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This programme contains some scenes which some viewers may find upsetting and strong language

So this is a place where we listen,

share our experiences and try and gain a deeper understanding

of what this is together.

And can I...?

How... How long have you been running this group?

Around five years now.

What do you...? What do you mean?

CLAIRE SCOFFS

You're telling me that you've all been hearing

this sound for five years?

LAUGHTER

- No. - No? - No! - No, no.

Good. OK.

I'm glad to hear that.

Seema, how long have you been listening?

About three months.

This is my third meeting.

Tom and Emily?

Same. About three months.

This is just the second time we've been here.

So we're newbies, too, aren't we?

Yeah.

And, Damien?

I've been... I've been hearing it for just over a year

and coming here for a few months.

And, Teresa?

Listening and coming here for over three years.

And, Jo?

Five years.

And I've been listening for decades now.

All right.

CLAIRE SCOFFS

During that time, people come and go.

We try to...

When they leave, is it because they stopped hearing it?

No, they move or...

You know, what we did here just didn't quite work for them.

Well, what are you doing about it?

Just, erm, living with it?

Accepting it?

No! No, no. No, I agree with you.

This is madness. I want it gone.

Yeah. Me too.

It's a point of discussion

but, yes, I live with the hum,

and I accept it very much.

But that's insane.

No, I'm sorry.

OMAR CHUCKLES

- It is, right? - It's an entirely...

- It's OK. - ..natural reaction, Claire. Yeah.

I think we all felt the same at the beginning.

And now you all feel like it's...

..something you value?

- SEEMA: - No. No, no, no. I mean, not... Not all.

Omar's a bit more advanced than the rest of us, I think.

I think for me, you know, in my experience,

fighting the hum wasn't good for my mental health.

I was... I was in a bad place before I found this group.

Is that something that you can relate to, Kyle?

Uh, yeah.

Well, w-what is it?

Do you know?

- Again, that's something we discuss in these meetings. - Mm-hm.

I don't want to bombard you and start...

No, please, bombard me.

I want to... I want to be bombarded.

I... I can't sleep. I'm....

I'm having nightmares and nosebleeds, and...

And everybody says that it's the menopause or it's anxiety or stress.

Yeah, and we all have quite differing ideas

of what's behind all of this but...

..you know, the most important thing is to...

To take things slowly.

And for you and Kyle -

and all of us, really - to remember that the function of this group is,

is about support and finding a way to, at first,

cope with the sound,

and then live with it,

and then maybe even find

what the hum might do for you.

And there are a few things that we do insist upon, though.

We... We eat together and we clean up and we wash up together,

and we breathe together,

and we all listen together.

I know it sounds...

It's a bit of a strange ask,

but Omar and I have actually...

THEY LAUGH

Yeah.

You know, the breathing...

You know, breathing together is actually,

it's one of the things that can really help

if the sound is becoming a little bit overwhelming.

And exhale...

Two, three, four.

EXHALING

And inhale...

INHALING

Two, three, four.

And exhale...

EXHALING

And inhale...

Two, three, four.

And exhale...

- Bye. - Nice to meet you. - Thank you. - Bye.

- Thank you so much. - OK. OK.

- Well, that was, uh... - Yeah. - The hum.

Seema seemed OK, though.

Though she clearly thinks the rest of them lost the plot.

- Oh, my God. That couple... - I know.

I wanted to be, like, "Blink twice if you need rescuing."

SHE CHUCKLES

I don't know.

I'm not sure that lentil soup and yoga breathing

is going to get me through this.

Is it mad to think that it might actually help, though?

DISTANT GOODBYES

No.

How are you getting home?

Thanks, everyone. Bye-bye, now. Bye-bye.

Claire...

..think you'll go again?

Maybe, yeah.

Good.

Yeah.

INTERNALLY: Other people... OK, look. Erm, other people...

OK. Other people... Look... OK, look. There are other people...

Other people can hear the thing that I'm hearing in our area.

And I went to a meeting.

MUSIC PLAYING

What?

Yeah.

Well, how'd you find them?

It's, like, an online thing.

Like a... You know, one of the local Facebook page things.

Yeah, it was bizarre.

But, yeah, there are seven other people,

and they all hear it, and they've all had physical reactions, so...

Yeah.

What, so, it's a kind of support group?

Yeah. Yeah.

So you just lied to us?

