Episode 3 Going Forward

This programme contains strong language.

Are you awake?

-Yep.

-I spoke to Jackie earlier.

-Mm.

Well, she said not that much had changed...with Mum

but, erm, apparently, cos she's had such a bad stroke,

she might qualify for full medical care

and they just have to run some tests, just to check.

-Check what?

-That she's seriously ill enough to qualify for this care.

Right. So, she's got to take some tests and fail them.

-And then we'll be in the clear?

-Yeah.

-Great.

Yeah. Let me know if anything changes? ..Great. Thanks, bye.

-So, how is she?

-Well, she's still in that specialist unit

and the said they'll probably keep her until about Thursday,

unless she has another one.

-Hello? I'm home.

-Ryan!

-Ah! Hiya.

-Hey!

-Ha-ha!

-Hold on a sec, I'm just going to grab my other bag.

-Do you know what?

-What?

Our problem is that we're too entertaining as parents.

They just want to come back and be with us.

-Our problem is they treated the place like a hotel when they lived here...

-Exactly.

If we were a bit nastier to them, they wouldn't come back so much.

-Good to have you back, son!

-Cheers, Dad.

Don't worry, you're doing fine on the nasty front.

-Hey!

-Hey!

-You

-all right? Yeah. Good.

-Good to see you.

-Are you moving back?

-Yeah.

-How are you going to commute from Aldershot?

Yes, I'm moving back. I need to save up some money

because I want to be able to do... I want to get my own place, don't I?

But are you going to blow it on the train every week?

How much is the train from Aldershot to Hoxton?

Maybe I thought you might be able to help me out? I need to save some money, don't I?

You want me to drive you? You want me to chauffeur you to Hoxton every morning?

-You can just drive me to the station.

-I couldn't do that. I wouldn't do that.

-I'm not going to drive you, you'll walk.

-You just don't want him in the car.

-Where's he going to sleep?

-I don't know.

-He can sleep with us.

-THEY MURMUR

-Why's he back, then?

-Up for tonight?

Well, because they've put his rent up and it's stupid really because

of what's going on with Mum, we could have actually helped him out.

But it's nice to have him back.

I miss him, I want him to come back to us.

It's good to have him back. It's good to have the family back.

-Have you learnt to cook?

-Yes, I have.

-What?

Microwave meals, he's finally learnt to use a microwave.

-Spanish...erm, chicken de L'Espana.

-What?

-Chicken de L'Espana?

Spanish chicken. Is that chicken with some sort of...

I was living with this bloke, Diego. He showed me how to do it.

All right, let's see what you can do tonight.

It'll be like the X Factor. I'll audition to stay.

-It'll be like Bake Off.

-MasterChef.

-Bake Off.

-Cook-off.

-Yeah. Cook-off. All right.

-Fine. I spoke to Gran the other day.

I gave her a call before I came back just to let her know I was coming back.

-Did you?

-Yeah. Yeah.

-How long ago?

-A couple of weeks ago? Is she all right?

-Oh, well.

She's not great, to be honest.

Not since, well, when you spoke to her she probably sounded OK,

but you know that she's had quite a serious, biggish stroke.

I'll tell you about it properly later.

But she's OK. She's OK.

Are we going to go visit her, or is she coming home?

Well, no. What they're going to do is they'll probably transfer her

onto the proper ward on...because she's in a kind of special unit,

at the end of the week and then we'll go down then, OK?

Cos you can't...it's hard to visit in this...

OK. But Auntie Jackie's... Is she...?

Auntie Jackie's Auntie Jackie. You know. She's...

She put up a Facebook post the other day saying,

"On my way to Bluewater! Wahoo!"

What? When was that? When was that?

-Little emoji.

-When? When?

-About six days ago?

-Six days ago?

And then it was like, emoji, emoji, exclamation mark.

-Which one?

-The little one with the shades on.

-Oh, OK.

-Was that before or after the stroke?

-Yeah.

-That's out of order. Kim, that's out of order.

-She's fine.

-So, if Mum does go on for a while...

-Yeah.

..what's going to happen to her? I mean, she can't stay here, can she?

