Maryland (2023) s01e03 Episode Script

You didn't need to come.
By the sounds of it, I did.
What did she say to you?
What's going on, Bec?
Well, my mum's just died.
Yeah, I know that.
I mean, what's going on with you?
Am I not allowed a night out?
Of course you are.
Everyone's entitled
to a night out.
I'm just wondering
why Ros is calling me up
saying how worried she is
about you.
She needn't be.
OK. Well
I'm worried about you.
You're being off.
You're not acting right.
I just feel
..so on my own.
What? Here?
No.
Just on my own
handling everything.
HE SCOFFS
On your own? Are you joking me?
Do you know
what I've been doing all week?
Chasing round
after our AWOL daughter
and making sure
you don't hear about it. Mol?
Yeah. Did one
with her lovely new boyfriend.
I didn't mither you about it,
cos you've enough on your plate.
How long was she gone? Is she OK?
She's absolutely fine. I had
a few days sweating it out, mind,
and not telling you.
But, yeah, you're on your own(!)
Oh, my God! I need to call her.
No, no.
She's with your dad.
You'll talk to me.
Go on.
She killed herself.
What?
Took a load of morphine.
Oh, jeez, Bec, I
Oh, Becca.
So, who's this lot?
Ah that's the fella
she had the affair with.
What do you think
she was playing at?
So So, this house,
it was your mum's?
No, it was her mum's.
Her birth mum.
Wow.
Yeah, it's a lot.
And what happens now, then?
Your dad gets it?
No, it's ours. Mine and Ros's.
Right.
We can't sell it.
It's in a trust
for the betterment of the women
in the family, whatever that means.
This is all crackers.
That's why your head's gone.
We're not happy.
Are we not?
It's nice of you
to tell me how I feel (!)
I I'm not happy.
Clearly.
Because you call all the shots.
What does that even mean?
OK. Who's Who's our team?
Man United.
What do we watch on telly?
Anything with Freddie Flintoff
in it.
Who's our band? The Stone Roses.
I don't even like the Stone Roses!
Yeah, you do.
No, I don't.
Why are you ragging
everything that we like now?
No. What YOU like
that has somehow become our life.
Oh, give over.
Our life together is the girls.
Our family.
That's what's important.
Well, you say that, but you
don't take an interest in me.
Oh, really? What about me?
Who am I - chopped liver?
What?
You don't let me be anything.
Why do you need permission
to be something?
Well, you tell me.
You made it that way.
You're in charge.
I can't even go to the pub
without you telling me
how to piss straight!
I don't want this life!
I feel like I'm slowly dying here,
and you're just coming out
with some smart-arse comment!
OK.
OK.
Where are you going?
You don't want this shit life
we've got together.
You want to do one here
like your mum. Fine.
I'm going to find a B&B.
Call me if you need
anything practical doing.
But me and you right now
Did Mum come on the boat with you?
SHE LAUGHS
Oh, God, no!
She used to say that she
could get seasick in her bathtub.
But she'd come down here,
and we'd sit talk.
What did she talk to you about?
Life. Day to day. You know.
I don't, really.
Oh.
She ever talk about me?
Oh, honey!
Yes. Jeez!
"Rosaline lives in London."
That was your official title.
God, was she proud of you.
She never said.
Did she have to?
She did, actually.
What would you say to her
if she were here right now?
I'd probably start with
"Christ on a bike, Mum!"
SHE LAUGHS
Well, that's good for openers.
Then what?
Why lie?
What were you thinking?
Who were you when you were here?
Why not give me the chance
to at least talk you round
for a few months,
spend some time with you?
DOOR OPENS
Cheers for that.
Where is he now?
I don't know.
Maybe you could call him,
cos you're such good mates now.
KNOCK AT DOOR
Alan Artus, repatriation service.
We spoke on the phone.
Said I could pop around
when I had the say-so.
Oh, erm we're not quite ready,
I don't think.
I had a phone call
from the morgue
saying she'll be ready for the off
in two days.
We need to go through
some paperwork.
My sister and I need to talk about
this. We'll be in touch. Thanks.
So that's it.
We can take her home.
What should we do with this place?
Rent it out.
May as well make some money off it.
I'm not doing it.
We can get a letting agent.
That's not what she wanted.
We don't always get what we want.
Mol?
Yeah?
Put some more fruit
on this, please. Yeah.
Buckwheat pancakes, Grandad.
What's buckwheat
when it's at home?
Keeps you regular.
Set your watch by me.
Eurgh!
Like that?
Yeah. Thank you.
Here you go.
Oi, give up!
You're gonna ruin me picture.
I'm hungry!
