Tommy & Tuppence (2025) s01e06 Episode Script
Episode 6
1
♪
Aunt Ada:
A cold case cracked open.
Our sleuths are getting
closer to the lion's den.
But today is All Hallows Eve,
a time where the veil
between the living and the dead
grows thin,
and ghosts from the past
creep out to haunt our present.
History repeats.
Memories stir.
And as for our detective duo,
horrors lie ahead.
And this time they might
just find themselves
going beyond
the point of no return.
Oh, wait, you can't just
go barging in there.
-What?
-He could be dangerous.
Yeah, I know, that's why we're
getting Lancaster out.
We're gonna call Draper.
Gonna ask her
to check the car registration
and see if it matches
any CCTV near Sunny Ridge.
You're not thinking straight.
Just hold on.
Tommy, don't lecture me.
Tuppence
Amos: Hey!
What are you doing here?
Hey. Hello.
Uh s-sorry.
I was just hoping
to ask Sir Philip some questions
about the Red House.
Look, I told you everything
there is to know, huh?
And his cancer's back,
so he's very fragile right now.
Okay. Uh
Yeah, I'll I'll go.
♪
Hey, listen,
just before I shoot off,
I don't suppose I could have a
cheeky look
at the Rolls-Royce, could I?
The Phantom?
I'm a huge, huge fan
of classic cars.
As long as you promise
to leave the old boy alone.
Of course. Promise.
Well, after you, then.
♪
Does Sir Philip use it much?
No, he doesn't get
out of the house most days.
So I'm guessing you
you must get to drive it
around a bit, then.
If I want.
He's pretty generous like that.
Have you, uh,
been to London recently?
What kind of question is that?
Look, I've got to get to
this party at the church.
So I think you should leave, eh?
Now.
Of course.
Hey, have a nice day, yeah?
Take it easy.
Come on, Tuppence.
Come on, Tuppence, answer your
phone for once in your life.
[ Line ringing ]
Voicemail: Please leave
a message after the tone.
Draper it is.
[ Line ringing ]
[ Mobile phone rings ]
Tommy! Hi!
I mean [clears throat]
I mean, hi, hi.
That cold case I told you about
in Sutton Chancellor.
I think it's bigger than us.
I need your help.
Draper:
What have you found?
[ Thud ]
Tommy? Tommy?
Hello?
Tommy? Tommy?
♪
I'm sorry?
Who are you?
Oh, I'm I'm sorry.
I'm
The new agency nurse.
Of course.
Yes. Yes, that's who I am.
Hello.
Hello.
Good, because I could do with
an opponent.
Right. Okay.
-Please.
-Thanks.
♪
So it's your move.
Right.
♪
Ah [chuckles] Uh
Tuppence: I'm sorry.
I'm a little bit rusty.
Chess was never really my thing.
My sister, on the other hand.
Yeah, my wife and I used to play.
She was very good.
Julia?
I heard some people mention
her name in the village.
I'm so sorry to hear
that she's no longer with us.
Not as sorry as I am.
What happened to her?
She died a few years ago.
She She became unwell
on our journey back from abroad.
Oh! I-I saw her childhood home.
Yesterday, actually.
The Red House in Birnam Hollow.
It's such a shame
that it's just sitting there.
Sir Philip: I wouldn't know.
I don't think I've been
down there for years.
But you pay Amos
to take care of it, don't you?
You seem remarkably
well informed
for an agency nurse.
It's just interesting to me
that you would take care
of a place
that must have some bad memories.
And what would they be?
Your wife's affair
with Boscowan, maybe?
♪
[ Groans ]
♪
Oh, fuck.
Oh, my gosh.
♪
[ Inhales sharply ]
♪
Where's my phone?
♪
Tuppence?
Tuppence! Hello?!
Help!
You should be careful
of village gossip.
Tittle-tattle can cost lives.
You're right.
Rumours can be dangerous.
They cost Boscowan a lot.
All that talk about taking
children definitely ruined him.
You know, it's really
not much fun playing someone
who doesn't have a clue.
I'm better at poker.
♪
[ Metal clatters ]
♪
Ah
♪
Oh, look.
I do remember
how to play this game.
Sadly, not well enough.
Checkmate.
I know what you are,
and I won't have it.
You need to leave.
And I know
exactly what you are too.
You're not gonna
get away with it.
Where is she?
Where is Mrs. Lancaster?
What
[ Muffled shouting ]
Oh!
[ Groans ]
Sir Philip! Hey!
Hey!
Tuppence.
♪
[ Groans ]
Tuppence!
[ Thudding ]
Tuppence: Tommy!
In here!
What the
Oh!
-Oh, my.
-[ Grunting ]
It was horrible.
Tommy: Are you okay?
No. No, I'm so not
fucking okay.
We need to get out of here now.
What happened to you?!
Your head.
-Oh, my God, you're bleeding.
-Don't ow!
Hit in the head.
Probably concussed.
Locked in the garage.
And, yeah, they took my phone.
Fuck.
Why did you rush in here
on your own?
-Did you see who tied you up?
-No, no.
It wasn't Sir Philip.
There was somebody else.
Sir Philip's got Lancaster.
They've left in the Phantom.
Okay, well, we have to go.
We need to find
whoever's been helping him.
♪
Wait! Tommy.
"Julia as Waterlily."
Tommy:
Oh, my gosh, we were right.
Julia Starke is Jane Lancaster.
Yeah.
So So hang on.
So, wait, Philip faked her death.
Why would he do that?
So he could shut her away
in an old people's home,
and no one would believe her
when she started murmuring
about her serial-killer husband.
You think he did it?
The kids.
♪
Tommy: And I think I know
exactly who's been helping him.
Tuppence: Amos.
I know where we need to go.
-He said he'd be at the party.
-Okay. Yeah.
If he's telling us the truth.
♪
[ Rock music playing ]
-Tommy: Stay down.
