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We're going to England. She has the tape. Nightmare Maker.

So what's the plan? We meet her in the pub tomorrow. Long way to walk, though.

Any chance of a lift? Oi! Do that again, you'll need a bandage of your own. If you're going to be

such a stuck-up bitch, you can get out and walk.

We've had a report about money being stolen from the school's debs fund.

SHE SCREAMS

There's that festival thingy on.

That was just locals playing dress-up.

FURTHER SCREAMING

The body of a young woman has been found by a lake

in the Derbyshire Dales between Chesterfield and Ashdale.

Police say the woman may have died under suspicious circumstances,

and are appealing for information from anyone who was in the area.

Yeah. Hi. I'm calling about a tip-off.

It's about that body in the woods.

I picked up three very unusual teenagers last night.

I had to throw them out me car.

Right by the walking trail.

Er, yeah, one of them were dark-skinned,

and, er, each of them had this bandage on their left hand.

Looked like some strange cult kind of thing.

You see? It's just a festival.

I think last night was just locals playing dress-up.

That's all it was.

Whatever, let's just get the tape and be done with it.

What if she doesn't show?

She will.

Are you sure this is the right place?

Yeah.

OK.

Hello. Can I get three pints of lager, please?

Is this the only pub?

Certainly is.

One pub, one shop, one post office round the corner.

That's it, apart from my church.

Right. Thanks.

We don't even know what she looks like.

She could be some 50-year-old with no arms, no legs.

How would she write the letters, then?

Yeah.

We are going to watch the film, aren't we?

Of course. I have to make sure it's in mint condition.

Every bit of it.

Here you go.

On the house.

Skilled! How'd you manage that?

I told him we were orphaned by an IRA bomb.

The British think it's basically Flanders over home.

The bandages really sold it.

No surrender!

So the police just showed up at your door,

and you expect me to believe you didn't call them?

We didn't. Honestly, it was all about the missing money.

Their first priority is to find the children.

They already found out that Zoe was in hospital last night

and signed herself out. I mean, that's what we're dealing with here,

so, no, we can't just sit around. We're getting the ferry.

The guards will be checking in with their counterparts in the UK,

so if you've got any extra intel from those letters, Abe,

we could really do with it. What do you mean? Why would I read them?

They are his. Oh, God be good to us.

Really? Don't you want to know who he's meeting? I mean, who knows

what sort of head-the-balls are dealing those videos?

None of them are children any more.

Yes, they are! They are, and they always will be.

If they run, it's because they want to see us follow them.

They're kids. They're our kids.

So we will be getting the ferry,

and there is room in the car if you change your mind.

Come on, Frank.

CHATTER

Is the pathologist done?

Yeah. Took his time getting here, though.

They're about to bag the body up.

Found this.

HE SIGHS Christ.

What are we going to do if she doesn't show?

I need this money. She'll come.

OK, you wrote to a PO box, yeah?

That Proddy vicar-y reverend fella,

he said that there's a post office on the other side of the village.

Oh, well, surely they know who owns the box.

I mean, if she lives around here... She's not even that late.

Look, me and him need to stay here in case she shows.

Er, fuck no.

I'm not going off by myself after that shit last night.

You must be joking.

You said yourself it's your trip.

Your pen pal... Not a pen pal. ..your problem.

Con?

Oh, for fuck's sake!

I'm getting tired of this, you know.

Thanks, man. Appreciate it.

Do you, though?

CHATTER

Hello there, young man.

Hi. I'm looking for a PO box.

It's number 489. Is that here?

It is. The very one.

Would you be able to tell me who owns it, please,

if that's something you can do?

Such lovely manners. So rare these days.

But I'm afraid that would be against Royal Mail policy.

OK.

So what happens when a letter arrives to a box?

Well, I notify the owner.

If they're local, I usually give them a call.

Personal touch.

That's how we do things around here.

OK.

Can I get a piece of paper and an envelope, then, please?

Oh! I don't want to be drunk.

She's not coming.

Why would you say that? You don't know.

Are you trying to get pissed?

SHE SIGHS

DOOR OPENS

You all right after last night?

Yeah, I'm fine.

Come on!

Don't be such a dry shite.

I watch skulls getting drilled.

I'm not a dry shite.

Dry shite.

Fuck off!

You're easily influenced, aren't you?

Me?!

You've never made an original choice in your life.

You're a sheep following the crowd.

You want to go there again? OK.

Cos I'll tear your whole act to shreds.

