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THUMP | 0:00:47 | 0:00:49 | |
That you, Den? | 0:00:50 | 0:00:51 | |
CLATTERING | 0:00:55 | 0:00:56 | |
MUSIC PLAYS INSIDE | 0:00:59 | 0:01:00 | |
-Oh, don't do that, Den. I could do with a laugh! -I don't want Sharon and... | 0:01:00 | 0:01:04 | |
We have a lot of things to talk about. This is the only time before this place turns into a madhouse. | 0:01:04 | 0:01:08 | |
I've got a million and one things to do. | 0:01:08 | 0:01:09 | |
-It'll have to be some other time. -Will you stop doing that and sit down? | 0:01:09 | 0:01:12 | |
All right, keep your hair on! | 0:01:12 | 0:01:15 | |
-Don't look at me like that, I know what you want to talk about. -Yeah? | 0:01:15 | 0:01:18 | |
Yeah. The staffing problems. | 0:01:18 | 0:01:19 | |
Is it my fault everybody's walked out? The question is, what are we going to do about it? | 0:01:19 | 0:01:23 | |
How long is Lofty going to be off with his asthma attack? | 0:01:23 | 0:01:25 | |
It could be ages and ages. | 0:01:25 | 0:01:27 | |
The hospital might not let him back cos of all of the smoke round here. | 0:01:27 | 0:01:30 | |
And if Kathy stall works out, she might not want to come back. | 0:01:30 | 0:01:32 | |
Ethel's gone geriatric. Mind you, we've sorted that. | 0:01:32 | 0:01:35 | |
Pauline's doing the cleaning, but she might not stay. | 0:01:35 | 0:01:37 | |
All we need is Michelle to get in the club again, or Mark to come, and we're back where we started. | 0:01:37 | 0:01:41 | |
-Ange, I am not talking about staff! -I know what you're talking about. | 0:01:41 | 0:01:44 | |
It's the bar work, innit? It's only you, me and Wicksy now. | 0:01:44 | 0:01:47 | |
It ain't good enough. When was the last time we had a proper day off? | 0:01:47 | 0:01:50 | |
MUSIC PLAYS | 0:01:50 | 0:01:52 | |
-Listen, Ange. -Den, would you stop following me around? | 0:01:57 | 0:01:59 | |
Go downstairs, do something, start bottling up. | 0:01:59 | 0:02:01 | |
Why is it always me who does the work round here? | 0:02:01 | 0:02:03 | |
Sharon's off school, you're her father, tell her she should be giving a helping hand. | 0:02:03 | 0:02:07 | |
-What are you doing? -Give it a rest. What have you got? Verbal diarrhoea or something? | 0:02:07 | 0:02:11 | |
-I beg your pardon? -Well, shut it, then. | 0:02:11 | 0:02:12 | |
I'm trying to tell you something. Communicate, talk. | 0:02:12 | 0:02:15 | |
I'm not on about the staff, I'm not on about Sharon, | 0:02:15 | 0:02:18 | |
I'm not even on about the colour to paint this poxy room. | 0:02:18 | 0:02:20 | |
I'm on about our future. And it's important, so shut up and listen. | 0:02:20 | 0:02:24 | |
Exactly. Every time we talk about OUR future, I have to shut up and listen. | 0:02:24 | 0:02:27 | |
-Typical. -I've thought long and hard about what I'm going to say to you, | 0:02:27 | 0:02:30 | |
and it is the hardest thing I am ever going to have to say to you, all right? | 0:02:30 | 0:02:33 | |
I've spent hours walking round the square with Roly trying to work out the best way to put it. | 0:02:33 | 0:02:37 | |
Well, you'd better go round again. Check you've got your lines right. | 0:02:37 | 0:02:40 | |
-Rehearse it all over again. -How long have we been married? | 0:02:40 | 0:02:43 | |
Den, you're not saving up for our silver wedding already, are you? | 0:02:43 | 0:02:46 | |
18 years. And in the beginning, it was good. | 0:02:46 | 0:02:49 | |
We both wanted the same things. We both worked damn hard to get them. | 0:02:49 | 0:02:52 | |
That's what I keep telling you. | 0:02:52 | 0:02:53 | |
Yeah. Then the bubble burst, the dream faded. | 0:02:53 | 0:02:56 | |
There ain't no big house in Reigate, there ain't no patter of tiny feet. | 0:02:56 | 0:02:59 | |
All we've got is a shambles, this pretence, these lies. | 0:02:59 | 0:03:01 | |
-Look, Den, I haven't got time... -Will you stop it! | 0:03:01 | 0:03:03 | |
-SHE SCREAMS -Will you stop avoiding the issue? | 0:03:03 | 0:03:06 | |
