Wilderness (2023) s01e03 Episode Script

1
[LIV] You do know you're just
incurring my mother's wrath, don't you?
I just want it to be nice for her.
You're her guest.
Bringing your own food
is kind of a no-no.
That's not what this is.
Can you just trust me?
And I don't know, maybe help?
You've literally got the
sandwiches at right angles.
[WILL] What are you doing?
I just plumped those.
Don't laugh at me.
I'm not laughing at you. It's sweet.
I just don't know why
you're making so much effort.
Because she has to say yes.
William
are you planning on asking
my mother to marry you?
Oh, fuck.
Fuck.
[SOFT MUSIC]
No you're not. There's no ring.
[SIGH]
There's no ring because
I wasn't planning
on asking you to marry
me in your old front-room.
I just, I
I wanted to do it properly, you know.
Ask for your mum's permission first.
[SIGHS]
But there is a ring?
Yes. There's a ring.
Because you want to marry me?
No, I've changed my mind.
[LIV LAUGHS]
Of course I want to
marry you, you idiot.
I've wanted to marry
you since our third date.
Why?
Because
My whole life I've never felt
like I quite fitted in anywhere.
You know, at school or at home
despite trying my absolute hardest to.
But then you came along, and, erm
and it was
[MIMICS EXPLOSION]
I was on the team.
So will you?
[FADING DISTANT DREAMS SOUNDS]
[BIRDSONG OUTSIDE]
[SIGHS SADLY]
[LIV CRIES]
[SHOWER SOUNDS]
[OMINOUS MUSIC]
[WILL] The truth is, I
keep falling in love with Liv.
[LAUGHTER]
- [LIV] Will you leave her?
- [WILL] Yes.
[WOMAN SCREAMS]
[SIGHS]
["HOW CAN I HELP YOU
BY SELF ESTEEM PLAYS]
How can I help you
feel better about you? ♪
How can I help you do
what it is that you ♪
Always hoped you could
set out to prove? ♪
'Cause that's what I do 'cause
that's what I'm put here to do ♪
Isn't it? Isn't it you?
Wasn't it you, though? ♪
Want me eternally
youthful never grow old ♪
I'll always be wet
always be up for it ♪
Politely sit but I
don't know shit, do I? ♪
I don't know shit And
that's how you live with it ♪
I don't know shit ♪
My current lover tells me to turn
over doesn't look into my eyes ♪
And I think that's cool, though ♪
'Cause then he won't see how
much apathy I have inside ♪
And I've got another we
don't know each other ♪
[GLASS SHARDS DROP INTO BIN]
[MUSIC STOPS ABRUPTLY]
[OMINOUS MUSIC]
Erm, we had dinner downstairs,
it must have been
[EXHALES]
[CLEARS THROAT]
[SIGHS]
We had dinner downstairs and
came back to our room early.
Will ran a bath must've been an hour?
An hour and a half later,
we were in bed, and when I
I woke up in the morning
He
He wasn't there.
I wasn't I wasn't feeling great,
I guess I must've overdone
it on the hike, and
Will being Will
Insisted he come back to make
sure that I was feeling okay.
Erm
[KNOCK ON DOOR]
[LIV GASPING FOR BREATH]
[WHIMSICAL MUSIC]
[EXHALING NERVOUSLY]
[CLEARS THROAT]
[TAYLOR SWIFT] I don't
like your little games ♪
Don't like your tilted stage ♪
The role you made me play ♪
Of the fool ♪
No, I don't like you ♪
I don't like your perfect crime ♪
How you laugh when you lie ♪
You said the gun was mine ♪
Isn't cool ♪
No, I don't like you ♪
But I got smarter, I got
harder in the nick of time ♪
Honey, I rose up from the dead ♪
I do it all the time ♪
I got a list of names and
yours is in red underlined ♪
I check it once then
I check it twice, oh! ♪
Ooh, look what you made me do ♪
Look what you made me do ♪
Look what you just made me do ♪
Look what you just made me ♪
Ooh, look what you made me do ♪
Look what you made me do ♪
Look what you just made me do ♪
Look what you just made me do ♪
[BREATHES HEAVILY]
Oh, wake up.
[WHISPERING] Wake up, wake up, wake up.
Oh, wake up, you fuck.
[DRAMATIC MUSIC BUILD-UP]
[WILL] Liv
[WILL] Liv! Liv!
[AGGRESSIVE KNOCKING]
[WILL] Liv, open the door.
