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Usually, she handles everything so well.

That makes it sound like she can't cope.

The new nanny starts tomorrow. Is that Ellen?

Oh, I used to work with her,

and if I'd have known what she was really like,

I'd never have taken the job.

You need me to come over, help with the kids?

The behavioural team will schedule a home visit.

You've got an amazing life here, Laura.

I'd hate to see you throw it all away for a moment of madness.

Rob. Our family means so little to you?

What year's yours in? Year Six.

Hey, Flo. Hiya.

Sorry, who are you? I'm Florence's mum.

There was this one night where, er...

..Eliza had been having these nightmares.

Well, they were terrors, really.

And so I went up to check if she was all right, and...

..she just backed away from me, started screaming.

"Not you. Not you."

And it was like she could see right through me.

Like she knew...

Like she knew who I really was.

LAUGHTER ECHOES

Whoa! Help me! Jane!

EMILY CACKLES

ALARM BLARES, LAURA INHALES

Jesus!

Eliza.

To find him.

Eliza. To find him.

Eliza? Emily said he's in there.

Emily? What do you mean, Emily?

The boy. He's still in the water.

DOOR SLAMS Mummy?

It's OK. Help me.

It's OK, baby. It's all right.

ELIZA SOBS It's OK.

LAURA EXHALES

PHONE RINGS Stop calling me.

SHE EXHALES

SHE SIGHS

PHONE DIALS

'Hi, you've got through to Rob Conroy. Please leave a message.'

Hi, Rob, it's me again. Erm...

Look, I know you don't wanna talk to me at the moment, but I...

..I need to talk to you,

so could you give me a call when you get this?

Rob, I really miss you.

PHONE PINGS

Eliza! Can you get your shoes on, please?

ELIZA SCREAMS

Sorry. S-Sorry. I didn't mean to frighten her.

Rachel? Are you OK?

The... The door was open.

Was it? Yeah.

She nearly gave me a fright.

Thank you, Rachel.

Thanks so much for doing this. I owe you big time.

Hoping to have a nanny sorted by the end of the week.

How are you, Eliza?

Eliza, Rachel's talking to you.

I, er, I still feel terrible about what happened between the girls.

Is Abby all right?

Laura, honestly, let's just put it behind us.

They're just kids.

Are you all right?

Yeah. Yes, I'm... I'm just a bit knackered.

Eliza set off the burglar alarm last night, sleepwalking. Bless you.

LAURA EXHALES

Rachel, have you... have you ever had a blackout? A blackout?

I had this really weird night out with Emily recently, and I think...

Go on.

LAURA EXHALES Ignore me.

Do you know what? Forget it. It's fine.

Ignore the ramblings of a crazy, caffeine-fuelled woman.

I think I'm just a bit angsty about going back to work.

I'll be fine. Are you sure?

Yeah, yeah. I'm... I'm sure.

Elliott's still asleep in bed.

I mean, he should wake up pretty soon, actually.

And Eliza's schoolbag is just here by the door.

I'll back here for about six o'clock.

OK, well, I'll drop Elliott back for then.

And then why don't we dissect the day over a glass of wine?

That sounds great. Right, bye-bye, Eliza.

You're gonna have a good day. I love you.

Be good for Rachel. Er, keys...

OK. When's Rob home?

Not for a while.

Thanks, Rachel.

Suits you. Mum.

Welcome back.

I'm not just saying that.

I missed you.

How are you? Yeah, I'm good.

Good. I'll let you get settled in.

It's hard to come back after time away.

The kids are good, too.

I was just about to ask. Mm-hm. Sure.

Here comes Steph, your new paralegal.

She'll take over your life, if you let her. Good luck.

Morning, Steph. Hi, Maggie.

Hi, Steph. Hi, Laura. PHONE RINGS

Your phone's ringing. Would you like me to answer?

Erm, no. No, that's fine.

Well, let me know if you need anything else.

I'm just down the hall. Great, thanks, Steph.

Steph? There is one thing...

Oh. ..you could do for me.

Can you do me a background check, a DBS, the usual stuff?

What's her name? Emily. Emily Furness.

Sure. I'm on it. Great.

Thanks, Steph. You're welcome.

Hi.

Just dropping this off for Eliza Conroy in 2F.

Honestly, when do kids start taking any responsibility?

Don't start holding your breath.

EMILY CHUCKLES Thank you.

Yes, hello. It's Laura Conroy again. I left a voicemail this morning.

I'm still waiting for a list of available nannies.

WOMAN: 'I can send you a list now.' Thanks, that's great.

Erm, I'm also waiting on a reference check for an Emily Furness.

