Episode 2 The Scheme

This programme contains very strong language.

Happy as Larry. Could not be happier. Could not be happier.

In a large housing scheme in Kilmarnock,

more than 1,000 families live in a mix of privately owned and council houses.

Just a few of those households agreed to be filmed

over the course of a year.

The Scheme follows the stories of six different families,

looking at the ups...

A cheque for 500.

..and downs of life.

Dayna, fuck off, man. I'm no' going to...

Showing people trying to do their bit for the community...

Once we get inside, don't think we'll come back out.

It's a sit-in!

..as well as those who are simply

struggling to hold their families together.

Last time in The Scheme, ex-heavy drinkers and hell-raisers

Gordon and Annie were desperate

to keep their kids on the straight and narrow.

Don't start shouting. You're no' staying out.

Aye. All right.

But their eldest son was jailed

after a long list of charges finally caught up with him.

He got eight month.

They gi'ed him the full whack.

Their youngest son Chris was also in trouble with local drug dealers.

To make matters worse, Gordon was out of work, but after two months of looking,

he's finally managed to get his first job interview.

I'm a wee bit nervy, you know.

It's the suit, it's cos I'm wearing the suit. Usually when I'm wearing a suit, I'm going to court.

They call me "the accused".

He's got to tell them that he's got a week's holiday in June.

He went for an interview before and he was going on holiday and then he never heard back from them.

I hate being out of work. It's cos of this recession and...

You're talking about...

Don't how many folk's going for the one job.

In The Scheme last time, ex-heroin addict Marvin was inseparable

from his much-loved dog Bullet.

He just loves getting kisses and cuddles, so he does.

Marvin was looking for love

and got together with ex-girlfriend, 18-year-old Dayna,

after she was released from prison on an electronic tag.

Happy as Larry. Could not be happier.

Despite Dayna thinking she was pregnant, Marvin

strayed back into taking drugs and he and Dayna began to argue,

and after a bust-up on a bus, he ended up in jail for the weekend.

He kneed me in the stomach, but I don't think he meant it.

While Marvin has been cooling off in the cells, there have been rumours

circulating that Dayna has slept with Gordon and Annie's son Chris.

Marvin's family don't trust Dayna and have told him about the rumours.

But Dayna is adamant that her honour remains intact.

Christopher was in here and left and went out along to Karen's drunk

-and said, "I've just..."

-No, he walked out like that.

"I just shagged Marvin's bird."

Right, and he swore on Karen's kid's life

and then see after it, he admitted the truth that he hadnae.

So Christopher's finito wi' me.

So he is. Finished, I'm finished with them all.

-That's us.

-They told me I was to make a choice, so I made my choice.

That's me. I'm no' speaking to my mum.

We've spoken, figured it out, and all lovey-dovey again.

That's us, we're getting engaged.

We're actually engaged the now, but I've no' got a ring yet.

He swore that he's picked me over the Valium

and we've sorted the shit out.

He's swore down... He swore down on everything

that he would never ever, ever lift a hand to me again.

Gordon has a job interview at a local factory

and has arrived in time to calm his nerves with a quick cigarette.

I still get nervous now.

I need a job. Just making me lazy, not working.

I hate not working. 20 past. I'd better go.

Gordon has always worked since he and Annie gave up serious drinking.

You couldnae meet anybody any nicer when he stopped drinking.

Just like chalk and cheese.

I don't really think that I could live without him now.

Sitting in my sister's one night, my sister who's blind.

And the both of us were drinking, and it was a daft argument started

over something and my sister was in the middle. So he lifted this...

It was wee bottles of... glass bottles of drink we had.

He started to smash one off my head,

so I lifted one and smashed it off his head.

He lifted one and smashed it off my head,

and my sister's got all this glass.

And the two of us were bottle for bottle on one another's head.

Smashed them. Her house was covered in glass.

It was unreal.

When I think back to things that happened when we were drinking,

it's funny now, but it wasnae funny at the time.

Back in the scheme, one of Marvin's cousins has moved in next door

and is having a house-warming celebration.

DANCE MUSIC

You still taking my gorgeous body in?

Me, I'm a pole-dancer.

If any of yous want a shot of me, £10 a go.

Having Marvin's cousin move next door is bad news for Dayna,

as Marvin's family are convinced

that she's cheated on him and don't like her.

