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I come from a planet more beautiful than you could believe.

We. We come from that planet.

Shoot it now or it'll kill us both!

April, no!

You must have got a glancing blow. You both now share April's heart.

Argh!

You leave... or I'll make you leave.

You have not seen the last of us.

Coal Hill will continue to act like a beacon across all of space-time.

You will help these amazing humans here

and these amazing humans will help you.

So are we all, like, mates, then?

It's Ram. Leave a message.

Hey, it's Tanya. Where are you?

I haven't seen you since prom.

Hey, it's April.

Just wondered if you wanted to talk about, you know, things.

Give me a call. We're all worried.

It's Charlie. I have socks. Call me.

Hey, it's me.

- Call me. - Do you want to talk?

I can drop the socks off.

- Please talk to us. - Ram?

- Ram? - Ram!

Faster than that!

Pass it here.

Andre, go on!

Pretty lame, Singh.

- Argh! - (MUTTERS) Jesus.

Singh, come here.

He's girlfriend's gone missing. Maybe you...

Do I look like a counsellor?

You face your demons and you conquer them.

You didn't come to do that.

I came to play, Coach.

Well, you could have fooled me.

Don't ever question me in front of the players again.

You need to lay off the roids, man.

What was that?

We're done! Go home!

You run them too hard. I wonder how much even a teenager...

Coach Dawson?

- Should you even be here? - I don't want to talk about it.

Rachel's only been gone a week.

I said I don't want to talk about it.

I need to see the coach.

Tom?

Please don't. Not yet, please.

Please don't...

I said go home, Singh. - (GASPS)

Did you see?

All I see is a player whose form's dropped.

- Coach Carroll? - He went home.

Look, you're my best player, Singh.

But remember what I said.

I'm not a counsellor.

I look forward to getting the real you back.

But for now, you watching me shower breaks about 17 laws.

- Come to play next time. - Uh... I-I will.

I'm in control.

I'm in control.

Not you! Not you.

Do you think they purposely forget?

Is that a human thing?

You mean all the stuff at prom?

This world was partially invaded.

We seem to be the only ones who remember it.

Coal Hill has a body count way above average. They've got to know.

And just choose not to see?

- What a fascinating power. - 'Fascinating power'.

Interesting words.

Do you honestly think nothing else will happen?

That nothing else will get pooped out through the bunghole of time?

That's not what we're calling it, are we?

Maybe it wouldn't be so bad

if nothing else ever came through the space-time thing.

You'd never get your heart back.

If it's a choice between that and people dying...

Even if something does come through, what are we supposed to do about it?

We're not superheroes.

Have any of you talked to him?

- He won't let us. - Maybe you don't know what it's like.

Everyone I ever knew was murdered.

I'm sharing a heart with the genocidal alien who did that.

Still...

- Membrane of time? - Chasm?

- Factor? - Bunghole.

What? An inspector.

Sorry, a what?

The school is being inspected, Miss Quill,

and your class is part of the school,

although your continuous surprise at that fact is troubling.

No.

No, I'm not a monkey to be jumping through hoops.

All teachers are monkeys, Miss Quill.

Haven't you been listening to the education secretary?

The inspector will be here today.

He's especially interested in us improving our science rating.

I'm sure you'll do us proud.

Don't show up if you didn't come to win.

- Hey, how's it feeling? - Ask me again. Go on.

How's it feeling?

- I'm just wondering if... - We're not friends, dickface.

I'm not part of whatever loser save-the-world crew this is.

I've got enough to deal with on my own.

You don't have to do it alone.

Ask me again. Go on.

Abysmal.

Abysmal.

Abysmal.

Abysmal.

Abysmal.

Tell me, Ram, was there a great big window of porn open as you typed?

Yeah, I was spanking myself off a good one.

I had to do the whole paper with my left hand.

Don't think I won't put you in detention, Ram.

Be nice to him. His girlfriend's missing.

And he's got football practice. You can't...

Could you all just leave me alone?

I don't need anyone's help.

Sounds like such a cry for help.

Surprise quiz.

Mr Dawson?

Is Coach Carroll around? I was hoping to do some extra training.

Nope. He quit on me.

I'm getting a lot of that lately.

Yeah, you see that, do you?

- The way I've been playing? - Yeah. The way you've been playing.

- You used to have strength, Singh. - I'll get it back.

I'll earn my place. I've got to.

I know about your girlfriend. (SIGHS)

But this game isn't built on niceness.

- I don't want it to be. - Good.

There is no third team... if you get my meaning.

Don't screw up again. Now go.

Go!

You're going crazy, Ram.

Do you ever feel like you're losing it?

In my country I was an accountant. I already lost it. (CHUCKLES)

Ram, where the hell have you been? I've been trying to...

- Has something happened? - I saw something.

At first, I thought I was imagining it, like PTSD or something but...

It was horrible. Like, really horrible.

Horrible we can tell an adult

or horrible we're going to have to figure it out by ourselves?

Do you have any idea

what the discipline of a Nigerian parent is like?

I'll be lucky to end up in a convent if she catches me.

It was over there.

Definitely alien?

First time I just saw gore and grossness, yeah?

This time, it killed that woman.

She seemed really nice. She was just sneaking a fag and that thing...

- Skinned her alive. - Eugh.

You were smoking?

- Are you serious? - You're an athlete.

How can you do something that stupid?

Because that's totally the issue here, Tanya.

What are we mixed up in?

How are we supposed to handle people being skinned alive?

Miss Quill's meant to help us.

Oh, yeah, her and her happy superbest sparkle team.

Are we gonna go over there or are we just gonna wave from a distance?

There's nothing here, Ram. It's clean.

- In fact, it's really clean. - It happened, Tanya.

And I didn't do anything. I just hid. I let it kill her.

Do you honestly think you could have stopped it?

You're right. It's stupid.

Stupid leg I can barely stand on.

People are dead. Rachel's dead.

I can't even stop a ball anymore.

You saved April from being taken by the Shadow Kin.

You might not think you can stop anything anymore,

but you stopped them from taking her.

- And you did that hopping on one leg. - (SIGHS)

Oh, for God's sake, Ram. I'm 14. I'm not a therapist.

I'm three years younger than our entire year.

All I wanted to do is make actual friends

and then this happened and I thought, "You know what..."

Ah! (GRUNTS)

- What the hell are you doing? - Sorry. We thought you were...

I can't wait to hear the end of that sentence.

There's weird things about, Coach.