Back to Life (2019–…): Season 1, Episode 3 - Episode #1.3 - full transcript

I saw you on the swing. Were you
watching me? Not in a creepy way.

It's my first day at work
and I'm already nervous.

Welcome back, Miri Matteson.
I don't remember you.

Because we only just met.

Oh, my God! Can you just get it into
your big, stupid, married head

that this is not going to happen?
Goodbye.

A bit higher. Like this? Yeah.

I can't believe I didn't realise.
What?

Well, the caterpillar. Oh, God.

You need me. No, I don't.
Yeah, you're lonely. No, I'm not.

Apparently, it's where some girl
bludgeoned someone to death.



It's not the version I heard.

Apart from that, you're
just like a normal person really.

I am a normal person.

Shit the bed!

Right. OK, I'll start.
Oh, Mandy's going to start.

Miri, you're not taking it
seriously... I am taking it serious.

You're taking it too seriously.
I'm just going to start.

# Last night I was dreaming

# I was locked in a prison cell

# When I woke up, I was screaming

# Calling out your name. #

Let me guess. You spoke to Kathy.

She said we could wait
and Elsie would be squeezed in.

Well, Kathy mainlines CBD oil so,
if you want to wait, it's your life.



Next!

Hi. My name's Miri Matteson.

I haven't been here for ages
but I need to re-register.

Your last visit
was September 2000. Yeah.

That's a long time ago.

I'm, er...I'm very healthy.

Well, I need an updated ID
and proof of address.

Er, I don't...I don't have anything
at the moment.

Bank statement, home insurance?

I'm not on any of the bills.
So you don't pay bills.

Oh, no. It's my parent's house.

I wish my parents paid for me.

It's not like that. Mobile bill.

I don't have a mobile.

How can you not have a mobile?

Look, I just need a doctor
to look at my head.

Well, I just need a proof
of residence. I live there.

Yes, I know, with Mummy
and Daddy, who pay the bills

but I'm going to need a piece
of paper that tells me that.

OK. So what if I've been away
for a long time?

Where have you been? Somewhere.

Where? Does it matter? Look.

I have an infected cut on my head
and I need to see a doctor.

Go to A&E.

No hospitals, I want to come here.

Well, then you're going to have
to start being a big grown-up girl

that pays some bills now,
aren't you?

Next!

I'm sorry. Also not sorry.

Oh, my God.

I got the ones round the back.
I could re-use the Blu-Tack.

Oh, God. I'm so sorry.
This, and the smashed window.

It's fine. I'm just waiting for
some new glass so...I can't open.

The brick was meant for me.

It wasn't meant to ruin your new
business.

Mm...I don't know.
I'm sort of a murderer too.

I'm the pie shop destroyer,
so we're both outsiders

and it could have been meant
for both of us.

Yeah, I really doubt that.

Look, just go and have
a nice day off.

When was the last time you did
something nice, unprisony?

Go to the zoo or something.

Yeah. I don't want to go to the zoo,
I want to work and I want to help.

Yeah, and you will,
as soon as I've got a new window...

..and some customers again.

It's all good. Keep your chin up.

We can't let the bastards win,
can we?

No. No! No.
That's the spirit. High five.

Oop. Oh, sorry. Try again.
You've got to concentrate.

I'll tell you what.
Little tip, look at the elbow. OK.

Always works.

This could have cost me my job,

Janice, and my job
is all I have right now.

Bullshit.
You're one of the lucky ones.

One of the most privileged girls
I've dealt with.

I'm getting shit sent to me, Janice.

Actual shit...in a box,

graffiti on the house,

and now somebody's putting
these things all around town.

I know this is frustrating
but take a step back.

A bit of prank poopy. Real poopy.

Ooh. Someone's got
a new photocopier.

It's not like the victim's father's
turned up at your work

and stabbed you in front
of nine people with a sword,

which hasn't ever happened actually.
Oh, Christ!