-She's a snake!

-Aye, I know. I'm that, too.

-I'm only joking.

-I ken you are.

-Ken what? I'm not joking.

-Are you not?

It's not long before Marvin's cousin is trying to pick a fight.

-Who've I grassed in?

-Have I grassed what?

-Who've I grassed in?

You will get a punch right in the face.

Dayna needs to stay out of trouble,

as she's tagged and on early release from prison,

and Marvin's not there to defend her.

I'm pure angry, cos I didn't hit her back and I walked away.

It's just not me.

You've got to be rough and tough to stay about this area because see if

you're not, people tramp over you,

and if you get tramped over, then people just take advantage of you.

Can't wait until Friday, so that I can get this tag off

and I'll show every single one of them that I'm not a dafty.

Oh.

Say somebody speaks to you the wrong way, you cannae help it.

Staying around about these areas....

If she talks to you like a clown, you've got to punch her like one.

And that's what she got. She's lucky I never punched her harder.

Gordon's back from his interview for the job in a factory.

I think it went all right.

Unfortunately, the woman interviewing Gordon

is originally from the scheme,

lived on their old road and may even have known them

in their former drunken, hell-raising lives.

She stayed there until she was 12 years old

and she's a lot younger than me.

So obviously she's been there when we stayed there, you know what I mean?

Marvin is back from shopping.

His cousin is insisting that Dayna started the argument.

She said to me, "Marvin's coming home."

Fucking dug in once again.

-There's no need to get involved.

-It's all too much for Bullet.

To anybody.

But the tag comes off on Friday, I get my results...

Don't shout.

I'd love for you to do that cos I'd be proud to get hit,

but you'd get your cunt kicked right in, you retard.

What?

Marvin isn't sure who to believe,

but Dayna wants him to defend her honour.

You let me stand out there with them all

and you don't do that. No, but when it comes between me and you.

You'll thingy wi' me. You'll fight and all that.

..no-one would have seen you!

But no, you don't stick up for your woman, do you not?

I just says to her...

DAYNA SHOUTS

Stop shouting! Dayna, fuck off, man. I'm not going to...

You can batter fuck out of me but when it comes to people out there

that are saying shit to me,

like boys of his own age, he'll no' go out and face them.

He can only hit women.

Marvin's still not sure what to believe

and decides that finding Bullet is his top priority.

SOBBING

Last time in The Scheme, single mum of two Kay

took in some of her eldest daughter's friends

as they were struggling with addictions or were homeless.

I've no' had an easy upbringing

and I know what it's like, do you know what I mean?

I couldn't turn folk away cos it's a cry for help from them.

I love her to bits, she's brilliant. She would do anything for anybody.

Aw...

Things backfired for Kay as the police were constantly called

to the house, and her family were dragged into police investigations.

He's getting the blame of it.

I wasnae even in the car, I was away. I got out and ran away.

Kay's 15-year-old daughter Candice

started going out with Gordon and Annie's 20-year-old son Chris.

Her car was smashed up when Chris turned up drunk at 2am and she wouldn't let him in.

Glass everywhere and Buckfast all over the motor.

Stories going about that I want to go with other folk. It's stupid.

Kay's friends were telling her to stop helping people, as her house

was getting a bad reputation for noise from constant partying.

Three weeks on, things have now escalated and Kay has been arrested.

My mummy said, "Don't put me in handcuffs,"

and the police put her in handcuffs,

and my mum had to take her clothes off.

I never got to sleep until six o'clock.

Lisa, Candice and Jenna have been partying

late into the night with loads of their friends.

Because Candice and Jenna's got a lot of pals in and all the rest of it,

they're making a lot of noise... But they're teenagers.

My neighbour was complaining we had the town up, nit-picking all the time.

She was bringing her wheelie bin in and I went out to talk to her

and I says, "I'm sorry.

"What did you get the guy from the town up for?" and all that.

She was just pure cheeky

and just spoke to me like a piece of shit, more or less,

and I just attacked her.

She was banging her head off the wall and all that,

punching right in.

-She wanted to pure attack her.

-She blacked out.

She can't even remember what she done!

Oh, man...

I just seen red and after it I realised, "Shit, what have I done?"

So the police came up and taken me away and charged me,

serious assault.

