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00:02No!
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00:32Beep beep beep!
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00:37I don't know.
01:34I don't know.
01:45I don't know.
02:09I don't know.
02:43I don't know.
03:11I don't know.
03:11Roy!
03:14Keep away, Frank.
03:15What the hell are you doing, man?
03:16Get off of there!
03:17Go away!
03:20I want to talk to you, Roy.
03:21I don't want to talk to you.
03:23Just leave me alone.
03:24What were you trying to do back there?
03:26Kill your wife?
03:28No.
03:29It looked like that from where I was standing.
03:31I didn't see her.
03:32I didn't see her.
03:32I just didn't see her.
03:33I think she's only the impression you tried to kill her.
03:36No.
03:37Then before you say goodbye to this world, don't you think you ought to tell her that?
03:41You tell her.
03:42You're closer to her than I am.
03:45We didn't sleep together last night, if that's what you think.
03:49I give you my word.
03:50That's the truth.
03:51The truth?
03:53Truth and frank butcher don't exactly go hand in hand, do they?
03:57It doesn't matter anymore.
03:59I'm through.
04:00Let me tell you something, Roy.
04:01What you do with your time is entirely up to you.
04:03I don't really give a monkey's.
04:04But when it screws me up, that's when I get upset.
04:07Your son, because he didn't stop to think, may have ruined the rest of my life.
04:12Why should it ruin your life?
04:14I got engaged to Peggy tonight.
04:17The gate?
04:18Hmm.
04:19No, no, no, no.
04:20No need to congratulate me.
04:21I was hoping to spend the rest of my life with the lady.
04:24And then Barry sees Pat coming under my place.
04:28She stayed in your house.
04:29She stayed in your bed.
04:30Whoa, hold the phone here a minute.
04:32There you go again, jumping to the conclusions.
04:33Well, you've done it before.
04:35You couldn't wait to tell me then.
04:36So why would I lie to you this time?
04:38She knows she can talk to me because there is nothing between us.
04:43Perhaps the real reason we're here, Roy has got nothing to do with me and Pat.
04:46It's got everything to do with you and Pat.
04:49I'm washed up.
04:50I'm finished.
04:51I've lost my wife.
04:51No, you haven't.
04:52I've lost my business, my health.
04:54Look, we can talk about all of this.
04:56I don't want to talk about it.
04:57I just want to finish it now.
05:01Why are you being so selfish?
05:04What?
05:04What about Pat?
05:05What about Barry?
05:09I'm making life easier for them.
05:11They'll be just fine without me.
05:12Now, you listen to what I'm telling you.
05:15Your family will forgive you for messing up on the business front.
05:18But if you kill yourself, they'll think that they drove you to it.
05:24I've got no option.
05:25Why not?
05:27I'm broke.
05:29We've all been broke.
05:31How many people out there do you think are broke?
05:34They all don't run around trying to kill themselves.
05:36Money isn't everything, Roy.
05:38No.
05:39But some self-esteem is.
05:42What about Pat's self-esteem?
05:43How's she going to feel?
05:45A fool like that.
05:46You're going to be in a right state.
05:48And she's the one that's going to have to identify the body.
05:51She's the one that's going to see you all mangled up.
05:54Probably won't even be able to recognize you.
05:56It'd be better than going on the way that we are.
05:59There's got to be another way out, man.
06:02I've told you.
06:04They'd be better off without me.
06:06Fine.
06:08Well, I might as well jump with you.
06:10What?
06:14Well, there's no point in me living either.
06:16What are you talking about?
06:18I'll jump with you.
06:18At least you'll have some company on the way down.
06:20You don't want to jump.
06:20Yes, I do.
06:21Why do you want to jump?
06:22I've got no future, nothing I look forward to.
06:24You've just got engaged.
06:26Yes, and Peggy's just broken off, so I've got nothing to live for either.
06:28This is stupid.
06:29I don't think so.
06:30Should we go after three?
06:32Frank.
06:32One.
06:33Now, listen, Frank.
06:34Two.
06:34This is pointless.
06:35Three.
06:35Frank, Frank, it's all right.
06:37I'm not going to jump.
06:39What do you mean?
06:40I've got to jump by myself.
06:42I'm not going to jump with you.
06:43What is it, Roy?
06:44Scared of what people might say.
06:46You know, might think it's some sort of love and suicide backed.
06:48Keep away from me.
06:50Then talk to me, man.
06:52Explain to me what this is all about.
