12th August 2007
Julian: Look, you're not going to be able to pay us off. We won't take cash, Joanna.
Joanna: I don't want to pay you off, all I'm saying is that it's not fair on Rachel to get yet another modelling contract.
Julian: Listen, Joanna, I understand you're a model too and you want to do well but sometimes life isn't fair.
Joanna: She didn't deserve to get that modelling contract more than me and you know it.
Julian: You're both models at the same level and you both had the same chance. It was fair game.
Joanna: But we're supposed to be friends and you know how much getting this contract would have meant to me.
Julian: I'm not going to say I'm sorry, Joanna. Life's a bitch sometimes, perhaps you should try dealing with it.
Joanna: Ugh. You are so pathetic sometimes.
Julian: You're the one with the pathetic argument at the moment - there's nothing here to argue over.
Joanna: Let me see the contract details anyway.
Julian: No, it's none of your business.

Joanna: Hmm, so much for "fair game", Julian. Looks like this modelling contract's making Rachel just as much money as she's paying for it.

The following day, 13th August 2007
Julian: Nice jog honey?
Rachel: Yeah.
Julian: Hmm, that's good. Listen, I was thinking, how does dinner...
Rachel: What happened yesterday between Joanna and you?
Julian: Oh, that. Bad news. I meant to tell you.
Rachel: What happened?
Julian: She found out that you paid your way into your latest contract.
Rachel: Did she find the contract?
Julian: Yeah, it was lying on the table.
Rachel: Julian, dammit! I thought I told you to file it away securely. What are we going to do?
Julian: Don't worry honey, I dealt with her.
Rachel: How?
Julian: Lets just say we won't be seeing her around much longer.
Rachel: You haven't killed her have you?
Julian: No.
Rachel: Julian!
Julian: Of course I haven't.
Rachel: Then how did you deal with her?
Julian: I told her we'd give her the money you earn from the contract.
Rachel: Two million pounds!
Julian: Yes, and a house in America
Rachel: What? Are you crazy?!
Julian: It's better that than being exposed as cheats, isn't it?
Rachel: Well when you put it like that.
Julian: Joanna's coming by tomorrow, I'm paying her the money and then taking her to the estate agents to buy a house.
Rachel: Well I won't be here, I have a photoshoot tomorrow.

14th August 2007
10.12AM
Julian: Joanna.
Joanna: Good morning.
Julian: I suppose you're here for the money then?
Joanna: Yes, of course.
Julian: I don't have it. We have to go the bank.
Joanna: Before we go, can I have a word with Rachel?
Julian: She's not here, she's at a photoshoot.
Joanna: Is it nearby?
Julian: Yes.
Joanna: Then take me there first, I want to speak to her.

Kate: Good afternoon Phil.
Phil: Oh hi Kate.
Kate: You look rough, late night?
Phil: You could say so.
Kate: Well anything I can do to help, just let me know.
Phil: Actually, there is one errand I'd like you to run.
Kate: Sure.
Phil: I was at a club last night, I left my wallet there.
Kate: Sure, but can't you go yourself?
Phil: No, I have to stay in the office all day - I'm expecting an important phone call. And my wife's picking me up from here at 5pm so I need my wallet by then.
Kate: Can't you call your wife to do the errand? I don't mind, it's just I didn't realise part of my job was being your personal assistant.
Phil: It's a one off, I promise. It's just the club isn't really wife-friendly.
Kate: Let me guess - a strip club?
Phil: Yeah.
Kate: Oh your secretary was right, you are a sleazebag.
Phil: You'll still collect my wallet though?
Kate: It'll cost you.
Phil: Fine, take whatever cash I have in it when you get it.
Kate: I'll see what I can do then.

1.17PM

Polly: Rachel Stone, it really is you.
Rachel: Excuse me?
Polly: I'm Polly Green, I was a photographer on one of your photo shoots a good few years ago.
Rachel: Oh, yeah, I think I remember.
Polly: So I thought you had relocated to Riverside?
Rachel: Oh I have, I'm just visiting the city for shopping today.
Polly: Oh, alright. By the way isn't it terrible - that poor model Joanna Richards missing without a trace.
Rachel: Oh yeah, tragic.

Joanna: You really are one sadistic little bitch.
Rachel: Ouch, that hurt!

Joanna: Not as much as I'm going to hurt your reputation when I go public with how you bribe your way into modelling contracts.
Rachel: You will seriously regret doing that!
Joanna: Oh I don't think so. Prepare to go through publicity hell. You deserve it.

