Lazarus
Season 1 – Episode 5
Episode title: Episode 5
Original release date: October 22, 2025
Stars: Bill Nighy, Alexandra Roach, Sam Claflin
Plot: After experiencing a personal loss, Lazarus begins having disturbing experiences that can’t be explained.
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Lazarus – S01E05 – Episode 5 | Full transcript
[tense, dramatic music playing]
[suspenseful music playing]
♪ ♪
[eerie music playing]
[dramatic music playing]
Laz?
What are you doing?
I’m sorry.
Laz.
Laz, no, you’ve had too much to drink.
[car engine starts] Laz.
Get out of the way!
I will smash your windscreen in.
[engine revving] Turn the engine off.
Move out of the way!
I’m being dead fucking serious.
Don’t test me.
[gasps]
[engine turns off]
What are you doing?
This was in Sutton’s bedroom the night she died, and that fucker Olsen had it, had it in his house.
He gave it to me the other day.
Yeah. I know that.
I mean, Jesus, I was so fixed on Billy tonight and saving Olsen.
He was right by Margot’s body.
Hang on, you think Olsen killed Sutton and Margot?
No, I don’t think he did it, I know he did it.
Where were you going?
Well, I know where he is.
He’s at the hospital, so I’m gonna show him this and tell him I know what he did.
Right. Right, okay, well, that’s not gonna work.
He killed our sister, Jen, and I saved his life tonight. I saved him.
Hey, you show Olsen that before the police get hold of him, you’re just giving him a headsup.
[groans] Right.
Hey, butbut you are onto something, so let’s get that to someone who’ll know what to do with it.
Hey, it’s me.
Yeah, in here.
What the fuck?
Ah.
Hi.
Hi.
Always lovely to see you, but, um, guessing at 3:30 in the morning, something’s up.
[Lazarus] You’ve got to see this.
[Seth] No, no.
Don’t do this to me again, Laz.
Seth, Seth, no ghouls, no ghosts, I promise, this is, this is rock solid.
Just take a look at this.
Here. Do you see that?
Yeah. [sighs] Right, now see what Olsen gave me the other day.
This was in her room the night she was killed.
And we know where he is.
[tense, dramatic music]
[eerie, suspenseful music]
♪ ♪
[sighs]
Okay, we want him in the corridor as quickly and as quietly as possible.
[sighs]
[thunder rumbling]
This is ridiculous.
We’re just sitting here.
There’s a process, Laz.
[Lazarus sighs]
[footsteps approach]
Oh, about time.
Thank you, and we’d like that VHS.
Sure. Uh, what about Olsen?
You picked him up?
We’re doing this by the book, Joel, okay?
We’re not just turning up on spec and making things up as we go along.
We’re getting a warrant.
He said that two hours ago.
Well, there’s a process.
Well, he said that, too.
[Brown] Because there is.
[sighs] Okay.
Well, while we’re waiting, Sutton’s murderer also killed Cassandra, Harry, and Margot, so that meansSorry, Harry? Who’s Harry?
Harry Nash.
A priest got done for killing him, except I don’t think it was him.
[sighs] That’s apart from the priest denying it, because Sutton, Cassandra, this Harry, and Margot were all connected to my dad, so Olsen kills him as well.
God Almighty, Laz.
No one killed your father.
He took his own life, that’s been proven.
He didn’t take his own life!
[Seth] Well, have you–
Okay, all right, enough.
Thank you. [sighs] I think what you have here, in regard to Olsen and Sutton, is compelling, but not conclusive.
How is that photo not con–
Hey, hey, hey. Let her finish.
For example, you say this was in Olsen’s house.
Mmhmm.
Yes, it was.
And when Olsen says, “No, it wasn’t.
I’ve never seen it before.”
[stammers] Do DNA tests.
I mean, his’ll be all over it.
Then his legal team say, “Who’s to say this toy is the same one in the photo?”
