0:00:02 > 0:00:07This programme contains very strong language and scenes of a sexual nature.
0:00:07 > 0:00:09Susan Brown is a breathing justification
0:00:09 > 0:00:11- of the capitalist system. - You old romantic fool.
0:00:11 > 0:00:14It's funny talking to you, Alice.
0:00:14 > 0:00:15It's like talking to a feller.
0:00:15 > 0:00:17Thanks, honey.
0:00:17 > 0:00:19I hear you've been going about with Alice Aisgill.
0:00:19 > 0:00:22Going about? I've been for a drink with her a few times.
0:00:34 > 0:00:36You make me feel funny inside.
0:00:36 > 0:00:38Don't fall in love with me.
0:00:39 > 0:00:41It's not the same thing, you know.
0:00:41 > 0:00:42Course not.
0:00:44 > 0:00:46Loving friends.
0:00:46 > 0:00:49You know I love you too, don't you?
0:00:49 > 0:00:50How much?
0:00:52 > 0:00:54A hundred thousand pounds.
0:00:54 > 0:00:57Alice. I'm sorry about everything.
0:00:57 > 0:00:59Come to Sparrow Hill.
0:00:59 > 0:01:01Please.
0:01:03 > 0:01:04That was fine.
0:01:06 > 0:01:07Fine?
0:01:09 > 0:01:11I don't mean "fine".
0:01:13 > 0:01:15I mean fine,
0:01:17 > 0:01:18like fine china.
0:01:19 > 0:01:20SHE LAUGHS
0:01:24 > 0:01:25I love you.
0:01:28 > 0:01:34I just mean, now we're together, I'm not lonely any more.
0:01:37 > 0:01:42When we were apart, it was like I wanted a fag all the time
0:01:42 > 0:01:44and never being able to have one.
0:01:47 > 0:01:48Simple as that.
0:01:52 > 0:01:55How do you know I'd not got somebody else?
0:01:55 > 0:01:57Calling me in the middle of the night.
0:01:59 > 0:02:01You haven't, have you?
0:02:06 > 0:02:08Alice...
0:02:11 > 0:02:12Do you love me?
0:02:17 > 0:02:20What do you think? You daft 'aporth.
0:02:27 > 0:02:29It doesn't change anything though, you know.
0:02:36 > 0:02:37Course it doesn't.
0:02:44 > 0:02:46Are you still going around with Susan Brown?
0:02:49 > 0:02:50In a manner of speaking.
0:02:52 > 0:02:54Her family's not keen.
0:02:54 > 0:02:57I bet. No wonder she likes you.
0:03:03 > 0:03:07You don't mind, do you? She's me shilling on the pools.
0:03:09 > 0:03:11Far be it for me to begrudge a man his flutter.
0:03:15 > 0:03:16PHONES RING
0:03:16 > 0:03:17TYPEWRITERS CLATTER
0:03:17 > 0:03:18HE WHISTLES
0:03:35 > 0:03:37What's that in aid of, Hoylake and Noakesy?
0:03:41 > 0:03:42SHE GIGGLES
0:03:44 > 0:03:45Haven't you got a home to go to?
0:03:47 > 0:03:48Dress me.
0:03:50 > 0:03:52You sensual old ram.
0:03:52 > 0:03:54Would you like me to?
0:03:54 > 0:03:56Why do you think I asked?
0:04:14 > 0:04:16I like being looked after.
0:04:18 > 0:04:20I feel as if you've left your hands all over me.
0:04:22 > 0:04:25I can smell you and all your scent.
0:04:28 > 0:04:29It's wonderful.
0:04:37 > 0:04:39I can't find your bloody socks.
0:04:41 > 0:04:43Hey, Alice.
0:04:46 > 0:04:47It's all right.
0:04:49 > 0:04:50They need darning.
0:04:52 > 0:04:57I'd darn your socks. I'd look after you all the time.
0:04:57 > 0:05:00I'd... I'd cook and clean your shoes and dress you
0:05:00 > 0:05:02if you wanted dressing, and have your children.
0:05:02 > 0:05:04I'd love it. You know I would.
0:05:07 > 0:05:09It's too late.
0:05:12 > 0:05:18Listen. Find me socks. Make us some tea, eh?
0:05:20 > 0:05:22Before I give you something to cry about.
0:05:27 > 0:05:28Oh.
0:05:43 > 0:05:45They're a disgrace.
0:05:49 > 0:05:50Let's go away together.
0:05:51 > 0:05:53I'm due a week's holiday.
0:05:53 > 0:05:55Do you think you can manage it?
0:05:56 > 0:05:57Joe.
0:05:57 > 0:05:58Eh?
0:06:00 > 0:06:01Yes.
0:06:04 > 0:06:07Perfect timing. You'll join us, won't you, Joe?
0:06:14 > 0:06:17Oh. Shame you weren't here earlier.
0:06:17 > 0:06:19I could do with a new partner.
0:06:19 > 0:06:23Hell hath no fury like a woman underbid.
0:06:23 > 0:06:25I don't play, I'm afraid.
0:06:25 > 0:06:26We'll show you the ropes, won't we, Marion?
0:06:26 > 0:06:29Yes, of course. Always on the look out for new recruits.
0:06:29 > 0:06:32"Victims" might be the more appropriate term.
0:06:32 > 0:06:34Well, there you are, then.
0:06:34 > 0:06:36No excuses.
0:06:43 > 0:06:46So, were you out with Susan Brown?
0:06:49 > 0:06:52Not tonight. Friends from work, you know.
0:06:52 > 0:06:54Oh, I know,
0:06:54 > 0:06:56greasing the wheels, eh?
0:06:56 > 0:06:57Aye. Something like that.
0:06:57 > 0:06:58No, it's got to be done.
0:06:58 > 0:07:01Promotion in the air with Teddy Noakes leaving, I bet.