Will you stop making it impossible? | 0:03:06 | 0:03:08 | |
SHE SOBS | 0:03:08 | 0:03:09 | |
CLATTERING | 0:03:10 | 0:03:11 | |
-Den, no, no. -Down. Down. | 0:03:13 | 0:03:15 | |
Now, stop it. Leave it. Leave it. I'll do it later. | 0:03:29 | 0:03:32 | |
I'm leaving you, Ange. | 0:03:36 | 0:03:38 | |
Did you hear what I said? | 0:03:40 | 0:03:41 | |
Yeah. I heard what you said. | 0:03:45 | 0:03:47 | |
Is that it, then? | 0:03:51 | 0:03:53 | |
No apologies and explanations thrown in for good measure? | 0:03:53 | 0:03:55 | |
Yeah, of course. | 0:03:55 | 0:03:57 | |
What's a marriage for, do you think? | 0:03:58 | 0:04:01 | |
-Is this it? -What? | 0:04:01 | 0:04:03 | |
The apologies and explanations? | 0:04:03 | 0:04:04 | |
-If you like, yeah. -What's a marriage for? | 0:04:04 | 0:04:07 | |
I don't know, Den. I give up. You tell me. | 0:04:08 | 0:04:10 | |
Friendship, support, | 0:04:10 | 0:04:12 | |
companionship, home comforts. | 0:04:12 | 0:04:16 | |
Love, sex. | 0:04:16 | 0:04:18 | |
-All of those, I suppose. -And what do we get out of it? | 0:04:18 | 0:04:21 | |
None of them. Because instead of friendship, we play war games. | 0:04:21 | 0:04:25 | |
Instead of home comforts, we have a battlefield. | 0:04:25 | 0:04:27 | |
There is no mutual support, because we pull the ground from under each other at every opportunity. | 0:04:27 | 0:04:31 | |
-Keep it up. You're doing well. -There's no love... -Is this the bit you rehearsed with Roly? | 0:04:31 | 0:04:35 | |
There's no love, no warmth... | 0:04:35 | 0:04:37 | |
Nothing. It's all gone. All we've got is rows and bitterness. | 0:04:38 | 0:04:41 | |
And we ain't even got a sex life. | 0:04:41 | 0:04:43 | |
And you can't have a marriage without that, can you? | 0:04:43 | 0:04:47 | |
-Some people do. -Not me, because, if we still had that, | 0:04:47 | 0:04:50 | |
then maybe I could put up with everything else. | 0:04:50 | 0:04:52 | |
If we had that, everything would be different. | 0:04:52 | 0:04:54 | |
It's madness. I don't know why we stuck it for so long. | 0:04:54 | 0:04:57 | |
Cos I hung on like a bloody limpet, you bastard. | 0:04:57 | 0:05:00 | |
CLATTERING | 0:05:00 | 0:05:01 | |
-You what? -For practical reasons, I expect. | 0:05:01 | 0:05:05 | |
I want a clean break, Ange. | 0:05:05 | 0:05:07 | |
Not just from you, but from this pub, the square, and Walford. | 0:05:07 | 0:05:10 | |
I see. | 0:05:12 | 0:05:14 | |
THUDDING | 0:05:14 | 0:05:15 | |
I'll leave you the business, all right? | 0:05:21 | 0:05:23 | |
Without me here causing trouble, you'll be able run this place | 0:05:23 | 0:05:26 | |
with one hand tied behind your back, no problem. | 0:05:26 | 0:05:28 | |
What are you going to do when the dust comes off your twinkle toes? | 0:05:28 | 0:05:32 | |
Get another pub, I suppose. | 0:05:32 | 0:05:34 | |
Oh, Den. | 0:05:34 | 0:05:36 | |
The penny drops. | 0:05:36 | 0:05:38 | |
That's what you've been hatching with Willmott-Brown, innit? | 0:05:38 | 0:05:41 | |
Getting him to find you a new pub. | 0:05:41 | 0:05:44 | |
-Will he? -He already has. | 0:05:44 | 0:05:47 | |
Well... | 0:05:47 | 0:05:49 | |
he's got a pub in mind, he's just got to work out the exact details. | 0:05:49 | 0:05:52 | |
Right. | 0:05:52 | 0:05:54 | |
How are you going to run it on your own, without me to do the books for you? | 0:05:54 | 0:05:57 | |
Jan'll do the books. | 0:06:02 | 0:06:05 | |
Oh, yeah. I wondered when we'd get round to her. | 0:06:05 | 0:06:08 | |
-She moving in with you? -Yeah. | 0:06:08 | 0:06:10 | |
Yeah, of course, silly question. | 0:06:10 | 0:06:12 | |
-Marriage? -No, it's too soon... -I said, marriage? | 0:06:12 | 0:06:15 | |
Yes. | 0:06:15 | 0:06:17 | |
So you and me are talking divorce. | 0:06:17 | 0:06:20 | |
Yeah, I suppose so, yeah. | 0:06:20 | 0:06:22 | |
It's all right, Den. | 0:06:23 | 0:06:24 | |
I just want to get things straight in my mind. | 0:06:24 | 0:06:27 | |
Oh, I want to be straight, Ange. | 0:06:27 | 0:06:28 | |
I want to be dead straight. | 0:06:28 | 0:06:30 | |
