Original subtitles

[ "Fire and Water" by Let's Play Dead plays ]

♪ My heart's in embers ♪

♪ Lying post-flame ♪

♪ But if this is how the fire feels ♪

♪ Light me up again ♪

♪♪

♪♪

Riz: So, why investigate a cold case?

Why open an old wound and cause more suffering?

Because these wounds have closed dirty.

-That's why. -[ Winces ]

Riz: And there can be no true healing

unless we're willing to tear them open

and confront what festers inside.

You know, Ember isn't very happy

that you're gonna miss her 17th.

I'm on a night shift.

The boat hut not making you enough?

No, not enough for the gift I'm getting her, no.

I don't like parties anyway.

It's just the pub. I'm going.

Really?

Designated driver.

I've gotta feeling I'll be at all of Ember's birthdays

from now on anyway.

You're very taken with her.

Well, she's the real thing.

Sylvia: I bet you say that to all the girls.

Malachy: No, Ember's special.

I'm not sure I can allow her to be with a man

who doesn't know to slice a bap away from his hand.

♪♪

[ Seagull squawking ]

Amy: Is it bad?

Malachy: You sliced me hand open, Amy.

It's gone all the way to the bone.

You're lying.

Quite confronting seeing your own bone.

It's like a... little look into the future.

I want to see your wound.

[ Winces ] Wait.

♪♪

I want to be your wound.

♪♪

Right.

[ Tense music plays ]

♪♪

Morgan: Look at it, Ember.

Look at it.

You put this sample in the evidence locker.

Do you know what it is?

It's Amy Knightly.

What's left of her.

Everything she was.

Everything she could have been.

All reduced to charcoal.

We were hoping to find the rest of her

underneath the basement of the boat hut.

But she's not there.

♪♪

Help us find her, Ember.

Help us give her back to her mother.

I can't help you because I don't know anything.

-You know he killed her. -No. I don't.

I don't know that.

Morgan: When you sit opposite a suspect,

and they refuse to engage like an innocent person would,

what do you feel towards them, DC Manning?

Contempt.

Morgan: 'Cos you're a detective.

And we are never not servants of justice.

Am I right?

[ Tense music plays ]

♪♪

I've told you everything I know.

Now charge me or release me.

That's supposed to be your line, by the way.

♪♪

[ Door closes ]

Ember! What happened?

Out on bail.

Suspended.

Well, you're just in time for breakfast.

Waffles and beers. In memory of her dad.

Okay. Great.

Oh, what was that for?

For believing in him.

To Dad!

To Mack!

To Mack.

Er, easy.

Dad could do one of these in, like, five seconds.

Yeah, when he was 20. And probably not for breakfast.

Hannah, you've -- you've probably got some questions

about why I was arrested?

Yeah, 'cos the police are stupid, fucking idiots

who have no idea what they're doing.

They have some evidence.

-Evidence can be wrong. -It can...

-Hannah, the police -- -I don't wanna talk about this!

Not today. Not on the anniversary.

I just want us to go to the lake and remember him.

The ashes. No, Hannah.

No, w-we -- we're --

we're not gonna be able to scatter them from the jetty.

Why not?

Why not? We have to. That is what he wanted us to do.

It's not gonna happen!

Not today.

[ Sombre music plays ]

♪♪

[ Water dripping ]

[ Door bell dinging ]

Casey: Hey.

Ember: What's so urgent?

I wanted to give you this.

A list of therapists.

All people I know and recommend.

-Okay... -I think you came to me

because you wanted some questions answered

about your relationship with Mack.

I came to you because I wanted my insomnia sorted.

Casey: They're not easy questions to ask verbally.

So, you flirt with me,

in the hope that my reaction will answer them.

Okay, you've lost me now.

Casey: Ember, your text?

Ember: Oh, my God.

You want to know if the power imbalance mattered.

You want to know whose job it was to hold the line.

Under normal circumstances,

I would happily model the answer.

Oh, would you? Right, that's very nice.

Casey: But here, I can't...

