01x02 - Saturday – The Son

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THE THIRD DAY

Oh, f*ck...

I mean, did we actually have... sex ?
Because

maybe we didn't ? I mean, maybe
we just... Slept.

- Do you remember ?
- I don't remember anything.

What the f*ck are you looking for ?

My boots,
I can't find my boots anywhere...

Oh sh*t, there's tissues. Oh sh*t !

We f*cked didn't we.

- If my husband finds out...
- How would he find out ?

He finds sh*t out !

Did you use a condom ?

I don't have condoms.

- You as*h*le !
- Do you have condoms ?

Why would I have condoms ?
I'm married.

So am I ! Look, this is not who I am.

Jesus Christ,
I get pregnant at the drop of a hat.

Thank you, thank you so much !

There he is !

Fun night last night ?

That's Osea for you.

Our festival is gonna be the effing
bees bananas as my wife would say.

Got a nice pot of tea here:

gonna give you and Mrs. Paffard a full
English like you've never had,

'the full Osea' I like to call it.

You didn't wake me up.

I've missed the causeway and you were
going to bring Epona to me ?

Well, I did go to wake you, Sam.

But when I stood outside your door...
I realised that I couldn't disturb you.

Not my business at all,
I do not make judgements.

Look, I really need to get home.

My wife doesn't know where I am,
I couldn't even call her yesterday.

Is there a boat ?

Well we were relying on Tomo's runabout
if anything happened.

But he went and ran it into the
blummin' jetty day before yesterday.

Look, there's no phones and the
causeway doesn't open until 4.06.

Don't you deserve to just... relax ?

Let us spoil you. We'd love that.

Oh God, butter...

Look, I'm sorry...
It's just...

the situation
with my husband is complex.

After my first was born, it got bad.
I was really down, you know ?

- Post natal...
- No. No, it was him.

Being with him.

So, I was gonna leave. I had a plan,
take her and get out.

Then I got pregnant again

and I just couldn't.

So, after my second was born
I spiralled.

There's this whole period where I got
lost in booze and people.

My husband got the courts involved.

He's so manipulative, and clever,
and he made it look like I...

He has custody.

So, I don't sleep with people,
I don't drink.

I don't do anything that might affect
me seeing my girls.

He's not here.
He's not gonna find out.

Promise ?

What is it these people believe ?

Christianity. With a bit of...

Look, the ancient Celts believed
Osea was the soul of the world.

So, when Charrington came here for his
great experiment, he needed belief.

So Charrington became
the Father of the island,

the first in two thousand years.

And it worked:

a society of criminals and addicts
lived in blissful, hippy harmony.

When he died,
his son took over,

and then his son after that and so on,
and so on...

They pass it on, seriously ?

I mean it's not like he's a king or
anything. They just kind of...

I dunno, they trust him.

My granddad was stationed here
in the w*r, it was a military base.

- Right...
- He never talked about it: never.

If you ever asked him he would clam up,
like he'd been at Belsen.

Don't you find this all
a bit f*cking weird ?

Yes, but so is Catholicism or crystals
or quantum physics,

but hey, whatever gets you through
the day. I mean these are good people.

They've always been amazing to me.

Which is why it freaks me out
that they've discovered I'm a wh*re.

Don't say that.

It happened, you know,
we both did it.

- You can regret it...
- I don't.

I don't regret it. At all.

Here we are !

Now a full Osea is not
the full Osea without...

Yeah. Very rare.

But slip a couple of them sloppies down
your neck and you'll be right as rain.

But they're full of zinc.

Hand it over.

Hand her the f*ck over.

What you say to me ?
What you f*cking say ?

It's your f*cking bright ideas got us
into this mess, Martin !

Alright, alright. I am calm !

Here.

w*nk*r said you need shoes.

Thank you.

How's Epona ?

Alive.

Can I see her ?

Why ? You don't trust us ?

I'm not saying that. I just...

You know, the festival and...

- She's up at the Big House.
- The Big House ?

