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BROOKSIDE 2000 -E2324 - Brookside and other TV Classics
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00:00Let's do it
00:42Did you get it, then?
00:45Get what?
00:45The title.
00:47What title?
00:48Best-dressed mother in the playground.
00:50Nothing wrong with making an effort, is there?
00:53Oh, well, you can make an effort doing the tea tonight, then, can't you?
00:57Mum, I've been thinking.
01:00Oh, aye.
01:01You were right.
01:05What about?
01:06I do need a job.
01:08And?
01:10And I was wondering if the job's still going at the petrol station.
01:13Why do you think I'm doing all these double shifts?
01:16Look, what I'm saying is, would you still consider taking me on after what I said yesterday?
01:21Hey, listen, before you shoot off, will you take a photo for us?
01:25I thought you took them all yesterday.
01:27No, I need one more of me and the arts together.
01:29I haven't got time, Jimmy.
01:31Oh, 1.40?
01:32It'll be done in a flash.
01:33I said I'm in a hurry.
01:34Are you serious?
01:35Yeah.
01:36You won't get any favours from me, you know?
01:37Yeah, that's for sure.
01:38I don't expect any.
01:39Listen, what about you, kidder?
01:41Hey, 1.40?
01:42You're not doing anything.
01:42If you don't pull your weight, you're out.
01:45Does that mean yes?
01:46Get your coat.
01:48Now.
01:48I'll show you the rope.
01:49Sorry up.
01:51You're taking a job at the garage.
01:52It looks that way.
01:54Sure you'll be able to stick it?
01:55I'll just have to.
01:58Hey, it's true.
02:00Tamara Donaldson did get caught with drugs in her bag last year.
02:02I told you.
02:03Yeah, but she didn't get expelled.
02:05So what are you going to do?
02:06Some girl making a show me again.
02:08It was bad enough yesterday.
02:09I'll do what I have to do, Gems.
02:11Look, there's such a gang of hypocrites, Mick.
02:13Maybe she's better off around them.
02:14Only me today.
02:16Don't worry, babe.
02:17You'll be going back to that school.
02:19Just as soon as I've taught them a lesson.
02:24I'll, erm, I'd better get off.
02:26Otherwise, I'll be late.
02:29See you later.
02:32I worry about that girl, Ray.
02:34Oh, she's OK.
02:36But it's such an important year for her at school.
02:38And all she seems interested in is clothes
02:40and that tear away next door.
02:42Well, it's a miracle she's as normal as she is
02:43considering what she's been through.
02:46That's, erm, that's down to you, Jess.
02:48Well, you've been a real help as well, you know.
02:51Mm-hmm.
02:53Well, I won't be under your feet for very much longer.
02:55Why?
02:57Someone's made an offer on the house.
02:59Oh, I see.
03:01As soon as it's sold,
03:02I'll be heading down to Bournemouth in the caravan.
03:04Oh.
03:10What have you done over the road before?
03:12I went to see Mike.
03:13And why?
03:14Well, Jay said he was looking for extra bar stuff.
03:17All right, so you going to, er, do you have the job on the garage, yeah?
03:20I don't know.
03:21The garage is boring.
03:22The money is, like, rubbish.
03:23The money is rubbish behind the bar.
03:25Yeah, but it's a better laugh, though.
03:27Anyway, I don't even know.
03:28We might even end up doing them both.
03:31Actually, it could be quite useful, you working behind the bar.
03:34Yeah, you getting served, you mean.
03:36There'll be other advantages, too.
03:39You sagging today?
03:40I am.
03:42There's serious spending to be done.
03:45Don't you think you've pushed that lock on that so far?
03:47No.
03:49Besides, as soon as we reach the limit,
03:51I promise you I'll cut it up.
03:53Right, I'm going to get changed in my little time.
03:57What are you doing?
03:59Nothing.
04:00Outside.
04:01Oh, it's freezing.
04:02Out.
04:02All right, I'll take me back.
04:04Out.
04:11How's it going with the actress?
04:13Unavailable.
04:14We didn't get through.
04:16She's at a Lash meeting.
