Original subtitles

(slow suspensive music)

- You twittering?

- You mean tweeting.

- I mean tweeting, yes.

- I'm messaging.

- Ah, texting?

- Gran, give up.

- I've joined Facebook.

I asked you to be my friend.

You haven't replied.

- Sorry I'm late.

Wasn't ready.

- Is that it?

Didn't think it would be a tube.

- Well, so who wants what?

Scone for Gran, burger for me, Jodie jacket potato?

- I want a Mars bar as well.

- Well, you can't have a Mars bar, we're economising.

- So, we can't afford a Mars bar?

- They're both in there?

- Yeah, they combined them.

Thought it was a good idea, they'd want to be together.

Gran?

Gran, what's the problem?

- No problem.

Scone for me, burger for you, Jodie wants a jacket potato.

Tell you what, I'll treat you to the Mars bar myself.

All right Jodie?

- Hi mum.

Hi dad.

(upbeat music)

Can't believe you haven't found a job yet.

Is that your best suit?

- One of them.

- Where did you get it? Topman?

- No.

- Didn't think so.

It looks old, you should go to Topman.

Bye.

- Look, I could find some work.

Go to Tescos, do the swiper.

- The what?

Where's my keys?

- [Betty] You know, the beep beep.

- No, no, Gran, I'll get work, you just stay here, watch TV.

I'm gonna be late for this interview Gran,

it's not a problem.

- Right.

Right.

- So much in life Shireen is ephemeral,

booze, women, all leaves you in the end.

But as Major when you open a building,

it stands there with your name on the front forever.

- Why aren't there more kids?

- Well, they probably kept most of them back, I expect.

They'll do.

Yeah, take my advice, as Major,

open everything you can, it earns respect.

I'm gonna miss that.

- What do you mean?

- When I retire.

I made the decision yesterday, it's time for me to move on.

- Len, are you sure?

- Mm-hmm.

- [Photographer] Major Robson, is it all right to grab

a quick photo of you and the kids, if that's okay?

- Yes, of course it is.

- [Photographer] Excellent, this way gang, lovely.

- [Len] Come on, where do you want us?

- [Photographer] Okay, just move forward a little bit

if you can.

That's it, squeeze in,

that's it, lovely. - All right, squeeze in.

- [Photographer] This way, that's it, squeeze in. Smashing.

- You look really stupid.

- Piss off.

- [Photographer] That's lovely.

Just one more.

- [Len] All right, that'll do.

- [Photographer] Thanks very much Major Robson, thank you.

- [Len] Stand around being insulted by children,

I've got better things to do.

Come on Shireen. - Thanks everyone.

- [Ashley] What's your name?

- How old are you?

- 17.

You?

- 15, so is my boyfriend.

(Ashley snickers)

- Call me.

- Paedophile.

(slow dramatic music)

- [Karl] Babe?

Babe?

- Yer.

- [Karl] What you doing?

- I'm just getting something.

- So, you're the Major's assistant then.

- Assistant? No, why would you think that?

I'm a councillor for Renton West,

didn't Len tell you any of this at the interview.

- [Mark] Well, he said you'd fill me in on the details.

- Well, it'll be two weeks as a temp,

helping me with my backlog and then we'll see where we are.

So, 3rd floor is planning, 2nd is legal,

waste collection to the left

and through here we have taxation.

All right Anne?

- Hello. - Hello.

- My mum worked in taxation.

- Yes, of course.

- Yeah, maybe that's why she killed herself.

Which is, was Kate's desk.

- Sorry?

- [Shireen] Oh, this is Mark, her son.

- Oh Mark, yes I was at the funeral.

I'm so sorry.

- Is that it?

- Yer, that's hers by the window.

Are you visiting?

- [Shireen] He's just moved back,

we've found him some work for a few weeks.

- Where's all her stuff, her things?

- I don't know, no one came to collect them,

so probably they've been put in the bin.

- Didn't think we would want them?

- [Anne] Sorry.

- Bye. - Bye.

- [Betty] Here is my job seekers application.

- Psychotherapist, we don't have that.

- [Betty] No I'm sure but um--

- Is that like a physiotherapist?

- Not really.

- We don't have those either

and your age will count against you.

- I know.

Actually I was thinking school, garden centre,

I'm good with people.

- Really?

Well, maybe we do have something.

That's your job reference number, take it round the corner.

- Is Mark around?

- Lunch break.

