All language subtitles for The.Nest.S01E05_English

DAN: Years ago, when she was
a kid, she stabbed someone.

Lassie called Neve McKinnell.

CAROL: The Lewis case?

You're saying Kaya's
that wee girl?

I'm not Heather.
I'm not.

FEMALE VOICE: For those of us
still living on Lewis,

it's hard.

It's very hard.

JAMES: When Kaya ran away,
did you

or any of her colleagues
talk to her mum?

CAROL: That's the first person
we contacted.

This isn't about exposing her,
or dredging up the past.

It's about getting her
to come on the record,

to nail the people
who are trying to exploit her.

I need your permission
to do a DNA test.

Something's not right.

She's not ours.

DAN: No genetic match with us.

But no genetic match with Kaya?

How is that possible?

If it's no one's,
does that mean it is mine?

JAMES: Legally, yeah.

DAN: I love that wee girl.

And I'd like your permission
to be part of her life.

KAYA: It was all a mistake.

No child's a mistake.

It's going to be a new start.

DAN: She's blocked
all our contact.

Six days now,
we've not seen the baby.

We're the only family she knows.

Before all this kicked off,

Kaya hadn't been
within 10 foot of her.

Legally, she is
within her rights

to allow or block contact
as she sees fit.

Kaya gave birth to Gracie,
so the default position

is that she's the baby's mum.

Well, surely a baby can't
just default to somebody.

And if she's defaulting
to anyone, it should be us.

We had a contract.

Kaya's pocketed £50,000

and I can't get anywhere
near my own daughter.

Surrogacy agreements are not
legally binding in this country.

People draw them up
as a guide.

But you can't get a court
to enforce one.

Look, I just want to see
our wee girl.

Is there nothing we can do?

SHEENA: There are all sorts of
things that you can do.

Ultimately, you can apply
to adopt her.

Fantastic.

How do we get the ball rolling?

But that's not what I'd advise.

What I would advise is
getting together with Kaya,

and with a mediator
if necessary, and talk.

Try to sort this out
face to face.

No. That's a non-starter.

No.

SHEENA: This has all
come on very quickly.

It might go away just as fast.

Hello. Hello, baby.

You're so beautiful.

Oh, you are.

You are so beautiful.

[ Door opens ]

-So that's you away then?
-Mm.

SIOBHAN: But we'll be back to
see you every day, won't we?

Oh, we will.

She's a better color today.

She's had a good night.

Didn't you, wee one?

No...

less of the wee one,
if you please.

Tell her.

We've named her.

Oh. Right.

Neve.

DAN: Can't say I'm trying
to bribe you.

I was always bringing
sweeties in here.

Mostly for myself, to be fair.

Look, I know
you can't let us in,

but can you just
tell us how she is.

Listen, I'm so sorry, I'm just
not authorized to do that,

without the birth mum's
consent for visits

and sharing information.

My hands are tied.

What if there's like a
medical emergency or something?

So we just don't get told?

Listen, we have to go with
what the hospital lawyers say.

I don't have any discretion
around that at all.

Is everything okay?

Baby McDermott.

Gracie. Her name's Gracie.

Neve? Fucking Neve?

Well, obviously this was
the plan all along.

She gets what,
what's she up to now?

-70
-K is it? And the baby?

Why would she want
someone else's baby?

Well, why would we?

But everything changes, though,
doesn't it, when she gets here?

Look, we always knew
that this might happen, okay?

We knew that she might wobble
or change her mind, I just...

I don't know which this is.
I don't know what's in her head.

I couldn't give a fuck
what's in her head.

I'm pushing the button
on the legals.

No, no, no, once it's broken,
it's broken.

It's broken.
It's fucking broken.

We just need to follow the
advice that we've been given.

We need to sort this out
face-to-face.

If we declare war
then there's no way back.

You're scared of her.

No, I'm not. It's not that.

Aye, you are. She's powerless.

No judge in his right mind
would give her a baby over us.

Let's pack up all her stuff from
the house and get shot of it.

Sheena Galvin, please.

-No, wait, don't do this.
-Trust me.

Fight is the only language
this lassie understands.

It'll be lovely here
come the summer.

I won't be here that long.

This is just a short-term let
till I get back on my feet.

Then I'm going to buy
something of my own.

