Save Me (2018–…): Season 2, Episode 2 - Episode #2.2 - full transcript
17 months, 3 weeks,
5...nearly 6 days.
What's that? I don't-
Yeah, you do.
Names, addresses, numbers.
'Write, the best you know.'
I do do it on purpose.
Where else did you give them?
'This is Gideon.
Please leave a message.'
We will catch up...one way or other.
'You up the Palm later?'
Why would we be?
You lot are full of shit.
Carry on.
Who this?
I need your keys.
What's going on?I can't tell you.
'If anybody asks, Zeets or anyone,
I'm just running an errand.'
I asked you to stay with him today.
So where is he, Goz?
(CHEERING)
I'm gonna give this one
one more night.
Proper goodbye.
I just want to know
why Grace is upstairs
in my mum's bedroom, please, mate.
(KNOCKING)
Gideon Charles was killed yesterday,
Nelly.
Was he?
How old were you, Grace?
13½. Just over.
And how would you describe your
relationship with Gideon Charles?
Er...he was...my boyfriend.
For my 14th birthday,
he took me to Oblix at the Shard.
And then after, there was
a canal boat he took me to,
over by Victoria Park.
And, like, that was one.
You were 14 years old.
That's when Gideon Charles
first had sex with you?
Yeah.
Just.
Did there come a point when Mr
Charles introduced you to drugs?
Yeah, yeah, he loved it.
We did, like, coke...
..brown, weed, poppers...
he said he wanted to find out
what worked best with me.
And how did Gideon Charles
respond to your addiction?
Fed it.
I had to prove I loved him more than
the brown before I could get any.
How were you expected to do that?
As the judge said, Grace,
take as much time as you need.
Erm...
We call it erm...
the dancing room.
(INHALES AND EXHALES DEEPLY)
Just that the wallpaper's
got ballerinas on it.
It's where the first time was.
They took me there.
And a friend of his showed up.
I know him now - Paul.
Gid gave me a touch of H.
Then...started with me.
He said Paul was just gonna watch.
But next thing...
Paul's reaching in.
I said I weren't into that cos...
..Paul's nasty.
But Gid said I had to.
He said...
He said if I loved him then I would.
And I did, so...
You loved your boyfriend Gid
very much, didn't you?
I suppose so, yeah.
I thought I did.
I'm clean now. I...
I ain't been on it...
since Nelly found me.
Were there other houses, Grace?
Other men?
Other friends of Gideon Charles
that he handed you over to?
(SOBS)
We have to hear your answer, Grace.
Yeah.
Were there other girlfriends, Grace?
Sometimes, like...
six or seven of us.
(SOBS)
(INHALES AND EXHALES DEEPLY)
(SOBS)
I believe it would be best if we
allowed Grace some time to regroup.
Agreed.
We'll come back tomorrow, Grace.
Please be upstanding for the court.
(COURT RISES)
(SIRENS BLARE IN DISTANCE)
'What does it make
you feel like, that?'
Honestly?
'Honestly is why I'm asking.'
Think about jumping up and down
five or six times on his bollocks
and then moving on from there.
Every time I'm anywhere near
or hear what she's saying.
You see, Jo...
Every word of Grace...
..everything I hear done to her,
I feel he done to Jody.
(SNIFFS)
(EXHALES DEEPLY)
I thought this was just showing up,
hoping we'd hear something helpful
about Jodes, but...
(SIGHS HEAVILY)
What it takes, Nelly.
Like today...
It takes almost everything.
It's enough that I'm there.
You know? You don't have to.
'No, we're not ducking out.'
I know.
'I want you to think that.'
Until he's up on the stand, we won't
know if he got anywhere near Jody.
'And you've got more than enough
for this.
He won't ever take everything.
You...'
You're like Mary Poppins's bag.
You know?
It's endless
what you've got inside you.
Like the TARDIS, am I?
Yeah. Yeah, well...
he's a bird now too, so...yeah.
(LAUGHS)
Night, Nelly.
You too, darling.
You too.
# THE SPECIALS: Stereotype
# He's just a stereotype
# He drinks his age in pints
# He has girls every night
# But he doesn't really exist
GRACE: I'm not doing it.
You don't understand.
(RAISED VOICES ARGUING)
What's up?
I'll meet you inside.
(KNOCKS)
What's going on?
Are you all right?
I know we ain't meant
to have words together but...
everything's all right, yeah?
I ain't going back in there.
Why, what's happened?
You can't make me.
The shit that
they're making me talk about.
How I loved him up.
It's embarrassing!
There's shit I want to forget
and they want to dig around in it
and make out
it's something it's not.
And she's gone to get Mr Liu,
has she?
I don't care,
I said I ain't doing it.
All right, yeah.
All right, what?
You only want me in there so you can
get Jody. "All right" fucking what?
It ain't just that.
Don't go on like that with me.
I can give a shit about my kid and
still be a mate to you, can't I?
Have I not already proved that?
Grace...
It means he wins.
I don't care.
No, it means all and everything
you said yesterday,
stuff you've told just me,
he gets to say it's bollocks.
