The Sister

If somebody knows what happened to Elise,

if anyone has any idea where Elise might be,

we beg you to, please, get in contact.

There must be somebody who can help.

'Three years ago, I lost my little sister, Elise.'

Is she breathing? Stand back! Stand over there!

What did you do?

We have to move it. I can't.

Nathan. What's up?

'It's about Elise.

'I lied to you about what happened that night.'

Be at my office in ten minutes.

After what happened,

I thought I'd done something wrong, made a mistake.

What does that mean?

How could I not grasp an opportunity like that?

Opportunity to what?

'Prove it!'

Prove it, how? By making a ghost.

How is it? Sore.

I burst into tears today.

Watching an advert for tissues. So...

Look away.

So it must be doing something, all the hormones.

I don't know what you're saying. I don't understand.

I'm saying, I was pretty sure that if Elise died in that place,

under those circumstances, the result would be, a haunting.

So...

..I nudged things along.

You nudged things along. In what, in what way?

It was mostly cyanide.

I'd been carrying it around for years.

In case... In case, what?

I ever needed it. Ever needed it, why?

For myself.

It was sort of a comfort knowing it was always there.

Did you really do this to us?

She...

She died... Bob.

A person died.

Is she breathing? Is she breathing? Stand back! Stand over there!

What did you do?

What did you do? What did you do?

Look at her! What did you do?

You blamed me.

And you did it. Yeah, except death isn't real.

It's just a transition from one state to another.

And a ghost is just an echo of that transition. A reverberation.

That was the theory, anyway. Before I had a chance to test it.

To test it. You did this to Elise.

Yeah. If it makes any difference, it was impulsive.

I was off my head. I saw a chance and... Christ.

Do you have any idea what you've done to us?

What is it?

Watch what you're doing.

I don't think I did, not really. But I do now.

Hey, hey, hey. What's the matter?

Something skewed the outcome, I just didn't know what.

I mean, it soon became evident that she was always with me.

Jesus, she was so angry. Nothing would make her go away.

The opposite. It just got worse and worse.

You must have felt that, too, right, the escalation?

No.

I couldn't account for it.

Until I pitched up at your place and found out what you'd done.

It's not real.

She wants us to put it right.

Put it right... How can you ever put it right?

You killed someone. She's dead because of you.

You can never put it right.

We have to admit what we did.

No. No, no, no, no. That is never going to happen. Ever.

It's already happening. The police were here tonight.

They already know something. Won't be long before they're back.

No, no. Holly will not find out, she can't find out.

She cannot find out.

You buried her sister in the woods.

You took advantage of her guilt to worm your way into bed with her.

That's not true, no.

That didn't happen! I love her!

It's not real, Nathan. It is real. It's real.

We did this together. No, we... WE didn't.

YOU did it.

We have to return Elise to her family.

Let them bury her. Let them say goodbye properly.

It will break her heart. It would destroy her.

I know it's hard, but you have to understand.

I'm giving you a chance here. Elise is giving you a chance.

A chance...

If you let me do this alone, Elise will never forgive you.

She'll never go away, she'll always be there.

You have to let them go, both of them.

I can't. I can't.

'This isn't about staying out of prison any more, Nathan.

'This isn't about punishment.'

'It's not about prison, I don't care about that.

'It's about protecting Holly and her family.

'I won't do this to them. It's not fair. It's cruel.'

I know it's a lot to take in and I want you to do the right thing,

I really do, but I can't wait.

You've got a day.

I can't stand it any longer than that.

One more day or I'll go mad.

So what's this all about?

We said ten minutes. Where have you been?

So you lied.

How?

Robert Morrow.

I told you that the night he picked me up,

he was on his way home from the party.

He was actually on his way back to the party.

Back to the party from where?

He said he'd stopped into town to score some cocaine

and, fair play, he had plenty on him, so, yeah...

And you said nothing about this because...?

Come on!

Because of the drugs. I didn't want to get in trouble.

And I didn't think it mattered at the time.

And Robert Morrow?

This is the same Bob who suddenly pitches up at your place

out of clear blue sky.

Holly told me.

She was worried about you.

OK. So what did he want?

Nothing.

Well, not at first anyway.

He just wanted a drink and I'm desperate to get rid of him,

for obvious reasons, so I agree to meet him

and he starts talking about that night.

About the girl who disappeared at the party.

Did I ever think about what might have happened to her?

Did I ever dream about her?

I keep trying to change the subject.

It's making me feel pretty weird... Yeah, I can imagine.

..but he keeps circling back to it. It's like he's fixated.

And it's all I can think about now.

That lie.

Like, where was he really coming back from?

You know, all these years I didn't think it mattered,

but now? I don't know.

I just don't know.

But I'm worried about Holly.

I'm scared he might...

What? Oh, I don't know.

There's something wrong with him.

I swear to God, he's not right. He gives me the creeps.

And if something were to happen to Holly...

Listen, you do know what you're doing here, right?

You're setting things in motion that can't be stopped.

SIRENS

Someone said he'd seen her...

..that night...

..after Bob and I had got home.

I always thought that put Bob in the clear.

Yeah. Me, too.

So who was it?

Who saw her? Her ex-boyfriend.

She woke him up...

..banging on the bedroom window. Crying.

Distressed, demanding to be let inside.

By the time he got to the window, she'd wandered off.

And you didn't find that strange?

Of course we did. It always felt off.

But people who go to parties, they come home drunk.

They've had drugs.

They get confused about what happened when.

What happened at all.

So he, what, got it wrong?

I don't think so, no.

I was just never convinced he saw what he thought he did.

So what do you think he saw?

To be honest, I don't know.

Probably someone else.

Some other girl. I don't know...

Sometimes, I still lay in bed at night thinking about it.

I'm sorry.

That doesn't mean anything. I know.

So what am I supposed to think?

That you were in someone's bed?

You know that's not gonna happen.

Then where were you?

Is this something to do with Bob?

Just thinking.

About what?

Are you gonna tell me?

Today?

Now?

I can't.

I am your wife.

I love you.

I know.

'As Long As I Have You' by Myrna Rowlands

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I've brought whisky.

Ice?

There's no ice.

So, how was your day?

I thought about telling her myself.