05/12/2013 EastEnders

-My slidin' Santas! Three for two for you?

-All right.

Ian? Ian! Hello?

Hey, what's he doing?

Please be moving house, please be moving house...

You should be glad of the job.

I sell twice as many cars as he does.

If you keep it up he might make you employee of the month.

Oh, thanks very much. That's really helpful.

Anyway listen, I'm late, I've got to go and see Alice's solicitor.

I'll see you later.

Here, look!

Why's Joey going into Janine's?

I don't know, love. I'll see you later, yeah.

Are you selling up?

Come on now, man, don't you think you're taking this a bit too far?

-Right above the door should do it. Yeah.

-How much?

I tell you, this is going to break Kat's heart.

Here, Phil Mitchell's selling the Vic. Just seen him putting the...

What's all this?

Huh? Oh, Christmas, isn't it? Abi's idea.

Thinks it'll get people spending.

Like she should know.

So how much did Phil put the pub on for?

No idea. Mind you, if we sell that hatchback you

brought in we should have a deposit.

Oh, Max, that shows a whole new side to you!

Very funny. Nothing to do with me, is it? Must be Lauren's.

Always doodling. Must have picked it up by mistake.

Why, she got herself a new fella?

MUSIC: "Counting Stars" by One Republic

Do you have to make so much noise?

I was just trying to make you a little bit of breakfast.

-I'm not even hungry.

-You OK?

Yeah, why wouldn't I be?

You just look a little bit tired, that's all.

Nightmares.

Right, well, do you want me to take the day off today?

Hmm?

Look...what are we doing here?

-Let's just enjoy it.

-I know. But your sister...

She don't even come into it, Janine.

She's made her choice, ain't she?

And I've made mine.

MOBILE RINGS

Hang on.

Janine, look if you're all right, I've...

I've got to nip down the club. I've got a delivery.

Jake! Have you seen my keys anywhere?

Jake? You could at least help me find them!

What are you doing? What are you doing?

Come on, take it out my mouth, it tastes horrible.

I took the job. Got my uniform off Ian this morning!

You took it?

I start next week. I...

I thought this is what you wanted?

HE LAUGHS

I'm going to be late for work!

Oh.

Oh, yeah, hi... I'm calling regarding Michael Moon?

Now this is how we should start every day. Beautiful.

I bet we've overslept.

Have a look at your phone. What time is it?

HE YAWNS

It's after nine!

Oh, you're joking! You're joking! Tommy! I'll get Tommy.

Tommy, I'm coming to get you. Where's our alarm?

What're you shouting for!

I've got cramp! Oh, that couch is uncomfortable.

Boss!

Alfie! Kat!

Alfie! Alfie!

You all right? Sorry, I just got a bit held up.

Yeah, yeah. It's only your sister.

That lipstick... That Janine's, is it?

All right? Mr Sager.

Call me Mark. And you must be Carol.

Yeah. Hi.

Thanks for meeting at short notice.

You said it was important.

I saw Alice yesterday.

How is she?

We don't have much time.

The plea hearing is on the 24th.

Oh, right. Merry Christmas.

So, given that...

I wanted to talk to you both about the possibility of Alice...

..pleading guilty to manslaughter.

-Come on...

-Kat, listen, calm down, sweetheart.

No! I'm going to kill her!

Just take a minute, all right?

Come on!

-At last! Ain't you seen the sign?

-Oh, Fats. Just calm down.

Nothing's going to get sorted if you start shouting at Ronnie in the street, all right?

So we just take it? We smile while they show people round?

Do we have to reapply for our jobs?

Fats, no-one's reapplying for nothing right now! OK?

Listen, Phil's probably just done this for an easy life to shut Ronnie up.

I'll talk to Phil.

He hates you.

Phil doesn't hate me. All right. I'll get through to Phil.

Cos we were, like, nearly family, weren't we?

What's all this?

Oh, yeah. Surprise.

Right, so you're just going to give up on her, yeah? Her own solicitor.

Perhaps you could tell us why.

Like I said, Alice is very... confused about that night.

Very agitated and I worry that if I put her on the stand

the prosecution will barely have to say a word.

You think she'd incriminate herself?

-The case against your sister is compelling.

-She was defending Janine!

That second stab wound could suggest otherwise.

Look, when you're facing a lengthy jail term,

the only thing that matters is serving as little time as possible.

Yeah, and how's pleading guilty going to do that, eh?

A manslaughter plea could allow us to argue diminished responsibility.

The anti-depressants she was prescribed after your father's

-death play neatly into that.

