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The aftermath of Donna Ludlow's fatal drug overdose and Dot and Kathy's remorse over her death. Please note this is only uploaded for people to enjoy. All copyright belongs to the BBC and no offence is meant by this upload.
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00:30hey what'd you say to an early night makes a change for us to have the place to ourselves
00:41hey girl blimey yeah i don't want any funny remarks from you thank you very much i don't
00:45know here we all are you me shell the littlands all the fowlers she's a hollow way yeah well
00:50she'll be a fowler again when her divorce comes through and to cap it all we've just been handed
00:54more money than i've ever seen in my life for the upkeep of our granddaughter and what's my beloved
00:59wife doing sitting there with a face like doom reading the bible i'll make some tea i was only
01:05doing what mum used to do when there was a problem what's the problem the money that's not a problem
01:10that's the solution oh no i've been thinking it over it's not right the money left to go back
01:17he did leave it for sharon then what seduce my daughter it's the 1980s arthur michelle had
01:25quite a bit to do with it and all you know he took advantage she was a child anyway we've got
01:29to think of vicky's future yeah i suppose you look if i'd have known about it and all right i'm not
01:34going through all that again but if i had it done i'd have made her take him to court then he'd have
01:38had to fork out there and then for vicky's upbringing and it had been a lot more than what we got i want
01:43to see michelle settled i want to see vicky provided for and i want to see a smile on your face
01:48the clouds are lifting pauline it's our time at last time for each other so why are you sitting
01:54here reading mum's old bible dot cotton been on at you i was trying to tell you before when there was
02:01a problem mum always used to get the bible right close her eyes and then open it like that and stick
02:08a pin in and she swore that wherever the pin went was the answer to the problem so what's it say
02:14terror beget abram and neha and harran and harran beget lot oh there you are then all that begetting
02:25that only proves the money is vicky's the children shall inherit the earth right
02:32who cares it's always like that round here now are you coming to bid or are we going to have a cup of tea
02:44well be careful with her isn't there is she it's just the remains oh i gotta keep telling myself oh
02:54dr leg where's the dignity i mean you've got to have some dignity i never thought they'd get
02:58shove her in a plastic bag oh i can't forget how terrible she looked come on doc no i'm all right
03:08they'll tidy her up won't they when they get her down the mortuary i mean they won't let her mother
03:11see her like that you come inside and i'll give you a sedative no i don't want no pills no i want
03:15to stay away don't make sense you think i'm just a silly old woman don't you no i've got more respect
03:23than that doc yeah well then don't you give me no drugs and i think they turned a lively young girl
03:28like donna into a piece of meat in a plastic bag i'm gonna go straight upstairs i'm gonna throw my
03:35pills in my bathroom cabinet down the lab somehow i gotta make some sense out of this
03:49oh
03:55oh
04:03oh
04:05oh
04:07oh
04:09oh
04:11Yeah, yeah, yeah, yeah.
04:24Hi, Pat, is Cy there?
04:27Oh.
04:30Hi.
04:31Listen, Cy, I'm sorry to bother you when you're working.
04:35I know this sounds a bit feeble, but you know you said to me
04:39if there was anything I wanted you to do, I only had to ask.
04:42Well, when it's convenient, I'd be really grateful
04:45if you'd go through my dad's things with me.
04:48Staring at this case all blasted evening, I feel such a fool.
04:52You will?
04:54Oh, thanks.
04:57What?
05:00I don't believe it.
05:03Well, should we go over and...
05:06No.
05:08No, I never had a thing.
05:10I'll call into the surgery tomorrow to do the necessary,
05:12and we can interview Mrs Cotton tomorrow.
05:14No point upsetting her further.
05:16It's all perfectly routine.
05:18They'll know more when they've done the post-mortem.
05:21Well, it's a nasty way to go, though, isn't it?
05:23Choking on your own vomit.
05:25They should show that on the anti-drugs posters.
05:28Put the nation off its collective breakfast.
05:30I just can't believe how common this is becoming.
05:32Yeah, three times this month.
05:33It's becoming everyday routine.
05:35Still, you know all about that, don't you, Dr. Legg?
05:39Right, I'll see you tomorrow, then.
05:40Good night.
05:41Good night.
05:42If only I'd seen her yesterday, you see it might...