06:54Roy, give me an hour, and I'll give you my word.
06:58If you can convince me what you're doing is right, I'll bring you back up here myself.
07:03Hey, if you think anything of your family, you'll give them an hour.
07:06At least I can explain some why you did this.
07:09Oh, one hour.
07:32That was some appalling driving you did back there earlier.
07:37Surprised you didn't kill yourself.
07:51Why are we stopped?
07:53There's a bowl here.
07:54I don't want a drink.
07:56Of course you want a drink.
07:58You need a drink.
07:59Besides, I'm not going to sit in here and talk for the next hour.
08:09This is a waste of time.
08:12We'll see.
08:32I don't want a drink.
08:43Gents?
08:58Let's take a look at it.
09:05Why, Florence Nightingale, all of a sudden.
09:08I know we never get served with you in that state.
09:11You've made a right pig's ear of it so far.
09:13Have a couple of drinks.
09:15May improve your chances.
09:18Let's have a look.
09:20Hey, man, you should really get this saint, do you not?
09:23This is a waste of time.
09:25By the end of the night, I'll be out of your way for good.
09:27That's supposed to make me feel happy, is it?
09:29That's what you've always wanted, isn't it?
09:31That once I may be, not anymore.
09:33Yeah, sure.
09:34Roy, you've really got to listen to me.
09:37Why?
09:39You're going to tell me how good my wife is in Benton?
09:42You're going to tell me how much she loves you and not me?
09:44How I'm not man enough?
09:45But you are.
09:46No, I want to tell you how stupid you've been.
09:49Been?
09:50How stupid I've been, but not anymore.
09:52No.
09:53I've had enough.
10:06Well, I could do with a drink, even if you could.
10:13We should have moved the moment you showed up.
10:17It's really in your way, wasn't it?
10:18Hmm?
10:19I mean, you did everything you could to get at me.
10:21You're trying to make me look small in front of Pat.
10:23Yeah, well, that's all in the past now.
10:27No, it's not.
10:28No, this is now.
10:30Now, I'm not going to sit here and listen to your rubbish, Frank.
10:32If you want to talk, then talk.
10:35But don't try to tell me this is all in the past, because it is not.
10:38Now, you say what you've got to say, and let me get on with what I've got to do.
10:41It's you that needs to do the talking.
10:43Me?
10:45Oh, yeah, so that you can go to Pat and tell her how you're trying to save me
10:49from throwing myself off a multi-storey car park.
10:52Nothing new there, then.
10:53Yeah, and that will just leave you to...
10:56Nothing new.
10:57Hmm.
10:58When you had your heart attack last Christmas, it was me that found you.
11:01You found me?
11:02Yeah, yeah, yeah.
11:03I mean, I could have left you a course.
11:04I mean, left you to die and had Pat to myself, and no one would have been the wiser.
11:08Why didn't you say so?
11:08Then why didn't Pat?
11:10Because we was at your place that night, and we all know what you're like, didn't we?
11:13You would have jumped to conclusions, just like you are now.
11:17Yeah, well, Pat should have told me that it's you two against me.
11:21I mean, even when I was there, you were ganging up against me.
11:23I mean, when you told me you were dying, there were two of you laughing behind my back.
11:28That's ridiculous.
11:30Where are you going?
11:31Where are you going?
11:32Frank, I am not an idiot.
11:33You know, and I know that you want Pat back.
11:36Not after what I did.
11:38We were up to our eyes in debt, and what did I do?
11:41The worst possible thing anybody could do.
11:43I walked away from it.
11:44I couldn't handle it, so I left.
11:47Coward.
11:48Yes, yes, yes.
11:50Mind you, I could have always done the old hero act.
11:53And committed suicide.
11:57Can't see any other way out.
11:59Neither could I.
12:01Good evening.
12:02Hello, Spino.
12:03Could I have two large brands, please?
12:06My pleasure.
12:07Thank you very much.
12:09Bet this place ain't cheap.
12:11I don't have any money.
12:13Well, in that case, you'd better write me an I.O.U.
12:15I can claim it from your estate, can't I?
12:18You think this is very funny, don't you?
12:20No, I don't.
12:21I'm just trying to show you how ridiculous this is.
12:24Oh, yeah.
12:25I suppose when you walked out, it wasn't.
12:26Yeah, but that was different, wasn't it?
12:28No, not at all.
12:29It's, you know, it's a bit like being a reformed alcoholic.
12:32You know, you can tell the other drunks where they're going wrong.
