Curfew (2024) s01e06 Episode Script

Hello, us again.
Don't worry, we're not here
to out your affair to your wife.
Do you know
what Total Harmony is?
I
I started
volunteering there too.
That's Jane, Pam's daughter.
She was killed three years ago.
48 hours before
they introduced curfew.
It was a woman.
You know, if we talk to Sarah,
she's just gonna deny it,
isn't she?
I mean, she's shielding her kid.
If we let her go, she might
just lead us to Cass Jackson.
Holding on to that
many secrets takes a toll.
Sarah was at mine,
and she was agitated.
Said she needed a tag encoder
but it wasn't for her,
and said that someone
was blackmailing her for it.
She knew that you had the key
and not Cass.
How did she know that?
Help!
So either Cass
told Sarah where the key was,
or the blackmailer did.
Sarah wasn't trying
to cover for Cass.
She was trying to save her.
I can look after myself,
you know.
Single victim,
woman in her 40s, his mother.
She's just died in hospital
from her head injury.
Neighbours heard him yelling,
calling her a stupid bitch,
and then she started screaming.
Has he said anything yet?
Nothing much.
Just that she was his mum,
and he loved her.
Yeah.
Never get tired
of hearing that one.
Would you just
excuse me a minute?
Hi, love. Are you home?
Yeah. I can look
after myself, you know.
Yeah, so you keep telling me.
Um, listen,
did you remember to
Double lock the doors, yeah.
Close the blinds,
grab my rape whistle,
and arm myself with
a cricket bat, just in case.
Can I go now?
- Yes.
I love
Teenagers.
So, you're game?
What did you find? Tell me!
Let me see! What did you find?
What? What did you find?
Is it her? Is it her?
Pam, come this way.
All right,
let's get this fucker.
Now, should men be
made to stay at home at night
in order to keep women safe?
That's the issue being debated
in the House of Commons today.
The Women's Safety Act
is a law that protects women.
Does this pit
women's rights to safety against
men's rights to freedom?
It's discrimination
against 50% of the population.
Well, that's it.
In a hugely significant vote,
Britain has become
the first country in the world
to introduce
a curfew on all men.
The tag is worn at all times
and requires men
to remain at home between
7:00 p.m. and 7:00 a.m.
If men learned
how to behave themselves,
then we wouldn't have to have
these extraordinary measures.
The crime statistics demonstrate
that the curfew is working.
We've lived through
a period of segregation.
No progress comes
without pain or reaction.
A group
who call themselves Alphas
is spreading online hate
and misogyny.
Huge protests have
sprung up across the country
calling for an end to curfew.
If we lift the curfew,
how do we protect women?
Okay.
Cass Jackson's been taken.
Whoever's got her
has Sarah Jackson so terrified
she's willing to admit
to a murder she didn't commit.
And now she's on the loose.
They want access to a coder,
which implies that it's a man.
Cass was abducted this morning
after the murder,
which means that this woman,
this woman here,
is the key to our killer,
and to Cass Jackson.
She must have known
both Helen and Sarah.
We've cross-checked every
possible suspect
with the ANPR, and nothing.
So either this woman's
not on our radar,
or, more likely, the car isn't.
Wait, wait, wait, wait.
What's that movement?
What movement?
Play play that bit back.
Yeah, yeah, yeah.
Look at her shadow.
It goes back and then forth,
like she's walking
around the bonnet.
Well, she's going
to the passenger door.
But what for?
She doesn't open it.
Maybe she's looking
for something.
Yeah, but it's
it's a snap second,
and then she doubles back.
It's muscle memory.
She's going to
the other side of the car,
because that's where
she thinks the steering wheel
She's used to driving on
the other side of the road.
Sian Williams?
- They're new to the country.
The car's a hire car.
I'll call a response team.
Look, can we keep this short?
I've
gotta get back before my wife
figures out where I've been.
When Ben Williams was here
this morning,
he was agitated, wasn't he?
He was he was in a rush
to get back.
He didn't want his wife
to find out about the affair.
But she already knew.
If you think I didn't know
about that, Detective,
you're wrong.
