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01x03 - Episode 3

Episode transcripts for the TV show, "Nightsleeper". Aired: September 15, 2024.*
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Set on a train from Glasgow to London, a government agency intervenes in escalating events onboard. Two strangers work together to save passengers as the train hurtles towards disaster.

01x03 - Episode 3

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(Saj) They're saying

it's left the station

with some passengers still on board,

but without the driver.

We appear to have been hijacked.

- Hack-jacked.

- There's phone jammers on board.

They have requested to scan

the comms from above.

(Geoghan) This is satellite.

(Abby) That phone is used

to converse only with us.

So, who have you been speaking to?

The National Cyber Security Centre.

(Chrissy) What are you doing?

I'm a journalist.

(Saj) The CCTV footage

Shows the guy who snatched the bag

at Glasgow Central, meeting

the woman he snatched it from.

The woman with the pram goes

into a hotel near the station.

See if they can get footage

from inside.

But if not, get it yourself.

- C'est un problem britann

- (translator) This is a UK issue.

Not a French one.

(Abby) Get into Voya Rapide Systems.

Do whatever you need to do.

I'll do my best for you

if you'll do your best for me, okay?

Can't choose a criminal

over a Member of Parliament.

I'm not a criminal.

If you don't take care of this,

things may get very messy.

(Abby) What's that, Pev?

It's a goods train.

You need to move everybody

out of the front carriages

and prepare for impact.

There's a train on the line

in front of you.

Jesus!

Come on!

(metal scrapes)

(passengers scream)

Joe!

Joe?

(on handset) Joe?

(Pev) RTV showing train still moving.

(breathes raggedly)

(Saj)

Then why aren't they responding?

(Miller) We all heard the collision.

Abby?

The comms planes reported back.

I'm not sure the person

who installed that device

is in the waiting room at Motherwell.

What?

(beep)

(blows on handset)

Joe?

Yeah.

Yeah, I'm here.

(gasps)

Oh, my God.

Ha.

Ha.

You all right?

(groans)

(breathes rapidly)

Am I okay?

The comms plane is showing

that there are two phone jammers

down there blocking up the

whole train, and the single board

computer's receiving external

messages via the satellite system.

So, the driver is driving

in real time?

There has to be a large element

of pre-programming or AI,

but they're obviously directing it.

I don't understand. How does that

suggest the person who installed

the SPC isn't at Motherwell?

It doesn't.

- (beep on tablet)

- This does.

That new signal represents

an unaccounted-for satellite phone.

I mean, this suggests that someone

involved is still on board.

You all right?

Let me find something for that.

- Hey, hey.

- Sit down. Sit down here.

- Sit down.

- Oh!

(woman) I got it, I got it.

Thanks. I got it.

What just happened?

A goods train was blocking the line.

They moved it.

Do you think they could

move it earlier next time?

(Joe) They know what they're doing.

And they do want me to help them.

Well, I'm not sure

those two things go together.

I spoke to them.

He's telling the truth, okay?

We're never getting off, are we?

I'm bloody getting off!

(Joe) No, no, no, listen, listen.

Hey, we're all definitely

getting off.

We just need to stick together,

all right?

All right, does anyone still have

any objection to me taking the lead?

(Abby) Is everyone okay, Joe?

(sighs)

Everyone's alive.

A bit battered, but alive.

Okay.

All right, listen, um,

I I think we have a problem.

We definitely have a problem.

We have a plane over

five miles above you, scanning

the communications and signals

on board

and giving us on-the-scene intel.

It has picked up a second

satellite phone on there

attempting to make a phone call

in the last 15 minutes.

They were using an encrypted line,

and the call didn't last long enough

for the team to break it.

But if they try again, so will we.

What are they saying?

(Abby) One of the passengers

may be working with the hackers.

Hey, she's talking to you!

What are they saying?

They just said we need to stay calm.

Everything's going to be okay.

(laughing hysterically)

Right.

Abby, I found a firearm.

What?!

(Joe) When we were looking

for the jammers.

(Abby) sh*t.

Did you move it?

The important bit.

What are you going to do?

Watch.

Look.

Whoever's behind this has hacked into

the station information boards

requested a ransom

and calling themselves the driver.

The US are pointing the finger

at a group based out of Tehran.

So has someone on there

been recruited by them or

someone else entirely?

(Joe) Why would anyone stay on board?

