01x02 - Episode 2

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LOUDSPEAKER CHIMES

ANNOUNCER: 'The 08:30
Great Central Rail service

'is ready to depart
from Platform...'

Think.

Remember!

SHE EXHALES

LOUDSPEAKER CHIMES

'The 09:35 Great Central
Rail service to Penderham...'

SHE GASPS

WHISTLE BLOWS

LOUDSPEAKER CHIMES

'Please keep an eye on
any personal belongings or bags.

'Any personal belongings
found unattended

'are to be
dealt with by security.'

This the one, is
it? Yeah.

TICKET READER BEEPS

HE GRUNTS

WHISPERS: f*cking puzzle...

Edward, I can explain!
Leave me alone!

Look, Edward, wait, please.

Your mendacity is as breath-taking
as it's inexplicable.

And I thought I'd found someone
to make this Godforsaken place

half-way bearable!
No fool like an old fool!

Well, at least hear me out
before you rush to judgement!

It only just happened.

Someone I was close to came into
the station with my parents,

and before I knew it, I was
out. I remembered how I died!

I was climbing the
fence by Platform 7.

I was trying to get over to
it, but someone was there

grabbing me and...
Someone you know?

I didn't see their face, but
I know it wasn't a suicide.

I wouldn't place
too much store in it.

Slippery buggers, memories,
they play tricks on you.

They're all that I have.

How else am I supposed
to find out why I died?

Well, does it really
matter? We are where we are.

The past can't be changed or
erased. My memory is real. I know it.

Keep going down this road,

you might find you don't
like what's at the end of it.

TELEPHONE RINGS

Doctor Richard Shale.
Neurology department.

Is Doctor Shale available?

When does his shift start?

No, no message.

What is it? Did
you see something?

I saw something.
Someone was chasing me.

Taking a tour
round the station, yeah.

BUZZER

Now a better time?

As our investigation team
on the Evans case no doubt told you,

in fatality cases,
it's our responsibility to...

I didn't speak to any
investigators. Why would I?

I barely saw her
after Matt moved in...

well, Doctor Goodson,
moved in with her. He's lying!

Ask him what he was doing
hanging round my flat at night.

But... you did attend
her birthday party?

Matt suggested I went. So what?

The coroner determined
the cause of death

was due to Miss
Evans' mental health issues.

Did you ever witness
any episode of that?

Given my meagre contact with her,
it's unlikely, wouldn't you say?

During the weeks
prior to her death,

she told a work colleague
that she saw you outside her flat

on several occasions.
Now we're getting there.

I run that way sometimes.

So, when was it
that you last saw her?

No, stick with the running!

Why always at night,
when Matt was at work?

I don't remember.

I've been out of the country
for most of the year,

I only got back last week.

Columbia Vale University.

Research fellowship, mitochondrial
dysfunction and cognitive defects.

Sounds impressive.

Can you recall the date
you left for the US?

September 2nd, 22:30, Luton Airport,
seat 22A. Very specific.

It was a specific question.

Er... September 2nd
was... the day after Evans' death.

Yeah, I-I didn't know
about it then. He's lying again!

Doctor Goodson didn't tell
you? Well, why should he?

You used to be flatmates,
work in the same hospital.

I'm not his f*cking keeper!

I only found out about
it in the States,

on her memorial page on social
media. Now you should go. Now!

You should be talking to
someone who actually knew her.

You're wasting your time
talking to me. And wasting mine.

Oh, Jesus...

HE SCREAMS Argh!

CHURCH BELL RINGS

I'm so sorry.

HE GRUNTS

BIRD CAWS

BIRDSONG

TELEPHONE RINGS

DOG BARKS Hello. Hiya!

TELEPHONE RINGS Hi, Rosie.

I was thinking about you on
Lisa's anniversary the other day.

And me you. So many times I meant
to call you, but, you know...?

Get this. A constable
from the Transport Police

contacted me about Lisa's case.

Tying up some loose ends
in her file, he said.

'I don't know,
something didn't sit right.

