We Hunt Together (2020) s01e05 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 #
(ominous music)
(Cian) Lily?
-(boy) Lily.
-Lily.
Lily, where's Frederica?
Lily. You're not in any trouble,
do you understand?
Doesn't matter whose idea it was.
What matters now
is that we find Frederica.
Do you understand me?
Lily!
He didn't have any ID on him
and, well, facial recognition
wasn't exactly possible.
Then, when forensics came up short,
we were going to go nationwide
with the whole missing person search
when we got the call from you guys.
-Were there any witnesses?
-It's a pretty quiet road.
And roughly how many properties
would you say there is
within a one-mile radius?
Eight. We've already been round them.
I don't suppose you have
a list of those addresses?
Well, yeah, but like I said,
already been round.
Nobody saw anything.
Please, if you don't mind.
You ever tried to eat one of these
without licking your lips?
Freddy, please.
Because of all the sugar,
it's basically impossible.
Freddy.
It's a little game me
and my dad used to play.
You had to eat a whole doughnut
without licking your lips once.
Teaches you restraint, apparently.
Easy.
-See, it's hard.
-Mm, mm, mm.
See, with Dad, the rule was
if I licked my lips,
I wasn't allowed
to finish the doughnut.
I could never get past
the second bite, ever,
so one time,
I just stuffed the whole thing
really quickly in my mouth,
so he couldn't take it away.
You wanna know what he did?
He made me eat the entire pack.
Six jam doughnuts,
one after the other.
-You licked! You licked! You did!
-Mmm, no, no, no.
You licked.
Wait, six jam doughnuts.
You must have been so sick.
Yeah, but it was okay.
I had just enough time
to run upstairs
and vomit all over his bed.
-Oh, Freddy, please.
-(chuckles)
He signed me up to Houndsbury
the next day.
Cian was the first person I met.
He made me feel like the whole place
had been built just for me.
Darren left the pub at 9:45 p.m.,
and then he stumbles
across the Matt Bowers' murder,
and then they bring him
out here to kill him?
Well, he must have escaped.
They chased him,
they knocked him down.
And left him at the side
of the road for us?
They didn't make a single mistake
with the first two murders,
and then this?
Look, uh, this should be a Mr Lowry,
and then that's us halfway through.
This is only the third house
though, right?
This one's, um, a holiday cottage.
The owners live up in London.
Okay.
Afternoon, Mr Lowry.
So, Cian lives
on the school premises, yes?
Mm-hm.
So, how will we get to him?
They won't give us another tour.
-How do you feel about dressing up?
-Oh, Freddy!
(chuckles)
(car approaching)
-Shit, it's the new owners.
-(gasps)
-Come on. Shh.
-Shit.
Baba, they're coming.
Get down.
(sniffs)
(woman) Oh, my god!
There's a broken window!
(man) What?
Back here,
there's bloody glass everywhere.
Shh.
-Come on. Go, go!
-Okay.
(Freddy) Whoo-hoo-hoo!
(Baba) Why are you whooping?
This isn't a time for whooping.
(doorbell rings)
Do anything fun last night?
Sat about. Ate some nachos.
Tried not to overdose.
Sorry to bother you, um, we're
investigating a hit-and-run incident
near your house in Suffolk.
Oh, yes, it was terribly sad,
but as we told the officer
on the phone, we haven't been
to the house in months.
We just want to know
if the name Freddy Lane
means anything to you.
Uh, yes, it does. Why?
This her?
Yes, what's going on?
How do you know her, please?
We have a lodger, Baba,
and Freddy's his new girlfriend.
(Freddy) Ooh, we could definitely get
some clothes in there.
Ready?
-Yeah.
-Let's go.
(Freddy) Race you!
(Baba) Come on.
These are amazing.
God! Try these on.
(gasps)
It's 100 per cent cashmere.
You know,
I'm strangely drawn to this.
Why has no one ever told me
about church jumble sales?
I mean, look at that,
they've got loads of Halloween stuff.
That's perfect
for the school concert.
(sobbing)
Look at me. Hey, hey, look at me.
Tell me why you're crying.
They had him staying
in some halfway house at the time,
and, um, we invited him here
to stay with us.
And you met Freddy
about two weeks ago?
That's when he introduced her
to us, yes.
And how long has he been working
at the club?
The club don't pay him anything,
before you start.
He works for tips.
Half of which he has to give to them.
Baba's employment status
is not of interest here,
I assure you.
