"are the flashbacks." "what I did to her." "it's crippling." "268)}Now the government is putting these dangerous fiends back into our community." "we'll deal with them." "I know you!" "What is every living person afraid of?" "273)}– Us?" "– Death." "The Big Sleep." "Great news." "Rick is coming home." "like Kieren's back." "273)}– Like Kieren?" "– Dead man walking." "everything turned to shit." "Life didn't mean anything any more." "I'm infected!" "Tell Vicky I've always loved her." "My Vicky?" "That's enough!" "We hand them over to the civvies?" "You do the honours." "You're a better shot than me." "273)}– What are you doing?" "– Do it!" "You don't have to do what he tells you." "Not any more." "Time to call Shirl." "He'll be out with Rick." "Or in a ditch somewhere." "we have to call Shirley about this." "she'll call the Centre and they'll take him away." "273)}– Do you want that?" "– We can't lose him again." "We won't." "Do you want me to get the netting in?" "273)}– Get off." "– I'm sorry." "Rick." "Siding with that rotter!" "Insubordination." "It'll spread." "Like piss downhill." "He's loving this." "You saw him swanning into the Legion with his rotter girlfriend." "The Walker lad were smiling ear to rotten ear." "and you've got to do it." "Got some aspirin if you want?" "I best get back." "Morning council meeting." "This..." "What happened last night..." "If word got out..." "I'd lose my job." "there'd be hell to pay." "You think I want it known I shagged someone like you?" "What's that supposed to mean?" "Good." "Keep your mouth shut." "I'd be strung up." "What are you doing here?" "Amy's nan." "I knew her." "At the hospice." "Came to give her some left over belongings." "Right." "You?" "I'm doing outreach." "Right." "Partially Deceased face to face relations." "love?" "273)}– What are we doing at the cage?" "– We need to get some of that paint." "though." "200 squid for a night's work." "mate." "You see any rotters caged up?" "you soft get." "First thing I'll do with this money is buy myself vitamin C in bulk." "I feel rough as dogs." "I must be getting that cold... 273)}– What are you doing?" "– You're being quarantined." "You got bit." "You could turn any time." "Gaz!" "Walker lad said so himself!" "Likely story." "eh?" "innit?" "About what I said last night?" "Bastard." "Lisa!" "You were there." "I have flashbacks." "From that time." "My medication." "Rebuilds connections in my memory." "273)}– You were there when Lisa was killed." "– When you killed her." "You killed her." "She wasn't killed." "273)}– You killed her." "– When I killed Lisa." "So you come to talk yer way out of it?" "Make excuses?" "You remember me." "From then?" "Did you see what I did?" "And how does it feel?" "It feels awful." "I'm not one of those people who thinks so killing the living doesn't count." "It does count." "I did kill her." "And all I can say is... that I would have done anything to have stopped it." "So you think I'm a coward?" "You saw me." "I could have stopped it." "Maybe." "Talk about guilt." "Try looking the parents of your mate in the eye when really you're a fake and a liar." "I told Lisa's parents I'd run..." "I told everyone that I'd run out of bullets." "And I hadn't run out of bullets." "I just couldn't pull the trigger on my own brother." "Rabid rotter or not." "I couldn't do it." "I'm glad you didn't." "Are you?" "I am." "I really am." "I'm going to Lisa's parents." "I'm gonna..." "I'm gonna try and bring them some peace." "Wait for me." "It has to look like he turned on you." "There's some in Roarton that think these things are people." "Can you believe that? he started foaming at the mouth." "Summat like that." "Rick." "He's an animal." "Worse than an animal." "but rotters are evil." "273)}– This has to be done." "– I know." "Do you want to be in the good books or the bad books?" "The good books." "273)}– When do you want me to go?" "– Today." "Where's me fags?" "I'll be straight back." "Here y'are." "Hurry up." "the Walker lad." "Have you got some change?" "Pure poison." "You let that go." "lack of respect." "they all start going." "he's got to go. he's got to go." "Won't be a sec." "273)}– Where are you two going?" "– Out." "Absolutely not." "You had us worried sick." "273)}– No one's going anywhere." "– We have to." "It's still dangerous out there." "Come on!" "I'm packing." "Is someone gonna