1 00:00:14,900 --> 00:00:16,980 As far back as I can remember, 2 00:00:17,100 --> 00:00:19,447 my life has been steeped in death. 3 00:00:23,580 --> 00:00:25,740 Time of death, 11.20. 4 00:00:35,220 --> 00:00:37,541 Who knows if that's a bad thing. 5 00:00:38,132 --> 00:00:40,933 But what I do know, is that death, 6 00:00:41,060 --> 00:00:42,781 like a child's soother, 7 00:00:42,946 --> 00:00:45,581 has always been there for me when I needed relief. 8 00:00:46,686 --> 00:00:48,766 Unfortunately for me, 9 00:00:48,813 --> 00:00:50,773 relief is in short supply. 10 00:00:50,946 --> 00:00:52,261 Remember... 11 00:00:52,647 --> 00:00:54,467 Think of someone who annoys you. 12 00:00:54,734 --> 00:00:56,261 Pull the trigger. 13 00:01:06,527 --> 00:01:08,528 Look at you, getting good at this. 14 00:01:13,820 --> 00:01:16,047 Duh. I missed. 15 00:01:17,140 --> 00:01:19,260 I wouldn't be so sure about that. 16 00:01:20,260 --> 00:01:22,461 Take my 10th birthday. 17 00:01:22,820 --> 00:01:24,820 Stood over that dead deer, 18 00:01:24,841 --> 00:01:27,661 it was the first time my father saw me happy. 19 00:01:28,027 --> 00:01:32,021 Like, actually... really happy. 20 00:01:33,540 --> 00:01:36,540 How I prayed it wouldn't be the last. 21 00:01:40,100 --> 00:01:42,221 What's that for? 22 00:01:51,220 --> 00:01:53,860 Being the kind of person I am, 23 00:01:53,980 --> 00:01:57,420 school would have been torture, but for two key things. 24 00:01:57,540 --> 00:01:59,300 My writing... 25 00:02:00,667 --> 00:02:02,700 And my best friend, Mal. 26 00:02:02,820 --> 00:02:05,380 I'm tellin' ya. You get up there, 27 00:02:05,559 --> 00:02:07,960 you're gonna win this contest. 28 00:02:08,140 --> 00:02:10,060 A couple of them fancy words, 29 00:02:10,180 --> 00:02:12,580 and they'll be eating out of your hand. 30 00:02:12,700 --> 00:02:14,381 And if that doesn't work? 31 00:02:14,500 --> 00:02:16,260 Picture everyone naked. 32 00:02:16,580 --> 00:02:18,860 Now come on. Let's hear it. 33 00:02:22,647 --> 00:02:23,941 "That day... 34 00:02:24,041 --> 00:02:26,941 while smashing her bully's skull off the credenza, 35 00:02:27,033 --> 00:02:29,141 surprise took hold." 36 00:02:30,460 --> 00:02:32,861 Picturing people naked was a bust. 37 00:02:33,006 --> 00:02:34,941 But picturing them dead... 38 00:02:35,474 --> 00:02:36,567 Bingo. 39 00:02:36,680 --> 00:02:39,333 "The sound of intracranial cracking 40 00:02:39,374 --> 00:02:41,500 - as brain splattered off walls..." - That's disgusting! 41 00:02:41,620 --> 00:02:46,061 "was akin to a music this young girl had never heard before." 42 00:02:46,386 --> 00:02:47,840 Right then I realised 43 00:02:47,873 --> 00:02:50,581 that death and writing were a powerful match. 44 00:02:50,820 --> 00:02:53,541 That this is where happiness lies. 45 00:02:54,874 --> 00:02:58,313 Of course, like everything else that gave me peace, 46 00:02:58,419 --> 00:03:00,221 it was fleeting. 47 00:03:01,260 --> 00:03:05,060 Yet when a doctor did finally see me about my crushing depression, 48 00:03:05,180 --> 00:03:07,340 all we talked about were pills. 49 00:03:07,460 --> 00:03:09,500 Oh, so many pills... 50 00:03:11,260 --> 00:03:13,901 But five years ago, I put the brakes on that. 51 00:03:14,507 --> 00:03:17,821 Those things made me sleepwalk, lose time. 52 00:03:17,967 --> 00:03:20,367 Do batshit stuff I barely remember. 53 00:03:21,580 --> 00:03:22,981 The bottom line? 54 00:03:23,181 --> 00:03:25,200 They made me more dead than alive. 55 00:03:26,087 --> 00:03:28,468 - Elvira! - And I want to feel alive. 56 00:03:28,489 --> 00:03:29,781 Elvira! 57 00:03:30,653 --> 00:03:33,541 Then... something amazing happened! 58 00:03:37,433 --> 00:03:39,581 You know, they say if you want to write, 59 00:03:39,721 --> 00:03:41,934 you have to sit down, open a vein, 60 00:03:41,954 --> 00:03:43,941 - _ - and bleed on the page. 61 00:03:44,667 --> 00:03:48,421 - Talk about words to live by. - _ 62 00:03:48,500 --> 00:03:50,300 So, here I am. 63 00:03:50,420 --> 00:03:53,821 The Kilraven Chronicle's brand new obituarist. 64 00:03:54,060 --> 00:03:57,580 A job I've dreamed of. And yet... 65 00:03:57,700 --> 00:04:01,260 this happiness I've yearned for remains missing. 66 00:04:01,460 --> 00:04:04,940 Like a jigsaw piece lost down the side of a couch. 67 00:04:05,286 --> 00:04:07,246 When you're done, file it. 68 00:04:07,580 --> 00:04:10,707 - And then what? - Then you wait for someone to die. 69 00:04:10,727 --> 00:04:12,633 And when might that be? 70 00:04:13,760 --> 00:04:15,061 Clancy... 71 00:04:15,274 --> 00:04:16,954 never say that out loud. 72 00:04:17,140 --> 00:04:19,220 Your job is to write obituaries. 73 00:04:19,340 --> 00:04:21,220 To take that talent you claimed you had 74 00:04:21,340 --> 00:04:24,700 to make the deceased alive, to give voice to the voiceless. 75 00:04:24,820 --> 00:04:28,020 Not to sit there praying that some pensioner pops his clogs. 76 00:04:28,101 --> 00:04:29,607 _ 77 00:04:29,660 --> 00:04:31,781 - What are you looking at? - Nothing. 78 00:04:32,300 --> 00:04:34,261 Well then, get back to work. 79 00:04:34,740 --> 00:04:36,701 It won't write itself. 80 00:04:49,354 --> 00:04:53,327 www.subtitulamos.tv 81 00:04:54,801 --> 00:04:58,288 _ 82 00:05:01,020 --> 00:05:04,380 Population 5,000 and falling... 83 00:05:05,787 --> 00:05:09,101 Kilraven is like a fun fair in winter. 84 00:05:09,433 --> 00:05:11,781 Its people convinced that, 85 00:05:11,894 --> 00:05:13,861 if the sun only shone, 86 00:05:13,914 --> 00:05:16,180 if that factory re-opened, 87 00:05:16,300 --> 00:05:18,340 if the foreigners left, 88 00:05:18,460 --> 00:05:20,781 their lives would be good again. 89 00:05:21,620 --> 00:05:23,181 On the surface, 90 00:05:23,454 --> 00:05:25,581 a bog-standard, backwater. 91 00:05:27,380 --> 00:05:29,620 But as my dad likes to say, 92 00:05:29,839 --> 00:05:32,221 under that veneer of nothingness, 93 00:05:32,700 --> 00:05:35,261 there's a tonne of weird shit going on. 94 00:05:37,101 --> 00:05:39,514 _ 95 00:05:40,140 --> 00:05:42,541 Ah, funeral homes. 96 00:05:43,226 --> 00:05:44,727 Heaven! 97 00:05:45,214 --> 00:05:48,341 And it's not just the peace and quiet or the human remains. 98 00:05:48,666 --> 00:05:49,787 See, 99 00:05:49,981 --> 00:05:53,661 people go through life wearing big, stupid grins. 100 00:05:53,980 --> 00:05:56,260 Hiding how they really feel. 101 00:05:56,446 --> 00:05:58,726 Here, there is no smiling. 102 00:05:58,887 --> 00:06:02,327 Only tears, pain and impotence. 