But they let me out on bail.

Back up on 17th of May.

Kay may be regretting attacking her neighbour,

but remains determined not to give up on Jenna and Lisa.

Back at Gordon and Annie's, Gordon hasn't heard anything about the job.

I wouldnae panic, because the woman says either Monday or Tuesday.

I might just phone Brightwork this afternoon

and ask them how my application went.

If you don't ask, you don't get.

That'll show that I'm interested and keen.

He's going to phone his wee job,

see if he's got the job to bring in money.

Give me a, give me a, job, job.

Is that, em, Brightwork's?

It's Gordon Cunningham.

Aye.

OK. Right. Bye.

She's been phoning folk today,

telling them they're not successful and I've not had a phone call.

So that's lookin' good.

You'll maybe be lucky and get the job.

Hopefully. I'll need to say a wee prayer and that, then.

My Hail Marys and that.

Kiddin' on you're a good Catholic!

-Oh, I'm no' a bad Catholic.

-Aye!

It's the day of Kay's court case, but she has another problem,

as Kendal has been talking about family life at school.

I'm in trouble by Mrs...

They called the police.

She's telled them the police and all that's been here,

so they want to see me and they're taking it further.

I don't know what she actually said.

I'll need to go and see the teacher today after the court.

SHE COUGHS

So I'll need to hurry up and run a bath.

Kendal is growing up fast with so many people constantly in the house.

Have you ever looked at them?

Candice was attending to Jarryd these were balloons.

After getting over her car being smashed up,

Kay is letting Chris stay over in the house with Candice.

Chris has changed his tune

and is now saying he lied about sleeping with Dayna.

"Get a life. I'm going to smash your head in."

But did you not have a wee thing with her?

No!

What happened between you and Dayna, Chris?

That's a pure lie.

They were. But he was drunk.

It's always an excuse, isn't it?

You were drunk and she took advantage of you, didn't she?

HE LAUGHS

-Fuck knows, I cannae remember.

-Cannae remember.

Look at his face going red.

Go redder.

Go redder.

Right, come on.

I'm all right. Just a fine or something I'll get, hopefully.

Despite the serious nature of the assault charge,

Kay is hopeful she will avoid a prison sentence.

Gordon and Annie are desperate to keep their youngest daughter on the straight and narrow.

Kimberley has been dancing competitively for years, and today she has a major competition

where a good result would see her achieve the grade of Dance Champion.

Got to make yourself brown to make your costume look nicer on you.

This is the first I've done my own tan in about three year.

If Kimberley wins today, that's her last place up to Champ,

if there's enough in her section.

But it will be really hard today,

so she'll need to dance her wee bum off.

HIGH-ENERGY DANCE MUSIC

With a full dance floor, competition is fierce.

Kimberley hasn't done her best as she's been knocked off her stride by an accidental hit in the face.

I got punched in the nose.

Bit my tongue.

She'll wait till she sees if she gets back into the next heat.

It could be a semi.

I never got through.

She hasn't made the semifinals, so that's her knocked out.

She really should have cos she's better than a lot of these guys.

Luckily, Kimberley has a second chance,

as she's also entered the pairs competition.

At court, Kay is waiting for her assault charge to be heard.

She still can't believe the situation with her neighbour got so out of control.

I've never had any bother with her at all. I used to go...

Candice is a teenager now.

Ken what it's like bringing up teenagers with all her pals and all the rest.

And it's just started fae that. She's not liked her pals coming.

She's allowed somebody in - a pal or something,

but just cos there's hundreds of them, a gang of them.

It's no' easy bringing up a 15-year-old.

Marvin has a court case hanging over him

for dealing diazepam in the scheme.

It now transpires that Dayna's pregnancy was a false alarm,

and she's out with friends, leaving Marvin alone to pack

in case he gets a jail sentence at tomorrow's trial.

I've got my photographs of Bullet packed to take with me.

I've not got a photograph of Dayna.

That's what she was saying last night. "Where's the pictures of me?"

Actually, I've been thinking about splitting up with her before I go,

but I don't know what way to tell her.

-Why?

-Because I just can't be bothered with the...

I think I've made a blunder going with somebody that's young, so I do.

And where is she right now?

Away with pals drinking on a Monday afternoon, you know what I mean?