[Jenna] Uh…
But Sutton had this from when she was a kid.
Sutton had two dogs.
That’s why she gave one away.
What? I mean, she didn’t…
But that’s just absurd.
Why would she have two dogs?
What? She didn’t. She–
That’s what they’ll say.
[phone beeping]
[sighs] This is… Oh, God.
The warrant’s through.
Go bring him in.
[dramatic music playing]
Armed police! Armed police!
Stay where you are!
Okay. Quick as you can, before he can destroy anything.
Armed police. Show yourself.
Stay where you are. Don’t move.
Armed police.
Armed police.
Armed police.
On the right.
Out back.
Armed police!
Clear.
Clear.
Armed police!
Stay where you are!
Clear.
[suspenseful music playing]
Clear.
Armed police. Stay still.
Clear.
Clear!
Nothing?
Not in here.
Okay, top to bottom, I want a thorough search. I mean thorough.
[indistinct radio chatter]
[dramatic music playing]
What?
What, he’s gone?
Yeah, no sign of him.
Oh, genius. Genius, do it by the book and give him all the time in the world to get away and go wherever he wants.
Laz, I’m sorry.
Oh, well, that’s all right, then.
We will get him, okay?
And II am sorry. I…
I know.
I’ll go after him.
[Jenna] Hey.
[sighs]
[Jenna] Oh, wow, would you stop behaving like you’re the only person being affected by any of this?
That’s not what’s happening, Jen.
Isn’t it?
No, but are you having these whatever-they-are apparitions coming to you?
No.
You’re doing it again.
You’re not.
Well, are you sure you are?
I mean…
I mean, what if you’re not?
You think I don’t have that possibility in my head the whole time?
You don’t think I know I could be losing my mind again?
Come here.
[indistinct chatter]
[footsteps hurrying]
[Carter] Ted noticed this, Sarge.
[eerie music playing]
[Seth] What the hell are these?
[Carter] Clothes? Girls’ underwear?
Right. Good work. Bag ’em up.
Check the other pictures.
[Carter] Yes, sir.
[dramatic music playing]
[eerie music playing]
[sighs]
[sighs]
[sighs]
Come on. Come on. Come on.
[elevator creaking]
[elevator bell buzzes]
Dad?
[door creaking]
[tense music playing]
S-Sorry, Dad.
Sorry, do you have a moment?
Oh, my God.
[sombre music playing]
Look up.
No, no, I looked him in the eye.
S-Sorry, Dad.
Sorry, do you have a moment?
[Jonathan] Do I have a moment?
A moment’s so fleeting.
[fingers snap]
[snaps fingers]
There. It’s gone.
Do I have a moment?
A moment’s so fleeting.
[whispers] There.
It’s gone.
[chuckles] Sorry, yes.
Can we talk?
Of course we can.
I can’t stop thinking about Sutton.
I can’t stop feeling that I could and should have… been there to stop what happened.
That her dying, her-her getting killed is my fault.
Your fault why?
I saw her leave the dance, and…
I saw she was upset, but…
I stayed.
And what do you want me to do about that?
I don’t know.
I suppose I want reassurance.
What, that Sutton’s death was your fault?
No.
You want absolution.
“Forgive me, Father.”
[Jonathan] Wrong type of father, I’m afraid.
Wrong type of father, I’m afraid.
The best I can offer is in matters of conscience, for example, when you’ve promised to walk your sister home, the only one that can forgive you is yourself, because only you… can account… for the choices you’ve made that trouble you now.
[sombre music playing]
II miss her.
I miss her.
We’ve never not been together.
Yes.
Yes, because she’s your twin, and because you grew from nothing together.
A-And it’s as if, suddenly, half of your life has gone, but… you’re still here.
And that hurts.
And that’s what you and I have to learn to live with.
[Jonathan] Are you okay, son?
Why’d you let that happen?
Why didn’t you help me?
Why… when all you had to do was say, “It’s not your fault”?