She found out at the
parent-teacher event yesterday.
She didn't even seem
that bothered.
A bit inappropriate.
So, why was he in such a rush?
What did he need to get home to?
Ben Williams has Cass.
But we we were there
this afternoon.
We were right there.
What a great crack team we make.
He killed Helen.
But why?
And why is Sian helping him?
Yeah, I don't know,
I don't know yet,
but he's holding
a teenage girl hostage.
Right, mobilise
an armed response unit
to the Williams' house.
Freddie, you're with me.
Let's try not to fuck it up
this time, yeah?
- Aisha, can I have a word?
- Sure.
Freddie told you, yeah, about
someone wiping curfew records.
Every night a woman
has been killed.
Yeah, Ferguson's sealed all
the files on the murder cases.
I need you to get into them,
okay?
How the hell did this happen?
Is this gonna take much longer?
Well, that depends.
On what?
On how honest you are.
Outside
the Women's Safety Centre, Sian?
I told you to put
her body in the car
before it went into the lake.
I didn't want
- You you what?
I just spent my morning
in the police station
dodging questions,
all because you couldn't do
what you were goddamn told!
If you only had done
what you were supposed to,
they wouldn't even know
that she was dead yet!
You have fucked us!
We're on their radar now, Sian,
and we're on a goddamn timeline!
The girl better give us
that fucking coder.
- You should eat.
- Fuck you.
Look, just tell him
where the coder is, Cass.
Please.
Or he's gonna hurt you.
He's gonna hurt me anyway.
Please.
Max, go upstairs,
and help your mother clean up.
But I I think
Don't start with me,
Max, please!
Things need to seem
normal around here
until we get these tags off.
We can't draw any suspicion.
Now, go.
Go!
I need that coder now,
sweetheart.
Time's up.
Come on. Where is it?
I told you.
I don't know.
I tried to take it back to
the Tagging Centre last night.
But when I got there,
it wasn't in my bag any more.
Someone must have taken it.
Okay, good. Who?
Wasting time's
not gonna help you, Cass.
If you think someone's
gonna come and save you,
you're wrong.
Did you know they arrested
your mom for murder?
What?
Who's she supposed
to have killed?
Helen Jones.
It's a shame.
Such a beautiful friendship
ending in tragedy.
Now, I told your mom.
I told her,
If I so much as hear
a police siren
three blocks from here,
I'm gonna slit your throat.
So your mom, she's gonna take
the fall for all of this,
just to save
your ungrateful ass.
You and I can do this
all day long, Cass.
No one's coming for you.
Who has the coder?
I'm not scared of you.
Yeah.
Let's think about that one
for a minute, yeah?
Where's your mother?
She's upstairs with Grandpa.
Dad, what if we can get
these tags off without a coder?
There's gotta be
another way, right?
- Screwdrivers, pliers
- Yes, great idea.
Go see what we have
in the garage.
Okay.
Dad needs a doctor.
- Well, he's not getting one.
What's wrong with you?
I don't think you
fully understand
what you've done here.
We need to get these tags off
and get out of the country
before the police barge down
our door, Sian!
All right.
Mom? Dad?
What
Who's that?
In the kitchen, everyone.
We act normal.
No, no, Noah,
you go upstairs, okay?
- You go be with Granddad.
- No, no!
No, no, we stay together
on this.
No, he is nervous, okay?
It's better that
he's out of the way.
Fine.
- Go, go, go, now.
Clean up the tools.
Yeah.
Go down and gag her.
- What?
If she calls out, we're fucked.
Go.
All right.
- Yeah?
Yeah, one sec.
Hurry up!
- All right.
Hello, us again.
Don't worry, we're not here
to out your affair to your wife.
Although I would like
a word with her.
And to check if
Cass Jackson is here.
What?
Cass Jackson.
Please, Cass!
I'm so sorry.
Hello? Sorry to interrupt.
I just want a quick word.
I'm DI Green, this is DC Wilson.
Is this about what happened
to Helen Jones?
Did you do it?
- Yeah, we've just, um,
come from her house.
It seems she's got quite a bit
of mail from you, Miss Williams.
