1 00:00:01,100 --> 00:00:03,040 He was murdered. 2 00:00:03,600 --> 00:00:06,070 He was murdered, Claire. 3 00:00:08,900 --> 00:00:10,570 Who murdered him? 4 00:00:10,620 --> 00:00:11,850 I don't know. 5 00:00:11,900 --> 00:00:15,770 British MI6, the Chinese Ministry for State Security, 6 00:00:15,820 --> 00:00:18,410 American CIA, Israeli Mossad... 7 00:00:18,460 --> 00:00:20,890 We're not up against one intelligence agency, 8 00:00:20,940 --> 00:00:23,410 we're up against them all. 9 00:00:23,460 --> 00:00:26,290 That conversation took place in my bedroom. 10 00:00:26,340 --> 00:00:28,610 We were face to face! 11 00:00:29,180 --> 00:00:31,090 Why did they murder him? 12 00:00:31,140 --> 00:00:35,570 Alex decided to apply his concept to speech. 13 00:00:35,620 --> 00:00:37,050 A lie detector. 14 00:00:37,100 --> 00:00:38,490 He did it for me! 15 00:00:38,540 --> 00:00:42,490 He knew you'd find out that he had lied about much of his life. 16 00:00:42,540 --> 00:00:44,770 He must have worried that you'd end up hating him. 17 00:00:44,820 --> 00:00:46,930 He must have worried about that moment every day. 18 00:00:46,980 --> 00:00:49,450 I would like to finish this particular adventure 19 00:00:49,500 --> 00:00:53,490 with you, Daniel Edward Holt, if you'll have me? 20 00:00:53,540 --> 00:00:54,770 PHONE RINGS 21 00:00:54,820 --> 00:00:56,410 Scottie? 22 00:00:56,460 --> 00:00:58,370 Danny... 23 00:00:58,420 --> 00:01:00,690 there will be a note. 24 00:02:17,420 --> 00:02:19,490 I have a question. 25 00:02:21,860 --> 00:02:25,760 How do we live without the people that we love? 26 00:02:37,060 --> 00:02:39,330 I can hear his reply. 27 00:02:44,220 --> 00:02:48,320 "We must figure this question out for ourselves." 28 00:02:52,420 --> 00:02:54,090 He's right. 29 00:02:55,420 --> 00:02:57,620 He was always right. 30 00:03:00,100 --> 00:03:02,300 Except, my friend... 31 00:03:05,420 --> 00:03:07,890 .. I don't want to know. 32 00:03:14,380 --> 00:03:18,080 I don't want to know how to live without you. 33 00:03:20,980 --> 00:03:24,180 I don't want to figure out how to stop feeling this sad. 34 00:03:44,220 --> 00:03:47,340 INAUDIBLE 35 00:04:16,300 --> 00:04:18,850 - Marcus, this isn't the time... - Yes, it is, Claire. 36 00:04:18,900 --> 00:04:21,570 It's exactly the right time. 37 00:04:22,860 --> 00:04:26,560 I have destroyed my copy of Alex's research. 38 00:04:27,020 --> 00:04:28,970 You should destroy yours. 39 00:04:29,020 --> 00:04:32,210 You asked for my advice. There it is. 40 00:04:32,260 --> 00:04:35,170 You can take it, or not. 41 00:04:35,220 --> 00:04:38,720 - But I won't help you... - That's enough. 42 00:04:47,300 --> 00:04:51,140 It was... a nice idea. 43 00:06:41,420 --> 00:06:43,370 Danny! 44 00:06:43,420 --> 00:06:44,890 Come on! 45 00:06:59,660 --> 00:07:00,860 OK. 46 00:07:03,820 --> 00:07:05,760 Sorry. Goodbye. 47 00:07:40,180 --> 00:07:42,490 BIG BEN TOLLS 48 00:07:42,540 --> 00:07:44,380 SEAGULLS CAW 49 00:07:51,620 --> 00:07:54,160 This is where you two met. 50 00:07:57,340 --> 00:07:59,450 I visited the nurse who took your blood sample. 51 00:07:59,500 --> 00:08:03,290 I was curious, because it's not procedure. 52 00:08:03,340 --> 00:08:05,490 So, I asked a straightforward question. 53 00:08:05,540 --> 00:08:07,740 "Why did you do it?" 54 00:08:08,740 --> 00:08:10,940 This man was afraid. 55 00:08:12,740 --> 00:08:16,650 Afterwards, I'd barely left the room, my phone rings. 56 00:08:16,700 --> 00:08:21,050 It's my superiors, demanding to know why I'm interrogating him. 57 00:08:21,100 --> 00:08:23,370 You know what I said? 58 00:08:23,780 --> 00:08:25,520 "No reason." 