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00:26I'll see you next time.
00:32I reckon he'll soon reckon that I'll give him all this, you know.
00:35And shall he reckon that as soon as he finds something else to put his energy into, he'll
00:38be fine.
00:39What's it got to do with him?
00:40OK.
00:41Don't need to bite me out of it.
00:43Oh, can't stop.
00:45Gonna be late for me restart interview.
00:46I'm taking our wills with me.
00:48Right.
00:49Whatever.
00:53Everyone's been going on about our house being in the news.
00:55Good.
00:56Maybe now they'll listen to what I've got to say.
00:59Dad.
01:00Don't you think you should take them down now?
01:02No chance.
01:03Not now that people are paying them some attention.
01:05Yeah, but what about me, Mum?
01:07She was almost in tears last night.
01:08You two could be on the verge of splitting up and all because of these.
01:11Look, I haven't got time for this now.
01:12I'll see you later on, OK?
01:13I'll see you later on, OK.
01:17Will you be inviting that Deborah back to the restaurant tonight?
01:20Yeah, I might do.
01:21Why?
01:21Is there a problem?
01:21To what you see now.
01:23That phony laugh of hers would wake the dead.
01:25Well, it's obvious you don't like her.
01:26Well, she's so condescending.
01:28Full of herself.
01:29Oh, surely you're not thinking of getting involved with her.
01:32Well, it's nothing to do with you, even if I was.
01:34You've made it quite clear you don't want anything to do with me or my personal life.
01:50I suppose we'd like to have kids eventually, but we're in no rush.
01:54Come on, Fy.
01:55Will you soon have one of those, you don't?
01:57Sorry, I mean...
01:58Oh, it's OK.
02:00I mean, there's no use me pretending that I didn't give birth to her.
02:02No, I suppose not.
02:05Here's Nathan now.
02:06I suppose I better get going.
02:07Oh, why don't you stay in?
02:08I don't have something to eat.
02:09It's OK.
02:10You don't want his ex-employee hanging around.
02:11Katie, that's all in the past now.
02:13Just stay, please.
02:14Hiya.
02:14Hi.
02:15Katie's going to join us.
02:16You don't mind, do you?
02:17No, of course not.
02:19Can you handle lunch with the man who's sacked you?
02:21Just about.
02:23Listen, I'm sorry.
02:25I was out of order.
02:26I realise that now.
02:27Yeah, well, it was, but let's forget about that, eh?
02:30It's history.
02:37All right, Mick?
02:39All right, Mum?
02:39Did you see soft lad on the telly?
02:42No, I heard about it, though.
02:43It's a disgrace, isn't it?
02:44He's making a laughingstock of the old neighbourhood.
02:47Yeah, well, you don't have to worry about it, do you?
02:48You don't live round here anymore.
02:50No, I know, but it doesn't stop me from caring, does it?
02:53I'm telling you, they should be made to take that lot down.
02:54Well, it's Jackie.
02:57I feel sorry for you, no?
02:59Yeah.
03:00I wouldn't be very happy about it if I was there.
03:03Hi, Jack.
03:04How's it going?
03:06The core kills are the subject of the local gossip, as usual.
03:09I suppose you saw Jimmy on the news as well.
03:12I'm not content with making a show of us in front of the neighbours.
03:14He's got to do it on the telly and all.
03:17I'm sorry.
03:17I don't mean to be going on.
03:19I'll see you.
03:20Where are you off to?
03:21Anywhere away from this house.
03:23Come over to ours.
03:24No, I just need some time, you know, to get my thoughts straight.
03:28Come on.
03:28I'll put the kettle on.
03:36All right, well, I'd better get off.
03:37Thanks, you're welcome.
03:39Is your dad all ready for Nathan's family to come and visit?
03:42Oh, I don't know.
03:42But after that guided tour fiasco, I know that I'm absolutely dreading him.
03:46Oh, come on.
03:46What can you bet possibly do?
03:47He's capable of anything, believe me.
