Deadline (2022) s01e03 Episode Script

I want you to find the person who
killed my husband.
George Varga's Hungarian
so his contacts are all out there.
Everyone is a suspect.
She can't expect you
to actually find the killer.
Did you kill him?
I loved my husband.
She was with me. All night.
That's it.
Were you sleeping together?
She's a good friend.
You mustn't believe everything
Vera says. Friends are rare.
She's always been broke,
ever since I've known her.
I know who killed him.
The dead brother, who's dead?
She says she saw him yesterday.
He ran up debts
with some bad people.
He was charged with
attempted murder.
He did some bad things himself.
He pushed his sister's boyfriend
off a roof.
This guy, Lukacs Novak.
I couldn't have friends, boyfriends.
I think it's Oliver's family.
I don't know any Oliver?
You've just established the person
who killed my husband is in Hungary.
When was the last time you lost
control like that?
Vera, I need to talk to you
about Oliver.
HE GRUNTS
Stop looking for him now.
Next time it will be pentobarbital.
Please take your seat.
ENGINE WHIRS
INDISTINCT TANNOY ANNOUNCEMEN
Ladies and gentlemen
You know, I take the plane maybe
50 times a year
and I never get used to it.
I'm fine, thank you.
I'm Dominik.
James. Let me ask you something, do
you ever get worried about crossing
the road?
The odds of you dying on a plane are
one in one 11 million. And the odds
of you dying been hit by a car,
you know what it is?
One in 5,000. So really you should
be more worried about getting to and
from the airport.
I'll try that next time. Thanks.
And if you're worried about
terrorists, you're more likely
to be killed by falling furniture
than by a terror attack.
It's unbelievable, but it's true.
OK. You know a bit about
aeroplanes, right?
I'm a bit of a nerd.
I've always wondered, you know,
there's always this faff at the
airport, when you check in,
they take your shampoo bottles or
whatever, but I reckon it would be
pretty easy to smuggle a weapon
onto a plane, right?
Yeah, sure. I mean, all that stuff
it's mostly theatre.
There was a guy in Japan who
worked out you can pick up luggage
from arriving flights after
you've passed the security.
He used the loophole to smuggle
a knife aboard the plane,
took a flight attendant hostage,
dragged her across the plane,
in to cockpit,
and stabbed the pilot.
Sorry.
How are the peanuts?
Too salty.
Do I know you?
You need to think very carefully
about who you go around threatening.
I'm sorry?
I know you're working
for Oliver Sewell.
You need to back off.
Sir. If someone is threatening you,
maybe you need to consider how
important this trip is.
If you're feeling under threat, I
think, when you get off this plane,
you should go straight to the desk
and get a ticket on the next flight
back home to the UK.
Now, you listen to me
I'm sorry.
Would you like me to swap seats
so you can talk to your friend?
No, it's OK.
All right, tell me, Dominik
Uh, please call me Dom.
OK, Dom.
Say you wanted to kill someone on
a plane, during the flight,
how would you do it?
I'm writing a novel. Oh, wow.
You mean, without getting caught?
Yeah.
Well, most people that die on planes
die from cardiac arrest.
Most of them are men.
Most of them are your age.
Most of them have no history of ill
health before they board the plane.
Can you see where I'm going?
How are you going to make me have
a heart attack? See that guy?
He's diabetic. If you are diabetic,
you can bring a syringe on board
the plane.
I saw him at the security,
he had a medical certificate.
I could easily fake that.
One quick jab,
you get cardiac arrest,
no-one would ever know.
How does that work for you?
Bit tricky if you're sitting in
a different part of the plane.
Hmm. Yeah, would need to have some
accomplices,
to maximise the chances
of getting close to the hero.
Could he have more than one
bad guy?
Actually, we could have just one
accomplice as long as the hero
doesn't know what the bad guy
looks like.
It could literally be anyone.
And if we don't get him during
the flight, we can get him
after the plane has landed.
You know, all the jostling
with overhead lockers.
I mean, if the premise is that the
hero is stuck on a plane
..and there is more than one
killer
..I can't see how he gets off
the plane alive.
I can't wait to see what your hero
comes up with.
Um, excuse me. UmI'm gonna need
some help getting off the plane
and through the airport.
There's a man in 4C.
No, don'tdon't look.
Before we got on the flight,
he threatened me
and, well, to be honest,
he's trying to kill me.
So I am gonna need an escort
getting off the plane when we land.
I'm afraid that's not a service we
provide, sir.
Listen. He's trying to kill me.
Why is this man trying to kill you?
