The Dark

Another? This kid managed to escape.

Help me!

So what I'm hearing is the victims were forced to ingest these stones?

Coincidences are mounting up now.

Tammy, she worked with Rob, same school as this Zandy.

Not to mention three of the victims were handled

by the same social services team.

Yeah, he's on my list.

Hi. I'm James. I'm just here to talk about Lucy.

He said he'd been wild swimming with the social worker!

Bethany, no... Liar!

You're shutting me, shutting everyone else out,

everyone bar Michael Bach.

You're not cut out for this.

We found a photo of you inside a taxidermied rabbit. What?!

Don's not the killer.

You think I was played? Have you asked yourself that?

In the meantime, the killer's still out there.

Monica! Philly.

You came back.

You didn't leave The Burning Light, did you, Philly?

They left you.

He said I wasn't a good fit for them any more.

And then he took my girl with him.

I'm sorry. Afterwards, it was so obvious.

I was stupid. I was so stupid.

They'd been planning it for a while.

You know, I never meant to scare you...

..or Lucy.

I'm so sorry. I'm sorry.

I j... I j...

I... I need air.

No, Philly. Don't go out there. Shit!

Philly, I need you to be calm, and I need you to stay there.

PHILLY PANTS

I know you're here.

I'm sorry, Monica. I'm so sorry.

What are you doing? I still need her, Monica.

I'm not strong enough without him, am I?

PHILLY SOBS

INDISTINCT RADIO CHATTER

Eat up and enjoy.

BARCLAY SCOFFS

You're not gonna cut it up for him?

Do airplanes?

I can make an egg for you.

I just didn't know when you were coming down.

No, no, no, no. Mum, it's fine.

You can have mine.

I don't want that.

Mind, you look like you do.

SIGHS DEEPLY No, I don't.

BARCLAY SLURPS Ah.

What are you gonna do with yourself? With your life?

Have your mother wait on you hand and foot forever?

Poached or fried? Like she does you?

What? Still buys all your socks and pants, right?

That sounds more like a little baby to me.

Should have left you years ago.

Stop it! Stop it! The pair of you!

SHE SOBS Beth...

I want you out of here by the end of the day.

DOOR SHUTS

Philly, are you awake?

PHONE BUZZES

'Yeah, maybe I am not allowed to ask,

'but you've been gone all night without a word.'

ANGELA SIGHS 'Angela!'

'It's not "Angela".

'It's "Granny"!'

I'm gonna help you find your daughter.

KNOCKING AT DOOR

Looks like the painkillers kicked in.

Morning. How are you?

Erm, yeah, I, er...

I don't know.

She'll get a line of duty funeral? Yes.

Yesterday, it was like a horror film, wasn't it? Yeah.

Yeah, with all the brown people getting killed first.

The... The stones.

I've been up since 4am. I needed something to do, like.

Er... The one the killer's been leaving in the bodies,

Hadid says they're Scottish onyx, agates.

Can be found in Rosemarkie Beach, Montrose and Lunan Bay.

And do they mean anything? Like, symbolise something?

Strength and protection.

Thank you, Dhillon. This is... Yeah.

This is useful. Stick to what I'm good at, eh?

I did exactly what everyone thought I was going to do.

Froze.

Like a coward.

Training didn't kick in.

I... I felt like my legs were like steel blocks.

I just... I c-c... I couldn't move. You're not alone there, Dhillon.

You?

Did an officer die?

Almost.

Ah! HE SNIFFLES

How's Crawford? HE CLEARS THROAT

He hasn't been to see you? No.

MIMICS AIRPLANE

You didn't have to come to this.

Have you even been home yet? I can still smell it on you.

HE SIGHS

The person we arrested

has subsequently been released under investigation,

but we are pursuing other confidential lines of inquiry.

The killer lives among us.

He's targeting men between the ages of 16 and 30,

and he's doing so with the use of this.

If you have been given a phone like this by someone you don't know,

please come forward immediately.

This man is weak.

He lures his victims into traps, and then he incapacitates them.

He's unoriginal, basic.

Grappling for the smallest,

most pathetic semblance of power that he can.

Unremarkable as to be invisible.

He could be your neighbour,

the person who serves you at the supermarket, your son.

Above all else, he is, at his core, a coward.

JOURNALISTS CLAMOUR

Nice job

Maybe warn us next time when you wanna go off script,

provoke a madman.

Well, you were losing them, the pair of you,

giving them basic facts they already knew.

Whereas Kennedy always needs to give 'em a proper piece of meat.

Why don't you go back to the pub

and leave the rest of us to save these boys?

Are you serious? I can hear you in there.

In case you hadn't noticed, this place is swarming with press.

We don't need unhelpful headlines.

No, Ma'am. PHONE BUZZES

Are you in the room with us, Monica? Excuse me.

She's gone off the rails again.

But you already know that, right?

Just remember who you're talking to.

'He's targeting men between the ages of 16 and 30,

'and he's doing so with the use of this.'

Turn that off. We're gonna be late.

'..phone like this by someone you...'

Tammy!

It's the police. They're talking about...

Murder? Goes really nice with Choccy Flakes.

About the phones, Dad. Like the one Rob had.

They all had them, all the dead boys.

You have got to stop your obsession with this.

Tammy, it is not healthy to watch every video, read every article.

Why have you got phones like that in the car boot?

I saw them yesterday.

Yeah, they're from the outreach centre.

Pre-paid.

We give them out to clients. They act as a lifeline.

It's like the food.

Do you not remember when you volunteered?

Yeah.

Yeah. Dad...? OK. We've got to go. Come on.

Sorry, I just...

It-It's just difficult now he's back.

Please, please promise me.

Barclay can't find out.

Mum!

SHE SIGHS

Erm, we're out of milk. Sorry, I got distracted.

It was the dentist.

What's that?

Spoils of war.

Cat's war.

So, what couldn't be done over the phone?

HE SNORTS Straight to business.

Erm... After yesterday,

I started to have all these thoughts, and I needed to...

Well, er...

It's maybe best seen.

I think there's a pattern amongst the boys.

Well, stop me if I'm overstepping,

but I think there's something quite specific.

They've all lost someone.

Jason lost Nichol, without a trace.

Robert's mother - one day, she was here,

the next, she was gone.

And Owen, by all accounts, he loved that boy Luca.

Missing siblings, lost loves, dead parents,

whatever you want to call it, it takes a...

a piece out of you.

It-It... It leaves a hole in your heart, makes you feel...

Weak. Lost.

Easily led. Exactly.

And the killer, he sees this... emptiness in these boys,

and he manipulates it.

I think there have been other victims.

Know about holes in the heart, do you?

Oh. Er...

This is my dad's house.

And a few years ago now, I found him...

..down by the loch with... hosepipe...

..looped through the window, engine still running.

How's that for a hole in your heart? Christ.

DOOR OPENS