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I want to report my father for historic sexual abuse.

[Cat] Did you know that Ela kept a diary?

- [Caryl] What's in it? - [Cat] I don't know.

What if it tells us something about her last day?

- We had a deal. - Wyn, don't.

- [gunshot] - [Carwen screams]

The police are coming back to arrest Joe,

but he's remembering things.

[Joe] She wasn't dead,

and there was another girl there,

and she was arguing with Ela.

[Cat] We should leave now.

[Gafyn] I never have! Not like you and Dai Rees.

- [Sharon] Not this again. - I know you're shagging!

[Sharon] We're mates, that's all.

[Gafyn] Do you think I'm stupid?

I've seen it. Always sharing secret looks.

- [Ela] Greta, go upstairs. - All your little in-jokes.

- All the touching. - Up.

[Sharon] I've worked with him for years.

Yes, there are jokes, but I'm not bloody shagging him.

- Well, I bloody think you are. - I am not.

Why is it that you don't trust me?

You were screwing me when your husband was up there dying.

You're capable of anything, you are.

- Horrible, horrible bastard! - [mug smashes]

So you two were having sex while Dad was still alive?

I hate you two.

- I hate your guts! - Ela.

Go to your room. This is nothing to do with you.

This has everything to do with me!

Look, you don't know how it was for me.

Well, I know that you're a slag.

Oh, God.

[theme music plays]

[door creaks]

Joe?

[indistinct voices over police radio]

[dogs bark]

[clinking]

What are you doing?

What if you'd fallen?

You could have lost the baby.

Lucky baby.

- What is wrong with you? - Nothing. I'm fine.

Izzy.

Wyn Pritchard is dead.

He killed himself.

It's over.

How can it be over when he's still out there?

- Izzy... - Leave me alone.

[exhales]

Joe!

[inhales]

[laboured breathing]

Joe!

[Wyn] Shelley!

You're dead.

You old bastard.

Do you hear me?

You're dead!

And do you know who cares?

Nobody.

Nobody cares because you're a monster!

And a coward.

But I'm still here!

And Shelley!

We're still here and you're dead, in some fridge somewhere.

[Wyn] You know what you are?

- [Wyn laughs] - Shut up!

- Dirty, sneaky... - You're dead.

...shameful little pervert.

Because of you!

Because of you!

[message alert tone]

[message alert tone]

Catrin, this is DCI Parry.

Can you contact me as a matter or urgency?

I don't need to remind you that whatever you're up to,

Joe Pritchard is still a danger.

Nina, hi. Can we have a chat?

I'm in the middle of cooking.

How you doing?

I'm fine.

Is this about Joe Pritchard or his father?

Um, not sure yet.

You said that you thought

Joe Pritchard had stolen jewellery from you.

Is this... Is this ring yours?

Yes.

Well, Wyn gave it to me, just before he shot himself.

Why do you think he did that?

Joe must have stolen it and Wyn was returning it...

But why not give it directly to you?

I don't know. Evidence against Joe?

But why, when he's already been convicted?

Well, how would I know?

And I want that ring back.

Yesterday, at your office,

I heard Wyn say that he had a deal with you.

- [chuckles] - I was there.

- What did he mean? - I have no idea.

The man wasn't right in his mind.

Why go to your office with a shotgun?

Because he was off-kilter.

Have you spoken to the police about this?

I don't think Joe Pritchard murdered Ela.

- I think Wyn did it. - Yeah.

Cos that would be great for your story, wouldn't it?

Joe Pritchard did it.

- And now we know why. - Why?

Because these things are inherited.

Passed down through the family.

- Those who hurt, hurt. - No. No, not every time.

Catrin, Joe Pritchard is a killer.

And if you tell yourself otherwise,

you're not just naive, you're bloody stupid.

Now can you please leave?

Oh, your... your pan.

- [smoke alarm blares] - It's burning.

Please leave.

Izzy.

Izzy, what are you doing?

Come inside.

I need it to end.

Come on. Eh? Come on.

Listen to this. Ela wrote it a week before she went missing.

"How I love you and you love me

I'm closing my eyes so they all go away

And it's just you and me in our own passion play

Your eyes, your eyes So green and so certain

You know what to do And so falls the curtain."

- What's that? - It's Ela's diary.

I gave it to her.

You didn't tell me there's a diary.

It doesn't matter about that now, Gafyn.

- Well? - What about it, Mam?

It's a really, really bad poem.

Oh, not that. The eyes.

All the way through, it's green eyes this, green eyes that.

I've looked into Joe Pritchard's eyes.

They're not green.

[phone rings]

[banging on door]

- Catrin Donato? It's DCI Parry. - Shit.

We know you're there. Can you answer the door?

[banging on door]

We'd like to have a look around, if that's all right with you.

Yeah.

Check all the rooms.

Joe Pritchard do that?

- No. - Have you reported it?

- No, no yet. - Because you've been busy?

