The Sea of Trees

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0:00:02 > 0:00:05After the drugs charge, he lost his candidacy.

0:00:05 > 0:00:07- What do you want us to do? - Help us detox him.

0:00:07 > 0:00:11It's like a light's gone out. The only pregnancy I'll ever have.

0:00:11 > 0:00:14I told myself hit-and-run sex is where it's at.

0:00:14 > 0:00:17No ties or trauma. Maybe it's just another place to hide.

0:00:17 > 0:00:21Some kind of fire safe, look. I can't find a key for it.

0:00:21 > 0:00:25- Do we know what's in it?- Must be important. Else why have a safe?

0:00:25 > 0:00:28- Jack! Stop it!- I just want out!

0:00:29 > 0:00:31I'm pregnant.

0:00:31 > 0:00:32Our mercy mission with Jack.

0:00:32 > 0:00:35Oh no, not Jack. Does Victor know?

0:00:35 > 0:00:38- If I tell Victor, I'll lose him. - Tell him it's someone else's.

0:00:38 > 0:00:41- Someone you work with? - It could still be yours.

0:00:41 > 0:00:45- There's no way of knowing until... - Until we see what colour it is?

0:00:45 > 0:00:48- Is this it for us, Victor? - Tell me, does it make it easier?

0:00:48 > 0:00:50Punishing me rather of yourself?

0:00:50 > 0:00:51If so, knock yourself out.

0:00:57 > 0:01:00This programme contains some strong language

0:01:53 > 0:01:54Skip or...?

0:01:54 > 0:01:56Charity.

0:01:56 > 0:01:58I've dibs on that.

0:01:58 > 0:02:00We can scan it - make copies.

0:02:01 > 0:02:02Good plan.

0:02:02 > 0:02:06What do you want done with these?

0:02:08 > 0:02:09Sally Army, I guess.

0:02:28 > 0:02:29Lilly said...

0:02:31 > 0:02:34..that your marriage didn't work out.

0:02:34 > 0:02:36I'm really sorry to hear that.

0:02:39 > 0:02:41My heart wasn't in it.

0:02:41 > 0:02:43She knew it.

0:03:15 > 0:03:17'So much for quitting.'

0:03:17 > 0:03:20'January first, I said.'

0:03:20 > 0:03:21'Yeah.'

0:03:21 > 0:03:23Put that to music, I'll hum it.

0:03:32 > 0:03:35PHONE RINGS

0:03:35 > 0:03:37Hello, Alan Harper.

0:03:38 > 0:03:40Hello, pet. How are you?

0:03:41 > 0:03:43Orla.

0:03:45 > 0:03:48Right, well, I'll square it with Lil and get back to you.

0:03:50 > 0:03:52No, I will today, don't worry.

0:03:52 > 0:03:55OK. All right, then. Ta-ra.

0:03:56 > 0:04:00The get-together before the flat's sold is this weekend.

0:04:00 > 0:04:02Will Charlotte be there?

0:04:02 > 0:04:03Yeah.

0:04:03 > 0:04:04And Victor.

0:04:06 > 0:04:07You're up for it, aren't you?

0:04:07 > 0:04:09Seeing everyone?

0:04:09 > 0:04:11Why not? Oi.

0:04:11 > 0:04:13Oi!

0:04:13 > 0:04:15One scratch on that,

0:04:15 > 0:04:17I'll hunt you down! Go on.

0:04:20 > 0:04:21Something's different.

0:04:21 > 0:04:23Mmm.

0:04:23 > 0:04:26The scar from the bomb, I had it seen to.

0:04:28 > 0:04:30Plastic surgery?

0:04:31 > 0:04:35And you used to blather how your looks were a curse, not a blessing.

0:04:39 > 0:04:41We need to talk about something, Mum.

0:04:41 > 0:04:43Dad?

0:04:43 > 0:04:44A word?

0:04:51 > 0:04:55You know they brought in that thing about buying council houses?

0:04:55 > 0:04:59How you said you'd be six foot under before that day ever dawned for you?

0:05:05 > 0:05:06That day is here.

0:05:07 > 0:05:11I rang a local estate agent, got a few valuations out of them.

0:05:15 > 0:05:17It's too much. We can't.

0:05:17 > 0:05:20No, no, look. We made a packet selling our own place

0:05:20 > 0:05:23and Lilly's business has taken off like a bloody Exocet.

0:05:23 > 0:05:26I've got a few irons in the fire, as it were, so...

0:05:26 > 0:05:30you know, "bosh bosh," as Mr Enfield would say.

0:05:30 > 0:05:34It's not like we've got children to share it with, is it?

0:05:47 > 0:05:49Appreciated. Thank you.

0:05:51 > 0:05:53- Hey, come here.- Thank you.

0:06:03 > 0:06:05It's bollocks what they say, isn't it?

0:06:05 > 0:06:07"Money can't buy you happiness."

0:06:14 > 0:06:16Woo!

0:06:16 > 0:06:19'Here west was meeting east in one huge whoop of joy.'

0:06:19 > 0:06:23CHEERING, APPLAUSE

0:06:23 > 0:06:25More narration here.

