Harlan Coben's Lazarus (2025) s01e01 Episode Script
Episode 1
1
[ominous music playing]
♪
Sutton?
- [Rumer: "The Windmills Of Your Mind"]
- Round ♪
Like a circle in a spiral ♪
Like a wheel ♪
Sutton?
Never ending or beginning ♪
On an ever-spinning reel ♪
[distorted scream]
Like a snowball down a mountain ♪
Or a carnival balloon ♪
Dad!
Like the circles that you find ♪
[echoing, raspy inhale]
In the windmills of your mind ♪
[panting]
She's dead.
Sutton's dead.
[Rupert] Dr Lazarus?
Dr Lazarus?
The new patient is ready.
[Lazarus clears throat]
[eerie music playing]
♪
[patient screaming]
[keypad beeps]
[phone buzzing]
[keypad beeps, door opens]
[door buzzes, opens]
[door beeps]
Okay then.
Arlo.
Get me out of here.
I can't do that right now.
Then what use are you?
I'm here so you can speak,
about your feelings, about
the thoughts you have in your head.
What thoughts?
What thoughts would you like to discuss?
God. I've been speaking with him.
And what have you been
speaking with God about?
Your crimes?
You.
Why me?
I asked him whether I could trust you.
And did he reply?
He said
no.
He said you were a fake.
And I asked him to punish you.
And you know what he said?
What did he say?
He would do that just
for me.
[intense music playing]
[door closes]
[phone buzzing]
Hey.
Is Dad?
Yeah, he called me. I ditched it.
What's up?
Laz, he's dead.
- What?
- He, uh
H-He shot himself in his office.
[dark, ominous music playing]
Are you-- Are you there?
[dramatic music playing]
[tires squeal]
[newscaster] Prominent psychiatrist
Dr Jonathan Lazarus
has reportedly taken his own life.
He is tragically remembered
as the father of Sutton Lazarus,
who was brutally murdered 25 years ago.
The search for the killer
prompted national attention,
but they remain at large to this day.
Dr Jonathan Lazarus is survived
by his two remaining children,
Joel and Jenna.
Next up is the weather and we go over to
[eerie, sinister music playing]
[singing inaudibly]
♪
[pounding]
[officer] Keep moving to the left.
Come on. Come on, mate.
Follow round to the left.
[workers shouting indistinctly]
[atmospheric music playing]
[thunder rumbles]
♪
[seat belt clicks]
[rain pattering softly]
Doesn't make any sense.
Since when did he own a gun?
He didn't.
Where's the note?
Well, police have the original,
but they gave me this photocopy.
You know, for a man
that delved inside minds for a living,
he could've given us
a little bit more clarity.
[Lazarus] "It's not over."
What the hell does that mean?
- You tell me.
- And a table. Three legs.
Like some sort of code.
There was this.
On his desk, at work.
[haunting music playing]
Did he talk about Sutton?
He never spoke about her.
I just don't understand
why he would do this.
Sutton?
[eerie music playing]
[door handle squeaks]
[pained grunt]
[panting]
What the fuck?
[pounding heartbeat]
[approaching scream]
[gasps]
[panting]
[atmospheric music playing]
♪
[phone buzzing]
[Young Lazarus] Ladies,
this is a sad, sad day.
Because Seth here
is officially off the market. [chuckles]
What can I say? Jenna has great taste.
- [Young Lazarus] Shut up.
- [laughs] Give me that.
- [Lazarus] Seth.
- There he is.
Huh? Come on, bring it in.
- Look at you.
- Oh, love the teeth. Whose are they?
Love the beard, masks the double chin.
- How dare you.
- [laughs]
Congratulations, when's it due?
Get off, that's my beer baby.
Come on. Rosie Q's?
Where else?
[whirring]
[Tricky: "Hell Is Round the Corner"]
♪
[lively chatter]
I see gentrification
still hasn't reached this place.
Yeah, you know Bella, "change is death."
[Lazarus chuckles]
- What are you drinking?
- Uh, vodka tonic.
Why?
FODMAP diet. No wheat.
We're in a dive bar
and you're adhering to the FODMAP diet?
You try being an anarchist
with abdominal bloating.
[speaks quietly]
There's Bella.
I'll get the drinks.
Go on, go say hello.
And when you walk,
do you walk to your preference? ♪
No need to answer
till I take further evidence ♪
I seem to need
a reference to get residence ♪
[Bella] You all right?
- [patron] Hey, Bella.
- Hey ya.
I'm a good neighbour, I trudge ♪
Hello, gorgeous.
Laz.
The psychologist returns.
Psychiatrist.
Whatever. What you doing back?
My dad died.
Oh, my God.
Uh, when we split, he said,
uh, I'd lost the best woman
I'd ever find. [laughs]
He was right.
He probably was.
[barmaid] Bella!
I've got to get serving.
I'm so sorry, Laz.
[indistinct chatter, laughter]
He'd obviously been thinking about Sutton.
This was on his desk.
[sighs]
You know, I don't think any of us ever
really got over what happened that night.
He was ruined by it.
- Sutton was his favourite.
- No, mate
He never said it, but we all knew.
Being the not favourite twin, trust me,
it's something you notice.
You know, I wish he'd got closure,
seen someone caught for it.
