12/12/2017 EastEnders

Litter. No excuse.

Six figures, yeah?

Could be a lot more.

OK.

SPOON CHIMES

Oh, I was just bringing this up for you.

How's your hands?

Bit sore but...

I popped into the caff and told Tina we were closing.

HE TAKES A DEEP BREATH

Someone took it.

-Where did you get that?

-Found it.

-KNOCK AT DOOR

-You've been in there for hours!

-You really don't get women, do you?

-You want me to use the kitchen sink?

I take it that ain't for double biology?

Chatham, Riley, five minutes - you've got school!

-Ain't it a bit much?

-Watch and learn.

How come she's never got to go to school?

-She's got flu.

-It's very contagious.

-Have you told the school that?

But if you're well enough to put make-up on, then...

If you want turkey for Christmas, someone has to get a job.

-I'm getting a job.

-And I've already got a job.

I mean a proper job, don't I?

-We're staying in London?

-On the streets?

I told ya, we're not going to be on no streets.

Dad, I've got a mate I can stay with...

I know you have, and I'm not having it.

But the job in Stratford...

I've turned it down, cos I'm going to raise the dough

and I'm going to get us a nice little place.

How are you going to manage that?

-I've got a mate who's got a boozer...

-Who?

You don't know him, but he needs a manager.

-Where?

-Starting when?

-Soon, soon.

Why didn't you say?

He's only just rang. Cos I want us to focus on Christmas...

On the streets?

Will you shut up about being on the streets, please?

I'm going to get us a little flat.

-What, all together?

-Have you seen how much properties are, Dad?

Listen, we're going to manage.

Like I said, we're going to sell as much as we can from the Vic.

All right? So, you two, in the kitchen, eh?

-Is this for real?

-This is for real.

Oh, thank you.

I hope you know what you're doing.

Mick ain't up to it.

It's his calling.

You didn't see him when he nicked the Christmas tree.

-Taken your meds?

-Erm, later.

Forgive him his manners, I am just showing him how to make real coffee.

Right. Well, bring us one through, yeah?

Water, 96 degrees. Boil it, and you burn the beans.

Meds.

The guy is desperate for money.

So he's going to take risks.

Blood pressure?

Immuno-whatever.

AIDAN LAUGHS

Turn us up and down, and shake us, we'd rattle and roll.

So that's it? We're all in, yeah?

Yeah. One guy with a cane, another guy with someone else's liver.

Well, you're the one putting the team together.

Yeah, we need youth.

We need muscle.

Can you start with that top cupboard, sausage?

Have you seen how much corned beef Babe left?

Oh, sorry, I thought you were...

Johnny said it would be OK.

Yeah, I was just... I'll...

Erm, Linda, I was wondering,

erm...

if Woody hadn't have even gone, if he hadn't have mentioned Spain...

I need Christmas presents for the kids.

But we're winding down.

Even if it's just the occasional shift or half a shift,

or even when you're short.

I can't promise you anything regular.

Thank you.

Yeah, well, no-one deserves how that boy treated you.

You don't know anyone who eats corned beef, do you?

You stink.

So what?

Look, Cora can't stop you seeing Oscar.

I'm going to have a shower.

You ask him.

No, you ask him.

Do you want to buy a phone?

-Where did you get that from?

-Oi. Drinks Friday, yeah?

I'll do you a little deal on bottles.

Yeah, why not? Never too early to start Christmas, is it?

And if you know anyone that wants to buy a dartboard or an old Joanna...

Right. Donna, what do you reckon? Little drink Friday?

Make it a big drink, and I'll be there.

Right.

Robbie? You...

Christmas drinks, eh? Bit of office romance...

It's not an office.

..To keep getting better if they remain together,

and to continue to fly the flag for Walford.

The teenagers are currently enjoying time off after

a long but successful season... PHONE CHIMES

..which ended with the team winning the East London Youth League

and the cup double.

Although Walford Town finished runners-up,

they have made their manager proud.

