We Hunt Together (2020) s01e03 Episode Script

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# There's a paradise
On a plastic screen #
# The perfect life
And the perfect dream #
# A new horizon #
# A burning desire to be loved #
# There are untold joys
That wait for us all #
# The illusion cures
Come straight to your door #
# A clear horizon #
# A burning desire to be loved #
# Down by the banks
Of the Hanky Panky #
# Where the bullfrogs leap
From bank to banky #
# With a hip, hop, hippity-hop #
# Leap off a lily pad
And go ker-plop #
# Down in the jungle
Where nobody goes #
# There's a oogy-woogy washerwoman
Washing the clothes #
# With a bip, bop, bippity-bop #
# She's got a wooden clothes peg
She's got your nose #
(both laugh)
-Who gave you that?
-Mr Fitzgerald.
(indistinct shouting)
-(man) Federica!
-(woman) Lily!
Lily!
Frederica!
Lily!
(Baba) It's 5 a.m.
We should rest for a few hours
before we start.
Wow!
Janet inherited it from her father.
It's completely beautiful.
And secluded.
We can bury the body here.
No one will find it.
(eerie music)
Key? Baba? Key.
Under the lantern.
(ominous music)
I enjoyed watching you sleep.
Oh! That's creepy.
Can I tell you something?
Yeah, of course.
You're the first woman
I've made love to in six years.
Six years?
(laughs)
Dude, what the fuck?
Are you surprised?
You genuinely have no idea
how hot you are, do you?
It's really quite sweet.
Hope it was worth the wait.
(Jackson)Freddy,
this is DI Jackson Mendy.
If you could give me a call back,
please, when you get this.
Uh, we'd like to ask you one
or two more questions.
-Thank you very much.
-What about the background check?
Dom's on the case.
Okay. I thought we could go back
to the club tonight,
ask around about Matt and Freddy.
Oh, yeah, I just have
to check plans with Gill.
Mm-hm.
-Is that a problem?
-No, no.
It's just, I've never seen anyone
as under the thumb as you is all.
(cackles)
Under the thumb!
We're a team, Gill and I.
If anything,
we're under each other's thumbs
in a kind
of perpetual escherian bliss.
What's Ed Sheeran got to do with it?
-What? Not Ed Sheeran. Escherian.
-I don't know, do I?
Don't know what you're talking
about half the bloody time.
-Come on, better head out.
-MC Escher.
Meeting Matt's boyfriend
in ten minutes in a caff, so come on.
He did those prints of the hands
that are drawing each other
Have you got a photo of Simon,
please, to show him?
He does those famous prints
of the never-ending stairs.
Oh, don't talk to me
about never-ending stairs,
the amount of time
I've spent standing in corridors
-waiting for you, sunshine.
-(chuckles)
(upbeat music)
(thumping)
(grunting)
(foreboding music)
(man choking)
(man whimpering)
(man shouting)
(indistinct chatter)
(Freddy) Baba?
There you go.
All clean.
This man did nothing wrong.
And now he's dead.
Well
sometimes people end up
in the wrong place at the wrong time.
You know that more than anyone.
I feel sorry for him.
Of course, I do.
You did what you had to,
and I'm proud of you for that.
Come on.
I'll help you finish digging.
We're nearly done, though, right?
I mean, how deep does it have to be?
-(Baba) We need to make sure it's
-Baba!
(groans)
Look, I I won't try anything,
I promise. Okay?
Hey?
Come on. Hey! Please!
He saw Matt. He's seen our faces.
What are we doing?
I felt his breath leave his body.
I felt him die in my arms,
and then he came back.
I think it's a sign.
It's a sign that he's
a wiry little fucker, that's all.
Look, I met you eight days ago,
and I love you
more than anyone
or anything I've ever known.
Tell me that's not a sign.
(Leo) Matt couldn't have
killed this guy.
(Lola) Have another look.
I'm telling you, Matt was at home
on Sunday night
with a fuck-off dirty cold.
You don't think
there's any chance he was lying?
Do want me to go home and get the bin
full of snotty tissues
next to his bed?
There's fucking Lemsip wrappers
in the bin.
I haven't even had a chance
to clean up yet. I've just
Take your time.
He wouldn't need to lie to me anyway.
We weren't exclusive.
He can do what he wants.
Does the name Freddy Lane
mean anything to you?
No, who's he?
(Lola) And you're sure you've
never seen this man before?
What line of business
was Matt involved in?
He had something new every week.
Proper little Del Boy, you know.
Like StraightToThirdDate?
Yeah. Why? Are you on there?
