White Lies (2024) s01e05 Episode Script

I don't fucking do drugs, I'm not a loser.
I sell drugs. I sell them to losers.
[Robert]: Please wake up.
Or I'm gonna kill myself.
I love you so much.
I went off to change the world
and Andrew Andrew wanted
the world to change to suit him,
so I guess we were
more similar than I thought.
Andrew McKenzie was a murderer!
[Jacoob]: And there are
other murderers in this room!
And we say, stop the murder!
- Let's go, boytjie. Come!
- [crowd yells]
- You wanna come in here? Come!
- Shoot me! Shoot!
- Your brother, he liked to watch.
- Darling, I think that's enough
[Werner] I don't think he'd
done it himself in years.
Is this true?
Yes, that's right.
[Forty]: We all have our secrets.
What about you?
I had a baby.
Do you have a preference?
Daniel.
And I gave him away.
[Jaime]: "I've always wanted
to be the kind of voice
"that the ear flows up and down
like an arrangement
of notes that will never be "
[Daniel]: "As if it were an arrangement."
[phone vibrates]
[Jaime]: "As if it were
an arrangement of notes
that will never be "
[Daniel]: "As if it were
an arrangement of notes
that will never be played again."
You told Dad you wouldn't
drink in the day any more.
But Dad doesn't have
to know everything.
But secrets are bad.
Secrets are bad
when you're a child.
When you're an adult, they're an
independent lifestyle choice.
[Andrew]: Turn the kettle off,
it's just me.
There he is.
There she is.
[Andrew]: Son.
[Daniel]: Father.
- Hey, Dad.
- Hey.
Thought you were
having dinner with Macky?
Yeah, I had to pick up some papers.
Oh, Dad, Daniel knows all the
lines better than I do.
- [phone buzzes]
- McKenzie men remember.
- Oh, and also
- Hello.
[Andrew] Yes. Yeah?
[Jaime]: Hey, Daniel. Do you
know everyone else's lines too?
- [Daniel]: Like who?
- [Jaime]: Like Robert.
[Daniel]: Uhm
"And so we beat on,
boats against the currents
borne back ceaselessly into the past."
Something like that.
- Life is so easy for you.
- It's just words.
I'll be late.
[Olivia]: I'll try survive.
Take care of these two.
Will do.
- Bye, Dad.
- Bye, boy.
Bye, Dad.
[Daniel]: See you later.
[Andrew]: Yep.
Come on, let's go finish.
[Daniel]: Let's go.
[tense music playing]
[music continues]
Yeah, listen, I'm gonna need some
more of that product, all right?
No, no, no, I need
at least a kilo.
[tense music playing]
Oh, hang on, bro. I'm gonna
call you back. I'll call you back.
[tense music playing]
[Daniel]: What the fuck?
- That's my fucking sister, bro!
- [Robert] No I wasn't, I swear
- [Daniel]: Fuck!
- [Robert grunts]
You come here again,
I'll fucking kill you, Robert.
[tense music playing]
[patient monitor beeps]
[Dr. Motha] Well, she flexed her fingers,
- which on the Glasgow Coma Scale
- But she's not awake.
She's regaining consciousness.
[Daniel]: Doesn't look like it.
[Dr. Motha] I'll give you a moment.
[patient monitor beeps]
[whispers inaudibly]
She will wake up.
You don't know that.
Daniel, I spoke to Werner Weber today,
after the memorial.
- I just
- [phone buzzes]
- I wanna say
- Hello?
You still owe us, clever boy.
No, I gave you the money already.
I'm clear.
[Lem]: That was just drug debt.
Magiet died cause of you.
There's blood money. 150 grand.
Don't try me.
I'm not as nice as Magiet.
[tense music plays]
I was just telling your sister
I want to help.
I wanna be there for you
as your family
but I'm gonna leave
that decision with you two.
[music continues]
Daniel. You okay?
I'm fine.
[scrolling through videos on cellphone]
[Werner]: So, what did you do yesterday?
Nothing, you know.
Just going over lines for the play.
Mm-hmm.
And, uh, were you also
trying on makeup?
Putting on pantyhose?
[Werner]: Hmm?
[Werner]: You know
what I did at your age?
I learned to box.
