Platform 7 (2023) s01e04 Episode Script

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SASHA: Matt, what time did you say
that the table was booked for?
Oh, shit! Shit! I'll call them,
and I'll push it back.
OK for a quick shower?
Room enough for two?
I'll be right there.
Matt!
What the fuck?
What happened to it?
Looks like
it was struck with something.
Makes no sense.
Spooky.
Imagine my surprise
when a colleague in CID
tells me one of my constables
requested their file
on that suicide from last year.
A request that ignored both protocol
and the courtesy
of informing his superior officer.
I don't think
it was a suicide, sir.
I've conducted interviews
with people who knew her.
You've done what?!
The Coroner's verdict was based
on her having mental health issues,
which relied solely on the testimony
of her partner, Dr Goodson.
I recorded an interview
with a doctor who trained with him.
It proves that
Goodson's history with women is
You've breached every protocol
for interviewing witnesses, as well.
If you'd just listen
to what he said, sir
RECORDING: 'His ex-girlfriend Helen
tried to kill herself too,
'she slashed her wrists.'
Turn the damn thing off. Right now!
'Usually, nurses he goes for.
' "Low-hanging fruit",
he calls them.'
Wait.
'He's got his eye on a new one now.
'Another nurse. He's dangerous.
'He has to be stopped.'
It's not clear on the CCTV, sir
..but I think
Goodson was chasing her that night.
This isn't bloody Columbo.
What you think is irrelevant.
You poke the bear without evidence,
you may as well hand in your badge
right now.
There's no allowance for failure
with them
Your best chance
of getting the case reopened
is to discredit Goodson's claim
about her mental state.
Which means finding
credible witnesses
to confirm she was mentally robust
prior to her relationship with him.
Focus on Evans' parents.
Without them onside,
you're on a hiding to nothing.
The nurse who attempted suicide
his ex before Evans?
Helen Gao.
Get a statement from her.
And take that damn phone
over to forensics.
Get things downloaded
before they're corrupted. Yes, sir.
And if I think
you're neglecting your duties
..I'll pull the damn plug on you.
Yes, sir.
Thank you, sir.
My daughter is a nurse.
Good night, sir.
"Low-hanging fruit."
Hi, Mum. Did he go down OK?
And you remembered to put on
his night nappy?
Oh, my God, she has a child.
Oh, just the best time!
He's everything
I thought he'd be and more.
I actually think
I might've gotten lucky this time.
I'm not rushing into it!
OK, OK, I hear you. I'll pace it.
I love you, too.
Listen to your mother, Sasha!
And in God's name, don't let him
anywhere near your son!
CAR HORN HONKS
That'll be the cab.
Hope you're hungry?
Famished.
I need to give her a wakeup call.
Still got a job?
So, after the split from Max's dad,
I moved back here
to be near my parents,
to help with the childcare.
Was it tough,
the split with his dad?
He was very controlling.
Oh.
But trust me, I am well out of it.
Out of the frying pan
and straight into the furnace.
Anyway, enough about me.
You've barely told me
anything about yourself yet.
Not much to tell.
What you see is what you get.
LISA TUTS,
SIGHS
Try it.
Here we go.
Little by little, inch by inch.
Delicious.
So, when do I get to meet
the little guy?
The thing is he's been through
so much upheaval recently
..I kind of have to be cautious
about who I introduce him to
Mm-hm.
..new relationships,
unless I think it's going somewhere.
No rush. I get it.
I'll wait in the wings
until you're ready.
It's not like that.
I mean, if it was just me
We kind of come as a package deal.
Two for the price of one.
I know it's still early days, Sasha,
but I need to put this out there.
I wanna be part of your life
LISA SCOFFS
..if you'll let me?
And Max's. A big part.
OK, time for some direct action.
LISA LAUGHS
What the?!
What happened?
It's OK, no harm done.
Shall we just?
It's fine.
WAITER: I'll get you another glass.
Accidents happen.
See, this is what he does.
He makes you feel
that everything's your fault,
until in the end,
you start to believe it, too.
What I'm trying to say, Sasha, is
..I'm so up for this.
You know, for a long time,
I've known that
something was missing from my life.