He gets to say you made it all up
and he's done nothing wrong to you.
That's what he's gonna have
over you forever, amen.
I know why you're worried.
But that's what
Mr Liu's in there for.
To jump in in case he gets too lairy.
Same as he was there for me,
same as he's there for you.
And if anything else...
..that's what Nelly's for.
Even when you can't see me,
I'm there.
I won't let anyone trouble you again.
You know that, yeah?
I want to start by asking you
about Patrick Lowerty.
You probably know him as Paddy,
do you?
Your mother's boyfriend
for the last ten or so years.
The father to your younger brother
and sister, isn't he?
What about him?
When my client took you out
to dinner that first time,
you said it was a date
at the Oblix at The Shard.
But it was in fact the All Bar One
in Forest Hill, wasn't it?
It weren't bloody Forest Hill.
Why's she lying?
It weren't Forest Hill.
Why has the mention of Patrick
Lowerty upset you so much, Grace?
Does it remind you of the morning
you were so upset on the train
that Mr Charles offered
to take you out and cheer you up?
The day he took you to the All Bar
One in Forest Hill.
It wasn't fucking Forest Hill
and I ain't here about Paddy.
Your Honour...
Can you shut up about him?
Could you remind Miss Corman-Clyde
that this is a vulnerable witness?
Grace, just answer
the questions asked.
You told Mr Charles that Patrick
Lowerty assaulted you that morning.
Can you tell us how, please?
I know you don't want me to.
But I have to tell the court you
accused Lowerty of molesting you.
Do you understand why?
I have to present the very detailed
account you gave to the police,
stating that Patrick Lowerty
cornered you after a shower
and attempted to touch you
inappropriately.
I have to do that
because I have to also present
your subsequent retraction.
The retraction where you admit
to making up the allegations,
after your mother refused
your demands for money.
Stop her talking about this shit!
These allegations against Mr Charles
began when he too refused
your demands for money.
I never asked either of them
for money!
I never demanded money from anyone.
I never fucking did.
I should have done, though.
May I request a break?
I don't want to be here any more.
Settle down.Fuck off!
Let her take a break!
Order.
Why have you made me come here?
Why? I thought you said you wasn't
gonna let her bother me?
What's this, then? What's this?
I'm gonna go now.
You fucking shit, Gideon!
You fucking wait!
I think it is a good idea
if we adjourn.
Did you know she was gonna
come at her like that?
Did you know about
the mum's boyfriend, yeah?
I don't have to explain your place
in all this again, do I, Nelly?
Wait here.
I've got a case to salvage.
Tell her I'm sorry.
Can you, please?
What's happened?
She's run off.
Which way did she go?
She can't have gone far.
(DOOR CLOSES)
We can find her.
(BUZZ OF CHATTER)
(VOICES ARGUING IN DISTANCE)
JENNIFER: 'Are you able to call?'
I have the use of a rental.
Made yourself at home, then?
Please be there tomorrow, Jen Jen.
Please don't call me that.
Christ, don't call me that again.
'I just meant I..
I just...'
If Delia knows anything,
and you have to assume she does,
it could have swung
in our favour today.
My favour, sorry. Mine.
'It shouldn't be much longer
for you is what I meant.
But...
if they find her or not,
I still need you there tomorrow.'
I don't know if I can.
'Please, Jennifer. You promised.'
The faces, the way they look at me
and judge me.
I don't know if I can bear it.
'You promised you'd see me through
the court case.'Yes, I know.
'Didn't you explain
how imperative it was
that you were
there all the way through?
I did not do
what that evil little...'
..what she's saying I did.
I allowed her to manipulate me.
She used herself.
She exploited a situation.
She barely seems capable.
'She is. You'll see.
Come tomorrow and you'll see.'
Could be the end of it, Jennifer.
And then I won't ask
anything more from you.
(EXHALES DEEPLY)
Good night, son.
Good night.
Did you tell Claire what's gone on?
I left a message.
Still nothing from Grace?
Do you think he's had this done?
Gideon has?
I think she's run off.
He's paid someone.
Paid someone?
Well, he could afford it.
I know people
who would do it for a bucket.
Come here.
Less, depending. What?
She's run off.
That's as much as this is.
Hang about.
It's the best I've felt all day.
Just a minute more, please.
Chow mein from the other night,
yeah?
Yeah.
Means the world, Zeets.
This.
How we've been since you moved
in here and let me come with you.
You and me just...
..getting on with it.
It means the world.
And I love the fucking shit
out of it.
So there you go.
(TRAIN RATTLES PAST)
Please be upstanding in the court.
Mr Liu.
Your Honour.
The prosecution finds itself
unable to proceed,
as our main prosecution witness,
Miss Morvella, is not available.
Police have undertaken enquiries
to locate her-What's going on?
Further, I received a call from Miss
Morvella in which she made it clear
she is no longer willing
to support the prosecution's case.
The evidence we believed she would
provide was central to our case.
Without her, the Crown
finds itself with no option
other than to offer no evidence
on all counts.
Would your foreperson please rise?
On Count One:
Sexual activity with a child,
contrary to Section 9
of the Sexual Offences Act 2003,
do you find the defendant
guilty or not guilty?
