18/10/2012 EastEnders

Everything we've worked for - it's ruined.

Your brother's wedding, it's ruined.

How could you do it, Tamwar?

I don't know.

-OK, come on, you can come out now, it's all right.

-Sy...

How much? How much do we owe?

Er... 12,000 - mortgage arrears.

12K? Man, that's a lot of money!

It says here you've had the letters.

I've not read any letters.

-You stupid, stupid boy!

-Whoa, whoa. Easy!

Sy?

You are useless!

Gutless!

All you had to do was tell us, Tamwar.

What...what are we expected to do now?

Just tell me, what are we expected to do?

-FAT BOY:

-"So if you'd like to raise your glasses...

"with whatever my mother has deemed appropriate..."

HE LAUGHS

Aww. "..to love."

Ah, Tam.

-AMERICAN ACCENT:

-Hey. Hey, Denise.

How you doing? No, no, no, come on.

HE CLEARS THROAT

Hey, Denise. How you doing? Oh, come on!

Hey, Denise. How you doing?

Mmm, yeah, I like that one.

You stop touching that, all right?

If you damage any of my property, you will hear from me!

You - explain yourself.

I can't, Mum. I can't, OK? It's not me. I've not done anything wrong.

-So this is their mistake, right?

-I don't know.

-You paid, yes?

-Listen, he has paid. You have paid the mortgage?

-That's not what I said.

Right, in that case, you stop. You stop doing that.

And you! Listen, tell your man to stop doing that.

He has paid the mortgage.

Come on, show them. Show them. Where? In here.

12K. That's a hell of a lot of...

Tamwar, show me!

Where's Syed?

-Look, take Yas for me.

-Christian...

-Not now, Rox.

4K.

Hey, 4K, and they go away for today.

-What?

-Give you some breathing space, bruv.

Show good willing to the bank manager, get down to the Citizens Advice...

a long lie down in a darkened room - whatever.

Erm...yeah...

OK, yeah.

This is our family business in crisis.

If this business goes down, we all go down.

That's enough, Zainab! We're going to be all right, OK?

I don't want them to take everything away that we've worked for, Masood, for some administrative error.

-And when I find it, you will swing.

-Can you get your hands on 4K, cash?

Huh?

So it's a win-win.

Er...

You get dinner on us down the road. Kim?

Well, if you ask nice, I can show you the way to the caff.

Lads!

-Kim, Kim, Kim. I'll meet you there, yeah?

-Yeah.

Ah!

Kids!

You have got one hour to empty your piggy bank.

Tick-tock, tick-tock, tick-tock, tick-tock, tick-tock, tick-tock...

-Christian...

-He's scared, all right? He's panicking.

He's left you on your wedding day. What is more important than you and him on your wedding day?

-It's his family. They're going to lose...

-So he runs away?

He runs away just when everybody needs him the most? What is he so scared of?

He did this to them, didn't he?

This is why you wanted my cash.

-Look, he didn't mean to, all right? It was wrong choices, bad investments.

-Listen to yourself!

-Please listen to yourself.

-You've never really liked him!

No. No, not really. Not much.

But I love you.

And he's supposed to love them

and he's just dropped them right in it.

He get you a wedding present yet?

-Nice tattoo on your forehead saying "doormat"?

-Oh, that's just lovely(!)

You want to be very, very careful, Christian, that you're not next.

We're done. Huh?

-We're done here.

-No, Christian, wait! Christian, hold on a min...

KIM: Look Amy, it's Mummy. Hey, Mummy!

Ooh, it's Mummy.

-Hey!

-How you doing? You missed us?

-Come on, baby, come on.

-Yeah, well, she's here now.

Come on, guys, let me show you where to fill up.

These are hungry boys. KIM CHUCKLES

DOOR OPENS

Pure class, that, Sy(!)

-Christian...

-What's the plan for the honeymoon?

Get to Paris and rip off some old granny?

