The Day of the Triffids s01e02 Episode Script

Every country in the worid has been able to look at this unique phenomenon.
As night has moved across the earth, the wonderful display has moved with it.
Although the spectacle is losing its strength, the streets and parks and rooftops of London are jammed with people watching one of the greatest entertainments the worid has ever You can see? Nobody came to unbandage my eyes, so I did it myself.
No harm's been done.
- I can see as well as ever.
- I must telephone at once.
Where are we now? - What do you mean? - Where are we now?! You've got eyes, dammit! Use them! Can't you see I'm blind? It's useless.
Dead.
- You are still here? - Yes.
What are we going to do? I'll go and find help, fetch another doctor.
Stay here.
- I shan't be long.
- You won't find anyone.
Something terrible's happened.
Very terrible.
- Sister? - Who's there? - Is there a nurse about? - No one's here.
God knows what they're up to.
Draw the curtains, will you, mate? Don't muck about.
Draw the bloody curtains.
What the hell is happening? Doctor? Doctor Soames? Mummy! Mummy! Keep close.
Hang on.
- What is it? - I don't know.
Ooh! It's a step.
We're all right.
It's a step.
- Keep out on my left.
- Yes, OK.
Not too far.
Did it stop? That was a car, wasn't it? Did it stop? Is anybody there? Can you see? Can someone see? Can you see? Please Please! Can you help us? Excuse me, mate! Don't take no notice of these people.
They don't mean any harm.
It's just that, well, I'm lost.
We all are, here.
- Perhaps you can tell me where we are.
- I don't know.
I've run out of petrol.
Well, could you show me to the pavement, please? - You're staying with me.
- Let me go! I need a doctor.
Daddy's gone blind! "Daddy's gone blind!" We've all gone blind.
Only you haven't gone blind! - Let me go, please! - Shut up! You're gonna be doing my seeing for me.
First, you're gonna get me some food, and some drink, right? Who is it? Who's there?! - Who is it, Tina? - She can see? - Don't you touch her! Leave her alone! - It's all right! I don't wanna hurt her.
I saw her in the street.
I could tell she could see.
I don't mean any harm.
- Can you see? - Yeah.
Oh, thank God! I told you, didn't I? Go and tell your mother.
Tell her other people can see.
Go and tell her.
We thought everyone had gone blind except her.
There's no gas, no electric.
Radio's gone.
And the phone.
When I woke up this morning, I couldn't see.
My wife couldn't see, either.
We thought It's the same in all the other flats.
There's been people screaming and shouting for help.
We thought it had happened to the whole bloody worid! You've been sent to help, have you? Say something for God's sake! Tell us what's going on.
I don't know what's going on.
My eyes were bandaged.
I took the bandages off this morning, I found everything like this.
Oh, Christ! You didn't see the lights? Lights? - Last night.
The comet lights.
- No.
- John? John.
- Shirley.
- I said stay in bed.
- Is there someone here who can see? - I said there would be.
- Can you really see? - Yeah, I can see.
- Have you come to help us? Of course he has.
Now go back to bed, Shirley.
She fell over in the bathroom this morning, cracked her head.
Sit down.
Let me have a look.
Oh, it's nothing, honestly.
It's just the shock, I think.
Tina bathed it for me.
- She's done a good job.
- It'll be fine.
Why can't we see? What's happened to us? They're not sure yet.
They're still trying to find out.
- How many people has it happened to? - We're not sure about that either.
It's just a limited area.
They are sure about that.
Our son's in France with the school on an education trip.
It might have been the comet lights.
She didn't see them and she's all right.
The lights might have been too bright.
It couldn't have been that.
They'd have warned us.
Now go back to bed, Shirley.
You might be concussed from that fall.
We can't risk you hurting yourself again.
You go with her, Tina.
Go on.
I'm sure your husband's right.
Don't take any chances.
No.
Come on, darling.
It's wonderful you're here.
Shut the door.
How many other people have you met who can see? It's all right.
I'm not telling Shirley.
I don't think she could cope knowing.
But I've got to know because I've got to cope.
I haven't met anyone else who can see.
Oh.
In the sideboard, there's the remains of a bottle of whisky.
I couldn't half do with one.
You have one too.
- What's your name? - Er, Bill.
Why were your eyes bandaged up? Er, I work on a triffid farm.
I got stung by one.
- I nearly went blind.
- Oh.
Here.
