One Night

Episode 1

Ted

51 mins

As a young boy brings a gun into a police station events back track to some days earlier when harassed kitchen salesman Ted, struggling with the charcoal for a barbecue, berates Rochelle, one of a group of schoolgirls, for dropping litter outside his house. Soon after a condom is pushed through the letterbox. When it rains Ted and his wife Sally host Ted's boss Kenny and his wife Dawn indoors but a stone is thrown through the window and the two men catch a youth running away. He turns out to be Rochelle's brother and Ted locks him in the garden shed but is persuaded to release him by Sally and Kenny, who fear reprisals and a likely charge of false imprisonment. A frustrated Ted lets rip, only to learn that Kenny was planning to promote him. The boy has dropped his mobile phone and Ted decides to return it to Rochelle at her rough estate. However as Rochelle stands her balcony she hears a shot ring out.