"She told me about her childhood." " How she imagined that Fleetwood was a special place." " The only place in the whole country sea water could freez e." "When she got older, she learnt the truth." " Sea water doesn't freez e." "But the memory of that froz en moment stayed with her." " Right, pub time," "Not a minute too soon, either," " Come on, Kath," " Yeah, yeah, Hang about," " Step on it, will you?" " I'm gasping," " Yeah, I'm coming, Irene," " What's keeping Kath?" "  Mother ship probably beamed her up," "Not without a struggle, Sure, she'd take them for a drink," " Maybe she got a better offer," " What?" " Round here?" " Do you think I should pop back?" " She probably just got the hump and slumped off home," "Hm, I'll just go and check," "Mind me bag and keep your mitts off my drink," "Eddie!" "  Huh?" "  Have you seen Kath?" " No, Quiet as a grave in here," " Are you sure?" "  Yeah," "Kath?" " Kath, are you there?" " Can you tell me what you're feeling?" " What I'm feeling is," ""Why did I listen to that nosy cow who said I should come here?"" " Well, you've every right to sit in silence for the whole hour," "But, now that you're here, perhaps you could try talking a little," "Tell me about Annie," "She has no right to just disappear like that, I mean, people don't just vanish, Not in a small town like Fleetwood," "You can't even nip off to Blackpool for a dirty weekend without getting sussed," "Do you think Annie might've taken it into her head to start a new life?" " No, She's not like that, Not Annie, She'd never go without telling me," "Anyway, her passport is still in her dressing table and, , her bank account hasn't been touched," "Have you found anything that's helped you cope with your pain?" " The pills help a bit, Block things out," " Soften the edges like cotton wool," " Hm," "They make you sleepy, though," "And, , And dry up your mouth," " Can I have some of this?" "  Hm," "Anything else?" " It sounds really bad, but even finding her body would help," "At least it'd be certain, Something to cry about," "Could have a funeral and hymns and a grave, and then, you know, then, , , try and get on with life, lt must be awful to live with such uncertainty," "Yeah, I can't stop making lists of "what ifs"," "What if I'd popped in for breakfast, like I sometimes did?" " What if the police missed some really important clue?" " What if she was unhappy and I hadn't guessed?" " What if I never find out and there's nothing, except more waiting, more of this frozen limbo, ," ", ,of not knowing?" " What I'm hearing is just how many questions you have," "Yeah," "And no bloody answers," "Kath Swarbrick, 33, referred by Blackpool General following a suicide attempt on the second anniversary of her sister's disappearance." " Obsessive thinking." " Some social withdrawal." " Sense of a froz en void within." " The house search, lt showed no evidence of a struggle," "The neighbours," "Didn't see any dodgy characters hanging about," "We interviewed her boyfriend," "Three times," "And her colleagues at the ticketing office," " All made full statements," " You've got to keep looking," "The last-known sighting of Annie was on CCTV at the Associated British Ports yard, We interviewed everyone there," "We splashed posters throughout Lancashire," "But, ," "And there's nothing," "Without evidence of any wrongdoing, there's very little else we can do," "She's on the Missing Persons Register, of course," "Are you alright, love?" "  Do you fancy a brew?" "  Yeah," "It's only machine stuff, I'm afraid," "At least it's warm and wet," "Oh, come on," "Fucking hell," "First you leave me, now I can't even work the tape," "Bollocks," "And they just handed it over?" " Yeah, Weren't meant to, so for God's sake don't tell no one," "This copper reckoned seeing the last known picture of her might help, I tried to play it last night and I just got, like, dots and flashes and, , I'm not surprised," "They're encoded for security purposes," "They only work on our system," "Oh," "She's got her high heels on," "What is she doing down there?" " She looks a bit like you," "You ever meet her?" " The camera down at the ticket office," "So, , I feel like I know her, but I never actually met her, no," "30 minutes and then I'll have to chuck you out, OK?" " Yeah," "Tripping up!" " I'm scared." " Think of something nice." " I can't." " Bobby Shaftoe's gone to sea" "Silver buckles on his