03/12/2012 EastEnders

SHOUTING FROM VAN

Oi, oi, Paddy!

What's going on?

How are you?

Auf Wiedersehen.

Bealey! Bealey, he loves a bargain.

Bealey! Bealey!

Auf Wiedersehen.

Here, Bealey, I've got something for you, mate. Hold up.

Oh, Bealey, have I got something for you, mate.

Wait till you feast your mince pies on this.

-This is a bit special, this is. You're going to love it.

-Yes.

Ready, Bealey, look at this. Known as Gebrannte Mandeln.

AKA toasted almonds.

That's what I was trying to say. They're German, you know.

Just thought, a new line in the caff, make a few quid, say no more.

All right, suit yourself, thanks, mate. No, no, no, Fats.

That one's a bit special, all right.

Yeah? Me too.

-You done the same thing?

-Yeah!

-You old romantic. Let's get this stuff.

You all set?

As you'll ever be, yeah?

Yeah.

Good luck, Phil.

Be Ben and Jay needing it, me and Ian,

we'll just be spectators, won't we?

Good luck.

Do you want me to phone a cab?

There's no point driving there yourself.

The parking round there is terrible, everyone knows that.

I'm not going.

Right, Kat, where are you? I'm here. Kat?

-Kat's not here.

-What do you mean? Where is she then?

-She's out.

-I told her I was getting in first thing this morning.

That's probably why she took off, save her ears a bit.

Where is she then?

I don't know. She got a phone call and asked me to look after Tommy.

-Oh, look.

-Ahhh!

Jean, hold on, she got a phone call? From who?

I dunno. It was her mystery lover(!) SHE LAUGHS

That's funny, isn't it?

Yeah, yeah, exactly.

Come on then, Alfie, let's see what you've got.

Show the dog the rabbit.

Well, the bow-wow will not be disappointed.

You might want to go and get Max, right,

cos once you set your mince pies on these samples,

-see this order book, it's going to be chocka.

-Well, Max ain't here.

What do you mean he's not here? I've got a load of fags.

He went off this morning somewhere.

-Let's have a look, see if this looks as good as you say it is.

-Nah.

Right, forget Berlin, forget Hamburg, all right.

Once we get our Christmas market up and running

we will definitely put Germany in the shade.

Right, make sure you have some lunch please.

You all right, darling?

Can you keep an eye on Abi please, I think she's worried about Jay.

What about Nan?

Your nan's fine.

OK, well, this Ava woman then...?

No, Lauren.

Mum, I'm just interested.

I mean, does she have any kids, is she married?

She's been in this house, I've seen her

and I didn't even know who she was.

Darling, you've got enough on your plate right now.

You don't need to take that on as well.

If you're talking about Joey, forget him. I have.

No, we can't.

Why not?

Because.

Because what?

Look, we might be able to get an artificial one down the market.

You know, one that maybe looks a bit like that.

Yeah, right.

Looks like what?

-This.

-Whoa, that looks...

-Expensive.

-We could get all the decorations off Alfie.

-They still cost though.

-It is lovely though, innit?

-Imagine what that would look like in our front room.

-Bianca?

What? Now I'm a working woman...

Since when?

Since I'm going to do my new trial at Booty's.

All right, well the last one went belly-up, didn't it?

Well, this one won't, will it?

Anyway, now I've got my new secret weapon, eh, Whit?

Once I've done her hair extensions...

So we can get the tree?

-Maybe not that tree.

-Thank you.

But a tree, yeah.

-A proper tree?

-A proper tree.

-With all the trimmings?

-Yeah, a proper tree. With all the trimmings. Why not?

-Yes!

CAROL SIGHS

Grandad, you were supposed to get a few streamers, what are you doing?

What, and leave behind the Zwetschgamannla?

-See that here, dried plums.

-That's what it means.

And also we've got the, hold on, let me get this right. The Lebkuchen?

THEY LAUGH

-That's the...gingerbread.

-Gingerbread. Gingerbread.

And last and by no means least, wait till you see this,

right, let me get this right.

This is known as the, right, Nussknacker?

Carved nutcracker.

You were supposed to get a few samples and bring 'em back.

What are you going to do with all this lot?

We've got some ideas, haven't we?

-Oh, we certainly have, baby. We certainly have.

-Excuse me a sec.

Kat, sweetheart, listen I've left you three messages, darling.

Can you get back to me ASAP. Thank you.

HE SIGHS

He can't do it, Phil. He just can't face it.

This is his brother we're talking about here.

And that's why, OK? It's just too...raw.

-Yeah, well, Ben's feeling pretty raw right now, an' all.

-I know.

-Which means he needs all the support he can get.

-Phil, please.

Yeah, well, I'm not having this, OK. I'm just not having it.

You haven't really got a choice.

No? You want to watch me, OK. Just watch me.

No, not with the state Dad's in right now.

-I'm not having Beale bottle out of this, all right?

-I said, no.

Phil?

Phil, I'm coming with you.

No, I'm OK, Sharon.

-You are not doing this on your own.

-Look, I said I'm fine.

