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00:21I'll see you soon.
00:30Mum, I've got a nice cup of tea for you.
00:35Mum, you up.
00:50Mum, do you want this tea or not?
00:54Take more than a cup of tea, you know.
00:57A lot more.
00:59Well, suit yourself, then.
01:06This is going to be a perfect Sunday, right?
01:09She wouldn't let me in. She's still at it.
01:12I could strangle her.
01:15Oh, no, no, no, you don't.
01:16Look, this is supposed to be a perfect Sunday.
01:18Thank you. And if anybody ruins it, anybody, by a careless word or any nonsense whatsoever,
01:23then life won't be worth living. Got that?
01:25There's some more fried bread, Mum.
01:27Are you listening to your father?
01:28Because you're still in trouble, my boy, for staying out all night.
01:31Now, look, I mean it. This is going to be a real family effort, a real family Sunday,
01:36and everybody's going to be devoted to making her upstairs happy, whether she likes it or not.
01:41So you, white shirt and a good wash for both of you.
01:44Then the pair of you can get over to your Uncle Pete's to collect the meat.
01:47Secure he call, more like. Mind you, don't get robbed in the street.
01:50Mum, you don't get mugged for a bit of beef.
01:53Not yet, anyway.
02:00Morning.
02:03Machine's all working, is it?
02:04I'm not using one.
02:15Staying out to the cold or haven't you got a home?
02:17That pokey little room, it gives me a creeps.
02:22I bet your four walls are better than mine.
02:25You live in the square?
02:27Right in the middle of it.
02:29I sleep in my van till the house is done up.
02:31Moving in?
02:33God, you're going to freeze to death in here.
02:34It's going to be in the house.
02:36Crazy.
02:39Someday opening soon?
02:40No, it's been cleaning, haven't we?
02:44What's that happen?
02:46What happening now?
02:47I'm day trip, actually.
02:50God, you picked a good day for it.
02:52I hope you brought your skis.
02:56It's a boy or a girl?
02:58Girl.
03:02I got both.
03:06Who's a lovely little guy then?
03:09Oh, you sound cheerful.
03:21Well, I got an invitation to Sunday dinner with my old friend, Louise Beale.
03:27I've had my teeth specially sharpened.
03:29Guess what we're having for dinner?
03:31Nice bit of beef.
03:33Great.
03:33Well, if you'll just cross me palm with a ten stripe.
03:35What for?
03:36You still owe me a tenner for the circle, love, remember?
03:39Well, I haven't got it now, love, do you?
03:41You did post a tenner to the name at the top.
03:43Oh, not yet, no.
03:45Therefore, you know that if the circle's broken, all that money goes down the drain.
03:49Yes, but not today, Lofty.
03:52I want to enjoy myself.
03:53I can't remember last time I had a nice Sunday dinner.
03:58It is my lucky day.
04:01Ever, will you post a letter today?
04:03Do that at least.
04:04Well, I got the envelope ready, but I haven't got the tenner to put in it.
04:08Tell you what.
04:09You lend me a tenner.
04:12Then I'll go out and post it.
04:14You already owe me a tenner.
04:16Yes, but then the circle won't be broken.
04:19And it'll be two tenners.
04:22Oh.
04:24Pay you Wednesday.
04:26All right.
04:27I'll lend you another tenner if you'll ask Lou to join our circle.
04:31I've already asked her.
04:33Well, ask her again.
04:34It's your lucky day, innit?
04:35Well, it must be, if you're going to lend me another tenner.
04:43She must be off her trolley sitting in that place, especially in this weather.
04:48Which of us is going to do the cooker?
04:49There's half a ton of conjured baked beans down the back.
04:52I did it last time.
04:53Yeah, toss you for it.
04:55I don't gamble.
04:56That's not gambling.
04:57Digs or tails?
04:57It's all gambling to you.
04:59You can't even chuck arrows without making a bet.
05:01Miss my darts, I do.
05:03Yeah, well, find another boozer.
05:04I like the Vic.
05:05You're barred from the Vic.
05:07Don't remind me.
05:08Oh, a pint of Godin lovely.
05:10Change the record, Al.
05:12Opening time soon.
05:17You need to want to get back into that place, don't you?
05:19Wouldn't mind.
05:24All right?
