01x05 - Episode 5

[bunniefuu]

Something is not right

in general in this town.

Nina Karlsson?

Nina Karlsson's the lead detective

on that Swedish TV series.

What a phenomenal waste of time

that was.

So, I've got you a transfer.

to Manc Met.

HE COUGHS

John's never in hospital.

You do owt to him?

I wanna know what you are.

DISTORTED SCREAMS

Target recovered.

Last chance, Derek.

When you gonna stop with all that?

I'm numbing the pain.

GLASS SHATTERS

You're evil spawned evil

in that daughter of yours!

My wife don't want me

My little girls don't want me.

It's everything.

It's what happened to Mehmet.

What if it wasn't suicide?

God, no.

It's pretty obvious who it is.

DISTORTED SHOUTS

DISTORTED GRUNTS

Jim? Jim, can you hear me?

Stay with us, Jim.

RIYA: Eddie?

You won't get away with this.

This is how it started

such a long time ago.

Put the bottle down.

CRUNCH

Come on, Dad, it's started.

LAUGHTER ON TV

You're missing it, Ed.

You're missing all of it.

SLOWLY: I'm coming.

Dad, it's the funny bit.

It's time, Eddie.

SIRENS BLARE

You're gonna miss it, Ed.

You're gonna miss all of it.

You're gonna miss all of it.

I don't know why I did it.

VOICE ECHOES

I don't know.

I can't remember.

VOICE ECHOES

A few things I need from you,

address, star sign, all that shite.

All right.

Have you put sugar in this?

Two, boss.

Heaped?

MUTTERING: f*cking hell.

I'm sorry about the bins, Riya.

I'll apologise to folk.

Good lad.

I just wanna put it to bed.

Yeah, I understand that.

One question.

Why did we find wire cutters?

Er Wire cut

I'm I'm not sure why.

Wire cutters.

You can see with a gaping hole

in Jim's fence.

That's easy

for me to put two and two.

Tell me about Mehmet.

Thought we was talking about bins.

How did he get

to the bottom of the tower?

Was it an overdose? An accident?

Did you argue? Did you push him?

Did something happen

that wasn't meant to happen?

Come on, talk to me. Time's ticking.

Thing is

all this stuff you're saying

you need evidence.

A draft copy

of Mehmet's suicide note

found in your lockup

in your handwriting,

Katie Wells's bracelet

found in your house,

and we're already testing DNA.

Anything?

No?

Shame.

I'm holding you on suspicion

of the m*rder of Mehmet Shah.

DOOR LOCKS

HE WHIMPERS

HE SOBS

You spend all this time as police

trying not to judge books, but

if someone's face

is screaming "shitbag",

they might actually

just possibly be a shitbag.

Oh, I've always judged books

by their covers, boss.

That's just my thing.

And yet, I still feel there's

something he's not telling me.

We found very high levels

of a substance in his blood.

Causes respiratory problems

and hyperactivity

in the prefrontal cortex.

That's the part of the brain

that regulates fear.

Does your son

take recreational drugs?

No.

Could anyone

have given him anything?

Not that I know of.

OK.

We're running tests, trying to

figure out exactly what's happened.

We'll keep him in for monitoring,

if that's all right?

Course.

If you can think of anything unusual

that's happened,

people he might have met,

let us know.

Hey, Dez, thanks for popping by.

Wanted to give you this

for the catering for my party.

The sausages, the honey sauce -

all was bang on.

Oh, aye, they went down well,

them sausages, didn't they?

Glad you liked, yeah.

Yeah.

Ta for this. I like a Shiraz.

Bit of steak, bit of Shiraz.

You're welcome.

HE CHUCKLES

SHE INHALES

We've arrested your brother

in connection

with the m*rder of Mehmet Shah.

What did you say?

Holding him in a cell downstairs.

I thought

I thought it were a suicide.

Well, we've had evidence

suggesting otherwise.

Tell me what you know.

HE LAUGHS

Same as you!

You're not telling me,

as his brother,

he hasn't said anything to you.

He keeps himself to himself.

You know what he's like.

Is he pushing drugs?

No.

Has he ever mentioned Katie Wells

to you? No.

You and Kane

found John in the forest.

What were you doing there?

Just on our way to Kane's place.

Right place, right time.

Got Mehmet dead, Katie missing,

and John in hospital,

and Kane seemingly

in the centre of all of it.

If there's a reason,

I need to know why.

