Intruder (2021) s01e01 Episode Script

1
Police,
what's your emergency?
There's been a
break-in in my house.
-Okay.
-Yeah,
there was a man, and he--
Alright, are you alone?
No, no, no, my husband's here
-and my friend--
-Okay, okay,
is the intruder still in the house?
No, no, I mean yes, yes.
-Yes, he's--
-Okay, I need you
to try and stay calm.
Can you give me your address, please?
It's 12, Henlake
Road, Chibnall Drive.
Right, I know the house,
-just above the beach, yes?
-Yes!
-Alright.
-But the man, I--
Getting someone
out to you right now.
No, no, but the
man who's in my house--
Do you need an ambulance?
-I think he's
-Is he injured?
-Is anyone injured?
-He was attacking my husband!
-Okay, okay, it's okay.
-And, I
Right, take a
deep breath for me, can you?
Can you do that for me?
-He tried to--
-That's it.
-A car's on its way.
No, no, no.
I'm not saying you're
racist if you voted leave.
Send them back where they came from?
Can we talk about something else, please?
Not all leave voters are racist,
-but if you are racist--
-Sam.
You're very likely to have voted leave!
What a load of old nonsense.
It's fact, Ron.
All the surveys bear out the fact,
you have leave one side,
you have racism the other,
and there they meet.
We could hit one of the others.
Nah.
This is the one.
Half an hour.
Yeah.
Yeah, they'll be asleep.
Well, that's it, that's all I can say.
Come on, I have to get my excitement
wherever I can find it these days!
I could tell you, but
then I'd have to kill you.
I've got some gossip for you.
Yeah? What's that?
Local police chief's corrupt.
And he lives down the road, as well.
Oh!
What's it like being married
to a real journalist, eh?
Christ, it's like she's Clark Kent
and you're Lois Lane!
Yeah, well, punching above my weight.
You know, at uni I used to
have to ask girls out for him.
You still owe me, man.
Oh, that's not true though, actually, Ron.
-It is true.
-No, it's not true!
Too much time reading comics
and playing with his little men!
Little men, or little men?
Those little Game of
Thrones, Harry Potter,
Lord of the Rings sort of things
while the rest of us were all learning
how to drink and pull.
That's not true!
Did you play with Dungeons
and Dragons? That's adorable.
Of course he did, can't
you tell by the face?
Look at that furrowed brow.
That is the face of the modern male,
I mean, that's why the sperm
counts are dropping off.
-Jesus!
-There, look, come on now.
Let me give you a massage,
one of my special ones.
I don't want one
of your special massages!
Yeah, yeah, no, no, fully consenting,
-only if you're consenting.
-No, thank you.
Look, your shoulders
are up around your ears.
Okay, alright, the hell with it.
Come on. Jesus.
1999 all over again.
See you later, guys.
-Bye, thank you!
-Bye!
Bye, see you at work.
How is she?
Out cold.
Couldn't drag out of her what's wrong.
It's probably some married man
she hasn't told me about yet.
Listen, I'm zonked.
I'm gonna pass out.
I'll be down in a sec.
Just gonna do a little bit of work.
Don't come to bed while
you're still buzzing.
Just give it a bit.
Hey!
Hey!
No!
Ah, fuck, no!
Hey!
Sam?
Sam!
Becca?
I was just
I was just trying
-Oh!
-Oh, God!
We need an ambulance.
Ambulance.
I'll go.
No, no, no!
No. No.
Becca, I stabbed him.
He needs help.
-I know!
-He needs help.
I know, but
Sam, he needs help!
He's dead.
He's dead!
Well, we're okay.
That's the main thing.
We need to call the police.
No, wait.
Wait.
Let's just think things through, okay?
Think things through?
We need to call the police.
No.
No, we're not doing that, okay?
Let me just think.
Please, Becca, just give me a second.
We need to get our story straight, okay?
We had a man invade our house
and you were defending yourself.
I stabbed him in the back.
-Sam--
-As he was trying to escape.
-No, but, but--
-He didn't attack me!
I'm calling the police.
No!
Not yet.
We will.
Of course we will call the police.
Just sit.
Becca, please.
Please just sit.
Sit.
We will call the police.
When they arrive, we tell
them that we were burgled
and I was trying to defend myself, yes?
-Yes, of course!
-Yes.
So we can't let them see
the body where it is.
That he was halfway out the window
and I pulled him back and I stabbed him.
Because that's not
self-defense, that's murder.
We've all seen the cases, it's clear.
-No, no--
-It's clear!