05:44It's the worst of it that gets me.
05:46A young girl to throw away a life like that, just like that.
05:49When there's patients like Margot Barnes,
05:51who's enduring chemotherapy,
05:53fighting cancer every step of the way...
05:55I don't see what that's got to do with it.
05:56What's the matter with you?
05:58I just hope you're satisfied with yourself.
06:00This is what you're telling the police themselves to get a policy has led to.
06:02Why, what?
06:03This is totally uncalled for, David.
06:04I'm sorry, but that is what I feel.
06:06You feel a damn sight too much, boy.
06:08It's time you started to think.
06:09Yeah, we'll talk tomorrow when I calm down.
06:12That's a cool thing.
06:13David?
06:13David?
06:25I don't know.
06:55The Lord's my shepherd.
07:23I shall not want.
07:27I've got to do something about my profit margin.
07:29I'm completely wiped out.
07:30For what?
07:31Oh, they say seafood's very good for perking you up,
07:33if you know what I mean.
07:34Muscles and that.
07:35Mind you, I haven't touched them
07:36since I had some dodgy ones at South End
07:38and threw up for two days.
07:39Yeah, I'm going to have to go for my costings and my menus.
07:40I'm going to have to find somewhere to cut down.
07:42Ian, this is me.
07:43Cindy, you intended.
07:44I need a bit of attention, all right?
07:46Otherwise, your overheads aren't the only things
07:47that are going to find themselves cut down.
07:49What?
07:49It's me, Doc.
08:04Dr. Legg.
08:05Hello, Doc.
08:09He's still up, I see.
08:12I just came to check that you're all right.
08:15I'm in the presence of me saviour, Dr. Legg.
08:19He won't let me down.
08:22You see,
08:23I've got to make some sense out of this.
08:27You know what, love?
08:28We're going to make it.
08:30It's going to be the eye life for us
08:31while the likes of Wixie
08:32are still mopping up bar counters.
08:33All right, all right.
08:34I get the message.
08:36Now, do you think we could talk about
08:37something a bit more interesting?
08:38Like the colour of my eyes?
08:40I bought this new perfume.
08:41It's supposed to send men world.
08:42I'm thinking of sending it back, actually.
08:47Who's that?
08:47It's a bit late, though, isn't it?
08:53Hi, Mum.
08:54Hi.
08:54I just have to come round.
08:55I'm sorry if I'm okay.
08:57I didn't mean to.
08:59You mean you haven't heard?
09:00What?
09:02It's Donna.
09:04She's dead.
09:05She's taken an overdose.
09:07She's dead.
09:13Thanks, Mo.
09:14It's good of you to lend a hand.
09:15What a night, eh?
09:16Well, I could flatten that son of mine
09:18if he wasn't flattened already.
09:19Aren't you trying to get out of bed?
09:21Set him back another week at least.
09:23You can't blame him.
09:23When he heard the sirens,
09:24he was bound to want to know what was going on.
09:25Yeah, he probably thought it was him
09:26they was coming for.
09:27If I'd have sold half of them old bangers,
09:29I wouldn't know.
09:29What's your lip, you?
09:30Oh, hey, is that all the thanks I get?
09:32And then he put me home back out
09:33trying to lift him, you know?
09:33I'm done in.
09:34Thank God I can have my own room back tonight.
09:37Oh, yeah, I'll be meaning to talk to you
09:38about that, Simon.
09:39You can for the time being,
09:40but I'm going to put an advert in
09:41for B&B in the window tomorrow.
09:42If I get a taker, well,
09:43you'll have to move out.
09:44Mum, I don't know I'm moving out
09:45for Cathy's sake,
09:46but this is taking a biscuit, innit?
09:47It's my room.
09:48I work here.
09:48I'm entitled to it, innit?
09:49Nobody's entitled to nothing.
09:51There's a spare bed in Ricky's room.
09:53You get your meals for nothing.
09:54Most bar staff live out these days.
09:57Anyway, it's a business I'm running here,
09:58and the few extra coffers
09:59I get from B&B will come in very handy.
10:01Don't no one think about
10:02nothing but money around here?
10:03Can't do much without it.
10:04Don, I just died tonight.
10:06Yeah, I'm sorry, Simon.
10:07I've had a mind-up.
10:08Good night.