Sir, I think you had a couple
of drinks, maybe before you got
on the flight and
No, I did not have a drink.
And if you don't sit down now,
I need to inform the pilot.
Sit down.
HE WHISPERS INDISTINCTLY
Hi. Uh, me again, hi.
Can I have some whisky, please?
Oh, you just have these little
miniatures, yeah.
No I'll takeI'll take two,
please. Yeah.
And some beer.
Landing in under an hour, sir.
Understood.
Can I get another beer?
Uh, and I'll take a whisky, too.
Sir, we land in 45 minutes. Uh,
I wanna be drunk when we get there.
Sir, I really think you should sit
back and. I feel like socialising.
Maybe you could take me out
this evening.
Sir, why don't you sit down?
OK, well, you could take me to see
the sights, I don't mind. I'm easy.
Sit down. I'll sit over here. OK.
Oh, fuck. Oh, but I will take
that beer.
I think you've had enough drinks.
Well, I'll agree to disagree.
We're arriving in Budapest
very soon, sir.
I have been told you do not want to
see that city sober.
The bar is closed.
Got it. OK. Self-service it is.
NoNo. No, sir. Sit back, please.
PASSENGERS GASP AND MURMUR
Wait! What are you doing?
I'm getting you a nice seat at the
front of the plane.
What, are you gonna arrest me?
Lots of leg room.
Yeah, but are you gonna arrest me?
We're calling the police as soon as
we're on the ground, sir.
Ladies and gentlemen, we apologise
for the disturbance in the cabin.
We assure you that
the matter has been settled
and the individual will be removed
as soon as we land.
Five hours.
You should be sober now.
I wasn't drunk.
I was pretending to be drunk.
They breathalysed you, James.
You were pissed. Yeah, well
..method acting.
So why the fuck aren't we back at
the police station?
He just threatened me,
he didn't actually do anything.
He stabbed a needle in you.
I can't believe you didn't tell me.
So what were you planning to get out
here? More of the same?
Chase up leads, talk to people who
might know Oliver.
More thugs? We're out of here.
I'm not going home, Barbara.
You are.
I can find him. Jesus Christ!
Well, maybe it's crazy,
but I know he's here.
You're the one who wanted me to stop
wasting my time on trashy
tabloid shit.
I don't remember using those words.
Most of them you did.
So it's my fault now, is it?
CAR HORN BEEPS
Oh, shit.
Sorry, sorry, sorry. False alarm.
So sorry.
I knew he was dangerous
but I had no idea.
No, it's fine. I've moved hotels
there's no way they can find me.
KNOCK AT DOOR
Natalie, I have to go.
I'll call you later.
James.
Yeah. Be careful.
My sink smells of urine.
Maybe don't pee in it?
Who was that?
Who was what? On the phone.
Uh, Molnar. I have to keep her
updated.
I thought you'd be liaising directly
with Natalie by now.
No, better to keep her at arms
length. Is that a plug socket?
Is it very important to be in
the worst hotel in Hungary?
No, it's important to be in a hotel
that just takes cash
and doesn't check passports.
Vera works there. She was in London
for an exhibition, but she's
based here.
She said she met Natalie at a show
so I went through all
the exhibitions and galleries
in Budapest.
I used to be a journalist before
I started managing overgrown
children.
Sorry to keep you waiting.
Sorry if it's a bit of a surprise.
Is there somewhere we can talk?
I'm very busy at the moment.
I'm sorry.
We've come quite a long way.
If you could spare us,
just a moment.
I'm sorry, I think I've told you
everything I know
We know about Shona, Vera.
And we know that you know her.
It's no great mystery.
I met her at Oliver's funeral.
I felt sorry for her,
I kept in touch. Yeah.
We reckon Oliver didn't even meet
Shona until after the funeral.
My God, you're worse than tabloids.
Where were you taking Shona?
Airport, right? You brought them
here to Budapest?
You wanted them to meet Oliver
Sewell.
To the best of my knowledge,
Oliver is dead.
So who's Leila's father?
No idea. It's none of my business.
You've never met Elliot Strand?
Yeah. I have a photograph of Elliot
with his family
and I have a photograph of Oliver
with you.
And the resemblance is uncanny.
I agreed to talk to you one time
because Natalie begged me,
I did not agree to be harassed
at my work.
I'm sorry.
We just thought you might
remember something,
any detail of Oliver's time here
that might help us.
And help your friend Natalie.
I think I've helped her all I can.
Lukacs Novak. Do you have any idea
where he might be?
You do know what happened to him,
right.
I don't keep in touch
with these people.