That's very good.

James or no James,
we've a weekly meeting.

Well, you haven't exactly

covered yourselves in glory,
have you?

So I can take it from here.

It's license conditions.

Kaya knows that.

How are you feeling?

I'm going to build you up,

and by the time the wee one's
ready to come home,

she'll be grand.

So what do you want me to do?
Sit tight?

Do nothing?

I just don't think this is
what Kaya really wants.

I mean, this was supposed to be

something life-changing
for both of us.

Oh, aye.
It's been life-changing alright.

She wanted family.

Consistency.

This was supposed to be
a partnership.

I just think if we could get
back to the spirit

in which we entered into this.

The spirit in which we entered
into this was fraud, darling.

Fraud on her part,
and utter naivety on ours.

There was a relationship there.

It was real.

I just...

I don't think this needs
to end up in court.

Tatties mashes with cream.

Not butter.

Am I right?

Yeah.

Mum?

Why did you stop
coming to see me?

Oh.

You'd be in like every week
for two years,

and then just stopped.

What did I do?

No, it wasn't you.

Far from it.

It was this. The MS.

I got the diagnosis
and I just...

I just went to pieces.

Doctor said maybe
it was the stress.

I wish I'd been stronger.

And then you did
that thing on telly.

Yeah.

Yeah, they told me
it would help people.

All the mothers who have been
through what I've been through.

It was anonymous, Kaya.

I-I was in shadow.

Look, I haven't been
the best mother.

I haven't even been
a good enough mother.

Is that what they say?

But I'm here.

[ Doorbell ringing ]

Are you expecting someone?

No.

Kaya McDermott?

Yeah.

Sign here.

Sign for it.

Oh, well, that's predictable,
isn't it?

What?

Dan and Emily have got a set
of awffy toffee lawyers,

and they're going after Neve.

Then they want
permanent residence

with a view to adopting her.

Well, they can whistle.

"McGillivray, Galvin,
and Black."

-I wonder who's going to win.
-Oh, no. No.

This is your right as a mother
who gave birth to that child.

Look at the state of you.

You've been let down
by everyone.

By the Dochertys,
by that shower of workers

who saw you into this
in the first place.

Well, not this time, no.

Well, what are we going to do?

Oh, you just stick with me,
okay?

All you need to do is trust me.

Where are we going?

We're nearly there.

Can we get a bus or something?

We'll have a cup of tea
when we get there.

Here.

In here.

Kaya!

[ Hyperventilating ]

[ Knock on door ]

SIOBHAN: Open the door to me.

You haven't even given me
a chance.

You have told a journalist
where I am.

That is me fucked now.
I am fucked.

She's from Lewis.

You were at the same Brownies.

Journalists are after one thing.
They want one story.

Scotland's Mary Bell,
where is she now?

Public Enemy Number One.

No. Not this journalist.

I know what she's after.

It's not that.

Trust me, Kaya.

If she was, I wouldn't
let her through the door.

I remember how it all went down.

This blood lust for a wee girl.

But I'm not interested
in Heather Gordon.

I never have been.

It's Dan Docherty
I'm interested in.

How he made his money.

And now how he's trying
to spend it.

He's Teflon.

Nothing ever sticks.

But this...

you...

this is different.

Why is that not gone?

I just want to write a note
or something.

You can't have a relationship
like this

and then just dump her stuff.

Cut the cord, Emily. Okay?

The relationship in your mind
never existed.

She doesn't give two shites
about us.

There was nothing
ever there but lies.

SIOBHAN: You've been exploited.

Criminally exploited.

This man, this couple
have caused you

a great deal of physical
and mental damage.

Now they're trying to
deprive you of a baby

that grew inside you.

ELEANOR: You won't be named,
obviously.

There'll be no reference
to your past whatsoever.

Let's go back to the beginning.

Well, that says it all.

[ Cellphone vibrates ]

-Mm?
-SOUTER: Get up.

What is it?

Open your e-mails.

Hold on.

Kaya's gone to the press.

-What can we do?
-SOUTER: Nothing.

The other outlets
have got it already.

We could go for breach
of privacy,

that would stop them
publishing anything else.

But what's out there's
out there.

What's Gregor doing?
Why's he allowed this?

'Cause he's done a calculation
and the value of this story

exceeds the value
of your friendship.