It's ironic, innit, eh? | 0:06:33 | 0:06:35 | |
CLATTERING | 0:06:35 | 0:06:37 | |
Just as our marriage is ending, | 0:06:37 | 0:06:39 | |
I actually feel the need to be honest with you for the first time, | 0:06:39 | 0:06:44 | |
and I want to be civilised. | 0:06:44 | 0:06:46 | |
I WANT to be honest with you. | 0:06:46 | 0:06:48 | |
Well, careful you don't overdo it, Den. Mind you don't blow a fuse. | 0:06:48 | 0:06:51 | |
Why are we standing here talking about why our marriage failed? | 0:06:51 | 0:06:54 | |
Cos of her! It's cos of her we're standing here talking about a bleeding divorce, innit? | 0:06:54 | 0:06:58 | |
Jan is just a symptom. If things were right between us, I would never have looked at her. | 0:06:58 | 0:07:02 | |
-You're a bleeding hypocrite. -OK. | 0:07:02 | 0:07:04 | |
It is because of Jan that things aren't right now between us. | 0:07:04 | 0:07:07 | |
But it comes down to the same thing. | 0:07:07 | 0:07:09 | |
-I love her, and sex with... -Don't say it! I do not want to hear it. | 0:07:09 | 0:07:13 | |
I don't want that much honesty! | 0:07:13 | 0:07:15 | |
Sorry. | 0:07:19 | 0:07:22 | |
We're supposed to be being civilised about this, ain't we? | 0:07:22 | 0:07:25 | |
WASHING MACHINE RUMBLES | 0:07:25 | 0:07:27 | |
I agree with you. | 0:07:27 | 0:07:30 | |
I agree with everything you say. | 0:07:30 | 0:07:31 | |
If you love her, | 0:07:33 | 0:07:35 | |
and we're no good together, then we're better off apart, aren't we? | 0:07:35 | 0:07:39 | |
So you can have your divorce. | 0:07:39 | 0:07:41 | |
Don't look so surprised. | 0:07:41 | 0:07:44 | |
I know when I'm beat. | 0:07:44 | 0:07:45 | |
It's no good flogging a dead horse, is it? | 0:07:47 | 0:07:49 | |
No. | 0:07:50 | 0:07:52 | |
Right. | 0:07:53 | 0:07:54 | |
Practical details. | 0:07:57 | 0:07:58 | |
I just hope that we can... | 0:08:00 | 0:08:02 | |
split up without the usual arguments and bitterness. | 0:08:02 | 0:08:05 | |
And uh... | 0:08:05 | 0:08:06 | |
..who knows? | 0:08:08 | 0:08:09 | |
When we're not living together, | 0:08:11 | 0:08:13 | |
probably we'll get on like a house on fire. | 0:08:13 | 0:08:16 | |
Probably start fancying each other all over again, eh? | 0:08:16 | 0:08:18 | |
Yeah. | 0:08:18 | 0:08:20 | |
As I said, practical details. | 0:08:20 | 0:08:22 | |
Who, what, when and where? | 0:08:22 | 0:08:24 | |
Who gets what? How do we tell Sharon? | 0:08:26 | 0:08:28 | |
WHAT do we tell Sharon? | 0:08:30 | 0:08:32 | |
And... | 0:08:32 | 0:08:34 | |
will I get reasonable access to see Roly? | 0:08:34 | 0:08:36 | |
Yeah. Erm... | 0:08:38 | 0:08:39 | |
..I just want you to tell me what's best for you, OK? | 0:08:41 | 0:08:44 | |
OK, I'll think about it. | 0:08:45 | 0:08:48 | |
Good. | 0:08:48 | 0:08:50 | |
I said I'll think about it, Den, but not right now. | 0:08:50 | 0:08:53 | |
Cos right now, I've got a lot of things to do, and I want to get on. | 0:08:53 | 0:08:57 | |
It's a shock. Do you understand? | 0:08:57 | 0:09:00 | |
You have to give me time to absorb it. | 0:09:01 | 0:09:03 | |
Let me put me war paint on, feel a bit more human, then we can talk. | 0:09:03 | 0:09:07 | |
Why don't you ring her? You did say that you were going to tell me today, didn't you? | 0:09:07 | 0:09:10 | |
-Yeah. -Well, put her mind at rest. | 0:09:10 | 0:09:12 | |
Tell her I agree to everything you want, in principle. | 0:09:14 | 0:09:17 | |
And then let the window cleaner in, cos he's got to do the windows. | 0:09:17 | 0:09:20 | |
Thanks. | 0:09:20 | 0:09:21 | |
DOOR SHUTS | 0:09:23 | 0:09:24 | |
ENGINE STARTS | 0:09:31 | 0:09:32 | |
I could let him go, couldn't I? | 0:09:41 | 0:09:42 | |
Good riddance to bad rubbish, eh? | 0:09:43 | 0:09:45 | |
Let that cow get her hands on him? | 0:09:48 | 0:09:50 | |
Not bloody likely. | 0:09:50 | 0:09:52 | |
# Zip-a-dee-doo-dah, zip-a-dee-ay... | 0:09:52 | 0:09:55 | |
# My, oh my, what a wonderful day. | 0:09:55 | 0:09:57 | |
# Plenty of sunshine... # | 0:09:57 | 0:09:59 | |
Don't cry yet, girl. | 0:10:04 | 0:10:05 | |