You know, "I'm Billy, I'm too cool for friends cos I don't have any."

I don't talk like that.

All right, how about a truce, then?

Give me till the end of this pint.

Wonderful.

You know what?

This is all a bit silly.

I can't give you a name and address, but maybe if you were to ask me

something else, I might be able to help you out.

OK. Well, we're looking for a girl that comes in here.

She sends letters and packages to Ireland.

Oh, yes, I think I know the very one.

Well, let's just say if you happened to walk out the church road,

follow the road all the way around until the crossroads, take a right

and then a left, you might find someone worth talking to.

Oh, my God, thank you so much.

We don't take the Lord's name in vain around here.

Oh, right. Sorry. Of course.

Could I get another piece of paper for all those directions?

Thanks.

Wayhey!

Festival week, gents!

Pint of your best there, Tim.

Sit down, Rob.

All right, Reverend? Don't see you in here much.

You're letting loose? Tone it down, son.

A bit of respect. Fair enough.

I know we're honouring the dead, but it were 300 years ago.

I'm talking about the body they found by the lake.

Could be one of our own.

Oh, right, that.

My brother's reporting on it for the paper.

Haven't named her yet, but between me and you,

they reckon it was a group thing.

Three suspects.

Terrible times.

The whole world's gone to hell in a handbasket.

OK, truth,

because if I say dare, you'll twist it on me again.

Is it true your mam left for some other fella?

What the fuck you ask me that for? Sorry!

I thought this was truth or dare.

I'll ask something else if it's too sensitive.

No, it's not fucking...

I don't e... I don't even know!

No-one ever told me.

I think she's living with some doctor now or something.

I don't know if he's the reason why...

Whatever.

It was ages ago. I'm fine.

Hey, your turn.

Truth - why the fuck did you ask me that?

Because...I knew it would get under your skin,

and that's what you're really afraid of. No. No, bullshit.

So you can drink and go again.

Come on.

I answered your question. You asked me that for a reason.

Why are you so interested all of a sudden?

I caught my dad sleeping with someone else.

There you go.

Con doesn't know.

I'm just trying to keep everything together.

Yeah, how's that working out for you?

It's not so funny now, is it?

OK, dare.

Come to the ladies with me. Come on. It'll be funny.

Why? Because all these stiffs will think we're having sex in there.

Come on. This is all just a big distraction to you, isn't it?

No. You're going to have to tell Con eventually, you know.

Look at you.

You're ducking the dare. You're morto.

I'm not. OK, well, then, you won't mind me doing this.

Come on, Billy. Zoe. Let's go. Zoe!

I want you to do me now.

Stop. Ride me sideways, Billy.

Go on. Zoe, stop! Show us what you're made of. Zoe, stop!

What the fuck was that?

Relax. We're having a laugh.

You're half-cut! Did you find anything?

I know where she lives.

All right, I don't care where you're from. We can't have that in here.

I'm asking you to leave now.

OK. We're going anyway. Come on, get your bag and go.

Get your hands off me! All right.

Do we have a problem here?

We don't like trouble round here, especially from outsiders.

I leave yous alone for two seconds

and yous get us thrown out of the place.

Some people can't take a joke.

Where are we even going? Don't worry about it. I'll handle this.

PHONE RINGS

Hello?

You could have told me you were going from Belfast.

I would have packed a sandwich.

Yeah, I was a bit surprised you came, to be honest.

What changed your mind?

Are you serious?

Wait, you didn't get the call from the police?

What call? What call?

Oh, God.

OK, how do I, er...?

Look, the good news is they have been sighted in Derbyshire.

What's the bad news?

They are wanted for questioning in a murder investigation.

What?! What?!

Jesus Christ. Jesus Christ.

All right. This must be it.

Are we sure about this? Just doorstepping her?

I mean, why didn't she show?

Let's ask her.

Hang on.

Am I the only one who finds this weird?

What do we know about this girl?

Don't start this again.

Either we do it now or we go home.

Let me lead this, all right? I'll explain about the post office.

No, no, no.

She's my contact. I'll do it.

HE KNOCKS

Hi. Erm, we're looking for someone.

Your sister, maybe.

Your letter said there'd be two of yous.

Who's the girl?

Is she here or...? Fangoria Fangirl?

Yeah.

Yeah, you could say that.

You'd better come in.

You want your tape, right?

Anyone else home?

Er, my parents are away.

In here. Look, maybe you should just explain what's going on first.

