I was living rough.
Out near the old bus station...
when he found me.
I'll never forget the look on his face when he saw me.
Pure...
relief and joy...
and then disappointment when I wasn't who he thought I was.
He said he was a teacher, he had daughters.
I could stay at his house a night, and then in the morning,
he'd find someone to help me.
He seemed normal.
Nice, you know?
I went to sleep, and then later, I woke up
and went downstairs for some water.
He was there on the sofa, drinking...
so I thanked him.
Just told him he was a nice guy.
Sir...
That seemed to upset him.
You're a good person.
You don't know that.
What if I told you I killed a person?
Would you judge me then?
I wish I'd run then, but I didn't.
Then what happened?
His name was Salil Singh.
I drugged him first before I smothered him.
And as he was slipping away,
I spoke to him about university,
the future.
Just so he would fall asleep thinking about something good.
But I could see in his eyes that he was scared.
Do you think I'm a monster?
I think...
you're a nice guy
who must have found himself in a bad situation.
Thank you.
But maybe I could have one of those?
I'll get you a glass.
No, no, no, no!
He wouldn't let me go.
It's gonna be okay. I promise.
Sal! How could you?
Hey, hey, hey. It's over. It's over.
You're safe now, chicken.
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How are your parents?
Emotional.
Like happy one minute, sad the next.
Everyone now knows that Sal isn't guilty and that he didn't kill himself,
but he was murdered by someone he knew and trusted.
And you?
I feel different.
I've got you to thank for that.
Well, I didn't do it on my own.
Nah. We were a good team.
You okay?
Yeah, I'm just...
trying to say something.
Saying something feels...
Look, what... What I wanted to say is that...
Pip, I'm leaving.
I feel like I've been trapped here, frozen.
My whole life on hold.
I wanted to leave so badly, and now I can.
I'll get a job, apply to college... you know, do life.
You could do that here.
I need to go.
They had a forensics team going through the house
looking for DNA and stuff.
I just can't get over the fact that he walked among us...
like an ordinary, everyday guy.
Taught his lessons, drove us about, cooked,
and he was harbouring the darkest secret ever.
It wasn't just one secret.
He had a woman trapped in the attic of a secret house,
he had a secret teenage lover,
then murdered said secret teenage lover,
hid her body, and then secretly murdered her boyfriend.
He broke into my house on my brother's birthday, and he killed my dog.
So here I am.
What can I do?
What do you mean?
I want to make it better.
How can you?
I can't do this.
Right, the oven's ready, that can go in.
You need to whisk it. You need to whisk it properly, sweetheart.
Oh, dear.
I've ruined Cara's life.
Elliot was all she had, now he's gone.
No! No, no. That's on him, not you.
If you hadn't done what you did,
then this whole town would still think that Sal killed Andie,
and the Singhs would be carrying around that shame.
Plus, Andie's family would never have seen the person
responsible for their daughter's death arrested.
A girl would still be locked in Elliot's attic.
I know there were a million obstacles, but you never gave up.
Yes,
everything seems strange and sad,
but I need you to know that you are the bee's knees, okay?
I could not be more proud of my...
insane and determined daughter.
Thank you.
Where could I possibly get it from?
It makes me cross, though.
Elliot doesn't have the decency...
to own up to killing Andie.
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Josh's birthday.
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You've got five minutes. I'll be here if you need me.
- I'm sorry. - No.
Why did you come?
You were gone the day Barney went missing.
You couldn't have taken him.
What do you mean?
Someone took Barney and killed him.
That same someone sent me threats on the phone.
- Which means... - Someone else was hiding something.
Someone else murdered Andie Bell.
Who's gonna believe you?
I'm the monster.
The things I've done, maybe I deserve the blame.
You are to blame.
You murdered Sal...
and took advantage of Andie.
She was 17.
And you were her teacher.
You kidnapped Isla, and you kept her prisoner.
Don't you want Cara and Naomi
to know that you didn't kill Andie?
You said Andie was looking for money.
Can you think of any reason why?
When I told her I wouldn't give her the money...
she went crazy.
She said if she couldn't leave that night...
she was scared of what he might do.
Who?
When Andie and I were together...
she told me that...
Jason...
was controlling...
of all of them. Andie, Becca...
He ran that house with fear.
Didn't let her have boyfriends.
And the night Andie went missing,
he was out to dinner with friends, supposedly all evening,
only I know for a fact he wasn't.
How?
I was out looking for Andie by the woods.
He drove past me in his van.
He's lied about his alibi?
Or didn't mention the flaw in it.
Either way, he's not going to admit to it now.
It's Jason's word against mine.