What you said, it's been taken note of.
They're talking to her.

We need the festival:
we're on our knees.

But we won't put it before that girl.

I told her about your loss.

I wanted her to see that
she's not alone in feeling pain.

So what ? You think we're connected
then ? Why ?

Because I found her ?

Maybe you were meant to find her.

I don't believe in stuff like that.

No. You don't think you do, Sam.

But you just might, somewhere in ya.

I'll bring her to you when they're
done. But it might be a while yet.

The sins from your soul !

You are all down in his mind,
for he has sacrificed.

You know the place ! Take this man.

In the name of the Lord, take this man.

And in the name of the sea
and the land, take this man, God,

and strike redemption into his heart.

Burn the sin from his soul.
Which thou have made separate.

And these things we find
inside this sinner.

For of God was it not said
that he reveals deep, secret things

and he knows what is in the darkest...

For of God was it not said I will fill
your mountains with the dead.

Hills, valleys, streams with bodies,
water by the sword.

For of God was it not said,
"Woe unto the inhibitors of the earth.

For the devil has come down onto thee !

Now, I want you to look at this man
that kneels before me.

See what he has lost.

The blood of his blood has been spilled
for you.

Oh Lord, take this sacrifice
from this man.

Let it swim in the sea of your love.

Take the blood of his blood that
we have spilled for you.

Show him redemption.

Drown him until he is clean and pure.

They said you'd be down here.

Yeah. Hiding my slutty face.
God knows what they're saying.

- No-one cares about gossip, Jess.
- Everyone cares about gossip.

Sam, I wanted to apologise about
what I said this morning.

I know not everyone's marriage
is as f*cked up as mine.

I'm not sorry you said it.
I've been through stuff as well, Jess.

What you said, what we did,

it made me feel like I can actually
breathe.

What stuff ?

My son was m*rder*d.

They found his body
in a river on the mainland near here.

Yesterday was the anniversary.

Every year I put another piece of his
clothing in that water.

It's the only way we can let go of him,
one piece at a time.

Oh Sam.

- My God... I...
- Stop...

You don't have to say anything clever
or wise.

It's not like in a film.

I don't live it
every second of every day.

You go to work, you watch TV,

you feel guilty about a gym membership
you don't use...

You just happen to have a hole inside
you that doesn't heal.

What happened ?

I arranged to meet this man

near Maldon.
He was a friend of my grandad.

Just out of curiosity.
I decided to take Nathan.

The man didn't show up, so we had
a spare day

and I found a fair.

We were there and I took this call,
this very intense call...

And I turned around...

And he was gone.

He just wasn't there.

You know what it's like when you lose
them for a second

and in that moment
your whole world drops.

Well, it was like that, but it never
went away.

He was missing for two weeks. He hadn't
been abused, it was nothing like that.

The man just... took him.

His name was Goltan.

I remember they made a big fuss about
that at the time.

Name like a super villain,
you know 'Goltan'.

In truth was he was a Romanian guy
with learning difficulties.

He'd had previous convictions
in his own country.

So...

He came forward and confessed, then
k*lled himself before it went to trial.

So we never found out why he did it.

Oh God !

Your wife. Your poor wife...

You haven't done anything. Okay ?

We're still together, we love each
other. But pain doesn't work the way.

You can't share it.

Agony...

Agony is bespoke.
Yours is yours, theirs is theirs.

Mostly grief is just... lonely.

So, we've done that. That's over with.

Shall we talk about something else ?

- Tell me about all this.
- Sam.

- Tell me please.
- Jesus, Sam I...

Please.

Okay.

So, there's a trinity of gods.

Teutates, Taranis and Esus.

- Look, you know actually this stuff...
- Esus is the one from the festival ?

Yeah.

Their priests would dress as things
from the sea

and take non-Celts, Piets and Gauls,
and they bring them here for sacrifice.

For Taranis it was drowning,
for Teutates fire and Esus, hanging.

