Years and Years

You watch me.

I'll be back.

- She is a monster. - I think she's brilliant.

She's calling him Lincoln.

Congratulations, Great-Grandmother.

These people are refugees,

which means they're allowed to seek asylum.

My name is Viktor. Viktor Goraya.

I'm transhuman.

I'm going to escape this thing and become digital.

- Come back to bed. - You have sex with your robot!

Danny! Danny!

America, they've fired a nuclear missile.

What happens now?!

All right, stop!

You can stop the alarm, thank you.

Oh, God. I give up.

Signor!

You can stop the alarm, Signor!

- Alarm stopped. - Thank you.

The last time we had an alarm in this kitchen, we all thought

the world was coming to an end, so that's quite enough.

Do you wish to be reminded of the reason for the alarm?

Oh, well, yes.

I was coming to that.

The alarm is a reminder for Edith Lyons...

Oh, yes! Yes!

Call the family.

Oh, I know. Calling family link.

- Is that right? - Calling family link.

We're all here, Gran. We're waiting.

It's a big moment.

Some of us have got work to do.

Happy as ever, Celeste.

It's lovely to hear your voice, Muriel.

Where are the boys? Are they with us?

Dan, are you on the link?

Yeah, yeah, I'm here. I'm here.

Hey! What are you doing? No, no, no, no! We're not... No!

Just don't!

I'm glad we haven't got vision.

Are you with us, Rosie?

I keep telling the boys we all used to watch TV on Saturday mornings.

- Doesn't exist any more. - Well, this is better than cartoons.

Shush! She's on!

We can interview someone who was actually a witness

to that terrible event on Hong Sha, political activist Edith Lyons.

Tell me a little bit about that time.

Oh. Six months ago, we all thought we were going to die...

- That's what I just said. - Shush, Gran!

And then we realised the day after Hiroshima, what happened...

sun came up, people got out of bed,

they went to work, a nuclear bomb exploded,

and the West just carried on.

And China backed down, but with 45,000 dead.

And that's why we need these sanctions against America.

They turned a trade war into an actual war.

She doesn't understand a thing.

And who pays the price? Me.

Your auntie's an idiot.

You were in Vietnam. Is that right?

For the explosion. Then we took a ship and we sailed towards Hong Sha.

We took this footage with drones.

Look, there were people!

The bomb goes off and that's all they leave behind, is the shadow.

What's she like? Edith?

Bit serious.

- Yeah, but when you were kids. - Yeah. Serious even then.

I don't know. She's older than I am.

She was more friends with Stephen, really.

We went Interrailing once, but

she wanted to sleep on beaches and go to markets

and find things to smoke.

I just wanted a nice hotel.

Is she rich?

I'd like to know. Why do you think?

- 'Cos she's famous. - Not really.

This is Channel India. There must be five of us watching.

She lives on a boat.

Yeah, but there's like 15 onboard. Bet it's stinking.

If I could ask, what's the range of your drones?

What does that matter?

We estimate they've got a range of five miles, so...

So you took your ship five miles off the coast of Hong Sha

within two days of the explosion?

- What? - She said 50 miles.

She said she was safe.

Were you poisoned by radiation?

I think you should focus on the victims within China itself.

We calculate, at the very least, you were exposed to

one gray of radiation, so the damage has been done.

You might have limited your lifespan to another 20 years.

So? That could take me to 60.

Then it's true.

Yeah.

She tells us on TV?!

Oh, my God, she's an idiot!

Gran, stop watching! Turn it off.

- Signor, call Edith Lyons now. - End link. Calling Edith Lyons.

Is she dying? Is Auntie Edith dying?

Hm? Eventually.

This is Edith's phone. Leave a message.

Edith, we're all watching.

You promised me you were safe.

Yeah, thanks very much, Edith.

What a way to let us know, eh, on TV?

Gran? You okay?

Okay. That might be true, but never mind me.

Hong Sha Dao will have consequences for all of us,

and it terrifies me because the world keeps getting hotter

and faster and madder, and we don't pause.

We don't think. We don't learn.

We just keep racing to the next disaster,

and I keep wondering what's next.

Where are we going? When's it ever going to stop?

President Pence has defied the United Nations.

But we're making it worse.

The more we impose sanctions, the more America swings to the right.

Okay, Putin, president for life.

Xi Jinping, president for life.

And now, Pence just a puppet. Trump is still in charge.

These old men are in power forever.

Remind us what charities you've been playing for.

Mine's a children's hospice in Coventry.

And mine's to build a statue for all the horses killed in World War I.

The bird population across Britain has fallen by 50%,

because the insect population has fallen by 80%.

That's 80% in 30 years.

So that's it. I'm out of work. My bosses are basically Americans.

With all these sanctions, they're going to withdraw.

- You'll get a payoff, though. - They're saying no.

They're saying, "Take us to court. Tough!"

I need to free up some capital, so we'll have to sell this house.

We're downsizing. We just need somewhere small.

I'm not moving! I'm not!

It's a phenomenon that's being called "Towntime".

The 2000s saw a huge move to work from home,

but people at home basically eat and masturbate.

So, Towntime calls for a return to the office job,

Monday morning, 9am.

It's my honour to declare the drone park officially open!

Good luck! Bon voyage!

Don't go to my house!

I'm not in!

As MP to the Northern Powerhouse, I promise that for every job lost,

there will be a job gained.

This fleet of drones will be the pride of Manchester.

As you can see...

Oh, my God! Have you just seen? My MP's been decapitated!

It's terrible news about Archie,

but I can't help feeling it's symbolic.

I hereby declare, with the greatest of respect,

that I will be standing in the by-election for his constituency.

Seriously?

I'm watching her now, Viv Rook.

So, she's going to be my MP?

No, she isn't. I told you.

Don't you dare vote for her.

I will give you money not to vote.

All right, then. That's a deal.

Right, got to go. Pay me in cash. Bye!

You know she owns us, don't you? Viv Rook?

Now they've privatised housing, we're part of Stonerock Holdings.

And on the board...

Oh, my God, she's my boss!

This is my chance at last...

to honour my country and to serve it.

Your greenhouse, it's not very safe.

People have been saying that for years.

I got a man in to look at it,

but part of it fell on his head.

He never came back.

You should be careful, though.

Viktor, all of the money in this house was my father's.

And he lost it in 1976.

We haven't been able to afford this place ever since.

Let it rot gently.

I'll survive.

Dan said about your parents...

Yeah...

They reported you to the police.

In fairness, they thought it was their duty.

They're Christians.

I mean, it genuinely hurts them.

Do you forgive them?

I have to try.

Rubbish.

They're disgusting.

Your mother and father are disgusting people. Is that clear?

I'm not without prejudice myself.

I don't like Londoners.

And I don't like people who wear sunglasses indoors.

But you...

you're beautiful,

in the eyes of Christ and in the eyes of myself.

Is that clear? Have you got that?

Yes.

And you're very welcome here for the rest of your life.

Oh, don't cry!

You're not going to get a hug or anything.