You all right, Grandad?
Yeah.
All right, Richard, mate.
Just checking in.
RICHARD ON PHONE: 'I'm coming over.'
Are you at the airport?
'Yes, I am.
'I'm with Lauren and Mol.'
You, erm You You never said.
'No? Well, I'm telling you now.
I'll call you when I land.'
Look, I'm sorry for turning up
unannounced like this,
but there's something
I need to say about your mother,
and it's difficult for me.
You need to know that when
she was given the diagnosis,
I wanted to care for her.
ROSALINE SCOFFS
Well, my dad might have had
something to say about that.
I was gonna look after her.
And yet, she was planning
her death all along.
And Cathy
And Cathy what?
She was different
when she was with Cathy.
They talked a lot.
Well, we talked a lot.
They talked
Do you know what she does? Cathy?
She looks after
people who are dying.
She's a nurse?
No.
She's not a nurse. She's a
healer or a
I don't know what she is.
But she spends a lot of time with
people who are very sick and
And what?
I think
..Cathy gave Mary the morphine.
Why would Cathy give Mum morphine?
Because she asked for it.
Because she could.
I don't know what goes through
that woman's head.
But if there's even a small chance
that Cathy gave it to her,
and I think there is,
then you deserve to know.
Did you give Mum the morphine?
Oh, well,
I guess you'd better come on in.
I don't know
where you girls heard that,
but it's just utter nonsense.
Come on,
let me get you both a drink.
Enough with the Southern
bonhomie bullshit, Cathy.
Did my mother
get the morphine from you?
She took it from my cupboard.
Why didn't you stop her?
Don't you think I would've tried
if I'd known?
By the time I realised,
it was too late.
Why the fuck
have you got morphine anyway?
I'm uh,
like a midwife for the dying.
The term is "end-of-life doula".
What, so you play God?
Oh, no, no, no. I
I hold a hand. I put some music on.
I I offer a kind word and
and I give pain relief
when necessary.
Morphine's illegal, last I heard.
That morphine
was for my own personal use.
But you just said
you give pain relief.
Mostly I use cannabis.
Mostly?!
And if all you had at home
was cannabis,
our mum would be
really fucking stoned now,
but she'd still be here.
Did she talk to you
about taking her own life?
We talked about dying.
What it looked like,
what it felt like.
I knew she was
deeply troubled by it.
Well, people are.
Oh, for God's sake!
Why didn't you tell us?
The day she died,
it looked like natural causes.
By the time I figured out
that the morphine was gone,
I mean, you were here, but
I didn't want to hurt you, girls.
You were covering your arse,
more like.
Yeah, maybe I was. What would
you have done, Rosaline?
I would've gone to the police.
I would've said that I knew.
I would not have looked us
straight in the eye
and blatantly lied.
All right, come on.
I want to show you both something.
Just come with me. Please.
Here.
MARY SIGHS
ON VIDEO: What do I say?
Oh, God, just improvise. Wing it!
MARY LAUGHS
Top up my wine, can you?
Oh, you're so demanding!
MARY TALKS
UNDER HER BREATH
Right
Thank you.
Right Right.
What I want to do
What I want to do is say
what I want to happen
when something happens to me.
'Well, that's about
as clear as mud!'
MARY LAUGHS
Go on. Just go on, please.
Just focus. Breathe.
You got it.
Shh!
Yeah, OK.
What I'd like
to say is,
what I'd like to happen
..when I die.
I want to stay here.
SOBBING: I can't do this.
It's just stupid!
It's just too much.
No, no, honey,
you don't have to do anything
you don't want to do.
She wanted you to know
that she wanted to be here.
She felt that if she went home
your father
What?
That your father would not be able
to give her the care
that she would've gotten here.
No, but I would.
So she went to your father
and told him what was happening
and what she wanted.
He didn't know that she had
Alzheimer's, though, did he?
She was scared
that when the day finally came
that he'd force her
to come back to the UK.
Did she ask you to help her?
We talked about it
hypothetically, but never
with any kind of seriousness.
I wouldn't have done it.
I wanted her here.
I want her here.
I'm so fucking mad at her.
Do you have
any other videos of her?
I don't need to see any more.
I remember what she looked like.
This is all manipulation.
I'm going to the police.
Ros
You're not really going
to the police station, are you?
Yes, I am.
Why, what are you doing?
Are you not coming?
Yeah, what am I doing?
It's a really good question.
All right?
Are you OK?
Not really.
You?
No.
Look, I need to tell you something.
I kissed a lad the other night.
What?
It didn't mean anything.
Who Who was he?
Oh, just some bloke in a club.
