Stephen's Story

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0:00:38 > 0:00:40GUARD UNLOCKS DOOR

0:01:00 > 0:01:02SHE SOUNDS IN DISCOMFORT

0:01:02 > 0:01:04DOG WHINES

0:01:48 > 0:01:50DOORBELL RINGS

0:01:59 > 0:02:00- Hello.- Hiya.- Is your dad in?

0:02:00 > 0:02:02Yeah. Yeah.

0:02:03 > 0:02:04Dad?

0:02:06 > 0:02:07FOOTSTEPS

0:02:10 > 0:02:13- Charlotte?- Yes.- Hiya. I'm Peter. - Good to meet you.

0:02:13 > 0:02:15- Thank you.- Nice to meet you.

0:02:19 > 0:02:20This is Stephen.

0:02:20 > 0:02:22Charlotte's going to be looking after your mum for a while.

0:02:22 > 0:02:26- How d'you do, Stephen? - How d'you do?

0:02:26 > 0:02:27- Please, come in.- Thanks.

0:02:36 > 0:02:38ROCK MUSIC PLAYS

0:02:47 > 0:02:52- Hiya.- Hiya. Sorry to hear about your mum.

0:02:52 > 0:02:54Thanks.

0:02:55 > 0:02:59- Can we get two cappuccinos? - Yeah, small, medium or large?

0:02:59 > 0:03:00Large.

0:03:03 > 0:03:06- Right.- Can you bring them over? - Yeah.- Cheers.

0:03:09 > 0:03:10And she's definitely dying?

0:03:11 > 0:03:13Yeah.

0:03:13 > 0:03:16And are you dead sad an' that?

0:03:16 > 0:03:17Yeah.

0:03:18 > 0:03:20- Can I come?- What?

0:03:20 > 0:03:22Can I come to the funeral?

0:03:22 > 0:03:24If you want, yeah.

0:03:29 > 0:03:32- Your mum and dad? - Lanzarote.

0:03:34 > 0:03:36THUNDER RUMBLES

0:03:39 > 0:03:41MOANING

0:03:48 > 0:03:51Now, this puts you in charge, Which is exactly as it should be.

0:03:51 > 0:03:55You feel you need a shot, you give yourself a shot, OK?

0:03:55 > 0:03:57MUM BREATHES SHALLOWLY

0:04:05 > 0:04:08My advice is plead guilty and ask the judge for a psychiatric report upon yourself.

0:04:08 > 0:04:10No. No way.

0:04:11 > 0:04:12Will a report do any good?

0:04:12 > 0:04:14- I'm not mad. - Can't do any harm.

0:04:14 > 0:04:16- Will it help reduce his sentence?- No.

0:04:16 > 0:04:18- It might.- It won't.

0:04:18 > 0:04:21Say nothing, the judge gives me x number of years,

0:04:21 > 0:04:22I do them and come out.

0:04:22 > 0:04:26Say I'm mad, he puts me in hospital and I stay there

0:04:26 > 0:04:30till I can prove that I'm not mad and that could be forever. Yeah?

0:04:32 > 0:04:33Peter...

0:04:38 > 0:04:39We say nothing.

0:04:41 > 0:04:46- I think I want to raise this with the judge.- I don't want you to represent me any more.

0:04:54 > 0:04:56(I think we should go get the boys.)

0:04:56 > 0:04:59- (They're whispering to each other.) - (Eh?)

0:04:59 > 0:05:00Shh, shh.

0:05:02 > 0:05:05(What'd she say?)

0:05:05 > 0:05:07- (Ste...)- (She's coming.)

0:05:12 > 0:05:14I think you should join your father.

0:05:17 > 0:05:18Is she going to die?

0:05:19 > 0:05:21She hasn't got very long.

0:05:23 > 0:05:24DOM STARTS TO CRY

0:05:29 > 0:05:31Come on. Come join your father.

0:05:31 > 0:05:33No.

0:05:33 > 0:05:35It's a chance to say goodbye.

0:05:41 > 0:05:43Do you like your job?

0:05:44 > 0:05:46Yes.

0:05:46 > 0:05:47You buzz on it, yeah?

0:05:49 > 0:05:50Yes.

0:05:50 > 0:05:52Watching other people die.

0:05:55 > 0:05:59Other people that other people love.

0:05:59 > 0:06:01No-one you love, of course.

0:06:02 > 0:06:04I'd be angry too, Stephen.

0:06:04 > 0:06:08- You gave her that thing. - Syringe drive.- Yeah. That's why she's dying so soon.

0:06:08 > 0:06:11- You'd' have kept it from her? - Yeah, I would.

0:06:11 > 0:06:15If you'd done that, she wouldn't be dying today, you're right.

0:06:15 > 0:06:17She'd be dying tomorrow. In pain.

0:06:19 > 0:06:22Pain caused by the fact that...

0:06:22 > 0:06:25That you love her, you want to hang on to her.

0:06:25 > 0:06:27I don't love her like you do, no.

0:06:29 > 0:06:31But that helps me do the right thing.

0:06:38 > 0:06:40I'm sorry.

0:06:40 > 0:06:41Sorry.

0:06:43 > 0:06:44- Come on. Come and say goodbye.- No.

0:06:46 > 0:06:47No.

0:06:47 > 0:06:50You'll regret it.

0:06:54 > 0:06:56No.

0:07:18 > 0:07:19DOG PANTS

0:07:19 > 0:07:21DOG BARKS

0:07:21 > 0:07:22MUFFLED MALE VOICE

0:07:22 > 0:07:23RADIO STATIC

0:07:26 > 0:07:28Urgh!

0:07:28 > 0:07:30SOUND OF GLASS BREAKING

0:07:30 > 0:07:32- FEMALE VOICE:- Stephen!

0:07:33 > 0:07:34Stephen!

