Episode 5 The Scheme

This programme contains very strong language and scenes some viewers may find disturbing.

Happy as Larry. Could not be happier.

A year ago, six very different families from one large

housing scheme in Kilmarnock agreed to be filmed.

Their day-to-day lives were captured showing the ups...

Met wee Steve, running amok non-fucking-stop.

..and downs of life in the scheme.

"I'm so, so sorry and I'll love you forever and a day."

A year on, have their dreams been realised

or dashed?

How are you doing?

Have their families stayed together or been torn apart?

Has the last year been plain sailing or not?

Seen somebody jumping and putting something straight into my forehead.

And what does the future hold for them now?

Just sitting,

just wasted, man, just to pure block everything out.

When Marvin Baird was first shown in The Scheme,

he was living the single life with his much-loved dog, Bullet.

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

Having kicked drugs, Marvin was looking to start a family and got together with ex-girlfriend

18-year-old Dayna, after she was released from prison.

Happy as Larry.

Could not be happier.

Marvin and Dayna, though, fell back into using drugs and things turned ugly.

Dayna! Stop shouting!

-Dayna, fuck off!

-Dayna was accused of sleeping with Marvin's cousin, Chris...

"I just shagged Marvin's bird."

..and fell out with Marvin's family.

-What age are you? Got a punch right in the face.

-The relationship was already in trouble.

I just cannae put up with it any more.

And then Marvin was caught with drugs.

Eventually, Marvin was locked up,

leaving Bullet in the care of Dayna, who was struggling with her addiction.

I'm glad he's away.

But other times, situations like this, I wish he was here.

Despite Marvin being behind bars,

Bullet being run over and re-homed,

and Dayna giving up their house because of fighting in the Scheme,

the relationship survived.

A year on, Marvin is out of jail,

drug-free and looking for work.

I went in there to sign on, Jobs Seekers' Allowance,

because I'm actively looking for a job rather than laying about.

But they're advising me to go back on the sick, because of my left-hand injury,

they're saying... CAR HORN BEEPS

That's constantly what happens, people beeping and waving that I don't know.

Hey!

See what I mean? That's it, that's Kilmarnock everywhere I go.

But they've advised me I'd be better going back on the sickness benefit

because there's no' many jobs that you can do one-handed.

But I says, "There's nothing wrong with me sitting in front of a computer..."

-Hey!

-That's everywhere I go.

If it's a female, a lot of the time they get out and they'll say, "Can we get a picture with you?"

I set up a Facebook site of my own. See, within three days,

I had 931 friend requests within three days.

I like the attention.

Cos it's a big difference from being a drug addict to being back to just...

I mean, all I'm on is my prescription. I'm stable.

I've got a great relationship with my parents again, the way things used to be.

Marvin has got himself back on his own two feet

with a rented bedsit in the centre of Kilmarnock...

..while he now waits for Dayna to get out of jail.

I sleep with Dayna's pyjama top on my bed, look, since she went to prison.

I've no washed it. I still smell her off it.

I don't... Oops.

Did you see the picture of her in the paper?

Dayna was caught trying to get drugs into jail for Marvin

and was sentenced to over a year behind bars.

The last visit, I couldnae believe how beautiful she was looking.

There wasn't even a blemish on her skin.

Her hair was all healthy looking.

Her nails, everything. She was just looking great, so she was.

The situation is we're engaged now, so we are.

I've picked my best man, she's picked her bridesmaid, everything.

We've got everything all ready.

Since being filmed, Marvin has built up a special relationship with the Sun newspaper.

I got my teeth done one night. They put me up in a hotel

in case any other papers came and tried to get a snapshot.

Then the next day, it was my day out, that was the day I had out.

All the different treatments.

It was a laser treatment they done to whiten my own up.

Apparently, it's £600 for one course of it.

I got three in the one sitting.

The difference is unbelievable.

That was the one that the Government phoned me

and asked me if they could start using my picture to warn young ones

no' to go down that road.

Then I got a phone call saying that they're wanting me to go round the schools myself now and speak to them.

I 100% want to do drug counselling, definitely.

Even my counsellor, my drug counsellor Jeff, right, he said, "The person that I first met

"to the person I'm speaking to now is like day and night."

I didn't realise how away with it I was.

