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00:00I mean, I've heard of these parties before.
00:01Underwear parties, whatever you call them.
00:03I've no desire to go to one.
00:05Not me.
00:05Wouldn't expect you to.
00:07Oh, wouldn't you?
00:08I'm surprised at Cathy Beale.
00:09I really am.
00:11Cassie, what are you doing?
00:12I can't find English.
00:14Well, get up, get up.
00:15Well, it's not under me.
00:16It's just somewhere.
00:17I know it is.
00:17Look for it.
00:18Help me look for it.
00:19Just look for it yourself.
00:19You're right.
00:20Oi, get off.
00:21Cassie, come on, come on.
00:22Come on.
00:23It must be somewhere.
00:25Now, where did you leave it?
00:26If I knew that, it wouldn't be lost.
00:27Just answer.
00:28Did you leave it at school?
00:30No.
00:30Did you look in your school bag?
00:32Don't be stupid.
00:33Cassie.
00:34I have.
00:35When did you last see it, then?
00:37I can't remember.
00:38What's this?
00:39It's addressed to me.
00:40Oh, I forgot to give it to you.
00:42It's from the teacher.
00:43I was dying to give it to you.
00:45Oh, you have a look.
00:48Well, let's see.
00:51Yeah, Mr Carpenter.
00:53I have to inform you that Cassie has been persistently bullying one of the younger girls in her class.
00:58I cannot persuade her to stop.
01:00I'll write to you now in the hope that you may be more successful.
01:03Perhaps we could arrange a meeting.
01:05Yes.
01:08What have you to say to that, Cassie?
01:09To what?
01:10To the letter.
01:12I don't know.
01:13Well, persistently bullying.
01:14Not just doing it once, but persistently.
01:16What?
01:17Don't go dumb.
01:18You know what the teacher means.
01:19I don't.
01:20Have you bullied this girl?
01:21No.
01:22Oh, so the teacher's lying, then?
01:23Don't you go and see the teacher, Cassie?
01:24I'm always wrong.
01:25Everyone else is always right.
01:27This isn't the way we've brought you up, Cassie.
01:29What's going to become of you?
01:30I don't know what you're on about.
01:31Look, we've done our best for you.
01:32Given you a good home.
01:33Good home?
01:34She's been shuttled from pillar to post.
01:35Tell them we are dealing with Cassie.
01:37Well, deal with her, then.
01:38Listen to what she has to say.
01:39You didn't believe her last time about Neville, and look what happens.
01:41Ian, my geography book.
01:42Has anybody seen it?
01:44No.
01:44What's it look like?
01:46It's a blue copy book with geography written on it in large letters.
01:50Is this it?
01:51What?
01:52Where did he get in there?
01:53I wonder.
01:55Cheers, ma.
01:56Ian, how did he get in there?
01:57Well, don't ask me.
01:58Well, who else can ask you, Dad?
01:59What?
02:00Me?
02:00I didn't put it there.
02:01It's been in there for three days.
02:03Yeah, then why didn't you tell me?
02:04I was wondering how long it was going to stay there.
02:06I must have got there by mistake, I didn't know.
02:07Mistake?
02:08Yeah, look, I've got to get off to school.
02:09I'll be late, all right?
02:09Oh, um, I'm going to go out and see Sharon tonight, and I'll be home a bit later, all right?
02:14What?
02:14The trouble with you is, you'll accept anything as long as it comes from the establishment,
02:18leave them allowed to smear your own daughter.
02:20We're dealing with a problem at school, Kelvin.
02:22And who's supposed to have been bullied?
02:23Who's the so-called victim?
02:24White, I suppose.
02:25And we'd be avert about it if it was a white girl bullying Cassie, eh?
02:28Kelvin, shut up.
02:29Oh, see, the destitute must never be allowed to speak.
02:31Now, look, the colour of a person doesn't matter.
02:33I mean, racism has got nothing to do with this.
02:35Bullying is bullying, whether it's black on white or white on black.
02:37Give her a chance, then.
02:38Who is she, anyway?
02:39I don't know.
02:40She must have slipped off to school.
02:41Well, the bag's gone.
02:41No, I'm going in all.
02:42I've had enough of this.
02:43You're losing your bite.
02:44You're going soft.
02:45You'd sell your soul to avoid the washing up, you would.
02:50I think I'm getting too old to deal with kids.
02:54I think I am, too.
02:56We're very fond of Sharon.
02:58You know we are.
02:59That's not it.
03:00Not what?
03:00Not what we're talking about.
03:01But what are we talking about?
03:03Look, sir, I don't agree with what Dan gets up to.
