02/11/2015 EastEnders

Hello, Princess.

What the hell are you playing at now?

My sister told me you were looking for me.

Oh, ignore him, Sharon. He's just playing games,

he doesn't have kids, he told me.

No. I told you I never wanted 'em.

I'm sorry, OK? I don't know why he's saying all this.

I do. Because he's sick.

None of this really matters now, though, does it?

It doesn't matter?

Gavin... Listen, please.

I made a choice, right?

I mean, all those years ago.

You said this is what we have to do -

we stage that car crash...

leave Ben...

..and I said, yes.

And all this because I went back on that, because I changed my mind.

And I know now...that I was wrong.

So, let's just walk right out of here now, the two of us.

And we can get on a plane,

and we could be on the other side of the world by this time tomorrow.

All those times, Kathy.

All those times you looked me in the eye, told me this is it,

-just me and you, from now on.

-I told you, it is, it will be.

And then what happened?

-You went to the police.

-I was in a state. I wasn't thinking straight.

And none of that, none of it would ever happen again, would it?

No more waking up wondering what's going to happen next.

Then it would really be just me and you.

And now you're doing this - this doesn't make sense.

None of it makes sense, don't you understand?!

-SHOUTING:

-Nothing makes sense, without you!

You've got me.

OK? You've got me.

You really mean that?

Yes.

No going back?

No.

Urgh!

Now get him in the front room.

I'll deal with him.

It's so weird.

It's so weird you turning up, tonight of all nights.

Roxy's taken Amy away for a few days.

So?

If you get rid of Buster and Shirley, then Dean's all on his own.

Really. Timing couldn't have been better.

For? Cos you still ain't told me.

And until you do nothing's going to happen, so...

Look, you're not going to be involved, OK? Not directly.

And nor will I.

Some people I know, they're going to pay Dean a visit and then...

..you know.

Then that's that.

That is the end of it for all of us.

And that's the end of Dean, yeah?

Is that too strong for you, Mick?

I've got a wife over the Vic, who I adore.

And she cannot get out of bed because of him.

So no, Ron, not too strong.

What was he talking about?

I told you, just ignore him.

You can't just ignore something like that.

He probably don't even know himself.

Yeah, but what was he saying about his sister?

She told him I was looking for him.

-Sharon, he was just shooting his mouth off.

-Because?

Because it's what he does, because he gets some kind of weird kick out of it, I don't know.

Yeah, but why say that? Of all things, Kathy,

why, "Hello Princess"?

He might have heard Den say it.

Kathy, who is she?

-What?

-His sister.

-For God's sake, Sharon...

-Where does she live? Maybe I could talk to her.

Look, he's got two. And they'll both tell you the same.

Sally washed her hands of him years ago, and Margaret,

-well, she should have done so and all.

-Margaret?

-Oh, are you OK?

-Yeah.

I am so sorry, Ben.

Yeah, you should be, and all.

Sharon...? Sharon!

So what happens now?

I don't know. Not yet.

In the meantime he's staying in there.

If I had my way, you'd be in there with him and all.

Back off, Dad, that ain't fair...

Oh, don't try defending her.

You've got yourself a right little lapdog there, ain't you?

Ben...

There was no need for that, Phil.

I'd better make sure he's OK.

Shame you didn't do that years ago, ain't it?

Did you know about this?

About what?

Mick, where do you keep disappearing to? We've got the judging to do.

Best costume.

-I'm going to go and check on L.

-I've checked on her. She's sleeping.

She IS all right, isn't she?

I mean, I know she needs a night off and all that, but everything is OK?

-It will be.

-Meaning?

Mick, what is it?

It will be.

How long are we going to have to wait, then?

Everyone's made a real effort, ain't they?

Well - almost everyone.

Mick, what are you doing?

Nothing, baby.

Just going to sort out a little treat.

Yeah, I'd like to book a room.

For tonight.

I don't believe you're doing this. Actually listening to a word he says.

-That's what Kathy said.

-Yeah, well, Kathy's right.

For once.

They've got the same name. So what? Loads of people are called that.

He said his sister told him I was looking for him. Margaret.