No, of course. No, she's been assessed,

so she has primary health needs so she qualifies for NHS funding.

-Primary health needs?

-Yeah.

-NHS funding?

-Yeah.

And so she would go to a care home?

Yeah, absolutely. And we have a list of recommendations

and we could support you through that.

That's lovely, thank you very much. That's very useful.

So just for... To be sure, when she goes to the care home...

..the costs would be covered by the NHS? Am I right in thinking that?

Oh, yeah, I mean, her needs are very specific

so she needs that support, yeah.

Yes, yes. OK, thank you very much, Doctor.

What?

-It is very sensitive, isn't it? The whole thing.

-Of course.

But, well, it's my sister, actually, more than me

because she's been under terrible stress with everything,

and the way that she deals with it is she runs up a lot of debts.

It is a sort of condition, actually,

so she's maxed out on the credit cards,

and they've had to remortgage the house,

and the extension's not finished.

They've got three kids, you know, they're all dependent,

and a grandchild as well. The 17-year-old... Anyway.

-So she's got a lot of people dependent on her...

-Yeah.

-..and, you know, the money situation is very worrying.

-Of course.

-You know, so she will be very...

-Relieved to hear.

She will be relieved, she will be relieved.

Yeah, no, the costs of this won't hit your sister's pocket.

No, thank you. Thank you, Doctor.

Parking. £10 an hour now, and we have to pay. Confirmed.

-£10, is it?

-£10 an hour.

Look, I think we're mates, I could probably give you a little bit of a tip-off here.

-Yeah? What's that?

-I don't tell many people that I don't know that well.

Listen, about three or four minutes away from here

there's a little bit of land.

Only us drivers know about it, but it's a score a week,

whether you're waiting for someone to arrive at the airport,

you've taken a little bird there,

whatever you're doing, literally just pull up.

You've just got to be savvy with this, Dave.

That's the trouble that you're having, I think.

Good morning, Mr and Mrs Morrell.

I'm just here to do a few bits and pieces,

and have a potter around in the kitchen,

but I'm just going to empty your catheters first.

-OK.

-Who wants to go first?

-I'll go.

-Yeah?

Just give that a little wipe, there we go.

-So how are you doing? Are you OK?

-Yeah, I'm fine, thank you.

Oh, don't like this. Not got a lot. Don't like it.

-Don't look.

-OK.

-Look at something nice.

-Yeah.

-Not my face, obviously!

THEY LAUGH

-Nice.

-Some nice pictures on the wall, there you go.

That's fairly quick, though, isn't it? And straightforward.

How about you, Mr Morrell? Are you OK?

-I get the pins and needles.

-Do you? In your feet? In your legs? Or...?

-Yeah.

-Yeah?

-Yeah.

There we go. Okey dokey.

Right, now, I'm just going to empty these in the loo,

I'll put the kettle on. I'll be back in five minutes with a cup of tea. OK?

-Are you going to go to Iraq or are you going to be a big pussy and not go?

-Is that what it is?

-Ask yourself...

-You think I'm being a pussy by not going?

Look yourself in the eye and tell yourself,

if I don't take this dream opportunity to go to Iraq

and earn some serious money,

will your kids respect you, or will they think you're a joke?

You can't keep sitting in this car, you know,

complaining and crying about life not giving you a favour

and not handing you a favour, when you've got a sweet opportunity.

You've got to do what it says on the tin. Go along.

-What do I tell Kim?

-Just say to her, "Listen, Kim, babe..."

-Do you want to write this down? Or you going to...

-I can remember it, go on.

All right, so, just walk in, get her some flowers.

None of the shitty ones from the petrol station. Decent flowers.

There's a little gaff up there called the Two Rooms Of Bloom.

Get indoors and say, "Listen, baby girl," right?

"The future is coming. The future is Iraq.

"I'm going out there and I'm going to make an absolute fortune,

"so you won't have to do that crummy job with old people any more."

-All right. All right?

-GROANS

-What's happened?

-He fell down. He fell down.

I can't get him up. Can you help me? I can't do it.

