The Jetty (2024) s01e01 Episode Script
Episode 1
My heart's in embers
Lying post-flame
But if this is
how the fire feels
Light me up again. ♪
This program me contains some scenes which some
viewers may find upsetting and some strong language.
KEYS CLICK
KEY TAPS
So, Hap Lake.
Let me paint you a picture.
This place is stunning,
and I'm talking "pain relief
for the soul" stunning.
BIRDS CAW
You look out over the water
and you feel somehow connected with
everyone who's ever looked at it
and everyone who ever will.
It makes you feel mortal,
but not in a scary way.
Beautiful places still
have darkness, though,
just like everywhere else.
And maybe they also
have more to lose
in having that darkness exposed.
My name is Riz Samuel.
And I chase the
darkness for a living.
WHISPERING: What was that?
CLINKING
CLATTERING
LOUDER CLATTERING
BLADE RASPS
SHALLOW BREATHING
SOFT THUD
ANIMAL CRIES
SOFT THUD
Don't move
Oh! GASPING
Oh, God Hannah?
Stand down, Detective Mum!
I'm just getting some air.
Do you want to die a
premature and agonising death?
From cancer or homicide?
Either. Both.
I've been looking for that.
Have you been sleeping with it?
No.
WAVES LAP
ANIMAL CRIES
LIGHTER SPARKS
It feels less safe
without Dad, don't it?
If there'd have been an intruder,
he'd have hidden behind us.
That's not true.
It was moths he didn't like.
Burglars he loved.
BOTH CHUCKLE
I know you miss him
more than you let on.
Do I not let on?
He wouldn't like you
smoking, by the way.
He wouldn't like you
taking knives to bed.
Killjoy.
HE SLURPS POLICE RADIO CHATTER
Yeah, my post on taking down
that armed assailant's
getting a lot of love.
He was holding a
hoover nozzle, Hitch.
Yeah, with intent.
Look, numbers don't lie, OK?
Oh, my God, you're so young.
I'm the same age as
everyone else in the team -
it's you that's the
outlier. SHE CHUCKLES
Outlier?! Yeah.
Cheers.
No parking over here. If
you just back up, please.
Thank you.
POLICE RADIO CHATTER
OFFICER GIVING ORDERS
MUFFLED ORDERS
OVERLAPPING CHATTER
Oh, wow, look at that.
End of an era.
Summer sailing club.
Used to be the Dinghy King.
My husband ran that club.
Your husband was Mariner Mack?
I just called him Mack.
Cowboy electrics, eh, Rob?
It's not an accident, Ember.
It's been done deliberately.
Who told you that?
I don't have to be told.
Brad Ashby's been threatening
to do it since the auction.
He'll have got Liam to
do it for him, or Ellis.
What, not Sheena?
No, women don't tend
to be arsonists.
Well, it's 2024, Hitch,
women can be anything
they want to be.
POLICE OFFICER: Excuse me, mate?
Yeah.
Look, I know he's
your mate and that,
but we should treat
him as a suspect,
just like everyone else.
Well, this is how I
treat suspects, Hitch.
Like they're not suspects.
Ah! Right.
CORK POPS
ECHOING: This is the start
of big things for us, Ember.
EMBER LAUGHS A new life.
They've doused it in
petrol and lit a match.
No attempt to cover the arson?
Well, they're
making a statement.
I'm doing the
entire refurb myself
cos I can't get any workers
who'll cross the Ashbys.
The Hap Mafia?
Maybe it was an insurance job.
Well, I could fully
understand buying a property
on this beautiful lake
and then realising that
the locals are bat shit
and reaching for a lighter.
Manning, I don't think this
guy had arson on his mind.
Oh, thank you, Hitch's knob,
for that investigative insight.
Any chance of anyone collecting
a bit of evidence here?
OFFICER: Not my job,
ma'am. POLICE RADIO CHATTER
Jesus.
You really think the Ashbys
torched the boat hut?
Well, I really think
they're capable of it.
ARCADE MACHINE BEEPS CHATTER
WHISTLING
Brad, Liam.
All right, Ember? Breakfast
beers, is it, Arj?
HE CHUCKLES
I'm guessing you lot can
account for your whereabouts
between the hours of one
and three this morning?
Now, why would you
ruin our breakfast
by asking us something
like that, Ember?
Cos someone's
torched the boat hut.
Oh, no.
That cardie-wearing wanker
from London just spent
a fortune converting
it, didn't he?
Rob Trent's accused you lot.
SOFTLY: He has.
Rob Trent would put
his granny in care
if he thought he
could flog her house
to a tourist looking
for an 'oliday home.
I heard you were outbid for the
boat hut at the auction, Brad.
You can't have been
too happy about that.
We were all at a lock-in
here till gone three.
There's ten people
who'll vouch for us.
What were you planning
to do with it?
I'm struggling to imagine you
teaching kids how to kayak.
Maybe we were planning on
giving it back to Arj here.
Oh, I see, you've started
a charitable trust.
Ember, is it true you
had your first fuck
on the boat hut jetty?
HITCH SNIGGERS
Yeah.
Yeah, they put a blue
plaque on it and everything.
HITCH: See you later, lads.
I didn't know you were
so tight with that lot.
Yeah, I spent most
of my youth in there.
Oh, when, last week?
Karaoke, Scampi Fries,
Sheena Ashby in a low-cut top.
God, sounds like
an anxiety dream.
DOOR OPENS Ember.
DOOR CLOSES I'll follow
you down in a minute.
OK.
All right.
Sorry about the boat hut.
It's just a building, Arj.
No, it was more than that.
It was a dream.
Me and Mack making a living
out of something we loved.
Yeah, and you lived it.
How many people can say that?
Only, I've turned it to shit.
Businesses fail.
Like some fucked-up Midas
Arj God, I'm weeping
like the grieving widow,
and you're out there in
the world killing it.
SHE SCOFFS Yeah, hardly.
New job must be going well.
I've hardly seen
you, since Mack died.
Yeah.
Yeah, it's full-on.
WOMAN: Don't touch me, Ellis!
ELLIS: Go on, have
a bit of that.
Let go! Oi! Ellis! MAN RETORTS
Get off her! Let go!
Dickhead. ELLIS LAUGHS
I'm just messin' with you.
I'll, erm, I'll
leave you to it.
Yeah, we'll We'll
catch up, yeah?
You're such an idiot.
No more neglecting
you, I promise.
Miranda?
FOOTSTEPS RECEDE Miranda!
DOOR OPENS THEN CLOSES
KNOCK AT DOOR
Miranda?
RETCHING
COUGHING
SPLATTERING Are you OK?
Who's that? MIRANDA SPITS
TOILET FLUSHES
It's Ember Manning.
Hannah's mum.
Yeah, I'm fine.
What was all that
about with Ellis?
What do you want?
Did you know, on
his 21st birthday,
Ellis got so drunk that
he pissed his pants
in the back of a police car?
We call him Pampers Ashby.
SHE SNIGGERS
You know, if there was one thing
I could say to my teenage self,
it would be that there isn't
a problem that can't be faced.
Not a single one.
But some of them, you do need
a little bit of help
with. CAR DOOR CLOSES
PHONE CHIMES
CAR DRIVES AWAY
What are you even doing here?
I just Just get out!
Now.
OK.
You know, arson can
be a sexual crime.
A high proportion
of sex offenders
and psychopaths have it
in their back catalogue.
And then there was Ellis,
manhandling his cousin.
Stepcousin. In what
could be described
as a sexually
inappropriate manner.