0:07:01 > 0:07:03Teddy? Where's he going, then?
0:07:03 > 0:07:05Er. Leicester. Apparently. He got the Deputy Treasurers job.
0:07:05 > 0:07:08God, Beattie must be wetting herself.
0:07:08 > 0:07:12All those new people she can lord it over
0:07:12 > 0:07:14- and show off her ghastly curtains to.- Eva!
0:07:14 > 0:07:17"Fully lined", although she'll probably be getting new ones.
0:07:17 > 0:07:19Now, won't that be exciting!
0:07:19 > 0:07:23But it leaves the field wide open I imagine, eh, Joe?
0:07:23 > 0:07:24Chief Audit Clerk.
0:07:26 > 0:07:28Oh. You never know.
0:07:28 > 0:07:29He's on his way!
0:07:34 > 0:07:36- Good night now.- Bye-bye.- Bye!
0:07:42 > 0:07:45KNOCK ON DOOR
0:07:58 > 0:08:00Scarf. There we are.
0:08:08 > 0:08:10You should tell your friends from work to go a bit lighter
0:08:10 > 0:08:12on the Chanel No.5.
0:08:33 > 0:08:37Charles! I presume you've heard about Noakesy going to Leicester?
0:08:37 > 0:08:40Yeah. Bit of a turn up for the books, eh?
0:08:40 > 0:08:44You against me, old sport, Chief Audit Clerk.
0:08:44 > 0:08:47Field's wide open. Ledgers at dawn!
0:09:03 > 0:09:04Oh, I see.
0:09:04 > 0:09:07I'd made an arrangement with her, that's all.
0:09:08 > 0:09:12Good night. Good evening, Mrs Brown.
0:09:29 > 0:09:31"I tried not to listen when people first told me about you
0:09:31 > 0:09:35"and her, but now I know that all the time we've been going together
0:09:35 > 0:09:39"you've been making love to her.
0:09:39 > 0:09:41"You've been very bad to me
0:09:41 > 0:09:45"and what hurts the most is that you were telling lies all the time.
0:09:47 > 0:09:50"I expect you thought I was too young and silly to make you happy.
0:09:52 > 0:09:54"Perhaps I was.
0:09:56 > 0:09:57"But now I feel grown-up.
0:09:59 > 0:10:03"I hope you will be happy and get all the things you want so much.
0:10:04 > 0:10:07"I don't feel angry with you.
0:10:07 > 0:10:09"Only sad and hurt.
0:10:10 > 0:10:12"As if someone I loved had died."
0:10:20 > 0:10:22PANTING
0:10:24 > 0:10:26Oh, oh.
0:10:26 > 0:10:28Oh, God...yes!
0:10:33 > 0:10:34I don't want it.
0:10:36 > 0:10:39I don't need anything. Not drink.
0:10:40 > 0:10:41Not cigarettes.
0:10:43 > 0:10:44This is enough.
0:10:46 > 0:10:48You won't take it the wrong way if I do?
0:10:50 > 0:10:51Mmm.
0:10:54 > 0:10:55Four whole days.
0:11:04 > 0:11:05Oh!
0:11:05 > 0:11:06HE LAUGHS
0:11:19 > 0:11:20Oh.
0:11:20 > 0:11:22Oh, oh.
0:11:22 > 0:11:24GASPING
0:11:46 > 0:11:47Oh, gentle.
0:11:50 > 0:11:51Oh, Christ.
0:11:51 > 0:11:53Oh, Joe.
0:12:09 > 0:12:10MUFFLED THUNDER
0:12:15 > 0:12:17You know, people do get divorced.
0:12:19 > 0:12:20George would see us
0:12:20 > 0:12:23both crawl through broken glass before he'd let me go.
0:12:25 > 0:12:27Not because he wants me, of course,
0:12:29 > 0:12:30but because of you wanting me.
0:12:33 > 0:12:34You don't know what he's like.
0:12:36 > 0:12:38I think I've a pretty good idea.
0:12:40 > 0:12:42It would finish you at the Town Hall, Joe.
0:12:43 > 0:12:46You and the scarlet woman of Warley.
0:12:47 > 0:12:49Fuck Warley!
0:12:51 > 0:12:53We can move somewhere else. Start again.
0:12:53 > 0:12:55I'm well qualified.
0:12:55 > 0:12:58I can't pretend it'd be the standard you're used to, living at the Top.
0:12:58 > 0:13:01- Well, I don't care about any of that.- I do!
0:13:01 > 0:13:03But I care about you more.
0:13:05 > 0:13:07Think about it.
0:13:07 > 0:13:10Just us. Together.
0:13:13 > 0:13:14Why not?
0:13:15 > 0:13:19Whatever they put us through, whatever people have to say... Well, won't it be worth it?
0:13:23 > 0:13:24Don't cry ...
0:13:24 > 0:13:26Please, don't cry, Alice, love.
0:13:46 > 0:13:48Fag-ash Lil.
0:14:21 > 0:14:23MUTED BACKGROUND CONVERSATION
0:14:25 > 0:14:27What are you looking at?
0:14:27 > 0:14:28Admiring your suntan.
0:14:28 > 0:14:30What bloody suntan?
0:14:31 > 0:14:33What?
0:14:33 > 0:14:36- Anyone would think you were on the turn.- You could do a lot better for yourself
0:14:36 > 0:14:37you know, old sport.
0:14:38 > 0:14:40Now I really am worried.
0:14:42 > 0:14:44Joan and I are engaged.
0:14:44 > 0:14:49I popped the question, as they say, a couple of days back.
0:14:52 > 0:14:54Well, about bloody time!
0:14:54 > 0:14:56Let me buy you a drink.
0:14:56 > 0:14:59Whiskey to go with that, you jammy bastard. She's a lovely girl.
