Original subtitles

I was living rough,

out near the old bus station...

..when he found me.

I'll never forget the look on his face when he saw me.

Pure...

..relief and joy.

And then disappointment when I wasn't who he thought I was.

He said he was a teacher, he had daughters,

I could stay at his house a night, and then...

..in the morning, he'd find someone to help me.

He seemed normal.

Nice.

You know?

I went to sleep and then...

..later, I woke up and went downstairs for some water.

He was there on the sofa, drinking...

..so I thanked him.

I just told him he was a nice guy.

But that seemed to upset him.

You're a good person.

You don't know that.

What if I told you I killed a person?

Would you judge me then?

I wish I'd run then, but I didn't.

Then what happened?

His name was Salil Singh.

I drugged him first...

..before I smothered him.

And as he was slipping away...

..I spoke to him about university,

the future...

..just so he would fall asleep thinking about something good...

CRYING: but I could see in his eyes he was scared.

Do you think I'm a monster?

I think...

..you're a nice guy...

..who must have found himself in a bad situation.

Thank you.

But maybe I could have one of those.

I'll get you a glass.

No, no, no, no!

SHE SOBS He wouldn't let me go.

SIREN WAILS IN DISTANCE

It's going to be OK, I promise.

♪ Memory comes when memory's old

♪ I am never the first to know

♪ Following the stream up north

♪ Where do people like us float... ♪

Sal! How could you?

Hey, hey, hey, it's over. It's over.

You're safe now, chicken.

♪ For bruises, asses, hand claps

♪ I will never disappear

♪ For forever I'll be here

♪ Whispering

♪ Morning, keep the streets empty

♪ For me. ♪

How are your parents?

Emotional.

Like, happy one minute, sad the next.

Everyone now knows that Sal isn't guilty

and that he didn't kill himself.

But he was murdered by someone he knew and trusted.

And you?

I feel different.

I've got you to thank for that.

Well, I didn't do it on my own.

Nah.

We were a good team.

You OK?

Yeah, I'm just... SHE CLEARS HER THROAT

..trying to say something.

Saying something feels...

Look, what... What I wanted to say is that...

Pip, I'm leaving.

I feel like I've been trapped here, frozen,

my whole life on hold.

I wanted to leave so badly, and now I can.

I'll get a job, apply to college - you know, do life.

You could do that here.

I need to go.

They had a forensics team going through the house,

looking for DNA and stuff.

I just can't get over the fact that he walked among us

like an ordinary, everyday guy.

He taught his lessons, drove us about, cooked,

and he was harbouring the darkest secret ever.

It wasn't just one secret.

He had a woman trapped in the attic of a secret house,

he had a secret teenage lover, then murdered said secret teenage lover,

hid her body and then secretly murdered her boyfriend.

He broke into my house on my brother's birthday

and he killed my dog.

So here I am.

BELL RINGS

What can I do?

What do you mean?

I want to make it better.

How can you?

I can't do this.

Right, the oven's ready. That can go in.

You need to whisk it... You need to whisk it properly, sweetheart.

PIP CRIES

Oh... Oh, dear.

I've ruined Cara's life.

Elliot was all she had and now he's gone.

No! No, no, no. That's on him, not you.

If you hadn't done what you did, then this whole town would still

think that Sal killed Andie and the Singhs would be carrying around

that shame. Plus, Andie's family would never have seen

the person responsible for their daughter's death arrested.

A girl would still be locked in Elliot's attic.

I know there were a million obstacles, but you never gave up.

Yes, everything seems...

..strange and sad,

but I need you to know that you are the bee's knees, OK?

I could not be more proud of my...

..insane...

..and determined daughter.

Thank you.

Where could I possibly get it from?

It makes me cross, though,

that Elliot doesn't have the decency to own up to killing Andie.

Josh's birthday.

You've got five minutes. I'll be here if you need me.

I'm sorry. No.

Why did you come?

You were gone the day Barney went missing.

You couldn't have taken him.

What do you mean? Someone took Barney and killed him.

That same someone sent me threats on the phone.

Which means...