He's got issues,

you know that.

The whole town does,

but he don't harm folk.

How would you know that?

Like you said, he keeps

himself to himself, don't he?

DOOR SHUTS

KNOCKING

Something weird's going on

in that forest.

What is this, theory 9,333?

Other info's come to light,

and it's telling me my "theories"

aren't so bad after all.

Why do you find it so hard

to relax?

There are pieces missing,

and it's all pointing to Kane.

Who's sitting in a cell down stairs.

Look, you're going soon.

You've given us a m*rder*r

to be getting on with.

Now let it be.

They're not gonna tolerate this

at Manc Met, you know.

Look,

everything I've been going on about,

everything,

might just have some weight.

Can you just let me

finish this case?

This town is crying out for truth.

What would you know about this town?

You've been here ten minutes.

Those who were born in Chadder know

what this town is crying out for.

It's crying out for light.

And they don't need to know

what's going on

until they need to know

what's going on.

First Eddie, now Kane.

There are monsters

living amongst us, kid.

I'm not prepared to let this

community be destroyed again.

Time to change the headline.

To what?

You know what!

You are not going on about

Best Kept Village, are you?

Of course I bloody am!

It's a certificate, Linda.

It's not just a certificate, though,

is it?

It's what it means for the people.

It gives 'em hope,

and it gives 'em light!

Does it? Does it?!

Does a certificate

give you light and hope?

Maybe explain it to me another time.

Just figure it out for yourself!

CAR DOOR SLAMS,

ENGINE RUMBLES

Meet me at the carvery. One hour.

LINDA EXHALES

Listen up, everyone.

The judges'll be here

in a couple of days.

They'll be looking at you.

Looking for the cracks,

staring at your lives,

your lawns

and all the bits in-between.

Last week,

I saw a condom on a bench.

LAUGHTER

Not good enough.

To me,

that's a sign you've given up,

that the monsters among us

have broken your spirit.

Now, you can bend to that,

if you like,

or you can show 'em your poker face

and bring it home.

They said there was a curse

on Chadder. Well, not any more.

We've got the best bread

in Lancashire.

WEAK CHEERING

We have though, haven't we?

We got a new B&B

and The Tree Of Good Hope.

We haven't won this since 2011.

I'm f*cked if we're gonna

lose it again yeah?

CLAPPING

Let's get a victory for the Vale.

CLAPPING INTENSIFIES

Best Kept Village! Thank you.

Katie,

got a new girl starting today.

She'll need setting up.

You all right, Katie?

Oh, you have got

to be f*cking kidding me.

You f*cking sl*t.

If you think I won't, think again

cos I f*cking will.

Katie! Hey!

THUMP

Get up! I said, "Get the f*ck up!"

Come at me again

and I will snap you in two.

Katie!

Did you shag him?!

No.

Don't f*cking lie to me.

What the f*ck are you on?

Think you know him, do you?

Think you've got what it takes?

Yeah, good luck with that.

Oi, come here.

You what?

Come here.

We got back to his room that night,

and I took my top off

and he told me to put it back on.

Said that you were his girl.

Said you always would be.

John?

I know I'm not who you wanna see

right now.

HE COUGHS,

SPLUTTERS

HE GULPS

What happened in the forest, John?

Did you take something?

Did you take the same thing

as Mehmet?

What's going on, John?

WEAKLY: You wouldn't understand.

Try me.

I saw things.

What?

STRAINING: Like

Can you leave now?

OK, er

HE COUGHS

Talk to me.

JOHN SPLUTTERS

Really need you to leave.

JOHN WHIMPERS

JOHN STRAINS

No, no, Katie, wait!

Don't leave!

HE COUGHS,

MONITORS BEEP

Morning, Keith.

Ah, do you ever take a day off?

That lad that you brought in

from Chadder, Mehmet Shah,

what can you tell me about him?

Barely had the body ten minutes

before Manc Met took him.

Yeah, but a man as exceptional

as you are,

you can find out the cause of death

in, what, thirty seconds, no?

He had fluid in his lungs.

Cause of death was drowning

in my opinion.

Is that right?

Blood samples

showed traces of a black liquid,

a kind of resin.

I've never seen it before.

You took samples, right?

I did.

Did Manc Met get their hands on it?

Most of it.

But you kept some for yourself,

didn't you?

Keith, I love that.

Ever the professional.

See, that resin,

I think it's caused by a drug,

and it's affecting all of the kids.

