Fortitude (2015–…): Season 1, Episode 4 - Episode #1.5 - full transcript

Ah, you were doing something
you shouldn't have been...

You went out
to be with another woman.

Listen, Jules...

If you were...

She can have you.

Just go.

What's going on with you two?

It's my family life.

It's none of your business.

Ronnie Morgan...

He came in here last night.



He grabbed the blade,
twisted the knife

- Right out of my hand.
- We've had no trouble

With Ronnie
since he arrived here?

No, none at all, but if
he's off his medication...

If something bad happened,
it means that

The police are gonna make sure
you and I are separated.

I will never let
that happen to you.

Is this the hotel that

- Bill Pettigrew stayed in?
- Who?

The fella
who was eaten by a bear.

I think it is.

What other illicit connections
should I know about?

Let's start with wind chimes
and infidelity.

Why do you find my being
here so threatening?



I don't
find you threatening.

Should I find you
threatening?

I think frank Sutter is the man
they should be looking at.

Sutter was in Afghanistan.

Terrible things happen there.

Terrible things happen here.

We found human blood all
over frank Sutter's t-shirt.

Couldn't just
keep him there, Dan.

Get out!

Aah! Get out!

Get out!

there in the day,
come to me

straight into my arms

I tried to caress it

ooh, ooh

but it ran
through my fingers

ah, ah-ah

water will keep running

rivers will turn

water will keep running

and rivers will turn

water will keep running

and rivers will turn

water will keep running

and rivers will turn.

There it is again.

It's the glacier--
it's on the move.

Glaciers...

Carve out the valleys

That create the
mountains...

Shape the planet.

Can't be stopped.

Just keeps on coming.

Anybody tries
to get in its way,

It goes right through 'em.

Like you, dad.

Yes, like me.

Holy Jesus

Christ almighty!

What the hell

Are you doing
in my house?

I fucked up.

What happened?

Frank Sutter.

I arrested him.

In the hotel.

In the shower.

Oh, god.

Punched his head off the wall.

Why?

We found blood
on his clothes.

Charlie's blood?

Don't know.

So... Why did you
attack him?

Oh, fuck.

Elena.

Elena?

You okay, Elena?

Frank Sutter's been arrested?

Yes.

What for?

I don't know.
They wouldn't tell me.

In here?

Yes.
What was he doing

In here?

He was having a shower.

They arrested him
while he was in your shower?

Mm-hmm.
Naked?

Yeah, of course

He was naked.

He was in the shower.

Okay.
Of course!

Okay.

It's gonna be okay.
Are you all right?

Hey, hey.

It's... All right.
It'll be all right.

Shirley, please.

Please.

Believe me...

You don't know anything.

This is very bad.

It's bad for frank, and
it's bad for me, too.

Elena, what have you done?

Hey.

- Is it tender there?
- A little bit.

I'm just going to look
into your eyes.

Stay there.

Does he have
to be handcuffed?

I arrested him on
suspicion of murder.

He resisted arrest.

The murder
of charlie Stoddart?

And you punched him?

That's right.

How many times
did you punch him?

A number of times.

Hard blows?

Hard enough.

Did he defend himself?

What do you mean?

Was he insensible
when you punched him?

Did his head rotate sharply?

He hit his head
against the wall--

Also hard--

When I punched him.

You fucker!

That fucker attacked me.

You have to leave.

He reacted.

He resisted.

No, he reacted.

He was naked.
He was in the shower.

Sheriff Anderssen
barged in.

He reacted.

Resisted.

He was punched and
shoved repeatedly.

No formal caution
was made.
You can't be sure
about this.

Yes, I can-- I was there;
I witnessed it.

I saw the whole thing.
This is a car crash.

Professor Stoddart

Was hacked apart.

If Dan had justification

For suspecting
frank Sutter did that,

Then he had good reason to use

Overwhelming force
in the arrest.

Are you trying to persuade me,
governor,

Or are you rehearsing
for a judge?

Look, if your sheriff

Is anywhere near
those interviews,

All the interview evidence
will be deemed inadmissible.

You're a lawyer;
you should know that.

You want to conduct
the interviews.

Yes, I do.

To identify whose blood
is on frank's t-shirt,

We need to make
a DNA comparison.

