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The Woman In White - The Night Shift · A Different Telling

0:00
Annabel (production disclosure): This audio drama uses AI-generated character voices, music and sound effects, created using ElevenLabs.
0:08
Anne: They buried me yesterday.
0:10
Nora: Sorry?
0:11
Anne: At Saint Jude's. Eleven o'clock. The funeral's online. You can check.
0:17
Nora (narration): She was standing beside my car in white cotton trousers and a white top, holding her shoes against her chest. There was blood on one bare heel. I'd just finished twelve hours at a private rehabilitation clinic. All I wanted was to get home before I fell asleep. I'd already put my bag in the car when she spoke.
0:36
Nora: What's your name?
0:38
Anne: Anne Catherick.
0:40
Nora: I'm Nora. I'm a nurse. Have you come from the clinic?
0:44
Anne: Can you take me somewhere?
0:46
Nora: Are you hurt?
0:48
Anne: I need to get off this road.
0:50
Nora (narration): She kept looking past me towards the gates. From where we stood, you could see the top floor of the clinic. Someone was moving from room to room, switching on lights. I reached into the car for my jacket.
1:03
Anne: Please don't ring them.
1:05
Nora: It's a jacket. You're shaking.
1:08
Nora (narration): She let me put it around her shoulders. Close up, I could see a square of sticky residue on her wrist where a patient band had been peeled away.
1:17
Nora: What happened to your foot?
1:20
Anne: The window. I couldn't get it open far enough.
1:24
Nora: Can you put your weight on it?
1:26
Nora (narration): She took a step for me. Then another. Whatever had happened inside, she was trying very hard to do what I asked.
1:34
Anne: I can walk. I just don't know where to go. They brought me in a car with dark windows. I thought we were closer to the city.
1:43
Nora: We've got a public hospital about fifteen minutes away. We can get that foot cleaned up. Someone there can help you work out what's happened.
1:51
Anne: Will you stay with me?
1:52
Nora: Until you've seen someone. Yes.
1:56
Nora: Were you discharged?
1:58
Anne: No.
1:59
Nora: Does anyone know you're out here?
2:02
Anne: They will by now.
2:04
Nora (narration): She caught my hand. Her shoes fell onto the gravel.
2:08
Anne: Open the door.
2:10
Nora: Anne, wait.
2:11
Anne: Please.
2:13
Nora (narration): I unlocked the passenger side. She got in and folded herself down into the footwell. I picked up her shoes. A man was coming through the gates. Dark trousers, no coat. He held his phone out in front of him, using the torch to check between the parked cars.
2:29
Doctor: Excuse me. Have you seen a patient out here?
2:33
Nora (narration): I recognised him from the corridor. One of the consultants. We'd passed each other twice without speaking.
2:40
Nora: Who are you looking for?
2:42
Doctor: A woman. White clothes. She's recovering from an operation.
2:47
Nora: What sort of operation?
2:49
Doctor: Are you staff?
2:51
Nora: Agency. I've been on the ground floor.
2:55
Nora (narration): His torch moved to my badge, then to the shoes in my hand. He stepped towards the passenger door.
3:02
Doctor: Anne? Come on. Let's get you inside.
3:05
Nora (narration): She lifted her head just far enough to see through the window. He tried the handle. I'd locked it when I closed the door.
3:13
Nora: She's asked me for help.
3:15
Doctor: Yes. She's very frightened. She's had a difficult few days.
3:21
Nora: She says there was a funeral.
3:24
Doctor: There was a bereavement in the family. She's confused about what happened.
3:28
Nora (narration): He sounded reasonable. I wanted him to be reasonable. I had no idea what medication she'd been given, or what she'd walked out of halfway through. I opened my own door and leaned across.
3:41
Nora: Anne. Do you want to go back inside with him?
3:44
Anne: No.
3:45
Doctor: She needs monitoring.
3:48
Nora: Then I'll take her to emergency. You can send her notes through.
3:52
Doctor: That would be a very poor decision.
3:55
Nora: Which hospital would you recommend?
3:58
Nora (narration): He looked at me for a moment. Then he lowered his phone.
4:02
Doctor: Your agency will hear about this.
4:05
Nora (narration): I needed that agency. My last permanent job had ended with a complaint, three meetings and a reference that confirmed the dates I'd worked there. Nothing else. I put Anne's shoes behind my seat.
4:18
Nora: They've got my number.