(Abby) I don't know any more

than you, but I'm worried

we're about to find out.

Don't trust anyone.

(dramatic music playing)

(Tobi) I'll forward the names through

to Uniform

- as soon as they come through, yeah?

- Yeah.

Should I try and get the thumbnail

profiles of the open source?

Chase the CCTV up from the hotel

in Glasgow, too?

- Hmm.

- Yeah. Listening.

(Saj) And what about digging into

the Tehran group,

- looking at connections?

- Mm-hmm.

(Saj) You're on mute, sir.

(Zed) BBC News on the line.

They're asking if reports of a train

derailment and expl*si*n at Gretna

are connected to the cyberattack

on the rail network.

France have declared w*r.

The cheeky b*stards are briefing that

what they're referring to

as "the long-underfunded

British infrastructure"

has made a cyberattack

on our railway network

a bloody inevitability.

They're pinning this on us

before anyone pins it on them.

(Leon) Do we want an NPAS helicopter?

There's one on standby in Newcastle.

- Abby?

- Abby?

(Leon) The police helicopter?

- Abigail.

- (Zed) Ma'am. Press.

The answer is no!

(Hud) Message from the Home Office

prove France wrong.

Show that there isn't any risk out

there that our cybersecurity team

can't deal with.

(Miller) Tell me that's true, Abby.

Because I have to give

COBRA an update in 12 minutes.

And

If you're filming

with that phone, darling,

then it's going straight

out of the window.

You threaten anybody else

and you're going out the window.

You need to stop drinking.

Free bar, you said.

It's not working.

I wouldn't worry about it.

(Billy) What's that?

Uh I got this on my first day.

I was a guard back then, you know?

And then a few years later,

they says, "Oh, these wristwatches",

you've got to give them back,"

you know?

But I didn't.

Never dropped a second.

Never, ever had.

I'm Chrissy.

Yas.

Thank you.

Hey, you helped me, didn't you?

When everyone else ran.

Unlike you, huh?

All this therapy

fresh start.

Qualifications.

Well, I didn't see you

turn round to help me!

Fraser.

I'm only gonna say this once.

Oh, here we go.

Shut up!

(Fraser)

I can see it coming a mile off.

- (Sophie) Shut up! Shut up!

- (Fraser) Here we go!

Shut up!

So, Miss Draycott, have you handed

in your resignation yet?

Like my dad.

So, why did you?

What?

Come back?

How could I no'?

(exhales sharply)

I've never seen so many before.

Have you?

What?

I don't think I have.

No.

(Mouse) You know, if you're standing

on Phobos Do you know Phobos?

It's one of Mars's moons.

And if you were

standing on it and you jumped,

jumped up in the air,

you'd never come back down again.

You'd just keep on going up and up

forever.

I like the sound of that.

I spent enough time going

the other way.

Oh, God.

I need to make a call.

Now.

The Cyber Security Centre's

got me on hold.

Told me to stay there.

Do you want the train to stop more?

Can I have that,

as soon as it's free, please?

- It's not a payphone.

- I know. It's my phone.

Should I keep searching

for the phone jammers,

or is there anything else?

My wife is in labour.

At the UCH, in London.

And the thing is,

she has pre-eclampsia

and this liver thing, which means

it's been really difficult.

She's at risk of bleeding,

and the baby

Oh, mate.

I'm not after a hug, pal.

I just don't want you to think

I'm some teenager

struggling without TikTok

for an hour.

I am going out of my f*cking mind

waiting on a message.

Yeah?

(handset beeps)

(Joe) There isn't one.

There isn't one.

How about I ask the centre?

I'm sure your wife's pretty

busy at the moment.

If we call the hospital,

we'll be waiting forever.

If I ask them, they will be able to

find out what's going on.

And as soon as I know, I'll tell you.

Have you got any?

Kids?

One. A boy.

And were you there

when he was born?

(Joe) He'll know you, you know.

Already.

He'll know your voice

and he'll bloody love you.

Don't worry about that.

Starting the bonds

is the easiest thing in the world.

It's keeping it going

that's the hard bit.

Now, can you help him

with the jammers?

Good man.

Come on.

(Pev) It's not weakness.

The way you feel.

You have to be psychotic

not to feel it.

I'm fine.

You look like shite.

My feelings are a little

chemically skewed right now.

But

I do remember the feeling,

and it was never in response

to anything like this

actually happening.