You got a long way to go. | 0:10:07 | 0:10:08 | |
DEN WHISTLES | 0:10:10 | 0:10:11 | |
Den, I want to talk some more. | 0:10:20 | 0:10:22 | |
-I thought you wanted to leave it until later? -No, now. | 0:10:22 | 0:10:25 | |
Yeah, course, yeah. | 0:10:25 | 0:10:26 | |
-There's something I have to tell you... -I didn't ring Jan... | 0:10:33 | 0:10:35 | |
-Sorry... -Ring her now. -No, there's no rush... -Go on. -No. | 0:10:35 | 0:10:38 | |
I want to be able to give her definite plans, all right? | 0:10:38 | 0:10:40 | |
I want to get it right this time. | 0:10:40 | 0:10:42 | |
You may think that I've mucked you around, but I mucked her around and all. | 0:10:42 | 0:10:45 | |
In fact, I've mucked everyone around the last couple of years or so. | 0:10:45 | 0:10:49 | |
-Den... -Listen. | 0:10:49 | 0:10:50 | |
I don't want you to say a word to anyone, all right? Not even Kath. | 0:10:50 | 0:10:53 | |
Not until I've clinched this deal with Willmott-Brown. | 0:10:53 | 0:10:56 | |
Till I've got a firm date. | 0:10:56 | 0:10:58 | |
Because I am going to need somewhere to hide, all right? | 0:10:58 | 0:11:00 | |
Because when this lot find out, | 0:11:00 | 0:11:02 | |
they'll be like hounds baying after the blood. | 0:11:02 | 0:11:04 | |
The whole of Albert Square's going to be against me. | 0:11:04 | 0:11:07 | |
I don't mind that, I can take it. | 0:11:07 | 0:11:08 | |
I am big enough, and I am ugly enough. | 0:11:08 | 0:11:10 | |
The only thing I hope is that | 0:11:12 | 0:11:14 | |
Sharon doesn't hate me too much. | 0:11:14 | 0:11:16 | |
-She will in the beginning. -ENGINE STARTS OUTSIDE | 0:11:16 | 0:11:18 | |
But I hope that, by the end, she'll understand. | 0:11:18 | 0:11:20 | |
And I want you to promise me that, well... | 0:11:20 | 0:11:23 | |
-that you won't turn her against me. -Of course I won't. | 0:11:23 | 0:11:25 | |
I'll talk to her, | 0:11:25 | 0:11:27 | |
I'll try and make her understand. | 0:11:27 | 0:11:29 | |
She has been living here, so obviously, she knows what's been going on. | 0:11:29 | 0:11:33 | |
And even though she's living with you, | 0:11:33 | 0:11:35 | |
I want her to feel that she can come and stay with Jan and I | 0:11:35 | 0:11:39 | |
any time she wants. | 0:11:39 | 0:11:41 | |
I'm going to leave you the business and the bank account. | 0:11:41 | 0:11:45 | |
I'll just take my car and my clothes. | 0:11:45 | 0:11:48 | |
Not much to show for 18 years hard graft, is it? | 0:11:48 | 0:11:52 | |
-And... -Look, Den. | 0:11:52 | 0:11:54 | |
When I came downstairs, I said there was something I had to tell you. | 0:11:54 | 0:11:57 | |
-You haven't asked me what it was. -Well, what is it? | 0:11:57 | 0:12:00 | |
God, now it comes to it, don't it? | 0:12:01 | 0:12:03 | |
I don't know if I can say it. | 0:12:04 | 0:12:05 | |
But I'm going to have to. | 0:12:08 | 0:12:09 | |
Cos, if I don't, people round here are really going to think | 0:12:10 | 0:12:13 | |
you're a rat deserting a sinking ship. | 0:12:13 | 0:12:15 | |
It's a mess, innit? | 0:12:18 | 0:12:19 | |
-What are you on about? -Look... | 0:12:22 | 0:12:24 | |
we're splitting up. | 0:12:24 | 0:12:26 | |
I accept that. | 0:12:26 | 0:12:27 | |
It's just that... | 0:12:29 | 0:12:30 | |
what I'm going to tell you | 0:12:30 | 0:12:32 | |
will affect the way we handle things. | 0:12:32 | 0:12:35 | |
You're right, people in the square will think the worst of you now, | 0:12:35 | 0:12:38 | |
even more so after I've told you what I am going to tell you. | 0:12:38 | 0:12:41 | |
And I have to tell you, Den. | 0:12:41 | 0:12:43 | |
Cos it would be selfish of me not to. | 0:12:43 | 0:12:44 | |
Have you finished? | 0:12:44 | 0:12:46 | |
Would you tell me what you're rabbiting on about, | 0:12:46 | 0:12:48 | |
-otherwise I'm going to go out and sort out them bottles. -Den... | 0:12:48 | 0:12:51 | |
Erm, excuse me. | 0:12:51 | 0:12:54 | |
Well, go on. | 0:13:07 | 0:13:08 | |
You know I've been feeling ill since before me and Sharon went to Disney World. | 0:13:10 | 0:13:13 | |
