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08:43What?!
08:44And get vandalised and murdered for the sake of a sausage.
08:47Oh, you make too much fuss, Lou.
08:50I go around everywhere, don't I?
08:52That's because you're soft in the head, in my opinion, girl.
08:54You'll get done one of these days.
08:55It's always been rough round here.
08:58You remember as well as I do.
09:00The coppers would only go around in pairs
09:03up Nesbitt Street when we were girls.
09:05It was that violent.
09:06Maybe so.
09:07But then people only knocked her out of each other.
09:10Not pinching us for the sake of 10p.
09:13Here, what about Mrs Finnegan up the flats last week?
09:17They done her proper.
09:19Do you want your tea leaves red or don't you?
09:23Well, what do you think?
09:24Well, then.
09:26Now, you see that cluster there?
09:29Those there?
09:30Near the area of family and household?
09:33Oh, yes.
09:34You see them, don't you?
09:36What do they make you think of?
09:39Bugs.
09:41Oh, good.
09:42Oh, I hope not.
09:44Yeah.
09:45Do you remember when we was kids, weakening them out
09:47with a candle and a bit of soap?
09:49Oh, me mum used to do the bedsteads in the back garden
09:52with paraffin.
09:54Still didn't do no good.
09:56I bonicled I was.
09:57If you want to know, it means the drawing together of the family
10:04in the face of trouble.
10:06That's what it means.
10:08What family?
10:10All moved out to Essex.
10:12Might as well be Australia for all I see of them.
10:16I can't recall the time when there was 25 of us round this table
10:20for Sunday Winkles.
10:22And separate tables out in the yard for the kiddies.
10:27What sort of trouble?
10:29I'm only telling you what's here.
10:33Do you think I'm cyclic or something?
10:38I'm a unique emcee in a special way
10:40And if you think you can, you better come an hour to play
10:43You don't mind, but you don't even fancy him, do you?
10:46You mean you've never been into that before?
10:47You don't even like reggae.
10:48You know, I've just killed him.
10:51It's really great.
10:52Oh, it ain't natural.
10:53We may be a poppin' break in here.
10:55Oh, I'm so happy, dear.
10:59So come and see that new dance movie.
11:01Well, where would I get from now?
11:04We can see it on video.
11:06I'll get my dad to get it for me.
11:08Go around and watch it for me.
11:09Just you and me.
11:10You're always showing up just because you get everything you want.
11:12You're a pussy little spoiled cow.
11:15Thanks.
11:16What's good of you?
11:17Pleased to help.
11:18It must be difficult for you.
11:22I can manage now.
11:23Anyway, it's nice for me and Andy to make friends.
11:27It's a bit hard around here though.
11:29Have you found that?
11:30I just keep yourself to myself.
11:33Old Ethel's all right.
11:34You must know her.
11:36Ethel?
11:36Yeah, I think I know who you mean.
11:37Yeah, she's invited me to tea.
11:39Well, I wouldn't have gone only she gave me some stuff for her
11:42so I didn't like to say no.
11:43You should make the effort to get out.
11:45You really should.
11:47What are the boxes for?
11:49Got this job, didn't I?
11:50Home working.
11:51Sewing like that one.
11:53This?
11:54This is exclusive.
11:56I taught you to sew like that.
11:57I'm Roman Catholic, aren't I?
12:00If you don't do fine sewing, the nuns give you a really hard time.
12:03You know, at my school you used to get the kale from Sister Mary Conceptor
12:06and you didn't keep your seams in line.
12:08This is real silk.
12:10It must be top proper designer stuff.
12:12Well, I don't know about that.
12:14I met this Turkish guy, some relation of them downstairs.
12:18Said he'd find me a job if I could prove I was good enough.
12:21He brought me these samples to do.
12:22Really?
12:26Yeah.
12:26He was really knocked out when I showed him.
12:29Said I could do the top stuff right away.
12:31That's really terrific.
12:32That could solve a lot of your problems.
12:35Yeah.
12:35And the thing is, I don't have to tell them down at the sew.
12:38She's cashing on.