But there's something else.

The business has come up, too.

There's no corroboration to it.

There's not a shred of evidence.

But the deal with Kaya?

There's no denying that,
'cause she's gone on record.

This is fucking
Waterloo today, son.

You better wake up Emily.

REPORTER: We're waking up to
a strange story this morning,

one of Glasgow's richest
businessmen has been...

REPORTER #2: ...it has been
alleged that Dan Docherty

and his wife paid upwards of
£50,000 to the girl

despite the law stating
that surrogates

are only entitled
to reasonable expenses.

REPORTER #3:
But should you be allowed

to pay someone
to have a baby for you?

The phones are open now.

MAN: No. It's a disgrace.

That's how it is.
Everything's for sale.

WOMAN:
Women have the right to do

whatever they want to do
with their bodies.

-And it's the patriarchy --
-MAN: Do me a favor --

WOMAN: It's the patriarchy

that prevents female labor
from being monetized.

MAN #2: What's not getting
mentioned here is the baby.

I don't hear a thing about
the baby in all of this.

WOMAN #2: There'll be a march
through George Square

on Saturday, protesting the
Docherty Group's low wages.

WOMAN #3: This is all part
of the same problem.

Extreme wealth inequality.

MAN #3: The self-made
businessman,

who comes from
a humble background,

has been seen
as an inspiration to many.

In a statement released
this morning...

EMILY: Hiya.

I've come into work
for a couple of hours.

I think you've gone for a run.

Can you take the dog next time?

People are looking at me like
I don't work here anymore.

You as well? What's wrong?

-Emily...
-What?

Oh, for fuck sake,
what's going on?

WOMAN: The girl,
who cannot be named,

spoke of being wooed
by Docherty and his wife,

until she agreed
to carry a baby for them.

"I don't believe they're fit
to be parents," she said.

Not a peep.

Not about Heather Gordon.

Not a peep about the past.

Come on.

Come on.

Nobody out here.

Nobody bothered.

Hello.

[ Laughs ]

There is a Public Enemy
Number One,

but it's sure as hell not you.

You stick with me.

Just Cava, not Champagne.

Not yet.

WOMAN: But a source close
to the family has revealed

that the original finance
for its property

and leisure empire...

Did you see it?

It was inevitable.

Which bit?

That Dan would get
his comeuppance,

or that you would be the one
to dish it out?

I don't know what
you're talking about.

His business.

I know you're the source.

[ Chuckles ]

I know you are.

You were there at the start.

You knew what he had to do that
first year to get things going.

And you would do anything
at this point to fuck him over.

Can you stand aside, please?
I'm going to be late for work.

Do you feel powerful now?

Powerful?

That's something I can't say
I've ever felt.

Not for an hour,
not even for a minute.

You have destroyed him.

He's indestructible.

His PR team are probably
spinning gold out of this now.

Not his business.

His marriage.

Well, that makes us even.

Yeah. Yeah.

[ Engine starts ]

[ Door slams ]

EMILY: I told you.

I told you if we go nuclear,
this is what she does.

And now there's a whole pile on,
all that drugs crap.

It's not crap.

The stuff about the start
of the business.

It's true.

For the first year,
I took cash off

one of the Nicholl brothers
and washed it through the pub.

Put a couple of his sons
on the payroll.

They got paid legit.

I held on to the rest.

That's what kept me in business.

That's what got me the deposit
for the next place.

After that, I was clean.

I sold the pub, there was
no more dirty money

through the till,
and that was the end of it.

No, you to--

you told me how you started.

You said you were
washing glasses,

and then you worked your way up.

That's what folk like you want
to believe

happened to folk like me.

But it's garbage.

See, this is social mobility.

You know, where I'm from,
and got the background I've got,

who's going to
lend me money to start up, eh?

A bank?

Catch a wee loan off my dad?

No. You would never do that.

You would never do that.

But I did. Alright?

I did it for a year
because I had to.

And I'm telling you
'cause it's the truth,

and I don't want there to be
any more lies between us.

Look, I'm not proud of it.

But I'm not ashamed of it.

-No.
-It was the only way.

-No.
-Emily.

You know what happened to me
with Olivia.

What I did.
If you've kept all that from me,

if we've profited from drugs,
I -- I can't.

