I, Jack Wright (2025) s01e06 Episode Script
Treatment
1
I really miss you.
John: I think we need a break.
I think I need a break.
- Emily: They were private.
- And a man is dead.
You and me are done.
I have some information about
the Jack Wright case.
You want to know if my
ex-husband was a child abuser?
Hello, Reuben.
So, where were you really that night?
- No comment.
- So, when did you last see him?
Three days before he died.
In August, Jack had
a DNA test done of Josh.
- Who's my dad?
- How do you think he found out?
I have no idea.
I don't remember telling anyone.
Someone knew.
[ Door closes heavily ]
[ Clanging, distant chatter ]
You know what?
I actually wasn't nervous.
Maybe I thought I had
nothing more to lose.
[ Scoffs ] I mean, obviously,
I was wrong there, but, yeah.
Moral of the story
trust no one.
[ Dramatic music ]
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[ Suspenseful music plays ]
How much do any of us understand
why we do the things we do?
Why did we love this person?
Lie to that friend?
Why did we betray this partner?
Our interior lives are almost
impossibly complex,
and at best, our understanding
of our actions
is ephemeral, fragmentary,
and subjective.
And if it's hard for us to
understand ourselves,
it's doubly hard for others
to understand us.
But hardest of all
to understand the thoughts
of a dead man,
the thoughts of Jack Wright.
A husband and father has
a legal obligation in his will
to make due provision for both his wife
and dependent children.
So, let's not get sidetracked by
ethics and morals.
The more simple truth is
that Jack Wright
failed to fulfil his legal duty.
Graham, his firstborn child,
a devoted son
who sought his father's love
and respect all of his life,
even in the face of repeated rejection.
We can't question him,
we can't challenge him.
We can't tell him things
we hope will change
the way he feels.
And again, that's hard.
To never be able to understand
why he made the choices he did.
But that does not mean the
choices he made were wrong.
25 years of service
John Wright gave his father,
on trust, with love, and from
a place of huge respect,
only to be repaid with contempt,
with mockery,
with financial disadvantage.
And that is simply unfair.
Every decision he made
was the product of a careful,
considered, and rational process.
Our opinion on that cannot change
simply because we don't like
what he thought,
what he wrote
and in the end
who he was.
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So, the evidence found
at Maguire's house
has all been examined.
We've not enough to
charge him with yet,
so he's RUI'd for now,
But alongside the messages
between him and Emily,
we do have to ask why
he would've tried to
create a false alibi for
the night of the murder.
Meanwhile, this guy doesn't seem
at all keen
on answering our telephone calls.
So, we still have absolutely no idea
where he was on the 12th.
So, liaise with Europol.
Now I want a search done
on his Paris office.
Graham Wright, are we still waiting on
his bank statements?
Yes, but I also put a flag on PNC
and got a ping back immediately.
- For?
- So, he was admitted to
the Royal London a month ago
after he was violently assaulted
in his flat.
- Wow, okay.
- The uniform officer
spoke to his brother at the hospital,
who indicated that the assault
was related to a debt now paid,
and that they didn't want
to take things further.
Okay. Well, just chase these
bank statements, alright?
He's clearly in all sorts of
financial difficulties.
And then Georgia Wright, we've just got
the speeding-ticket photo
back from records,
which reveals there was someone
sitting next to her
as her car drove at speed
near Marston Hall,
about 20 minutes before we know
that final call
between Sally and Jack ended.
That person is
Mary Robbins,
Jack Wright's housekeeper.
[ Suspenseful music ]
I founded it four years ago.
And as of today, how much
is it valued at?
We had an offer of investment
just a few weeks ago
that valued it at $4 million.
You're 24?
25 in a month.
I've never made a secret of it.
I've suffered from addiction
problems me whole life.
And when did these start?
Oh, I remember the actual day.
- How old were you?
- 13.
And this was where?
It was at me dad's.
Er, it was just after me
parents had separated,
and I was with him for the weekend.
Except he was in his bedroom
with his new girlfriend.
And so, I was having dinner
with the groundsman
and Ray, his son.
And it was Ray who offered me
a joint later that night.
And you said you remember
the day specifically, why?
Oh, because it was Christmas Day.
[ Dramatic music ]
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And I know you normally speak to
my wife, but, erm
yeah, we're thinking about a few
life changes, so
I just wanted a bit of
a snapshot valuation
of our portfolio, please.
Preston: How long were you
married, Mrs. Wright?
17 years.
And those were 17 happy years?
Very.
And how did you celebrate
that last anniversary?
We didn't.
- You didn't celebrate at all?
- No.
- Why was that?
- Because he forgot.
He forgot?
And, of course,
in normal circumstances,
I might have mentioned it
or reminded him,
but we'd always play this
kind of game over the years
where he'd pretend to have forgotten,
and then, at some point
during the day itself,
he'd, erm
surprise me with some
amazing celebration.
Such as?
Oh, er, for our 14th, he flew
me to Mustique for a week.
For our, er, 10th, we had
a hundred guests at the Savoy.
For our eighth, Duran Duran
played in our house.
But this year?
This year, nothing.
And as we approached midnight,
I realised that it wasn't a game.
This time he'd genuinely forgotten.
He had no recollection of it at all.
On that particular day
his mind had gone.
And this from a man
who we now sadly know
from the autopsy, had early
signs of dementia.
How many people do you employ,
Miss Wright?
Well, we're in the process of expanding
after this next funding round.
But right now, in full-time employment.
Seven.
Do you know how many people
are currently on
the JK Wright payroll?
I don't have that figure
in front of me, no.
Oh, it's, erm, it's 368
as of last Friday.
Right.
Are you familiar with the term
"nepo baby"?
[ Dramatic music plays ]
Yes.
And could you tell the court, please,
what qualities you think you possess
that would qualify you to run a company
with a market cap more than
30 times yours?
Aside from your 12 months
in the post room, of course.
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[ Office phone ringing ]
I-I'm sorry, I'm confused.
This says £7,426.
Yes.
But
between us, we should
have about 4 million,
about two in mine and the same in hers.
And as I say, I can't tell you
what's in your wife's.
I can only give you your figure,
which is what's left
after all your withdrawals.
What withdrawals?
The multiple withdrawals you've made
over the last five years, Mr. Wright.
[ Suspenseful music plays ]
I haven't made any withdrawals.
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Mr. Wright, has it ever occurred to you
that your father's will was in,
in many ways, an act of kindness?
A painful act,
but of the toughest love?
My father didn't know what
love was, tough or otherwise.
Mm, but he knew what an
addict was, though, didn't he?
Well, it was him who made
me one, so, yeah,
I should hope so.
You say he was an inattentive father.
Can you tell me how much money
he gave you in the last 10 years?
No idea.
M'lady, exhibit 8A
will show bank statements
detailing transfers totalling £326,000
in just those 10 years.
I'd have preferred a hug.
Mr. Wright, would you tell
the court what happened
to the £500 he gave you
to buy your daughter
a 10th birthday present?
[ Dramatic music plays ]
You signed a prenup,
Mrs. Wright, is that correct?
Yes.
You are being handed now exhibit 12A,
which is a copy of that
original signed agreement.
If you could go to
the back page, please.
Do you recognise yours and
your husband's signature there?
