Mighty Quinn! How's it going, mate?
- What's up, guys? - Working late shift?
Someone has to clean up after you!
All right, Quinn? Come on, then!
- Not having one yourself? - No, I'm trying to cut back.
You heard from the school?
Down you go.
- Thanks, lads. Great work! - Karen! A new recruit.
- Employment office is up top. - Hi, Mum.
- You been smoking? - I told you.
I only smoke when I've been drinking.
- What's wrong? - Nothing.
Quinn... what is it?
You've got something you want to show me?
You know what it says.
Scholarship was worth £3,000 a year.
We don't have that sort of money.
Maybe we could ask Dad to pay.
Sorry.
- Karen. - What?
Got a problem at number four. Jess has hit some sort of void.
That bitch hasn't a clue what she's doing!
Hey, Quinn.
And what brings you to the asshole of the world?
You're passing through it. What's that make you?
Here. Why don't you go inside and have a look?
Wicked!
What... Quinn!
There's something in there.
- In the hole! - Dammit, Jesse!
It's unsafe conditions!
- Let's look at this void. - It's unsafe!
We're going to wash them out.
- We've got to go! - We've got to do this first.
Open your eyes.
Give me that.
Come on! Get in!
There was something in there!
Come here!
Come on!
Mum!
Mum?
I've kept this for years
because some day it'll be up to you.
I don't want you to be afraid.
I want you to understand.
Knowledge is the only weapon we've got left.
In the beginning it was ignorance that destroyed us.
I saw the first, but soon the world saw millions.
No one knew how they spawned so fast, swarming like locusts,
burning everything in their path, driven by one purpose...
...to feed.
Even then we couldn't believe it.
Ancient man had made them into myths,
but nature had made something far more terrible.
Too late, our scientists discovered their identity.
A species which had burned the dinosaurs to dust,
whose ash had brought on ice ages,
who in eons past had scorched the world clean of life,
then starved, then slept,
waiting for Earth to replenish itself,
waiting to start their cycle anew.
Our weapons shot fire back,
yet for every one killed a hundred took its place.
They seemed invulnerable.
We could only look on
as our leaders used their arsenal to destroy them,
but in the end we only helped them...
...till the world burned
and the few of us that were left fled the cities,
found shelter where we could.
You have to understand our past 'cause you'll decide our future.
They're starving now, and more dangerous than ever.
But we have to go on. We have to outlast 'em.
Only one species is getting out of this alive.
Quinn! Come and have a look at this.
Straight drop down from the water tower.
You pull the plug, 500 gallons per minute hits the walls.
I don't care about the specs, Jerry.
- Can it take 1200 centigrade? - Course it can.
Remember, I used to build blast furnaces for a living.
- I know all about fire. - Course you do. Sorry, mate.
Nice one.
Eddie's gone psycho!
Jared? Keep 'em at it. No slacking!
You heard him. No slacking! Go.
...no weapon could save me, no fire could extinguish theirs!
What's up, Quinn?
What are you doing, Eddie?
Me and a few others, we're going harvesting, Quinn.
No, you're not.
It's not ready. We spoke about this.
Half the stuff's not ripe. Pick it now, it means no seeds.
- Nothing to plant next season. - No next season if we starve!
What is this? We can do it. We all decided. You as well!
Dig in. Work together. Outlast 'em.
Kids can't eat hope, Quinn.
Edinburgh's gone.
Haven't heard from Pembrey or Norwich in two years.
- We're on our own. - We know that.
That's why we have to hang on. Maybe we are alone.
Eight years I've listened to you. And for what?
Two kids and a wife buried on the road.
I'm not losing these, Quinn. Not when there's food out there.
Sorry, Eddie. You're not going anywhere.
- Gimme the keys. - You bloody take 'em from me.
It's a community. Not a prison.
Eddie. You argue all you like. It makes no difference.
The point is, if you go out those gates
you jeopardize this community and you can stay out.
Because you're not coming back.
All right.
But I'm keeping these.
Hey, Quinn.
