Reunion (2025) s01e04 Episode Script

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Daniel Brennan,
he's out of prison.
If he does anything stupid
GLASS SMASHES
..he goes straight back in.
Daniel Brennan's missing. He's not
replying to any of my messages.
All delivered, all
read - no reply.
The sooner we track him down,
the sooner I'll let you go.
You don't really want to get
the police involved, do you?
So he didn't know what
he was confessing to?
That's where he is.
What did he say? Did you
get the answers you wanted?
It's complicated. I just need to
sort it all through in my head.
Do you think Daniel
Brennan's innocent?
I don't think anyone's going
to care about any of that.
He's done his time in
prison, he deserves a chance.
So much for second chances, eh?
Do you have any idea how
much I wanted to believe you?
You were always planning on going
back to prison, weren't you?
Leaving me on my own. More
lies, more broken promises!
I hate you.
GUNSHO
ECHOING TICKS
WIND HOWLS AND RAIN PATTERS
THUNDER RUMBLES
ECHOING TRAIN RUMBLE BUILDS
LINE RINGS
TRAIN ECHOES
It's Anna, Probation Services.
Er, hi. It's Carly,
Daniel Brennan's daughter.
You've been trying
to get hold of him.
Look, all right, if you
come to the office by 5pm,
we might be able to work out
a way through all this, yeah?
It might not be too
late for your dad.
But you have to come today, OK?
Or your dad'll be arrested.
They're already looking for him.
OK, we'll be there, Anna.
Thanks, bye.
Ten years in here
No-one near
No-one to sign my name
No-one to sign my name
Nowhere to hide my shame. ♪
Hey, sorry to bother you
on your doorstep like this.
I don't know if you remember me?
I was in the office when
you came by the other day.
Yeah.
I shouldn't really be here, but
you said you wanted answers.
This might help.
It's everything.
It's the whole file on
Brennan, on your husband.
But how?
Look, if anyone asks,
maybe you made a formal subject
access request for the file, but
..don't go shouting it
from the rooftops, yeah?
Will you get into
trouble for this?
I've seen too many people
released from prison
shouldn't have been
there in the first place.
I've seen this
happen before, too.
You've seen what happen before?
I don't know enough
about Brennan's case -
what kind of a person he is and
what really happened - but
..you really need to see this.
Thank you.
Right
..let's get this done, shall we?
You had a hunting knife.
Were you planning
to kill someone?
If you plan to kill someone,
that is premeditated.
You murdered him.
So, you accept full
responsibility for his death?
DANIEL VOCALISES
- INTERPRETER: -
It's all my fault.
You do that one more time
I'm sorry, it's
Your job is to
interpret what is said
between me and the
suspect, nothing more.
Have you got that?
He said it's about school.
Something happened to him.
TAPE RECORDER CLICKS OFF
Now, you listen to me. I'm not
interested in his life story.
He's murdered someone, and
he's going to sign this,
whether you like it or not.
SHE SOBS
- Understood?
- Yes, sir.
TAPE RECORDER CLICKS ON
Now
..it's just like
we talked about.
You sign this, and
that's the end of it.
We we don't have to
bring in your family
..and interview them.
We don't have to ask
your friends about you.
You sign here
..and it's all over.
SHE WHIMPERS
It'll all be over?
They'll go easy on
you in court, too.
PHONE VIBRATES
Hey.
HE EXHALES HEAVILY
HE SNIFFS AND SIGHS
The Lord is our shepherd
CONTINUES INDISTINCTLY
This one next?
It's about your wife.
- INTERPRETER: - What is it?
Your wife, she's
HE SIGHS
I'm sorry. She's passed away.
When's the funeral?
This is from your daughter.
She invited you, but this
arrived some time ago.
I'm so sorry.
The funeral
It was last week.
HE GROANS
CELL DOOR SLAMS
MUFFLED SHOUTING
SHE SNIFFS
Hiya, Chris.
Don't call me that.
What's on your mind?
The probation people
came through in the end.
One of them gave
me Brennan's file.
Oh, I can go through it if there's
anything you don't understand.
And I got the video.
It was you.
OK.
OK. I know this
looks bad, but
But what?
Why didn't you tell me?
Because I knew you
wouldn't understand.
But I do. I
understand everything.