4:20
Nora (narration): He stood back as I pulled out. In the mirror, I could see him making a call. As soon as the gates were out of sight, I pulled over.
4:28
Nora: You need to sit up now. Put your seatbelt on.
4:31
Nora (narration): I waited while she adjusted it, then drove towards the public hospital. At every turn, she checked the road behind us.
4:39
Nora: Is there someone we can ring?
4:41
Anne: I haven't got anyone's number. They're all in my phone.
4:46
Nora: Where's that?
4:48
Anne: They took it when I arrived. Said they'd charge it for me.
4:52
Anne: I'm sorry about your jacket.
4:54
Nora: It washes.
4:56
Nora (narration): She was rubbing the edge of the sleeve between her fingers. There was a small tear beside the cuff. My daughter had caught it in a zip years ago. I'd never bothered to mend it.
5:07
Anne: Have you got children?
5:09
Nora: A daughter.
5:10
Anne: Does she live with you?
5:12
Nora: Not any more.
5:15
Anne: But you'd know her. If someone said she was somebody else.
5:19
Nora: Yes.
5:20
Anne: Even if they showed you paperwork.
5:23
Nora: I'd know my daughter.
5:26
Anne: Good.
5:27
Nora (narration): My agency. I let it ring.
5:30
Nora: How long have you been in there?
5:33
Anne: Since Tuesday. I went to see my sister. They said she'd been asking for me.
5:39
Nora: What's her name?
5:41
Anne: Laura.
5:42
Nora (narration): The phone stopped, then a message came through. We were waiting at a red light. I glanced down. My Monday booking had been cancelled. Three nights of private nursing. Good money, paid in advance. Enough that I'd already booked the car in for new tyres.
5:58
Nora: Well, he didn't waste any time.
6:01
Anne: Who?
6:02
Nora: Your doctor. I've just lost a job.
6:06
Nora (narration): She looked at the screen before it went dark.
6:09
Anne: Limmeridge?
6:11
Nora: You know it?
6:12
Anne: Show me.
6:13
Nora (narration): The lights changed. I crossed the junction and pulled into a service station. I opened the original booking and handed her the phone. There was a photograph attached. I'd barely looked at it that afternoon. A woman in her early thirties, sitting on a garden wall. Anne held the phone beside her face.
6:32
Anne: Look.
6:33
Nora (narration): The woman in the photograph had longer hair. Otherwise, I could have been looking at the same person.
6:39
Nora: That's you.
6:41
Anne: That's Laura. My sister.
6:44
Nora: Laura Fairlie?
6:46
Anne: Yes.
6:48
Nora: She's the patient. I was supposed to be looking after her.
6:52
Anne: Nora. Laura was in that coffin yesterday.
6:56
Nora: You said they buried you.
6:58
Anne: They used my name.
7:01
Nora: Did you see her?
7:02
Anne: Yes.
7:03
Nora: At the funeral?
7:05
Anne: Before. At the clinic.
7:07
Nora (narration): Behind her, through the windscreen, a man was filling a van. He shook the last drops from the nozzle and put it back. I watched him screw the cap on. It was easier than looking at Anne.
7:18
Nora: Tell me what you saw.
7:20
Anne: They took me downstairs. I thought they were finally letting me visit. I'd been asking since I arrived.
7:26
Nora: Who took you?
7:28
Anne: A woman. I don't know her name. She waited by the door.
7:32
Nora: And Laura was there?
7:33
Anne: Under a sheet. Her face wasn't covered.
7:36
Anne: I touched her. I thought if I could just get her hand warm...
7:41
Nora (narration): She was holding my phone with both hands. The screen had gone dark, but she hadn't given it back.
7:47
Nora: When was this?
7:48
Anne: Wednesday. The funeral was yesterday.
7:51
Nora: Did anyone tell you how she'd died?
7:53
Anne: I kept asking. They said I needed to rest.
7:57
Nora: And they let you watch the funeral?
7:59
Anne: They brought in a tablet. Put it on the table beside the bed.
8:03
Nora: Why?
8:04
Anne: I don't know. I was still asking to go home.
8:08
Nora (narration): The man in the van drove away. Anne turned towards the sound of his engine.
8:12
Nora: We're going to the hospital now. We need to tell someone about this.
8:16
Anne: What if they ring him?
8:18
Nora: I'll tell them what happened at the car. I was there for that.
8:21
Anne: You don't believe me about Laura.
8:23
Nora: I don't know what happened to Laura. I know you asked for help.
