0:00:24 > 0:00:25ALARM RINGS
0:00:47 > 0:00:49THUMP
0:00:50 > 0:00:51That you, Den?
0:00:55 > 0:00:56CLATTERING
0:00:59 > 0:01:00MUSIC PLAYS INSIDE
0:01:00 > 0:01:04- Oh, don't do that, Den. I could do with a laugh!- I don't want Sharon and...
0:01:04 > 0:01:08We have a lot of things to talk about. This is the only time before this place turns into a madhouse.
0:01:08 > 0:01:09I've got a million and one things to do.
0:01:09 > 0:01:12- It'll have to be some other time. - Will you stop doing that and sit down?
0:01:12 > 0:01:15All right, keep your hair on!
0:01:15 > 0:01:18- Don't look at me like that, I know what you want to talk about.- Yeah?
0:01:18 > 0:01:19Yeah. The staffing problems.
0:01:19 > 0:01:23Is it my fault everybody's walked out? The question is, what are we going to do about it?
0:01:23 > 0:01:25How long is Lofty going to be off with his asthma attack?
0:01:25 > 0:01:27It could be ages and ages.
0:01:27 > 0:01:30The hospital might not let him back cos of all of the smoke round here.
0:01:30 > 0:01:32And if Kathy stall works out, she might not want to come back.
0:01:32 > 0:01:35Ethel's gone geriatric. Mind you, we've sorted that.
0:01:35 > 0:01:37Pauline's doing the cleaning, but she might not stay.
0:01:37 > 0:01:41All we need is Michelle to get in the club again, or Mark to come, and we're back where we started.
0:01:41 > 0:01:44- Ange, I am not talking about staff! - I know what you're talking about.
0:01:44 > 0:01:47It's the bar work, innit? It's only you, me and Wicksy now.
0:01:47 > 0:01:50It ain't good enough. When was the last time we had a proper day off?
0:01:50 > 0:01:52MUSIC PLAYS
0:01:57 > 0:01:59- Listen, Ange.- Den, would you stop following me around?
0:01:59 > 0:02:01Go downstairs, do something, start bottling up.
0:02:01 > 0:02:03Why is it always me who does the work round here?
0:02:03 > 0:02:07Sharon's off school, you're her father, tell her she should be giving a helping hand.
0:02:07 > 0:02:11- What are you doing?- Give it a rest. What have you got? Verbal diarrhoea or something?
0:02:11 > 0:02:12- I beg your pardon? - Well, shut it, then.
0:02:12 > 0:02:15I'm trying to tell you something. Communicate, talk.
0:02:15 > 0:02:18I'm not on about the staff, I'm not on about Sharon,
0:02:18 > 0:02:20I'm not even on about the colour to paint this poxy room.
0:02:20 > 0:02:24I'm on about our future. And it's important, so shut up and listen.
0:02:24 > 0:02:27Exactly. Every time we talk about OUR future, I have to shut up and listen.
0:02:27 > 0:02:30- Typical.- I've thought long and hard about what I'm going to say to you,
0:02:30 > 0:02:33and it is the hardest thing I am ever going to have to say to you, all right?
0:02:33 > 0:02:37I've spent hours walking round the square with Roly trying to work out the best way to put it.
0:02:37 > 0:02:40Well, you'd better go round again. Check you've got your lines right.
0:02:40 > 0:02:43- Rehearse it all over again. - How long have we been married?
0:02:43 > 0:02:46Den, you're not saving up for our silver wedding already, are you?
0:02:46 > 0:02:4918 years. And in the beginning, it was good.
0:02:49 > 0:02:52We both wanted the same things. We both worked damn hard to get them.
0:02:52 > 0:02:53That's what I keep telling you.
0:02:53 > 0:02:56Yeah. Then the bubble burst, the dream faded.
0:02:56 > 0:02:59There ain't no big house in Reigate, there ain't no patter of tiny feet.
0:02:59 > 0:03:01All we've got is a shambles, this pretence, these lies.
0:03:01 > 0:03:03- Look, Den, I haven't got time... - Will you stop it!
0:03:03 > 0:03:06- SHE SCREAMS - Will you stop avoiding the issue?
0:03:06 > 0:03:08Will you stop making it impossible?
0:03:08 > 0:03:09SHE SOBS
0:03:10 > 0:03:11CLATTERING
0:03:13 > 0:03:15- Den, no, no.- Down. Down.
