[mysterious music]
[intense dramatic music]
[haunting music]
- Gary!
Gary Kingston, I know you're there.
[laughing]
[knocking]
Gary, if I go away this time I'm gonna have to come back
with the police.
- [Gary] What do you want?
- I want Gary Kingston,
I got him a job here as caretaker once.
- [Gary] Nobody of that name here now.
- Credit me with some intelligence, Gary.
[mysterious music]
- It wasn't locked.
- I'm coming in.
Oh god.
- [Gary] It's through here.
- Why did you leave the hostel, Gary?
- Didn't like it.
- I pulled in all kinds of favors
to get you on your feet.
Why did you have to go and do this to me?
- Sorry.
- What am I gonna do with you, Gary?
- Look.
I'm happy enough as I am.
- That's not gonna wash.
- Well.
I'd rather be in here than five to a room
with the other four of them snoring and farting all night.
[laughs]
Snore, fart, snore, fart, it was like sleeping with horses.
- Is that the real reason?
- I like to be on me own.
- Did Michael tell you to move out?
- That's all over now.
Haven't seen Michael in ages.
[tense music]
- I want to see where you've been sleeping.
Oh, God almighty.
- It's not half bad.
- You left guaranteed accommodation for this?
- It's a squat, that's all.
There's thousands living worse off than me.
- Not out of choice they aren't.
Who did that?
- That wasn't me.
- It's because of Michael, isn't it?
- No.
- Oh don't try to con me, Gary.
This entire situation has got Michael
written all over it.
- I haven't seen him and I don't even know where he is.
- Is that the truth? - You know I don't lie.
- I know you don't like to.
Getting ideas from Michael again is absolutely
the last thing you need.
Do you understand me?
- Yes Miss Francis.
- So this delegation get taken right out
into the jungle where there's this leper colony,
and while they're being shown around
they can't help noticing that there's this one little lad
from the village who's really making himself useful.
He's got the disease but he's running round,
fetching things for the others, helping them to toilet,
changing their dressings, all that kind of thing.
So they have this great idea.
They decide to have [mumbles]
to raise the money to send him to England for training.
And then one of them takes the lad to one side
and says, "Listen son, have you ever thought
"about becoming a social worker?"
And the lad says, "A social worker?
Bugger off, it's bad enough being a leper."
[laughs]
- Well will you make sure he gets the message?
Wendy Francis, social services.
- Goodnight. - Wendy, go home.
- One more call.
- Just for once let someone else
be the last one out of the building.
Have a good weekend.
Night Steve. - Night.
[tense music]
- Yeah, right, bye bye.
[sighs]
Night Joan.
- It's Anna. - Whoops, sorry.
- Goodnight.
[dialing telephone]
[suspenseful music]
[horn honking]
[screams]
[ominous music]
- Anna! - Oh hi.
- Have you heard the news?
- What?
- I'm gonna have a baby.
- You?
You daft bugger.
- It was planned, before you ask.
- You know anything to qualify for an office party.
- Look we're going for a drink after work.
You coming?
- You can't drink.
- Yeah but I can watch you.
- I'm sorry Michelle, I can't do it.
- But why not?
- Trevor's dumping a whole new load of stuff on me and
I'm really struggling.
- One lousy drink will do you good.
- No, I wish I could.
- Johnny said he'd come.
- When did you speak to him?
- This morning, he called for you.
You never rang him back.
- Uh oh.
Oh my god! - Don't panic.
It's just your share of Wendy's backlog.
- The word share isn't the first one that springs to mind,
is it?
- Well everyone gets the same.
Poor old Wendy.
She could never bring herself to close down a file.
With most of those it's probably gonna be a case
of check out and chuck out.
- Can't the replacement do that?
- Cutbacks.
- They're not replacing her?
Great.
- Do what you can Anna, I'm not expecting miracles.
Oh and don't take any notice of this either.
It's Ronnie's idea of a joke.
I've had a word with him about it.
Okay?
[mysterious music]
- I'm expected to be back in the office in about 10 minutes.
If I'm not there and I don't call, you'd better worry.
No, he hasn't tried anything, that's not the point.
But don't you ever send me out on my own again
to meet some weirdo time waster.
Mr. Kingston?
If you've had enough I do have another appointment
to get to.
- What happened to the people who owned it?
- It would have been rented.
But don't ask me who by.
There used to be families round here
you could trace back hundreds of years.
But they've all died out and gone now.
- Gone to Barnsley.
- What's left of the house isn't sound.
