27/04/2012 EastEnders

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So there's this text from Lucy.

There's hundreds of texts from different girls.

I had to delete it, or he'd know I'd been snooping.

Anyway, Tyler went spare. Said I was paranoid,

and that if I loved him, I'd trust him.

I don't know if I can.

-Tiff, can you move this balloon?

-I can't. It'll fly away.

Tie it to your finger or something. I keep banging my head on it.

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Morgan. What have I told you about leaving that Gamestation on?

It costs a fortune!

Do you know what I mean?

-PHONE RINGS

-I'll get it.

Hello? No. Sorry. No, she's not here at the moment.

I'll get her to call you back, yeah? Thanks.

DOORBELL RINGS

Where are my gorgeous bridesmaids?

Janine, it's really not a good time.

-What is that?!

-Yeah, I had it repaired. Good, innit?

No, it's not good. The whole wall will have to be re-papered,

and the ceiling re-plastered.

I'll have to get a professional in to do it, but you'll get the bill.

-Is that my dress?

-Oh, yes.

-PHONE RINGS

-Let me try it on. Let me try it on!

Whit, what do you reckon? Walford's next top model?

-Bit frumpy, innit?

-That is not frumpy, that is classic.

Besides, I won't have you do a Pippa on me, and outshine me from the rear.

No, Janine! Not now. The kids are not well.

All right, then. I'll come back later and take a look.

Oh, by the way, you'll have to get your own outfit for the wedding.

-And so is Carol.

-I don't think my mum's coming.

I expect you all there. No excuses.

And about the rent.

Yeah, it's coming.

Say this afternoon, yeah?

Be nice, and I might take Pat's ring as a down payment.

I'll be in the office.

-Oh.

-Let me finish telling you about Tyler...

-MEOWING

-What's that noise?

-What?

-Turn the telly down.

-Mum, help me put my dress on.

-MEOWING

-There it is again. What IS that?

What the hell is this?

It's our kitten.

His name's Joey.

Feel his tummy.

-Where'd you get him from?

-We found him.

-He was abandoned.

You've been feeding him tuna? Do you realise how much that costs?

He's tiny. He don't eat much.

I don't believe this. Look what you've done.

Now the electric's gone.

Whitney!

Go down the shop and charge the electric key up, will you?

Give us some money, then.

Tiffany!

-Come straight back, yeah?

-Yeah.

Who took the money out the jar?

-He was hungry.

-Are you even ill?

I have had it with you two.

You don't go nowhere near that Gamestation.

And you, take that kitten back and put it where you found it.

-Do you hear me?

-But he was on the streets, alone.

I don't care, Tiff. We can't afford a pet.

Do you understand? We haven't got the money!

Now, just go to your room!

All peace and joy in the Butcher household!?)

You're still here then?

Yeah, for a few hours. Just having a good clear out.

See that's the good thing about moving on, Bianca.

Getting rid of the things you don't want, or need.

Keeping the things you do.

-DOORBELL RINGS

-Why does she always forget her key?

Bad upbringing. Blame it on the mother. That's what I say.

-Good morning. Bianca Butcher?

-No, she ain't here.

-Mrs Butcher...

-I told you. She ain't here.

-You have an outstanding loan.

You need to make payment in full today, or you'll be taken to court.

And believe me, it won't be pleasant.

Fine. I hear you. If I see her, I'll tell her.

Who was that?

What do you care? You don't live here any more.

And if you don't mind, I have got to go to work.

To support my family.

Mum?

Get it gone. And that balloon.

Leave your keys on the way out.

All right, Bianca?

I got it. Fiver's worth.

Go and put it on the electric then, yeah?

-Yeah, I will. Listen.

-About Tyler, I know. I ain't got time for this.

Well, listen. Can't you just tell me what you think?

Whit. Do you hear me?

I haven't got time for this now. I got to go to work.

I got to earn money, to buy the food, pay the rent, yeah?

I ain't got time for your teenage traumas.

In a year, you won't remember Tyler's name.

Bianca. I don't pay you to stand around on the street. Come on.

Ah, Bianca, d'you know what? I had hoped,

since I last ran this place,

that your timekeeping would've improved.

But, d'you know what?

It hasn't. I can't remember when you were last on time for work.

Have you not got an alarm clock?

I've got a lot on my plate at the minute.

Yeah, yeah, I know. Here you go.

I had this warning letter, from the council,

-about you dumping rubbish in the market.

-Well, I can explain that.

Explain the phone calls, then.

-Last night and this morning.

-What you talking about?

From some dodgy loan outfit. You've given me as a reference.

-What did they want?

-What do you think they wanted?

Only morons go to those cowboys.

You know what they charge in interest? About 2,000 percent!

Well it's not that simple, is it?

Yeah, it is. It's simple, basic maths, OK?