12:39No questions asked.
12:40All he does is bring round the blouses and then comes to take them away again.
12:44All I have to do is that fancy embroidery.
12:46This is really skilled work.
12:48I couldn't do this if I worked all night.
12:50How long did it take you?
12:53Oh, I don't know, really.
12:55Well, I started at about six and she had two feeds in between,
12:58so it must have been about one in the morning when I finished.
13:01Yeah, my eyes were hurting a bit.
13:04Still, it's faster by daytime.
13:05How much are they going to pay you?
13:07I don't know.
13:08It depends on how much I do, I suppose.
13:10But he said I was so good I'd get the very top rate.
13:13Oh, great.
13:13About ten quid a dozen.
13:17What you're telling me is very serious indeed.
13:20There's a lot of it in this area then.
13:21It's still a bit new to us.
13:23Five years ago I wouldn't have believed it possible.
13:25Heroin addicts were rare.
13:26Yeah.
13:27Well, the price kept most kids from experimenting with it,
13:30plus all the business with the needles.
13:32Now, with them all sniffing it up their stupid noses at the five of a bag,
13:37it can work out cheaper than alcohol.
13:39I thought you knew this, Nick.
13:41Oh, I do indeed.
13:43It's made a lot of things that have been worrying me lately suddenly fall into place.
13:54You don't get away that easy, Sunshine.
13:56Where are you going with that lot?
13:57I've got to take it to Ethel's.
13:59Look, I can't get any more for it.
14:00Not tonight anyway.
14:01I'll try again tomorrow.
14:03I've got to do this school project.
14:05They're checking up on me.
14:07That's interesting.
14:08It's amazing what some of these old folks got stashed away, innit?
14:11She's like my mum, old Ethel.
14:14Don't believe him, Banks.
14:17There you are, my little darling.
14:19You doing that basket.
14:21Why would your school be interested in my memories?
14:24Come back with me tape recorder.
14:26Look, what's wrong with now?
14:28You can write it down, can't you?
14:29I don't need to teach you to write in the schools no more.
14:32Personally, I'd love to hear what the lady has to say.
14:34As if you don't mind the intrusion, love.
14:35Oh no, I like a bit of company.
14:38Would you like a drink with me?
14:39Now, I've got some stout.
14:42Drop a nice sherry.
14:43Delighted.
14:44Oh, I haven't got any lemonade, Marky.
14:46Would you like some milk?
14:47Look, I've left me no paper on there.
14:49Oh, Speffle's got a bit of paper, right?
14:51Oh, no problem.
14:52In my little desk.
14:54I bought it down that new warehouse in Mare Street.
14:57Lovely, innit?
14:58Yeah.
14:5950p a week.
15:00Now, where did I put that pad?
15:03You've got to have somewhere to keep your valuables, ain't you?
15:06Yeah.
15:07My old mum's just the same.
15:08Don't believe in banks.
15:10I mean, you don't know what to do with it in homes places, do you?
15:12Them's exactly my feelings.
15:14I bet you've got a fair old bit tucked away in there.
15:16Isn't that right?
15:17It's time we win.
15:18How much you got, then, Ethel?
15:20Well, that's my business, innit?
15:23And a lady never tells her business.
15:25But you're going to, aren't you?
15:27There's a good girl.
15:28What do you mean?
15:29You're going to get it all out and give it to me, aren't you?
15:32We don't want any trouble, do we?
15:33Any nasty business?
15:35Remember what happened to old Reg Cox?
15:36There, chick!
15:37You're not going to make any noise, either.
15:39You'll get hurt if you do.
15:40Oh, Reg didn't make any noise.
15:42Well, not a first.
15:44Now, come on.
15:45Hurry up.
15:46Or this little fella's going to get crushed under my own boot.
15:48Get on!
15:49There!
15:50Ah!
15:51You bitch!
15:53You bitch!
15:53Don't come in here and...
15:56Get out!
15:57I warned you!
15:58Get out!
15:59And you've been asking for this!
16:01How are you?
16:02You're going to last for me!