You thought I was to blame.
No, never.
Then why let the boy, who can’t swim, drown?
‘Cause that’s what you did.
You, my father, the person who mattered most to me, held me responsible for my sister’s death!
No.
Yes!
But that’s what you felt.
And still feel!
But not what I felt, ever.
Then why didn’t you rescue me?
Joel.
You saw the state I was in.
Joel.
With all my heart, mea culpa, truly, but… but when you have a child and that child dies, this void opens up before you, because your children are your children.
They’re not supposed to die before you.
And it was Sutton.
But I was your child, too.
II know.
You and Jenna.
I failed you both.
But you especially, ’cause I could see that you felt as responsible as I did.
But in the understanding that the only road to true peace is facing and forgiving oneself, I was as hard on you as I was on myself, and that’s no road to send a young man down on his own.
It was as if you didn’t care.
I was on my own.
I couldn’t cope.
[sniffles] I did care.
Yeah, but you never showed me!
[tense music playing]
[tongue clicks]
I always wanted to think that you… came through okay.
God Almighty.
But I’m not okay.
[exhales]
[contemplative music playing]
Jen? Are you here?
Laz, have you seen Aidan?
Have I seen–
Yeah.
Uh, w-when-when are we talking about?
He didn’t go home last night, and he’s not answering his phone.
Have you seen him?
Uh, yeah. Okay–
You have?
Yeah, uh, Jen, can you just give us a minute?
Yeah. Okay.
I’m sorry, what the fuck is going on?
Have you seen him?
Jen, you stay right there, and you better start talking right now.
Hehehe came to see me last night.
What do you mean, he came to see you last night?
And then… and then I drove him back to your house.
You didn’t drive him back to mine–
Yes, yes.
No, you-You were standing there at the window, right there as I drove off.
Yeah… I’ve just, I’ve just told you, he did not come home!
And, uh, sorry, why would he want to see you anyway?
I told him to leave you alone.
He’d had a paternity test done.
This is off his own bat, all right? II…
I had nothing to do with it.
He… um… he took my toothbrush, got what he needed from it, sent it off and… yesterday, the results came back saying I’m his father, not Paul.
What?
[Lazarus] Not now, Jen.
[sombre music playing]
Look, I… I’m sorry, I-I didn’t…
I didn’t go looking for this.
But we… we only met up that one time after Paul and I got together.
Yeah.
Aidan’s Paul’s.
He is.
Paul brought him up.
Look, uh, it isn’t my intention, in any way, to supplant him.
Really?
Bella–
Guys?
Sorry.
Sorry, I just, um… thought you’d want to know, we’ve got CCTV footage.
Olsen’s car driving north out the city late last night.
[dark music playing]
What? Heading where? Do you know?
Once he’s outside the city, we lose him.
Well, can you show me?
[Seth] Yeah.
You can’t really see anything, but…
[Jenna] Hang on, he’s got someone with him.
Yeah, but the quality’s so shit, you can’t see.
[Lazarus] Fuck me.
What?
That’s the same jacket Aidan was wearing last night.
Let me see?
But… why would–
Sorry, are you, are you saying you think that’s Aidan?
He didn’t come home last night.
Okay. We’re on it.
♪ ♪
[door closes]
[Lazarus] Just ’cause he was with Olsen doesn’t mean he is now.
All right?
We’ll find him.
[distant chatter] I’ll go help Paul look for him.
You wait here so you’re home when he comes back.
That boy is my everything.
You are nothing to do with him, you are not his father, so don’t you dare start claiming him now.
Yeah, I wasn’t meaning to–
Yes, you were.
[door closes in distance]
[contemplative music playing]
[Sam] The police had my card marked from day one.
Every time someone gets mugged, guess who they come questioning.
Can you imagine how it feels to have people look at you with suspicion?
[sighs] [Seth] We’ve got CCTV footage.
Olsen’s car driving north out the city late last night.
[Sam] I was on my way out of the city.