Liv, please, open the door.
Okay, look, I
I get it.
I get it. After last night, I
[WILL] I'm sorry, Livvy.
[LIV VOICEOVER] Madness
is closer than we think.
Get lied to enough.
Have the ground ripped
out from you enough .
It gets so you can't
trust anyone anymore.
Especially yourself.
[INTENSE MUSIC CONTINUES]
Where have you been?
Er, I was sleeping it
off in the rec room.
I know I should've come
back last night, but
I just needed some time
to figure my shit out.
Erm
You've been in the hotel all this time.
[WILL] Yes.
Liv, I said some some
really hateful things.
It turns out, erm
you were right about not
mixing painkillers and booze.
You were drunk. I was drunk.
[WILL] But still, that's
not me making an excuse.
I mean
I was a shitbag, Liv.
I really was.
And I'd have lobbed a glass
at me too if I were you.
That was, erm
I don't
It's not who I am.
A person can only be pushed so far.
Can we just forget that
last night ever happened?
[LIV EXHALES IN AGREEMENT]
[LIV VOICEOVER] And what's madder
than clutching at a false reality
[FAST TENSE MUSIC]
[MAN] Good morning.
[MAN 2] Who was that?
[LIV] Do you know them?
They're Americans, as over
friendly as we are under.
You should be used to it by now.
[HOTEL MANAGER] Mr. and Mrs. Taylor.
Morning to you both. Is there
something I can help you with?
Actually, we were hoping
to check out a day early.
Nothing wrong, is there?
Oh, no, no. We just
We realised this morning that we
short-changed our time in Vegas.
So we wanted to hit the road
How would we go about
hiring a new car round here?
[HOTEL MANAGER] Leave that with me, sir.
And I'll arrange an early check out now
with a complimentary
reduction on the room.
Anything else I can assist you with?
No, that's great. Thank you very
much. That's much appreciated.
[HOTEL MANAGER] Our visitor's
book is just behind you.
If there's any choice comments
that you feel to leave.
[LIV] You go on.
No. You go on, you're the writer.
[LIV] Fuck off.
"Gives the shining a run for its money"?
[BOTH LAUGH]
Do your good hand writing.
[BOTH KEEP LAUGHING]
[WILL] Er, sorry,
there is one more thing.
If anyone hands in a jacket,
chances are it's mine.
[HOTEL MANAGER] Certainly,
sir, what does it look like?
[WILL] Red, it's a rain jacket.
[INTENSE MUSIC TAKES OVER]
[FAST BREATHING]
[FRANTIC BREATHING]
[GARTH] Pick up your damn phone already!
Now, will you please just call me
back so I know that you're okay.
Fuck.
[TENSE MUSIC BUILD-UP]
Hey.
How's it going? [CLEARS THROAT]
You haven't seen Cara have you?
[WILL] Morning! How you doing?
Fine. I was just, er,
out looking for Cara.
Have you seen her?
No.
Why, what's up?
No nothing. I just [SCOFFS]
She just wasn't in the
room when I woke up.
And she's not answering her cell, so
I figured she must've come down here
to take the car for a spin, but, yeah.
[WILL] Why don't I try her?
[GARTH] Yeah. Just in case I'm the
one she doesn't want to talk to?
[WILL] No, I was thinking more maybe
her phone's playing up her signal.
[CARA VOICEMAIL]
Cara here, I can't pick up
[WILL] No. [CLEARS THROAT]
You try.
Me?
[CARA VOICEMAIL] Cara here,
I can't pick up right now.
Call you back!
[GARTH] You know what?
She probably just went for a run
and lost track of time, that's all.
When was the last time you saw her?
Er, I think we probably
fell asleep around midnight.
And everything was okay with you?
Yeah. I mean, better
than you two, right?
I'm sorry. That was
[WILL] Has she taken
anything from the room?
[GARTH] What do you mean? Like what?
[WILL] I don't know.
Maybe keys or passport?
Why the fuck would
she need those things?
[TENSE MUSIC BUILD-UP]
Did Cara say anything to you?
About what?
About wanting to end things with Garth?
We're just colleagues.
It's not like we're getting into
deep and meaningfuls every five.
Right, yeah, 'course.
So, why do you think
she's left him then?
Satisfied?
[WILL] Erm, I just wanted to check.
You haven't heard from
Cara today, have you?
[BONNIE OVER PHONE] No, I made
a point of telling her that
if I saw her reply to any work emails,
I would consider it a cry for help.