You'd mostly have to demolish and rebuild.
What with that and the cost of the land
you'd be thinking in terms of spending, oh,
250,000 at least.
- I'll have to check my investments.
Couldn't give me a lift to the bus stop, could you?
- [Michael] Was it anything like you'd expected?
- I didn't have anything specific in mind.
- Liar.
- I didn't.
- So why go at all?
- I just wanted to see what it was like.
I'm surprised you didn't follow me.
- Did I need to?
- You know the girl that drove me around and everything,
she was very kind.
But only because that's what she's paid for.
What a world, eh Michael?
- They're all gone, Gary.
Long gone.
They never even knew you.
- I know.
- Not like I do.
- Now listen, you'll like this one.
So this new teacher, he says my class
it's back to basics, we're gonna do spelling.
Now spelling is dead easy as long as you remember
to break the words down into syllables.
Now who can do that?
Take the name Simon Parker, right?
We've got your S-I, si, your M-O-N, P-A-R par
and K-E-R, ker.
What's your name? [mysterious music]
- Goodnight Johnny, thanks for coming.
- This is horrible.
- Oh it's great.
Straight out of Dracula. - Shut up.
I'm not sleeping here.
- Gary.
Gary.
There's somebody downstairs.
- Where?
- They're inside, listen.
[shuffling]
- No. - Come on Gary.
- No.
- Well we could dust down on the alter.
- No! - Well why not?
- It's wrong.
- I bet there's a crypt full of tombs.
We could sleep on a tomb.
- I'm going.
[suspenseful music]
- Hey, Sonia.
Sonia?
Hey Sonia, don't piss about, it's dangerous.
[hits]
- Where are we? - I'm trying to find out.
It's gonna be alright, don't panic.
I'll get us some light on and then we'll just stay calm
and work this out.
Alright?
[haunting music]
[screaming]
[knocking]
- Oh, I was just about to go.
I thought nobody was here.
- I'm the caretaker.
- I'm looking for Gary Kingston.
He was caretaker here about two years ago.
Can you help me at all?
- You better come in.
[tense music]
- I thought this whole area was gonna
be under a shopping center by the end of the year.
Why do they still need a caretaker?
- I'm not inclined to ask.
- Why not?
- In case they suddenly decide that they don't.
- Ha.
Do you know Gary Kingston?
- Yeah I've seen him around, yeah.
- Do you know where he went to after he left the hostel?
- No.
- He didn't come back here? - No.
- What about family?
Do you know if he had anyone to go to?
- No there is no one, he said he'd looked.
- You knew him pretty well then.
- Nobody knows him that well.
- What about Michael, is that a name you've ever
heard him mention?
- Michael who?
[sighs]
- Looks like I'm going be on a loser with this one.
- Why so keen to find him?
- I'm kind of responsible for him now.
I took over his file from a colleague who died.
- That's sad.
- Yes it was.
- Look how can I get in touch with you
in case I hear anything else?
- Oh, I'll be grateful if you will.
Ring social services and ask for Anna Spalinsky.
- Okay, here.
- Oh, thanks.
- What will you do if he turns up?
- It's not something I can talk about, sorry.
- But you don't think it's that simple.
- No.
Thanks for your help. - Pleasure.
Mind how you go.
[mysterious music]
- Have you decided what you're gonna do yet?
- About what?
- Coming back.
- Oh I can't face it Anna.
Enough's enough.
Gotta start thinking about me for a change.
- Quite right.
- What about you?
- What about me?
- Don't go carrying on the way you are.
You'll burn out, crack up, whatever you wanna call it.
The job takes and takes and there's no end to it.
Nobody is gonna draw the line if you don't.
- It's a bad time of year.
It lees off.
- What about Johnny?
Bet he hardly ever sees you.
- Johnny's gone.
- You're joking.
- I'm sick of you and your bright ideas.
- Like what?
- Entertaining her or asking her in.
- What's so terrible about that?
- You're like a child.
Can't keep your hands off wet paint.
- You're jealous. - Oh am I?
- Yeah. - Follow her.
- No.
- Don't argue with me!
- I am not going near that office again, alright?
- Follow her home then.
- Don't know where she lives.
- Show me what you stole from her.
You're not quite as stupid as you look.
- I want to leave her alone.
- She gonna leave us alone, Gary?
I don't think she will.
What can she guarantee you?
A nice new jacket with buckles up the back?
A little empty room with a big lock on the door?
- Would that be so different to what I've got now?
- Oh, you'll be a lot worse
because I might still be with you.