Your life post-prison
is going really well.

You need to realise that
and be grateful.

I deal with broken women all day
long and YOU, you've got it all.

You just need to lower your
expectations and get over yourself

a bit...in a nice way.

Oh.

You look like a rabbit.
All right. Thanks.

Lara Boback. Here's a tip.

If you're going to kill someone,
don't kill a copper's daughter.

Janice... I'm just saying.
Argh, God.

I keep, um...

..I keep listening to this tape that
we made the day before it happened.

Oh, my God. What?

You can't change what is done.
It's done.

You can only change
what you haven't done...yet.

Like right now.

What? Yeah? What? Look, I'm tired.

You know what? Take that tape,
dash it in the bin. Boom.

And then go and do something nice
with yourself.

Go to the zoo or something.
I don't want to go to the zoo.

Why is everyone trying
to make me go to the zoo?

Fine. Try Pilates.

No, actually, don't.

I did that one time
for a whole year. Nothing changed.

And then I found out
I hadn't been doing that thing

where you try and squeeze
your bumhole shut

and then you suck your poom-poom up
into it.

Oh. Right, and if anyone asks...

..we meet in my office. Yeah?

Yeah, but, like, we could
meet in your office.

No, I like coming to your house.

Your biscuit game is strong.

Got any Jaffas?

Oh, Jesus.
I thought you were your father.

Is he very frightening?

I didn't rinse the plates. Oh.

Yeah, and you've got to rinse them.
Really rinse them. Saves energy.

But surely if you really, really
rinse them, then you may as well

have washed them, so isn't it,
like, more wasteful in the end?

Oh, God. Don't tell him.
He'll implode.

Mum, do you want to do something
today, like, you and me?

What? I don't know, like something,
anything, together.

Why don't you see Mandy?
She'd love to see you.

I don't want to see Mandy.
Well, your father will be home soon.

No, I just...

..um, I want to spend
some time together.

I've got too much to do, and Janice
ate all the biscuits, so...

Billy! Oh, God. Get your coat,
you're taking me on an adventure.

What now? Cunt. Yeah.

Cunt, cunt, cunt.

That's really distracting.
Um, yes, right now. Piggy cunt.

Who's a little piggy cunt?!

It's actually very sweet cos
she thinks that you're her aunt.

Yeah. She's not...she's not saying
aunt but anyway it's...

Well, I'll get my keys.

See you out the front in a minute.
Yeah. OK. Cool.

Over the fence with the cunt.
Ah! Next door, cunt.

How old?

Oh, she's five.

Constantly sick. It's a nightmare.

I remember.
Mm. Try not to breathe her in.

It goes so fast.

Everybody says that.
Because it's true, I'm afraid.

Do you have grandkids?

Yes...yes, I do.

How many? My daughter has
a boy and two girls.

Blissful chaos.

It must be lovely being
a grandparent, you get all the fun

and half the work.

It's wonderful.

Oscar Matteson.

Oh, er...

Can't believe I haven't been here
before. This is the best fun ever.

I love boats. Wow!

I used to want to be a sailor
but I get so sick, both ends.

It is a nightmare. I was gutted.

I tried so many times.

No, it's just life, isn't it?
Yeah. Yep.

What did you want to be
when you were a kid?

Er, a vet, Jamie Oliver's wife,
the Appleton sisters - desperately

but that didn't work out.

Oh, yes, I can see it.
Oh, thank you. You're welcome.

I wanted to be a sailor,
now I'm a gardener.

I thought were a carer. What?

For that really angry woman. Anna?

Yeah. No, no. I'm a carer too,
most of the time, yeah,

but I'm a gardener as well,
so it's both, varied.

Do you, er...?

Do you have a person, like a...

..a man friend, or a woman,
someone that you're, um...?

No, I mean, I did once
but he's married now.

He's got kids and stuff so... Oh.

Do you, er...

..do you still think about him?

Er, I mean no...but, yes.

