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BROOKSIDE 2000-E2339 - Brookside and other TV Classics
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01:00What's he doing now?
01:01I don't want to know.
01:05Have you heard anything from Charlie?
01:08Nah.
01:09He's probably busy at work.
01:11I mean, it is spring and people want to ring the changes.
01:15I'd like to ring your dad's neck.
01:25Oh, lad.
01:46It'll be your dad that rings.
01:48He's gonna ring from work, he said.
01:50It's an awful shame about Naomi's mum.
01:53Go on.
01:54She's got a stutter on her like you wouldn't believe.
01:57Oh, that's terrible, that.
01:58She won't go near her film.
02:00Oh, that's horrible.
02:02Anyway, I'm gonna finish me packing.
02:07Okey-doke.
02:12Morning.
02:13All right, Jimmy.
02:13Are you coming in?
02:14Can't stop.
02:15Need a favour.
02:16Of course, if I can.
02:17Got another project on the go over at ours.
02:19Down but not out, eh?
02:20Hey, take more than a few bureaucrats to shut me up.
02:23Shall I bring me tools?
02:24Tools and your big ladders.
02:25See you lower at the shed.
02:27Five minutes.
02:27Right.
02:32If we don't talk, we'll never resolve this.
02:34I wasn't even tempted.
02:36What do you want?
02:37A gold clock?
02:37No, just credit where it's due.
02:39For resisting somebody who wasn't interested in you in the first place.
02:43She would say that, wouldn't she?
02:46You know, I rather envy you, your little dalliances.
02:51What?
02:51Must work wonders for the ego.
02:55Mum, I'm sorry.
02:55You've lost me.
02:56It occurred to me that two can play at that game.
02:59There is no game.
03:00I'm curious to know how I might react in the face of temptation.
03:05Oh, for heaven's sake.
03:07Would I have a will of iron or feet of clay?
03:17What if it rains?
03:18The paint's waterproof.
03:21I think.
03:23Three by two should do it.
03:25What's Jackie going to say?
03:26Oh, I don't know.
03:27She was all right about the arch, wasn't she?
03:31We're going to have to use the sound, aren't you now?
03:32Three by two and a half.
03:35Aye, aye, Jimmy.
03:36What is it now, then?
03:38Come back at tea time, and you might find out.
03:40All right.
03:41Please yourself.
03:42Where are you off to?
03:43Well, I've just got to sort out all the school business, you know.
03:45It's a very long and depressing story.
03:48I reckon five should do it.
03:50Which, er, I won't bore you with.
03:54Hiya.
03:56Morning, Jimmy.
03:57What's Lindsay about?
03:59Toes on the latch.
04:00Help yourself, love.
04:05Better make that sakes.
04:08Come on.
04:16Hiya.
04:20Did you give me messages?
04:21Yeah, I'm sorry.
04:23Things have been really hectic.
04:24Oh, don't worry.
04:25Having a clear-up?
04:27Yeah.
04:27Oh, look at that.
04:28Reminds me when he used to wear him, the chippy.
04:30Mum's collecting jumble for the hospital.
04:32I'll have to sort some stuff out for her.
04:34According to magazines, if you haven't worn something for two years, you're never going
04:37to wear it.
04:38That's half my water about the swan event.
04:42Listen, now.
04:43I owe you a big apology.
04:45What?
04:47Paula.
04:48Oh.
04:49She was just warning me off.
04:51Oh, no.
04:51The whole thing's ridiculous.
04:53Yeah, well, I can't blame her for wanting you all to herself.
04:56By way of an apology, and a catch-up, I thought I'd cook us a nice meal.
05:01If you're free tonight.
05:02Yeah?
05:03Yeah.
05:03Oh, yeah, that'd be lovely.
05:05Thanks.
05:07Hey.
05:08Heaven, I've missed you, you know.
05:17Hello, Rach.
05:18So are you.
05:19I don't know where to begin.
05:21The list is endless.
05:22You old misery.
05:24Your mum's dead excited we're going.
05:25How till we get there?
05:25About eight.
05:26Right.
05:27Are you bringing Beth here first?
05:28Yeah, about seven.
05:29I'll give us both.
