I try.
After writing the long recap, I can't be bothered writing the shorter one.
Here is the recap of Part 1 of T&R (it's very long though).
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I’ll use </> to denote when a flashback occurs.
Late at night.
We open with a shot of a ‘PRIVATE MEMBERS ONLY’ sign. A woman neighbour opens the gate and comes out with her dog. She glances at a hooded figure on a bike. This same hooded person glances at a house to his left as he rides past the screen (L-R). A mini pulls up in front of said house and Emily Harrogate emerges.
Using split screen we see Emily checking her watch/ <contrasted with her friends trying to coax her to stay with them at the club. “I don’t want to!” she protests> / as she walks up the drive /<“This is ridiculous, why do you want to go home?” and one of her friends shoves her.>
The bike rider comes back in the opposite direction, and once again looks at the Harrogate house. Emily goes round to a side gate, past the open garage (you can see some bikes inside).
<Emily is thrown against a hedge by a male. “Don’t be like them!” she cries>
Emily goes into the house and turns on the lights, takes off her jacket, and goes upstairs. Hearing some noise coming from her room, Emily enters, and smiles at something/someone there.
We cut between outside shots of the house, and inside where Emily is shouting “Get off me!” as she struggles against someone who looks like they’re trying to kiss her neck. There’s a scream as she falls backwards down the stairs, turning head over heels, and a shot of someone’s dark clad legs at the top, taken aback at what’s just happened.
The titles appear onscreen around shots of a car arriving in the drive. A woman, young boy and Max alight. Max is sporting a very Huband-esque hairdo.
The mother Deirdre tells the boys to go straight to bed. “Night mum.” Max/James murmurs as he goes past. What appears odd is that Deirdre (I’m just gonna call her Dee) says ‘Goodnight James’ (to Max), and ‘Goodnight darling’ to the younger boy.
Greg Wise as dad John (looking v. nice btw) enquires as to where Emily is. Oh, she’s upstairs, left all the lights on again Dee replies. And the garage door opened it seems, because John is not happy about this. Dee doesn’t want to discuss it, as Emily probably forgot her key again.
Dee is rubbing stain remover on Emily’s jacket, and goes to wash it. She’s an obsessive compulsive cleaner, which is frustrating John at this time of night. Dee goes through the kitchen to get an apron from the closet at the top of the cellar. Ominous music starts, as we look up at Dee from the bottom of the cellar stairs. Dee sets about pulling crockery from the kitchen shelves to clean.
The ominous music starts agains when a young man in coveralls (like a mechanic wears) opens a gate to put his bike by his house. It’s a racing type bike. He enters the house and quickly washes his hands. Inspecting them quickly, he notices them shaking.
Back at the Harrogates, we hear the boys playing a video game in another room. “James, you’re such a cheat!” It’s bedtime now, and John goes to check on Emily. The ‘bad’ music starts up again. James comes out and glances at his father. Max looks really tall here.
John hurriedly shuts Emily’s door, as he hears a vacuum starting up nearby. “Do you have to do that now?” he hisses, “You’ll wake Emily.” But no. There’s mud on the staircase you see, and Dee wants to get rid of it now. She also starts to wipe marks off the wall next to the stairs.
The hand-washing guy is Michael who comes in to give his mother (Ellen) a cup of tea. “I’ll just go up to do some more study” he tells her, lying. He also lies about having eaten the food she left out for him. She prattles on about some Clark Gable film that she waiting to watch and how old movie stars were one of a kind.
Cut to the morning.
John enquires as to where the boys are. James and his brother are out in the garage, as James’ bike tyres are flat. Dee hasn’t woken Emily yet. She and John discuss getting her some sort of present, since her grandmother (Claire) is giving her a digital camera because of the fantastic results.
After making some coffee, Dee takes some up to Emily. She also wipes another stain off the balustrade. Emily’s not in her room, she didn’t leave early and it looks like the bed hasn’t been slept in. so John and Dee are wondering where she is. Dee is starting to freak out. Emily left before her friends and she’s not at her Claire’s. John makes some calls.
The ominous music starts again, as Dee hangs her apron at the top of the cellar stairs. She looks down, and shrieks “John!”
Her cry has alerted the boys [both are wearing private school uniforms, and Max looks very spiffy in his suit] and everyone races to the cellar. Dee is cradling Emily, trying to revive her, who is lying in a pool of blood. After a few shocked moments, John responds to Dee’s cries to ‘pick her up!’, and lifts his dead daughter carrying her up the cellar stairs.