That's the name of the solicitor, the one who's been helping me

-with all this.

-My mum's got that name, and all.

So he just plucked it out of thin air, did he?

All right, well, leave him to me.

I've got a few scores I want to settle with him anyway.

-I'll soon find out what he's playing at.

-No, Phil.

-I'm doing this.

-What, after everything he's done to me?

You'll get your chance.

But I'm talking to him first.

Bit public, ain't it?

Not as public as the Vic. It's like a madhouse over there.

Well, couldn't it wait till tomorrow?

No. What it is...

What's the problem?

There's no problem.

Me and L, we was going to go away for the night.

Nice hotel.

It's Halloween.

I know, but...Tina and Tracey, they can cope, so...

the thing is, L, she's come down with some bug, she can't go.

And me being the dry lunch that I am...

-You can't cancel.

-No,

so I just thought that maybe you and Buster would fancy it.

I don't want no readies, it's all a freebie.

It's only a half hour down the road, it's close.

Yeah, Buster would love that.

He's been flat out on the stall all week.

OK. Well, I'll go and get the details,

-I'll be back in about quarter of an hour.

-Right.

Cheers.

Oh...! Sorry.

Any other day, you would have been.

GAVIN GROANS

HE COUGHS

Why?

Of all the things, why say that?

This all down to Phil, is it?

Thought I'd broken him good and proper.

Have you any idea, any idea at all?

I loved my dad, OK?

Warts and all - and there were a few, believe me.

But ever since he told me - him and Mum - that I wasn't theirs...

..well, that I was, but...

Every day, ever since, I've wondered, "Who? Where? Why?"

Please just tell me the truth, it's important.

You really meant all that?

Yes, Sharon.

Y-You're really...?

I'm your dad.

I hate him, Mum.

No. Don't tell you me you don't? Not after all this.

I hate what he's done. Of course I do.

That's not what I said.

But you're not to blame, Ben. I am.

Really(?)

What, you were the one waving your lighter all over those fireworks, was you?

I was the one who agreed to his stupid plan in the first place.

If I hadn't - if I'd said no,

if I'd told him right from the start that Ben comes with us -

then we could still be over there probably, together.

One big happy family?

A lot happier than we are right now, yeah.

He...is a psycho.

He should be locked up and they should throw away the key.

Whatever Gavin is, Ben...

I turned him into it.

If anyone should be punished here, then it's me.

DOOR OPENS AND CLOSES

-What's all this?

-Uh-oh...

-What's it look like?

-Someone's been a naughty boy.

You've got ten minutes.

Finally been given his marching orders?

I'm taking you away.

-What for?

-Dirty weekend.

Oh, Mum!

-Go and get yourself scrubbed up.

-So what's brought all this on?

-Nine minutes...

-Oh, right.

-He-he!

-Oh, don't!

Dean, I know tonight isn't exactly a good night

for you to be left alone.

Very funny.

Don't open the door to the bogeyman!

I don't understand. I've talked to Margaret time and again,

-why wouldn't she say anything?

-Cos I told her not to.

Just didn't see the point.

Den was your proper dad. The one who really mattered.

Picked you up when you fell, read you your bedtime story.

What did I do?

Quick fumble with some random bird up West? Hardly compares, does it?

You had what you were looking for anyway.

So did you know right from the start?

What?

Was that always the idea, the adoption, or did something happen?

You know, when I first had Denny -

my son -

when the midwife first...

put him in my arms, you know, the...

first person I thought of, the very first?

It was you. You and Carol.

I thought, she must have done this, maybe he did too.

They must have held me in their arms and then let me go.

You know, I held him.

I held my son in my arms and all I wanted to know was "why?"

So please, tell me what happened.

Here.

What's this?

Looked good back then, didn't we?

There's me...

Ted, Kathy's brother,

Eric, Phil's dad,

and Den.

You can even see old Henry Hubbard there, look, just behind.

Though he was never... part of the gang.

What's this got to do with anything?

Felt like we had the whole world at our feet in those days.

A lot of girls too, including your mum.

She had me sussed, though - the bad boy.

