Simon Walden. Single stab wound to the chest.
No witnesses, no motive.
I'm pregnant. Simon's?
Who else would it be?
What do you know about Alfie? Seems like a lovely guy.
I mean, is Lucy capable of consenting to a relationship?
Well, I'd say yes. Did you know about them, Jon?
He came out after me.
Next thing I know, he's pushing me up against the wall.
I know about Rosa. What you did was a crime.
Was Simon helping someone else apart from Rosa?
He said no-one should be frightened all the time.
Take your coat off and go back to bed
right... now.
He's a coercive, bullying narcissist,
and he has used your church for his own ego.
He stands by us... He treats his wife like his property!
You don't understand normal marriage.
Simon Walden came to the Brethren to help Rosa,
but I think he saw someone else there who needed his help even more,
that he wanted to help you escape Dennis.
Help me and I'll help you, I promise.
FAINT POLICE RADIO
GRACE: 'I thought I was feeling better.'
It's like...
my thoughts just... won't behave themselves.
I thought you might give me something.
Stronger tablets, maybe?
And... these therapies you mentioned...
..our church doesn't really go in for that sort of thing.
And your family? Are they supportive?
Your husband?
I shouldn't have wasted your time.
We have statements from both Lucy Craddle and Rosa Shapland,
that on the 15th of March of this year,
you sexually assaulted Rosa at the Woodyard day centre.
No comment. I'm not asking for a comment.
I'm giving you the facts.
What we're interested in is Simon Walden's murder.
I... I don't know anything about it.
We know Simon Walden was there the night of the assault.
He saw what happened, didn't he? You were drunk... upset.
You talked to Walden.
HE EXHALES SHAKILY
He'd come outside to smoke.
He helped Rosa call her family.
He could see that I was feeling like shit,
so we just sat and talked.
She hadn't said no.
I know she was drunk, but I hadn't thought it was that bad.
It was.
You sent private messages to Walden afterwards,
asking him not to tell anyone.
HE EXHALES SHAKILY
When did you find out
that he'd recorded your conversations on his phone?
Is that why you asked Rosa to show you where the chalet was?
So you could search for the phone?
Because you hadn't found it that morning,
when you killed him. No, no, I...
OK... I did go to the chalet.
I knew that Simon and Gaby went there.
Caz told me you hadn't found his phone,
and I needed to find it first, but that's all. I...
I had nothing to do with Simon's death,
I don't know what happened to him.
You left Rosa bleeding and unconscious.
That was an accident! She followed me.
She was freaking out and she fell and hit her head.
You told DS Rafferty you left your old job in London
because you wanted a... new kind of life.
I called your ex-employer.
The accountancy firm.
They told me you were fired for sexually harassing an intern.
The firm had managed to convince her not to take it any further,
on the condition that you left the industry.
You must've been desperate
for Caroline not to find out what kind of guy you really are.
I asked Simon not to say anything.
But that's it.
I don't know anything about his death.
We know that Rose and Lucy came to you with an allegation.
That you did nothing.
I went to see her family. Dennis Stephenson.
He said there'd been a misunderstanding.
We didn't see how involving the police would help anyone.
Did you speak to Ed? He said he'd made a pass.
Got it wrong.
Well, we've all been there, in our youth.
Ed's being charged with attempted rape.
Tell us about the, erm, nondisclosure agreement
you asked Simon Walden to sign. Er...
I asked him to sign it, he refused. That's it.
And that's what you had the row about?
Have you found his killer yet?
We're getting close.
Matthew?
I'll, er, meet you in the car, boss.
Didn't hear you come home last night...
or leave this morning.
Did you know about the allegation that Rosa had made?
What?
You didn't turn a blind eye...
like you did with Lucy and Alfie, did you?
JONATHAN SCOFFS
GABY: 'I don't know when we will be able to have a funeral for Simon.'
Or where we'd have it.
The only thing I have is... your church.