[inhales sharply]
Meant to ask, how's Jenna?
She's okay.
- Think I should ring her?
- Depends.
If you think it might lead to grief sex.
What? She's just a friend, okay?
I'm just asking if you think
she'd appreciate a call.
[laughs] Yes, I think you should call.
Grief sex is a thing, though.
In fact, it's very common.
Something to do
with needing to feel alive.
I know.
- [Lazarus laughs]
- Sounds great, doesn't it?
[laughter]
- Want more?
- Naturally.
FODMAP or anarchy?
- Let's go wild.
- [laughs]
[eerie music playing]
♪
[Jenna] He shot himself, in his office.
[panting]
[metal creaking]
[elevator bell buzzes]
[creaks]
[clock ticking]
[panting]
♪
♪
[grunts]
- [hasty footsteps]
- [elevator bell buzzes]
Dr L. Sorry I'm late.
No, sorry, I'm his son--
You know,
I really hate myself when I'm late.
I say to myself, "Cassandra, you've got
- ten minutes to leave the flat."
- I-I'm his son.
And I'll mess around
until the ten minutes is
- now one minute.
- Ex-Excuse
- Cassandra? I-I'm his son.
- And I need a safety wee,
just in case I get desperate
along the way.
Excuse me, excuse me, I
And suddenly, I'm like three minutes late.
And it's like
- You do it on purpose.
- Yeah.
Yes!
Like, like, like I must be stressed,
I must be anxious.
I can't function any other way.
[sighs]
I'm sorry to tell you
that I-I-I have some news about Dr L--
I've been having those thoughts again.
[suspenseful music playing]
Did you hear me?
I said I've been having those thoughts.
Which thoughts?
The
murder ones.
I see.
Um
And-and what do these thoughts consist of?
Him.
Dead.
I-I-I look into his dead face.
There's-there's blood gushing
from his head where I hit him,
and I stare at him, on the ground,
and I feel
nothing.
Not happiness, not relief,
just-just nothing.
And who is the man?
Him.
Neil, my boyfriend. The freak.
These thoughts, are they, uh
- memories?
- If only.
He's still breathing
waiting for me at home.
Warned me not to be late.
Oh, also, I should tell you this,
there's a man who's stalking me.
Stalking you?
He looks at me,
follows me sometimes,
and in my mind I kill him,
just
just turn around and stab him
and I feel, I feel nothing.
I mean
I mean why-why,
why would I think these things?
- It makes no sense.
- Cassandra
The man.
Is it that your feelings about Neil are
being projected onto this new admirer?
Um
Can I?
Do you want one?
Why not? Small one.
- [mysterious, pulsing music playing]
- [drink pours]
I kill him.
And I look at him
and I feel nothing.
Let me, uh,
top you up.
It's like what you said before.
Uh, what-what was it you used to say
about living your life with pain?
Remind me?
♪
Cassandra?
Cassandra?
[suspenseful music playing]
What'd you do last night?
I, uh
- bumped into Bella.
- What?
In her bar?
- Mm-hmm.
- Mm.
The chances of her being in there.
Is she, uh, is she still with, um,
what's his name?
Paul.
Always with the "what's his name."
Paul.
So, why add the "what's his name"?
Yeah, she's still with Paul.
- You just hate him.
- Don't hate him.
- Just think he's a bit square.
- Square?
Unlike cool old Laz.
Hey, Bella's cool.
She's a she's a cool person.
Paul's Paul's basically a golf nerd.
I just don't see how they work together.
Well, they've been married
longer than you two were.
High bar, Jen.
We married too young.
It was never gonna last.
And if we met now, who knows.
How old's the kid, um, what's his name?
[chuckles softly]
Aidan.
Fifteen.
Has he got any weirder?
He's not weird, Laz,
he's unique in his own magical way.
So he has got weirder.
Yes.
- [scoffs]
- Yeah, look, um,
[stammers] I wanted to speak to Margot.
Just about Dad's final days and stuff.
I should warn you that she's still
pretty traumatised about finding him.
I offered her some Reiki,
her aura was like a greyish yellow.
Oh, God. Was it?
Yes, it was.
And if you opened yourself up
to the energies of the universe,
it would change your life.
Would it?
It would.
- So, what colour's my aura?
- Hmm
[gasps]
It's arsehole colour. [clicks tongue]
- Profound.
- [giggles]
[chuckles]
[engine starts]
[eerie music playing]
[Margot] So the client files are up here.
Your father
wasn't blessed
in the organisation department.
No, I know, Margot,
but luckily he had you.
He did.
[grunts] And we were a good team.
[sighs]
[sobs]
I'm sorry, it's, um,
it's being back in here
Cassandra you say?
- Surname?
- No idea.
Right. That makes it tricky.
We file by surname.
So, you don't have a database
or computer system, do you?
No, your father liked a paper system.
He often recorded sessions,
for reference, but he didn't care much
for technology.
You're a good boy, Joel.
I know you two were busy
and couldn't speak as much as you'd like,
but he was very proud of you.
Professionally.
[chuckles softly]
I suppose, choosing your career,
you wanted to be like him.
Yeah. Perhaps.
He was very good, you know,
at getting inside your mind
And you got inside his?
Occasionally.
