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SIREN IN DISTANCE

SHE GROANS

Ah!

Good morning. Morning.

Did you sleep all right?

You ever tried sleeping in a car seat?

Well, if I fall asleep...

..and we get pulled over...

..we're left with a lot of explaining to do, aren't we?

SHE STRAINS I've got no regrets.

I'm not sure the police would look at it like that.

Oh... Right. Do you think...

..that I've lost my mind?

If I was you, I'd do a lot worse.

ENGINE STARTS

What's that? Sh-sh-sh.

Saker falcon.

Be still, my...beating heart.

Ah! The most irritating bird of all. Thank you...!

I hate it when you do that.

Whoa!

Hurry up, boys. It's beautiful.

Can I have some of your water, love? Yeah, sure.

Come on, then, we need to catch up, Will.

You've got loads in yours. Yeah, I know, but every time I take

this bastard thing off, I feel like I'm going to have a hernia.

You cheeky bugger! LAUGHS

Ah!

See? I told you, Alex, it'd be fun.

Yeah, it's beautiful, Mum.

Mate, what are you looking at?

Why does the world only look this

beautiful when you're looking down on it? I don't know.

Maybe because suddenly it doesn't look so scary.

You should look up, Will.

It's really something.

She would have loved this.

Come on, then, let's go.

How come it's only on holidays that I realise how much I love holidays?

Oh, hi. Hi, hi.

See you tomorrow. Be good. Bye-bye. Hug. Come on.

FAMILY ALL KISS All right, off you go.

Thanks, Julia. See you, darlings.

I never wanted to be the guy that took the nanny on holiday,

but then I took the nanny on holiday!

Total game changer! Let's get bollocksed. Night-night.

Come on. Goodnight. Goodnight. Have you eaten?

I've never actually met an ambassador. It sounds so glamorous.

Some days. And then there are days...

Well, there are other days, other days that are just other days.

Good on you.

I couldn't do your job.

It's too much responsibility. I...

You can ask about him, you know.

What?

About Will. Sorry. I'm sorry. No, it's OK.

People see a 16-year-old boy always on the phone, ignoring other people,

making that sound. I know what they think.

It's just...

..not like that at all.

He doesn't speak, and he hasn't...

..for two years. I am so sorry.

We have tried therapy, we've tried absolutely everything,

but he doesn't say a word.

His entire life is that phone. That and his brother.

Erm, love, I think we've gate-crashed long enough. Come on.

Oh, goodnight.

Put this on my room, by the way. No. No... We'll see you tomorrow.

Well, thank you so much!

Yeah, I think we're going to head to...

No, no, no, don't you want to have a little dessert or order something?

No? Night, lads. Night, Mum. Night, Dad. See you in the morning.

Night, love.

SHE SIGHS

Go on, then.

What?

You know.

We haven't been on holiday for three years. You know full well why not.

And now we finally go somewhere, a whole bloody hour from where

you work, and you invite the holiday friends we'll inevitably

never see again to bloody dinner. It's rude!

Please, don't make a scene. Oh, we wouldn't want that, would we?

Any more than we'd want to talk about Laura.

Patagonia.

Boys?

Boys!

CRASHING

IN FRENCH:

OK. OK. OK...

HE SIGHS

PHONE BUZZES

Julien, it's me again, your wife.

I don't even know where you are, when you're coming home,

when I'm going to talk to you.

You can't just... hide from what happened

and hope that it's all going to get better. Call me, please.

Morning. Hello! Hello, hello!

You haven't seen Richard, by any chance? Or the boys?

We literally just got up. No, sorry.

Oh. Well, it's just a bit weird.

I normally can't get my boys out of bed before midday

without the threat of extreme violence,

and this morning, I get up and all three are gone.

I'm jealous. We've got Julia. Things aren't so bad.

But I've got you nipping at my heels. Enjoy it. I will.

RINGING TONE

Hello, this is Richard. Please leave a message. Thank you.

RINGING TONE

RINGING TONE

Maxwell and Carter Group. Hello, it's Emma,

Richard's wife. I just wondered whether he'd decided

to come in today. He's out of the office this week.

No, no, I know that. I just wondered whether he'd called in or...

Not that I know of.