0:06:25 > 0:06:28"Few commentators predicted such seismic change

0:06:28 > 0:06:31"would spread through Europe." And dig out the Thatcher piece

0:06:31 > 0:06:35- on how a single Germany will distort the power balance. - PHONE RINGS

0:06:35 > 0:06:36Charlotte Pugh?

0:06:36 > 0:06:37'Hello, Miss Pugh.'

0:06:37 > 0:06:39Hello.

0:06:39 > 0:06:43Listen. Orla called. The farewell do for the flat is this weekend.

0:06:44 > 0:06:46We'll need to sort childcare for Emma.

0:06:46 > 0:06:48'Why don't we take her with us?'

0:06:48 > 0:06:51'We haven't seen anyone since the move up north.'

0:06:51 > 0:06:53She can finally meet everyone.

0:06:53 > 0:06:54'She'll be bored silly.'

0:06:54 > 0:06:57She can stay with a friend. I'll make some calls. See you later.

0:07:07 > 0:07:09GENERAL CHATTER

0:07:18 > 0:07:20I'll get back to you.

0:07:25 > 0:07:26Any joy?

0:07:26 > 0:07:31Oh, I'm the man of the moment. They're bloody queuing up.

0:07:31 > 0:07:32What have we got?

0:07:32 > 0:07:34A no from Denis Healey.

0:07:34 > 0:07:38And Roy Hattersley says he has no vacancies for an SDP refugee.

0:07:39 > 0:07:41Unforgiving bloody bunch.

0:07:41 > 0:07:45You want me to try Gordon Brown? See if he's an opening?

0:07:45 > 0:07:46I'd as soon have root canal.

0:07:46 > 0:07:49You've got a visitor.

0:07:51 > 0:07:53She said you were expecting her.

0:08:00 > 0:08:02Copies of the bills you were after.

0:08:02 > 0:08:05Rates, utilities, and the tenancy agreement.

0:08:07 > 0:08:10You are coming this weekend, Jack? It's important we're all there.

0:08:10 > 0:08:12Do the others know yet?

0:08:12 > 0:08:15- I said it's a get-together to say goodbye to the flat.- And Jay?

0:08:15 > 0:08:17The same.

0:08:17 > 0:08:19If he won't listen to you, why would he to us?

0:08:19 > 0:08:22Because we're the closest thing to a family he's got.

0:08:22 > 0:08:24If enough of us say the same thing, he has to listen.

0:08:24 > 0:08:26He won't thank you for ambushing him.

0:08:26 > 0:08:28I'll not sit by and do nothing

0:08:28 > 0:08:31while he does a kamikaze on his entire life!

0:08:31 > 0:08:34Jack!

0:08:34 > 0:08:35I'll let you get on.

0:08:37 > 0:08:40Will you and he look for somewhere together or...?

0:08:40 > 0:08:43If he's still speaking to me after the weekend.

0:08:43 > 0:08:45Things as they are now...

0:08:47 > 0:08:49I had no choice but to sell, Orla.

0:08:49 > 0:08:51I have to move on.

0:08:58 > 0:09:00'I no longer believe it possible

0:09:00 > 0:09:03'to resolve that conflict from within this Government.

0:09:03 > 0:09:05'That is why I have resigned.'

0:09:05 > 0:09:06KNOCK AT THE DOOR

0:09:06 > 0:09:07'In doing so...'

0:09:07 > 0:09:10Do you have any washing that needs doing?

0:09:10 > 0:09:11Oh, yeah.

0:09:11 > 0:09:13One second.

0:09:13 > 0:09:14Off out tonight?

0:09:14 > 0:09:18- Yeah.- ..'the conflict of loyalties with which I have myself wrestled

0:09:18 > 0:09:22- 'for perhaps too long.' - Thank you very much.- Thanks.

0:09:22 > 0:09:23Not too late, Jay.

0:09:23 > 0:09:27They're getting here before lunch tomorrow, remember.

0:09:35 > 0:09:36Oi.

0:09:38 > 0:09:40Sleeping beauty.

0:09:40 > 0:09:42LAUGHTER

0:09:42 > 0:09:44Stop it!

0:10:00 > 0:10:04LAUGHTER CONTINUES

0:10:06 > 0:10:07Oh, God!

0:10:08 > 0:10:10It's heavy.

0:10:14 > 0:10:16PHONE RINGS

0:10:17 > 0:10:19Hello?

0:10:19 > 0:10:20Ah.

0:10:22 > 0:10:23We're all here,

0:10:23 > 0:10:25except for you. See you then.

0:10:28 > 0:10:29Stuck in traffic.

0:10:40 > 0:10:42'What's with the facial hair, Alan?'

0:10:42 > 0:10:44'He's going through a Tom Selleck phase.'

0:10:44 > 0:10:47'Who says it was a phase?'

0:10:47 > 0:10:49Cheers, everyone!

0:10:49 > 0:10:51ALL: Cheers!

0:10:51 > 0:10:53Is Victor not joining us, Charlie?

0:10:53 > 0:10:56He's dropping Emma off at her cousins in Clapham.

0:10:56 > 0:10:59Pity. I was looking forward to meeting her finally.

