01x04 - Episode 4

[bunniefuu]

SASHA: Matt, what time did you
say that the table was booked for?

Oh, sh*t! sh*t! I'll call
them, and I'll push it back.

OK for a quick shower?

Room enough for two?

I'll be right there.

Matt!

What the f*ck?
What happened to it?

Looks like it
was struck with something.

Makes no
sense. Spooky.

Imagine my surprise...
when a colleague in CID

tells me one of my constables
requested their file

on that suicide from last year.

A request that
ignored both protocol

and the courtesy of informing
his superior officer.

I don't think...
it was a suicide, sir.

I've conducted interviews
with people who knew her.

You've done what?!

The Coroner's verdict was based
on her having mental health issues,

which relied solely on the testimony
of her partner, Dr Goodson.

I recorded an interview
with a doctor who trained with him.

It proves that
Goodson's history with women is...

You've breached every protocol for
interviewing witnesses, as well.

If you'd just listen
to what he said, sir...

RECORDING: 'His ex-girlfriend
Helen tried to k*ll herself too,

'she slashed her wrists.'

Turn the damn thing
off. Right now!

'Usually, nurses he goes for.

' "Low-hanging fruit",
he calls them.'

Wait. 'He's got
his eye on a new one now.

'Another nurse. He's dangerous.

'He has to be stopped.'

It's not clear
on the CCTV, sir...

..but I think Goodson
was chasing her that night.

This isn't bloody Columbo.

What you think is irrelevant. You
poke the bear without evidence,

you may as well hand in
your badge right now.

There's no allowance
for failure with them...

Your best chance of getting
the case reopened...

is to discredit Goodson's
claim about her mental state.

Which means finding
credible witnesses

to confirm she was mentally robust
prior to her relationship with him.

Focus on Evans' parents.

Without them onside, you're
on a hiding to nothing.

The nurse who attempted
suicide... his ex before Evans?

Helen Gao. Get
a statement from her.

And take that damn
phone over to forensics.

Get things downloaded before they're
corrupted. Yes, sir.

And if I think you're
neglecting your duties...

..I'll pull the
damn plug on you.

Yes, sir.

Thank you, sir.

My daughter is a nurse.

Good night, sir.

"Low-hanging fruit."

Hi, Mum. Did he go down OK?

And you remembered to
put on his night nappy?

Oh, my God, she has a child.

Oh, just the best time!

He's everything I
thought he'd be and more.

I actually think I
might've gotten lucky this time.

I'm not rushing into it!

OK, OK, I hear
you. I'll pace it.

I love you, too.

Listen to your mother, Sasha!

And in God's name, don't let
him anywhere near your son!

CAR HORN HONKS
That'll be the cab.

Hope you're
hungry? Famished.

I need to give
her a wakeup call.

Still got a job?

So, after the split from
Max's dad, I moved back here

to be near my parents,
to help with the childcare.

Was it tough,
the split with his dad?

He was very... controlling.

Oh. But
trust me, I am well out of it.

Out of the frying pan and
straight into the furnace.

Anyway, enough about me.

You've barely told me
anything about yourself yet.

Not much to tell.
What you see is what you get.

LISA TUTS, SIGHS

Try it.

Here we go. Little by
little, inch by inch.

Delicious.

So, when do I get to
meet the little guy?

The thing is... he's been through
so much upheaval recently...

..I kind of have to be cautious
about who I introduce him to...

Mm-hm.

..new relationships, unless
I think it's going somewhere.

No rush. I get it.

I'll wait in the wings
until you're ready.

It's not like that.
I mean, if it was just me...

We kind of come as a package
deal. Two for the price of one.

I know it's still early days, Sasha,
but I need to put this out there.

I wanna be part of your life...

LISA SCOFFS ..if
you'll let me?

And Max's. A big part.
OK, time for some direct action.

LISA LAUGHS What the...?!

What happened?
It's OK, no harm done.

Shall we just...?
It's fine.

WAITER: I'll
get you another glass.

Accidents happen.

See, this is what he does.

He makes you feel that
everything's your fault,

until in the end, you
start to believe it, too.

What I'm trying
to say, Sasha, is...

..I'm so up for this.
You know, for a long time,

I've known that
something was missing from my life.