It was just the fear of it

by people thinking,

as people always do,

something never having happened

or just never happened to them

means that it never will.

Oh, God, I could do without my body

collapsing!

Just adrenaline.

It's fine.

(chuckles)

Hey, I haven't ever forgotten

what your dad said to me, you know?

When I came round that night,

I was sitting in your kitchen

telling him what we would do

for you, what we could do

if you could cope with it all.

"Don't doubt her," he said.

"Don't ever doubt that girl."

Ah!

Okay.

I was sorry to hear about him.

I

No.

(clears throat)

(sighs)

It doesn't matter who you are.

There's a before and after,

isn't there?

When they're there

and when they're not.

(sighs)

(siren wailing in distance)

Why would anyone with any amount

of involvement

stay on that train, Pev?

From Glasgow, okay, but Motherwell?

Can't answer that one.

Let's just say there's

It is this BBG,

this Iranian hacking group.

- I'd rather not.

- How do they think it ends?

The operating company hands

them a million.

They hit the brakes

and then that's it?

We don't look any closer

at who was actually involved

on the ground?

I'm not sure we can get

into their heads, but we can get

into their code

and we will stop that train.

Hmm?

What if we don't?

Almost our entire focus

has been on stopping the train.

Yeah.

What if we don't stop it at all?

(Joe) Abby?

- Abby.

- Yeah.

(Joe) The oil rigger has a situation

with his wife.

Could someone there contact

the hospital for me?

Yeah. Tobe.

Why are some of the lines dotted?

They're They're freight only.

Yeah.

I need the direct line back

to the signalling control desk

at Manchester.

And, ma'am, I'd appreciate

it if you would speak

to the UK Rail's Gold Command.

(Miller) Why?

I want assurance from them and you

that they'll do whatever I say.

Yeah, UCH.

Thanks.

(beep)

(wind blowing,

train clattering over tracks)

(sighs)

(exhales slowly)

(wind blustering)

Got it. Yep.

UK Royal Gold Command

signalling control.

- Hi. This is Abby Aysgarth again.

- (man) Yes.

I need you to take the 9-Alpha 272

Heart of Britain

off the West Coast mainline

at Carlisle and put

it on the line to Settle.

(man) Err, that's not possible

at Carlisle, I'm afraid.

Train's almost there.

Maybe 30 minutes?

(Miller) Abby, what are you doing?

(man) Carnforth before it can switch.

Do it now, please.

Just clear the WCM of traffic.

It has to be now.

It's going too fast.

- (Abby) Do it now.

- (man) Look, even if I wanted to,

I don't have the authority.

(Abby) Ma'am?

What are you doing?

I can't breathe in here.

Here.

No.

What the f*ck is going on?

(man) Are you sure about this?

(Abby) Yes. Do it now.

(screaming)

(beeping)

What have you done?

(beeping continues)

Is everyone all right?

Did we hit something again?

Dear God!

I think the pantograph

just smashed into the top

of the tunnel.

The what?

The thing that connects

us to the overhead wires.

- Is everyone all right?

- (Joe) Mouse?

- My screen's cracked.

- (Joe) Come here, mate.

Sit down.

I warned you about that bloody thing.

People need to know.

(Joe) Come here.

This isn't the West Coast Mainline.

What is it, then?

(rapid beeping)

Yes. Yes.

I'm here, I'm here.

Where are we?

You

You're taking the tourist route.

Yeah, I'm not sure there's currently

an appetite for sightseeing.

You are on the line to Settle.

(Joe) And the train, what happened?

The lights, the noise.

Yeah, this one isn't electrified.

(Joe) So how are we still moving?

(Abby) The diesel backup's kicked in.

So if we take you on to the freight

line further south, we'll be able

to put you on a loop.

Till the diesel runs out.

Yes, till the diesel runs out!

I didn't have enough time to stop

the train, so I thought

I'd stop the clock.

You

You're literally going nowhere now.

(Joe) But what if the driver

does something?

If they're still holding

out for a ransom,

that that's a bad idea.

And so what if someone else

is controlling the train?

We've got the points, the signals,

the network.

You, well, you're just going

round and round and round now.

To wait until the diesel

runs out to remove the acting.

Or are you going to do it now?

Get Gold command to remove

all passengers and goods trains

- on our new route.

- Yep.

Abby, I've had a glass of wine,

half a champs and a serious

surge of hormones.