So what? You went to prison? And that's why you gave me away,

cos you were off the scene, Carol couldn't cope?

Look, please, I just need to know what happened.

Carol had a breakdown just after you were born.

YOU were around.

Yeah, well, I was er...never exactly cut out to be a dad.

Well, who is?

You know, when I came home with Denny I thought,

"How am I going to do this, how am I going to cope?" But you just do.

If you want to, yeah.

Oh...

Oh, right, that's it, you - what, you just couldn't be bothered?

I could lie to you, Sharon,

but look at my track record.

I just never did kids.

But Den - him and Ange...

..they were different.

So you handed me over just like that?

-And there was a big job coming up.

-What?

Bank in Hackney. Den cut me in.

You mean you traded me?

You got some bank job and my dad got me?

You really do want me to lie to you, don't you?

Make everything all sugar coated.

You don't know what London was like back then.

The Swinging Sixties... unless you were skint, of course.

So how else were the likes of us supposed to get up there?

Study hard and start a business? What with, Green Shield Stamps?

This is me, Sharon. This is who I am.

This is my dad.

No.

No, that was Den. I meant that.

He was the one who really counted, and don't you forget that neither.

I'd thank your lucky stars if I were you. Result all round.

DOOR OPENS

Everything all right?

-Sharon?

-Do you mind?

I think this is what they call a dad/daughter thing.

Right. It's my turn with him.

So what are you going to do, Phil?

Me and him. Alone.

-Poke me with your crutch again?

-I'll show you what I'm going to do, shall I?

Mum...

What's HE doing here?

G-Go with Phil, yeah? Go and make him a snack.

He's the man I told you about, he smashed up the pumpkin.

Hello again, Dennis. I'm your grandad.

Go through, darling, I'll be through soon.

You heard your mum.

Come on, mate. Come on, come in the kitchen.

All right, everyone, last ten minutes.

So get your drinks in then we'll be announcing the winner.

I suppose we already know who the loser is.

What did you say?

Deaf as well as useless.

You sure you can't do this?

I've got a feeling blood's going to be shed tonight

-and I don't see why it should be me.

-PHONE RINGS

I'll take that as a no, then.

It's done.

We're on.

I still think he could be spinning you a line.

-Because?

-Because that's what he does.

You know, he gets in your head. He finds your weakness

and then he goes for it.

Is that what he did to you?

He thought he'd "broken" you.

That's what he just said to me.

Phil, I don't understand, what does that mean?

-Phil?

-What does it matter, eh?

Well, you had a ruck with a couple of heavies.

That's what you told us when you came back.

It's not true, is it?

Phil, what did he do?

He did then exactly what he's doing now.

What you talking about?

He locked... He locked me in a room,

no windows, and the door was all boarded up

and then he... he left a bottle of Scotch there.

That's all he did, he didn't do anything else.

That's all he had to do and he knew it.

Did you...?

I was going mad, Sharon, I...

But I ain't...I ain't going anywhere near that stuff again.

But the point is, he plays games. And he's good at it

and that's what he's doing to you right now...

No, it's him, Phil.

It all adds up, everything he's saying.

You know, I've played this out so many times.

Over and over, all these years, a million different conversations

with a million different strangers I've seen in the street.

So what did he say?

What exactly...did he say?

DOOR OPENS

It's true, Kathy.

Me and Gavin.

What?

Everything he said. Every word.

So what happens now?

Simple.

We call the police.

That's the name of the hotel.

What about the extras?

Food, drink.

I'm only mucking about! I really appreciate it, Mick.

No point in it going to waste, is there?

Why didn't you give it to Tina?

I told you, she's working at the Vic tonight.

What about Elaine?

I wish she wasn't at the Vic tonight.

Look, Mick...

I know that we're never going to be like a normal family.

What are you talking about?

Well, if somebody had said to me that

Buster and I would have been looking after a little girl

I would have said they were mad. But we are, Mick.

And she's stroppy, like us.

I've turned my back on a lot of people over the years.

But I'm not going to turn my back on Jade.

She's our chance to put things right.

She can't put everything right.

Thanks, Mick.

