01x01 - Episode 1

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♪ Yes, they'll all come to see me ♪

♪ In the shade of that old oak tree ♪

♪ As they lay me ♪

♪ 'Neath the green, green grass of home. ♪

We've got a problem. Fredericks
and Cooper are downstairs.

What are they doing here?

No idea. They weren't
meant to be back until...

- Until I'd gone.
- Right. You go in there.

I'll get them in the canteen,
and you can nip out then.

I'm not hiding from them.

Grace. For once. I
got... Just for once, don't

go for the most ludicrously
bloody hard option.

Oh, sorry. I didn't realize
anyone was out here.

Are you new?

What's your name?

Matt. Been here six months.

Right.
Sorry.

The last six months
have been a bit, uh...

You know, for me.

Yeah.

Chances are I'm going to
spend the rest of my career

going around schools, teaching
kids how to cross the road now.

They just asked for a name.

I didn't know what
they had planned.

I said I'd make a fuss,
but it just made them angry.

They said I had to do
this or else they k*ll my son.

What?
Who did?

Okay, okay. Just stay calm.

If someone's threatened
you, tell me. I can help.

It's too late.

For you, I mean.

Morning, love.
You sleep all right?

Oh, yes, thank you.
The room is a... lots of things

to look at.

What would you like? We got

tea, coffee, toast. I
can do you a fry up.

- I got all the bits.
- No, thank you. I don't

eat breakfast.

So interesting.

Yeah, I find other cultures
absolutely fascinating.

It's not really a...

I just don't like breakfast.
Speaking of my room,

the artefacts, would it be
okay to pop them in a drawer?

Yeah, don't worry about

it. I'll do it.
It's for the tourists.

It's a bit creepy, I
know, but it's end of

the season today,
so the catchers,

they'll be arriving any
second, and we can

all get back to normal.

The what?

Catchers.

It's just the thing we do.
They come, round up all the

tourists and then take
them back to the boat.

It would be really nice
to have some company.

I hardly see Winter
these days, so...

- Winter?
- My daughter.

- Have I met her?
- Yeah, you'd know if you had.

So, how long you gonna be here?

Well, it's a
permanent post, so...

- Oh love.
- Oh, no. It's good.

Lots of challenges.
Really excited.

Hi.
Owen?

Grace Narayan. The new sergeant.

Beautiful day. That sky. Bet
you never get bored of that.

January is a b*stard, though.
You'll see. Or not.

I'm kitted out, pretty much.
Just need my CS spray.

Oh, we don't have
much call for that.

Got sent some a couple of years back,
though. Think it's in a drawer somewhere.

Perhaps we can dig it out later.

That my office?

Where's everyone else?

- Uh, like who?
- The cops, the civilian auxiliaries.

Oh, them.

- Yeah, we don't have any.
- It's just you and me?

- Hmm.
- How does that even work?

I assume we don't do
alternate twelve hour shifts.

No, we. We do mostly office hours.
Swap weekends. That sort of thing.

So what if there's an emergency?
You know, like after five pm.

We put our home numbers on
the outgoing answer machine.

You'll get some kids pranking
you during the night, but

they get bored...

...eventually.

Is this my phone?

I'll rephrase that.

- Is this a phone?
- You can take it as far as

the main door,
but then it cuts out.

Terrific!

Are you using
electronic notebooks?

Nah, there's no
need. We've got these.

Okay. No, right. So, talk
me through the frequent

flyers. Every town has
that family. Who's it here?

Yeah, we don't really
have one. You know,

mostly everyone's pretty
well behaved. Oh, um,

there's the Crowther
twins, but they're

just lunkheads. You
know, they have a scrap,

now and then,
usually with each other.

And what about the other
kind of troublemakers? The

local councillors, the
Rotary club, that sort of thing?

There's just Lady Nancarrow.

A lady who now?

She lives in the big
house on the hill. She owns

most of the businesses
and properties, but she's ace.

- So what do you do all day?
- Got my Terry Pratchett.

Have you read any?

They passed me by.

Right, well, I better
be getting on with....

.....something.

Thing is, this is
Gruffudd's office. So...

It was,
but Gruffudd retired

and I was given his job,
so now it's my office.

I can draw your
diagram, if that would help.

In my notebook.

- Morning.
- Oh, Jesus Bloody Christ.

Oh yeah, sorry, I
forgot to say, someone

sleeping off in cell
one? Doctor Prideaux.

Actually, he's a bit of a
regular. Aren't you, doc?

