She wanted to hurt me.
I think she sees me as a threat.
See that boy?
That's just 30 grand a year tax-free from the government.
- Zoe. I'm taking your advice.
We're leaving.
Mummy doesn't love me anymore.
'Course she does.
No. Only you do.
Sunny.
Please.
- The world is constantly changing.
Species develop...
Colonies need terrain.
Taking advantage of...
- Entire forests and even animal life...
- The more rapidly the planet changes,
the harder it is for evolution to keep pace...
- This process of natural selection...
- They secretly lay their eggs in other bird's nests...
- In rivers, jungles, and deserts...
- ...until a new life-form arrives and takes its place.
Mummy is gone.
I don't know where she went.
She drove me to the house.
She said I would be happier here.
She kept crying.
She made me feel sad.
I didn't want her to leave.
I told her, but she didn't listen.
So, we have them here.
But then it cuts out.
And it stays like that for nearly six hours.
We searched all the vehicles, the hotel.
Nothing.
She hasn't contacted any of her friends or family since.
And look at this.
The journey from the hotel to the house.
Every camera goes out for exactly 30 seconds.
- What do the mothers know? - Just that she left.
Let's keep it that way.
- I just can't get my head around it.
Joe's my loving little boy.
How can he be the same as Lily-Grace, or Evie?
- They're not saying they're the same.
What are you saying?
- We're still trying to work out how their mind works.
- But say Joe learns something at school,
or about me, about Curtis.
Then the others will know it, yes?
- They'll know all your dirty secrets, Rach.
- It's not funny.
Maybe it's time
that we accept the children for what they actually are.
Which is?
An evolutionary step forward.
These children have come from us.
They're the next development.
- If they're one being, then why do they need different parents?
Why are we making the sacrifices we've made?
Cutting off from family, seeing no friends.
- Because they need us. - Do they?
They're not just a brain, Jane.
Lily-Grace is herself.
Connor is himself.
- How do you know? How can you be sure?
- This doesn't need to divide us.
If they can live as one harmonious being,
then why can't we?
We should take a leaf out of their book.
It could actually bring us all closer.
Yeah. I'd agree.
Me too.
That sounds great, Cassie.
But my house is divided.
I have a husband who loves one son and hates the other.
You think that's weird...
The daughter of my husband's lover thinks I'm her mother.
- B-Because she knew you'd be a better mother, right?
- You think? - Well, why else?
Sunny wanted a loving parent.
They -- They all do.
I know that Evie is mine.
I just -- I know.
- That was a good session, Dr. Zellaby.
- You spoke beautifully. - Well, it runs in my genes.
What's wrong?
Amrita Chohhan.
They...
They still can't work out where she went.
She abandoned her daughter.
That's all I need to know.
She had another bad dream.
She's freezing.
- That's every night since Sunny came.
It'll pass.
- She should sleep in her own bed.
- Did you go to the group meeting today?
No, I forgot.
- I-I thought it might be helpful.
I am not like those women.
And I never will be.
- Sorry, I didn't mean to wake you.
- Oh, it's alright. I wasn't asleep.
- Any luck with Amrita? - No.
I'm--I'm sure she'll call soon.
You're worried about her.
- You go looking for a place to live?
No, not yet.
Why?
- I-I'm not sure, um...
Well, I just think it'd be, uh, better
if Nathan's here with me at the moment.
- Well, if it's Nathan you're worried about...
Please don't move out.
Not now.
Okay.
Steve.
Get me the hotel CCTV again.
Before and after.
What are you looking for?
Something we missed.
- Stop.
There.
Zoom in on the mirror.
I don't get it.
Look closer.
- The vans -- they're different.
The night that the guest disappeared.
There was a -- a white Ford van in the car park.
And there was a different one there in the morning.
- Yeah. The morning one, that's laundry.
- That comes every day. - And the night before?
- That would be frozen deliveries.
That's weekly.
Where from?
DCI Paul Haynes.
This is DS Mayes.
I'm looking for a van.
- Oh, yeah that's the broken one.
- Can you take me to it? - Follow me.
Thank you.
She was locked in.
The wiring shorted.
How did it stay that cold?
- I don't know. It's impossible.
Who knows about this?
No one yet.
- Can you create a story for the warehouse staff?
Maybe change the name?
- What do we do with her body? - I'll deal with that.
London will want tests, in any case.
Don't tell the mothers anything.
And let's keep Dr. Zellaby out of this for now.
- She was there with me that night.
Uh, I have to tell her.
Tell her what, exactly?
- I'll call the warehouse, get our story straight.
A woman has died here.
A mother.
You can't expect me to ignore that.
- DCI Haynes, I realize you're just trying to do your job.
But we have been presented with a gift in this town.