05:31I know it's frustrating, Mr. Sweeney, but we've got procedures and we have to stick to them.
05:36So while you're larging it in Tuscany or wherever, these procedures come apart at the seams?
05:40I'm afraid some vital paperwork went missing.
05:43Oh, I don't believe it.
05:44This little lad's life's messed up because a piece of paper goes AWOL.
05:48Mistakes are made everywhere, every day.
05:52Unfortunately, in our field of work, the consequences are more serious.
05:55Is that an explanation?
05:56I'm just saying I feel awful about it, that I wasn't there.
06:02But what can I do?
06:03We all need a holiday.
06:06Andrew needs more than a holiday.
06:09He needs a break.
06:11Hiya.
06:12Oh, forgot me flipping family allowance.
06:14Mum, will you slow down? You're stressed out.
06:17I know.
06:18Hey, you've picked up a bit, haven't you?
06:20Wouldn't have anything to do with Shelley, would you?
06:21Mum.
06:22Take it that's a yes?
06:23Maybe.
06:24I can reach you like a good.
06:25She came round before.
06:27She wants to cook me a meal tonight.
06:29Go on, then.
06:30Oh, thanks, Mum.
06:32Stay to me, eh?
06:33Babysitting while my daughter chases after a woman.
06:36I'm not chasing after a woman.
06:37She invited me round, remember?
06:39Just don't build your hopes up, eh?
06:41Mum.
06:42I don't know what you're going all coy for.
06:44It just feels weird, you know.
06:45Talking about another woman like it's the most natural thing in the world.
06:48I know.
06:50Hey, I must be one of them liberals.
06:52All these years, I never knew I could be so understanding.
06:55Thanks, Mum.
06:56I'll be eating live yogurt next, won't I?
07:00I just want you and Carly to be happy, you know.
07:04Thanks.
07:09You know, that seems reasonable enough.
07:11I mean, it is the biggest day of your life, after all.
07:14I thought you'd be cynical about marriage by now.
07:17Well, yeah.
07:17Yes, I am.
07:18Totally.
07:19But I wish you and Nathan all the luck and happiness in the world.
07:22I wish I might could say the same.
07:24My face was tripping when I left them before.
07:26Rachel go heap and all.
07:29Am I talking to myself?
07:31No.
07:31No, no, no.
07:33Take the notice of them.
07:34I mean, they hijacked your day, didn't they?
07:37Wish Nathan had muscles like that.
07:41Been pumping iron?
07:42Yeah, well, I might as well take advantage of the facilities.
07:45I'm going to jump in the shower before my shift.
07:47Oh!
07:48Doesn't that rather defeat the object?
07:50Look, as long as I keep in shape, I'm allowed these little treats and indulgences.
07:53Oh.
07:56Oh, you know.
08:03Hey, the gob on you two.
08:05You're going to frighten the customers.
08:07There's a thought of Dee Dee knocking your sick love.
08:11What's this?
08:12So far, Jackie and Lord Snooty.
08:14It's actually meant for Bill Gates.
08:15Jackie reckons dresses, flowers and cars should all be matching.
08:18She's got a point, hasn't she?
08:19She's got a flaming nerve.
08:21I love my dress.
08:22I mean, it might be cheap to them.
08:23What time's the new owner, do you?
08:24Every time after six.
08:25Is that it, Lee?
08:26She's got a point.
08:27Michael, it's a society do, isn't it?
08:29What do you want me to say?
08:30Do you want me to look like the poor relations?
08:32Don't better get back, Katie.
08:33Be up the wall.
08:35Right, I'll see you later.
08:36And listen, Rach, don't be worrying about all this.
08:39Where the sun doesn't shine.
08:43Till now, love.
08:45She's gutted.
08:47You love all this five-count stuff, don't you?
08:50Michael, it's going to be a top dollar do, isn't it, son?
08:52Come on, why should Nathan's family have to fork out for everything?
08:56Maybe you've got a point there, Dad.
08:58Maybe the solution is staring me in the face.
09:01How do you mean?
09:02Well, any chance of you sticking your hand in your pocket?
09:04Who, me?
09:05You're joking, aren't you?
