The Coroner Page #7

DAVEY:

What?

JANE:

You know I did see someone leaving the Nursing Home, just before we

talked to Ron. Could have been Lee...

[JANE TRIES TO MAKE SENSE OF IT ALL]

DAVEY:

So where you been skiving?

JANE:

Sarah told me Lisa's dead.

[DAVEY IS BLOWN AWAY]

JANE:

So I went back out to the cottage. You know I'm wondering if we should

get CSI back out there with ground-penetrating radar.

DAVEY:

You reckon she's buried out there? Near her baby?

JANE:

Maybe. Unless... she was killed because she knew Sarah was pregnant...

DAVEY:

Why would anyone kill her just for knowing..?

JANE:

(CONJECTURING) Sarah was underage? If the father wasn't, it's rape.

And the baby would have been proof.

DAVEY:

(FOLLOWING) And maybe the father killed Lisa and the baby to hush it

all up? (BEAT, EYEING PHIL) So then, who are we looking at for the

father? Phil? His Dad?

[STRUCK BY A HORRIBLE THOUGHT, JANE RE-

CONJECTURES]

JANE:

Or whoever Phil says framed him?

DAVEY:

(SHOCKED) What, Lee?

JANE:

He was at Greyvale. And he does seem to be going around trying to keep

people quiet. Sarah, Ron Tate.

DAVEY:

Yeah, maybe. But... incest?

JANE:

If Lisa did find out and was going to tell, maybe he had to keep her quiet.

Permanently...

[THEY ARE BOTH TROUBLED]

CUT TO:

EP2/SC41. EXT. SARAH'S BUNGALOW. DAY 2. 10.58

JANE, DAVEY, LEE, SARAH, KAREN

[LEE IS HURRYING TO HIS CAR, SUITCASE IN TOW.

(FURTHER UP THE ROAD) IN THE CAR: AS DAVEY

PARKS THE CAR, JANE IS THOUGHTFUL, TOYING

WITH THE POSY, TEASING AT THE RIBBON, SEEING

IT UNRAVEL, STRUCK (BY SOMETHING UNSEEN)]

DAVEY:

Well, well. Gang's all here.

[JANE LOOKS ACROSS TO SEE SARAH AND KAREN

AT THE HOUSE AS LEE OPENS THE CAR.

LEE, SARAH AND KAREN COVER ALARM AS DAVEY

AND JANE APPROACH]

DAVEY:

(TO LEE) You off? Only we could do with a word.

LEE:

Got a plane to catch.

DAVEY:

Okay, never mind. We'll just talk to your sister instead.

[LEE HESITATES, CAUGHT]

CUT TO:

EP2/SC42. INT. SARAH'S BUNGALOW. LIVING ROOM. DAY 2.

11.00

JANE, DAVEY, LEE, SARAH, KAREN

[LEE HOVERS NEXT TO SEATED SARAH AS KAREN

SITS ON THE OTHER SIDE, ALL ENORMOUSLY

TENSE AS THEY FACE JANE AND DAVEY. DAVEY

EYES THEM, DIGESTING THE DYNAMIC. JANE IS

DISTRACTED, (STILL THOUGHTFUL RE THE

FLOWERS)]

DAVEY:

So you do all know each other?

[LEE, SARAH AND KAREN HESITATE]

LEE:

You reminded us. So we got back in touch.

[JANE EYES HIM, SCRUTINISING]

DAVEY:

(DUBIOUS) Hm. (BEAT) So. We've matched Sarah's DNA to the baby.

[PANICKED, SARAH LOOKS TO LEE]

LEE:

No you haven't! (COVERING) It was 40 years ago!

DAVEY:

DNA's come on a lot.

[JANE WATCHES:
LEE SHAKES HIS HEAD TO SARAH,

REASSURING]

JANE:

We know the mother was either Sarah, or Lisa.

DAVEY:

Yeah. Your sister? Who died?

[LEE, KAREN AND SARAH ARE SHIFTY]

DAVEY:

Or have you forgotten her again already?

[KAREN CLASPS SARAH'S SHAKING HAND,

COVERING, BUT DAVEY LEANS CLOSER TO SARAH.

LEE TENSES]

SARAH:

No.

DAVEY:

So what happened to her, then? See, there's no record of her death.

[SARAH SQUIRMS]

DAVEY:

Am I going to find her buried out at that cottage too?

LEE:

Leave her alone.

DAVEY:

(TO SARAH) Is Lisa the mother, or are you?

LEE:

Stop!

DAVEY:

(TO SARAH) What did you do to that baby?

KAREN:

She didn't do anything!

