02x02 - Little Sister

[bunniefuu]

It's a lot to take in.
We've been here over a week.

Kind of blows when you realise
you're not the only chosen ones.

The game consists of four
challenges,

held within each of the Artefact's
four locations.

We're not forcing you to be
somewhere you don't want to be.

Meg! Bad luck.

No-one's ever beat diamond.

Me and my sister play a lot.
I mean, we used to.

We'll never win with Meg.
We have to leave, Louis.

I'm not a little girl.

The point to the game? To find the
four who will save the world.

RAP MUSIC PLAYS

Over here! Come on! I used to love
this!

It's for kids! And, look, there's
no-one here.

They won't mind. It's a guaranteed
prize every time, come on.

HIGH-PITCHED SOUND

What is that? Can you hear that?

This is real.

Sorry?

Going in and out of there all the
time...

..it can get confusing.

I was pinching myself constantly.

If you get close enough, you can
hear them talking to each other.

CHATTERING SOUND

One day away from the first
challenge.

How does that feel for everybody?

Where's Meg?

I just think, now that we have all
the groups together,

it would be good to talk things out.

Mal was a teacher before.

Oh! So does that mean we need

to raise our hands to go to the
toilet?

If you have to raise your hand to go
to the toilet, Dev,

you have a serious medical problem.

LAUGHTER

Why did the aliens choose us?

They didn't tell us that, Faye,
just what we need to know.

If those things say we're special, I
want to know why.

Yeah, me, too.

Is it true that you dated a dinosaur
in your Alternate?

That's the rumour, anyway.

Isabel! I dated a mermaid.

The dinosaur tried to eat us,
not go out with us.

We're not supposed to ask or talk to
each other about our Alternates.

It could give the other groups an
unfair advantage.

Where do we go...when we enter the
Artefacts?

EVERYONE: Oh, my God. Kai! Here we
go!

Is it even a real place?
Every time!

We should at least talk about it.

It freaks me out.

Dragonfly, you lot have had a...

..different experience than the rest
of the groups.

Care to share your thoughts?

OK...

Um...

At the beginning, ours, I mean, it
teleported stuff.

But it didn't have enough power,

so things would just fall back down
to the Earth.

But, once activated, I think it sent
us...it teleported us somewhere,

a physical place.

Where? Outer space,
to another planetary system.

Louis! To where they're from.

Meg, don't!

Close the door...very slowly.

DOOR SLAMS

I just wanted some fresh air.

I know.

You said we could leave.

You can.

I didn't lie to you.

A colleague,

he missed his family and left.

A light from those things wiped his
memory.

It's how they protect themselves,
I suppose.

They take away any memory we have of
them.

Do the other groups know?

All they'd forget is finding their
Artefact and being here.

They've been friends for years.

All "they'd" forget?

You, Louis, Glen and Kaz, you
became friends AFTER finding it.

You and your group can leave if you
want.

But if you do, or lose a challenge,
you'll forget each other.

I wasn't going to say anything about
it!

You literally did! You drew it,
permanently, on a wall!

Maybe they should know.

Know what? You two have been like
this since we were last in there.

Well, we found something yesterday
in the Alternate,

something that we
weren't meant to find.

Keep at him, he'll probably draw it
on a wall for you.

Where've you been?

I wasn't feeling good.

You OK?

What did you find?

A way to get some answers, maybe,
about who's behind all of this.

OK. What do you want to do?

Just waste our time, playing a game?

Or skip right to the end?

Then we could finally get out of
here and leave.

Leave? Hey!

You happy?! This jacket
actually meant something to me.

I should have gone for a cube,
but diamond was a lot harder.

Oh, yeah?

Get back here.

Sorry. Come on.

You should keep your group in order,
man.

What's going on? What is this?
It's good! We're fine.

Group leaders, hands, please.

Right, can we try and get through
this in one piece?

Can each of the groups keep to
themselves

for the rest of the day, yeah?

He was asking for it.

We're going back down there tonight.

You get your answers and we get out
of here.

You heard Mal, I'd better go.

No, don't listen to him.
What do they know?

They haven't got a clue what it's
like to be in there.

You want to know what our Artefact's
location is? Do you?

No! No! Dev, you know it wouldn't
be fair on the other groups.

Well, I don't care.

I mean...maybe I want to help you
stick around a bit longer.

What do you think those three have
to talk about?

These things aren't tracking our
location or doing anything sketchy.

You sure? We're sure.
We went over and over it.

They're just fitness trackers.

What did you expect? Why are you so
interested in all this?

I'm just trying to figure out who we
can trust.

Weird thing is, the only data
Greenfront are downloading

from these are our sleep patterns.

Our sleep? Why would they want to
know that?

If we're doing this, we should go
now.

I know you want to leave,
but what if we stayed?

We could win -
Glen thinks so.

We should try, at least.

Did those two get to you?

No, no.

Something happened.

I was at the Artefacts and I wanted
to get some fresh air,

but then... We're not going to win.

Because of me? I'll be fine.

No.

Because of me.

I...I don't do this. Buildings and
rules...

