The Story of Tracy Beaker Series 2-12.Genius at Work/Nathans Assessment
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00:00I can make my work come true. All my dreams will see me through. Doesn't matter what may come my way. Believe me now, I will win someday.
00:19Grounded? What do you mean grounded?
00:21You know exactly what I mean.
00:23But I was only doing my homework!
00:30It was only a rubber frog!
01:00It's modern art for my art project.
01:03You've been causing chaos and you are grounded.
01:06But I was going to go round to Ben's house and Cam's going to take me out tomorrow.
01:10You can't ground me for doing my homework. It's an art of natural justice.
01:15Alright Tracy, what if you did something to help us?
01:21You know how depressed Justine's been since Louise left. Maybe you could cheer her up.
01:27Cheer her up? Me?
01:30I don't know if you've noticed this Jenny, but I'm not exactly Queen Justine of Littlewood's favourite person.
01:46Why not use Justine in your art project? You could paint a really nice picture of her.
01:51A nice picture of Justine? I'm an artist, not a miracle worker!
01:56Look Tracy, all I'm saying is, if you help us with Justine, I'll see about ungrounding you for tomorrow.
02:01Blackmail her? Highly unprofessional.
02:05Oh hi Ben. Yes, as it happens, she's right here.
02:09Ben, I've just been grounded. You've got to come over and help me with my art project.
02:13Sorry, but you can't do. I'm ill. I've got a bad cold. Could hardly even get out of bed.
02:20Ill? Ill? How can you be ill?
02:25Seems as if Ben's stuck as well. Except, of course, if you play your cards right, you could quite easily get yourself unstuck. Hint, hint. Hint.
02:38I've just had a great idea. Why don't I go and cheer up Justine?
02:41So Ben's a limbenity? Of course. Me and Bulge could always pop round.
02:50How very public-spirited of you, Lyle. And I'm sure your eagerness to visit Ben has nothing to do with his vast collection of video games.
02:57The idea hadn't even begun to think about crossing my mind.
03:01All right, you can visit Ben, but be back by tea time.
03:04Yes.
03:07Oh hi Justine. You still feeling down? What do you care?
03:11Of course I care, Justine. I miss Louise too.
03:16Don't you know one of the great healing things in life is art? Has anyone ever painted your portrait?
03:23What?
03:25You know, you're quite pretty, really.
03:32Smooth skin, lovely hair. Almost like a supermodel.
03:40Hi, Tracey. Coming to Ben's?
03:43Yeah, we're gonna play games, watch videos, listen to music. Oh no, she can't.
03:49Oh, why ever not?
03:51Because she's grounded.
03:53Oh yes, completely slipped my mind. Oh dear.
03:56How sad.
03:57Never mind.
03:59Did you hear somebody say something, Justine?
04:02No, just some rats squeaking.
04:07Yes, Cam, I know she's been really looking forward to it.
04:10I'll call you later, all right, see if she's redeemed herself.
04:14Duke's not really that angry anymore, I think he's just pretending it never happened.
04:20Just after the shops.
04:21Oh, you're going...
04:23Shopping, yes.
04:25Oh, it's just that...
04:27What's the matter?
04:29Nothing.
04:31Good.
04:37Oh yes, Duke's gone mad.
04:46All right, Benny man?
04:48It's all right, I'm not feeling too well, are you?
04:50Look, I've just been sneezed at by an elephant.
04:54Where are your parents, then?
04:56Work, where else?
04:58Hey, what are you doing out here?
05:00I don't know what your point is.
05:01So you've got the whole house to yourself?
05:04Yeah, yeah, yeah, enjoy.
05:13I'll just be upstairs in bed.
05:23Genius at work.
05:28Hi ladies, how's it going?
05:29I wonder if Picasso had to put up with all these interruptions?
05:32Ah, you're being very brave with your artistic choices, Tracy.
05:37What?
05:38Yes, well art is all about risk.
05:40All the great artists have had to take chances in their lives,
05:43but when it comes down to it, the end product is all that matters.
05:58Well, I'll leave you to it.
06:09How's the art project going?
06:11OK, for the time being.
06:14We know Tracy and Justine.
06:15Yeah, they'll be all right.
06:17Right now Tracy and Justine need one another.
06:19Well, yeah, but...
06:21Look, is Tracy doing her homework?
06:23Well, and is Justine enjoying herself?
06:25Well, I don't really see a problem.
06:27Yeah, well...
