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8.34am
Jackie: Good morning son.
Ben: Good morning? It may well be good for you
mother but you didn't spend the night sleeping on a very
uncomfortable sofa.
Jackie: Just because your girlfriend turned out to be
a killer doesn't mean you can take it out on me.
Ben: You can't prove that she killed Ben.
Jackie: I can.
Ben: How?
Jackie: Yesterday, whilst searching Lou's house, I
found a box in the attic.
Ben: Ooh, well then of course that proves it!
Jackie: It had personal items in it - a mobile phone,
a wallet and a watch. And most importantly, the watch had
dry mud on it.
Ben: Oh, well. Did you check to see if they were
Rob's?
Jackie: Yes, and they were.
Ben: Y'know, I'm
still not convinced. She just doesn't seem the type of
person to be a killer.
Jackie: Of course you'd say that - you see the best
in everyone.
Ben: I just think that maybe if she did do it then
she's managed to move on. She just seems harmless now. Of
course she might have done things in the past that she
regrets, she was in prison for a few years after all...
Jackie: What? Prison?
Ben: Yeah, about 10 years ago.
Jackie: She still went to prison. What did she do?
Ben: Attacked someone.
Jackie: (Laughs) And yet you still try and protect
her. Why?
Ben: Because I like her I really do. I haven't felt
this way about somebody in a long time.
Jackie: Hmm, I can see why you're attracted to her -
you're both around 30 years old, you have similar interests
and, lets see, you're both killers.
Ben: Mother, you swore that topic would never be
brought up again.
Jackie: And you told me you'd stand by every decision
I made. Looks like we've both broken promises.
Rik: So Phyllis, Lexi and I were thinking of having a
spring wedding.
Phyllis: Oh please, how cliché. You should be more
like Kerry..
Lexi: Be more like Kerry? Well Phyllis, just hand me
a gun, let me shoot the brains out of a few people and I'll
escape to New York.
Phyllis: She had her wedding on her birthday and Dave
paid for everything.
Lexi: Hmm, well considering Rik can't afford to pay
for everything and my birthday was in January, I don't think
that's going to be happening.
Phyllis: When did you two start dating? You could
have it on the same date.
Rik: I don't think we can remember, can we?
Lexi: No. It was a few years ago. We were on-off
lovers until last summer.
Phyllis: Well, how about you just stick with your
spring wedding.
Lexi: We were going to do that anyway, we've already
got an exact date. We've booked the church as well. We'll be
talking to a minister later this month.
Phyllis: What about a wedding dress?
Lexi: Lou, Kate and I are going into town in a few
weeks to look for a wedding dress.
Phyllis: Into town? But the wedding dress shop in
town is just so cheap. Kerry got hers from...
Lexi: No.
Phyllis: What? I was just suggesting...
Lexi: For me to buy an extremely expensive wedding
dress? Phyllis, unless you cough up the money, I'll stick to
the wedding dress shop in town.
Phyllis: Fine, if you want to wear a cheap wedding
dress then you can wear one.
Lexi: They're not cheap.
Phyllis: They certainly look it.
Lexi: Phyllis, please, I wish you'd stop being so
snobby sometimes.
Phyllis: And you, Lexi, need to stop being so
insulting. Really. One day your mouth will get you into
trouble.
Lexi: Rik!
Rik: Um, what?
Lexi: Help me. You agree with what I'm saying, right?
Rik: Yeah, whatever.
Lexi: Rik!
Rik: I mean yes, okay, I agree.
Lexi: You don't even know what you're agreeing to...
you were daydreaming there.
Phyllis: Well regardless of the wedding dress or
wedding date, one thing's for sure - planning this wedding
is certainly going to be interesting.
Henry: So Richard just gave you his money?
Paula: We were talking last week and he said it was
obvious we needed the money since you lost your job and he
offered me a substantial amount.
Henry: £500,000 is a lot. I hope he left some for
himself.
Paula: Yes, he said in the letter that he was keeping
£100,000 and giving about £300,000 to charity.
Henry: I still can't believe it - half a million.
Paula: It was all lottery winnings. He didn't earn it.
Henry: Still, it's a lot.
Paula: Yeah. Anyway, I was thinking about what we could do
with it.
Henry: Go on holiday, buy a new car.
Paula: I mean work-wise. I was thinking about starting our
own business. I've always wanted to own my own business.
Henry: Honey, I'm looking for a new job, we'll have a source
of income soon. Meanwhile we can splash out and spoil
ourselves a little.
Paula: I told you before, I want to work.
Henry: I thought you joking.
Paula: No, I was being deadly serious.
Henry: Oh. I never knew that. Anyway, what about my
ideas? If we're going to open a business together why don't
we open something like a restaurant or fast food place.
Paula: I'm really keen on the bakery idea. I can cook
and you could help me out. And both our kids are teens with
no jobs - they could help out. It just seems like a really
good idea.
Henry: I'm still thinking about a restaurant.
Paula: May I remind you that if it wasn't for me we
wouldn't have this money?
Henry: But a bakery just seems so boring.
Paula: I don't care what you think.
Henry: You don't? Because I care about what you
think.
Paula: No you don't because if you did, you'd be at
least trying to support me here.
Henry: I guess we'll have to disagree on this one
until we somehow managed to reach a final decision.
Paula: Henry, I've came to a decision - I'm opening a
bakery.
Lexi: Ah, Phyllis. I wanted to talk to you.
Phyllis: If you're looking for more wedding tips then
I'm sorry. You didn't appreciate them this morning...