-Sorry, what're you talking about? Anti-depressants?

-You didn't know?

-No, I didn't know.

She was fragile after the funeral.

Drawn to Michael, an older man, a father figure. He manipulated her.

Controlled her. Became violent and she...snapped.

Yeah. But that ain't what happened, is it?

Is this the best way forward?

If she pleads not guilty and loses she could get 15 years.

And with diminished responsibility?

The courts like an early plea. Saves money. Maybe two years?

I've had clients get two years.

Right. OK. So what happens then? If she goes for manslaughter?

The whole process speeds up dramatically.

She could be sentenced very soon.

I've arranged a meeting with her at 11.

Why don't you talk it through with her then?

-Hey, Rox!

-No!

Whatever yuletide tat you're trying to sell me, I ain't interested.

No, it's not that! No. It's just that, like you know in football,

when clubs change their managers, you know,

some players fall out of favour, you know, like Carlton Cole.

Fats, shut up.

Look, it's Christmas, innit?

And I just need to know that my finances are cool.

You know, so, is my job safe?

Well, I don't know. You look like you're doing all right to me.

No, not this. The Vic.

I dunno, ask Kat and Alfie.

-Oh, wow, you don't know?

-What?

Kat and Alfie have been kicked out.

What's Alfie like, eh?

He felt bad for giving the decorations to Terry

so he snuck out last night and got some more. What a wally.

Yeah, well he loves this place, don't he?

It really makes me angry.

Yeah. Me and all.

If she could talk, eh?

She'd be gutted that we're going. Won't ya?

Blink once for yes and twice for no.

It can take ages to sell somewhere.

Maybe you still got a bit of time.

-For what?

-To change someone's mind.

Don't go charging in. It's not just your job on the line.

Hey, can I get an orange juice, please?

Yeah, come on, look.

I'm sure I've just seen her blink once.

So the current landlords, what sort of contract are they on?

-They're there for a few months now.

-Well, like that matters.

-It does, as it happens.

Well, even if we found a buyer tomorrow

the surveys are going to take a while anyway.

Well, look, can't you just get it sorted out? Me and Roxy can run the pub.

Just calm down, will you?

KNOCK AT THE DOOR

I want to hear it from you, Phil.

Or does Ronnie conduct all your business now?

Your mum should be here, Joey.

Well, she ain't interested.

You OK, love?

You've been crying.

-No.

-I can tell.

Have you got everything that you need? Shampoo? Toothpaste?

We met with Mr Sager this morning, Alice.

He's funny.

Yeah, he thinks the best thing...

The thing that's going to get you out of here the quickest

cos that's really all that matters, isn't it?

He thinks that you should...

He thinks that we can win the trial.

He said he's going to have you out of here in no time so come on,

get practising that smile.

You're going to need it.

-ANSWERPHONE:

-Hi, it's Ronnie. I'm not here right now so Leave a message.

Can I help you, Roxy?

Or are you dying to sip your way through an orange juice?

-I'm waiting to speak to Alfie.

-Yeah?

To tell him I didn't know.

Right. And now you do? What if a chain takes over?

Or a property developer turns it into flats?

-Phil's not going to do that.

-You sure?

You love this place as much as I do, I know it.

You know this is wrong!

Otherwise you wouldn't want to speak to Alfie.

Or maybe you can't help yourself but have a laugh at our expense, yeah?

I thought more of you than that!

OK. Forget it, yeah?

Right. The photographer's coming round tomorrow

so we should have it all online in a couple of days.

Yeah, well just make it quick, yeah?

Right. I'll see you soon.

Cheers.

You want to hear it from me, Alfie? I'm kicking you out.

You and Kat are gone.

Phil, it doesn't make sense. All right. You're a businessman.

Not an agony aunt.

Look at you, all brave.

We run that place really well. And you make money from this.

Phil, there's boozers shutting down all over the country.

OK, we make it a place that people want to come to.

You're right. There's no way I can replace you two.

-So why are you doing it then?

-Cos the market's up and I'll get a decent price.

No, no, no, this ain't about the market, is it?

This is about me and Roxy not working out.

-You betrayed her!

-This community needs that pub, Phil.

Oh, don't be so sentimental.

After everything, eh?

I don't owe you. That's how forgiveness works.

Whatever, it's just another boozer.

No! No, it's not. This is your heritage, Phil!

You walk down Albert Square and there's the Queen Vic in your face.

This is part of the Phil Mitchell Empire!

Without it you're just another bloke on the street.