05:25We'll try tonight.
05:26How?
05:28I'll think of something.
05:34And look.
05:46Oh, it's good.
05:48Oh.
05:49Oh!
05:50Hmm?
05:54Hmm?
05:56Hmm?
06:01Hmm?
06:02Hmm?
06:02Hmm?
06:02Oh!
06:02Mmm, very nice.
06:05Mmm, marshy self.
06:08Look, I'll meet you outside of Vic in, uh, 15 minutes, okay?
06:12Yeah, where we going?
06:13You're gonna shake the dust on the square for more feet, boy.
06:16Get far away from here.
06:17It's Sunday.
06:19Oh, Sunday!
06:20Yeah!
06:22So, 15 minutes, okay?
06:24Yeah.
06:29Well, I've had a nice shave,
06:32and I will now take her upstairs,
06:34her with a wheel of iron,
06:37over to the Vic for a dinnertime sweetener
06:40to be followed by a lovely dinner
06:43with her devoted family.
06:46And if that doesn't work,
06:48I'll take what's left of the joint, bone and all,
06:52and stuff it sideways down your mother's throat.
06:55Oh, come on!
06:57Well, it's ridiculous. It is really.
07:00Grown-ups waiting on her blessing tar.
07:01We've got months to win her over yet.
07:03I can't wait that long.
07:06Oh, well, she'll be all right today, so don't worry.
07:10There.
07:11Oh, do you know, it is nice having everybody round.
07:14Just like the old days.
07:16And it was good of Pete to give us the beef.
07:18It's Mum's favourite.
07:20What, Pete or the beef?
07:21Both.
07:22So we can't lose, can we?
07:23Now go on.
07:24All right.
07:29Are you ready, Mum?
07:31Nearly.
07:31I think I'll go to the pub on me own.
07:33At me own pace.
07:35But it's only across the road.
07:37Oh, you know I'm getting out of breath.
07:39No, you go on.
07:40I'll see you over there.
07:42Oh, never mind, love. Go on.
07:46Pete took out a second mortgage on that bit of beef.
07:48I only hope it's worth it.
07:50You know, I used to enjoy Sundays when I was working,
07:54even with her.
07:55But now there's no difference.
07:57I'm going for a walk.
07:59All right?
08:00At me own pace!
08:05Cheers, Tom.
08:06What you up to then on your day old?
08:08I'm leaving Walford for the day.
08:11Oh?
08:12I've cleared it with immigration.
08:15So me and my son will slip across the border
08:17into another borough.
08:19Somewhere with a touch more class.
08:21Where's that thing?
08:22It's Linton.
08:24Come an old place, this Linton.
08:26Thinks it isn't, but it is.
08:29There you go then, Ethel.
08:30And that one's on Tony.
08:32Oh, cheers.
08:34Cheers.
08:36Mmm.
08:37Sunday.
08:38God bless it.
08:39Without it, I would go mad.
08:41You offer your son, eh?
08:42Yep.
08:43Oh, I hope he's as handsome as his dad.
08:46Yeah.
08:46Why too close to the sun, some people.
08:49How is the golden circle, Ethel?
08:51Oh, I got another tenner.
08:53I got rid of one yesterday.
08:55That reminds me.
08:57I must post this.
08:59No post today, Ethel.
09:00It's Sunday.
09:02Oh.
09:04Bye, Fox.
09:06See you, Tom.
09:07Oh, well.
09:09Kelvin!
09:11Oh, Sunday.
09:13Lovely Sunday.
09:14Where are we going, Beth?
09:15Oh, anywhere.
09:17Goodbye, Walford.
09:18Hello, anywhere.
09:19Somewhere where this place is just a dot on the horizon.
09:22A dark shadow in the distance.
09:26Somewhere where we've escaped from, yeah?
09:28Two.
09:30Three.
09:32Five.
09:32Oh, I couldn't half do with a fag.
09:38Mum.
09:41Right, now, everyone's going to be nice to everyone, but especially to Gran.
09:45Right?
09:46Right?
09:47Yes.
09:48And get her to have her palm read.
09:50And you bring up the subject of the holiday first, Ian, because she likes you.
09:53Yeah, he's a little favourite, isn't he?
09:55Just watch it, you.
09:56I still haven't finished with you for staying out all night.
