Malice (2025) s01e02 Episode Script

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Here, kitty, kitty.
Kitty, kitty.
Here, pussycat.
I've got some food for you.
Here, kitty, kitty.
Pussycat.
Foodies.
Want some dinner?
Come here. Good girl.
Shh, shh, shh.
Mornings turn to night,
and then the night becomes the day ♪
I can't keep up with time ♪
Not a slave if I'm already free ♪
Not a captive
if it's where I wanna be ♪
Ooh-la-la-la-la-la ♪
Then the crowd calls ♪
Ooh-la-la-la-la-la ♪
Who's gonna catch me
when I fall down? ♪♪
Has anything like this
happened with her before?
No.
She needs to go to the hospital
in Athens, now.
She's in shock.
What's wrong with her?
I think it's food poisoning.
It's very serious.
They will do tests in Athens.
I need to take this,
it's the air ambulance.
Hello? Nai.
Okay, I'd better call
her mum in Australia.
-What's happened?
-It's going to be alright, Dexy.
She just has to go to hospital briefly,
to check if she's okay, hmm?
You wait here, Dex.
She was completely fine yesterday.
She probably ate something
we didn't, which was stupid.
I don't suppose she has
travel insurance, huh?
I guess I'm the one footing the bill here?
-That's definitely the right question.
-You're certainly not paying, are you?
She probably poisoned herself
to get away from us.
Hey, Steve. I hate to take the romance
out of your legendary noodles,
but it's two quarters in a row now
that you haven't managed
to service the interest, huh?
Yes, I know,
but I can absolutely reassure you
And, and and we asked you
to cut your wage bill
by 20% at each restaurant,
and you you haven't done that
either, have you?
No. Yeah, it's ongoing.
It's difficult, because many of the staff
have been working for us for many years.
No, it is difficult, I understand that.
We also asked you to cut
your ingredient spend.
-How's that going?
-I will be.
-You will be?
-Yes.
Alright, um anything else
you want to tell me for this quarter?
No. I just need to make those staff cuts.
Right, right.
What about the Westfield concession?
I heard you lost that location.
Yes. Unfortunately, we haven't managed
to secure that site.
When when were you going
to tell me that?
Look, Steve, this is the relationship:
we give you money, and you give us honesty
and transparency.
Okay? The worst thing you can do to me,
is not tell me the truth.
-Do you understand that?
-Yes, I know.
Alright? We still love you.
We back you 100%, alright?
Let's just see what the next couple
of weeks brings, okay?
Okay. Thank you.
Thank you.
Fuck me.
-Hello?
-Ah, Lisa. Yeah, it's me.
Hi, Jamie.
We've got to get out
of Chan's Noodles right now.
Shit, really?
Yeah, he's weak. He's fucked it up,
he fucked it up.
Understood.
I'll get legal to kill the contract.
So, this is Apollo, who's the god
of everything good and fun:
dancing, archery, the truth.
He removed plague, destroyed evil.
And he was born over there,
on an island called Delos.
And he was the protector of children.
Yes, well remembered.
Hey, Dex. What you got there?
The God Apollo!
Apollo? Cool.
Where'd you get that?
From the temple on the other island.
Do you think we can go this year?
Huh? Yeah, yeah, let's do that.
We should go sometime.
Yeah, yeah.
I'll take you, Dex.
-Yeah?
-Yeah.
Right, I think we've done enough of that.
Shall we play some house golf?
Yes.
Race you upstairs.
Woah!
Argh!
Fore!
Fore!
Hey!
Has she gone?
Oh, I can't believe
this is our last evening together.
-I know.
-Iris, where's your honeymoon?
On Crete. I'm looking forward to it.
I've never been to Crete.
Nice.
Please, don't stay away too long.
-We can't live without you.
-That's not true!
She's marrying a local guy
called Achilles.
That's nice.
Wow, Achilles,
there's a name to live up to.
I'm so happy for her, though.
What does Achilles do?
Is it something very heroic?
Do you know what? I have no idea.
Oh, he's a builder and a decorator.
