Passenger (2024) s01e02 Episode Script

Aah!
SCREAMS
That's a fully-grown stag.
We're ready for you now.
Eddie Wells is getting out.
I've lost my family, and he gets
leniency? That isn't right.
YELLING: Leave me alone!
GUNSHOTS
What about the missing Swedish girl,
Nina Karlsson? I can do that.
Spotted a day or two ago.
So that's that?
That is that, yeah.
Katie, someone's taken her.
I need a full search of the area,
like, now!
YELLING: Katie?
She's back home. It's a false alarm.
So, where is he, then?
Eddie.
Hiya, darling.
ANIMAL CALLS
SOFTLY: Should be ample warm now.
Don't need it for warmth.
Need it for light.
This where you were Friday?
More or less.
Did he hurt you?
Who?
Come for me again,
I'll make your life a misery.
Katie?
You should say hello.
Nina? Folk have been
looking for you. Worried.
What do you want me to say?
I'm Nina, and I'm lost?
I wanted to find you.
You wanted a case.
"Dead Girls In Forest."
Let me tell you something.
It's the people that say they don't
need help that need it the most.
SOFTLY: And you,
little desperate one,
you are in over your head.
FIRE SIZZLES
RIYA GASPS,
ANIMAL GRUNTING
SCREAMING,
RIYA WHIMPERS
JOANNE'S VOICE ECHOING:
Katie
GROWLING
SHE GASPS
Oh!
She's late. Yolanda,
she meant to be here at nine.
Yolanda left four year ago, Sue.
She's left?
Alicante.
Well, will Nick
change my sheets, then?
SIGHING: Nick went with.
Even though he's got a shellfish
allergy and burns like a dick.
But Nick's your husband.
I know.
It's a shit situation.
I've divvied your tabs,
they're on the kitchen table.
You "administer" tablets.
Fine, administer.
RIYA SIGHS
Any news on the missing girl?
How do you know about that?
Oh
Well, drunk people talk a lot.
Katie's home. Safe and sound.
No
I didn't mean her.
Where's Nina Karlsson?
TELEVISION: 'Could it be this weird
weather, do you know what I mean?
'Cos everyone seems to have it.
'We've got folk afraid of this,
we've got folk afraid of that.
'We've all got a bit jumpy,
haven't we?'
Milk and one.
DOOR OPENS ABOVE
I don't drink tea.
FOOTSTEPS DOWN STAIRS
Since when?
Here she is. My baby girl.
KATIE COUGHS
That'll be your sister. Lil?
You've given Katie your cold!
KATIE COUGHING
Hand over your mouth when you cough!
'All right, no need to shout.
I'm right here.'
Hey, sweetheart.
Lil? Lil?
JOANNE SIGHS
You need to fetch t'car
from the garage.
I'll do it later.
How 'bout now?
I can get the car.
It's her responsibility.
We're family.
KATIE SCOFFS
JOANNE SIGHS
You know you can't just
go to t'garage.
It's my garage.
Not any more. After what happened.
Just stay home,
keep out of everybody's way.
FRONT DOOR SLAMS
Looked like he popped
some muscle on in prison. Mm.
He's got them ones that go down
from the neck to the shoulder.
Traps. I've always liked traps.
Table's ready.
Thanks, Lynn. Thanks, Lynn.
How are you?
Yeah, I'm all right, how are you?
Morning, beauties!
Morning, Derek.
Hiya, Derek! You all right?
Er, macchiato, two egg, two toast.
Cheers, Lynn.
Kane not in yet?
Not yet, love.
What have you come as?
I got it from that shop you like.
SHE SCOFFS
Do you want me to get you owt?
Glass of fizz, or, er
Fizz?
We're in a carvery, Derek.
Why would I want fizz?
Been nominated.
Lancs Businessman of the Year.
I'm all right with my juice.
KATIE COUGHS
You all right, chuck?
What do you want?
