Then You Run (2023–…): Season 1, Episode 8 - Episode #1.8 - full transcript

The following program contains
very strong language,

violence, and scenes of drug use.

She just found out
that her mum's still alive.

Do you know where she is?
The Nordmann Fir Beach Hotel.

You're going to see
your mother?

Maybe I shouldn't.

No, no, no, no, you... you
have to go there, you must.

If we don't stop her,
then maybe no one will.

Do you think we can do it?
If we have each other.

God, you look like your mum.

I'll steal the pills.



Maybe it's a good thing
you weren't cut out for it.

Maybe of the two of you.

The two of us?

I'm not going to
paint this boat.

I have a much better idea.

Tara?
Orin's had such butterflies.

You are all he's talked about.

Where's Ruth?
She's in hospital.

Tara shot her finger off.

I can't show up
in a stolen car.

♪ It's coming at me

♪ Coming at me
Coming at me

♪ It's coming at me ♪

Right, ready? Now.



Help me! Help me!

Come on,
we need to push it. Come on.

Guys, come on.

On three.

One...

Two...

Oh, my God,
can you count faster?

One...

Two...

Three.

Ruth!
What the fuck?

Ruth! Ruth! Ruth!

Ruth, are you okay?

You're okay.
You're okay, okay?

You're okay. You're okay.

Stay away from me!

Get away from me. Get back.
I'm not touching you.

That's a cliff! You tried
to push me off a cliff!

No, Ruth, it wasn't like that.

You tried to fucking kill me!
Ruth, it wasn't like that!

No, I didn't. I didn't know
you were in there.

How could I know that?

Ruth, she didn't,
we were all pushing.

We were all pushing.
Why?

Well... Well,
Tara didn't want to go

to her mum's in a stolen car
in case...

She was just like, "We got to
get rid of the car because..."

I didn't know.

What do you think I am?

Out of the three of us,

you have left two behind
to get nearly murdered.

That is called
being a shit friend!

You can't walk away from it,
either, 'cause it's a fact.

What do you want, Stink?

A new finger for Ruth.
She's maimed for life.

Stink!
Sorry, not maimed.

It looks good, it suits you.
You hardly notice it.

Ruth...

I'm... Please...

Piss off, Tara,
I'm not interested.

Oh, right yeah, poor Tara!

All upset and innocent now.

Notice how she's still hanging on to
my bag of drugs, though.

Funny, that.

Yeah, you don't want to lose
your lucky drugs, Stink.

Things have been real good
since you took those.

We're not doing me, Ruth,
we're doing Tara.

What you following me
for then, hmm?

If I'm so fucking shit.

We can go where we like,
can't we?

You're not in charge of roads.

You know, I want to see
the look on your face

when you realise you inherited

an imaginary hotel.

What is going on with you two?

She's got a cramp.

From being locked
in that boot probably.

No one's giving me massages.

What happened, Ness? Ruth make you
her bitch back in that jail cell?

No!

Oh, my God.

That is so funny.

Nessi finally does girlongirl.

I mean, most of us got it out
of our system in year nine,

but still, handy for you, Ruth.

What'd you do? Wait until she was
all vulnerable and then pounce?

Why's she stopped?

You've got to be shitting me.

It's real.

Just like in the picture.

What happened
to the "beach hotel" part?

Welcome to Artemia
Nordmann Fir.

How may I help you today?

I'm here to see the owner.

And your name?

Tara O'Rourke.

Erm... Tara Jacobson.

If you would
like to come this way, please.

Well, I guess her mum's here.

She didn't
even look back.

Shouldn't be long.

Thanks.

Welcome to Artemia Nordmann Fir.

How may I be of help?

Sorry to keep you.

Steffen Solbakken, hotel manager.

Did you have a resume for me?

Erm...

No, er, it's...

It's... It's not
about a job, er...

I wanna see the owner.

The owner?
Yeah, that's who I asked for.

The owner, I, er, guess would be,
er, Artemia Holdings.

No, no, no, no, this is wrong.

But I've been manager here

for more than six years...

You don't understand, yeah?
It's a family business.

Yeah? The hotel?

Well, we're certainly familyfriendly.

We offer familystyle...
Familyrun!

By the Jacobson family.

The Jacobsons?

Her. That's who
I want to talk to.

My mum.

She's there!

That's her. Maggie Jacobson.