knee" "He'll come back and marry me" "Bonny Bobby Shaftoe" "This filing's a bit flaky this far back," " Oh, ls that it?" "  No," "Here we go," " August, September, October," " Give us it," "Just scroll down to the same timecode," "Yeah," "1 2:1 7, 1 7th of October," "We'll see her in a minute," "If you go down that alleyway, you've got to pass a camera," "Yeah," "From there you into the blind spot between the two cameras," "Dead ground, we call it," "Walk on, you get picked up by the second camera, lt's either that or, , reappear on the first," "You understand?" " That's the funny thing, innit?" " You can't know everything about someone," "No, you can't," "You can't know all the places they go, the people they see, all the bad stuff lying in wait for 'em, lt set me thinking, I don't know, about, , fate, I suppose," "What gets me is, by rights, I'm the one that should've vanished, not Annie," "Why do you say that?" "  l don't know, lt's alright, is it?" "  Yeah, I was the wild one, see," "Mum always reckoned I'd come a cropper," "Not Annie, though, No, she was a good girl," "What's that for?" " Oh, Skint, are you?" " Parents sometimes categorise their children," "The good one, the bad one," "But the truth's more complex than that," "No, When Mum died, I got worse, I couldn't afford to drink every night, Drugs were cheaper," "Headmistress caught me smoking a joint in the toilets and booted me out of school, I chucked a brick through her window," "Spent the night in a police cell, I didn't give a shit," "And what did Annie do?" " Fetched me home," "Yeah, Spent months struggling to keep me on the straight and narrow," "When I finally calmed down a bit, I tried to make it up to her," "Poor Annie," "She must've been missing Mum as well," "Anyway,, , after watching the tape, I went down there," "And?" " It's bloody spooky, lt makes you feel like you're in between two places, one that's real and one that, , isn't," "And, ," "Erm, , I had this vision, I suppose you'd call it, Weird, Fucking trippy, I'd not taken anything, if that's what you think," "Hadn't crossed my mind," "When people see something that isn't there, do you think it means anything?" " It was so long ago," "Oh, come on, there must be something you remember," "Please?" " It's important," "There's nothing I can put my finger on, ," "But, yeah?" " Perhaps she was a wee bit different," "Like how?" " Sort of up and down, you know, excited one minute, lost in a dream the next," "You think she might have been in love?" "  Maybe," " She ever mention anyone?" "  Never?" "  Kept herself to herself, did Annie," "You're her sister," "Reckon if she was gonna tell anyone, it'd have been you," "And there's West Coast Jimmy, right, grinning like a nutter, like that," "They said, "Jimmy, you seem chuffed, You won the lottery?"" " He looked them straight in the eye and he said," ""l just shagged Sharon in the fridge, "" ""Fucking magic in there, Lasts longer, "" " l'll make a note of that," " He's a randy git, that Jimmy," "He'd shag a snake if he could get someone to hold the head," "Yeah, but what if it froze before he could put it up?" " D'you think she'd have licked it down to the stick?" " Mind you, that Shazza's a right goer an' all," "Should've seen her at fucking Christmas on the table," " Fancy licking my Magnum, Kath?" "  Shut up, you dickhead," "Her skirt was hitched up showing next week's washing," "She was singing, "Cow kicked Nelly in the belly in the barn, " or something," "God, she were pissed," " You alright, love?" "  Me?" " Right as rain," " Should you drink on them pills?" "  Oh, stop fussing, I just get rat-arsed quicker, Half a pint and I'm anybody's," "There's always Hurricane Frank," "Bugger off, will you?" " I'd rather shag a slug, I was drunk, You know how it is," "Stop it or I'll talk about the lorry driver," "Which one?" " So, that's why you went quiet, Another woman, lt's not like that," "A new baby as well, That didn't take you long, did it?" " Give me a break, Kath," "Bad enough Annie disappearing without you giving me a hard time," "I saw her yesterday," "What?" " Not for real, On CCTV down the docks, The Saturday she disappeared," "Any idea why she might've gone down there?" " It doesn't make sense," " Unless she was meeting someone," " Oh, yeah, Who?" " I don't know, A friend?" " What are you trying to say?" " I suppose I'm wondering if she could've been seeing someone