"[ film projector running, horse galloping ] [ gunshot ]" "[ water flowing ]" "[ indistinct British military radio transmissions ]" "MAN: [ on radio ] 3-1 Alpha, roger so far, over." "SECOND MAN: 3-1 Bravo, roger so far, over." "THIRD MAN: 3-1 Charlie, roger so far, over." "FOURTH MAN:" "There is suspicious vehicle movement from subjects in paramilitary uniforms at grid 0-9er- 9er-1-4-5-9er-9er-8." "Safety patrol and cordon required, over." "3-1 Alpha, roger that." "They just pulled out." "3-1 Bravo, roger." "ETA 6. 3 out." "3-1 Charlie, roger that ETA figure. 6 out." "[ click ]" "[ clock ticking ]" "[ bell chimes resoundingly ] [ distant howling ] [ ticking ] [ squealing ]" "[ ticking ] [ squealing ]" "[ creature grunting and squealing ]" "[ grunting ] [ knife plunges, creature shrieks ]" "[ panting ]" "[ grunts ]" "[ grunts, exhales ]" "[ breathing hard ]" "[ rattling doorknob ]" "[ dial tone ]" "[ line rings ] [ whispers ] Come on." "[ rings ] Come on." "Come on." "[ rings ] [ clicks ] Hello?" "Hello?" "[ static ] [ indistinct military radio transmission ]" "Hello?" "MAN:" "This is 2-1 Bravo!" "Contact!" "[ static ]" "IED device detonated, heavy machine-gun fire inbound!" "[ machine gun firing ]" "One serious casualty!" "[ static ] [ dial tone ] [ disconnect tone ]" "[ clatter ] [ indistinct radio transmissions and static ]" "[ ticking ]" "[ groans ]" "[ clattering ]" "[ gasps ]" "Come back!" "Come back!" "Come back!" "Aah!" "[ bottle shatters ]" "Please." "Please." "[ faucet running ]" "A.J. Budd." "My name... is A.J. Budd." "My name is A.J. Budd." "[ water flowing ]" "[ rattles doorknob more strongly ]" "[ clock ticking ]" "[ draft of air whistles ] [ gasps ]" "[ same bell chimes as earlier ]" "[ creature shrieks ] [ growling ]" "[ grunting ] [ kicks chair ] [ shrieks ]" "Wait!" "Wait!" "Wait!" "Just stop!" "Just fucking stop!" "Be nice!" "Be nice!" "Fuck!" "Just wait a moment!" "[ squealing ]" "Just--Fuck!" "[ slashes ]" "I will fucking drop you where you st-- [ growling ]" "[ creature grunting ]" "[ squealing ]" "Aah!" "[ squeals ] [ growling ]" "[ squealing ]" "[ creature grunts ]" "[ clock ticking ]" "[ scraping ] [ ticking ]" "[ static ] [ attempting to tune radio ]" "MAN:" "2-1 Bravo, contact!" "IED device detonated!" "One serious casualty!" "[ men shouting, gunfire ] [ men shouting ] [ combat gunfire ] Anyone else injured?" "[ men shouting, gunfire ]" "MAN:" "Cease fire!" "[ ambulance klaxon ] MAN:" "Aah!" "[ radio returns to static ]" "[ snoring lightly ] [ water trickling ] [ heavy machinery rumbling ] [ men shouting ]" "[ sighs ]" "[ sighs ]" "[ bell chimes ]" "[ clock ticking ]" "[ faint electrical buzz ]" "[ cup scraping saucer ]" "[ buzzing ]" "[ buzzing stops ]" "Someone's watching." "I'm getting out." "I'm getting out!" "[ door creaks ]" "[ rattling ]" "[ rattling ]" "[ tapping ] [ tapping ] [ tap ]" "[ hollow sound ]" "[ breakage continues ]" "[ books clattering ]" "My name is Lieutenant Edward Sterling of the 12th London Regiment." "[ somber piano music playing ]" "I have been trapped inside this awful place for what feels like a lifetime." "I fear I will never leave it alive." "I write this for whatever man is next trapped in this prison." "Let me tell you the rules, which, though unwritten, you must live or surely die by." "You will be fed and watered every day, the same food every day, forever." "You will grow to hate the sight and smell of it." "[ panting ]" "You are trapped here." "There is no escape from the house." "It is sealed by unholy means." "The house never changes." "It is eternal." "I have smashed and hacked and burned, but every day, I awake to find it the same as before." "[ squealing ]" "Most important of all... every day the bell will ring..." "Come on, you barmy bastard!" "and every day you must fight or die." "You must prepare for war." "[ creature squealing ]" "You must kill or be killed." "There is no mercy." "They never stop coming." "You must