09:06I'm skint.
09:07Well, it's not like you're paying for our jackies, is it?
09:09Let me show you.
09:11A five.
09:12A five.
09:13No, hang on, hang on.
09:14Hang on.
09:15Seven quid.
09:16That is the total.
09:17Like I say, son, if I had it...
09:19All right.
09:21Here, give it here.
09:23After all, it is your big day and all, isn't it?
09:26Thanks, Dad.
09:29They think the world revolves around them, that pair, don't they, eh?
09:35Flaming Nora!
09:37Do it deeper.
09:38OK.
09:40Hello, Mr Hilton.
09:42Paul Till here, Naomi's dad.
09:45Yeah, me and the stuttering wife
09:47are made up that the two girls are going off on this study weekend.
09:53Mr Hilton, I'm sorry I didn't ring yesterday,
09:56only the missus started telling me a joke
09:59and she didn't get to the punchline till I have four this morning.
10:04You're going to have to be serious.
10:05He's got to believe it.
10:07And he's away.
10:08He will, don't worry.
10:09Right.
10:10Do you want an arp on of action, then?
10:12Yep, go on.
10:13You ring right and I'll go for away.
10:16Oh, charming.
10:17And then, go and get your wages,
10:20rob the car's car
10:21and drive off to the sunset.
10:24Oh, Blackpool.
10:26What?
10:28Just not happy about robbing the car.
10:31Especially Susanna's.
10:32Forget it, then.
10:33Can't we just get the train or something?
10:35You don't get it, do you?
10:37We either rob the murder and slags wheels
10:40or we don't go.
10:42End of story.
10:43All right, well, you tell me
10:44I was supposed to rob her off a doorstep.
10:46Easy.
10:46It'll be dark.
10:48OK.
10:50This is about more than having a grin, you know.
10:52I know.
10:57I know.
10:58It's ringing.
10:59Get up, Grace.
11:00Just don't make me laugh.
11:05Hello, Mr. Hilton.
11:07All right.
11:08Paul Tyrrell here.
11:09Yeah.
11:10Naomi's our fella.
11:11You know what, Mr. H?
11:13You're Emily's sound as a pout.
11:16Yeah, no worries, mate.
11:20I'm afraid the family have had a rethink.
11:23They've decided to go for one child instead.
11:28I've explained it all to Andrew and Kevin.
11:30I've told them that we're looking at other suitable families.
11:33And how long's that going to take?
11:35How long's a piece of string?
11:38Don't give me clichés.
11:40I'm not, Mr. Sweeney.
11:41Honestly.
11:42I just...
11:43I don't have the answers you want to hear.
11:46Better they pull out at this stage than later on.
11:48Look, if no-one else will take them, I'll have them.
11:51He's really got to you, hasn't he?
11:53He's a smashing kid.
11:54I grew up in a kid's home.
11:56It's no life.
11:56Now I could give them a decent home.
11:59I'm serious.
12:00It's not that simple.
12:01Says who?
12:04I'm not saying it's out of the question.
12:06It's just...
12:07It could take a year or more to process.
12:10This is off its head.
12:14How much does it cost to keep these kids in homes?
12:16Hundreds and hundreds a week, I've heard.
12:18I didn't create the system.
12:19I'm just trying to work within it as best I can.
12:21Well, I'll tell you what.
12:22Send your assessors round.
12:24Tell them that I live with my mate and he's a black fella.
12:25Now that should cut a lot of ice here.
12:27Mr. Sweeney.
12:28In fact, tell them it's a cultural melting pot
12:30and tell them that every day we play ebony and ivory.
12:32Look, I know you're angry.
12:34I'd be angry.
12:35If me and Mick lived in Hackney,
12:36we'd probably get art council funding.
12:38I'm not saying I'm ruling you out as a foster parent.
12:41I'm just saying we've got procedures.
12:45I was left to rot in that kids' home.
12:48I deserve better.
12:50Andrew deserves better.
12:51I know.
12:53Were you brought up in a kids' home?
12:55No.
12:55No.
12:56Well, no offence, but you know nothing.
12:58Hey.
12:59So, you go and do your police checks
13:01and your character references.
