Possession (2026) s01e05 Episode Script

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PATSY: You know why
Angelo sprayed rum on you?
Some people think it protects
you from bad spirits.
CLAUDIA: I opened that trunk.
I released Charlotte.
She possessed Oliver.
SARAH: Where's my daughter, miss?
- CHARLOTTE: She is my property to do
with as I please.
- Abi?!
I have sold her.
No!
You will be escorted to county jail,
- where you will face
the appropriate punishment.
- Sarah!
Are you a God-fearing man,
Mr O'Connell?
Sarah! Take off your head dress.
CUDJOE: We're all at risk as long as
she can tear something from us.
I need Cudjoe's tooth.
What are you gonna do with it?
Destroy it. End the possession.
Is a grave that?
Cudjoe. Please. It's me.
Cudjoe? Cudjoe! No! Stop!
OLIVER: You really shouldn't
have been drawn into this.
He's not the man you think he is.
MERCY: Saint Michael. The Archangel.
Defend us in battle.
Be our protection against the
wickedness and snares of the devil.
Ooh! (SHUDDERS)
May God rebuke him, we humbly pray.
(SOFTLY) Fuck.
(BREATHES SHAKILY)
Ancestors.
I'm asking you to help me.
Please.
Mum?
When I look at
Where I'm coming from
Looking back
At where the journey began
I really haffi say that I'm strong
I'm strong
All praises to the most high one
Yah an' I tell ya
Where I'm coming from
Looking back
at where the journey began
I really haffi say that I'm strong
I'm strong
All praises
Ah, ah, yeah
To the most high, to the most high
To the most high
To the most high, to the most high
To the most high ♪
(WHIP CRACKS)
(WOMAN YELLS)
(WHIP CRACKS)
(WOMAN YELLS) (MEN CALL OUT)
(FOOTSTEPS APPROACH)
(WHIP CRACKS)
(WOMAN YELLS)
(WHIP CRACKS IN DISTANCE)
(PERSON COUGHS)
(WHIP CRACKS IN DISTANCE)
(DOOR OPENS)
(DOOR CLOSES, LOCK CLICKS)
(SOFTLY) Do it.
(PEOPLE GROANING)
(SPEAKS OWN LANGUAGE)
(PERSON COUGHS)
Brother.
Your name?
(PEOPLE MOAN AND COUGH)
(SOFTLY) Your name?
Matthew.
Your name.
The name your people gave you.
(SPEAKS OWN LANGUAGE)
My grandmother call me Cudjoe.
Kojo.
(SPEAKS OWN LANGUAGE)
Kojo's a good name!
Fante name.
You lucky to be alive, Obeah-man.
I am not a Obeah-man.
You can read.
Read?
My father taught me reading.
It is not sorcery.
It is when it stays an execution.
Them say your kinswoman
brought pox 'pon the Master,
then conjured a plague of locusts.
Is that them say?
Is that what you report?
Me no see nothing.
Me grandmother dead.
That is what me know.
(SCREAMS)
Where's
Where's my daughter, miss?
Backra
sell my daughter to Saint Domingue.
She kill me wife
if me go back to Hope Hill.
(SOFTLY) Do not call me a lucky man.
A luckier man would be dead.
(SPEAKS OWN LANGUAGE)
What say she say?
There are rumours. The white witch
who governs over Hope Hill.
She works slaves till they die.
And work them still after that.
Picking and cutting.
She make them zombi.
Eternal slave.
Your wife will be in need of you.
Help us and you might see her again.
I am no rebel.
Then what are you?!
(LOCK CLICKS)
(LOCK CLICKS)
Petronella and um
Henry, is it? Captain's requested
your execution be brought forward.
- Eh?
- You'll be sent forshortly after sunrise tomorrow.
I pray that Christ may yet restore
what is eternal in you.
You didn't say my name
sir.
(STAMPS FOOT)
What's that, then? Hey?
(DRAMATIC MUSIC)
(SPEAKS PATOIS)
We dead anyway.
(MUSIC CONTINUES)
(MUSIC CONTINUES)
(MUSIC SOFTENS)
You are either a rebel,
or a slave or a corpse.
(MUSIC STOPS)
(BREATHES DEEPLY)
Help me! Help me! Help me!
(BANGS NOISILY)
(SOBS)
(SOFT THUD)
(LINE RINGS)
Come on, come on.
Please, please, please, please.
(LINE BEEPING)
You wanted to speak to me?
Are you in charge?
I'm a Senior Detective.
