Locked In The Stadium's Water Room (Day 1) | Zombie Outbreak: The Stadium Ep. 2 — Transcript

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1. 0:00The shutter stays shut.
2. 0:03>> [music]
3. 0:04>> On the other side, the bolt moves. Not
4. 0:07back, further in. Sam is still holding
5. 0:10your sleeve. Behind you, two figures are
6. 0:13crossing the yard. The first has one
7. 0:15sleeve hanging loose. They are walking
8. 0:17towards the door, towards the sound of
9. 0:20your hand on it. You stop knocking. Sam
10. 0:23looks back at the van. The cab locks.
11. 0:25The van is behind them. You turn him the
12. 0:28other way, along the wall of the stand.
13. 0:30"Where are we going?" "Somewhere with a
14. 0:32lock I've got a key for." He hops. You
15. 0:35take his weight on every second step.
16. 0:37His phone is in his other hand, the
17. 0:39screen still lit. You tell him to put it
18. 0:41on silent. He looks at it for a long
19. 0:43time. His mom has not called back. He
20. 0:46switches it to silent. Tonight, the
21. 0:48whole city is learning the same rule.
22. 0:51Noise is a dinner bell. Halfway along
23. 0:54the stand, there is a gray steel door
24. 0:56with no sign on it. Just a number.
25. 0:59Most people walk past it for years. You
26. 1:01have been inside it every week for six.
27. 1:04Behind you, feet scrape on the concrete.
28. 1:07Slow, but not stopping.
29. 1:09You lean Sam against the wall and find
30. 1:11the key on your ring. It sticks, the
31. 1:14same way the staff door did. You turn it
32. 1:16back. Try again. The lock gives. You
33. 1:19pull Sam through and shut the door with
34. 1:21your shoulder. The bolt is stiff. You
35. 1:24drive it home with the heel of your
36. 1:25hand. Then, you stand still in the dark
37. 1:28and listen.
38. 1:30Footsteps, closer.
39. 1:32Then, they stop outside. Something leans
40. 1:35against the door. The steel creaks once.
41. 1:39It stays there.
42. 1:43You find the light switch without
43. 1:44looking. The room hums. Two pumps side
44. 1:48by side, a control panel, pipes wider
45. 1:51than a bucket. Along the back wall
46. 1:53stands a big gray tank. Every tap in the
47. 1:56stadium starts in this room. Every
48. 1:59toilet, every drinking fountain.
49. 2:01>> [music]
50. 2:01>> The sprinklers and the pitch have their
51. 2:03own pipes. This tank is the one people
52. 2:05drink from. Sam lowers himself onto an
53. 2:08upturned crate. You kneel and unlace his
54. 2:10boot. He breathes in sharply when it
55. 2:13comes off. The ankle is swollen and
56. 2:15dark. You turn it gently under the
57. 2:17light. The skin is unbroken. No bite, no
58. 2:20scratch. You check twice anyway. So does
59. 2:23he. You help him down onto the floor.
60. 2:26His ankle is still swelling. You soak a
61. 2:28rag under the tank tap.
62. 2:30>> [music]
63. 2:30>> The water is cold. You wrap the rag
64. 2:32around the ankle and count 20 minutes on
65. 2:34Sam's phone. Then you strap it with tape
66. 2:36from the shelf so it cannot roll. Sam is
67. 2:39shivering. Not from the ankle. He is
68. 2:42lying on bare concrete and it is cold.
69. 2:45You flatten two cardboard boxes from the
70. 2:47shelf and slide them under him. The
71. 2:49blankets meant for the concourse are
72. 2:50still lying in the yard. You tell Sam to
73. 2:53put his phone in airplane mode. With no
74. 2:55signal, it keeps searching for a mast
75. 2:57and the searching eats the battery. Then
76. 3:00you count what you have. Two cereal bars
77. 3:02from your bag, a torch from the shelf,
78. 3:04Sam's phone 31%, two flattened boxes,
79. 3:08and a tap on the side of the tank. Sam
80. 3:10looks at the tank for a while. We've got
81. 3:12more water than anyone in the city. It
82. 3:15is supposed to be a joke. Neither of you
83. 3:17laughs.
84. 3:18There is a second door in the far wall.
85. 3:21It opens into the corridor behind the
86. 3:23stand. You try the handle. It does not
87. 3:26move. It is bolted on the other side.
88. 3:28Security keeps that side.
89. 3:30High in the wall, a ventilation grill
90. 3:32looks out onto the concourse. Through
91. 3:34it, you hear people. A child. Someone
92. 3:37coughing. And the loudspeaker. Please
93. 3:40move away from the entrance. Keep the
94. 3:42central passage clear. Sam listens with
95. 3:45his eyes shut. They're right there. You
96. 3:48sit down with your back against the
97. 3:50inner door. The thing outside is still
98. 3:52leaning on the other one.