Right. OK. And
was it just a kiss or
was there more?
No. No.
HE SCOFFS
Have you gone off me, Bec?
No, not at all.
Then why are you telling me this?
Because it was stupid and I
I want to be honest.
Oh, right. Yeah. Get it off your
chest and make me feel like shit!
Sorry.
What's wrong with you?
Everything.
PHONE RINGS
It's your dad. He's at the airport
with the girls.
I've got to pick him up.
What's my dad doing here?
Hello, Richard.
Yeah, I'm just leaving now, mate.
Yeah. OK, I'll see you there.
Where to?
Shall I choose?
OK.
You said you didn't take cards.
Oh, yeah. So I did.
Hey. Hey, Mol, you OK?
Yeah.
You OK, Dad?
Been better.
You never said you were coming.
Well, here I am anyway.
Who is dealing with getting
your mother back to the UK?
Er, a repatriation service.
A bloke came around.
Rosaline's got his number.
Well, I should like
to speak to him.
I'm just so angry.
Who with?
My mum's friend Cathy
for being a liar.
Becca for being a fanny.
HE LAUGHS
What?
Fanny. Just a strong word.
And not used nearly enough,
in my opinion.
We were having this awful argument
about everything -
Mum, me, her, who she thinks I am,
who I know she is.
I just kept thinking, what
I'm most mad about isn't today.
It's 30 years old, this stuff.
And how can you be mad at someone
for looking after you?
Cos that's what she did.
She looked after me.
And you feel you should
be grateful for it, like?
Yeah.
And how do you actually feel?
Really fucking resentful.
Why?
Because everything's always been
all right for her.
It doesn't seem like it is now,
though, right?
It sounds like the wheels
have come right off, no?
Yeah.
They really have.
PHONE VIBRATES
Sorry, I've got to get this.
It's all right.
Hello?
Oh, thank God.
Yeah. Thank you.
Yeah. Great.
Bye. Thank you.
I was just waiting on
some results, and it's fine.
That's good.
Oh, look where we are.
Coming up to the fairy bridge.
Ready? Don't leave me hanging.
BOTH: Hello, fairies!
There you go.
They'll look after you now.
Ah, mint.
Oi, Mol, come look at this view.
Rogue's gallery.
Dad
HE SLAMS
THE PHOTO DOWN
Anyone want a cup of tea,
juice or owt?
Mol, help me with the drinks.
I'm not thirsty.
Please.
Did Dad come out here?
Nope.
Are you all right?
Yeah. Why?
What's Dad said?
He's been a right pain.
Thinks he's you.
Er
Well, he told me
about your new boyfriend.
Why would he do that?
Because I got it out of him.
You know, everyone thinks
that you don't know
what you're doing when you're 16.
I was never more certain of
who I was than when I was your age.
So, are you cool
with me being with Connor?
Er, no. No. Not at all.
Don't mistake me for that parent.
Just me and your dad
are worried.
Hey, we want you to be safe.
We don't know this lad,
and you're not telling us anything.
Are you serious about him?
He's funny. That's all.
I like him.
I'm not gonna marry him.
OK, it's just
..it's only five minutes ago, you
were my little Miss Molly-Moo-Moo.
Now look at you.
I miss Gran.
I know, darling.
So do I.
Where are we going?
This is where I murder people.
Well, that's a relief.
HE CHUCKLES
When I was a kid,
me and me brother,
we used to cycle down here.
Over there there's, like,
an old munitions building.
It's all overgrown with trees.
It was perfect for hide and seek.
SHE CHUCKLES
How old were you?
BOTH LAUGH
Not bad.
You OK?
Oh just trying
to stay in the moment.
And?
Still angry.
Yeah. Well, that's the problem
with the insistence
of living only in the moment.
I mean, you know, unless
you're a goldfish, like, you
you remember all the other moments.
And they connect unfortunately.
You need to get out your own head
for a bit.
Oh, got any hard drugs?
Get in there.
Wild swim it out of you.
Really?
It's really beneficial.
SHE LAUGHS
No way!
Yes way. Come on.
Come on.
You are joking!
Like, really?
Really.
Jesus.
No!
Oh, no!
No!
Oh, my God!
SHE SQUEALS
I think I've trodden on something.
Three
No, wait.
..two
Argh!
..one.
Argh!
Go!
No. Aargh! Oh, my
Oh, my God! Oh, my God!
Oh, my God!
Awful, awful
Oh, my God
Whoo!
SHE SHRIEKS
Ros, where are you?
Dad's here.
On the island.
Can you call me back?
Have you got that fella's number?
What, you mean?
Repatriation man.
Oh yeah.