'If there's some
doubt about her case,

'why send someone so
junior, you know?'

Did he say there
were doubts about it?

'Why else would he be sniffing
around, asking questions about her?'

Because he doesn't buy it was a
suicide and neither should you!

'Hey, why don't we
meet for a drink?'

Time we have a catch up, hm?

I'm free tonight.

'Domino at six o'clock?'
Yeah. Yeah, why not?

Oh, I ran into Matt
a couple of weeks ago.

'He's still punishing
himself over it.

'Poor b*stard barely spoke
about anything else.'

I've got a customer.
See you later, then.

BELL RINGS Why did
you do that, Izzy?

She was just trying
to reach out to you.

The 11:35 to Birmingham
always leaves from Platform 6.

That was one thing
that one could rely on.

And now suddenly, poof!

It's vanished from
the departure board! Ergo...

Yeah, sir, if you'd
just... I'm still talking!

Sir, if you just...

Passengers can't find it,
customer numbers plummet,

and your powers-that-be
have the excuse they need

to cancel the service
altogether. Am I right?

If you check
the departure board, sir,

you'll see the
11:35 Birmingham service

has been temporarily
relocated to Platform 4.

My point still stands.

LOUDSPEAKER CHIMES

ANNOUNCER: 'The 11:35 Great Central
Rail service to Birmingham...'

How you have the
patience! Practice.

Er... I have news.

Why check her out on social
media if he barely knew her?

And taking off to the US
the day after she died!

Coincidence?
Mm. Or convenience.

Three reasons
someone goes under a train.

They jump... it
was an accident, and they fell...

or they were pushed.

Check this out.

OK. Lisa's flat is on
Victoria Road. The station.

The direct route from her flat
is south, down King Street,

right onto The Crescent
and over the footbridge.

Wait, do... do we know for sure
she was coming from her flat?

Her partner confirmed it at the
inquest, I checked the transcripts.

They, er, they went
to bed about 11:00...

he, er, woke in the
morning to find her gone.

He tried calling her,
but she left her phone behind.

Now... from the CCTV,
what there is of it,

instead of going south
down King Street,

she took a left,
went into Queen's Alley,

then all the
way down Dawes Road,

before entering the car park...
and reaching the security fence.

If it was the station
she was trying to get to,

why not go directly there?

Er, maybe she...

It explains her circuitous route...
she was trying to shake them off.

Why didn't CID pick up on it?

Well, maybe they
weren't looking hard enough.

Someone goes under a train,

the assumption is
it's probably suicide.

They look for the
facts that fit the theory.

You're really
into this, aren't you?

I know it's only one tragedy among
thousands that happen in the world.

But we can't do anything
about those, can we?

Maybe this is one
I could do something about.

Plus, I'm into puzzles.
Well... Wordle, sudoku.

Yeah. Plays
to my strengths.

Well, you're not short of those.

Does Inspector Barker know
you're doing all this?

Oh, you... Be careful, Kash.

HE CLEARS THROAT I
was wondering if, er...

TELEPHONE RINGS

sh*t. Oh, erm... I've
really gotta get this, sorry.

What genius came up with
all these new shift patterns?

Yeah, well, all
the chopping and changing,

I'm the one who has to try
and sell it to my staff.

SHE PANTS

SHE GROANS IN FLASHBACK

SHE INHALES SHARPLY

Barker clocked you
weren't at the briefing.

It's OK, I told him about

your hospital appointment.
Hospital appointment?

I heard you on the blower
asking for that urology doctor.

Is it prostate? Ha.

Been there, mate.

Turned out OK but it was scary sh*t
for a while. Just, can I...?

It was neurology,
not... not urology.

And, erm... I
wasn't calling about me.

The woman who went on the
tracks last year? Yeah.

I've been looking into her case.
There's definitely something...

Wait... What?

Platform 7, the teacher
who climbed over the fence.

Hold it. Let me get
my head round this.

I go over the line
to cover for you,

while you're going
AWOL on a year-old case

over some bird who topped herself?
I didn't ask you to, did I? Fine.

