01x03 - Episode 3

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Usually, she handles
everything so well.

That makes it sound
like she can't cope.

The new nanny starts
tomorrow. Is that Ellen?

Oh, I used to work with her,

and if I'd have known
what she was really like,

I'd never have taken the job.

You need me to come
over, help with the kids?

The behavioural team will
schedule a home visit.

You've got an amazing
life here, Laura.

I'd hate to see you throw it all
away for a moment of madness.

Rob. Our family means
so little to you?

What year's yours
in? Year Six.

Hey, Flo. Hiya.

Sorry, who are you?
I'm Florence's mum.

There was this one
night where, er...

..Eliza had been having
these nightmares.

Well, they were terrors, really.

And so I went up to check
if she was all right, and...

..she just backed away
from me, started screaming.

"Not you. Not you."

And it was like she could
see right through me.

Like she knew...

Like she knew who I really was.

LAUGHTER ECHOES

Whoa! Help me! Jane!

EMILY CACKLES

ALARM BLARES, LAURA INHALES

Jesus!

Eliza.

To find him.

Eliza. To find him.

Eliza? Emily said
he's in there.

Emily? What do you mean, Emily?

The boy. He's
still in the water.

DOOR SLAMS Mummy?

It's OK. Help me.

It's OK, baby. It's all right.

ELIZA SOBS It's OK.

LAURA EXHALES

PHONE RINGS Stop calling me.

SHE EXHALES

SHE SIGHS

PHONE DIALS

'Hi, you've got through to Rob
Conroy. Please leave a message.'

Hi, Rob, it's me again. Erm...

Look, I know you don't wanna talk
to me at the moment, but I...

..I need to talk to you,

so could you give me a
call when you get this?

Rob, I really miss you.

PHONE PINGS

Eliza! Can you get
your shoes on, please?

ELIZA SCREAMS

Sorry. S-Sorry. I didn't
mean to frighten her.

Rachel? Are you OK?

The... The door was open.

Was it? Yeah.

She nearly gave me a fright.

Thank you, Rachel.

Thanks so much for doing
this. I owe you big time.

Hoping to have a nanny sorted
by the end of the week.

How are you, Eliza?

Eliza, Rachel's talking to you.

I, er, I still feel terrible about
what happened between the girls.

Is Abby all right?

Laura, honestly, let's
just put it behind us.

They're just kids.

Are you all right?

Yeah. Yes, I'm... I'm
just a bit knackered.

Eliza set off the burglar alarm
last night, sleepwalking. Bless you.

LAURA EXHALES

Rachel, have you... have you
ever had a blackout? A blackout?

I had this really weird night out
with Emily recently, and I think...

Go on.

LAURA EXHALES Ignore me.

Do you know what?
Forget it. It's fine.

Ignore the ramblings of a
crazy, caffeine-fuelled woman.

I think I'm just a bit angsty
about going back to work.

I'll be fine. Are you sure?

Yeah, yeah. I'm... I'm sure.

Elliott's still asleep in bed.

I mean, he should wake
up pretty soon, actually.

And Eliza's schoolbag is
just here by the door.

I'll back here for
about six o'clock.

OK, well, I'll drop
Elliott back for then.

And then why don't we dissect
the day over a glass of wine?

That sounds great.
Right, bye-bye, Eliza.

You're gonna have a
good day. I love you.

Be good for Rachel. Er, keys...

OK. When's Rob home?

Not for a while.

Thanks, Rachel.

Suits you. Mum.

Welcome back.

I'm not just saying that.

I missed you.

How are you? Yeah, I'm good.

Good. I'll let you
get settled in.

It's hard to come
back after time away.

The kids are good, too.

I was just about to
ask. Mm-hm. Sure.

Here comes Steph,
your new paralegal.

She'll take over your life,
if you let her. Good luck.

Morning, Steph. Hi, Maggie.

Hi, Steph. Hi,
Laura. PHONE RINGS

Your phone's ringing. Would
you like me to answer?

Erm, no. No, that's fine.

