It's time to learn the truth about the murder victim. Or at least part of the truth. Someone's covering up evidence. Someone's tried to conceal what's going on. And that puts everyone trapped in Gadsen Manor in danger. Before night falls, another victim will die.
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Transcript[]
MANISHA: You killed Callum, and now we’re going to kill you. That’s what we agreed to do.
CHRIS MCSHELL: Aren’t you going to say anything, Rose?
ROSE: Don’t see that there’s much to say. I’ve known this day was coming.
JODY MARSH: So you did kill him.
ROSE: If you say so.
CHRIS MCSHELL: You were in prison. Those tattoos Jody saw are prison tattoos.
GERI: And you’re Callum’s sister?
ROSE: Aye.
CHRIS MCSHELL: So why did you kill him?
ROSE: You tell me.
CHRIS MCSHELL: Oh, this is going nowhere.
SHEILA: Maybe we should talk to her privately, Chris. You, me, and Jody, the detective gang!
CHRIS MCSHELL: You’re not part -
JODY MARSH: That’s a great idea, Sheila! Rose, come have a quiet chat with us in the billiard room.
GERI: I’ll find Keith and the Prof and tell them what’s happened.
[recorder fast forwards]
JODY MARSH: Chris, can I talk to you for a sec, before we go in there?
CHRIS MCSHELL: What is it?
JODY MARSH: We’re not really going to kill her, are we? We can’t just kill another human being.
CHRIS MCSHELL: No! No, we can’t.
JODY MARSH: You’ll help me convince the others?
CHRIS MCSHELL: Yes, of course I will.
JODY MARSH: Oh, I knew it, Chris. You’re just… just what I thought you were. [kisses CHRIS MCSHELL on the cheek]
CHRIS MCSHELL: Oh, I… thank you.
JODY MARSH: Not for a peck on the cheek! You can thank me when I do something better for you than that. No, not that I would… I mean, not that I would want to, I mean… oh, now I don’t know how to end this sentence.
CHRIS MCSHELL: We won’t broadcast this bit.
[recorder fast forwards]
SHEILA: Ooh, pool table! This is fun, isn’t it?
ROSE: Is it?
SHEILA: I always wanted to be a detective like on TV, asking questions, finding clues. Did you watch those mystery programs, Jody?
JODY MARSH: Yeah, I did. I used to really love that cartoon Doctor Detector, with her sidekick Mister Mystery. She’d ask questions, and Mister Mystery would bang his robo-gavel on the desk and shout, “We can handle the truth!”
ROSE: I remember that. They had it on sometimes in the rec area.
SHEILA: I never liked that Mister Mystery. He had that squint. No, not for me.
CHRIS MCSHELL: [sighs] Rose, tell us from the beginning. How did you end up in prison?
[glass shatters, KEITH screams in the distance]
JODY MARSH: Oh, what now?
CHRIS MCSHELL: Lock Rose in here. Let’s go see what’s made Keith hysterical this time.
JODY MARSH: A tenner on a spider.
[recorder fast forwards]
[glass shatters, KEITH screams, zombies growl]
GERI: Keith, stop making that noise! You’ll just madden them!
KEITH: Oh God, we were just having a quiet cocoa in the kitchen. I dropped a mug, and they started growling, and now this!
JODY MARSH: Throw me that ax! Keith, Prof, go for the guns. We’ll hold them off!
JODY MARSH: Most of the zombie horde will leave in the morning, they said. If we just stay quiet, they said. If they can’t see us, they said. Zombies, known for just wandering off, not for like, breaking windows and throwing their eyeballs at you. Sheila, get it with that chair!
SHEILA: Take that! There! There, you nasty, disgusting, eyeless, horrible thing!
GERI: Come and get me, you zombie covered in pus! I got a present for you!
JODY MARSH: [shouts] Ew! Ew, ew! Oh, it’s got mucus on my hoodie! I think it had a cold when it died. Ew ew ew! Oh, get it off, get it off, get it off!