-There he is.
I mean, I think that's him
in the mask.
We can't ambush him.
He's violent.
We don't have proof.
Wait, you said he took
your phone, didn't you?
Well, I've got an idea.
Wait.
Okay, Tommy, Tommy, Tommy
Tommy.
[ Line ringing ]
[ Mobile phone ringing ]
He's not answering.
-Tommy: Who's
-[ Ringing continues ]
Who's that?
Wait a second.
Stay there, stay there.
Hey!
Hey.
Wait.
Woman: No, no!
Tommy: Wait. What?
Vicar Bly?
-I-I-I
-Where are they?
Where's Philip taken Julia?
We know Julia's Lancaster.
We know everything.
It's too late.
It's all over now.
What do you mean?
What's he done to her?
-What's he done to her?!
-Well?
How are you even a part of this?
-You're literally
-He's my brother.
-Sir Philip is your brother?
-He's sick. He needed my help.
You attacked us.
All of this for family loyalty?
How could you?
I'm calling the police.
No, please.
[ Door opens ]
[ Line ringing ]
Tuppence: Uh,
they're already here.
♪
Draper: She says the gardener
had nothing to do with it.
Other than that
she's refusing to talk.
In the meantime,
I've arrested her
for unlawful wounding of you,
Tommy,
and false imprisonment of you,
Tuppence.
I'm taking her to local station
to get booked into custody now.
-Thank you.
-Okay.
But the connection
to the cold case,
it's hard without
this Philip guy and Missus
-Lancaster.
-I mean, or Julia Starke.
-It's It's confusing.
-Right. Okay.
I'll put interest reports
on the Phantom on PNC and ANPR.
She won't get far.
And this is where I say,
"Let me handle it,"
And you guys ignore me
and go and solve it,
Which I really hope you do.
Sorry, can I ask, um,
how and why you're here?
Oh, um, yeah.
Tommy called me,
asked for my help.
Oh, okay.
And then the phone went dead,
so I asked the phone company
to pinpoint his location.
It's a bit cheeky.
Well, perks of the job.
Hmm.
Okay. See ya.
What are you doing?
Hey. Thanks.
As ever, you've been amazing.
I had to tell Merriot
I was getting my appendix out.
That's how much
I'm not supposed to be here.
Thank you.
So you really think that
this guy is the key to all this?
The missing kids?
Yeah, I do.
[ Sighs ]
Well, then just be careful.
I wouldn't want
anything happening to you.
Hey, no, I mean, I'm just
I'm just really excited
for the next book.
I should probably stop
calling you Draper.
Oh, Clem. Clemmy. Clementine.
Any of the above.
Clem? Clem Clemmy?
Clementine?
Oh, that's weird.
It's weird. Just call me Draper.
-See ya.
-Bye, Draper.
♪
[ Engine starts ]
[ Car departs ]
Tuppence:
Who does that?
Hit a man across the head
and take a woman hostage
for her serial-killer brother?
Thank God Draper turned up
when she did.
Yeah.
Good old Draper.
She's dependable.
[ Exhales slowly ]
-Sorry.
-Do you need some painkillers?
I mean, maybe you should
get your head checked out.
No, no. It's fine.
Let's just stay focused
on the case.
We're really close.
Where is it?
Here.
You are right, though.
We are We are close.
I mean, okay, look,
we we know it's Philip
who killed the kids.
But what evidence do we have?
He could be miles away
with Lancaster by now.
And until we find Philip,
we have nothing concrete
on the kids, right?
What would
actually pin it on him?
Finding the bodies.
I never want to see
one of those raises again.
Julia's precious roses.
What was it called again?
Let me just
Let me just look that up.
♪
The apothecary's rose,
also known
as the House of Lancaster rose.
So now we know
why her alias was Lancaster.
This particular flower blooms
from June to late October.
Late October.
What?
The painting.
We have to see the painting.
Tommy: January.
You said you painted it
in January, right?
Yeah.
The apothecary's rose,
they're late bloomers,
but they certainly
do not bloom in January.
So someone else painted
the roses in later, didn't they?
Yeah, they must have.
It occurred to me
that the only person
who those roses
meant something to was Julia,
and I thought that, I don't know,
perhaps she was trying to send
me a message or something.
No, she wasn't trying to
send you a message.
She was trying to send all of us
a message.
-What are you doing?
-Trust me.
♪
What are those scratches?
They're initials.
Tommy:
The children's initials.
The children, as in?
She was trying to tell us
in any way that she could
what her husband had done.
And where they were buried.
So he tried to blame me
for something he did?
[ Exhales sharply ]
Oh, my God, I'll kill him.
Yeah, join the queue.
We know where we need to go.
♪
Tommy: Oh, my God,
is that Sir Philip's car?
Tuppence: Has it crashed?
-What's happened?
-I don't know.
I'm guessing it can't be good.
What's he done to her?
Is that blood?
Come on.
♪
[ Mobile phone rings ]
Draper.
Draper: Tommy,
when I was at the station,
we got a call through.
The landlady, Fran Copleigh.
Her daughter's missing.
Have you seen her?
-Hetty's gone missing?
-What?
No, no, no, we haven't seen her.
[ Garbled speech ]
What?
I can't I can't hear you.
-Draper, the line's breaking.
-[ Tone sounds ]
-Shit!
-What did she say?
I think something terrible
is about to happen.
Come on.
♪
Tuppence: Oh, my God.
Oh, my God.
Hetty? Hetty!
Lancaster!
[ Door opens ]
They're not up here.
Tuppence: No,
they're not in here either.
Julia!
Tommy: He must be hiding them
in here somewhere.
[ Music box playing faintly ]
Shh.
Can you hear that?
It's like music.
[ Music continues ]
Tommy.
"Your poor child
in the chimney."
The fireplace.
Uh, she said
that this place had secrets.