slaughter them all... or die yourself." "[ doorknob rattles ] [ piano music continuing ]" "These creatures are unnatural." "No matter what you do, by morning, they will vanish... [ bell chimes ] and when the bell tolls, they will come for you again." "Your worst enemy is time." "The empty, endless days will grind you down to nothing." "Occupation and industry are key." "Find work or go mad." "If you have succeeded me into this life of pain, then I truly pity you, my friend." ""Improvise..."" ""adapt..."" ""overcome."" "[ squeals ]" "[ drumming ]" "[ drumming ]" "Thank you, Wembley, and good night!" "[ snaps ]" "If not for my faith," "I'd have taken my life years ago." "If you are reading this... [ playing ] then you are lost and damned like me." "[ music ends ]" "[ rattling doorknob ] [ bell chimes ]" "[ faucet running ]" "[ object bounces ]" "[ static ]" "BUDD:" "Front support position!" "Place!" "Arms bend!" "And stretch!" "And bend!" "And stretch!" "And bend!" "And stretch!" "[ leather squeaking ] [ panting ]" "Fuck!" "Fuck's sake." "[ water flowing ] [ heavy machinery rumbling ] [ men shouting ]" "[ bell chimes ]" "STERLING:" "These creatures are murderers... [ coughing ] wild things without souls, rabid beasts to be put down like mad dogs." "Animals are better trapped than fought." "[ fabric tears ]" "I use brains, not brawn." "It's simple enough work." "I use my prison against itself." "[ chair creaks ]" "Rope made from curtain cloth... attached and used as a hoist for the beam from the cellar... [ bell chimes ] made to prey on the creature's blinded eyes." "[ creaks ]" "A single sound is all it takes to lure them in." "Swift and deadly." "[ creature shrieks ]" "It leaves a subject for examination." "I've scoured every inch of this cage, and now I shall look elsewhere for answers." "[ pop ] [ pop ] [ pop ] [ pop ] [ pop ] [ pop ] [ pop ] [ pop ]" "[ scraping ]" "[ knife slicing ]" "[ grunts ]" "[ gasping ]" "[ groans ]" "BUDD: ♪ Shot to death by a Royal Marine ♪ [ clock ticking ]" "♪ Royal Marines" "♪ Royal Marines" "♪ We're the best in this whole universe ♪" "♪ We're the best you've ever seen ♪ [ muffled sound of clock ticking ]" "BUDD: [ muffled ] ♪ Down in deepest Africa" "♪ Where the Yanks have never been ♪" "♪ Lies the body of a Zulu warrior ♪ [ muffled ] ♪ Shot to death by a Royal Marine ♪" "♪ Royal Marines" "♪ Royal Marines" "♪ We're the best in this whole universe ♪" "♪ We're the best [ muffled ] ♪ You've ever seen" "Royal Marines!" "♪ Down in deepest Africa" "♪ Where the Yanks have never been ♪ [ muffled ] ♪ Lies the body of a Zulu warrior ♪" "♪ Shot to death by a Royal Marine ♪" "♪ Royal Marines" "♪ Royal Marines" "♪ We're the best in this whole universe ♪" "♪ We're the best you've ever... ♪ [ squealing ]" "Royal Marines!" "[ splashing ] Yeah!" "Come on, you fucking snarly grub fuck!" "Yeah!" "Come on, big boy!" "Come on!" "Come on!" "Yeah!" "Royal Marines!" "Yeah!" "[ tub water splashing ] [ water draining ]" "[ imitates phone ringing ] Brrr brrr." "Brrr brrr." "Hello?" "Stand to!" "Stand to!" "Wait till you see the whites in their eyes!" "[ imitating radio static ]" "Hello, 5-1 Alpha, this is 2-1 Bravo, fire mission!" "Over!" "[ imitates static ]" "Snarly grub fucks inbound!" "I say again, snarly grub fucks inbound!" "I need H.E. and Woolly P. on my FPF now!" "Out!" "Stick with me." "Here we go." "Grenade!" "[ bang ]" "Grenade!" "[ bang ]" "Grenade!" "[ bang ] Take cover!" "STERLING:" "The dream comes every night." "Always the same dream." "I lie, pinned in the cold, wet mud, unable to rise, staring at the clouds." "A lifetime ago, I would have called it a nightmare... [ inkwell clinks ] but now..." "now I yearn for it." "Every night, I see the sky again... and every night, I'm free." "[ water flowing ]" "Com group!" "[ bell chimes ]" "STERLING:" "Another endless day, another hateful breakfast, another vile death." "A day of grim tedium loomed large ahead." "I thought to pass