0:14:59 > 0:15:00Two Scotches. Doubles.
0:15:04 > 0:15:05Aye.
0:15:05 > 0:15:08We've reached the age to get married.
0:15:09 > 0:15:11No doubt about it.
0:15:11 > 0:15:13It's a mug's game, otherwise.
0:15:16 > 0:15:17I've been thinking about it myself.
0:15:24 > 0:15:27In my capacity, Joseph, as an incipient bridegroom
0:15:27 > 0:15:29and pillar of the community,
0:15:31 > 0:15:33might I bestow a word of advice?
0:15:33 > 0:15:34Bestow away.
0:15:34 > 0:15:38Seems to me you want to make the worst of both worlds
0:15:38 > 0:15:41if you're thinking of marrying Alice.
0:15:41 > 0:15:42You'll be a co-respondent.
0:15:42 > 0:15:44I've got the shoes for it.
0:15:44 > 0:15:49I'm serious. Dragged through the midden of the divorce courts.
0:15:49 > 0:15:51"Midden." Listen to yourself. What about Aisgill?
0:15:51 > 0:15:55He's got a mistress, it's common knowledge. They only live together for the sake of appearances.
0:15:55 > 0:15:57If you reckon you can get one over on him
0:15:57 > 0:15:59you're even more bloody naive than I thought.
0:15:59 > 0:16:02George Aisgill's a lot richer than you, chum,
0:16:02 > 0:16:04and he's a hell of a lot cleverer.
0:16:04 > 0:16:07He'd get detectives on the two of you and you'd be in the Sunday papers
0:16:07 > 0:16:09before you could button up your flies.
0:16:14 > 0:16:15Midden's about right.
0:16:17 > 0:16:19May as well be the bloody Middle Ages.
0:16:19 > 0:16:20It's the way it is.
0:16:20 > 0:16:23It'd kill you, the scandal. Admit it.
0:16:28 > 0:16:29Another thing.
0:16:30 > 0:16:32Hoylake's offered me the job, Chief Audit Clerk.
0:16:32 > 0:16:36I didn't get a look in, did I?
0:16:37 > 0:16:40Face that fits. You know how it is.
0:16:40 > 0:16:44Hang around anywhere long enough, your boat comes in.
0:16:44 > 0:16:45Aye.
0:16:48 > 0:16:52Hey, I'm right pleased for you, you bugger.
0:16:54 > 0:16:56Can't afford doubles, this shout, mind.
0:16:56 > 0:16:57Let me get 'em.
0:16:58 > 0:16:59You're the boss.
0:17:03 > 0:17:04Bloody hell.
0:17:05 > 0:17:07RAUCOUS CHATTER
0:17:07 > 0:17:10Pip, Squeak and bloody Wilfred!
0:17:10 > 0:17:12Imperialist brutes.
0:17:12 > 0:17:14Keep it down, will yer!
0:17:14 > 0:17:16Time you were getting home, gents.
0:17:16 > 0:17:19- What about that lot? - They've been told and all.
0:17:19 > 0:17:21Coolie cost me 100 chips once, you know.
0:17:23 > 0:17:26Mowed him down in Burma when I was one over the eight.
0:17:29 > 0:17:31It was the steering on the jeep.
0:17:33 > 0:17:35Wasn't what it should be.
0:17:36 > 0:17:38Aye, well, we'll be walking home, don't you worry.
0:17:40 > 0:17:42HUBBUB OF CHATTER
0:17:44 > 0:17:46Put a sock in it! It's time!
0:17:46 > 0:17:49Thank you, Sergeant, we're aware of that fact.
0:17:49 > 0:17:54- Piss off with the "Sergeant". - I'm sorry, did I mistake your rank? - Sergeant-Observer, actually.
0:17:54 > 0:17:57And it was... All that was over a long time ago.
0:17:57 > 0:18:00Absolutely. Water under the bridge.
0:18:00 > 0:18:02Come on, chaps, let's go somewhere else, eh?
0:18:02 > 0:18:05Seen Susan lately?
0:18:05 > 0:18:07Yes, as a matter of fact.
0:18:07 > 0:18:09Not that it has anything to do with you.
0:18:09 > 0:18:14Sorry. Bad form. Bandying a woman's name. Bad show. Sorry, chaps. My apologies.
0:18:14 > 0:18:17You really are a chippy little bastard, aren't you, Lampton?
0:18:17 > 0:18:19Yes, sir. Sorry, sir.
0:18:24 > 0:18:26Get him home, will you?
0:18:28 > 0:18:30You're the bloody bastard. You're the bastard.
0:18:30 > 0:18:32Bastard!
0:18:44 > 0:18:47I'm terribly sorry. He couldn't find his key, Mrs Thompson.
0:18:47 > 0:18:49Most terribly sorry.
0:18:49 > 0:18:50Oh dear.
0:18:53 > 0:18:57Do you need to relieve yourself, Joe?
0:19:00 > 0:19:03Come on. Here we go.
0:19:06 > 0:19:08It's all right. Come on.
0:19:11 > 0:19:12You all right?
0:19:16 > 0:19:18Thanks, Dad.
0:19:31 > 0:19:33Just try and get 40 winks, that's it.
0:19:41 > 0:19:45I love it, you know, I love Warley.
0:19:48 > 0:19:50See it all from up 'ere.
0:19:51 > 0:19:54Buses. Tebbut's Mill.
0:19:56 > 0:19:58All the shops on Market Street.
0:19:58 > 0:20:04Wintrips. Finlays with Daks shirts
0:20:04 > 0:20:06and Jaeger dressing gowns.
0:20:07 > 0:20:10Priestleys, Robbins.
0:20:12 > 0:20:14I can't leave it, can I?
0:20:17 > 0:20:18I want it.
0:20:19 > 0:20:20Here.
