The Drowning (2021) s01e01 Episode Script

Come on its not that bad, is it?
Okay, that will protect you alright.
Okay, you go and play.
Yas, you awake?
You know your showers either
cold or bloody freezing, don't ya?
Its a Scandi lifestyle thing.
Aha yeah, except without a sauna
and a fjord its just a broken shower.
Any other complaints?
Yeah, your couch is like
sleeping on a speed bump.
I'm glad you stayed over,
reminds me why I live alone.
Sure you don't wanna run
through this one last time?
No, I should have left already.
Thank you.
- Why am I so nervous?
- Your pitch is great, they'll love you.
But if you feel it slipping away,
just get down on your knees and beg.
That's how I was gonna start.
Call me when its done.
Maybe.
Lock the door when you leave.
We're small but ambitious and
we would really love the opportunity
to be able to work with you.
I think what we can offer is
a very personal service um,
but with all the professional benefits.
Hello.
Hello its Layla,
your account supervisor.
Is now a good time for a
quick word on your overdraft?
Nope.
What we really think
Yeah, I think what we will be
able to do is work with you
and give you a very personal service
but with all the benefits of a big
private company.
Where to?
To the school, please.
Hello this is Ben, leave a message.
Jodie, what are you doing here?
- Is he here?
- He's working.
Its really not a good time.
Jodie! Jodie.
Perhaps I can give him a
message, get him to call you.
Jodie, the light is on.
Oh, what's the point of
even having a light if
- Hi.
- I only need him for a minute.
You should probably call ahead first.
Kate doesn't really do spontaneous.
I'm actually on a bit of a deadline, so.
Ben.
What? What is it?
Err, I don't know how to, um.
Hey.
You're gonna think I'm mad.
- I've just seen him.
- What?
Our son.
You've seen Tom?
I don't understand.
On his way to school
like any other child,
I can't make any more sense of
it than you, but it was him.
I got on his bus, he,
he was nearer to me than you are now.
Jodie.
If you'd seen him Ben,
he has the same hair, he moves the same,
he's, he's exactly how Ive
imagined him every day since his
He's gone, Jodie.
He has the scar, right here.
- Lots of kids have scars.
- Same face, same eyes,
- everything.
- Shit.
It can't be him.
I, I followed him all the
way to the school gates,
so that I wouldn't lose
him it's, it's Tom.
He died, Jodie.
You don't know that.
They never found him.
What happened that day,
there's nothing we can do to change it,
you have to find a way to let him go.
I know. I know this, this makes
no sense, and I've no idea how,
or, or where he's been but, it's Tom.
Everything alright?
- What does she want from you?
- She thinks she saw Tom.
- Christ.
- You know she's playing you
so she can keep on coming
here whenever she wants.
She never got over it.
Who has?
When are you gonna stop indulging her,
for her sake, not ours?
Mum.
Come on, darling.
- Hello. Excuse me?
- Miss.
- Err, can I help?
- My son, he was abducted nine years ago.
I know where he is.
Coroner's report.
No proof of life found throughout,
no suggestion of third party involvement.
Concluded that he's suffered a
tragic accident and drowned. I'm sorry.
- They dredged the lake, he wasn't there.
- He wasn't found.
In almost ten years, nothing.
Until now.
You think I wouldn't
recognise my own son?
It's all in there, the couple
who never came forward,
the witnesses who saw them.
He has a scar, he fell off a swing
and he needed
stitches below his left eye.
He still has it to this day.
I can't imagine what
you've been through.
I don't need you to, I just
want you to get him back.
Well, leave it with us.
So you're gonna go now?
I've told you where he is.
We'll look into it.
If we find anything at all,
we'll get a warrant, we'll be in touch.
You have one new message.
- Jodie, what the hell?
- They've cancelled.
I tried rescheduling but
they're not interested.
- Fuck's sake Jodie, where are you?
- You have one old message.
- Hi Jodie, it's your dad.
- Can you please call me.
I hope you're getting my messages.
I need to talk to you,
please pick up Jodie.
Message deleted.
Jump in.
Hi, um, could you put me
through to the music department please.
Great.
Hey, you okay?
- Yeah.
- I think Yasmin is going to try and kill you,
the chainsaw is not for the garden.
If you see me running just err,
try and slow her down, will ya?
I'm staying out of it,
but it was good knowing you.
If you're looking for a job you're
out of luck. Company's going bust.
