I don’t know how to tell you this but I’m getting stalked. Baby Reindeer I, opening scene, Netflix 2024
Reindeer: So what do you do then?
Martha: I’m a lawyer. ibid.
Every day now Martha would come in. ibid.
I began to love her laugh. Obsessed with it. ibid.
Then came her emails. Around 80 a day. ibid.
Seeing her madness play out like that left me with a sense of unease. ibid.
Do you ever want to unzip people and climb inside them? ibid. her to him
I love you … I said too much, haven’t I? ibid.
I had a convicted stalker stalking me. ibid.
We’re all varying degrees of weird, aren’t we? Pretending to be human. Baby Reindeer II
It was incredible really just how things started falling apart. ibid.
I blocked Martha on Facebook and then took some time off from the pub … I still felt her grope for days afterwards. The smell of her neck sweat as she pressed me up against the wall. And why did I freeze? Why did I just let it happen? Baby Reindeer III
If you continue this bullshit any longer, I’ll call the police. ibid. Reindeer to Martha
Yes I do blame you. You love drama. ibid. Keeley
And it all just came back to those same feelings of empathy that got me here. ibid. Reindeer
Fucking hell, who unlocked the doors of Broadmoor? ibid. Martha’s club invasion
Do you understand? Now get the fuck out of my life. ibid. Reindeer
It had taken me six months to report Martha. Baby Reindeer IV
The first time I came up was like nothing I’d ever experienced. It felt like a beam of divine light shone down from space through Darrien’s roof and into his living room exactly where I was sitting, as warm Indian Ocean waves passed up and down my body. ibid.
Unless we can see some proper evidence there’s nothing we can do. ibid. rozzer
I hate to do this to you Donny but I think you’d better move out. Baby Reindeer V, landlady
So serious she once stalked a policeman. ibid. rozzer
Strange erie silence. Weeks went by and I started to panic. ibid. Reindeer
This is still a mentally ill woman we’re talking about here. ibid. Teri
It was time to take matters into my own hands. Baby Reindeer VI
If you leave my family alone, I will hang your curtains tonight. ibid. Reindeer to Martha
Martha had taped everything. ibid. Reindeer
This sticking plaster for all of life’s weirdoes. ibid.
Comedian Has Epic Breakdown. Baby Reindeer VII, Youtube
Martha got my number. ibid.
Martha was sentenced to nine months in prison. ibid.
Solihull, West Midlands, 2018: Raneem Oudeh anxiously calls police. Her estranged husband is stalking her. She has every reason to be frightened. Killer Britain with Dermot Murnaghan s4e5: Janbaz Tarin, CI 2022
Played out on camera the real-life drama of a husband intent on controlling his wife. ibid.