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00:01The older he gets, the more distressing it is for him to be in a world that he doesn't understand.
00:05It's real distress, Paul. Real pain.
00:07It is ridiculous that you're avoiding me like some teenage boy.
00:10I don't want to lose a friend because he can't satisfy my sexual needs.
00:13Keys. Keys.
00:14You're starting a week.
00:16I know what it's like growing up around here.
00:17Having sex seems like a good way to pass the time until you leave.
00:20Hello? Rebecca?
00:22Just be sure that's what you want.
00:23They just need a plan.
00:24There's a brilliant speech and language therapist here I'm going to refer them to.
00:27What's with your sign?
00:28For the best.
00:28Do I not even get a say in this?
00:30It doesn't matter to you if it's the right decision, as long as it's your decision.
00:50I know.
00:53Oh, yeah.
00:54Oh, yeah.
00:55So, yeah.
00:57Oh.
01:02Yeah.
01:03And with you, with you, another girl, who's loving you now, another planet, who's holding you down, another planet.
01:30Hey, Mozart.
01:35Hey, I missed you.
01:37I'll be in a bit late this morning, lads. We've got a family thing.
01:41OK.
01:41You still playing nice with Eddie, are you?
01:46Who's talking to my guys?
01:48I hope you're not trying to get back in with them now you've put the restaurant on the market.
01:51What's that got to do with you?
02:02Oh, god.
02:21I hope you're in a way.
02:24I think the rebranding should be more radical.
02:28Take a leaf out of Brewdog's book.
02:29Hey, that's me speech therapy notebook. I don't want your scribble on it.
02:33I'm not sure it's the notebook kind of therapy, that.
02:35Well, if there's roleplay, consider me gone.
02:37I don't think she's that kind of a therapist, is she, Nicola?
02:40I don't know.
02:42Oh, but, I mean, she's the best, right?
02:44I don't think there's a league table,
02:45but I hear she does good work with families of children on the spectrum.
02:48Children on the spectrum, is that what we say nowadays?
02:51Sounds like a charity single.
02:52Let's just all try and, you know, be ourselves.
02:55Are you sure that's wise?
02:57Oh, my God.
02:58One last chance to tell me I'm adopted.
03:00Hey, come here.
03:03Come on, Joel.
03:07Oh, oh, my God.
03:09Margaret.
03:10Margaret White.
03:11It's me. I was Alison Scott. Do you remember?
03:14Yes, I remember.
03:15Hello, Alison. I prefer Maggie.
03:17Oh, sure. Sure.
03:19Goodness, what a surprise.
03:20How long's it been?
03:2116 years.
03:23Have you not been back since you left school, really?
03:25Never been back till now.
03:27Wow.
03:28Oh, come in.
03:29Sorry. Come in.
03:34It's through here.
03:38Dad, do you remember Margaret White?
03:40Maggie. Sorry, it's Maggie.
03:42Is this part of the test, or can I be honest?
03:44Don't worry. It's not a test.
03:46None of this is a test.
03:47Right, well, shall I make some coffee?
03:49Do you... Have you eaten? Do you want...
03:51No.
03:51Er, that's Joe. This is Joe.
03:53Yeah.
03:55Um, where are you staying? How was your journey?
03:57Hello, Joe.
04:00Is that a table tennis table? Shall we have a game?
04:05No, no, no. Let me...
04:06I'll try a bit. Let me have a game.
04:07Come here, Maurice.
04:09Come here, Maurice.
04:10This is my bat.
04:11I can tell by the handle.
04:13Come on.
04:13I'm thinking if online sales take off,
04:15we might want to convert one of the outbuildings.
04:17Yeah?
04:19Topspit!
04:19Look, why don't you two find another clamp for this net
04:22and stop showing off?
04:23Eh?
04:23Right.
04:24All right.
04:25Alison!
04:26Gonna move on.
04:28How long does it take to brew up?
04:30Come on, everybody's waiting.
04:32That's Margaret White.
04:33Right.
04:34She's a cookie monster.
04:35We hated each other at school.
04:37She used to cry.
04:38She didn't come top of the class.
04:39She used to steamroller her for me and netball.
04:41Well, this is table tennis,
04:42so I think you'll be okay.
04:44Come on.
04:44Come on.
04:45Come on.
04:47Come on.
04:48Come on.
04:49Come on.
04:51What?
04:56Did he touch the net?
04:57I saw him.
04:57I don't want to label him at such a young age.
04:59Why not?
05:01I just worry that people will treat him differently.
05:05And why would that be so bad?
05:07I just don't want it to be public knowledge.
05:09We need to talk about that.
05:11That's fine, but it's not for negotiation.
05:13Beautiful.
05:14All right.
05:15One there.
05:16Come on.
05:17All right.
05:20Come on, then.
05:21Come on, then.
05:22Come on, then.
05:24Come on.
05:26You're served.
05:27Come on.
05:28Come on.
05:28Come on.
05:29Come on.
05:30Come on.
05:30Thank you, Joe.
05:31Well done.
05:32You clever boy.
05:36Oh, sorry.
05:38Try not to tell him well done all the time.
05:41A lot of this isn't about getting it right or praising him.
05:43It's about building up a back and forth.
05:45Does that make sense?
05:47I've set up a Twitter feed for the brewery.
05:49A what?
05:49Oh.
05:50Get walking, Maurice.
05:51Yeah, come on.
05:51You did that on purpose.
05:52Hey, hey, hey.
05:53Come on.
05:54Let's let Joe have a go, shall we?
05:56Come on.
05:56You ready?