You know, I'm your best friend.
And sometimes even I don't like you.
I'm sorry.
"Join me!" the Black Knight says.
"And then we can end this conflict forever."
Never!
"I'll never join you," the White Knight says.
"You killed my father!"
The Black Knight stares through the holes in his shining mask
and he speaks words that burn into our hero's heart forever...
"I am your father!"
- Did you make it up, Mr. Quinn? - Course I did.
All right, kids. Time for bed.
- Tomorrow. Prayers first! - The shark!
- The lion king! - Tomorrow. Prayers first!
OK... Ready?
What do we do when we wake?
Keep both eyes on the sky.
What do we do when we sleep?
Keep one eye on the sky.
What do we do when we see them?
Dig hard, dig deep,
run for shelter and never look back!
Well done. Bedtime.
- Bedtime! - Good night.
Michael.
Quinn's asleep. I took the keys.
Let's go.
You keep quiet.
Hello, Liam.
Willem says it's dragon breath.
Don't you listen to him. It's just the wind.
OK.
Oh, God.
Ajay? Alarm.
To the fortress! There we go.
OK, count off!
One at a time!
Michael! Let's move!
- Creedy? You got the count? - Yeah. We're good.
Quinn!
Quinn! In the field.
- Dragons! - Go get Eddie.
Rachel!
- Rachel! - I'm here!
Devon!
Devon. Devon!
- Dad! - Where's Michael?
- Michael! - Michael. Michael!
You OK?
- Where's Matt? - He's dead.
Eddie...
Let's go! Move!
Come on!
Keep going! Come on!
Dad!
What do we do? We're trapped!
- Come on! - Go!
You OK?
Devon!
Come on, Creedy!
- Back up! Back up! - I'm going as fast as I can.
- Stop, Quinn! - Let it go! You can't help him!
Stop, Quinn!
Devon!
He doesn't care about us.
He just wants the ash off that field.
Creedy's one and only Black Label!
Aged two weeks in a steel barrel.
The secret is swallow fast.
That way it just burns your stomach and not your throat.
- Go on. Sip it and weep. - Poor bastard.
Who, Eddie?
A father shouldn't bury his kids. Should be the other way.
He wouldn't have had to if he'd listened.
No, Creedy, maybe he was right.
Easier to square your shoulders and bear it without kids.
- Maybe we won't harvest again. - Not with half the crop gone!
God knows how we're going to get through.
Remember when we'd bring in 80, 90 percent of it? Not any more.
Not in the last few years.
- They're hungrier too. - Hey...
You're not giving up on me, are you?
No.
I just thought if we could hang on somehow we'd make it through.
This is a civil defense alert for all who can hear this.
We have no choice but to authorize nuclear weapons use.
The sole survivor was a twelve-year-old boy.
Roger, Diane.
Barlow. I got voices.
- Ajay, what are you smoking? - I'm not messing with you.
- Take a look. - A look at what?
- She's not moving. - Forget the bird.
Use the scope, you wanker!
Oh, dear.
Creedy!
I've got to go.
All right, lads. This isn't a drill!
Move it along!
Get one to Creedy. Another one to Garrett!
Extra shells.
Come on! We haven't got all day.
Marauders.
Years since we've seen them.
Look on the bright side.
At least we're not alone.
Only one thing worse than a dragon.
Americans.
What a dump.
Who's in charge?
That'd be you, then.
Anything happens, you know what to do.
No, I have no idea.
Me neither.
That's a big tank.
You responsible for this place?
- Who are you? - Van Zan. Kentucky Irregulars.
You're a long way from home. You lost?
We rebuilt the National Guard C-5A.
We flew it 8,000 miles on two engines
and tried to set down on the old strip outside of Manchester.
I lost 122 men and most of my fuel.
We need shelter and a place to refit artillery.
We'll be gone by 1800 tomorrow.
Good story, especially the bit about the plane,
but nothing's flown for 20 years. That's their territory.
It's my territory. It's your territory.