03:49It's a nap he's going to embarrass me again.
03:51Well, Mum said she really enjoyed meeting you.
03:53You mean she and Charles have a good laugh, Adam?
03:55Not at all.
03:56Okay, his behaviour was a bit odd, but Mum already warned to him.
03:59Charles thinks he's hilarious.
04:01Right, I'd better get back.
04:03Yeah, well, let's hope they feel the same after Friday.
04:05Do you know why you're worrying so much?
04:07Well, it's not just me dad.
04:09It's the thought of me future mother-in-law coming to see where I grew up and that.
04:12Why?
04:13You're not ashamed of your roots, are you?
04:15No, of course not.
04:16Or should you be?
04:17My family are really fond of you.
04:19Where you're from doesn't even come into it.
04:21See you later.
04:22See you.
04:24Stop worrying.
04:25So what?
04:25Your dad's a bit mad sometimes.
04:27He's still as good as Nathan's family.
04:29Yeah, I suppose you're right.
04:30Do they know about Harry?
04:32Well, we've never really found the right moment to tell them.
04:35Nathan reckons that they wouldn't be bothered, but I think I'd still find it out to explain it all.
04:39I suppose it's a bit complicated, isn't it?
04:42Hi, hi.
04:43What's all this then?
04:43A welcoming committee.
04:44I'm waiting for Baird to get back from town.
04:46She's dumped Josh and Rachel.
04:47She's bang out of order, you know that.
04:49Typical.
04:49She forgets all about the time when she goes shopping, does Baird?
04:53Always has.
04:53Hey, what about this little beauty, eh?
04:56I ordered it just in time for the Cuddingsons' visit on Friday.
04:59Yeah, great.
05:00To be honest though, Mike, I'm thinking about postponing the whole thing until that Divvy Corkhill
05:04does something about that ice saw on the cruise.
05:06Yeah, you made the local news.
05:08Thank God they don't get that in Cuddingsonshire.
05:10I couldn't sit here.
05:11Well, they could have had a county named after them.
05:14I mean, after all, their ancestors owned most of them one time.
05:16What time did you call this?
05:17You said it'd only be an hour or so.
05:19Sorry, but there was nothing in the shops.
05:22Could have fooled me.
05:23I only wanted an outfit for the wedding, but I couldn't find a thing.
05:26What?
05:26Don't worry.
05:27I wrote that all side down in the church.
05:29My hat is going to be just as big as any of that posh love.
05:33I'll search every shop in town for the right one if I have to.
05:35Yeah, well, you're not dumping Josh and Rachel again, OK?
05:38That's your son you're talking about.
05:39And I wasn't dumping him on anyone.
05:41I thought it'd be nice for him to spend some time with his baby half-sister.
05:45Yeah, but he shouldn't have been so long.
05:46I only wanted a nice outfit for the wedding.
05:49Hey, and a coffee would be nice, Mike.
05:50Please.
05:57There's no way I'm having her shoulders up in front of the Cuddings of that wedding.
06:01You never even asked her.
06:02She just invited herself.
06:03Yeah, well, we'll have to make sure that she doesn't go to the last thing we want is her
06:06spoiling things.
06:07Hey, you are going to be around on Friday, aren't you?
06:09Oh, I don't know, you know.
06:10Wouldn't you write that I was out the way so you got the place to yourself?
06:13Of course not.
06:13I want my only son and heir there, don't I?
06:16Make sure they meet all the family.
06:19Well, maybe not all of them.
06:29Typical, isn't it?
06:31They think that just because we haven't got jobs, they can keep me waiting around all day.
06:35Like I've got nothing better to do.
06:38Yeah, well, we don't all sit in front of the telly all day long, you know.
06:44Some of us try and spend our time doing something useful.
06:50I thought I'd left all this behind me.
06:53Well, it just shows you how wrong you can be, doesn't it?
06:57Well, I'll tell you all.
06:59I'm going to make sure that you don't have to go through all this when you grow up, son.