You were caught on CCTV at the hospital yesterday afternoon,

just about the time that Joe Pritchard absconded.

Well, I don't think "caught" is the right word,

but, yeah, yeah, I was there.

It's not illegal, is it?

Why were you there?

I wanted to talk to Joe's sister.

Didn't have much luck.

[indistinct voice over police radio]

Can you wait for me outside?

Have you seen, spoken to

or otherwise communicated with Joe Pritchard

since the night of the fire?

No.

I don't believe you.

OK. Look.

He was there, in the woods, the day that Ela disappeared.

And Joe Pritchard told you this?

Yes.

So what if it wasn't Joe that killed Ela? What if it was Wyn?

And you think we didn't look at Wyn?

He had an alibi, and nothing to indicate he was involved.

Yeah, at the time maybe,

but yesterday his own daughter accused him of sexual abuse.

The forensic evidence still points to one person.

- Joe Pritchard. - But Wyn was a p...

Stop! I can see what's happening here, Catrin.

Joe Pritchard is inside your head, twisting the truth,

and now you're tying yourself in knots

to make it fit your story.

- He's not... - I want you to listen to me.

The man's violent and dangerous.

Name me one person who has ever seen Joe Pritchard be violent.

His mother.

That call to the misper hotline.

It wasn't anonymous.

- It came from his mother. - What?

She knew what he was and she told us he was dangerous.

So catch on to yourself before someone gets hurt or worse.

And report this.

Shit.

Oh, my God.

[grunts]

[yells]

[vehicle approaches]

[indistinct voices over police radio]

[inaudible conversation]

[pounding rock music plays]

Gafyn?

- Gafyn? - Oh, sorry.

Sali doesn't usually let me listen to this

without headphones on.

Y... Yeah, um...

I wanna tell Greta the truth

about that morning before Ela left.

Why would you wanna do that?

Because maybe we don't talk

about the truth enough in this family.

[Greta] I know.

Cariad.

I know the truth about that last morning.

I heard it all too. I was there.

I know that last time you saw Ela, you had an argument.

- And I know that you hit her. - Oh, no.

I've always known it wasn't how you remembered it.

It wasn't a lovely, sweet goodbye.

- It wasn't "I love you". - You never said.

I wanted you to believe it was different, Mam.

I really did.

It's been so hard...

knowing that that was the last time.

[sobs]

[phone rings]

- Sharon, hi. - Catrin.

I need you to meet me.

There's something I want you to have.

Before I give you this...

I want you to understand something.

We all did things we regret,

but you and Caryl,

you didn't just make her feel like shit.

You made her vulnerable.

You owe her.

Read it for yourself.

Find out who it was.

And then I want you to find my daughter.

Why didn't you give it to the police?

They gave up on her a long time ago.

But you...

You might have a chance with that.

Thank you.

Don't let her down again.

I won't.

I promise.

Oh, sorry. She's not here.

She might be training, up by the lake.

Right. Uh, thank you.

Caryl!

Caryl!

We need to talk!

I know it was you who sprayed "bitch" on my wall,

and left the dog shit, trashed my car.

And I know that you know something about Ela's death.

Cos you met her that day, didn't you?

You were in the woods with her.

For fuck's sake, Caryl!

Nothing ever touches you, does it?

You manipulated the fuck out of us

just so that you could get your own way, be the leader!

And now Ela is dead and I'm... I'm... I'm nothing!

And you just left me here!

You just fucked off and left me with Sharon and the rest of them

pointing fingers and saying we were responsible.

I'm sorry, OK?

Look, I... I was a bitch! I know that now. I just...

Please.

Can we just talk?

Get away from here!

Go on! Get away from here!

You stay away from her! You stay away from my daughter!

I just need to know what happened.

You murdered that poor girl.

That is what happened.

[inaudible shouting]

Get away from here!

[Cat] I just remember it being normal teenage drama.

But then when I read the diary

and heard it from her point of view,

I don't know...

The way we excluded her like that.

That's the worst thing we could have done.

- I was reading it thinking... - That you were a bitch.

What happened that day?

Did you go to the woods?

Cos Joe saw Ela having an argument with a girl.

We didn't go to the woods. I didn't even meet her.

But you sent a note asking her to. It says it in the...

Yeah, I... I was going to meet her,

you know, to try and make it up to her,

but then in the end I was just a selfish dick

and I didn't turn up.

Couldn't face her.

So, hang on. You didn't see her at all that day?

So many times I've thought what if I had gone to meet her?

Maybe she'd still be alive.

Maybe my life wouldn't have turned out so shit.

God, no one should have blamed you.

Everyone wanted someone to blame.

We let her down.

You know she really liked you, don't you?

Like, really liked you.

Yeah, she liked you too.

Oh, you mean...?

Right.

[sighs]

Better go.

Wait.

Is this the ring that you saw Ela wear on a chain?

Yeah.

- [Nina] Who is it? - It's Cat.

What did you get from the deal, Nina?

What did Wyn know?