Did he run the website by himself?
No, he had a partner
who did all the computer stuff.
Could you give me their name? Number?
-Sure.
-Good.
Look, I'm very sorry to have
to ask you this, Leo,
but, um, was Matt
into anything alternative?
Sexually.
You've got to be
a bit more specific than that.
Feet. Did he like feet?
No more than the next person.
So, he never drew anything
on the soles of your feet?
Why would he draw
on the soles of my feet?
Doesn't matter.
-Anything else you'd like to tell us?
-Yeah, look, I
I knew Matt for 18 months.
He wouldn't do something like this.
He texted me on the night,
said he had something to do,
then he was coming over to mine.
-Did he say what?
-No.
Why didn't you raise the alarm
when he didn't turn up?
Matt's flaky like that.
He says he's going to turn up,
and he never does.
He drives me fucking mental.
But he was happy, you know.
He loved life. He wouldn't
He wasn't just
(Leo groans)
It's okay, it's okay.
So, he's our guest now?
I know this isn't easy.
I understand how hard it is
for you, Baba.
I'm sorry, Freddy, but we have been
given a second chance.
We haven't been given anything,
Baba, our whole lives.
That's the point.
We're our second chance, me and you,
and if you really loved me, then
Love heals, Freddy, and grows.
-It doesn't destroy.
-That's lovely, Baba.
But it's hard to grow
in a fucking prison cell, isn't it?
I have killed many innocent men
in my life.
I will not kill another.
So, it was just you and Matt
who ran the whole business?
It's just the website
and membership database.
It's not hard.
Actually, I'm not really sure
what I'm supposed to do now.
I keep going now, or what?
You didn't charge a membership fee,
so how did you monetise it?
I mean, yes, it's free to join,
but Matt used to deal
with that stuff.
-He called it premium membership.
-Premium membership?
It's pretty simple, really.
There are certain profiles
like member profiles on the site.
They're the same
as everyone else, really,
except you have to pay
to unlock them.
-How much?
-Depends.
-(Lola) How much for Zara?
-You mean Freddy?
Mm-hm.
I don't know. I'd have to check,
but I think she was maybe 400 pounds?
(snickers)
You're telling me that people
pay 400 pounds
just for a little chinwag?
Chinwag?
Four hundred pounds for a chat
is a lot of money, don't you think?
Like I say,
I just manage the database.
Matt dealt with all that stuff.
Hm He'd have had a
a personal relationship with Freddy.
I like this word "chinwag."
It's funny.
Answer the question, please.
Which?
Did Matt know Freddy?
Probably. He knew
all the premium girls.
How would you describe
your relationship with Matt?
Right now?
Pretty non-existent.
Well, um
Well, I think that'll be all for now,
so thank you very much
for your time, Paula.
-(Jackson) Have a good day.
-Yeah, you, too.
If you think of anything,
let us know.
(indistinct chatter)
Hi, Dom.
(Dom)I managed to get
a work address for Freddy.
-Do you want it now?
-Right, yes. Sorry.
Uh, just give me a minute.
(Lola) I want the business accounts,
membership records,
anything you can get
on Matt's personal finances.
Yes.
Uh-huh. Yes, exactly.
Mm-hm.
Fire away.
Uh, yeah, thanks, Dom.
Um, keep digging,
whatever you can find.
Thanks.
Sorry, I was just looking
for something to write on.
Can you not go
through my things, please?
-It's rude.
-Of course.
Yeah. Sorry.
No, no, no! Look. No, wait, wait.
Please! Please, please.
I'm not trying anything.
I just
I just want to show you.
This is my boy. Taylor.
He got diagnosed
with leukaemia three months ago.
He's in St Thomas' now,
fighting with everything he's got.
I promise you,
on my son's life,
I will not go to the police.
Just don't keep me away
from him, please.
Don't keep me away from my boy.
Please.
Please.
He's lying, you know.
If he cared so much
about his supposedly sick kid,
then why is he stumbling around
a forest pissed on a Thursday night?
I meant what I said,
you know, last night.
About me and you.
You don't have to say it back,
but you could
at least acknowledge it.
It was really hard for me to say.
Well, fuck you, then.
I'll do it myself.
I know you, Freddy.
-You won't to do it.
-Yeah?
Watch me.
(rapid footsteps)
(eerie music)
(echoing chatter)
(people clamouring)
(engine revs)
(Larry) She hasn't been in
for a couple of days.
Can I ask what this is about?
We can't discuss the details,
I'm afraid.
Did she give you a reason
for her absence?
Have you met Freddy?