Cut to Det. Connor who arrives at the Harrogate (sounds like Harry-gut) residence and is briefed on what’s happened. Emily was 18 and her family has moved her into the music room. She’s currently lying over a settee with a sheet draped over it. There’s still a large amount of blood appearing from her, staining the sheet.
Gemma Jones is the head crime scene investigator. The Harrogates will have to relocate as the house is now a crime scene.
The family GP is being questioned, and is confused by Connor’s questions as to whether there is anything she should know about the family before she questions them. ‘But I’m just the family doctor!’ he protests.
We cut to the Harrogate family seated around a table, still in shock. John and Dee are covered in Emily’s blood. Dee looks very much like Cate Blanchett in this scene.
Connor is indisbelief that Dee cleaned away evidence (unintentionally), and the question is raised that if any of the family is involved, Dee’s OC behaviour will prove very convenient. Preferably, you would watch the LH side of the screen, as the panning rests on Max for most of this.
Det Walker’s storyline. I found his rather boring. Is late for a meeting, and is refusing to take his wife calls. Walker’s son will be arriving at his place later. Highlight: Walker likes candy-pink ties.
Connor and Satchell (Satch) arrive at Claire’s house. Connor forgot her tape recorder, but Satch didn’t bring his, as he thought it more appropriate if they wrote notes. Mark Harrogate is being questioned first. Claire is present in his interview.
The Harrogates normally have dinner with Claire every Thursday, but Emily was away this time as she was out celebrating. The Harrogates left home at about 6:15pm and arrives back around 11:30pm. Mark and James went upstairs, and Mark though Emily was at home, as her jacket was on the stairs. He and James watched TV, went to bed, etc. When he alludes to Emily’s discovery, he puts his head on the table and sobs.
James is interviewed. (Yay!)
When Emily was discovered, he and Mark were in the garage. James’ bike tyres were flat, so they had to be pumped up. They used Mark’s pump because James’ doesn’t work.
Emily was on the cellar floor, Dee was shaking her, after a bit John picked up Emily and carried her, as Dee was hysterical.
“And what did you do?” asks Connor. The camera pans to the side of his chair, and we see a burst of liquid rush over the side… Satch quietly states that they should “Let him go”, and before Connor protests, mutters, “He’s wet himself”. Connor appears horrified.
Please don’t let him be famous for that particular scene
Walker meets with someone in relation to a parole hearing – the guy raped a girl neighbour, kicked his grandmother to death and left her to burn in a fire. Highlight: The Irish lawyer’s weird eating habits.
Dee is interviewed. “It was unbelievable the way she and James got on.” We discover that the Harrogate’s are a blended family. James is John’s son, Emily was Dee’s daughter, and Mark belongs to both of them. John and Dee have been married for 14 years. Emily’s curfew was 11pm, but she left the club at 10pm. John is visibly shaken by Connor’s view that Emily was murdered, and that she may have known her killer.
Satch and Connor exchange words concerning how each views the family – Satch says they should back off a bit, Connor’s suspicious of all of them, especially Dee. Not only did she clean away most of the evidence, but “she may know the killer and is protecting them.”
James and Mark are playing some shooting video game. Dee comes in, rips the controllers out of their hands and turns on James. “Turn that off. How can you be watching that disgusting thing and influencing Mark?! I’ve told you about this before, now get out of my sight!” James leaves, slamming the door behind him Dee kisses Mark’s hand (??), and he apologies for playing the video game. Dee just comforts him and says ‘I know, I know.”
<Shot of Emily entering her room and smiling.>
Gemma is inspecting the blood stains in the cellar. There’s a trainer print. She states that since the house is so clean, they’re getting very clear prints. Score one to Dee! Satch is sending some police to talk to the neighbours. Highlight: Satch likes cheese and tomato pizza with a crispy rim, and cheese and garlic bread.
Walker appears at the parole hearing for Barry. His supporters outline his good behaviour. Images of psycho Barry attacking his grandmother and throwing lit matches on her unconscious body. Barry’s also been goading his rape victim with letters. Walker taunts him after the hearing is suspended, and Barry drops his act, hurling abuse and threatening Walker, who appears amused by it all.
Ellen is startled by the headline of Emily’s murder. She used to clean for them. Michael takes the paper and reads it.
Walker and his son Richard argue about the fact that Richard’s been skipping school. Highlight: Richard’s ‘trippy’ moments when Walker gets a demon voice.