else," "Leave it out, Kath, We were gonna get married in the spring," "There's got to be some reason she disappeared," "She wasn't like that, lf she was, the police would've found out," "But if she was, what would you have done?" " I'd have bloody topped her, of course," "Under the circumstances, I call that bad taste," "Under the circumstances, I call that a bad joke," "Ha-bloody-ha," "Never really liked me, have you?" " It wasn't like that, Not really," "Maybe I was just scared you'd take her away from me," "Listen, I loved her, , for Christ's sake!" " Yeah, One, yeah?" " Look at the Albanian," "Down 'ere," "Going down the Buffers at the weekend, Fancy coming?" " Pick you up, if you like," "No," " What do you say?" "  l'm busy," " Doing what?" "  l'm washing my hair," " All weekend?" "  Go piss up a rope, why don't you?" " Looks like that went down like a cup of cold sick," "Don't have much luck with the Swarbrick sisters, do you?" " Yeah, well, she's a slag," "Just like her sister were," "Annie?" " Annie?" " What were that?" " Come on," "Steven, I've found something on the tapes," "You what?" " I can't do anything," "Well, you could send them off, You said there was places," "All this poring over a, , tape of a dead person, it's not healthy," "Well, if you won't help, I'll find someone who will," "Look, you've got to forget about it, I can't," "You need to get out a bit more, Have a laugh, Have some fun," "I'll make you a deal," "Send the tapes to be enhanced,, , is that what you call it?" "  Uh-huh," " Yeah," "And if that shows nothing, I'll quit," "Look, miss, don't even think about denying it," " Why do you think it's me?" "  l don't think, I know," " We've got a camera in the ceiling," " Bollocks," " Are you in trouble?" "  Will be," " Have you told anyone it's gone?" "  Not yet," "And if the tape got returned?" " I think that'd be best, don't you, miss?" " How soon?" " 24 hours?" " Will 48 do?" " You say you saw your sister on a boat?" " Yeah," "And this was in my hand afterwards, lt's real, innit?" " Yes, it's real, Kath," "Yeah, So what I saw was real as well," " You mean Annie?" "  Yeah," "And, , what does seeing Annie in this way make you feel?" " I feel happy," "You ever heard of the Elysian Fields?" " No, lt's what the ancient Greeks call their afterlife," "Like heaven?" " Not quite, But the Greeks believe that when you die, your soul is taken across a river," "And the Greek legend speaks about a blind ferryman, Charon, who rows souls from this life into the next," "That's why the Greeks used to put coins on the tongues of the dead, because that was their fare for the journey across the River of Forgetfulness," "Forgetfulness?" " Oh, God, I could do with some of that myself," "Why is that, Kath?" " Every bugger's telling me, "Forget, Forget, "" "But how can you forget something you don't understand?" " The search for understanding is the search we're all on," "But some things are beyond understanding," "And, in the end, we may have to accept them as mysteries," "Do you believe in an afterlife?" " Or do you think we just die and that's it?" " She had a way of asking me questions I found difficult to answer." " At first, I felt slightly trapped." " Then I began to enjoy it." " I felt challenged, I suppose." "  Gnarled old thing, was it?" "  Yeah." " Happen it'll be Stocky's Post," "The story goes, years ago, it was a rough night, and Ted, Stocky Ted, drove it in in case it were needed to see him home, like," "Well, the tide's been in and out a thousand times since, lt's never budged, I've been there, I touched it, I felt it, ln your dreams, lass!" " You can't get there, Not by foot, leastways," "A tractor would fetch you out, but you can't walk there," " Are you sure?" "  Aye, positive," "You've got all those gullies and gutters and quicksands, like, lf someone drowns, well, what happens to the body?" " is it, like, swept out to sea?" " Nothing gets out of the bay," "What goes out comes back, lt'll take a couple of weeks, but it'll return eventually," "Always?" " Maybe a weight would, er, ," ", ,keep the body from coming back, but, er, ,I've never heard of owt," "Hello, Kath.  lt's Steven." " Erm..." "I just got the tapes back." " The report says there might be some corruption of the video waveform." " Drop by tomorrow and I'll explain it all." " OK." " Bye." " Hope isn't a state of mind.  lt's an undertaking." " A piece of work, Hope