All hand-delivered.
Seems you were very keen to,
get her testimony regarding the
incident at the Tagging Centre.
I'm assertive.
That's what makes me
a good lawyer.
Huh.
But I am really sorry to
hear about what happened to her.
- Thank you.
- Thanks.
I think I'm done asking.
Mom.
The dad has it.
Where do we find him?
- I don't know, Sian.
But Sarah will.
Where are you going?
If the police are around here
asking questions,
then they haven't believed
Sarah's story.
Which means it's only
a matter of time
before they release her.
Watch her.
So much for taking
the blame, Sarah?
Where's Cass?
Is she okay?
She's alive.
Well, I kept them
off your trail.
I bought you hours,
now give her back to me.
Yeah.
There's a slight problem.
She doesn't have the coder.
Your deadbeat of an ex stole it.
Greg?
No.
Your other deadbeat of an ex.
What what are you doing?
What are you doing, Sarah?
Don't fuck with me here.
Remember, I have zero qualms
of killing those
who stand in my way.
Now, get me the coder.
Shit.
Where's he gone?
Is he with my mum?
Is he gonna hurt her?
He just wants a working coder.
You could untie me.
We could go to the police.
- I can't.
My kids, they
They don't need a father
like that.
God, you don't understand.
I admired you, you know.
I thought you were brave.
Strong.
You don't know
the meaning of those words.
Just help him get the tag off,
and we'll leave, okay?
We'll go.
And then what?
More violence?
More death?
They'll turn into him.
He promised me he'd change.
If we came here.
If he subjected himself
to this system,
he promised me
this time we'd be safe.
And I believed him.
Why don't you just leave him?
He's been in my head
for 20 years.
Telling me I'm his everything
one minute,
and then telling me
I'm worthless the next.
Telling me where I could go.
Who I can talk to.
Hurting me when I don't listen.
Begging me
for forgiveness after.
I can't leave him.
Every time I try, I just
The police called.
They want you to go in.
What if you're still there
when Dad gets back?
It's okay, listen, baby.
What do we say when Daddy
gets like this?
What do we say?
- It's not really him.
Exactly, it's not really him.
All right, so you just stay out
of his way until it's him again.
Yeah? All right, come on,
let's go. Go, go.
- It doesn't work.
- What?
The coder Greg has,
it must have been deactivated.
Well, then, you have
two options, Sarah.
Go back to the Women's Safety
Centre, and get me a new one,
Or I go back home,
and I kill Cass.
What?
Great. I'll see you
at the Women's Safety Centre.
Did you get it?
Sarah, did you get it?
- Yes, yes, I got it.
Shit, shit, shit, shit!
Give it to me. Give it to me!
What's the code?
3421, but you'll have
to hurry up,
because they'll deactivate it.
- How long?
It needs to go
to the central system,
so I don't know how long it'll
take, but you need to hurry up.
Fuck you!
You and me.
We're partners in crime.
Come on.
Stitching up your husband
for breaking curfew,
frying a man who had
the audacity to be angry at you.
Sweetie, it's been fun.
I trusted you.
Yeah. Yeah.
Well, your judgement
in character is shit.
Now, fuck off.
You You
You
- No, it's okay.
You don't have to talk, Dad.
You
I've got it!
You deserve better
than that man.
It popped right off.
Where's Max?
- He's in the basement.
Okay. All right. Okay.
Come on.
Fuck.
What?
- They deactivated it.
Fuck!
Okay. Okay. Okay.
We've got no time.
When that clock hits 7:00,
we're trapped.
What are you doing?
- I'm gonna shock it,
see if I can short-circuit it.
No!
- It's fine, it won't hurt him.
It might!
- Then what do you suggest, Sian?
Wow, super helpful.
Get out of my way.
- Mom.
- It's okay.
Everything's gonna be all right.
Okay.
Stop it, stop it. Turn it off!
All right, all right. Okay,
how about we get some
big garden shears, huge ones.
I've already tried it.
What about some Vaseline,
some butter, something slippery?
- We could.
- Yeah.
If we broke his foot.
But that's not what I'm saying.
