EastEnders 9th September 2024-n
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00:00Please. Please, just one call. Five minutes.
00:21I told you. You haven't had your list of approved numbers yet.
00:24Where's my son? He'll be missing me and he's only just started school, so if I could...
00:28Coming out for your cornflakes.
00:35Listen, lovey, I'm not one for rules, but I won't tolerate food in here.
00:48We get rats, see? Great big things, size of my bosom.
00:54Then they set the dogs on them, except they don't bother to clean up after.
00:59So it's wall-to-wall rat corpses, gory in size, smeared over the floor.
01:05Do you mind?
01:09I'm Doreen Coleman. People call me Dore.
01:15I won't answer to Winder.
01:16What's your name, sweetheart?
01:24Sharon Watts.
01:27Watts?
01:28Yes. Why?
01:30For no reason.
01:54Wrong side of the bed again, Angel.
01:57Eggs, please, darling.
01:59I won't pay him by the end of the week.
02:02I'll give you another one to match that.
02:09Did I ask for company?
02:24Oh, you'll miss me when you get out of this place.
02:30When's your parole, Leroy?
02:31Thursday.
02:32It's in the bag, Chris. You excited?
02:35Turning cartwheels.
02:37What's the newbie like?
02:38Barreller laughs.
02:40She's got a little boy, just started school.
02:42Officer wouldn't give her a phone call, so she's sulking in herself.
02:47What's she in for?
02:48Contempt of court, apparently.
02:51Oh, you'll like this. She's got your name.
02:55What do you mean, she's got my name?
02:57Watts.
02:58Sharon Watts.
03:01Sharon Watts?
03:02Yeah.
03:04Don't tell me you know her.
03:07Well, you could say that.
03:09I was married to her dad.
03:12Till I killed him.
03:14GASPS
03:19Mrs. Carter?
03:23Mrs. Carter?
03:27I know.
03:30You've waited a long time for this verdict.
03:34And I hope that in time,
03:36the fact that justice has been served will provide you with some comfort.
03:45If you think of any questions, you have my number.
03:53I'll show myself out.
03:59Mum?
04:01What's that about?
04:04She's my FLO.
04:08Dean's been jailed for nine years.
04:10Oh, that's brilliant.
04:12That is...
04:14That is the news we've been waiting for.
04:17You're finally free of it.
04:19You can move forward and get on with your life.
04:26I can't.
04:27Darling, don't say that.
04:30You can, of course you can.
04:32I mean, have a shower, get dressed, put on some slap,
04:37and start putting them pieces back together.
04:39I can't, Mum.
04:41Grandma, why don't I talk to Mum?
04:42I can't, because...
04:43Mum, Mum.
04:45Don't.
04:47OK, Bernie has gone to Germany.
04:49OK, I just found out from Felix.
04:50It means she is not going to the police.
04:53It means she has had a change of heart.
04:55It means she can't bear to be on the square with us lot.
04:57What's all this about Bernie?
04:58I killed Keanu.
05:04You killed Keanu?
05:10You killed Keanu?
05:12Yes, Mum.
05:13Yes.
05:15What on earth are you talking about?
05:16What's she talking about?
05:17Listen, I'm telling you.
05:20It was me at Christmas.
05:22I killed Keanu.
05:23And so I can't move on.
05:30I can't.
05:38You're in luck, Chas.
05:40I found an old friend of yours.
05:54I know.
06:00Of all the prison cells in all the towns in all the world.
06:04What are you doing here?
06:06You know very well what I'm doing here.
06:09Question is, what has Princess done to get herself banged up?
06:12Get out.
06:14I said get out.
06:17This isn't the Vic, Sharon.
06:19You can't just sling people out.
06:21I need it, Chrissie.
06:22I've got nothing to say to you.
06:24Oh, I thought you'd be pleased to see a familiar face.
06:27If you don't get out this second,
06:30I'm going to call the officer.
06:32Your little finger don't mean anything in here.
06:35Besides, you need a manicure.
06:42Now, a little bird tells me you want to ring your son.
06:48Well, do your, don't you?
06:51Use mine.
06:53It's OK.
06:54Come on, don't cut off your nose, Sharon.
06:56Sure he'd be delighted to hear from his mommy.
07:02Adopted, is he?
07:05No, he's mine.
07:07Oh, wow.
07:11Well, talk about last chance saloon.
07:14No, thank you, Chrissie.
07:21Now, if you don't mind, I'd really like you to get up.
07:26I'll tell you what, I'm going to leave
07:28this phone here for five minutes.
07:30You do with it what you want.
08:14Oh.
08:21How?
08:23How did you do it?
08:26I stabbed him.
08:27Stabbed him?
08:28Yes.
08:30What with?
08:33The meat prong thing.
08:35What?
08:36The thing for probing the meat, the thermometer.