He plastered this entire house.
Really?
Turns out, his heel was his invoicing.
-Cheers to a lovely holiday, thank you.
-Cheers.
I guess it was one of
the worst nights of my life.
Oh, no, they were great.
"Someone, Somewhere" is an amazing song.
Amazingly naff!
I had to go and hear that in Poland.
You spent the whole evening flirting
with these two Scandi girls
next to you, remember?
-There it is.
-Not my finest hour
and not the worst thing
I've ever done either.
Go on, then. What is the worst thing
you've ever done?
"Go on, then." Fuck yourself.
-No, I'm not playing that game.
-No, come on, that's a great game.
We go around the table,
and we all say the worst thing
we've ever done.
Doesn't leave this villa.
Meh
You behaved disgracefully
in your teens and twenties.
-Excuse me? Me?
-And thirties.
Sorry for having
a little bit of fun, guys.
I do have one big regret, though:
I missed my own grandmother's funeral.
Ooh
'Cause I went to bed very late
the night before,
and I woke up at 10am, in shock,
because, of course,
the funeral had already started.
Then I got all these messages
from my family, like:
"Where the fuck are you?"
-And I just jumped on my bike
-On a come-down.
and I got there too late.
I just missed it all.
Yeah, I'm still so ashamed of this.
Yeah, that is quite bad behaviour.
Yeah, it is, but that is not
the worst thing you've ever done, my love.
Thank you.
Damien?
Oh, I can't think of anything really bad.
-My life is terribly dull, as a rule.
-Come on!
Okay, what about when you shrunk
my favourite sweater in the wash?
Yeah, that was really bad of me.
The one you gave me from Dior.
-No!
-Yeah.
Yeah, that's bad.
Anyway, I've told my story.
What's your story, Jamie Tanner?
Yeah, Jamie Tanner.
Oh, er oh, me?
I lost Dexter once.
What?
Dexter, you remember? I lost you once?
What?
You don't remember? I lost you.
Goodbye, and have a nice time.
When was this?
I don't know,
like, three or four years ago.
-I was picking him up from school.
-We know exactly when that was,
because you only picked him up
from school once.
Jesus.
Okay, so, I was picking him up
on this rare occasion,
and I think he was looking for you.
How old was he?
Seven or eight.
I turned around,
and Dex was just gone.
You've never told me this.
No, no.
No sign of him, anywhere.
A short while goes by, teachers tell me
I've got to call the cops.
Hey, don't worry.
We know he survives in the end.
And a cop shows up
fairly quickly, actually.
And why are all cops such dickheads?
This guy, in an officious voice, says:
"The first hour is the most important."
Well, how worried were you?
Very! Very worried.
Imagine how I would have felt
if I actually liked the kid.
I cannot believe
you never told me this.
I'm sorry, er, can I help you?
Excuse me for intruding.
I'm Inspector Dimopoulos,
with the Hellenic Police.
What's the problem, sir?
Do you know Dimitri Papadakis?
Yeah, he's our neighbour.
He owns the land down there.
He doesn't live there.
Mr. Papadakis
was attacked in town last night.
He was very badly hurt.
Who did it?
I'm going to find out.
Attacked how?
He was hit with a brick
on the back of the head.
From behind, here.
It's a very bad injury.
He says he heard English
before he was hit.
Well, there's a lot of English speakers
on the island, obviously.
Were any of you here in town last night?
Yeah, myself and Adam.
Er, Dimitri says he saw you.
Well, he may have seen us,
but we didn't see him,
and we certainly didn't hurt him.
I believe there's perhaps an issue
between yourselves and him.
-Is that right?
-Are you fucking serious?
Yeah, there's an issue,
a small one,
like you get with property development
between neighbours.
Are you suggesting there's a connection
between that and him getting hurt?
He stopped you building for a year,
I was told.
That was, like, ten years ago,
and it's all resolved.
Here is the house.
By the way, I employed
a lot of Greek locals when I made it,
and they were very happy
with me and my money.
Where did you go last night?
Daphne's Taverna, on the front.
