The Coroner Page #7

DAVEY:

(OVER) No one's hunting anyone. I just asked your neighbours where you

were.

KAREN:

Well they shouldn't have said. There's child-protection issues...

JANE:

(PEACEMAKING) Which bring us back to the matter at hand?

[KAREN IS ABASHED AS JANE SHOWS THE

PHOTOGRAPH]

JANE:

Can you put names to these other two girls? (POINTING) Sarah Millar?

KAREN:

(EYEING HER KIDS) No, I dunno.

DAVEY:

You two look thick as thieves to me.

KAREN:

I don't remember. It's a long time ago. (MOVING OFF, RE KIDS) So if

that's it..?

DAVEY:

How about a DNA sample, then?

[KAREN BAULKS]

DAVEY:

To rule you out of our enquiries?

KAREN:

I think I'd remember if I'd been pregnant.

JANE:

Sorry, but this is about a baby. A technician, two seconds and we won't

bother you again?

[ABASHED, KAREN SHRUGS AGREEMENT, MOVING

OFF. DAVEY TURNS TO GO, JANE JOINING HIM]

DAVEY:

(SOTTO, SOUR) Yeah, thanks for your cooperation.

JANE:

She has got her hands full.

DAVEY:

Yeah. But some people foster for the money, don't they?

JANE:

Maybe she's just trying to give them the good home she never had.

(POINTED) Or maybe she can't have one of her own?

DAVEY:

Or maybe she did, and something happened to it?

[HOISTING A SMALL CHILD, KAREN WATCHES

THEM GO, TROUBLED]

CUT TO:

EP2/SC19. INT. SARAH'S BUNGALOW. HALL. DAY 1. 15.40

JANE, DAVEY, LEE, SARAH

[SARAH IS VERGING ON MELTDOWN AS LEE TRIES

TO GET HER TO TAKE THE PILL]

SARAH:

We have to do something!

LEE:

(CALMING) There's nothing we can do. Come on, just take this, and it'll

all be okay...

SARAH:

No it won't! How is it ever going to be okay again?!

[LEE GRIPS HER ARMS]

LEE:

They don't know. There's nothing to connect us...

[THE DOORBELL GOES. THROWN, LEE STEERS

SARAH INTO THE LIVING ROOM, SHUSHING HER,

COMPOSING HIMSELF BEFORE OPENING THE DOOR

TO DAVEY AND JANE]

LEE:

Hello?

DAVEY:

Afternoon. (SHOWING WARRANT CARD) DS Higgins, and this is Jane

Kennedy, Coroner for Lighthaven. We're looking for a Sarah Millar?

[IN THE LIVING ROOM, SARAH FIGHTS PANIC]

LEE:

(LIGHT) What's this about?

CUT TO:

EP2/SC20. INT. SARAH'S BUNGALOW. LIVING ROOM. DAY 1.

15.45

JANE, DAVEY, LEE, SARAH

[FRAGILE, SARAH SITS FACING JANE AND DAVEY,

WASHING DOWN THE PILL (FROM PREVIOUS

SCENE)]

SARAH:

Headache.

[A RATTLE:
JANE NOTICES SARAH GLANCE EDGILY

AT LEE AS HE SETS ASIDE A DUSTPAN

(CONTAINING MUG SHARDS)]

JANE:

(TO SARAH, SOTTO) If you'd rather talk without your husband...

SARAH:

No! Sorry... Lee's my brother.

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