0:03:29 > 0:03:32Now, stop it. Leave it. Leave it. I'll do it later.
0:03:36 > 0:03:38I'm leaving you, Ange.
0:03:40 > 0:03:41Did you hear what I said?
0:03:45 > 0:03:47Yeah. I heard what you said.
0:03:51 > 0:03:53Is that it, then?
0:03:53 > 0:03:55No apologies and explanations thrown in for good measure?
0:03:55 > 0:03:57Yeah, of course.
0:03:58 > 0:04:01What's a marriage for, do you think?
0:04:01 > 0:04:03- Is this it?- What?
0:04:03 > 0:04:04The apologies and explanations?
0:04:04 > 0:04:07- If you like, yeah. - What's a marriage for?
0:04:08 > 0:04:10I don't know, Den. I give up. You tell me.
0:04:10 > 0:04:12Friendship, support,
0:04:12 > 0:04:16companionship, home comforts.
0:04:16 > 0:04:18Love, sex.
0:04:18 > 0:04:21- All of those, I suppose. - And what do we get out of it?
0:04:21 > 0:04:25None of them. Because instead of friendship, we play war games.
0:04:25 > 0:04:27Instead of home comforts, we have a battlefield.
0:04:27 > 0:04:31There is no mutual support, because we pull the ground from under each other at every opportunity.
0:04:31 > 0:04:35- Keep it up. You're doing well. - There's no love...- Is this the bit you rehearsed with Roly?
0:04:35 > 0:04:37There's no love, no warmth...
0:04:38 > 0:04:41Nothing. It's all gone. All we've got is rows and bitterness.
0:04:41 > 0:04:43And we ain't even got a sex life.
0:04:43 > 0:04:47And you can't have a marriage without that, can you?
0:04:47 > 0:04:50- Some people do.- Not me, because, if we still had that,
0:04:50 > 0:04:52then maybe I could put up with everything else.
0:04:52 > 0:04:54If we had that, everything would be different.
0:04:54 > 0:04:57It's madness. I don't know why we stuck it for so long.
0:04:57 > 0:05:00Cos I hung on like a bloody limpet, you bastard.
0:05:00 > 0:05:01CLATTERING
0:05:01 > 0:05:05- You what? - For practical reasons, I expect.
0:05:05 > 0:05:07I want a clean break, Ange.
0:05:07 > 0:05:10Not just from you, but from this pub, the square, and Walford.
0:05:12 > 0:05:14I see.
0:05:14 > 0:05:15THUDDING
0:05:21 > 0:05:23I'll leave you the business, all right?
0:05:23 > 0:05:26Without me here causing trouble, you'll be able run this place
0:05:26 > 0:05:28with one hand tied behind your back, no problem.
0:05:28 > 0:05:32What are you going to do when the dust comes off your twinkle toes?
0:05:32 > 0:05:34Get another pub, I suppose.
0:05:34 > 0:05:36Oh, Den.
0:05:36 > 0:05:38The penny drops.
0:05:38 > 0:05:41That's what you've been hatching with Willmott-Brown, innit?
0:05:41 > 0:05:44Getting him to find you a new pub.
0:05:44 > 0:05:47- Will he?- He already has.
0:05:47 > 0:05:49Well...
0:05:49 > 0:05:52he's got a pub in mind, he's just got to work out the exact details.
0:05:52 > 0:05:54Right.
0:05:54 > 0:05:57How are you going to run it on your own, without me to do the books for you?
0:06:02 > 0:06:05Jan'll do the books.
0:06:05 > 0:06:08Oh, yeah. I wondered when we'd get round to her.
0:06:08 > 0:06:10- She moving in with you?- Yeah.
0:06:10 > 0:06:12Yeah, of course, silly question.
0:06:12 > 0:06:15- Marriage?- No, it's too soon... - I said, marriage?
0:06:15 > 0:06:17Yes.
0:06:17 > 0:06:20So you and me are talking divorce.
0:06:20 > 0:06:22Yeah, I suppose so, yeah.
0:06:23 > 0:06:24It's all right, Den.
0:06:24 > 0:06:27I just want to get things straight in my mind.
0:06:27 > 0:06:28Oh, I want to be straight, Ange.
0:06:28 > 0:06:30I want to be dead straight.
0:06:33 > 0:06:35It's ironic, innit, eh?
0:06:35 > 0:06:37CLATTERING
0:06:37 > 0:06:39Just as our marriage is ending,
0:06:39 > 0:06:44I actually feel the need to be honest with you for the first time,
0:06:44 > 0:06:46and I want to be civilised.