Did he ever talk about, um
Sutton,
and the night she was killed?
A little.
Why?
I just always felt he'd, uh
Blamed you?
Mm. Well, I don't know
anything about that.
Now, if you'll excuse me,
I'm feeling a little overwhelmed
being back in here.
[mysterious music playing]
♪
What the fuck?
♪
[car alarm chirps]
[intercom ringing]
[line clicks]
Hi. Yes.
Uh, I-I'm looking for a Cassandra?
[door buzzes]
♪
Hello.
Hi. Um, does
does Cassandra still live here?
Cassandra?
Yeah. Uh, Cassandra Rhodes.
Right.
Wow. You don't
That's like 20 years ago.
I know, she's a client of my father's,
and my-my father passed away,
so I was just kind of, um
Listen, I'm sorry,
but she's dead.
Dead?
Murdered, actually.
No, uh
I I-I was
I was with her, uh, yesterday.
Cassandra Rhodes?
Trust me,
she was murdered over 20 years ago.
We were the only people
that would buy the place.
[voice fading]
We got it pretty cheap, actually.
It'd been left empty for ages,
apart from the crap that
got left in the attic
You definitely weren't with her yesterday.
Right.
♪
[panting]
[line ringing]
- Hello?
- Cassandra Rhodes,
she was strangled
and her killer never found.
And you don't remember that?
A client being murdered?
Because that seems
pretty fucking memorable, Margot.
I'm sorry, I-I can't hear you.
I said, Cassandra Rhodes was murdered.
I'm sorry. I'm sorry, you're breaking up.
[line disconnects]
Hello?
[Cassandra] Oh, also, I should tell you,
there's a man who's stalking me.
♪
[phone buzzing]
Yeah?
Hey, man, uh, the mortuary have released
your dad's body to the undertakers.
[Portishead: "Roads"]
♪
Ooh, can't anybody see ♪
We've got a war to fight ♪
Never find our way ♪
Regardless of what they say ♪
How can it feel ♪
This wrong? ♪
From this moment ♪
How can it feel ♪
This wrong? ♪
Storm in the morning light ♪
I feel ♪
No more can I say ♪
Frozen to myself ♪
I got nobody on my side ♪
And surely that ain't right ♪
Surely that ain't right ♪
[Lazarus] I was going through Dad's
old files, cleaning out his office,
and I came across this.
Another unsolved murder. 1999.
Four miles away.
It's very different
circumstances though, to Sutton.
Yeah, but two unsolved murders,
one year apart,
and for both of them,
the culprit never caught.
Yeah, 25 years ago.
She was one of Dad's patients.
Thought she had a stalker.
Isn't that stuff private, Laz?
She's dead, Seth.
Can you
can you find out
what happened with that case?
You want me to start
nosing around in files from 1999?
Investigations I wasn't even part of.
And you are you mad?
I-I just--
Joel.
Alison.
I'm so sorry.
Ma'am.
Seth.
I can't believe he's gone.
Especially like this.
- What did you make of the note?
- Baffling.
Maybe a reincarnation thing?
I mean, Dad was
always fond of the cryptic,
but I think he went
a bit overboard at the end.
I guess none of us really know, do we?
What's going on up there.
Nice to see you.
- Jenna, hi.
- Hello.
I used to think your dad was banging her.
[chuckles]
After Mom died, I thought
every woman that came to the house
was gonna be my new mother.
Now I realise "widow" is a catnip
to a certain kind of woman.
[chuckles]
Can you get me that info?
We need to talk about
your attempts to corrupt a police officer.
Later.
Over a pint.
[indistinct chatter, laughter]
Oh, Laz?
Lovely service.
Oh, thank you. Thanks.
- Hey, Paul.
- Joel.
Oh, you can-- Laz, please.
I'll stick with Joel.
So, uh, how's the golf going?
Good. I'm down to a handicap of ten now.
Oh, great.
Yeah, and the greens down
at the Montgomery are perfection.
They use a high potassium
and phosphate fertilisation.
Corrects any deficiencies
during the growing season.
Can I get you a drink?
Um, I-I-I'm good, thanks. Um, uh
Oh, I'll refill us.
Oh, okay.
Paul, do you want to come with?
Yeah, okay.
[pensive music playing]
♪
♪
[Seth] I don't think any of us ever
really got over what happened that night.
[indistinct chatter]
[mysterious music playing]
Come on, Laz, let's go.
♪
[officer] Sam Olsen,
I'm arresting you on suspicion
of the murder of Sutton Lazarus.
You do not need to say anything.
If you do, it will be held against you.
[jarring music playing]
They released him.
They fucking released him.
[screams]
After I left last night,
I walked by Sam Olsen's house.
The night of your father's funeral,
you decide to go to the house of the man
accused of murdering your sister.
It's not like the two things
aren't connected, Jen.
But, you know, I was walking around there.
[inhales sharply]
I, uh
I wanted to see the place again.
He was cleared, Laz.
There's no forensics, no witnesses.
And Dad never believed it was him.
Personally, I'd put him in jail
for the cardigans he wears,
but I don't make the laws.
You did well.
In the funeral.
It was a nice speech.
I liked all the hippy shit.
[chuckles softly]
We live on, Laz, we do.
Once we leave these bodies.