- Yes.
- And are you happy to confirm
this is a copy of that
agreement signed in 2007?
- Yes.
- And can I ask you then
to turn to page five?
And can I ask you please to read
paragraph seven, clause B?
"In the event of the wife's proven
[ Clears throat ] infidelity,
that behaviour shall be
treated as conduct
that it is inequitable to disregard
pursuant to Section 25.2G
of the Matrimonial Causes Act 1973,
and the Inheritance Act 1975,
and shall have the effect of limiting
to the greatest possible extent
all claims for financial
remedies howsoever arising
under the Matrimonial Causes Act 1973."
Did you break that clause, Mrs. Wright?
[ Suspenseful music plays ]
No.
I remind you, you are under oath,
and I am going to ask you again.
Did you break that clause?
He broke it repeatedly.
This isn't about him.
- This is entirely about him.
- Did you?
He handed me that prenup on
the morning of the wedding.
- Answer the question, please.
- And said if I didn't sign it,
he'd call it off, and so I did.
Because I loved him.
Mrs. Wright, I suggest that
you did break it.
- Erm, objection, M'lady.
- Overruled.
And that furthermore,
on a night out in 2020,
you confided in Emily Wright
that you suspected your son, Joshua,
might not be Jack's.
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[ Sniffles ]
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Whatever I told you that night,
I would have told you
in total confidence.
I took you into our family,
tried to be a mother to you,
and you do this.
You betrayed Josh and me for money.
I mean, how does that even feel?
How did it feel when you
did it to my grandfather?
The police are circling this one,
so I wouldn't get too close
if I were you.
Might get your wings burnt.
- That was fucking low.
- Not as low
as you actually
spending the money on crack.
Yeah, and I regret that to this day.
But you think it's okay to punish me
by bringing it up in the courtroom?
Oh, my Christ. Does no one remember
that I didn't fucking start this?
And you're not gonna finish it, either.
It's alright, love.
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DCI Morgan: Is this you in
the car with Georgia Wright?
Yes, it's me.
So, this is timed about 20 minutes
before Jack's phone call to his wife,
and before he was subsequently shot.
You are approximately
eight minutes by car
away from Marston Hall.
Er, we were, erm
on our way there to pick up my car.
Okay. And where had you been?
Out for dinner?
Is there something we're missing, Mary?
Erm
G and I were a thing, we had been
for quite a few years.
How many is "quite a few"?
Five this Christmas.
Is this something her husband
knew about?
I don't think so.
Erm, I mean, look, I'm divorced.
Erm, we saw each other
once a month or so.
It was just something that
suited us both.
You're describing it in the past tense.
So you're no longer together?
No.
Why?
Well, as I said, erm
I thought we were going out for dinner,
but, erm
it turned out she wanted me
to do something for her.
Do what?
She wanted me to go into Jack's office
to see if I could find copies
of a particular document.
DCI Morgan: Which document?
His will.
Right.
And did you do what she asked?
God, no. Erm, no.
I mean, it's grossly unprofessional.
I mean, it's possibly even illegal.
And how did she take that?
Not well.
Yeah, not well at all. Erm
It caused a huge row.
Erm, in fact, she cut the evening short
and drove me back, at speed,
to pick up my car.
I'd never seen her like that before.
She seemed desperate.
When she dropped you off,
did you see her drive away?
[ Dramatic music plays ]
My car was parked round
the back of the house,
and, erm
by the time I got around the
front again, her car had gone.
But I presume there are
plenty of other places
for Georgia to park up on the estate?
More secluded places.
Yeah.
Yeah, there are plenty.
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Every motorway camera, every CCTV,
every Ring camera,
I want to work out exactly
what time Georgia Wright
drove out of here.
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[ Phone ringing ]
Hello, Frances? Everything okay?
Frances: So, I think that
you should know
Cher's been taken into A&E.
[ Dramatic music plays ]
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Graham Wright's bank statements,
last six months.
Finally.
Have a look at page 24.
On the night Jack died,
Graham's in a pub about
seven miles from Marston.
[ Background chatter ]
Oh, how's she doing?
Oh, they think some swelling
is now pressing on her medulla,
which is probably why she fainted.
Oh, poor love.
They can reduce the inflammation
with steroids, but
time's running out, Bobby,
they need the money.
But it can wait for a day
or two, can't it?
Just till the judgement,
just in case the
I've already transferred it, love.
Trust me, it'll be fine.
[ Suspenseful music plays ]
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Georgia: Gambling.
What sort of gambling?
Any sort.
Bitcoin
currency markets,
poker, football, anything,
everything
you could bet on, which
turns out is quite a lot.
Why?
Because when I won,
it filled the great big fucking hole
at the centre of my life.
Which would be me?
No.
It was never your fault, John.
Maybe it wasn't mine, either.
I think we just both married
the wrong person.
I'm sorry I couldn't be
more like my dad.
So
how much have you lost?
All of it.
Your portfolio, my portfolio
and the house is mortgaged
to the hilt.
[ Dramatic music plays ]
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[ Video game playing ]
Josh?
What are you doing here?
Why aren't you at school?
Did you not ever think about
how it would be for me, Mum?
Having everything revealed
in a fucking courtroom
to the whole world?
Did you not ever think about that?
I genuinely didn't think
it would've happened.
I told you it was gonna
smash everything up.
And for what?
For nothing.
I'm gonna make it okay, Joshie.
I swear, I'm gonna make it all okay.
[ Footsteps running upstairs ]
This is from Arnaud Tissier's
work diary
for two weeks beginning
4th of November.
So, he comes over on the 9th?
On the Eurostar.
Has a meeting at 78 Finsbury,
which is a coffee shop
50 yards from Jack's office.
Returns to Paris.
- Okay.
- Look at the 12th.
CCP Depart 21:00.
Cougar Charter Paris,
it's a private helicopter service.
And where does it fly to?
Anywhere you want within
a 300-mile fuel limitation.
How many miles to Marston?
And what did they say, the CCP company?
They say they can't find
the flight log.
They also sounded pretty scared.
My guess is Tissier let them know
exactly who he is.
Yeah.
[ Door beeps ]
So, when was the last time you
saw your father, Graham?
The Thursday before he died.
Like I already said.
Okay.
Showing the suspect exhibit GW01.
A James Brothers bank statement.
Whose statement is that,
please, Graham?
Well, it's got my name
and address on it,
so, I guess, mine.
It is yours.
And what period does
this statement cover?
Er
5th of November
to the 21st 2024.
DCI Morgan: Are there any entries dated
the 12th of November?
One.
DCI Morgan: For how much?
73.49.
Can we cut to
the fucking chase, please?
I'd love to. Did you kill your father?
- No.
- In which case,
what business is that debit to?
It says The Bull and Heron.
What time was the payment made?
21:26.
Showing suspect exhibit GW02.
Copy of the till receipt
for a meal at The Bull and Heron.
I say meal you ate a pasty.
The rest of the bill is alcohol.
Two bottles of Malbec, to be precise.
And just to help you out,
The Bull and Heron
is in a village called Flitwick,
which is about seven miles
from Marston Hall.
So
is the truth, Graham,
that you drove up to see your dad again
to ask for money to pay
your debt to Eddie Eliot?