Not guilty.
On Count Two:
Causing or inciting a child
to engage in sexual activity,
contrary to Section 10
of the Sexual Offences Act 2003,
do you find the defendant
guilty or not guilty?
Not guilty.
On Count Three: Arranging and
facilitating a child's sex offence
contrary to Section 14
of the Sexual Offences Act 2003,
do you find the defendant
guilty or not guilty?
Not guilty.'This is Grace.
Give me a reason to call you back.'
I have no option but to declare
the prosecution discontinued.
So what's your plan now, then?
You on your way to celebrate with
that sick fuck old man of yours?
Please, leave me alone.
What's it gonna be, dinner?
Do a bottle of wine,
some After Eights
and then fuck his dick
like a 12-year-old?
Or offer up your shrivelled nastiness
and see if he's drunk enough?
Get away from us!
Tell him I ain't done with him!
This isn't me. I did not choose it!
Tell him I will fucking end him!
Tell him yourself.
Please.
(ENGINE STARTS)
(CAR DRIVES AWAY)
(DOOR BELL RINGS)
Let's go away, get away somewhere.
Where?
As far as you'll let me take you.
Somewhere you can...
..kick off your shoes
and fill your lungs up.
And figure out what to do next.
Is that what I should be doing now?
What comes next? A holiday?
I didn't mean...
(SIGHS)
Can we not get away?
Just... Just far enough...
..to have a look at ourselves.
To see what that might do for us.
It won't change
what we come back to.
I listened to that girl
in the court.
(SNIFFS)
I listened to her
and all I could see
was the lie
that he'd ever been attracted to me.
Ever.
Me.
He wanted to marry me.
To love, honour and cherish me.
Forsaking all others.
As anything more than a...
..well, a cover.
For appearances.
Birthdays, holidays, Christmas.
Friends gathered, our family, his.
Hands held, lips kissed.
The weight of him on me.
Inside me.
The passion I thought we had...
..I thought he had for me.
You thought he had.
Our life.
Our whole life.
Is my name Chloe?
The lie told so often I believed it.
We all fucking believed it.
(BUZZ OF CHATTER)
He said to say, made me promise.
You lit a candle?
For you and for Jody.
You know what my mum's like.
Hm.
I keep her up to date,
I tell her everything, how you are.
You're still her favourite.
For fuck's sake.
It breaks her heart what's going on.
Candles are for the dead.
Gonna make that your last?
I mean, that's right, innit it, Goz?
How is it my last?
Got an early start.
Candles are prayers. You light one
when a prayer's been said.
You can say one for anyone.
It don't have to be for the dead.
She just wants you to know you're
in her thoughts.
All of ours, mate.
Jesus.
Fuck!
Fuck!
You're right, Stace,
we should call time on this.
I didn't come here for a wake.
She is not dead.
We know that.Then fucking get them
to act like it!
Jesus!
Let's stick on some Shalamar, top us
up and let's make a night of it!
Come on, let's make it
a night to remember!
Don't do that, Nelly.
What did you say?
Don't do that.
We are all in here for you,
no one else.
You're commiserating.
You're feeling sorry
and lighting candles for my kid.
And she's not dead.
She's not. This is not the end of it!
You've made that clear, mate.
And then some.
(SNIFFS)
Come on, mate.
Come on.
I'm all right.
Nelly.
Mate, come on.
He's better left alone.
All right?
(DISTANT CHATTER AND LAUGHTER)
(BALL BEING KICKED AGAINST RAILINGS)
(SNORING)
Your mouth smells.
(GRUNTS)
It's your nose that smells, so...
(SNORTS) ..ta-da.
Tell him you meant
his breath stinks.
Your breath stinks.
School bag, shoes.
Nelly won't be long.
Right, it's me this morning?
You've got time for a shower.
Mm-hm.
Did something happen
with Stace last night?
I dunno, why?
Got a group text asking if someone
could stick a foot up your arse
on first sight.
(CHUCKLES)
(CHUCKLES) Here!
Ow!
How you doing?
I'm good.
Hey, Samson.
Sorry I wouldn't go to court.
I heard you tried
to drink yourself sober.
Failed.
What?
You stood with Melon cos he knew,
yeah?
What are you on about?
I went off at his wife,
that Gideon's.
I roared at her
and she pulled me out,
said it weren't her,
she had nothing to do with it.
I mean, like, none of it.
But she'd know, wouldn't she?
Either way.
You did.
Er...
I'm gonna be late, Nelly.
I'm not saying anything
against Melon.
The opposite.
What have you gone cold for, Bern?
I'm just asking.
I've seen where you just asking
can end up.
That's at a distance
from your shit, Nelly.
Just asking, Bernie.
I'm just answering, Nelly.
Come on, Sam.
(CHILDREN LAUGHING)
(BELL RINGS)
Go on.
# We all do things we shouldn't do
# But I ain't gonna stop loving you
# GABRIELS: Loyalty
# God himself can't deny
(BLEEPING)
# We all do things we shouldn't do
AUTOMATED VOICE:
'This is Greenwich.'