It's as if she wants the both of them.

She wants to live the grown-up life but still wants to run about,

so she'll need to make her mind up.

But I've not...

I don't know what words to put it into

without her taking it the wrong way. I don't want to say to her in case

she takes it the wrong way and I'm no' wanting to hurt her or upset her.

Back at the dance competition, in the doubles,

Kimberley has one more chance to win silverware.

There's no contact this time, apart from accidentally hitting one of the judges.

Kimberley's left to hope her little slip doesn't cost her any points.

Kay's assault case has been heard and sentence passed.

Six months' good behaviour.

So I need to behave for six months.

It was always my name. "Your 15-year-old daughter this, your 15-year-old daughter that."

-It was as if

-I

-was to blame.

You know how with the noise and all that? And they're, like,

"Aye, that's what built up to not getting on with her and all that,"

and they just kept saying, "Her 15-year-old daughter."

I was sitting there with a pure red face.

But it did start with all your pals coming to the door.

-That's all it started with.

-But it did stop.

-Aye.

-That is how she, like, started not getting on with her.

Kay is treading on thin ice.

She can't afford to be in any more trouble

and she now has to deal with the appointment at Kendal's school.

Back at the dance competition,

judging is over and it's the moment of truth.

'In first place...

'..couple number eight.'

CHEERING

'Congratulations to the winner, couple number eight.'

It feels...exciting. Exciting.

It's second time lucky and Kimberley has won gold.

Back in the scheme, Kay has been to her youngest daughter's school

where the teachers are checking about changes

they're seeing in Kendal's behaviour.

The head teacher wanted to see me, so I went down to see her

and she was asking me what's going on with Kendal and all the rest of it.

The police here and all the rest of it.

And Kendal had said to the teacher

that she would get taken away in an ambulance at the weekend,

get rushed to hospital, she was in all weekend.

But I says she was with her gran all weekend.

-So she's telling stories.

-She's telling lies.

Thinking that Kendal's awful tired-looking and all the rest.

I says, "Kendal's fine, she's just making up all these stories."

She just listens too much to adult talk, that's what it is.

-Aye. She does.

-Aye, she does.

She's got a wee wild imagination. Runs wild.

We'll just need to have a wee word with her when she comes home,

tell her to stop talking rubbish.

Despite the school's concerns, the court case

-and her friends' warnings, Kay is determined that she

-can

-cope with the stresses

of taking people in who need a helping hand.

SHE COUGHS

One of the biggest and well-known families in the scheme are the Crees.

For two generations, the family have volunteered

and helped run activities in the community centre

after their parents got it up and running 40 years ago.

We started an adult club, a youth club and had about 100 children

and started a luncheon club for elderly and people who was unemployed.

And things were running really well with the help of nobody else,

other than my own family.

After a new all-purpose community centre was built,

the old centre was shut,

but the Crees want the old building to re-open as it has more space

and was, for many, the soul of the scheme.

28 year ago, I'd my wedding reception in that hall.

At the end of the day, the hall's got a lot of memories,

and I think, actually, that's one of the reasons

how the likes of the family has kept things going.

The whole family are trying to raise money to re-open the building,

and Jim is constantly out collecting things to sell on.

The stuff that gets collected goes up to Blochairn Market.

They have gave them to the committee two days free to sell any stuff

that they get. Normally, they get quite a lot of clothing,

electrical bric-a-brac, it's basically just mixed.

But it's always things that sell.

The Crees have started a fundraising committee and have lots of local

support as the old community centre was widely used and is missed.

The weans are really missing it, you get them coming chapping your door.

"When's the centre opening back up?"

Nearly all the community centre and everything's shut down,

so weans cannae compete against weans wi' different competitions.

We'd thousands of trophies up when they were all in the centre

for dancing, dominoes, draughts, football, you name it.

There's nothing in the area for them to do, like, the younger ones.

Neither there is. When you think, there's a lot of weans about 12.

You see them all walking about there smoking.

But they're also taking hash. I mean, at 12 years old.

We knew better not to take anything cos my dad was really strict.

The old centre has been closed for months,

and the Crees are worried it's deteriorating,

so they're trying to arrange a look inside

to assess what work needs to be done before they can get it open again.

The police have been round to see Kay again after yet another incident.