HE MUTTERS

Suss it out, suss it out, suss it out.

Hello. Hello. What am I going to do with these table flowers?

Yeah, but what am I going to do with these table flowers? They're table flowers!

She ain't going to want no table flowers. What she going to do?

No. Low it, low it, low it.

What she going to do with some fat boy? You know, she's a big woman. She's a big woman.

But you are a man. You're a man.

You're a man. So go and knock on the door like a man.

Go and knock on the door like a man. Go and knock on the door like a man...

A flower is a flower. A flower's a flower.

A flower's a flower. A flower's a flower.

OK.

Let's do it in one minute. I'll do it in one minute.

I can do it in one minute. I just...

It's OK. It's going to be OK.

I just check the balance, make sure the money's in the kids' account,

then I get down the high street and I draw the lot out. The lot.

-You can stall them in the cafe, can't you, if you have to?

-If you lend me the price of a cuppa.

Thank you.

Shut up.

Thank God for Zainab.

Ain't every day you hear that being said.

Well, she's the one that insisted - saving for the kids' future, putting the child benefit away.

Especially after Kamil and Tam's college fund.

However strapped, she insisted.

I mean, there's got to be more than 4K in this account. And...

No. It doesn't add up.

-Tamwar, it just doesn't add up.

-No. I...

No, Tamwar!

You know, it's all well and good being marginally academic and having a GCSE in maths.

But that doesn't mean that you don't have to concentrate.

-Do you want to know where it all goes wrong for you, huh?

-Not particularly, no.

Because you've had this fundamental personality flaw

-from when you were Kamil's age.

-Tell me anyway.

You don't stick with things! You don't pay attention to the details -

to the little things.

You want to know why Afia got on that moped of hers, hmm, and rode off into the sunset?

Oh, I'm sorry. Did I hurt your feelings, Tamwar?

Because you have just spoilt your brother's wedding.

You need to think about the rest of us for a change.

Your father, racing around Walford right now,

chasing after some harebrained scheme that AJ has come up with.

Tamwar...

think, all right? I just need you to think.

Where did you record the mortgage payments?

I didn't.

Then what is the point in being slightly above average intelligence

if you can't even get the principles right?

There are two columns. Do you see here? Two columns.

What goes in, what comes out. It is not rocket science.

It is basic office principle.

How - How?! - can someone forget to pay the mortgage?

-What kind of imbecile doesn't remember to pay the business mortgage?

-Syed!

Educated guess, Mum.

A Level in maths, physics, chemistry, biology -

oh, further maths.

So I'd say Syed, what with you putting him in charge of... What was it? Fixing my business.

HE MUTTERS

Just go, just go. Just be strong, just be strong. Big man, big man.

Just leave it, just leave it.

DENISE: Can I help you?

Er, erm...

Hey. I...

Amy! Amy, stop biting the nice man's legs!

Stop. I'm so sorry! I'm sorry.

-Not until you know him better.

-SHE CHUCKLES

I always say you can't judge a book by its cover.

-And bailiffs earn a mint, innit?

-Oi, you're spoken for.

-I know.

-I know. This is bantering.

-Yeah.

-I'm just having a little bit of banter, innit.

-Banter. Banter?

Don't much fancy the look of yours. Bad call.

Ooh! Someone's hungry.

So I just wanted to come ov...

Cos I... Cos what I wanted to do - I wanted to say, er, that...

D-Denise, I hope you get better soon.

With a...erm...

table decoration.

Yeah, you know, a beautiful flower is a beautiful flower.

What I mean is you and the flow...

-like the both of you...

-Yeah, yeah. Yeah.

-Yeah, I did get it.

-Cool.

-That's...very subtle.

-Well...

-So, yeah.

I guess I'll just take that...

..and go and pop it on a table.

Oh...

Oh, sorry. Yeah, sorry.

You know, I know, you know.

Like, I understand.