get that?" "273)}– The handset's not on the charger." "– Where's that phone?" "273)}– How would I know?" "– You had it last night." "Sue." "but the number of times I come down and find it stuffed down the side of the sofa." "That's got nothing to do with me." "Once I left it down the sofa." "We had words and ever since then I've made a point of always... now we're never gonna find it." "it's me." "You're in danger." "but... if you see me or my dad coming... just run." "stay away." "I'm really..." "Vicar." "What do we owe the pleasure?" "I need you to do one of your barnstormers." "The lad's got a big mission to do today." "He's gonna need inspiring." "I see." "What do you have in mind?" "no matter what." "Vicar." "What?" "Philip's outside." "He's painting something on the garage." "273)}– What are you doing?" "– Proposal was voted in this morning." "All houses with PDS sufferers inside must be identified." "Sarge?" "Know how you feel." "273)}– What's going on?" "– Get inside and change into your suit." "We're going to church." "you off to service?" "Need a lift?" "Patty." "I think you and Duncan should skip church today." "That one." "And then that's the new one." "There you go." "Duncan gets them done at the print place in town." "I design them on my computer." "Looks very professional." "we won't have to put them up for much longer." "how to..." "Lisa isn't missing." "And I know this for sure because I was there." "In the supermarket." "I was the one." "I attacked her." "I attacked your daughter." "isn't it?" "273)}– What Kieren's trying to say is that..." "– I know." "love." "So you were the one who moved her body?" "So who was the one who moved her body?" "I don't know." "But you're sure you bit her?" "I'm sure I did that." "It's just that we were hoping for a bit more from you." "Like maybe you'd spotted her." "In the woods." "When you were in the woods last night." "We heard what you did for those other two and we'd just like to thank you." "273)}– Thank me?" "– Standing up like you did." "she won't be harmed." "We think that she woke up after you'd finished with her." "And now she's just roaming about." "I leave the patio door open all the time." "Just in case." "Lisa's not coming back." "Course she is." "She was bitten." "she'll be coming back like you and Rick Macy." "We all came back because we died the year before the Rising." "but... you come back." "I'm sorry." "It doesn't work like that." "isn't it?" "you come straight back." "but this isn't a film." "Vicar Oddie said that this is a "very serious concern"." "273)}– Vicar Oddie is saying that because..." "– Because it could be true." "Kier?" "Couldn't it?" "anything is possible." "You've got to have faith... haven't you?" "Lad!" "mate!" "Do us a favour." "Pop to the shops and get us a sarnie." "I am diabetic!" "You got bit." "That's all bollocks about getting turned from a bite." "273)}– My dad says different." "– Yer dad!" "Yer dad don't know his arse from his elbow." "Infected bastard." "love." "have you lost some weight?" "could you?" "I've been quarantined against me will." "You mangy cow!" "Call yourself a Christian! only then can the good Lord pave the way to salvation." "And salvation is all that we crave." "Do not be fooled." "Those things are not what they appear to be." "not your friends." "They are imposters!" "Changelings of the highest order. and they must be judged!" "The Good Lord demands it!" "Revelations 11:18. and for rewarding your servants and those who reverence your name." "I have to go to this coffee morning Shirl set up." "Vicar." "This is far from over. and the dead shall be raised incorruptible." "Bill. a second resurrection will be upon us." "But this time the Lord will bring back the true souls we miss so dearly." "It's the same old Rick." "I promise you that." "we've the Lord's work to do." "We hold the keys of salvation in our hands." "What do you want?" "I'm here to mark your place." "Fine." "Fear not." "and behold I am alive for evermore and hold the keys of life and death." "Join me here." "For when we are united we are strong..." "What are you watching?" "Nothing." "Da Vinci." "are you?" "I'd like you to leave." "It just won't do." "273)}– What won't?" "– You." "Going around like you are." "Was about to get dressed before you turned up." "like that." "Walking around bare." "A slap in the face to this community." "To