Well, let me know if
you need anything else.

I'm just down the hall.
Great, thanks, Steph.

Steph? There is one thing...

Oh. ..you could do for me.

Can you do me a background
check, a DBS, the usual stuff?

What's her name?
Emily. Emily Furness.

Sure. I'm on it. Great.

Thanks, Steph. You're welcome.

Hi.

Just dropping this off
for Eliza Conroy in 2F.

Honestly, when do kids start
taking any responsibility?

Don't start holding your breath.

EMILY CHUCKLES Thank you.

Yes, hello. It's Laura Conroy again.
I left a voicemail this morning.

I'm still waiting for a
list of available nannies.

WOMAN: 'I can send you a list
now.' Thanks, that's great.

Erm, I'm also waiting on a reference
check for an Emily Furness.

'Emily Furness.' Yeah, a
friend recommended her.

'Give me a couple of minutes.'
OK, yeah, I can hold.

MAN: At this meeting tomorrow,

I really need you to
have everything in order

because these are
important concepts...

Emily!

Hi.

I'll catch up with you later.

Are you OK? I'm OK. Are
you OK? I'm fine. I'm good.

Look, I'm sorry
about the other day.

How are things at home?
Can... Can we not...?

Sure. Bye. Tom, you
know that night out?

Apart from Emily, was
there anyone else with us?

What do you mean?

I just can't...

I can't shake this feeling
that someone was following us.

I don't know
anything about that,

but I do remember we
drank way too much,

and we should probably
put it all behind us.

Yeah, no, well, of course. Sorry.
Yeah, forget I said anything.

Briefing meeting started
two minutes ago. Yeah.

Er, right.

See you in there.

First of all...

a reminder that the formidable
Laura is back with us from today.

APPLAUSE Thank you. Thanks.

In other news,

Friday's testimony is now
definitively inadmissible.

The claimant had memory issues.

Don't they always?

So, we need to find a new angle.

Something to get
us over the line.

Stuart, do you have
any thoughts? Well...

PHONE RINGS

So sorry. Sorry.

WHISPERING

Do you need to take that?

No, no. I'm good.
I'm good. So?

Anybody got any ideas?

No-one?

Well, I mean, I could take a
look. Fresh eyes and all that.

Are you sure? Course.

OK. Thanks, everyone. Great.

Laura! VOICEMAIL:
'First new message.'

WOMAN: 'Hi, Mrs Conroy.

'Eliza's a bit poorly
this afternoon.

'Could you give us a call,
please?' Laura? Laura?

Sorry, hang on.
'Next message.'

'Hi, Mrs Conroy.

'If you get this message, could
you please call us urgently?

'Eliza's been very
sick at school.' sh*t.

sh*t. sh*t. Laura,
these documents...

Yes, sorry, I-I
can't. I've gotta go.

There's a school emergency.

Sorry, Steph, I've
gotta go. The meeting...

BELL RINGS

Hello, sorry, I'm late. I've
come to collect Eliza. Right.

Got a message saying that
she was sick. Oh! OK.

Oh, no, she's been picked up
already by her emergency contact.

Sorry? An Emily Furness.

Eliza? You're here.

Oh, come here. Are you OK?

You're here, you're
fine. You OK?

I was really sick.
Oh, I'm sorry.

Poor lamb. She was
so sick at school.

I did try and call you. You
OK? You look really pale.

How's the princess
doing? No. Let's talk.

You and me, next door. Sure.

Hey.

Want a cup of tea? Is
everything all right?

What's wrong? Who
are you? Sorry?

Who are you?

Cos I've just met
Flo's mum... Isla.

Oh, God, she's a
right cow, isn't she?

Why've you been lying to me? Why've
you been pretending to be Flo's mum?

But I didn't. Yes, you have.

Yes, you have.

All that stuff about how
difficult Flo's found it

since her dad left, the divorce,

the struggles of
being a single parent.

How do you explain all that?

Well, her parents are separated, and
she is finding it really difficult.