Yes, no, it's a great idea.
A clean break and
- we can pull it right off.
- No, no, no
That's genius.
- Are you insane?
What did you say to me?
Say it again.
I know you're there.
Are you really going to
let him do this, Max?
He killed Miss Jones.
Ha, now you care.
Well, of course I do.
After what you did to her?
- It was just a joke.
- A joke?
Do you even realise how
terrified she must have felt?
How violated?
No, don't pretend to care now.
What good is it to care now?
In the basement. Now.
Fuck, okay.
Put it on.
Hey, look, look at me.
Move out, move out. Let's go.
Right, everybody wait
behind the perimeter.
We go on my order, okay?
You two,
at the back. Cover me.
Fuck.
- Copy that.
Let's move!
Mr. Williams!
DI Green! Boy, boy,
seen an awful lot of you today.
All units in position.
What are you doing up there?
Just hanging out
with my father-in-law.
Enjoying the nighttime air.
What are they doing?
Looks like
you brought your whole gang
with you this time.
Stay back!
Hey, stay back. Stay back!
- All right. All right!
Where's Cass, Mr. Williams?
Well, we're dealing with
a few issues on this side.
You wouldn't by chance have a
working coder on you, would you?
Could you get me one?
Can't do that, Ben.
Well, you see, you gotta
work with me here, DI Green.
I don't want things
to get out of hand.
And I don't want
anyone to get hurt.
Then help
help me.
All right,
what do you need from me?
I already told you what I need!
I need a working coder,
and I need to get my family
out of this fucking country!
That is not gonna be possible!
Well
that was the wrong thing to say.
Ben!
Fuck!
Get a medic!
Medic, medic, there's no breath.
Move in!
Okay, I need the street closed.
I need units on all exits.
He's in the basement,
I'm guessing that's
where he's got Cass Jackson.
What about the family,
the children?
They're all in there.
We don't know what weapons
he's got access to,
so we cannot go in there
all guns blazing, all right?
- Copy that.
He's dead. He's dead.
somebody get that fucker
on the phone!
You killed him.
You fucking killed him!
I needed to show them
I was serious.
Yeah, and then what, Ben?
Then fucking what?
Do you even have a plan?
- Get the fuck away from me!
No, you said
you would stop hurting me!
Don't give me
that victim bullshit!
If you had just done
what you were told
and put the body
in the fucking lake,
we wouldn't be in this position!
Dad?
What is the plan?
Don't worry.
Don't worry.
The plan is, we're gonna
get the fuck out of here.
Come here, kid. Come on.
Come on. It's okay.
It's all right. Okay.
Yeah? Okay.
All right.
Let's get this off you.
What, has he got her?
- Mr. Jackson!
- I'll rip his head
clean off his shoulders!
- No, no, no!
Get back, Mr. Jackson! Get back!
- She in there?
- Is she okay?
Get behind the perimeter.
Why is that man
not under curfew?
Because that's his daughter
they've got in there.
My God, no.
This psycho's gonna kill her!
Get back.
Get them behind the line!
Somebody cover up
that body, now!
Pam, where's he got them?
He's got them all
down in the basement.
Good luck covering
this one up, Sue.
What do you mean?
I mean that this is
a really public arena.
No way you can
pin this on a woman.
What exactly are
you accusing me of?
Twelve public murders
since curfew came into effect.
All twelve of them
committed by women.
You knew those convictions
were unsafe,
and you sealed
those files anyway.
No.
I mean Look.
Westminster didn't want anything
potentially controversial
coming out this close
to the vote, so yes, yes,
they asked me to seal the files.
But Pam,
those women were guilty.
They were. We just didn't
want any room for doubt.
Dou doubt?
What, as in a fair
and thorough investigation?
Yes, some of those
women might have committed
those crimes, Sue, but there
is no way all of them did.
Do you really believe
they got you to seal files
on watertight cases?
They've used you, Sue,
for their own ends.
Hey, hey, hey, hey.
Ma'am, ma'am, ma'am.
It's him.
It's him on the phone. Got him.
Mr. Williams.
Respectfully, DI Green,
I was really hoping
you could've helped me.
