Anxious People (2021) s01e03 Episode Script

So, Zarah, you said you left the bank just
a few minutes before the robber came in.
- Is that correct?
- [Zarah] Uh, yes.
I left through the rear exit. Mm-hm.
Why go out the back door?
Because I do that sometimes,
if that's where I'm going.
[Jack] Okay, so just to confirm,
you and the robber
left the same bank
and entered the same apartment
about a couple of minutes apart.
- Right?
- Yes. And?
That's just a coincidence, I suppose.
[scoffs]
- [man] It's a bad idea.
- Why can't you just prescribe new ones?
Well, Zarah, more sleeping pills
won't help you.
The only way to get rid of your anxiety
is to start seeing a therapist
or change your job,
I mean, if that's where you're getting
- your panic attacks
- Well, I should change my doctor as well.
- Uh, but
- Thanks. Bye.
Hang on
[sighs]
JÄRNGATAN 1,
VIEWING 30 DECEMBER
Oh my God.
[gasps]
[sighs]
GREW UP AT JÄRNGATAN 1
Järngatan 1.
[young Jack] No!
ANXIOUS PEOPLE
Hey.
Are you looking by yourself?
Yeah, that's right.
It's a big apartment for someone
living alone, don't you think?
[breathing shakily]
[gasping]
[sighs heavily]
Hello, are you the estate agent?
Do I look like an agent to you?
You have to wear shoe covers
at an open house, you know.
[breathes deeply]
[gasping]
I need to get out of here.
[Estelle] That's what I call a quick tour.
- [chuckles]
- I need to get out.
So, did you know
any of the other hostages there?
What? No, certainly not. And I've already
answered that question, haven't I?
The showing at the apartment.
What did you go there for?
Is this your new question?
You've obviously thought about it.
Just answer the question.
It's not difficult.
Well, what do you normally
go to a showing for?
- I don't know. I'm the one asking.
- You don't know?
Mainly, along with the other people there,
also looking,
- you're deciding if you want to buy it.
- Know what?
I'm starting to get the feeling that
you're not being honest here,
- and this probably isn't the whole truth.
- [sighs]
It feels as if you are
protecting the robber.
You haven't even given me
a description of the robber.
I have answered properly every question.
I told you the colour of his clothes.
- That he wore a face covering.
- You said that.
- What else can I tell you?
- An idea of his build. You must have one.
- [sighs]
- [phone vibrates]
Oh, it's the head office calling.
I'm sorry, I must answer this.
- I think that's enough for today.
- [Jack] Did you hear his voice?
Did he have an accent?
I didn't hear him speak,
so I have no idea. Sorry.
- Could you hold on one second? Thank you.
- [sighs]
I've told you everything I can remember.
I really must take this.
- Yes, hello, Zarah speaking.
- That's about all we had.
- Yeah, thank you.
- Thanks for holding.
[sighs]
- They've just about gone.
- Thanks.
- [raised voices echoing]
- [sighs]
What are you doing? Just lie down.
Damn it, don't sneak away.
[sighs]
[breathing heavily]
- Hi.
- It's occupied.
I can't get my head off.
It's stuck.
Maybe maybe there are scissors
or something here.
- You could
- What? Leave!
The zip has jammed somehow. It's stuck.
The zip [groans]
[grunts]
- Just hold still for a second. Can I?
- Take it off. You have to help me, though.
[exhales] Thank you.
[Zarah] I'll have to try another way.
- How's it going?
- I'm looking.
- Who's Zarah?
- What?
It says Zarah on the letter. [chuckles]
[Zarah sighs]
[Lennart exhales]
- Turn around.
- Yeah, okay.
[panting] I can't get any air.
I feel like a boiled bunny in here.
[groans] Just pull it off.
- There.
- [sighs] Oh, thank you very much.
[both sigh]
Oh, Jesus.
How the hell did you do that?
Oh, it was no problem.
Uh Hand cream.
It works on most things.
- Hand cream?
- Hand cream, yeah.
I'll have to remember that.
- Thanks a lot.
- Yeah, no problem.
Cool.
Right.
[whispers] Hell of a situation
we find ourselves in.
Yes, precisely. Yeah.
- Crazy.
- Yeah.
[sighs heavily]
- You must be an estate agent?
- No! I am not the estate agent! Okay?
