- [first lines]
- Annie: Everyone dies. Uh, actually, can I start that again? Everyone deserves a death. I WAS going to die of old age. That was the plan. Mitchell was going to go down in a blaze of gunfire and glory, not cold and alone and shit-scared. He didn't think Death would smile at him first. Death was always a certainty, the punch line we could all see coming, but not for Mitchell. For a vampire, death isn't the end but the beginning... So here we are. Overlooked and forgotten. Unnatural and... supernatural. Watching the dance from the sidelines. At least I was surrounded by friends and family. At least I got that bit right. You know the worst thing about being a ghost? It's lonely. You'll give anything for that crumb of comfort. That feel of skin against skin that says, "It's okay. I'm here." It's a hunger. The most basic instinct. You might even drag others into this world of the dead. Even if it means turning them into monsters too. Then there are the ones like George. The ones that should have died. But shattered and bloody, they walk away from the train wreck. But what's the cost? They're scarred. Transformed. They're monsters now too. Aberrations. The stuff of nightmares. The big bad wolf. So. What have we got left to look forward to? Us refugees. The flotsam and jetsam of death. Maybe, if we still deserve such a thing as mercy, we find each other.
- Annie: [Opens front door] Hello!
- Pizza Delivery Boy: 12 inch Mess of Meats.
- Annie: Oh, thank you.
- Mitchell: Great. Keep the change.
- [Takes pizza]
- Annie: So, um, how long have you been delivering pizzas?
- Pizza Delivery Boy: Couple of months?
- Annie: And could you ride a moped before or did they teach you?
- Pizza Delivery Boy: They taught us. We had to drive round and round the car park.
- Annie: I bet you hate pizza. I mean, you get home and your girlfriend's like, "What do you want for tea?" and I bet you're like, "Not pizza!"
- Pizza Delivery Boy: I live with my dad.
- Annie: Madness. See ya!
- [Shuts front door]
- Annie: He could see me.
- Mitchell: He could SO see you.
- Annie: Ahh, it's happening all the time now, and not just with people like you, but with normal people. I was outside putting out the recycling and a van drove past and the guy shouted "Slag!"
- [giggles]
- Annie: So who wants tea?
- George: Ugh.
- Annie: What?
- George: You keep making tea! Every surface is covered with mugs of tea and coffee. I go to make myself some tea and I can't! There's no mugs, there's no tea, it's all been made! And you can't even drink it! Y-y-you can't drink it; you keep making it! Oh, oh, oh my god, it's driving me INSANE!
- Annie: Oh, well, I like my routine. It makes me feel normal.
- George: But-but-but you're a ghost!
- Annie: Yeah. OK.
- George Sands: [Annie's fiancé from when she was living has come to visit] What are you doing? We can hear you.
- Annie: I just want to see him. Look, I can sneak down. I can hide.
- George Sands: Are you crazy? He will see you and die of shock.
- [Annie's face lights up]
- George Sands: Annie, that is not an option.
- Annie: Oh, you both off then?
- Mitchell: Yeah, we've got work, and then it's his time of the month.
- Annie: Oh. Right. Well. Tell you what, I won't miss that. Used to have to curl up on the sofa, hot water bottle, Pride and Prejudice. Anyone says anything to me I'd bite their head off. Gosh, I suppose in your case that, that is actually quite a possibility, isn't it? You know, biting?
- Annie: All right, George? What's happening? I thought it was your time of the month.
- Mitchell: It is. He's doing it here.
- Annie: Ugh! I just Hoovered!
- Mitchell: George, what do you need?
- George: Uh, close the curtains, so it can't see the windows. And, uh, put some music on, loud.
- Mitchell: Good idea. We'll say there's a party going on. Annie. Anything you don't want broken, put it in your room.
- Annie: Uh, and what are we supposed to while he's doing his thing?
- Mitchell: Get the hell out.
- [George has learned that Mitchell is the one who turned Lauren into a vampire]
- George: I manage my condition. I hide in a shitty, bloody cellar or the middle of a forest. But you? You buy a bottle of wine and a packet of condoms! What is the point of us trying to build some kind of normality when you are attacking our friends and turning them into monsters? For Christ's sake! We knew her. You let me go to her bloody memorial!
- Mitchell: How the hell do you think I've survived for the last hundred years? There's no escape from it. I'm not like you, I don't get days off. This is what I am.
- Mitchell: [Owen leaves after an awkward first meeting with George and Mitchell, in which George said he'd killed a pigeon with a shoe] How did you do that, stay so calm?
- George: Okay, shut up.
- Mitchell: You're a spy, aren't ya? I mean you've clearly had training, because the way you held it together there, it was chilling.
- Lauren: Did you enjoy my memorial service? It's a shame Mitchell couldn't make it, but maybe he'll come to yours.
- George Sands: Other people move in somewhere, they get damp. No. They get woodlice. Why do we get Casper the Friendly Ghost?
- Mitchell: We've been over this. There must be something unresolved about her death. That's what's keeping her here.
- George Sands: It's not fair.
- Mitchell: Exactly. Whatever happened to her wasn't fair.
- George Sands: No. I mean it's unfair her being here. The amount of washing up she generates.
- Annie: Okay, I've written a list of questions for you to ask him.
- Mitchell: [Reading] "Are you screwing Janey Harris?"
- Annie: She always fancied Owen. Trust me, if she had known when I died she'd have been here before the ambulance crew.
- Mitchell: [Still reading] Aw. "Has my sister had a baby?".
- Annie: Yeah, 'cause they've been trying for ages. I blame her husband. His name's Robin, he works in the post office.
- George: Oh my god, has everybody taken stupid pills? This is Annie's ex. Annie's ex who buried her.
- George Sands: I'd forgotten what they were like. The others. They're predators. Every inch of them is just hunger and fury. The energy it must take him
- [Mitchel]
- George Sands: , every minute, not to be like that.
- Owen: [George returns downstairs after talking to Annie] What was it?
- George: What? Oh, um, it was, it was a pigeon.
- Owen: A pigeon?
- George: Must have left a window open.
- Owen: Well have you got rid of it?
- George: I killed it.
- Mitchell: [Mitchell almost spits out his drink, and gives George a horrified look] You... you killed it?
- George: [Nervously] With a shoe.
- Herrick: Everything is about to change. And nothing can stop it. This is nature. This is... tectonic plates shifting. And the only thing, this, the only thing you and me get to choose... is which side we're on when it happens.