- [blender whirring]
- Can you box? Or just acting?
Hmm? Hup.
[chuckles]
Hup hup. Hup hup.
Oh!
- Pappa, stop.
- Hey.
Hup hup, ah!
- Stop it.
- Ha! Yes.
Yes, so!
Time to challenge the old bull.
[Werner]: Come on, get your hands up.
[Werner]: Come, come, come. Up!
Defend yourself.
- Come, come, come.
- Stop it.
- Stop it.
- Yeah!
[Werner]: Kapow!
[Werner]: Come, let's see
what you've got. Come!
[tense music playing]
Maybe next time.
"Suspect Pearl Gappah
"is being held on charges of theft,
and conspiracy to murder.
"Prime suspect, boyfriend Tendai Kanhema
"still at large,
presumed to be in Zimbabwe.
"No other suspects are
currently being considered
and active investigation is suspended."
You stand by this?
Yes, ma'am. [clears throat]
Well done, Forty.
Thorough investigation.
- You're back on form.
- Thank you, ma'am.
Nothing like a job well done.
Yes, ma'am.
[Forty]: Case is closed.
[Zondo]: Yeah, but I don't
mean to disrespect you, sir,
but where's the evidence?
That's all the evidence that
we're gonna get.
[Zondo]: There's no stranger's
fingerprints on the telescope.
He wore gloves.
[Zondo]: The CCTV camera was off.
Pearl did it.
Or it malfunctioned, or
maybe it's just coincidence.
[Zondo]: Then, where is the gun?
We searched the woods twice.
He took it with him, okay?
Threw it down the drain or something.
No, but the maid said
she heard the gunshot
from inside the house,
while she was in her quarters.
Every time she opens
her mouth, she lies.
It's because the boyfriend did it.
- Why are you so sure it's him?
- Why are you so sure that it's not?
[people chattering]
You said that you
wouldn't let them pin this
on a convenient black man.
You need to choose your battles, son.
Yes, sir.
[soft piano music playing]
Hofmeyr McKenzie is going
to demolish an entire city block
of the Bo-Kaap in order to put up
a luxury gentrification development.
- Our readers are gonna like this.
- Agreed.
So what I'm gonna do, I'm gonna
follow it
all the way up the ladder.
Who gave planning permission?
[Edie]: The Bo-Kaap is protected
by the Heritage Act.
I've already put Edgar on that.
He's on the murder case.
Yes, and he'll continue to monitor
that for developments.
Oh.
Mazneen, I don't understand.
You told me to find another story
- and now you're pushing me out.
- Yes.
Edgar has already spoken
to one of the leaders
of that protest, at the same event
that you were at.
- Did you speak to anyone?
- I was busy.
Well, he's the lead on this, and I hope
you're prepared to work under him.
Under him?
If not, then we need to
have a conversation
about what happens next, Edie.
I'm sorry it's come to this
but he's aligned with our target market
and he's more comfortable
with an internet-driven news service.
He's still a kid.
Haven't you noticed?
Kids rule the world now.
You boys have been doing that
since you were ten years old.
[Werner]: From now on, come to
the front door like an adult.
Why don't you tell your son that?
I'm here for the money.
[Werner]: I gave you money.
Well, I need more.
I had a visit from your aunt.
She knows the whole story.
It looks like your cash cow is dried up.
I don't care what Edie knows.
I need that money.
- Just give me a loan or something.
- You little prick.
First you try blackmail me.
Now you try ask me for a loan.
- I should break you in half right now.
- Do it.
Now your father wasn't much
but he was ten times the man
you will ever be.
- [ominous music plays]
- [plant pot clatters down]
Go fuck yourself, Werner.
You do realise if I don't get
that money back to them
- they're gonna come for me again.
- There's dad's will, and
the insurance
will eventually come through.
That's gonna take forever, Jaime.
And mom gets all that money.
I need the money now.
We'll find the money. It's okay.
I still got the scholarship interview.
I told you already
you don't have to do
[shouts angrily:] Yes, I do!
I have to do that interview.
And I still have to write finals.
And whoever killed dad
is still out there.
Daniel, it was Pearl
and her boyfriend.
And what if it wasn't?
What if it was someone else?
What if it was someone
else and they're coming back?
