Adultery (2026) s01e06 Episode Script

1
Cheers, mate, appreciate it.
Anytime, mate.
NEIL AND BETH SIGH
Cheers.
You coming home?
Er, no, I'll stay with Ollie.
That all right, Neil?
Yeah, course.
OK. We'll drive back in the morning.
Thanks for driving us.
CAR DRIVES OFF
Mum, are you all right?
Yeah, yeah, I'm fine.
Not gonna be doing Zumba
for a while, but I'll live.
Erm I'm just gonna talk to Jess
for a bit about your birthday.
What about it? It's weeks away.
Go on.
What a day! Come and give your dad
a shoulder massage.
You paying?
Yeah, in the food you eat.
DOOR CLOSES
Look, I don't know what you think
you know, Jess, but it's
Don't lie to me.
Don't you dare fucking lie to me.
Shh!
My dad, Beth.
Look
You're not happy with your man,
so you go after my mum's?
If you try to stay calm
and let me explain. No!
You sent pictures.
I can't You and him -
I can't even think about it.
Jess, just just
just listen to me.
OK, listen.
End it.
Fucking end it!
Tell me you're gonna end it,
Beth, or I swear to God,
I will go in there,
and I will tell your family
what kind of whore you are.
"Whore"?
Will you be calling your dad that?
Cos there were two of us in this,
and your dad,
he's been he's been lonely.
No, you don't get to blame this
on my mum.
I am not blaming her,
but things, they are
they are complicated.
I don't care, I don't care.
Jess
I don't fucking care!
All right? I
JESS SOBS
Beth.
I love Ollie.
And I wanted to be with him forever.
SOBS
You've just ruined everything.
But that is that is why we lied.
Because we didn't wanna hurt anyone.
I did not wanna hurt you.
We did not wanna hurt your mum.
Then don't.
Nobody needs to know.
Oh, Jess, but that
that is not a secret
that you and I can keep.
Yes, yeah, we can.
All right, you've had your
you've had your fling,
and now and now
you're gonna ring him,
and you're gonna tell him it's over.
And don't you dare tell him
that I told you.
But it's not a fling, Jess.
It's more than that.
JESS SOBS
SNIFFS
SHE KNOCKS
Yeah?
Erm Jess has gone home.
What? How come?
Er, I think she felt bad
for her dad, you know,
being on his own.
What the hell?
Er, no. Er Don't call her.
Cos, erm I think her mum and dad
are going through a bit of a
a bad time, so
er, just let her be with him.
You all right?
Yeah, it's just, my shoulder,
you know, but
I think I'm gonna go to bed.
DOOR OPENS AND CLOSES
Hello? Jess?
Hey, I thought you were staying
at Ollie's.
No, I changed my mind.
Dad, I wanna go back to the Lakes.
Yeah, first thing.
No, now.
I wanna go back and be with Mum
and Daisy and Lily.
Jess, I've been driving all day.
I don't care, Dad. I wanna go back.
Are you OK?
I wanna go back now,
so can we just go, please?
Get your car keys and
and get your shoes on.
Can we just go back? Can we just go?
Hey, hey, hey!
What's going on?
Has something happened?
I'm pregnant.
Brought you this.
Oh, thanks.
HE GROANS
I've a good mind to bill your mate
for the Uber.
Oh, shit. I didn't offer Tom
any petrol money.
Didn't even think.
HE SIGHS
I wouldn't worry about it.
I'm really sorry
about all this.
Give over.
Please don't be angry with me.
No, I
No-one's angry.
It's
Mistakes happen.
But you're still very young,
and, erm
you have your exams.
So we just we need to figure out
what to do next.
I just don't wanna cause
any more problems.
You know, with you being ill before,
and now Uncle Paul
and Auntie Leah
I just want us to be happy again
as a family.
Well, don't worry
about any of that, now. OK?
It's good that you came to us
before talking to Ollie.
Now we can decide well, you can
decide what's it is you want to do.
And nobody else needs to know
if we don't want them to, OK?
She can't keep it.
Of course she can't,
but we can't tell her that.
She has to decide for herself.
You know, I could get her
into the surgery quickly. Tom
Why the fuck
were they not using protection?
I know that. You know that.
But there's no point
even thinking about it.
SIGHS
I haven't been present enough.
First, there was the Daisy thing,
and now this.
Yeah, actually,
what was going on with Daisy?
OK. Erm
So, Daisy was sending photos
of herself,
intimate photos, to that boy.
