Original subtitles

- 17 months, three weeks, five, nearly six days.

- What's that? I don't know.

- Yeah, you do.

Names, addresses, numbers.

Write, the best you know.

- I didn't do it on purpose.

- Where else did you give them?

- [Gideon] This is Gideon, please leave a message.

- We will catch up, one way or other.

You at the Palm later?

Why would we be?

You lot are full of shit.

- No, no, carry on.

Who this?

I need your keys.

What's going on?

- I can't tell you why.

If anybody asks, Zeets or anyone,

I'm just running an errand.

- I asked you to stay with him today.

So where is he, Goz?

(tense dramatic music)

- [Group] Surprise!

I'm gonna give this one one more night, proper goodbye.

- I just want to know why Grace is upstairs

in me mum's bedroom, please, mate.

(window knocks)

- Gideon Charles was killed yesterday, Nelly.

- Was he?

- [Liu] How old were you, Grace?

- 13 and a half, just over.

- [Liu] And how would you describe your

relationship with Gideon Charles?

- [Grace] He was my boyfriend.

For my 14th birthday, he took me to Oblix at the Shard.

And then after, there was a canal boat

he took me to, over by Victoria Park.

And, like, that was one.

- [Liu] You were 14-years-old.

That's when Gideon Charles first had sex with you?

- [Grace] Yeah, just.

- [Liu] Did there come a point when

Mr. Charles introduced drugs into your relationship?

- Yeah, yeah, he loved it.

We did, like, coke, brown, weed, poppers.

He said he wanted to find out what worked best with me.

- [Liu] And how did Gideon Charles

respond to your addiction?

- Fed it.

I had to prove I loved him more than

the brown before I could get any.

- [Liu] How were you expected to do that?

As the judge said, Grace, take as much time as you need.

Um...

- We call it, um, the dancing room.

Just that the wallpaper's got ballerinas on it.

It's where the first time was.

They took me there.

And a friend of his showed up.

I know him now, Paul.

Gid gave me a touch of H.

Then, started with me.

He said Paul was just gonna watch.

But next thing, Paul's reaching in.

And I said I weren't into that 'cause

Paul's nasty.

But Gid said I had to.

He said, he said if I loved him then I would.

And I did, so.

- [Liu] You loved your boyfriend Gid

very much, didn't you?

- I suppose so, yeah.

I thought I did.

I'm clean now, I...

I ain't been on it since Nelly found me.

- Were there other houses, Grace?

Other men?

Other friends of Gideon Charles that he handed you over to?

(Grace sobs)

We have to hear your answer, Grace.

- Yeah.

- [Liu] Were there other girlfriends, Grace?

- Sometimes, like, six or seven of us.

(Grace sobs)

(Grace breathes shakily)

(Grace sobs)

- [Delia] I believe it would be best

if we allowed Grace some time to regroup.

- [Liu] Agreed.

We'll come back tomorrow, Grace.

- [Dock Officer] Please be upstanding for the court.

(sirens blare)

- [Clair] What does it make you feel like, that?

- Honestly?

- [Clair] Honestly is why I'm asking.

- Think about jumping up and down

five or six times on his bollocks

and then moving on from there.

Every time I'm anywhere near or hear what she's saying.

- I see, Jo, every word of Grace,

everything I had done to her hurts,

I feel he done to Jody and...

(sniffles)

I thought this was just showing up,

hoping we'd hear something helpful about Jodes, but...

(sighs deeply)

What it takes, Nelly.

Like today, that takes almost everything.

- No, it's enough that I'm there.

You know, you don't have to.

- [Clair] No, we're not ducking out.

- I know.

- [Clair] I want you to think that.

- Until he's up on the stand, we won't

know if he got anywhere near Jody.

But you've got more than enough for this.

He won't ever take everything.

You, you're like Mary Poppins' bag.

You know?

It's endless what you got inside you.

- I'm like the TARDIS, am I?

- Yeah, yeah, well he's a bird now too, so, yeah.

(Clair laughs)

- Night, Nelly.

- You too, darling, you too.

(jazzy music)

* He's just a stereotype *

* He drinks his age in pints *

* He has girls every night *

* But he doesn't really exist *

(uptempo salsa music)

(traffic hums)

(court area chatters)

- [Grace] Look, I'm not doing it.

You don't understand.

(muffled arguing)

- [Zita] What's up?

- I'll meet you inside.

(door knocks)

What's going on?