When Andie disappeared, I was desperate.
As far as I knew, she was dead somewhere.
And when they found her...
everything would lead to me.
And then I remembered, a few months before,
Naomi was struggling, and...
she'd turned in on herself, she wouldn't talk to me.
I had to know why, so... I read her diary.
The hit-and-run.
When I remembered that...
that's when this dark little seed came into my head.
I tried to make it go away, I did.
But it took hold and it grew,
and pretty soon, it was all I could think about.
Killing Sal...
and blaming him became the only way to protect my girls.
You know, they'd already lost their mom, I couldn't bear them lose me too.
You're evil.
Maybe.
Or maybe it's that dark little seed that's evil.
You know, now I wonder if we don't all have one somewhere in there.
Even you, Pip. Even you!
It just needs the right conditions to grow.
As metaphors go,
I expected better from an English teacher.
You had a choice...
and you chose to murder Sal.
Time's up.
Have you seen the girls?
Yeah.
The van that Jason was driving...
can you remember what colour it was?
Yeah, it was blue.
Hey.
Don't go. I just saw Elliot at the police station.
He didn't kill Andie Bell.
You saw who?
Elliot Ward.
Please listen. He was out by the woods. He saw Jason driving a blue van.
Do you remember the blue van the police were looking for?
Andie could've been in the back of it.
I don't care what that man has to say, and neither should you.
Just because he did something terrible
does not mean that everything he says is a lie.
It's not even that. It's just... I'm done.
We're supposed to be a team,
the two of us.
Sherlock and Watson.
Well, I can't do it on my own.
Pip, it's over.
Hold on.
Hey. Have you seen anyone round here?
I don't think so.
I could have sworn I saw someone lurking about.
What the fuck are you doing?
Why are you here?
I work here.
Surely the real question is, why the fuck are you here?
I thought you already locked a dude up for that.
He didn't kill Andie. It was Jason.
He wasn't at the dinner party all night like he said he was.
His blue van was seen driving out of Little Kilton
exactly when Andie went missing.
And nobody knows where he went.
Yeah, except for me and my dad and the police.
Security alarms went off at the office.
Jason came down and turned them off, then he went back to his dinner.
Sorry.
How do you know?
My dad used to work here.
Jason told him about the alarms and...
he checked out the security footage on the gate.
There was no break-in.
The only person coming in was Jason, coming in to turn them off.
It all checked out.
But the blue van.
The police were searching for it.
Yeah. Jason came forward, explained it was his.
They just didn't mention it on the news
'cause they already thought it was Sal by then.
Jason was controlling, but he had reason.
Becca was my best friend, but those girls were wild.
Andie was a party girl,
and Becca did everything she could to be just like her.
Jason knew those parties were bad news.
Even then it didn't work.
He couldn't know what would happen to Andie.
I wasn't talking about Andie.
2019, Becca went to a Calamity party.
She had no idea where she was when she woke up.
She'd been raped.
She called me. We went to go and get the morning-after pill.
She'd been drugged, no question. Roofies in her drink.
Does she know who did it?
No. She couldn't remember anything.
I better get back.
Thank you.
That's the second time you saved me.
Ta-da.
- She'd been drugged, no question. - And TT has a soft spot for Rohypnol.
Roofies in her drink.
Andie sold drugs. I was one of her customers.
Tango Tits.
Hey, babe!
I guess... you're ringing to apologise.
What do you mean?
Well, you've been trying to pin this all on me,
when all along it was your favourite teacher who did the bad thing.
Only you did a bad thing too.
I haven't told the police about what you did on the road that night,
but I still can.
And this time, I have Naomi's diary to back it up.
What the fuck is your problem?
My problem is that you raped Becca Bell at a Calamity party in March 2019
with the drugs that Andie sold to you, didn't you?
Yeah, Becca and I slept together, but it was consensual.
She never once said no.
It's hard to say no when you can't speak!
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CCTV footage from Little Kilton Square
shows Andie driving past at 10:38 p.m.
I know what you're doing.
I just have one question.
Why?
What do you want?
Can we talk?
- I'm on my way out. - I know what Max did to you.
I know it was you driving Andie's car that night.
Andie was already dead...
wasn't she?
Come in.
Hey, can you stop the bus, please?
Jesse told me what happened to you at the party.
They stopped some guy getting nasty with you.
Yeah, it's... it's fine.
Why is that fine?
Why is it fine for some slimy little prick
to put his hands on you when you asked him not to?
Why is that fine?
You're right.
- It's not. - No.
No, it's fucking not.
And when you tell your sister about it...
and you ask her to come to the police with you, what should she say?
Yes.