'Emily Furness.' Yeah, a friend recommended her.

'Give me a couple of minutes.' OK, yeah, I can hold.

MAN: At this meeting tomorrow,

I really need you to have everything in order

because these are important concepts...

Emily!

Hi.

I'll catch up with you later.

Are you OK? I'm OK. Are you OK? I'm fine. I'm good.

Look, I'm sorry about the other day.

How are things at home? Can... Can we not...?

Sure. Bye. Tom, you know that night out?

Apart from Emily, was there anyone else with us?

What do you mean?

I just can't...

I can't shake this feeling that someone was following us.

I don't know anything about that,

but I do remember we drank way too much,

and we should probably put it all behind us.

Yeah, no, well, of course. Sorry. Yeah, forget I said anything.

Briefing meeting started two minutes ago. Yeah.

Er, right.

See you in there.

First of all...

a reminder that the formidable Laura is back with us from today.

APPLAUSE Thank you. Thanks.

In other news,

Friday's testimony is now definitively inadmissible.

The claimant had memory issues.

Don't they always?

So, we need to find a new angle.

Something to get us over the line.

Stuart, do you have any thoughts? Well...

PHONE RINGS

So sorry. Sorry.

WHISPERING

Do you need to take that?

No, no. I'm good. I'm good. So?

Anybody got any ideas?

No-one?

Well, I mean, I could take a look. Fresh eyes and all that.

Are you sure? Course.

OK. Thanks, everyone. Great.

Laura! VOICEMAIL: 'First new message.'

WOMAN: 'Hi, Mrs Conroy.

'Eliza's a bit poorly this afternoon.

'Could you give us a call, please?' Laura? Laura?

Sorry, hang on. 'Next message.'

'Hi, Mrs Conroy.

'If you get this message, could you please call us urgently?

'Eliza's been very sick at school.' Shit.

Shit. Shit. Laura, these documents...

Yes, sorry, I-I can't. I've gotta go.

There's a school emergency.

Sorry, Steph, I've gotta go. The meeting...

BELL RINGS

Hello, sorry, I'm late. I've come to collect Eliza. Right.

Got a message saying that she was sick. Oh! OK.

Oh, no, she's been picked up already by her emergency contact.

Sorry? An Emily Furness.

Eliza? You're here.

Oh, come here. Are you OK?

You're here, you're fine. You OK?

I was really sick. Oh, I'm sorry.

Poor lamb. She was so sick at school.

I did try and call you. You OK? You look really pale.

How's the princess doing? No. Let's talk.

You and me, next door. Sure.

Hey.

Want a cup of tea? Is everything all right?

What's wrong? Who are you? Sorry?

Who are you?

Cos I've just met Flo's mum... Isla.

Oh, God, she's a right cow, isn't she?

Why've you been lying to me? Why've you been pretending to be Flo's mum?

But I didn't. Yes, you have.

Yes, you have.

All that stuff about how difficult Flo's found it

since her dad left, the divorce,

the struggles of being a single parent.

How do you explain all that?

Well, her parents are separated, and she is finding it really difficult.

And I am divorced, but I...

..I never said I was her mum.

Laura, did something happen? Did something happen? Yeah, yeah.

We bonded over our kids, and you don't have any.

You're a liar.

Wow, just because I don't have children of my own,

I can't appreciate what it must be like to be a mother?

Eliza'd still be vomiting on the floor if I hadn't gone and picked...

I never asked you. I never asked you to go and pick her up.

Not everybody's lucky enough to have children...

..so I chose a job that allowed me to care for other people's.

But apparently that doesn't make me worthy of your exclusive mums club.

PHONE RINGING

Hello? STEPH: Hi, Laura.

I don't know if you're coming back,

but the DBS check came back on Emily Furness. Something came up.

And? It's flagging that she's several misdemeanours.

Just pulling up the details.

Two parking tickets in arrears and a tow.

Is that everything? That's right.

She seems to check out.

Did you run an enhanced one? Nothing came up, she's clean.

OK, thanks, Steph. By the way, Tom's furious.

When are you getting back?

Did you run a background check on me?

No, um... Oh, my God.

You're a liar.

You're lying, aren't you?

I'm really sorry, Emily.

I really thought you said you were Flo's mum. Seriously?

What? A simple misunderstanding and suddenly I'm the devil?

You're a lawyer for fuck's sake.

Whatever happened to innocent till proven guilty?

And to think, I thought we were friends.

I dropped everything today to pick up your sick child,

and somehow I'm the guilty party?

I'll see myself out. Emily, don't. Please, don't.

Let's not leave it like this. Let's talk. I'm...

