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Doctor Legg is incensed at the idea of a Portaloo been installed in this Edition.Dot finally finds out Colin and Barry are gay,not just flatmates.Of course she takes it in her stride!.Another fine Edition from the golden era for it.
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00:27Morning, Dr. Lee.
00:28Oh, Simon, do you know if Den sent office letters to the council?
00:32About this abomination they want to put up.
00:34Oh, you mean the little toilet?
00:36Yeah.
00:37A lovely example of Victorian architecture like this square.
00:40And they want to plonk some grotesque, vulgar, modern abomination slap bang in the middle of it.
00:45What's wrong with these people?
00:47What is wrong with them?
00:49Come on, Wally.
00:55Here, I think Dr. Leg's gone mad.
00:57Oh, Lofty, before you go and pick up your heart, bring out some more ginger elsewhere.
01:00He's standing out there staring at the space.
01:02Yeah, I know the feeling.
01:03He wants to know if you've written off to complain about this new loo yet.
01:06Course I have.
01:07Oh, Lofty, while you're down there, bring out some more salt and vinegar crisps for you.
01:10You're joking?
01:11Oh, I'm deadly serious.
01:12I don't have that monstrosity stuck out there.
01:13Might stop people coming and buying a drink or six.
01:15But that's not what I told the council.
01:17I said, mate, class with the yuppies brass door handles.
01:19Oh, I know what you mean.
01:20But wasn't it for Dr. Leg?
01:21Well, he can't bear any change, can he?
01:23If he had his way, we'd still be driving around all some carts and using paraffin lamps.
01:27Yeah, I bet you, by the end of the week, some geyser will come round and put one of them,
01:30er, what do you call it?
01:31Er, preservation order on it.
01:32I've also heard it's been pestering Pora Ethel to write to the council and sign the letters
01:35to angry O.A.P. Walford.
01:37Yeah, see, it's gone mad.
01:38Yeah, well, there's a lot of it about.
01:40Here you are, Doc.
01:41Keys.
01:42What are you doing sat in here?
01:44Oh, just having a quiet think to myself.
01:46Oh, no.
01:47Pauline, do you ever stop and wonder just where life is taking you?
01:51No, Doc, because if I did, I'd probably put my head down and have a good cry.
01:54Yeah, but you know what I mean.
01:56Life just isn't the carefree adventure I always thought it was going to be.
01:59Sometimes, but don't get me wrong, because I'm not being blasphemous,
02:03but sometimes I do wish that God would be a little more, well, explicit
02:07in exactly what his great plan was all about.
02:10It's very wrong of me to question him, isn't it?
02:13Well, no, Doc, I mean, you're bound to at some time or other.
02:16Anyway, I must rush, sorry.
02:18Are you going to see Arthur?
02:19Yeah, I'm taking him out this afternoon.
02:21Oh, somewhere nice?
02:22Well, I don't know.
02:23Might go to Greenwich, might just have a wander round the shop.
02:25Depends how he feels, really.
02:26Ah, here.
02:27Anything I ought to know about over there?
02:29Er, no, not really.
02:30Just push the oeuvre about, clean the bathroom,
02:32a bit of general dusting, eh?
02:33And thanks ever so much.
02:34I'm very grateful.
02:35Ah, it's all right.
02:36Anyway, I need some money.
02:37Here, you hurry along and give Arthur my regards,
02:39and you tell him that I remember him every night in me prayers.
02:43Thanks, Doc. I'm welcome.
02:44Hello.
02:45Oh, hello.
02:46Oh, hang on.
02:47I'll just get you stuff.
02:48Now, you'll find it's all quite dry,
02:51but, oh, I had to give it extra time in the dryers,
02:54because there's such a lot of it.
02:56That'll be 30p, you owe me.
02:58But you did say that I was...
02:59Thanks very much, Mrs. Gordon, for your trouble.
03:01Oh, thank you.
03:02Doing a spring clean, are we?
03:03Er, not exactly, no.
03:04Oh, having visitors, then?
03:05Something like that, yes.
03:06Actually, my children are coming for the weekend.
03:08Oh, your children.
03:09Oh, how nice.
03:11Yeah, I don't think I've ever met them, have I?
03:13No, this is their first visit.
03:14Oh, fancy.
03:15Well, you must be pleased.
03:17Well, I'm keeping my fingers crossed.
03:18All goes well.
03:19Yeah, well, just you watch who they mix with.
03:21There are a lot of right little hard cases round here in Walford.
03:24Now, you might think that they're normal eight- to nine-year-olds,
03:27but they're really little thugs.
