Original subtitles

This film contains strong language.

'The news today is dominated by one event,

'the dramatic discovery of the body of Lauren Parris in a canal in East London.

'The international superstar went missing two weeks ago after buying some flowers in a local market.

'Earlier this morning...'

'Earlier today, police divers recovered the body of Lauren Parris, from a canal in East London.'

HEAVY RAIN, WIND BLOWS

'People around the world have today

had their worst fears confirmed.

The discovery of...'

HEAVY RAIN, WIND BLOWS

'She vanished after leaving her one-year-old daughter with her mother for the weekend.'

HEAVY RAIN, WIND BLOWS

HEAVY RAIN, WIND BLOWS, PLASTIC RATTLES IN THE WIND

Hello, Ben.

It's so awful. I know. I can't believe it.

'First of all, James, what's the latest?

'Well, I'm standing here on the edge of the Hackney Canal and you can see behind me...'

Ah, ah...

Ben... Elisa.

CAR HORN BLARES

Ben!

BRAKES SCREECH

You can open your eyes. Slowly, it's OK.

You're in hospital. You've been in hospital for a week.

You were in an accident.

Elisa!

Elisa! Elisa!

ON TV: 'In the last few minutes, police have confirmed

'that they are treating the death of Lauren Parris as a murder inquiry.

'The singer's body was found floating in a canal near her home in East London earlier today.

'Detectives are hoping that CCTV footage of her last known movements may help them find her killer.

'James Stephens has been following events and joins us now from beside the Hackney Canal

'where police divers recovered Lauren's body this morning.

'James, what's happening there now? Well, as you can see behind me, mourners are beginning to gather...'

My wife's dead.

WATCH TICKS

I don't know why I'm seeing you again.

Perhaps because I helped you last time.

Are we started?

That's up to you, don't you think?

You can draw, if you like.

Is it similar to when you lost your parents?

Don't you get tired of talking about my parents?

All we ever do is talk about my parents, let's talk about your parents.

My parents are dead.

So are mine. I know.

No, no, it's not similar. It's not similar to anything!

What do you mean by that?

All these... grieving people, this...

You just...

It makes me feel sick!

You know I can't, I can't... get any space, I can't breathe.

All these tears for someone they don't even know.

It must be hard seeing all these people grieving for Lauren Parris like no-one cares about your loss.

I never expected anyone to care about my loss.

I haven't heard a thing from her family.

Perhaps they don't have my new number.

That's always been this thing about, um...

They never liked me.

It's as simple as that. Now since this...

Now since the, erm...

That's no surprise, really. Is it?

You mean because you were driving?

I mean because I survived.

Ben! Ben!

KNOCKING, HE GASPS

A DOOR IS UNLOCKED

ON TV: '..and yet scared about these small details.

'For fear if I fell asleep I might swallow something poisonous.

'The fear some number or fact or word will start to grow in my brain

'until there is no more room inside my head.

'The fear that I may start

screaming in the middle of the night

and that no-one will come.

'It will be an echo behind closed doors.

'An echo a child would hear when doors were kept shut.

'It sometimes crept ajar and through the crack in the door,

'the night climbs in illuminating shadows in the forbidden room.'

TRAIN RUMBLES PAST OUTSIDE

Entrance to the old morgue.

It's just a cellar though, really.

So...if you want me to keep anything down here,

you just let me know.

As long as you trust Alison Brody, that is.

The orderlies...they, er, used to sign the names of...

..all the people they brought down here.

I'm Roland, by the way, I'm the caretaker.

MUSIC PLAYS

VOICES ON RADIO

WIND BLOWS, PLASTIC RATTLES IN THE WIND

And...action!

REPORTER: Where she went next is still unknown and that's the mystery

police believe this reconstruction could help solve.

Detectives are hoping that someone, somewhere will have their memory jogged and come forward

with information that will lead them to Lauren's killer.

Hey! Whoa, whoa, whoa, whoa, whoa...

Easy friend, it's me. Tommy.

Are you OK? Good to see you. How are you doing?

All right, you OK? Yeah. What are you doing round here?

