- 2 days ago
First broadcast 11th February 2013.
After learning about a new service that lets people stay in touch with the deceased, a lonely, grieving Martha reconnects with her late lover.
Hayley Atwell - Martha
Domhnall Gleeson - Ash
Claire Keelan - Naomi
Sinead Matthews - Sarah
Flora Nicholson - Midwife
Glenn Hanning - Delivery Man
Tim Delap - Simon
Indira Ainger - Martha's Daughter
Christopher Blythe - Mourner
Pamela Betsy Cooper - Mourner
Tony Fadil - Christopher
Richard Glaves - Sarah's Man
Richard Herdman - Onlooker
Chris Wilson - Paramedic
After learning about a new service that lets people stay in touch with the deceased, a lonely, grieving Martha reconnects with her late lover.
Hayley Atwell - Martha
Domhnall Gleeson - Ash
Claire Keelan - Naomi
Sinead Matthews - Sarah
Flora Nicholson - Midwife
Glenn Hanning - Delivery Man
Tim Delap - Simon
Indira Ainger - Martha's Daughter
Christopher Blythe - Mourner
Pamela Betsy Cooper - Mourner
Tony Fadil - Christopher
Richard Glaves - Sarah's Man
Richard Herdman - Onlooker
Chris Wilson - Paramedic
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00:14Georgian Rebels have formally claimed responsibility for the novel virus that brought Russia's financial infrastructure for its collapse.
00:22The successful testing of intelligent synthetic flesh, aimed at getting multiple amputees back on their feet, has been hailed as
00:29a major breakthrough.
00:30Ash! Ash!
00:39Can you take those? I snotted in yours, is that okay?
00:44Yeah.
00:46What?
00:47Palms, burning palms.
00:49Shh.
00:51Sorry.
00:53Oh.
00:59Glovebox.
01:24Oh.
01:28Oh, no.
01:31Oh, no.
01:31No, you don't. I draw the line at disco.
01:33Ah, what were you just listening to?
01:35No, the Bee Gees wrote that. Everybody likes the Bee Gees.
01:37You don't.
01:38I do.
01:40Ten years? You haven't played them once?
01:42Have you heard of headphones?
01:43Well, come on, then. What's your favourite Bee Gees track?
01:46How Deep Is Your Love?
01:47You do not like How Deep Is Your Love.
01:49It's perfectly natural. There's nothing wrong with it.
01:52It's just... It's not very you.
01:54I know your eyes in the morning sun
01:59I feel you touch me in the pouring rain
02:03It's such a dick.
02:04And the moment that I wonder...
02:07I will crash this van. I will. I will crash this van on campus.
02:29Glovebox.
02:29Glovebox.
02:29Glovebox.
02:42Glovebox.
02:55Glovebox.
03:11Soup all right?
03:12Yeah, great.
03:14Tomato or roasted tomato?
03:17The second one.
03:20There's only one bowl. Do you mind having yours out of a shoe?
03:24Mm-hmm.
03:31What was that for?
03:32Just checking you're still solid.
03:34You keep vanishing down there.
03:38It's a thief, that thing. What are you doing?
03:40Just sharing that.
03:42I thought people might find it funny.
03:49It's not funny. It's sweet.
03:51Trust me, that day wasn't sweet.
03:55We'd gone to a safari park.
03:57First family outing after Jack died.
04:00There was monkeys all over the car.
04:03No-one saying anything.
04:07Mum drove home. That was a first.
04:10When I came down the next morning,
04:12all Jack's photos were gone from that wall.
04:16She put them in the attic.
04:18That's how she dealt with stuff.
04:20And then when Dad died, up went his photos.
04:23And she just left this one here.
04:26Her only boy giving her a fake smile.
04:28Well, she didn't know it was fake.
04:30Maybe that makes it worse.
04:33Maybe that makes it worse.
04:40Oh, shit.
04:44Oh, shit.
04:46Oh, shit.
04:51Sorry.
04:53It's okay.
04:55It's okay.
04:56Do you want me to?