You're always looking for
connections, aren't you?
I would say that is a facet
of the job, Hitch, yeah.
Right, the boat hut was burnt
down by kids fucking about.
Ellis was force-feeding
Miranda a pasty,
cos she's clearly a bit
hissy about her weight.
Hissy?
Yeah. Hissy.
BIRDS CAW
SCHOOLGIRLS CHATTER
Is that Hannah?
CAR WINDOW WHIRS
I'm trying to
remember who it was
We used to call
this curb-crawling.
It's what wrong 'uns
did before the internet.
Hi, Mum.
Hi, Hannah. All right, Hannah?
You all right, Hitch?
Are you, erm, investigating
the arson, Ember?
Actually, we're just looking
for your missing skirt, Jules.
CHUCKLING No slut
shaming, thank you.
Do you girls want a lift?
Ember, there's not enough
room for all of them.
TYRES SCREECH
BELL RINGS
ALL LAUGH
Show Chloe. Let me see.
SHE LAUGHS Oh! Thanks, Ember.
So, what's going on
with Miranda Ashby?
CAR LOCKS CLICK Mum! Chloe?
We can't keep being
your snouts, Ember.
SHE CHUCKLES My snouts?
We don't know anything
about Miranda Ashby.
Look, I'm all for loyalty, but
if it IS an eating disorder,
then it's not a
secret to be kept.
It's a disease.
And not one that gets
better on its own.
But you're smart
enough to know that.
Miranda doesn't have
an eating disorder.
Miranda Ashby's pregnant.
And?
She's barely 16.
You stay here.
Sexist.
Sensitive.
GLASS SMASHING
Fucking hell!
Miranda.
What do we do?
VOICE FADES OU
Manning! Manning!
WHISPERING: What was that?
BACKGROUND CHATTER
I said flowers!
Apparently, flowers
aren't allowed.
I'm not taking that
into intensive care.
DOOR CLOSES
I'm so sorry. Erm,
how's she doing?
There's swelling in her brain.
They won't know how bad
it is till that goes down.
Well, you'd better
hope she gets better.
Sheena's in there with her?
MACHINE BEEPS
KNOCK AT DOOR
DOOR CLOSES
SHE SIGHS
How are you, Sheena?
I never saw it coming.
The baby?
It's fine.
Did you know?
She was losing weight.
Drowning in those
hoodies she wears.
How far along is she?
I don't know.
There's doctors out there.
You could ask them.
Let me go get them.
No.
I do not give my
consent for that.
She's only just 16.
You think I don't know that?
You think she's anything
more than a baby to me?
But you can't
protect them, Ember.
Not every minute.
Did she need protecting?
I mean, you can't wrap
them up in cotton wool.
You can't stop them growing
up. That isn't what you said.
Well, you're twisting my words.
Is it Ellis? I want you to go.
Sheena And I don't
want you to come back.
She doesn't want us to know
Miranda was underage
when she conceived.
Maybe she thinks
people will judge her.
Yeah, or maybe she's just
protecting the father.
Well, she must know we're not
going to drag a 16-year-old boy
down to the station
for underage sex.
Yeah. Yeah, I reckon
she does know that.
Which means he isn't 16.
CAR DOOR OPENS
Bye.
Late again. That's
another detention.
BELL RINGS
CHATTER
WHISPERING LOUDLY: Oi!
WHISPERING: Do you want
to get out of here?
We can't.
Sit down!
DOOR CLOSES
SHE BREATHES SHAKILY
Don't even think about it.
Caitlin!
Caitlin!
DOOR CLOSES
Hey! Hey.
I want to come with you.
Where?
Wherever you're going.
OK.
ANIMALS CRY
EMBER SIGHS
Hi. Mm.
ROCK MUSIC PLAYS QUIETLY
Tough one?
Miranda Ashby is in hospital.
She jumped off the pub roof.
Fuck! Oh, is she OK?
Th the baby?
EMBER SIGHS
They're both hanging in there.
BEER BOTTLE OPENS
Go on, chuck us one of those.
Ah, half.
Who's the father?
Dunno.
I'm a detective.
I'm basically a
human lie detector.
Well, then, you'll know
that I'm not lying.
Do you know how old he is?
No. Older than her,
though, isn't he?
I don't know! Oh, that
is bollocks, Hannah.
OK, maybe he's,
like, a bit older.
Does it matter?
She jumped off a roof.
Yeah, what's his age
got to do with that?
Maybe nothing, but it's
my job to find out.
What?
You know what.
No, that is absolutely not
the same thing, Hannah.
Why not? I was 17.
She is barely 16,
which means she was likely
15 when it started
Yeah, but 16 is just
some random number
that someone plucked
out of thin air.
It could've been
15, or 18, or 17.
Yeah, but the legal age is 16.
Oh, God!
I am so proud of you, Mum,
out there enforcing
completely random shit.
Er, you've had
nearly half of that.
I've had like two sips.
SHE CHOPS VEGETABLES
DISTORTED YELLS
THUD!
WHISPERING: What was that?
SHE SIGHS
BIRDS CHIRP
ACOUSTIC GUITAR
AND SINGING ECHOES
BIRDS CHIRP AND CAW
POLICE RADIO CHATTER
It's a family matter, really.
No, Hitch, it isn't.
Look, if Miranda was
15 when she had sex,
and he was more than two
years older than her,
then that's something that
the CPS might prosecute.
Fine. You know what you've got?
Chip on your shoulder.
You know, that joke would
actually work if it was a chip.
But it's not a chip,
it's a hash brown, so
HE SIGHS You're a bit
sulky this morning.
Mm, didn't sleep.
QUIET CHATTER
The owner of the lake
house would like to know
what progress we're
making on the arson.
EMBER SCOFFS We're
really calling it
the lake house?
Mr Ryan is converting
it. Hmm, yeah, well,
the conversion's just
taken a major setback.
Unless, of course, he
likes the charred look.
Do we know who torched it?
Well, we've been a little bit
busy with the Miranda Ashby case.
There is no Miranda Ashby case,
owing to the fact that we don't even
know if a crime's been committed.
And more importantly,
there's no complainant.
Well, I-I think And
just to clarify, Manning,
the complainant can't be you.
Right, well, we've
got nada on the arson.
Then close it off.
And find some words of comfort
for Mr Ryan. He's in room four.
Words of comfort?
Sorry you've had a
wait. Don't worry.
It's no less than
I've come to expect.
Apathy appears to be
endemic in these parts.
Well, the boat hut is going
to make a lovely house,
views over the lake to die for.
You know, my late husband
actually used to own it,
back when it was
considered normal
that local people
owned local properties
and tourists stayed in B&Bs.
No, now, of course,
tourists own the properties
and the locals can't afford to.
Mr Ryan, I'm afraid that arsons
are near impossible to solve,
so we don't actually spend
too much time on them.
Especially when the fire was
small, the building was empty
and nobody got hurt. I wish
I could tell you otherwise,
but then I would
just be pandering
to your massive
sense of entitlement.
What?
How dare you?!
He'll tie up the paperwork
you need for the insurance.
Build a mega-basement
or something.
But, please, move on.
DOOR OPENS
Unbelievable.
BELL RINGS
GENERAL CHATTER
I thought you'd been suspended.
Well, they know
that's what I want.
I got a Friday detention.
First one ever.
Good! OK, let's go celebrate!
What? No, Amy,
I've been grounded.
Yeah, me too.
Come on. Let's go.
BIRDS CHIRP
You live here?
For now.
We're going broke.