Are you all right?

- I know we ain't meant to have words together,

but everything's all right, yeah?

- I ain't going back in there.

- Why--

- [Grace] Can't make me.

- What's happened?

- The shit that they're making me talk about.

How I loved him up.

It's embarrassing!

There's shit I want to forget

and they want to dig around in it

and make out it's something it's not.

- And she's gone to get Mr Liu, has she?

- [Grace] I don't care,

I said I ain't doing it.

I just told ya--

All right, yeah.

- All right, what?

You only want me in there so you can get Jody.

So all right fucking what?

- It ain't just that and don't go on like that with me.

I can give a shit about my kid

and still be a mate to you, can't I?

Have I not already proved that?

Grace.

It means he wins.

- I don't care.

- No, it means all and everything you said yesterday,

stuff you've told just me, he gets to say it's bollocks.

He gets to say you made it all up

and he's done nothing wrong to you.

That's what he's gonna have over you forever, amen.

I know why you're worried.

But that's what Mr Liu's in there for.

To jump in in case he gets too lairy.

Same as he was there for me, same as he's there for you.

And if anything else that's what Nelly's for.

Even when you can't see me, I'm there.

I won't let anyone trouble you again.

You know that, yeah?

- [Delia] I want to start

by asking you about Patrick Lowerty.

You probably know him as Paddy, do you?

Your mother's boyfriend for the last 10 or so years.

The father to your younger brother and sister, isn't he?

- [Grace] What about him?

- Well, when my client took you out

to dinner that first time, you said

it was a date at the Oblix at The Shard.

But it was in fact the All Bar One

in Forest Hill, wasn't it?

- It weren't bloody Forest Hill.

Why's she lying?

It weren't Forest Hill.

- And Why has the mention of Patrick Lowerty

upset you so much, Grace?

Does it remind you of the morning you were so upset

on the train that Mr. Charles offered

to take you out and cheer you up?

The day he took you to the All Bar One in Forest Hill.

- It wasn't fucking Forest Hill

and I ain't here about Paddy.

- [Liu] Your Honor?

- Can you shut up about him?

- Could you remind Miss Corman-Clyde

that this is a vulnerable witness?

- [Judge] Grace, just answer the questions asked.

- You told Mr. Charles that

Patrick Lowerty assaulted you that morning.

Can you tell us how, please?

I know you don't want me to.

But I have to tell the court that you

accused Patrick Lowerty of molesting you.

Do you understand why?

I have to present the very detailed

account you gave to the police,

stating that Patrick Lowerty cornered you

after a shower and attempted to touch you inappropriately.

I have to do that because I have

to also present your subsequent retraction,

the retraction where you admit to making up the allegations,

after your mother refused your demands for money.

- [Grace] Stop her talking about this shit, please!

- [Delia] It was very similar when

these allegations bean against Mr. Charles

when he too refused your demands for money.

- I never asked either of them for money!

I never demanded money from anyone.

I never fucking did.

- [Judge] Please, calm down.

- I should have done, though.

- [Liu] May I request a break?

- The shit he made me do.

I don't want to be here any more.

- [Liu] Grace, please settle down.

- Fuck off I will!

- Let her take a break!

- [Judge] Order.

- Oi, why have you made me come here?

Why?

I thought you said you wasn't gonna let her bother me?

What's this, then?

What's this?

I'm gonna go now.

You fucking shit, Gideon!

You fucking wait!

- [Judge] I think it is a good idea if we adjourn.

- Did you know she was gonna come at her like that?

Did you know about her mum's boyfriend, yeah?

- I don't have to explain your place

in all this again, do I, Nelly?

Wait here.

I've got a case to salvage.

- [Nelly] Tell her I'm sorry.

Can you, please?

- [Liu] You're joking.

- What's happened?

- She's run off.

- Which way did she go?

She can't have gone far.

(door shuts)

We can find her.

- [Jennifer] Are you able to call?

- I have the use of a rental.

- Made yourself at home, then?

- Please be there tomorrow, Jen-Jen.

- Please don't call me that.

Christ, don't call me that again.

- I just meant I, I just...

If Delia knows anything, and you have to assume she does,

it could have swung in our favor today.

My favor, I'm sorry, mine.

It shouldn't be much longer for you is what I meant.

But, if they find her or not,

I'll still need you there tomorrow.

- I don't know if I can.

- [Gideon] Please, Jennifer, you promised.

- The faces, the way they look at me and judge me.