The girl needs a break
I heard her boss is a psychopath!
[WILL CHUCKLES]
Well, ain't all bad.
[BONNIE OVER PHONE] Ding, ding,
ding. And so he passes the test.
[BONNIE OVER PHONE] What
do you need her for?
Maybe I can help.
[BONNIE OVER PHONE] And by help,
I mean fob you off on Marissa.
Well, actually it's
not a work thing per se.
[WILL] Randomly she's
ended up holidaying
at the same spot as us.
And we Garth, that is,
we can't seem to get hold
of her at the minute.
Oh, that is random.
[WILL] Well, you know what they
say, small world n'all.
Well, California is just shy of
170,000 square miles, so define small.
Well, look, I'm sure there is
absolutely nothing to worry about.
Just wanted to call to see if
she's called the office at all.
[BONNIE] You know it's
when people tell me
not to worry that I start to worry.
When was she last seen?
Last night.
But she's probably headed
out for a hike or something.
[BONNIE CHUCKLES] A hike?
On her own?
You know her better than that.
Are we saying that she's gone missing?
[DOOR KNOCKS]
[WILL] No. [LAUGHS] No,
I think, er, that isn't
Bonnie, I'm sure that everything's fine.
[BONNIE] It doesn't sound fine
Any luck?
[BONNIE] in fact it
sounds the opposite of fine.
Cara's parents haven't
heard from her either.
[GARTH] They're going
out of their minds.
Bonnie, I'm gonna have to call you back.
Will you let me know
if you hear from her?
[BONNIE] No. Not waiting for that.
I'm calling the authorities.
[SUSPENSEFUL MUSIC]
[RADIO CHATTER]
[RANGER OVER MEGAPHONE]
Ms. Parker is five foot five, blond,
of slim athletic build.
We are looking for any sign
of the woman in question.
Her belongings, a trail
that she might've left
Should you see any
evidence on your route,
please under no circumstances touch it.
We have a special
forensic unit for that.
[INTENSE MUSIC]
[RANGER OVER MEGAPHONE] And be
mindful of your own safety
the heavy rainfall from last night
and the terrain are not our friend.
[INTENSE MUSIC BUILD-UP]
[CROWD NOISES]
[DOGS BARKING]
[RANGER] Team A, follow me.
Team B, follow Ranger
Farrelly up the hiking trail.
[DOGS BARKING]
[WOMAN] Parker!
[LIV, WHISPERING] Let's go this way.
[MAN] Parker!
[CROWD SEARCHING]
[TENSE MUSIC]
[HEAVY BREATHING]
[WILL] Fucking hell.
- [LIV] Heya.
- [WILL] I'm fine.
- [LIV] Yeah, let me
- [WILL] You're getting muddy, please.
[LIV] I shouldn't have made
you walk so fast on a dodgy leg.
I'm fine.
The last thing we need
is the wound to open up.
[LIV BREATHES HEAVILY]
I think there's some
painkillers in here somewhere.
Must be in my other bag.
Let's just take ten.
Just until you feel up to it.
No, we have to keep going. Come on.
- [DOGS BARKING]
- [WHISTLE BLOWING]
[WOMAN] Over here!
[WOMAN] I'm on my way.
[WOMAN] That way.
- [DOGS BARKING LOUDLY]
- [RANGER] That way, please.
I'm gonna have to ask you both
to move back to a place of safety.
[WILL] What is it? What have you found?
You've obviously found
something. What is it?
A female has been identified.
[WILL] But she's all right, though? Yes?
[RANGER] She's had a nasty fall.
[WILL] But she's okay, though? She's
had a nasty fall, but she's okay.
Tell me she's alive.
Just.
[TENSE MUSIC]
Hey.
She's on her way to hospital
right now, the Mann Fremont.
I came back to get her
some stuff 'cause
I just don't I'm not
sure what she really needs
and I've never done this before.
No, you've done a really good job.
What the hell was she doing out there?
I don't get it.
[WILL] Well, you can
ask her soon enough.
[GARTH] I'll let you know as
soon as she's up and talking.
- [LIV] You can't drive like this.
- No, no, no, I'm fine.
- [LIV] No, no, no, come on.
- [GARTH] I'm fine.
No, no, no. I'll drive. I'll drive.
- Come on.
- [GARTH] Yeah.
- Come on.
- [GARTH] Thank you.
Let's go.