0:07:34 > 0:07:35CACOPHONY OF VOICES

0:07:35 > 0:07:38CHARLOTTE'S VOICE: Feel you need a shot? Give yourself a shot.

0:07:38 > 0:07:41Feel you need a shot? Give yourself a shot.

0:07:55 > 0:07:59- PRIEST:- Lord Jesus, our redeemer.

0:07:59 > 0:08:01You willingly gave yourself up to death

0:08:01 > 0:08:07so that all might be saved and passed from death to life.

0:08:07 > 0:08:12We humbly ask you to comfort your servants in their grief

0:08:12 > 0:08:16and to receive Catherine Jane into the arms of your mercy.

0:08:16 > 0:08:22You alone are the holy one. You are mercy itself,

0:08:22 > 0:08:28By dying, unlock the gates of life for those that believe in you.

0:08:28 > 0:08:31Forgive Catherine Jane her sins...

0:08:31 > 0:08:33ELECTRICITY BUZZES

0:08:43 > 0:08:46GUESTS CHATTER

0:09:14 > 0:09:16Look, it gets to you, something like this.

0:09:16 > 0:09:20Gets to you in here, gets to you in here. OK?

0:09:20 > 0:09:23So we look out for each other, yeah? Yeah?

0:09:23 > 0:09:24Yeah.

0:09:25 > 0:09:29That means if Dom's not coping, you come and tell me, yeah?

0:09:31 > 0:09:33And the same with Stephen, yeah?

0:09:33 > 0:09:34- Yeah.- Right?- Right.

0:09:37 > 0:09:38Just ourselves.

0:09:39 > 0:09:41Nobody else involved.

0:09:41 > 0:09:44Just ourselves. Right?

0:09:44 > 0:09:46Just ourselves.

0:09:46 > 0:09:49DOM QUIETLY SOBS

0:10:23 > 0:10:24'Stephen...'

0:10:24 > 0:10:26WHISPERING

0:10:32 > 0:10:34WHISPERING GETS LOUDER

0:10:39 > 0:10:41SOUND OF HELICOPTER

0:10:42 > 0:10:45SOUND OF HELICOPTER GETS LOUDER

0:10:47 > 0:10:48WHISPERING CONTINUES

0:10:50 > 0:10:52SOUND OF HELICOPTER EVEN LOUDER

0:10:58 > 0:11:00POLICE SIRENS

0:11:01 > 0:11:03CHATTER AND LAUGHTER

0:11:15 > 0:11:16Thank you. Hi, Stephen.

0:11:16 > 0:11:19Hiya, Liv. Can I have a Coke, please.

0:11:27 > 0:11:32My dad died when I was 15. So I do know how you're feeling.

0:11:32 > 0:11:36It's like you go out because you need some company,

0:11:36 > 0:11:39but then when you're out, you can't be even arsed,

0:11:39 > 0:11:41and everything just seems irrelevant,

0:11:41 > 0:11:46because the person you most loved in this whole world isn't here any more.

0:11:46 > 0:11:48What is it with you lot?

0:11:48 > 0:11:51I've been trying to figure out why someone dying turns you all on.

0:11:51 > 0:11:52What?

0:11:52 > 0:11:55I think it's because there's no genuine emotion in your own lives,

0:11:55 > 0:11:57so when you see it in someone else's yous want to share it.

0:11:57 > 0:11:59So, OK, you can.

0:11:59 > 0:12:02When we finish here, right, we can go back to yours,

0:12:02 > 0:12:05and I'll open my heart and we'll have a cry and a good shag.

0:12:05 > 0:12:08Is that how you imagined it, Liv? Was there a soundtrack as well?

0:12:08 > 0:12:12Fix You by Coldplay or Robbie Williams even.

0:12:12 > 0:12:14Fuck you.

0:12:24 > 0:12:27If he gets this... No, he can't really do it.

0:12:27 > 0:12:30He cannot do it. He'll be unbearable again.

0:12:30 > 0:12:32BOYS: Ohhhh!

0:12:32 > 0:12:35They're all wondering can the veteran do it again?

0:12:35 > 0:12:38Can he teach these two young upstarts

0:12:38 > 0:12:40the true meaning of the word class?

0:12:40 > 0:12:42Who's the daddy?

0:12:45 > 0:12:47Surely not, surely not.

0:12:48 > 0:12:49Ah!

0:12:50 > 0:12:52Look at that!

0:12:52 > 0:12:56All right. Yeah, yeah, yeah.

0:13:11 > 0:13:13HE WHISPERS: Stephen.

0:13:13 > 0:13:15Stephen. Ste!

0:13:15 > 0:13:18- What?- Wake up and see. Come and see.

0:13:18 > 0:13:22Come and see. Come on.

0:13:22 > 0:13:23Now.

0:13:23 > 0:13:25MOANING AND PANTING

0:13:33 > 0:13:36Who do you think she is?

0:13:37 > 0:13:38Some slapper.

0:13:43 > 0:13:45MOANING AND PANTING CONTINUES

0:13:52 > 0:13:54WOMAN'S MOANING GETS LOUDER

0:13:58 > 0:14:00WOMAN LAUGHS

0:14:00 > 0:14:03So what do you do for lunch then? >

0:14:03 > 0:14:05- STEPHEN'S FATHER:- We've got a can lad,

0:14:05 > 0:14:07and that's his priority to find a chippy or a cafe.

0:14:07 > 0:14:10- No healthy eating then? - What about you?

0:14:10 > 0:14:12Packed lunch. I always have a packed lunch.

0:14:12 > 0:14:15I never know where I'm going to be, you see. Could be somewhere remote.

0:14:15 > 0:14:20Could be somewhere where you wouldn't trust anyone with food. And it's miles cheaper, of course.

0:14:20 > 0:14:22Cheaper and healthier.