And the little shit was saying
that she was doing things.
Doing what things?
You can imagine.
She's 14 years old.
I'm gonna kill that little fuck.
She doesn't want that, OK, Tom.
I talked to her.
She's really embarrassed.
But we've nipped it in the bud.
I think it's gonna be OK,
so you don't have to worry.
Maybe we should tell Neil and Beth
about this. No.
Come on. I mean, honestly.
You want them to say,
"Yeah, yeah, keep it"?
Cos they will, cos they had children
when they were young.
They'll think it's fine.
And then what?
Then we're stuck with their families
for the rest of our lives.
Absolutely not.
She thinks she's in love
with that boy, but she's not.
It's a teenage crush.
That's all it is. OK.
Who She'll have it,
where will it live?
Where Who will look after it?
We will.
She'll miss college,
she'll miss university - great
She'll fuck her entire life up,
It's ridiculous!
I'm not advocating this.
SIGHS
Sorry.
I can't help thinking
she's ruined everything.
BIRDSONG
We were using johnnies, I swear.
I don't know how it happened.
I don't wanna be a dad.
I'm not ready.
Think about me. I'll be a grandad.
OLLIE LAUGHS
I think it's gonna be OK.
It's quite the development.
Ollie's a mess.
Yeah. He's not the only one.
Tom, I don't I don't know
how to say this, but
I don't think Jess is pregnant.
I think she's lying.
Why?
Because she knows.
She knows about us.
How?
She confronted me
after the hospital, and
she found the photos
that I sent you. Oh, my God.
Who else knows?
It's just just Jess.
But I told her
that we had feelings for each other,
and she was so angry
and accused me
of breaking up marriages,
and the next thing is
she's telling you she's pregnant.
No, she wouldn't do that.
She wouldn't lie to Hannah or Ollie.
She just wouldn't do that.
But she's so hurt.
And she she's scared.
She hates me, and she's trying
to keep her family together,
so she's creating a crisis.
Tom, she saw those photos.
We can't have them find out
in this seedy way.
We have to manage
how they learn about this,
and no matter what Jess says,
they will find out.
I know it's not what we planned, but
we cannot keep it hidden any more.
What am I gonna do?
Go back to my wife and say,
"Our daughter's not pregnant,
and by the way, I'm leaving you"?
I cannot do this any more.
I am going to tell Neil.
And if you're serious about
about being with me, then you have
to tell Hannah at the same time.
Well, it's what we decided.
Yeah.
It's just forced it forward.
Yeah.
So, tonight, yeah?
Tonight. Yeah.
Daddy, Daddy, I've been chosen
to sing in the school show.
That's wonderful, sweetheart.
What you gonna sing?
I can choose, so Mummy thinks
either Shake It Off or Firework,
but I want to sing our song.
Your friends might not know that,
I'm afraid.
I don't care. You'll know it.
Well, let's think about this,
shall we? OK.
I want to practise.
Well, why don't you think
about two songs,
and then we can practise them both?
OK, Daddy.
Hey.
Hey.
Good day?
Yeah, fine.
Where's Jess?
Oh, she's not here yet.
I think she's with Ollie.
Hi, Dad.
Hi.
How was school?
Usual.
Sorry, dinner is gonna be a while,
I've only just put it on,
to be honest.
I had that Zoom, you know,
about the October event? Hannah.
Could I have a word?
Yeah.
That's on, OK?
OK, yeah.
Look, I haven't had a chance
to talk through any options
with her yet, but I will.
It's not about Jess.
Oh.
CHUCKLES
Hannah, you know that
you know that you and the children
mean everything to me?
Yeah?
And that nothing
What?
Nothing would ever
What, Tom?
It's just, lately, I
Lately what?
EXHALES
Lately, I
EXHALES
I feel like such a crap father.
SIGHS
With Daisy and now Jess.
I mean, I'm meant
to protect them, aren't I?
I mean, what happened
with my parents and your parents
All I wanted to give them
Yeah.
was a home that felt safe
for them and I know.
one where they felt loved
Tom, they do.
You are a brilliant father, OK?
And if there's been problems,
then I am more to blame than you.
No, you're not.
I am.
Look, we're good parents. OK?
And we've done our best, and
the girls, they know they are loved.
They do. They do.
Oh.
SHE BREATHES DEEPLY
It's just a lot.
RINGING TONE
'Hiya, this is Beth.