Before you say another word, I went to see Dr Legg. I know I shouldn't have done behind your back. | 0:13:13 | 0:13:17 | |
-I had to find out why you kept going to see a quack, he's told me about it. -What did he tell you? | 0:13:17 | 0:13:21 | |
-You want me to spell it out? -Yes, I want you to spell it out. | 0:13:21 | 0:13:23 | |
-He said you're fast becoming an alcoholic. -Great. -I'm sorry, Ange. | 0:13:23 | 0:13:26 | |
It's my fault, I brought you to this. | 0:13:26 | 0:13:28 | |
That's another reason why we have to split up. So you can get better. | 0:13:28 | 0:13:31 | |
It's not easy for me, you know. It's no joke living with it. | 0:13:31 | 0:13:34 | |
-Poor old Den. -And Legg understood that. -Oh, did he(?) | 0:13:34 | 0:13:37 | |
Yes, he said it was a well-known fact | 0:13:37 | 0:13:38 | |
-that people who are married to alkies have a hard time of it. -Shame! | 0:13:38 | 0:13:42 | |
-I tried to talk to you. -Correction - you don't talk. | 0:13:42 | 0:13:44 | |
I try to talk to you. You avoid me! | 0:13:44 | 0:13:46 | |
That's because you're always smashed out your skull, on another planet, incommunicado! | 0:13:46 | 0:13:50 | |
-I also tried to give you my love. -You try to give me love?! | 0:13:50 | 0:13:53 | |
Don't make me laugh. Do you ever wonder why I jump into a bottle? | 0:13:53 | 0:13:56 | |
-That's what he told you about, he told you about the drink? -Isn't that enough? | 0:13:56 | 0:13:59 | |
That's all right, then. Cos if the hospital told Legg, Legg would have told you. Right? | 0:13:59 | 0:14:03 | |
Booze, my darling, is the least of my problems. | 0:14:03 | 0:14:06 | |
In fact, from now on, I intend to drink like a fish. | 0:14:06 | 0:14:09 | |
I'm ill, Den. I'm really very ill. | 0:14:09 | 0:14:12 | |
-Yes. You're ill because you drink too much. -Listen! | 0:14:12 | 0:14:14 | |
You're going to listen to me for once. | 0:14:14 | 0:14:15 | |
It's nothing to do with the booze. It's something completely separate. | 0:14:15 | 0:14:18 | |
-Oh, I thought we were going to be adult about this. -Yeah, we were going to. You know why? | 0:14:18 | 0:14:22 | |
Cos I was going to spare your precious feelings, though God knows why! | 0:14:22 | 0:14:25 | |
I've been waiting for this, waiting for the backlash. | 0:14:25 | 0:14:28 | |
So you're ill, are you? Well, what's wrong with you, eh? What you got? | 0:14:28 | 0:14:31 | |
Got headache? Do you want to go and lie down? | 0:14:31 | 0:14:33 | |
Do you want me to bring you breakfast in bed? Hot water bottle? Eh? | 0:14:33 | 0:14:37 | |
Some aspirin? Alka-Seltzer? | 0:14:37 | 0:14:40 | |
Don't try that one on me, Ange, because it won't wash. | 0:14:40 | 0:14:42 | |
No way you're ever going to get me back. | 0:14:42 | 0:14:44 | |
I'm scared! You stupid, idiotic little man. | 0:14:44 | 0:14:48 | |
I'm scared! | 0:14:48 | 0:14:49 | |
Do you know what it's like since they told me? I feel like I'm locked inside a cell. | 0:14:49 | 0:14:53 | |
With the walls closing in on me, the ceiling pressing down, the floor coming up to meet me. | 0:14:53 | 0:14:57 | |
And I'm getting smaller and smaller and it is crushing me and crushing me | 0:14:57 | 0:15:00 | |
-and I'm shrinking, and I can't cope! -Ah, shut up! | 0:15:00 | 0:15:02 | |
I'm sorry, Den. | 0:15:06 | 0:15:07 | |
I'm sorry, I didn't mean to tell you like this. | 0:15:08 | 0:15:11 | |
It is just that ever since they told me, | 0:15:11 | 0:15:14 | |
I've been so scared. | 0:15:14 | 0:15:16 | |
I keep pretending that it's all right, and inside I'm like a jelly. | 0:15:17 | 0:15:20 | |
I keep waking up in the mornings, I look in the mirror, and everything's the same again. | 0:15:20 | 0:15:24 | |
And then I say, why me? | 0:15:24 | 0:15:26 | |
I'm young, I've got my health, I thought I'd live forever. | 0:15:26 | 0:15:29 | |
You don't think about death, about dying. You don't think about the pain. | 0:15:29 | 0:15:32 | |
I've never thought about pain. I've never even had a toothache, Den! | 0:15:32 | 0:15:35 | |
