'Remember Me' Recap: Episode 3
In last week’s Remember Me cliffhanger, we witnessed the disappearance into thin air of Tom Parfitt (Michael Palin) and his ghostly Indian governess from the Scarborough beachfront. For more details, check out the full recap here.
But the story is far from over, not by a long chalk (as the Brits are wont to say). Are Tom and Isha gone for good? Are Hannah (Jodie Comer) and her brother Sean safe from the jealous and vengeful nanny? And what does that blasted “Scarborough Fair” song have to do with all of this? I’m glad you asked because these questions and more are addressed and, for the most part, satisfactorily answered in the final installment of Remember Me.
We begin with DC Rob Fairholme (Mark Addy) as he enthusiastically tries to convince his superior, DCI Grogan (Tony Pitts) that there’s something supernatural about the deaths in the Parfitt case. “It’s always water, water that shouldn’t be there.”
Grogan dismisses it all – the unexplained aspects of the ‘accidental” deaths, the Queen’s birthday cards and the old photos - as unreliable evidence. Then he turns on the misguided sympathy and suggests Rob take some time off and come back when he feels better. Like he did before. What?
Meanwhile, Hannah Ward is still in Scarborough. Distressed by visions and that infernal earworm of a song and overwhelmed by what she’s gotten herself and her brother into, she calls Rob. Upon his arrival, he tries to assure her (and himself) that there’s a sane explanation for all this weirdness. But after Hannah pulls out the phone with the photo of Isha standing next to Sean, Rob’s doubts about the otherworldly powers at work vanish into thin air.
Rob gets a call that Tom has been seen in a caravan park near the bay. When he and Hannah reach the site, they find the windows blown out of the trailer and water dripping from the ceiling. Rob goes out to scan the area and spots Tom on the ground near the cliffs with a woman shrouded in red leaning over him. When the detective reaches him, Isha is gone and Tom is wet, battered and disorientated. The old man feebly laments, “I just wanted to be free. But she’ll not let me go. Not ever.”
Back at the caravan, Tom explains how he thought if he made it look like it wasn’t his choice to leave the house, he could escape without angering Isha. He is sorry about what happened to the social worker. When Hannah asks if her brother is safe, Tom says Isha would never hurt a child. I’m not so sure about that…