Was going fishing for Arctic char.
[suspenseful music playing]
[tires screech]
Seth.
Um, Olsen’s vanished.
Yeah, his car’s not triggering any ANPR cameras, so he’s got to be holed up somewhere.
Okay, keep on it. Look at these.
This is from the video, and these are the photos you found at Olsen’s.
[Seth] Sutton’s bedroom.
[Brown] Yes.
[suspenseful music playing]
♪ ♪
[eerie music playing]
♪ ♪
Ma’am. Laz found Olsen’s car.
♪ ♪
[indistinct shouting in distance]
[Sam shouts, laughs]
[Aidan] I’m sorry.
[Sam] Hold on. I’ll get it.
No, we can’t. Just put it back in.
Put it back in. Gently. Put it in.
[Aidan] How do we kill it?
[Sam] We don’t kill what we can’t eat.
Put it back.
Down she goes.
[Lazarus] Aidan?
Aidan, go wait in my car.
Up by the one you came in.
I want to stay here. I’m fine here.
[Lazarus] Aidan, your mum and dad are worried sick.
You’re my dad.
Your mum and Paul.
II want to stay with Sam.
Aidan!
I don’t want to go home.
Do you want me to deal with this?
I beg your pardon?
Look. Nothing’s happened, okay?
Nothing’s gone on.
And I told him to call home and say he’s okay, but he wants some space, which he’s entitled to.
Everyone is.
Taken the night Sutton was killed.
Top left corner.
On top of the manikin, you see that?
The police have seen this and are on their way.
Go to the car.
Fuck off!
I didn’t do any–
You killed her!
[grunting]
Don’t you fucking dare deny it!
I loved her.
I loved her!
[exasperated groan]
[panting]
Loved and protected her.
In life and after.
I tended her grave. No one else did.
You moved away.
I had to lead you there to show you what I’d done for her.
[Lazarus] Hey!
Oi!
Where are you?!
You murdered her.
No. You don’t understand.
I always showed Sutton such respect
[grunts]
[Sam groaning]
Tell me… tell me what happened that night!
You broke into our house! How?
How?!
You used to leave a key under the stone.
[panting]
I went in and out of your house for years.
[Lazarus] Oh!
[Sam] But it wasn’t for anything sordid.
I’d just go in to spend time in Sutton’s room…
[inhales] …to be near where she sleeps.
That dog, she’d had it the first time I met her.
I wanted it to remember her by, because she was going to university soon.
[panting] That’s why I was there!
Liar!
You were there to kill her.
It wasn’t like that!
It wasn’t like, it wasn’t like that.
It wasn’t like that.
Please. It wasn’t like that.
Fuck.
Okay. Okay.
[panting]
What was it like, then?
Please.
Please?
Sutton came back early… from the ball, and I swear to you, as I came out of the room… she was suddenly there.
Oh! Olsen.
[Sam] And not just there.
…she’s running into my arms.
She’s coming to me, and her arms were around me, around my neck.
She threw herself at me.
[groans] No…
[Sam] She was all over me…
[Sutton] No!
So I kissed her.
[Sutton shouting] Took her face in my hands and kissed her with all the love in the world.
You sick fuck!
[Lazarus groans]
She started it.
She grabbed me.
She knew what she was doing.
[yells]
And then I heard you coming home.
Laz! Dad!
I had no choice.
She made me do it!
She made me hit her till…
Why did you let her leave the dance!?
[grunting]
[Aidan] Get off him!
[Sam] Get off!
[Lazarus coughing] Ah!
[gasps]
[shouts]
[Brown] Joel!
Laz!
Laz!
[fierce scream]
[high-pitched ringing]
[dark music playing]
[water splashes loudly] [Sam panting, gasping] [Sam coughing] Thank you.
Thank you, son.
[Brown] We found photos in Olsen’s house, of Sutton’s room, of her things… all dating back to when she was killed.