59 00:08:29,260 --> 00:08:31,200 It wasn't much. 60 00:08:31,900 --> 00:08:34,250 But it's as far as I'm prepared to go. 61 00:08:34,300 --> 00:08:35,290 Why? 62 00:08:35,340 --> 00:08:38,540 Listen, this is what's going to happen. 63 00:08:39,340 --> 00:08:42,810 You'll be the early, innocent suspect 64 00:08:42,860 --> 00:08:45,860 and I'll be the simple-minded copper. 65 00:08:46,900 --> 00:08:50,700 That's the account that's going to be written. 66 00:08:58,980 --> 00:09:01,410 With Scottie, we had a chance. Without him, we haven't. 67 00:09:01,460 --> 00:09:03,660 I don't accept that. 68 00:09:04,820 --> 00:09:07,570 We knew him better than anyone. 69 00:09:07,620 --> 00:09:08,850 What would he do? 70 00:09:08,900 --> 00:09:11,370 You're confused, Danny... 71 00:09:11,500 --> 00:09:14,530 .. between trying to prove how much you loved him 72 00:09:14,580 --> 00:09:17,130 and trying to prove a conspiracy. 73 00:09:17,180 --> 00:09:20,170 You're confused, and I wonder if you haven't always been. 74 00:09:20,220 --> 00:09:22,420 What does that mean? 75 00:09:22,980 --> 00:09:24,850 Scottie was... 76 00:09:25,660 --> 00:09:28,170 .. sentimental about you. 77 00:09:28,220 --> 00:09:29,930 You're doing this for him. 78 00:09:29,980 --> 00:09:32,450 He was doing it for you. 79 00:09:33,300 --> 00:09:36,040 Maybe I was doing it for him. 80 00:09:36,940 --> 00:09:39,210 But it's not real, Danny. It won't work. 81 00:09:39,260 --> 00:09:42,380 Whatever you do, whatever you try, it won't work. 82 00:09:54,420 --> 00:09:56,360 He sent me this. 83 00:09:57,940 --> 00:10:02,090 There was a letter. It read, "Ambition, but no conviction. 84 00:10:02,140 --> 00:10:04,080 "Love, Scottie". 85 00:10:04,780 --> 00:10:06,580 Walk with me. 86 00:10:27,020 --> 00:10:30,740 I'll be here, when you're ready. 87 00:11:53,260 --> 00:11:54,730 SLAM 88 00:11:54,780 --> 00:11:56,320 DOGS BARK 89 00:12:13,860 --> 00:12:16,100 CLANGING 90 00:12:27,820 --> 00:12:30,060 CLANGING 91 00:14:09,340 --> 00:14:11,980 VEHICLE APPROACHES OUTSIDE 92 00:14:41,740 --> 00:14:43,610 DOORBELL RINGS 93 00:14:49,060 --> 00:14:50,930 DOORBELL RINGS 94 00:15:01,860 --> 00:15:07,100 DOORBELL RINGS 95 00:15:09,700 --> 00:15:11,530 How did you find me? 96 00:15:11,580 --> 00:15:14,050 You gave us this address. 97 00:15:15,580 --> 00:15:17,120 11 years. 98 00:15:18,260 --> 00:15:20,000 A long time. 99 00:15:23,020 --> 00:15:24,490 And now? 100 00:15:27,460 --> 00:15:29,800 Dan, your dad's dying. 101 00:15:31,780 --> 00:15:34,520 We weren't much as parents... 102 00:15:40,980 --> 00:15:43,850 You read about me in the paper? 103 00:15:44,100 --> 00:15:46,170 We read about you. 104 00:15:47,020 --> 00:15:49,890 But that's not why you're here? 105 00:15:52,020 --> 00:15:53,960 You need money? 106 00:15:54,460 --> 00:15:55,610 No. 107 00:15:55,660 --> 00:15:57,250 No? 108 00:15:57,300 --> 00:15:58,500 No! 109 00:16:00,860 --> 00:16:03,000 This was a mistake. 110 00:16:15,100 --> 00:16:16,840 Tell me why. 111 00:16:17,620 --> 00:16:19,410 Why now? Why today? 112 00:16:19,460 --> 00:16:21,450 Weeks -- 113 00:16:21,500 --> 00:16:23,970 that's all he's got left. 114 00:16:26,100 --> 00:16:27,570 We've said goodbye. 115 00:16:27,620 --> 00:16:29,490 Want to do a better job of it? 116 00:16:29,540 --> 00:16:32,840 There's something we'd like to show you. 117 00:16:42,420 --> 00:16:46,820 If this is a lie, please stop the car and let me out. 118 00:16:47,820 --> 00:16:51,500 Because I've been through too much for this to be another lie. 119 00:16:55,540 --> 00:16:57,210 I won't be angry. 