09:58Leave it out, Mum.
09:59That was days ago.
10:01And in school time, too.
10:02I'm old enough to stay out, for one of you.
10:04Oh, yeah?
10:05Well, when you're old enough to vote, you can.
10:06Till then, watch it.
10:08And where was you, anyway?
10:10Mum.
10:11Well?
10:11I told you, I went up west.
10:14This guy.
10:14Hmm.
10:15Well, you've been warned.
10:22You were seen up west with, and it caught me a liar.
10:25Shut your mouth.
10:30You can't be, can you, mate?
10:31Sunday lunchtime, and you're local.
10:34Here, Ethel.
10:35You take one, won't you, love?
10:37Well, what's that, then?
10:39Go on, Mum.
10:40You like to gamble.
10:41Do I?
10:41Well, you know you do.
10:43Yeah, when I was a kid, she used to make me take her bets.
10:46Too bad.
10:46Give up each way and don't tell the old man.
10:48You make it all up.
10:49You do, I hope you do.
10:51I'll wear for your John Mum's circle, won't you?
10:53Well, of course I will, the more the merrier.
10:57Hello, Arthur.
10:58Hello.
10:58Hello.
10:59You got here then, Mum?
11:00Of course I did.
11:01What do you expect me to do?
11:02Get lost?
11:03No such luck.
11:04Here, I'll get him.
11:05Oh, no, no, no, I'll get him in.
11:06Oh, no, you won't.
11:08I will.
11:09You're not the only one in the golden thingy.
11:12I'm going to take a tiny sub out of my future winnings
11:17and buy my friends a drink.
11:19Same again, Nessie.
11:20Cuss Arthur.
11:21Come on, I'll give you a hand.
11:22Hey, Lofty.
11:24Ethel.
11:25What can I get you?
11:25Hey, Mum, you got Ethel?
11:26Then ring, sister, and that's it.
11:28You're on your way.
11:29Think about it.
11:30What you got to think about?
11:31I like to think about it.
11:33You like to be stubborn, don't you, Mum?
11:34Add the last word.
11:35Do I?
11:36Yes, you do.
11:37Well, then you know where you get it from then, don't you?
11:39Yeah, you got it right.
11:41Talk about the old days.
11:43What about the old days?
11:45Anything.
11:46When they had horses pulling the trams or Moses' mob down the Ridley Road.
11:50Anything you like.
11:51But we're counting on you, Ethel.
11:53In fact, you and the beef are our master weapons.
12:01Anyway, it's a bit short notice for a babysitter.
12:04Oh, often for something.
12:05Don't I always?
12:07What's this?
12:08Didn't they use a Sunday suit?
12:09We aim to even clear off.
12:11And get your dirty feet off my clean floor.
12:13Oh, go on.
12:13Let me in, Mark.
12:14I've just won game, won't we?
12:15Not even half a game, lads.
12:16We're closed, all right?
12:17Of course.
12:18So, look, you were the one who got you into it in the first place.
12:22Ow!
12:22Does your mother know how much you feed into that machine?
12:24You'll get addicted.
12:26What?
12:26Like your old man?
12:27All right, that's it.
12:28Come on, out.
12:30Where are you gonna go now?
12:31No, it's coming.
12:32Come on.
12:32Come on.
12:33Come on.
12:38Can't you and Mum get back together, Dad?
12:41No, son.
12:41It's too late for that.
12:47She'll just be coming out of church.
12:50Sunday is for worshipping, yeah?
12:51Praising your God.
12:56Nothing like this where we live.
12:58We've got the marshes.
13:00Oh, yeah.
13:07Who get custody of me, Dad?
13:09No one.
13:10Your sister is 14, so she don't get a choice.
13:13But you, you can go where you want.
13:16Come on.
13:17No judge is gonna force you one way or the other.
13:19At 16, you can go where you want to go.
13:26Mum thinks you're a bad influence.
13:28I don't know why, because I hardly ever see you.
13:30I'm only wrong the corner.
13:33She won't want me to be with you, you know.
13:37Is that what you want?
13:41What about your sister?
13:43Stay with Mum.
13:52How can I come and stay with you, though?
13:54If you've got nowhere to live?
14:08I never thought I'd live to see it again.
14:11Beef.
14:13Beef.