So, what's the problem?
Can you show us
to Baba's bedroom, please?
We'd like to take a look around.
I'm afraid that won't be possible.
Then we'll just come back tomorrow
with a warrant.
Well, then I guess we'll be seeing
you tomorrow, won't we?
Mmm.
Where is Baba now?
Um, Baba's a grown man.
Comes and goes as he pleases.
I appreciate your loyalty,
but I should let you know,
at this stage, that withholding
any information from us
or contacting Baba
without our knowledge
would be construed as obstructing
a police investigation.
Is that clear?
Look, I'm sorry,
but if you had any idea
what he'd been through,
you wouldn't
Oh, love, just
No, Martin, tell them.
Baba was 12 years old
when the rebel troops came
into his village.
I watched as they gave my brother
a gun and told him he had a choice
(inhales sharply)
to shoot my mother or my father.
When he refused
they shot him in the head.
And then, they handed me the gun.
I bet you were
the sweetest little boy in the world.
(Freddy) I'm right, aren't I?
Please.
Please, do not ask me
to kill this man.
What?
Baby, I'm not.
I just want to talk to him, I swear.
Baba, I promise you.
I just want to scare him
a little bit, that's all.
I mean, it is Halloween.
-(knocks on door)
-Yeah.
I mean, why can't everyone just agree
to stop killing each other, eh?
-(Jackson chuckling)
-I mean, would it be so hard?
You know, all you'd have to do
is get up in the morning
and not kill someone.
Do you know what I mean?
Mmm.
-What's up? What have you done?
-You know I respect you.
And I would never do
anything untoward
or that would undermine you
in any way.
Get to the point, Jackson.
The thing is, Susan, Lola and I,
we've, um, we haven't quite
closed down
the Matt Bowers case in its entirety.
-Excuse me?
-I know.
Uh, there's something
you need to see.
We think it's linked.
(eerie music)
(phone rings)
Hello, Houndsbury School.
The head teacher's office leads out
to the back,
if we can get Cian to his office,
we should be able to get him
to the car without being seen.
What do you think?
Baba?
Hey, what's up?
Come here.
You said you ran down the corridor
and he ran after you to grab you,
so you turned around and pushed him,
and he fell down the stairs, right?
Yeah. What?
But, if you were running
down the corridor,
and he was chasing after you,
then, surely, his back would be
to the corridor
and yours would be by the stairs.
I don't know, it happened
over ten years ago.
And two students said
that you did it on purpose.
Well, yeah, 'cause he told them
to say that.
Well, why would they lie for him?
One, maybe, but two doesn't make
any sense.
And why do we have
to take him to the river?
It would be easier for us to speak
to him at the school.
He needs to be at the river.
He needs to be there
where it happened.
He has to feel her,
and he has to feel scared
or he won't confess, Baba.
I have to hear him say it, Baba.
I have to.
(foreboding music)
You ready?
No, I can't tonight.
Because I have to work.
No, I'm not going to ask my mum.
Look, she's not a baby-sitter,
is she?
No, no. No.
No, you take
some fucking responsibility for once!
It's clear for us to go inside.
(Jackson) I'm sorry,
I'm sorry I shouted.
Um, yeah, I'll talk to you
talk to you later.
(tense music)
(background chatter)
(Cian) "But in a short time she saw
that the floor was covered
with clotted blood,
on which the bodies
of several dead women were lying."
Hey, Lily.
Would you like to come
and read with us?
Come on, Lily. This is the good bit.
Freddy, come on.
Those damn Gideons.
We've traced their phones back
to Freddy's parents' house
in Cropdale.
But?
The house was recently sold,
the new owners reported
a break-in yesterday.
A smashed downstairs window
and a bag was found upstairs
with Freddy and Baba's stuff in it,
including their phones.
So that's, uh, one way
we won't be able to find them.
No, but at least Martin and Janet
won't be able to warn Baba.
You seen them yesterday, right?
Hiding something?
Yeah, I know what you mean.
I was thinking
maybe I should be the one to
I think, possibly, if
we're both questioning them,
it could get a bit
Hm?
-You knock yourself out.
-Thank you.
Lola, look, maybe a little drop
of the famed Jackson charm
might be just the thing
this thing needs to grease
the wheels on it, you know.
Jackson?
(suspenseful music)
The man killed in the hit-and-run
was Darren Cork.
We just found this in the Bible
in Baba's room.
So, you can start talking
or we can go down the station.
It's up to you.