Huh. You don't seem like
a prospective buyer, though,
if you know what I'm saying.
- Are you a plumber? Is that it?
- What?
You have a very definite aura
of a plumber. [chuckles]
Is it time to replace the pipework?
[giggles]
- If you don't mind, I want to be alone.
- Yeah.
Could you please go? Yeah, so
- Hand cream. Yes.
- Hand cream. Yes.
- Thank you.
- You're welcome.
[sighs]
[sighs heavily]
[creaking]
- [whispers] Hey, hey!
- [sighs]
I came in here to be alone.
- Did you hear what I said?
- I can't go back out there.
I'm afraid Roger's gonna be upset
and try and hit me again.
- Hey, you.
- Yes?
I'm really a very experienced
actor, you know.
Not a performance artist.
That's more of a
extra skill.
[sighs]
I'd say you're like
an open house destroyer.
- A saboteur.
- Not what I meant to do.
It was a sideline
when I left drama school.
It wasn't part of the plan,
but times are tough for artistes.
So you mean times aren't just as tough
for estate agents selling apartments?
Don't tell me you believe anything
estate agents say.
What I mean is that it's people like you
with your "extra skills,"
or whatever that is, sabotage,
who manipulate
the entire economical system.
House prices have totally gone
through the roof, we agree?
I'd say that I'm there to, uh [chuckles]
normalise things a little.
The normalising horny musketeer?
- [chains jingle]
- [scoffs] Yeah. Course.
That's me.
- Okay.
- Yeah.
- Listen to me
- Here we go
An apartment
is the biggest investment people make, so
- Mmm.
- They wanna pay the best possible price.
You don't care about the seller, you mean?
- No Yeah
- Yeah. Yes, precisely.
[sighs]
[sighs] Oh God.
- So, what does Zarah do?
- Huh?
- What does Zarah do for money?
- Please, enough now.
I'm employed at a bank.
- [laughs]
- I'm the manager of a local bank.
- What?
- [speaking normally] Are you trying to
- [laughs]
- Shh. What?
In that case, you're the one
manipulating the economical system.
- Wanna hear how?
- [scoffs] Yeah?
Banks lend a lot of money.
- And?
- People get into debt.
They can barely afford to pay rent,
a mortgage, interest and whatever else.
- The banks just profit.
- It's so easy to lay it all on the banks.
- Because the banks are at fault!
- I'm not forcing anyone to take a loan.
When the financial crisis hit,
apartments were taken back by the banks.
No one was able to afford them. Interest
rates had gone through the ceiling.
It all went to shit. They lost
their apartments, jobs, everything.
You believe that's my fault?
You mean that?
Are you saying I'm at fault
for destroying people's lives?
Do you mean that?
Well, the individuals
borrowing the money aren't at fault.
[gasps]
[sighs]
It's my fault. It's my bloody fault.
[shouts] You have no idea
what you're talking about.
[groans] Fuck.
Someone named Julia
rang to book an appointment.
- Julia
- Yes. She said that she knows you.
Julia and Ro. A couple. She wants
to see you about a loan for an apartment.
Oh, no. No, that's out of the question.
Tell her that I can't see her.
Mmm.
- [machine chimes]
- [cashier] 145.
Yes. Hi.
- Hi.
- I'd, uh I'd like to cash this in.
We'll have to charge you
a 50 kronor fee for doing that.
- For what?
- We charge 50 kronor for administration.
What's that for?
That would mean I'd lose 50 kronor.
- Should I transfer it to your account?
- I guess.
Sounds good, and I don't have a choice.
- Do you have any ID there?
- No problem.
Hah! Oh, no. You were too slow to take it.
That means I'll charge you
a 50 kronor fee. Hundred.
- Do you want the money in your bank?
- Yeah.
- [typing]
- [sighs]
Aah! [chuckles]
[sighs]
I thought you could at least
give me a wave.
I've just had to pay your company
50 kronor.
Shouldn't that at least warrant a wave?
- I thought you hated all banks.
- I didn't really want to, but
- So you came here to borrow?
- [laughs] Yeah! I always have to borrow.
- Yeah, sure.
- I'm a poor artiste, so
But I probably won't get any from you.
- [sighs]
- Yes. Oh, there.
Yes. Why not sit down?
- So?
- I'd like to apologise.
Well, when we were discussing the banks,
I didn't mean to make it personal.