I found your
your phone in the forest.
KATIE COUGHS
I thought you could walk me through
what happened on Friday.
Went for a drive. Parked up.
In the forest on your todd
in minus three?
What happened to the car, anyway?
Bonnet's minced.
Deer didn't have a great day either.
Can't remember.
You went missing, Katie,
for 24 hours.
I'm not gonna take that lightly.
I'm not missing, though, am I?
And I ain't done anything wrong.
Oh, I'm not saying you have.
I'm I'm on your side.
I just wanna make sure you're OK.
I'm fine. Just went out.
OK.
Ever met Nina Karlsson?
Who?
Swedish girl.
She went missing, too.
RIYA SIGHS
Pulled apart like a soft cheese.
Who does that to a deer?
Probably the Chadder Cougar.
There isn't a Chadder Cougar, Nish.
DOOR OPENS
Snow's gone. Called it.
Climate change is a bitch.
That were a quality Bieber
last night, boss.
Ah, will you shush?
I couldn't believe how that voice
were coming out of your head.
Absolutely bossed it,
start to finish.
What time did you leave?
Late.
You get the shags in?
You what?
Well, I thought you might've had
a cheeky bang on your b-day.
You and Jakub looked quite cosy.
Jakub? He's a mate.
Come on, Riya.
I actually went to see Katie
just now. Wells? Why?
Well, you know, the whole
missing-for-24-hours thing.
Something's not adding up. Something
ain't right with that forest.
Anyone fancy a carvery brekkie?
So, er, why did you
go see Katie, boss?
She's back at home, isn't she?
Look, two girls went missing. You
don't think there might be a link?
Between Nina and Katie?
Where were they?
Did someone take them?
Do we even know why Nina Karlsson
was even in Chadder?
Tree of Good Hope.
LAUGHING: Shut up.
A guess.
Sweden to Chadder Vale
to see a tree? Give over.
Er, have you been?
It's quite a big thing, boss.
Mm, they planted it
to get rid of the curse.
You should think about going.
Maybe I will.
Mm, Tez? Any chance we can get those
results on the black liquid?
It's a Sunday.
SIREN WAILS
SPLUTTERING,
GURGLING
JOHN: Always come up here to think.
How was your night?
Why does everyone wanna know?
Er, I'm your boyfriend. Got a right.
A right?
Yeah. What right?
Did you shag him?
SOFTLY: Who?
Mehmet.
What is wrong with you?
What?
You're sick.
Well, you're, you're the one
that left with him. Kate?
Well, can we at least talk?
No, because you talk with your
fists, John. I'm bored of it.
FLOORBOARDS CREAK
Lilly? It's Dad.
I just, erm
just wanted to say a proper hello,
you know?
DOOR SHUTS,
LOCKS FROM WITHIN
Is the vermin back at yours, then,
Joanne?
He's done his time, Tony!
Five years out of ten?
If I cross him,
I'll crack his head open, I will.
You'll mind your own, Tony!
You listening? You'll mind your own.
Oh, filth's gonna stop me, are you?
I'd like to see you try.
Well, I stopped him,
and I'll stop you.
Not your town, this,
not your people. Excuse me?
Leave it, Tony.
Eddie's our business. Unfinished.
He didn't do owt to you, Tony,
so just pipe down!
Didn't do owt to me?!
Hey, this is your final warning!
Sit down!
Or what?
Tony, please
No, no, Jim. Five year ago,
Eddie stuck a broken bottle in him
and the whole town stopped.
He broke businesses, he broke lives.
And for five years,
we've been crawling,
while he scuttles off to prison
like a bloody coward!
Well, now, filth,
now's the time for the reckoning!
DOOR OPENS,
SLAMS SHU
A lot of anger knocking about.
HE GRUNTS SOFTLY
This place is a tinder box.
If you wanna start striking matches,
strike away.
But they'll come for you.