- Really?
- Really.
I know Sutton is here.
I can feel her sometimes.
Okay, so let me ask you this.
Do you think
people ever see dead people?
Like actually see them,
like they're
mm, before their eyes?
You are grieving.
If you
think that you're seeing Dad, then--
I know all about
bereavement hallucination, Jen.
That's not what I'm asking.
Hey then, what are you asking?
[mysterious music playing]
Forget it.
[exhales]
When you're dead, you're dead.
[Lazarus] Cassandra Rhodes, she was
strangled and her killer never found.
And you don't remember that,
a client being murdered?
[Adebago] You definitely weren't
with her yesterday.
[dog barking in distance]
♪
[rain pattering softly]
Oi!
Are you Aidan?
Are you Bella's boy?
What you doing here?
I wanted to see what you looked like.
You shouldn't have come back here.
My dad died.
I know.
I heard.
Your mom was at the funeral.
And your dad.
I asked if I could go.
To my dad's funeral?
They fascinate me.
It was pretty standard.
I don't know how many
you've been to but, um,
it was all the usual stuff.
Uh, a coffin,
some nice words, bit of music.
You know.
What do you do?
I'm a
forensic psychiatrist.
You talk to mad people.
[chuckles] Yeah.
Yeah, kind of.
Serial killers?
[sighs]
Most people aren't serial killers.
I think it could send you crazy.
Dealing with crazy people.
I think you're right.
Home sweet home.
You shouldn't have come back.
I have a bad feeling about it.
Get inside, please, Aidan.
I'm-I'm so sorry.
I told him you were here,
and he just gets these ideas in his head.
It's fine.
Hey, Paul.
Joel.
- Go on, in you go.
- [door closes]
Right, well, I'll, uh, I'll head off.
Thank you, for bringing him back.
I do really appreciate it.
I think it blows his mind
that I've had two husbands.
I guess that is strange for a kid.
Well, yeah.
[laughs]
- What?
- Just the way you said,
"Well, yeah." [laughs]
Just felt like I was 19 again.
Yeah, I know.
I'm sorry.
Bye.
[phone ringing]
[Seth] Hey, man, meet me at Rosie Q's.
I got something for you.
Enjoy yourself.
You're a superstar.
Okay, you want the abridged version?
She was nuts, Cassandra, batshit.
Problem child, in and out of foster care.
Couple of relationships, mostly abusive.
And then she winds up dead.
Almost certainly
at the hands of her lover,
Neil Croft, although he was never charged
because he went AWOL.
It's a sorry and sordid tale.
On the page.
- But she was a human.
- [Seth scoffs]
I see this all the time in prisons, Seth.
The way it reads isn't always
the way it went down.
And sometimes you like these people.
Are you gonna tell me
what this has to do with anything?
Wait, was your dad banging her?
God, it's always banging with you,
isn't it?
Take sex and money away, I have no job.
I don't know.
- The Sutton thing, the connection.
- There is none.
This girl was trouble, trouble found her
and trouble killed her, case closed.
Twenty-five years ago.
You going?
Things to do.
You're meeting Jenna, aren't you?
What?
Look at your terrible lie face.
- Don't ever commit a crime, Seth.
- All right.
It's so weird actually because she said
that the universe was gonna
bring kindness into her life.
And minutes later,
I called her
and asked her out for a drink.
Kismet.
Yes, Laz, kismet.
Very much kismet.
You don't know what it means, do you?
Not a clue.
But I am gonna use it on your sister.
Cheers, mate.
Bye!
- [Unkle: "Lonely Soul"]
- But I'm gonna die ♪
[bottle rattling]
[tense music playing]
[indistinct chatter]
[car alarm chirps]
[car alarm chirps]
[footsteps echo]
Hey.
You following me?
Oi!
Hey!
Hey!
- [Chemical Brothers: "Setting Sun"]
- You're the devil in me ♪
That I brought in ♪
- From the cold ♪
- [Lazarus] Are you all right?
You said your body was young ♪
But your mind was very old ♪
You're coming on strong
and I like the way ♪
The visions we had ♪
- Faded away ♪
- Hey! Hey!
You're part of a life I've never had ♪
I'll tell you that it's just too bad ♪
[grunting]
[shouts]
I'll tell you that it's just too bad ♪
I'll tell you
that it's just too bad ♪
I'll tell you that it's just too bad ♪
[dog barking in distance]
[intriguing music playing]
Hello?!
Where are you?!
- [Rumer: "The Windmills Of Your Mind"]
- Like a circle in a spiral ♪
Like a wheel within a wheel ♪
Never ending or beginning ♪
On an ever-spinning wheel ♪
Like a snowball down a mountain ♪
Or a carnival balloon ♪
Like a carousel that's turning ♪
Running rings around the moon ♪
Like a clock whose hands are sweeping ♪
Past the minutes of its face ♪
And the world is like an apple ♪
Whirling silently in space ♪
Like the circles ♪
That you find ♪
In the windmills ♪
Of your mind ♪
"If you invite an arsonist
into your house,
do not put matches into his room."
- [mysterious music playing]
- [footsteps echo]
So you met Cassandra.
There will be others, son.
They will come to you, too.
Others who were murdered.
Like Cassandra.
And me.