Meeting you, I know what it is.
It's being part of a family.
Be careful what you wish for.
Three-year-olds,
they're not exactly user-friendly.
Well, he won't be three forever,
will he?
But, listen, it's it's your call.
You're in the driving seat.
LISA: No!
This is how he reels you in.
He makes you think
you're making all the decisions
but you're not, he is!
Maybe if we take it slowly?
Take him to the park together?
You definitely need
that wakeup call, girl.
And soon.
RECORDING:
'Usually, nurses he goes for.
'Low-hanging fruit, he calls them.
'He's got his eye on a new one now.
Another nurse.
'He's dangerous'
I
'He has to be stopped.'
Bloody hell.
What is it that makes a man behave
that way towards women?
Well, they say
abusers usually come from
abusive backgrounds themselves,
don't they?
But then so do millions of other
people who don't turn into abusers.
Makes you wonder
if some people are just born bad.
We've only Shale's word he is.
It was good enough for Barker.
I have to be sure
I'm right this time.
Find some way of talking to Goodson
without arousing his suspicion.
The police are always in and out
of A&E for one reason or another.
Ishan said you were here!
Ah, my Uncle Viraz, Aunt Darka.
Oh, hi.
VIRAZ: No, no.
We'll prepare something special
for you.
You like your food hot?
Yeah. Hotter, the better.
Finally, a date!
Does your mother know?
It's a work thing Ah!
..not a date. Such a work ethic!
That one could learn
from his example.
Ishan, my cousin.
So, where'd you meet?
OK.
Let them be, woman!
Sorry about that.
You're right, it's not a date.
I mean, I'm hardly dressed for one,
am I?
Next time, I will be.
Sorry. I need to pick up a
pathology report from the mortuary?
Been going round in circles
trying to find it.
I'm going that way myself in a sec,
I can show you.
Ah, it's really kind of you.
Thank you.
It's for the, er, suicide
last week at the station?
Oh, yeah, heard about him.
It's not the first jumper
you've had, is it?
You know, before natural gas,
the favoured suicide MO
was sticking your head in the oven.
Least then, it's probably
a family member that would find you.
Not leave it to a bunch of poor sods
to collect your body parts
scattered all over a railway line.
Beyond selfish, if you ask me.
It's through the doors
to the basement.
LISA SIGHS
What's his favourite movie?
Think!
# My whole life with her words
# Killing me softly
With her song. #
PHONE RINGS
Shale?
'PC Lockhart, this a good time?'
Proceed.
Dr Goodson's ex-girlfriend
who attempted suicide, the nurse?
Do you have contact details?
'For what purpose?'
'We're reviewing the suicide verdict
on the Lisa Evans' case.
'A statement about
her relationship with Dr Goodson
'would be helpful.'
Reviewing it for what purpose?
To give her justice.
I'll talk to her.
'I was glad you called.
'So many times,
I meant to come by to apologise.'
Finding me that way,
putting you through all that.
It was nothing.
In our culture,
if someone saves a person's life,
it means they are responsible
for them forever.
I'm kidding.
Oh!
HE STAMMERS
How've you been doing, anyway?
It took some time
to get my head straight.
When I was with Matt
I wasn't me any more.
I'd lost myself.
When I heard about
what happened to the one after me
the teacher?
It was a wakeup call.
I felt I owed it to her
to pull myself out of it.
If I hadn't, then
..well,
he'd still be controlling me.
As he did her.
'Losing one of our own that way,
it was a shock to us all.'
The students especially.
She was a big part of their lives.
The term before her death,
was there anything
about her state of mind
that gave you cause for concern?
One thing was puzzling.
We were advertising
for a new Deputy Head,
I suggested she apply.
I didn't do it lightly.
She was relatively young
for such a post -
she hadn't even run a department.
But once in a generation,
if you're lucky,
you get a teacher like her
who can literally change lives.
When she first came to us,
we had a Year Ten student
with serious anger issues.
Frankly, I thought
he was beyond our reach, you know,
I was on the point of excluding him.
She asked
if she could have a go with him.
She spent every lunchtime with him
for the entire term.
He's now studying law
at Manchester University.