I, erm...
I was wondering if...
..I came to a service,
if you could say some prayers for him.
You're in a lot of pain, aren't you, Gaby?
Would you like to talk about it?
You have any family here in Devon?
Just my mum in London. She's a bit... erratic.
She know about the baby?
Hm...
I've told you a little about our church.
But one of the main things
is that we leave the outside world behind at the door.
Anything the world might judge you for,
anything that you might feel ashamed of...
..cast it off like old clothes.
Get a brand-new skin, like a little newborn baby.
Are there things that you feel ashamed of, Gaby?
World's a brutal place, tears people to shreds.
Forces them to do things that they're not proud of.
Everything in my life, I've screwed up.
These mistakes...
they brought you here... to us.
They have swept away your transgressions like a cloud,
your sins like the morning mist.
Return to me, for I have redeemed you.
ECHOING, GARBLED PRAYER
..need to be called because I persecuted church...
WHITE NOISE
GRACE GASPS, GLASS SHATTERS
SHE SHUDDERS Grace?
Sorry. Sorry.
Shall I get you some water? I don't want to make a fuss.
I just need to go home and rest for a while.
Well, I'll drive you. No, no, no, no, you're needed here.
I'll be back at lunchtime to check on you.
JEN: 'Do you think Ed or Christopher killed Simon?'
Both of them have motive.
Both of them were desperate to stop Walden exposing what they'd done.
SHE SIGHS
I dunno.
Is everything OK?
With Jonathan.
Yeah, it's fine.
PHONE DIALS
PHONE RINGS
Hello? HEAVY BREATHING
'Grace?'
BREATHING CONTINUES
'Grace, is that you?'
Tell me about Simon Walden.
He was one of those people who could...
..see things.
Like you.
He saw something in us. In the church.
The possibility of what it could be.
Without Dennis.
Tell me about what Dennis does to you.
He never hits me.
I almost used to wish he would.
'The pain would be easier...' Promise...
..than the fear.
How long has it been happening?
Since the day we met.
I was 19, running away from London.
Came here to... clear my head.
By the sea.
And he was the first person...
..who ever really...
..listened to me.
He was listening, all right.
To find out where the cracks were.
I thought I must've deserved it...
for him to be like that.
And then...
it got so it was just...
..normal.
Did Dennis find out that Simon wanted to help you?
To get away from him?
Simon was a good man.
What happened to him, Grace?
Was it Dennis?
I think maybe Dennis killed him
and you're too scared to say anything.
Help me get justice for Simon.
And for you.
What are you doing home?
Didn't you have double maths this morning?
Well, I know how hard you've been working recently.
SHE SIGHS Ella!
You should not be clearing up after me.
JEN SIGHS
Do you ever regret having kids?
Like, your life would probably be a lot better if you didn't.
D'you think that's why I work so much?
Come here.
There are many things I regret about my relationship with your dad,
but you and Ben are not one of them. OK?
Come here.
PHONE RINGS Ugh, sorry!
Boss?
'I need you back at the station, now.'
SHE SIGHS Erm...
'OK.' CALL ENDS
We're going to need you to make a statement. A formal one.
We have a warrant to search Dennis' property.
If we can gather enough evidence to charge him,
he'll be remanded in custody and you can go home.
Until then, we'll arrange somewhere safe for you to stay.
How long will I have to stay?
Well, that depends how quickly we can get enough evidence.
And if you don't?
Then your statement becomes even more important.
We need everything you know about Dennis and Simon Walden.
Anything that might help us prove that Dennis killed him.
Including his behaviour towards you.
And will that be enough to charge him?
And... keep him here?
I hope so.
What if it's not? I know he did it, Grace.
Together, we're going to prove it.
He keeps going... to his shed.
Boss?
Can you tell me how this phone came into your possession, Dennis?
Oh, yeah, I found it here last week.
It's registered to Simon Walden.
Well, I suppose he must've left it here.
