Platform 7 (2023) s01e01 Episode Script

1
CHURCH BELL CHIMES
Full house! Ha-ha-ha.
You sneaked that up on me.
Bang on time. As per.
DOG WHIMPERS
DOG WHINES
DOG BARKS
DOG GROWLS
DOG BARKS
Goodbye, old friend.
DOG BARKS
Best friend.
DOG BARKS,
THEN WHINES
If you're planning on doing
what I think you are,
trust me, it's no great shakes
being dead. It really isn't!
Sir, can I help you?
TRAIN HORN HONKS
Can I help you?
Please don't do this!
Please wait!
TRAIN HORN BLARES
Wait, sir!
I'm coming to talk to you.
I'll be right there, sir,
wait for me!
Whatever fuck-ups in your life,
nothing is worth this!
Think of the people who'll find you.
HORN BLARES
They don't deserve this!
HORN BLARES
HE GASPS
BRAKES SCREECH
No!
SHE GASPS
DOG BARKS
SHE SOBS
DOG WHINES
TELEPHONE RINGS
Transport Police.
PC Lockhart, how can I help you?
Lock down the station.
MUFFLED
RADIO CHATTER
It's OK. I'll leave you to it,
all right? All right?
SIREN WAILS
RADIO CHATTER CONTINUES
You witnessed it?
Yes. Yes.
Was anyone on the platform with him?
I-I tried to get to him.
It was too late. I-I was too late!
I tried. I
I tried, just too late.
I-I tried.
Hey. Hey.
I'll just wait.
Hey. You're not to blame, OK?
It's not your fault.
It's not. It truly isn't.
"Please find my dog Ulysses a"
Driver. Poor sod.
First time?
Collect the large parts first, OK?
There's counselling if you need it,
no shame in it.
You'll need that
for the Coroner Liaison,
tucked in his dog's collar,
unsigned. No ID.
We'll run his DNA on the database,
see if it turns up anything on him.
First time or not,
you never get used to it.
Just gotta find a way through it.
BEEP
BEEP
BEEP
LOUDSPEAKER CHIMES
ANNOUNCER: 'The 08:30
Great Central Rail service
'will depart from Platform 4.'
CHEERING AND LAUGHTER
Away from the platform edge, please!
Keep moving back! Back! Thank you.
MAN: You want sugar, yeah?
'The 09:35 Great Central Rail
service will arrive at'
Hey. Look, it's OK!
I was with you last night.
I tried to stop you.
Look, I took my own life here too.
Or at least I think I did.
You can't remember?
In fact,
I have virtually no memory at all.
Sometimes, I get a flash
of something, a room, a street,
even faces
but nothing about my life
or who I was.
You were so certain
so determined to go through with it.
How were you so sure
it was your only way out?
Not your business.
Look, your secret's safe with me.
It's not like
I can tell anyone, is it?
The living can't hear us, can they?
LOUDSPEAKER CHIMES
'The 11:35
Great Central Rail service'
You can't leave here,
it doesn't work like that.
Watch me.
BEEPING
HE GASPS
We're the same,
you and I, don't you see?
I can't leave this place either.
It must be the price we pay
for what we did.
TICKET READER
BEEPS
HE GASPS,
HE STRAINS
HE SIGHS
It's hard, I know.
God knows how many times I've tried.
At least we've got each other
for company.
Fuck off, will you?
Just fuck off!
TICKET READER
BEEPS
ENTRY DOOR WHIRRS
It's all right.
HUBBUB
Take care, everyone, yeah?
Bye. See you all.
LOUDSPEAKER CHIMES
ANNOUNCER: 'Please keep an eye
on any personal belongings and bags.
'Any property left unattended
will be dealt with by staff.'
Can I get you anything else, love?
Sorry.
CARD READER BEEPS
Hi, Abby. Erm, yeah.
I-I think I'm coming down
with some kind of bug,
I just, I feel like crap.
I don't think I'm gonna make
this morning's meeting.
Could you,
could you call them and apologise?
You're a star! Thanks. Bye.
MOBILE BEEPS
SHE SOBS
Hey, Lisa. Hey, Lisa. Wake up.
Be there before the commencement.
CHEERING
Perish the thought.
I am so proud of you, Lisa.
SHE GASPS,
SHE QUIVERS
SHE BREATHES HEAVILY
My name's Lisa!
SHE QUIVERS
I was a teacher.
I had a family.
Why would I take my own life?
SHE SNIFFS
I was loved!
SHE EXHALES
ANNOUNCER: 'The Great Central Rail
service to Birmingham
'will depart from Platform 3.'