Like a pack of dogs,
they'll come for you,
and I won't be doing much
to stop 'em.
SOFTLY: Well, you see, you took
five years of my life, little pig.
Comes at a cost, that.
Out.
HE SNORTS LIKE A PIG
PLANE FLYING OVERHEAD
VOICE OVER TANNOY
IN DISTANCE
Where are you from?
From California.
Say again?
America.
Oh, where the fat fuckers come from.
You never know when
to put your forks down, you lot.
I drove a Swedish girl last year.
Proper weird, them lot.
"Build a fucking wall."
That's what your lad said.
What brings you to Chadder?
The tree.
It's shit.
SHEEP BAAS
How was it seeing him?
Can't have been easy.
I've thought about it
for five years.
What I'd do when he got out.
It's like standing in a tunnel,
knowing a train's coming.
Well, I'm here for you, Jim.
If ever you need me, I'm here.
My therapist talks about
what makes a flower beautiful.
Er, "It's not the petals," she says,
"the petals are gone in the wind.
"It's the stem. It's resilient."
She talks like that
every bloody session.
How I need to be resilient
so my petals can grow.
Bollocks. Nonsense.
RIYA CHUCKLES
Sometimes, I catch my reflection
in the mirror when I'm changing.
I'm grotesque.
The ironic thing is, the whole town
paints Eddie as this monster,
but he isn't.
I am.
You don't smoke.
Today, I do.
KATIE COUGHS
You look proper stressy.
Boy stuff.
What's he done now?
The usual.
Sick of it.
What did police bitch want?
Nowt.
Were it about Friday?
Maybe.
Where were you?
SCREAMING
It's hard to explain.
Boy stuff?
Not everything's boy stuff,
you know!
Course it is.
Which one is it this week?
Same one as last week.
And the week before. Mm.
Mehmet?
Well, yeah, we've got a thing going.
What thing?
A fight.
Oh, what, planet shit?
It's not shit. There's honour in it.
He's not into you.
You know that, don't you?
I know.
He's into you.
Not gonna stop me trying.
What do we do about Dad?
Dad left five year ago.
This man's not our dad.
SCRATCHING
Well, who is he, then?
He's no-one.
What you looking at?
Where's my fucking bin?!
SHE SCOFFS
DOOR SLAMS
ANIMAL NOISES
DING
Hi, Cath.
Oh, hello, love.
You all right?
I'm all right, you all right?
I didn't realise,
how long has it been a B&B for?
Oh, er, since Richard died.
It's nice to have a bit of company.
How can I, erm
There was a young girl who passed
through Chadder a few months ago,
and I was wondering
maybe she stayed here?
Nina Karlsson.
Nina Karlsson?
Manc Met must've questioned you
about her.
Ooh, don't think so.
But let me check the system.
A few months ago, you say?
Yeah, give or take.
You sure Manc Met
hasn't come by asking about her?
Nah.
Karlsson. Stayed here December last.
For two nights.
Two nights to see a tree?
Well, it's pretty much the norm.
Has Katie Wells ever stayed here?
Why would she?
I dunno.
Oh, seems like that Nina girl
never checked out.
She owes me 26 quid!
Oh, hello. Er, what's the name?
Jordan.
Jordan.
KEYS JANGLE
Welcome to Chadder.
Are you here to see the tree?
Oh, in all its beauty.
SIREN WAILS
CLUNK,
SIREN WINDS DOWN
Hey! Hey! You look wank.
Where've you been?
Out.
We're running the ovens tonight.
There's two batches going in.
I'll need you here, not on the road.
Er, well, D-Dez. The thing is
there's, erm, a problem
SLAMS TROLLEY
What fucking problem, Kane?
Don't want problems.
You'll be here tonight.
SOFTLY: Fuck! Fuck, fuck, fuck.
BREATHES SHAKILY,
BRANCHES SNAP
BIRD CALLS
ANIMAL CALLS
RUMBLE,
ANIMAL SCREECHES
COUGHS AND RETCHES
PANTS
No, no, no, no.