[haunting music]
And I wouldn't like it.
- Leo, Leo?
Come here, good boy, that's it.
Oh.
- [Announcer] We use the opportunity to ask the president
what the new government would do about the deaths
of Indians under control of the...
[suspenseful music]
- Hiya. - Hiya.
Police are in with Trevor.
- Why?
- The Carroll baby's in hospital again.
She's in a bad way.
- How bad?
- No one can pretend it was an accident this time.
- I was there two days ago.
[sighs]
It's a low risk household on any scale you care to mention.
- Not now it isn't.
I didn't want you to just walk into it.
- Thanks.
[tense music]
[knocks]
I'm Anna Spalinsky.
This is one of my cases.
- I didn't know it was gonna be you, did I?
I don't want to be taken off here.
I can't help you just, it's complicated.
- I felt brilliant on the way in.
I spent all last night thinking
it's just a job, it's nine to five,
and I woke up believing it.
- Hey, this isn't your fault.
- Don't tell me that, tell them.
- [Trevor] Alright?
- Come off it Trevor, don't worry.
Call me for anything.
- Yeah.
- I don't have to tell you to watch out for the press.
- I know.
- Look I want you to take a week off.
You can be available and you don't have to come in.
- I don't need it.
- Well put it this way.
If you don't take the time off I'll have to suspend you.
- Why?
Good God Trevor, what do I have to do for this department?
Climb up on a cross and hang there?
- Stop it.
- Is this about the quality of my work?
Is it?
- I think that's for the inquiry to say.
Personally I'm satisfied.
- Oh, but you're not going to bloody well back me
til then, are you?
- I'm on your side.
- Oh well that's great to know Trevor.
That's bloody great to know.
[shutters clicking]
[tense music]
[cat meows]
I'm sorry to bother you again.
I need your help.
It's about Gary Kingston.
Will you help me?
I need to know where he's gone.
I need to know he's alright.
So anything you can tell me, anything at all or
anyone you know that I can talk to.
- If I knew anything I'd tell you.
- It's not a matter of snooping, don't imagine that.
But I do need to know if he still needs help.
- Are you alright?
- I'm fine.
- Got a little twitch in the corner of, um...
[sighs]
- There's a lot going on.
- They suspended you, didn't they?
- How did you know that?
- I saw your picture in the free paper.
Wasn't a very good one.
[laughs]
- They put five years on my age as well.
- I don't think you did anything wrong.
- Gary.
Can we talk about Gary?
How long is it since you saw him?
- Um, a few months, couple of weeks, I dunno.
- Do you know what his problem is?
His problem's called Michael.
I'm telling you this to warn you.
- Michael who?
- Not Michael anybody.
Michael is a delusion of Gary's, he doesn't exist.
Gary thinks he talks to him and tells him what to do.
Gary thinks he's a demon.
Do you understand what I'm saying?
- Michael's the name of a demon.
- No.
There is no Michael.
- So you're saying he's mad.
- He's not mad.
He's not possessed.
No, it was a short-lived interlude
and he appears to have responded to treatment.
All I need to know is is he still clear, is he still fit?
- Or did he lie his way out of hospital
and is he on the rampage now?
- I don't think he's the rampaging kind.
Ask around for me.
- Um...
[tense music]
Will you come again here if I do?
- Of course I will.
- Okay, I'll ask around then.
Oh!
- It's a known thing.
You're dealing with people's distress all the time.
Gets to the point where you haven't got
a decent life of your own without feeling guilty.
So you work harder, then you work longer,
but then you don't work as well.
Meanwhile your home life goes down the toilet
and you start to come undone.
- So what do I do?
I mean I'm out of it now.
- Is that what she said?
- Well.
I gave her a choice.
- Oh Johnny, you're so dim.
- Oh thanks.
- No, this last week brought it all to a head.
But it's the way she was going anyway.
You talk to her.
I'll talk to Trevor.
- What am I gonna say?
- Ask her what she'd do if she had herself for a client.
- Oh she'd hang on like grim death and never let go.
- Right.
- Just like she does with all the others.
[suspenseful music]
- Right.
Thanks.
It's Anna.
Excuse me.
Anna.
- Oh! - Calm down.
I was ringing for ages.
- How did you get in?
- The key.
My god.
- This is my place Johnny, you don't just walk in.
- Then answer your doorbell.
What is going on here?
- I'm trying to catch up.
I was doing until I got interrupted.
Now I'm gonna have to try to pick up the pieces
and start all over again.