Lisa got a phone call saying that her ex was down at that house

and then she started fighting with a lassie and...

Then the police were here looking for her.

And I just said, "Enough. Everybody out."

Cannae have all this at my door.

I just feel I've got two weans I want to bring up right,

not with the police at my door and falling out with my neighbours.

I just...No.

-It's my house and I need to bring my two kids up.

-Kids!

-I'm not a wean, hen.

-So nobody's getting back in.

-Chris is just coming up.

-No, he's not.

-Aye, he is.

-Jenna's getting flung out tomorrow.

-She wishes. Foil wi' smack on it.

You're joking.

No.

SHE SNIFFS

I'm kidding on!

Kay, she asked me to leave

cos of that incident that took place on the Friday night.

Me being drunk and silly went down to the lassie's house down the road and started fighting

with a lassie down there. All because of Squiggs.

And then me and Squiggs started fighting and then my pal Laura put a bottle off his head.

Then we bolted in case... cos the police was coming and an ambulance for him.

I liked staying there.

It was a good laugh and everything. But I can see her point.

It was getting too overcrowded, anyway.

Since Kay has put her foot down, Lisa is now living in a hostel,

while her mum looks after her little boy.

Gordon didn't get the job he applied for and there's other bad news.

He's caught Kimberley lying to him.

She had told him she was staying overnight with a friend,

when actually she went camping with a big group and she's now on strict nephew-sitting duty.

I'm grounded. Until my dad says different!

Her phone's come off her.

She'll not be back on the computer and she'll not be back out the door.

But I phoned her dance teacher this morning

and told her she'll not be back at dancing for a long time.

No pals, no nothing

until I think that she's ready to be trusted again.

Doesnae want to see us going out doing stuff like that.

She'll not tell me lies.

Not like that, anyway.

Anything could have happened to them.

And then, at the end of the day,

it's the parents' fault for letting them camp out,

although we didn't know they were camping out.

She'll not do it again, that's a certainty.

I know that for a fact.

Marvin's court case has gone badly

and he's been locked up for five months,

leaving Bullet in the house under the control of Dayna,

who's struggling to cope on her own.

There is huge support in the scheme to re-open the old community centre

and the Crees have arranged a visit to check out how much work

will need to be done to get things up and running again.

I'll feel better once we've been inside and seen what state it's in.

Hopefully there'll no' be much needing done.

Getting their foot back in the door is a big deal.

Once we get inside, don't think we'll come back out!

It's a sit-in!

They've no' bothered. They've just pulled things.

They've just pulled the wood off.

Workmen have been in to turn radiators off.

So that could just be cut off.

I'm trying to put a light on, we've nae electric.

The inside of the centre is looking tired and there are things

that need to be done to repair some maintenance damage.

Let's jump on the floor and see if it's going to collapse!

I think the crowd we've got, the quicker we can get in to get it done, the better.

We're asking for four days to come in and paint it.

Would there be a chance of us getting in here for four days to paint this place before we sign the lease?

So it's all painted, we're just moving straight in.

We would need you to have the lease signed first.

So, we sign the lease and then...

Need to sign the lease first.

Mrs Cree Snr is feeling ill and can't make it for the look around the building.

I hope it's no' long.

Because due to ill health, I'll maybe no' be here.

I miss it myself.

You're meeting different people.

We're stuck in here. I'm meeting just my own family.

The council have offered the lease for £1 for the year,

but want to make sure the residents have enough money in the bank

to run it before they will let their centre re-open.

We can have the lease sitting waiting ready for you to have all your funding in place.

But we actually got a letter back from East Ayrshire Council.

We put in for a grant, so, hopefully, they'll give us funding.

In the Standard, it says East Ayrshire Council's doing EVERYTHING they can to get us in. Rubbish.

Even with just £1 being offered as rent by the council,

the residents feel they're not being supported in their mission

to get the old scheme centre up and running again.

The group have to satisfy the council that they have the funding in place

to meet all the legal requirements of taking on the lease of the building,

which includes the running costs for electricity, gas,

the proper insurance cover - third party liability and contents insurance, etc -

plus they'll have responsibility for repairs and maintenance.

The Crees are desperate to get back into the old community centre,

but the council are keen to make sure that the group really has enough money

to take on the responsibility of running and maintaining the building before they hand over the keys.