She'll flaunt in here
in a couple of days
with some bullshit excuse,
which I'll have to accept
because I can't afford to sack her.
And why's that?
We get three times
as many client requests
for Freddy than anyone.
Last week, she kept a guy
on the phone for an hour and a half.
I listened in at one point.
He was baring his soul,
crying like a child he was.
What can I say? People love her.
Because she cares about them?
Or maybe because we pay commission.
You had her down to work
on Sunday night. Was she here?
No.
And she didn't give you a reason why?
Like I said.
(door opens)
No, thanks. I'm
I'm not hungry.
You should eat.
Thank you.
I'm Darren, by the way.
What's your name?
Where Where are you from?
You don't have to tell me.
It's just
You seem like a
a good guy, that's all.
That's nice. Thank you.
Thank you.
(siren blaring)
(mobile chimes)
(sales rep)Hi, this is Melanie
calling from the Talk Shop
Mm.
(Larry)Oi! Are you coming in
today or what?
Or am I to assume
you're off gallivant
Fuck off.
(Jackson)
Freddy, this is DI Jackson Mendy.
If you could give me
a call back, please,
when you get this.
Uh, we'd like to ask you one
or two more questions.
Thank you very much.
Initial background check on Freddy
shows no previous record or warrant.
But everything I can find on her,
bank accounts, phone records,
employment, home address,
none of it goes back past 2013.
Maybe she moved here
from somewhere else?
Have you looked at her Facebook?
But that's the thing,
she doesn't have
any social media profile whatsoever,
other than the dating stuff.
I thought kids her age,
you have to tell the whole world
every time you eat a cheese sandwich.
Unless you're entirely convinced
of your own superiority,
in which case there's no need,
is there?
Maybe, or maybe she's
just got no friends.
-Want me to keep looking?
-Do what you can.
Don't drive yourself mad.
Kay's working late tonight.
She said she might have some stuff
from Matt's laptop.
-Okay. Well, let me know.
-Okay.
Uh
-Lola?
-Mm-hm?
I'd like to thank you
for making my transition
into the department so smooth.
I I feel like I'm learning so much
from you, so
thanks.
-Have a good night.
-Mm-hm. You too.
(mobile ringing)
(suspenseful music)
Answer it.
Freddy. Thanks so much
for calling me back.
What's wrong with this thing?
(knocks on window)
Come on, guys.
Heard of budget cuts and everything,
but is this the best you could do?
I feel like I've lost
onThe Apprentice.
-Take a seat, Freddy.
-(waiter) Coffee, darling?
Yes, please, sweetie.
-What kind?
-Whatever the house recommends.
So, I guess you want to know
why I lied about Matt.
-(waiter) There we are.
-Beautiful.
(waiter) Cheers.
So, you're saying
that StraightToThirdDate
is actually an escort service?
No, I was a member
of a dating website
just like everyone else.
So Matt wasn't paying you to sleep
with these men?
No, I'm paid a retainer
to be a member.
Right, but he's not going to keep
paying you if you don't put out.
Well, it's a grey area, I suppose.
-Which is why I lied about Matt.
-So, to be clear,
Matt knew Simon through this, uh,
premium membership scheme?
Yes, Matt had a personal relationship
with all the premium members,
but he was obsessed with Simon.
They slept together once,
and then he wouldn't leave him alone.
There wasn't a single piece
of evidence
on Simon's laptop to suggest
he was gay.
Well, I think it was his first time.
He seemed confused.
It was really quite sweet.
-Not a single Internet search, ever.
-(Freddy) Why are you asking me?
I had a couple of drunk nights out
with Simon.
But I knew Matt quite well.
It doesn't surprise me at all,
what happened.
Why do you say that?
Well, some people just have
a darkness inside them.
You can feel it.
You were supposed to be at work
on Sunday night,
but you didn't show up. Why?
Didn't feel like it.
You didn't feel like it?
Do you want me to say it again?
-Where did you grow up?
-Why do you want to know that?
-Just trying to build a picture.
-Mm.
Why are we doing this here,
and not down at the station?
Well, you're just a witness.
We thought it would be
more comfortable here.
Okay. So, I can leave
whenever I want?
Of course.
Okay.
(Lola) Before you leave,
would you mind giving us
your fingerprints?
Just for elimination purposes,
of course.
Do I have to?
No, but people with nothing
to hide usually don't mind.
Okay. Yeah, that makes sense. Sure.
-Okay?
-Mm-hm. No worries.
Happy to help.
Right, well, I'll see you guys
around, yeah?
Please, hello?