Well, what about the Social?

I'm meant to be your fiancee and I'm not there?

Well, this ain't about Lexi, is it?

Look, just give me a minute, OK?

Are you sure you don't want me to come with you?

What for? Slap on the wrist, that's what the brief reckons.

I don't want you there, listening to everything. I'll be fine. Really.

You busy?

Thought we could finish off what we started the other day.

What your mum put a stop to, you mean?

Yeah, well, she isn't here now, is she?

Got a million and one things to do before the wedding.

Listen, Lauren, your mother was right to break it up.

You're too young, too beautiful,

too smart to be spending your days like this with me.

As opposed to?

That's the point. It's up to you. You've got a choice.

Don't get so that you haven't.

I thought this was all about Lexi.

It is.

Right, and it's about Ben too now, is it?

Ben's Lexi's Dad.

Jack, Phil'd always help me out if Denny was in trouble.

Now, come here, kiss. Come on.

So who are you going to be helping out next, his Aunt Fanny from Frinton?

Well, you know what they say, Jack, a friend in need...

DOOR CLOSES

Is a pain in the backside.

You all right, Poppy? Thanks a lot.

Look, this'll be different this time. I promise.

Is she trialling an' all? I thought it was just me.

So did I. How many more people are doing this?

It's just the two of you, don't go off on one.

-Yeah. Keep your hair on, Bianca.

-Hello.

Tell you what, Poppy, I'll sort Bianca and Lola out if...

Oh, yeah. You get Whitney booked in.

I'm not here for an appointment.

Oh. You want your hair like this?

Lola, do you want to come with me?

Yeah.

I could have stopped all this.

What does that mean?

When I went to see Ben, with Phil, all right.

He wasn't listening to his dad.

And if I'd said to him, "Retract your statement",

then he'd have done it.

But you didn't?

I told him he had to decide what was right.

Which is true.

Yeah, he kind of knew what I was saying and so did Phil.

That's why he was looking daggers at me.

But that wouldn't have changed what he did though.

I mean, nothing you said would've changed that.

Yeah, but he was genuinely sorry, for everything he's done,

-I could see it in his eyes.

-That wouldn't have changed anything.

Heather would still be dead and Ben would still be responsible.

But if he'd taken back his statement, OK,

then maybe he would have managed to have walked out of there,

he could've come back here and been a different person,

maybe everything that's happened,

it might have changed him for the better.

Not going to know now, are we? Not where he's going.

It's just wishful thinking. That's what you're thinking, isn't it?

No, I'm thinking it's too late now anyway.

Derek, there's no laws that say that two Christmas stalls

can't sell the same sort of clobber, is there?

Yeah, and it's not like yours, Tyler's, and ours

are side by side or anything.

Yeah, but you're gaining an advantage.

-How?

-Well, you got the best pitch on the market.

Come on, Del, you're not chicken, are you?

Fats, what's the matter with you?

-What did you say? What did you say?

-Now, Derek, hold on a second.

Listen, Derek, mate, we're all going to clean up, aren't we, eh?

All right then, I'll tell you what we'll do.

-We'll have a festive wager.

-What?

My stall against yours.

The loser gives up their Christmas Eve's takings.

Oh, what's the matter, Fats?

What, we aren't going chicken, are we?

HE CHUCKLES

You all right, B? You all right, Lo?

All right?

You haven't come for a trial too, have you?

-What?

-Everyone else seems to be today.

No, no, no, no.

I came to give you this.

I brought it all the way from Germany. Just for you.

SHE GIGGLES

Thank you.

That's all right.

I should probably...

-Of course, of course. I'll give you a call later.

-Yeah.

All right, cool. Take care, ladies. Bye, bye.

Right, shall we see how you got on, shall we?

That's not bad.

Let's have a look at these.

That's not bad at all. It's good. Yeah. Well done, ladies.

You're working for tips only, mind.

Phil...

DOOR OPENS

Jay?

What's happened?

Four years.

I know it's more than you thought, but it's only community service.

It's not like you're going down or anything.

Jay?

What's the matter?

Abi, Abi, Abi, just...

HE SIGHS

Just give him time, OK?

Is it my imagination or do Christmas decorations get tackier every year?

If Alfie Moon's got anything at all to do with it.

Still, it's better than hiding yourself away,

staring at four plain walls.

So now I'm back in the land of the living, what are you having?

As a matter of fact, I'm just having one for the road.

I'm going to spend Christmas with my son Anthony.

Since when?

Cora, I was down at the court with Jay.

What happened?

Community service.

I mean, it could have been worse, but he doesn't see it that way.

What about Ben?

Four years.

That could have been worse.

But it kind of brought home to me, you know,

what Christmas is really about.

Family. Old and new.

-Cora.

-It's all right, Patrick.

Meaning?

It's all right.

LOUD DANCE MUSIC

Where've you been?

Getting ready, obviously.

Getting something.

You are so out of it.

Yes, girls?

Let's start as we mean to go on, eh?

Can we have three... Can we have three of these...?

