on, Frankie.

You know how the song goes.

♪ You'd better watch out, you'd better not cry ♪

♪ You'd better watch out 'cause ♪

[baseball bat thudding] [Frankie shrieking]

[Mr. Punch laughing]

- Okay, okay, you win!

- [Mr. Punch] Eh?

I say, I say,

what do you say to a woman with two black eyes?

[Frankie sobbing]

Come on, Frankie, what do you say?

- I don't know!

- [Mr. Punch] Nothing, you already told her twice!

[Mr. Punch laughing] [soft tense music]

See, I still think you need to be taught

a little lesson, Frankie.

Just a little one, something short and sharp. [laughing]

[knife thudding]

[Mr. Punch laughing]

You call that a knife?

[kick thudding] Uh!

[slot machine chiming]

- Fuck.

Ow! [Frankie thudding to floor]

- [Mr. Punch] Roll up, roll up, grab a prize.

[soft tense music] - Get off!

[kick thudding] - Uh!

[soft rapid tense music] [Frankie breathing heavily]

[doors thudding]

[footsteps thudding]

[soft tense music]

[soft tense music continues]

[door handle rattling]

[door handle rattling]

[baseball bat clattering]

[soft tense music]

[baseball bat clattering]

[soft tense music]

[soft tense music continues]

[soft tense music continues]

♪ Oh, I do like to be beside the seaside ♪

♪ Oh, I do like to be beside the sea ♪

[soft tense music]

♪ Oh, I do like to stroll along the prom, prom, prom ♪

♪ Where the brass band play tiddly-om-pom-pom ♪

[soft tense music]

Frankie.

Where are you?

[baseball bat tapping]

Come out, come out, wherever you are.

[soft tense music]

[soft ominous music]

[soft tense music]

[Elton breathing deeply]

[waves lapping] [gentle tense music]

- Fucking signal.

Where is she, where is she?

Where are you, Frankie, eh?

Fucking signal.

[soft tense music]

- I fucking knew it.

[soft tense music] [waves lapping]

[soft tense music] [waves lapping]

- Yeah it's me.

No.

No, babe, she's gone.

Stupid bitch jumped

just like her waste of a space father.

But just in case she managed to slip by me,

put out the pass signal, everyone.

No, I'll tell Judy.

I said I'll tell Judy.

You just make sure that everyone knows the drill.

[soft intense music]

- Hey, Frankie. [blow thudding]

[water splashing]

[eerie melodic music] [water whooshing]

[eerie melodic music] [water whooshing]

[muffled Mr. Punch shrieking]

[eerie melodic music]

- That's one way to do it, you fucking cunt.

[gentle orchestral music]

Come on, Mum, pick up please.

[gentle melodic music]

[Frankie sighing heavily]

[soft melodic music]

[Frankie sighing heavily]

Mum?

Are you okay?

- [Julia] Oh, Frankie.

- [Frankie] Mum.

- Oh, baby. [laughs softly]

- [Frankie] Are you, are you okay?

- You're okay.

[soft melodic music] [Frankie sobbing]

- I'm so sorry.

I'm so sorry, I should have believed you.

You weren't being paranoid.

There is something out there, something evil.

And I need to tell you something about Elton.

- What about him, sweetheart?

- Mum, he's the evil, I saw him out there,

he's tried to kill people, he tried to kill me,

I think he's killed Daryl and I can't get hold of Holly

'cause there's no fucking signal anywhere.

But you're the only one I care about that's alive.

- [Julia] Oh, it's all right, it's all right, sweetheart.

I've got you.

I've got you.

[gentle melodic music] [Frankie sobbing quietly]

Everything's gonna be okay.

[gentle melodic music]

- What...

What's that?

- [Julia] What's what?

[gentle tense music]

[soft ominous music]

- [laughs softly] Oh, this?

This is just for a little game,

like a local tradition.

[soft ominous music]

Mr. Punch will be here soon.

- No.

- [Julia] And we,

we can all be a family again.

- Mum. [sobbing]

What have they done to you?

- [Julia] [laughs] And you call me paranoid.

[soft tense music] [Mr. Punch knocking]

Here he is.

Now, be a doll, go and answer the door.

- No fucking way.

[soft tense music] [Mr. Punch knocking]

Mum, please, we can fix this, we can get out of here.

We can have a clean slate, please, please.

Just please, just take off this fucking mask.

- [Julia] Mr. Punch is the man of the house.

- Do not open that fucking door.

[soft tense music] [Mr. Punch knocking]

- [Julia] Mr. Punch is the man of the house.

Now we can't leave him waiting outside.

- Mum, don't open the door please.

[soft tense music]

Okay.

- [Julia] He'll just have to use his key.