04:18Lash?
04:19Liverpool Association of Secondary Heads,
04:22according to her secretary.
04:23It's just an excuse.
04:24I know it sounds genuine to me.
04:26Yeah, well, I'll give her a Tongue Lash meeting when I see her.
04:29Point of view, you couldn't make that up, though, could you, mate?
04:31Lash.
04:32She'd have been available for Tamara Donaldson's dad all right.
04:35Aye.
04:37You want to keep a cool head when you see her, you know,
04:39because these people can talk rings round.
04:41Not with me she won't.
04:42I mean, she knows she's in the wrong.
04:44That's why she won't speak to me.
04:46Yeah, but Gemma was dabbling with drugs.
04:48That's not the issue, Sam.
04:49Well, what is, then?
04:51Racism.
04:52Look, mate, I'm on your side.
04:54You know that.
04:54Yes, but I think you could be on very dodgy ground here.
04:58Why?
04:59The evidence.
05:00What happened in Barbados?
05:02Was that Caroline's word against our Gemma's?
05:04Yes, but they probably both had a go.
05:06Yeah, exactly.
05:06But only Gemma got expelled.
05:08Why is that?
05:08Because only your Gemma got caught taking a knee at the Millennium Club.
05:12This Tamara What's Her face was caught with all kinds on school premises.
05:16A school that has a drug policy of zero tolerance,
05:19according to Lashler Rue.
05:20Yeah, zero tolerance if you're black.
05:23I think it's more likely to be the colour of your money that counts.
05:26Look, Sam, I pay the same fees as everybody else.
05:28I expect the same treatment.
05:32Oh!
05:33All right, Jim.
05:33Just going to knock for you there.
05:35All right.
05:35Listen, you couldn't do us a bit of a favour, could you, kid?
05:37What's that?
05:38Take a photo of me next to my arch.
05:40It's for that talk I'm giving.
05:41Yeah, well, I'll tell you what.
05:42You scratch my back, I'll scratch yours.
05:44How do you mean?
05:45Like, carry that over for us.
05:47Oh!
05:48Deal.
05:48No problems.
05:49Good lad.
05:50Oh!
05:50Oh, I'll tell you what.
05:52We're going to have to start to...
05:53Hey, you can give us a hand a bit as well.
05:55Doing what?
05:55I'm going to give them a later lick of fate.
05:57I've got competition now, haven't I?
05:58So I thought I might do her up a bit.
05:59Ah, yeah, well, I can't.
06:01I've got to go into town.
06:02What are you hanging round for?
06:03Bus stops down there.
06:04Yeah, but I'm waiting for someone.
06:05Like you, Emily Shadwick?
06:07Ow.
06:07I'm waiting for Jerome.
06:07We're going to play snooker.
06:09Oh.
06:10All right.
06:11All right for some.
06:12Oh, loads, yes.
06:14Oh, it's a bit King Billy Hill, isn't it?
06:15Are you two working indoors, are you?
06:17Yeah, I'm doing the glossing in the kitchen.
06:18Hey, Jess, you haven't got an old dust sheet
06:20knocking round your place, have you?
06:21I'll ask for you to have a route round the garage
06:23when I get back.
06:24Thanks.
06:24See ya.
06:25Tillad, yes.
06:28Okay, let's go.
06:30Hey, get back in.
06:31Your man's only over there.
06:46Hey, there's Mike there.
06:47I was just trying to ask him about that job.
06:49Sinbad, can you help us with our badge, right?
06:52Just in a minute, I'll make sure my dad's in it
06:54and I'll keep Sinbad out here.
06:55Okay.
06:57Hey, hey, you're back early, aren't you?
06:59Mike, got a call.
07:00What happened?
07:00He's got to work this afternoon.
07:01I mean, how'd us come back after him?
07:03Oh, yeah.
07:04Jerome's gone down with a bug.
07:05Oh, I'll have you now.
07:16Mike!
07:18All right.
07:18I heard, um, you've got a job going at the bar.
07:21I told you that.
07:21Jerome.
07:22From his sickbed.
