The Inheritance (2023) s01e04 Episode Script

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DRD1 is none of your business.
Took me a while to work it out
at first, you know.
DRD1.
Dennis Restaurant Daniel.
S'pose I'm too old for you now.
I heard you started
looking at younger fellas.
I'll give you the money,
and in return
..I want the business.
Whose handwriting is that?
No idea.
I just saw Susan
and she's changed her mind.
We're getting everything.
What do you want from me?
I don't know how the money
got into my account.
I don't know how many times
I've gotta tell you.
Well, let's go over the facts.
See if it nudges anything.
A week after you filed his death,
a sum of £20,000
was deposited in your account.
Times are tight.
Rent's gone up.
Food prices are through the roof.
Um
Creditors coming out my ears,
so I took out a bridging loan.
A bridge traditionally connects
one place to another.
Now, we know where this particular
construction starts,
but where does it end?
Well, I thought I was due
some money back from my dad's will.
And I thought
I could pay back the debt
by taking out a bank loan
..using the inheritance
as collateral.
Well, that didn't happen, did it?
No.
Presumably, you now owe this money
to someone else,
someone who would quite
like it back.
And my experience of people who loan
that amount of cash that quickly
would suggest you're probably not
on a very long lead, are you?
So, somehow, getting that money
from Gaudete Dynamics,
the £15,000 you believe
is rightly yours,
will go a long way towards
solving your problem, wouldn't it?
I wouldn't do that.
I didn't have
Michael's bank details,
so I couldn't make the transfer,
could I?
But you were the last person
to see Michael.
Maybe you took it from him then.
You watched him die, sensed a moment
and then you took it.
I had a gun pointing at my head.
Well, either way,
the money's been frozen,
so the bad news is,
whichever reptile it is you owe
..they're gonna come looking.
Shit.
'Hello?'
Hi, Sian, it's me. Can I come up?
Thank you.
What's going on?
So, I saw Susan.
She's changed her mind.
She wants nothing more
to do with Dad's will,
it's ours.
The house, the money, all of it.
Why would she change her mind?
Does it matter?
Course it matters.
She murdered Dad,
I think that's important.
For what it's worth,
I don't think she did.
Well, if not Susan, then who?
It's over, Dan.
We've got what we wanted.
Yeah.
Look, I want us to go
and see it again now it's ours.
Why did she tell you?
Chloe?
She doesn't want any of it any more.
She doesn't
No, no.
You're not answering my question.
She knew about Susan and Dad.
Sian.
They were having an affair.
Dad begged me not to tell you,
so I didn't.
Just kept that a secret from us.
All those years, kept that a secret.
What about Mum?
I was doing it to protect Mum,
I didn't tell anyone.
Apart from Pete.
Right?
You told Pete.
Yeah, of course you told Pete.
And my kid, Dan. What's going on?
This is my kid
that we're talking about.
Just gonna have to trust me.
Trust you?
I'll never trust you again.
Yes, Pete, how we doing?
I'm assuming you heard the news
about the will?
Great news, hey?
You must be chuffed for Chloe.
So, anyway,
I just wanted to come by,
make sure you knew,
which, obviously, you do.
And I won't be needing that loan,
by the way.
Thank you very much
for your kind offer,
but the bank have
had a change of heart
and decided to give me the money
now I've got the house.
Well, thank you, anyway.
Nice to know I can always
count on family, you know?
Have a good day, mate.
The Lycra looks well.
Do take care, Daniel.
Nathan, it's me again.
Look, I don't know where you are,
but things have changed
with the house.
Looks like it's ours to sell again.
Anyway, maybe the commission
might be of interest.
Even if you don't need to see me.
OK
Uh, call me.
I'm worried about you.
Hi, Chloe.
'I'm sorry about earlier.
'Hope you can forgive me.'
You're my little sister.
Of course I forgive you.
I'm back at the house.
Which feels quite nice.
Bit strange, but
'Listen,
Susan's not returning my calls,
'her phone's off.'
Right, well, keep trying.
'I called the solicitor, too.
Susan hasn't been in touch.'
What are you saying?
'Susan had a letter in her bag
from Michael,
'I think it
was some kind of a suicide note. '
What did it say?
'I couldn't read much,
'just something about a man called
James doing something.'
James?
'I don't know.
'Sian, I've got a bad feeling
about Susan's state of mind.
'What if she changes her mind again?
'What if someone's got to her?'
'Sian?'
'Sian, you still there?'
My God!
Susan? Susan!
Oh, my God. Susan!
Can't be a coincidence.