Are you all right, Mr Morrell?

Mr Morrell, just stay down for a while. Just lie down, lie down.

I'm not allowed to lift, OK?

-So I'm just going to phone the office very quickly.

-Quickly.

All right? Oh, hi. It's Kim Wilde here. I'm with the Morrells at..."

Don't pull me arm! What are you doing?

-Forget it, forget it.

-Argh, no!

-It's all right. I've got a situation.

-I'll call you back later. Bye.

-You silly devil!

Don't push. Don't push me.

Oi, oi, oi, oi, oi! No, no, no, no!

-What do you think you're doing?

-No, no, no, no!

Leave him alone, please. Come and sit down.

-Keep quiet.

-What's the matter with you?

-He's like it all the time.

-Were you having a go at him?

-No, no, no.

-Yes, you were!

-I wasn't.

-You was.

-I wasn't.

Did she hit you?

Well, I have to sometimes, because he's very aggressive.

-He gets very aggressive.

-Does he hit you?

She forces me to do things I don't want to do.

-All you want to do is sleep.

-And it hurts.

You just want to sit and sleep all the time.

I've just been to visit the Morrells,

and there was a rather worrying incident which involved violence.

No, no, no, not just him. Her as well.

I really think that someone should go and see them

and we should get social services involved or something,

cos someone's going to get seriously hurt, I think.

Two weeks? No, that's madness.

-'Oh, Dave, what do you want?'

-Yeah, Terry, have you given me the right postcode? I'm here now.

Are you near a field, mate? Are you lost?

Yeah, there's just a bunch of houses.

'It's a bit further down that road. Cor, you're like a big baby.

'Seriously, watch yourself. Some of the drivers have been doing all sorts.'

-They do what?

-'Listen, got to go. Bye.'

Oh, my God.

What the...?

HE SHOUTS IN FOREIGN LANGUAGE

No, no, no. It wasn't me, sir. No, no. It wasn't me.

No, no, it wasn't me. It wasn't me!

All right, I'll take it. I'll take it.

I'll take it. Yeah, I'll take it. Jesus Christ.

Here, look, it's going in my pocket.

Fuck's sake.

Hazel? Have you been taking all your tablets?

-Don't like them.

-You've just left some tablets.

-I don't like them.

What sort of answer is that?

You can't just go, "I don't like them, I'm not taking them."

They make me go all... all over the place.

I know, but the doctor hasn't prescribed them for a laugh.

They are for something, you're not going to get better so quickly.

I don't like them.

-Please?

-Ugh. Do I have to?

-Well, just have a go, all right? Promise?

-Yeah, I do. I promise.

Oi.

I think this belongs to you.

Can you please arrange my transport for next week?

-Right.

-Cos they didn't turn up last week.

-Oh, you're joking?

-No, they didn't. And it's a bit... You know?

What I'm going to do is I'm going to pop into Buccaneer

-and have a word with them about that.

-OK.

There's a few things I need to talk to them about.

-Thank you.

-All right, I'll just do the rubbish, OK?

I'll be back in a sec.

-Hello.

-Hiya.

-How is she today?

-Not too bad.

I think she's so brave, the way she's coping.

But you know, she's older...

No, no. You do know she's suffering from cancer?

Oh, no. I didn't know that.

She probably won't tell you

because she doesn't seem to want anyone to know.

No, well, I don't blame her,

but it's really important for me to know.

I mean, they could at least have put it on her notes or something.

Yes. I mean, she's booked into the hospice.

I think... In fact, I think she's quite looking forward to it

cos she said she'll have some company there

-and she won't be alone.

-Oh, dear. That's so sad, isn't it?

-Oh, God. I had absolutely no idea.

-No?

Well, thank you for letting me know.

-I'll have a word with the company.

-I'm sorry. You know, but...

You like to be comfortable, yeah?

CHUCKLES Very playful.

Yep. Feet down. Feet down, son. That's all right.

OK.

I've come to complain on behalf of an elderly woman I'm looking after.

Her hospital transport has not been organised, and it's not on!

This company is hopeless.

I'm sorry. How can I help you? My name's Karen.

