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01x02 - Episode 2

Episode transcripts for the TV show, "Passenger". Aired: October 17, 2024.*
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A close-knit community is sent spinning on its axis following a series of strange and unnatural crimes.

01x02 - Episode 2

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Aah!

SCREAMS

That's a fully-grown stag.

We're ready for you now.

Eddie Wells is getting out.

I've lost my family, and he gets

leniency? That isn't right.

YELLING: Leave me alone!

g*nshots

What about the missing Swedish girl,

Nina Karlsson? I can do that.

Spotted a day or two ago.

So that's that?

That is that, yeah.

Katie, someone's taken her.

I need a full search of the area,

like, now!

YELLING: Katie?

She's back home. It's a false alarm.

So, where is he, then?

Eddie.

Hiya, darling.

ANIMAL CALLS

SOFTLY: Should be ample warm now.

Don't need it for warmth.

Need it for light.

This where you were Friday?

More or less.

Did he hurt you?

Who?

Come for me again,

I'll make your life a misery.

Katie?

You should say hello.

Nina? Folk have been

looking for you. Worried.

What do you want me to say?

I'm Nina, and I'm lost?

I wanted to find you.

You wanted a case.

"Dead Girls In Forest."

Let me tell you something.

It's the people that say they don't

need help that need it the most.

SOFTLY: And you,

little desperate one,

you are in over your head.

FIRE SIZZLES

RIYA GASPS,

ANIMAL GRUNTING

SCREAMING,

RIYA WHIMPERS

JOANNE'S VOICE ECHOING:

Katie

GROWLING

SHE GASPS

Oh!

She's late. Yolanda,

she meant to be here at nine.

Yolanda left four year ago, Sue.

She's left?

Alicante.

Well, will Nick

change my sheets, then?

SIGHING: Nick went with.

Even though he's got a shellfish

allergy and burns like a d*ck.

But Nick's your husband.

I know.

It's a sh*t situation.

I've divvied your tabs,

they're on the kitchen table.

You "administer" tablets.

Fine, administer.

RIYA SIGHS

Any news on the missing girl?

How do you know about that?

Oh

Well, drunk people talk a lot.

Katie's home. Safe and sound.

No

I didn't mean her.

Where's Nina Karlsson?

TELEVISION: 'Could it be this weird

weather, do you know what I mean?

'Cos everyone seems to have it.

'We've got folk afraid of this,

we've got folk afraid of that.

'We've all got a bit jumpy,

haven't we?'

Milk and one.

DOOR OPENS ABOVE

I don't drink tea.

FOOTSTEPS DOWN STAIRS

Since when?

Here she is. My baby girl.

KATIE COUGHS

That'll be your sister. Lil?

You've given Katie your cold!

KATIE COUGHING

Hand over your mouth when you cough!

'All right, no need to shout.

I'm right here.'

Hey, sweetheart.

Lil? Lil?

JOANNE SIGHS

You need to fetch t'car

from the garage.

I'll do it later.

How 'bout now?

I can get the car.

It's her responsibility.

We're family.

KATIE SCOFFS

JOANNE SIGHS

You know you can't just

go to t'garage.

It's my garage.

Not any more. After what happened.

Just stay home,

keep out of everybody's way.

FRONT DOOR SLAMS

Looked like he popped

some muscle on in prison. Mm.

He's got them ones that go down

from the neck to the shoulder.

Traps. I've always liked traps.

Table's ready.

Thanks, Lynn. Thanks, Lynn.

How are you?

Yeah, I'm all right, how are you?

Morning, beauties!

Morning, Derek.

Hiya, Derek! You all right?

Er, macchiato, two egg, two toast.

Cheers, Lynn.

Kane not in yet?

Not yet, love.

What have you come as?

I got it from that shop you like.

SHE SCOFFS

Do you want me to get you owt?

Glass of fizz, or, er

Fizz?

We're in a carvery, Derek.

Why would I want fizz?