07:24Jerome's gone down with a bug today.
07:26Has he?
07:27Yeah.
07:27So that means Mike is snookered.
07:29Yeah, he's had to come in early to cover
07:31for him.
07:32So you are short of staff, then?
07:34Well, I need someone I can trust, really.
07:36Yeah, well, that's me.
07:38What do you two reckon?
07:39Is anyone else interested?
07:41Well, I haven't really advertised it yet.
07:43Oh, so they're not queuing up, then?
07:44Tell you what, Mike,
07:45why don't you give him a break?
07:47You've got a bit of a past, haven't you?
07:48Yeah, well, that's behind me now.
07:50I mean, I saw Jackie.
07:51She had no complaints and was working for her in the club.
07:54I'll tell you what,
07:54come to bar Friday, 10 o'clock.
07:56I'll see how you get on.
07:57Nice one.
07:57Just for the trial period, though.
07:59If you let me down, you're straight out the door.
08:00Yeah, thanks, Mike.
08:02Hang on, Tim.
08:05Something about bringing them bags of money ready, mate?
08:07Yeah, I won't be a minute, Mike.
08:08I'm just going to take this photo for Jimmy, all right?
08:10Cheers.
08:11Listen, don't let him down, Tim.
08:13No, I won't.
08:14And, hey, Jerome,
08:14he's bang out of order, you know.
08:16Yeah, but I haven't seen him since yesterday.
08:17He probably is sick.
08:19Yeah, sick of working.
08:20Yeah.
08:21Yeah, well, that's why I'm still standing here.
08:22He's probably not even coming.
08:24Looks like you've become a tourist attraction, Jim.
08:27Yeah, all right.
08:28All right.
08:29Who's all this down to, then?
08:31Me?
08:32Well, I'd put it up.
08:33Well, the thing is, I'm from the council.
08:37Planning department.
08:39Oh, aye.
08:40Bad news, I'm afraid, mate.
08:42Someone's complained.
08:52Welcome to reality, Lindsay.
08:54Do I have to wear this?
08:56It's company policy.
08:57It doesn't even fit.
08:59As soon as you've convinced me you're going to stick at it,
09:02I'll order you some of your own, all right?
09:04Hello.
09:06This is the new girl.
09:08Just training her up.
09:09You've come down a peg or two, haven't you?
09:11Anything else?
09:13Nope.
09:16I hope you're feeling suitably ashamed of yourself, are you?
09:19It's a job.
09:20Nothing to be ashamed of.
09:21Oh, I'm not talking about this.
09:23I'm talking about what happened to young Gemma Johnson.
09:25We can't carry on like this, Mike.
09:27Your dad will have to find somewhere else to stay.
09:29I mean, it's been bad only if it's a turn up an inconvenient time,
09:32then that's us homeless again.
09:34Rachel, I'm in the broom cupboard.
09:36What are you doing in there?
09:37Oh, never mind.
09:38That must have been out.
09:41I've been stuck in there all night.
09:44Freezing cold, pitch black.
09:46I've had nothing to eat.
09:47I'm starving.
09:48Two sugars, please, Rach.
09:53Excuse us, Michael.
10:02Sorry, mate.
10:03It's over ten foot high.
10:04It's going to have to come down.
10:23Where exactly do you think you're waiting?
10:25Well, while you went out, I was hoping to start this place.
10:27Get rid of that horrible colour off the cupboard doors.
10:30Bob, we're in your way now, aren't we?
10:31Yeah, you'll have to do some other time, mate.
10:33No, you're not right.
10:33I can work around you.
10:34Yeah, I mean, as soon as I finish my tea, I'll get cracking.
10:41A bit you know, I've tried enough.
10:47Excuse me?
10:48Erm, where are you going with our card?
10:50I just need to show it to my supervisor.
10:52Why can't you read?
10:54I'm just checking something.
10:55But make sure you stay where I can see you,
10:57because, erm, you look just like the type of nerd
11:00to copy down your details and try to rip us off.
11:03Just wait there, please.
11:09She knows.
11:09She can't prove anything.