Next time, you're on your own.

TELEPHONE RINGS

OMINOUS MUSIC

HE CHUCKLES

MUSIC DROWNS OUT DIALOGUE

WOMAN: Hey! MAN:
Got you a coffee.

Oh, thank you.

Oh. You came. I was afraid
that you'd change your mind.

Let's get it
over with before I do.

LOUDSPEAKER CHIMES

'The 16:36 South Rail service
to Knatty Hill has been delayed.'

How'd you know it was this one
where Dad did it? Social media.

It was the same platform
as another suicide last year.

I'm done. I'll
see you in the cafe.

Remind me why you
thought this was a good idea.

I don't know. Closure?

The only people who get closure
are the dead. You think?!

It's never a good idea,
revisiting the scene of the crime.

Look, I've been thinking about you.
And, erm, there's this guy at work,

and his wife is a therapist, and
she specialises in cases like yours.

"Cases like mine"?

Yeah, you need talk through what
happened to you, Ella, with someone.

Someone neutral, who
can help you process it and...

I don't need a bloody
therapist, I'm fine.

Open your bag.

SHE SCOFFS

It's crap what they say,

that you can't smell
vodka on people's breath.

Yeah, well, I'm
really not in the mood

for one of your brotherly
pep talks right now, Luke.

OK. I know
that I've been judgmental.

But all those years, watching you
lose yourself in pills and booze

and God knows what...

You thought I
was weak... and self-indulgent.

In fact, you actually told
me that... more than once.

And I'm sorry. Erm,
you have no idea how sorry,

but I didn't know then,
Ella, I didn't... know.

But this is your chance to get your
sh*t together, don't you see that?

To take control of your life,

to be the person that
you were always meant to be.

But you have to
find out who she is.

And you can't do that on your
own. She's expecting your call.

And that's how it works, apparently.
You have to take the initiative.

It's not about me, though,
is it? It's about you.

Because if I clean up my
act, then, hey, presto,

your conscience over
Dad is clean too.

And you get to go back
to your little family,

knowing that you
put the world to rights.

Trust me, my conscience
on Dad is beyond clean!

k*lling himself was
the only decent thing he ever did

in his whole
rank, miserable life.

I just f*cking wish
he'd done it years ago!

Finally, something we
can agree on. Ella.

Particular kind of
t*rture, isn't it?

How they take it for granted,

the freedom to come
and go as they please.

I was looking for you earlier.

Your son and daughter were
here. Ella was here?

Did you talk to her?
No, of course you didn't.

How was she? How did she seem?

They wanted to see where
you... Where it happened.

She called it, "Returning
to the scene of the crime."

Why would she say
something like that?

Cliches are a common coping
mechanism in stressful situations.

Your son didn't seem stressed,
more royally pissed off with you.

He and I never bonded
in the way I did with Ella.

They're complicated
things, families.

Then why did you do it?
Why did you k*ll yourself?

I had my reasons. I
must ask you to respect that.

Actually, it's not the first
time I've seen her here.

It was a day or so
after you did it.

Of course, I didn't
know who she was then.

She was in the station caff,
crying. She was?

You've no idea
how gratifying that is,

to know she
felt my loss so deeply.

You're her father.
Why wouldn't she?

Not my business. Good.
We're on the same page.

Weirdest thing. Seeing
her crying that day

was when my memory
started coming back.

Somebody said, Jung probably,

coincidence is
just destiny in disguise.

Who knows? Perhaps our lives
are destined to be entwined.

IZZY: 'What
kind of inconsistencies?'

In the weeks prior to her death,

did Lisa ever mention
Doctor Richard Shale to you?

Why?
His name came up.

Apparently, he attended
a surprise birthday party

Doctor Goodson held for
Lisa. Did you also attend it?

And he was around when
Matt moved into Lisa's flat.

What did you make of him?

Dunno. I just... He didn't seem
comfortable in his own skin.

It's on record
that Lisa became depressed

during the school summer holidays
but resisted getting treatment.