Nah, nah, nah, I've got plenty.

You're just the other bloke on the street.

OK. And what about the Duchess. How does she feel about this, eh?

Does she even know you're doing this?

You threatening to tell her?

Wow... You've not told your mum, have you?

Why don't you walk out of here while you've still got the chance?

What kind of bloke would that make me then, eh?

I've just seen the Vic...

-Alfie.

-Roxy. Will you please...?

All right all right, enough! Yeah.

You really want me to take that sign down, yeah?

Oh, come on, you're not actually...

Then you gotta show me how much it means to you. Yeah?

You get down on your knees and you beg for her forgiveness.

-Phil, I don't want that!

-You beg for her forgiveness.

And I'll tell you what, I might, I might consider it.

Because you're just a nice, normal girl, right? English Rose, he said.

-Really?

-Yes, really.

He reckons there ain't a jury in the land will think you're guilty.

You'll be out of here in a couple of months.

Fill her head with dreams, Joey.

Bottom line, Alice, is that you know you only stabbed him once.

Right? So you stick to that.

No, that's not what he said.

Sager wants you to plead guilty to manslaughter, Alice.

This is between me and my sister, Carol.

Sometimes I think about that night.

Stabbing him. Once.

Janine there...

So this is Janine's fault now?

Sometimes I think...did I?

Did I stab him again?

Him looking right into my eyes. And I just didn't care...

No, that just ain't you, Alice. All right? You ain't a murderer.

But maybe I am. Cos there was the pills, wasn't there?

The pills we were supposed to give to Janine. And...

Michael crushed them up and I said I wouldn't do it.

I said no, no, no, I promised that I wouldn't...

Alice, Alice...what pills, darling?

Sometimes I used to think maybe...

Calm down. Calm down. What pills are you talking about?

This isn't doing any good.

Joey, you're condemning her to 15 years in prison!

You want her called a murderer for the rest of her life?

I want her to have a life! You have to plead guilty, darling.

Am I the only one who's looking out for her interests here, Carol?

Yeah, says the man who's sleeping with Janine!

What?

Joey, what?

I don't understand.

Are you sleeping with Janine?

Answer me! Are you sleeping with Janine?!

-OK. Let's calm down. Alice.

-No!

She's the one that put me in here.

Don't you get it? She's the one!

Alice, listen to me, it ain't like that, all right?

Joey, you couldn't care less when Dad died, you left me

when I was in pieces.

You scrutinised me for being with Michael

and now you're sleeping with Janine!

How could you do that to me?!

Listen to me. I'm on your side, Alice! I swear!

No! Nobody's on my side! Only Dad! And Dad is dead.

And I wish that I was with Dad. I wish.

See, you use the buffer to put the wax on, yeah?

Then the towel to take it off. No marks. No grey swirls.

Just a perfect finish. There you are.

Surprised you ain't gone home, Max, all guns blazing, demanding answers.

Nah.

Look, this is a soppy 20-year-old art student in an apron.

Nothing to worry about, is it?

You know what to do.

If you want her to lead a normal life, forget about it.

Put it back.

So you're giving me family advice?

Like the blind leading the blind, that is.

Even so, there's an opportunity there.

Cheers, boys. Should keep me in the good books until Christmas.

Lauren.

What? We can talk. We do actually know each other.

No, no more risks. You need to back off.

That's so sweet of you. I love it! Hi, Lauren.

Jake just bought me a new sofa.

Oh. What was wrong with the old one?

Lauren was just asking about baby-sitting.

Oh, is money tight?

Yeah, I'm sure we can use you for a few hours here or there.

Get your pocket money up a bit.

Yeah? Oh, thanks!

I could always do with the extra pocket money.

Come on, you. Lunch is on me. See ya.

Look back. Look back.

Look back.

No, it's all right, let me.

Nice to see you up and about, Janine.

I'll leave 'em on here, look.

I, um...

I just went to see Michael's solicitor about his estate.

-Right.

-He didn't leave a will, so I get everything.

What, half a run-down boxing gym?

That's all he had.

Listen. I saw Joey coming over here this morning.

Was that everything?

How does that work then, Janine? You two?

And him visiting Alice in prison?

He doesn't visit her in prison.

Well, he's down there now with Carol.

They left an hour ago.

So you're going to go get drunk now?

"I want to be with Dad!" That's what she said.

Do you know what that means, Carol?

-Alice deserved to know the truth, Joey.

-You don't know, though!

I don't know what? Why you behaving like this?

No. I don't, Joey. We're family.

So tell me.

