01x01 - Episode 1

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CHURCH BELL CHIMES

Full house! Ha-ha-ha.

You sneaked that up on me.

Bang on time. As per.

DOG WHIMPERS

DOG WHINES

DOG BARKS

DOG GROWLS

DOG BARKS

Goodbye, old friend.

DOG BARKS Best friend.

DOG BARKS, THEN WHINES

If you're planning on
doing what I think you are,

trust me, it's no great shakes
being dead. It really isn't!

Sir, can I help
you? TRAIN HORN HONKS

Can I help you?

Please don't do this!
Please... wait!

TRAIN HORN BLARES

Wait, sir! I'm
coming to talk to you.

I'll be right there,
sir, wait for me!

Whatever f*ck-ups in your
life, nothing is worth this!

Think of the people
who'll find you.

HORN BLARES They
don't deserve this!

HORN BLARES

HE GASPS

BRAKES SCREECH No!

SHE GASPS

DOG BARKS

SHE SOBS

DOG WHINES

TELEPHONE RINGS

Transport Police. PC
Lockhart, how can I help you?

Lock down the station.

MUFFLED RADIO CHATTER

It's OK. I'll leave you to
it, all right? All right?

SIREN WAILS

RADIO CHATTER CONTINUES

You witnessed
it? Yes. Yes.

Was anyone on the platform with
him? I-I tried to get to him.

It was too late. I-I was
too late! I tried. I...

I tried, just too late.

I-I tried.

Hey. Hey.
I'll just wait.

Hey. You're not to blame,
OK? It's not your fault.

It's not. It truly isn't.

"Please find my
dog Ulysses a..."

Driver. Poor sod.

First time?

Collect the
large parts first, OK?

There's counselling if you
need it, no shame in it.

You'll need that
for the Coroner Liaison,

tucked in his dog's
collar, unsigned. No ID.

We'll run his DNA on the database,
see if it turns up anything on him.

First time or not,
you never get used to it.

Just gotta
find a way through it.

BEEP

BEEP

BEEP

LOUDSPEAKER CHIMES

ANNOUNCER: 'The 08:30
Great Central Rail service

'will depart from Platform 4.'

CHEERING AND LAUGHTER

Away from the platform edge, please!
Keep moving back! Back! Thank you.

MAN: You want sugar, yeah?

'The 09:35 Great Central Rail
service... will arrive at...'

Hey. Look, it's OK!

I was with you last night.
I tried to stop you.

Look, I took my
own life here too.

Or at least I think I did.
You can't remember?

In fact, I have virtually
no memory at all.

Sometimes, I get a flash of
something, a room, a street,

even faces but...
nothing about my life...

or who I was.

You were so certain... so
determined to go through with it.

How were you so sure it
was your only way out?

Not your business.

Look, your secret's
safe with me.

It's not like I can
tell anyone, is it?

The living can't hear us,
can they? LOUDSPEAKER CHIMES

'The 11:35 Great
Central Rail service...'

You can't leave here, it
doesn't work like that.

Watch me. BEEPING

HE GASPS

We're the same, you
and I, don't you see?

I can't leave this place either.

It must be the price
we pay for what we did.

TICKET READER BEEPS

HE GASPS, HE STRAINS

HE SIGHS It's hard, I know.

God knows how many
times I've tried.

At least we've got
each other for company.

f*ck off, will you?

Just f*ck off!

TICKET READER BEEPS

ENTRY DOOR WHIRRS

It's all right. HUBBUB

Take care, everyone, yeah?
Bye. See you all.

LOUDSPEAKER CHIMES

ANNOUNCER: 'Please keep an eye
on any personal belongings and bags.

'Any property left unattended
will be dealt with by staff.'

Can I get you
anything else, love?

Sorry.

CARD READER BEEPS

Hi, Abby. Erm, yeah.

I-I think I'm coming down
with some kind of bug,

I just, I feel like crap.

I don't think I'm gonna
make this morning's meeting.

Could you, could
you call them and apologise?

You're a star! Thanks. Bye.

MOBILE BEEPS

SHE SOBS

Hey, Lisa. Hey, Lisa. Wake up.

Be there before the
commencement. CHEERING

Perish the thought.

I am so proud of you, Lisa.

SHE GASPS, SHE QUIVERS

SHE BREATHES HEAVILY
My name's Lisa!

SHE QUIVERS I was a teacher.

I had a family.

Why would I take my
own life? SHE SNIFFS

I was loved! SHE EXHALES

ANNOUNCER: 'The Great Central
Rail service to Birmingham

'will depart from
Platform 3.' You all right?