12:34Well, I know where I went wrong.
12:37I mean, even if you speak to my wife, that's where I went wrong.
12:40But what?
12:41What happened last Christmas after you, after you saved me?
12:46I mean, you gave her that money.
12:48No strings attached.
12:49Yeah, that's about the strength of it, yeah.
12:51I don't believe you.
12:52Eh, all right, all right, fine, fine.
12:54I won't deny it.
12:55I would have liked something to happen, but nothing did.
12:59What is it with you, Frank?
13:01I mean, everything I have got, you want!
13:03Pat isn't interested in me.
13:06Yeah?
13:07Then it wasn't a very good idea for her to spend the night with you last night, then, was it?
13:12Thank you very much.
13:13Two large brandies.
13:14Here's a good go.
13:17Twelve pounds.
13:18What?
13:19Three quid a shot.
13:21It's all right, you're not paying.
13:24Thank you very much.
13:26Would you like me to dance now, or later when it gets busier?
13:30Uh, later would be very nice.
13:32Okay.
13:38Cheers.
13:41I hate you.
13:42Mmm.
13:43I wouldn't waste your energy, Roy.
13:44I should say that they're coming to the top of that car park again.
13:49This is one big joke, don't you?
13:51What's the matter with you?
13:52Get it, though, Vince.
13:53That freak with a shot, that brilliant.
13:55What's the matter with you?
13:56I've got it all over me now.
13:57Are you going to calm down?
14:01Right now.
14:03Why don't you do nothing silly now?
14:05All right?
14:09You do everything.
14:11Everything.
14:11You want everything, don't you?
14:13Go away.
14:18Let me have this.
14:23I don't want to live anymore.
14:24There's no point.
14:25Yes, there he is.
14:26No, there isn't.
14:27I don't have any energy.
14:28I can't fight anymore.
14:30Anyway, she's always going to want you.
14:32You're always going to be there, waiting.
14:34She's always going to want you.
14:36I'm going to get this through to you.
14:38Even if it means you're pouring a bottle of brandy over me.
14:41I don't want her, and she doesn't want me.
14:45Until you get bored.
14:47No, no, no.
14:48Let me tell you something, Roy.
14:49The only person that Frank Butcher really cares about is himself.
14:57So, so, what about Peggy?
15:01I need someone like Peggy.
15:04I need someone on my own.
15:05You know, someone to be seen with.
15:06Someone to go home to.
15:08And Peggy fits the bill.
15:11You make her sound like some sort of trophy.
15:14What about Pat?
15:15I still think Pat's a great woman at one-off.
15:18But I blew my chances with her.
15:21Roy, it's no excellent that Pat ended up with me and then with you.
15:24We've got a lot in common.
15:27Such as?
15:28Well, for starters, she's seen all this before with me.
15:32I have nothing in common with you.
15:35I have always tried to live my life in a true and honest way.
15:39But you, you can't get your own mother if there was a couple of bobbinets.
15:42Yeah, I know you'd like to think that's me, Roy, but it's not, you know.
15:45I don't believe in cheating anybody either.
15:51Sorry, sweetheart, it was an accident.
15:52Sure.
15:54I think I'm going to like you two.
15:56Same again, is it?
15:57Yes, if you would be so kind.
15:59Thank you very much.
16:02Roy, we're both in the same business.
16:04We both married the same woman.
16:06It doesn't mean we're alike.
16:08But more than that, we both want to succeed.
16:11Here we are, knocking on a bit.
16:12When most people of our age will be thinking of retiring.
16:15I was thinking of retiring down at Cornwall.
16:17No, you wasn't.
16:18You're like me.
16:19You're a fighter.
16:20You were never going to quit.
16:21We both love taking risks.
16:23Me and you are not the sort that's going to end up playing bingo down the legion.
16:26That's the end to us.
16:28That's death.
16:28And that's why we're alike.
16:30Okay.
16:31So we both like work, but that's where it stops.
16:34You're wrong.
16:35We've got a lot more in common than that.
16:38Thank you very much.
16:41£14, please.
16:44But it was only 12 before.
16:45It's after half past nine.
16:47So?
16:48Half past nine, prices go up.
16:50What, a $3.50 a shot?
16:51You'd pay more at the Ritz.
16:54I don't quite get the comparison.
16:59Do you want me to dance now?
17:01Later, when it gets busy.
17:03Okay, I'll come back.
17:04Thank you very much.
17:07Roy, I'm going to be careful about what I say now, because I want to drink this brandy.