03:28Now, you want to tell your children what I used to tell my Nick.
03:31Nick, I used to say, just be a little discriminated.
03:35Remember at all times that you come from a good home,
03:38and don't let yourself be tempted by low types.
03:41Now, that should see them all right.
03:43I'll remember that.
03:44Thanks, Mrs. Gordon.
03:45If you have any problems, don't hesitate to come to me.
03:47I won't.
03:48That is, I won't hesitate.
03:49Oh.
03:50Thanks again, Mrs. Gordon.
03:51Goodbye.
03:52Goodbye.
03:53What?
03:54Well, that's fine by me.
03:56I'm not one to bear grudges.
03:58Well, why should it?
04:00Nah, do the power of good.
04:02Save us sitting around all day brooding.
04:05Yeah, all right, sonny.
04:07See you soon.
04:08Bye.
04:11Here they come.
04:12You'll be queuing outside the door soon, ain't there?
04:14I rather doubt it.
04:15Oh, Dr. Thomas, this is a rather special day for me.
04:17I'm going to offer you a drink on the house.
04:19Oh, is it your birthday?
04:20Oh, something like that, yeah.
04:21Oh, well, in that case, thank you.
04:23I'll have an orange juice.
04:24Ask if you wanted a drink.
04:25Not if you were thirsty.
04:26Tom, a pint.
04:27Quick, shall you bring it over to you?
04:28Love it.
04:29What's the celebration?
04:30This.
04:31Oh, what?
04:32Your premium bone come up, is it?
04:33Nope.
04:34What's that?
04:35This is official notification of my parole.
04:36You are.
04:37My parole.
04:38Forty-two days to freedom.
04:39Oh, yeah.
04:40I found out about our council exchange, Doc.
04:42Oh?
04:43We both write off to them.
04:45And then if we don't hear nothing within six weeks, we just get on with it.
04:49And then after, we write to them again and let them know we're doing it.
04:53Oh, terrific.
04:54Well, here's hoping.
04:55Well, off you go then, Lofty.
04:56We've done a lot to get out on.
04:57Are you sure?
04:58Of course I'm sure.
04:59Go and get the place ready for auntie.
05:00What's her name?
05:01Irene.
05:02Yeah, I don't mind stopping for a bit.
05:03You know, if it gets busier now.
05:04Oh, if we're busy, we're busy.
05:06I'm sure a bit of our work won't kill Wixie once in a while.
05:09Are you meant to?
05:10Are you sure then?
05:11Of course I'm sure then.
05:13Go on, off you go.
05:14I hope it goes okay.
05:15All right, thanks.
05:16Oi.
05:17Let me give you a laugh.
05:18Have a guess who that was on the phone just now.
05:19My old mate, Sunny, from the Britannia.
05:21Have a guess who he was to take on as a part-time wife.
05:23Angie.
05:24Correct.
05:25You've got it in one.
05:26So what's the ring you're new for?
05:27Does he want a shopper?
05:28No, see if I've got any objections.
05:29Far from it.
05:30I'm not quite pleased.
05:31She's going to be off my patch for a few hours, eh?
05:32Means I can walk around Walford a free man.
05:34Which has bigger rolls, Gruyers or Emmental?
05:37Pass on that one, Doc.
05:39Oh, well, let's try the next.
05:41Name three of Europe's biggest producers of cheese.
05:44Dunno.
05:45Cheshire?
05:46It's quite hard, isn't it?
05:48Where's the third?
05:49Which cheese is commonly used to top pizza pies?
05:52Oh, I know that one, Doc.
05:54It's on the tip of my tongue.
05:57Oh, what's the prize, anyway?
05:59It's a luxury week for two in Las Palmas and a year's supply of free cheese, so it's
06:03well worth it.
06:04Let's try the slogan.
06:06A well-stocked larder should never be without cheese because...
06:09Because it's still quite cheap and is very good for you.
06:14Hmm.
06:15You don't really think it is, Pete, do you?
06:17No, but the old Bill obviously do.
06:19Well, that's just a formality.
06:20I mean, they had to interview him.
06:22I'm not so sure.
06:23Well, you never do know, do you, in these cases?
06:25It's always the person you'd least expect.
06:27He's always some easy-going, Jack the Lad kind of type.
06:31You don't think it is Pete, do you?
06:33No, I'm not saying that.
06:34It's just, well, you never know, do you?
06:36You can't think it's Pete.
06:38I don't.
06:39That's not what I'm saying.
06:40But I can't discount him entirely.
06:42And I've known Pete for years.
06:43So what are the law to do?
