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POLICEMAN: Right. Stay by my side.

JOURNALIST:
What's your relationship with Stephen Baxter?

Do you think he¡¯s a fraud?

Come on. Coming through.
Let us through. Stand back

POLlCEWOMAN: Please keep back.

Come on. Coming through.
Let us through. Stand back

WOMAN: Judith, what's going to happen
tomorrow? Can you tell us?

(Shouting)

REPORTER:
Baxter is being kept here for his own safety

It's just one more day until Baxter's deadline

The Third Testament has been promised
for tomorrow, and after that, who knows?

Right, let's get them inside, come on.

(Phone rings)

Hiya.

You're on TV. Every single channel,
I can see you now!

Right now, it's like you're on Big Brother.

Move along, come on.

It¡¯s like worship.
People are mad, they¡¯ve just gone mad.

It says on the news
no-one can get into Manchester.

There¡¯s a queue on the M6 going back 60 miles.

They're calling us the new Mecca.

Pete said they're charging double in some of
the shops. People are going to make a fortune.

How are you! Hey, hey!

Judith! It's me!

Remember me?

It's Johnny!

Get inside. Thank you.

I've got to go. Big Brother's calling.

Hey, I know her!

I've met her. It's Judith Roach
We went on a date

I like Pete!

- I love him!
- I love Judith!

That could've been you, Steve said.
You could have gone.

- We'd have made a fortune.
- Don't.

- Don¡¯t what?
- Take his name in vain.

There he is now!

TV: We think it¡¯s him.

(Cheering outside)

(Wild cheering)

(Crowd react ecstatically)

(Chanting) Steve! Steve! Steve!

(Wild cheering)

You big ponce.

Open your mouth and show them your fillings

How divine is that - fillings?

Is this it, then? It's bloody freezing.

Not exactly paradise.
Don't they know who you are?

First things first. Where's the beers?

I got a crate in. It's with all the stuff.
Come and see it.

Hey, I'm going worldwide.

Look at it. Fantastic.

What do you think?.

They can't let me out of the building
so I'm broadcasting from here tomorrow.

Who's paying for all this?

LEN: You and me. The taxpayer.

As soon as the Third Testament arrives,

it's beamed out - satellite, analogue, digital.

It's going everywhere.

Not quite.
Only to those who'll take it.

Everybody'll get this broadcast. Everybody.

I warn you, if you force it on people, some
countries will consider that an invasion.

They'll get it, Len. Don't worry about it.

He starts a revolution and says,
"Don't worry about it."

Right. We've allocated you some rooms
if you want to unpack.

It¡¯s all a bit makeshift. Blame him for that.

And you, work to do. Come on.

At precisely 11 : 41, the pub was devastated
by an explosion

the source of which has yet too be confirmed

Stephen Baxter was inside with the people
now being called the New Disciples -

Judith Roach, Peter Gupta and Francis Baxter

And yet, as the smoke cleared, all were seen
too walk out of the building unharmed

This is now being called
Baxter's Second Miracle

The Disciples were sitting less than two metres
away from the point of detonation

And the explosion damaged the walls
the furniture, the roof..

You start over there and I'll start over here.

- There's millions of them. I can't do it.
- You start over there and I'll start over here.

And I'll meet you in the middle, OK?.

Nutter.

Nutter. Nutter...

This man says if you sorted out
the one-way system in Oxford

the world would be a much better place.

So there.

PETE: This woman¡¯s sent a photo.

- If her husband could see this...
- Just keep going.

This is a novel.
How am I supposed to read all this?

FRANK:. "England for the English

Kick out the Blacks
and the Asians and the refugees.

Burn the gays and the Jews
Burn them in a pit and salt the earth."

What if they're right?

Half of these are death threats.

Well, that's a waste of time

- He's been blown up and that didn't work
STEVE: I can die.

Steve, mate, we've seen it.

I can die.

I wouldn¡¯t be human if I couldn¡¯t die.

How do you know?

I just...

PETE: Do know when or how?

Dunno.

When it's time, I suppose.
Sort of thing nobody should know.

JUDlTH: "Dunno, dunno. Don¡¯t ask me. I dunno."

"l dunno. I don¡¯t know."

Ask a simple question, and it's, "l dunno."

- I don't know.
- Yeah. I know, that's all you ever say

"Do you want a cup of tea? "
"Well, I dunno."

