Between Two Worlds (2020) s01e02 Episode Script

1
This sees you down on the canvas
and the count is ten.
Well? No more crying corruption,
or the original goes public.
Must make you a very proud parent.
(GUNSHOT)
I grieve, sharing that grief with
the even greater grief of his wife,
Rebecca, and his daughter, Georgia.
You ruined him.
Her husband's dead.
He shot himself because of you.
He was weak.
Who's mourning?
Georgia has something.
Shame she's a slut.
Don't.
Tell her I'm grateful.
Give her the boot.
I like her.
Tough.
You must feel something!
You are pissed.
I'm Julian Lee, a cardiologist,
Mr Walford.
Would it be wrong to ask to see you,
away from here?
What about a transplant?
A healthy new heart?
This is ridiculously premature.
Make it happen!
(PHONE RINGS)
(DANNY) You've got nine
months to save,
because the wedding registry's gonna
be fierce,
and wish me luck off the rookie list.
Might even be marrying a premiership
winner come Christmas. Hey, coach?
Think positive.
Here, my footy, my footy!
It's your fifth concussion.
No game's worthy dying for.
Marti must be wondering
who she's going to marry now.
We're such a cliche.
Huh?
The girls watch a tearjerker
while the groom has his last
night of quote unquote freedom.
(DANCE MUSIC)
(DANCE MUSIC)
Two.
(MAN) Bro.
On your buck's night?
With the cost of the honeymoon
I thought he'd pull a no-show.
(INAUDIBLE)
Hey, watch it, dickhead.
Danny.
Whoo! Hey!
What? What?
Energy on sale. Added bonus.
Energy's sorted.
How about both, next week?
Now or never.
I'm off the market after tonight.
- Piss off!
- Oh, easy bro.
- I am not your bro.
- Ooh, touchy. Feely.
Come on.
Whoa!
- Yeah? You wanna go?
- Yeah!
- Yeah, ya gonna go?
- Yeah!
(SHOUTING)
- Hey!
- Come on!
He was being a dick!
Ambulance!
- (MAN) Give 'em room!
- Recovery.
What are you doing?
Later.
Danny, can you hear me?
Danny?
There must be something you can do.
If there only was.
He's in there somewhere.
It's just his body now.
No. If we wait, he'll get better.
He won't.
It's like they said. No hope.
He's being prepared
for organ donation.
Marti?
She's accepted.
(DAVID) She needs you.
(WOMAN) Come on. Thank you.
That's it?
They're saying their goodbyes.
(DAVID) Sophia would want
you to pay your respects.
Let's go.
Just a tick.
As soon as that's done,
you go to their place.
We have to protect them
from the truth.
I assume he stashed stuff there.
I don't know. Maybe, he didn't say.
He wasn't thinking straight.
Dealing on his buck's night?
You reckon?
Now we have to make sure it's fine
when they clear out his room,
or if the cops get wind -
He did it to pay for his honeymoon.
I don't want excuses.
You know where the spare key is.
Turn over his room,
and no sign you've been there.
Check his computer, too.
You got the password?
Dannydickhead.
Sophia's got enough heartbreak
without this.
What a screw up.
(CRYING)
(TENSE MUSIC)
Dannydickhead.
I know that obituaries
have been prepared
for my husband
in most media offices.
One day they'll be used.
I feel not today.
(CATE) Bart and I pray
for the soul of whoever died,
to give Phillip hope.
I also pray for their loved ones
who are in sorrow, that my husband
might live a fuller life.
I wish I knew their names,
so I could assure them
that we will do our utmost to make
sure that he honours their loss.
Thank you.
(INDISTINCT CHATTER)
He doesn't deserve a fresh heart
to pump venom through his veins.
(REBECCA) I trust you.
I do trust you, I do.
Make the world a better place.
Let him die.
(MONITOR BEEPS)
All being equal,
he'll be home in weeks
and back at his desk in months.
If you'd like to
I love you.
Do your best.
(BART) I've felt lots of
things about him over the years,
most bad.
Sympathy's a new take.
Mummy's almost drained me of mine.
Mm, what now?
So before, God was the enemy.
Now she's praying he'll play hitman.
So much for rehab.
Yeah, well, I doubt any twelve step
program can cover
her level of dysfunction.
What?
They're callous, corrupt, venal,
and we still can't cut them loose.
What's that about?
Callous, corrupt, venal.
We're just chips off the old block.