We can't think like that, okay?
We're safe here.
[speaks angrily] We are not
safe, Jaime! We are not safe.
[foreboding music plays]
You should probably eat something.
Here.
I can't sleep. There's a fucking baboon
outside. Don't you hear it?
[tense music playing]
Daniel, you have to keep going, okay?
I just want it all to stop.
Danny, don't talk like that.
You can't do that again.
Do you hear me?
[foreboding music continues]
[Edgar]: Okay, so
We use Hofmeyr's connection to
the murder case to make it sexy.
Tell me, Edgar, how long have
you been waiting for this?
- It's not personal.
- And yet, I am in fact a person.
Look, the future stands
on the back of the past.
OK, you're allowed to enjoy it,
you're not allowed to talk in cliches.
You know you were the best, right?
"Miss English journalist."
I mean, you were a killer.
Always had your head in the game.
Work, work, work, no distractions.
I thought I'd have to go somewhere
else to get ahead.
And then the story.
As soon as this story happened,
you made it easy.
There's a story like that
for you, one day.
Maybe, yeah.
Maybe I'll get old and slow
and distracted.
Maybe someone younger and hungrier
will come along and
eat me for breakfast.
Maybe that day will come.
But not today, Edie.
All right, I have a contact
- [phone chimes]
- with the protesters this morning.
and Mazneen wants you to come.
I'm gonna meet you there.
There's something I've got to do.
Yeah, is it for the story?
Edgar, I may be on my way down,
but I don't answer to you yet.
[Edgar sniggers]
[pensive music playing]
[Edie sighs deeply]
[pensive music continues]
[car door opens]
[car door slams closed]
[Jaime]: Thanks, I wanted
to meet in private.
[Edie]: Is Daniel okay?
- He owes another 150 grand.
- What?!
And you went to Mr. Weber
and closed that door.
Are you taking an attitude
because I stopped him
blackmailing the neighbour
for drug money?
Do you two have any grasp
of decency whatsoever?
He'll come after him again
if he doesn't pay.
And you said you would help.
We're going back to school.
We can't just sit at home.
Daniel needs to be busy,
or else he'll get into his head.
What does that mean?
He doesn't handle stress well.
He
He either runs or he gets bad ideas.
What kind of bad ideas?
[Jaime]: I just don't want him
to do something stupid.
[Jaime]: I just think
it'll be good for him
if he goes back to school.
[Edie]: Okay.
[Edie]: You're stronger than you look.
Well, we have to be.
Edie. Sorry, I missed your calls.
[Edie]: I need to borrow some money.
[Edie]: Avi?
You expect too much from me, Edie.
- It's just money.
- That's what I'm saying.
You expect too much
and you ask for too little.
It's 150,000.
- What's it for?
- [Edie]: Yes or no.
Okay, you don't have to
tell me what it's for.
[Edie]: Thank you.
You do have to tell me that it's not
to pay off my client's drug debt.
You can't ask that of me, Edie.
You have to tell me
it's for something else.
Never mind, I've got another idea.
[Edie]: Thanks, bye.
Edie-fucking-Hanson!
Don't come with stories.
Call me if he says yes.
Okay. Bye.
Oh, Edie?
Sorry to interrupt.
Uh, no, it's a pleasure.
You know, I tried to lay charges
against that scum yesterday,
but the cops They don't
want to know anything about it.
It's the Wild West,
and we're on our own.
I need to borrow some money.
It's not for me, it's for the kids.
Of course. Anything
for Andrew's children.
150,000 in cash.
You'll need to come back for it.
Okay, wonderful, um
- Thank you.
- Yeah.
Uh, listen, won't you do me a favour?
You know that paper
that I've been bugging you about?
It's the co-signed work order
for the construction project.
It's in his papers at home.
Won't you bring it for me?
When you come for the cash.
[suspenseful music playing]
See you.
[Jaime]: Hey, Robert.
Um, Jaime, how are you?
Are you ready for rehearsals?
- You sure you want to do that?
- Well, I do, don't you?
Listen, Robert,
people say you're a weirdo
and they think that I'm
Daniel's loser sister.
So let's show them that
we're good at something.
That we're good at this.
[school bell rings]
I need to get to class.