120 00:16:57,260 --> 00:17:00,330 I know it's not your fault, 121 00:17:00,380 --> 00:17:03,740 but just stop the car and let me out. 122 00:17:07,580 --> 00:17:11,530 But if you drive me home, after I've given you this chance, I... 123 00:17:11,580 --> 00:17:12,900 Mum? 124 00:17:37,900 --> 00:17:40,650 - LABOURED BREATHING - CAMERA TURNS ON 125 00:17:40,700 --> 00:17:42,770 All right if I...? 126 00:17:57,020 --> 00:17:59,820 CAMERA BEEPS 127 00:18:02,740 --> 00:18:04,540 CAMERA CLICKS 128 00:18:40,780 --> 00:18:43,320 I wish this could be true. 129 00:19:21,180 --> 00:19:22,500 Shh. 130 00:19:25,060 --> 00:19:28,160 People can change this much, you know? 131 00:19:29,660 --> 00:19:31,660 For real, I mean. 132 00:19:40,860 --> 00:19:42,530 LABOURED BREATHING 133 00:19:42,580 --> 00:19:44,890 You're not dying. 134 00:19:44,940 --> 00:19:47,450 Not today, not next week. 135 00:19:47,500 --> 00:19:49,290 They're scary people, Dan. 136 00:19:49,340 --> 00:19:51,210 They know everything about us. 137 00:19:51,260 --> 00:19:54,260 Everything we've ever done wrong. 138 00:19:55,020 --> 00:19:56,960 What did you do? 139 00:19:57,900 --> 00:20:01,700 This isn't like pinching stuff from the shops. 140 00:20:03,020 --> 00:20:05,330 - Why am I here? - Why are WE here? 141 00:20:05,380 --> 00:20:08,890 Being made to do this? Being threatened? 142 00:20:08,940 --> 00:20:11,490 What have you dragged us into? 143 00:20:11,540 --> 00:20:15,690 How could you do this to us? To your father? 144 00:20:15,740 --> 00:20:18,900 HER VOICE FADES TO ECHOES 145 00:20:33,540 --> 00:20:35,450 They gave you this, didn't they? 146 00:20:35,500 --> 00:20:38,050 They told you to take a photo. 147 00:20:38,100 --> 00:20:39,420 Why? 148 00:20:41,660 --> 00:20:43,860 CAMERA WHIRRS, BEEPS 149 00:20:53,740 --> 00:20:56,280 I always wanted to know... 150 00:20:56,900 --> 00:21:01,000 .. wouldn't it have been easier to have loved me? 151 00:21:02,900 --> 00:21:05,640 I can't say why we never did. 152 00:21:20,220 --> 00:21:22,560 I'm not angry anymore. 153 00:21:33,940 --> 00:21:35,940 DOOR OPENS, SHUTS 154 00:22:03,500 --> 00:22:06,420 BEEPING 155 00:22:25,220 --> 00:22:27,090 COMPUTER BEEPS 156 00:22:33,340 --> 00:22:36,140 PRINTER WHIRRS 157 00:23:07,580 --> 00:23:10,250 Have you been to any forums on living with HIV before? 158 00:23:10,300 --> 00:23:12,930 - No. - If you take a seat, maybe over there. 159 00:23:12,980 --> 00:23:15,180 All right? Hi, guys. 160 00:23:22,780 --> 00:23:25,450 I'd like us to welcome Ryan. 161 00:23:26,180 --> 00:23:28,700 APPLAUSE 162 00:23:31,340 --> 00:23:33,850 A lot of people don't speak until they've been a few times, 163 00:23:33,900 --> 00:23:36,570 so you shouldn't feel any pressure. 164 00:23:36,620 --> 00:23:39,820 But I wanted to give you the chance. 165 00:23:40,780 --> 00:23:43,170 And remember, there's no point talking 166 00:23:43,220 --> 00:23:46,420 unless you feel able to tell the truth. 167 00:23:53,660 --> 00:23:56,060 Maybe you're not ready? 168 00:24:00,780 --> 00:24:02,980 - I'll go. - Danny. 169 00:24:12,980 --> 00:24:15,490 My partner, his name was Alex. 170 00:24:15,540 --> 00:24:19,090 He died some months ago 171 00:24:19,140 --> 00:24:24,140 and I've been trying to find out why he was killed... 172 00:24:36,260 --> 00:24:37,970 Are you OK? 173 00:24:38,020 --> 00:24:43,250 .. and he was working as a spy for MI6. 174 00:24:43,300 --> 00:24:46,400 Although, when we were together... 175 00:24:55,980 --> 00:24:58,580 - Get down! - SIRENS BLARE 176 00:25:00,980 --> 00:25:03,410 .. An attic in his apartment, 177 00:25:03,460 --> 00:25:07,610 and one of the ways they did that was to... 178 00:25:07,660 --> 00:25:10,940 inject me with HIV virus. 