0:06:46 > 0:06:48I WANT to be honest with you.
0:06:48 > 0:06:51Well, careful you don't overdo it, Den. Mind you don't blow a fuse.
0:06:51 > 0:06:54Why are we standing here talking about why our marriage failed?
0:06:54 > 0:06:58Cos of her! It's cos of her we're standing here talking about a bleeding divorce, innit?
0:06:58 > 0:07:02Jan is just a symptom. If things were right between us, I would never have looked at her.
0:07:02 > 0:07:04- You're a bleeding hypocrite. - OK.
0:07:04 > 0:07:07It is because of Jan that things aren't right now between us.
0:07:07 > 0:07:09But it comes down to the same thing.
0:07:09 > 0:07:13- I love her, and sex with...- Don't say it! I do not want to hear it.
0:07:13 > 0:07:15I don't want that much honesty!
0:07:19 > 0:07:22Sorry.
0:07:22 > 0:07:25We're supposed to be being civilised about this, ain't we?
0:07:25 > 0:07:27WASHING MACHINE RUMBLES
0:07:27 > 0:07:30I agree with you.
0:07:30 > 0:07:31I agree with everything you say.
0:07:33 > 0:07:35If you love her,
0:07:35 > 0:07:39and we're no good together, then we're better off apart, aren't we?
0:07:39 > 0:07:41So you can have your divorce.
0:07:41 > 0:07:44Don't look so surprised.
0:07:44 > 0:07:45I know when I'm beat.
0:07:47 > 0:07:49It's no good flogging a dead horse, is it?
0:07:50 > 0:07:52No.
0:07:53 > 0:07:54Right.
0:07:57 > 0:07:58Practical details.
0:08:00 > 0:08:02I just hope that we can...
0:08:02 > 0:08:05split up without the usual arguments and bitterness.
0:08:05 > 0:08:06And uh...
0:08:08 > 0:08:09..who knows?
0:08:11 > 0:08:13When we're not living together,
0:08:13 > 0:08:16probably we'll get on like a house on fire.
0:08:16 > 0:08:18Probably start fancying each other all over again, eh?
0:08:18 > 0:08:20Yeah.
0:08:20 > 0:08:22As I said, practical details.
0:08:22 > 0:08:24Who, what, when and where?
0:08:26 > 0:08:28Who gets what? How do we tell Sharon?
0:08:30 > 0:08:32WHAT do we tell Sharon?
0:08:32 > 0:08:34And...
0:08:34 > 0:08:36will I get reasonable access to see Roly?
0:08:38 > 0:08:39Yeah. Erm...
0:08:41 > 0:08:44..I just want you to tell me what's best for you, OK?
0:08:45 > 0:08:48OK, I'll think about it.
0:08:48 > 0:08:50Good.
0:08:50 > 0:08:53I said I'll think about it, Den, but not right now.
0:08:53 > 0:08:57Cos right now, I've got a lot of things to do, and I want to get on.
0:08:57 > 0:09:00It's a shock. Do you understand?
0:09:01 > 0:09:03You have to give me time to absorb it.
0:09:03 > 0:09:07Let me put me war paint on, feel a bit more human, then we can talk.
0:09:07 > 0:09:10Why don't you ring her? You did say that you were going to tell me today, didn't you?
0:09:10 > 0:09:12- Yeah.- Well, put her mind at rest.
0:09:14 > 0:09:17Tell her I agree to everything you want, in principle.
0:09:17 > 0:09:20And then let the window cleaner in, cos he's got to do the windows.
0:09:20 > 0:09:21Thanks.
0:09:23 > 0:09:24DOOR SHUTS
0:09:31 > 0:09:32ENGINE STARTS
0:09:41 > 0:09:42I could let him go, couldn't I?
0:09:43 > 0:09:45Good riddance to bad rubbish, eh?
0:09:48 > 0:09:50Let that cow get her hands on him?
0:09:50 > 0:09:52Not bloody likely.
0:09:52 > 0:09:55# Zip-a-dee-doo-dah, zip-a-dee-ay...
0:09:55 > 0:09:57# My, oh my, what a wonderful day.
0:09:57 > 0:09:59# Plenty of sunshine... #
0:10:04 > 0:10:05Don't cry yet, girl.
0:10:07 > 0:10:08You got a long way to go.