[lock clicking]

[door thudding]

[soft ominous music]

[soft tense music]

- Why?

- [Julia] You wouldn't understand,

but one day,

you will.

- [Mr. Punch] It's true. [laughing]

We always hurt the ones we love.

- [Julia] And I know he's just his showing affection.

- [Mr. Punch] You don't understand what an honor it is

for the good people of this town

to choose me as this year's Mr. Punch.

- [Julia] To pick me as his Judy.

Oh, it was, it was just so wonderful.

It was like we're local celebrities

or royalty even. [laughing]

- [Mr. Punch] Why don't you run along, Frankie

and pop the kettle on?

We can have a nice family chat,

fill you in on a few home truths.

[soft intense music]

[kettle switch clicking]

[kettle rumbling quietly] [gentle tense music]

[kettle rumbling quietly] [gentle tense music]

Look at me.

Look at me!

[Frankie sobbing quietly]

Don't cry, Frankie.

You're so pretty, Frankie.

Do you wanna stay the night?

[soft tense music]

You know,

with great power

comes great responsibility.

[soft tense music]

It's not for everyone,

[water pouring]

this Mr. Punch lark.

[Elton laughing]

[Julia laughing]

Your father, for example,

[Elton tutting]

he just couldn't handle it.

Oh yeah.

It's about time you learnt the truth

about your father and why he jumped.

But you, I mean, you are made of much sterner stuff,

aren't you, Frankie?

Maybe one day,

you will make a wonderful Judy for someone.

- [Julia] [laughing] My little girl.

[soft tense music]

- Maybe even me.

[soft tense music]

[soft tense music continues]

[knife zinging]

There's nothing like a nice cup of tea.

[soft tense music]

[soft ominous music] [knife thudding]

- [Julia] Oh!

[blood pouring]

[knees thudding]

[soft tense music]

[Elton choking]

[Elton thudding to floor]

[knife clattering]

[Frankie sobbing]

- [Julia] What have you done?

[soft rapid tense music]

- It's tough love, Mum, trust me.

[soft rapid tense music]

The police.

- [Cult Member] Now then, now then, what's occurring?

We've had reports you've been a naughty girl.

[knife zinging] [cult members laughing]

- Please!

Please!

Make it stop, please, please!

Mum!

[cult members laughing] [eerie tense music]

[Frankie wailing] [cult members laughing]

- [Julia] Don't you see, dear,

how much you mean to me, to this whole town?

- Stop!

[cult members laughing] [eerie tense music]

- [Cult Member] It's the chop for you.

- [Cult Member] Smile, you're on "Candid Camera."

- Mum, please.

Please.

[cult members laughing] [eerie tense music]

No!

- [Julia] Sorry, baby, but it's for your own good.

- [Cult Members] Punch is dead, long live Punch.

Punch is dead, long live Punch.

Punch is dead, long live Punch.

- No, please! [sobbing]

- [Cult Members] Punch is dead, long live Punch.

Punch is dead.

[blow thudding] [Frankie screaming]

- [Mr. Punch] That's the way to do it. [laughing]

♪ Everyone delights to spend their summer holiday ♪

♪ Down beside of the side of the silvery sea ♪

♪ I'm no exception to the rule, in fact, if I'd my way ♪

♪ I'd reside by the side of the silvery sea ♪

♪ But when you're just the common garden ♪

♪ Smith or Jones or Brown ♪

♪ At business up in town, you've got to settle down ♪

♪ You save up all the money you can ♪

♪ 'til summer comes around ♪

♪ Then away you go to a spot you know ♪

♪ Where the cockle shells are found ♪

♪ Oh, I do like to be beside the seaside ♪

♪ I do like to be beside the sea ♪

♪ I do like to be upon the prom, prom, prom ♪

♪ Where the brass band play tiddly-om-pom-pom ♪

♪ So just let me be beside the seaside ♪

♪ I'll be beside myself with glee ♪

♪ And there's lots of girls beside ♪

♪ I should like to be beside ♪

♪ Beside the seaside, beside the sea ♪

♪ Timothy went to Blackpool for the day last Eastertide ♪

♪ To see what he could see beside the sea ♪

♪ As soon as he reached the station there ♪

♪ The first thing he espied ♪

♪ Was the Wine Lodge door stood open invitingly ♪

♪ To quench his thirst, he toddled inside ♪

♪ And called out for a wine ♪

♪ Which grew to eight or nine ♪

♪ 'Til his nose began to shine ♪

♪ Said he, what people see in the sea ♪

♪ I really fail to see ♪

♪ So he caught the train back home again ♪

♪ Then to his wife said he ♪

♪ Oh, I do like to be beside the seaside ♪

♪ Oh, I do like to be beside the seaside ♪

[Mr. Punch laughing]