07:04You'll have all the knowledge you need to get your head in life.
07:07Yeah?
07:10Yeah.
07:11So that all your hopes and dreams don't just end up down the pan.
07:16Like my hand, Dad.
07:19I've just got out of a long, boring meeting and I'm absolutely famished.
07:24You know, really, I'm sorry about last night.
07:27I, um...
07:28There's no need to apologise.
07:30Let's just forget it here.
07:31Even so, I would like to make it up to you.
07:36Well, you could start by throttling that ex-wife of yours.
07:39She's really getting on my nerves.
07:42Well, you know, we could always wind her up again.
07:46It worked last time.
07:49Look, Susan, is everything OK?
07:52Yeah, of course.
07:54How come you've suddenly been really cool with me?
07:56I mean, is there something I've done?
07:58No, no.
07:59Yeah, I've just got a few things on my mind, that's all.
08:03What, am I in marks?
08:04No, just things.
08:11Oh, I'm sorry if I've been neglecting you recently.
08:15I didn't mean to make things up to you.
08:20Listen, why don't I tell Max to finish early tonight and then we can be on our own later?
08:26Come on, what's ours, I feel like.
08:27Well, I like the idea of having this place to ourselves, hmm?
08:32We know what we might get up to.
08:34Right.
08:35And you won't feel neglected tonight.
08:38Promise.
08:39Sounds good to me.
08:48You can't carry on like this.
08:50For the sake of your sanity, force him to take them down.
08:54Jess, it's not just Jimmy's behaviour.
08:57I can cope with that.
08:59Just about.
09:00Well, obviously you can't.
09:02Otherwise you wouldn't be getting yourself into such a state over it.
09:06Look, this has gone on for too long.
09:08You've got to act.
09:10It's not just his antics I've got to worry about.
09:14I've got more on my plate than that, believe me.
09:18When I was 15,
09:20I was going to do all kinds.
09:23See the world.
09:25Get rich.
09:27Make something of yourself.
09:30Look at me now, son.
09:33I promised your mother the earth before we got married.
09:37Said we'd have a big house, nice car.
09:40Holidays every year.
09:44Things haven't quite worked out that way, though.
09:48You start out with such high hopes, ready for anything.
09:51And then life just ends up kicking seven kinds out of you.
10:01Oh, brilliant.
10:04And what do you think I'm going to learn by reading a load of stupid leaflets, say?
10:07Well, I'll tell you what.
10:09Nothing.
10:10That's what.
10:10I don't even know why I'm here.
10:12All you do is send me for an interview for a job I won't get, or make me work for
10:17next to nothing.
10:17Well, you can stick it.
10:19You can stop me money for all I care, because I'm not being exploited.
10:24And you know what you can do with your leaflets?
10:28Jimmy's bound to calm down once he's got all this nonsense out of his head.
10:34Things will soon be back to normal between the two of you.
10:37Good marriages are worth working at, and anyone can see you and Jimmy belong together.
10:43Maybe he doesn't deserve all the grief I give him.
10:48Sometimes I hate myself for going on at him, you know.
10:52It's obvious you really care, though.
10:55I mean, the two of you still seem really close.
11:00You do still love him, don't you?
11:06I suppose so, yeah.
11:08It's the base of everything.
11:09And it's plain for everyone to see that he loves you.
11:15Yeah.
11:18The thing is, look, he's not the only person.
11:24What?
11:28You mean there's someone else?
11:51It's dead, isn't it?
11:52Maybe we should try a pound of bottle in the afternoons.
11:55You know what they do in town.
11:56See if we can attract some custom.
11:58Ah, you just get all the sweats in.
11:59Well, we need to do something to kick-start the place, Mike.
12:02Your Jackie really let it go down before she sold it.
12:05I was doing all right, Bev.
12:06Yeah, well, now it's mine.
12:07I want to do better than all right.
12:09Anyway, I've had a few ideas now to attract some people.