10:11I ain't been so hard on him, Mo,
10:13but he's got to find a purpose in life.
10:15Kids who don't have that,
10:16well, look what can happen to them.
10:18Tonight's really shook me up, eh.
10:19Simon wouldn't take drugs.
10:20He ain't the type.
10:21What is the type?
10:22I met Dom's parents once.
10:24Nice, respectable couple.
10:26Seemed very concerned about her.
10:27Didn't seem sure it would be Bob or two.
10:28It surprised me.
10:29From what I saw her,
10:30I thought she was a right little tramp.
10:32But you have got a point there.
10:34You've got our Ricky and Diane
10:35to think about.
10:36Yeah, we've got to do something
10:36about Ricky, that's for sure.
10:38He ain't a bad kid,
10:39but they're all a bit wild at that age.
10:41His father certainly was.
10:42And don't try and tell me
10:43you was little Miss Spotless Jaws
10:45because I'd fall about laughing.
10:46I can remember exactly
10:47what I was like.
10:47That's what worries me.
10:49Now, I've got to find a way
10:50of making Ricky do his own work
10:51and come in at a reasonable hour.
10:53Well, Diane's more manageable.
10:54It's probably because
10:55she ain't met some bloke
10:55she's gone loony over yet.
10:56I'll worry about her later.
10:58There's three ways.
10:59There's example,
11:00there's bribery,
11:00and there's giving them
11:01a good hiding.
11:02Well, you and Frank
11:03would certainly fail
11:03on the first one.
11:04Thanks.
11:05And giving them a good hiding
11:06is no good
11:06when they're big enough
11:07to hit your back,
11:08so that only leaves bribery.
11:10Oh, I'll be over early
11:11in the morning.
11:12I've got a bit of tongue
11:13in soap.
11:14I think it should be ready
11:15by now.
11:15Oh, thanks, Mo.
11:17Oh, Doc,
11:18I saw your light was on,
11:19so I wondered
11:20if I might have used
11:21your phone,
11:21because I don't like
11:22to go to the call box,
11:23you know,
11:23not with all them muggers about.
11:25Yeah, of course, Doc.
11:26Listen,
11:26why don't you use
11:27the private phone?
11:28Are you all right, love?
11:29We was wondering
11:30whether we should come over,
11:30but we thought maybe
11:31the doctors would have
11:32given you something.
11:32I'm full control.
11:39Look, I'll tell you what, Doc,
11:40I'll make you a cup of tea.
11:41It's no trouble.
11:42No.
11:43No, no tea.
11:45I won't take up
11:46much of your time.
11:49I'll leave the money
11:50on the table,
11:52because it's a long-distance call.
11:54No, Doc,
11:54we wouldn't dream of it.
11:55It's all right.
12:06Rose?
12:08Stop.
12:10Doc Cotton, of course,
12:11who do you think?
12:13I want to speak to Charlie.
12:15Look, just you get him to the phone.
12:18It's a matter of life and death.
12:23Charlie?
12:24Yes, I do know what time it is.
12:27There's no need to shut.
12:30Look, I wouldn't ring you
12:31if it weren't urgent.
12:32I've just had a terrible shock,
12:33and it's made me realize...
12:35Look, just shut up
12:36and listen, Charlie.
12:37We've got to get together
12:38and do something about our nick
12:40before it's too late.
12:42No, I ain't gone back.
12:43I mean, Charlie!
12:45Look, Donna meant nothing to you.
12:47You could have done nothing
12:48to keep her at your age.
12:49She was lucky, Kat.
12:51She got adopted
12:51by decent, caring people.
12:53I mean, you met them,
12:54you saw them.
12:55She had her chances,
12:56but she wanted to come here
12:57and make trouble.
12:57She had bad blood in her.
12:58I don't believe in bad blood.
13:00How could I with some of it's mine?
13:01Kat, now stop it!
13:03You ain't doing yourself any good.
13:05I haven't said a kind word
13:06to her in months,
13:07so if I had...
13:08Look, Donna died of drugs
13:09in spite of everybody around here
13:10doing what they could do
13:11to help her.
13:11I didn't do nothing to help her.
13:12Why should you?
13:14With all the trouble she's caused.
13:15You've got nothing to your plate
13:16without trial coming up and all.
