The Serial Killer's Wife (2023) s01e04 Episode Script

Chapter 4

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Have you heard of The Vault?
I need the membership list.
- Not th
- What if it wasn't Ollie?
If I'm honest with them,
then I have to tell them that
you were complicit in the lie.
That phone, is it ready?
It's Marnie.
ADAM: He filmed Marnie dying.
You did it to incriminate me!
Get off him!
BETH: Slow down. Slow down.
DIVER: No one inside.
♪♪
[KNOCK AT THE DOOR]
[DOOR OPENS]
[DOOR CLOSES]
Oh, wow.
You look beautiful.
You sure about this?
I'm sure.
[OVER EARPIECE] Yeah,
number three standing by.
[CROWD MURMURING]
[BIRDS CHIRPING]
Beth.
Okay, we have got officers
around the perimeter and inside.
You think he might show up?
We're prepared for that.
Don't let it spoil your day, though.
Congratulations.
BETH: Thank you.
Thank you.
[UNEASY MUSIC]
Mm-hmm.
Okay, great. Cheers.
All right.
Well, they're starting in there.
Since the one in Dover, we have just had
another confirmed sighting
of Tom Fairchild in the area.
What does he want?
♪♪
Jess.
[TENDER MUSIC]
Ladies and gentlemen, may I welcome you
to this celebration of joy.
A time when one man and one woman
are joined together as
one in the sight of God.
[GUESTS CHEERING]
[ORGAN PLAYING "WEDDING MARCH"]
- My goodness.
- Wow.
[BOTH LAUGH]
- Here we go.
- Let's do this.
[LAUGHS] Hey.
Hello. Hey.
Hey. Hey, hey.
So how does it feel, you two?
Oh, amazing.
He's changed my life.
MAXWELL: Ah, ask 'em in ten years.
- [LAUGHS]
- Maxwell, you got my camera?
- Yeah, yeah.
- Let's do first family photo.
ADAM: Come on, girls. Get in.
Everyone say, "Wedding cake!"
- Wedding cake.
- Wedding cake.
MAXWELL: Yeah! [LAUGHS]
BETH: You okay?
Here you go.
Girls, well done. Well done, girls.
That was brilliant. Do you
want to go get some ice cream?
Come on.
[PARTY CHATTER]
Excuse me.
I'm looking for my wife.
You haven't seen her, have you?
I might have.
It's just I-I always find a wedding
goes downhill somewhat
if the bride leaves early.
Well, I can't dance in this thing.
I have to take it off.
[BOTH CHUCKLE]
So no unexpected guests?
I knew he wouldn't come.
You need to go and entertain our guests.
Go back inside.
- Be quick.
- Mm.
[SPEAKERS PLAYING SOFT MUSIC]
[BIRDS CHIRPING]
[UNEASY MUSIC]
[DOOR CREAKING]
[FOOTSTEPS ECHOING]
[CREAKING]
TOM: Beth.
There you are.
[WINGS FLUTTER]
[CLOCK TICKING]
[COUPLE MOANING, PANTING]
[UNEASY MUSIC]
[PHOEBE GASPS]
[GASPS]
[SIGHS] I'm sorry.
- You okay?
- No.
No.
It's okay.
Was it Was it him again?
I don't get why my mind does that.
Doesn't make any sense.
- I love you.
- Oh, hey, hey, it's okay.
We're gonna work through
this together, okay?
I-It's normal with trauma.
- Mm.
- Don't worry.
- I'm sorry.
- Ah, it's okay.
[SIGHS]
[SIGHS]
The estate agent's got
another offer on my place.
Great. Have you finished clearing it?
Nearly. Last few bits to go to storage.
Maxwell says his divorce
has finally gone through.
At least we won't have to put up
with him and Jules bickering anymore.
[CHUCKLES] He's been a star,
pushing yours through the way he did.
I didn't even know you could
get a divorce in absentia.
[SIGHS]
This might sound crazy
but, um, what if we
were to view their house
now it's on the market?
Jess and I have just moved in here.
Well, I know, but a clean
start might do us all good.
[SIGHS]
But I like this place.
This is Tom's family home.
I've always liked it.
The girls love it.
You must like it, too.
Well, yeah, but
[SIGHS] I don't know what
we're talking about, then.
Okay.
Okay, we can look.
But I'm not making any promises.
Thank you for listening.
Okay.
I'll see you later.
No. You won't be here later, remember?
It's bad luck.
Important to maintain
a modicum of decorum.
Well
I'll see you at the church.
Mm-hmm.
- Bye.
- Bye.
[CHUCKLES]
[DOOR OPENS]
[DOOR CREAKS]
[DOOR CLOSES]
[SHOP BELL RINGS]
Morning.
Hi.
[SHOP BELL RINGS]
[SEABIRDS CALLING]
JULES: Beth!
Jules.
Running errands before the big day?
Yeah. I'm sorry we didn't invite you.
- It just
- Oh, don't apologize.
Well, it's all finally gone through.