14:14And him out of work and another mouth to feed.
14:17Leave it out, Mum.
14:19Can't bribe me with a side of beef.
14:22Now, listen.
14:24This is my table, even if it isn't my house.
14:27And Pete give us the beef, if you must know.
14:29Your favourite, so it should melt on your tongue.
14:33Now, will everybody shut up and let us enjoy our dinner?
14:37Arthur.
14:39Thank you, Arthur.
14:48She's nice.
14:50Yeah, she is.
14:52You haven't got much, have you?
14:54I'll get some more.
14:56It's a lot cleaner than when old Reg was here, though.
14:59I'll say that.
15:00Reg was the old boy who lived here before you.
15:03Did you hear about him?
15:04Who?
15:04Reg.
15:05The old boy.
15:07No.
15:08Come on, then.
15:11Where are you from, Mary?
15:13Lancashire.
15:14I've never been there.
15:15Well, you won't miss much.
15:17Are you married?
15:20No.
15:26Me and Ali have been married almost three years now.
15:29We've got a little boy.
15:30Yeah, I've seen him.
15:32Hassan.
15:33Nearly ten months.
15:35Sometimes I wonder who's more of a handful, him or Ali.
15:38Mind you, Hassan doesn't go out gambling yet.
15:42Or chase other women yet.
15:44Or stay out all night yet.
15:46They generally wind me up.
15:49I don't know where I am sometimes, I can tell you.
15:52Perhaps that's why I'm not married.
15:57You didn't hear about Reg, then?
16:00No.
16:02Murdered, weren't he?
16:04Right here, in this room.
16:06They still haven't found who done it.
16:10Well, you've got to be told, haven't you?
16:13And you're telling me?
16:23He'd come in, said Churchill, and then just tip the table up with all our dinners on it.
16:29Just like that.
16:29What, over politics?
16:31No.
16:31Over the walls, love.
16:34He's the image of his granddad, you know.
16:37Here, Billy Cotton's band show, that come first.
16:40What was it, a wakey-wakey?
16:42Oh, Alan Breeze, Alan Breeze, he was diabolical, wasn't he?
16:46Yeah, Pop used to like him, didn't he, Mum?
16:48Yeah, or was it in town tonight?
16:50La, la, my baby has gone down the placo.
16:54Oh!
16:55My baby has gone down the placo.
16:59The poor little Finn was so skinny and thin.
17:04He should have been washed in a bottle of gin.
17:09That was where the days, eh, Mum?
17:12So what happened about that black eye then?
17:14Oh, yes.
17:15What was all that about, I said?
17:17Churchill, he said.
17:18What about Churchill, I said?
17:20Never mind, he said.
17:22They went out for a drink at one o'clock,
17:25come back at two,
17:26your dad with a black eye and his mate with a missing tooth,
17:30they never spoke another word to each other for a whole year,
17:32and all I could get out of him was Churchill.
17:35Churchill, yeah, what about that time in the blackout
17:39when he caught his head in the door?
17:42Yeah, that weren't, Dad, it was Grandad, wasn't it?
17:44Yeah, when he was a warden.
17:46Dropped his teeth, rushing when the siren went, didn't he?
17:49And when he went down to pick them up,
17:52he tripped over the twins' pram,
17:54shot for them, put his tin helmet straight through the front door.
17:59He's inside, his head's out, his teeth had disappeared again,
18:02the front door's in tatters, and someone's hollering,
18:05put that bloody light there.
18:07Oh, you've done it now, I said,
18:09you silly old man,
18:11putting your head through the door and showing Jerry a light.
18:14Never mind the door, he said.
18:16Oh, Jerry,
18:17just you make certain you ain't standing on my teeth.
18:21Ha, ha, ha, ha.
18:23Silly old man.
18:26Right,
18:27me and you are going back home.
18:29What home?
18:30Well, won't always be like that, will it?
18:32Once I've got it done up.
18:34Does that mean I can come and live with you when it's finished, then?
18:36Hmm, we cross that when we come to it.
18:42Means you've got time to do some serious thinking.
18:46So you know exactly what you want.
18:47I know what I want.
18:50Oh, Kelvin.
18:52I'm treating you like a grown person,
18:54a young man.
18:56And in return, I want you to consider everything carefully,
18:59not just rush into it.
