The Fortune (2026) s01e03 Episode Script

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I was threatened. He told me
to just leave it all alone
and that the money isn't mine.
CAMERA SHUTTER
CLICKS
How well did you know Martin?
He said he was in love with me.
And you can tell the family
I intend to take everything,
and I'll see them in court.
Martin was rich again,
thanks to your dad.
He He couldn't have
the one thing that he really wanted.
He couldn't have Linda.
Did you kill my father?
GUNSHOT,
AMANDA SCREAMS
BREATHES HEAVILY
ENGINE APPROACHES
Oh, shit!
CAR DOOR SLAMS
What are you doing out here?
A-Are you OK?
I I just need to I just
Did you find that Boots fella?
He didn't do anything, did he?
Do you want me to?
No! No, no, no, I just
I just need to go home.
Well, you might catch the last train
if you're quick. Do you?
Do you want a lift?
Well, come on, then. Get in.
BREATHES HEAVILY
I know it's
it's none of my business,
but are you the woman that Worrall
left all his money to?
It's just everybody's
talking about it.
I'm just really tired.
Do you think we could, um, just?
Yep, course, course.
It's none of my business.
No problem.
Ah, don't worry about that.
Not everything is about money.
Thank you.
You look after yourself.
KEYPAD CLICKS
DOOR SLAMS
They killed him.
Killed who?
What is that?
They shot him.
What do you mean, shot him?
The Boots guy? Yeah.
Who shot him?
I don't know. I just ran. I fled.
I was so frightened.
I just got out of there.
Jimmy Jimmy, help.
Did anyone else know you were there?
Well, um, no.
Someone must There
I mean, they shot him.
You have his blood on your clothes,
Amanda, on your
I know! I know!
Hands.
I know.
Did anyone else know you were there
apart from whoever you say did this?
Um what?
What, you you you believe?
You think that I just
I-I-I am just trying to understand.
Look if I'd have called the police,
they would have arrested me,
you know that.
Oh, my God.
What if they find the body,
and I haven't called them, Jimmy?
I I think he killed my dad.
What?
I think I think that's what
he was trying to tell me.
I think that's what he was
trying to say before he got
Oh, my God, Jimmy.
Jimmy, please, what do I do?
Just tell me what to do, please.
What do I do?
BIRDS SING
Going somewhere?
It's Martin's.
The hotel finally sent it back.
Well, why don't I go through it?
No.
I need to.
You can't know any of this!
I shouldn't have told you.
Did you hurt Barry?
Did you kill my father?
GUNSHOT.
Jimmy?
Jimmy?
Luke?
RINGING TONE
PHONE RINGS
How long will I have to stay?
It's only a few days.
Gran and Grandpa
will pick you up from school, OK?
PHONE VIBRATES,
RINGS
Is that Mum?
Yeah.
'Where are you?'
I'm just taking Luke to school.
I didn't want to wake you.
Oh, my God. Oh!
Look, I need to know
that you believe me. OK? I feel
I'm freaking out.
Whoa, whoa, whoa. Hey, hey, hey.
Hey, calm down.
'It's gonna be all right. We'll'
We'll figure it out, OK?
I have to go.
Come on, kid.
KETTLE HISSES
KEYPAD CLICKS
KEYPAD CLICKS
Velociraptors are good,
but T-rexes are the best.
They're my favourite.
In you go, mate.
I'll see you in a few days, OK?
Ugh, Dad!
KEYPAD CLICKS
RINGING TONE
VOICEMAIL BEEPS
You need to listen to me.
We need to meet TODAY.
This is completely out of control.
I am serious. Call me.
KEYPAD CLICKS
RINGING TONE
Hi, it's me. I need to see you.
Jimmy, I told you,
you can't call me here.
'It's not cool.'
No, I know, I know, but, please,
I I need to talk to you.
Sandy?
I've got to go.
DISCONNECT TONES
I was expecting you earlier.
I know. I'm sorry, I just um
Look, I know you're
going through things,
but if you can't get here on time,
I'll have to
Why are you being like this?
I need help.
And I want to be here for you,
Amanda.
But I've also got a business to run.
Look, there's a table of four
over there
I need to borrow your car.
Did you hear anything I just said?
Please, I wouldn't ask
if it wasn't important.
Unbelievable, Amanda.
There's something I need to check.
PHONE BUZZES
I need to know that I'm
I'm not losing my mind.
Wait here.
Right, you can have the car.
Thank you, look, I promise
But I'm driving.
What?
