[dramatic music playing]
[Kim screaming]
[screaming]
Somebody call the fucking ambulance!
-[elevator dings] -[Nandi panting]
-[crying] Kim, Kim, Kim. -Jacob, where are you? Where are you?
[muffled audio]
[car alarm beeps]
[dramatic music continues]
[engine starts]
[people clamouring]
Jacob.
No, Kim! Kim! Kim!
[sirens approaching]
[Jacob] Kim!
[dramatic music playing]
[indistinct chatter]
[camera shutter clicking]
[menacing music playing]
[Eric gasps]
[Eric] Jacob? Jacob?
Is that my daughter in there?
What the fuck happened?! What happened? [whimpering]
-[Jacob] Eric… Eric… -[Eric crying]
[Jacob] Okay. Okay. Okay. I know. I know.
[Eric sobbing]
[echoing] Leave me! I fucking need to see her!
[door slams open, shuts]
[Nandi breathing heavily]
[breathing heavily]
[Kim] Nandi, what are you doing? What's wrong with you?!
[dramatic music playing]
[Kim] You fucking bitch!
[Kim pants, screams]
[Nandi] Kim. Kim, listen. I'm trying to protect you.
You are the crazy, unstable, dangerous one here, Nandi.
What the fuck is wrong with you?
[exhales shakily]
[music swells]
[eerie music playing]
[music ends abruptly]
Yeah, I'll be there in 15 minutes. In the meantime, get all the surveillance,
find the hotel manager, and make sure nobody checks out.
-Okay, all right. Thanks. -[phone beeps]
[sighs]
Where did you go?
I went for a walk
on the promenade.
Ah. You were… You were on the promenade when I called you?
Yeah, I told you on the phone I needed to cool off,
blow some steam for a bit, didn't I?
Leonard, you can't let losing a deal,
or whatever Jacob Tau does, affect you like this.
I know. I know.
You're right.
[gentle music playing]
Come here.
[Leonard chuckles softly]
You are very important to me.
I love you too.
[Leonard chuckles softly]
-Okay, I gotta go. -No, no, no. Then stay.
-I can't. I have to go. -Come on. Call in sick.
There was an accident at one of the hotels.
Eric Jansen's daughter. Can you fucking believe it?
-What? -Yeah.
Apparently, she jumped off the roof. She's dead.
She really killed herself?
I don't know.
But it's my job to find out.
[tense music playing]
[door opens]
[door closes]
[tense music continues]
[electronic beeping]
[music fades out]
[man] Great. Uh-huh. Okay.
As soon as you get more info, let me know. Sure.
[Thuso] Lucky.
[breathing heavily]
There's a camera on the roof. Get the surveillance.
So, that was hotel security, and you are not gonna believe this.
No surveillance footage.
Apparently, none of the footage was backed up
because their hard drive was not plugged in properly.
And their manager keeps insisting it was "an unfortunate mistake."
It's a five-star fucking hotel.
-It's an accident. -[scoffs]
Care to share what else you think, Detective?
Maybe she was enjoying the view and leaned further than she should have.
You are a detective. You don't get to speculate.
Of course, you are… You're right. I'm gonna go line up the partygoers.
-Good. Now let's get started. -[suspenseful music playing]
Um, s-sorry, Detective.
What about the guy that she was about to marry?
Jacob Tau.
Remember him from the Mahlati mess?
Wanna tell me what happened?
Jacob fucking Tau happened. I could kill that little fuckboy.
Yeah. [inhales sharply]
Let's get more info first. Go to all the surrounding buildings.
Check if any of their cameras point towards the hotel rooftop.
We need to find out how this girl ended up on the roof, and who she was with.
On it.
[woman, crying] She was just so happy earlier.
She was over the moon.
And then her mood just shifted.
She was staring at something on her phone.
[woman 2] She seemed distracted.
The last thing I remember, she was talking to some lady.
-What lady? -I don't know. I've never seen her before.
[sighs] It must've been a family member or something like that.
[bartender] And then she came to the bar.
She wanted shots.
She definitely wasn't okay.
Talk to me about her relationship with her fiancé.
Perfect. It was perfect.
It's just, if there was foul play, nine times out of ten, it's the partner.
No. No, that's not possible.
Jacob and Kim, they were so in love.
[tearfully] We all knew they were gonna be happy together.
Whatever happened on that roof, Jacob wasn't involved.
