A Good Girl's Guide to Murder

I was living rough.

Out near the old bus station...

when he found me.

I'll never forget the look on his face when he saw me.

Pure...

relief and joy...

and then disappointment when I wasn't who he thought I was.

He said he was a teacher, he had daughters.

I could stay at his house a night, and then in the morning,

he'd find someone to help me.

He seemed normal.

Nice, you know?

I went to sleep, and then later, I woke up

and went downstairs for some water.

He was there on the sofa, drinking...

so I thanked him.

Just told him he was a nice guy.

Sir...

That seemed to upset him.

You're a good person.

You don't know that.

What if I told you I killed a person?

Would you judge me then?

I wish I'd run then, but I didn't.

Then what happened?

His name was Salil Singh.

I drugged him first before I smothered him.

And as he was slipping away,

I spoke to him about university,

the future.

Just so he would fall asleep thinking about something good.

But I could see in his eyes that he was scared.

Do you think I'm a monster?

I think...

you're a nice guy

who must have found himself in a bad situation.

Thank you.

But maybe I could have one of those?

I'll get you a glass.

No, no, no, no!

He wouldn't let me go.

It's gonna be okay. I promise.

Sal! How could you?

Hey, hey, hey. It's over. It's over.

You're safe now, chicken.

How are your parents?

Emotional.

Like happy one minute, sad the next.

Everyone now knows that Sal isn't guilty and that he didn't kill himself,

but he was murdered by someone he knew and trusted.

And you?

I feel different.

I've got you to thank for that.

Well, I didn't do it on my own.

Nah. We were a good team.

You okay?

Yeah, I'm just...

Trying to say something.

Saying something feels...

Look, what... What I wanted to say is that...

Pip, I'm leaving.

I feel like I've been trapped here, frozen.

My whole life on hold.

I wanted to leave so badly, and now I can.

I'll get a job, apply to college... you know, do life.

You could do that here.

I need to go.

They had a forensics team going through the house

looking for DNA and stuff.

I just can't get over the fact that he walked among us...

like an ordinary, everyday guy.

Taught his lessons, drove us about, cooked,

and he was harbouring the darkest secret ever.

It wasn't just one secret.

He had a woman trapped in the attic of a secret house,

he had a secret teenage lover,

then murdered said secret teenage lover,

hid her body, and then secretly murdered her boyfriend.

He broke into my house on my brother's birthday, and he killed my dog.

So here I am.

What can I do?

What do you mean?

I want to make it better.

How can you?

I can't do this.

Right, the oven's ready, that can go in.

You need to whisk it. You need to whisk it properly, sweetheart.

Oh. Oh, dear.

I've ruined Cara's life.

Elliot was all she had, now he's gone.

No! No, no. That's on him, not you.

If you hadn't done what you did,

then this whole town would still think that Sal killed Andie,

and the Singhs would be carrying around that shame.

Plus, Andie's family would never have seen the person

responsible for their daughter's death arrested.

A girl would still be locked in Elliot's attic.

I know there were a million obstacles, but you never gave up.

Yes,

everything seems strange and sad,

but I need you to know that you are the bee's knees, okay?

I could not be more proud of my...

...insane and determined daughter.

Thank you.

Where could I possibly get it from?

It makes me cross, though.

Elliot doesn't have the decency...

to own up to killing Andie.

Josh's birthday.

You've got five minutes. I'll be here if you need me.

- I'm sorry. - No.

Why did you come?

You were gone the day Barney went missing.

You couldn't have taken him.

What do you mean?

Someone took Barney and killed him.

That same someone sent me threats on the phone.

- Which means... - Someone else was hiding something.

Someone else murdered Andie Bell.

Who's gonna believe you?

I'm the monster.

The things I've done, maybe I deserve the blame.

You are to blame.

You murdered Sal...

and took advantage of Andie.

She was 17.

And you were her teacher.

You kidnapped Isla, and you kept her prisoner.

Don't you want Cara and Naomi

to know that you didn't kill Andie?

You said Andie was looking for money.

Can you think of any reason why?

When I told her I wouldn't give her the money...

she went crazy.

She said if she couldn't leave that night...

she was scared of what he might do.

Who?

When Andie and I were together...

she told me that...

Jason...

was controlling...

of all of them. Andie, Becca...

He ran that house with fear.

Didn't let her have boyfriends.

And the night Andie went missing,

he was out to dinner with friends, supposedly all evening,

only I know for a fact he wasn't.

How?

I was out looking for Andie by the woods.

He drove past me in his van.

He's lied about his alibi?

Or didn't mention the flaw in it.

Either way, he's not going to admit to it now.

It's Jason's word against mine.

When Andie disappeared, I was desperate.

As far as I knew, she was dead somewhere.

And when they found her...

everything would lead to me.

And then I remembered, a few months before,

Naomi was struggling, and...

she'd turned in on herself, she wouldn't talk to me.

I had to know why, so... I read her diary.

The hit-and-run.

When I remembered that...

that's when this dark little seed came into my head.

I tried to make it go away, I did.

But it took hold and it grew,

and pretty soon, it was all I could think about.

Killing Sal...

and blaming him became the only way to protect my girls.

You know, they'd already lost their mom, I couldn't bear them lose me too.

You're evil.

Maybe.

Or maybe it's that dark little seed that's evil.

You know, now I wonder if we don't all have one somewhere in there.

Even you, Pip. Even you!

It just needs the right conditions to grow.

As metaphors go,

I expected better from an English teacher.

You had a choice...

and you chose to murder Sal.

Time's up.

Have you seen the girls?

Yeah.

The van that Jason was driving...

can you remember what colour it was?

Yeah, it was blue.

Hey.

Don't go. I just saw Elliot at the police station.

He didn't kill Andie Bell.

You saw who?

Elliot Ward.

Please listen. He was out by the woods. He saw Jason driving a blue van.

Do you remember the blue van the police were looking for?

Andie could've been in the back of it.

I don't care what that man has to say, and neither should you.

Just because he did something terrible

does not mean that everything he says is a lie.

It's not even that. It's just... I'm done.

We're supposed to be a team,