# Ain't gonna stop loving you
(CHILDREN SQUEALING AND LAUGHING)
# Shallow grave, roses too
# This thing of ours,
we know the score
# We all do things we shouldn't do
(SIREN BLARES)
# I ain't gonna stop loving you
# Ain't gonna stop loving you
(TV PLAYING)
Hey.
You're early.
Early?
Early for what?
(TV CONTINUES PLAYING)
(CAN IS OPENED)
(TV OFF)
It's been like every day for the
past I don't know how many days.
You don't come back till
you're sure I'm making zeds.
It ain't like that.
You're avoiding me.Avoiding?
For what?
Come.
Come.
I... (EXHALES)
I don't hate us.
It's taken me a bit by surprise.
Just um...
Just give me a minute.
Yeah.
(KISSES)
Happy birthday!
Jesus! (GRUNTS)
Go on.
Happy birthday.
Thank you.
Hello.
Cards.
Who's that?
You.
(LAUGHS)
Oh, hello.
"If you're the tree,
then I'm the soil helping
you to grow and stand tall."
He wrote that himself.
Yeah?
Yeah.
Thank you. What's this?
Mummy said it's a massage.
Yeah? What's one of them?
It's a massage.
What, one of them happy ending ones?
I knew you'd say that.
(LAUGHS)
Get him!
Ooh! Oww!
(GROANS AND LAUGHS)
(BELL RINGS)
Come on, then.
See you later.
Bye.
Happy birthday, big 'un.
Fucking very much, mate.
Free for the day
if you want mess about.
You're not my type, Goz,
I keep telling you.
I meant venture out,
grab a pint at the end.
Have you got wheels?
I can get 'em, yeah. Why?
Then I would like to venture, yes.
But I got to make a quick stop first.
How do you know
that's Gideon's house?
First thing they ask you in court:
"Are you so and so
from such and such address?"
I knew from then.
Gonna give your whole day
over to this?
As much as it takes, yeah.
(SNIFFS)
(KEYPAD BLEEPS)
(DOOR UNLOCKS)
What's up?
That's the sister.
What are you gonna do?
We're gonna wait.
We're gonna follow her.
We're gonna follow?
We are if you get a move on.
(ENGINE STARTS)
(BREATHES HEAVILY)
There you go.
What now, then?
I want her on her own.
Not worried that sounds
a bit stalkery, no?
Following women around London
without them knowing,
siting outside their houses?
Ain't after her or them.
After him.
I'm just saying, yeah?
Had to, it felt...
iffy all of a sudden.
(ENGINE STARTS)
Mind if I say sorry?
I don't know where he is.
But you know where he might be.
I don't-Push comes to it, where
he might go or who he might call.
Let's say three -
names, addresses, numbers.
Like, I don't know,
his life depended on it.
He had a journalist waiting outside.
He threatened to throw me to him.
I've been trying to call you
to warn you. Where have you been?
GIDEON: 'He called me'.
What did he say?
'You gave him my number?'
I had to!
I'm coming. I'll take you
wherever you need to go.
(BOTTLES CLINKING)
Right.
Take me to Leytonstone.
Wanstead, really.
I'll get you some directions.
Very good of you to drive me.
Whose house is this?
A friend.
Who hasn't given up on me.
(DOOR OPENS)
(BREATHES HEAVILY)
(BOTTLES CLINKING)
(BREATHES HEAVILY)
What are you doing in here?
What?
I don't want you in here.
Y-Y-You have to go. Just...
(GASPS)
You have to go.
(GASPS)
I don't want you in here.
Just go.
You have to go.
(GASPS AND SOBS)
Go.
Just go.
RINGTONE: 'You what? You what?
You what? You what? You what?'
Who this?
You have to help me. He's here.
Please come now, please.
I don't know what to do.
I'm sorry I let you down. I'm sorry.
(SOBS) Please.
(BREATHES HEAVILY)'
'Where are you?
Can you text me where you are?'
(DOG BARKS IN DISTANCE)
Oh, shit.
Oh, no.
No, no. No, no, no.
Oh, please, please.
Oh, fuck.
Shit.
Shit!
(BREATHES HEAVILY)
I didn't do it.
I swear, Nelly, I didn't do it.
I swear.What happened?
I just came downstairs and that's
how he was.It's all right.
I swear-
Stop, please. Stop, stop.
OK.
Anything that's yours here,
go and get it.
It's upstairs.
Then go upstairs!
Get everything because
we need to get out of here.
Go!
Fuck.
I thought there'd be stuff there -
pictures, videos.
What he made me do.
If it was there,
I wanted to find it.
Prove to that lawyer
I weren't lying.
And I heard him downstairs
with someone else.
Someone else? Who?
I dunno.
I came down and...
..it was just him there like that.
Um...just rest back.
There?
It's the best place.
Is it?
It is.
(KNOCK AT DOOR)
Stay here.
(KNOCKING PERSISTS)
(KNOCKING AT DOOR)
Can you lot not hear?
What?
Yeah. Yeah, come in.
You're a bit late if you've come
to chump out my cake.