So can you do me a favour?

Can you test it for me,

like, yesterday?

You're a bossy f*ck.

Er! Assertive, Keith. Assertive.

Trim that bush

Will you trim that bush?

Trim that bush ♪

Looks pressing. Boss! Boss.

Wow, tasteful.

That's just BKV, boss.

Best Kept Village, boss.

Apparently,

you get marked on topiary, so

We've got John, Mehmet and

a dead stag all linked to a drug.

I wanna know all about it,

why it's in the forest

and why these kids are taking it.

Yeah, on it, boss.

Like Sonic, boss.

What are those called again?

Secateurs.

ROWING

MAN: You bloody witch.

WOMAN: Who are you calling a witch,

you drunken old tosser?

I've checked the DNA.

'Manchester Met are here, kid.'

They found your DNA

on Mehmet's note, on his clothes.

They are gonna charge you

with his m*rder, Kane.

Anything you have to say,

now's the time to say it.

Did someone force you

to do something, Kane?

Something you didn't wanna do?

I never knew what I wanted to be

when I were little.

But I knew what I didn't wanna be.

I didn't wanna be known.

Didn't want people to see me.

It's why I became a driver.

Pick it up, drop it off,

wipe my hands of it. Done.

Quiet life.

And then people

put seeds in your head.

They They push you down roads

that you don't wanna go.

And that

that one wish you had as a kid

vanishes.

Time to go.

Kane?

I'll get you out.

This is my out.

Good day?

"Good day"?

It's just a question.

Very couple-y.

You're overthinking.

Just relax. Take a seat.

I don't want a seat.

I want answers.

These kids in the forest,

they're dropping like flies,

and I don't know how or why.

Mehmet didn't fall, he drowned.

But no-one's listening.

Just arrested a man today

for a crime he may

or may not have committed.

Story of your f*cking life.

What is?

Doubt.

Excuse me?

You're riddled with it.

You go a thousand miles an hour

in one direction

and then slam it in reverse.

Also, why don't you ask me

about my day for a f*cking change?

Sorry (!) How was your day?

Not great.

You wanna elaborate?

Too much work, not enough time,

customers shouting.

Is there anything I can do to help?

Yeah.

You can sweep the floors.

LAUGHS

I'm not sweeping your floors.

Yes, you will. Start at the back

and work your way in.

I'm not sweeping your floor.

Ri?

Every f*cking time.

Yeah?

Sorry if I'm interrupting.

Could you not have called?

Better in person.

Er, not necessarily.

Hi, again.

Hi.

Cut to it.

Mum's had a turn.

She won't listen to me.

I was wondering if you

Oh, for

You're unbelievable.

'What is that?'

What, love?

Inside there!

Why's it trying to hurt me?

There's no-one trying to hurt you.

I'm not talking about a person.

What is that thing?

What thing?

It's beneath us.

Don't you take me back.

I've signed the paperwork,

they never asked this.

Don't!

You lied to me.

It's under my skin. You lied!

Sue, Sue.

You lied!

I'm gonna get you some water, OK?

You're all right.

SHE GROANS

This doesn't just up and off, Nick.

She's got a degenerative condition.

She needs her tabs.

I'm just suggesting

a different approach. Well, don't.

Where are these tablets

even coming from?

From a clinic on Harley Street.

Specialists.

Is that a good enough approach

for you? Goodness sakes.

I don't know where the glasses are.

Where have you put the glasses,

Nick?

That smells nice.

Well, I thought

you might fancy a bite.

That for me?

It's your favourite.

Where's er Ricky Martin?

She's gone back to Spain.

Why?

Cos I'm still in love with you.

'Game complete.'

Hm?

What a waste of time.

What are you hiding, Nina Karlsson?

Are you OK?

Just work stuff.

I feel lost.

Like I'm getting things wrong.

In the build up to any crime,

there's a change.

A departure from the norm.

A change in behaviour,

action, word.

This town,

it's riddled with something.

Drugs, dead stags, missing kids.

The signposts are all there.

Just whether we choose

to see them or not.

And I can't work out

what I'm not seeing.

'What have you got for me, Keith?'

You know how many islands

there are in Indonesia?

A few.

18,000. The scheramine plant

grows on one of them.

What it's doing here

is anyone's guess.

That it?

Scheramine.

More commonly known as Devil's Door.

As a plant,

it's completely harmless.

If turned into a gas,

it's slightly more terrifying.

In what way?