He believes a team bonding session last summer put

the wheels in motion for a campaign to remember for the players.

If you hear of any jobs...

Ooh. Don't want a dartboard, do you, Robbie?

It contains hot liquids. Please do not burn your mouth.

-I'm losing my job.

-Oh, so it's just as well that Mick's found a mate

with a pub in London, then.

What, I don't have to sleep on Sonia's floor?

But I am going to need a little favour...

Drink on Friday?

For market traders, and non-traders.

It's not really my thing.

You haven't got a thing!

-Are you worried she's going to jump you, eh?

-He wishes.

You got a night in with your spreadsheets, then?

Probably got another hot date!

HE SIGHS

It wasn't me this time.

I'm hardworking.

Which is why you're not at school.

Let her speak.

I have a professional attitude. I'm reliable...

You delivered me five papers yesterday.

Which is not what happened today, so I'm a fast learner.

I like that answer.

I embrace opportunity...

She means she shoplifts.

You know what? Excuse my wife.

I just want a job. Cleaning, glass collecting...

Stand me in a toilet and I'll squirt people with perfume.

Give me anything, and I'll do it.

Look, I want to make something of my life.

I want to learn,

and when I look round here at people that have made it -

there's only one person I want to learn from.

Um, are you hitting on my husband?

I like your style,

but we're not recruiting at present.

Just a couple of shifts?

And the law states that you're actually too young.

KIM LAUGHS

Look, I'm sorry, but I've got to get to work, yeah?

So, if I...

if I just bring it round...

We'll look at it for you.

Bit of a disagreement there?

It's nothing serious.

Ooh, doesn't look it.

Yeah, well, it's sorted now.

Mate, you can't really... The fumes and...

DISTANT SIREN WAILS

Nice place you've got here.

Would you be interested in an extra bit of business...?

JP.

-Philip.

-Oh, you know each other?

Yeah, and he's trouble.

Well, I suppose I'll have to give you a discount, then, won't I?

This had better not be about you finding some muscle.

DOOR OPENS

DOOR CLOSES

Daddy's bought a dartboard!

Why are you putting the cake in the bin?

Is it because Oscar didn't come?

Come on. Let's give Uncle Max a bit of space, yeah.

I bet he was sad he couldn't come.

Mmm. That cake looks so yummy.

All right, go on. Get some plates.

How was I supposed to know?

He hasn't exactly got your hair, has he?

Look, he had a spot of bother - I helped sort it for him.

I was the one who asked you.

Mmm, and now his problem's gone away, I say he owes me.

It's bad enough you got the Carters involved, and Vincent the grass.

I heard your son had a bit of previous.

Look, it's not as if we're going to commit murder, is it?

He's a good lad.

Ain't we all?

And he stays out of trouble.

That's exactly what we need...

Listen, you do not get him involved, all right?!

Ah, the Mitchell roar.

Just no-one else from round here, OK?

I can wind you up every time, can't I?

There you are. Double egg and chips.

Sunny side down.

Perfect.

Go and mess up on your own doorstep.

I... I thought you was working from home today?

I've got to go to the wholesalers for a meeting.

Everything you're doing, Ian...

Me falling apart on you is the last thing you need.

You are not falling apart.

-Come on. I'm going to come with you.

-No! All right? I'm fine.

If you feel like you're up to doing something, OK,

Marie's got a chest infection, so Tina's on her own.

Go and have a bath and see how you feel after that, yeah?

Go.

There you go, darling.

Thanks for taking this stuff off me.

If you can't help a mate, you don't...

-BOTH THEIR PHONES CHIME

-Oh.

It's Kim.

Yeah, no, Linda. See you later.

Here you are, Teen.

Does anyone actually eat corned beef?

Well, there's plenty of mushy peas you can serve with it.

-Or potatoes.

-Ugh, custard.

-Can't carry all those...

-Easy.

I think Babe thought we were in the war, the tins in that kitchen.

We're never going to shift all this in two weeks.

If Ian's going to leave you in charge... Thanks, Teen.