Because I have feelings for you.

Are you asking me out, Casey?

There are some lines that can't be crossed.

However much we might like to.

Well, so what -- so what is this then?

Y-You're making a point?

-I'm making a judgement. -That I am a serial fuck up,

but that you are better than Mack?

You are not a fuck up.

You know the grey areas outside of the psychology textbooks --

that's where real life takes place, Casey.

[ Door bells dinging ]

[ Sombre music plays ]

Caitlin and Amy: [ Giggling ]

Me and Malachy want to go all the way.

All the way?

So, my mum's going away, which means my dad will, too.

It's the perfect opportunity.

We're gonna stay at the lake all night, you know,

watch the sun come up.

Make it special.

♪♪

Come on.

♪♪

You could do it, too...

...with Joe.

Have sex with him?

Yeah, I mean, he likes you.

Don't you like him?

I don't not like him.

I just -- I just -- Er, Amy,

I don't know if you should have sex with Malachy.

Why not?

Well, he says himself he doesn't love you.

No, he says he doesn't believe in love.

That's not the same thing.

Yeah, but does he make you happy?

You know what would make me happy?

You...

and me, losing our virginity, at the exact same moment.

Them inside us, but...

...us really with each other.

♪♪

Would you like that?

♪♪

Would you, Kitty?

♪♪

You and me, linked forever.

♪♪

Yeah.

♪♪

♪♪

Martin: What is it?

-Joan? -Joan: Hmm?

Er, it's just the cat.

[ Door closes ]

-How you doing, Hannah? -We're not gonna scatter 'em.

Not until we can do it right.

Oh?

Well, we'll just raise a glass to him then, shall we?

I miss Mack. He was a total dilf.

-[ Clicks tongue ] Jules! -He was though!

You could've left those in for another five, Mum.

Your oven is an inferno, Ember.

It cremates everything.

Drinks?

[ Liquid pours ]

Are you gonna say a few words?

-I wasn't planning on, no. -Oh, please Mum.

Chloe: Yeah, you definitely should, Ember.

You were like Michelle Obama when you came to school.

[ Light solemn music plays ]

♪♪

♪♪

Well...

♪♪

Mack was...

♪♪

He... [ Inhales deeply ]

♪♪

Mack...

[ Music intensifies ]

-I'm sorry, I... -[ Voice breaking ] Come on,

just say what he meant to you.

-I'm trying, Hannah. -Just say something.

[ Solemn music plays ]

♪♪

Hannah, maybe I could say something instead.

'Cos if I'm feeling even a tenth of what your mum's feeling

right now then, I understand why she's overcome.

She's not overcome.

-Not in the way that you mean. -Hannah...

The police think Dad killed Amy Knightly.

Fuck!

No.

No, that's not right. Is it, Em?

♪♪

Er, they -- they have some evidence.

-Like what? -Ember: Arj, please.

No, come on, Mum. Why don't you explain?

Explain to everyone why you're doubting him.

-We'll talk about it later. -Hannah: No!

We'll fucking talk about it now!

Well... We're waiting.

They have found a fragment of Amy's bone

in the basement of the boat hut.

Arj: No... No...

Oh, God...

Ember: Hannah. Hannah...

Hannah...

Hannah: [ Sobbing ]

There we go, he's scattered!

♪♪

♪♪

♪♪

Ember: I don't wanna hear it.

I wasn't gonna say anything.

Really? I am literally washing my dead husband off my hands.

I mean, surely you've spotted a learning opportunity here.

Some things defy feedback, Ember.

I'm sorry, Mum.

Ember: No, I'm sorry.

It shouldn't have come out in the way that it did.

You need to show everyone that Dad's innocent.

I can't get involved.

-Why not? -Because I'm too close.

And because you think he did it.

No!

[ Sighs ]

I don't know, Hannah. I really don't.

Well, I do, and I...

He didn't do it, Mum.

He was the kindest person. And you know that.

So, I am begging you, please, you have to prove it.