[atmospheric music playing]
♪
♪
[ominous music playing]
♪
Sutton?
- [Rumer: "The Windmills Of Your Mind"]
- Round ♪
Like a circle in a spiral ♪
Like a wheel ♪
Sutton?
Never ending or beginning ♪
On an ever-spinning reel ♪
[distorted scream]
Like a snowball down a mountain ♪
Or a carnival balloon ♪
Dad!
Like the circles that you find ♪
[echoing, raspy inhale]
In the windmills of your mind ♪
[panting]
She's dead.
Sutton's dead.
[Rupert] Dr Lazarus?
Dr Lazarus?
The new patient is ready.
[Lazarus clears throat]
[eerie music playing]
♪
[patient screaming]
[keypad beeps]
[phone buzzing]
[keypad beeps, door opens]
[door buzzes, opens]
[door beeps]
Okay then.
Arlo.
Get me out of here.
I can't do that right now.
Then what use are you?
I'm here so you can speak,
about your feelings, about
the thoughts you have in your head.
What thoughts?
What thoughts would you like to discuss?
God. I've been speaking with him.
And what have you been
speaking with God about?
Your crimes?
You.
Why me?
I asked him whether I could trust you.
And did he reply?
He said
no.
He said you were a fake.
And I asked him to punish you.
And you know what he said?
What did he say?
He would do that just
for me.
[intense music playing]
[door closes]
[phone buzzing]
Hey.
Is Dad?
Yeah, he called me. I ditched it.
What's up?
Laz, he's dead.
- What?
- He, uh
H-He shot himself in his office.
[dark, ominous music playing]
Are you-- Are you there?
[dramatic music playing]
[tires squeal]
[newscaster] Prominent psychiatrist
Dr Jonathan Lazarus
has reportedly taken his own life.
He is tragically remembered
as the father of Sutton Lazarus,
who was brutally murdered 25 years ago.
The search for the killer
prompted national attention,
but they remain at large to this day.
Dr Jonathan Lazarus is survived
by his two remaining children,
Joel and Jenna.
Next up is the weather and we go over to
[eerie, sinister music playing]
[singing inaudibly]
♪
[pounding]
[officer] Keep moving to the left.
Come on. Come on, mate.
Follow round to the left.
[workers shouting indistinctly]
[atmospheric music playing]
[thunder rumbles]
♪
[seat belt clicks]
[rain pattering softly]
Doesn't make any sense.
Since when did he own a gun?
He didn't.
Where's the note?
Well, police have the original,
but they gave me this photocopy.
You know, for a man
that delved inside minds for a living,
he could've given us
a little bit more clarity.
[Lazarus] "It's not over."
What the hell does that mean?
- You tell me.
- And a table. Three legs.
Like some sort of code.
There was this.
On his desk, at work.
[haunting music playing]
Did he talk about Sutton?
He never spoke about her.
I just don't understand
why he would do this.
Sutton?
[eerie music playing]
[door handle squeaks]
[pained grunt]
[panting]
What the fuck?
[pounding heartbeat]
[approaching scream]
[gasps]
[panting]
[atmospheric music playing]
♪
[phone buzzing]
[Young Lazarus] Ladies,
this is a sad, sad day.
Because Seth here
is officially off the market. [chuckles]
What can I say? Jenna has great taste.
- [Young Lazarus] Shut up.
- [laughs] Give me that.
- [Lazarus] Seth.
- There he is.
Huh? Come on, bring it in.
- Look at you.
- Oh, love the teeth. Whose are they?
Love the beard, masks the double chin.
- How dare you.
- [laughs]
Congratulations, when's it due?
Get off, that's my beer baby.
Come on. Rosie Q's?
Where else?
[whirring]
[Tricky: "Hell Is Round the Corner"]
♪
[lively chatter]
I see gentrification
still hasn't reached this place.
Yeah, you know Bella, "change is death."
[Lazarus chuckles]
- What are you drinking?
- Uh, vodka tonic.
Why?
FODMAP diet. No wheat.
We're in a dive bar
and you're adhering to the FODMAP diet?
You try being an anarchist
with abdominal bloating.
[speaks quietly]
There's Bella.
I'll get the drinks.
Go on, go say hello.
And when you walk,
do you walk to your preference? ♪
No need to answer
till I take further evidence ♪
I seem to need
a reference to get residence ♪
[Bella] You all right?
- [patron] Hey, Bella.
- Hey ya.
I'm a good neighbour, I trudge ♪
Hello, gorgeous.
Laz.
The psychologist returns.
Psychiatrist.
Whatever. What you doing back?
My dad died.
Oh, my God.
Uh, when we split, he said,
uh, I'd lost the best woman
I'd ever find. [laughs]
He was right.
He probably was.
[barmaid] Bella!
I've got to get serving.
I'm so sorry, Laz.
[indistinct chatter, laughter]
He'd obviously been thinking about Sutton.
This was on his desk.
[sighs]
You know, I don't think any of us ever
really got over what happened that night.
He was ruined by it.
- Sutton was his favourite.
- No, mate
He never said it, but we all knew.
Being the not favourite twin, trust me,
it's something you notice.
You know, I wish he'd got closure,
seen someone caught for it.
[inhales sharply]
Meant to ask, how's Jenna?
