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00:03Morning, that's nice.
00:04Pat.
00:10Do you want something, Pat?
00:11Well, I, er, I might do. I'll see how I'm fixed.
00:15I'll let you know.
00:22Morning.
00:23What?
00:24No, you're a natural wishy-washy.
00:26Well, you know, I aim to...
00:27You are. Performance last night, loads of people said so.
00:30Did they?
00:31Yeah.
00:32Peter, can I ask you something?
00:34Nothing? But I ain't had a single car come through yet.
00:37I mean, that can't be right, can it?
00:38Sorry, Billy.
00:39I don't matter. I suppose it's Christmas post, doesn't it?
00:41I expect a lot of stuff gets lost this time of year, doesn't it?
00:46Come on, mate.
00:48Zoe, please.
00:50This is just going to make things worse.
00:52Zoe, I thought I told you I wanted to talk to her.
00:55She won't open up, though, Rox. I have been...
00:57Zoe?
00:58Zoe? Come on.
01:00There's a good girl.
01:02Let us in, will you?
01:10I don't know why you like these old things anyway.
01:13It's not like we need them cluttering up the place.
01:16I'm sorry, are you?
01:18Mum!
01:19Right then, baby. I'd better go downstairs.
01:23I'll see if I can pick up some of those leaflets this afternoon, though, yeah?
01:27Yeah.
01:28Well, no point wasting any time.
01:30The sooner we find out how it all works,
01:32the sooner we can get on with adopting our baby.
01:40What?
01:42Oh, nothing.
01:43Mum, can't you just be happy for me?
01:46Look, I know, but...
01:48Mum, a baby, any baby,
01:50you'd love it if it was here, wouldn't you?
01:52It's your life.
01:53You've got to do what you feel is right.
01:55I want to have a kid.
01:56It's the only choice I've got.
01:58Why?
01:59I mean, what exactly is wrong with her?
02:00Mum, please.
02:02Listen, I, er...
02:04I want you to apologise to Sharon.
02:06Me?
02:07Well, someone's got to break the ice, haven't they?
02:09What's Christmas going to be like if we don't?
02:12All right, then.
02:14I'm not going to be the one that ruins everything.
02:27People will say we're in love
02:31Don't dance
02:32Oi, oi, oi, oi!
02:33All night with me
02:36Till the stars fade from above
02:37This face's got a famine with you, ain't it?
02:39I thought you were supposed to be saving your voice.
02:41You'll see
02:42That poor nater.
02:43I wonder if she knows what she's letting us out a bit more.
02:45The very best night of her life, Grandad.
02:47Oh, yeah, yeah, yeah.
02:48Look, it's a date with a bit of culture, innit?
02:51I'm going to take her to the pictures
02:53or the theatre.
02:54Yeah, well, at least she won't have to sit and listen to you, won't she?
02:56Rave night?
02:57Oh, yeah.
02:59Ah!
03:01Now, have I had the money.
03:02Yeah, so I've got more housekeeping, aren't they?
03:04Grandad, look at this, look.
03:06Fly to France for a romantic break.
03:08Stroll along the boulevards.
03:10Enjoy the sights and sounds of an authentic French market.
03:14Does your governor know you're thinking of banking off?
03:18Yeah, well, um, anyway, better be off.
03:21Yeah.
03:22Let's hope Dorothy doesn't stand up after yesterday.
03:24Forgiveness, Rob.
03:26That woman's got it down to a fine heart.
03:30Oh.
03:32Well, come on.
03:33What do you think?
03:34Yeah, if you like.
03:36You can do in the living room
03:37and I'll have a look at them fairy lights.
03:40This time last year, you was getting Zoe to flog them.
03:42Yeah.
03:43Do you remember?
03:44She decorated Mark's stall.
03:47Her and Kerry was walking around with tinsel in their hair.
03:51Right pair, they looked.
03:56Now, you listen to me.
03:58You don't do this to yourself, do you understand?
04:00Yeah, but what if she's never going to...
04:02We're not thinking about what ifs no more.
04:04When?
04:05When Zoe comes home, she'll need her family.
04:09How's it going to help her if we're all over the place?
04:13Yeah.
04:15I'll get started.
04:17Small girl.
04:22Ah, gotcha.
04:40Hello?
04:42Hello?
04:42Yes, I'd like to book a flight, please.
04:45I wasn't working, you silly lunchtime.
04:47Well, he's a tall bloke, you know.
04:49He looked like he could have been in the army once.
04:51Er, not that I remember.
04:52The thing is, we get a lot of people who aren't regulars this time of year.