You were lying to
me from the start.
No.
Using what you knew about me
to worm your way into my life.
No, I didn't know. I didn't.
Oh, stop lying.
I only found out a
couple of days ago.
- What?!
- Yeah.
The first night you
invited me into your house.
I walked into your kitchen, I saw
a photo of him on the fridge door,
and I recognised
him straight away.
It was an unbelievable
fucking coincidence.
Something I did so long ago, in
a in a different lifetime,
and it's connected
to the woman I love.
What?!
SHE SCOFFS
The whole world is
falling away beneath me,
and you're getting a bottle
of wine out of the fridge
as if nothing's happened.
I had a split-second
decision to make -
to tell you there and then
and risk everything ending,
or be quiet and hope
that we carry on.
You have to believe me.
So you're telling me you
never made the connection?
It were in all the papers,
it was on the news.
You never told me
he was murdered.
- So?
- I never saw a photo of you and him before.
Were you ever going to tell me,
or just wait and hope that it would
all just go away all by itself?
Yeah, but what would you have
done? What would you have said
if I had told you
there and then?
Well, that doesn't matter,
because you're going to
tell me everything now.
What happened?
Well, you
You know that I wasn't
in a great place then.
My marriage was falling apart.
I wasn't getting results at
work, my job was on the line.
And then this deaf guy comes in,
and he's got blood on his hands,
he's got his prints
on the knife,
and I had to get this over the
line, or it was over for
I'm sorry.
Because he was deaf, I was
up against the custody clock.
We had to find an interpreter
or release him without charge.
We got one in the
end, but she
She was new, she was difficult.
Yeah, I saw the way
you spoke to her.
- No
- Shouting her down every time she tried to help Daniel.
No, it wasn't like that.
Well, what was it like, then?
I couldn't understand what
she was saying to him,
but it was pretty clear
that she was on his side,
that she was stalling for time.
She even wanted me to ask for
a mental health assessment.
- So why couldn't you do that?
- Because we didn't have the time!
He wanted to get it over
and done with, and so did I!
I wasn't going to try and talk him
out of signing a confession, was I?
Brennan murdered
someone. He admitted it.
He pleaded guilty in court,
and then he went to prison,
and that's it.
You understand, don't you?
I did it for Ray.
I did it for Miri
I did it for you.
You knew what you did was wrong.
You always have.
That's why you couldn't tell me.
But I'm I'm not
that person any more.
So you decided to
play God with me too?
With Miri?
Decided to control us,
control what we knew.
- Lie after lie after fucking lie!
- No, it wasn't like
And don't you dare try to
tell me you did it for us.
You did it for you,
back then and now.
I can't be with
someone like you.
Someone who tries to hide the truth,
so they can live inside a lie!
I'm done with secrets
and I'm done with liars!
He needed help.
He needed someone
to listen to him,
to ask the right questions and
find out what really happened.
But instead he got you -
some sad, pathetic bastard
trying to get a quick promotion!
All these wasted
years, wondering.
And all because of
you. It was all you!
Look, I can make
this up to you, OK?
- Don't touch me!
- Please, please, I'm sorry.
- Please, I'm sorry.
- Get off.
I'm sorry!
DISTANT SIREN WAILS
GLASS SHATTERS AND TINKLES
Yeah, that's right
- Winchester Road.
Yeah.
Brilliant. OK, thank you.
DOOR CLICKS OPEN
Mum.
Are you OK?
Hey, darling.
What is it? What's happened?
Stephen
Stephen won't be
coming here again.
Oh.
I'm sorry.
I'm not.
What are you working on there?
Er
Erm
I'm writing the speech.
I didn't finish it yesterday.
Do you want to read it?
Will you read it to me?
- Er
- Please?
OK.
Ray was a teacher
..a leader, and a role model.
To me, he was Dad.
He always celebrated
everything I did,
framed every picture, drawing
that I did of a flower.
But it wasn't just me.
I saw how other deaf children
would light up in his presence
..like they were
one of the flowers
and he was the sunshine.
Since Dad's been gone,
deaf people still come up to me,
and telling me
how they know him.
It used to upset me,
because it felt like their
memories were overwriting mine,
making my dad fade away.
But that won't happen,
because he's my dad
and he always will be.