13:18I got the letter today
13:19with a date
13:20and hardly seems to matter anymore.
13:23You sure you don't want me
13:24to walk over with you, Mo?
13:25Yeah, I've got Rowley
13:26and we whistle
13:26or I'll go and visit
13:28that poor woman tomorrow,
13:29take her a bit of stew
13:30and pay him respects for Hopkins.
13:32What for?
13:32I know she's had a shot,
13:34but it's not as if Donna
13:34was a relative.
13:35When there's been a death
13:36in the house,
13:37you always visit the bereaved.
13:39It's a tradition.
13:40Well, that's the way
13:40I was brought up.
13:41I don't know about you.
13:43Come on, Rob.
13:54Who is it?
13:55Kathy.
13:56I saw your life was on
14:01and I'd just like to come and see you.
14:04If you'd drive and be on your own,
14:05I'll go.
14:06No, no, please sit down.
14:07I'd be glad of the company.
14:10Shows respect.
14:11I mean, I could hardly go to the mortuary,
14:14you know,
14:14it would have been an intrusion.
14:16So I decided to stay up all night.
14:20I lit some candles for her
14:22because I thought it seemed
14:24the right thing to do.
14:25I was reading about Elisha
14:30giving the Schumer knight's son
14:32the kiss of life.
14:33It's funny, that.
14:36It's just where I opened it.
14:38Sorry?
14:38I'm Mount Carmel.
14:42That lot of you she was.
14:43All she did was call the doctors.
14:44I could have done that myself.
14:46Now, if she'd come round here
14:47like she promised.
14:48And he went and he stretched himself
14:52upon the child
14:53and he put his mouth on his mouth
14:56and he put his eyes on his eyes
14:58and his hands on his hands
14:59and he stretched himself out on the child
15:02and the flesh of the child waxed warm.
15:05I would have done that, Cass.
15:08But it was too late.
15:10She'd been gone too long
15:12when I found her.
15:14Was it very bad, Doc?
15:16Oh, yes.
15:18That's why I've got to find some meaning.
15:20I mean, why should a young girl like that
15:22take stuff that's going to kill her?
15:25I might try to look after her, Cass.
15:27Maybe I'd done wrong.
15:29Like I'd done with me own boy.
15:30I didn't mean to spoil him, either.
15:32You were really good to adopt.
15:34You're the only one out of all of us who was.
15:35Yeah, but it didn't seem to be kindness.
15:37It was needed, does it?
15:39I mean, if I hadn't taken her in
15:40she might have had to do something for herself.
15:42I mean, you've got to go to the bottom of the pit
15:44before you can start to climb up, ain't she?
15:46I mean, all I did was help her get the money
15:49to buy that filthy stuff.
15:50I mean, she could have gone home to her parents.
15:53How can you think it was your fault?
15:54Well, we're all responsible for each other, Cass.
15:57I mean, I know people think I'm a nosy old busybody
15:59but I've always been aware of that.
16:00If anyone should have helped on her, it was me.
16:03And I turned her away.
16:07She was my daughter, Dot.
16:09I gave birth to her.
16:13I was only a kid myself at the time.
16:17And I'd her adopted.
16:19There were other reasons and all.
16:23Every time I looked at her
16:25it reminded me of what happened all those years ago.
16:29I thought I was doing the right thing,
16:32putting me own family first.
16:34It seemed so much clearer then.
16:38Now look at me.
16:40I'm alone, aren't I?
16:43I ain't got a family anymore.
16:46And Donna's dead.
16:47I don't see you in the wine bar with a lot of clothes.
16:58And I thought to myself, I thought, that's funny.
17:01And then tonight she said,
17:05well, I don't see that changes anything, Cass.
17:11I mean, she was what she was.
17:15I mean, you'd have had to be a saint.
17:17Take her into your home.
17:19I did try, Dot.
17:20But I'd always feel myself going all cold inside.
17:25I couldn't help it.
17:27I'd have been kinder to her stranger than I was to her.
17:29Yeah, well, you're no more at fault than the rest of us.
17:32In my opinion, it was Rod what left, you know,
17:35that was the last straw.
17:36You know, going off with them girls
17:38just when she was starting to trust him.
17:39But, I mean, that's men all over, ain't it?