You know, when you want
something, it's always

"It was meant to be."

It was meant to be, like you're
the princess in a story,

and all the forces
of the universe

are going to come right
for you in the end.

Excuse me?

Right, it was meant to be
is just another way of saying

"I want that.
I deserve that."

You know, me, Kaya,
there's no magic at work there.

There's a narrow range
of shite realities,

and if we want
something different,

we need to go
after it ourselves.

By any means necessary.

And that means doing things
you don't want to do.

Have you finished?

Mum?

I'm going to see the baby.

Hey.

Are you coming with me?

[ Sniffing ]

Oh, my God.

Oh, God.

Mum.
Mum, someone's left shit --

oh, they know --
someone knows where we are.

SIOBHAN: What?

[ Alarm blaring ]

WOMAN: In the aftermath
of the Docherty scandal,

businesses belonging
to the Docherty Group

have been targeted.

Police Scotland say
they are investigating

a break-in at the Group's
flagship restaurant,

while staff have staged
a walkout at 10 other sites.

When approached, no one
at the Docherty Group

was available for comment.

MAN: Well that's a good point,
Elaine,

you're absolutely right.

I mean, do you -- have you
been watching the...

You need to take control
of this.

You can't just sit here
and let it all burn.

Dan.

You will lose everything.

It's all over the Internet.

Who I am, where I live,
it's on Twitter, on forums...

Well, it wasn't Eleanor.

That's the first thing
I checked,

though I didn't need to,
because, you know, I knew it --

I knew it wasn't her.

JANIS: Doing anything that
attracts publicity

makes discovery more likely.

And a whole carry on like this
puts Kaya at risk.

"Carry on," who do you think
you're speaking to?

Come on, love, let's go.

Yeah, let's go.

[ Engine starts ]

Where are we?

Listen, we've got a protocol
for this happening,

and we always have had.

You're going to be safe here.

This is a midden.

JANIS:
What matters is Kaya's safe.

She's got money. She can put us
somewhere far nicer.

KAYA: How far away are we?

How are we going to visit
the baby?

JANIS: Not far.
We're in Motherwell.

But visiting the baby
will need some thought,

'cause there's been paps there
for a few days now.

That's what I wanted
to talk to you about.

The local authority
have got involved.

Well, what does that mean?

JANIS: It means that
it's no longer just between you

and the Dochertys
what happens to this wee girl.

There's going to have to be
a case conference

and a hearing.

Whereupon she might be
discharged to you or to them.

Or there's a third option.

A, what, a third option?

A foster family.

Until it's established
who can offer safe care.

Care.

They're going to take her
into care?

Ah, let's just take this one day
at a time, okay?

You need a night's sleep.

KAYA: Mm.

JANIS: I'll be back tomorrow.

Sleep.

They never want you
to have anything.

Never want you to exercise
control over your own life.

We don't have to stay
in Glasgow.

We could go anywhere.

The baby might get taken
into care now.

Did you hear that?

Better than it going
to those two.

Why are you here?

Oh...
Why do you think I'm here?

To help you,
to help you help her.

Yeah.

Sorry, how I can help her?

She can't be safe with me,
because through this publicity,

I've been found.

We'll be fine, as soon as
we get out of this dump.

You've got me.

I'll protect you.

But you didn't.

You never have.

Excuse me?

Mum, you know what happened.

Don't you dare.

Auntie Neve took Angus off you.

[ Singing indistinctly ]

[ Indistinct screaming ]

NEVE: Siobhan, no,
Siobhan, stop, please.

Siobhan, please stop...

And they were having a baby.

They were starting
a new life together.

You went after her.

[ Indistinct screaming ]

Get up the stairs.

NEVE: It's okay, just...

Go upstairs!

NEVE: Siobhan...

SIOBHAN: No, no, no,
Heather's my little girl.

If I hadn't taken the knife...

If you hadn't taken the knife,
I'd still have a sister.

And I'd still have my health.

Please, just...

I took it off of you.

Mum, stop!

I got in the middle,
but I-I didn't mean to do it.

[ Laughs ]

What were they doing with you
all those years in secure, eh?

Are they not meant to help
you take responsibility?

Come to terms with the crime?

They did.

They helped me understand
that I was a kid,

and that
it was an accident.