STEVE: I know more things than you¡¯ll ever see

JUDlTH: Ouch, big boy!

Give us a straight answer. Never mind this stuff

What happens the day after tomorrow?

Because the Third Testament doesn¡¯t exist

Even if it does, it isn't here.

And even if it's here, we can't find it.

And even if we find it, we won't believe it.

So what happens then?

- Do you want to know?
- Yes. What if it fails?

If there¡¯s no Third Testament. Tell me that.

I can! I can find out.

Then do it.

What did you see?

Nothing.

There you go.

No. I saw nothing

That's what I saw. There's nothing there.

Nothing exists.

Darkness.

Like...the end of the world?

Steve?

Judgment Day.

If there's no Third Testament

then it's Day.

Tomorrow.

Tomorrow night.

Bollocks.

Armageddon.

I saw it.

Death.

Stop recording.

I¡¯ll have the tape.

Sir.

Are you still worried about safety?

We've got maximum security
It's as safe as it can be

Every single person inside
has been checked and vetted

No-one without clearance
can get anywhere near Mr. Baxter

And presumably Mr. Baxter can't get out?

No. No, he can't

Night-night. Sleep tight.

(Drops keys)

It¡¯s a raid!

Very funny.

You want some of this?

Keep it. You need it. I got you some more.

I was going to get you a T-shirt.

They're selling them outside.

Frank's Shooting Blanks.

That's what it says!

T-shirts! Kids wearing them.

Kids.

It's like public humiliation.
I don't know how you can take it.

I¡¯ve had worse.

I've had a wife go mad
ten years into the marriage.

I got stuck with Steve
while she went off on her wanderings.

How's she mad, then?

Got religion.

So you bring Steve up all on your own
and he's not even your son.

Take him to Blackpool.

Wipe his arse and tell him off.

Find himob and pay his rent.

Not your son.

You were just a baby-sitter.

If my child did that to me...

She's only six, my daughter.

Beautiful little thing.

Oh, Frank, you should see her.

The way she looks at you sometimes.

Beautiful.

And we're still taking calls from..

Hold on.

We're going back to the newsroooom
for a newsflash

This is coming live from London

STEVE: If there's no Third Testament
then it's Judgment Day

- They've taped us.
- Tomorrow

Tomorrow night

Armageddon

Death

STEVE ON TV:
WOMAN: It's on every channel

STEVE: Death

Armageddon

Death

Jackson, outside. Harvey, outside.

Harris, Phillips, Riker, get out there!

Whitehall's on the phone, sir!

- How the hell did they get that footage?
- I don't know.

To repeat,
Stephen Baxter has declared Judgment Day.

We're going to central now

This is being broadcast live from Oxford Street

Just 20 minutes after the release
of Baxter's Judgment Day tape

the Metropolitan Police have called in the army

.. no-go areas That's

London, Manchester, Glasgow, Edinburgh..

..stay calm

And it's a message that's being repeated
across the world

Already there have been riots centred around

the British embassies in Tehran, Cairo
New Delhi, Buenos Aires, even Wellington

Some are calling Stephen Baxter a blasphemer
if not a warmonger

Police are asking people too stay at home
to stay calm

Already there are reports of congestion

There is a report

of a riot taking place

on the M25 itself

A statement from the Office
declares that Baxter

is expressing an opinion and only an

A demonstration outside Downing Street
is demanding Baxter's arrest

.. further unrest and violence

Stay calm

That's the message for tonight Stay calm

JUDlTH: This is your fault
Get out there and stop them

STEVE: I can't!
JUDlTH: Why not?

STEVE: First you don¡¯t believe in me
then you want me to be God right here

JUDlTH: You won¡¯t help anyone
What sort of God is that?

You want one thing, then something else.
I can't do it all!

- Then don't play God!
- I'm making the best of this.

And all I get is you like that, like that.

What are you going to do to me?
Shut me up, like that?

Go on, shut me up! Do that!

- And what if I do?
- Go on, then!

(Distant explosions and shattering glass)

Policeman: Round here.

Anything we can do?

Yeah, stay inside. We can't let anyone out.

LEN: What's Steve doing?
PETE: He's upstairs.

PETE: What's it like out there?
LEN: It's turning into a full-scale riot.

End of the world
and we've got the Messiah upstairs.

Jackson, just do it! Finch, outside!