MANISHA: Oh yeah, interesting. Undead guitar. Jody, I think your turn’s up. Here, headcold zombie, meet a heavy metal object!
SHEILA: Help! My coat’s caught on that – what is it? - big metal sculpture! It won’t come loose!
GERI: You’ve got to get out of your coat, Sheila, now!
MANISHA: Get away from the window!
[gunshots]
KEITH: There. That’s them away from the window now. Quick, get this table up against the broken board.
[table scrapes across floor]
KEITH: Oh God, I thought I was going to die. Like, really die. Are you okay, Manisha?
MANISHA: What?
KEITH: Are you okay?
MANISHA: No, sorry. Yes. Yes, I’m fine. Sorry! I’ve never heard you express concern for anyone else before.
GERI: Look, we have to abandon this room. The table won’t hold. Nail the door shut so we can all sleep easy.
CHRIS MCSHELL: I won’t sleep easy until I finish interrogating our suspect.
[recorder fast forwards]
ROSE: How long do you think we’ve got? Days? Hours?
JODY MARSH: Us? We’re going to get rescued. That’s why we’re broadcasting all this. Someone will hear it and rescue us.
ROSE: People get rescued if they’re worth something. Army. Hospital for the doctors. I heard Netrophil rescue their own. We’ll all die here.
SHEILA: Netrophil are terrorists. Of course they come for their own. They only care about themselves.
CHRIS MCSHELL: Not everyone’s like that.
JODY MARSH: Abel Township will come for us. Bet you they’re working out how to get us right now.
ROSE: If you say so.
CHRIS MCSHELL: Rose, will you tell us if -
SHEILA: Just tell us in your own words how it was you ended up in prison. You can tell us that, can’t you?
JODY MARSH: Just doing one bad thing doesn’t mean you’re a murderer. I’ve done bad things, but -
ROSE: I killed my dad.
JODY MARSH: Oh. Right.
ROSE: He wasn’t a nice man, my dad. Ma died when Callum was just a baby. Dad was a drinker, and he hit us. When I was 18, and he was passed out drunk, I hit him 12 times with a hammer until his brain all ran down across his face. [laughs] Who’d have thought it’d be good practice for the future, eh?
JODY MARSH: Oh my God. I remember that case from when I was a little girl. It was all over the telly.
CHRIS MCSHELL: It was notorious. Brutality.
JODY MARSH: The way they twist these stories. I mean, the way you just said it, it’s totally understandable.
SHEILA: You were just a girl.
ROSE: Just old enough to go to grownup prison. I got in a bit of trouble when I was inside. “Bullying,” they called it. I’m not proud of it. Got another 15 years added to my sentence for that. I’ve done bad things, and when the doom falls on me, I’ll go to it smiling.
CHRIS MCSHELL: Callum was younger than you. Was he fostered?
ROSE: His English teacher adopted him, moved south a year later. Fresh start, new name, new school. He was always the one with the brains, Callum. I knew he’d do something with his life.
CHRIS MCSHELL: But when he did, he didn’t want anything to do with you.
ROSE: Never a visit. Used to write to me, but that turned into just a card at Christmas and birthdays, and then the past few years, not even that.
SHEILA: That must have made you angry.
JODY MARSH: So you uh, what? Listened to his voice mails, and followed him here?
ROSE: Yeah. After the prison fell, I tracked him here, and when he didn’t even want to show we knew each other, it made me so mad! “Poor impulse control.” That’s what they said about me in prison. Just grabbed one of the Prof’s poisons and dumped it in his food.
CHRIS MCSHELL: And where’s the vial now?
ROSE: I don’t know. Threw it out the window into some bushes.
CHRIS MCSHELL: Which window?
ROSE: Ground floor hall window.
CHRIS MCSHELL: There are no bushes outside that window.