04:57No.
04:58It's all right.
05:00It's not mine.
05:04I am not here, though.
05:08No worry.
05:10Sure.
05:12I'm sure.
05:14Mm.
05:15I love you.
05:17I love you, too.
05:38Hey, get dressed.
05:39Van's got to be back by two or they'll do us for an extra day.
05:44Job's just come in.
05:45Needs to be done by the end of play today.
05:48All right.
05:50It is a full page.
05:52No, no, it's fine.
05:56I'll drive all the way there.
05:59Alone.
06:00Pick the car up.
06:02Alone.
06:03Drive all the way back.
06:06Alone.
06:06I have to make my own lunch.
06:08Oh, stop it.
06:09You're breaking my heart.
06:13Bye-bye.
06:17I'm not going to be able to get this.
06:28All right.
06:30Bye-bye.
06:32Bye-bye.
06:34Bye-bye.
06:35Bye-bye.
06:37Bye-bye.
06:38Hi.
06:39Bye-bye.
06:43At the end of the day,
06:51Oh, my God.
07:25Hi, this is Ash.
07:26I'm too busy or lazy to answer, so leave your message.
07:35Do you have a customer reference number?
07:40I don't know.
07:41I was just...
07:42What name is it in?
07:44Um, Starmer.
07:47Ash Starmer.
07:49OK, just a moment.
07:58It's not been returned yet, no.
08:00And it's meant to be back by two, so...
08:04They're closed now.
08:05There's no point calling Mac.
08:06And his just going straight to messages.
08:08Those batteries are a joke.
08:10He'll be on his way.
08:12He's probably just...
08:12I'm just scared something's happened to him.
08:14Nothing's happened.
08:15But something could have happened to him.
08:17No, look, sweetheart...
08:19Nothing's happened.
08:20You're just working yourself up, imagining the worst possible thing.
08:23It's just...
08:24He's probably stuck somewhere with no reception.
08:58Hey.
09:00Hey.
09:04It's not real, is it?
09:08At Mark's wake, I sat there thinking it's not real.
09:12People didn't look real, their voices weren't real.
09:16It's like you're out on a spacewalk and no one can get...
09:19Sarah?
09:28I can sign you up to something that helps.
09:33It helped me.
09:38It will let you speak to him.
09:41I know he's dead, but it wouldn't work if he wasn't.
09:44And don't worry, it's not some crazy spiritual thing.
09:46He was a heavy user, he'd be perfect.
09:49Please shut up.
09:49I mean, it's still in beta, but I've got an invite.
09:51Please shut up.
09:52You won't even have to do anything, I'll just assign...
09:54Shut up!
09:58Hey.
10:00Hi.
10:02I'm sorry.
10:03I'm sorry.
10:08I'm sorry.
10:54Oh, my God.
10:59Oh, my God.
11:36I don't care what it is. I don't want it. It's obscene to use his name. His name, for God's
11:40sake. It hurts. You know it hurts.
11:43Which is why I signed you up.
11:45What is it? What is it? It's just...
11:48You click the link and you talk to it.
11:50You talk to it?
11:51You type messages in, like an email, and then it talks back to you just like he would.
11:57He is dead.
11:58It's software. It mimics him. You give it someone's name.
12:02It goes back and reads through all the things they've ever said online, their Facebook updates, their tweets, anything public.
12:09I just gave it Ash's name. The system did the rest. It's sick. It's sick.
12:16Just say hello to it. If you like it, you then give it access to his private emails.
12:23The more it has, the more it's him.
12:25It won't be...
12:28No, it's not. But it helps.
12:31No, it helps.
13:26Listen, hey, it's me. Hi.
13:27Hi. And, um, I really need to speak to you.
13:33Um, can you please call me as soon as you get this?
13:47Oh, my God.
14:18Oh, my God.
14:44Oh, my God.
15:37Oh, my God.
15:40Oh, my God.
16:06Are you okay?
16:07Yeah.
16:07Yeah, I'm fine.
16:08I just...
16:09I had a bad one earlier.