0:20:24 > 0:20:26I don't know what to do.
0:20:27 > 0:20:29It's all right. Just try and get some sleep.
0:20:31 > 0:20:32I don't know what to do.
0:20:39 > 0:20:40CUTLERY CHINKS
0:20:49 > 0:20:51- Morning.- Morning.- Morning.
0:20:55 > 0:20:58If you've any washing, Joe, I'm doing it tomorrow.
0:20:58 > 0:20:59Leave it in the hamper.
0:20:59 > 0:21:01Thank you.
0:21:03 > 0:21:05Always rather a melancholy day, I think -
0:21:05 > 0:21:08after you get back from holidays.
0:21:11 > 0:21:12Have you any plans?
0:21:14 > 0:21:16Not really. I've...
0:21:16 > 0:21:18I've a few letters to write.
0:21:42 > 0:21:43Look at you
0:21:45 > 0:21:46Hello.
0:21:53 > 0:21:54Thank you for your letter.
0:21:56 > 0:21:57Thank you for yours.
0:22:11 > 0:22:13Take me somewhere.
0:22:28 > 0:22:29SHE PANTS
0:22:31 > 0:22:33Did she let you touch her here?
0:22:41 > 0:22:43- And here.- Stop it.
0:22:46 > 0:22:47Don't you want me more?
0:22:48 > 0:22:49Yes.
0:23:01 > 0:23:02BOTH GASP
0:23:13 > 0:23:14Go on, then.
0:23:17 > 0:23:18Hurt me.
0:23:27 > 0:23:28SHE GASPS
0:23:43 > 0:23:44Joe.
0:23:46 > 0:23:48I love you with all of me now, you know.
0:23:53 > 0:23:55Every little bit of me is yours.
0:24:10 > 0:24:12It's not funny, is it?
0:24:15 > 0:24:16No, just...
0:24:19 > 0:24:22I thought you were the one who's supposed to bleed.
0:24:37 > 0:24:38Even stevens.
0:24:43 > 0:24:45You won't need her now, will you, Joe?
0:24:47 > 0:24:49Not now we're serious about each other.
0:24:50 > 0:24:52HE SIGHS
0:25:07 > 0:25:08RINGING TONE
0:25:10 > 0:25:12'Warley 6813. George Aisgill speaking.'
0:25:21 > 0:25:23Anything in there for Susan?
0:25:24 > 0:25:26Keep looking.
0:25:27 > 0:25:29What did you tell your mum and dad?
0:25:31 > 0:25:32Oh!
0:25:32 > 0:25:34Just said I was going out.
0:25:34 > 0:25:36I don't have to tell them everything I do, you know.
0:25:36 > 0:25:38They're my parents, not prison guards.
0:25:38 > 0:25:41Ah, but you're the princess, I'm the swineherd,
0:25:41 > 0:25:43and they're the dragons I have to slay, aren't they?
0:25:43 > 0:25:45Charming. Mummy would be so flattered.
0:25:45 > 0:25:47But it's true.
0:25:48 > 0:25:51You're so beautiful, you'd have to be a princess.
0:25:51 > 0:25:54Even if you'd had bad luck and had to go and work in the kitchens,
0:25:54 > 0:25:56your prince'd still spot yer.
0:25:56 > 0:25:59'Cause you'd left an expensive ring in the cake you'd baked for him.
0:25:59 > 0:26:01I've never baked a cake in my life.
0:26:01 > 0:26:04And the shock would almost kill him, when you were brought to him
0:26:04 > 0:26:07in your donkey skin, with your hands and face dirty, because
0:26:07 > 0:26:11he thought he'd fallen in love with a common Grade Ten working girl.
0:26:11 > 0:26:12Grade Ten?
0:26:12 > 0:26:14Never mind.
0:26:15 > 0:26:17And you'd take off your donkey skin
0:26:17 > 0:26:21and he'd see your soft, white, delicate skin...
0:26:22 > 0:26:24..and know that you were Grade One
0:26:24 > 0:26:29and that he could marry and live happily ever after.
0:26:31 > 0:26:32That's the way it goes.
0:26:36 > 0:26:38You really do talk the most awful nonsense.
0:26:38 > 0:26:42You're the oddest man I've met in my life.
0:26:42 > 0:26:46Oh, gosh. These seats are hard, aren't they? Reminds me of travelling on the Continent.
0:26:56 > 0:26:58- I like your tie, Mr Lampton.- Ta.
0:26:59 > 0:27:02Get me the petty cash register, will you, Ray.
0:27:27 > 0:27:28Hello, Joe.
0:27:31 > 0:27:34Sorry, the office boy said it was all right.
0:27:35 > 0:27:38Nice. It's nice to see you.
0:27:43 > 0:27:45Come outside.
0:27:56 > 0:27:58I called you at the Thompsons'.
0:27:58 > 0:28:00Did you get my message?
0:28:00 > 0:28:04Yeah. Sorry. It's been tricky.
0:28:04 > 0:28:07No, I know.
0:28:07 > 0:28:08More than ever.
0:28:10 > 0:28:12The way people talk.
0:28:14 > 0:28:18Listen. I've got to go into hospital... That's all.
0:28:18 > 0:28:19What's wrong?
0:28:20 > 0:28:22It's women's problems. You don't want to know.
0:28:22 > 0:28:24Well, you're not...
0:28:24 > 0:28:25No. No.
0:28:27 > 0:28:30I've got to go in for a little while. I thought I'd better tell you.
0:28:32 > 0:28:35Well, you're sure it's nothing serious.
0:28:35 > 0:28:37I'm not brave about things like that, believe me.
0:28:38 > 0:28:41You'd be the first to know if it was anything to bother about.
0:28:44 > 0:28:45Can I come and visit you?
0:28:48 > 0:28:50Best not. I don't know.
0:28:50 > 0:28:52George will be there. It's a public ward.