05:57So, um...
05:58Here we go, then.
05:59You ready?
05:59Yeah, that's it.
06:02Just a slow one, Eddie.
06:04Slow one.
06:05Try not to overcompensate.
06:06It's just a kid.
06:07All right?
06:07You ready?
06:09So, grab that.
06:10Come on.
06:11Come on.
06:12Hey, hey, hey.
06:12Come here.
06:13Look at me.
06:13Come on.
06:14Hey, hey, hey.
06:14Come here.
06:15Come here.
06:15Listen, listen, listen.
06:16Shh, shh, shh.
06:17You're singing, world, shut your mouth, shut your mouth, put your head back in the clouds
06:24and shut your mouth.
06:26OK, then.
06:27Are you ready?
06:29Here it comes.
06:32Oh.
06:32Yeah, we did it.
06:34Oh, yeah.
06:36My boy.
06:37Oh, man.
06:39That's a big.
06:40All right, come on, then.
06:45Come on.
06:45Another one?
06:46Here.
06:47All communication is an exchange.
06:50It's like table tennis.
06:52Look at us all sitting here, all feeling self-conscious.
06:56This is unnatural.
06:57Hey, it is in this family.
06:58Nobody interrupted you.
07:00What?
07:04By the time we're Joe's age, most of our communication is automatic, unthinking, spontaneous.
07:10Funny, even.
07:11Hey, where are you here for that day, Maurice?
07:18So there we are.
07:20Pink, Maurice makes a joke to mask the fact that he's feeling uncomfortable.
07:24Pong, Paul returns to serve, but can't help revealing his own insecurity by making a joke
07:29at Maurice's expense.
07:32Well, as long as you don't ask me why I'm uncomfortable, I think I can go along with this.
07:36I don't need to.
07:37Why wouldn't you feel uncomfortable?
07:39You don't know what's going to happen next.
07:41You don't know what this lunatic woman's going to say.
07:44That's how Joe feels all the time.
07:48Under pressure every time anybody asks him anything.
07:51Unless it's about his music, food, or his walks.
07:54He's a kid who can't make himself heard in a family of loudmouths.
07:57I know that feeling.
07:59I'm not sure you can start equating your position with Joe's.
08:02Really?
08:03You didn't grow up with this crowd.
08:05Give it six months and you know what I'm getting at.
08:06I know what you're getting at, I just don't agree.
08:13This unresolved tension here, it doesn't matter what it's about.
08:17What matters is that they're playing it out by arguing about Joe.
08:21Joe becomes the lightning rod for family tension.
08:24This in turn informs your dealings with him.
08:27You communicate that anxiety whether you mean to or not.
08:30No wonder he wears headphones.
08:31He wears headphones because...
08:34He wears headphones because he loves music.
08:37Of course he loves music. Music doesn't answer back.
08:40Music keeps the world at arm's length,
08:41calms him down when he feels distressed.
08:44We're always talking about music together.
08:49If that's not social, then I don't know what is.
08:52It's lovely that you have music.
08:54But it isn't communication.
08:57For Joe, it's self-preservation.
09:00Paul folds his arms defensively
09:02because he's worried about what I'll be saying next.
09:06I think we're all worried.
09:07Paul sends another return on the back of defensive humour.
09:10I had no idea my game was so predictable.
09:12Are you going to be giving us a booklet at the end of this or something?
09:15Because I'm more of a read-the-instructions type.
09:18No.
09:22Rebecca, meanwhile, obsessively checks her phoning.
09:25I hope that will take her out of here.
09:26She doesn't want to be here.
09:28And I don't blame her.
09:29I'll be late for rehearsals.
09:31I'm doing school play.
09:33Yeah, Antigone.
09:34I noticed.
09:35What was our school play, Maggie?
09:37I don't remember.
09:38Er, would you mind, Maggie?
09:40Of course not.
09:41If that's OK with your mum,
09:42we can talk some other time.
09:53I know this is tough,
09:55but you hired me to help Joe.
09:58I'm not sure this is helping.
10:03You need to come up with strategies
10:05in which Joe becomes part of the game.
10:09But at the moment,
10:10the communication in his family,
10:11well, spoken, unspoken.
10:15It's not stuff you even see yourself.
10:17So imagine me and Joe.
10:19He doesn't understand the message in the first place
10:21and doesn't have the tools to respond,
10:22even if he did.
10:24How much easier life is
10:25if every conversation turns on
10:27rote-learned details of pop music?
10:30So, if Joe was ever going to communicate,
10:32we need to learn how to communicate ourselves?
10:34Where did you read that?
10:35I didn't read that anywhere.
10:37I just thought it, really.
10:41He's the kind of guy
10:42that would buy the books
10:43that they have at the checkout
10:44at the bookshop.
10:46Buddhism for shallow people.
10:48Things the Dalai Lama said
10:49on one of his bandages.
10:50This is exactly what Maggie's talking about.
10:51This right here is our problem.
10:53We never shut up.
10:55Alison's absolutely right.
10:56You don't listen to each other.
10:59You leave no space
11:00for nuance or exchange
11:03or doubt.
11:04Is it just me
11:05or are you a tough crowd, Maggie?
11:07Humour's a great defence mechanism, Maurice.
11:09It puts the recipient
11:11at an immediate disadvantage.
11:12I laugh.
11:13You've won.
11:14I don't laugh
11:15and I'm a stereotypical humorless therapist,
11:17borderline lesbian,
11:18so you've won there too.
11:23Where are you going?
11:24I can give Joe lifts
11:26and I can take him for walks
11:28but I'm not sure
11:29I can do any of this.