17:41Still, it's the mum and dad that brought her up
17:47we've got to think about.
17:50Oh, I dread to think of what they're going through.
17:53I think it's terrible what's happened
17:55to the young people around here.
17:56All kinds of evil preying on them.
17:59Drug pushes and pimps.
18:00No struts to their lives.
18:02No guidance from their parents.
18:04Such a young girl.
18:05It's tragic.
18:06Tragic.
18:07Yes, it is.
18:08Look, I am sorry.
18:09I'm in a rush.
18:09It's clinic today.
18:10It's 2.78, please.
18:12I worry about Sir Hale.
18:13Shireen, we keep a constant check on.
18:15How can I tell if he's experimenting with drugs?
18:17I shouldn't think that's very likely
18:18but there are signs that you can check for.
18:20I've got some leaflets at the surgery.
18:21I can drop them around for you later.
18:22Thanks a lot.
18:23No, you can't!
18:24You've had enough to last you a week.
18:26What are you so snappy for?
18:28You haven't even been arguing again?
18:29You must be equally worried about young Junior.
18:31You never know what they'll get up to
18:33when they're not supervised.
18:34But then you work long hours, don't you?
18:36I'm not going to his shop again.
18:38He moans all the time.
18:39No, he doesn't.
18:40Now, will you be quiet?
18:42Goodbye.
18:42Thanks.
18:44I'm really tired of you staring at it.
18:47Well, he talks to me like he understands about my dad.
18:49And word don't.
18:51Don't want to be his friend.
18:53Look, if I get you a key cut,
18:55will you do as I ask just for today?
18:57And then you can come home straight after school.
18:59You try to be nice to Matthew.
19:01He's an only child.
19:02He doesn't know how to look after kids.
19:04It's a deal.
19:04Right, let's go.
19:06Alicia.
19:07What that boy needs is a good smacking.
19:09You'd think with her experience she'd be aware of that.
19:12I do hope we've made the right decision about moving around here.
19:15It seemed like such a good idea at the time.
19:17Well, if we can make more links with the community,
19:19we can be more responsible for each other's children.
19:21I think we should throw an open evening for our customers,
19:23serve some refreshment perhaps.
19:25But the shop isn't big enough.
19:26We can put the community centre then.
19:28That seems to be what it's for.
19:29I'll speak to Mrs. Butcher.
19:30She seems to have taken charge over there.
19:32But what about all the cooking?
19:33I'm sure you'll cope.
19:35And wear your best sari.
19:37If you're going to do it,
19:37might as well do it properly.
19:39We'll show the English we know how to give a party
19:40with the best of them.
19:42To think, we heard the sirens.
19:43We just slept right through it.
19:45We never give it another thought.
19:46I don't suppose there's much we could have done if we had.
19:48Well, there might have been.
19:50Poor Dot.
19:51I'd better go over and see her straight away.
19:53I don't know what I'm going to say to her though,
19:54especially after all those nasty things I said about that girl.
19:56You meant it for the best, love.
19:58Well, she's out at the police station now.
19:59But she's all right though.
20:00She's taken it a lot better than you might think.
20:01Why don't you have a cup of tea, Kath?
20:03You've got to look completely done in yourself.
20:05No, thanks.
20:06I thought I should just come round and tell you anyway.
20:09I'm sorry it's been so difficult since me and Pete split,
20:11but me have always been straight with me.
20:13We've tried not to take sides.
20:15I know I don't need to ask you this,
20:16but I'd be grateful if you didn't ever tell her so about me and Donna.
20:19Oh, of course not.
20:20We are.
20:22Anyway, I'll tell you one thing.
20:23If Dot's got it out of her,
20:24it'll be all round the square whether you like it or not.
20:26Well, she said she'd already guessed,
20:28but she swears she won't say anything.
20:29Yeah, but it won't come from us.
20:31I've got enough problems of me own to worry about
20:32without gossiping about you.
20:34Now, come on, Martin.
20:35I've got to get him off to nursery school.
20:38Come on, darling.
20:38Off you go.
20:39I expect I'll see you around later.
20:42Arthur, let's stew in the pot for your tea, all right?
20:44Oh, thanks, dear.
20:45Ta-ra, darling.
20:46Ta-ra, darling.
20:47I kept meaning to come round and see you a bit more often,
20:51but you know how it is.