0:28:55 > 0:28:56I thought I'd better let you know.
0:29:01 > 0:29:02Alice.
0:29:02 > 0:29:03- MOUTHS:- I love you.
0:29:17 > 0:29:21I feel perfectly, perfectly happy.
0:29:26 > 0:29:27Don't you?
0:29:30 > 0:29:32Mm?
0:29:37 > 0:29:39What were you thinking about?
0:29:42 > 0:29:44I was thinking about Berlin.
0:29:44 > 0:29:45Oh.
0:29:48 > 0:29:50At the end of the war.
0:29:50 > 0:29:52When I got out of the prison camp.
0:29:54 > 0:29:56I've never seen anything like it.
0:29:57 > 0:29:59Was it horrible?
0:30:01 > 0:30:03The little kids, Germans.
0:30:03 > 0:30:09They were starving, begging for food.
0:30:09 > 0:30:16You'd give them your chocolate ration, Belsen or no Belsen.
0:30:21 > 0:30:23Jack was in prison camp, as well, you know.
0:30:25 > 0:30:26He escaped.
0:30:27 > 0:30:29Did you escape?
0:30:33 > 0:30:34No.
0:30:45 > 0:30:48No note. Just for Mrs Aisgill.
0:30:50 > 0:30:52You can tell her they're from Joe.
0:31:06 > 0:31:08- You're hateful and despicable! - Susan.
0:31:08 > 0:31:09I don't care! Get off me!
0:31:09 > 0:31:13- You've broken my heart once and now I'm happy again you're doing this. - She's ill.
0:31:13 > 0:31:18So what! She's not dying, is she? I wouldn't care if she was, at least you wouldn't go back to her.
0:31:18 > 0:31:19- She's old!- She's not old!
0:31:19 > 0:31:20She's older than you.
0:31:20 > 0:31:23Yes. And you, years older! I hate you, I hate...
0:31:23 > 0:31:25No, you don't! Listen, you silly bitch.
0:31:25 > 0:31:27- Don't call me names! - I'll do what you asked.
0:31:27 > 0:31:30- Don't you dare laugh at me! - I'm sorry, it's just you're so...
0:31:31 > 0:31:34Listen, all right?
0:31:34 > 0:31:36I'll finish it once and for all.
0:31:36 > 0:31:40When she's out of hospital. Face-to-face. Not by letter.
0:31:40 > 0:31:41It's only decent.
0:31:41 > 0:31:44She's not decent. She's an old whore!
0:31:44 > 0:31:49- She's had masses of men, everybody knows. She'll go with anyone who'll look at her.- Shut up about her!
0:31:50 > 0:31:52I've said what I'll do
0:31:52 > 0:31:53and I meant it.
0:31:53 > 0:31:56I make the decisions, all right?
0:31:56 > 0:31:58Now and in the future.
0:32:08 > 0:32:09All right
0:32:10 > 0:32:11I meant it too.
0:32:13 > 0:32:15I really will finish with you this time.
0:32:15 > 0:32:16Fair enough.
0:32:18 > 0:32:19We both know where we stand then.
0:32:21 > 0:32:24And while we're on the subject of whores, you can tell
0:32:24 > 0:32:26Eva Storr to neb out of my business.
0:32:27 > 0:32:31I presume it was one of her spies who got on to you about the flowers.
0:32:41 > 0:32:43You coming?
0:32:44 > 0:32:46Or is Daddy picking you up?
0:32:46 > 0:32:48Or Jack?
0:32:56 > 0:32:57GIGGLING >
0:32:57 > 0:33:00No, I'm sweet enough thanks, Ray. >
0:33:03 > 0:33:06Ray! Bring me the cashbox and stamp book, will you!
0:33:14 > 0:33:18You know, Ray, unless you're very lucky,
0:33:18 > 0:33:23very rich, or very talented, none of which applies to you,
0:33:23 > 0:33:27if you do one thing out of line the reference system can
0:33:27 > 0:33:29screw you for the rest of your life.
0:33:29 > 0:33:31I went over these last month as well.
0:33:32 > 0:33:35You damned idiot! I was waiting for you to put it back!
0:33:37 > 0:33:38Have you got the money?
0:33:38 > 0:33:40No.
0:33:40 > 0:33:45'Course you haven't. You've spent it. 15 shillings!
0:33:48 > 0:33:50What is it you earn? Around two pound a week?
0:33:50 > 0:33:51Near enough.
0:33:51 > 0:33:55And your mates from school, they're on what, five, six pound a week. Am I right?
0:33:59 > 0:34:01Keeping up with the Joneses.
0:34:01 > 0:34:02I'm very sorry, Mr Lampton.
0:34:02 > 0:34:05I won't ever do it again, I swear.
0:34:05 > 0:34:08Please don't tell on us. Please.
0:34:08 > 0:34:11You wouldn't be making two quid a week as a brickie, would you?
0:34:11 > 0:34:13No, sir.
0:34:17 > 0:34:18Thank you, sir. Thank you.
0:34:18 > 0:34:21I'll pay back every penny. I swear I will.
0:34:21 > 0:34:22Don't be daft.
0:34:24 > 0:34:26Just don't do it again, that's all.
0:34:26 > 0:34:28And if I ever catch you again -
0:34:28 > 0:34:31even half a penny out - then you go to Mr Hoylake straight away.
0:34:33 > 0:34:35Now get out and wash your face.
0:34:46 > 0:34:48Going soft in my old age.
0:34:48 > 0:34:50# Onward Christian soldiers
0:34:50 > 0:34:52PHONE RINGS
0:34:52 > 0:34:56# Marching as to war
0:34:56 > 0:34:58# With the cross of... #
0:34:58 > 0:35:00- Audit Office. Joe Lampton speaking. - # Jesus... #
0:35:00 > 0:35:04- 'Harry Brown here, Lampton. Are you having a prayer meeting?' - Yeah. Sorry about that.