Leave a message.'
DOOR SHUTS
Hi.
You eating with us?
No, it's OK.
I was just walking Jess home.
Stay. There's plenty.
CORK POPS
If you're sure.
Yeah, of course.
All right, thanks.
I sang. We've got it recorded.
Yes, but not a full song.
It was a full song. There were
three of us, and we did Little Mix.
Yeah, and they were awful.
LAUGHTER
Just because you can't sing.
Didn't you wanna be Elsa in the
school show, and they made you Olaf?
Yeah, and you know what,
they gave it to Lizzie Doyle.
I remember that. I can't believe
you still hold a grudge.
Yeah, let it go.
PHONE BUZZES
INDISTINCT CHATTERING
She's the best singer
in the whole wide world.
DOORBELL RINGS
I'll get it.
DOORBELL RINGS
CONTINUOUSLY
KNOCKING ON DOOR
Where is he?
Neil?
Where is he?!
You bastard!
Dad, stop! Dad, stop!
What the hell?!
I hit you, I go to jail.
I lay one finger on you,
that's me inside. Get off him!
TOM GRUNTS,
NEIL BREATHES SHAKILY
He's with my Beth. She told me.
Ask him.
Ask him!
Months, it's been going on,
behind our backs,
shagging each other!
And now she's saying
that they're in love.
No, Hannah, it's not as simple
as that, it's You and Beth?
You and my mum?
Ollie, I can explain.
Yeah.
Yeah, so, if you have that baby,
its grandparents are at it. Enough!
Get out.
I'm sorry, Hannah.
Hannah, can I talk to you?
Get out, you!
Can I talk to you?
Get out.
Get out, you, now. Right now.
You, go!
She told you, didn't she? Ollie!
Hannah
I'm sorry. You'd have found out.
You and that women, you are poison!
Get out of my house!
Look at your wife. This house.
This family!
EXHALES
Ollie, please,
you have to talk to me.
Ollie, please!
You have to listen.
You have to listen,
you have to talk to me!
Ollie, please.
You knew, didn't you?
I was protecting us.
I told her to end it.
Because if they're together,
then how could we be?
She's ruined everything.
Me and you and our families
and our whole lives,
they're just gone, they're ruined.
So, it's my mum's fault? Hm?
W
So end it, then.
Get rid of the baby,
get rid of everything,
because this is fucked.
Ollie
there is no baby.
I'm sorry, I was just
I didn't want them to be together.
SHE SOBS
I'm sorry.
Ollie, Ols
It's over. We're done.
SHE SOBS
Beth, you're scaring me.
Just Just say whatever it is
you wanna say.
I've not been happy
for a long time.
With myself
but also with us.
Right.
Nothing's changed for you, Neil.
Since we were 19.
But I I have.
I've I've changed,
and you haven't
you haven't noticed.
HE SCOFFS
Course I have.
No.
No, you you haven't.
OK, so
I'll notice. I will.
What?
I've met someone.
HE INHALES SHAKILY,
HUFFS
What?
Who?
Tom.
Tom?
Tom?
You and Tom?
DOOR OPENS
DOOR CLOSES
SOBBING
Oh, no, Ollie
Get out of the way.
Oh, Ollie, please.
How could you?!
I'm sorry.
Ollie. Ollie, no, please.
Please Please don't do it. No!
SOBS
Mum, what's going on?
No, it's fine, sweetheart.
You go go back to bed.
No, tell me what's happening.
Mum!
Frankie
What have you done?
Come on.
SIGHS
DISTANT SOBBING
SOBBING
Girls
No.
You do not get to mitigate.
Leave.
Leave.
SIGHS
EXHALES SHAKILY
You leaving?
Yeah, I'll spend the night at Amy's.
And then?
After that?
I told Frankie.
I would have told Ollie, but
BREATHES DEEPLY
Make you feel good, did it?
Did you hit him?
If you're going, go. Get lost.
If that's what you want
You have taken me for granted.
Have I?
Yeah, you have.
Just go, Beth.
No, you do not want to hear it
because you want me as the bad guy,
but you do not look at me,
you do not listen to me.
When was the last time
that you even gave me a compliment?
Oh, horny, maybe.
Drunk, when you want
to get your leg over.
That's crap.
I wanted you to notice me.
I wanted you to care about my life,
about my feelings.
My best friend died,
and where were you the day after?
In the pub.
Well, you said you were all right.
My best friend was dead!