03:06I mean, messing around like that.
03:07And Angie, both of them.
03:08You're missing a family like that.
03:10It ain't fair on the kid, right?
03:11It's just not a good example, no matter how much we think of him.
03:14That's Sharon's fault.
03:15Well, she's been treated right bad.
03:16There's no doubt about that.
03:17You only feel sorry for her, son.
03:20But, well, you're our son.
03:22How do you see?
03:23Oh, I get it.
03:24There's something wrong with Sharon.
03:25You're frightened I might catch it.
03:26Oh, look, sir.
03:27No, listen.
03:27It's a matter of morals, ain't it?
03:29Morals?
03:29Yes.
03:30My morals?
03:31Yes.
03:31Oh, and Sharon's.
03:32Right.
03:34What?
03:34I get it.
03:35Sharon ain't got any morals.
03:36We didn't say that.
03:37You're worried.
03:38Yes.
03:39Yeah, but you're still going to go ahead and have a naughty knicker party,
03:41ain't you?
03:41Oh.
03:42Look, son, it's a different thing altogether.
03:44Oh, there's a difference, is there, Dad?
03:46Oh, we, and there is.
03:47It's harmless.
03:48It's just a bit of fun, a bit of excitement, that's all.
03:50Loving us all up, stop life, getting stale.
03:52We get together, look at the underwear and buy some.
03:55It's no different from shopping.
03:57Oh, I see.
03:57So wearing saucy underwear's fun, is it?
03:59Having a naughty knicker party's exciting.
04:00But me seeing Sharon is a matter of morals.
04:03I'll tell you, you two are really hypocritical.
04:05You did the same thing with Simon and Neymar.
04:07And, look, I'm off to school and I'm still going to be late
04:08because I'm still going to go and see Sharon.
04:10Mrs Wood, Sharon.
04:11Oh.
04:11Morning, Michelle.
04:12Morning.
04:13I'm just getting myself ready for work.
04:14Sit down.
04:15Thanks.
04:20Want a cup of tea?
04:21No, thanks.
04:23And how are you feeling today?
04:24Oh, I'm fine.
04:25Yeah, you look all right.
04:27Oh, thank you.
04:28One good thing, you're not very large.
04:30To you, maybe.
04:31To me, I feel like an elephant.
04:33As heavy and as slow.
04:34Like a slug.
04:35Never seems to come to an end, does it?
04:37No.
04:38Don't worry.
04:38There will be life after the baby's born.
04:41Oh, come on, shh.
04:43I'm coming, I'm coming.
04:45It's all right, Mum, I can cope?
04:46You're getting some practice in at any rate.
04:47That's what everyone says.
04:49Yes.
04:49Oh, sir.
04:51Oh.
04:52Oh, dear.
04:53Shh, Martin, please.
04:55Come on.
04:57Now they're talking about your nephew or niece, would you believe?
05:00Yes.
05:00Curious, isn't it?
05:02Yes, that's the word.
05:04Anyway, you don't want us cluttering you up, do you?
05:07What have we got to offer?
05:10I'll see you, Mum.
05:16Paulie, I was hoping I'd catch you.
05:19Can we talk?
05:20Yeah.
05:23I don't mind.
05:25No!
05:26Not a bit.
05:37Now that I've started, I can't seem to say it.
05:39Typical.
05:41Yeah.
05:43It's just...
05:44Oh!
05:44Oh!
05:45What's happened?
05:47Give me some, will you?
05:48Yeah.
05:51Oh, no.
05:52Oh, look, the brake's jammed.
05:54How do you think your mother will take to it?
05:56Take to what?
05:57The baby, when it's born.
05:59Can't wait to get her hands in it, I expect.
06:01Will you feel all right about that?
06:03I don't know.
06:05Do you think it's a good idea?
06:07I don't really know.
06:09Your mother should be discouraged from looking after the baby too much.
06:13Yeah?
06:13She may want to take it over.
06:16Grannies do that sometimes with young mums, young babies.
06:19What do you think?
06:20Whatever you think's best.
06:22You should make it clear that you're the baby's mum.
06:25Well, I can hardly get away from that fact, can I?
06:27But don't want the baby confused.
06:30It's very important that you make the baby yours
06:32and that the baby knows that you're hers or his.
06:35Yeah, well, I'm going to be moving out soon after the baby's born, getting married.
06:38As I know, Michelle, perhaps you ought to be a little bit cautious.
06:43Why?
06:44Well, you'll have quite enough to cope with with a new baby.
06:47What, that happens all the time?
06:48Young couples don't usually have a new baby, set up a new home and start a new relationship
06:53all at the same time.