the time by hacking at the cellar wall, as I'd done the night before." "At first, I didn't see it." "The single brick I smashed out the previous day was still in pieces on the floor." "It had not returned as I'd slept." "For the first time, I had changed something." "Maybe there was a way out of this damned prison after all." "BUDD:" "Stand by!" "Go!" "Come on, Budd!" "If you're not puking in the bucket, you're not working hard enough!" "[ bell chimes ]" "[ shovel scraping ]" "Bend!" "Stretch!" "Bend!" "Stretch!" "Bend!" "Stretch!" "Bend!" "Stretch!" "Bend!" "Stretch!" "Bend!" "Stretch!" "Bend!" "Stretch!" "Bend!" "Stretch!" "[ humming ]" "STERLING:" "Another day." "I wipe the blood from my hands and climb the stairs to carve my mark." "It feels sinful to keep score, but I cannot see even these ungodly lives pass from the world without some small memorial." "In their deaths, I mark my days." "[ screams ]" "Aah!" "Aah!" "[ choked cry ]" "BUDD:" "I found the crosses." "He climbs the stairs to carve his mark." "There was a lot." "How do you do 30 years?" "How do you keep yourself...sane?" "How do you keep yourself sane for fucking... 30 years is..." "28 left." "28." "I've done two." "Done two fucking years." "Two fucking..." "Fuck you." "Fuck you for carving those fucking crosses." "Fuck you!" "You know I counted the days, too?" "I did." "I marked my days." "Not with... but...[ sniffles ] but I did it." "I did." "Um, I marked... and, um...[ sniffling ]" "I don't...[ sighs ]" "It was nice for me to find." "I'm fucked." "I remember my first day." "That's the first thing I remember." "That's fucked up, isn't it?" "That's the first thing..." "I remember... [ sniffles ] is my first day in the house." "That's the first thing I remember." "Not..." "Not falling down the stairs when I was 5." "Not fucking brothers or sisters or..." "I remember waking up... and putting on my uniform... and looking in the mirror... and thinking, "Where the fuck am I?"" "And I just..." "I just..." "I thought they'd come back." "Come back." "[ crying ] I just don't know what to do... because I'm fucking stuck here... and I just don't know what to do," "and I want you to tell me what to do." "I want you to tell me what to do so I can go." "Just..." "Just tell me what to do so I can go." "Just tell me what to do, and I'll do it." "I'll do it." "I don't care what it is." "I don't care what it is." "I just want to know, so I can go!" "That's what I want to know." "Did you even think about that?" "How do you think it makes me feel to... to...to find that and to know that that's-- that's... how...how long you were here?" "How's that..." "How's that make... [ laughs ] Oh, fuck." "Ohh." "I'm talking to a coat." "[ laughing ]" "Oh... [ digging ]" "[ Budd panting ] [ muttering ]" "I'm getting out of here." "[ faint sounds of combat ] [ men shouting ]" "MAN:" "IED device detonated, heavy machine-gun fire inbound!" "[ ambulance klaxon ]" "MAN:" "I need immediate helo evac!" "Well... [ machine-gun fire ]" "MAN:" "Returning fire in section 8!" "[ machine-gun fire ]" "SECOND MAN:" "One serious casualty!" "[ machine-gun fire ] [ water flowing ]" "[ groaning ]" "Oh, fuck." "[ gasping ] Fuck." "Oh, fucking shite." "[ vomiting ]" "[ clock ticking ]" "[ shrieking ]" "[ Budd vomiting ]" "BUDD:" "Easy way, or... the hard way." "Let me tell you how this is going to work." "Explanation." "Demonstration." "Imitation." "Explanation:" "You are going to tell me exactly who or what you are." "Demonstration:" "I am PO40516-Echo, Corporal A.J. Budd," "Her Majesty's Royal Marine Commandos." "Imitation:" "You are?" "Where's your point of entry?" "How can I extract?" "Give me a fucking sit-rep now!" "[ grunting softly ]" "Rembrandt me." "Put me in the picture." "[ grunting ]" "The hard way then." "[ creature gasping ]" "I just want to know... how do I get out?" "You don't even have to... even tell me any of the other things." "Just that." "How hard is