'Gideon Charles was killed
yesterday, Nelly.'
'Was he?'
5...nearly 6 days.
What's that? I don't-
Yeah, you do.
Names, addresses, numbers.
'Write, the best you know.'
I do do it on purpose.
Where else did you give them?
'This is Gideon.
Please leave a message.'
We will catch up...one way or other.
'You up the Palm later?'
Why would we be?
You lot are full of shit.
Carry on.
Who this?
I need your keys.
What's going on?I can't tell you.
'If anybody asks, Zeets or anyone,
I'm just running an errand.'
I asked you to stay with him today.
So where is he, Goz?
(CHEERING)
I'm gonna give this one
one more night.
Proper goodbye.
I just want to know
why Grace is upstairs
in my mum's bedroom, please, mate.
(KNOCKING)
Gideon Charles was killed yesterday,
Nelly.
Was he?
How old were you, Grace?
13½. Just over.
And how would you describe your
relationship with Gideon Charles?
Er...he was...my boyfriend.
For my 14th birthday,
he took me to Oblix at the Shard.
And then after, there was
a canal boat he took me to,
over by Victoria Park.
And, like, that was one.
You were 14 years old.
That's when Gideon Charles
first had sex with you?
Yeah.
Just.
Did there come a point when Mr
Charles introduced you to drugs?
Yeah, yeah, he loved it.
We did, like, coke...
..brown, weed, poppers...
he said he wanted to find out
what worked best with me.
And how did Gideon Charles
respond to your addiction?
Fed it.
I had to prove I loved him more than
the brown before I could get any.
How were you expected to do that?
As the judge said, Grace,
take as much time as you need.
Erm...
We call it erm...
the dancing room.
(INHALES AND EXHALES DEEPLY)
Just that the wallpaper's
got ballerinas on it.
It's where the first time was.
They took me there.
And a friend of his showed up.
I know him now - Paul.
Gid gave me a touch of H.
Then...started with me.
He said Paul was just gonna watch.
But next thing...
Paul's reaching in.
I said I weren't into that cos...
..Paul's nasty.
But Gid said I had to.
He said...
He said if I loved him then I would.
And I did, so...
You loved your boyfriend Gid
very much, didn't you?
I suppose so, yeah.
I thought I did.
I'm clean now. I...
I ain't been on it...
since Nelly found me.
Were there other houses, Grace?
Other men?
Other friends of Gideon Charles
that he handed you over to?
(SOBS)
We have to hear your answer, Grace.
Yeah.
Were there other girlfriends, Grace?
Sometimes, like...
six or seven of us.
(SOBS)
(INHALES AND EXHALES DEEPLY)
(SOBS)
I believe it would be best if we
allowed Grace some time to regroup.
Agreed.
We'll come back tomorrow, Grace.
Please be upstanding for the court.
(COURT RISES)
(SIRENS BLARE IN DISTANCE)
'What does it make
you feel like, that?'
Honestly?
'Honestly is why I'm asking.'
Think about jumping up and down
five or six times on his bollocks
and then moving on from there.
Every time I'm anywhere near
or hear what she's saying.
You see, Jo...
Every word of Grace...
..everything I hear done to her,
I feel he done to Jody.
(SNIFFS)
(EXHALES DEEPLY)
I thought this was just showing up,
hoping we'd hear something helpful
about Jodes, but...
(SIGHS HEAVILY)
What it takes, Nelly.
Like today...
It takes almost everything.
It's enough that I'm there.
You know? You don't have to.
'No, we're not ducking out.'
I know.
'I want you to think that.'
Until he's up on the stand, we won't
know if he got anywhere near Jody.
'And you've got more than enough
for this.
He won't ever take everything.
You...'
You're like Mary Poppins's bag.
You know?
It's endless
what you've got inside you.
Like the TARDIS, am I?
Yeah. Yeah, well...
he's a bird now too, so...yeah.
(LAUGHS)
Night, Nelly.
You too, darling.
You too.
# THE SPECIALS: Stereotype
# He's just a stereotype
# He drinks his age in pints
# He has girls every night
# But he doesn't really exist
GRACE: I'm not doing it.
You don't understand.
(RAISED VOICES ARGUING)
What's up?
I'll meet you inside.
(KNOCKS)
What's going on?
Are you all right?
I know we ain't meant
to have words together but...
everything's all right, yeah?
I ain't going back in there.
Why, what's happened?
You can't make me.
The shit that
they're making me talk about.
How I loved him up.
It's embarrassing!
There's shit I want to forget
and they want to dig around in it
and make out
it's something it's not.
And she's gone to get Mr Liu,
has she?
I don't care,
I said I ain't doing it.
All right, yeah.
All right, what?
You only want me in there so you can
get Jody. "All right" fucking what?
It ain't just that.
Don't go on like that with me.
I can give a shit about my kid and
still be a mate to you, can't I?
Have I not already proved that?
Grace...
It means he wins.
I don't care.
No, it means all and everything
you said yesterday,
stuff you've told just me,
he gets to say it's bollocks.
He gets to say you made it all up
and he's done nothing wrong to you.
That's what he's gonna have
over you forever, amen.
