25/05/2012 EastEnders

Morning.

Morning.

In two hours,

you will be Mrs Beale.

You know, I could, um... I could kill a cup of tea.

Ah, cup of tea.

Hey presto!

See? I've thought of everything.

Thank you.

Once you've had your cup of tea,

I'm going to do you a nice, extra-special wedding breakfast,

of pancakes and syrup -

just like you said you liked when you were a kid.

That's really sweet of you.

I want to treat you nice.

I want you to have all the things that you've always wanted.

I don't want you to ever feel scared or lonely or cold, or anything else.

Not while I'm around.

You know...

Ian, you, um... You don't have to try so hard.

I'm just me,

I'm nothing special. Just Mandy.

I mean, we're getting married in a registry office.

It's hardly Will and Kate.

We could be getting married in a dustbin

in the middle of Bridge Street,

and it would still be the most romantic day of my life.

Is it going to be a themed wedding? Nightwear?

-I just got up.

-Oh, right.

Where's the lucky man? He's calmed down a bit, has he?

Yeah, for a bloke who's going to his own execution,

he's in a pretty good mindset.

All right, great. Well, tell him I'm around, will you?

I've sorted out some drinks at the Vic

and sorted the car out,

so, tell him if he needs anything to give me a shout, yeah?

-Cheers.

-How's he doing?

Yeah, not bad, I think.

-I'm just going to go and get some cigarettes.

-Nervous?

-No.

-Just a craving.

-No, is Ian nervous?

-I don't know, Phil.

-I ain't seen him. And your bloke with the Roller, he's definitely still coming?

-Yeah, course.

-Where's your dress?

-Upstairs.

-Oh, right. Do me a favour. Can you go get Bobby ready for me?

-Dad!

Lucy, please.

Just be a loving, dutiful daughter for once in your life, OK?

Make me happy. Please.

-I was going to say I have an exam this afternoon. I've got to be back by one.

-Yeah, you will be, OK?

It's a simple ceremony. In and out, we'll be done in an hour.

Now, please, just go and get Bobby ready.

Oh, and give Mandy a shout, as well.

KNOCK AT DOOR Yeah, come in.

Do you mind?!

Poor Dad. It's not a pretty sight.

Shut the door, will you?

You know, it's not too late to do a runner.

-You could always jump out the window.

-You know what?

So could you. I reckon it's about time you left home.

You know, saw a bit of the big wide world.

Dad wants you downstairs.

Special wedding breakfast. Isn't it exciting(?)

I can keep my mouth shut.

I will. I have. Phil, I'm not going to say anything.

-I swear.

-I want to believe you, Ian, I really do.

I've got my head together.

Because if I can't, I'm going to have to make a decision. I really don't want to do that.

But it might just come down to that

You...

Ben. I have to choose.

No, you don't.

You don't have to, Phil. You don't have to choose. I promise you.

I am 100% reliable.

Well, I am going to be close

and I am going to be watching, all right?

Enjoy the wedding.

Mandy, Lucy, Bobby - breakfast!

Whose is that?

That's Mandy's, innit?

You are joking?

I thought Ian was meant to be having cash-flow problems.

It's a gift, innit? It's from Phil.

Oh, yeah, right. Of course it is.

-Because those two love each other so much.

-Max!

Can you give us a hand, darling. I need someone with a head for heights.

All right, give me a sec.

Hello, Ian. I'd like a word with you.

I can't talk now. I'm having a crisis. Lucy. Lucy!

-What is going on?

-Nothing, love. Nothing at all. Hiya.

-Bride-to-be. You must be really excited.

-Yeah. Size six.

-Why don't you go back upstairs and try it on, love.

-What?

-Please, Just go try it on, for me. Please.

-Did you want me?

-Go on.

-Dad?

-Yeah, I'll be back in a minute.

Ooh, strawberries.

What's the problem?

You told me you were skint and you've got a white Rolls-Royce

waiting to take you to the church.

-Registry office!

-Whatever.

-A Rolls?

Don't pretend like you don't know. Ian!

If you can afford to pay for that, then you can afford to pay me.

I can...

What... I can't.

I didn't pay for that. Just ask Max, he'll explain.

-Oh, he did. He said Phil bought it as a present. Not likely.

-Phil?

That's what he said.

Now, I suggest you hand over some cash,

otherwise I'm going to get really nasty.

Janine, I can't. I haven't got a penny!

What, so you can afford that, a wedding, a honeymoon,

and a fancy dress?

-It's cleaned me out, OK?

-Wrong.

I'm going to clean you out.

You're not going to be able to sell that house,

because I'm going to own it.

