He Had It Coming (2025) s01e07 Episode Script

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BARBARA: You buried
the evidence.
They won't find anything, right?
ELISE: Did anyone order two
absolute party animals? Whoo!
ROACH: We found this
in your room.
It's a list of 212 people,
including the names
of the two murder victims.
They're the people
I've had sex with.
If Donna is innocent, the police
will be after us again.
And it means there's still
a killer on the loose.
-(COMMOTION)
-ELISE: Ivan!
Barbara, what happened to you
that night
It was just that camel video.
MAYA: No, I'm talking about
what happened afterwards.
(MYSTERIOUS MUSIC)
(DROWSILY) Mum.
Barbara.
(DRAMATIC CHORD)
Ivan!
(LAUGHTER ECHOES)
Mum!
(DRAMATIC CHORD)
Barbara.
(DRAMATIC CHORD)
Ivan!
-(DRAMATIC CHORD)
-(GASPS)
Oh, thank God.
(BREATHES HEAVILY)
(PHONE BUZZES AND CHIMES)
(ALERT CHIMES)
-(DRAMATIC MUSIC)
-(SHOUTS ECHO)
Go back to sleep.
Sorry, Nicole.
(SOLEMN PIANO MUSIC)
Hi, Ivan.
It's Elise.
I think this one's
meant to be you,
because it has strong features,
but you're also wise
like an octopus.
I'm sorry we never got
to work on your mash-ups.
I felt like every time
we chatted, we were into
PROFESSOR: Alright, class,
gather round.
Time to bring the truth to life.
(DRAMATIC VOCAL MUSIC)
No, no, no, no, no,
no, no, no, no, no, no.
(GASPS)
-(PHONE BUZZES AND CHIMES)
-(GASPS)
Twin flames?
Oh! Um
I'm so sorry, I realise
it just happened again,
but I'll be back, I promise.
'Bye, Ivan.
(DRAMATIC VOCAL MUSIC)
ELISE: OK, don't panic,
but some archaeology students
are about to dig up
our crime scene outfits.
Also, Ivan! Why would anyone
do that to Ivan?
Poor, sweet Ivan.
Ohh, I'm fine, I'm fine.
Oh, no, I don't think
that's true.
I think I might be unravelling.
I think I might be
on the verge of
of freaking out
(PEOPLE WHISPER NEARBY)
about this top!
Ooh, I mean, who on earth gave
her the licence to be this good?
(QUIETLY) What are we gonna do?
Therapy.
What?
I'm going to a meeting
for people like me.
Maya suggested it.
(SIGHS) I know we need
to find the killer,
but I need to prioritise
my mental health.
No, you are absolutely right.
Um, I will come with you.
You don't have to.
I know.
(SIGHS)
What were you saying about
archaeology students?
Don't you worry,
I can handle it.
OK.
(DRAMATIC PERCUSSIVE MUSIC)
(ALL CHANT) Three men dead!
Three men dead!
Three men dead! Three men dead!
Three men dead!
-(WHISTLE BLOWS SHRILLY)
-(MEGAPHONE WHOOPS)
Thank you, gentlemen,
for your civility.
I have some wonderfully
exciting announcements.
-Oh, you've caught the killer?
-Almost.
We have a new detective
on the case, Officer Johnson.
-Hi.
-Oh, thank you.
And he tells me that we are
very close to making an arrest,
but more importantly
Drum roll, please.
(TAPPING NOISES)
the Federation Games
will go ahead.
-Oh, what?
-So let's focus on the positive.
We hear you, we've heard you,
and we say to you, from now on,
all forms of protesting
on campus is banned.
-PROTESTER: What?
-That's insane.
We need to be able
to have a voice.
New students don't want
to enrol in a war zone.
I love the passion, boys,
but optics-wise, it's a no.
Which is why we have
campus safety here
to escort you off to your dorms.
Go, Bucks!
No, we're gonna have a word.
This is ridiculous.
-(MEN COMPLAIN)
-Do you understand? Let go.
(PROTESTERS SHOUT)
Keep going! Don't stop!
Get off me!
JOHNSON: Oh, well,
I'm gonna go speak to the VC.
-I'll leave you to it.
-Yep.
Take a seat, Sep. Shep. Seat.
No, I'm OK.
I'm taking you off the case.
For not taking a seat?
Because you're in too deep and
you are losing your perspective.
Whose idea was this? Hmm?
Officer Hair Gel?
You need me.