08:39Does it matter?
08:40Where?
08:43In his back.
08:44No, no, no.
08:45Where did it happen?
08:46Here.
08:47In the pub?
08:49In the hallway downstairs.
08:51The meat thermometer.
08:53Is that why you went crazy when I tried to use it at Easter?
08:57And you knew?
08:59She told me a while ago.
09:01I was trying to keep her going.
09:04He's been my rock.
09:05Well done, Johnny.
09:06Great job.
09:07Bravo.
09:08Don't have a go at him.
09:09I am not.
09:10I don't know what to say.
09:12Look, Mum, I'm telling you all this
09:14because we need to be prepared.
09:17Prepared?
09:18I've told the police.
09:20Told them what?
09:22It's the right thing to do.
09:23The right thing to do?
09:24And I've told Bernie.
09:26So it's only a matter of time.
09:27Before what?
09:29I go to prison.
09:30Mum, that is not going to happen.
09:32Oh, God.
09:32No, she is just being paranoid.
09:34OK, the fact you haven't been pulled in
09:36means Bernie has had a change of heart.
09:37It means she is not going to tell the police.
09:39I want to be punished, OK?
09:41I need to be.
09:42You said he was trying to kill Sharon.
09:45You saved your friend.
09:47Now, that is not murder, is it, Johnny?
09:48It's not murder.
09:49They covered it up.
09:50If it goes to court, that is seven years minimum.
09:53I'm going to talk to a solicitor,
09:55make you Annie and Ollie's legal guardian.
09:57What?
09:58I know it's a lot to take in.
09:59No, no, no, hold on.
10:01I have barely enough energy to keep this pub afloat.
10:04And you've now just told me that I
10:06have sole responsibility of your little children,
10:09one of whom is autistic.
10:11They're your grandchildren.
10:12No, not to mention that George is grieving
10:15and playing long-lost families with relatives
10:17he doesn't even know anything about.
10:19So it's a no, is it?
10:21You won't look after your own grandchildren
10:22when I go to prison?
10:23If, if you go to prison, which you won't.
10:26I didn't say that.
10:28Just trying to process all this.
10:30Hey, look, this is a big thing to throw at Grandma.
10:33Why don't we all just take a break, OK?
10:35And we can talk about this later.
10:37I knew you'd react like this.
10:38Mum.
10:39Yeah, well, I did.
10:40You only ever think about yourself, don't you?
10:41This is not about me.
10:43You have just told me that you killed someone here
10:46in our pub, and now all our lives are
10:48going to be turned upside down.
10:49Even when you came here to buy half the pub.
10:51You know, help me out of a hole.
10:52Be my wing woman for once in your life.
10:55Even then, I find out it's about lover boy and not me.
10:57You are a 47-year-old woman.
10:59I'm so sorry.
10:59I didn't know you still needed looking after.
11:01I thought you wanted to get on with your own life.
11:03Just for once, just for once, I wanted you to hold me
11:06and tell me everything was going to be
11:08OK like normal mums do.
11:09There is nothing normal about this, Linda.
11:23Get through, OK?
11:25Thanks.
11:27Pleasure.
11:29Always happy to help a mate out.
11:31Drop the accuracy.
11:32You ate my guts and I ate yours.
11:35Really?
11:36We still there?
11:37Like 19 years haven't passed.
11:40Like we haven't learned a damn thing between us.
11:42You saying you've mellowed?
11:43No, not exactly.
11:46But the grudges I've chalked up in here,
11:49they make ours look like a playground spat.
11:53You're not even in the top 10 anymore.
11:54Yeah?
11:55Well, you topped mine.
11:56Although my jaw can still remember
11:57that right hook you landed.
11:59Mike Tyson would have been proud.
12:01You deserved it.
12:02Can I sit down?
12:04No.
12:06What do you want from me, Chrissie?
12:09I don't know.
12:12Just seeing you is.
12:16I still think about him all the time, you know?
12:19You're dead.
12:21Don't you?
12:26I heard about Dennis.
12:29I'm sorry.
12:31Soulmates is such a soppy word, isn't it?
12:35In some cases, it applies.
12:39I used to think me and your dad were a bit like that.
12:41Please.
12:43He got under my skin like no man ever has.
12:46He could rearrange my thoughts, even as I was having them.
12:50I can still see him leaning against stuff.
12:55The way he'd look at you out of the corner of his eye.
12:58The way a smile would start at the side of his mouth,
13:01so you never knew if it was a smile you were getting
13:04or a sneer.
13:07Love and hate.
13:10To feel them both at the same time.
13:14Always a cliche, isn't it?
13:17But to really feel them boiling through your veins.
13:23It's like you're at war with yourself.
13:25Been taking poetry classes in here, have you?
13:31I missed you, Sharon.
13:33No, really.