06:28I think you've got some case notes to type up or something.
06:39There, finished.
06:41I'm sick.
06:51What have you done to me?
06:53What have you done to me?
06:54So, what do you think?
07:00What are you doing? That's my homework!
07:02You made me look rubbish.
07:04You are a horrible painter!
07:24No! No!
07:27I hate to say I told you so, but...
07:30I'll go, shall I?
07:33Bog breath!
07:35Frequent legs!
07:36Pile of bogeys!
07:37Love a snack!
07:38Calm down, hey!
07:39What's going on? Calm down.
07:40What's going on here?
07:41Look what she did.
07:43Justine?
07:44She made me look like Jacqueline Hyde.
07:46Yeah, well, that's how I see you!
07:47Oh, no, hey, hey, hey!
07:49There's no need to take it personally, Justine.
07:51It's just Tracy's personal interpretation.
07:54Oh, yeah?
07:55Well, how would you like it?
08:01Sixty kilometers.
08:02Sixty-five kilometers.
08:04Seventy kilometers.
08:05Come on!
08:08I think I'd better go and see how Ben's doing.
08:10Spoil that child!
08:11What?
08:12Don't worry!
08:13OK.
08:17One hundred kilometers.
08:18A hundred and five kilometers.
08:20A hundred and five kilometers.
08:22A hundred and five kilometers.
08:44Nice!
08:49Is there anything else I can do for you?
08:56Huh?
08:57Yeah, there is something else you could do for me.
09:02Only, I know there's a can of soup on the kitchen table.
09:06My mum left me a can of soup on the kitchen table.
09:11Mm-hmm.
09:12Yeah, okay.
09:14Just take your arm out, like this.
09:20Got it.
09:21Got it.
09:22That one.
09:23What are you doing?
09:24Climbing Mount Everest on a space hopper.
09:25Mm-hmm.
09:26Anything I can do?
09:27Peeling out the goat from the juicer.
09:28Oh, wow.
09:34What?
09:38Ah!
09:42Ha, ha, ha.
09:46Ha, ha, ha.
09:50Wow.
09:51What?
09:53Oh!
09:54Oh!
09:55Ah!
09:56Ha, ha, ha, ha, ha, ha.
09:58Oh!
09:58I thought I could do a little bit better than that tin rubbish.
10:24Oh, OK.
10:35This is delicious. The best soup I've ever tasted.
10:38I can really feel the bit of it seeping into my bloodstream.
10:42Your bill, sir.
10:45What?
10:46Genius doesn't come cheap.
10:48My brother's original recipe.
10:50Labour, service charge, I think £10 should do it.
10:55Let's see, this week I need to make a few adjustments.
10:59£10 minus the cost of renting my video games for, what, two hours
11:04and the use of my mum's state-of-the-art gym equipment
11:07and the Matambo CD library.
11:10Let's see that. You owe me at least £15.
11:15You know what, Ben? We'll let you off this one.
11:18Cos you're a mate.
11:21Come on, Maestro.
11:23How about, sir? Yeah?
11:26This soup really is excellent. I know.
11:45DRUMMING
12:00SCREAMING
12:04Ta-da!
12:08Tracy, not only are you ungrounded, but I'm tempted to bite off you myself.
12:12I thought you liked me.
12:14If you asked me, you got off lightly.
12:18Oh, there come our good Samaritans.
12:20So, how's Ben?
12:22Well, I think you made a difference.
12:24Whoa.
12:26No, that's just wrong on every level.
12:28I don't expect you to understand, Lol.
12:30But I forgive you. After all, genius is pain.
12:34Yes, Tracy, but is the genius supposed to be a pain?
12:38LAUGHTER
12:42ALL GASP
12:44What?! Bad paintbrush.
12:48Ready...
12:50Steady...
12:52Go!
12:56Nathan, you said we were going to go temping bowling this morning.
13:00Sure did. Come on, then, let's go.
13:02Five more minutes. I just want to give Lol a little demo.
13:05OK, your perfect googly requires a perfect run-up.
13:10All right, now don't be afraid to...
13:12Oh!
13:14So after you trip over your laces, Nathan, what next?
13:16Uh-huh. Amber, show us how it's done.
13:18I don't want to play no stupid game.
13:20Oh, come on, you know you do.
13:22It's your last chance to get revenge on me for making you tidy your room yesterday.
13:25Go on, Amber.
13:27Well, if you feel like that.