04:55First of Christmas past.
04:57He probably weren't even in, you know.
05:00Oh, Cheryl.
05:03What's this and all?
05:04Oh, cheers.
05:05Well, that's what Christmas is all about, isn't it?
05:07You know, giving and receiving.
05:09Yeah.
05:10Oh, that reminds me.
05:14Cheryl, you shouldn't have.
05:15Oh, it's not from me.
05:17It's from Phil.
05:18Payment for clearing out the house.
05:19Apparently, Paul took his cut up front.
05:22Right.
05:23Right.
05:24Sharon.
05:25A word.
05:26If you've got the time, of course.
05:28Of course.
05:30Um, Phil thinks I should apologise for yesterday.
05:34Does he?
05:34Yeah.
05:35And I suppose he's got a point, really.
05:38Had I known that there was something medically wrong with you...
05:40Peggy, your little family, the Mitchells, well, that was your life, wasn't it?
05:46I mean, I realise how hard it must be for you now that you've got nothing.
05:50And while you're living in my pub, I want you to be able to say what you think.
05:54Even if we don't take no notice of you.
05:57Yes, darling.
05:58He's tall, dark, handsome.
06:02Every girl's dream, you said, eh, Kel?
06:05Yeah, he's a lovely bloke.
06:07And gentle.
06:10There's nothing to worry about.
06:17OK.
06:18Stuart's been really looking forward to meeting you, but I'm not going to force you to do
06:21nothing you don't want.
06:24Some girl's out cut out for it.
06:26That's just it, all right?
06:30Just pack your things, pay me what you owe, and we'll say no more about it.
06:35I thought Kelly...
06:38I ain't got any money.
06:42Ah, see, I'd really like to help you there, but I can't afford to carry any debts, can I?
06:48Even for a pretty girl like you.
06:52So, you haven't got any choice, have you?
06:58Hey, us girls have got to stick together.
07:04Don't get anything for free.
07:08And it's not as if you're on your own.
07:11The only difference between you and half the wives out there is you'll get paid for it.
07:20Sort her out.
07:22Stuart's expecting a pretty little virgin.
07:25Make sure he gets one.
07:42I bet you're really looking forward to it.
07:44Yeah.
07:45Oh, I thought you and Lisa might like to crack this open tonight.
07:49Well, once you put your daughter to bed, celebrate her being home.
07:52Yeah.
07:54What's this, Sharon?
07:55Sorry.
07:55Can I get the chair for me, please?
07:57No.
07:58No problem.
08:00I don't know, Cathy.
08:01I just thought being this time of the year and everything,
08:04it might be nice for Ben to be speaking to some of his real family.
08:09Yes.
08:10All right.
08:11And he comes in.
08:12We'll tell him that he's knackled.
08:14Bye.
08:16Little baby, Lou's coming home this afternoon.
08:19How can I go gallivanting off now?
08:22I mean, poor Paulie might need me help.
08:25Well, I thought we would...
08:27All right.
08:30On the other hand,
08:32I ain't one to go raising people's hopes,
08:34only to let them down at the last minute.
08:37Oh, where is it?
08:38The bus for Marble Arch, quarter past.
08:41What are we waiting for?
08:45Steve, you need me while Bex is up at his mum's, don't you?
08:48I mean, you need someone to hold the thought sort of thing.
08:51No, what I need is someone I can call out over Christmas
08:53if the toilets get blocked, that sort of thing.
08:56Not job man, Billy.
08:57Not manager.
09:00So you are for it, or what?
09:03Have you got any other prior engagements?
09:06Well, I don't know yet.
09:07I'd have to see, wouldn't I?
09:08Yeah, well, you think about it.
09:10Let me know, eh?
09:14You must have been expecting it.
09:16Well, yeah, I was, but...
09:18what with everything else going on, you know?
09:20Well, I reckon it's good news.
09:21If your divorce and Ruth's finally come through,
09:23well, you're free to plan your future now.
09:29What?
09:30Yeah.
09:32You're giving me a Christmas card?
09:34Yeah, well, it's tradition, isn't it?
09:35Well, from your mates, yeah.
09:37Fine.
09:38If you don't want it, don't have it.
09:50Well, Martin, you're the only one who's got what I need.
09:54Oh, right, um, but the offer I was only on for yesterday, Pat,
09:57and, er, well, I'm all sold out.
09:58I ain't got no mistletoe left.
10:00It's not your mistletoe I'm after.
10:02It's your empty boxes, you daft apeth.
10:06Oh, you see, the kids have got their nativity tomorrow,
10:08and law reckons they still need to make a manger.