3.32PM
Lou: I still think it'd be a good idea to set a wedding date.
Ben: I still don't have any ideas of when would be best.
Lou: We've been engaged for nearly a year and we've barely discussed the wedding.
Ben: We've had a lot of things to get over.
Lou: Yes, and we got over them months ago. Is there something else going on?
Ben: No, I swear. Things are just moving a little fast, that's all.
Lou: We're both fairly well into our thirties. If we hang around any longer then we won't be getting married until our late thirties.
Ben: Why are you so desperate to get married?
Lou: Why are you so reluctant to get married?

Kate: If this carries on then I'm definitely moving out.
Lou: Sorry, Kate. Anyway, why aren't you at work?
Kate: I'm just doing an out of office errand.
Lou: Right. By the way, can I ask for advice?
Kate: Sure.
Lou: Ben and I haven't been on the best of terms lately.
Kate: Clearly - I just saw.
Lou: I've tried everything to make things better but ever since the ordeal with his mother we've been growing apart.
Kate: What have you done?
Lou: I cook for him, I try and get him to talk about things, I've tried organising nights out and nights in...
Kate: What about your love life?
Lou: What about it?
Kate: When did Ben and yourself last get intimate?
Lou: 6 months, give or take a couple.
Kate: Well there's your main problem. I wish I could help more but I have a job to do. Catch you later.

4.07PM
Kate: I'm sorry Phil, I wasn't able to pick up your wallet today.
Phil: Damn. It was just a simple task.
Kate: Hey, I went to the club and asked. They couldn't help me.
Phil: Well you'll just have to try again tomorrow.
Kate: No such luck, it's my day off and the last thing I am doing is running after you.
Phil: Yeah, well if you want to keep that day off then I suggest you get back to work. You don't finish until 6pm.
Kate: What do you want me to do then, boss?
Phil: There's work to be done on the company presentation in the next room. It's for the conference next week.
Kate: I'll get right on it.

Phil: Lisa?
Lisa: You left your wallet with me last night. I was going to drop in by this morning but I was busy.
Phil: Thanks. I've had one of my assistants running around all day looking for this.
Lisa: By the way I swiped a few more notes from your wallet. You underpaid me yesterday.
Phil: Won't happen again, promise.
Lisa: So when can I next expect to be seeing you?
Phil: Sometime next week I imagine. I'm a little tied up over the next few days.
Lisa: I'll see you next week then.
Phil: I look forward to it.

Kate: I think it was a little more than a strip club you were at last night.
Phil: I can explain.
Kate: You don't need to, it's quite simple to understand.
Phil: You musn't tell anyone.
Kate: I'm not going to. I don't even care.
Phil: Good.
Kate: But I do have one question.
Phil: Sure.
Kate: That woman who was just in here - slim figure, red shoulder length hair?
Phil: Yeah, why?
Kate: I just thought I recognised her voice, that's all.

2 days later, 10.34AM
Phyllis: So, how do you feel the trial's going so far?
Kerry: Alright, I guess.
Phyllis: And you're being treated well in prison? Nobody's beating you up?
Kerry: No, of course not. I'm just keeping my head down.
Phyllis: Good.
Kerry: What's happened to dad, mum?
Phyllis: Sorry?
Kerry: Dad, why hasn't he been visiting?
Phyllis: Seth, your father, has been busy. We've been redecorating the home and he's gotten so into it. We're in the middle of changing the living room, which colour do you think is better - beige or moss green?
Kerry: Why are you lying?
Phyllis: I'm not lying.
Kerry: You are, you always go into too much detail when you lie.
Phyllis: It doesn't matter anyway.
Kerry: It does, why hasn't dad been to see me yet? What's happened?
Phyllis: I'm just trying to protect you.
Kerry: I'm in jail mum and I'm handling it pretty well, I think I can handle a little bit of bad news.
Phyllis: Your father...
Kerry: Has he hurt his hip again? Did he fall down the stairs?
Phyllis: ...he had a heart attack.
Kerry: Oh - is he alright? Is he in hospital?
Phyllis: No, he's out.
Kerry: When did he have the heart attack then?
Phyllis: Four months ago.
(Silence)
Phyllis: He's been dead almost four months, Kerry.
(Silence)