Right. Thank you, Owen.

Coffee, Owen... please.

And why is it called cell one?
It's the only cell. Just call it the cell.

So you're the islands GP?

And the island drunk.

Is that natural job here?
Nothing would surprise me.

I'm Grace, the new sergeant.

And this is CS spray. In a cell with a
prisoner. Brilliant.

Am I a prisoner?

I have no idea. Did Owen
actually arrest you last night?

I don't know. I can't remember. I was searching
someone's garage. Must have fallen asleep.

Did you just say you're
the new sergeant?

Did you just say you were
searching someone's garage?

Cai would be 14 now.

He disappeared.
It was a year ago.

Now is pretty much
exactly a year ago.

Gruffudd believed he just jumped
on the last ferry to the mainland.

So why aren't you looking there?

Because I don't think
that's where he is. CCTV

footage of passengers
getting on the last ferry.

I've watched it.....
a thousand times.

There's no sign of the guy. Plus,
he was happy. He was popular.

I mean, there was no hint
that he was about to run away.

Did you have an argument?
Did Cai and his mum?

Well, his mum died nine years ago.

And he's a teenager. I
mean, we argue all the time.

There must have been some
kind of search of the island.

Not a particularly
thorough one.

What makes you say that?

Well, they didn't find him.

So now you're looking for
your son in people's garages?

Not for him.
For clues.

I don't know. You get desperate.

It made sense at the time.

The people whose garage it
was, are they pressing charges?

No, it was Mihangel Pugh.

He's fine. Said,
just buy him a pint.

It's your lucky day.

Will you?
And then will you have a look?

Fresh pair of eyes and all that.

And I'll see what I can do.

In the meantime, stay out
of people's garages. Doctor.

Did he say we didn't do
a proper search for Cai?

Cause we did.

And the CCTV
footage of the ferry?

Look, I've seen it. It's a rugby
scrum. Anyone could be there.

Cai's on the mainland, it's obvious.

Can't do any harm to look at the file.

I assume there is a file.

Evening all.

Oh, God, I just said evening all.

- Oh, Grace, what can I get you?
- Oh, orange juice, please.

I don't have that. Would orange squash be..

Just a water, then thank you.

Right.

Oh, and is it all right to take that
stuff down in my room like we said?

I totally forgot.

You leave her with me, okay?

Owen.
Hi.

Oh.
Hi there.

Alright? ehh..

Ehhh... So this is Mihangel.

Oh, yes. Doctor Prideaux was
searching your garage, I believe.

- Right, brilliant.
- And this is Gruffudd.

Ah, yes, my predecessor. Hello.

Actually, I'm pleased I've bumped
into you. I wanted to talk to you about

Cai Prideaux. It's been a year since
he disappeared, so I thought now

might be a good time to take another
look. But going through his file, I

can only find interviews with his
dad, his old babysitter and the vicar.

What's your background, my love?

Is this one of those questions
where we go further and further

back till I finally concede my
grandparents are from Hyderabad?

No, not at all.

You're more English
than I'll ever be.

No, I mean, were you a sergeant
in your last place?

I was, yes.

So this isn't a promotion, then?

So what did you do?

Your theory was Cai took
the last boat to the mainland.

I've looked at the CCTV of the
passengers getting on board.

Oh, and you're right, Owen,
it is a rugby scrum so he

could easily have slipped
past. But did anyone check the

CCTV of the passengers
disembarking in Temby on the mainland?

Ah..Grace lovie.

Maybe keep this for
office hours. Yeah?

Oh. Oh, yeah, no, that's....

Actually, I should call it a night.

Thanks.

Did we check that.....
about the CCTV in Tenby?

- Who the hell are you?
- Oh, good. You're awake.

I heard you've been
asking about Cai Prideaux.

Got people raging. I thought, oh,
gotta meet her. She sounds mad.

Then I was walking past your
room and my feet were dirty from

messing about on the beach.
So I thought, you know, two birds.

Grace? Yeah?

I'm Winter.

Did you know Cai?

Everyone knows everyone.

He was all right. Just a kid.

Do you think he ran away?

It happens.

Is that why you're here? To find Cai?

No, but it just came up.

I met his dad and that was that.

Bold? You've not even unpacked.

A child has gone missing.

Yeah, even so,
we let sh*t lie here.

Yeah, well, I never
got the hang of that.

What were you
doing on the beach?

Told you. Messing about.
Howling at the moon.