What I need is your taser
and your radio.
I'll leave you some time to
fuck yourself in peace.
Hey, I got the bad guy.
McKinnon?
But I lost everything else.
My first wife left me,
my partner died in the raid -
he was 24 years old -
and McKinnon was out of jail
within 18 months.
I didn't know that.
You want to change things
and you want justice,
but you need to know
where the roof is, Shep.
You need to have a life
that is bigger than this job
or it will eat you up.
Yeah, good. Let it.
I'm sorry that
all that happened.
But I am not you, OK?
I want to give a shit,
otherwise what does that
make me?
What is the fucking point?
-(INTRIGUING MUSIC)
-(STUDENTS CHATTER)
Hi, everyone. I'm Elise.
Um, I am an Aries.
I'm from the UK, I'm here
on a scholarship and, um
I play the bagpipes.
CONVENOR: Hmm.
Yeah, that's me.
OK, fantastic.
And if you felt comfortable,
could you share what led you
to come here today?
Oh, I wasn't, um
Yeah, I'm here to support
my best friend, Barbara.
CONVENOR:
Barbara, would you be
No.
Absolutely fine.
RUBY: Perpetrators rely on us
to carry their secrets.
It's empowering
if you refuse to.
I'd love to hear more
about that.
Where's the bathroom?
Next door.
Five seconds.
(INTRIGUING PERCUSSIVE MUSIC)
CONVENOR:
Wanda, did you want to update us
on how you're feeling
after last week?
(INTRIGUING PERCUSSIVE MUSIC)
Kind of seems like a weird time
to be digging, don't you think,
with everything that's going on?
So, do you think
we'll focus on this area here,
or could you see us digging up
to that tree over there?
I guess it just depends
where the dinosaurs are, huh?
Crockery.
Sorry?
We're looking for
colonial crockery.
Crockery. Hmm.
Like a like a teapot?
Sure.
Teapot fragments would be huge.
It's really funny,
because it was only last week
that I saw some teapot fragments
on the far end of the field.
You see? Just right over there.
Maybe we should tell everyone.
-Thanks.
-Yeah.
MAUDE: Hey, team,
maybe we should dig over there.
WOMAN: Yeah, remember
I found it.
The the toilet.
ANNELIESE:
Yeah, the report form is a joke.
That is, if they even give you
the right form.
Then they file it away
and nothing happens.
That's not true.
Sometimes you get sued
by the guy's parents.
WICCAN WANDA: Anyway, the form
is not as bad as the portal.
The system for reporting
assaults on the uni website,
it asks you to write a detailed
account of your attack.
Which is traumatic enough.
And it times out
after 10 minutes,
so you have to do it again.
CONVENOR:
How about you, Barbara?
What was your
reporting experience like?
I
I didn't report it.
(WICCAN WANDA INHALES SHARPLY)
Well, if Barbara doesn't want
to use the portal,
then I guess that's
-(INTRIGUING MUSIC)
-..shit.
Uh Oh!
(ITALIAN ACCENT)
Too much coffee for me-ah.
Uh, um, I don't know why
I did that accent.
That was more of a character
than a specific region.
I'll I'll be back. Uh
(DOOR SQUEAKS OPEN)
(DOOR SLAMS)
Is Barbara in there?
Jess said that she saw you guys.
I need to speak to her.
I've always felt like there
was this wall between us.
And now I know why
she built that wall,
even though
I'm one of the good guys.
Everyone knows
I'm one of the good guys.
Rory, Barbara is on
a healing journey,
which is something
she has to do alone.
-OK.
-With me.
But I need to tell her
what I'm gonna do.
And what's that?
I'm gonna find the person
who did this to her
and I'm gonna kill him.
What are you
putting that on for?
I just remembered,
she's at the gym.
Something about
needing to get shredded.
Why?
She's perfect.
(DRAMATIC MUSIC BUILDS
AND CRESCENDOS)
(DRAMATIC VOCAL MUSIC)
Got my trowel.
Do you ever get scared
of finding something
that should remain buried?
Like a condom
instead of a teapot?
Oh! I'm so sorry about that. No.
Um, I don't know,
like, a human skull?
Anything like that,
we'd have to report.
Mm. Sure.
To the university.
To the police.
WOMAN: Yeah, yeah.
Yeah. Yeah, no, that's it.
-That's exactly what I
-Oh, my God, what are you doing?
You're gonna ruin the fragments.
Professor!
Professor, I don't think
this student's in our class.