I was wondering if any work had come up yet?

Yeah, well, you'd have to ask Kathy or Ian.

Are they around?

No, Kathy's off sick and Ian's gone somewhere,

but they're closing at New Year.

She's already going to kill me.

Sorry.

Oi.

Oi! What...?

No, you don't.

Lucky I was there.

Isn't it?

-If you want to thank me...

-What? For staging a robbery, yeah?

I like determination.

Determination's good.

So you'll give me a job?

Glass collecting.

£10 an hour?

Five. Cash in hand.

Only £5?

I am breaking the law by giving you anything,

and you can start by bringing in those bottles.

So, who's the poor girl, then?

Is it that funny, the thought I might have a date?

I'm not laughing.

-You just said...

-I'm winding you up.

-Laughing.

-Banter.

-I must get on.

-So, have you got a pic?

It isn't your business!

I thought we were mates.

It's all a big laugh to you, isn't it?

Someone might actually like me.

And no, she doesn't exist, all right?

So why would you say she...?

Donna, you're the one that assumed I had a date!

So why can't you come for a drink, then?

-I just can't.

-Why not?!

Because I've got a meeting with Mr Lister about

the future of this market.

What do you mean?

HE SIGHS

I was given until Christmas to improve things.

If he's not happy, we close!

I can't just give up.

Oscar's the one stuck in the middle of all this.

I get how it feels, yeah?

I mean, when Amy went to move in with her mum...

Yeah, two doors down.

Yeah, it still hurt.

You know, when Charlie took Matthew...

Yeah, but Matthew's not really yours, is he?

We were a family.

I'm just saying - I get it.

And when Matthew did go, you were there for me.

Look, you've got me, all right, you've got your girls...

I ain't got Lauren. She hates me.

You'll make it up to her.

Look, you've already made it up with Abi, ain't ya?

You've got Amy. You've got Ricky. Just focus on what you have got.

Max, when I lost Ron, you know, I was angry, all right?

I wanted to take it out on everyone.

All it does is eat you up.

Now, whatever anybody else has done to you,

mate, you've got to let it go.

Now, get out of my way.

SIREN WAILS

DOOR OPENS

Boys.

Since when?

Ah, gentlemen.

I don't know if you've all met.

Hello?

Hello?

Ian.

Terribly sorry, I've been in meetings.

One of my sons seems to have taken off gallivanting,

and rather left us in the lurch.

Coffee? Or something stronger?

No, I'm fine.

I've been looking forward to this - meeting you properly.

Come on in.

And I thought asking Ben was a joke...

-You asked Ben?

-It's enough you've got him here.

It's enough you're getting him dirty.

I'm old enough to know what I'm doing.

-And what are you doing?

-But getting a kid drawn into all this...

-He said you need muscles.

-I've got muscles.

-Proper muscles.

He ain't even told you what you're doing yet, has he?

As long as it ain't robbing old ladies.

-Well, at least you've got a line.

-I told you - not on my doorstep.

Look, could you keep the noise down?

-What's he promised you, free money?

-Well, it is free money.

-PHIL LAUGHS

-See?

Look, if you're going to

-keep on shouting, right...

-No-one is shouting!

-He's a boy.

-And he's a nice guy.

And he is a grass.

Enough.

I decide who's in and who's out,

and if anyone don't want to be here, now is the time to say.

So, did your mother send you?

She doesn't know that I'm here.

I worry it upset her, you selling her cafe to my company.

What do you want, now that you've got the caff?

Please, sit.

I want you to leave her alone.

Is that why you came?

Leave all of us alone.

I thought you might want to know what really happened.

Come on, then.

I'm waiting.

Your brother brought a weapon with him...

She's very lucky, having sons like you.

You've both got her eyes - kind eyes.

You deserve the truth.

DOOR SLAMS

Right, then, who's next?

-Latte, please.

-Right.

We were close. Long nights at the Dagmar.

Well, the Albert now, isn't it?

Good to see it finally reopened.