13:02Do what you've got to do.
13:04But if you tear me down
13:05because I'm partially deaf
13:06or I'm unmarried
13:07or I'm too old
13:08or I'm too fat
13:09or I'm too white...
13:10I tell you what.
13:11I'll personally move things along
13:13as quickly as I can.
13:14Well, you better add.
13:15Because every day that passes,
13:18that little lad's sinking further into his shell.
13:20Oh, my God.
14:18Oh, that smells good.
14:20Where's mine?
14:21You're going in a minute, aren't you, Max?
14:23Mine, Max, is roasting in there.
14:26Well, have you put the specials up on the board?
14:27Oh, all in good time, darling.
14:29How's the sea bass?
14:30Looking good, Max.
14:32You know, you can go, Max.
14:33I need to talk to Mick about the menus
14:37so you can get my taste buds going.
14:49Oh, how are you?
14:52I didn't know you'd come in.
14:53Had a nice soak?
14:54Yeah.
14:56I'll tell you something.
14:58I needed that.
14:59Hard graft, was it?
15:00Too right.
15:01Hey, give the echo a run for its money.
15:05Are you taking them down before or after you two?
15:07Ray is a sound guy, you know.
15:09He helped me put them up.
15:11It's a people's newspaper.
15:14With a circulation of one?
15:16I can't believe I never thought of it before.
15:27Oh, ah, ah, ah, ah.
15:35Perch over there.
15:37Hey, I've got three tickets to sort out.
15:39Stuff the chickens, this won't take long.
15:42Oh, you've got the minus touch.
15:44Mmm, thanks.
15:49Susanna, can I have a word?
15:56I will thank you not to make a laughingstock of me in public with a hired hand.
16:01We work together.
16:02We're bound to rub shoulders.
16:04Well, why don't you just sit out in the window and have done with it?
16:06Temper, temper.
16:07Wrong side of the bed or wrong bed full stop.
16:10Look, please don't mistake this for jealousy.
16:12I'm just embarrassed for you, that's all.
16:14Of course.
16:16I'd better get home to our children.
16:18Good idea, because remember when you popped out and didn't come back for a year?
16:22Please don't make a fool of yourself, for their sakes.
16:25Oh, I think I'll play it by ear.
16:27See if Mick fancies a nightcap.
16:30Oh, grow up, Susanna.
16:32Good night, Max.
16:33Don't wait up.
16:42What do you mean, Jimmy?
16:44Jimmy Cork, he'll sink or swim.
16:48I'm like the bloke in that poem.
16:50He's in the sea, and everyone thinks he's waving.
16:54But he isn't.
16:55He's drowning, Jackie.
16:57Well, I know that feeling.
16:59Yeah, well, it's me.
17:00Me.
17:01It's like the arch, isn't it, eh?
17:03I was afloat of just.
17:04I'm drowning in chores and debts and worry, Jimmy.
17:08Yeah, that's what the council came along.
17:09I haven't took the thing away.
17:10I'm drowning in shame, you know, because we're all doing it, you know.
17:13We're all drowning, but some of us don't have the luxury of going on about it.
17:16Yeah, they are.
17:17It struck a chord with you and all, Astrid.
17:19Oh, it's done that, all right, yeah?
17:20I go round supermarkets picking out the dented cans to save money
17:24while me husband's building an arch and writing poetry on me house.
17:28I know, I know.
17:30What a partnership, eh?
17:32Jimmy.
17:34Jimmy, I need a husband that I can lean on.
17:36Not one I've got to humour.
17:39How old are you, love?
17:47You just don't get it, do you?
17:50Oh, I get it, all right, Jimmy.
17:52I mean, it took me a while, I'll give you that, but I get it.
17:55It's called swinging the lead, isn't it?
17:57All this tapestry and the building of the arch and the people's newspaper.
18:03Jackie.
18:03Anything but put bread on the table.
18:06Now, I had a vocation.
18:07I was a teacher.
18:09I was a brilliant teacher.
18:11You were a brilliant fake.
18:14I thought you'd understand.
18:18I thought we were soulmates.
18:22Soulmates, more like.
18:26I'm not standing for them boards, Jimmy.
