An older woman came forward to tell the story of her daughter, Chelsey. I heard audible sobs when she revealed—partway through her story—that she spoke on behalf of her daughter only because her daughter was no longer here. Chelsey had committed suicide, never having recovered from the damage of what Larry had done.

It’s a story of a mother’s worry and love instead of a plane crash. The plane crash is like my car accident or the blown-out tire on my Chevy Malibu: simply a means to getting to what really matters.

Charlie Brooker: Inbound, the first ever Black Mirror episode fully written but never made, had been based on a true, harrowing story. Konnie had made me watch this gut-wrenching 2010 John Pilger documentary called The War You Don’t See, about the Iraq war. There was a lengthy sequence following a grieving mother around her house, in which she was