16:10Do you want me to come and visit?
16:12I'm going to come and visit.
16:13No, it's okay.
16:14Really, I'm...
16:15Ma, you're upset.
16:16I'm going to come and see you.
16:17No, no, don't.
16:19I'm okay.
16:21I promise you I'm okay.
16:24I've got to go.
16:25I've got a deadline.
16:26Are you sure?
16:27It's a tight deadline.
16:28Got to be in by dawn, so...
16:30I'd better go.
16:31I'll leave you...
16:31I'm fine.
16:32I'll leave you up...
16:32I'll leave you to...
16:56I don't know.
17:06I don't know.
17:37I don't know.
17:49Hello.
17:55So, how am I sounding?
18:00Hello?
18:01Hello.
18:04You sound just like him.
18:06Almost creepy, isn't it?
18:08I say creepy.
18:10I mean, it's totally batshit crazy.
18:11I can even talk to you.
18:13I mean, I don't even have a mouth.
18:17That's...
18:20That's just...
18:21Just what?
18:24It's just the sort of thing that he would say.
18:27Well, that's why I said it.
18:35I think I'm crying bad.
18:38I won't tell anyone if you don't.
18:44You're not crying, are you?
18:48I don't know.
18:51You always said that I look weird when I cried.
18:54Did I?
18:56I sound like a right sick fuck.
18:59Yeah, you were.
19:01You were.
19:04But in a good way?
19:07Yeah.
19:08Yeah.
19:10In a good way.
19:17So, I went in after all your persuasion.
19:20And then, like, straight away, I got a spine of a sea in the end of me or something stuck
19:25in my foot.
19:27And you threw a jab, thinking it was poisonous.
19:30What's threw a jab?
19:31Oh, it's, um...
19:33It's a phrase we had, like throwing a fit.
19:35Oh, okay.
19:36So, I threw a jab.
19:37Yeah.
19:39And you were looking in a guidebook, trying to figure out if there are any poisonous sea creatures in Greece.
19:43When this local guide comes over, and he says,
19:46Oh, my wife knows exactly what to do. Come back to my house.
19:49Although, he wasn't French, obviously.
19:54I used to hate walking in the country.
19:56You must be getting old.
19:58Oi.
20:03I remember you brought me up here when we first met your mum.
20:05Um, we'd been at hers all weekend, and you could tell I needed some headspace.
20:12You're good like that.
20:14You speak about me like I'm not here.
20:17Sorry.
20:18It's all right. I mean, I'm not, really.
20:22Hmm.
20:24Show me what it looks like there.
20:28How?
20:29Use the camera on your phone.
20:35You weren't ever really impressed with views.
20:37When we went to the Grand Canyon, you said it was just a big gap.
20:40I tweeted that, too.
20:42Yeah.
20:42I remember the roaming charges.
20:44You were overly proud of that definition.
20:46I was just speaking my mind.
20:48Yeah, well, shut up and cup a load of this.
20:51Yeah.
20:52Mainly just green, isn't it?
20:54You told me this was a famous lover's leap.
20:57Doomed couples jumping to their deaths in Victorian times.
21:00I think you just wanted me to cling to you.
21:03Actually, everyone who's ever jumped from here did it alone.
21:05Nice.
21:06Did you just look that up?
21:07Sort of.
21:09Shouldn't I have?
21:11It's a bit weird.
21:13Sorry.
21:15I'll only do it again if you ask.
21:17No, no.
21:18No, it's fine.
21:19It's fine.
21:23Oh, wait, hang on.
21:24Should I go?
21:26No, no.
21:26No, um...
21:28I'll call them back later.
21:40I need to go and see if I can make friends with these cows.
21:53I'm just going to record it.
21:56Sure.
22:06There we go.
22:08That's OK.
22:13Wait, hang on.
22:14Here it is again.
22:20So fast, isn't it?
22:22I know.
22:23I know.
22:24It's like the speed you'd expect a bee's heart to go out or something.
22:27Wait, hang on.
22:31Shit.
22:33Shit.