No, I didn't lie to you, I just...

Look, I was just...

I just wanted to see what it was for myself. Is that OK?

Well, so, are you going to go again?

I mean, does it seem like it's going to help?

I don't know, maybe.

I mean, it was not not-weird.

I don't think the guy who spent years in the Marines

is going to be my new best friend.

But, look, it was nice to be in a room with other people

who were having the same experience as me.

How do you know you're, like, hearing the same thing?

Do they know what it is?

Maybe, maybe.

What, they did and they didn't tell you?

- No, there was just a lot to talk about. - Well, like, what?

Like... Why do I feel like I'm being interrogated?

Well, I'm just trying to figure it out.

Yeah, well, you weren't there.

I would love to be there.

- OK. - I... I'm... I'm not...

I-I-I'm serious. Are you going to go back?

I don't know. Maybe...

I mean, probably!

Great. So, we'll come with you.

Yeah, no, I'm... I'm good.

No. We can do this as a family, right?

Sometimes, when I lie in bed, I try to picture it.

Like, what it might be.

Sometimes it comes from this...

..sort of...

..dark, sinister house at the edge of town.

FAINT BIRDSONG

But when I find it...

LOW HUM

..it's like this...

..small little thing that you never expect.

And I...

I smash it.

Mm.

Has it struck you this might be an outlet of sorts?

A manifestation?

You mentioned your anxiety about Ashley moving away.

That's a big change.

Yeah, sure, but the sound feels real.

Psychosomatic phenomenon are real.

It's just the sources in our brains.

Now, I understand that, but...

..if the sound is just in my brain, then it isn't real.

Yes, it is.

The brain is extremely powerful, Claire.

No, but other people hear it.

OK, let's talk about that.

Can you tell me a little bit more about this group?

What kind of support are they offering you?

SCHOOL BELL RINGS

- Bye, Miss. - Bye.

- Bye. - Bye.

SOFTLY: I have a favour to ask you.

Oh, yeah?

Why are you reading that?

Why am I reading a book?

No, just... It's Bataille.

It's a... It is a strong choice.

I mean, I was really into Bataille at uni.

It worked for my, erm,

"I'm a very serious and cultured person" vibe.

THEY CHUCKLE

There's expression...

Ecstatic and intolerable.

That's what Bataille called it.

Yeah, I remember.

Transcendence only possible

in the shattering of the body's physical limits.

- BOTH: - To be pushed to the brink of one's being.

Mm.

So...

..this favour, it's a little tricky,

but it's about the next meeting.

Paul and Ashley want to come.

- So... - OK. That's...weird.

Yeah, I know. I tried to dissuade them,

- but he won't... - I thought you weren't even sure

- that you were going to come back. - Yeah, but it'll just be this once.

And how do you know they won't want to keep coming?

Because I'm not going to let that happen.

But you're letting this happen.

Kyle, I'm really sorry, but...

How are you going to make it up to me?

SCOFFS: Kyle...

FAINT CHATTER

Anyway, I just want to say "thank you" again

for letting me bring them today.

Of course, they're most welcome.

But, you know, they're just trying to get things back to normal.

That's all.

FAINT CHATTER

I must say, I find it beautiful.

You coming here, supporting Claire like this.

Thanks. It felt important.

FAINT LAUGHTER

This is a one-off, though, Paul.

This space is for people who hear what we hear.

If could ask you to be a guest, to listen.

Allow others this time to share.

FAINT LAUGHTER

My God!

MUFFLED APPLAUSE

CLAIRE: Wow!

WHOOPING, CHEERING

That's good!

No, that was... That was very shaky.

- I'm not even warmed up. - Jo, that's incredible!

How could you do that, Omar?

Oh, she taught me, actually.

Yes. Yes.

SHE CHUCKLES

Three billion lightning strikes a year, all over the world.

That's around 44 every single second.

Building up a huge electromagnetic charge in the atmosphere...

..which resonates and creates actual sound.

This generates a very, very low hum,

at a frequency of 7.83Hz.

SEEMA: Sorry, just to... Just to clarify.

So you're saying that lightning causes the atmosphere to hum?

It's called the Schumann resonance.

We've known about it since the early '50s.

- Schumann resonance? - Yes.

And it's, like, humming all the time, or...?

Exactly.

AIR WHOOSHING

The space inside of this bottle

has a specific resonant frequency

which we all can hear.