I love the beach. Colder the
better. My masters have got

centre of ice in my heart.
Like that kid from the story.

Is that why she
called you Winter?

She says that was
my idea. Said I chose it

when I was still in her
belly. Sounds like me.

He could have
gone. Cai. Most do.

They're usually
older, but they do.

You notice how there's barely anyone
here older than 17 and younger than 30.

It's like there's a w*r somewhere
and they all get called up.

Owen's still here.

Owen's smart.
Smarter than he let's on.

And you, you're still here?

I can't go. I am the
island and the island is me.

Got any mates yet?

I'll be a mate. Pretty
useless, though.

Head's always full of mischief.

I don't mind.

Nice one.

See you later.

If you ever need to
wash your feet again,

....that's fine.

Nah, I've got a basin in
my own room.

I know you went through
this in your statement,

but walk me through
the day he disappeared.

Yeah, well, I was
getting ready for work and...

Cai was on
his way out.

But he didn't come back that night, so
I just assumed he'd stay with a friend.

- Did he do that a lot?
- Yeah, they all did.

It's an island. It's
enclosed. It's safe.

Allegedly.

He wasn't back the next
morning and about lunchtime

I started to get worried,
so I rang around.

No one had seen him. I went to the police
station, asked them to help me look and

the widow's veil
began, so we had to wait.

- The widow's what?
- The widow's veil. It's a

weather front. I mean, it arrives
around this time every year.

How long does it last?

Sometimes a day,
sometimes a week.

But then it can linger
over the sea, so it

can be really sunny
here, but contact with

the mainland can
get a bit patchy.

Right.

Terrific.

Are you here?

Look, go easy on yourself, doctor.

I'll make some tea.

Unless you like
something a little stronger?

Oh, tea is good.
Thank you.

Tea it is.

The Nancarrow family
have lived on St. Jory

for centuries. In the
early 19 hundreds,

Christopher Nancarrow
set off to travel the

world. But he
returned to the island in

the winter of 1917,
bearing unsettling

news. In the Americas,
he had seen the

first signs of Spanish
flu. He knew it was

headed for St. Jory
and so convinced the

islanders to cut them
off from the rest of

the world. Nothing
came in or out for five

years. Not a traveller,
not a supply ship,

not a letter, not
so much as a radio

signal. By the time
they re established

contact with the
outside world, Spanish

flu had k*lled over


around the globe and 228,000 in

Britain alone.
Whereas St. Jory hadn't

lost a single soul.
Christopher Nancarrow's

bravery and decisiveness
saved the island.

Please select a video.

Wales' Best Kept Secret.

The True Way.

Spanish...
- Sergeant Narayan?

Reverend Carrisford. Douglas.

You're here to talk about
Cai Prideaux, aren't you?

I'm pleased that
someone is looking into his

disappearance. I
never really understood

why Owen and
Gruffudd didn't get more

manpower from the mainland.

I get the sense they don't
like outside intervention.

When was the last
time you saw him?

I think it was...

I don't know. A few days
before he disappeared.

Does this mean anything
to you?

Set me as a seal upon your
heart, as a seal upon your arm,

for love is strong as death,
passion fierce as the grave...

Its flashes are flashes
of fire / a raging flame.

In fact. Can I?

Yes, this is me. This is where I
highlighted it. I gave this to him.

Cai had asked me if there was
a quote in the Bible about love.

And I said that my favourite
was from song of songs.

You didn't mention this last
time around in your interview.

Well, no, I think it was a month
or so before he disappeared.

To be honest, I'd
completely forgotten about it.

Did he say why he wanted it?

No. No, and I didn't ask. I didn't
want to push it. One thing this job has

taught me is that you earn people's
trust at their speed. Kids especially.

You were friends with Cai?

There aren't many kids
his age interested in religion.

Well, I wouldn't go that far.

I mean, he helped out a
bit. He asked questions.

He was a nice kid.
I wouldn't say that

I wanted to recruit him, but I admit, you
know, I did want to encourage his curiosity.

Oh, one other thing.

In the visitor centre,
I saw a picture of...

... what is it? The
liberation parade.

How many customs do
you people have here?

Any excuse to get dressed up.

The liberation parade
is tomorrow. Is how they

mark St. Jory being
handed back to the islanders.

That's not a St. Jory accent.

No, no. I came here
about five years ago.

I fell in love with a member of
my congregation in my old parish.

We were going to get
married, the whole thing,

but it didn't work out.

It was...

yeah it was heartbreaking.

