Video Nasty (2025) s01e04 Episode Script

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We're looking for Ashdale.
Oi! Do that again,
you'll need a bandage of your
own. Keep your knickers on, love.
We can't just sit around.
We're getting the ferry.
There is room in the car
if you change your mind.
Hello there, young man.
We're looking for a girl
that comes in here. She sends
letters and packages to Ireland.
I think I know the very one.
We're looking for someone.
I'm Fangoria Fangirl.
Found this. Christ.
Hello?
MUFFLED SCREAM
Hey! hey! Hey!
Detectives are keen to speak
to three teenagers from Ireland
who were seen in the area.
All things bright
and beautiful
All creatures great and small
All things wise and wonderful
The Lord God made them all
The purple-headed mountain
The river running by ♪
SHE HUMS ALONG
The sunset and the morning
That brightens up the sky
All things bright
and beautiful
All creatures great and small
All things wise and wonderful
The Lord God made ♪
MUSIC DISTORTS AND FADES
Oh.
It were
..Kate Bannon.
She gave them to me in school.
I didn't even w want them.
I
I wa I was going
to give them back.
HE BREATHES RAPIDLY
REVEREND: This is
the word of the Lord.
CONGREGATION: Thanks be to God.
Now, I'd like to invite the chair
of the commemoration committee,
my dear sister Ethel Greaves,
to say a few words about plans for
this year's centenary ceremony.
This year, we will commemorate
300 years since the people
of this parish sacrificed themselves
to rid a plague from this land.
As we approach this milestone,
we must pause to
ask ourselves why?
Why do we gather to remember?
Well, it's because the plague
never really goes away.
It only changes form.
Today, we deal with a
new kind of a virus
..infecting our children,
turning them towards
depravity and sin.
I'm speaking about
the scourge of sadism,
violence SCREAMING
..and fornication
being spread through
the medium of video.
CONGREGATION MURMURS
Now, I have
..obtained some of these tapes.
You may find some too.
Bring them to be burned,
to say to God and country
that we will deny them
a place in our society.
We, as a community, must
do whatever it takes,
big or small, whatever it takes.
MURMURS OF AGREEMEN
Whatever it takes.
APPLAUSE
That was smashing, Mum.
Ashdale is awake.
The rest of the country
needs the alarm bell.
MUSIC: Ode To Joy by Beethoven
REPORTER: Police in Chesterfield are
continuing to investigate the murder
of a teenage girl near Ashdale.
Detectives earlier admitted
they're exploring a possible link
to video nasties, amid
rumours that the murder
bore a resemblance to
SHE SWITCHES RADIO OFF
We need to stop for petrol soon.
Look, stop. There's loads left.
And what happens when it
gets dark and we're stuck
in the middle of nowhere?
Relax, Maureen, will you?
I've never run out
of petrol in my life.
Everyone knows the red
line's a sham, anyway.
Oh, so they just stuck it
in there for no reason?
Look, I'm not
stopping, all right?
I just want to get there. OK!
Why are we fighting?
This isn't even
about petrol, is it?
Oh, no. Listen, Abe, this
isn't about the kids.
It's a simple matter of miles
to the gallon. That's all it is.
Who said anything
about the kids?
I'm talking about you
two, the constant arguing.
Why don't you just
talk to each other?
Oh, back off!
Talk? About what?
If you can't talk about
something, you can't deal with it.
Excuse me, I don't want
relationship advice from you,
thank you very much. Yeah.
Do I need to point
out the obvious?
Eileen left you.
Yeah, well, go and
ask her about that.
Nothing to do with me.
Ha! Is that what you think?
That she just ran off with
some other man on a whim?
She always thought you
were so cold towards her.
She didn't know if you loved her or
if you just thought she was an idiot.
I just pray to God you're
not the same way with Billy.
She left us.
Left him.
People will say anything
to justify themselves.
Frank. What?
Frank, have you missed the?