06:55Well, then I can't win, can I?
06:56And I've got to make sure mum don't interfere, but yet it's wrong to move out and live with
06:59my husband.
07:00I'd like a family one day.
07:01Yeah, we all say that, we get one.
07:04Now, this has been right stubborn here.
07:06I tell you what, hold it still and I'll try and press it back.
07:08Right, OK.
07:10I've been a stuck-up little madam.
07:12What?
07:13That's what I wanted to talk to you about.
07:15Oh, great, that's it.
07:17Thanks.
07:18Cheers, Debs.
07:19Have a night.
07:20Well...
07:21I won't mind.
07:23No, you're not.
07:25You're just being kind.
07:26No, I'm not.
07:27You can't mean it.
07:30Well, all right, yes, you are.
07:31Back up.
07:33I'm sorry.
07:35Well, you were, but you're not now.
07:37Thanks.
07:39What's brought all this about, then?
07:41I don't know, I'm in a mess.
07:43I'm confused.
07:45I'm broke.
07:47And, uh, I'm having a bad time with Andy.
07:50Mm-hmm.
07:50It's about right for round here.
07:53The years don't stop.
07:54I can't put a break on time.
07:56I can't go back.
07:58I've got to sit down and face up to myself
08:01and work out exactly who I am.
08:03So I've come to the community store for help.
08:07Yeah, well...
08:08Thanks.
08:10I've had enough of other people's problems.
08:13I'm sorry, I'm...
08:14No, it's all right.
08:15Didn't mean you.
08:16I meant my people and their problems,
08:19which always end up being my problems.
08:21Just had enough, I suppose.
08:22I'm being a nuisance.
08:23No, you're not.
08:26I'll tell you what.
08:28Next time you have a problem, call a conference.
08:31What?
08:32Conference.
08:32That's what we do.
08:34Doesn't do any good, but we have them.
08:36In fact, we've got one tonight.
08:39So after all this is finished, I've got to go home,
08:42make a load of sandwiches,
08:44make the tea,
08:45put out the biscuits,
08:47and sit and listen to all the excuses
08:49as to why no-one could lend me hand.
08:51I tell you, I'm filled up with it.
08:56Do you know what I'd like?
08:58What I'd like to do?
09:00I'd like to get all in problems,
09:02line them up in the road,
09:04and have someone push the pram over them all.
09:08It's me, sat in it.
09:10Felt all right till Mrs Wood started talking.
09:12Everything sort of went into reverse.
09:14Hardly heard a word she said.
09:16Oh, I don't know.
09:17I suppose it's just everything.
09:19Having the baby, leaving home,
09:21being a bit homesick.
09:23Homesick?
09:23No, it's funny, isn't it?
09:24You thought I'd be looking forward to leaving.
09:26Yeah, I know what you mean.
09:27No, you don't.
09:28I do know what you mean, Michelle.
09:30All right.
09:31You're not the only one who's got problems.
09:33I know.
09:33I've got problems too, you know.
09:34I just don't want to talk about them.
09:36I talk to you.
09:37Yeah, well, I'm not talking to anyone.
09:38Okay, fine.
09:39I'll tell you soon, maybe, just not now.
09:41All right.
09:44Sorry.
09:45Not much help, am I?
09:47I don't know.
09:47I don't really know what I want to hear.
09:49I feel like that too.
09:50How much hell are you there for school now?
09:52Get a move on!
09:53All right, I'm on me way!
09:54I feel too restless to go to tuition.
09:57I feel the same way myself.
09:58Too much going on in me mind to pay attention.
10:01I think I'll go into Warford for the day.
10:03Well, I'll go with you.
10:04What'll you tell school?
10:05I don't know.
10:05I don't care.
10:06What do you do?
10:07I'll just ring them up, say I'm sick.
10:09You're lucky.
10:10What's that?
10:10Being pregnant, they'll believe you.
10:12I suppose it is an advantage.
10:14Never really looked at it that way before.
10:16Can we have a talk?
10:17Well, um...
10:18It's important.
10:19Oh, all right.
10:20But, um, I've got work to do.
10:25Look, you know what it's about.
10:26Do I?
10:27Yeah.
10:28Yes, I do.
10:30I need an answer.
10:32Yes.
10:34I know you want time to think.
10:36Yes.
10:37Look, I've been on my own long enough.
10:40I'm getting known as a confirmed bachelor, and I'm not sure I want that.
10:43Copper living in a sexual house until he retires.
10:46Is that why you propose to me?
10:49No.
10:50Well, it's part of the reason, yes, but only part.
10:53I want to marry you.
10:56I see.
