14/08/2017 EastEnders

Lou, it's going to be OK.

I should come with you, shouldn't I?

No, you can't miss your support group, and I'll be fine, Dad.

I know everyone at the clinic now.

You're too young to go on your own.

-Won't be on her own.

-I thought you was just dropping her off?

-Travis is meeting me there, remember?

-Yeah, course.

You OK, Dad? You don't seem yourself.

Nah, I'm fine. You take care, yeah?

Right, come on, Lou. Got to be back to work as soon as.

-Morning, Phil.

-Cheers, mate.

There you go, gorgeous.

So you just going to blank me all week, yeah?

I ain't blanking you. I'm just doing my job.

Well, we're not busy, so why don't you go upstairs

and I'll call you if we get a little rush?

-You want me out the way?

-No, I don't want you out the way.

-Just trying to do the right thing by ya.

-It's a bit late for that.

Do you know what? I've apologised.

Everything I say is wrong.

Where you going?

I'm not doing another back-to-back shift with you hating on me.

So, if you need me, you know where I am.

My child benefit hits my account on a Monday and it ain't there.

So sort it out, Sajid,

cos you do not want me to come down and see you in person!

It's fine. Just gotta give them a rocket from time to time.

Applied for over a dozen jobs over the weekend.

Done myself a new CV. Can you check it?

Oh, that looks great, love.

Look, you know we'll be fine.

-Yeah, it's not YOUR responsibility.

-I know.

So what is it? Some law firm touting for business?

No. Says she represents some development company.

They want to buy the car lot,

or at least the land where the car lot was.

Has she made an offer?

No, just says to give her a ring.

And will you?

-Probably.

-Probably?

We've been waiting for the right time to off-load that land.

Look, if we're not going to use it, we may as well sell it

as long as the price is right.

HE SIGHS

You all right? You don't look too good.

Yeah, I'm fine.

Going to be late for my group.

Well, ring her, yeah?

I don't want to argue with you, L.

Me, neither.

Er, I've been thinking about what you said.

We're taking the brunt of the shifts now.

You know, living together, working together. It's too much.

I know Tracey ain't settled at the Albert and I want her back.

I don't think Fi is going to like it

cos, if it was down to her, she'd want to hire younger people.

In other words, she wants low-cut tops

and push-up bras to pull in the punters.

And another thing...

you rehire Tracey, she's going to want to know why not Whitney

and I don't want to explain that to her. Do you?

You all right.

You came?

Well, why wouldn't I come?

I dunno, I just haven't seen you all weekend.

I know, I told ya, I've been busy, I've been working.

I'm here now, aren't I?

I haven't ordered yet. What do you fancy?

Just a coffee, please.

Not eating?

No, I've got a meeting in about half an hour.

Anyway, I'm surprised you got out for lunch. Short-staffed, aren't ya?

Tell me about it.

When are they going to appoint that new planning officer?

Look, if we haven't got much time,

I don't want to waste it talking about work.

New swimming costume.

Like it?

Yeah, it's nice, yeah.

-Like to see me in it?

-What, in here?

Cause a riot!

Don't be silly. It's a visual aid.

Sun, sea, sand, skimpy swimwear?

Come to Spain with me.

There, I've said it.

And I know it's short notice, and you'll probably say you can't,

but don't ask, don't get and all that.

-Sorry, what, you talking about this Friday?

-Yeah.

I can't do it, Carmel. Sorry, I'm...busy at work.

I can't ever see them agreeing to give me the time off.

Don't ask, don't get?

I'll ask, all right, but I don't hold out much hope.

-Do you want a coffee?

-Yeah.

Oh, hiya. Jack got in touch, then?

He did, yeah. Taken the flat.

-Thank you for your help.

-No, no worries. Pleased you got it.

So who's the client?

How much?

I didn't think this was a violent area.

Well, it isn't usually, unless you're a gnome.

-But you're not a gnome, so, welcome!

-Thanks.

Not sure Bex'll feel the same, though.

Teacher for a neighbour? Not cool.

No, she'll be pleased.

How's she getting on?

She's fretting about her exam results.

-But that's par for the course, innit?

-Yeah.

What's that, washing?

No room for a washing machine, so on the hunt for a launderette.

Ours closed down.

There's Soapy Suds on the high street,

but I could do it for you, if you like.