Janine, please. Have a heart, will you? It's my wedding day!

You're getting married yourself soon, aren't you?

So, come on, give us a break, yeah?

No. Remember, Ian,

I was the girl you paid fifty quid to have sex with.

When I had no friends, no money,

you were first in line, and I don't forget things like that.

So, I want a thousand pounds in cash by five o'clock today,

otherwise I'm going to call the lawyers.

Max!

-Max.

-Ian, do you know what time it is?

-Yeah.

That car...

Janine said Phil paid for it.

Yeah, yeah, pretty generous an' all.

-Otherwise you'd be going on a bike, Ian.

-He paid for it, yeah?

-It's a favour. A mate of his.

-Right, and that driver?

-I think he's a mate of Phil's.

-I don't like the look of him, Max.

I really don't like the look of him.

Well, he's no oil painting, I'll give you that.

Look, just get rid of him.

-What?

-Just get rid of him. You drive, yeah?

-Ian?

I am not getting in the car with him. I'm just not, OK! I'm not.

And don't tell Phil, yeah?

-I'm SO hungry.

-No, that's good.

It's good to have an appetite, it really is.

But... Just tuck this in here,

because I don't want you getting anything on your suit, OK? Good lad.

What are you doing? Why aren't you dressed yet?!

Why haven't you got your bridesmaid's dress on?

What's the rush?

Mandy's ring. Mandy's wedding ring, I put it here.

It's completely disappeared. Have you taken it?

No. What do you think I am?

Where are you going, Dad?

What are you doing?

-Where's your mum's wedding ring?

-I don't know.

-Where's Mum's wedding ring, I need...

-Dad! Dad!

Dad. You've got no right.

Give me that box. That's my stuff. That's my stuff!

-I need it. I need it.

-Give it to me!

I just need it.

-That's Mum's. That's Mum's wedding ring.

-What's she going to do, complain?

-How could you?

How could you?! Do you think I'm stupid?

Do you think that ring just miraculously disappeared?

Bobby, go back in there and I'll deal with you in a minute, OK?

Please, son. Go back in there.

Lucy, you took the ring. I know you took the ring!

-What is going on?

-Nothing. Nothing.

Oh, doesn't she look beautiful? You look so beautiful, love.

Doesn't she, Lucy? Doesn't she?

Here, try the bouquet.

I bet you'll look as pretty as a picture!

-Lucy!

-If you marry that...

If you marry that, she will destroy your life.

You just don't stop, do you?

-He's my dad. He's got no-one else to protect him.

-He doesn't need protecting, Lucy.

He's a grown man.

What, and you love him, do you? You're head-over-heels?

Lucy, that is enough, please. That is enough.

My feelings are my business. Not yours.

But don't. Don't pretend you care about him, Lucy, cos you don't.

All you care about is yourself.

You don't understand. You don't understand what he's been through.

-You think you're so different from the others! What makes YOU so different?

-Lucy, that's enough, OK?

I need you to put your bridesmaid's dress on. Go and put your dress on.

-I'll go and put my suit on, OK?

-Dad.

Please. Don't do this. She'll hurt you. Look at her.

You can see it in her eyes.

Mum broke your heart and you never recovered.

Never.

Mel was hot, blonde, bit like Mum.

Laura, she was just a safe bet, nice. Jane was the same.

But now you're trying it with her. Look at her.

LOOK at her! She's a scuzzy, second-rate version

of my beautiful mother

and it ain't going to make you happy.

No-one will make you happy like Mum did!

No, your mum did not make me happy.

-She did not make me happy, OK?

-But you loved her.

You loved her till it drove you mad.

No, no, no, no!

Stop talking about your mum, please, OK? Don't talk about any of them.

All of them, they were just a mistake, all right?

Mandy is the right woman for me, OK? She is the right woman for me.

I adore her, she adores me

and we are going to be very happy together. Aren't we? Aren't we?

-She can't even answer.

-Aren't we?

Yes, Ian.

You see?

Now, come on, let's just...

I got a ring, let just try it on, yeah.

-That's it.

-What you doing?

-It's a new ring, OK?

-Let's see if it fits.

-It's Mum's ring.

-No.

-Don't listen to her, please.

-Ian, please! Ow. OW!

Right, it's perfect, OK.

Now, you finish, go and get ready.

Go and put your dress on. I'm going to put my suit on.

-Then we'll go to the registry office.

-Ian, it's not even time.

-We'll go early and wait, OK?

No! I'm not going to let you do this.

You're going to have to choose.

It's me or her. You have to choose.

You can't make me do that.