8:27
Nora (narration): She gave me back the phone. I put it in the console, face down, and started the car.
8:45
Nora (narration): At A&E there was a young man holding a tea towel around his hand and an older couple sharing a packet of crisps. Anne stopped just inside the doors.
8:54
Nora: Come on. We'll get you booked in.
8:56
Anne: What do I say?
8:58
Nora: Your name.
8:59
Anne: What if they say I'm dead?
9:01
Nora: Then I'll ask them to look up from the screen.
9:04
Nora (narration): There was no alarm when she gave her name. Nobody looked up from another desk. The receptionist asked for her date of birth, her address, and what had happened to her foot. I asked if we could speak somewhere private. A nurse came out. Ruth, according to her badge. She looked at Anne's bare heel, then at my uniform.
9:23
Ruth: Are you with her?
9:24
Nora: Yes. I'm a nurse, but I'm not her nurse. I found her outside the clinic where I've been working.
9:30
Ruth: All right. Come through.
9:32
Ruth: Anne, would you like Nora to stay while we talk?
9:35
Anne: Please.
9:36
Ruth: Tell me about your foot first.
9:38
Nora (narration): She let Anne finish each answer. When Anne lost her place, Ruth waited. She asked about medication and when she'd last eaten. Then she asked why Anne had climbed out of a window.
9:50
Anne: I wanted to leave. They wouldn't let me.
9:53
Ruth: Did they explain why?
9:54
Anne: They kept saying I wasn't ready.
9:57
Nora: A doctor followed her to my car. He said she'd had an operation. He wouldn't tell me what sort. He tried the passenger door.
10:05
Ruth: Were you there when she was being treated?
10:07
Nora: No. Different floor. I hadn't met her before tonight.
10:11
Ruth: And you didn't see her leave the building?
10:13
Nora: No.
10:14
Nora (narration): Ruth wrote that down as well. I was glad she did, although I didn't like the feeling of my account getting smaller.
10:21
Anne: I told her about my sister.
10:23
Ruth: What happened to your sister?
10:25
Anne: She's dead. They buried her yesterday. But they put my name on everything.
10:30
Ruth: You believe the funeral was for your sister, using your name?
10:34
Anne: I saw her. I know what she looks like.
10:37
Ruth: All right. We need to hear about that properly. First I want someone to examine your foot and check how you are generally. Then we'll work out who else needs to be involved.
10:48
Anne: Are you sending me back?
10:50
Ruth: We're looking after you here. If anyone asks to see you, we'll talk to you about it.
10:55
Nora (narration): Anne moved her shoes from her lap onto the floor. It was the first time she'd put them down herself.
11:01
Ruth: Is there anything else you're worried we might have been told?
11:04
Anne: He said I'd had an operation.
11:06
Ruth: The doctor at the clinic?
11:08
Anne: I haven't. I went there in my jeans. I had my bag. They gave me these because they said I might want to stay the night, near Laura.
11:16
Nora: Did you get your things back?
11:17
Anne: No. They kept saying they'd bring them up.
11:20
Ruth: Have you been given anything that made you sleepy, or made it difficult to remember?
11:25
Anne: Yes. But I remember her. Please write that down as well.
11:29
Ruth: I will.
11:30
Nora (narration): Ruth moved her chair closer. Anne watched the pen all the way across the page, as if she could check what was being written from the movement of Ruth's hand. I found myself watching it too.
11:42
Ruth: Nora, can you give us a few minutes? I need to ask Anne some questions on her own.
11:47
Anne: Where will you be?
11:48
Nora: Just outside.
11:49
Anne: Don't go home without telling me.
11:51
Nora: I won't.
11:53
Nora (narration): Outside, I found a chair beneath a poster about handwashing. I sat down and felt the full weight of the last thirteen hours. There was dried blood on my thumb. I washed it off, came back and sat in the same chair. For a few minutes I hoped someone would come out and tell me there was a simple explanation. Wrong funeral. Wrong photograph. Two sisters, a bereavement, some dreadful misunderstanding. When Ruth opened the door, I stood up too quickly.
12:21
Ruth: She's asked us to contact the police. We're arranging that. She'd like you to come back in now.
12:28
Nora (narration): Anne's foot had been cleaned and dressed. Someone had found her a pair of hospital socks. She'd folded one over the toe of her shoe, trying to make it fit without touching the dressing.
12:38
Anne: Can we look now?
12:40
Nora: At the funeral?