You all right?
The other day, I was, er
ungracious. I apologise.
No. It's me who should apologise.
Banging on when you're still trying
to get your head around it all.
I'm Lisa.
Edward.
I assume this is purgatory.
Rather more prosaic
than one was led to believe.
At least it's not the other place.
Well, perhaps
we have that pleasure to come.
Mm. We'd have to have done
something pretty bad.
May I ask how long you've been?
Been stuck here?
It feels like eternity.
I always shared Stephen Hawking's
view of the afterlife.
It's a fairy tale for
people who are afraid of the dark.
If I run into him,
I shall demand a refund.
SHE LAUGHS
My daughter used to take the train
for work meetings occasionally.
Hoping to catch glimpse of her.
Does she work Saturdays?
Oh.
Lost track of time.
Can I ask you something?
You know I said I was having
problems with my memory?
It's starting to come back
but only in bits.
But I remember
my name my parents
that I was a teacher.
There's someone
I think I was close to.
But nothing about
why I would take my own life.
Do you remember why you did it?
Every detail. More's the pity.
Then why can't I?
Some kind of trauma, perhaps.
My nephew had something similar
after serving in Iraq. PTSD.
Huge gaps in his memory.
Good things, he could remember.
His marriage
the birth of his child.
But whatever happened to him
on that last tour of Iraq
was a complete blank.
Trick the mind has, apparently
to help very bad memories.
You want my advice?
Let it go.
Accept that some memories
are meant to be hidden.
Let that genie out of the bottle,
you may regret it.
MUFFLED RADIO
CHATTER
Can I help you?
ETHEREAL
FEMALE VOCAL
MUSIC DROWNS OU
DIALOGUE
Today's a year to the day
since our daughter
We thought it fitting
if we left them where she
I'm I'm really sorry
I'm afraid it's just not possible.
A risk of copycat
giving someone the same idea.
Yeah, of course.
Erm, we wouldn't want to put anyone
through what we've been through.
God, no. Heavens, no.
MALE VOICE ECHOES: 'I love you.
I love you. I love you.'
I do, Lisa. I do.
We won't keep you.
Sorry for the trouble.
No, it's no trouble at all.
Not at all.
It's what we're here for. Thank you.
It still doesn't make sense.
She had everything going for her.
A career she loved, family, friends.
And a home of her own.
Best let them get on, Trev.
Come on.
BEEP
Don't leave me here!
SHE GASPS
I'm free.
I'm free.
You set me free!
We'll, er,
we'll stop by the cemetery
wouldn't want them go to waste.
You're welcome to come too,
if you like.
We've taken up enough of his time.
It's not that.
I actually went this morning.
Well, thanks for coming today.
How could I not?
Take care of yourself, Trevor.
MOBILE RINGS,
DRILLING
Yeah. I got your message.
No, I'm not on shift at the moment.
CHURCH BELL CHIMES
When was this?
SCRAPING,
ENGINE ROARS
BABY WAILS
BUS HISSES
BIRDSONG
Layla?
KEY UNLOCKS DOOR
SHOWER PATTERS
'And I wasn't drunk,
before you ask.'
Perish the thought.
Wriggle your toes.
SHE WINCES
Push against me?
SHE GASPS
What's that "M" for?
Matthew.
Matt or Matty to my friends.
It's what we call in the trade
an "inversion injury",
i.e., a bog-standard sprain.
You'll need to keep off it
for a bit.
Is there anyone at home
who can help you?
Nope. Just yours truly.
SHE CHUCKLES
IN FLASHBACK
Matty
DAD: 'It still doesn't make sense.
She had everything going for her.
'A career she loved.
And a home of her own.'
Mental health issues?
Was I mentally ill?
Dad was right.
None of it makes sense.
I didn't know you had another one.
Before your time. She was my first.
LOUDSPEAKER CHIMES
I was covering
for the night manager.
It was the same platform,
but she didn't come in through the
front entrance like the old guy.
She came in over
the security fence, in nightclothes.
Yeah, it's always bugged me
why she chose to come in that way.
The security fence on Platform 7.
That is odd.
The, er the old man is my first.
You just never know what's going on
in people's lives, do you?
TELEPHONE RINGS
Soccer train, Saturday,
where are we on the PCU?
Six from the local force, sir, plus
PCs Tasifa, Laxton and myself.
Double it. Home team lose again,
we'll have
another shitshow on our hands.
HE SIGHS
TELEPHONE RINGS
BEEP
MATT BRUSHES TEETH
SHE INHALES
SHARPLY
Trying to work out
if your eyes are brown or hazel.