Like the drawer in Ada's desk.
Okay. Uh
-There might be a catch?
-Yeah.
Or a spring. Look for spring
or a catch or something.
Tuppence: Okay.
♪
Tuppence, look, look.
There's a lever.
♪
[ Grunts ]
♪
[ Door opens ]
♪
Tuppence: Hetty?
Hetty! Oh!
Oh, they're here.
Oh, Hetty,
Mrs. Lancaster.
They're both here.
Okay. Okay.
-Is she okay?
-She's not responding.
Shh!
She's sleeping.
Mrs. Lancaster.
Julia. You're awake.
Okay, we need to go now.
Come on.
Help me with Hetty.
Come, come, come, come.
It's okay.
You're gonna be okay.
I'll come back for you.
[ Music box playing ]
[ Music box stops ]
Okay. I've got her.
You go get Lancaster.
-Tommy?
-[ Knocking on door ]
-Tommy: Tuppence?
-What's happened?
It won't open.
Tuppence: Hang on.
I'll pull the catch again.
Must be a catch on this side.
I can't!
I can't open it!
The catch isn't working!
Tommy:
Okay, just look after Hetty.
I'll check upstairs.
Okay.
Don't worry.
I'm gonna get us out of here.
It must be here somewhere.
You know,
when Phillip first got sick.
I had to stop dancing
to take care of him.
I had been someone.
Waterlily.
My greatest role.
Boscawen loved me as Waterlily.
Obsessed.
You see, I grew up in this house,
and it was just
sitting here all alone.
I thought,
why not use it to have some fun?
So we met here for our affair.
And then one night,
I found her snooping.
Annoying little girl.
Wait, what
what did you just say?
Oh, you were listening.
Would you like some milk?
You might as well.
Makes it very quick.
Very painless.
Susan.
She saw you here with Boscowan.
So
What did you do to her?
I did what I had to do.
At first I felt so very scared.
And then so very powerful.
It was like that rush
you get on stage
with a thousand eyes
trained on you.
But Nicolas and Helen.
Well, it was just
suddenly so very easy.
Children take what they're
given, especially from women.
Are you feeling all right?
You don't look very well.
Sir Philip found out,
and he took you away.
And he pretended
that leaving the village
was to do with the affair.
Clever, really.
He must love me very much.
But then he got sick again,
and he came back
and he faked your death.
And he gave you a new name and
shut you up in a retirement home
to keep you far away
from children.
I felt so
betrayed.
Abandoned.
I had to find a way out.
But that annoying Packford woman
who Philip had spying on me
would only sound the alarm
if I did something truly awful.
So you killed Ada.
She was such a lovely woman.
Really.
Very clever.
But then again, her hip flask.
Such a dirty habit.
♪
And then I led you both here.
I pointed out the painting.
There it is.
That's how I know it's my room.
Follow the painting.
Tugged at the heartstrings.
I wondered,
was it your poor child
in the chimney?
I told them what I knew.
They wouldn't believe me.
Why won't they come?
So you led us here
not to help you, but to
to applaud you.
Yes.
What's the point
of going to my grave a no-one
when I could finally be somebody?
So you you want people
to know that you did this?
My plan was working.
Until his sister got involved,
as ever.
Vicar Bly,
she attacked us at the house
so Philip could get you away.
When they took me from the house,
I realised that Philip
was finally going to call an end
to the whole thing
bring me here, and kill me.
Tommy:
But he didn't manage it.
The car on the verge.
It was his blood on the torch.
Lancaster: I just needed
to delay him a little.
I needed time
for you to catch up to me.
I took my chance and ran for it.
But there she was,
watching like the first time.
Seeing something
she shouldn't have.
Another greedy little girl
wanting to eat
all her sweets at once,
all washed down
with a nice big glass of milk.
Tommy: Ohh, I just need
[ Mumbling ]
♪
And now it's your turn.
-Hetty.
-I want my mummy.
Oh! You're gonna be okay.
You're gonna be okay.
You need to get out.
Now!
Tuppence: Amos.
Oh, thank God!
Will you take her?
Is she okay?
What happened?
I saw the smoke.
-I've got to go back in there.
-No, no, you can't.
It's on fire.
What?
Amos:
You can't go back in there.
Watch me.
Tommy!
-Tommy!
-It's gonna be okay.
-Julia, stop!
-Philip.
You need to get out.
This is between me and her.
Get off.
What about everybody else?
Huh?
What about the families
of those children?
They deserve closure.
You could have given them peace,
but you hid her.
She's my wife.
I love her.
That's not love!
You did something terrible!
You trapped each other
inside a lie.
Hetty could have died tonight.
Sir Philip: I didn't know
the child was in here.
I-I wouldn't have started
the fire.
The fire?
I want us to go together,
my darling.
I can't keep fighting anymore.
It's time.
Together? Really?
Of course.
Always.
Tuppence: Tommy!
-It was her. It was Lancaster.
-What happened?
-Tommy? Tommy.
-Mm?
Tuppence: Okay.
Come on, come on.
-We have to go.
-Tommy: [ Coughs ]
Tuppence: Come on.
Tommy: The fire
-Tuppence: Come on. Come on.
-No, no. [ Coughs ]
Tuppence: We have to go.
Put your
-Tommy: [ Coughs ]
-We don't have time, okay?
♪
Almost there.
Just this way.
-I just, uh
-No, no, no! No, no, no, no!
Tommy! No! No!
Tommy!
[ Coughing ]
Tommy!
Tommy, Wake up!
[ Grunting ]
Tommy?
I'm not gonna leave you, okay,
because this is it.
This is it, Tommy.
Tommy, it's me and you.
It's Tommy and Tuppence, okay?
And I'm really happy
that life threw us together.
I am, and I
I'm never happier than
when I'm with you and I just
Please. I just want you to know,
all I want is you, okay?
I just want you.
I just want you, okay? So
Come on.
