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- Signor, call Rosie Lyons.
Calling Rosie Lyons.
- I thought for lunch maybe a nice little sandwich. What do you think?
- Hi, Gran, are you home? How was it? Can you see?
- No, it's just one eye at a time, but they were absolutely delightful.
- Does it hurt?
- No, it's just a bit of a nuisance, really.
- I was just wondering...
- Yeah, I'll have ham on toast. Just the one slice. Thank you. I thought, make it
two slices.
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Приложение 8
- 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.
VOICE MAIL: 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.
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- Hong Sha Dao will have consequences for all of us, and it terrifies me be-
cause 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 won-
dering what's next. Where are we going? When's it ever going to stop?
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Приложение 9
- We all need money. The house is going up for sale. I'll get myself a nice little
place and you can divide the rest between the four of you.
- Gran, there's only three of us now.
- There's no Daniel. Remember? He's gone. Danny's gone.
- Yes, I know. And I mean the four of you. And I won't get that much. God
knows, we're still in a slump. But this house has been losing money for decades. It's a
relic. So, this particular relic is saying, "Let's move on."
- Well, it's very kind of you.
- Yes, it is.
- Perhaps, but it still doesn't alter the fact that it's all your fault.
- What is?
- Everything.
- Who?
- All of you.
- What do you mean?
- The banks, the government, the recession, America, Mrs Rook. Every single
thing that's gone wrong, it's your fault.
-What did I do?
- Where's this come from? God knows I get blamed for an awful lot, but how
am I responsible for the entire world?
- Because we are - every single one of us. We can sit here all day, blaming oth-
er people. We blame the economy, we blame Europe, the opposition, the weather.
And then we blame these vast, sweeping tides of history, you know, like they're out of
our control, like we're so helpless and little and small - but it's still our fault. You
know why? It's that £1 T-shirt. A T-shirt that cost £1. We can't resist it. Every single
one of us. We see a T-shirt that costs £1 and we think, "Ooh, that's a bargain, I'll have
that," and we buy it. Not for best, heaven forfend, but nice, little T-shirt for the winter
to go underneath, that'll do. And the shop keeper gets five miserable pence for that T-
shirt, and some little peasant in a field gets paid 0.01 pence - and we think that's fine.
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All of us, and we hand over our quid and we buy into that system for life. I saw it all
going wrong when it began in the supermarkets, when they replaced all the women
on the till with those automated checkouts.
- No, that's not our fault. I hate those things, I always have.
- I can't stand them.
- They drive me mad.
- Yes, but you didn't do anything, did you? 20 years ago, when they first
popped up, did you walk out? Did you write letters of complaint? Did you shop else-
where? No! You huffed and you puffed and you put up with it. And, now, all those
women are gone and we let it happen.
- No, but we're still...
- And I think we do like them, those checkouts. We want them. Because it
means we can stroll through, pick up our shopping, and we don't have to look that
woman in the eye. The woman who's paid less than us. She's gone. We got rid of her.
Sacked. Well done. So, yes, it's OUR fault. This is the world WE built. Congratula-
tions. Cheers, all.
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Приложение 10
- Am I all right, staying at yours? 'Cos Gran says I can stay here.
- Oh, my God! You'd die in this place. Course you can. You can get to know the
boys. How long for?
- Dunno.
- Not sailing off on a mission?
- Er, yeah. It's all gone a bit sour. It's so stupid. It's that footage we took at
Hong Sha. People think we sold it for lots of money.
- Do they? That's terrible.
- Ah. Trouble is, some people on the boat think we should, so I might just step
away and have a think. And it's weird. You know this radiation... thing.
- You feeling all right, though?
- Yeah. But one day, the clock's ticking, maybe it's time I did something with
my life instead of shouting. Just... not sure what.
- So come on, Edith. Tell me stories of the high seas. What's the best place you
think you've been?
- Oh, don't do that!
- It's a bit like an interview, Gran.
- Well, I don't know where to start. You've been away for so long.
- You see online? The North Pole melted. Like, it's gone. You should tell people
about that.
- Well, yes, I could but I did. There's not much point any more.
- Oh, don't say that.
- No, but really, no, like, we keep saying you've got ten more years to sort out
climate change, you've got ten more years to sort out flooding, you've got ten more
years to sort out the rainforest. We've been saying that for 30 years. But it's too late.
We've run out of time. Everyone knows it. You can recycle and campaign and go on
marches. We are going to flood and burn and starve. And we won't die. I'm not saying
that the human race is gonna carry on, living on plateaus. [SHE LAUGHS] Like
shepherds, little villages, maybe with a computer in a hut, you can go and visit once a
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week, and then go back to growing your little patch of corn. You might be digging
out some rocks and singing Elvis to yourself, or the Beatles, but you won't know who
they are any more. Just folk songs from long ago.
- So nice to have you back. [THEY LAUGH]
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Приложение 11
- What time is it in Tokyo?
- Must be about 9am. Just opened.
- Do you think it's true?
- The Japanese Exchange Group has issued a statement of no confidence in
Foster Foster Drake.
- Foster Foster Drake is the second-largest investment bank in America.
- The JXS maintains that Foster Foster Drake will be filing for a Chapter 11
bankruptcy as soon as trading opens on the east coast.
- The online bank's gone down. Must be everyone.
- But Foster Foster Drake doesn't own the Alliance.
- No, no. We'll be fine. It's connected, though. They ghost a lot of services.
- And you left all that money in one account?
- I just... I don't move money till the morning. That's what I do. Every morning,
I have a coffee, and if money needs moving, that's when I do it. Nothing we can do
until the banks open. I can sort it then. Okay?
- I'm going to the bank.
- You can't take out 1.2 million.
- I know. I'm going to move it.
- I always move the money in the morning.
- I'm not saying it's your fault.
- Celeste, this is the kind of thing that causes a run on the bank.
- Yes, and if there's a run on the bank, I am running.
- The bank has failed. Officially. The Government could step in, but won't. So
that leaves us kind of stuffed. Now, that's the word, stuffed. I said to Mr Yamagata,
can we wind back a day, just to be nice? But... no, he said no. The house is sold and
we've got to get out.
- So how much have you lost?
- Well, we're covered up to £85,000. That's the limit. There was a temporary
high balance clause, but...
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- It's gone.
- ... with the collapse of Foster Foster Drake, you know, insurance is fucked.
- But, Stephen, how much did you lose?
- Minus the 85... ... we lost... ... £1,135,000.
- Oh!
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Приложение 12
- Hey, there.
- Hello.
- Thanks for coming.
- Stephen.
- Steven.
- Killed by a bike.
- Shocking.
- Poor old Dad. Come for a drink after. You're very welcome, all of you. I saw
you on the TV with the bomb. I'll see you later. Stephen.
- Steven.
- I still maintain it's not legal to call two sons the same name.
- He's Steven with a V.
- Jacqueline chose Steven with a V after her dad. You know that.
- Jacqueline.
- Doesn't feel like a brother.
- Half brother, if that.
- What does he do these days?
- He's a pharmacist.
- With a V.
- He's a varmacist!
- Oh, my God. This isn't the crematorium.
- What do you mean?
- This place isn't a crematorium, it's an aquatorium. They don't burn him, he
gets dissolved.