0:10:59 > 0:11:01Seven years now, Charlie?

0:11:01 > 0:11:03Eight, surely.

0:11:05 > 0:11:07Orla told me about your mother.

0:11:09 > 0:11:12How it was you who found her.

0:11:15 > 0:11:16So,

0:11:16 > 0:11:20now the SDP's folded, what's next? Throw your lot in with Labour again?

0:11:20 > 0:11:22There'll be snowploughs in Hell

0:11:22 > 0:11:24before Kinnock lets us lot back in the fold.

0:11:24 > 0:11:28He blames us for his humiliation at the polls. By splitting the vote

0:11:28 > 0:11:29we let Thatcher back in.

0:11:29 > 0:11:31What exactly does a Special Adviser do?

0:11:31 > 0:11:34They're the ghosts in the political machine, Jay.

0:11:34 > 0:11:36The power behind the throne.

0:11:36 > 0:11:39Or the fall guy when things go down the pan.

0:11:39 > 0:11:42Charlotte, how's life in the North?

0:11:42 > 0:11:45Still keeping coal in t'bath, are they?

0:11:45 > 0:11:47They have to keep it somewhere.

0:11:47 > 0:11:49We're still waiting on our invite.

0:11:49 > 0:11:50Join the club.

0:11:50 > 0:11:52Oh, give the poor bitch a break.

0:11:53 > 0:11:57Oh, I caught your credit on the box again the other night.

0:11:59 > 0:12:01Felt absurdly...

0:12:01 > 0:12:02proud of you, actually.

0:12:04 > 0:12:07And motherhood?

0:12:07 > 0:12:08How's that been?

0:12:08 > 0:12:10Best thing that's ever happened to me.

0:12:10 > 0:12:12Bar none.

0:12:14 > 0:12:15And you?

0:12:15 > 0:12:18What's with you on the home front?

0:12:18 > 0:12:22- Well, as it happens...- What's with Heseltine's leadership bid, Jack?

0:12:22 > 0:12:23Think Maggie will survive it?

0:12:23 > 0:12:26If she can survive the debacle of the Poll Tax,

0:12:26 > 0:12:29she can survive Tarzan doing his worst, I'm sure.

0:12:29 > 0:12:32- No, I think she'll manage. - Oh, here he is!

0:12:32 > 0:12:34Come on. Good girl.

0:12:34 > 0:12:36Sorry, sorry we're late.

0:12:36 > 0:12:38Why did you not take her to Clapham?

0:12:38 > 0:12:42- Their youngest had chicken pox. - ORLA: This must be Emma.

0:12:42 > 0:12:44Yes, and this is Lilly, Alan's wife.

0:12:44 > 0:12:47- This is Jay the doctor.- Hello, Emma.

0:12:47 > 0:12:51And this is Jack, he used to share a house with Mummy and Daddy too.

0:12:53 > 0:12:55- Jesus, Jay!- I'm on it, I'm on it.

0:12:57 > 0:12:59I'm fine, I'm fine.

0:13:00 > 0:13:03It's all right, darling, it's only a nose bleed.

0:13:04 > 0:13:06Shall we get you some crisps?

0:13:06 > 0:13:09Just this once though. What would you like?

0:13:12 > 0:13:15Rrrr!

0:13:15 > 0:13:17Rrryeow!

0:13:17 > 0:13:19EMMA GIGGLES

0:13:19 > 0:13:22He's really bought into it. Fatherhood.

0:13:22 > 0:13:25She made us complete.

0:13:25 > 0:13:27Is that why you didn't have any more?

0:13:27 > 0:13:31Victor says it's like his colour is invisible to her.

0:13:31 > 0:13:35If we had our own, she'd always be reminded she's not his.

0:13:36 > 0:13:39I tell myself deceiving him is a necessary lie.

0:13:39 > 0:13:42For the greater good.

0:13:42 > 0:13:46So you didn't move to Manchester to hide her from everyone?

0:13:47 > 0:13:51Your so-called best friend cuts you out of her life for years.

0:13:51 > 0:13:53What did you expect, a red carpet?

0:13:54 > 0:13:56I had no choice.

0:13:58 > 0:14:00If I'd stayed in London, stayed in touch,

0:14:00 > 0:14:03I would have made you complicit in the lie.

0:14:04 > 0:14:06Or reminded you of it.

0:14:19 > 0:14:21JACK: When do we do the deed?

0:14:21 > 0:14:24When we get back to the flat.

0:14:25 > 0:14:28Make it sooner rather than later.

0:14:28 > 0:14:31My father's had another turn.

0:14:31 > 0:14:34I have to pop up and see him tonight.

0:14:34 > 0:14:35Had enough.

0:14:35 > 0:14:38- Orla.- Oh, my go?

0:14:39 > 0:14:40A stitch.

0:14:45 > 0:14:50Karl Marx came here when he was cranking up his theory of Communism.

0:14:50 > 0:14:52Must be turning in his bloody grave,

0:14:52 > 0:14:55seeing the whole edifice come crashing down.

0:14:55 > 0:14:56Still, he got summat right.

