All language subtitles for Strangers.2018.S01E08.2160p.STAN.WEB-DL.DDP5.1.H.265-NTb_Track03

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Look, trust me. I'll sort it.

'Cause that's what
you pay me for.

Look, Jonah Mulray's
a fucking lecturer.

We've got nothing
to worry about.

Okay.

Lau, there's something
I have to tell you.

Your dad and I, we-we found out
what happened to your mum,

why she was killed.

Xiadong Xo.

I know.

I know he's my...

No, he doesn't get
to call himself my dad.

(sniffles)

He's a murderer.

Nothing more.

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(elevator doors open)

JONAH:
We're here to see Arthur Bach.

Xiadong Xo was a powerful man
even before he ran for office.

If... no, when
he wins the election,

he is not the kind of person
you would wish to cross.

If the police are involved...

They're involved.

These kinds of accusations,

you have to be very careful
who you say them to.

He had my wife killed.

He had her father killed.

I believe you.

JONAH:
Oh, I should imagine you do.

I know what you did.

You and Sally.

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

You've got my wife's blood
on your hands,

so do not sit here
and fucking lie to me!

Believe me, it makes me
sick to my stomach

to have to come here and ask
you, of all people, for help.

But we need somewhere safe.

And there's nowhere else.

You'll be protected here.

Both of you.

Oh, it's the least you can do.

What about the man
who killed my dad?

Ah, well, um, did you see him?

Thanks.

Hey.

Thanks for coming.
I appreciate it.

(door closes)

You're staying here?

For now, yeah.

Please.

So what's all this about?

JONAH: We need you to get
a story out there.

I don't care how you do it.
The Web, international press,

somewhere that
it won't be hidden.

What-what story?

Xiadong Xo is responsible

for the deaths of Megan Harris,

Ben Torres and David Chen.

David's...?

I'm sorry.

I know your dad and I had
our differences.

Don't need your pity.

I need you to help us.

Tell me how I can.

20 years ago,
Xiadong Xo raped my mother.

Piece of shit's my dad.

Three weeks ago, Arthur Bach

and Sally Porter
persuaded Megan to blackmail Xo.

Uh, she went over there
and she threatened to reveal

what he'd done to her.

He paid her off, hush money.

And then something went wrong.

He changed his mind.

He hired a guy called
Kai Huang to kill her.

Oh, Jesus.

And that's not all.
There's another guy involved.

H-He kidnapped Lau, and he's
the guy that killed David.

Okay, w-wait, wait, wait.
J-Just slow down.

I want to help.

I do.

These are really
serious allegations.

Do you have any proof?

Me. Do a DNA test.

Y-Yeah, combined
with a paper trail

that leads all the way
back to Xo.

Look, if you talk to Sally,

she'll confirm
everything I just said.

Now, I don't think we're safe
until this gets out there.

I need to find the right people
who will print this,

verify this paper trail
you're talking about.

It's got to check out.

That's gonna take time.

Yeah, we'll... we'll stay here.

Tell me about this paper trail.

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(keyboard clacking)

(sniffles)

(phone ringing)

(exhales)

Hello?

Yeah, I just wanted to speak
to her, before she went to bed.

She went to sleep an hour ago.

Oh, sorry, I must have, um,
lost track of the time.

Working late?

Yeah, working on a story,
as always.

I know you don't believe this,

but I really am sorry
it had to be like this.

(chuckles):
You're not sorry.

If you were sorry, you wouldn't
have screwed me over.

You think I want my daughter
growing up without a father?

You left me no choice.

Yeah, well, we all get
what's coming to us.

I'm pretty sure you're gonna get
what's coming to you

in the next 24 hours.

What are you talking about?

Just keep an eye on the news.

Your boss is heading
into a shit storm.

And that boat
you've been sailing?

It's about to have its sails
ripped clean off.

(phone clatters)

(dial tone beeping)

(exhales)

(barge horn blows)

Everyone will know who I am.

If you don't want people
to know, just say the word,

and we can stop
the story coming out.

We don't have a choice, do we?

I want Xo to go to prison.

I'm sorry.

(sighs)

(birds chirping)

(breathing unsteadily)

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(grunts)

(phones ringing)

(indistinct chatter)

This situation
has never happened before,

but the guidelines suggest
nothing changes.