"All the bright, precious
things fade so fast
and they never come back."
[melancholy piano music playing]
[Moegmat]: No one cared
about us until this man dies.
Ten years ago there were
seven newspapers in Cape Town.
Today there are two.
At the Mercury, we have maybe
three reporters available.
Unfortunately,
things fall through the cracks.
Tell us about this development.
Ah.
McKenzie and Hofmeyr,
they bought the whole block.
Like, one house, one house, one house.
They were gonna put up a hotel,
shops, the whole toot.
So we, uh, we all lodged
objections with the zoning board.
Next thing we hear,
permission is granted.
[Moegmat]: Construction can go ahead.
Our people arrived here
250 years ago as slaves.
Our mothers and fathers
lived and died here.
And their mothers and fathers,
and theirs, and theirs.
So, do you think the
zoning board was bribed?
Mr. Ibrahim, I have to tell you
Andrew McKenzie was my brother.
We weren't close.
And the more and more I hear
about him, the more
ashamed I am.
We, uh
We are not responsible for
what our families do.
We are not responsible for
what our families do.
[sombre music playing]
[Moegmat]: It's okay.
Eat something.
[locker door bangs open]
Yo, Weber.
Bru, I saw you bunking on Tuesday.
Yeah? So?
If I see you bunking,
I have to report you.
So are you gonna report me?
I'm just saying, if you're gonna do it,
don't let anybody see you.
Tough guys, hey?
Prefect, you know.
- What's wrong with you, bro?
- Really tough
You think you can take me?
- Come on, bro.
- Okay, I don't see.
- So do you think you can take me, hey?
- Hey, take it easy!
[gun clatters on floor]
[ominous music playing]
[Chloe]: Robert?
Robert, what the hell are you doing!
[dramatic music plays]
[Macky]: It's very important that
we set that in motion.
Yes, I agree.
All right. Okay.
- Cheers.
- [Edgar]: Mr. Hofmeyr.
Oh, look, I only have five minutes,
but I'm always happy
to talk to the press.
Mr. Hofmeyr, thank you
so much for seeing us
and thank you again
for arranging the funeral.
Well, Miss Hanson, of course.
Anything I can do for the family.
We've just been
talking to Mr. Ibrahim
of the Bo-Kaap Community
Protection Forum.
He is a very, very angry man.
His consortium lost out.
His consortium?
[Macky] You see, this was your
brother's vision
but there were many, many
people that wanted it too.
- [phone chimes]
- We just beat them to it.
Why haven't you
started construction yet?
We will, we're just waiting for some
paperwork to be finished.
[Macky] We don't expect any delays.
Mr. Ibrahim alleged irregularities
with the zoning board.
[laughing] I'm sure he did.
Ah, forgive me, gentlemen, I'm
going to have to go.
Thank you for your time.
- [Edie]: Mr. Hofmeyr, thank you.
- [Edgar]: Where are you going?
So is this the gun that killed
Andrew McKenzie?
[Robert]: I I don't know.
Come on.
Listen, I've never seen that before.
Where would I even get a gun?
Okay, Robert
He's answered you now.
Mr. Weber, please.
Robert, where were you when
Andrew McKenzie was killed?
I I don't know. I was
[Fagin]: It's fine.
I was, um
smoking.
Weed.
[Werner clears his throat]
Who was with you?
Robert, we have hospital footage
showing you going into
Olivia McKenzie's ward
on the day of the memorial service.
- What?
- [Fagin] Don't answer that question.
Listen, I don't want to speak anymore.
Well, you're going to have to explain it.
Well, I won't say
anything in front of him.
- I'm not going anywhere.
- Well, then I won't speak.
[Werner]: I'm not going anywhere.
Don't you Don't you touch me.
[Werner]: I, I don't uh
You can't do this to me!
- [Zondo]: Sir.
- [Fagin]: No, that's fine.
- [Zondo]: Please come with me.
- [Werner]: Fagin, do something.
He does not know what he's doing.
This is ridiculous.
My boy doesn't know what he's doing.
I am his father.
Let me talk to him alone.
[Forty]: He doesn't want to talk if
you're in the room, Mr. Weber.
He doesn't want to talk to you.
And he doesn't want to
talk to Mr. Fagin over here.
