Patience (2025) s02e02 Episode Script

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ORGAN MUSIC
This programme contains violent
scenes from the start and throughout
DISTANT CLATTERING
Professor Greville?
Are you all right?
I'm fine.
I'm going back to the faculty.
And don't just stand there,
get back to rehearsal, you need it.
It's like listening to a cat,
vomiting.
ORGAN RATTLES
- QUIETLY:
- Helen?
Helen!
Oh, my God!
Oh, my God, someone help, please!
Someone help!
ROCK BAND FINISHES SONG
OK, that's lunch.
That was good.
-Bye.
-Bye.
-Hi.
-Hello.
You look nice.
Thank you. You look sweaty.
Yeah, we were proper going for it.
Hey, you're Patience, right?
Yes, hello.
Patience Evans.
Hello, Patience Evans.
-This is Violet, Chuong and Rami.
-Hey.
Are you coming to
our gig on Friday?
-I'm I didn't I'm not
-It doesn't matter.
It's just in a crappy pub.
-Oi, it's our only booking.
-True.
OK, let's shoot. Have a nice lunch,
you two.
-Bye. -Bye.
-See you.
Sorry, gigs aren't really my thing.
No, no, don't worry, it's fine.
So, lunch.
I wasn't sure what you'd fancy
but I booked us a place in
the Shambles.
-I
-PHONE CHIMES
- WHISPERS:
- Oh, you are kidding me.
POLICE RADIO CHATTER
I'm really sorry about this.
-We'll get lunch another time, yeah?
-Yeah.
-Yeah. All right, bye.
-Bye.
POLICE RADIO CHATTER
Ah, Miss Evans, you're here too.
-Come on then.
-Um
I'm not sure I'm supposed to be
here.
Well, that's a bust.
Sorry, I dragged you in
for nothing.
-Oh, nothing?
-Yeah, it was an accident.
Clearly the woman tripped,
fell, and fractured her
occipital bone.
She'd have died
the minute she hit the ground.
The minute she hit the ground?
Are you sure?
Absolutely.
There's a temporal fracture at
the base of her skull.
Look, there's bleeding from
her ear.
Mm, no.
Sorry?
No, the bleeding wasn't from
the fracture,
that must've happened earlier.
What makes you think that?
Well, look,
the blood on her left hand.
She wouldn't have been able
to touch her ear
if she died before the fall.
Ah.
Interesting hypothesis.
BACKGROUND CHATTER
Sorry, I just I've got to go.
So, what have we got here?
Well, at first glance,
one might think it was an accident,
but another convincing
possibility is that
the victim was dead before
the fall.
Can you think of anyone who might
want to hurt Helen?
No-one.
No, no, everyone liked her.
And you were both music
students, yeah?
Nice place to practise.
A lot of the students rehearse here.
Especially when we've got
a big concert or something.
Oh, Vanessa.
I am so sorry.
I would've come sooner,
I got stuck at the doctor's.
DI Monroe, City of York Police.
This is DS Hunter.
You are?
Oh, Bernie Hudson.
I'm Vanessa's pastoral supervisor.
And my unofficial therapist.
Can be tough on our students.
They work very hard.
Yeah, I guess it's pretty
competitive.
Oh, it's not easy on these kids.
You have to really want it.
So, can you access it all here?
Yeah, I get all the
rehearsal recordings.
So, what, are you police?
That's where I work, yeah.
Got it.
Here we go.
ORGAN PLAYING
Oh, yeah.
Wait, stop, can you
RECORDING PAUSES
-Sorry, can you rewind that please?
-Why?
Well, I heard some talking under
the music.
-I don't think so.
-RECORDING RESUMES
Yeah, there. There.
RECORDING STOPS
Can you isolate that, please?
It's not easy, there are 42 mics.
I'll give it a go.
- WHISPERS:
- Sorry.
I understand you have recordings
of the students' organ
rehearsals, yeah?
I'm DI Monroe, York City Police.
Yeah, I'm already working on it
for your colleague.
What do you think you're
doing, Evans?
I just I thought I heard something
odd on the recording
How the hell did you hear that?
I mean, I have hyperacusis,
so sometimes I can hear things
that others can't.
-Right, what have you heard?
-Well, this.
RECORDING RESUMES
MAN: - Get out, Helen!
Do that again and I'll kill you!
That's John Greville.
-Vanessa's professor?
-Yeah.
What, he was there?
He was at the rehearsal?
It sounds like it.
That means he left the crime scene.
