Hi. I've come about the room.
What do we owe you? £2,400.
I don't want to jump the gun, but it's for the deposit.
When were you gonna tell me that we couldn't pay our bills?
Nick had an affair.
You think you can just take whatever you want?
I see you, Alice.
It's weird to have someone live in our house, but I like her.
£3,000. It's the deposit you gave to my wife.
Didn't have to sell something, did you, Nick?
I found her, Auntie Fay.
I'm gonna get my baby back.
What do you think of the balcony?
Mm?
Come on, you're the artist among us.
Why don't you ask Sian?
Oh, cos it's not Sian's home, it's yours.
I mean, she's here for now, but it's not permanent, is it?
Morning. Sian, morning.
Sleep well? Like a baby.
Oh.
What do you think, Sian?
Leaning towards the oak parquet, but it is pricier.
Yeah. No, definitely the oak.
Think it's not pretentious?
No, not at all. You have a great eye.
Oh, thanks.
Glad someone thinks so.
Shower is fixed.
Shower, I fixed it.
Jess and I had someone sorted for that.
Right. Well, I've saved us a couple of quid, haven't I?
Well, it was gonna be for free.
We're not a charity case just yet.
All right, we'll go with the oak parquet.
Dad, I need to lift to school. I can take you.
I can take her.
You get your stuff. I'll be right behind you.
Sian.
Listen, you don't need to chauffeur our daughter from A to B.
Alice isn't your concern.
Go and have a look. Hm?
The shower. I've fixed it. Oh.
Dad. Mm-hm?
What's your problem with Sian?
I don't have a problem with Sian. She just...
You know. I don't know her, that's all.
Well, I like her.
I think she's cool.
I think she's worried... that she...
disturbed you in your office? Did she?
No, I...
Look, maybe. I don't know. Ugh, Dad, I'm trying to talk to you.
I just don't think we should get too attached
to somebody that we hardly know.
That's all. Well, she lives in our house.
Yeah, but... not for much longer.
What's that supposed to mean?
Right. Go on. Off you go. Gonna be late.
Go on.
'I see you, Alice.
'You're an artist.'
It's the artist. What do you want?
He's only gone and fixed it.
I haven't had a shower like that in months.
I feel almost human.
That's good. Er, Sian?
Have you got a sec? Erm...
The thing I told you about Nick...
The affair. That's between us.
Yeah, because he's not that man.
OK.
It was a one-off.
As long as the shower's fixed.
Oh, I don't know if this is yours. I found it on the kitchen floor.
Looks like a receipt. Oh.
Jess?
Jess! Yeah?
How was the shower? Mm-hm.
Yeah? What kept you?
What?
Jess!
Come in.
Did you say something to Jessica? About what?
Where is it, Sian? The receipt.
I know you took it. Where is it? What receipt?
How did you get into my safe?
Safe? I don't know what you're talking about.
Well, is that why you're here?
Are you trying... trying to rip us off?
I thought I was here because you needed the money.
Hey! Hey, that's not yours, is it?
Is it?
I told Jess I'd put a wash on.
If you've lost something, Nick, why don't you ask her?
Yeah, no, I want... I want you gone.
Sorry.
Did you hear me?
I thought we understood each other.
You can say whatever you want to her because she will not believe you.
Well, I expect you know all about that.
Once a cheat, always a cheat.
What time does the pawn shop close, Nick?
Because if you need to get anything before Jess gets back,
you could, erm... take my car.
You do still have that £3,000, don't you?
I'd have thought the family jewels would fetch more than that.
It's not a lot of money for a big shot like you, is it?
Log farm.
'Mrs Haynes?' Who's speaking?
'This is Mr Farrell at Ullswater Secondary,
'Alice's head teacher.'
Is... Is everything all right?
'It's no cause for alarm.' What's happened?
'Alice and some other girls,
'there seems to have been an altercation.'
An altercation?
'Mrs Haynes, in situations like this...'
I'm on my way.
Mrs Haynes... Where's Alice?
Mrs Haynes, I was wondering if we could arrange for you...
I'll take it from here.
Mrs Haynes.
You didn't have to come.
It's not your problem. What happened?
Nothing. Girls.
Alice, this is not nothing.
He thinks you're my mum.
Christ... these places.
Sian.
I don't want to go back.
Come on.
Nick? In here.
Hiya.
Sian found it.
Don't try and deny it. I called into the pawn shop.
Yeah, I was gonna get it back. I was always gonna get it back.
My mother's jewellery, Nick. That's all I have of her.
All because you were too proud to take in a lodger.
No, Jess... No, don't. Just... Just don't.
Sian gave you this.
Oh, God. She found it on the kitchen floor.
No, it was in the safe.
Don't... Don't you see what she's doing?
This isn't about anyone except you and me.
It was in the safe. I can't trust you, Nick.
Every time I think we're getting back on track.
It was in the safe, Jess. Don't raise your voice to me.