So Olsen’s the killer.
You’re with me now?
I’m with you.
[indistinct chattering]
What would you have done, if we didn’t get here when we did?
[plaintive music playing]
Your father would want me to be there for you.
You have my number. Call me any time.
He rated you.
Hope you know that.
I miss him.
[siren wailing in distance]
♪ ♪
[Lazarus] Is Aidan okay?
I don’t know.
He’s not talking to us.
No, don’t say sorry.
II wasn’t… [sighs] I wasn’t going to, uh…
I just want you to know, uh…
I’ll always be there for him.
I’m worried about Aidan.
Worried in what way?
Well… about him not being like other kids or liked by other kids or, I don’t know, being thought of as weird.
Okay.
[Bella] I was just wondering, in the little time that you’ve spent with him, whether you see any of yourself in him, inin that way?
I know you had a breakdown because of Sutton, and nothing like that’s ever happened to Aidan, but I…
Right, did I have problems before Sutton died?
Yeah.
[scoffs] Sorry, I’ve got to ask.
I mean, the honest answer is: I don’t know.
Yeah.
Your dad spoke to him a couple of times.
They had a few sessions.
But Aidan wasn’t into it, and making him do it sort of felt counterproductive.
Yeah, no, uh…
Um, he has to want to talk.
Um…
Can we… can we keep in touch o-over this?
Yeah.
Yeah?
But I’ve got to tell Paul, so…
Of course.
[car engine starts]
[♪ Garbage: “The Trick is
to Keep Breathing”]
♪ She’s not the kind of girl ♪
♪ Who likes to tell the world ♪
♪ About the way she feels ♪
♪ About herself ♪
♪ She takes a little time…
What I don’t get is that… you know, Aidan’s safe, they have Olsen, but there’s still no sense of closure.
Yeah, I know.
‘Cause… ’cause nothing’s gonna bring Sutton back.
No.
I guess that’s what people in our situation mean when they say, “Now we can start grieving.”
Maybe that’s where we are now.
Hey, uh, did you know A-Aidan had a couple of sessions with Dad as a patient?
Uh… yeah.
Yeah, Margot told me.
She said he clearly had some real issues and needed help.
But that was before we knew that he was…
♪ Maybe you’ll get what you want this time around…
Laz, you can’t think that you’re to blame for Aidan’s problems.
You can’t. How can you be?
♪ Can’t bear to face the truth…
Inadvertently, perhaps.
Hey, listen.
You both had a lot to deal with.
Maybe now you can… you can start to heal.
Together.
I guess you just sitting there means I’m buying?
Ooh, yeah.
What are you having?
A lot.
[Jenna chuckles]
♪ I say ♪
♪ Never trust anyone…
You okay?
Yeah.
Can you hold me?
♪ Always the one who has to drag…
Tighter.
Yeah.
Mm.
♪ Maybe you’ll get what you want ♪
♪ This time around ♪
♪ The trick is to keep breathing…
[line ringing]
[Laura] Hello?
Hey.
Hey, it’s Laz.
II was just wondering.
[exhales]
Thanks. I, um…
II appreciate this.
Really.
Yeah, Laz, can I just say, I tend to work pretty normal hours.
Right.
Okay, and this… isn’t normal, is it?
This is, this is pretty late.
I’d say too late.
Too late.
Hmm, for therapy.
For therapy, uh, definitely.
Okay, yeah, um… what about for a drink?
[smacks lips]
And just, um, hanging out?
Oh, that wouldn’t be ethical, would it?
No, but that’s good.
That’s good?
Yes, because this evening, before I called you, it suddenly struck me that…
I can find another therapist.
But… can I find another you?
Hmm.
Has something happened today?
Oh, loads, yeah.
Uh, way too much.
I mean, t-today, today has been a total mindfuck. [laughs] Okay, then let me get my diary and we’ll book you in for–
Uh, no, no, let’s-let’s not get your diary.