12:41
Anne: Please.
12:42
Nora (narration): I sat beside her and searched for her name, with Saint Jude's. The first result was somebody else. The second was a funeral director's page. Anne Catherick. A photograph of white flowers. Below it, a link to a recording of Thursday's service. I checked the spelling twice.
12:59
Nora: Do you want me to open it?
13:00
Anne: I need you to see.
13:02
Nora (narration): The camera was fixed high at the back. Six or seven people sat near the front. There was a coffin on trestles, with a long arrangement of pale flowers on top. Anne leaned closer.
13:13
Anne: There. The board beside it.
13:16
Nora (narration): I turned the phone sideways. Beside the coffin was a framed photograph and a name. Anne Catherick.
13:23
Nora: Is that your photograph?
13:24
Anne: Yes.
13:25
Nora: Where was it taken?
13:27
Anne: At a wedding. They cut my friend out.
13:30
Nora (narration): I looked at the picture again. There was the edge of somebody's sleeve beside her shoulder.
13:35
Anne: I hate that one. I look as if I'm trying to remember where I left the car.
13:40
Nora (narration): I nearly smiled. Then I realised she was waiting for me to say something about the coffin.
13:46
Nora: I can see your name. And your photograph.
13:49
Anne: But you can't see inside.
13:51
Nora: No.
13:52
Anne: I know.
13:53
Nora: Do you want to stop?
13:54
Anne: In a minute.
13:56
Nora (narration): We watched a man walk to the lectern. He adjusted the microphone and unfolded a piece of paper.
14:02
Anne: This is where he says I was a private person. That's why there aren't many people there.
14:07
Nora: Who is he?
14:08
Anne: I don't know. He reads it all off that piece of paper.
14:12
Nora (narration): She was looking at the flowers on the coffin.
14:15
Anne: I should have been there.
14:17
Nora: You couldn't get there.
14:18
Anne: I know. But when I think about it, that's the bit I keep coming back to. She was down there with all those people, and I wasn't.
14:28
Nora (narration): I wanted to put my hand over hers. She was gripping the phone so tightly that I thought she might drop it if I touched her. We stayed like that until she was ready.
14:38
Nora (narration): She pressed pause. I saved the address of the page and took a picture of the screen with the service details showing. Then I put the phone between us on the bed.
14:47
Nora: Who are those people?
14:49
Anne: I don't know most of them.
14:51
Nora: Anyone from your family?
14:52
Anne: No.
14:53
Nora: What about your friend? From the photograph?
14:56
Anne: She lives in Leeds. We mostly send each other pictures of our lunches. She'll think I've been busy.
15:02
Nora: We can try to get hold of her.
15:03
Anne: I'd like that.
15:05
Nora: Is there anyone expecting you at work?
15:07
Anne: Sal. I work in a framing shop. I told her I was going to see Laura on Tuesday. I was supposed to be back on Wednesday.
15:16
Nora: We should let her know you're safe.
15:17
Anne: She'll have rung my phone.
15:19
Nora: What's the shop called?
15:21
Anne: Southbank Frames. It's on Bell Street.
15:24
Nora: We can look up the number and ring when they open.
15:26
Anne: There's a football shirt I was meant to finish. For someone's retirement.
15:31
Nora: I'm sure Sal can finish it.
15:32
Anne: She'll use the wrong pins.
15:35
Anne: Sorry.
15:36
Nora: It's all right. We'll ring her.
15:38
Nora (narration): I made a note of the shop and her friend's name. Then Anne reached across and stopped me putting the phone away.
15:44
Anne: Can you show me the other picture?
15:46
Nora: Laura?
15:47
Anne: The one in your booking.
15:48
Nora (narration): I opened it. Laura was sitting on the garden wall, one leg tucked underneath her. The sun was in her eyes.
15:56
Anne: She never looked at the camera when you asked. You had to catch her talking to someone.
16:01
Nora: Were you there?
16:02
Anne: No.
16:03
Anne: Can you make sure you keep it?
16:05
Nora: Yes.
16:06
Nora (narration): Ruth came in to say a doctor was ready to see her. Anne gave me back the phone, but she asked me to leave Laura's picture on the screen.
16:14
Nora (narration): The agency rang while Anne was being examined. I went as far as the stairwell, where I could still see the treatment room door.
16:21
Nora: Ben?
16:22
Ben: Where are you?
16:23
Nora: At A&E. With the woman from the clinic.
16:26
Ben: I've had a call about you removing a patient.