16:04I'll be back!
16:14She reckons if I don't go and stay with her at her villa,
16:16she's going to come round here and...
16:18Well, I know what Jan's like when she's rolled.
16:20Here, Ange.
16:21Here, you think of going to Marbella?
16:24Old Spider-Layton always goes there.
16:25When he's out, that is.
16:27Dean's thinking of going to Marbella.
16:29I'm thinking of getting a microwave, okay?
16:34Look, it's no use you sitting there, dumb boy.
16:36If you don't tell me, you could end up in Borstal.
16:38But it was him he made me.
16:40Made you?
16:41How did he make you?
16:41Are you on heroin?
16:43Has Nick been supplying you?
16:44Is that it?
16:44No, look, I've got to go.
16:45You wait!
16:47I want to know what's going on.
16:49Nick has been supplying a great many young people around here,
16:52isn't that so?
16:53And he's heavily addicted himself, yes?
16:56Look, even with the deal in it,
16:58we still had to get him more money.
16:59It was never enough.
17:02All right, so I tried it once or twice,
17:04but it just made me sick.
17:07And then he said he'd tell my mum and dad
17:08if we didn't get him more money.
17:09So you took him to Ethel's?
17:12No, he forced me.
17:13Forced you?
17:13I don't think so.
17:15You wanted the money and you wanted the excitement
17:17and that put you right under Nick's thumb.
17:18Look, I wasn't that, Ethel.
17:19You've got to help me.
17:20Stop whining, boy.
17:22And pull yourself together before your parents see you.
17:23I'm taking you home now.
17:25They'll kill me.
17:27Listen.
17:27What happens now is very much up to you.
17:36Well, we've got no choice anyway.
17:38We've got to do what the doc says.
17:41We've had some trouble in this family,
17:43but no one's ever, not ever, gone voluntarily to the bill.
17:48Mum, the doctor promised he wouldn't say anything about Mark
17:52if he'd come clean about Nick and the drugs
17:54and what they've been up to.
17:56We've known the doctor for years.
17:58He's never broken a promise.
18:01His family can solve its own problems.
18:03I'm sorry, but can it?
18:05I don't even know if our Ian's been taking them.
18:08Oh, come on, love.
18:09We would have noticed.
18:10No, Ian.
18:11I saw a programme about it, Pete.
18:13In Amstreet from the straightest of kids.
18:15The parents are the last to know.
18:17Oh, I suppose that applies to our Michelle and all.
18:20Yeah, it does.
18:22Now, look, I think we're all getting off the point.
18:25Are we?
18:26I don't think so.
18:27Well, I'm backing Kath up, Mum.
18:29And another thing we can't forget, like it or not,
18:31is old Reg Cox.
18:33We now know who was responsible for that.
18:35And, Mum, we're talking about murder.
18:39What are you going to do about it?
18:41Well, we got all the evidence we needed when we turned over his place.
18:44All the stuff that was nicked out of the estate,
18:47knocked off cigarettes,
18:48and the Lof-Waft badges
18:50and their flash presentation cabinet.
18:52Reg Cox's?
18:53Yeah.
18:55It's just a matter of catching up with him now.
18:57And the word's well out.
18:59You think he killed Reg Cox?
19:00We reckon.
19:02I'll pick him up.
19:03Don't you worry.
19:04Yeah, I hope so.
19:07But I wasn't only meaning that.
19:09Eh?
19:10What are you going to do about the heroin abuse in this area?
19:13All right, so you'll catch up with Nick, but he's only a small fish.
19:15Yeah?
19:16Well, what do you think I am, super cop?
19:18We've got to get the dealers where it starts.
19:20I'd need five times the amount of manpower
19:22and a lot more old-fashioned money.
19:26There's no chance.
19:28I've got other worries.
19:31So I kicked him and kicked him.
19:33I've always had very strong legs.
19:36My William used to say they was my best feature.
19:39Yeah.
19:40I won the Pretty Pins contest once down at the Mecca.
19:44And when I went there...
19:45You wanna watch that sort of thing at your age?
19:48Oh.