And I am divorced, but I...

..I never said I was her mum.

Laura, did something happen? Did
something happen? Yeah, yeah.

We bonded over our kids,
and you don't have any.

You're a liar.

Wow, just because I don't
have children of my own,

I can't appreciate what it
must be like to be a mother?

Eliza'd still be vomiting on the
floor if I hadn't gone and picked...

I never asked you. I never
asked you to go and pick her up.

Not everybody's lucky
enough to have children...

..so I chose a job that allowed
me to care for other people's.

But apparently that doesn't make me
worthy of your exclusive mums club.

PHONE RINGING

Hello? STEPH: Hi, Laura.

I don't know if
you're coming back,

but the DBS check came back on
Emily Furness. Something came up.

And? It's flagging that
she's several misdemeanours.

Just pulling up the details.

Two parking tickets
in arrears and a tow.

Is that everything?
That's right.

She seems to check out.

Did you run an enhanced one?
Nothing came up, she's clean.

OK, thanks, Steph. By
the way, Tom's furious.

When are you getting back?

Did you run a
background check on me?

No, um... Oh, my God.

You're a liar.

You're lying, aren't you?

I'm really sorry, Emily.

I really thought you said you
were Flo's mum. Seriously?

What? A simple misunderstanding
and suddenly I'm the devil?

You're a lawyer for f*ck's sake.

Whatever happened to
innocent till proven guilty?

And to think, I thought
we were friends.

I dropped everything today
to pick up your sick child,

and somehow I'm
the guilty party?

I'll see myself out. Emily,
don't. Please, don't.

Let's not leave it like
this. Let's talk. I'm...

ELIZA: Mummy, my tummy hurts.
I think I'm gonna be sick.

Please, just... just stay here.

ELIZA GROANS

ELIZA COUGHS

KNOCK ON DOOR
EMILY: I'll get it.

Oh, hiya. Hi.

How's the little man
been? Oh, an angel.

Aw. He's still
sleeping, so ssh.

Bye, Elliot.

Is, er... Laura here?

Oh, Eliza's got a stomach bug,
so she's just putting her to bed.

Oh... Well, thought
we could open this.

Aw, that's kind of you.
I'll let Laura know.

She got her hands full
at the minute. Oh.

Thanks for dropping
Elliot back. Yeah.

Please, tell Laura I'll come by
the same time tomorrow morning.

Oh, there's no need.
It's all sorted now. Oh?

She... didn't tell me... any...

OK... Well...

..tell Laura to give
me a call. Course.

Rachel gone? Yep.

Is she always like that?

Like what? Short.

Why? What did she say? It's
more like what she didn't say.

She gave me the impression she
hadn't enjoyed having him all day.

Kind of rude,
actually. Really?

Oh...

To celebrate your
first day back at work.

Thank you, that's
really nice of you.

Shall we open it? I'm not
really in the mood now.

Just gonna head home. Um...

Can we... Can we start again?

Dunno. Maybe.

He was just... He
was just a boy.

PHONE RINGING

Hello? CHILDREN LAUGHING

Hello? Hello? CHILD: Stop!

CHILD SCREAMING CHILD: Mama.

Emily? Laura, can we talk?

Sorry it's late.
Oh, it's fine.

I, erm... I've been thinking
about earlier, and...

I just wanted to apologise.

Look, on reflection...

..I don't think I was as
clear as I could've been.

I think I was just really enjoying
getting to know you, and...

maybe I was scared that if
you knew I was just a nanny,

you might think of
me differently...

because that's
happened to me before.

Really? Well, it
wouldn't happen with me.

Can we start afresh? I
would really like that.

Can I ask you something?
Yeah, of course.

That night out with Tom...

..was there anyone
else at the hotel?

Cos I just can't shake this feeling
that someone was following us.

You've got to stop torturing
yourself like this, Laura.

Just... let it go. I can't.

I just... I feel like I'm...

I feel like I'm going
slightly mad, actually.

Like everything's, kind
of, suddenly falling apart.