Wait, crime scene?
I thought this was an accident.
I think we need to isolate every one
of those mics from that recording.
What, there's more than one?
Yes. 41 more.
Right, well, better
get on with it then.
So, do you want to tell me what
you're doing here?
Yeah, I just, I wanted to
help with the case.
How do you even know about the case?
Well, I've just come from there,
but I was with Elliot Scott from
Forensics when he got the call
cos we were supposed
to go out for lunch.
- PHONE RINGING
- Hang on, hang on.
Got it. Yep.
Apparently, this professor's
a real piece of work.
Yeah, so we hear, yeah.
ORGAN PLAYS
He's got a hotshot reputation,
loads of his students do
really well,
but he's also at the centre of
a bunch of bullying scandals.
Two formal complaints,
both of them shelved,
and the words "egomaniac,
narcissistic psychopath" came up.
Sounds delightful.
OK. Good find. Bring him in.
Yeah, and have a sniff around
Helen Merchant's house.
Take Will.
See what you can turn up.
Right, will do.
ORGAN PLAYING
What you listening to?
Um, I asked for a copy of the
rehearsal cos there's something odd.
Yes, a woman died in
the middle of it.
Mm, no. No, that's not it.
OK, what was it then?
What did you hear?
Oi, Headphones.
Headphones!
We've had some super exciting ideas.
Not just for the City of York
Police, but for you too.
Oh, yeah?
We need to raise your
profile online.
Get some clicks and likes.
Get you out there.
I'm not running for office,
you know?
Well, OK.
I mean, the Chief Constable did
seem to think it necessary,
what with the recent
survey results.
Well, responding to surveys is
what police work is all about.
Yeah. I get you.
It is annoying, isn't it?
Everyone's needing reassurance
these days.
"How was your meal?
How was your delivery?"
But
we could use that
to your advantage.
What do you mean?
In your case, we're thinking
big old rebrand.
We think it'd really help if you
came across as more approachable,
and kind.
Fatherly.
-Hi.
-Hi.
I've worked out the vampire number.
Oh, from the code your mum left?
Yeah, from the fang.
I've got it.
8321
Yeah, but I don't actually understand
what it means.
Looks like the old system.
The old system?
Yeah, criminal records,
-before they overhauled the whole thing, before your time.
-Really?
This is how the cases
were numbered.
You think that's an old file number?
Well, it's worth a shot.
OK.
Maybe I can help?
Yes.
Yes, thank you, Mr Gilmour.
Why did you walk out of
Vanessa's rehearsal early?
-I wasn't feeling well.
-Oh, I'm sorry. How are you now?
-We can get you a glass of water.
-I'm fine.
Must've come on quite quick.
You sounded fighting fit when you
were threatening Helen.
I have no idea what you're
talking about.
It's on the rehearsal tape.
Oh!
-I was just telling her to clear off.
-I'll say.
Look, the girl's weird,
let alone a deeply mediocre student.
She was infatuated with Vanessa,
always hanging around.
Hello, Professor.
Tell me, how many black keys
are there on a piano?
Is it counting you struggle with,
or are you just colour-blind? 36.
Well, we've just been at Helen
Merchant's
and it turned out hers had
37.
Shall we have a look
and see what's on this?
TV: - Why should I listen to
this ham-fisted pedestrian crap?!
You're like a toddler having
a tantrum.
I'm sorry, Professor Greville.
MOCKING: - Oh, I'm sorry, Professor.
Pathetic. Get out.
You're not fit to be on this course.
Get out!
Good teachers, oh,
they can change the world.
What you do is lazy and cruel.
I get results, everybody knows that.
Ah, by treating them like crap?
By finding their passion
and harnessing it.
And, yes, it's tough,
but if my students didn't
want to work hard
they'd have done interactive media.
Oh, I don't know, Prof, I think if
someone had this kind of dirt on me
-I'd want to shut them up.
-Oh, no, you've got me.
Look, all this proves is that
Helen was obsessed with Vanessa.
That's
- PHONE RINGS
- Oh.
Parsons.
Oof.
When Forensics call during an
interview,
that's usually not a good sign.
HE CLEARS THROA
Right, so now it's not a murder?
Turns out it was a ruptured
aneurism,
-that'll be why she fell.
-Right, so she had a stroke?
Yes, and it seems rare
but it seems that
the blood in her ear is actually
leakage from the brain, so
MONROE SIGHS - ..no
murder, no murderer, I'm afraid.
- WHISPERS:
- Bollocks.