There.
- Are there people on the streets? - No, it's eerie.
It's almost totally quiet.
- That won't last.
- What do you mean? Ta.
Well, everybody will be like us at first.
They won't know what's happened.
They'll be too frightened to move.
Then they'll get hungry and start looking for food.
In two or three days, it won't be just hooligans killing each other for scraps of food.
I'm sorry.
That's, um That's stupid.
Give us another one.
No, those comet lights came nearest to here.
Everyone else should be all right.
Before you know where you are, there'll be Red Cross, Sally Army, Royal Marines pouring in, and doctors, too.
There's hundreds of cases of people going temporarily blind.
It's a question of proper treatment.
Be best if you stop with us for the time being.
Why? It would be best, wouldn't it? Two who can see, and two who are blind.
We can manage like that.
We'll give you shelter and you give us help.
That would be best, don't you think? - What about the others? - What others? Your child can see.
The others have no one.
What about them? What about them? Can you help all of them? Which are you gonna pick? The first you meet? The 20th? The 2,645th? Talk sense, for God's sake! There's not just us in this flat.
There's the rest of the block.
You could manage all of them.
That's enough, isn't it? Don't leave us please.
There's got to be others who can see.
Tina can see.
I can see.
There's got to be others.
We can organise something till the real help comes.
There's nothing and there's no one.
Haven't you got that yet? I've got to try and find out! Look, you'll be all right.
You've got Tina.
You'll be all right! There's nothing you'll be able to do.
When you realise that, you come back.
If you're still alive then.
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- Yeah! - Right.
Dead easy.
Lovely bit of skirt over 'ere.
Come on, my little darling! You I'm talking to.
- Leave me! - Don't be shy.
Come on.
You'll have a great time with us.
A bloody sight better than you are now.
- Let her go! Leave her alone.
- Hello, hello! Grab her, you berk! - No! - Piece of meat, lads! Gang-bang! # So we'll go no more a-roving # So late into the night # Though the heart be ne'er as loving # And the moon be still as bright # Though the heart be ne'er as loving # And the moon # Get off, you bastard! She's mine! I found her.
I'll cut you! Get out of it! Pull on that hard! Come on.
- By the way, I'm Bill Mason.
- Josella Payton.
But Josella's a hell of a mouthful, so I'm called Jo.
I take it you didn't see that comet stuff last night.
No.
Why? Well that seems to be the main cause of it.
This comet was so bright, it burned out something in the eye.
- How come you missed it? - I had a dreadful hangover yesterday.
I went to a party on Monday night.
About four in the afternoon I went to bed.
Took two sleeping pills.
I didn't know another thing.
Till my father woke me this morning.
"I can't see," he said.
"I think I've gone blind.
"Will you telephone for Dr Mayall?" The telephone wasn't working, and Anna hadn't come down - she's the housekeeper.
I discovered she'd gone blind too.
It's all right.
They can't get in.
Leave it! There's another pub near.
I thought I was losing the panic.
It's been with me all morning.
Half of me hasn't been able to take it all in, and the other half just doesn't know how to begin to cope with it all.
How many people do you think are left who can see? I've met one and a child.
You haven't seen any? No.
- I must get back to my father.
- Look, er Do you mind if I come with you? I nearly asked you whether you would.
But I thought there might be somebody you wanted to get back to.
No.
My parents are dead and I'm not married or anything.
Here.
It's not that I'm afraid of getting caught again.
I'll watch out for that.
It's just the dreadful sense of loneliness, being cut off from everybody else.
Yeah, I know.
Come on.
Let's find a car with some petrol in.
- It's Anna.
- Triffid sting.
The poison sacs are exhausted.
It must have been doing a hell of a lot of stinging.
- Is it your father? - Yes.
No! He's dead! There's nothing you can do.
Move! You think it was listening? They kill for food, don't they? Go! Please, let's go! It was listening.
- They were driving her.
- Yes.
I've a friend who used to say take away our sight and our superiority's gone.
You mean there's some connection between the triffids and everyone going blind? No.
I think it's a coincidence.
I know where we can get some anti-triffid gear - guns, masks.
I think we'd better go there now.
- Is this it? - Must be.
He was driving.
He can see.
There's someone here who can see! - Get him out.
- Might be more than one.
Where's the door? - Get him out! - Get him out! Get him out! - We want him! - Out, you bastard! Out! Out! Out! Out!