No. OK, erm, well, no worries. Thank you.

Bye. Bye!

RINGING TONE

Please leave a message after the tone.

BEEP Hello, Will, love, it's me.

Where are you?

Where did you all go to? I woke up and you were just...

I've already left messages for Alex and your dad.

So, er, just text me when you get this or just get Dad to call. OK...

PHONE BUZZES

Ohhh...

Oh, no, no, no, no! No, no! No!

TV: Police in Hungary are searching

for the family of British ambassador Emma Chambers

after she reported her husband and two teenage sons missing.

The family were holidaying in the Hungarian mountains north-east

of Budapest, and the search is focused on their hotel

and the surrounding woods.

Earlier this evening, Mrs Chambers gave a press conference to appeal

for information and has urged any witnesses to come forward.

We now bring you that appeal.

I don't know where they are.

I mean, I just hope that they're safe.

If anyone...knows anything, please...help us.

Help me find my family.

Authorities have said that at this time they do not believe

this to be terror-related but rule nothing out.

We'll bring you more on that story as it develops. In other news...

HELICOPTER WHIRS

SHOUTING: Richard! Richard!

Over there!

SHE PANTS

Hello?

Hello?

SHE GASPS

What?! SHE WHIMPERS

Mrs Chambers?

It's time to go back.

No, I don't think you understand.

You see, Will came without his phone. He doesn't...

He doesn't do that. He doesn't... I mean, not ever.

It's time to go.

Hello.

May I speak with whoever is in charge?

Why?

Because I can help.

Just call the Interpol officer Genevieve Taylor.

We worked together on a case several months ago.

Your name?

Baptiste. Julien Baptiste.

OK, follow me.

CHATTER

Wait here.

We saw Emma at breakfast. She mentioned that she hadn't seen them.

Honestly, we didn't think anything of it.

I'm sorry.

I'm so sorry. Erm... Christopher is still crying.

It's OK. I'll come up.

Yes. Thank you.

Oh... Oh...

Emma...

Anything? Nothing at the moment. Nothing, I'm sorry.

Mr Baptiste? Hello, I'm Major Zsofia Arslan, head of Special Affairs.

I'm afraid you've wasted your time.

Did you speak with Interpol, with Officer Genevieve Taylor?

I know who you are. I have nothing but respect for what you have done.

But, er... I'm sorry, excuse me.

Mm-hm.

QUIET CONVERSATION

Everything OK? Fine. Work is the one thing you don't have to worry about

right now. Is there anyone back home you want me to call?

Well, there's nothing to say right now.

I mean, it'll be fine. I'm sure they're just lost. Excuse me.

No, sorry, I'm not doing any interviews just now.

No, I'm Julien Baptiste. I'm here to help you find your family.

I find people, Mrs Chambers. I've done this all my life.

I do not require payment.

Just a moment of your time.

Why? Who...? Why would you want to help me?

Because I can.

Erm, I'm Nadeem Chaudhry. I work with Emma at the embassy.

It's late, she's had a long day. I can... No, I'm fine.

I've always thought that people who do their job for free,

they're either delusional or they're not very good at it.

May I? Please. Thank you.

It seems the police have been searching the woods to the west.

Why? Because a member of staff seems to have seen Richard going

in that direction at five o'clock in the morning.

Any reason he would be walking so early?

Well, he'd be bird-watching. He loves birds.

Maybe he dragged the kids with him. I mean, I just don't know.

I just don't know!

I see no CCTV in the hotel.

There's just some crappy webcam that, you know, just shows

everything 24/7. It's meant to show off the grounds.

This one? Yeah.

What do you think might have happened to them, Mrs Chambers?

Mr Baptiste, Emma's been answering these questions for hours. I'm fine.

Tomorrow. You need to look after yourself. Of course, tomorrow.

Er, Mrs Chambers, I cannot make you any promises,

but I can assure you I will do everything in my power to help you.

Good evening. Good evening, sir.

I'm working with Mrs Chambers to help find her husband.

I gather one of your staff saw him go into the woods this morning.

Yes. Anna Olasz. She's gone home.

Do you have her number? She'll be asleep.

But she's back on her shift tomorrow morning, 5am.

OK, I'll wait, then.