179 00:25:15,100 --> 00:25:17,290 You have to believe me! 180 00:25:17,340 --> 00:25:20,690 If you don't believe me, I don't have anyone else, Scottie. 181 00:25:20,740 --> 00:25:23,210 I don't have anyone else. 182 00:25:40,660 --> 00:25:43,400 What are you going to do now? 183 00:25:46,540 --> 00:25:49,010 I'm going to do nothing. 184 00:25:59,580 --> 00:26:01,220 You OK? 185 00:26:54,540 --> 00:26:57,210 'I wish this could be true.' 186 00:27:45,500 --> 00:27:47,370 KNOCKS AT DOOR 187 00:28:07,420 --> 00:28:10,420 I rather thought it might be you. 188 00:28:10,540 --> 00:28:12,940 Is it too late to talk? 189 00:28:13,340 --> 00:28:14,880 Too late? 190 00:28:15,860 --> 00:28:17,730 Perhaps it is. 191 00:28:31,660 --> 00:28:33,140 THUD 192 00:28:35,620 --> 00:28:37,530 What harm can it do? 193 00:28:37,580 --> 00:28:40,850 What good can it do? 194 00:28:40,900 --> 00:28:44,020 "What good"? What possible good? 195 00:28:46,660 --> 00:28:49,260 What good can any of us do? 196 00:28:49,900 --> 00:28:53,210 Better leave him be. He's just a boy. 197 00:28:53,260 --> 00:28:55,450 CHARLES LAUGHS 198 00:28:55,500 --> 00:28:58,060 Just a stupid boy. 199 00:29:06,820 --> 00:29:10,090 I take it you have something you wish to discuss? 200 00:29:10,140 --> 00:29:13,440 More than that -- you intend to accuse me? 201 00:29:13,980 --> 00:29:15,170 I have a question. 202 00:29:15,220 --> 00:29:18,320 A question. I'll permit a question. 203 00:29:20,380 --> 00:29:22,180 But just one. 204 00:29:43,980 --> 00:29:45,980 That will be all. 205 00:29:47,180 --> 00:29:49,250 We both loved him. 206 00:29:50,420 --> 00:29:51,690 Yes. 207 00:29:52,900 --> 00:29:56,220 Can't we pretend, for a while, that's all we need to say? 208 00:30:16,060 --> 00:30:18,890 There was always something of the mystic about you. 209 00:30:18,940 --> 00:30:21,130 Fortune teller-soothsayer, 210 00:30:21,180 --> 00:30:24,620 a person who knows nothing, yet sees everything. 211 00:30:30,460 --> 00:30:33,810 Alex was the last person to hold your hand. 212 00:30:33,860 --> 00:30:35,490 Question? 213 00:30:35,540 --> 00:30:37,140 Statement. 214 00:30:38,540 --> 00:30:40,290 Yes. 215 00:30:40,340 --> 00:30:42,080 Yes, he was. 216 00:30:50,300 --> 00:30:52,900 You blame me for his death. 217 00:30:53,860 --> 00:30:55,890 - Question? - Statement. 218 00:30:55,940 --> 00:30:57,340 Yes. 219 00:30:58,980 --> 00:31:00,580 Yes, I do. 220 00:31:03,220 --> 00:31:05,620 How can you blame me... 221 00:31:06,140 --> 00:31:09,140 .. unless you know why he was killed? 222 00:31:09,740 --> 00:31:12,080 It is a good question. 223 00:31:41,060 --> 00:31:43,530 For all your efforts, 224 00:31:43,580 --> 00:31:46,980 all your loss, all your grief and sacrifice... 225 00:31:49,260 --> 00:31:51,460 .. you have nothing. 226 00:31:54,580 --> 00:31:57,250 You accept I'm continuing this conversation 227 00:31:57,300 --> 00:32:00,570 solely for my own personal reasons? 228 00:32:00,620 --> 00:32:01,890 Which are? 229 00:32:01,940 --> 00:32:05,700 It's very important to me that you understand how much I loved my son. 230 00:32:07,340 --> 00:32:09,340 Show me his room. 231 00:33:11,140 --> 00:33:14,300 Alistair spent more time in this room than any other. 232 00:33:32,580 --> 00:33:34,520 How do you know? 233 00:33:37,140 --> 00:33:38,460 How? 234 00:33:40,940 --> 00:33:44,540 No! No, no, no! Stop... 235 00:33:46,620 --> 00:33:50,290 No! No, no, no, no! 236 00:33:50,340 --> 00:33:52,080 FRANCES SOBS 237 00:33:54,940 --> 00:33:56,480 Please... 