Strangers (2018) s01e08 Episode Script

He drugged me.
He raped me.
Why did she keep this a secret? We had the tape.
All we needed was for Megan to show us how he paid her off.
She's dead because of you! I always wanted a daughter.
I know about Megan Harris.
She threatened you for me.
Lau! - Dad! - You OK? It was Xo.
What's he doing? Lau, get in the car! Drive, drive! Look, trust me.
I'll sort it.
Because that's what you pay me for.
Look, Jonah Mulray's a fucking lecturer.
We've got nothing to worry about.
Yeah.
Lau, there's something I have to tell you.
Your dad and I, we we found out what happened to your mum.
Why she was killed.
Xiaodong Xo.
I know.
I know he's my No, he doesn't get to call himself my dad.
He's a murderer.
Nothing more.
We're here to see Arthur Bach.
Xiaodong Xo was a powerful man, even before he ran for office.
If No, when he wins the election, he's not the kind of person you would wish to cross.
If the police are involved They're involved.
These kinds of accusations, you have to be very careful who you say them to.
He had my wife killed.
He had her father killed.
- I believe you.
- Oh, I should imagine you do.
I know what you did.
You and Sally.
I don't know what you're talking about.
You've got my wife's blood on your hands! So do not sit here and fucking lie to me! Believe me, it makes me sick to my stomach to have to come here and ask you, of all people, for help.
But we need somewhere safe.
And there's nowhere else.
You'll be protected here.
Both of you.
Oh, it's the least you can do.
What about the man who killed my dad? Ah, well, erm did you see him? Thanks.
Hey, thanks for coming, I appreciate it.
You're staying here? For now, yeah.
Please.
So, what's all this about? We need you to get a story out there.
I don't care how you do it, the web, international press, somewhere that it won't be hidden.
What story? Xiaodong Xo is responsible for the deaths of Megan Harris, Ben Torres, and David Chen.
David's? Sorry.
I know your dad and I had our differences.
I don't need your pity.
I need you to help us.
Tell me how I can.
Twenty years ago, Xiaodong Xo raped my mother.
The piece of shit's my dad.
Three weeks ago, Arthur Bach and Sally Porter persuaded Megan to blackmail Xo.
She went over there, and she threatened to .
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reveal what he'd done to her.
He paid her off.
Hush money.
And then something went wrong, he changed his mind.
He hired a guy called Kai Huang to kill her.
Jesus.
And that's not all, there's another guy involved.
He kidnapped Lau and he's the guy that killed David Wait, wait, wait.
Slow down.
I want to help, I do.
These are really serious allegations.
Do you have any proof? Me.
Do a DNA test.
Yeah.
Combined with a paper trail that leads all the way back to Xo.
If you talk to Sally, she'll confirm everything I just said.
I don't think we're safe until this gets out there.
I need to find the right people who'll print this.
Verify this paper trail you're talking about.
It's got to check out.
It's going to take time.
Yeah, we'll stay here.
Tell me about this paper trail.
Hello? Yeah, I just wanted to speak to her before she went to bed.
She went to sleep an hour ago.
Oh, sorry, I must have lost track of the time.
Working late? Yeah, working on a story, as always.
I know you don't believe this, but I really am sorry it had to be like this.
You're not sorry.
If you were sorry, you wouldn't have screwed me over.
You think I want my daughter growing up without a father? You left me no choice.
Well, we all get what's coming to us.
I'm pretty sure you'll get what's coming to you in the next 24 hours.
- What are you talking about? - Just keep an eye on the news.
Your boss is heading into a shitstorm.
And that boat you've been sailing, it's about to have its sails ripped clean off.
Everyone will know who I am.
Well, if you don't want people to know, just say the word and we can stop the story coming out.
We don't have a choice, do we? I want Xo to go to prison.
I'm sorry.
This situation has never happened before.
But the guidelines suggest nothing changes.
If a candidate withdraws You're up.
Good.
- What's going on? - Xo was found dead this morning.
Bastard hanged himself.
Jesus.
There was a suicide note at the scene.
A confession of some sort.
We've heard through the grapevine here that it's bad.
Putting two and two together, it has to be what you told me about.
A full confession? Why? Why now? Christ knows.
I assume he knew the game was up and this would all come out.
So everyone's going to know what he did? Well, no.
The chances of that confession becoming public are pretty slim.
But look at it this way, the man who took your wife from you is dead and you're safe.
You and that girl.
Where is she? Where is Lau? Gone home, early this morning, my staff said.
It's over, Mr Mulray.
It's time for you to go home, too.
Just here, thanks.
Thank you.
- - Mr Mulray? Sorry for keeping you waiting for so long.
No problem, I really appreciate you seeing me.
Erm I didn't really know who else to go to.