That you bolstered yourself
with a couple of bottles of wine,
- and you drove over there?
- No.
I don't think you're a naturally
violent man, Graham. I
Yeah, maybe you just
wanted to scare him.
- No.
- But you went into that
water tower, you successfully
unlocked the gun
from the cabinet this time,
to go over to the main house,
except he walks in and surprises you.
- That's not what happened.
- Maybe he gets angry.
Maybe he tries to grab the gun.
Maybe the gun goes off accidentally,
- and suddenly you're in a
- I crashed me car.
[ Dramatic music ]
I was gonna go to his house,
but I never got there,
'cause this little old biddy
in a Honda Jazz
pulled right out in front of me,
and I just
I panicked and I drove off.
Except the radiator was fucked,
so, I had to dump the motor in Ripley,
and in the end, I got the train
back to London.
There's no train tickets
on this statement, Graham.
I jumped the barrier.
You can check the station's CCTV.
And that is the truth.
[ Siren wails in distance ]
Local plod's just confirmed
the car's still there in Ripley.
There was also a report of a failure
to stop at 10:00 that night.
Driver sustained a broken wrist,
only got a partial plate, hence NFA.
In worse news,
we also can't find any useful footage
to exclude Georgia Wright.
First time we pick up her car
is at 23:07 on the A13,
which proves nothing
one way or the other.
[ Mysterious music ]
[ Phone ringing ]
- Hey.
- Mr. Wright, it's Susan Alleyn.
We have a judgement,
10 o'clock tomorrow.
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[ Fingers clicking ]
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[ Video games playing ]
[ Clattering ]
[ Phone vibrates ]
Beth.
[ Soft music plays ]
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- Beth?
- Beth: [ Sighs ]
You there?
I'm home.
Home where?
The UK.
I'm home and
I want the kids back.
[ Ominous music plays ]
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[ Footsteps approaching ]
Where are you going?
London.
And, listen, you can keep this,
whatever's left of it.
I never liked it anyway.
I wish you happiness, George.
I really do.
[ Footsteps receding ]
[ Door closes ]
[ Soft music ]
Court official: All rise, please.
This is the hand down of judgement
in the case of Wright versus Wright.
Judge: It is not for this court
to comment on the substance
of the prenuptial agreement
signed by Mrs. Wright.
I'm here to offer judgement
only on what is before me.
And I find that in respect of
his wife and her son, Joshua,
the bequests made by Mr. Wright
are consistent with, and supported by
the exclusions and conditions
laid out in that agreement.
It's clear in e-mails
provided by the defence
that in August of this year,
Mr. Wright had hair samples of Joshua
subjected to a DNA test.
This test, to the best
of his knowledge,
subsequently confirmed his suspicion
that he was not Joshua's father
and, by implication, that his
wife, Sally Wright,
had been unfaithful.
[ Dramatic music plays ]
The court requires that an independent
DNA comparison be made now
to corroborate those results
but makes the interim judgement
to deny the claim
made by the third Mrs. Wright.
[ Gavel bangs ]
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The lab just called.
They've sent over the results
of the blood tests on
Reuben Maguire's clothes.
[ Door closes ]
[ Tense music plays ]
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[ Phone clatters, buttons click ]
[ Phone ringing ] [ Coughs ]
- Hello.
- Oh, hi, Lesley.
Er, very quickly.
So, the Speckmans money
obviously goes through on Friday,
but can you do me a favour?
The 1.75 we saved on the deal,
I've just had a rather attractive offer
from our bank for a six-month fix.
If I give you the details,
can you slide that
into a new account for me, please?
Yes, sure. I'll get that done
this afternoon.
Super.
I'll e-mail that over to you now.
- Thanks so much.
- Okay.
[ Suspenseful music plays ]
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Judge: In the matter of John
and Graham Wright's claim
that their father's will did not
make reasonable
financial provision,
I find in their favour.
Judgement on how exactly the estate
might be more fairly distributed
will be delivered tomorrow.
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Court official: All rise.
[ Door opens ]
[ Door bangs ]
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Em.
Emily.
- I'm sorry.
- For what?
You got what you wanted.
But I never wanted you to lose out.
[ Scoffs ] That is so Graham Wright.
Pretending to be sorry for an outcome
you set out to make happen.
It was never about you, though.
It was always just about him.
And whatever I I do end up with,
you you can have it, I swear.
Oh, can I? Can I, Dad?
Can I have it all, then?
Can I have all the fucking money?
It was only ever about him.
- DC Jones: Emily Wright?
- Yes.
I'm arresting you on suspicion
- of soliciting to murder.
- What?
You do not have say anything,
but it may harm your defence
Whoa, what are you doing?
Please step back, mate.
something which
you later rely on in court.
She hasn't killed anybody.
given in evidence. This way please.
- Whoa, whoa, whoa.
- Dad.
Dad!
That is my daughter, mate.
Em, Emily.
Em
I'm sorry. [ Car door closes ]
[ Dog barking ]
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[ Police radio chatter ]
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[ Car door closes ]
So, are these your clothes, Reuben?
- No comment.
- Maybe they're someone else's?
- No comment.
- And why'd you
- try to destroy 'em?
- No comment.
Was it because you knew
they had the victim's blood
all over them?
- No comment.
- 'Cause that's what we found,
Jack Wright's blood on
the burnt remains of a t-shirt,
pair of jeans, and in a bag
stuffed behind your wardrobe.
Can you tell us anything about this?
No comment.
Where were you on the night
of November 12th, Reuben?
- No comment.
- Alright, Reuben, look,
Reuben, if you had nothing
to do with this,
this is your chance to
clear your name right now.
So
where were you?
No comment.
DC Jones: Was it her idea?
Did you do it for her?
For your girlfriend, Emily?
No comment.
So, your fiancé came into
the station, Emily,
and showed us some very
worrying messages of yours
that he'd forwarded from your phone.
Showing the suspect EW01,
a printout of five messages
sent between April
and November 2024 between
you and Reuben Maguire.
Can you read the second
message, please?
"He deserves everything
we've got planned and more."
"Everything we've got planned."
What does that mean, Emily?
No comment.
What had the pair of you planned?
- No comment.
- We know that Jack
started to change his will
three days after he met Maguire.
Is this you and Maguire
discussing that plot?
- No comment.
- Okay. Could you read
message number three, please?
- Why don't you read it?
- How about I read it?
"If he gave me the whole company,
it still wouldn't make up for
what he did to me that night."
"For what he did to me that night."
What did he do to you, Emily?
No comment.
Sounds serious,
if leaving you a company
worth a hundred million
still wouldn't make up for it.
No comment.
What about this last one?
From Reuben to you on
the 4th of November,
"How long do you think he'll live?
Do your family have good genes?"
After that, he's put a wink-face emoji,
to which you reply with
a laughing-face emoji.
What is that about?
No comment.
Yeah, I'm sure.
Okay, let me tell you
where we are, Emily.
I think, for whatever reason,
you had some deep-seated animus
against your grandfather.
You knew money meant
more to him than most.
I think maybe it means
more to you than most.
- Bullshit.
- So, you hatched a plot
to have him change his will
- to your financial advantage.
- Not true.
But you got bored waiting
for him to die.
- No.
- So, you had Reuben, a violent
- ex-offender, kill him.
