The Rig

Cat, I think he's waking up.

He's just coming round now.

I've just got to take his temperature.

Baz, it's Rose. Can you hear me?

Yeah, I can hear you.

Still waiting on that apology for bumping me off the chopper though.

Maybe later.

Do you recognize where you are?

Yeah. Definitely not where I want to be.

You had an accident on the tower.

-When you were up there with Fulmer. -Ah!

And then you went up on the helideck.

Do you remember, you said "It's already started?"

I don't.

I don't remember nothing.

There was all this noise in my head.

I'm just gonna take your bloods, mate, okay?

-Alright, we... we were back on the tower. - Yeah.

I'm just puttin' a strap on to dilate the vein, yeah.

We'd just finished testing the comms equipment.

And...

-Then... I looked out to sea... -Uh-huh.

And the fog...

there was something out there...

And then I heard this noise,

and now it's in my head... this... this noise...

and it keeps telling me to--

Let go, Baz!

-Hey! -Baz, let go!

- It's okay. Baz! -It's alright, it's okay.

Let go. Baz. Shhh!

No! No, you're not listening! There's something out there.

It's coming!

-Come on, come on. -What is? What's out there?

What's coming?

A wave.

A wave is coming.

Hutton's locked in his bunk?

Yeah. I put Easter on the door.

How was he?

Angry. And he's not the only one.

Nothing new there.

So that's that?

It'll certainly do for now.

Are we going to talk about the decommissioning?

The wave that Baz talked about.

There's no way that that could actually be a risk, could it?

-Oh, not for this platform. -Okay.

Our max wave height is above anything ever recorded in this sector.

I'm more worried about him.

At least he's awake now. Whatever you did worked.

That's just it.

I didn't do anything.

Those injuries, Rose... it ain't right.

Bodies are remarkable things.

Well, keep an eye on him. And let me know if his condition changes.

Okay.

I only just found out myself.

I would have told the crew when the time was right.

We're not talking about the crew here.

My Jamie has just started uni. Now, Liam wants to go, too.

They already think I'm ruining their future by having this job.

They want to see how bad it'll be if I don't have one.

It wasn't my decision.

And if it was, I wouldn't have made it. Not this way.

I'm just saying... we can't all get jobs in hardware stores and construction sites.

We built things out here people thought were impossible.

So where's that spirit now?

And I hear that, but you have to admit

it's hardly been a great few years for dollars-per-barrel.

Exploration's on hold. Renewable prices only ever go down

and ours only ever go up...

Which might not even be such a bad thing, unless you want to be doing this

when you're 65 and the sky is burning.

And we're the oldest platform Pictor have got.

Where else would they start?

It's the "how," not the "where."

Twenty years we've been at this together.

Shouldn't that mean a bit of prior warning?

It means you should know how this works.

Where do you think it's coming from?

Icelandic volcano again?

Rose said it couldn't be. Too far.

She was sure?

She was.

What do you think happened to him?

I sat with Baz

for three hours in that Med-Bay, listening to him struggling to even breathe.

If you'd asked me then if I thought he could... get up again,

I would've said absolutely not.

And that doesn't scare you?

Well, if it did, do you think anybody out here would tell you?

Ah, what now?

You see that?

It's the Stand-By Vessel.

Signal lights.

They're trying to talk to us.

If they stay on that course, we're gonna lose 'em.

-Leck...? -Uh-huh?

Get up top,

and keep a bead on them.

-Take a note of the messages. - On it.

I'll tell Magnus.

Hey, does this mean we're getting out of here?

Cheers, Leck. Hold tight.

This is it.

Leck said it keeps repeating, over and over.

What does it say?

It's a PAN call.

Possible Assistance Needed.

Normally it means there's been a breakdown in communications.

We can signal back with the deck lights.

Should we bring them in? Prep for evacuation?

There's no immediate risk to the platform at this time.

Protocols say we stay.

I thought you weren't sure what was causing it.

And when you're not sure, you stay put. This could still clear up.

Trying to put us back to work already?

Every hour we're not producing, we're losing.

Is that right?

-She is right. -

At this point, we don't know if we'd be any better off on the ship

than we are here.

Fulmer, put the Stand-By Vessel in a holding position

-and find out what they know. - Alright.

But that... ain't gonna "clear up."

So you better hope they're ready for the long haul.

Murch!

Murch!

Boss.

-Ya lookin' for a snack? -Nah, I'm good.

Are you getting anything on this?

Nah, nothing but static.

These days some people might see that as an improvement.

When was our last supply boat?

Last week.

Next one's due in three days.

You want to bet on if it's still coming?

Not right now.

Fish.

River Cobbler. Caught in Vietnam. Processed. Frozen.

Shipped to Aberdeen then shipped out here. Can you believe that?

What's wrong with ours, eh?

We caught them all.

You want me to start cutting back, right?

I do.

But starting tomorrow. Leave tonight as planned.

-People have enough on their plates. -Aye, for now.

What's it about?

A collective failure of imagination.

-Sounds familiar. -

-How's it working out? -Not good for us.

Earlier, at the lifeboats,

Leck was really struggling with his survival suit.

He... he was afraid.

You remember your chopper evac training?

Do I remember being strapped into a model helicopter

and dumped upside down in a freezing swimming pool in the dark?

Yeah. I do.

I nearly drowned.

And froze.

Well... now imagine it wasn't training.

Imagine there was no swimming pool,

and there was no diver to help you if you got stuck.

And you nearly drowned.

And froze.

And afterwards, all everyone kept telling you was how lucky you were.

God.

He was in a crash?

When?

Two years ago.

But I bet it doesn't feel that to him.

- -

Oh, for fuck's sake!

Hey, Easter.

I know the SBV's coming to get us.

You've gotta let me out sooner or later.

You're only making this worse for yourself.

He ain't gonna leave me here. Magnus ain't got it in him.

Oi!

Knock it off. I'm coming in.

Alright, lads?

You can't keep me in here. Not with the ship coming.

Yeah? Watch me. Here.

Ah, Magnus got you on waitressing duty now, is he?

It's called looking after his crew.

You should be grateful,

because if it were me, and we were getting on that SBV,

I might just skip over your name on the evac list.

Responsible response there from the Head of Safety, thank you.

No sauce?

Easter, no one gets in without my say so.