20:53Oh, come on.
20:54Come and sit down, Caff.
20:55You look as white as she.
20:56I didn't sleep a wink last night.
20:58Oh, dear.
20:59Well, how's the new flat going?
21:00Is it all right?
21:01Yeah.
21:02If you've got any little jobs you want doing
21:03and you don't want to ask Pete,
21:04you can always come to me, you know.
21:05We've never had any quarrel, Caff, not me and you.
21:08And no matter what happens between you and Pete,
21:10you can always count on me as a friend.
21:12Thanks, Arthur.
21:13You're a good bloke, you know.
21:15You and Pauline would never have done what I did.
21:18I mean, Pauline would never have given her baby away.
21:21I mean, look how she insisted on Irving Martin,
21:23no matter what Mum said or how poor you were.
21:25Now, that's completely different than you know it.
21:28Now, come on, Caff.
21:29There's no point in talking like that.
21:30It doesn't do any good.
21:32She died because she took drugs,
21:34and it seems to me a lot of kids from all sorts of backgrounds
21:36are doing that these days,
21:37and you can't tell me that they all come from broken homes,
21:40and you can't hold me and Pauline up for as an example either.
21:43Look at Mark.
21:44I tell you, the only thing that gets me through sometimes
21:46is thinking of Martin and young Vicky.
21:48And I don't care how I do it,
21:50but I'm going to see that they profit by our mistakes.
21:53The same things ain't going to happen to them.
21:55It's no good, Si.
21:56I can't face it, especially after what's just happened.
21:59Well, that's all right.
22:00When you're ready, just ask me.
22:01I can't take much more of her in.
22:03I really thought she was clean of drugs.
22:05I mean, if we'd have known, Si, we could have done something.
22:07Oh, come off it, Sharon.
22:08You didn't like her any more than I did.
22:09Didn't stop you sleeping with her, though, did it?
22:11That was a long time ago.
22:12She wasn't nearly as mad then.
22:14Anyway, you know how she used to go around frown herself at blokes.
22:16And you were never one to refuse a free offer.
22:18It's what gets me about blokes.
22:19You don't care who it is, as long as a letcher.
22:21Every time anything goes wrong around here,
22:23the women start taking it out on me.
22:25Oh, I'm sorry, Si.
22:26My dad I'm angry about, I suppose.
22:29What happened to Donna was what was always going to happen to Donna.
22:32You ever done smack?
22:33What do you think?
22:35I nearly passed out when I had a flu injection.
22:36I got offered something to smoke once by this bloke at work.
22:39What a creep.
22:40He couldn't have got it together to do anything about it if I'd fancied him.
22:43I thought even then, if it turns you into a wimp like that, I don't want to know.
22:47Here, what time are you due on shift?
22:49Three till closing.
22:50Great.
22:51You can come up west with me.
22:51I've seen a jacket I really like.
22:53One thing I did learn from your mum was,
22:55when in doubt, paint your face and spend money.
22:57And if you're a really good boy,
22:58I'll buy you an ice cream in Max's.
23:00It's ever so nice of you to come round.
23:05Mrs Butcher brought me that lovely stew.
23:08Hope I don't get into trouble, Mr. Apodopoulos.
23:10I went in, but then I had to go to the police.
23:12Dot, Dot.
23:12And I don't think I've got the strength to go back.
23:14Just don't worry about that.
23:16I'll sort him out.
23:18I just wish you'd go to bed and lie down.
23:20You look terrible.
23:21Well, I would, but the police said that Donna's father wanted to come and see me,
23:25and I don't like to let him down.
23:27And what's it to you?
23:28Some sort of parents, they must have been letting her run wild like that.
23:32If you ask me, you could do without any more upsets.
23:34Oh, don't say that.
23:35I mean, she's overage, and they must have tried their best.
23:39Anyway, it's me duty.
23:41I told him straight what a little cow thought she was.
23:43I mean, what's the point of pretending you feel something when you don't?
23:46I don't see what we're the fusses about, do you?
23:48It's always a shock when someone you know dies, especially like that.
23:51Yeah, but she could always get round him.
23:52He swears they never did anything, but I don't know.
23:55There was something going on.
23:56I can't put my finger on it, but she could always get round him.
23:59I reckon I did.
