29/10/2015 EastEnders

MAN GROANS

I'm not sure about this.

The doctors weren't too happy either, you discharging yourself.

Why not?

They said they wanted to do more tests or something.

Just...stop fussing, will ya?

BEN CLEARS HIS THROAT

I ain't seen nothing of Gavin.

Don't reckon we will neither.

Marsden reckons he'd be stupid to try anything now.

Well, you can forget about him, he'll be...history soon enough.

Listen, Dad, I'm...I'm sorry I didn't get you the...

What you asked for.

There didn't seem any point, not when Sharon said you was coming home.

PHIL SIGHS

Dad...

..you are...

-You are all right, yeah?

-I'm fine.

-It didn't seem like that back in the hospital.

-Ain't you got work to do?

PHONE BUZZES

-Any news?

-Well, the police called a few minutes ago.

They said there's still no sign of him.

-Look, I really should be getting back to the cafe.

-Look, you go, love. Go on, I'll be fine.

-Are you sure?

-Well, I've got this if there's a problem, haven't I? Go on.

PHONE BUZZES

Three for a fiver. Get your Halloween pumpkins here.

-Come on.

-Come on. How often do I have a party?

I know, I know, but Auntie Fatima's coming over to talk about all the wedding stuff.

-Oh, Auntie Fatima!

-What's your problem?

She's coming to help me with all the Mehndi stuff.

There's lots and lots and lots and lots of stuff to do.

OK. I can come and help you on my break if you want.

-Thank you. See you in a bit then.

-All right.

Hey, don't forget Imam Ali's coming this afternoon, all right, best behaviour.

Oh, mate. Want me to give you a hand?

-No, I'm OK.

-I can...

-No, I'm OK.

HE SIGHS

-What's the matter with him?

-Oh, I dunno.

Stress of the wedding and that, I suppose.

-Shabs is all sweetness and light.

-Yeah.

-They're all right them two, ain't they?

-Yeah, yeah.

-It's just something he said the other night.

-What?

-To be honest, I thought he'd have told Shabs by now, but...

-Oh, come on! Tell me.

He said it ain't happening.

-He said he's calling the wedding off.

-What?!

I'll just borrow your brolly, all right? Two seconds.

We're going to need sweets for the trick-or-treaters.

-Yeah, I think there's some behind the bar.

-That place we wanted for the wedding, someone's just cancelled.

-They're saying it's ours if we want it.

-Well, of course we want it.

Oh, yes! Yes, please.

-Does she have to be so loud?

-Good night was it?

I just caught up with a mate that I trained with.

-Had a few beers and that.

-A few beers, yeah.

You're only young once. Let the boy enjoy himself.

-Does Fatboy know you've been enjoying yourself, does he?

-Oh!

-Here are.

-Oh, ta.

-Good news about the venue, eh?

-Yeah.

-Everything working out all right?

-Yep.

Just one fly in the ointment.

Sticks in my craw, him behaving like there's nothing happened.

And in my day, it wouldn't have been allowed.

-You all right, mate?

-Yes, fine.

In other words, do one, yeah?

Kush, what is this, mate? You know, one minute you're saying the wedding ain't happening,

then next minute we're tucking into chips and pickled eggs.

-Last minute nerves.

-It ain't last minute though, is it?

Soon will be though.

-Paula and Clive?

-And Raquel.

I can't leave her out, not if we're inviting them.

-You can if we don't.

-Yeah, but...

-I thought we was going to keep it small.

You put them on the same table, they're going to iron each other out.

It's not a proper wedding without a good old-fashioned ruck.

-I've taken loads of people off my list already.

-And after the year my daughter's had,

I reckon you deserve to look forward to something a bit special.

And Halloween coming up as well. I'm getting spoilt.

-Mr and Ms Munster having it large.

-If I can get into my dress.

Of course you can. What you talking about?

-Did you have to say that? Really?

-Say what?

