Dark Season Episode Five

Thomas and Marcie discover they are not in an ancient tomb but in some form of underground installation.  Pendragon, Inga and their workers follow the children underground.  Pendragon has been here before – she recalls when the place was alive with activity.  She instructs Inga that the boy is important, but the girl is dispensable.

Returning from the hospital, Miss Maitland realises that Marcie must still be investigating the dig.  She and Reet set off to find Marcie, but their attempts are hampered by one of Pendragon’s guards, who flatly refuses to let them enter the site. Reet insists they must now try her way, and so they sneak in through a gap in the fence.  They find the cabin, and steal some of Pendragon’s files.  They return to Miss Maitland’s classroom.

Investigating further into the installation, Marcie and Thomas discover M.O.D files.  Pendragon and her followers confront them and Thomas is captured, but Marcie flees through a nearby vent.  Pausing only to remark on her means of escape -  ‘a ventilation shaft – marvellous, I’m a cliché!’ - Marcie begins to examine the M.O.D files.

Pendragon discovers the Behemoth’s lifeline is functioning and activates a panel.  A door rumbles open, and an imposing control room is revealed.

Above ground the school shakes, and the windows of Miss Maitland’s classroom shatter.  When they recover, Reet and Miss Maitland begin to examine Pendragon’s files.  They discover the school was built directly on top of the Behemoth.      

Marcie continues up the ventilation shaft, emerging in the school hall.  She goes to confer with Maitland and Reet. 

In the control room, Pendragon explains that the Behemoth is a defence computer that would have made the British Isles great.  Thomas is unimpressed - the project was clearly shut down, and the Behemoth doesn’t appear to be working.  Pendragon explains that it is incomplete.  The Behemoth needs a human component, a ‘chosen one’.  As Luke hurt himself, she intends to use Thomas.  She is angered to discover that Thomas’s hair is dyed blond, and Thomas deduces that Pendragon’s Nazi beliefs caused the project to be abandoned.   She decides to use Thomas anyway, but he pushes her into the Behemoth’s chair.  Clamps close around Pendragon, and the chair retreats into the machine.   Pendragon is ecstatic – the creation has embraced the creator, and together they will go to meet their leader. Inga operates a control, and powered by massive machinery, the Behemoth begins to rise upwards…

Outside the school, Reet is disturbed to see a familiar black clad figure with shaded eyes and blond hair emerge from a car.  In the assembly hall, Miss Maitland has again begun to doubt Marcie, when the stage begins to buckle.  The doors to the hall open and Eldritch strides in as the Behemoth rises up through the broken stage.  The machine unfolds, emitting brilliant light.  Pendragon’s voice, eerily mechanised, speaks: ‘I am Behemoth!’