Just tell me...

She listened to me, and I listened to her,

and she was attracted to me from the moment we met.

You can feel it, can't you, that electricity in the air?

She hated your guts.

That's what she's told you. Doesn't mean it's true.

You were, what, 18, 19?

And when your children were that age,

they really knew you, did they?

Nothing you ever kept secret from them?

No little liaisons you didn't want them to know about?

Well, I was divorced, but she was married.

We tried so hard to resist,

but that night I could see it in her eyes -

she wanted me as much as I wanted her.

I loved her, Ian -

still do, like I've loved no-one else -

and the thing she found hardest in all of this was she loved me too.

And when that night, when we'd consummated our love -

and it was love -

she hated herself, and so she denied it,

because she couldn't accept what she wanted,

what her heart was telling her.

You're lying.

Why do you think your father left?

Oh, he tried, tried to stand by her,

tried to make himself believe her lies,

but you know, don't you, when a woman's lying to you?

When you're next to them at night, you know.

-My dad left...

-And it ripped him apart,

knowing that she cheated,

that he wasn't enough for her.

It wasn't like that.

That's what she's feeling so bad about.

Well, she's destroyed everything, all of you,

because she can't admit her own feelings.

I know my mum.

Do you?

I know when she's telling the truth.

Because she's never lied to you, has she?

Sounds too good to be true.

Genius, ain't it?

And no-one calls the Old Bill.

And no-one gets hurt.

-Ah...

-Bernie!

Our little paper-girl. Come on in.

Whoa, whoa, I thought I said no-one up here?

What did I say about getting kids involved?

I was just collecting the glasses.

So many jobs.

Any more of your family out there?

So many brothers.

She, erm, won't say nothing.

All right, you know what? Downstairs.

I'm really sorry.

Bernadette, isn't it?

I didn't hear nothing about nothing.

You know, a little drop of vinegar in the water

makes the glasses shine.

I'll, erm, keep her quiet.

This is a joke.

He gets his money early January. She ain't going to talk.

Early January?

Yeah. All the other details I'll let you know.

I will whistle, and you'll come.

Heard from your wife lately?

Maxwell told me she left.

All those weeks looking after her in hospital,

and then she just walks out?

I'm not here to...

There's women for you, Ian - fickle.

I'm here to talk about you and my mum.

I bet she wasn't the first to let you down.

I imagine you've been married before. You've got that look.

I'm not here to talk about my relationships.

You're telling me a woman's never played you?

Never used you, deceived you?

You said I deserved the truth.

Well, nothing in life is as simple as we make it out to be.

No, I'm not saying it's simple. I said...

Because unlike me, you respect women, don't you?

This isn't about me.

Never cheated. Never lied.

Why don't you...?

Never persuaded a woman to have sex with you.

-Never paid for it.

-Why don't you just admit it?

Women use sex as a tool - control.

Your daughter was the same, wasn't she?

Innocent on the surface, but, just underneath, loving her power.

Loving men wanting her.

Throwing herself at a man twice her age.

Don't you dare talk about my Lucy!

Well, that's what happened though, isn't it?

-That's what she did.

-Whatever Max has told you...

That's what women are like, isn't it?

Right. Then admit it.

Tell the truth. Say it!

You want the truth?

Your mum taunted me,

played with me,

denied me,

so I took it.

I showed her.

I did it.

I raped her.

# Ring-a-ling

# Hear them ring

# Soon it will be Christmas Day

# Strings of streetlights

# Even stoplights

# Blinking bright red and green... #

-HE CLEARS HIS THROAT

-Another drink?

It'll get easier, letting go.

Yeah.

# And above all this bustle you hear... #

What did you think you were going to do with it?

Those words?

Give me back my phone.

Get your little cafe back? Put me in prison?

Please, just...

She's already played that card.

I've been to prison for something I did not do.

No, no, no, please, please, please!

GRUNTING

I thought you would understand.

You're just like everyone else.

You come near me or any of my family again...

Love to your mum.