0:14:28 > 0:14:30You remember Charlotte?

0:14:30 > 0:14:31Yeah.

0:14:32 > 0:14:34- Hello, Stephen.- Hiya.

0:14:34 > 0:14:39- I was hoping to be gone before you got up, I'm sorry.- I couldn't sleep.

0:14:39 > 0:14:40See you.

0:14:40 > 0:14:43- No, I'll see you to your car. - No, no. I'm fine.

0:14:43 > 0:14:46No, I'll... I'll see you to your car.

0:14:46 > 0:14:48DOOR SLAMS CLOSED

0:14:58 > 0:15:00What's she like?

0:15:00 > 0:15:02Come and see.

0:15:08 > 0:15:10It's the nurse.

0:15:10 > 0:15:11Yeah.

0:15:12 > 0:15:14That's mad.

0:15:17 > 0:15:18CAR STARTS

0:15:37 > 0:15:38In here.

0:15:46 > 0:15:47Sit down.

0:15:55 > 0:15:57I'm going to ask her to move in with us.

0:15:57 > 0:15:59You OK with that?

0:16:02 > 0:16:03It's too soon.

0:16:06 > 0:16:07Too soon for who?

0:16:13 > 0:16:15It's a tribute to your mother.

0:16:15 > 0:16:18What I had with your mother, I want to have again.

0:16:18 > 0:16:20There's no greater compliment. She'd understand...

0:16:20 > 0:16:22It's not a compliment.

0:16:22 > 0:16:24It's not a compliment and it's not a tribute,

0:16:24 > 0:16:26and to say it is is to talk absolute shite

0:16:26 > 0:16:29because all we've got of Mum is her memory.

0:16:29 > 0:16:31That's all we've got.

0:16:31 > 0:16:33And you should respect it and treasure it,

0:16:33 > 0:16:36and you don't respect it by pulling some bloody slapper

0:16:36 > 0:16:39- when she's only been dead a few months.- She's not a slapper!

0:16:42 > 0:16:43She's not a slapper, right?

0:16:45 > 0:16:46Right.

0:16:48 > 0:16:52You think your Mum would want me to be alone?

0:16:52 > 0:16:54Do you think that woman

0:16:54 > 0:16:57would want me to spend the rest of my days alone?

0:17:06 > 0:17:07'Too soon...'

0:17:09 > 0:17:11It's too soon.

0:17:33 > 0:17:34Oh, God.

0:17:34 > 0:17:36It'll be fine.

0:18:11 > 0:18:15- Hiya.- Hi.- All right?

0:18:17 > 0:18:19- Tea?- Please.

0:18:20 > 0:18:22DOG GROWLS

0:18:22 > 0:18:24DOG BARKS

0:18:29 > 0:18:31DOG WHIMPERS

0:18:34 > 0:18:37It's just a trial run. All right?

0:18:37 > 0:18:42I've kept my place on so, if it all goes tits up, I've got somewhere to retreat. OK?

0:18:44 > 0:18:46- OK, Stephen?- Yeah.

0:18:48 > 0:18:52I'll do most of the cooking. Not all of it, most of it.

0:18:52 > 0:18:55And when I do, you can wash up, yeah?

0:18:55 > 0:18:57No ironing. I don't do ironing.

0:18:57 > 0:19:00So if you want anything ironed, you do it yourself

0:19:00 > 0:19:02or find the money to pay for it. OK?

0:19:02 > 0:19:04DOG GROWLS

0:19:04 > 0:19:05We try and make this work, yeah?

0:19:08 > 0:19:10- Stephen?- Yeah.

0:19:15 > 0:19:17GLASS BREAKS

0:19:26 > 0:19:29Why did you smash up your telly?

0:19:30 > 0:19:32They were talking about me.

0:19:34 > 0:19:38- The people on the telly were talking about you?- Yeah.

0:19:38 > 0:19:39Right...

0:19:43 > 0:19:46- I thought he was better.- He is. He's fine. Come on.

0:19:49 > 0:19:52So your dad was saying you were really bright at school.

0:19:52 > 0:19:53Why didn't you stay on?

0:19:53 > 0:19:55We were saying you could always go back,

0:19:55 > 0:19:57find a couple of A levels that you liked.

0:19:59 > 0:20:02Needn't be your old school either. You could pick any one.

0:20:02 > 0:20:06Needn't even be a school. College or night school.

0:20:06 > 0:20:08You could carry on working and do them at night school

0:20:08 > 0:20:12- if you fancied that. Yeah?- Yeah.

0:20:15 > 0:20:18Cos your dad was saying that you never really talk about your job.

0:20:18 > 0:20:20Your heart doesn't seem to be in your it.

0:20:20 > 0:20:23So if you think that leaving school was a mistake,

0:20:23 > 0:20:25you can always correct it.

0:20:25 > 0:20:28That's if you fancy it. Do you fancy it?

0:20:32 > 0:20:34You could do German.

0:20:34 > 0:20:38Your dad said you were always pretty... Fuck it!

0:20:38 > 0:20:41Yes, I'm drinking too much and I'm talking too much. And you know why?

0:20:41 > 0:20:43Cos I'm the only one making the effort.

0:20:43 > 0:20:47I think that is unfair. So bloody insensitive.

0:20:55 > 0:20:59- What?- We said we were going to try. - I am trying.

0:20:59 > 0:21:01HE SCOFFS: You're treating her like crap.

0:21:01 > 0:21:04- She's pissed.- She's just told you why she's pissed.

0:21:07 > 0:21:10We have to try, yeah?

0:21:10 > 0:21:14We agreed, otherwise this is going to be a total nightmare.

0:21:14 > 0:21:18- Do you like her? - That doesn't matter.

0:21:18 > 0:21:20Do you think she's someone Mum would've liked?

0:21:22 > 0:21:23Does it matter?