- Here, Kate Nicholas, it's her things.

- But I thought that--

- It's difficult.

Don't show him till you've had a look,

then you decide what the right thing to do is,

because, well, I don't know.

(slow suspensive music)

- [Barry] It's an easy question.

- Sixty?

- I've got here sixty three.

- That's it, sixty three.

- [Barry] You're not sixty three.

- Sixty five.

- How about 75?

- Now, you're being rude.

Why would you say that?

- Because you put your age as 63

but give your date of birth as the 10th May 1937

and if you work it out--

- Which I can.

Nintendo brain gym, moisturise every day, swim.

My age is irrelevant.

- Look Betty, I can see you want the job

and it's good someone of your age is so enthusiastic,

but it's much too physically demanding, sorry.

- She can do it.

- What?

- I know her, from before, she works hard.

She never stops.

You won't regret it.

Please.

- We're not supposed to fraternise

with girls from your school.

- In case you accidentally have sex with us or something.

- Exactly, you're a bad influence.

- Cigarette?

- Funny.

- [Teammate] Harry, you're next mate.

- So, there's this party tonight.

It's a big house in the country;

I think you're, yeah, you're definitely coming.

- Nope.

A party with your friends?

I don't own enough gold.

I wouldn't know what to wear.

- [Teammate] Harry!

- Look, look, it doesn't matter.

It's Friday night, we'll have a really good time.

I'll text you, all right?

Wear your best dress.

- Dress.

(sombre music)

- [Carly] There you go, thanks very much, have a good day.

- You've mixed these up.

- What?

- They're supposed to be in order,

supposed to go blue, pink, red

but now there are red ones everywhere,

so I'm gonna have to do the whole thing again.

- Yeah, well I sold some earlier,

so I must have put them back in the wrong place.

- This is typical Carly.

- What's the matter?

- No, don't do that because this isn't personal.

You've simple made another mistake,

why do you have to make everything about the two of us?

- [Carly] Your face.

- [Lucy] What?

- It changes when you come near me.

It goes red.

- Oh, Jodie.

- How do you know my name?

- I went to school with your brother

and we did the flowers for the funeral.

- Oh, right.

- Yer, for years your mum came in and she--

- She bought flowers here, I know.

- Yeah, same flowers, same day every year.

- Why?

- Carly, stop chatting yeah? Do some work.

How can I help you?

- I'm going to this party tonight,

this dress is all I've got,

so I thought maybe some flowers or accessories could help.

- Yeah, definitely.

I know, I've got something that's blue.

This is left, would you wear this?

- Inspector, hello, I'm Shireen Chana.

- Yes.

- I hope you don't mind me barging in.

Actually, we met at the neighbourhood watch meeting last year

and then, in March at the policing conference,

we talked about the sandwiches

and you said that you didn't like them.

- Yes, Shireen, I know who you are.

- Of course, good.

It's about Kate Nicholas, she worked with us at the Council.

Am I right that you investigated her death?

- Yes.

- Well, the thing is that we were clearing up her desk

and we found a few things

and well, I wasn't sure if you wanted to see them?

- What sort of things, I mean, personal items or?

- Ah, an old pair of shoes, notebook,

photographs you know, that sort of thing.

I suppose if they've already had the funeral,

well, it's all done.

- Yeah, it was clear what had happened, so we've finished.

- Did you know them before, the family?

- No.

- No, neither did I.

It's just, well often in this town, there's connections so.

- That's right.

Well, thank you for checking Shireen.

If you get a chance, bring the items into the station

and I'll make sure they get back to the family.

- Perfect, thanks.

- No thank you.

- Sorry I'm late, but I got dinner for us, and Friday night.

So I thought we'd...

treat ourselves.

(slow classical music)

- Jodie.

- Hi.

(slow classical music)

Do you like it?

What do you think?

Say something.

- [Harry] I love it.

Come on.

- You know she's married, don't you.

- We're just catching up.

- Whose buying the drink?

- Shut up.

Here we go.

- Thanks.

Just the same, isn't it?

The Antelope.

You used to make me buy the drinks, remember,

said I looked older.

- Well, you do look older.

- Thanks Mark, that's charming.

- God, everyone knows each other here, don't they.

(people talking in background)

So, how's home?

- Do you mean Karl, just say Karl.

- I don't mean Karl, but now that you mention him?

- Yeah, he's good.

- Good.