You'll come back?
Months of the lord
and master have worn me down.
(ELEVATOR BELL DINGS)
You seemed to cope.
It's my job to.
Well, they say transplantees
can mellow.
Mm.
Or he might stay the same obnoxious
bastard with a new lease on life.
Your humour's been a godsend,
if it's at all possible.
I'll see how I go.
Question, if I may.
Please.
Why do you stay?
I'm surprised it took you
so long to ask.
He wasn't always like this.
(ELEVATOR BELL DINGS)
For auld lang syne?
If it were only that simple.
I can recover just as well at home.
You'd be there if you could.
Three weeks plus.
Three? I thought it was less.
Well, you've had a few
complications.
You're fine, but absolutely not.
(PHILLIP)
What are you smirking at?
The novelty of seeing you told.
What have I said? No bloody flowers.
I'm sorry.
It's alright.
We will be thrilled to ship you
out of here as soon as we can.
Am I to admire your bluntness?
Well, subtlety hasn't worked.
You're lucky you saved my life.
You've been given a second chance.
Find better ways to use it
than being a prick.
You're letting him
get away with that?
Yeah, for now.
(SOMBRE MUSIC)
These make it
more final than the funeral.
What do you want to do with them?
We'll scatter them in the new year,
on the oval, same as your Dad's.
He'd like that.
Mm.
Until then, his room.
I can do it.
No, I can't stay out of it forever.
(SIGHS)
You alright?
It's where he still feels alive.
But he's not.
You were on his computer.
No.
It's open.
I came in to get his suit
for the undertaker, that's all.
He always closed it. Always.
He must have just been excited
about getting to his buck's night.
Mm.
(CHUCKLES)
Last goal, Danny boy.
(SOMBRE MUSIC CONTINUES)
(CRYING)
Fly high.
Mrs Grey, do you have anything
to say about the coward's punch
on your son?
- How do you feel?
- How do you think she feels?
Okay, move back. Give her some
space, please. Move back.
I feel
(CRYING)
I feel sad.
We're all sad. Too sad for anger
and recriminations.
The law will find the right
or wrong of it.
Our one consolation is missing
from the ashes that we scattered
are the organs that have
gone to helping others.
If anyone wants to honour Danny,
do so by becoming an organ donor.
It's an issue on which he held
firm views. Thank you.
Move aside. Please let us through.
There are reports that Danny was
dealing drugs
the night of the fight.
Can you comment?
If a bloke had asked that
question -
Was your son a drug dealer,
Mrs Grey?
- Move back, please. Move back.
- You cow!
Hey, hey!
No! No! No, no!
She just lost the man
she was about to marry.
What is your excuse?
Okay, I've got you.
It's okay.
We have to talk.
Please.
His computer.
What about it?
Well, he, um, he always closed it.
It - it was a thing.
But when we went into his room,
it was open.
So?
So is the drugs accusation true?
Because of some computer?
No, it's
have you been in his room?
Were you in on it?
No.
But - but you did sneak in.
You knew. And you didn't stop him.
I tried. Of course I tried.
Sorry. I'm sorry.
No, fair cop.
Okay, yeah.
I went in that night he died,
in case there was stuff there.
And was there?
I flushed it.
Okay, well - well, how much?
What was there?
You don't want to know.
Oh
Oh, Mum!
You know the press.
They take a one-punch death and turn
it into a 'drugs in sport' scandal.
- Yeah.
- As soon as Bella's here.
(TEARY)
I'm so sorry.
You had every right.
There's no truth in it,
that you know?
Leave me to handle it.
Where is Bella?
David? David.
I have always cringed from news
items where a parent says,
"my child wouldn't do that."
From the moment they hit puberty,
they open this 'to be kept
from the family' folder.
We are the last to know.
So I will ask you once more,
and I will never forgive you
if you lie to me.
To your knowledge,
did Danny do what she says?
(SOMBRE MUSIC)
Right.
I - I only found out myself
the night of the fight.
I sent Marc in to clear his room.
I wanted to spare you.
Computer.
I was trying to help.
Oh, you have.
You've - you've told the truth.
(SIGHS)
There is one sort of parent
worse than the wilfully ignorant
and that is one who protects
a child, whatever they've done.
Our world'd be a better place if
more of us faced their failings.
Have you got that reporter's number?
I can get it.
Danny's organs helped a lucky few.
Admitting his stupidity might
help a lot more.