Meeting you, I know what it is.

It's being part of a family.
Be careful what you wish for.

Three-year-olds, they're
not exactly user-friendly.

Well, he won't be
three forever, will he?

But, listen,
it's... it's your call.

You're in the
driving seat. LISA: No!

This is how he reels you in.

He makes you think you're
making all the decisions

but you're not, he is!

Maybe if we... take it slowly?

Take him to the park together?

You definitely need
that wakeup call, girl.

And soon.

RECORDING: 'Usually,
nurses he goes for.

'Low-hanging
fruit, he calls them.

'He's got his eye on a new
one now. Another nurse.

'He's
dangerous...' I...

'He has to be stopped.'

Bloody hell. What
is it that makes a man behave

that way towards women?

Well, they say
abusers usually come from

a*usive backgrounds
themselves, don't they?

But then so do millions of other
people who don't turn into abusers.

Makes you wonder if
some people are just born bad.

We've only Shale's word he is.
It was good enough for Barker.

I have to be sure
I'm right this time.

Find some way of talking to Goodson
without arousing his suspicion.

The police are always in and out
of A&E for one reason or another.

Ishan said you were here!
Ah, my Uncle Viraz, Aunt Darka.

Oh, hi.
VIRAZ: No, no.

We'll prepare something
special for you.

You like your food hot?
Yeah. Hotter, the better.

Finally, a date!
Does your mother know?

It's a work thing... Ah!
..not a date. Such a work ethic!

That one could learn
from his example.

Ishan, my cousin.

So, where'd
you meet? OK.

Let them be, woman!

Sorry about that.
You're right, it's not a date.

I mean, I'm hardly
dressed for one, am I?

Next time, I will be.

Sorry. I need to pick up a
pathology report from the mortuary?

Been going round in
circles trying to find it.

I'm going that way myself
in a sec, I can show you.

Ah, it's really kind
of you. Thank you.

It's for the, er, suicide
last week at the station?

Oh, yeah, heard about him.

It's not the first
jumper you've had, is it?

You know, before natural gas,

the favoured suicide MO
was sticking your head in the oven.

Least then, it's probably
a family member that would find you.

Not leave it to a bunch of poor
sods to collect your body parts

scattered all over a railway line.
Beyond selfish, if you ask me.

It's through the
doors to the basement.

LISA SIGHS What's
his favourite movie?

Think!

♪ My whole life with her words

♪ k*lling me softly
With her song. ♪

PHONE RINGS

Shale? 'PC
Lockhart, this a good time?'

Proceed. Dr
Goodson's ex-girlfriend

who attempted
suicide, the nurse?

Do you have contact details?
'For what purpose?'

'We're reviewing the suicide
verdict on the Lisa Evans' case.

'A statement about her
relationship with Dr Goodson

'would be helpful.'
Reviewing it for what purpose?

To give her justice.

I'll talk to her.

'I was glad you called.

'So many times, I
meant to come by to apologise.'

Finding me that way,
putting you through all that.

It was nothing.

In our culture, if
someone saves a person's life,

it means they are
responsible for them forever.

I'm kidding.
Oh!

HE STAMMERS

How've you been doing, anyway?

It took some time
to get my head straight.

When I was with Matt...
I wasn't me any more.

I'd lost myself.

When I heard about what
happened to the one after me...

the teacher?

It was a wakeup call.

I felt I owed it to her
to pull myself out of it.

If I hadn't, then...

..well, he'd
still be controlling me.

As he did her.

'Losing one of our own that
way, it was a shock to us all.'

The students especially.
She was a big part of their lives.

The term before her death,

was there anything
about her state of mind

that gave you cause for concern?

One thing was puzzling.

We were advertising
for a new Deputy Head,

I suggested she apply.
I didn't do it lightly.

She was relatively
young for such a post -

she hadn't
even run a department.

But once in a generation,
if you're lucky,

you get a teacher like her
who can literally change lives.

When she first came to us,

we had a Year Ten student
with serious anger issues.

Frankly, I thought he
was beyond our reach, you know,

I was on the
point of excluding him.

She asked if
she could have a go with him.

She spent every lunchtime
with him for the entire term.

He's now studying law
at Manchester University.