24:00It's all in the past now, Cindy.
24:02It hardly matters anymore.
24:03Yeah, but don't you worry.
24:04I'll get it out of him.
24:05If we're going to be mad, we're having no secrets.
24:07We had a row the other day because he wouldn't tell me how much money he had in the building society.
24:11I mean, if there's one thing that's going to ruin any relationship, it's having stupid secrets.
24:14I just remember saying, I've got to.
24:16I don't know what's wrong with everyone today.
24:17I mean, we can't bring it back, can we?
24:19I thought I was hard, but next to you, I'm just practising.
24:22Hey, what have you been saying at the cafe?
24:23I said nothing.
24:24Hey, well, perhaps she ain't feeling so good.
24:26It seems to have taken a bit of hardship going on about Donna like that.
24:28Why should it upset Kathy more than anyone else?
24:31He is just as bad moaning on.
24:32I mean, it's not as if she was a relative or something, is it?
24:34Oh, Mrs. Beagle, I was looking for you.
24:44They said you'd closed your stall.
24:47I'm sorry.
24:48I'm so sorry.
24:50Perhaps there was somewhere we could talk.
24:52My wife's under sedation at the moment, I'm afraid,
24:55and I wanted to thank Mrs. Cotton.
24:57From what I hear, she's been very good to my daughter these days.
25:00Kathy!
25:00Kathy!
25:02Kathy, it's all right.
25:03It's all right, Kathy.
25:12Your behaviour in the surgery this morning was inexcusable.
25:16It was perfectly obvious to the patient
25:17that there was a quarrel between us.
25:19Look, whatever the rights and wrongs of this case,
25:22I shall expect an apology
25:23or I shall have to re-examine the terms of our partnership.
25:29Good.
25:30You go in there and sit down.
25:32There's a good girl.
25:39Here, Kat.
25:40Oh, yeah.
25:42Are you sure you won't come back and have a calvert to you
25:44because I only live just over there?
25:45No, I'd better be getting back to my wife.
25:48I didn't mean to upset Mrs. Beagle like that.
25:50I only wanted to thank you all
25:51for the kindness you've shown Donna.
25:53Wouldn't be no trouble?
25:54No, no, fine.
25:55Come in and sit down.
25:56I'll never get up again.
25:57The police told me Donna had been living with you
25:59for quite some time.
26:00I haven't got nothing to thank me for.
26:03I didn't know she was back on drugs, I swear it.
26:06I should have found your address and written to you,
26:08but I thought she was getting better,
26:10and I loved having her with me, you know, looking after her.
26:14Didn't want to lose her.
26:16I thought I could do it all by myself.
26:18Now we're all lost her.
26:20She was a grown woman, Mrs. Cotton.
26:21She made her own decisions.
26:22Yes, but I mean, if you'd known she was on drugs...
26:25We knew.
26:26You did?
26:26We had a doubt with her, but there was nothing we could do.
26:29You gave her a home, Mrs. Cotton.
26:31My wife and I will never be able to thank you enough for that.
26:33Yeah, but there must have been something we could have done.
26:36We could have gone to the police.
26:38My wife wanted to.
26:39I refused to allow it.
26:41That's a cross I have to bear.
26:43Even though she'd stolen my checkbook and forged enough checks to buy a great deal of the stuff,
26:47I just didn't feel we could do that to our own child.
26:51Well, we went to organizations, families, anonymous, a group that counsels the parents of addicts,
26:59and they all said the same thing.
27:01As long as we were giving her money and turning a blind eye when she stole, taking her in,
27:07we were supporting her habits.
27:09We had to let her go.
27:11No, no, no.
27:11You've nothing to reproach yourself for.
27:13The fault was mine.
27:15My wife was always more perceptive about Donna, much as she loved her.
27:19I indulged and forgave her and refused to see what was staring me in the face.
27:27No matter how hard we tried, we could never give her enough love.
27:31I don't think anyone ever could.
27:34Now we shall never know the reason why.
27:40Embracing their differences, well, sometimes,
27:51the aristocratic Thomas Lindley and the down-to-earth detective Sergeant Barbara Havers
27:56join forces now in the Inspector Lindley Mysteries.
27:59We'll see you next time.
28:29We'll see you next time.
28:59We'll see you next time.