0:21:23 > 0:21:25It matters.

0:22:14 > 0:22:16Hello, Stephen.

0:22:18 > 0:22:21You're chucking the mattress out?

0:22:21 > 0:22:23Yeah.

0:22:23 > 0:22:24Cos Mum died on it?

0:22:25 > 0:22:29- Yeah.- Well, that's why I want to keep it.

0:22:29 > 0:22:30Cos Mum died on it.

0:22:30 > 0:22:33Look, it's not just that your Mum died on it. It's also because...

0:22:33 > 0:22:37We should've spoken to you about it and we didn't. Sorry.

0:22:37 > 0:22:41We can't bring your mother back but we'll respect her memory.

0:22:41 > 0:22:44I know it's important that you have everything you need to remember her by,

0:22:44 > 0:22:47but please, Stephen, for me,

0:22:47 > 0:22:50just this one thing for me, not the mattress.

0:22:50 > 0:22:52OK?

0:22:57 > 0:22:58Thanks.

0:23:04 > 0:23:06HE MOUTHS

0:23:39 > 0:23:42'"Never quite there." What exactly do you mean by "Never quite there"?

0:23:42 > 0:23:47'If you're saying there's something wrong with my son, there isn't. It's you. You bore for England.

0:23:47 > 0:23:50'You're the worst teacher on the planet. He's never quite there

0:23:50 > 0:23:52'because your maths class is like watching paint dry.

0:23:52 > 0:23:55'Nobody in your maths class is ever quite there.'

0:23:55 > 0:23:57CHILD'S LAUGHTER

0:24:04 > 0:24:06Sorry.

0:24:07 > 0:24:08I was a bit...

0:24:08 > 0:24:13Listen. I don't mind the rudeness. I will put that down to the grief,.

0:24:13 > 0:24:17But what I do mind, what really sticks in my craw,

0:24:17 > 0:24:19is the suggestion, no, the bloody bare-faced accusation,

0:24:19 > 0:24:21that I would ever,

0:24:21 > 0:24:24EVER, listen to Coldplay.

0:24:32 > 0:24:34You don't look like a footballer.

0:24:34 > 0:24:36You can't go by that. Wayne Rooney looks like a binman.

0:24:36 > 0:24:40- SHE LAUGHS: So what position? - Up front.

0:24:40 > 0:24:43- There's only one thing stopped me playing for City.- What's that?

0:24:43 > 0:24:45I'm shite.

0:24:47 > 0:24:53- This is mine.- Flat?- Yeah. - Your own?- Yeah.

0:24:54 > 0:24:58I bet you wish you hadn't been so rude to me now. Hm?

0:25:00 > 0:25:01Yeah.

0:25:19 > 0:25:21Call me, yeah?

0:25:24 > 0:25:25OK.

0:26:21 > 0:26:24- That was nice.- Thanks.

0:26:26 > 0:26:28Yeah, nice one.

0:26:28 > 0:26:32- Thanks. Your turn to wash up. - I'll do them later.

0:26:32 > 0:26:33I'd sooner you did them now, Stephen.

0:26:33 > 0:26:36Well, I've got to cover for someone in work.

0:26:36 > 0:26:38- When?- Eight.

0:26:38 > 0:26:41- That gives you time.- No, I've got to make some calls as well.

0:26:41 > 0:26:44- And the calls take priority?- Yeah.

0:26:44 > 0:26:47I'm sorry, I don't like that.

0:26:47 > 0:26:50- What difference does it make when I do them?- I'll do them. - No, you won't.

0:26:50 > 0:26:54- It makes a lot of difference. Do them after work, you'll be tired. - Don't worry about me.

0:26:54 > 0:26:57I'm not worrying about you. Do them tired and you won't do them properly.

0:26:57 > 0:27:01- Your dad'll be home soon. He doesn't want to eat dinner surrounded by mess.- I'll tidy them up.

0:27:01 > 0:27:04- That's not good enough, I'm afraid. - Well, it always used to be.

0:27:04 > 0:27:06It's not now. Your dad's just done a hard day's work

0:27:06 > 0:27:09to feed and shelter you and you're quite happy for him to eat in shit?

0:27:09 > 0:27:11- In shit...?- That is a lack of respect for your father.

0:27:11 > 0:27:14More than a lack of respect - it's contempt.

0:27:14 > 0:27:15It's a few pots and pans. It's not shit.

0:27:15 > 0:27:19- Did your mother allow it? - Leave my mother out of this.

0:27:19 > 0:27:23I can't, I'm afraid, cos when you act like a spoilt child it reflects on how she's brought you up

0:27:23 > 0:27:25and I think you should be aware of that.

0:27:25 > 0:27:27- I don't want you talking about my mother! - PLATES CLATTER

0:27:27 > 0:27:30You've got a responsibility to your mother's memory.

0:27:30 > 0:27:33Everything you do reflects on her. Good or bad, it reflects on her!

0:28:32 > 0:28:34Tea?

0:28:34 > 0:28:37Nice one, Ste. Ta.

0:28:40 > 0:28:43- Here we go.- Cheers, lad.

0:28:48 > 0:28:50Any good?

0:28:51 > 0:28:53Not bad.

0:28:58 > 0:29:00Sorry, by the way.

0:29:00 > 0:29:04- What for? - Leaving the dishes till now.

0:29:04 > 0:29:06No problem.

0:29:15 > 0:29:18- Jenks, come on.- Where are you going?

0:29:18 > 0:29:21- Taking Jenks out for a walk. - Now? It's midnight.

0:29:21 > 0:29:25- I'm fine.- I'll come with you. - No, you won't. Come on, boy.

0:29:37 > 0:29:40TV CHATTERS

0:29:46 > 0:29:48ECHOING VOICE: I've been watching that bitch.