I hate when people go by like that and they go by and shout, "Oh, where's Bullet? Where's Bullet?"

As if, to them, it's a joke.

To me, that was...heartbreaking, so it was.

See, when I got out of prison, it felt like there was a part of me missing.

See, because I was that used to him.

I mean, for six years, he was on my side, or if I had to nip somewhere,

I knew I was coming back and his wee face would be at the window waiting for me.

As soon as I found out he was away, I lay in my room in Bowhouse

for four days and the tears, I just couldn't stop them.

Marvin has lost Bullet to another family, but he still has Dayna

and is waiting to see whether she'll get early release with an electronic tag.

A year ago, the McMurray family were all living together in the same house.

Mum Libby was desperate to keep her kids on the straight and narrow. Not an easy job,

when her eldest, James, was a long-time heroin addict.

There used to be a couple of hours of normality, but there's none now.

I just feel like ending it, killing myself, but I couldnae do that to my family.

Her daughter, Kerry, had recently got out of jail.

I'm going to drink alcohol.

And cousin Brian was sleeping on the floor, also a heavily-addicted drug user.

Libby's youngest son, 15-year-old Steven, had seen the effect heroin was having on James and Brian

and was determined to stay drug-free himself.

Steven had already been excluded from school and had started to get into trouble in the Scheme.

But Libby managed to get him to go to a local charity,

which encouraged him to apply for a place at college to study joinery.

So far, this is my biggest achievement.

I feel great, man, that he's doing something with his life.

With Steven getting a course at college, things were looking up for Libby's family at last.

But a year after being filmed, her hopes have disintegrated.

After being accused of causing trouble, James and Kerry fell out with other nearby families.

Libby was forced to leave the Scheme and both her boys ended up

behind bars, with Steven getting jailed for a serious assault.

Today, though, Steven is being released and Libby and Kerry have come to Glasgow to meet him.

Hey, is that him up there with the hood up?

No, it isnae. What did he say to you on the phone?

He says Buchanan Street.

-Buchanan Street?

-Buchanan Street Bus Station.

-Did you not say wait there?

-Aye.

Unfortunately, there's no sign of Steven at the bus station in Glasgow

and Libby and Kerry think he might already be drinking his liberation grant

and getting into trouble.

But you know Steven, he's nae patience.

-He's a wee bit like yourself.

-I would have at least waited for you.

With no sign of Steven, Libby and Kerry head back to Kilmarnock.

-I'm hoping that he's made his way home.

-See, when I get out the jail,

everybody's like, "Come on, we'll go and get mad with it and that."

I was like, "No, I'm just going home to see my family and that."

I think that's what Steven will do as well. PHONE RINGS

You just got there?!

You said you were at Buchanan Bus Station to my mam. I need money now to come back and fucking get you.

That's him just got there.

Fucking hell, man! "It takes an hour and a half to get there."

In the end, Steven finds the bus fare back to Kilmarnock.

I cannae wait to see him, my young blood, man.

-My wee brother.

-I feel better knowing that he's coming here now.

I don't need to hunt the town looking for him.

Its been hell, because he was always round about us.

-He was always with me constantly.

-Aye. Joined at the hip.

Aye, joined at the hip.

There he is. There he is.

All right, Mam?

All my Christmases all came at once.

We found him.

I feel like screaming, letting the world know how happy I am.

They forgot about me.

-Three meals a day.

-That's what I'm talking about!

Woo! One thing I'll never see, I'll never eat custard again, cos that's all you get, man.

Duff, wasn't it, son?

-It was fucking...

-No, seriously though, how was it?

I didn't like it to start wi', man.

It was shite to start wi', but once I started knowing people and that, it was good.

It's all right, man. No saying I want to go back any time soon.

Steven is going to join his mum and Kerry

sleeping on the floor of Kerry's one-bed flat, on the edge of the Scheme.

He's going to stay here with Kerry the now, till he gets his head together.

A day at a time the now.

Got to go and get my money and then sit about for a wee while,

take in Kilmarnock again, know what I'm talking about?

There's more good news for Libby, as the whole family is due to be

reunited again when James gets out of Barlinnie in three days' time.

"How're you doing, my wee ma?

"As you can no doubt spy from the top of the page, it's just the one and only Jazzy boy here

"on the fantastic plastic wi' a wee few words to say.