-Right, follow this. One plus one equals two.

-Two plus two equals...

I know, but they're understanding.

They say you can just pay off the interest,

if that's all you can do for a little bit.

Oh, right(!) So, how's that working out for you?

I've just got a bit behind.

You know what? It's a mug's game.

You want my advice, you pay it off as soon as you can,

before you drown.

-That's what I wanted to talk to you about.

-What, being a mug?

No, I need an advance.

I know, Ian.

But I really, really need to pay some off today,

and I would really appreciate if you could lend me some.

You'll get it back. You can take it out my wages.

Ever heard the saying, "Never a borrower or lender be"?

My old Gran, she used to swear by it. Guess what? So do I.

It's not that simple when you're on your own, and the only wage earner.

-Carol's putting in the hours.

-My mum is going.

-I'm going to take her shift, and all.

-Oh really(?)

I'm sure plenty of people would kill for a position like that.

A couple of hours in the caff?!

Yeah, and I'll be interviewing for the post.

-Listen, Ian.

-No, Bianca. You listen to me, OK?

I've got open up the chippie, get the fat fryers on.

I've got a million and one things to do,

not listening to you prattling on.

So, get that apron on and get to work.

-Do you think that was funny, do you?

-A bit.

Listen to me, butter-wouldn't-melt. I've got your number.

I know what you did to Tyler and Whit.

You ever try anything like that again,

I will pull every single horrible blond hair

out of that head of yours, do you hear me?

Whatever. Make me a tea, will you? I'm having a break.

SHE SIGHS

-What is her problem?

-PHONE RINGS

She's trying for brat of the year. She gets my vote.

Listen, you couldn't hold the fort here for me, for five minutes?

Something's just come up with the kids, I've got to sort it.

I promise...I promise you won't even notice that I've gone.

Yeah, go on then, B. But, seriously. Five minutes, though.

I got an appointment at the salon in ten.

Thanks. You're a mate.

Tyler!

-I'm watching you.

-Perv.

Oi. Listen, you. I've got your card.

I know what you're doing with the numbers on your phone.

Trying to make Whitney insecure. It ain't going to work.

-Hold on.

-You hold on. Whitney ain't like other girls.

She's very sensitive, all right? It ain't her fault. It's my fault.

All that stuff that's happened to her don't mean she ain't special.

She is very special. She's absolutely gorgeous.

Think yourself lucky to have her.

She don't like being messed about.

I'm not messing her around.

I wouldn't do that to her. But, Bianca, she's so paranoid.

-I look at another girl in the street, she goes mad.

-Well, don't look then.

-What, I can't look?

-No. No, you can't look, No.

You got the best girl in the world there.

-So concentrate on her, yeah?

-OK, OK.

Fine. Look, Bianca all I want is for Whitney to be happy.

And if that's what it takes, so be it.

She's just got to trust me a little bit.

MUSIC: "In The Middle Of Nowhere" by Dusty Springfield

-Dot, what you doing with the kitten?

-Your daughter give it to me.

Said it was me or the gutter.

It's not the kitten. It's the money. I can't afford it.

Oh well, have this.

Help you with your weekly shop.

No, it's really not necessary, Dot. Honestly.

Yes, it is necessary. Nobody went hungry in the war.

If your neighbour hadn't got a crust, you shared yours with them.

Well, the world ain't like that no more, is it?

Yes, it is. There's still some good people around, you'll see.

Thanks, Dot. Let me take the kitten off your hands. Come on.

No, no it's fine. He can stay with me for a while.

Till you get back on your feet, then I'll give him to you back.

He's going to make a lovely family pet, aren't you?

Cheers, Dot. You really are a life saver.

It's no trouble. No trouble at all.

Bianca, Bianca. Can I have a word?

No, I've got to be somewhere.

Come on, you can spare me a few minutes.

That's the least you can do. We're family.

-I've been talking to your mother.

-Oh, here we go.

And she is very, very distressed.

Miserable, she is.

What's this about you chucking her out the house?

I didn't chuck her out. She wanted to go.

Come on, where's she going to go, eh?

Timbuktu, on a white charger(?)

She hasn't got anywhere else.

-Auntie April?

-What, that slob?

Do me a favour, she'd have her round the throat in ten minutes.

No, her place is here, with the family.

With her daughter.

With her grandchildren. With her brothers all around her.

A mother is supposed to put her kids first.

When has she ever done that for me, eh?

I'll tell you when. Before you were born.

When your father ran off and left her in the lurch.

Yeah, when you kicked him in the head.

Whatever. That's all water under the bridge now, eh?

-But she was determined to keep you.

-Yeah, whatever.

She loved you so much.

D'you know, me and her nearly came to blows over you?

And d'you want to know why?

Cos I waved £100 under her nose to get rid of you.

To have an abortion. I even marched her down the clinic.