Are we safe? Can they get inside?

They're not the danger. He is.

Him upstairs.

You've seen him, Frank. He's going insane.

Someone's got to do something.

Someone's got to stop this.

We've got a long night ahead of us.
Better take the lot.

(Laughs maniacally)

But throughout this emergency broadcast

again we repeat that essential advice
from Downing Street - stay calm

I was friends with Trisha Blake.
We stole this stuff.

Shoplifting. We were kids.

Snoopy notepads. Snoopy and Charlie Brown.

- I'll be off, then.

- You can't even think anything wrong.

It's in the Bible. I'm going to be judged.

I was 13.

You can get us on this number.
Give us a couple of days.

We'll sort out the house and the kids. I'm going.

Going where?

- I'm just going, all right?
- Don't be silly.

That's Caroline's number. You know, from work

That Caroline.

But it's tomorrow. Judgment Day.

I'm walking out on you
and all you can do is talk bullshit!

Nothing's going to happen, Fiona. Nothing.

But, just in case it does,

I want to be in the right place.

But you can't,

cos we've got to be together
cos that's what it's all about!

Family, and loved ones and things.

Tell him, go on!
Your dad's just being silly.

Tell him he can¡¯t.

See you soon, kids.

I'll send your nan round
to give your mam a rest.

You haven't been listening.

I am not having a go. Really, I'm not.

But I love you,
and that's the most important thing.

Jesus said so. I love you!

- And you love me!
(Engine starts)

You might not know it, but you do.

We can go and find Stephen.

He'll tell you. He knows everything.

I forgive you, Dave. I forgive you.
That makes it all right.

I forgive you.

You've got to love me!

You've got to love me,
because if you don't love me, it doesn't say...

It doesn't say what happens,

what happens if I'm not loved.

I love you, Dave!

I love you. I forgive you.

What happens to me?

What happens to me?

(Thunder rumbles)

I didn¡¯t ask for all this.

Why me?

It¡¯s not like I had a choice.
I was born like this.

Nice try, but if you're the Almighty,
then it's all your idea.

But I'm just not.

I¡¯m stuck with this.

Stephen Baxter's head -
his stupid, thick head!

And I can't...

What's the point? What's it for?

I try to work out what's happening and...

It's like there's 50 million megabytes
of information,

and I'm downloading it into a pocket calculator.

- I'm just stupid.
- Yeah.

You can't make sense of this.

No-one can.

You...

You're stuck in your own system,

trying to impose good and evil on the world,
right and wrong,

and...it's so much more complicated than that.

- What do you think I should do?
- (Judith laughs)

- What?
- You're asking me?

(Laughs)

It¡¯s...

It¡¯s like in school.

You spent two years fancying Cathy Jones
and sat next to me instead.

"What should I do, Jude? "

Yeah.

Never liked her that much.

I only went on about her so's I could...

..Like, you know, sort of...

So you could what?

You know.

Spend time with you.

I worked that out years ago.

Finally you've got something to say,
and it's too late.

Is it?

I liked the old Steve.

The daft sod wasting his life
in a video shop. I liked him.

You never said.

I did, in the end

But then we got interrupted.

(Clears throat)

(Gasps)

(Ring clicks against radiator)

It's so hard to do anything in front of you,

Like um...

..if I was going to punch you or...

..kiss you or...

If it¡¯s preordained, it just...

..makes everything false.

That's if you believe in me.

Slow down.

Do you want...

What about the lights?
Do you want them on or off?

What do you like?

Stop thinking about it.

(Judith starts giggling)

(Both laugh)

Oh...

Oh.

Don't laugh.

(Judith stifles laugh)

TV REPORTER: After he riots, the silence.

The cities are being abandoned
people fleeing from the threat of judgment

Thousands more are locked inside their houses
hoping and praying

But what is Judgment Day?

Is it the raising of the dead?

The Four Horsemen of the Apocalypse?

Whatever shape it takes, only
the Third Testament can prevent it happening

But from Stephen Baxter
there's only silence

And now back to the studio

A statement released
by the Emergency Coalition of Churches

has finally decreed that Stephen Baxter
is to be welcomed

as the representative of The Lord, our God

It's the first positive action
since the state of emergency was declared

but the question remains:
is it too little, too late?

Or is today the mythical end of days?

Do you love me?

Yeah.

Are you the son of God?

Yeah.

