Gaines stirs awake. Scotty sits up behind him and studies him.

Scooty: "Hey... How do you feel?"

Gaines: "Okay. I think."

Gaines sheds the coat, sits up. Scotty gets off the bed.

Scotty: "Hungry?"

Gaines gets to his feet.

Gaines: "Yeah. But I need a shower first."

Scotty scratches his nape.

Scotty (awkward): "Well, we don't exactly have a bathroom."

Gaines raises a brow.

Scotty: "It's not all in one place. Come, I'll show you."

Scotty walks off. Gaines follows. On the way, they walk into Samuel.

Samuel (smiling): "You're up. I was just about to check up on you."

Samuel takes his pen light, walks toward Gaines.

Samuel: "Say 'Aaa...'."

Gaines stops, opens his mouth. Samuel looks it over. Scotty sweats. Samuel pockets the light, feels Gaines' forehead.

Samuel: "Tired? Sore? Queasy?"

Gaines shakes his head.

Samuel (smirking): "Congratulations; you've beaten the virus."

Gaines lets out a breath. Scotty beams and squeezes his shoulder. Gaines smiles. Samuel looks apprehensive.

Gaines (brows raised): "Doctor?"

Samuel: "Your blood contains antibodies against the virus. I'd like to try something."

Scotty frowns, blinks.

Scotty (surprised): "You want to treat my mother."

Samuel: "That's right."

Gaines (squinting): "You infected her."

Samuel: "When she was in charge and wanted to rape me."

Scotty turns to Gaines.

Scotty (certain): "Do it."

Gaines: "Scotty?"

Scotty: "It's what we wanted, right? To eradicate disease, I mean. Get something out of all the deaths."

Gaines (callous): "The viruses 'll die with her anyway."

Scotty (firm): "Arnie."

Gaines (defiant): "You know she wouldn't do it for us, right?"

Scotty (calm): "I know."

Gaines: "So?"

Scotty (gently): "We're better than her."

Gaines sighs.

Gaines: "Yeah. We are." (to Samuel) "Okay."

Samuel: "I'll go get an injection."

Samuel strides off. A shadow moves across the floor. Gaines looks up. Someone is on the roof. The hair is Dave's.

Gaines: "What's he doing up there?"

Scotty: "Rain collection."

Gaines: "Are we running out of water?"

Scotty (shaking head): "No. No, we have years worth of resources."

Gaines (surprised): "Years?"

Scotty: "You'd be amazed how much stuff there is in a place like this."

Gaines: "So what's the rush?"

Scotty: "Well, most things here can last indefinitely, so it's better to install systems for regular use and keep the stock as a safety net."

Gaines: "So you're starting the water cycle."

Scotty nods.

Gaines: "What about waste?"

Scotty: "Same as Genesis, only cruder. Urine diluted with unfiltered water and used for irrigation. First Thames, then graywater. Filtered is for cleaning."

Gaines: "Is?"

Scotty: "Dave already built a filter in the showroom."

Scotty thumbs over his shoulder.

Scotty(grinning): "It feeds into a jacuzzi."

Gaines smirks. Scotty stuffs his hands in his pockets.

Scotty: "Rain water for drinking. Feces dried ad burnt for energy, and the ash used as fertilizer. Collection is in the toilet, but not toilet toilet. You'll see."

Gaines: "Hygiene?"

Scotty: "Well we won't run out of cleaning agents any time soon, but we will use them frugally. For the long run, some urine will be turned to ammonia. Raj is turning rotting fruit into a test batch of alcohol. Leanne found sunflower seeds. The stalks will be burnt, the ash cooked with the oil to make soap. Oh, and Rhonda found flax in the health-freak section."

Gaines: "We can have textiles?"

Scotty: "Just linen. No wool or anything."

Gaines: "Right, no animals."

Scotty: "If all goes well, we won't need to leave this place a lot."

Gaines: "So we're a backup of the backup?"

Scotty: "Pretty much, yeah."

Gaines: "Food, water, fuel, soap, clothes... Sounds like you covered everything."

Scotty: "The basics. Manufacturing will take years to evolve again even knowing the steps, maybe decades."

Scotty looks nervous.

Gaines (weary): "What's the problem?"

Scotty (gulps): "The pharmacy is a one way trip. ... I have no idea where we could find medicinal plants."

Gaines (confident): "You'll figure it out."

Scotty: "Spike found e-books. They need far less energy. Everyone got their own copy of Plan B."

Gaines: "Homework."

Scotty: "Yeah. Leanne thought to use shopping carts. She brought a hundred kilos of grade-A soil from the garden center."