19:02Right?
19:03Yeah, all right.
19:06Right.
19:07Come on, we're supposed to be enjoying ourselves.
19:21How about it, Ingrid?
19:22How about what?
19:23Easter in Clacton.
19:25With Michelle.
19:26Who'd love to go?
19:29Oh, go on, Gran.
19:30It'd be great.
19:32Spitting image of your granddad, you are.
19:38All right, then.
19:40All right.
19:41I'll give in.
19:44Here.
19:44Does that mean you're going to go?
19:46Yeah.
19:47I'll go.
19:49Don't worry, all of you.
19:50You've got what you wanted.
19:52I'll go.
19:53But is that all you've got to say?
19:55For now, yeah.
19:57And now me and Ed fancy a bit of privacy.
20:00Don't we, Ed?
20:01We're going up to my room now.
20:06Come along, Ed.
20:13So it's all settled then, yeah?
20:15Yeah.
20:17Look, he's only downstairs.
20:19And I mean, he's no trouble, is he?
20:20No.
20:22Well, I'm not all that good with babies.
20:24I still don't know much about them.
20:26Look, I'm only asking you to keep an ear out.
20:30Someone had to tell you, didn't they?
20:32Tell her what?
20:33Nothing.
20:34Look, we are neighbours.
20:35We'll do the same for you.
20:37And we have got business to attend to, honest.
20:41Well, if you go out, I'm going to lock the door.
20:43Bolt it, if you like.
20:44Just as long as you keep an ear out for little Hassan.
20:47So?
20:48Please.
20:51Yeah, all right.
20:52Great.
20:53Thanks.
20:56Good.
20:57That's that part settled.
20:58Now all we've got to do is work out a way to get you back into the pub.
21:07When's the house going to be ready?
21:09Now, that's a good question.
21:12For it to be ready, I have to do the work.
21:14To do the work, I have to be free of the other work,
21:16which I have to do to pay the mortgage on this place
21:18and the mortgage on the other place.
21:21That's when it will be ready.
21:22Oh, boy.
21:23Money, boy.
21:24It drives me mad.
21:27Have a good day, huh?
21:28Good Sunday?
21:29Yeah.
21:30Yep.
21:32All right.
21:32Nice.
21:41Hey.
21:42Now you go straight home to your...
21:45to your mom, yeah?
21:47Be a good boy now.
21:48And I'll see you soon.
21:50All right?
21:50All right.
21:51Hey, I'm Kelvin.
21:54Think, boy.
21:56Think.
22:09Look at this lot.
22:11Disgusting, isn't it?
22:12Well, at least they got what they wanted.
22:14Now maybe they'll leave me alone.
22:16Oh, well, it's all right for you.
22:17You ain't got to go to Clacton.
22:19She still doesn't say anything about the baby, though,
22:20has she?
22:21Baby.
22:22Oh, go on, Gran.
22:22It'd be great.
22:23Yeah, about it, Gran.
22:24Well, I'm not staying around here.
22:26Go for a walk.
22:28Yeah, come on.
22:29Unless you want to stay with the wrinklies.
22:32Shh.
22:43Who are you writing to?
22:44My sister.
22:47You know, there's two things my Albert used to do every week.
22:54His paws and his corns.
22:58Devoted an evening to each of them he did.
23:00Paws first, then his feet.
23:05I showed the doctor mine.
23:08You what?
23:09Corns.
23:09Oh.
23:11Ethel, he said,
23:14you used to have beautiful feet,
23:17but life has been unkind to you.
23:22Too true, I said.
23:25Too true.
23:28Too true.
23:36Wake up, Ethel.
23:40Me and you's going out tonight.
23:43We're going down the bingo.
23:46And after that,
23:48we're going over the pub.
23:51That lot's snoring down there.
23:55Think they've won me over.
23:58Well,
24:00I ain't finished yet.
24:05Two bars is a waste of time, I tell you.
24:07The old pub's a waste of time,
24:09if you ask me.
24:09If we got out, you'd see.
24:11But, oh, no, you don't want to, do you?
24:13You like it here.
24:14Well, where do you want to go, then?
24:15Hampstead, Highgate, or Arrow?
24:16And what would I do there, eh?
24:17About the same as you do here.