(Alarm clock rings)

Bloody hell...

Judgment Day.

CHlEF CONSTABLE:
He's slept with the woman.

That makes him more human...

..and more vulnerable.

Off you go.

Thank you, sir.

Morning, Len. Judgment Day!

Seems like bollocks, once the sun's up.

It¡¯s the calm before the storm.

Tomorrow night, he said.
Well, that's tonight now.

It's ten hours till the sun sets.
The clock¡¯s still ticking.

Yeah, but he's a knob.

- Excuse me, sir, a bit of a problem.
- Louise, get us some food, please.

- It's important. I think you're needed, sir.
- (Sighs)

Excuse me, sir.

We're changing shifts
and Reynolds was checking the armory.

There's a gun missing, sir. 9mm side arm.

Given the crisis last night, I doubt every weapon
was signed out properly.

It¡¯ll turn up, Len.

Just in case,

we should stop any movement between floors.

Besides, our guest upstairs
has proved himself invulnerable, apparently.

Oh!

(Pants and gasps)

(Groans)

PETE: All right, Frankie?

They had gas and everything.

The ambulance got stuck
going down Deansgate.

- You're kidding.
- This mob was trashing the place

You should have seen it

Everyone¡¯s panicking and running around!
It was mad

¢Ü House music

A bit early for that, Frank

Frank, it's a bit loud. Turn it down.

(Turns up volume)

- Frank!
- Frank!

Frank, Frank, shooting blanks.

That's the joke. Yeah. (Laughs)

FRANK: Frank, Frank,

shooting blanks!

Frank. Frank. shooting blanks!

Frank. Frank. shooting blanks!

Not any more! Not any more!

PETE: Hey

Come off it, mate. Come off it.

Come on, Frankie boy, don¡¯t be daft

- Pete!
- Don¡¯t be daft!

- Pete, get out of the way!
- It's all right. Frank, it's OK

- Put the gun down
- He's not mine. He's no son of mine.

Pete, get out of the way!
He can't hurt him.

- He can't hurt him
- What thanks do I get, you bastard?

Is this it? Is this the time?

- Don't be daft.
- Steve!

- Is this it?
- Do it, Frank

- Do it, Frank!.

PETE: Come on, Frankie boy

- He can't hurt him. Move out of the way.
- Don't be daft. Don't be daft. That's it.

- That's it. Don¡¯t be daft
- Move!

- All right, Frank. put the gun down
- Steve! Pete, move out of the way!

- Move out of the way!
- Don't! No!

¢Ü Give it to me

¢Ü Give it to me

¢Ü Give it to me

¢Ü Give it to me

¢Ü Give it to me

(Music stops abruptly)

Pete?

Pete!

Pete!

Pete! Pete!

Bring him back

Bring him back

Bring him back!

- See you, Dad.
- Yeah.

OFFlCER:. Come on. This way.

(Siren blares)

- I want to go home.
- Yeah. It's not safe here.

Louise!

- Can we get a car, please?
- Yeah. Hang on. I'll get Simon

Why didn't you save him?.

Why not? You saved yourself.

You were that close.
The bullets went straight through him.

I was scared.

My dad...

Pete¡¯s...

- He's gone to a better place.
- Oh, well, that's all right, then.

LOUlSE: Stephen

Where are you going?

- Home.
- Simon can take you.

I'm so sorry

Mr. Baxter.

You can forget the Testaments.
The broadcast is cancelled.

Given the state of emergency,
I can't allow you to be seen or heard.

You're under house arrest.

No speeches, no...statements,
no declarations.

It's eight hours till sunset,

and whatever happens tonight...
happens without you.

Sir.

I forgive you.

SlMON: Here we are, then.

Safe and sound.

JUDlTH: Where's this?

SlMON: If you'll just get out for a minute.
Won't take long.

Well, well, well!

Now, there's a thing.

My old companion.
How are you doing, Symo?

Not so bad, Johnny.

Been busy?

Same old stuff

Are you er..

coming in, then?

Cup of tea?

A pretty girl at my door is rare.

OK

So, you... (Chuckles)
..you're all over the telly.

I keep telling my mates at work
"I've dated a celebrity."

I don't really like that in the house.

Don't you?

So, what do you want, Johnny?

I don't want anything.
You're the one that turned up.

You been out lately? Any more dates?

One or two, yeah.