The other day, I was, er...
ungracious. I apologise.

No. It's me who
should apologise.

Banging on when you're still trying
to get your head around it all.

I'm Lisa. Edward.

I assume this is purgatory.

Rather more prosaic
than one was led to believe.

At least it's not
the other place.

Well, perhaps we
have that pleasure to come.

Mm. We'd have to have
done something pretty bad.

May I ask how
long you've been...?

Been stuck here? It
feels like eternity.

I always shared Stephen
Hawking's view of the afterlife.

It's a fairy tale for
people who are afraid of the dark.

If I run into him,
I shall demand a refund.

SHE LAUGHS

My daughter used to take the train
for work meetings occasionally.

Hoping to catch glimpse of her.

Does she work
Saturdays? Oh.

Lost track of time.

Can I ask you something?

You know I said I was having
problems with my memory?

It's starting to come
back... but only in bits.

But... I remember my
name... my parents...

that I was a teacher.

There's someone I
think I was close to.

But nothing about why I
would take my own life.

Do you remember why you did it?
Every detail. More's the pity.

Then why can't I? Some
kind of trauma, perhaps.

My nephew had something similar
after serving in Iraq. PTSD.

Huge gaps in his memory.

Good things, he could remember.

His marriage...
the birth of his child.

But whatever happened to him
on that last tour of Iraq

was a complete blank.

Trick the mind has, apparently...
to help very bad memories.

You want my advice?

Let it go.

Accept that some memories
are meant to be hidden.

Let that genie out of the
bottle, you may regret it.

MUFFLED RADIO CHATTER

Can I help you?

ETHEREAL FEMALE VOCAL

MUSIC DROWNS OUT DIALOGUE

Today's a year to the
day since our daughter...

We thought it fitting
if we left them where she...

I'm... I'm really sorry...
I'm afraid it's just not possible.

A risk of copycat...
giving someone the same idea.

Yeah, of course. Erm,
we wouldn't want to put anyone

through what we've been through.

God, no. Heavens, no.

MALE VOICE ECHOES: 'I love
you. I love you. I love you.'

I do, Lisa. I do.

We won't keep you.
Sorry for the trouble.

No, it's no trouble at all.

Not at all. It's
what we're here for. Thank you.

It still doesn't make sense.
She had everything going for her.

A career she loved, family,
friends. And a home of her own.

Best let them get on, Trev.

Come on. BEEP

Don't leave me here!

SHE GASPS

I'm free.

I'm free.

You set me free!

We'll, er, we'll
stop by the cemetery...

wouldn't want them go to waste.

You're welcome to
come too, if you like.

We've taken
up enough of his time.

It's not that. I
actually went this morning.

Well, thanks for coming today.

How could I not?

Take care of yourself, Trevor.

MOBILE RINGS, DRILLING

Yeah. I got your message.
No, I'm not on shift at the moment.

CHURCH BELL CHIMES
When was this?

SCRAPING, ENGINE ROARS

BABY WAILS

BUS HISSES

BIRDSONG

Layla?

KEY UNLOCKS DOOR

SHOWER PATTERS

'And I wasn't drunk,
before you ask.'

Perish the thought.

Wriggle
your toes. SHE WINCES

Push
against me? SHE GASPS

What's that "M" for?
Matthew.

Matt or Matty to my friends.

It's what we call in the
trade an "inversion injury",

i.e., a bog-standard sprain.

You'll need to keep
off it for a bit.

Is there anyone at
home who can help you?

Nope. Just yours truly.

SHE CHUCKLES IN FLASHBACK

Matty...

DAD: 'It still doesn't make sense.
She had everything going for her.

'A career she loved.
And a home of her own.'

Mental health issues?

Was I mentally ill?

Dad was right.

None of it makes sense.

I didn't know you had another one.
Before your time. She was my first.

LOUDSPEAKER CHIMES

I was covering
for the night manager.

It was the same platform,

but she didn't come in through the
front entrance like the old guy.

She... came in over the
security fence, in nightclothes.

Yeah, it's always bugged me...
why she chose to come in that way.

The security
fence on Platform 7.

That is odd.

The, er...
the old man is my first.

You just never know what's going
on in people's lives, do you?

TELEPHONE RINGS

Soccer train, Saturday,
where are we on the PCU?

Six from the local force, sir,
plus PCs Tasifa, Laxton and myself.

Double it. Home team lose again,

we'll have another
shitshow on our hands.

HE SIGHS

TELEPHONE RINGS

BEEP

MATT BRUSHES TEETH

SHE INHALES SHARPLY

Trying to work out if
your eyes are brown or hazel.