Yeah, I heard about David.
Is it true? Yeah, I'm afraid it is.
I'm sorry.
My wife had a flat at Potoyo Bay, I was keeping a few things there, and I just went round to pick them up and the place had been burned down.
Potoyo Bay? Yeah, it would been in the last couple of days.
Here it is.
Fire report.
What is it? Well, this report says it was arson.
Someone set light to the building deliberately.
Do you have any idea who that might be? Hey.
Can I come in? Sorry to miss you this morning.
You left so early.
Did you hear about Xo? I don't know how anyone could miss it.
What a coward.
Yeah.
He was.
I went to Megan's flat, in Potoyo Bay, to pick up my stuff, and uh It was burnt to the ground.
Someone torched it.
Why would anyone do that? The man who killed my dad is still out there.
Megan's message sent me to that flat, sent us.
She wanted us to find it.
Why? I don't know.
I've missed something.
Why pay her off and then have her killed? Can I can I see the passports, do you have them? Thanks.
You've seen these already.
Yeah.
The names She wanted us to find the names.
UK immigration stamp.
Three weeks before she died.
So, the last time I saw her, she travelled back using this passport.
Trying it out, maybe? Yeah.
Probably, yeah.
Do you mind if I keep these? Do what you want with them.
Thanks.
I'm really sorry to bother you with all this.
Are you going to be OK? Yeah, fine.
Emma? Jonah, where the hell have you been, I've been worried about you.
Yeah, I'm OK.
Listen, I want you to do me a favour.
I want you to go to my place and take a look in Megan's office.
You two, be quiet! OK.
What am I looking for? Paperwork in the name of Megan Walker.
Jonah, what's going on? I promise you, I will explain everything when I get back.
But can you just do that for me, please? Yeah.
Let me get the kids off.
Yeah, of course.
Great, thank you.
Thank you.
Conrad Davis.
Yeah, Emma, are you there? Hi.
I'm there.
I'm just walking up to unit 2110 now.
OK, tell me what you see.
OK.
Hang on.
There's a box here.
OK, what's in it? There's lots of photos.
Pictures of a girl.
Can you take picture of one of them and send me a text? Yeah, I think that's Lau.
That's Megan's daughter.
There's all kinds of things in here.
School books, first drawings - Is that all? - Yeah.
I'm sorry.
Were you expecting something else? No, it's OK.
Thank you, Emma.
I promise you, I'll explain everything as soon as I get back.
- Hang on.
- What is it? There's a USB here.
It says Po-toy-o on it? Did your sister email over the file? Everything was on the stick.
Her friend Sally Porter's nowhere to be found.
What about her and the paper trail? Third Empire? No, everyone's just waiting to see what happens with this suicide.
Here we go.
That's the flat in Potoyo Bay.
She recorded the meeting.
Turn up! It doesn't really make any sense.
Sally told me she wouldn't even wear a wire, she was so scared of being caught.
Maybe that's just what she told the consulate.
You all right there? Maybe she had her own agenda.
I take it .
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you didn't ask me here just to sit in silence.
You know who I am.
I got your message.
Twenty years ago, there was a party at Kowloon Tower.
You'd just bought the building.
Do you remember what you did to me that night? Do you remember raping me? Are you OK? I've been so worried.
I'm sorry, I needed be on my own.
It's been My dad's gone.
He's dead.
Oh, God.
What? I should have told you earlier.
What do you mean? They told me to take something of yours.
They had my arrest records, they gave me no choice and They wanted something with your DNA on.
What did I do, Lau? Is it my fault? No.
The people who took me .
.
they already knew who I was.
They're nothing to do with you.
I'm so sorry.
I'm sorry.
No more lies, OK? I've had enough of those.
This brings an end to matters.
Or when I've got your money, that'll be that.
I think I understand what he's saying.
What? What is it? What's so important? Haven't seen you this early in a long time.
I wanted to talk to you about Xo.
He's dead.
So your story, whatever it is you were going to write, doesn't matter any more.
Does it? There's a recording.
A meeting between Xo and Megan Harris.
And there's this moment when he's about to leave, and he gets a call, he's pretty upset and starts shouting and screaming.
That call was from you.
The recording doesn't have your end of the call, of course, but it's easy enough to work out what's being said.
You knew about the meeting with Megan and you were angry.
And Xo starts yelling at you, saying, you work for me, not the other way round.
- Any of that sound familiar? - Yeah.
Xo was acting strangely, so I had him followed to some rundown flat in Potoyo Bay.
See, I think you found out about a payment Xo made via a shell company, Third Empire.
A payout to Megan to buy her silence.
Where's this going? Why would Xo pay Megan and then have her killed? The money sitting in her account waiting to be traced back to him.
It just doesn't make sense.