MONROE SIGHS
This is an index of
the old reference numbers
and the corresponding new ones.
Ah, there.
Well, it looks like it's been
re-categorised as
Folder C078469B.
Know where that is?
Sorry, silly question.
This is
an address in my
mother's handwriting.
Your dad worked on this case.
Your mum must've slipped it in
when he brought the notes home.
What do you want to do?
I don't know. Is
Is it OK if I don't think about
it right now?
Yeah. Yeah.
Absolutely fine.
VOICEMAIL: The number you have called
cannot be reached at this time.
- PHONE BEEPS
- Where are you?
I've been waiting ten minutes.
I'm going inside.
ORGAN PLAYS:
Toccata And Fugue In D Minor
Oh, you're here!
Ooh.
Ow.
Stop!
Please!
- WEAKLY:
- Stop.
HE GROANS
ORGAN CONTINUES
ORGAN RECORDING
Do you know those are coated in
a layer of acrylamides?
When it mixes with the gastric
juice it can become toxic.
Oh, yeah?
Yeah, it can produce
excessive sweating,
affects the whole nervous system.
QUIETLY: Anyway.
So, can you play the recording
at exactly 8.05.05, please?
ORGAN PLAYS
There.
ORGAN STOPS
What?
The interference.
Can you play it again?
ORGAN PLAYS
There.
ORGAN STOPS
-There's nothing there.
-There is.
-Well, I can't hear anything.
-I can.
Well, I am an audio engineer,
but whatever.
ORGAN PLAYS
There.
ORGAN STOPS
PHONE BUZZES Oh.
DS Hunter?
POLICE RADIO CHATTER
Someone's happy to see you.
-What?
-Well, he isn't checking me out, is he?
Yeah, Elliot and I went on a date.
Oh. And will there be another one?
-No. I don't I don't think so.
-Oh, OK. -I just
I think I might be a bit boring
for him.
You? Boring? Are you joking?
I mean, you surprise me every day.
-Me?
-Yeah. Never know what you're about to do.
-Really?
-Yeah.
Why don't you show him that
side of you? Surprise him.
Yeah.
-Are you sure it's OK that I'm?
-Oh, yeah,
she said you were useful with
the recordings,
so I think it's fine, just relax.
WHISPERS: OK.
Heart attack.
How do you know?
Well, two degrees
and 25 years in Forensics helps,
but you can tell from the skin
and the fingernails,
and there's a scar on his chest,
which means he probably had
a mechanical aortic valve.
OK, so, hang on,
are you seriously not seeing this?
Two deaths in two days,
in the same place,
both bleeding from the ears.
I know, but this one can
be explained as well.
The bleeding was caused by him
falling on the floor and
hitting his head.
Er
No, it wasn't.
Look.
What's that?
Your diagnosis falling apart.
-Sorry?
-Well, when someone who's had an accident leaves a message
it's not an accident.
Vanessa.
What are you doing here?
Er, Professor Greville was supposed
to give me a lift this morning,
so we could go over my rehearsal
but he didn't show.
Yeah, I'm afraid I have bad news.
Professor Greville died
earlier today.
What?
Where were you this morning?
VOICE TREMBLES: -
Waiting at home, and then
then I came here.
Yeah. Right, let's get her inside.
Come on.
These are a lot of tapes.
Yeah.
He kept copies of all
his students' concerts.
Toccata E Fugue, is that what you
were playing when you found Helen?
Yes.
Yeah, and what's this?
Oh, it's a fermata.
It's when you hold
a note beyond its natural duration.
Let it fill the space.
PHONE BUZZING
-Hi.
-Hey.
Hey, Patience,
I found your interference.
I isolated the mic and guess what?
I can't guess, you've not given
me any information.
-WHISPERS: What?
-OK. I sent you an audio file,
slowed down, cleaned up, enhanced,
and you were right,
there is interference.
Yeah.
The recording sort of glitches,
and then it resumes.
Does the interference start at
8.05.05 and end at 8.05.11?
-How did you know that?
-Well, that's the fermata.
Slay.
Your hyperacusis,
it's like a superpower.
Not always.
Look. I was right. His aortic valve.
-Yeah, could you not wave that in my face?
-I was showing it to you.
-So, what of it?
-Well, the valve seems to have jammed,
causing thrombogenesis and our
friend had a heart attack.
No murder.
- PHONE CHIMES
- Evans doesn't agree with you.
PARSONS SIGHS
"The music killed him."
What does that mean?
