Sorrow's Child

In episode three of the powerful new drama series, the onset of trauma ravages Southcliffe. The families of the dead are each immersed in their own struggle to comprehend the fallout. Each succumbs to their own private madness. For some of them, there will be no return as grief isolates them from themselves, their loved ones and the community. Claire cannot accept her daughter's death - it is simply too hard to confront. In his own mourning, Paul desperately tries to compensate for the bad husband and father that he has been. In his denial, he fulfills a promise to his wife - only too late. David's secret about his childhood friendship with Morton is beginning to take control of him. His marriage is falling apart and his job is on the line as he becomes insistent on finding an answer to why this happened. The more he imposes his own explanation, the more the residents reject it, and he is at risk of becoming a victim of the tragedy himself. Conspiracy theories surrounding police cover-ups feed into David's personal paranoia, and in a bitter outburst in the local pub, David accuses the residents of Southcliffe of being complicit through their apathy..