I've just moved back, up the road. Yeah?

What are you fucking staring at? Huh?

Go to your fucking parents!

CHILDREN SHOUT BACK

Bastards! They've robbed my shop twice this week...for meth.

To drink, do you believe that?

Actually, it tastes quite nice.

I see you've developed quite a thing for beige. Hey!

It's biscuit brown.

Whatever the fuck that is.

So are you gonna give me a hand?

I meant to talk to you about that, actually. No, no...

No, no can do! I'm not asking for full-time or anything.

I'll do as I'm told. Have a look around you.

Look, I'm not exactly raking it in here.

I think it's very nice. I tell you what,

why don't you pop next door and ask Brenda to put the tea on? Go on.

There's no-one here. Exactly! I had to let Brenda go.

So...did you say you've moved in up the road?

Yes, I'm just, you know...trying to make a new start. Oh, aye.

Elisa was killed.

Jesus, Ben, I... It was an accident. I was driving.

You should have phoned. I would've gone to the funeral. I didn't go. No, I was hurt.

I was, er... I was in a coma.

Could they not have waited for you, or something? Yes, they could.

You know, I think her sister organised it all.

God, Carrie?

I can't believe she'd do something like that.

It was filmed for me, though. What?!

I don't know what the minister must have thought.

You know what she's like, everything on a grand scale. Gospel choir.

Someone released a cage of doves in the churchyard.

I tell you what...

I'll bring you in for the big jobs.

That way we'll get them done quicker. How's that?

Thanks, Tommy.

Let's have a drink, we'll celebrate.

KNOCK ON DOOR

Oh, hi...

I was just gonna... You left me the sugar.

Yeah, for coffee or whatever.

I'm sorry, it's a bit corny.

You don't drink coffee, do you?

No.

Well, I do. But I don't take sugar.

Erm, I'm sorry the place isn't in better shape. What?

I'm the sort of landlady.

The sort of landlady? It's a terrible word. Erm...

Yeah, I mean, I look after the place for my dad. He's into conversions.

I'm Charlotte. And you're Ben.

Yes, that's right.

Well, I better be going.

I promise not to leave dishes on your doorstep again, not unless it's really important.

Erm...

I take sugar in tea.

BOTH DOORS CLOSE, HE PUTS THE DOOR CHAIN ON

# I never thought I'd see you again

# Without you until now

# Well, how are you?

# How have you been?

# It's a long time since

# We last met... #

A COUPLE ARGUES

Listen to me, Ben, please. You don't bloody listen!

You don't bloody listen!

Because you don't bloody listen.

It's not uncommon, especially if you are tired.

Your brain is so used to her being around that it translates sounds or sights into images of her.

I wasn't even that used to her being around.

She was just going away with work a lot, that's all.

It's a good thing. It's healthy, isn't it?

What?

It's just, erm...

I've just never really adjusted, I always felt like I was...

missing out, missing the show, you know.

It's pathetic!

She needed it. Ahem...

So...it was like having a bodyguard between us.

And how do you feel about that now? Great, yeah, really good(!)

You know what we did the day she died?

We argued in the car.

I can't remember what was said, but...

I really loved her.

And how did she feel about you?

Probably like I wasn't paying enough attention to the road. Do you think...?

I'm not doing that, I'm not doing that.

She loved me, I know.

Good.

We're having a beer tonight, down the pub. I won't tonight, thanks.

You getting out the way?

You still got that studio in Rathwell Street?

Er, no. It's...

It's like everything else, being redeveloped.

What about the ants? Are you still doing the ant thing?

Christ, man. You've been doing that since art school.

You're definitely a tad peculiar.

What? Um...

I bumped into Carrie yesterday. Oh, Christ...

What was that like? Oh, it was fine.

Fine. You know, I was just...

Well, I told her we were

working together and, you know,

and I gave her my condolences and...

You know, she was just...

She was a little weird. She is weird.

It's like she's in denial. She didn't want to talk about it.

She was really short with me. You know, I just...

I don't know. Weird.