Hm, I can make them
disappear too. THEY CHUCKLE

It's
osso buco. Mm-hm.

Best outside Italy.
It's a house speciality.

It'll k*ll the taste of my fish.

SHE SIGHS Go on, then. Go on.

Huh? Mmm!
Seriously yum.

So, tell me about yourself.

Like what? Anything.

Everything. Family, friends,
siblings, all points in between.

No siblings, just me.
An only child.

So you're used to getting
your own way. Hardly.

My parents were so
afraid of spoiling me,

they totally went the other way.

My mission will be
to put that right.

SHE CHUCKLES

And you?

My father cleared
out when I was two.

And my mother died
when I was at med school.

I'm sorry.

You must have been very close.

So, the teaching, what subject?

English and Drama.

So, you prefer to live
in the world of make-believe?

I mean, can you blame me?

Look at the mess that
the real world's in.

MATT SOBS Shh!

HE SOBS Shh! It's OK.

I'm here... RAIN PATTERS

HE WHIMPERS

What was going on
with me, Matty?

Were you trying to help
me, or was I beyond help?

THUNDER RUMBLES

FOOTSTEPS

HE SIGHS Where
are my f*cking keys?

Fruit bowl?

DOOR CLOSES

The works were scheduled
for the bank holiday.

KNOCK ON DOOR Yes?

Right, well, tell him I'm gonna
be calling him on the hour,

every hour, until we speak.

Oh, my God. I'm surrounded
by idiots! What can I do you for?

The fatality last year that
bothered you, I did some checking.

There was no suicide note,

but the coroner put it down
to mental health issues.

Could explain why
she came over the fence.

Yeah, er, yeah, erm...
I know, I-I remember.

Erm, it was just...

..her climbing in that way
in her nightclothes, and it...

She was my age.

Well, I can dig around a bit
more, check out the CCTV,

see if that throws up anything.

No, no, no, there's, there's
no need, really. A good cause.

OK.

Right.

DOOR OPENS THEN CLOSES

Mum.

Two down, "Albatross".

Missed a bit, Dad.

You feel it too, don't you?

That something's not
right about this.

DOOR CLOSES, DOG BARKS

DOORBELL RINGS

MUM SIGHS

Oh, missed a
bit, Trev. SHE CHUCKLES

SHE LAUGHS, DOG BARKS

Hello. Oh,
Izzy! Trev, look who's here!

Hiya. You
got time for a coffee?

Oh, yeah, please.
Come on in. Come here.

DOG BARKS

Hello, Banjo! DOG BARKS

You all right?
Banjo, shush!

DOG BARKS, THEN GROWLS

DOG BARKS

So good of you to
keep looking in on us.

It's not a chore!
Anyway, Banjo needed a walk.

How'd you get on
at the station, then?

Oh, they wouldn't let us
leave the flowers you gave us.

Risk of copycat.

Matt go with you as planned?

Yeah. Yeah. He was such a
comfort, wasn't he? Mm.

First time we've seen him in
I don't know how long. Mm.

He looked exhausted.

I keep asking him for Sunday lunch,
come and have a home-cooked meal,

But he's working all
hours in that hospital.

It's, er, it's no life, is it?

I should have just been
a better friend to her.

Hey, hey, Izzy, why
would you even think that? Hm?

Hey, no-one was a better
friend to her than you!

Just don't be nice to me.
Please, I don't deserve it.

You were like the sister
she never had. Her words, not mine.

DOG BARKS

Thanks for the coffee.

Any time you're passing,
you're... you're always welcome.

Don't leave it so long next time.
Thanks again! Come on, then, Banjo.

Bye, Izzy.
See ya.

Take care.
Bye.

DOOR CLOSES

SHE EXHALES

ENGINE TURNS OVER OUTSIDE

SHE GROANS

What are you doing? You don't
even know what you're looking for.

This is so f*cked up!

Someone must know what
was going on with me.

SHE EXHALES

DRAMATIC MUSIC
DROWNS OUT DIALOGUE

Richard!

TELEPHONE RINGS

PC Lockhart again. I'm still waiting
on the CCTV on the Lisa Evans case.

If you could chase it up.

Thank you.

Getting a sandwich
if anyone asks, yeah?

Got a shedload
going spare, mate.

Cleo went into overkill again.
You're all right.

Ms Diaz. PC Lockhart.
We spoke on the phone.

Thank you for seeing me.
About Lisa's case, you said.

I'm sorry, but I thought

you guys only go after
ticket dodgers and the like.

Our remit is wider than that.

Er, criminal damage,
sexual offences... fatalities.