[ Telephones ringing ]

You're not allowed to be in here.

I'm a good detective, with good instincts,

and they are telling me this is not a done deal.

You have to keep looking elsewhere.

Instinct is poor man's policing.

I build cases on evidence.

It's all circumstantial.

Which you could call poor man's evidence.

And what about Riz's murder?

It doesn't give you an answer to that.

We're pursuing several unrelated leads.

-Ember: Which are? -Which are...

for the ears of serving police officers only.

Now, if you don't mind, we have work to do.

[ Solemn music plays ]

♪♪

♪♪

Ember: Joan?

[ Door closes ]

♪♪

Joan. I'm so sorry to disturb.

Joan?

-What are you doing here? -What's wrong with her?

Nothing.

-Ember: You've drugged her. -Martin: She was very agitated

after your last visit.

The doctor gave her something.

The nurse said she was asking for me.

Not that I'm aware of.

I need to speak to Joan.

Which I think you can see isn't possible right now.

When might it be possible?

You want to wake up a sick and confused woman,

so you can torture her about things that no longer matter?

I won't let you do that.

Joan mentioned someone called Kitty.

Martin: Did you hear what I said?

-Who is she? -She's nobody.

It was a nickname...

for Caitlin. A very nasty one.

♪♪

If you harm her, in anyway, I'll fucking kill you, yeah?

Mum! Can you knock!

You need to get rid of her.

-Amy? -Kitty.

It isn't safe, Caitlin.

People will tell you there's a life in it, but there isn't.

Not really. Not a proper one.

Was your life proper, Mum?

Separate beds and dry little kisses.

Get rid of her.

[ Tense music plays ]

♪♪

♪♪

Kit: She is not so disingenuous

as to suggest the slaying is the work of one woman alone.

Because she knows firsthand the strength and barbarity of men.

This is Gentileschi's own imagined revenge

upon her rapist.

This is beautiful retribution.

-Kit Owen? -Yes.

Ember: I'm DC Manning.

I was hoping that you might answer some questions.

About?

Amy Knightly.

I don't know who that is.

I think you do. You were friends with her.

I think you're mistaking me for someone else.

I don't think I am, Caitlin.

I barely knew Amy Knightly, so I don't think I can help you.

Ember: Someone took this photo the night that she disappeared.

Was it you?

Kit: No.

So, you don't know what happened to her that night?

She ran away.

She said she was going to and she did.

I hope she healed and grew.

I hope she's somewhere living a very happy life.

I'm very sorry to tell you that she isn't.

[ Sombre music plays ]

[ Breathing deeply ]

♪♪

[ Door opens ]

[ Door closes ]

I'm sorry.

I need you to tell me what happened that night.

She was fine when I left her.

Then why did you lie to the police about being with her?

The night they asked me about her, I hadn't been with her.

But you knew they were asking about the wrong night.

My mum warned me not to get involved.

She said if something had happened to Amy

and the police found out I had feelings for her,

they might accuse me.

And I was that ashamed of who I was back then

that it made sense.

♪♪

When Amy looked at you...

it could feel like the worst punishment or the greatest gift.

♪♪

Was she looking at someone in this photo?

♪♪

-Was she looking at you? -Joe: Hey.

[ Music intensifies ]

Ember: Who took this photo, Caitlin?

Who else was there that night?

Please. I am...

I am...

I am begging you to help me.

♪♪

Joe took it.

-Joe? -Malachy's brother.

[ Tense music plays ]

[ Dart thuds on dart board ]

Amy: You should get the date tattooed.

Malachy's late. I hope he's still coming.

For his sake.

-He'll come. -Joe: I'm not so sure.

You see, he went out earlier,

you know, with his homo perfume on.

You know, the one he thinks girls like.

But he didn't come and see you, did he?

Maybe your spell's wearing off.

-Get fucked, Joe! -Or what?

[ Tense music plays ]

You know, one of these days,

you're not gonna have him to protect ya.

Just a little prick.

Malachy: [ Sniffs ] What's going on?