Because...

SHE SIGHS

..Rob's hardly talking to me.

I've already messed
things up at work.

I can't even keep hold of a
nanny that's never even met me.

So, that's where I'm at.

Well, why don't I help
you with that bit?

I can take care of the kids
until you find someone.

Really? That wouldn't
be too weird for you?

Accept, before I
change my mind, woman.

I accept. Thank you.
That would be amazing.

Shall we have an awkward
hug? LAURA LAUGHS

Yeah. I'd like one.

Thank you.

Doesn't feel so awkward
now, does it? No.

Ah! Eat your breakfast.

Hello! Hello!

Yes.

Erm, this doesn't
always click into... Ah!

Why don't you get
out of here? OK.

Bye-bye, little man. I love you.

You sure you're gonna
be OK? More than. OK.

Bye-bye, sweetheart.

Have a good day. Love you.

Thanks.

BABY BABBLES IN NEXT ROOM

READS: "Dear Mr and Mrs Conroy,

"due to Mrs Conroy being unable
to attend last appointment...

"please find
rescheduled date below."

'Hello?' Hi, Liam,
it's me. 'You OK?'

I think she'll talk.
'Really?' Yeah.

I'll send you the
address. 2pm tomorrow.

CALL DIALS OUT

Hi. Hi. Hi, little guy.

Say "hi". How is he?
Yeah, he's, er, he's good.

How are you? Knackered.
But I'm all right.

I, erm... Is Eliza free?

'Eliza. Wanna come
speak to Daddy?'

It's a shame you won't be here
for the behavioural meeting.

I was there at the last one.

I'm guessing you're
still planning on

staying with your mum
when you get back?

I think it's for the best.

BABY FUSSES

Eliza.

I'll take him to her. Hi,
Rob. 'Hey, how are you?'

Yeah, just cooking some dinner.

FOOTSTEPS RECEDE

'Excited for me to
be home soon, Eliza?'

Yes. Come see you after
school on Friday, OK?

'Actually, could you let Laura
know too, please, Emily?' Course.

Night-night, guys. Night.
Blow a kiss to Daddy.

Mwah. Mwah! Night.

Right, come on, sleep.

Can you tell me one of
the Brave Girl adventures?

'Oh, not tonight, Lize,
it's already late.

Tomorrow, though. Promise?

Pinky promise.
Night-night. Love you.

Me you.

Hey, Lize, you know you've got
that meeting with Mummy tomorrow?

Well, they're coming to
understand if you're OK.

Or if you're... ever
frightened sometimes, by Mummy.

Like... when they're shouting?

Exactly. That kind of thing.

They want you to
tell them, darling.

It's really important
that you tell the truth.

Nothing bad happens
when you tell the truth.

OK. Good girl.

Come on.

DOOR BELL RINGS

That'll be the social worker.

SHE CLEARS THROAT

Hello, you must be Adam.

No, I'm Liam Stevens,
I'm with the Daily Press.

Just want to have a quick
chat with you, Catherine.

'Catherine?' Laura,
what's wrong?

Catherine, I just need a couple of
minutes...' Hang on, I'll just...

No, no. OK, OK.
OK. OK, I won't.

'Just wanna know the
truth, Catherine.' He's...

He's here. Who's Catherine?

SHE EXHALES DEEPLY
Laura? What's wrong?

Oh, God. Look, who's Catherine?
What's happening? 'Catherine?'

Talk to me. Need
you to talk to me?

'Catherine, I just wanna ask you a
couple of questions.' Who is that?

Talk to me. What's happening?

OK, OK, just breathe. Tell
me you didn't... What?

KNOCKING What is it?

SHE TAKES SHALLOW BREATHS

Eliza, this is Adam.

He's just here to ask
us a few questions, OK?

It's lovely to meet you, Eliza.

Your husband couldn't make
it, I see. Oh, no, he's, er...

Away all the time.

He's away on business a
lot, but... SHE CHUCKLES

..so it must feel like a long
time for you, hey, darling.