She's okay.
- Think I should ring her?
- Depends.
If you think it might lead to grief sex.
What? She's just a friend, okay?
I'm just asking if you think
she'd appreciate a call.
[laughs] Yes, I think you should call.
Grief sex is a thing, though.
In fact, it's very common.
Something to do
with needing to feel alive.
I know.
- [Lazarus laughs]
- Sounds great, doesn't it?
[laughter]
- Want more?
- Naturally.
FODMAP or anarchy?
- Let's go wild.
- [laughs]
[eerie music playing]
♪
[Jenna] He shot himself, in his office.
[panting]
[metal creaking]
[elevator bell buzzes]
[creaks]
[clock ticking]
[panting]
♪
♪
[grunts]
- [hasty footsteps]
- [elevator bell buzzes]
Dr L. Sorry I'm late.
No, sorry, I'm his son--
You know,
I really hate myself when I'm late.
I say to myself, "Cassandra, you've got
- ten minutes to leave the flat."
- I-I'm his son.
And I'll mess around
until the ten minutes is
- now one minute.
- Ex-Excuse
- Cassandra? I-I'm his son.
- And I need a safety wee,
just in case I get desperate
along the way.
Excuse me, excuse me, I
And suddenly, I'm like three minutes late.
And it's like
- You do it on purpose.
- Yeah.
Yes!
Like, like, like I must be stressed,
I must be anxious.
I can't function any other way.
[sighs]
I'm sorry to tell you
that I-I-I have some news about Dr L--
I've been having those thoughts again.
[suspenseful music playing]
Did you hear me?
I said I've been having those thoughts.
Which thoughts?
The
murder ones.
I see.
Um
And-and what do these thoughts consist of?
Him.
Dead.
I-I-I look into his dead face.
There's-there's blood gushing
from his head where I hit him,
and I stare at him, on the ground,
and I feel
nothing.
Not happiness, not relief,
just-just nothing.
And who is the man?
Him.
Neil, my boyfriend. The freak.
These thoughts, are they, uh
- memories?
- If only.
He's still breathing
waiting for me at home.
Warned me not to be late.
Oh, also, I should tell you this,
there's a man who's stalking me.
Stalking you?
He looks at me,
follows me sometimes,
and in my mind I kill him,
just
just turn around and stab him
and I feel, I feel nothing.
I mean
I mean why-why,
why would I think these things?
- It makes no sense.
- Cassandra
The man.
Is it that your feelings about Neil are
being projected onto this new admirer?
Um
Can I?
Do you want one?
Why not? Small one.
- [mysterious, pulsing music playing]
- [drink pours]
I kill him.
And I look at him
and I feel nothing.
Let me, uh,
top you up.
It's like what you said before.
Uh, what-what was it you used to say
about living your life with pain?
Remind me?
♪
Cassandra?
Cassandra?
[suspenseful music playing]
What'd you do last night?
I, uh
- bumped into Bella.
- What?
In her bar?
- Mm-hmm.
- Mm.
The chances of her being in there.
Is she, uh, is she still with, um,
what's his name?
Paul.
Always with the "what's his name."
Paul.
So, why add the "what's his name"?
Yeah, she's still with Paul.
- You just hate him.
- Don't hate him.
- Just think he's a bit square.
- Square?
Unlike cool old Laz.
Hey, Bella's cool.
She's a she's a cool person.
Paul's Paul's basically a golf nerd.
I just don't see how they work together.
Well, they've been married
longer than you two were.
High bar, Jen.
We married too young.
It was never gonna last.
And if we met now, who knows.
How old's the kid, um, what's his name?
[chuckles softly]
Aidan.
Fifteen.
Has he got any weirder?
He's not weird, Laz,
he's unique in his own magical way.
So he has got weirder.
Yes.
- [scoffs]
- Yeah, look, um,
[stammers] I wanted to speak to Margot.
Just about Dad's final days and stuff.
I should warn you that she's still
pretty traumatised about finding him.
I offered her some Reiki,
her aura was like a greyish yellow.
Oh, God. Was it?
Yes, it was.
And if you opened yourself up
to the energies of the universe,
it would change your life.
Would it?
It would.
- So, what colour's my aura?
- Hmm
[gasps]
It's arsehole colour. [clicks tongue]
- Profound.
- [giggles]
[chuckles]
[engine starts]
[eerie music playing]
[Margot] So the client files are up here.
Your father
wasn't blessed
in the organisation department.
No, I know, Margot,
but luckily he had you.
He did.
[grunts] And we were a good team.
[sighs]
[sobs]
I'm sorry, it's, um,
it's being back in here
Cassandra you say?
- Surname?
- No idea.
Right. That makes it tricky.
We file by surname.
So, you don't have a database
or computer system, do you?
No, your father liked a paper system.
He often recorded sessions,
for reference, but he didn't care much
for technology.
You're a good boy, Joel.
I know you two were busy
and couldn't speak as much as you'd like,
but he was very proud of you.
Professionally.
[chuckles softly]
I suppose, choosing your career,
you wanted to be like him.
Yeah. Perhaps.
He was very good, you know,
at getting inside your mind
And you got inside his?
Occasionally.
Did he ever talk about, um
Sutton,
and the night she was killed?