It delves into the neurocircuitry

of your fears,

ignites a thousand little fires.

Once those flames

get out of control,

there's not much you

can do about it.

You become so consumed with anxiety

that it cripples you.

The levels in Mehmet's blood were

so high that, if he was in water,

he wouldn't have got very far.

How does a gas get into a forest?

Beats me.

It's called scheramine.

Devil's Door.

I need to know for sure

there haven't been

any other cases like John's.

Our files are strictly confidential.

Confidential, yep, yep, I get it.

But this is a m*rder

I'm investigating.

Quick ganders, then I'm off.

Go on.

Oh, er, did some more digging

on the drug front, boss.

Kids are mainly on E and whizz.

And weed. A lot of them love weed.

It's called scheramine.

Just been to the hospital,

and turns out

there was another person

admitted with that exact same drug

in their system a few months back.

Who?

A Swedish girl.

No! The one and f*cking only,

Nina Karlsson.

You take your time, kidda.

But take it quickly.

What is it you want to know?

Well, let's start with your name.

Nina.

Nina what?

Karlsson.

Swedish?

Stockholm.

Well, well.

Stockholm to here.

That's an easy transition.

Tell me about it.

It's a long story.

Shorten it.

Do you know this guy?

No.

You sure?

Never met him.

OK.

The B&B.

I was there for two nights.

To see the tree?

No.

So that was a lie?

We get told to say it.

Told by who?

It's on the the paperwork.

What paperwork?

I can't say. When you

When you sign, you sign.

Ever heard of Devil's Door?

What about it?

How'd you get your hands on it?

It was presented to me.

Presented? Where? In the forest?

It was just a game.

Hospital records said

you nearly died. Who gave it to you?

How did they cure you?

They didn't.

I had to fight it.

How?

I faced it.

You were on forums with Mehmet Shah.

Well, we connected.

Over drugs?

Video games, the planet.

You know we we have a purpose.

An end point.

We We chose it.

We made that decision.

You and Mehmet? What decision?

You do know he's dead?

At least answer me this

Is anyone in danger?

I can't say.

Don't be thinking

you're anything special.

You were born nothing.

You're just like your dad.

You are nothing.

You're pathetic.

Nothing.

JOHN SCREAMS

COUGHS,

SOBS QUIETLY

COUGHS

Oh, for f

Guilt. That's what this is.

Five years?

Every week.

They try to cauterise the wound.

All they do is open it back up.

Who's they?

It must be the Wells family,

who do you think?

It'll be the wife,

clearing her conscious.

What you gonna do with it?

'Ey up.

Hiya.

Hey, so, I thought, later on,

we could go for

go for a bite, yeah?

Maybe.

I don't know, we could, er,

go for a walk. Take in the shites.

But does it fix this?

Well, I just You know.

I thought after the other night

That night mean nowt.

To either of us.

It were just two people

desperate to find something

that ain't there any more.

It felt It felt real, no?

Felt like the old us.

Did it heck.

Conning ourselves.

I just felt angry and sick.

Right.

AUDIOBOOK: 'I'm not interested in

the things within my reach.

'I'm interested in

the things beyond my reach.'

KNOCKING

How's your John?

Not my John. Keep saying.

KATIE SIGHS

Been quiet.

Too much noise, in't there?

Your dad?

No, no. Not really.

Look, if you're scared of him

I'm not scared, Mum.

You've changed, darling.

It's like him being here is

pushing you away.

I've wanted out for ages now.

I'm gonna miss you when you go. Hm?

I mean, who am I gonna walk

to t'factory with? Mum.

Who am I gonna have

my lunchtime cig with?

Who's gonna give me the goss?

JOANNE LAUGHS

Things have happened recently, right?

And it's made me realise

SHE SCREAMS

You wrap me up in this routine,

in this way of being,

and it's not me.

I don't wanna become that.

Become what? You.

JOANNE SIGHS

It's not Dad I'm afraid of, Mum.

It's you.

JOANNE SIGHS

I'm sorry. I'm sorry, I'm sorry.

It's j I don't

I don't want the life you've got.

It's fine for you,

but it's not fine for me.

I want more, more than Chadder Vale.

You know that. I always have.

I'm sorry, Mum.

I'm sorry.

Don't be.

Mum.

KATIE SIGHS

MUFFLED CHATTER

JIM: Hey! Hey!

Enough. I've had enough.

But I-I-I don't

I don't know what this is!