13:29Oh, come on. Get ready to run, darling.
13:31Yeah, yeah.
13:33Come on, here we go.
13:35Ha!
13:37Run, darling, run!
13:40Ha!
13:43Nathan is a very caring team member, but he needs to become more responsible.
13:50Nathan is a very caring team member, but he sometimes lacks authority.
14:00Nathan is not very...
14:02Nathan is...
14:10Basically, Nathan is the biggest kid we've got here.
14:29Right. 25!
14:31This is not funny.
14:33I want to know who's behind this.
14:35Nobody make a move until this gets sorted.
14:38I need to be off to the bowling alley now.
14:40You can go as soon as I find out who booby-trapped the treat cupboard.
14:43Actually, Jenny, it was...
14:46It was me.
14:48What?
14:50Well, I knew someone was licking the chocolate bar, so I thought I'd catch them in the act.
14:53Oh. Oh, you did, did you?
14:55Well, for that, that's the most stupid, immature and potentially most dangerous thing that...
15:02Everything all right?
15:04Oh, wonderful. Thank you, Elaine.
15:06I've got a bit of stuff.
15:10I wonder how that got there.
15:12So, what can we do for you, Elaine?
15:14Well, as Nathan's almost finished his course, I've come to do his assessment.
15:17But I'm halfway through his report. I was going to send it to you.
15:20Jenny, I'm not the sort of professional who just rubber-stamps things.
15:24I want to write my own report.
15:25Nathan, can we go now?
15:27I'm afraid Nathan won't be going anywhere today.
15:30What?
15:31I'm sorry, Tracy. It's about my course. I really need to speak to Elaine.
15:35We were supposed to be important.
15:36No, but...
15:37You don't care about us at all, do you?
15:39You're the most rubbish care worker in the history of the universe.
15:43You should be thrown out of a dump truck right this minute,
15:46banished to a far distant corner of the world
15:48and never allowed to work with poor, unfortunate children such as myself ever again.
15:53You're useless, Nathan!
15:58We're good mates, really.
16:00You're training to be her care worker, not her best friend.
16:06Hmm. So, what group session are you running?
16:09Group session?
16:10It's part of your course requirement.
16:12Oh, right, yeah.
16:14Well, I quite enjoy getting the kids together, you know,
16:18and sort of, you know, sort of...
16:22play acting.
16:24Oh, a drama group? That's very good.
16:27Well, I look forward to seeing you in action.
16:30Yeah, me too.
16:31You go and get yourself sorted. I'm just going to have a little chat with the children.
16:35OK.
16:41Oh, I don't know anything about drama.
16:43Oh, dear. You'll just have to improvise.
16:50Oh, Nathan? Oh, he's great.
16:52Take last week, right?
16:54I was meant to be in at nine. It's 20 to 10.
16:56So there I am, halfway up the drainpipe, and the window opens.
17:00Does he grass on me? No, he does not. Wicked.
17:03Well, I quite like Nathan,
17:05because he doesn't really care if your bedroom gets all mucky,
17:08and he says you don't have to worry until fungi starts growing in the carpet.
17:17He's your main man if you want to be up on wrestling moves.
17:20You know some what?
17:21Half Nelson, full Nelson.
17:24You name it, he can do it.
17:26Look, I'll show you.
17:28Come on, Elaine.
17:30No, it's all pretend. It doesn't hurt.
17:32No, stop it! Stop!
17:38So how's it all going?
17:40A bit worrying, Duke.
17:42Understatement of the year, I think.
17:44Do you realise Nathan hasn't completed
17:46one single piece of coursework since he's been here?
17:49So he has started a few, then.
17:55Right, everyone, so if we just get up...
18:00Come on, everyone, get up!
18:02Up, up, up, up!
18:08Good, good.
18:12Right, so...
18:14Let's all start by...
18:19..loosening up.
18:21Yeah!
18:24That's probably enough of that.
18:30Ah, Tracey. Oh, Tracey's brilliant at drama.
18:33Yeah, I'm a white drama queen, aren't I, Nathan?
18:35So, are we doing some roleplay, then, or what?
18:37Roleplay?
18:39Yeah, yeah, roleplay.
18:41Sounds good to me.
18:43Bring me some more grapes, you imbecile!
18:46She's so thirsty, she's gently swaying through.
18:51That's why they're so tall!
18:53Nathan, we're supposed to be bloodthirsty pirates.
18:56Go for the heart.