Anywhere else?
-Flames.
-Oh, the strip club?
It's not really
a strip club, is it?
It's more like a topless bar.
Was anyone else here in town last night?
-A Adam, like I said.
-I wasn't invited.
Not that I would have gone.
Hi.
What's going on? Is he a policeman?
It's just a little mix-up, a local thing.
Just go in.
I don't want to intrude any more tonight,
so I'd like both of you to come down
to the police station in the morning,
on Halaris Street.
-Is that really necessary?
-At 9am, okay?
Please bring your passports.
Sorry, I'm meant to be flying back
with their family
tomorrow morning at 11am.
No, I need you to stay on the island
until I've told you it's okay to leave.
There's got to be a way
around this, right,
that means we don't have to come in?
I can detain you now.
I'll see you both tomorrow morning.
Perhaps not all cops are dickheads.
-Shit.
-Enjoy the rest of the night.
Was he?
How long was he there, listening?
Will somebody see him out
and make sure he's gone?
Please, somebody?
What the fuck happened
with you two last night?
It's nothing, it's just it's local
stuff.
"Enjoy the rest of your night,"
having just accused you of GBH.
Let me see you out.
I can assure you, neither my husband
nor Adam would ever hurt anyone.
And I obviously know him very well.
Adam?
No, my husband.
Does anyone really know anyone?
This is so stupid.
-A mix-up.
-Did you really go to a strip club?
I should have said no to him.
It wasn't classy or fun.
Did anything happen?
No, of course not.
Jamie was so drunk he couldn't stand up.
Couldn't pick something up,
let alone hit them with it.
Right, if he's gone,
shall we go back in?
Er, we're we're going
to head back and start packing.
Bastard ruined our whole evening.
Thanks, Jamie.
Yeah.
I'll join you in a mo.
I guess I'm not going to be able
to travel back with you tomorrow now.
-Ridiculous.
-Sorry.
It's fine. Come on, Damien.
Thank you.
-Goodnight.
-Goodnight.
-Goodnight.
-Goodnight.
I'm going to check on the kids.
I don't want to alarm you,
but I couldn't help noticing there was
some blood on your shirt last night.
What?
Yeah, here it is.
Oh, Jesus.
What is this?
It looks like blood, no?
What happened last night?
Do you not remember?
Remember what?
I don't know.
I left you on that bench,
went into Daphne's to take a piss,
and when I came out, you weren't there.
-What?
-Where were you?
-I I have no
-Where did you go?
idea. Nowhere.
I was looking for you,
and then you came
from round the back of the bar.
I mean, you were really drunk.
Do you not remember any of this?
-I don't know
-What did you do, when I was?
I don't remember. I I was I drugged?
No, no, otherwise you'd have been
the one attacked.
Right, look, this is what happened:
we went into town,
we went to the strip club.
Then afterwards,
the harbour, on that bench.
We waited for a cab,
and we went home. Okay?
Whatever you did, forget about it, right?
Doesn't matter, it's probably nothing.
We were apart for, like, three minutes.
-Do you think I hurt him?
-No.
Then what the fuck is that?
I don't know, doesn't matter.
Ketchup, taramasalata.
We'll get rid of it.
Yeah, burn it.
No.
-Wash it?
-Okay.
I'll do it now.
Is there anything on your phone
about Dimitri?
Mm.
You been having an argument
about the property.
Yeah, for years. He's a fucking asshole,
tried to stop me from building.
Right, well, get your phone.
Delete every message to him.
That's smart.
You don't fuck around, do you?
We're losing him.
Who?
Adam.
The way you said that, I thought
you were talking about your father.
Well, we get a free holiday,
and they get our tutor.
Oh, it doesn't matter.
He's not ours.
To be honest, I'm not that bothered
about losing him, Jules.
I mean, he's been fine, but
I don't know.
Don't you think there's been
something too?
Too what?
Too superior about him?
Well, that's just his generation.
He's great.
No, there's something restrained
about him.
He's always there,
making himself invaluable.
Well, he's on
someone else's holiday.