[TENSE MUSIC BUILD-UP]
[DISTANT MACHINE BEEPING]
[GARTH WHISPERING] Hey.
Hey.
[GARTH] Can you hear me?
[GARTH WHISPERS] I'm
so happy to see you.
Hey.
Hey.
How are you feeling?
[SOFT TENSE MUSIC]
Where am I?
[GARTH] You're in the hospital, baby.
But you're gonna be fine,
hey. You are gonna be fine.
[GARTH] Everything can go
back to the way it was, yeah?
Er, you gave us a scare there.
[GARTH] What were you doing
out there on your own, baby?
[SHAKY BREATHS]
I don't know.
Why don't I know?
Did you hear?
[NURSE] In cases of TBI,
Traumatic Brain Injury
which sounds way scarier
than it needs to be
we see everything from neurological
disorder to loss of memory.
[GARTH] But she's gonna
get it all back, right?
[NURSE] I'll have the
surgeon come talk with you.
[GARTH] Okay. Can you have him
come talk to us now, please?
- [NURSE] Sir
- No, just get the surgeon
and have him come
talk to us now, please?
- Okay?
- [NURSE] Why don't we go out in the hall
- for a moment.
- [GARTH] I don't
- [NURSE] Just for a moment, all right?
- [GARETH] Okay.
[GARTH] I'll be right back, all right?
I'll get some answers.
Everything is gonna be fine.
[MACHINE BEEPING]
[LIV WHISPERING] Will
Mm?
We should let her get some rest.
Take care.
I'm so sorry this happened to you.
It's not your fault.
[QUICK TENSE MUSIC]
[BIRDS CHIRPING]
To Cara, erm
To better times ahead. Love, Liv.
And make sure the peonies are opened,
nothing too white, white's too morbid.
Nobody needs that in a hospital.
[HOTEL MANAGER] Okay,
great. I'll have those
ready to collect by midday.
Great. Great, thanks.
["RADAR" BY BRITNEY SPEARS PLAYS]
Confidence is a must ♪
Cockiness is a plus ♪
Edginess is a rush ♪
Edges I like 'em rough ♪
A man with a Midas touch ♪
Intoxicate me, I'm a lush ♪
Stop you're making me blush ♪
People are looking at us ♪
I don't think you know (Know) ♪
I'm checking you ♪
So hot, so hot ♪
Wonder if you know ♪
You're on my radar ♪
- On my radar ♪
- On my radar ♪
On my radar ♪
And, yep, I notice you ♪
I know it's you ♪
Choose it, you don't wanna lose it ♪
- You're on my radar ♪
- On my radar ♪
- You're my radar ♪
- On my radar ♪
- And when you walk ♪
- And when you walk ♪
- And when you talk ♪
- And when you talk ♪
I get the tingle I wanna mingle ♪
- That's what I want ♪
- That's what I want ♪
[MUSIC IN EARPHONES]
[GARTH] She's
She's gone.
[GARTH CRIES]
[HEAVY BREATHING]
[MUFFLED TENSE SOUNDTRACK]
[CRYING IN PANIC]
[LINE RINGING]
[PHONE VIBRATING]
[BINGO CALLER] Two and one, twenty one.
[WHISPERING] Your phone's going.
So they can leave a message.
It's your Liv.
Hi, I've not been bothering
you, you'll notice.
A holiday's a holiday.
[CARYL] Not that I know.
It's been that long.
[LIV SOBS]
[CARYL] Olive? Are you okay?
[CRIES]
[CARYL] Olive, what is
it? What's the matter?
Caryl, you've got a full house!
[BINGO CALLER] Did someone
say they got a full house?
[CARYL'S FRIEND] Where you
going? You've got a full house!
Olive, could you say something
so's I know you're okay?
[LIV, CHOKED UP] Mum
Something's happened.
[CARYL] Listen to me
Listen. You need to calm down.
[GASPING FOR AIR]
[CARYL] Take a breath.
Olive, I need to hear you take a breath.
And again.
[LOUD, QUICK BREATHING]
[CRYING] I'm so sorry.
What is it? What's the matter?
[CARYL] Is it Will?
[THROUGH GASPS] No no.
[CARYL] How do you expect me to help you
when you won't say what it is?
I'm stood here a million miles away
and you're phoning me like this
so I can what, panic?
Never mind miss the first full
house I've had since records began.
You're my mum.
Whatever it is, it can be put right.
All you need
is to look the thing dead on.
[GASPING FOR AIR]
[CARYL] And own it.