Your guilt. Your family's guilt.

As if money could repair this.

Come near my property again,

and I'll take matters

into my own hands.

f*ck.

SHE GASPS

ZIP

Do you know evil, Lilly?

You have evil in your blood

because your father is evil.

And days after he came back

into our lives,

my son is dead.

And you were breaking into his room,

going through his things.

That is evil, Lilly.

Now leave.

Hiya, Dad.

Hi, Lil.

D'you want?

Can I tell you a secret?

If you like.

I wish you were dead.

You ruined my life,

and I wish you were dead.

HE GROANS

OK.

Come with me. Come on.

Where are we going?

You'll see.

Dad? Dad, please can we go home?

I'm tired.

Just keep walking.

Why are we here?

I wanna go back.

Where are we?

We're near the lake.

We used to come here

when you were little.

Just wait there.

No. Where are you going?

Just-Just wait.

You don't get to do that.

You don't get to march into my space

throwing accusations about.

You don't know

the first f*cking thing about me.

Pay you?

Pay you with what, exactly?

While you're sitting here

in your ivory drill tower,

some of us are scraping our knuckles

down here at zero.

But you wouldn't know any of that,

would you?

No. Cos you're all you, you,

f*cking you!

PHONE RINGS

Lil?

Mum? Can you hear me?

Lil? Lil, you're breaking up, darling.

I'm-I'm with Dad at the lake.

You're where?

The lake. I'm really scared.

ELECTRONIC INTERFERENCE

Lil?

I dunno what he's gonna do.

Lil?

PHONE LINE DROPS

Mum?

JOANNE: Lilly!

Lilly!

BIRD SCREECHES

JOANNE: Lily!

f*ck.

Oh, what's happened?

LILY SOBS

Hey. Hey, what is it?

Hey, look at me. Shh!

Where's your dad? Where is he?

Hm.

Mm.

Eddie!

Eddie?

Eddie, come back!

Eddie.

Eddie. Look at me.

When you came home

I didn't give us any hope.

I I shut that out.

I shut you out.

I were angry

that you'd walked back

into a life that I'd built.

Me, on my own,

and I were angry about that.

But I were wrong to be.

I should've given us hope.

Why?

Because we chose each other

for a reason, all those years ago.

And that has to mean something.

Dad!

Jim.

Jim!

JIM GRUNTS

Eddie.

JOANNE WHIMPERS

It's too warm.

The ice won't hold.

It's too late, Jim.

This is what monsters deserve.

Dad, please!

THEY SCREAM

Eddie! Hold on.

HE SNIFFS

Here have this.

HE CLEARS THROA

You saved his life, Jim.

Huh.

However that makes you feel.

You did right.

I didn't do it to be right.

I did it because

I'm owed an explanation. Look.

Eddie's sin.

Left at my door every week.

I thought it was her, the wife

but no.

Who was it?

HE SNIFFLES

There's things that need saying.

I see your pain,

and I promise you

that I can match that.

What

the f*ck would you know

about pain?

I've had five years screaming

in my sleep,

five years of injections,

just trying to get me through

the next five minutes.

Match that!

Jim.

Tell me about that night.

You know what happened.

Just walk me through it,

one last time.

He was convicted by a jury

beyond reasonable doubt.

He was convicted

because there were no witnesses.

He was found covered in my blood.

With a broken bottle in his hand.

I get it.

So what else do you need?

Clarity.

It was dark. I was walking home.

I heard laughter.

I turned and saw him

at the top of the street.

He was swaying, drinking from a

a glass bottle.

I turned back, carried on walking.

He attacked me from behind.

Did you see his face?

Uh?

Did you see anyone else?

No!

Are you sure?

Yes, I'm sure. There was no-one.

Eddie.

The day of the attack,

where had you been?

At work.

And then what?

I finished work early,

went went the Dog.

Who was in the Dog?

I can't remember.

Did you speak to anyone?

Did you drink with anyone?

No. No, I mean, not-not apart

from Jakub. No, no-one.

So Jakub was there?

Well, yeah. I mean, he'd come in

and get his wages early, you know.

Did he leave with you?

No.

Are you sure?

We weren't mates. So

Why are you asking all this again?

Because this money

it's from someone

who feels guilty about this

someone who was there that night.

On some of the notes,

there were some marks.

Some stains.

Like oil.

f*cking hell.

EDDIE SNIFFLES

f*cking hell.

EDDIE SOBS