war heroes like me." "arsehole." "I can do what I bloody well... you cover up your rotten face!" "Got it?" "That's better." "Want some?" "I can't have fluids." "Thank you." "What for?" "For not taking away their hope." "You could have done." "But you didn't." "I've taken away enough from that family." "You were brave in there." "273)}– I didn't feel brave." "– You were." "Even just going in." "It took a lot of guts." "a lot more than me." "that's not true." "– It is." "gun-toting badass." "But I'm not." "I never was." "I don't think of you as a badass." "Dick." "I mean that you'll always be my little sister." "I'm your big sister now." "you're still 18." "I'm 19 in three weeks." "I'm gonna go." "Better get off." "Mum and Dad'll worry." "I'll come with you." "she's your mate." "Sure?" "little bro." "Don't want to miss your bedtime story." "I know you." "that didn't work out." "are you?" "partner." "You're leaving Roarton?" "273)}– Why?" "– Lots of reasons." "This place." "It's never gonna to accept people like us." "It will." "We'll make them change." "It won't." "I..." "We need to go somewhere where we can be ourselves." "Where's that?" "The undead prophet." "He's got a commune." "He says he's got answers." "Aren't you curious why we're here?" "273)}– Why we came back in the first place?" "– Of course I am." "He's got a community." "Lots of people like us up there." "dangerous." "strong bodyguard." "is it?" "That is the best impression of yourself you'll ever see in your entire second life." "then." "So that's a definite yes?" "You'll come with me?" "I can't come with you." "Not just yet." "if you ask me." "It's an act he puts on with his dad." "You think he'll change too?" "You're such a soppy optimist." "I killed myself." "So you're an optimist with depressive tendencies." "I'll be depressed if you leave." "You've a family." "I don't have that." "I need something like it." "The medication." "We need to have our shots every day." "he's got tons of the stuff stockpiled." "handsome." "I'll be back." "273)}– We've got a wedding to go to anyway." "– Wedding?" "dum-dum." "yeah?" "I mean it." "if you'd like to take a seat." "Now." "This is a safe place." "What is said here does not leave this room." "how is everyone feeling?" "Any burning questions regarding... love?" "My son Henry's been getting fan mail from perverts" "PDS... arousing." "pure filth." "This is one." "I want to feel your cold dead hands all over my warm silky bodice." "you horny corpse." "Barbara." "Stoke on Trent" "I can see that this Barbara is very misinformed." "Shirl." "How's everyone else feeling?" "How do I feel?" "How am I feeling? and the next I'm filled with anger." "I'm in the bathroom bawling me eyes out." "I can't keep up." "isn't lady?" "You mentioned being angry with him?" "When Kieren left... my family... went into freefall." "Jemima became this white hot ball of rage and Steve..." "There's that joke about the best husband is a mute husband." "But the reality... of watching someone that you've known and loved for so long... is awful." "I blamed Kieren." "I was just so bloody mad with him. especially your only son." "I've felt exactly the same way." "But more... more fear than anger." "I was scared of him." "Scared of me own flesh and blood." "yeah?" "Got you." "I'll be the rotter." "how's it going?" "Brilliant." "You've got it." "Well done." "then." "Just a sec." "What are you playing at?" "Where are you?" "they're all supposed to be possessed by the devil himself." "Demons in disguise." "I haven't found that at all." "My handsome man's back." "He's different." "He's a bit different looking." "But he's still the same." "Deep down." "I know that." "he's a good boy." "Dad." "I don't want to hurt Ren." "He's me best mate." "then so am I." "I get you." "Do you?" "I do." "aren't you?" "You know something's not right and you want out." "Come here." "Come here." "It's all right." "It's gonna be all right." "It's gonna be all right." "mate." "I need help." "it's bloody Ken." "Mr Burton." "I hate to ask you this." "What do you want?" "I need help." "sarnie or summat." "What sort?" "if they've got it." "Thank you." "Sorry for what I've done." "it's me." "You're in danger." "My dad wants you gone and he wants me to do it." "just run." "love." "Sorry I'm late." "Shirl kept nattering on about the village fete." "that woman can't half