Dee and John look into Emily’s room, which now has police tape across the entrance. Operation Krakow is the name of the investigation into Emily’s death. Connor wants to find out as much about the Harrogates as possible. Highlight: Spotting Max’s real photo amongst the 'family' pictures.
Unloading bags outside Claire’s, Dee questions where John was last night.
“I went to check some paper’s in the office.” This irritates Dee, who storms off, saying that John’s been lying to her for months. We can surmise that John is probably having an affair.
Richard freaks out at the park because of the swans.
Dog-walking lady from the beginning tells the police outside the Harrogates that she remembers seeing someone near the house that night.
When Ellen is questioned, she mentions that during dinner, John left to go to the office. “John had been gone so long and Deirdre was very upset. James went looking for him.” This information surprises Satch and Connor.
James is being interviewed again. Max looks quite good in his light purple polo. Connor rips into him, demanding to know where he was that night, since he left for “a considerable time”. Connor wants to know why James went to go looking for his father (Dee was upset). James went to go to John’s office by bike (he sometimes leaves it at the grandmother’s), but it had a flat tyre. Connor asks why the family drove here, when they live so close by. Satch finds out that a new witness is waiting for them at the Harrogate’s. Connor, while watching James closely, tells Satch to walk there, and see how long it takes.
Connor once again demands to know why, if James went to look for his father, but changed his mind, why was he gone for so long? Did he go to the house?
“No I did not,” James protests, “I didn’t have a key.” But you didn’t go and look for your father, Connor reasserts.
John marches into the room, saying that James has been questioned long enough. He stands behind him, and places his hands protectively on James’ shoulders.
“She wants to know where you went Dad.”
After James and Claire leave the room, Connor calls John on his alibi. John was with a ‘Dora’ for “about an hour”.
Walker (wearing a cherry red tie) finds out that Richard’s in trouble.
Connor and Satch are talking out in the garden. Hair found at the scene matches Emily’s. Connor looks over Satch’s shoulder at James, who is standing nearby with a glass of milk. It took 10mins to walk to the Harrogates, about half for a bike. James walks away from Connor’s stare. The dog-walking lady saw the cyclist first at 9:30pm, then around 10pm (when we first see him). Staring at James again, who is sitting at a small table a short way off, Connor points out that James said that his bike was left at the grandmother’s because it had a flat tyre, yet John’s statement said that James and Mark were fixing James’ bike the morning Emily was found. “If they all drove home together,” Connor starts, “when did James take his bike back?” Satch finishes, realising the inconsistency. James, toying with his milk and still watching the two of them, is now the first suspect.
Emily’s three friends arrive at the station to be questioned.
John is in the garden talking to Dora on his mobile. He informs her that he told the police he was with her. She doesn’t mind, saying when will she see him next. I think we know now that John is having an affair. John notices Dee approaching and hurriedly rings off.
It starts getting interesting now.
John asks Dee how long James was away “Almost as long as you.”
Dee starts to accuse John for his reasons to go to the office, but John gets right in Dee’s face hissing that it’s serious, and they’ve begun asking James exactly where he was that night. Not to the house? Dee gets flustered at the thought of James being considered a suspect, and starts shredding a plant. “He went looking for you.” She insists.
John reiterates that if James wasn’t with him, nor was he at dinner, “then where the hell was he?! I heard him cry last night, he’s very distressed.”
D: “We have to protect him, he’s very vulnerable. It was perfectly understandable but it didn’t mean anything. That’s why he’s so angry.”
“What are you talking about?”
“You know how jealous of Emily he was. He just found it so difficult to keep up with her. Sometimes they could get very nasty between them.”
“That’s ridiculous, he adored her. You listen to me. You don’t mention anything about their arguements. You don’t put James through any more than he has to.”
After John leaves, Dee starts destroying that shrub muttering “Oh my God” over and over.
We cut to two of Emily’s friends talking, who appear very shallow.
Julia (the one with the Mini) is being questioned. Emily left early because she wasn’t having fun. The other two stayed at the club. Julia didn’t see anyone when she dropped Emily off. Julia knows the family, as they all go to the same tennis club.
“Emily used to beat him you know [at tennis]. Very strong serve.”
“Beat who?”
“James. Her step-brother. She’d been having fights with James.”
“Fights?”
“Not real ones. He’s just jealous of her.”
The two other friends are questioned. Emily had no boyfriend they were aware of, and the club wasn’t very full when they arrived. One said that they didn’t argue about the fact that Emily wanted to leave early, right before the screen says otherwise (the shoving incident from the beginning).
