Whip Hand Doctors

You haven't even broken a sweat.

-Well, it was worth me getting fit.

-Incredible.

Still enough? Never tempted?

You are the only man for me. You always were and always will be.

Fuchsia.

Meet you for lunch today?

Ah, no, I'm already late. I'll probably work right through.

-I'm doing chicken cacciatore for dinner.

-Oh! What's for afters?

-Depends how you do at work today.

-I do like a forceful woman.

How has nobody ever stolen you away?

HE COUGHS

Please. Don't start.

I just wondered what you were up to at lunch?

Probably have to work through.

All right, Doctor Tyler.

New shoes. Nice.

-They're trainers.

-So?

-So they're trainers.

Of course I've remembered. It'll probably arrive tomorrow.

In case it's late, I'll drop something off at lunch time.

A rabbit? A Bramley Rabbit? What is a Bramley Rabbit?

Where am I going to get one of those?

I've forgotten my goddaughter's birthday.

-That's not all you've forgotten.

-What? No, not you.

Hi, it's me. Just wondering what your plans are.

I'm here a bit early. See you soon. Bye.

-Jimmi?

-Yeah.

-Must be feeling guilty.

-About seeing Eva?

Why should he feel guilty about seeing Eva?

Well, last night?

So Jimmi saw Eva last night?

Cherry, I'm really sorry. I just assumed...

That he would have told me?

I did tell him I thought it was a bad idea.

So he talked to you about it?

I know the situation.

You did tell me that I shouldn't tell him to choose but I did it anyway.

I suppose they need to talk about it.

What if you're right. What if I do lose him because of it?

We don't even know if they did go out. Maybe he took my advice.

-But if they did?

-Ask him.

It's probably why he's calling.

-Anyway, you'll see him at the debrief, won't you?

-Yeah...

What happens when I see her?

-Hi, Eva.

-Pleased to meet you at last.

"Heard a lot about you" hardly seems to cover it!

-Jimmi said you were a great help.

-Did he? Yeah, well...

then Cherry came along.

-Ever think you chose the wrong career?

-Only every day.

-At least you got a result, eh?

-Yup, I always get my man.

-Hi, Jimmi.

-Hey, how are you?

Grand, good. You?

Yeah, same.

-Excuse me? You want me to do what?

-I wouldn't ask just anyone.

-Just anyone'd probably tell you where to go.

-Which is why I'm asking you.

-I'd love to, honestly...

-But?

..but I'm having lunch with Kevin.

-Well, he can wait.

-I didn't know we had a walking group.

Penny Lester's brainwave. Julia volunteered me.

So I'm asking you as your boss to take the walking group this lunch time.

All right.

There are two toy shops next to one another on the High Street.

-I beg your pardon?

-Bramley Rabbit. My niece loves hers.

That's very thoughtful of you. Thank you, Lauren.

You're welcome. I can't make lunch.

-I thought you were working anyway.

-Maybe I was going to change my mind.

-OK then, what about tonight?

-What about it?

-I could take you out.

-What about lunch?

-You said you couldn't do lunch.

Maybe I just want a little bit of interest.

-But you said...

-A little bit of effort.

-What about tonight?

-I've got something on.

-You could change your mind.

I've got something on.

-Cherry, hi.

-Hi.

PHONE RINGS Hello.

Yeah, will do.

-They're ready for you now.

-Thanks.

-Doctor Carter can't make it.

-Why?

-Busy.

-What do you mean, busy?

More important things. Even more important.

And you got all dressed up.

-Come on then, let's make this quick. Down to the park and back.

-We're going to the woods.

-Excuse me?

-Why don't you go and change your shoes?

Something you don't mind getting dirty.

And try smiling. You might actually enjoy it.

Chop, chop. Or would you rather I go and see Miss Parsons?

Reggie!

-Nice boots.

-Thank you.

-Is it just us?

-Alas, no...

But we don't need to bother about them, do we?

It's you we're interested in.

-Thanks.

-Lovely cup of tea.

Could have gone to the canteen but it's rubbish.

Borrowed some teabags. Did it myself.

-Is that why you were gone so long?

-I had to get some milk.

Julia told me that you saw Eva last night.

Yeah, I thought we should talk things through.

-How was it?

-Bit weird.

-Where did you take her?

-The Icon.

It's like... It's like going back in time, isn't it?

What do you mean?

Well...

It's not like you ever really split up, is it?

Just one day she was gone.

At least this way we get closure.

So the feelings weren't still there, then?

-So did you? Did you get closure?

-No.

-What do you mean?

-I don't know.

Are you going to see her again?