Do you know what I mean?
Yeah, yeah, I do.

How about you?

Oh, I... Well, I loved somebody once
but they...

..they changed,
so the love changed, too, which...

Well, it happens, I guess,
doesn't it? Yeah. No, I get that.

BELL RINGS

Hey. Here's your chance. Yeah.

Boats! Thank you. Cheers. Right.

Let's raise our hands.
Let's do this as it starts.

Yay! Oh. Yay! It's not doing...

Recon day two.
Suspect boarding sail boat.

She's making a new friend.

I hope it goes better
than last time.

Wahay! She seems to enjoy herself.

Side to side, everyone. Yes.

Chla-what? Chlamydia.
Could be worse.

Like a urine infection?

Not quite.

Oh, but it hurts when I pee.

Yes, but it's an STD.

What, like syphilis?
It's just chlamydia.

Symptoms can take
a while to present,

some people self clear,
others don't.

But you'll need to contact your
sexual partners and inform them.

Partners?

I'm assuming you are with someone
or more than one.

Good God, just one,

and we haven't, um...

..for a while. We...

Sure.

She probably planned it
for months.

Now she's just working
in the fish and chip shop.

Did you hear? She threw a brick
at a group of people yesterday.

Yeah. Proper psycho.

And to think
she's just walking around...

..not even tagged, free as a bird.

Terrifying.

So now I've got this
and my verrucas to worry about.

God. They must get loads
of verrucas in prison.

She's probably riddled with them.

I used to come here
when I was a kid.

I thought you weren't
from round here.

Oh, no. I mean, like places like
this, like fairs and stuff. Oh.

Bet you were a nice kid.

Thank you. Yeah. You too. Oh.

Hey! Shall we go on this?

Oh, no. Er, sorry.

I'm terrified of giraffes, so...
But they're not...

They're not real giraffes.
They're very, very realistic.

They're not.
Their necks are really short.

OK. It's a...

..it's so fast as well, isn't it?
It's just kind of whoosh.

It's not. It's ridiculously slow.

Have a bash. I'll be there.

You'll be there. Yeah.

Urgh.

Urgh.

Urgh.

BELL RINGS

RINGING TONE

Sorry. Fucking nightmare.

The twins have been trying
to put a hat on the dog.

It's like a fucking war zone
in there. Are you free?

No, Dom. Listen. It's over.
It's not happening again.

What? Oh, yeah. Sure. OK. No probs.

I don't want to be this person
any more. I'm her mother.

Yeah. Fair enough.

But you'll just change your mind
like you did the last time

and the last, last time.
No, I will not. Goodbye, Dom.

Oh, come on.
Let's just have a little...

..like a little goodbye fiddle,
yeah? No.

Oh, my God. These are amazing!

Could I get...? I'm so sorry.
No, no, it's all right. It's just...

I'm completely hogging them.
..I haven't had any. Oh, sorry.

I've never met anyone
like you before. Oh.

I've never met anyone
like you before, Billy,

you're a one-off. Well...

I don't want to break
this moment but...

I really need to pee.
Oh, God. So I'm...

Just go. Do it. Yeah, right.
I'm going to go.

No. I'm just
going to grab some of these.

Oh, that's very hygienic. Yeah.

Hello again.

We met on the beach the other day.

Oh. Oh, yeah. Yes. Sorry. Hi.
Samuel. Miri. Hi. Hiya.

Um...Wednesday afternoon,
amusement park.

Sorry. Who are you?

I'm an investigator,
and I look for the truth

and I'm here to help YOU
to tell YOUR truth

but, first, we need to solve
your little problem.

Er, I am...
I am with a friend right now.

I am not going to do this.
I'm not doing this.

Why was Lara so angry with you
the night she died? What?

Yes. She was angry at you,
so full of rage. Why?

I'm sorry, can you...? I don't want
to talk to you. Can you just...

Can you go? Can you just
leave me alone, please?