When I suggested
she tried for Deputy Head,

she all but bit my hand off.
Even asked if she could hug me.

Then two days later,
she sat where you are,

said she changed her mind.

Makes no more sense
now than it did then.

It wasn't just her
life that was lost...

..it was all of the lives
she would've touched.

PHONE RINGS

PC Lockhart's phone?

He's not here right now...
I can take a message?

'Dr Shale.'

It's affirmative on
the statement he requested.

Sorry... habit of mine.

I don't get it...
you and Matt being friends.

You're so different.

In our third
year at medical school,

Matt hadn't put in
the work for an exam.

He always sailed
close to the wind.

This time, he'd
left it too late to catch up.

He begged me to take it for him.

That's what
friends do, isn't it?

Friendship has never
come easily to me.

And when I got
to medical school...

from day one, Matt
took me into his circle.

I mean, people only had to meet
Matt, and they fell under his spell.

Well, you know that
better than anyone.

Because he accepted
me... so did they.

That is why I
took the exam for him.

And why I made allowances
for the way he treated women.

But when he started
going out with Lisa...

after... what happened
with you, I just...

I felt like I
had to keep an eye on her.

You know, if things looked like
they were going the same way, I'd...

I don't know, step
in and warn her, or...

So I started going by her flat
when I knew Matt was at work.

And did you warn her?

I bottled it. Every time.

But before I went to the States,
I tried to talk to Matt about it.

I told him, as his friend,
he needed to sort himself out

before Lisa ended up doing
the same thing that you tried to do.

He said I was never his friend...
I was just his useful idiot.

I don't usually talk this much.
I'm sorry. Don't be.

I'm starving. There's a new bistro
up the road. We could give it a try?

Uh...

I'd like that.

Should I change?

Um... Yeah,
yeah, no, I'll change.

Thank you.
For what?

For not judging me.

PAN SIZZLES ON STOVE
Play nicely now.

Crap feeling, isn't it? Not knowing
what's real or in your head?

Did you let someone
into my flat today?

Who was it? I haven't
let anyone in. The key.

The f*cking key that Lisa said

she gave you for
emergencies. Get it now!

You go into my flat again,

I will slap an injunction on
you. First and final warning.

That cuts both ways.

OK...

..so what's the plan here?

You, OK?
The mirror thing?

It was the old bag downstairs.

She's messing about
in the flat again.

Why would she to do that?
f*ck knows. Dementia?

Anyways, it's sorted now.

I knew there'd
be a rational explanation.

Listen, your new opposite
number, she arrived at lunchtime.

She's been asking after you.

I best go do the honours, then.

Matt Goodson. On splits today,

otherwise I'd have been here
to welcome you. Anthea Cox.

Anyone given you the tour yet?

No need, pretty much a scaled
down version of my last place.

Which was?
King's College.

Before that, Tommy's.

So, what brings you
out to no-man's land?

You sense what he's
up to, don't you?

Trust it, Sasha, listen to it.

There's a great pub.
If you're around later,

I can outline
some ideas I've had

for a new patient care
model I'm working on.

Just can't help yourself, can you?
Some other time, perhaps.

So... what's the verdict?
Two words. Up herself.

This might be useful. "Section
76, Serious Crime Act 2015,

"Offence of Controlling
or Coercive behaviour"

Find witnesses to Goodson's
controlling behaviour with Evans,

that is your angle to
reopen the case right there.

He's too clever to have done it in
front of her family or friends, sir.

Did CID check for
spyware on her phone?

She didn't take it with her.

If he had installed it,
he'd plenty of time to remove it

before he reported her missing.

Someone must know something...

..must have seen something.

You really reckon you'll be
able to get her case reopened?

A way to
go yet. Hm.

A word.

Before I report you to HR,
against my better judgement,

I'm gonna give you a
chance to explain your email.

Now, unless you've taken

complete leave of your
senses, I'm gonna assume

it was meant for someone
else. What email?

"I know you felt the
chemistry between us, as I did.

"I'm up for following
up on it, if you are?"

I didn't send that.

Someone must've hacked
into my emails. I did not send this.

For the avoidance of doubt,
let me make myself crystal clear.

Send me another email like that,
talk to me inappropriately,

so much as look at
me inappropriately,

I will haul you up to HR so damn
fast, you will go into orbit.