CONGREGATION: Lead us not into temptation, but deliver us from evil,

for thine is the kingdom, the power and the glory,

forever and ever, Amen.

Yes, OK. I am being pulled. I am being pulled...here.

Here I am receiving...

You. You and you. Yes, both of you.

I feel an impact. It was sudden.

I feel a younger energy.

It was your son.

Yes, he wants me to tell you that there was a moment when he had a choice.

He was a very athletic young man. He won medals.

He thought he could do anything he wanted to.

He used to say that he would rather die than be disabled.

In the hospital...

In the hospital, he was aware.

He was aware, everybody around telling him to fight, to hold on.

He wants you to know there was a moment he had a choice.

And he chose to go.

Understand that.

Understand that.

I leave his love with you.

I just like going... I don't know why.

Watching the people, the sense of relief they get.

I suppose that's what it is.

It's amazing.

Why did you invite me?

Well...I'm really good at sensing things, seeing things.

I can sort of see your pain,

in your aura.

And I've also sort of seen your apartment application form.

It took me a long time to tick that box.

It didn't seem right, somehow. It just didn't feel like me, you know.

Widower. It's just... Yeah.

I wanted to show you that, you know, life goes on.

That there's such a thing as the soul.

Well, I wanted to try, anyway.

There were cracks.

I didn't have you down for a...

I mean, I wasn't sure if you were an animal lover.

They're interesting.

You see, that's the queen, sitting on her eggs, surrounded by guards.

They all have different jobs.

Soldiers, foragers, cleaners...

Nurses. Their social behaviour is very similar to humans.

Though they'd never kill their own.

Sorry. I used to study entomology before I went to art school.

I was just never interested enough in the science of it, so I quit.

I don't know how you do it.

I mean, ants are one thing, but all those other...

I'm positively allergic to spiders. No-one's allergic to spiders.

I am.

I can prove it to you, if you like.

Yeah, that sounds like fun(!)

My aunt was called Charlotte.

So what's all this about? Oh, um...

You wear this for good health and spirit. It's very good for a sore throat.

And why's that?

It's the colour blue.

People have done it for years.

Does it work? I think so.

A WOMAN SOBS

'And a lot of people are very upset, very bereaved. Very depressed.

'What does Lauren Harris mean to you?

'Did she touch your life in some way?

'Nick, I know you were a great fan

of Lauren's, weren't you?

Yes, she was certainly a star.

'I mean, she was well respected amongst the music community.'

I don't know.

We humans are a lot more complicated than you think.

I mean, it's commonly believed that we only use 10% of our brain.

Some of us even less.

Maybe the rest is for a higher form of movement, thought, communication.

You know? That sort of thing.

And some people can read your mind?

Oh, yeah. Every woman!

RATTLING BEHIND THE WALLS

Jesus Christ. I think they need plumbers down here, not painters.

You want a cup of tea? Yeah, thanks.

You know, there's something to that ESP.

Some people just know stuff they shouldn't know.

So do you think that's what mediums use?

Do you think they don't really talk to spirits?

Well, maybe they can access parts of the brain that we can't.

Communicate on a different level.

Maybe even with the dead. I'm not saying I believe it.

But it's not impossible.

ON RADIO: 'Let's play a little bit of music.'

You know that she received the most official condolences for any official music star?

Still.

It must be weird for you, because you knew her.

Well, Elisa knew her.

There you go, mate.

Cheers. You OK?

Cheers, mate.

# I don't care if I ever know

# There I go... #

KNOCK ON DOOR

KNOCKING CONTINUES

Benjamin Slater? PC Jackson. Can I come in?

What made you move house?

What's this about? Where were you on March 17th?

Are you investigating the insurance?

I was in an accident. Your name's come up.

Since we aired the reconstruction of Lauren Parris' murder.

You're also caught on camera at the reconstruction following it.

Do you know, a lot of criminals go to the reconstructions of their crimes?

It's a bit like watching a theatre play you've written, I suppose.

You wouldn't want to miss it.

Of course, there's also a wide variety of nutters, stalkers,

obsessives turning up at reconstructions.