103 00:06:02,679 --> 00:06:04,174 Here... 104 00:06:04,334 --> 00:06:06,700 you see people as they really are. 105 00:06:08,866 --> 00:06:10,340 Damn! 106 00:06:10,366 --> 00:06:13,501 That half-blind mortician made him more alive than my obituary did. 107 00:06:19,180 --> 00:06:21,500 My mammy gave you a tip. 108 00:06:21,553 --> 00:06:22,961 She insisted. 109 00:06:23,028 --> 00:06:25,381 Well... she wants it back. 110 00:06:25,500 --> 00:06:27,660 She said your writing was rubbish. 111 00:06:27,780 --> 00:06:29,940 I'm still finding my voice. 112 00:06:30,580 --> 00:06:33,181 She said you're at this six months. 113 00:06:33,420 --> 00:06:35,701 Now, we expected better. 114 00:06:36,100 --> 00:06:37,621 Look... 115 00:06:39,094 --> 00:06:41,140 Daddy was a farmer. 116 00:06:41,860 --> 00:06:43,580 And a Fenian. 117 00:06:43,861 --> 00:06:47,300 No, Daddy was a fat fuck that barely fit inside this box. 118 00:06:47,420 --> 00:06:49,581 Yet, reading what you wrote, 119 00:06:49,820 --> 00:06:51,947 'twas like I didn't even know the man. 120 00:06:52,014 --> 00:06:54,927 Which, tells me, you didn't get to know the man. 121 00:06:55,140 --> 00:06:58,261 Which, last time I checked, 122 00:06:58,526 --> 00:07:00,087 was your job. 123 00:07:14,460 --> 00:07:16,780 - Patsy... - Tom. 124 00:07:23,100 --> 00:07:25,100 I'm sorry for your loss. 125 00:07:25,220 --> 00:07:27,100 And I'm sorry for yours. 126 00:07:34,954 --> 00:07:36,641 _ 127 00:07:36,674 --> 00:07:38,294 _ 128 00:07:38,327 --> 00:07:40,054 _ 129 00:07:40,121 --> 00:07:42,140 Crime correspondents. 130 00:07:42,260 --> 00:07:44,934 - To some, a juicy gig. - _ 131 00:07:45,007 --> 00:07:47,741 But to others, it's a slow death, 132 00:07:47,894 --> 00:07:50,061 haunted by unsolved murders. 133 00:07:50,140 --> 00:07:51,494 Who did this to you? 134 00:07:51,547 --> 00:07:53,827 For Clive, indeed, for Kilraven, 135 00:07:54,061 --> 00:07:56,501 that meant Maria Riedle. 136 00:07:56,561 --> 00:07:59,060 Clive? My office. Now. 137 00:08:01,060 --> 00:08:03,540 Ah, the Grim Reaper. 138 00:08:03,660 --> 00:08:06,341 Out from behind the death desk. 139 00:08:06,407 --> 00:08:08,700 Tell me, is what this lot says true? 140 00:08:08,820 --> 00:08:10,041 Is what true? 141 00:08:10,080 --> 00:08:14,107 Your co-workers reckon you listen to the death notices 142 00:08:14,140 --> 00:08:16,741 as you twiddle your twaddle. 143 00:08:26,300 --> 00:08:28,300 This gives me no joy, but... 144 00:08:28,420 --> 00:08:31,934 I've two options. You either go freelance, or I let you go. 145 00:08:31,981 --> 00:08:33,887 Thirty years?! Just like that? 146 00:08:33,927 --> 00:08:35,941 - What am I to do, Clive? - You know what, Burns? 147 00:08:35,962 --> 00:08:37,734 - What? - Eat shit! 148 00:08:37,907 --> 00:08:39,907 Ah, come on! 149 00:08:40,160 --> 00:08:41,647 Jesus. 150 00:08:42,820 --> 00:08:44,274 Clancy... 151 00:08:53,420 --> 00:08:54,841 Clive quit. 152 00:08:55,268 --> 00:08:56,639 It was his choice. 153 00:08:56,660 --> 00:08:58,514 'Cos you asked him to go freelance. 154 00:08:58,568 --> 00:09:00,168 Circulation is down. 155 00:09:00,434 --> 00:09:03,460 I'm having to combine Farming with Fashion. 156 00:09:03,719 --> 00:09:05,579 That will kill Kate. 157 00:09:05,886 --> 00:09:08,127 - No way! - That's her. 158 00:09:08,428 --> 00:09:09,974 Getting the email now. 159 00:09:09,994 --> 00:09:12,534 Perhaps you could combine birth notices with obituaries. 160 00:09:12,653 --> 00:09:14,014 Cut out the middleman. 161 00:09:14,035 --> 00:09:16,301 And perhaps your work could improve, just a tad, 162 00:09:16,426 --> 00:09:18,581 so that the families stop bitching at me. 163 00:09:20,060 --> 00:09:23,220 Look, you'll get 200 an obit. 164 00:09:23,740 --> 00:09:26,340 - No regular salary? - We'll review it down the line. 165 00:09:26,373 --> 00:09:27,621 Hughie... 166 00:09:28,180 --> 00:09:31,134 on average, one person dies every ten days in this town. 167 00:09:31,186 --> 00:09:33,807 - Sometimes, I've waited weeks. - Isn't that a good thing? 168 00:09:33,834 --> 00:09:35,660 Not when I'm supporting my father. 169 00:09:35,700 --> 00:09:36,941 Chin up. 170 00:09:37,181 --> 00:09:39,181 At least you're still a reporter. 171 00:09:39,500 --> 00:09:41,460 You're not stuck in here like me, 172 00:09:41,580 --> 00:09:44,074 massaging ulcer-inducing spreadsheets. 173 00:09:44,140 --> 00:09:45,421 But... 174 00:09:45,860 --> 00:09:47,820 - How will I live? - I dunno. 175 00:09:48,500 --> 00:09:50,820 Maybe you should start killing people. 176 00:09:50,940 --> 00:09:52,561 Maybe I can start with you. 177 00:09:52,620 --> 00:09:54,581 Maybe I can start with you. 178 00:10:04,220 --> 00:10:05,980 That's the spirit. 179 00:10:06,100 --> 00:10:08,140 Now, off you pop. 180 00:10:08,260 --> 00:10:10,340 It won't write itself. 181 00:10:14,500 --> 00:10:17,420 Because I had my own stuff going on back then, 182 00:10:17,540 --> 00:10:19,780 I missed all the signs. 183 00:10:20,013 --> 00:10:23,933 But it's like, one day, Dad woke up and decided 184 00:10:24,580 --> 00:10:27,380 "You know, I think I'll take to the drink." 185 00:10:27,460 --> 00:10:30,860 You know, I read somewhere that freelancers 186 00:10:30,980 --> 00:10:33,754 get paid by the column, or even by the word, sometimes. 187 00:10:33,846 --> 00:10:35,646 Or perhaps, never. 188 00:10:38,574 --> 00:10:40,380 How is the "aul noggin"? 189 00:10:40,500 --> 00:10:43,047 It'd be a lot better if that was your last of the day. 190 00:10:43,107 --> 00:10:46,167 You know I'm always here for ya if you want to talk. 191 00:10:46,420 --> 00:10:47,821 Yeah. 192 00:10:49,340 --> 00:10:51,420 The same applies to you. 193 00:10:52,860 --> 00:10:55,540 You can always get another job in the town. 194 00:10:55,787 --> 00:10:59,380 Notice he didn't tell me to get another job, in another town? 195 00:10:59,560 --> 00:11:00,921 Poor man. 196 00:11:01,308 --> 00:11:03,441 He can't see a future without me. 197 00:11:03,580 --> 00:11:05,780 I know you think you've got no future, but... 198 00:11:06,460 --> 00:11:08,820 Writing's everything I have. 199 00:11:09,447 --> 00:11:11,327 This job, Dad... 200 00:11:11,740 --> 00:11:13,540 It's like, my life. 201 00:11:14,500 --> 00:11:17,821 And by the way, you know if I'm broke, you're broke too, yeah? 202 00:11:18,580 --> 00:11:20,340 Jesus! 203 00:11:22,900 --> 00:11:24,781 Tadaa! 204 00:11:25,020 --> 00:11:26,941 I tell you something... 205 00:11:27,452 --> 00:11:29,332 nobody hurts my wee girl. 206 00:11:29,419 --> 00:11:32,579 - Especially not that ballbag, Hughie. - Shut the door! 207 00:11:32,820 --> 00:11:35,220 It breaks my heart to see you like this. 208 00:11:36,900 --> 00:11:38,381 Hey... 209 00:11:39,540 --> 00:11:41,740 I could dust off my CV. 210 00:11:44,820 --> 00:11:46,687 Are you gonna tell me to go back and wash my hands? 