How did you feel about his interest in your church?
Well... I could see that he needed God.
DENNIS CHUCKLES He needed freedom.
I'm sorry, "freedom"?
From all the lies your world tells, Matthew.
From its false promises,
the infinite choice that isn't choice at all.
So, you offered him a new life?
We offered him what we offer everybody - a Bible
and a chance to commit your life to something bigger than yourself.
I see how lonely people are, Matthew.
This terrible struggle to find something,
anything that has meaning.
Must've made you so... angry
that he saw through you. Through me?
Your life's not about God, Dennis.
It's about your ego.
And Simon Walden saw that.
He saw a chance to redeem himself
by helping the people who suffered because of you.
Is this because you're upset about your mother?
It's got nothing to do with me. It's about Simon... and Rosa.
And Grace?
Is there anyone who's not a member of this church
who can confirm your alibi for the morning of Simon Walden's death?
No.
Dennis Stephenson, I'm arresting you
on suspicion of the murder of Simon Walden.
You do not have to say anything, but it may harm your defence
'if you do not mention when questioned
'something you later rely on in court.'
I want to see my wife. I know you've got her here.
Why can't I see her?
I need to see my wife! Are you listening to me?!
SHOUTING: I need to see my wife! Grace?!
..for only you, Lord, make me dwell in safety.
In peace, I will lie down and sleep, for only you, Lord, make me...
ECHOING PRAYER CONTINUES
It was all Dennis. Mum, coming here...
meeting you.
He convinced her that he could convert me back.
He wanted me back onside.
Maybe some of it was him.
Not all of it.
I mean, come on, your mum was trying.
That wasn't fake, like, she really did try.
She thinks that we're sinners.
That I'm going to hell.
It's-It's not long, you know, since most people thought that.
But the world has changed. It's changed fast.
She might never accept us.
I know that you don't think that I say it.
That little Brethren boy... with his doubts...
..who's just waiting for it to all go wrong...
..who can't even hold my hand in public...
..because he still carries around the shame
that his mother taught him.
And that's why you needed to come back here.
Because even after you were so brave in getting out,
part of you still felt that shame.
And you thought that if she could just see who you are now...
..if she could just give you her blessing,
then you mightn't feel that any more.
And maybe what you really need is to just let it go.
MATTHEW STIFLES SOBS Can you?
MATTHEW SOBS
I don't know.
TEARFULLY: I don't know.
Thank you for agreeing to this.
I really did think Rosa had got it wrong.
You thought she'd made it up? I thought she'd misinterpreted.
They were both drunk. She didn't tell him to stop.
What Ed did was... ungentlemanly.
That doesn't make it a crime.
What makes it a crime is that she didn't consent to it.
I know.
Could've handled it better.
You did it with Mum and you're doing it now -
saving your own skin and fuck the rest of us.
What? We both know Mum would still be alive if it wasn't for you.
No, Carol... You drove us drunk, you killed her.
And then you manipulated everything to save yourself,
just like you always do. That night, I wasn't drinking.
Your mum was...
seriously ill at the time.
She was very depressed.
Don't make this out to be her fault.
You were asleep in the back.
We were arguing.
She grabbed the steering wheel.
We went into the tree.
That was it.
No... she didn't.
I'm so sorry.
Why didn't you tell me?
Your heart was already broken.
I only ever wanted to protect you.
MOUSE CLICKS
SHE SIGHS
PHONE RINGS
Jen? 'Sir, the CCTV shows Dennis'
heading to the funeral before the time of the murder,
coming back 10am, just like he said.
'His solicitor is saying we have to release him now.'
What about Walden's phone?
No blood traces, not enough to charge.
Does Grace know he's being released?
'I'm afraid so, sir. She's gone.'
Time to go home, my love.
Come on.
WHISPERS: Shit.
Dennis Stephenson had motive.
Simon Walden was helping his wife report him for domestic abuse.