Amy: Where were you?

Joe: I thought you weren't going to show.

I lost our lunch money, didn't I?

Had to go and get some more.

-Amy: Lost it? How? -Malachy: Don't worry about it.

Joe: Smile, Malachy.

At least pretend you want to be here.

[ Rain pattering ]

Right, what do you want, Ember?

I'll get in a lot of trouble if we get caught.

Save it. I don't care.

You know, you have this look sometimes, Ember.

Makes me feel like a little kid.

Because I rate you as a person,

then I see you sneaking around and lying to everyone.

Malachy had a brother

who was with him and Amy on the lake

the night that she went missing.

-Did you hear what I just said? -Ember: Yes, Hitch, I did!

But if I don't keep swimming here, I am gonna sink.

Okay?

Can you understand that?

You think the brother might've killed Amy?

He's got a rap sheet you could paper a living room with.

And he's currently in HMP for wounding with a weapon.

So, he can't have killed Riz then.

Ember: Well, that's what I thought, too,

but according to his girlfriend's Facebook,

he's been going out on day release.

Including the day Riz was murdered.

Go and tell Morgan, then!

I want to go to the prison myself.

-You're suspended. -Which is why...

I need your help.

No, you mean you need my warrant card.

To get you in.

It's not happening, Ember. I'm not doing it.

[ Door slams shut ]

-I -- -Just... don't.

[ Tense music plays ]

I'm DC Manning, and this is DC Hitchin.

We'd like to ask you some questions

about your brother, Malachy Granger.

Half-brother. I haven't seen him in years.

Why's that?

We're not close.

You haven't had a falling out then?

Nope.

Ember: Do you know who the girl in this photo is?

No.

So, you didn't take this photo?

-Hey! -[ Camera shutter clicks ]

Let's have some evidence of this beautiful moment, shall we?

-No. -Ember: I think you did.

I think you know the girl in this photo is Amy Knightly.

And I also think you know that she went missing

the night this photo was taken.

And I think you also know that she's dead

and that her body is lying under the boat hut.

Is this why you had a falling out, Joe?

I didn't know that!

I didn't know she was dead.

How do you think it happened?

Well, he must've killed her then, mustn't he?

He must've actually done it.

Everyone said she'd just gone off, and I just...

I hoped.

Christ...

Amy was switched on.

Old for her age.

But looking back, she was lost.

There was another girl. Did you know that?

♪♪

Yes.

Joe: That's why he was late that night.

♪♪

It was meant to be the last time...

I lost our lunch money, didn't I?

Joe: We got pissed and took roofies.

♪♪

Malachy thought everything was fine,

as long as everyone was getting what they wanted.

♪♪

Both: [ Breathing heavily ]

♪♪

-Stop. -What?

-I want you to stop. -I'm almost there.

I said stop!

-Was it hurting? -Not really.

Well, what then?

Amy: [ Moaning ]

-Can we try again? -Maybe.

[ Moaning continues ]

You wait for this.

She doesn't do it quietly.

Caitlin: It's their first time having sex.

It's their first time having sex today!

Amy: [ Moans ]

You're a funny girl, you, Kitty.

Both clever and dumb all at the same time.

I thought we were trying again?

-I'm going. -Why?

Stupid dyke!

[ Door closes ]

Amy: Kitty!

What happened?

Caitlin: You said you hadn't slept with him before.

-Yeah, I haven't. -That's not what Joe said.

Okay, well Joe's a shit stirrer.

Well, don't walk away from me, Kitty.

Then stop lying to me!

Okay. Okay, it wasn't our first time.

I thought if I said that then you'd be more likely

to sleep with Joe.

Why do you even care if I sleep with Joe?

Because he's basically blackmailing us.

He's threatening to report Malachy to the police.

-He's fucking evil, Kitty. -So what, you gave me to him?

No...

Is that why we're friends, Amy?

Is that what you needed me for?

Caitlin: [ Scoffs ]

Right...

Amy: My life is better with you in it.

That bit isn't a lie.