If a candidate withdraws
at the very last minute...

You're up. Good.

Voting continues
without disruption.

-What's going on?
-Xo was found dead this morning.

It has been
a roller coaster election.

Bastard hanged himself.

Jesus.

There was a suicide note
at the scene.

A confession of some sort.

We've heard through
the grapevine here

that it's bad.

Putting two and two together,

it has to be
what you told me about.

Full confession, why?
Why now?

Christ knows.

I assume he knew
the game was up.

That this would all come out.

So everyone's gonna know
what he did.

Well, no.

The chances of that confession
becoming public are pretty slim.

But look at it this way.

The man who took
your wife from you is dead.

You're safe.

You and that girl.

Where is she?
Where is Lau?

Gone home, early this morning,
my staff said.

It's over, Mr. Mulray.

And it's time for you
to go home, too.

Just here, thanks.

Thank you.

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(phone ringing)

Mr. Mulray.

Sorry for keeping you waiting
for so long.

No problem. I really appreciate
you seeing me.

Um, I didn't really know
who else to go to.

Yeah, I heard about David.
Is it true?

Yeah, I'm afraid it is.
I'm sorry.

My wife had a flat
at Po Toi O Bay.

I was keeping
a few things there.

I just went round
to pick them up,

and the place had been
burned down.

Po Toi O Bay?

Yeah. It would have been
in the last couple of days.

Here it is.

Fire report...

What is it?

Well, this report says
it was arson.

Someone set light
to the building deliberately.

You have any idea
who that might be?

(knocking on door)

(knocking rapidly)

(knocking continues)

(shouts in Cantonese)

Hey.
Can I come in?

Sorry to miss you this morning.
You left so early.

Did you hear about Xo?

Don't know how anyone
could miss it.

What a coward.

Yeah, he was.

I went to Megan's flat
in Po Toi O Bay

to pick up my stuff,
and, uh...

it had burned to the ground,
someone torched it.

Why would anyone do that?

The man who killed my dad's
still out there.

(sighs)

Megan's message sent me
to that flat. Sent us.

She wanted us to find it.

-Why?
-(scoffs)

I don't know.

I've missed something.

Why pay her off
and then have her killed?

(exhales sharply)

Could I, um...

Could I see the passports?
Do you-- do you have them?

(closes drawer)

Thanks.

You've seen these already.

Yeah.

The names.

She wanted us to find the names.

A UK immigration stamp.

Three weeks before she died.

So, the last time I saw her,

she traveled back,
using this passport.

Trying it out, maybe?

Yeah.
Probably, yeah.

Do you mind if I keep these?

-Do what you want with them.
-Thanks.

I'm really sorry
to bother you with all this.

(stammers)

Are you gonna be okay?

Yeah. Fine.

(children yelling playfully)

(phone ringing and buzzing)

-JONAH (on phone): Emma.
-Jonah, where the hell
have you been?

I've been worried about you.

Yeah, I'm okay.
Listen,

I want you to do me a favor.

I want you to go to my place

and take a look
in Megan's office.

-(kids shouting)
-You two be quiet.

Okay. What am I looking for?

Paperwork in the name
of Megan Walker.

Jonah, what's going on?

I promise you I will explain
everything when I get back.

But can you just do that
for me, please?

Yeah. Let me just
get the kids off.

-Yeah, of course.
-Great. Thank you, thank you.

Conrad Davis.

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(phone ringing)

Yeah, Em, are you there?

Hi. I'm there. Just walking up
to unit 2110 now.

Okay, tell me what you see.

-Okay. Hang on.
-(keys jingle)

There's a box here.

Okay, what's in it?

Um...

There's lots of photos.

Pictures of a girl.

Can you take a picture
of one of them? Send me a text.

Yeah, I think that's Lau.

That's Megan's daughter.

Christ.

There's all kinds
of things in here.

-Schoolbooks, first drawings.
-Is that all?

Yeah.

I'm sorry, were you
expecting something else?

No, it's okay. Thank you, Emma.

I promise you
I'll explain everything

as soon as I get back.

Hang on.

(car horn honks)

What is it?

There's a USB here.