I don't think now -
Just text it to me.
And I don't need protecting.
Not on this.
Not at all.
(BELLA) You're not gonna
watch the news?
(SIGHS)
Why make it worse?
I need a cuddle.
If I don't make this
count for something,
I'll have lost him all over again.
(ON TV) It's an issue on which
he held firm views.
(ON TV) The report said Danny
was dealing drugs
the night of the fight.
Can you comment?
If a bloke had asked
that question -
Was your son a drug dealer, Mrs Grey?
You cow!
No! No!
Does the lady protest too much?
A team culture intent on concealing
what might be the tip -
Sweetheart.
Join me?
No, I'm leaving room.
(BART) Having a big one.
With?
Some lads from Tate Swarbrick.
(CATE) Don't overdo it.
How was he?
You've become conspicuous
by your absence.
Did he say that?
What's not said's just as telling.
I have to muster the energy.
I managed.
You didn't sit on the stairs
and watch him die.
That was ten months ago.
Makes any sentiment after
the fact suspect.
Well, you've had plenty of talks
since.
Yes, well, this is the first
since he's clearly not dying.
He'll throw anything
I say back in my face.
I can come.
Toxicity doesn't require
an audience.
I'll go, first thing.
Good luck.
I feel very alone.
You should have been here
a week ago.
There were plugs to pull.
There's something you should know.
For my own good, of course?
(REBECCA) Not remotely.
I have a friend aspiring to be
the second Mrs Julian Lee.
She's felt the good surgeon cooling,
so she had him followed
and she's managed quite the dossier.
God works in mysterious ways.
Oh, drop the pious schtick.
(REBECCA) While you're here,
Mr Lee and Cate have graduated
from hotel beds to hers.
Oh, you think I didn't know?
(REBECCA) The affair, possibly.
But in your home? Has she ever
screwed one there before?
You're a laughing stock.
Bart's not back till late.
We have plenty of time ahead.
No need for risks.
And if that doesn't declare
my intentions, nothing will.
Good intentions?
Should I pack and leave now?
When he's recovered.
Why stir the pot?
(TENSE MUSIC)
I'm not a kid.
And you're not my nanny.
- I thought -
- I'm fine.
Goodnight then, Mr Walford -
Yeah, yeah. No, wait.
I'm sorry.
Thank you.
Goodnight.
You said you'd be late.
Ran out of steam.
Here? Really?
I assume he didn't come for drinks.
We're being discreet.
I saw him.
A warning to take more care?
So what's the theory?
Dad's so grateful
that Julian saved your life
he gives him
a leave pass to mount you?
Don't be vulgar.
(BART) He'll get the same
treatment as every other one -
Unless
Stop.
(BART) Dad finds out, as always,
which guarantees Julian suffers.
Is that it? His punishment
for keeping Dad alive.
I love him.
Please. There's only one person
you love, Mother.
Me.
You think I would have survived
this house if you didn't?
What about Georgia?
Your father has a dreadful
opinion of her.
Any specific reason?
Yes.
One day.
Perhaps.
(SLOW-PACED DRAMATIC MUSIC)
(BART) Original and copy.
That should shut him up.
You will cease and desist,
or the original will circulate.
She's - she's my little girl.
Done and dusted.
Make sure those Korean proposals
are on my desk this afternoon.
Thank you, Bart.
You're paid to protect my interests.
Your own.
Eventually.
(PHILLIP) Any gratitude
I feel to you and Georgia
does not extend
to seeing you together.
Be as kinky as you like,
but don't even contemplate more.
Has your Dad gone?
I couldn't see into the car
as he left.
He's shattered.
Good.
Have we put runs on the board
with your father?
We may. With time.
No. We will.
Next one! Zachary, you're up.
And careful.
(CHILDREN SHOUTING)
Hi.
How can you?
I was going to discuss it tonight.
- You're talking to that reporter?
- Mm-hmm.
After what she said?
The boys are furious.
How much did they tell you?
- They said Danny was doing it.
- Mm-hmm.
And even if it is true, what,
you're throwing him to the dogs?
I have to do what's right.
You're his mother.
I wouldn't lie for him alive.
I'm not gonna do it now.
He sold drugs to some other
mother's child.
Marti.
(SCOFFS) I will I'll hate you
if you go ahead with this.
- You don't mean that.
- Don't I?
The truth will be reported.
Perhaps I can control how.
I don't want the kids sensing this.
