Episode 2 - Part 2 Hinterland

The victim is Owen Beynon, lawyer. Housekeeper found him this morning.

The missing guns are vintage Purdeys. Whoever stole the guns

knew their worth and what they were looking for.

Daniel Protheroe... you should have a word with him.

What sort of boy kills his own mother,

allows her to rot in the house

and then carries on as if there's nothing wrong?

You forgot to mention that your daughter

and Daniel were friends, Mr Powell.

There's no friendship.

Everyone knows it was Daniel.

Get your facts straight before you do something you might regret.

So, if the dead child is Daniel Protheroe...

Who are we chasing?

This is the same boy.

Your son is still alive.

My son is dead!

Eluned Roberts lost her child and we just made it worse.

There's a way of going about this job, procedure.

Things happen in a particular way for a reason.

We should have prepared her. Given her a chance to take it in.

OK, Mared, I get it. Do you?

We've got a dead man in the mortuary, a dead mother and child

and a boy who's running for his life on the mountain.

We need professional focus! You'd know all about that, wouldn't you?

Excuse me? You spend more time here than you do with your own daughter!

Mared...

I'm sorry.

I love my daughter.

SHE SIGHS

DOOR OPENS

I stick my neck out for you, Tom.

Time and time again.

I know.

You deserve better.

Where are you going?

To do my job.

You?

I thought I told you to stay away.

I want to talk to Branwen.

She's already told you everything she knows about Daniel Protheroe.

She has nothing more to say.

She could help. She's the only one who knows him.

I don't want my daughter involved in this any more,

any more than she already is. He's trouble!

Is this you speaking, or your husband?

My husband is right. He's brought us nothing but grief.

It was Glyn who beat him, wasn't it?

Bethan?

Bethan...

If you had a child that was in trouble, you'd want to know

somebody was looking out for them, wouldn't you?

Nora's child is in trouble.

I don't know what you're on about.

Daniel is out there on the mountain on his own.

He's scared.

His mother is dead, he needs someone to look after him.

And I need the truth, Bethan!

It was Glyn who beat him, wasn't it?

Glyn caught him outside Branwen's window.

And he taught him a lesson?

Yes? Yes.

He told him he'd kill him if he ever came back.

SHE SOBS

Glyn was brought up in a different time.

He finds it hard to connect with her.

But he doesn't mean any harm.

He loves his daughter.

BANGING UPSTAIRS

Branwen?

We've no reason to believe that Daniel would harm your daughter.

If you'd done your job...

it would never have come to this.

You should be out there looking for her.

ENGINE STARTS

CAR DRIVE AWAYS

For years I wouldn't let myself believe he'd drowned.

Did everything I could to convince myself that...

..he might come back to me one day.

But in the end...

..we had to accept that he'd gone.

So that I could breathe again.

I felt like I was letting him down.

Giving up on him.

But, at the same time, I owed it to my little boy to keep going.

To carry on, to live again.

But I never forgot him.

He was my son.

I want to see my son.

Plas Bach. Now.

You coming?

Why didn't you tell us that Plas Bach was being sold?

You didn't ask. I didn't think it was important.

How could it not be important? It changes everything.

No. You were going to lose your home, Esyllt.

It may not have come to that. I've checked your bank details.

I know you have nothing. All you have is this roof above your head.

How are you going to cope?

After all the years of service,

don't you feel betrayed by Owen Beynon?

When were you first told?

Esyllt?

A month ago.

Who else knew?

Nobody. Esyllt.

Who knew?

Lewis is a good boy.

DOOR SQUEAKS

CAR ENGINE

Where did you go after drinking in Aber?

I told you, I slept in the truck.

And the next morning you woke up and went straight to work?

Yes.

And it was your mother who told you about Owen's death?

You must have been very upset.

I was.

He was like a father to you, wasn't he?

Wasn't he?

It doesn't make any sense.

Why would somebody kill an innocent man like that

in cold blood in his own home?

A man who never hurt anyone. A kind man.

A man that always looked after you and you mother, always made sure

you had a roof over your heads, that you'd never go without.

Who'd kill a man like that?

I don't know.

Oh, I think you do, Lewis. And I think your mother does, too.

Doesn't she?

I think she's known since the morning it happened.

Since she asked you to look her in the eye

and promise her you had nothing to do with it.

But you couldn't, could you, Lewis?

Because you stole the guns to help her. No.

Because you love her, Lewis, and she loves you. No.

And when you found out he was leaving her with nothing

after she gave her life to him, you lost your temper.

You got angry.

He was going to throw her out

on the street, humiliate her, treat her like a dog.

You're not going to let anybody do that to your mother, are you, Lewis?

So what did you do? What did you do, Lewis? I hit him!

You knew we'd already checked the estate, didn't you?

So you hid the guns in the one place you knew we'd already looked.

I did it for my mother.

I did it for her.

He came downstairs...

Caught me with the guns.

He told me to put them back.

He made me feel small.

Like a little boy.

And he turned...

..to walk out the door.

He wasn't supposed to be there.

SHE SOBS

Please! Please!

Sir! We got a call from Branwen Powell. They've caught Daniel.

HE LAUGHS

Hm?

Put it down, Glyn. You keep away from me. Daniel hasn't hurt anyone.

He killed his own mother. No, he didn't.

And he didn't kill Owen Beynon, either. He knows where my Branwen is.

Branwen is here.

CAR DOOR OPENS

Argh!

Tom! No!

Let it go!

GLYN GASPS

GLYN COUGHS IN PAIN

He's just a boy, Glyn.

You don't know anything about him.

GLYN CRIES

Does Daniel know?

You ready?