Arabella is dumbstruck by the lack of judicial closure. Funmi hands over the ‘evidence’ – plastic bags filled with soiled clothes. Nine months later, after a lengthy but inconclusive investigation, the case is closed. She pulls the collar of her T-shirt over her face – and sobs. ![]() ‘Who’s he looking at?’ Arabella shakes her head, her cognitive dissonance beginning to clear. ‘You can see his eyes?’ Funmi asks Arabella. The next morning, as I sat at the breakfast table picking at my plate, he casually chatted with my flatmates. Years ago, I fell asleep next to a friend. Something dropped in me as I watched this scene. While there is a calm bravado to her voice, her face – which is intensely expressive, making visible the slightest tremor – is softly quaking. Funmi (Sarah Niles), an officer assigned to the case, uses the word ‘assault’, which makes Arabella balk, and snap back: ‘We should refrain from talking about things like they’re facts …’. But a forensics team finds bruises on her knees and a small cut in her mouth. ‘You can’t even call it a memory,’ she says, wondering if she made it all up. She has woken up after a roofied blackout with a bleeding scar above her eyebrow and a smashed-up phone. ‘It’s also – cathartic.’ In the second episode, Arabella – played by writer, director and producer Michaela Coel – is at the police station, trying to report a crime that she is only able to recollect in flashes of images: a bathroom stall, a man’s nostrils, fumbling at an ATM. ![]() ‘It’s triggering,’ a friend says to me, describing the television show I May Destroy You (2020).
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