13:35We were mates once.
13:37You were my step-mum.
13:39Older men always were my weakness.
13:43Always thought they could teach me the ways of the world,
13:46look after me.
13:47What about Jake?
13:49He was younger, wasn't he?
13:50You got a man?
13:52A father for that kid of yours?
13:56No.
13:58Well, I'm not one to judge.
14:03He wasn't an easy man to love, your dad.
14:07He could be cold, manipulative, cruel.
14:12That sort of relationship we had, the age gap,
14:15the lies he told, the lies he told,
14:19the lies he told.
14:21Gaslighting, I think they call it these days, don't they?
14:24Coercive, even.
14:28Maybe if I'd used that as a defense, I'd have got off.
14:31Things change, don't they?
14:33What do you want from me, Chrissie?
14:34What do I want from you?
14:38What do I want?
14:42Maybe I want you to admit that your dad drove
14:45me to do the things I did.
14:48Maybe I want you to admit that I didn't deserve to spend
14:51the best part of my life in here, locked up,
14:55while everyone else carried on living, moving on,
14:58having kids, all that normal life stuff.
15:04Maybe that's what I want.
15:09Just wait, please.
15:11Don't, Johnny, just don't.
15:15Oh, just beat it.
15:18But we had a good time, didn't we?
15:19Yeah.
15:23You all right, lady?
15:25Dad is very lucky to have you, Kojo.
15:28Me and G can't tell the difference between a Ford Fiesta
15:30and a Ford Focus.
15:32I like the CPU WRX.
15:35Yeah, yeah, yeah.
15:36Turbo four cylinder really rules, don't it?
15:39Oh, yeah?
15:40Well, go on then, let's have a look.
15:42No!
15:43Whoa, whoa, whoa.
15:44Look what you've just done.
15:46Sorry, lady.
15:47Sorry, I didn't mean to.
15:48It's fine, it's fine.
15:49I'm all right, OK?
15:50No drama, it's fine.
15:54I can't live like this.
16:03The last thing I ever said to my dad was that I was an orphan.
16:07I disowned him because of you.
16:09No, Sharon.
16:10I held a mirror up, and you looked in it,
16:12and you recognized the truth.
16:14That's why you disowned him.
16:15Why?
16:16Why did you do that?
16:17Because you deserve to know the truth.
16:19No.
16:20No, I was a weapon you used to hurt him.
16:23That's all I was, the loaded gun.
16:26And I did exactly what you wanted me to do.
16:2919 years.
16:3119 years I've been in here, and you still
16:34think I deserve another kicking.
16:36I ain't going to feel sorry for you.
16:39You always did think you were better than everyone else,
16:41didn't you?
16:42No, well, that was his fault, too.
16:44Calling you princess, love bombing you.
16:46Love bombing?
16:48He was my dad.
16:50He loved me, and you were jealous.
16:52Jealous of you?
16:54Hapless little daddy's girl, no backbone,
16:56so desperate for love, you'd give it
16:58away to anyone who came along.
17:00The way I see it, you two deserved each other.
17:03Making out my dad was some sort of abuser,
17:06and you were the victim.
17:07I never said I was a victim.
17:08If you were so innocent, why did you
17:10act the way you did after, hm?
17:13Blaming Sam, trying to get her banged up instead of you.
17:17Because I'm a survivor.
17:19I'm a fighter.
17:21And unless you've been in that position yourself,
17:23you don't know how you're going to act.
17:27He would have killed me that night, Sharon.
17:28He had my head in his hands, and he was smashing
17:31it against the fruit machine.
17:33And if Zoe hadn't stepped in, I'd be dead by now.
17:36And even then, he didn't give up.
17:38He grabbed my legs so hard, and he looked at me
17:42with pure hatred, and I knew.
17:44I knew it was him or me.
17:47So unless you've been in that position, Sharon,
17:50with a man, a man you love, trying to kill you,
17:55you've got no right to judge me.
18:08I can't handle anymore, George.
18:11Come on.
18:12No, no, no.
18:13This is serious.
18:14You've got to listen to me.
18:16I've reached my limit.
18:18He's got to go.
18:19Go?
18:20It's a little bit over the top, isn't it?
18:22He has just attacked my grandson.
18:24And it's not the first time, is it?
18:26He's already hit Martin Fowler.
18:28He didn't mean to do that to Johnny.
18:29He just doesn't know his own strength, that's all.
18:31And that is the problem.
18:32And it's a big problem.
18:34It was Johnny today.
18:35What if it's Ollie tomorrow, or Annie?
18:37How are you going to feel then?
18:39I'll keep an eye on him.
18:40Have a word.
18:41I know you feel guilty.
18:43And you are trying to do the right thing.
18:46But the way you are dealing with it could make it much worse.
18:49It's rich, this is.