12:12Might try and run out, see how it goes.
12:14Doing what exactly?
12:15Don't worry.
12:17You'll find out soon enough.
12:18I'll be in my office if you need me.
12:25It's just that...
12:28Let's just say this other person isn't really my type.
12:30Then put this other fella straight before your marriage falls apart.
12:36You know, Jackie, our Greg ended up losing everything because of a stupid affair.
12:42Don't make the same mistake as him, please.
12:46Don't worry.
12:47No intention of.
12:48Then act now.
12:50Get things sorted out between you and Jimmy, once and for all, before it's too late.
12:55I wouldn't know where to start, you know.
12:58Well, by getting your house sorted, I'd put a kick-off.
13:00I'll help you myself if I have to.
13:02What would I achieve, though?
13:03Apart from obsessing him.
13:05Well, then maybe he'd spend some time trying to save his marriage instead of thinking of
13:08what slogan he can write next.
13:10Because I'm telling you, the longer those boards stay up, the more likelihood there is
13:13of you two splitting up.
13:15For good.
13:18God, can you believe that man's timing?
13:22Right, that settles it.
13:23They're coming down for the sake of your marriage.
13:31Jessie, don't.
13:32It's all right.
13:33Listen, I'll deal with it.
13:36Oh, no.
13:36Here comes more trouble.
13:38Will you be OK?
13:40Yeah, I'll have a word with him and try and make him see sense.
13:43If he won't listen to you, there's nothing to stop you taking that lot down yourself.
13:48Thanks anyway, love.
13:53Hey, hey, watch it.
13:54What are you doing?
13:55What the hell are you playing at?
13:57Are you making this coast look like a shantytown?
13:59Oh, am I?
14:00And what's it got to do with you?
14:01You don't even live round here anymore.
14:03But me kids do.
14:04And our Jack and his future in-laws are visiting tomorrow.
14:07They don't want to be looking at that eyesore.
14:08Oh, God.
14:09Well, they might learn something.
14:10Because that eyesore is aimed at knobs like them.
14:14The blue-blooded who bled this country dry for years.
14:18Learn something as if.
14:20You couldn't teach anybody anything.
14:22You've already proved that.
14:23Is that right?
14:25Hi, love.
14:26Jacky, love, can you get him to take this lot down?
14:28Just do one, will you?
14:30Where's William?
14:31He's inside, watching a video.
14:33He's enjoying himself.
14:34Well, he'd have enjoyed himself even more if you played with him for a bit.
14:38Well, you just get on with your signs, Jimmy.
14:40Don't worry about William or me.
14:42Yeah, I'm just going to make some new slogans.
14:45I just want people to know that they don't have to go on those slave schemes that the social force
14:52on us on.
14:54People have got to make a stand.
14:57Like I have.
15:07Um, seeing as things are so quiet, you can go home if you want to.
15:13Mick and I can manage, can't we?
15:15Yeah, sure.
15:16Good.
15:17Yeah, I was hoping to get off early.
15:19Deborah's coming round to the house later.
15:22Oh.
15:23I'll see.
15:24You don't mind, do you?
15:27No, of course not.
15:35It was good to see you and Katie back to normal again.
15:38I didn't like seeing you two estranged.
15:40It's like Bert and Ernie falling out.
15:41What?
15:42Oh, yeah, I'm glad to see you two have made it up as well.
15:45Well, at least she apologised about the Musgrove business.
15:48What's up with you tonight?
15:49You're not still worried about this visit, are you?
15:52No.
15:53Well, not just that.
15:55Oh, it's Harry.
15:56I keep wondering what your family would say if they found out about them.
15:59Well, they're not going to.
16:00And even if they did, they wouldn't mind.
16:02They already adore you.
16:04They're not going to change their minds just because you've had a baby.
16:07Look, once we're married, none of this will matter.
16:09You'll be in the past.
16:11You out on the razz again, Lawson?
16:13Oh, it's nothing special.