They're not so keen to talk about it
these days

'cos might not be great
for the festival to know

you're glamping on the site of a
sustained ethnic genocide.

If you want to know more about it
you should go talk to Mimir.

- They stuff he has found...
- Mimir ? Did you say Mimir ?

Yeah. He's the archaeologist
or they call him that because he...

Wait. Why, do you know him ?

No, no.

Hello ?

Are you okay ?

Are you Mimir ?

Mimir ?

Do you know who I am ?

FACE OF EVIL
Nathan, 6, k*lled by Asylum Seeker

Why do you have this ?

Did you see my son ?

What did we do to you...

What did you do to me ?

Mimir, you c**t !

Go. Don't open it.

Go.

You been talking, c**t ?

No, never, I would never...
I love Osea...

You can get rid of all this sh*t.
It's been lying in the open too long.

He wants to talk to you boy,
something big's happening.

Come on...

Come on... Good boy...

Hey !

Hey !

Who is that ?

Alright, listen, this isn't...

If you're trying to frighten me...

I'm not interested in...

Alright, what are you gonna do ?

What exactly are you going to do ?

You f*cking...

My child is dead.

- No. No, that can't be...
- It's because of you.

No.

- I saved.
- Do not f*cking talk !

Okay ?

I know what you feel.

I know its heat.

You want to pretend you don't hate ?

I see hate dripping from you.

You want to rip flesh open.

And that's what I want.

I want to do it right now.

You don't have to give in to that.

What if I want to ?

What if I want to give in

and k*ll you right now ?

Don't. Please.

It's coming.

The darkness.

The darkness is coming.

- Help me with this.
- What ?

We have to get off the island !
They're chasing me.

Who ?

Men in masks, those big f*cking masks
they wear, there were men...

Sam, Sam, that's the Sajora, that's
just a tradition here.

It's not tradition.
I know the tradition,

and this wasn't the tradition, it was
people trying to f*cking k*ll me !

Jess, they threw a lump of metal
at my head, a chunk of motorbike

and it crashed inches from my face.

I only got away because Epona's dad
showed up with his shotgun.

- And fired sat them and...
- He fired a g*n ?

Yeah, and they ran but then I thought
then he was gonna k*ll me.

Why would he k*ll you ?

- Because Epona's dead.
- What ?

No, Sam, I just spoke Mr. Martin,
he said she's fine.

No. He was lying !
Her father told me she's dead.

Maybe he was lying.
That guy's a f*cking mess.

I know what it feels like to lose
a child and that man has lost a child.

I saw things, Jess...

Flesh and mutilation and...
Her top covered in blood.

And Mimir, Mimir...
He had this.

You said he was an archaeologist ?

No, no, no,
that's just what they call him

because he likes to dig around in
the past. I think he's a doctor or...

A coroner. He was a coroner.
He was looking into my son's death.

We never met him.
And now he's living here

and Epona's dead
the day after trying to hang herself

in the exact spot where Nathan
was found ?

They're connected. And these f*cking
people know about it and they...

What do you mean,
like a serial k*lling ?

No, no, no, something else.

- What ?
- You talked of sacrifice here.

Sacrifice ? Sam, that was
two thousand years ago !

Look at this place ! Is there anything
f*cking normal here ?

I have found dead animals all over this
island, who's doing that ?

There are pictures down there hanging
on the wall

of Jack the Ripper's victims.
Is that standard ?

Men in masks have just chased me,
someone nearly shot me !

Okay, if this is all true,
then what do we do ?

We get off the island, we find a phone,
we call the police. Now.

Okay. How ?

- Can you swim ?
- What the f*ck...

- Yeah, I can't swim.
- You mean across there ?

No, I cannot swim two miles
to the mainland.

They talked of a boat, Tomo's boat
but, oh, they said it was broken.

Okay well,
what if they are lying about that ?

How do we get off...

You in there ?

We wanna have a little chat with you
about all this silliness.

Sam, let Mrs. Paffard come out now.
She's nothing to do with any of this.