I understand you and Miss
Evans were close friends.

You, er, taught at the
same school. Mm-hm.

Well, er, as you know from the
inquest, the coroner concluded...

Erm... Ahem.

I'm so sorry.

Ah...

Gracias.
It's all right.

The coroner concluded
her mental health

was the overriding
factor in her death.

In the weeks before it happened,

what was your impression
of her state of mind?

Erm... It was at
the end of the school holidays,

so I was at my parents' place
in Spain for most of it.

Aside from a few texts and video
calls, we didn't have much contact.

Did she talk in any of
them about being depressed?

Probably
didn't want to worry me.

Typical of Lisa,
she always put others first.

Mm. Her relationship with
Doctor Goodson, all was good there?

Yeah. From the get-go,
she said he was the one for her.

And he felt the same.

You only had to see them
together to know that.

When I got the news,
I flew straight back to see him.

He said after term ended,
she fell into a black depression.

For weeks, he
tried to persuade her

to see her GP
or a therapist, anyone.

But she wanted to work
through it herself.

He said he
would never forgive himself

for not picking up how serious
it was, that he had failed her.

SHE SIGHS

He's not alone in that.

Your... texts and
video calls with her...

was there anything that
caused you concern about her?

Well, only the Richard thing.

Richard Shale.
Erm, Matt's old flatmate.

She said he kept loitering
outside their flat

while Matt was at work.

Not just in the day
but at night too.

He was stalking her?

I don't know about that,
but it creeped her out big time.

Well, did you tell the
investigating team about him?

Yeah, they said
they would follow up on it.

Oh...
I met him once

at a surprise birthday party
that Matt held for her.

He just sat in a corner
all night staring at her.

Do you have his contact details?

No, but he worked
in the same hospital as Matt.

MOBILE PINGS

Oh, sh*t, I'm
gonna be late for class.

Thank you for your time.

Bye, then.
SHE CLEARS THROAT

MAN: 'Lisa, I presume.'

I'm Richard. Matt's not here
yet. As you've probably gathered,

punctuality's not his
strong point. Among others.

He said you met in A&E.

Yeah. I did my ankle in,
and... Matty looked after me.

Hm. Course he did.

So you work in the
hospital as well?

In A&E too, or...?
Neurology.

Emergency medicine's
for adrenaline junkies.

SHE SCOFFS You're a teacher.

For my sins. Yeah. Hm.
I can think of worse sins.

Ah, the man himself. Finally.
Sorry, sorry! RTA came in.

Just as I was leaving,
all hell broke loose.

I hope you made her feel
welcome? Why wouldn't I?

At least I'm not
empty-handed. This way.

You'll need these.

Good luck.

Thanks.

SHE GASPS

MATT: 'Taking your pulse.'

It's perfect sync.

Do you love me?

You first. I
asked first.

SHE CHUCKLES

We'll say it
at the same time, deal?

No wimping out?
HE BREATHES DEEPLY

Ha... Ready?

One, two, three...

I love you! SHE GASPS

You lying, double-crossing
little sh*t.

I-I love
you. SHE GIGGLES

I love you. I
love you, I love you! Mm.

I do, Lisa. I do!

I love you. I love you.

Sorry, I
thought I heard you leaving.

Matty went for a takeout.

Your flatmate gives
off a weird vibe.

Oh, did you pick up
on that, did you?

Mm-hm. He called you
an adrenaline junkie.

I mean, the guy is bordering
on being a f*cking genius,

but when it comes to people,
he can be a total arsehole.

SHE CHUCKLES
Especially with women.

He literally sends them
running for the hills.

Did you meet each
other at the hospital?

We trained together.

Poor guy was utterly friendless.
I kind of took him under my wing.

Now I can't get shot of him.

When I got the A&E job,
he followed me down here.

Don't let him get under your
skin, he's not worth it. Mm-hm.

What? I just need to send this.

MESSAGE ALERT

SHE SNIGGERS

DOOR BUZZER

Doctor Shale? PC
Lockhart, Transport Police.

Do you have a few
minutes? Concerning?

Fatality a year ago
at the station, Lisa Evans.

A few discrepancies in
her file need clarifying.

Now's not a good time.

Er, my, er, contact details
to arrange a time that suits you.

BEEP

BEEPING

BEEP

BEEP

BEEP

SHE QUIVERS

HE SIGHS

SHE PANTS

SHE GASPS

SHE SCREAMS

MUFFLED VOICE: 'Train!'

TRAIN BRAKES SCREECH

THUNDER RUMBLES

SIGN CREAKS

WIND WHISTLES