I might have to up my game.

Apologies for not
seeing you at my home.

I wanted to get the lie
of the land, so to speak,

before involving my wife.
She's still quite raw.

It's about my daughter's
mental health, you said?

You stated at the inquest that
she had no previous history of it?

None. That's why
it came as such a shock.

You also stated that during
the weeks prior to her death,

that aside from a few phone calls...
the only contact you had with her

was when you met her in town
for coffee the day before she died?

When you met her that day...
how did she seem to you?

DEEP SIGH On
edge... jumpy.

Even more so when Matthew
suddenly turned up out of blue.

Shortly after she died...
he came to see us.

He told us she'd
been depressed for weeks,

could barely get out
of bed some days...

He'd begged her to tell us
what was going on, but...

she didn't wanna worry us.

Then he cried.
And Evelyn comforted him.

Barely 24 hours
after losing her only child.

You had concerns
about Dr Goodson?

Just an instinct that there's
something... hidden about him.

Did you tell the
investigating team that?

I think they just put it down to

the ramblings of an over-protective
father. Too little, too late.

Dr Goodson's testimony
about her mental health

played a significant
part in the verdict.

Any evidence which disproves
his account could be

grounds to reopen her case.

In that event, sir, can I ask...

if you and Mrs Evans would
support such a challenge?

For my part, definitely.
But my wife, I...

She doesn't share
my opinion about Matthew.

Well, something's got
clogged... somewhere.

It's not the wand thing.
That'd be too easy, wouldn't it?

You know I said a constable
from the Transport Police called,

after details for
Lisa's file? Mm.

I went to see him.

There's a chance
they may reopen her case,

to ensure they
got the right verdict.

It's possible... that
Lisa's death was not voluntary.

That Matt was involved
somehow. Involved? He...

He did everything that he could
to help her! You know he did.

We only know what he
told us, don't we?

When it happened,
the first thing you said -

the very first thing -
was how could she get so depressed

in a few short weeks
when she'd never...

Yeah, and he explained,

it was the-the chemical
disorder, the bipolar thing!

I researched it.

The onset is
usually with teenagers...

CYNICAL LAUGH
..and the symptoms

develop over months, not weeks.
Oh, you "researched" it!

Oh, well-well, then,
you must be right!

I mean he's only a
trained doctor after all,

who's devoted his entire
life to saving others!

What are you saying exactly?

I think he
was... controlling her somehow.

A strong-willed girl like Lisa?

And-And if things weren't working
between them, I am her mother.

I am the first person
she would have told!

The morning before she died...

..you were still with your sister
in Bath. I met her for coffee.

And I think she wanted to
tell me about Matt then,

but then he came
in... You met her?!

You met her,
and you tell me now?

Because you
were blaming yourself

she hadn't turned to
you, confided in you!

When it's Matt who is to blame!

Think about it.

He was the only one
who ever saw her depressed.

Not Izzy, her friends,
anyone from school... us!

And it came up at the
inquest, remember?

When the Coroner asked
why there were no other witnesses.

Yes, and
he believed Matty's account!

Only after he wept on the stand
when he was giving his evidence.

He's a past master at that.

♪ Strumming
my pain with her fingers

♪ Singing my life with her words

♪ k*lling me
softly with her song

♪ k*lling me softly... ♪
The remote?!

♪ ..with her song... ♪
The remote!

♪ ..telling my whole life... ♪

VIDEO CLIP REPEATS

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CLIP STOPS

CLIP PLAYS

MUSIC DISTORTS

What the f*ck is going on?

LISA: Time to start the day before
it starts without you, Matty.

Did your mother ever say
that to you? Hm. Maybe not.

She wasn't nice to you, was she?

Aww...

Poor diddums.

And we women have to pay the
price for that now, don't we?

SHE BLOWS, HE GASPS

Time for Plan B, Sasha.

You'll thank me one day.

This is for you, Jasmin.

And you, too, Ella...

SCOFFS This is for all of us.

TEXT ALERTS PING

What?

When I first met him,
I thought he was the real deal.

Within months of him moving
in, the rows started.

And it was never her
voice doing the shouting.

Do you remember
anything about the night she died?

I was woken,
about two in the morning,

by the front door banging
shut as he came in.