So why did you move?

I mean, to only a couple of hundred yards

from where Lauren Parris was last seen?

Do you know how she died?

The canal. That's where she died.

She was beaten to death, and strangled,

and suffocated.

As if the guy was trying to kill her three times over.

Strange.

I was in a coma from the accident.

So, what's your thing? Do you love her or hate her?

I don't have a thing. Course you don't.

Where do you keep your scrapbook?

Sorry? Your scrap book.

Photos, cuttings, articles.

It isn't illegal. Not that alone.

Right. I've got a thousand other punters to deal with.

'Police are today hoping that a reconstruction

'of the last known movements of Lauren Parris will help them catch her killer.

'It's now two weeks since the body of the singer was found floating in a canal in East London,

'and so far it appears that the police have made little progress in their investigation.

'Where she went next is still unknown.

'That's the mystery police believe this reconstruction could help solve.

'Crucially, police are anxious to trace this man, seen in the market

'at the time of Lauren's disappearance.

'He was wearing a beige parka.

'Witnesses reported he seemed unsettled and agitated.'

I've got pictures of the murder scene, mate.

GLASS CRACKS, HE GASPS

Elisa! Ben.

Your hand's bleeding.

You OK?

My hand's bleeding.

Do you want to talk about this landlady?

How do you know about her?

You mentioned her, earlier.

Did I?

What's her name?

Charlotte. Ah, like your... Like my aunt, yeah.

And what do you think about that?

What do I think about it?

I'm sorry, I don't think anything about it. What am I meant to think? What do you think about that?

I wonder if you'd like to...show me what you've been drawing. Do you?

Something's bothering you.

You're bothering me.

So you still think of Charlotte as your aunt?

I used to think of her as my mum.

She was the closest thing I had after mum died.

And how do you feel about that now?

I don't feel anything. She left. That's life, you know?

She left.

She was homesick.

Does that sound right? She was only ever staying for a year, wasn't she?

You were only six. You'd just lost your parents. Stop it!

Can I see what you've drawn? No.

Are we allowed to be in here?

I used to work here.

That's not what I asked.

So what's with Roland?

He's not that bad.

He kind of came with the building.

He was a caretaker when it was a hospital.

He's full of stories.

He loves the morgue, doesn't he? I don't go down there.

Because of dead people? Because of the spiders.

Right, might as well take a look at it now you're here.

OK, I've looked at it.

What was my flat?

It was just a ward.

This is plastic. It's plastic.

Now you have to try to hold it.

Just think of it like your blue crystals.

Which, by the way, won't work as well as nicotine patches.

SHE LAUGHS

Hold out your hand.

Close your eyes.

God, I feel ridiculous.

Now, then, you have to pretend this is real.

OK.

OK, stage one complete.

Charlotte.

Elisa.

Ben! Ben!

Don't be stupid, Ben! Ben!

OK. OK now, right.

Yes, I am receiving.

Yes, I am receiving. I am being pulled, I am being drawn...

I am being drawn.

I am being drawn.

I'm receiving. I am being drawn.

I am being drawn.

Yes. Yes.

Yes, here. Here.

There's somebody in two minds here.

Grieving, I get grieving.

Strong mother figure.

Very concerned about her son, Benjy.

Benjy, yes.

Yes, yes. You're not happy about losing your wife.

You were parted not long ago?

So much death in your mind!

So much death!

I'm getting a very clear A.

A. E. E. L?

El-Elise? Eliza? Elisa.

Elisa. Elisa is your wife, yes.

Ben, Elisa hasn't passed over.

Elisa's not dead.

No.

ELISA: Ben! CHARLOTTE: Ben...

Ben! Who the fuck do these people...?

You people!

This is life you're playing with!

Who are you?

And who the fuck is she?

Ben, please.

What did you expect?

Did you think it would help? I mean, do you want to get better?

Well, it's not like I'm ill.

Is it?

I just...I just want to move on.

Then you'll have to stop looking back.

I helped you when you lost your parents and I'm helping you know.

But you have to trust me.

And that means not listening to...

Anyone else?