She never said a word about getting married, Mart.

All right. Not until she saw Dean and that social worker.

-That doesn't mean it's got anything to do with this, does it?

-I saw her CAO application, all right.

In the morning, yeah, it said Shabnam Masood,

and by the time you and Stace had come round it had changed - Shabnam Kazemi.

This ain't a wedding, this is just something else

to throw at the court, another reason why we should get Jade.

-You do want her though, don't you?

-Yes, of course I want her. Yes.

-And you want to get married?

-Yeah.

-So what's the problem?

-Well, I want to get married for the right reason.

You love her, don't you? She loves you.

-That seems good enough to me.

-KUSH SIGHS

I want that to be the ONLY reason.

Is Phil back?

So how is he?

Yeah, you know Dad. Jay, are these knock-off?

Do you think I'd be able to afford 'em if they weren't?

Anyway, Bonfire Night looks good.

And come tomorrow, no more stupid curfew either.

Listen, you cannot keep those here. There's gavvers all over the place, Jay.

Yeah, they're looking for a psycho, not a few knocked off fireworks.

Just relax, all right. I'll move them later.

But Phil's back now...so everything'll be fine.

I heard he was home.

No, thanks to you.

So, how is he?

Same as he was the last time you asked, Mum.

A mess.

"You don't know what he's like."

What?

That's what you said, weren't it?

"You don't know what Gavin's like."

What did you mean exactly?

Dad's been acting really weird, he won't tell me what's wrong.

-He's been calling.

-Gavin?

-What did he want?

-I don't know.

-Have you told the police?

-What for?

They might be able to trace him!

What, and you still believe in the tooth fairy, do you?

Look, I can't tell Phil, cos he won't even talk to me right now,

but...just warn him, yeah?

This ain't over.

-All right? You seen your mother?

-Oh, no, not yet.

-Sorry, Mick, Lady Di can't come in here.

-Oh, I'm sorry. I know. All right.

-Got a problem?

It's just Elaine trapping off. She's driving me.

Well, Dean's gone to get some stuff for the salon.

-Buster's working on the fish stall.

-Meaning?

Meaning that our place is hassle-free.

-I've got what's-her-name.

-I said hassle-free not dog-free.

All right.

BABY GURGLES

RATTLING

RATTLING

DOOR CREAKS

-What you doing sneaking around?

-Well, the door was locked, I was trying to open it quietly.

-I thought you might have your head down.

-You're supposed to be down the Arches, in't ya?

PHIL SIGHS

-Mum come to see me.

-And what did she want?

Gavin's been calling her. No, she didn't answer,

but... Well, we need to talk to Marsden,

get that panic button put in.

Mum's already had it in and I think we should too.

And how do you know this ain't some con that her and that ex of hers ain't cooking up?

And how do you know she ain't playing you along just like she did before?

-I don't think we should take any chances.

-Yeah, well, he ain't going to get any.

I can see what he's done to you already.

I saw the state you were in, Dad.

You practically begged me to get you a bottle of scotch.

And maybe you...you're in on it too.

-What?!

-I mean, you were before, weren't you?

-You knew what was going on, you just sat there twiddling your thumbs, didn't ya?

-No, I was not, all right.

I was here trying to raise HIS money.

And I've explained all that, yeah? I thought I was doing what was best!

Dad...please...

what happened?

Huh? This isn't right. You ain't right!

Oh, and you...you are, are ya?

-I saw you with that bloke, remember?

-No, you said we were going to forget all that.

Rolling around on the floor like a pair of dogs on heat.

That's your idea of right is it? Cos it ain't mine. That turned my stomach that did!

You'd be gone as soon as Jay's tag come off, that's what you said.

Well, I tell you what, it can't come a minute too soon!

-What are you doing?!

-Getting a coffee.

-You have a test drive booked in, haven't you?

-Not till 11 o'clock.

-Oh, mate, my poxy watch must've stopped. Listen, I'm so sorry.