I-I don't understand.
No, it's me that needs
to understand. Come on.
So you're really not gonna tell me
why we're doing this?
PHONE PINGS
Everything OK?
Suppliers.
Look, are you gonna tell me anything
about what's going on?
OK, look,
it turns out that my mum
was having an affair with a man
who recently killed himself.
And that man has left me
his entire estate.
Now, you don't seem surprised.
Of course I am.
I'm just I'm just thinking.
So that's why we're driving
out here, then?
To find out whether you're his kid?
No.
So, he's not your dad, then?
I-I don't know. I
So, then, why are we driving
out here, Amanda?
Please, there is just
There is something I need to see.
There's just something
I need to check.
KEYPAD CLICKS
OK, this is it.
THIS is what you're inheriting?
OK. Do you want me
to drive you in there?
No. I want you to wait here.
Have you spoken to Jimmy?
About what?
Whatever this is.
Have you?
He called YOU in the restaurant.
At the restaurant?
Oh, um, yeah,
that was about his shifts.
You know what Jimmy's like.
OK.
Wait here.
SHE SIGHS
SHE GASPS
Are you OK?
I told you to stay in the car.
I'm sorry, I was worried that you
What are you doing?
He was here.
Who was here?
I don't know
what you're talking about.
We need to leave. We need to leave.
SANDY SIGHS
Amanda?
Amanda?
Hello?
Talk to me! Hang on!
Just get in the car.
Amanda! You're scaring me!
I don't understand.
Just drive.
What do you mean, "just drive"?
Just fucking drive!
OK!
SIGHS
SIGHS
This is all too much. It's insane!
Stop the car. Just stop the car!
What's going on?
I thought you wanted
to get the hell away from there?
Why did you ask me what Jimmy knew?
What?
Before, why did you ask me
if I'd told Jimmy all of this?
I don't know.
I was worried about you.
He's your husband, isn't he?
So I just
So, what? You just thought what?
Now you're overreacting.
I'm overreacting?
Yes.
I'm your best friend.
Are you?
Really, Amanda?
Do you believe me?
Do you believe me that last night,
I saw Boots get shot in that room?
Of course I believe you.
Why wouldn't I believe you?
He asked about Boots.
OK?
Jimmy, last night,
he asked about Boots.
Yeah, yeah, you just said.
Oh, my God.
I'm totally lost here.
I need to get home.
OK, this is all too much.
I don't know what's going on here.
Please, please! Please.
OK. OK.
Fiona, what am I looking at here?
This photo was in Martin's
belongings from the hotel.
Who is he? The man's clearly dead.
LAURA SIGHS I have no idea.
I don't believe you.
'Your husband was a successful man.'
And I dealt with all
of his business contracts.
But there are areas of his life
I knew nothing about,
that I wanted to know nothing about.
What areas?
Have you spoken to Anthony?
About what?
Not much happened
he didn't know about.
Apart from one thing, obviously.
LAURA SIGHS You see
sometimes,
the past is best left alone.
'Don't you agree?'
Just get a court date in.
That woman's getting nothing.
Jimmy?
Where have you been?
Boots' cottage.
Why on earth would you?
How did you know
he was called Boots?
What?
Before, when I was telling you
what happened, you called him Boots.
So?
So I'd never mentioned his name.
I didn't even know his name myself
until I went to find him.
Well, you must have mentioned him.
No.
No, I said I didn't know who he was.
And he is not in these pictures,
Jimmy.
So as far as you're concerned,
then he was just some
some bloke who'd scared me off.
Well, maybe Anthony told me.
Anthony?
Yeah, maybe.
You know, maybe he mentioned him
when he when he
You don't seriously think that I had
something to do with this, do you?
I don't know what to think.
But all I know is you mentioned
his name without me telling you,
and I know that you've
been calling Sandy and
Amanda
I am on your side here.
I don't believe you.
Baby
I know that this has been awful,
but I wish that you would
just accept the will,
and then we can all move on
and get our lives back.
Better lives.
Amanda.
PHONE CHIMES
Aren't you gonna read that?
Won't be important.
You sure?
What did you find at his place?
Nothing.
There's no body, there's no blood,
there's nothing.
It's clean. It's
It's like I imagined
the whole thing.
Is that what you think?
SHE EXHALES
Where are you going now?
To pick up our son.
HE EXHALES
KEYPAD TONES
PHONE CHIMES
ENGINE RUMBLING
ENGINE STOPS
I imagine buses will be a thing
of the past for you soon enough
once you get your hands
on my dad's money.