How am I going to stand it? How am I going to stand it? | 0:15:35 | 0:15:37 | |
-SHE SHRIEKS -What are you telling me, eh? | 0:15:37 | 0:15:39 | |
I've got six months to live. | 0:15:43 | 0:15:46 | |
-SHE LAUGHS MENACINGLY -What? | 0:15:46 | 0:15:48 | |
I've got six months to live! | 0:15:49 | 0:15:52 | |
Not long, is it, Den? Six little months. | 0:15:53 | 0:15:55 | |
After you saying about the practical details, I thought, "I've got to tell him, ain't I?" | 0:15:55 | 0:15:59 | |
-Cos this makes all the difference, doesn't it? -Shut up. Shut up. | 0:15:59 | 0:16:02 | |
-Shut up. -Doesn't it, Den? -Shut up. | 0:16:02 | 0:16:05 | |
-You've got six months to live. Is that what you're telling me? What you got wrong with you? -Den... | 0:16:05 | 0:16:09 | |
I don't want to die. | 0:16:09 | 0:16:11 | |
I don't want to die, Den. You've got to help me. | 0:16:11 | 0:16:13 | |
You're all I've got, Den. I don't want to die, I don't want to die, Den, please! | 0:16:13 | 0:16:18 | |
If you want help, you've got to talk sense, all right? | 0:16:18 | 0:16:20 | |
-SHE PANTS -Oh... | 0:16:20 | 0:16:22 | |
Er, I'm going to make some coffee. | 0:16:22 | 0:16:24 | |
SHE PANTS | 0:16:24 | 0:16:26 | |
-Now, let's just... -Den, please. -Just... | 0:16:40 | 0:16:43 | |
just take control of yourself, sit down and stop crying. | 0:16:43 | 0:16:48 | |
Grab hold of yourself. Go on. | 0:16:48 | 0:16:49 | |
I've got till April. | 0:17:02 | 0:17:03 | |
With any luck, I might see a few daffodils and crocuses | 0:17:06 | 0:17:08 | |
popping their heads up. | 0:17:08 | 0:17:11 | |
But I'll never see Sharon... | 0:17:11 | 0:17:13 | |
I won't see her kids. | 0:17:15 | 0:17:16 | |
I won't be able to help her, Den. | 0:17:20 | 0:17:21 | |
I won't be able to help no-one. | 0:17:23 | 0:17:25 | |
I won't be nothing, will I? | 0:17:25 | 0:17:26 | |
I'll just be dust. | 0:17:28 | 0:17:29 | |
And you'll be here. | 0:17:32 | 0:17:33 | |
Living, laughing, loving with... | 0:17:33 | 0:17:36 | |
I don't believe in an afterlife, do you, Den? | 0:17:39 | 0:17:42 | |
I suppose it can help you, though, at times like this. | 0:17:42 | 0:17:46 | |
Maybe I ought to go and see a priest, eh? | 0:17:46 | 0:17:49 | |
DRINK POURS | 0:17:52 | 0:17:53 | |
Just wait there, all right? Just wait. Just hold on, all right? | 0:17:53 | 0:17:57 | |
Go on. Have a little drink of that. | 0:18:00 | 0:18:02 | |
Oh, thank you. | 0:18:03 | 0:18:05 | |
Mm. | 0:18:09 | 0:18:11 | |
Just go on, take another sip. | 0:18:11 | 0:18:13 | |
Go on, have a sip. | 0:18:15 | 0:18:16 | |
Now, very calmly, | 0:18:21 | 0:18:24 | |
very quietly... | 0:18:24 | 0:18:25 | |
..would you kindly explain to me what all this is about? | 0:18:27 | 0:18:30 | |
SHE SOBS | 0:18:31 | 0:18:32 | |
I've... | 0:18:36 | 0:18:37 | |
..I've got a... | 0:18:39 | 0:18:40 | |
Den, I can't say the words. | 0:18:42 | 0:18:44 | |
I can't. I'm sorry. | 0:18:44 | 0:18:45 | |
SHE SOBS | 0:18:50 | 0:18:52 | |
SOBBING CONTINUES | 0:18:53 | 0:18:54 | |
I've been feeling tired for months. | 0:19:39 | 0:19:42 | |
Usual aches and pains. | 0:19:42 | 0:19:43 | |
First, I just thought it was the booze, | 0:19:43 | 0:19:45 | |
so I didn't do nothing about it. | 0:19:45 | 0:19:48 | |
Then, when I got back from Florida, I started to feel bad. | 0:19:48 | 0:19:52 | |
I mean, really bad. | 0:19:52 | 0:19:53 | |
-Did you tell Sharon? -No. | 0:19:56 | 0:19:58 | |
I just told her it was the food, put it down to jet lag. | 0:19:58 | 0:20:01 | |
Then I went to see Doctor Legg, | 0:20:01 | 0:20:02 | |
and he sent me to a specialist, Mr Elliott. | 0:20:02 | 0:20:05 | |
You know when I went off for a few days to stay with Sonny and Ree? | 0:20:07 | 0:20:10 | |
Well, I never. I went into hospital. | 0:20:10 | 0:20:13 | |
They did some tests, they gave me anaesthetic... | 0:20:13 | 0:20:15 | |
No, I don't want to know the gory details. All right? | 0:20:15 | 0:20:17 | |
-I have to explain. -No, I can't take medical things. You know that. Just tell me what they said. | 0:20:17 | 0:20:22 | |