ELIZA: Mummy, my tummy hurts. I think I'm gonna be sick.

Please, just... just stay here.

ELIZA GROANS

ELIZA COUGHS

KNOCK ON DOOR EMILY: I'll get it.

Oh, hiya. Hi.

How's the little man been? Oh, an angel.

Aw. He's still sleeping, so ssh.

Bye, Elliot.

Is, er... Laura here?

Oh, Eliza's got a stomach bug, so she's just putting her to bed.

Oh... Well, thought we could open this.

Aw, that's kind of you. I'll let Laura know.

She got her hands full at the minute. Oh.

Thanks for dropping Elliot back. Yeah.

Please, tell Laura I'll come by the same time tomorrow morning.

Oh, there's no need. It's all sorted now. Oh?

She... didn't tell me... any...

OK... Well...

..tell Laura to give me a call. Course.

Rachel gone? Yep.

Is she always like that?

Like what? Short.

Why? What did she say? It's more like what she didn't say.

She gave me the impression she hadn't enjoyed having him all day.

Kind of rude, actually. Really?

Oh...

To celebrate your first day back at work.

Thank you, that's really nice of you.

Shall we open it? I'm not really in the mood now.

Just gonna head home. Um...

Can we... Can we start again?

Dunno. Maybe.

He was just... He was just a boy.

PHONE RINGING

Hello? CHILDREN LAUGHING

Hello? Hello? CHILD: Stop!

CHILD SCREAMING CHILD: Mama.

Emily? Laura, can we talk?

Sorry it's late. Oh, it's fine.

I, erm... I've been thinking about earlier, and...

I just wanted to apologise.

Look, on reflection...

..I don't think I was as clear as I could've been.

I think I was just really enjoying getting to know you, and...

maybe I was scared that if you knew I was just a nanny,

you might think of me differently...

because that's happened to me before.

Really? Well, it wouldn't happen with me.

Can we start afresh? I would really like that.

Can I ask you something? Yeah, of course.

That night out with Tom...

..was there anyone else at the hotel?

Cos I just can't shake this feeling that someone was following us.

You've got to stop torturing yourself like this, Laura.

Just... let it go. I can't.

I just... I feel like I'm...

I feel like I'm going slightly mad, actually.

Like everything's, kind of, suddenly falling apart.

Because...

SHE SIGHS

..Rob's hardly talking to me.

I've already messed things up at work.

I can't even keep hold of a nanny that's never even met me.

So, that's where I'm at.

Well, why don't I help you with that bit?

I can take care of the kids until you find someone.

Really? That wouldn't be too weird for you?

Accept, before I change my mind, woman.

I accept. Thank you. That would be amazing.

Shall we have an awkward hug? LAURA LAUGHS

Yeah. I'd like one.

Thank you.

Doesn't feel so awkward now, does it? No.

Ah! Eat your breakfast.

Hello! Hello!

Yes.

Erm, this doesn't always click into... Ah!

Why don't you get out of here? OK.

Bye-bye, little man. I love you.

You sure you're gonna be OK? More than. OK.

Bye-bye, sweetheart.

Have a good day. Love you.

Thanks.

BABY BABBLES IN NEXT ROOM

READS: "Dear Mr and Mrs Conroy,

"due to Mrs Conroy being unable to attend last appointment...

"please find rescheduled date below."

'Hello?' Hi, Liam, it's me. 'You OK?'

I think she'll talk. 'Really?' Yeah.

I'll send you the address. 2pm tomorrow.

CALL DIALS OUT

Hi. Hi. Hi, little guy.

Say "hi". How is he? Yeah, he's, er, he's good.

How are you? Knackered. But I'm all right.

I, erm... Is Eliza free?

'Eliza. Wanna come speak to Daddy?'

It's a shame you won't be here for the behavioural meeting.

I was there at the last one.

I'm guessing you're still planning on

staying with your mum when you get back?

I think it's for the best.

BABY FUSSES

Eliza.

I'll take him to her. Hi, Rob. 'Hey, how are you?'

Yeah, just cooking some dinner.

FOOTSTEPS RECEDE

'Excited for me to be home soon, Eliza?'

Yes. Come see you after school on Friday, OK?

'Actually, could you let Laura know too, please, Emily?' Course.

Night-night, guys. Night. Blow a kiss to Daddy.

Mwah. Mwah! Night.

Right, come on, sleep.

Can you tell me one of the Brave Girl adventures?

'Oh, not tonight, Lize, it's already late.

Tomorrow, though. Promise?

Pinky promise. Night-night. Love you.

Me you.

Hey, Lize, you know you've got that meeting with Mummy tomorrow?

