Ep2: The Fumetown Priest

Forest 404

BBC

Drama, Fiction

4.6 • 666 Ratings

🗓️ 11 April 2019

⏱️ 21 minutes

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Summary

Pan goes on the run from Daria and The Hands to find answers deep down in Fumetown.

An environmental thriller starring Pearl Mackie, Tanya Moodie and Pippa Haywood.

Theme music by Bonobo.

Written by Timothy X Atack.

Director: Becky Ripley

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0:00.0	BBC Sounds, Music, Radio, Podcasts.
0:10.4	Forest 4.4. Forest 4.
0:31.6	Wiping a peasant. wiping a person's memory doesn't always turn out like you expect bit of a dark art but darya and me we carry on as normal after she'd had my mind expunged of those recordings. I mean, yeah, expunged.
0:41.0	What sort of friend expunges you?
0:43.7	Episode two.
0:46.1	The Fumetown Priest.
0:47.3	Fumetown Priest.
0:48.7	The offending data had been deleted, so I continued to improve upon our friendship.
0:53.8	Of course, it was hard. I couldn't have
0:56.5	my own memories of the incident expunged for operational reasons. Very difficult for me to forget
1:03.8	the noises pan made as her cortex was sliced and rationalised. Her screaming, but over the dinner table, I'd look at the glint in this beautiful
1:15.4	creature's eye, the close-cropped green and yellow hair, the perfectly standardised glow
1:20.6	of her copper skin, and she was so entrancing. If I concentrated hard enough, I could almost forget those screams.
1:30.3	So I concentrated.
1:33.3	There was one date when things were getting pretty electric, and in between thinking,
1:41.3	yeah, this is close. I was also backing off a bit inside, cautious, I guess.
1:49.4	I started talking about work. Nothing like that to dampen things down. I asked,
1:55.7	Hey, when we hand over audio material as Enigma, how much do you reckon is kept in the end?
2:03.7	Whole atmosphere changed.
2:05.9	And Darya said,
2:07.7	Pan, it falls beyond my oversight.
2:10.6	Meaning, she didn't know.
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