Er, I think he left his card.
I'll I'll get it for you.
Dad
What are we doing for tea?
ROS SHIVERS
When did you discover
wild swimming?
Today.
What?
You've never done that before?
But you said you used to come here
with your brother.
Yeah, but we never used to go in.
We're not daft.
It's bloody freezing!
We could've died
from cold water shock.
You said it was beneficial.
Are you still furious?
No.
Oh. Well, then.
Beneficial.
Oh
You bastard!
HE CHUCKLES
Oh!
Come on. Kiss me again.
Cheers. I'll be back to take
your order in a minute.
Thank you.
DAD: I can't sit here.
Force nine draught.
Right, well, you sit here,
then, Dad.
Thanks, darling.
Oh, my God.
Look at the size of you two!
Have they had you in compost?!
Hello. Sorry I'm late.
Oh. You needn't have come, Dad.
We'd have sorted it.
Ah, well. I thought I'd better.
I'll have the steak, please,
very well done.
Er, right. Do you need a minute?
Yes, please. Jim?
Erm, burger and chips, please.
Girls?
Erm, garlic bread and chips.
You need
to eat something proper, you.
I'll have the salmon, please.
The burger. Thanks.
I'll have the same.
What? I'm hungry.
What's up with your hair?
I've been swimming.
QUIETLY: After the police station?
Yes.
So, what did they say?
I didn't tell 'em.
Can you be sure and tell the chef
very well done?
SERVER: Of course I will, sir.
I think she's got it, Dad.
I don't like blood on the plate.
OK.
Right. I've spoken to the fella,
and we can get her home on the
boat, not tomorrow, day after.
And I'd already spoken
to t'funeral parlour at home.
So, it's all sorted.
You didn't need to.
Oh, I think I did.
Dad, you know she wanted to be here.
You do know that, don't you?
She's coming home.
Whatever we think about
what she did here, she loved it.
Oh, did she?
You know she did.
What is everyone gonna say
if we leave her here?
Who's everyone?
Who are you so worried about?
Someone at the golf club?
Bloody hell, Dad.
I'm worried about me.
She cheated me out of the life
she promised me I'd have.
And she's not gonna
make a fool of me in death.
I'll go after him.
All right?
Used to be an internment camp here
during the war.
All along t'front here.
German artists
and musicians and whatnot.
And a lot of 'em were Jewish.
But the British Government
thought "Germans"
and shipped 'em all
over here together.
There's worse places
to be interned.
There's better.
Ah, yeah, Mary,
what about the Caymans?
Sorry.
Look, me and Bec have been having
a few bumps in the road lately.
Well you'll get there.
Can you take me there?
Sure you want to do that?
I am.
DOORBELL RINGS
Hello.
Would you like to come in?
I just wanted
to get a look at you.
And now I have.
LAUGHTER
Put your legs straight!
Be careful!
GIRLS LAUGH
Have you heard from Grandad?
He's at the B&B with your dad.
Why is dad at a B&B?
Cos he is.
I'm calling him.
Got a letter from Mum.
What's it say?
Don't know. I haven't read it.
It must have been with the post
that Jim brought.
BECCA SIGHS
I want us to read it together.
Well, it's addressed to you.
No more secrets.
ROS SIGHS
"Dear Becca.
"There's no other way
to write this
"other than to say,
"by the time you read this,
I will no longer be here.
"I've written to Dad
and to Rosaline, too.
"I'm sorry.
"I want you all
to be happy and free
"and to not have
another part of your lives
"taken over
by worrying and caring.
"I wanted to share
what I had with you,
"but I feel like
I left it too late.
"I'm sorry for that.
"And I'm sorry
for the pain I've caused.
"But I couldn't live
"knowing that my life yet again
wasn't going to be my own.
"And that I'd have no control
over what'll happen to me."
"I do want you to know, though
"..I love you and your sister
with all my heart.
"Bringing you two into the world
is the greatest thing I ever did.
"I'm so proud of you,
my beautiful girls.
"Live free, my darling.
All my love forever. Mum."
ROS SOBS
MOL: Mum?
Are you coming to bed soon?
Can I sleep with you?
It's a bit creaky. Come here.
So, in the interest of
not keeping secrets any more,
when you called me
to tell me about Mum,
I was having a biopsy.
I'm fine. It's fine.
Results came back yesterday.
You've been worrying about that
and not said anything?
I wouldn't say worry.
More entering into denial.
Anyway, it happened,
and I want to let you know.
Where's Jim?
He's gone to see the girls.
Dad
Mum sent Becca a letter.
She said she sent you a letter.
What did it say?
Did she tell you
she wanted to leave?