is different from optimism," "There's something blind about optimism," "Something clear-eyed and honest about hope, ln the Bible," "John tells us how he glimpsed this world of fresh hope, I was beginning to think of Kath more and more." " She'd found a new sense of hope." " And I felt culpable." " Though rationally, I knew her search was hopeless," "Annie must be long since dead, ... . ." " I was beginning to realise just how much hope can hurt a person." "", , neither sorrow nor crying, neither shall there be any more pain, for these things are passed away, "" ""Two rogue frames containing indeterminate images were noted, "" ""Enhancement to both, , tapes resulted in some degree of clarification to both images, "" "Well, what's this mean when it's at home?" " The whiz kids at the facilities found an image that shouldn't be there, but they haven't got the foggiest what caused it," "Look, I'll show you," "It's Annie!" " It's her!" " Yeah, Oh, God, Look, Look," "This dark bit is her hair, and, ," "Well, yeah, these are her eyes, I can see some fuzzy shapes, OK, but, , they're just patterns of dark and light," "Why has she got her hands up to her face like that?" " It looks like she's scared," "You're just seeing what you wanna see," "Let's look at the next one," "Exactly the same!" " It's her, I know it is, but, ," "Well, this bit here, I, , I don't know what this is," "God, it could even be another person, Maybe that is why she's scared," "Listen, Kath, you've got to sort out what's real and what's just wishful thinking," "Oh, these pictures are real enough," "You're wrong," "They're just, , a couple of blips," " Blips?" "  Yeah," "Random magnetic blips," "No, lf they're just random blips, how come they're the same?" " For Christ's sake!" " It's about time you faced it, you're obsessed," "You need professional help, I am getting professional help, actually," " What?" "  A vicar from St Luke's," "Counselling twice a week, I'm sorry, I didn't realise," "And if he locks me up, I'll make sure you're the first to know," "Kath, please," "All this business with Annie, I know it's been terrible for you, but, , it's time to move on," "Time to get a life, I have got a life, I wake up every morning, I go to work, come home, eat, kip," "There's nothing more I can do, I'm sorry," "Are you saying I can't come in again?" " There's no point," "Can I have the old tape back?" " The copper needs it," "Course," "Would you do me a print-out?" " Come on," "Come on," "Come on," "Annie, please, come on," "Where are you?" " Annie?" " Annie!" " Annie!" " Wait!" " Annie!" " Annie!" " Annie!" " Annie!" " Annie!" " Please, wait!" " Wait!" " Please!" " Annie!" " Wait, Annie, wait!" " Please!" " Wait for me!" " Please, Annie!" " Please, Annie!" " It reminds me of when she first went missing," "Every week I'd think I'd seen her, I'd clock someone who looked like her," "Deep down, of course, I didn't really think it was her, but I still had to run after 'em, just to be sure," "Here, The tapes came back," "They reckoned they'd found something," "Rogue frames, they said," "And what do you see in this picture?" " Annie!" " Look, there's her hair," "And these two dark bits, they're her eyes, and, , I think this might be her hands, covering her face," "I'm right, yeah?" " Well,, , what I'm hearing from you is that, er, , ls that, erm, , You see Annie in this picture?" " Yeah, That's right, lt's this bit I can't work out, I'm sure there's something there, but I just, I don't know, I don't know what," "Have you, erm, , ever heard of the Rorschach inkblot test?" " No," "Now,, , what do you see in this picture?" " A vandalised page in a prayer book," "Well, I see, , an elephant," "Nah, Looks more like a woman," "Well, elephant or woman, they're both equally valid explanations," "Equally the products of our individual psyches," "What you on about?" " Last evening, I was flipping through a brochure about India, I thought a trip home might be nice," "Well, not surprisingly, there was a picture of an elephant," "So, my ink-blot image is the remains of something remembered," "And maybe that's why you see the picture of a woman," "No, Those print-outs aren't inkblots," "No, all I'm trying to say is that, very often, we see what we want to see, what we expect to see," "No, Bollocks, No, Bollocks," "Annie's out on those sands and she's lost and alone," "And she's, , trying to tell me something, but, ,  