Why don't you tell me more about Charlotte?

She's nice.

She's nice.

SHE GIGGLES

And she's, erm...

She's too nice, too trusting.

I don't think she's ever lived a normal life.

Do think you've lived a normal life? Oh!

If only! Do you think maybe there's a part of you

that would like to lead an unreal life, like hers?

Don't start with that.

I'm only asking if you think she's an escape from reality.

HUBBUB

That's £5.

Are you interested in collecting things, then?

What the hell does that mean?

What the hell does that mean? I didn't...

I didn't buy anything. You bought other stuff.

You must be desperate. We are.

I'm just interested - most people are.

Most people are not interested in buying pictures of the murder scene.

Why are you wasting your time on me?

Because we don't know yet

whether Lauren Parris was killed before or after your car crash.

She went missing two days before you went into your coma -

a detail which you were rather economical with.

And as I'm sure you know, her body was so badly...

You've got a bit of a history of stalking, haven't you?!

PANTING

Lissa!

WOMAN GASPS

Sorry. Sorry, sorry.

Oi, where d'you think...? Lissa! Lissa! Lissa!

'Ere, get back!

How about an apology, for a start?

Don't you think you're missing the point? What's the point?

Well, she's supposed to be dead, isn't she?

Would have thought you'd be interested in that.

I mean, it's illegal, isn't it?

Look, I don't want her in any trouble, I'm just...

Just let me talk to her.

Take me to where she's living - I know you know.

Is this your wife? We found it in your wallet.

Yeah.

Is this your wife, too?

No. No idea who that is.

It's a photograph of the woman you were following.

I've just said, I've no idea who that is.

That old hospital you live in,

you know that's where Lauren Parris was born?

HE CHUCKLES

I thought you'd known that, all those newspaper articles you keep.

I'd like to take a little peep at your studio.

Rathwell Street, right?

Er, no, it's being redeveloped. It's not my studio any more. Ah.

Bet you miss it, don't you?

You have no right to be assessing me.

I've seen someone already - you want to know anything, you ask him.

I don't need to.

What? You still don't see yourself as a stalker, do you?

Look, I don't know how it's possible, either. I don't...

But if you can't trust your eyes, I mean...

I mean, what can you trust?

Sorry?

I don't know, I don't know.

Do you only believe in what you can see?

HEARTBEAT THUMPS

Do you believe in love?

Just relax.

Close your eyes.

BIRDS TWITTER

Carrie... Can I speak to you?

I know you don't want to see me.

Just give me a minute. It's about Elisa.

I'm not sure she's dead. What are you talking about?

You're not sure she's dead now?

Just, if there's a chance that I might...

No, Ben, stop it.

You're right, I don't want to see you.

There's no chance.

No chance, OK?

Now, leave us alone and get on with your life.

"Leave us alone".

That's what Carrie said.

She said leave "us" alone.

Leave us alone.

You think she meant Elisa?

No.

Who, then?

Anyone who's not you?

I'm not paranoid.

Is Charlotte part of us, do you think?

What does she get out of all of this?

Don't know.

I don't know.

'Earlier today, Lauren's manager, Emery Jones, made this appeal.

'Obviously at this stage, police investigations are ongoing.

'But really, all our thoughts are with the family, and the fans.

'What I would say...

'Whoever you are,

'you can't hide.

'You're not invisible.'

KNOCK ON DOOR

'You can't hide.'

Hello, Ben.

BEN GASPS

At first, I felt sorry for you.

Then I thought you was a nuisance.

Then you got worse.

Then you disappeared.

Now I don't feel sorry for you at all.

You need to let people grieve.

Let yourself grieve.

Elisa's dead. Dead. Yes.

GOSPEL SINGING

Listen, I don't have anything to do with Lauren Parris.

Get a grip, Ben! You're fucked, I was right! Carrie was right.

I don't know why you're here. To tell you to stop.

For Elisa's sake.

Yes. You made her life a misery.

Get a grip, Ben.

Freak!

HE GASPS

EERIE GIGGLING

BEN GASPS

BANGING

RATTLING

RAIN PATTERS

THUNDER ROLLS

WOMAN SOBS

Ben!