He didn't mind us meeting?

- I didn't tell him.

- Sounds healthy.

- It would have just made it more complicated.

- Yer.

(upbeat dance music)

- You said a dress.

- What?

- No one's wearing a dress.

- What? Yes, they are.

Yeah, definitely.

Oh.

- I'm going home.

Oh God, they're gonna laugh.

Darling Isabella, what is she wearing?

- Now, don't be silly.

They're not like that, I promise.

- Harry, darling.

- Isabella.

This is Jodie.

- Hello, oh I like the flowers, very cute.

Daddy's away at this big dinner,

so we are completely on our own.

Come on, let's get pissed.

- Perfect.

Come on.

(upbeat classical music)

- Necklace?

- Oh, I found it the other day in the back of the cupboard.

Thought it might still look good.

- You kept it.

You're happy, that's good.

- You said before that I ended up like this.

- No, I didn't mean that.

- And you were right.

I mean, I have everything I need I suppose

but it isn't exactly what I imagined.

- No singing.

- Only to myself these days.

(upbeat dance music)

(people talking in background)

- When I invited you, I didn't realise

you were bringing her.

I thought you were gonna stay over.

(upbeat dance music)

- What's going on?

Jodie?

- [Guy] Get out!

- What are you doing?

Jodie.

Jodie, stop.

- What's the problem?

- No, it's...

I haven't ever, and neither have you.

- So, come on then.

- No, I don't want to, not...

- Not what, yet.

- No.

- Not with me?

- Not here.

- I like it, soft carpet, nice curtains, let's have sex.

- This is her parents' bedroom and you're drunk.

No sorry, sorry.

(upbeat dance music)

- [Together] One, two, three, go.

- This is the point when I have to tell you

that I'm a classy lady and I don't drink Sambuca.

(Mark laughs)

You've grown up all right, Mark.

(Mark and Alice laugh)

- You've grown up all right too.

- [Alice] Thank you.

- Sing.

- What?

- Go on. - Oh, shut up Mark.

- Come on.

- No.

- Sing. - Sing what?

- Anything you want, come on, nobody's looking.

- No.

- Come on, please.

- Ah.

All right.

Microphone, can't do it without a microphone.

(Mark and Alice laugh)

♪ There's a fire starting in my heart ♪

♪ Reaching a fever pitch and its bringing me out the dark ♪

- [Ashley] You okay?

- I know I said we'd have a night, but I want to go home.

- All right, cool.

♪ The scars of your love ♪

♪ They leave me breathless ♪

♪ I can't help feeling ♪

(Alice and Mark laugh)

(slow romantic music)

- No, I've got to go.

Oh God.

- No, Alice.

- No, I should go home.

- Please wait.

Come back.

- Pop!

(gunshot fires)

Oh, did you see that?

Did you see that?

- I can't hear you.

- Take your headphones off.

- What? - Did you see that?

- See what?

- Oh, it doesn't matter, you probably wouldn't understand.

That's the sort of thing I learnt in the paras.

Did I mention I was in the paras?

- Once or twice.

- Right. - A day.

- Hunting is primal, it's instinctive.

It gets the adrenaline pumping.

- It's bits of clay.

- The blood rushing.

- Len, I need to talk.

- Nine o'clock we said.

- It's twenty past.

- Oh God, all right then.

It's like having a wife I can't divorce.

When we get back, cancel what you need to do this morning,

take this to the river and drop it in.

- But if Franks was having an affair with her,

he never should have--

- Chris Franks has a wife and a daughter of his own,

I could see how he wouldn't want this getting out.

- Yeah, but Len we--

- The case is closed.

We told Mark it was binned, so bin it.

(slow dramatic music)

- The hair band looked stupid, give me my money back.

- Look, I'm really sorry that you got dumped.

- [Jodie] I didn't get dumped.

- Then, I'm really sorry you're sixteen, okay.

- Fifteen.

- Yeah, well exactly, rejection, humiliation,

it's part of becoming a woman.

- Give me my money back.

- Not a chance.

Oh, you little.

Oi!

Oi!

(Carly laughs)

- Look at you, I love it.

- Do you know what, it's always the same.

I don't know what it is you actually do,

you're always just standing there watching me,

criticising me, I should find someone

who actually does some work.

- Okay.

- What?

- Do that.

Get someone else.

- I'm Daniel.

- Yes.

- I was one of the undertakers at the funeral,

but after what happened, they let me go.