Uh
They're in Martin's spare car.
Licence, please.
Hold on, use mine.
Thank you, ma'am.
So, it was really found
inside the Bible?
Yeah, Lola found it.
Apparently, it's the one possession
that Baba brought with him to the UK.
"Whoever gives their life for me,
saves their own."
Uh, Luke, 9:24, it was marked
in the book where the license was.
(Dom) Here we go.
It was clocked this morning
about 20 miles outside of Cropdale,
passing a camera here,
and it should have passed
another one here
but it never did.
So he must have stopped
around here somewhere.
And, here's Houndsbury School,
where Freddy went.
And where Cian Fitzgerald
is now the Headmaster.
Who is Cian Fitzgerald?
Denise, you've outdone yourself.
Look at that.
I mean, I'm genuinely
a little bit scared.
Give me a shout
if none of that makes sense.
Yes, I will. Thank you.
(girl) Excuse me, sir.
Freeze.
Hands in the air.
-Oh. Where's your wand?
-I haven't got one.
Oh, good, because if you turn me
into a frog,
then Denise will have to give me
a big slobbery kiss
to turn me back,
and nobody wants that, do they?
Thank you.
Did Miss Phillips give you this?
I'm not sure, she had a mask on.
Did it sound like Miss Phillips?
-Yes, I think so.
-Okay. Thank you. Off you go.
(eerie music)
I do hope this is a treat,
rather than a trick,
because I, uh Oh.
"From ghoulies and ghosties
and long-leggedy beasties
and things that go bump
in the night."
Good Lord, deliver us.
So, you do remember me, then?
I'm sorry.
I didn't recognise you yesterday.
You've changed such an awful lot.
You look well.
You too, sir.
-Really rolling back the years.
-(scoffs)
Okay.
Why are you here, Lily?
You never asked me why I pushed you.
Not once in ten years.
Everyone else asked me, but
not you.
I didn't ask
because my only occupation,
preoccupation, vocation,
whatever you will,
was to rage against the darkness
of a life in ruins
that threatened to engulf me.
Don't roll your eyes at me.
I fought every single day to keep
my head above water,
and talking to you would have
dragged me under like a stone bust.
So, for better or worse,
I chose not to.
And I apologise for that.
But here I am, still alive.
Doing okay, actually.
Precisely because I let go
of my anger.
In fact, I did more than that.
I
forgave you.
Yes, I did. I forgave you then,
and I forgive you now.
So I'm glad you came, Lily.
It's nice to see you,
but if that is everything.
It's really good of you
to forgive me, sir,
but my name's not Lily anymore.
It's Frederica.
(intercom buzzes)
(secretary)Are you available
to take a call, Cian?
Cian?
Absolutely.
Putting you through
to Detective Sergeant Lola Franks.
(groans)
(Lola)Cian?
Cian Fitzgerald?
This is DS Lola Franks.
Hello, Cian?
Freddy?
(horn honks)
Thanks, Dom, keep us updated.
We're heading up there now.
No one at the school can find Cian.
Martin's car's been clocked
on a B-road near the school,
hasn't been seen on another camera.
Local police are doing
an area search.
Shh.
(panting)
(coughs)
Are you insane?
Lily, what the hell?
You're still going to sit there
and act like you don't know
what's going on, even now?
I've no idea
what you're talking about.
They pulled her out the river
just down there, do you remember?
After we got lost that night,
we lay next to each other,
and we just clung on,
waiting for someone to find us.
You're talking about Frederica.
Do you want to know
what we talked about?
I need medical treatment,
Lily, please.
I told her how much I loved you.
How you made me feel special.
Then Frederica told me
what you'd been doing to her.
What are you talking about?
What's this supposed to mean?
That's why you never asked me
why I pushed you.
Because you already knew.
But I did
Well, you can shake your head
all you like.
What are we doing here?
What are we doing?
I came to see you at the school today
to confront you
about the things you'd done.
You're wrong.
And to tell you I was going to
the police the next day.
Clearly you couldn't live
with what was coming,
so you drove out here,
and you threw yourself in the river.
(foreboding music)
Now, just wait, please. Listen to me.
You chose the same place
where they found her
all those years ago, very poetic.
Look, you're wrong.
She's wrong, okay? I'm begging you.
I did fall asleep that night.
I tried so hard,
but I couldn't help it.
And when I woke up, she was gone.
She would never
just leave me like that. All alone.
And that's how I knew
what she was going to do.