When I suggested
she tried for Deputy Head,
she all but bit my hand off.
Even asked if she could hug me.
Then two days later,
she sat where you are,
said she changed her mind.
Makes no more sense now
than it did then.
It wasn't just her life
that was lost
..it was all of the lives
she would've touched.
PHONE RINGS
PC Lockhart's phone?
He's not here right now
I can take a message?
'Dr Shale.'
It's affirmative
on the statement he requested.
Sorry habit of mine.
I don't get it
you and Matt being friends.
You're so different.
In our third year at medical school,
Matt hadn't put in the work
for an exam.
He always sailed close to the wind.
This time,
he'd left it too late to catch up.
He begged me to take it for him.
That's what friends do, isn't it?
Friendship has never come easily
to me.
And when I got to medical school
from day one,
Matt took me into his circle.
I mean, people only had to meet
Matt, and they fell under his spell.
Well, you know that
better than anyone.
Because he accepted me
so did they.
That is why I took the exam for him.
And why I made allowances
for the way he treated women.
But when he started going out
with Lisa
after what happened with you,
I just
I felt like
I had to keep an eye on her.
You know, if things looked like
they were going the same way, I'd
I don't know,
step in and warn her, or
So I started going by her flat
when I knew Matt was at work.
And did you warn her?
I bottled it. Every time.
But before I went to the States,
I tried to talk to Matt about it.
I told him, as his friend,
he needed to sort himself out
before Lisa ended up doing
the same thing that you tried to do.
He said I was never his friend
I was just his useful idiot.
I don't usually talk this much.
I'm sorry. Don't be.
I'm starving. There's a new bistro
up the road. We could give it a try?
Uh
I'd like that.
Should I change?
Um
Yeah, yeah, no, I'll change.
Thank you.
For what?
For not judging me.
PAN SIZZLES ON STOVE
Play nicely now.
Crap feeling, isn't it? Not knowing
what's real or in your head?
Did you let someone
into my flat today?
Who was it?
I haven't let anyone in. The key.
The fucking key that Lisa said
she gave you for emergencies.
Get it now!
You go into my flat again,
I will slap an injunction on you.
First and final warning.
That cuts both ways.
OK
..so what's the plan here?
You, OK?
The mirror thing?
It was the old bag downstairs.
She's messing about
in the flat again.
Why would she to do that?
Fuck knows. Dementia?
Anyways, it's sorted now.
I knew
there'd be a rational explanation.
Listen, your new opposite number,
she arrived at lunchtime.
She's been asking after you.
I best go do the honours, then.
Matt Goodson. On splits today,
otherwise I'd have been here
to welcome you. Anthea Cox.
Anyone given you the tour yet?
No need, pretty much a scaled down
version of my last place.
Which was?
King's College.
Before that, Tommy's.
So, what brings you
out to no-man's land?
You sense what he's up to,
don't you?
Trust it, Sasha, listen to it.
There's a great pub.
If you're around later,
I can outline some ideas I've had
for a new patient care model
I'm working on.
Just can't help yourself, can you?
Some other time, perhaps.
So what's the verdict?
Two words. Up herself.
This might be useful.
"Section 76, Serious Crime Act 2015,
"Offence of
Controlling or Coercive behaviour"
Find witnesses to Goodson's
controlling behaviour with Evans,
that is your angle to reopen
the case right there.
He's too clever to have done it in
front of her family or friends, sir.
Did CID check for
spyware on her phone?
She didn't take it with her.
If he had installed it,
he'd plenty of time to remove it
before he reported her missing.
Someone must know something
..must have seen something.
You really reckon you'll be able
to get her case reopened?
A way to go yet.
Hm.
A word.
Before I report you to HR,
against my better judgement,
I'm gonna give you
a chance to explain your email.
Now, unless you've taken
complete leave of your senses,
I'm gonna assume
it was meant for someone else.
What email?
"I know you felt
the chemistry between us, as I did.
"I'm up for following up on it,
if you are?"
I didn't send that.
Someone must've hacked
into my emails. I did not send this.
For the avoidance of doubt,
let me make myself crystal clear.