0:10:10 > 0:10:11DEN WHISTLES
0:10:20 > 0:10:22Den, I want to talk some more.
0:10:22 > 0:10:25- I thought you wanted to leave it until later?- No, now.
0:10:25 > 0:10:26Yeah, course, yeah.
0:10:33 > 0:10:35- There's something I have to tell you...- I didn't ring Jan...
0:10:35 > 0:10:38- Sorry...- Ring her now. - No, there's no rush...- Go on.- No.
0:10:38 > 0:10:40I want to be able to give her definite plans, all right?
0:10:40 > 0:10:42I want to get it right this time.
0:10:42 > 0:10:45You may think that I've mucked you around, but I mucked her around and all.
0:10:45 > 0:10:49In fact, I've mucked everyone around the last couple of years or so.
0:10:49 > 0:10:50- Den...- Listen.
0:10:50 > 0:10:53I don't want you to say a word to anyone, all right? Not even Kath.
0:10:53 > 0:10:56Not until I've clinched this deal with Willmott-Brown.
0:10:56 > 0:10:58Till I've got a firm date.
0:10:58 > 0:11:00Because I am going to need somewhere to hide, all right?
0:11:00 > 0:11:02Because when this lot find out,
0:11:02 > 0:11:04they'll be like hounds baying after the blood.
0:11:04 > 0:11:07The whole of Albert Square's going to be against me.
0:11:07 > 0:11:08I don't mind that, I can take it.
0:11:08 > 0:11:10I am big enough, and I am ugly enough.
0:11:12 > 0:11:14The only thing I hope is that
0:11:14 > 0:11:16Sharon doesn't hate me too much.
0:11:16 > 0:11:18- She will in the beginning. - ENGINE STARTS OUTSIDE
0:11:18 > 0:11:20But I hope that, by the end, she'll understand.
0:11:20 > 0:11:23And I want you to promise me that, well...
0:11:23 > 0:11:25- that you won't turn her against me. - Of course I won't.
0:11:25 > 0:11:27I'll talk to her,
0:11:27 > 0:11:29I'll try and make her understand.
0:11:29 > 0:11:33She has been living here, so obviously, she knows what's been going on.
0:11:33 > 0:11:35And even though she's living with you,
0:11:35 > 0:11:39I want her to feel that she can come and stay with Jan and I
0:11:39 > 0:11:41any time she wants.
0:11:41 > 0:11:45I'm going to leave you the business and the bank account.
0:11:45 > 0:11:48I'll just take my car and my clothes.
0:11:48 > 0:11:52Not much to show for 18 years hard graft, is it?
0:11:52 > 0:11:54- And...- Look, Den.
0:11:54 > 0:11:57When I came downstairs, I said there was something I had to tell you.
0:11:57 > 0:12:00- You haven't asked me what it was. - Well, what is it?
0:12:01 > 0:12:03God, now it comes to it, don't it?
0:12:04 > 0:12:05I don't know if I can say it.
0:12:08 > 0:12:09But I'm going to have to.
0:12:10 > 0:12:13Cos, if I don't, people round here are really going to think
0:12:13 > 0:12:15you're a rat deserting a sinking ship.
0:12:18 > 0:12:19It's a mess, innit?
0:12:22 > 0:12:24- What are you on about?- Look...
0:12:24 > 0:12:26we're splitting up.
0:12:26 > 0:12:27I accept that.
0:12:29 > 0:12:30It's just that...
0:12:30 > 0:12:32what I'm going to tell you
0:12:32 > 0:12:35will affect the way we handle things.
0:12:35 > 0:12:38You're right, people in the square will think the worst of you now,
0:12:38 > 0:12:41even more so after I've told you what I am going to tell you.
0:12:41 > 0:12:43And I have to tell you, Den.
0:12:43 > 0:12:44Cos it would be selfish of me not to.
0:12:44 > 0:12:46Have you finished?
0:12:46 > 0:12:48Would you tell me what you're rabbiting on about,
0:12:48 > 0:12:51- otherwise I'm going to go out and sort out them bottles.- Den...
0:12:51 > 0:12:54Erm, excuse me.
0:13:07 > 0:13:08Well, go on.
0:13:10 > 0:13:13You know I've been feeling ill since before me and Sharon went to Disney World.
0:13:13 > 0:13:17Before you say another word, I went to see Dr Legg. I know I shouldn't have done behind your back.
0:13:17 > 0:13:21- I had to find out why you kept going to see a quack, he's told me about it.- What did he tell you?