It says "Po Toi O" on it.

(siren wailing)

MICHAEL: Did your sister
e-mail over the file?

Well, everything
was on the stick, yeah.

Your friend Sally Porter--
she's nowhere to be found.

What about her
and the paper trail?

Third Empire?

No, everyone's just waiting
to see what happens

with this suicide.

Here we go.

That's the flat in Po Toi O Bay.

She recorded the meeting.

Turn up.

(Xo sighs)

JONAH: This doesn't really
make any sense.

Sally told me she wouldn't
even wear a wire.

She was so scared
of being caught.

Maybe that's just what
she told the consulate.

You all right there?

Maybe she had her own agenda.

I take it, uh,

you didn't ask me here
just to sit in silence.

MEGAN:
You know who I am.

I got your message.

MEGAN: 20 years ago, there was
a party at Kowloon Tower.

You'd just bought the building.

(Xo grunts)

Do you remember what
you did to me that night?

Do you remember raping me?

You okay?

Been so worried.

I'm sorry.
I needed to be on my own.

It's been...

My dad's gone. He's dead.

God.

-(crying)
-What?

I should have told you earlier.

What do you mean?

They told me to take
something of yours.

They had my arrest records.
They...

They gave me no choice, and...

they wanted something
with your DNA on.

What did I do, Lau?
Is-is it my fault?

No.

The people who took me...

...they already knew who I was.

It had nothing to do with you.

I'm so sorry.

I'm sorry.

No more lies, okay?

I've had enough of those.

This brings an end to matters?

MEGAN: Well, when I've got
your money, that'll be that.

(chuckles)

(phone ringing on video)

What? (speaking Cantonese)

I think I understand
what he's saying.

What?

What is it?

(birds chirping)

What's so important?

I haven't seen you this early

in a long time.

-I have to talk to you about Xo.
-He's dead.

So your story, whatever it is
you were gonna write,

doesn't matter anymore, does it?

There's a recording.

Meeting between
Xo and Megan Harris.

There's this moment
when he's about to leave,

and he gets a call.

He's pretty upset,
starts shouting and screaming.

That call was from you.

The recording doesn't have
your end of the call, of course,

but it's easy enough
to work out what's being said.

You knew about the meeting
with Megan, and you were angry.

And Xo starts yelling
at you, saying,

"You work for me
and not the other way around."

-Any of that sound familiar?
-Yeah.

Xo was acting strangely,
so I had him followed

to some run-down flat
in Po Toi O Bay.

See, I think you found out
about a payment Xo made,

via a shell company,
Third Empire.

A payout to Megan
to buy her silence.

Where's this going?

Why would Xo pay Megan
and then have her killed?

The money's sitting
in her account,

waiting to be traced
right back to him.

Just doesn't make sense,

not if he was acting alone.

He wasn't, was he?

Ten years,

Xo didn't do anything
that you didn't suggest.

Why would this be any different?

He raped Megan,
but everything else was you,

wasn't it?

Publish any of this shit
and I will sue you.

This isn't about a bloody story.

I want Mae.

-Full custody.
-(scoffs)

You get this.
Jonah Mulray found it.

It's got all the conversations

between Xo and Megan Harris.

And I just want my daughter.

You can have this and you can...

do whatever you want with it.

Full custody.

All those people--
Megan, Ben Torres--

all to protect a rapist?

We just... wanted it
to be taken care of,

so we made a call.
It's all we did.

If Conrad hadn't passed it
to some Triad...

I didn't ask him to kill anyone.

Did you change, Rach?

Or were you always like this
and I just didn't see it?

Look after our daughter.

(USB clatters on ground)

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-Did you...?
-It's on there.

Thank you.

I know how difficult
that must've been.

I'll get this to someone
we can trust.

You think you know someone, huh?

All those years married to her.

Yeah.

Believe me, I know.

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♪ ♪

Rachel Hargreaves,
you're under arrest.

(phone ringing)

Hello.

SALLY (over phone):
Jonah, don't hang up.

Where are you?

-Does it matter?
-I suppose not.

Did you hear about David Chen?

-No.
-He died.

None of this was supposed
to have happened.

I thought everyone would
get what they wanted,

including Megan.