Been nominated.

Lancs Businessman of the Year.

I'm all right with my juice.

KATIE COUGHS

You all right, chuck?

What do you want?

I found your

your phone in the forest.

KATIE COUGHS

I thought you could walk me through

what happened on Friday.

Went for a drive. Parked up.

In the forest on your todd

in minus three?

What happened to the car, anyway?

Bonnet's minced.

Deer didn't have a great day either.

Can't remember.

You went missing, Katie,

for 24 hours.

I'm not gonna take that lightly.

I'm not missing, though, am I?

And I ain't done anything wrong.

Oh, I'm not saying you have.

I'm I'm on your side.

I just wanna make sure you're OK.

I'm fine. Just went out.

OK.

Ever met Nina Karlsson?

Who?

Swedish girl.

She went missing, too.

RIYA SIGHS

Pulled apart like a soft cheese.

Who does that to a deer?

Probably the Chadder Cougar.

There isn't a Chadder Cougar, Nish.

DOOR OPENS

Snow's gone. Called it.

Climate change is a b*tch.

That were a quality Bieber

last night, boss.

Ah, will you shush?

I couldn't believe how that voice

were coming out of your head.

Absolutely bossed it,

start to finish.

What time did you leave?

Late.

You get the shags in?

You what?

Well, I thought you might've had

a cheeky bang on your b-day.

You and Jakub looked quite cosy.

Jakub? He's a mate.

Come on, Riya.

I actually went to see Katie

just now. Wells? Why?

Well, you know, the whole

missing-for-24-hours thing.

Something's not adding up. Something

ain't right with that forest.

Anyone fancy a carvery brekkie?

So, er, why did you

go see Katie, boss?

She's back at home, isn't she?

Look, two girls went missing. You

don't think there might be a link?

Between Nina and Katie?

Where were they?

Did someone take them?

Do we even know why Nina Karlsson

was even in Chadder?

Tree of Good Hope.

LAUGHING: Shut up.

A guess.

Sweden to Chadder Vale

to see a tree? Give over.

Er, have you been?

It's quite a big thing, boss.

Mm, they planted it

to get rid of the curse.

You should think about going.

Maybe I will.

Mm, Tez? Any chance we can get those

results on the black liquid?

It's a Sunday.

SIREN WAILS

SPLUTTERING,

GURGLING

JOHN: Always come up here to think.

How was your night?

Why does everyone wanna know?

Er, I'm your boyfriend. Got a right.

A right?

Yeah. What right?

Did you shag him?

SOFTLY: Who?

Mehmet.

What is wrong with you?

What?

You're sick.

Well, you're, you're the one

that left with him. Kate?

Well, can we at least talk?

No, because you talk with your

fists, John. I'm bored of it.

FLOORBOARDS CREAK

Lilly? It's Dad.

I just, erm

just wanted to say a proper hello,

you know?

DOOR SHUTS,

LOCKS FROM WITHIN

Is the vermin back at yours, then,

Joanne?

He's done his time, Tony!

Five years out of ten?

If I cross him,

I'll crack his head open, I will.

You'll mind your own, Tony!

You listening? You'll mind your own.

Oh, filth's gonna stop me, are you?

I'd like to see you try.

Well, I stopped him,

and I'll stop you.

Not your town, this,

not your people. Excuse me?

Leave it, Tony.

Eddie's our business. Unfinished.

He didn't do owt to you, Tony,

so just pipe down!

Didn't do owt to me?!

Hey, this is your final warning!

Sit down!

Or what?

Tony, please

No, no, Jim. Five year ago,

Eddie stuck a broken bottle in him

and the whole town stopped.

He broke businesses, he broke lives.

And for five years,

we've been crawling,

while he scuttles off to prison

like a bloody coward!

Well, now, filth,

now's the time for the reckoning!

DOOR OPENS,

SLAMS SHU

A lot of anger knocking about.

HE GRUNTS SOFTLY

This place is a tinder box.