[exhales shakily, sniffles]
[reporter] The daughter of Eric Jansen, struggle icon and prominent businessman,
tragically passed away last night
after falling from the roof of the Crystal Hotel
on 5th in Central Cape Town just days before her wedding.
The Jansen family released a press statement requesting privacy…
[Nandi] Kim, listen. I'm trying to protect you.
-[grunting] -Bitch! Get off me!
[Kim] I'm gonna kill you!
The hotel management has offered their full support
to the family and friends who witnessed this tragic event.
The police are urging anyone with information to please come forward.
Is it possible that she could have killed herself?
No.
Kim is not that person. She loved and cared too much.
She would never do anything like that.
Before she met you,
she struggled with the same thing as her mother.
She just had too many bad thoughts.
Her mother died by suicide?
Overdose of sleeping pills.
[suspenseful music playing]
How did I not see this? I… I should've seen this.
This is all my fault.
-I could've-- -Jacob.
This is not just on you.
We all should've seen it.
[inhales] Sir, do you mind if I have a moment alone with Jacob?
[Jacob sniffles]
Look, Jacob, I know you're hurting right now,
but I need you to walk me through last night.
I came there to give her a gift.
[laughing] It's gorgeous!
And I decided to stay longer.
Watch TV and wait for her.
Did the two of you get into a fight before the bachelorette party?
No.
Me and Kim never fought.
[Thuso] Hmm.
Well, maybe she fought with somebody else.
Did anything unusual happen before the party?
[both breathing heavily]
No.
Nothing happened.
[suspenseful music playing]
[Thuso] Mm-hmm. Yeah.
And you're sure about that?
Okay, all right. Thank you.
Jacob murdered his fiancée.
[sighs] Look, Zee. I know that your family has a long history with him.
He's a sociopath.
That was the coroner on the line.
They found a high dosage of benzodiazepine and alcohol in her system.
She was poisoned!
All her friends say she wasn't acting herself that day.
Because she found out who he was, and realised--
If you continue this way, I will withhold any further information on this case.
Her father confirmed there's a history of suicide in the family.
It was Jacob, I swear.
All of the evidence suggests that she went on the roof and jumped.
Sure.
If that makes our job easier, right?
Just call it a suicide and close the case?
First rule of being a good cop…
don't make things personal.
[Leonard chuckles]
I'm sorry,
but I started at the coroner's.
Those guys spend like five seconds on the body. They're overwhelmed.
This wasn't a suicide.
[sombre music plays]
[sniffling]
Oh, shit.
Um…
Sorry.
[Jacob sighs]
Can I have a moment, please?
This is still a part of a crime scene.
You actually shouldn't be here.
[Jacob exhales shakily]
[sombre music playing]
Um, Jacob…
We haven't found her phone.
Apparently, she was looking at it at the party.
You seen it by any chance?
No.
[door opens, closes]
Oh, hey, Ma.
Yoh! You won't believe the day that I've had.
[in Afrikaans] Sorry. Long day?
-[sighs] -Aw.
[in English] Jacob's fiancée died.
Yeah, it's all over the news.
Uh, they say she jumped off the roof of a hotel.
It's Jacob's fiancée, Ma. You really think she killed herself?
I can't speculate.
I, um, made us some dinner. Can I get you a plate?
He's a psycho, Ma.
We all know that.
H-he murdered her.
I mean, anyone who gets close to Jacob gets hurt.
I just… I just feel like
I know he had something to do with her death. [sighs heavily]
[Nandi sighs]
You came home late last night.
I did?
You weren't here when I got called to the crime scene.
Where were you?
I, uh…
Actually, I was… I was with the prof. Yeah.
"I was with the prof."
[both giggle]
You don't have to be so weird about it.
You're dating again.
-Yeah. -You see? Therapy works.
Oh. Oh, it does?
Because you ran in the opposite direction when I said you and I should go together.
I'm just glad that you gave it a chance.
[Nandi chuckles]
Me too.
-There you go. Bon appétit. -Thanks, Ma.
[tense music playing]
You know, her examination showed that she was high on drugs and alcohol,
and, according to her father, suicidal too. [sighs]
They're pretty much gonna rule this a suicide or an accidental death.
Can you believe that?
[Nandi sighs]
Yeah, hey.
Suicide, my ass.