In fact, I've just been
looking at new houses.
Oh. Congratulations.
How's your very modern family?
The girls settling in nicely?
A few minor squabbles, but overall,
they're pretty much BFFs.
We got lucky with those two.
You really have no idea, do you?
[UNEASY MUSIC]
I wouldn't make it up, Beth.
You know Marnie and I were close.
BETH: Tom had loads of women.
Why would I care if he was
having an affair with Marnie?
Why would you tell me that
the day before I'm getting married?
Don't you ever stop?
I felt you ought to
know before the wedding
since Jess is now yours.
What's Jess got to do with it?
Tom is Jess' biological father.
She and Poppy are sisters.
Wow. Great, Jules.
Adam doesn't know.
Marnie knew it would destroy him.
You should keep it that way.
[FAINT] All right. Gave them a bath.
They've been fed. Read them stories.
They are in bed, but they're not asleep.
So they very much are excited.
[NORMAL VOLUME] Right, I'm off.
You all right?
Just marrying again, it's
it's a big deal, isn't it?
I think it's just hitting me now.
Yeah.
I was a bit worried you
were rushing into things.
But
life's short, Beth.
- Hey.
- [SIGHS]
- Hey.
- Hmm.
You trust your instincts.
Okay?
Okay.
[DOOR OPENS]
[DOOR CLOSES]
[UNEASY MUSIC]
[DOOR CREAKS]
[DOOR OPENS]
[FOOTSTEPS APPROACHING]
[OMINOUS MUSIC]
[MUFFLED YELP]
- [GRUNTING]
- [WHISPERING] Beth. Beth.
Shh. Shh. Shh.
I'm not gonna hurt you.
I need you not to scream. Promise me?
I will not hurt you.
I just want to talk.
- [GRUNTS]
- Promise me?
Mm-hmm.
You stay the fuck away from me.
Beth. Beth, please.
You've been following me.
I did not do it. I did
not kill those women.
No, you are not doing this to me.
Look. The time stamp.
The time stamp on the
video of Marnie, okay?
This was uploaded after I was arrested,
after Katy died, over a
year after Marnie died.
This phone did not make
the recording, Beth.
Someone put it there.
Someone put it there.
I can't prove this without you.
TOM: Believe me.
[BIRDS CHIRPING]
[UNEASY MUSIC]
♪♪
[ALARM BEEPING]
[ALARM STOPS]
[DOGS BARKING]
[OBJECTS RATTLE]
These two.
[LAPTOP CHIMES]
[UNEASY MUSIC]
[MARNIE GASPING] Adam.
I'm having a reaction.
I can't find my EpiPen.
[GASPING]
ADAM: Where's your fucking doctor now?
[GASPING]
- [BETH GASPS]
- Adam.
[DARK MUSIC]
[GASPS]
[GASPS]
[OBJECTS RATTLE]
[GRUNTS]
[MUSIC ENDS]
[SOFT MUSIC]
[WHIMPERS]
[UNEASY MUSIC]
I thought you ought to know.
Tom is Jess' biological father.
She and Poppy are sisters.
[GASPS]
[WAILS]
[DARK MUSIC]
[WHIMPERING]
[PANTING]
[GROANING]
[PANTING]
[MUSIC FADES]
[BIRDS CHIRPING]
[UNEASY MUSIC]
[DOGS BARKING]
[WINGS FLAP]
♪♪
[GIRLS CHATTING INDISTINCTLY]
CLOVER: You sure about this?
[CHURCH BELL PEALING]
I'm sure.
[BELLS FADE]
[BIRDS CHIRPING]
Beth.
Beth, my love.
[GASPS]
[BOTH CHUCKLE]
Why did you sleep down here?
I came down to get some water.
I must have fallen asleep.
[CHUCKLES]
Yesterday was amazing, wasn't it?
All those people there for us.
Probably the most
important day of my life.
[CHUCKLES]
Breakfast?
Smoked salmon? Eggs?
Cheeky bit of champagne, as
the girls are at your mum's?
That'd be lovely.
[UNEASY MUSIC]
[FOOTSTEP]
Is everything all right?
Jenny's husband's left
his jacket at the venue.
I need to talk to the day
staff, get them to open up.
Really? Can't you get
It won't take long.
I'd like to thank them both for coming.
[UNEASY MUSIC]
♪♪
[WIND BLOWING]
[HELICOPTER THRUMMING]
[TENSE MUSIC]
[NO AUDIBLE DIALOGUE]
[FOOTSTEPS CRUNCHING]
♪♪
[DOGS BARKING]
[FOOTSTEPS APPROACHING]
[ADAM SIGHS]
Where have you been?
I told you, at the venue.
Don't lie to me.
I know what's happened.
The police just announced it.
They've caught Tom.
Seriously?
Wow, okay.
Oh, stop it.
Beth, you're a shit liar.
He made contact this morning,
but I didn't meet or talk to him.
[SIGHS]
Why didn't you say anything?
You could have been in danger or
I gave an anonymous tip.