I don't know what," "Kath," " No!" "  Kath," " Kath, Here, - l just need someone, , someone just to believe me," " ls PC Pyke here?" "  He's out the back," " Do you wanna see him?" "  No," "Just give him this, Tell him thank you," "Hey, wait a minute!" " Shit!" " Sir?" " Hello," "Anyone about?" " What are you doing here?" "  l could ask the same question," " You first, I help with the maintenance in my time off," "Cash in hand, You?" "  Nah, You'll think I'm crazy," " Go on, Spit it out, I heard this sound, I thought it might've come from here," "Huh?" " I have these sort of, , visions," "Like Annie's trying to tell me something," " You're kidding me?" "  You see, you do think I'm nuts," "No, it's not that, Kath, it's just, ," "Well, you know, you've got to get your head round it," "Annie's gone, She ain't coming back," " Never," " Yeah, it's easy for you to say," "Well, no, it's not, I've been to hell and back, too," "Don't you forget that," "Well, hello, Fancy seeing you again," "Long time no see," "On your own tonight?" " Over, is it?" "  What you on about?" "  Don't worry, love, only joshing, lt doesn't pay to be too judgemental in the hotel trade," " Eh?" "  The Highfield House," "Trough of Bowland," "Wednesday nights, bottle of champagne," "Room Three for afters, eh?" " Remember now?" " I never was in a place called Trough of Bowland," "That'll be Annie," "My sister," "Yeah," "People are always confusing us, you know," "She never let on, The slapper, I'll wind her up," " How long ago was this?" "  A couple of years now," "Hm, You know his name?" " You're joking?" " That's how you know the married ones," "Always pay in cash, Always give a false name," "Hm, Would you know him if you, like, saw him again?" " Might do," "Might not, I mean, we get a lot of people through," "What's he look like?" " Pretty ordinary, really, Er, , , medium height, medium build," " Hair?" "  Er, , brownish," "Christ, that gives me a lot to go on, Try and remember something," "What is this, the frigging SS?" " Hey, Kath," " Let me walk you home, - lt's not on your way," " Go on, I'll keep you company, - l don't need company," " Everyone needs company," " What?" "" Everyone needs company, " lt's a saying," "Well, I'm saying no, so piss off, Frank," " You didn't say no at Christmas," " Oh, get lost!" " Why are you playing hard to get, eh?" " Eh?" " Look, don't!" "  Get your fucking hands off me!" "  Eh!" " Calm," "You know it weren't like that before, lt were fucking magic," "You know it were," " D'you like that?" "  Yeah," "I keep having this idea Annie drowned," "That first time, at the blind spot, I was underwater, I was being pulled down, lt made me panic," "I often wonder what it would be like to drown," "To feel your lungs fill with water, I suppose fish feel something similar, only, you know, the other way round," "Drowning in air," "Meter on red?" " I'm aware we've overrun our session time," "But, erm, , er, , I, , I need to know how you feel," "I feel like I'm stuck in, , a now that, well, that isn't kind of real, lt feels, , lt feels like, , like, , I don't know," "Like being under a layer of ice," "And the layer's getting thicker," "And I'm trapped, And I'm freezing," "Oh, well,  Hm, That's me trick-cycled for another day," "You know that time in the church?" " When you put your arm around me?" " I wasn't freezing then," "More?" " More?" " Shall we go?" " One, two, three, four, five" "Once I caught a fish alive" "Six, seven, eight, nine, ten" "Then I let it go again" "Why did I let it go?" " Because it bit my finger so..." "Come on, love," "Let's be having you," "Tell me what's the matter," "Let's pretty you up a bit," "Come on, love, what's up?" " Spit it out, lt's been a shite week," "Frank got me up against a wall," "Bastard!" " I'll fillet his flies for him!" " Nah, Leave it, Elsie, I nearly had his ear off," "He'll give me a wide berth in future," "Well, that's no loss," "A stunner like you?" " You can find someone better than him," "That's the trouble, I have," "Well, there you go, then, Who?" "  He's married," " So?" " It's not right, lt's not, I miss Annie," "You have me, I know, But Annie was my sister," "Annie?" " Annie?" " Annie?" " Alright there?" " It's a wild night, This is no place for a young lass like you, I'm looking for my sister," "Lost, is she?" " Yeah, Sort of, Two years ago," " Two year?" "  Yeah," "Look, you'll catch your