SHEILA: She’s a bit confused, Chris, love. It’s a big thing, killing someone.
ROSE: Tell you what. You go and look through my rucksack. It’s in the lounge. Got a scrapbook in there, kept all of Callum’s articles, and the letters he sent me. You’ll see what I’m saying is true. Hasn’t sent me a letter for years. He was embarrassed of me. Didn’t want to know. That’s why I killed him.
[recorder fast forwards]
JODY MARSH: It’s definitely Rose’s bag, Chris, but there’s no scrapbook here. A few bits of paper with little notes on them, loads of bars of chocolate, some first aid kits. But no scrapbook. Definitely not. Maybe she lost it and didn’t realize.
CHRIS MCSHELL: Something strange is going on here. Jody, take me back to the cold storeroom. I want you to look at Callum’s body for me again.
JODY MARSH: I really wish that sometime in the future I’ll have a day where I don’t have to stare at a corpse.
[recorder fast forwards]
JODY MARSH: Callum’s still here, lying on the floor just where we left him. Still not dissolved, or whatever the Prof said would happen to him.
CHRIS MCSHELL: Where are the others?
JODY MARSH: Barricading up the front door. The Prof’s organized everyone into teams to rip up the downstairs floor. Way he’s going at it, you’d think he was digging for treasure or something.
CHRIS MCSHELL: Yeah, interesting.
JODY MARSH: I think Sheila’s told them all what we’ve heard from Rose. Nothing’s changed in here, Chris. Callum’s body’s still lying here.
CHRIS MCSHELL: Just describe to me exactly what happened when you moved the body.
JODY MARSH: Okay, if you think it’ll help. I had his right arm, Rose had his right leg, the Prof had his left arm, and Geri had his left leg. Rose and Geri backed into the room. Me and the Prof walked in forwards. We turned the body and propped him up.
My grip on his shoulder kept slipping off, and I’d grab hold of that – whatsit, armlet? - he had on. Hey, just a sec. He definitely had a silver arm cuff, and it’s not there now. Someone’s nicked it!
CHRIS MCSHELL: And when did you find the note that had fallen from his pocket? The one that had the name of this house and the date we arrived?
JODY MARSH: Chris, someone’s nicked something from Callum’s body! Don’t you think that’s significant?
CHRIS MCSHELL: Yes! Where were you when you found the note that had fallen from Callum’s pocket?
JODY MARSH: Standing just here, by the packet of soups.
CHRIS MCSHELL: Who was next to you?
JODY MARSH: Um, Rose.
CHRIS MCSHELL: [gasps] I’ve been an idiot! Look, we have to talk to Rose again, right now! Don’t tell any of the others. Now!
[recorder fast forwards]
ROSE: You again! Haven’t brought Hetty Wainthropp with you this time.
CHRIS MCSHELL: I doubt her investigative skill, to be frank. Close the door, Jody. [door shuts] We don’t think you’ve been entirely honest with us, Rose.
ROSE: Did you find my scrapbook?
JODY MARSH: It’s gone.
ROSE: [laughs] Of course it has, stupid of me.
CHRIS MCSHELL: You didn’t track Callum here by listening to his voice mail, did you, Rose? He told you to meet him here, and on what day. You wrote it on one of the bits of note paper you carry around with you, the note that slipped out of your pocket when you were moving Callum’s body.
JODY MARSH: Oh! It fell out of Rose’s pocket, not Callum’s.
CHRIS MCSHELL: You and Callum were looking out for each other, weren’t you? And you knew you’d be coming to Gadsen Manor today.
JODY MARSH: Callum told you to come here… but no one knew they were coming. It was just an accident we all got trapped here.
CHRIS MCSHELL: I don’t think it was an accident for all of us. Did Callum tell you why he wanted to come here?
ROSE: Y-yeah, he did tell me to come here. He said he was heading here to find out more about an old story he’d worked on.