I'm not gonna give up.
-[ Grunts ]
-[ Coughs ]
-Tommy.
-[ Coughs ]
Tommy
[ Flames whoosh ]
Okay, come on.
Come on.
Tommy: [ Coughing ]
Tuppence: Oh!
Let's get you
-[ Grunting ]
-[ Coughing ]
[ Timbers crashing ]
[ Both coughing ]
[ Sirens wailing ]
♪
Draper: Tommy!
Are you okay?
Are you hurt? Are you okay?
No, I'm fine.
Tommy, can you hear me?
Can you hear me?
-Yeah.
-Where are you hurt?
Just deep breaths.
Take deep breaths.
And the children
They're here, aren't they?
So I've been tending
to a graveyard all these years.
It's horrible.
Well, maybe it meant
they weren't alone.
Someone was caring for them
at least.
Yeah.
♪
Aunt Ada: And so the long night
of unspeakable horror is over.
Order is restored,
and evil comes
to its final resolution.
[ Sirens wailing ]
But whilst the past
is put to rest,
the future remains uncertain.
And as our beloved
detectives return home
bruised and battered,
they're left wondering
whether
Blunts Brilliant Detectives
has also come to an end.
♪
I mean, it just sounds horrific
and even more of a reason
to get out of here.
You need a proper break.
And, hey, if a 12-hour
movie marathon on the plane
doesn't do it,
I don't know what will.
Hey.
Hey, Tuppence.
I'm sorry.
I'm just
It's okay.
It's just nerves.
It's not nerves.
I'm sorry, it's not
What?
What's going on?
Oh, God, I can't keep
I can't keep avoiding things
'cause they're scary and hard.
I can't I just
can't seem to tell people
what I actually want.
And what what do you want?
[ Exhales sharply ]
I want to stay here.
I really want to keep doing this.
And you want to be with him?
I
I just want I want to see
if we have a chance.
I'm so sorry.
[ Sobs ]
-I'm sorry.
-Hey, hey, hey.
Okay. That's okay.
Oh, no
I mean, it fucking hurts, but
You made me feel like you
like you chose me.
I know.
I was really unfair.
I'm just
I'm so I'm
♪
[ Mobile phone chimes ]
It's the Uber.
Oh, my God.
I don't even
So, last chance.
Come with me.
Please come with me.
And her plane leaves today?
Just like that, after everything?
Yeah, just like that.
Albert: Hmm.
You know how
you've just uncovered
a horrific
serial-killer cold case
for which you will be getting
intense therapy, please?
Mm-hmm.
Well
wasn't that really just about
a guy that couldn't let go
and how that ruined his life
and the lives of everyone
within a five-mile radius?
Tommy:
Hang on a minute.
Are you trying to tell me
that desperately clinging onto
a codependent past relationship
isn't the best idea?
Well, that, yes, but
Also there are plenty of fish
in the very full sea.
You deserve to dive right in.
And now I'm gonna stop
mixing my metaphors
and go and mix some drinks.
Thank you, Albert.
And with that in mind,
you have a visitor.
Hi.
Um, I was on my way to work,
but I thought I could milk the
appendix thing for one more day
and that you might need
some company.
And, um, chocolate.
[ Knocking ]
Oh, fuck.
[ Sighs ]
So, um, you didn't go, then, huh?
If this is a lecture,
it's really not the right time.
I, um
I actually just
wanted to say to you
that what you did at Blunt
that what you did at Blunt
at first seemed crazy,
but you were actually,
surprisingly,
almost quite good at it.
And brave.
Sorry?
Are you about to cry as well?
What's happening?
And I'm proud of you.
Now, kindly but firmly,
get the fuck out of my house
and sort your life out now,
please, okay?
Yeah?
Yeah.
[ Laughs ]
-Yeah.
-Yeah.
[ Mobile phone vibrates ]
Hello?
Okay, um
Leave it with me.
♪
You know there was nothing more
you could have done, right,
with Ada?
Just in case
you were beating yourself up.
No, I know.
I'm fine.
Oh, shit.
I'm so sorry.
No, I'll do it.
No, it's okay.
I'm not fine, actually.
Um, don't know how
I'm gonna move on from this.
From all of it.
Hey.
It's okay.
Come here.
[ Sighs ]
♪
-Um
-Tuppence.
Your flight?
Yeah.
I'm not going back to America.
Um, I just I didn't want
to leave
Blunts.
The business.
I love it.
I think I'm good at it.
Um, I would like to keep
keep doing it, keep
maybe I wondered if you would
maybe want to keep doing it too.
Yeah. I-I, uh
-Of course.
-Cool. Great.
-Of course.
-Thank yeah.
I I should probably go.
No, it's okay.
You don't need to.
You know where I am.
♪
What about Julius?
That's over, properly.
♪
Sorry to hear that.
Yeah, me too.
But I really like my life here.
He told me that he thought
I was destined for greatness.
And I figure I can't really
I can only really do that here
as part of something bigger.
Well, I am
Yeah, I'm really happy
that you realised what you want
and that you and I
can be together again.
We can work together.
♪
Am I really too late, Tommy?
Tuppence, I
[ Knock on door ]
[ Door opens ]
Look sharp.
I got a customer for you.
Constance, what the fuck
are you doing here?
-Now is not the time.
-This can't wait.
-What are you talking about?
-Tuppence, listen, okay?
The government
needs your services.
Or at least the services of those
who would never, ever be
mistaken for professional spies.
And I thought, who better?
Sorry, what?
What's going on?
I have a mission for you,
should you choose to accept,
but I do need you
to make a decision now.
So are you in?
The both of you?
Right.
Shall we?
Aunt Ada: Ooh, good!
It seems our sleuthing twosome
are back together,
and there will be
new dastardly mysteries
to uncover on the horizon,
as well as a secret or two
of my own.
