The Bug - Episode Four — Barry J. Hutchison

Part four of a six-part post-apocalyptic sci-fi horror serial Amy recoiled as she spotted half a dozen of the bugs on her door. She slammed it closed just as her little brother launched himself along the corridor towards her, his face twisted-up into a mask of raw fury. He hit the door hard, shaking it in its frame. Amy sobbed as she pushed back against it, frantically trying to hold it shut. ABOUT THE SERIAL No-one knows where the bugs came from. They emerge from the shadows all over the world, creeping and crawling out of the darkness and burrowing beneath the skin of every man, woman and child they encounter. Once inside, the bugs begin whispering dark thoughts into the minds of their hosts and driving them to carry out horrifying acts of violence against those not infected. Most survivors try to hide from the bugs and the bugged. Most don't succeed. But all over the world pockets of uninfected people find ways first to stay alive, then to fight back. This is their story. Because it isn't a virus that will end the world. It's a bug. ABOUT THIS EPISODE The Bug Episode 4 continues the six-part serialized story about ordinary people trying to survive in a terrifying post-apocalyptic world. Jaden and Col have a plan that involves stealing a train and heading for New York to find Col's parents. The only thing that stands betweem them reaching their goal is a station full of infected, hundreds of miles of track, and an angry marine who has taken their guns. Across the Atlantic, the whispers of the bug are growing louder in DCI Hoon's head, and the Police Scotland chief is finding it increasingly difficult to control his violent temper as he tries to make his way north to reunite with the rest of his group. Meanwhile, the rest of the group is having problems of its own. Baby Immy is hungry, and with her mother not around to feed her, it falls on Daniel and Marshall to venture out in search of supplies. only for them to find someone lying in wait. Fast-pa