01/11/2013 EastEnders

THUNDER RUMBLES

Alice, what happened?

What did you do to her?

It...it all went wrong.

I should never have gone over there.

She found the pills?

She found the pills, is that what happened?

Alice, is she dead?

I don't know, I think so. You think?

I don't know. She attacked me and I defended myself.

It happened so quickly, please... OK, OK, OK - I'm sorry,

I'm sorry. I'm sorry. Calm down.

Calm down. Where is she?

In the house.

Where? Where in the house?

In the kitchen.

You sure?

Yeah, she's in the kitchen.

Good girl. Good girl.

Did anyone see you leave?

No-one saw you...? I don't know.

There were people in the...

Were there people in the Square? There's people everywhere! It's Halloween.

I wasn't looking, I wasn't thinking, I just wanted to get away from the house.

I'm sorry I shouted. I'm sorry I shouted, darling. We've just got to get you cleaned up, OK?

You're covered in blood. Take off your top and let's wash your hands.

Shouldn't you go over there? Why?

To check. Check on what? Look at me.

Take your top off. Now.

Wash your hands.

Wash your hands, baby.

That's it. I love you, Michael.

I love you too, baby. I love you too.

Do you? Yeah.

Just dry your hands and give me the towel.

That's it. That's my girl.

You all right?

I'll get rid of these.

I left the door open.

What? Janine's front door, I left it open.

Why? I was panicking.

MUFFLED CONVERSATION DOWNSTAIRS

OK, here's the deal - you go to your room.

you get into bed, go to sleep. I can't go to sleep!

Just pretend. Just pretend you're going to go to sleep. Do that for me, OK.

I will go to the house and I will sort it out.

Maybe you shouldn't.

Maybe I should. Come on.

Get into bed, baby. Get into bed.

Now listen, you went to bed early because you had a headache.

I don't want you talking to Kat.

Here.

It'll keep the vampires from your door.

DOOR CLOSES

FIREWORKS CRACKLE OUTSIDE

MUFFLED CONVERSATION

I thought I heard someone.

Thought it might've been a ghost.

Have a look at Tommy. Come on.

Looks sweet, don't he?

Yeah.

He didn't know what was going on at one point. Started crying.

You should've come with us, watched your boy in action.

Would've been nice.

What's wrong? Nothing.

You're acting weird. Am I?

Yeah. I mean, you're weird anyway, but you're acting even more weird.

It's Halloween. Brings out the weird in me.

Good.

Hwahh! Hoo! Hoo!

HE LAUGHS

It's me.

Is Tommy in? No.

Oh, OK.

Just that Carol said she saw Kat and Tommy come home.

No. Oh.

No big deal, I just put some bits and pieces together for him,

a little present, but you can give them to him if you like.

Thanks.

HE CHUCKLES

What happened to your date?

She didn't turn up.

Right. See you later.

KIDS CHATTER

ROCK MUSIC PLAYS IN THE VIC

MUSIC CONTINUES

FIREWORK EXPLODES

Hey, Dracula, nice costume.

FIREWORK EXPLODES

DOOR CLOSES

Michael. What are you doing here?

I was just passing.

How did you get in?

The door was open.

Something wrong?

Are you all right?

Yeah, I'm fine, thank you...

apart from this little cut.

It's nothing really.

What happened here?

Well, there's been an incident,

a really unfortunate incident,

it's quite shocking, actually.

Took me totally by surprise. I was just here, preparing a meal...

for us - a little surprise after our disappointment the other night...

..when, there's no other way of putting it, I was attacked.

Attacked?

Mmm.

Brutally attacked in my own house.

That's terrible. And this just happened here?

Ten minutes ago.

Did you call the police yet?

No. I was just about to, actually.

Who was it?

Sorry? Who attacked you?

Well, it was you, of course.

It's been coming for a while, let's face it -

that terrible scene you made the other day,

our legal problems.

You've been pressuring me.

I took out that injunction and you just ignored it.

I tried so hard to be reasonable

but you just wouldn't leave me alone.

Then you turn up here tonight,

in another one of your foul tempers.

You'd been drinking, wanted to see our daughter,

with your disgusting whisky breath. Oh, yeah.

I couldn't have that, could I?

Before I knew it, you just snapped. You snapped, you threatened me,

and then you attacked me and I begged you to stop.

I begged you to leave me alone, but you just wouldn't listen,

so you picked up that knife and you tried to kill me.

I was lucky to get away with just a flesh wound.

I see.

Well, that's ridiculous because I didn't do it.

And yet you're here in my house, uninvited,

with my blood on your sleeve.

How do you explain that?

It's Halloween.

I was out with Tommy and Kat, it's just not real, it's fake,

joking around.

Please, Michael. Come on, don't you know?

Don't you know when you've been caught?

I mean, look at this place. Look at you, this - that knife, Michael, has got your prints on it.

Your prints are all over it.