That's very kind, thank you, but I don't think I'd inflict my boxers

on anyone outside of a marriage.

Trust me, when it comes to men's smalls, I'm a dab hand.

Phil.

I just popped round to see Ben.

The boy said he's taken Louise up the hospital. Everything all right?

Yeah, it's just a...

Just a check-up, that's all.

-Well, you all right?

-Yeah, fine.

Got to get going.

Mum?

DOOR SLAMS

-Ooh!

-Ooh, ah...

Sorry!

Talk about mutton dressed as lamb,

but she's in pretty good shape for an older woman.

What's she like in bed?

Well, it's nice to know that you don't kiss and tell.

One thing's for sure,

she really wants you to go on this holiday

and you really need to keep her happy.

She's useful to us and she's only going to get more useful.

-So are we saying, what, I should go?

-No.

But she needs to think that you desperately want to

and, after that, what you say you'll do and what you actually do

aren't necessarily the same thing.

You have been staring at that coffee for half an hour now.

Oh, don't mind me. Just checking you were OK.

Kath...

do you believe in fate?

Who are you and what have you done with Phil Mitchell?

Do ya?

Something happened?

Someone...

Someone wants to buy the car lot. An anonymous buyer.

They're willing to pay well over the odds.

How much?

Three hundred grand.

What, for that little patch?

What they going to do, drill for oil?

Why you looking so miserable?

Blimey, if that was me, I'd be throwing a party!

When it comes to that land, there's nothing to celebrate, is there?

Phil, are you OK?

Ain't sleeping much.

It's the trouble when you stop drinking,

you remember everything you've done and, when you do,

there's nowhere to hide.

And what have you got to hide from?

Probably the same thing that put that bottle in my hand

in the first place.

The fire.

-That was a long time ago.

-It don't matter.

Started having nightmares again when I...when I do sleep.

Woke up covered in sweat this morning.

Couple of hours later I got this offer.

-Just a coincidence.

-Is it?

When you do something wrong, you have to pay, don't ya?

Well, I never paid.

Not properly, not for the fire.

-You've gotta let it go.

-I can't.

Well, you've GOT to.

Because, if you don't, sooner or later you're going to let

the bottle do it for you.

-Have you spoken to Sharon about this?

-Nah.

Talk to her, Phil.

All right, she NEEDS to know.

You all right, son? What can I get ya?

Yeah, I saw your advert for bar staff in the window.

-I'd like to apply.

-Oh, I'm Linda. And you are?

Keanu.

-Have you worked a bar before, Keanu?

-No, but I'm a quick learner.

I'm sure you are, and don't worry, how are you meant to get experience

if no-one gives you a job?

L?

Excuse me.

So, we're advertising for bar staff now, are we?

Well, you were right.

I can't make an argument for Tracey

without opening up the Whitney debate with Lady Muck,

so I thought I'd compromise and hire someone new.

Is there a reason for not telling me, or...?

I hardly think you're in a position to criticise me

for keeping things to myself.

Now, Keanu, let's have a little chat, shall we?

Why ain't you at your group?

I, er...

just spoke to the lawyer.

They've offered 300,000.

That's way more than we thought.

More than it's worth.

What, you worried they're paying too much?

-I'm worried why.

-Well, it ain't your job to worry why!

I mean, if they want to pay over the odds, let them.

Oh, Phil, money like that, it'd be real security.

-We've got security.

-Yeah, but you can't get too much.

Phil, you've had a major operation.

None of us wants to think about all the bad things that could happen,

but we have to.

You know, if you get ill again,

and you need some kind of care, well, it ain't cheap.

I ain't going to sell it.

Sorry?

I ain't selling.

Oh, so that's it? No discussion?

You're just going to wave goodbye to a life-changing amount of money?

Sharon, I know it's hard for you to understand...

Yeah, so help me, Phil, help me understand,

because right now I'm really confused.

Have you spoke to Phil recently?

Not for a few days, no.

Only I saw him in the Square earlier and he just looked at me funny.

I tried to talk to him and he just walked off.

Well, it's probably that ugly mug of yours, you know.

If you ain't expecting it...

Look, but seriously, something didn't seem right.

Well, he's probably just worried about Louise.

I mean, they've been through a lot lately, ain't they?

Yeah, yeah.