The police did the rest.
I don't like you lying to me, Beth.
I don't like you worrying.
I knew what I was doing.
[SIGHS]
[SIGHS]
Well, no more looking
over our shoulders.
[CELL PHONE BUZZING]
[BUZZING STOPS]
Fuck.
[SOFT MUSIC]
[WIND BLOWING]
BETH: I feel safer now
knowing he's behind bars.
Yeah.
It's strange. You shared so much.
I mean, growing up in the same village.
Same schools.
ADAM: Our childhoods
were different, though.
I spent a lot of time at their place.
After your mum left?
ADAM: Hmm.
"A woman of weak will," Dad used to say.
She had lots of affairs.
Tom told everyone everything.
But it was always Tom this, Tom that.
The best at this, the fastest at that.
And the girls.
Girls loved him.
So easy. So willing.
That's how those girls
got themselves killed.
I should have seen
something was going on.
I should have stopped it.
I carry guilt about that.
That's not why you carry guilt, Adam.
You carry guilt because you killed them.
[GRUNTS]
[YELLS]
[BODY THUMPS]
[WAVES CRASHING]
[SOFT MUSIC]
[APPLAUSE]
[CHEERING]
GARLAND: You always knew it was him,
and you did well to stick with it.
Well done.
This is where you look
happy you caught the bad guy.
[SIGHS]
You know the anonymous
tip that came through?
Mm-hmm.
Was it a woman?
[TELEPHONE RINGS]
Yeah. Why?
No reason.
[UNEASY MUSIC]
[OFFICE CHATTER]
EDGEWORTH: Have you heard of The Vault?
ANNEKA: It's meant to
be one hell of a party.
For the right kind of people.
JADA: My guess, most of
them don't want to be traced.
Do you know a Phoebe Alderton?
BETH: No.
EDGEWORTH: How did you
and Dr. Fairchild meet?
At a bar in London.
[PHONE LINE RINGS]
[RING]
ANNEKA: Hello.
EDGEWORTH: Anneka.
I have some more questions.
I need to talk about Beth Fairchild,
Tom Fairchild's wife.
Anneka.
ANNEKA: I'm working tonight.
But I'll put you on the list.
[MEMBERS MOANING]
[MUSIC FADES]
[SOFT MUSIC]
♪♪
[DOORS UNLOCK]
[TRACTOR RUMBLING]
[KEYS JANGLING]
[FAINT DISTANT CHATTER]
[MUSIC FADES]
[FOOTSTEPS SHUFFLING]
[CHAIR SCRAPES]
How are you?
[TOM SIGHS]
Got the duty solicitor
and no bail, Beth.
I'm fucked, aren't I?
Unless you've got something.
When I first found
your phone, I broke it.
Got it fixed
by Adam.
He's the only person who could
have put that video on there.
I searched his stuff.
He killed her.
Adam killed Marnie.
All he had to do was hide her EpiPen.
He killed all of them
Ella, Phoebe, Katy.
He set you up.
I found Polaroids he'd
kept of their dead bodies.
Adam. I knew it.
Fuck. [SIGHS]
Has he been arrested?
Haven't called the police.
Wh-Why?
Why, Beth? This is it.
This is This is how
we get back to our lives.
Aren't you interested in why?
Why your best friend would do this?
Why he would murder his wife
and frame you for the others?
I-I don't know.
Who fucking cares?
He's a psychopath, fucking sociopath.
Wh-What are you
Jess.
Adam knew she was yours.
Whatever I did or did not do,
whatever he fucking told you,
it does not excuse the depraved
fucking shit that he did.
Do you think that
you're a good man, Tom?
Doctor? Pillar of the community?
You assault women.
- You are sick.
- Fuck you.
You corrode everything around you.
Beth
you need to get this
evidence to the police.
I need to be cleared.
There is no evidence.
I destroyed it.
It's gone.
TOM: What?
[POUNDING ECHOES]
TOM: What?
Beth
[BREATHES DEEPLY]
What the fuck?
I trusted you. I gave you my phone.
It's all still on there.
Maybe you shouldn't have.
What?
I've got two daughters
to think about now,
and I won't have them growing
up with a father like him
or a father like you.
- Beth. Beth.
- I did just fine without mine.
Beth.
Beth, you ca
Come on. You can't fucking leave me.
Beth.
Oh.
Beth, please. Fuck.
Beth
[SOFT MUSIC]
Beth!
♪♪
♪♪
[MOURNFUL MUSIC]
♪♪
[MATCH STRIKES]
[SOFT MUSIC]
[SPOON CLATTERS]
[DRAMATIC MUSIC]
[DEEP BREATH]
Police, please.
I think my husband might be missing.
♪♪
[MUSIC FADES]
[KEYS JANGLING]
[GATE CLANKS]
[RADIO CHATTER]
[GATE THUMPS]
How are you?
Why are you here?
I may have accidentally on purpose
borrowed some of Maxwell's files,
including the ones about you.
They make very interesting reading.
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