Send me another email like that,
talk to me inappropriately,
so much as look at me
inappropriately,
I will haul you up to HR so damn
fast, you will go into orbit.
I might have to up my game.
Apologies for not seeing you
at my home.
I wanted to get the lie of the land,
so to speak,
before involving my wife.
She's still quite raw.
It's about my daughter's
mental health, you said?
You stated at the inquest that
she had no previous history of it?
None. That's why
it came as such a shock.
You also stated that
during the weeks prior to her death,
that aside from a few phone calls
the only contact you had with her
was when you met her in town
for coffee the day before she died?
When you met her that day
how did she seem to you?
DEEP SIGH
On edge jumpy.
Even more so when Matthew
suddenly turned up out of blue.
Shortly after she died
he came to see us.
He told us
she'd been depressed for weeks,
could barely get out of bed
some days
He'd begged her to tell us
what was going on, but
she didn't wanna worry us.
Then he cried.
And Evelyn comforted him.
Barely 24 hours
after losing her only child.
You had concerns about Dr Goodson?
Just an instinct that there's
something hidden about him.
Did you tell
the investigating team that?
I think they just put it down to
the ramblings of an over-protective
father. Too little, too late.
Dr Goodson's testimony
about her mental health
played a significant part
in the verdict.
Any evidence which disproves
his account could be
grounds to reopen her case.
In that event, sir, can I ask
if you and Mrs Evans would support
such a challenge?
For my part, definitely.
But my wife, I
She doesn't share
my opinion about Matthew.
Well, something's got clogged
somewhere.
It's not the wand thing.
That'd be too easy, wouldn't it?
You know I said a constable
from the Transport Police called,
after details for Lisa's file?
Mm.
I went to see him.
There's a chance
they may reopen her case,
to ensure
they got the right verdict.
It's possible
that Lisa's death was not voluntary.
That Matt was involved somehow.
Involved? He
He did everything that he could
to help her! You know he did.
We only know what he told us,
don't we?
When it happened,
the first thing you said -
the very first thing -
was how could she get so depressed
in a few short weeks
when she'd never
Yeah, and he explained,
it was the-the chemical disorder,
the bipolar thing!
I researched it.
The onset
is usually with teenagers
CYNICAL LAUGH
..and the symptoms
develop over months, not weeks.
Oh, you "researched" it!
Oh, well-well, then,
you must be right!
I mean he's only a trained doctor
after all,
who's devoted his entire life
to saving others!
What are you saying exactly?
I think
he was controlling her somehow.
A strong-willed girl like Lisa?
And-And if things weren't working
between them, I am her mother.
I am the first person
she would have told!
The morning before she died
..you were still with your sister
in Bath. I met her for coffee.
And I think she wanted to tell me
about Matt then,
but then he came in
You met her?!
You met her, and you tell me now?
Because you were blaming yourself
she hadn't turned to you,
confided in you!
When it's Matt who is to blame!
Think about it.
He was the only one
who ever saw her depressed.
Not Izzy, her friends,
anyone from school us!
And it came up at the inquest,
remember?
When the Coroner asked
why there were no other witnesses.
Yes,
and he believed Matty's account!
Only after he wept on the stand
when he was giving his evidence.
He's a past master at that.
# Strumming my pain with her fingers
# Singing my life with her words
# Killing me softly with her song
# Killing me softly #
The remote?!
# ..with her song #
The remote!
# ..telling my whole life #
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CLIP STOPS
CLIP PLAYS
MUSIC DISTORTS
What the fuck is going on?
LISA: Time to start the day
before it starts without you, Matty.
Did your mother ever say that
to you? Hm. Maybe not.
She wasn't nice to you, was she?
Aww
Poor diddums.
And we women have to pay the price
for that now, don't we?
SHE BLOWS,
HE GASPS
Time for Plan B, Sasha.
You'll thank me one day.
This is for you, Jasmin.
And you, too, Ella
SCOFFS
This is for all of us.
TEXT ALERTS PING
What?
When I first met him,
I thought he was the real deal.
Within months of him moving in,
the rows started.
And it was never
her voice doing the shouting.
Do you remember
anything about the night she died?
I was woken,
about two in the morning,
by the front door banging shut
as he came in.