You're not listening to me, Kaz.
We can't leave.

I won't make a week!

I need to get out, Meg.
Please be on my side with this.

All right.

Are you going to tell me where we're
going?

I think it's best if you just see
it.

I mean, it's not easy to describe.

Yeah, it is.

We're on a spaceship.

Whoa.

Wait. So, up there's the Alternate
environment

and this is what, like, behind the
scenes?

Pretty much.

I mean, if our Alternate has a
three-mile radius,

then this thing must be huge!

How do you know it's a spaceship?

Oh.

There you go.

Do you recognise it, the stars?

No. My Dad....

He'd have these star charts on the
wall, but...

..we're probably billions of light
years away from Earth.

Oh. OK.

So, all this time we were in outer
space.

You think there are alien security
cameras watching us?

If there are, maybe don't wave at
them.

We need to make sure that we don't
get lost.

So what's the plan? I'm kind of
freaking out.

I'm a billion light years away from
my mum and dad!

Well, we're going to find the aliens
and ask them what the deal is.

We find out what they want with us.

Did we go round in circles?

Um...

No, this one's different, I think.

What is that?

BUZZING SOUND

Come on! Go, go, go!!

Come on! Hurry up!

PANTING

CARNIVAL MUSIC PLAYS

Where is this?

CARNIVAL MUSIC CONTINUES

Hmm. Cute.

What is this place?

I think it's another one of the
Alternates.

Is there someone here? Who is that?

You stay here, OK?

Yeah, yeah, that was good.

LAUGHTER, CHATTER

How did YOU get here?

You can't be here.
Where'd you come from?

None of your business.
Did they enter through the Artefact?

No. That's impossible.

Are they real? We're real.

Your Alternate's a fairground?

Look, if Greenfront found out about
this...

Who cares about Greenfront?
Come on over.

Where's the quiet one?

So is yours just these rides and
everything?

Are you the one who dated a
dinosaur?

Why does...? I didn't date a
dinosaur!

How would that even be possible?

Maybe one of the smaller ones.

No, it was a mermaid! And she was,
like, 50% acceptable and very nice.

OK.

So, I mean, Greenfront aren't really
big on social introductions.

This is Dev, Meena, Kai.

And I'm the one with the diamond on
his jacket.

Want us to show you around?

Jay.

What? Things just got interesting!

SQUEAKING, RATTLING

SQUEAKING, RATTLING SOUND CONTINUES

Yasmin....

CHATTER

You lot just going to stand there?

How did you end up in a fairground?

Where's your Artefact?

Well, now, that would be telling,
wouldn't it?

I love it in here.

We hang out here most nights.

In here, we can do whatever we want.

No adults telling us what to do.

Yeah, and all that stuff Mal comes
out with, you know,

like "we're important"?

But, when things kicked off earlier,

he made sure we knew who was in
charge.

Look, about the jacket...

Nah, I probably deserved it.

It showed strength -

you need that in here.

Can't trust anybody.

So, why do you stay?

I want to win!

I want to be the one who saves the
world!

What?

Save the world?

That is why we're here, isn't it?

I mean, that's the big prize,
that's what we're playing for.

We're the chosen ones!

I mean, if you think about it...

..Greenfront should be doing what WE
say...

..cos, in here...

..we're gods!

Grace?

Hi!

You're not real.

I'm real enough.

I come from a good place.

This always gets stuck in my teeth.

Look at you.

I'm so proud.

I feel bad for running away, but I
couldn't take another day with Mum.

I only lasted as long as I did
because of you.

No.

You were always the one holding the
family together, Meg.

Are you gonna tell them? That if
you lose you'll forget each other?

Kaz, she can't handle this place.

She deserves to know what she'd be
losing - and what you'd be losing.

Some things are worth fighting for.

Anyone in here can imagine things -
dinosaurs, robots -

the trick is controlling them.

That's how you win -
focus your power.

Which one of you was it passed the
assessment? The what?

You went through the assessment,
right?

When you first go in?
At the end? The progress bars?

Erm, we didn't complete it.

The assessment is how the Artefact
selects the strongest of your group,

the one who'll lead, who'll focus
your energy.

Don't you lot know anything?
Obviously not.

It selected Jay for our group.

Who got the highest mark on the
assessment?

You?

You seem pretty cool.

No? Well, let's find out!

What, you thought you could just
crash our Alternate uninvited?

It is a little rude.

What's going on?

HISSING

Hey! What're you doing?!
Helping you.

It doesn't feel like it. Louis?

Hey, that's enough!

Stop us! Take control of it.

Imagine it's something else -

it's the only way.

I don't like this.

It's not real. I still have the burn
on my arm from the robot, Louis!

That felt pretty real.
Better hurry up!

HISSING

It's not real, it's not real, it's
not real...

That's not going to
work! We created it, not you!

All right! You've made your point!

You're giving in to fear!

You're running out of time!

Focus! What is it?

Take control! Change it!

You lot won't last a week!

Leave them alone!

GASPS, WATER SPRAYS

Would you look at that?

Think we just found out who your
true leader is.