They helped me understand
that I was protecting you.

Oh, don't you dare.

You've never helped me.

You didn't tell them
that you had the knife first.

Or that you and Neve
were fighting.

You killed her.

You.

Not me. You.

-I was 11.
-SIOBHAN: Oh, I know.

And it was a national scandal.

Because no one --

no-one could believe that
a wee girl of that age

was capable of such evil.

Yeah, that's what I thought.

For years.

Because that's what
you told me.

'Cause see when a mum tells you
that's what you are,

even a mum as shit as you...

Oh...

You believe it.

But it's not true.

I want you to leave.

What - what, you can do this
on your own?

Do you think any social worker,
any judge, any children's panel

would let you anywhere
near that baby?

Go.

More fool me.
I should've sold my story

without so much as putting
my head round your --

your door.

What, is it money you want?

Here's money.

You owe me.

You owe me my health.

Look, you owe me everything.

You'll never escape
what you did.

There's no forgiveness for you,
no peace, Kaya McDermott.

No.

You're Heather Gordon.

♪ When the routine bites hard ♪

[ Crying ]

♪ And ambitions are low ♪

♪ And the resentment
rides high ♪

♪ But emotions won't grow ♪

♪ And we are changing our ways ♪

♪ Taking different roads ♪

[ Door opens, closes ]

♪ And love ♪

JANIS: Siobhan away?

♪ Love will tear us apart ♪

JANIS: I've a taxi waiting.

Shall we go
and see the wee one?

♪ Love ♪

♪ Love will tear us apart ♪

♪ Again ♪

I've arranged for us to go
in the back,

just in case there's
anyone hanging around.

♪ Turn away on your side ♪

♪ Is my timing that flawed? ♪

NURSE: Okay.

♪ Our respect runs so dry ♪

♪ Yet they still disappeared ♪

[ Crying ]

♪ That we've kept
through our life ♪

Hey.

♪ Love ♪

♪ Love will tear us apart ♪

Just you and me.

♪ Again ♪

♪ Love ♪

♪ Love will tear us apart ♪

♪ Again ♪

[ Door opens ]

[ Door closes ]

Hi.

I didn't realize I'd left
the door open.

I've got keys, remember?

To look after the dog,
mind the house.

Listen, I'm sure you're here
on behalf of Dan,

but I'm just trying to do
what's best for everyone.

You're always very sure
about what's right, aren't you?

In any given situation.

This madness has turned
all of our lives upside down.

But still you get to emerge
the principled one.

What happened with your friend
was tragic.

A bad reaction to a bad pill.

You were fine, she wasn't --
that is a tragic accident.

But you have made it into
the dominant story of your life.

It's a crutch.

And it lets you away
with anything.

No.

Don't --
You don't understand that.

Understand? Oh.

I was prepared to carry a child
for you, Emily.

That's how much
I don't understand.

Or care about your suffering.

My brother loves you.

More than life.

You are what matters to him
in this world.

Not any of this, you.

You will win against Kaya.

Of course you will.

But not because
it was meant to be,

not because it was
written in the stars

that you should get
to be a mother.

You will win because
she has got no chance.

She has no one.

And nothing, which is what made
her a candidate

for all of this
in the first place.

But know this, Emily.

You are no one's savior.

Not Kaya's, not the baby's.

You are just a person with
desires, like everyone else.

And you have been ruthless
in going after what you want.

[ Door opens, closes ]

SHEENA: I'm not in the business
of "I told you so,"

but as I advised
when you first came to see me,

keeping the relationship
with Kaya civil

and agreeing an outcome is
obviously better for the child

than the kind of public war
that's broken out since.

We've gone for
breach of privacy,

so there won't be
any more coverage.

But given all the publicity
that's erupted around the case,

the local authority
has some concerns.

What -- What does that mean?

This is no longer a straight
tug-of-love

between you and Kaya, Emily.

It means that they see a risk

of significant harm
to this child,

in view of what's gone on.

It may be that the local
authority decides

that the best person
to meet the baby's needs

is a third party.

A third party?

Care?

[ Gasps ]

DAN: No. No, I understand.

This is a case conference
convened in respect

of Neve McDermott.

She was born at 25 weeks

to a surrogate, Kaya McDermott.

The intended parents were
Dan and Emily Docherty.