If you wanna start striking matches,

strike away.

But they'll come for you.

Like a pack of dogs,

they'll come for you,

and I won't be doing much

to stop 'em.

SOFTLY: Well, you see, you took

five years of my life, little pig.

Comes at a cost, that.

Out.

HE SNORTS LIKE A PIG

PLANE FLYING OVERHEAD

VOICE OVER TANNOY

IN DISTANCE

Where are you from?

From California.

Say again?

America.

Oh, where the fat f*ck come from.

You never know when

to put your forks down, you lot.

I drove a Swedish girl last year.

Proper weird, them lot.

"Build a f*cking wall."

That's what your lad said.

What brings you to Chadder?

The tree.

It's sh*t.

SHEEP BAAS

How was it seeing him?

Can't have been easy.

I've thought about it

for five years.

What I'd do when he got out.

It's like standing in a tunnel,

knowing a train's coming.

Well, I'm here for you, Jim.

If ever you need me, I'm here.

My therapist talks about

what makes a flower beautiful.

Er, "It's not the petals," she says,

"the petals are gone in the wind.

"It's the stem. It's resilient."

She talks like that

every bloody session.

How I need to be resilient

so my petals can grow.

Bollocks. Nonsense.

RIYA CHUCKLES

Sometimes, I catch my reflection

in the mirror when I'm changing.

I'm grotesque.

The ironic thing is, the whole town

paints Eddie as this monster,

but he isn't.

I am.

You don't smoke.

Today, I do.

KATIE COUGHS

You look proper stressy.

Boy stuff.

What's he done now?

The usual.

Sick of it.

What did police b*tch want?

Nowt.

Were it about Friday?

Maybe.

Where were you?

SCREAMING

It's hard to explain.

Boy stuff?

Not everything's boy stuff,

you know!

Course it is.

Which one is it this week?

Same one as last week.

And the week before. Mm.

Mehmet?

Well, yeah, we've got a thing going.

What thing?

A fight.

Oh, what, planet sh*t?

It's not sh*t. There's honour in it.

He's not into you.

You know that, don't you?

I know.

He's into you.

Not gonna stop me trying.

What do we do about Dad?

Dad left five year ago.

This man's not our dad.

SCRATCHING

Well, who is he, then?

He's no-one.

What you looking at?

Where's my f*cking bin?!

SHE SCOFFS

DOOR SLAMS

ANIMAL NOISES

DING

Hi, Cath.

Oh, hello, love.

You all right?

I'm all right, you all right?

I didn't realise,

how long has it been a B&B for?

Oh, er, since Richard died.

It's nice to have a bit of company.

How can I, erm

There was a young girl who passed

through Chadder a few months ago,

and I was wondering

maybe she stayed here?

Nina Karlsson.

Nina Karlsson?

Manc Met must've questioned you

about her.

Ooh, don't think so.

But let me check the system.

A few months ago, you say?

Yeah, give or take.

You sure Manc Met

hasn't come by asking about her?

Nah.

Karlsson. Stayed here December last.

For two nights.

Two nights to see a tree?

Well, it's pretty much the norm.

Has Katie Wells ever stayed here?

Why would she?

I dunno.

Oh, seems like that Nina girl

never checked out.

She owes me 26 quid!

Oh, hello. Er, what's the name?

Jordan.

Jordan.

KEYS JANGLE

Welcome to Chadder.

Are you here to see the tree?

Oh, in all its beauty.

SIREN WAILS

CLUNK,

SIREN WINDS DOWN

Hey! Hey! You look wank.

Where've you been?

Out.

We're running the ovens tonight.

There's two batches going in.

I'll need you here, not on the road.

Er, well, D-Dez. The thing is

there's, erm, a problem

SLAMS TROLLEY

What f*cking problem, Kane?

Don't want problems.

You'll be here tonight.

SOFTLY: f*ck! f*ck, f*ck, f*ck.