10:10Yeah, well, yeah, take what you want, then.
10:12Ta, are you, er...
10:15You're quite sure you don't need any payment?
10:19Yes, what can I get you, love?
10:22You look nice, that's all I'm saying.
10:24A bit of slap, nice, bright, what's it?
10:26Well, this whole thing's nothing special.
10:28I'm trying to pay you a compliment, woman.
10:30Yes, well, we ain't got time for that.
10:32Do you want to get to this vessel, don't you?
10:34Oh, hold on.
10:35So you've got that, then, quarter past one?
10:37Yeah, right.
10:37If I see him first, I'll tell him.
10:39You all right, Bill?
10:41Yeah, why?
10:41What, you making out you bothered all of a sudden?
10:43No, I just...
10:44Yeah, Merry Christmas, Mel.
11:01Excuse me, young lady, haven't you forgotten something?
11:04What's that, then, old man?
11:06What, are these going to pay for themselves, are they?
11:09Honestly, he's so tight, you're the one that cut my wages, Terry,
11:12so I can't afford to buy anything until I've paid you back, can I?
11:17Any news?
11:18No, nothing.
11:20Not easy keeping positive, is it?
11:23If only they knew how much we miss them.
11:27Yours are, you'll get in touch.
11:29Well, if you say it loud enough, you hope it's the truth, don't you?
11:33At least you've got your granddaughters.
11:36There's nothing like your own flesh and blood.
11:41It's a good idea, though.
11:42A hot air balloon.
11:43Well, what about one of them boat trips?
11:45No, seriously, you know, down the Thames.
11:47You know, you're pretty funny.
11:49I was thinking more of a drink, after work.
11:51A drink?
11:52Yeah, you know, I mean, we can really talk and...
11:55Drink?
11:56Yeah.
11:57That's the date, then.
12:03So, you know, you want to get yourself one of those individual Christmas puddings, you know?
12:07No, these ain't for me.
12:09Yeah, right.
12:10Now, Steve, Melanie says that you're to meet me and Vic at quarter past one if the paperwork's ready.
12:16Right.
12:17And another thing, I might not have any prior engagements this Christmas,
12:21but at least I ain't got to buy some bird and house to associate talk to me.
12:25Please, mate?
12:26Yeah, thanks.
12:26I'm going to get a bottle of that toilet water, what Pauline likes.
12:31And a pair of socks for Mark, a pair of socks for Martin, a pair of socks for Robbie, a
12:36pair of socks for...
12:39All right, yeah.
12:41Tout for Sonia, tout for Lisa.
12:44Oh, and I'll get a good box of tout for poor Mrs. Finity down the centre.
12:49Rattle for the wardens, baby.
12:51Rattle for baby.
13:02Rattle for baby.
13:24PHONE RINGS
13:26PHONE RINGS
13:27PHONE RINGS
13:30PHONE RINGS
13:30Hello?
13:33Hello?
13:35Zoe?
13:36Zoe, is that you?
13:40Please, if that's you, just talk to me.
13:45Please, just let me know that you're...
13:51Zoe.
13:52Zoe, baby, I'm so sorry.
13:54Please, you can't believe me, please.
13:56Zoe, I'm...
14:00PHONE RINGS
14:04PHONE RINGS
14:24And handkerchiefs. I'll get handkerchiefs for the vicar and handkerchiefs for the warden. Oh, and I'll get a nice box
14:30of handkerchiefs for you.
14:31We're gonna get ourselves a bit of sustenance first on our little coffee shop.
14:35We ain't got time to enjoy ourselves.
14:37Well, I...
14:38I hope you never thought this was a day out for seeing the sights.
14:41Can we get a move on, please?
14:42Because if there's one thing I'm good at, it's Christmas shopping. You are Pauline. Weeks of in organising yourself.
14:51How many more times? I'm sorry, all right? You did give the dog to me, Billy.
14:56To keep? Yeah, to keep.
14:58Yeah, well, if you want to give her a Christmas present, I suggest you go down to the dog's home.
15:04I was out of line, so I've apologised.
15:09Well, I do want you to be happy, Phil.
15:11Yeah.
15:13Guess I'm not very good at letting go.
15:15But you and Sharon, you've got to do what you feel is right for the pair of you.
15:20But you have thought, though.
15:22Oh, I know the two of you would have done.
15:25But you know, there's no reason why this baby can't still be yours.
15:30What do you mean?
15:32And you are one nasty, selfish bitch. Do you know that?
15:35Aye, aye, that's enough.