11:11Come on, let's just do her own it.
11:12Oh, yeah.
11:12And then she'll definitely have to go something up.
11:14Yeah, but we'll be on cameras in here.
11:16Exactly.
11:16So stop looking so suspicious.
11:18You'll be all right.
11:25Will you have to find a new school for her?
11:27I don't know.
11:28We're going down the law centre now for some advice.
11:30If you girls only knew how much we worry about you.
11:33Well, she won't be doing it again, Jess.
11:35Will you?
11:35No.
11:37It's that Lindsay Corker who's to blame.
11:39Turning a blind eye to drug dealers.
11:41Letting a 13-year-old in her club.
11:43Well, she's got her comeuppance.
11:44How's that?
11:45She's working behind the counter in the garage shop.
11:47That's too good for her.
11:49She seems suitably shame-faced.
11:51She's wearing that blue uniform as if it was a sackcloth.
11:55You know, Jess, I need some juices, as a matter of fact.
11:58I think I'll call on her, Lindsay.
12:00Go and get me that slummy bottle from upstairs, will you?
12:02Why, Dad?
12:02Are you determined to stay in the doghouse?
12:04See you later.
12:05See you.
12:08There's a thing twice this size in town.
12:12Bright yellow it is.
12:13Looks like a cross between a lamb and a banana.
12:16What's all that about?
12:17And no-one has my permission to stick that up.
12:19I can see your point, mate.
12:21Don't get me wrong.
12:22But I've got to ask your permission to build my own monument in my own garden.
12:25Is that it?
12:26It's not me you have to ask.
12:28I'm just the messenger.
12:29Oh, are you?
12:30Well, take a look at it.
12:31Take a good look at it.
12:39I like it.
12:41I really like it.
12:45You don't get it, do you?
12:47Not exactly.
12:48It's about you, this.
12:51You and me and people like us.
12:55How do you mean?
12:56Ordinary working people, I'm talking about.
12:59Come and look at it.
13:01It's an arch, yeah?
13:04It's got two legs.
13:06That's the two sides of everything in this city.
13:09They come together at the top to form something strong and solid.
13:16This is the men.
13:18This, the women.
13:20Orange and green, that's religion, yeah?
13:22Black and white, history.
13:24Got comedy, tragedy.
13:26Here are Arthur Askey.
13:27And the Blitz.
13:29Got Ken Dodd round there and Hillsborough.
13:32The sea and the land, all joining up here in Liverpool.
13:39Oh, look down here.
13:42Got spuds, chains round there, cotton.
13:47Well, that's the Irish farming, the slave trade, the cotton trade.
13:51Up here I've got the port and the docks.
13:54See?
13:55My wife's dad there worked on the docks all his life.
14:01That's his dockers up.
14:03I haven't seen one of them in ages.
14:05Liverpool was the first commercial dock system in the world.
14:07Did you know that?
14:08I did, yeah.
14:11Yeah, Dixie Dean.
14:12What a guy.
14:1460 goals in one season, never be beating that.
14:18And he was one of us.
14:21These millionaires who play today, not fit to lace that man's boot.
14:25Billy Liddle.
14:26Not bad, I suppose, for a red.
14:29Got the rope on the top there.
14:31That's the sea.
14:32And the ships.
14:35Round there, a pan of scouse.
14:38See, look, black, laced shawl.
14:41On the top, an aisle washing basket.
14:44That's the Mary Ellens.
14:46And the world's first public wash house.
14:49And round here at the bottom.
14:56Plastic flowers.
14:59Then a few things.
15:03Poppies is the people who died fighting other people's wars.
15:09But it's the smack on all of that as well.
15:13And other things.
15:17A rich woman dies in a drink drive in accident, yeah?
15:20And flowers are a brilliant sign of national grief.
15:25But 96 ordinary Liverpool people die.
15:30And flowers are the sign of self-pity.
15:38See her?
15:40She had a little flower stall in Clayton Square.
15:43In Liverpool.
15:45People like her, they should have statues of.
15:49But what are they doing?
15:51Kicking the likes of her off the streets to make way for burger bars.