I think respect
went out the window
a long time ago, don't you?
Just throwing your
father-in-law off the roof.
He's dead, by the way,
in case you're interested.
Nah, he was a bastard.
And you're not?
- No.
I'm just trying to do
what's best for my family.
I hope you
don't mind me saying this,
but that is a really,
really twisted perspective.
No, no.
You know what's twisted?
This little world of yours
where you lock men up
and you still call
yourselves the victims.
Really? And who's the one
who was viciously
beaten to death,
Mr. Williams,
you or Helen Jones?
Why'd you do it, Ben?
Why'd you kill her?
Bear with me,
will you, sweetheart?
Keep her talking.
What?
Um
Sian. Sian, Sian, Sian,
can you hear me?
Listen,
why don't you just come out?
Come out now,
bring the children with you.
I can't, um
I can't do that right now.
Is anyone hurt, Sian?
Is Cass with you?
- I'm here! I'm here!
- She's fine.
Just stay away, okay,
and he won't hurt her.
Okay, that's good.
That's good to hear.
What happened, Sian?
Why did he hurt her?
She found out, hadn't she?
About the way
he was treating you?
You weren't volunteering
at Total Harmony.
One second.
Sian, wait.
You were gonna ask for help,
weren't you?
Sian, do you need help?
Is he hurting you?
What did she see, Sian?
A bruise? Bruises?
My God.
I'm sorry.
That's what you were
whispering about
at the parent-teacher's event.
You went to meet her somewhere
you didn't want him
to know about.
She was gonna say something,
wasn't she?
She'd figured out, um
she'd figured out what he was.
She'd figured out what he is.
How could you?
She just wanted to help.
Then why are
you helping him, Sian?
Why help a man that hurts you?
Fuck you, Sian.
Fuck you.
You give us a perimeter.
Twenty feet back. We'll go and
we'll leave the girl behind.
I can't do that,
Mr. Williams.
Then what can you do for me,
Detective?
Shit.
Come on, Ben. Maybe
there isn't a way out of this.
What do you wanna do?
Just give up?
Stroll on out of here
with our arms up?
No, listen to me. Listen to me.
I will get us out of this.
Just look at me. Look at me.
I'm so sorr
It's okay Noah Come here
Go, go! Boys, go,
now, now, now, now, now!
- Mom!
- Cass, I'm so sorry.
I'm sorry.
It's too tight. I'm sorry.
Wait! Please don't leave me!
We've got movement!
- They're coming out!
- Wait.
Don't shoot! Don't shoot!
- Hold fire!
- Hold your fire!
- Come, come. Quick, quick.
- Return to your home.
- Get away from the door.
- Where is he?
In the basement with Cass.
- He's hurt.
- Movement in the hall!
Cass!
Don't shoot! Don't shoot!
Don't shoot!
Tell them to move back!
Send them back!
- All right, get back, now!
Off the drive, now!
You heard that, that's an order!
Now, me and my family are gonna
get in that car, DI Green.
You don't have to do this, Ben.
Don't see another choice.
I'm not spending
my rest of my life in jail.
Guys, get in the car, now!
No, no, no, no.
I can't let them go.
Don't talk to me that way.
Do not talk to me.
This is my family!
- I can't let them go.
Don't push me!
It was Max, wasn't it?
What are you talking about?
It was Max.
Not you.
That killed Helen.
Your tag.
It hasn't been coded, has it?
That's why it's yellow.
That day at the tagging centre,
in all the chaos,
Sarah never activated it.
You've been free
to go wherever you like.
I assumed someone would notice.
But they never did.
I didn't know what to do.
But you did do something.
I saw the paper flower, Max.
In the window.
Helen had the same flower
on her desk.
In her house.
You are so sweet.
Thank you.
Max.
Max.
I didn't mean to hurt her.
Max!
- Let me guess.
You loved her. Huh?
But she didn't feel
the same way, did she?
Is everything okay at home?
She talked to you,
she showed
an interest in you, but
but you misunderstood.
She wasn't attracted to you.
She was worried for you.
She knew what was
going on at home.
Helen?
Max.