I wouldn't have seen her at all in the first place if you hadn't said it was OK.

It's your decision, Jimmi. No one's going to make it for you.

Come in.

That was quick.

-They want to see me again later. They want you to go in now.

-Right.

MUSIC: "Teddy Bears' Picnic"

-Hey, get back. All of you. Hey!

-Carry on.

Are you trying to get lost? We're in the middle of the woods.

Don't worry about her.

Right, if that's the way you want it. Quick march.

And you... I'm watching you.

-That's rancid.

-Did you get it from the canteen?

-I did.

-That'll be why, then.

I'm sorry you got caught up in all this.

I could say the same about you.

You lost everything, didn't you?

At least we knew what we were letting ourselves in for.

-You didn't know that you'd have to leave, though, did you?

-No.

I didn't.

I sometimes wonder if this job is worth the grief.

I don't know. You get to meet some interesting people.

It's Doctor Carter, isn't it?

-From the Mill Health Centre?

-Mrs Prentice?

-Rita.

Where do I get a Bramley Rabbit?

-You're a Bramley Family fan?

-Oh, they're a family?

-There's a whole collection.

-Other animals? Not just rabbits?

-No, no. Just rabbits.

-OK.

-My husband runs a toy shop.

A closed toy shop.

And much as it pains me to support the competition...

Oh, you don't know where I could get one?

-I just might.

-I could kiss you.

-Not till I see if they've got it first.

Lead on!

I mean, I have to deal with the odd creep

but all these people ripping people off, hurting people?

I just think about the people I'm going to help by locking the villains up.

So how do you deal with people lying to you all the time?

You learn to live with it.

I don't think I could do that.

Jimmi told me about last night.

Yeah, we needed to talk things through.

Yeah, that's what he said.

He told me you were getting married.

We talked about getting married once.

Look, I appreciate you letting me talk to him.

But if you're not happy about it...

if you tell me to go, I'll go.

Think about it.

Lovely day!

Right! This'll get your old bones working.

When was the last time any of you did any exercise? Chop, chop.

She's ever so stern.

That's not stern. You! All of you!

This is stern.

-Hmmm. That's delicious.

-Try this.

Amazing!

I wanted to surprise Lauren but seeing as she isn't here...

# If you go down to the woods today You're sure of a big surprise

# If you go down to the woods today You'd better go in disguise

# For every bear that ever there was

# Will gather there for certain because

# Today's the day the teddy bears have their picnic. #

All together now! # Picnic time for... #

-Rita, you were magnificent.

-Glad to be of service.

The way you talked that eight-year-old out of buying the last Pastel Pink Pretty Paws!

-If I didn't have to drop this off, I'd take you out for lunch.

-Doctor Carter, I'm a married woman.

-In another life, then.

-I've only ever had eyes for one man.

-What a lucky chap he is.

-It's still closed.

-Yeah, so's the other one.

-Yeah, that's Penny Lester's shop.

Oh, she's at our walking group.

Walking group?!

Well, you'll have missed it now.

Hello?

Hello?!

Can anybody hear me?!

ALL: # Picnic time for teddy bears

# The little teddy bears are having a lovely time

# At six o'clock their mummies and daddies will take them home to bed

# Because they're tired little teddy bears. #

What the hell do you think you're playing at?!

Hide and seek?

Right. Back to the Mill. Now!

Oh, I rather like it here. I think we'll stay.

If you don't come back right now, you can look for a new surgery.

We will not be threatened.

No more lovely Doctor Clay or dishy Doctor Granger.

Cuddly Doctor Carter.

What about Doctor Carmichael?

Well, we are going nowhere. Are we?

-I said, "Are we?"

-No.

Right. Come on.

Who needs cuddly Doctor Carter?

-You'd never catch me dead in heels normally.

-Why?

They make women walk on their tiptoes like wildebeest.

-Wildebeest?

-Yeah, like they're always worried

-that a lion's going to sneak up on them or something.

-Or a lioness?

-Oh, dear, what have you done to them?

-They were like that when I got them.

-Maybe we can have lunch, after all?

-Take her.

-Give me my shoes back.

-They're trainers!

Excuse me?

Is there a walking group today?

Either that or a zombie film casting.

-Are there any more?

-More?

Reggie Prentice and Penny Lester?

-Why? Who are you?

-I'm Rita, Reggie's wife.

Really? I didn't know he was married?

-Why?

-No reason.

All right, we'd better go and see if we can find them, hadn't we?

-How did it go?

-The debrief? Fine.

-Is that why you're looking so cheerful?

Eva and Cherry stuck in the same waiting room together?