0:29:48 > 0:29:51I've been studying her very, very closely.

0:29:51 > 0:29:55She's a crafty cow, Stephen. You need to watch your back,

0:29:55 > 0:29:59and your dad's back, of course. She'll blame everything on the illness

0:29:59 > 0:30:02because she knows you've got her sussed.

0:30:02 > 0:30:04This is her way out.

0:30:04 > 0:30:07"The poor boy's sick, the poor boy's deluded."

0:30:07 > 0:30:09So what do you say?

0:30:09 > 0:30:11You say it's Catch-22, isn't it?

0:30:11 > 0:30:14Things happen that drive people mad.

0:30:14 > 0:30:18You tell them, but they don't believe you because you're mad.

0:30:18 > 0:30:22Pete! Pete! I couldn't do anything... >

0:30:22 > 0:30:24- Aw, Jenks... - What happened? Lie him down.

0:30:24 > 0:30:27- A car hit him... - Move, move! Lay him down.

0:30:27 > 0:30:29I tried to stop him running out, but he just...

0:30:29 > 0:30:32- Stephen, ring the vet. - He's OK, he's OK.- Now!

0:30:32 > 0:30:35- Jenks? Jenks? - Oh, he's just bleeding.

0:30:35 > 0:30:40- Aw, there's blood everywhere. CRYING:- I'm sorry.- Are you OK?

0:30:40 > 0:30:42- He's still breathing. - He'll be all right.

0:30:42 > 0:30:47- Oh, God...- Jenks. Jenks. Stephen! Call the bleeding vet!

0:30:47 > 0:30:49I'm looking for a number!

0:30:59 > 0:31:01They did all that they could.

0:31:05 > 0:31:07I'm so sorry.

0:31:07 > 0:31:09I wish I could have stopped it.

0:31:14 > 0:31:16What make of car was it?

0:31:18 > 0:31:20I don't know.

0:31:20 > 0:31:22What did the driver say?

0:31:22 > 0:31:25- I can't remember. - So he said something?

0:31:25 > 0:31:28- Yeah.- So he must've jammed on?- Yeah.

0:31:28 > 0:31:32- Well, was he angry because he had to jam on the brakes? - What are you going on about?

0:31:38 > 0:31:40SHE SOBS

0:31:52 > 0:31:53Bye, Jenks.

0:31:54 > 0:31:56Can we get another one?

0:31:56 > 0:31:59I don't think that's a very good idea.

0:31:59 > 0:32:01Why not?

0:32:01 > 0:32:05You get kids pets so it can be their first experience of loss.

0:32:05 > 0:32:07You've had enough in your lives.

0:32:13 > 0:32:15Yeah, let's leave it, eh, lads?

0:32:20 > 0:32:23- 'Where?' - Here. I think it's food poisoning.

0:32:23 > 0:32:26- You vomiting?- No.

0:32:26 > 0:32:28Then it's not food poisoning.

0:32:30 > 0:32:33You're sweating.

0:32:33 > 0:32:35It's hot.

0:32:35 > 0:32:36It isn't.

0:32:38 > 0:32:40Are you stressed?

0:32:41 > 0:32:43Yeah.

0:32:43 > 0:32:45More than last time?

0:32:46 > 0:32:48Yeah.

0:32:50 > 0:32:53Why do you think that is?

0:32:56 > 0:32:58My dog died.

0:32:59 > 0:33:01You wish to represent yourself?

0:33:03 > 0:33:06- Yes, your honour. - I'm willing to adjourn,

0:33:06 > 0:33:09to give you time to find a new counsel.

0:33:09 > 0:33:12No, thank you, your honour.

0:33:14 > 0:33:18Would you like time to talk it over with your father?

0:33:22 > 0:33:24No, thank you, your honour.

0:33:25 > 0:33:26KNOCK AT DOOR

0:33:36 > 0:33:39You OK?

0:33:39 > 0:33:40No.

0:33:43 > 0:33:45- Stomach again?- Yeah.

0:34:04 > 0:34:07So, have you got a girl?

0:34:12 > 0:34:15What's her name?

0:34:15 > 0:34:17Olivia.

0:34:20 > 0:34:22Have you, er...?

0:34:24 > 0:34:26No.

0:34:26 > 0:34:28Why not?

0:34:32 > 0:34:35Have you tried?

0:34:35 > 0:34:37No.

0:34:37 > 0:34:39A girl likes a trier.

0:34:47 > 0:34:51Look, I'll never love you like your mother did.

0:34:51 > 0:34:53And you'll never love me that way either.

0:34:55 > 0:34:57But it doesn't mean we can't get along.

0:34:59 > 0:35:01Yeah?

0:35:02 > 0:35:03Yeah.

0:35:05 > 0:35:06So we'll try, yeah?

0:35:08 > 0:35:11We'll try again?

0:35:11 > 0:35:13A little harder.

0:35:18 > 0:35:20Yeah, right.

0:35:27 > 0:35:29Anything you want to say?

0:35:32 > 0:35:35What? What is it?

0:35:38 > 0:35:40When you were looking after Mum...

0:35:42 > 0:35:44..did you fancy Dad?

0:35:46 > 0:35:48- Truth?- Yeah.

0:35:50 > 0:35:51Yeah.

0:35:54 > 0:35:56Did he fancy you?

0:35:56 > 0:35:59No. No.

0:36:02 > 0:36:04What?

0:36:05 > 0:36:07You think he did?

0:36:16 > 0:36:19- Did you kill our dog?- What?!

0:36:19 > 0:36:21Did you kill our dog?

0:36:21 > 0:36:23No!

0:36:23 > 0:36:27Oh, for God's sake! Fucking hell!

0:36:35 > 0:36:39'I've been watching that bitch, you need to watch your back

0:36:39 > 0:36:42'and your dad's back, of course.