15:36And what about my rights, eh?
15:37Don't you think I might want to see her?
15:39She's a dog, Billy, not a kid.
15:41Yeah, well, you could have given her back to me.
15:43I'd have taken care of her.
15:44It's Christmas, Janine, Christmas.
15:46And Terence, she's stuck in some cage in some dump all by herself and with not one person around to
15:52show her any better kindness.
15:54And you two, do you ever think about anyone else but yourselves?
16:00No.
16:03Take it away, get it checked out, if you want.
16:05I know it all looks pretty standard to me.
16:07Guess I'll just have to trust you.
16:09Maybe one day, eh?
16:11I'm just sorry it ever came to this.
16:14I'm not letting your emotions get in the way, are you, Steve?
16:18Well, I hope you're going to be very happy in this house.
16:21You deserve it.
16:23Yeah.
16:24Thanks.
16:30Ah.
16:32I thought we was looking for tellp, not ladies' necessary.
16:35Yes, well, they've shifted it all around.
16:37I don't know where anything is now, do I?
16:39Well, why don't we try over here, then?
16:41That's what they want.
16:42They want us trailing up and down the aisles, being tempted left, right and centre.
16:45Well, I won't have it.
16:47Hey, you.
16:49Yes, you.
16:50Come here.
16:51I take it you work here, Wayne?
16:53Yeah?
16:54Stop doing that.
16:55It ain't nice.
16:56You can come and earn your wages.
16:58Come on.
17:00I'm fine.
17:01Well, it's just earlier you seemed...
17:04Anyway, look, whatever.
17:06I've, erm...
17:07I've been men to drop this off for ages.
17:11Frenchman?
17:13Didn't take me long to pick him up.
17:16You know, abouts adopting a little baby.
17:19Well, it sort of gives me a chance to put something back in a weird way, doesn't it?
17:23Yeah.
17:27Oof.
17:29I don't know about flowers.
17:31Martyr to her skin, Mrs Finnerty is.
17:33I don't go giving her something what'll aggravate it, do I?
17:36Yeah.
17:36Oh, mud.
17:37Let's have a smell of this.
17:41Oh.
17:41That don't smell right, either.
17:44Ain't gone off, has it?
17:50It's not that bad.
17:51It's not that bad.
17:52You'll look back on this first one and wonder what you was getting so wound up about.
17:55Yeah.
17:57And when you get paid, all that cash, me and you, we're gonna have a full day out.
18:05Yeah?
18:09It don't hurt to be a bit numbs-o.
18:15You'll remember though, won't you?
18:17Hey.
18:17Well, if I could remember what I was after, then I wouldn't have wrote a list, would I?
18:22Oh, it's no good.
18:24I'll have to go home.
18:25Oh, look.
18:26Well, we're here now.
18:27Why don't we take a nice stroll down on the river?
18:30If I didn't know no better, Jim Brannan, I'd think you was pleased.
18:34I think you was glad that I'd lost my list.
18:37Me?
18:37Well, when you're like me, got no family to speak of,
18:41and your friends, well, you like to give them something a bit...
18:47Well, it isn't just about giving thanks for Jesus.
18:50No.
18:51It's about showing how much you appreciate those that are around you.
18:56And some people ain't worth the bother.
18:58Listen, look, you don't understand.
19:01Of course I do.
19:03Then please don't...
19:04But I can't stay here, can I?
19:05That's not what Stuart's after.
19:08I'm so scared.
19:09I know.
19:11I know.
19:11I know.
19:12Hey, come on.
19:14It took me ages to get your eyes right.
19:16Don't go messing it up.
19:19It's too late to start again now.
19:23Kill!
19:24You get as much of that down you as you can, right?
19:32I'm just saying that...
19:33Well, there might be another way, that's all.
19:35But what?
19:36What other way is there apart from adopting?
19:42Are you talking about a surrogate?
19:45It's worth thinking about it.
19:47I don't know.
19:53I don't know.
20:04You haven't had it easy, have you?
20:06No.
20:07Bit of respect, Dorothy.
20:08That's what you deserve.
20:10Bit of caring.
20:11I do all right.
20:13Why don't you let anyone in, woman?
20:14No?
20:15No, come on, get out.
20:16I beg your pardon?
20:17You heard me.
20:19Get out.
20:23We can talk about it, can't we?
20:26Well, at least tell me what you're so wound up about.
20:28What I'm wound up about?
20:30What I'm wound up about?
20:32You push and push and push, don't you?
20:34You can't help yourself.
20:36Whatever you say at the end of the day, you just can't help yourself.