- They're just renting it. - Turn round, Van Zan.
Don't be a fool.
Now we can do this easy, or we can do it real easy.
You try it.
You ever seen one of these? Not many men have.
I got it out of the first one I killed.
The plane was better.
So now you're a dragon killer?
That's not even original.
It was in the wheat fields south of Coffeyville, Kansas.
It was late November... It's a month of mist.
We were caught in the open, the sun setting behind us.
There was nowhere to run.
Twice it came in on us. Twice it missed the heart of us.
That's when I had an epiphany.
You see, they have great vision in the day.
They have even better vision at night.
But in the failing light, they can't focus.
Magic hour.
Coffeyville.
It's etched in American history
'cause the outlaw Dalton Boys were killed there.
Ordinary townsfolk rose up and took 'em down.
- Maybe you're the Dalton Boys. - No.
We're the townsfolk.
You try anything,
I'll kill you.
I didn't get your name.
Quinn.
Well, I'm sure you've got a good explanation for this,
but I'm buggered if I know what it is!
- He's a dragon slayer. - A what?
- He's a dragon slayer! - A dragon slayer.
Great.
I suppose that makes you King Arthur.
Christ Almighty! I mean...
Even if you believe that, and you'd be an imbecile,
we're easy meat for these guys.
- You weren't there. - Look at this guy.
He looks like a rogue marine. Remember those guys?
Yeah, sure, they blew up plenty of dragons.
- Along with half the world! - I saw his eyes, Creedy.
We ran a 30-mile grid in every direction. Nothing.
Could be on the moon, Denton.
Quinn, this is Alexandra Jensen, US Cavalry.
Hi, I'm Creedy.
- Hey. - How you doing?
Creedy.
- Denton Van Zan. - How are you?
Excuse me.
- Who are they? - Archangels.
Seventeen seconds.
Once they jump from the chopper, that's their life expectancy.
You thought about giving them parachutes?
They're not much help.
- They're bolo men. - What?
Bolo nets were used by gladiators to snare other men.
Not men, dragons.
So, you guys jump out of the chopper
and use a net to snare dragons?
I mean, sure. I mean...
You would, wouldn't you?
Three watches, eight hours each.
All the kids in the shelter.
Rifles on the keep and walls.
Excuse me. Aren't you forgetting who let them in?
Don't mean I trust 'em.
All right, guys?
I just brewed a fresh pot, if that's what you're looking for.
A whetstone, actually.
Sure.
- Is that your son? - No.
I got him from the pound.
Is that where you get all your children?
I found him in a village.
Three years old, sitting with his mum. Trying to wake her up.
She'd been dead for days.
We were making our way up here... me, Creedy and Barlow.
No idea how we'd survive. Anyway, I grabbed him.
- What else was I going to do? - Leave him.
Most men would have.
Especially back in the early years.
Everybody was just running for their lives.
Yeah. Well, I didn't.
Regretted it ever since, of course.
What are you doing here?
What do you want?
You want to know anything, ask Van Zan.
- Goosh, you alive? - Not even close, Denton.
Alex, radars are down!
Cover the east ridge and tell me what you see!
Get ready to rock 'n' roll! We got a dragon to kill!
Goosh, set the triangulators!
Tito, Meade, Piscatella, mount your bikes!
Davi, move out!
Alex, what do you see?
No sign of it. Visibility is about three miles.
Roger that. Stay on deck till we get the verticals up.
Copy that, Van Zan.
Awaiting triangulators. Safety first.
Safety?! What part of this job is safe?
It's not you I'm worried about, it's my chopper.
Cold!
- First vertical up. - Vertical one up, Alex.
Copy that.
- Second vertical is up. - Second vertical is up, Alex.
Once I have radar, you go to 5,000 feet.
Fly directly back above my location.
Gideon, you bring that bitch down on my head.
- I'll take it from there. - Copy that, Van Zan.
Alvarez, you're the bait.
Jefferson, you and I are the gunners.
We don't open our chutes until you confirm it's down, right?