10:57I mean, we marry for all sorts of different reasons, you know.
10:59Some good, some bad.
11:00You'll get something out of marrying me as well, you know.
11:03Why?
11:04I mean, look, do you skivvy from shop to pub to God knows where else,
11:07or do you have the stability of a home, a garden,
11:10and a steady person to fight with?
11:12I used to have someone like that.
11:14I was joking.
11:16Are you?
11:17Yeah.
11:18So, do I get an answer?
11:22Don't rush me.
11:23I'm not rushing you.
11:24It feels like it.
11:26Look, I'm running out of time.
11:29When I'm ready to give you an answer, I'll give it, okay?
11:32Just put me out of my misery, eh?
11:34Hey, Matt, Debs, I've come to change your lives.
11:37Bring you a few lives.
11:38Put some buns in your ear, Sergeant.
11:39This conversation ain't for the vice squad.
11:41So, what are you offering?
11:42Knickers.
11:43Knickers?
11:46Look at his face.
11:50Doesn't expect this.
11:52Obviously never been in a ladies' look.
11:53Look, I'm going to do some shopping, all right,
11:55so you can have a screeching private, okay?
11:56Oh!
11:58Yeah, what's all this about?
12:00Naughty underwear party.
12:01Filly frothies for frothy fillies.
12:03And I'm the hostess with a mostess.
12:05All the squares going to be coming.
12:07Well, most of them.
12:08I want you to come and all, will you?
12:10What does it entail?
12:11We're harmless.
12:12Just model some Andes.
12:13Buy what you want.
12:14Drink tea and coffee.
12:15We'll have a right gig.
12:16It'll be a right good laugh.
12:18And who knows?
12:19Naughty underwear could bring out a new you.
12:22Show you in a new light.
12:24Lead you to a new life.
12:27Change your underwear.
12:28Change your life.
12:28Right, what not?
12:29Well, at least we'll attract attention.
12:31Yeah, if you ever get run down by a bus,
12:33think of the pleasure you'll give.
12:34Ain't that right, Sarge?
12:35Sorry.
12:37Look, I can't find what I'm looking for.
12:39I'll come back later, okay?
12:40Yeah, I'll talk to you later, right?
12:42Yeah.
12:43Sorry, don't chill.
12:44No.
12:45Don't apologise to me.
12:46So what's the answer, then?
12:48Well, I'd love to come.
12:49Oh, right, I'll put you down.
12:50Naima?
12:51I'd like to, but I've never been to anything like that before.
12:53I'm not sure I should.
12:55Oh, well, I understand.
12:57I'd like to.
12:58Well, don't you think about it.
13:00I will.
13:01Oh, I mean, that was great.
13:03No, it's my own body.
13:04I mean, what I dress it in is my business.
13:06Nobody else's.
13:07I want to be free from this cultural terrorism.
13:09Right.
13:10Right.
13:19The wind's coming through like a hurricane.
13:20You can have that side door fit in.
13:22There you go, Mary.
13:23Yeah, you'll have to do something about that trial, couldn't you, eh?
13:26Two legs?
13:27Yeah, I thought you'd never ask.
13:29Yeah, me too.
13:30No, school's out.
13:31It's not exactly a private place for a conversation, isn't it?
13:33Cup of tea for me and Michelle, please, Sue.
13:35All right, Dad.
13:36School out.
13:36Yeah.
13:37So, what's the subject?
13:40Me and my problems.
13:41Oh, problems are everywhere.
13:43I thought I'd talk to you, try and get some sense.
13:45Sense?
13:45From me?
13:47Yeah, I had a letter from school this morning about Cassie.
13:49Says she's a bully.
13:50It's just a spell she's going through.
13:52She'll grow out of it, you'll see.
13:53See you up, lads.
13:55Come on, that's why we have kids, so we can keep anxious.
13:57All kids are a worry.
13:59Yeah, right.
14:00Sometimes I just feel like running away.
14:02Who are you?
14:03I don't know.
14:04Well, you know what they say.
14:04The grass is always greener on the other side of the wall,
14:06but that's because you're banging your head against it, right?
14:08Yeah, right.
14:09The one thing you can't leave is your skin.
14:11That's where you're really trapped.
14:12So wherever you go, you take all your rubbish with you.
14:14Now, the answer is to get rid of that rubbish.
14:15You don't need to go somewhere else to do that, do you?
14:17Yeah, thank you very much.
14:18That sounds like the thought to Chairman Harry.
14:20It's the best I can do, sorry.
14:22Hiya.
14:24Penny?
14:26Give us a tea and two donuts, please, Ellie.
14:27Sure, coming out.