So you tell me.
If he doesn't offer an explanation,
does that look good for him?
That boy has to have an
appropriate adult in the room.
I'll do it.
- You should mind your own business.
- He's scared.
[Edie]: If you try and control him,
he'll close up.
He'll make bad decisions
and he'll hurt himself.
If you want him to talk, he needs
a mum.
I think you could use a friend.
- [Robert]: Are you my friend now?
- Looks like it.
You know, I prefer friends to family.
It's easier to forgive a friend.
It's always easier to forgive
someone you don't have to love.
I don't know what you mean.
You must be so tired.
We all keep things inside us
that we think are ours
but they have to come out at some point
just so we can finally get some rest.
You're not a bad boy.
You're not a loser.
You're not a weirdo.
You're just someone who needs to
get away from this place, Robert.
Go out into the world and
become who you really are.
You're going to be alright.
And one day, if you want,
if you work at it,
you'll become you.
Not just your father's son.
Now, you don't have to answer
because we're not on the record
but I'm just going to ask, okay?
Did you kill Andrew?
- Well, I'm not sorry that he's dead.
- Did you kill him?
What are you holding onto?
What are you holding onto?
Give it to me. I'll put it down for you.
- They think that I tried to kill Olivia.
- Didn't you?
No.
Well, I don't think so either,
but you snuck into the hospital.
So what were you doing?
Help me understand.
Why, why, why
would I want to kill her?
[exhales]
I
I I love her.
Okay.
Darling, can I, um
Do you, do you need any
Alright, I'll get you a drink, okay?
[dramatic music playing]
[Fagin]: Okay, go ahead, Robert.
We, we were in love.
You were in love with her.
And she was in love with me.
She was, um, she was gonna leave him.
[Olivia]: I'm done! I'm over this!
[Robert]: They used
to fight all the time.
He tried to tell her what to do,
tell her what to say.
[shouting]
Fuck off, Andrew!
Spend my money! Open
fucking bottles of wine.
Made her, made her feel like nothing.
But I, I would've looked after her.
You know what, I'm gonna
book you in a fucking clinic,
because you're a drunk!
- I hate you!
- Oh, you hate me?
- [Andrew]: Fucking open up!
- [thumping on the door]
[Andrew] Open the door!
You wrote that poem out for her.
I'm impressed.
Not many Bishopscourt
men can quote Yates.
Oh, we, um, we studied it in English.
And she loved me too.
[Robert]: She was, um, she
was gonna go away with me.
[Forty]: And Andrew wanted to stop you.
[Fagin]: Okay, that's enough.
- Don't say anything else, Robert.
- [Robert]: Listen, I love her.
And I don't care.
I, I love her so, so much.
So, Robert jumps over the wall.
It's convenient.
Nobody sees him coming
through the front gate.
They end up here.
And they're kissing.
Andrew comes home unexpectedly.
He's like, "What? My
wife with the boy next door?"
- He is pissed. He's livid.
- [yelling]
Have you lost your fucking mind?
Robert wants to protect
his woman, so
he takes his gun.
Where does he get the gun?
Maybe he ran home to go
and fetch it. He comes back
finds Andrew beating on Olivia.
- Bang, bang!
- [gun fires]
[Olivia screams]
- [Zondo] Okay.
- He's expecting her to be grateful.
He's just saved her,
now they can be together.
Robert, what have you done?
[Forty]: "I can't be with you.
You're just a boy."
So now he feels rejected,
humiliated, but he'll show her.
- So he takes the telescope.
- [Olivia]: Robert, what are you doing?
[Forty]: And he starts battering
her with it.
[Forty]: "Am I still a boy now, hmm?
I love you, why
can't you love me?"
[Edie]: Yeah, no, because what?
He Robert shoots Andrew.
[gun fires]
He shoots Andrew,
then he puts the gun down
and he comes over here to
find something to hit her with?
Shooting and battering, it's two
different kind of emotions.
And what about the black
man that the boy saw?
Maybe he's protecting Robert.
No, no, no, they hate each other.
Daniel wouldn't protect him.
Then why would he say
he saw a black man?
- He's lying.
- Why?
I don't know.
Because he's a rich white kid
with racist fears, and now
he imagined a black man.