I shouldn't have taken it out on you.
Okay. What I said to you, however,
was meant to be that direct,
absolutely, for sure.
I meant it. Really.
You have a lot of theories about the,
uh, market values or the manipulation.
It's ridiculous. You know what?
What you were saying,
your truths, they're shite.
Okay, and what do you believe in?
Just love, really. Hmm.
Okay.
Apartment viewings. You can't go
to hundreds of those, as I have,
without realising one thing.
More love exists in the world
than the other way round.
How do you come to that statement?
All of all of the apartments
that are full.
Not for sale. Most people actually want
to live with someone, together.
Hmm?
[Jim] How about a pizza? Yeah?
No, uh, I want sushi.
Sushi
A cat's meal.
That's disgusting.
Uh yeah, well, it's like medicine when
compared to half a kilo of dough and
I knew it.
Uh what is it this time?
Oh.
Hi.
Hi.
Oh, hello. Well, what do you know?
Here you are in the same place.
- Yeah, we are indeed.
- Yes.
- Is that a problem?
- Uh, yes, it is a little bit of a problem,
in my humble opinion,
when you lie during police interviews
like you've obviously done, Zarah.
You said you didn't know
any of the other hostages.
- [sighs]
- Yeah, well, um
We're about to go on a date.
[gasps]
We haven't seen each other since,
and I've just invited Zarah to lunch.
Is that, um is that breaking the law?
[scoffs] You've come for a date, yeah?
Is that right, Zarah?
Mmm.
You're actually being very pushy.
Are you aware of that?
Uh-huh. Yeah, well, I'm only doing my job.
You can't just hide behind your job
all the time.
Can you, Zarah?
[laughs] You should know.
- [sighs]
- [Jack] What else should I hide behind
when I'm actually just doing my job?
You are actually free
to choose your job, you know?
- [Zarah sighs]
- You don't have to hide behind it.
Or is it passed down
through some kind of succession?
- Succession?
- Unless you're a hereditary police officer
who's inherited the profession
from Papa Police out there, was that it?
Hmm.
Cool. Very funny.
- He was here earlier too, this morning.
- What?
Yes, asking questions about everything
that I could remember.
Oh. And what did you say?
[breathing heavily]
[Zarah] I need some air.
[gasping] I have to open a window.
[Anna-Lena] Do what Roger says. Lie down.
[young Jack] No!
[gasps]
I must get out of here.
I must get out of here!
I've got to get out of here!
I need to get out!
[all screaming]
[crowd gasp and scream]
[Roger] Lie on the ground! Get down!
- [Anna-Lena] Get down!
- [Roger] Get down!
[Zarah screams] Who is it?
[Roger] Don't shoot, we're lying down.
What the hell are you doing?
You almost killed my wife, for God's sake.
I believe everybody is okay.
Excuse me,
what do you want from us, exactly?
You could have killed her!
[on megaphone] This is Jim Johansson.
We just wanna know if everyone is okay.
I'd like to know whether
everybody is all right.
Can you give us an indication now
- if that is the case?
- Should I
[Roger] Ro
Okay, we're staying down,
we're staying down.
[Anna-Lena] We'll stay.
Unless you are planning to kill me,
I want to get out of here right now!
Why are you keeping us here? Please
tell us what we're supposed to do here!
- [Julia] No!
- [Roger] Easy, easy, easy.
- Calm down.
- We're all lying down. Lying down!
Lying down, look, now,
we're lying down, we're lying down!
Now we're lying down!
We're lying down. Everything is fine.
Everything is fine. We're all lying down.
We're all lying down!
Easy, easy! Easy!
We're all lying down Oh, fuck it.
Hello?
- Is everything okay?
- [Zarah whimpers]
[Roger] What the hell is this?
If you take hostages,
you make demands for something.
He hasn't made any demands.
It's a bloody amateur hostage situation.
- [Anna-Lena] Shh!
- I agree.
If we get to rate his overall performance
online afterwards in a questionnaire,
I'll be leaving negative comments.
I'll give him a smile.
One of those with a straight mouth.
A big thumbs down
for the entire situation.
Just shut your mouth, or I will come
and shut it, you fucking rabbit.
- [Julia] Oh, just be quiet, both of you!
- Oh, Jesus.
I'll buy the lunch,
but I decide what we talk about.