Someone else was hiding something.

Someone else murdered Andie Bell.

Who's going to believe you?

I'm the monster.

The things I've done, maybe I deserve the blame. You are to blame.

You murdered Sal...

..and took advantage of Andie.

She was 17...

..and you were her teacher.

You kidnapped Isla and you kept her prisoner.

Don't you want Cara and Naomi to know that you didn't kill Andie?

You said Andie was looking for money.

Can you think of any reason why?

When I told her I wouldn't give her the money...

..she went crazy.

She said if she couldn't leave that night...

..she was scared of what he might do.

Who?

When Andie and I were together...

..she told me that Jason...

..was controlling.

Of all of them - Andie, Becca.

He ran that house with fear.

Didn't let her have boyfriends.

And the night Andie went missing, he was out to dinner with friends,

supposedly all evening, only I know for a fact he wasn't.

How?

I was out looking for Andie by the woods.

He drove past me in his van.

He's lied about his alibi?

Or didn't mention the flaw in it.

Either way, he's not going to admit to it now.

It's Jason's word against mine.

When Andie disappeared, I was desperate.

As far as I knew, she was dead somewhere,

and when they found her, everything would lead to me.

And then I remembered a few months before...

..Naomi was struggling, and...

..she'd turned in on herself.

She wouldn't talk to me.

I had to know why, so I read her diary.

The hit-and-run.

When I remembered that,

that's when this...

..dark little seed came into my head.

I tried to make it go away, I did,

but it took hold and it grew.

And pretty soon, it was all I could think about.

Killing Sal and blaming him

became the only way to protect my girls.

They'd already lost their mum. I couldn't let them lose me too.

You're evil.

Maybe.

Or maybe it's that dark little seed that's evil.

Now I wonder if we don't all have one

somewhere in there.

Even you, Pip.

Even you!

It just needs the right conditions to grow.

As metaphors go...

..I expected better from an English teacher.

You had a choice...

..and you chose to murder Sal.

Time's up.

Have you seen the girls?

Yeah.

The van that Jason was driving...

..can you remember what colour it was?

Yeah. It was blue.

Hey.

Don't go.

I just saw Elliot at the police station.

He didn't kill Andie Bell.

You saw who?

Elliot Ward. Please listen.

He was out by the woods, he saw Jason driving a blue van.

Do you remember the blue van the police were looking for?

Andie could have been in the back of it.

I don't care what that man has to say and neither should you.

Just because he did something terrible

does not mean that everything he says is a lie.

It's not even that. It's just... I'm done.

We're supposed to be a team, the two of us.

Sherlock and Watson.

I can't do it on my own.

Pip, it's over.

DOOR SLAMS

DISTANT VOICE SPEAKING

Hold on.

Hey, have you seen anyone around here? I don't think so.

I could have sworn I saw someone lurking about.

FOOTSTEPS APPROACH

What the fuck are you doing?

Why are you here?!

I work here.

Surely the real question is, why the fuck are you here?

I thought you already locked a dude up for that.

He didn't kill Andie.

It was Jason.

He wasn't at the dinner party all night like he said he was.

His blue van was seen driving out of Little Kilton

exactly when Andie went missing and nobody knows where he went.

Yeah, except for me and my dad and the police.

The security alarms went off at the office.

Jason came down and turned them off, then he went back to his dinner.

Sorry.

How do you know?

My dad used to work here.

Jason told him about the alarms

and he checked out the security footage on the gate.

There was no break-in.

The only person coming in was Jason coming in to turn them off.

It all checked out.

What about the blue van? The police were searching for it.

Yeah. Jason came forward and explained it was his.

They just didn't mention it on the news

cos they already thought it was Sal by then.

Jason was controlling, but he had reason.

Becca was my best friend, but those girls were wild.

Andie was a party girl

and Becca did everything she could to be just like her.

Jason knew those parties were bad news.

Even then, it didn't work.

He couldn't know what would happen to Andie.

I wasn't talking about Andie.

In 2019, Becca went to a Calamity party.