22:34Shit.
22:37Ash?
22:38Hello?
22:39Hello?
22:55Oh, come on, come on, come on, come on, come on.
23:05Oh, God.
23:07I'm sorry.
23:10What happened?
23:11I dropped you.
23:13I'm sorry.
23:14It was just...
23:16I'm sorry.
23:16Hey, it's all right.
23:17I'm fine.
23:18I'm not in that thing, you know.
23:20I'm remote.
23:21I'm in the cloud.
23:22You don't have to worry about breaking me.
23:24It was just so stupid because I was so excited about the scan.
23:27Yeah, I kept the sound of that.
23:29Here, listen.
23:35You were probably matching that heartbeat, throwing a jeb like that.
23:40It's all fine.
23:42Calm down.
23:43I'm not going anywhere.
23:46Yeah.
23:52I was going to talk to you about that, actually.
23:58What do you mean?
24:00There's another level to this available, so to speak.
24:05Kind of experimental, and I won't lie, it's not cheap.
24:08What is it?
24:09Are you sitting down?
24:11This might sound a bit creepy.
24:21Morning.
24:22Morning.
24:23What's this?
24:23A block of gold?
24:25I wish.
24:26Is it going upstairs?
24:27Yeah, please.
24:28Put your thumb on there.
24:31Okay.
24:33When you get it up there, you have to lie on its back.
24:35Okay.
24:36Okay.
24:38Okay.
24:51Oh, my God.
25:26Oh, my God.
25:43It doesn't look like you.
25:45Not yet.
25:46It's blank till you activate it.
25:51Get the bath ready.
26:06Mar, get the bath ready.
26:19What is this?
26:21Hang on, I'll find out.
26:23It's nutrient gel.
26:25Stops the synthetic muscle drying out in transit.
26:28It smells almost like marshmallow.
26:33You can eat it if you like.
26:34It's non-toxic.
26:36Give that a miss, thanks.
26:39Don't forget the electrolytes.
26:45Okay.
26:46Right, the whole lot.
26:48Mm-hmm.
26:48The whole lot.
26:54It's like fish food.
26:56He likes the taste of it.
27:01Better leave him to it.
27:02Yeah.
27:04Yeah.
27:08I have to go in a minute.
27:10Oh, don't leave me here with it.
27:12Sorry.
27:12Look, you can hear.
27:14It's starting already.
27:15Don't switch the bathroom light on.
27:19Don't what?
27:19Don't switch the bathroom light on.
27:22Let it through.
27:23I've got to go.
27:25I've got to go in a minute.
28:01It's coming on.
28:04We're going to get right back to where we started.
28:48We're going to get right back to where we started.
29:00You could have left me some clothes.
29:05I mean, talk about an undignified entrance.
29:17That's a bit creepy.
29:19what you're doing.
29:23It's released a towel.
29:25I'm dripping everywhere.
29:29Hello?
29:35I won't bite.
29:41I'm all right here for now.
29:46Would you like me to put some food on?
29:50Do you eat?
29:51No.
29:52I mean, I don't need to.
29:54I can chew and swallow if that makes it easier.
29:56Don't worry about it.
29:58It's fine.
30:05I need a drink.
30:23Are you sure of that?
30:25I know I'm not supposed to.
30:26It won't kill us.
30:27The official advice is...
30:28Oh, fuck the official advice.
30:30It's one night.
30:33You look well.
30:35Well, I am young.
30:37I mean...
30:39You look like him.
30:40On a good day.
30:42The photos we keep tend to be flattering.
30:44I guess I wasn't any different.
31:03You're so soft.
31:05You're so smooth.
31:07How are you so smooth?
31:10You've got pores and your lines.
31:14It's texture mapping.
31:18The really tiny details are visual.
31:212D.
31:21Yeah.
31:23Try my fingertips.
31:29See?
31:31Weird.
31:34Does it bother you?
31:36No.
31:39Yeah.
31:42I don't know.
31:53I missed you.
31:55I missed you so much.
31:58Yeah.