INAUDIBLE

THUNDER ROLLS

HE BREATHES HEAVILY

Have you got nothing to say?

CLOCK TICKS INCESSANTLY

Draw me something.

Anything.

Is Elisa dead or alive, do you think?

What's wrong with me?

What d'you mean? I want you to tell me what's wrong with me.

You know, this isn't just in my head.

I may be a little bit confused, but somebody is playing with me.

Rearranging my things, rearranging my head!

Bzzz, bzzz, bzzz, in here.

I mean, there's her face on the wall.

OK? Covered in black paint!

That's there, I've seen it.

There's the photo album, burnt, yeah? Gone.

Those are things!

What the hell is that?

How the hell am I supposed to...

accept my grief with that shit going on?

Do you want to accept your grief?

What does that mean?

It was open.

I was worried you may be...

What?

I'm afraid I have to go.

Oh.

Well, the outside aerial's fixed.

I know.

So, when's stage two of my spider training?

Are you around later?

CHILDREN CHATTER

What are you doing here, Ben?

Carrie, you have to tell me what you know.

What? About Lauren Parris.

I don't know who else to ask. Ben, please...

Carrie, I need help. I need help.

I need to know what you know. I don't remember, I just... Carrie...

Look, Ben, if you start, I can call the police.

I think I might have been the one.

What?

Right, look.

Look in here, look.

Back of the photos, me.

I'm scared, Carrie.

I'm scared that it was me. I've had the police asking me questions.

You're a lot of things, Ben, but you're not that.

I've been living with this obsession.

I don't know how long it's been going on.

I don't know when it start... Ben...look at the photo.

You're not facing Lauren Parris.

You're gazing off somewhere.

You were obsessed with Elisa.

You followed her everywhere.

You couldn't accept that it was over.

It was never over.

You really don't remember?

They met when she was dancing for Lauren.

I'm sorry, Ben.

Ben...

'Come on, Ben, who's Charlotte?'

What? Try to remember when you lost your parents. Who became your new mother, Ben?

What are you talking about? Who did you replace her with?

I don't know. Who's Charlotte, Ben?

I don't know what you're asking me.

What was the book you couldn't stop telling me about as a child.

Don't remember. It was Charlotte's Web.

Who was the mother figure? Charlotte.

You've got them confused, Ben.

So, who is Charlotte now?

You were referred to me last time

because you couldn't cope with the loss of your mother.

This time, you came to me because you're not coping with the loss of your wife.

Who's Charlotte?

Who is she, Ben? Is she your aunt? Did you find her in a book?

So, are you saying Charlotte is a replacement for Elisa? Is that it?

Huh? Are you saying I created her? Are you saying she doesn't exist?

KNOCK ON DOOR

Charlotte... Cha... Charlotte...

Charlotte, I really think it's better

that we don't see each other again.

KNOCK ON DOOR

WOMAN: Ben.

Charlotte...

Ben, it's me.

Elisa.

I'm sorry.

I've come to explain.

You've been telling people that I'm dead,

that I was in a car crash.

But I wasn't in that car with you.

You know that.

I did see you that day and I was in the car, but we were just fighting again.

Lauren was missing, I was frantic, I wasn't in the mood.

BEN SOBS

You left me. D'you remember?

You left me in the middle of nowhere, in the pouring rain.

RAIN PATTERS, HORN BLARES

INDISTINCT SHOUTING

I had one shoe on.

What was I supposed to do?

I was soaking wet in the night.

I thought you'd come back. But you just kept driving.

Ben! Ben!

Ben!

I couldn't believe you'd just abandon me. Elisa...

I came to see you in the hospital.

You were just watching report after report on Lauren's murder.

I thought you were dead... I thought you were dead. I know.

And I shouldn't have let you believe it. I'm sorry. It was just...

It was easier, Ben.

You were making my life a misery.

Emery! You sent round Emery! You sent round Emery! No.

I didn't know, Ben.

He's hurting.

He and Carrie thought they were doing the best thing for me.