BIRD CAWS
Erm, won't your parents
notice their alcohol's gone?
No. And it doesn't bother
them as much as other stuff.
SHE CLEARS THROA
If you don't like
it, don't drink it.
I do. I just haven't,
really, um
You're quite innocent
aren't you, Kitty?
My name's Caitlin.
Kitty suits you better.
BIRD CAWS
DOOR OPENS
DOOR CREAKS
LIGHTS CLICK AND BUZZ
This is Kingpin.
The last man standing.
Oh, you can touch him.
He's friendly.
KINGPIN HUFFS
He's so big. AMY CHUCKLES
You want to see something funny?
RHYTHMIC TUGGING
KINGPIN BREATHES QUICKLY
Ha. How gross is that?
We're going to shoot
him for the insurance.
DISTANT ARGUING
MAN: I know the type of
people you are, all right?
And what you do is
you go around
WOMAN: I'm going
to I don't care!
This is my property,
you can't do that!
You're on my property! What
WOMAN SQUEALS
Get off me! Fucking ridiculous.
Fucking hate people like you.
I just wanted information!
Stay the fuck away from me
and my family, all right?
Do you hear me? Why don't you
save that toxic bullshit
Oi! ..For the man
who raped your niece?
Oi! I will fuck you up!
Hey, hey, hey!
Liam WOMAN YELLS
Liam, do not make me arrest you.
Why don't you arrest this bitch?
What for? Asking questions?
She's been recording me.
She's got a microphone.
Oh, don't you want
to be famous?!
You've got a perfect
face for podcasts!
You know, I don't care
that you're a woman.
Prick!
Stay away from my family!
What was that about?
Ask him! I'm asking you.
You think Miranda
Ashby was raped?
That's what it's called
when a grown man has sex
with an underaged girl.
How do you know
it's a grown man?
Because I know someone
else who slept with him.
Who? I can't tell you.
I'm a journalist
and she's my source.
EMBER SIGHS Yeah, well,
you start doorstepping
the likes of Liam Ashby and
you're going to get hurt.
SHE SCOFFS
So, it'll be my fault
if I get assaulted?
Yeah, this place is like
the A to Z of misogyny,
and V is for victim blaming.
Why are you here?
I do a podcast on crimes
against women and girls,
and I'm researching the
disappearance of Amy Knightly.
That case is,
like, 17 years old.
What has that got to
do with Miranda Ashby?
Maybe nothing,
but word must have got
out that I'm staying here,
cos I got a note under my door
from a girl who wanted
to meet with me.
She told me that the father of
Miranda's baby is a serial abuser
of underaged girls.
A serial abuser?
More than one girl.
Yeah, yeah, I know what
serial means. It's
What if he's just an
immature 18-year-old himself?
So what?
This is not something
he's done as a one-off.
It's something he does.
He likes them FOR their youth,
not in spite of it.
He's a predator and he
needs to be stopped.
Malachy!
You must be Kitty.
Make it fatter. It
doesn't need to be fatter.
Sure you won't have one?
No, Kitty doesn't
drink or smoke.
Ah, right.
You like staying in
control, do you, Kitty?
No.
Cos you're not.
MALACHY SNIFFS
There's much more potent
stuff than alcohol
running through
those veins of yours.
Endorphins, hormones.
We're slaves.
HE CHUCKLES
We think we're choosing,
but we're losing.
Yeah, we We like to think
that we're capable of all
this lofty stuff like love,
but really we're just
animals obeying our urges.
LIGHTER SPARKS
How old are you?
Why did you ask him that?
I was just interested.
Because if you think he's too
old for me, you should just say.
That's why me and my old
best friend broke up.
She was VERY narrow-minded.
Well, I think he's really
good-looking and nice.
You're so much
cooler than she was.
THEY CHUCKLE
I think my house is this way.
Will you be in trouble?
OK, well, don't tell anyone
that you were with me.
Why?
Cos I want to have a
sleepover at yours.
SHE CHUCKLES That's
not going to happen.
She knows it was you
I bunked off with.
Do you have any
other friends, Kitty?
No.
Tell your mum that.
COUGHING
It's not the cough
that carries you off,
it's the coffin they
carry you off in.
Take care.
Katy Hansen?
Erm, can I just?
Sorry.
SHE SIGHS
SHE SIGHS I need
something from you.
DOOR CLOSES
Sleeping tablets?
No, why'd you say that?
Do my eyes look like piss holes?
Coming up to the first anniversary
of a bereavement can be tough.
Do you need a prescription?
No, I've got some.
Mack was like a pharmacy.
Well, they'll be out of date.
Did you know Miranda
Ashby was pregnant?
I know you know that that's
privileged information.
And I know you're not going
to make me get a warrant
when there is a child's
safeguarding at stake.
Yes, I knew.
I did the referral.
I'm taking it the father never
came to the appointments.
No. And I never asked about him.
Did the pregnancy have something
to do with her jumping?
Well, do you think it did?
SHE SIGHS
It was a long time ago.
She seemed to take the
termination in her stride.
Termination?
Miranda Ashby's been
pregnant before.
What?
We need to go back
to the hospital.
Yeah, not now. We need to
go back to the boat hut.
That's not Rob's.
Right, someone's in there.
WIND CHIMES JANGLE
You take the other door.
What, we're going in?
No, Hitch, we're going
to call the police.
REPEATED CLICKING
METALLIC CLANG
Hey!
Stop! Police!
Stop!
Hey! Don't make me hit you.
What are you taking photos of?
I have permission to be here.
Who from?
Who do you work for? Mr Ryan?
What are you, a
private investigator?
Ah, you are not
taking that stuff.
We found that condom.
I'm placing you under arrest,
on the suspicion of the
obstruction of justice.
Fine. All yours.
Not that you'll actually
do any forensics on them.
Right, so we'll get these sent
off to the lab, then, yeah?
Morgan's never going
to sign off lab work
for a couple of melted canoes.
They'll sit in our evidence
locker and gather dust.
It's better than
him having them.
MUSIC: Requiem In D Minor, K.
626 by Wolfgang Amadeus Mozart
KNOCK AT DOOR
Riz. Sylvia.
Do come in. Thank you.
Through the velvet.
Have you done anything
like this before?
No. I've always
wanted to, but
It's a big step.
What was your friend's name?
Amy.
The artefact goes in there.
Yeah, I don't have one.
Is that going to be a problem?
This is like trying to find
a station on an old wireless.
The artefact gives
us a knob to twiddle.
Yeah, could we try it knobless?
I don't have much
experience of that.
Practice makes perfect, Sylvia.
I'll try.
So, how old was Amy
when she passed?
Oh, tragic.
What did she die of?
I don't know.
She went missing.
You're talking
about Amy Knightly?
Yes.
You think she's dead?
Don't you?
People round here
think she ran away.
Hmm.
And what do you think?
I think towns like this grab you
by the ankles and don't let go.
WAVES ECHO
ECHOING
SOFTLY: What?
Nothing.
Yeah, that didn't
look like nothing.
I told you it'd be difficult
without the artefact.
Yeah, but I thought you meant,
like, the messages might
be fuzzy or something.
SYLVIA SCOFFS I won't
charge you, of course.
Can I get you a cup of tea?
I mean, if that's all
you have on offer.
Were you hoping for
something in particular?
That isn't incense
that I smell, is it?
DOOR CLOSES
DOOR OPENS
OK, so I'll see you next week?
Yeah. OK, thank you. Any time.
Er, I was looking for Lisa.
I'm afraid Lisa died.
Cancer. Oh!