0:13:21 > 0:13:23- You want me to spell it out? - Yes, I want you to spell it out.
0:13:23 > 0:13:26- He said you're fast becoming an alcoholic.- Great.- I'm sorry, Ange.
0:13:26 > 0:13:28It's my fault, I brought you to this.
0:13:28 > 0:13:31That's another reason why we have to split up. So you can get better.
0:13:31 > 0:13:34It's not easy for me, you know. It's no joke living with it.
0:13:34 > 0:13:37- Poor old Den.- And Legg understood that.- Oh, did he(?)
0:13:37 > 0:13:38Yes, he said it was a well-known fact
0:13:38 > 0:13:42- that people who are married to alkies have a hard time of it. - Shame!
0:13:42 > 0:13:44- I tried to talk to you. - Correction - you don't talk.
0:13:44 > 0:13:46I try to talk to you. You avoid me!
0:13:46 > 0:13:50That's because you're always smashed out your skull, on another planet, incommunicado!
0:13:50 > 0:13:53- I also tried to give you my love. - You try to give me love?!
0:13:53 > 0:13:56Don't make me laugh. Do you ever wonder why I jump into a bottle?
0:13:56 > 0:13:59- That's what he told you about, he told you about the drink? - Isn't that enough?
0:13:59 > 0:14:03That's all right, then. Cos if the hospital told Legg, Legg would have told you. Right?
0:14:03 > 0:14:06Booze, my darling, is the least of my problems.
0:14:06 > 0:14:09In fact, from now on, I intend to drink like a fish.
0:14:09 > 0:14:12I'm ill, Den. I'm really very ill.
0:14:12 > 0:14:14- Yes. You're ill because you drink too much.- Listen!
0:14:14 > 0:14:15You're going to listen to me for once.
0:14:15 > 0:14:18It's nothing to do with the booze. It's something completely separate.
0:14:18 > 0:14:22- Oh, I thought we were going to be adult about this.- Yeah, we were going to. You know why?
0:14:22 > 0:14:25Cos I was going to spare your precious feelings, though God knows why!
0:14:25 > 0:14:28I've been waiting for this, waiting for the backlash.
0:14:28 > 0:14:31So you're ill, are you? Well, what's wrong with you, eh? What you got?
0:14:31 > 0:14:33Got headache? Do you want to go and lie down?
0:14:33 > 0:14:37Do you want me to bring you breakfast in bed? Hot water bottle? Eh?
0:14:37 > 0:14:40Some aspirin? Alka-Seltzer?
0:14:40 > 0:14:42Don't try that one on me, Ange, because it won't wash.
0:14:42 > 0:14:44No way you're ever going to get me back.
0:14:44 > 0:14:48I'm scared! You stupid, idiotic little man.
0:14:48 > 0:14:49I'm scared!
0:14:49 > 0:14:53Do you know what it's like since they told me? I feel like I'm locked inside a cell.
0:14:53 > 0:14:57With the walls closing in on me, the ceiling pressing down, the floor coming up to meet me.
0:14:57 > 0:15:00And I'm getting smaller and smaller and it is crushing me and crushing me
0:15:00 > 0:15:02- and I'm shrinking, and I can't cope!- Ah, shut up!
0:15:06 > 0:15:07I'm sorry, Den.
0:15:08 > 0:15:11I'm sorry, I didn't mean to tell you like this.
0:15:11 > 0:15:14It is just that ever since they told me,
0:15:14 > 0:15:16I've been so scared.
0:15:17 > 0:15:20I keep pretending that it's all right, and inside I'm like a jelly.
0:15:20 > 0:15:24I keep waking up in the mornings, I look in the mirror, and everything's the same again.
0:15:24 > 0:15:26And then I say, why me?
0:15:26 > 0:15:29I'm young, I've got my health, I thought I'd live forever.
0:15:29 > 0:15:32You don't think about death, about dying. You don't think about the pain.
0:15:32 > 0:15:35I've never thought about pain. I've never even had a toothache, Den!
0:15:35 > 0:15:37How am I going to stand it? How am I going to stand it?
0:15:37 > 0:15:39- SHE SHRIEKS - What are you telling me, eh?
0:15:43 > 0:15:46I've got six months to live.
0:15:46 > 0:15:48- SHE LAUGHS MENACINGLY - What?
0:15:49 > 0:15:52I've got six months to live!
0:15:53 > 0:15:55Not long, is it, Den? Six little months.