5am...tomorrow.

She won't be back until tomorrow.

I heard you.

SIREN BLARES

Julien!

SIREN STOPS

BANGING

Monsieur, police.

BANGING

Allez.

C'est bon, c'est bon. En avant.

SHE SIGHS

Should we, er, go somewhere?

You look terrible.

Still silently torturing yourself, aren't you?

Spending a night in the cells for being drunk and disorderly...!

I can't... I can't do this any more,

Julien, you know, come and peel you up off the floor.

You need to sign this.

You should never have done that case.

What do you mean? Who do I mean?

Emma Chambers! But...

..I had to work!

No, you didn't. But what else did I have?

Me.

You had me.

You think that I didn't need you?

You think that I wasn't feeling it then?

No.

I don't know why I bother.

See, this is...this is what's killed us, this...

..stubborn Gallic bullshit.

It's great when you want to find somebody that nobody else can find.

But when YOU want to talk, when YOU need to communicate

on ANY level about what happened to our daughter...

There.

You have your divorce.

TV PLAYING IN FRENCH

SOBBING

BUZZER SOUNDS

BUZZER SOUNDS AGAIN

BUZZER SOUNDS

I must have left you 50 messages.

You weren't the least bit curious?

I thought we'd said everything there was to say

last time we saw one another.

Believe me...

..I wouldn't be here unless I had to be.

How have you been?

I get up every morning.

There are days that I don't.

But eventually I do.

Somehow, I do.

People say there's a sort of...

..small victory in that, don't they?

I...I understand.

Once upon a time, you promised you'd help me.

That was before the blood.

The blood of all those people like...like it was rain water...

..flooding the drains in the streets.

But, listen, there's something I want to show you.

Oh.

Excuse me.

Do you know Mrs Chambers and her family?

Er... Well, not really.

We just met here.

Hotel friends, you know?

No, not really.

OK, well, I've just done a 5K run and I really need a shower.

CAR DOORS SLAMMING

ARGUMENT OUTSIDE

Anna!

Anna Olasz?

Anna? I need to ask you some questions.

ARGUMENT CONTINUES

It's about the man who went missing... And I heard that...

Silence! She doesn't want to talk to you.

Who are you? Police?

I heard that you were delivering towels

when you saw Richard Chambers walk into the woods.

I tell the police this three times.

I'm not asking you to tell me. I want you to show me.

I walk past here. I take the towels into the other wing, this way.

This way, you're sure?

Every morning the same.

Then I come back down here.

And where did you see Mr Chambers?

I crossed here and I see him.

He walks that way, into the woods.

You told the police this was at 5:30am that you saw him?

How can you be sure? As I come out, I see the clock.

I see the time, so I know.

Now, excuse me, I have to work.

You walked that way to the other wing and then...

..through here when you come back? Yes, as I said.

Is it so complicated?

Well, if you saw him on your way to the other wing,

to see the clock, Miss Olasz, you must turn your neck this way,

you must turn nearly all the way around to see it,

like an owl, you know?

Why would you turn like this?

I... Does it matter?

You have a watch. It's working. Yes, but...

So why turn? Why look at that clock when the logical thing

would be simply to look at your watch

on your way to the other wing?

Is it possible you saw Mr Chambers coming this way across the property

and that you watched him walk that way and saw the clock after,

on your way back?

Is it possible he walked not into the woods in that direction

to the west, but over here to the east?

It would be an understandable mistake.

I'm not sure.

Where are you going?

The police were looking one way

when perhaps they should have been looking another.

Wait!

They didn't want to come here, you know. Your family?

My last posting was Thailand.

It's beautiful.

Everywhere you look, there's life.

Barely controlled chaos.

Of course, the kids just loved it.

Do you have children?

Yes.

I had to almost rip their arms out of their sockets

to make them come here.

When I showed them where Hungary was on the map,

Laura just said, "Where's the beach?"

Sorry, love. No beach. Mum's got a new job.

I think it was about a year

before they actually forgave me for packing us off here.

But at that age, they... They do at least forgive then.

We get old and our opinions harden like our joints.

You know, the guilt mounts up with the job

and having the children so damn late.

You know, you... It follows you.

You can feel its breath on you.

Look.