God.
Oh, right, well,
that's a blow.
You don't expect to have to
grieve for your grief counsellor.
Yeah.
I think it's been quite tough
for her husband and kids, too.
Are you her replacement?
You're a little bit judgy.
Usually I don't see people
without an appointment,
but as you are so
utterly charming
Please.
Er, I haven't been sleeping.
Since your husband died?
No, since yesterday.
I literally lay awake all night.
And at one point I got so
desperate, I started to play sudoku.
Was anything different
about yesterday?
Perhaps you had more
coffee than normal?
Er, well, a girl fell
from a roof onto my car.
My God.
Is she OK?
No, no, she isn't, actually.
She's, erm
She is really
sick, and pregnant.
Well, that would probably
explain the insomnia, then.
Adrenaline, anxiety.
Yeah.
SHE SIGHS
Thing is, I'm a police officer,
so I see some pretty
disturbing things and
And generally, they
don't affect my sleep.
So what do you think was
different about this?
I suppose that she was a child.
And that she might have been
the victim of statutory rape
by an older man.
My daughter thinks
that I'm a hypocrite.
I got pregnant when I
was 17, by an older man.
But the two things are
entirely different.
Well, the age of consent is 16.
So there's a legal difference?
And a moral one.
The man in this case is
attracted to young girls
because they are young girls.
And your husband wasn't?
No.
No.
BIRDS CHIRP
DOORBELL
Your mum needs to phone my
mum to prove I'm really here.
Eugh! Ugh, I feel like
a fucking prisoner.
Hello!
I'm Joan, Caitlin's mum.
Hi!
Er, we're just going
to go upstairs.
You don't want to get some
pop or something first?
No Yeah, OK.
G-Great. Er, take a seat
in the living room, I'll
I'll bring some through.
I hear very good things
about Immaculate Heart.
Why did you leave?
We couldn't afford
the fees. Yeah.
And charity was the
only Christian value
the head teacher wasn't keen on.
Oh.
Well, that's a shame.
I wanted to say thank
you, Mrs Owen, for
for giving me
a second chance.
Oh.
I promise I won't get Kitty
into any more trouble.
Kitty?
Er We're finished.
Thanks, Mum.
Well Let's go upstairs.
Oh, have fun, girls.
Did you know that a
butterfly flapping its wings
in one part of the world can
cause a tornado in another?
Er, no.
So, imagine if your
mum were to ever
unclench her arse cheeks.
What?!
BOTH LAUGH
Butterfly butt?
LOUD LAUGHTER
MUFFLED: "Would
you like some pop?"
LAUGHTER
CHATTER CHEERING
Are they testicle earmuffs, Arj?
"Don't die of embarrassment."
I'd like to say it's what
Mack would've wanted,
but I know how much
he cared about you.
Yeah.
Maybe not. HE LAUGHS
CHEERING
He'd be so proud
of her, you know.
I know.
He is proud of her.
Oh don't do that "he's
looking down on you" thing.
People say that and I'm like,
"What, all the time?"
"When I'm on the toilet,
when I'm picking my nose?"
KLAXON CHEERING
It's the things I don't
know, that's what haunts me.
Like what?
He never spoke about his mum
dying, what that did to him.
His past relationships -
I don't know
anything about them.
Well, what would
you want to know?
Were there lots?
Were they serious?
EMBER SIGHS Were
they young, like me?
No-one's like you, Ember.
You know what I mean.
Where's this all coming from?
Look, just tell me, Arj.
Look, trust me, Em,
falling for someone younger than
him is not what he set out to do.
So he hadn't done it before?
Well, would it matter if he had?
Well, maybe.
Well, he hadn't. He loved you.
He said his life
started when he met you.
Look, I I want to try for a
decent time, so do you mind if I?
Yeah, go ahead.
Hey.
Not joining in?
No, I'm not a runner.
Ah, me neither, but, erm
My late husband.
Oh, I'm sorry.
Shall we walk?
Have you thought any more
about doing the right thing?
If, by that, you
mean name my source
so you can force her
onto the witness stand,
there's nothing to think about.
Oh, it's about protecting her?
There was me thinking exposing
the abuser before he was arrested
might be good for your career.
Like arresting them before
they're exposed is good for yours.
I'm a 34-year-old
Detective Constable.
Nobody could accuse
me of being ambitious.
SHE LAUGHS
Please
don't exploit her.
You know, when I first got here,
I was expecting that Amy
Knightly's disappearance
would have cast some sort
of shadow over the place.
But it hasn't.
And I wonder how many people
would even recognise the name.
It was a long time ago.
That's what I put
it down to at first.
But then the other
morning I came down here
and I was watching the
council workers picking up
syringes and condoms
on the water's edge,
and then I realised.
Amy hasn't been forgotten.
She's been cleared away.
But missing and abused
girls aren't rubbish
to be put in bin liners
and hidden from tourists.
They're stories to be told.
I don't think they're
either of those things.
BUSY CHATTER
Sheena?
How's Miranda?
No change.
I know you took her to an
abortion clinic last year.
Girls get in trouble, Ember.
Twice? She's not a Girl Guide.
Neither were a lot
of us at that age.
At least Miranda's got me to
remind her of her options.
Don't you ever wish someone
had done that for you?
No.
I was 16 when I had my oldest.
So I know it crossed your mind.
MAN: Sheena?
We've got to go.
What?
The hospital, we need
to get over there.
Why?
Miranda Ashby. Where is she?
Theatre.
Miranda's deteriorating,
so they've decided
to deliver the baby.
But surely it's too soon?
I'm afraid they've both got
a fight on their hands now.
Caitlin?
Come on, I need to get in.
Oh. I'm sorry.
That's OK
Caitlin's dad.
BATHROOM DOOR CLOSES
You were ages.
I had a bath.
Erm, why? CHUCKLING
Because your bath
has Jacuzzi jets.
SOFTLY: And they were amazing.
No, wait, don't you want
to get in here with me?
There's plenty of room.
Have you ever come?
Erm Yeah.
Don't you think it feels
like fireworks in your belly?
I suppose.
Do you want to do it now?
What?
Touch yourself until you come?
It isn't gay if
you don't touch me.
I won't tell anyone, I swear.
DOG BARKS OUTSIDE
RAGGED BREATHING
STONE TAPS WINDOW
STONE TAPS
STONE TAPS
DOG BARKS OUTSIDE
What are you doing?
I'm going out.
Out? Where?
It's It's midnight.
Yeah, come on, it'll be fun.
You you can't, you can't.
You can come with us,
or you can be boring.
PHONE VIBRATES
RIZ ON RECORDING: So,
what can you tell me
about the man who abused you?
GIRL ON RECORDING: The way
I felt when I first met him,
it was like nothing
I'd ever felt before.
All I wanted was to be with him.
All the time.
He was so different
from boys my age.
So confident and funny.
You can't go out there. I'm
going to get in so much trouble.
TEENAGE GIRL CONTINUES:
But people can be nice
and still be controlling you,
and because they're
older and you're younger,
you can't really see it.
They make you feel special.
But only when you're doing
the things they want you to.
Even when those things hurt you.
SHE STRUMS GUITAR
What are you doing?
Just going through Dad's stuff.
I thought it was too soon.
Yeah, well, now it's not.
Oh, my God, Dad looks so young!
Who's that girl in the photo?
It's Amy Knightly.
The girl who went missing.