06:44Hello?
06:45Hello, Sue.
06:46Ellie.
06:47Hi.
06:48You wouldn't sell sausage and tomato-flavoured crisps by any remote chance.
06:51No, I'm afraid not.
06:52Have you tried the pub?
06:53Yeah, I just did.
06:54They're out of them.
06:55Sophie, I'm sorry, but there aren't any to be had in Warford.
06:57You'll just have to accept the fact.
06:59Tell you what, my Ellie's got to go up the cash and carry later, haven't you, Ellie?
07:02Have I?
07:03Oh, yeah.
07:04And when he's down there, I get a big fox.
07:05And then if you pop back a bit later, he'll have some for you.
07:08And you can meet my niece and nephews as well.
07:10They'll be here then.
07:11Would you like that?
07:12Yes, thank you.
07:13In the meantime, why don't we go back and have a sausage sandwich instead?
07:15Yeah.
07:16Come on.
07:17Go on, then.
07:18See you later.
07:19Thanks, Sue.
07:20Bye.
07:21What's all this about the cash and carry, eh?
07:22Well, we do need a few things, don't we?
07:23I'll tell you something.
07:24So you take flipping liberties with me?
07:25You really do.
07:26Oh, honestly, Ellie, how could you look at a little face like that and refuse it something
07:29simple like going down the cash and carry?
07:31You've got no heart.
07:32And you've got no sense.
07:33I'm not a nursemaid.
07:34I'm a businessman with a business to run.
07:36Put a cork in it.
07:37Ah, shut it yourself.
07:39All right, just a bit.
07:41Hello, darlings.
07:42Yes.
07:43I'm going to need a balaclava and dark glasses the way I'm going, aren't I?
07:46Here, Ellie, get us a cup of coffees, will you?
07:49A little bit nibbly.
07:50Thanks, Sue.
07:51Oh.
07:52Al, keep your eyes peeled for my soon-to-be ex-husband, will you?
07:56Oh.
07:57Yeah.
07:58What's the matter with him?
07:59Something I said?
08:00Don't worry about him, eh.
08:01Do you know what he's like?
08:02Male menopause, I think.
08:03Yeah, does funny things to him, doesn't it?
08:05Oh, Ellie.
08:06What?
08:07Poor me, one as well, will you?
08:08I want to sit here and have a drink with my mates.
08:11So, what brings you round here so soon?
08:14Well, as a matter of fact, I wanted to see Wilmot Brown.
08:15I've got a bit of business I want to discuss with him.
08:17Oh, you've just missed him a couple of seconds ago.
08:19He was here with his kids.
08:20So you thought she'd found herself a new bloke, didn't you, Sue?
08:22Yeah, I did.
08:23I must admit.
08:24I'm surprised you haven't.
08:25It's not like you to let the grass go under your feet, is it?
08:28Well, as a matter of fact, I have met several.
08:30Yeah, you see, I knew it.
08:31There's only one problem, though.
08:32Yeah, Den.
08:33No, I just don't fancy any of them.
08:35Funny, isn't it?
08:36As you get older, you get more fussy.
08:37I look at them now and I think, oh, yeah, I've seen it all before.
08:41Go on, amaze me.
08:43Yeah, only they don't.
08:44Right.
08:45Come on, Ange.
08:46Everybody knows you're going to get back with Den.
08:48Not this time, darling.
08:50Course you will.
08:51I mean, you and him are a pair.
08:53You think so?
08:54Well, feast your eyes on this little lot.
08:59What is it?
09:00My decree nice eye.
09:02In six weeks' time, I am going to be Dennis Watts' ex-wife.
09:15Whenever I hear a grape in the house a day –
09:16You eat numbs if you're with me!
09:17I do never mind –
09:18Well, finals, blood perbed.
09:19Yes?
09:20Come and hang along!
09:21Come and hang along!
09:42Oh, George!
09:43Are you in pain?
09:46No, I'm fine.
09:50They gave me something just before I left.
09:54It's been a lot better.
09:56Michelle and Ricky are upstairs.
09:58You're nice to make his birthday in May.
09:59We might not yet come back for it.
10:01George, look, I've only just arrived.
10:06Don't even start making plans yet, eh?
10:08Question number two.
10:10Who starred in dog day afternoon, was it?
10:12A, Victor Mature, B, Sylvester Stallone, C, Al Pacino.
10:16Don't ask me.
10:18No, I don't know either.
10:19Bang goes me Alfa Romeo and a year's supply of dog food.
10:24Can I have her orange juice, though?
10:26Well...