I did call Mum. Asked her to go and visit Alice.

Do you know what she said, Carol?

Her exact words were, "Go and ask your dad."

Yeah.

So I'm going to do this on my own now, Carol. Cos family...

is a myth.

Probably wasn't the best thing to say.

-Probably true, though.

-That makes it worse!

Alfie was supposed to sort this out and he's just disappeared!

-Patrick, I'm sorry. All right?

-No, don't you worry about me.

I can always join the merchant navy. Travel the world.

Just let me help. Excuse me.

-What can I get you?

-Pint.

Where have you been today?

Look, I've had...

Early delivery. That is what you said.

Now will you please just tell me the truth?

All right.

I went to see Alice today.

-And I didn't want to upset you.

-Why would I be upset?

She's still my sister, Janine.

I thought you'd made your choice?

She... She told me. About Michael and the sleeping pills.

-What sleeping pills?

-She said they wanted to poison you.

Whatever goes on in that girl's head is of absolutely no interest to me.

Now please don't follow me.

We're not seriously joining them, are we?

Alfie, it's me. Where are you?

Just call me. Yeah?

Has he really been gone since 11?

-Here you are, everyone.

-Thank you.

So you're on the old orange juice, are you, Jake?

Yeah, he's got some heavy lifting to do this afternoon.

Got a new sofa.

Great. You'll have to get us round to show it off then.

That's a great idea! How about dinner tonight? Jake can cook.

Oh, yeah, I've got the restaurant to run!

Get an agency chef in!

Please, Ian, we ain't been out in ages.

Looks like that's settled then!

When do I ever get to make any decisions?

You get to choose your clothes. Badly.

Right, I need another beer!

Maybe he's had some luck. They could be talking it through.

Phil don't talk. Alfie would've gone round there trying to be his best mate

and get round him and he will have just kicked him out.

-Maybe we should go and check?

-Excuse me. Can I have another beer, please!

Joey, don't be rude. They're about to be kicked out of their home!

And my sister is in prison right now, Bianca! Facing years!

-So don't you give me whinging about some poxy little boozer. All right?

-You need to calm down now.

-Maybe I will, Kat. When the new landlord gets here.

-You think that'll help Alice?

Kat! Kat, I didn't mean that, all right!

Alfie...

Alfie! Where've you been? Did you see Phil?

Hey, where're you going with that, man?

I won't be long!

That was out of order. All right, look, I've had a bad day.

Go and cry on Janine's shoulder.

-Because I haven't got the strength for this, Joey.

-I can't.

That's what lovers do, isn't it?

You know I might have thrown away 15 years of my sister's

life today...just to buy me some time.

What do you need time for?

To work it out.

See, there is no way that my sister killed anyone.

Don't let your missus hear you say that.

Every night I lie and I watch Janine scream his name.

It's called grief.

No. No, no, no, Kat. It's called guilt.

And it's eating away at her.

I just couldn't work out why, Kat. Couldn't find that motive.

But then I found out something today.

You know that Michael was trying to kill Janine?

And he wanted Alice to help?

Is this something that her lawyer just cooked up?

She denied it just now but she would, wouldn't she?

Cos that is why she did it, Kat. That is her motive.

So, no. No, I can't go crying on Janine's shoulder.

Not now I know.

I just need Alice to plead not guilty.

Sorry, um, I thought you came up here to apologise?

Not to go on about Michael

and his murderer like she's some sort of victim!

Janine killed Michael! All right, Kat?

And she did it because Michael was trying to kill her!

And every night I am going to lie in her bed and I'm going to listen

to her screaming until I can prove that she's the one who did it.

I just want to know when you decided all of this.

Why should you be the one forced to leave the country?

-Let them go.

-I want to leave!

-Why're you still here then?

-I'm trying to stop you going on the rampage!

All right! Enough. You two are worse than when you were teenagers!

Now Alfie has had his chance to get the Vic back, OK?

I actually thought he was going to get down on his knees and apologise.

He's got more guts than I gave him credit for.

Phil, don't sell the Vic. You're going to regret it.

I doubt that.

Ron, look, one of these days I am going to meet someone

and I'm going to settle down and be happy.

And then years later you're going to wonder what all the fuss was about

and you're also going to wonder how come you don't own the Vic any more.

This is so typical of you.

A man treats you like Alfie did and you go and defend him.

Ron, a year ago with you inside, yeah,

who would've thought the three of us would be sat back round this table?

Things change. Things move on. This is going to move on.

Don't sell the Vic over nothing.

She's got a point.

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