Fed up with all the trouble that she's ended up getting drawn into,

Kay has put her foot down about having people in the house.

She now wants to make a fresh start by selling up and moving on.

-It is a relief to get the house back to normal.

-We're moving.

Selling up and moving.

Quite fancy Kilwinning, cos Candice starts the college there, anyway.

-No!

-How? Where do you want to go?

Chardonnay, next to Chardonnay.

Alton Hill.

-The new houses?

-Yes.

I don't want to move away fae here.

I do.

-A new start.

-It's only cos YOU want to.

Like a new start.

But I don't.

I'm just fed up with all the shite - stealing and all that.

I just cannae be bothered with it.

SHE LAUGHS

Kay may be planning to move the family for a fresh start, but Candice has good reason to stay put

and is about to deliver some family news of her own.

Gordon is running out of savings and fed up with not finding a new job.

With one son in jail and golden girl Kimberley in the doghouse,

Gordon has one thing on his mind.

So...I'll get a job when I come back.

Hopefully... I just want away from here.

A weeks' peace.

Nae phone, turn the phone off,

just get a week in the sun,

away fae all the carry-ons

and...just get away and enjoy myself for a week.

I'm terrified of flying. The doctor's going to give me Valium.

I had it the last twice.

I wasn't as bad two years ago on the plane. First time, the year before,

when I was up on the plane I was in an awful state. Took a panic attack and couldn't get a breath.

I've just to get a couple of drinks in me this time before I go.

Just ask for six vodkas.

She'll not get on the plane.

She'll be drunk.

While Dayna was looking after him, Bullet has escaped.

Dayna's heard that he's been run over and has gone to the vet's to look for him.

Got knocked down by a car.

Well, that's what somebody told me, anyway.

Bullet is still alive and Dayna wants to take him home,

even though his leg has been badly broken and he may need a major operation.

The vet's can't operate on Bullet until Dayna pays part of the bill.

Back at the Crees, Anne has had a surprise in the mail.

Oh, my God! An anonymous person has sent us a donation of £500.

A cheque for 500.

We're really, really overwhelmed with it.

I thought at first it was somebody that was looking for £500 off me!

As well as donations, the Crees are raising money by collecting things to sell,

charity bingo nights, coffee mornings and sponsored walks,

and already have over £2,000 in the bank.

I reckon that the stuff we've got just now - round about £90, anyway.

Hard to say because, like everything else,

the folk will try and bargain with you at the boot sale. I do it myself.

We'll be sitting two and half... just over 2,500 collected,

plus what we're going to collect maybe within the next week or two.

Constantly raising money is hard work and not always that pleasant.

Well, he asked us what the "eff" we wanted.

We told him and he says, "Well, if I've got effin' stuff, it'll be left out-effin'-side for you.

"Come back the effin' 'morrow night." Right, fine.

Round at Gordon and Annie's, they're about to leave for their first ever family holiday abroad,

but Gordon is upset that he can't take everyone.

I've never been on holiday with any of the weans.

I wished the rest of them would screw the nut and we could all go a family holiday.

I would like every one of them to be there.

Gordon and Annie are going to Majorca

with daughter Claire, 15-year-old Kimberley and her friend.

There's not enough money for 20-year-old Chris to come on holiday

and he isn't trusted to be left in the house on his own.

Oh, my God. I wouldn't have a house.

He would sell the full house.

His pals would steal everything out the house.

I haven't even got any money to give him, so he'll just have to do what he usually does.

Just jump from here, there and everywhere.

I'm going on this holiday to try and forget all about worries,

but I'll no'.

I'll probably be phoning him constant

to make sure they're all right.

Chris has been sleeping until the last minute and his only hope of cash

is that the postman brings his social security giro

or he'll be penniless, as well as homeless, for the coming week.

Because if the postman's not been then you've had it.

That'll be fuckin' right.

You should go out and look for the postwoman and say to her,

"My Mum and Dad's going to go abroad and I need my giro." And she needs to give us it.

I'll no' be leaving this house until I get it.

Everything packed, there's just time for Annie's nerve-calming vodkas.

Down! Down! Down!

That's it stopped.

The post doesn't come and Gordon and Annie leave Chris

to fend for himself in the scheme while they're away.