You never return phone calls.

In fact, you very rarely even answer the phone.

You put people on hold for hours.

I've tried to get a new uniform out of you for weeks.

-Right, OK. Can I stop you again?

-And also in terms of the care offered to people,

a lot of care workers aren't filling in...

I'm going to have to put this on the file on the computer,

and to be honest with you, we're packing up here, so...

-Pardon?

-We're closing down...the office.

Am I being made redundant?

-Well, I assume you're on zero hours, so...

-Yeah, that's right.

Technically we can't sack you.

Now, as the company is being put out to tender,

if you want to leave you can leave, but we can't sack you.

Look, I'm really sorry. I really am. But I can't help you.

The only person that's left is Head of Special Projects.

Well, can I have a word with him or her, then?

-Well, you literally just missed him.

-Oh, thank you!

Right. I'm going to stop the car.

I'm stopping.

-OK. Are we going to do something?

-# La-la-la-la! #

Get off! Could you do something about this?

Sit down! Sit down!

Right. Get out! All of you, get out!

Just get out! You think I'm not serious?

Sit down! Out! You, go on, fuck off.

And you, sir. Fuck off. And you, you can fuck off too.

-I'm being serious.

-# La-la-la-la. #

OK, all right. I'm getting out. OK.

You can drive yourselves home!

Jesus!

Excuse me, I need to talk to you about my job.

Hilary.

Kim, I swear, I didn't know what was going to happen.

-I might have known it'd be you.

-I really did try to help.

I wanted everyone to keep their jobs. It's just one of those things.

You know what we used to call you at the hospital?

The Angel of Death. And you're doing it again, aren't you?

My job's going, but you're nice and safe.

Listen, there's a lot of opportunities with Buccaneer.

It's not just about this tiny section, OK?

-Buccaneer...

-Opportunity to what?

Buccaneer is everywhere. It's around us.

I thought Buccaneer was winding down,

and now you're telling me they're expanding.

No, we're actually winding up.

We're going into prisons now and we're helping young offenders,

and I'm working with some great young guys,

and bringing them out their cell so they can get back into society.

Those poor kids, I feel sorry for them.

Let me tell you something, I'm sticking my neck out.

One of the guys I'm working with, Jerome, he's a very heavy-set guy,

-Yeah?

-He's getting paroled very shortly

and I said he can come and stay with me.

Well, let's hope he gives you a kicking.

Honestly, Hilary, I'm at my wits' end,

I come for help and it's bloody you. I cannot believe it.

Look how well you're doing!

I'm losing my job, yet you're smiling at that car.

Are you happy with it, are you? Nice.

-Do you know what I've got?

-What?

-A bleeding Picasso.

That doesn't start in the mornings.

Well, maybe if you got positive and worked with Buccaneer,

we may consider even taking you back.

-How about that?

-Oh, that's big of you.

Comfy seats, faux leather. Think about it.

Faux leather? That's my dream, that is.

Well, it's only because I'm a vegan, they done a special edition for me.

Do you know I'm supposed to be at a spin class now?

Well, it's having a good effect.

Yeah, I've been working...

-Kim, listen, let me make some calls for you.

-No, it's all right.

Hold on one second.

Hello?

Hi, Brian. Yeah, it's Hils.

Hilary. Loftus, yeah.

Erm, what I was going to say,

I don't think I'm going to make the six o'clock spin.

Is there any chance you could slip me into the aqua aerobics at 6:30?

Yeah, cheers.

-Look.

-What's that for?

Get yourself something nice to wear,

you know, for job interviews and stuff?

-What? £20?

-Kim, perhaps just a nice hat or something, you know...

-A nice hat?

-We are going to need the top back.

The Buccaneer top? We will need the uniform.

I don't think that's appropriate. Kim?

-Have your fucking £20.

-Kim, I don't think, no...

There's your Buccaneer top, all right?

And your stupid Buccaneer bag.

Hello, Brian? Yeah.

I may be able to still make it for the spinning?

I haven't got time to warm up.

I know he likes you to warm up, but...OK. Lots of love. Bye-bye.