Bogey on our tail, 200 yards! Go!
Roger! I'll try to lose it in the clouds.
Piscatella, do you read me?
Goddamn it, Piscatella, get your vertical up!
Come on, number three. Piscatella, that's you!
I'm almost there. I'm almost at the top of the...
Goddammit, come in.
Ajay? Can you hear anything?
Van Zan's trying to take it on. Using a 3-D mapping device.
Without that third vertical, Alex is flying blind.
Come on!
Van Zan, what's going on? We're blind up here.
Give me some time. I'm having trouble with the third vertical.
Come on, number three. Get your vertical up!
- All right! - Third vertical's up.
Alex, we have visual.
Monitor's coming up.
Shit! Hang on!
Alvarez!
- It's right on him! - Go!
Damn it!
- Talk to me, Alex. - Angels are flying.
Alex, do you have a reading?
- Target, 1500 feet. - Copy that.
Alvarez, do you have a visual?
Negative.
It's right on top of me! Shoot!
Shoot at what? I can't see a thing!
Nets away!
Great shot! All right, fan out!
- Roger that. - Alvarez, can you see it?
Negative. I think it's down.
Copy that.
Shit!
Both nets just flew by me!
Alvarez, can you confirm that it is down?
Copy that.
Negative! It's on me!
Jefferson, I'm not getting any contact with Alvarez!
- Keep your eyes open! - Roger that.
Look out!
Gideon's down.
Piscatella.
Do you read me?
- Van Zan! - Who is this?
- Quinn. - Where's Piscatella?
- He's gone. - Are you ready to ride?
You got 30 seconds till the bitch's on top of you.
You bring her to me.
You're the bait. 1600 pounds of horse flesh.
Ride her right down my throat. Do you read me?
Ride the road to the quarry. Bring her to me, Quinn!
I'm coming.
Here we go.
Line up 20 yards, south by southwest!
Come on!
1200 yards.
Wind velocity 10.2, north by northwest.
It's really good stuff.
Good fight there, mate.
You're all right, Quinn.
Hats off to you, mate!
Envy the country that has heroes?
I say pity the country that needs 'em.
What are you celebrating?
One dragon down, three men dead?
At that rate, we might just get somewhere in about 320 years.
Is that what you want?
You want a little accommodation?
These beasts live on ash.
They feed on death.
There's no middle ground.
Not for them. Not for us.
And sure as hell not for my men who died out there today.
But you go ahead.
Have your little... soirée.
Personally, you disgust me.
Bury our dead at dawn.
What are you doing here, Quinn?
You're standing on ground where I've buried hundreds.
This is my home. I'm asking the questions.
What are you doing here?
I lead. You follow.
I kept these for you. They sent 'em off proud, Alex.
Alex is the keeper of the dead. She's our memory.
When this is over she'll build a wall with those.
Unfortunately, it's going to be a very long wall.
I'm out of resources, Quinn. I'm out of men.
Alex, tell him.
Did you see the one we brought down. The big bull?
Well, it wasn't. It was a female.
There was at least one egg, probably more.
We've hit over 200 and as far as we can tell they're all females.
How about you? Have you ever seen a male?
I don't know.
When I'm running for my life I don't look at the plumbing.
Well, we have.
Alex discovered two years back how the fire in the glands...
Two mouth glands secrete separate chemicals.
That's right.
Combined in exhalation, natural napalm.
Yep. We had a chemical engineer. That was his theory.
We figure they're like fish.
The females spawn the eggs.
One male passes over and fertilizes thousands.
You hear what she said, Quinn? One male.
That's why we never see any others. There's only one.
We tracked the epidemiology and found out where they're from.
That is why we're here.
We kill the male, we kill the species.
- We're going to London. - Good luck.
- It's that way. - No, no. I need soldiers.
- I need men! - Pembrey men went to London.
Maybe she's right. They disturbed something.
Ninety died! Then it backtracked 'em to their fortress.
You haven't seen destruction like it, even in this world.
- So we walk over dead men. - Not with my people you won't!
