Episode 6

Episode 6
Season	1
Number	6
Series	Baby Reindeer
Air date	April 11, 2024
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Episode 6 is the sixth episode of the British thriller series Baby Reindeer.

Synopsis

Martha finds new ways to get to Donny: by hurting the people he loves. With the police still failing to intervene, he takes matters into his own hands.

Plot

Martha harassed Donny's parents relentlessly, by repeatedly calling and messaging them. Donny decided to take matters into his own hands by coercing Martha into writing him a sexually aggressive email, in hopes of them using the email as evidence to send to the police. However, unbeknownst to Donny, Martha always wore a recording device. Martha sent Donny's voice recordings and email to the police.

Detective Joanne Culver no longer wanted to deal with either Martha or Donny, and simply asked that they stop communicating.

Martha showed up at the pub again. She was previously barred from entry, but as there were no managers on site to stop her, she took a seat and began mocking Donny with another customer, pulling up videos of his problematic and unsuccessful stand-up routines.

This pushed Donny to his limit. He revealed to the customer Martha's criminal past, including her previous arrests and details about past victims. Furious, Martha attacked Donny by smashing a glass on his head, leaving blood streaming down his face as the other customer watched in shock. The bar managers, Gino and Greggsy, begged Donny not to go to the police, as they could lose their jobs due to negligence.

At a comedy competition, Donny had an emotional breakdown and talked on stage about Martha's stalking, Darrien's sexual assault and his failed relationship with Teri. He lamented that he loved Teri, but he loved hating himself more than he loved her. Some of the audience left, disturbed, and the rest sat in uncomfortable silence. Gino and Greggsy, who sat in the audience, were shocked.

Cast

Main Cast

• Richard Gadd as Donny Dunn
• Jessica Gunning as Martha Scott
• Nava Mau as Teri

Supporting Cast

TBA

Quotes

"If you leave my family alone… I will hang your curtains tonight. I wanna make sure I get it right though. All of it. So put it in an email. What you want to do to me. How you want me to… hang them. But I like it rough, okay? So make sure it’s as sick, twisted, as depraved as you can write it, yeah?"

—Donny attempts to get Martha to write an incriminating email

"And isn’t getting groomed magical? Before you realise you’re actually getting groomed. Until you’re passing out from GHB on his living-room couch, while he tears at your trousers with his disgusting hands. And you know it’s wrong, deep down, what he’s making you do. But you just keep going back. And you start to think, “Is my self-respect so f*cking low, is my lust for success so f*cking high, that I will repeatedly go back to this man’s house and let him abuse me for a little peep at fame?” “Oh, you’re a victim. You mustn’t blame yourself.” Good sentiment, but let’s be honest, the fourth or fifth time you’ve passed out and woken up with your dick in his mouth, you should probably think about not going back. But, no, I just had to keep going. I just had to get f*cking raped. Anything funny to say, boys?"

—Donny talks about abuse during the comedy competition

"I met this trans woman. You should see her. She’s the most beautiful person you’ve ever met, and I just couldn’t… I just couldn’t… …love her. And I see it now. I see what it was that I lost in her. Moreover, I see why I messed it up in the way that I did. And it’s because of this, right? It’s because I loved one thing in this world more than I did her, right? One thing. And do you know what that one thing was? Hating myself. I love it. I’m addicted to it. I don’t know anything else. Because God forbid ever taking a chance at life. God forbid ever taking a chance at happiness. And that’s why I messed it up with her. Because I hated myself so much more than I loved her. And I loved her so very much."

—Donny talks about Teri during the comedy competition

Gallery

Martha

Digsy, Greggsy and Gino shocked

Elle

Gerry angry

Gerry on the phone

Gerry

Joanne Culver