A fragile young teenage girl is held captive. Locked in a cell by The Reestablishment – a harsh dictatorship in charge of a crumbling
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Read by Tim Pigott-Smith. A naked woman in red high-heeled shoes is poised on the edge of Clifton Suspension Bridge with her back pressed to the safety fence, weeping into a mobile phone. Clinical psychologist Joseph O' Loughlin is only feet away, desperately trying to talk her down. She whispers, ' You don't understand'
- & jumps. Later, Joe has a visitor
- the woman's teenage daughter, a runaway from boarding school. She refuses to believe that her mother would have jumped off the bridge; not only would she not commit suicide, she is also afraid of heights. Joe wants to believe her, but how could a woman be driven to such a desperate act? & who might drive her to it? ' Shatter' delves into the darkest recesses of the human mind!