In the olden days, if you
wanted to forget someone,

you'd sign up to the
foreign legion. I came here.

Has it helped?

The past is always
with us on St. Jory.

Thank you for your time.

Oh, hi, love. What
are you doing here?

Come for your lunch box?

Uh, why? I'll just
bring it home.

I know, but as I was passing...

Ah, I see.
Bloody hell.

- Grace. This is Elan.
- Yeah, lovely to meet you.

Owen's been telling
me a lot about you.

Has he now?

And, uh, this is Owen, too.

Owen number two?

No, Owen as well.

Oh, right.

Hello.

How are you?

So, where are
you two off to then?

All dressed up?

Oh, Owen going to show me around
the island, help me get a lay of the land.

No, he's been really
patient putting up with me.

I've been riding
him pretty hard.

I'm going to go to my office.

- Been riding you hard, has she?
-Here we go.

And don't think I didn't notice
you calling her Grace like that.

It's her bloody name.

Pally. That's how I describe the
atmosphere in here.

And you know I'm
sensitive to atmospheres.

Christ woman, it is hardly that.

If someone had come in
here just now and seen the

both of you giggling
like kids, that'd be that.

How would it?

She's pissing people off, asking
about Cai Prideaux. It's rude.

Just...

keep a distance,
yeah?

Where's that music coming from?

Oh, just noisy neighbours.

I was talking to the vicar about the
Liberation parade tomorrow night.

Shouldn't we be
organizing stewards?

Getting support from the forces
on the other islands?

We... tend to let
them get on with it.

Sort of polices itself.

So what, we just
sit in the station?

No, usually we take the night off.

You take the night off?

Yeah. Look, I know it sounds a bit...

Having outsiders....

It would be awkward.

Awkward?

Why, what the hell happens?

Where's that music
coming from?

Lovely.

All right, mate. Looks like you're
having quite a party.

Never mind.

All right, Rhys?
Come on.

Who's house is this?

- I said, who's house is this?
- Oiii, who stopped the music?

Do you live here?

I need to see everyone's ID.

- Not gonna happen.
- Wait a second. Are you a strippergram?

I have a reason to believe all
the guests here are underage.

I'll count to three, gentlemen.
Cooperate or I'll nick you both.

One.

Awesome. Does the
Indian cost extra?

Two.

Oh, come on, love.
Show us your t*ts.

Three.

Cuff them both.

Now, Owen.

Party's over, folks.
Put your drinks down

and make your way out.

Now!

You shouldn't have done that.

Excuse me?

It's good for the kids
to let off some steam.

Saves us a lot of bother.

Owen's gonna uncuff you now.

Then you're gonna go
inside and we're not gonna

hear a peep out of
you till your mid thirties.

All right?

Go on, do one.

That was actually really hot.

Undermine my authority in front of
a member of the public or hesitate

when I give you an order again and
I will have you up on a disciplinary.

Are we clear?

We said, we were stood right here and we
agreed that you were going to shut her down.

What do we hear? ehh?
You're thick as bloody thieves.

Can't stop her asking questions.

Of course you can.

Just starve her of the
oxygen ... ohh, I don't know,

attention and stop this
Cai Prideaux nonsense.

And here she is, the number
one detective ladies agency.

Did you say something, Gruffudd?

Oh, you're not getting
the message, my love.

Owen's useless, so I'll tell you.

You're not a good
fit here. It's just....

It's horses for courses.

Gruffudd!

- Enough.
- I'm helping the girl.

You don't speak the lingo.

It's not your fault. It's theirs for
sending you to do a white man's job.

But raking up the
Cai Prideaux case.

I mean... is it a
promotion you're after?

Or do you just want to
piss on my reputation.

- Okay.
- Grace, go upstairs, love.

I'm sorry. You shouldn't
have to put up with this.

No, it's fine. Let
him get it out.

Time was you lot
knew your place.

You were grateful and happy

with what we....

What you had.

You know, life was
simpler then. It was

simpler, you know.

Now... you're taking everything.

You've got above your station.

Now you're in my station.
I just thought of that.

You're gonna pay for that?

- What?
- Grace, don't worry about it, love.

- It's just a drink.
- Gruffudd. Are you gonna pay for that drink?

MAKE.... ME

Stop right there.

You know what gets
me about you lot.

First you're amateurs.

The evil looks, the names.

I've just had six months of
having my tires slashed in.

Dog sh*t through my letterbox.
So really, this is nothing.