You can't make me do that.

Peter don't want to know.

Do you really want me gone too?

Dad, I'm your little girl. We don't need her. We're a family.

Please, Dad. You're going to have to choose.

I can't.

-You have to.

-No.

Ian, it's OK. You can say.

-No, no, no, I can't. I can't.

-Choose!

Ian, choose.

I choose Mandy.

-What?!

-I choose Mandy.

-You can't.

-No, I've chosen Mandy.

-I'm your daughter.

No, that's it. That's all of it.

I have. I've chosen Mandy, OK?

-I'll go. I'll leave. I mean it. You'll never see me again!

-Fine, go! Just get out of here.

Just take your coat and your bag, and just go.

Go, Lucy. Just go.

Dad! Dad! Dad! What are you doing?

Look, just take this, it's all I got left.

No. Dad, you're mad. You're sick.

Dad...

-Where's Lucy gone?

-She's gone out.

Right, come on, Mand, let's get going.

My bouquet... It's ruined.

That's OK. No, it's fine. Look, I can fix it. I can. I can fix it.

No, no, you can't. You can't.

It's just a bouquet, OK. We don't actually need it. Come on, let's...

No, Ian, I haven't got a bouquet and I haven't got a bridesmaid.

I just think, you know, maybe we need to rethink all this, because...

No, no, it's all right. It's all right. Just calm down.

-I'll get another bouquet. I'll be back, promise.

-You're not even dressed!

Everything's fine, OK. Everything's perfect.

Don't get your suit dirty.

Stick some flowers together - anything.

I'll get you the money. I'll be back.

Tanya, where's Max?

-He's getting the car, I think.

-I need money.

Nice sarnies.

-She's really upset.

-Luce? Luce?

-That money I gave you earlier, where is it?

-What?

Where's that money? I need it.

-What is wrong with you?!

-Is it in there?

-Will you calm down?

-Thank you for sticking your nose in. I

-beg your pardon...

I just spent the last half-hour putting these decorations up.

I never asked you to. It looks pathetic.

I don't want it. All I want to do is get married. Lucy, where's the money. Thanks.

-Ian! Come outside.

-No.

No, I'm not going anywhere with you.

I know what you're playing at. I've seen that driver of yours

-and I'm not going with him.

-Come outside.

-No!

Get your hands off me. Otherwise I'll tell everyone what you've done.

What you both did, OK? How'd you like that, eh? You'd like that?

I think you've been on the bubbly already, ain't you?

You go and have a good time, mate, all right.

Yeah, I'm going to.

Cos pretty soon I'm going to be happily married.

Just you wait and see.

Just wait and see.

Ian, I've sorted out another motor.

Just keep the engine running.

There you go. Keep the change.

In a minute, OK? In a minute.

Mandy?

Mandy!

What you doing?

You need to get dressed. You need to put your dress on.

I'm not going to be getting changed, Ian.

Look. I've got you a bouquet. Here. Take it.

Ian.

I'm going.

What?

You better take this.

No. I can't. It's yours. You need to put it on.

We don't have to wait till the registry office.

-Ian...

-Look, it'll go on.

I don't want it on!

Do you understand?

Why not?

I don't want that ring on my finger.

Why not?

Are you really that blind?

Look at you.

Look at us.

-What I've done to you.

-No.

No, I'm fine.

I'm fine.

I've just been a bit busy, you know, what with one thing and another.

I just got a little bit...

Look, I just need to get changed, OK?

It'll take me ten minutes. Maybe five.

Yeah, I'll do that. Just wait there. You'll see.

Ian, I won't be here when you come back down.

No, you will.

You will.

No, I won't. I'm going.

I mean it.

You can't.

No, you can't.

Because I love you.

I want... I want to marry you.

Well, I don't feel the same.

Was it... Was it something I did?

Was it something I said? No.

Was it something Lucy said?

If it was something Lucy said,

you can't pay any attention, because she's just a selfish brat.

She is. She is just a selfish brat.

You just chucked your daughter out the house, Ian.

Is it because I hesitated?

Is that it? Is it? But I had to.

I had to. Just think, OK?

Cos Lucy...

I wanted you. I did.

I wanted you.

Why?

Why do you want me?

What do you think I'm going to do?

Solve all your problems? Make you happy?

Make YOU feel better about yourself?

Yeah, yeah, you have. You will. You do.

No, Ian. I won't.

You think I will.

You know, you hope I will.

You know, you think you'll stick that ring on my finger

and everything's going to be OK, you're whole world will change.

But it won't, Ian. It won't.

Because you'll still be middle-aged.