Now, if they could only solve
the biggest conundrum of all
whether they should be more
♪
♪
Aunt Ada:
A cold case cracked open.
Our sleuths are getting
closer to the lion's den.
But today is All Hallows Eve,
a time where the veil
between the living and the dead
grows thin,
and ghosts from the past
creep out to haunt our present.
History repeats.
Memories stir.
And as for our detective duo,
horrors lie ahead.
And this time they might
just find themselves
going beyond
the point of no return.
Oh, wait, you can't just
go barging in there.
-What?
-He could be dangerous.
Yeah, I know, that's why we're
getting Lancaster out.
We're gonna call Draper.
Gonna ask her
to check the car registration
and see if it matches
any CCTV near Sunny Ridge.
You're not thinking straight.
Just hold on.
Tommy, don't lecture me.
Tuppence
Amos: Hey!
What are you doing here?
Hey. Hello.
Uh s-sorry.
I was just hoping
to ask Sir Philip some questions
about the Red House.
Look, I told you everything
there is to know, huh?
And his cancer's back,
so he's very fragile right now.
Okay. Uh
Yeah, I'll I'll go.
♪
Hey, listen,
just before I shoot off,
I don't suppose I could have a
cheeky look
at the Rolls-Royce, could I?
The Phantom?
I'm a huge, huge fan
of classic cars.
As long as you promise
to leave the old boy alone.
Of course. Promise.
Well, after you, then.
♪
Does Sir Philip use it much?
No, he doesn't get
out of the house most days.
So I'm guessing you
you must get to drive it
around a bit, then.
If I want.
He's pretty generous like that.
Have you, uh,
been to London recently?
What kind of question is that?
Look, I've got to get to
this party at the church.
So I think you should leave, eh?
Now.
Of course.
Hey, have a nice day, yeah?
Take it easy.
Come on, Tuppence.
Come on, Tuppence, answer your
phone for once in your life.
[ Line ringing ]
Voicemail: Please leave
a message after the tone.
Draper it is.
[ Line ringing ]
[ Mobile phone rings ]
Tommy! Hi!
I mean [clears throat]
I mean, hi, hi.
That cold case I told you about
in Sutton Chancellor.
I think it's bigger than us.
I need your help.
Draper:
What have you found?
[ Thud ]
Tommy? Tommy?
Hello?
Tommy? Tommy?
♪
I'm sorry?
Who are you?
Oh, I'm I'm sorry.
I'm
The new agency nurse.
Of course.
Yes. Yes, that's who I am.
Hello.
Hello.
Good, because I could do with
an opponent.
Right. Okay.
-Please.
-Thanks.
♪
So it's your move.
Right.
♪
Ah [chuckles] Uh
Tuppence: I'm sorry.
I'm a little bit rusty.
Chess was never really my thing.
My sister, on the other hand.
Yeah, my wife and I used to play.
She was very good.
Julia?
I heard some people mention
her name in the village.
I'm so sorry to hear
that she's no longer with us.
Not as sorry as I am.
What happened to her?
She died a few years ago.
She She became unwell
on our journey back from abroad.
Oh! I-I saw her childhood home.
Yesterday, actually.
The Red House in Birnam Hollow.
It's such a shame
that it's just sitting there.
Sir Philip: I wouldn't know.
I don't think I've been
down there for years.
But you pay Amos
to take care of it, don't you?
You seem remarkably
well informed
for an agency nurse.
It's just interesting to me
that you would take care
of a place
that must have some bad memories.
And what would they be?
Your wife's affair
with Boscowan, maybe?
♪
[ Groans ]
♪
Oh, fuck.
Oh, my gosh.
♪
[ Inhales sharply ]
♪
Where's my phone?
♪
Tuppence?
Tuppence! Hello?!
Help!
You should be careful
of village gossip.
Tittle-tattle can cost lives.
You're right.
Rumours can be dangerous.
They cost Boscowan a lot.
All that talk about taking
children definitely ruined him.
You know, it's really
not much fun playing someone
who doesn't have a clue.
I'm better at poker.
♪
[ Metal clatters ]
♪
Ah
♪
Oh, look.
I do remember
how to play this game.
Sadly, not well enough.
Checkmate.
I know what you are,
and I won't have it.
You need to leave.
And I know
exactly what you are too.
You're not gonna
get away with it.
Where is she?
Where is Mrs. Lancaster?
What
[ Muffled shouting ]
Oh!
[ Groans ]
Sir Philip! Hey!
Hey!
Tuppence.
♪
[ Groans ]
Tuppence!
[ Thudding ]
Tuppence: Tommy!
In here!
What the
Oh!
-Oh, my.
-[ Grunting ]
It was horrible.
Tommy: Are you okay?
No. No, I'm so not
fucking okay.
We need to get out of here now.
What happened to you?!
Your head.
-Oh, my God, you're bleeding.
-Don't ow!
Hit in the head.
Probably concussed.
Locked in the garage.
And, yeah, they took my phone.
Fuck.
Why did you rush in here
on your own?
-Did you see who tied you up?
-No, no.
It wasn't Sir Philip.
There was somebody else.
Sir Philip's got Lancaster.
They've left in the Phantom.
Okay, well, we have to go.
We need to find
whoever's been helping him.
♪
Wait! Tommy.
"Julia as Waterlily."
Tommy:
Oh, my gosh, we were right.
Julia Starke is Jane Lancaster.
Yeah.
So So hang on.
So, wait, Philip faked her death.
Why would he do that?
So he could shut her away
in an old people's home,
and no one would believe her
when she started murmuring
about her serial-killer husband.
You think he did it?
The kids.
♪
Tommy: And I think I know
exactly who's been helping him.
Tuppence: Amos.
I know where we need to go.
-He said he'd be at the party.
-Okay. Yeah.
If he's telling us the truth.
♪
[ Rock music playing ]
-Tommy: Stay down.
-There he is.