- Yeah?
- Sure.
I was thinking that
we could go a bit deeper.
I'm gonna ask some really deep questions.
- Oh, yeah?
- Mmm.
- If you're paying for lunch.
- Yes.
- Can I borrow some cash?
- [laughs]
- I'd rather live in a one-room apartment.
- Yes, but if you get a bit more
Yes, but it doesn't have to be like that.
That's the good thing.
Let me give you an example.
And please, just humour me.
Sometimes you have to go against
your inner compass
because your work demands it of you.
You know that you're talking
about yourself now, right? [chuckles]
There was a man who took his own life
after I decided
not to give him a bank loan.
- What?
- [sighs]
During the financial crisis,
he came to me.
And since then, I've become obsessed
with, uh finding out about him.
I wanted to know where he grew up,
where he and his family lived
Who he was.
I even have a notebook where I've written
down everything I've found out about him.
Then I saw that listing, and, um
about the apartment viewing,
and I noticed that it was the same
address where he grew up,
so I went there. [sobbing]
And then I saw a photo placed
on a boy's desk, in the boy's room.
I saw a photo of him. [sobs]
I'm sorry, I don't know why
I'm telling you this.
I've never told anyone this before.
[sobs]
So so I'm the only person
you've spoken to before now?
A horny rabbit. [sobbing]
- Yeah.
- [chuckles]
Yeah.
Wel, how does it feel?
[sighs]
It feels a great deal better
than I thought.. It actually does.
[sobs]
[sighs]
- Oh
- [sighs]
Hey, Zarah.
No matter what's happened in the past,
you have to try to leave it there.
You have to try to move on, to do better.
Like a re-run where you do it right.
You make it sound so easy.
- That isn't so easy, to just
- Who said that any of it would be easy?
[sighs]
Yes, hello. Could you book
something in for me tomorrow morning?
A meeting with Julia?
Yes. The one who wanted
to speak to me earlier.
Yes, and can you ask her
to come with Ro as well?
- Did you know she was here?
- No, but it's a miracle.
- [Jim] Hey!
- [Jill] Hi.
- Jill! Hi!
- Hi.
- It's so wonderful to see you.
- [laughs]
- Look who's here!
- Hey, bro.
[Jack] Hey, sis.
- How long have you been here?
- Uh No, not long.
Don't worry. It's all good.
- [Jim] You must be Is this your stuff?
- [Jill] Yeah.
[Jim] Let's go inside. Come on. Come on!
You shouldn't stand out here in the cold.
[pop music playing]
So, have you slept with Cecilia yet?
Uh no.
- No?
- No, I have not done that.
Well, I just wondered. She's cute.
- Yeah, and we're colleagues.
- Yeah, but you could be more than that.
- I think that it's
- So, Jill.
We thought that you were coming
for for New Year.
I know. It was
[sighs] It didn't work out that way.
No.
Why not, though? Did anything go wrong?
No, well I mean it was just that
Oh, I Well, I owed a friend some money
and had to try and give it back, and, uh
Well, yeah. Otherwise, I would have
been evicted, so it was a real panic.
You know?
- Mm-hm.
- Uh, no, I
- I know I should have tried to ring.
- Yeah.
My mobile ran out of juice, too. Yeah.
Uh, yeah.
Do you know what I was thinking?
- I've been thinking Ah, sorry.
- [Jill] Thanks.
Why don't you think about
moving back home?
- [Jill] What?
- Why stay up there?
- Yeah
- Why should you do that?
- It's totally pointless, isn't it?
- Papa, what do you expect me to do here?
Well, live here with us.
Well, I don't know about that.
I'd be such a hassle.
- Do you want that?
- Sharing a room in the basement.
- We'll have a clearout of the office.
- [Jill] Papa
- That's our office in there. It's not
- [Jill] Yeah.
Finding a job would be easy.
- What kind of job could she get here?
- What? Why couldn't I get a job?
Most jobs require education or experience.
- [Jim] But
- I don't think it's that easy.
- [Jill] Thanks a lot.
- Don't ruin the mood here.
It's something we can look into.
- [Jill] Mm. Exactly.
- We should toast to us all being together.
And to Mama.
- Mmm.
- Yeah.
Skål.
[Jim sighs]
Uh Jack just told me
he's sleeping with Cissi from work.