Can you please
just get her for me?

I'm afraid
that won't be possible.

You're right, the hotel
was founded by the Jacobsons.

It remained in that family
for several generations.

But Artemia Holdings
acquired the Nordmann almost...

twenty years ago,

after the death
of the last Jacobson owner.

I believe there was
a tragic car accident.

But I saw...

I saw her.

She's 18. It all belongs to her now.

She's not even
gonna fucking want it.

I saw...

She is 18.

The world belongs to her now.

Let her friends
come and visit first

and then I'll tell her.

Is there someone I can call?

What was Saskia
saying about me?

That I'm 18
and the world is mine.

What does that mean?

It means...

When you came here, you were a child
and now, you're not.

Think I was still
living at home?

My day, we all got the hell out.

You mean, this was just
till I turned 18?

Sorry if I didn't
make that clear.

But...

You did the room.

You said you wanted us
to get to know each other.

You're always here!

I'll go out more.

How can I compose
with you out there listening?

I won't listen.

If only that treacherous
whore of a mother of yours

was still alive...

I wouldn't be stuck with you.

Turn around!

Could you...

Could you stop that?

I'd like to watch something.

I wanna watch my show.

What the fuck? Tara!

Might have known
you'd turn out like her!

All the women.

All the women I've had and she's the
one who had to fucking breed!

Crazy fucking cunt.

How can it be this bright
at nine o'clock?

Global warming?

'Cause we're so far up north.

Global warming is real, Ruth.

Welcome to
Artemia Nordmann Fir.

Erm...

You know how Dagmar
drugged and kidnapped me?

Mmmhmm.

Before I went under. I may
have told her some things.

Yeah, like
the name of this hotel.

And she may have told him.

Shit.

Erm, they're just,
er, they're just here.

Erm...

Where are we going?
Out the back.

Shit!

Tara! Tara! The fucking
bent police are here.

Your mum needs
to hide us somewhere.

I can't.
You have to.

She's not here.

What?

It wasn't real.

None of it was.

Well... Wait, what do you mean
it wasn't real?

I don't... I don't get it.

You made this up?
No.

Is this a trick?
Is this a fucking joke?

No. I didn't.
So, what then?

Shit, Tara.
We came all this way.

What is your problem?

Shit!
Fuck.

Room service.
Open the fucking door.

Hello?
Hello?

Can you be a bit less shit
at moving, please?

Fuck!

No. No. No. No. No.
Get the gun.

Get the gun!

Get your gun.
Get your gun. Get your gun.

Stink! Come on!

Shit!

Tara...

It's me.

Getting you out of here.

Get back.
I'm not here to hurt anyone.

Come on, you. There's people
here to kill you.

We need to go now.

What did I just say?

You said to get back,
but your gun's empty.

Oh, yeah?
Yeah.

You put all your bullets in this
fella, right after I killed him.

Oh, yeah?
Yeah!

That's my
fucking sore leg! Damn it.

Is this one empty, too?

Or is it full of bullets?

Stay away from us.

We're getting out of here
on our own.

I don't know what you're doing here
in the first place.

Looking for answers?

There's nothing here!

You need to cut it out
with this past shite.

Tara!

Shit.

Leave it.

Are you okay?

Are you okay?

Lukas.

Petter, Lotte.

Outside.

Ladies and gentlemen,
apologies for the interruption.

But we wouldn't have missed it
for the world.

Better late than never,
eh, Petter?

How you doing, Lotte?

Hey.

Get us a table.

Where's Dagmar?

Oh, she's dead.

She was killed on the ferry.

Was she?

We'll let her off so...

To Petter and Lotte.

Everyone, sit.
Why should we?

Because I said to,
now do it and shut up.

Nessi.

It's my mum.
Don't answer it.

Remember we told my mum to get
everyone's A level results

so that we'd be together
when we heard them at...

That's today.

I was supposed to ring her.

Do not touch that phone.

I want to talk to my mum.
Leave it.

Now where was I?

Do you want a job?

I have a few vacancies come up.
What the fuck?

The other one wasn't
cut out for it, but you...

You're a natural.

Are you tripping right now?

Sorry, is this guy tripping?

The other what?

Two thousand kilometres.

Getting locked up,
beaten half to death,

losing me best men,

you were a move
ahead of me the whole way.

Why wouldn't you be?

