The System: Series 1: Level 1: Get Naked

Limelight

BBC

Drama, Fiction

4.4 • 604 Ratings

🗓️ 28 May 2021

⏱️ 29 minutes

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Summary

Ben Lewis's propulsive thriller starring Siena Kelly, Jack Rowan and Iain de Caestecker.

When Jake signs up to a personal training programme that promises to turn the meekest man-boy into an alpha male, he doesn’t have a clue what he’s getting himself into. Two years later, his sister Maya sets out to uncover the truth.

Alex … Iain de Caestecker Jerome… Don Gilét Maya … Siena Kelly Beau…Matthew Needham DI Cohen …Chloe Pirrie Jake …Jack Rowan

Original music and sound design by Danny Krass Featuring tracks from Equiknoxx music collective

With thanks to Dr Joel Busher at the Centre for Trust, Peace and Social Relations, University of Coventry.

A BBC Scotland Production directed by Kirsty Williams

Transcript

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0:00.0	BBC Sounds, Music, Radio, podcasts. What do you want to do with your life?
0:35.9	Do you want to spend your days in some bullshit job whose
0:38.4	ultimate purpose is to maximize long-term shareholder value? Are you a shareholder? You want to
0:44.8	spend the rest of your time glued to a screen, feeding the dopamine addiction, you don't even
0:48.8	know you've got, looking at pictures of things you'll never have, places you'll never go, and
0:53.7	people you'll never meet? and people you'll never meet?
0:56.1	Or do you want to exist in the real world?
1:00.1	Do you want to be part of something?
1:02.2	Do you want to use your body, the only body you'll ever have, gifted to you by millennia of evolution?
1:09.1	Do you want to use it for something other than swiping and clicking
1:12.1	and tapping and eating donuts and masturbating? If so, we may have something for you.
1:23.3	How is that?
1:29.3	CCTV, an alleyway behind the South London housing estate.
1:33.3	Two men in their 20s.
1:34.3	Man 1 approaches Man 2 from behind, calls something out.
1:37.3	Oi!
1:38.3	Man 2 ignores him.
1:39.3	He keeps walking.
1:41.3	Man 1 grabs him by the arm, yanks him round.
1:43.3	Man 2 just stands there. Man 1 grabs him by the arm, yanks him round. Man two just stands there.
1:46.0	Man one pulls back and pf, lamps him in the jaw.
1:49.0	Man two staggers back then, stands straight up again.
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