Come here permanently,
be looked after here?
We know she was happy here.
We need to respect Mum's wishes.
We're not gonna let her
leave the island.
You'll do as you're told.
We don't want to pretend any more.
Who is pretending?
Eh?
Not me, that's for bloody sure.
I'll tell you
what the letter said, shall I?
It said, "Go be free."
Free!
Same bloody nonsense as when
she came home and did a big speech.
You knew she had Alzheimer's?
I knew she'd seen a doctor, yes.
I knew she wasn't well,
but I thought she'd see sense.
I married that woman for better
or worse so we'd grow old together.
Not so she could come over here
and fly a kite.
Dad
I would've looked after her.
She would've wanted for nothing.
But no. The grass were greener.
So leave her here.
That's what she was after.
But let's get this straight -
it's not what I wanted.
And don't you ever try
and fool yourselves that it was.
I'm going home.
I'll sort myself out.
Dad
Lauren, get it!
And he hits it for a six!
And that wins him the game!
Mum, Dad's being a loser.
Oh, your mum knows that,
all right.
Girls, me and your dad
are gonna go for a walk.
Erm, Mol said something
to me about
That made me think
..just with you telling her
what to do all the time
was annoying her,
cos she's used to me doing it.
Yep. Pretty surplus
to requirements.
Well, that just isn't true.
You said
you don't want to be with me.
I didn't say that. I said
I said I didn't want this life.
What's wrong with this life?
Cos I'm just my mum
before she started all of this.
You're really not your mum, Bec.
I don't want to fade
into the background, Jim.
I feel like I'm disappearing.
You just
Look at Rosaline.
She's so out in the world, and I
I'm just I'm just a ghost.
You're so not.
You're in the middle
of everything. You run the show.
Why does it always fall to me?
Because you won't let me in.
If I do anything,
it's not your way.
I just got used to giving up.
Just want us to be a team.
We are a team.
I just need to be allowed
off the bench now and again.
Bec
Some people spend a lifetime
trying to find someone like you.
I struck gold first time.
I don't even know
what I'm asking for.
Try me.
I want
I want us to grow together.
Not apart.
I just want us to talk.
To not be kids.
And I don't know
what all that looks like,
and I don't even know
how we're gonna get there.
Well, name it. I'll do it.
No, you
..you have to help me
come up with a plan.
I don't know what that is.
I just
know that I want it to be with you.
Jim, that lad
It's fine.
It isn't.
No. No, of course it's not fine.
PHONE RINGS
Oh!
Hello.
Oh, God.
OK. Well, erm, don't kill her
if she gets there before I do.
Yeah.
The police came to see me.
I didn't go to them in the end.
Well, someone did.
And what did you say to them?
The truth.
The morphine was mine,
and your mother took it.
I don't condone
what your mother did.
But I agree
with her right to do it.
But that does not mean
that I am guilty of helping her.
If you hadn't had the morphine,
she'd still be alive.
True. And that's why
the police are investigating it.
I just need you to know
that I didn't harm your mother
in any way.
And I never meant to harm her.
I just wish we could have met
under different circumstances.
Cathy
..I'll speak to the police.
Well, thank you.
I'll tell them we realise
you were just trying to be
a good friend to Mum.
Well, whatever will be
will be, right?
Here, puss, puss, puss! Puss!
Looking for the cat. Here, puss!
I put some food down for her,
but, well,
what happens when we're gone?
I can feed her.
I'm gonna stay.
Here?
Yeah. If you don't mind.
Well, I've seen a job advertised
I might go for.
And, well, I can get the house
looking nice, rent it out.
You bloody love your job.
I've seen you work Christmas Day.
Not staying for that taxi driver,
are you?
No! For me.
Don't mind him
hanging around, though.
I'll sort the funeral.
Two weeks, they said.
Hope Dad comes around.
You two be good.
And if you can't be good,
be good at it.
Oi! You can't say that
to a 16-year-old.
She just did.
Take care of yourself, Ros.
Bye.
Right, well, I better head.
Erm, I need
to say something to you.
What?
ROS EXHALES
When you were born,
I remember coming to the hospital,
and Mum gave me a doll
cos she thought I'd be jealous.
But I didn't want the doll.
I wanted you.
Right.
I was a big sister.
Your big sister.
And that's all I wanted.
And then when I got poorly,
that all changed.
I don't know how we ended up
so far apart, because
..it's just us now, really.
And I want you to know
that I love you.
I love you, too.
I love that you're my big sister.
That's all I want.
We're agreeing to agree, then.
Go on - you'll miss the ferry.
Yeah.
I'll be back.
Bye.