He had means. We found Walden's phone hidden in his shed!
Yeah, but no sign of the murder weapon, though.
Why keep the phone but not the knife?
OK, is it possible Dennis was working with someone?
Ed Raveley or Christopher Reasley?
A conspiracy to silence Walden
because he was trying to expose them.
One of them could have been at Crow Point
while Dennis was at the funeral establishing an alibi.
It's possible, yeah.
If it was Dennis, someone must have helped him.
Where are you going, sir?
To talk to someone who can lead me to the killer.
I think Dennis killed Simon Walden
and I think YOU can help me understand how.
Matthew, I've lost everything. I've lost my husband, my son.
You want to take my church away too? Dennis isn't your church, Mum.
Well...
It will be a better place without him and...
And you didn't lose your son.
You didn't want him.
You made me choose...
between you and God.
SHE SIGHS
I told myself it was... it was some sort of test.
You know, like Abraham and Isaac. Prepared to...
..sacrifice his only son
because his love for God was greater than any worldly bond.
I asked myself every day if I made the right choice.
And I still don't know if I did.
What a cruel bastard your God is.
God is pure love!
And you were raised in it and you chose to turn away!
No, no, I was raised... I was raised in fear and shame.
I was raised to despise myself.
I know it's what you believe.
I know that you didn't mean to, or maybe you didn't see what I was,
or even admit it to yourself,
because I did a very good job of hiding it.
Mum...
If I could have turned myself straight,
I would have.
If I could have taken a pill, or if the praying had worked...
Even after I left, I spent years just hiding myself, just working,
doing everything I could to be good, to redeem myself.
And it was sad and it was lonely and I spent years like that.
And then...
Then I met Jonathan.
And he showed me that I didn't have to be scared all the time
of people seeing who I really am.
That I can be loved.
No, Mum... Matthew, please.
..tell me about the morning of the funeral.
KNOCK AT DOOR
KNOCKING CONTINUES
MATTHEW: Where's Grace?
I need to see her, Dennis.
DOOR SHUTS
DENNIS: She's very fragile, Matthew.
I know what you did, Dennis.
You've been controlling everyone for years.
Get out of my house.
Get out...
of my house!
I'm sorry, I'm sorry, I'm sorry.
After everything I've done for you. I treated you like a son.
I did more for you than your own father ever did.
Grace!
SLAMS CUPBOARD
HE SIGHS
I found this in your shed.
Before the police could get to it.
You couldn't resist keeping it, could you?
As a reminder of your control over me.
Put the knife down, Grace.
You convinced me...
..that I was so... utterly pathetic.
I only ever tried to help you, Grace.
That's what they all thought!
So loving.
None of them knew the truth.
CHAIR SLAMS
You controlled my life
for 45 years!
SHE SOBS
I couldn't leave the house, couldn't spend any money,
couldn't go anywhere, do anything
without the threats and the black moods.
I never hit you, Grace.
You didn't have to.
The fear I felt.
All these years, fearing you!
SHE SOBS
Well, I should have done this years ago.
Jesus!
SHE CACKLES
Maybe it was worth the wait,
to see the look on your face.
You're scared of me.
YOU'RE scared of ME.
And so you should be.
Grace!
Drop the knife.
KNIFE CLATTERS
Grace Stephenson, I'm arresting you on the suspicion
of the murder of Simon Walden.
RECORDER BEEPS
For the tape, the defendant has refused the duty solicitor.
Tell us what you did, Grace.
I stabbed Simon Walden...
and he died.
It was the morning of your father's funeral.
I knew I wouldn't be missed if I slipped away for an hour.
One of the benefits of being invisible.
Had you arranged to meet him that morning at Crow Point?
He said he... he was going to meet Lucy there.
And that they were going to go to the police.
To report Edward Raveley for his misconduct at the Woodyard?
Why did you kill him, Grace?
He was trying to help you escape an abusive marriage.