You're sure
it wasn't her leaving?

I didn't hear either of them
leave. Only him coming back.

I heard his
footsteps going upstairs,

two at a time, like always.

You told the
investigating team this?

One of them, yes.

They said they'd send someone
round to take a statement.

But no-one ever did.
Towards the end,

Lisa wasn't the same
girl she used to be.

He's got a new one
now, God help her.

Should you hear anything
that concerns you.

Don't keep me in suspense.

Barker's... sending the
evidence to Divisional HQ.

If they approve it...
it goes to HQ in London

with a recommendation
to reopen her case.

A few 'ifs' in there, but...

yeah. SOFT CHUCKLE

Well, no-one could
have done more, Kash.

Erm... I don't know what time
you finish today, but, er...

I mean, if you're free,
er, maybe we could, er...

I don't know, er...
perhaps... have a drink, or...?

I don't think so.

I mean... call me old-school,

but I think a first date
should be, er... memorable.

Not just tacked on
to the end of a working day.

I mean, there's bags of
time for all that later.

Oh, right! I mean... yes!

Er, I'll call, er, or text.
Just... give me time to, er...

Er, I'll call. Or text. Just...

LAUGHS, FUMBLED WORDS

KNOCK AT DOOR

I'm to take annual leave
while HR conduct their inquiries.

Can you f*cking
believe it? SCOFFS

At least you're here,
I can... I can breathe again!

Something I have to say, Matt.

Let me guess.
I'm presumed guilty?

Judge, jury and executioner.

Human nature, don't
you just f*cking love it (?)

I did not
send that f*cking text!

And the email?
That wasn't me, either!

Either way, I
can't do this any more, Matt.

I've got Max to think of.
The doting mother card.

I might've guessed
that you'd trot that one out.

Someone is
doing this to me, Sasha!

And it's the same b*stard who has
been f*cking with my head in here!

You need help,
Matt. You really do.

Stick to bedpans, love,
they're your area of expertise.

You were just low
hanging fruit, Sasha.

Do you understand?
You're easy pickings.

Well... now I see
you in your true colours...

Better late than never.

The rat deserting the
sinking ship, I don't think so!

Get off me, Matt!

Just me and you now, Matty,
like it used to be, remember?

It's a speaker!
There must be speakers!

AMPLIFIED VOICE: Not everything
can be explained by logic, Matty.

Or your precious science.

You think you're making all the
decisions, but you're not, Matty.

I am!

What do you want?

Tell me what the f*ck you
want! The impossible. For you to change.

PHONE RINGS

Lockhart?
'You said to call if...

'He's gone crazy,
he's outside shouting.'

Is he alone? His
girlfriend was here earlier.

Call the police!

Ishan, I need your wheels.

Tell her it's about Lisa
Evans, and I'm sorry.

You once said to me you were
no good for me, remember?

That night I found you in tears?
What are you f*cking talking about?

You knew then how it would
play out for me, didn't you?

You knew it, and you
could have stopped it.

Why didn't you? HE WHIMPERS

What are you
running from, Matty?

I'm dead! You watched
me die, remember?

Come on!

LISA: You saw the fear
in my eyes that night,

but it didn't stop you, did it?

Stop! It's him, turn
around! Him! Come on, man.

Ish, start the bike.

LISA: No point in running,
Matty, I have the power now.

Are you scared, Matty?

Can you feel the
fear, Matty? HE PANTS

Goodson...
TRAIN HORN BLARES

..stop!

LABOURED BREATHS

Step away from the edge, sir!

Step away from
the platform! Sir! Matty!

Step away! Give
it up, Matty, it's over.

Is this what you want?
You wanna hear me say it?

All right, then. I'm a fraud.

I'm a useless,
worthless piece of sh*t!

Is that what you wanna hear?

It's not news to me,
I've been hearing it

since the
day I was f*cking born!

TRAIN HORN TOOTS
Stop! Stop!

GLASS CLINKS

You waited.

I saw her. I know I
saw her. I saw her.

There's no rational explanation
for it. There isn't. I know it.

I have been
through it. And over it.

CALM MUSIC DROWNS OUT SPEECH

STATION BELL CHIMES

LOUDSPEAKER: The train
is now approaching platform 7.