0:14:56 > 0:14:59If Communism is about owning the means of production,

0:14:59 > 0:15:02the Information Super Highway is where it's at.

0:15:02 > 0:15:05- (ECHOES, FADING)- You can forget your industrial revolution, Jack.

0:15:05 > 0:15:08This is the electronic revolution. A global game changer.

0:15:08 > 0:15:12I'm talking about entire nations electronically connected.

0:15:12 > 0:15:17Very exciting. I've come up with this consortium with some others.

0:15:17 > 0:15:21We're looking for venture capital. A chance to come in at ground level.

0:15:21 > 0:15:23Jack?

0:15:23 > 0:15:25Jack?

0:15:25 > 0:15:27Ah, sorry...

0:15:28 > 0:15:30The Information, what is it?

0:15:32 > 0:15:34On Saturday morning

0:15:34 > 0:15:38I had ballet class and Mummy and I went shopping.

0:15:38 > 0:15:39Two "p"s in shopping.

0:15:55 > 0:15:59'The contest for the leadership of the Conservative Party

0:15:59 > 0:16:03'has become increasingly bitter as we edge closer to tomorrow's vote.

0:16:03 > 0:16:07- 'Mrs Thatcher said Mr Heseltine has jeopardised...'- Dig in, guys.

0:16:07 > 0:16:09Bloody hell, Orla. Have you made enough?

0:16:09 > 0:16:12She still cooks for an army, though it's only two of us here.

0:16:12 > 0:16:15You get through it, don't you? Cheers, everyone.

0:16:15 > 0:16:17- Cheers.- Chin-chin.

0:16:18 > 0:16:21- You've still got a gin on the go. - I'm multi-tasking.

0:16:22 > 0:16:29Truth be told, I've got you all here under false pretences.

0:16:29 > 0:16:32You want to tell them what's been going on with you, Jay?

0:16:33 > 0:16:36You say I'm overreacting, fine.

0:16:36 > 0:16:39Let's see what people think when they find out what you're doing.

0:16:47 > 0:16:50I...I'm afraid you've had a wasted trip, guys.

0:16:50 > 0:16:53Tonight's floor show is cancelled. Indefinitely.

0:16:53 > 0:16:55JACK: He's HIV.

0:16:57 > 0:17:00He was diagnosed six months ago.

0:17:00 > 0:17:03You're in on this as well, are you, Jack?

0:17:06 > 0:17:09It's under control.

0:17:09 > 0:17:11I'm on AZT. I'm doing fine.

0:17:11 > 0:17:12Except for the side effects.

0:17:12 > 0:17:16- Is that what the nosebleed was about?- And there's more.

0:17:16 > 0:17:21He hasn't said anything to anyone at work about it.

0:17:21 > 0:17:23Are you allowed to do that?

0:17:23 > 0:17:26Operate when you've got AIDS?

0:17:26 > 0:17:28HIV is not AIDS.

0:17:28 > 0:17:31- But it's the virus that leads to it. - Not in every case it's not.

0:17:34 > 0:17:37You can't catch it from a handshake! Even Princess Di gets that.

0:17:37 > 0:17:41- What if you have a nosebleed while operating?- Or cut yourself?

0:17:41 > 0:17:45- I've never cut myself in an operation! Not once! - Before you operate on a child

0:17:45 > 0:17:47you make sure the parents have the relevant information

0:17:47 > 0:17:49so they can make an informed decision?

0:17:49 > 0:17:51Don't they have the right to know?

0:17:51 > 0:17:54A surgeon can go home, hit the bottle, do a line of coke.

0:17:54 > 0:17:56That affects his performance.

0:17:56 > 0:17:58Patients don't know about that, do they?

0:18:01 > 0:18:04There is not one recorded case of HIV being transmitted by a doctor.

0:18:04 > 0:18:06How about off the record?

0:18:06 > 0:18:09You can still practice medicine. There's radiography, research...

0:18:09 > 0:18:11I'm a surgeon!

0:18:11 > 0:18:13It's what I do.

0:18:13 > 0:18:15It's what I am!

0:18:15 > 0:18:18Jesus, why do none of you bloody get that?

0:18:55 > 0:18:56Someone should go and talk to him.

0:18:56 > 0:18:58Let him cool off awhile.

0:18:58 > 0:19:00Someone has to tell him what it would do to him,

0:19:00 > 0:19:03living with a lie like that year after year.

0:19:03 > 0:19:06LILLY LAUGHS

0:19:06 > 0:19:10I'm sorry, that's just so rich coming from you.

0:19:11 > 0:19:12Oh, come on.

0:19:14 > 0:19:15Glass houses and stones.

0:19:15 > 0:19:18I mean, I am to blame too.

0:19:18 > 0:19:23I said to her, when she told me about Jack and the baby,

0:19:23 > 0:19:26I said she should tell you it was someone else's,

0:19:26 > 0:19:27a one-night stand.

0:19:31 > 0:19:33She said... What was it you said, Charlotte?

0:19:36 > 0:19:40"What kind of a person would that make me?"

0:19:43 > 0:19:46Someone who wants it all ways, apparently.