16:15You're not seeing Max Farnham again, are you?
16:18I am, as a matter of fact.
16:20He's invited me round for a drink.
16:23I mean, I know the Cuddingsons are used to grander places, but I really think that I can impress in
16:27my arse if I just get everything right.
16:30Of course, my big problem is that divvy cork, you know, those bleeding stupid signs.
16:34What are the Cuddingsons going to think if they're still up there Friday?
16:37What are you two whispering about?
16:39Nothing.
16:40We're just talking, that's all.
16:41So what's going on on Friday?
16:43I told you nothing.
16:46It's a bit quiet in here tonight, isn't it?
16:48You're going to have to sort things out or you'll go out of business.
16:50I might have come up with something to perk things up a bit from now on.
16:54Oh, yeah?
16:54What's that like?
16:56Lap dancing?
16:57You're not far wrong.
17:00Topless night?
17:01Good, eh?
17:02Should get some people in.
17:03Dave's B&B.
17:04Sounds like some diving black poop.
17:06Couldn't fit bar and bistro all.
17:08And, er, when's all this supposed to happen, then?
17:10Friday night.
17:12That's a bit tacky, isn't it, Bev?
17:13Hey, our Jacqueline is where it's really hard to give this place a good name.
17:17You're just going to ruin all that now.
17:19She let the place go.
17:21She'd lost interest and off the business by the time I bought it, so now it's up to me to
17:26win things back.
17:27Starting with this.
17:28And, er, what kind of people is this going to attract?
17:31Er, ones with plenty of money to spend and a big thirst, I hope.
17:34So, if yous don't like it, you know what you can do.
17:43Do you remember what I didn't say?
17:44Anything about me finishing early?
17:45Yeah, well, the restaurant was pretty quiet, so I thought I'd take the rest of the night off.
17:48So you brought a doggy bag at home with you as well?
17:50Yes, thank you, Casey.
17:51Good night.
17:56Lovely.
17:56Lovely.
17:57I've got a nice bottle of Rioja open, if you fancy some.
18:00Please.
18:01So, well, what time are you expecting, Suzanne, about?
18:04Well, she shouldn't be too long.
18:05And she knows I'm here.
18:07Oh, yeah, yeah.
18:08She was not too happy, too.
18:10Good.
18:12Cheers.
18:13Cheers.
18:14Cheers.
18:21We should have this place all to ourselves soon.
18:24I'm sorry, Mick.
18:25We're going to have to forget about tonight.
18:27Oh, are you all up for it before?
18:29Oh, yes, I know, and some other time, but I've got to go home.
18:34Max has invited that Deborah back to my house.
18:37And so what?
18:38At least we'll be left alone.
18:39But I can't have that woman in my house.
18:43My children are there.
18:45You don't like the thought of Max seeing someone else, do you?
18:48No, that's not rude at all.
18:50Well, you could have fooled me.
18:51This is ridiculous.
18:53Too right, it is.
18:58Right, that's it.
19:12Custard cream for your thoughts?
19:14Oh, no, thanks.
19:20Look, is this Harry business still bothering you?
19:22Well, I just feel bad if we told you, find me the truth.
19:26Well, whatever you want, but...
19:28I can't see what we'll achieve by telling them, that's all.
19:31I just hate having it hanging over us.
19:33It's not for long.
19:35We'll be moving away from here soon, and then...
19:37We'll hardly ever see him again.
19:40Well, just because I won't be seeing Harry
19:42doesn't mean that I didn't give birth to him.
19:44What happened, happened, and I can't change that.
19:51But it's all in the past.
19:53It's not like you're attached to Harry in any way.
19:56I mean, he's only Susanna's child to you, isn't he?
20:00Yeah.
20:01Well, then why worry?
20:03After we're married, we'll be starting new lives.
20:06We can put everything behind us.
20:08Let's forget about the past and look to the future.
20:19More wine?
20:21Is she going to be much longer?
20:22Yeah, she should have been here by now.