BREATHES SHAKILY,

BRANCHES SNAP

BIRD CALLS

ANIMAL CALLS

RUMBLE,

ANIMAL SCREECHES

COUGHS AND RETCHES

PANTS

No, no, no, no.

No, no, no, no!

Al, would you rather be

a rat or rubbish?

I want to say neither.

If it were me, I'd say a rat.

Cos least you can move around a bit.

No-one wants to be rubbish.

Oh, my God.

Oh, my God.

Not playing games, is she?

Oh, my God,

she's like an actual detective.

Exactly, she is proper

Oh, Lind.

Hi.

Would you rather be

a rat or rubbish?

Rat. Speaking of rubbish,

just had a call from Mrs Whittaker.

60 Rippell Road.

She's had her bins pinched.

Ah, another one? sh*t's sake.

Yeah. Can we get on it?

On it, boss.

Like Sonic, boss.

PHONE RINGS

Boss. You are proper, aren't you?

You what?

'I didn't realise

you had hero status.

'You're like Vera, boss.'

Is that the best comparison?

'You should be getting free sh*t,

like watches and cinema tickets.'

I'm not sure it works like that,

but thanks.

Anyway, I just went to see the tree.

Took me all of five minutes.

Did you touch it?

Give over. So, do me a favour.

Since you waste your life online,

get on Tripadvisor

and find out why these kids

need two days to see a tree.

Ah, Lind's put me and Al

on Mrs Whittaker's bin.

BANG

Oh, you've got to be kidding me.

'I know, it's rubbish, in't it?'

SIGHS

Calling on a Sunday? Must be urgent.

'I've got an apology to make.

'You know that sample that I took

of the black liquid?'

I might've used

the wrong mixing agent.

Meaning what?

Meaning that the sample

is now corrupted.

'It's my mistake. Sorry, darl.'

But you know what? It'll be

engine oil. I wouldn't lose any kip.

Ta for letting me know.

KNOCK ON DOOR

Did you think I wouldn't notice?

Money's missing from my account.

£6,000. The bank notifies you

for sums like that.

At first, I thought it were fraud.

But to see that it was my son

who took it.

There's something that I need to do.

Something important enough

to steal from your own mother?

I thought I'd raised you

better than that.

Mum I'll pay it back, Mum.

You'll know everything soon.

COUGHS

Are you OK, love?

Have you got anything for a

Chesty cough?

Yeah, sort of.

We do a nice raspberry linctus

on that shelf.

Hey.

You OK?

Yeah, fine.

Haven't seen you since Friday.

What do you remember?

I don't.

You don't remember that drive home?

No. What happened?

Something.

Something that's got me thinking.

God, this place, Mem.

Feel like I need out.

Why?

Feel like

like I'm living my life in,

like a matchbox or summat.

Like, I want to see places,

people

be excited.

Have you never

thought about it before?

Mum needs me at the shop.

With your brains, you could get

a job anywhere, doing anything,

and you'd be making a mint.

Shut up.

You'd be CEO of some big fat firm

in Manchester.

I'd be in accounts obviously.

John'd be on security.

Yeah.

Do you not, like,

want that adventure?

Course.

WHISPERS: Just something

I need to do here first.

PHONE BUZZES

Hello?

Yep.

Yeah. Yeah, all right.

I'll be there.

That's £2.80.

See you.

Oh, Mem?

It feels like

we're at the start of summat.

Bye.

See you.

WIND GUSTS,

TREES CREAK

FLIES BUZZING

It's rare for you, needing help.

I don't need help.

I don't mind

being your knight in shining.

I just need a tyre.

Right. Yes.

Does that look normal to you?

Pothole?

Mm.

Riya, you left

your own birthday party

to look for a girl

who was at her house.

Meaning?

Most things

never look normal to you.

All right, fine.

It's just a pothole.

But there is something going on

with Katie Wells.

AUDIOBOOK: 'The day they dredged him

from the lake,

'he had rocks in his pockets.'