238 00:34:09,500 --> 00:34:12,740 Because he was my spy. 239 00:34:15,580 --> 00:34:18,580 I made him a spy. 240 00:34:30,940 --> 00:34:35,060 I told you, my husband was an important man. 241 00:34:36,340 --> 00:34:39,740 An important man, with a second-rate mind. 242 00:34:40,980 --> 00:34:43,780 We were together at Cambridge. 243 00:34:45,820 --> 00:34:50,380 The tutor who recruited him was as blind to my talents... 244 00:34:51,460 --> 00:34:55,890 .. as he was to Charles' flaws. 245 00:34:55,940 --> 00:35:00,330 Nonetheless, in the gentlemen's club of MI5, 246 00:35:00,380 --> 00:35:04,280 Charles flourished, while I was relegated to... 247 00:35:06,420 --> 00:35:09,900 .. hosting dinners and cocktail parties for his spies. 248 00:35:11,300 --> 00:35:13,500 GENTLE CONVERSATION 249 00:35:17,780 --> 00:35:19,860 LAUGHTER 250 00:35:27,220 --> 00:35:31,010 'Three moles at the heart of his organization... 251 00:35:31,060 --> 00:35:33,170 '.. and Charles didn't see them.' 252 00:35:33,220 --> 00:35:35,530 They were men like him -- 253 00:35:35,580 --> 00:35:37,690 talked like him, dressed like him, 254 00:35:37,740 --> 00:35:39,130 fucked like him. 255 00:35:39,180 --> 00:35:41,520 Well, two did, anyway. 256 00:35:43,740 --> 00:35:46,080 They were his friends. 257 00:35:47,700 --> 00:35:50,610 Agents were lost, operations compromised. 258 00:35:50,660 --> 00:35:52,250 When the three finally defected, 259 00:35:52,300 --> 00:35:55,370 we were disgraced, removed from the service, 260 00:35:55,420 --> 00:35:57,370 exiled from power, 261 00:35:57,420 --> 00:36:03,370 left to rot in this place, guarded night and day by agents, 262 00:36:03,420 --> 00:36:06,620 for fear that we too might be traitors. 263 00:36:08,940 --> 00:36:11,850 I took to drink, for a while. 264 00:36:11,900 --> 00:36:14,730 I became promiscuous, for a while. 265 00:36:14,780 --> 00:36:16,980 Scandal engulfed me. 266 00:36:18,020 --> 00:36:21,120 I couldn't go on behaving that way. 267 00:36:21,820 --> 00:36:24,820 You either step into the abyss... 268 00:36:26,300 --> 00:36:28,290 .. or step back from it. 269 00:36:28,340 --> 00:36:31,640 You cannot walk along its edge for long. 270 00:36:34,300 --> 00:36:36,490 You know this edge? 271 00:36:36,540 --> 00:36:38,130 Don't you? 272 00:36:38,180 --> 00:36:40,050 - Yes. - Yes. 273 00:36:41,540 --> 00:36:44,010 Alex was your step back? 274 00:36:45,620 --> 00:36:47,620 He was mine, too. 275 00:36:48,700 --> 00:36:50,810 I decided to have a child. 276 00:36:50,860 --> 00:36:54,450 He'd be my future, my saviour, my second chance. 277 00:36:54,500 --> 00:36:58,100 I'd make him into the spy I should've been. 278 00:36:58,900 --> 00:37:01,170 My spy, made by me... 279 00:37:05,020 --> 00:37:07,020 It was a mistake. 280 00:37:10,700 --> 00:37:12,490 Not a lie. Not the truth. 281 00:37:12,540 --> 00:37:15,490 For once, your intuitions let you down. 282 00:37:15,540 --> 00:37:18,210 You decided to have a child? 283 00:37:19,140 --> 00:37:22,580 What, fuck old Charles and see what happens? 284 00:37:23,780 --> 00:37:27,770 Not much of a plan, considering how stupid you think he is. 285 00:37:27,820 --> 00:37:31,170 But luck was on your side. 286 00:37:31,220 --> 00:37:33,250 Your child was a genius. 287 00:37:33,300 --> 00:37:36,400 Be very careful what you say next. 288 00:37:37,860 --> 00:37:40,600 I want to tell you a story... 289 00:37:45,540 --> 00:37:47,480 .. about a man. 290 00:37:50,940 --> 00:37:54,260 While other people were laughing and drinking... 291 00:37:55,460 --> 00:37:58,130 .. this man would just walk. 292 00:37:59,620 --> 00:38:02,970 '.. Until he reached the exact same spot -- 293 00:38:03,020 --> 00:38:06,220 'where he'd sit, with his back to all those people.' 