that?" "Okay." "[ gasping ]" "I think you should sleep on it... okay?" "[ pats leg ]" "[ door creaks ]" "[ floorboard creaks ]" "[ squealing ]" "It's fucking chewing me!" "[ gnawing ] [ combat gunfire, shouting ]" "MAN:" "Anyone else injured?" "IED device detonated!" "Aah!" "[ stabbing ] [ creature shrieks ]" "[ door bursts open ] [ water flowing ]" "[ gasping breaths ]" "[ bell chimes ]" "[ clock ticking ]" "[ water dripping ] [ footsteps ]" "STERLING:" "Then I found it, the only thing I can ever remember wanting-- a way out." "At the end of my tunnel, a door buried so deep beneath the house that it didn't seem real." "[ sounds of combat ]" "It filled me with fear." "[ whistle blows ] [ machine-gun fire, explosions ] [ plays note ] STERLING:" "It pains me to say that what was through there was too terrible to face... [ plays note ] and I had not the courage to accept my fate." "[ plays chord ] [ fallboard slams ]" "I am lost." "What reserves I've built up against this prison have crumbled to nothing." "The dream of escape has long been the only thing to give me hope, and now all is lost, and I can find no comfort in my God." "I cannot go back down there." "I have made the decision to leave by other means." "It is a mortal sin to take one's life, but I know that I am already damned." "At least I won't have to wake in this godforsaken house again." "[ razor slices ] [ blood dripping ]" "[ piano plays single note ]" "[ fallboard slams ]" "[ inhales sharply ]" "[ panting ]" "[ solid thud ] [ thumping ]" "STERLING:" "I woke up alive." "I thought I hadn't cut deep enough, so I went at it again with a will." "Again, I awoke, still living, still trapped." "If death was no escape, then the doors held no fear." "I crawled to them." "Cruel joke." "They are barred against me now, a reward for my cowardice." "There is no escape for me, and I am damned." "My final act." "I will place this book by the doors as a warning for any who follow me." "That done, I aim to escape [ creature squealing ] by the only way left to me." "I will carve away at myself until there is nothing left." "I take my own life again and again." "From agonizing over one mortal sin to endless floods of them," "I use death as an escape." "Hours of unknowing blackness, leaping past the days" "and starting again each morning." "I destroy myself inch by inch." "I cut pieces from myself that aren't restored." "My hands, crippled." "All comfort from art and music, gone." "My mind, weakened." "I'm changing." "Stitched, mindless." "[ crying ]" "STERLING:" "I am becoming what I've killed." "[ gasping ]" "I write this while I still can." "Still, I climb the stairs to make my mark." "[ plays note ] No blood on my hands now but mine own." "Broken." "[ discordant notes ]" "Beaten." "Damned." "[ attempting to play ]" "A prisoner here forevermore." "[ playing tunelessly ]" "[ striking keys ]" "In my deaths..." "I mark my days." "[ screaming ] [ water dripping ]" "Aah!" "Aah!" "[ whimpers ]" "[ book clatters ]" "[ panting ]" "[ whispering ] I'm getting out." "This is my way." "I'm getting out." "I'm getting out." "I'm getting out of here." "[ solid thud ] [ distant explosions echoing ]" "[ sounds of combat ] [ men shouting ]" "Cas rep!" "[ machine-gun fire, shouting ]" "Cas rep!" "MAN:" "Medic!" "Anyone else injured?" "I need a cas evac!" "IED device detonated, heavy machine-gun fire inbound!" "One serious casualty!" "6-Bravo-9er, we're returning fire at section 8!" "Immediate area secured!" "I need immediate helo evac!" "SECOND MAN: [ on radio ] Helo, roger, so far." "Helo inbound." "[ overlapping radio transmissions and shouting ] [ ambulance klaxon ]" "THIRD MAN:" "Cease fire!" "Aah!" "[ water flowing ]" "[ loud rushing of air ]" "[ helicopter rotors ]" "[ heartbeat ]" "[ heartbeat slowing ]" "[ helicopter rotors fading ] [ heartbeat stops ] [ piano music ]" "[ clock ticking ]" "[ bell chimes ]" "[ film projector running, horse galloping ] [ gunshot ]"