For me, it's roller derby.
But everyone's different.
I wonder, Barbara,
do you have any tactics?
BARBARA: Tactics?
Hmm.
In terms of self-care.
(SCOFFS)
(SIGHS)
Aren't any of you angry?
WICCAN WANDA: Of course.
RUBY: But anger
doesn't serve you.
-ANNELIESE: It's corrosive.
-Right.
But what if it's the only thing
keeping you going?
What if it's, like, scaffolding?
You'll let it go.
When you're ready.
And if I don't want to?
(SCOFFS)
If the portal times you out,
then we need to change
the portal.
If the forms are redundant, then
we need to change the forms.
If this university
allows rapists to walk
This group isn't about
fixing the system.
(SIGHS HEAVILY)
It's about helping you.
I'm sick of me.
OK? I don't want to look inward.
I don't want to turn things
over and over.
And I don't want to make this
my problem.
That's fine.
We'll talk.
You'll listen.
And one day when you're ready
you can talk too.
How's that sound?
The killer wanted
the evidence compromised.
Ivan's body was covered
in vape juice, bong water.
Someone had thrown up
in the hood of his hoodie.
-Any links between the victims?
-No.
So you didn't know that
Lyle, Scott and Ivan's fathers
gave significant donations
to the university?
Did they have any priors?
My partner looked into that,
and, uh, Lyle and Ivan
were both clean.
Hm.
We studied you.
Yeah.
Your cases.
As part of our training.
Impressive.
Oh, yeah?
Never meet your heroes, I guess.
Hey, I'm going to take things
from here, OK?
So maybe you can
organise dinner?
Thai.
(QUIRKY PERCUSSIVE MUSIC)
I really want to thank you all
for being brave
and sharing your experiences
with us.
(DOOR OPENS)
(ELISE PANTS)
Where's my friend?
CONVENOR: Tell her,
when she's ready,
we'll be here.
-(SOFTLY) OK. Ugh.
-(DOOR CREAKS)
RECORDING:
This is Detective Roach.
-Leave me a message.
-(BEEP!)
Roach, I am not saying
that you were right,
but
some distance
might be helpful.
Just give me one week.
That's all I need.
And just don't balls-up the work
that I've done in the meantime.
No need to call me back.
This is Shep.
(MOUTHS WORDS SILENTLY)
(SOLEMN MUSIC)
(SOFTLY) OK.
(SIGHS)
(SIPS NOISILY)
(DEVICE BEEPS)
MAN: Go again, Delta. Over.
MAN 2: Some archaeology students
doing a dig
west of the quadrangle.
Apparently they've dug up
spray paint and masks
wrapped in a drop sheet.
Go check it out. Over.
(ENGINE STARTS)
(INTRIGUING PERCUSSIVE MUSIC)
(INDISTINCT CHATTER NEARBY)
Damn it!
-(ELISE SCREAMS)
-RORY: Ohhh!
Sorry. They're digging up one of
my top five lawns on campus.
She wasn't in the gym.
She's not answering her phone.
-I'm worried.
-Me too.
I thought you were gonna
tell me not to be worried.
Look, this is why
she didn't tell me.
-She knew I'd fall apart.
-It's not just you.
-She has a wall with me too.
-She's got a door in it for you.
-Still, I miss her.
-Even when you're with her?
-Yeah.
-Me too.
-She needs space.
-I know she says that.
But I think she's lonely.
Yeah, I think so too.
-I think she needs us.
-I think so too.
Can I hug you?
Of course, yeah.
(BARBARA SCREAMS
AND POUNDS DOOR)
(BARBARA HYPERVENTILATES)
(BARBARA POUNDS DOOR AND GRUNTS)
You OK in there?
(BARBARA BREATHES HEAVILY)
(BARBARA EXHALES) I'm fine.
Barbara?
(STALL DOOR OPENS)
Hey.
Hey.
Rough day?
My college, uh
It's that cage thing
you mentioned.
Yeah, I see it now.
I can help with that.
Yeah?
You want to chat some more?
Journal?
Metabolise our trauma?
Fuck that.
You know, Soraya Chamali says
you can't self-help your way
into being taken seriously
or treated with dignity.
You can't self-help your way
to justice.
So what do we do?
You have access to
half a million people, Barbara.
You have so much more power
than you think, girl.
Got your phone?
(TENDER MUSIC)
(PHONE UNLOCKS)
(APP BLEEPS)
(SIGHS)
How did that feel?
Painful.