15:56And exactly the same sort of shops that they have in every other city up and down the country.
16:02Look at her.
16:03Look at her.
16:03Look at her.
16:04Look at her face.
16:07What's up?
16:11It's Lizzie Christian, her name is.
16:14When me dad finished his Saturday morning shifts on the docks,
16:17I used to go down and meet him and we'd walk back together and buy a bunch of flowers off
16:22her for me mum.
16:23Right.
16:26So now you see what I'm getting at, yeah?
16:29So, what would you rather have, mate?
16:32This?
16:33Or that bright yellow lamb banana thing?
16:36I'm sorry, mate.
16:38It's got to come down.
16:40Look, just go back to your boss and just tell him to leave me alone, OK?
16:45I can't.
16:46Oh, more than your job's worth, is it?
16:49That's right.
16:50Listen, for once, can't you just ignore bureaucracy?
16:53And stand up for what's right?
16:56Who do you think you're talking to?
16:58I used to be a docker, mate.
17:01Don't tell me about standing up for what's right.
17:04It's exactly two years ago today since our dispute ended.
17:07I didn't see you on any of our marches.
17:11I put money in the box.
17:1218 months after, I was still out of collar.
17:15And then I got this job.
17:17And I'm going to keep it, OK?
17:19And that will have to come down.
17:21You'll be getting a letter in the post.
17:30Ah, thanks for this, Ray.
17:31That's all right.
17:32It's no bother.
17:33Where's Rachel?
17:34Eh, she's feeding the baby.
17:35Listen, lads, I'm a bit worried about these paint fumes.
17:38Don't you think they might get on the baby's chest?
17:39Well, she'll be all right upstairs, won't she?
17:41Yeah, but you know what?
17:42Glass paint's like, sin.
17:43It stinks the whole house out.
17:44There's an old decorator's dodge.
17:45You get an onion, you cut it in half, you put it on the plate,
17:47and it utilises the fumes.
17:49Oh, still, I'd rather not take any chances.
17:51I mean, she's only three weeks old.
17:53Well, all right, I'll just do the emulsion on the ceiling
17:54and get rid of the chip fat stains.
17:56Well, you've got none of that.
17:57You'll have to go for that, won't you?
17:57Well, there's half a tin in that broom cupboard there.
17:59That'll do the job.
18:03I've had enough of this.
18:04Is there a problem?
18:05Um, no, we're just checking the details.
18:07It won't take a minute now.
18:08Yeah, and you've been checking them for the last ten minutes.
18:10You think just because we're young,
18:11we can't have a credit card, don't you?
18:13No, it's just that we've got a policy.
18:14For your information, my boyfriend Gregory,
18:16he's got his own business.
18:18He designs computer games.
18:19He'll be a millionaire before he's 21.
18:21And if that's your attitude,
18:22then we won't be spending any more money in this place.
18:24We'll either put the card in the little machine,
18:26or we'll take our custom elsewhere.
18:32Sorry to keep you waiting.
18:33I should think so, too.
18:39Going to Sistine Chapel when I finish this, right?
18:4380% of pages in the preparation, you know.
18:45If a job's worth doing, it's worth doing well.
18:49Listen, lads, I don't think there's going to be enough in here, you know.
18:51Can I go to get another tin before you start?
18:53There's loads in here, Mike.
18:55You're going to need two cups, aren't you?
18:56Well, it depends.
18:57Is this good quality?
18:58Yeah, I think so.
18:59A cheap paint's a false economy, you know.
19:01I mean, it may cost you half as much,
19:02but it takes you twice as long.
19:04And you have to give it more than one coat.
19:07Oh, cheers, Ray.
19:08Yeah?
19:08It's good stuff, this.
19:09It's only a watered-down crap.
19:15Back behind the counter, eh, Lindsay?
19:18Yeah.
19:19You're looking up behind bars.
19:23It's £18 for your petrol.
19:25Do you want anything else?
19:26What kind of pies have you got?
19:29I'm not sure.
19:30What type do you want, Nick?
19:32Humble.