Went out two days back.

What was she like?

Smart.

Professional lady, yeah.

Seeing her again?

Might do.

She said no.

Did you go out for a meal?
Did you get all nervous and stuff your face?

All three courses?
She eats salad, you wolf it down.

She walks away, not even a kiss,
so you have a Chinese on the way home.

Did you?

(Dog growls)

(Dog whimpers)

(Chuckles)

There you are.

The loneliest one of the lot.

So, what do you want?

At last, you believe.

How did he convince you?
Did he shag some sense into you?

I made my own mind up.

It's such a big wide world, isn't it?

Miracles and devils. Heaven and hell.

Don't you feel small?

Did you...

It was you, wasn't it? You made Frank do it.

He hated Steve already

All we did was push. That's what we do.

All those bastard little thoughts
right at the back of your mind, that's us.

We're very human.

Steve's still alive.

- We don¡¯t want him dead
- You tried to kill him.

He¡¯s lost his best friend.
His stepfather¡¯s insane, now you¡¯ve left him.

That¡¯s all we need.

Cos we want him to join us

Before the Final Hour, he'll become one of us.

He¡¯ll despair and then he¡¯ll fall.

He's a man. Man always falls in the end.

Look at him now.

Wretched and angry, and lonely and vain

When Judgment Day comes

the Lord our God in heaven
will find Stephen Baxter the man

and judge him a sinner

(Johnny laughs)

The son of God will be sent to reign over hell

He¡¯s almost with us now.

Just one more push.

Thanks to you.

What have I done?

- Lust
- It's more than that. It's better than that.

Aw. Does he love you?

Sweet. Do you love him??

(Firmly) Yes.

(Sings) And that's when the devil gets in.

He won't fall. He's stronger than you.

He'll do anything too be with you now

Everything we did was pushing you towards him,
showing you proof,

making you believe

Coos the moment you believe, you despair

And once you despair,

(Whispers) you're mine.

When you join me,

Stephen Baxter will follow.

You've got a problem, then,
cos I'm not joining you.

Peter's gone, Frank's lost You¡¯re next

I've seen what you've done and I haven't fallen.

Ooh.

There¡¯s more to come.

One more lost soul to push you over the edge.

Who?

(Tuts)

You've forgotten all about her.

The one you left behind.

The housewife

Fiona?

Drive me, Charlton! Now!

Do as the lady says. She's in charge.

Happy Judgment Day!

Judgment Night, I suppose.

Never mind, eh, Judith?

See ya! God luck!

Godspeed!

Wooh!

Faster!

What's the rush?

(Phone rings)

(TV on in background)

(Phone continues ringing)

Run!

TV: Oh, no. I forgot the mixture

and the spoon

Not yet. Jen, turn that off.

We're going to say a little prayer.

All of us. Together.

What for?

We're going to heaven.

I'm taking you to heaven, sweetheart.

Our Father

who art in heaven,

Hallowed be the name.

Thy kingdom come.

Thy will be done on earth, as it is in heaven.

Give us this day our daily bread.

And forgive us our trespasses,

as we forgive those that trespass against us.

Lead us not into temptation,

but deliver us from evil:

For thine is the kingdom,
the power and the glory,

for ever and ever...

Fiona!

Fiona, come on. Answer the door.

I'm starving.

(Rings bell repeatedly)

Fiona, come on. I know you're in there.

(Doorbell rings)

Fiona! Fiona!

Fi-on-a!

TV NEWS REPORT: All Stephen Baxter
has said is that it happens tonight

Does he mean midnight?
Does he mean sunset? We can't know

All we can do is wait

Wait and hope

What about Dave?

Do you know where he's gone? Did he say?

We've...got the kids. They'll be all right.

We'll take them to your mum's.

Is that all right?

I¡¯ll be...

We'll try and find her a bed.

If there's any staff on duty.

They're all going home before tonight.

Her own children.

Despair.

That's the word, yeah.

And it's happening all over.

People trying to escape Judgment
by getting into paradise first.

Still, only a few hours to go,
according to your friend Baxter.

I'm rather looking forward to it.

We've invited a few friends round,

bit of a barbecue...

You don't believe it, then?

Well, I keep saying no.

I mean, logically, there's not much sense
behind what he's saying.

It's all a bit...cryptic.

Maybe next time
they should try Daughter of God.