Every time I do something good,
I think, if I look
away quick enough,
I will catch him celebrating me,
telling me how proud he is
and how much he loves me.
I sometimes wish I could
talk to him one last time,
say everything
that I want to say.
But I know what he would say.
That he would want
us to be happy.
To live our lives the
best way we can, for him.
SHE SOBS
Are you sure about this?
No.
Where you going to go next?
No idea.
Hear anything back
from Brennan yet?
Yeah. I heard from the daughter.
Told her that if they both came
in now, we can try and help them.
Let's hope she does then, yeah?
Before the police find him.
Well, sorry I didn't
get you a card.
It came a bit sudden.
That's all right.
- Listen, I
- One last bit of advice before you go, eh?
LAUGHS
Yeah!
Yeah, go on, then. What is it?
Ignore everything I said before.
Eh?
This job's hard. I
mean, really hard.
You're made of stronger
stuff than me, I reckon.
Keep doing what you're doing
- trying to make a difference,
trying to help people,
cos that's all you can do.
No-one else is going to, yeah?
Yeah.
HE COUGHS
DROPS KEYS
Are you Monroe?
My dad wants to speak to you.
We've got a letter to give you.
Long way to come to
deliver a letter.
Would you like some tea?
In fact, I insist.
RINGING
ON PHONE: Emergency. Which
service do you require?
Say when.
MUG SHATTERS
That letter's from Sean.
Do you remember him?
He killed himself last night.
"Dear Mr Monroe."
"I remember when I first
came to Hawthorne Park.
"I was ten years old."
"I'd never been to a
deaf school before.
"Never met deaf people."
"My parents were hearing"
"..so they didn't want
much to do with me
"and so that's why they sent
me to a boarding school."
"I loved it. It
felt like home.
"I'd finally found
my place, my people."
"I could sign."
"I could understand,
and be understood."
"Then you found me."
"You told me not to mix
with my friends too much.
"That I had to focus
on improving myself."
"That you could help me."
"Almost as soon as I
found my community,
"you took it away from me.
"You filled my head with lies."
"Told me that I was
better than my friends."
"That they would drag me down."
"And then you'd take your
payment in your office."
"Every day.
"Every week."
"I couldn't tell anyone, because
they wouldn't understand.
"They'd be disgusted"
"and you could lose your job."
"It had to be our secret."
"I thought you loved me"
"..which is why I
did what I did."
"Now I know there
was no love"
"..in what you did to me."
"Only hate."
"The only person who wanted to drag
me down, and make me feel small
"..was you."
"I wish I understood that.
"I wish I knew."
"Because maybe my life
would have been different."
HE BANGS TABLE
"From Sean."
Well
Sean's dead, you say?
Well, that's
That's a terrible shame.
I liked him.
He was a sweet boy.
But I don't know anything
about any of that, anyway.
Sean had his problems
like him.
Can you please
just look at him?!
Good grief!
What do you want from me?
I haven't done anything.
This is all quite ridiculous.
You know that Ray tried to
stop me from finding you?
That's why he's dead.
I was so angry with Ray,
but now I realise
..he was a victim.
Like me
Like Sean.
Yeah, I killed Ray.
But he's dead because of you.
Are you going to say
something or what?
You
were always
trouble.
You were always naughty.
Always blaming other people.
Never accepting responsibility.
Ray's dead because of him.
Sean's dead because of him.
Not me.
Because of him.
It's all him.
It's all him.
You made me voice all of that?
Why?
Dad!
I think you should
both leave now.
No!
I'm sorry.
Don't, don't hurt me.
I'm going to report
you to the police.
I'm going to tell
everyone, all the papers.
We're going to work together.
Going to bury you
so fucking deep
that you never see
daylight again.
Whatever happens next,
you're going to die
a sad, dirty old man, alone.
I promise you that!
Armed police! Drop your weapon!
Ten years in here No-one near
No-one to sign my name
No-one to sign my name
Nowhere to hide my shame
One day soon I'll be forgiven
Even though I don't
know what I've done
Some say there's
no use in trying
To be free under the sun
I know there
won't be easy living
You can't lose
what's already gone
Ten years that I've
been here in prison
I choose, I choose
I choose
The light of the sun
Light of the sun
Light of the sun
The light of the sun. ♪