Richard is being held at a police station. Walker finds out that two swans were attacked at the pond. One was dead when police arrived, and the other was rushed to the vet to have the fishhooks and piano wire removed from its neck. Richard was found right by the swans, and admitted to hurting them. He had marijuana and sleeping tablets on him.
Ellen cuts a clipping from the paper about Emily. She calls Michael down, and when he reads the clipping she points out that he has a racing bike just like the one that was seen near the Harrogates. Michael insists that it wasn’t him, even though his mother knows that he was lying about where he was that night. Michael gets defensive about all the questioning, and doesn’t like the fact that the police are coming by. Ellen said she worked for the Harrogates, they’ll ask about him, and he has that bike. Michael keeps yelling that it wasn’t him.
Walker talks to Richard and tells him that he has to see a therapist. Walker has lots of demon voice moments here.
Emily’s autopsy. Suggestions about what happened to her. She most likely fell. Highlight is the M.E. The family’s shoe prints are being examined to those find at the crime scene.
Gemma spots a tiny bit of blood on a carpet fibre in Emily’s room.
Ellen questions the lack of Michael’s clothes in the wash. He said that he’ll do his own washing if he needs anything.
Gemma, Satch and Connor are inspecting the blood stain Gemma found. Pulling back the carpet reveals a large stain on the underside of the carpet. Not sure who’s blood it is yet. Someone did a very good job cleaning away the blood from the top (visible) layer of carpet.
Re-enacting Emily’s fall (as outlined in the earlier spoiler). She didn’t fall, but rather struggled and was shoved. This scene cuts between the dummy and Emily falling down the stairs. The same experiment is carried out on the cellar stairs.
“So she was pushed?”
“Yeah. But who the hell was up there?”
Shot looks up from the bottom of the stairs to the top before fading to black.
FIN.
From the previews for the conclusion.
~Michael is mad at his mother “I just wanted to find out for myself!” she protests before he belts her on the head.
~Dee and John fighting inside.
D: Emily knew about you!
J: So that’s why you sent James after me? [shot of Max on a bike leaving garage, dark pant, green shirt, what looks like a long leather jacket.] What did you hope he would find? Me screwing her over a desk? [John and Dora kissing on a bridge near a river] I was working! Making enough so I could walk away and leave you!
~Walker talking about Richard.
W: It never happened before, he swore to me it never happened before.
Richard’s therapist: When the rage happens, its not under his control.
~John talking to James
John’s voice: James, what did you see?
[James face at night, looking out of a 2nd storey window into the street]
~Dee, in a continuation of her and John’s earlier fight ^^
D: I did everything I could so the children wouldn’t find out.
Rear shoulder shot of James and Mark seeing their parents arguing.
~John cradling James’ head to his chest as he hugs him.
J: James you must not tell anyone
~Walker and Connor arguing at the police station
W: You certainly find out who your friends are!
C: All you had to do was ask Mike
W: I did! But you were too busy watching CCTV footage!
~Headshots of two lawyers during the trial, in full wigs.
Female judge’s voice: Members of the jury have you all reached a verdict on which you all agree?
[zooming CU shot of Emily in the cellar]
Jury foreman’s voice: Yes we have.
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There we are. Hope you like it.
I got my DVD-R to record it, but since the machine is region 3, currently any copies from it will be region 3.
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John seems absorbed in his work. James enters and watches his dad. John seems surprised, but pleased to see him. James doesn’t seem to like Dora, referring to her as ‘she’. James is not back at school, reason being that ‘mum’s selling the house and she needed a hand’. James appears in a funny mood, looking like he knows something, but giving short answers to John’s questions. James informs John that the police were at the house, chucking the ‘Emily’ dummy down the stairs to see if it would hit its head. We see via split screen that James is uncomfortable by these methods, and exits the house as the testing continues. John is taken aback, possibly because the dummy was dubbed ‘Emily’. Mark was at school, but they [Harrogates] weren’t supposed to watch the experiment anyway. James questions if whether Emily did fall by accident. John seems to brush this off, wanting Michael put away for life, having a few minutes alone with him, etc. James wants to know if he will have to go to the trial. John points out that James might be called to testify, and that he wants them to all sit together as a family, even though James points out that they aren’t a family anymore. He reaffirms that he doesn’t wish to go to the trial. John tries to convince him, saying that he will be there with him, but James walks away from him.