Hello. My daughter's missing.
I haven't seen her
since yesterday afternoon.
She said she'd meet me back at
the hotel, but she hasn't come back.
I can't get through to her on her
phone. Her name's Claudia McKenzie.
I know who she is.
- We have guidelines for filing
a missing persons.
- I understand.
It isn't the first time
she's run off.
Not even the first time this week.
I'm telling you, my daughter
a foreign national, is missing!
Watch your tone!
A few days ago,
your daughter was arrested
for an attack on her own client.
I don't know what she's told you,
but clearly,
she's caught up in something.
She's also a grown-up,
and I've given her ample opportunity
to be honest with me.
(SIGHS) When she's prepared
to co-operate and tell me the truth,
the police will intervene.
Good morning.
I -
(FIRMLY) Good morning.
(SIGHS)
(BREATHES SHAKILY)
(NEARBY FOOTSTEPS)
(GASPS)
(GASPS)
Get up.
(PHONE RINGS)
(PHONE CHIMES)
REGGIE: (ON PHONE) Hi.
Dad, are you there?
There's bad reception here, pet.
I'll call you back.
(DOOR OPENS)
(SOFTLY) Fuck.
(PHONE RINGS)
(PHONE CHIMES)
Hello, pet. What are you doing?
Just getting ready for bed.
Already? You had your supper?
I had some pasta thing.
And what did you do today?
School
then after-school club.
Football, homework.
Where's your mum today?
Work.
Hm.
(CONVERSATION CONTINUES FAINTLY)
(COUGHS)
I miss you. Reggie?
I don't like it.
Hi. It's me.
- Teeth, please.
I was I was talking.
- Yeah,
You can talk after you've brushed
your teeth. Go on. How's it going?
Everything all sorted?
More or less.
What was it in the end? Fraud?
Yes.
OK, well, as you're not gonna
be back until next week,
I thought I might take Reg
on a little road trip.
Visit my mum.
Why don't you bring him here?
What do you mean? Now?
I mean permanently.
Are you drunk? You hate it there.
You've always hated it.
I've changed my mind.
What about school?
How am I gonna get to see him?
Well, you barely see him as it is.
- You only have him twice a month.
That's not fair.
- I don't care.
He's not a contractual obligation.
He's a child.
Yeah, I have to work, Oliver.
We don't all live off the fat
of the fucking land.
I'm not a lord.
Then let me have him!(MOANS)
He should be with a parent
who prioritises him over a job.
Yeah, OK, have you quite finished?
- Why don't you call me back when
you've sobered up.
- I'm not drunk.
You pointed a gun at him, Oliver!
(THUDDING OVERHEAD)
He is eight years old.
Have you any idea
what that did to him?(BANGING)
I don't care if you're grieving.
You need to get your shit together.
(THUDDING CONTINUES)
Weh she deh?
Weh she deh?!
(GASPS)
Don't fucking move.
Mercy?! Mercy!
I'm here! I'm in the floor!
Coming, baby!
Nasty, bitter backra.
Still think you can fuck with me
three hundred years later?
Well, guess what.
Slavery done, bitch
Let go me bumbo
rass claat
niece!
Where you go?
Me bloodclaat (PANTING)
(YELLS)
(GRUNTS)
(GASPS)
(GUN SIZZLES)
(BIRD CAWS)
(PANTING)
Clearly, I underestimated you.
I think it's time that we -
(LINE RINGS)
(BEEP)
My name's Tom McKenzie.
My daughter, Claudia, works for your
firm. You're the British embassy.
So it doesn't matter what the police
here are saying, they're useless.
I'm saying to you
(SOFTLY) Yeah, yeah, yeah, yeah,
yeah, yeah, yeah, yeah.
Where's Mercy?
That woman? She's dead.
Where's Cudjoe?
You mean Matthew?
I buried him in the dirt
where he belongs.
Give me the tooth.
Give it to me!
Are you gonna kill me?
I don't think you are.
What do you want?!
What do you want, Claudia?
Him?
Matthew?
The man who murdered my child?!
(YELLS) He murdered my baby!
He wouldn't do that.
(CHUCKLES)
He wouldn't He
I wish he hadn't. (SOBS)
(BABY FUSSES)
(CRIES)
(CRIES)
He yearns for something,
right enough.
He was not like this this morning.
Something is different.
It's almost as if he were cursed.
A changeling, then, eh?
(LAUGHS)
Does he feed?
I saw a pregnant slave at Sowerby.
Take a lend of her.
Why?