A little.
Why?
I just always felt he'd, uh
Blamed you?
Mm. Well, I don't know
anything about that.
Now, if you'll excuse me,
I'm feeling a little overwhelmed
being back in here.
[mysterious music playing]
♪
What the fuck?
♪
[car alarm chirps]
[intercom ringing]
[line clicks]
Hi. Yes.
Uh, I-I'm looking for a Cassandra?
[door buzzes]
♪
Hello.
Hi. Um, does
does Cassandra still live here?
Cassandra?
Yeah. Uh, Cassandra Rhodes.
Right.
Wow. You don't
That's like 20 years ago.
I know, she's a client of my father's,
and my-my father passed away,
so I was just kind of, um
Listen, I'm sorry,
but she's dead.
Dead?
Murdered, actually.
No, uh
I I-I was
I was with her, uh, yesterday.
Cassandra Rhodes?
Trust me,
she was murdered over 20 years ago.
We were the only people
that would buy the place.
[voice fading]
We got it pretty cheap, actually.
It'd been left empty for ages,
apart from the crap that
got left in the attic
You definitely weren't with her yesterday.
Right.
♪
[panting]
[line ringing]
- Hello?
- Cassandra Rhodes,
she was strangled
and her killer never found.
And you don't remember that?
A client being murdered?
Because that seems
pretty fucking memorable, Margot.
I'm sorry, I-I can't hear you.
I said, Cassandra Rhodes was murdered.
I'm sorry. I'm sorry, you're breaking up.
[line disconnects]
Hello?
[Cassandra] Oh, also, I should tell you,
there's a man who's stalking me.
♪
[phone buzzing]
Yeah?
Hey, man, uh, the mortuary have released
your dad's body to the undertakers.
[Portishead: "Roads"]
♪
Ooh, can't anybody see ♪
We've got a war to fight ♪
Never find our way ♪
Regardless of what they say ♪
How can it feel ♪
This wrong? ♪
From this moment ♪
How can it feel ♪
This wrong? ♪
Storm in the morning light ♪
I feel ♪
No more can I say ♪
Frozen to myself ♪
I got nobody on my side ♪
And surely that ain't right ♪
Surely that ain't right ♪
[Lazarus] I was going through Dad's
old files, cleaning out his office,
and I came across this.
Another unsolved murder. 1999.
Four miles away.
It's very different
circumstances though, to Sutton.
Yeah, but two unsolved murders,
one year apart,
and for both of them,
the culprit never caught.
Yeah, 25 years ago.
She was one of Dad's patients.
Thought she had a stalker.
Isn't that stuff private, Laz?
She's dead, Seth.
Can you
can you find out
what happened with that case?
You want me to start
nosing around in files from 1999?
Investigations I wasn't even part of.
And you are you mad?
I-I just--
Joel.
Alison.
I'm so sorry.
Ma'am.
Seth.
I can't believe he's gone.
Especially like this.
- What did you make of the note?
- Baffling.
Maybe a reincarnation thing?
I mean, Dad was
always fond of the cryptic,
but I think he went
a bit overboard at the end.
I guess none of us really know, do we?
What's going on up there.
Nice to see you.
- Jenna, hi.
- Hello.
I used to think your dad was banging her.
[chuckles]
After Mom died, I thought
every woman that came to the house
was gonna be my new mother.
Now I realise "widow" is a catnip
to a certain kind of woman.
[chuckles]
Can you get me that info?
We need to talk about
your attempts to corrupt a police officer.
Later.
Over a pint.
[indistinct chatter, laughter]
Oh, Laz?
Lovely service.
Oh, thank you. Thanks.
- Hey, Paul.
- Joel.
Oh, you can-- Laz, please.
I'll stick with Joel.
So, uh, how's the golf going?
Good. I'm down to a handicap of ten now.
Oh, great.
Yeah, and the greens down
at the Montgomery are perfection.
They use a high potassium
and phosphate fertilisation.
Corrects any deficiencies
during the growing season.
Can I get you a drink?
Um, I-I-I'm good, thanks. Um, uh
Oh, I'll refill us.
Oh, okay.
Paul, do you want to come with?
Yeah, okay.
[pensive music playing]
♪
♪
[Seth] I don't think any of us ever
really got over what happened that night.
[indistinct chatter]
[mysterious music playing]
Come on, Laz, let's go.
♪
[officer] Sam Olsen,
I'm arresting you on suspicion
of the murder of Sutton Lazarus.
You do not need to say anything.
If you do, it will be held against you.
[jarring music playing]
They released him.
They fucking released him.
[screams]
After I left last night,
I walked by Sam Olsen's house.
The night of your father's funeral,
you decide to go to the house of the man
accused of murdering your sister.
It's not like the two things
aren't connected, Jen.
But, you know, I was walking around there.
[inhales sharply]
I, uh
I wanted to see the place again.
He was cleared, Laz.
There's no forensics, no witnesses.
And Dad never believed it was him.
Personally, I'd put him in jail
for the cardigans he wears,
but I don't make the laws.
You did well.
In the funeral.
It was a nice speech.
I liked all the hippy shit.
[chuckles softly]
We live on, Laz, we do.
Once we leave these bodies.
- Really?
- Really.