0:19:46 > 0:19:47Lilly!

0:19:54 > 0:19:56Hey,

0:19:56 > 0:19:58I was in the dark too.

0:20:39 > 0:20:40Finally.

0:20:44 > 0:20:46For Pete's bloody sake! Jack, how are you?

0:20:48 > 0:20:50There he is! Tardy bugger.

0:20:51 > 0:20:52Lilly.

0:21:01 > 0:21:03Bit of a grisly job, eh?

0:21:04 > 0:21:06You could say that.

0:21:06 > 0:21:08And she was alone when it happened.

0:21:09 > 0:21:12Two weeks before they found her.

0:21:12 > 0:21:13Maybe...

0:21:13 > 0:21:15Jack should take a look at the safe.

0:21:17 > 0:21:20She had a fire safe and we can't find the keys.

0:21:20 > 0:21:21I'll be there.

0:21:45 > 0:21:47I'll make a start on the bathroom.

0:22:29 > 0:22:33We could take it to a locksmith, let them have a go at it?

0:22:33 > 0:22:37Best not let it out of our sight until we know what's in it.

0:22:38 > 0:22:40I'll get a locksmith to come here.

0:22:45 > 0:22:49We need to talk about her ashes,

0:22:49 > 0:22:50what to do with them.

0:22:50 > 0:22:51Nothing in the will?

0:22:51 > 0:22:53No.

0:22:57 > 0:22:59I'll sort it.

0:23:22 > 0:23:24IT WHIRRS

0:23:51 > 0:23:55HE SOBS

0:24:32 > 0:24:36It was while we were doing the detox for him.

0:24:36 > 0:24:38He was hurting.

0:24:38 > 0:24:40A pity shag.

0:24:46 > 0:24:48Before she was born,

0:24:48 > 0:24:51- when we were waiting to see... - What colour she was?

0:24:51 > 0:24:53I'd made up my mind...

0:24:55 > 0:24:59..if it turned out she was his, I'd tell you the truth.

0:24:59 > 0:25:00Even if it meant losing you.

0:25:09 > 0:25:11But then you held her...

0:25:13 > 0:25:16And it wasn't just about what I'd lose any more.

0:25:16 > 0:25:18So you did it for her.

0:25:20 > 0:25:24Well, then you're in the clear, Charlie.

0:25:28 > 0:25:32I won't pretend that the thought never crossed my mind.

0:25:33 > 0:25:38I dismissed it, on the grounds you were incapable of such deception.

0:25:38 > 0:25:42You know when a witness lies in court, they're held in contempt.

0:25:44 > 0:25:48I never understood what that meant until just now.

0:25:50 > 0:25:53I can't actually look at you right now.

0:25:56 > 0:26:00I beg you, I'm begging you, Victor. Forgive me, please try.

0:26:00 > 0:26:01Please.

0:27:19 > 0:27:21I must be off, Orla.

0:27:23 > 0:27:24Tell Charlie I'll...

0:27:26 > 0:27:28I'll be in touch.

0:27:28 > 0:27:30Sure.

0:27:30 > 0:27:32You go, Jack.

0:27:32 > 0:27:36Leave someone else to pick up the pieces after you as usual.

0:27:37 > 0:27:40A trick I never quite mastered.

0:27:53 > 0:27:57MARGARET THATCHER: 'Good evening, good evening, gentleman.'

0:27:57 > 0:28:02'I'm naturally pleased I got more than half the parliamentary party,

0:28:02 > 0:28:05'and disappointed it's not quite enough to win on the first ballot

0:28:05 > 0:28:08'so I confirm that it is my intention

0:28:08 > 0:28:11'to let my name go forward for the second ballot.'

0:28:20 > 0:28:21Did he come back yet?

0:28:22 > 0:28:24Victor?

0:28:25 > 0:28:29How anyone comes back from something like that, God only knows.

0:28:29 > 0:28:32I thought you'd given up on all things godly.

0:28:32 > 0:28:33Oh,

0:28:33 > 0:28:38I've occasion to call on Him now and then.

0:28:38 > 0:28:40Say one for me while you're at it.

0:28:40 > 0:28:41I always do.

0:28:45 > 0:28:47OK.

0:28:47 > 0:28:48You win.

0:28:49 > 0:28:51I'll tell them.

0:28:52 > 0:28:53It's the right thing, Jay.

0:28:53 > 0:28:57- One day you'll... - You've struck oil, Orla.

0:28:57 > 0:28:59No need to keep drilling.

0:29:01 > 0:29:04So on a scale of one to ten, how mad are you at me?

0:29:06 > 0:29:08Off the bloody scale.

0:29:16 > 0:29:18"This too shall pass."

0:29:40 > 0:29:41Is he here?

0:29:56 > 0:29:58Mystery solved.

0:30:00 > 0:30:01The move up north,

0:30:01 > 0:30:04dropping out of sight all this time?

0:30:05 > 0:30:06I get it now.

0:30:14 > 0:30:18What exactly do you want me to do about this, Charlie?

0:30:18 > 0:30:19Step up,

0:30:19 > 0:30:21do the father thing?

0:30:22 > 0:30:24Or step back?

