The System: Series 2: Step 4: Light the Blue Touch Paper and Run Like Hell
Limelight
BBC
4.4 • 698 Ratings
🗓️ 10 June 2022
⏱️ 27 minutes
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Summary
Or How to Save the World in 5 Easy Steps
Ben Lewis’s award-winning thriller.
Why are so many people siding with the kidnappers? And what is the true intent of The System? We’re about to find out.
Jake … Alex Austin Maya… Siena Kelly Coyote … Divian Ladwa Jess … Chloe Pirrie Liv … Jemima Rooper Richard…Pip Torrens Matt … Rhashan Stone
Original music and sound design by Danny Krass
A BBC Scotland production directed by Kirsty Williams
Transcript
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| 0:00.0 | There's a town in Derbyshire, and every Shrew Tuesday they have a football match. |
| 0:10.6 | But this is no ordinary football match. |
| 0:13.1 | The goals are three miles apart and it lasts for eight hours. |
| 0:17.0 | Thousands of people take part and the shops have to be boarded up to stop them getting trashed. |
| 0:22.1 | There aren't many rules. |
| 0:23.5 | No murder, no motorised vehicles |
| 0:25.4 | and stay out the graveyards. |
| 0:27.7 | Otherwise, pretty much anything goes. |
| 0:29.7 | People only occasionally die. |
| 0:32.0 | They've been playing it for hundreds of years. |
| 0:34.4 | There used to be matches like it all over the country. |
| 0:37.6 | Pancake Day, Mardi Gras, Carnival. What's the point? A big blowout before Lent? Before we all |
| 0:43.8 | fast and pay homage to Jesus' 40 days and nights in the wilderness? Or is it just a good excuse to go |
| 0:49.6 | a bit crazy after the long dark days of winter to open the pressure valve and release. |
| 0:55.0 | Thing is, once that valve is opened and all that pent-up hot madness starts to jet out, |
| 1:01.0 | sometimes it's not so easy to screw the cat back on. |
| 1:05.0 | Somebody's going to get burned. |
| 1:09.0 | The system. |
| 1:10.0 | Or how to save the world in five easy steps. |
| 1:13.1 | Step four. |
| 1:14.1 | Light the blue touch paper and run like hell. |
| 1:17.4 | The middle of the night. |
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