I know Sutton is here.
I can feel her sometimes.
Okay, so let me ask you this.
Do you think
people ever see dead people?
Like actually see them,
like they're
mm, before their eyes?
You are grieving.
If you
think that you're seeing Dad, then--
I know all about
bereavement hallucination, Jen.
That's not what I'm asking.
Hey then, what are you asking?
[mysterious music playing]
Forget it.
[exhales]
When you're dead, you're dead.
[Lazarus] Cassandra Rhodes, she was
strangled and her killer never found.
And you don't remember that,
a client being murdered?
[Adebago] You definitely weren't
with her yesterday.
[dog barking in distance]
♪
[rain pattering softly]
Oi!
Are you Aidan?
Are you Bella's boy?
What you doing here?
I wanted to see what you looked like.
You shouldn't have come back here.
My dad died.
I know.
I heard.
Your mom was at the funeral.
And your dad.
I asked if I could go.
To my dad's funeral?
They fascinate me.
It was pretty standard.
I don't know how many
you've been to but, um,
it was all the usual stuff.
Uh, a coffin,
some nice words, bit of music.
You know.
What do you do?
I'm a
forensic psychiatrist.
You talk to mad people.
[chuckles] Yeah.
Yeah, kind of.
Serial killers?
[sighs]
Most people aren't serial killers.
I think it could send you crazy.
Dealing with crazy people.
I think you're right.
Home sweet home.
You shouldn't have come back.
I have a bad feeling about it.
Get inside, please, Aidan.
I'm-I'm so sorry.
I told him you were here,
and he just gets these ideas in his head.
It's fine.
Hey, Paul.
Joel.
- Go on, in you go.
- [door closes]
Right, well, I'll, uh, I'll head off.
Thank you, for bringing him back.
I do really appreciate it.
I think it blows his mind
that I've had two husbands.
I guess that is strange for a kid.
Well, yeah.
[laughs]
- What?
- Just the way you said,
"Well, yeah." [laughs]
Just felt like I was 19 again.
Yeah, I know.
I'm sorry.
Bye.
[phone ringing]
[Seth] Hey, man, meet me at Rosie Q's.
I got something for you.
Enjoy yourself.
You're a superstar.
Okay, you want the abridged version?
She was nuts, Cassandra, batshit.
Problem child, in and out of foster care.
Couple of relationships, mostly abusive.
And then she winds up dead.
Almost certainly
at the hands of her lover,
Neil Croft, although he was never charged
because he went AWOL.
It's a sorry and sordid tale.
On the page.
- But she was a human.
- [Seth scoffs]
I see this all the time in prisons, Seth.
The way it reads isn't always
the way it went down.
And sometimes you like these people.
Are you gonna tell me
what this has to do with anything?
Wait, was your dad banging her?
God, it's always banging with you,
isn't it?
Take sex and money away, I have no job.
I don't know.
- The Sutton thing, the connection.
- There is none.
This girl was trouble, trouble found her
and trouble killed her, case closed.
Twenty-five years ago.
You going?
Things to do.
You're meeting Jenna, aren't you?
What?
Look at your terrible lie face.
- Don't ever commit a crime, Seth.
- All right.
It's so weird actually because she said
that the universe was gonna
bring kindness into her life.
And minutes later,
I called her
and asked her out for a drink.
Kismet.
Yes, Laz, kismet.
Very much kismet.
You don't know what it means, do you?
Not a clue.
But I am gonna use it on your sister.
Cheers, mate.
Bye!
- [Unkle: "Lonely Soul"]
- But I'm gonna die ♪
[bottle rattling]
[tense music playing]
[indistinct chatter]
[car alarm chirps]
[car alarm chirps]
[footsteps echo]
Hey.
You following me?
Oi!
Hey!
Hey!
- [Chemical Brothers: "Setting Sun"]
- You're the devil in me ♪
That I brought in ♪
- From the cold ♪
- [Lazarus] Are you all right?
You said your body was young ♪
But your mind was very old ♪
You're coming on strong
and I like the way ♪
The visions we had ♪
- Faded away ♪
- Hey! Hey!
You're part of a life I've never had ♪
I'll tell you that it's just too bad ♪
[grunting]
[shouts]
I'll tell you that it's just too bad ♪
I'll tell you
that it's just too bad ♪
I'll tell you that it's just too bad ♪
[dog barking in distance]
[intriguing music playing]
Hello?!
Where are you?!
- [Rumer: "The Windmills Of Your Mind"]
- Like a circle in a spiral ♪
Like a wheel within a wheel ♪
Never ending or beginning ♪
On an ever-spinning wheel ♪
Like a snowball down a mountain ♪
Or a carnival balloon ♪
Like a carousel that's turning ♪
Running rings around the moon ♪
Like a clock whose hands are sweeping ♪
Past the minutes of its face ♪
And the world is like an apple ♪
Whirling silently in space ♪
Like the circles ♪
That you find ♪
In the windmills ♪
Of your mind ♪
"If you invite an arsonist
into your house,
do not put matches into his room."
- [mysterious music playing]
- [footsteps echo]
So you met Cassandra.
There will be others, son.
They will come to you, too.
Others who were murdered.
Like Cassandra.
And me.
[atmospheric music playing]
♪
♪