[music fades out]
-[door closes] -[slurping]
[footsteps approaching]
Hey.
Aw, shame, baby. You look exhausted.
Eric Jansen's daughter was about to marry Jacob Tau.
Did you know that?
-[dramatic music playing] -Yeah.
He sent me an invite to his wedding.
You said he sabotaged your deal. Why would he invite you to his wedding?
Because he's one crazy human being. That's why. He's a sick man.
And you also said you wanted him dead or worse.
[Leonard] I could kill that little fuckboy.
Yeah, I was upset.
I said some things I didn't mean,
and thank goodness I went for that walk on that promenade and cleared my head.
Well, this is the first I hear of this invite.
Yeah. Babe, w-why was I gonna say anything if I wasn't even attending?
Did you speak to your ex-wife about it?
[laughs]
Oh. Okay.
-That's what this is about. -No, no, no.
-You don't get to make me the bad guy. -I wouldn't dream of it.
But as for Jacob,
if there's any foul play in any of this, that is your man.
Yeah. Well, your daughter said the same thing.
She wasn't wrong.
Listen,
Jacob Tau is a pathological liar.
If there's any chance that that girl was murdered, it was him.
Toxicology report suggests that she hurt herself.
It doesn't matter what it says, baby.
[in Zulu] I know Jacob. [in English] He's a psychopath.
[both sigh]
Anyway, enough about work. [tuts]
How's my baby doing?
Are we good?
We're good.
[sensual music playing]
Like, um,
"I love you too" kind of good?
Hmm?
[Thuso chuckles]
[laughs] Yeah.
Like "I love you too" kind of good.
That's good.
[music fades out]
[Jacob sighs]
[knocking on door]
[inhales deeply] It's open.
[door closes]
[gentle music playing]
[music intensifies]
[Nandi breathing shakily]
[sighing]
[music fades out]
[Jacob exhales] Sorry.
-[Nandi winces] -[softly] I'm so sorry. I'm so sorry.
-Are you okay? -Mmm.
I just wish
I knew why she called me up to the roof.
[Nandi sighs]
Kim, hey. I… I got your message.
I mean, she just…
lost it.
She started pushing me. She was so angry.
It felt like she wanted to kill me.
And at some point, I had to defend myself. I…
[sighs] I just remember trying to stop her and…
[breathing heavily]
The rest of it is just… [sniffs]
It's blank.
Blank?
Yeah, I must've fallen and hit…
Hit my head.
The next thing, you were there.
[in Zulu] Telling me that Kim fell and…
-You were asking me what I'd done. -What have you done?!
[Nandi sighs]
What… what were you doing up there?
After you left me in the laundry room, I…
Nandi.
I went up to her room.
-[phone dings] -And I received a text from her
saying I should come to the roof.
By the time I got there, you were… you were laying on the ground,
and… I'm hearing people screaming.
[people screaming]
[breathing heavily]
Nandi! Nandi!
-What have you done? Huh? -[breathing heavily]
Kim fell! What have you done?!
I don't know. [winces]
So… So I told you to run.
You have to run. Come on. Get up. Get up.
[grunts] Go. Go.
I tried staying behind to
remove any evidence that you were there, but…
I received a call from one of Kim's friends,
and I had to go.
But why did you do that?
But why did you,
you know, tell me to run and try to hide the evidence? Why?
Because it's you.
Nandi, it's always been you.
I was supposed to marry Kim, and then you showed up,
and everything changed.
I know you were telling the truth when you said Kim attacked you.
Sometimes, she would just lose it, and… and… and she would turn violent.
Then we have to tell the police.
No, no, no, no.
You'll be charged with murder if you do that.
Did I…
[inhales sharply] Did I kill her?
[chokes back sob]
I mean, did I… [voice breaks]
…really kill that woman?
Nobody needs to know.
The police,
they already think it's suicide.
I can't bear the thought of losing you again if you go to prison.
[sniffs]
-[sighs] -Come. Come here. Come here.
[Nandi sniffs]
[music fades out]
Hey.
You're not busy right now, right?
Uh, it's great you got selected to go out into the field.
Doesn't mean the rest of us aren't busy.
I didn't mean it that way.
[sombre music playing]
I just needed someone to talk to.
Mahlati! Mahlati!
You're coming with me.
[siren wailing in distance]
You know what you're doing?
Not only did I start here,
but growing up, my uncle would bring me to his examinations.