I have no idea, but apparently
she's had a breakthrough.
-No, I don't agree.
-Well, she's very, very annoying,
but she does have
a knack of being right.
Headphones?
MONROE SIGHS
God's sake, where are you?
What are you doing?
So, this is an infrasound generator,
and it was inside the organ,
and it's what killed Helen
and the professor.
-What?
-Well, so, when Vanessa pressed down the organ key,
this began emitting
a very low frequency sound.
It was below 20 hertz, so
Hold this.
OK.
Ready?
Well, I guess, yeah.
See?
Yeah. Do it again.
That's weird.
So, this was connected to
the modified key.
It's an infrasound generator, and it
creates infrasonic frequencies
which are, like, inaudible
but very dangerous vibrations.
And the kind of vibrations that can
jam a heart valve,
which the professor had.
Or rupture Helen's aneurism.
So the murderer used the
victim's conditions against them.
Good work. Now,
let's find out who put it there.
Yeah, well, that would've been
a valid theory,
however, this is a bit of
a snag for you.
Toxicology came through,
turns out Helen had
Lavyxal in her system,
it's an anti-depressant.
So?
It causes hypertension,
she would not have taken that
with an aneurism,
it's too dangerous.
So, then Helen didn't know she had
an aneurism.
Yeah, and if she didn't,
then neither did the killer?
Bingo.
So maybe that poor girl was just
collateral damage.
Yeah, well, that's a possibility.
So that would make it
one natural death and one murder.
Think we can call it a draw,
Miss Evans.
Well, I've got to go and interface
with some young business leaders,
whatever that means.
BAND PLAYING
CHEERING
MUSIC GETS LOUDER
Got a straight face
I've got all your time
I've got a million things to talk
about
Got a reflex in antipathy
Gotta be my own worst enemy ♪
MUSIC FADES
PATIENCE BREATHES HEAVILY
Are you all right there?
MUTTERING
SHAKILY: It was the noise.
Aye, I get it.
It's all just noise to me, too.
Why should I listen to this
ham-fisted pedestrian crap?!
You're like a toddler having
a tantrum.
I'm sorry, Professor Greville.
MOCKING: - Oh, I'm sorry, Professor.
Pathetic. Get out.
You're not fit to be on this course.
Get out!
He was a coercive, cruel bully
-and he got in your head.
-No. No, he believed in me.
I know this doesn't make sense,
but I
I needed to get it right
for him.
What you did
is understandable.
He made you feel worthless.
Scared.
And you wanted it to stop.
No, I wanted to protect him.
I knew about the video,
I stopped Helen from going public.
I could never have killed him,
I need him.
Without him,
I'm going to let everybody down.
That's not true.
Well, you're like a black belt in
this now, right?
But to make it, you have to be
extraordinary.
Transcendent.
QUIETLY: - You basically
have to be Theos or just give up.
What is Theos?
Professor Greville's favourite
student.
The only one he ever really rated.
Theos who?
I don't know.
It was a nickname.
But he always said that whenever
they played
he saw the face of God.
It's a concert, so hopefully
there'll be an introduction.
Thank you, digital native.
I think I'll take it from here.
ORGAN PLAYS
Well, no intro, so, useless.
- ORGAN STOPS
- So we've got nothing.
No, not nothing.
We know where the concert was.
It's the York Minster.
How do you know that?
Um
SHE CLEARS THROA
Er, well, er, my dad used to
take me when I was little
and I recognise the tone,
it's The organ has 75 stops.
-Cool.
-Yeah, but it still leaves us with
40 years of concerts
to go through, though, don't it?
So many concerts.
PHONE BUZZES
You going to answer that?
Yep, sorry.
-Hi.
-Hi.
Good, you answered.
Yeah, well, you called me, so
Listen, I saw you came to my gig
and then left.
What happened?
Was the music that bad?
No.
Can we meet?
I'd really like to see you.
I'm not sure that's a good idea.
Oh.
I need to go.
PATIENCE CLEARS THROA
He must really like you.
-Sorry?
-Well, if someone walked out of my gig
I don't think I'd be
calling them back.
Yeah, well
doesn'tdoesn't' matter.
I mean, I'll never be able to
do the girlfriend stuff, so
"Girlfriend stuff"?
What's that?
You know, like, bungee jumping
and suddenly running off to Paris.
Oh, you have been watching some
terrible films.
Has this man actually asked you
to do any of this?
-No.