You have a bite mark. No! No.
It's on your shoulder, isn't it?

Oy, oy, oy!
Get out of it, you little shit.

Go on. If you want to see tits,
piss off to Margate.

I'll be in touch.

Huh!

Thank you.

Yeah, well, let's just, er...

..let's get out of here. I've got
to pick up some meds for Anna.

Let's go via the supermarket, yeah?

Good. Come on. OK.

I'll just be two minutes. All right?

Oh, OK. OK.
No, I'm fine. Yeah, yeah. Sure.

Oh. Miri, hi.

Oh, my God. Are you so desperate
and lonely

that you've got to stalk me
in a supermarket now?

I'm buying dinner for my family.

Wow, that's, um...very nutritious.

Yeah. Well, don't feel sorry for me
because you're the one

that's all alone with, um,
a really shit haircut.

Actually I'm on a date
with a shit haircut, so...

Who with?

With my neighbour, Billy, yeah.

In fact, we just stopped here to buy
us...some condoms.

Some condoms
for all of the sexual...

..intercourse
that we will be having.

Is he some kind of
a true crime perv?

Sure.

Oh, Miri.

He doesn't know who you are,
does he?

Do you know what?
Just goodbye, Mandy.

Wait, wait. Wait!

I was at a wedding last year and
this posh woman farted really loudly

and I got the most uncontrollable
giggles and I looked at Mark

and there was nothing,
not even a twinkle,

and I started to cry because I knew,
I knew if you'd have been there,

then we would have
pissed ourselves.

And I missed you.

So, yes. Yeah. You are right.
I am desperate and I am lonely.

Me too. Me too.

And I didn't visit you in prison
because I felt terrible.

If I'd have got to the cliff
ten minutes earlier,

then maybe none of this
would have happened.

Tell the truth.

You don't want to be with someone
who doesn't know who you are.

Think about it. Hmm?

It's, er, it's two for one
for pocket calculators.

Oh. Oh. Oh, no. Gosh.

No, no. This isn't what you, um...

I just...I don't mind.
It's just...I don't.

I can't do that much. No, no.
It's my parents... Oh.

My parents. They asked me
to get them some condoms.

Your parents? They have... They...

Yeah. They're so old
but that's a lot for them.

No, well, they do it.
They just like to do it, yeah.

Wow. I never... I never hear them.
They're really quiet.

And they're fast and, er,
it's all over very quickly

but it's regular and,
do you know what?

They can have a night off because
they're old and they need a break.

Oh, I... Oh, God.

Here we are. I didn't need a piss
at the, er...at the funfair.

Ah! I thought that was suspiciously
quick. Thank you.

You're welcome.

Er, right. Well, I should head home

because Anna needs her meds and...
Yeah. Yeah. Course.

I've had the best day, like a
holiday from stuff, so thanks.

Oh. Er, well, we're back home now.

Yeah.

OK. Yeah. Goodbye. Yeah.

Bye. See you. Let's just... Sorry.

Oh, I did... No. Just...

Lovely, lovely day! Yeah.

Yeah, really nice. Bye-bye. OK.

Jesus Christ.

She told he
she'd never do it again. What?

And I believed her.
I just believed her.

Oh. Is this about
the dishwasher again?

What's wrong with the dishwasher?
Um, no. Nothing, nothing,

cos everyone always really, really
rinses everything, so it's fine.

It always comes out in the end.

What does?

The truth.

Damn and blast it.

Urgh!

What's your name?

Billy. Do you do mojitos, Billy?

Yeah. There you go.

Mm! God, that's good.

Oh, how much do I owe you?
No, no, no, it's on the house.

And I got these off a guy.

Oh.

What are they?
They're the good stuff.

Mm.

Will I be myself again, Billy?

Yeah.
DOORBELL RINGS

It's my husband! Hide! Hide!
He has a fucking blunderbuss!

Oh, gosh, well,
I'll have to fight him off.