One minute, she's changed her
mind about the estate,
the next minute, she's dead.
She didn't change the will, did she?
No.
Knew it.
When was the last time
any of you saw her?
What does it matter?
Just answer the question.
Was she killed?
You probably thought
this was me and all, right?
Cos I stole Michael's money, so
Don't worry. We'll find out
what happened to her.
That's really reassuring.
Good to know.
I suggest you calm down, Daniel.
You can count me out for a start.
Why's that?
"Why's that"?
Yeah, why's that?
Because she changed her mind.
She gave it all back to us.
She was giving us the money, our
money, but now we're screwed again.
When did you last see her?
Yesterday. She told me
she was giving us everything.
Right, and she didn't give a reason?
Not really.
She wasn't herself, she was upset.
I saw she had a letter from Michael.
I couldn't read much, but it
mentioned someone called James.
It seemed like a warning.
Who's James?
I don't know.
You sure it was from Michael?
Yeah.
Well, it's not in here now.
It was definitely in there.
And you said she was distressed
when you saw her?
No, you
you need to find that letter.
If it still exists.
So, what happens now? Now she's
..gone.
Well, that depends, doesn't it?
On what?
On whether she has a beneficiary.
Any chance of a drink, Dad?
Any danger?
Wash them, Dad!
How do you know,
you never come to see me!
That's Dan.
Oh, I wish.
You played with my child's life,
not to mention mine.
Look, I needed money,
I was desperate,
and Glen was the only person
I could think of, all right?
Oh, yeah, you mean the man that
I spent years fighting in court.
Yes, I know. I get it, right?
I'm paying him back today,
and then he'll go away.
Oh, what, you think so?
You've just opened the door
on a room full of shit.
Listen, all Glen cares about
is money, right?
Once he gets his money,
he'll leave you alone.
No, he won't leave me alone.
Yes, he will!
He'll leave you alone!
Anyway, how're you gonna pay him,
with the money
from Gaudete Dynamics?
That wasn't me, right? Somebody
wanted Morris to think it was me,
but it was a set up.
I don't know,
whoever killed Susan maybe, or Dad.
Look, I'm sorry, all right?
You know I'm sorry.
I'm scared, Dan.
I'm gonna sort it. No, not just
about me and Charlie, about
I've I've been seeing someone.
Right?
Yeah.
The guy that came round
and valued the house.
And I really like him.
You know, we have fun,
and he's been really good for me.
But I think Glen's got to him.
Why'd you say that?
Cos he's not answering my calls.
He's just disappeared.
And you think it's Glen?
Yeah, well, he said something
the other day
which makes me think that he knows.
I know him. I know what he's like.
I just need to know
that Nathan is safe,
and I want you to get Glen
out of my life.
I'm gonna sort it, yeah?
Right, I'll see you in a bit, yeah?
I was beginning to think
you didn't get my messages.
I'm online now, if, er
..if you've got your bank details.
You're a prick.
You're not a businessman.
Your dad knew that.
As it turns out,
so did his bank manager.
But you don't have to worry about
all that now.
You can leave it to me and Chloe.
Your sister's hugely talented.
Chloe.
That's what happens when
you don't get things handed to you.
You develop skills of your own.
I drew up a contract.
You just need to sign.
Have you told Chloe?
There's no better feeling
than helping family.
I'm keeping the pen.
I'll see you in the kitchen.
The pathologist's report suggests
she died of a head injury.
So, she has a fatal accident
just as she's about to hand over
everything to us.
There's no suggestion of foul play.
I've tested her
for traces of bioethanol
and any other suspicious chemicals,
and she's clean.
Clean?
Where are your siblings?
I'll let them know.
I spoke to our solicitor,
and Susan has no will,
so everything will go
to any relatives of hers
they can dredge up.
Our estate
..to strangers.
Maybe they should be the suspects.
There are no suspects.
Of course there are,
what do you mean?
Your father left his estate
to his wife.
She died. It's hers.
It was you
I'm sorry for your loss. But it's
time for you to cremate your father.
It was you who suspected foul play
in Dad's death.
I'm ending the investigation.
Sian.
I just wanna talk.
You've got three seconds.
Dan owes me money. A lot of it.
Yeah, I know,
he's told me everything.
One, two.
I don't wanna take it.
We were Me and him, we were
thingy, though, we were close.
You've never been close.
What about you?
Can't deny it.
So, why'd you hurt me like you did?
I want you back
and I wanna see my boy.
No, you're deluded.
You stay away from us,
or I will call the police.
How's that young fella
you were seeing?
You heard much from him?