11:30It's beyond me.
11:30And I don't want to mess up
11:31anything you and Maggie
11:33are cooking up
11:33to help Joe.
11:34So, excuse me.
11:36Before you've even tried.
11:38Oh, thank you for being so honest.
11:41You too.
11:43I don't know.
12:13well i'm giving a lesson right now i just wanted to say i was hasty when i said what i
12:17said
12:19when i turned you down the other day perhaps i should reconsider if you haven't moved on
12:27are you reconsidering or are you saying you'd like to sleep with me i hate to worry but like
12:30i say i'm giving a lesson right now i'm saying yes would you like to wait
12:49will you be bringing the ukulele no unless you want me to it's upstairs on the left our bedroom
13:12so
13:20so
13:20so
13:20so
13:20so
13:28so
13:29so
13:31so
13:33so
13:49look there's you on holiday isn't it joe you know it is do you remember hey you do
13:57look there's rebecca holding you as a baby look how tiny you are there old baby joe look at that
14:08no come on joe you love these photos you always do come on now
14:16okay so maybe the book wasn't a great idea joe
14:29now will you look at the book with me huh now will you look at the book
14:38this is where i lose the will to live
14:44ah i can see you on holiday that looks like fun where's rebecca
15:04oh and here's your birthday party an octopus cake that looks absolutely delicious
15:22it doesn't matter at this stage that one of us is not really looking it doesn't matter at this
15:27stage that one of us is not really saying anything what matters is setting up an exchange ping pong
15:33we don't want to crowd a young one out at this point we just want him to join in do
15:37you see
15:39i'm in space all the time aren't i
15:40you are
15:42and that makes him anxious that he doesn't have what it takes to fulfill your overwhelming need
15:46oof
15:47it's a bit harsh
15:48it will be a bit harsh but i hope not for joe that's the main thing isn't it
16:05it will get better than that i promise
16:09what makes you think you get a second chance
16:14that was one of my little jokes morris
16:16huh
16:16huh
16:20i slept with one woman for 35 years and after she went
16:24nobody
16:26that would explain all that running you do
16:29no i i
16:32it's strange
16:34isn't it
16:35different
16:36different
16:37body
16:39different geography
16:40different geography
16:42maybe you should read compass next time
16:44what i mean is that
16:47it must be even longer for you since your husband left
16:52five years
16:56probably been someone since then morris
16:58oh
16:59right
17:01i see
17:02didn't work out
17:04we were both on the rebound
17:05hmm
17:08i i
17:09don't
17:10need to know
17:11he was my lodger
17:12music student
17:14we got on very well
17:19student
17:20but he was so young
17:21and demanding
17:24mid-twenties
17:27that generation have come of age with hardcore pornography
17:29you see very strange expectations of what might be enjoyable
17:33or desirable
17:35or even physically possible come to that
17:45craft beer is booming
17:46real ale is over
17:48okay
17:50dad
17:53what's the difference
17:55nothing in the taste
17:56everything in the brand
17:58real ale is goblins and prog rock
18:00craft beer is social media and punk
18:03is this what you wanted to talk to me about
18:05we go big online there'll be a spike in demand
18:07we need to be ready for that
18:08so
18:09we're going to have to convert some of the outbuildings
18:11and install a
18:12dual purpose conditioning vessel
18:14yes
18:15okay
18:16so you're giving me the go ahead for all that
18:17well you're the boss aren't you
18:19you don't want time to think at all
18:20like i say
18:21you're in charge
18:26yes
18:28pick up the apple
18:33pick up the apple
18:35put it in the pan
18:37in the pan
18:40right in the pan
18:43that's it
18:44okay
18:45your turn
18:45your turn your turn to ask me
18:48can't hear you joe so i don't know what to do
18:52pick up the button
18:53okay
18:56i don't know where it should go
18:58in the sock
19:00in the sock
19:01okay
19:01what should i do now
19:03put the pen
19:05okay
19:08in
19:13there's a cup
19:15in the green cup
19:17or the blue cup
19:18blue cup
19:19blue cup
19:20okay
19:21now find the apple
19:23and put it in the red bowl
19:27in the red bowl
19:29that's it
19:31now
19:32hiya
19:33hey
19:34yeah those two
19:35she's got him eating out the palm of her hand
19:38oh is that a social skill he's ever really going to need
19:41i think we should get her to come and work with joe three times a week
19:43we found our miracle worker
19:46i think the real miracle is how we'd pay for that
19:48well here's a tip
19:49not by selling the restaurant
19:53there's interest already and if they offer the asking price then we're in the clear
19:57yeah but then what
19:59the diner doesn't pay enough eddie's got your old job
20:01have you any idea how much we've spent already
20:03no i haven't because you won't ever talk about it
20:06well
20:08we're talking about it now
20:09and i'm not even using humour as a defence mechanism
20:12it's important that you practice speech with him where the response is
20:16physical and clear
20:18and not abstract or emotional
20:21do you see how that might help
20:22yeah yeah sure yeah
20:23sit down maggie sit down pull over some wine
20:25or beer you look like you might be a craft beer sort of a girl
20:29is that a joke
20:30no i was genuinely we've got some
20:32no it's me that uses jokes
20:34to mask my feelings remember
20:36nothing for me thank you i i need to go now
20:39oh you're not going to eat with us
20:40no but thank you i've booked dinner at the red lion i'm seeing an old friend
20:45ah really who
20:46she isn't local you wouldn't know her