Oh, Sam. Don't be silly now,
that ain't gonna stop anything, is it.

- Are you serious ?
- Take it !

Sam. Are we going to hurt people ?

We're coming in now, okay ?

f*ck me, you are a silly sausage.

Nice cup of tea. Now I took the liberty
of putting a drop of whisky in there.

- Don't be a f*cking arsehole.
- Fair enough, love.

Epona. Are you alright ?

Neck's a bit sore. But yeah, I'm okay.

Epona, if there's something, anything

going on here in this place
that scares you...

- You don't have the right...
- I'm talking to Epona.

- What is it you people believe in ?
- We're Christians.

And that wall and the symbols ?
I mean, what, Jack the bloody Ripper ?

For goodness sake, Sam, someone once
said Charrington was Saucy Jack.

- That's for the tourists that's all.
- Really...

What ? You think this is all fine ?
I was chased, they tried to k*ll me.

'k*ll you' ? I don't think k*ll you.

They threw a chunk of metal
at my skull !

They chased me...

Ah, here's Tomo.

Alright, who's this ?

Did you chase this man ?

Who threw the metal at him ?

- Sorry...
- Sorry ?

You could've taken
his flipdarned head off !

Your dad's out there, Peter Roberts.
I'll tell him what you been up to.

- What's so funny ?
- Nothing.

- Oi, you ?
- Nothing...

Go on ! Flip off !

There's your K*llers.

- It wasn't them.
- What ?

For heaven's sake, Sam...

They were bigger, they...

I mean the clothes, yes....

Jess, look, this isn't...

- Her dad told me she was dead.
- He said that ?

- He said Epona's dead ?
- He said... my child is dead.

That's not Epona.

Sam, yours isn't the only tragedy
remembered this time of year.

Jason had a son, Epona's brother.

It was an accident with a Combine.
Jason was operating.

Around this time, things really get bad
for him and he spins out.

Then why did he blame me ?

Sam, he blames everyone...

No. Something's going on.

- I've seen anger, arguments. I've...
- Does that surprise you ?

When you are saying what you're saying
about this girl's father ?

Look, it's not just this,
it's not that. It's just...

It's like I've been here before.
I saw... something,

it was bloody and violent.

- Where did you see the blood ?
- It was...

- I had, this dream and...
- Sam ! A f*cking dream ?!

I know how that sounds...
it was so violent, she was mutilated.

- Alright, that's enough !
- Epona, you can talk to me, okay ?

- Leave her alone.
- I'm talking to her !

Epona, if something happened here,
if there is something scaring you...

No. Don't look at her, look at me !

Is there someone frightening you, here,
on the island ?

Who ?

You.

Epona, why don't you and sh*t for
brains go and sort out our teas ?

Come on, Epona.

Something appalling happened to you.

It reached down inside you and ripped
a piece of you out, k*lled it dead.

And all the time you were saying,

'no, no, don't blame them'

when really you were raging inside.

No, that's not true.

But rage will out, Sam.

Grief wants its pound of flesh.

It wants mayhem and chaos and havoc.

It wants to destroy.

And I understand that.

But I'm not letting it happen here.

We never got to see him.

His body, you know.

The current took him over a weir, and
he was

too damaged

to view.

I mean, he was dead.

There was no doubt.

But it just felt so unfinished.

You don't get to touch or hold...

There was this time after.

'Episodic psychosis' they called it.
I don't think they knew what it was.

I'd be suddenly convinced that everyone
was lying about it.

I accused people.

The neighbours,
the police.

Cas' father one time.

I'd have no memory of doing it.

The worst was when....

I thought...

I thought he was still alive and then
I'd remember.

And the hurt was...

It's true what she says about the rage.

Publicly I was,
'don't blame immigrants'.

Don't blame, don't blame them.

But inside...

I'd just have to see a Roma man
and I'd...

I'd get this blind rage.

- What is that, what the f*ck is that ?
- That's grief.