HE PLAYS GUITAR
My heart's in embers
Lying post-flame
But if this is
how the fire feels
Light me up again
This heart remembers
Pleasure and pain
Pleasure and pain. ♪
Lying post-flame
But if this is
how the fire feels
Light me up again. ♪
This program me contains some scenes which some
viewers may find upsetting and some strong language.
KEYS CLICK
KEY TAPS
So, Hap Lake.
Let me paint you a picture.
This place is stunning,
and I'm talking "pain relief
for the soul" stunning.
BIRDS CAW
You look out over the water
and you feel somehow connected with
everyone who's ever looked at it
and everyone who ever will.
It makes you feel mortal,
but not in a scary way.
Beautiful places still
have darkness, though,
just like everywhere else.
And maybe they also
have more to lose
in having that darkness exposed.
My name is Riz Samuel.
And I chase the
darkness for a living.
WHISPERING: What was that?
CLINKING
CLATTERING
LOUDER CLATTERING
BLADE RASPS
SHALLOW BREATHING
SOFT THUD
ANIMAL CRIES
SOFT THUD
Don't move
Oh! GASPING
Oh, God Hannah?
Stand down, Detective Mum!
I'm just getting some air.
Do you want to die a
premature and agonising death?
From cancer or homicide?
Either. Both.
I've been looking for that.
Have you been sleeping with it?
No.
WAVES LAP
ANIMAL CRIES
LIGHTER SPARKS
It feels less safe
without Dad, don't it?
If there'd have been an intruder,
he'd have hidden behind us.
That's not true.
It was moths he didn't like.
Burglars he loved.
BOTH CHUCKLE
I know you miss him
more than you let on.
Do I not let on?
He wouldn't like you
smoking, by the way.
He wouldn't like you
taking knives to bed.
Killjoy.
HE SLURPS POLICE RADIO CHATTER
Yeah, my post on taking down
that armed assailant's
getting a lot of love.
He was holding a
hoover nozzle, Hitch.
Yeah, with intent.
Look, numbers don't lie, OK?
Oh, my God, you're so young.
I'm the same age as
everyone else in the team -
it's you that's the
outlier. SHE CHUCKLES
Outlier?! Yeah.
Cheers.
No parking over here. If
you just back up, please.
Thank you.
POLICE RADIO CHATTER
OFFICER GIVING ORDERS
MUFFLED ORDERS
OVERLAPPING CHATTER
Oh, wow, look at that.
End of an era.
Summer sailing club.
Used to be the Dinghy King.
My husband ran that club.
Your husband was Mariner Mack?
I just called him Mack.
Cowboy electrics, eh, Rob?
It's not an accident, Ember.
It's been done deliberately.
Who told you that?
I don't have to be told.
Brad Ashby's been threatening
to do it since the auction.
He'll have got Liam to
do it for him, or Ellis.
What, not Sheena?
No, women don't tend
to be arsonists.
Well, it's 2024, Hitch,
women can be anything
they want to be.
POLICE OFFICER: Excuse me, mate?
Yeah.
Look, I know he's
your mate and that,
but we should treat
him as a suspect,
just like everyone else.
Well, this is how I
treat suspects, Hitch.
Like they're not suspects.
Ah! Right.
CORK POPS
ECHOING: This is the start
of big things for us, Ember.
EMBER LAUGHS A new life.
They've doused it in
petrol and lit a match.
No attempt to cover the arson?
Well, they're
making a statement.
I'm doing the
entire refurb myself
cos I can't get any workers
who'll cross the Ashbys.
The Hap Mafia?
Maybe it was an insurance job.
Well, I could fully
understand buying a property
on this beautiful lake
and then realising that
the locals are bat shit
and reaching for a lighter.
Manning, I don't think this
guy had arson on his mind.
Oh, thank you, Hitch's knob,
for that investigative insight.
Any chance of anyone collecting
a bit of evidence here?
OFFICER: Not my job,
ma'am. POLICE RADIO CHATTER
Jesus.
You really think the Ashbys
torched the boat hut?
Well, I really think
they're capable of it.
ARCADE MACHINE BEEPS CHATTER
WHISTLING
Brad, Liam.
All right, Ember? Breakfast
beers, is it, Arj?
HE CHUCKLES
I'm guessing you lot can
account for your whereabouts
between the hours of one
and three this morning?
Now, why would you
ruin our breakfast
by asking us something
like that, Ember?
Cos someone's
torched the boat hut.
Oh, no.
That cardie-wearing wanker
from London just spent
a fortune converting
it, didn't he?
Rob Trent's accused you lot.
SOFTLY: He has.
Rob Trent would put
his granny in care
if he thought he
could flog her house
to a tourist looking
for an 'oliday home.
I heard you were outbid for the
boat hut at the auction, Brad.
You can't have been
too happy about that.
We were all at a lock-in
here till gone three.
There's ten people
who'll vouch for us.
What were you planning
to do with it?
I'm struggling to imagine you
teaching kids how to kayak.
Maybe we were planning on
giving it back to Arj here.
Oh, I see, you've started
a charitable trust.
Ember, is it true you
had your first fuck
on the boat hut jetty?
HITCH SNIGGERS
Yeah.
Yeah, they put a blue
plaque on it and everything.
HITCH: See you later, lads.
I didn't know you were
so tight with that lot.
Yeah, I spent most
of my youth in there.
Oh, when, last week?
Karaoke, Scampi Fries,
Sheena Ashby in a low-cut top.
God, sounds like
an anxiety dream.
DOOR OPENS Ember.
DOOR CLOSES I'll follow
you down in a minute.
OK.
All right.
Sorry about the boat hut.
It's just a building, Arj.
No, it was more than that.
It was a dream.
Me and Mack making a living
out of something we loved.
Yeah, and you lived it.
How many people can say that?
Only, I've turned it to shit.
Businesses fail.
Like some fucked-up Midas
Arj God, I'm weeping
like the grieving widow,
and you're out there in
the world killing it.
SHE SCOFFS Yeah, hardly.
New job must be going well.
I've hardly seen
you, since Mack died.
Yeah.
Yeah, it's full-on.
WOMAN: Don't touch me, Ellis!
ELLIS: Go on, have
a bit of that.
Let go! Oi! Ellis! MAN RETORTS
Get off her! Let go!
Dickhead. ELLIS LAUGHS
I'm just messin' with you.
I'll, erm, I'll
leave you to it.
Yeah, we'll We'll
catch up, yeah?
You're such an idiot.
No more neglecting
you, I promise.
Miranda?
FOOTSTEPS RECEDE Miranda!
DOOR OPENS THEN CLOSES
KNOCK AT DOOR
Miranda?
RETCHING
COUGHING
SPLATTERING Are you OK?
Who's that? MIRANDA SPITS
TOILET FLUSHES
It's Ember Manning.
Hannah's mum.
Yeah, I'm fine.
What was all that
about with Ellis?
What do you want?
Did you know, on
his 21st birthday,
Ellis got so drunk that
he pissed his pants
in the back of a police car?
We call him Pampers Ashby.
SHE SNIGGERS
You know, if there was one thing
I could say to my teenage self,
it would be that there isn't
a problem that can't be faced.
Not a single one.
But some of them, you do need
a little bit of help
with. CAR DOOR CLOSES
PHONE CHIMES
CAR DRIVES AWAY
What are you even doing here?
I just Just get out!
Now.
OK.
You know, arson can
be a sexual crime.
A high proportion
of sex offenders
and psychopaths have it
in their back catalogue.
And then there was Ellis,
manhandling his cousin.
Stepcousin. In what
could be described
as a sexually
inappropriate manner.
You're always looking for
connections, aren't you?