But would she? No, she wouldn't.

Plucky little 14-year-old.

She wasn't going to give you up, no matter what happened.

I was there when you were born.

Not your Grandad.

Not your Grandma. Not your Dad.

Me. Your Uncle Derek.

And when she first held you in her arms,

she was the most radiant creature I'd ever seen.

She loved you then, and she loves you now.

So don't you dare tell me otherwise.

Now,

my Carol is the most important thing in the world to me.

So you are going to go and make the peace.

I'm asking you nicely.

I'm begging you. Go and make the peace.

Will you do that?

Will you?

Take care. Bye.

She knows where I am if she wants to talk to me.

Oh. That didn't take long, did it?

I've come about the rent.

What, you need a few more days?

I can't pay it.

I ain't got it.

So, there's Pat's ring there. As a down payment.

It's fine. It's OK.

It's not like I'm going to turf you out on the street, is it?

I'm not a monster. What do you need?

A week, or ten days?

I don't know when...

I just don't know when I'm going to be able to pay it.

So, what are you saying?

I'm saying I can't pay the rent and, erm...

and I can't pay for the damage.

And Ricky's not... Ricky's not helping me.

And my mum's going, so I'm going to be down anyway.

So I need a loan.

Yeah, I need help really.

I need, um...

I need a lot.

I need...

I need about £1,000.

Please, Janine.

-Can you help me out?

-Wow. How the mighty have fallen.

You've been looking down your nose at me for the last...

I don't know how many years, and here you are begging on my doorstep.

So that would be a no then?

I didn't say that, did I? And I am a generous woman.

So, I will need a detailed breakdown of a loan proposal,

and then maybe I can give it some consideration.

No, you don't understand, Janine. I need the money. I need it now!

What like instant cash? Now?

Yes, yes. What do you want me to do, Janine? Beg you?

You're rich! Look, you're rich!

So what? I should just pay it all out.

You snap your fingers, and I should give it all to you?

You won't even notice it, Janine.

Look, I've given you Pat's ring.

The ring that she gave to me.

For once in your life why don't you just be nice?

Why don't you just do something generous?

It's like I said.

Send me a copy of your loan proposal,

and I will consider it.

But until then, the rent is due and the clock is...

-tick, tick, tick.

-Fine!

Well, I just feel sorry for that baby, I really do.

-Oh, get out!

-I'd be glad to. And see your poxy wedding?

None of my lot will be coming near any stinking church, do you hear me?

All right, darling?

Sorry, we're closed.

What are you doing here?

Ian, I need that advance. You've got to give it to me.

Why aren't you at the caff?

I thought I made myself clear earlier.

Please, Ian. Please. You've got to help me.

You've gone bankrupt, ain't you? You know what that's like.

You know what it's like to be scared you'll lose everything.

Be scared you've got no-one to turn to. No-one that'll help you.

I need you at the caff...

You know how bad that feels, don't you? You can remember?

Yes, I can, Bianca, and I don't care to be reminded of it.

Then why won't you help me?

All right. When I was skint and I was going bankrupt,

who held their hand out for me. You? No. I don't remember that.

Now I'm sorry you've fallen on hard times.

But you should have thought about it before, and put some money aside...

Money aside? I've hardly got enough to get through the week.

You can afford a telly, can't you? Buy new trainers for the kids.

Everyone's got a telly.

There's millions of people scraping away out there,

scratching away at a living, having to make every single penny count.

I mean, what makes you so different, eh?

I need help, Ian. Please, I'm asking you to help me.

Then help yourself, Bianca. Help yourself!

You can't rely on anybody else in this world.

Or haven't you got that yet?

Look, just get yourself back to the caff

-before you and me have got a problem.

-No. I won't.

I won't go back there unless you help me. Please, Ian.

-Get back.

-No.

Fine, you're sacked.

What?

-You're sacked.

-No.

-Go.

Please, Ian. Please, I'm sorry. I didn't mean to say that.

Please, you can't sack me.

I just have. Go on. Please get out of my sight.

What am I going to do? They're going to make me to court.

How am I going to manage? How am I going to feed my kids?

I don't know, all right? Now look, I'm sorry.

I really am sorry.

But to be honest, Bianca, you're a liability.

You're always late. you're rude and you're incompetent.

I just can't have it any more.

-SHE SIGHS

-OK.

Fine.

MUSIC: "Are You Not Entertained?" by Dot Rotten

Oi! Oi, you!

Stop her. Some one stop her.

Cow's got my dough!

-SHE SCREAMS

-Get off me! Get off me!

Cos I'm telling you, that's mine,

that's mine, and this is mine.

-No, that's mine. It's mine.

-I'm calling the police.

No. Please don't do that.

Assault. Theft. Grievous bodily harm. All criminal offences.

