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JEM:

What?

SUE:

Tomorrow... (lowering her voice)...

Tomorrow we’re going to Norfolk to

pick up -

JEM:

No. Uh huh. No way.

Jem goes to head up the cul de sac. Sue takes her arm.

SUE:

You don’t have to come but your Dad

and me think it would be nice if

you were -

Jem forcefully takes back her arm and strides up the cul de

sac. Steve sighs. Sue watches her leave.

SUE (CONT’D)

I hate that she still wears that

bloody armband 24/7.

(CONTINUED)

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STEVE:

She’ll come around.

Sue shoots Steve a look: “Bit optimistic there, dear”.

STEVE (CONT’D)

(staying positive)

Well, at least the drive to Norfolk

is quite scenic.

CUT TO:

EXT. PDS TREATMENT CENTRE - MAIN GATE - DAY 1 11

The wilds of Norfolk: an army truck drives through a flat

desolate windswept wasteland. Scenic it is not. Behind the

MAIN GATE, reinforced with electrical barbed wire, patrolled

by the army, is a BUILDING COMPLEX, once a slaughterhouse,

now a sign informs us it is the: HALPERIN & WESTON PARTIALLY

DECEASED TREATMENT CENTRE.

CUT TO:

INT. PDS TREATMENT CENTRE - DAY 1 12

KIEREN sits in a semi circle with about six other PDS

sufferers of various ages. They all have pale faces, pin

prick eyes and wear the kind of clothes long term psychiatric

patients wear. Some are more decayed than others and you’d be

forgiven for mentally undertaking in a morbid guessing game:

“Guess the Cause of Death”. Kieren’s is unclear.

KIEREN:

...the worst side effect, for me,

is the flashbacks. It’s always of

the last person that I... Before...

When I was... When I was in my

Untreated State. Me and another dea

(d) -PDS sufferer- we hunted

together and we were in this

supermarket and this girl was there

and, and I....It’s so vivid what we

-what I did to her and the guilt.

It’s crippling. But you know, I

guess I deserve it.

ALEX:

(to Kieren)

Mate, if you hadn’t’ve fed on her

you’d have rotted away yourself.

You shouldn’t feel guilty

(CONTINUED)

IN THE FLESH by Dominic Mitchell EP 1 FINAL SHOOTING SCRIPT 27.11.12 10.

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KEITH:

Alex

ALEX:

They killed us too during the

Rising. Blowing our heads off

without a second thought. But oh,

oh, that’s “defending humanity” so

that’s okay. That’s not murder,

that’s being a hero. While they get

medals, we get medicated.

HANNAH:

Without medication we’d go back to

being rabid.

ALEX:

Maybe that’s a better state to be

in.

HANNAH:

God, you’re such an idiot, Alex.

ALEX:

(re:
her head brace)

I'm the idiot? I ain't the one who

took acid four years ago and

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