17:17Roy, it is not too late to put this mess right.
17:20Yes, it is.
17:21Pat will forgive you if you tell the truth.
17:24The truth is, we have nothing.
17:26You have everything.
17:28Pat loves you and you love her.
17:30That is everything.
17:31You don't understand.
17:33I've put the house up as collateral.
17:36I've got loan sharks on my back.
17:38Yes, yes, yes.
17:38And you've got a load of new motors.
17:40All of which are duds.
17:43They can't be.
17:45Yeah, I was gone.
17:47By Vinnie Watson.
17:49Yeah, he sold me a load of cutting shots.
17:51I should have guessed.
17:52Well, if there's any consolation, many years ago he conned me.
17:57Same thing.
17:59You were conned?
17:59Yeah.
18:01And I convinced myself that you were after those motors.
18:03Oh, Roy.
18:05When I saw those motors, I was really impressed.
18:08You were really making a go of it.
18:09I thought good on you.
18:11I wasn't trying to get one over on you.
18:13I don't know what you did with Manorwood.
18:15You were trying to prove that anything I could do, you could do.
18:18Yes, so I needed to prove something to myself.
18:20Yeah, to impress Pat.
18:21Maybe.
18:22Manorwood was important to me and I lost it.
18:24No, I've lost everything else.
18:26I've lost deals on wheels, the house, Pat.
18:29Hey.
18:30Come on.
18:31Where are you going?
18:32You'll see.
18:35Have you got a phone I can use, please, Governor?
18:39Who are you ringing?
18:40Pat.
18:41What?
18:44Ask her what she thinks of you.
18:46Ask her what happened last night.
18:47That'll tell you herself.
18:48No, no, I don't want to talk to Pat.
18:50Go on.
18:51Then May will be going to sort out what this is really all about.
18:54No.
18:54No, no, no, no.
18:56She would have told you exactly what I've been telling you.
18:59But you know that, don't you?
19:01Roy, this is not just your relationship at stake here.
19:04It's mine and Peggy's as well.
19:06I thought she was just a trophy.
19:08I thought you didn't care about anybody but yourself.
19:10Yeah, well, that's a figure of speech.
19:12You know, I've been around the block a few times.
19:15I was hoping this was going to be the last time.
19:18You know, nice happy days of retirement with a woman I love.
19:21A woman?
19:22The woman.
19:24I don't think I ever really loved Pat.
19:27You know, I couldn't have done.
19:28I wouldn't have walked out, would I?
19:31We're having a breakdown.
19:32I wasn't as low as you are.
19:34And Pat didn't mean as much to me as she means to you, Roy.
19:37I know how you're feeling now, but you've got to look at the alternatives.
19:41What alternatives?
19:43When I left, I felt such a fool.
19:46And the first time anybody spoke to me, that's when I realised it.
19:50Who was that?
19:53This copper.
19:55You were arrested?
19:56No, no, not exactly.
19:59What then?
20:02I, um...
20:02I took an overdose.
20:05You?
20:06Yeah, yeah, me, yeah.
20:08Nobody knows, of course.
20:10I've heard nobody in Walford knows.
20:13Well, the hospital, they stomach pumped me,
20:15and next day this psychiatrist come round to see me.
20:17Cool, he spouted a load of old waffle from beginning to end.
20:21You're like this because your father never bought you a bike for Christmas,
20:24or maybe you're feeling alone in the world because your mother died.
20:27The bottom line was I was like that because I couldn't find any other way out.
20:33So, what about this copper?
20:35Oh, I went berserk.
20:39Started to smash the place up.
20:43It's amazing how much better that made me feel as it happens.
20:46Until the police turned up.
20:49That night I was sitting to me, so, when he walked one of these cops at the rest of me,
20:54he had his eye out here where I caught up at him.
20:57I thought, here we go, Frankie boy.
20:59And the old wet towels wrapped in a truncheon treatment.
21:03But it wasn't like that.
21:05He asked me what went wrong.
21:08So I told him from start to finish.
21:11After a while, he just said to me,
21:14what a burk.
21:16He was eye with most people's eyes at everything.
21:18He said having a woman that loved you and a family that cared was everything.
21:21And in that moment, I knew that he was right.
21:24Everything else is just trimmings, Roy.
21:28I then made the worst mistake in my entire life.
21:32I didn't go back.
21:34I should have gone back because I know now,
21:36if all I had done, the people that mattered would have forgiven me.
21:40They would have helped me through it.