294 00:38:08,180 --> 00:38:11,370 And while he did everything to signal to the world 295 00:38:11,420 --> 00:38:13,770 that he wanted to be left alone... 296 00:38:13,820 --> 00:38:15,250 'More than anything, 297 00:38:15,300 --> 00:38:18,810 'he hoped that someone passing would understand 298 00:38:18,860 --> 00:38:21,610 'that what he really wanted was the exact opposite.' 299 00:38:21,660 --> 00:38:26,380 And that this someone would sit next to him... 300 00:38:28,860 --> 00:38:31,530 .. Strike up a conversation. 301 00:38:35,900 --> 00:38:37,900 'I was that man.' 302 00:38:40,660 --> 00:38:43,000 You were that someone. 303 00:38:45,140 --> 00:38:47,410 Why was he so lonely? 304 00:38:50,700 --> 00:38:53,570 I put too much pressure on him. 305 00:38:54,220 --> 00:38:57,420 I made him too important in my life. 306 00:38:57,740 --> 00:38:59,610 It was unfair. 307 00:39:01,140 --> 00:39:03,080 I see that now. 308 00:39:04,620 --> 00:39:07,720 No child can redeem their parents. 309 00:39:14,100 --> 00:39:16,640 Hard to connect to people. 310 00:39:18,460 --> 00:39:22,580 Especially when you're not sure how they're connected to you. 311 00:39:42,140 --> 00:39:45,940 For an hour or so, I hoped that my real parents were real parents. 312 00:39:57,900 --> 00:39:59,300 Daniel! 313 00:40:19,220 --> 00:40:21,220 I was in a state. 314 00:40:22,460 --> 00:40:25,330 I didn't deserve to be his mum. 315 00:40:27,900 --> 00:40:30,010 Surely you can't be so conventional as to think 316 00:40:30,060 --> 00:40:33,360 there's only one way to bring up a child? 317 00:40:38,660 --> 00:40:41,060 We are both his mother. 318 00:40:42,100 --> 00:40:45,900 Neither one less nor more real than the other. 319 00:40:46,900 --> 00:40:51,330 I took care of his mind and she took care of his other needs. 320 00:40:51,380 --> 00:40:53,320 He didn't know? 321 00:40:55,260 --> 00:40:56,500 No. 322 00:40:57,860 --> 00:40:59,970 Except he did. 323 00:41:00,020 --> 00:41:02,160 Didn't he? He knew. 324 00:41:03,620 --> 00:41:05,970 On some level, maybe. 325 00:41:06,020 --> 00:41:09,010 He was very young when it happened. 326 00:41:09,060 --> 00:41:13,050 At the time, she was working for me and stealing. 327 00:41:13,100 --> 00:41:15,730 I went to her house, to threaten her with the police 328 00:41:15,780 --> 00:41:18,650 if she didn't return the items. 329 00:41:22,820 --> 00:41:25,820 I've never seen anything like it. 330 00:41:28,500 --> 00:41:31,370 - TAP DRIPS WATER - FLY BUZZES 331 00:41:34,940 --> 00:41:38,040 No father, no mother to speak of... 332 00:41:39,580 --> 00:41:43,260 She thought the boy disturbed, damaged by her drink and drugs. 333 00:41:45,340 --> 00:41:48,340 I saw how precious he really was. 334 00:41:55,980 --> 00:41:57,770 We came to an arrangement. 335 00:41:57,820 --> 00:42:00,050 "An arrangement?" 336 00:42:00,100 --> 00:42:02,440 I would be his mother. 337 00:42:06,340 --> 00:42:08,340 I'd be his nanny. 338 00:42:08,780 --> 00:42:11,090 He would be provided for in every way -- 339 00:42:11,140 --> 00:42:14,140 every opportunity, every comfort. 340 00:42:14,940 --> 00:42:18,260 - And Charles agreed? - He resisted, initially. 341 00:42:20,980 --> 00:42:22,930 Then, he was persuaded. 342 00:42:22,980 --> 00:42:25,650 You could persuade anyone... 343 00:42:26,900 --> 00:42:29,640 .. of anything. Couldn't you? 344 00:42:30,780 --> 00:42:34,610 In this society, it's not enough to be born brilliant. 345 00:42:34,660 --> 00:42:37,860 I opened up a world that would've been closed to him. 346 00:42:40,620 --> 00:42:42,690 He didn't belong there. 