I think I love you!

(laughs)

Yeah, one step at a time.

Tell everyone what's going on.

Abby?

The French homework you gave me.

We uncovered a chain

between the Tick

TOC!

Train Operating Company.

And FOC and ROSCOs, basic

error on the firmware in the PLC.

They couldn't patch it with

the software because the scheme

was physically

burned onto a dedicated

crypto authentication chip.

Please, please,

use the English bloody language.

(Pev) Every company involved with

the Heart of Britain's operation

knew it was vulnerable

to a hack, but did nothing

because it was cheaper to live

with the risk.

And that means if you could

get your hands on this,

so could potentially anyone?

I'm sorry,

but how did you get hold of that?

(knock on door)

Passenger social media profiles

are ready upstairs.

(Hud) Leave the investigating to us.

Uniform are currently kicking doors

down of everyone still on board.

But we only use the back doors

and we don't kick in.

We log in.

Get North Yorks Police

out to the line

and track the train

as closely as possible,

and get armed forces to reassess

an aerial landing

once it's crossed

the viaduct and is on the loose.

What did I just say?

Nice one, Abby.

Thank you, ma'am.

(Tobi) Um

(Abby) What's wrong?

The oil rigger.

How long is it going to take?

For the fuel to run out?

(Fraser) Well, I wouldn't

put your coat on right away.

There's enough backup diesel

to take us all the way to Paris.

- What?!

- (Moy) For God's sake!

Take my word for it. This is a

really, really positive development.

- (Moy) Oh, please!

- Can I have that phone now?

(Moy) This is a bloody nightmare.

- Abby?

- (Abby) Yeah.

There's a girl on board.

- Early 20s.

- (Abby) Right?

She threw her bag out the window

just before Carlisle.

(Abby) Why?

I was hoping you might be able

to find it and tell me.

(Abby) We can try.

- Did she give a reason?

- (Joe) No.

She's going to have to in a minute.

(Abby) Oh, Saj, I need you

to get on to Cumbria Police.

You okay?

(Abby) Yeah, we're on it.

(Joe)

All right, Abby, I'll let you go.

Joe?

(Joe) Yeah.

Skye Geoghan, the oil rigger's wife.

She's in emergency surgery.

The hospital say that the situation

for mother and child is critical.

I'm sorry.

Said they're going to update us

within the hour.

Should be clearer then.

What happened?

Yeah, thank you.

Uh, they brought us off the

mainline away from the electrics.

Put us onto a loop.

Uh, eventually the diesel

will run out and we'll stop.

So we're just going to go

round and round for hours!

Have you heard anything?

Have they

Have they managed to speak

to the hospital?

Not yet, mate.

I'm sure they will soon.

Have you seen that girl yet,

the one with the headphones?

(Saj) So, we have Daniel Geoghan.

He's an oil rigger at Finis Brae.

Twice fined for affray.

He's used to being suspended

from a rope above the North Sea,

so doesn't scare easy.

Obviously, the minister

we know, and I'm assuming

we can count her out.

- Let's hope.

- (laughs wryly)

(Saj) But then there's the staff

William 'Billy' McCloud.

He's worked on there for nine years.

No social media, no profile,

no digital footprint at all.

And Yasmin Brown.

Got coming up two interesting

things on her profile

an emotional post a few weeks back,

saying that their staff of three

was being cut to two and

that they were having to reapply

for their jobs.

Oh, that'll be about right!

- Possible financial motive?

- Yes.

Which may also be true

of Sophie Warren.

Now, she's currently studying

for a PG Cert in counselling.

Seems she's been selling off

everything she owns over the last

few months, travelling

with her father-in-law,

who used to drive that very service.

(watch ticking)

His son was left at Motherwell, says

he's suffering from heart failure.

Well, if he wasn't before

And that leaves?

(Saj) 11-year-old boy,

who we've discounted.

So, Rachel Li,

digital lifestyle trends reporter.

Arran Moy, who's a senior accountant

at Leagram-McCann's firm

that's been accused of sanction

busting in the Middle East.

Christina Doolan, she's a solicitor.

Human rights focused, sues

the government about once a month.

And Erin Connolly, she's a student

at South Central University

in London.

She'd been working at the

Station Hotel back home in Glasgow

over the holidays.

The hotel

where Erin Connolly works

it's not the same hotel

that the woman with the baby

at Glasgow Central

was last seen heading into, is it?