talk." "Where's Rick?" "Where's Rick?" "I haven't seen Rick for five years." "What do you mean?" "when we waved him off." "That's the last time I saw our son." "Mum!" "Dad!" "What idiot's making all that racket?" "I don't want to..." "Stand up." "Stand up!" "You're barred from this house." "And that's why." "Bloody animal." "you're not allowed here." "– You banned me eight years ago. it's because I gave your son a mix CD." "you'll still be banned from here." "when he comes back?" "273)}– Next time." "– What next time?" "would you?" "What next time?" "Have you not fucked off yet?" "What next time?" "The next resurrection." "The dead are gonna rise again." "only the good dead are gonna come up." "The right dead." "Not impostors like you and that thing." "Thing?" "He looked like him." "He talked like him." "But there were tell-tale signs." "I see now." "now that was a stroke of genius." "Sticking up for the likes of you." "That's when the scales fell." "Rick." "– It weren't the proper Rick. and everything'll be put to rights." "he didn't." "He showed you his real self and you killed him for it." "I got rid of an imposter." "Because he stuck up for me?" "And he looked like you and all!" "Those beady little eyes." "273)}– Because he was like me." "– Wrong!" "He came back!" "And it was a one-shot deal." "It was a gift." "A gift and you ruined it." "You murdered your only son." "You rotten bastard." "You've upset my wife." "She should be upset." "You killed her boy. after I judge the rest of them." "You killed Rick." "Our boy!" "You killed our boy!" "Rick." "Rick." "what have I done?" "I didn't see nothing." "Someone help." "Someone please help me." "I've just had that door varnished." "Mrs Bennett." "240)}" "Mum'll find him." "He wouldn't... leave us again." "273)}– Is that you?" "– Nearly gave me a heart attack!" "Why am I giving you a heart attack?" "What are you doing here?" "I wasn't gonna... so I just started running I needed to come here where me and Rick used to..." "I'm so sorry about what happened to him." "you didn't. not you." "Mum." "It's becoming just like it was before and I don't know how to change it." "you live." "You don't leave." "You stay." "You want me to stay?" "When I'm like this?" "Kieren." "I'd love you with all my heart if you came back as a goldfish!" "I know how it feels." "To lose someone." "I was going out with this very handsome RAF pilot." "I know." "It's true." "I never told you." "I was so amazed by this man." "really. the whole shebang. namely dumping me and going out with my best friend Emily who he deemed more socially acceptable." "I was devastated." "Inconsolable." "I thought I was never gonna meet anybody who got me so completely again." "So I quit college and I came home." "I decided I was gonna end it all." "And so..." "I sneaked out the house and went to the late night chemist." "But the fella on the counter point blank refused to serve me." "And I just burst into tears right there in the shop. and... he listened." "And I talked." "All the way through his shift." "I talked... and he listened." "And he made me laugh too. he can be very funny when he wants to be." "But sometimes I wish he'd talk more." "And not about Blu-rays and the weather." "But about the real stuff. talk to you about real stuff." "Where is he?" "Having a nervous breakdown at home." "but... he can't come here." "The prodigal son returns." "I'm sorry." "Not your fault." "You were under a lot of stress." "I don't want you to let me off that easy." "I just left you." "No phone call." "No nothing." "you did do that." "I wasn't thinking." "I didn't think." "About Mum's feelings." "Jem's." "About your feelings." "Suppose you didn't." "So I want you to tell me off." "Give me a piece of your mind." "Give me hell." "You're grounded." "More." "What were you playing at?" "You had your mother worried sick." "273)}– And?" "– And you had your sister worried sick." "273)}– And?" "– And I were gonna call the police." "son." "273)}– I understand that now." "– Very concerned." "Why?" "You know why." "273)}– Tell me." "– You know." "harder!" "Cos I was worried sick! no contact for days." "I get to the cave." "And there you are." "you're leaning on a rock." "he's OK." "But then I get close." "I see the Swiss army knife I'd got you for your birthday..." "You're covered in blood." "So much blood. but I can't because you're... son."