Did Dennis tell you to kill Simon?
Did he make you do it?
I did this.
I have to own it.
There is a name for what Dennis does to you.
Coercive control.
He has broken you down systematically.
If you help us,
we can show Dennis solicited you to commit Simon's murder.
You don't... have to protect him any more.
I'm not protecting him.
I won't stand in the dock next to that man.
I'll face this on my own.
I know that Dennis manipulated her to kill Simon
and he's gonna get away with it.
The grooming, gaslighting, whatever you want to call it.
He has... total control over Grace.
But she'll never speak out.
It's what happens with the Borum Brethren.
What's gonna happen to the Brethren now, do you think?
Well, they'll, erm...
They'll carry on growing their vegetables...
..while waiting for God to swoop them up and...
..watch the rest of us burn.
Yeah.
I kinda see why Simon was into it, though.
That thing of... totally belonging somewhere.
I never had that.
Probably never will.
You do.
Oh, I...
I don't know about that.
Here.
I'm gonna tell my dad to sell this place.
Or find new tenants.
It's not his fault, what Ed did.
He's not a bad man, your dad, he just...
wants you to love him and knows you don't.
Not really.
Did you mean what you said, about helping me?
With the baby?
Cos I'm really, really gonna need it.
Yeah, you are!
DOOR SLAMS
Right, you lot, who's hungry?
Me. I am making roast chicken.
All the trimmings... Mum, it's getting a bit late.
Right.
Yeah, maybe lunch tomorrow? Chinese?
Mm!
Yeah, go on, then.
Case is over, then? Yeah. Yeah.
JEN SIGHS
Will you...
promise me you'll always...
always, like, tell me stuff? Yeah. Yeah?
JEN CHUCKLES
You'll always talk to me.
Yeah?
Want your usual?
Oh, yes, come on. Crispy chilli beef...
VOICES ECHO You're too trusting
to see what's really going on.
'You're scared of him, aren't you, Grace?'
'I'm fragile, Matthew.'
Do you understand what I'm saying?
Go back to bed right...
now.
I couldn't help you then but I can help you now.
If you talk to me.
Grace, help me and I'll help you, I promise.
He told me that I was being... naive.
That Simon was only helping me...
to get Dennis out.
DENNIS: So he can take my place....
In the church.
Do you understand what I'm saying? We can not let him do that.
I believed him.
I started to think about...
how stupid I'd been.
Daring to hope.
To trust someone.
Dennis said I'd put the whole church in danger.
And that there was only... One way...
..to make it right.
To kill Simon.
Dennis had made me hear what he wanted me to hear.
That's the thing about fear.
It makes you...
..so...
..weak.
I don't blame you for this, Matthew.
JEN: Dennis Stephenson,
I'm arresting you on suspicion of soliciting the murder...
PHONE BUZZES
That Alfie?
How is he?
Applying for a new job at the carwash.
You know... CLEARS THROAT
..if you want to invite him over sometimes,
or someone else, that'd be all right.
It's not about that, Dad.
I know.
I know I haven't always treated you...
as I should have, as a grown woman.
But I... I made a promise to your mother
that I'd look after you.
Soon enough, I won't be able to.
And that scares me witless.
Who'll look after you then, maid? Me.
We're here to give thanks for the life of our brother, Simon Walden.
And I know it's strange to see me up here.
I don't know whether I should be speaking like this.
But...
Well, I am.
Now.
I know how easy it is to say nothing,
to stay quiet.
You know, because you've been convinced it's for the best.
But perhaps we let ourselves stay silent for too long.
Letting someone else... speak for us.
I don't think that's what God wants.
No, I think he wants to hear our voices.
# Abide with me
# Fast falls the eventide
# The darkness deepens
# Lord, with me abide
# When other helpers
# Faith and comforts flee
# Help of the helpless
# Oh, abide with me. #
SOMBRE MUSIC
BIRDS CALL
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