20:48oh well invite her along
20:50come on please you need to tell me everything you know about joe we need to make plans
20:53i'm very sorry but i've already made other arrangements
20:55i'll see you both in the morning
20:59bye joe
21:00miss wallace says that if korean doesn't know his lines by tomorrow morning she's gonna have to recast
21:03can you imagine
21:04well i practically know the part
21:07and i've got the legs for a toga
21:08it's modern dress
21:09maggie thinks the drama might be good for joe
21:13and mum you forgot to put the cheque in the envelope for the tickets
21:15that's a good idea hey
21:16looks at
21:17should i do some acting
21:19hmm let me see
21:21i don't think so
21:23no
21:24Rebecca will you check if your saturday drama class has any spaces
21:26can't you do that
21:27well you're there every week so i think it's easier if you do
21:33don't ask you for much just do this one thing would you
21:36hey hey hey hey
21:37come on big man
21:41have some of your spaghetti joe
21:50what more do you want kill me and have done with it
21:52nothing more than your death that'll be enough
21:54then what are you waiting for
21:55ice cream ladies
21:58if only crayon had offered antigone an ice cream
22:01didn't you think of that
22:02she's a girl for god's sake
22:04eddie likes to demonstrate his liberalism by making ironic sexist remarks
22:08mum said they used to call you the ice cream king when you were growing up
22:11yeah it was the only job her and your granddad trusted me with
22:13you might want to think about how you feel about your own brother
22:16and put some of that into it
22:18right
22:18and how serious is it with your boyfriend that might help too
22:22you don't need to answer that Rebecca
22:24what
22:25Nicola doesn't do small talk
22:30aha
22:31well that's where you ran off to
22:33very cosy
22:34Nicola knows the player i told you
22:36twice
22:37thanks for helping me with the play
22:40i've got to go meet a friend
22:41on a school night really
22:43it's about school work
22:45okay
22:46well don't be late
22:49teenage drop
22:51i think she just needed to get away from you and your house for a while
22:55right
22:56well thank you Nicola for telling it like it is
22:58is her boyfriend nice
22:59she hasn't got a boyfriend
23:02i just wanted to say thank you for coming this morning
23:05i hope you're not feeling too bruised after my session
23:07oh no not at all it's her job
23:08yeah
23:10i think it's right that she locates the unresolved tension in the whole family and not justin joe
23:16yeah sure yeah
23:17well some of the family anyway
23:25well night then
23:26well night then
23:35so
23:37shall we call it Michael
23:40our unresolved tension
23:41i don't think we can lay all our unresolved tension at Michael's door can we
23:46be nice to park it somewhere
23:47are you serious
23:50actually do we need to talk about this right now
23:52you brought it up
23:53i know but when people say do we need to talk about this right now it generally means they don't
23:56want to
23:57so how do we resolve our tension
24:00we could try the ancient art of sexual intercourse
24:04we need a little help
24:06it's got to be worth a try
24:15but i got into a debate about the difference between implied and infirm
24:24what
24:28flashback to sick and born detention
24:30and it suddenly mattered more to me that she was using her fur when she went in live
24:40what
24:41what
24:43she's just realised that she still loves sam smith
24:46sam smith's gay
24:48but rebecca thinks she can turn him
24:50she leaned in on me at a party once and it got very messy
24:55talk to yourself
24:57i'm sorry
24:58can we lose a commentary tom
24:59i could but then rebecca would discover how dull you truly are
25:04come on
25:05let's go for some chips
25:07we lose
25:07excise
25:07no
25:08no
25:51He's fast asleep.
25:54She's tired him out.
25:56Excellent.
25:57Let's seize the mood.
25:59If Maggie agrees three times a week, I think we can manage the rest between all of us.
26:05Ping.
26:07Ping.
26:08The male makes a clumsy display of affection.
26:17Ping.
26:19The female returns the male's sexual advances.
26:22Stop it.
26:23Ping.
26:24She chastises him.
26:26Ping.
26:26He rather likes him.
26:28It makes him aroused.
26:30Ping.
26:30Makes her aroused.
26:32Ping.
26:32Stop it.
26:33I mean it.
26:33Don't make fun of it.
26:34Okay.
26:36Okay.
26:40Ping.
26:40He says again.
26:41She returns.
26:42Stop.
26:44Okay.
26:45I promise.
26:45No, I can hear Rebecca pressing her lines.
26:47No, no, no, no, no.
26:48We'll just be quiet.
26:50Very quiet.
26:56I'm not really feeling it when I'm taking you next door.
27:00Is it me or your knockback line's getting a bit classier?
27:05I'm sorry.
27:07Here we go.
27:13You are quite mistaken.
27:15None of the Thebans anywhere in the city thinks as you do.
27:17They all do, but they keep their mouths shut when you're here.
27:20Not at all.
27:21And you should be ashamed of setting yourself up against the majority.
27:25Time to wrap it up now, love.
27:26It's a big week for you this week.
27:28Okay, good night.
27:29Night.
27:31Did you hear that?
27:33Yeah.
27:33I'm going to have to go.
27:36Good night.
27:37I'll see you tomorrow.
27:45I'll see you tomorrow.
27:59Good night.
28:17Good night.
28:18Good night.
28:21Good night.
28:23Good night.
28:28Morning.
28:28Good morning. Don't let me interrupt.
28:37All right, see ya.
28:42Maggie's great for him, isn't she?
28:43If she's what Jo needs, then I think the world of her.
28:46But never mind just assessing Jo.
28:47I think we should ask her to come three times a week
28:49and work with him and help us deal with him.
28:52She won't come cheating?
28:53No, I know. That's what Paul said.