- Yes? - Yes. - Yes.

Lightning, in the Earth's case,

is like the breath over the bottle.

Constant global electromagnetic resonances in the ionosphere...

I'm sorry. This is a sound...

You suggest we're hearing a hum from the sky?

Do you know that every single animal on this planet that migrates

uses the Schumann resonance?

Whales...

- BOTH: - Butterflies. Insects, birds.

And it affects us, too.

The vast majority of people

cannot hear sounds

below the frequency of 20Hz...

..but we believe that there are a select few of us who actually can.

And how do you know about this?

He was the director of the School of Geosciences

at the University of Rosyth for 18 years.

Look, no offence, mate, but we've lived

in this neighbourhood for going on 20 years now

and we've never heard anything like this.

This noise is something new.

It's obviously some kind of industrial noise pollution.

I used to think that at first, too, Tom, but it just isn't.

For those of us who've experienced this...

No, no. I'm sorry. It just literally has no scientific merit.

- We need to reach out to the council about this. - Yeah. Yeah.

We need to start applying some pressure.

- DAMIEN: - The council? They're not going to be interested.

This is bigger. Much bigger.

"Bigger"? What do you mean, "Bigger"?

Just look online. The...

HE SCOFFS

The hum's affecting people all over,

but there's only a few of us that are clued in.

- Damien. - Right? No, no. Havana syndrome.

Right? Those diplomats, that hotel in Cuba.

- OK. - No, they need to hear this, Jo.

I worked in military intelligence for nine years. OK?

This... This suppression, the government, this...

This could even be deep state for all we know.

"Deep state"?

Can someone tell me what he's doing here?

Cos he can't even hear the hum, can he?

This is rubbish.

Government-controlled, weaponised lightning, is it?

No, I didn't say that.

- If it is natural... - It's not!

..then why wouldn't we have heard it all our lives?

Why is it that, suddenly, we can all hear this now?

This is a very good question.

And this is what we should be discussing here.

Or it's just something really simple.

Like a few months ago,

they put up new wind turbines along Hackett Bridge.

And how do you explain my experience, then?

What triggered it for me?

Or for Jo or Omar, or for any of us?

- Yeah. - See, I don't know.

But I'm sure that there is a perfectly logical reason.

Let's just... Let's just take five, OK?

I'll put on the kettle.

I know everyone's coming at this from different places.

We work quite hard to make sure everyone feels heard, and...

But I think it just comes across like, you know,

- we're right, and... - No.

..we're just waiting for everyone to agree with us.

But, you know, the problem with being a bit further ahead is that,

of course, we've explored so many of the ideas

that are new to others.

The things that that Tom and Seema are suggesting

are just provably not true. So...

But, you know, everyone's on their own journey.

SHE CHUCKLES LIGHTLY

Do you know... Do you know why Kyle didn't come today?

I'm sorry, what?

Kyle.

- The boy from the last meeting, I... - Yeah, yeah.

You came together. You knew each other.

Kyle Francis?

Uh, well, I just...

I just wanted to make sure we didn't scare him away.

Talking to him on the phone at midnight.

Going to random people's homes together.

SOFTLY: Ash, look, we're just trying to get to the bottom of this.

Yeah, yeah. This, Mum?

This is the bottom. You've hit it, OK?

All right, all right. Fair.

That's fair.

Look, Ash, this is extremely sensitive, and I...

I need to be able to trust you with this.

I'm obviously not going to say anything, but...

- SOFTLY: - Come on.

Everything all right?

I'll handle it, I promise. OK?

Hey, what's going on?

I don't want to talk about it. I just want to go.

Yeah, it's... She's...

- You take her. I'll get a car. - Fine.

- Uh, I'll... I'll... - No, everything's fine.

I'll... I'll talk to you when you get home.

- Yeah. - Ashley?

FAINT BIRDSONG

CLAIRE SIGHS

LOW HUM CLAIRE EXHALES

- JO: - It can be hard for the families.

I'm impressed they came.

How are you and your husband doing?

He's fine. We're OK.

So you and Omar, you met doing the - the humming?

The hum group.

He was my thesis supervisor.

Oh, right.

- And you were... - Mm-hm.

We were, yeah.

He was quite the radical thinker.

Oh?

THEY CHUCKLE

And the administration just made his life hell.

And watching him go through that,

I just thought, you know,

the academia is not for me.