And I will still be empty...

and disgusting

and a complete waste of space.

-No, no, why are you saying that?

-Because it's true, Ian. It's true.

I've been here before.

You know, this close to getting married, and I never do it.

And do you want to know why?

It's because I don't want anybody that close to me,

I don't want people to see me for who I really am.

Look, I've been that close to you, haven't I?

I like you. I like what I see.

What? What is that, Ian?

Some second-rate version of Cindy?

No. No. No. That was just Lucy spouting off, OK?

That was Lucy, OK? That's not true. That is not true.

Ian, the truth is

you don't see me at all.

You don't.

You know, I'm just the girl.

I'm just the girl that you could never get when you were sixteen.

You know, the girl that would never look at you.

You know, the one that always went off with the fit bloke.

But now you think you can get me, Ian.

You think you can wrap me up and keep me all to yourself

with your house and your money.

But you can't, Ian. You can't.

Because it doesn't work, you know?

It doesn't work upstairs

and it ain't working downstairs either.

No, look.

Look, I know I've had some problems in the bedroom.

I know, but it's stress, OK? It's stress, all right? I'm fine.

I am fine. I'll go see a doctor. I will.

No, Ian.

Darling, you don't need to go and see a doctor.

You just need someone that loves you as much as...

As much as you love them.

I really care about you, I do.

You're a good bloke.

Underneath it all, you're sweet and you're vulnerable.

You're a bit messed up, you know, like me.

But we don't fit.

We don't.

And you know it.

Don't go.

Please, don't go.

I can't.

I can't get it all wrong again.

Sorry.

Please. Please!

Please, don't go. Just listen, just listen, OK?

You're not thinking straight.

Look, you're scared, OK?

It's only natural. So am I.

But as soon as you're married and you're Mrs Beale,

you'll have the most devoted husband ever, OK? I won't leave your side.

Not for one second, I promise you.

What makes you think that is what I want?

Do you know anything about me?

I lost my mother two days ago, Ian.

Do you care?

Do you care how I feel?

She didn't love me one bit. Not one bit.

And now she's gone, I've got no-one and I still don't want this,

I still don't want to settle.

So, do you get it now, Ian?

Do you understand?

I thought... I thought I could make myself love you, Ian.

But I just can't.

Please, Mand. Mand. Mand.

Please, please don't. Please, don't go.

I'll die if you go. I'll die.

I really will. Please.

Please, Mandy, don't go.

-Ian, get up, you're making a fool of yourself.

-I don't care! OK?

Mandy, please, just give me a chance. Please, I'm begging you.

Marry me. Please.

Just one chance. Please, Mandy, please. I'm begging you.

Marry me. Please?

Bye, Ian.

Mand?

Mandy!

Ian, darling, are you all right?

Did she hear me? Do you think she heard me?

Yeah, yeah, she definitely heard you, mate.

He's watching me.

Max, look. He's watching me.

Do you think he told her?

-Did you tell her to go? Did you?

-Dad!

-Did you tell her to go?!

-Dad?

What are you doing?

She's gone, love.

She's left me.

Just like all of them

None of them like me.

None of them. None of them love me. Why?

-Why?

-Ian, why don't you come back inside, darling?

-We'll have a sit down and...

-No, it's all right.

Come on, Dad.

Come on. Come on.

Do you think I should go after her?

Come on.

Why don't you sit down?

I can't sit down.

I can't sit down. Cos...

I've got things to do. I have... I've got things to do.

-Look at the mess in there.

-Dad...

I've got to...

I've got to phone the registry office

and I need to phone the cruise.

Why don't you make Bobby breakfast?

-He's really hungry, aren't you, Bobby?

-Yeah.

You could make him that lovely breakfast you were talking about. Pancakes and syrup.

Yeah, yeah, pancakes and...

-Yeah, pancakes and syrup.

-Yeah. Look, it's all here.

-What do you say?

-Yeah, yeah, pancakes and syrup.

Bobby, you go and watch telly.

I'll be right back.

Yeah.

I'll do Bobby's breakfast, yeah?

Yeah, pancakes and syrup.

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I mean, he's not making any sense at all.

-Do you think we should call a doctor?

-Yeah, Lauren.

-Go and get a doctor.

-I'll go. I'll go.

Why don't you go home and just keep an eye on him.

Lucy.

How bad is he?

I don't know. He keeps acting all weird.

If you're worried,

you know, if he does anything strange, says anything crazy,

you just give me a call, yeah?

I'll be there. Night or day.

Thanks, Phil.

Bobby, where's Dad?

Dad? Dad!

Dad!

Dad!

Dad!

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