Not if he was acting alone.
He wasn't, was he? Ten years, Xo didn't do anything that you didn't suggest.
Why would this be any different? He raped Megan, but everything else was you.
Wasn't it? Publish any of this shit and I will sue you.
This isn't about a bloody story.
I want Mae.
Full custody.
And you get this Jonah Mulray found it.
It's got all the conversations between Xo and Megan Harris.
I just want my daughter.
You can have this, and you can .
.
do whatever you want with it.
Full custody.
All those people, Megan, Ben Torres.
All to protect a rapist? We just .
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wanted it to be taken care of.
So we made a call.
That's all we did.
If Conrad hadn't passed it to some triad I didn't ask him to kill anyone.
Did you change, Rach? Or were you always like this, and I just didn't see it? Look after our daughter.
- Did you? - It's on there.
Thank you.
I know how difficult that must have been.
I'll get this to someone we can trust.
Think you know someone, eh? All those years married to 'em.
Yeah.
Believe me, I know.
Rachel Hargreaves? You're under arrest.
- Hello.
- Jonah, don't hang up.
Where are you? Does it matter? I suppose not.
Did you hear about David Chen? No.
He died.
None of this was supposed to have happened.
I thought everyone would get what they wanted, including Megan.
You didn't want justice for her.
You wanted Xo in your pocket.
- But Megan knew that.
- What do you mean? Oh, she was smart.
She recorded the meeting with Xo.
That's why she had the passports made up.
In case needed a way out.
I wanted the same for her, Jonah, I honestly did, but Arthur, he had his own agenda with Xo.
Right.
Arthur Bach.
And where's he right now? Just another day in the office for him, I suppose? I don't think so.
What do you mean? I kept a record, Jonah.
Everything we did.
We can move on to the commercial construction.
And you know what? Blackmail is frowned on, no matter what country you're in.
There seems to be some kind of discrepancy between their figures There is no happy ending for him.
Meanwhile, you're still walking around.
I wanted it to be over.
Do you think I'd have carried on if I'd known that Ben would? He thought that I was having an affair.
He must have followed me and seen Megan.
And that's what the meeting was about.
If only I'd talked to him If you're looking for forgiveness, I'm afraid I'm all out.
No, I don't, I School isn't finished.
You're gonna take a bit of a holiday! Where's Mum? Thank you.
Are you OK? Pretty sure I'm supposed to be asking you that question! I'm fine.
Let's go and get some ice cream.
I don't think I like ice cream any more.
What about poo on a stick? - No! - You don't want poo on a stick? - No! - It's delicious.
What do you want? I just want to know why.
For Xo For a man I believed in.
A man I loved.
Megan was supposed to be your friend.
You say that like I don't know.
Yes, we were friends.
But Xo was a father to me.
I had no choice.
Nothing ever works out how you plan, does it? My ex shows me a photograph of Megan .
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and Ben Torres, and .
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I panicked.
You had people killed.
Abducted a 19-year-old girl.
That man you hired, Conrad .
.
he was taken into police custody a few hours ago.
He's a practical man, apparently.
He's talking.
About all the things you hired him to do, about all the people you paid, and it all leads back to Xo .
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and you.
I kept wondering why you stayed.
You're not a detective.
You're nothing.
But then, I realised .
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it wasn't about what happened to Megan.
You wanted to find out who she loved.
You or David.
Even after all this, you still don't know.
And you will never know.
You're as clueless as when you first set foot in this country.
How was it? Pretty much as I expected.
Felix called.
That man Conrad.
He's told them where he buried my dad.
Christ.
That's something.
When's your flight? Not until later on tonight.
Good.
There's something I'd like to do.
If I mean, if you don't mind.
Of course.
I suppose we should say something.
If you like.
What does that mean? Turn around and rely on infinite awakening.
It's from the Buddhist funeral chant.
Mum never She never went to temple.
But my dad went all the time.
I'm saying it for him.
She was lucky to have you, Lau.
You, too.
I wish I understood why how Mum could do that to Dad.
To you.
Have you ever wanted to be somebody else? All the time.
Well, maybe that's what I was to her.
She kept that secret about who your real father was from your dad for so long .
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maybe it was all just too much.
She came to England, she saw me as a chance .
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to start again.
So, why didn't she do that? She married you, but she stayed with us.
The arguments they'd have, the separate rooms, but she stayed.
- You must have wondered.
- Yeah.
I think about it all the time.
I'd never change the time we had.
Speaking of which, I should go.
I want to stay here a while.
OK.
Um Here's my contact details.
Email, phone number, address, any time, anything, please don't hesitate, I'd really .
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well, I'd love it if we could stay in touch.
Thank you.
Maybe come and visit.
See the house she lived in and I'd like that.
OK.
Take care.