Mr Elliott was surprised you never came with me. | 0:20:22 | 0:20:25 | |
Perhaps you should hear it direct, eh, Den? | 0:20:25 | 0:20:29 | |
Do you want to come? | 0:20:29 | 0:20:31 | |
Where is it? | 0:20:36 | 0:20:39 | |
-It's a clinic. -No, no. What you... | 0:20:39 | 0:20:42 | |
-Where is it? -Well, it's... -No, no. | 0:20:42 | 0:20:44 | |
Just tell me what the treatment is. | 0:20:44 | 0:20:47 | |
-There isn't any. -There's got to be! | 0:20:47 | 0:20:49 | |
They've got to do something. They can't just hand you a death sentence. | 0:20:49 | 0:20:52 | |
I'll tell you what, Harley Street. We'll take you to the best guy there. | 0:20:52 | 0:20:55 | |
-Den, we've tried all of that. -And? -It's hopeless. | 0:20:55 | 0:20:58 | |
You know me. I'm a hopeless case, ain't I? | 0:20:58 | 0:21:01 | |
It's like a nightmare, innit? | 0:21:06 | 0:21:09 | |
I don't believe it. I just don't believe it. | 0:21:09 | 0:21:11 | |
Well, I guess this stands everything on its head, doesn't it? | 0:21:14 | 0:21:17 | |
-Not necessarily. -Well, of course it does. | 0:21:17 | 0:21:20 | |
Why did you let me come out with all this leaving stuff, when you had that bombshell up your sleeve? | 0:21:20 | 0:21:24 | |
Cos I didn't want to think I was blackmailing you and I still don't. | 0:21:24 | 0:21:27 | |
It needn't alter your plans. | 0:21:27 | 0:21:29 | |
Well, of course it does. I can't leave now, it's obvious. | 0:21:29 | 0:21:31 | |
Why, cos of what people'll think? | 0:21:31 | 0:21:33 | |
No, cos I've got to be with you, help you through it. | 0:21:33 | 0:21:35 | |
Well, it's only six months, innit, Den? | 0:21:35 | 0:21:37 | |
Think about it. Six months. | 0:21:38 | 0:21:42 | |
You'll be a widower. | 0:21:42 | 0:21:44 | |
You'll be respectable. | 0:21:44 | 0:21:46 | |
Jan can move in, you can keep the Vic, | 0:21:46 | 0:21:50 | |
keep the bank account, keep the car, | 0:21:50 | 0:21:52 | |
keep the lovely furniture. | 0:21:52 | 0:21:54 | |
Sharon need never know. | 0:21:54 | 0:21:56 | |
Think about it, Den. It will be very convenient. | 0:21:56 | 0:21:58 | |
And if you can stick it out for six little months, Den, you'll have everything. | 0:21:58 | 0:22:01 | |
Everything you ever wanted. Lucky old Den, cracked it again. | 0:22:01 | 0:22:05 | |
Ange, I'm staying because I want to. I want to be with you. All right? End of subject. | 0:22:05 | 0:22:10 | |
Now, kindly forget that this morning's conversation ever existed. | 0:22:10 | 0:22:13 | |
DOOR SHUTS | 0:22:16 | 0:22:17 | |
DRILLING | 0:22:25 | 0:22:27 | |
What are you going to do about her? | 0:22:34 | 0:22:36 | |
-I'll have to tell her. -What are you going to tell her? | 0:22:36 | 0:22:39 | |
I don't know. What can I tell her? Oh, I don't know. | 0:22:39 | 0:22:42 | |
I still can't believe it. | 0:22:44 | 0:22:46 | |
You look so healthy. | 0:22:46 | 0:22:48 | |
HE MUTTERS | 0:22:48 | 0:22:50 | |
Oh, I'm a selfish bastard. I ain't even asked how you feel yet. | 0:22:50 | 0:22:54 | |
How are we going to manage? How are we going to cope? | 0:22:54 | 0:22:57 | |
-ENGINE STRUGGLES OUTSIDE -I'll sort it... | 0:22:57 | 0:23:00 | |
we'll get you the best treatment there is, | 0:23:00 | 0:23:01 | |
that place in Switzerland or the States. | 0:23:01 | 0:23:03 | |
No, no. I don't want nothing like that, Den. | 0:23:03 | 0:23:06 | |
I just want Sharon and Roly and you. | 0:23:06 | 0:23:10 | |
It's all right, you can touch me, it ain't catching. | 0:23:10 | 0:23:12 | |
I'm sorry, Ange, I'm not the best person with a thing like this, all right? | 0:23:12 | 0:23:16 | |
I'm a total wash-out. Erm... | 0:23:16 | 0:23:18 | |
and it's also eight o'clock, and there's people going to be turning up for work in a minute. | 0:23:18 | 0:23:22 | |
I don't want to see anyone, all right? So I just want to get out of here, OK? | 0:23:22 | 0:23:26 | |
Sorry. | 0:23:32 | 0:23:33 | |
CLATTERING AND PHONE DROPS | 0:23:38 | 0:23:40 | |
Come on. | 0:23:49 | 0:23:51 | |