ECHOED, KNOCKING ON DOOR

LIAM: 'Catherine, I just wanna
ask you a couple of questions.'

ADAM, MUFFLED: You're back
to work full-time for now?

NORMAL: Is everything
OK, Mrs Conroy?

Sorry, what was the question?

You've also gone back
to work full-time? Yes.

So do you have someone taking
care of the kids in your absence?

Usually just leave them to fend for
themselves (!) Packet of biscuits.

That was a joke. HE CHUCKLES

Emily looks after us. Emily?

Is she a relative?
Is this a nanny?

Erm, she's just... She's
a friend. She's staying.

So, Eliza, do you like
being a big sister?

Do you like having your
little brother around?

Yeah, course she does.

Eliza, just... tell the nice
man. Stop telling me what to do.

Eliza, will you
just... I want Daddy.

ECHOED LAUGHTER Wha...?

BANG, SHE GASPS

SHE GASPS, BANGING CONTINUES

For goodness sake, will you
just tell him that you...

Shut up, Mum!
Sorry, sweetheart.

I...

I'm not usually like
this, sorry. Yes, you are!

Eliza. Please, I'm not. I've...

Eliza. No, I'm...
FOOTSTEPS RECEDING

Mrs Conroy, perhaps it'd be best
if we reschedule this meeting

for when your husband is back.

SHE GASPS

CCTV on the 27th?

Yeah, or, erm, or 28th,
it was past midnight.

I can't do that without
a police warrant.

Er, right, can I
speak to a manager?

I'm the supervising manager.

Please, can you help
me? It's, erm...

I think something happened
to me in that room.

I think I was spiked.

DESPERATELY: Please...

Let me see what I
can do. Thank you.

What are we looking for?

Sto... Stop. Go back.

Who's that? F...

Zoom in.

That's him.

'Maggie Gibson's phone,
please leave a message.'

BEEP Hi. Hi, Mum,
it's me. Erm...

Can you just give me a call when
you get this message, please?

I really need to talk to you.

There you are! Oh!

I was worried about you. You OK?

Yeah, sorry, you made
me jump. I just, erm...

I had some work stuff to deal
with. Do you wanna talk about it?

Do you mind if we don't?

I'm just really knackered, I
think I'm gonna head straight up.

Erm, thanks for looking after
the kids. They all right?

Yeah, they're fine. Night.

SHE BREATHES FITFULLY

ECHOED DRIPS

You didn't do anything wrong.

MUFFLED UNDER WATER: Argh!

SHE GASPS

SHE SIGHS

There's this man, and
he was at the hotel

when I was there with Tom,
and then he came to my house.

With Tom? No.

Erm, no, it was after the work
do, we ended staying at a hotel,

and, erm, I've checked the
CCTV there, and he was there,

the man, he was there,
and he was following us.

Then he came to the house.

And...

WHISPERS: he called
me Catherine.

What else did he say?

Just said he was
from the Daily Press.

How did he find me?

And what if Rob
finds out? Calm down.

Mum...?

I'm having the nightmares
again. It'll be OK.

Listen to me, Laura...

..it was an accident.
A terrible accident.

You were never there.

You were never there.

'Daddy! You're home.' 'Hey,
darling. Have you gotten taller?'

'Yeah, I'm almost as tall as you.
I have something to show you.

'Here.' 'Just give
me two minutes, OK?'

FOOTSTEPS APPROACH 'Laura?'

SHE GASPS Oh!

Er... J... Er, sorry, I-I
thought you were Laura.

Oh, it's OK.

OK, er...

He's coming.

Surprise! Wow! What's this?

Do you like it, Daddy?
I did the icing.

It's amazing, Eliza,
thank you. Thank you.

Eliza, why don't you
put Jelly Bots on?

And we will have cake
and watch it together?

I thought Laura
was gonna be here.

Yeah, me too. I did mention
it a couple of times.

So much for wanting to talk.

I think she's just been a bit out of
sorts since the behavioural meeting.

Why, what happened?