I've had plenty of time to think about the past,

how I've lived my life.

Well, I promised myself, when I came back, I'd try and put things right.

Put what things right?

Phil, I'm trying to understand, I really am.

I've got debts and I want to try and repay them.

Debts? Debts to who?

You're looked after.

You never have to worry, you know that.

As well as Dennis and Louise.

What's that got to do with debts?

Tony's boy, Aaron...

I want to set up a trust fund, give him the help his dad can't.

And Ray, I'd like to do something for him, too.

You don't have to do anything for him. You read the letter.

He's doing fine.

I'm his dad. I brought him into the world, didn't I?

There's a price to pay for that.

And Ben.

I should never have taken him out of my will.

So you're going to give Ben the car lot?

He wants the Arches.

He can have both.

Anyone else you want to shower gifts on?

Maybe something for Jay as well.

So me and Denny and Louise, we're looked after, yeah?

You've got the house, the life insurance, chunk of money set aside.

And this would give you peace?

I'm right behind you.

Well, it's nice to see that young Keanu's had plenty of work

"experiments".

We both know that should be "experience".

I've said he can have a trial shift and we'll take it from there.

I'm all for helping people get a first step up the ladder...

Well, that's exactly what I said.

Yeah, providing I've got some kind of faith

they can climb more than a couple of steps.

Or that they even know what a ladder's for.

He seems like a good kid.

I'm sure he is, but if you really feel the need to hire staff,

I'm just wondering what qualities he has over somebody like Whitney,

for example?

You said she left because Woody didn't want her working with

her ex-husband's family.

Linda, I'm not stupid.

Whitney leaves, a couple of days later you're slapping Mick

round the face for giving money to some girl.

I need a break before the evening shift.

Mick...

can I have a word?

-Hey.

-Hey.

Guess we're going to be bumping into each other more often now.

-You've heard I moved in nearby?

-Yep, Mum texted to tell me.

You said you were worried about your exams.

-No, I'm fine. That's just her projecting.

-Good.

Cos you'll be fine. You're amazing.

Thank you.

Hello, mate. You all right?

You don't like me much, do ya?

Hardly know ya.

Yeah, well, that's going to change.

We've got dinner tomorrow night.

We've got a week together in Marbella.

-So you're coming, then?

-Yeah. Just on my way to let her know.

Look, I know that you're worried about your mum.

You don't need to be.

Honestly, you know, hurting her is the last thing on my mind.

Doesn't mean it won't happen, does it? She's a romantic.

She gets swept away. Stops thinking straight.

My dad broke her heart.

Nearly killed her.

Just think about what you're doing, that's all I ask.

-SHARON:

-Hi, Ben!

-Hi, Jay!

-You all right?

Blimey, you two had your cholera jabs?

-They brought Chinese.

-Should've brought bleach!

-Sorry, it's not usually this bad.

-Food's going cold.

I've got some chopsticks somewhere. I'll dig 'em out.

-I'll have a fork for me.

-Yeah, and me.

That's something you got in common.

According to him, chopsticks are for stirring paint.

-So the girls not in?

-Nah, they've gone straight out.

Something wrong, Phil?

Nah, nah, fine.

Let's get the forks.

So that must go out to the garden?

-Mm, but I like the layout of this.

-Yeah.

-These the new flats?

-Yeah.

-Are you going for one?

-Maybe.

They're nice, ain't they? What you going for? Two bedrooms?

Yeah, we were thinking two beds, yeah.

What, and the other room's for Bobby, yeah?

Well, he's got to have somewhere to sleep.

Yeah, course he has.

But it's going to be free until he gets out, right?

-Yeah, Mum...

-So I could take his room till then, couldn't I?

-I mean, you could do with the extra cash.

-Yeah.

Oh, perfect! Right, I'll get the drinks in.

Over my dead body. Understood?

-Kush said that?

-Yeah.

Well, he's probably just looking out for ya.

Yeah, he don't want you to be hurt.

That's cos he doesn't know you.

We've got this meal tomorrow night, you, me and the boys.

-Need to spend some time together.

-Yeah.

-I can't help thinking maybe he's right about that holiday.

-Oh.

Nah, a week?

That's a lot of pressure to put on a relationship in the early days.

Well, I suppose it is,

if you haven't got much faith in it.

No, it's not that. It's just timing.