I am sorry.

Really.

So... Who's Charlotte?

Is she nice?

No...

No, she's...she's no-one.

Literally.

I should go.

No...

No. No, Ben.

Please. It wasn't... It wasn't always so bad, was it, with us?

It wasn't all shit, was it? Was it?

Was it?

You've been doing this your whole life.

Not to this extent, but...

It's like... It's like telling people you quit art school.

You failed.

Or that you resigned from your job at the museum.

You deny it to yourself

and then you start believing something totally different.

Just don't go now.

Charlotte...

Charlotte won't come. She's, erm... She won't come.

Or if...

I'll get rid of her. I will, I'll get rid of her.

Mostly, I'm all right now.

I know what's real and, erm...

I'll prove it to you.

You prove it to yourself, Ben.

DOOR CLOSES

CHOIR SINGS

BELL TOLLS

'It's a month since the nation mourned the death of Lauren Parris.

'And as time passes, so the pressure mounts on the police

'to find the singer's killer.

'The pain felt by so many will not go away

'whilst her murderer remains at large.

'Detectives say that they've had a good response

'to the reconstruction of Lauren's last known movements,

'but are still lacking that vital piece of information to make a breakthrough.'

KNOCK ON DOOR

Sorry I'm late.

Why are you here?

Stage two.

Come with me.

Ben...

Ben!

WATER DRIPS

Ben!

Ben!

Ben!

EERIE DISTORTED SPEECH ON SOUNDTRACK

Ben!

BANGING

Ben!

You... You knew all along that Elisa was alive, didn't you?

I mean, you knew like I knew.

You're the side of me which has always failed.

D'you think if you look hard enough, you can see...words?

Yeah.

Charlotte...

Charlotte.

Charlotte...

You look...

You look so good, you're so beautiful.

It's just a shoe.

Just a shoe.

Ben...

You trust me? I don't know if this is such a good idea.

Trust me... Trust me.

Come on. You and me.

OK.

Close your eyes.

Ben... What?

No, I've got to go. Are you OK?

I thought you were coming back to work today.

Sorry, I just... I had to tell you.

I thought you'd want to know.

I do.

I realised that was it, you know.

I...had a choice, didn't have to just let things...happen.

I could...

I could take control.

I knew that I didn't have to let this be a part of my life any more.

You were right.

You realised you had a choice.

Yeah.

MUFFLED GASPING

HE CRIES OUT

CLOCK TICKS

It's OK...

It's OK.

I mean, she's gone, I know that.

She's gone.

I'll just have to move on.

She's dead.

I mean, she's dead.

Lissa's dead.

'A man is in police custody today,

'charged with the murder of Lauren Parris.

'The arrest of Gareth Cawood

'follows one of the biggest murder investigations

'that's ever been mounted in Britain.

'Lauren's body was found floating in an east London canal last month

'after she went missing during a trip to her local...

'He will appear before magistrates tomorrow, charged with Lauren's murder.'

'At 10.30am this morning,

'Gareth Cawood, 27 years old,

of Flat 3, 42 Princeton Avenue, Hackney,

'was charged with the murder of Lauren Parris.

'He'll be appearing before Thames Magistrates' Court...'

Do you want to tell me what happened? Why?

You fitted the profile.

No job.

Loner.

Obsessive.

I didn't think that made you a killer.

Charlotte.

That was her name.

I know.

# Every day I spend my time

# Drinking wine

# Feeling fine

# Waiting here to find a sign

# That I can understand

# Yes, I am

# In the days between the hours

# Ivory towers, bloody flowers

# Stick their heads into the air

# I don't care if I ever know There I go

# Don't push your love too far

# Your wounds won't leave a scar

# Right now is where you are

# In a broken dream

# On the pad before my eyes Paper cries

# Telling lies

# The promises you gave from the grave of a broken heart

# Every day I spend my time drinking wine, feeling fine

# Waiting here to find a sign

# That I can understand

# Yes, I am

# Don't push your love too far

# Your wounds won't leave a scar

# Right now is where you are

# In a broken dream. #