-Well
I am no relationship
coach by any stretch,
and I would rather clean out
the fridge than do Valentine's,
but I'm pretty sure there is no such
thing as a perfect girlfriend.
Yeah.
-I just don't know how to be.
-Mm.
Just be you.
Find someone who likes that.
Sounds like you already have.
Oh, hang on, doesn't that look
like
Vanessa's pastoral supervisor?
What's her Bernie.
I didn't know she was a musician.
I mean, that says it's someone called
Maria Renton.
Oh. Maybe it's a stage name.
And look who she thanks.
John Greville.
Why did she fail to mention any of
this?
Ma'am?
"York Minster concert ends in
tragic accident."
Bernie fell from the balcony
at her own recital.
Yeah. I don't think it was
a tragic accident,
I think she jumped to get away
from that dick of a professor.
Yeah, and when that didn't work,
-she tried to stop the bullying in a different way.
-Yeah.
Where was she on
the morning of the first murder?
-We need the interview notes.
-She was at the doctor's.
Hang on,
you weren't at that interview.
No, I read the transcript.
-Right.
-Hmm.
-OK, check it out.
-On it.
OK, Jake, I think we've got
enough to bring her in.
ORGAN PLAYS
BAXTER: - Sure she's
not at home or the university?
No, but she booked out
the Minster organ this morning.
Also, Vanessa didn't show up for
a meeting at the faculty.
-Oh, Christ. We'll meet you there.
-All right.
Just got off the phone
with Bernie's doctor,
she'd been seeing him
for pain management.
Traumatic nerve damage to her hands,
sustained in an accident 30
years ago.
Yeah. So, it sounds like the fall
from the balcony ended her career.
So, we have a washed-up star,
jealous of her younger protege.
We need to get to the Minster.
I meant just DC
All right.
ORGAN PLAYS
Bernie?
I had no idea you played.
That's about as much as
I can manage these days.
Bernie, that was
so beautiful.
I've never heard anyone play
like that.
I had a good teacher.
Oh, my God.
You're Theos.
POLICE SIRENS
Magnificent, isn't it?
I had a recital here
many years ago.
How wonderful.
Minutes before the performance,
Greville ripped my heart out.
Told me I'd never be anything
more than ordinary
and I'd never make it.
His timing was exquisite.
I tried to play,
but I could barely breathe.
Everybody was watching.
And I knew then that it was over
my career.
My life.
POLICE SIRENS
Amir, Graham, go round the back.
I wanted you to hear this from me
so that you'd understand
that he had to be stopped.
You killed him?
I never meant to hurt Helen.
Bernie, what are you doing?
What's she doing here?
- VANESSA:
- Bernie?
- MUFFLED:
- Please don't do it.
Go.
Bernie?
Bernie, put the gun down.
I have to do this.
- WHISPERS:
- God, forgive me.
GUNSHOT REVERBERATES
HEAVY BREATHING
KNOCK AT DOOR
I told you, I'm fine, it was
It was just a gunshot,
and no-one got hurt.
Still a lot to deal with.
You were in shock.
Yeah, but I'm fine now and
DI Monroe saved that woman.
Yeah, I guess she did.
I just
I just, I still miss Detective Bea.
She was on my side.
I was part of her team.
But now, with DI Monroe
This might be out there
but I'm on your side.
And as much as I'd rather
they didn't keep
dragging you into
dangerous situations,
so's most of the crime squad.
I guess so.
And what about this boy
in the band?
He's on your side, right?
I think he is.
OK.
Sorry for running away from your gig.
I mean, it's not that your singing
was terrible.
-Oh, good, yeah, that's what I was going for, not terrible.
-Yeah.
It was just overwhelming.
Yeah, I thought it would be.
-Yeah.
-Why did you come?
To surprise you.
I wanted to show you
a different side of me.
Why?
I like this side.
Thank you.
I think I see that now.
And by the way,
there's only one side of me,
and this is it.
Hang on
I've got an idea.
Come with me.
OK.
Come on.
Elliot, what are we?
This is a club.
Trust me.
Come on!
CHATTING AND LAUGHTER
Here.
MUFFLED MUSIC PLAYS
Cried my heart out
Scream and I shout
I can't work out how to be
without you
There's no magic potion can take
away this pain
Just when I think I'm over you
it comes back again
I cried alone still
But I know that you don't
feel the same
Ooh, baby
You got me speeding into rain
Cried my heart out
Scream and I shout
I can't work out how to be
without you
I cried my heart out
Scream and I shout
I can't work out how to
be without you. ♪