You're smart.

You're ruthless...
Don't you tell me what I am!

A temper, too.
Runs in the family.

There's no getting away from it.

You don't know me.
Yeah, I do.

Whatever you are,
I know where you got it from.

I'm sick of hiding
from it, too.

Oh, shit.
The other child. He's her dad.

Yes.

How was your meeting?

You don't know
the first thing about me.

You don't know what I am.

Something is wrong with me.

My brain is fucked.

I see things.

Things that aren't there.

All the time.

To be fair, she does.

I saw Maggie.

She was talking to Orin.

She was right there.

I made myself see her.

That's how it happened.

So you snapped.

So what?

Do not...

Hi, Mum.

I don't know what we're like,
we, er, it's been nice, sunny.

Great, thanks.

Okay.

Ruth...

English Lit, A star,

Maths, A star,
Chemistry, C.

Stink.
Media Studies, D.

I'm sorry, a C?
Er, Art, B.

And Design Technology, C.

Tara.
I don't want to know.

Italian...
Stop.

A star.
It doesn't matter!

German...

Nessi, can you
stop telling me, please?

Did you not hear
what I just said?

That doesn't happen for me.
None of it.

That, going to uni,
making plans,

being with friends.

People like me
don't get to be in that world.

I'll call you in a bit, Mum.

Yeah, yeah.
I'll call you in a bit.

Right, so, back to business.

That's the five kilos...

give or take.

Was supposed to close
the deal with Dagmar.

Rotterdam's solid.

We ran into
some technical issues,

but they're all sorted.

The two of you put together
are half the woman Dagmar was,

but a dirty cop's a dirty cop.

They make life easier.
So, if I were you...

I'd pick that bag up.

You're good to go.

Tara,
are you coming or what?

Tara.

Great!

That's it then.
Everyone fucks off.

Tara goes off to her dad's gang.
Ruth to whatever comes after Durham.

I am not going to Manchester.
Brings her sandwiches
between lectures.

I what?

I go on the shitty housing list on
my own with my stupid little baby.

So you're gonna have the baby?
'Course. You think I'm just gonna be

standing around?
Who else am I gonna talk to?

Have you even
spoken to a baby?

You know they can't speak
when they come out?

I know that. I'll wait.

I just don't think it's a good
reason to have a child, Stink.

Yeah, but it's none of
your business is it, Nessi?

My body, my do whateverthefuckIfeellike.

Yeah? Friends for life,
fucking bollocks.

The only reason we were ever
together in the first place

is 'cause the cool kids
didn't want us.

And I'm the one that gets dumped
because I was too thick to realise

everyone else was
waiting for the people

they really cared about
to come along.

Just... Right, stop! Stop!

To new partnerships.

What do you say?

You think I would join you?

You're more
out of your mind than I am.

Year four, you prank-called
Childline about my dad.

This again.

You ripped my Taylor Swift poster.
I was helping you.

Not once have we ever
voted Ruth to be class rep.

What?
You'd be a dick.

You'd never be around.

And you're just as bad, with your
conditional offer to Durham,

every day.

We have been putting up
with each other's shit

since we were five.

What makes you think that
anyone's gonna be dumped now?

I wasn't ever waiting for
anyone to come along. Ever!

We are the cool kids.

We are.

We're friends.

We always have been,
and we always will be.

We look out for each other,
no matter what crap

the other one pulls, or the...

stupid decisions that we make.

That's the rule.

Shit.

We have to go back.

Nah, 'cause totally,
'cause when you said that...

I mean, it's all very well
her decision,

but, I mean, she didn't look happy.
How's it a proper decision
if she doesn't even know

she has options?
Exactly.

Come on.

Come!

Hey!

Hi, Lukas...

I know him.

Fuck.

Tara.

Tara.

Tara.

Tara.

Don't worry.

I'll find her.

Okay.

Now we can begin.

This... It's good.

This, er, horror spectacle.

Come here,
you little bollocks!

I'll smack the face off you.

Tara, run.

Tara, I met her on a boat.

Very inspiring.

I have so much
to thank her for.

Tara.

"Met" isn't quite right.

I'd been following her
after finding that

she and her friends were...

involved in
the death of my son.

The kid in the car?

That was me.

She didn't do it, it was me.

None of that matters now.