GLASS SHATTERS

SHE SNIGGERS

Looks like you started a little while ago, Lauren.

Sorry, what? What, have you got something to say, have you, barman?

Lauren!

You...you are not paid to give it any of this, are you? No.

Lauren, just leave it out.

You...you are paid to pour drinks.

Go on, pour. Go on.

Yes, Lauren, I am the barman. And I ain't serving you, all right?

Why?

Look at you, you can hardly stand up.

That's got nothing to do with you any more, has it?

I've got the good name of this place to think of.

Go on. Go on, Lauren. Go home.

Go on.

DOOR OPENS

I just had to get away from everybody.

This is where we did it, made up our story.

Didn't turn out much of a story, mind you.

Ben couldn't handle it, that's all.

I could.

My gob was well and truly shut.

You had your moments.

Not like his.

Well, he had more to...more to get off his chest.

I mean, he's the one that...

HE SIGHS

I never stopped him, you know.

How could you?

You said it yourself, didn't you, it just all happened so quickly.

I could have stopped him from going round Heather's in the first place.

You didn't know what he was going to do, did you?

Well, I saw the state he was in.

It was a fair bet that something was going to happen.

And you're not the one that should be

beating themselves up about it either.

Well, you weren't there, so you didn't know what was going to happen.

What, you don't think I didn't know what he was like?

And how sick he was?

He was a time-bomb, Jay, just waiting to go off and I knew it.

If it hadn't been Heather, it'd have been someone,

someone sooner or later.

And by rights it should have been me.

I mean, I was the one he was mad at.

Did he say anything to you?

No.

'Cept when they led him away and he looked over and...

And?

He smiled.

He smiled as if to say that everything was OK.

And suddenly it was like...

It was like I was the kid and he was my old man.

But I should have done something.

-I should have done something, something before.

-Like what?

I dunno.

Got him some help or something, I don't know.

But we don't do that, do we? Not this family, no.

No, we keep it close and we sort it out ourselves.

And not for the first time neither.

Meaning?

HE SIGHS

I let him down, Jay.

I should've done something instead of covering it all up

and denying everything, and Ben,

he could have got the help that he needed, you know.

And you and Ian,

you wouldn't have gone through the hell that you went through

and most important of all, Heather would still be here, wouldn't she?

And I can't do anything about any of that, Jay.

I can't do anything. Not now.

But I can do something about you.

And I know...I know you don't want any advice from me,

and I don't blame you, OK?

But I'm going to give it to you anyway.

Move on, Jay. Just move on.

HE SIGHS

Meaning get out of your life?

No, no, no.

I mean, you know, just get your head down,

do your community service.

Just get out of here.

And no. No, not get out of my life,

I could never cut you out of my family.

No matter what happened, you're as much a part of my family as Ben.

But look, Jay, look what I did to him.

Look what I did to him.

I don't want that. I don't want that to happen to you.

I don't...

I don't want to ruin your life as well.

Well, like you said, I've never been much good at taking advice.

-Just think about it, yeah?

-Yeah, maybe.

Jay...

Jay, I'm sorry.

I'm sorry, son. I'm sorry, son.

I'm sorry. I'm sorry, son.

I'm sorry.

Kat, listen, it's Alfie. This is the fourth message I've... Kat!

-Took longer than I thought.

-What did?

Not here.

Was that really what it was about?

The good of the club?

I told you to go, Lauren.

Yeah, and you've told me a lot of things.

-I don't understand...

-I can't explain, all right?

What does that mean - you can't explain?

-Cos I thought you'd already explained it?

-Lauren, all right...

Just forget it, all right.

Just forget about everything.

Why?

No, no, it's for the best, all right? It is.

What do you think?

It's a welcome-home present.

-Kat, it's lovely.

-Took me ages to choose that frame.

Look, got some lovely food.

If you'd told me you were getting back earlier I could've done that for you an' all.

What, and you've been out doing this all day, yeah?

You're worth it.

But I don't understand why. I mean, the christening was ages ago...

What's the matter?

I've actually got you a present.

If you've brought back a Lederhosen thong...

Couldn't resist it. Actually, you've caught me out.

I've, erm...

I know this is not your mum's ring or anything,

but if you look at it carefully the stones are really similar.

Alfie, it's lovely.

Is something wrong?

-I feel a bit bad.

-Bad?

This is such a sweet thought.

What's there to feel bad about?

Well, because half the stuff I got is just for me,

but you've gone and got me something for myself.

It was Grant, wasn't it? That's who you were thinking about,

when you told Jay it wasn't the first time you should have said something.

You really did hear everything, didn't you?

Well, I don't need to, not really.

I've seen it all at close quarters, haven't I?

The Mitchells - dealing with their own.

Does explain one thing though.

You getting all touchy with that fostering bloke.

All that about how you shouldn't be trusted bringing up Lexi.

Well, I failed with one kid big-time, didn't I?

Well, it makes it even more important then, doesn't it?

That you don't with her.

That whatever mistakes you made with Ben, you... Well, you put right.

And you think I can do that?

Come here.

How sweet.

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