What have you done?
They've closed the case.
And get this, because everything
was left to Susan,
unless they find any living
relatives, it all remains intestate.
No-one gets their hands on anything
for years.
So, who are the relatives?
I don't know.
No doubt they'll come
crawling out of the woodwork
as soon as they find out,
if they're not all dead.
God knows
who the hell's next in line.
What's all this? Where are the kids?
They're at my mum's.
Why?
I've done something.
Something for us.
Sorry.
Right, well,
just sit down for a minute.
It's Morris. Sorry, Pete,
I have to take this.
He might have news about sorry.
Hello?
Sure.
I can come right away.
All right, I'll see you
see you soon. Bye.
Ah, careful.
I transferred the money.
Yeah. I saw that.
Leave us alone now, yeah?
I spoke to Sian.
I offered her a deal.
One that gets you off the hook
..you know, money-wise.
But I've paid you the money, Glen.
Yeah, you can have it all back.
I can have it all back?
If I'm honest,
she didn't take it very well.
I was thinking
maybe you could
have a word with her.
You need to keep away now.
I just want my son
back in my life, Dan.
And if you can make that happen
..that's 20 grand.
Speak to your sister.
After what you've done?
She'll listen to you.
What did you do to that bloke
she was seeing?
His attitude was offside,
so I just
..adjusted it for him.
Oh.
So, where is he now?
What did you do to him?
Look, I don't wanna
disrespect you, right?
So with my apologies
..I'm gonna say no
to your very kind offer.
You keep on doing what it is
you're doing, I'll call the police.
You get arrested,
go back in jail again.
Now, I know you know how to find him
because it's what you do.
I need to know where this guy
Nathan is.
So, why am I here?
I've been digging around,
seeing if this kind of crime
might have happened before.
Police database threw up a man
called Barry Lewis.
He was found dead seven years ago
with a very similar cocktail
in his blood to your dad.
He ended up drinking himself
to death unexpectedly.
Well, it's the same thing.
He was a foster carer
Right.
..and one of his previous foster
kids was found guilty of his murder.
So, what's this got to do
with the letter?
A month before he died,
Lewis changed his will
and left everything
to this young man.
The young man's surname
was Southwell.
His first name was James.
James was released from prison
two and a half years ago.
So, you think?
I don't know.
I spoke to some
of your dad's neighbours. Mm-hm.
A couple mentioned a man
who used to help your dad
with gardening
and lugging stuff.
Yeah, Susan talked about him,
but she said she never met him.
Look, just, er
ask around, see what people know.
Well, what are you gonna do?
What can I do?
Coroner's closed the case.
Hello?
Nathan?
'How d'you know?
You never come to see me!'
'Ooh, nice, lovely.'
'Welcome to the mad house.'
'Wahey, here he is.'
SIAN: 'Whoo!'
'Here's the man.'
SIAN: 'Main man.'
'Can I have some beer?'
'You can't have any beer,
because you're driving.'
'No-o-o-o!'
Angry? We all get angry.
I get angry with the
Dad! You're not MI5.
But these are for you,
cos I love you.
'You know,
you come to see me so rarely,
'I can barely remember
which of you is'
He thinks Dad's gardener
is the one who broke in. What?
I need to get hold of the others.
What are you talking about?
I need to let them know.
I left my bloody phone here.
Maybe he even killed Susan,
who knows.
OK
Chloe, you just need
to calm down, OK?
No, don't you see?
This is the breakthrough we need.
If we can find a link,
if we can prove that this James guy
is the same guy who worked for Dad,
then they have a proper suspect!
OK, Chloe, just slow down,
because I have absolutely no idea
what you're
They both used the same method
to kill the men
whose wills were changed.
Hold on, if it's the same guy,
he doesn't get the money this time.
Where's my phone? I left it here.
Pete, can you call it, please?
Hang on a minute.
It doesn't make sense,
because in the end,
your dad changed the will
to benefit Susan, not the gardener.
What?
Oh, thank God.
She's not picking up.
I'm gonna go to her flat.
Wait!
I won't be long. Oh
Oh, for God's sake, Chloe.
I gave Dan some money.
Can we do this later?
25,000 grand.
He was in trouble.
He'd borrowed money
from a loan shark.
Glen.
Glen?
He had to pay his creditors.
Your dad had been keeping him afloat
all this time.
He wouldn't do that.
Dan was DRD1.
Your father was paying him
every month.
Are you sure? You weren't
the only one keeping a secret, love.
25 grand,
that's nearly all our savings.
How will he pay us back?