211 00:11:46,721 --> 00:11:48,541 No... CVs, Dad. 212 00:11:48,734 --> 00:11:50,181 That's what I just said. 213 00:11:50,659 --> 00:11:52,620 That's what I've been writing. 214 00:11:53,300 --> 00:11:56,221 But people's lives aren't CVs. 215 00:11:56,246 --> 00:11:57,741 They're much, much more. 216 00:11:57,781 --> 00:12:00,221 - But I like your writing. - Yeah... 217 00:12:00,939 --> 00:12:02,674 It can be better. 218 00:12:02,934 --> 00:12:05,694 - How? - Not always, but sometimes, 219 00:12:05,787 --> 00:12:07,867 Dad inspires me. 220 00:12:08,900 --> 00:12:10,981 I'm going to write advances. 221 00:12:11,820 --> 00:12:14,580 Obituaries for the pre-dead. 222 00:12:14,700 --> 00:12:16,960 - Like zombies? - Like Michael Jackson. 223 00:12:17,060 --> 00:12:19,554 - Who did a mean zombie. - And who, the minute he did die, 224 00:12:19,647 --> 00:12:22,300 the big papers had his obit up on their websites. 225 00:12:22,420 --> 00:12:25,761 Years in the making, researched, refined. 226 00:12:25,867 --> 00:12:27,867 Ready in a heartbeat to go to print. 227 00:12:28,101 --> 00:12:30,488 _ 228 00:12:30,580 --> 00:12:33,460 - So you'll, what... pick old people? - Sick people. 229 00:12:33,580 --> 00:12:35,834 - People whose lives dice with death. - _ 230 00:12:35,873 --> 00:12:37,913 And write them up before they do die. 231 00:12:40,220 --> 00:12:42,794 These advances, with thought and time, 232 00:12:42,820 --> 00:12:44,707 will be heartfelt and moving. 233 00:12:46,047 --> 00:12:49,374 Not crap jotted down as the coffin slides into the ground. 234 00:12:49,395 --> 00:12:51,521 - _ - Something the families adore. 235 00:12:51,567 --> 00:12:52,807 _ 236 00:12:53,367 --> 00:12:56,347 That gives Hughie no choice but to put me back on full pay. 237 00:13:08,380 --> 00:13:10,621 How does it feel, Alice? 238 00:13:13,140 --> 00:13:14,581 To die? 239 00:13:14,913 --> 00:13:16,720 To know you're dying. 240 00:13:19,140 --> 00:13:22,301 - It's Rose I worry about. - Your daughter? 241 00:13:23,140 --> 00:13:24,781 A big lug of a thing. 242 00:13:25,188 --> 00:13:26,461 Tomboy. 243 00:13:26,660 --> 00:13:28,507 I don't think she'll cope. 244 00:13:28,568 --> 00:13:30,461 She'll have to grieve. 245 00:13:30,620 --> 00:13:33,301 They say there are stages. 246 00:13:33,421 --> 00:13:36,940 Denial, anger, bargaining, depression, and... 247 00:13:37,060 --> 00:13:39,421 - Suicide? - Eh... no. 248 00:13:39,860 --> 00:13:41,660 Acceptance. 249 00:13:42,700 --> 00:13:45,301 Here, who are you? 250 00:13:45,686 --> 00:13:47,428 I know, I shouldn't. 251 00:13:47,861 --> 00:13:48,981 But... 252 00:13:49,260 --> 00:13:50,861 Your daughter. 253 00:13:52,427 --> 00:13:53,747 Rose. 254 00:13:54,260 --> 00:13:55,780 Remember? 255 00:13:55,900 --> 00:13:57,941 Thank God! 256 00:13:58,820 --> 00:14:00,700 I'm here, Mom. 257 00:14:01,340 --> 00:14:04,301 Finally, you lost some weight. 258 00:14:04,980 --> 00:14:08,300 But would it kill you to wear a little bit of rouge, huh? 259 00:14:12,380 --> 00:14:14,060 Where were we? 260 00:14:14,180 --> 00:14:18,261 You were advising me on how to accept your death. 261 00:14:18,620 --> 00:14:20,700 Who says I'm dying? 262 00:14:20,820 --> 00:14:22,780 No one listens to me. 263 00:14:22,900 --> 00:14:24,701 The story of my life. 264 00:14:24,800 --> 00:14:26,821 Why do people say that, 265 00:14:27,268 --> 00:14:29,101 the story of my life? 266 00:14:29,340 --> 00:14:31,420 Because everyone's got one. 267 00:14:32,740 --> 00:14:34,980 And I'd kill to hear yours. 268 00:14:35,940 --> 00:14:37,141 "For Alice, 269 00:14:37,161 --> 00:14:40,401 the voyage of discovery is not in seeking new lands, 270 00:14:40,507 --> 00:14:44,181 but seeing old lands with new eyes." 271 00:14:44,959 --> 00:14:46,919 Dump that last line. 272 00:14:47,380 --> 00:14:50,194 - You're not bloody "Prowst." - Proust. 273 00:14:50,421 --> 00:14:52,148 You don't like it? 274 00:14:52,188 --> 00:14:55,141 Kudos for the turnover time. She's barely cold. 275 00:14:55,380 --> 00:14:56,861 But, Clancy, 276 00:14:57,054 --> 00:14:59,181 your words screech when they should sing. 277 00:14:59,406 --> 00:15:01,486 Do better. Or don't do it. 278 00:15:08,700 --> 00:15:10,860 Do better? Fine. 279 00:15:10,980 --> 00:15:12,660 How about a dead man walking. 280 00:15:12,786 --> 00:15:15,226 Or well... climbing. 281 00:15:15,340 --> 00:15:17,767 - It's a really dangerous job, right? - Says who? 282 00:15:17,907 --> 00:15:19,940 The National Statistics Office. 283 00:15:20,060 --> 00:15:22,940 They claim that fatality rates for roofers are... 284 00:15:23,940 --> 00:15:25,581 through the roof. 285 00:15:25,673 --> 00:15:27,141 Nothing can kill me. 286 00:15:27,241 --> 00:15:29,694 Not no roof nor no... statistics! 287 00:15:29,840 --> 00:15:33,060 Sorry, Bob. But the stats beg to differ. 288 00:15:33,279 --> 00:15:35,639 "Always reaching for the heights, 289 00:15:35,840 --> 00:15:39,141 as Bob mounts his ladder, one last time. 290 00:15:39,299 --> 00:15:40,821 Think of him as gone, 291 00:15:41,174 --> 00:15:43,221 yet not defeated." 292 00:15:43,860 --> 00:15:47,147 Lose that last line. You're not bloody Hemingway. 293 00:15:48,440 --> 00:15:50,640 Look, there is some improvement. 294 00:15:52,106 --> 00:15:54,306 I only spotted two typos. 295 00:15:58,273 --> 00:16:00,673 The people of this town think my next advance 296 00:16:00,740 --> 00:16:02,861 is Kilraven's nicest man. 297 00:16:03,100 --> 00:16:05,860 Dad strongly disagrees. 298 00:16:05,980 --> 00:16:08,887 Still, the guy is riddled with cancer. Stage Four. 299 00:16:09,014 --> 00:16:11,060 And because there's no Stage Five, 300 00:16:11,081 --> 00:16:13,121 - it's just a matter of waiting. - _ 301 00:16:15,147 --> 00:16:17,181 - _ - And waiting... 302 00:16:18,020 --> 00:16:19,740 and waiting! 303 00:16:20,620 --> 00:16:22,460 And waiting. 304 00:16:23,553 --> 00:16:25,393 And waiting! 305 00:16:25,593 --> 00:16:28,620 And waiting, and... 306 00:16:33,060 --> 00:16:34,940 Beautiful day, isn't it? 307 00:16:37,639 --> 00:16:39,294 - It's the weirdest thing. - _ 308 00:16:39,321 --> 00:16:41,781 This dying man is refusing to die. 309 00:16:42,620 --> 00:16:44,340 Beautiful day, isn't it? 310 00:16:46,540 --> 00:16:49,421 His body screams cancer. 311 00:16:51,307 --> 00:16:52,987 Beautiful day, isn't it? 312 00:16:53,974 --> 00:16:56,661 Yet four weeks since my last obit, 313 00:16:56,700 --> 00:16:59,221 - _ - Sandy walks this earth. 