Day of the Triffids: 1.2

"We'll give you shelter. And you give us hope. That'd be best, don't ya think?"

- John

Synopsis
At the hospital, Bill Masen finds Doctor Soames ascending a staircase. The man is frantic and blind. He doesn't understand what is going on other than the fact that he suddenly lost the ability to see. Bill, whose sight is operating perfectly well, tries to calm him down and tells him that he will try and find help. He wanders through the various wings in the hopsital, but the building is largely deserted. In one room he finds a patient calling out to his doctor, asking him to open the blinds. Bill looks down and sees the man's attending physician, Doctor McDonald, lying dead on the floor. He goes back out into the hall and sees a throng of people milling about the bottom of a stair well. They too appear to be blind. He returns to the room where he left Doctor Soames, but the man is nowhere to be found. He steps out onto the balcony and realizes that Soames has leapt to his death. Bill goes out into the streets of London looking for signs of life.

Elsewhere in the city, a woman named Jo Payton gets into her car and begins driving. Like Bill, Jo can see perfectly well. She continues driving until she runs out of petrol. She sees an elderly blind man begin shepherded across the street by a young woman, equally blind. She gets out of her car to see what is the matter when an elderly, bearded man approaches her, asking for help. Jo tries to steady him and helps him to the sidewalk, at which point, the man turns on her and attacks her. He presses her against the hood of her car declaring that she will now be his eyes.

Notes & Trivia

 * Based upon the 1951 novel by John Wyndham.


 * This episodes establishes the setting as Northwest London.


 * Final appearance of Doctor Soames.