28:55That's why he's adamant on selling the restaurant.
28:57He doesn't need to sell the restaurant to help Jo.
28:59The money's there.
29:00In my account.
29:01Your mother's life insurance.
29:02I can't think of a better use for it.
29:04Don't undermine him, though.
29:06When have I ever undermined anybody?
29:09Any interest?
29:14Huh?
29:15Oh, yeah.
29:16A stage agent rang this morning.
29:18Of somebody coming round.
29:19How much are you asking?
29:21A quid more than I owe the bank would be nice.
29:24Still, nice when it lasted.
29:27The dream, living it and all that.
29:29Yeah.
29:32Catching up on old times?
29:34No, I just needed a good internet signal.
29:37Oh, you've got Alison to thank for that.
29:38Yeah, she set up the Wi-Fi for the whole place.
29:43She thinks of everything.
29:45Yes.
29:52That was quite a battering you gave us yesterday.
29:55I didn't do it for effect.
29:56I did it so you can help Jo.
29:58No, I know, I know.
29:59Actually, it's just...
30:06Are we really doing that badly?
30:08No.
30:09I can see that you get on with him.
30:11I can see that you make Jo happy.
30:13I was just doing what I need Dad to do, I think.
30:15So it's understandable if you overcompensate a bit.
30:20Well, that's Dad's for you, eh?
30:26Right, well I better get a veal.
30:28I was working with this family once,
30:30and I said that I thought that at family meal times
30:32it would be a good idea to let the child, Alfie,
30:35serve the food up at the table.
30:38It was a way of getting the child to socialise
30:40without feeling the pressure.
30:41And the Dad said,
30:42well that sounds like a good idea,
30:44but unfortunately I'm always up a ladder at family meal times.
30:48I asked him why, and he said,
30:50Alfie won't eat his food unless I'm up a ladder outside the house.
30:54That's insane.
30:54Yes.
30:55And this family were clever, sane people.
30:58But the Dad being up a ladder at meal times
31:00seemed a small price to pay to keep their boy happy.
31:04Why are you telling me this?
31:05You're doing fine with Jo.
31:07He loves you, and he likes you.
31:09Relax.
31:10You don't need to be the one outside on the ladder.
31:27Has the vendor got figures for flooring costs and...
31:30Maurice!
31:31...fix electrons?
31:32Right.
31:33It's lovely to drop in, but I've got a potential buyer coming, so...
31:37I know.
31:37If you don't...
31:38It's me.
31:39I'm the potential buyer.
31:41This is nonsense, Maurice, and you know it.
31:44You're wasting your time.
31:45Why?
31:45If I buy the place, you can still run it.
31:47The costs are too high to finish the job.
31:50Do you think you can run a restaurant or not?
31:52Look, it's different now with Jo.
31:53It's...
31:54No, it's just...
31:55Now's not the time to be risking all of this.
31:59And we're going to be taking Maggie on.
32:00I'll take care of that.
32:02You worry about this place.
32:03What if I want to take care of Jo?
32:06Hmm?
32:07His Dad.
32:08My own son.
32:12Honestly.
32:13You and Alison, unbelievable.
32:16Get Michael in.
32:17Get Maggie in!
32:19Take him out of school.
32:20Put him back into school.
32:21Go private.
32:23Take over.
32:24Take over.
32:25Take over.
32:25With all due respect...
32:26Oh, fuck all due respect, Maurice.
32:27I think Jo's welfare is more important than your ego.
32:31It's not about the ego.
32:33It's about the fact that I've got something to say.
32:35I have ideas.
32:38I will not be the one outside the house up a ladder at tea time.
32:43What?
32:45I don't even know why you're here, Maurice.
32:47I know you can't really afford the place.
32:48I'll sell the brewery.
32:51Pull the other one.
32:53Why not?
32:54The business plan for this place is sound.
32:57You worked for me from the age of 16 up till six months ago.
33:00So, you know, we'll know what we're getting into.
33:01It'll be just like it always was.
33:04Listen.
33:05I know you dreamed of running your own place, but don't kick yourself to death if management's not for you.
33:16I'll be in touch.
33:26Hey.
33:27He's a bastard.
33:28He's a bastard!
33:45I think he's overdue a chamomile tea.
33:47Hmm?
33:48Too bad job by the look of it.
34:09Sorry, no, that won't be happening.
34:11How do you mean no?
34:12Do you mean yes?
34:13I came here to write a plan and recommend someone local to help you with it, but it won't be
34:16me.
34:17So when can you start?
34:19Come on.
34:19Three mornings a week.
34:20Alison.
34:21I'm very sorry, but I can't work with Joe on a regular basis.
34:24You knew that all along.
34:26No, no, no, no.
34:26No, no, no.
34:27You don't get away that easily.
34:28You are brilliant for Joe, and I won't take no for an answer.
34:31I know you find that hard, but you're going to have to.
34:34There are people with the same expertise.
34:36Please, Maggie, name your price.
34:37I am sorry.
34:39Joe's a lovely boy, but I'm not the only person who can help him.
34:42It was lovely to meet you, Joe.
34:44Bye now.
34:46If I have to lie down on the road in front of a car, then I will.
34:49You, Maggie, are going to work with Joe.
34:51You can't always have what you want, Alison.
34:53Not even you.
34:54Is that a maybe?
34:55Oh, come on!
34:56You are blind to everybody's needs but your own.
34:59You are a bully, Alison.
35:01You bullied me at school, and you are bullying me now.
35:03Well, too bad.
35:04I will send through my report.
35:06I will help you find someone local.