Hey, Tobi?

Yeah.

(Abby) Trawl the hotel CCTV

for Erin Connolly.

Can I have a word?

About?

It's about why exactly you

threw your bag out of that window.

(sighs)

Hello.

(Tobi) Come on.

Ah, hello!

Ha!

Ha! Got her!

I

I don't know what you're

talking about, weirdo.

(Joe) I just saw you.

- Are you okay?

- No, no, I'm not.

(Tobi) The woman with the baby.

She's with the passenger.

All right?

Now, watch.

You know, I don't think my

confidence in the police could get

any lower, but he is

I saw you.

(groans)

Hey, wait, wait!

- Get off me!

- What are you doing?

(Tobi) This is it.

(Saj) What's she doing?

(Abby) Wait! Wait!

There's someone else there.

Get the footage from that camera.

- (Billy) What What you doing?

- What's going on?

- (Abby) Joe?

- Let go! Let go! Move!

Someone on board met with one

of the people who deliberately

delayed the train beforehand.

It wasn't some chance encounter.

They were with each other

for about ten minutes

- and they took something from them.

- Yeah. It's okay. I'm with her now.

No, no, Joe, it's not the student.

Joe?

Hey, hey, hey.

You don't put your hands on anyone.

You don't understand.

Someone on here is part of this.

(Abby) Joe?

Joe?

(ragged breathing on handset)

Joe?

Joe, do you

(disengaged tone)

(helicopter blades beating)

(ring tone)

It's engaged.

What are we doing relying on him?

I'm used to relying on

unreliable people.

Abby, we're encountering some,

uh, difficulties in our support

of UK Rail's Gold Command.

(Abby) Difficulties?

We're trying to unpick the virus

in the antivirus, but we appear

to be under attack ourselves

from an outside source.

- Tehran?

- (Zed) Attempting to geo locate.

Magpies.

Well, that's that's how I knew

this was going to happen, you know?

You want to sum up

how broken the whole thing is,

you can do it in one word.

Magpies.

You see

(groans)

Terrible!

If a train hits a small

bird and it's delayed,

then that's the

operating company's fault.

Large bird, that's UK Rail's fault.

Your fault, mine.

But how does a magpie fit

into all that?

Is it small or large?

Well, I'll tell you, when

you're waiting on the platform

and your train hasn't come,

when you've been on the line

for hours and it still isn't moving,

you need to know that somewhere out

there, there are hundreds

of people, delay attributors,

and they're not talking about you.

They're not even talking

about your train.

They're just arguing about magpies.

The Germans, the Italians, the Dutch

and the Japanese are now suspending

all their rail services in

this country until further notice,

citing conversations

with our friends at Voya Rapide.

Our train is now at the centre

of an international incident.

Hey! Open up!

Part of it.

Part of it how?

You thought I could have something

to do with this?

Well, what did you throw out?

Just stuff I'd rather the police

didn't see.

- Not

- What?

Ket, some benzos.

f*cking hell!

I'm just working my way through

uni like everyone else.

(sighs)

Open up!

- Why hasn't anyone else arrived?

- I said.

(Abby) Well, send taxis.

Get drivers to buzz till they answer

and drag them here!

I don't care if they're

in their PJs, their nighties,

their birthday suits.

Yeah.

(Miller) Incident room, now.

Tell Hud about the reporter

and find me anything you can.

(sighs)

We have optics.

Do we have contact

with their control room?

(Miller) Alpha-Lima-seven.

This is November-Charlie-one, over.

(man) November-Charlie-one,

this is Alpha-Lima-seven, over.

How close can your team get, over?

(man) Gonna vary a lot.

They need to stay clear of tunnels,

bridges, trees.

And it's currently accelerating

significantly, over.

It is?

Joe?

If everything's under control,

why are we going so fast?

She's talking to you.

Hey!

(Fraser) The points and the signals

are under control.

The engine isn't.

And these points aren't made for

a locomotive going at this speed.

Pev, what's the train's

maximum speed?

Well, it's not the train's maximum

speed we need to worry about.

- Well, what is it?

- It's the lines.

Well, what is it for them?

Depends how curvy the track is.

Not much above 100.

They are cracking the rail

at that speed.

- And

- How How much is not much?

I thought it was safe now.

Difficult to be certain.

Well, you need to be certain.

You can only be certain

if the train crosses it.