I don't know if I can bear it.

- [Gideon] You promised you'd see me through the court case.

- Yes, I know what I promised.

- [Gideon] Didn't you explain how imperative it was

that you were there all the way through?

I did not do what that evil little...

What she's saying I did.

I allowed her to manipulate me.

She used herself.

She exploited a situation.

- She barely seems capable.

- She is, you'll see.

Come tomorrow and you'll see.

Could be the end of it, Jennifer.

And then I won't ask anything more from you.

(Jennifer breathes shakily)

(city blares)

- [Zita] Good night, son.

- [Samson] Good night.

- Did you tell Claire what's gone on?

- I left a message.

- Still nothing from Grace?

- Do you think he's had this done?

Gideon has?

- I think she's run off.

- He's paid someone.

- Paid someone?

- Well, he could afford it.

I know people who would do it for a bucket.

- Come here.

- Less, depending, what?

- She's run off.

That's as much as this is.

- Hang about.

It's the best I've felt all day.

Just a minute more, please.

(sirens blare)

- [Zita] Chow mein from the other night, yeah?

- Yeah.

Means the world, Zeets, this.

How we've been since you moved

in here and let me come with you.

You and me just, getting on with it.

It means the world.

And I love the fucking shit out of it.

So there you go.

(train rattles)

(engaging dramatic music)

(vehicles hum)

- [Dock Officer] Please be upstanding in the court.

- [Judge] Mr Liu.

- [Liu] Your Honor.

The prosecution finds itself unable to proceed,

as our main prosecution witness,

Miss Morvella, is not available.

Police have undertaken inquiries to locate--

- What's going on?

- [Liu] But have not been able to do so.

Further, I received a call from Miss Morvella

in which she made it clear she is no longer willing

to support the prosecution's case.

The evidence we believed Ms. Morvella

would provide was central to our case.

Without her, the Crown finds itself with no option

other than to offer no evidence on all counts.

- Would your foreperson please rise?

On count one, sexual activity with a child,

contrary to Section Nine of the Sexual Offences Act 2003,

do you find the defendant guilty or not guilty?

- [Juror] Not guilty.

- [Judge] On count two, causing or inciting a child

to engage in sexual activity, contrary

to Section 10 of the Sexual Offences Act 2003,

do you find the defendant guilty or not guilty?

- [Juror] Not guilty.

- [Judge] On count three, arranging and

facilitating a child sex offence contrary

to Section 14 of the Sexual Offences Act 2003,

do you find the defendant guilty or not guilty?

- [Juror] Not guilty.

- [Grace On Voicemail] This is Grace.

Give me a reason to call you back.

- [Judge] I have no option but

to declare the prosecution discontinued.

(horns blare)

(tense dramatic music)

- So what's your plan now, then?

You on your way to celebrate with

that sick fuck old man of yours?

- Please, leave me alone.

- What's it gonna be, dinner?

- [Delia] Excuse me.

- Do a bottle of wine, some After Eights

and then suck his dick like a 12-year-old?

Or offer up your shriveled nastiness

and see if he's drunk enough?

- Get away from us, please!

- You, tell him I ain't done with him!

- This isn't me.

- You tell him I will see him again.

- I did not do this!

- You tell him I will fucking end him!

- Tell him yourself.

- Please.

(engine starts)

(train hums)

(tense dramatic music)

(door bell rings)

(door knocks)

(tense dramatic music)

- Let's go away, get away somewhere.

- Where?

- As far as you'll let me take you.

Somewhere you can kick off your shoes

and fill your lungs up.

And figure out what to do next.

- Is that what I should be doing now?

What comes next?

- I didn't mean--

- A holiday?

- Can we not get away?

Just far enough to have a look at ourselves.

To see what that might do for us.

- It won't change what we come back to.

I listened to that girl in the court.

I listened to her and all I could see

was the lie that he'd ever been attracted to me.

Ever.

Me.

He wanted to marry me.

To love, honor and cherish me.

Forsaking all others.

As anything more than a, well, a cover.

For appearances.

Birthdays, holidays, Christmas.

Friends gathered, our family, his.

(tender piano music)

Hands held, lips kissed.

The weight of him on me.

Inside me.

The passion I thought we had...

I thought he had for me.

You thought he had.

Our life.

Our whole life.

Is my name Chloe?

The lie I told so often I believed it.

We all fucking believed it.

(chatter hums)

- He said to say, made me promise.