0:15:55 > 0:15:59After you saying about the practical details, I thought, "I've got to tell him, ain't I?"
0:15:59 > 0:16:02- Cos this makes all the difference, doesn't it?- Shut up. Shut up.
0:16:02 > 0:16:05- Shut up.- Doesn't it, Den?- Shut up.
0:16:05 > 0:16:09- You've got six months to live. Is that what you're telling me? What you got wrong with you?- Den...
0:16:09 > 0:16:11I don't want to die.
0:16:11 > 0:16:13I don't want to die, Den. You've got to help me.
0:16:13 > 0:16:18You're all I've got, Den. I don't want to die, I don't want to die, Den, please!
0:16:18 > 0:16:20If you want help, you've got to talk sense, all right?
0:16:20 > 0:16:22- SHE PANTS - Oh...
0:16:22 > 0:16:24Er, I'm going to make some coffee.
0:16:24 > 0:16:26SHE PANTS
0:16:40 > 0:16:43- Now, let's just...- Den, please. - Just...
0:16:43 > 0:16:48just take control of yourself, sit down and stop crying.
0:16:48 > 0:16:49Grab hold of yourself. Go on.
0:17:02 > 0:17:03I've got till April.
0:17:06 > 0:17:08With any luck, I might see a few daffodils and crocuses
0:17:08 > 0:17:11popping their heads up.
0:17:11 > 0:17:13But I'll never see Sharon...
0:17:15 > 0:17:16I won't see her kids.
0:17:20 > 0:17:21I won't be able to help her, Den.
0:17:23 > 0:17:25I won't be able to help no-one.
0:17:25 > 0:17:26I won't be nothing, will I?
0:17:28 > 0:17:29I'll just be dust.
0:17:32 > 0:17:33And you'll be here.
0:17:33 > 0:17:36Living, laughing, loving with...
0:17:39 > 0:17:42I don't believe in an afterlife, do you, Den?
0:17:42 > 0:17:46I suppose it can help you, though, at times like this.
0:17:46 > 0:17:49Maybe I ought to go and see a priest, eh?
0:17:52 > 0:17:53DRINK POURS
0:17:53 > 0:17:57Just wait there, all right? Just wait. Just hold on, all right?
0:18:00 > 0:18:02Go on. Have a little drink of that.
0:18:03 > 0:18:05Oh, thank you.
0:18:09 > 0:18:11Mm.
0:18:11 > 0:18:13Just go on, take another sip.
0:18:15 > 0:18:16Go on, have a sip.
0:18:21 > 0:18:24Now, very calmly,
0:18:24 > 0:18:25very quietly...
0:18:27 > 0:18:30..would you kindly explain to me what all this is about?
0:18:31 > 0:18:32SHE SOBS
0:18:36 > 0:18:37I've...
0:18:39 > 0:18:40..I've got a...
0:18:42 > 0:18:44Den, I can't say the words.
0:18:44 > 0:18:45I can't. I'm sorry.
0:18:50 > 0:18:52SHE SOBS
0:18:53 > 0:18:54SOBBING CONTINUES
0:19:39 > 0:19:42I've been feeling tired for months.
0:19:42 > 0:19:43Usual aches and pains.
0:19:43 > 0:19:45First, I just thought it was the booze,
0:19:45 > 0:19:48so I didn't do nothing about it.
0:19:48 > 0:19:52Then, when I got back from Florida, I started to feel bad.
0:19:52 > 0:19:53I mean, really bad.
0:19:56 > 0:19:58- Did you tell Sharon?- No.
0:19:58 > 0:20:01I just told her it was the food, put it down to jet lag.
0:20:01 > 0:20:02Then I went to see Doctor Legg,
0:20:02 > 0:20:05and he sent me to a specialist, Mr Elliott.
0:20:07 > 0:20:10You know when I went off for a few days to stay with Sonny and Ree?
0:20:10 > 0:20:13Well, I never. I went into hospital.
0:20:13 > 0:20:15They did some tests, they gave me anaesthetic...
0:20:15 > 0:20:17No, I don't want to know the gory details. All right?
0:20:17 > 0:20:22- I have to explain.- No, I can't take medical things. You know that. Just tell me what they said.
0:20:22 > 0:20:25Mr Elliott was surprised you never came with me.
0:20:25 > 0:20:29Perhaps you should hear it direct, eh, Den?
0:20:29 > 0:20:31Do you want to come?
0:20:36 > 0:20:39Where is it?