No, no, no, no!
Al, would you rather be
a rat or rubbish?
I want to say neither.
If it were me, I'd say a rat.
Cos least you can move around a bit.
No-one wants to be rubbish.
Oh, my God.
Oh, my God.
Not playing games, is she?
Oh, my God,
she's like an actual detective.
Exactly, she is proper
Oh, Lind.
Hi.
Would you rather be
a rat or rubbish?
Rat. Speaking of rubbish,
just had a call from Mrs Whittaker.
60 Rippell Road.
She's had her bins pinched.
Ah, another one? Shit's sake.
Yeah. Can we get on it?
On it, boss.
Like Sonic, boss.
PHONE RINGS
Boss. You are proper, aren't you?
You what?
'I didn't realise
you had hero status.
'You're like Vera, boss.'
Is that the best comparison?
'You should be getting free shit,
like watches and cinema tickets.'
I'm not sure it works like that,
but thanks.
Anyway, I just went to see the tree.
Took me all of five minutes.
Did you touch it?
Give over. So, do me a favour.
Since you waste your life online,
get on Tripadvisor
and find out why these kids
need two days to see a tree.
Ah, Lind's put me and Al
on Mrs Whittaker's bin.
BANG
Oh, you've got to be kidding me.
'I know, it's rubbish, in't it?'
SIGHS
Calling on a Sunday? Must be urgent.
'I've got an apology to make.
'You know that sample that I took
of the black liquid?'
I might've used
the wrong mixing agent.
Meaning what?
Meaning that the sample
is now corrupted.
'It's my mistake. Sorry, darl.'
But you know what? It'll be
engine oil. I wouldn't lose any kip.
Ta for letting me know.
KNOCK ON DOOR
Did you think I wouldn't notice?
Money's missing from my account.
£6,000. The bank notifies you
for sums like that.
At first, I thought it were fraud.
But to see that it was my son
who took it.
There's something that I need to do.
Something important enough
to steal from your own mother?
I thought I'd raised you
better than that.
Mum I'll pay it back, Mum.
You'll know everything soon.
COUGHS
Are you OK, love?
Have you got anything for a
Chesty cough?
Yeah, sort of.
We do a nice raspberry linctus
on that shelf.
Hey.
You OK?
Yeah, fine.
Haven't seen you since Friday.
What do you remember?
I don't.
You don't remember that drive home?
No. What happened?
Something.
Something that's got me thinking.
God, this place, Mem.
Feel like I need out.
Why?
Feel like
like I'm living my life in,
like a matchbox or summat.
Like, I want to see places,
people
be excited.
Have you never
thought about it before?
Mum needs me at the shop.
With your brains, you could get
a job anywhere, doing anything,
and you'd be making a mint.
Shut up.
You'd be CEO of some big fat firm
in Manchester.
I'd be in accounts obviously.
John'd be on security.
Yeah.
Do you not, like,
want that adventure?
Course.
WHISPERS: Just something
I need to do here first.
PHONE BUZZES
Hello?
Yep.
Yeah. Yeah, all right.
I'll be there.
That's £2.80.
See you.
Oh, Mem?
It feels like
we're at the start of summat.
Bye.
See you.
WIND GUSTS,
TREES CREAK
FLIES BUZZING
It's rare for you, needing help.
I don't need help.
I don't mind
being your knight in shining.
I just need a tyre.
Right. Yes.
Does that look normal to you?
Pothole?
Mm.
Riya, you left
your own birthday party
to look for a girl
who was at her house.
Meaning?
Most things
never look normal to you.
All right, fine.
It's just a pothole.
But there is something going on
with Katie Wells.
AUDIOBOOK: 'The day they dredged him
from the lake,
'he had rocks in his pockets.'
COUGHS
'Black rocks.