I know why you're worried.
But that's what
Mr Liu's in there for.
To jump in in case he gets too lairy.
Same as he was there for me,
same as he's there for you.
And if anything else...
..that's what Nelly's for.
Even when you can't see me,
I'm there.
I won't let anyone trouble you again.
You know that, yeah?
I want to start by asking you
about Patrick Lowerty.
You probably know him as Paddy,
do you?
Your mother's boyfriend
for the last ten or so years.
The father to your younger brother
and sister, isn't he?
What about him?
When my client took you out
to dinner that first time,
you said it was a date
at the Oblix at The Shard.
But it was in fact the All Bar One
in Forest Hill, wasn't it?
It weren't bloody Forest Hill.
Why's she lying?
It weren't Forest Hill.
Why has the mention of Patrick
Lowerty upset you so much, Grace?
Does it remind you of the morning
you were so upset on the train
that Mr Charles offered
to take you out and cheer you up?
The day he took you to the All Bar
One in Forest Hill.
It wasn't fucking Forest Hill
and I ain't here about Paddy.
Your Honour...
Can you shut up about him?
Could you remind Miss Corman-Clyde
that this is a vulnerable witness?
Grace, just answer
the questions asked.
You told Mr Charles that Patrick
Lowerty assaulted you that morning.
Can you tell us how, please?
I know you don't want me to.
But I have to tell the court you
accused Lowerty of molesting you.
Do you understand why?
I have to present the very detailed
account you gave to the police,
stating that Patrick Lowerty
cornered you after a shower
and attempted to touch you
inappropriately.
I have to do that
because I have to also present
your subsequent retraction.
The retraction where you admit
to making up the allegations,
after your mother refused
your demands for money.
Stop her talking about this shit!
These allegations against Mr Charles
began when he too refused
your demands for money.
I never asked either of them
for money!
I never demanded money from anyone.
I never fucking did.
I should have done, though.
May I request a break?
I don't want to be here any more.
Settle down.Fuck off!
Let her take a break!
Order.
Why have you made me come here?
Why? I thought you said you wasn't
gonna let her bother me?
What's this, then? What's this?
I'm gonna go now.
You fucking shit, Gideon!
You fucking wait!
I think it is a good idea
if we adjourn.
Did you know she was gonna
come at her like that?
Did you know about
the mum's boyfriend, yeah?
I don't have to explain your place
in all this again, do I, Nelly?
Wait here.
I've got a case to salvage.
Tell her I'm sorry.
Can you, please?
What's happened?
She's run off.
Which way did she go?
She can't have gone far.
(DOOR CLOSES)
We can find her.
(BUZZ OF CHATTER)
(VOICES ARGUING IN DISTANCE)
JENNIFER: 'Are you able to call?'
I have the use of a rental.
Made yourself at home, then?
Please be there tomorrow, Jen Jen.
Please don't call me that.
Christ, don't call me that again.
'I just meant I..
I just...'
If Delia knows anything,
and you have to assume she does,
it could have swung
in our favour today.
My favour, sorry. Mine.
'It shouldn't be much longer
for you is what I meant.
But...
if they find her or not,
I still need you there tomorrow.'
I don't know if I can.
'Please, Jennifer. You promised.'
The faces, the way they look at me
and judge me.
I don't know if I can bear it.
'You promised you'd see me through
the court case.'Yes, I know.
'Didn't you explain
how imperative it was
that you were
there all the way through?
I did not do
what that evil little...'
..what she's saying I did.
I allowed her to manipulate me.
She used herself.
She exploited a situation.
She barely seems capable.
'She is. You'll see.
Come tomorrow and you'll see.'
Could be the end of it, Jennifer.
And then I won't ask
anything more from you.
(EXHALES DEEPLY)
Good night, son.
Good night.
Did you tell Claire what's gone on?
I left a message.
Still nothing from Grace?
Do you think he's had this done?
Gideon has?
I think she's run off.
He's paid someone.
Paid someone?
Well, he could afford it.
I know people
who would do it for a bucket.
Come here.
Less, depending. What?
She's run off.
That's as much as this is.
Hang about.
It's the best I've felt all day.
Just a minute more, please.
Chow mein from the other night,
yeah?
Yeah.
Means the world, Zeets.
This.
How we've been since you moved
in here and let me come with you.
You and me just...
..getting on with it.
It means the world.
And I love the fucking shit
out of it.
So there you go.
(TRAIN RATTLES PAST)
Please be upstanding in the court.
Mr Liu.
Your Honour.
The prosecution finds itself
unable to proceed,
as our main prosecution witness,
Miss Morvella, is not available.
Police have undertaken enquiries
to locate her-What's going on?
Further, I received a call from Miss
Morvella in which she made it clear
she is no longer willing
to support the prosecution's case.
The evidence we believed she would
provide was central to our case.
Without her, the Crown
finds itself with no option
other than to offer no evidence
on all counts.
Would your foreperson please rise?
On Count One:
Sexual activity with a child,
contrary to Section 9
of the Sexual Offences Act 2003,
do you find the defendant
guilty or not guilty?