I mean, cos, like, you know, why would you,

in the cold light of day and that? But, er... I just wanted to say...

..I think you're amazing.

-There...

-Yeah? Mm-hm? Yeah? There...

Yeah?

There is...er...a lot of tables

in the B&B.

So I guess it might be better on a windowsill, or...

You can come and help me look for a place for it...

if you like.

# Let's get it on. #

I made a dreadful mistake.

-Dreadful mistake. I'm so, so sorry, Tamwar.

-You said.

There's a plan, OK? I'll call him.

Where your brother's concerned there's always a plan, isn't there?

Though why he wouldn't just tell us about it I don't know, but...

Oh! Oh, maybe he's getting all the paperwork together, yeah?

So that he can talk us through the strategy.

I tell you, that boy's entrepreneurial spirit,

it causes such unnecessary grief.

Yeah.

OK, er... you call your father. I'll...

You know, I'd pick Syed as my favourite as well, if I was his mum.

What did you say?

Syed is not my favourite.

I...I don't have favourites.

Tamwar... No, no, no...

SHE STUTTERS

Some children are just...

less capable. N-Not so independent.

They're less able to fend for themselves and some...

Are better looking and more fun and you like them more.

No! Tamwar...

-What?

-No.

It's all good. There's nothing to discuss, Mum. I'm an adult.

I'm not comparing birthday presents.

Just call Syed.

Listen to me. Hey...

I do love you.

Then stop expecting me to fall over.

Please.

You don't have to pick me up every time.

You don't have to go up the school and sort things out.

OK? The popular gang weren't leaving me out. I was just a geek,

with glasses and a plaster.

And...

I left myself out every playtime, messing about on a calculator, pretending to be a doctor.

I'm never going to grow floppy hair in my eyes and charm you, Mum.

-That's just how it is.

-No. No, that is not fair!

-Yeah.

No! We love you for who you are, Tamwar.

We love you both equally, yeah? Your father and I, we love you.

We gave you the restaurant.

We didn't give it to Syed. We didn't expect you to fail.

Tamwar, we gave the restaurant to you.

Yeah.

And thank you, but I didn't want it. I never wanted it.

This was your and Dad's dream.

I want to go to university.

And not Oxford, OK? Just some normal university where I can go...

muck about on a calculator,

brew up the cure to cancer - whatever it was I was supposed to have done when I finished school.

You don't have to back me if you don't want to, OK?

But I have to go to university now, Mum.

OK?

OK. Tamwar...

Wait!

Syed? SHE GROANS

Syed, can you call me when you get this, please, OK? Call me.

Come on! Zainab would never clear out the children's savings account.

University fees are her favourite soapbox. There's got to be some logical explanation.

-HE SIGHS

-Nothing.

Oh, try the, er...kitchen drawers.

Hello. Yes. Yes, I am STILL here...

No, I said I'm still here.

Yeah. Yeah. My wife and I...

No, because I don't have the account number, I've just got the card.

Yes. OK, yeah, the regular payments are in child...

Child benefits.

The regular payments are in child bene...

Child... Listen, Kevin! Look, I know Kevin isn't your real name but I'm up against the clock here.

Someone's taken our money.

YES! Yes, fraud.

I want to speak to the manager or whatever you call them in Mumbai...

I said whatever you...

Look, I've just got to speak to a manager now!

I want to report a robbery!

Cleared out.

Well, thi...

This can't be... I... There's...

-There's got to be a logical...

-Yeah, well, there's some expensive handbags out there.

It wasn't me. You don't think it was...me?

No.

Well, then, ask her what she's spent it on.

You know, and I'll clear out the booze, empty the restaurant fridge.

We can still raise the money. We can still turn this around, Mas.

Masood, we need to get back to the Argee Bhajee.

-She's doing it again.

-So ask her. You know, have it out.