You've missed the turn!
Jesus, you're such a gobshite!
MUFFLED SCREAMS
SHE PANTS
She wakes.
Welcome back to the
land of the living.
Might be a short stay.
THEY WHIMPER
Told you.
Told you there was room.
Now we can get to
know each other.
Fully.
SCREAMING: Stop! Stop!
Excuse me, I'm trying to
have a conversation here.
You're going to get
what's coming to you.
CON SCREAMS
ZOE SCREAMS
Help! Help! Help!
Argh!
Help! Help!
Get Get off!
Fuck off!
No!
SCREAMING CONTINUES
No!
SHE GRUNTS
No! I said no!
Put her back.
Put her back.
HE SIGHS
I told you to guard the door.
This? No.
We are guardians of God's will.
The devil waits for us.
Do not be tempted.
They're not to be
harmed in any way.
When they die, they die clean.
No injuries, no evidence.
Nothing that points
to anyone else.
MUFFLED SCREAMS
BLADE GLIDES
Keep your distance.
Guard the door.
Pray and repent.
And get the drill just in case.
Don't worry. I have no
intention of making you suffer.
When the time is right and
the world is baying for blood,
you'll go quickly
..at each other's hands.
And everyone will know
you killed that girl
..and those videos
made you do it.
Please!
We just want to go home.
We all want to go home
..to our Lord and Saviour.
Think of this as your calling.
It is a noble thing to
lay down one's life.
You're here to give
yourselves for our souls.
For arseholes?
No, for
No, for our souls!
OUR SOULS!
You see?
Warped little minds.
You're too far gone.
But you'll save others.
Now
..rest up.
Say your prayers.
You're about to be
famous. MUFFLED WHIMPERS
DOOR CLOSES
ENGINE REVS WEAKLY
What's going on?
Ugh!
You're some specimen,
do you know that?
You see that? That's contempt.
Classic sign of
marital problems.
Fuck off, Abe. ABE CHUCKLES
Seriously! With pleasure.
I knew that Don't!
I don't want to
hear it, Maureen.
No! I was going to say
one thing No, Maureen.
I saw the news in the house.
There was a girl killed
in the woods last night.
Right by the lake.
I told you it wasn't nothing.
And she was the postmistress.
They're some fucked-up family.
They've landed us here
and they're going to put us
on the hook for everything.
The police think we did it.
I don't
Why us?
Because you were the
perfect mark, Billy.
Some weirdo who's obsessed
with video nasties.
What are we going to do?
What's the plan? I
don't I don't know.
I don't have anything.
SHE SIGHS
CLANGING
Con, what are you doing?
The pen knife.
I think I can get it.
Hurry up, then!
Ah!
WHISPERS: Hurry!
I've got it!
I've got it.
DOOR OPENS
Hide it, hide it!
FOOTSTEPS APPROACH
DRILL WHIRS
You after doing
something funny? What?
Cos I am
..dying to do a bit of DIY.
We need some water.
Hey!
She said we're not to be harmed.
We're going to die
of thirst in here.
If you help me, I can help you.
Yeah.
All you have to do is go
and get us some water.
And I can help you.
No-one has to know.
No.
No, no, no, no, no!
DRILL WHIRS No!
You're on the devil's business.
And I don't deal with the devil.
You stay away from me.
Come on, Con.
I can't pick it up.
Well, slide it over here, then.
Come on.
KNOCK ON DOOR
DOOR OPENS
Hi. Hello.
Sorry, I know it's late.
I ran out of petrol.
It sounds like you have
a generator back here.
If you could give me enough
just to get into Ashdale,
I'd be very grateful.
I'm looking for my
son. He's missing.
He travelled from Ireland.
He's in some trouble,
but he's a good boy.
He didn't do anything wrong.
I think maybe I did.
Stay here. Yes.
Don't go walk walkabouts.
No.
Get rid of him.
Quickly!