I... I'm...

..Fangoria Fangirl.

I'm her.

She's me.

Pretended to be a girl when I posted it in Fangoria to get more replies.

I had to keep it up.

Nah. That's bullshit.

OK, she doesn't want to meet us for some reason

and you're covering for her, right?

This one.

I knew it.

I fucking knew it.

There she is, Billy.

There's your dream girl.

God. I'm sorry. That's priceless.

Can I, erm...? Toilet?

Toilet? Yeah, just there on the left.

Too much? Maybe the wrong moment to gloat.

Thought he'd be happy.

I mean, we found what we're looking for, right?

Yeah. I've got it.

You'll be able to check the whole thing.

No video player.

Oh, yeah. Er...

Yeah, I've got a place out back.

My mum's not too keen on me watching videos in the house.

Means I can watch what I want.

Would you like your tapes now?

Oh, right. Yeah, of course.

Great.

Was it not weird?

You know, pretending to be a girl?

I mean, Billy kind of liked you, I think.

What? No, it was just a name.

He saw what he wanted to.

Right, erm...

Hey, hey, hey.

You've got to see his first.

Hey, look, I'm sorry.

I know it's not funny.

To you. Yeah, look, you're not the only one,

you know. I do... I do lots of exchanges.

Don't.

I don't need anyone feeling sorry for me.

Why didn't you just come to the pub? Come clean?

Do you think I can just keep meeting strangers in a pub

without people talking?

So give your address, then.

So everybody knows where the illegal video collector lives?

You all find the PO box.

If you're not some weirdo, you get sent here.

Look, let me get your tape.

That's all that matters, right?

Yeah.

I don't feel good about any of this.

Where is he? Maybe he's gone to get his chainsaw.

Look, his whole story checks out, apart from having a dick.

Well, I'm not staying to check that tape, all right?

Let's just make the exchange and go.

But it's worthless if it's not mint.

We need to pay back that money or we're dead.

I'll take my chances at home.

But we were supposed to watch it.

This is it, remember? You and me finishing this together.

Yeah. That was before.

Yeah, was it?

Or was this whole thing about your pen pal?

What's wrong with you? Are you embarrassed?

What, because you had a crush on this guy? Shut your mouth!

What do you think?

Stay or go? What are you even asking her for?

You never listen to me.

You always want to be in control of everything we do.

You sent me off to do your grunt work

while yous two got half-pissed.

Don't get narky with me, all right?!

If you don't want to do something, just fucking say it.

I don't want to go to London.

All right? I never did.

I don't want to make tea on fucking film sets.

I want you to stay in Dublin.

Well, why didn't you just tell me?

Because...

Because I don't want this to be the end.

HE SIGHS

Look, I'm sorry, all right?

This was my stupid plan.

Maybe I shouldn't be in charge any more.

Whatever you think, I trust you.

Sorry about the wait.

So do you want to check this now while we have a cup of tea

or something?

Would you mind if I held it?

HE CHUCKLES

Let's do this. Yeah.

Yeah. Er, yeah. Out here.

No, thanks. Not my thing.

Um, are you sure? It's not long.

This is theirs.

I... I really think you should...

I don't want to watch that shit, all right?

OK.

Don't go messing with anything.

My mum's very particular.

OK.

Yeah, erm...

Not bad, right?

We converted the old cow shed.

I'll be honest - still haven't quite got rid of the smell.

To be honest, man, we were, erm,

we were a bit worried for a minute, you know.

Why? Were you expecting a dungeon?

I used a girl's name.

It doesn't mean I'm some sort of freak, does it?

Here we go.

MUSIC PLAYS

Get ready for some gore.

The police cordon was penetrated as men threw themselves at the van.

Some tried to lay down in the road,

and there were scuffles as policemen hauled them clear.

The conflict outside the plant assumed the character

of a staged directed drama...

Hello. You've reached the Power household. We're not in right now...

SHE SIGHS

Hello?

HORN HONKS, TYRES SCREECH

No! God!

SHE SCREAMS

Thanks for pushing me.

Yeah.

Argh!

Argh! No! Sh!

SHE STRAINS

Billy!

Hey! Hey! Hey! Hey!

Bollocks!

SHE SCREAMS

The body of a young woman has been discovered by a wooded lake

outside of Ashdale.

Detectives are particularly keen to speak to three teenagers

from Ireland who were seen in the area.

The teenagers were said to have bandages on their left hand.