COUGHS

'Black rocks.

'As they lay him on the shore,

'the same miserable look on his face

he had when he was living

'..the black rocks tumbled

from his pockets.

'I picked them up,

like an odd kind of treasure.'

COUGHS

Oh, my God.

'He was riddled with fear, my dad.

Used to try and smoke it away.

'Smoked all his life. But it wasn't

the cigs that k*lled him.

'It was the fear.

That's what the black rocks are.

'The fear we carry around with us

'..that eventually drags us

to our death.'

EERIE CHIRPING,

WINGS FLAP

Katie?

What d'you want me to say?

SCREAMS

ECHOING: I'm Nina, and I'm lost?

Where did you go, Katie Wells?

RADIO: 'Boss, another one for you.

'Would you rather have

all-white eyeballs

'or a see-through nose?'

Rather have both.

See if anyone in this town notices.

Ready to do this?

COUGHS

ALERT JANGLES

PHONE RINGS

Hello, Jumbo Breads.

Katie speaking.

'Hiya, it's head office.

'We need to talk to Derek about

waste management. Is he there?'

Erm, I'll see if he's about,

give us a sec.

Dez?

WOMAN: He's not 'ere, love.

I'll get him to call you.

'It's urgent'

RADIO PLAYS

1972 Gran Torino, eh?

I'd sell it, but it's sold.

Well, I'd buy it, but I'm skint.

All right.

So

You've changed the sign, I notice.

Makes sense

if I'm paying the rent.

I'm looking forward

to starting back, you know.

It's not that I don't want you to.

The minute people see you here,

they will stop coming. Hm.

I can lend you some money.

I don't want your money.

Well anything I can do to help.

You can give me Katie's car back.

It's in a bit of state.

Well, I reckon

I'll be able to manage because

I'm a bit more experienced than you.

Remember that, eh?

TOOL CLATTERS

Christ.

Does it run?

Just.

Right.

Take these tools. You'll need them.

ENGINE STARTS

ALI: She said it's the red bin

that's gone missing.

Mm, that's recycling.

No-one bothers with that.

They should, Nish,

if they don't want the planet

to be three degrees warmer by

Have a day off, Ali.

Hiya, boss.

All right, boss.

LINDA: Sherlock!

Good of you to make the time.

I hear you've put yourself

on the Nina Karlsson case.

The closed Nina Karlsson case.

LINDA SIGHS

Ever since she lost Richard,

Cath comes to mine of a Sunday.

Cook her a chicken, we have a vino.

She talks to me about everything.

I thought I made it pretty clear.

No more conspiracy crap.

Nina stayed at Cath's B&B.

She didn't check out,

she didn't pay her bill.

So she did a bloody runner!

What did they teach you at the Met?

Every time someone leaves a sock

in a hotel room,

we don't launch a missing persons,

do we?

But it's not a sock. It's a person.

I'm sure Manc Met have covered that.

They haven't.

They didn't even question Cath

about her.

I'm just saying

it might be worth looking into.

I mean, maybe there's a cult thing

or a drug thing or

Maybe where Nina went

is where Katie went.

ALL: Katie's at home.

There is more to this place

than bins.

I am telling you that now.

Potholes don't just appear

out of nowhere,

and stags don't just disintegrate

on forest roads.

That's enough, Riya.

This is not Broadchurch.

Let us keep our eye on the prize.

EDDIE: Jo.

Go, go, go, go, go, go, go.

Made you a sandwich,

though there weren't

much in the cupboards,

but I did my best.

What's your plan?

How long are you here for?

Well, I didn't realise

I were on a timer.

My life, this.

Five years it's took

to rebuild all this,

and it's been a f*cking scrape

for me and my kids.

Your kids, is it, yeah? Yeah?

I don't want them living scared.

f*cking talk to them, then.

Prison counselling

not teach you owt?

What counselling?

Oh, you didn't go.

No, it didn't

SHE SCOFFS

work because I can't

remember what I did.