Oh, hi.
Billy, I need to tell you something.

Yeah. We can't...

We can't be friends
unless you know the truth about me.

Me too. I need to, erm... I need
to tell you something too. Oh, OK.

Yeah, and maybe it's...
Maybe it's the same thing.

Well, I doubt that. Let's just say
it like a scissors, paper, stone.

Oh, no. Christ, really? Let's just
say it on the count of three.

No, no, mine is really big.
It's really, really...

I'll say mine and then...and
then you say yours.

But I'm telling you right now
that mine is so much bigger

than yours unless, well, unless
you...

We'll just do it after three.
One, two, three.

I'm not Anna's carer. I killed that
girl at the sound mirror.

It was me. I'm married to her.

Oh, my... What? You're...
You're married to...to her?

Gosh! Oh.

But we had a little awkward hug
and you bought me this...

HE SIGHS

I'm quite shocked, actually.

Help. What? You're...

So you're a psycho killer.

Billy. Oh, God! Somebody help me.

Look, I'm not going to hurt you.
I'm not going to hurt you.

Oh, Jesus. Oh, God.
Can you just calm down?

It's not like they said at all.

Oh, well, you...
You didn't kill her?

No, erm... No, I...I did.

Stay away from me! Go on, fuck off!

Billy! Calm, Billy!
This is excessive.

God, you killed someone!
You're married!

Oh, fuck. Aw, bub-bab-bub-a!

Oh, I'm having a panic attack.
Just...breathe...

Count to ten in your head,
count to ten in your head.

A-one, one-two, one-two-three.

Wa-haaa!
HE GROANS

Oh, God. I'm going to...
Na-na-na-haa.

I'm sorry.

But you would have found out and
I wouldn't have been able to

tell you the truth myself, and that
would have been so much worse.

It's just...

It's not what you think.

She was...she was crazy angry
with me and she bit me

and I didn't...I didn't know why...

And, erm... Though I just like...

I just pushed her back...

..and it was an accident.

But the person who you were
with today...

..that...that was me.
That is who I am.

That is me.

Thank you.

Thank you for telling me.
That was...that was really brave.

Can I help...? No, it's just...
KNOCK ON WINDOW

Ah, for... Leave my husband alone.

Oh, great. You murderess.

Oh, you're a murderess,
you'll stop at nothing.

They should never have let you out.
You better go. OK.

Don't tell me you thought he wasn't
married, I heard you.

DOOR CLOSES

Hello.

Oh, blast. I forgot the butter.

What did the doctor say?

An infection.

Oh, did they give you antibiotics?

HE SIGHS

What's wrong, darling?

A shipping container
full of rubber ducks

has sunk off the coast
of the Isle of Wight.

Oh, dear.

More plastic in the ocean,
contaminating everything,

fucking everything up, and for what?

What good did a rubber duck ever do?

Miri used to love them in the bath.
It's all for nothing.

I...I hate the waste.

Are you OK?

Fine. I'll go and get the butter.

SWITCH CLICKS
Right, OK, I'll start.

Oh, Mandy's going to start.

Miri, you're not taking it
seriously. I am taking it serious.

You're taking it too seriously,
I'm just going to start.

SWITCH CLICKS

SWITCH CLICKS
Right, OK, now just Lara. OK, fine.

# Some day, I believe it
you will come to my rescue...

# Unchain my heart
you're keeping

# And let me start anew, ooh

# Hours pass so slowly since
they've thrown away the key

# Away the key

# Can't you see that I'm lonely?

# Won't you help me, please... #

Lara! Wait! Shh, my dad's back!
Hide the cigarettes!

Hi, Dad! Hi, Mr Boback!

Remember me? I was in prison.

It's a letter from my probation
officer, with my address.

I want an appointment, now.

We've actually got an appointment
available in about an hour.

Great, I'll wait.

She was here yesterday
so sort her out too.

I'll...I'll make sure she's seen.
Yeah, you will.