I got nothing more to say to you.

I know that Ela was wearing your ring.

She had it on a chain round her neck.

I've got witnesses that saw her with it.

Who gave it to her? Was it you?

What are you trying to say?

What's going on?

- He was here. - What did he say?

Where's your daughter? Where's Izzy?

- She's resting. - Izzy!

Wait. You can't just go up there.

Come back down!

Izzy?

Izzy. Izzy.

Izzy, where are you?

[Nina] She's not here.

It wasn't you. It was Izzy.

Izzy gave Ela that ring.

Oh, my God. She was there, wasn't she?

That day, in the woods. What did she see?

- She's gone back there. - Where?

To the woods. And he's out there too.

Joe...

[twigs snap]

Joe!

Joe!

[Izzy] OK. Stop!

Please, no. Please, no!

[Joe] You were there! I saw you there!

- Tell me! - [Izzy] Please...

- [Cat] Joe! - No. Please.

[Joe] What the fuck happened?

I'm sorry. Don't hurt me.

- [Joe] Tell me the truth. - Joe.

Tell me what happened to Ela!

Joe, calm down. Listen to me.

It was her. She was the one arguing with Ela.

I know, I know. Just don't do anything stupid now, OK?

Just let her go.

[Joe] Did you see me kill her?

Tell me!

I didn't mean it to happen.

[sniffs]

[knocks]

Oh, my God. What happened to you?

- Is your mum here? - No. She's at work. As usual.

- My mum hit me. - No way.

That isn't even the worst bit.

Ugh.

I mean, how could she, like, do that to him

when he was literally dying of cancer?

[sighs] I mean, where's the respect?

It's inhumane.

And Gafyn too.

It's gross.

Most men are literally grosser

than humanly possible to imagine.

You know the gardener, Joe?

What about him?

Nothing.

No, go on, tell me.

The other day...

What?

He pulled me into his shed,

pressed his cock against me

and said he wanted to have sex with me.

- Are you serious? - Don't say anything.

Are you fucking serious?

Where are you going?

He's not doing that and getting away with it.

Ela.

But I didn't do that. I didn't touch you.

I know.

I'm sorry. I tried to stop her.

Ela!

[Ela] Oi! Joe Pritchard!

Ela.

Ela, stop.

[Ela bangs on door]

- I want a word with you. - What?

- About what? - She's 15!

You touch my girlfriend again and I'll fucking kill you!

She's only 15! Do you know what that makes you?

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

- That makes you a paedophile. - I didn't do anything.

- A paedophile! A pervert! - Stop!

Oh!

[Izzy] Ela!

[groans]

- Where is he? - He's gone.

What the fuck, Ela?

Oh, my God. Why would you do that?

I love you, Izzy. You're all I've got.

I'm not gonna let some arsehole mess with you.

It was a joke.

I didn't really think you were gonna do anything.

- No, you weren't joking. - I was.

Why didn't you listen to me, you mad bitch?

I thought I could trust you.

I thought you were the one person I could trust.

But you're just a liar! Like everyone else!

- I could have been killed! - Do you know what?

I can't be bothered with any more of your chav drama.

Well, you're a sad, spoilt, pathetic little brat!

Yeah?

Well, at least my mum's not a whore.

Don't you say that.

- Don't you say that! - Get off me!

- [yells] - [screams]

Ela?

Ela?

Ela? Ela?

Ela, stop.

Oh, no.

Ela!

Ela, stop!

Sorry!

[sobs]

Ela!

[Izzy] It was a stupid lie.

I was just a silly girl.

Desperate for attention.

I tried to tell her, but she was so angry, she wouldn't listen.

How could you let me go on thinking that I'd killed her?

[Cat] Joe, come on.

I tried to stop it, but they wouldn't let me.

Who wouldn't let you?

We'll have to call the police.

[Wyn] Then she's headed for prison.

And you're done around here.

If you want me to, I can help you sort this out.

Or you can try your own luck.

Mam...

Go and sit in the car. Let me deal with this. Come on.

It's OK.

I want you to help us.

I'll do whatever it takes.

I didn't kill her.

I didn't kill her.

[Nina] She's my daughter.

Any mother would have done the same.

Did Shelley go back?

Yeah. Her family was waiting for her.

How about you? The story's finished. What's next?

I can't go back to what I was doing before.

It's ironic, really, that I've had to come back to Llanemlyn

to understand what I was supposed to be doing.

And what's that?

Well, if I can help people find answers

by shedding a bit of light on things,

then that's what I wanna do.

Hey, will you have a think about what I asked you?

She only wants to talk.

[cheering]

I'm sorry.

[Cat] I thought I knew how my search for Ela would unfold,

that it would begin, as it should, with the facts,

which I would assemble into a story

that was objectively true.

But in looking for the answers, I've come to understand

that we all see events through the lens

of our own memories and experiences,

and that we all have our versions of the past,

that we all have our own story to tell.

[inaudible conversation]