How does she know we had a safe? How would she even get in there?
Stop trying to deflect...
Because the pin is Alice's birthday, isn't it?
The 7th of September? How would she even know that?
I can't talk to you when you're like this.
Just get them back.
Alice.
It must have been Alice.
So, how long has it been going on?
Since we got here.
Have you spoken to Nick and Jessica?
No, cos they've got their own stuff going on.
Alice, look at me.
Parents are meant to take care of you.
That's what makes them parents.
Yeah, but I don't think they want to be here either.
I don't know, it's just...
stuff went on in London.
So they move you up here to the arse end of nowhere
and don't explain why?
Well, it's to do with Dad's job.
Go on.
Well, you know, I liked it in London.
I actually had friends.
Dad was teaching me how to drive,
but I can't do that any more cos he sold that car.
He won't let me drive his fancy one.
I'm too young, anyway.
Sorry. I sound like a spoilt brat.
No.
No, you sound confused, but...
..anyone would be, in your situation.
You don't know the whole story.
What's yours? Huh?
With your parents.
Erm...
Oh, I'm sorry. Like, you don't have to if it's really...
No. Erm, OK.
Well, erm, I didn't know my dad,
and let's just say that my mum didn't want to know me.
I was brought up by my auntie, mostly.
Sorry.
No, is what it is.
But, you see, that's why it boils my piss
when I see parents who aren't stepping up.
Because it doesn't matter what your mum and dad are going through.
There is nothing - and I mean nothing -
more important than you.
Do you understand that?
What?
Boils my piss? Oh.
My mum used to say that.
Is that them? Erm...
Yeah.
I think we should just go, to be honest, Sian.
Just wait there.
Sian.
Piss off.
Sick freak! Yep.
What did you say?
You drive.
Why are you home so early?
What happened?
You should see the other girl.
What, you were there? What's going on?
Oh, Mum, it's not a big deal.
Sian just came to pick me up.
I'm gonna go get cleaned up.
Er, Alice, wait. Later, Mum.
Something the matter?
You look like someone's just walked over your grave.
Jessica.
I need to speak to you.
What is she doing with Alice?
She said she'd just picked her up from school.
Why? Why has she picked her up?
She's got a mark on her face, beaten her up or something.
I can't think why. Be careful.
I keep telling you about her.
I don't like. We don't need it. We can just move on.
Dad!
Dad, I thought you'd fixed it.
Alice, what's happened? The shower.
Oh, come on. Let's get you sorted.
No, it's under...
Right. Right. I've got it.
I don't know how that's happened. God.
No, it was absolutely fine.
No, no. We can't afford it.
Sian's not in her room.
And her car's not out in the front either.
Where would she go this early?
Sian doesn't have to tell us her comings and goings.
And you shouldn't go in her room when she's not here.
She wouldn't mind.
You two have got pretty pally.
I thought you liked her. Oh, I do.
I just want you to know that whatever you talk to Sian about,
you can talk to me too.
I'm your mum.
I know that.
Hi, Dad. Have a good day, sausage.
Who is it?
It's Alice's head teacher. He wants us to come in.
I thought it was you.
I'm making a brew.
Hi.
Mr Haynes? Yeah.
Mrs Haynes?
Hello. Do sit.
I apologise, but...
..yesterday...
Well, the lady who came to collect Alice, I was under the impression...
Oh, er, that would have been our lodger.
Oh, OK. I misunderstood.
Obviously a trusted friend.
So, what's been going on here?
You shouldn't just walk in while I'm at Mass.
Well, why didn't you answer my message?
Shortbread?
Or have you already helped yourself?
I'll pay you back.
It's her, Auntie Fay. Look.
Oh, it's no good.
No, no, no. Here, here, look. It's proof.
But I can't see what I'm looking at.
They're adoption papers.
I found them, they were hiding them in the safe.
In a safe?
What were you doing looking in a safe?
Do you know what the combination was?
0-7-0-9.
My little girl's birthday.
You should see her, Auntie Fay.
She even draws like me.
All those drawings, couldn't make head nor tail of them.
Why don't you listen to me? Hm?
You never listen to me.
This girl has a family,
and you got into her house.
What's gonna happen to you when they find out?
Find out what?
Don't break my heart.
What about mine?
And they can't love her...
..not like I do.
She's my little girl! Sian.
She can't be.
OK. Well...
Thanks for the tea and the shortbread.
Come home to me, petal. I'll look after you.
I thought you'd be happy for me.
What? No, Jess...
She... She impersonated you.
Did she, though? Well, what else would you call it?
Being there for our daughter.
Which is more than I can say for us. You heard what he said.
Alice is being bullied, and we knew nothing about it.
This obsession with Sian... Obsession?
Blaming her for everything...
Obsession? Yes, obsession.
Because you can't face the fact we're coming apart.
You, me and Alice.
You lost that docket yourself.
It was never going to save. Oh, here we go.
You're hardly a master at hiding evidence, are you?