- Huh. - That's when I started my bodywork practice.

Right, right.

I just have to ask. You...

You and Kyle do know each other.

I picked up on that, right?

Uh, yes.

Yeah, he's actually a...

He's actually a student of mine at Pirethorn Academy.

- Oh, OK. - Mm.

That's interesting.

Mmm.

I'm... I... I'd prefer that people didn't know just bec...

Oh, my God. Absolutely.

CLAIRE CHUCKLES

Yeah.

So, he just invites you all over to lecture to you?

CLAIRE GRUNTS

I just...

Omar is a very intelligent, very sincere sort of person.

- I never said he wasn't intelligent. - And can you...?

Can you just let me finish?

Firstly, can you acknowledge

that there was a roomful of other people who can hear the hum?

I have.

No, you haven't.

OK. I hereby acknowledge...

After weeks and weeks of telling me that it was in my head.

I never said that.

- Oh, piss off! - Excuse me!

SHE SIGHS

I'm just...

I feel so much...better.

- So much... - You feel less crazy being around

Mr "Deep State is out to get you" guy?

- Damien? - Yeah.

OK. I admit, he was crazy.

Crazy?

And what about that, erm, piece of gammon...

- Tom? - Yeah.

I mean, I was worrying that he was coming across as the sensible one.

Mm-hm. And by sensible,

you mean completely dismissive of everyone else's ideas.

Oh, yeah.

I mean, to be fair, I don't think he's going to be back.

- He had another massive row in the break. - Jesus.

CLAIRE SIGHS HEAVILY

But, look, on the whole...

On the whole, I think in situations like this,

where people are so obviously vulnerable,

I just get worried that...

- What, you think I'm vulnerable? - ..people like...

Yeah. I mean, you said so yourself.

That's the only reason why I came.

Uh-huh. Well, no.

Technically, you invited yourself.

KEYS CLACK

- ON RADIO: - ..cloudy afternoon on the whole.

Rain is expected by the early evening.

Feeling cooler than yesterday and breezy with highs of 22 Celsius.

RADIO JINGLE PLAYS

SCHOOL BELL RINGS

- I hope you baked it. - Mm, I did.

- Who did? - I found it. - You baked it yourself?

- You found it on the street? - Mm-hm, mm-hm. I did.

- Actually, someone brought it in for you. - Thank you very much!

- Oh, that's so kind. - Alley-oop!

LAUGHTER DROWNS OUT WORDS

PA SYSTEM CHIMES

- ON PA: - Can Miss Kutty please report to the Headteacher's office?

So aggressive.

- What have you done now? - I've got no idea.

Save some of the cake for me, will you?

- MUFFLED: - Mm!

Unlikely.

Hi, Claire.

Thanks for joining us. Erm...

This is Kyle's mother, Mrs Francis.

I think you've met.

We've met, yes. Hi.

What the hell are you doing with my son?

Wait, erm... Well, your son came to me a few weeks ago

because he had been distracted in class and...

- And not sleeping, so I asked him... - Erm, take a seat.

Yeah. Yes. Sorry. Yeah.

You've been seeing my son outside of class, haven't you?

Going on drives with you in your car to some group.

When the whole time that he's telling me

that he's out with his mates.

Is this true, Claire?

Oh.

Erm...

It's, erm...

- The thing is, we both hear this, uh, sound... - Oh, God.

Claire, it's a yes or no question.

Yes, I know. It's, erm...

Yes, we have gone on a few drives, erm, outside of class, yes.

How many?

Maybe six or seven.

Right.

CLAIRE SIGHS

Have you ever taken my son back to your house?

- No! - I can assure you, Mrs Francis... - No, Mum...

Do I look assured to you?

- SOFTLY: - Mum, I told you.

You didn't tell me a goddamn thing until I forced it out of you!

It's only thanks to your daughter...

MRS FRANCIS SNORTS

Give me the phone.

Unlock it.

"Stop..."

- BOTH: - "Stop seeing my mum.

- BOTH: - "Like, what the fuck?

"We're going through...

- BOTH: - "We're going through the same thing.

"She could get fired, for fuck's sake."

I have the greatest respect for you as a teacher, Claire,

but I'm afraid I have no option than to open a formal review.

There'll be an investigating officer.

She'll want to speak with you, Kyle, all the staff, students,

and a decision will be reached as to whether or not to allow you back.

