Missing

I'm back in Germany.

You have a tumour. You have to understand that if you do nothing, you will die.

Gem, I need to tell you something. There's someone...

Well, some things don't need to be said out loud, do they?

What the three of us did to that poor girl.

The three of you?

Who was the third person?

Your father killed a girl in Iraq.

Leave. Right now.

It's hard, I know, to find out the ones you love

are not who you thought they were.

I was followed when I went to the bank.

Someone hoping to steal from me.

We can fix this.

I'm not ready to go.

And when you come back, there's something I want to show you.

I'm bloody pregnant.

Kristian Herz's wife Nadia

was found beaten half to death last night.

She's in a coma.

That is Alice's necklace - with the bird.

I recognise it.

Lena Garber? She was reported missing in 2008.

That's me and Mummy, in the basement.

I think we should contin...

DRILL WHIRS

KEY TURNS IN DOOR LOCK

DOOR OPENS AND CLOSES

Come here.

Oh...

Have you been a good girl?

I had a nightmare.

Oh...

Is it because of what you saw?

I had to protect us.

Because of the bad men? Mm.

Yes, they're everywhere, Lucy.

You know that.

I know.

Can you read me a story?

No, not now, darling. Daddy has to finish something.

So...

why don't you go back to bed and try and get some more sleep, huh?

Do you promise the bad man's gone?

Yeah.

I promise.

He's gone.

DOOR CLOSES

You're back late.

I wanted to show you this.

Eve came by the pool.

We don't need to discuss that. We just...

We just don't. I know what you're going to say.

She's pregnant.

What?

I never meant for any of this to happen.

You never do.

You never think.

You just... act.

You approach everything like it's the Army.

Don't think, don't question, just do!

And keep moving on!

I needed, er...

..something. GEMMA SCOFFS

I needed you.

But you're not here.

Are you?

And if I could take it back, I would.

All of it, like that.

- I'm so sorry, Gemma. - Don't you touch me!

GEMMA THUMPS UP THE STAIRS

Miss Stone?

SHE SIGHS HEAVILY

What do you want? I need your help.

I was hoping to look at the Army personnel files

from 1991 in Iraq during the Gulf War.

- Those are classified. - I know.

But I'm close.

Close to understanding the truth of what happened with Alice and Sophie.

If I can just see these records...

Why?

I spoke to your father.

- You did what? - I told you, your father and Henry Reed

committed a crime when they were in Iraq together.

Oh, Christ, Baptiste, not this shit again!

When I talked to him, he said there was a third person.

If I could find out who this person was...

My father can't remember who I am from one day to the next.

- Whatever you think he said... - What harm can it do for me to look?

No.

You don't get to accuse my father of killing someone

and then ask for a favour. Do you understand?

Are you listening?

Hey!

JULIEN SHOUTS IN FRENCH

Why were you in Erbil? What were you doing down there?

It was him...

I'm sorry.

It was never him.

He wasn't real.

But this doesn't change anything.

We both want the same thing, you and I.

- If we could just help each other. - You're not well, Baptiste.

You need to go home. And don't come back.

I'm sorry.

HE SIGHS WEARILY

TEXT ALERT SOUNDS

THEY LAUGH

PHONE BUZZES

KNOCKING ON DOOR

Jorn?

KNOCKING ON DOOR

Jorn?

KNOCKING

Jorn!

ADAM'S PHONE RINGS

PHONE BUZZES

'Jorn, it's Baptiste.

'I'm back in Eckhausen.'

I need your help once again, my friend.

Please, call me.

SIZZLING

KNOCKING

IRON HISSES

Mrs Webster.

My apologies for disturbing you.

Now, the trial of Mr Herz

marks the culmination of a case

that has gripped the nation of Germany...

- Hello? - ..and indeed the world.

Last year, Mr Herz was accused of the abduction

of British schoolgirl Alice Webster...

Gem...

Mm.

You need to turn that off, love.

You were watching that when I went to work.

Mr Herz allegedly held Alice prisoner...

You can't keep calling in sick, you know?

a miraculous escape in December last year.

When she returned to Eckhausen, Alice Webster identified...

Gem, you can't.

as her abductor and claimed she's been held with another girl...

It's been a year now.

You can't just keep blaming yourself for what happened.

A further tragedy struck the Webster family...

For Alice what did to herself.

..with Alice taking her own life shortly...

Maybe you should see someone.

The British community...

Can you move?

..really has been shaken to its core by the events of last year.

Many here will be hoping that this trial

will finally be justice done for Alice's family.

REPORTER CONTINUES IN THE BACKGROUND

Mrs Herz?

Mrs Herz...

You are going home today.

REPORTERS SHOUT QUESTIONS

COMMOTION CONTINUES

Do you think they will find your husband guilty, Mrs Herz?

SHE SIGHS

SHE SIGHS

THEY RAP IN GERMAN

ENGINE REVS

PHONE BUZZES

Matthew?

Hey, hey, hey, slow down.

Slow down.

Jesus, Matthew...

I didn't know who else to call.

Shit, Dad.

Shit, this is so bad, I've messed up.

Where are the others?

They've gone. They told me to leave it, but...

I used your pass.

- They'll know it was me who nicked it. - You did what?!

Do you know what you've done?

What if something had happened to you?

You could've died!

You don't care. You don't care any more!

Just go home. I'll deal with it.

- Really? What are you going to do? - I'll think of something.

I'll say it was me. Give us the pass.

What are they going to do to you?

Dad, you can't... Give me the pass.

And just keep your mum out of this

cos she doesn't need this worry right now, OK?

OK.

- OK, I won't tell her. - What I said to you in the hospital,

I don't know how many times I have to apologise for that.

How many times I have to tell you

I don't blame you for what happened to Alice.

- Dad... - But I do.

I do blame you.

And I blame your mum.

But most of all, I blame me.

Because when Alice walked back into our lives, we weren't ready.

We didn't know...

..what to say or how to look after her.

I'm sorry.