Gaines pouts, impressed.

Scotty: "What I'm saying is, I'm not the only one figuring things out."

Gaines: "Right."

Samuel comes over with his bag, prepares an injection and Gaines' elbow. He takes a full dose of blood, tears a bit of cotton from the make-up pad and presses it on the puncture.

Samuel: "Hold it."

Gaines does. Samuel packs up.

Samuel: "I'll get right on it."

Scotty nods. Samuel puts everything back and leaves.

Gaines (to Scotty): "So where's the bathroom?"

Gaines pours a pitcher of water over his head and shoulders, trades the pitcher for a wet sponge, squirts a drop of liquid soap on, lathers up, rinses with another pitcher, steps out of the tub, towel dries, covers himself, grabs a razor head from the refill pack, starts dry-shaving. Half-way in, someone knocks on the door.

Gaines: "Who is it?"

Scotty: "It's me. I found you some clothes."

Gaines: "Come in."

Scotty enters, leaves a pair of jeans and a t-shirt by the 'sink'.

Scotty: "You smell better."

Gaines (smirking): "Thanks."

He finishes shaving, turns away and starts dressing. Scotty scratches his nape.

Scotty: "I was thinking... Once Dave and Spike build the generator, we could set up a radio station and invite people. Handle them case-by-case as they come."

Gaines glances over his shoulder, brows high.

Gaines: "Not afraid we'll burn through the stock?"

Scotty: "Systems can be expanded. Economy of scale. We could have multiple decent-sized scavenging parties. Look for equipment in other towns. Factories."

Gaines nods, finishes dressing.

Gaines: "What's for breakfast?"

Scotty: "Stew surprise. Rhonda cooks stuff as it starts going off."

Gaines: "Makes sense."

Gaines chucks his old clothes and towel in the tub, picks it up. Scotty takes the pitchers. They head out.

In the atrium, Samuel walks up to Sutton with an injection.

Sutton (weary): "What is that?"

Samuel: "A cure, hopefully. But only for the vampirism."

Jamie overhears and perks up. Sutton stares at the needle with suspicion, at Samuel.

Sutton: "You want to finish me off."

Samuel: "What do you have to lose?"

Sutton: "However long I have left."

Samuel: "You know what happens. Shortness of breath, blindness, dementia..."

Sutton stills and goes wide-eyed.

Samuel: "You want it or not?"

Sutton nods, rolls up her sleeve. Samuel swipes her arm, gives her the serum and covers the puncture. Sutton holds the cotton.

Samuel: "You should get a mild fever in a few hours. If not..." (shrugs)

Julia comes to the atrium with a pile of pillows, scatters them on the floor in front of the tents. Larson walks up to her.

Larson: "Hello."

Julia tenses.

Larson: "Relax. ... I just wanted to apologize. ... For kidnapping you."

Julia relaxes, huffs.

Julia: "I'd be dead if you didn't. I suppose that makes it okay."

Larson nods.

Larson: "Well, I'll leave you be then."

She walks away. Julia looks after her, goes back to arranging the pillows. Raj rolls in with a loading cart. On top is a huge pot, a small tower of bowls and a pile of spoons. Rhonda ladles and hands out the stew. It's reddish-purple. Layla pours juice from a carton, Frankie hands out the mugs. People sit down to eat. Julia shuffles to make room for Larson. Scotty sits by Gaines. Gaines looks at Scotty, his own bowl, up at Sutton. He gets to his feet.

Gaines: "Larson, key."

Gaines walks to Sutton. Larson puts her bowl down and goes after him. Sutton looks up between the two of them. Larson pulls the key from her pocket. Sutton glances between it and the bowl, lifts her wrists. Larson uncuffs one hand. Gaines hands Sutton the bowl. Sutton digs in. Gaines leans on the wall next to Sutton. Larson goes back to her place. Scotty comes over carrying two bowls, hands one to Gaines, leans next to him.

Leanne: "I must have filled a hundred pots today. ... Big ones too. ... Turns out this ash is actually good for somethin'. ... If you mix it with manure."

Rhonda: "Not the time, Leanne."

Leanne looks between Spike and Dave.

Leanne: "So when are you two gonna dig that geological plant?"

Spike: "Geo-thermal."

Dave: "For your information, I've made a rain collector. You're welcome."

Leanne: "Well thank you." (to Spike) "What's your excuse?"

Spike: "If you have to know, I've fixed half a dozen radios."

Leanne: "Radios? What do we need them for?"