- You should have been more careful.

- Lucky I was there, wasn't it, when you got the job.

- I suppose so.

- Did the police find anything else out?

- I'm sorry?

- About why they did it, your daughter and--

- Why are you so interested?

- Just...

I was at the funeral, so I wondered.

- Wondered what?

You know, it's quite a coincidence

you and I ending up here as well.

Are you following me, Daniel?

- What?

No.

- Have you got the time?

- Quarter to.

- Thanks.

- Okay, it's all in the database,

you can reference it chronologically or by subject.

It also says which box the originals are in.

- Perfect. - I've also answered

the backlog of correspondence,

most of them are complaining about the parking,

so I've just referred them

to the correct department. - Mark.

- At the moment, I've not been answering the telephone,

I don't know if that's the right thing

but I'm happy to,

if you want me to. - Mark, wait.

- What?

Sorry, what?

- These are your mum's things from her desk.

- But I thought she said she'd binned them,

that woman, Anne.

- She lied, she found this and she didn't know what to do.

- How long was it going on for?

- I dunno, she had a separate phone and everything.

- Why was he the one who investigated, shouldn't he.

- He shouldn't have had anything to do with it.

- There's one missing, look, every page but not here.

- Gran, did you have any idea?

- She's wearing the dress.

- What dress?

- She looks really good in it.

- Jodie.

Jodie, come on.

Don't go upstairs.

Jodie, no.

- It was going on three years

and no, your dad didn't have a clue.

- How do you know?

- She told me.

They were constantly arguing Mark, you must have noticed.

- [Mark] All parents argue.

- Not like that.

They were gonna get a divorce years ago, then Jodie arrived,

they hadn't been expecting her.

- What, Jodie was a mistake?

- A surprise.

After she was born, they decided to give it another go,

for her sake, they tried

but in the end, Kate met Chris--

- Chris.

- He made her happy.

- [Mark] Jesus Gran, he was here in the house

on that day they--

- [Betty] I knew he was trying to help us

and making sure things were done properly.

- But what if he had something to do with it, Gran.

- What do you mean?

- [Mark] Where you going?

- What does it look like?

- Jeremy Kyle?

- Out!

- Jodie, come on, we need to talk.

- No thanks.

By the way, Mark was right,

not a surprise, a mistake,

sums me up. - No, Jodie.

- At least she was doing what she wanted.

- Jodie, where's she going?

That's not Harry.

Jodie!

- Just like her mother.

Where are you going?

- The police.

(TV commentator talks in background)

- Babe, give me a beer.

Love?

Ah!

You all right in there?

You okay?

Well, cheer up.

(dishes clank)

(slow suspensive music)

(tyres screeching)

- [Ashley] You ever been up to the top?

(slow dramatic music)

- You found her phone.

- Yup.

And pictures of you together,

notebooks with your address, lots of things.

- Mark, I have a family, I have a career.

I'm not proud of how we did it but I loved your mother,

we were happy, for years.

- Why did you take the case?

- Well, I was given it, what was I supposed to do?

Tell 'em that your mother and I were together.

- Yes! Yes!

Exactly.

- It would have got around.

Okay, I did the best I could to protect the memories.

- Oh, it's got nothing to do with protecting the memory

of my parents.

I'm gonna go to them tomorrow, everyone's gonna know.

- I did my job.

- There's something you're not telling me,

there something more.

Why would you take the risk?

- Chris? - Huh?

- It's all right.

This is Mark Nicholas, you remember his parents?

- Oh, yes.

- I said he could come round if he had any questions,

but we've sorted everything out now.

(slow dramatic music)

(phone ringing)

- Hi.

(slow dramatic music)

- This is my first time.

- Up to you.

(slow dramatic music)

- Ow.

(Mark and Alice laugh)

(slow romantic music)

(slow dramatic music)

- Are you sure?

- No.

- What does this mean?

- I don't know.

- Where are you going?

- Home.

(door knocking)

- Just a sec.

You left it on the side.

- Oh, I'm sorry.

Mark?

- Gran, what are you doing here?

- What are you doing here?

- Why are you wearing that?

- Well, at least I'm wearing something.

I didn't think I heard you come home last night.

- What, you're working here?

- Yes because you didn't have anything.

- I've got a job.

- But not at the time and I thought all hands on deck.

- You're too old.

- Too old to be messing around in hotel rooms?