18:29You take them down tonight, or first thing in the morning.
18:33Or what?
18:35Or I walk out that door and I don't come back.
18:40That's me out there, Jackie.
18:42My life.
18:45Don't make me choose.
18:48Looks like you already have.
18:52I'll take Will and Kylie with me.
18:55So that's it, I say.
19:00You can't just leave me, Jackie.
19:04The writing's on the wall, Jim.
19:14It's all getting out of hand, you know.
19:15I'm all for quality, but this is just throwing money down, isn't it?
19:18But, Dad, this is my biggest blowout in life.
19:20We went to Auntie's cousin's wedding, and all the guests were robbing the table arrangements.
19:25Oh, I know about you and I've came home empty hands.
19:27Anyway, why all of a sudden concern?
19:28Because Michael and Rachel are skins, and I haven't got my spare sloshing around.
19:32Obviously, if I did, I'd...
19:33Oh, I get it.
19:34I thought you were looking a little bit pale.
19:36Did you think we'd expect you to flood the bill?
19:39Well, yeah.
19:40You mean, you and Nate are going to pay?
19:42Yeah, well, of course.
19:43We are.
19:43What do you take me for?
19:44Well, there you go, Michael.
19:45Can't say fair to that, can you?
19:47I'll change sides quicker than any more console, yeah.
19:49Well, I suppose it would look a bit of a shambles, wouldn't it?
19:52Michael and Rachel rolling up in a robbing reliance.
19:54You must think I'm a right cow.
19:56Well, they're stumpin' up, Michael, so all you want is it over.
20:00I'll have a beer while we're waiting.
20:01It's fine, then.
20:02Now we're a charity case.
20:04Where is this fella?
20:05Hey, relax.
20:07This is a power game, Mr.
20:08The oldest trick in the book.
20:10He's just shown you who's the boss.
20:14Oh.
20:17Oh, yeah.
20:18Mmm.
20:19Oh, that smells gorgeous.
20:20Does your mum do all the cooking?
20:21Mostly.
20:22And my dad can do egg and chips.
20:24And a sausage casserole.
20:26That looks lovely.
20:27Mmm.
20:28I think I went a bit mad on the garlic, though.
20:30Doesn't matter, does it?
20:32We're both eating it.
20:35At table seven.
20:38Oh.
20:43Look, I need a word.
20:45I'm listening.
20:47I feel like a pawn in some mad game between you and Max.
20:50Oh, don't be crazy.
20:51Oh, eyelash hole still.
20:54The last thing I need is a fallout with Max.
20:57I thought he was going to chin me before when you were flirting with me.
21:00I wasn't flirting, Mick.
21:02Don't trivialise attraction.
21:04Come on, Susanna.
21:06Am I missing something here?
21:07I don't know, are you?
21:09Well, I'm sure I never dreamt the fact that you didn't give me a massive comment all afternoon.
21:14I'm not going to apologise for it.
21:17I've been dreaming all day what it might be like to be kissed by those lips.
21:24I'm waiting for Jeremy Beedle to jump out.
21:26Oh, don't spoil a beautiful moment.
21:33You're a very beautiful woman, Susanna.
21:37I've always wondered what it'd be like to...
21:39to kiss you.
21:54Oh, get down.
21:56What?
21:57It's Ray.
21:58Has he seen you?
22:01Nah.
22:08Tim, stop.
22:10You're joking, aren't you?
22:11Just for a minute, stop.
22:11It's not a good idea to rob a car and then just stop off there if you...
22:17I don't believe I'm doing this.
22:19We've got to get going.
22:20Tim!
22:21What?
22:22We've done it, haven't we?
22:36We've done it, haven't we?
22:37We've done it.
22:39We've done it.
22:56Flamin' norm.
22:59What the hell are you doing here?
23:02What do you think?
23:06you joke i bought the place lock stock and every barrel
23:22oh my god didn't you know about uh you know what you know little harry kid just old can't be
23:29stay in one of those big hotels what's your name brian i can't stay here honest you're staying
23:34i thought that last couple would never go why do we have to drag that butte round with us all
23:39night
23:39it is loaded that's why oh my god
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