Hm, I can make them disappear too.
THEY CHUCKLE
It's osso buco.
Mm-hm.
Best outside Italy.
It's a house speciality.
It'll kill the taste of my fish.
SHE SIGHS
Go on, then. Go on.
Huh?
Mmm! Seriously yum.
So, tell me about yourself.
Like what?
Anything.
Everything. Family, friends,
siblings, all points in between.
No siblings, just me.
An only child.
So you're used to getting
your own way. Hardly.
My parents were so afraid
of spoiling me,
they totally went the other way.
My mission will be
to put that right.
SHE CHUCKLES
And you?
My father cleared out
when I was two.
And my mother died
when I was at med school.
I'm sorry.
You must have been very close.
So, the teaching, what subject?
English and Drama.
So, you prefer to live
in the world of make-believe?
I mean, can you blame me?
Look at the mess
that the real world's in.
MATT SOBS
Shh!
HE SOBS
Shh! It's OK.
I'm here
RAIN PATTERS
HE WHIMPERS
What was going on with me, Matty?
Were you trying to help me,
or was I beyond help?
THUNDER RUMBLES
FOOTSTEPS
HE SIGHS
Where are my fucking keys?
Fruit bowl?
DOOR CLOSES
The works were scheduled
for the bank holiday.
KNOCK ON DOOR
Yes?
Right, well, tell him I'm gonna be
calling him on the hour,
every hour, until we speak.
Oh, my God. I'm surrounded
by idiots! What can I do you for?
The fatality last year that
bothered you, I did some checking.
There was no suicide note,
but the coroner put it down to
mental health issues.
Could explain
why she came over the fence.
Yeah, er, yeah, erm
I know, I-I remember.
Erm, it was just
..her climbing in that way
in her nightclothes, and it
She was my age.
Well, I can dig around a bit more,
check out the CCTV,
see if that throws up anything.
No, no, no, there's, there's
no need, really. A good cause.
OK.
Right.
DOOR OPENS
THEN CLOSES
Mum.
Two down, "Albatross".
Missed a bit, Dad.
You feel it too, don't you?
That something's not right
about this.
DOOR CLOSES,
DOG BARKS
DOORBELL RINGS
MUM SIGHS
Oh, missed a bit, Trev.
SHE CHUCKLES
SHE LAUGHS,
DOG BARKS
Hello.
Oh, Izzy! Trev, look who's here!
Hiya.
You got time for a coffee?
Oh, yeah, please.
Come on in. Come here.
DOG BARKS
Hello, Banjo!
DOG BARKS
You all right?
Banjo, shush!
DOG BARKS,
THEN GROWLS
DOG BARKS
So good of you to keep looking in
on us.
It's not a chore!
Anyway, Banjo needed a walk.
How'd you get on
at the station, then?
Oh, they wouldn't let us leave
the flowers you gave us.
Risk of copycat.
Matt go with you as planned?
Yeah. Yeah. He was such a comfort,
wasn't he? Mm.
First time we've seen him
in I don't know how long. Mm.
He looked exhausted.
I keep asking him for Sunday lunch,
come and have a home-cooked meal,
But he's working all hours
in that hospital.
It's, er, it's no life, is it?
I should have just been
a better friend to her.
Hey, hey, Izzy,
why would you even think that? Hm?
Hey, no-one was a better friend
to her than you!
Just don't be nice to me.
Please, I don't deserve it.
You were like the sister
she never had. Her words, not mine.
DOG BARKS
Thanks for the coffee.
Any time you're passing,
you're you're always welcome.
Don't leave it so long next time.
Thanks again! Come on, then, Banjo.
Bye, Izzy.
See ya.
Take care.
Bye.
DOOR CLOSES
SHE EXHALES
ENGINE TURNS OVER
OUTSIDE
SHE GROANS
What are you doing? You don't
even know what you're looking for.
This is so fucked up!
Someone must know
what was going on with me.
SHE EXHALES
DRAMATIC MUSIC
DROWNS OUT DIALOGUE
Richard!
TELEPHONE RINGS
PC Lockhart again. I'm still waiting
on the CCTV on the Lisa Evans case.
If you could chase it up.
Thank you.
Getting a sandwich
if anyone asks, yeah?
Got a shedload going spare, mate.
Cleo went into overkill again.
You're all right.
Ms Diaz. PC Lockhart.
We spoke on the phone.
Thank you for seeing me.
About Lisa's case, you said.
I'm sorry, but I thought
you guys only go after
ticket dodgers and the like.
Our remit is wider than that.