-No, you're not.

-Sorry ain't going to cut it this time.

-What's wrong?

Lee, this ain't working. You know what, correction, YOU ain't working.

-Come on, mate, it's just a...

-No, no, no.

I'm going to have to let Sharon know about this one.

-How's your dad?

-Ain't you done enough damage?

-Oh, yeah. What about that one?

-Yeah, that's... nice.

-Nice?!

-Well, yeah, it's just it's...

It's just so instant, isn't it? You having to decide right here, right now.

You think I'm still doing this all too fast?

Fast?! Speedy Gonzales couldn't do it any quicker.

What does Mas think? I bet he's gutted that he's in Pakistan.

I still haven't told him.

What do you mean? What if he comes home and finds you married?

He'll be happy for us.

He loves Kush as much as I do, so why wouldn't he be?

Don't worry, it's a good thing.

Everything's going in the right direction.

We're getting married,

the application with Jade is going really well.

Don't look at me like that,

there's no harm in thinking positively.

Just look at the designs.

You really think that you're the only one, don't you?

The only one who's ever got any problems.

I wouldn't have any problems! Not if my mum hadn't have come back!

You don't mean that. I thought your old man was OK now anyway?

Her psycho husband's still out there though, isn't he?

He's tried to get her already,

it's only a matter of time before he gets his claws into my old man again.

-Have you told him that?

-He won't even look at me right now!

-Cos of you and me, I suppose?

-It doesn't help.

-Well, actually, it's cos of you.

-What?!

Look, he's too scared to face up to what you really are,

but, you know, I suppose he's got an excuse, he's old, he's stupid.

But what's yours? That's the bit I don't get!

-Look, I don't need no grief, all right? Not now, not today.

-I'm sick of it, Ben!

You know people pretending, running scared.

-You, my grandad.

-Les?!

-Seems he's been living a lie too.

-What does that mean?

And now my nan's in bits and he is too. Look, if he'd had the courage

all those years ago to say, "This is what I really am,"

none of this would have happened. But he didn't.

Ring any bells?

Dad's scared too. He's scared stiff.

-Has he said that?

-He didn't have to, Paul.

All right, I saw it back in the hospital.

I've never seen him like that before.

And that's why I want to do something! I want to help!

-So do it.

-He won't let me!

Do it anyway.

He's had it in for me from day one, I know he has.

My stupid watch stopped! It could've happened to anyone.

-Now he's talking about grassing me up.

-Lee...come on.

You wouldn't have gone to work today if I hadn't practically pushed you out the door.

Whose side are you on?

Yours. Ours. Lee, this job's the best thing that's happened to you in ages.

Yeah, well, there's other jobs.

-Are you serious?

-Yeah. If he's going to go talk to Sharon, I might as well start looking.

Well, that's why you've got to go and show him why he shouldn't!

TV PLAYS SOFTLY

SHE SIGHS

-Can you put them away?

-Yeah.

Oh, I was beginning to think you weren't coming.

Are you all right?

-Can you give us a minute, please, Stace?

-Yeah, of course. Yeah.

-I should probably get back to my stall anyway.

-Thanks.

What is it?

DOOR CLOSES

BEEPING

There you go.

Thanks.

It's only egg and chips.

You know what I mean.

-No ketchup?

-Of course.

-Where's Marsden's number?

-Why?

-I'm calling her. Getting that panic button put in.

-No, you ain't.

Yes, I am.

I don't see what the problem is, I'm going to be your wife anyway.

-Why?

-Why am I going to be your wife?

-Because I love you.

-No, why can't you just wait a week or two,

-so your father can be there?

-Cos everything's booked.

Oh, cos everything's booked, OK.

It's a name on a form.

-If it does help us get Jade, isn't that a good thing?

-And if all this with Jade wasn't happening,

would it have even have crossed your mind?

Yeah, because it had crossed both our minds if you...if you remember.