19:48Mind you, fair do.
19:50She did well.
19:50I didn't know you had it in you.
19:52Let's hope they catch him.
19:54They should bring back hanging for the likes of him.
19:56It's his mother I feel sorry for.
19:59Oh, don't be sentimental, Ethel.
20:01Well, it's no use catching him.
20:03And they've got to have proof, haven't they?
20:05Who's that?
20:06Oh.
20:07I don't know.
20:07I should think we might have a bit of privacy.
20:11Hello.
20:12I know we don't know each other very well.
20:14And I don't want to intrude.
20:16Oh.
20:17Um, please enter.
20:21I was so incensed when I heard.
20:23I just think it's disgraceful.
20:25And I just wanted to see if there's anything I could do.
20:27Oh.
20:28This is for you.
20:29Oh.
20:30How nice.
20:31My favourite.
20:33Well, I must apologise for the state of the room.
20:36Would you like a sherry?
20:38Well, er, take a seat now, will you?
20:41Down, Willie.
20:42Come on.
20:44I think you know my friend, Mrs Louise Beale.
20:48Good afternoon.
20:48Excuse me.
20:52Dreadful, isn't it?
20:53This sort of thing happening in the place you live in.
20:56I mean, it makes you scared just walking about.
20:58All the violence and mugging.
21:00Such a lovely square, too.
21:02Andy and I fell in love with it.
21:03I mean, where else can you find proper houses?
21:06And the people here.
21:08Well, you're all such characters.
21:10Real cockneys keeping your end up in the middle of all this.
21:14I mean, I really feel that this is a proper community.
21:17And I do so much want to be part of it.
21:20Well.
21:21I'm glad of a chance of a word with you, young woman.
21:23Hmm?
21:24About the constant banging and knocking
21:26that goes on in your house all hours of the day and night.
21:30I was trying to watch the telly the other afternoon
21:33when your husband was working in the house.
21:35And I swear, I thought the wall was coming through.
21:40I'm sorry, I'll have a word with him.
21:41I should if I was you.
21:43Excuse me, Louise.
21:46Sherry?
21:50You won't sit in here brooding about things now, will you?
21:54Tough old boot like her.
21:55You've really got to get out of this room as much as you can.
21:58Keep yourself occupied.
21:59Oh, why's that?
22:01Take her mind off things.
22:03That young girl, um, Mary, with the baby.
22:06Now, she could really do with some company.
22:08Someone to babysit, just to keep an eye on her.
22:10Lives in old Cox's place, don't she?
22:12That's the one.
22:13Room where he was done in.
22:48Oh, no.
22:56I know he's a bit of a lad, but doing over old people.
23:00A woman don't feel safe in her bed at night.
23:03Thank God for the likes of you, that's all I can say.
23:07On the house.
23:09Thanks.
23:10Well, if you do hear anything about his whereabouts,
23:13you're all sorts in the pub.
23:15You just get straight onto the nick.
23:17All right?
23:18I will.
23:21Cheers.
23:23Cheers.
23:27What are you doing?
23:28I'm doing me job.
23:29What are you doing?
23:30Well, why all of a sudden friendship with the filth?
23:31Well, there's a limit, and they're doing over old people, is it?
23:34No-one's arguing about that.
23:36But you want to be careful.
23:37We could lose a hell of a lot of customers.
23:39That's good, isn't it?
23:40Coming from you.
23:41I'm the one that's built this place up.
23:42All I get from you is Spain.
23:46Afternoon, my loves.
23:47What can I get you?
23:48Just a half, please, love.
23:49Oh, enormous.
23:50All right.
23:52Cheers.
23:54What can I get you done?
23:55I do try.
23:57Really, I do.
23:58She can be really nasty, that Mrs Beale.
24:00All right, love.
24:01Drink your drink and calm down.
24:02I mean, you think she'd be pleased we were doing the house up?
24:04Theirs wouldn't be harmed for a coat of paint.
24:07They chuck all sorts of things out the back without putting the bin lids on properly.
24:10That breeds germs.