99. 3:56The screaming starts at 1:00 in the
100. 3:58morning.
101. 3:59It comes through the concrete from the
102. 4:01front of the stadium.
103. 4:02Hundreds of voices at once.
104. 4:05Then the fence.
105. 4:06You know that sound. You move those
106. 4:08barriers all day.
107. 4:10Then shots, many.
108. 4:12Then fewer.
109. 4:14Sam is sitting up on the cardboard.
110. 4:16That's the fence.
111. 4:18Neither of you says what it means.
112. 4:20Outside your door, the leaning stops.
113. 4:22Feet scrape away along the service road
114. 4:25towards the noise.
115. 4:27On the other side of the grill, the
116. 4:28concourse has gone completely silent.
117. 4:31Thousands of people holding their
118. 4:33breath.
119. 4:34The loudspeaker says nothing at all.
120. 4:36>> [screaming]
121. 4:36>> By 2:00, there are no more shots. By
122. 4:39half past, there is no more screaming.
123. 4:44A light on the control panel wakes you.
124. 4:46>> [music]
125. 4:47>> Red, low pressure.
126. 4:49You know why before you stand up.
127. 4:51This room was built for a match, a crowd
128. 4:54for an afternoon, and then everybody
129. 4:55goes home.
130. 4:57Tonight, nobody is going home.
131. 4:59Every tap and every toilet inside is
132. 5:02running, and none of them stop. The tank
133. 5:04is emptying faster than the mains can
134. 5:06fill it. In a building this big, the
135. 5:08mains only fills the tank. The pumps do
136. 5:10the rest.
137. 5:12One pump stops, then the other. They cut
138. 5:14out on their own when the water runs
139. 5:16low, so they do not burn themselves out.
140. 5:18Through the grill, the concourse goes
141. 5:20quiet in a different way.
142. 5:22Somebody asks why the tap has stopped.
143. 5:24You wait for the tank to fill. You reset
144. 5:26the pumps. They start. [music]
145. 5:2920 minutes later, they stop again. You
146. 5:31reset them again.
147. 5:33Sam is awake now, watching you from the
148. 5:34floor.
149. 5:35Does anyone else know how to do that?
150. 5:38You think about the names your
151. 5:39supervisor crossed off, the electrician
152. 5:41who left.
153. 5:42Not tonight.
154. 5:44By 4:00, you have the rhythm of it. Let
155. 5:46the tank fill, start one pump, never
156. 5:49both. You do not sleep again.
157. 5:54Sam's phone lights up on the cardboard
158. 5:56beside him. No sound. A reminder.
159. 6:00He set it yesterday while you held up
160. 6:01nine fingers. Mom. Appointment. [music]
161. 6:05He reads it twice. He takes it out of
162. 6:07airplane mode and calls her. No signal.
163. 6:10He holds the phone up to the grill and
164. 6:11tries again. Nothing. 26%.
165. 6:15He puts it back in airplane mode and
166. 6:17turns it face down. You do not say
167. 6:19anything. There is nothing in this room
168. 6:21to say. Nothing has leaned on the outer
169. 6:23door since the night. You put your ear
170. 6:26to the steel. Nothing at all.
171. 6:30Beside the panel, a handset hangs on the
172. 6:33wall. A direct line to the control room.
173. 6:36You have used it twice in six years.
174. 6:38Both times to report a leak.
175. 6:41You lift it. A man answers with one
176. 6:43word. Control.
177. 6:45It is the voice from last night. The one
178. 6:47on the guard's radio.
179. 6:48>> [music]
180. 6:49>> You tell him who you are and where.
181. 6:51He asks who gave you that room. You tell
182. 6:54him nobody gave it to you. You maintain
183. 6:56it.
184. 6:57You tell him what happened at 3:00 and
185. 6:59at 20 past and every 20 minutes since.
186. 7:02Without somebody here, the taps inside
187. 7:05will stop by evening
188. 7:06>> [music]
189. 7:06>> and stay stopped.
190. 7:08The line goes quiet. You can hear him
191. 7:10breathing.
192. 7:11He says he will have the inner door
193. 7:13opened. Just you. You look at Sam. His
194. 7:16foot is still on the toolbox. He shakes
195. 7:18his head at you. Go. You tell control
196. 7:21the pumps will not be reset again until
197. 7:23that door opens for two.
198. 7:26Silence. Now I know what that room is
199. 7:28worth. The line goes dead.
200. 7:30Sam stares at you. Did you just threaten
201. 7:33the stadium? You hang the handset back
202. 7:36on the wall. Your hand is not steady.
