15:21I was an underwater welder.
15:23What does that mean?
15:25Which part? Underwater or welder?
15:27Both, when you put them together.
15:29Well, I welded things that were underwater,
15:32which meant that I had to go underwater too.
15:34In, like, the diving gear and everything?
15:36Almost always.
15:39What sort of things need welding underwater?
15:42Ships, oil rigs.
15:45Mainly ships and oil rigs.
15:48Isn't welding like fire?
15:50Yes.
15:50Oh, so how does that work, then?
15:51Would you like me to explain?
15:52No, actually, you're all right.
15:55Why'd you give it up?
15:56It's a young man's game, underwater welding.
15:59You can't do it for too long.
16:01Takes its toll.
16:05And did you have the beard then?
16:07No.
16:08I wouldn't have been able to get a watertight seal around me diving mask.
16:11Oh, yeah, I was going to say.
16:29Hi, Hilary.
16:30Is he, er...
16:31Hello, love.
16:31He's in his room.
16:32Oh.
16:33Can I have a word?
16:35It's a bit awkward.
16:37Your dad's been taking the empty water bottles and hiding them in his room.
16:41The water cooler bottles?
16:42Thing is, they collect the empties on a Wednesday.
16:45What's he taking them for?
16:47I don't know.
16:48He's saying it wasn't him.
16:49Well, are you sure it was him?
16:51I've seen him taking them.
16:52He keeps an eye out for when they're nearly empty and then smuggles them away when he thinks
16:56no one's looking.
16:57All right.
16:58Er, thanks, Hilary.
17:00I'll see if I can work out what's going on.
17:24Hello, Dad.
17:25Hello, son.
17:26Come on in.
17:26Shut the door.
17:27You all right?
17:28What are you looking for?
17:29Shut the door.
17:33I remembered something.
17:36Something that would help with your problem.
17:38What problem was that?
17:39What we talked about yesterday.
17:41You know, I know where you can get some answers.
17:44I am sorry, Dad.
17:45I'm being dim.
17:45What were we talking about?
17:48Homunculi.
17:49Come again?
17:51Alchemy.
17:52Can't talk about it here.
17:53They'll be listening in.
17:55Let's go for a walk.
17:58Take a look in there.
18:10What have you got these for, Dad?
18:13Did I ever tell you about Egypt?
18:16I think so, yes.
18:17When you were on national service.
18:20That's right.
18:20When I was there, I met a man, an old mystic, Italian, and he was studying metaphysics and alchemic law.
18:29Okay.
18:30Anyway, I became an apprentice, really, so to speak.
18:34I was the only one he trusted to help him with his experiments.
18:38Okay.
18:39Eventually, this brilliant man managed to grow and generate homunculi.
18:46Tiny prophets who lived in great glass jars full of water.
18:49Wait a minute, Dad.
18:50I remember this story.
18:51You used to tell it to me before bed.
18:52Little people in jars.
18:55But, Dad, I don't think it actually happened.
18:57Oh, it did happen.
18:58I was there.
18:59I saw them.
19:00There were six of them.
19:02Yeah, I remember there was a king and a queen.
19:06A monk.
19:07A knight, a peasant, and a seraph.
19:11Exquisite little beings.
19:13They could predict the future.
19:14Yeah, they could answer any question once they'd reached the state of divination.
19:19And they had to answer truthfully.
19:22That was my favourite story, Dad.
19:25Dad, are you sure that you didn't get it from a book?
19:27No, no, no.
19:28I wrote it in a book.
19:30I wrote the instructions all down in a journal, but it's gone.
19:34I can't find it.
19:35Well, I've got a lot of your things, remember?
19:37At my house, I said I'd look after them for you when you moved in here.
19:41Well, that's where it'll be then.
19:42And it's all written down.
19:44Okay, Dad.
19:45Dad, Dad, listen.
19:47Even if I can find it, you're not allowed to practice alchemy in the Golden Years Garden.
19:52No, no.
19:52It's up to you.
19:53You're the one who wants the answers.
19:55They'll be able to tell you where Claire is.
20:00No, Dad.
20:01No, no.
20:01The prophets will tell you where she is, and you go find her and bring her back.
20:05I'll guide you.
20:06That's what the bottles are for.
20:08Take all the bottles, fill them with rainwater.
20:11Got to be rainwater.
20:12You'll need some other ingredients, but the journal will take you through all that.
20:17You've just got to find the journal.
20:19Yeah.
20:20Come on.
20:22Yeah.
20:22That's it.
20:23Mm-hmm.
20:31He thinks I'm taking them out to the car.
20:33It's a long story.