LOUD MUSIC: Out Of Control by The Chemical Brothers

MUSIC BECOMES MUFFLED

♪ And it always seems we're running out of time

♪ We're out of control

♪ Out of control

♪ Out of control

♪ Maybe that I'm just scared of losing you... ♪

MUFFLED MUSIC, HEAVY BREATHING

She had no idea where she was when she woke up.

She'd been raped.

She called me and we went to go and get the morning-after-pill.

She'd been drugged, no question. Roofies in her drink.

Did she know who did it?

No. She couldn't remember anything.

I better get back.

Thank you.

That's the second time you've saved me.

Ta-da!

JESSE: She'd been drugged, no question.

And TT has a soft spot for Rohypnol?

Roofies in her drink.

Andie sold drugs.

I was one of her customers.

Tangot! ts.

DIALLING TONE

Hey, babe.

I guess you're ringing to apologise?

What do you mean?

Well, you've been trying to pin this all on me,

when all along, it was your favourite teacher

who did the bad thing.

Only, you did a bad thing, too.

I haven't told the police about what you did on the road that night,

but I still can.

And this time, I have Naomi's diary to back it up.

What the fuck is your problem?

My problem is that you raped Becca Bell at a Calamity party

in March 2019, with the drugs that Andie sold to you, didn't you?

Yeah, Becca and I slept together, but it was consensual.

She never once said no. It's hard to say no when you can't speak!

POLICE OFFICER: CCTV footage from Little Kilton Square

shows Andie driving past at 10:38pm.

I know what you're doing.

I just have one question.

Why?

DOORBELL RINGS

SHE SIGHS

What do you want? Can we talk?

I'm on my way out. I know what Max did to you.

And I know it was you driving Andie's car that night.

Andie was already dead...

..wasn't she?

Come in.

Hey, can you stop the bus, please?

Jesse told me what happened to you at the party.

They stopped some guy getting nasty with you.

Yeah. It's... It's fine.

Why is that fine?

Why is it fine for some slimy little prick

to put his hands on you when you asked him not to?

Why is that fine?

You're right.

It's not. No.

No, it's fucking not!

And when you tell your sister about it and you ask her

to come to the police with you, what should she say?

Yes?

Yeah.

Except she tells you she can't...

..because she was the one that sold Max Hastings the drugs

that he used to rape you.

Why did she do it?

She said she needed the money.

She told me she was leaving the next day.

Where to?

Don't know.

She just said she had to go.

She couldn't take Dad any more.

His temper.

After all this time...

..of it being the two of us together against him...

..she was going to leave me.

And then I...

I guess I lashed out.

I lost it.

MUFFLED SHOUTING

LOUD THUD

Then she was just lying there.

She was just there.

And...

And... And she was vomiting...

..and she was choking.

And I just stood there.

I just stood there and watched her die.

It was awful.

She was already injured.

She and Elliot had fought.

It wasn't your fault.

It doesn't even matter now anyway.

Do you want to see where she is?

Yeah.

Then drink up.

Let's go.

KNOCK ON DOOR

Pip!

Come on.

What can I say?

I don't know.

Why are you here?

I'm looking for Pip. I'm worried about her.

I haven't seen her. It's just...

..the last thing she said to me was that your dad didn't kill Andie.

That it was Jason Bell. She wanted me to come,

but then I got on the bus, and then I got off the bus,

and then I went to the Bells' and her car was there,

but she wasn't in it.

Pip was willing to lie to the police to protect your family,

you know that?

It wasn't easy for her.

She loved your dad, and you know she loves you,

but in the end, it was the only choice she could make.

I know where she is.

I track her.

I thought she didn't let anyone track her.

Yeah, well, maybe she's not as smart as she thinks.

Where are we going?

We're nearly there.

We're here.

This is where I put her.

This is where I put my sister.

Weirdly, Andie was the one that showed me this place.

The thing is, Pip...

..now that I've shown you where she is...

..then I have to put you in there with her too.

No.

No, you don't.

It's hitting you now, isn't it? PIP PANTS

That'll be the Rohypnol I put in your tea.