'As they lay him on the shore,
'the same miserable look on his face
he had when he was living
'..the black rocks tumbled
from his pockets.
'I picked them up,
like an odd kind of treasure.'
COUGHS
Oh, my God.
'He was riddled with fear, my dad.
Used to try and smoke it away.
'Smoked all his life. But it wasn't
the cigs that killed him.
'It was the fear.
That's what the black rocks are.
'The fear we carry around with us
'..that eventually drags us
to our death.'
EERIE CHIRPING,
WINGS FLAP
Katie?
What d'you want me to say?
SCREAMS
ECHOING: I'm Nina, and I'm lost?
Where did you go, Katie Wells?
RADIO: 'Boss, another one for you.
'Would you rather have
all-white eyeballs
'or a see-through nose?'
Rather have both.
See if anyone in this town notices.
Ready to do this?
COUGHS
ALERT JANGLES
PHONE RINGS
Hello, Jumbo Breads.
Katie speaking.
'Hiya, it's head office.
'We need to talk to Derek about
waste management. Is he there?'
Erm, I'll see if he's about,
give us a sec.
Dez?
WOMAN: He's not 'ere, love.
I'll get him to call you.
'It's urgent'
RADIO PLAYS
1972 Gran Torino, eh?
I'd sell it, but it's sold.
Well, I'd buy it, but I'm skint.
All right.
So
You've changed the sign, I notice.
Makes sense
if I'm paying the rent.
I'm looking forward
to starting back, you know.
It's not that I don't want you to.
The minute people see you here,
they will stop coming. Hm.
I can lend you some money.
I don't want your money.
Well anything I can do to help.
You can give me Katie's car back.
It's in a bit of state.
Well, I reckon
I'll be able to manage because
I'm a bit more experienced than you.
Remember that, eh?
TOOL CLATTERS
Christ.
Does it run?
Just.
Right.
Take these tools. You'll need them.
ENGINE STARTS
ALI: She said it's the red bin
that's gone missing.
Mm, that's recycling.
No-one bothers with that.
They should, Nish,
if they don't want the planet
to be three degrees warmer by
Have a day off, Ali.
Hiya, boss.
All right, boss.
LINDA: Sherlock!
Good of you to make the time.
I hear you've put yourself
on the Nina Karlsson case.
The closed Nina Karlsson case.
LINDA SIGHS
Ever since she lost Richard,
Cath comes to mine of a Sunday.
Cook her a chicken, we have a vino.
She talks to me about everything.
I thought I made it pretty clear.
No more conspiracy crap.
Nina stayed at Cath's B&B.
She didn't check out,
she didn't pay her bill.
So she did a bloody runner!
What did they teach you at the Met?
Every time someone leaves a sock
in a hotel room,
we don't launch a missing persons,
do we?
But it's not a sock. It's a person.
I'm sure Manc Met have covered that.
They haven't.
They didn't even question Cath
about her.
I'm just saying
it might be worth looking into.
I mean, maybe there's a cult thing
or a drug thing or
Maybe where Nina went
is where Katie went.
ALL: Katie's at home.
There is more to this place
than bins.
I am telling you that now.
Potholes don't just appear
out of nowhere,
and stags don't just disintegrate
on forest roads.
That's enough, Riya.
This is not Broadchurch.
Let us keep our eye on the prize.
EDDIE: Jo.
Go, go, go, go, go, go, go.
Made you a sandwich,
though there weren't
much in the cupboards,
but I did my best.
What's your plan?
How long are you here for?
Well, I didn't realise
I were on a timer.
My life, this.
Five years it's took
to rebuild all this,
and it's been a fucking scrape
for me and my kids.
Your kids, is it, yeah? Yeah?
I don't want them living scared.
Fucking talk to them, then.
Prison counselling
not teach you owt?
What counselling?
Oh, you didn't go.
No, it didn't
SHE SCOFFS
work because I can't
remember what I did.