- Absolutely not.
Which is why your grandfather's blood
is all over clothes we found
in Reuben's house.
[ Suspenseful music plays ]
What clothes?
The burnt remains of a pair
of jeans and a t-shirt.
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Those clothes are mine.
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[ Door slams ]
John?
[ Ominous music plays ]
[ Keys jangle ]
♪♪
On a night in August 2014,
when I was 13,
and he thought I was asleep
on a sofa after watching a movie
he touched me
here.
My grandfather.
I pretended to stir.
He moved away,
and that was it.
One action
One touch [ Voice breaking ]
which only lasted a few seconds
but which
changed my life
forever.
Like most kids, I tried to minimise it.
He was drunk.
It was only once.
He was fucked up.
His ex-wife had
committed suicide a few months before.
But still, I needed to
make sure I was safe.
And so, from that night on,
I only saw him when I needed to.
The job at JK Wright,
family things.
I always tried to
not be on my own with him.
But about six months ago,
when
I was back in the UK to see Rose,
I realised
it was 10 years.
So, I decided to go and see him.
I needed him
to acknowledge it,
what he'd done to me,
what he'd taken.
And so, I told him
that
I hadn't been asleep,
that I'd known, that I'd always known
that he sexually assaulted me.
I don't know what I expected
him to say,
but
I guess I wasn't surprised
by how he did react,
which was to do exactly
what he always did
when anyone confronted him
attack, humiliate, deny.
And I wasn't gonna let him
do that to me.
- [ Dramatic music plays ]
- So, I turned to leave,
except he grabbed my wrist
to try and stop me.
So, I swung my elbow back
round to his face, hard,
really fucking hard.
And
there was blood everywhere.
I was screaming at him.
He was screaming at me,
trying to hold on.
[ Sniffles ]
And then, suddenly,
I was in the street,
getting a cab to Reuben's.
And there, I changed out of my clothes
and into some clean ones he lent me.
I don't know why he kept them.
But those clothes were mine.
Reuben Maguire did not
kill my grandfather.
And I most definitely
did not ask him to.
♪♪
[ Door closes ]
We know that they blackmailed him.
The messages pretty
explicitly suggest that.
They do.
We know that Maguire,
despite multiple opportunities
to do so,
has not provided us with an alibi
on the night of the murder.
- He hasn't.
- And most importantly,
we know we have the victim's
blood all over clothes
hidden at Maguire's house.
Which she says are hers.
Well, she would do, wouldn't she?
Or she's on the hook for solicitation.
Do you think she
made that up about Jack?
I don't know.
I don't know.
But 74 and not a whiff of
anything like that ever before.
I think the CPS will bite
our hands off, boss.
[ Office phone ringing ]
Yeah, well, let's call 'em.
[ Suspenseful music plays ]
♪♪
- [ Treacherous music plays ]
- Oh, fuck!
- Hey.
- [ Exhales ]
What are you doing in my house, Arnaud?
This is very wrong.
So, you lost.
Lost what?
Your case.
You dumb bitch.
For now, maybe, yes, but
I need that money.
I need it fast.
And I'm not sure you have been
taking me seriously.
Arnaud, I can't, I
I don't have access to his accounts.
They're all frozen,
and I don't have spare millions
just lying around.
Except of course you do.
Other assets you can sell.
Not worth that much.
You're lying, Sal.
I'm not.
So, just know this.
It doesn't end well for people
who don't take me seriously.
3 million by Friday.
A bientot.
♪♪
- [ Door closes ]
- [ Inhales sharply ]
♪♪
[ Sobbing ]
Judge: In assessing how the bequests
of the late Jack Wright
might be redistributed more equitably,
and in line with the judgements
I've already made,
I've tried to balance the needs
and rights of all claimants
to the estate as best as possible.
Murder for Maguire,
solicitation to murder for her.
Judge: No award has been
made in isolation
but as part of a bigger picture.
And to award them what I felt
they truly deserved.
[ Suspenseful music plays ]
♪♪
In the matter of Emily Wright's
appointment
as Chief Executive,
her receipt of her grandfather's
company shares,
and £15 million,
Emily Wright is clearly a young woman
of exceptional character and ability,
and I thus uphold the first two
of these bequests
in their entirety.
Miss Wright and her grandfather
clearly had an unusual connection.
It's perfectly legitimate that, in her,
he saw the future of his company
would be in the safest possible hands.
♪♪
Heathrow, please.
Judge: Given the value of the shares,
I have, however, reduced
her monetary bequest to 5.4 million.
Now, I've done this largely
to accommodate
the needs of his two eldest
sons, John and Graham,
who I believe are entitled to
a sum of £5 million each.
To further facilitate this,
I have also reduced the bequest
-to his first wife, Rose,
-[ Phone pings ]
who he had been divorced
from for nearly 40 years,
to £100,000.
And that concludes this judgement.
Bobby: There's a report online.
Emily's been arrested.
Emily Corazon Wright,
You are charged that at a time between
the 18th of April and
the 12th of November 2024,
you did solicit the murder of
Jack Kenton Wright,
contrary to section four
of the Offences Against
the Person Act 1861.
Do you have anything to say?
[ Dramatic music plays ]
♪♪
I'm innocent.
[ Low rumble ]
[ Crow cawing ]
[ Doors, gates clanging ]
[ Background chatter ]
[ Chains rattling ]
[ Heavy door closes ]
In the end, you'd have to say
the will echoed the life.
Cruel,
narcissistic,
messy,
but also, oddly opaque.
[ Cigarette sizzles ]
Because even now I reach for
a desire to believe
that maybe there was love there, too.
An attempt, subconscious or not,
to to liberate us from money.
But then I remember Emily
cut from the same cloth.
I look at her, and I see him.
And then I see
Well, I tell you what I don't see.
Innocence.
In her or that piece of shit.
Pot and kettle, I hear you say.
And maybe you're right.
I mean, I did kill a man.
So, I'm not exactly innocent
myself, am I?
[ Cigarette sizzles ]
[ Blows gently ]
[ Car approaching ]
- [ Brakes squealing ]
- [ Siren wails in distance ]
I really think I should
come in with you, Rose.
Oh, no, no, sorry.
But I don't even know if
they'll let me see her.
If they do, I'd rather we
were alone, if you don't mind.
[ Car door opens ]
Call me when you're done.
Will do.
[ Dramatic music plays ]
♪♪
Afternoon.
Can I help you, Madam?
Yes, I think you can.
I want to make a confession, please.
Okay.
Erm, a confession to what exactly?
Murder.
It was me.
I killed Jack Wright.
All eyes on me ♪
[ "All Eyes on Me"
by Pigeon John plays ]
♪♪
All eyes on me ♪
♪♪
All eyes on me ♪
Living it up, gettin' started,
time to press play ♪
♪♪
Plugging it in, level 10,
till the earth shakes ♪
♪♪
But when I'm wild and I'm free ♪
No control, any doubt ♪
Mix it up, stir it,
and I pour it around ♪
Wind on my back, clouds at my feet ♪
And I'm moving to a brand-new beat ♪
All eyes on me ♪
I really miss you.
John: I think we need a break.
I think I need a break.
- Emily: They were private.
- And a man is dead.
You and me are done.
I have some information about
the Jack Wright case.