death, Hop in the cab, I'll give you a lift home, I'm fine, I'm just fine," "Strange," " You alright, love?" "  Yeah," "What are you lot doing here?" " Team-building exercise, Six counties, Forces practising together," "Bonding, they call it," "Fingertip-searching a noxious environment today," "So what're you searching for when you do it for real?" " All sorts, Er, , property, abandoned vehicles, weapons," "Anything that fits the crime jigsaw," "Bodies are the most interesting," "Yeah, but they're also the rarest," "What happens to a body underwater?" " Well, it does get in a bit of a state, lt swells up with gases, first thing," "Then these little things start nibbling on it, crabs, eels, you name it, lt's when they get caught going up and down with the tide," "They're not likely to make it out in one piece," "Extremities come off, lt's not unusual to find an old boot washed up with a foot in it." " Remember that black plastic bag we found in Coniston, Kenny?" " We thought it was an outboard motor." " We opened it and an arm fell out." " Dave, shut up, will you?" " You're upsetting the lady, Are you alright, love?" " Yeah, I better get back to work, Boss'll wonder where l've got to," "I broke every rule I've ever been taught, lt was just a kiss," "I don't know what came over me," "Oh, God, thanks a bundle," "No!" " I didn't mean it like that, I didn't, lt's just that, you're my client and I haven't compromised a client before," " lt won't happen again, I promise," " Oh, for God's sake, give it a rest," "I quite enjoyed it, myself," " Really?" "  Of course, I wanted to as much as you," "That's cos you make me feel safe," "You do," "What's wrong?" " I saw you with your wife, down the caff, lll, isn't she?" " Yeah," " Needs you?" "  Yes," "What about me?" " I care for you," "Well, what are you gonna do about it?" " What, about the counselling?" "  Yeah, if you like, yeah," " Well, maybe I ought to refer you," "Jack Kilbright's very good," "He's done some excellent work with alcoholics," " Alcoholics?" "  Yes," "What, that is your diagnosis, is it?" " No, no," "For your information, I've got a sister-disappearing problem," " not a fucking drink problem!" "  Oh, Kath," "Let's go downstairs and get the biscuits." " Oh!" " Dear Steve, thinking of you." " Till next time." " All my love." " Annie." " How the hell did you get in here?" " Erm, , I saw a window, lt was open," " Are you spying on me?" "  No, of course not, I'm not," "Well, what the fuck are you doing, then?" " I'm sorry," "But I just, erm, , wanted to be with Annie, Just, , Please, I just wanted to see her one last time, Please," "I'll give you one last time," "No!" " No!" " No!" " Get off me!" " Shit!" " Come on!" " Bobby Shaftoe's gone to sea, silver buckles on his knee" "He'll come back to marry me, bonny Bobby Shaftoe" "This is Fleetwood Police Station." " The enquiry office is now closed." " We are open between 8am and 6pm." " In an emergency, please..." "There we are," "Hello." " This is St Luke's Vicarage." " I'm sorry there's nobody available to take your call." " Please leave a message after the tone and we'll phone you back as soon as possible." " Thank you." " Oh!" " Kath, I know you're in there, Open the door," "Come on, Kath, let me in," "Please, I can explain everything," "Listen, I did know Annie," "I loved her," "But I don't know what happened to her any more than you," "For Christ's sake, Kath!" "  What is it, Kath?" "  l need to talk to you." " I know what happened to Annie," "You know what happened to Annie?" " What do you mean?" " Have you been to the police?" " No, No, I haven't, I haven't, They're closed for the night," " Are they?" "  Yeah," "Well, I'm free tomorrow." " Let's meet up.  I'll go with you." "  Would you?" "  Yeah, of course I will." "  Well,, , where?" "  At the Jacinta, before work." "  Don't tell anyone, OK?" "  No," "No, I won't, I won't, I'll go straight, , , straight to bed," " Yeah." " Don't worry." "  Yeah," " Sleep well." "  l will, I will," " l'll see you in the morning," " Yeah, I'll see you tomorrow." "  Take care, alright?" "  Yeah," " Bye," " Bye." " Hm, Money for the blind," "It's alright," "Here," "Oh, God, Am I glad to see you," "Why couldn't you have just left it alone?" " No!" " Oh, no!" " Annie," "Annie," "Annie," "No.!" " No.!" " Still no news?" " Even finding a body would help," "At least it would be something certain," "Subtitles by ims"