Don't you remember the other night, helping me cook,

chopping the vegetables like a very good little boy?

You used that knife.

That's evidence -

concrete evidence.

You've been planning this for days?

Two. Two days.

Why?

Why do you think?

Alice? Finally, the penny drops.

What's she said to you? Everything.

Oh, she's told me everything...

..every single, sordid, very pathetic little detail.

And you believe her, clearly.

Yes, I do believe her.

She turned up here at that door crying her eyes out.

She was at her wits' end and she just poured it all out -

everything, you know, how you wanted me dead,

how you wanted to poison me.

Poison me!

Poison the mother of your child.

She was scared of what she'd got herself into,

she was scared of what you'd do.

She really had nowhere else to go.

When was this?

You know exactly when this was -

after your little diatribe against her the other night,

after she just couldn't bring herself to poison an innocent woman.

Innocent? You?! Please, spare me.

She fell in love with me and you couldn't bear that.

So you manipulated her, you used her, you sacked her.

She wanted to be with me

and she was willing to do anything to achieve that end,

including, it seems, getting rid of you.

So this was all her idea, then? This whole thing?

Of course it was. Of course it was her idea!

Oh, please!

Listen, I found these.

I found these crushed up into a powder,

I asked her what she was doing -

you know what she said to me?

She said, "I want to be with you and Scarlett."

That's terrifying, right? Imagine my horror.

I'm a lot of things but I'm not a murderer.

And I know I find you intermittently objectionable

but I could never hurt you.

I just couldn't.

And so Alice is the one that wanted to kill me?

She came up with this whole ludicrous plan?

You really think she's capable of that?

I do, yeah, very capable. No, no, not Alice.

You and I both know that she isn't capable of hurting anyone,

which is why you're standing there with my blood on your sleeve

and I'm standing here with this phone in my hand...

dialling, nine...

I wouldn't.

..nine...nine.

Police. Please, I'm being attacked, someone's trying to kill me,

they're in the house. Please, help me, quick.

What are you doing?!

You were going to kill me.

No. I told you...

Enough lies! Enough!

All right? She told me. Alice.

And I know she has not got the imagination to come up with any of this.

You sent her over here to poison me.

You were going to do that to me, and to her.

You were going to do that to Scarlett.

I mean, what would she have felt?

What were you going to say to her - to your daughter?

"Mummy was sad, she was so sad that she committed suicide.

"Your mummy just didn't love you enough."

Is that what she would've been told, Michael?

Is that what she would've heard,

the same words...

the same words you heard when you were a little boy?

The same words that have made you into the twisted,

messed-up freak that you are today.

Well?

Were you going to do that to Scarlett?

Were you?

The daughter that you claim to love so much,

the one that you were willing to kill for.

Listen to me...

No. You cannot lie your way out of this one, all right.

I mean, I loved you...

And I loved you. I loved you.

This doesn't have to be the end. It doesn't.

What do you suggest? A renewal of vows?

I love you. I still do. I do. I love you.

I do. In my own way.

And maybe this is what we needed to make us see the light.

Like a kind of therapy?

Let's be brave. Let's be brave. Let's seize the moment.

Let's grab this moment. I know this is a mess,

it's a terrible mess, it's a horrible mess I know,

but come on - it's not what you think.

It's exactly what I think. No, no, no. I know you.

More than that - I understand you.

You just want to scare me. And you have, you've scared me -

well done.

I'm scared.

But you don't want to hurt me.

You don't want to do that.

You don't know me.

You don't know what I'm capable of.

I'm very, very capable of sending you to jail

and leaving you there to rot,

because we could have been something, Michael, could - once.

But you blew it.

And now you're going to pay. Doubt that.

The knife? The prints? Alice's testimony?

She's a witness, you know.

She saw everything...

..didn't you?

You saw him come in and grab that knife,

you saw him do that.

I'm disappointed, Alice.

Everything we've been through... I'm sorry.

Oh, don't. Don't say sorry to him.

He doesn't deserve anything from you, not after what he's done.

You say you're sorry. Why?

Why are you sorry?

You were so horrible to me.

Oh, I know. I was disgusting,

but I've apologised for that.

I was under so much pressure.

Planning a murder can do that to you.

Do you know why we were "planning a murder"?

Because you're so disgusting.

You hurt people - me, Scarlett.

What kind of mother are you?

What kind of mother are you going to be?

What chance does this child have in the world?

We...

..me and Alice, we were forced to take action.

You forced our hand. Oh, "our"?

Our.

And you didn't manipulate her into all of this?

Gentle persuasion.

Alice is naturally a very kind, loving person.

You'd never think of anything as disgusting as this, would you?

No, of course I wouldn't.

Don't listen to him, Alice. Don't, all right.

He's trying to twist your mind. It's the truth,

the truth, which you clearly find so repellent.

No, no, you seduced her and you used her and then you threw her away.

She's nothing to you. That's wrong.