It's after curfew.
What's happened?
I wanted to see you.
You've got to
stop giving me these.
Jesus!
Max!
You're just a boy.
This is crazy.
And you felt humiliated.
I just felt so angry.
It was like it was someone else,
doing those things.
But it was you.
You didn't wanna face up
to what you'd done.
Just like your father.
So you asked your mum for help.
But it was too much for you,
wasn't it, Sian?
My God.
It was too much violence.
Too much pain.
God.
First your husband,
now your son.
You wanted to make a statement.
This bloody useless system.
I wanted everyone to see
that we're not safe.
We're never safe!
And neither are they.
You stupid bitch.
This whole day, I've been
trying to save us here.
Well, you wanna stay?
Then you stay!
I'm leaving!
Oi, hey. It is over. It is over.
It doesn't feel over to me.
Does it feel over to you?
All right! Okay!
Whoa. I'm backing off.
Okay, don't hurt her.
Do not hurt her.
Okay?
- Let's go. Come on.
Look at me. Look at me.
Take it easy.
- You stay back. Stay back!
Look at me, Ben!
- You stay back.
Look at me. Look at me.
- Stay back!
Calm
- Stay back!
All right! All right!
I will kill her!
- All right!
Look at me.
Look at me. Look at me.
Don't. Don't do this.
Don't do this, Ben. Don't.
Don't make a mistake. Don't!
Don't do this.
- Cass!
- Oi!
Ma'am! Hey!
- Mum!
Are you okay?
It's okay.
It's okay, it's okay.
It's okay.
It's all right. We'll be okay.
It's over. It's over.
I need you to
come with me, please, sir.
Eddie.
So it's it's Eddie now, is it?
Mom! Mom!
I wanna stay with you.
Whoa!
Whoa, whoa, whoa, whoa.
Hey. Hey. Hey, pal.
- It's okay. It's all right.
It's okay.
- Let's get you over here.
Okay.
- Yeah, let's-
Everything's gonna be okay, pal.
- All right, fine. Okay.
- Okay?
Mom?
Are you listening to me?
You're safe now.
Just give me your hands?
Let's see.
Relax, okay? Get you cleaned up.
I'm sorry.
I love you.
I promise I'll do better.
I'm sorry, Mum.
Ma'am?
Aisha managed to
get into the files.
It seems all the local cases
had the same administrator.
I want all items
bagged and labelled,
and all of the codes
run through me, please.
Take special care with items
belonging to Sian Williams.
Let's not forget it's her
we have on CCTV moving the body.
DI Green, DC Wilson.
Excellent police work.
Thank you.
You've been on shift
nearly 18 hours now.
Why don't you both head home?
What, so you can pin this
on Sian Williams?
I don't know what
you're talking about.
Ferguson believed
those women were guilty,
but you knew the truth,
didn't you?
You've been sent here
to watch us,
to protect curfew
by any means necessary.
I'm always happy to help focus
investigations in the right way.
It was you that broke
into my house, wasn't it?
It's been a very
long day for you, Pamela.
You're exhausted. Go home.
Do you really think that was
an acceptable price
to pay for curfew?
I don't need to remind you,
Pamela, what curfew's done
for crime stats in this country.
How much safer women are,
how much freer.
Sian Williams wasn't safer.
Helen Jones wasn't safe.
Cass Jackson wasn't safe.
And how many more
women without it?
- Detectives!
- Stay back, please.
DI Green? Detective!
What happened to your Jane
wouldn't have happened
if curfew had been brought in
just two days sooner.
Detective Green!
You think about that.
Ma'am.
What what are you
gonna tell them?
Ma'am.
Is there any truth to
the rumours that several men
have been able to break curfew?
Detective!
How can we protect women?
Does curfew even work?
DI Green,
is this the end of curfew?
My girl, my girl ♪
Don't lie to me ♪
Tell me where did you sleep ♪
Last night ♪
In the pines, in the pines ♪
Where the sun
don't ever shine ♪
I'll shiver
the whole night through ♪
Hey girl, hey girl ♪
Where will you go? ♪
I'm going where
the cold wind blows ♪