RUFFLING
Oh!
Sh! Somebody could be coming.
Got to wait by the door, OK?
Someone will come in eventually.
We push them out of the way
and we make a run for it.
We use this if we have to.
Yeah?
No.
Not me.
I got us into this
mess, all right? I
I don't know.
It's all right.
It's not your fault.
Did you hear me?
Everything that's happened
..it's not your fault, OK?
I trusted that freak.
This is on me.
Kings will be your guardians,
and they will bow down
to you with their
Bow down
Kings will be your guardians,
and they will bow down to you
with their faces to the earth,
and you will know I am the Lord.
Those who hopefully
wait for me will not
Sir? Sorry, I
Where's the fuel?
It's not in the cabinet.
What?
One of their parents
is looking for them.
They broke down and came to
the door looking for petrol.
My mum Mum wants me to
The generator. Go. Now.
Kings will be your guardians
and they will bow down to you
with their faces to the earth
BILLY URINATES
Seriously, Billy?
What?
What? I'm bursting! Do you
want me to piss myself?
What am I doing with the knife?
I'm absolutely
shitting myself here.
What are you doing?!
Apaches.
What?! Apaches.
Remember that scary-ass PSA
film where the kid dies in, erm,
in a slurry pit?
Yeah. So?
So this used to be an
animal shed, right?
There must have been
a pit under here.
The cow shit has
to get out somehow.
Exactly.
They pipe it through
these big channels.
That's the way out.
The way out?
Come on!
Thank you.
God bless you.
Ooh! That was lucky.
What are the odds of finding
someone up at this hour?
Well, er, insomnia is a killer.
HE LAUGHS
You are funny.
Yeah, you'd best be on your way.
Who's going first?
I'll do it.
We don't know how deep it is.
How are we going to get down?
Where the fuck is he?
This is your mess.
Fine, aye. Take his side.
Well, at least he's willing
to man up and sort it out.
What's with the big Abe
crush all of a sudden?
You hated him two hours ago.
Yeah, well, maybe he's
talking some sense.
Maybe we're in denial.
About what?
I don't know.
About everything. About us.
About the kids. About the fact
that we don't speak any more.
About the fact that we
don't ever Jesus Christ!
Just drop it.
If you can't talk about something,
then you can't deal with it.
HE SCOFFS
What? Now you're quoting him!
He's fucking Oscar
Wilde now, is he?
Why don't you just go and
shag him and be done with it?
Huh! At least one of us
would be getting some.
You're the one who can't
What?
Nothing. No, go on, say it.
Oh, nothing, nothing.
You know what I'm talking
about, though. Mm.
That's because you lay
there like a corpse.
Sorry, Maureen, but necrophilia's
never been my thing.
Fine.
Go ahead and blame
me for your problems.
Cos you're soft, Frank.
You're just soft.
I slept with someone else.
No complaints there,
I can tell you.
It's not me who's
got the problem.
Excuse me.
It doesn't look like a
slurry. It smells like one.
Oh, God.
What if there's no way out?
Billy!
BILLY GRUNTS
Come on!
Ah!
Ah, Con!
THEY GASP
Oh, God!
Oh! Oh!
Oh! Oh!
Oh, my
Oh, oh, oh What
are we doing here?
Oh, my God! Hey, hey, hey.
Look at me, look at me.
It's going to be OK, all right?
It's going to be OK.
Oh, oh, oh, oh, oh!
Oh!
DRILL WHIRS Hey!
THEY GROAN
Oh!
Con, do something!
CON SCREAMS
GROANING CONTINUES
Go! Go!
BILLY GRUNTS
Go, go, go!
Stay down, stay down!
Just stay down!
You let them get away.
No, no, no. No
Argh!
THEY PAN
Wait, wait!
What? We need to go back.
What?! The tape!
Are you mental?
Forget it, Billy.
Just keep running.
Come on! Come on!
Dad?