But amazing.
Fuck, yeah.
That's where we start.
(OPERATIC MUSIC)
(BATS CHIRP AND SCREECH)
Well, well, well!
What do we have here?
Get the prawn crackers?
Tell me you got
the prawn crackers.
No.
What was it in the end?
In the drop cloth?
Drop cloth?
Yeah, the drop cloth
the students dug up.
Anything incriminating?
I was gonna send some officers,
but they said
you'd collected it.
(UNSETTLING MUSIC)
Yeah, well, I collected it.
And it was junk, it was nothing.
False alarm.
JOHNSON: OK.
Hey! Are you OK?
I'm good now.
OK, they dug up our evidence
from that night.
They got everything.
Did they?
Yes, we have to go to the police
right now.
We need to confess
before they come for us.
-I'm busy.
-Doing what?
Prue and I are going to lead
a feminist revolution
on my socials.
A feminist collab?
You hate that stuff.
It's the reason we didn't go to
the police in the first place.
You said that you
were apolitical.
OK, but how can we be?
Elise (SCOFFS) ..we should be
glad that we did what we did.
Elise, maybe the reason
that people don't like you
is that you're always
trying to be what they want.
What about your protest art?
Where did that go?
Why don't you try standing
for something for once?
Like, use your fucking voice.
I do use my voice.
(MELANCHOLY MUSIC)
Hey
(BARBARA GASPS SOFTLY)
Have a seat.
(DOOR CLOSES)
(HAUNTING VOCAL MUSIC)
(METALLIC CLINKING)
(DOOR SLAMS)
Barbara. Alright, let's
Get out, dickhead.
This is our space.
Whatever you are planning,
just don't.
I've got you something.
Look, I've never felt like this,
but I think that
I really like you, Prue.
Sorry, I'm just speechless.
(CHUCKLES) Yeah, I I get it.
We're so different, you know,
but maybe that's why it works.
No.
Dude, the actual no.
But you had sex with me.
Yeah, I have sex with a lot of
people, it doesn't mean shit.
But I thought that meant that
Alright, it's time for you
to fuck off!
(BOUQUET THUDS)
(SCOFFS)
(CHAIR CLATTERS)
(GASPS FEARFULLY)
(FACETIME CALL RINGS)
(APP CHIMES)
SHIRLEY: Elise.
Oh, thank God.
(ELISE SOBS)
Are you alright?
Mum, I
Oh, love.
I think I want to come home.
Oh, petal!
I'm so sorry.
(SOBS)
We spray-painted a statue.
We vandalised a plaque.
Who cares?
Everything after this night
was someone else.
Hmm, what about
before that night?
What do you mean?
Well, this is your punishment
for everything you've done.
For trying to find
the psychopath
who's murdering students
on campus?
No, for Maya.
Barbara, the men who attacked
her were going to jail.
Do you have any idea
how impossible that is?
I had everything I needed
until you defended them.
You gave them an alibi.
Because of you
the inquiry was cancelled.
I couldn't tell the truth.
Because they were your friends.
Because they were drunk.
Because it was all
a bit of harmless fun.
Because if I admitted
what they did to Maya,
I'd have to admit
what they did to me.
-(SOBS)
-(OBJECTS SHATTER)
-JARED: Arghhh!
-(PRUE SCREAMS)
(DARK MUSIC)
(OBJECTS CRASH)
(GLASS SHATTERS)
(TENSE MUSIC)
(BLADE SWISHES)
(LOCK CLICKS)
(UNSETTLING MUSIC)
I coped in the only way
I knew how.
I'm sorry now. Uh
Who are you to judge me?
I mean, what have you done?
Aside from fail
every female student on campus,
you walk on
You have no idea
what I've done to protect you.
Who do you think took down
the biggest predator on campus?
(UNSETTLING MUSIC)
ROACH:
Scott, being such a Lothario
Rapist.
I'm wondering whether Lyle
had a similar record.
Hmm.
No.
What have you done, Shep?
SHEPHERD: Never had any
complaints across my desk.
Where's the other cop?
You can't hold me here
without a charge.
Am I free to go?
I'm going.
(TASER CLICKS REPEATEDLY)
(BARBARA THUDS)
(DISTURBING MUSIC BUILDS
AND CRESCENDOS)
SONG: Will you come with me?
Come with me
The kings and queens
Are falling
Shadows, they are calling
Will you come
With me?
Come with me?
Secrets go untold
Our fate unfolds. ♪