I've got a castle full of them. I'm trying to keep them alive.
- You're letting 'em die slower. - I said no.
I made a mistake letting you through those gates.
I saw something in your eyes I thought was awe. It's madness.
You're insane! I want you out before you do more damage.
Look out the window.
Eden's not burning, it's burnt.
Why don't you want to go?
What happened there?
My mother was working on a railway tunnel.
Project engineer. She died there, OK?
You've seen it, haven't you?
Quinn!
Trouble.
There's nothing magical about them.
They're made up of organs... a mind, a heart, a liver.
Take out one of these, you bring down the beast!
Is that it?
Four of you?
Paddy.
Eddie, what are you doing?
- You got kids, man. - That's why I'm going, Creedy.
That's why.
The volunteer section is now over. It's time for the draft.
Tito, Meade.
Get their six strongest men and load them up.
Dig your own holes. Die in them.
I said no!
Get out of my way, Quinn.
Get him off him! Get him off!
I'll kill you!
I'll kill you! I'll kill you!
- Save that! - I'll kill you!
That's what we need!
He's going to bring it back here!
To London!
Come on, move 'em out!
Grab those guys!
He would have killed you.
He doesn't feel things. It's how he can do what he does.
Here. Take this.
Iodine.
Hurts like hell, but it kills anything.
Good luck, Quinn.
You're too busy to say goodbye?
You're not my father. You can't stop me.
I can be an Archangel. Gideon says he'll teach me.
Seventeen seconds. Did he tell you that's how long they live?
Not the good ones. Gideon's an eight-year veteran.
- At least they're killing them. - A couple of years.
That's all I'm asking for. Give me that.
After that you'll be old enough and you can lead them.
Out of everyone, you're the best.
It's a waste of time. All of it.
You're right. I'm not your father.
I can't lock you in, I can't make you stay.
If you think you're man enough to speak like that,
then I guess you're man enough to go.
Goodbye, Jared.
You look after yourself.
That dragon smells like shit.
You gonna burn it?
I love it.
They hate the smell of their dead.
It's the only thing that scares them.
Might buy us a couple of days.
Sorry, Quinn.
So am I.
This time I was thinking I'd got rid of you for sure.
Van Zan, what are we doing?
You see a way through?
Negative. It's blocked for miles.
- As far as the river, Denton. - Head back, Alex.
- Find me a way around. - Copy.
This Pembrey?
This looks like Pembrey. You want to turn back?
- Nukes must have done this. - Nukes didn't do this.
Should we set the triangulators?
No time.
Man the 50 cal. Lock and load. Cut engines and take positions.
You heard him!
Lock and load! Let's move!
- I think it's playing with us. - It's not playing with us.
It's setting us up.
Easy. Easy. Easy, girl.
Van Zan, it's Alex. Can you read me?
Can you hear me?
Van Zan, if you can hear me, I'm coming back.
Can anybody hear me?
Van Zan!
Van Zan.
Denton? What happened?
It was him.
Where are the soldiers?
One pass.
He flew over just once.
We got someone.
We've got to get out of here!
Move out!
Underwater moats! Anybody upstairs?
Jared!
- Creedy! - Quinn.
Have you got them all?
- Creedy, help! - I'll get him!
You take her downstairs! Hurry up!
That thing won't stop until it's killed us all!
- She won't move! - Come on, Katie.
Liam, well done. Get on my shoulder.
Katie, let go of the wall. Let go of it.
Let go!
Take Liam! Take him!
Everybody move in the back!
I've got the kids, but they keep pushing up!
Wrap these blankets around you.
- Where is everyone?! - Don't go up there.
There are 65 people up there. I'm going!
Goddammit, Quinn, don't you dare leave!
It's too dangerous. I'll clean it up.
Creedy!
- What do we do when we wake? - Keep both eyes on the sky.
What do we do...
What do we...
- What do we do when we sleep? - Keep one eye on the sky.
- What do we do when we see him? - Dig hard, dig deep,
run for shelter and never look back.