203. 7:39You would never have let the taps stop.
204. 7:41The girl by the pillar drinks from this
205. 7:43room, but he does not know that. 10
206. 7:45minutes later, the bolt slides on the
207. 7:47far side of the inner door. It opens.
208. 7:50The guard from the staff door stands in
209. 7:52the corridor. Gray [music] cap, radio on
210. 7:54his chest. He does not look at you. He
211. 7:57looks at Sam's ankle. Then, he takes
212. 7:59Sam's other arm. Together, you carry him
213. 8:02through. Nobody mentions last night.
214. 8:07They take Sam to first aid. A nurse
215. 8:10raises his foot on a pillow and gives
216. 8:11him an ice pack wrapped in a towel. He
217. 8:14holds up his phone to you from the bed.
218. 8:16Still no signal.
219. 8:18On the concourse, there is no floor left
220. 8:20to sit on. The father and the little
221. 8:22girl are still by the pillar. She has a
222. 8:24sock on now. It is far too big. It is
223. 8:27not hers.
224. 8:28The volunteers names sheet has become a
225. 8:30clipboard. She is on the fourth page.
226. 8:33You go to the public doors. People walk
227. 8:35past them, look once, and do not look
228. 8:37again.
229. 8:38The fence is down along one side of the
230. 8:40forecourt. The admission gate is still
231. 8:42chained. It held.
232. 8:44The people who were pressed against it
233. 8:45last night are still there. They lie
234. 8:48against the mesh in their coats and
235. 8:49night clothes where the crowd pushed
236. 8:51them. Somewhere under them is the man
237. 8:53with the photograph.
238. 8:55Three figures walk between the bodies,
239. 8:57slowly. Now and then, one of them stops.
240. 9:00The soldiers are inside now, behind the
241. 9:02glass. Someone has taped a sign to the
242. 9:04doors, facing out. Emergency shelter.
243. 9:08There is nobody outside left to read it.
244. 9:10Nobody is coming in today. Nobody is
245. 9:12asking to.
246. 9:14You turn back to the concourse, and you
247. 9:15think about the tank. Aid agencies plan
248. 9:18on 15 L of water for each person every
249. 9:21day. One toilet for every 20 people. You
250. 9:24try to count the people on the concourse
251. 9:26floor. You give up at the windows.
252. 9:28Your supervisor finds you by the pillar.
253. 9:31She hands you a padlock and a single key
254. 9:33on a ring. The plant room stays locked
255. 9:35from now on, Controls orders. One key,
256. 9:38yours. Don't lose it, she says, and
257. 9:41don't go home.
258. 9:45You go back down to check the pumps. The
259. 9:47tank is full. Both pumps are quiet.
260. 9:50Every light on the panel is green.
261. 9:53You padlock the inner door behind you
262. 9:54and turn to go.
263. 9:56Two men are waiting in the corridor.
264. 9:58Navy caps, staff, like you. You know
265. 10:01their faces from the canteen. You have
266. 10:03never learned their names.
267. 10:04One of them holds out his hand. Control
268. 10:06says we share it. You tell him control
269. 10:09can ask you himself. He does not answer.
270. 10:12He looks past you towards the stairs.
271. 10:14Footsteps on the stairs. Four more come
272. 10:17down. Then they stand behind the first
273. 10:19two and wait. Six navy caps. Nobody is
274. 10:23holding anything. Nobody needs to.
275. 10:25Then they step aside for someone. He is
276. 10:27not dressed like maintenance. A plain
277. 10:30dark jacket, a radio at his collar.
278. 10:32One of the men takes a cap from a box of
279. 10:34new stock and hands it to him. He puts
280. 10:36it on. Navy, like yours.
281. 10:39He looks at the key, then at you. He
282. 10:42lifts the radio to his mouth.
283. 10:43>> Plant room. I'm here now.
284. 10:46>> The words come out of the guard's radio
285. 10:47at the far end of the corridor.
286. 10:49You know the voice. The handset this
287. 10:51morning. The guard's radio last night.
288. 10:54>> No further admissions. That includes
289. 10:57staff.
290. 10:58>> At the far end of the corridor, the
291. 11:00guard turns and walks away. He holds out
292. 11:02his hand for the key. You don't move.
293. 11:06Then he asks how Sam's ankle is. He
294. 11:08knows Sam's name. You never told him.
295. 11:12>> First aid. Somebody's turned.
296. 11:14>> Someone from last night's crowd came in
297. 11:16with a bite. Sam is in first aid. He
298. 11:19can't walk. The man in the navy cap
299. 11:21doesn't even look at his radio.
300. 11:24Give me the key, he says, and my men
301. 11:26will go with you.