Kerry: Four months?
Phyllis: I just...
Kerry: Four months?!
Phyllis: You were on the run at the time.
Kerry: I've been in jail for the past month though.
Phyllis: I just wanted to protect you.
Kerry: When were you planning on telling me?
Phyllis: Eventually.
Kerry: Despite all that we went through, all the arguments we had, I still respected you.
Phyllis: Don't, Kerry.
Kerry: But now I'm finding it hard to even look you in the face.
Phyllis: Kerry, I...
Kerry: You had so many opportunities to tell me...
Phyllis: It was hard, I was struggling to cope myself. I had to put on a strong front for you, you have your trial.
Kerry: Don't make this about me!
Phyllis: I'm sorry. I really am.
Kerry: Not as sorry as I am. Don't bother arranging another meeting. If you want to help show up at court but don't bother making any further personal visits.
Phyllis: Kerry, I can't...
Kerry: I don't want to hear it. You've pulled some God awful stunts in your time, but failing to tell your own daughter that her father's dead? That's the lowest of the low.

Phyllis: Kerry, don't go!
Kerry: I don't want to talk to you for a long time.
(Silence)
Phyllis: I have cancer!

Phyllis: The doctor's say I may have less than a year to live.
Kerry: Why didn't you tell me?
Phyllis: Same reason I didn't tell you about your father. To protect you.
Kerry: So you just wanted to... die and not tell anybody?
Phyllis: It's not certain I'll die. I was diagnosed last October, I've been on medication since.
Kerry: Did dad know?
Phyllis: Yes, I told him.
Kerry: So what's happening? Treatment?
Phyllis: Possibly. The tumour's slow growing, it was discovered in the early stages. Too early to operate on though.
Kerry: So when are they going to operate?
Phyllis: Next week, hopefully.
Kerry: Good, that's good right?
Phyllis: There's a less than 30% chance the treatment will be successful. The worst case scenarios are they fail to remove the tumour - in which case I'll have less than a year to live - or I die while in theatre.
Kerry: Oh.
Phyllis: I don't want to go through with the operation because I don't want to die while you're in court and in jail - but I can't wait until your ordeal is over.
Kerry: Go for the operation. Take the risk.
Phyllis: It means I won't be here for the rest of your trial.
Kerry: I can cope.
Phyllis: And if I die?
Kerry: I've managed to cope with Dave's death, the loss of my child to social services and now my dad's death. I can't lose somebody else I love.
Phyllis: Then I mustn't have the operation then.
Kerry: No you must - because if you don't, you'll definitely die. You might die having the operation or the operation might be unsuccessful, but it's a risk worth taking.
Phyllis: If it's what you want.
Kerry: Definitely.
Officer: Time's up. Kerry, time to go back to your cell.
Kerry: I'll organise a visit for next week, sometime before your operation. I'll see you then.
Phyllis: Kerry?
Kerry: What?
Phyllis: What about your father? Can you forgive me for not telling you?
Kerry: I can do that, eventually. You're the priority now though.

12.18PM
Lou: I saw this beautiful wedding dress downtown yesterday.
Ben: Yeah?
Lou: It was perfect.
Ben: Oh right.
Lou: Just perfect. I even went into the shop and tried it on.
Ben: Okay.
Lou: So do you think I should buy it?
Ben: Sure.
Lou: BEN!
Ben: What? What's the matter?
Lou: You weren't listening to me!
Ben: I was.
Lou: You just agreed to let me buy a £2000 wedding dress!
Ben: Oh for God's sake.
Lou: Sorry for being so interested in our wedding (!)
Ben: Maybe it's not our wedding you should be so focused on.
Lou: What is that supposed to mean?
Ben: You're so wrapped up in weddings and babies that you seem to have forgotten me and my wants and needs.
Lou: I haven't.
Ben: Trust me, you have.
Lou: Well talk to me, tell me what you want and need.
Ben: Before you start trying to get us to join together in matrimony, maybe you should start trying to help reconnect us as a couple.
Lou: Ben!
Ben: I have to go back to work now, I'll see you later.

Kate: Desperate times call for desperate measures.
Lou: Huh?
Kate: Your argument with Ben...
Lou: Sorry you had to overhear that.
Kate: No worries. But really, desperate times - desperate measures.
Lou: I don't know what you mean.
Kate: Oh I think you do. You need to reconnect with Ben and I think you know just how to do it. Now I have to go to work, I'll stay at a hotel overnight so Ben and yourself have the whole house to yourself. I'll see you tomorrow.

