[fire crackles]
[rumbling]
Isn't it a bit fucked up, wearing his clothes?
I think the fucked-up bit was murdering him.
[rumbling intensifies]
[upbeat rock]
[retches]
[vomits]
Sorry.
It's OK.
Should we go to the police?
What?
It was self-defense.
-We broke into his house, James. -Yeah, he was gonna hurt you.
You think they're gonna believe that?
It's the truth.
[James] Alyssa seemed weirdly calm.
[Alyssa] Fuck. Fuck!
We need to get rid of the body.
[Alyssa] Come on.
James!
Sorry.
[Alyssa] One, two, three!
Shit.
Again.
One, two, three!
[both groan]
Dead people are heavier than alive people. I read that.
Good to know.
[music fades and stops]
[Alyssa] We need to clean everything up.
We need to get rid of any trace of us.
Do you hear me, James?
Do you understand?
No one can know that we've been here, OK?
If we can't get rid of him, we got to get rid of us.
Go find some bleach.
[squeaking]
Take your shoes off! And clean up that blood.
[rumbling]
[Alyssa] This is bad. This is really fucking bad.
[James] Alyssa seemed to know what she was doing.
I figured that, if I just did what I was told,
then it might be all right.
[Alyssa] I don't know if this is the right thing to be doing.
I'm just thinking about what people on the TV do when they've done this.
[James] She said it'd help to have music on whilst we cleaned.
It kind of did.
[doo-wop]
♪ Zu-zu-zu, zu, whoa, zu ♪
♪ Zu-u-u-u-u ♪
♪ Zu-zu-zu, zu, whoa ♪
♪ My darling ♪
♪ Why did you go? ♪
♪ Tell me why ♪
♪ Did you ever leave me alone ♪
♪ Please don't ♪
♪ Break up our romance... ♪
James?
♪ Zuuu ♪
[music fades]
[rumbling]
[James] It wasn't how I thought it would be.
Not at all.
James?
-Yeah? -What are you doing?
James?
[silence]
I don't know.
[Alyssa] What the fuck is he doing?
[ominous bangs]
What have you done?
He was gonna hurt you, Alyssa.
He was.
[screech]
[clock ticks]
[muffled screams]
[rumbling]
[man] Stay still.
I said, stay still.
[silence]
OK. Put those around him, and then let's get out of here.
[Alyssa] Keep it together. Keep it together.
♪ Now you should ♪
♪ Smile ♪
♪ Though your heart is aching ♪
♪ Smile even though ♪
♪ It's breaking ♪
♪ When there are clouds ♪
♪ Way up in the sky ♪
♪ You're gonna get by ♪
[James] We learnt, much later, that we'd really messed up.
[ominous rumbling]
[Alyssa] It's strange.
A lot of the time,
you don't register the important moments in your life as they happen.
You only see that they were important when you look back.
Like, that was an ending.
[laughter]
So was that.
Fuck off.
And that was...
That was the beginning of something. Something massive.
Maybe something massive and awful.
Really awful. Like, fuck-up-your-whole-life awful.
We need to get to my dad's as soon as possible.
Before anybody finds the body.
OK.
He'll know what to do.
[distant church bells]
[acoustic guitar]
Come on.
[drums kick in]
[slow rock]
♪ Outside the window ♪
♪ They're singing ♪
♪ Inside the doorway, there's me... ♪
Why didn't you burn your jacket?
It didn't have any blood on it.
-Yes, but-- -I'm not getting rid of it, James.
It's my dad's!
James?
[music fades]
James!
We should wait for a bit.
What? Why?
If we get this one, we're traveling peak.
It's more expensive.
[Alyssa] I think there's something wrong with him.
[silence]
[Alyssa] Fuck. Fuck!
We killed someone, we fucking killed someone.
What if someone saw us?
What if someone saw us leave the house?
What if someone recognizes us?
Fuck!
We need to change the way we look.
[Alyssa] Turns out James is quite a good hairdresser.
My mum always wanted me to go blonde.
Guess she'd be really fucking pleased with me.
We need new clothes.
[James] Think it's fair to say
that my disguise wasn't as effective as Alyssa's.
I looked pretty much the same.
Was there not another size? These are a bit tight.
It was a shit Oxfam. They had about ten things.
It's not my fault that you look thinner than you are.
[silence]
[Alyssa] I don't recognize myself.
Jesus. It's so quiet here.
[crack]
Where did you get the knife from?
[James] What?
The one you killed him with.
Was it yours?
[60s pop]
♪ Care a little ♪
♪ Care a lot ♪
[doorbell]
♪ Let me love you... ♪
[door opens and closes]
Hello?
Clive?
Darling?
[blood-curdling scream]
[slow rock]
[police radio]
Jesus.
Hiya.
Hi.
Brought you this.
It's a crime scene.
-So... -So...
-Sorry, you go... -Please, go ahead. Please.
I was just gonna say: Clive Koch. Late forties.
Clive what?
Koch. Let me just...
Let me see.
K-O-C-H. Probably German.
[Eunice] He was found by his mother. Late seventies.