So, does it really matter why it started?

You need to finish with Malachy, Amy.

You shouldn't be with him. It's wrong.

What, because he's older?

You can't put rules on this stuff, Kitty.

I mean, you should know that more than anyone.

That is not the same thing.

No.

It's worse.

Who do you think my mum and dad would rather

I walked through the door with, you or him?

Finish with him, Amy.

Or I'll tell the police about it.

-You wouldn't. -I would.

I would never speak to you again.

I would tell everyone what you are.

And what am I, Amy?

What am I that is so bad?

I've never hurt anyone.

I've never taken the thing

that someone hates the most about themselves

and used it against them!

I've never done that!

Caitlin: [ Sniffles, sobs ]

A-Are you jealous?

[ Scoffs ] It doesn't matter. [ Sniffles ]

Because you don't need to be.

No.

I want you to touch me.

No, I can't.

[ Breathing heavily ]

Because you don't love me?

No, Amy...

...because I do.

Amy: If you go, you will never see me again!

I will run from here, Kitty!

I will never come back!

[ Solemn music plays ]

♪♪

♪♪

Ember, look, I need erm...

The other night in the pub, I should've stuck up for you.

[ Sighs ] I don't know why I didn't.

You have a water pistol in your desk drawer, Hitch.

You still hang around at The Faucet

with the same idiots you did when you were 16.

And like it or not,

those are the guys that you're gonna be arresting.

You have to pick a side.

I know.

You know, you have, erm... you have a look, too, Hitch.

It's a bit like... like a puppy trying to do maths.

But also, it's, erm...

...devastating.

I didn't shut you out because I don't care what you think.

I shut you out because I knew what you'd think,

and I didn't want to hear it.

That's not how a partnership works.

C Team.

Yeah.

Definitely a couple of Cs.

[ Indistinct chatter ]

[ Car doors close ]

This had better be good.

Inside.

What's this?

Er, witness statements.

One from Caitlin Owen,

and one from Malachy's brother, Joe Foster.

Both of them were at the lake that night.

I wanted Joe to be the killer, but, erm, he isn't.

Are you sure?

His shock, his disgust, they were... they were genuine.

[ Solemn music plays ]

♪♪

[ Light guitar music plays ]

♪♪

♪ Happy birthday, dear Mummy ♪

♪ Happy birthday to you ♪

[ Voices fade ]

Oh, you've found out something.

[ Sighs ]

Malachy: Is she upset?

I knew we shouldn't have done that to her.

Yeah, what choice did he give us?

You know, I thought she'd like it.

But I should've known there is nothing to like about you!

Malachy: Alright, I'm going home. I can't do this anymore.

-Lock up when you're done. -Amy: Well, can I come?

-No. -Please?

-I said no. -But you're not leaving me here!

-You need to go and find Kitty. -Why would I do that?

Because I'm pretty sure she's in love with you, Amy.

You said that love doesn't exist.

Yeah, well, I'm starting to think that maybe it does.

But not between us?

[ Solemn music plays ]

Malachy: I'm sorry.

-Amy: I won't let you leave me! -Amy, stop!

-I won't let you love -- -Alright.

-...anyone but me, Malachy. -Calm down. Calm down!

-Malachy, you can't leave me. -Amy, please just calm down!

-I love you! [ Screams ] -Malachy: Shut up!

Hey, where you going?

Oy! Don't take me car!

I'm sorry, I'm sorry!

[ Tense music plays ]

♪♪

♪♪

[ Solemn music plays ]

♪♪

Malachy: [Singing] ♪ My heart's in embers ♪

♪ Lying post-flame ♪

♪ But if this is how the fire feels ♪

♪ Light me up again ♪

♪ This heart remembers ♪

♪ Pleasure and pain ♪

♪ Pleasure and pain ♪

Oh, by the way, I have found

which necklace I'm gonna get you.

I just have to wait to be paid.

You wrote me a song. I don't need anything else.

Yeah, well you're getting both. Every year, in fact.

