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00:00Like I said in court, I'm an alcoholic, checked with my GP, blackouts and this year the whole
00:19thing's got a whole lot worse.
00:25As far as I remember, I think it was early Boxing Day morning, after you'd had us all
00:33in.
00:35I think it was because the boarding in the doorway had moved.
00:41I mean that's when I must have seen him hiding out.
00:45I think I followed Keanu into the cafe.
00:48I mean it's most likely, isn't it?
00:50It's Cathy's cafe.
00:56I remember Keanu being upset about his wedding to Sharon being called off.
01:04He didn't believe that he weren't Albie's biological dad.
01:09He was furious, aggressive.
01:13He turned violent, he was violent.
01:17And I remember me, it was me.
01:24I picked up the meat thermometer, I picked it up and I stabbed him.
01:39You think all this or are you stating it as a fact?
01:45Keanu died in front of my eyes.
01:48I did it.
01:55Violent with who?
01:56You see Keanu was stabbed in the back.
02:02Mum's gone AWOL.
02:06Again?
02:07She ain't here.
02:08No, but all that stuff you said, all that guilty conscience stuff, Cathy, what if Mum
02:12snapped or if she's done something stupid?
02:19How did Keanu come to be wrapped in the Beals' heels to our pooling?
02:23I did it.
02:24By yourself?
02:25Linda?
02:26All by yourself?
02:27My stuff.
02:28Linda, I have to ask this, are you under the influence of alcohol now?
02:37What?
02:38Because if you're trying to protect someone or you've been coerced into this confession,
02:40you do understand Dean Wicks is in custody.
02:42I have not been drinking.
02:43And if the moment of committing Keanu's murder is at the very least so vividly clear, I'm
02:49just trying to work out why it's taken you eight months to come forward.
02:52Because I'm a coward.
02:53And why none of the physical evidence corroborates your account.
02:57Actually, OK, all right, I suggest you go home, Linda, gather your thoughts, considering
03:09the events in court today, when it's understandable that you're perhaps slightly overruled.
03:13What?
03:14Meanwhile, the investigation will continue.
03:19And I do need to make it clear, were what you told me proved to be true, alongside relevant
03:24charges, you'll also be facing a custodial sentence for perverting the course of justice,
03:29for giving a false statement against Dean Wicks.
03:31You may equally be charged with wasting police time.
03:34The judicial system is not a game, Mrs Paterson.
03:37But I'm not playing.
03:38And we do not arrest people for something as serious as murder on the basis of uncorroborated
03:42accounts, hearsay, thoughts, partial memories, or absolutely no evidence whatsoever.
03:47I've told you the truth!
03:48I have given you everything you need.
03:49And if you choose not to believe me, again, then that is your mistake, DCI Arthurs.
04:02Hang on, it weren't me who turned the screws, Johnny.
04:10Yeah, Mum, it's just fragile, that's all.
04:11No, no, that was Dean, throwing the murder trial, setting us all back to the start.
04:16No, I never did that.
04:18And I never said anything that Denise and Stacey weren't already thinking.
04:22Your mother ain't the only one back under the microscope, you know.
04:24And to be honest with you, Johnny, no one, not even you, is responsible for where she
04:29goes, or how much Linda does or does not drink.
04:32I'm sorry, Kate, I just...
04:35What if it is not the booze?
04:38What if she has hurt herself?
04:40Just because she's trapped in this nightmare, it doesn't mean she's not still there.
04:45This whole thing is tearing her apart.
04:48Your mother is a decent woman who did one really bad thing, but for a very good reason.
04:55You know that.
04:57We just have to... have to have faith, OK, and trust that wherever Linda is, she knows
05:03what she's doing.
05:04Linda's gone rogue.
05:05I saw her leave, so I did a bit of digging.
05:16Word is, she's tried to hand herself in.
05:24What?
05:25She's admitted to killing Keanu.
05:26Oh, God.
05:27God, what's she doing?
05:28Sounds like she tried to fall on her sword and it's backfired, so we need to work out
05:37a new strategy.
05:38Because if Linda's that desperate to offload...
05:40Right, um... you need to get me my phone, Richard.
05:47Oh, look, I shouldn't even be in here.
05:49OK, then you do it, please.
05:50There's people you need to call.
05:51You have to warn them.
05:52Now.
05:54Er, just up here.
06:02OK.
06:06Thanks, thanks.
06:13Thanks, thanks.
06:43You checkin' I ain't done myself in?
07:09Bernie, I...
07:11No one has won today, Glenda.