Well, they're coming to understand if you're OK.

Or if you're... ever frightened sometimes, by Mummy.

Like... when they're shouting?

Exactly. That kind of thing.

They want you to tell them, darling.

It's really important that you tell the truth.

Nothing bad happens when you tell the truth.

OK. Good girl.

Come on.

DOOR BELL RINGS

That'll be the social worker.

SHE CLEARS THROAT

Hello, you must be Adam.

No, I'm Liam Stevens, I'm with the Daily Press.

Just want to have a quick chat with you, Catherine.

'Catherine?' Laura, what's wrong?

Catherine, I just need a couple of minutes...' Hang on, I'll just...

No, no. OK, OK. OK. OK, I won't.

'Just wanna know the truth, Catherine.' He's...

He's here. Who's Catherine?

SHE EXHALES DEEPLY Laura? What's wrong?

Oh, God. Look, who's Catherine? What's happening? 'Catherine?'

Talk to me. Need you to talk to me?

'Catherine, I just wanna ask you a couple of questions.' Who is that?

Talk to me. What's happening?

OK, OK, just breathe. Tell me you didn't... What?

KNOCKING What is it?

SHE TAKES SHALLOW BREATHS

Eliza, this is Adam.

He's just here to ask us a few questions, OK?

It's lovely to meet you, Eliza.

Your husband couldn't make it, I see. Oh, no, he's, er...

Away all the time.

He's away on business a lot, but... SHE CHUCKLES

..so it must feel like a long time for you, hey, darling.

ECHOED, KNOCKING ON DOOR

LIAM: 'Catherine, I just wanna ask you a couple of questions.'

ADAM, MUFFLED: You're back to work full-time for now?

NORMAL: Is everything OK, Mrs Conroy?

Sorry, what was the question?

You've also gone back to work full-time? Yes.

So do you have someone taking care of the kids in your absence?

Usually just leave them to fend for themselves (!) Packet of biscuits.

That was a joke. HE CHUCKLES

Emily looks after us. Emily?

Is she a relative? Is this a nanny?

Erm, she's just... She's a friend. She's staying.

So, Eliza, do you like being a big sister?

Do you like having your little brother around?

Yeah, course she does.

Eliza, just... tell the nice man. Stop telling me what to do.

Eliza, will you just... I want Daddy.

ECHOED LAUGHTER Wha...?

BANG, SHE GASPS

SHE GASPS, BANGING CONTINUES

For goodness sake, will you just tell him that you...

Shut up, Mum! Sorry, sweetheart.

I...

I'm not usually like this, sorry. Yes, you are!

Eliza. Please, I'm not. I've...

Eliza. No, I'm... FOOTSTEPS RECEDING

Mrs Conroy, perhaps it'd be best if we reschedule this meeting

for when your husband is back.

SHE GASPS

CCTV on the 27th?

Yeah, or, erm, or 28th, it was past midnight.

I can't do that without a police warrant.

Er, right, can I speak to a manager?

I'm the supervising manager.

Please, can you help me? It's, erm...

I think something happened to me in that room.

I think I was spiked.

DESPERATELY: Please...

Let me see what I can do. Thank you.

What are we looking for?

Sto... Stop. Go back.

Who's that? F...

Zoom in.

That's him.

'Maggie Gibson's phone, please leave a message.'

BEEP Hi. Hi, Mum, it's me. Erm...

Can you just give me a call when you get this message, please?

I really need to talk to you.

There you are! Oh!

I was worried about you. You OK?

Yeah, sorry, you made me jump. I just, erm...

I had some work stuff to deal with. Do you wanna talk about it?

Do you mind if we don't?

I'm just really knackered, I think I'm gonna head straight up.

Erm, thanks for looking after the kids. They all right?

Yeah, they're fine. Night.

SHE BREATHES FITFULLY

ECHOED DRIPS

You didn't do anything wrong.

MUFFLED UNDER WATER: Argh!

SHE GASPS

SHE SIGHS

There's this man, and he was at the hotel

when I was there with Tom, and then he came to my house.

With Tom? No.

Erm, no, it was after the work do, we ended staying at a hotel,

and, erm, I've checked the CCTV there, and he was there,

the man, he was there, and he was following us.

Then he came to the house.

And...

WHISPERS: ..he called me Catherine.

What else did he say?

Just said he was from the Daily Press.

How did he find me?

And what if Rob finds out? Calm down.

Mum...?

I'm having the nightmares again. It'll be OK.

Listen to me, Laura...

..it was an accident. A terrible accident.

You were never there.

You were never there.

'Daddy! You're home.' 'Hey, darling. Have you gotten taller?'