You're sure it wasn't her leaving?
I didn't hear either of them leave.
Only him coming back.
I heard
his footsteps going upstairs,
two at a time, like always.
You told
the investigating team this?
One of them, yes.
They said they'd send someone round
to take a statement.
But no-one ever did.
Towards the end,
Lisa wasn't the same girl
she used to be.
He's got a new one now,
God help her.
Should you hear anything
that concerns you.
Don't keep me in suspense.
Barker's sending the evidence
to Divisional HQ.
If they approve it
it goes to HQ in London
with a recommendation
to reopen her case.
A few 'ifs' in there, but
yeah.
SOFT CHUCKLE
Well, no-one could have done more,
Kash.
Erm I don't know what time
you finish today, but, er
I mean, if you're free, er,
maybe we could, er
I don't know, er
perhaps have a drink, or?
I don't think so.
I mean call me old-school,
but I think a first date should be,
er memorable.
Not just tacked
on to the end of a working day.
I mean, there's bags of time
for all that later.
Oh, right! I mean yes!
Er, I'll call, er, or text.
Just give me time to, er
Er, I'll call. Or text. Just
LAUGHS,
FUMBLED WORDS
KNOCK AT DOOR
I'm to take annual leave
while HR conduct their inquiries.
Can you fucking believe it?
SCOFFS
At least you're here,
I can I can breathe again!
Something I have to say, Matt.
Let me guess. I'm presumed guilty?
Judge, jury and executioner.
Human nature,
don't you just fucking love it (?)
I did not send that fucking text!
And the email?
That wasn't me, either!
Either way,
I can't do this any more, Matt.
I've got Max to think of.
The doting mother card.
I might've guessed
that you'd trot that one out.
Someone is doing this to me, Sasha!
And it's the same bastard who has
been fucking with my head in here!
You need help, Matt. You really do.
Stick to bedpans, love,
they're your area of expertise.
You were just low hanging fruit,
Sasha.
Do you understand?
You're easy pickings.
Well now I see
you in your true colours
Better late than never.
The rat deserting
the sinking ship, I don't think so!
Get off me, Matt!
Just me and you now, Matty,
like it used to be, remember?
It's a speaker!
There must be speakers!
AMPLIFIED VOICE: Not everything
can be explained by logic, Matty.
Or your precious science.
You think you're making all the
decisions, but you're not, Matty.
I am!
What do you want?
Tell me what the fuck you want!
The impossible. For you to change.
PHONE RINGS
Lockhart?
'You said to call if
'He's gone crazy,
he's outside shouting.'
Is he alone?
His girlfriend was here earlier.
Call the police!
Ishan, I need your wheels.
Tell her it's about Lisa Evans,
and I'm sorry.
You once said to me
you were no good for me, remember?
That night I found you in tears?
What are you fucking talking about?
You knew then how it would play out
for me, didn't you?
You knew it,
and you could have stopped it.
Why didn't you?
HE WHIMPERS
What are you running from, Matty?
I'm dead!
You watched me die, remember?
Come on!
LISA: You saw the fear in my eyes
that night,
but it didn't stop you, did it?
Stop! It's him, turn around!
Him! Come on, man.
Ish, start the bike.
LISA: No point in running, Matty,
I have the power now.
Are you scared, Matty?
Can you feel the fear, Matty?
HE PANTS
Goodson
TRAIN HORN BLARES
..stop!
LABOURED BREATHS
Step away from the edge, sir!
Step away from the platform! Sir!
Matty!
Step away!
Give it up, Matty, it's over.
Is this what you want?
You wanna hear me say it?
All right, then. I'm a fraud.
I'm a useless,
worthless piece of shit!
Is that what you wanna hear?
It's not news to me,
I've been hearing it
since the day I was fucking born!
TRAIN HORN TOOTS
Stop! Stop!
GLASS CLINKS
You waited.
I saw her. I know I saw her.
I saw her.
There's no rational explanation
for it. There isn't. I know it.
I have been through it. And over it.
CALM MUSIC
DROWNS OUT SPEECH
STATION BELL CHIMES
LOUDSPEAKER: The train
is now approaching platform 7.