I am in tonight.
You still talking to her?
Yes.
Then I never want to see you again.
Martina, please.
(SNORES)
(GENTLE MUSIC)
I got a visit from Rebecca Konig
before I got one from my adoring
spouse.
When?
The point is, the person who hates
me most, dropped by before you.
I've been holding off.
For?
News that your second chance might
have taken some effect.
Would have made this easier.
At least it would have justified
the platitudinous crap I fed
the press during your operation.
I'm meant to have had some
sort of epiphany?
Saul on the road to Damascus?
I find you referencing the Bible
more than unsettling.
(CHUCKLES)
So. I'm here.
And so am I.
Hopefully for some time.
I've paid lip service. Can I go?
You may.
Was there anything, er,
specific you wanted to say?
No, nothing that can't wait.
(PHILLIP) I'm home in a few days,
so one more token visit should
suffice.
For appearance's sake.
And tell Sandra I want
her there when I get home.
She's reviewing her options.
Oh, yes, I heard. Tell her to not be
so bloody stupid.
Convince her.
So that's why I'm here?
We all have our uses.
At least the usual summons for
a blow-counter blow is emotional.
Now I'm just a messenger?
Sorry to rob you of your illusions.
Cate?
Yes?
Nothing.
In his office?
Security.
Give 'em a show.
No cameras in here.
True that.
On his desk.
(GENTLE MUSIC)
(SHE EXHALES)
What better way to say 'screw you,
Daddy', hmm?
The club would prefer
you to cancel it.
We're trying to manage the fallout.
(SIGHS)
He hasn't been with the club
all year.
But he was.
It picks the scab off the old
sore of drugs in the game.
Was he selling drugs to the team?
- They all say no.
- Oh!
But the press won't want to listen.
Well, that's not my problem.
I'm sorry.
You know what the game meant to him.
Don't.
And Paul.
Oh! That is a cheap tactic.
I will see the club clear of mud,
unless there is mud
and you're worried it'll show.
No.
Good.
This is my choice
and the one I have to make,
believing it
will do more good than harm.
If I can put Martina's feelings
aside
then I can certainly ignore
the Club's.
Sorry, I'd rather be alone.
Got somewhere even better
for tomorrow night.
Than this?
You wait.
Mum?
(TO HERSELF) Mum.
Bedtime.
Let's get these off.
No.
Wouldn't want to be you
in the morning. I'll be back.
(BELLA) Mum.
Drink this.
That's it.
I'm so sad.
I know. Sleep tight.
(SOPHIA) My little boy.
You too.
I had a rough night.
I'm here to make it
look like you didn't.
Understand I admire what you're
doing.
There'll be no hatchet job.
Yes? Right. Ready?
As I'll ever be.
No, no, leave it.
..What it's been for you
since Danny passed away.
(ON TV) So I'm curious,
why have you chosen to speak
about Danny's drug dealing now?
(SOPHIA) It obviously wasn't
an easy decision,
but when I heard that your
accusations were true,
I felt I had to address them.
And how did you learn the truth?
Can you say who told you?
His teammates?
Your daughter?
His fiance?
(MAN) Bloody hell.
I'm here to discuss
my son's actions.
I will say the person who told me
had no direct involvement with him.
She should have said it wasn't you.
Shh!
(ON TV) Many parents would find
your actions unusual,
especially given
you had just lost your son.
It's because he died,
because his death helped others
through organ donation,
that I'm doing this.
We made such an issue of it,
for the better, I hope.
(SOPHIA) I'd hate his less
admirable choices
to undo any of the good
that message might have done.
But he still sold drugs.
(SIGHS)
My son was a good man,
who made bad choices.
Instead of wasting
time on pointless recriminations,
I'd like fans of his
game to learn from his mistakes.
Then there might be
some point to a heart-breaking
situation.
Some might say you're using this
interview to whitewash
the actions of a self-interested
drug dealer.
Bitch.
(SOPHIA) There's already enough
self-righteous outrage on the
appropriately named Twitterverse.
Can we just concentrate
on the message?
It's to the parents out there.
If it can happen to Danny,
it can happen to anyone.
Don't be blind to your
child's faults before it's too late.
(CRYING)
All very mysterious.
I keep my promises.
Turn around.
What could be more twisted
than my father's desk?
You can't even begin to imagine.
(DRAMATIC MUSIC)
I tried not to disturb you.
Bad dream?
Beautiful.