0:20:39 > 0:20:42- It's a clinic.- No, no. What you...
0:20:42 > 0:20:44- Where is it?- Well, it's...- No, no.
0:20:44 > 0:20:47Just tell me what the treatment is.
0:20:47 > 0:20:49- There isn't any.- There's got to be!
0:20:49 > 0:20:52They've got to do something. They can't just hand you a death sentence.
0:20:52 > 0:20:55I'll tell you what, Harley Street. We'll take you to the best guy there.
0:20:55 > 0:20:58- Den, we've tried all of that. - And?- It's hopeless.
0:20:58 > 0:21:01You know me. I'm a hopeless case, ain't I?
0:21:06 > 0:21:09It's like a nightmare, innit?
0:21:09 > 0:21:11I don't believe it. I just don't believe it.
0:21:14 > 0:21:17Well, I guess this stands everything on its head, doesn't it?
0:21:17 > 0:21:20- Not necessarily. - Well, of course it does.
0:21:20 > 0:21:24Why did you let me come out with all this leaving stuff, when you had that bombshell up your sleeve?
0:21:24 > 0:21:27Cos I didn't want to think I was blackmailing you and I still don't.
0:21:27 > 0:21:29It needn't alter your plans.
0:21:29 > 0:21:31Well, of course it does. I can't leave now, it's obvious.
0:21:31 > 0:21:33Why, cos of what people'll think?
0:21:33 > 0:21:35No, cos I've got to be with you, help you through it.
0:21:35 > 0:21:37Well, it's only six months, innit, Den?
0:21:38 > 0:21:42Think about it. Six months.
0:21:42 > 0:21:44You'll be a widower.
0:21:44 > 0:21:46You'll be respectable.
0:21:46 > 0:21:50Jan can move in, you can keep the Vic,
0:21:50 > 0:21:52keep the bank account, keep the car,
0:21:52 > 0:21:54keep the lovely furniture.
0:21:54 > 0:21:56Sharon need never know.
0:21:56 > 0:21:58Think about it, Den. It will be very convenient.
0:21:58 > 0:22:01And if you can stick it out for six little months, Den, you'll have everything.
0:22:01 > 0:22:05Everything you ever wanted. Lucky old Den, cracked it again.
0:22:05 > 0:22:10Ange, I'm staying because I want to. I want to be with you. All right? End of subject.
0:22:10 > 0:22:13Now, kindly forget that this morning's conversation ever existed.
0:22:16 > 0:22:17DOOR SHUTS
0:22:25 > 0:22:27DRILLING
0:22:34 > 0:22:36What are you going to do about her?
0:22:36 > 0:22:39- I'll have to tell her. - What are you going to tell her?
0:22:39 > 0:22:42I don't know. What can I tell her? Oh, I don't know.
0:22:44 > 0:22:46I still can't believe it.
0:22:46 > 0:22:48You look so healthy.
0:22:48 > 0:22:50HE MUTTERS
0:22:50 > 0:22:54Oh, I'm a selfish bastard. I ain't even asked how you feel yet.
0:22:54 > 0:22:57How are we going to manage? How are we going to cope?
0:22:57 > 0:23:00- ENGINE STRUGGLES OUTSIDE - I'll sort it...
0:23:00 > 0:23:01we'll get you the best treatment there is,
0:23:01 > 0:23:03that place in Switzerland or the States.
0:23:03 > 0:23:06No, no. I don't want nothing like that, Den.
0:23:06 > 0:23:10I just want Sharon and Roly and you.
0:23:10 > 0:23:12It's all right, you can touch me, it ain't catching.
0:23:12 > 0:23:16I'm sorry, Ange, I'm not the best person with a thing like this, all right?
0:23:16 > 0:23:18I'm a total wash-out. Erm...
0:23:18 > 0:23:22and it's also eight o'clock, and there's people going to be turning up for work in a minute.
0:23:22 > 0:23:26I don't want to see anyone, all right? So I just want to get out of here, OK?
0:23:32 > 0:23:33Sorry.
0:23:38 > 0:23:40CLATTERING AND PHONE DROPS
0:23:49 > 0:23:51Come on.
0:23:51 > 0:23:53It's not the end of the world, is it?
0:23:56 > 0:23:59You'll never see me with grey hairs or wrinkles.
0:24:01 > 0:24:04You'll never see me with a bunion, or middle-aged spread.
0:24:07 > 0:24:09I still look reasonable, don't I?