0:35:04 > 0:35:07- Are you sure it's me you want to speak to, Mr Brown?- 'Aye. Quite sure.
0:35:07 > 0:35:09'Lunch at Con Club. One.'
0:35:09 > 0:35:10PHONE HANGS UP
0:35:31 > 0:35:33Well, if you don't want it I'll hang onto it.
0:35:33 > 0:35:35We're not allowed to accept gratuities, sir.
0:35:48 > 0:35:52- No, thanks.- You're sensible.
0:35:52 > 0:35:55Bad habit before meals. Mind, it's the only way you are sensible.
0:35:55 > 0:35:58In every other way you've been a bloody fool.
0:35:58 > 0:36:00I'm very annoyed at you, young man.
0:36:00 > 0:36:04If you just asked me here to lay down the law about Susan, there's no point in me staying, is there?
0:36:04 > 0:36:06Don't be any dafter than you can help.
0:36:08 > 0:36:12Anyway, you might as well have lunch before you walk out on me.
0:36:14 > 0:36:19Not that you'll have a good one. Place has gone right downhill since rationing started.
0:36:20 > 0:36:24- Is this the first time you've been here? - To this or any Conservative Club.
0:36:24 > 0:36:26My father'd turn in his grave if he could see me now.
0:36:26 > 0:36:28So would mine, lad.
0:36:28 > 0:36:31But we're not bound by our fathers, are we?
0:36:43 > 0:36:45I'm thinking of setting you up in business.
0:36:47 > 0:36:48You're joking.
0:36:48 > 0:36:50You're a very bright young man.
0:36:50 > 0:36:52You don't want to work at the Town Hall all your life, do you?
0:36:52 > 0:36:55And now's the time accountants can do well for themselves.
0:36:58 > 0:37:02Supposing I was to lend you what was necessary to buy a partnership somewhere.
0:37:04 > 0:37:06You better tell me the catch.
0:37:08 > 0:37:09All right.
0:37:13 > 0:37:16You're never to see Susan again or communicate with her in any way.
0:37:17 > 0:37:20And I'm to leave Warley too, I suppose.
0:37:20 > 0:37:22Oh, yes, you're to leave Warley too.
0:37:24 > 0:37:26Could have been hotter.
0:37:28 > 0:37:30Well, you don't have to think about it twice, do you?
0:37:31 > 0:37:33No.
0:37:35 > 0:37:38The answer's no. I reckon nowt to your bloody rotten offer.
0:37:38 > 0:37:42- I'll dig ditches before I'll be bought.- Well, there's a turn-up for the books.
0:37:42 > 0:37:45I'll bring it before the magistrates, if I have to.
0:37:45 > 0:37:49- And if you manage to buy them off, I'll kick up a hell of a row.- You'll do no such thing.- Just watch me.
0:37:49 > 0:37:53You'll do no such thing 'cause you're marrying her. With my consent. And right quick.
0:37:56 > 0:37:58Oh, I'll turn into a bloody chicken at this rate.
0:37:58 > 0:38:02It seems to be the only thing off ration. Is that all right for you?
0:38:04 > 0:38:07Yes, thanks.
0:38:15 > 0:38:17Who says I want to marry her?
0:38:17 > 0:38:20Oh, you're an awkward bloody article, aren't you, Lampton.
0:38:20 > 0:38:23- I don't like being told what to do. - Well, what are your intentions?
0:38:23 > 0:38:26Are you telling me you think you can do better than Susan?
0:38:27 > 0:38:29No. Um...
0:38:32 > 0:38:33Bloody hell.
0:38:34 > 0:38:36Is Susan...
0:38:38 > 0:38:39Is she in the family way?
0:38:41 > 0:38:43I didn't... She never said...
0:38:43 > 0:38:47No. She didn't tell you because she didn't want you to
0:38:47 > 0:38:48wed her out of a sense of duty.
0:38:48 > 0:38:52I didn't tell you because I didn't want you to wed her as a financial proposition.
0:38:52 > 0:38:55Why the hell should I present you with a gun to hold to my head?
0:38:58 > 0:39:01This is not how I'd planned to see my daughter wed, I can tell you.
0:39:03 > 0:39:08You know, some fathers have their daughters sent away to nursing homes.
0:39:08 > 0:39:12Aye. But Susan's got a mind of her own.
0:39:12 > 0:39:14You've got that to look forward to, lad.
0:39:16 > 0:39:20Now. There's business to talk about. Ways and means.
0:39:20 > 0:39:24You don't want to work for the Corporation all your life, do you?
0:39:28 > 0:39:30One last thing, Lampton.
0:39:30 > 0:39:31Leave off Alice Aisgill.
0:39:31 > 0:39:34I won't have my son-in-law in the divorce courts over
0:39:34 > 0:39:35an old whore like her.
0:39:35 > 0:39:37There's no need to use that word.
0:39:39 > 0:39:42It's all... It's all over between us, any road.
0:40:03 > 0:40:05I'm glad you're feeling better.
0:40:06 > 0:40:07You look well, Alice.
0:40:09 > 0:40:10I look terrible.
0:40:11 > 0:40:13Is that why you haven't touched me?
0:40:15 > 0:40:16You got the flowers?
0:40:17 > 0:40:20- In hospital?- Yes. It was very sweet of you.
0:40:22 > 0:40:26Joe, you better tell me what's on your mind or I'm going to have to scream.
0:40:29 > 0:40:31We can't see each other any more.
0:40:36 > 0:40:38I don't think it's a good idea.
0:40:40 > 0:40:42I really look that bad, do I?
0:40:44 > 0:40:48You look... You look beautiful.
0:40:48 > 0:40:49I could...