I mean, I think that's him
in the mask.
We can't ambush him.
He's violent.
We don't have proof.
Wait, you said he took
your phone, didn't you?
Well, I've got an idea.
Wait.
Okay, Tommy, Tommy, Tommy
Tommy.
[ Line ringing ]
[ Mobile phone ringing ]
He's not answering.
-Tommy: Who's
-[ Ringing continues ]
Who's that?
Wait a second.
Stay there, stay there.
Hey!
Hey.
Wait.
Woman: No, no!
Tommy: Wait. What?
Vicar Bly?
-I-I-I
-Where are they?
Where's Philip taken Julia?
We know Julia's Lancaster.
We know everything.
It's too late.
It's all over now.
What do you mean?
What's he done to her?
-What's he done to her?!
-Well?
How are you even a part of this?
-You're literally
-He's my brother.
-Sir Philip is your brother?
-He's sick. He needed my help.
You attacked us.
All of this for family loyalty?
How could you?
I'm calling the police.
No, please.
[ Door opens ]
[ Line ringing ]
Tuppence: Uh,
they're already here.
♪
Draper: She says the gardener
had nothing to do with it.
Other than that
she's refusing to talk.
In the meantime,
I've arrested her
for unlawful wounding of you,
Tommy,
and false imprisonment of you,
Tuppence.
I'm taking her to local station
to get booked into custody now.
-Thank you.
-Okay.
But the connection
to the cold case,
it's hard without
this Philip guy and Missus
-Lancaster.
-I mean, or Julia Starke.
-It's It's confusing.
-Right. Okay.
I'll put interest reports
on the Phantom on PNC and ANPR.
She won't get far.
And this is where I say,
"Let me handle it,"
And you guys ignore me
and go and solve it,
Which I really hope you do.
Sorry, can I ask, um,
how and why you're here?
Oh, um, yeah.
Tommy called me,
asked for my help.
Oh, okay.
And then the phone went dead,
so I asked the phone company
to pinpoint his location.
It's a bit cheeky.
Well, perks of the job.
Hmm.
Okay. See ya.
What are you doing?
Hey. Thanks.
As ever, you've been amazing.
I had to tell Merriot
I was getting my appendix out.
That's how much
I'm not supposed to be here.
Thank you.
So you really think that
this guy is the key to all this?
The missing kids?
Yeah, I do.
[ Sighs ]
Well, then just be careful.
I wouldn't want
anything happening to you.
Hey, no, I mean, I'm just
I'm just really excited
for the next book.
I should probably stop
calling you Draper.
Oh, Clem. Clemmy. Clementine.
Any of the above.
Clem? Clem Clemmy?
Clementine?
Oh, that's weird.
It's weird. Just call me Draper.
-See ya.
-Bye, Draper.
♪
[ Engine starts ]
[ Car departs ]
Tuppence:
Who does that?
Hit a man across the head
and take a woman hostage
for her serial-killer brother?
Thank God Draper turned up
when she did.
Yeah.
Good old Draper.
She's dependable.
[ Exhales slowly ]
-Sorry.
-Do you need some painkillers?
I mean, maybe you should
get your head checked out.
No, no. It's fine.
Let's just stay focused
on the case.
We're really close.
Where is it?
Here.
You are right, though.
We are We are close.
I mean, okay, look,
we we know it's Philip
who killed the kids.
But what evidence do we have?
He could be miles away
with Lancaster by now.
And until we find Philip,
we have nothing concrete
on the kids, right?
What would
actually pin it on him?
Finding the bodies.
I never want to see
one of those raises again.
Julia's precious roses.
What was it called again?
Let me just
Let me just look that up.
♪
The apothecary's rose,
also known
as the House of Lancaster rose.
So now we know
why her alias was Lancaster.
This particular flower blooms
from June to late October.
Late October.
What?
The painting.
We have to see the painting.
Tommy: January.
You said you painted it
in January, right?
Yeah.
The apothecary's rose,
they're late bloomers,
but they certainly
do not bloom in January.
So someone else painted
the roses in later, didn't they?
Yeah, they must have.
It occurred to me
that the only person
who those roses
meant something to was Julia,
and I thought that, I don't know,
perhaps she was trying to send
me a message or something.
No, she wasn't trying to
send you a message.
She was trying to send all of us
a message.
-What are you doing?
-Trust me.
♪
What are those scratches?
They're initials.
Tommy:
The children's initials.
The children, as in?
She was trying to tell us
in any way that she could
what her husband had done.
And where they were buried.
So he tried to blame me
for something he did?
[ Exhales sharply ]
Oh, my God, I'll kill him.
Yeah, join the queue.
We know where we need to go.
♪
Tommy: Oh, my God,
is that Sir Philip's car?
Tuppence: Has it crashed?
-What's happened?
-I don't know.
I'm guessing it can't be good.
What's he done to her?
Is that blood?
Come on.
♪
[ Mobile phone rings ]
Draper.
Draper: Tommy,
when I was at the station,
we got a call through.
The landlady, Fran Copleigh.
Her daughter's missing.
Have you seen her?
-Hetty's gone missing?
-What?
No, no, no, we haven't seen her.
[ Garbled speech ]
What?
I can't I can't hear you.
-Draper, the line's breaking.
-[ Tone sounds ]
-Shit!
-What did she say?
I think something terrible
is about to happen.
Come on.
♪
Tuppence: Oh, my God.
Oh, my God.
Hetty? Hetty!
Lancaster!
[ Door opens ]
They're not up here.
Tuppence: No,
they're not in here either.
Julia!
Tommy: He must be hiding them
in here somewhere.
[ Music box playing faintly ]
Shh.
Can you hear that?
It's like music.
[ Music continues ]
Tommy.
"Your poor child
in the chimney."
The fireplace.
Uh, she said
that this place had secrets.
Like the drawer in Ada's desk.