347 00:42:42,740 --> 00:42:44,540 He's not you. 348 00:42:45,260 --> 00:42:46,890 He wasn't like you. 349 00:42:46,940 --> 00:42:49,890 Just a few years, that's all I asked, 350 00:42:49,940 --> 00:42:52,210 then he would be free to do whatever he wanted. 351 00:42:52,260 --> 00:42:54,610 Such as end all lies? 352 00:42:54,660 --> 00:42:57,250 Oh, such a sentimental, ridiculous notion. 353 00:42:57,300 --> 00:42:59,100 I warned him. 354 00:43:01,700 --> 00:43:03,900 I tried to save him. 355 00:43:06,020 --> 00:43:07,620 I tried... 356 00:43:31,580 --> 00:43:33,220 BUZZER 357 00:43:54,020 --> 00:43:55,340 Sir. 358 00:44:16,580 --> 00:44:18,450 KNOCKS AT DOOR 359 00:44:33,460 --> 00:44:35,130 Mrs Turner. 360 00:45:54,220 --> 00:45:56,290 HE HYPERVENTILATES 361 00:46:03,540 --> 00:46:07,130 - Alistair? - HE CRIES OUT 362 00:46:07,180 --> 00:46:09,250 Shh. 363 00:46:09,300 --> 00:46:10,810 Frances! 364 00:46:10,860 --> 00:46:13,490 - Shh. - Aghh! 365 00:46:13,540 --> 00:46:16,260 Shh... Alistair. 366 00:46:17,420 --> 00:46:19,100 Shh... 367 00:46:21,900 --> 00:46:25,810 Listen, we have very little time. 368 00:46:25,860 --> 00:46:27,660 Listen to me. 369 00:46:29,900 --> 00:46:33,450 You're in a great deal of trouble, but there is a way out. 370 00:46:33,500 --> 00:46:35,570 Do you understand? 371 00:46:43,780 --> 00:46:45,970 I understand. 372 00:46:46,020 --> 00:46:49,570 It's all been arranged. This is a warning. 373 00:46:49,620 --> 00:46:52,900 You'll go to America, for a few years, to work. 374 00:46:54,140 --> 00:46:57,730 A new identity. A new life. A new name. 375 00:46:57,780 --> 00:47:00,780 But you must leave everything behind. 376 00:47:01,980 --> 00:47:05,140 This project -- what were you thinking? 377 00:47:07,420 --> 00:47:09,970 All you have to do is say yes. 378 00:47:10,020 --> 00:47:13,060 You'll be flown out tonight. No belongings. No bags. 379 00:47:18,100 --> 00:47:21,620 Alistair, all you have to do is agree. 380 00:47:22,700 --> 00:47:25,570 All you have to do is agree. 381 00:47:25,620 --> 00:47:27,580 HE YELLS 382 00:47:31,620 --> 00:47:33,210 HE SOBS 383 00:47:33,260 --> 00:47:34,800 Alistair? 384 00:47:37,900 --> 00:47:40,570 All you have to do is agree. 385 00:47:47,660 --> 00:47:48,930 I agree. 386 00:47:48,980 --> 00:47:51,380 You will go to America? 387 00:47:52,940 --> 00:47:54,370 I'll go. 388 00:47:54,420 --> 00:47:56,490 You must speak clearly. 389 00:47:56,540 --> 00:47:58,810 I will go to America. 390 00:47:59,820 --> 00:48:02,050 You will destroy your research? 391 00:48:02,100 --> 00:48:03,730 I will destroy it. 392 00:48:03,780 --> 00:48:06,250 You'll never work on it again? 393 00:48:06,300 --> 00:48:08,570 I'll never work on it again. 394 00:48:08,620 --> 00:48:11,220 You'll leave it all behind? 395 00:48:16,580 --> 00:48:20,780 Alistair, you must never make contact with anyone from this life again. 396 00:48:28,780 --> 00:48:30,320 Alistair? 397 00:48:33,820 --> 00:48:35,890 His name is Danny. 398 00:48:37,180 --> 00:48:38,540 Danny. 399 00:48:47,260 --> 00:48:50,060 I'll never speak to him again. 400 00:49:03,060 --> 00:49:05,770 This can be a new start for us, too. 401 00:49:05,820 --> 00:49:08,420 You'll hate me for a while. 402 00:49:08,660 --> 00:49:11,060 But I love you so much. 403 00:49:14,900 --> 00:49:16,840 I love you too. 404 00:49:29,260 --> 00:49:31,400 Get me out of here! 405 00:49:42,980 --> 00:49:46,620 Get me out! Get me out! 406 00:49:50,260 --> 00:49:52,090 'You must be clearer. 407 00:49:52,140 --> 00:49:54,010 'I'll go to America. 408 00:49:54,060 --> 00:49:56,490 'You will destroy your research? 409 00:49:56,540 --> 00:49:58,090 'I'll destroy it. 410 00:49:58,140 --> 00:50:00,130 'You'll never work on it again? 