- Then we'll get a straight answer.
- That's what it needs.

I mean, first there's this Testament thing...
What happened to that?

Then he says Judgment Day.

Which is it? Is it one or the other?

Or both?

How can both these things happen?

(Door shuts)

There's your keys back

If you could just sign for them.

Sorry about your windows. That were last night.

You got off lucky.

If you need anything, just shout.

God luck for tonight.

(Front door closes)

(Ringing tone)

STEPHEN: Hello

Er...hi.

Er...I thought l...

I just thought...

Can you get out of there?

I can do anything. Where are you?

Home.

If it¡¯s happening tonight,

then...I want to be with you.

Yeah.

Jude, I'm sorry I didn't...

Steve, I know what the Third Testament is.

Just come round.

Excuse me, sir. Where have you come from?

- Upstairs. I just popped in too see Steve
- We haven't let anyone in.

Yeah, you have. I went in ten minutes ago.

That's right. Sorry, course you did.

So, sorry, who are you?
Did you sign yourself in?

You said I didn't have to.

That's right, I did, didn't l?

- Thanks, then.

- How is he? Steve?

Just sitting there.

What's it like outside?

So quiet. It's weird.

It's like everyone's gone home or run away,

or just...waiting.

Yeah.

God luck, then.

- What's he doing?
- Just sitting there, sir.

PREACHER:...burning with fire
was hurled into the sea!

The sea became blood

A third of the living creatures in the sea died
a third of ships was destroyed..

SKNHEAD: Come on! Come on!

- You're not allowed in, sorry.
- She's expecting me. I'm on the list.

I¡¯m a friend.

We were at school together, way back

That's right. So you are, sorry.

She's inside, yeah.

You were in school with Stephen Baxter, then.

What was he like?

Bit of a twat.

(Woman screams)

Last man on duty.

You'd better get home.

I'll stay. Just in case.

Someone's got to protect her.

God man.

Hi.

Yeah.

Well, then...

- How have you been?
- Oh, you know.

It's nice to see you.

- Like the windows.
- (Laughs) Yeah, I might keep 'em like that.

- You've dressed up.
- You haven't.

- Smells God.
- Yeah.

Should be ready.

You cooking.
Must be the end of the world, or something.

It's only pasta.

- You were right, though.
- Always am.

You said I was enjoying it.

I've been doing that stuff. Power-mad.

I keep trying to work out
what's going to happen tonight but I don't know.

Like I'm not meant to see.

I don¡¯t know what time or what it is.

There you go

Am I supposed to eat mine?

I didn't have much in. It's just...

tomatoes, bit of mixed spice,
bit of pepper and...

rat poison.

Do you remember that time I had rats?

My dad gave me that poison
and I didn't know how much to put in.

I put lots.

It's arsenic or strychnine, or...

I don't know. It says on the box

It was Fiona's idea,

except she got the wrong target.

How did they get to you?

Who was it? Johnny Tyler? What did he say?

This isn't the devil's work, Steve. It's just me.
You've got to eat this and you've got to die.

I can¡¯t be killed.

You can die when you're meant to die,
and that's now.

I worked it out. Do you want a beer?

Yeah.

I kept thinking,

how can there be
a Third Testament and a Judgment Day?

But it's obvious. They're both the same thing.

- Do you want a glass?
- No.

(Opens can)

I'm writing a testament
and that's a judgment on you.

Cos my testament says that you die.

That you go. That you stop.

(Lights cigarette)

I thought about you

And us lot, and school, and all that.

Pete. Fiona. Your dad.

The existence of God has destroyed us

so it stops, cos I say so.

They have possessed you.

You're doing exactly what they want.

They want you alive. This is your only way out.

Right. So, what? I bugger off
and abandon the world to the devils?

It's the death of them as well.
Not those lost souls but the thing inside them.

All God's work.

When you die, you're not ascending
to paradise, you're dying properly and for ever.

Taking the whole thing with you -
God, and heaven and hell.

All dead

The end of this world and the start of a new one
without religion on our backs.

- And what sort of world would that be?
- Better

Coos. right now, we're promised an afterlife

So we waste the 70 years we've got.

If God is dead, though, and this is all we've got,
maybe we'll use it.

Maybe we'll become...

..better than you.

- Or worse. Did you think of that?
- Well, maybe, But that's up to us, not you

It's daft, cos this is what I always thought,
long before you came along.