You want to know if my
ex-husband was a child abuser?
Hello, Reuben.
So, where were you really that night?
- No comment.
- So, when did you last see him?
Three days before he died.
In August, Jack had
a DNA test done of Josh.
- Who's my dad?
- How do you think he found out?
I have no idea.
I don't remember telling anyone.
Someone knew.
[ Door closes heavily ]
[ Clanging, distant chatter ]
You know what?
I actually wasn't nervous.
Maybe I thought I had
nothing more to lose.
[ Scoffs ] I mean, obviously,
I was wrong there, but, yeah.
Moral of the story
trust no one.
[ Dramatic music ]
♪♪
♪♪
♪♪
♪♪
♪♪
[ Suspenseful music plays ]
How much do any of us understand
why we do the things we do?
Why did we love this person?
Lie to that friend?
Why did we betray this partner?
Our interior lives are almost
impossibly complex,
and at best, our understanding
of our actions
is ephemeral, fragmentary,
and subjective.
And if it's hard for us to
understand ourselves,
it's doubly hard for others
to understand us.
But hardest of all
to understand the thoughts
of a dead man,
the thoughts of Jack Wright.
A husband and father has
a legal obligation in his will
to make due provision for both his wife
and dependent children.
So, let's not get sidetracked by
ethics and morals.
The more simple truth is
that Jack Wright
failed to fulfil his legal duty.
Graham, his firstborn child,
a devoted son
who sought his father's love
and respect all of his life,
even in the face of repeated rejection.
We can't question him,
we can't challenge him.
We can't tell him things
we hope will change
the way he feels.
And again, that's hard.
To never be able to understand
why he made the choices he did.
But that does not mean the
choices he made were wrong.
25 years of service
John Wright gave his father,
on trust, with love, and from
a place of huge respect,
only to be repaid with contempt,
with mockery,
with financial disadvantage.
And that is simply unfair.
Every decision he made
was the product of a careful,
considered, and rational process.
Our opinion on that cannot change
simply because we don't like
what he thought,
what he wrote
and in the end
who he was.
♪♪
So, the evidence found
at Maguire's house
has all been examined.
We've not enough to
charge him with yet,
so he's RUI'd for now,
But alongside the messages
between him and Emily,
we do have to ask why
he would've tried to
create a false alibi for
the night of the murder.
Meanwhile, this guy doesn't seem
at all keen
on answering our telephone calls.
So, we still have absolutely no idea
where he was on the 12th.
So, liaise with Europol.
Now I want a search done
on his Paris office.
Graham Wright, are we still waiting on
his bank statements?
Yes, but I also put a flag on PNC
and got a ping back immediately.
- For?
- So, he was admitted to
the Royal London a month ago
after he was violently assaulted
in his flat.
- Wow, okay.
- The uniform officer
spoke to his brother at the hospital,
who indicated that the assault
was related to a debt now paid,
and that they didn't want
to take things further.
Okay. Well, just chase these
bank statements, alright?
He's clearly in all sorts of
financial difficulties.
And then Georgia Wright, we've just got
the speeding-ticket photo
back from records,
which reveals there was someone
sitting next to her
as her car drove at speed
near Marston Hall,
about 20 minutes before we know
that final call
between Sally and Jack ended.
That person is
Mary Robbins,
Jack Wright's housekeeper.
[ Suspenseful music ]
I founded it four years ago.
And as of today, how much
is it valued at?
We had an offer of investment
just a few weeks ago
that valued it at $4 million.
You're 24?
25 in a month.
I've never made a secret of it.
I've suffered from addiction
problems me whole life.
And when did these start?
Oh, I remember the actual day.
- How old were you?
- 13.
And this was where?
It was at me dad's.
Er, it was just after me
parents had separated,
and I was with him for the weekend.
Except he was in his bedroom
with his new girlfriend.
And so, I was having dinner
with the groundsman
and Ray, his son.
And it was Ray who offered me
a joint later that night.
And you said you remember
the day specifically, why?
Oh, because it was Christmas Day.
[ Dramatic music ]
♪♪
And I know you normally speak to
my wife, but, erm
yeah, we're thinking about a few
life changes, so
I just wanted a bit of
a snapshot valuation
of our portfolio, please.
Preston: How long were you
married, Mrs. Wright?
17 years.
And those were 17 happy years?
Very.
And how did you celebrate
that last anniversary?
We didn't.
- You didn't celebrate at all?
- No.
- Why was that?
- Because he forgot.
He forgot?
And, of course,
in normal circumstances,
I might have mentioned it
or reminded him,
but we'd always play this
kind of game over the years
where he'd pretend to have forgotten,
and then, at some point
during the day itself,
he'd, erm
surprise me with some
amazing celebration.
Such as?
Oh, er, for our 14th, he flew
me to Mustique for a week.
For our, er, 10th, we had
a hundred guests at the Savoy.
For our eighth, Duran Duran
played in our house.
But this year?
This year, nothing.
And as we approached midnight,
I realised that it wasn't a game.
This time he'd genuinely forgotten.
He had no recollection of it at all.
On that particular day
his mind had gone.
And this from a man
who we now sadly know
from the autopsy, had early
signs of dementia.
How many people do you employ,
Miss Wright?
Well, we're in the process of expanding
after this next funding round.
But right now, in full-time employment.
Seven.
Do you know how many people
are currently on
the JK Wright payroll?
I don't have that figure
in front of me, no.
Oh, it's, erm, it's 368
as of last Friday.
Right.
Are you familiar with the term
"nepo baby"?
[ Dramatic music plays ]
Yes.
And could you tell the court, please,
what qualities you think you possess
that would qualify you to run a company
with a market cap more than
30 times yours?
Aside from your 12 months
in the post room, of course.
♪♪
[ Office phone ringing ]
I-I'm sorry, I'm confused.
This says £7,426.
Yes.
But
between us, we should
have about 4 million,
about two in mine and the same in hers.
And as I say, I can't tell you
what's in your wife's.
I can only give you your figure,
which is what's left
after all your withdrawals.
What withdrawals?
The multiple withdrawals you've made
over the last five years, Mr. Wright.
[ Suspenseful music plays ]
I haven't made any withdrawals.
♪♪
Mr. Wright, has it ever occurred to you
that your father's will was in,
in many ways, an act of kindness?
A painful act,
but of the toughest love?
My father didn't know what
love was, tough or otherwise.
Mm, but he knew what an
addict was, though, didn't he?
Well, it was him who made
me one, so, yeah,
I should hope so.
You say he was an inattentive father.
Can you tell me how much money
he gave you in the last 10 years?
No idea.
M'lady, exhibit 8A
will show bank statements
detailing transfers totalling £326,000
in just those 10 years.
I'd have preferred a hug.
Mr. Wright, would you tell
the court what happened
to the £500 he gave you
to buy your daughter
a 10th birthday present?
[ Dramatic music plays ]
You signed a prenup,
Mrs. Wright, is that correct?
Yes.
You are being handed now exhibit 12A,
which is a copy of that
original signed agreement.
If you could go to
the back page, please.
Do you recognise yours and
your husband's signature there?
- Yes.
- And are you happy to confirm
this is a copy of that
agreement signed in 2007?
- Yes.
- And can I ask you then
to turn to page five?