Lexi: No, I just want to check that everything's
planned for this evening when the pub re-opens. I've checked
and we've got all the drinks and snacks. The pub's clean. I
just needed to check that you're still up for working
tonight.
Phyllis: Yes, I'll do it for tonight only.
Lexi: Just tonight.
Phyllis: I'm retired. I'm trying to live a relaxing
life.
Lexi: You just moved in and expected to live here
cost free? I'm sorry but you'll need to help out in the pub.
Phyllis: And I'm sorry, well, kind of sorry, that I
can't do it.
Lexi: Phyllis, it's an easy job and you don't even
have to do it everyday. I'm only asking you to help out when
we need it.
Phyllis: Hmm, I suppose I can on a few conditions
which are if I can be bothered too and if you, dear, stop
moaning at me.
Lexi: I do wonder sometimes... why are old people,
like yourself, so complicated and difficult.
Phyllis: The same reason beautiful women, like
yourself, are bitches.
Lexi: I'm not going to retaliate to your insults like
last time.
Phyllis: Do whatever you want, dear. Just don't annoy
me and I'll work my shift tonight in the pub.
Lexi: That's all I'm asking. Thank you.
Rik: She really called you a bitch?
Lexi: Yes!
Rik: What did you say before and after?
Lexi: I asked her why she was so complicated and
difficult. I might have also called her old.
Rik: Yes, but I bet she was being difficult again.
She's so hard to handle.
Lexi: She needs to go.
Rik: I think we'll have to throw her out.
Lexi: What?
Rik: Sometime over the next week when she's out we
could pack her and Seth's suitcases, change the locks to the
house and then dump their suitcases outside.
Lexi: I might feel a bit guilty about doing that.
Rik: She's threatening you and she's called you a
bitch.
Lexi: We'll do it next Wednesday then.
6.34pm
Jackie: Ben? Ben? Are you here? I need you to help
me...
7.12pm
The Riverside Pub has re-opened after almost 3 months of
closure due to a fire.
Ben: Lou. I, erm...
hi.
Lou: Hi.|
Ben: Are you going somewhere nice?
Lou: I had a date.
Ben: How did it go?
Lou: I got stood up.
Ben: Oh.
Lou: Don't try to
pretend that you care, Ben.
Ben: Listen, Lou...
Lou: Forget about it, Ben. Just leave me alone.
Lexi: You don't know where Lou just went did you?
Ben: I think she might have went home. I'm not sure
though, she didn't say.
Lexi: Is she okay? She just seemed quite down when
she was in here.
Ben: She got stood up tonight.
Lexi: She had a date? I thought you and Lou were
together?
Ben: No, not anymore. That ended badly.
Lexi: Why? What happened?
Ben: I finished things with her over something silly.
I tried to talk to her just now but she said to leave it.
Lexi: Ben, why don't you go and search the street for
her. I'll pop over to her house and see if I can find her.
Lou: (Cries)
Ben: Lou? What are you doing behind the pub?
Lou: I thought I
told you to leave me alone.
Ben: Listen, Lou. I'm sorry for hurting you, I never
meant to.
Lou: Then why did you do it?
Ben: It's complicated - and it's to do with my
mother.
Lou: Jackie? What's the problem?
Ben: It's nothing big, she just got in the way of
things. But I promise you those problems are over. I'm done
fooling around.
Lou: And what makes you think I'll take you back?
Ben: Because, like you've said to me before, I'm the
best thing that's happened to you in a long, long time.
Lou: Maybe.
Ben: And I think this might help...
Lou: It does.
Ben: As a way of saying sorry why don't I whisk you
off a nice hotel out of town for the night.
Lou: That would be nice.
Ben: Good. Then lets go.
Jackie has been digging in
Lou's back garden for the past two hours. She has so far
found nothing.
Jackie: All this mess for nothing? Thank goodness
it's not my back yard.
Jackie: Oh... what
is that horrible stench? (Sniffs) Eurgh.
Jackie: Oh. Oh
dear. Looks like somebody has been naughty after all.
Jackie: Oh! Lexi!
Lexi: Jackie!
Lexi is on the roof of the
pub.
Lexi: C'mon, stupid phone. I need a signal. I can't
get one inside the pub so surely out here.
Jackie: Phyllis, would you
be a dear and let me use your toilet upstairs.
Phyllis: What's wrong with the public ones downstairs?
Jackie: They're public.
Phyllis: But they're clean - we just re-opened today.
Jackie: I know, but I have an, erm, fear of public
toilets.
Phyllis: Fine. The toilets up the stairs and it's
your first door on theright.
Jackie: Thank you.
Lexi: Lou?
Lou: Hey. This is Lou. Sorry I can't speak to you at
the moment. Leave me a message after the beep and I'll call
you back. (Beep)
Lexi: Lou, it's Lexi. Call me as soon as you get this
message - it's urgent. I just saw Jackie, Ben's mum, digging
up your garden.
Lexi: What the..?
Lexi: Ahhhh!
9.12pm
Rik: Phyllis! Dial 999 now!
Phyllis: Whatever's the matter, Rik?
Rik: It's Lexi - she's outside and she's unconscious.
She's breathing but she's badly injured - I think she fell
from the roof.
Phyllis: Hello, I'd like an ambulance please... We
have one injured female here, suspected fall from a roof.
She's unconscious but badly injured... The address is 2 Sim
Street, Riverside.
Rik: How long will
they be?
Phyllis: The operator said a few minutes. Now come
on, show me Lexi and we'll see just how badly injured she
is.
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