And when I had my business,
I I was brilliant at it.
I was making people feel good,
and that made me feel good.
And you only cared about yourself,
that I wasn't here
to cook the dinner,
and that I wasn't here
to look after the kids.
No, that's shite, Beth.
When I had to close it down,
you could barely keep the smile
off your face.
It is true, Neil. You just want us
like your mum and dad. No.
You just want
your little wifey at home.
Oh, just shut up! Just
Or what?!
HE EXHALES
You know, since the day we met,
everything I've done
has been for you and the kids.
Yeah, out there grafting,
and never once,
Beth, never ONCE played away.
Never close.
Because you were mine.
Since we were 19.
But I am not 19 any more!
Just fucking go, Beth.
I can't even look at you.
I am a woman.
And I have things,
like, burning inside me.
And I am not gonna to spend
the few years that I have left
forcing them to nothing.
Don't Don't leave.
It's OK.
I will be back.
I love you.
And I will always be your mummy.
I'm sorry.
I'm human
Troubled and stubborn ♪
No.
Neil called me.
It's a no, Beth.
Thanks.
Go back to your family and beg.
Beg them to forgive you.
You're not hiding here,
and you're not having my sympathy.
You heard the words "I love you"
And you felt safe from harm
And with that trust ♪
PHONE BUZZES
Without tripping the alarm
We'll stake out our places
And sink into divide
Cos no-one likes confusion
We always pick a side
And as sure as rain
Will soak the grass
And all things can't be new
I hurt you
And I love you
Both things will be true. ♪
They hate us.
They really hate us.
Yes, they do tonight.
But they're kids.
We'll talk to them.
They'll understand.
Was it worth it?
Yes.
I'm sorry I lied.
About the pregnancy.
I was looking online this morning,
for, erm
apartments.
There's quite
a few available right now, so
with sort of three-month contracts
and not a great commitment.
I'm being practical.
Well, and romantic,
but mainly practical.
You know, Tom, I
I think we should
get our own places, you know,
so the kids have somewhere to stay.
But also it's a lot of pressure.
Yeah.
Yeah, you're right.
Morning.
EXHALES
Did she come here?
Oh.
Did you undress her on this bed,
pretend you were examining her?
Please.
No, I'm genuinely interested, Tom.
Was it the the thrill
of almost being caught?
Hannah.
So, do you love her?
Yeah, I
Yeah, I think I do, yeah.
You're in love.
With a Zumba teacher.
Oh, come on, don't do that.
Presume you took her to the Lakes?
You took her to the place
you proposed to me?
Hannah, I never stopped loving you.
No?
So, what, you just
you fell in love with her as well?
And now what?
You two ride off
into the sunset together?
You have every right to hate me.
I don't hate you, Tom.
I loved you.
No, you should hate me.
You should absolutely despise me.
I've betrayed us,
I've betrayed our family.
But I want you to know
I really tried,
I fought against being this man.
Oh, well, poor you
I think that you stopped loving me
when I got ill.
When it got difficult for me,
it got difficult for you. No.
Yeah. Not all at once,
but piece by piece.
And I know that, Tom,
because I felt it.
Even at my party,
that speech you gave,
you couldn't bring yourself
to say that you loved me, could you?
Admit it. You became very hard
to live with, Hannah.
Or did you not wanna say it
because she was there?
Nothing had happened at that point.
Hard to live with, yeah,
well, try being me.
I spent the last two years
staring at the walls,
imagining the worst possible things
that could happen to us, our family,
and unable to turn this off,
stuck in my own head,
seeing it again and again.
And you used that against me.
But you know what?
Last night
when I was alone in our bed,
I realised
I don't need you.
And I'm not scared any more.
Hannah, I
Don't you come near me.
Hey, don't you fucking
come near me! You Stop it!
Oh, God. You think you're in love?
Fuck you.
And I'm gonna make sure
that you spend the rest of your life
regretting this.
The house, anything you want,
you better get ready
to fight for it.
I've got our girls
my girls
and we are gonna be just fine.
Oh, fuck.
Oh!
BETH BREATHES DEEPLY
I'll give it a year.
Where did you stay?
At a hotel.
With him?
What, you gonna get a place
together?
BREATHES DEEPLY
I saw Ollie and Frankie at school.
I told them it was gonna be OK.
SCOFFS
Yeah, well, Ollie blames himself.
Frankie's gone back about ten years,
acting like a baby again.
I'll make it right for them.