Just take it from me,
you'll be stuck on it
for the rest of your life.
And what kind of life will that be?
[GASPING FOR AIR]
[EXHALES]
[SOFT MUSIC]
[MUFFLED CROWD SOUNDS]
[POLICEWOMAN, MUFFLED] What time
did you get back to your hotel room?
How long were you there till?
All right, thank you,
sir, that's very helpful.
I need to talk to you. Come.
[LIV, WHISPERING] It
was She was fine.
[LIV] It doesn't make sense.
Please, Liv, just be
silent and let me speak
else I'll go mad.
Me and Cara, I
We
Look, it was a mistake,
obviously a mistake,
I will never forgive myself for.
And I'm not asking you to, but
She
She's the one night thing.
Not so much one night, more.
but nothing that even remotely
comes close to to us
to what we have. Y-you
Liv, you have to believe me.
And it was over.
The whole thing was over.
But then her here, it was all
about her wanting us to be a thing.
Which
Which I couldn't.
I didn't I
Liv, questions will be
asked. They already are.
And the last person to have
seen her must've been me.
Which shouldn't matter for anything
because she's obviously had some
Some horrible accident, but
You know how these things look.
How I'll look.
If they find out about us, it will look
like I was getting rid of a problem.
And I know
Liv, I know you don't owe
me anything ever again.
But I'm begging you, I am.
I'm properly, fucking
begging you here, Livvy.
To help me.
Help you how?
I
I need you to be my alibi.
[BURST OUT LAUGHING]
[TENSE BUZZING]
[LIV CONTINUES LAUGHING]
[LIV] So, you were with her last night?
With her, with her.
[WILL] No. I'm here with you.
[LIV CHUCKLES]
She came to find me after
some row she'd had with Garth.
We talked, nothing more.
Listen, if anyone asks,
I went to the bar and
had a night cap alone.
I got back to the room at 11.30.
And then it was just you
and me together all night.
Even if I wanted to help you,
other people will have seen you.
No, we were careful.
Why would you be careful
if you were just talking?
Oh, no, you gave her hope.
You gave her hope, didn't
you? Of course you fucking did.
Oh, of course you fucking did.
Please, Liv, please, I am begging you.
Please just do this one thing for me.
- Please.
- [RANGER] Excuse me.
Excuse me!
- Everyone else is inside.
- [WILL] Yeah. Yeah.
We're just
Just grabbing some air.
Right. Well if y'all don't
mind heading in with me,
answering a few questions?
Of course. Yeah.
[SOFT DRAMATIC MUSIC]
You knew the deceased, right?
[WILL] Er, yes.
In what capacity?
Er, colleagues
Er, we were friendly colleagues.
[RANGER] Holidaying together?
Oh, no, it wasn't some
We bumped into her on the trail.
[RANGER CLEARS THROAT]
[RANGER] Theory we're running with
is Ms. Parker lost her way in the storm,
ended up at Rosen Pointe,
slipped, fell.
It's looking like death by misadventure.
But I'm sure you can appreciate
we still need to get
everyone's movements.
Oh, no, of course. Of course.
I mean, anything, please,
anything we can do to help.
Erm
Well, we
We ducked out of dinner early.
Went back to the room, and
I fancied a night cap.
I couldn't persuade my better half.
And then got back,
must've been about 11.30.
And then, well
It was us. For the rest of the night.
- [RANGER] Thank you, Mr. Taylor.
- Of course.
[RANGER] Mrs. Taylor.
Guess like my husband said.
[RANGER] Well, no doubt
we will have more questions
when the forensics search
of the scene finishes up.
Is a, er, is a phone call okay?
It's just, er well, we were
meant to check out yesterday.
And, well, we've rooms in Vegas.
[RANGER] No disappearing, though.
[WILL CHUCKLES]
[WILL EXHALES]
Thank you.
Don't you dare.
["THE LASTY" BY SANTIGOLD PLAYS]
Mother said, look now at that fire ♪
You're a lasty ♪
One by one, I watch 'em run ♪
And then, they pass me ♪
All look back, say,
save me, lost my light ♪
Got my hip in the door
and my foot on the drive ♪
All get set, taking my mark ♪
Nothing to lose, I
got nothing but heart ♪
Take you to your knees,
left us in the dark ♪
Feeling all this heat,
oh, ignite our spark ♪
To your knees, left us in the dark ♪
Feeling all this heat, ooh,
now I'm gon' take 'em back ♪