314 00:17:00,433 --> 00:17:02,414 It's a beautiful day, isn't it? 315 00:17:02,707 --> 00:17:04,761 My bank balance is a bust, 316 00:17:04,782 --> 00:17:06,687 - and my work remains unread. - _ 317 00:17:06,708 --> 00:17:09,515 _ 318 00:17:10,820 --> 00:17:12,508 Beautiful day, isn't it? 319 00:17:14,347 --> 00:17:16,780 My words, trapped on my hard drive. 320 00:17:16,900 --> 00:17:19,307 Sandy's tumours, fighting for their lives. 321 00:17:19,340 --> 00:17:22,820 A kango hammer, chipping away at my brain. 322 00:17:22,940 --> 00:17:24,820 'What the hell do I do?' 323 00:17:31,032 --> 00:17:33,992 - What the hell are you doing?! - Beautiful day, isn't it? 324 00:17:34,020 --> 00:17:35,501 Are you serious? 325 00:17:35,686 --> 00:17:39,021 No one in their right mind could think today is a beautiful day. 326 00:17:39,274 --> 00:17:40,434 Are you saying there's something wrong 327 00:17:40,448 --> 00:17:41,860 - with my mind? - Finally. 328 00:17:41,900 --> 00:17:43,940 Something out of your mouth that makes sense. 329 00:17:44,294 --> 00:17:46,301 You can't talk to me like that. 330 00:17:46,501 --> 00:17:47,587 I'm sick. 331 00:17:47,632 --> 00:17:49,581 Oh, join the fucking club. 332 00:17:53,700 --> 00:17:55,780 - Go get them. - Make me. 333 00:17:55,900 --> 00:17:57,101 Fine. 334 00:18:06,107 --> 00:18:09,267 - We're going to the Guards. - Why? I... I saved you. 335 00:18:09,301 --> 00:18:11,501 Jesus. Saved me! 336 00:18:11,546 --> 00:18:13,786 You're more stupid than I thought! 337 00:18:14,780 --> 00:18:16,381 You didn't know. 338 00:18:16,420 --> 00:18:19,301 - Know what? - The town laughs at ye. 339 00:18:19,467 --> 00:18:21,941 The sewer rat unfit to be a father. 340 00:18:22,034 --> 00:18:24,580 The freak waiting for people to die. 341 00:18:24,700 --> 00:18:26,381 Now your mother? 342 00:18:27,140 --> 00:18:28,940 A tasty bit a pipe. 343 00:18:29,060 --> 00:18:31,220 Pity she died and you didn't. 344 00:18:33,693 --> 00:18:35,733 - You were right. - So you admit it? 345 00:18:35,780 --> 00:18:38,221 - You did push me. - No. 346 00:18:40,446 --> 00:18:42,366 It is a beautiful day. 347 00:19:06,100 --> 00:19:10,221 I'd be lying if I said I didn't fantasize about doing this someday. 348 00:19:10,780 --> 00:19:13,180 I just never knew how I'd feel. 349 00:19:13,300 --> 00:19:15,580 Mrs Benson, thanks for seeing me. 350 00:19:16,340 --> 00:19:18,081 I know this is weird, 351 00:19:18,140 --> 00:19:21,820 with me being the one who saw your husband... slip. 352 00:19:22,079 --> 00:19:24,919 But.. look, I won't take up much of your time. 353 00:19:25,306 --> 00:19:27,101 - The thing is... - Yeah. 354 00:19:27,700 --> 00:19:30,781 Your words are how Sandy will be remembered. 355 00:19:31,100 --> 00:19:33,820 - The more you know... - The more I can, 356 00:19:33,940 --> 00:19:37,020 pardon the pun, bring him to life. 357 00:19:38,553 --> 00:19:40,193 Okay. 358 00:19:41,066 --> 00:19:42,786 But we're getting drunk. 359 00:19:48,333 --> 00:19:52,333 So... I'm under this big sycamore. 360 00:19:52,432 --> 00:19:54,294 First time making love. 361 00:19:54,347 --> 00:19:56,054 But there's this farmer, 362 00:19:56,088 --> 00:19:58,354 sneaking a sly look at us, 363 00:19:58,401 --> 00:20:00,180 his Friesians behind him. 364 00:20:00,300 --> 00:20:01,994 I slip my bits back in... 365 00:20:02,021 --> 00:20:03,941 Which are still fabulous! 366 00:20:04,180 --> 00:20:06,781 But my husband, still at half-mast, 367 00:20:06,859 --> 00:20:09,299 offers to put on a second showing. 368 00:20:12,100 --> 00:20:14,700 Sandy could be crude that way. 369 00:20:14,900 --> 00:20:16,900 I'll see if I can get that in. 370 00:20:20,533 --> 00:20:21,734 Then... 371 00:20:22,301 --> 00:20:23,501 that's that. 372 00:20:25,073 --> 00:20:26,673 Really? 373 00:20:27,040 --> 00:20:29,920 'Cos I feel like we're still missing something. 374 00:20:32,026 --> 00:20:34,826 Look, let's go off record. 375 00:20:38,100 --> 00:20:39,860 Okay. 376 00:20:42,100 --> 00:20:44,140 Sandy was... 377 00:20:46,260 --> 00:20:47,941 in remission! 378 00:20:49,753 --> 00:20:51,741 The last five years! 379 00:20:52,008 --> 00:20:53,567 Sandy wasn't sick. 380 00:20:53,620 --> 00:20:55,900 He just loved the attention! 381 00:20:56,020 --> 00:20:57,701 But he had a blog. 382 00:20:57,973 --> 00:21:00,973 About his ups and downs, the town read it. 383 00:21:01,380 --> 00:21:02,820 Lies. 384 00:21:03,660 --> 00:21:06,820 Sandy could have lived 30 more years but for that fall. 385 00:21:10,940 --> 00:21:13,667 - Oh pet, you're crying. - Sorry. 386 00:21:14,540 --> 00:21:16,380 It's a shock. 387 00:21:17,700 --> 00:21:19,588 I thought Sandy had months left, 388 00:21:19,661 --> 00:21:21,581 not years. 389 00:21:21,979 --> 00:21:24,334 Years I took from him. 390 00:21:24,740 --> 00:21:27,514 I thought I'd killed a dying man, when really, 391 00:21:27,707 --> 00:21:30,261 I'd killed a man who deserved to die. 392 00:21:30,339 --> 00:21:31,821 That's okay, love. 393 00:21:31,881 --> 00:21:33,948 I've never felt such happiness. 394 00:21:34,700 --> 00:21:37,140 And everyone wants to be happy. 395 00:21:37,520 --> 00:21:38,721 Right? 396 00:21:40,839 --> 00:21:43,381 "Sadly, we can do nothing for Sandy, 397 00:21:43,408 --> 00:21:44,967 but cherish his memory. 398 00:21:45,039 --> 00:21:47,381 As surely his wife, Margo will, 399 00:21:47,700 --> 00:21:51,780 who one day hopes to meet him under that sycamore in the sky, 400 00:21:51,900 --> 00:21:56,460 where they will frolic like teens while the Friesians watch." 401 00:21:57,660 --> 00:22:00,121 No, no, no, this is good. I know it is! 402 00:22:00,167 --> 00:22:01,421 I can't publish it. 403 00:22:01,461 --> 00:22:03,520 - You and your typos can go fuck... - Margo! 404 00:22:03,540 --> 00:22:06,414 Sandy's wife doesn't want him declared dead. 405 00:22:06,620 --> 00:22:07,661 But... 406 00:22:08,294 --> 00:22:09,534 he is dead. 407 00:22:09,580 --> 00:22:12,561 His body was never recovered. She's going to wait out the 7 years. 408 00:22:12,601 --> 00:22:14,381 So no one reads my work? 409 00:22:14,700 --> 00:22:16,461 And no pay? 410 00:22:18,007 --> 00:22:19,700 I'm sorry, Clancy. 411 00:22:19,820 --> 00:22:21,820 It kills me as much as it does you. 412 00:22:25,300 --> 00:22:26,821 No matter. 413 00:22:27,260 --> 00:22:29,021 I like what I wrote. 414 00:22:29,213 --> 00:22:31,221 I've found my voice now. 415 00:22:31,740 --> 00:22:34,460 A voice with murder as a muse. 416 00:22:36,453 --> 00:22:38,574 Of course, I should stop. 417 00:22:39,780 --> 00:22:41,940 But now is not a good time for me. 418 00:22:44,100 --> 00:22:45,700 I'll see you later? 