- That is just grief.
- Is it ?

Because I don't know.

- How's Epona ?
- Alive.

She's alive because of you.

Back home I feel like I might lose
my girls every single day.

He won't even let me take them out of
the country

unless he has someone he trusts
to spy on me.

But what you went through ?

I don't have a clue what that is like.

I've never been even remotely close
to that.

I think I recognise things here.

Like I've been here...

You know you haven't, right ?

You know you can't recognise things ?

They told me to tell you the causeway
closes in 20 minutes.

But they also said that
you're welcome to stay,

for the dry run of the festival.

You should go.

I know you have to go.

sh*t. I'm sorry...

So I've looked on the news,
no report of accidents. Where are you ?

Are you going to be back for story
time ? You promised them you would be.

Just a message saying
you are ok, that's all.

Stuck with no reception. Am fine.

Can't get home tonight, but will
tomorrow, I promise. Sorry.

I'm sorry.

No, I'm sorry. I said stuff that...

No. Not about that.

What about ?

I don't want you to go.

Why ? Why don't you want that ?

- Heave.
- Heave.

Heave.

Heave.

- Oh my god...
- They got fireworks in. sh*t !

- Are you pissed ?
- I am so pissed.

- That didn't take long.
- Yeah, that's me.

Do you feel that ?

It's safe.

Now that's what they have here.

No wonder they wanna preserve it.

You said that's what you wanted for
your family ?

Well if you lived here,
you'd already have it.

- Maybe...
- Maybe my a*s.

There is something
special about this place.

All the bullshit: they don't care.

When was the last time
you really let go, Sam ?

I don't know. A long time.

This place just f*cking begs you to,
doesn't it ?

What are you up to ?

Oh my God. Are you kidding me ?

Jesus, that's for kids.
Christ, how old are you ?

- How old are you ?
- Me ? I'm not doing that.

Oh. No, you're right. You shouldn't.
Considering...

It's just they pack the kids away
to bed in a minute.

And then this place is really gonna
start rocking...

- Seriously ? Dropping acid ?
- What, you've never done it ?

Yeah, but in my twenties.

And did you like it ?

Who are you ? This person,

this husband
something terrible happened to ?

Is that it ?

Well you're none of that here.

Not tonight.

Tonight, you're whoever the f*ck
you wanna be.

A vacation from Sam and all his woes,

for one... night... only.

No, no, don't do that.

You...

- You're off your head ?
- I will be in a minute.

Come with me. Come on.

Name of the father, the son...

And the hairy toast.

Are you getting anything yet ?

When was the last time
you said that sentence ?

June 1998.

- Oh f*ck.
- What ?

I might be getting something.

Yeah, I think I am.

Actually, maybe you're right.

It's snowing...

- What's those lights ?
- That's the village ?

Right... Is it ?

- Yes, it is.
- Okay.

- Where's the bonfire ?
- It's on the other side.

We should go there.

- Just wait a minute.
- Okay.

Sam ?

Is that the right thing to do ?

Just wait here,
I'm gonna come right back.

Okay, okay.

Little doggies...

Is the fire coming out ?

What ?
There's no fire.

It's dead.

Is it ?

I thought it was coming out,
like coming out of the...

Come with us.

What ?

Are you with us now ?

What are you talking about ?

Sam, you need to come with us.

Are you two off your t*ts ?

- Larry's coming for you.
- What ? What do you mean ?

They've got weapons, Sam.

Knives, hatchets,
we've only just found out.

They want you dead, Sam,
they mean it.

What did he say ?

Why ?

Something to do with Epona.

- What ?
- You and Epona.

- No, no, no, no...
- We need to get you away from here !

- You have to f*cking trust me.
- Where's Jess ?

We left her with my husband !

Stay with me, don't get separated...

I need to see that the coast is clear.
You stay here, okay ?

- Are you going ?
- I'll be five minutes. I promise...

Don't, please.

Hello ?

Is someone there ?

Epona ?

Is that you ?