Well, surely you don't
nurse him yourself?
(YELLS) He is my son!
(BANGS TABLE)
(WAILS)
Make yourself useful.
(YELLS) Fetch the Doctor!
(CRIES)
(WHISPERS) Come on, my baby.
It's all right.
It's all right.
It's all right. It's all right.
It's all right. Hey.
(CRIES)
Sarah?
(WHISPERS) Sarah?
Sarah
(TEARFULLY) Sarah.
What's she done to you?
(SOBS)
Soon come. Soon come.
(GROWLS)
(OMINOUS MUSIC)
(MUSIC SOFTENS)
(SOFTLY) You have cursed him.
Just as Flora cursed our father.
This is proof enough of
your competence. You are powerful.
You're more than I could ever be.
I know that now.
You think I did this?
I know I have wronged you.
And-And I will do everything I can
to make it right.
I will find your girl.
Your daughter.
Please! Please, Matthew!
Please, anything but him.
I will die without him.
Please, please do something.
Not my boy.
Free them first!
Show me
my wife unaffected
then
I'll rouse him.
(FUSSES)
Or
I will let him die.
If you do not free them from this,
I will not return for him.
Aye?
(FUSSES)
(SOFTLY) Aye. Aye, I know.
(CRIES)
(CONTINUES CRYING)
(CONTINUES CRYING)
(PEOPLE MOANING)
(EERIE WAILING)
(CONTINUES CRYING)
Sarah?!
(CONTINUES CRYING)
SARAH: Matthew.
Matthew!
Sarah!
Matthew? Matthew?
Come. Come.
Come.
We don't have
We don't have much time. Come.
(CRIES)
(COUGHS)
(WAILS)
(TENSE MUSIC)
(MUSIC FADES)
I will slow you down.
Just Just leave me.
I can't I can't
You can. You can. You must.
You must.
BETINA: They been months
in the field with no food, no rest.
We need to get to the mountains.
Most of them won't make it.
What choice we have?
(WOMAN SCREAMING IN DISTANCE)
ALL: Witch! Witch!
(CLAMOURING)
(YELLS)
No.
(WEAPON DROPS)
Open your mouth!
Did you think I would let you
get away with dying?
Huh?
(GROANING)
(SOBS)
You will watch her die.
You will watch them all die.
And their children.
And their children.
And their children. And their
children. And their children.
And always you will remain.
Brother.
(KNIFE SLICING)
(GASPING)
Hold this.
Oh, God.
They'll find kinsfolk in England.
They won't stop coming.
Flora say spirit remain
nine nights in a body
before duppy left.
We have to bind her in.
I'm sure Matthew would like to think
he's occupied my thoughts entirely.
He hasn't.
I've only ever thought about my boy.
The one person
who actually needed me.
I'm sorry.
Then you would agree that
Matthew deserves to be punished.
He's been punished enough.
You have what you want.
So why are you still here?
What do you mean?
You've given Matthew his punishment.
He's 'where he belongs'.
So isn't it time you just -
What?
Float toward the white light?
I have a child to think of.
I have Reg.
Reggie is not your son.
He's Oliver's.
Who do you think you're talking to?
I am Oliver.
No, you're not. You're a parasite.
You attacked him,
and you possessed him.
Same as Angelo. Same as Cudjoe.
But we're not the same, are we?
Matthew can
barely string a sentence together.
He's not present. I am.
Matthew resists Charlotte.
That's why he's stilted.
I've got no reason to fight.
We want the same things.
I want my son taken care of.
I don't want to lose my inheritance.
I don't want Matthew
taking what isn't his.
I am, to some extent
a willing host.
Why do you think you're still here?
You tried to kill me.
But I didn't.
Hello?
Hello?
Oh, God!
Hello?
Mercy? Mercy?
(GROANS)
Mercy, can you hear me?
Can you hear me? Where is she?
I will admit you are
a rare point of contention
between me and her.
And honestly, things would
certainly be easier
if you weren't around,
but I want you here.
Claudia?!
I like you. Very much.
And I'm hoping we can find a way
to make this work for everybody.
Stop it! This isn't Oliver.
The Oliver I know
is a rational, decent, kind -
I think the Oliver you know
is actually quite lost.
Claudia!
(SOFTLY) Just like you.
(YELLS) Claudia?!
(SOUND CARRIES INSIDE)
(DRAMATIC MUSIC)
Stay
(YELLS) ..down!
(MUSIC STOPS)
(YELLS) Claudia!