"I pure miss yous loads and loads.

"Be seeing yous all real soon."

Eh, he's getting out on Wednesday and he'll be coming here to see Kerry and me.

I don't know what his plans are from there.

Probably stay a day or so and then he'll do what he's intending to do.

A year ago, ex-alcoholics and self-confessed hellraisers

Gordon and Annie Cunningham were keen to make sure their kids didn't follow in their footsteps.

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

Aye, all right.

Their daughter, Kimberley, was into dancing and had a job, but their eldest son, Brian,

was locked up for a racially aggravated breach of the peace.

He gave him the full whack.

That man had said he called him all the Bin Laden bastards and all that.

Worse than that, the 20-year-old son Chris seemed to be taking heroin

just after he got 16-year-old Candice pregnant.

We were talking about having a wean and that, and then it just happened.

Candice was keen to keep the baby, against her mum Kay's advice.

What are you going to do if you've got a tenner, right,

and you're needing nappies and milk, and Chris needs a bag of smack? Who's going to win?

Kay was worried about Chris's drug habit

and thought Chris was slipping more and more heavily into using heroin.

Fuck. Oh, man, they can say what they want, know what I mean? Doesn't bother me.

Gordon and Annie lost hope of helping Chris.

The amount he's taking,

he's just going to go downhill rapidly and rapidly and rapidly and there's no' much I can do about it.

And Candice ended up having the baby, despite her mum's worries about Chris's drug use.

A year on, Chris has spent time in jail, but is now out of prison and living at home.

I tried to get him off the heroin a couple of times by locking him in

and buying him tablets and that, but it didn't work.

But when he got lifted and got put to prison, he had nae other option.

He couldnae get it and that was that.

So, I think it gave him time to think and all about the wean and everything.

The social worker was saying

he isnae allowed to be near the wean because of the drugs.

I says, "But he's no' on drugs now, he's on a methadone prescription."

She says it's in case he's got the wean with him and he bumps into any of his old pals.

He'd been easily led. He was just out.

It's all right, Christopher, saying it wouldnae happen, but you don't ken till you're put in that position.

After she come up here and done a meeting with me, Christopher and Candice,

she says she was happy for the wean to be here with Christopher,

but before that,

he wasn't allowed to be in the same house as the wean.

So that's how he thought they were calling him a beast and all that.

In Kilmarnock, at Marvin's bedsit, an old friend, Tam, has moved in next door.

Marvin's dreams of working as a drug counsellor and fronting an anti-drug campaign in schools have been

devastated by mobile phone footage which the Sun newspaper had put on their website

allegedly showing Marvin smoking heroin.

The video's between two-and-a-half to three year ago.

It has been somebody in my company that has took a video.

They've forgot they've had it on video, I think, or they would have put it in before now.

Then they've been looking maybe through a memory card, an old SIM card or something,

and they've came across this video and they've thought, "I'll get money for it."

And, before this happened... Where I volunteer, there've been a few people discussing trying to set me up.

Cos they were all talking about, "Oh, they're offering £1,000.

"They're offering £1,000 if we can get him taking smack."

They can buy me as much as you want, but they'll no' get me sitting taking it any more.

Worse thing was they portrayed me as being back on it.

I mean, that was the headline - Back On Smack.

Marvin claims that politician Nicola Sturgeon has even asked him to help front an anti-drugs campaign.

It was in the paper that she withdrew any allegations that I was to go round the schools with her, right?

Which obviously, she's going to withdraw her name as soon as that's been put in the paper.

I can understand that.

Right, she's saying, "No, it was the photo, it was his photograph we were

"thinking about using, but now we have to look into even using that."

But I was asked into the schools, right, and I don't need to prove that to anybody.

Marvin and Tam have both had chaotic lives

and both of their girlfriends are in prison.

But Tam has had good news.

I just found out a week ago that my girlfriend...

-She went to Greenock, right?

-He's gonnae be...

-I've been choking for that...

-You're gonnae be...

-A daddy.

I've been choking to be a daddy all my life.

'Marvin!'

She'll keep shouting. Just say, "He's still no' back. I've got somebody in."

She's no' getting in the now.

It's Dayna's sister.

It's no' in a stable predicament the now, right,

so I do not know whether I can give these away or not.