0:30:29 > 0:30:32I mean, she already has a father, I get that too.

0:30:34 > 0:30:37- I don't want to complicate things any...- Jack?

0:30:37 > 0:30:41The car's round the corner. I couldn't find the damn house.

0:30:45 > 0:30:47This is Alicia.

0:30:47 > 0:30:48And James.

0:30:50 > 0:30:51- Charlotte.- Hi.

0:30:53 > 0:30:54Ready?

0:30:57 > 0:30:59Go to Daddy.

0:30:59 > 0:31:00Good boy.

0:31:02 > 0:31:06God knows, we wouldn't want to complicate anything.

0:31:41 > 0:31:43Come on, Alan.

0:31:43 > 0:31:47If you were in Victor's place, you'd want to know the truth.

0:31:47 > 0:31:50Bloody hellfire, Lilly!

0:31:50 > 0:31:53Have you have any idea of the damage you've done?

0:31:53 > 0:31:55What possessed you to say such a thing?

0:31:55 > 0:31:57Alan, just take me home.

0:31:57 > 0:31:59Oh, no, you're staying,

0:31:59 > 0:32:01you face the music.

0:32:01 > 0:32:04Something made you say that, Lilly.

0:32:04 > 0:32:06It wasn't just the booze talking.

0:32:10 > 0:32:12All yours.

0:32:25 > 0:32:28The day after we met that time in the pub,

0:32:28 > 0:32:30I rang, remember?

0:32:31 > 0:32:34I told you I couldn't bring myself to tell him.

0:32:37 > 0:32:40If you felt it was so reprehensible,

0:32:40 > 0:32:42why not say something then?

0:32:45 > 0:32:47Or were you just biding your time?

0:32:52 > 0:32:55For fuck's sake, say something!

0:33:02 > 0:33:04I'm not the only one with a secret, am I?

0:33:06 > 0:33:10Alan doesn't know about Jack and the abortion, does he?

0:33:12 > 0:33:15That's the reason you can't have children.

0:33:17 > 0:33:19As you reap, love.

0:33:32 > 0:33:34Are you all right?

0:33:41 > 0:33:44Victor will come round.

0:33:44 > 0:33:48There's no way he'd want to lose you. Either of you.

0:33:51 > 0:33:53In his place, could you come round?

0:33:57 > 0:33:59I'd like to think so.

0:34:06 > 0:34:07Alan?

0:34:18 > 0:34:20She doesn't deserve you.

0:34:47 > 0:34:50Can we go home now, please?

0:34:58 > 0:34:59Come on.

0:35:34 > 0:35:39I'm looking for a minister who is dull, totally loyal,

0:35:39 > 0:35:42and above all, someone who'll stand by me...

0:35:42 > 0:35:46Owen's apparatchiks claim it was their relentless piss-take of him

0:35:46 > 0:35:48which put us on the scrap heap.

0:35:48 > 0:35:52Thatcher seemed to ride the same beast without too much trouble.

0:35:52 > 0:35:54She's bullet proof, isn't she?

0:35:54 > 0:35:56Bed-time reading?

0:36:06 > 0:36:08Did you do all this?

0:36:08 > 0:36:10Your mother.

0:36:10 > 0:36:14She was...boring the doctor with it just now.

0:36:16 > 0:36:19Anyone who sets foot inside the house gets it.

0:36:19 > 0:36:22Your handwriting, Dad.

0:36:22 > 0:36:24Well, I helped round the edges.

0:36:34 > 0:36:38"Vote for us and break the mould of British politics."

0:36:38 > 0:36:41"Challenge the tribal factions in Westminster."

0:36:41 > 0:36:46Came quite close there for a while.

0:36:46 > 0:36:49It's the First Past the Post thing which did for you.

0:36:49 > 0:36:50And the timing.

0:36:50 > 0:36:53Which in my case sucked. As ever.

0:36:53 > 0:36:57It's not too late to follow the others, join the Liberal Alliance.

0:36:57 > 0:37:00It was a revolution I wanted to be part of,

0:37:00 > 0:37:05not some hybrid coalition born out of political necessity.

0:37:05 > 0:37:07When the Gang of Four started,

0:37:07 > 0:37:11they toyed with the name "The New Labour Party," did you know that?

0:37:11 > 0:37:13They should have gone with it,

0:37:13 > 0:37:18if only to show the red card to Labour. "Modernise or die."

0:37:18 > 0:37:22Maybe Labour will have its own velvet revolution.

0:37:23 > 0:37:25That's a sort of legacy.

0:37:30 > 0:37:32Perhaps it's a generation thing.

0:37:32 > 0:37:36There's just no causes worth fighting for now.

0:37:36 > 0:37:38Your lot did all that for us, didn't you?

0:37:38 > 0:37:40That's a convenient excuse.

0:37:44 > 0:37:46Oh, Jack...

0:37:50 > 0:37:53I think I've worked out what it was all about.

0:37:53 > 0:37:59All those years of your sacrificing yourself on the altar of rebellion.

0:37:59 > 0:38:02It wasn't about fighting me, was it?

0:38:02 > 0:38:06It was about fighting all of this, waiting for you.