419 00:22:46,780 --> 00:22:49,981 Your first kill is like your first orgasm. 420 00:22:50,740 --> 00:22:52,420 You feel guilty. 421 00:22:52,686 --> 00:22:54,686 Is Patsy's chest still at him? 422 00:22:54,839 --> 00:22:56,839 You're not sure how it happened. 423 00:22:57,193 --> 00:22:58,221 Belt. 424 00:22:58,253 --> 00:23:00,461 But you're damn sure you want another. 425 00:23:00,740 --> 00:23:02,620 At least, that's what Mal says. 426 00:23:05,547 --> 00:23:08,381 Hey, where d'ya get your licence? A fuckin' raffle? 427 00:23:10,140 --> 00:23:12,340 - Who was that? - Sylvester McHugh. 428 00:23:12,460 --> 00:23:14,381 Big builder back in London. 429 00:23:14,448 --> 00:23:16,120 Contracted all his work out. 430 00:23:16,180 --> 00:23:18,981 Cut so many corners that three boys died on the job. 431 00:23:19,780 --> 00:23:23,300 And Kilraven welcomed that asshole back with open arms. 432 00:23:23,420 --> 00:23:24,781 As I said, 433 00:23:25,061 --> 00:23:27,221 sometimes my dad inspires me. 434 00:23:27,260 --> 00:23:28,741 I tell you something, 435 00:23:28,847 --> 00:23:30,741 someone should clip his wings, 436 00:23:31,041 --> 00:23:32,781 before anybody else gets hurt. 437 00:23:32,900 --> 00:23:36,900 Still, it's all well and good, but I've got to be smart. 438 00:23:37,020 --> 00:23:38,927 That means never getting caught. 439 00:23:38,948 --> 00:23:41,340 Which means picking the right one, which means... 440 00:23:41,387 --> 00:23:43,627 picking someone who deserves it. 441 00:23:44,700 --> 00:23:45,901 So... 442 00:23:46,541 --> 00:23:49,421 does Sylvester deserve it? 443 00:23:54,860 --> 00:23:56,700 Oh, Mal. 444 00:23:57,420 --> 00:24:01,060 You're my best friend, but you've lousy taste in men. 445 00:24:08,860 --> 00:24:10,900 You know, we're in the same boat. 446 00:24:11,020 --> 00:24:12,940 We both don't want some rando 447 00:24:13,060 --> 00:24:15,261 who's spent his whole life in Kilraven, but... 448 00:24:16,380 --> 00:24:19,380 - trust me, Mal, someone... - Better will come along? 449 00:24:19,500 --> 00:24:20,741 Elvira! 450 00:24:21,048 --> 00:24:22,787 Christ, you've been spouting that same shite 451 00:24:22,807 --> 00:24:24,740 for the last five years. 452 00:24:27,460 --> 00:24:28,701 Look... 453 00:24:29,621 --> 00:24:30,621 What? 454 00:24:30,740 --> 00:24:33,500 Last Christmas, I overheard the Scriney sisters. 455 00:24:33,620 --> 00:24:36,754 Those piss-bags said that girls like us, 456 00:24:36,874 --> 00:24:39,959 who never left Kilraven were different from girls who went to college. 457 00:24:40,086 --> 00:24:41,900 I went to college. 458 00:24:43,812 --> 00:24:46,492 Okay, online. But so did you. 459 00:24:46,580 --> 00:24:49,900 Ah, look, a month blowing my grant on MDMA is not college. 460 00:24:51,940 --> 00:24:54,901 Anyways, they said we were robbed of our dreams. 461 00:24:55,266 --> 00:24:57,306 That our small-minded brains never grew 462 00:24:57,380 --> 00:24:59,461 because we never went anywhere. 463 00:24:59,699 --> 00:25:01,301 Then I meet Sylvester. 464 00:25:01,627 --> 00:25:03,180 And he's seen the world. 465 00:25:03,727 --> 00:25:05,461 Well, London. 466 00:25:05,568 --> 00:25:07,701 So I says, I'll have that for a bit. 467 00:25:08,100 --> 00:25:09,341 And why not, like? 468 00:25:09,653 --> 00:25:12,106 The man's a... go-getter. 469 00:25:12,307 --> 00:25:14,500 You may think we have nothing in common. 470 00:25:14,620 --> 00:25:16,741 This crazy mess and me. 471 00:25:17,300 --> 00:25:19,621 But you could not be more wrong. 472 00:25:19,980 --> 00:25:22,474 - Both mothers dead. - _ 473 00:25:22,521 --> 00:25:24,661 Mine in a pool of her own blood, 474 00:25:25,106 --> 00:25:28,186 hers on a hen party in Liverpool. 475 00:25:29,380 --> 00:25:31,420 Deadly place, isn't it? 476 00:25:34,300 --> 00:25:36,341 What's the sex like? 477 00:25:36,693 --> 00:25:38,720 You never ask me about my sex life. 478 00:25:38,866 --> 00:25:40,786 Well, you never ask me about mine. 479 00:25:44,940 --> 00:25:47,301 He says I blow the wife out of the water. 480 00:25:47,807 --> 00:25:50,174 Oh, get this. The last night he was on top of me, 481 00:25:50,213 --> 00:25:53,101 he starts twitching like crazy. 482 00:25:53,841 --> 00:25:55,540 Isn't that a good thing? 483 00:25:55,919 --> 00:25:57,759 He was having an epileptic fit. 484 00:25:58,460 --> 00:26:00,421 Forgot to take his pills. 485 00:26:00,660 --> 00:26:03,021 Who says I can't make men drool, eh? 486 00:26:03,780 --> 00:26:05,101 You know, Mal. 487 00:26:05,574 --> 00:26:07,261 Guys like him... 488 00:26:08,120 --> 00:26:10,600 - Push them and they're dangerous. - So he's got a temper! 489 00:26:10,733 --> 00:26:12,901 He's up the walls with work, but I can handle mys... 490 00:26:14,720 --> 00:26:16,161 Fuck it! 491 00:26:17,293 --> 00:26:19,053 Here, have mine. 492 00:26:22,206 --> 00:26:23,988 It's just a 99, Mal. 493 00:26:24,008 --> 00:26:26,541 Nothing's ever just a 99, Elvira. 494 00:26:28,860 --> 00:26:30,101 You know, 495 00:26:30,281 --> 00:26:32,341 sometimes, I just feel like... 496 00:26:32,706 --> 00:26:34,666 A laughing stock? 497 00:26:35,980 --> 00:26:37,620 Lost. 498 00:26:39,693 --> 00:26:42,453 People tell me to skip town. I say, why? 499 00:26:43,220 --> 00:26:44,900 I'm from here. 500 00:26:45,027 --> 00:26:47,307 - What I want is something to happen here! - Like what? 501 00:26:47,420 --> 00:26:48,900 I dunno. 502 00:26:50,460 --> 00:26:52,300 I just want it to happen. 503 00:26:53,260 --> 00:26:54,787 I'll wait for it if I have to. 504 00:26:54,826 --> 00:26:56,167 I'm done waiting. 505 00:26:56,634 --> 00:27:00,020 Sylvester's purpose in life seems to be to hurt everyone around him. 506 00:27:00,620 --> 00:27:03,460 Therefore, if my purpose in life is to kill, 507 00:27:03,580 --> 00:27:05,741 I think I'll make some rules. 508 00:27:05,799 --> 00:27:07,167 And one must be, 509 00:27:07,234 --> 00:27:10,381 no one I love ever gets hurt. 510 00:27:22,340 --> 00:27:24,021 This is a small town. 511 00:27:24,120 --> 00:27:27,047 That means there can never be a whiff of murder. 512 00:27:27,420 --> 00:27:30,180 Everything must be a mishap or a suicide. 513 00:27:30,201 --> 00:27:33,501 An act of God, or a sex act gone wrong. 514 00:27:44,380 --> 00:27:46,288 _ 515 00:27:54,647 --> 00:27:56,534 _ 516 00:27:57,946 --> 00:28:00,127 _ 517 00:28:05,100 --> 00:28:08,941 A while back, a journalist opened an image sent to him on Twitter. 518 00:28:09,300 --> 00:28:11,101 It was strobe lighting. 519 00:28:11,153 --> 00:28:13,593 The guy, a known epileptic, 520 00:28:13,980 --> 00:28:15,941 came within seconds of dying, 521 00:28:15,968 --> 00:28:17,701 when he suffered a seizure. 