What really pisses
me off is I'm trying to

find out if a young boy
was abducted or hurt in

some way. But you small
minded bigots won't help me

because of the way I
look, the way I sound.

Luckily, I have more of a sense of loyalty
to that boy than his bloody neighbours do.

- Owww
- You do not have to say anything, but

anything you do say
may be noted in evidence.

I'm not even gonna
ask if you're coming.

I know exactly where
your loyalties lie.

Sit down and shut up.

Oh, try me. Please. And by
the time you get out, everyone on

this island will know how you
got your a*s kicked by a girl.

If you've come to say I should
let him out. Save your breath.

I wasn't.

He was out of order.

And the whiskey thing.

There's no one more
generous than Lowri.

But it's always pissed her off.

And he shouldn't
have said that stuff.

Look, we don't
all think like that.

Not sure even he does.

Have you seen
his wife? Poor cow.

Well, thanks, but it was
stupid. It's hard enough

getting people to accept
me. Now there's this.

I don't know.

It took ba*ls.

And the way you sorted out the Crowther
twins. It's just like bosh - bosh.

And then Gruffudd.

They teach you that in
Newcastle? You're like John Wick.

So do you want
a cup of tea then?

Oh yeah, that'd be great.

Make Gruffudd of coffee.

Ehh - He hates coffee.

There's something
I want to show you.

Okay, so I know he
said that Cai couldn't

have gone back the
way he came and there's

no other route aside
from the harbour.

But that's not strictly true.

Head down that way.

There's a little path.

It's a dead end,
but cut across the

gardens and you get
to the woods

and past that is a cliff.

And you didn't
search any of that?

Well, a bit, and...

Okay, not a lot. All right.

Gruffudd was certain he
just got on the boat. I still

think that, but....

yes, possible that Cai
went down there.

Let's look tomorrow.

It's a big area. We won't get it covered
before the Liberation parade starts.

But it polices itself, you said.

Yeah. No, I know.
But...

it gets quite busy
and noisy and stuff...

And we don't
miss anything, so...

Grace. So lovely
to meet you at last.

I'm Heather Nancarrow.

- Oh, I didn't expect....
- What? Me to look like me?

No, I'm sure you didn't.

So, potted history.

My father fell in love in Ghana.

Brought his beautiful wife back

to St. Jory and
here I am via Oxford

and a spell in Paris.

Well, I'm much the same.

Nottingham, Newcastle, here.

I'm sorry I've taken so
long to track you down.

I wanted to welcome you
to the island personally.

I was in the visitor centre
yesterday learning all about

how Lord Nancarrow saved
the island from Spanish flue.

- Your grandfather..
- and a very sick man.

Huntington's disease.
It's hereditary.

Oh, I'm sorry.

Did you listen to the
part titled The True Way?

That's where it gets
really interesting.

Whilst the island was
on lockdown from the

Spanish flu, my
grandfather convinced

the islanders to renounce their

Christianity and to
follow The True Way

instead. It's a
polytheistic faith he

concocted from Celtic paganism,

Viking mythology
with a twist of the

Native American.

Oh, okay. The
symbol I keep seeing,

dotted around the
island the triangle with

the I in it. Is that
The True Way?

There were only 30
families living here then,

so easier to manipulate.

As the population

grew and became more
diluted, The True Way

disappeared and my
grandfather went off to

try somewhere else and
was never heard of again.

It's an interesting
history though

and one we like to
lean into for the tourists.

Could... someone have
compelled Gruffudd to limit the

investigation into Cai
Prideaux's disappearance?

You mean, did I?

Well, even if that
were possible,

why would I?

Well, a messy inquiry wouldn't do
much for the Tripadvisor reviews.

Neither would a kidnapper or
a k*ller still at liberty.

That was the port on
the mainland. Bloke

said they only keep
the CCTV footage a

month before they wipe it.

Okay, you can go.

What?

You're right.
Nothing's happening.

Go home. I'm sure Elan
will be pleased to see you.

No, I say.

She's with mates
and Owen's with the sitter.

And...you know, besides, it should be
police presence because we need it.

You're gonna go search the
woods and cliffs, aren't you?

Do you want me to come?

I'm good.

Owen, why didn't you get
support from the mainland? Two of

you searching the whole island.
Just doesn't make any sense.

It wasn't. Everyone pitched in.

You know what I'm
asking. Someone made that

call and that's someone
has to be Gruffudd. Why?

Look, kids go to the
mainland, you'll see.