3.21PM
Paul: Mum, hi.
Joan: Hello Paul, Lisa.
Lisa: Joan, nice to see you.
Joan: I only wish I could return the compliment, dear.
Paul: So where's your luggage?
Joan: We haven't brought any.
Paul: You mean you're going to stay here for a week with just one set of clothes?
Joan: Oh, we're staying for longer than a week.
Lisa: What?!
Joan: We've bought a house across town, moved in yesterday.
Lisa: Why didn't you tell us.
Joan: Because I wanted to tell you both up close and personal.
Lisa: Why have you bought a house?
Joan: Well, we hardly get to see our grandkids and now we can keep an eye on both of you two as well, if you know what I mean Lisa.
Lisa: Oh come one, Joan, there's no need to act so high and mighty, everybody here's equal.
Joan: If that's the case, you must have one hell of a low opinion of others then.

Paul: Mum, is there any need to be so rude? She's my wife.
Joan: She's a prostitute!
Paul: Ex! She stopped well before I met her.
Joan: It doesn't prevent her from having a history.
Paul: What are you really doing here mum?
Joan: I'm not lying, we really are here to see more of our grandchildren and to keep an eye on Lisa and yourself.
Paul: Lisa isn't comfortable having you around if you are going to persist in making snide remarks, and to be honest, neither am I.
Joan: Somebody's grown a back bone since the last time I saw them, I see.
Paul: You said you were here to see the kids, they aren't here. You can come by tomorrow and see them.

5.43PM
Julian: Honey, what's wrong?

Julian: Rachel?
Rachel: What?
Julian: Are you okay?
Rachel: Yeah, fine. I just have a bit of a sore head.

9.32PM
Rachel: Where's Lauren at tonight?
Lexi: She's at home, she said she be over later.
Rachel: Oh, right. I just thought it'd be nice to have a get together at mine for a night, share a bottle of wine.
Lexi: Maybe Lauren will come by later, I suppose it depends on what happens. Where's everybody else?
Rachel: Lou says she is busy, Kate will be here later, she said she was working late. I didn't think it was wise to invite Lisa after last weeks clash at the party.

(Door bell rings)

Lauren: Steve, hi.
Steve: Andrea's out tonight so I'm free.
Lauren: Yeah, so?
Steve: I thought we could talk, it's been a long time.

Kate: Is that a good bottle of wine you've cracked open?
Rachel: Yes, it's very expensive.
Kate: Great - because I have some good gossip to go with it.
Lexi: Is this gossip through Trish Spence again?
Kate: No, even better.
Lexi: Who?
Kate: Me.
Lexi: What did you find out?
Kate: Oh, it's going to take more than just one glass of wine to get me to spill the details. Top up everyone?
Rachel: Oh, not me. I never go beyond one glass.
Kate: Another on can't hurt can't it?
Rachel: I never go beyond one glass.
Kate: Okay, sure. Are you some kind of recovering alcoholic? (Laughs)
Rachel: Actually, yes.
Kate: Really?
Rachel: Yes, back when I was in my early twenties I went through a wild period. Drink, drugs, orgies - you name it, I did it.
Kate: Well, I suppose I can't say I'm too shocked. You were a model.
Rachel: I'm clean now though, have been for ten years.
Kate: Good to hear it.

10.43PM
Lauren: Is somebody on a mission to get drunk tonight? That's your fifth glass.
Steve: You just need to catch up, that's just your third.
Lauren: So you wanted to talk. Tell me, is it true what you said?
Steve: What did I say?
Lauren: That you used to have a crush on me, years ago?
Steve: That's true.
Lauren: Really? I had no idea.
Steve: Just like I had no idea you felt the same way about me.
Lauren: I've been looking for love for so long now, I never realised it once lived next door.
Steve: What do you think would have happened had we, you know, got together?
Lauren: I have no idea. Maybe it'd be me you're married to and not Andrea the Android,
Steve: Android? (Laughs) Looks like I'm not the only one who's had too much to drink. I'm sensing your a bit of a lightweight.
Lauren: Sorry, it's just a nickname Andrea's picked up.
Steve: It's not a particularly affectionate one.
Lauren: Well, she's not a particularly affectionate person.
Steve: (Laughs)
Lauren: I'm sorry, again.
Steve: Don't be, it's quite funny. It's why I love you.
Lauren: What?
Steve: I mean that's why I loved you. I mean, liked you. I mean... I shouldn't have said anything.
(Silence)
Lauren: You loved me?
Steve: Only a little bit, maybe I still do. Oh I'm sorry.
Lauren: Don't be.