- Have you any idea what this place looks like?
- I don't care what it looks like, I don't have to.
And this is what I laughingly call
the privacy of my own home.
- Hmm, it's a mess.
- It's not a mess.
I know what I'm doing.
It's what I used to do when I was a student.
I'm getting it all sorted.
If I can see the problems more clearly
than maybe I'll be able to see the answers.
- Nothing here looks sorted to me.
- You're a copper, aren't you?
If you manage to write your own name twice
in the course of a day they give you a jelly baby.
- Anna.
I don't think you're well.
- Get out, Johnny.
[mysterious music]
And leave the key.
- This is a shared problem, Gary.
You're not on your own.
I'm not even gonna say that I warned you.
- Good.
- Even though I did.
- Half a crown.
- What do you want out of this?
- I don't wanna be locked up again.
- Neither do I, Gary.
The fact is I've let you try it your way
and it didn't work out.
Now it's my way or nothing.
[clatters]
Why make it more difficult?
- It always ends up your way, doesn't it?
It's like I don't even have a vote anymore.
- You know that's not true.
We need each other.
- I wish we didn't.
- Really?
You really think that?
Because I could leave you now if I chose to.
Find someone else.
Is that what you want?
To be completely on your own again?
I don't believe that.
And neither do you.
See Gary, I'm the only thing
that stands between you and the darkness.
And you, you're my way of getting to the light.
Say, as long as we're together and free
there's no such place as hell.
- [Johnny] Mary Henry?
- I prefer to be Sonia.
- Where's your boyfriend now?
- I dunno.
We got as far as home, then he just took off.
I had to get a lift all the way home from here.
He was the one didn't wanna say anything.
- Why'd you finally decide to tell?
- As soon as me dad saw this he wouldn't let up.
- You were bloody lucky, you know.
- I didn't feel lucky.
We got our backs underneath it.
It was my idea.
I didn't think it was ever gonna move.
- Sir?
[mysterious music]
- Oh Jesus.
[phone ringing]
Anna? - What?
- Are you alone? - Oh.
- [Johnny] Put the chain on the door.
- It's already on.
- Right.
The people you deal with.
Do you ever let any of them have your home address?
- Of course not.
- Is there any way any of them could ever find it out?
- No.
- Well we're probably alright but listen--
[suspenseful music] [gasps]
- I locked the door.
- I came in through the window, followed the cat.
This is all Michael, you know.
None of this is me.
- Gary?
Michael isn't real.
- I know.
I only wish it made a difference.
[shutters clicking] [clamoring]
- What are you going to do now?
- I don't know.
I swear to god if you move an inch I'll kill you.
Think.
Car.
I've gotta get hold of a car.
Come on.
- [Anna] What happened?
- You fell asleep.
- You're kidding me.
- You were tired.
- Where are we supposed to be?
- It's the farm where my mother grew up.
- What?
- They sent her away because she was having me
and she wasn't married.
She died when I was little.
- Your mother lives in Bristol.
I'm sorry Gary, but she does.
She put you onto care when you were five
because she said she couldn't cope.
Then she applied to get you back again when you were 10
and 18 months later she unloaded you.
She wanted to remarry and you didn't fit in.
- Shut up!
- [Anna] Why here?
- Just chose it.
- Where's Michael now?
Is he here?
- He's listening.
- Do you have to do everything he tells you?
- Most of the time, yeah.
- Why?
- Because he knows all the buttons to press.
When I had nobody, he was the only one who came
and he was the only one who stayed.
Could have been anybody.
It could have been someone like you.
But I took the only hand that was on offer at the time,
it was his.
- But you know he's not real.
- What's real?
The pain that he can cause me, that's real!
- What does he have in mind for me?
- Wants me to kill you.
- Why haven't you?
[tense music]
- If it wasn't for the murders,
and all the psychiatric problems
and me breaking into your house
and bringing you here and everything,
do you think...
Do you think you could have taken to me at all?
[laughing]
Alright.
Alright!
- You know the funny thing is Gary I probably could.
- Don't call out.
- I wasn't going to.
[hits]
[suspenseful music]
- If she's hurt, you're dead.
- You can say your prayers.
[shouting]
[sirens wailing]
[dramatic music]
[breathing heavily]
Michael.
Michael!
- How did you find us?
- Oh, we found some estate agent stuff back at the church.
Hey go and sit in the car.
We'll get that looked at.
[pensive music]
- He's gone!
He said he'd find somebody else and he's gone!
[ominous music]
[mysterious music]
[light music]