What are you doing here?
Oh, that's nice.
What do you want?
You know what I want.
I want what's mine.
Well, mine and my mum's.
It seems your father didn't see it
that way.
Leave me alone.
I hear you're looking for Boots.
Your mum sent him
to intimidate me and my mum.
Oh, did she? Sorry about that (!)
Did you see him?
Cos I spoke to the landlord
at The McOrville,
and he said he gave you directions
to his cottage,
and the thing is
I can't get hold of him.
I don't know where he is.
Mm.
They're saying that you know things
about my father.
Penny for them?
You'll hear them all in court.
Assuming that's still what you want.
HE CHUCKLES
Well, I hope I hear from him soon.
Boots, I mean.
MOTORBIKE ENGINE
STARTS
DRAWERS OPENING
AND CLOSING
SIGHS
DOOR CLOSES
Anthony, what are you doing here?
Well, I could ask you
the same question.
I was hoping Boots might be able
to throw some light
on this whole nightmare.
Have you seen him?
You know something, don't you?
That Dad paid Amanda's dad
to get him out the way.
The whole village knows.
And the fact the man drank himself
to death with that money.
Do you think there's a chance
that Amanda is Dad's daughter?
No.
How can you be so sure?
Mum?
I just know.
And what answers are you hoping
to get from Boots?
I don't know.
Looks like you're doing
the same thing.
Maybe we should both just sit here
and wait for Boots to come home.
It's not gonna happen.
Why would you say that?
Good luck.
SHE SIGHS
DOOR CLOSES
I thought Granny was picking me up.
Dad said you're busy.
I'm never too busy for you.
PHONE CHIMES
Are you OK?
I'm
I'm fine. You know what?
Just, erm
Here, go and get an ice cream.
Yes!
KEYPAD TONES
RINGING TONE
LINE BEEPS
Luke?
Luke! Excuse me?
You seen a little boy, he's ten,
he's about this big,
blond hair, he was just here?
No.
WHISPERS: Oh, my God.
Luke!
Luke!
Luke!
PHONE RINGS
Hey.
He was here,
he was right next to me.
Jimmy, what do I do?
Do I call the police?
Slow down, slow down,
tell me what happened.
Luke! Luke has gone missing! OK?
I think I think
I think someone's taken him.
'He went off to
to get an ice cream, and I'
I got I got a text with a photo,
and it was
Oh, my God.
Oh, my God, he's here.
I've got him, he's here.
Come here.
SHE SOBS.
Oh, God.
Oh, mate, are you OK?
Go on, tell your dad.
An old man fell over
so I helped him.
He was nice, he thanked me.
But when I looked up,
I couldn't see you.
I'm sorry.
That's OK.
But there was one thing
that was strange.
When he said thank you,
he said my name.
He said, "Thank you, Luke."
What?
Well, what?
What did he look like?
Old.
Are you sure he said your name?
Pretty sure.
MURMURS: Oh, my God.
OK, go get a snack, all right?
Someone DID try to take him.
Well, wait, we don't know that.
He knew his name!
You heard him. He wasn't sure.
You know what he's like.
You don't believe him?
No, I'm just saying.
Do you believe anyone?
MURMURS: Oh, my God.
Amanda, I know
that this is hard for you.
I get it, I do.
But if you would just take
the money, this would all stop.
How do you know that?
Because! It has to.
I saw Anthony,
and he asked me if I'd seen Boots,
because he's missing, and he knows
I was the last person to see him.
Are you sure?
Yes, I'm sure.
But you said yourself he was gone.
His place was clean.
There's no evidence that
I watched Boots get murdered.
And he knows something.
PHONE RINGS
Hello? What?
When?
OK, erm I'm on my way.
Just stay with Luke.
What is going on?
HE SIGHS,
DOOR OPENS
DOOR CLOSES
She's had a surge
in her blood pressure. How is she?
She's fine.
She's been hallucinating.
But we're monitoring her.
Fine?
We both know she's not fine.
Mum.
Mum, it's me, Amanda.
SOBS
Please don't leave me, Mum.
Don't leave me. I need you.
It's just you and me, isn't it?
We used to say that.
It's always been just you and me.
Can you hear me?
He came to see me.
Who?
The man.
Mum Mum, you need to rest.
He did.
Do you mean Boots,
the man that came before?
The other one.
The other one?
Yeah. He was here.
A different man.
He
He was nice.
He knew all about you.
And Luke.