35:08But I won't be bullied by you again.
35:30Hey, come on in, kiddo.
35:32Come on.
35:39Joe?
35:44Was I really a bully? Is that possible?
35:49Hey, it's not funny, Paul.
35:51Hey, it's not funny, Paul.
35:52Hey, I'm the one who uses humour as a defence mechanism.
35:54Remember?
35:55Well, now you're using humour as a defence mechanism
35:58as humour as a defence mechanism.
36:00And now you're bullying me, so maybe Maggie had a point.
36:02Do you think?
36:03No, no, of course not.
36:05Not now, maybe, but at school you might have been and not known it.
36:11Look, she was a big strange girl, I remember that.
36:13But we were all strange, we were insecure, we were teenagers.
36:17Mum, you're always telling us that you have voted Miss Wordsworth high two years on the run.
36:20That was just a joke thing that the boys did, it was nothing official.
36:23Although it was three years on the run since you mentioned it.
36:26Yeah, so you must have been a bit more secure than Maggie then.
36:29Good-looking, slim.
36:30Yeah, thank you, lovely, but I wasn't a bully.
36:33And anyone says differently is going to get a Chinese burn.
36:43Listen.
36:46Kids pull all sorts of stunts when they're young.
36:49You're with the in-crowd one minute and then suddenly you're not.
36:55You're talking about wanking at cub camp.
36:57And then back at school the same boys are suddenly ripping the piss out of you
37:00in front of everyone and cloning your wanker hues.
37:04For example.
37:07I suspect that one might be more of a bully thing.
37:09Maybe.
37:14You didn't say it was impossible that I was a bully.
37:22It was impossible that you were a bully.
37:27When I came round to call
37:30You didn't notice me at all
37:35What's the next thing?
37:37Oh, let's meet up in the year 2000
37:41Born to be strange from where you're all fuzzy grow
37:45Bees out to a block by a tough side
37:48Right, music off, then breakfast.
37:55Small, with wood chips on the wall
38:00When I'm...
38:01Can you turn it off on me?
38:02...the call, you didn't notice me at all
38:06I'm noticing you right now.
38:09Do you remember the games you played with Maggie?
38:11That'd be fun, yeah?
38:13Is this day one?
38:14What are you talking about?
38:15The new regime.
38:16The joke plan.
38:18I've always done stuff like this with him.
38:20No, you haven't.
38:21And you're talking in your patient voice
38:22Which means you're about to blow.
38:23Have you got £30?
38:25What?
38:25Tickets for the play.
38:26You didn't put a check in the envelope.
38:29Joe.
38:30Headphones.
38:31Off.
38:33Ah, no.
38:34That's not the deal.
38:35Ah, Joe.
38:37No.
38:37Come on now.
38:38I'm not allowed to do this, but I'm going to put a reserve notice on the front row seats.
38:42Ah, ah, ah.
38:42Don't pull it.
38:43OK.
38:44OK.
38:44Put it on the table.
38:45Mum.
38:45Put it on the table, Joe.
38:47Are you listening?
38:48Put it on the table.
38:49Shhh.
38:55Pulp.
38:55Disco.
38:562000.
38:57Single.
38:591995.
39:04The money for the tickets.
39:06Oh, for God's sake.
39:07You can get the cash out my coat pocket, alright?
39:31The grey rock petrified her by inches and she died.
39:35Her story is mine.
39:36Today I shall share her rocky bed.
39:38Today I shall share her rocky bed.
39:40Say that again.
39:42Five minutes, Joe.
39:48Let's all meet up in the year 2000.
39:52You are a genius.
39:54Yes.
39:55Yes.
39:59Down the road.
40:02I never knew that you'd get married.
40:06I would be living down here on my own.
40:11On that time of the moment.
40:13First day years ago.
40:21The schools want someone to go and talk about the measles jab.
40:25I'd like you to do it.
40:26Oh, right. Thank you.
40:27I'm not flattering you. I just don't want to do it myself.
40:30How's your nephew? ADHD, wasn't it?
40:33Autism spectrum.
40:34Right. That must have been another boy.
40:37I write a lot of letters, mainly for parents,
40:39trying to get into the better secondary school.
40:41This isn't article autism. It's real.
40:43Sure. Don't forget to hand out the leaflets when you do the jab talk.
40:56Yes, I'll write you out a prescription.
40:58Don't look like you failed.
41:00Plenty of men your age have erectile dysfunction.
41:02I haven't got erectile dysfunction.
41:05Hey, I'm not here to judge.
41:10Is that it?
41:12Unless it's me you're planning on sleeping with, then yes, that's it.
41:16You don't want to check my health out or anything?
41:18Morris, I see you running up the side of a mountain every morning.
41:21I think your health's probably better than mine.
41:22It's not a mountain. It's a fell.
41:24Are there any side effects?
41:25Some people complain of headaches,
41:27but sometimes a headache is a small price to pay,
41:32depending on the woman or the man.
41:37Does your daughter-in-law think she's settling in here?
41:40What?
41:41Her job here, if she said anything.
41:43Is this the right time or place to be talking about my daughter-in-law's job?
41:46I think she's made a good start.
41:48Good?
41:48Don't forget to tell her.
41:50I'm hardly likely to.
41:56Mrs Brownlee.
41:57Oh, hi, Morris.
41:59Hello.
42:00Hello there.
42:02Nicola.
42:03Nicola.
42:12Cancel it?
42:13What?
42:14I thought you said to go ahead.
42:16You said it was a good idea.
42:17I've already started working on it.
42:18You can't afford any changes right now.