It doesn't matter what I say, does it?
You will never trust me.
I want Alice to know.
Know what?
We should have told her years ago, Nick.
How can we be a family if we can't even be honest?
No.
No, we agreed.
But Alice is in trouble,
and we've been too selfish to see it.
I mean, what... what if all this confusion
is because, deep down, she doesn't know who she is?
Well, she's ours.
She's ours. That's all she needs to know.
We have to tell her, Nick.
Nick?
Hello? Hello, we're in here.
Hey, how was school? Yeah, it was all right, actually.
Good. Where's Sian?
Look...
we know that you've been having some problems at school.
Yeah. Sian helped. It's sorted now.
Sit down, Alice.
Nothing's happened to her, has it?
Look, this is about us, our family. Come sit down a minute.
Erm...
Your dad and I had a bit of a scare yesterday.
We thought you might have seen something
that you weren't supposed to,
something you might not know how to process.
To process?
We just want you to know how much we love you,
and if we ever lost you...
Dad?
Hey. No, it's all right. It's OK. Just...
Just... Yeah, just listen to your mum.
Oh, gosh. This isn't easy for any of us. Erm...
OK, now you're scaring me.
No. Alice. Alice.
What your dad and I are trying to say is that...
sometimes you might feel like you don't belong,
or that we don't understand you, but...
You were chosen.
Sweetheart, do you understand?
You are so special,
and we knew, from the moment we saw you, you'd be our daughter.
No.
Alice. No.
Alice.
What's going on? Honestly, just...
Has something...? Do you ever mind your own business?
I'm just trying to help. Well, we don't need your help.
She's upset. Just stop it. Jesus Christ.
We're trying to have a little conversation here.
Alice.
Alice. Alice, open the door! That is mine.
Alice. Alice, don't you dare.
Alice. Alice. Come on, Alice, listen.
Please, just open the door. Alice.
Open the door! Alice!
All right.
Oh, God. She OK?
Call an ambulance. Oh, my...
Can you hear me? Can you hear me?
Alice.
Call an ambulance. Call an ambulance.
Alice, can you hear me, darling?
OK, OK. Please.
You're all right. Yeah.
Yes, yes. Slowly, slowly.
Erm, yes, it's my...
Is she OK? Yeah, yeah.
It's my daughter. It's a car crash. Slowly, slowly.
Alice. Alice.
Slowly, slowly. I'm fine.
You're all right. You're all right. I'm fine!
My baby.
I thought I'd lost you again.
I don't want to be here.
Who is it?
It's me. It's Mum.
Go away.
I just want to know you're all right?
Go away.
Yep.
And you'll tow the car?
OK. Thank you.
Yep. Bye-bye.
Well, that's another debt, and we've lost the insurance, so...
Who cares about the insurance, Nick?
How is she?
Look, the doctor said she's gonna be fine.
Let's just give her some time.
Jess?
You all right?
Sorry. I'll do it. I'll do it.
How is she?
We should never have come here.
Well, from what I heard, you didn't have much choice.
So, what happened? Why did she take off like that?
We've been keeping something from her.
About Nick and the reason you're here?
Jess...
..you can talk to me.
I lost my mum when I was a little girl.
Barely remember her.
I just wanted to be a mum, like I never had, you know?
We kept trying and trying, and I just couldn't get...
I don't know whether it was Nick or me.
We couldn't work it out, but it just...
..wouldn't happen.
So we got on the list.
We were waiting...
..God, years.
Forever.
And then...
..this beautiful baby girl.
Her mother had given her up.
Didn't want her. Couldn't handle her.
I mean, can you imagine?
This baby girl just tossed away.
We never told Alice she was adopted.
I didn't want her to ever feel grateful, or...
Or maybe I just told myself that's why.
But since what happened with Nick, since coming here, it's...
..it's like she's further and further away from me.
She looks at me like I'm a stranger.
And I've...
..had my head in the sand with all this crap.
So it doesn't matter, and...
You told her?
I just thought, if I could be honest with her...
If someone in this house would just be honest, maybe...
I did the wrong thing, haven't I?
I'll talk to her.
This is all since you came here, isn't it?
Your wife's in the kitchen... blaming herself.
Don't come near me.
Alice?
It's me.
I guess they told you.
I just don't understand...
..how they could keep something like that.
It's messed up.
'You're the only person I can go to.'
'I know.'
I've got to get out of this place.
I know.
I don't want her up there with our daughter.
Do you think you knew?
Like, I think, sometimes,
you know, we know things even though we don't know we do.
Alice need someone she can trust.
We could have lost her today.
Let's go together.
Why would you do something like that for me?
Oh, no, don't cry.
Don't cry. I can't bear it when you cry.
I want that woman gone.
'I don't know, I just...'
I kind of feel like I don't know myself any more.
Like, I don't know who I am.
You're mine.
Did you hear me?
And you're mine.
You're mine.
It's me.
I'm your mum.