Oh, my God.

Stay back.

I will call the police. You should return to the hotel.

Hello, my name is Julien Baptiste.

We just found a corpse near the Grandhotel Matra.

Yes, I'm sure he's dead.

We walked half an hour, maybe more?

Oh, you must know there is an extensive search

taking place here at the moment. This... It's his phone.

Do not touch anything!

This is a crime scene!

Look, if you can find the officer in charge, I can speak with them.

But this is...

Please, forget it.

Just send the cars to the hotel. I will take them myself to the body.

Yes, send them now.

Wait, please. We must retrace our steps.

Why was his phone out? Maybe somebody was trying to call him.

Mrs Chambers, this is a murder scene now.

He had his camera on.

Oh, God.

What?

Please, no. No, don't, please. I can explain!

This is from yesterday.

The fuck is going on? Dad, get back!

Listen to me! Get back, get back!

Please, listen to me! What do you want with my boys?

Put the gun down. Put the gun down.

GUNSHOT Dad!

Dad, no!

MAN: Move it. Now.

Please, just leave him alone!

Move!

Come on.

POLICE RADIO CHATTER

And you touched nothing else?

Just the phone? Mrs Chambers picked it up against my instructions.

You shouldn't even have been in the woods at all.

You have questions for me.

Ask them.

Otherwise, it seems we have no further business.

The ambassador's husband is dead.

The children, who knows where. You have no place here.

You know, I promised I would help Mrs Chambers, so I will.

You don't like it?

Arrest me.

It's fine. You don't have to.

I mean, there's nothing to do here anyway. I can be there and...

No, no, no, no. You've got your work

and you've got your father to look after.

KNOCK AT DOOR Come in.

Sorry, I have to go because they want me to go back home

to be ready for a phone call about a ransom or whatever it is.

Call me if you need anything.

I will. Give my love to your dad.

Are you ready? Yeah. Grace is downstairs.

Yeah, I just... I just need to find Richard's telephone charger.

I keep telling him to put it by the side of the bed.

I don't even know why I'm packing his things.

It's not as if...

I just don't understand.

I'm no-one.

That's not true.

I make speeches in half empty rooms.

I talk for days about trade.

And how bloody good we are at it.

And there's all this...

..fuss about it.

But I'm not important.

Not really.

So why me?

Why my family?

Shall I, er...? Thank you.

Oh...

The bags are in the car, Mrs Chambers. Good.

Are you ready?

They'll come back.

My boys, they'll be coming home.

And I'll be waiting for them.

REPORTERS CLAMOUR Mrs Chambers! Ambassador!

Mrs Chambers, just a quick comment? Thank you.

INDISTINCT

Mr Baptiste.

Emma asked me to help you any way I can.

Let's start with the hotel webcam.

He has no authority here.

The police say I should not talk with him.

Maybe, but you also know who I work with and she'd like this man

to see the footage.

I can call your boss if you want.

QUIET BEEPING

Blood pressure monitor. It's supposed to be discreet.

It isn't. Oh. This is from the morning of the disappearance?

Yes. Richard Chambers' video was recorded at 5:44am.

Let us look from there.

There's a service road that runs from behind the woods

past the hotel.

There.

At 5:52, there is a car.

The police noticed that too, but you can't make out a licence plate.

It's useless. Mm.

But I'm not looking at the car.

I'm looking at that.

A person walking through the hotel.

Whoever it is, they might have seen who was in that car.

Same problem. The camera's too low res.

You can't even see a face.

I don't need it. I believe I know who it is.

KNOCKING

Hi. Sorry to disturb. I...

I need to talk with your husband.

I imagine you know by now we found Mr Chambers' body.

Yes, of course. The body was found here in these woods.

Whoever killed Mr Chambers, he took those two young men with him,

and it seems likely to me he had a car

and that he took Alex and Will Chambers in that car at gunpoint

and drove away down this road close to the hotel.

Yeah, sorry, can you...get to the point?

Perhaps you can tell me what you saw.

Nothing.

I was asleep.

And I already told the police.

But I saw you before, walking into the hotel in the early hours.

You said you'd been on a run.

Well, on a wet day, somehow your shoes were completely clean.

OK, we're done here.