42:20The rebranding, the rebuilding go hand in hand.
42:22I've already started spending money with your blessing.
42:24Just get on with running the business, Edwin.
42:27Don't call me Edwin.
42:29Do you want to see the figures?
42:29I can show you the figures.
42:32Is this about Joe?
42:34Why would it be about Joe?
42:35If you want to save money because you need it for Joe, then I'm fine with that.
42:38Well, if you're fine with it, why would you say it?
42:39Is it about Joe?
42:41You said we could afford it two days ago.
42:43Is there something else I should know about the finances of this place?
42:45Yes, we make beer.
42:47We sell beer.
42:48People drink beer.
42:49They feel good.
42:50They fall over.
42:51They want more.
42:52We make more.
42:53Now, go on Twitter that for size.
42:59I don't want to be Eddie in this family.
43:02I'm Eddie.
43:06Hello.
43:07Hi, Eddie.
43:08I've had to go to Manchester.
43:09Paul's not picking up.
43:10I've been trying to get a hold of Maya for hours.
43:12Is David working there today?
43:14Has he got a landline number for her?
43:15Do you mind asking him?
43:16What am I?
43:17Directory Inquiries?
43:19Do you think this is a hobby?
43:20Do the whole family think it's just a hobby of doing it?
43:31How it works, love, is this.
43:33You go and see your GP.
43:34He refers you to us.
43:35We send a letter to your home address
43:37asking you to phone the appointments line to make an appointment.
43:39The appointments line, which is in Newcastle, informs us.
43:42Then we write you a letter to give you a time and a date to come here.
43:45It's quite straightforward.
43:46I don't need an appointment.
43:47You do if you want to see Miss White.
43:48No, I just need you to tell her that I'm here
43:50and that I need five minutes of her time.
43:52See, the problem is, all these people have got appointments.
43:54OK.
43:55Could you just give her this note?
43:58Here.
44:00There.
44:01Thank you very much.
44:15Sarah Jones.
44:30Maggie.
44:41Hey!
44:42Hey!
44:43Hey!
44:43Hey!
44:44Hey!
44:44Bye!
44:45Hey!
44:46Hey!
44:47Bye-bye, everyone.
45:15Hmm?
45:18You hold my hand to cross the road, Jo?
45:22Okay, we can just touch hands if you want, okay?
45:48Bye-bye.
45:50Bye-bye.
45:52Bye-bye.
46:04I just wanted to see you for ten minutes.
46:06You aren't gonna change my mind, Alison.
46:08I'm not here to change your mind, I'm here to apologise.
46:12I'm sorry for trying to bully you into working with Jo.
46:15And I'm begging you to think again.
46:16Oh, I see.
46:18I realise there's probably some compromise.
46:20Maybe you could oversee someone and just come once a month
46:22or once a fortnight, maybe.
46:24I can't do it on my own.
46:25I've tried to do what you do with Jo and it just doesn't work.
46:28Yeah, I thought for a moment you were going to apologise to me
46:30for bullying me at school.
46:33Well, I would, but I honestly don't remember.
46:36Of course, if I did, then I apologise for that.
46:38I mean...
46:38I love that modern way of apologising.
46:41If I gave offence, I apologise.
46:43That isn't an apology.
46:44That's saying the problem's yours, not mine.
46:46Well, I mean, from where I'm standing, we were teenagers.
46:50We all have our own stuff to deal with.
46:51I was probably just as insecure as you.
46:53I'm sure that's true.
46:54But you chose to exercise that insecurity
46:56by refusing to sit next to me.
46:58By making jokes about me.
47:00I knew I was the weird kid, Alison.
47:02The best I could hope for was to be ignored
47:03and you didn't even give me that.
47:08I don't know what to say.
47:10Of course, I'm sorry.
47:12I...
47:13I don't remember it that way, I really don't.
47:15I mean...
47:17It's a long time ago and...
47:19If that was happening to Rebecca, I would be...
47:24I don't know what else I can do about that now
47:25except to just keep saying I'm sorry.
47:27You could pay for my years of therapy, I suppose.
47:30Well, if you never discovered therapy,
47:32you might not be doing what you're doing.
47:35That's a joke, by the way.
47:37And look, I know what you think about humour
47:39as a defence mechanism and you're dead right.
47:40I just...
47:41I'm begging you, Maggie, you opened up something in Joe.
47:43It's a technique, an approach.
47:45I'm a trained therapist, not Jesus.
47:47Please, I'll do anything to help my child.
47:49That's what all parents say, and it's true.
47:52But do you see it's about you again, not your child?
47:54I will do anything to help my child.
47:58Wait, are you...
48:00Are you refusing to take on Joe to get back at me?
48:02Is that what's going on here?
48:04I will never punish a child by denying my professional help and advice
48:08no matter how I felt about the parents.
48:10I will send through my report, my recommendations
48:12and my suggestions for local people in the area.
48:15For Joe.
48:17Because I can see how many problems he's facing.
48:21You know what?
48:23I think you're enjoying this.
48:25Alison, my advice to you.
48:29Get some therapy.
48:31Fuck you, Maggie!
48:32Okay.
49:02Shit.
49:33Do we need that many downlighters over the bar?
49:35You need them.
49:37Unless you plan to supply the barman with a head torch.
49:42Well, why don't we lose the side lights, right?
49:46Just have candles.
49:48Do you want to get that?
49:49No, no, come on, I want to sort this out.
49:52Stay still, you'll end up looking like Liz McDonald.
49:56That Hollywood agent and no-show.
49:58Very funny.
50:00Look at you.