Okay. Uh
-There might be a catch?
-Yeah.
Or a spring. Look for spring
or a catch or something.
Tuppence: Okay.
♪
Tuppence, look, look.
There's a lever.
♪
[ Grunts ]
♪
[ Door opens ]
♪
Tuppence: Hetty?
Hetty! Oh!
Oh, they're here.
Oh, Hetty,
Mrs. Lancaster.
They're both here.
Okay. Okay.
-Is she okay?
-She's not responding.
Shh!
She's sleeping.
Mrs. Lancaster.
Julia. You're awake.
Okay, we need to go now.
Come on.
Help me with Hetty.
Come, come, come, come.
It's okay.
You're gonna be okay.
I'll come back for you.
[ Music box playing ]
[ Music box stops ]
Okay. I've got her.
You go get Lancaster.
-Tommy?
-[ Knocking on door ]
-Tommy: Tuppence?
-What's happened?
It won't open.
Tuppence: Hang on.
I'll pull the catch again.
Must be a catch on this side.
I can't!
I can't open it!
The catch isn't working!
Tommy:
Okay, just look after Hetty.
I'll check upstairs.
Okay.
Don't worry.
I'm gonna get us out of here.
It must be here somewhere.
You know,
when Phillip first got sick.
I had to stop dancing
to take care of him.
I had been someone.
Waterlily.
My greatest role.
Boscawen loved me as Waterlily.
Obsessed.
You see, I grew up in this house,
and it was just
sitting here all alone.
I thought,
why not use it to have some fun?
So we met here for our affair.
And then one night,
I found her snooping.
Annoying little girl.
Wait, what
what did you just say?
Oh, you were listening.
Would you like some milk?
You might as well.
Makes it very quick.
Very painless.
Susan.
She saw you here with Boscowan.
So
What did you do to her?
I did what I had to do.
At first I felt so very scared.
And then so very powerful.
It was like that rush
you get on stage
with a thousand eyes
trained on you.
But Nicolas and Helen.
Well, it was just
suddenly so very easy.
Children take what they're
given, especially from women.
Are you feeling all right?
You don't look very well.
Sir Philip found out,
and he took you away.
And he pretended
that leaving the village
was to do with the affair.
Clever, really.
He must love me very much.
But then he got sick again,
and he came back
and he faked your death.
And he gave you a new name and
shut you up in a retirement home
to keep you far away
from children.
I felt so
betrayed.
Abandoned.
I had to find a way out.
But that annoying Packford woman
who Philip had spying on me
would only sound the alarm
if I did something truly awful.
So you killed Ada.
She was such a lovely woman.
Really.
Very clever.
But then again, her hip flask.
Such a dirty habit.
♪
And then I led you both here.
I pointed out the painting.
There it is.
That's how I know it's my room.
Follow the painting.
Tugged at the heartstrings.
I wondered,
was it your poor child
in the chimney?
I told them what I knew.
They wouldn't believe me.
Why won't they come?
So you led us here
not to help you, but to
to applaud you.
Yes.
What's the point
of going to my grave a no-one
when I could finally be somebody?
So you you want people
to know that you did this?
My plan was working.
Until his sister got involved,
as ever.
Vicar Bly,
she attacked us at the house
so Philip could get you away.
When they took me from the house,
I realised that Philip
was finally going to call an end
to the whole thing
bring me here, and kill me.
Tommy:
But he didn't manage it.
The car on the verge.
It was his blood on the torch.
Lancaster: I just needed
to delay him a little.
I needed time
for you to catch up to me.
I took my chance and ran for it.
But there she was,
watching like the first time.
Seeing something
she shouldn't have.
Another greedy little girl
wanting to eat
all her sweets at once,
all washed down
with a nice big glass of milk.
Tommy: Ohh, I just need
[ Mumbling ]
♪
And now it's your turn.
-Hetty.
-I want my mummy.
Oh! You're gonna be okay.
You're gonna be okay.
You need to get out.
Now!
Tuppence: Amos.
Oh, thank God!
Will you take her?
Is she okay?
What happened?
I saw the smoke.
-I've got to go back in there.
-No, no, you can't.
It's on fire.
What?
Amos:
You can't go back in there.
Watch me.
Tommy!
-Tommy!
-It's gonna be okay.
-Julia, stop!
-Philip.
You need to get out.
This is between me and her.
Get off.
What about everybody else?
Huh?
What about the families
of those children?
They deserve closure.
You could have given them peace,
but you hid her.
She's my wife.
I love her.
That's not love!
You did something terrible!
You trapped each other
inside a lie.
Hetty could have died tonight.
Sir Philip: I didn't know
the child was in here.
I-I wouldn't have started
the fire.
The fire?
I want us to go together,
my darling.
I can't keep fighting anymore.
It's time.
Together? Really?
Of course.
Always.
Tuppence: Tommy!
-It was her. It was Lancaster.
-What happened?
-Tommy? Tommy.
-Mm?
Tuppence: Okay.
Come on, come on.
-We have to go.
-Tommy: [ Coughs ]
Tuppence: Come on.
Tommy: The fire
-Tuppence: Come on. Come on.
-No, no. [ Coughs ]
Tuppence: We have to go.
Put your
-Tommy: [ Coughs ]
-We don't have time, okay?
♪
Almost there.
Just this way.
-I just, uh
-No, no, no! No, no, no, no!
Tommy! No! No!
Tommy!
[ Coughing ]
Tommy!
Tommy, Wake up!
[ Grunting ]
Tommy?
I'm not gonna leave you, okay,
because this is it.
This is it, Tommy.
Tommy, it's me and you.
It's Tommy and Tuppence, okay?
And I'm really happy
that life threw us together.
I am, and I
I'm never happier than
when I'm with you and I just
Please. I just want you to know,
all I want is you, okay?
I just want you.
I just want you, okay? So
Come on.
I'm not gonna give up.