I would say that is a facet
of the job, Hitch, yeah.
Right, the boat hut was burnt
down by kids fucking about.
Ellis was force-feeding
Miranda a pasty,
cos she's clearly a bit
hissy about her weight.
Hissy?
Yeah. Hissy.
BIRDS CAW
SCHOOLGIRLS CHATTER
Is that Hannah?
CAR WINDOW WHIRS
I'm trying to
remember who it was
We used to call
this curb-crawling.
It's what wrong 'uns
did before the internet.
Hi, Mum.
Hi, Hannah. All right, Hannah?
You all right, Hitch?
Are you, erm, investigating
the arson, Ember?
Actually, we're just looking
for your missing skirt, Jules.
CHUCKLING No slut
shaming, thank you.
Do you girls want a lift?
Ember, there's not enough
room for all of them.
TYRES SCREECH
BELL RINGS
ALL LAUGH
Show Chloe. Let me see.
SHE LAUGHS Oh! Thanks, Ember.
So, what's going on
with Miranda Ashby?
CAR LOCKS CLICK Mum! Chloe?
We can't keep being
your snouts, Ember.
SHE CHUCKLES My snouts?
We don't know anything
about Miranda Ashby.
Look, I'm all for loyalty, but
if it IS an eating disorder,
then it's not a
secret to be kept.
It's a disease.
And not one that gets
better on its own.
But you're smart
enough to know that.
Miranda doesn't have
an eating disorder.
Miranda Ashby's pregnant.
And?
She's barely 16.
You stay here.
Sexist.
Sensitive.
GLASS SMASHING
Fucking hell!
Miranda.
What do we do?
VOICE FADES OU
Manning! Manning!
WHISPERING: What was that?
BACKGROUND CHATTER
I said flowers!
Apparently, flowers
aren't allowed.
I'm not taking that
into intensive care.
DOOR CLOSES
I'm so sorry. Erm,
how's she doing?
There's swelling in her brain.
They won't know how bad
it is till that goes down.
Well, you'd better
hope she gets better.
Sheena's in there with her?
MACHINE BEEPS
KNOCK AT DOOR
DOOR CLOSES
SHE SIGHS
How are you, Sheena?
I never saw it coming.
The baby?
It's fine.
Did you know?
She was losing weight.
Drowning in those
hoodies she wears.
How far along is she?
I don't know.
There's doctors out there.
You could ask them.
Let me go get them.
No.
I do not give my
consent for that.
She's only just 16.
You think I don't know that?
You think she's anything
more than a baby to me?
But you can't
protect them, Ember.
Not every minute.
Did she need protecting?
I mean, you can't wrap
them up in cotton wool.
You can't stop them growing
up. That isn't what you said.
Well, you're twisting my words.
Is it Ellis? I want you to go.
Sheena And I don't
want you to come back.
She doesn't want us to know
Miranda was underage
when she conceived.
Maybe she thinks
people will judge her.
Yeah, or maybe she's just
protecting the father.
Well, she must know we're not
going to drag a 16-year-old boy
down to the station
for underage sex.
Yeah. Yeah, I reckon
she does know that.
Which means he isn't 16.
CAR DOOR OPENS
Bye.
Late again. That's
another detention.
BELL RINGS
CHATTER
WHISPERING LOUDLY: Oi!
WHISPERING: Do you want
to get out of here?
We can't.
Sit down!
DOOR CLOSES
SHE BREATHES SHAKILY
Don't even think about it.
Caitlin!
Caitlin!
DOOR CLOSES
Hey! Hey.
I want to come with you.
Where?
Wherever you're going.
OK.
ANIMALS CRY
EMBER SIGHS
Hi. Mm.
ROCK MUSIC PLAYS QUIETLY
Tough one?
Miranda Ashby is in hospital.
She jumped off the pub roof.
Fuck! Oh, is she OK?
Th the baby?
EMBER SIGHS
They're both hanging in there.
BEER BOTTLE OPENS
Go on, chuck us one of those.
Ah, half.
Who's the father?
Dunno.
I'm a detective.
I'm basically a
human lie detector.
Well, then, you'll know
that I'm not lying.
Do you know how old he is?
No. Older than her,
though, isn't he?
I don't know! Oh, that
is bollocks, Hannah.
OK, maybe he's,
like, a bit older.
Does it matter?
She jumped off a roof.
Yeah, what's his age
got to do with that?
Maybe nothing, but it's
my job to find out.
What?
You know what.
No, that is absolutely not
the same thing, Hannah.
Why not? I was 17.
She is barely 16,
which means she was likely
15 when it started
Yeah, but 16 is just
some random number
that someone plucked
out of thin air.
It could've been
15, or 18, or 17.
Yeah, but the legal age is 16.
Oh, God!
I am so proud of you, Mum,
out there enforcing
completely random shit.
Er, you've had
nearly half of that.
I've had like two sips.
SHE CHOPS VEGETABLES
DISTORTED YELLS
THUD!
WHISPERING: What was that?
SHE SIGHS
BIRDS CHIRP
ACOUSTIC GUITAR
AND SINGING ECHOES
BIRDS CHIRP AND CAW
POLICE RADIO CHATTER
It's a family matter, really.
No, Hitch, it isn't.
Look, if Miranda was
15 when she had sex,
and he was more than two
years older than her,
then that's something that
the CPS might prosecute.
Fine. You know what you've got?
Chip on your shoulder.
You know, that joke would
actually work if it was a chip.
But it's not a chip,
it's a hash brown, so
HE SIGHS You're a bit
sulky this morning.
Mm, didn't sleep.
QUIET CHATTER
The owner of the lake
house would like to know
what progress we're
making on the arson.
EMBER SCOFFS We're
really calling it
the lake house?
Mr Ryan is converting
it. Hmm, yeah, well,
the conversion's just
taken a major setback.
Unless, of course, he
likes the charred look.
Do we know who torched it?
Well, we've been a little bit
busy with the Miranda Ashby case.
There is no Miranda Ashby case,
owing to the fact that we don't even
know if a crime's been committed.
And more importantly,
there's no complainant.
Well, I-I think And
just to clarify, Manning,
the complainant can't be you.
Right, well, we've
got nada on the arson.
Then close it off.
And find some words of comfort
for Mr Ryan. He's in room four.
Words of comfort?
Sorry you've had a
wait. Don't worry.
It's no less than
I've come to expect.
Apathy appears to be
endemic in these parts.
Well, the boat hut is going
to make a lovely house,
views over the lake to die for.
You know, my late husband
actually used to own it,
back when it was
considered normal
that local people
owned local properties
and tourists stayed in B&Bs.
No, now, of course,
tourists own the properties
and the locals can't afford to.
Mr Ryan, I'm afraid that arsons
are near impossible to solve,
so we don't actually spend
too much time on them.
Especially when the fire was
small, the building was empty
and nobody got hurt. I wish
I could tell you otherwise,
but then I would
just be pandering
to your massive
sense of entitlement.
What?
How dare you?!
He'll tie up the paperwork
you need for the insurance.
Build a mega-basement
or something.
But, please, move on.
DOOR OPENS
Unbelievable.
BELL RINGS
GENERAL CHATTER
I thought you'd been suspended.
Well, they know
that's what I want.
I got a Friday detention.
First one ever.
Good! OK, let's go celebrate!
What? No, Amy,
I've been grounded.
Yeah, me too.
Come on. Let's go.
BIRDS CHIRP
You live here?
For now.
We're going broke.
BIRD CAWS
Erm, won't your parents
notice their alcohol's gone?