You know, there'll be plenty of opportunity

further down the line to do holidays, won't there?

You OK?

Course, yeah.

You're probably right.

Look, I'm just scared, that's all.

You know, I've been hurt in the past.

I don't want to be hurt again.

Look, I've been keeping my distance a little bit.

I've been holding back.

But I don't want to hold back any more, not with you, so...

if you'll still have me, I'd love to come to Spain.

I knew it!

I knew you'd come!

God, I love you, Max!

I'm sorry, I shouldn't've said that.

Done it again, haven't I?

Properly embarrassed myself.

No, no, no. Course you ain't.

Course you ain't.

Look, you've just said what I was too scared to say.

I feel the same way.

I love you, too.

Mick says you sent Keanu home.

You wanted to give him a trial. I watched him. He wasn't up to it.

It wasn't your decision to make!

Shall we take this upstairs?

-Said they'd give me a trial.

-Yeah, well, that's people for ya.

You know, they say one thing, they do another.

Bottom line is,

the only human beings we trust are the ones inside these four walls.

Well, apart from Keegan.

Look, I know how hard you've been trying,

but you don't have to put yourself through this.

There are easier ways.

-I told you, I don't want to sign on.

-It don't have to be for long.

No, that's not the life I imagined for myself, Mum!

It's just not.

You had no right to undermine me like that.

That was my decision. Mine!

Yeah, and in normal circumstances, that would be true.

-Normal circumstances?

-You're emotional.

But a pub lives or dies by the quality of its staff

and we can do better. You know that.

Something happened between Mick and Whitney and you're hurt,

and I understand, I really do.

Do you know what, Linda, one day I really hope we can be friends

and that we can share a bottle of wine together

and I can tell you just how much I do understand.

Do you want to talk about it?

You feel betrayed. I get it.

Do you know, when it happened to me I felt so angry,

I just wanted to hurt everybody

and in the end the only person I hurt was myself.

Now, forgive me if I'm overstepping the mark,

but if you're not careful, this anger that you're feeling

is going to destroy the one thing that you care about,

which is you and Mick.

And you can either give in to it or you can let it go.

You saying that I should forgive her?

No, I'm saying she's probably not even worth forgiving.

She's just a bump in the road,

unless you're telling me that you and Mick aren't strong enough

to cope with that?

My marriage is none of your business.

Well, you've got some front, I'll give you that.

I can't work out whether you're spinning me a line

to get what you want for the business

or if you genuinely want to help.

Don't really matter, cos you're right.

The more I push Whitney away, the more power I give her.

The more I let her hurt me.

Well, I ain't about to give a silly little girl like that

the satisfaction.

Is this going to be a regular Monday night thing, then?

Cos if it is, you won't catch me complaining.

No, tonight's a bit special.

I've, er...

I've had a lot of time to think about things while I was away.

How I've lived my life and how I want to live the rest of it.

You know my old man was a wrong'un, a proper wrong'un,

and I always told myself, if I ever had kids,

I would do the exact opposite of what he did.

But somehow, over the years, I seemed to lose sight of that.

I know that I've been a bad father.

I want to make up for that. I want to put things right.

I want to show that I've got faith in you.

You don't have to do anything.

I'm going to get Ritchie to sort out the paperwork tomorrow...

..and I'm going to give you the Arches.

-You serious?

-Yeah.

We knew how much you wanted it.

And there's something else, too.

Yeah, you can keep my socket set.

-Cheers, Dad.

-Well done, son. Pleased for ya.

What did you say to Lady Muck?

Nothing much. Just cleared the air.

Oh, and I've decided to give Whitney her job back.

Excuse me.

Munchkin looks happy.

See this area here, I thought I could divide it off, right,

and put in a telly, Wi-Fi, maybe a coffee machine?

It's a garage, not an espresso bar.

People need somewhere to wait, don't they?

Right, come on, Phil. Let's leave these two to it, yeah?

Actually, there was something else I wanted to say.

Jay, I've been guilty of treating you badly over the years as well.

Lola, that business with the young girl,

Lindsay, Star, whatever her name was.

I should have stood by you.

-It's fine, Phil.

-No, it ain't.

I think of you as another son.

I want you to have the same chance that Ben's got.

So the land that the car lot's on...

..I want you to have it.

It's yours.