This inspiring meeting,
what it showed me...

the early work,

the motel, the train
obviously, big impact.

Maybe too much spectacle,

too public.

Tara, you get yourself up
and you run.

I realised that from now on,

my art mustn't shout
through a megaphone to a crowd.

Do not sit there
waiting for him to find you.

It should whisper into one ear.
Do you know grief?

What?
Do you know grief? Grief?

Oh, God. I wanna give you
such a fucking kick in your hoop.

Grief. It's my new medium.

I know you.

You're that clown goes around
mass-murdering people.

The Traveller.

The Mad Cunt.

You wouldn't know art
if it fucked you, you poser gobshite.

Yeah, that's it. Come on.

Tara, go now.

Do it now!

She had a photograph with her.
Perhaps you know it.

You dirty fuck!

A picture of her mother
and this place.

When I saw it, I knew at once
what my next piece must be.

Go there and kill the child
in front of the parents.

Tara, what are you doing?

I know you think there's
something wrong with you,

Tara, but there's not.

When you...

take a child from a parent...

you reach deep inside.

That grief...

No one is there with you.

To be able to do that
with art.

You're a survivor.

You're a warrior.

So...

Imagine my disappointment when I
come here and I find no mother.

This joker here, this is what
a psycho looks like.

That's not you.

Do you hear me?

And then I see you.

Her father.

Look, we go in there,
we go, "Sorry, Tara's dad,

gangster thing's off".
Yeah, "We're here for you".

A hundred per cent.
Hundred per cent.

And the seeing things, that's okay,
people get hallucinations.

There's treatment for that.

I mean, my cousin used to hear
voices all the time, now he's fine.

There's bear people in our school
on medication for something.

He works at JD.
And he gets staff discount.

Bastard.

Holy shit.

Fuck!

Oh.

Tara.

Fuck!

A father...

tries to say the right thing.

Still...

"You're a survivor."

This made me smile.

People see death,

they all have the same thought.

"Don't be next, be the survivor."

After that, it's easy.

Doesn't matter
how many there are.

It's one against one.

Darian?

I warned you, didn't I?

I told you
to leave them alone.

That was hours ago.

Yeah, 'cause I got lost.

SatNav got stuck
on Norwegian.

You leave them.
I'm not touching them.

I came to get Tara.

And do what?
Nothing.

Save her.

I offered her a job.

'Cause of who she is.

You said it like that?

And she didn't
go for it, did she?

You notice how there's not a queue
of people wanting you as their dad?

I want it.

There was a...

There was a lad on a boat...

How old are you, two?

You don't just get something
because you say you want it.

Fuck!

It doesn't work like that.

And that was for Mirko.

Dad, I had one friend.

How does it work?

How the fuck do I know?

Be someone
people want to be around.

And why is there
dead bodies everywhere?

Some mad fucker.

One guy?

Run.

Stink! Go, go.

Stink.

Come on.

We can jump.
Fuck off.

Have you still got Turi's gun?

What?

Why'd he kill all these people?
We weren't here.

We came back to get Tara.
We just found it like this.

And you stayed?
Why didn't you turn around?

We just came back for Tara.

Hey, that's the first place
he's going to look!

Stink, out the window.
Come on.

It's an easy jump.

Would you come on?
He's gonna find you.

What?

Yeah?

Yeah.

Hello.

Hey.

Okay.

Tara?

Tara?

I think...

Here.

Down.

Down.

Good.

Hey...

Better if you look.

It's the whole point.

I'm going to slit her throat.

If you don't look,
it's going to be very slow.

Thank you.

I think we're ready.

Open that.

Yes.

The child...

before the father.

You came back.

Well, what you think
we were going to do?

Did you check the lighter?

I did, I did.

Come on, light.

I did, I did!

Hey!

I know you'll have plans.

Just...

That offer's still there...

if things don't work out.

They'll work out.

I know they will.

Just...

It's there.

Thanks.

That's not bad.

Go on.

Are those abortion pills?

Yeah.

What was it you said
about friends forever, Nessi?

I said... we're friends.

We always have been
and we always will be.

We look out for each other.

Yeah?

That's the rule.

We all need to
remember that, okay?

When we're home.

I don't want to go home.

We don't have to.

Summer's not over.

We should go somewhere.

Zante?

Zante is a bit...

A bit of a place to go
to be free when you're not.

And we just were.

What?