- You've lit a candle?

- For you and for Jody.

You know what my mum's like.

I keep her up to date, I tell her everything, how you are.

You're still her favorite.

- For fuck's sake.

- It breaks her heart what's going on.

- Candles are for the dead.

- Gonna make that your last, Nells?

- I mean, that's right, innit it, Goz?

- No.

- How is it my last?

- Got an early start.

- Candles are prayers.

You light one when a prayer's been said.

You can pray, you say them for anything or anyone.

- It don't have to be for the dead.

- She just wants you to know you're in her thoughts, Nelly.

- [Goz] All of ours, mate.

- Jesus, Jesus, fuck!

Fuck!

You're right, Stace, we should call time on this.

'Cause I didn't come in here for a wake.

She is not dead.

- We know that.

- Then fucking get them to act like it!

Jesus!

Let's stick on some Shalamar, top us

up and let's make a night of it!

Come on, let's make it a night to remember!

- Don't do that, Nelly.

- What did you say?

- Don't do that.

- It's all right.

- We are all in here for you, no one else.

- You're commiserating.

You're feeling sorry and lighting candles for my kid.

And she's not dead.

She's not, this is not the end of it!

(Nelly breathes shakily)

- You've made that clear, mate, and then some.

- Come on, mate.

Come on.

- I'm all right.

- Nelly.

Mate, come on.

- He's better left alone.

- You all right?

You know what he's like.

Don't take any of that personal.

- No, no.

(laughing and battering)

(ball kicks against fence)

(Nelly snores)

- Your mouth smells.

- No, I think it's your nose that smells, so ta-da.

- [Zita] Tell him you meant his breath stinks.

- Your breath stinks.

- School bag, shoes.

Nelly won't be long.

- Right, it's me this morning?

- You've got time for a shower.

- Mm-hm.

- [Zita] Did something happen with Stace last night?

- I dunno, why?

- [Zita] Got a group text asking if someone

could stick a foot up your ass on first sight.

(chuckles)

- Ow!

How you doing Bernie?

- I'm good.

Hey, Samson.

Sorry I wouldn't go to court.

I heard you tried to drink yourself sober, failed.

What?

- You stood with Melon 'cause he knew, yeah?

- What are you on about?

- I went off at his wife, that Gideon's.

I roared at her and she pulled me out,

said it weren't her, she had nothing to do with it.

I mean, like, none of it.

But she'd know, wouldn't she?

Either way.

You did.

- I'm gonna be late, Nelly.

- Hey, I'm not saying anything against Melon, the opposite.

What have you gone cold for, Bern?

I'm just asking.

- I've seen where you just asking can end up

and hat's at a distance from your shit, Nelly.

- Just asking, Bernie.

- I'm just answering, Nelly.

- Come on, Sam.

(children laugh)

(school bell rings)

* This thing of ours, we all know the *

* We all do things we shouldn't do *

* But I ain't gonna stop loving you *

* Paint his lip for the strife *

* God himself can't deny *

* We all do things we shouldn't do *

- [PA] This is Greenwich.

* Ain't gonna stop loving you *

* Until death do us apart *

(children play)

* Shallow grave, roses too *

* This thing of ours, we know the story *

* We all do things we shouldn't do *

(siren blares)

* I ain't gonna stop loving you *

* Ain't gonna stop loving you *

* And ain't gonna stop loving you *

(TV plays in background)

- Hey.

- You're early.

- Early?

Early for what?

(can cracks)

- It's been like every day for the

past I don't know how many days.

You don't come back till you're sure I'm making zeds.

- It ain't like that.

- You're avoiding me.

- Avoiding?

For what?

- Come.

Come.

I...

I don't hate us.

It's taken me a bit by surprise.

Just...

Just give me a minute.

- Yeah.

(kiss smacks)

- [Both] Happy birthday!

Jesus!

Go on.

- Happy birthday.

- Thank you.

Hello.

- [Samson] Cards.

- Who's that?

- [Samson] You.

(Nelly laughs)

Oh, hello.

"If you're the tree, then I'm the soil helping

you to grow and stand tall."

- He wrote that himself.

- Yeah?

- [Samson] Yeah.

- Thank you, and what's this?

- [Samson] Mummy said it's a massage.

- Yeah, what's one of them?

- [Samson] It's a massage.

- What, one of them happy ending ones?

- I knew you'd say that.

(Nelly laughs)

Get him!