No. And it doesn't bother
them as much as other stuff.
SHE CLEARS THROA
If you don't like
it, don't drink it.
I do. I just haven't,
really, um
You're quite innocent
aren't you, Kitty?
My name's Caitlin.
Kitty suits you better.
BIRD CAWS
DOOR OPENS
DOOR CREAKS
LIGHTS CLICK AND BUZZ
This is Kingpin.
The last man standing.
Oh, you can touch him.
He's friendly.
KINGPIN HUFFS
He's so big. AMY CHUCKLES
You want to see something funny?
RHYTHMIC TUGGING
KINGPIN BREATHES QUICKLY
Ha. How gross is that?
We're going to shoot
him for the insurance.
DISTANT ARGUING
MAN: I know the type of
people you are, all right?
And what you do is
you go around
WOMAN: I'm going
to I don't care!
This is my property,
you can't do that!
You're on my property! What
WOMAN SQUEALS
Get off me! Fucking ridiculous.
Fucking hate people like you.
I just wanted information!
Stay the fuck away from me
and my family, all right?
Do you hear me? Why don't you
save that toxic bullshit
Oi! ..For the man
who raped your niece?
Oi! I will fuck you up!
Hey, hey, hey!
Liam WOMAN YELLS
Liam, do not make me arrest you.
Why don't you arrest this bitch?
What for? Asking questions?
She's been recording me.
She's got a microphone.
Oh, don't you want
to be famous?!
You've got a perfect
face for podcasts!
You know, I don't care
that you're a woman.
Prick!
Stay away from my family!
What was that about?
Ask him! I'm asking you.
You think Miranda
Ashby was raped?
That's what it's called
when a grown man has sex
with an underaged girl.
How do you know
it's a grown man?
Because I know someone
else who slept with him.
Who? I can't tell you.
I'm a journalist
and she's my source.
EMBER SIGHS Yeah, well,
you start doorstepping
the likes of Liam Ashby and
you're going to get hurt.
SHE SCOFFS
So, it'll be my fault
if I get assaulted?
Yeah, this place is like
the A to Z of misogyny,
and V is for victim blaming.
Why are you here?
I do a podcast on crimes
against women and girls,
and I'm researching the
disappearance of Amy Knightly.
That case is,
like, 17 years old.
What has that got to
do with Miranda Ashby?
Maybe nothing,
but word must have got
out that I'm staying here,
cos I got a note under my door
from a girl who wanted
to meet with me.
She told me that the father of
Miranda's baby is a serial abuser
of underaged girls.
A serial abuser?
More than one girl.
Yeah, yeah, I know what
serial means. It's
What if he's just an
immature 18-year-old himself?
So what?
This is not something
he's done as a one-off.
It's something he does.
He likes them FOR their youth,
not in spite of it.
He's a predator and he
needs to be stopped.
Malachy!
You must be Kitty.
Make it fatter. It
doesn't need to be fatter.
Sure you won't have one?
No, Kitty doesn't
drink or smoke.
Ah, right.
You like staying in
control, do you, Kitty?
No.
Cos you're not.
MALACHY SNIFFS
There's much more potent
stuff than alcohol
running through
those veins of yours.
Endorphins, hormones.
We're slaves.
HE CHUCKLES
We think we're choosing,
but we're losing.
Yeah, we We like to think
that we're capable of all
this lofty stuff like love,
but really we're just
animals obeying our urges.
LIGHTER SPARKS
How old are you?
Why did you ask him that?
I was just interested.
Because if you think he's too
old for me, you should just say.
That's why me and my old
best friend broke up.
She was VERY narrow-minded.
Well, I think he's really
good-looking and nice.
You're so much
cooler than she was.
THEY CHUCKLE
I think my house is this way.
Will you be in trouble?
OK, well, don't tell anyone
that you were with me.
Why?
Cos I want to have a
sleepover at yours.
SHE CHUCKLES That's
not going to happen.
She knows it was you
I bunked off with.
Do you have any
other friends, Kitty?
No.
Tell your mum that.
COUGHING
It's not the cough
that carries you off,
it's the coffin they
carry you off in.
Take care.
Katy Hansen?
Erm, can I just?
Sorry.
SHE SIGHS
SHE SIGHS I need
something from you.
DOOR CLOSES
Sleeping tablets?
No, why'd you say that?
Do my eyes look like piss holes?
Coming up to the first anniversary
of a bereavement can be tough.
Do you need a prescription?
No, I've got some.
Mack was like a pharmacy.
Well, they'll be out of date.
Did you know Miranda
Ashby was pregnant?
I know you know that that's
privileged information.
And I know you're not going
to make me get a warrant
when there is a child's
safeguarding at stake.
Yes, I knew.
I did the referral.
I'm taking it the father never
came to the appointments.
No. And I never asked about him.
Did the pregnancy have something
to do with her jumping?
Well, do you think it did?
SHE SIGHS
It was a long time ago.
She seemed to take the
termination in her stride.
Termination?
Miranda Ashby's been
pregnant before.
What?
We need to go back
to the hospital.
Yeah, not now. We need to
go back to the boat hut.
That's not Rob's.
Right, someone's in there.
WIND CHIMES JANGLE
You take the other door.
What, we're going in?
No, Hitch, we're going
to call the police.
REPEATED CLICKING
METALLIC CLANG
Hey!
Stop! Police!
Stop!
Hey! Don't make me hit you.
What are you taking photos of?
I have permission to be here.
Who from?
Who do you work for? Mr Ryan?
What are you, a
private investigator?
Ah, you are not
taking that stuff.
We found that condom.
I'm placing you under arrest,
on the suspicion of the
obstruction of justice.
Fine. All yours.
Not that you'll actually
do any forensics on them.
Right, so we'll get these sent
off to the lab, then, yeah?
Morgan's never going
to sign off lab work
for a couple of melted canoes.
They'll sit in our evidence
locker and gather dust.
It's better than
him having them.
MUSIC: Requiem In D Minor, K.
626 by Wolfgang Amadeus Mozart
KNOCK AT DOOR
Riz. Sylvia.
Do come in. Thank you.
Through the velvet.
Have you done anything
like this before?
No. I've always
wanted to, but
It's a big step.
What was your friend's name?
Amy.
The artefact goes in there.
Yeah, I don't have one.
Is that going to be a problem?
This is like trying to find
a station on an old wireless.
The artefact gives
us a knob to twiddle.
Yeah, could we try it knobless?
I don't have much
experience of that.
Practice makes perfect, Sylvia.
I'll try.
So, how old was Amy
when she passed?
Oh, tragic.
What did she die of?
I don't know.
She went missing.
You're talking
about Amy Knightly?
Yes.
You think she's dead?
Don't you?
People round here
think she ran away.
Hmm.
And what do you think?
I think towns like this grab you
by the ankles and don't let go.
WAVES ECHO
ECHOING
SOFTLY: What?
Nothing.
Yeah, that didn't
look like nothing.
I told you it'd be difficult
without the artefact.
Yeah, but I thought you meant,
like, the messages might
be fuzzy or something.
SYLVIA SCOFFS I won't
charge you, of course.
Can I get you a cup of tea?
I mean, if that's all
you have on offer.
Were you hoping for
something in particular?
That isn't incense
that I smell, is it?
DOOR CLOSES
DOOR OPENS
OK, so I'll see you next week?
Yeah. OK, thank you. Any time.
Er, I was looking for Lisa.
I'm afraid Lisa died.
Cancer. Oh!
God.
Oh, right, well,
that's a blow.