(GROANING NEARBY)
(WHIMPERS)
I don't want to kill you.
But I can't have you
getting in the way.
Give me your hand.
Why?
Give it to me.
Listen.
When I have Reggie,
when the dust has settled,
we can talk about this,
but right now, you're a liability.
You're not being reasonable.
When the time is right I promise
I will bring you back.
OK?
You just have to trust me.
I just need a fingernail.
- No!
Just a little pull.
- No!
(YELPS)
Here.(BOTTLE CLUNKS)
Have some of this.
For the pain.
(TENSE MUSIC)
(MUSIC BUILDS)
(LIVELY PERCUSSIVE MUSIC)
(PEOPLE CHANT AND YELL)
(HIGH-PITCHED VOCALISING)
(LIVELY SINGING)
(CHUCKLING)
(MUSIC STOPS)
STACY-ANN: It burns!
(MUSIC RESUMES)
(MUSIC STOPS)
(PANTING)
(GRUNTING)
(YELLS)
(SOMBRE MUSIC)
(MUFFLED GRUNTING)
Cudjoe, hold on!
Hold on!
Hold on!
Hold on!
Cudjoe!
Hold on!
(MUSIC CONTINUES)
Hold on!
(GRUNTING)
(YELLS)
Cudjoe, hold on! Just hold on!
(GRUNTING, GASPING)
Cudjoe. Cudjoe.
(GASPING) (COUGHING)
(MUSIC FADES)
(BIRD CAWS)
Thank you very much. Thank you.
Thank you for coming.
Hi, Reggie.
Hi.
Sorry. You are?
Claudia. Um
Solicitor?
Oh.
Um Why don't you go inside
and get warm if you like, Reg?
OK.
Yeah.
I mean, they said
accidental death by fire.
He didn't seem right to me
the last time I spoke to him.
I don't know
if you thought that too?
I didn't know him like you did.
Mm.
How's Reggie doing?
Not well.
He's got a lot of questions
I can't answer.
I know Oliver was really grateful
for all of the work you guys did.
He would've been happy to know
that Reg was taken care of.
Suppose we'll sort out some sort of
trust fund or something?
Idon't actually work
for that company any more.
Oh.
But I did want to talk
to you about that.
Not now, obviously.
No, go on. It's
OK. (CHUCKLES SOFTLY)
I don't know if you know this, but
Oliver's father made provision
for a reparations payment.
Mm.
In his will.
But that wasn't upheld, though.
Was it? I thought
that's why you went out there.
Yeah, but
now that I've
looked into it properly
I can see that WAS his intention.
Uh How much?
By my calculation, at least
£1.6 million.
(CHUCKLES SOFTLY)
Sorry. You You want
£1.6 million?
I don't want anything.
This isn't about me.
Regardless, do you think that
that's reasonable?
I mean, this isn't something
that happened last week.
Weren't the Britons
enslaved by the Romans?
- I'm not asking to be compensated
for that.
- There's a difference.
OK. Ask him.
I mean, it's his money.
It's not mine.
If you're happy
to take reparations -
from a little boy -
at his father's funeral,
then be my guest,
because I am not fucking doing that.
(DEPARTING FOOTSTEPS)
(GENTLE MELANCHOLY MUSIC)
(BIRDS SQUAWK)
I wonder if this is all
fated.
How do you mean?
Dunno.
Like we're related or something.
There are tests we could do.
Does it matter?
If your family
is from this island
or any of these islands
and you go back far enough
the story's always the same.
(MUSIC FADES)
There is no story.
No name.
It was stolen.
And we can't
ever get it back.
SAULT: Angel
You remember
when Flora turned mosquito.
I see she
turn eastward
over Port Maria.
Straight over ocean and
back to Africa.
I'll
I'll wait for you there.
No. No.
(MOANS SOFTLY)
(SNIFFLES)
(CRIES)
(MUSIC CONTINUES)
What did you see?
When you crossed over?
Some horrible things.
But mostly, just
love.
Lord, will you open
The gates of Zion?
Zion
Zion
His soul is ready to
To come home
Zion
Zion
Lord, will you open
The gates of Zion?
Zion
Zion
His soul is ready
To come home
Zion
Zion
Ready to leave this Earth
For Zion
Ready
Ready to walk the streets of Zion
Ready
God said he was ready
God said he was ready
Ready to cross that bridge
To Zion
To Zion
Cross that bridge
There are no promises
in Zion
Cross that bridge to Zion
Cross that bridge to Zion
Cross that bridge to Zion ♪