This...just doesn't make any sense.

Makes perfect sense to me.

Look, please - just let me sort this.

Cos you've done such a good job so far, ain't you(?)

I was talking him round. You saw that, didn't you?

If you hadn't come steaming in like that...

If he hadn't, who knows what that psycho would have done?

You're still doing it, aren't you?

After everything he's put you through,

after everything he's done to Phil, you're still trying to protect him?

-No, I'm just thinking of you.

-What?

What he's said. I mean, that changes things, doesn't it?

Whatever Gavin's done, it's not like it was before.

You really will use anything, won't you?

You and him, Sharon, you're the same flesh and blood.

He sold me, Kathy.

He did a deal, a trade.

Me for a cut of some dodgy deal that was going down.

Flesh and blood?

Pounds, shilling and pence, more like.

You know, I always knew.

I knew that I'd walk into a room or...someone'd say something

and all of a sudden I'd look at 'em and that'd be it.

And I did. The minute he said all that, I knew.

I knew it was him.

And I can't begin to tell you how I wish it wasn't.

ALARM BEEPS

Shirl, come on!

Mick...

What you doing here?

Why tonight?

What?

Why tonight?

You want to do Dean, you could have done it any time you want.

Why NOT tonight?

Is it cos I've set it up? Just in case it goes all bandy?

Listen to me, Mick...

I'm not stitching you up, OK?

I know. Cos it ain't going to happen.

-What?

-I don't want any part of it.

You don't need to, all right? You've done your bit already.

You ain't going to do anything either. OK? Not tonight.

I'm going to go and see Shirley

and just tell her there's a problem with the booking.

Why are you protecting him?

-I'm protecting me, and I'm protecting my family.

-Really?!

By just letting that lowlife do exactly what he wants?

Mick, it just doesn't make any sense.

None of this...has ever made any sense to me.

So like I said - I don't want to know.

Wait...

What you going to do, Mick, you going to do absolutely nothing?

I get it, all right? Whatever he did to Linda, that is all done

and dusted but do you know, he is still with my sister.

What he did to Linda...is not over.

Well, then, all the more reason.

I respect you, Ron.

I love how much you care for your family.

If we go down this road now, it will never be over.

For any of us.

Hiya. Just say "Abi".

-Why?

-Cos she's the winner, it's obvious,

she's the hottest one by far.

-Winner's Abi.

-CHEERING

Great build-up, Mick(!)

Why now?

What?

Kathy didn't even know about all this

so why come out with it all now -

after all this time?

You still want a fairy tale, don't you?

You still want me to say, "I looked at you across that room

"and couldn't help myself.

"My little girl."

So there was no reason, it was just something to say, was it?

I'm honest, Sharon.

Might sound strange given how I've earned a living most of my life, but that's business.

When it comes to personal stuff

I tell it like it is.

Which don't make it any easier to hear, I know...

but at least you know where you stand.

I've called the police.

They'll be here any minute.

Course you have.

I don't lie either.

All right...

You want the truth?

I wanted you to know.

If all that really was going to happen...

I didn't want you not to.

Just didn't feel right.

Glad he kept his promise, though.

Could see it in your face.

The only thing I asked him to do for me.

Hadn't got the right, I know, but...

..what can I say? Always was a chancer.

Just every now and again,

on your birthday, Christmas, whenever...

..just say hello from me.

Hello, Princess.

POLICE SIREN

Haven't you got a pub to run?

Yeah. Got a wife I want to cuddle as well.

Hm...

This is my little treat, is it?

L...

I've been thinking about the wedding breakfast.

Why do they call it that?

Don't matter what time of day it is, it's always breakfast.

And that's all you've been thinking about, is it?

Yeah. What we could have.

Nothing else?

Nothing.

To be fair, it's...

..it's a good question.

-Where is he?

-He's in there, tied up.

Clear the rooms upstairs.

Who else is here?

Sharon and Dennis.

How long's he been here?

I called you straightaway.

What, and he just walked in? Just like that?

What's the matter?

He's in there. Now, get him out.

Sharon's right, Mum. This is the only way.

Is this some kind of wind-up?