You just don't like
how much we're paying him.
Oh, yeah, there's that.
It's also clear that he fancies Nat.
No, he doesn't!
No?
I cannot believe
you went to a fucking strip club!
Come on, it's a fucking strip
-It's embarrassing!
-Nobody cares!
In front of our friends
and the kids!
They didn't hear!
husband revealing
he went to a strip club. Yes, they did!
Where the fuck is my passport?
Thank you for having us.
See you back in London.
You gonna be alright?
So sorry about all this.
Don't worry about it.
See you at home, yeah?
-Thanks, safe travels.
-See you.
-I wish I was coming back with you.
-Yep.
-I'll see you back in London.
-See you soon.
God damn it!
-Have you got the passports?
-Yes.
Bye!
Bye!
Bye!
Thank you!
Come on, little man.
-Brr!
-Brr! I'm going to get you!
Does that look like someone
that is about to go and hurt anybody?
If I'm going to confront someone,
I'm going to do it to their face.
I'm not going to sneak up behind them,
like a coward.
Is that right?
And I didn't attack him, or anyone.
He couldn't have, look.
And where were you?
Taking this video. It's my phone.
After you filmed this.
Where were you at 1am?
We got a cab home.
As we've said several times.
Let me be clear to you, Mr. Tanner:
if by the end of this meeting
I'm not convinced
that you had nothing to do
with the assault on Mr. Papadakis,
then I'll arrest you both.
I can hold you for 48 hours,
while I think about charging.
Charging us with what?
I'll have 48 hours to decide.
Believe me, I can find something.
Mr. Papadakis was very badly hurt.
I don't know
which cab driver took us home,
but I'm certain we can find out
who it was.
It was Takis Giannopoulos,
I've spoken to him.
He says he picked you up at 1:15.
Great. Well, there you are.
He says you were very drunk.
Guilty.
And you were sober.
I wouldn't say sober.
I mean, maybe compared to him.
So, there is 15 minutes
between the film you make
and the taxi taking you home.
Yeah, we waited for the taxi.
What can I say?
This island hasn't got enough cabs.
Wait. Are you suggesting that,
in that 15 minutes,
he went out and attacked a man
he's never met and doesn't know?
He wouldn't do that.
I can vouch for his character.
You've known the Tanner family
a long time?
No, I know their friends, the Sahanis.
I tutor their daughter.
He's not a friend, he's an employee.
He's an employee who's a friend.
That's how it works.
What, the Greeks don't employ
their friends?
If you have no more questions,
can we go?
You were good in there, thank you.
Oh, you're welcome.
It's a load of bullshit.
Fucking corrupt Greek cops.
Why did you film me passed out?
Oh, it was just to taunt Damien,
show him what he missed.
Then I was going to blackmail you.
Hm.
April, Dexter?
Bad luck, your father remains a free man.
What happened?
Adam was actually
very good with him.
I just explained,
using the correct legal terminology,
that there is no way Jamie
would survive a stretch
as the "bunk wife" to a Greek criminal.
Does that mean that we can go home
after the wedding?
Yeah, all good.
If we are going to go home,
I need to find my passport,
or no one's going anywhere.
Has anybody seen it?
-No.
-No.
What happened to Dimitri?
Who knows?
Oh, I spoke to the hospital.
Jodie's recovered.
Good.
I should go and collect her, I guess.
I could go get her.
No.
Yeah, I shouldn't even be here.
I should be on some Canceljet flight home.
You've been good enough to have me here.
Get a ferry over this afternoon,
have a night in Athens, I'd like that.
Bring her back tomorrow.
Well, I don't want to get her.
So, if you go, that's great. Thank you.
Want to show me
how long you can hold your breath?
-Yes.
-Starting from from now.
-Careful.
-Counting.
Hi.
What are you doing here?
I've come to take you home.
Don't know, really.
Had she mentioned she was homesick?
I don't understand, I thought
she wanted to stay on in London.
Now she's gone back to Australia.
She couldn't face
any more time with you.
Go away!
We took care of her for five months.