I don't have time to send
samples to the mainland.

I don't have the equipment
or the necessary skills.

What about
the biology department
at the research institute?

Stoddart's department.
They would need tissue

From professor
Stoddart as well.

An eyebrow follicle--
that is usually

What we send to the forensic
lab on the mainland.

It doesn't hurt

When you yank it
out of the head.

Although, obviously,

In this case...

I made sandwiches
for everyone.

I had to do something.

I know.

You don't know.

Who did you arrest?

At the hotel?

Frank Sutter.

A search and rescue pilot.

Why is he a suspect?

Eric...

Tell me.

I found a garment.

His. Covered in blood.

Look...

...This must be
just about impossible

For you.

What are you doing?

We need a DNA sample
from Stoddart.

Match the blood on
the t-shirt to Stoddart,

And we have him.

Good, I'll give that
to Petra.

No.

Chain of evidence, Hildur.

I took the sample, I
give the sample. Dan,

You have to stand aside.

I'm not going to stand aside.

Morton will do the interviews.

You can't be present.

You assaulted
frank Sutter.

He killed charlie.

If he's the killer,

Then he could go free
because of you.

Do you understand this?

Thank you.

There you go.

I'm famished.

Dig in.

Mmm.

You not hungry?
I'm okay.

Do you not like ribs?
No, I do--

Totally-- just, today,
they're just a bit too...

...Chest cavity.

I'm sorry.

Natalie.

I need you to do

A quantitative PCR
on some fluid stains.

And then a capillary
electrophoresis.

We'd like you to
cross-check it

With the DNA from
an eyebrow follicle.

Is this a blood swab?
Yes.

Whose blood?

That is what we have
to establish and...

As fast as we can.

The professor's?

I'm not allowed to say.

The lab's not forensically
accredited, is it? No.

Any results that we give
you wouldn't be admissible

As evidence.
I understand.

But we just need to know
if there's a blood match.

Five, six hours, tops.

We'll have a result
for you in five.

Okay.

Red wine or white wine?

That is the conundrum.

Exactly. Is it meat or fish?

I decided that...

Rosé would be a
suitable compromise.

My mum is gonna
have kittens.

She resolutely refuses
to embrace any non-British grub.

She does that whole
expat Marmite

And baked bean thing.
Well,

I think if you can swallow
Marmite,

Then you can manage minke whale.

Okay, just don't tell her
it's whale, Markus.

See if she likes it
and then say.

Okay.

Want some stew, mum?

Hmm?

Thank you.

Oh, hello, Markus.

Doc.

Markus has brought a starter.

So, Margaret,

I hear you were brought in
to check up on frank Sutter.

I'm not surprised
they arrested him.

He's a violent man.

I don't talk
about my patients.

Shirley is the one for gossip.

Oh, you're wrong
about that.

Shirley
doesn't gossip.

She tells everybody what
is happening in town.

She doesn't exaggerate
or embellish,

And everybody trusts her.

I noticed this, and
I understood something,

Something quite
exceptional.

In this town, your daughter is
the one person everybody loves.

How's your whale, mum?

Taq polymerase.

This is going into PCR
for four hours.

Can you prep
the eyebrow follicle?

We'll run it alongside.
Yep.

They do not look right,
these reindeer fetuses.

What is wrong with them?

It's hermaphroditism.

Male and female sex organs
developing simultaneously.

They're all
spontaneous aborts.

What is causing this?
Well,

That's what we're working
to find out.

Are you in any pain, frank?

Did you know professor
Charles Stoddart?

No.
You never met him?

Never.
Okay.

Didn't know him, never met him,
didn't kill him.

Can you tell me how your
t-shirt got covered in blood?

My little boy was sick.

Dr. Allerdyce diagnosed mumps.

Liam had been sick in bed
for two days.

Friday night I was at home
with him all evening.

Mm-hmm.
I went to his bedroom
to check on him.

He'd gotten up out of bed
and was lying on the floor.

I picked him up. I noticed
that the swelling in his throat

Had gone down
and he was covered in blood.

The swelling had ruptured.

I carried him
to the bathroom.

He was dopey,
half-awake.

I put him
in the shower,

Checked him all over.

He started talking for the first
time since he'd been ill.

I gave him a wash
and put him back to bed.