Lauren: I'm sorry, we can't.
Steve: I know, but God that feels so good.
Lauren: But Android, I mean Andrea - she's your wife.
Steve: I need to love... I mean I need to leave. I must.
Lauren: Wait, don't go.
Steve: I have to.
Lauren: You're too drunk, let me call a taxi.
Steve: Down the street, I just live there.
Lauren: Then let me walk you.

11.07PM
Rachel: So are you ready to tell us your big secret?
Kate: Perhaps.
Lexi: So who does it involve?
Kate: Who's been a regular target of gossip and speculation recently?
Lexi: Lisa.
Kate: Exactly.
Lexi: What did you find out?
Kate: She's a prostitute, again.
Lexi: No way.
Kate: Yes, my boss is one of her clients. She was in the office a few days ago.
Lexi: I can't believe it - Lisa and her husband are fairly rich, I don't understand why she would return to prostitution.
Rachel: Maybe it's not for the money, maybe she just wants the sex.
Lexi: You think somebody could be that desperate?
Kate: Oh yes, the overwhelming power of the sex drive was clearly demonstrated by the fact somebody was willing to father Lisa.

12.21AM
Lauren: Sorry I'm about an hour late, I got held up.
Elsa: That's no problem. I'm just surprised you wanted to organise another meeting, especially considering how our last one went.

Lauren: So have you found out anything more about Julian and Rachel?
Elsa: There's been no major breakthrough but I'm slowly putting the pieces together.
Lauren: I'm thankful that you're helping me, I am, but why are you doing it?
Elsa: Why do you want to know so much about Julian and Rachel yourself? After all, they're just your neighbours.
Lauren: But they could be murderers - law breakers, serious criminals. Could you live next door to a murderer?
Elsa: No, suppose not.
Lauren: Didn't think so. It'd probably be easier for you to understand my feelings if you knew that one of my previous neighbours killed my younger sister over 2 years ago.
Elsa: I'm sorry to hear that.
Lauren: That's alright.
Elsa: The neighbour who killed your sister - you wanted revenge, right?
Lauren: Naturally.
Elsa: Did you get it?
Lauren: I suppose I did. The family moved away, now the father of the family - Ken Smith - has been declared missing.
Elsa: Well then, you can surely understand my interest in bringing down Julian and Rachel - my best friend was Joanna Richards and they were involved in her disappearance.
Lauren: I can understand that.
Elsa: I guess that gives us some kind of connection then, we've both lost loved ones recently and want revenge.
Lauren: We have a closer connection than that. I met Julian and Rachel last year, in August.
Elsa: That was the month Joanna went missing.
Lauren: Yes.
Elsa: How do you know them then?
Lauren: The details are vague, I was hiding as part of the witness protection scheme and I was in London. That's all I really remember.

Elsa: You were living in London - you could easily have seen Rachel on a billboard or read about Julian in the business section of a local newspaper.
Lauren: No, I definitely met them. Rachel is so recognisable. When I first saw her in Riverside I'd knew I'd seen her before.
Elsa: Where did you live in London?
Lauren: It was on the outskirts. It was a nice little street - had a windmill on it, though there was an ugly water tank at the bottom of the street.
Elsa: There was a wood panelled house, lots of windows and almost triangular in shape in the street.
Lauren: Yeah, that was two doors down from me.
Elsa: That's where Julian and Rachel lived - you must have known them.
Lauren: That would explain it. I only lived there for about a week though.
Elsa: That's interesting. I'll look into it.
Lauren: So what have you found out?
Elsa: As I said, nothing major. Julian bought a house in Riverside on 27th February 2008, Rachel handed in her notice of resignation the following day on 28th February. That's about 6 months after the disappearance of Joanna.
Lauren: That's not really suspicious.
Elsa: Exactly - they knew if they moved away in August or soon after that they could have been connected to Joanna's disappearance.

Rachel: Do you know Elsa's bought the house just down the road?
Julian: Yes.
Rachel: What do we do? Do we move again?
Julian: Oh no, don't worry. I have her covered - soon we'll be rid of Elsa Kay forever.
Rachel: What have you done?
Julian: I've found a way we can get rid of the last piece of evidence of Joanna Richards disappearance.
Rachel: Her jewellery we've been hiding behind the bath panelling?
Julian: Yes. Elsa hasn't moved her belongings from her house in London yet.
Rachel: So?
Julian: I'm travelling down to London tomorrow. I'll plant them in Elsa's home, travel back to Riverside the following day and then we can call the police to leave an anonymous tip off.
Rachel: I suppose we can then finally put this whole saga behind us.
Julian: And then we can - as they say - live happily ever after.