"landscapers" Episode #1.2(2021) Page

Susan looked at the detective, her eyes glazed but fiercely determined. She straightened her cardigan and folded her hands neatly on the table.

The second episode of the miniseries Landscapers focuses on the police investigation heating up after the discovery of the buried bodies. It contrasts the harsh, clinical reality of the police interrogation with the romanticized, cinematic fantasy world that Susan Edwards uses to cope with her past.

"Don't let them rewrite our story, my darling," Christopher said, his voice deep and smooth, echoing like a movie star from the golden age. "They don't understand. They can never understand what we have." "Landscapers" Episode #1.2(2021)

She looked up and saw Christopher. He wasn't the tired, balding, stressed man she had seen in the holding cell. He was her dashing leading man, wearing a fedora tilted perfectly over his eyes. He stepped out of the fog, holding a small bouquet of violets.

"Let's talk about the money again, Susan," Lancing said, her voice dry and stripped of all empathy. "We have the bank records. Why did you keep withdrawing your parents' pension for fifteen years after they 'moved away'?" Susan looked at the detective, her eyes glazed

The word murder hung in the air, heavy and suffocating. Susan felt the walls of the room closing in. The grey paint seemed to bleed away, and the buzzing light grew deafening. She closed her eyes.

"I told you," Susan whispered, her voice barely audible. "We had to look after things. To keep up appearances. Chris and I were just surviving." It contrasts the harsh, clinical reality of the

"Let them think what they want," he replied, pulling her close as the steam from a arriving locomotive swirled around them. "In this world, we are the heroes. We saved each other. That's the only truth that matters."