That's Dayna's mum's ashes, right, which are just newly been packed.

That's her dad's. SHOUTING CONTINUES FROM STREET

She's wanting in, but she's saying it's just this she's wanting in for.

It's not a case she would come in, take them and go. She would make some excuse to sit around.

No other woman interests me now, you know.

Would you not be proud to have that wee hottie walking down with you, arm-in-arm?

That's my wee woman there.

Love her to bits, so I do. I cannae wait.

Steven is out of prison and staying with his sister, Kerry, but it's a one-bedroom flat.

His mum is also sleeping there sometimes and he's nowhere else to go.

Aye, I've no' been supported with money.

She's just gave me food when she's had it, but she's no' got any now.

She was expecting me to pay for it and I'm getting thrown out the night if I don't get her money.

But it's hard to sleep out in the streets until I get paid, cos you won't give me money.

Under these... Fuck off, you daft cow, man.

Fucking screwing me about, man.

I went for a crisis loan so I could pay Kerry digs

and I've no' to get paid for weeks and I need to buy food.

They're saying I'm no' in a crisis.

I'm in a crisis. I've got no' money or nothing, know what I mean?

I told them I was going to get thrown out and they were like,

"Obviously, your sister's been supporting you until now.

"She's no' going to throw you out." How the fuck do they know that?

She could be throwing me out for all they know. Fucking idiots, man.

My sister's letting me stay a wee while...

..and hopefully, I'm getting a house.

That'll be a start.

At 17, Steven already feels trapped into a chaotic lifestyle.

See, like, places like this, man, jobless people just have to make do with what they've got.

End up fucking mad alkies and all that, wanting to fight with cunts, all sorts of shit like that, man.

That's how heavy family feuds and all that start, know what I mean?

I think that's how this place gets a heavy bad name, man.

That's how the people in it get a bad name. If you leave school with nae qualifications,

you're not going to get a healthy job unless you want to work in ASDA or something

where, if you've got a criminal record like me,

you get told to fuck off because you've been done for robbery.

You cannae work on tills. That's my life for the future, man.

Be on the brew rest of my days,

dossing in my sister's house,

either a mad alky

or a mad pot-head.

Never a smack head, never a smack head.

Just sitting, just wasted, man, just to pure block everything out, just block the shite out.

So, it's all a big circle, man.

Every place you go to, people are the same, lifestyle's the same,

drug taking's the same.

Everything, man. And no matter where you go, you don't change so...

it's the same at the end of the day, isn't it?

One person who seems to be breaking the cycle is Chris.

From the way he used to be to the now, he has changed a lot.

-I'm proud of him.

-I don't even drink or nothing now.

I just don't do nothing. I just sit in with Candice and the wean.

You have drunk a couple of times.

Aye, but, no...

No' went out and, like, drank for days at a time and all that.

No, he doesn't do that any more.

We're just waiting to get a house, me, Candice and the wean,

and we'll just settle down from there. Just whenever.

Marvin's local celebrity has backfired after

a girl asked Marvin for a photo and her boyfriend took offence.

I was in court today for an incident when the boy held a knife at my neck

and I managed to get the knife off him, and when I've ran away,

I've ran into where the police were and I was done with possession of an offensive weapon.

So it's...

no' exactly looking good.

It's one of the worst charges to be up for the now, so it is.

As you see, I've got my bag and that.

I'm prepared for the worst.

But it's going to muck Dayna up for the tag, so it is.

Cos she was due out maybe next week probably,

but the tag was to my flat

and if I go to prison, then obviously I lose the flat, so she's no' got an address.

So it's going to hold her in prison to May.

I just hope Neil's got the gift of the gab.

He's a good solicitor.

Marvin! How you doing?

-All right.

-How's Bullet?

Wouldnae know. I've no seen him for two year.

HORN BEEPS (Fucking idiot.)

See you later, mate. Go away.

No, go away, mate.

-Don't be shy.

-I am shy.

I'm very shy.

Even though Dayna's out of prison soon,

Marvin's dreams of marriage are again in jeopardy,

as possession of a knife normally carries a long sentence behind bars.

Marvin may be heading for jail, but round at Kerry's flat,

James, Libby's eldest boy, has just got out of Barlinnie.

Ah-ha, ha!