Chris is planning to stay at Kay's with Candice, who's just told her mum that's she's pregnant.

I don't know what to do,

whether to... Cos of what folk are saying to me.

I'm only 16 and all that. I want to keep it myself.

I don't believe in abortions.

I don't know if I could go through with it.

-REPORTER:

-What do you mean?

If I could go through with getting an abortion

and getting rid of it.

You're killing it, basically.

My mum says she's flinging me out if I keep it.

Chrissy asked his mum and dad if I could move in there.

He wants me to keep it, so he does.

I want to keep it. Everybody's kind of trying to get me to get rid of it.

Oh, I cannae be fucked talkin' aboot it, man. I'm going back to sleep.

That's a good thing, isn't it(?) Doesn't want to talk about it.

16-year-old Candice is thinking about giving up on her college course

and getting a house on the scheme with Chris.

The Crees' fundraising has been going great,

but the family have been rocked by the news

that Mrs Cree Snr has got cancer and has to go for a series of tests

Wanted to send an ambulance today, ken?

But Marion's going to take her out in the car.

I wasn't going in an ambulance.

I think as it came nearer to the time for her to go,

she was getting really agitated. Might be able to do something.

Ken, they cannae operate on her,

but maybe able to give her chemotherapy or something.

Just need to wait and see.

Nothing else we can really do.

Kay is moving house and she's told Candice that she will pay for a private let

for Candice and Chris to set up home, but only if Candice doesn't have the baby.

I feel terrible. My lassie's pregnant at 16.

I feel it's my fault because I let Chrissy stay here.

But I thought she would have been more careful.

But I don't want her to have it.

She's only 16.

She's just started college

and I just feel it's hard and she doesn't know how hard it is.

She thinks it's easy having a wean.

At the Crees, there's been more bad news.

Told me it was in the uterus, the pelvis, the bones

and it had spread up to her ribs - on the ribs.

And I asked them about her breathing because it was quite laboured.

I thought it was her asthma and they says, "No, that's the illness taking its toll."

She goes in on Thursday for chemotherapy.

It's just an overnight stay and she gets back out on Friday.

But she'll probably be a wee bit tired and that when she gets out.

We'll just have to wait and see.

Makes you wonder. That's everybody in my family.

Anybody that's died, it's cancer.

So it is.

We just want to see her getting back up on her feet,

because it's just not like her. She's aye on the go.

Hopefully, we can get the centre up and running quick and get her round there, get her out for a wee while,

instead of sitting watching the four walls.

Because Marvin is in jail, Dayna is responsible for Bullet, who needs an operation.

Unfortunately, she's still struggling to find the money to pay for it.

After more fighting in the scheme, Dayna decides to give up Marvin's house and move on.

Bullet is left unclaimed at the vet's, still waiting for an expensive operation.

Mrs Cree Snr has managed to get through her first chemotherapy session for her cancer.

So, I'm tired today. I never slept last night.

Aye, she's fine.

The wig's nice.

My other two sisters came in and thought she'd had her hair done

because it's the very same colour. I think she's feeling a wee bit better now.

She's got a wee bit better colour in her face today, mind you.

Aye. So...

A month after he was left at the vet's needing a major operation, Bullet's fate has been decided.

I think he's been treated very well, yeah.

Normally, if dogs haven't been treated well, you'll see some behavioural problem.

You know, they'll be scared if you go to them or maybe aggressive if you go to them. He's great.

He's obviously been well-loved, yeah.

No problem to work with. Even when we're putting bandages on things,

he's absolutely smashing and he's good with other dogs, as well. He's really nice.

If we had space for a dog at home, we would take him home, he's that nice.

-Really?

-He's really nice.

Dogs Trust have been kind enough to take him,

so he will go to a wee homing centre and,

hopefully, somebody will come along, fall in love with him and take him.

Since he was rescued, Bullet has now been successfully re-homed.

Next week on The Scheme, Gordon and Annie get back from holiday

to be faced with every parent's worse nightmare.

We've just told him that we want to help him.

Just to admit the truth - that he is taking it.

Kay disowns Candice.

Oh, my God. Pure hate her, man.

The Crees' fight starts to get serious.

I asked you one thing!

How do I think it went? A waste of fuckin' time.

And another family is ripped apart by drugs.

Grr!

I can hear that off your camera.

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