18:51I've been dealing with your alcoholic daughter
18:53for months now, lurching about, picking up the slate when
18:57she can't do the school run or face a shift.
19:01But do you hear me complain?
19:03No.
19:03I just get on with it.
19:05Because she's your family, which means she's mine.
19:09What about me?
19:10My family.
19:11Don't they count?
19:12Or don't you care?
19:12Of course I care about them.
19:14I understand family.
19:16But this is different.
19:17Why?
19:19What do you want me to do?
19:20Send a vulnerable man out into a foreign country?
19:22Of course I'm not saying that.
19:23Then what are you saying?
19:25I can go home.
19:27Kojo.
19:29I want to go home.
19:41Look, Kojo, listen.
19:45Me and Elaine, we row sometimes.
19:48And we say things we don't mean.
19:51But I promise, we want you here.
19:54We do.
19:59It's difficult because we don't really know each other, do we?
20:04But that's the point.
20:05The other thing is, families.
20:09They're messy, complicated.
20:16Kojo, sit, please.
20:25I'm sorry.
20:26I'm sorry.
20:27I'm sorry.
20:28I'm sorry.
20:29I'm sorry.
20:30I'm sorry.
20:31I'm sorry.
20:32I'm sorry.
20:33I'm sorry.
20:54I always wanted siblings.
20:56Growing up, I was lonely.
20:59So I invented them in my head, two brothers.
21:05They were older than me, always cooler than me.
21:11But they were gonna look out for me when I got picked on.
21:20They had to tell me I was gonna be all right.
21:23Tell me I was all right.
21:30What I'm saying is, I love you.
21:37I've always loved you.
21:42It's because deep down,
21:45I knew that you and Kobina were out there somewhere.
21:51Yeah, I'm older than you,
21:53and sometimes I'll have to protect you.
21:59It's in my blood.
22:02It's a real bond.
22:11Elaine, Elaine loves me.
22:17So she's gonna love you.
22:19She will.
22:27Do you understand, Kojo?
22:29I do.
22:37Try and make us a cup of tea and a snack.
22:42Ha ha ha.
22:54Daw says you're in here for contempt of court.
22:56So?
22:57What's the real story?
23:00What were you doing there in the first place?
23:04Come on, Sharon.
23:06These tears, they're fresh.
23:09They're not for den.
23:10Something's happened to you.
23:11It doesn't matter.
23:15I got my parole at the end of the week.
23:18Strange timing, isn't it?
23:20Maybe it's fate that's brought us together.
23:25I never thought I'd ever see you again.
23:28And here we are, two of life's survivors.
23:33What's the story?
23:37Christmas, I was attacked.
23:40My friend saved me like Zoe saved you.
23:47What you said earlier was just close to home.
23:50Who?
23:51What?
23:52Who attacked you?
23:53It doesn't matter.
23:54Did you know him?
23:56Was it a lover?
23:59The father of your kid.
24:00Was he abusive?
24:01No.
24:02No, but you cared about him.
24:03I can see that.
24:10Do you ever get over it?
24:12What?
24:14He died.
24:17He's dead, the man who attacked you.
24:22Like I said, if Zoe hadn't done what she did,
24:26I'd be dead.
24:28And even then, seconds after she'd saved my life,
24:31do you know the first thing I said to her?
24:34You killed my husband.
24:36Like she'd done me wrong.
24:39And I meant it.
24:42It's the effect he had on me.
24:46And I still feel like that sometimes.
24:50Because I miss him, and I'm sad that he's gone.
24:54But, does that answer your question?
25:01I miss him.
25:04I know.
25:06And I'm sorry, Sharon.
25:09I'm really sorry.
25:16And you're right.
25:17I did use you to hurt him.
25:20I stooped to his level, and I shouldn't have.
25:24I should have left that relationship years ago,
25:26but I couldn't.
25:29You were like magnets.
25:36Anyway, I'll leave you to it, Sharon.
25:38Too much has passed between us.
25:40We're never gonna see eye to eye.
25:44Wait.
25:47What?
25:51I forgive you, Chrissie.
25:55You forgive me?
25:57Yes.
26:01Thank you, Sharon.
26:05And, uh, don't worry about your time in here.
26:11I got your back.
26:13Hmm.
26:24Cojo?
26:33Cojo?
26:35Where is he?
26:46I'm sorry.
26:48I'm sorry.
26:50I'm sorry.
26:52I'm sorry.
26:54Girls, have you seen Caldwell?
26:57No.
27:01George?
27:03He must be on out on his own.
27:06Should I come with you?
27:07No.
27:09You've done enough.
27:24I've got to go.
27:40Chris, you made your point this morning.
27:42I'm working on it, all right?
27:44I'll cancel your debt if you do me a favor.
27:47That new girl, I want you to teach her a lesson.