James is going to be staying at Kerry's until he decides what to do next.

Time in prison has meant that he is now truly drug-free

for the first time in years.

It's some people's lives, isn't it? My case, me, cos I was in a bad way before I went in.

But now... I don't even want that now.

Before he went into jail, he was fucking off his nut, man.

Pure skinny. Pure looked as though he was dying, man.

Looked in a heavy bad way. See, now, I think he looks healthy for it, man. The jail's done a lot for him.

It's the way he used to be,

when he looked after himself, before the drugs got a grip of him.

I suppose everybody does it.

The three of them back together,

that's my life complete.

Marvin has managed to persuade the judge that he is the innocent party

concerning the knife and has walked out of court a free man.

I'm happy as Larry.

Cos of my circumstances, and it was

an unprovoked attack on me just because his girlfriend was getting a bit too friendly.

Honestly, I can't even explain how I feel.

95% sure I was getting jailed today.

Marvin has escaped time behind bars, but he's more concerned that he's found out who has scuppered

his chances of fronting a drugs campaign by sending in old footage to the Sun.

Although Chris Cunningham is denying it, Marvin is certain that he is the culprit.

He got £500 for it,

so £500 for losing a relationship to somebody that's been a friend for you.

He's took the memory card out, put it in his new phone and these

pictures have come up and he's went like that -

"Oh, I'll say that's just the now, like, two days ago."

I'm disgusted at him for doing that after everything I done for him.

I took him in when he was 15.

It was nine months when he moved in with me and my parents and I took him everywhere.

Then when he was 15, when I moved into Argyle Place, he moved in there and I bought him everything.

Every bit of clothing, everything. I kept him going, didn't I?

It wasn't just normal clothes. It was clothes that were designer.

It was costing me a lot of money.

James has been drinking heavily since he got out of prison.

He had a traumatic childhood and he turned to heroin use as a teenager, becoming heavily addicted.

He's trying to see the best way forward.

Go away from here, for a starter.

And that's the biggest hope I've got.

Just take us away from this shit hole.

Look at the state of it. You don't get opportunities down in this dump,

you don't get nothing.

All you get's a drug habit down here.

It doesn't need to be perfect, just normal.

Just a normal life like everybody else, that's all I want.

Nae drugs, nae nothing.

I've never had any goodness, never.

It's only a month till Dayna gets out of jail, but Marvin has been

badly beaten up after declining a photo while out drinking one night.

Because of his head injuries, Marvin's family are making sure that

one of them is always there to keep an eye on him.

The police came at ten o'clock the next morning. Apparently, they'd been here all during the night

cos the CCTV had seen me staggering all the way round with blood running down my face,

cos my nose was burst, my mouth was all burst, and the cuts...

my full face was covered.

I come in and I wet a sponge and I cleaned it a wee bit as best...

I thought I'd cleaned it, but I hadn't, it was all dirt inside it,

and I just held a sponge to it and put the sponge against the bed and just lay

and put my forehead against the sponge, but it was the worst thing I could have done,

I could have ended up in a coma or anything.

I actually burst out laughing cos I got that much of a fright.

I was like, "What happened to your face?"

They gave me a CAT scan, like a CT scan for my brain.

I don't know if they found one, mind you!

Maybe found a wee bit of a brain, a Malteser or something like that.

Round at Kerry's flat, James has disappeared

and Libby fears that he may already be back to his old ways.

Cos he was heavy on with the drink last time I seen him.

Just waking up in the morning and starting again.

I just don't know.

Don't want to say he has if he's not.

It'll just knock his confidence away again.

I'd know if I'd seen him, whether he'd touched heroin or not.

But I haven't seen him, so I don't know.

Nae job prospects. Do nothing all day, shut in a room.

Anybody that has got a record, they've nae chance.

Steven has another assault charge pending and may soon be heading back to prison.

Sometimes, I think it would be a laugh to go back to the jail.

It's pure boring out here. I've got nothing to do here.

-At least in there, I've got things to do.

-Nothing happens out here.

You feel like the pressure gets to you and you want to go back to the jail,

cos it's somewhere you can sort your head out and that.

-It's just the jail for you.

-It gives you time to think away from everybody.

Fucking... Cos you're locked in a gaff all the time.