Did she... discuss her reasons
for that with you at all?

No. We weren't in contact then.

We had a... a bit of a
falling out. A personal issue.

And I never bought
the whole depression thing.

By definition, it
means the absence of hope.

That just doesn't
happen over a few weeks.

It corrodes over
months, years, even.

Until you get to a place
you hope for something,

but you know it'll never
happen just cos you want it to.

If you've a theory about what
might have been troubling her..

..I'd like to hear it.

Someone you love
chooses to end their life...

it doesn't
end your relationship.

It just leaves
it hanging with questions

you know you're never
gonna get the answers to.

I'm sorry, I just.. I can't wrestle
with the whys of it any more.

I'm sorry, I can't go there again.
Perhaps... I can go there for you.

MELLOW DANCE MUSIC PLAYS

BARMAID: There you go. MAN:
Cheers. Thank you.

MAN CLEARS THROAT

WOMAN LAUGHS

MUFFLED CONVERSATION

ALL: Happy birthday!

CHEERING

WHOOPING

Oh, happy birthday, gorgeous!

I hope you don't mind,
I've brought my cousin Jasmin,

I think you met her at my Christmas
do. Yeah, that's fine, course.

Hey, babe. Hey,
birthday girl!

FLASHBACK LISA: Was this
your idea? 100% his.

Ha! Happy
birthday. Ha-ha.

You look
amazing. Thank you.

And I suppose you was in on it too?
He swore me to secrecy.

THEY CHUCKLE I can't
stand you (!) Thank you.

Er... Many happy returns.

I'm never sure what that
means. Returns of what?

Well, just that
you'll live to celebrate

more birthdays in the future.

SONG: 'Valerie'

♪ And I think of all
the things What you do

♪ And in my head
I paint a picture... ♪

Come on, then!

♪ Cos since I've come on home
Well, my body's been a mess... ♪

MUFFLED CONVERSATION

LAUGHTER

FLASHBACK LISA: 'What's
going on, Izzy?'

What, did someone upset you?

Tell me who and I'll go
f*cking sort 'em out, babe.

What is it, Izzy?

You feel it too, don't you?
Something happened here.

ROSIE: Hi.

Rosie! Mm!

God, this place
brings back memories.

Yeah. First time I've
been back here since her birthday.

Yeah, me too. Seems
like a lifetime ago, doesn't it?

Not to me, feels like yesterday.

Same again?
Great. Thanks.

What the f*ck happened
here that night, Izzy?

Thank you.

Thank you.

Well... To
Lisa. Lisa.

Transport Police Constable showed
up at the shop this afternoon.

Said the same as he said to you,

about there being
inconsistencies in her file.

I thought he
seemed pretty genuine.

Empathetic.
What did he ask you?

Wanted to know more
about her "depression".

Oh, come on, Rosie. When did
you ever see Lisa depressed?

Why else would
she do what she did?

She had no other reason.
Yeah. That we know of.

Matt was with
her, he should know.

Why is it that people think
that doctors walk on bloody water?

I knew Lisa since
we were 11 years old.

We went to the same school,

we shared the same flat
while she was at uni.

There was nothing that
we didn't know about each other.

In all those years, she
never showed one sign of depression.

Not once, ever. Matt
explained that at the inquest.

It was the
sudden-onset bipolar thing...

IZZY SCOFFS Bipolar?

What the f*ck happened
with you and Matt?

You saw the state he
was in at the funeral.

He could
barely hold it together,

yet you hardly said
two words to him.

He loved her, Izzy.
I know that for a fact.

Yeah, well, maybe you don't have
all the facts. Meaning?

Stop f*cking about, Izzy, if
you know something, then say it!

You were jealous of him.

Yeah, all that stuff you shared with
her, when she hooked up with Matt,

suddenly, she wasn't available to
you any more. Yeah, fine. Whatever.

Well... Maybe
this wasn't such a good idea.

Yeah, maybe not.
Hm. OK, then.