16:29
Nora: She was outside. She asked me to take her to hospital. Write that down, please.
16:34
Ben: I'm trying to establish what happened.
16:36
Nora: So am I.
16:37
Ben: Did you sign out of your shift?
16:39
Nora: Yes. Handover finished. Bag in the car. I was going home.
16:43
Ben: Right. I need an account from you before the office opens.
16:47
Nora: I'll send one. What's happened to Monday?
16:50
Ben: The client cancelled.
16:51
Nora: Which client?
16:53
Ben: The Limmeridge booking.
16:54
Nora: I know which booking. Who cancelled it?
16:56
Ben: It came through their coordinator. I don't have the person's name in front of me.
17:01
Nora: Can you find out?
17:02
Ben: I'll ask the day team.
17:04
Nora: Is there anything else you can put me on?
17:06
Ben: Let me get your account first.
17:08
Nora (narration): I watched a cleaner push a yellow bucket past the stairwell window. One of its wheels kept turning sideways.
17:15
Nora: Ben. I've done every shift you've given me this month.
17:18
Ben: I know.
17:19
Nora: Even the ones nobody else would take.
17:22
Ben: Send me what happened, Nora. In your own words.
17:25
Nora (narration): I typed it standing up. Where I'd been, when I'd finished, what Anne had said. The doctor trying the door handle. His warning about the agency. I read it through and took out the sentence saying he seemed angry. I could describe what he'd done. I didn't need to guess at the rest. Then I sent it before I could make it any smaller.
17:45
Nora (narration): By half past six I'd spoken to a police officer and Anne had given her first account. I showed the officer the funeral page and the original booking. She took the details and spoke to Ruth. There were questions they would have to put to the clinic. Questions about who had died, and who had identified her. Nobody could answer them in the treatment room that morning. The officer asked why I'd stopped for Anne. I said she'd been standing beside my car. She asked whether Anne had known my name before I'd introduced myself. Whether she'd asked for Limmeridge before the cancellation appeared. No to both. I hadn't thought about those questions until somebody asked them. Afterwards, I couldn't quite leave them alone. Anne had seen my uniform. She'd needed a nurse. That was what I told myself as I went to find some tea. I bought two teas. While the machine filled the second cup, I rang Maya. She'd be up for her train.
18:36
Maya: Mum?
18:37
Nora: Morning.
18:38
Maya: Why are you ringing this early?
18:40
Nora: I thought I'd catch you before work.
18:42
Maya: Have you just finished?
18:43
Nora: A while ago.
18:44
Maya: Where are you?
18:45
Nora: Hospital.
18:46
Maya: What happened?
18:47
Nora: I'm fine. I'm with someone. A woman who needed a lift.
18:51
Maya: A lift to hospital?
18:53
Nora: It's a bit complicated.
18:55
Maya: It usually is.
18:56
Nora (narration): The machine finished. I'd forgotten to put a lid on the first cup, and when I picked it up I spilt tea over my hand.
19:03
Maya: Are you still there?
19:05
Nora: Yes. Sorry.
19:06
Maya: Did you get my message about breakfast tomorrow?
19:09
Nora: I did.
19:10
Maya: You didn't answer.
19:11
Nora: I was checking my shifts.
19:13
Maya: It's breakfast, Mum. You can say no.
19:16
Nora: I'd like to come.
19:17
Maya: Then come. Ten o'clock. I'll make something.
19:20
Nora: You don't have to cook.
19:22
Maya: I know how.
19:23
Nora: I know you do.
19:25
Maya: Have you slept?
19:26
Nora: Not yet.
19:27
Maya: Please don't drive if you're falling asleep.
19:29
Nora: I won't.
19:30
Maya: And text me when you're home. Otherwise I'll spend the morning looking at my phone.
19:35
Nora: All right.
19:36
Maya: Love you.
19:37
Nora: Love you too.
19:38
Nora (narration): I found the lids. One of the cups had left a wet ring on the counter. I wiped it up with my sleeve before I went back to Anne.
19:47
Anne: Was that your daughter?
19:48
Nora: Yes.
19:49
Anne: Is she cross with you?
19:51
Nora: She's waiting for me to turn up somewhere.
19:53
Anne: You should go.
19:54
Nora: It's tomorrow.
19:56
Anne: Oh.
19:57
Nora: Tea. I didn't know if you took sugar.
19:59
Anne: Two.
20:00
Nora: I've got one.