0:24:12 > 0:24:14I'll never look like Pat Wicks.
0:24:16 > 0:24:17Oh, I'd hate that.
0:24:25 > 0:24:26I'll be like Marilyn Monroe.
0:24:29 > 0:24:31Always in me 30s.
0:24:33 > 0:24:36I've always wanted to have something in common with her.
0:24:38 > 0:24:40I may not have her bust and her blonde hair...
0:24:43 > 0:24:45..but we're both little Peter Pans, ain't we?
0:24:49 > 0:24:50Den?
0:24:53 > 0:24:56If I ever find out you're kidding me, Ange...
0:24:56 > 0:24:58I'll kill you.
0:24:58 > 0:24:59Do you know that?
0:25:01 > 0:25:03I'll kill you.
0:25:06 > 0:25:09Sorry. I'm sorry, I'm sorry, I'm sorry, I'm sorry.
0:25:12 > 0:25:14All I seem to do is apologise.
0:25:14 > 0:25:16SHE SOBS
0:25:16 > 0:25:19Oh, you've got to forgive me for all the terrible things I have said and done to you.
0:25:19 > 0:25:24- I do. - I didn't mean any of 'em.
0:25:24 > 0:25:25Believe me.
0:25:25 > 0:25:28No more than I would have left...
0:25:28 > 0:25:32- Just another one of my crazy schemes.- Yeah.
0:25:32 > 0:25:35I was a fool for even thinking about it.
0:25:37 > 0:25:39- We'd never split up, me and you. - No.
0:25:42 > 0:25:44- We're like...- Punch and Judy.
0:25:44 > 0:25:49You keep hitting me on the head, and I keep popping up with a string of sausages.
0:25:49 > 0:25:53I...I know.
0:25:53 > 0:25:56All the terrible things I've made you do, Ange.
0:26:00 > 0:26:04The things I've driven you to.
0:26:04 > 0:26:06The drink,
0:26:06 > 0:26:08taking the pills.
0:26:10 > 0:26:11All them other things.
0:26:12 > 0:26:14I couldn't stop you.
0:26:16 > 0:26:18We scarcely even talked about them, did we?
0:26:21 > 0:26:22I knew about you and Tone...
0:26:24 > 0:26:27HE MUTTERS
0:26:27 > 0:26:29..in Spain,
0:26:29 > 0:26:30Andy.
0:26:30 > 0:26:33Den, it never meant anything.
0:26:33 > 0:26:34Andy's dead and I'm on me way there.
0:26:34 > 0:26:38Yeah, just forget about it, forget it, it doesn't matter any more.
0:26:38 > 0:26:39All right?
0:26:39 > 0:26:43Those things are in the past.
0:26:43 > 0:26:48We're just going to concentrate on the next six months. OK?
0:26:48 > 0:26:51I know I was bad to you.
0:26:51 > 0:26:53Try and let me make it up to you.
0:26:53 > 0:26:56I know I never can, but I want to try.
0:26:56 > 0:26:58Oh, Den.
0:26:58 > 0:27:03The next six months are going to be the best six months ever.
0:27:03 > 0:27:06We're going to have the good times again, me and you.
0:27:09 > 0:27:11I don't know how.
0:27:16 > 0:27:18I'll work something out, eh?
0:27:18 > 0:27:20Yeah.
0:27:20 > 0:27:22- Holiday.- Holiday.
0:27:22 > 0:27:26That's what we'll have...
0:27:26 > 0:27:28a second honeymoon.
0:27:28 > 0:27:30- Oh, Den.- Yeah.
0:27:32 > 0:27:34In the meantime...
0:27:36 > 0:27:37..I need to be by myself.
0:27:39 > 0:27:41Yeah, just to...
0:27:41 > 0:27:44- sort it all out in my head. Yeah?- Yeah.
0:27:44 > 0:27:45Think it through.
0:27:48 > 0:27:50I feel like I've been...
0:27:50 > 0:27:52hit by a sandbag.
0:27:53 > 0:27:55Er...
0:27:55 > 0:27:58You understand?
0:27:58 > 0:28:00- You don't mind? - No.
0:28:00 > 0:28:02OK.
0:28:15 > 0:28:17WASHING MACHINE RUMBLES
0:28:17 > 0:28:22Come on, Roly. Take you for another walk, eh?
0:28:22 > 0:28:25It's your lucky day.
0:28:25 > 0:28:27I'm glad someone's lucky around here.