You know, we can all feel guilt
that we weren't there for Lisa

in those last weeks. But blaming
the one person who was...

it's more than unjust...
it's f*cking callous, Izzy.

ANNOUNCER: 'The 17:05 Great Central
Railway service to Birmingham

'will depart from Platform
3. This train will...'

You called
me back, so talk to me.

Er, OK. Erm, when you ran
out on me, where did you go?

I, erm...

..I went across the road.

And I sat on a bench
and finished this.

And then I went around the corner
to a pub, and I had another.

Others, plural.

It was all I could think about
whilst we were here talking.

"When can I
have a bloody drink?"

It's all I ever
think about, really.

I drink before work, I
drink at work, in the toilets.

And on my way home from work,
I'll stop off at the pub.

And at home on the weekends,
I do the exact same thing.

When I, when I fancy
a change of scenery,

then I will go to a bar.

And I'll wait for a
random man to buy me a drink.

Sometimes, they
even tell me their name.

But I've forgotten
it by the morning.

Because when I'm sober...

..when I'm sober he's in here...
f*cking with me, like he always has.

Do you remember this? I
was gonna show it you yesterday.

It was when I was home
after my first year at uni,

and I think
you were, what, 11, 12?

And I took you to the park.
Got someone to take our photo.

Dad was doing it to
you, then, wasn't he?

Edward. Oh, my God!

And I remember thinking at the
time, "What a little ingrate!"

I go to the trouble of
taking you to the park

to feed the bloody ducks,
and you barely open your mouth.

Told Dad the same
thing when I got home

and he said
that it was just a phase,

that you'd grow out of it.

And I swanned back off to uni, and
I didn't give it a second thought.

I'm your brother, Ella. I should
have protected you from him.

That night when... when I...

I told you what he had done to me...
and you went to confront him...

..what exactly did you say?

I told you what I
said when I came back.

I was drunk, remember?

HE CLEARS THROAT Yeah.

Erm, I told him
that I was gonna expose him.

That I was calling the
papers the next day.

That I'd put it
all over social media.

And if I had to, I'd put
posters on every street corner,

so the whole f*cking world
knew what kind of man...

the hallowed academic
Edward Warren CBE really was.

You know, when they called,
and they said that he was dead...

I thought that
I was free of him.

And... I thought that it was
over. But it's... but it's not.

Say it, Ella, whatever
it is, tell him!

When I was in a pub,

a group of girls came in,
celebrating something.

And they were about my age.

And... one of them kept
looking over at me.

And suddenly, I
saw myself through her eyes.

A 21-year-old, drunk, in
a pub in the middle of the day...

..deciding whether
if she has another drink,

she'll even be capable
of walking home.

SHAKILY: It doesn't work any
more, Luke. Why doesn't it work?!

SOBBING: Even when I'm drunk
now, he's still in there,

he's still
here... f*cking with me!

So, are you saying
that you'll do it... the therapy?

Ella...

Will you come with me?
Every step of the way.

Let's get the car,
I'll take you home.

Or better yet,
why don't you come to mine?

Tess would love to see you. It's
about time you saw the kids again.

SHE QUIVERS

SHE GASPS

LOUDSPEAKER

ANNOUNCER: 'The 12:06 Western
Cross service to Pelhamvale

'has been cancelled.

'Passengers looking to travel
to Pelhamvale, Revington, Raserhill,

'should take the
12:44 to Raserhill.'

They were here again just
now... Ella and Luke.

They were? So soon. Why?

They had things to talk about.

Concerning you.

Is Ella all right?

What was that thing you
said about coincidence?

Years ago, when I was on my
teacher training placement,

the behaviour of a girl in my
Year 7 class really worried me.

Touching herself and
talking about sex.

Things no child her
age should know about.

Classic signs she'd
been sexually abused.

Fascinating, though this
sojourn down memory lane is...

Anyway, I reported it to
the safeguarding leader,

and he said he'd look into it.

A week or so later, I checked
in with him. And he said...

he said that he'd
spoken with her father,

who was adamant that she didn't
behave like that at home,

and that she must have learnt it
from one of the older students.