Not guilty.
On Count Two:
Causing or inciting a child
to engage in sexual activity,
contrary to Section 10
of the Sexual Offences Act 2003,
do you find the defendant
guilty or not guilty?
Not guilty.
On Count Three: Arranging and
facilitating a child's sex offence
contrary to Section 14
of the Sexual Offences Act 2003,
do you find the defendant
guilty or not guilty?
Not guilty.'This is Grace.
Give me a reason to call you back.'
I have no option but to declare
the prosecution discontinued.
So what's your plan now, then?
You on your way to celebrate with
that sick fuck old man of yours?
Please, leave me alone.
What's it gonna be, dinner?
Do a bottle of wine,
some After Eights
and then fuck his dick
like a 12-year-old?
Or offer up your shrivelled nastiness
and see if he's drunk enough?
Get away from us!
Tell him I ain't done with him!
This isn't me. I did not choose it!
Tell him I will fucking end him!
Tell him yourself.
Please.
(ENGINE STARTS)
(CAR DRIVES AWAY)
(DOOR BELL RINGS)
Let's go away, get away somewhere.
Where?
As far as you'll let me take you.
Somewhere you can...
..kick off your shoes
and fill your lungs up.
And figure out what to do next.
Is that what I should be doing now?
What comes next? A holiday?
I didn't mean...
(SIGHS)
Can we not get away?
Just... Just far enough...
..to have a look at ourselves.
To see what that might do for us.
It won't change
what we come back to.
I listened to that girl
in the court.
(SNIFFS)
I listened to her
and all I could see
was the lie
that he'd ever been attracted to me.
Ever.
Me.
He wanted to marry me.
To love, honour and cherish me.
Forsaking all others.
As anything more than a...
..well, a cover.
For appearances.
Birthdays, holidays, Christmas.
Friends gathered, our family, his.
Hands held, lips kissed.
The weight of him on me.
Inside me.
The passion I thought we had...
..I thought he had for me.
You thought he had.
Our life.
Our whole life.
Is my name Chloe?
The lie told so often I believed it.
We all fucking believed it.
(BUZZ OF CHATTER)
He said to say, made me promise.
You lit a candle?
For you and for Jody.
You know what my mum's like.
Hm.
I keep her up to date,
I tell her everything, how you are.
You're still her favourite.
For fuck's sake.
It breaks her heart what's going on.
Candles are for the dead.
Gonna make that your last?
I mean, that's right, innit it, Goz?
How is it my last?
Got an early start.
Candles are prayers. You light one
when a prayer's been said.
You can say one for anyone.
It don't have to be for the dead.
She just wants you to know you're
in her thoughts.
All of ours, mate.
Jesus.
Fuck!
Fuck!
You're right, Stace,
we should call time on this.
I didn't come here for a wake.
She is not dead.
We know that.Then fucking get them
to act like it!
Jesus!
Let's stick on some Shalamar, top us
up and let's make a night of it!
Come on, let's make it
a night to remember!
Don't do that, Nelly.
What did you say?
Don't do that.
We are all in here for you,
no one else.
You're commiserating.
You're feeling sorry
and lighting candles for my kid.
And she's not dead.
She's not. This is not the end of it!
You've made that clear, mate.
And then some.
(SNIFFS)
Come on, mate.
Come on.
I'm all right.
Nelly.
Mate, come on.
He's better left alone.
All right?
(DISTANT CHATTER AND LAUGHTER)
(BALL BEING KICKED AGAINST RAILINGS)
(SNORING)
Your mouth smells.
(GRUNTS)
It's your nose that smells, so...
(SNORTS) ..ta-da.
Tell him you meant
his breath stinks.
Your breath stinks.
School bag, shoes.
Nelly won't be long.
Right, it's me this morning?
You've got time for a shower.
Mm-hm.
Did something happen
with Stace last night?
I dunno, why?
Got a group text asking if someone
could stick a foot up your arse
on first sight.
(CHUCKLES)
(CHUCKLES) Here!
Ow!
How you doing?
I'm good.
Hey, Samson.
Sorry I wouldn't go to court.
I heard you tried
to drink yourself sober.
Failed.
What?
You stood with Melon cos he knew,
yeah?
What are you on about?
I went off at his wife,
that Gideon's.
I roared at her
and she pulled me out,
said it weren't her,
she had nothing to do with it.
I mean, like, none of it.
But she'd know, wouldn't she?
Either way.
You did.
Er...
I'm gonna be late, Nelly.
I'm not saying anything
against Melon.
The opposite.
What have you gone cold for, Bern?
I'm just asking.
I've seen where you just asking
can end up.
That's at a distance
from your shit, Nelly.
Just asking, Bernie.
I'm just answering, Nelly.
Come on, Sam.
(CHILDREN LAUGHING)
(BELL RINGS)
Go on.
# We all do things we shouldn't do
# But I ain't gonna stop loving you
# GABRIELS: Loyalty
# God himself can't deny
(BLEEPING)
# We all do things we shouldn't do
AUTOMATED VOICE:
'This is Greenwich.'