FAINT HEARTBEATS

- It wasn't... - You've been seeing a student outside of school?! - Sh!

- What the fuck? - SOFTLY: I know.

What were you thinking?

Look, he came to me with a problem, and I...

TEARFULLY: And he's a student, so I just...

I just...

I wanted to help him.

But he can hear what I hear, and it's...

It's only ever been about that.

It's not specific to him.

It's a really fucking romantic story, Claire.

- Oh, come on, Paul! - Really, really...

Please.

Have... Have you got feelings for him?

CLAIRE LAUGHS HOPELESSLY

Don't you fucking laugh at me.

No. No.

- SOFTLY: - Fucking hell.

I should have been honest with you.

No, you shouldn't have done it.

You shouldn't have done any of it.

LOW HUM

Hey.

I messaged Kyle because I was scared for you.

Yeah, I know.

And now people are saying all kinds of shit.

Least you can hide out here.

I'm the one who has to face them all tomorrow.

I-I'm sorry for fucking everything up.

I... I didn't mean to.

SOFTLY: No. Come here, come here. Come...

Hey, come here.

No.

You didn't fuck anything up.

- Have a good day. - Thanks.

Miss Kutty seems to have texted you first. Is that correct?

Yeah, but I did it.

Like, I asked for her phone number and she said, "No,"

so I took her phone

and texted myself from it.

That... That's actually what happened.

What happened on these drives?

Erm, nothing.

We were just trying to take measurements, you know,

like readings of decibel levels.

We were... We were trying to find out what this sound is, that's all.

But why so clandestine?

The late night calls, secluded locations.

Yeah, it wasn't like... It...

There was nothing. It wasn't like that. It w...

On Thursday, the...

Thursday the 18th at 11:45pm,

Miss Kutty called you.

Is that correct?

Yeah.

- Did you ask him... - No. - ..not to tell anyone what you were doing?

No. No, of course I didn't. No.

Your texts indicate you gave him rules to follow.

- Yes. - When and how you should contact each other.

Because I was trying to set boundaries.

Look, nothing happened.

And I don't know what more to tell you.

Nothing happened.

You're not in trouble, Kyle.

LOW HUM

Hi.

CLAIRE: What are you doing?

It was so intense.

CLAIRE SIGHS

They were asking me all sorts of questions.

No, stop. Stop talking.

You can't tell me these things.

You can't call me.

I... I tried to explain,

but they didn't care.

I know, I understand...

I really want to see you.

No. OK?

Absolutely not.

- You can't see me. - Please. - You can't call me.

Please, just stop it. All right?

Please.

I'm sorry.

I have to go.

LINE BEEPS

PA SYSTEM JINGLE

- ON PA: - Good afternoon. For those on prom committee,

we are meeting at 8:45am tomorrow morning in the common room.

The meeting is no longer in the library.

An email has also been sent.

But please pass the message on to committee members.

Good morning.

MARCHING DRUMS ON VIDEO

So, did you know?

Well, what did you hear exactly?

Oh, I just heard some stuff.

MUTTERING, LAUGHTER

LOW HUM

CUTLERY GRATING, LOW HUM INTENSIFIES

PHONE LINE RINGS

ON PHONE: Hello, it's Claire.

Leave a message after the beep.

Call me if you hear anything.

Of course.

FRONT DOOR OPENS

FRONT DOOR SLAMS

BIRDSONG SHE HUMS

VIBRATING

SHE CONTINUES HUMMING

Claire?

Hey, love.

Sorry, I can't really hear you.

Are you OK?

What did Paul say?

Mm.

I'll tell him when he gets home.

CLAIRE SIGHS

He'll be pissed off that I'm here.

But...

Because Kyle's here?

Or maybe because he comes here?

Or us? Or what? What?

I don't know, probably both.

Right.

He has been trying to help.

JO HESITATES

- But... - What, by isolating you

and cutting you off from any kind of support network?

- No... - I know you love him more than anything,

but for you to be the mother,

and the wife, that you want to be,

you really need to find your way back to yourself.

Because you're really...

You have the chance to make some real progress.

Yeah. Yeah.

I mean, during the investigation,

I was so scared and...

And I guess now, now that it's happened,

now that I've been sacked...

Yeah. I mean, fuck it.

What else have I got to lose?

Oh, you actually have a lot to lose, Claire.