I don't pretend to understand it any more than you.
But what I do know is we've had two years of peace.
Families have bonded.
There is love in every household.
One isolated incident, of which we know nothing,
can't be allowed to unravel all the good we've done.
- Thank you.
Sir.
Are you sure about this?
- After 20 years on this job, I'm not sure of anything.
But I have my orders.
Protect the asset.
We're servants of the state, Bryony.
Never forget that.
- Bye-bye.
You alright, Nathan? Joe?
- We're waiting for our dads. - Okay.
Well, I'll be inside if you need me, yeah?
- Dad, can I go on the swing, please?
Yeah. 'Course you can. Come on.
Joe, jump off, let your brother have a go.
Then we'll go home.
They're our swings.
- Yeah, well, according to government reports,
you're now officially one person, aren't ya?
So you can share one swing.
Dave can have the other.
Off!
Come on, boy.
Holding on, yeah?
Hold on.
Joe, look at me!
Easy now, easy now, son.
- Slow down. - I can't!
- Too high! - Dad, help!
- Take it easy, take it --
- Hi. - Hi.
- I just wanted to follow up on our previous conversation.
- If that's okay. - Now's not a good time.
- Hi, Hannah. - Mummy, I'm hungry.
- I-I should go.
- I noticed you weren't at the meeting yesterday.
- Was there a reason? - No reason, I just forgot.
- Look, I, uh -- I realize
I may not have been as receptive as I could have been.
About -- about what you were suggesting
the last time we spoke.
And I'd really appreciate the opportunity
to continue the conversation.
I'm shattered.
Hannah's been in our bed every night, so...
- Is she not sleeping well? - No.
- Have you been having bad dreams, Hannah?
No, I haven't.
That's not true.
I haven't had any dreams.
- Come on, son.
Take your time. You're alright.
Yeah, your mum's here. Mum's here.
David? Oh, baby!
- Just get him inside, alright. I'll talk to you later.
What happened? Is Joe okay?
- Yeah, he's fine. I'll explain inside.
Just clean David up.
Is everything okay?
No, everything is not okay!
- Curtis, don't be tough on him. It was just an accident.
- An accident? My son is covered in blood!
He could've broken his arm.
They did that.
Out.
- Well, maybe if I could just speak to Joe.
Nobody's speaking to him.
This is our business.
Come with me now, sunshine. I want answers.
- Sam, did you see what happened?
- David just fell off the swings, that's all.
- And who was there? - Joe and Nathan.
- Nathan? - Mm.
Hannah.
Come on.
- Zoe. I'm taking your advice.
We're leaving.
Good luck.
I'm thinking of you.
If ever you get out of here, call me.
She says "we're" leaving.
So, why did she leave without her daughter?
- Well, why are we doing this now?
- She begged me to take her number.
And now whenever I make contact, there's no reply.
- There could be hundreds of reasons
why she changed her mind.
- She said that a man visited her in London.
- What man? - Jesus Christ.
Daddy.
- No, you stay in your own bed tonight.
Can't sleep. Bad dream.
- You said you didn't get bad dreams.
- Let her come in. She's freezing.
- No way. You go back, please.
- Daddy. - Hannah, get back in your bed.
Aah! Ah!
What did you do to me?!
Hannah. Come with me.
Ugh! God!
Ugh!
What the hell is going on?
- Sh-She just made me hurt myself.
Look.
You're exhausted. You need sleep.
- Well, I can't, 'cause there's no room
in my fucking bed anymore!
You agreed to have this child.
- Only because you wanted it so much.
- But I wanted you to have a child of your own!
- What, you -- you think that I didn't?
No one wanted a baby as much as me.
- You know that. - And now you have her!
I don't love her.
Well, I do.
And I'm not even her father.
Hi, this is Paul Haynes.
Leave your message after the beep.
- Is everything alright? - Yeah.
She had another bad dream last night.
Didn't you, love?
She was really cold.
But Mummy warmed you, didn't she?
Are you still cold, Evie?
Oh. Thanks.
Is, er, Joe coming to school?
No school for him today.
Punishment.
Oi!
Watch what you're doing!
What the hell are you playing at?
- Well, I'm sure she didn't mean it.
Of course she bloody did!
You try that again, you'll have hell to pay!
You hear me?
Everything alright?
These fucking kids.
Hi.
Hi, hope this isn't a bad time.
Ward 300 have asked me to get a psych report.
About what happened at the swings.
- Oh, well, they're sleeping now.
It's their rest time.
- Oh, I thought it would be better to do it at the school.
Don't want to upset the parents.
W-We could just wake one of them.
Nathan maybe?
- Does Paul know about this? - Oh, yeah.
Uh, w-we'll be fine from here, thanks.
There. Shall we come and sit over here?