20:35All right if I leave them around the corner?
20:37All right, love.
20:37Thanks.
20:38It should be all right now.
20:40See you tomorrow.
20:58Michael.
21:02All right, mate.
21:04You're looking well.
21:05Hello, Roy.
21:07I went round the house earlier.
21:09Yeah.
21:10No, I was here visiting Dad.
21:13Been trying to call you.
21:14Left a few messages.
21:15Yeah.
21:16Sometimes I forget to check.
21:18I forget to turn it on.
21:22I need to speak to you, Michael.
21:23Yeah.
21:24Yeah, okay.
21:26Shall we go back to the house?
21:27No.
21:28There's a cafe around the corner.
21:31Pickles.
21:32Pickles.
21:33Pickles.
21:41Do you want something?
21:43Oh, um, sausage, egg and chips, please.
21:45Who's paying?
21:47I'm skimp, mate.
21:48Just a cup of tea, please.
21:49Two, thanks.
21:54How are you?
21:55Are you well?
21:56She's sat on her fat arse eating crisps.
22:00Are they still down south?
22:01In Reading, yeah.
22:04How often do you get to?
22:06I don't, Michael.
22:08I'm living in a shitty flat above a cost cutter,
22:10so they can't come to me,
22:11and I'm not welcome down there,
22:12so weeks, months go by between visits.
22:16Sorry.
22:20Thank you.
22:20You're welcome.
22:26This place is named after the dog
22:28that found the World Cup.
22:30Pickles.
22:32I don't know what the connection is.
22:33I don't think he was from round here.
22:35It's time to give back what's mine, Michael.
22:42What if she comes back?
22:43Claire is not coming back.
22:44What if she does?
22:46Michael, they found her car on the Severn Bridge.
22:48Yes, and she wasn't in it.
22:50Mate, I don't know whether I miss her as much as you do.
22:52I think about her every day.
22:55She was my sister.
22:57But there's nothing I could have done,
22:59and I've made peace with that.
23:01This Christmas, it will be seven years.
23:05We can apply for a presumption of death.
23:08Not on the house back, Michael.
23:11It belongs to me.
23:12What are you going to do, move in?
23:13I'm going to sell it.
23:14Well, I'll stay on until you find a buyer.
23:16No-one's going to buy it.
23:17The estate is in.
23:19It needs to be cleared out.
23:21There might be structural damage.
23:23There might...
23:23Got to go.
23:24For Christ's sake, Michael.
23:26I drove past there this afternoon.
23:27The gutter is hanging off.
23:28The garden is impenetrable.
23:30Christ knows what it's like inside.
23:31It's time to take your head out of the sand, mate.
23:34She's not coming back.
24:01Good evening, Olive.
24:03You all right, love?
24:03Hello, Michael.
24:05What's that, fertiliser?
24:08No.
24:09These plants are all plastic.
24:10Don't need watering.
24:12Don't need fertilising.
24:13All right.
24:14So what is that you were sprinkling?
24:16Slug pellets.
24:17So if the flowers are plastic, what are the slugs eating?
24:21The slug pellets.
24:23Oh, right.
24:25Cheerio, then.
24:26Yeah.
24:26Ooh!
24:28I tell you who I saw here today.
24:30Yeah?
24:31Who was that?
24:32Your brother-in-law, Roy.
24:34He was looking for you.
24:37Well, I say let them.
24:43Robots take over.
24:46Hey, Michael.
24:48Olive, you all right?
24:50Hello, Michael.
24:51Hello, babe.
24:59Best be off, Olive.
25:01Cheerio, then, Mike.
25:04We were never married.
25:07What's our love?
25:07It's just, you said brother-in-law, but Clea and I, well, we were never married.
25:16Cheerio!
25:17I'll do it again.
25:22How is that?
25:27That's it.
25:43Give me love.
25:44How are you?
25:46I don't.
25:46I don't know.
25:46I don't know.
25:47...
25:48...
26:18...
26:19...
26:21...
26:22...
26:24...
26:24...
26:25...
26:26...
26:26...
26:26...
26:26...
26:26...
26:27...
26:27...
26:27...
26:27...
26:28...
26:29...
26:30...
26:33...
26:34...
26:35...
26:35...
26:39...
27:06...
27:07...
27:07...
27:07...
27:07...
27:07...
27:07...
27:07...
27:07...
27:08...
27:09...
27:09...
27:10...
27:12...
27:18...
27:40...
27:40...
28:10...
28:11...
28:12...
28:13...
28:14...
28:15...
28:16...
28:17...
28:18...
28:19...
28:20...
28:21...
28:24...
Commentaires