The Courier: Episode 1
6/5/202629 min
When Mo, a Sudanese delivery rider working in Cardiff enters a house to drop off two pizzas, he finds a dead body. Convinced that if he alerts the authorities he will either be suspected of murder or arrested for working illegally and deported, Mo flees the crime scene. When the murder is reported as a suicide, Mo can't stop thinking about the dead woman. He knows what he saw.
Series creators Eno Mfon and Darragh Mortell
Episode 1 by Eno Mfon
CAST Mo - Mohamed Elsandel Elli - Maeve Courtier-Lilley Omar - Ali Goolyad Mama - Alaa Taha Amna - Fatima Seedahmed The Priest - Geraint Morgan Alexa - Laura dos Santos Woman - Lisa Greenwood Football commentator - Ben Crowe
Original Music by Tom Tripp Oud Music by Nabra. Sound: Catherine Robinson and Rhys Morris Production Coordinators: Maggie Olgiati and Eleri McAuliffe Script consultant: Majid Hassan Director: John Norton A BBC Audio Drama Wales Production
Transcript preview
First 90 secondsNarrator0:00
[gentle music] The Courier by Enno Mfon and Dara Mortell. Episode one.
Mo0:08
[upbeat music] [high pitch sound] Shh. I've seen dead bodies before. This isn't my first funeral, but I never spoke in front of people. People I don't know, people I never met before, about a woman I only met two weeks ago. I've never seen it.
Priest0:38
Take your time.
Mo0:39
Her name's Rosa. Rosa Brennan. The woman who ... The woman in the casket, and in the big photo in front of it with flowers all around, and on the paper they gave me at the door. In loving memory of Rosa, a loving wife, mother, daughter, friend, teacher. She was a lot of things, but now she's just the woman in the casket.
Priest1:10
Just start with how you knew her.
Mo1:13
How I k- knew her? Um, okay. Uh...
Unknown speaker1:22
[tense music] [upbeat music]