I went for an interview last Monday. They told me they'd phone me in two weeks for an induction,

so that's me basically got the job, innit? Working in Belchers food factory.

They make sausages and that, meat factory.

It's pure freezing. You need safety boots and about 25 layer of clothing.

Kerry's picking her life up.

Kerry's picking her life up with her can in her hand, as you do.

A month after he was assaulted, Marvin has travelled over two hours to Stirling to visit Dayna in jail.

Marvin and Dayna had talked about being engaged,

but Marvin now has a ring and is ready to make things official.

I've just never had enough money to get a ring I wanted to get her.

So I've got a ring here for her.

I just want to place the ring on her finger just to give her a wee bit

more reassurance that I'm deadly serious about it.

We're having a fresh start.

The two of us have agreed when she comes out, like, everything in the past, we're forgetting about.

Getting married, that'll be...

the biggest step towards our fresh start. Every time she sees me,

it's like that, "You've put on more weight,

"you've put on more weight, you're looking great." I think she's getting a wee bit paranoid,

because she thinks I'm going to go with someone else.

It never crossed my mind.

I've waited eight months and been loyal to her, so I don't think

I'm going to muck it up in the last four weeks.

I love her too much.

She means the world to me. If she says yes, I'll be happy as Larry.

Time will tell if Dayna is really keen to make their engagement official.

James has been away from Kerry's flat for days and the whole family feared the worst.

But he's back...

and has started a new relationship.

Bring me some tobacco back.

I want that...

I've got food in my mouth, babe.

'That's Kerry, my girlfriend.'

I've known her for years.

It's just that she was with somebody else and now she's no'.

I've...I've got her now.

She's done nothing but look after me from when I got out.

If it wasnae for her I'd probably be locked up again.

So everything's rosy.

I've never felt so good.

This is the best I've felt in years, honestly.

She gets me, she knows what I'm about.

Instead of other birds trying to take the cunt out of me.

Come back here calmly.

Just don't be getting into trouble.

As an ex-addict herself, James's girlfriend Kerry

knows getting together with him is a risky decision.

I'm bipolar.

I've been off everything for eight years, so...

um, but I've known James for years and I just wanted to take him away from it.

So I am taking him away from it.

Taking him to Girvan.

Kerry is keeping James on the straight and narrow and knows what she's taking on.

Got out of prison. I was 21 and I got out after that full of committal.

I just didn't look back, didn't touch nothing but put on a prescription,

prescription for my mental health problems.

James is going to have to pull it together because I need somebody to look after me because of my illness.

It's, like, you know the way Stacey Slater is in EastEnders?

The part she plays, that's the way.

Up and down, up and down.

If he wants a normal life, then...

he needs to stop all this, so he does.

He's no touched anything like that-wise

and if he does, he knows it's over cos it disgusts me.

I try and tell him after the first few months the more you get,

like your laptops and your phones and

your tellies, the more respect you start to feel for yourself.

The more respect.

Even your enemies start to respect you but a lot of people do try and drag him back in.

Marvin's visiting time is up and he's proposed to Dayna.

Every mental case. She said yes and she put the ring on her finger.

Made me so happy.

My train's at 33 minutes past.

I've got eight minutes to get to the train station. If I miss this, I've got to wait another hour.

Marvin's dreams have all come true

but not missing the train home seems to have become number one priority.

How's that not going in? Eh? What am I doing wrong? Pushing it in.

That's your return, that's Dalmarnock-Glasgow.

Right, catch you later. Right, cheers, mate.

Robert! Right, here I'm coming.

James is back from his shopping trip and against Kerry's advice has bought more alcohol.

Don't argue with me, baby.

I need that pint of milk for my guts.

-Don't argue...

-INDISTINCT

Don't think kissing me will put my soft side out.

Aye, you'll take...

Don't even kid on you've got a soft side.

She doesn't want me to drink but I need it because I'm fucking rough as a badger's.

Trying to hide them from me? Fuck's sake. You're caught. Just sit them down.

Caught blue-handed. Where's the ashtray, bruv?

James, I've never looked this rough.

It's cos of you. Scared to go to sleep.

That's his option, me or the smack.

He seems to be picking me the now.

They just take it cos they want the buzz and everything.

They're just chasing the buzz, but some of them take it to escape the past.