He was in the garden.
What did he look like?
He said he was coming back.
He was nice.
Coming back here to the home?
Nobody believes me.
I believe you.
"Darling Fiona,
I'm sorry this has happened.
"I did my best,"
"but there's something
I can no longer protect you from."
"Love you always, Martin."
EXHALES TENSELY
Luke? Jimmy?
RINGING TONE
PHONE RINGING
KEYPAD TONES
Everything OK?
I had to take Luke to my mam's.
I know what you're gonna say,
but I didn't know
when you'd be back, so
I have to nip out.
Where are you going?
Won't be long.
DOOR OPENS
DOOR SHUTS
DOOR OPENS
So you had the note all along?
"Love you always." No mention of me.
I was going to show it to you,
but I knew it would upset you.
He was my father!
He also said he couldn't protect me
from something.
Do you happen to know what that is?
You seem to know everything else.
Anthony? There's things
he didn't want you to know.
What were they?
I don't need protecting.
He wasn't protecting you.
He didn't trust you.
We had a connection, me and Dad.
He wasn't thinking straight
when he wrote this note.
Or when he changed the will. No way.
Me and him understood each other.
We were happy
until he met her.
Until he met Linda.
We had lovely holidays.
Do you remember?
HE SIGHS.
You were spoilt by me.
Martin told me off for it.
He said I ruined you
I turned you into
an entitled fool.
He said you didn't deserve to be
treated the way I treated you.
Yeah, and why would he say that?
Cos he never really
Never really what?
SHE SIGHS
He loved Linda.
He told me he did.
Yeah, he told me
no-one else was like her.
We were on a pheasant shoot,
me, Dad, Boots.
Drinking, killing.
Can make a man wistful.
He told us some stuff, man to man.
You can stop now.
We were the same, him and me.
That's why I won't rest until I make
this bitch give up the estate.
Until I show a court
that he was blackmailed,
made to sign this new will
under duress.
That Amanda made all of this happen.
He loved me.
He might have loved other women,
but he only had one son.
Your father couldn't have children.
That's how I was so sure
Amanda wasn't his.
What are you talking about?
Course he could.
One of them's standing right here.
Boots' wife had a baby,
and then she died not long after.
Boots couldn't cope,
so we helped out.
We decided never to tell you.
And Boots wasn't gonna say anything.
Mum, this is pathetic.
It's true.
You're lying.
SHE SIGHS.
I loved you like my own.
But Martin
The trouble was
You're right about one thing.
He loved Linda
more than he loved me.
But
more than he loved either of us.
No, no.
I never wanted you to know.
That's why I went to see Boots,
to make sure he wouldn't say
anything if this all goes to court.
He wanted to watch you grow up.
He couldn't be a father,
but he loved you.
So we let him have that.
Boots wasn't my
Boots isn't my father!
Yes, he is.
And you should tell him you know,
if
if he's still around.
INHALES SHARPLY
MURMURS: Oh, God.
PHONE RINGS
Hello?
What? What do you mean? When?
What are you doing here?
You didn't answer my messages!
SIGHS
I'm done, all right?
I'm coming clean.
So this is your last chance.
You either tell her everything,
or I do, tonight.
She was She was feeling better.
She wanted to go out in the garden.
When I went back to give her
some water, she'd gone.
Gone how?
There's a gate out the back.
Someone had forced the lock.
Come on, she couldn't do that!
I don't think so,
but it's been done before.
No, no, no, no,
she has been taken.
She said that they're coming back.
Who?
The man! The man in the garden!
He said that he was coming back!
Right, OK. We've called the police.
She might not have got far.
Yeah?
I'm so sorry. I
I just don't know what to say.
BREATHES SHAKILY
Oh, this really is a lovely treat.
Isn't it, Jimmy?
You know I can't pay for this,
don't you?
Don't worry.
Not everything's about money.
ROMANTIC MUSIC PLAYS
Now don't you see
That our love will be everlasting?
Now don't you see
It will be you and me ♪
GUNSHO
For a lifetime ♪
FLESH SLICING
I promise you
It's only you
Come on, lover. ♪
My mum's disappeared. I think
she's been taken from the care home.
I just heard about your mother.
Where is she?
A friendly soul sent me some photos
of you leaving Boots' cottage
the other night.
The same night he was last seen.
Sandy?
Is he OK? Can you hear me?
Sandy?
I need to talk to you.
It's about Anthony.
Reject Fiona's offer.
I suggest you leave them alone.
I've made my decision.