14:28This is a clever girl, then.
14:30You?
14:31Yeah, exactly.
14:31I've got the job.
14:32Oh, well done, though.
14:33It went well.
14:34Great.
14:34Yeah, it's not the greatest job in the world, cleaning the kitchen in a canteen, but I don't
14:39care.
14:39No, hard work.
14:40Regular meals.
14:41Crash, Melanie.
14:42When do you start, eh?
14:43Next week.
14:45Thanks, Andy.
14:46Oh, I've been lucky these youngsters a day.
14:48Pick up your job any time.
14:50Undercutting the older generation.
14:51You working?
14:52Yeah, I know.
14:53What are you on about, then?
14:54Well, I don't feel safe.
14:55Oh, see, if you want to see me as well.
14:56Yeah.
14:58Oh, hello, love.
14:58Come here.
15:00Hello, Arthur.
15:01Hello, darling.
15:01Hi, Tony.
15:02Oh, hi, Naima.
15:02Gives a different view, doesn't it?
15:03That's me, Naima?
15:04Yes, please, honey.
15:05Join me up.
15:05Hey, Tony, when are you going to start working on my extension?
15:08Come on, next week.
15:09Fine.
15:10There you are, Arthur.
15:11Another few weeks' work if you want it.
15:12Oh, yeah, of course I want it.
15:13Thanks, Tony.
15:14Oh, only a minute to go out with sour grapes, because I've got a job.
15:16But he's not regular, is he?
15:18He's only for a few weeks.
15:19Oh, don't get me wrong, Tony, I'm very grateful for you.
15:20Well, no chance, Arthur.
15:21It goes on week after week, hoping something will turn up.
15:24At my age, you need a steady job.
15:26Well, not only your age, I'll for mine and all.
15:28So what's the answer?
15:29Well, what we need is a major restructuring in society.
15:31Oh, I'm glad it's something simple.
15:37I'm giving my money to...
15:38Hey!
15:40Hey!
15:41Hey!
15:42Hey!
15:44Hey!
15:45Help!
15:46Oh, Willie!
15:48He-he-he-he-he-he-he-he-he-he-he-he-he-he-he-he-he-he-he-he
15:50-he-he-he-he-he-he-he-he-he-he-he-he-he-he-he-he-he-he-he-he
15:51-he-he-he.
16:05Well, that's what this government's trying to do.
16:07Split up the working class.
16:08Divide and rule.
16:09But the fact of the matter is, if all the kids, the blacks, the Asians, they all disappeared
16:12tomorrow, there'd still be unemployment.
16:14Because that's how they're running the world these days.
16:16And now, because it's every man for himself, what little power the workers have, they're
16:19losing day after day.
16:20If you try and fight back and they'll turn the police on, you're all of them.
16:22Workers, peace movement, you name it.
16:24They'll get it for conspiracy, if nothing else.
16:26You've covered a lot of ground there, Gerald.
16:27Yeah, yeah, I know.
16:27What the wretch can't understand is that there's millions out there with less than they've
16:31got.
16:31They don't understand what it's like to have less than they've got.
16:33No, they don't want to work on a factory floor all day or a building site.
16:36Neither do I.
16:37Well, neither do I.
16:37That is my point.
16:38I wouldn't mind working on a factory floor or a building site all day.
16:41Yeah, but Arthur, you can still work for money and still be a social bid.
16:44Oh, Kelvin, shut up.
16:45If you don't like what you hear, Dad.
16:46Yeah, look, you don't have to tell me about politics.
16:48I've got to talk to him about everything.
16:50Oh, gee.
16:52Enjoy it, Miss.
16:53It's been the best.
16:55I've been hearing some good reports about your fast food service.
16:58Have you?
16:59Yeah, everyone's talking about it.
17:00They reckon people are coming off diets to fill up on it.
17:03So very impressive.
17:04So much I thought that you'd like to supply the pub.
17:05Oh, yeah, of course.
17:07Thanks, mate.
17:07The more business, the better.
17:08Well, obviously.
17:09You tell us what you want and I'll cost you up.
17:11Okay.
17:12Well, look, if you think you've got unemployment now, you just wait and see what's coming.
17:14Because unemployment's been used to reduce inflation, to terrorise the workers, to break up the unions.
17:18Next, they'll be using it to increase profits.
17:20And as soon as I've just given your back a bit of a bit of a scratch, perhaps you'd like
17:23to do the same for me.
17:24You'll have to translate that.
17:25Well, you haven't been having any visits from nasty men with balding muscles, like him yet?
17:29No.
17:29Well, there you are, then.
17:30There I am what?