Jim can. Most of the town can

if you ever want filling in.

Head Office?

They say what it was about?

Just said it were urgent.

Didn't even know we had

an head office. Hm.

Erm they did say summat

about waste management.

Right. You-You sure that

that's what they said? Mm.

Kane!

Kane!

HE GRUNTS,

GROANS

Where are you, you f*cking toerag?

Where were you last night?

Why?

You were meant to be on nights.

I asked you. I told you.

Ah, sh*t.

Yeah, "sh*t".

Waste management's just called.

No!

Last night's batch.

You were supposed to be there!

It's on you, this.

I can't

I can't deal with this any more.

It's strangling me.

I can't I want out.

There is no out!

There's only in.

For me and you there's only in.

We clean up at dusk.

DOOR SLAMS

f*ck! f*ck!

SCREAMING ECHOES

JOHN: Kate.

I've been trying you all day.

Soz f

You're a d*ck.

Just jealous, I suppose.

Mehmet's your bezzie mate.

He's OUR bezzie mate.

SHE SCOFFS

Katie. Oi!

How would you feel about moving?

Moving? Where?

Manchester.

What's Manchester got?

Everything.

Like?

Everything.

What are you going on about?

People grow, John

OK. It don't mean

that people have to change, though.

Right.

Well, I've got a trial shift

tomorrow.

I'll be leaving at five.

K Katie, wait.

f*ck's sake!

JILL: You will drive yourself crazy,

Jim. He's not there.

I'm not sleeping, Jill.

You can't keep doing this, Jim.

Oh, you don't know him.

I saw Eddie today.

Mm.

He's angry.

So's Jim. He nearly died.

Eddie's acting like

some kind of victim.

SHE SIGHS

You've had a sh*t day.

Mm. Why do you say that?

You're glugging.

I just feel like it's me v them.

Who's "them"?

Linda.

I mean,

if it's not cat with a cough,

it's missing bins.

And what's wrong with missing bins?

There's nothing wrong

with missing bins.

It's just we've got missing girls.

WHISPERS: Who aren't missing.

PHONE BUZZES

Sue, I'm in the pub.

I'll be home in ten, all right?

JORDAN: IPA, if you've got it?

MIKE: All right.

If you always compare Chadder

to the Met Police,

the anger and frustration

will never go away.

SHE SIGHS

When I was a boy in Poland,

I wanted to do medicine

had dreams of going to Harvard.

Shut up.

True.

I ended up as a mechanic in Chadder.

Sometimes, you just have to deal

with what's in front of you.

PHONE BUZZES

SHE SIGHS

I should go. Sue needs me.

Yes.

Thanks for the beer.

Mem? You there, bud?

Listen, mate. Er

I thought we could grab a jar

at the Forest later if

Soz about Friday. I did

Well, if you're not even

gonna f*cking answer

f*ck that.

What the hell?

Is someone there?

Sue, I'm home.

SUE: Riya!

Sue?

Oh, Riya. Riya.

What's happened?

Hello.

Oh, God.

Box is too high.

Oh, come on. Let me get you up.

They shouldn't put it so high.

It's my memories.

You're all right.

I'll get it for you.

No. It's my memories

that he doesn't want me to see them

in case I remember.

Who doesn't want you

to look at them?

You can't take my memories.

DOORBELL RINGS

POUNDING ON DOOR

Be back in a minute, OK?

SUE GROANS

Jim?

Protection. You promised.

I said we'd try.

Well, it's too late. He's there.

He's on the site.

What? Who? Who's onsite, Jim?

Eddie.

SHE COUGHS VIOLENTLY

KATIE: 'Hey, Mehmet.'

Just so's you know,

I've booked a ticket.

For Manchester tomorrow.

'I thought

you might wanna come with.'

I know you've got the shop.

It's just

if you fancied it.

Eddie?

If you're here, I want you out.

'Call me when you get this.'

Oh, God. Mehmet.