20:38Sharon?
20:39Have a baby.
20:40A doctor baby.
20:41Oh, here's an idea.
20:42Let's pay some woman.
20:43Someone who's got nothing, nothing to do with me and you.
20:46Let's pay her to do the one thing I can't, eh?
20:48Make a little Mitchell.
20:50Oh, it's a great idea, Phil.
20:52Yours, was it?
20:55I've got you here, of course.
20:57I took your list.
21:00This is my Christmas present to you.
21:10Hey, there's nothing to worry about.
21:12It's all sorted.
21:13I've got enough in the sky to pay for a go on that and a cup of tea afterwards.
21:17It's a flight, they call it, see?
21:18We're about to see all over London.
21:20We've got to see where we came from, where we are now.
21:23I thought things might look a bit different up there.
21:25Yeah.
21:32I can't keep competing with your mother.
21:34She was just suggesting something, that's all.
21:36Something we could do.
21:38All she wants is for us to be happy.
21:41This has gotten way out of her hand.
21:43What happens when it cries?
21:45What?
21:46Your baby.
21:47Well, it wouldn't just be my baby, would it?
21:49Or it won't eat its food or it throws up or...
21:52I mean, who sorts it?
21:54Who makes a decision, Phil?
21:56It's Nan, who's related to it by blood, or me.
21:59Oh, this is stupid.
21:59Oh, come on.
22:01Just face it, will you, Phil?
22:03Your mum couldn't care less if I'm happy.
22:06She doesn't even really want you and me to keep it together.
22:09All she wants is for you to have a baby.
22:11All right, Sharon, that's enough.
22:11And so do you.
22:13So do you know what I reckon?
22:15I reckon you should just get on with it.
22:29Lean above it, now you don't.
22:31Well, you can't go taking a Christmas present like this back now, can you?
22:35Yeah.
22:36I'll just have to find my legs, that's all.
22:39You're a wonderful woman you are, Dorothy Cotton.
22:41No, I ain't.
22:43Hope you ain't got me up here under false pretenses.
22:46Oh, come on.
22:46Let a man have a bit of dignity, please.
22:49Well, I might be a bit of an old fool, but I didn't want you moving up to Scotland
22:52for good, did I?
22:58Look.
23:01That's from Paul's.
23:03Yeah.
23:03Westminster Abbey over there.
23:05And Canary Wolf right over there.
23:07And on a clear day, they'd reckon you can see all the way they get with.
23:12God, look at all those people.
23:15Think of all them lives.
23:17Bit hard, isn't it, to expect a little baby to sort us a lot out.
23:22God sacrificed his only son, Jim.
23:24Says we could have salvation.
23:27Yeah, I know that.
23:28Yeah, and it's appreciated.
23:29I'm just saying, it must have been a bit lonely for the poor lad, you know.
23:32That's all, you know.
23:32Although he did have a direct line to him up there.
23:36He must have needed a bit of company sometime.
23:39Yeah, well.
23:41He just had to get on with it, didn't he?
23:45Yeah.
23:46No.
24:04BUZZER
24:05Zoe?
24:09It's Joe.
24:12Oh, silly.
24:13Sit down, yeah?
24:22So...
24:24Roxy says this is your first time.
24:28Take your hair down, will you?
24:31What? I...
24:40That's better.
24:42Not like one of my daughter's friends with it all, that.
24:46Seventeen.
24:48Never been kissed.
24:53Never even been... kissed.
25:02If you don't want to know, then I understand.
25:05Ain't no need for this conversation, Jim.
25:09Yeah, but I meant what I said in the graveyard, you know, and I ain't taking it back.
25:12I mean, you don't feel about me like...
25:15like what I should have felt about you.
25:18There's no need to be embarrassed.
25:19I ain't embarrassed.
25:21Yeah, but you ran away. I thought you wasn't coming back.
25:23You never had to think, didn't I?
25:25You can't go springing feelings on a person who's not expecting to think.
25:29Oh, no, no.
25:32Don't go putting words in me, Mum.
25:34You don't know.
25:36You don't know nothing.
25:37You don't know how I feel about you.
25:41No.
25:41All this wearing of your heart on your sleeve ain't necessary at all, right?
25:46Yeah, but I've...
25:47It's just words.
25:50I never met a man who meant them anyway.
25:54I do, though.
25:58I love ya.
26:02I don't think you're half-back neither.
26:06You?
26:07I said so.
26:08Didn't I?
26:16Dorothy.
26:18Will you marry me?
26:22Yeah.
26:26Yeah.
26:27Yeah, I will.