So, Nathan.
Do you know why I want to talk to you?
I just want to talk about what happened on the swings.
Nothing happened.
- Well, David got hurt. So something must have happened.
Did David make you angry?
Did David's daddy make you angry?
So you hurt David?
If I made you angry, could you hurt me?
I don't want to.
- But if you wanted to, could you?
Is there someone else that you've hurt?
Someone else who made you angry?
Nathan, the others are asleep, they're not with you now.
It's okay.
It's okay, you can tell me.
- They won't find out. - They will. I can't.
Nathan, talk to me.
Did Sunny's mummy make you angry?
Did you hurt her?
It was her fault.
Why was it her fault?
Because she wanted to take Sunny away?
Why are you having bad dreams? You can tell me.
Evie is cold in her dreams.
No, she isn't.
- Are you cold now? - You're making me cold.
- I-I'm not trying to.
- What's frightening you? - Stop it.
- What are you dreaming about, Nathan?
It's okay. Tell me, Nathan.
Tell me about your dreams.
- Let me out!
Let us out! Let us out!
Let us out!
What's going on? Nathan?
- Mr. Clyde, I didn't do anything!
It was her!
Local paper?
Local paper, sir?
Local paper, ma'am?
Local paper?
-You've reached Amrita Chohhan.
I can't get to the phone right now,
but leave a message after the beep.
- Hi, Amrita. Please call me back.
I'm in London.
I need to speak to you.
- Alright, Zoe Moran. Time to come clean.
What's wrong?
I've spent the last two hours talking about myself.
My work, my ridiculous love life.
- You've barely said a word. - Sorry.
- You haven't even drunk the wine.
What happened to that party girl I used to know?
Can't say.
- Is this what the countryside does to people?
Go on.
Why did you call me?
Is it Sam? Are you having problems?
Honestly, I can't say.
Zoe, has something happened?
I think I'm going mad, Jamie.
It's okay.
I'm really going mad.
Fuck's sake.
Why did you leave London?
You've lost touch with all your friends.
I mean, I know you wanted a baby,
but a kid can't be the only thing in your life.
She's not my kid.
- I can explain. - No. No.
You don't have to explain anything.
Sam Clyde called me and he told me everything.
What the hell were you doing?
- I needed to talk to the children.
I tried to call you.
- You have no authority to speak to Nathan like that!
- I tried to call you! Three times.
- You went behind my back. His mother had to pick him up.
You scared the shit out of him.
- Yeah, because I found something out.
What, exactly?
- The children are having a recurrent dream.
It's winter.
Frozen ground.
A room of some kind.
It's been happening ever since Sunny came here.
Their behavior has become more erratic,
It's like they're scared of something.
Something they can't tell us.
I think it as something to do with Amrita Chohhan.
What?
What aren't you telling me?
Nothing, Susannah.
No, you're hiding something.
No, not at all.
I am, however, concerned that the children
may be triggering your own memories.
This isn't about me.
- We did speak about this when you were first employed.
- Spoke about what? - My past is my business.
And it has absolutely no relevance whatsoever
to what is happening here.
- You have a tendency to see malign intentions.
- I did. Once. - In children.
Not anymore.
- Does your daughter even know what happened?
- DCI Haynes is leading the investigation
into the disappearance of Amrita Chohhan.
Go home.
Leave the children alone.
What the hell was that about?
- There's something you need to know about Susannah Zellaby.
- It's like they're in league with the children.
They watch us all the time,
tell us how many visitors we can have, what we can say,
what schools our kids go to, who we can call on the phone.
And Sam acts like it's totally normal.
I tried to fit in, I tried so hard, but I can't.
No, of course you can't.
You can't tell anyone this.
I've signed NDAs, I'm legally bound to say nothing.
This is insane, Zoe.
Please believe me.
Yeah, of course I do.
Come here.
It's not okay.
- Hey. - It's not.
- Come on. Let's go to mine.
It's what you wanted, isn't it?
What is it?
Someone's watching us.
What?
Okay. Cab's coming. Come on.
They know I'm here.
- What? - They let me come here.
They...wanted me to leave.
Zoe?
Oh, my God.
I've been such a fool.
Sam's the one they want.
I've got to go.
- I've got to go now. - Zoe!
- You -- You cannot tell anyone what I told you.
You cannot say a fucking word.
- Well, I guess there's always next time, babe.
Yeah, I know.
Yeah, you too.
Alright, I'll talk to you later.
Bye.
What happened at the school?
They're -- they're all talking about it, they're furious.
- I was just trying to understand why the children
are sleeping so badly, that's all.
That's not what I heard.
Evie came home in tears.
- Who was that on the phone? - Nora.
We were supposed to be going out tonight.
But now Evie needs me, so everything's screwed up.