[tense music playing]
[door clicks open]
Don't get a fright, I'm here.
[footsteps]
[Jaime]: What are you doing here?
I, uh
I came to tell you about Robert.
[Jaime]: Yeah, we know.
Got arrested,
found a gun in his locker.
He told the police he
was in love with your mother.
They think maybe it
was a jealous rage.
[Jaime]: Robert and Mom?
[Jaime exhales]
[Jaime] This whole time you thought
he was in love with me,
- but it was Mom.
- [Edie]: I'm so sorry.
I haven't been as understanding as
Your situation is hard.
What do you mean by that?
Nothing, I just, I understand
a little bit better that
it hasn't been easy
growing up in this house.
- There's nothing wrong with that.
- Of course not.
I'm glad you two had each other.
That's all.
I've arranged the money for you.
Thank you.
- I hope they lock Robert up forever.
- You think it's him?
I thought that's what
the police were saying.
Oh, that's their theory,
but you didn't see him that night.
- You say you saw a black man.
- I said, I thought I saw.
It was dark, maybe I was wrong.
- No, I'm not convinced it was Robert.
- But he had the gun.
Yeah, but it could have been
dumped somewhere and he found it.
There's a lot of questions
that are still to be answered.
What? Why are you defending him?
Whose side are you on?
- Daniel.
- Yours.
[Jaime]: Daniel.
I'm on yours, but don't you
wanna know the truth?
[Daniel]: Obviously, but
that guy's got problems.
He's a fucking creep.
What, you think I'm lying?
No, I mean, you and he
have got personal issues,
but that doesn't mean
So what, you would rather
believe him over me?
- Because you think I did it, right?
- Daniel.
- Right?
- Why are you saying this?
I've seen the way you look at me, Edie.
My drug dealer nephew.
Could he have done this?
Tell me you haven't thought that.
Truthfully, I don't know.
That's a horrible thing to say.
Be fair, how would I know?
I don't know either of you.
I mean, that's my fault,
I get it, I get it, but
This is like a foreign country to me.
You present yourself so politely,
yet you've also
behaved quite appallingly,
and you aren't even
embarrassed about it.
So who are you, really, underneath?
You know what my dad said to us?
Daniel.
He told us we aren't missing
anything with our Aunt Edie.
See, this is the other side of you,
the part that scares me.
He said that you were fucking crazy
and thank God you didn't
have kids of your own.
Okay, you got me with that one.
You accused me of killing my own father!
- I didn't accuse
- You did!
I didn't accuse you of anything.
I'm trying to talk to you
like a human being
but you don't seem to have a
grain of compassion in you.
Not a grain of kindness.
What about you, Edie? Are you kind?
No, maybe not.
Maybe it runs in the family
but I'm trying, God
damn it, I'm trying.
And what's the worst thing,
is that if you did kill him
I don't think that I
would be surprised.
Edie, I think you should give us
the key and remote back.
[keys jingling]
[door opens and closes]
[ominous music playing]
[car engine starts]
[dramatic music playing]
She knew the boy was arrested.
I was with her when she got the text
and she didn't even say anything.
We get tips all the time,
I was checking it out.
That's what I'm telling you,
she's working for herself
not the paper.
Balls to the wall time now,
hey, Edgar? Masks off.
Well, he's right,
you should have looped
him in. He is the lead on the story.
And that's a mistake,
I'm better than him on a bad day
with a paper bag over my head.
[Mazneen]: Hey, I take this seriously,
and so should you.
Mazneen, I've been
a journalist for 15 years.
I've worked my way up
from nowhere and I'm good.
[Edie]: I've put up a wall in order
to be good,
to find the story, to tell the truth.
I let that wall down this one time.
Please, I'm asking you, just
I need to work.
Let me do the Macky Hofmeyr
housing scheme story.
No, no, no, no,
I'm already working on it.
I've also got the number of the
detective investigating
city corruption on the development.
I am not gonna work with her.
- [whispers]: Oh, you little prick.
- You heard that, right?
I would like to lay a complaint.
You're not laying a complaint.
You are being a prick and you
I'm putting you on compassionate leave.
You're grieving your brother,
take a two week holiday.
Mazneen, I need this job.