522 00:28:18,573 --> 00:28:20,693 Still, it could have been worse. 523 00:28:20,980 --> 00:28:23,340 He could have been trapped in the boot of a car. 524 00:28:55,020 --> 00:28:57,581 Crucial to this whole thing, is research. 525 00:28:59,220 --> 00:29:02,380 In this case, the dark web and a can of Ketamine. 526 00:29:02,500 --> 00:29:05,420 Several good blasts, they're toast. 527 00:29:05,620 --> 00:29:07,861 But a couple of spritzes... 528 00:29:07,966 --> 00:29:09,961 it's sleepy time. 529 00:29:21,708 --> 00:29:23,181 _ 530 00:29:27,679 --> 00:29:30,280 Sylvester's going to spend the next few days 531 00:29:30,301 --> 00:29:34,180 swallowing a little something from my own medicine cabinet. 532 00:29:44,060 --> 00:29:46,327 Also essential is intel. 533 00:29:46,620 --> 00:29:48,620 And because she tells me everything, 534 00:29:48,740 --> 00:29:50,701 I always know when and where 535 00:29:50,801 --> 00:29:52,941 Sylvester and Mallory will meet. 536 00:29:56,700 --> 00:29:58,820 I told you he'd remember! 537 00:29:59,452 --> 00:30:01,372 Aren't they gorgeous? 538 00:30:05,114 --> 00:30:09,281 _ 539 00:30:09,328 --> 00:30:12,421 _ 540 00:30:12,454 --> 00:30:14,527 _ 541 00:30:15,580 --> 00:30:17,340 How do you do that? 542 00:30:18,360 --> 00:30:19,541 Do what? 543 00:30:19,728 --> 00:30:20,941 Well, hello! 544 00:30:21,379 --> 00:30:23,261 Get people to open up to you like that. 545 00:30:23,394 --> 00:30:25,061 When they're at their lowest. 546 00:30:25,620 --> 00:30:28,781 The people I deal with are consumed with death. 547 00:30:29,187 --> 00:30:31,374 Add sedatives and stodgy funeral food, 548 00:30:31,407 --> 00:30:32,975 they soon realise their deep dark secrets 549 00:30:33,001 --> 00:30:34,661 aren't worth taking to the grave. 550 00:30:34,734 --> 00:30:36,141 Emerson Stafford. 551 00:30:36,741 --> 00:30:38,034 - Elvira... - Clancy. 552 00:30:38,180 --> 00:30:39,181 I know. 553 00:30:39,541 --> 00:30:41,333 Tell me, what are you working on now? 554 00:30:41,460 --> 00:30:43,660 It's a... surprise. 555 00:30:45,287 --> 00:30:47,420 Does it not get depressing? 556 00:30:47,540 --> 00:30:48,980 Obituaries? 557 00:30:49,341 --> 00:30:52,301 I spend two lines out of a hundred on how someone died. 558 00:30:52,947 --> 00:30:55,507 The rest is a celebration of their life. 559 00:30:55,574 --> 00:30:57,901 Yeah, but you make your living from death. 560 00:30:58,300 --> 00:31:01,220 - As do cigarette companies... - And crime correspondents. 561 00:31:01,340 --> 00:31:03,300 I'm taking over from Clive, so... 562 00:31:03,420 --> 00:31:04,940 looks like we're working together. 563 00:31:05,060 --> 00:31:07,454 Now I know, staff will bitch about the new hire. 564 00:31:07,574 --> 00:31:09,540 But don't worry. I'm paid per piece. 565 00:31:09,660 --> 00:31:11,661 Still, they'll get mighty snotty 566 00:31:11,682 --> 00:31:13,781 when they see every second article is mine, right? 567 00:31:14,559 --> 00:31:16,999 Hey, uh... you up to anything later? 568 00:31:18,206 --> 00:31:21,206 Only I thought I'd grab a drink at the Mariner. 569 00:31:23,660 --> 00:31:25,301 How's nine sound? 570 00:31:25,601 --> 00:31:27,541 It sounds a lot better than "no". 571 00:31:28,020 --> 00:31:29,661 I'll see you later. 572 00:31:30,380 --> 00:31:33,660 Tonight was to be Sylvester's last night on Earth. 573 00:31:33,780 --> 00:31:35,694 Looks like we both got lucky. 574 00:31:44,460 --> 00:31:46,981 - Sorry I'm late. - Don't worry about it. 575 00:31:48,140 --> 00:31:49,907 What are you doing here? 576 00:31:49,992 --> 00:31:52,547 - Well, "hello" to you too. - What are you having, Elvira? 577 00:31:53,319 --> 00:31:55,187 Whatever Mallory's having. 578 00:31:55,266 --> 00:31:57,266 Since she's having what I'm having. 579 00:31:57,580 --> 00:31:59,620 - What can I get you? - Whiskey and ice... 580 00:32:05,587 --> 00:32:07,021 What's that for? 581 00:32:07,181 --> 00:32:09,360 You said someone better would come along, 582 00:32:09,534 --> 00:32:11,581 and bam! I bump into him. 583 00:32:12,106 --> 00:32:13,347 What? 584 00:32:13,534 --> 00:32:14,901 He could be married. 585 00:32:15,186 --> 00:32:16,512 Or gay. 586 00:32:16,980 --> 00:32:19,140 You don't like him, do you? 587 00:32:20,460 --> 00:32:21,621 Good. 588 00:32:22,367 --> 00:32:24,501 Eh, hey Emerson. 589 00:32:24,820 --> 00:32:26,954 Elvira reckons you're gay... which... 590 00:32:27,374 --> 00:32:29,281 - I'm down with. - No, I don't. 591 00:32:29,334 --> 00:32:31,021 I'm sorry to disappoint you. 592 00:32:31,180 --> 00:32:33,500 Well, with that put to bed, tell us. 593 00:32:33,561 --> 00:32:37,160 How do you end up working at our little rag, 594 00:32:37,207 --> 00:32:39,900 - for that wanker, Hughie? - I like Hughie. 595 00:32:40,020 --> 00:32:42,340 At least you know where you stand with him. 596 00:32:42,387 --> 00:32:44,494 You like Hughie because he lets you away with murder. 597 00:32:44,539 --> 00:32:45,647 Oh, does he? 598 00:32:45,841 --> 00:32:47,381 Let you away with murder? 599 00:32:48,460 --> 00:32:50,780 So Emerson, why journalism? 600 00:32:51,067 --> 00:32:52,740 And why here? 601 00:32:52,780 --> 00:32:55,381 - You guys will laugh at me. - No, we won't. 602 00:32:56,140 --> 00:32:58,780 It was my cousin's funeral. I was 9. 603 00:32:58,900 --> 00:33:02,021 - He was 6, poor kid drowned. - Pool, river or sea? 604 00:33:02,500 --> 00:33:03,741 Sea. 605 00:33:04,660 --> 00:33:07,094 But he had this twin. Now on the day of the funeral, 606 00:33:07,154 --> 00:33:09,726 his parents for some reason, do not ask me why, 607 00:33:09,747 --> 00:33:12,020 but they decided to dress them both in matching outfits. 608 00:33:12,140 --> 00:33:14,660 So you can imagine, I'm standing there, I'm 9 years old. 609 00:33:14,780 --> 00:33:17,821 I'm looking into this coffin with this kid lying there, my cousin. 610 00:33:17,953 --> 00:33:20,601 And then they close the lid, and stick the lad in the ground. 611 00:33:20,667 --> 00:33:22,814 There are sixteen words for "love" in Latin, 612 00:33:22,867 --> 00:33:25,460 yet none to describe how turned on I am. 613 00:33:25,526 --> 00:33:26,861 But there's this other lad, 614 00:33:27,034 --> 00:33:29,621 standing right there. Identical to the one just buried. 615 00:33:30,540 --> 00:33:33,100 I thought I was looking at a ghost. It changes you. 616 00:33:34,501 --> 00:33:37,380 And I went home and told my friends what had happened. 617 00:33:37,500 --> 00:33:40,700 And they had the worst nightmares, they'd ever had in their lives. 