20:01
Anne: I'll manage.
20:02
Nora (narration): She tore the sachet carefully and shook it until it was empty. In daylight, the white clothes looked cheap and too large. There was a laundry mark inside the collar.
20:12
Anne: They've found someone who can help me ring my friend. Ruth says I can stay here while they work out where I can go.
20:19
Nora: Good.
20:20
Anne: You said you'd stay until I'd seen someone. I've seen quite a lot of people now.
20:25
Nora: You have.
20:26
Nora (narration): She reached for the zip of my jacket. I put my hand on the sleeve.
20:30
Nora: Keep it on for now.
20:31
Anne: You haven't got another coat.
20:34
Nora: I've got heating in the car.
20:35
Nora (narration): Ruth came to check on us before the end of her shift. She told Anne who would be taking over and what they were waiting for. Anne asked her to write the new nurse's name down. When Ruth had gone, I checked the time on my phone. The booking was still open underneath the clock. There was a contact number below Laura's photograph. I'd missed it in the car.
20:54
Nora: Do you know someone called Marian Halcombe?
20:57
Anne: Marian?
20:58
Nora: She's listed as the contact at Limmeridge.
21:00
Anne: She's Laura's cousin. I've met her once.
21:03
Nora: Would you want to speak to her?
21:05
Anne: I don't know what they've told her.
21:07
Nora: We could find out.
21:08
Anne: What would you say?
21:10
Nora: That I was booked to look after Laura. That I'm with you. I'll leave out where we are.
21:15
Nora (narration): Anne thought about it. She put the tea down between her feet.
21:19
Anne: Put it on speaker. I want to hear what she says.
21:23
Marian: Hello?
21:24
Nora: Marian Halcombe?
21:25
Marian: Speaking.
21:26
Nora: My name's Nora. I'm an agency nurse. I was due at Limmeridge on Monday, to look after Laura Fairlie.
21:32
Marian: Yes. Has something changed?
21:35
Nora: The booking was cancelled last night.
21:37
Marian: By whom?
21:38
Nora: That's one of the things I'm trying to find out.
21:40
Marian: I haven't cancelled it. I sent through the information myself.
21:44
Nora: Including the photograph?
21:46
Marian: Yes. So you'd know who you were coming to see. Is there a problem?
21:50
Nora: I'm with a woman called Anne Catherick.
21:53
Nora: Marian?
21:54
Marian: What did you say her name was?
21:56
Nora: Anne Catherick. She says she's Laura's sister.
21:59
Marian: Where did you get this number?
22:01
Nora: From the booking. As I said.
22:04
Marian: I'm sorry. I need you to explain what you're doing.
22:07
Anne: Marian. It's Anne.
22:09
Nora (narration): There was a small noise at the other end. A cup or a glass being put down too hard.
22:15
Marian: Anne?
22:16
Anne: We met in the kitchen. I came in through the wrong door. You were trying to get the dog to swallow a tablet.
22:23
Marian: You put it in some cheese.
22:25
Anne: He ate the cheese and left the tablet on your shoe.
22:28
Marian: Yes.
22:29
Marian: Where have you been?
22:31
Anne: At the clinic.
22:32
Marian: They told me you'd died.
22:34
Nora (narration): Anne looked at me. I moved the phone closer to her.
22:38
Anne: Who told you?
22:39
Marian: Laura's husband. Percival. He said she'd lost you. He said she couldn't bear to talk about it.
22:46
Nora: When did you last see Laura?
22:48
Marian: Last week. Why?
22:50
Nora: Anne says she saw Laura's body at the clinic on Wednesday.
22:54
Marian: Her body?
22:55
Anne: It was Laura. I'm sorry.
22:57
Marian: No.
22:58
Anne: They used my name for the funeral. I can show you.
23:02
Marian: No, wait. That can't be right.
23:04
Nora: We know there's a funeral recording. We need help finding out what happened.
23:09
Marian: I've had a message from her.
23:10
Nora: A text?
23:11
Marian: A video. She's talking to me. She says my name.
23:16
Nora (narration): Anne's hand closed around my wrist.
23:18
Nora: When did you receive it?
23:20
Marian: Yesterday afternoon. Four seventeen. I've still got it.
23:24
Anne: What does she say?
23:26
Marian: She tells me not to come.
23:30
Nora (closing credit): The Woman in White. A contemporary adaptation inspired by the novel by Wilkie Collins. Voices created using ElevenLabs. End of Episode One.