Then be grateful that I haven't
fired you. Go home.
- Sit.
- Yes.
[pensive music playing]
I know it's disappointing
but without Jaime,
and without Robert as our Gatsby
- we have no choice but to cancel.
- [children]: No!
[Ms Geraghty]: Okay, well think
of it as a learning opportunity.
[Jaime] No! No!
Robert has smashed up everything.
He's broken everything.
We can't let him take this too.
[Ms Geraghty]: Jaime,
opening night's in a week
and we don't have a Gatsby.
There's no one who
can learn the lines.
Daniel knows them.
[soft TV commentary]
Hi, I'm Edith. We spoke on the phone.
Can I get you another drink?
Two, please.
You were lead investigator on
Hofmeyr and Mackenzie
corruption in the zoning committee,
weren't you?
Maybe.
- [glasses on counter]
- Thanks.
- Cheers.
- [mugs clink]
Detective,
I'm Andrew McKenzie's sister.
I'm sorry.
I found your number
in his personal papers.
He left my number lying around.
No wonder they got to him.
If you were investigating him
why had he written down your number?
Listen, Miss McKenzie or Mrs
Ms. I'm not asking you
to tell me anything confidential
but the only reason that I can think of,
for him to have your number
is he was calling you.
Are you really his sister?
- I can't say anything official.
- I understand.
- I wouldn't tell the media this.
- Of course.
Your brother approached me
about becoming state witness
against his partner.
What did he What was he offering?
Two days later, he was dead.
We were backed off the case,
orders from above.
[Avi]: Give me a sec.
[clears throat]
- Edie, hi.
- Hi.
Uh, Detective De Kock, isn't it?
Avi Kapilevich, the Glendale deposition.
- Yeah, lawyer.
- Lawyer.
Uh, so is this for the story?
What story?
Edie
I thought you were
You're fucking Edie Hanson.
Detective, I'm Andrew McKenzie's sister.
Very good, very good.
You caught me.
Thanks, Avi.
[Commander]: You have a culprit
with a motive.
He has a murder weapon and no alibi.
- So ballistics are back.
- [Commander]: Uh-huh. It's a win.
When last did we have a win?
- It's what I told Zondo.
- So?
Zondo is young. He still believes
in justice and truth.
We all do.
It goes without saying.
So, why are we rushing this?
Let's take a closer look.
Forty, you can do whatever you
want to do. It's your choice.
But the General and I
are happy with this boy.
We were happy with the other ones too.
Forty, this case is your ladder,
back up to the sunshine.
I don't want to see you
sitting at the desk,
at the church office in Bella.
I'm saying this as a friend.
- But like I say, it's your choice.
- Ma'am.
[heavy sigh]
You've had your window period.
I'm here to take Robert home.
Either you formally charge him,
or you let him leave with us right now.
Yeah, you shit or get off the pot.
- Go fetch the boy.
- Yes.
You people should be out there,
looking for the real killers.
That cushy job, sitting here
on your, on your fat asses.
But here he is, the jail bird.
[Werner]: Come, I'm taking you home.
Robert Weber, you're under arrest
for the murder of Andrew McKenzie
and the attempted
murder of Olivia McKenzie.
You have the right to remain silent
and you have the right
to a legal practitioner.
- Wait, what are you talking about?
- I didn't do this.
I really didn't do this.
I didn't do this!
Are you making a joke?
I'm going to sue you for everything
you've got. You understand me?
[dramatic music playing]
Three times in one day.
What a pleasure.
I have your money.
Do you have the contract?
He, um
He hadn't signed it.
It needs both your signatures
before work can start.
Well, he must have died before
he could sign it.
Or
- He wasn't going to sign it.
- Of course he was.
I mean, this is his vision.
Look, I'll take it anyway.
Let me guess, the next time
anyone sees this, he'll have signed it.
I only want to honour his wishes.
You came to me for help.
Yeah.
I've been making a
lot of mistakes recently.
[tense music plays]
[door clatters open]
Forty, is that you?
[Bernice]: And, now?
I thought I'd come home early.
Okay.
- To help with someone's homework.
- [girls] Dad!
- So who's it gonna be?
- [both girls] Me.
- So go get your books.
- I'm gonna get my book first.