10:26Oh, I've forgotten where I was meant to be.
10:29I'm supposed to be over the road cleaning for Colin.
10:32Oh, and I'll put his keys.
10:34Oh, if you're wondering why I'm late,
10:37which it won't be, of course, because you're expecting Pauline,
10:39but if you're wondering why she's late,
10:41then I can tell you.
10:42I'm sorry, but you're talking to me.
10:44Yes, I was just telling you,
10:45I'm just going across to your place of keys.
10:47Only I've forgotten the keys, haven't I?
10:49Oh, you're doing the cleaning instead of Pauline, are you?
10:51Yes, just this one.
10:53And let's find these keys.
10:55Relax, Dot.
10:55Take it easy.
10:56There's no rush.
10:57Here, fancy a drop of coffee.
10:58Oh, of course.
10:59Oh, thanks goodness.
11:01So what's that, Napoleon?
11:03Oh, she said to tell you that something had turned up.
11:05And yes, I will have a cup of coffee, if you insist.
11:09You thought of everything, haven't you?
11:10Oh, well, I like to make the trip to the laundrette a bit of an occasion.
11:13It's boring here, otherwise.
11:14Oh, it's...
11:15I would have been over to your place earlier,
11:18only I met Tom.
11:19You know what it's like.
11:20Oh, you and Tom stepping out, are you?
11:23Well, you might not believe me to look at my husband,
11:26but I do tend to set my sights just a little bit higher, Barry.
11:30Besides, I'm a married woman.
11:32Who are you?
11:32Yes, it's a cross I have to bear.
11:35I mean, I'll get all of the drawbacks and none of the perks, don't I?
11:38Oh, well, never mind.
11:40Yeah, it's the dryness, the real boy.
11:42Takes ages, doesn't it?
11:43Oh, well, that won't take long.
11:44You ain't got much in.
11:45Ah, just the sheets.
11:47But they've got to be really, really dry.
11:49Silly, really.
11:51All that money Colin's got,
11:52and he's only got one pair of sheets.
11:53So we have to go through this nonsense every week,
11:56making sure the sheets are bone dry
11:57for putting them back on the bed.
11:59I say, he's only got one pair of sheets?
12:02What about you?
12:03How many pairs have you got?
12:04Me? None.
12:05I just share collars.
12:06Oh, one pair of sheets between the two of you?
12:09Well, what do you do?
12:10I mean, you have one sheet
12:11and you kind of double it over.
12:14Is that it?
12:14No, I mean, we sleep in the sheets,
12:17we wash them,
12:18we put them back on the bed all in the same day.
12:19Are you trying to tell me
12:23that you and Colin sleep in the same sheets
12:25at the same time
12:28in the same bed?
12:30There's no law against it, is there?
12:32At least not after next week.
12:33It's when I come of age.
12:35Oh, Barry.
12:36What about God's law?
12:38Eh?
12:39Well, forgive me if I'm misunderstanding you,
12:42but are you trying to tell me
12:44that you and Colin are homosexuals?
12:48Well, sure, didn't you know?
12:49Yeah, I certainly did not.
12:51I mean, I thought you was just friends.
12:53You know, flatmates.
12:54Yeah, well, we are.
12:56Yes, but...
12:57I mean, forgive me if I'm wrong,
12:59but you're telling me
13:00that you and Colin are involved...
13:02you know.
13:05Right?
13:05Oh, I'm sorry, Barry,
13:08but I'll have to give you your keys back.
13:10I mean, I couldn't clean your flat
13:12because it'd be tantamount
13:13to condoning it, wouldn't it?
13:14Not to mention the fact
13:15that the pair of you
13:16might well have AIDS.
13:18Oh, my goodness.
13:19I drank a cup of coffee
13:20out of your flask.
13:21Oh, God, don't be so ridiculous.
13:23It's me you're talking to Barry, right?
13:24No, no, I'm sorry,
13:25but I have quite strong views
13:26on that sort of caper.
13:28I mean, it is termed the sin
13:29and crying out to heaven
13:30for vengeance, isn't it?
13:31I don't know, Doc.
13:32You're the expert.
13:33You tell me.
13:33And now God's finally got fed up
13:35and he sent this dreadful plague
13:37down on you all
13:38and you still won't learn, will you?
13:40Oh, hang on.
13:40Are you trying to tell me
13:41that AIDS is God's punishment
13:42for being gay?
13:43Well, of course it is.
13:44What else could it be?
13:45Well, how come the only people
13:46almost guaranteed
13:46not to get it are lesbians?
13:48Oh, I don't know about them.