No please, it's just a misunderstanding. I made a mistake.

I've just lost it. Please, don't. Please!

Police, please.

No, Mr Lister, please don't call the police. Please, I'm on probation.

If you call them, they're going to take me to prison.

They'll take me today. Please. Please don't. Please.

They'll take me away from my kids.

I'd like to report an assault and theft.

Please don't let them take me away from my kids!

Lister. Bridge Street, Walford.

Ah!

Bianca Butcher. 31 Albert Square .

Come on, let me in. Let me in.

Here, that key's gone bust.

I put it in the meter, it's gone down two quid!

Yeah, well, it would do. Because we owe it.

That don't make sense.

Kids,

listen. (Listen).

What I said about the kitten...

It's all right. We found him a new home.

We'll visit every day after school.

Come here. Oh, both of you.

You're the best.

You're the best kids.

I don't deserve you.

Right, Whit. Take them in the kitchen.

-I need to speak to my mum.

-Yeah.

Whit. What I said to you, about Tyler, I don't mean it.

He's one of the good 'uns. I really, really think he is.

You just got to take a risk with him, yeah?

You got to trust him. It'll all be worth it. It will.

I know it will in the end.

-Do you really mean that?

-Yeah, yeah.

Mum, listen...

No, Bianca. I think we've said too much already.

This has been coming for a while. Maybe years.

Mum, I've done something stupid. Really stupid, all right?

I borrowed some money. I couldn't pay it back,

so I borrowed some more. And they want it.

They want it back, all of it.

And I owe Janine, and I've lost my job, right?

So I owe over £1,000. And I ain't got it.

I ain't got nothing.

I've got... I've got about two quid, and a bit of change.

That's all I've got in the world. I've got nothing.

-I'm going back to prison.

-What?

Well... well, I was desperate.

So I took some money...

I took some money. I got caught, and I lashed out.

And Mr Lister, he called the police.

He called the police, and they're coming here.

-They're going to be here any minute.

-What are you talking about?

I'm going back to prison!

I'm on probation and there's not going to be no trial, or nothing.

No, they've made a mistake, all right?

Go and talk to Mr Lister.

No, he's called the police.

Now, listen to me, all right?

I am really, really sorry.

I am really sorry for what I said.

I mean that from the bottom of my heart, all right?

You're my mum, and I love you.

And if I've ever hurt you,

I am sorry.

And Dan, I mean, that was wrong, weren't it?

You know, from the minute he picked me up in that bar

when I was 15, he just took advantage of me.

And then he just used me, and then he just used me through you.

Where is he now? Where is he, eh? Don't know.

We don't know, do we? And we don't care.

Because we've got each other.

-We've got each other, ain't we?

-Yeah.

And it's always just... just been us, yeah?

SIRENS WAIL

Since you were Liam's age. D'you remember?

D'you remember my party, when I had that little cup cake

and the red balloon, and I just let it fly away?

Mum, since you were 19, you've just looked after me my whole life.

I'm not going to let them take you.

I'm not going to let them take you!

-Mum, it don't matter.

-It does matter.

No, it don't matter. But, listen.

I need you to do me a favour, all right?

Please don't go. Please don't go. Not now. Not now.

No. 'Course I won't.

Will you stay here and look after my babies?

'Course I'll look after your babies. You're my baby, darling.

You understand, I'm not going anywhere, right?

DOORBELL RINGS

That's them. They're here.

-OK, I'm going to deal with this.

-Mum, please. Please.

Now listen, there's some other things you don't know, OK?

-OK, listen to me.

-All right.

-Morgan doesn't like marmite and marge on his toast.

-All right.

-All right, he don't like it.

-All right, OK.

He just likes marmite.

And Tiffany, she just don't want hot milk in her cocoa,

she likes it just warm....

All right. OK, I'll deal with it. DOORBELL RINGS

-It's important. Let me go. Let me just do this.

-All right. OK.

Bianca Butcher?

-Yeah.

-An allegation of theft and assault has been made against you.

-Yeah, I know.

-You need to come to the station, answer some questions.

Can I just say goodbye to my kids?

Cos they're just in the other room.

-I'll get them.

-I'm on probation, so they're going to take me to prison.

So I just want to say goodbye, yeah?

Kids.

Listen to me.

Mummy's got to go away for a little bit, yeah?

Yeah?

Nanny's going to be here to look after you, all right?

-What are they doing here?

-Whit. I need you to be brave, yeah?

And look after your little brothers and sister for me.

-Liam. Where's Liam?

-I'll sort it. I'll sort it, darling.

Mrs Butcher.

I love you all so much.

I'm sorry.

SHE SOBS

I've got to go, all right?

It's going to be all right.

It IS going to be all right.

It's going to be fine.

Bye, Mum.

Look after my babies?

'Course I will.

SHE CRIES

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