The t-shirt I was wearing
was covered in blood.

It was ruined,
so I threw it in the bin.

Didn't think about it.
It was just a t-shirt.

Jules came home.

Liam was seeming a lot better.

She made macaroni and cheese
for the three of us.

So the blood

That was all over the t-shirt,
then, was your son's blood?

Yes.
Okay. So where did
that blood come from?

From lacerations,
from cuts, from... What?

I told you,
the swelling had ruptured.

The swelling in
his throat...

Yes.
Had ruptured?

Yes.

That's a lot of blood.

What's your point?
Well, the point is that
that's so much blood and then

The bleeding ceased,
just out of the blue,

Which is unusual.

But he was hemorrhaging,

And then it just stopped.

And then he was fine,

And then he ate
macaroni and cheese.

That's unusual.

Why did you leave the army?

I'd done five years
in Afghanistan.

I missed my wife.
I missed my son.

So you brought them here.

That's right.

But now you and your wife
are separated.

And that's none
of your business.

Fair enough.

You know, I look
at pictures of, uh,

Helicopter squadrons
in the British army,

And I see all these
white, freckled...

Uh, hooray harry...

Or Henry or
whatever-whatever it is...

Fellas, you know, British
army officer class.

But what I...
You know what I don't see?

I don't see black faces.

I don't see you.

So it's very impressive
that you, uh, achieved

The status that you
did in the army.

You have a glowing
commendation

From your superior
officer here.

But then,
out of the blue...

You have a central
retinal vein occlusion,

And you go blind
while you were flying.

So you didn't choose
to leave the army.

You were discharged.

Yeah.

Well, that must have
been very frustrating.

I mean, all that achievement,
all that hard work,

All those years, just gone
in the blink of an eye.

No pun intended.

It has never reoccurred.

And doctors say,
with the medication I take,

It never will.

But it wasn't on your medical
records when you applied

For search and
rescue here, was it?

Look, there is no connection
between me leaving the army

And Stoddart getting killed.
None.

Well, the DNA test
will give us a result,

And either it will
be your son's blood

And you'll be released to
pursue a, uh, wrongful arrest

And assault charge against
sheriff Anderssen,

Or it will be stoddart's blood

And you'll be charged
with his murder.

Well, DNA doesn't lie,
does it?

You're right.

It never does.

Hey.
Hey.

Did the search of the house
give us anything?

No, nothing.

Right, we need
to bring in the wife.

She's staying with her son
all the time.

He's very sick.

What the hell
am I gonna tell her?

Is Trish okay?

No, Hildy,
Trish is not okay.

She's in pieces.

Frank has said
that he found Liam

On the floor of his bedroom,
covered in blood.

And that was why

Frank's t-shirt
was covered in blood.

Did you not know that?

No.

Frank didn't tell you

That your son had
bled all over himself?

No.

Why do you think he
didn't tell you that?

Uh... Frank didn't say anything
about any blood.

We-we went...

We took Liam to the hospital
when he started to scream.

Why was he screaming?

'cause he...
'cause he had frostbite.

- Frostbite?
- Where

Did he have frostbite?

Uh, on his feet.

On his feet? How did he get
frostbite on his feet?

He must have
gone outside.
But how?

Where were you
when he went outside?

I'd left the house.
I'd left him with frank.

What time was this?

Se-seven-ish.

But frank was
at home with Liam?

Uh...

Yeah...

Yes or no?

Frank went out.

You lied about that night.

Friday night.

Between 7:00

And 7:30, you went out.

You left the house, and went...

...And you met a woman.

Who was the woman that you met?

Frank,

The woman that you met--

Who was she?

Elena Ledesma.

The woman I met
was Elena Ledesma.

Where did you go
and what did you do?

Excuse me.

We went to an empty building,
and we fucked.

Dad? Dad?

Dad?

What?

There's this thing outside.

What?

Wait. Wait.
Shh, shh.

Dad?

Dad?

Hey, it's all right.

It's just a reindeer,
chewing on our guy ropes.

He got a bigger fright
than I did.

Carrie,

If there's reindeer around, that
means there won't be any bears.

Not for miles
and miles and miles.

Now, that means we're safe.

Safe and snug,

Watched over by the reindeer.

Come on.
Come and have a look. Come on.