Look, my car broke
down and my phone died,
it was just the perfect storm basically.
And you couldn't find a
cab to take you to the pitch
- that might have saved us.
- I'll call them, I'll explain.
I already tried, they interrupted my lie
to say they'd gone with another bid.
Shit.
Yas, I'm, I'm sorry.
We had this one Jodie, it was ours.
How many more chances do you
think we'll get?
Miss Walsh?
Yes.
Mr. McKenzie, deputy head.
Um, you're here for the
position of music tutor.
That's right.
This way.
Thank you.
Thank you.
So quite a successful musician, I see.
- In my day for a while.
- Then a sizeable gap.
- I took a career break.
- Why was that?
Just felt I needed
a change of direction.
- Music college.
- Yeah.
We've been let down by our
peripatetics in the past.
Yeah, they get jobs touring
and such like, leave us in the lurch.
Guitarists are the worst, no offence.
I'm only interested in teaching.
And yet you've no actual
teaching experience of any kind.
The odd private lesson here and there.
You know, I think music,
being a musician,
is something every
child should experience.
Every child should have the opportunity
to discover a talent or,
or even just an escape.
Absolutely.
You'll need an up to
date DBS certificate,
to show there's nothing in your past
to prevent you working with children,
would that be an issue?
I'm so sorry.
Look, I'm gonna have to take this err,
but, I, I think we're good.
Hello.
Right. We'll be in touch.
Is that it?
We'll let you know.
Any experience with
children at all, Miss Walsh?
I have a son.
- Ben?
- Sorry, I can come back.
No, don't be ridiculous.
No Kate. She waiting in the car?
- I can't stay long.
- She doesn't know.
- I'm on the weekly food shop.
- God help you if she finds out.
Does she punish you?
The police came to our house.
- About Tom?
- About you, actually.
- Your hair's different.
- Re-living my youth.
- What did he say they were doing?
- Apart from wasting their time.
Come on Ben, there must be a part of you
that wonders if I'm right,
that we've found Tom.
When they came to that door,
I was relieved.
News can put an end to this
but instead you're digging
it all back up again.
Do you remember when we
first brought him back here?
I took him upstairs and
I put him in his cot
and I promised I'd keep him safe.
I saw him everywhere
too, in the early days.
But there comes a point
if you keep hoping,
it drives you mad.
It's him Ben, I know it.
So what?
He's been living here,
kept against his will all these years,
and yet every day he
gets on a bus to school.
Children come back. It happens.
Come with me, see for yourself.
- Jodie, please don't involve me in this.
- How can I not involve you?
- You're his dad.
- Listen I, I don't expect you to understand,
and try not to hate me, but
I've kinda made peace with it,
I don't think I could
go through it again.
I should go.
Oh, Jason's been trying to reach you.
He wants me to change
my mind about the funeral.
It would mean a lot to your mum.
I know things haven't always
been easy with you two.
Excuse me.
Err, Miss Walsh.
Miss Walsh.
I'm, I'm, I'm sorry but,
well strictly speaking
you shouldn't really
be on school property
until your DBS certificate comes through.
Yeah, no I was just
putting up a few flyers.
Yeah, well I'm, I'm afraid I'm
gonna have to ask you to leave,
you know, until the
paperwork comes through.
Miss Walsh, if you don't mind.
Yeah, yeah of course.
Yas.
Back to the checkouts for me then.
It's not the first time
we've been up against it.
Yeah, but back then
we had nothing to lose.
And we turned up for life saving pitches.
Hard times.
Guess what?
My dad died.
- Shit Jodie, that's fucked up. When?
- About a week ago.
Why didn't you say?
Just wanted to make
sure he wasn't coming back.
Uhuh, that's sad.
Not really.
You're a terrible person
you know, but I do love you.
Hello, ladies.
We have another problem. You know
I said Ade's work permit looks dodgy,
might have to let him go.
What?
Oh come on, we're already shorthanded
- and he's the best we've had.
- We have to cover our backs.
It'll be better coming from you.
Come on.
Hey Ade, can I have a word?
- No thanks. - Are you sure?
- Yeah, you're good.
Yas and I both think you're
great, you know that.
I like working for you.
Your work papers, there's
something wrong with them.
They're fake, aren't they?
I had to get work.
My real papers will come very soon.
Okay, I'll cover for you.
Just need to know where you got them.
Can't say.
It's okay, it won't come back on you.
You need papers?