0:40:53 > 0:40:58Like I say, I don't think it's a good idea for us to carry on.
0:40:59 > 0:41:00I'm sorry.
0:41:05 > 0:41:07Christ.
0:41:15 > 0:41:19I've always wondered why you never tried to escape from the Stalag...whatever it was.
0:41:21 > 0:41:2291.
0:41:24 > 0:41:26What's that got to do with anything?
0:41:27 > 0:41:32You're right. It doesn't make any difference now.
0:41:39 > 0:41:40What was the point?
0:41:43 > 0:41:45Escaping and getting myself killed for nothing.
0:41:45 > 0:41:49Public school types were all right being all gung-ho.
0:41:49 > 0:41:52They'd had a decent life before they got caught.
0:41:54 > 0:41:56I did my exams in there.
0:41:59 > 0:42:05It was my chance to keep my head down and better myself.
0:42:20 > 0:42:23You're a timid little soul when it comes down to it, aren't you?
0:42:23 > 0:42:26I know which side my bread's buttered on.
0:42:32 > 0:42:37Alice. It would have blown up in our faces, you know it would.
0:42:37 > 0:42:40Eva Storr's been telling the world and his wife about us.
0:42:40 > 0:42:43It's only a matter of time before George knows, if he doesn't know already.
0:42:43 > 0:42:47- And I'm going in no mucky divorce courts and that's flat.- Mucky?
0:42:47 > 0:42:50It's not long ago, is it, since you fucked me.
0:42:52 > 0:42:54Kissed my breasts. Licked my cunt.
0:42:54 > 0:42:57- There's no need to... - Let me suck your cock.
0:42:57 > 0:43:00- Let me ride you.- Well, you don't have to talk like that!
0:43:02 > 0:43:03We did it, didn't we?
0:43:08 > 0:43:10Why can't you be honest, Joe?
0:43:13 > 0:43:16For God's sake, it's the least you can bloody do.
0:43:22 > 0:43:27I'm engaged to Susan Brown and I'm going to work for her father.
0:43:29 > 0:43:31- But that's not why we've got to call it a day.- Oh, really?
0:43:33 > 0:43:36Seems like an awfully good reason to me.
0:43:36 > 0:43:37It's perfectly simple.
0:43:39 > 0:43:41Understandable.
0:43:41 > 0:43:42And cold-blooded.
0:43:42 > 0:43:43Oh, Christ, Alice!
0:43:43 > 0:43:45I don't want to hurt you.
0:43:45 > 0:43:50Truly, I don't. But... You don't belong to Warley. Do you?
0:43:51 > 0:43:55I can't have you and have Warley.
0:43:55 > 0:43:57- And that's the truth of it. - Oh, bloody Warley!
0:43:57 > 0:44:00You're welcome to it!
0:44:03 > 0:44:05Believe it or not, Joe, there's more to the world than this.
0:44:05 > 0:44:06SHE SOBS
0:44:08 > 0:44:09I did love you.
0:44:13 > 0:44:14I really did.
0:44:19 > 0:44:20But I can't...
0:44:22 > 0:44:23Let's just leave it at that.
0:44:32 > 0:44:33Take care, Alice.
0:44:37 > 0:44:40I do care about you. You know that.
0:44:41 > 0:44:42Good luck.
0:44:52 > 0:44:54Thank you.
0:45:29 > 0:45:35- You swapped my pictures. The prints. - Yes, when I changed the bed.
0:45:35 > 0:45:38Oh, we've got a drawer full - it seems a shame not to circulate them.
0:45:40 > 0:45:42I just thought you'd fancy a change.
0:45:42 > 0:45:46I did. It's odd...
0:45:48 > 0:45:52- whenever you want something you get it.- Well...
0:45:53 > 0:45:57you always get what you want when you're young.
0:45:59 > 0:46:02The whole world's in a conspiracy to give you things.
0:46:24 > 0:46:27I'm just composing my farewell to you all.
0:46:27 > 0:46:30The lush pastures of private enterprise, I'll put in a good word for you if you like.
0:46:33 > 0:46:34It's Alice Aisgill.
0:46:37 > 0:46:39She's dead.
0:46:39 > 0:46:43Ran her car into a wall on Warley Moor.
0:46:48 > 0:46:52She'd been drinking all night in the Clarendon.
0:46:52 > 0:46:54And the St Clair.
0:46:54 > 0:46:56Wouldn't serve her any more at the St Clair.
0:47:01 > 0:47:04Let her drive home, though, didn't they?
0:47:04 > 0:47:08She must have been going a hell-of-a lick though to come off the road.
0:47:08 > 0:47:09Joe...
0:47:19 > 0:47:22They say the car were bent like that.
0:47:22 > 0:47:24There's blood all over the tarmac.
0:47:26 > 0:47:30You knew Alice Aisgill, didn't you?
0:47:30 > 0:47:32- Yeah.- It's a terrible business.
0:47:32 > 0:47:35To think someone can be gone like that in a second.
0:47:35 > 0:47:37Well, it took longer than a second.
0:47:37 > 0:47:41My cousin's a porter at the Infirmary, you know, our Roy.
0:47:41 > 0:47:43He said that she was crawling about the road when the worker
0:47:43 > 0:47:45from the farm found her this morning. She was scalped.
0:47:45 > 0:47:49- The steering column right... - Joe, are you all right?
0:47:51 > 0:47:53I'm going home. Just tell Hoylake I'm sick.
0:48:15 > 0:48:17Let's be having you, chum.
0:48:17 > 0:48:20This is the terminus - Dufton.
0:48:22 > 0:48:25- Hey.- Dufton?
0:48:25 > 0:48:28Dufton, aye.
0:48:28 > 0:48:30Unless you want to pay the bob back and make a day of it.
0:48:56 > 0:48:58Hello.