Mr White?

Mr White?

Mr White?

Mr White?

-Mr White.

-HEAVY BREATHING

Oh, OK. I can see you're busy. I'll pop back later.

Guys, I wouldn't eat the chicken

cos mine's still a bit frozen in the middle.

-I'm not eating that.

-It's pink.

-Look at this.

-Yeah.

-No, it's...

-Medium-rare chicken, it's a Spanish delicacy.

It's a bit dangerous, Ryan. I know you've made the effort

and I'm impressed that you've managed to cook something

that's burnt on the outside and frozen in the middle.

It's a baked chicken Alaska.

That's actually a very difficult thing to pull off. Well done.

-Thank you. So... Mucho, mucho...

-At least he's trying.

-Can we just order Chinese later?

-Yeah, please?

The thing is, it's like you can get salmonella from the middle bit,

and then it's carcinogenic on the outside,

which means it could give you cancer.

-You're killing us, basically.

-I don't think I can eat it.

Interesting concept - cold veg as well. Very nice.

-KNOCK ON DOOR

-Only me, not stopping.

Oh, sorry, you're having your dinner.

Hello, darling. What are you doing home?

-I'm back.

-You're back? Aw!

-Dad's really chuffed.

-That's nice.

-What are you having?

-Frozen chicken.

-Do you want some chicken?

-What happened to the chicken?

-It's Spanish, apparently.

-The joy on Dad's face.

You've got to have some, it's amazing.

I think I'll pass on that, Dave. Can I have a little word?

Are you sure you don't want to stay for dinner? I cooked.

No, darling, I've got to get back for your Uncle Stewart,

but I just wanted a quick word with your mum.

-Excuse me.

-Nice to see you.

Yeah, yeah. Lovely to see you, darling. Catch up with you later.

Right, Mum is now primary health care needs.

Which you seem quite pleased about? What's primary health care needs?

Well, what it means is we don't have to pay.

No, I mean, what does it mean about HER? How is she?

Oh, well. God, she's awful. Obviously, she's terrible.

I went to see her, you know?

I had a little chat with her, and she's...one eye's all closed.

It's awful, it's terrible,

-But you're pleased?

-Oh, no, of course I'm...

Don't be like that, Kim. Of course I'm not pleased.

I just thought you'd want to know, because she's now so ill,

and they say she's not likely to get better, so they cover the costs.

I just thought you'd like to know,

after everything that we've been through, you know.

-It's...

-Well, I'm sure Mum would be very pleased to know

that you've come running to me going,

"Hooray, Mum's really ill, so I get my money back."

What is this? Why are you having such a go?

Jackie, your whole life revolves around Jackie.

If you did a chart over the last however many years,

I've been there nearly every day, or on the phone,

and you are so wrapped up in your own family that you've got no time for anybody else.

Oh, pardon me for having some children and a full-time job.

You just swan around, you don't even have to do anything,

while Stewart goes to that stupid job and earns money for you, that you then blow.

-Don't have a go at Stewart.

-Plus extras, a handful of credit cards.

You're always, always having a go at Stewart.

And actually he gets very, very upset about it.

-The point is, it's good news, isn't it?

-It's not good news.

Our mother has had a serious stroke, and could die any day now,

-and you're coming here and telling me it's good news.

-I am not happy about that. I am not happy.

-You do not give a shit about her.

-Oh, that is absolutely outrageous.

-Well, it's true, Jackie.

-I've been back and forth to the hospital,

I've been back and forth the care home.

I was the one trying to deal with the local authority, and now I've been to see Mum...

And why were you trying to do all this?

Because you hoped that you might get a hand-out...

I just wanted to know what the situation was.

You might get a hand-out from the local authority, which means you won't be broke any more.

-What would have happened to you?

-So you could get another coat.

You wouldn't be able to finish the extension, no money in the kids' jar.

We held on to our money, we spent very little on the extension.

You blew the whole bloody lot on paying off your credit cards.

I don't see why you're having a go at me about it all the time.

And then you try and dress it up as, "Oh, I care for Mum."

-You could not give a toss.