She sort of snapped at Eliza.

It was quite harsh,
actually. f*ck!

Look... What's wrong
with her? Well, look,

I think she's just burnt out,
she's been working really late.

How are you?

I mean, this must be
really hard for you.

Devastated. If I'm honest.

Don't now how we got here and
I don't what to do to fix it.

Sorry, I... I shouldn't be
dumping this all on you.

I think it's good to talk.

'Daddy.'

Yeah, er, yeah, we're coming, Eliza.
I'll-I'll, er, I'll take the cake.

Yeah. Can you bring
bowls and...? Yeah. OK.

SIREN BLARES

PHONES RINGS

SHE HYPERVENTILATES

It's all gonna be OK, is it, Mum?
It's all gonna be fine, is it?

Close the door.

He's found where I work.
He knows where I work now.

How has he found out where I
work? Keep your voice down.

It's all gonna
come out. Sit down.

Listen to me...

I'm gonna send you home.
I'm gonna sign you off now.

Don't answer the
door to anybody. OK.

Do you understand
me? Yeah. OK.

Shh-shh. LAURA EXHALES SHARPLY

Breathe.

Deep breaths.
Good girl. Mum...

Good girl. SOBBING: Mum!

We're gonna be OK.

I promise you.

IN SLOW-MOTION

IMPACT, SHE GASPS

Lock the doors,
lock the windows.

Laura. Laura!

You're... You're home.

Why didn't you tell me you
were coming home? Are you OK?

Mummy, look. Fairy wings. Will
you help me with my costume?

Hey. It's OK, Lize.

You come and show me, give
Mummy some space. Mummy?

No. It's not OK.
None of this is OK!

Laura, what's going on?

SHE SIGHS What's going on?

BABY CRIES What's
wrong with Mummy?

Talk to me. What's going on?

I can't. I...

Why don't I take the
kids to Mum's? No.

No, Rob, Rob, you don't understand.
Then help me understand.

SHE EXHALES SHARPLY

Talk to me, tell me
what's happening.

I... SHE GASPS

I can't. I can't.

SHE EXHALES I don't know
what's wrong with you.

You're scaring the kids.
I'm taking them to my mum's.

BABY CRIES Hey, hey,
hey. It's all right.

Come on, come on,
come on, come on.

Eliza, go and pack your bag.
We're going to your gran's.

Are you all right?

SHE WHIMPERS

Checked all the
upstairs windows.

Do you ever give
yourself a night off?

LAURA SCOFFS

I don't now, I just... wanted
to do something normal.

Look at you... they work, they
vote, they drive, they sew.

Can I help?

Well, I mean, you could...

finish the fairy wings,
if you can bear it. Sure.

Who's Catherine, Laura?

Look, you can trust me.

I haven't told
anyone what you said.

And I won't.

I just don't want you to
face whatever this is alone.

QUIETLY: Catherine's me.

What do you mean?

My mum changed our
names when I was a kid.

Why?

Something happened with
my friend and her brother.

What?

You can trust me.

You know when you're a
kid and you go on holiday

and you make those friends
that's... it's like really intense?

You get very close very quickly.

She was one of those.

Millie.

She had it rough at home, her
parents were always arguing.

There was just me
and my mum, so...

..we used to run
off, the two of us

and just pretend to be somewhere
else for an entire day.

And there was this, erm, little old
boat near where we were staying.

ECHOED LAUGHTER

And we'd talk about how
we were gonna take it,

sail away on an adventure.

I know that sounds silly now,
but we really thought we could.

What happened?

There was a terrible accident.

And...?

There was an argument, and...

ECHOED SHOUTING

..my friend's
brother, he drowned.

It was...

It was really frightening, and
so I just ran back to my mum,

and I told her, I told
her what happened.

And she...

..she told me to say
I was never there.

So I did.

I said that. SHE SOBS

I've never told anyone.

Not even Rob.

What happened to the friend?

I don't know.

SHE BREATHES SLOWLY

You forgot the part where
you k*lled my brother.