As soon as we get rid of God,

that's when we grow up

You said it, too. It was in your big speech
It was there all along

You said we've got to take responsibility.
If you want us to, we have to do it on our own.

Always thinking you're so clever.

Millions don't agree with you, millions need me.

But oh, no, sod them. You know better.

- Are you going to force it down my throat?
- You know I'm right.

The world's about to end,

and you waste my time with this bollocks!

This is your plan. It's all yours.

You saw death tonight.

And it's your death. You said there'd be
a Third Testament, and this is it

Use your power one last time and look

Cos this, this is right.

I'm right.

The Third Testament.

The family business closes down.

No more heaven, no more hell.

And you're all alone.

Well, then.

Don¡¯t want to.

- Don't say that.
- I want to stay..

I know.

..with you.

We never stood a chance, did we?

I should have asked you out years ago.
My fault.

I could've asked you.

Why didn't you?

You never answered the question
What were you waiting for?

I was er...

..hoping...

for better.

Oh, shit!

I don¡¯t have to.

I could stay. I can do what I want.

Cos you need me. You lot need me.

I could bring Pete back. I could raise him
from the dead, just like that.

Don¡¯t.

Power-mad.

That's the time to go.

Don¡¯t.

(Stephen sighs)

God, this tastes...

JUDlTH: It was all on tape

The police had the house keys
wired the place up, recorded everything

Steve made his broadcast in the end
and it was transmitted worldwide

They keep on playing it now
all these years later

(Gasps)

Everyone saw it and everyone heard it.

That was the Testament,

and that was Judgment Day.

The death of God.

Even without the tape,

everyone felt it.

I mean...

Like, everyone.

In that second,

all of his creations felt his death.

Right at the end, everyone believed.

Everyone.

And everyone knew he was gone.

I felt it.

Right here, twenty past seven.

It's like they say about September 11 th.

Where were you when Stephen Baxter died?

He was meant to die.

Do you see?

I was right, wasn't l?

I tried to kill him.

No bastard thanks me.

And people were terrified in the first few days
after his death, cos...

..it looked like he'd died and gone
and left us with nothing.

But he left us with everything.

And...

Yeah, sometimes it looks like nothing,
cos we can't turn to a book any more,

or a church or some man in a dog collar.

We've got to look at each other.

Judith?

I don¡¯t know. I haven¡¯t seen her.

No, I erm... I moved away.

I'm here now, down south.

That's where Dave is
and he got custody of the kids, so...

I moved nearby.

So...

I don't know what I'd say to her.

And the devils have gone.

People are still mad.

They still do the most terrible things,
just cos they're people, not...

That¡¯s our problem now.

OK, um...

Do you mind? I...

I don't want to talk about it any more.

I'm sorry, but...

that's it.

That's all I've got to say.

She just wants to be left alone.

I think she¡¯s still in Manchester. I don¡¯t know.

I hope she¡¯s all right.

Are you keeping your points
or giving them to charity?

Charity. Thanks.

Blimey.

Hello.

- Remember me?
- Yeah.

We went out on that date.
God, it must be six years ago now.

You were famous back then.

You came round my house.

Do you remember why?

Dunno.

A funny old time.

Not just cos of Stephen Baxter and that.

I was...having a bad year.

I went a bit barmy.

How's things now?

Still dating, yeah. Still trying. (Chuckles)

You've lost weight.

A little bit, maybe.

It's funny, I kept blaming it on the fish and chip
shop. You know, work and stuff.

In the end, I thought, well, it's down to me.

I suppose there¡¯s a bit of Stephen Baxter in that.

Sorry. I know you and him were...

Oh, it's all right.

Anyway, God luck with it.

Yeah.

I don¡¯t suppose you fancy coming for dinner?

Well...

Have you got the tissues?
She spilt juice all down herself.

- Hold on.
- Hello.

This is Johnny.

He¡¯s an old friend of mine.

- All right, mate. Nice to meet you.
- There you go.

Bollocks.

- Married.
- Yeah.

She's mine over there. She was two last week
She's a little monster.

What's he do, then?

He was a policeman. He¡¯s resigned now.

He was on duty outside my house.

The world was ending and he never left.

He's a God man.

It's daft, in't it?

I used to think...

Months after, years after...I was still waiting
for Stephen Baxter to come back.

You know, like...resurrection.