What are you saying?
She didn't fall in the river,
she jumped in because of you.
She died that day because of you
and I died with her.
All those little massages
I don't know
what you're talking about!
all those little hugs that went
on a little too long.
I mean, she was your favourite,
but you did it to all of us.
Those visits to her room
after lights out.
I was in loco parentis,
that was my job.
Was it your job to get
into bed with us?
-What?
-I remember you
I never did, I never, ever did that!
I remember you reading stories
to her in her bed.
Fuck you, Lily. I never
I didn't do that. Okay?
You've got this wrong.
You're not remembering properly,
you need to think. Think!
There were pills, little
little red and yellow pills.
I remember them.
Jesus. She She had
a kidney condition.
-You're lying. He's lying, Baba.
-Talk to the nurse.
It's in her records.
I can get them for you,
I can call her right now.
-No, you're bluffing.
-I'm not.
Call her, call the nurse.
(Grady)This is Sergeant Grady,
Sussex Police.
(Jackson) Go ahead.
(Grady)There's only one road
in this search grid
they could have gone down.
The road ends in a car park
in two miles.
-There's no other way in or out.
-Okay.
All received.
Approach with caution, okay?
Roger.
Look, Lily.
What happened to Frederica
was a tragic accident.
It wasn't your fault.
-But she fell.
-You told her you loved her.
No, I didn't. I swear.
I didn't. No, I didn't
Oh, okay, okay, all right.
What? Come on, talk.
Frederica's dad died
when she was small. Right?
Well, one day
she came to me
and, look, she asked me
if I loved her.
Jeez, I didn't have the heart
to say no.
I swear to God, that is it.
Oh, please stop lying.
It's just making it worse.
So, what was I doing?
Drugging her, was I? And then what?
-Coming into her room at night.
-Yes.
Yes? And you saw me, did you?
Don't listen to him. Baba?
Baba, tell me
you're not listening to this.
You don't have to do this, you know.
You have a choice.
-Shut up. Admit it.
-No!
If you want to live, say it.
No.
He's fucking lying, Baba.
(Freddy) And if we let him go,
he's just going to do it again.
I'm not asking you to do this for me,
I'm asking you to think.
Think, Baba.
Think of all the little girls
you'll be saving.
-What is she saying?
-Shut up, shut up, shut up!
This This isn't like Darren.
He's not innocent.
Please, Baba, say something.
-I need you to be sure.
-What?
About what happened,
I need you to be sure.
-'Course, I'm sure.
-Freddy.
-Baba, I'm sure.
-I need you to be sure.
I need you to tell me right now,
so that I believe you.
Right now, Freddy, right now.
Tell me that you're sure.
(crying)
I'm going to ask you one more time
to admit what you did.
And I am going
-It's very important to me, Cian
-to ask you
-that you admit
-for a single piece of evidence.
# Iggy piggy washing
When we're washing our clothes #
# And got your nose #
Who gave you that?
What about the ring?
What ring?
No, you know what I'm talking about,
a little blue, shiny ring.
You said you were going to marry her,
and you were going to get
on a plane and fly far, far away
and live in a tall, tall castle
in the clouds.
So, don't tell me
there wasn't a ring,
because I remember it.
She showed it to me.
You're right.
(Cian) There was a ring.
And there was a plane.
And, there was a tall, tall castle
in the clouds.
It was in a play that I wrote
that Frederica was in.
We should take him back.
Okay, I just need a minute.
-Freddy, we should take him
-I said, I get it, okay?
I just need a fucking minute.
All right?
You didn't love her, then?
No. I didn't.
And me?
Did you love me?
'Cause it felt like you did.
I cared, deeply, for all of you.
(Cian) I wouldn't behave now
like I did then.
Things have changed, I get that.
But it's the world that's sick,
it's not me.
You can't blame me
for caring too much.
It's not fair.
No, it's not. It's not.
So, you do believe me, then?
A child and a baby
are left alone in a bath.
And the baby drowns.
Whose fault is it? The child's?
Or the adult
who left them both alone?
I didn't do anything wrong, Lily.
Give it here.
-No.
-Give it.
-No.
-I said give it.
Stop. No.
(young Freddy grunts)
Get off me.
What if the adult comes back
to find the child holding
the baby's head
under the water.
You know what the answer is,
don't you?
I didn't do anything wrong, Lily.
It really doesn't matter.
Because what I've recently
come to realise
is there's only one thing
that should concern any of us.
Do you know what it is?