Gaines: "Keep in contact when we go out. Call for help if something goes wrong."

Leanne: "Well when you put it like that... But you two better start diggin' tomorrow. No point in plantin' anythin' before."

Spike and Dave nod as they eat. Leanne smiles.

Leanne: "Well aren't you kids nice."

Rhonda chokes. Raj slaps her on the back. The others chuckle. They continue eating in silence. As they finish, Scotty takes Gaines' and Sutton's bowls. Gaines re-cuffs Sutton. Layla passes them, wheeling the dishes away. Sutton gets out of the armchair.

Sutton: "Larson, dear, I need to freshen up."

Larson heads for the bathroom. Sutton follows. Gaines walks up to Samuel.

Gaines: "Did it work?"

Samuel: "We'll see when she comes back."

Sutton and Larson return. Sutton is winded, slumps in her chair. Samuel walks over, checks her forehead. She looks nervous.

Samuel (sympathetic): "I'm sorry."

Sutton scoffs.

Sutton: "Sorry? You decided to turn on me."

Samuel: "I wouldn't if you just left me alone."

Rhonda walks over, curious.

Rhonda: "What's going on?"

The others follow her lead, watching Sutton.

Samuel: "The disease is getting worse. "

Scotty: "What are you saying?"

Sutton: "I'll loose my sight and my mind and then I'll suffocate."

On the sides, Gaines stares at the floor, eyes wide.

Rhonda (bitter): "Good."

Scotty: "Rhonda."

Rhonda (to Scotty): "She killed dad."

Scotty: "She didn't torture him."

Rhonda harrumphs. Jamie gives a little wave.

Jamie: "I'd like to give it a go."

Samuel frowns at him.

Samuel (realizing): "Oh! Right. Yes. By all means."

Samuel steps aside. Jamie steps forward, squats by Sutton, smiles awkwardly.

Jamie: "This might tingle a bit."

Sutton rolls her eyes.

Jamie places a hand on Sutton's head and closes his eyes.

Jamie: "I command you to be healed."

Sutton frowns. Her eyes go wide, then roll back. She slumps back in the chair. Jamie leaps back. Sutton starts thrashing. Samuel and Paula jump in and hold her down. Frankie hides behind Layla. People stare. Sutton stills, comes around, blinks. Samuel and Paula step away. Sutton sits up and looks about, spots Scotty and Rhonda. Her eyes tear up and her chin shakes. She bursts into tears, sobbing quietly.

Spike: "What the-"

Dave: "Bloody hell."

Frankie looks up to Layla.

Frankie (pouting): "Why can Dave say bad words?"

Layla keeps staring at Sutton.

Layla (distant): "Dave isn't a lady..."

Frankie crosses her arms and frowns.

Frankie (petulant): "'s not fair."

Laya (distant): "No it's not..."

Spike (at Sutton): "What's wrong with her?"

Scotty (tilts head): "... I, think she grew a conscious?"

Rhonda frowns at Sutton, at Scotty, waves at their mother.

Rhonda: "So how do we treat her now?"

People look between themselves. Scotty turns to Gaines. Gaines looks up to face him, looks at Sutton, thinks.

Gaines: "Same. Life without parole."

Dave tilts his head and pouts in agreement. People drift back to the tents. Jamie stands in the same spot, staring between his hand and Sutton and back at his hand. Layla steps up to him and wraps an arm around his waist. She pecks a kiss to his cheek. Jamie turns to her.

Layla: "Nicely done, our lord and savior."

She rubs his side. Jamie blushes, puts his arm around her shoulders. They join Frankie, Celine and Dave who are setting up a game board between two tents. Spike, Raj, Rhonda and Leanne are two tents over, Leanne shuffling cards. Two further, Scotty is reading an e-book. Larson and Julia are off to a side, talking. Gaines ambles back from the toilet, looks around.

Gaines: "Where's our medical staff?"

The Brits look up.

Dave (smirking): "They've snuck off."

Frankie(giggling): "They're playing doctor."

Gaines keeps a blank face, nods, sits by Scotty, glances back at a tent.

Gaines: "This one 's ours?"

Scotty nods, eyes on the book. Gaines looks inside. Wide t-shirts and loose drawstring pants are folded on top of two sleeping bags which are laid over exercise mats. There's another e-book atop one shirt. He takes the reader, turns it on, skims the contents, looks up and around. Beyond the pools of torchlight, the atrium is pitch black. Gaines turns off the e-book.

Gaines: "I'm calling it a day. Good luck with research."

Scotty hums. Gaines crawls into the tent.

To be continued...