# Ain't gonna stop loving you
(CHILDREN SQUEALING AND LAUGHING)
# Shallow grave, roses too
# This thing of ours,
we know the score
# We all do things we shouldn't do
(SIREN BLARES)
# I ain't gonna stop loving you
# Ain't gonna stop loving you
(TV PLAYING)
Hey.
You're early.
Early?
Early for what?
(TV CONTINUES PLAYING)
(CAN IS OPENED)
(TV OFF)
It's been like every day for the
past I don't know how many days.
You don't come back till
you're sure I'm making zeds.
It ain't like that.
You're avoiding me.Avoiding?
For what?
Come.
Come.
I... (EXHALES)
I don't hate us.
It's taken me a bit by surprise.
Just um...
Just give me a minute.
Yeah.
(KISSES)
Happy birthday!
Jesus! (GRUNTS)
Go on.
Happy birthday.
Thank you.
Hello.
Cards.
Who's that?
You.
(LAUGHS)
Oh, hello.
"If you're the tree,
then I'm the soil helping
you to grow and stand tall."
He wrote that himself.
Yeah?
Yeah.
Thank you. What's this?
Mummy said it's a massage.
Yeah? What's one of them?
It's a massage.
What, one of them happy ending ones?
I knew you'd say that.
(LAUGHS)
Get him!
Ooh! Oww!
(GROANS AND LAUGHS)
(BELL RINGS)
Come on, then.
See you later.
Bye.
Happy birthday, big 'un.
Fucking very much, mate.
Free for the day
if you want mess about.
You're not my type, Goz,
I keep telling you.
I meant venture out,
grab a pint at the end.
Have you got wheels?
I can get 'em, yeah. Why?
Then I would like to venture, yes.
But I got to make a quick stop first.
How do you know
that's Gideon's house?
First thing they ask you in court:
"Are you so and so
from such and such address?"
I knew from then.
Gonna give your whole day
over to this?
As much as it takes, yeah.
(SNIFFS)
(KEYPAD BLEEPS)
(DOOR UNLOCKS)
What's up?
That's the sister.
What are you gonna do?
We're gonna wait.
We're gonna follow her.
We're gonna follow?
We are if you get a move on.
(ENGINE STARTS)
(BREATHES HEAVILY)
There you go.
What now, then?
I want her on her own.
Not worried that sounds
a bit stalkery, no?
Following women around London
without them knowing,
siting outside their houses?
Ain't after her or them.
After him.
I'm just saying, yeah?
Had to, it felt...
iffy all of a sudden.
(ENGINE STARTS)
Mind if I say sorry?
I don't know where he is.
But you know where he might be.
I don't-Push comes to it, where
he might go or who he might call.
Let's say three -
names, addresses, numbers.
Like, I don't know,
his life depended on it.
He had a journalist waiting outside.
He threatened to throw me to him.
I've been trying to call you
to warn you. Where have you been?
GIDEON: 'He called me'.
What did he say?
'You gave him my number?'
I had to!
I'm coming. I'll take you
wherever you need to go.
(BOTTLES CLINKING)
Right.
Take me to Leytonstone.
Wanstead, really.
I'll get you some directions.
Very good of you to drive me.
Whose house is this?
A friend.
Who hasn't given up on me.
(DOOR OPENS)
(BREATHES HEAVILY)
(BOTTLES CLINKING)
(BREATHES HEAVILY)
What are you doing in here?
What?
I don't want you in here.
Y-Y-You have to go. Just...
(GASPS)
You have to go.
(GASPS)
I don't want you in here.
Just go.
You have to go.
(GASPS AND SOBS)
Go.
Just go.
RINGTONE: 'You what? You what?
You what? You what? You what?'
Who this?
You have to help me. He's here.
Please come now, please.
I don't know what to do.
I'm sorry I let you down. I'm sorry.
(SOBS) Please.
(BREATHES HEAVILY)'
'Where are you?
Can you text me where you are?'
(DOG BARKS IN DISTANCE)
Oh, shit.
Oh, no.
No, no. No, no, no.
Oh, please, please.
Oh, fuck.
Shit.
Shit!
(BREATHES HEAVILY)
I didn't do it.
I swear, Nelly, I didn't do it.
I swear.What happened?
I just came downstairs and that's
how he was.It's all right.
I swear-
Stop, please. Stop, stop.
OK.
Anything that's yours here,
go and get it.
It's upstairs.
Then go upstairs!
Get everything because
we need to get out of here.
Go!
Fuck.
I thought there'd be stuff there -
pictures, videos.
What he made me do.
If it was there,
I wanted to find it.
Prove to that lawyer
I weren't lying.
And I heard him downstairs
with someone else.
Someone else? Who?
I dunno.
I came down and...
..it was just him there like that.
Um...just rest back.
There?
It's the best place.
Is it?
It is.
(KNOCK AT DOOR)
Stay here.
(KNOCKING PERSISTS)
(KNOCKING AT DOOR)
Can you lot not hear?
What?
Yeah. Yeah, come in.
You're a bit late if you've come
to chump out my cake.
'Gideon Charles was killed
yesterday, Nelly.'
'Was he?'