Um
I really need the toilet.
I can't hold it in. I'm so sorry.
Please.
Please
(Darren) I need the toilet.
I can't
(Baba) This is your address?
Yeah, look. Please,
I'm going to piss myself.
Please.
Come on.
(sighs)
(Darren grunts)
(unzips)
Could you hold it, please?
(Darren) Thank you.
(urine sloshing)
(Darren panting)
Thank you
I'll pray I'll pray for you.
Every day.
If you let me go. I'll pray for you
like I pray for my boy.
-The man you saw last night
-No, I didn't
I was drunk. I didn't
He was a gangster, do you understand?
(urine sloshing)
I just want to see my family.
-That's all I want.
-(zips)
Please
Hands.
Please.
(door creaks, shuts)
(sobs)
You're doing pick-up tomorrow, right?
If you can't, can you just say now?
I don't think it's fair on Mum
to keep asking at short notice.
-I'll be there tomorrow, I promise.
-(mobile ringing)
It's 10 p.m.
You're lucky I'm still awake.
We found an encrypted file
on Matt's laptop.
It has details
of all premium members on it.
Okay. What have you found?
Matt's accounts show
that Freddy owed him ten grand.
(Lola)We've got ourselves a motive.
(eerie music)
(ball thudding)
(mobile ringing)
(ringing continues)
-Baba, it's me.
-Where Where have you been?
-I'm in London.
-What? Why?
-Tell me you're not using your phone.
-No, I'm in a phone box.
All this time, I I've been
I needed to clear my head.
Baba, the police came to see me.
They know I lied about Matt,
and they were asking
all these questions.
-What did you say?
-Nothing, but
But they know something.
I could tell.
After I spoke to them,
I went to St Thomas' Hospital.
I bought flowers and everything.
There's no kid called Taylor
on the children's ward.
He's lying to you, Baba,
and you're letting him.
(indistinct chanting)
(chanting continues)
-(Lola) Freddy owed Matt ten grand.
-(Susan) Okay?
-It's a motive, surely?
-(Susan) Not necessarily.
-(Jackson) Susan.
-No, Jackson.
We know they
had a business relationship.
-She told us as much.
-Only after we pushed her.
You shouldn't even be working
this case, should you?
I thought we agreed.
New evidence has come to light.
We think it's worth
(Susan) No, it's not enough,
and you both know it.
There isn't a single piece
of forensic.
She lied to us.
-Repeatedly.
-With good reason.
Wouldn't you have lied
in her position?
-I mean, why are you so convinced
-If you just met her, ma'am
Excuse me!
There's no reason for me
to meet her, is there?
That's the point.
(Susan) Can either of you remind me
of a single time in this job
when the most obvious answer
hasn't also been the correct one?
Okay, here's an easier one for you.
Matt Bowers is 14 stone,
so how on earth did a woman
the size of Freddy
get him in that tree?
No. Shut it down, Jackson.
-(Susan) Okay?
-Okay, ma'am.
What more does she want?
We've proved Freddy lied,
we've given her a motive.
-For Matt, yes, but what about Simon?
-What about Simon?
Why would she kill him?
They've only been out twice.
Okay, okay. So Simon invites
her back to his place.
They have sex, right? Things get
Things get out of hand.
-She kills him.
-Why?
Because maybe maybe Matt
-asked her to.
-(scoffs)
No, we know that they had
an argument.
Maybe Maybe Matt told Freddy
to do it.
Right. So, Matt gets Freddy
to kill Simon?
Yeah.
And for some unknown reason,
she does, happily.
Yeah.
And then, what, turns around
and kills Matt straight after?
Exactly, to cover her tracks.
Which brings us back to the tree.
Look, I don't know how she got him
in the fucking tree, okay?
Maybe she threatened him,
maybe she got some help.
-I don't know that.
-No, you don't, and neither do I.
Come on, Jackson,
whose side are you on here?
Your side. I'm on your side.
I just
I've been asked to shut this down,
and right now, I don't have enough
reasons to say no.
Fine. Fine.
-What do you think?
-At this point, with what we have
I think it's impossible to say
either way.
-What do you feel?
-Oh, god.
What do you feel?
(knocks on door)
-(Dom) Sorry to interrupt.
-No. It's fine. Go ahead.
Um, well, I found out
why there's nothing to learn
about Freddy past a certain point.
So, Dom, haven't you heard?
Case is closed.
Please, please.
Well, she spent five years
in juvenile detention
from 12 to 17 for GBH.
Except her name wasn't Frederica
back then, it was Lily Jenkins.