Well, possibly Mark but aren't we all?

I'll come back in half an hour to clean then.

You better get to work as well.

- Went to a friends.

- Right.

- I'm back now.

- Good.

- Jodie!

You haven't been answering my texts, what's going on?

Look, did someone say something at the party?

Or is this about,

because Jodie, I'm willing to do whatever you want.

It's just, I was taking my time.

- It's not about that, I'm good with all that.

We're not the same, it doesn't work, so we've moved on.

I'm 15, that's what you're supposed to do, try stuff out.

- But we had something.

- Yeah, and I'll get over it.

- What happened?

- [Len] You value my advice, don't you?

- Ya.

- Mark Nicholas turned up at Chris Franks' house last night.

- Oh.

- Somehow he got the address.

Mrs. Franks, Hannah, said she saw them arguing

on the door step.

Eventually Mark left.

Hannah went to bed expecting Chris to follow,

but when she woke up, the car was gone

and her husband disappeared.

- He just left?

What did Mark say to him?

- The chief inspector has just been on the phone,

he knew Mark was working here

and he wants to know what's going on and so do I.

We agreed.

- I couldn't hide it.

- Not hide it, destroy it.

- It's not up to us.

- He didn't need to know.

We make judgements on that sort of thing all the time.

It's what being in charge means.

- Why would we want to keep it a secret?

It's difficult for him but it's not our problem, is it?

Is it?

Anyway, I'm not in charge.

- Next week, I was gonna propose you as my successor.

There'd be a meeting, then the cabinet would vote.

- Me?

- Hmm, you want it, don't you?

All right Mark?

- Hi there.

- Mark, we're going to let you go.

- What?

- Obviously, maybe because of your mother's connection

to this place, working here isn't good for you.

- What do you mean, I've done everything

I've been asked to do, I've dealt with all the letters,

sorted out all the files.

- Yer, I'm sorry.

- I was in here earlier than anyone else yesterday.

- Are you sure you made the right decision

coming back here to live?

- I didn't have much choice.

- If it was me after everything that happened,

I'd want to get as far away as possible.

- Well, thanks very much for the advice,

I'll take that on board.

What about my job?

- It wasn't a job, you were a temp.

I'm sorry it didn't work out.

- You went to the inspector's house last night.

- What's that got to do with anything?

- You should have gone to the police.

- I've had enough of the police.

- [Shireen] After you left--

- Questions I wanted to ask

- [Shireen] He drove off, disappeared and now

- What, he's gone? - He's not answering his phone

- His wife that said you were arguing

on the doorstep. - How do you know any of this?

- Len spoke to the chief inspector this morning and--

- What, Len had a conversation with the inspector?

What they were taking to each other.

- [Shireen] Yes, they know each other well.

- Oh, I'm sure they do.

Small town, it's almost mediaeval

the ways things are done around here.

My work here has got nothing to do

with my parents or Franks.

- Len doesn't trust you.

- [Mark] What's any of it got to do with him?

- Reputation.

- And if Franks has disappeared, that means that I'm right.

- Okay I'm sorry, there's nothing I can do.

- Of course there is but you're exactly the same

as everyone else, business here is done in the pub,

it's handshakes, it's amateur, it's amateur!

That's why I left in the first place.

- Mark, I'm fighting this every day.

- Oh, come on, you like it because you know

you can only be a big fish

if you're in a very, very small pond.

- You need to go now.

(phone ringing)

- [Alice] Hi, it's Alice, I can't answer the phone,

so leave a message.

(slow dramatic music)

- That watch you wear, I've been trying to remember,

my son-in-law had one exactly the same.

Where did you get it?

- Gran.

- Mark, Mark, I'll lose my job.

(slow dramatic music)

- Jodie, your brother's here,

you're released for the rest of the afternoon.

- Mark, has he lost it?

Mark!

Mark!

(sombre music)

Do you want to do it now?

- Why not.

- Okay.

- See what you mean now, they shouldn't be together.

(sombre music)

- [Police Officer] Mark Nicholas?

- [Mark] Yeah.

- [Police Officer] We would like you to come with us

to answer a few questions.

- [Mark] Huh?

- [Police Officer] We can talk at the station, please sir.

- [Mark] What questions?

- [Police Officer] This way sir.

- [Jodie] You can't just, Mark what have you done wrong?

- [Mark] I don't know.

(slow dramatic music)

(upbeat suspensive music)