And can I ask you please to read
paragraph seven, clause B?
"In the event of the wife's proven
[ Clears throat ] infidelity,
that behaviour shall be
treated as conduct
that it is inequitable to disregard
pursuant to Section 25.2G
of the Matrimonial Causes Act 1973,
and the Inheritance Act 1975,
and shall have the effect of limiting
to the greatest possible extent
all claims for financial
remedies howsoever arising
under the Matrimonial Causes Act 1973."
Did you break that clause, Mrs. Wright?
[ Suspenseful music plays ]
No.
I remind you, you are under oath,
and I am going to ask you again.
Did you break that clause?
He broke it repeatedly.
This isn't about him.
- This is entirely about him.
- Did you?
He handed me that prenup on
the morning of the wedding.
- Answer the question, please.
- And said if I didn't sign it,
he'd call it off, and so I did.
Because I loved him.
Mrs. Wright, I suggest that
you did break it.
- Erm, objection, M'lady.
- Overruled.
And that furthermore,
on a night out in 2020,
you confided in Emily Wright
that you suspected your son, Joshua,
might not be Jack's.
♪♪
[ Sniffles ]
♪♪
Whatever I told you that night,
I would have told you
in total confidence.
I took you into our family,
tried to be a mother to you,
and you do this.
You betrayed Josh and me for money.
I mean, how does that even feel?
How did it feel when you
did it to my grandfather?
The police are circling this one,
so I wouldn't get too close
if I were you.
Might get your wings burnt.
- That was fucking low.
- Not as low
as you actually
spending the money on crack.
Yeah, and I regret that to this day.
But you think it's okay to punish me
by bringing it up in the courtroom?
Oh, my Christ. Does no one remember
that I didn't fucking start this?
And you're not gonna finish it, either.
It's alright, love.
♪♪
DCI Morgan: Is this you in
the car with Georgia Wright?
Yes, it's me.
So, this is timed about 20 minutes
before Jack's phone call to his wife,
and before he was subsequently shot.
You are approximately
eight minutes by car
away from Marston Hall.
Er, we were, erm
on our way there to pick up my car.
Okay. And where had you been?
Out for dinner?
Is there something we're missing, Mary?
Erm
G and I were a thing, we had been
for quite a few years.
How many is "quite a few"?
Five this Christmas.
Is this something her husband
knew about?
I don't think so.
Erm, I mean, look, I'm divorced.
Erm, we saw each other
once a month or so.
It was just something that
suited us both.
You're describing it in the past tense.
So you're no longer together?
No.
Why?
Well, as I said, erm
I thought we were going out for dinner,
but, erm
it turned out she wanted me
to do something for her.
Do what?
She wanted me to go into Jack's office
to see if I could find copies
of a particular document.
DCI Morgan: Which document?
His will.
Right.
And did you do what she asked?
God, no. Erm, no.
I mean, it's grossly unprofessional.
I mean, it's possibly even illegal.
And how did she take that?
Not well.
Yeah, not well at all. Erm
It caused a huge row.
Erm, in fact, she cut the evening short
and drove me back, at speed,
to pick up my car.
I'd never seen her like that before.
She seemed desperate.
When she dropped you off,
did you see her drive away?
[ Dramatic music plays ]
My car was parked round
the back of the house,
and, erm
by the time I got around the
front again, her car had gone.
But I presume there are
plenty of other places
for Georgia to park up on the estate?
More secluded places.
Yeah.
Yeah, there are plenty.
♪♪
Every motorway camera, every CCTV,
every Ring camera,
I want to work out exactly
what time Georgia Wright
drove out of here.
♪♪
[ Phone ringing ]
Hello, Frances? Everything okay?
Frances: So, I think that
you should know
Cher's been taken into A&E.
[ Dramatic music plays ]
♪♪
Graham Wright's bank statements,
last six months.
Finally.
Have a look at page 24.
On the night Jack died,
Graham's in a pub about
seven miles from Marston.
[ Background chatter ]
Oh, how's she doing?
Oh, they think some swelling
is now pressing on her medulla,
which is probably why she fainted.
Oh, poor love.
They can reduce the inflammation
with steroids, but
time's running out, Bobby,
they need the money.
But it can wait for a day
or two, can't it?
Just till the judgement,
just in case the
I've already transferred it, love.
Trust me, it'll be fine.
[ Suspenseful music plays ]
♪♪
Georgia: Gambling.
What sort of gambling?
Any sort.
Bitcoin
currency markets,
poker, football, anything,
everything
you could bet on, which
turns out is quite a lot.
Why?
Because when I won,
it filled the great big fucking hole
at the centre of my life.
Which would be me?
No.
It was never your fault, John.
Maybe it wasn't mine, either.
I think we just both married
the wrong person.
I'm sorry I couldn't be
more like my dad.
So
how much have you lost?
All of it.
Your portfolio, my portfolio
and the house is mortgaged
to the hilt.
[ Dramatic music plays ]
♪♪
[ Video game playing ]
Josh?
What are you doing here?
Why aren't you at school?
Did you not ever think about
how it would be for me, Mum?
Having everything revealed
in a fucking courtroom
to the whole world?
Did you not ever think about that?
I genuinely didn't think
it would've happened.
I told you it was gonna
smash everything up.
And for what?
For nothing.
I'm gonna make it okay, Joshie.
I swear, I'm gonna make it all okay.
[ Footsteps running upstairs ]
This is from Arnaud Tissier's
work diary
for two weeks beginning
4th of November.
So, he comes over on the 9th?
On the Eurostar.
Has a meeting at 78 Finsbury,
which is a coffee shop
50 yards from Jack's office.
Returns to Paris.
- Okay.
- Look at the 12th.
CCP Depart 21:00.
Cougar Charter Paris,
it's a private helicopter service.
And where does it fly to?
Anywhere you want within
a 300-mile fuel limitation.
How many miles to Marston?
And what did they say, the CCP company?
They say they can't find
the flight log.
They also sounded pretty scared.
My guess is Tissier let them know
exactly who he is.
Yeah.
[ Door beeps ]
So, when was the last time you
saw your father, Graham?
The Thursday before he died.
Like I already said.
Okay.
Showing the suspect exhibit GW01.
A James Brothers bank statement.
Whose statement is that,
please, Graham?
Well, it's got my name
and address on it,
so, I guess, mine.
It is yours.
And what period does
this statement cover?
Er
5th of November
to the 21st 2024.
DCI Morgan: Are there any entries dated
the 12th of November?
One.
DCI Morgan: For how much?
73.49.
Can we cut to
the fucking chase, please?
I'd love to. Did you kill your father?
- No.
- In which case,
what business is that debit to?
It says The Bull and Heron.
What time was the payment made?
21:26.
Showing suspect exhibit GW02.
Copy of the till receipt
for a meal at The Bull and Heron.
I say meal you ate a pasty.
The rest of the bill is alcohol.
Two bottles of Malbec, to be precise.
And just to help you out,
The Bull and Heron
is in a village called Flitwick,
which is about seven miles
from Marston Hall.
So
is the truth, Graham,
that you drove up to see your dad again
to ask for money to pay
your debt to Eddie Eliot?
That you bolstered yourself
with a couple of bottles of wine,
- and you drove over there?