(loud clatter)
(suspenseful music)
Ahh!
(panting)
(boy mutters)
(indistinct dialogue)
(whimpering)
(ominous music)
No, please.
Please, no.
(muttering)
Please, where are we going
Where are you taking me?
No, no!
No. Please, please, no!
(grunting)
No!
Stand up.
Stand up.
Look around you very carefully.
This grave is for you and your family
if you ever go to the police,
do you understand?
Yes, I understand.
I promise I won't
I I understand.
Your hands.
On Thursday night, you were knocked
and beaten unconscious.
-Yeah.
-You woke up in the forest
near your home this morning,
and remember nothing.
-Do you understand?
-I'm sorry.
That path leads through the woods,
back to the roads.
(grunts)
Hey?
Go now.
Thank you.
(whimpers)
(horn honks)
# With the taste of your lips
I'm on the ride #
# You're toxic
I'm slipping under #
# With a taste
Of your poison paradise #
# I'm addicted to you #
# Don't you know
That you're toxic? #
(brake hisses)
(car approaching)
# With the taste of your lips
I'm on the ride #
# You're toxic
I'm slipping under #
# With a taste
Of your poison paradise #
# I'm addicted to you #
# Don't you know
That you're toxic? #
(ominous music)
Hm.
(foreboding music)
Hey.
Hey.
Before you say anything,
I want to tell you.
I let Darren go.
I could not do it.
I do not think
he'll go to the police.
You don't know that. Do you, Baba?
This was not like the others.
This was different.
We were given a sign.
So, it was God that let Darren go,
was it, not you?
Hm?
How am I meant to trust you
after this, Baba?
Hm?
How am I meant to be with you?
How's this supposed to work?
I was a boy when they stole me
from my home and forced me to fight!
And I've been trying for so long
to get back to that boy I was
before all the killing.
(Baba) But I can't do it alone.
I've tried.
I can't do it.
Look, I've been waiting
for you, Freddy.
I think you've been waiting for me,
too, but it has to mean something.
This thing between us, it has to.
And it still can.
Okay.
Okay.
(ominous music)
(liquid sloshing)
You're hoping that's like
a magic eye drawing, right?
You stare at the same thing
for long enough and hard enough,
and an entirely new image
will appear.
Sounds like the definition
of madness.
(sighs)
No, that's working late without tea.
(laughs)
At least that's something
I can help you with.
Thanks, my love.
Look, I promise I won't make
a habit of this.
It's just Lola, you know.
She's someone you don't want
to let down, you know?
Mm. I'd like to meet her.
-Yeah?
-Yeah.
That'd be great.
Green tea, yeah?
Jackson?
Jackson?
Uh, sorry, I just need to make
a phone call.
Do you mind to drive?
I didn't sleep last night.
Yeah, sure.
We'll, uh, burn the car,
and split up.
It'll be safer that way.
I don't think we should be seen
together in London either.
For a few days, at least.
(ominous music)
I'll find him.
That little boy.
If he's still in there,
we'll find him.
I promise.
(tranquil music)
(knocking on door)
(knocking on door)
-(Lola) Who is it?
-(Jackson) Uh, it's me.
I'm so sorry. I tried calling.
-Jackson?
-Yeah. Can I come in?
Yeah!
Yeah. You give me give me a sec.
Just give me give me a sec.
You look mint.
-What's going on?
-I'm sorry, I'm sorry.
I tried calling. I called and called.
And then in the end,
I got your address from Dom.
-Yeah.
-Are you okay? You look ill.
No, I had a few drinks
when I got home.
Conked out. You know what it's like.
-What's going on, then?
-Do you remember,
when we first went to see Freddy,
she made me a cup of tea?
-Green tea. I remember, yeah.
-Freddy already had the mug ready.
When we came in the room,
she already was making
two cups of tea.
Tell me you remember.
-Please. Lola.
-Yes, so what?
She knew we were on our way up.
So what?
When she saw both of us
on the intercom,
she would have either made
one cup of tea for herself,
or three for all of us.
Two doesn't make sense.
There was someone else there.
(Jackson)You're telling me
two police officers
come round talking about homicide,
and you just sit in the room.
You don't come out to find out
what's going on?
Of course, you would. They always do.
Unless you're hiding.
Unless you don't want to be seen.
That's how she got Matt
into that tree.
You were right.
She's working with someone.
(ominous music)
# With the taste of your lips
I'm on the ride #
# You're toxic
I'm slipping under #
# With a taste
Of your poison paradise #
# I'm addicted to you #
# Don't you know
That you're toxic? #