Page 9 of Murder in the Family

Crashing in about in other people’s lives not caring how much damage they do

MAURA

Look I’ve got it OK? Trust me – I won’t let anything bad happen

AMELIE

Promise?

MAURA

Promise x

Voicemail left for Peter Lascelles, 2nd April 2023, 10.03 a.m.

Peter? It’s Alan Canning. Long time no speak, as they say. You might have picked up that I’m going to be involved in this new Showrunner series rehashing the Luke Ryder case. Would you be free for a quick chat this weekend? I think it might be useful. And not just for me.

Talk soon.

Episode one

Filming

TITLE SEQUENCE: ARTHOUSE-STYLE B/W MONTAGE OF IMAGES AND SHORT CLIPS: CRIME SCENE, CONTEMPORARY NEWS COVERAGE, FAMILY PHOTOS

THEME SONG – ‘IT’S ALRIGHT, MA (I’M ONLY BLEEDING)’ [BOB DYLAN] FROM THE SOUNDTRACK TO ‘EASY RIDER’ [1969]

TITLE OVER

INFAMOUS

FADE IN

WHO KILLED LUKE RYDER?

FADE OUT

BLACK FRAME, TEXT APPEARS, with VOICEOVER – Narrator (female)

On the evening of Friday October 3, 2003, police were called to an affluent address in West London.

The caller was a child, who was in so much distress the first responders weren’t sure what to expect.

An accident? Domestic violence? Maybe a burglary?

What they found was a body.

In the garden, at the bottom of a flight of steps, the face and head brutally beaten.

There was no-one else in the house. Just two traumatised teenage girls and their little brother, asleep upstairs.

FADE OUT

CUT TO: Guy in sitting room at Dorney Place. French windows, slightly old-fashioned furniture, view of gardenbeyond. Guy is slightly built, with arresting light-blue eyes and longish dark-blond hair. He has a single earring, a silver wrist chain, and a heavy aviator-style watch with a chrome strap. He’s wearing a white shirt and jeans.

NICK VINCENT (Producer) – off

And you were that little boy.

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