-[ Grunts ]
-[ Coughs ]
-Tommy.
-[ Coughs ]
Tommy
[ Flames whoosh ]
Okay, come on.
Come on.
Tommy: [ Coughing ]
Tuppence: Oh!
Let's get you
-[ Grunting ]
-[ Coughing ]
[ Timbers crashing ]
[ Both coughing ]
[ Sirens wailing ]
♪
Draper: Tommy!
Are you okay?
Are you hurt? Are you okay?
No, I'm fine.
Tommy, can you hear me?
Can you hear me?
-Yeah.
-Where are you hurt?
Just deep breaths.
Take deep breaths.
And the children
They're here, aren't they?
So I've been tending
to a graveyard all these years.
It's horrible.
Well, maybe it meant
they weren't alone.
Someone was caring for them
at least.
Yeah.
♪
Aunt Ada: And so the long night
of unspeakable horror is over.
Order is restored,
and evil comes
to its final resolution.
[ Sirens wailing ]
But whilst the past
is put to rest,
the future remains uncertain.
And as our beloved
detectives return home
bruised and battered,
they're left wondering
whether
Blunts Brilliant Detectives
has also come to an end.
♪
I mean, it just sounds horrific
and even more of a reason
to get out of here.
You need a proper break.
And, hey, if a 12-hour
movie marathon on the plane
doesn't do it,
I don't know what will.
Hey.
Hey, Tuppence.
I'm sorry.
I'm just
It's okay.
It's just nerves.
It's not nerves.
I'm sorry, it's not
What?
What's going on?
Oh, God, I can't keep
I can't keep avoiding things
'cause they're scary and hard.
I can't I just
can't seem to tell people
what I actually want.
And what what do you want?
[ Exhales sharply ]
I want to stay here.
I really want to keep doing this.
And you want to be with him?
I
I just want I want to see
if we have a chance.
I'm so sorry.
[ Sobs ]
-I'm sorry.
-Hey, hey, hey.
Okay. That's okay.
Oh, no
I mean, it fucking hurts, but
You made me feel like you
like you chose me.
I know.
I was really unfair.
I'm just
I'm so I'm
♪
[ Mobile phone chimes ]
It's the Uber.
Oh, my God.
I don't even
So, last chance.
Come with me.
Please come with me.
And her plane leaves today?
Just like that, after everything?
Yeah, just like that.
Albert: Hmm.
You know how
you've just uncovered
a horrific
serial-killer cold case
for which you will be getting
intense therapy, please?
Mm-hmm.
Well
wasn't that really just about
a guy that couldn't let go
and how that ruined his life
and the lives of everyone
within a five-mile radius?
Tommy:
Hang on a minute.
Are you trying to tell me
that desperately clinging onto
a codependent past relationship
isn't the best idea?
Well, that, yes, but
Also there are plenty of fish
in the very full sea.
You deserve to dive right in.
And now I'm gonna stop
mixing my metaphors
and go and mix some drinks.
Thank you, Albert.
And with that in mind,
you have a visitor.
Hi.
Um, I was on my way to work,
but I thought I could milk the
appendix thing for one more day
and that you might need
some company.
And, um, chocolate.
[ Knocking ]
Oh, fuck.
[ Sighs ]
So, um, you didn't go, then, huh?
If this is a lecture,
it's really not the right time.
I, um
I actually just
wanted to say to you
that what you did at Blunt
that what you did at Blunt
at first seemed crazy,
but you were actually,
surprisingly,
almost quite good at it.
And brave.
Sorry?
Are you about to cry as well?
What's happening?
And I'm proud of you.
Now, kindly but firmly,
get the fuck out of my house
and sort your life out now,
please, okay?
Yeah?
Yeah.
[ Laughs ]
-Yeah.
-Yeah.
[ Mobile phone vibrates ]
Hello?
Okay, um
Leave it with me.
♪
You know there was nothing more
you could have done, right,
with Ada?
Just in case
you were beating yourself up.
No, I know.
I'm fine.
Oh, shit.
I'm so sorry.
No, I'll do it.
No, it's okay.
I'm not fine, actually.
Um, don't know how
I'm gonna move on from this.
From all of it.
Hey.
It's okay.
Come here.
[ Sighs ]
♪
-Um
-Tuppence.
Your flight?
Yeah.
I'm not going back to America.
Um, I just I didn't want
to leave
Blunts.
The business.
I love it.
I think I'm good at it.
Um, I would like to keep
keep doing it, keep
maybe I wondered if you would
maybe want to keep doing it too.
Yeah. I-I, uh
-Of course.
-Cool. Great.
-Of course.
-Thank yeah.
I I should probably go.
No, it's okay.
You don't need to.
You know where I am.
♪
What about Julius?
That's over, properly.
♪
Sorry to hear that.
Yeah, me too.
But I really like my life here.
He told me that he thought
I was destined for greatness.
And I figure I can't really
I can only really do that here
as part of something bigger.
Well, I am
Yeah, I'm really happy
that you realised what you want
and that you and I
can be together again.
We can work together.
♪
Am I really too late, Tommy?
Tuppence, I
[ Knock on door ]
[ Door opens ]
Look sharp.
I got a customer for you.
Constance, what the fuck
are you doing here?
-Now is not the time.
-This can't wait.
-What are you talking about?
-Tuppence, listen, okay?
The government
needs your services.
Or at least the services of those
who would never, ever be
mistaken for professional spies.
And I thought, who better?
Sorry, what?
What's going on?
I have a mission for you,
should you choose to accept,
but I do need you
to make a decision now.
So are you in?
The both of you?
Right.
Shall we?
Aunt Ada: Ooh, good!
It seems our sleuthing twosome
are back together,
and there will be
new dastardly mysteries
to uncover on the horizon,
as well as a secret or two
of my own.
Now, if they could only solve
the biggest conundrum of all
whether they should be more
♪