You'll have more songs and necklaces

than Beyoncé at this rate. [ Chuckles ]

I just want to make sure you've got everything you need, Ember.

I want to spend the rest of my life making sure of it, so...

I want you to come tonight.

And then I wanna come tonight.

Malachy: [ Chuckles ]

I'd love nothing more.

But I can't let the lads down.

Not at this late notice.

It's just a factory shift, Mack.

No, I know. I don't want to, but I have to.

After tonight, I'm all yours, I promise.

[ Tense music plays ]

♪♪

-Ember: What's this? -What?

Oh, a bit of fun.

-To take to work? -Alright, well you got me.

-It's a present for you. -Another one?

Yeah, I thought we could take some tomorrow night.

Or maybe I could take them tonight.

If they're really for me.

You could, yeah.

And you have... Okay.

Go easy though, alright?

Well, what are you doing here?

You said that I was hungover after my 17th birthday.

-Sylvia: You were. -Because Mack gave me pills.

Sylvia: Yeah, roofies. I had one.

You know that they're Rohypnol, right?

-Mmm. -Why would he have those?

The same reason as lots of people, Ember.

To get high.

Would you like a cup of tea?

Was my vomit blue?

Is that why it stained the carpet?

Believe it or not, Ember, I have no idea

what the colour of your vomit from 17 years ago was.

You remember everything else.

It has a blue dye in it,

to stop it being used as a date rape drug.

Well, he wasn't using it as a date rape drug, was he?

No. He shouldn't have been using it at all!

You got high, it didn't agree with you,

and you were sick. No big deal.

Just be thankful Mack had gone by that point.

I think it might've been a bit early in the relationship

for holding back your hair.

Mack wasn't with us that night, he was...

-working. -He came over after the pub.

-What time? -Sylvia: I don't know.

You left before me.

I got back and the pair of you were here.

Just me, him, and the date rape drug?

Respectfully, Ember, he did not need a drug

to get what he wanted.

So why didn't he stay over?

I don't know.

He said they had to do something.

In the middle of the same night Amy went missing?

I didn't know it was that night.

What the hell were you thinking?

-Me? -Ember: Yeah, you.

And not just that night.

'Cos you were always pissed, or high, or off being batshit,

while I wandered around...

-...lost. -Your friends thought I was marvellous.

They'd've loved a mother like me.

Yeah. Yeah, they did think you were marvellous.

Yeah, but nobody would want a mother like you.

Because some people shouldn't have kids.

Not everybody gets a choice about it, Ember.

I was a housewife in the arse end of nowhere.

I got married and had a baby because that's what you did.

It was all written for you,

long before you were spat out the fifth form

clutching your certificate in secretarial skills.

You see, that's the difference between us.

You might've squandered your choices,

-but at least you had some. -What choices?

A mother with her "out of office" on,

or a guy, ready to make me his entire world

as soon as he has disposed of his last girlfriend.

I don't know what you want from me.

Ember: I want you to have kept me safe!

I want you to have done your fucking job!

I'm sorry.

Sorry doesn't fix this.

-They? -What?

You said, they had to do something.

[ Tense music plays ]

♪♪

-Arj: Ember! -I know you were with Mack

the night that he killed Amy.

♪♪

Do you think we could've ever been together, Em?

You and me?

♪♪

Ember: Did you hear what I just said?

Mack wasn't one for staying with girls too long,

so I did have a hope that when he was done with you,

that we might...

But it turns out that you're the one worth changing for.

He becomes gold star family man, and I...

become... this.

[ Wind whistling ]

No one's idea of heaven.

I keep wondering if I've just had bad breaks...

or if there's just something rotten about me.

[ Bird scarer whooshing ]

[ Wind whistling continues ]

Riz: Hey, do you wanna tell me why you stole my laptop?

'Cos I tracked it here.

Riz was here.

[ Eerie music plays ]

Ember...

-I need to go. -No! No, no, no!

Don't walk away.

Okay, just... just...

[ Stammers ] It's not like you think.

I would never, never...