17:31Well, I've just saved you some dough, so perhaps you could do the same for me.
17:33I mean, I've saved you a few bobs, so luck a few bobs off the fast food, as soon as
17:37I'm a mate and all that.
17:39Get knotted, eh?
17:40You heard, get knotted.
17:42Well, yeah, I have to say no, mate.
17:43It's just a thought.
17:44You said you did me a favour, and I'll take your word for it.
17:46Well, I expected you to do that a favour, because we're mates.
17:48Not because you can believe an extra penny from me, right?
17:50I mean, you're the one who's doing extortion now, right?
17:53We give you a good price and no more villains.
17:55Yeah, here it is, folks.
17:56Capitals are in action.
17:57Buy cheap and sell things, throw your friends on the name of profit.
18:00I do know what I'm talking about.
18:02I do.
18:02I do.
18:02The monarchy, the church.
18:04Right, that's it.
18:05Prime Minister's question time is over for today.
18:07Politics is bound along with religion, credit, and all forms of extortion.
18:11I'm working.
18:11Me too.
18:13I'm leaving.
18:14All right, then, me too.
18:15Well, then.
18:16I'll see you later, sir.
18:17I'll see you later.
18:18There's no serious damage, but you've had a nasty shock.
18:21The best thing to do is to get you home to bed, give you a sedative, and you can have
18:24a good rest.
18:25I shall never rest again.
18:26Is Willie all right?
18:27He helped.
18:28Well, I didn't pass my vet test, but he looks perfectly fit to me.
18:31Well, thank goodness for that.
18:32What's happened, then?
18:33Beffel's been mugged.
18:34Eh?
18:35Yeah, I've been robbed.
18:36My handbag's been nicked.
18:38They just knocked me aside and ran away on skates.
18:42Can you describe them, Beffel?
18:43No, I never saw them.
18:45They took your handbag?
18:45Yes, and everything in it.
18:48Money?
18:49Well, yes, but I mean, they can keep the money.
18:52It's me sentimental values I want back.
18:54What sort of values?
18:56Er, valuables.
18:57Well, there was a picture of Willie.
18:59Yeah.
19:00And there was a picture of my late husband, William.
19:03And there was me pension book.
19:0520 quid in fibres.
19:08Surgery keys.
19:09The surgery keys, Errol?
19:10Yes, I'm ever so sorry, Doctor, but I always keep them in me handbag.
19:14That's all right, Errol.
19:15Yes, well, I wouldn't have kept them in me handbag if I'd known they'd be stolen.
19:19No, I'm glad you told me.
19:20I'll get the locks changed at once.
19:21Yes.
19:21Here, you will try and get my sentimental valuables back, won't you?
19:25I'll do my best, Ethel, yeah.
19:27You see, for a second, I thought they was after Willie come to get him back again.
19:31Is value making them reckless?
19:33Come on, Errol, we'd better get you home.
19:34And Sergeant Quick can take the other details when you're comfortable.
19:36Yeah, yeah, of course.
19:37Yeah, come on.
19:38And I'm sure you'll be delighted, Sergeant, to give Ethel details of the criminal compensation fund.
19:42Oh, well, what's that?
19:44Er, I'm not sure I know all the details, actually.
19:46Come on, Sergeant, don't deny it exists.
19:48Well, of course it exists.
19:49I mean, we make no secret of it.
19:50I'll get the information for you as soon as I can, Ethel, all right?
19:53Yeah, Sergeant, do you want to take Willie?
19:55Er, yeah, all right.
19:56You should bet that.
19:57Yeah, come on.
19:58I feel really angry for Ethel.
20:00Yeah.
20:01But someone ought to do something about it.
20:02Well, Sergeant, I suppose.
20:03Did nothing about Debbie.
20:04What, I suppose?
20:05Let your hang on, will you not want to talk to you?
20:07What about?
20:08Oh, everything.
20:09Life, home, mum and dad.
20:11Particularly me mum and dad.
20:12Why?
20:14What have they done?
20:15Oh, it's really wound me up.
20:16Made me really angry.
20:18Just what I've been talking about.
20:20What they've been saying?
20:21It doesn't matter what they've been saying.
20:22Well, why mention it, then?
20:24Well, it's just, things can't be that easy for you right now, can they?
20:27No.
20:28On your own.
20:29Yeah, it feels like that.
20:30Well, you ain't.
20:30What?
20:31On your own.
20:32And I?
20:32No.
20:33Why not?
20:34Well, you know.
20:35Do I?
20:36Don't you?
20:37No.
20:37No, not really.
20:40Well, I'm here if you see what I mean.
20:42I know what you're saying.