(pillows beat)

(school bell rings)

- Come on, then.

See you later.

- [Samson] Bye.

- Happy birthday, big un.

- Yeah, fucking very much, mate.

- Free for the day if you want mess about.

- You're not my type, Goz, I keep telling you.

- I meant venture out, grab a pint at the inns.

- Have you got wheels?

- I can get 'em, yeah, why?

- Then I would like to venture, yes.

But I got to make a quick stop first.

(engine revs)

- How do you know that's Gideon's house?

- First thing they ask you in court,

"Are you so and so from such and such address?"

I knew from then.

- Gonna give your whole day over to this?

As much as it takes, yeah.

(engaging dramatic music)

(gate creaks)

(music tenses)

(keypad beeps)

(door unlocks)

- [Goz] What, who's that?

- [Nelly] That's the sister.

- What are you gonna do?

- We're gonna wait.

(tense dramatic music)

We're gonna follow her.

- [Goz] We're gonna follow?

- We are if you get a move on.

(engine starts)

(tense dramatic music)

(Grace breathes shakily)

(vehicles hum)

There you go.

- [Goz] What now, then?

- I want her on her own.

- Not worried that sounds a bit stalkery, no?

Just Following women around London without

them knowing, siting outside their houses?

- Ain't after her or them.

After him.

- I'm just saying, yeah?

Had to, it felt, iffy all of a sudden.

(engine starts)

(tense dramatic music)

- [Nelly] Mind if I say sorry?

- I don't know where he is.

- But you know where he might be.

- I don't--

- Push comes to it, where he might go or who he might call.

Let's say three, names, addresses, numbers.

Like, I don't know, his life depended on it.

- He had a journalist waiting outside.

He threatened to throw me to him.

I've been trying to call you to warn you.

Where have you been?

- [Gideon] He called me.

- What did he say?

- [Gideon] You gave him my number?

- I had to!

Look, I'm coming, I'll take you wherever you need to go.

(bottles clank)

(tense dramatic music)

Right, take me to Leytonstone, Wanstead, really.

I'll give you some directions.

It's very good of you to drive me.

(tense dramatic music)

- [Jennifer] Whose house is this?

- [Gideon] A friend, who hasn't given up on me.

(bottles clanking)

(door shuts)

(door creaks)

(Grace breathes shakily)

(bottles clank)

(footsteps approach)

(door shuts)

(gate creaks)

(door creaks)

- What are you doing in here?

What?

(tense dramatic music)

I don't want you in here.

You have to go, just...

(Jennifer gasps)

You have to go.

I don't want you in here, just go.

(Jennifer sobs)

You have to go.

Go!

Just go.

(ringtone plays)

* You what, you what *

* You what, you what, you what *

- Who this?

- You have to help me, he's here.

Please come now, please. I don't know what to do.

I'm sorry I let you down. I'm sorry.

Please.

- [Nelly] Where are you?

Can you text me where you are?

(dog barks)

(tense dramatic music)

Oh, shit.

Oh, no.

No, no. no, no, no.

Oh, please, please.

Oh, fuck.

Shit.

Shit!

(Nelly breathes heavily)

- I didn't do it.

I swear, Nelly, I didn't do it, I swear.

- [Nelly] What happened?

- I just came downstairs and that's how he was.

- [Nelly] It's all right.

- I swear--

- Stop, please, stop, stop.

Okay.

Anything that's yours here, go and get it.

- It's upstairs.

- Well Then go upstairs and get everything

because we need to get out of here.

Go!

Fuck.

- I thought there'd be stuff there...

Pictures, videos.

What he made me do.

If it was there, I wanted to find it.

Prove to that lawyer I weren't lying.

And I heard him downstairs with someone else.

- Someone else, who?

- I dunno.

I came down and it was just him there like that.

- Just rest back.

(tense dramatic music)

- There?

- It's the best place.

- [Grace] Is it?

- It is.

(engaging dramatic music)

(door knocks)

(dramatic music)

- Stay here.

(door knocks)

- Can you lot not hear?

- [Goz] What?

- Yeah, yeah, come in.

- You're a bit late if you've

come to jump out my cake, Shola.

- [Shola] Gideon Charles was killed yesterday.

- [Nelly] Was he?

(tense dramatic music)

* Games, changes and fears *

* When will they go from here *

* When will they stop *

* I believe that fate has brought us here *

* And we should be together babe *

* But we're not I play it off, but I'm dreaming *