50:02If those eyebrows don't say,
50:04young woman who wants to bury her brother within the city walls
50:06in defiance of her uncle and under threat of death,
50:09then I don't know what does.
50:21For the first time today, I thought,
50:24might be okay here.
50:26The job, you know, it's helping.
50:28That's a coincidence.
50:30For the first time today, I thought,
50:31this is never going to work.
50:34It's unfortunate.
50:36Thank you for your heartfelt sympathy.
50:44Rit?
50:45Rit?
50:47Rit?
50:48Rumours of a transfer to Barrow-Infinance.
50:51Did you see my mum and dad?
50:52All I saw was my public, darling.
50:55Rit?
50:56Rit?
50:57Rit?
51:00Rit?
51:02Rit?
51:02Rit?
51:03Rit?
51:03Rit?
51:04Rit?
51:04Rit?
51:05Rit?
51:10Rit?
51:11Rit?
51:12Rit?
51:15Rit?
51:30Rit?
51:31Rit?
51:33Rit?
51:42Rit?
51:43Rit?
51:44Rit?
51:44Rit?
51:49Rit?
51:54Rit?
51:56Rit?
51:57Rit?
52:00Rit?
52:04Rit?
52:05Rit?
52:07Rit?
52:08Rit?
52:10Rit?
52:13Rit?
52:14Ismene, listen.
52:15The same blood flows through both our veins, doesn't it?
52:18My sister, the blood of Oedipus, and suffering which was his destiny,
52:23is our punishment too.
52:25The sentence passed on all his children,
52:27physical pain, contempt, insult, every kind of dishonour.
52:32We've seen them all, endured them all, the two of us.
52:37No-one has told me anything, Antigone.
52:39I have heard nothing.
52:41All these senators of yours, they all agree with me in their hearts,
52:45but there is no gag like terror, is there, gentlemen?
52:49And tyrants must have their way, both in word and action.
52:52That's their privilege.
52:54You are quite mistaken.
52:56None of the Thebans anywhere in the city think as you do.
52:58They all do, but they keep their mouths shut when you're here.
53:01Not at all.
53:03You see, senators, my time has run out.
53:06There is no more left.
53:07I am the last of the royal blood, a daughter of kings,
53:12and I die his victim unjustly
53:15for upholding justice and the humanity of humankind.
53:21very much clap, in the hands of God.
53:48Theå…¬ Paul in all of the women's pan
53:48was baptized, and people who do not lean out.
54:14You are going to come round later, aren't you?
54:16My family want to celebrate my brilliance, so sorry, but, you know...
54:21So, I'll make an excuse.
54:23Get a room, ladies. It's what Sophocles would have wanted.
54:32I will be there tomorrow night. Wild horses couldn't keep me away.
54:36Great.
54:38Is this about Joe? Your dad said he was a bit of a nightmare.
54:41No, Mum, it's not about Joe. It's about you.
54:45You could have been there, and you weren't, and that is so shit.
54:48Love, listen, I went to speak to Maggie about Joe.
54:52It couldn't wait.
54:53I thought he'd be grown up enough to understand that.
54:55You went to see Maggie? When did we decide this?
54:59Well, it's not every day you discover your granddaughter's
55:02even more talented than you thought she was.
55:04You were brilliant.
55:06Pained, angry, and not stupid angry that you can be in real life.
55:09Tip, Rebecca, never ask Nicola unless you want the unvarnished truth.
55:13How's the job going?
55:15Oh, yeah, you know, the joys of being a practice nurse.
55:18Do you get access to everybody's medical records?
55:21I suppose so, as long as I'm still working there.
55:25Oi, what do you want to know?
55:27I'm joking, Morris.
55:29What did you say to Maggie? Am I allowed to know?
55:32Doesn't matter, she's not coming back.
55:34And you made sure of that, I'm sure.
55:37No, I swallowed my pride to talk to her,
55:39but she's got this bloody bullying thing going,
55:41and I couldn't change her mind.
55:42I can't believe you went to see her without telling me.
55:44Well, what would have been the point in telling you?
55:46There doesn't have to be a point. I'm his dad.
55:49I'm not having you running this thing as though it's all yours to change.
55:53Anyone would think you think I'm a bully.
55:55No, not exactly. Jo, turn that down.
55:58Not exactly?
56:01Well, maybe our boy needs a bully out there fighting his corner.
56:04I will not be the one outside of Pallada.
56:06What?
56:06He keeps saying that.
56:08Jo needs a champion. That's not the same as a bully.
56:11Oh, so I am a bully?
56:12Yeah, you are. Yeah.
56:17Can we all just pipe down and raise a glass to Rebecca?
56:23Sure.
56:26If you can tell me where she is.
56:45Don't spend all your time being a bitch
56:47and then playing the understanding mum when it suits you.
56:49My father is having a sexual relationship.
56:52That's just another thing not to think about.
56:54I don't care if it's good news or bad news,
56:56but you talk to her.
56:57You don't just ignore her like a prick.
56:59I haven't told Charlotte this for a long time.
57:01Happy to oblige.
57:02Me and Sally?
57:03You two have got a history.
57:04You know what it's like.
57:05You can be yourself.
57:06Must be killing you wondering what's going on.
57:08I know when to be discreet.
57:09Certainly do.
57:10Bitch, Grandma.
57:11Do you remember that?
57:12This is empathy.
57:13It's like his turn to corner.
57:14Rip it up and start again.
57:24Rip it up.
57:29Rip it up.
57:33Rip it up.
57:38Rip it up.
57:39Oh, oh, oh, oh.
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