13:50Anyway, I expect God's got
13:51something else up his sleeve for them.
13:52Anyway, I'll bet be off.
13:53Here's your keys.
13:57Oh, oh, Dr. Ned,
13:59the very person I need.
14:01Are you busy?
14:02Marvellous things, Zeeze.
14:03Look.
14:04Yes, yes, lovely.
14:05Did you get it for Christmas?
14:06No, I'm worried if I'm a patient.
14:08I want to get a memento
14:09of the square as it is.
14:10I see.
14:11Dr. Dag, I know you're not
14:12strictly speaking on duty,
14:14but could I ask you something?
14:15Would it be possible
14:16for me to have that test
14:17for, you know, AIDS?
14:20Good Lord, Dot.
14:21You're allowing yourself
14:22to be panicked
14:22by what you read
14:23in the news page.
14:23Yes, well, could you
14:24give me the test anyway?
14:26Don't be silly, Dot.
14:27What's got into you?
14:28Well, that is exactly
14:29what worries me
14:29because, you see,
14:30I've just been having coffee
14:31with Barry and the laundrette,
14:33and it turns out
14:34that he and Colin,
14:35you know what?
14:36But neither of them
14:37have AIDS, do they?
14:38Well, not as far as we know.
14:40Well, then you are being silly.
14:41Look, stand over there
14:42a sec, will you?
14:44Go on, back a bit further.
14:46Now, smile.
14:47Dr. Legg,
14:48I don't think
14:48you're taking this seriously.
14:50All right, Dot.
14:52Sorry, just let me
14:53put your mind at rest.
14:54You can only catch AIDS
14:56through sexual contact,
14:58a blood transfusion,
14:59or, and I don't think
15:00this will affect you,
15:02sharing a serene
15:02with someone who has it.
15:04Oh, none of that lot
15:05affects me.
15:06Well, you can't catch it
15:07from coffee cups
15:08or shaking hands
15:09or just being
15:09in the same room as anyone.
15:11What about service washes?
15:12Dot, what did I just tell you?
15:14Catch it directly
15:14from blood
15:15or sexual contact.
15:16Of course,
15:18if it really worries you,
15:19you can put your mind
15:20at rest by making
15:21any sexual pardon
15:22as a condom.
15:23Oh, well, yeah, thank you.
15:24Well, I was too off.
15:25I think I'm getting
15:25one of me ever.
15:27Hey, hey, hey,
15:27don't go without this.
15:28What is it, a pill
15:29to see me through
15:30this horrible world
15:30we live in?
15:31No, Dot, it's your photo.
15:33There's no charge.
15:37You know, you saved my bacon.
15:39I didn't fancy
15:39staying much longer
15:40at Sonny and Lee's.
15:42Well, when the Dagmar's
15:43refurbished,
15:43I can't think of anyone
15:44I'd rather have working there.
15:45You'd be ideal.
15:46Fingers crossed, eh?
15:47Yeah, I absolutely
15:47have to make the place work.
15:49Have to.
15:49That's why I'm toying
15:50with the notion of a restaurant.
15:52It's any way I can see
15:52to make some money
15:53and pay off my bank, that.
15:54Yeah, money.
15:55It's a curse, innit?
15:56Yeah, it sure is.
15:57And now I don't have
15:58the brewery car anymore.
15:59I have to buy one of my own.
16:00Well, what's this then?
16:01Scotch mist or English fog?
16:02Oh, that's hired
16:03for the weekend.
16:04Just to ferry the kids about it.
16:05Talking for them,
16:06I really ought to go
16:06and look for them.
16:07I'd pack them off
16:08to the cafe
16:08and thought they'd be home by now.
16:10They liking it, Ian?
16:11Well, it's a bit early
16:12to say, really.
16:14I hope they make
16:14a few friends around here, though.
16:16I don't want it to be
16:17a duty for them
16:18coming to see me.
16:19I want them to enjoy themselves.
16:22It's difficult, isn't it,
16:22when they're divorced?
16:23Kids can get so confused.
16:25Yeah, not just the kids, either.
16:27Yes, I know.
16:28I worry about Luke and Sophie,
16:30though.
16:30Hyde's likely to affect them.
16:31They're both a bit shy, really.
16:33Maybe my ex-wife
16:34and I were a bit overprotective,
16:36but what can you do?
16:36They're rather sensitive.
16:39I'd better go and collect them.
16:40I'm walking that way.
16:41I'll come with you, if you like.
16:44You cut it out.
16:46Not instantly, honestly.
16:48Luke and Sophie,
16:49I'm surprised at you.