She told me everything that happened -

you two sleeping together.

I see, you're jealous?

No. Yeah.

Jealous that one night with Alice was infinitely more

fulfilling than the endless times I had to labour over your carcass.

With Alice,

I finally connected with someone.

It was a revelation.

Very good, Michael. Nice try.

It's the truth.

That's why you wear my St Christopher.

This is the only possession I have left of my mother,

the only other person I've ever cared about in this world -

the only one.

There's a reason I gave it to you.

I looked for you, Alice,

and you came to me.

Oh, Michael...

No, no, no! Please, please don't tell me

that you're actually believing this?

He doesn't love you.

I do love you. I do love you.

We share something way beyond your cognition.

Tell me, baby, am I wrong?

No.

Alice?

He's not wrong. I do love him. No, you don't, OK.

You're young, you don't even know... Stop.

I'm so sick of everybody telling me that I'm so young and I'm

so stupid, like a stupid little girl.

Well, I'm not. I'm a woman and I know how I feel.

I love him. I do.

And you destroyed me.

So I came to you because I didn't have anyone else to go to

and now I don't know what to do. I don't know what's right, I don't know what's wrong...

You need to tell the truth to the police.

The truth?

Janine, none of this is the truth.

I wanted to pay you back.

I wanted to hurt you like you hurt me,

but I didn't want this,

I didn't want any of this. I can't poison somebody.

I can't lie to the police - I can't and I won't.

I just want a normal life.

Snap!

That's exactly what I want.

Thank God. Thank God you came to your senses before I did.

I love you. I can't believe this is happening. Let go of her!

Look at you there,

replete with venom, and poison.

You're toxic.

So, what've you got, Janine?

Cos Alice is not going to lie to the police for you.

You've got a messy kitchen, you've got a knife with some prints on it.

You've got nothing.

Alice! Alice, listen to me.

So you ring the police and tell them that you're sorry -

it's a big mistake and none of this happened.

Alice, he seduced you, he used you.

I know he's making you feel like he loves you but he doesn't.

He's very good at that.

He doesn't love anyone -

not you, or Scarlett, or me or anyone.

That's not true. Oh! He hates himself,

yeah, but he loves Scarlett.

He was going to make it look like I'd committed suicide,

just like his mum did.

If he loved Scarlett, like you say, why would he do that to her?

Why would he leave her for the rest of her life with that?

Why?

Why, Michael?

SIRENS APPROACHING

Think quickly, Michael, they're almost here.

Hey, maybe a full confession might be best. What do you think?

Shut up. Listen to me, I can explain everything.

I can explain my mother, I can explain my daughter but I can't do it before they come in.

Just answer the question. Just come outside with me.

Come outside with me and we can explain to them.

What were you going to say to her? I can't do that now, I haven't got time now!

I will tell you later. Now! Listen to me,

in two minutes, they're going to come through that door.

It's so important that you listen to me.

You don't mention the pills. Don't mention the pills.

If you mention the pills, you'll go to prison, do you understand that?

You'll go to prison.

She forced you into it but you didn't want to do it

because you're a good girl, because you're my special girl - my special beautiful girl.

No, no, I'm not, am I? You are. I'm not!

I can see it in your eyes, Michael - you're scared.

I don't want to see it but I can.

I'm not your special anything.

No, I love you, I do love you! No, you don't.

Alice, this man was going to kill me and he was going to use you to do it.

He was going to leave his little girl motherless.

He needs to be stopped. We need to stick to what we agreed before somebody actually gets hurt...

You don't! You don't! Yes, you do. You need to put him away and protect Scarlett.

From you! You are a disgusting piece of flesh.

This is what I mean. That is exactly what I mean.

Baby, look at me, look at me. I don't know. I don't know. Yes, you do know!

I will go to prison. I'll go to prison!

Michael, just go out the back.

Just run out the door, quickly, they're not here yet. Go.

Please, Michael, go, I promise I won't stop you.

Not without Scarlett.

CHILD'S MOBILE PLAYS MUSIC

No, no, no!

Scarlett!

MUFFLED CHILD'S LAUGHTER

SIRENS APPROACHING

Give me the key. No, they're here, just give it up.

Give me the key!

Michael, don't hurt her. Michael don't. Me and you can go now, OK?

Let's go, let's go. Let's run away.

Why would I want to run away with you? KNOCK ON DOOR

You had your chance and you blew it!

You betrayed me.

You're a stupid little girl!

You're dead to me.

You don't mean that.

Michael, get off her! Michael, get off her!

You're going to kill her! Stop it! I don't care.

Michael, please! Get off!

BANGING ON DOOR

Open the door. Open the door.

BANGING ON DOOR

Is everything OK?

FIREWORK EXPLODES

Indigo, X-ray, three, zero, five - urgent message.

I have a male with stab wounds - life-threatening injury,

I need an ambulance to my location ASAP.

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