618 00:33:40,820 --> 00:33:42,101 That's when I knew, 619 00:33:42,400 --> 00:33:46,192 my job is to bring the world's weirdest stories to the people. 620 00:33:46,580 --> 00:33:49,101 And what better place than Kilraven. 621 00:33:49,300 --> 00:33:51,501 We don't even have a Penneys. 622 00:33:51,780 --> 00:33:54,767 But we have people like Mal, who has committed armed robbery. 623 00:33:55,021 --> 00:33:57,734 - "Armed" is a stretch. - You had a golf club. 624 00:33:57,814 --> 00:33:59,687 - A putter. - Still took two grand out of that shop. 625 00:33:59,721 --> 00:34:02,207 Well, it would have been a grand more if it were a Penneys. 626 00:34:02,247 --> 00:34:04,301 - Did you get time? - Suspended. 627 00:34:04,440 --> 00:34:06,861 Eighteen months if I darken the door of a court again. 628 00:34:07,380 --> 00:34:08,581 Well, 629 00:34:09,134 --> 00:34:10,621 I should write a story about you. 630 00:34:12,180 --> 00:34:14,100 "Reformed con makes good." 631 00:34:14,220 --> 00:34:16,188 Maybe I should write a story on you. 632 00:34:16,274 --> 00:34:17,981 "Reformed con dies." 633 00:34:21,020 --> 00:34:23,781 - My phone is broken, can I... - Yeah, yeah. Use mine. 634 00:34:33,268 --> 00:34:35,961 _ 635 00:34:36,848 --> 00:34:38,215 _ 636 00:34:43,273 --> 00:34:46,273 - You followed me in here? - This is the mens. 637 00:34:46,780 --> 00:34:48,301 Oh... yeah. 638 00:34:48,660 --> 00:34:50,460 I wondered what that smell was. 639 00:34:50,580 --> 00:34:53,781 Whatever he does, he's giving me that feeling again. 640 00:34:54,894 --> 00:34:55,894 _ 641 00:34:55,927 --> 00:34:59,194 - And then there's that other feeling. - _ 642 00:34:59,260 --> 00:35:01,421 - I've to go. - Ah, stay. 643 00:35:01,442 --> 00:35:03,134 Mallory and I would love it. 644 00:35:03,220 --> 00:35:05,700 Two shandies and they're "Mallory and I" already? 645 00:35:06,660 --> 00:35:08,140 Dad's ill. 646 00:35:08,486 --> 00:35:10,326 Give Mal her phone. 647 00:36:04,620 --> 00:36:06,381 Everything alright? 648 00:36:06,820 --> 00:36:08,821 Good. Now... 649 00:36:09,500 --> 00:36:11,461 Why are you parked here? 650 00:36:12,780 --> 00:36:15,381 Whoa, whoa, whoa. 651 00:36:15,940 --> 00:36:18,141 Just getting my driver's license. 652 00:36:24,100 --> 00:36:26,501 I come here sometimes to... 653 00:36:27,140 --> 00:36:28,940 clear my head. 654 00:36:29,060 --> 00:36:30,381 Funny that. 655 00:36:30,461 --> 00:36:33,194 Because usually when people come here, they come here to do drugs. 656 00:36:33,220 --> 00:36:34,534 Do you do drugs? 657 00:36:35,326 --> 00:36:36,667 Have you been drinking? 658 00:36:36,801 --> 00:36:38,741 - Just the one, guard. - Really? 659 00:36:39,366 --> 00:36:41,766 Because you seem very nervous. 660 00:36:42,060 --> 00:36:43,581 Are you nervous? 661 00:36:44,706 --> 00:36:46,461 Then you won't mind me checking your vehicle. 662 00:36:46,548 --> 00:36:47,548 Yeah? 663 00:36:47,747 --> 00:36:49,228 Be my guest. 664 00:36:52,420 --> 00:36:54,141 Anything in your boot? 665 00:36:54,181 --> 00:36:56,746 Just an eight-inch hunting knife and enough strobe lighting 666 00:36:56,767 --> 00:36:58,420 to kill a man. 667 00:36:59,380 --> 00:37:00,901 Still... 668 00:37:01,300 --> 00:37:03,340 you better pop it for me. 669 00:37:05,113 --> 00:37:07,113 The thing's broken. 670 00:37:08,660 --> 00:37:10,580 You'll have to do it yourself. 671 00:37:23,387 --> 00:37:24,828 Hey... 672 00:37:26,013 --> 00:37:27,814 What's with the can? 673 00:37:29,180 --> 00:37:32,021 The thing is always acting up. It's just... 674 00:37:33,580 --> 00:37:34,981 Rose... 675 00:37:35,340 --> 00:37:37,261 A call came in. A domestic. 676 00:37:38,060 --> 00:37:39,781 Gimme a second. 677 00:37:40,366 --> 00:37:43,326 Alice worked nights at Fruit of the Loom. 678 00:37:44,119 --> 00:37:46,981 Having spent a whole day weaving baskets, 679 00:37:47,673 --> 00:37:51,153 she'd still be home in time to make her daughter's breakfast. 680 00:37:52,373 --> 00:37:55,933 A glamorous woman, her speciality was... 681 00:37:56,940 --> 00:37:58,901 Fancy baskets. 682 00:37:59,300 --> 00:38:02,220 Made from ash strips woven in patterns. 683 00:38:02,340 --> 00:38:04,701 Topped with carved flowers as... 684 00:38:04,741 --> 00:38:06,261 As her mother's had been. 685 00:38:06,660 --> 00:38:10,381 And as she hoped her daughter, Rose's would someday be too. 686 00:38:11,100 --> 00:38:13,901 You wrote that? My mum's obituary? 687 00:38:17,620 --> 00:38:20,100 We spoke before she passed. 688 00:38:20,220 --> 00:38:22,660 She said you meant the world to her. 689 00:38:24,260 --> 00:38:26,540 She had a weird way of showing it. 690 00:38:27,493 --> 00:38:29,533 Left an awful lot unsaid. 691 00:38:30,300 --> 00:38:33,260 Must have made accepting her death difficult. 692 00:38:35,700 --> 00:38:38,321 She was always telling you to lose weight, find a man. 693 00:38:38,387 --> 00:38:40,340 Wear make-up, join a gym. 694 00:38:40,460 --> 00:38:43,300 - You've made your point! - My point is... 695 00:38:44,500 --> 00:38:46,741 She thought you were beautiful. 696 00:38:47,100 --> 00:38:49,420 She wished she'd said it more. 697 00:38:50,340 --> 00:38:51,821 She said that? 698 00:38:53,580 --> 00:38:55,460 Those very words? 699 00:38:57,700 --> 00:38:59,701 I never met my mum. 700 00:39:00,406 --> 00:39:03,246 I'd die happy hearing what she thought of me. 701 00:39:16,260 --> 00:39:18,060 Safe home. 702 00:39:22,260 --> 00:39:24,100 Oh, and Miss Clancy... 703 00:39:25,020 --> 00:39:26,981 When my time comes, 704 00:39:27,980 --> 00:39:30,380 I'd like you to write my obituary. 705 00:39:31,507 --> 00:39:32,854 Done. 706 00:39:32,920 --> 00:39:34,501 As am I. 707 00:39:36,740 --> 00:39:38,641 I'm not cut out for this. 708 00:39:39,300 --> 00:39:41,620 That close to getting caught. 709 00:39:41,740 --> 00:39:44,260 No way. No! 710 00:39:44,780 --> 00:39:46,700 It ends now. 711 00:40:04,180 --> 00:40:06,741 So this is where they found Maria Riedle's body? 712 00:40:13,180 --> 00:40:14,781 You okay? 713 00:40:15,540 --> 00:40:17,660 Heard it's in both lungs now. 714 00:40:17,780 --> 00:40:19,980 The rest of my files this week. 715 00:40:24,020 --> 00:40:25,700 First Guard on the scene? 716 00:40:25,820 --> 00:40:28,381 If you want to get the DPP file off her, 717 00:40:28,528 --> 00:40:30,141 you'll need leverage. 718 00:40:31,980 --> 00:40:34,220 The "Mallory" I mentioned. 719 00:40:34,553 --> 00:40:36,793 Last person to see Maria alive. 720 00:40:37,326 --> 00:40:39,326 Five years have passed. 721 00:40:39,646 --> 00:40:42,406 But I bet she still remembers every tiny detail. 722 00:40:42,472 --> 00:40:44,174 Oh, I'm way ahead of ya there. 