He's not paying us back.
What?
It's your turn now, Chloe.
It's always been about them,
and you know it has.
Pete, I don't understand.
He couldn't make
the restaurant work, but we could.
It's landed in our lap.
Don't you see?
Dan will stay on and chef for us,
but we can turn it around.
A place of our own.
It's what we've always wanted.
It's what we've been owed.
Well
say something.
Are you completely insane?
No.
You can't take his business,
it's his life!
Look, I know it's a surprise
Pete, he's my brother!
Oh, yeah, your brother, who's done
nothing but lie to you, laugh at me?
Like your dad did?
And why?
I'll tell you why.
Cos we've done everything
they've ever wanted us to do.
They're my family.
Then who am I?
Hello?
Er, have you seen Sian?
Er, I'm at hers now. Charlie's
sitter says she's gone to the house.
Right.
Erm, I think I know who killed Dad.
You found James?
No, no, no, who the hell's James?
I'm talking about Nathan.
Nathan, the guy, erm, the estate
agent, the one she was seeing?
Hold on a sec, I just saw Morris.
He said there's a man called
James who's killed like this before.
Someone called Lewis. And he might
have been working for dad.
No, no, no, I've been
I've just been at Nathan's caravan,
he's got Dad's bank statements
in there, he's got bioethanol.
'He's We need to find Sian.
'Right, I'm coming to pick you up,
stay there.'
OK, I'll start walking.
'Hi, this is Sian.
Please leave me a message.'
Shit. Sian it's me,
ring me back when you get this.
Why did you take so long?
DS Morris sent me this.
Who's that?
I'll tell you in the car. Get in.
Sian's in trouble, right? It's all
in there, it explains everything.
Just get her on the phone.
Keep trying.
Keep trying her!
Keep trying.
Sian?
I'm in here.
Are you OK?
Why didn't you answer your phone?
Oh, erm
He's, uh
He's not an estate agent.
Nathan. He made it up.
I think he works for Dad because
his handwriting's on his calendar.
Why would somebody do that?
Uh, he killed him.
What?
He killed Dad.
And then he killed Susan.
Why are you saying that?
Susan and Michael had a kid.
They put him into care,
he was fostered.
This kid here.
That's Nathan.
This was their son. No, no, no.
He's called James.
His real name is James.
And he's done this before
in exactly the same way.
But except this time, he's messed up
because Dad was supposed to be
cremated, right,
and leave everything to Nathan.
But Dad left the money to Susan,
James's real mother,
so she had to die too.
Oh, it's him. Shall I answer it?
Right, hang on a minute.
Let's just
Just don't say anything,
just answer it.
See what he says.
I'm gonna answer it.
'You there, Sian?'
Yeah, I'm here.
Hi, Daniel.
'I saw you at the caravan,
snooping around.
'I hope you found
what you were looking for.'
I'm assuming the whole story
was in the suicide note, James.
I'm right, yeah?
So you had to destroy that
when you murdered Susan, correct?
Where are you, James?
'What kind of a mother
gives away her son?
'Destroyed me.
And it destroyed Michael.
'And then there was your dad.'
They finished Michael off,
him and Susan.
They killed him.
Not me.
'No.'
Your dad finding out his son was
a murderer, that's what killed him.
You're a coward.
No, he was a coward.
Get down on the floor.
Floor, now!
You know,
I actually liked you, Sian.
I mean, it wasn't the plan,
obviously, but
Well,
I think what we're learning
is that planning is not
all it's cracked up to be, is it?
Legs.
I hate people like you.
You don't know what you have.
Hands.
It's just given to you naturally.
Then when I stepped in
to make everything right
and to fill the void you three left
in in Dennis's life, well
..he was too weak.
This is madness.
I'm so We're doing them,
we're doing it.
What?
You know, I really liked you, Sian.
You know,
he was gonna give this all to me.
But then love reared its ugly head,
didn't it?
Wh What is
I hear that happens a lot.
I'll miss you, Sian.
Nathan
Stay there.
Right, come and give us that one.
What can we do? What's he gonna do?
It's all right, it's all right,
it's all right.
Can we get out? Don't move,
don't move, don't move
Oh, shit.
Oh, fuck.
What's he doing?
He's setting fire to it.
Nathan?
Nathan, listen to me, mate, please.
Look, you don't need to do this.
Nathan, no!
I'm gonna try getting out.
They won't
Try and get
Sian!
Sian!
Come on.
Where is he?
You know this can't change anything.
You'll need to
bring him in as well.
I should've listened to Dad.
Should've been there for him.
We all should.