Come on.
Come and have a look.

There. You see?

There's nothing there.

Come on.
Come on, get inside.

You must have been young when

You had Liam.

I was 17...

And he was so sweet to me.

He completely convinced me
to marry him and have the baby.

My mum didn't approve.

So didn't...

You said you'd... Airlift Liam
if he didn't get any better.

Yes, I did.

That's the most kind
and considerate thing

Anybody said to me since
we got off the plane.

You're a good man, Dan.

Excuse me, Jules.

Thank you
for coming, Elena.

Governor Odegard
and DCI Morton

Have some questions
they want to ask you.

Ingrid will show you
to the interview room.

I know where
the interview room is.

She's so beautiful.

What did you do when you went
to frank's house that night?

I...

I threw a snowball
at his window.

Why?

To make him come to the window

So he could see me and...

Follow me.

Where did you
want to lead him?

A car repair workshop.

Why did you want
to take him there?

Um...

That morning, I met his wife,
where I work,

And her little boy was ill,

So I... I made a decision
I wouldn't be with frank.

And I just wanted to talk to him

And tell him that we weren't
going to be together again.

So, you told him that.

Well, I wanted
to tell him... That,

But it didn't work out.

In what way?

He told us that you had sex.

He's telling you the truth.

Okay, but you said
that you went there

To see him to
break up with him.

But instead, we had sex.

You changed your mind?

Okay.

Is your relationship with
Dan Anderssen also sexual?

No.

No.

No, I have no relationship
with him.

No.

That's good.

When sheriff Anderssen
arrested frank Sutter,

He arrested him
in your hotel room.

Mm-hmm.

He was in the shower.

And you

Got between them?

Yes.

Why do you think they
had that violent confrontation?

Why do you think
the sheriff was...

So violent?

I don't know.

I don't know
what's in the sheriff's mind.

Are you afraid
to talk about this?

No.

Are you frightened
to talk to me?

No.

Good. That's good.

Excuse me.

She says
she doesn't have a relationship

With sheriff Anderssen.
So, she doesn't.

Was there
some other connection?

Could you get me
her file, please?

What file?

The file that you have on her.

It's in Dan's desk.

Well, could you get it?

Fuck you.

Eight years ago,
Ricardo Scelsi.

Stabbed through the right eye.

Cause of death-- scissors...

Into the brain.

Stabbed directly through
the orbit of the right eye.

Yes.

Your fingerprints
were on the scissors,

As were the fingerprints
of your lover.

Yes.

But nobody knows which one
of you killed Ricardo Scelsi.

Nobody.
You do.

Nobody knows.

Esmerelda is a beautiful name.

I'm Elena now.

You can change your name,

You can change where you live,

Go someplace
where no one knows you,

No one recognizes you,

But you can't change
what you did.

I wouldn't change it if I could.

Shirley,

There can't be any closer bond
between two people than this.

You're very beautiful.

You are.

I would never say
such a thing casually.

You're beautiful.

And I want us
to do this together--

This adventure.

You changing.

Becoming ever more beautiful.

This is not a fanciful,

Whimsical thing-- it's a deep
and powerful desire.

It will bring us
together, completely.

And you have a start
on most women.

In my heart, I see you
as a special beauty.

Truly.

Okay.
Yeah.

- Okay.
- Okay?

Mm-hmm.

Good girl.

That's very nice.

I'll cool it.

Very good.
There you go.

Mm.

You're beautiful.

No more.

No, just one more.

I'm sleepy.
One more.

Markus, please,
I've had enough.

Okay, one more.

She killed a man.

Spent seven years
in prison for his murder.

Read the thing.
Joint enterprise.

She and her lover
killed a man.

Who tried to kill her.

She was harassed and abused
and threatened

By this man.

And you kept this from me.

She has a new identity.

She has a new life here.

It is proper procedure,
the new identity, the...
Dan, please. Please.

You treated this woman's

History as your personal secret.

To protect her.

To protect her?

She's a convicted murderer.

And you kept this fact
secret from me.

From me...

In order to protect her.

Are you in
a relationship with her?

No.

Don't lie to me, Dan.

I'm not lying to you, Hildur.

I don't have any sort of
relationship with Elena.

None at all.

You know,
when I was in prison

I met this man.