Sounds healthy.
Did you ask to review my report?
We know you guys are overwhelmed. It won't hurt to take a second look.
It's pretty clear-cut.
Either she jumped, or she fell by accident.
The girl was practically swimming in drugs and alcohol.
Drugs and alcohol don't explain this.
She had French tips. Three of them broke off.
She probably was trying to hold on to the ledge.
I don't know. Given the distance from the pool…
Maybe the tips broke off while she was trying to defend herself.
[music swells]
[music fades out]
[traffic honking in distance]
[birds cooing]
[tense music playing]
[breathing heavily] I think I got something.
[music fades out]
[Jacob] Is the bath helping?
Yeah?
[tender music playing]
[sighs]
[Kim] You fucking bitch!
[shouts, screams]
-[Nandi] Get off me! Get-- -[Kim grunting]
[Jacob] What have you done? Huh?
Kim fell. What have you done?
[Nandi sighs]
I need to get going.
Yep.
[engine shuts off]
[tense music playing]
[breathing shakily] There's someone outside.
[knocking on door]
Jacob, it's Detective Dube. Open up!
[whispering] You, hide, hide.
-[knocking on door] -Yeah, yeah. Just a second.
[panting]
[shoe clatters]
[Jacob] All right.
[Jacob sighs]
Can I come in?
Detective.
Open the gate, please.
[Jacob sighs exasperatedly]
I could've come to the station if you asked me to.
I'm afraid I have some bad news.
We went back to the roof.
We found two French tips belonging to Kim.
-They had blood on them. -[Jacob] Blood?
[Thuso] We sent them to the lab for DNA testing.
Wait, wait, Detective. W-what are you trying to tell me?
Blood on her nails indicates that she scratched someone during a struggle,
which means this is officially a homicide investigation.
[breathing shakily]
[quietly] Fuck.
[suspenseful musical sting]
Are you alone?
Um, yeah.
So you're saying that this is a--
Do you mind if I have a look?
-Why would you want to have a look? -Why would it be a big deal if I did?
[water splashing]
[Thuso] Water's still warm.
[Jacob] I mean, I just had a bath.
Detective, tell me something, am I a suspect here?
'Cause you're treating me like one right now.
[Thuso] It's just…
in situations like these, when someone gets murdered,
it's usually their intimate partner.
[suspenseful music continues]
[shoe scraping quietly, thumps]
-What was that? -What?
-Fuck. -You didn't hear that?
[music intensifies]
[Jacob] Detective, listen,
if I'm the one who attacked her, I'd have scratches, right?
Right?
Do you see any?
Hmm?
Right?
Right.
Expect a call from us
for you to come down to the station for a DNA sample.
I didn't murder my fiancée, but you know what?
I'll do the DNA to prove it.
[tense music builds]
-[door closes] -[music ends]
[sighs with relief]
[exhales shakily]
The DNA test is gonna prove that I'm guilty.
[sighs]
[indistinct chatter]
I was expecting you to walk in with Jacob in cuffs.
No scratches on his hands, face, body, nothing.
That's impossible.
Look, unless it was his twin I was speaking to earlier,
it was not Jacob she was fighting on that roof.
Mmm.
As requested, surveillance footage of the neighbouring buildings.
-Anything pointing to our roof? -No.
It's all street level and a couple of parking garages.
I don't think you'll get anything out of it.
-All right. Thanks, Lucky. -Sure.
[Zinhle sighs in disgust]
I told you, don't make this personal.
[sighs in frustration]
[quietly] Okay.
[crying softly]
Kim's mother, she… [inhales sharply]
She hid her tormented soul from me very well.
-[sombre music playing] -So well that, when she took her own life,
I struggled for years to come to terms with it.
And the only thing that kept me going
was raising Kimberley.
[sobs]
The irony…
[cries]
…is that I missed the signs with her too.
[Eric crying]
No.
There's no way of seeing the signs sometimes.
I failed her.
No.
If only we'd stayed away from this bloody city,
Kim would still be alive today.
No, no, no.
You can't know that.
Eric, I mean, the… the police, they think otherwise.
If she was murdered,
I promise you,
I will not rest until I find out who did it.
And I will make that monster pay.
I know that, Dad.
I know that.
[Eric crying]
[sombre music continues]
[yawns, sighs]
What the fuck?!
[dramatic music playing] ter pay.