Of course I remember. Cos it felt right back then.

-Oh, well...

-Right now, it feels like there's some hidden agenda,

like you're hiding things from me.

Do you have any idea how that makes me feel?

Shabs?

Erm...

DOOR SLAMS

For the last time, I don't need no help from you.

I don't need no help from the Old Bill neither.

Dad, I ain't going to let you do this, all right?

I am not going to sit back and watch you

put yourself and the rest of us in danger.

And I ain't going to let you pretend like the other night never happened, neither.

-You were a mess.

-All right, all right, all right,

put the stupid thing in if you want to, all right?

-So what's the problem?

-What makes you say that?

Your face back in the cafe.

HE SIGHS

It's just wedding stuff, do you know what I mean?

And that's a problem?

-It is when Elaine keeps whacking her hooter in, yeah.

-Hmm. Mothers, eh?

You got a date yet?

New Year's Day.

Been finishing off the guest list this morning and...

Listen... It's all right, Mick, it's Linda's day.

-RATTLING

-It's Dean.

-Mum?

-You said he was going to be ages.

-Mick, go in the bedroom.

-Are you winding me up?

-Please!

-The door's bolted!

-Come on.

-Mum?

It's not just today, Whit. I mean, the other day he came in stinking of booze.

OK. Well, that was then, this is now.

So...what's the difference?

Me.

I will make sure that none of that happens again.

Please, Fats.

He needs this job, we both do.

-DEAN:

-I found what I needed in Mile End. A van load of towels - £100.

-Fell off a back of the back of a lorry, did they?

-Ask me no questions, I'll tell you no lies.

HE SNIFFS

You smell that?

It smells like dogs.

See ya.

DOOR OPENS AND CLOSES

-This is ridiculous.

-You know what he'd do if he found out.

Don't ask me to do nothing like that again, please.

Well, you're hiding me from Linda.

-DOOR OPENS

-Mum?

It's Bobby's, for Halloween.

Hmm. Going as his dad is he?

-Has Gavin called again?

-No.

-Or wouldn't you tell me anyway?

-I'm telling you the truth.

And I did what you said, I called Marsden.

They're trying to put a trace on him.

What's going to happen, Ben? When they catch him?

-What d'you mean?

-Well, he's going to twist things, in't he?

Make it look like the whole thing was my idea.

And no-one's going to believe me. Oh, don't worry, he'll make sure of that.

Mum, he won't!

I just...

I don't know what to do, Ben!

I do.

Seems such a shame. Everything you and Shabs have been through.

-Just giving up.

-I ain't giving up. It's just...

What, you think it's just a marriage of convenience?

-You think Shabs doesn't really want to marry you, it's just a means to an end?

-Course not.

Well, good, because I don't think I'd speak to you again if you did.

-Is Jade the answer?

-What?

-Is this wedding?

-The answer to what?

-Zaair?

He left this huge space, all right, in both our lives,

-is all this stuff going to fill it?

-No. No, of course it ain't.

-Does Shabnam know that?

-Well, did you say that to her?

-Well, no.

Don't you think you should? You and Shabs, you're right for each other, Kush. You know you are.

HE SIGHS

SIREN

TYRES SCREECH

If only they knew...

-how close they were.

-KNOCKING

Where's Kathy?

She's not coming.

-Me and you are going to have a little chat instead.

-I don't think so.

-How far do you think you'll get?

-Police! Open the door!

KNOCKING

Open up! Police!

DOG BARKS

I'm sorry.

I should have talked to you about...this.

I...I just panicked, I suppose.

-Panic means wedding?

-No! No, it doesn't.

And you're right...this isn't the way.

So...

let's postpone.

Well, unless you don't want to do this at all?

Of course I do. Course I do.

-BOTH LAUGH

-OK, cos then I really would start panicking.

I'm still...still me, Kush.

I still love you, I still want to marry you,

I just got a bit...ahead of myself.