24:19Sweet F.A.
24:20Oh, leave it out for once, will you?
24:23Hello, love.
24:25Well, what's this going?
24:26Come on.
24:30I think it's about time
24:31you let him back in again.
24:32Oh, do you?
24:33Yes, I do.
24:34You let Nick back in again.
24:36Because if you don't let him,
24:37he's being picked on.
24:39Come on, you.
24:40Say your piece.
24:41Sorry, Dan.
24:42It won't happen again.
24:44That's true.
24:47Sorry, Ange.
24:48Come here a minute, Al.
24:49I want to have a word with you.
24:53What would you do
24:54if there was no public bar?
24:55Just one bar
24:56and no dartboard.
24:57Dunno.
24:58Go somewhere else.
24:59Where they was.
24:59If I wanted a game.
25:01You're not back in here yet, Sanjay.
25:02Oh, yes, he is.
25:03Sue's right.
25:04You're back on a week's licence,
25:05but you so much
25:06as spill your beer
25:07and your bard, right?
25:09All right.
25:10But if Nick starts anything,
25:12you leave him to me.
25:13Or, better still,
25:14leave him to her.
25:15Understood?
25:17Right.
25:18Thanks, Ange.
25:19All right.
25:19Can I have my darts, please, Ange?
25:22Well, where is she, then?
25:23I'm sure I had more than this.
25:24I haven't smoked that many.
25:25Oh, Pete, give me these.
25:26I didn't buy them.
25:27It's probably Mark.
25:28So?
25:30Oh, she's probably gone to bingo.
25:32So we're still no further on.
25:34She's a hard woman, your mother.
25:35Do you think this was Mark?
25:37Oh, I don't know, love,
25:38but I've had enough for one Sunday.
25:39I'm going down to the pub.
25:40Are you coming?
25:41Oh, yes.
25:42Money, money.
25:46Money.
25:57Good job you gave the right answer, Al.
26:00Otherwise, you wouldn't have got back in here
26:02for a month for Sundays.
26:03And then the points of your darts
26:05would have rusted and dropped off.
26:07And we can't have that, can we?
26:08So just watch yourself, right?
26:13Here, Mum, just bear a seat here.
26:16Oh, lovely.
26:18I've had a lovely day.
26:20Nice bit of beef, nice bingo, lovely.
26:22Post a letter.
26:24I knew there was something I'd forgotten.
26:26All right, this it here, I'll post it.
26:29It's empty.
26:30Yes, I know it is.
26:31Well, where's my ten quid gone?
26:33Oh, well, don't worry.
26:34I've got another one.
26:36What, off Lou?
26:36Did you get her to join the circle?
26:39Not exactly, no.
26:41What does that mean?
26:42Well, I think I'm in hers.
26:45In fact, I'm sure I am,
26:47because that's where I got the tenner.
26:48Lou lent it to me to get her started.
26:51That's 30 quid you've had, 20 of it mine.
26:54I know people have been very kind.
26:56You haven't done anything with it, Ethel.
26:58But I've enjoyed myself, Lofty.
27:01You don't know what you're doing, do you?
27:02Don't have any idea,
27:03and people keep showering money on you.
27:05Well, like I said,
27:07this is my lucky day.
27:09Oh, I did enjoy that beef.
27:11I don't know who's dafted, you or me.
27:13Yeah, same again, Lofty.
27:15Give us one for Pauline and Arthur.
27:16They've been in a minute.
27:17I won't give Ethel and Mum one.
27:19Go on, take them out of that, Lofty.
27:21Take them out of that.
27:22I must be mad getting involved with you.
27:25Mad.
27:25Don't you understand what you've done?
27:27Then take one for yourself.
27:28Go on, make up for your disappointment.
27:32Now, enjoy your drinks, everybody.
27:35Oh, well, some of you two, then.
27:36You've both got faces like a wet weekend,
27:38whereas we've had a lovely day, haven't we?
27:40Oh, lovely.
27:41Last time I had beef like that,
27:43we had a different Prime Minister.
27:45Well, then,
27:46here's to my Easter-olody
27:48with my little Michelle in Clampton.
27:51Cheers.
27:53And here's to my new grandson.
27:57Because that's what he's going to be.
28:00God bless him.
28:02So, cheers all.
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