0:38:06 > 0:38:08And you were right.

0:38:08 > 0:38:11Success isn't the same as succession.

0:38:31 > 0:38:36BIRDS FLUTTER AND CHIRP

0:38:40 > 0:38:41Mum?

0:38:43 > 0:38:44Mum!

0:39:03 > 0:39:05FLUTTERING GETS LOUDER

0:39:28 > 0:39:29Sweetheart.

0:39:30 > 0:39:32Time to go.

0:39:37 > 0:39:38Come on.

0:39:49 > 0:39:51Can I watch a video?

0:39:51 > 0:39:52Mm-hmm.

0:40:01 > 0:40:03Victor?

0:41:03 > 0:41:04Whose property is it?

0:41:04 > 0:41:06She's deceased.

0:41:06 > 0:41:09Someone's been messing with this.

0:41:09 > 0:41:12That's why we called in the services of a professional.

0:41:14 > 0:41:16I need authorisation before I can touch it.

0:41:16 > 0:41:20I'm the executor of her will. That's all the authorisation you need.

0:41:31 > 0:41:32ID?

0:41:40 > 0:41:42Cup of tea wouldn't go amiss.

0:41:42 > 0:41:44Lapsang if you have it.

0:41:50 > 0:41:52Don't let me keep you.

0:42:03 > 0:42:05DRILL WHIRRS, MUFFLED

0:42:21 > 0:42:24What are we going to do with the computer?

0:42:25 > 0:42:27That's down to Charlotte.

0:42:34 > 0:42:36It's OK, I can manage.

0:42:36 > 0:42:40No, no. Well, many hands, etc, etc.

0:42:40 > 0:42:43So how does one address a viscount?

0:42:46 > 0:42:48Well, in a letter, it's "Dear Lord."

0:42:48 > 0:42:51Paradoxically, on the envelope, it's "Viscount".

0:42:51 > 0:42:54On official documents I'm "The Right Honourable Viscount"

0:42:54 > 0:42:56but verbally I'm just plain "My Lord."

0:42:58 > 0:43:00You'd have a more appropriate mode of address,

0:43:00 > 0:43:04"hypocrite" being in pole position, I'd imagine.

0:43:12 > 0:43:14How's Emma?

0:43:16 > 0:43:18She's in New York.

0:43:18 > 0:43:20Research project, Columbia.

0:43:24 > 0:43:27She and I did meet. I assume she told you that?

0:43:27 > 0:43:29Summer of '05. She'd have been...

0:43:29 > 0:43:3023.

0:43:30 > 0:43:32Yeah.

0:43:33 > 0:43:34I mean...

0:43:34 > 0:43:38Her initiative. She made it very clear from the start.

0:43:38 > 0:43:39Coffee, not lunch or dinner.

0:43:39 > 0:43:42Just the one meeting, not looking for anything ongoing.

0:43:42 > 0:43:45She asked me a load of questions about my family,

0:43:45 > 0:43:47my sons, her half-brothers,

0:43:47 > 0:43:50about how Charlie and I had, um...

0:43:55 > 0:43:57Yeah, well...

0:43:57 > 0:43:59That was it.

0:43:59 > 0:44:01She thanked me for my time, shook my hand and left.

0:44:01 > 0:44:05No recriminations. No reproaches about how I'd failed as a father.

0:44:05 > 0:44:08In fact, a triumph...

0:44:09 > 0:44:11..of nurture over nature.

0:44:16 > 0:44:18Perhaps we both failed her.

0:44:21 > 0:44:22- JAY:- Safe's open, guys!

0:44:28 > 0:44:32She was carrying your picture in her wallet.

0:44:32 > 0:44:36Which is a damn sight more than my kids do with mine.

0:44:51 > 0:44:53So,

0:44:53 > 0:44:56premium bonds,

0:44:56 > 0:44:58bank stuff.

0:44:58 > 0:45:02Oh, title deeds to the flat - copy of.

0:45:02 > 0:45:06When was it she bought the flat. '93 was it?

0:45:06 > 0:45:10No, end of '90. I made a deal with when my first buyer dropped out.

0:45:10 > 0:45:11Oh, my God.

0:45:11 > 0:45:15She had a brother called Conor, didn't she?

0:45:22 > 0:45:23Christ.

0:45:23 > 0:45:26"Dear Orla... " Oh.

0:45:26 > 0:45:28From her mum. Dated 1973.

0:45:30 > 0:45:34"In the circumstances, your father and I do not think it appropriate

0:45:34 > 0:45:39"that you come to your brother's funeral".

0:45:39 > 0:45:43"Conor told us that he came to you for..."

0:45:43 > 0:45:47something... "Sanctuary in London.

0:45:47 > 0:45:49"That you sent him away.

0:45:49 > 0:45:55"That you chose your friends over your flesh and blood."

0:46:03 > 0:46:04Oh, my God.

0:46:05 > 0:46:07Let me see.

0:46:13 > 0:46:17"I just hope they never turn their backs on you when you need them

0:46:17 > 0:46:19"as you did on Conor.