She still looked pretty ill,
I thought.
We've paid her.
Yeah, all she ever had to do
was everything we wanted.
Well, she was having a good time, April.
She said that to me.
She was looking forward to Carnival
I mean, I guess it's only natural
to want to go home, after being that ill.
Did they find out
what was wrong with her in the end?
Food poisoning, they think.
Just bad luck.
Let's find you something nice
for the wedding.
Mm
This is a nice room.
Thank you.
Er, that's a bit serious.
Yeah, try that.
-Jamie?
-Yeah?
Can Adam borrow this
for the wedding tomorrow?
Sure, he looks good.
Almost as good as me.
-Wish he was you.
-Oh, shut up, Kit!
And go away, go do some homework
or something. Just go away.
-You should take it easy on him.
-Nobody goes easy on me.
You kids need to remember
how lucky you are sometimes.
Right, shall we do
some Shakespeare then, as planned?
We can sack it off,
if you're not feeling it.
No, let's do it.
Okay. We were talking
about Prospero, weren't we?
Mm-hmm.
Feel a bit sorry for Kit.
Seems like he's in a lot of trouble.
Yeah, it's those knob-ends
he hangs out with from school.
Oh, yeah?
Do you think he'll be alright?
I'm not really meant to talk about it,
but when we get back to the UK,
we find out
if he's going to be charged, or expelled.
Dad says he won't be.
Yeah, I'm sure he'll be fine.
Right, here we are: Prospero.
So, yeah, people always get him wrong,
think of him as this fun wizard.
Actually, he's had everything
taken away from him.
He's a mean motherfucker, out for revenge.
Jason Statham,
but with a long white beard.
I don't smoke anymore.
This is great, isn't it?
My kids absolutely love you.
Aw, I don't really like them very much.
April really enjoyed whatever it was
you did with her yesterday. What was that?
Oh, just a bit of Shakespeare.
-"Oh, just a bit of Shakespeare."
-"Just a bit of Shakespeare."
They're great to teach, your kids.
They properly engage and concentrate.
Well, April does.
-Kit doesn't.
-Mm.
But I guess that's up to Jamie and Rachel.
-Rachel, that's his mum?
-When she's around, yeah.
-I'm going to go for a walk, okay?
-Okay, don't get lost.
Where would I get lost?
You gonna dance, April?
You said you were.
I did not say that.
April said she'd really like you
to come and be her tutor.
April said that?
And Dexter adores you.
When you took him
to the tennis club yesterday,
he said it was the best day ever.
And now, Jodie's
I really need someone to look after him.
My work is so busy at the moment,
so what do you think?
-Would you like to do that?
-I mean, I'd love to, but I can't.
Why not?
I'm with Jules, teaching Milly.
I can't let her down.
No, you're not letting them down.
-You've been with them for a month.
-Three.
Look, I'm offering to employ you
as a full-time Manny, not just a tutor.
And we'll pay you a lot more
than Jules does, like, a lot more.
Have you discussed this with Jamie?
Yeah.
Won't Jules be upset?
No! I mean, you've helped her,
now you're helping me.
She'll be pleased.
-Alright, then.
-Yes!
-Let's do it.
-Great, thank you.
Come on. Thank you.
Yamas.
Yamas.
There's another Greek toast I like:
"Na pethanei o charos."
"Death to death."
Yamas.
I'm really happy, thank you.
Me too.
Ela. Come.
-Okay.
-You're being summoned.
-Good luck.
-Yeah, thank you.
Dimitri, I know we've had our differences,
but I wanted to come by
I'm so sorry
about what happened to you. I
I don't want nothing to do with you.
Get away from my father, right now.
Just calm down, son.
-Get away from my father!
-Hey.
This is a wedding, it's Iris' wedding,
so let us be calm, please,
and show respect.
I came here to make friends.
I won't bother next time.
I think you have no friends here.
Fucking pricks.
-Make you feel like dancing?
-Anytime.
Oh, no, no, no. No.
Hey, I got to
-Whoo!
-Oh my god. Wow.