[EYEING THE THREE, LEE AND KAREN'S TIGHT

SUPPORT OF SARAH, SOMETHING CLICKS FOR

JANE. SHE TAKES SOMETHING FROM HER BAG -

UNWRAPPING FROM A TISSUE THE POSY OF

WILDFLOWERS. ABOUT TO RENEW HIS ATTACK,

DAVEY IS WRONG-FOOTED AS JANE UNTIES THE

POSY'S BLUE RIBBON, REVEALING THREE SMALLER

BUNCHES]

JANE:

I found these at the cottage. Someone cared about that baby.

[SEEING KAREN AND SARAH'S TRUE GRIEF, SHE

PLACES A BUNCH EACH IN FRONT OF EACH,

AWARE OF (DESPERATE) LEE WATCHING]

JANE:

But who left the third?

[SARAH BURSTS INTO TEARS]

LEE:

(CAN'T BEAR IT) I did.

DAVEY:

'Cause it was your baby?

[JANE REGISTERS LEE'S INSTINCTIVE SHOCK,

WATCHING EVERY FLICKER]

DAVEY:

You were the father.

LEE:

(PANICKED) No!

DAVEY:

You're lying!

KAREN:

Lee, you have to go.

DAVEY:

(TO LEE) We know you went to Ron Tate, tried to shut him up...

SARAH:

Lee, please..!

DAVEY:

(TO LEE) Did you hurt Lisa or that baby?

LEE:

No! I'd never have hurt him!

DAVEY:

Him?

SARAH:

(DISINTEGRATING) Oh, no, no...

DAVEY:

(TO LEE) How d'you know it was a boy?

[JANE SEES LEE'S PAIN AND DISTRESS, STRUCK AS

(UNDER EXTREME DURESS) HE RUNS HIS HAND

THROUGH HIS HAIR (AS LISA IN THE PHOTO) -

STAGGERED AS THE TRUTH FINALLY CLICKS INTO

PLACE]

JANE:

Because he was your baby. (BEAT) You were Lisa.

[DAVEY STALLS, FLABBERGASTED. DISTRESSED,

LEE LOOKS TO KAREN AND SARAH, HUGELY

APOLOGETIC]

LEE:

I can't keep doing this... [to you.] (BEAT) No more lies.

[IN TEARS, HE HEADS OUT INTO THE GARDEN

LEAVING SARAH AND KAREN GUTTED AND

FEARFUL FOR HIM. DAVEY MEETS JANE'S GAZE,

STILL SPEECHLESS.

TROUBLED, JANE LOOKS OUT AFTER LEE]

CUT TO:

EP2/SC43. EXT. SARAH'S BUNGALOW. GARDEN. DAY 2. 11.03

JANE, LEE

[LEE IS SITTING ON A BENCH, FIGHTING EMOTION

AS JANE ARRIVES. SHE SITS WITH HIM. A BEAT]

LEE:

I was Lisa. Once upon a time. (BEAT) But now I'm Lee. (BEAT) Like I

should have been, from the start.

[JANE LISTENS]

CUT TO:

EP2/SC44. INT. SARAH'S BUNGALOW. LIVING ROOM. DAY 2.

11.03

DAVEY, SARAH, KAREN

[STILL TRYING TO ADJUST, DAVEY GLANCES FROM

THE GARDEN (JANE AND LEE UNSEEN) TO:

KAREN COMFORTING DISTRAUGHT SARAH]

KAREN:

There was a man. At Greyvale.

[DAVEY FOCUSES]

KAREN:

Someone... we were supposed to be able to trust.

[DAVEY HAS AN APPALLED REALISATION]

DAVEY:

Charles Gower.

[SARAH'S DISTRESS CONFIRMS IT. KAREN HOLDS

SARAH'S HAND IN BOTH HERS]

KAREN:

Popping up, on his "special" unannounced visits. (BEAT) We both...

caught his eye. Too young... stupid... petrified to tell anyone...

[DAVEY FEELS FOR THEM]

CUT TO:

EP2/SC45. EXT. SARAH'S BUNGALOW. GARDEN. DAY 2. 11.04

JANE, LEE

[JANE SEES LEE STILL GUTTED BY THE MEMORY]

LEE:

I knew something was wrong. I could see Sarah just... crumbling, day by

day. Karen too.

JANE:

And no adults noticed?

LEE:

Later on, Ron guessed. (SICKENED) But Gower... apparently made

threats, friends in high places, whatever. Ron knew if he rocked the boat,

Greyvale would go down, all the kids with it.

[JANE IS SHOCKED]

LEE:

Ron was one of the good guys. But, I think it broke him, in the end... that it

happened on his watch. Ended up shutting the place down anyway, while

Gower swanned off back to his estate.

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