20:43Do you?
20:44And I like it.
20:46You sure do.
20:47Yeah, I'll tell you what, you'll go and do what Kelvin says.
20:49What's that?
20:50You know, go and find real pounds.
20:51I'm not interested in that anymore.
20:53I've got other ideas.
20:54Dent.
20:58Couldn't you do something about all this?
20:59About what?
21:00Well, you know, I mean, Debbie being mugged and now Effie and that.
21:03Yes.
21:04Well, you know people, don't you?
21:06We all know people, Lofty.
21:08Yeah, but I mean, you could speak to people.
21:09I speak to lots of people, Lofty.
21:11Look, Dent, I know you've got to keep it quiet and that, but I mean, well, a word from you
21:15and it'd all stop, wouldn't it?
21:16And what would that word be, Lofty?
21:18Well, you know, well, I don't know.
21:20I mean, if I did, I could do something.
21:22It seems a very powerful word to me, Lofty.
21:24Lead it to the police.
21:25I thought what are they going to do?
21:27Well, they've got the uniform, haven't they?
21:28They've got the salary.
21:29They've got the pension.
21:30They're geared to help the citizen.
21:31It says so in all the adverts.
21:32Now, go and ask them.
21:33It's not fair, is it?
21:34I know it's not fair, but what can I do?
21:36Who do I go to?
21:36What do I say?
21:38I just heard you.
21:39Well, I don't care what you've heard.
21:40I don't care what people have told you.
21:42I'll tell you what it is, all right?
21:43It's an old world, and Ethel's just found it out,
21:44and I've found it out.
21:45Because one favour leads to another,
21:47and where do you end up?
21:48Because you get nothing from nothing in this world.
21:51Goodbye, Lofty.
21:56Uh, tie it for a cuppa.
21:57What one, Princess?
21:58Oh, dear, oh, dear, Imi.
22:00The house is full of silent women today.
22:01What's the matter?
22:02Ethel.
22:03Yeah, poor old cow.
22:04Bit of a signal, eh?
22:05Me.
22:05You? What's the matter with you?
22:06You get mugged in the square.
22:08You get mugged in your head.
22:09What do you mean?
22:10You know.
22:11Well, if I did, I wouldn't ask, would I?
22:13But whatever it is, it's down to me, eh?
22:14You said it.
22:15Yes, because everything is down to me lately, isn't it?
22:17Well, that suits you, don't it?
22:18Oh, we have inherited our mother's acid, haven't we?
22:20How do I know what I've inherited?
22:22Uh, I think I'd better be going home.
22:23I'll see you all soon.
22:24Bye.
22:25Yeah.
22:25Ryan.
22:27What's the matter, Princess?
22:29I've had enough.
22:30Have what?
22:31Enough of here.
22:32Well, we've all had enough of here.
22:33I mean, all areas.
22:34Gives us the pip every now and again.
22:35Don't just brush it away like that, Dad.
22:36I've had enough.
22:37And that includes me?
22:38Yeah.
22:40I'd prefer to be at Ian's.
22:42Yeah.
22:44Nice family, the Bills.
22:45They're better parents.
22:46It's quieter.
22:47And they aren't rowing all the time.
22:48And even if they are rowing all the time, it's more peaceful.
22:54So now we know, eh?
22:56Well, come on, Whitsy.
22:57Get your finger out.
22:58Don't leave me with the other finger.
23:00It's no good for Sharon, you know, all this.
23:02Or what?
23:02All this tension.
23:03It's no good for any of us, Den.
23:05You're too sensitive, mate.
23:06Well, there's nothing wrong with that, Den.
23:09Look, don't stick your nose in where Angel's feet are to tread, right?
23:11You're a kid.
23:12An employee.
23:12Yeah, well, you don't hear nothing that way, do you?
23:14Never have the bother.
23:15All right?
23:16So I'm younger than you and I work for you.
23:18Don't mean to say I can't say what I want to say, does it?
23:20You see, I know how Sharon feels.
23:21And if you ain't careful, she'll do something stupid.
23:24I did something stupid, remember?
23:26It could be a lot worse for Sharon.
23:28Yeah, right.
23:29Yeah.
23:30What do you mean, right?
23:32Yeah, I know you're right.
23:33She's making sense.
23:34It's, um, yeah, I don't think I'll bother with the tea.
23:38Um, Wixie, one last thing.
23:42Just this once, eh?
23:44Don't make a habit of it.
23:46All right, sir.
23:46What's your heart?
23:47All right, well, hello, Peter.
23:49All right, Mum, and have a conference, eh?
23:50I like conferences.
23:52Yeah, like the old UN, eh?