0:46:20 > 0:46:23"As far as your father and I are concerned,

0:46:23 > 0:46:26"they're your family now, Orla.

0:46:28 > 0:46:30"We want no part of you".

0:46:42 > 0:46:45I didn't know he'd ever been to the flat, did you?

0:46:45 > 0:46:47Someone did.

0:46:49 > 0:46:52I can't remember if it was him.

0:46:52 > 0:46:55She was always on the phone to her family, wasn't she? Remember?

0:46:55 > 0:47:01Then those phone calls and the visits home just...stopped.

0:47:02 > 0:47:06And we never thought to ask why, did we?

0:47:06 > 0:47:08We never gave it a second thought.

0:47:08 > 0:47:10We're not mind-readers.

0:47:10 > 0:47:12She didn't confide in us, did she?

0:47:12 > 0:47:16If the IRA were after him, she'd have thought that put us at risk.

0:47:16 > 0:47:20- Given what happened to him, she was right.- She made the right choice.

0:47:20 > 0:47:23For us or her?

0:47:28 > 0:47:31There's no booze in the place, is there?

0:47:48 > 0:47:49What's next?

0:47:58 > 0:47:59Hang on.

0:47:59 > 0:48:00"To Orla...

0:48:02 > 0:48:06"..From the gang on your retirement,

0:48:06 > 0:48:08"with love and...

0:48:10 > 0:48:11.."respect."

0:48:13 > 0:48:16"November 2010."

0:48:16 > 0:48:18Is there anything to play this on?

0:48:25 > 0:48:27APPLAUSE

0:48:27 > 0:48:30'So, glasses charged, guys?'

0:48:30 > 0:48:34'And this is just a little something from everyone.'

0:48:34 > 0:48:35Oh.

0:48:35 > 0:48:37Oh, my goodness.

0:48:40 > 0:48:44'That's beautiful. I don't know what to say.'

0:48:44 > 0:48:47- 'Speech!- Come on!'

0:48:48 > 0:48:50Um...

0:48:52 > 0:48:55There's a...

0:48:55 > 0:48:57There's a forest in Japan.

0:48:58 > 0:49:01So vast, it's the size of a small ocean.

0:49:01 > 0:49:04And it's so dense

0:49:04 > 0:49:07no compass can work there.

0:49:09 > 0:49:12They call it the Sea of Trees...

0:49:12 > 0:49:16..and for generations people in trouble have gone there

0:49:16 > 0:49:19in...well, in despair

0:49:19 > 0:49:22to end their lives.

0:49:23 > 0:49:24Only...

0:49:24 > 0:49:30sometimes they're uncertain about what they intend doing

0:49:30 > 0:49:34so they leave markers on trees

0:49:34 > 0:49:36in case they change their mind

0:49:36 > 0:49:38and want to find their way home.

0:49:39 > 0:49:43And I think our job as therapists is like that.

0:49:43 > 0:49:45We're like compasses.

0:49:46 > 0:49:51People come to us in despair, and...

0:49:51 > 0:49:56we try and help them find their way through it,

0:49:56 > 0:49:57make peace with the past.

0:49:59 > 0:50:03And so if I succeeded even just once

0:50:03 > 0:50:06in doing that, then, well...

0:50:06 > 0:50:10I really think our job is...

0:50:10 > 0:50:12a job well done.

0:50:14 > 0:50:16So, thank you.

0:50:20 > 0:50:22- To Orla.- To Orla.

0:50:50 > 0:50:52To Orla.

0:50:54 > 0:50:56- Orla.- Orla.

0:50:56 > 0:50:58To Orla.

0:51:24 > 0:51:26She did it for me, you know,

0:51:26 > 0:51:28buying this flat.

0:51:28 > 0:51:31So if I ever got sick...

0:51:33 > 0:51:35..I'd always have a roof over my head.

0:51:39 > 0:51:41Two years later, I met someone.

0:51:43 > 0:51:46Upped sticks to Edinburgh with him...

0:51:48 > 0:51:50..without a backward glance.

0:51:56 > 0:51:58What was it she said?

0:51:59 > 0:52:03"Hindsight is knowing where you've been.

0:52:03 > 0:52:06"Foresight is knowing where you're going".

0:52:06 > 0:52:09"Insight is knowing you've gone too far."

0:52:12 > 0:52:15Maybe that should come under hindsight too.

0:52:25 > 0:52:30Have you had any thoughts about scattering the ashes?

0:54:11 > 0:54:13Just a minute.

0:54:15 > 0:54:17Where's that going?

0:54:17 > 0:54:19It's going in the games room.

0:54:19 > 0:54:21- Oh, yeah? - See if I can improve my aim.

0:54:25 > 0:54:27Let's not leave it so long next time.

0:54:27 > 0:54:28Seconded.

0:54:55 > 0:54:57Soon, yes?

0:55:38 > 0:55:40Charlie?

0:55:41 > 0:55:43I go to Washington tomorrow,

0:55:43 > 0:55:45human rights case.

0:55:45 > 0:55:47I'll be back in a fortnight.

0:55:48 > 0:55:51Maybe we could have lunch sometime?

0:55:56 > 0:55:57My cup runneth over.

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