07:20No one is further on, we're all just looking at mumps and mumps and more solicitors and
07:24court.
07:25And I've got to make up my hours, so shut the door on the way out, yeah?
07:38No.
07:39I know the, the relief when you finally hear it out loud, but I am, I'm doing this for
08:01myself as well.
08:05I'm desperate.
08:10I can't, I can't do this anymore.
08:15I can't go any lower.
08:21It's not something I can live with.
08:25Do you understand that?
08:31No.
08:33Yes, you do.
08:37You said it.
08:40I can't heap down in booze to block it out.
08:48I cannot drink myself to death, Bernie.
08:54Those kids, my little kids, I mean, they already don't have their dad and, and I should
09:02have done this months ago, you know, I wanted to do this right back on Christmas Day night.
09:12Don't tell me.
09:26Sharon didn't kill Keanu.
09:38No, no, no, Richard, you can't be serious.
10:06I'm so sorry.
10:08I don't believe you, you.
10:11Bernie, Bernie, please.
10:13What person admits to killing someone unless it actually happened?
10:19I mean, in what world would I ever, ever pretend to do something that bad or that wrong?
10:29But I did, I, I did.
10:35How did he know who he was?
10:49Did he cry?
10:51Did he?
10:53Why?
11:05Why would you do that?
11:11Because I was, I was trying to protect Sharon from your brother.
11:15No, Sharon is panicking.
11:16Mum could be anywhere.
11:17Linda's not that stupid.
11:18Oh, she's been to the police, Sookie.
11:20It's not stupid, is it?
11:21What Kathy said earlier was right and you know that.
11:24I mean, even you surely have got a little bit of conscience in there somewhere.
11:27After everything we've made up.
11:29All right, listen, right, listen.
11:31If Linda does spill to anyone, we deny it.
11:34All of it, point blank, OK?
11:35We are in way, way too deep for the truth to come out now.
11:38Yes, I know that.
11:39I've got a house full of kids relying on me, Sookie.
11:41Amy, Chelsea, this is too much.
11:44All right, now, just stop, OK?
11:46Right.
11:48Johnny, you go over to the Vic, all right?
11:50There's a chance that Sharon's overreacting, all right?
11:53And there's a chance your mum might have gone straight home from the police station.
12:00Seriously?
12:02I can't do this.
12:03You've got no choice, Denise.
12:05Cos if Sharon is right,
12:07every minute you spend having yet another fit...
12:10Fit?
12:11Yes, another fit, Denise,
12:13is another minute closer to Linda potentially landing us in it.
12:16I'm going to the cafe.
12:18No, Sookie, wait.
12:20How are you going to explain barging over there at one o'clock in the morning?
12:24At one o'clock in the morning?
12:42You were coming with me.
12:44You were holding your hands up.
12:51And I just...
12:53All I can think is...
12:56Round and round my head,
12:58there are good men.
13:01There are good men.
13:06Sharon had stopped the wedding.
13:08She told him that he weren't Albie's dad.
13:11Keanu had every right to be upset.
13:17I mean, what if...
13:19What if I got it wrong?
13:23That split second?
13:28What if I hadn't reached out, grabbed him and stabbed him?
13:35What if I'd let Keanu carry on?
13:41Would he have really, I mean...
13:45Would he have really killed her?
13:49Or would he have calmed down?
13:53He might have done. He might have calmed down.
13:57He and Sharon could have worked it out.
14:00Made up, maybe, maybe got back together like they had done 500 times before.
14:04You are admitting this to the old Bill.
14:07I tried.
14:09But they won't. They don't believe me.
14:11Well, why?
14:13Why?!
14:15Because Linda ain't a grass.
14:19Kathy.
14:27She...
14:29She weren't the only one there.
14:45Maybe if it had just been Keanu.
14:50But it weren't, Bernie.
14:52You already had Phil drag you off to their wedding.
14:55We'd already had Nish kick off in the Vic, given it the bigger man.
14:59Look at her in her own house, acting like he owned her.
15:03They had my back. I...
15:06I don't know how it would have gone.
15:08We were all just so terrified.
15:12Terrified.
15:14We were just... just so scared.
15:17Who was gonna come at us next, you know?
15:22But I thought you were my friend.
15:27And then...
15:29There he was.
15:32Keanu.
15:34You see, he came in on the back of all of this.
15:38Shatting his mouth off, throwing his weight around.
15:41You use words, Bernie.
15:43You use words, but they don't get through.
15:46What are you gonna do?
15:48What do you do?
15:50Because we were all there. We saw him.