18:59Hurry, mate, we've got you now!
19:02Looks like the broken leg, we'd better get straight to casualty.
19:05No, no, no, Jon, I've got to stop Tracey's feeling lowish.
19:10Seize your idle chatter!
19:12I'm not like you, I don't worry!
19:20Well, what's going on?
19:22We're being dramatic, Jenny, just like Nathan asked us.
19:25All right, out, all of you.
19:29Typical, just before you get into the good bit.
19:35You're really not helping yourself, Nathan?
19:42Yeah, the bouncy can stop.
19:44I'm swaying in the breeze.
19:50Are you OK?
19:52I've really blown it, dude.
19:54She's really going to get me failed now.
19:57Elaine's not happy cos you haven't finished your coursework.
20:00I know.
20:03Whenever I try to start on it, I get distracted by the kids.
20:06Bouncer wants to beat me at his new computer game,
20:09Dolly cuts her knee, Tracey's desperate to go swimming.
20:12There's always something.
20:15Right, everyone, listen up.
20:17If we don't do something drastic in a very short time,
20:20Nathan will be leaving here for good.
20:22What?
20:24If Elaine the Pain writes a bad report,
20:26he'll fail his course and be thrown out the dumping ground forever.
20:38So, it's down to all of us to save him.
20:41We are his only hope.
20:44OK, here she is.
20:46Dumping ground enemy number one.
20:48Elaine!
20:49Yes, Tracey?
20:50I wanted to talk to you about Nathan.
20:52I didn't mean what I said earlier.
20:54He's not a rubbish care worker at all.
20:56He's incredibly excellent.
20:58I think I've seen all I need to see.
21:00No! You don't understand.
21:02The reason he seems rubbish is because he's got something on his mind.
21:06And what might that be?
21:09Erm, you?
21:10Me.
21:13Oh.
21:16Oh.
21:18You mean he likes me?
21:20You mean he likes me, likes me?
21:24Wow.
21:25Yeah, I know, it's amazing, isn't it?
21:27What with you looking like you do.
21:30But you see, you have this really funny effect on him.
21:40So, how about passing him?
21:42Please don't, Elaine. He's my favourite care worker.
21:45Dolly, let go of my leg.
21:49I know what you lot are up to.
21:51It isn't going to work.
21:53I can't write a good report on Nathan if he hasn't completed any of his coursework.
21:57But he's miles better than your usual tediously boring care worker.
22:01Yeah. Come on, Elaine.
22:03Prove to us you're not just a miserable old prune.
22:06Give Nathan a second chance.
22:09Please.
22:12If he'd done his essays, Lole, then maybe I could.
22:16But the deadline's tomorrow.
22:19I'm sorry.
22:21Rules are rules.
22:26How about we all go bowling?
22:29It's not too late.
22:30Don't feel like it.
22:31Me neither.
22:32Who's going to read me a story in bedtime when Nathan leaves?
22:36I could do that.
22:37You won't be able to do all the voices.
22:39We've got to the part where the mummy claw strangles the werewolf.
22:43I was kind of making it up as I went along.
22:46Sounds good.
22:48You said you were going to take me to that thrash metal concert.
22:50I was really looking forward to it.
22:52Hey, no worries. Maybe Joe could take you.
22:55Yeah. Yeah.
22:56I love thrash metal.
22:59Maybe not.
23:00Looks like a lot of people are going to miss you, Nathan.
23:03Write his your unfinished essays.
23:06Have you heard what Elaine said?
23:08If he can get his coursework in, then she'll pass him.
23:11We're going to have to force him to concentrate and not let him leave the room until he's finished.
23:39Oh, I need the toilet.
23:41Oh, I need the toilet.
23:43I've got to go to the toilet.
23:45Not until you're finished.
24:03I can't do it!
24:08I can't do it!
24:21Finished.
24:22And you've got an hour to get it in.
24:26Off you go. Come on, Nathan.
24:28Yeah, go on, Nathan.
24:29You'd better hurry up.
24:35He's back.
24:39He's back.
24:45He looks really serious.
24:47She's failed him. I know she has.
24:50The old bat.
24:54I hate her.
25:08Hey, we're really sorry.
25:11I don't want you to leave.
25:17She's passed me.
25:19I'm going to be a proper co-worker.
25:23You mean we're stuck with you forever?
25:27Nice one, Nathan.
25:28Congratulations, Nathan.
25:39I can't do it.
25:41I can't do it.
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