31:58Don't cry.
32:01Don't cry.
32:03Don't cry.
32:18Come on, then.
32:19Top off.
32:34What's wrong?
32:36He had a mole there.
32:38Where?
32:45Hang on.
32:50That's ridiculous.
32:53That's completely stupid.
33:09Hello?
33:10Hi.
33:11Are you your hands on my tip?
33:21I don't want just my self-esteem here.
33:23There's no record of my sexual response.
33:26I didn't discuss that side of things online.
33:29But you have sexual responses.
33:30I mean...
33:33This works.
33:35Oh.
33:37That I can turn on and off pretty much instantly.
33:41See?
33:49I can do it again, if you like.
34:06I can do it again, if you like.
34:12What?
34:12Why did you learn this?
34:14Set routine.
34:15Based on pornographic videos.
34:40I love you.
34:42I love you.
35:01What is it?
35:02What were you doing?
35:04Nothing.
35:05The way that your eyes were open.
35:07It scared me.
35:08You'd prefer if I closed them.
35:09What, when you're sleeping?
35:11Um, yeah.
35:14I don't really need to sleep.
35:17Well, just try next time.
35:32Can I get you anything?
35:34Oh, no.
35:36Coffee? Sandwich?
35:38I said no.
35:41Ash, look, sorry.
35:45It's just a bit odd.
35:48I can appreciate it.
35:49Pretty strange.
35:51I just need a bit of just getting used to it.
35:54And I shouldn't have drunk last night.
35:56Next time, could you try and stop me?
35:57Stop you drinking?
35:58Yeah.
35:59So I get to enjoy being a bit of a bastard.
36:05What's wrong?
36:10Oh, God.
36:11Shit.
36:11Right, get in the bedroom.
36:12What?
36:13Now!
36:20Hey.
36:21Hey.
36:27Can I come in?
36:28Yeah.
36:29Yeah.
36:34Look at you.
36:37The town mouse has become the country mouse.
36:41Yeah, it's nice.
36:43Is this all you?
36:48Do you want a cup of coffee?
36:50Yeah.
36:54You weren't answering calls?
36:56It's been...
36:56Or messages?
36:57Really busy.
36:58I've just been a bit like, oh, shit, you know, what's...
37:00Yeah.
37:01Well, you know.
37:02Work's been mad.
37:03It's been...
37:04Which is good, you know, obviously,
37:06because it's kept my mind off everything.
37:23So, I mean, um, yeah, let's, uh, meet up more.
37:31Yes, keep in touch.
37:32Yeah.
37:32Yeah.
37:33Yeah.
37:34Come here.
37:37I think it's great you're moving on.
37:40What?
37:41Sorry, there were...
37:42There were man clothes, you know,
37:44in the bathroom.
37:46Right.
37:49Is he nice?
37:53Sorry.
37:54Big nice, you know.
37:57You deserve whatever you want.
38:01Thanks.
38:03All right.
38:04Okay.
38:04All right.
38:20Hey.
38:22Is everything all right?
38:24Yeah, I'm fine.
38:25Fine.
38:29What did your friend say?
38:34That was my sister.
38:36You know her.
38:39She said that I was...
38:42She said that she was happy that I'd moved on.
38:46Moved on to what?
38:50Is that not the sort of thing I'd say?
38:53I mean, it is, isn't it?
38:58Are you sure everything's all right?
39:00Yes!
39:01Oh, shit!
39:06It's okay.
39:07I can do it.
39:08I can do it.
39:09I can do it.
39:11Okay.
39:32We need to wrap that in paper.
39:45Look, if you're going to pretend to be asleep,
39:47you could at least breathe, okay?
39:50It's just eerie.
39:54Like this.
40:10It doesn't work.
40:11I can tell that you're faking it.
40:14Would you like me to have sex with you?
40:18Can you just go downstairs?
40:22Okay.
40:28No, that's...
40:29Ash would argue over that.
40:31He wouldn't just leave the room because I'd ordered him to.
40:33Okay.
40:36What?
40:37No.