Hey, don't igno

There's no way we should be relying

on that man.

You know, I never thought I'd agree

with anything that you said, but

What are you talking about?

- If it wasn't for him

- (Sophie) What is that for?

- Oh, my God.

- What?

(Abby) Alpha-Lima-seven,

this is Abby Aysgarth.

Is there any chance that your team

can get alongside it, even briefly?

We've currently lost connection

with our man on board,

and we're growing

increasingly concerned.

And it would really help

if we could get eyes

into the carriages, over.

Alpha-Lima-seven?

(man) They can try, over.

You need to tell us exactly

what's going on.

It's not me

you need to be worried about.

It's her. Move.

All right, listen up.

Is that an axe?

Okay?

(Geoghan) Okay.

(screaming)

(Abby) What's happening?

Why have we stopped?

It's the north.

Delays are inevitable.

(Draycott) No.

No, this will be us.

This will be us.

It's over.

sh*t!

It doesn't look over.

(Mouse) Excuse me.

Are you hurt, mate?

No, I'm all right.

But the lady isnae.

- Which lady?

- The lady in the wheelchair.

- Come on, show me.

- (Mouse) She's bleeding.

(buttons beep)

How do you open the door?

Have you seen where we are?

If you ever shout at me again

Unless a driver releases it,

it needs a key.

There, the staff will have one.

(lock clicks)

(man) November-Charlie-one,

this is Alpha-Lima-seven.

You're going to lose visuals

from the EC135 now, over.

(Miller) Alpha-Lima-seven,

this is November-Charlie-one.

Why, over?

(man) North Yorks Police look like

they're going to be late

to the party.

We've been instructed to set down

two of our team as close

to the viaduct as we can, over.

How long will it take them?

How close can you get, over?

(man) Pretty close.

I'd say we can have them on board

in seven to eight minutes, over.

(Miller) Thank you, Alpha-Lima-seven.

Out.

I'm sorry.

I had to get this out there.

- (Joe) What?

- Have there been any messages for me?

(Rachel) Do you really trust

the government to tell the truth

- about what's happening here?

- We're doing everything we can.

From what I could see,

no-one even knows there's

been a hack-jacking yet.

- No!

- (Rachel) They're only talking about

a cyberattack on the network.

Nothing else.

It's not the job of government

to alarm people.

Insert joke here.

I've tweeted out as much

info as I can.

Trust me, it's better for us

if everyone knows.

All I want to know is why you met

one of the people who delayed us

at Glasgow before they did.

I didn't.

Don't just stand there.

I need your help to get Chrissy off.

(Moy) How can we possibly

get anyone off?

Answer it.

Abby, can you please tell me

what's going on?

(Abby) Joe? Joe, Listen to me.

The police are boarding

in five, six minutes.

The police are here. They're going

to be on the train in five minutes.

This is almost over.

Anything?

No.

I served you.

Are yous listening?

We need to get everyone

off whilst we can.

Look, look!

You are going nowhere.

See, this is what she's like.

Do you or do you not know anything

about what has happened here tonight?

- Come on!

- No-one moves

until the police come.

Well, do you?

(Abby) Joe?

- Yes.

- I knew it.

- I knew it!

- You're a real

- What?

- Joe, are you there?

(passengers talking over each other)

It's difficult to talk right now,

Abby.

Where are your people,

Alfa-Lima-seven?

Are they on the viaduct?

Repeat, are they on the viaduct?

Abs?

Three minutes, Joe.

(Joe) Three minutes.

Just three minutes.

- All right?

- I did meet someone.

I'm not involved.

I swear I'm not.

But I guess she is, the woman

whose bag was stolen.

Seemed to be.

Continue.

I was contacted anonymously

a week ago.

She said there was going

to be an incident.

Incident?

On the Heart of Britain, travelling

from Glasgow to London.

Tonight.

And they wanted me there

to report it.

Why you?

I didn't know the answer

to that myself until

- Until?

- It became apparent

what that incident was.

That the train had actually

been hacked.

Why?

I've been working on a piece

for months

about the hacking community.

I don't just want to aggregate news,

write sh*t puff pieces

and copy and paste promotions.

I want to write something

that means something.

Something about where we are.

About the gods of today.

Gods?!

Holding governments and companies

to account from their bedrooms.

Terrorising people

from their bedrooms.

I went to Europe's largest

hacking convention.