A man who tried to help me.

A psychiatrist.

Um... He said to me that

Everyone is
made out of many...

Atomos... A-atoms?

You understand?

Atoms. Atoms, yes.
Atoms. Atoms.

Atoms, yeah.

So for a human being,

It takes seven years

Before every atom,
one by one,

Is replaced with a new one.

So that means
that after seven years,

This person...

Is no longer that.

So you're saying that Elena

Is a completely different
person than esmerelda.

That's what you mean.

Everything is changed.

That's how you console yourself.

That you've changed,
that you're different.

You're not that person anymore.
Somebody else did it.

You didn't do it.

I'm not her.

Not anymore.

But you did do it again.

I mean, you found
another stooge--

Frank Sutter--

And you and frank Sutter

Killed professor Stoddart.
No.

No, I did none of this.

You what?
I did none of this.

Billy Pettigrew.

When I asked you, the other day,

If he had stayed at that hotel--

The day I met you--

You blushed like
you're doing right now.

Billy Pettigrew.

He was eaten by a polar bear.

You knew him, though.

Why is he
asking her this?

I served him coffee
like I serve you coffee.

Eugene Morton.

See? If I say my name,
you don't blush.

Why the fuck is he asking her
about billy Pettigrew now?

Because...

Pettigrew's
the reason he's here.

It matches?
Blood on the t-shirt

Is charlie
stoddart's blood.

That's beyond doubt.

Beyond doubt?

The DNA is the same,
so that's charlie's blood.

Right.
But how it got there
or who killed him

Is absolutely separate.
All we can tell you
is the simple fact.

Nothing we've found can offer
any kind of explanation.

Right. Thanks.

It's him.

Frank killed him.

Why would he do that?

Well, it must
be to do with Elena.
No.

She's lying to protect him.

They're one another's alibi.

Nah, there's no motive.
There's no reason.

We're still trying
to find a motive.

She says
she was with frank

At the time of the murder.

Now, we know it's charlie
stoddart's blood, yes?

No. No.
That proves he murdered
charlie, theref...

...Therefore she's lying.
No, she's not lying.

No?

If that's not the case,

What is the case, sheriff?

Do you know something
that we don't?

Is there some kind
of explanation

Here that only
you can see?

You know her criminal record.

No, she didn't do this!

You're besotted.

They think you and Elena
murdered Stoddart.

The blood they say was
stoddart's was the blood

They think you're
infatuated with Elena.
I washed off my own son.

Enough to kill a man over.
Are you?
He was laying there, so...

Are you, frank?!
Helpless, alone.

My son!

Covered in blood.

I thought he
was gonna die.

That's what I thought, so I
panicked, I panicked badly.

But I didn't do it.

I didn't kill Stoddart.

I know you didn't.

The professor
told me this word.

Icelandic word
for elation.

What, Glethi?

Glethi, that's it.

Sort of what
I'm feeling now.

You and me, we could have helped
catch the person who did this.

Yeah.

I want to get drunk
or something.

Yeah, you should do that.

I haven't got
any drink at mine.

Well, I have.

Come to mine.

Okay.

What are you looking for?

I believe frank.
I believe frank and Elena.

I need to prove they didn't
do this terrible thing.

What was Liam wearing
when you left him?

Um, just pajamas.

Do you know where they are?

No, I couldn't
find them.
Think, Jules.

I don't know.

Under the bed?

No, I-I would have
found them there.

Ah...
Dan, talk to me,
what's going on?

In the little boy's bedroom.

Covered in blood.

Caked in dried blood.

Frank was
telling the truth.

The frostbite.

Something terrible
happened to him.

The little boy was there when
charlie Stoddart was murdered.

He was right there.

Dan?

The window was open.

Liam's bedroom window.

Someone took him.

At first I thought it
was a bone fragment.

It's a fingernail.
Someone

Must have put that there!

That is not him!

Don't touch me!

My feet are burning!

Pettigrew made the scan
that was in this folder.

Now the scan is gone
and pettigrew is dead.

Where would a shaman
lay his hands

On half a pint
of murderer's blood?

Beyond human understanding,

But that is what happened.

No witness, no motive,

No crime.

We have the murderer for sure.

I want to go home.

I just came to say
one thing to you.

Stay the fuck away from me.