[Teri] God. [Eunice] Poor thing.
[Eunice] She didn't have a clue what was going on.
Is that a new coat?
No.
Really nice...
cut.
[squeak]
Fucking hell!
Quite a buff on that.
[sighs] I found this. Under the bed.
Teri?
[clanking]
[Eunice] You wanna tell us why we've got your wallet here?
She said she was 17, I swear to you.
I asked. I asked, like, a few times. She showed me her ID.
It said 17!
-I swear I checked. I promise you! -Calm down!
OK. Now let me see if I've got this straight.
You met this girl for the first time yesterday, completely randomly,
and went back to this house with her.
-For sex, right? -No. We never had sex.
The sex or lack thereof is not why you're here.
What?
You had no idea whose house it was?
[stammers] What are you talking about?
[Teri] The man whose house it was...
He was murdered last night.
Oh. Fuck me, oh...
-this is all just... -Tell me about the girl.
[Eunice] What was her name?
[Topher] Alyssa.
[James] Alyssa, what are we going to do?
Are we still going to your dad's?
We should probably eat something.
[baby cries in the distance]
[James] Alyssa had started being weird with me.
[crack]
It was a present from my dad.
[crack]
The knife.
What's it for?
Hunting.
Yeah, 'cause that's a big thing where we live, isn't it?
Who carries a hunting knife around with them, James?
[James] I realized that she was scared of me.
That felt kind of unfair.
I'd been her protector.
[Eunice] Did you notice anything distinctive about her?
Angry-looking?
Almost pretty, but...
actually average.
Do you want to give her a score out of ten?
-Like, I-- -I'm joking.
[Teri scoffs]
Oh, no! No. I mean, like, she's fine. She's fine.
She's just not, like, a model, you know?
What was she wearing?
Before you undressed her and tried to have sex with her, I mean.
Just, like, normal.
I dunno. Just jeans. A t-shirt. And this weird jacket.
Weird, like, how?
It was, like, quite shit.
Weird because it was quite shit, but sort of cool because it was?
Do you know what I mean?
No.
It was, like, a brown leather jacket.
Sort of baggy on her.
Oh, and it wasn't just her.
In the house. Yeah, there was another guy, too.
This guy?
No! No, no, no.
He was younger. Um...
Aww, I think his name was...
[Topher] James?
[James] I decided to put on a calmer, more relaxed demeanor...
to reassure Alyssa.
[crack]
There's definitely something wrong with him.
You OK?
What?
Are you OK?
Yeah.
[James] It didn't work.
What's the matter?
[whispers] What's the matter?
What's the matter?
The matter, James, is that last night, you fucking murdered someone.
And every time I try to close my eyes, or think about anything, anything else,
all I can see is his face...
and his neck, and you stabbing him.
Thanks.
Do you want mustard, too?
On chips?
Some people like it.
[both giggle]
Alyssa?
I don't want to hold your hand.
I'm going to the toilet.
[door opens and closes]
[ominous music]
[clunk] Oh.
Sorry.
[Eunice] So, his alibi checks out.
[Eunice sighs] What?
Clive Koch died between midnight and 3am.
The twat in there was at a house party during that time.
-Witnesses? -Yes.
Lots of other twats.
OK.
Listen, I've been meaning to, um...
Could we have a quick chat at some point?
What about?
Well, you know, I thought...
Should we... talk about what happened the other night?
[sighs]
You know what? Don't worry about it.
OK, let's put out a request for any sightings
or any crimes involving two teenagers in the area.
Give them a description of the jacket
and put the names Alyssa and James into Missing Persons.
Either they killed him, or they might have seen who did.
[Teri] We need to find them.
[Alyssa] My heart can't take this.
[50s pop rock]
[James] I sat for about half an hour until I realized that Alyssa had left.
[dog barks]
♪ There's a place where lovers go ♪
♪ To cry their troubles away ♪
[James] That was the day I learned that silence is really loud.
♪ And they call it ♪
Deafening.
♪ Lonesome town ♪
[James] I think maybe my dad spent his whole life trying to avoid silence.
[TV laughter]
When you have silence, it's hard to keep stuff out.
[whimpers]
[rumbling]
It's all there.
And you can't get rid of it.
I used to be able to get rid of things,
banish them.
[thunder rumbles]
♪ Goin' down to lonesome town ♪
♪ Where the broken hearts stay ♪
♪ Goin' down to lonesome town ♪
[James] But I knew, after that day...
it wouldn't be so easy anymore.
♪ In the town of broken dreams ♪
You all right?
Do you want to hit me?
Are you OK?
Please, will you beat me up?
I'll pay you.
♪ I can learn to forget ♪
[punches connect]
[James] I was never Alyssa's protector...
she was mine.
♪ Lonesome town ♪
[silence]
[James] Having finally murdered a human...
I realized something quite important...
Police, please.
I was pretty sure I wasn't a psychopath.
I'd like to report a murder.
[music resumes]
♪ There's a place where lovers go ♪
♪ To cry their troubles away ♪
♪ And they call it ♪
♪ Lonesome town ♪