Bergerac

How're you feeling? Like I just got stabbed.

I'd like to give you the money for the restaurant.

No. Michael!

What?! Just calm down. What? I am perfectly calm!

POLICE! What's the confusing bit?

Alan, my father, he's not dead.

Forensics have checked the postmark,

definitely sent from Bermuda.

Nicola was cautioned for harassing Monica

and being drunk and disorderly.

We won't be taking this any further

because your mother isn't pressing charges.

OK, legally she is my mother, but she's...

I am disowning her! And secondly,

did you not hear when I said she killed my dad?!

This is based on...? This is based on

the fact that she is a psycho.

Are you going to arrest her?

We are going back to work. You are going home.

Are you serious? Are you serious? Fine!

I'll get my own back.

I'm gonna take something of hers.

Something she loves,

and one day, I'm gonna break her heart!

I'm gonna break her heart!

You know, I never really got the crazy thing.

The messy girl thing.

Some blokes, like you, obviously, they...

...they love it, you know.

They love all the drama. They think it's so hot,

but me, I think life's too short, you know?

What are you doing here? You should be resting.

I've gotta keep an eye on you, haven't I?

Trust me, I'd much rather be at home watching Cash In The Attic.

This is new - how long you had that?

Er, I literally just found it.

What are you gonna do with it?

I was gonna share it with the team, obviously. Yeah.

You sure you weren't gonna hide it like your visit

to her hotel last night?

I was...

I needed to talk to her. She's connected to the case.

Right, but you wouldn't have gone by yourself

without telling anyone, right? because you know, Jim,

that's how I got stabbed.

And of course, there's your meeting with her at Costello's.

I mean, that's literally on the CMS.

Right, yeah, the two-minute conversation.

I know you think the rest of us should be at the back

with safety scissors and glitter, but, Jim,

it is becoming very obvious

what your interest in Nicola Barton is all about.

You're right.

My... my relationship with her has become...

...complex.

Two nights ago,

I was in bad shape and she found me.

She helped me.

You been drinking?

It was after you had been stabbed, and the next morning I woke up...

...in Nicola's hotel room.

Mate, nothing happened.

I swear to God. Mm.

Nothing happened. I was unconscious the entire night.

And everything after that has been about the case, all right?

When we went to the cliffs, it was about the case, and then yesterday,

after she found out that her dad was still alive, I went to see her

and things became...

Barney, they nearly became intimate.

BARNEY LAUGHS

Oh, Jim!

This is...

I mean, this is bad even for you.

I'm literally... I'm shaking. Yeah?

It gets worse. How could it get worse? Did you kill Tony Sallinger?

When she went to the bathroom, I went to get some water

from the mini bar, and in the wardrobe...

...was the coat.

The coat from the CCTV footage.

The co...

She was at the wedding. It was her in the coat.

Yeah, that's what it looks like.

Right, where is the coat now?

I left it.

I left it there.

Did she see you find the coat? No...

No.

OK, I know, I screwed up, OK?

And I should have pulled her in.

Oh, do you think? Because now that's inadmissible. Now you've left

that coat there, even if we get our hands on it, it's inadmissible.

I still think that we can build a case against... Are you drunk now?!

We cannot do anything!

Day one of the trial, the defence gets up,

"By the way, Jim Bergerac is back on the bottle

"and he's fucking the defendant."

The whole case is thrown out and she walks.

I'm really sorry.

Right, you listen to me.

This conversation never happened.

You step back from the case quietly,

no big drama,

I take over.

These threats that she made against Monica for revenge,

I found them and that was enough for me

to go to the hotel and bring Nicola in.

And you go to the hotel and you find the coat.

Right, if it's still there, because if she even suspects

that you saw that, it's in the Channel by now.

She didn't see me. Well, forgive me if I don't trust your judgment.

If we can get it, I confront her with the coat,

I confront her with the threats, maybe that's enough

to get a confession. Either way, it could be enough to get a charge.

You stay ten miles away from all of that.

And I'll tell Uma what went on.

Yeah.

This isn't quite how I'd imagined my career ending.

Oh, world's tiniest violin.

You know, this really makes sense. Your whole lone wolf thing.

You want everything, don't you?

You want everything for yourself, even what you can't have.

You've no discipline.

It leaves a lot of unanswered questions though.

What did Tony mean when he said "no more secrets"?

Why was it directed at Monica? Stop it.

Nicola Barton had motive, opportunity

and she's been lying through her teeth. I'll handle this.

You tidy yourself up.

Honestly, Tom, don't beat yourself up about it.

No, no...

All this volatility in the market, I completely understand.

Gold is safer.

Yes. There's no need to...

Good.

Well, thanks for letting me know...

...and give my love to...

HE SIGHS

All I want is a proper cup of coffee,

made in a proper copper coffee pot.

Who is Tom? What has he done?

It's a big house, but not that big.

Tom is one of several investors and he's decided,

for actually quite sound reasons, to back out,

but it won't be a problem.

You said you only had two investors. Two is several.

And, to be honest, I never really thought Tom got the concept.

At one point he was talking about laminated menus.

And I still have Marcus.

You'll love Marcus.

In fact, I'll call him now.

Rally the troops.

The troop. HE CHUCKLES

Ah...

Oh, there she is.

Jersey's very own Nicola Benedetti.

Hi, Marcus? Nigel.

You all right, darling?

So the plan is, on Friday, you and Dad will drop me off at the airport?

10am sharp.

And Aunt Maggie will fetch me from Gatwick? Mm-hm.

It's going to be a bit weird though, isn't it? Mm-hm.

Being away for so long.

What else can I do?

The longest I've been away from Jersey is two weeks,

so three months is...

Marcus, please... Oh, please.

I know. So exciting. No, don't do that. Don't... Marcus.

Will yo come visit me?

Maybe you can get a hotel and stay for the weekend, or longer?

No, absolutely.

Oh, thank you.

I'll... I'll see you in a bit.

Kiss.

I mean this with all the love in the world,

but please don't be a dick to me today.

What are you doing? Clearing out my late husband's things.

You know, the one who isn't dead.

The one who took us all for fucking idiots!

When I think of what he put us through, the moods and...

Oh, and the knife thing did happen, because I got a black eye.

Sorry, but I'm not protecting him any more.

To do all that and then to fake his own death,

knowing the guilt I'd feel, the shame,

the devastation we'd all feel, and to leave me with that,

day after day... Take a breath. ...thinking he was dead,

when he could've told me, he could've cooled down and said,

"It's all right, I'm alive".

that would've been better than leaving me thinking... Mum!

Just stop a minute, please. MONICA BREATHES HEAVILY

Please.

And you...

Christ, you.

What he did to you.

I'm OK.

You're not though, are you?

No.

But maybe one day.

Listen to me.

I love you.

I love you.