The relationship
has since broken down,

publicly and acrimoniously.

And we as a local authority
have real concerns

about which of the parties,
if either,

can serve the best interests
of the child.

Despite her prematurity,
the baby's done really well.

And if she continues to do so,
we expect that she'll be ready

for discharge
in the next two to three weeks.

From a police protection
point of view,

I'd say it is a continued risk
of Kaya's identity

being exposed.

Obviously that's not going to be
a safe environment for the baby.

THE CHAIR: Well, has there been
anything further?

POLICE: No, not as yet.

But a lot depends
on decisions yet to be made.

Where is going to live?

Whether her identity
is permanently compromised.

And what about the Dochertys?

Fundamentally, the issue is

how this whole arrangement
came about.

The question of exploitation.

Dan Docherty's
a well-known face in Glasgow.

If this baby stays with them,
then this child's history

is laid bare for all to see
because of the publicity.

Which begs the question
in the longer term,

is it in the child's
best interest

to have a clean slate
and a fresh start?

JANIS: Well, I think we know
from practice

that kids
don't really do clean slates.

People's stories
are their stories.

It's incredibly important
to children

that they come
from somewhere.

And this baby came from Kaya.

She grew in Kaya.

She's had skin to skin
with Kaya.

And given that she doesn't know,
nor is likely ever to know

her real genetic identity,

Kaya is the closest
blood relative

that she's going to get.

I do believe, with support,

she could provide
a safe environment.

And if we don't give her
that chance,

are we not just repeating
the mistakes of the past?

Social engineering.

Handing the babies of poor girls
over to middle-class couples?

[ Door opens ]

How did you know I was here?

Hilary.

She'll get a good family anyway.

You know how many folks
are desperate for a newborn.

Can't get them for love
nor money.

All the professionals see
is people warring over a bairn,

and it's disgusting.

It's no wonder they're looking
at us and thinking,

"None of you is deserving."

What if we stopped?

How do you mean?

What if we supported each other?

Got around the table?

Maybe there was a time for that,

when we could've sat with Kaya
and agreed something.

Or maybe because of the money,
there never could be.

'Cause of who she is
and who we are,

it would only ever be
an exercise

in power and persuasion.

I don't know.

What I do definitely know
is that it can't possibly

be in that baby's best interests

to overthrow the person
who carried her.

And if we win,
that's what we'll have done.

And if we lose, that could mean
her going into care.

That can't happen.

That just can't happen.

I get it.

Support Kaya to support her,
I get it.

What am I supposed to do
with the fact

that she still feels
like my daughter?

We were a family before this.

You and me were,
whatever you thought.

That's what we were.

What are we now?

Kaya, we're withdrawing.

We'd like for the baby
to stay with you.

And we'll support you,
financially,

practically,
any way that we can.

But we won't be hovering
over you

or trying to exercise
any rights over the baby.

We're here for you, but you
call us, we won't call you.

You can move away or do whatever
you need to do to feel safe.

Make the best life that you can.

And I know that you can.

NAOMI: Right,
she's ready for you.

Come on.

You've been waiting on her,
haven't you?

Yeah.

Right, we'll just
let you have a wee cuddle.

Been a long road.

But I've got every confidence
in her.

I've seen birth mums
overcome the odds

in far more
precarious situations.

[ Hyperventilating ]

Can you take her?

-It's okay.
-KAYA: Sorry.

What's wrong?

I don't know what to do.

I never went into this
to have a wean, Janis.

Never.

I never looked at lassies my age
with weans and thought,

"I want that."

I look at them
and I think, "Get tied."

I want a life.

I want to put the past
behind me and live

and build something for myself.

And I want to do better than
just having a kid for company

and dishing out
the exact same life.

I want to be a businesswoman,
and I want to go on planes,

and I want one of those wee
steel pull-along cases.

God, I don't know
what the fuck I want.

But I want things.

And I know I don't want this.

But I can't abandon her, either.

I can't let her
go into care, no.

No way.

Well, that's not
your sole responsibility.

It is.

Because I destroyed them.

By going to the papers,
I wrecked them.

Must've done.

Because if they thought
they stood a chance,

why would they offer her to me?

You need to sleep on it, Kaya.

You need to take time,

and be sure this is
really how you feel.

I don't need time.