It's not the end of the world, is it? | 0:23:51 | 0:23:53 | |
You'll never see me with grey hairs or wrinkles. | 0:23:56 | 0:23:59 | |
You'll never see me with a bunion, or middle-aged spread. | 0:24:01 | 0:24:04 | |
I still look reasonable, don't I? | 0:24:07 | 0:24:09 | |
I'll never look like Pat Wicks. | 0:24:12 | 0:24:14 | |
Oh, I'd hate that. | 0:24:16 | 0:24:17 | |
I'll be like Marilyn Monroe. | 0:24:25 | 0:24:26 | |
Always in me 30s. | 0:24:29 | 0:24:31 | |
I've always wanted to have something in common with her. | 0:24:33 | 0:24:36 | |
I may not have her bust and her blonde hair... | 0:24:38 | 0:24:40 | |
..but we're both little Peter Pans, ain't we? | 0:24:43 | 0:24:45 | |
Den? | 0:24:49 | 0:24:50 | |
If I ever find out you're kidding me, Ange... | 0:24:53 | 0:24:56 | |
I'll kill you. | 0:24:56 | 0:24:58 | |
Do you know that? | 0:24:58 | 0:24:59 | |
I'll kill you. | 0:25:01 | 0:25:03 | |
Sorry. I'm sorry, I'm sorry, I'm sorry, I'm sorry. | 0:25:06 | 0:25:09 | |
All I seem to do is apologise. | 0:25:12 | 0:25:14 | |
SHE SOBS | 0:25:14 | 0:25:16 | |
Oh, you've got to forgive me for all the terrible things I have said and done to you. | 0:25:16 | 0:25:19 | |
-I do. -I didn't mean any of 'em. | 0:25:19 | 0:25:24 | |
Believe me. | 0:25:24 | 0:25:25 | |
No more than I would have left... | 0:25:25 | 0:25:28 | |
-Just another one of my crazy schemes. -Yeah. | 0:25:28 | 0:25:32 | |
I was a fool for even thinking about it. | 0:25:32 | 0:25:35 | |
-We'd never split up, me and you. -No. | 0:25:37 | 0:25:39 | |
-We're like... -Punch and Judy. | 0:25:42 | 0:25:44 | |
You keep hitting me on the head, and I keep popping up with a string of sausages. | 0:25:44 | 0:25:49 | |
I...I know. | 0:25:49 | 0:25:53 | |
All the terrible things I've made you do, Ange. | 0:25:53 | 0:25:56 | |
The things I've driven you to. | 0:26:00 | 0:26:04 | |
The drink, | 0:26:04 | 0:26:06 | |
taking the pills. | 0:26:06 | 0:26:08 | |
All them other things. | 0:26:10 | 0:26:11 | |
I couldn't stop you. | 0:26:12 | 0:26:14 | |
We scarcely even talked about them, did we? | 0:26:16 | 0:26:18 | |
I knew about you and Tone... | 0:26:21 | 0:26:22 | |
HE MUTTERS | 0:26:24 | 0:26:27 | |
..in Spain, | 0:26:27 | 0:26:29 | |
Andy. | 0:26:29 | 0:26:30 | |
Den, it never meant anything. | 0:26:30 | 0:26:33 | |
Andy's dead and I'm on me way there. | 0:26:33 | 0:26:34 | |
Yeah, just forget about it, forget it, it doesn't matter any more. | 0:26:34 | 0:26:38 | |
All right? | 0:26:38 | 0:26:39 | |
Those things are in the past. | 0:26:39 | 0:26:43 | |
We're just going to concentrate on the next six months. OK? | 0:26:43 | 0:26:48 | |
I know I was bad to you. | 0:26:48 | 0:26:51 | |
Try and let me make it up to you. | 0:26:51 | 0:26:53 | |
I know I never can, but I want to try. | 0:26:53 | 0:26:56 | |
Oh, Den. | 0:26:56 | 0:26:58 | |
The next six months are going to be the best six months ever. | 0:26:58 | 0:27:03 | |
We're going to have the good times again, me and you. | 0:27:03 | 0:27:06 | |
I don't know how. | 0:27:09 | 0:27:11 | |
I'll work something out, eh? | 0:27:16 | 0:27:18 | |
Yeah. | 0:27:18 | 0:27:20 | |
-Holiday. -Holiday. | 0:27:20 | 0:27:22 | |
That's what we'll have... | 0:27:22 | 0:27:26 | |
a second honeymoon. | 0:27:26 | 0:27:28 | |
-Oh, Den. -Yeah. | 0:27:28 | 0:27:30 | |
In the meantime... | 0:27:32 | 0:27:34 | |
..I need to be by myself. | 0:27:36 | 0:27:37 | |
Yeah, just to... | 0:27:39 | 0:27:41 | |
-sort it all out in my head. Yeah? -Yeah. | 0:27:41 | 0:27:44 | |
Think it through. | 0:27:44 | 0:27:45 | |
I feel like I've been... | 0:27:48 | 0:27:50 | |
hit by a sandbag. | 0:27:50 | 0:27:52 | |
Er... | 0:27:53 | 0:27:55 | |
You understand? | 0:27:55 | 0:27:58 | |
-You don't mind? -No. | 0:27:58 | 0:28:00 | |
OK. | 0:28:00 | 0:28:02 | |
WASHING MACHINE RUMBLES | 0:28:15 | 0:28:17 | |
Come on, Roly. Take you for another walk, eh? | 0:28:17 | 0:28:22 | |
It's your lucky day. | 0:28:22 | 0:28:25 | |
I'm glad someone's lucky around here. | 0:28:25 | 0:28:27 |