723 00:40:44,253 --> 00:40:45,581 I didn't drag you to this town 724 00:40:45,601 --> 00:40:47,047 - to get your hole. - No. 725 00:40:47,099 --> 00:40:49,821 You dragged me here so I could finish what you couldn't. 726 00:40:50,460 --> 00:40:53,100 Emerson, this is my life's work. 727 00:40:54,600 --> 00:40:56,566 Jesus! You still don't get it. 728 00:40:56,686 --> 00:40:58,159 She's German! 729 00:40:58,279 --> 00:41:00,240 The story's international. 730 00:41:00,420 --> 00:41:03,660 If your work leads to the arrest of Maria Riedle's killer, 731 00:41:03,780 --> 00:41:05,940 we're talking books, films. 732 00:41:06,179 --> 00:41:08,739 - In German? - In every language! 733 00:41:10,020 --> 00:41:11,461 Netflix? 734 00:41:11,780 --> 00:41:13,661 I was thinking more Sky, 735 00:41:13,814 --> 00:41:15,494 but we'll ask them too. 736 00:41:16,300 --> 00:41:18,307 That grabbed your attention. 737 00:41:18,500 --> 00:41:19,535 Now... 738 00:41:20,148 --> 00:41:21,341 our deal. 739 00:41:21,860 --> 00:41:23,621 A change of plan. 740 00:41:25,179 --> 00:41:27,474 Upon the arrest of the killer, 741 00:41:28,340 --> 00:41:31,021 you don't get half of my life savings. You get the lot. 742 00:41:31,220 --> 00:41:32,501 Yeah. 743 00:41:32,867 --> 00:41:34,787 - What's the catch? - Not a penny 744 00:41:34,834 --> 00:41:37,141 if you don't finish up before I die. 745 00:41:37,533 --> 00:41:40,481 And when do you think that might that be? 746 00:41:44,406 --> 00:41:46,507 I'm working on it. 747 00:41:47,700 --> 00:41:50,420 And you're sure this scumbag... and I'm not saying it's him. 748 00:41:50,540 --> 00:41:53,860 - Are you sure her husband did it? - No doubt. 749 00:41:53,980 --> 00:41:55,841 Now go and prove it. 750 00:41:58,340 --> 00:42:00,060 - Cheers. - Go on! 751 00:42:09,433 --> 00:42:11,021 Elvira! 752 00:42:16,379 --> 00:42:18,507 Are the rats at ya? 753 00:42:19,380 --> 00:42:21,380 - I didn't always drink, you know? - Oh yeah? 754 00:42:21,500 --> 00:42:23,980 - Just these last few years. - Yeah, well... 755 00:42:24,100 --> 00:42:26,060 Maybe one day I'll tell you why. 756 00:42:26,173 --> 00:42:28,373 But for the moment, I enjoy it. Alright? 757 00:42:30,100 --> 00:42:32,420 And I could stop any time I want. But truthfully, 758 00:42:32,540 --> 00:42:35,100 - I don't like me without it, anyway. - Yeah, well.. 759 00:42:35,220 --> 00:42:37,807 - People change, Dad. - Yeah, pigs might fly... 760 00:42:38,239 --> 00:42:40,079 Jesus Christ! 761 00:42:40,666 --> 00:42:42,347 Go on, jog on redneck! 762 00:42:42,368 --> 00:42:44,141 Ya prize bollocks! 763 00:42:44,247 --> 00:42:46,780 Do you know he's suing his own brother over his father's will? 764 00:42:46,847 --> 00:42:48,887 And the poor fella's not the full shilling. 765 00:42:48,973 --> 00:42:51,001 And then he steps out in front of ya? 766 00:42:51,046 --> 00:42:52,707 He's an accident waiting to happen, that lad. 767 00:42:52,728 --> 00:42:53,794 No. 768 00:42:53,887 --> 00:42:56,381 When I say, I'm done. I'm done. 769 00:42:58,373 --> 00:43:01,253 Hughie, you promised to review my salary. Now is the time. 770 00:43:05,140 --> 00:43:07,060 You read The Lancet, Clancy? 771 00:43:07,180 --> 00:43:09,740 They claim that flu season is late this year, 772 00:43:09,860 --> 00:43:12,061 but it's going to hit big. 773 00:43:12,340 --> 00:43:13,501 Soon. 774 00:43:13,714 --> 00:43:16,194 - That's a boon for your beat. - So no review. 775 00:43:20,460 --> 00:43:22,581 I'm paying you for Sandy Benson. 776 00:43:23,380 --> 00:43:24,881 I can't publish it, 777 00:43:24,961 --> 00:43:27,014 but quality work deserves recognition. 778 00:43:27,066 --> 00:43:29,146 There's enough here for two obits. 779 00:43:30,326 --> 00:43:32,326 You ever heard of Sylvester McHugh? 780 00:43:34,093 --> 00:43:35,741 'Fraid not. 781 00:43:35,906 --> 00:43:37,866 A controversial figure. 782 00:43:37,967 --> 00:43:40,980 They found him slumped over the wheel of his car this morning. 783 00:43:41,001 --> 00:43:42,347 His meds. 784 00:43:42,368 --> 00:43:45,421 His wife says he suffered from epilepsy. 785 00:43:45,646 --> 00:43:47,367 That's the official line. 786 00:43:47,561 --> 00:43:49,381 I forgot to change them back. 787 00:43:49,761 --> 00:43:52,140 Look, with Sandy's obit... 788 00:43:52,260 --> 00:43:53,521 I did that. 789 00:43:53,674 --> 00:43:54,906 That was me. 790 00:43:54,927 --> 00:43:58,580 It finally felt like you got the person you were writing about. 791 00:43:58,700 --> 00:44:00,501 Too right, I did! 792 00:44:01,246 --> 00:44:02,614 And also, 793 00:44:02,928 --> 00:44:04,701 it inspired me. 794 00:44:05,380 --> 00:44:08,494 To see you not have it, search for it, and find it, 795 00:44:08,587 --> 00:44:11,340 it made me want to get back into "real" journalism again. 796 00:44:11,460 --> 00:44:13,100 Big and small. 797 00:44:13,220 --> 00:44:15,820 This town is full of stories. 798 00:44:16,452 --> 00:44:18,093 I'm going to find them. 799 00:44:18,367 --> 00:44:20,221 So I stay on 200 an obit? 800 00:44:20,241 --> 00:44:21,901 Desperation drives you. 801 00:44:22,020 --> 00:44:23,821 Let's see where it takes us. 802 00:44:24,100 --> 00:44:25,821 Do you know what you're doing? 803 00:44:27,060 --> 00:44:28,860 I'm making a good journalist. 804 00:44:28,980 --> 00:44:31,660 No, you're taking a flamethrower to this town. 805 00:44:31,780 --> 00:44:33,681 You just keep doing exactly as you've been doing 806 00:44:33,706 --> 00:44:35,466 these last few weeks. 807 00:44:37,040 --> 00:44:39,080 And if work turns slow again? 808 00:44:40,060 --> 00:44:41,861 You'll think of something. 809 00:44:51,213 --> 00:44:52,701 - Hey babe! - Hiya. 810 00:44:52,753 --> 00:44:54,201 - Will we bounce? - Wow. 811 00:45:01,773 --> 00:45:04,287 - Hey! Watch it. - I'm sorry. 812 00:45:04,594 --> 00:45:07,061 - _ - They say if you want to write, 813 00:45:07,082 --> 00:45:09,228 you have to sit down, open a vein, 814 00:45:09,274 --> 00:45:10,941 and bleed on the page. 815 00:45:11,620 --> 00:45:12,934 Thing is, 816 00:45:13,013 --> 00:45:15,334 - whose vein are they talking about? - _ 817 00:45:15,341 --> 00:45:16,721 _ 818 00:45:16,741 --> 00:45:18,160 - _ - And whose blood 819 00:45:18,234 --> 00:45:19,554 - _ - do they mean? 820 00:45:19,581 --> 00:45:20,848 _ 821 00:45:21,540 --> 00:45:23,861 No matter. Hughie's right. 822 00:45:23,874 --> 00:45:26,227 - _ - These things won't write 823 00:45:26,280 --> 00:45:28,161 - themselves. - _ 824 00:45:28,201 --> 00:45:30,021 _ 825 00:45:30,068 --> 00:45:31,901 _ 826 00:45:31,934 --> 00:45:33,461 _ 827 00:45:34,048 --> 00:45:39,134 www.subtitulamos.tv