You don't expect to have to
grieve for your grief counsellor.
Yeah.
I think it's been quite tough
for her husband and kids, too.
Are you her replacement?
You're a little bit judgy.
Usually I don't see people
without an appointment,
but as you are so
utterly charming
Please.
Er, I haven't been sleeping.
Since your husband died?
No, since yesterday.
I literally lay awake all night.
And at one point I got so
desperate, I started to play sudoku.
Was anything different
about yesterday?
Perhaps you had more
coffee than normal?
Er, well, a girl fell
from a roof onto my car.
My God.
Is she OK?
No, no, she isn't, actually.
She's, erm
She is really
sick, and pregnant.
Well, that would probably
explain the insomnia, then.
Adrenaline, anxiety.
Yeah.
SHE SIGHS
Thing is, I'm a police officer,
so I see some pretty
disturbing things and
And generally, they
don't affect my sleep.
So what do you think was
different about this?
I suppose that she was a child.
And that she might have been
the victim of statutory rape
by an older man.
My daughter thinks
that I'm a hypocrite.
I got pregnant when I
was 17, by an older man.
But the two things are
entirely different.
Well, the age of consent is 16.
So there's a legal difference?
And a moral one.
The man in this case is
attracted to young girls
because they are young girls.
And your husband wasn't?
No.
No.
BIRDS CHIRP
DOORBELL
Your mum needs to phone my
mum to prove I'm really here.
Eugh! Ugh, I feel like
a fucking prisoner.
Hello!
I'm Joan, Caitlin's mum.
Hi!
Er, we're just going
to go upstairs.
You don't want to get some
pop or something first?
No Yeah, OK.
G-Great. Er, take a seat
in the living room, I'll
I'll bring some through.
I hear very good things
about Immaculate Heart.
Why did you leave?
We couldn't afford
the fees. Yeah.
And charity was the
only Christian value
the head teacher wasn't keen on.
Oh.
Well, that's a shame.
I wanted to say thank
you, Mrs Owen, for
for giving me
a second chance.
Oh.
I promise I won't get Kitty
into any more trouble.
Kitty?
Er We're finished.
Thanks, Mum.
Well Let's go upstairs.
Oh, have fun, girls.
Did you know that a
butterfly flapping its wings
in one part of the world can
cause a tornado in another?
Er, no.
So, imagine if your
mum were to ever
unclench her arse cheeks.
What?!
BOTH LAUGH
Butterfly butt?
LOUD LAUGHTER
MUFFLED: "Would
you like some pop?"
LAUGHTER
CHATTER CHEERING
Are they testicle earmuffs, Arj?
"Don't die of embarrassment."
I'd like to say it's what
Mack would've wanted,
but I know how much
he cared about you.
Yeah.
Maybe not. HE LAUGHS
CHEERING
He'd be so proud
of her, you know.
I know.
He is proud of her.
Oh don't do that "he's
looking down on you" thing.
People say that and I'm like,
"What, all the time?"
"When I'm on the toilet,
when I'm picking my nose?"
KLAXON CHEERING
It's the things I don't
know, that's what haunts me.
Like what?
He never spoke about his mum
dying, what that did to him.
His past relationships -
I don't know
anything about them.
Well, what would
you want to know?
Were there lots?
Were they serious?
EMBER SIGHS Were
they young, like me?
No-one's like you, Ember.
You know what I mean.
Where's this all coming from?
Look, just tell me, Arj.
Look, trust me, Em,
falling for someone younger than
him is not what he set out to do.
So he hadn't done it before?
Well, would it matter if he had?
Well, maybe.
Well, he hadn't. He loved you.
He said his life
started when he met you.
Look, I I want to try for a
decent time, so do you mind if I?
Yeah, go ahead.
Hey.
Not joining in?
No, I'm not a runner.
Ah, me neither, but, erm
My late husband.
Oh, I'm sorry.
Shall we walk?
Have you thought any more
about doing the right thing?
If, by that, you
mean name my source
so you can force her
onto the witness stand,
there's nothing to think about.
Oh, it's about protecting her?
There was me thinking exposing
the abuser before he was arrested
might be good for your career.
Like arresting them before
they're exposed is good for yours.
I'm a 34-year-old
Detective Constable.
Nobody could accuse
me of being ambitious.
SHE LAUGHS
Please
don't exploit her.
You know, when I first got here,
I was expecting that Amy
Knightly's disappearance
would have cast some sort
of shadow over the place.
But it hasn't.
And I wonder how many people
would even recognise the name.
It was a long time ago.
That's what I put
it down to at first.
But then the other
morning I came down here
and I was watching the
council workers picking up
syringes and condoms
on the water's edge,
and then I realised.
Amy hasn't been forgotten.
She's been cleared away.
But missing and abused
girls aren't rubbish
to be put in bin liners
and hidden from tourists.
They're stories to be told.
I don't think they're
either of those things.
BUSY CHATTER
Sheena?
How's Miranda?
No change.
I know you took her to an
abortion clinic last year.
Girls get in trouble, Ember.
Twice? She's not a Girl Guide.
Neither were a lot
of us at that age.
At least Miranda's got me to
remind her of her options.
Don't you ever wish someone
had done that for you?
No.
I was 16 when I had my oldest.
So I know it crossed your mind.
MAN: Sheena?
We've got to go.
What?
The hospital, we need
to get over there.
Why?
Miranda Ashby. Where is she?
Theatre.
Miranda's deteriorating,
so they've decided
to deliver the baby.
But surely it's too soon?
I'm afraid they've both got
a fight on their hands now.
Caitlin?
Come on, I need to get in.
Oh. I'm sorry.
That's OK
Caitlin's dad.
BATHROOM DOOR CLOSES
You were ages.
I had a bath.
Erm, why? CHUCKLING
Because your bath
has Jacuzzi jets.
SOFTLY: And they were amazing.
No, wait, don't you want
to get in here with me?
There's plenty of room.
Have you ever come?
Erm Yeah.
Don't you think it feels
like fireworks in your belly?
I suppose.
Do you want to do it now?
What?
Touch yourself until you come?
It isn't gay if
you don't touch me.
I won't tell anyone, I swear.
DOG BARKS OUTSIDE
RAGGED BREATHING
STONE TAPS WINDOW
STONE TAPS
STONE TAPS
DOG BARKS OUTSIDE
What are you doing?
I'm going out.
Out? Where?
It's It's midnight.
Yeah, come on, it'll be fun.
You you can't, you can't.
You can come with us,
or you can be boring.
PHONE VIBRATES
RIZ ON RECORDING: So,
what can you tell me
about the man who abused you?
GIRL ON RECORDING: The way
I felt when I first met him,
it was like nothing
I'd ever felt before.
All I wanted was to be with him.
All the time.
He was so different
from boys my age.
So confident and funny.
You can't go out there. I'm
going to get in so much trouble.
TEENAGE GIRL CONTINUES:
But people can be nice
and still be controlling you,
and because they're
older and you're younger,
you can't really see it.
They make you feel special.
But only when you're doing
the things they want you to.
Even when those things hurt you.
SHE STRUMS GUITAR
What are you doing?
Just going through Dad's stuff.
I thought it was too soon.
Yeah, well, now it's not.
Oh, my God, Dad looks so young!
Who's that girl in the photo?
It's Amy Knightly.
The girl who went missing.
HE PLAYS GUITAR
My heart's in embers
Lying post-flame
But if this is
how the fire feels
Light me up again
This heart remembers
Pleasure and pain
Pleasure and pain. ♪