Yeah, how?
I wanna show you something.
SIGHS
Neil.
Our life together.
Beth and Neil.
That's what we had, innit?
All those days.
All those years.
Remember that?
CHUCKLES
Frankie with that pig. Bastard pig.
Remember in Greece when we lost it?
No, Neil, God.
All I ever wanted
was a happy family.
And
for a while
we were.
Course there's happy memories.
You know, there's
there's loads of them.
But that were then
and this is now.
OK.
But I look at your face
on these photos
and I love you.
And I look at your face now
in this room
your lying, deceitful face
and I still love you.
You've broken my fucking heart,
Beth, but I still want you.
And I can get past this.
I can, Beth.
And I can change. Because
you're the only woman
I've ever loved.
And you're the only woman
I'll ever love.
And I'm not
I'm not asking you now, Beth.
I'm begging you.
Please, please
I'm begging you, Beth,
don't leave me.
I'll be better.
I'll be a good husband.
I'll be a good father.
I'll listen to you,
I'll look after you,
and you can start another business.
And I I'll be strong.
You won't have to mother me.
But I'm begging you, please,
don't leave me for that man.
He doesn't love you
a tenth of the way I love you.
And I'm a fucking idiot
for letting it get this way.
Just look at us.
All those times we shared.
Look at our faces.
We were so happy.
Please, Beth.
Please.
Please.
BREATHES SHAKILY
Please.
Please.
CHEERING AND APPLAUSE
PIANO PLAYS INTRO TO
'SOMEONE YOU LOVED'
I'm going under and this time
I fear there's no-one to save me
This all or nothing
Really got a way of driving me crazy
I need somebody to hear
Somebody to know
Somebody to have
Somebody to hold
It's easy to say
But it's never the same
I guess I kinda liked the way
You numbed all the pain
Now the day bleeds into nightfall
And you're not here
To get me through it all
I let my guard down
And then you pulled the rug
I was getting kinda used
To being someone you loved
I'm going under and this time
I fear there's no-one to save me
This all-or-nothing really
Got a way of sleeping without you
I need somebody to hear
Somebody to know
Somebody to have
Somebody to hold
It's easy to say
But it's never the same
I guess I kinda liked the way
You numbed all the pain
Now the day bleeds into nightfall
And you're not here
To get me through it all
I let my guard down
And then you pulled the rug
I was getting kinda used to being
Someone you loved
And I tend to close my eyes
When it hurts sometimes
I fall into your arms
I'll be safe in your sound
Till I come back around
And now the day bleeds
Into nightfall
And you're not here
To get me through it all
I let my guard down
And then you pulled the rug
I was getting kinda used to being
Someone you loved. ♪
CHEERING AND APPLAUSE
EXHALES
Hiya.
Hi.
Where've you been?
Er, home.
Home?
Beth
we had a plan,
but everything's gone so quickly.
I
I think I feel so lost.
I love you, but
I didn't think I'd
I didn't think
I'd feel this lonely.
Feels like
I'm living someone else's life.
And where is your life?
Over there?
No.
I mean, I don't know, I
I want I want you.
I want them.
SIGHS
Nothing fits.
We gave up everything
for each other.
You can't expect
every moment to be perfect.
That's not reality.
It's just a fantasy.
And that's what it's been up to now.
A fantasy.
CHUCKLES
If nothing lasts forever
No-one makes it out alive ♪
INAUDIBLE
I wanna spend our lives together
While we have the time
And if there's no God to meet us
Don't be scared
We'll go back
To where we came from ♪
So, exams over.
Yeah.
How do you think it went?
All right, considering.
You?
Pfff, who cares?
I'm going working for my dad.
Got any plans for the summer?
No, not really. You?
No, not really.
Think Mum might take us away.
Do you remember Blackpool?
When we missed
getting off that train.
Yeah.
Do you think that's when it started
between them?
Maybe. But
we can't blame ourselves.
If it weren't then,
it would have been some other time.
That was a good day.
Yeah, it was fun.
We should go again some time.
We don't have to tell anyone.
If nothing lasts forever
And no-one makes it out alive ♪
They say attraction plus an obstacle
equals excitement.
But what happens
when the obstacle is gone?
What then?
Maybe
you just have to start
all over again.
Sorry to be late for our first date.
I'm not actually
that kind of person.
I think it's our second date, officially.
Have no fear
Cos you got me
And I got you
Right here
Right here
Right here
Right here. ♪