411 00:50:00,180 --> 00:50:01,930 'I'll never work on it again. 412 00:50:01,980 --> 00:50:04,650 'You'll leave it all behind? 413 00:50:08,220 --> 00:50:09,650 'Alistair, 414 00:50:09,700 --> 00:50:13,260 'you must never make contact with anyone from this life again. 415 00:50:16,620 --> 00:50:18,810 'His name is Danny. 416 00:50:18,860 --> 00:50:20,380 'Danny. 417 00:50:21,780 --> 00:50:23,380 'Alistair? 418 00:50:24,540 --> 00:50:27,930 'I'll never speak to him again. 419 00:50:27,980 --> 00:50:30,490 'Frances! Frances! 420 00:50:30,540 --> 00:50:33,090 'This can be a new start for us too. 421 00:50:33,140 --> 00:50:35,370 'You'll hate me for a while. 422 00:50:35,420 --> 00:50:38,130 'But I love you so much. 423 00:50:38,180 --> 00:50:40,120 'I love you too. 424 00:50:41,700 --> 00:50:45,010 Get me out! Get me out! 425 00:50:45,060 --> 00:50:47,330 'Get me out of here!' 426 00:50:52,740 --> 00:50:55,480 Well, it's wrong. It's wrong! 427 00:50:57,060 --> 00:51:00,090 I'll go back up there. I'll talk to him. I'll explain. 428 00:51:00,140 --> 00:51:04,050 He'll listen to me. He didn't understand, that's all. 429 00:51:04,100 --> 00:51:07,820 I can persuade him. Alistair, Alistair... 430 00:51:09,500 --> 00:51:12,240 Listen to me. Listen to me... 431 00:51:13,100 --> 00:51:16,170 Let me speak to him! Let me speak to my son! 432 00:51:16,220 --> 00:51:20,660 Let me speak to him! Let me speak to my son... 433 00:52:05,020 --> 00:52:07,380 FRANCES WEEPS 434 00:52:44,580 --> 00:52:47,050 I know a police officer. 435 00:52:50,820 --> 00:52:54,520 You fail to grasp what has been done to you. 436 00:52:54,780 --> 00:52:58,680 The fact that you know the truth is irrelevant. 437 00:52:59,980 --> 00:53:03,860 No-one is going to publish anything you say. 438 00:53:05,060 --> 00:53:08,450 No-one is going to investigate your claims. 439 00:53:08,500 --> 00:53:10,970 No-one will believe you. 440 00:53:12,620 --> 00:53:16,220 But they'll believe you. You're his mother. 441 00:53:18,540 --> 00:53:20,810 What do you owe them? 442 00:53:24,140 --> 00:53:26,540 You gave them your son! 443 00:53:30,620 --> 00:53:32,220 Tell me... 444 00:53:33,300 --> 00:53:35,570 .. were I to agree... 445 00:53:35,900 --> 00:53:38,130 .. what would we do? 446 00:53:38,180 --> 00:53:40,650 We'd tell them the truth. 447 00:53:46,340 --> 00:53:47,860 I can't. 448 00:53:50,820 --> 00:53:52,210 She can't. 449 00:53:52,260 --> 00:53:54,570 - I want to hear it from you. - You heard it from me. 450 00:53:54,620 --> 00:53:57,530 His name is Alex. His real name. 451 00:53:57,580 --> 00:53:59,690 - The name you gave him. - She won't help you. 452 00:53:59,740 --> 00:54:01,530 She renamed him, but you let it slip. 453 00:54:01,580 --> 00:54:03,330 - Deliberately? - She can't help you. 454 00:54:03,380 --> 00:54:05,420 SOBBING 455 00:54:13,980 --> 00:54:16,120 It's time you left. 456 00:54:16,780 --> 00:54:18,450 She's gone. 457 00:54:49,260 --> 00:54:51,860 FLAMES CRACKLE OUTSIDE 458 00:55:32,220 --> 00:55:33,960 For her son. 459 00:55:40,940 --> 00:55:42,480 For Alex. 460 00:55:43,900 --> 00:55:45,840 All she can do. 461 00:55:52,140 --> 00:55:54,340 It's all SHE can do! 462 00:56:02,620 --> 00:56:04,580 DOOR OPENS 463 00:56:15,540 --> 00:56:17,610 Just a stupid boy? 464 00:57:27,460 --> 00:57:30,500 MUSIC: My Tears Are Becoming A Sea by M83 465 00:57:41,860 --> 00:57:43,700 DOOR OPENS 466 00:57:51,300 --> 00:57:54,100 Let's burn them down for real. 467 00:57:58,580 --> 00:58:01,180 We'd probably better hurry. 468 00:58:14,980 --> 00:58:17,460 You understand we don't stand a chance?