BBC Sounds, Music, Radio, Podcasts. Welcome to Harland. This town's kind of soulless, isn't it? Town of the future. I prefer places with a bit of history to them. Doesn't it get you down? It does mess with your head, I know that. Harland. A place of safety. Roger. Dispatching of urgency. We'll sponsor teams now. What's the cause? Calls unknown. A haven.

Things happen here sometimes, especially at night.

Please just go somewhere safe.

Harland.

Police in Harland have appealed for the public's help with the investigation into the disappearance of local teenager Evie Bennett.

The worst of it is still to come. This is only the beginning.

Hairland. It was quite unnerving. They were wearing a mask. What kind of mask?

It covered the whole face. It was a rabbit or a hair. Perhaps we all look forward to the future

with joy and with hope. Get away. Something bad is coming. Evie knows it. You know it too. I'm the only one here at night. What if it comes for me next? Don't you get a bad feeling? Just downing this close to it? Like it's trying to suck in all the energy from the world. She's right. It wants to suck me down into the void and destroy me. Not just me. Everything.

Have you got the results back from your genetic analysis yet?

That's confidential.

Does she have the mutant gene?

That's also confidential.

This is a secret, a wild secret, never to be told.

It's alive, even when it's empty.

It's like when all the people leave, the energy stays.

It pools in places and strange things happen in the quiet. If you really want to understand something,

you have to go right to the edge. It's stopped. Dead ahead of you. Where? Directly in front of you.

Can't you see it? There's something. It's like a heat haze.

What is it? Is it something real?

It's coming towards you. Sarah. It's right there in front of you. Sarah!

Harland. Available on BBC Sounds.

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