Er, criminal damage,
sexual offences fatalities.
I understand you and Miss Evans
were close friends.
You, er, taught at the same school.
Mm-hm.
Well, er, as you know from the
inquest, the coroner concluded
Erm
Ahem.
I'm so sorry.
Ah
Gracias.
It's all right.
The coroner concluded
her mental health
was the overriding factor
in her death.
In the weeks before it happened,
what was your impression
of her state of mind?
Erm It was
at the end of the school holidays,
so I was at my parents' place
in Spain for most of it.
Aside from a few texts and video
calls, we didn't have much contact.
Did she talk in any of them
about being depressed?
Probably didn't want to worry me.
Typical of Lisa,
she always put others first.
Mm. Her relationship with
Doctor Goodson, all was good there?
Yeah. From the get-go,
she said he was the one for her.
And he felt the same.
You only had to see them together
to know that.
When I got the news,
I flew straight back to see him.
He said after term ended,
she fell into a black depression.
For weeks, he tried to persuade her
to see her GP
or a therapist, anyone.
But she wanted to work through it
herself.
He said
he would never forgive himself
for not picking up how serious
it was, that he had failed her.
SHE SIGHS
He's not alone in that.
Your texts and video calls
with her
was there anything that caused you
concern about her?
Well, only the Richard thing.
Richard Shale.
Erm, Matt's old flatmate.
She said he kept loitering
outside their flat
while Matt was at work.
Not just in the day
but at night too.
He was stalking her?
I don't know about that,
but it creeped her out big time.
Well, did you tell
the investigating team about him?
Yeah, they said
they would follow up on it.
Oh
I met him once
at a surprise birthday party
that Matt held for her.
He just sat in a corner all night
staring at her.
Do you have his contact details?
No, but he worked
in the same hospital as Matt.
MOBILE PINGS
Oh, shit,
I'm gonna be late for class.
Thank you for your time.
Bye, then.
SHE CLEARS THROA
MAN: 'Lisa, I presume.'
I'm Richard. Matt's not here yet.
As you've probably gathered,
punctuality's not his strong point.
Among others.
He said you met in A&E.
Yeah. I did my ankle in,
and Matty looked after me.
Hm. Course he did.
So you work in the hospital as well?
In A&E too, or?
Neurology.
Emergency medicine's
for adrenaline junkies.
SHE SCOFFS
You're a teacher.
For my sins. Yeah.
Hm. I can think of worse sins.
Ah, the man himself. Finally.
Sorry, sorry! RTA came in.
Just as I was leaving,
all hell broke loose.
I hope you made her feel welcome?
Why wouldn't I?
At least I'm not empty-handed.
This way.
You'll need these.
Good luck.
Thanks.
SHE GASPS
MATT: 'Taking your pulse.'
It's perfect sync.
Do you love me?
You first.
I asked first.
SHE CHUCKLES
We'll say it at the same time, deal?
No wimping out?
HE BREATHES DEEPLY
Ha
Ready?
One, two, three
I love you!
SHE GASPS
You lying, double-crossing
little shit.
I-I love you.
SHE GIGGLES
I love you.
I love you, I love you! Mm.
I do, Lisa. I do!
I love you. I love you.
Sorry,
I thought I heard you leaving.
Matty went for a takeout.
Your flatmate gives off
a weird vibe.
Oh, did you pick up on that,
did you?
Mm-hm. He called you
an adrenaline junkie.
I mean, the guy is bordering
on being a fucking genius,
but when it comes to people,
he can be a total arsehole.
SHE CHUCKLES
Especially with women.
He literally sends them
running for the hills.
Did you meet each other
at the hospital?
We trained together.
Poor guy was utterly friendless.
I kind of took him under my wing.
Now I can't get shot of him.
When I got the A&E job,
he followed me down here.
Don't let him get under your skin,
he's not worth it. Mm-hm.
What? I just need to send this.
MESSAGE ALER
SHE SNIGGERS
DOOR BUZZER
Doctor Shale?
PC Lockhart, Transport Police.
Do you have a few minutes?
Concerning?
Fatality a year ago
at the station, Lisa Evans.
A few discrepancies in her file
need clarifying.
Now's not a good time.
Er, my, er, contact details
to arrange a time that suits you.
BEEP
BEEPING
BEEP
BEEP
BEEP
SHE QUIVERS
HE SIGHS
SHE PANTS
SHE GASPS
SHE SCREAMS
MUFFLED VOICE: 'Train!'
TRAIN BRAKES SCREECH
THUNDER RUMBLES
SIGN CREAKS
WIND WHISTLES