Hollywould...|Episode 10: 'D' for Denouement

HOLLY: 'What the...?'

HOLLY: 'Oh my God....'

MR ROPER: 'Holly, are you okay?'

MARTA: 'What the hell's going on?'

MR ROPER: 'I think you should see this.'



HOLLY: 'I don't understand.'

ALEX: 'I just saw it as a project, a way to catch up, after failing my exams.'

HOLLY: 'Project?'

ALEX: 'A film. I had a vague story....'

DANNY: 'But no actress...'

ALEX: 'I told you, I wanted to shoot it with a real girl. With real emotions.'

HOLLY: 'Me?'

ALEX: 'Girl finds boy...'

DANNY: 'But instead, you just found two jerks.'

ALEX: 'Once I got to know you, I really didn't want to do this.'

DANNY: 'Neither did I. I swear. We were going to stop it right there and then but...'

ALEX: 'We checked the footage and it was then we realised that there was someone else there that day, hiding out in the wood?'

DANNY: 'And they were there the next day too. It was totally weird because we realised that someone was stalking you, filming you.'

ALEX: 'But we'd been doing exactly the same thing, so we knew we'd only freak you out by telling you. So we decided to find out who that other person was.'

DANNY: 'We really believed it was...'

MR ROPER: 'Marta. So did I. When I saw her with you that day on campus I remembered her from somewhere. But the name meant nothing. Finally, at the party, it came to me...'

HOLLY: '...she's a singer. She'll be a star one day.'

MR ROPER: 'A "star". Stellar. That was the name of a young girl I'd met at the clinic Michael had stayed at. Shy, awkward, withdrawn. The nurses said she'd had a breakdown as a teenager.

I'd already been keeping my eyes open because of the break-ins. And then, one night...'

MR ROPER: 'Oi! What do you think you're doing there, you two?'

DANNY: 'We told John everything.'

ALEX: 'Even showed him the film.'

MARTA: 'They sent it to me too. With a text, warning me. But I didn't know what they were talking about, until this morning, when I realised...'


HOLLY: '...I'm not blaming you but I would like to know where all my stuff's disappearing to.'

MARTA: 'She'd never have harmed you, Holly. She had plenty of opportunity to do that while she was here, stealing your clothes?

Oh yeah. She's been here before, must've stolen my key and made another to replace it. She probably came back several times, just looking for clues? Trying to figure out who you were, Holly. Maybe even trying to be you.'

HOLLY: 'But you said...'

MARTA: 'I know. I told you she'd died. And in a way she did. My twin was never the same after her first breakdown. And neither was I. It was our parents who died in that car accident, Holly. I've been running away from my responsibility to Stella ever since. But if there's one thing you taught me, it's that you can't run away from who you really are.'


I've stopped running altogether. Apart from when it's really necessary...

HOLLY: 'Sorry John, am I late?'

MR ROPER: 'Bang on time.'

Stella's back in the same nursing home. But only for a while. They say she's making good progress now. Maybe 'cos Marta's been good about visiting.

And that's certainly not something that Alex and Danny deserve.

ALEX: 'Here, it's all here, Holly.'

DANNY: 'Do whatever you want with it...'

But then I had a better idea, how they could make things up to me....

HOLLY: 'Good job.'

DANNY: 'And I've cleaned up your files, installed some brand new software. Oh and this guy just needed some of these...'

I also got in touch with a local internet TV channel that was interested in broadcasting an interactive drama. And they decided to give two local guys a chance. So Alex is happy...

And so is Danny.

And me? Well, the same channel promises I could actually get my own series one day. If I want...

HOLLY: 'Do I want? Well, maybe someone else is more keen to end up in.... Hollywood.'