[laughs]
- What?
- [laughs] He didn't!
Get off!
- Forget Cissi.
- [Jim sighs]
- What are we having for dinner?
- Burnt almond chicken.
- Yes. Same as usual.
- Nah
[laughs] Same as usual!
You cheeky shit!
[all laughing]
[siren blaring]
Hey.
Are you here by yourself?
Why is Ro not with you?
Uh, you know what?
She's been gone the entire night.
She knew we were gonna meet here today.
I don't know, I've tried to call her
but she's not answering.
Oh, well, uh
We should go in.
You know the apartment
next to the one you were also looking at?
Um, it's much cheaper.
We don't have a lot of savings,
but we were gonna use everything we could
to get to secure it.
No, you absolutely shouldn't do that.
You always have to have a buffer.
That's essential.
Okay, well, might as well
We don't have enough.
Wait a second.
Listen here. I'm going to give you
a 1.8% interest rate.
It will be amortisation-free
for the first 12 months,
as I don't think you'll be working
too much during your maternity leave?
How does that sound?
W Uh Are you ser serious?
Yes, I'll approve it right now
and I'll be your reference for that.
Are you allowed to do that as well?
No, I am absolutely
not allowed to do that.
But I have handed in
my resignation earlier today,
so sign here before I change my mind.
Oh, yeah.
Also, you have to get Ro to sign there.
Oh. Yeah
It's fine to take the papers with you
and get her to sign
whenever she's able to do it, okay?
Oh [laughs]
Hi. I resigned today.
[Lennart] Good, Zarah. How does it feel
to be an ex-bank manager?
Fine. It feels great.
But [sighs]
- Bu t?
- Well, I'm nervous about this letter.
I still haven't opened it yet. [sighs]
Oh, Zarah. Hey.
- [sighs] Well, I can't do it.
- Listen to me.
Either you open the letter
and get closure,
or you let it go and move on.
Honey, you can't hide from opening it,
and at the same time dig deeper
into who this man was
and go on showings
of his old childhood home and so on.
- I know, but
- Otherwise, you'll never get out of this.
- [sighs]
- Listen.
There is one more thing
that you really have to do, all right?
Uh-huh, what's that?
See me again. Soon.
That's not negotiable.
Fair enough.
I'd love to.
You can come over right away.
Well, I I'm at work, but
but after that, I'd love to come over.
All right?
[humming cheerfully]
- Morning.
- Good morning.
- I've cooked for everyone.
- Yeah.
- Could you wake up Jill?
- Sure.
[Jim] Yeah.
- Sis, time to get up.
- [Jim humming]
Jill? Papa's made breakfast.
Just finishing these eggs off.
What's going on there, Jack?
Maybe Jill would prefer them boiled,
do you think?
- Jill?
- [Jim humming]
Well, she's left.
- What? No, she couldn't have left.
- Well, she's not here, Papa.
She's probably gone
for a morning walk or something.
Ah, as if.
- Where's your wallet?
- In my jacket.
She's taken it. It's not here.
Fuck it, I knew she'd do that.
I put my tablet here last night.
That's gone too.
You'll have to call and cancel the cards.
It's like I said all along, Papa.
We can't trust her.
We'll have to report her
for what she's stolen
- then
- What do you mean?
Do you really think
I would report my own daughter?
- In that case, I'll do it.
- If you do, I'll say I gave her the stuff.
[scoffs] You just Yeah.
That's what I would do, yeah.
[sighs]
Yeah
[sobs]
[gasps]
[Julia] Thank you.
I'm sorry to bother you like this.
I really didn't want to, but [sobbing]
Jack? Julia needs to talk to you.
What is it? Is it concerning the robbery?
[crying]
It's Ro. She's just disappeared.
I don't know where she's gone.
- She didn't come home last night. [sobs]
- Oh.
Please, you must be able to help me?
Go let 'em know
You won't settle for less ♪
Take, take it all
Get it off of your chest ♪
'Cause you ♪
You can have it all ♪
Even when you're bursting in the seams ♪
Never let go, baby, follow your dreams ♪
'Cause you ♪
You can have it all ♪
You can have it all ♪
Ain't nothin' wrong
With bein' big hearted ♪
So keep on shinin'
Like the sun you are, yeah ♪
Now go and finish
What you have started ♪
Ain't nothin' ♪