You didn't want justice for her,
you wanted Xo in your pocket.

-But Megan knew that.
-What do you mean?

Oh, she was smart.

She recorded
the meeting with Xo.

That's why she had
the passports made up.

In case she needed a way out.

I wanted the same for her,
Jonah, I honestly did.

But Arthur, he had
his own agenda with Xo.

Right. Arthur Bach.

And where's he right now?

Just another day in the office
for him, I suppose?

I don't think so.

What do you mean?

I kept a record, Jonah.

Everything we did.

Covered. We can move onto
the commercial construction...

SALLY:
And you know what?

Blackmail is frowned on no
matter what country you're in.

Uh, there seems to be
some kind of discrepancy

between their figures...

SALLY: There is
no happy ending for him.

JONAH:
Meanwhile,

you're still walking around.

I wanted it to be over.

You think I'd have carried on
if I'd known that Ben would...

He thought that I was
having an affair.

He must have followed me
and seen Megan,

and that's what
the meeting was about.

(sirens wailing in distance)

If only I'd talked
to him, that...

If you're looking
for forgiveness,

I'm afraid I'm all out.

No, I don't. I...

School isn't finished.

We're gonna take
a bit of a holiday.

Where's Mum?

(grunts)
Thank you.

Are you okay?

I'm pretty sure I'm supposed
to be asking you that question.

-(laughs)
-I'm fine.

(grunts)

Let's go and get some ice cream.

MAE: I don't think
I like ice cream anymore.

MICHAEL: What about...
poo on a stick? (laughs)

-MAE: No!
-You don't want poo on a stick?

-MAE: No!
-It's delicious.

(chuckles)

(indistinct chatter)

What do you want?

I just want to know why.

For Xo.

For a man I believed in.

A man I loved.

Megan was supposed
to be your friend.

You say that like I don't know.

Yes, we were friends.

But Xo was a father to me.

I had no choice.

Nothing ever works out
how you plan, does it?

My ex shows me a photograph
of Megan and Ben Torres, and...

...I panicked.

You had people killed.

Abducted a 19-year-old girl.

That man you hired-- Conrad.

He was taken into police custody
a few hours ago.

He's a practical man,
apparently.

He's talking about all
the things you hired him to do.

About all the people he paid.

And it all leads back
to Xo and you.

I kept wondering why you stayed.

You're not a detective.

(sniffles)

You're nothing.

But then I realized,

it wasn't about
what happened to Megan.

You wanted to find out
who she loved.

You or David.

Even after all this,

you still don't know.

And you will never know.

You're as clueless as when you
first set foot in this country.

(lock buzzes)

♪ ♪

How was it?

Pretty much as I expected.

LAU:
Felix called.

That man Conrad.

He's told them
where he buried my dad.

JONAH:
Christ.

That's something.

When's your flight?

Not until later on tonight.

Good. There's something
I'd like to do.

If, I mean, if you don't mind.

Of course.

JONAH: Um, I suppose
we should say s-something?

LAU:
If you like.

(speaks Cantonese)

Namo Amituofo, Namo Amituofo.

What does that mean?

"Turn around and rely
on infinite awakening."

It's from the Buddhist
funeral chant.

Mum never...
she never went to temple.

But my dad,
he went all the time.

I'm saying it for him.

She was lucky to have you, Lau.

You, too.

I wish I understood why.

How Mum could do that
to Dad... to you.

Have you ever wanted
to be somebody else?

All the time.

Well, maybe that's what
I was to her.

She'd kept that secret
about who your real father was

from your dad for so long,

maybe it was all just too much.

She came to England,
and she saw me as a chance

to start again.

So why didn't she do that?

She married you,
but she stayed with us.

All the arguments they'd have...

the separate rooms...
but she stayed.

You must have wondered.

(laughs softly):
Yeah.

No, I think about it
all the time.

I'd never change
the time we had.

Speaking of which, I should go.

I want to stay here a while.

Okay.

Um, here's my contact details.

E-mail, phone number, address.

Any time, anything,
please don't hesitate.

I'd really, well, I'd love it
if we could stay in touch.

Thank you.

Maybe come visit?

S-See the house
she lived in and...

I'd like that.

Okay.

You take care.

(bell ringing)

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