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Directed by: Simon Curtis
Synopsis
"Day 33"
Barbara and John drive over to Matt's to take the kids to the park for "some semblance of
a normal day," leaving Tanya at their house to wait for Daf to pick her up. When Barbara
lets herself into Matt's house, she finds him going through a photo album in front of a
camera while a reporter interviews him. Shocked, she flees the house, accusing him of
trying to profit from the tragedy. "You're vile; you disgust me," she says, despite Matt's
explanation that Sarah set up the meeting in hopes of satisfying the press with one in-
depth interview. As Barbara gets into her car, leaving the children with Matt, John asks
him, "Us paying the mortgage not good enough for you, Matt?"
At the park, Tops' marathon has finally arrived, and Jim shows up to cheer her on, with a
bit of taunting thrown in as well. While Josh and his new photographer cover the event
from the sidelines, Jim waits for Tops to push through each checkpoint, raising a glass of
beer as she passes.
Out at his house in the country, Barclay spends his day off attacking the weeds in his
front yard. After collapsing, exhausted, in the newly cleared lawn he calls Foster, who
turns up with a bottle of wine to keep him company. "Don't worry," she tells him. "I
won't be claiming the overtime."
Simone arrives back at Matt's house to take Ethan and Rosie to see the boats at the park,
and she walks into the aftermath of Barbara's visit. In the kitchen Sarah complains about
Leanne's parents' treatment of Matt. "It's racism," she whispers to Simone. "That's a big
word," the detective tells her, then adds, "Take care of yourself ... Because after this is
all over, there might not be as much room for you here as you think." Matt and Sarah
accompany Simone and the kids to the park, but Matt starts to feel "a bit gawked at" and
wants to leave. After he mistakenly spots Leanne in the crowd, the two leave the kids
with Simone and go to Sarah's place.
Barclay and Foster work their way through the wine, trying to ferret out the truth behind
Leanne's case, particularly the relationship between Kyle and the Macedonian flower
seller, whose body they found in the woods. "One of them got himself shot dead, and the
other may as well have for all the information he's given us," Foster says. Still searching
for a smuggling conspiracy, Barclay thinks aloud, but Foster tells him she thinks Matt's
jealousy led him to kill Leanne. "Motives are for storybooks," Barclay responds. "I can
barely work out my own motive for getting up in the morning."
Tanya goes to the mall with Daf, shopping aimlessly and grabbing some lunch in the food
court. When she brings up her mother's ticket to France, insinuating an affair, Daf sets
her straight. "Your mother wasn't coming to see me for love. There's only one thing she
ever wanted from me," he says, holding up a handful of cash and admitting that he was
late on his child support. Tanya tells him her mother never talks badly of him, and Daf
loses his composure, demanding, "Why do you keep talking about her as though she were
still alive?" Immediately, he realizes he's said something terrible and apologizes. Tanya
tells him that if he leaves - and Leanne is dead - then she loses both of them. Later, at the
movies, he says she can come back with him if she wants. .
At Sarah's apartment, her flirting with Matt leads to a kiss, and soon they're tearing each
other's clothes off. Matt stops her, telling her it's too soon, but after a few minutes of
cooling off - and joking that he almost got a "mercy f**k" - they find themselves back in
her bed. His cell phone rings on the nightstand but he ignores it. Afterward, as they lie
next to each other, Sarah explains how she changed her name when she was 16 because
she couldn't stand to be associated with her mother's murder. When Matt asks for her
real name, she refuses, telling him she doesn't want him to Google all her sins. He asks
what she could have done that he doesn't already know about, and she takes the
opportunity to unload her conscience: "This was never a mercy f**k," she says. "I had to
shut you up somehow." She goes on to tell him how she couldn't stand the loving way he
talks about Leanne - it made her feel like no one would ever talk about her that way.
Simone walks the children down to the boat dock, where the owner of the dog shelter is
working. As he tells the kids that they can't take their dog into the boat, a couple starts
screaming for help from a boat in the middle of the lake. Simone looks up to see them
holding a large black bundle that looks like a body. Soon, the area is swarming with
police, who pull the body from the lake, and when Simone can't raise Matt on his cell
phone, she goes looking for him at Sarah's apartment. Tops continues to run her race, but
the owner of the dog shelter purposely bumps into her, knocking her to the ground. Jim
runs to her aid, but when he tells the shelter owner to "piss off," the man says to the
detective, "I did it. I killed her."
Josh heads over to Vic's nursing home to get his reaction to this latest development in the
story, but Vic has no idea that a body was found in the lake. Josh finds himself delivering
the news instead of just covering it, and Vic begins to wail. Shocked and shamed, Josh
backs out the room as Hazel runs in to comfort Vic. Later, the young reporter meets Mic
at the bar for a beer, and the veteran tells him, "It wasn't you that made him cry. You
were just there at the time."
Matt, the kids and Daf gather at Leanne's parents' house, waiting for some kind of news,
and John says that he thinks Ethan and Rosie should stay with them for a while. Just as an
argument starts to mount, Barclay and Simone arrive. Barclay shows the family a bracelet
they found on the body, which Barbara recognizes. He tells them the identification
process will take some time, and John replies, "Your own daughter, you never expect that
you might find yourself actually looking forward to the moment when you know, for
sure, that she's dead." After Barclay leaves, the argument resumes, and Barbara threatens
to call social services and turn Matt in as an unfit parent. Daf gets involved in the fight,
which quickly escalates, and when he declares that he's leaving the next morning, Tanya
comes downstairs to ask about her ticket. "Stop milking it, Tanya," Daf yells at her.
"Stop using her death to get me back in the harness." Hearing confirmation of her
mother's death for the first time, Tanya begins to cry.
The next day, John visits Barclay, asking to see Leanne's body. John isn't sure what
someone is supposed to do in a situation like this, but he feels it's his duty "to be man
enough to say goodbye." Barclay tries to talk him out of it, telling him the dental records
are precise enough to make an ID, but when John persists, Barclay levels with him: "Ok.
We couldn't make a visual identification because she doesn't really have a face." Still,
John is determined to go through with it, so Barclay accompanies him into the morgue.
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