0:48:58 > 0:49:03I used to live here, you know. The Lamptons. Do you remember them?
0:49:05 > 0:49:06Your Mum and Dad will.
0:49:08 > 0:49:11Jerries blew our house sky-high, they'll tell you.
0:49:11 > 0:49:15Come here. I want to talk to you.
0:49:16 > 0:49:19It's all right - I'm from round here.
0:49:29 > 0:49:31Can I have a brandy, please.
0:49:31 > 0:49:34- Are you ill?- What?
0:49:34 > 0:49:37I said. Are - you - ill?
0:49:38 > 0:49:42'Course not. I just want a brandy.
0:49:42 > 0:49:44I'll buy you one, dear,
0:49:44 > 0:49:48- if Ronnie's too mean to serve you. - You'll get yourself into trouble.
0:49:48 > 0:49:50Yes, please!
0:49:52 > 0:49:55- I like your tie.- Thanks.
0:49:55 > 0:49:58- Can I get you a drink? - No, I've told you.
0:50:00 > 0:50:04It's on me. Just a tonic and lemon.
0:50:07 > 0:50:10- Keeping your wits about you.- For now.
0:50:19 > 0:50:20Cheers, handsome.
0:50:26 > 0:50:27I'm George.
0:50:27 > 0:50:29- Lancelot.- Don't get many of those.
0:50:29 > 0:50:32Can I call you Lance?
0:50:32 > 0:50:35You can call me whatever you like...
0:50:35 > 0:50:37George.
0:50:42 > 0:50:44Same again?
0:50:44 > 0:50:48You'll spend all your money on me if you're not careful.
0:50:50 > 0:50:51Got to pay a visit.
0:51:10 > 0:51:12You never.
0:51:12 > 0:51:14Swear to God, ladies' underwear.
0:51:14 > 0:51:17I've sold thousands of pairs of knickers this week.
0:51:17 > 0:51:21You devil! Will you get me a free sample?
0:51:21 > 0:51:23If you're a good girl.
0:51:27 > 0:51:29I'm Marla.
0:51:29 > 0:51:32Nice to meet you, Marla.
0:51:32 > 0:51:33I'm Jack.
0:51:35 > 0:51:37Jack Wales.
0:51:39 > 0:51:42- No! I'm with somebody. - I'm not having this.- No!
0:51:42 > 0:51:44- You're embarrassing me.- Oi!
0:51:44 > 0:51:47What you doing? Leave her alone, pal.
0:51:48 > 0:51:50- And who the hell are you? - None of your business.
0:51:50 > 0:51:53Now do the off, will you.
0:51:53 > 0:51:55- Come on.- No.- Come on.
0:51:55 > 0:51:58- Dennis, get off me, will you.- You're coming with me!- I've told him.
0:51:58 > 0:52:01- She don't want to go with you, now get your hands off her.- Piss off!
0:52:01 > 0:52:02NO!
0:52:34 > 0:52:37HEAVY BREATHING AND GRUNTING
0:53:10 > 0:53:13Ohh... Can't hang on to it tonight.
0:53:13 > 0:53:15Catch must be broken.
0:53:15 > 0:53:19- Cheap bit of rubbish.- Here.
0:53:19 > 0:53:25Let me give you something to buy yourself a new one.
0:53:25 > 0:53:26Give over.
0:53:26 > 0:53:28You've spent pounds on me.
0:53:28 > 0:53:30I'm not like that, Jack.
0:53:30 > 0:53:32If I like a lad, I like him.
0:53:32 > 0:53:35Besides, I take home good money, me.
0:53:35 > 0:53:41- I took home £6 last week.- £6!
0:53:43 > 0:53:49That's good money, Marla. You'll be able to save for your bottom drawer.
0:53:50 > 0:53:53Well, got to find a chap first.
0:53:53 > 0:53:56Oh, you've lovely soft hands, eh?
0:54:00 > 0:54:02They're not lovely.
0:54:02 > 0:54:10Warm hands, cold heart. Murderer's hands.
0:54:10 > 0:54:14I'm a murderer, Marla. I killed her.
0:54:15 > 0:54:19SOBS: I killed...
0:54:19 > 0:54:20You're drunk, love.
0:54:20 > 0:54:22Hey.
0:54:22 > 0:54:27Look, I'd better be going home then. My dad'll have my guts for garters.
0:54:41 > 0:54:43All right. Steady on.
0:54:43 > 0:54:46Dennis, is it?
0:54:50 > 0:54:54Come on, Dennis. It were just a bit of fun. She's all yours.
0:55:02 > 0:55:04Come on.
0:55:12 > 0:55:14That's enough.
0:55:52 > 0:55:53Still alive.
0:55:53 > 0:55:57Oh, God. Still fucking alive.
0:56:40 > 0:56:45You can't actually see our house from here, can you? We're further up.
0:56:45 > 0:56:49- It's a nice view though. - I'll miss it.
0:56:52 > 0:56:55No. No. No, you won't.
0:56:58 > 0:57:01Oi! We need to get into training.
0:57:01 > 0:57:04Your parents are having me under their roof under the strict
0:57:04 > 0:57:07understanding there'll be no carrying on before the wedding night.
0:57:07 > 0:57:11Well, there's carpet in the hall. They won't hear the floorboards.
0:57:28 > 0:57:30Go on.
0:57:32 > 0:57:36I got it in London when I was meant to be looking at wedding dresses.
0:57:38 > 0:57:40I bought it with my own money.
0:57:44 > 0:57:46It's for our honeymoon.
0:58:04 > 0:58:05You like it, don't you?
0:58:11 > 0:58:14I love it.
0:58:15 > 0:58:17I'd wear it out.
0:58:17 > 0:58:19- SHE LAUGHS - You can't.
0:58:19 > 0:58:21I know.
0:58:58 > 0:59:02MAN WHISTLES A TUNE
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