♪♪

But she came looking for me...

recording me and... laughing.

We got in a fight.

Wait, wait, what are you doing?

She had this photo of a bone

that was in the basement of the hut.

The stupid thing was, it was only there 'cos of me.

I heard Rob was pulling up the floor for the refurb.

So, I broke in...

...and I dug up the body.

And then I set the fire to cover my tracks.

♪♪

Part of it must have got left behind.

Part of her.

Part of Amy.

I had to do something, Ember.

-You can see that, yeah? -No. No, I can't.

You could've let the body be found.

You could have let Mack be exposed as the killer.

You... You could've let Riz live.

♪♪

Mack didn't kill Amy.

♪♪

Fucked up Midas strikes again.

Look, just -- just sit down...

and... just listen! Okay?

♪♪

It was your birthday, and we were all at the pub.

And we'd only just recently met, but I liked you.

And I felt bad for you because Mack wasn't there,

and I knew where he was.

You were handing out pills.

D'you remember?

And we were all having a good time.

And then at some point, I realise that Mack

had been leaving me messages.

And he's begging me to go and pick him up.

Malachy: Look, I wouldn't ask if it wasn't important.

-If you care about me at all... -Arj: So, I go.

♪♪

Would you stop going on at me? Will you just stop?

I honestly took my eyes off the road for a split second.

[ Tyres screech ]

What was that?

Malachy: It was just a log.

-A log? -It was just a fucking log.

Now put your foot down.

I don't even remember it, thanks to the roofies.

First thing I know,

I'm in bed and -- and Mack's calling me

and he's telling me that -- that I've hit Amy in the car.

Just a glancing blow, but...

he's been trying to call her ever since

and she's -- and she's not answering.

♪♪

Arj: [ Sobbing ]

♪♪

Where did you find her?

Malachy: Amy! Amy!

She'd fallen down the embankment.

She'd busted her head open on a rock.

We were gonna put her in the lake...

-Malachy: [ Retching, coughing ] -Arj: ...but Mack said

the basement was kinder.

♪♪

-Kinder? -Don't be angry with him, okay?

He did it for me.

No.

What?

He didn't do it for you.

-Young Ember: What was that? -It was just a log.

-Young Ember: A log? -It was just a fucking log.

Now put your foot down!

♪♪

You weren't driving, Arj.

♪♪

It was me.

No.

Yeah.

♪♪

♪♪

Arj: Ember! Where are you going?

Gotta go, Arj. I gotta pick up Mack.

Arj: Look, you can't drive alone, you're still learning.

Come with me then.

♪♪

Will you just stop going on at me?

-Will you just stop? -Young Ember: What's going on?

You said you were at work!

♪♪

What was that?

-It was just a log. -A log?

It was just a fucking log. Now put your foot down!

♪♪

Why would he lie?

To protect me.

♪♪

Arj...

I swear I didn't know.

It's fucking ruined me, Ember! [ Sobs ]

Ember: Arj... Arj...

We're gonna go now, okay?

Me and you.

We're gonna go tell them the truth.

[ Groans ]

We're gonna get in trouble, but we'll get through it.

Okay? Together.

We're gonna go, okay?

This is our chance, Ember.

You and me... and Hannah.

Ember: We have to do this, okay?

[ Sniffles ]

We've gotta go now, okay?

Arj: [ Sobbing ]

♪♪

Arj...

Arj! Arj!

Arj: [ Grunting ]

Arj!

No! Stop!

[ Struggling ]

Arj! [ Grunting ]

Arj!

Don't. [ Gasps ] Stop!

Stop!

[ Gasping ]

-Arj... -[ Gas can clatters ]

[ Tense music plays ]

Arj! What are you doing?

I wanna go home.

-[ Grunts ] -Ember: Arj, please,

I wanna go home to my daughter.

Arj: I did it for you, Ember!

Arj, please.

People do fucked up things for love.

No. People do fucked up things and call it love.

But love isn't ugly!

Love doesn't hurt!