19:34Look, I'm sorry about what happened, Nick.
19:37My daughter could have died.
19:39I know.
19:40She's been expelled from school.
19:42I'm sorry.
19:50£18, exactly.
19:52But you count it to make sure it's all there.
19:54And if it's a penny out one way or the other,
19:56you know where I live.
20:08Call me.
20:12I am trying, Mum.
20:15I know we are.
20:17I just want us to be mates again.
20:20I can take it all off everyone else.
20:23I just want me and you to get back to the way we used to be.
20:27I think the market's improving, you know.
20:29My house has only been up for a few weeks.
20:32Look at the kipper on him.
20:33He's worried sick.
20:34Don't worry, Mike.
20:35I'll make sure that you and Rachel are safely sorted
20:37in the place of your home
20:38before I sign on the dotted line.
20:40Thanks.
20:41Oh, God.
20:43It's going to take more than an onion to utilise that day.
20:45It's definitely cheap, Paige.
20:46It's gone off.
20:47Oh, God.
20:48I'll have to buy more.
20:49Would you, uh,
20:50do you want me to run you down to the shops?
20:51If you don't mind, mate, yeah, can I?
20:52I just don't bother.
20:53I've got nothing better to do.
20:55Get rid of that, will you, Mike?
20:56It'll be about half an hour.
20:57Oh, yeah, it wasn't.
21:07Thank God for that.
21:09You can't go on like this, you know, Dad.
21:10You're telling me I've got a bad heart, you know.
21:12I could have died in there.
21:13I nearly died myself when they opened this.
21:16When I was in there all night,
21:17what else could I do?
21:18Get shut of it.
21:19It's your pot.
21:22What do you reckon?
21:22Oh, I prefer lager.
21:25Well,
21:27it's the last bit of ice cream
21:28my dad's ever going to bat in, isn't it?
21:31Cheers, Dad.
21:32It was a good while of acid, though, wasn't it?
21:34It hasn't finished yet.
21:36But we agreed that we're going to cut it up when we need to spend another minute.
21:43I'm not stopping just because the card's run out.
21:45What else can we do?
21:48You can do anything you want.
21:52This is just a beginner.
21:56You take after your father and it scares me.
22:00When it turns out I had good reason to be scared,
22:02I just felt so let down, you know,
22:04after all the warnings,
22:06everything I'd said to you.
22:08I just wanted something better.
22:10That's all.
22:10What does that mean, eh?
22:12I mean, just to be normal and safe,
22:14that should be enough.
22:15I don't think we'll ever be normal, will we?
22:17I mean, look at that.
22:19At least it keeps you happy.
22:21That's the main thing.
22:23Yeah, you know,
22:23just to be happy and safe,
22:26to talk to each other,
22:27have a laugh every now and again.
22:29That's all I want, you know?
22:30Well, that's what you're going to get from now on.
22:33Today was always going to be ours.
22:35And you got through it.
22:37The worst is over and I'm proud of it.
22:40In a way I could never have been, you know,
22:42when you were involved in all our other business.
22:44Does that mean I get my own uniform, then?
22:47Get off.
22:54Hello to you one tomorrow.
22:56Hiya.
22:57There.
22:58How'd you go on?
22:59Oh, she did great.
23:01How was your day?
23:02Don't ask.
23:03Come on.
23:06Someone's complained about my arch.
23:08The council said it's got to come down.
23:10Oh, there's nothing you can do about it.
23:13There's plenty I can do.
23:14That arch is staying exactly where it is.
23:17And I'll tell you,
23:18if I find out who complained,
23:20I am going to hang them from it.
23:33Don't play the innocent with me.
23:36The only colour you like is the colour of money.
23:38I think you've got a damn cheek.
23:40But I don't know if that's you.
23:41Well, there's a little, there's a lot.
23:43I feel ashamed.
23:44I wish you meant that.
23:45Maybe it's time to admit defeat.
23:49Maybe you're right.
23:53Watch out, Crete.
23:55The workmates have seen the brochures
23:56and they're on their way.
23:58The Real Holiday Show is next here on 4.