15:53He was choking the breath out of Sharon.
15:57What was we meant to do? Just...
15:59stand back and...
16:01watch the life drain out of her face?
16:04No, we...
16:06Linda...
16:08Linda saved Sharon's life.
16:11But no-one meant Mickey Arlo to die.
16:15You should have got the police.
16:18We should have, yeah.
16:20We should have.
16:21Who was gonna believe us, eh?
16:24Hysterical women.
16:26We were all implicated, dragged into it,
16:29just from being in there.
16:32You know, once it happened, once that
16:35horrible, horrible thing had happened,
16:38every lie was just built on a lie, and then...
16:43What about our children?
16:45All our family's caught up.
16:48All the people who need us, rely on us.
16:51All our children.
17:01You killed my brother.
17:05And you covered it up.
17:08You dumped him with other bits of rubbish in a hole.
17:13And you left him to rot.
17:18And all of you...
17:21You just stood back.
17:25You watched me,
17:27when the only thing I had left was working in here.
17:31You just...
17:33You let me walk over my brother's dead body.
17:36I was just blaming myself.
17:40What was I?
17:42Like nothing.
17:44Like collateral damage.
17:47So you fight fire with fire, and you say,
17:49and that's right.
17:51And then you watch my mum lose it.
17:54And what was left of mine, my family.
17:56My family, you fall apart.
17:59And I meant to...
18:04You seriously...
18:07Want me to feel sorry for you, for trying to keep hold of yours?
18:14It wasn't my fault, was it?
18:17None of this was my fault.
18:19No. No.
18:29So I meant to go to the police.
18:32If I get the truth out, I'll finally get justice for my brother.
18:36Yes. Yes. Yes, you are.
18:40If you call that justice?
18:43Yeah. If you've got the evidence?
18:45Yeah, they're surely going to argue with her.
18:51Please, Bernie.
18:54So...
18:57Please, can you just...
18:59Just give us a little bit of time to say goodbye to the children?
19:23OK.
19:54OK.
20:07Conscience feel better now, does it?
20:12I'm sorry.
20:23I'm sorry.
20:53I'm sorry.
21:24SHE CRIES
21:30SHE CRIES
21:33It's all right. Yeah, it's all right.
21:37SHE CRIES
21:54SHE CRIES
22:01PHONE VIBRATES
22:03PHONE VIBRATES
22:26Hello?
22:29Yes.
22:31Now?
22:33OK.
22:35I'll... I'll come in.
23:01SHE SIGHS
23:25What the hell, then?
23:27You've got ten minutes, Max. Prison van's in.
23:31Bernie.
23:33You told Bernie, have you fun? He lost it.
23:35I mean, you have made everything so much worse.
23:38She could be on the phone to the police any second.
23:41Well, then she is.
23:43I've done the right thing, Sharon.
23:48Do you want me to kill myself over this?
23:51I'm sorry.
23:53I know this is all my fault.
23:55I know you've just been trying to protect me,
23:57but I had no choice.
24:00I have to find a way to live with myself.
24:05What about the rest of us?
24:07Please.
24:09You and I both know that if it hadn't come out this way,
24:12it would have come out somehow.
24:15Just ask Dean.
24:17The truth catches up with you.
24:22Angelina.
24:24SHE SIGHS
24:40What I'm... What I'm trying to tell you is...
24:49SHE GASPS
24:51I was in... I was in the cafe.
24:55The night...
25:04I was in the cafe.
25:10I can't... I can't do this anymore.
25:14It's just too complicated. I've had enough.
25:20It's just like...
25:22shock after shock.
25:26And every one of them just punches you in the stomach.
25:33I mean, I don't even know what justice looks like anymore.
25:38Nothing.
25:40And no-one will bring Keanu back.
25:46I miss him, Mum.
25:52SHE SOBS
25:54Yeah, yeah.
25:58Yeah, OK.
26:01No, no, no. It's fine.
26:04No, it's...
26:08It's late. I'm tired.
26:10It's fine.
26:12You don't have to worry about me.
26:15Yeah, no, I will.
26:17Yeah, I'm going to call Keanu when I get home.
26:22Yeah.
26:24Yeah, a week away, a little holiday.
26:30I'm sure everything will look better and all.
26:37Yeah, I love you, too.
26:40OK.
26:52DOOR SLAMS SHUT
27:22DOOR CREAKS
27:33DOOR SLAMS SHUT
27:45DOOR KNOCKS
27:52Mine is on the side.
27:58DOOR SLAMS SHUT
28:10MUSIC PLAYS