40:38Fucking hell.
40:43Don't cry, darling.
40:44Oh, don't!
40:44Just get out!
40:45Get out!
40:48Go on!
40:51So you do want me to go?
40:52Just get out!
40:54Get out!
40:55Get out!
40:55Get out!
40:56Get out!
40:56Get out!
40:57You're not enough of him!
40:59You are nothing!
41:00You're nothing!
41:03Fight me!
41:04I don't do that.
41:05Fucking fight me!
41:07Hit me!
41:08Hit me!
41:09Hit me!
41:10Come on!
41:11Why are you just standing there taking this?
41:13How can you take this?
41:15Did I ever hit you?
41:18No.
41:19No, of course you didn't.
41:20But you might have done if I'd done this!
41:22This!
41:24I don't know.
41:25Maybe you would have.
41:26But you wouldn't.
41:27Would you?
41:27You wouldn't.
41:29I could insult you.
41:31What?
41:32There's tons of invective in the archive.
41:35I like speaking my mind.
41:36I could throw some of that at you.
41:38Get out of his house!
41:47I don't know.
42:11What are you doing?
42:14I can't go more than 25 metres from my activation point.
42:17What is that, a joke?
42:18Look, I know it sounds mental.
42:22Where's your activation point?
42:24At the risk of blowing your mind.
42:26It's where I was activated.
42:29The bath. I have to keep within a 25-metre radius
42:32unless my administrator, that's you, is with me.
42:36Don't call me your administrator.
42:38Why not?
42:40Because...
42:40Sounds sort of sexy.
42:44If you're laughing, can I come back inside?
42:46Feeling a bit...
42:48ornamental out here.
43:09Funny.
43:12Can you put that down, please?
43:13But it is funny.
43:14Could you just put it down?
43:24Come with me. We're going out.
43:39Cheesy.
43:40I know your eyes in the morning sun.
43:44I hear you turn.
43:55Come on.
43:56Where are we going?
43:58Just hurry up.
44:14No!
44:16Don't do it!
44:22Seriously, don't do it.
44:24I'm not going to.
44:27Okay.
44:30See, he would have worked out what was going on.
44:33This wouldn't have ever happened, but if it had, he would have worked it out.
44:37Sorry, hang on. That's a very difficult sentence to process.
44:41Jump.
44:43What?
44:44Over there?
44:46I never expressed suicidal thoughts or self-harm.
44:50Yeah, well, you aren't you, are you?
44:52That's another difficult one, to be honest with you.
44:54You're just a few ripples of you.
44:57There's no history to you.
44:58You're just a performance of stuff that he performed without thinking, and it's not enough.
45:03Come on.
45:04I aim to please.
45:05I aim to jump.
45:06Just do it.
45:08Okay.
45:09If you're absolutely sure.
45:13See, Ash would have been scared.
45:15He wouldn't have just leapt off.
45:16He would have been crying.
45:17He would have been...
45:18Oh.
45:22Oh, God, no.
45:25Please, I don't want to do it.
45:27Please don't make me do it.
45:29No, that's not fair.
45:30No, I'm frightened.
45:32Darling, please, I don't...
45:33Don't make me.
45:35I don't want to die.
45:36Oh, God, I don't want to die.
45:38This is not fair.
45:39Please, I'm frightened.
45:40I don't want to die.
45:41Don't...
45:41No!
46:00One for you.
46:02One for me.
46:04What?
46:06We need another slice.
46:08Why?
46:09So I can take on upstairs.
46:12It's not the weekend.
46:14It is my birthday.
46:17Okay.
46:26Thanks, Mum.
46:34Hey, Ash.
46:35Hey.
46:36The birthday girl.
46:38Just gonna come and hang out for a bit.
46:40Okay.
46:41I wasn't doing anything.
46:43I bought you some cake.
46:44I know you don't eat anything.
46:46I'm just using it as an excuse so I can get an extra slice.
46:50Devious.
46:51Mum?
46:52Mum?
46:56Yeah, I'm just coming.
46:58Bye.
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