I got to Andie's bunny before you did.

Why are you doing this?

It's not me you're angry with.

It's Max Hastings.

He caused all of this.

We could go home right now and I swear we could make it right.

No.

When will you realise, Pip,

that nothing ever happens to people like Max Hastings?!

I'm really sorry.

None of this was meant to happen. You understand that, don't you?

SHE BREATHES HEAVILY

PIP GROANS

Pip!

Pip!

It's OK. The police are outside.

They'll get her.

Why did you come back?

It had something to do with marshmallows.

You're going to be fine. You're going to be OK.

Come on.

You're OK.

Have you seen Andie?

It's OK. I just need to speak to her about something.

She went that way.

Thanks.

My dad knows.

I thought it was him following me.

He's taken all the money that I saved.

OK, we'll get more money.

How?

I have enough for a room, I can come on the weekends, you can find a job.

We'll be fine.

We're going to need thousands of pounds.

We will work something out.

Yeah?

OK. Yeah.

There's a 10am train tomorrow from Oxford.

I'll get there early and get the tickets,

you meet me at the station. OK. I'll bring coffee.

Are you going to tell your parents?

No.

They're going to freak out.

As long as I'm back in time for school, they'll be fine.

Are you scared we're doing something stupid?

Not for a second.

Fuck.

I have to go.

I love you.

I love you, too.

♪ Get up, get down Get up, get down

♪ Feel the turn of rotation and stop

♪ See the next one waiting

♪ Get up, get down

♪ Get up, get down... ♪

9:30am tomorrow. Don't you dare change your mind!

♪ Get up, get down Get up, get down

♪ Get up

♪ Sentiment's the same, but the pair of feet change

♪ Get up, get down

♪ Ah, ooh, na-na-na, ooh

♪ Get up

♪ See the next one waiting

♪ Get up, get down

♪ Get up, get down Get down

♪ Get up

♪ Sentiment's the same, but the pair of feet change. ♪

So, what do you think?

Well, it's the best EPQ in which a student solves a murder case

I've ever read, so...

THEY LAUGH

So they'll give me an A. Yeah...

Ooh, we might hear about your interview soon.

I'm trying to remember whether I wanted to go to Cambridge

or whether you wanted me to go to Cambridge

because Dad went to Cambridge.

And I'm wondering if there's a difference

between what you want and what I want.

Is there?

Maybe.

Sometimes I think I have more in common with Victor than I do my dad.

I think that makes you sad.

Ah...

It does a bit, but it also makes me really happy.

So what shall I do?

Whatever you want to do.

I have every faith that whatever you decide to do,

you will see it through.

Hey, babe.

Didn't expect to hear from you.

You and I can never be a thing, you know that?

However much you want me.

Go fuck yourself.

I'm really sorry about what happened with Becca Bell.

I guess now you can see what a fucking psycho she is.

You really can't believe anything she says.

But I do believe her.

Course you do, cos you're a fucking psycho too.

I'm not the one who has to drug girls till they're unconscious

to get them to sleep with me.

I told you it was consensual.

Mmm. Right.

What do you want, you stupid bitch?

I want you to know that you're nothing

and I'm not going to stop until every single person

you have ever hurt gets justice.

MUSIC: Anyone Who Knows What Love Is by Irma Thomas

♪ Anyone

♪ Anyone

♪ Anyone

♪ Anyone

♪ Anyone

♪ Anyone

♪ Anyone... ♪

Hey. Hi.

I was thinking we could drive to that new pizza place.

It does these weird topping combinations

like chocolate and artichoke.

Then maybe go see that documentary on feminist post-whateverism

you keep going on about. Please stop talking.

♪ You can blame me

♪ Try to shame me

♪ And still I'll care for you

♪ You can run around

♪ Even put me down

♪ Still I'll be there for you

♪ The world

♪ May think I'm foolish

♪ They can't see you

♪ Like I can

♪ Oh, but anyone

♪ Who knows what love is

♪ Will understand Understand

♪ Anyone

♪ Anyone

♪ Anyone I just feel so sorry... ♪