21:43But I didn't.
21:44And you know why I didn't, Roy?
21:47Because I was too much of a coward.
21:50That's the real reason I came after you.
21:53I wanted to talk to you.
21:55I've been there.
21:56And it's no good.
21:58But for you, for you, it's not too late.
22:03What have I done?
22:05What the hell have I done?
22:06Let me turn it in.
22:07We'll have people talking about us.
22:09I'm being so stupid.
22:11Come on.
22:12Come here.
22:16It's going to be all the way for you.
22:19It's not too late.
22:20Sorry.
22:20I'm sorry.
22:21It's okay.
22:22It's okay.
22:23No, it's not.
22:24I can't go back.
22:26I can't face it.
22:48You know, I'm always going to believe that something happened between you and Pat.
22:53Why?
22:54Why would I go to this length and prove nothing happened?
22:56You know Pat loves you, don't you?
22:58Hey, at least give me that.
23:02Yeah, yeah, I think she loves me.
23:03Then why would she want to sleep with me?
23:05There's no reason on earth she should come to me.
23:08Yes, there is.
23:08Fine, fine.
23:09Give me one good reason.
23:10Oh, come on, Frank.
23:11Use your brain.
23:12It doesn't take too much imagination.
23:17You mean what I, er, what I think you mean?
23:20Yes.
23:21No, I've told you that.
23:22I really can't go back, can I?
23:23Oh, come on, Roy.
23:25We've all got our secrets.
23:28Not like that.
23:29I swear I won't say anything about this or anything about multi-story car bugs.
23:34I swear.
23:38Oh, you don't believe me, do you?
23:41All right.
23:42I'll make you believe me.
23:44I doubt it.
23:46This is between me and you and no one else.
23:48What is?
23:49No one else.
23:52I've got a son.
23:54A four-year-old son.
23:57You have?
23:58Who's the mother?
23:59Er, when I went missing.
24:00A young girl.
24:02How young?
24:04Younger than Ricky.
24:05I'm not proud of what I did.
24:06I just got involved.
24:07She thought I was a high roller and I was the one for her.
24:14This is him.
24:15Danny.
24:18I still send Gemma.
24:20Er, that is my money.
24:22I see him every time I go to Manchester.
24:25Most of the money I send her goes on booze and I know she wishes she never had him.
24:31And sometimes when I look in his eyes, you know, it, er, it hits me hard, you know, how I'm
24:37letting him down, you know, cheating on him.
24:42He's a bonnie boy.
24:43Mm.
24:44Yeah, yeah, yeah.
24:46Must be hard.
24:47Yeah, it is, yeah.
24:49The way things are, I, I hate seeing him.
24:51I mean, you know, I want to see him.
24:54And I love seeing him, but it comes with a price.
24:57I'm his father and there's nothing I can do to help him, you know.
25:00Um, I should never have done what I'd done and sometimes I, er, I find it quite hard to live
25:08with myself.
25:13Does Peggy not know about this?
25:14No, no, no.
25:16No one knows it was just, you know, one silly night was all.
25:21Well, now that you, um, now that you know my secret, I'm hardly likely to tell anybody yours, am I?
25:31Will you come back with me?
25:34Yeah, yeah.
25:36We'll use my motor.
25:37Yours ain't going anywhere.
25:45Right.
25:46Let's go and face the music.
26:00Good night, gov, thanks for it.
26:01Good night.
26:02You think Peggy will still be with Pat?
26:04Oh, maybe, maybe.
26:07Oh, no.
26:09The note.
26:10What note?
26:11I left her a note.
26:13What would they say?
26:15It's all over.
26:17I can mean anything would go away with it.
26:20Oh, thanks.
26:24Well, I suppose I'll have to wind up the business.
26:27Yeah, seems a shame.
26:30I'd have seen what at work I'd have wished.
26:49Well, here it goes.
26:52For the both of us.
26:58You bitch!
26:59You cow!
27:11I'm sorry.
27:19Are we still talking?
27:21I think so.
27:23I'm sorry, I should have said something.
27:25Yeah, you should.
27:26Are we still engaged?
27:29Just?
27:30I thought you decided to run off as well.
27:32What took you so long?
27:34We were discussing business and it's all sorted.
27:37What is?
27:38Roy and I are, uh, we're going out of business together.
27:42We're going to be partners.
27:44That's right, isn't it, Roy?
27:47Yeah.
27:49Yeah, that's right.
27:52Partners.
27:54Partners.