I'm getting it first.
[sighs softly]
Please, Dan, if you don't play
Gatsby, they'll cancel.
Jaime, how could I play Gatsby?
I'm your brother.
Do you know what the play is about?
- Who cares?
- People are gonna laugh at us.
We're us.
Please, Dan, I need this.
No one ever sees me, but
But when I'm up there, it's
Please, Dan, just do it for me.
[sighs]
- Fine.
- Yes!
- I'll play Gatsby.
- Thank you.
Let's tell dad about that time
when our teacher slipped
on a piece of chalk.
Anyways, so there was like
a small piece of chalk
like right on the floor.
And then basically, the whole
class was like laughing and uh
- and she just did this to
- [phone buzzes]
[Geraldine] Anyways,
but it was fun though.
[phone buzzing]
Hello.
Oh, Bernice, hi, is Forty there?
He's just with the girls.
Yeah, can I speak to him?
I thought the case was over.
[elevator button clicks]
I just I think he's charged
the wrong guy, okay?
I think Macky Hofmeyr is behind this.
And I want to talk to him about the
He hasn't been home
this early in three months.
He's playing with the girls.
Maybe tonight he won't have nightmares.
I think he's arrested
an innocent boy, Bernice.
Well, I hope not.
I know Forty, he'll feel it, okay?
He'll know what he's doing is wrong.
He's making three people who love him
very happy, how's that wrong?
[sighs]
Puss, puss, puss.
Puss, puss.
I understand.
Please just leave my husband alone now.
Just give him a chance.
[scraping cat food into a bowl]
Puss, puss, puss. [lips smacks]
[ominous music plays]
Puss, puss, puss. [lip smacks]
Puss, puss, puss, puss, puss.
Puss. [lip smacks]
[ominous music continues]
No. No, no, no, no, no, no, no, no, no.
- [footsteps]
- [door slams]
- [Edie gasps]
- [tense music plays]
[tense music continues]
[tense music continues]
- [tense music continues]
- [phone vibrates]
- [tense music continues]
- [phone vibrates]
- [tense music continues]
- [phone mutes]
Hi, you've reached Forty Bell.
Please leave your name and
number and I'll get back to you.
[car engine starts]
[ominous music plays]
[car pulls up, engine switches off]
[car door clips open and shut]
- Hey.
- [Edie]: Someone slit his throat.
- [she sniffs]
- What?
[crying]
The cat the cat's dead.
Okay.
Okay.
[Edie sniffles]
Come on.
[sea whooshes]
Thank you.
I didn't even know you had a cat.
I don't.
He doesn't have a home.
How was your date?
It wasn't a date. She's a colleague.
I'm sorry. I shouldn't have asked.
You're entitled to your
I'm sorry.
Wow.
Don't think I've ever seen you cry,
and I know I've never
heard you apologise.
[Edie laughs]
Two firsts in one day.
[Avi]: Hey. Hey.
[Avi] Talk to me.
[crying and sniffling]
I'm bad, Avi.
Everything around me dies.
You're not bad.
I've got bad blood.
[Avi]: Don't get me wrong.
I'm not saying you're great.
But I've seen bad people,
and you don't qualify.
- You don't understand.
- Try me.
You're better off without me.
I'll be the judge of that.
I can't love. Okay? I can't love the way
that other people can.
[Avi] I think you can.
No, I'm not like you, okay?
I'm not like you.
I don't know how to let you in.
I don't know
I'm tired. I'm so tired of being me.
Then be someone else.
- Oh, stop joking.
- I'm not fucking joking!
Do you want to know who I am?
[angrily] You want to
know who I really am?
Yes.
[sombre music playing]
[crying]
I've done
I
I'm
[Avi]: What?!
Edie, what is it that you're
trying to tell me?
I shouldn't have come.
Edie.
I shouldn't have come.
I'm sorry. I shouldn't have come.
- Edie?
- [Edie]: No.
Edie!
- I'm sorry. I shouldn't have come.
- [Avi] Edie?
Edie, wait. Will you please?
[dramatic music playing]
Edie!
[car starts]
Edie?
[Avi shouts:] Edie!
[engine revving]
[tyres squeal]
- [metal smashes and clatters]
- [vehicle speeds away]