Apparently, he was on
the Board of Governors

and was a major donor to the school,
so his word was never questioned.

Even so, I should
have stood my ground.

But I didn't. I let
it go. I failed her.

But you didn't k*ll yourself out
of shame, or even guilt, did you?

You did it out of cowardice because
your son was going to expose you.

SHE SCOFFS What, nothing to say?

That's not like you.
You're usually full of it.

Then again, there is nothing
you could possibly say

that I'll ever want to hear.

Before you get vertigo
on your f*cking moral high horse,

you should know that
everything I shared with Ella

was entirely consensual!
I was always scrupulous about that.

Luke was right.

It's a damn shame you didn't
jump under that train years ago.

Oh, I'm not the coward here!
At least I know why I did it!

You're the one
on some deluded quest,

trying to find someone to blame
because you can't face the fact

that your life was
an abject, pointless failure!

You know nothing about my life.

You ended up under a train.
Hardly a success story, was it?

Ella!

Ella!

Ella!

I'm trying to imagine
if you were here,

what your side of this
conversation would be, Dad.

But when I think about
it, I know what you'd say.

You'd say,
"Make Daddy happy, Ella!

"Show me you love me, Ella!"

I was a child.

And I trusted you!

And all these years after,

of feeling dirty...
and feeling worthless...

..and all my
f*cked-up relationships

because you, you told me sex was
just about love, and I believed you!

Well, f*ck you, Dad! f*ck you!

I survived!

SHAKILY: And I want others to
know that they can survive too...

..and that they're not alone and
that it's not their fault either.

SHE SOBS I'm gonna
finish what Luke started.

And I am... I am gonna drag
your name through so much sh*t,

that's all you'll
ever be remembered for.

And then I'm gonna
wipe you from my mind

like you never f*cking existed.

You don't get
to haunt me any more!

You won't even be
a ghost in my memory.

CHURCH BELL RINGS

TELEPHONE RINGS

Go on, give me your
simmering, sexy look.

Ha! Oh, my God, that would
make a great Christmas card!

SHE GIGGLES

If you... if
you dare! If you dared!

SHE CHUCKLES

Lockhart requesting the file
on that fatality last year from CID,

did you know about it?

Did you
know? No... sir.

Find him. Tell him I want him
in my office by close of play,

or don't bother
coming back at all!

LOUDSPEAKER: 'Dr
Beardmore, Resus Bay 2.'

MOBILE RINGS

Lockhart. 'You're
in deep sh*t, man.'

CID's file on the fatality
case you requested,

Barker's onto it.
He's gone f*cking ape.

'He wants you back
in his office ASAP.'

'Kash?' AKASH HANGS UP

Prize one f*cking idiot!

If you hadn't come to
me, I'd have come to you.

Please.

Do you mind if I record
this? I want you to.

I don't know where to begin.

KEYS JANGLE

FOOTSTEPS

DOG BARKS IN DISTANCE

WOMAN: Great flat.
MATT: Glad you approve.

Who's this?

Lisa.

It's my ex. I was having
a clear-out of some things and...

She died. Suicide.

My God... For the first
few months after she moved in,

I-I really thought
we were heading somewhere.

Then suddenly, she changed
into a completely different person.

Interrogating me over every
single text, every phone call.

Even turning up at
work to check on me.

You know, who was I talking
to? What was her name?

I'd come back from
a day of mayhem at work,

and she'd start it all again.

God knows the
hours I spent trying to...

trying to help her,
trying to reassure her...

Someone gets into
that kind of paranoid mindset,

nothing you can say or do...

Eventually, I... I ended it,
for her sanity as much as mine.

And a week later, she
threw herself under a train.

If it was to
punish me... it worked.

You mustn't blame yourself...
you tried to help her.

It wasn't
enough, though, was it?

SHE QUIVERS

SHE GASPS

It was him.

FLASHBACK LISA WHIMPERS

SHE GASPS

It was Matty. HE PANTS