Aye, to escape life, just to escape what's in front of you, all your problems.

It's just a short-term fix.

Marvin and Dayna have at last been reunited as she's just been released from jail.

They've come to Glasgow on a shopping spree for Dayna,

who's over the moon to be free again and back with Marvin.

Good, happy. Relieved that I'm walking back with him.

But it's weird walking back next to him because of the hype.

-Lovely, guys. Thank you ever so much. Enjoy the rest of your day.

-Nice meeting you, pal.

When I've been cutting through to go and visit Dayna, I've been stopped

loads of times, people asking for pictures, but I'm always in a romper stomp.

The happy couple are planning to get his and hers tattoos to celebrate their reunion.

Excuse me, pal. Have you any idea where the tattooist is about here?

No, I cannae see for looking at it.

I'm getting "Dayna" tattooed on the inside of my arm and Dayna's going to... I don't where.

I'm getting Marvin's name somewhere.

I'm thinking about there, right, but then it would fade off.

Thinking about getting it on my neck or the back of my neck or something.

I want it somewhere where people can see.

They just need to find a place that can take them without an appointment.

-On the left or right?

-The right.

-Where's Bullet?

-Oh, I've no' had Bullet for nearly two years, mate.

INDISTINCT Aye, thanks, dear.

-Can I get a picture?

-All right, batter in.

THEY LAUGH

Do any of yous boys know where Terry's Tattooist is?

See yous later.

Even given their new-found popularity,

Marvin and Dayna are having no joy finding a tattoo parlour that can squeeze them in.

After hours on the shopping spree, trouble is brewing.

I don't want to. I don't want to go to Primark.

-I don't want to go this way.

-We're gonnae find Primark.

No, we're going to find the tattoo.

If he's happy then I'm happy and I know the tattoo's going to make him happy. So I'm happy if he's happy.

I know we've no' got time.

But he's thinking of me, wanting me to go get clothes.

A month after getting together, James and Kerry have set up home in a new flat.

But that's not the end of their good news.

It's just a temporary one.

I know what I want but this one's just temporary.

Need to save up, so we will.

No' bad. Will do us the now, eh, baby?

Been here about three weeks or something.

Everything's going pretty well. All right,

bit by bit. We're getting this wee gaff done up.

James is still battling his heroin cravings

but is controlling things with a proper methadone prescription.

Couple of weeks I was out the jail.

I took at bit here and there. I was like that, "This is fucking...

"If I'm gonnae do this, it's gonnae...back to square one."

I'm on my script and that now, so...

He has his good days and his bad days

but I just have to be there and support him as much as I can, knowing what it was like.

We were going to Girvan but it was too far away for James and his mum

because they've got really, really close, cos James has been off the heroin.

Him and his wee brother never had a relationship and now they have.

He'll say it to me on the phone but he'll no' say it to James.

He'll just say, "Tell James I love him."

Although James and Steven have now rebuilt their relationship,

it may be cut short as Steven's assault charge has finally caught up with him.

Having admitted his guilt but failed to show up for social reports

and final sentencing, the outlook is bleak.

My lawyer sent me a letter telling me what my co-accused got and all that and telling me, um...

they'd issued a warrant for me.

I just feel like a pure...dick, like a pure...

Honestly, cos I've got myself in all this trouble, know what I mean?

When it could have been easily sorted.

Could have went and got my reports done. I should have woke up earlier, got my reports done, went to court.

Probably wouldn't even have got the jail, got the community service or something.

But now, I've fucked everything up now.

Steven is expecting the police to come for him

but across town they've just arrested someone else.

Marvin has breached a probation condition by missing a meeting and is on his way to the cells.

Just a day into a new start, Dayna is devastated.

He makes me feel good about myself. He always give me compliments.

He'll do anything for me.

I don't know, I just love everything about him.

Like, most people will say, "Oh, what are you doing with him?" I can do better.

But to me, I cannae do better.

It's no' on the outside, it's what's in the inside.

And I don't think...

I find him attractive

and if I love him then that's all that matters, don't it?

The police arrested Steven and he's now back in jail,

facing a long sentence behind bars.

Chris and Candice fell out and have now separated.

Marvin was released after a night in the cells and he and Dayna are still determined

to make a good life for themselves and get married as soon as possible.

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