Jared.
We're alive! We're in here!
Push!
Back away!
You were right.
I salvaged what I could from your armory.
We got one rifle,
two automatics, two crossbows and explosive heads.
You, me and Alex, down the coast in the chopper.
Stay tight to the cliffs.
The Thames will take us into the heart of London.
I know where he lives.
Magic hour.
You say that's when they're the weakest.
We'll see.
You're going home.
- Jared? - Yeah, Quinn?
You keep them safe.
This town's gone to hell.
They must have heard us coming.
- What's stopping them? - It's not us.
Either way, we got to get in there.
Come on. We're outnumbered hundreds to three.
They know the city from the sky down.
I know it from the bottom up.
If we get in quiet, I can sneak us into some tunnels.
That should get us close.
Good Christ.
Did it see us?
They must be starving. They're eating their own.
Oh, we're dead.
Look on the bright side.
Now we've got him outnumbered three to one.
Yup. You ready?
Quinn.
You lead, we follow.
There's an underground passage to the construction site!
Down there!
Clear.
Four tunnels meet here. Leads up to a square.
There used to be buildings. Good cover.
Shaft goes to the street, that's what we take.
Alex, gimme the sticks.
These are highly volatile heads. You fire them with the crossbow.
He knows we're here. Shit.
- How tall is that shaft? - 150 feet.
All right. Here's the plan.
We got to bring that bull's ass to the ground.
I'll take care of that.
One shot with this will kill him.
He only exposes his chest before he breathes fire.
These are magnesium-tipped arrows.
They only fly 50 feet, so you have to fire from the furnace.
So do not hesitate! If you do, we die.
He's playing hide and seek.
More like cat and mouse.
Quinn!
Use it!
He's heating it up.
I can't see a thing, Quinn.
What am I looking at?
A square, 100 meters across, a building right in the middle.
That chimney looks over it. What do you think?
I don't know yet.
Hey. You scared?
No.
It was your idea to come to London.
I thought I'd be at 3500 feet.
I thought I'd have over 200 men with me right now.
Life's got a funny way of turning out different, though.
- Yeah. - Yeah.
See that railcar? It'll give us a better view.
Move!
Drop your packs. Weapons only.
We'll have a window...
Ten, maybe 12 seconds every time he turns.
- We're going to use it. - How?
We're gonna split up.
We get hit together, we're gone. Got to use every angle.
Quinn, you take that west wall.
Don't lock and load till you get there, you got it?
Got you. What about you?
I got the north.
Alex, I need you to stay right here.
When Quinn and I move it'll draw him off. I doubt he can count.
Now, he's going to make another turn.
When he does, I'll say go.
- Run to that east wall. - It's water!
Keep it. You're going to need it.
Now, we have paid a terrible price.
And now... we got a chance to make a difference.
We will.
That's our first window. Quinn?
Move!
The arrows!
Alex!
In about eight seconds we're gonna have a window!
When I say go, run like hell to the base of this chimney!
Are you ready?
- Now, Alex! Go! - Run!
Run like the wind, baby!
Come on, big boy!
That's right.
- Quinn! - Alex!
Stop!
I'm fine.
- What are we going to do? - I lost the explosives.
We're going to find them.
Keep going! Go round the other side!
I'll slow it down!
It's not moving. It's waiting for us.
Quinn? By the truck.
The arrow.
By the wheel.
He always thought you could do it.
And you did.
Come on.
Quinn! It works! We got a signal! It works!
We got a signal!
- What's the problem? - They're speaking French.
Don't come to me. I'm lousy at French.
They want to speak to the person in charge.
Well, that'd be you, then.
Just keep them talking.
Get us a good bottle of wine or something.
- Go on now. - Thanks, Quinn.
Go on, all of you.
Well done!
You think it'll last?
I don't know.
It's been three months since we saw the last one.
If they come, they'll burn, we'll build.
Or maybe I'll just kill 'em.
I thought optimism was against your nature.
It's a recent development.
Here's to evolution.