I'm really sorry, I have to get back
to my customers.
Anything else, you put it
in writing.
Were you there
..the night he was pushed off
a roof?
This whole idea that Oliver
is alive, if this is something
based on what Natalie said, then
maybe I wasn't clear before.
she's unstable. Hmm.
That is exactly what she said
about you.
And you're supposed to be friends?
Rare, actually was the word you
used to me.
"Friends are rare."
Anyone who meets her can see she's
not right.
You're lying.
OK, I need you to leave.
You know exactly where Oliver is.
Right now. Yeah. We're going.
You don't get anywhere calling
someone a liar.
You call them a liar, you've lost.
And if she's lying about Oliver,
how do you know she's not lying
about Natalie's alibi?
She knows Oliver did it.
I see why they call them Ruin Bars.
Looks like a bombsite.
That's where he fell from.
Can we take one night off?
DANCE MUSIC
We need to find a dealer.
I'll stick to tequila, thanks.
Someone will have sold to him.
You're gonna wander round Budapest
asking drug dealers if they've seen
a dead man? Going to do a bit
of investigative journalism, yeah.
If he pushed someone off a roof
and faked his own death,
have you thought what he's gonna do
if you find him?
If you wanna go home, go home.
All right.
You're fired.
From this job.
There's plenty others I can get
you doing.
I'm staying until I find him.
Pete and I had a row.
He thought I was coming out here
for a dirty weekend.
I tried to tell him obsessive people
aren't very attractive.
I learnt that a long time ago.
Thanks.
I thought you did too.
Obsessive.
Just cos I happen to believe that
she might be innocent, and doesn't
deserve to spend the rest of her
life paying for it.
Which, by the way, is where you were
five days a go.
Are you sleeping with her?
Where is that coming from?
You were talking to her at
the hotel, you don't wanna tell me.
And you lost it when
Vera said she was unstable.
I am not sleeping with her.
Good.
Because if you are sleeping with
her, or you're doing this because
you want to sleep with her
..don't call yourself a journalist.
And any journalism you've done on
this, you've pissed all over.
Your work and mine.
Anything else?
If you're not in on Monday,
you can find a new job.
Try not to get stabbed.
Mr Alden?
Hi. I'm sorry to bother you.
I thought you might be on a plane.
No, no, I'm still here.
Still looking into things.
I'm sorry I was so difficult before.
I just feel like I've been dragged
into this whole thing
and I genuinely don't know about
Oliver, but, look,
I don't know if this is any help
but I think I know where you might
be able to find Lukacs Novak.
I know he works at Szoborpark.
Memento Park?
I ran into his, um, I think it's his
girlfriend. Hanna.
Just call the ticket office.
Good luck.
Hi, this is Natalie,
please leave a message.
Hi. Look, I thought you might like
to know Vera's starting to
co-operate. Call me back.
Zarva vagyunk. We're closing.
Actually, I timed it so I could have
a private chat.
Mr Novak? Yeah.
Do you have a minute?
I'm a journalist.
My name's James Alden.
And you must be Hanna.
What do you want?
I wanted to ask you a few questions
about Oliver Sewell.
What kind of journalist?
I read about your accident.
Accident? It's bullshit.
So Oliver did push you off a roof?
He's dead, so who cares?
He was seen in London a
few days ago.
I think he might be here.
If you can help me to find him,
we could go to the police,
reopen your case.
Do you want to see the park?
The only people I can think might
know where he is right now,
are the guys he owes money to.
They've been looking for him
a long time.
Do you know any of them?
No, because we're not
a junkie piece of shit.
Why don't you ask that shitty artist
woman who sent you.
She knows all those people.
Vera knows Oliver's dealers?
Back then she was worse than he was.
That's why Natalie dumped her
for George.
She dumped her girlfriend,
her brother for money.
Have you talked to Natalie? Yeah.
Is she saying that Oliver killed
her husband?
That's one of the possibilities
we're looking at.
Because I don't know if it was
Oliver who pushed me.
I thought you told the police
it was Oliver.
Yeah, I was pretty out of it.
It made sense at the time.
So now you've changed your mind?
Of course it was Oliver.
She told him, what you were, like,
beating her?
Is she telling the truth?
Is she lying?
She thinks I fucked her up.
Maybe I did. Maybe it's karma.
Karma doesn't work like that.
Please stop saying it's karma.
So you didn't actually see who
pushed you? No.
Well, what do you remember?
I'm on the ground, facing up.
I know my back's broken.
The pain is coming, I'm sobering up.
And I see Natalie looking down
at me.