Love does hurt, Ember.

It just does.

Arj, no!

Arj: [ Screaming ]

Arj!

♪♪

[ Gasps ]

♪♪

[ Camera shutter clicking ]

[ Solemn music plays ]

♪♪

♪♪

[ Muffled voice ] If they don't already know, I don't see

why you have to say anything at all, Mum.

♪♪

[ Muffled voice ] Hannah's right, Ember.

You could lose your job.

Or worse.

Hannah: Mum, why are you doing this?

[ Clearly ] Mum?

Because I'm the spider.

[ Wind blowing ] [ Leaves rustling ]

[ Birds tweeting ]

You should've told me that Malachy was your husband.

Yeah. Yeah, I know. I'm sorry.

I've spent years learning to forgive myself

for leaving Amy that night.

Playing out the scenarios...

Malachy killed her. Joe killed her.

Now it might've been a different man completely.

Is there no man that Amy was safe from?

You can't think like that.

Why not?

-Because it's not right. -Yes, it is.

And we have to be willing to say it.

Or nothing will ever change.

[ Sobs ] [ Sniffles, swallows hard ]

It was me...

that Amy wasn't safe from.

She wasn't safe from me.

I am so sorry.

I am so, so sorry.

[ Sobs ] I'm so sorry.

♪♪

♪♪

I have this terrible blind spot when it comes to myself.

I can see other people's lies and weaknesses.

I can deliver justice to them.

♪♪

I'm gonna hand myself in. I'm gonna tell the truth.

D'you think truth and justice are always the same thing?

♪♪

♪♪

♪♪

♪♪

[ Drawer rattles ]

[ Bottle cap clattering ]

Morgan: This is DI Morgan and DS Henderson

interviewing DC Ember Manning.

23rd of October, 11:00 a.m.

Now, let's start with the death of Amy Knightly.

Tell us everything you know.

[ Solemn music plays ]

I was there.

Morgan: On the night that David Argent killed Amy?

Ember: [ Gasping ]

I was there...

on the night that David Argent killed Amy.

♪♪

Riz: I chase the darkness for a living...

so I know how heavy and endless it can feel.

Kit: Mum?

Riz: But I also know that darkness doesn't really exist.

Kitty!

Riz: It's just the absence of light.

She's not really here, is she?

Martin: She's here.

Kit: [ Sniffles ]

[ Light sombre music plays ]

♪♪

[ Sobbing ]

♪♪

Has she got a name yet?

♪♪

♪♪

Miranda, I'm gonna need you to write down a list

of all of the names of the men who had sex with you underage...

...so I can put them and Liam in a prison cell.

Because one day,

she is going to be a young woman navigating this world

that we are creating for her.

♪♪

♪♪

You know, I think...

...Hope is a nice name.

♪♪

♪♪

Your dad was complicated.

He did some things that he doesn't deserve

to be forgiven for.

And I wish I could make that not true, but I can't...

But also, he was funny, smart, loyal...

generous beyond belief.

And he gave me you, Hannah...

the greatest gift imaginable.

I'm not going to stop loving him.

We don't have to feel guilty for that.

We're just gonna keep on feeling what we feel.

And keep putting one foot in front of the other.

Yeah.

♪♪

[ Sniffles ]

♪♪

[ Sniffles ]

Bye, Daddy.

♪♪

♪♪

It's okay.

♪♪

♪♪

If I had a pound for every time I said to Mack --

"if only you had a brother"...

And he never once let on that he did.

I'm sorry that your memories of flirting with my husband

have been sullied.

I've always known that I wasn't the best mother, Ember.

I think I tried to make amends through Hannah

when I should've been making it up to you.

I hope it's not too late.

♪♪

Hannah: What are you guys talking about?

Oh, just about the fact that you're never so old

-that you don't need your mum. -[ Chuckles ]

♪♪

Riz: We are all walking in the dark.

But with a hand full of candles that is in our power to ignite,

with every choice we make.

I chase the darkness,

but I choose to believe in the light.

♪♪

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