-Oh, that is absolutely...

It's always been "Jackie, Jackie, Jackie."

And you've always been, oh, yeah, just because you've got kids,

and you've got a family like you're some great bloody saint

or something, and you're going around doing all this good work

for all these old people, like you never do anything wrong.

-That is my job!

-You've got no sympathy for me.

-I do my absolute best, Kim.

-You are a selfish person.

You are the selfish one. You're the one who never goes to see Mum.

-That's not true, that's not true.

-You're far more selfish than me. You are far more selfish than me.

-Anyway, why should I go and see Mum? She never comes to see me?

-What?

-She did nothing to help me.

-Oh, now we're getting into it.

She did nothing to help with the kids when they were younger.

Oh, now we're getting into it.

She couldn't have given a toss, and who takes after her?

You do. She was selfish, you are selfish.

Oh, so we're all supposed to run around after Kim, are we?

-Just because Kim's had kids.

-I'm not asking you to.

Oh, just because people have kids, we all have to run around after them, do we?

I'm not bloody staying here to be insulted like this.

-Good. Fuck off.

-I will fuck off. I will fuck off where I'm wanted.

Fuck right off.

What was that thing she was saying about this money stuff?

-Are we... Are we all right?

-We're fine. We're fine.

-What about...

-She looked all posh and done up.

Like she was going somewhere fancy.

Does it mean...? Is she...? Are we...?

Is it sad cos we've got no money or sad because she's got money

-and we don't?

-I think it's sad cos our mum is seriously ill.

-Oh, yeah.

-And as far as money is concerned...

-I just don't...

-We're fine.

It's all fine, the money angle. It's fine.

So we've got more money?

Well, shall we not? Let's not talk about the money tonight.

Money is the root of all evil, so let's just not talk about it and let's go.

And I'm happy to, you know, keep working and...

-And keep making us dinners.

-No!

-That are just frankly shit.

Not making us dinners. Buying us takeaway...

We're going to keep going for takeaways.

We'll be bankrupt in a month with you being here, going out every night.

-Aw, bless 'im.

-Come on. Come on, let's go.

-What a day.

-Yeah.

You mean Jackie?

Well, obviously Jackie, but not just that.

I mean, I feel a bit bad about Jackie but, you know,

I reckon Buccaneer's finished.

That's the end of them, so that's the end of my job.

-That's very bad timing.

-Why?

-I think I've lost my job and all.

-No.

-Yeah.

-Tell me.

-You know those Arabs I was driving around?

-Yeah.

-Threw them out today.

-Did you?

-I just had enough.

Kid kicking me, slapping me, making...

Just being generally disrespectful.

I just walked away and left them in the street.

-Got out the car and walked off.

-What did you do that for?

I'd just had enough. I just walked off.

What a shit day.

Oh, dear.

So, me no job, you no job.

Well, at least you're going to Iraq.

-I suppose you can earn a bit of money there.

-No, I'm not.

-What do you mean, you're not going?

-Why are you saying that?

-Your bag's all packed and ready.

Nah, that bag's for a job in Birmingham.

NEC. Staying the night.

-There's some electrical goods awards thing.

-So you're not going to Iraq?

No. I'm staying in Birmingham.

-I'm pleased, really.

-Why are you pleased?

Cos I quite like you.

-BABY CRIES

-Mum, have we got any nappies left?

Max, there's some in the little cupboard in the bathroom.

-Sure? There's none left.

-Definitely.

-Poppy's just laying on the mat.

I saw them earlier, Max. Really.

-Are you sure?

-Yeah.

-All right. Thanks.

-OK.

These kids.

-Just nappies... I mean...

-They're all right. They're good kids.

They're good kids. I feel pretty happy.

-Yeah?

-Yeah, I reckon so.

-Good.

I'm glad.

Mum! Dog's been sick.

# I beg your pardon

# I never promised you a rose garden

# Along with the sunshine

# There's gotta be a little rain sometimes

# When you take you gotta give so live and let live

# Or let go, whoa, whoa, whoa, whoa

# I beg your pardon

# I never promised you a rose garden... #