Make sure you're not the baby.
Get off.
No, no. No!
(screams)
(Baba) No!
(foreboding music)
(Grady)The road comes to
a car park in about a mile's time,
if they came this way,
then that's where they'll be.
Okay. Keep your lights
and your sirens off.
-They have no idea you are coming.
-(Grady)Roger.
(Baba) Fuck.
What?
What? I'm not going to apologise
for doing the right thing.
The The suicide thing works,
it makes sense.
And tell me, who commits suicide
with their hands tied to the chair?
Fuck!
You have damned us both.
(Grady) Down here.
-Now we run. Okay?
-Okay.
(tense music)
(police radio chatter)
(groans)
Baba!
-Wait. Hang on a minute.
-Get up. Gotta go.
Just give me a
Get the fuck off me!
(grunts)
(indistinct chatter)
(Lola) Where are those dogs?
Ten minutes out.
You said five minutes out,
ten minutes ago.
Yeah, well, maybe they got lost.
-You said we have a helicopter?
-And you will, excuse me.
Road blocks?
Going up on the A43
in both directions as we speak.
And?
Listen, lady, if you want roadblocks
on every single little path,
and dirt track out of here,
you can get me more officers
from somewhere
or you can do it yourself. Okay?
Okay, then. I will.
-Uh, Lola, hang on.
-Are you coming or what?
-To set up a roadblock? On our own?
-Oh, yes. Yes.
-For how long?
-Oh, come on, Jackson.
We are so close.
We can't stop. Come on.
Exactly, which is why we should wait
until the cavalry get here.
It's the best use of our time.
In that case,
as we have a few minutes
I got this for you.
-For me?
-Mm-hm.
I didn't pay for it or anything.
-No one's ever got me a plant
-Just take it, please.
My god, if I'd known
you'd be crying about it,
I wouldn't have bothered.
Lola this is really
(chuckles)
Hey, Lily. Would you like to come
and read with us?
Come on, Lily. This is the good bit.
How are your feet?
Are you ready to move?
Baba, wait.
Baba.
-We need to move, come on.
-Where are we going to go?
Pascal lives in Morocco,
I will go there first.
What about me?
You do not want to come to Morocco
with me, Freddy.
Yes, I do.
Yes, I do.
(dog barking)
Okay. They can't have gone far.
What we're going to do
is get officers around
to every house in the area and then
They've found something.
(ominous music)
(Lola) Oh, fuck!
-I think I know where we are.
-What?
I think I know someone
that can help us, come on.
No, no, I said do
the old git's house in the morning
and school in the afternoon.
-(knocks on door)
-Oh, fuck him, I don't care, do I?
He's already fucking paying us,
anyway, so let him wait.
Carl, wait, two seconds.
I'm gonna have to give you a call
back in a minute, Carl, all right?
Yeah, sound.
What the fuck happened to you, then?
So, you went to the river.
To pay my respects, yeah.
I just couldn't find my way back.
And what, you spent the whole day
wandering around a forest
like fucking Mowgli?
Even by your standards, mate.
Can I borrow your truck then?
I just need to get back
to the village.
I'll give you a lift back,
no worries.
Oh, no, it's fine.
I've actually got some stuff
I need to do, do you mind?
I'll have it back to you by tomorrow.
Freddy, I can't just lend you
my truck.
Johnny, please, I
I just need to borrow it, please.
-What's going on with you?
-Nothing's going on with me.
I'm freezing, though.
Can you turn on the heating?
Where's that bloke that was
with you the other day?
Can you get me a blanket
or something?
Freddy, where is he?
I'd be grateful for the one
I always used to wear.
Please, Johnny.
I'm freezing.
All right. Two secs.
(Freddy) There's another track
through some fields
further along the path.
You need a truck like this
to get down it,
but it'll take us
out past the main road.
Ready?
# Cast me down
Where the devil don't go #
# Devil don't go
Where I make my home #
# Cast me down
Where the devil don't go #
# Devil don't go
Where I make my home #
-Fuck!
-Get out of the fucking car now.
Freddy, get out of the car.
# Drown my woes in a lake of fire #
# Sing a song
Gonna take me higher #
# Drown my woes in a lake of fire #
# Sing a song
Gonna take me higher #
# Good Lord turned his back on me
Lucifer gonna set me free #
# Good Lord turned his back on me
Lucifer gonna set me free #
# It's a mean world
That I've known #
# Never got no good
Doing what I'm told #