- Well, you can leave her with me.
The fuck I can.
Of course you can.
I'm her grandmother, for God's sake.
Oh, Cass, come on.
I've been looking after her with you now for two years.
You're young, you should go out and have some fun.
Everything will be fine, I promise.
Trust me.
- This is Zoe Moran. Please leave a message.
Hey.
Has something upset you?
- You let him shout at me, Daddy.
Why did you do that?
Curtis, I wanna talk to you.
What's this?
- Look, I don't want you shouting at my kid,
accusing her of things she didn't do, okay?
- Your kid? - What did you say?
You heard.
Take that back.
I said take that back.
Stop it!
Where's mummy going?
- Just to see a friend. For a few hours.
Why didn't she say goodbye?
- Well, because she wouldn't have gone if she had.
She'll be back later,
and you and I can spend some time together.
You made her go.
- Where've you been? - I had a meeting.
- I've been trying to call you all afternoon.
He's asking after you.
That fucking shrink really terrified him.
Paul, he sees you as his parent, don't you understand that?
- Jesus Christ, Jodie, I've just walked through the door.
- Okay, so if I threaten to move out,
then you give me the charm offensive.
Otherwise, it's just a brick wall.
That's not what's happening.
Can I go and speak to Nathan, please?
- You're lying about something. I need to know what it is.
- I'm not lying. I just wanna go and see my boy.
Your boy? He's my son!
I've not finished. Paul!
Paul, can you come back here, please?
- Paul? Paul, come here! - Nathan, sit down.
- Dad? - Paul?
- Open the door! Open the door!
- Nathan, you listen to me and you tell me truthfully.
- Open the door! I'm his mother! - Amrita Chohhan.
Do you know what happened to her?
Did you have anything to do with that?
- This is ridiculous! Paul! - Nathan.
If you love me, you'll tell me the truth.
- No, Dad. We did nothing. I promise.
Okay.
-Nathan, the others are asleep. They're not with you now.
It's okay.
It's okay, you can tell me.
- They won't find out. - They will. I can't.
- Everything's okay. It's okay.
You can tell me.
Tell me, Nathan. Tell me about your dreams.
- Hi, Granny.
Jesus.
I thought you were angry with me.
I'm not angry.
Can we go for a walk?
- What, now? It's past your bedtime.
Please?
I want to tell you about my dream.
- I didn't know you liked it out here.
I love it, Granny.
You like that song, don't you?
It's the school hymn.
Granny, did you and Mummy used to take walks like this?
When she was little?
Yeah. 'Course we did.
It must have been so nice.
Look. Evie.
I think you should tell me about your dream.
- Can we play hide-and-seek first?
Please?
Okay. One game.
And then we sit down and you tell me everything.
Everything you know.
Okay. I'll hide.
One, two, three, four, five,
six, seven, eight, nine, ten.
Coming, ready or not!
Now, where could she be?
Is she over here?
Hmm.
Who's behind here?
Evie!
Dad?
Everything okay?
- Then, what is it? - Evie's worried.
She thinks Dr. Zellaby's going to hurt her.
- Yeah, no. I-I don't know.
I just -- I have this feeling
that I should be with Evie tonight, yeah.
Hold on. I'll call you back.
- Cassie. Is your mother in?
- I need to talk to her. - She just texted me.
Her and Evie have gone for a walk.
Where?
Evie?
Evie, where are you?
- We know what you did, Granny.
- It was you. - It was you.
Evie?
- Hi, Granny.
- You have a tendency to see malign intentions in children.
Not anymore.
- She hurt me. It was her.
Evie!
Evie?
Evie.
You think we're bad.
You want us to die.
Evie, get off the track.
Evie!
No! Evie! Please come back!
No!
You're going to hurt me!
Evie!
No! Evie!
Evie!
- Help me! - Come to me!
Mum? What's going on?
- She tried to hurt me! - No, Cassie!
- No. No, Cassie! - What have you done?!
Nothing.
I need you to come with me.
- Cassie. You have to listen to me.
- He told me. In the car. He's told me everything.
Just leave us alone, okay?
Cassie, wait!
- You're a liar and you're not safe to live with.
You're alright. It's okay.
- Oh, my God. - I'm okay.
What happened?
- Who did this? - Curtis.
But it was my fault.
I -- I instigated it.
Why?
It was Hannah.
She made me do it.
- I'll get some cream for the bruise--
- No, just s-stay with me, f-for a bit.
Please.
Where did you go?
Just away, Sam.
- A-Away where?
- It doesn't matter. What matters is that I'm back.
I wanna get out of this, Zoe.
But I don't know how.
It's okay.
We are going to get out of this together.
We're gonna find a way.
I'm sorry.
I'm so sorry.