23:54It's nice for us to be all together.
23:56Perhaps this time we ought to try and do something, then.
23:59That's the way I spoke.
24:00Now, Mum's right.
24:01It is nice to have a family get-together.
24:03I'm not in the mood for parties.
24:05What's the matter?
24:05Well, I can sum it up in one word.
24:07Everything.
24:09I try to do everything.
24:10I feel I should do everything.
24:13But not anymore.
24:14I feel I've had enough.
24:16Well, we all try to help Pauline.
24:17I mean, we all do our bit.
24:19No, Arthur.
24:20It still comes down to me in the end.
24:22We talk and we promise, but things never get any better.
24:27I mean, look at us.
24:28All packed in this house.
24:30The baby.
24:31Difficult to keep money coming in.
24:33Mum's sick.
24:35Cheryl's pregnant.
24:37Every day, I go for it all like beads on a string,
24:40hoping that some of them are going to drop off.
24:42But they never do.
24:44It just gets more and more.
24:47Mum, I'm going to be leaving soon,
24:48so that'll be one less worry for you.
24:50I don't want you to go, Cheryl.
24:53That's not what I'm talking about.
24:55I just feel as though I'm loaded down.
24:58Well, I'm not long for this world,
25:00so that would be another one out your way.
25:03We'll have to take an axe to you.
25:04Oh, don't you be so sure.
25:06I've got me feelings, you know.
25:08Yeah, well, I can tell you, Mum,
25:10there's times I feel I'm not long for this world either,
25:12so perhaps we could save some money on the coffin.
25:14Pauline.
25:15We do what we can, sis,
25:16but we just haven't got the room.
25:17I mean, it's simple as that.
25:19Yeah, well, we haven't got any room here.
25:21I mean, it's not Buckingham Palace here, you know.
25:23We've just got the two bedrooms.
25:25Yeah, maybe Michelle's got it right then, moving out.
25:27But it's not going to make it any better for me, is it?
25:30It won't make it any lighter, will it?
25:32But I can't help it if I don't get worried.
25:34It's not for the want of trying, you know that.
25:36That's an excuse, not a reason.
25:37That's not fair, Pauline.
25:38I don't feel fair.
25:40I don't know what fair is anymore.
25:41Every day I'm like a bleeding hen in a barnyard,
25:44scratching, scratching, listening, listening,
25:45hoping to turn a job up.
25:47Yeah.
25:47Well, I'm just looking at my life, Arthur.
25:49I'm dependent on Tony.
25:51Without him, we'd be worse off.
25:53But that is our life, Arthur,
25:54scratching around for pennies.
25:56And I don't care what anyone says,
25:57the cost of living is still going up.
25:59Well, it's not me driving it up, love.
26:01I know it seems we're leaving it all to you, Pauline,
26:03but we don't mean to.
26:04Oh, that's all right, then, is it?
26:05Nobody means anything.
26:07It all comes out the same, though, whether they mean it or not.
26:09Oh, I wish I could do more, Pauline.
26:13Yeah.
26:14Well, Michelle says she's going, I think,
26:16great, that's one less.
26:20Then I think of her age, and she's my daughter.
26:23I think of that place at Flofty she's going to,
26:26and I want her to stay.
26:27Oh, we're all back in.
26:29We decorate the lawn, make it fit for humans.
26:31Well, at least for sure on the pavement you're living.
26:34I'm not in the mood for jokes, Pete.
26:36No, neither am I.
26:37And if Michelle would tell us the name of the father,
26:39that'd be one less worry on our plate.
26:40Why do you have to keep going back to that?
26:42I have to keep coming back to that.
26:44It's like a gumboil.
26:45Well, I'm never going to tell you.
26:46Don't take it out on Michelle.
26:47I'm not taking it out on Michelle.
26:49You take it out on her, right,
26:50means you don't have to listen to me.
26:51I'm not taking it out on Michelle.
26:53Arthur, there is a big hole opened up,
26:56and I'm right on the edge, and it is miles down.
27:01I understand, everybody.
27:03I know what everyone is going through.
27:07Mum can ring her bell and issue her orders from her bed.
27:11Arthur, Pete, Kathy.
27:15I can't even afford to go to that underwear party.
27:19And I'd like to go.
27:22I'd just love to have something pretty.
27:27I mean, Michelle may be scared,
27:29but she wants to leave home.
27:31Great, I'll help her all I can.
27:35But there's many a time
27:37I've felt like packing my bags and going.
27:40And I'm not far off it, I can tell you that.
27:43This is good.
27:44This is good.
27:44This is good.
27:44This is good.
27:45This is good.