Yeah.
Except she tells you she can't...
because she was the one that sold Max Hastings
the drugs that he used to rape you.
Why'd she do it?
She said she needed the money.
She told me she was leaving the next day.
Where to?
Don't know.
She just said she had to go.
She couldn't take Dad anymore.
His temper.
After all this time...
of it being the two of us together against him...
she was gonna leave me.
And then I...
Then I guess I lashed out.
I lost it. I...
Then she was just lying there.
She was just there.
And-and-and she was... she was vomiting
and she was choking.
And I just stood there.
I just stood there, and I watched her die.
It was awful.
She was already injured.
She and Elliott had fought.
It wasn't your fault.
Doesn't even matter now anyway.
Do you want to see where she is?
Yeah.
Then drink up.
Let's go.
Pip!
Come on.
What can I say?
I don't know.
Why are you here?
I'm looking for Pip. I'm worried about her.
Haven't seen her.
It's just... the last thing she said to me was that your dad didn't kill Andie,
that it was Jason Bell.
She wanted me to come, but then I got on the bus,
and then I got off the bus, and then I went to the Bells',
and her car was there, but she wasn't in it.
Pip was willing to lie to the police to protect your family.
You know that?
It wasn't easy for her.
She loved your dad, and you know she loves you.
But in the end, it was the only choice she could make.
I know where she is.
I track her.
I thought she didn't let anyone track her.
Yeah, well, maybe she's not as smart as she thinks.
Where are we going?
We're nearly there.
We're here.
This is where I put her.
This is where I put my sister.
Weirdly, Andie was the one that showed me this place.
The thing is, Pip...
now I've shown you where she is.
So, now I have to put you in there with her too.
No.
No, you don't.
It's hitting you now, isn't it?
That'll be the Rohypnol I put in your tea.
I got to Andie's bunny before you did.
Why are you doing this?
It's not me you're angry with.
It's Max Hastings.
He caused all of this.
We could go home right now,
and I swear we could make it right.
No. When will you realise, Pip,
that nothing ever happens to people like Max Hastings?
I'm really sorry.
None of this was meant to happen. You understand that, don't you?
Pip!
Get her.
It's okay. The police are outside.
They'll get her.
Why did you come back?
It had something to do with marshmallows.
You're gonna be fine. You're gonna be okay.
Come on! You're okay.
Have you seen Andie?
It's okay, I just need to speak to her about something.
She went that way.
Thanks.
My dad knows.
I thought it was him following me.
He's taken all the money that I saved.
- Okay, we'll get more money. - How?
I have enough for a room, I can come on the weekends.
You can find a job. We will be fine.
We're gonna need thousands of pounds.
We will work something out. Yeah?
- Okay. - Yeah.
There's a 10:00 a.m. train tomorrow from Oxford.
I'll get there early and get the tickets. You meet me at the station?
Okay. I'll bring coffee.
Are you gonna tell your parents?
- No. - My God.
They're gonna freak out.
As long as I'm back in time for school, they'll be fine.
Are you scared we're doing something stupid?
Not for a second.
Fuck.
I have to go.
I love you.
I love you too.
9:30 tomorrow.
Don't you dare change your mind.
So, what do you think?
Well, it's the best EPQ
in which a student solves a murder case I've ever read, so...
So, they'll give me an "A"?
Yeah. Oh, we might hear about your interview soon.
I'm trying to remember whether I wanted to go to Cambridge
or whether you wanted me to go to Cambridge
because Dad went to Cambridge.
And I'm wondering if there's a difference between what you want
and what I want.
Is there?
Maybe.
Sometimes I think I have more in common with Victor than I do my dad.
I think that makes you sad.
It does a bit, but it also makes me really happy.
So, what shall I do?
Whatever you want to do.
I have every faith that whatever you decide to do, you will see it through.
Hey, babe.
Didn't expect to hear from you.
You and I can never be a thing, you know that?
However much you want me.
Go fuck yourself.
I'm really sorry about what happened with Becca Bell.
I guess now you can see what a fucking psycho she is.
Really can't believe anything she says.
But I do believe her.
Of course you do. Because you're a fucking psycho too.
I'm not the one who has to drug girls till they're unconscious
to get them to sleep with me.
I told you, it was consensual.
Right.
What do you want, you stupid bitch?
I want you to know that you're nothing,
and I'm not going to stop until every single person
you have ever hurt gets justice.
- Hey. - Hi.
I was thinking we could drive to that new pizza place.
It does these weird topping combinations like chocolate and artichoke.
Then maybe go see that documentary
on feminist post-whateverism you keep going on about.
Please stop talking.
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