-No, no it must be okay
-Jesus Christ!
to yourself in your own house!
Yeah, but it wasn't self defence!
He was halfway out the window!
He's right.
You're only allowed to use
force if you're in danger
or you think you're in danger.
I mean, I don't know, I
only did law for six months.
We could Google it.
Or we could call Ben,
Ben's a criminal lawyer.
No one's calling anyone
and no one's Googling the fucking law!
Sorry.
Okay, Becca, Becca,
just hear me out.
I'll take the weight.
Jesus!
Where did you get the knife?
What? Shed.
We've had it ages.
It was in my dad's toolbox,
he gave it to us years ago.
Okay.
Okay.
What are you doing?
Helping.
I woke at 3:15.
Sorry. I can't remember exactly.
Then I realised that
I'd heard glass smash.
I suppose they thought
the house was empty.
I came out of my room and saw
that the front door was open
and there was glass on the mat.
And there was just the one intruder?
Yes.
I didn't know what to do.
So I grabbed the knife.
I
It's alright.
Well, he slashed at Sam's face.
I didn't have any choice.
He'd have killed Sam otherwise.
I put the knife in him.
Wait, wait!
I put my hand up to protect myself.
He slashed me.
That's been a break in at my house!
Yeah, there was a man and he
I, no, no, no.
My husband's here and my friend.
Okay.
No, no, I mean, yes, yes, he's
Like I said, this is
just a brief statement.
We'll take a fuller, more detailed account
down at the station.
Yes, of course.
Right.
Once next of kin have been contacted
Karen Bailey, FLO.
Ma'am.
Mr and Mrs. Hickey?
I'm Karen Bailey.
I'm your family liaison officer.
It's my job to liaise
with families of victims.
I'm not an investigating officer
but I will be the officer
who talks to the family
of the young man who lost his life.
In a case like this, well,
you are the victims as well.
You'll be going down to the station soon
but in the meantime, I just,
well, I want you to know
that if you need anything,
and I mean anything,
you just give me a call.
Who was he?
His name was Syed.
Syed Khalil.
You know.
Once we're at the station.
Yes.
Alright. Thanks very much.
Hi, mum.
Yes.
Well, sort of, well, very.
I'm at work.
Hang on.
What are you doing up? Get back to bed!
Couldn't you?
Did it?
Well, are you doing the exercises
the doctor gave you?
Right.
Look, mum, I'm gonna have to go.
Yeah.
Yeah, I love you too.
Bye.
He was stronger than he looked, you know.
I came in and the man,
he was on top of Sam.
He pushed him down and,
a lamp was over.
And he just seemed to be
I mean, maybe he was on drugs
or just the adrenaline
or something, you know?
He had the knife in his hand.
And the man was on top of him, and
I saw he had a knife.
I was aware of
Rebecca coming in and--
Becca tried to haul him off
but he was just too strong.
And I just instinctively reached
for the knife on the table.
And I
I just, I just needed to
get him off my husband.
He was like an animal.
My main role is to be
the sole point of contact
for you and your family.
I'm not an investigator,
but I can enable information
that can be shared to
assist the investigation.
Mr. Khalil, I wondered if
you could talk me through
the last time that you saw Syed.
Mr. Khalil?
He was always out every night.
Driving me crazy with worry.
And I just wanted to make sure
he wasn't going to waste the whole day.
He was supposed to be looking
at university prospectuses.
So I shouted at him to get up.
I shouted at him.
Mr. Khalil.
Syed's body has already been released.
So it is possible to proceed with the--
Why so soon?
It's possible that it was assumed
that a prompt burial might
be a priority for you.
Because we're a Muslim family?
No.
The priority is for you to find out
what happened to my son.
Of course.
And there will be a
thorough investigation.
But we see no problem in releasing the--
There's no problem waiting
if it's a suspicious death.
Mr. Khalil, your son's death,
it's not being looked on as suspicious.
That is not a word we're
using in this case.
You said my son was attacking the man?
Attacking him?
Yes.
No.
My son wouldn't do that.
That's not my son!
Here it is.
Local teenager dies during break-in.
Syed Khalil, a local resident died
after a break-in to a house
along the Becksfield Coast.
A police statement said the death
was not being treated as suspicious.
Is that it?
Well, I think so.
No, there's nothing else
-coming up.
Just a minute!
Sam? Becs?
It's Ben.
Hi. Sorry I'm a bit early.
I've got some caffeine,
and I think some good news.
Well, it means you can move back in
this evening for one thing.
But more importantly, it means that SOCO,
sorry, forensics basically,
haven't found anything
untoward at the scene.