24:12I don't know about that.
24:13And we don't complain, do we?
24:16I mean, I just wanted to be friendly.
24:17We've all got to get on with each other eventually.
24:20Hey, did you manage to match that paper?
24:22Not quite.
24:23I mean, Ethel's a really sweet old lady.
24:26She's interested in Mary, too.
24:28I was telling her about all this sewing she's taken on.
24:30I mean, I think it's disgraceful.
24:32It's like Victorian times all over again.
24:34She's just being exploited.
24:36She doesn't seem to see it.
24:37Now, I thought if Ethel...
24:38Debbie, love, cool it, please.
24:41You're a good girl and I love you very much.
24:43That goes without saying, right?
24:45But can't you see all this interfering with people's lives?
24:49It's making people resent you.
24:51We haven't been here long enough to start getting into all that.
24:55One thing I learned in my job is that people can't stand having good done at them.
24:58I just want to be long.
25:00What's wrong with that?
25:01I know.
25:02But just take it easy.
25:05My dad had to go down to the police station with Mark.
25:08And then they started on me.
25:09What?
25:10I'm all about whether I was making drugs or not.
25:13No.
25:14There's this girl in my room who started taking the kids that hang around the playgrounds on the stage.
25:19And all that sort of knowns and eyes.
25:20We're all breaking money.
25:22I think they're all going mad.
25:23My mum's like that all the time.
25:25She thought she thought I was here.
25:26I told her there was a match at school.
25:28You're so terrible about me.
25:29She don't like nothing.
25:30There's a turn on to see.
25:31Like smoking, drinking.
25:33Especially me going out with girls.
25:34It wouldn't matter who you were.
25:36She wouldn't like that.
25:36Oh, great.
25:37Hi.
25:38Here comes trouble.
25:39What's going on?
25:40I've just had a really hard time for my dad.
25:42I seem to think we're all crazed junkies on smack.
25:45My parents such what is her?
25:48Hi, Calvin.
25:49I caught that video.
25:51I expect you coming around Tuesday.
25:53He's going out with me.
25:55Hey, Calvin!
25:57I wasn't expecting you today.
25:59Come here a minute.
26:01You can join your friends later.
26:03Now, something I want to ask you.
26:05Now, if you've been taking drugs, I want to hear about it.
26:07The truth now.
26:09Right?
26:10Come.
26:12Eat up your nice chicky.
26:14We've got to build you up after your nasty shock, haven't we?
26:18Poor little baby.
26:20Oh, my God.
26:22Who's there?
26:23Mark.
26:23It's not locked.
26:25The front door's wide open.
26:28We've got to keep this one shut and all.
26:32I've got you this chain.
26:34Oh, Mark.
26:35Well, if it's left to you, you won't do nothing.
26:38You've got a screwdriver.
26:39I'll put it on now for you.
26:40Well, that's most thoughtful of you.
26:42I do appreciate it.
26:44Really, I do.
26:44I'll give you the money, of course.
26:46It's all right.
26:48Well, now, where'd I put that little box?
26:52Lofty might have one.
26:53Of course.
26:54I haven't thanked you properly yet.
26:56I didn't do nothing.
26:58Yes, you did.
26:59Here.
27:00Are you going to get into a lot of trouble for this?
27:03No.
27:04Should you?
27:07Mark.
27:09All right, so I've done some things I shouldn't have,
27:12but I didn't have any choice.
27:14Nick might.
27:15Does the bill know about these things?
27:18No.
27:19Well, then, you're in the clear, aren't you?
27:22You're a very lucky boy.
27:25It isn't often you get chances like this.
27:28And you take advantage of it.
27:32That's what I say.
27:34How do you feel?
27:37I've never been so scared in my life.
27:56This house is not the most.
27:57The house is the most.
27:59It's the finishable in your life.
28:02If you like that, you're in love.
28:05That's a good idea.
28:07You're dead.
28:07Oh God.
28:09You're dead.
28:13How so?
28:16My mom will help you in the terminal.
28:17You're dead.
28:21I'm losing.
28:22I'm losing.