I know.

[ Doorbell rings ]

DAN: You think that's the phone
call you're living for.

And then it comes and all
that's in your head is,

"Can I do this?"

Can we do this?

Look at the state of us now,
Emily.

All I want is what's best
for that wee girl.

And I look at us and I think,
"Are you what's best for her?

Are you the best
that she can do?"

I don't think anyone
could do better than you.

I've fucked the business, Emily.

It doesn't matter.

We can lose the house.

We can lose everything.

It doesn't matter.

We could lose her.

Fight for her, and then not
be allowed to care for her.

There's no guarantees
with any of it.

With anything.

There's one.

And I persuaded him,
I manipulated him,

I threatened him.

I think I just couldn't see
beyond my own need.

My father was
a violent alcoholic.

Beat my mum.

Beat me and my sister.

And I made it my life's work
not to be anything like him.

EMILY: I wanted it to be fair.

And I imagined it could be
made fair,

with love or money,

or some combination.

DAN: Everything.

We owe this wee girl everything.

I mean, we made her,
like, genetic or not.

And I felt she was my daughter
from the minute

I laid eyes on her.

EMILY: What kind of mother?

An anxious one.

An overbearing one.

But one who will always
tell her the truth.

"Good enough."

Hmm.

All we want to do is love her.

SHERIFF: A wealthy couple.

A vulnerable 19-year-old girl.

The inequality
in bargaining power,

the potential for exploitation
could hardly be more obvious.

In this country, a surrogate
may be paid reasonable expenses,

but such a loose definition
can be --

as it has been here --
stretched to breaking point.

Dan and Emily Docherty didn't do
anything strictly illegal.

However, neither does what
they did sit at all comfortably

with the right-thinking person.

The haste with which they
entered into the arrangement

further paints a picture
of self-serving recklessness

that is incompatible
with responsible parenting.

And if the law required me
to make a decision

in the interests
of public policy,

to discourage other couples
from behaving in a similar way,

then undoubtedly
it would be my duty

to prevent them from
caring for this baby.

However, that is not
what the law requires.

What it demands is the decision

that focuses solely
on the needs of the child.

In that regard, I believe
that the facts are clear.

Dan and Emily Docherty
love this child

and are in a position
to care for her.

There is no one else
who knows her

and who is in a position
to do so.

To deny her a suitable home
in order

to punish the two of them
cannot be right.

What has been most persuasive
is Kaya's support for them

and the ongoing relationship
between the parties.

I therefore order that
Neve can be discharged today,

into the care of Dan
and Emily Docherty,

with ongoing and continuous
review by services.

SHEENA: Oh. Okay.

It's my job to piss
on your chips,

so let me just get this over
with quickly.

You've been granted
a residence order.

It is not an adoption.

It is not permanent.

It's a "You can
have her for now."

This is the start,
not the finish.

Thank you.

Well, we're going to
collect her later.

They said we can take her home.

Do you want to come with us?

Or you could come over later?

Nah.

Not today.

I'm going to look at flats.

Okay.

Kaya...

thank you.

♪ Excuse me for a while ♪

♪ While I'm wide-eyed and I'm so
damn caught in the middle ♪

♪ I've excused you for a while ♪

♪ While I'm wide-eyed and I'm so
damn caught in the middle ♪

♪ And a lion ♪

♪ A lion ♪

♪ Roars, would you not listen? ♪

♪ If a child ♪

♪ A child ♪

She forgives you.

♪ Cries, would you not
give them? ♪

♪ Yeah, I might seem so strong ♪

♪ Yeah, I might speak so long ♪

♪ I've never been so wrong ♪

♪ Yeah, I might seem so strong ♪

♪ Yeah, I might speak so long ♪

♪ I've never been so wrong ♪

♪ Excuse me for a while ♪

♪ Turn a blind eye with a stare
caught right in the middle ♪

♪ Have you wondered
for a while ♪

♪ I have a feeling deep down
you're caught in the middle? ♪

♪ If a lion ♪

♪ A lion ♪

♪ Roars, would you not listen? ♪

♪ If a child ♪

♪ A child ♪

♪ Cries, would you not
give them? ♪

♪ Yeah, I might seem so strong ♪

♪ Yeah, I might speak so long ♪

♪ I've never been so wrong ♪