And that means that any court
proceedings are a formality.
Now I'm not gonna drown
you in the details,
but here's the relevant,
this is the amendment
to Section 76 of the Criminal, here we go.
The degree of force is not to be regarded
as having been reasonable
if it was grossly disproportionate
in those circumstances.
Now the magistrate is
gonna be forced to conclude
that you did use reasonable force
because one of you was
literally under attack,
and it would be reasonable
for you to assume
that you could've been
injured or even killed,
at which point the rest
of the Act kicks in
and it's totally on your side.
Yes?
All okay?
Yes, delivery's just come in.
Good.
Now, the other night there
was a bit of bad business
that might come back
to bite us in the arse.
A break-in, one of the big
houses up above the caves.
Papers said the lad attacked them.
Yeah, well.
Don't believe half of what you hear
and none of what you read.
He might not have been alone,
that's what I've heard.
Anyway.
Anything comes up your end,
you be sure to let me know.
We'll brief the callers not to mention it.
You know the drill.
Are you okay?
Yeah.
Yeah, I'll be fine.
-Yeah?
-Yeah.
Okay, good man.
It's just science, it really is.
Have you read the CDC
guidelines on vaccinations?
No, but what I'm saying is--
No, I thought not.
Margaret, stay on the line, don't hang up.
You said there, it's just science.
Now, science is the process of looking at
and evaluating evidence.
We can't say whatever we like is science.
We know what we know
because people, experts
Experts in a given field
evaluate evidence and draw
conclusions based on it.
We are gonna have to go
to the news and sports now
but, Margaret, don't go away,
let's pick this up afterwards.
Sam Hickey
on London Chat Radio.
LC--
It's almost an open secret.
A local drug distribution ring,
it's not even a ring,
it's almost a one man operation.
A
A local farmer called Fitzgerald
and a few associates.
Police Chief
Warren.
Warren, yes.
He's at the heart of it
and I don't know how many more
Rebecca's has been through it all with me.
The source is completely solid.
-Obviously we need to--
-Sorry.
-Run it by--
-I'm sorry.
By legal, but I think we
could run it in next week's
Sorry, I'll just.
-Okay.
-Take your time.
Becs?
Hey.
Oh, God.
Oh, fuck.
Oh, God.
Thank God for you, Angela.
You've been so great.
Hey. I'll do that.
You get some sleep.
By the way,
have you seen my laptop?
You tidied it into the
snug before the party.
Yeah.
Yeah, I know, but it's not here.
Well, maybe you left it at work?
Yeah.
Okay, yeah, I'll be down in a sec.
There's a car outside.
Been there since we came back.
We'll be okay.
I'm gonna try and sleep.
Yeah.
Who's texting you at this time?
It's
Who is it?
It's just mum and dad.
I should probably call them, really.
It's almost one.
Well, they're obviously still up.
I said I'd call them yesterday
after the police thing, but I forgot.
What are you doing?!
What do you want?
I'm just calling
to check if you're okay.
Tell me what this is about!
Well, it's just all been so horrible.
I can't even imagine what
it's been like for you.
But in a way,
this could be a good thing.
Why would it be a good thing?
I keep thinking of us
walking along the beach.
I remember you saying
how wonderful it was.
I remember.
What we had was amazing,
you said so yourself.
What are you doing, Angela?
Why don't you come over tomorrow?
And we can talk about the future.
What? You know that's ridiculous!
Great, so I'll see you at seven.
Angela!
Angela!
How were they?
Oh.
Fine, yeah.
Worried.
I said I'd call them tomorrow.
Hey, hey, hey.
We're gonna be okay.
Oh, Sam, Sam, it's okay.
It's okay.
It's okay, it's okay.
We'll be okay.
You do what you have to do.
Well, it's important. Find the
guy, I get the laptop back.
If the police started looking
into your case too much,
it would lead them to look
into all kinds of dark corners.
Are you threatening me?
They're doing nothing and you know it.
You have to follow this up.
My son would never break into a house
unless someone lead him on.
Well, she just seemed
really, really curious.
I reckon all she'd need
is a nudge in the right direction.
I know you're in there!
You will not ruin my life!
You will not ruin my marriage!
Angela!
I helped you fake evidence!
-I did it!
-Shut up!
You're holding a fucking grenade
and if you pull the
pin, you'll blow up too!
I always wondered
about really bad people.
Are they born knowing they're bad?
Or do they grow up thinking
they're just like everybody else?
Reasonable force,
that's what they call it.
That's when the visitor
becomes an intruder.