CHRIS MCSHELL: Pandora Haze scandal in Somalia.
ROSE: Oh, he didn’t say. He called me two days in, when they were still saying on the news it was "the flu". Said if I got out, I should come here on this day, that he’d be here, that would be that.
JODY MARSH: Oh. You said, “All debts are paid.” You were looking after each other! You always had been!
CHRIS MCSHELL: What do you mean, Jody?
JODY MARSH: I’ve got three younger brothers. I fight with them, and sometimes I hate them, but I always love them. I remember once my little brother took 40 quid off the kitchen table and put it all down the waste disposal. All that was left were these little pieces of colored paper. My mom was so angry, and Danny was so little. I told her I did it, even though she’d punish me more because I was older. How old was Callum when your dad was killed?
ROSE: 12. He was 12.
JODY MARSH: Old enough to be tried as an adult, and maybe spend the rest of his life in prison, but young enough to start a new life somewhere else.
CHRIS MCSHELL: What… what do you mean, Jody?
JODY MARSH: You kept a scrapbook of his cuttings because you loved him, and you were proud of him. He found a way to help you. He wanted to know if his debts were paid. He knew he was in your debt. Oh, he owed you so much. He was your little brother. You’d protect him, whatever he did.
ROSE: I would have done.
JODY MARSH: You didn’t kill your dad, did you?
ROSE: No. It was Callum.
[recorder fast forwards]
JODY MARSH: There. Have your tea. We found some fruitcake, too, if you want some.
ROSE: I will, thanks.
JODY MARSH: So who decided you should take the blame for killing your father?
ROSE: Me. It was always me. They wouldn’t have gone for self-defense. He knew how to keep his [?] turned out, you see, our dad. Knew how to hit us so it wouldn’t leave a bruise. Imagine the headlines if Callum had said it was him. “12 Year Old Murderer.” At least I scared the other girls in prison. Never really thought about what a life in prison would mean. Just wanted to keep him safe.
JODY MARSH: Oh God, that’s so sad! You were both just children!
ROSE: Life’s not always fair. But I was proud of him. That’s why I kept the scrapbook. He was living that life for both of us. Maybe I knew his life better than he did.
CHRIS MCSHELL: And do you know who killed Callum?
ROSE: Got my ideas.
CHRIS MCSHELL: [slams fist on table] Just tell us! We can solve this if you just tell us what you know!
ROSE: Let people remember Callum for a good boy. Let the rest fall away!
JODY MARSH: You mean if you told us who you think killed Callum, you’d have to tell us something bad about him?
ROSE: He was a good lad! I remember when he was born, such a good wee lad. This is the end of the human race, you know. Lights out for us, and maybe that’s a good thing. We’ve caused more trouble than we cured, that’s for sure.
But if it’s not the end, one day people will read old books and papers and make new history. If something’s forgotten now, it’s forgotten forever. That’s all I ever wanted for wee Callum, may he rest in peace. Don’t go troubling the dead.
CHRIS MCSHELL: If everything’s gone, the only thing we have left is the truth.
JODY MARSH: Chris, come downstairs with me. It’s time for everyone to go to bed anyway. I’ll leave the recorder running, Rose. Try to get some sleep, and whatever you know, it might be easier to tell it to the tape.
[door shuts, recorder fast forwards]
[door opens]
ROSE: Ah, got any more fruitcake - ? Ah, no, it’s you. I see, yeah. What have you got there? [paper rustles] Ah. Yeah, that’s what I thought. You’ve got the same way of moving she had, same face. I’m sorry about what happened. It just got out of hand! I know what it’s like to take the blame for something you didn’t do.
You’re not going to say anything? I suppose there’s not much to say. This is a mercy. The rest of you’ll be gone in a few hours, but I see why you wanted it to be you. Come on. I won’t fight you. Do it for Billie. [chokes, collapses]
[door closes, recording reaches end, ominous music plays]
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