20:25I'm very happy about you coming around.
20:32Susanna!
20:33Sorry, I didn't realise you were back so early.
20:35I'm scared of missing something.
20:36Have you checked on the children, or have you been too busy?
20:40Yeah, of course.
20:41No need to apologise for interrupting us.
20:43Well, this is my house, so whilst you're here,
20:44you just have to put up with it.
20:46Susanna!
20:46Are you just going to let her talk to me like that?
20:49And we were having such a lovely time before you interrupted us.
20:52Well, if you're not happy, you know where the door is.
20:55Don't worry.
20:56I'm going.
20:57I can't stand all this jealousy.
21:01Thanks, Max!
21:03What the hell do you think you're doing?
21:04Deborah was my guest.
21:06I don't like that woman.
21:07And I make no apologies.
21:08I don't want her in my house.
21:16I thought I could do some of that fancy smoked salmon.
21:19That's classy, isn't it?
21:20Yeah.
21:21There again, they might be fed up with her.
21:23Probably have her all the time.
21:25Hey!
21:25What about some of our food?
21:27You know, pan of scouts or some nice-necked-end soup?
21:30Yeah, Dad, whatever.
21:31Hey, Katie, what can I get you?
21:32A bottle of white wine to take out, please.
21:34Me and Rachel are up with sis and have a drink.
21:35Oh, nice one.
21:36Well, that's on me.
21:37Seeing as she's looked after Josh all morning.
21:39Right, I'm off to the Legion, then.
21:41I thought I'd ask him for the lend of the red carpet for Friday.
21:43Good, eh?
21:44See you, love.
21:45See you.
21:47A bottle of house wine's all right?
21:48Yeah, great.
21:49OK, I'll be back in the mall.
21:54Hiya.
21:55You OK?
21:56Fine, thanks.
21:57Tell you what, I'm made up.
21:58Ron's gone.
21:59All he was going on about was Friday.
22:02Royal visit.
22:03Everyone's fed up of him.
22:04I mean, it's only Nathan's mum and his brother.
22:06Yeah, I think it was the royal family.
22:07Well, I suppose it's not every day the aristocracy visit round here, is it?
22:12Suppose not.
22:15Did you really have to make such a scene just because I invited someone back?
22:18I don't care who you spend your time with.
22:19I just don't like Deborah.
22:20You mean you don't like to see me enjoy the company of other women?
22:23You're jealous, admit it.
22:24You're imagining things.
22:26And I suppose I'm imagining the fact that you're having an affair with Mick Johnson.
22:29That for my benefit, too.
22:34You know.
22:36Yes.
22:38I saw you together.
22:40Why didn't you say anything?
22:42Because I'm jealous, Susanna.
22:45And it really hurts me when I see you with somebody else.
22:48And it's obvious that you feel the same way, too.
22:51I'm not even going to continue with this conversation.
22:53And the only reason for that is because you still care.
22:55Nonsense.
22:56Come on, admit it.
22:57No, no, you're imagining things again.
22:58Why don't you just face up to it?
23:00Look, why don't you just put an end to this stupid charade and finally get back together?
23:03I know it's what you want, so even though you won't admit it yourself.
23:06Look, if we're both jealous, it can only mean one thing.
23:14What?
23:15Well, come here.
23:34Max, is this going to work?
23:35What about them, eh?
23:37Are they the business?
23:38I am not taking them down on principle.
23:42You'll be sorry about this, Ron Dixon.
23:44I'll make sure of that.
23:46I'm going to be fostering Andrew and his brother, Kevin.
23:48Oh, that's great news.
23:52He's not going to be pleased.
23:56After a week's break, the Friday edition of Great Estates returns this Friday at 8 o'clock
24:01here on 4.
24:01Next tonight, new series, new presenter.
24:04Oh, she's got a habit.
24:05Oh, she's got a habit.
24:07Yeah.
24:08Oh, she's got a habit.
24:09Hmm.
24:13Oh, she's got a habit.