WHISPERS: How long have you been sleeping with your nanny?

It was evident to me the second I saw you both... Just get lost, OK?

Well, you can destroy your family.

That's your business. I just wish to know what you saw.

So...

..your nanny is staying in this hotel block here.

You meet here in the early morning while your wife sleeps.

To walk from there back to the hotel would take you on this path.

I saw on the hotel webcam a figure walking along that exact path

at 5:52 just as that car passed.

So...

..what did you see?

Yes, I saw the car when I was coming back from Julia's room.

You saw the licence plate?

No.

The driver? Yeah.

Describe him.

He had short hair. He had a tattoo.

Four black lines running down his neck.

You saw the two young men in the back?

No. No, I just saw the driver.

If I'd thought anything, I would have said.

I...I just didn't think.

No.

You do not think.

REPORTERS CLAMOURING

INDISTINCT

Ambassador, this man says he knows you.

Oh, yes, he does. Yeah. OK.

Thank you. Thank you.

Have you found something? Perhaps.

Do you know a man with a tattoo, four stripes running down his neck?

No.

I believe this might be the man who killed your husband

and took your children.

Oh, God.

I only have a description, no name.

Have you received any calls?

A ransom of some kind? No.

OK. I will pass on what I learned to the police and, er...

..I'm sorry to have disturbed.

We argued.

Me and Richard, the night before.

Patagonia - that was the last thing I said to him.

See, we had a deal...

..after a monumental drunken row in Patagonia,

that if just one of us just ever said that word...

..then we promised each other that,

you know, we'd just let it go. We'd let it all go.

Never worked.

I mean, we would, you know, get over it,

but in the moment, we could never really let it go.

You asked in the forest if I...if I had children.

I have a son. He's in prison.

I never even knew of him until last year.

And, uh...

Sara, my daughter, Sara, she died four months ago.

I am so sorry.

No, I do not want your sympathy or deserve it.

I...I carry her death.

My daughter, Laura, died two years ago.

Sometimes I wake up and it's as if it's just happened.

You may not want my sympathy, Mr Baptiste, but you have it.

I want you to know that, to me, this is not some kind of sport.

The work I do, it means something, it means everything.

Without it, I, er...

We will find out what has happened to your children.

I promise.

I don't make promises.

Patagonia taught me that.

PHONE VIBRATES

CLICKING TONGUE

Will! Will!

Jesus, Will, where are you?

Will, where are you?

CLICKING

Oh! PUTS PHONE ON SPEAKER

Will, is that you?

Just answer me.

CLICKING, TANNOY ANNOUNCEMENT

We've got to call the police because they can track the call, can't they?

He was in a train station. Did you hear the announcement?

No, but they can... They can track the call.

Your son is at a train station right now.

That announcement, what was it saying? Think!

Berlin, Hamburg...

Well, that's the Hungaria line. That goes from Nyugati.

Perhaps somebody saw him. Try there.

VOICE FADES

Hey!

Miert kovetsz engem?

Je ne comprends pas. I'm sorry, I don't understand.

Why are you following me?

I'm trying to help the British ambassador find her children,

Alex and Will Chambers.

You were there when they went missing.

You don't understand.

You don't have any idea.

Stay away, old man.

You know better than anyone that I no longer work.

I no longer do much of anything.

I'm sorry to say, but you've wasted your journey.

A lot has changed since I last saw you, but I haven't.

I feel as if I've never left the moment...

..that Alex died.

When I watched my son...

I feel frozen in that moment in time.

I've allowed it to define me.

I suppose I've become a fossil.

Because they tell us who we are, don't they, fossils?

I relive it every day.

You, me and those demons in the daylight.

After I...I got used to this thing,

I didn't really have anything.

Not really.

I had no job.

No point.

So every week, I went to visit Alex's grave,

every Monday morning,

thinking about where his brother might be.

So one morning I went there, and there were fresh flowers left there.

Not flowers that I'd left.

So I went back every day, day after day,

until finally...

..I discovered who left the flowers.

It's him.

Andras Juszt.

No good can come of this.

14 months, we couldn't find this bastard.

And finally, he fucked up.

Let me show you why I came so far.

Toby, open it.

What is this?

It's how you're going to help me find my son.