0:36:42 > 0:36:44'I've been studying her very, very closely.

0:36:47 > 0:36:49'She's a crafty cow, Stephen.'

0:36:56 > 0:36:59- What are you doing?- Swapping.

0:36:59 > 0:37:03- I gave that one to your dad.- Well, he likes the fatty ones. I don't.

0:37:03 > 0:37:05Put them back.

0:37:05 > 0:37:07- What?- Put them back.

0:37:18 > 0:37:21- What's the problem?- Nothing.

0:37:21 > 0:37:25- Do you want to swap?- If you... - I don't want you to swap, right?

0:37:28 > 0:37:29Right.

0:37:34 > 0:37:37- What are you doing? - I'm not eating it.

0:37:37 > 0:37:41- Aw, Stephen...- For God's sake! - Stephen, stop!

0:37:41 > 0:37:44Give me it! Give me it. Here.

0:37:50 > 0:37:52Thank you.

0:37:59 > 0:38:02RAISED VOICES NEXT DOOR

0:38:05 > 0:38:08- NEXT DOOR:- Now he thinks I'm poisoning him.

0:38:08 > 0:38:12- That boy is ill.- No, he's not.

0:38:13 > 0:38:17- INDISTINCT WHISPERING - ..poison him? He's lost the plot.

0:38:17 > 0:38:20He needs to see a doctor. He needs sectioning.

0:38:20 > 0:38:24- WHISPERING GROWS LOUDER - I'm not going to section my own son.

0:38:34 > 0:38:37- Dom, have you seen me phone?- No.

0:38:37 > 0:38:40- Have you been using it? - I've got me own.

0:38:41 > 0:38:46It's all right, you can all stop searching so frantically now.

0:38:46 > 0:38:47Thanks.

0:38:49 > 0:38:50What is it?

0:38:51 > 0:38:55- What?- What are you looking at me like that for?

0:38:56 > 0:38:58Like what?

0:38:59 > 0:39:03- See you, boys.- See you later.

0:39:03 > 0:39:06- Yeah, I'll see you later.- See you.

0:39:13 > 0:39:16SHE SCREAMS

0:39:16 > 0:39:18INDISTINCT WHISPERING

0:39:21 > 0:39:24SHE SCREAMS

0:39:24 > 0:39:27WHISPERING GROWS LOUDER

0:39:27 > 0:39:30SHE MOANS IN DISTRESS

0:39:37 > 0:39:39She did all the things a good nurse does.

0:39:39 > 0:39:43Mopped her fevered brow and gave her medicine and wiped her arse

0:39:43 > 0:39:45and all the time she's doing that, she's thinking,

0:39:45 > 0:39:49"I'm shagging your husband. And when you die, he's mine. All mine."

0:39:49 > 0:39:53And then Mum gets really sick, she can't talk,

0:39:53 > 0:39:55so she stops just thinking it - she tells her it.

0:39:55 > 0:39:59"I'm shagging your husband, and when you die he's mine. All mine."

0:39:59 > 0:40:02And then Mum's last few days being looked after

0:40:02 > 0:40:06by this bitch who hates her. This bitch who's killing her,

0:40:06 > 0:40:10this bitch who's pumping her full of morphine to speed her on her way

0:40:10 > 0:40:15and smiling at Dad and talking about easing the pain. This bitch who's...

0:40:23 > 0:40:25Can I see you when I finish?

0:40:28 > 0:40:30Please.

0:40:32 > 0:40:35OK.

0:40:35 > 0:40:37I'll see you later.

0:40:42 > 0:40:44POLICE SIRENS WAIL

0:41:06 > 0:41:09Wait...

0:41:09 > 0:41:11Stop it!

0:41:11 > 0:41:13What are you doing?!

0:41:13 > 0:41:15A girl likes a trier.

0:41:15 > 0:41:16No, she doesn't.

0:41:18 > 0:41:20She doesn't.

0:41:22 > 0:41:24She's poisoning me.

0:41:25 > 0:41:26Who?

0:41:29 > 0:41:33The bitch. She's poisoning me.

0:41:34 > 0:41:36You need help, Stephen.

0:41:36 > 0:41:38Help?

0:41:39 > 0:41:40With this.

0:41:54 > 0:41:57You're going to argue that the attack was justified?

0:41:57 > 0:42:01- That you were defending your brother?- Yes.

0:42:01 > 0:42:03And that's your only defence?

0:42:03 > 0:42:04Yes.

0:42:04 > 0:42:09Then I have to tell you that such a defence is likely to fail.

0:42:11 > 0:42:13It's still true.

0:42:16 > 0:42:18Right. Bring the jury in.

0:42:37 > 0:42:39DOOR LATCH CLICKS

0:42:40 > 0:42:42GIGGLING

0:42:48 > 0:42:50Oh, Jesus.

0:42:50 > 0:42:53FURNITURE THUMPS

0:42:53 > 0:42:56Call the police.

0:43:01 > 0:43:04Be careful, Peter. Police, please.

0:43:04 > 0:43:06FURNITURE CLATTERS

0:43:09 > 0:43:12- What are you doing?! - Sorry to have bothered you.

0:43:12 > 0:43:14- Where is it?- We don't need you.

0:43:14 > 0:43:17- Where's what?- The poison!

0:43:17 > 0:43:20I'm sorry, but you've got to do something, Pete.

0:43:20 > 0:43:23- Look at him! He's crazy! - Just give us a minute, will ya?

0:43:24 > 0:43:26Stephen.

0:43:27 > 0:43:29Stephen!

0:43:30 > 0:43:33I'm sorry, son, but I'm going to have to put you in hospital.

0:43:37 > 0:43:42God knows, I don't want to do it, but you need help.

0:43:44 > 0:43:46I've been smoking a lot of dope since Mum died.

0:43:46 > 0:43:49I'll stop that and I'll be OK. I promise.