Interviewed as many people

as I could.

I'm guessing that one of those

behind this is amongst them.

- You knew it was going to happen?

- Not exactly.

- You knew something was.

- Something, but

You risked our lives for

a career boost.

If I'd known anything like this was

going to happen, I'd have hardly got

on board myself, would I?

In my experience of your profession?

Almost certainly.

- Oh. My profession?

- Yes.

Did you know there'd been

a ransom demand?

Did you know and didn't tell us?

- A what?

- There's been a ra

(Moy)

A ransom demand from who?

I bet he knows, too.

(Sophie) Is that true?

And they're taunting the authorities

from every f*cking information board

- in the country.

- What?!

But you don't have any idea

who this driver is?

I didn't say that.

The woman in the hotel

she gave me this.

(passengers talking over each other)

You've been sitting on this

the whole time?

- Get off!

- (Moy) She's in on it.

- I'm telling you.

- Everybody get off!

Joe, one minute.

One minute.

Oh!

(train squeaking on rails)

It's going backwards.

Abby?

- Abby?

- It's all right.

It's all right, Joe. It's

It doesn't matter if it goes back

and forth as much as it can.

They're like a rat in a sack

thrashing around now.

It's okay, it's okay.

- It doesn't matter which way we go.

- (groans)

- Hey, hey.

- I'm not going backwards.

This ends now!

f*ck off! Get out the way!

Hey, what's going on?

(Joe) Wait!

- (Geoghan) Stay away from me!

- (Joe) Wait. Wait.

(Geoghan)

I need to get to that hospital.

There's nothing you can do.

There's nothing you can do.

Do you know something?

I don't know.

I don't know what the problem is.

They didn't say,

but she's in surgery.

Listen, I know how much you want

to be there.

All right, I do.

I know how you feel.

I think I do.

Only reason I'm on here

is because of my kid, too.

- (Mouse) Joe!

- Oh!

No! Wait, wait!

Oh, Jesus.

Oh!

(footsteps on top of train)

(Billy) He's going to the locomotive!

He's gonna try and stop it, Joe.

- (Abby) Joe?

- Abby. The rigger's on the roof.

- He's trying to get to the engine.

- No, no, no, it won't work.

Dead man's switch won't work.

The brakes won't work.

- That's the whole point.

- (Joe) sh*t!

The train is no longer being driven

from in there.

The single board computer

in the manager's office,

that is the locomotive now.

It has a driver.

We just don't know who they are.

(wind howling)

(electricity crackles)

sh*t.

The key!

(brakes squealing)

(cries out)

Ah!

Ah!

(motor running)

(groaning)

Ah!

(groans)

(strains)

I can't see it.

I can't see it.

Ah!

Ah!

Ah! Ah!

Ah!

(several rapid beeps)

(Miller) What's happening?

(Saj) The points,

they're they're changing.

(different phones ring at once)

Yes?

North of England Signalling.

They need to speak to you.

Abby Aysgarth.

- (woman) We've lost control.

- Sorry?

(woman) We're now entirely locked out

of everything.

It's not glitches.

It's

It's gone.

Whatever it was they were trying

to do, they've done it.

It isn't just the train any more.

It's the points, signals,

all track-side comms, everything.

(groans)

Oh.

(Tobi) It's UK Rail's Gold Command.

Is what's happening up north

happening everywhere?

(man) Yes.

(groans) ah!

(beeping)

(phone ringing)

- Meg?

- Abs?

(male announcer) We regret

to inform you that the

(female announcer) 23:45.

(male announcer) Heart of Britain

overnight service from

(female announcer)

Glasgow Central

(both) Is no longer arriving

at London Euston.

(groaning)

(groaning)

(wet slicing)

(female announcer) We regret

to inform you that the 23:45

Heart of Britain overnight service

(male announcer) From Glasgow Central

is no longer arriving at

(Saj) It's come off the loop.

(Miller) Where's it going then?

Anywhere.

(dramatic music plays)

The entire UK rail network

is now just a model railway

in someone's attic.

And now we know whose.

If you're the one with a phone

that's still working,

can you speak up now, please?

Oh.

(Abby) I think we should hack Miller.

Well, there'd be no way back.

If we don't try everything,

we don't deserve one.

How are you going to deal with this?

Same as everyone else, not well.

- (g*nsh*t)

- (woman) Let me talk! Let me talk!