And then I don't know what's
real any more.
What did you think of her?
I'm just trying to find out who
killed her husband.
I think she did.
She beats people she can punish.
So watch your back.
Hi, this is Natalie.
Please leave a message.
HE SIGHS
ENGINE STARTS
Hello? Anyone here?
INDISTINCT RECORDED NARRATION
PHONE RINGS
FOOTSTEPS APPROACH
DISTANT CLANG
HE GROANS
HE GRUNTS
GUNSHOT, MUFFLED THUD
DISTANT VEHICLE ENGINE STARTS
FIREWORKS EXPLODE
ANIMATED CHATTER
CLASSICAL MUSIC
FIREWORKS EXPLODE AND POP
I don't know why I can't just talk
to him on the phone.
THEY SPEAK INDISTINCTLY
INDISTINC
Daddy!
INDISTINC
INDISTINC
INDISTINC
NATALIE: Oh, my God.
Look, I can't get that close,
but it's definitely him.
No, no. Don't try and talk to him.
This is enough for the police
to start believing me
and they can start
investigating properly.
Natalie.
It's over.
I'm gonna come back and
help you fight this.
Where are you?
Where did you find him?
We're about an hour
out of Budapest.
Can you send me the pin
so I can tell the police?
Yeah, I'll do that right now.
James, thank you.
And please promise me walk away now.
All right, don't worry, I'm gone.
You're on it again, don't lie to me.
I'm not. You are.
Why would you bring Leila
to a place like this?
You're completely out of it.
I told them to tell you
to leave her with Mary.
Who, are they?
They're fucking dealers.
It wasn't my idea.
Are they holding you here?
No. Then we're going.
No. Me and Leila are going.
You can stay if you want to.
They won't let you.
Oh, great. Hey, heyhey.
They're not my friends.
And they don't fuck around.
So just calm down.
We haven't got anything.
Tell them we haven't got anything.
Natalie has.
She's got more than enough
to make this go away.
Natalie won't help you.
Why would she help you?
She will this time. Why?
She did it, Shona.
I watched her do it.
If she doesn't pay, she's going to
jail, and I know my sister
and she'll pay and
they'll leave us alone.
All they want is their money.
Stay.
You made promises.
We've just got to sit it out
here until she pays.
You made promises before God.
Oliver can blame the palacsintas.
Delicious little pancakes.
I was on my way to get some for
the little girl when I saw you.
Who the fuck is this?
It's all under control.
Go and tell your wife to take
the kid for a walk.
But the sun is here.
I know but we will go down there.
You don't know her like I do.
If she sent him there'll be others.
You're a fucking idiot.
Who are you?
Cos whatever she's told you it
will be lies.
Oliver.
Firstly, I want you to tell me what
happened to my friend.
Well, I was hoping you
would tell me that.
Or you can tell it to the
police, whichever,
they're on their way.
Just don't make it worse
for yourselves.
Did you call the police?
Absolutely.
You called Ms Varga.
And she called the police.
Oh, my God.
Sit down. I keep trying to tell you,
she is not
Sit down
or I will slit your throat myself.
Now, I know that you have
an accomplice.
I don't believe it's your
female colleague,
so you need to tell me right now
wh..
GUNSHO
No, no, no, no, no.
Sit.
OK.
Jesus Christ.
Take your brother,
I'll finish here.
You know I didn't have a choice.
What could I do?
Well, you could've actually
killed yourself.
They found out about my family.
How could you not tell me
you had a child?
Why did you hide her from me?
What did you think I'd do?
Nothing.
Take over.
Take her away from me
..like you take everyone away.
I don't know you.
I didn't want you to
be here for this.
Natty?
Natty?
Go find your family
and let me clean your mess.
I wish you had just killed
me as well.
Just go away.
You don't get to tell
me what to do.
Just find them.
No.
I don't want you near them.
They're my family too.
You're not having them.
I don't expect anyone's ever made
you do anything you don't want to.
HE SCOFFS
Someone made you do this?
It's hard to prove what George did
to me.
There were no bruises.
Just little
..daily degradations.
I filmed everything.
I wanted to do it properly.
Build a case.
And it sounds silly as you see,
you can't capture it.
He was cutting me off from my
friends,
monitoring
..where I went, what I ate.
Telling me I was ugly.
Barren.
You murdered him for that?
My brother was dead for four years.
They were going to kill him if they
didn't get their money
and George said no.
And I just thought of him dying all
over again.
George just laughed.
I don't even remember doing it.
Are you finished?
You're a very average sort
of man, really.