0:43:52 > 0:43:55I'll be OK. I promise.

0:44:17 > 0:44:20- DOOR CLOSES - Stephen?

0:44:26 > 0:44:30Listen, I know that you and Charlotte haven't been getting on

0:44:30 > 0:44:33very well lately and that's fair enough. I'm not knocking you for it.

0:44:33 > 0:44:35I just think that part of the reason might be

0:44:35 > 0:44:39that you don't see her as a permanent fixture in my life -

0:44:39 > 0:44:41then there's no need to try.

0:44:41 > 0:44:44So I was thinking it might be better all round

0:44:44 > 0:44:48- if we give her more of a permanent place in all our lives.- No, no.

0:44:48 > 0:44:50What?

0:44:52 > 0:44:54You're marrying her.

0:44:56 > 0:44:58Yeah.

0:45:17 > 0:45:19HORN HONKS

0:45:21 > 0:45:23HORN HONKS

0:45:25 > 0:45:27HORN HONKS

0:45:37 > 0:45:39Twat!

0:45:40 > 0:45:43- Change it. - It's the only one I've got.

0:45:43 > 0:45:46- Wear one of mine.- Don't want to.

0:45:46 > 0:45:48- It's a wedding, not a funeral. Change it.- No.

0:45:48 > 0:45:51Take it off or I'll take it off for you.

0:45:51 > 0:45:54You're not wearing a black tie, you self-indulgent little prick!

0:45:54 > 0:45:57Your loss is no greater than Dom's and he's coping!

0:45:57 > 0:46:00It's no greater than his and it's certainly no greater than mine!

0:46:00 > 0:46:04The only thing that's greater is your...selfishness, your ego,

0:46:04 > 0:46:07- your fucking self-absorption! - She's a slag!- What?!

0:46:07 > 0:46:10She's a slag and you and her were doing it while Mum was dying.

0:46:10 > 0:46:14- Doing what?- Sex. You and the slag, while Mum was dying.

0:46:14 > 0:46:16HE WHIMPERS

0:46:20 > 0:46:24So that the Lord may seal and strengthen your love

0:46:24 > 0:46:30in the presence of the Church's minister and this community.

0:46:30 > 0:46:33Christ abundantly blesses this love.

0:46:33 > 0:46:35LITURGY GROWS MUFFLED

0:46:35 > 0:46:36WHISPERING

0:46:36 > 0:46:38WHISPERING GROWS LOUDER

0:46:52 > 0:46:56..and so, in the presence of the Church,

0:46:56 > 0:46:59I ask you to state your intentions.

0:47:18 > 0:47:20I want you to apologise.

0:47:21 > 0:47:23No.

0:47:23 > 0:47:26In that case, I want your key.

0:47:26 > 0:47:29- You want my key?- I want your key.

0:47:29 > 0:47:32- You're throwing me out? - Stephen, just apologise. Please.

0:47:32 > 0:47:35- Where am I supposed to go? - I want your key.

0:47:37 > 0:47:40Because of what I said? But it's true.

0:47:40 > 0:47:42This is his home. Dad, Dad, you can't...

0:47:42 > 0:47:45- I want your key! - It's all right Dom, it's OK.

0:47:53 > 0:47:54She killed Mum.

0:47:54 > 0:47:58She got a bit impatient waiting for her to die so she upped the dose.

0:47:58 > 0:48:01She killed Jenks.

0:48:01 > 0:48:03And she'll kill Dom.

0:48:06 > 0:48:08I want your key.

0:48:18 > 0:48:20Don't eat anything she cooks.

0:48:21 > 0:48:23Ste... Stephen... Ste!

0:48:25 > 0:48:27DOOR SLAMS

0:48:58 > 0:49:00What d'you want?

0:49:00 > 0:49:02You said to come round.

0:49:02 > 0:49:05Yeah. Round. Not in.

0:49:05 > 0:49:06I'm freezing my bollocks off here.

0:49:10 > 0:49:15I'll let you come in if you promise to go the doctor's in the morning.

0:49:15 > 0:49:17There's nothing wrong with me.

0:49:18 > 0:49:21But there will be if your bollocks drop off.

0:49:24 > 0:49:26CANNED LAUGHTER ECHOES

0:49:30 > 0:49:32OK.

0:49:41 > 0:49:42Ste!

0:49:44 > 0:49:45Have you been the doctor's?

0:49:46 > 0:49:47- Yeah.- Why?

0:49:47 > 0:49:50- Get in Dom.- Dom. Dom, why?

0:49:56 > 0:49:58Hey!

0:50:02 > 0:50:04Hey! Fuck.

0:50:06 > 0:50:09'Would you like to see someone? Someone who could help.'

0:50:09 > 0:50:11- A psychiatrist? - If that's what you'd like.

0:50:11 > 0:50:16No, he'd put me away. And I need to be around to look after Dom.

0:50:16 > 0:50:18How can you take care of him when you're not living there?

0:50:20 > 0:50:22What was wrong with him?

0:50:22 > 0:50:24Oh, I can't tell you that, I'm sorry.

0:50:24 > 0:50:28- His stomach? How is he? - I can't tell you that.

0:50:28 > 0:50:30- I want to talk to Dom. - 'Who is this?'

0:50:30 > 0:50:33- It's ME. Put him on. - 'Can't, I'm afraid.'

0:50:34 > 0:50:36Why are you answering his mobile?

0:50:37 > 0:50:39I'll tell him you phoned.

0:51:07 > 0:51:09DOORBELL RINGS PERSISTENTLY

0:51:09 > 0:51:12DOOR BANGS

0:51:24 > 0:51:27- What d'you want? - I want to talk to Dom.

0:51:27 > 0:51:30- You can't.- I need to talk to Dom? - You can't!- Why not?