- No.
I don't think you're a naturally
violent man, Graham. I
Yeah, maybe you just
wanted to scare him.
- No.
- But you went into that
water tower, you successfully
unlocked the gun
from the cabinet this time,
to go over to the main house,
except he walks in and surprises you.
- That's not what happened.
- Maybe he gets angry.
Maybe he tries to grab the gun.
Maybe the gun goes off accidentally,
- and suddenly you're in a
- I crashed me car.
[ Dramatic music ]
I was gonna go to his house,
but I never got there,
'cause this little old biddy
in a Honda Jazz
pulled right out in front of me,
and I just
I panicked and I drove off.
Except the radiator was fucked,
so, I had to dump the motor in Ripley,
and in the end, I got the train
back to London.
There's no train tickets
on this statement, Graham.
I jumped the barrier.
You can check the station's CCTV.
And that is the truth.
[ Siren wails in distance ]
Local plod's just confirmed
the car's still there in Ripley.
There was also a report of a failure
to stop at 10:00 that night.
Driver sustained a broken wrist,
only got a partial plate, hence NFA.
In worse news,
we also can't find any useful footage
to exclude Georgia Wright.
First time we pick up her car
is at 23:07 on the A13,
which proves nothing
one way or the other.
[ Mysterious music ]
[ Phone ringing ]
- Hey.
- Mr. Wright, it's Susan Alleyn.
We have a judgement,
10 o'clock tomorrow.
♪♪
♪♪
[ Fingers clicking ]
♪♪
♪♪
♪♪
[ Video games playing ]
[ Clattering ]
[ Phone vibrates ]
Beth.
[ Soft music plays ]
♪♪
- Beth?
- Beth: [ Sighs ]
You there?
I'm home.
Home where?
The UK.
I'm home and
I want the kids back.
[ Ominous music plays ]
♪♪
[ Footsteps approaching ]
Where are you going?
London.
And, listen, you can keep this,
whatever's left of it.
I never liked it anyway.
I wish you happiness, George.
I really do.
[ Footsteps receding ]
[ Door closes ]
[ Soft music ]
Court official: All rise, please.
This is the hand down of judgement
in the case of Wright versus Wright.
Judge: It is not for this court
to comment on the substance
of the prenuptial agreement
signed by Mrs. Wright.
I'm here to offer judgement
only on what is before me.
And I find that in respect of
his wife and her son, Joshua,
the bequests made by Mr. Wright
are consistent with, and supported by
the exclusions and conditions
laid out in that agreement.
It's clear in e-mails
provided by the defence
that in August of this year,
Mr. Wright had hair samples of Joshua
subjected to a DNA test.
This test, to the best
of his knowledge,
subsequently confirmed his suspicion
that he was not Joshua's father
and, by implication, that his
wife, Sally Wright,
had been unfaithful.
[ Dramatic music plays ]
The court requires that an independent
DNA comparison be made now
to corroborate those results
but makes the interim judgement
to deny the claim
made by the third Mrs. Wright.
[ Gavel bangs ]
♪♪
The lab just called.
They've sent over the results
of the blood tests on
Reuben Maguire's clothes.
[ Door closes ]
[ Tense music plays ]
♪♪
♪♪
♪♪
[ Phone clatters, buttons click ]
[ Phone ringing ] [ Coughs ]
- Hello.
- Oh, hi, Lesley.
Er, very quickly.
So, the Speckmans money
obviously goes through on Friday,
but can you do me a favour?
The 1.75 we saved on the deal,
I've just had a rather attractive offer
from our bank for a six-month fix.
If I give you the details,
can you slide that
into a new account for me, please?
Yes, sure. I'll get that done
this afternoon.
Super.
I'll e-mail that over to you now.
- Thanks so much.
- Okay.
[ Suspenseful music plays ]
♪♪
Judge: In the matter of John
and Graham Wright's claim
that their father's will did not
make reasonable
financial provision,
I find in their favour.
Judgement on how exactly the estate
might be more fairly distributed
will be delivered tomorrow.
♪♪
Court official: All rise.
[ Door opens ]
[ Door bangs ]
♪♪
Em.
Emily.
- I'm sorry.
- For what?
You got what you wanted.
But I never wanted you to lose out.
[ Scoffs ] That is so Graham Wright.
Pretending to be sorry for an outcome
you set out to make happen.
It was never about you, though.
It was always just about him.
And whatever I I do end up with,
you you can have it, I swear.
Oh, can I? Can I, Dad?
Can I have it all, then?
Can I have all the fucking money?
It was only ever about him.
- DC Jones: Emily Wright?
- Yes.
I'm arresting you on suspicion
- of soliciting to murder.
- What?
You do not have say anything,
but it may harm your defence
Whoa, what are you doing?
Please step back, mate.
something which
you later rely on in court.
She hasn't killed anybody.
given in evidence. This way please.
- Whoa, whoa, whoa.
- Dad.
Dad!
That is my daughter, mate.
Em, Emily.
Em
I'm sorry. [ Car door closes ]
[ Dog barking ]
♪♪
[ Police radio chatter ]
♪♪
[ Car door closes ]
So, are these your clothes, Reuben?
- No comment.
- Maybe they're someone else's?
- No comment.
- And why'd you
- try to destroy 'em?
- No comment.
Was it because you knew
they had the victim's blood
all over them?
- No comment.
- 'Cause that's what we found,
Jack Wright's blood on
the burnt remains of a t-shirt,
pair of jeans, and in a bag
stuffed behind your wardrobe.
Can you tell us anything about this?
No comment.
Where were you on the night
of November 12th, Reuben?
- No comment.
- Alright, Reuben, look,
Reuben, if you had nothing
to do with this,
this is your chance to
clear your name right now.
So
where were you?
No comment.
DC Jones: Was it her idea?
Did you do it for her?
For your girlfriend, Emily?
No comment.
So, your fiancé came into
the station, Emily,
and showed us some very
worrying messages of yours
that he'd forwarded from your phone.
Showing the suspect EW01,
a printout of five messages
sent between April
and November 2024 between
you and Reuben Maguire.
Can you read the second
message, please?
"He deserves everything
we've got planned and more."
"Everything we've got planned."
What does that mean, Emily?
No comment.
What had the pair of you planned?
- No comment.
- We know that Jack
started to change his will
three days after he met Maguire.
Is this you and Maguire
discussing that plot?
- No comment.
- Okay. Could you read
message number three, please?
- Why don't you read it?
- How about I read it?
"If he gave me the whole company,
it still wouldn't make up for
what he did to me that night."
"For what he did to me that night."
What did he do to you, Emily?
No comment.
Sounds serious,
if leaving you a company
worth a hundred million
still wouldn't make up for it.
No comment.
What about this last one?
From Reuben to you on
the 4th of November,
"How long do you think he'll live?
Do your family have good genes?"
After that, he's put a wink-face emoji,
to which you reply with
a laughing-face emoji.
What is that about?
No comment.
Yeah, I'm sure.
Okay, let me tell you
where we are, Emily.
I think, for whatever reason,
you had some deep-seated animus
against your grandfather.
You knew money meant
more to him than most.
I think maybe it means
more to you than most.
- Bullshit.
- So, you hatched a plot
to have him change his will
- to your financial advantage.