'Yeah, I'm almost as tall as you. I have something to show you.

'Here.' 'Just give me two minutes, OK?'

FOOTSTEPS APPROACH 'Laura?'

SHE GASPS Oh!

Er... J... Er, sorry, I-I thought you were Laura.

Oh, it's OK.

OK, er...

He's coming.

Surprise! Wow! What's this?

Do you like it, Daddy? I did the icing.

It's amazing, Eliza, thank you. Thank you.

Eliza, why don't you put Jelly Bots on?

And we will have cake and watch it together?

I thought Laura was gonna be here.

Yeah, me too. I did mention it a couple of times.

So much for wanting to talk.

I think she's just been a bit out of sorts since the behavioural meeting.

Why, what happened?

She sort of snapped at Eliza.

It was quite harsh, actually. Fuck!

Look... What's wrong with her? Well, look,

I think she's just burnt out, she's been working really late.

How are you?

I mean, this must be really hard for you.

Devastated. If I'm honest.

Don't now how we got here and I don't what to do to fix it.

Sorry, I... I shouldn't be dumping this all on you.

I think it's good to talk.

'Daddy.'

Yeah, er, yeah, we're coming, Eliza. I'll-I'll, er, I'll take the cake.

Yeah. Can you bring bowls and...? Yeah. OK.

SIREN BLARES

PHONES RINGS

SHE HYPERVENTILATES

It's all gonna be OK, is it, Mum? It's all gonna be fine, is it?

Close the door.

He's found where I work. He knows where I work now.

How has he found out where I work? Keep your voice down.

It's all gonna come out. Sit down.

Listen to me...

I'm gonna send you home. I'm gonna sign you off now.

Don't answer the door to anybody. OK.

Do you understand me? Yeah. OK.

Shh-shh. LAURA EXHALES SHARPLY

Breathe.

Deep breaths. Good girl. Mum...

Good girl. SOBBING: Mum!

We're gonna be OK.

I promise you.

IN SLOW-MOTION

IMPACT, SHE GASPS

Lock the doors, lock the windows.

Laura. Laura!

You're... You're home.

Why didn't you tell me you were coming home? Are you OK?

Mummy, look. Fairy wings. Will you help me with my costume?

Hey. It's OK, Lize.

You come and show me, give Mummy some space. Mummy?

No. It's not OK. None of this is OK!

Laura, what's going on?

SHE SIGHS What's going on?

BABY CRIES What's wrong with Mummy?

Talk to me. What's going on?

I can't. I...

Why don't I take the kids to Mum's? No.

No, Rob, Rob, you don't understand. Then help me understand.

SHE EXHALES SHARPLY

Talk to me, tell me what's happening.

I... SHE GASPS

I can't. I can't.

SHE EXHALES I don't know what's wrong with you.

You're scaring the kids. I'm taking them to my mum's.

BABY CRIES Hey, hey, hey. It's all right.

Come on, come on, come on, come on.

Eliza, go and pack your bag. We're going to your gran's.

Are you all right?

SHE WHIMPERS

Checked all the upstairs windows.

Do you ever give yourself a night off?

LAURA SCOFFS

I don't now, I just... wanted to do something normal.

Look at you... they work, they vote, they drive, they sew.

Can I help?

Well, I mean, you could...

finish the fairy wings, if you can bear it. Sure.

Who's Catherine, Laura?

Look, you can trust me.

I haven't told anyone what you said.

And I won't.

I just don't want you to face whatever this is alone.

QUIETLY: Catherine's me.

What do you mean?

My mum changed our names when I was a kid.

Why?

Something happened with my friend and her brother.

What?

You can trust me.

You know when you're a kid and you go on holiday

and you make those friends that's... it's like really intense?

You get very close very quickly.

She was one of those.

Millie.

She had it rough at home, her parents were always arguing.

There was just me and my mum, so...

..we used to run off, the two of us

and just pretend to be somewhere else for an entire day.

And there was this, erm, little old boat near where we were staying.

ECHOED LAUGHTER

And we'd talk about how we were gonna take it,

sail away on an adventure.

I know that sounds silly now, but we really thought we could.

What happened?

There was a terrible accident.

And...?

There was an argument, and...

ECHOED SHOUTING

..my friend's brother, he drowned.

It was...

It was really frightening, and so I just ran back to my mum,

and I told her, I told her what happened.

And she...

..she told me to say I was never there.

So I did.

I said that. SHE SOBS

I've never told anyone.

Not even Rob.

What happened to the friend?

I don't know.

SHE BREATHES SLOWLY

You forgot the part where you killed my brother.