Let’s-let’s, let’s just…
Let’s just go out.
[clicks tongue]
Or… stay in.
Or, I don’t know, maybe even, uh…
I don’t know, uh…
Whatever, whatever you want.
Okay.
[clears throat]
This is completely inappropriate.
So
sorry.
And I am no longer your therapist, understood?
You’re cross.
I’m going to go… and get you the contact details of two alternatives.
Very cross.
Okay, um, look, I-I-I’d like to apologise.
Uh…
Uh, wholeheartedly.
I’m-I’m sorry.
Apology accepted.
They’re both very good.
Right. So…
Where are we gonna go for this drink?
[chuckles softly]
[contemplative music playing]
[exhales]
[sighs]
♪ ♪
What?
Olsen was 200 miles away the day your dad died.
It’s a castiron alibi.
It’s rock solid.
We’ve got documented proof.
Tear his house apart.
He keeps trophies.
He’ll have the rest of the note my Dad left.
We o
we only got one page, there’s more!
It will be there in the house, guaranteed.
We’ve searched the place from top to bottom.
[Lazarus scoffs] There’s nothing there relating to your dad.
I know it’s hard to accept, but it’s definitive, Laz.
Your father took his own life.
Sorry.
[door opens]
Laz, come on.
[door closes] Mate.
I love you, okay, so trust me.
Olsen didn’t kill your dad. No one did.
He killed himself.
[Jenna] What about Cassandra?
And Harry and Margot?
Yeah, he’s still in the frame for them, but he’s… he’s only confessing to Sutton.
Seth, Seth.
I’ve, I’ve been seeing people who’ve died.
Seeing them like I’m seeing you right now.
They were murdered, all of them.
And my dad, who’s among them, told me he was murdered, too.
Oh, come on, mate, come on, these all have to be connected.
I saw Sutton. Sutton came to me.
And we know she was murdered by Olsen.
Olsen didn’t kill your dad.
[dramatic music playing]
♪ ♪
[elevator bell buzzes]
♪ ♪
Okay, let’s be having you.
Come on.
Come on, open sesame.
Dad, I don’t need you to tell me anything.
I just want some guidance.
Please, please.
[elevator bell buzzes]
Doctor, doctor.
Give me a moment.
Let me get ready.
I’ve been thinking about this all day.
Don’t come till I call.
Wait a minute.
No.
I know who you are.
[eerie music playing]
[suspenseful music playing]
Arlo Jones.
[shouts]
The great betrayer of confidences!
Well, “vengeance is mine, saith the Lord, mine, and Arlo Jones’.”
[grunting]
[chuckling]
Hey, look.
That dreary cautionary Juniper bollocks.
Why don’t we read it out, the whole of the next session?
[grunts]
[moans] You see, God came to me.
And, you know, with everything that’s going on, He’s pretty tied up, so He says, would I mind exacting His punishment for Him?
And I said, “Only too happy.”
In fact, let’s see if our Dr Lazarus can go one better than his namesake and raise himself from the dead.
[grunts]
[panting]
[shouts]
[screaming]
[both grunt]
[Arlo laughing]
[exhaling]
[laughing]
[exclaims]
[grunts]
[Arlo] Lazarus!
[pounding on door]
[Arlo laughs]
Lazarus!
I know what you are!
Come on!
[Arlo] And it’s not over!
Lazarus!
[line ringing]
[Rupert] Hello?
This is, uh, this is Joel Lazarus.
Oh, hi, Dr Lazarus.
Yes, no, listen, listen.
[Rupert speaking indistinctly] Arlo Jones…
Shut the fuck up!
Look, I need you to go to Arlo Jones’ room right now and-and tell me, is he there?
Is he alive?!
[intense music playing] [alarm sounding]
[mysterious music playing]
[Lazarus] It reads like the end of a sentence, not the start.
So what if… there was a page one?
[haunting music playing]
[gentle, rhythmic music playing]
♪ ♪