For me it was the only way, for survival.
Me too.
They can do it.
- We will bring the money tomorrow.
- Thanks.
Our secret, yeah?
Our secret.
Come in.
Yeah, yeah, yeah.
- I'm sorry, I'm running really late, but
- Oh. Miss Walsh.
Tom.
Tom.
Oh, err, it's, it's Daniel, Miss.
- Daniel. Daniel?
- Tanner.
Hey, hey everybody, just come on in
and get yourself a seat to an instrument
and just make yourself comfortable.
Okay. Well, hello, my name's Jodie.
So how long have you been playing?
I don't know really,
two years, three maybe.
- Who taught you?
- YouTube mostly.
- Does that sound bad?
- I learned how to bake on YouTube
and that turned out alright.
The skydiving tutorial, not so much.
Have you thought about
having proper lessons?
I don't think my dad
would go for it, really.
- What about your mum?
- It's, it's just me and my dad.
- Okay, well if you ever think about it and
- What's going on?
We've just finished a lesson.
You weren't supposed to teach
unsupervised until your paperwork arrived.
Well, apart from the drummer
spontaneously combusting
I think we managed okay.
And Mr. McKenzie has my DBS Certificate.
Run along, Daniel.
- Thanks, Jodie. See you next time.
- See ya.
We don't use first names here.
I'll try and remember.
The Lord is my shepherd,
I shall not want.
He makes me lie down in green pastures.
He leads me beside quiet waters.
He refreshes my soul.
He guides me along the right
paths for his namesake,
even though I walked the darkest valley,
I will fear no evil, for you are with me.
Your rod and your staff, they comfort me.
You prepare a table before me
in the presence of my enemies,
you anoint my head with
oil, my cup runneth over.
And surely your goodness and love
will follow me all the days of my life.
I was playing golf with him just,
just last week.
Did he cheat?
Only when you took your eyes off him.
You alright?
She's fine.
I'm sorry for your loss.
You're sorry for my loss.
- Is that it?
- Goodbye, mother.
Jason.
This is one day that isn't all about her.
Jodie.
Jodie, wait.
You not coming back to the house?
You said she wanted me here.
Job done.
She is grateful.
Mm, she looked thrilled to see me.
Well I am.
Oh hello. Kate senses a windfall.
Look, there's something I
need to tell you, about dad.
Surprise me.
He drowned.
Officially, he had a heart
attack in the bathtub.
- Officially?
- Toxicology report showed that his blood
was full of alcohol and anti-depressants.
He tried to call me before he died.
He left some messages on my phone.
Really?
What did he say?
Dunno, I deleted them.
You know, it really broke his heart
- when you just turned your back on him.
- I turned my back on everything.
- No, Jodie.
- No, we were all at the lake that day
and yet he always blamed me,
so you know what, fuck him.
A reminder,
parents' consultation is about to begin.
Parents' consultation is in the
main hall. Please sign in on arrival.
- Hello, Mr. McKenzie.
- Hello.
Miss Walsh?
Mark Tanner, Daniel's father.
Have you been teaching here long?
Err, sorry?
I thought we'd met.
No.
I'm new, I take music workshops.
Well, Daniel's mentioned you,
and he doesn't usually
talk about his teachers.
Made me curious to see you for myself.
- He's a promising musician.
- Well, he doesn't get that from me.
With the right help I think he
could go as far as he wants to.
Could he?
I could teach him if you like,
after school.
I don't think that's a good idea, music
sucks up enough of his time already.
- I really think he could benefit.
- He's got after school clubs, football.
I could come to the
home, if that would help.
No.
I, I, so, I appreciate your interest but,
we're fine as we are.
It was nice to meet you.
Hey.
I met your dad at the parents' evening.
You told him about the
I told him I thought you
needed some proper lessons.
He didn't seem interested.
- Yeah, no kidding.
- I think perhaps if you just talk to him,
show him how keen you are.
Where do I know you from?
You're gonna be late for class.
Okay.
Just ask him about extra lessons.
You ask him.
- Miss Walsh.
- Mr. Tanner.
Is everything alright,
I thought we discussed
Can I come in?
Daniel and I were wondering
if you wanted to do something over
half term? Just tell me where you live.
The couple who never
came forward, could this be the man?
- Why can't you see that he's your son?
- I know he's not my son.
- Can I ask you a question about mum?
- Go to bed.
- Just tell me something about
- Jesus Christ, will you get out!