16:50When you first came here,
16:51I thought butter wouldn't melt.
16:54You answer me,
16:56yes or no.
16:57Are you a PLP?
17:00All right, then, yes.
17:01I'll show you a public
17:02leaning post, are you?
17:04Come on, let's all lean on it.
17:06Alex!
17:07Alex!
17:08Get out of here!
17:09Oh, Sophie,
17:10where are your manners?
17:12Oh, you've certainly
17:13got the knack, have you?
17:14I didn't spend all those years
17:15in the army without learning
17:16how to deal with a rabble like this.
17:17What a way to behave.
17:19What will people think of you?
17:20My lot, you know,
17:21they're just as bad.
17:21In fact, my lot started it.
17:23Honestly, haven't you,
17:24what have you done
17:24with all those ballgames
17:25you had out there?
17:26Why can't you play something quietly?
17:28Like snakes and ladders
17:29or something?
17:30Emily, go and have a look
17:31what you've got out there.
17:33Listen, Sue,
17:34I'm not stopping.
17:34I'm just popping to the hospital
17:35to see if Pat needs anything.
17:36when she comes out.
17:37Oh, right, she's coming out.
17:38How's she doing?
17:39Well, much as you'd expect,
17:40she's none too brilliant.
17:41For a start,
17:42she's a bag of nerves
17:43and her earring's been affected
17:44and her memory's gone.
17:45She's getting a little survey.
17:46Okay.
17:47Listen, tell her
17:48I was asking after her, will you?
17:49I'll pop in later
17:50when you know about it.
17:50All right, darling.
17:52Oh!
17:53Oh, Emily,
17:54put that thing away at once.
17:56But you said snakes and ladders.
17:58That makes me feel quite ill.
18:00No worrying.
18:01What, a little snake like that?
18:03After all the years
18:03I spent married to one.
18:05No.
18:06I'll see you.
18:06Bye-bye, Angie.
18:07Right, Luke, Sophie, home.
18:09Thanks so much
18:09for putting up with them, Sue.
18:10They must have been driving you mad.
18:11I'm mad already.
18:12I must be to stay here, mustn't I?
18:14Now, listen, Luke and Sophie,
18:15you've been a pleasure.
18:17No trouble at all.
18:18Any time you're at your daddy's,
18:19you pop in again to see me.
18:20All right?
18:21All right, now.
18:22Thank you so much for being so kind, too.
18:23Goodbye.
18:23It's all right.
18:23Thanks very much.
18:24Say goodbye nicely.
18:25Bye!
18:26Bye!
18:27So, it's going to be
18:29all around the area now, is it?
18:30Oh, so what?
18:31So what?
18:32I mean, you really don't mind
18:33all the hostility,
18:34all the new ending.
18:34No, because it won't be like that.
18:36I'd hate to be you sometimes.
18:37You can be so paranoid.
18:38Yeah, well, I'm older than you.
18:39Yeah, you can be paranoid
18:40about that and all.
18:41Listen, I've actually
18:42more experience of life.
18:43I know how unpleasant
18:44people can be.
18:45Oh, you don't know nothing.
18:46You've lived nice and safe
18:47in your ivory tower
18:48all your life.
18:49Should I say
18:50an ivory closet?
18:51That was uncalled for.
18:53Yeah, no, I'm sorry.
18:56All right, well,
18:57watch up to this afternoon.
18:59I thought we might go up west,
19:00get a few clothes.
19:01No, I can't.
19:01Sorry.
19:02Oh, other arrangements?
19:04Yeah, I'm meeting Trevor.
19:05He rang this morning.
19:06Trevor?
19:07Who might Trevor be?
19:07Well, you don't know him.
19:08No, I don't seem to know
19:10most of the people
19:10you're going off with these days.
19:11Yeah, well, he's hardly your type.
19:12I can't see you and Trevor
19:13hitting it off.
19:14Oh, but he's your type, is he,
19:15this Trevor?
19:15I beg your pardon, Colin.
19:16Well, it seems to me
19:17that every time one of these
19:18Trevor's, Steve's, Lenny's
19:19ring-up, you just can't
19:20wait to drop everything
19:21and rush off to be with them.
19:22People I haven't even heard of,
19:23let alone met.
19:24Yeah, well, they're me mates.
19:26And what am I, Barry?
19:27Well, you're you.
19:28You're special.
19:28You're Colin.
19:32See you again.
19:33Yeah, bye.
19:37Go away, we're shut.
19:38Wixie, tell them if they're that desperate
19:42for a drink, go to Neyman's next door.
19:49Hello, Dad.