0:51:30 > 0:51:32- Cos he's having a lie down.- Why?

0:51:32 > 0:51:34Cos he's not well.

0:51:34 > 0:51:36What's wrong with him?

0:51:36 > 0:51:38It's just an upset stomach.

0:51:41 > 0:51:44Look, just go away. Go away, son.

0:51:44 > 0:51:47No, I want to see him! I want to see him and I...

0:51:47 > 0:51:49Just go away! Just go away or I'll have to phone the police!

0:51:49 > 0:51:52You'll phone the police? OK.

0:52:00 > 0:52:02Police, please.

0:52:03 > 0:52:05There you go.

0:52:05 > 0:52:08I was getting pain in my guts all the time,

0:52:08 > 0:52:12but I stopped eating her food and the pain stopped, too.

0:52:12 > 0:52:15Dom's still eating it and he's still getting pain

0:52:15 > 0:52:18so it doesn't take a genius to work out what's going on.

0:52:18 > 0:52:20Dom?

0:52:24 > 0:52:28I've got a bug, Stephen, and I... And I caught it off you.

0:52:28 > 0:52:30That's bollocks. She's poisoning him.

0:52:30 > 0:52:33For God's sake, Stephen, why?! Why would I do such a thing?!

0:52:33 > 0:52:35Charlotte, please! D'you think I'd let that happen?

0:52:35 > 0:52:37You and Dom mean the world to me, how could I?

0:52:37 > 0:52:39You know what you've got to do.

0:52:39 > 0:52:42- That boy is ill...get him sectioned! - I'm not going there!

0:52:44 > 0:52:46If you don't mind me saying,

0:52:46 > 0:52:48you've got a bit of talking to do as a family.

0:52:55 > 0:52:59Hey. Your job's to prevent crime, yeah?

0:52:59 > 0:53:03- Yeah.- Well, I'm telling you, if you go right now there's going to be a serious crime committed

0:53:03 > 0:53:07because either she dies or Dom dies so I'm going to have to kill her...

0:53:07 > 0:53:09I didn't hear that, son.

0:53:09 > 0:53:11If I hear something like that, I've got to act on it

0:53:11 > 0:53:14and that means locking you up and what good are you to anyone then?

0:53:14 > 0:53:17So you go back in there and talk to your dad. Right?

0:53:24 > 0:53:25Right.

0:53:25 > 0:53:27CAR DRIVES AWAY

0:53:37 > 0:53:39- I want you to come with me, Dom. - No.- She's killing you.

0:53:39 > 0:53:41- For God's sake, Stephen... - She's not.

0:53:41 > 0:53:44Come with me, mate, or something horrible is going to happen.

0:53:44 > 0:53:47- Nothing's going to happen, Stephen. Look, you're...- Please.

0:53:47 > 0:53:50- I can't take any more of this. - You're ill, mate. Up here.

0:53:50 > 0:53:53- I'm not. I'm not. I'm not ill. - You're imagining things.

0:53:53 > 0:53:54- Ever since Mum.- I'm not.

0:53:54 > 0:53:57She'd never harm us and Dad loves us so why would she harm us...?

0:53:57 > 0:54:01- Get him out of the house. - Dad's right, if we can just...

0:54:01 > 0:54:03- Stephen, no!- Urgh!

0:54:03 > 0:54:05Oh, my God! What have you done?!

0:54:05 > 0:54:07- Now, now!- What have you done? - Get an ambulance!

0:54:07 > 0:54:10I did it for Dom. I did it for Dom!

0:54:10 > 0:54:12I did it to save the life of my brother!

0:54:12 > 0:54:15Put the knife down, you prick! 36 Ramires Drive.

0:54:16 > 0:54:20Someone's been stabbed and she's losing a lot of blood.

0:54:20 > 0:54:21It had to be done.

0:54:21 > 0:54:24How could you do something like that to him, you prick?

0:54:24 > 0:54:26She lives, you die, it had to be done.

0:54:26 > 0:54:29- Charlotte, don't you go to sleep! - It had to be done.

0:54:29 > 0:54:32After all he's been through, and you're the sensitive one, yeah?

0:54:32 > 0:54:34Mum always used to say you're the sensitive one.

0:54:34 > 0:54:37Well, you're not. You're not. You're shite. You are one selfish bastard.

0:54:37 > 0:54:39And she was totally wrong about you, Stephen,

0:54:39 > 0:54:42cos you are so far up your own arse, you prick,

0:54:42 > 0:54:45and if Mum was here now she'd be saying the same as me.

0:54:45 > 0:54:48Stephen, you are one selfish bastard!

0:56:09 > 0:56:12Members of the jury, are you agreed upon a verdict?

0:56:17 > 0:56:19We are.

0:56:19 > 0:56:23Do you find the defendant guilty or not guilty of attempted murder?

0:56:25 > 0:56:27Guilty.

0:56:30 > 0:56:34Stephen Cartwright, I'd like to order a psychiatric report on you.

0:56:34 > 0:56:37It could only be to your benefit.

0:56:37 > 0:56:40Are you willing to co-operate with the preparation of such a report?

0:56:40 > 0:56:42No, your honour.

0:56:48 > 0:56:51Stephen Cartwright, I suspect you might have been suffering

0:56:51 > 0:56:54from some sort of mental illness when you committed this offence,

0:56:54 > 0:56:58but you refused to acknowledge it or have yourself medically examined.

0:56:59 > 0:57:01Also, you are a juvenile.

0:57:01 > 0:57:05In the circumstances, my hands are tied.

0:57:07 > 0:57:10You will be detained for six years.

0:57:12 > 0:57:14Take him down.

0:58:07 > 0:58:09Where's Dom?

0:58:11 > 0:58:13He's not well.

0:58:15 > 0:58:16Dad?

0:58:18 > 0:58:19He's not well either.

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