Jim can. Most of the town can
if you ever want filling in.
Head Office?
They say what it was about?
Just said it were urgent.
Didn't even know we had
an head office. Hm.
Erm they did say summat
about waste management.
Right. You-You sure that
that's what they said? Mm.
Kane!
Kane!
HE GRUNTS,
GROANS
Where are you, you fucking toerag?
Where were you last night?
Why?
You were meant to be on nights.
I asked you. I told you.
Ah, shit.
Yeah, "shit".
Waste management's just called.
No!
Last night's batch.
You were supposed to be there!
It's on you, this.
I can't
I can't deal with this any more.
It's strangling me.
I can't I want out.
There is no out!
There's only in.
For me and you there's only in.
We clean up at dusk.
DOOR SLAMS
Fuck! Fuck!
SCREAMING ECHOES
JOHN: Kate.
I've been trying you all day.
Soz f
You're a dick.
Just jealous, I suppose.
Mehmet's your bezzie mate.
He's OUR bezzie mate.
SHE SCOFFS
Katie. Oi!
How would you feel about moving?
Moving? Where?
Manchester.
What's Manchester got?
Everything.
Like?
Everything.
What are you going on about?
People grow, John
OK. It don't mean
that people have to change, though.
Right.
Well, I've got a trial shift
tomorrow.
I'll be leaving at five.
K Katie, wait.
Fuck's sake!
JILL: You will drive yourself crazy,
Jim. He's not there.
I'm not sleeping, Jill.
You can't keep doing this, Jim.
Oh, you don't know him.
I saw Eddie today.
Mm.
He's angry.
So's Jim. He nearly died.
Eddie's acting like
some kind of victim.
SHE SIGHS
You've had a shit day.
Mm. Why do you say that?
You're glugging.
I just feel like it's me v them.
Who's "them"?
Linda.
I mean,
if it's not cat with a cough,
it's missing bins.
And what's wrong with missing bins?
There's nothing wrong
with missing bins.
It's just we've got missing girls.
WHISPERS: Who aren't missing.
PHONE BUZZES
Sue, I'm in the pub.
I'll be home in ten, all right?
JORDAN: IPA, if you've got it?
MIKE: All right.
If you always compare Chadder
to the Met Police,
the anger and frustration
will never go away.
SHE SIGHS
When I was a boy in Poland,
I wanted to do medicine
had dreams of going to Harvard.
Shut up.
True.
I ended up as a mechanic in Chadder.
Sometimes, you just have to deal
with what's in front of you.
PHONE BUZZES
SHE SIGHS
I should go. Sue needs me.
Yes.
Thanks for the beer.
Mem? You there, bud?
Listen, mate. Er
I thought we could grab a jar
at the Forest later if
Soz about Friday. I did
Well, if you're not even
gonna fucking answer
Fuck that.
What the hell?
Is someone there?
Sue, I'm home.
SUE: Riya!
Sue?
Oh, Riya. Riya.
What's happened?
Hello.
Oh, God.
Box is too high.
Oh, come on. Let me get you up.
They shouldn't put it so high.
It's my memories.
You're all right.
I'll get it for you.
No. It's my memories
that he doesn't want me to see them
in case I remember.
Who doesn't want you
to look at them?
You can't take my memories.
DOORBELL RINGS
POUNDING ON DOOR
Be back in a minute, OK?
SUE GROANS
Jim?
Protection. You promised.
I said we'd try.
Well, it's too late. He's there.
He's on the site.
What? Who? Who's onsite, Jim?
Eddie.
SHE COUGHS VIOLENTLY
KATIE: 'Hey, Mehmet.'
Just so's you know,
I've booked a ticket.
For Manchester tomorrow.
'I thought
you might wanna come with.'
I know you've got the shop.
It's just
if you fancied it.
Eddie?
If you're here, I want you out.
'Call me when you get this.'
Oh, God. Mehmet.