I mean, the chance to...to...

..find the truth.

It's OK.

It's OK.

I know.

Erm, yeah.

Yeah. I will.

Tune in to yourself.

Let the outside melt away.

Try to listen.

Focus inside.

Deep within.

Hear the blood circulating inside of your body.

The hum is there.

LOW HUM

Inside the deepest part of you.

LOW HUM

The very middle of you.

Find it.

LOW HUM

What do you hear?

- My breath. - Yes.

Mm-hm.

My back cracking.

When I breathe in, there's a little whistle in my nose.

Probably get that checked out.

SOFT CHUCKLING

OK.

My mouth.

My tongue inside my mouth.

My saliva.

Swallowing.

My heart.

LOW GROANING

Try to travel deeper inside of your body.

LOW DRONE

Can we listen to our bodies?

Listen to the other bodies in the space.

LOW HUM

That was lovely, everyone.

HE GROANS

Well done.

You can open your eyes now.

Come back.

So...

..I hope that...

..some of you...

..are beginning to process

that the hum is not your enemy.

It's not a curse, or a weapon,

or a problem to solve.

MUSIC PLAYS ON RADIO

What if it is a gift?

A profound gift

that only the luckiest few of us

have the fortune to hear.

RADIO TURNS OFF

PHONE VIBRATING

SOFTLY: I'm so sorry. Sorry.

Sorry about last night.

No, I... I shouldn't have called.

Have you, erm...

Have you heard yet?

Mm-hm.

- SOFTLY: - Fuck.

Yeah.

I feel terrible.

No, don't.

Stop.

Paul and Ashley don't even know yet.

I suppose being here is, erm...

I'm assuming that your mum doesn't know that you're here.

HE CHUCKLES

Are you kidding? She'd crucify me.

That, just now, that listening...

..being in it, not fighting it...

..felt really fucking good.

It's like most things -

you only really get out what you put in.

Sometimes I wonder, you know,

if more people used to hear it.

Like different cultures, throughout time.

It's like the world has gotten louder but we...

..I think, have forgotten how to listen.

SHE GULPS

Ha. Ha-ha!

- EXHALES: - Oh!

DOORBELL RINGS

Is that your husband?

KNOCKING AT DOOR

Yeah. Hold on.

I'll just go see what he wants. KNOCKING AT DOOR

Hey.

What's going on? What are you doing?

I've come to take you home, Claire.

Well, you don't come and collect me.

I'm not a child. I'll come home when I'm ready.

No.

No? What do you mean, no?

No. I mean, "No."

SHE SIGHS

I wanted to tell you in person. I wasn't going to...

You have to choose to come home to your family now.

What are you talking about?

Is he in there?

Come on!

This is fucking insane.

Why are you here, Claire?

Because I needed some support, Paul.

- From him? - I...

From these people? From these fucking strangers?

- They're not strangers. - What about us?

What about your family?

Look, I'm sorry that you are hurting.

You don't have to apologise for my feelings, Claire.

On the front of the house where your daughter lives,

someone has spray-painted the word "Paedo"!

And you're here with this fucking kid.

Have you any idea how that looks?

Hi.

Claire?

We're just having a conversation.

I'm trying to have a conversation with my wife.

Doesn't feel like a conversation.

Could you just give us a second?

- It sounds like you're shouting at her. - OK...

- Erm... - I think she'd like you to leave.

Will you just fuck off?

Fuck off from my own doorway?

Claire, get your shoes, get your jacket - we're going.

OK, you need to stop now. OK?

- Is this about him? - Stop... - Is this about him?

- It doesn't fucking matter! - It fucking matters!

How can you not see that it fucking matters?

Paul, don't.

Take your hands away.

Take your fucking hands off me.

OK, so I think you should just go.

OK? Just go.

It didn't have to be like this.

Get the fuck out of here. You're not welcome here.

You hear me?

You're not fucking welcome!

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You OK?

Come on.

It's OK.

Will you have to move?

Yeah, I don't know.

I need to get the fuck out of here, though.

America?

I'd settle for Birmingham.

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- ANSWERPHONE: - You have one new message.

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- PAUL ON PHONE: - Hey. It's me. Erm, where are you?

I've been texting you.

Listen, everything's fine,

but I'm not going to be home tonight, so...

Yeah, can you call me when you get this?

Mum?

Love you.

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