-You left them alone?

-Didn't have a choice.

They've probably worked something out.

Cherry gets you Monday to Wednesday. Eva, Thursday to Saturday. Sundays are your own.

-Or maybe you get them both.

-Thanks for the support(!)

I'll tell you what, we'll prop up a bar later. Boys' night out.

They're acting like they're not bothered.

-Like if I don't do something, I'll end up with neither of them.

-So do something.

Liver sausage?

Or...

Mortadella?

Forget oysters and dulce de leche and rhinoceros horn...

Rhinoceros horn?

Give me Mortadella and liver sausage any day.

Why not have both?

That's what most men want. They're just too shy to ask...

How long have you been married?

-Forty years, next year.

-You could have had a party.

-He's done nothing wrong.

-He's getting his strength up.

Bored of home cooking.

-Forty years.

-I trust him.

-After what we saw?

-I know what he's like.

-What's he like?

-Suggestible.

-You think he's done it before?

-I don't think he's done anything.

-That's not what it looked like.

-Looking like is one thing.

-And doing is the next.

-I trust him.

-Even after forty years?

-Even after forty years.

Rita? It was perfect. Beyond perfect.

On behalf of my goddaughter,

the Bramley Family and mine, I could hug you!

-Hug? What happened to kiss?

-Touche.

What do you think you're doing?! This is my wife.

It's Doctor Carter, Reg.

Oh yes... cuddly Doctor Carter(!) Leave my wife alone!

I think you'd be better off with Mrs Lester.

Not a word to anyone.

You were right. Great fun!

I wouldn't mind designing clothes.

Looking for someone... Daniel... In his room, probably.

At Letherbridge's finest watering hole...

Lauren Wildebee...

Shoes. Now!

Where are mine?

-My shoes.

-Trainers.

I thought you were having lunch with me?

I was joking!

He made it for you but you weren't here.

-So he gave it to someone else?

-What was he supposed to do?

-He could have waited.

-Did he know he was supposed to wait?

-If you don't want to lose him...

-I can't force him to be with me.

Well, you should tell him how you feel.

If you think you've got a future together, tell him before it's too late.

Look, I was busy at lunchtime and I'm doing something tonight.

He's just so pushing and possessive and jealous.

It's him that's killing this thing, not me.

I can't keep her hanging on forever. I love Cherry.

-But I can't be in the same room with either of them.

-Why?

With Cherry, it's just too tense. With Eva...

-You want to rip her clothes off?

-What? No. What!

-Is that your answer to everything?

-Works for me and Zara.

You and Zara, relationship experts?

-Solid as a rock.

-This week.

-I'm taking tomorrow off to decorate.

-You are?

-Long haul, mate.

-Bumpy ride, mate.

-Best sort.

-So you're saying choose Eva?

-I'm saying you're thinking too much.

-I should follow my heart?

-Or any other organ the blood's pumping to.

When you know, you know.

No, I need the other stuff as well.

I need someone to be there for me. I get that from Cherry. I love her.

So there's your decision.

-She does care, you know.

-That what she said?

She's just been busy. It's not worth ruining everything over.

-She said that?

-You can't force someone to be with you.

She's got to make up her own mind.

Hi Eva, it's Cherry...

I've thought about it. Don't go.

If Jimmi chooses you, then I'll back off. I'll go.

-What if Cherry doesn't care? What if I can't win back her trust?

-Can we talk about football?

You don't like football. That's the thing with Eva.

She was part of the whole deception. It brought us closer.

Like me and Zara. The connection thing... Knowing each other.

That's what I want to feel from Cherry.

PHONE RINGS

Hello.

Umm, can I get tomorrow off?

Yeah, tomorrow's no problem.

Tonight?

I can't tonight.

Of course I want to... I just can't. I'm meeting Daniel.

-Don't hold back on my account.

-I'll see you tomorrow.

-Blood pumping through your veins?

-It was Eva.

-There's your answer then.

-Eva?

Go for it.

You liked the idea of Penny wanting you.

You were the same with Doctor Carter.

Maybe a little. The idea. But I'd never have done anything.

Me neither.

Lauren's attractive.

You're the only woman for me. Always were and always will be.

DOORBELL

How you doing, you all right?

Brandy.

I thought you had something on.

-Are you registered with us?

-No, never have been.

-You were the one. But then...

-Yeah, I know.

If you grew a brain cell, it would probably die of loneliness.

Argh!

-Imogen's work just isn't up to scratch.

-You what!?

I can't remember yesterday.

-I had to beg to get you this job. You messed up and I look an idiot.

-Mum!

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