19:49Oh.
19:51I didn't think you were talking to me.
19:54Well, we'd best go upstairs,
19:55wouldn't we?
20:01Hello, Sue.
20:01You seen Sharon?
20:03That's Fanny.
20:04She said she was meeting Michelle in here.
20:06Oh, well, if you see her,
20:06tell her I'm looking for her, all right?
20:08Listen, she haven't got
20:09a few seconds, have you?
20:10Yeah, well, what's the matter?
20:11Something wrong?
20:15Is everything okay with you?
20:16Mm-hmm.
20:18You short of cash or anything?
20:20No, I'm all right for money.
20:22Yeah, well, if there's anything you need,
20:23don't forget I'm here.
20:24I know.
20:25And how's Madam Butterfly?
20:28If you mean, Mum, Dad, she's all right.
20:29And I wish you wouldn't talk about her like that.
20:32Yeah, I'm sorry, Princess,
20:33just I was married to her for 19 years,
20:35so you've got to make allowances.
20:36Yeah, I've got to make allowances.
20:39I spent my whole life making allowances for you two.
20:42Try to understand, Sharon, your mum needs help.
20:44Be mature about this, Sharon.
20:45It's not easy for your dad either.
20:47Well, what I want to know is
20:48when someone's going to start making allowances for me.
20:50What about me, eh?
20:52Yeah, I'm sorry, I'm sorry.
20:54So am I.
20:54It had to be said, though.
20:56Tell me what we're doing, I'll do it.
20:58If I knew, I'd tell you.
21:00But I don't.
21:02Yeah, well, maybe we ought to have talked more before.
21:05Trouble is, I'm not the sort of person
21:06to say what he feels.
21:09Maybe if we talk now, we could get it sorted all out?
21:12Maybe.
21:13Anyway, at least I'm getting myself sorted out.
21:16I'd rather I'm getting help.
21:17You're not going to a shrink, are you?
21:18No.
21:19Al-Anon, rather Al-Ateen.
21:21Hey?
21:22I phoned him because I was trying to get help for Mum.
21:25And the person I spoke to
21:26reckon maybe I could do with some help and all.
21:28But she ain't got a drink problem.
21:30No.
21:30I don't think I'm ever likely to either.
21:33Anyway, this woman from Al-Ateen,
21:35she said that it's the kids of drinkers
21:37or kids from Mr Poems
21:38are the ones who are going to suffer later in life.
21:41So they gave me a number of this girl who's already there.
21:44I spoke to her the other day.
21:45She's taking me to my first meeting next week.
21:47Well, I don't understand all this.
21:49I know Al-Anon likes her drink,
21:50but I wouldn't have said she was an alcoholic.
21:51Dad, I'm not doing it for Mum.
21:53I'm doing it for me.
21:55Oh, I don't know how to say this.
21:56Oh, come on, say it.
21:57And I'll do my best to listen to you.
21:59It's only recently dawned on me, right,
22:04how much I've been affected.
22:06When I was at school,
22:07the other girls, they used to talk about their families.
22:10And I felt like some kind of freak
22:12cos my own life was so different.
22:14And it made me feel guilty, I don't know why.
22:17As if somehow it was all my fault.
22:20So I told lies.
22:22Pointless ones normally,
22:23but I just couldn't stop doing it.
22:24Anyway, this girl from Alateen,
22:27she said that that sort of thing's just par for the course.
22:29They all go through it one way or another.
22:35Oh, come on, now you're making me feel guilty.
22:38Dad, if you start feeling guilt,
22:40it's going to make it harder for us to talk, innit?
22:42Yeah, I'm sorry, I'm sorry.
22:46Look.
22:49Whatever's gone on between your Mum and I,
22:50it's never affected how I felt about you and never will.
22:52I care about you more than I cared about anything
22:55or anyone in this world.
22:57And if anyone did anything to mess you
22:59or hurt you, I'd kill them.
23:01Thanks, Dad.
23:02But I don't think that'll be necessary.
23:04No, she's not, no.
23:06Look, it's a rough old world out there, right,
23:08full of rough old people.
23:11Which reminds me.
23:13Wixie.
23:14What about him?
23:16What's going on with you two?
23:17Nothing.
23:18Nothing?
23:19We go out together sometimes, Dad.
23:21Only sometimes?
23:23Well, quite a lot, I suppose.
23:24Why?
23:25You're too good for him.
23:27You've got brains, you've got looks
23:28and you've got an education.
23:29You can do better on him.
23:30What's wrong with him, Dad?
23:31I don't know.