- Not true.
But you got bored waiting
for him to die.
- No.
- So, you had Reuben, a violent
- ex-offender, kill him.
- Absolutely not.
Which is why your grandfather's blood
is all over clothes we found
in Reuben's house.
[ Suspenseful music plays ]
What clothes?
The burnt remains of a pair
of jeans and a t-shirt.
♪♪
♪♪
Those clothes are mine.
♪♪
[ Door slams ]
John?
[ Ominous music plays ]
[ Keys jangle ]
♪♪
On a night in August 2014,
when I was 13,
and he thought I was asleep
on a sofa after watching a movie
he touched me
here.
My grandfather.
I pretended to stir.
He moved away,
and that was it.
One action
One touch [ Voice breaking ]
which only lasted a few seconds
but which
changed my life
forever.
Like most kids, I tried to minimise it.
He was drunk.
It was only once.
He was fucked up.
His ex-wife had
committed suicide a few months before.
But still, I needed to
make sure I was safe.
And so, from that night on,
I only saw him when I needed to.
The job at JK Wright,
family things.
I always tried to
not be on my own with him.
But about six months ago,
when
I was back in the UK to see Rose,
I realised
it was 10 years.
So, I decided to go and see him.
I needed him
to acknowledge it,
what he'd done to me,
what he'd taken.
And so, I told him
that
I hadn't been asleep,
that I'd known, that I'd always known
that he sexually assaulted me.
I don't know what I expected
him to say,
but
I guess I wasn't surprised
by how he did react,
which was to do exactly
what he always did
when anyone confronted him
attack, humiliate, deny.
And I wasn't gonna let him
do that to me.
- [ Dramatic music plays ]
- So, I turned to leave,
except he grabbed my wrist
to try and stop me.
So, I swung my elbow back
round to his face, hard,
really fucking hard.
And
there was blood everywhere.
I was screaming at him.
He was screaming at me,
trying to hold on.
[ Sniffles ]
And then, suddenly,
I was in the street,
getting a cab to Reuben's.
And there, I changed out of my clothes
and into some clean ones he lent me.
I don't know why he kept them.
But those clothes were mine.
Reuben Maguire did not
kill my grandfather.
And I most definitely
did not ask him to.
♪♪
[ Door closes ]
We know that they blackmailed him.
The messages pretty
explicitly suggest that.
They do.
We know that Maguire,
despite multiple opportunities
to do so,
has not provided us with an alibi
on the night of the murder.
- He hasn't.
- And most importantly,
we know we have the victim's
blood all over clothes
hidden at Maguire's house.
Which she says are hers.
Well, she would do, wouldn't she?
Or she's on the hook for solicitation.
Do you think she
made that up about Jack?
I don't know.
I don't know.
But 74 and not a whiff of
anything like that ever before.
I think the CPS will bite
our hands off, boss.
[ Office phone ringing ]
Yeah, well, let's call 'em.
[ Suspenseful music plays ]
♪♪
- [ Treacherous music plays ]
- Oh, fuck!
- Hey.
- [ Exhales ]
What are you doing in my house, Arnaud?
This is very wrong.
So, you lost.
Lost what?
Your case.
You dumb bitch.
For now, maybe, yes, but
I need that money.
I need it fast.
And I'm not sure you have been
taking me seriously.
Arnaud, I can't, I
I don't have access to his accounts.
They're all frozen,
and I don't have spare millions
just lying around.
Except of course you do.
Other assets you can sell.
Not worth that much.
You're lying, Sal.
I'm not.
So, just know this.
It doesn't end well for people
who don't take me seriously.
3 million by Friday.
A bientot.
♪♪
- [ Door closes ]
- [ Inhales sharply ]
♪♪
[ Sobbing ]
Judge: In assessing how the bequests
of the late Jack Wright
might be redistributed more equitably,
and in line with the judgements
I've already made,
I've tried to balance the needs
and rights of all claimants
to the estate as best as possible.
Murder for Maguire,
solicitation to murder for her.
Judge: No award has been
made in isolation
but as part of a bigger picture.
And to award them what I felt
they truly deserved.
[ Suspenseful music plays ]
♪♪
In the matter of Emily Wright's
appointment
as Chief Executive,
her receipt of her grandfather's
company shares,
and £15 million,
Emily Wright is clearly a young woman
of exceptional character and ability,
and I thus uphold the first two
of these bequests
in their entirety.
Miss Wright and her grandfather
clearly had an unusual connection.
It's perfectly legitimate that, in her,
he saw the future of his company
would be in the safest possible hands.
♪♪
Heathrow, please.
Judge: Given the value of the shares,
I have, however, reduced
her monetary bequest to 5.4 million.
Now, I've done this largely
to accommodate
the needs of his two eldest
sons, John and Graham,
who I believe are entitled to
a sum of £5 million each.
To further facilitate this,
I have also reduced the bequest
-to his first wife, Rose,
-[ Phone pings ]
who he had been divorced
from for nearly 40 years,
to £100,000.
And that concludes this judgement.
Bobby: There's a report online.
Emily's been arrested.
Emily Corazon Wright,
You are charged that at a time between
the 18th of April and
the 12th of November 2024,
you did solicit the murder of
Jack Kenton Wright,
contrary to section four
of the Offences Against
the Person Act 1861.
Do you have anything to say?
[ Dramatic music plays ]
♪♪
I'm innocent.
[ Low rumble ]
[ Crow cawing ]
[ Doors, gates clanging ]
[ Background chatter ]
[ Chains rattling ]
[ Heavy door closes ]
In the end, you'd have to say
the will echoed the life.
Cruel,
narcissistic,
messy,
but also, oddly opaque.
[ Cigarette sizzles ]
Because even now I reach for
a desire to believe
that maybe there was love there, too.
An attempt, subconscious or not,
to to liberate us from money.
But then I remember Emily
cut from the same cloth.
I look at her, and I see him.
And then I see
Well, I tell you what I don't see.
Innocence.
In her or that piece of shit.
Pot and kettle, I hear you say.
And maybe you're right.
I mean, I did kill a man.
So, I'm not exactly innocent
myself, am I?
[ Cigarette sizzles ]
[ Blows gently ]
[ Car approaching ]
- [ Brakes squealing ]
- [ Siren wails in distance ]
I really think I should
come in with you, Rose.
Oh, no, no, sorry.
But I don't even know if
they'll let me see her.
If they do, I'd rather we
were alone, if you don't mind.
[ Car door opens ]
Call me when you're done.
Will do.
[ Dramatic music plays ]
♪♪
Afternoon.
Can I help you, Madam?
Yes, I think you can.
I want to make a confession, please.
Okay.
Erm, a confession to what exactly?
Murder.
It was me.
I killed Jack Wright.
All eyes on me ♪
[ "All Eyes on Me"
by Pigeon John plays ]
♪♪
All eyes on me ♪
♪♪
All eyes on me ♪
Living it up, gettin' started,
time to press play ♪
♪♪
Plugging it in, level 10,
till the earth shakes ♪
♪♪
But when I'm wild and I'm free ♪
No control, any doubt ♪
Mix it up, stir it,
and I pour it around ♪
Wind on my back, clouds at my feet ♪
And I'm moving to a brand-new beat ♪
All eyes on me ♪