I got a bit lost.

I'm still me.

I still want to marry you.

I still want to bring up Jade.

-I want to do all that and more, just, you know...

-For the right reasons.

The right reasons, yes.

OK.

So what do you want to do? Do you want to postpone?

-GAVIN:

-You really think I'm going to walk away from the woman I love?

-BEN LAUGHS

-Love?

That's a funny kind of love. I can see what you've done to her.

-So imagine what I'd do to someone I don't.

-I'm not scared of you.

You're scared of your own shadow.

Always was a mummy's boy. I told Kathy she'd have to toughen you up.

Tried doing it myself once, remember?

Must have got a real kick out of it, too, eh?

-Making a little boy cry.

-Making a grown man squeal, that's better.

Just ask Phil.

You're out of your league here, Ben.

You forget how well I know you.

And you forget how much I've changed, Gavin!

I may have been Kathy's little boy back in South Africa,

but Phil Mitchell brought me up.

I turned your dad into a quivering wreck like that.

So excuse me if I don't lose any sleep over him.

He won't stop till you're dead, you know.

And you carry on like this, that'll make two of us.

-Big talk for a small boy.

-One chance!

That's what you've got.

And that's a lot more than you gave Dad.

You choose, Gavin.

You go...

..or you stay for good.

CHATTER

Linda not working today?

-You need to stop this.

-Stop what?

-All this with L, doing her swede in about Dean.

-Don't tell me you're happy he's around?

We're getting on with our lives, looking forward to the wedding.

-Oh, yeah, that's what she said.

-Just leave it.

-I didn't believe her either.

SHE SIGHS

-Whit?

-Hmm?

-Do you think I'll get into this?

-Yeah.

Even with the baby fat I'm still carrying?

Linda, there is more fat on a chip.

-Lee, tell her will you?

-Tell her what?

-LINDA SIGHS

-I'll see what Nancy thinks when she gets back.

-Guess what? I've got some good news.

-What?

-Fats backed down as predicted.

-You're keeping your job?

-Ah, you worry too much. I told ya it'd sort itself out, didn't I, eh?

How about we celebrate? Have a few drinks. Oh, look what I got for Stacey's party.

-HE GROWLS

-Oh, it's good.

Actually, I know it's Halloween and everything,

but I thought we could stay in instead. Yeah?

Cosy up on the sofa, watch a film. It'll be nice.

-HE SIGHS

-Oi.

-We don't have to get smashed to enjoy ourselves, do we?

-Come on, Whit, I did what you asked.

All right, I got my nut down, I got Fats back on side.

Now all I want to do is let my hair down, relax and have a few beers. Is that really too much to ask?

Rumour has it I'm more fun than a four-pack.

Yeah, well, I've already got one mum thanks, I don't need another.

-How long's he been gone?

-A few hours.

-I called you soon as I knew.

-Right, I'm calling the police.

-Look, Ben told me not to.

Well, let's hope he's still talking when they find him.

-You know, Phil's going to go ape.

-He's my son too, Sharon!

-More's the pity.

-That ain't fair.

-Ben?!

-Tell me you haven't been to see that psycho?

I saw him.

-And?

-BEN SIGHS

And he's agreed to leave us alone.

-What?

-All of us.

He's said that before, Ben.

I saw him get on a train, all right, I watched him go.

This is it.

We ain't going to see him again.

Orange, please, Jace. There's Kush.

Yeah.

Hey. Well?

Come on, mate, don't leave me hanging. Wedding or no wedding?

-Wedding.

-Waa! All right!

-It was you and Stace working your magic.

-That's what it was?

-Yeah.

I've been meaning to talk to you about that, actually.

You know, everything she said,

about you and Shabs being right for each other...

..I reckon you're not the only ones.

What did I say to you, "give me a year," didn't I?

Now I think the time's come.

I'm going to ask Stace to be my wife.

Got a light, mate?

CHURCH BELL CHIMES