23:31I can't put my finger on it
23:33with something about him I don't trust.
23:34He's a little bit too much Jack the Lab for my liking.
23:37I've got no complaints about him as a barman.
23:39It's just that I can't work out
23:40what's going on inside his head.
23:41Dad, it's no big deal.
23:43We'll just have a bit of a laugh together, that's all.
23:45You promised me.
23:46Anyway, I know what it is I don't like about him.
23:51Oh, well, tell me what.
23:53He's a bit too much like me for my liking.
23:55Well, not a lot I can say to that, is there?
23:57Look, it's no good worrying, is it?
24:01Go and get it seen to.
24:03It's not just my imagination, though, is it?
24:05I mean, you could feel something there too.
24:07Well, I'm no doctor, am I?
24:09But, yeah, there does seem to be a sort of...
24:11A lump.
24:12Yeah.
24:13This had to happen.
24:14Look, don't panic.
24:16It's probably just a small cyst.
24:18Mastitis, they call it.
24:19Go and see the doctor Monday.
24:21It's cancer.
24:22It's breast cancer.
24:23I know it is.
24:24Oh, Sue, don't be silly.
24:25You talk like that.
24:26You make yourself ill.
24:27Why me?
24:28Why has it got to happen to me?
24:32What's going on, eh?
24:33Why's the clothes sign up this time of day?
24:35Oh, there was a drunk hanging about outside.
24:37He was making a bit of a nuisance of himself,
24:39so he put the clothes sign up till he went away.
24:41Yeah, we must have forgotten to turn it back round the other way.
24:43Must have been.
24:44Sorry.
24:44Well, there's no way to run a business.
24:45That's all I can say.
24:48Listen, you won't tell Caff or Sharon or anyone about it, will you?
24:51Cross my heart, but you promise me you're going to get it seen to.
24:54Of course.
24:55I promise.
24:56I swear.
24:57Well, you're two whispering of her, eh?
24:58Me, I suppose.
25:00Yeah, that's right, Al.
25:02What else would two women be talking about with you around?
25:04They're sick, don't they, sometimes?
25:06Don't they just?
25:07Then, what do you mean about not living here?
25:18She's a good little girl, you're Michelle.
25:21She'll look after you when I'm gone.
25:22I wish you wouldn't keep talking about it.
25:25I've got to.
25:26George, it's the truth.
25:29I'm not going to live very much longer.
25:33You've got to face that.
25:34If you can accept that now, it'll be easier on you when my time comes.
25:42Oh, no.
25:43After all, I mean, everyone's got to die one day.
25:47I want it to be easy on you.
25:52Now, I don't laugh, but I've left written instructions as to what sort of funeral I want.
26:01Uh, who's to get what?
26:03How many cars?
26:04I think I'm sorry.
26:05Look, I know it sounds morbid, but it's only common sense.
26:09There's just one silly little thing.
26:12I want lots of flowers.
26:14I mean, I know it's extravagant and there's no point in it, really, but...
26:19Promise me, you'll see I get at least a few nice floral tributes.
26:22Don't, honey, Irene. You're not going to die. I know you're not.
26:26George, don't live in the past.
26:30Look, you've got a nice little family of your own now,
26:34and it's them you've got to think about, not me.
26:37And I mean, like you do.
26:40George, please.
26:44You've got to let me go.
26:48Look, I'm tired of being sick.
26:54I'm tired of being in pain and of having to ask other people to do everything for me.
27:04Anyway, look, I'm old.
27:07I've had my time on earth.
27:09I've no regrets about what's happening.
27:12There's loads of things I've never told you.
27:15I know you love you.
27:16I met Vicky. I wanted her to know you.
27:20I said no.
27:22But...
27:23I'll be watching over her.
27:28Do you promise?
27:30Believe me.
27:33I'll be there all the time now, won't I?
27:37To watch over all of you.
27:38So, so nothing's really going to change, is it?
27:43We visit the firefighters at Blackwall Fire Station in London's Burning, next, here on Drama.
28:13I'll be there all the time now.
28:44But...
28:44Want...
28:45So, if you're on aibo shit, grab me?
28:46Try it anyway, do you guys in Helena?
28:47I'll be there all the time.
28:48Do you want to know your way?
28:50Let's think of it.
28:57hopelessness...
28:59easily
29:01OLD
29:05I love you.
29:08I say I'm gone to won't I?
29:10So, I'll be there now.
29:11I'm a little bit...
29:11I'll be right back.
29:12I'll be there now,xter.
29:13You're vérité, Texas.
29:13Be fair.
29:13I'll see you next time.
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