Doctor Foster

- Are you ready? - What?

- We're due at half seven. - Who with?

You used to be in to surprises.

- When do we tell Anna? - Or Simon, for that matter.

If you're asking me to lie, I want something to make up for it.

Do I like these people?

You love them.

I think he's off having sex with Kate Parks.

Then this new investor arrives,

um, White Stone, starts ploughing in cash.

It's the Parks.

- Gemma, I can't. - Why not?

Oh, hi.

Oh, God! You're not expecting us.

We've got the kids in tonight. It'll be fun!

- I'm really not... - Come on!

God, it's gorgeous!

Yes, finished this six months ago. I'll give you the grand tour.

Oh!

Susie finds it embarrassing but I can't help it. I'm so proud!

Do tell him to shut up if you need to.

You'll find this REALLY interesting.

I'm just going to nip in the kitchen.

Give me a shout if you lose the will to live.

We can easily come back in a week or...

- No, no! No, no, no. - No, it's fine!

Come on, let's go upstairs, you get a better view. Come on.

Yes!

So, we used a new type of glass on the back of the house.

I don't understand the technology but essentially,

it's double height, thin and stays hot.

Like Naomi Campbell.

HE LAUGHS

A little joke.

It's beautiful.

Hope you don't mind me showing off?

If you look at the end there, you can see the pool. We loved

the pool in our house in France so much that we copied the dimensions.

- You have a place in France? - Yeah.

- Well, you can go and stay there if you like. - Really?

Yeah, we have a wonderful maid called Angelique

- who sorts everything out. - What's it called?

The house?

Does it have a name?

Pierre Blanche.

What does it mean?

Um...

Wait! You haven't got any drinks!

I'm chatting away like an idiot.

- Would you like some wine? - White, if you have it?

Of course. Beer, I assume? Beer?

Yeah, cheers.

Ah, Kate! You know the Fosters? Gemma and Simon.

- Hi. - Yeah, they're staying for dinner.

I thought next week?

There's been a bit of a mix-up, so it's happening now, which is nice.

Just going to get some drinks. Do you want one?

- I'll come with you. - OK.

How could you get it wrong?

She said next Thursday.

That means the Thursday of the following week!

Oh, OK.

It's just he's more of a colleague than a friend.

An important advisor for me, a contact.

I only see him a couple of times a year

so if you're going to organise something like this,

then it'd be nice to have a bit more notice and...

CRASH

What... you...

Oh...

Yeah... Yes...

Wine for the... Oh!

Sorry, I knocked it with my... hand.

Not to worry. We'll just, er... This is for you.

Yeah, and er... Kate!

So sorry.

- It's not a problem. - Was it expensive?

It doesn't matter.

Come on, let's step outside.

We can pay for it. Simon?

Could you get the dustpan and brush, please?

- That was Mum's. - Mm, yeah. It was an accident.

Would you help me deal with this, please? It's not a problem.

All right!

Cheers!

So, you two have known each other a while?

Yeah, we meet occasionally. I give him a few pearls of wisdom.

But you've never been tempted to go into business together?

- Er, no. - I wish.

Ah, he's on his way up, so he's working all the hours, I expect.

That's in the past for me now. I'm living off the fat.

I mean, obviously, a lot of my time is spent at the council

and, you know, we open the odd new restaurant...

How did it happen?

- You're interrupting me, darling. - How did it break?

I knocked it.

Mum's upset.

Yeah, well, could happen to anyone.

Fly by Ludovico Einaudi

I assume we can start?

Please.

Ah, at last!

You remember Gemma and Simon from the party?

- Hi. - Shall we have music?

Please, God, no!

CHRIS LAUGHS

We'll talk. Gemma, help yourself.

That was quite a game yesterday. On form.

- Good result, your boy did good. - Yeah.

How's the restaurant?

Um... good.

You're a waitress, so that must be...

It's for the money, mostly.

Dad wants me to take over as manager, but...

I'm more interested in going into events.

I'm doing an internship at a local company at the moment.

Events. So that's... ?

- Weddings. - Right.

Divorce parties.

- OK. - Funerals.

Is that really something people do?

What, die?

- Divorce parties? - Yeah!

There you see all the ex-wives having a great time

and you realise some people

are just so much better off out of marriage.

There's no point staying in something

if it's bad, if you're trapped.

Right.

How's your love life?

That's a personal question.

You talked before about a man you were seeing?

Sorry, isn't there a confidentiality thing

between doctors and patients?

Yes.

Can we activate that thing, then, please?

Oh, your mum and dad don't know?

Don't know what?

Oops.

Nothing, Mum.

Don't tell me you've got secrets?

Course I have! You said you prefer it that way.

Well, while you're under my roof, I don't want any big surprises.

I'm still your mum!

- You live here? - We can't get rid of her!

I lived on my own and I didn't like it.

Why? What changed?

Wine?

No, thanks.

- Susie? - Mm. Yes, please.

Gemma, actually, I wanted to say, I had an appointment

but then a letter came through saying that you weren't available

and I had a new doctor and then Chris heard something...

Yeah, a chap at the council knows your administrator.

There's been a formal complaint made against me,

a number of negative comments online, so...

Online. There's always trouble when you hear that word.

The GMC felt it wasn't appropriate for me to stay working,

so they've asked me to take some time off pending an investigation.

But you're the senior doctor.

- Well, what's the complaint? - Chris, you can't ask that!

A man says I threatened to burn him with a lit cigarette

unless he left his girlfriend alone.

He said you threatened him?

Well, you've just got to pity some people, haven't you?

Fantasist.

But why would he make that up?

He didn't.

He was beating up his girlfriend. I thought she needed help.

Oh! So you...

Yeah.

- I've been under a lot of stress recently... - Right.

... in my personal life. It's clearly affected my work.

- It's not an excuse. - No, it's a reason.

Come on, Kate! I mean, if the girl was going to be beaten up...

If the girl was being beaten up, you call the police!

- Things have been tough lately, have they? - Yes. Yes, I'd say so.

Are you listening? Stress.

- Andrew said he wants to be a doctor. - No, I don't.

The stress is more at home, actually.

You must work all hours, Chris, to stay on top of everything.

- I know you said you take it easy... - Simon?

... but there must be times...

You don't mind me saying about the problems we've had?

I... What?

You don't mind me opening up about the difficulties we've experienced?

Difficulties?

All right, not difficulties.

That's a euphemism, I suppose, as we're in company.

But, OK, good. Let's be precise. Not difficulties.

Betrayals.

OK?

I know we haven't talked about it with each other, but...

we both know what's been going on, don't we?

- Gemma, are you... - Do you want me to spell it out?

If there's really something we need talk through,

- then I don't think this is... - For the last two years,

Simon's been secretly having sex with another woman.

Well, more of a girl, really.

I know we haven't spoken about it, but these are our friends