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Overview

First aired

Saturday, November 26, 2016

Written by

Patrick Ness

Directed by

Wayne Che Yip

Runtime

45 minutes

Time Travel

Present

Tropes (Potential Spoilers!)

LGBTQA+, Shape Shifting

Location (Potential Spoilers!)

Coal Hill School, Earth, England, London, Metaphysical Reality

Synopsis

With the gang trapped in detention and out of the way, Miss Quill accepts Dorothea's astonishing offer: to help remove the arn from her head, so she can finally reclaim her freedom.

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MISS QUILL: That's the size of a kitten.

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MISS QUILL: Only if you insult their worshippers online.

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[Assembly hall]

(Straight on from Quill locking the team in the classroom and walking off down the corridor.)

QUILL: Ready.

(Dorothea is in jodhpurs and riding boots.)

QUILL: Is that what you're wearing? Is that what you are?
DOROTHEA: They'll stay in the classroom? Don't want them trying to solve any mysteries while we're away.
QUILL: Oh, they're such goody-two-shoes, they'd probably stay in there without a key or a teacher. Now, come on, are we leaving or aren't we?
DOROTHEA: Are you really so eager? The chances of you surviving this are
QUILL: I'll either end today dead or with this thing out of my skull.
DOROTHEA: Are you entirely sure about that? The Arn knows your thoughts, yes?
QUILL: Yeah.
DOROTHEA: Then it knows you want it out. And surely the only reason it hasn't killed you already is that you yourself don't believe that this will work.
QUILL: What are you getting at?
DOROTHEA: At some point today, should everything go according to plan, there will come a moment when you start to believe.
QUILL: And when that happens?
DOROTHEA: There will be no going back. You really will either end today dead or with your freedom.
QUILL: Then let's begin. I wish to be free.
DOROTHEA: And who, I wonder, is Quill when she's free?
QUILL: I am war itself.


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