Civilised conversation over a cup of coffee,

whatever it is you grown-ups do, but in half an hour...in twen...

in 15 minutes, those bailiffs are walking back into your restaurant and they are taking the lot.

Tick-tock.

Better or worse than the bathroom? What do you think?

It's looking good.

Nah. No, I don't think so.

Erm...

Ah.

Nah.

Maybe...back down in the dining room,

or...er...

closer to the bed.

Y-Yeah, yeah. Er...

Yeah, c-closer to the bed. I think that's a...

It's a good idea, and.... And, er...

-Yeah, I mean, you know, but to see it properly you've got to see it from every angle.

-Yeah. Yeah.

-Mm.

-Yeah.

So...you shut the curtains

and, er, maybe we can check it out.

-Yeah?

-Yeah.

-You knew this was coming.

-Look, we go away.

-You must have known about it for days - weeks, even.

-On our honeymoon, Christian.

It's what you want. It's what you've planned and organised

-and spent the past God knows how long going on about.

-You what?

-And when we get back...

-Going on?!

When we get back and the dust has settled, I will explain it then.

You mean when the Argee Bhajee's boarded up

and Tam's taken it in the neck?

-And your parents, when they can't pay the mortgage on their house?

-We will work it out then.

-No.

-Christian, this is my family.

-Yeah, well, they're mine now.

Look, I am not running this past you. We've booked a holiday.

It is non-refundable. We go on our honeymoon now.

Oh, grow up, Syed! We're supposed to be over there now.

Laughing, dancing, happy.

Now, I can cope with the fact that you have ruined my wedding day...

and I can live with the fact that you are a failed and useless businessman

-that goes behind my back...

-This is how it's going to be, is it?

-Every time we have an argument, you bring up a stupid kiss?

-..but I cannot live with a coward!

So you go and you leave this mess that you've made,

you go on that honeymoon now...

..and you go on your own.

THEY CHUCKLE

Right, lads, let's go.

Is that the time already? Oh, what a shame!

Game over.

No-one can say we didn't push it to the wire, people.

Asians running an Indian - who wants to live that cliche, eh?

Here you go.

Come on, sweetheart.

Thanks.

She wanted her daddy.

Come on, Amy.

Christian, listen to me. I've checked, all right?

I can get my hands on a couple of grand.

I tell you what - you go and play.

-Yeah, go on, you go with Yasmin.

-Go in Yasmin's room and go and play.

-Good girl.

There you go, sweetheart. In you go.

I'll see you in a minute.

All right, look, there is...

There is Amy's account and all that, but I have to give notice, so...

So the thing is...

I will lend it to them.

I know the Masoods aren't my family, but...

you are, and...

You can't afford to be dishing out loans.

They can have it. They can have it if that's what they want.

Look, I know it's none of my business.

I was just trying to look out for you.

I know.

I know I need to back off, so I'm going to back off, OK? I'll back off.

-Syed's your husband now, and...

-He's left me.

He's left me, Rox.

SHE SOBS

Dignity.

Dignity, please, Zainab.

Yes.

And when we get through this...

when the bailiffs are done and Syed is home from his honeymoon...

we can try and work out what went so very, very wrong here.

And you...

..you...

..you, Zainab...

you can tell us what you've done with all the cash from the kids' savings account.

Tamwar's college fund?

KNOCK AT DOOR

Because I am sure there's a reasonable explanation...

BAILIFF: Open up.

You heard the man.

And I am sure...you wouldn't do it again, Zainab.

You wouldn't lie,

behind my back AGAIN,

secrets AGAIN...

-Masood...

-I mean, it hasn't even been a year, has it?

-KNOCK AT DOOR

Gents...

Can we talk about this later?

It hasn't even been a year since you cheated on me!

HAS IT?

I mean, it has got to be something very important

to throw away your own kids' future.

Something vital, is it?

Or is it someone?

-I'm sorry.

-Who is it, Zainab?

Me.

Me.

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